Four months after it opened with promises of stable, high-paying factory jobs, a $5.8 billion Ford-backed battery plant in Kentucky is sitting idle - and 1,600 workers are out of work. Ford and South Korean battery manufacturer SK On opened the sprawling 1,500-acre site in Glendale in summer 2025, and it was hailed as a game changer for the region. By December, that optimism had evaporated when the companies ended their joint venture at the site. Soon after, Ford said it would idle the facility for roughly 18 months while shifting production toward energy storage systems instead of car batteries. Ford says the slowdown in EV demand - blamed in part with changes in federal policy under President Donald Trump - upended the company's original plans. read more
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted a startling message on social media Friday declaring, "I am not suicidal," following a heated public clash with conservative media figures over House voting procedures. read more
Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed to President Donald Trump as the person who "fought the hardest" to block the Epstein files from being released. read more
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling about 62.5 million liters of their plasma, a more than 30% increase in the amount of plasma collected since 2022, according to Peter Jaworski, a professor at Georgetown University who studies the ethics and economics of the plasma business. read more
A love letter from "Secret Admirer Donald J. Trump" begging for forgiveness and cash was sent to a woman whom the president was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming. E. Jean Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, shared the unsolicited Valentine's Day communication she received from the Trump team's fundraising department on Saturday. "I sent you a LOVE LETTER but I haven't heard back. It's Valentine's Day E Jean!" the email reads. "I love you, and I was pretty sure you loved me back! Is everything Okay?" In May 2023, a federal jury found Trump, 79, liable for sexual abuse and defamation of Carroll following an incident in the 1990s.
Senior US health official Oz invited Epstein to Valentine's Day party, documents show
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