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The Daily Beast - 1 hour 13 min agoReuters/Eduardo Munoz An Arizona grand jury indicted seven attorneys and aides linked to Donald Trump 's 2020 presidential campaign on Wednesday, including his onetime Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows , and his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani . The felony charges are tied to their alleged efforts to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the state and have Trump be named winner despite him losing the state by 10,000 votes. The state's attorney general announced the indictments, which were obtained...
The Daily Beast - 1 hour 22 min agoReuters/Radovan Stoklasa Hackers broke into a Czech news service site and spread a fake story about an assassination plot against the newly elected president of Slovakia on Tuesday. "BIS prevented an assassination attempt on the newly elected Slovak President Peter Pelligrine," the fraudulent headline said, referring to a Czech spy agency, the Security Information Service (BIS). In their rush to post the story, the hackers apparently got a little sloppy: they misspelled the politician's...
The Daily Beast - 1 hour 31 min agoJohn Chapple/Shutterstock Princess Beatrice' s former boyfriend turned up dead in a Miami hotel earlier this year from a suspected drug overdose, Florida cops confirmed to The Daily Beast on Wednesday. Cops said they were called to a downtown hotel room on Feb. 7 at the citizenM Miami Worldcenter, where the 41-year-old Paolo Liuzzo was discovered and pronounced dead at 3:34 p.m. An official cause of death is yet to be released, but Miami cops said his death is being "investigated as an overdose...
The Daily Beast - 1 hour 34 min agoJohn Taggart/Pool via Reuters On Wednesday morning, The Daily Beast published a report detailing how Donald Trump 's presidential campaign and four associated PACs have been using a GOP compliance firm to pay legal fees, obscuring who is the ultimate recipient of millions of dollars in legal payments. By Wednesday night, the Trump campaign and the four PACs were facing a new ethics complaint over the arrangement. The complaint, which nonprofit watchdog Campaign Legal Center filed with the Federal...
The Daily Beast - 1 hour 58 min agoReuters/Yuki Iwamura The latest fallout of Donald Trump 's election lies arrived Wednesday, with prosecutors in Michigan revealing that the former president, along with his onetime Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows , and his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani , are unindicted co-conspirators in the criminal case concerning the state's false elector plot which sought to overturn the state's presidential election results in 2020. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged 16 Republicans with forgery...
The Daily Beast - 3 hours 9 min agoOklahoma State Bureau of Investigation A fifth suspect has been arrested in connection with the deaths of two women who went missing last month and were later found buried in a rural Oklahoma cattle pasture. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation announced it picked up 31-year-old Paul Grice on Wednesday, who was booked into the Texas County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree. He and four others...
The Daily Beast - 3 hours 16 min agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images A corporate restructuring attorney at a high-powered New York City law firm is suing his ex-boyfriend for allegedly dognapping his beloved miniature poodle and holding her hostage at an apartment in Midtown Manhattan , plunging him into a grievous state of emotional distress. In a six-figure civil lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast , Akin Gump associate Taylor Leighton says he wants back his pet who is named for onetime child actress...
The Daily Beast - 4 hours 40 min agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty House Speaker (R-LA) Mike Johnson trekked to Columbia University's New York City campus on Wednesday and was immediately greeted with a chorus of boos. The crowd loudly heckled and booed Johnson as he approached a podium and launched into his speech, railing against "antisemites" who "gnash their teeth and demand to wipe the State of Israel off the map and attack our innocent Jewish students." Moments after making that...
The Daily Beast - 4 hours 45 min agoTimothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images Several pro- Palestinian protesters were arrested by law enforcement on Wednesday at the University of Texas at Austin , as they gathered to oppose Israel's brutal military campaign in Gaza , with more arrests likely to follow. Local police, alongside state troopers in riot gear, were dispatched to the South Lawn at UT Austin, where hundreds of students gathered to call on the school to cut ties with weapons manufacturers that have continued to arm Israel...
The Daily Beast - 5 hours 9 min agoChristopher Loh The World Bank has decided to pull funding for a controversial tourism project following accusations it has led to extrajudicial killings, disappearances, and sexual assaults abuses of local villagers in Tanzania. The years-long program, which was launched in 2017 and aimed at improving management of natural resources and tourism in Southern Tanzania, including Ruaha National Park (RUNAPA), has been tied to a cascade of human rights abuses , according to the Oakland Institute, a...
The Daily Beast - 5 hours 34 min agoHannah McKay Hamas released a video of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on Wednesday, as Israel's brutal military campaign in Gaza passes its two hundredth day, with dozens of hostages still missing. Goldberg-Polin was among those in attendance at the Nova Music Festival, only a few miles away from Israel's border with Gaza. In the video, Goldberg-Polin is missing his left hand and arm below the elbow, which is consistent with a report that his arm was blown off while trying...
The Daily Beast - 5 hours 43 min agoKevin Mazur/MTV1415/WireImage Eight years ago, Taylor Swift and Kanye West shared a phone call that would later go down in infamy. Somehow, we still haven't heard the end of it, and at this rate, we probably never will. Ask five people who's in the wrong in this scenario, and you're liable to come back with five different answers. Now, thanks to two pointed tracks on Swift's newly released The Tortured Poets Department , the drama is being revived despite nearly a decade having passed...
