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Trump Freedom Fuel’s ‘unprecedented’ deal alarms ex-state official: ‘They want to hide’
President Donald Trump’s touted Freedom Fuel gas-station network faces fresh scrutiny after a former State Department official questioned possible links to Venezuela. During an episode of Court of History, former State Department expert on international crime Jonathan Winer suggested Freedom Fuel may be tied to Venezuela’s opaque oil revenue and selling cheaper gas through an…
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Accused Palisades Fire starter hit with new indictment as feds shift tactics after mistrial
Federal prosecutors are taking another crack at the man accused of sparking the devastating Palisades Fire — but this time, they’re narrowing the case. Prosecutors filed a revised indictment Thursday against Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, dropping one of the three felony counts he previously faced and reshaping the remaining charges around two separate fires. Jonathan Rinderknecht,…
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Authorities in Vietnam discover more than a ton of concealed ivory illegally shipped from Africa
HANOI — Authorities in Vietnam have announced a major seizure of ivory they say was illegally shipped from Africa, Vietnamese media reported Thursday. The haul of 221 pieces of elephant ivory weighing 2,630 pounds was announced and displayed to the media on Wednesday at Quy Nhơn port in the central province of Gia Lai, said reports by…
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Oprah Winfrey distances herself from MAGA stars she helped create
Oprah Winfrey publicly distanced herself from Dr. Phil McGraw and Mehmet Oz, two prominent MAGA-world fixtures. Winfrey helped launch both Dr. Phil McGraw and Mehmet Oz’s careers in the 1980s and 2000s. In an Emmy Magazine interview, Winfrey said, “People criticize me for Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, because of their politics or their views.”…
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Brittany Broski Reflects on Awkward Oscars Red Carpet Exchange With Conan O’Brien: ‘It Keeps Me Up’
Brittany Broski reflected on her awkward encounter with Conan O’Brien during an Oscars after-party interview, confessing the exchange has kept her up at night. “On the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party carpet, I was interviewing Conan O’Brien and the genius question that I came up with in the moment was, ‘What are your bathroom etiquette tips…
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Effort to ban genetically modified animals dies in California Legislature. Advocates blame politics
SACRAMENTO — Proposed legislation to protect animals from “Frankenstein”-like medical experimentation died in the state Senate on Thursday, and supporters blame election year politics for its demise. Assembly Bill 1382by Assemblymember Leticia Castillo (R-Home Gardens) would have banned the sale of genetically modified animals in California, such as glow-in-the-dark rabbits and horned “unicorn” horses. While the business…
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‘Outright barbaric’: Red state’s upcoming ‘grotesque spectacle’ has attorney up in arms
A lawyer for Anthony Darrell Hines, a man who was convicted of the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jackson Jenkins in Kingston Springs, Tennessee, said the state’s Republican governor will force a “grotesque spectacle” to move forward on Thursday by refusing to stop Hines’ planned execution despite a botched lethal injection involving another death row…
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Chargers preseason opener takeaways: Amar Johnson adds intrigue to running back battle
HOUSTON — Amar Johnson saw a flicker of playing time at running back for the Chargers last season. Thursday, he made a case for a bit more. Johnson scored two touchdowns in a preseason opener at Houston, and turned a short pass into a 55-yard gain. It’s easy to put too much stock in a preseason performance,…
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Historian flags signs ‘MAGA is coming apart’
Historian Heather Cox Richardson warned President Donald Trump’s political coalition is falling apart. In her latest video, Richardson cited mounting evidence of weakness both domestically and internationally. “MAGA certainly seems to be coming apart in a lot of different ways,” she said. “And what we’re seeing come together is a new kind of larger democratic…
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Spencer Pratt’s voters could be deciding factor in LA mayor showdown according to latest poll
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has opened up a double-digit lead over City Councilwoman Nithya Raman in the city’s November runoff, according to a new poll — with a huge chunk of Spencer Pratt’s voters breaking toward the incumbent. Approximately 85 percent of Spencer Pratt voters are backing Karen Bass over Democratic Socialist candidate Nithya…