But when O'Donnell, during an interview recorded at the White House on Sunday, quoted from the accused gunman Cole Allen's apparent manifesto " "I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes," she read " Trump, who'd been relatively subdued in his responses, flashed a familiar anger. "I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you're horrible people. Horrible people," Trump said. "Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody." O'Donnell interjected, "Oh, do you think he was referring to you?" But the president blew past her question, declaring, "I'm not a pedophile." read more
A huge, unstable chunk of glacier is blocking the route up Mount Everest from Base Camp in Nepal just as peak climbing season gets under way in the Himalayas. read more
Multi-billionaire Ken Griffin is appalled that the popular and effective Mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani (D), used his 24,000-square-foot Manhattan penthouse last week as the backdrop for a tax-the-rich video, triggering a subtle threat to re-evaluate his firm's investment in the city. read more
A beekeeper who unleashed thousands of agitated bees on Massachusetts sheriff's deputies during an eviction has been found guilty of six assault counts. Rebecca Woods drove a trailer up and smashed open hive boxes while protesting a 79-year-old man's eviction. When told some deputies were allergic to bees, she said, "Oh, you're allergic? Good."
Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the 1960s bee-hived pop band the Ronettes, who sang the enduring hits "Be My Baby," "Baby I Love You" and "Walking in the Rain" alongside her cousins, has died. She was 80. "Show business is a thing that can be great, but it can be bad, too," Ross said during her acceptance speech to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. "For us, we had a family that gave us a core to help stabilize us in a very difficult crazy world. read more
Israeli President Isaac Herzog decided not to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, opting instead to attempt to negotiate a plea deal. Netanyahu has been on trial for six years across three separate corruption cases. A plea agreement would require an admission of guilt, in addition to likely requiring Netanyahu to resign from office. read more
"The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result," [German Chancellor Friedrich Merz] said during a talk to students in the town of Marsberg. "An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible," he added at the venue in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Paul Ford: Nearly a billion people are using ChatGPT. What appears to be a multitrillion-dollar economic bomb has been unleashed into the world. The loudest voices believe A.I. will either demolish the labor market -- creating a jobless dystopia or creating a (similarly jobless) utopia -- or reveal itself soon as a huge fraud and a bubble. read more
Finding a tick on your skin is always worrying because all it takes is one bite and a small amount of saliva for it to transmit disease-causing pathogens (like Lyme disease) to you, its host. ... Here's everything else experts suggest to quickly and safely deal with a tick bite, what to do with a tick once you've removed it and when to get in touch with your doctor. read more
The fast food chain Steak 'n Shake, which last year switched from vegetable oil to beef tallow to cook fries, is making more moves under newly appointed Chief MAHA Officer Michael Boes to go "back to the glory days of fast food." They claim it won't raise their prices. "Fortunately, we operate as a private entity, and so we believe if we do right by the customers, the market's going to reward us," he said.
Hugh Dougherty: It does not take a security expert to unravel the layers of failure that happened at a Washington, D.C. hotel on Saturday night. How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. ... No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing.
How on earth could that person get downstairs and assemble a long gun? I can answer that too. I moved up and down from Floor 10 all day.
U.S. military bases and equipment in the Persian Gulf have been hit much harder by recent Iranian strikes than initially reported, according to several U.S. officials and people familiar with the situation. The extent of the destruction is much greater than what has been publicly shared so far and the repair is expected to cost billions of dollars, the officials told NBC News. read more
While the Trump administration has reportedly tried to rein in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s widely unpopular anti-vaccine agenda, the political strategy is not working when it comes to words or actions. read more
WIRED reported that a medical student from Northern India, Sam, who aimed to ease his financial difficulties and pay off his education bills, created Emily using Gemini AI. read more
A security incident that might have involved gunfire occurred outside the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night and led to the evacuation of President Donald Trump and other political leaders. So far there are no reports of injuries. C-SPAN video shows security escorting Trump away from the head table.
Advocates for the refugees, many of whom fought the Taliban alongside U.S. forces, say the plan is intended to pressure them to return to Afghanistan at great personal risk. read more
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