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The Daily Beast - 15 hours 36 min agoAFP via Getty Images A Russian military court convened on Thursday to rage against the press secretary of Facebook's parent company over a tweet posted more than two years ago. Andy Stone, the press secretary of Meta, was not present in the Moscow District Military Court. Andy Stone will probably never be present in a Russian court. But that did not stop a high-profile prosecutor from trying to call up a witness to make the Kremlin's case that Stone is guilty of "justifying terrorism"...
The Daily Beast - 16 hours 9 min agoDavid L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty A trial is underway for 22-year-old Jack Callahan, two years ago after he was accused of drowning his father during what he described to investigators as an exorcism . In June 2021, police in Duxbury , Massachusetts , received a call from Callahan's mother saying her 19-year-old son was acting erratically and that her ex-husband was missing, according to a press release from the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office. Police arrived on the scene...
The Daily Beast - 16 hours 15 min agoMSNBC With the jury selection process underway in Donald Trump 's trial of the century, some members of the culled pool were struck by the experience of encountering the former president in the flesh for the first time. And one juror, asked about her first impression of the Don, was surprised by his complexion more than anything else. According to her, Trump's typical Tropicana glow was more toned down than she expected. "He looked less orange, definitely," the woman, identified...
The Daily Beast - 17 hours 14 min agoKevin Winter/Getty Images Samantha Davis, the wife of U.K. actor Warwick Davis has died of sepsis at age 53, her family announced Wednesday. In a statement released by Lucasfilm , Davis, who is best known for his role as Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies, paid tribute to his beloved late wife. "My most trusted confidant and an ardent supporter of everything I did in my career, has passed," Davis said, referring to her as his "favorite human" and "the most open, warm...
The Daily Beast - 18 hours 22 min agoMohammed Salem/Reuters A harrowing photograph showing a woman in Gaza sobbing in a morgue as she cradles the body of her 5-year-old niece won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award on Thursday. Mohammed Salem, a 39-year-old Palestinian Reuters photographer, captured the image at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the enclave on Oct. 17, 2023. The picture shows Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embracing the shrouded corpse of her niece, Saly. "Mohammed received the news of his WPP award...
The Daily Beast - 18 hours 23 min agoJabin Botsford/Reuters The troubles plaguing Donald Trump 's first criminal trial in New York City and its anonymous jury are starting to mount, as a nurse slotted as "juror number two" bowed out after details of her personal life revealed in court allowed her to be identified by friends and colleagues, scaring her enough to want to avoid serving on the most significant trial in the country's history. "I definitely have concerns now about being in public. Yesterday alone, I had...
The Daily Beast - 18 hours 24 min agoAlastair Grant/Getty Images Prince William was handed get well soon cards for his wife and father by a well-wisher Thursday as he made his first in-person appearance since Kate revealed her cancer diagnosis. The prince appeared to be taken aback by the gesture, and, swiftly changed the subject, alighting on a pan of spaghetti hoops as a convenient conversational prop. Although there is no suggestion the charity worker who handed him the cards had anything other than the best intentions, Kensington...
The Daily Beast - 19 hours 1 min agoSteve Marcus/Reuters Google fired 28 employees late Wednesday after staff members staged protests against the company's work with the government of Israel during the war in Gaza . The terminations came after nine of the tech giant's employees were arrested following 10-hour sit-in demonstrations at Google offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California , on Tuesday. The workers involved in a group named No Tech for Apartheid say they were objecting to Project Nimbus a $1.2 billion contract...
The Daily Beast - 19 hours 16 min agoNewshub YouTube A man in New Zealand went looking for his elderly parents on Thursday morning after becoming concerned that he had not heard from them for days, reports say. At their rural rented property in Wait kere, West Auckland, he found a ram in a paddock alongside the lifeless bodies of his parents. The unnamed couple in their early 80s are believed to have both been killed by the sheep, according to The New Zealand Herald . Authorities believe the man had gone out to feed the ram and never...
