President Joe Biden issued pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, Retired General Mark Milley, and members of the January 6 committee on Monday just hours before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. “I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics,” Biden said in…
Richard Cohen, an Emmy-winning journalist and husband of former “Today” show anchor Meredith Vieira, died on Christmas Eve, 50 years after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He was 76. The three-time Emmy award-winning CBS journalist had been battling pneumonia for two months when he died, Forbes reports. A former senior producer for CBS News and CNN, Cohen sometimes wrote for The New York…
Perry, the beloved real-life stand-in for the “Shrek” donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy, has died. He was 30. The donkey’s handlers announced his passing on Instagram, detailing that it was from an incurable hoof disease. “We are heartbroken to share that our beloved Barron Park donkey, Perry, passed away yesterday at the age of 30,” the Barron Park Donkey Project,…
Clark County’s efforts to address contaminated groundwater at Camp Bonneville are getting a boost from the U.S. Army. On Tuesday, the county council approved a contract amendment to accept $6 million in additional funding from the Army for site cleanup. The amendment also extends the county’s contract with the Army to 2054. Councilor Matt Little, one of two new…
Longtime sports talk show host Skip Bayless made repeated unwanted sexual advances toward a hairstylist working for Fox Sports, including offering the woman $1.5 million to have sex with him, a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in Los Angeles alleges. The 42-page lawsuit also alleges that “for over a decade at Fox, (the hairstylist)…
Amazon.com Inc. is halting some of its diversity and inclusion programs, a move that coincides with activist pressure on U.S. companies to abandon efforts to build a more diverse workforce. In a memo to employees, Candi Castleberry, a senior human resources executive, said last month that Amazon was “winding down outdated programs and materials” as part of a review…
Ukraine is ready to return to North Korea the soldiers captured in Kursk. In return, Volodymyr Zelensky asks Kim Jong-un to intercede for the return of Ukrainian prisoners from Russia. The Ukrainian president launches the message that aims to transform the North Korean leader from an ally of Vladimir Putin into a ‘mediator’. Zelensky takes the initiative after the capture of two North Korean soldiers…
A hang glider for four decades, 69-year-old Arthur Simoneau was a calculated risk-taker. And so, as residents fled the Pacific Palisades fire Tuesday, Simoneau headed closer to the inferno. He was returning from a ski trip in Mammoth when he learned of the evacuation orders for his Topanga home in the Santa Monica Mountains, said…
The suspected Chinese drone recovered by fisherfolk in Masbate province was “non-operational” when it was found, according to the Philippine Navy spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea (WPS) Rear Adm. Roy Vincent Trinidad. The fishermen found the drone with the markings “HY-119” in the waters off San Pascual town, Masbate last Dec. 30. They turned it over to the Philippine National Police (PNP)…
A now-former Florida police officer watching pornography on his cellphone slammed into another vehicle that had stopped for a school bus flashing its light. According to an internal investigation report obtained by the Smoking Gun on Friday, 28-year-old Lake County Deputy Sheriff Tristan Macomber rear-ended a 63-year-old woman’s Toyota Corolla, then claimed his brakes malfunctioned. When investigators discovered that Macomber’s bodycam footage showed him…
