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Largest fire ever recorded on Santa Rosa Island endangers ‘gem of California coast’
A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned nearly a fifth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history. Firefighters ferried in personnel, equipment and pallets of supplies by boat amid gusty winds and rough seas as they raced to…
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Trump jawboned Thune to fire Senate’s top rules referee over ballroom ruling: report
President Donald Trump privately demanded that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) fire Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough. According to NOTUS, “President Donald Trump pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian after she ruled Republicans could not include funding for the president’s ballroom in a budget bill, two sources familiar with the…
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Voter fraud is real — and voter ID is the answer
Voter fraud is real — and it is an urgent problem, for which only voter ID is the answer. The proof arrived in a courtroom in Orange County on Monday, as Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of paying another person to register to vote. Armstrong allegedly went to Skid…
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Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson to wed over Memorial Day: source
Less pomp, more private island. Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson will tie the knot over Memorial Day weekend, a source tells Page Six. We hear the couple will say “I do” in front of a small group of family and friends at an intimate ceremony on a private island in the Bahamas. Donald Trump…
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Mark Fuhrman, LAPD detective known for O.J. Simpson trial, dies at 74
Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles police detective whose testimony, credibility and incendiary racist language became central to the O.J. Simpson murder trial, has died at 74. Fuhrman became one of the most recognizable law enforcement figures in America when he discovered a bloody glove outside Simpson’s Brentwood estate during his investigation into the 1994…
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Megyn Kelly goes nuclear and accuses Trump admin of feeding Axios a fake new war pretext
Megyn Kelly isn’t buying what the Trump administration is selling on Cuba — and she’s mincing no words. The conservative host used her Monday podcast to torch the administration over a weekend Axios report claiming Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and discussed attacking Guantanamo Bay, US naval vessels, and Key West. “A…
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Netflix Scoops ‘In Waves’ Out of Cannes
“In Waves,” an animated feature that made a splash at Cannes as a special screening opening Critics’ Week, has been acquired by Netflix after a worldwide bidding war, TheWrap has learned. The film, a French/Belgian co-production, adapts AJ Dungo’s 2019 graphic novel and is directed by Phuong Mai Nguyen, marking her feature debut. It premiered…
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Francesco Caballero is determined to keep his family circus legacy afloat
Francesco Caballero has been juggling a lot — quite literally. When he’s not tending to his online studies at the California Virtual Academies, the 13-year-old can be found in the circus ring — hurling bowling pins, straw hats, hollow rings and rubber balls high up in the air, all in one harmonious cycle. But the…
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Supreme Court ‘beclowned itself’ by entertaining MAGA rage-bait in new case: expert
A legal expert ripped the Supreme Court for “beclowning itself” after some of the justices entertained MAGA rage-bait during a recent oral argument session. Steve Vladek, a law professor at Georgetown University, said during the most recent episode of “The Court of History” podcast on the Legal AF Network that some of the court’s justices…
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Dan Rather astounded as Republicans left holding the bag with Trump DOJ’s ‘blatant’ scheme
Long-time CBS News anchor Dan Rather was floored on Monday by President Donald Trump’s latest scheme to give out $1.776 billion to allies who claim they were unjustly prosecuted by the Biden administration. Rather wrote in a new essay for his Substack, “Steady,” that Trump’s fund is just another example of the president “looting the…