The Daily Beast - 20 hours 28 min agoGetty Taylor Swift 's most devoted fans went into a tailspin on Wednesday evening when her forthcoming new album, The Tortured Poets Department , allegedly leaked in what appeared to be its entirety. "You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth / should be a bigger artist / I scratch your head, you fall asleep / Like a tattooed Golden Retriever," one fragment distributed by Swifties reads. While most of the audio that ripped across X has already been taken...
The Daily Beast - 20 hours 37 min agoReuters The Kremlin is not pleased that French authorities have taken aim at Vladimir Putin's ex-wife. A French court's decision to seize the $5.7-million villa belonging to Russian citizen Artur Ocheretny, the new husband of Lyudmila Ocheretnaya (formerly Putina), is "a priori illegal," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. The "Souzanna" villa in Anglet, near Biarritz, was seized back in December 2023 but the news only became public this week, according...
The Daily Beast - 21 hours 15 min agoRamapo College of New Jersey Capt. Everett Leland Yager of the U.S. Marine Corps was 30 years old when he embarked on a military training exercise back in California in 1951, and it's fair to say the World War II vet probably had a lot of ideas about how he wanted to be remembered by his wife and two children should he be killed during his service. Full military honors, perhaps a somber memorial. A burial site where future generations could remember him. He almost certainly didn't expect...
The Daily Beast - 22 hours 49 sec agoTom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is pushing for the creation of a space laser to defend the U.S.-Mexico border. Yes, really . The MAGA congresswoman, who has notoriously made bizarre comments about " Jewish space lasers " in the past, called for the technology in a proposed amendment to a bill that would provide funding for Israel during its war against Hamas in Gaza . "By the funds made available by this Act, such sums as necessary shall be...
The Daily Beast - 23 hours 22 min agoAnadolu via Getty Images President Joe Biden on Wednesday made a pretty shocking claim about why the body of his uncle, Ambrose Finnegan, was never found after Finnegan's plane went down during World War II . "He got shot down in New Guinea ," Biden said at the United Steelworkers Headquarters in Pittsburgh . "And they never found the body because there used to be there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea." Biden mentioned his uncle known to his family...
The Daily Beast - 23 hours 27 min agoMario Tama/Getty Images More than a dozen members of the Kennedy family will officially endorse Joe Biden for president on Wednesday, forsaking their own family member, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The family plans to gather with Biden in Philadelphia, where they will make calls and knock on doors on the president's behalf. According to a draft of Kerry Kennedy's remarks reviewed by The Daily Beast, she plans to denounce Donald Trump as a threat to America's "most...
The Daily Beast - 23 hours 57 min agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. A watchdog group is asking the Justice Department to investigate whether Donald Trump repeatedly lied in sworn statements to the federal government including his own administration about a $50 million loan that apparently never existed in the first place, and which could be evidence of tax evasion . The criminal...
The Daily Beast - 23 hours 58 min agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Taylor Swift 's highly anticipated new album, The Tortured Poets Department , drops this Friday. But given the somewhat scattered LP rollout thus far, you'd be forgiven for wondering just what exactly has been running through the pop star's mind in terms of strategy this time around. Case in point: Like a luxury brand looking to seduce penny-pinching skeptics, Swift and Spotify appear to have collaborated on a Tortured...
The Daily Beast - 23 hours 58 min agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Wordle is actually making us crazy. Therapists tell The Daily Beast that some of their patients are confessing just how much time they are spending on The New York Times Games app and how it's messing with their mood or mental health. "When I see it as a problem is when a patient says I was not able to complete my tasks at work today because I spent so much time on Wordle' or when they say they were asked to go to dinner with...
The Daily Beast - 23 hours 58 min agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty "You can either die as speaker and worry about them taking you out, or live every day as your last." As Speaker Mike Johnson ponders what to do this week, I hope he heeds that advice that came from Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) back in February. In case you have missed it , the next week or so will determine whether Johnson is going to remain the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and (just as important) whether that title...
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