NPR reports there are three Trump officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a man described by federal prosecutors as a "Nazi sympathizer," and a prominent Holocaust denier. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemitism
As Canadians go to the polls in a national parliamentary election, the president of the United States instructs them to "elect the man" who will lead their country to becoming the 51st US state.
DoJ suing the state of Maine over the issue of transgender athletes in high school sports. https://www.wmtw.com/article/us-attorney-general-announces-action-against-maine-title-ix/64498147
KIFI - An autistic teen in Idaho, who was shot nine times by Pocatello police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife, has died after being removed from life support. https://localnews8.com/news/pocatello/2025/04/11/teen-shot-by-pocatello-police-declared-brain-dead/
"Absolutely" will consider military action against Iran if there's no nuclear deal "and Israel will be the leader of that," President Trump responds to a reporters' questions in the Oval Office.
Wired has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in the infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an 🍆 emoji. https://www.wired.com/story/even-more-venmo-accounts-tied-to-trump-officials-in-signal-group-chat-left-data-public/
WTOP - A man is being treated at a DC hospital following an “armed confrontation” with Secret Service agents near the White House early this morning. https://wtop.com/local/2025/03/armed-man-hospitalized-following-shooting-near-white-house/
(AP) — A federal judge on Monday refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press' access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not demonstrated it had suffered any irreparable harm. But he urged the Trump administration to reconsider its two-week-old ban, saying that case law "is uniformly unhelpful to the White House.”
Reuters quotes the Chernobyl nuclear plant's chief engineer saying the Russian drone attack has badly damaged the radiation confinement structure, which can no longer function as designed.
A “Russian attack drone with a high-explosive warhead struck the shelter protecting the world from radiation at the destroyed 4th power unit of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant,” according to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.
Manhattan's top career federal prosecutor resigns after attorneys in her office were directed to drop their criminal case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/u-s-attorney-manhattan-danielle-sassoon-quits-justice-dept-drops-eric-adams-case/
Update: Two officials with the federal public integrity unit have also quit. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/danielle-sassoon-quit-eric-adams.html
Manhattan's top career federal prosecutor resigns after attorneys in her office were directed to drop their criminal case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/u-s-attorney-manhattan-danielle-sassoon-quits-justice-dept-drops-eric-adams-case/
US Senate, on a 51-48 vote, confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be HHS secretary.
Meta now appears to be acknowledging that your DMs (on Threads, Instagram and Facebook) can be fed into its AI system and potentially redistributed. https://help.instagram.com/3820477441501878/?helpref=related_articles
NYSE Chicago will reincorporate in Texas and be renamed NYSE Texas. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nyse-to-launch-exchange-in-texas-aea57ffa
US CPI rose 3% from a year earlier due to food and energy prices increasing. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a meeting of global financiers and tech executives hosted by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund in Miami later in February, according to several people with knowledge of the event.
Police in Australia launch an investigation after two nurses boast of killing Israeli patients. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-12/nsw-health-minister-on-online-doctor-veifer-video/104926206
The Kremlin says a Russian citizen jailed in the US will be released as part of a prisoner exchange. https://t.me/youlistenedmayak/35322
SCOTUS unanimously rules against TikTok stating: "Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well-supported national security concerns regarding TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary." https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf