On Christmas Day 2023, a man called the suicide prevention hotline claiming he had shot his girlfriend and threatening to kill himself. Police barreled toward the address but turned around once before they arrived. It was a hoax – a swatting call at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s residence. Five days later, GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s home in Florida was…
The U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday that it “dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.” The devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City, it added. “This protective intelligence…
U.S. Secret Service agents have dismantled a network of electronic devices located in multiple locations around New York City that could be used to disable the city’s cellphone network, officials said Tuesday. They said the system was also used to anonymously convey assassination threats against senior U.S. officials and for criminal activities. In five locations…
Former US President Barack Obama has warned of a “political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before” in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk. At an event in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Obama said he did not know Kirk and disagreed with many of his views, but called the killing “horrific and…
Doctors in the US will soon be advised not to prescribe the pain reliever Tylenol to pregnant women, US President Donald Trump said, citing a disputed link between the drug and autism. The US president claimed on Monday that taking Tylenol, known as paracetamol elsewhere, “is no good” and that pregnant women should “fight like…
The president delivered impassioned — if scientifically dubious — remarks about what he described as one of “the most alarming public health developments in history.” In choosing to unveil a report about autism in the Roosevelt Room of the White House — an august setting just off the Oval Office — President Trump sent Americans…
In demanding the attorney general go after his enemies, Donald Trump is upending fundamental norms of fairness and neutrality in the American legal system.By Paul Rosenzweig September 22, 2025, 8:32 AM ET King Henry II is reported to have mused, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” It wasn’t an order, so to speak,…
Imagine a scenario in which an investigative reporter uncovered a secret document from the White House. The document, in this hypothetical, showed Donald Trump quietly directing his attorney general to manufacture criminal cases against his political foes, without regard for evidence or propriety, as part of a brazenly corrupt and overtly authoritarian scheme. In this…
In today’s newsletter: Donald Trump and other Republican leaders rallied for religious conservatism during a memorial service for Charlie Kirk. The White House is on a winning streak at the Supreme Court. And as housing costs grow, so are the number of Americans living in RVs. Here’s what to know today. Charlie Kirk’s memorial served as…
WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened “bad things” would happen to Afghanistan if it does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States, and declined to rule out sending in troops to retake it. “If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to those that…