The Daily Beast - 6 hours 29 min agoDaniel Shirey/Getty A young George W. Bush was apparently so rattled by his wife's brutal honesty about a subpar speech that he accidentally crashed their car. That's according to Jenna Bush Hager, who had the Today show crew in stitches on Wednesday when she shared the hilarious bit of family lore. "It's funny that you bring up speeches because when my parents were first married, my dad gave a speech in Midland, Texas, and they were driving up and he thought [that was] pretty good...
The Daily Beast - 6 hours 35 min agoThe Daily Beast/Minnesota Senate A Minnesota state senator charged with burglarizing her stepmom's home, is denying that she wanted to steal anything, instead claiming that police were called after she startled a family member suffering from Alzheimer's. Police officers in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota discovered Democrat Nicole Mitchell, clad in all black and armed with a DIY dampened flashlight, in her stepmom's basement, after receiving a call at 4:45 a.m on Monday morning, claiming that...
The Daily Beast - 7 hours 26 min agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Rexburg Police Department When Fremont County Coroner Brenda Dye arrived at Chad Daybell 's Idaho home in October 2019, she immediately had questions about how the prominent Doomsday author's wife had died. Just 45 minutes earlier, Daybell's son had called 911 in a panic after finding his mother, Tammy Daybell, "stiff" in her bedroom. Daybell then told officers that his wife of nearly 30 years was "clearly dead" and...
The Daily Beast - 7 hours 34 min agoRuby May Courtesy of The Girth Master The former president of the United States may be on trial for the first time ever, but one man dominated the internet this week and it wasn't Donald Trump . Instead, Twitter feeds on Tuesday were dominated by a 90-second, man-on-the-street interview with a man who calls himself "The Girth Master." Sporting a red baseball hat and small green shorts and absolutely towering over the woman holding the microphone, the Girth Master casually explained that...
The Daily Beast - 8 hours 2 min agoHandout The women of the Supreme Court including conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett tore into a lawyer for Idaho on Wednesday over the state's law allowing for abortions only when a woman is at imminent risk of death. Lawyers for the state and the federal government were before the court to debate whether Idaho's law contradicts a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to patients in emergency condition. The female justices wasted no time digging in on Idaho's...
The Daily Beast - 8 hours 16 min agoMomodu Mansaray/WireImage Megan Thee Stallion 's former cameraman Emilio Garcia, who's suing the rapper for creating a hostile work environment along with various other labor and wage violations, included the accusation in the suit that the rapper had sex with someone in a vehicle they were sharing as Garcia was trapped inside. However, Garcia's own statement in the lawsuit implies that the rap star was not aware that he was in the car at the time. It had been reported this week in an...
The Daily Beast - 8 hours 56 min agoAFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday that is likely to result in a nationwide ban of TikTok . On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of the bill, which will require the company to part with its parent company, ByteDance, within a year or risk becoming illegal in the U.S. The president's signing of the bill is a veritable death sentence for the app, as ByteDance has made no indication it intends to part with its social network baby. Now, the company has 270 days...
The Daily Beast - 8 hours 59 min agoABC 6 WPVI In a pre-taped interview with a local Philadelphia news station that aired on Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump attacked one of the key witnesses in his hush-money criminal trial an act that would seem to be yet another violation of the court's gag order. During his conservation with WPVI's Walter Perez, which was taped Tuesday morning just ahead of a fiery hearing on whether Trump is guilty of contempt for willfully violating the gag order, the ex-president blasted...
The Daily Beast - 9 hours 9 min agoABC/Randy Holmes Like hundreds of thousands of other rapt viewers, comedian Wanda Sykes is getting a lot of mileage out of the Manhattan criminal trial of Donald Trump , the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records connected to his sexual relationship with adult film star Stormy Daniels . Podcaster Ben Meiselas insisted this week that Trump, present this week in-person for the beginning of the trial , had suffered...
The Daily Beast - 9 hours 41 min agovia VK The widow of a Texas man who spent years aiding Russia 's war against Ukraine only to apparently get murdered by Russian troops is now appealing directly to Vladimir Putin to find his mutilated remains. Lyudmila Bentley, the wife of Dallas native turned Putin fanboy Russell Bentley , appeared in a new video Wednesday in which she speaks in front of a flag of the Donetsk People's Republic, the unrecognized territory in eastern Ukraine where Bentley first joined forces with Russian...
The Daily Beast - 9 hours 42 min agoThe Daily Beast/Marin County Sheriff The child of billionaire businessman Stewart Butterfield is missing, and authorities believe the teen may have run away to San Francisco's seedy Tenderloin district. According to the Marin County Sheriff's Office, Mint Butterfield, 16, was last seen around 10 p.m. Sunday night in Bolinas, a coastal community of roughly 1,500 people. They were reported missing early the next morning by their mother, entrepreneur Caterina Fake. "Mint has brown/reddish...
The Daily Beast - 11 hours 2 min agoMario Anzuoni/Reuters The Sydney church leader who was stabbed during a livestreamed service last week supports Elon Musk 's view that footage of the attack should remain accessible on X , a court in Australia heard Wednesday. A lawyer representing the platform formerly known as Twitter claims Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel a controversial Assyrian Orthodox leader who was allegedly stabbed by a 16-year-old boy has written an affidavit arguing against the position of Australia's eSafety commissioner...
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