Day: April 23, 2025

Weinstein rape retrial to open, with majority-female jury

1:26 am April 23, 2025

Opening statements are set for Wednesday in former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial, this time with a majority-female jury deciding the landmark #MeToo case. After a dayslong selection process yielded a seven-woman, five-man jury and five alternate jurors by Monday, prosecutors and Weinstein’s lawyers finished choosing a sixth and final alternate on Tuesday. Alternates […]

Trump backs Republican rivals in Arizona governor’s race after Rep. Biggs enters contest: ‘I had a problem’

12:36 am April 23, 2025

Faced with a dilemma following his endorsement of conservative Karrin Taylor Robson to run for governor of Arizona, President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he will also support Republican Rep. Andy Biggs after the lawmaker “unexpectedly” entered the contest. Robson, a small business owner and lawyer, received Trump’s endorsement when no one else was […]

EPA chief Zeldin launches talks with Mexico to end sewage hitting San Diego, Navy SEALs: ‘out of patience’

12:36 am April 23, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin visited San Diego Tuesday to address the Mexican sewage flowing into U.S. waters from Tijuana that has contaminated the California coast, including where Navy SEALs train. “The Americans on our side of the border who have been dealing with this … for decades, are out of patience,” Zeldin […]

Ryan Lizza blasts Politico on his way out, looks to move on after ex-fiancé’s RFK Jr. tryst

12:08 am April 23, 2025

Ex-Politico reporter Ryan Lizza blasted his former employer on Monday, suggesting the news organization is not meeting the mark during “the unprecedented moment of democratic peril” he believes America is facing under President Donald Trump. Lizza became tabloid fodder last year when it was revealed his ex-fiancé, former New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi, had […]

Russian Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova ‘knowingly’ smuggled illicit items to US: feds

12:06 am April 23, 2025

Federal authorities said Harvard’s Kseniia Petrova “knowingly broke the law” amid their ongoing push to deport the Russian scientist. Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Feb. 16 as she returned from a trip to Paris. Her attorney, Gregory Romanovsky, told Fox News that […]