Author: Press Room
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew and brother of King Charles, has reportedly been arrested by UK police on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It comes after he was found to be closely associated with convicted pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. On Thursday, British outlets reported that unmarked police cars and plainclothes officers had arrived at the ex-Prince’s residence and taken him into custody. According to reports, authorities suspect Mountbatten-Windsor of sharing sensitive information with Epstein while he was a UK trade envoy. The reported arrest, which comes on Mountbatten-Windsor’s 66th birthday, marks the first time a member of the royal…
A television sports presenter has apologised after a clip of her slurring her way through a live interview from the Winter Olympics in Italy went viral, pleading for public sympathy by saying “I shouldn’t have had a drink.” Australian Channel Nine reporter Danika Mason said she had “misjudged the situation” by drinking ahead of her appearance on live television. The contrite presenter also blamed the altitude, the cold, and her failure to eat dinner for contributing to her viral report. “I want to take full responsibility, it’s not the standard I set myself,” she said during another appearance a day later, adding…
Tesla’s autonomous vehicle fleet operating in Austin, Texas, has experienced crashes at a rate four times higher than that of human-driven vehicles, according to data reported to federal safety regulators. Jalopnik reports that Tesla’s robotaxi program in Austin, Texas is experiencing collision rates that are four times higher than those of human drivers, based on the company’s own reporting to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The autonomous vehicle fleet, which consists of 43 vehicles, has accumulated approximately 800,000 miles over an eight-month operational period and has reported fourteen separate crash incidents during that time. This data translates to…
A former aide to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) reportedly confessed to having an affair with him before she committed suicide last year, according to a report. An un-named “former staffer” who had worked in Gonzales’s “district office” told the San Antonio Express-News that Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, 35, had admitted to having an affair with Gonzales in 2024. Santos-Aviles, who had served as Gonzales’s “regional district director,” died in September 2025 after she “poured gasoline over herself and was engulfed in flames.” The former staffer for Gonzales, “who asked not to be named,” claimed that Santos-Aviles, a mother to an eight-year-old…
“It’s good,” the US agency told Ukrainian saboteurs about the plan, according to the outlet’s sources The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) discussed a plan to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea with Ukrainian saboteurs, German outlet Der Spiegel has reported, citing sources in Kiev.Berlin apparently believes the September 2022 blasts that crippled the key connectors that delivered Russian gas to Germany were detonated by several Ukrainian frogmen who, possibly with the assistance of Poland, rented a small yacht, sailed into the Baltic and dived to extraordinary depths to set explosives and blow up the pipelines.Moscow has repeatedly expressed deep skepticism over the…
Meta on Thursday unveiled its policies regarding how the social media giant will handle political ads and transparency ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Meta said it would aim to support free speech, voter participation, and transparency around AI-generated content. The company will block new political ads on its platforms during the final week of the midterm elections. In a December report, Meta released its third quarter report on content moderation, saying its global enforcement mistakes have dropped by 90 percent since it has pivoted away from third-party fact-checking and censorship-style practices. The social media giant said that advertisers are…
Giving away the British Indian Ocean Territory would be a “blight” on Britain that endangers national security and should not be permitted, President Trump said, reportedly prompting Downing Street to “pause for thought” on whether to proceed with the deal. The highly contested plan to give away a highly strategic slice of British territory in the Indian Ocean — which contains one of the world’s most valuable military bases — is again under intense scrutiny as U.S. President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to stop bowing to “wokeism” and international law and just act in his national…
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in the fourth quarter, suggesting that President Trump’s tariffs may be rebalancing trade by opening foreign markets to U.S. exports and reducing dependence on imports. The three-month average goods deficit fell to $80.5 billion in the fourth quarter, down 27 percent from $109.6 billion in the same period a year earlier. The combined goods and services deficit dropped even more sharply, falling nearly 40 percent to $50.7 billion from $83.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024. Average exports climbed $22.2 billion while average imports declined $10.7 billion compared to the fourth quarter of…
Tuesday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” former ABC News host Terry Moran said “a lot of Republicans” change their fundamental principles with “the prevailing winds.” Host Jen Psaki said, “It’s notable that will all of this is happening. You know, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who once criticized Orban and strongman like him, was praising Orban and strongman leaders like him in Munich. He it’s I mean, he obviously Orban, who I think people watching know this have this a long history of controlling media, controlling speech and praising him feels like a real shift and a real flag to me.…
The company organized an employee networking function that excluded men, a US civil rights agency has claimed A Coca-Cola distributor is facing sex discrimination allegations following a corporate networking event that excluded men, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced. The case marks the agency’s first lawsuit over workplace diversity-focused programs since President Donald Trump took office, and the first one to claim that events of the kind are unlawful. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the regulator stated that Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast violated federal law when it hosted a two-day women-only event for about 250 employees at…