She was the toast of high society in London and New York. Now Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of grooming and trafficking underage girls. After learning to serve her crooked father’s whims, she then did the same for another tyrant, Jeffrey Epstein.Ghislaine Maxwell was born on Christmas Day 1961. Three days later, a car carrying…
As a New Yorker visiting California for the very first time, I was blown away by the landscapes, gorgeous weather, wildlife, and experiences.Southern California — the San Diego area specifically — is truly stunning and quite different from the East Coast.Read on for the things that surprised me most on my trip.It really seems like…
“I have never hated anyone more than Donald Trump!”So wrote the Flat Rock Letter-to-the-Editor writer to this newspaper last spring. Hate is such horrible thing and yet I’ve come to believe it was the root of last year’s presidential election and why we now have Joe Biden as president.Before going further, let me agree with…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — An Uber driver is charged with raping a female passenger who police said fell asleep before waking up as she was attacked during a ride in metro Las Vegas.Dawed Oumer Mekonene, 30, was arrested Tuesday and remained in jail Friday pending a court hearing on charges of sexual assault and battery…
White House staffers told Politico that it’s “beyond demoralizing” to see other DC employees getting to tour the White House before them.In Wednesday’s “West Wing Playbook” newsletter, an unspecified number of unnamed White House staffers expressed low morale and lack of appreciation working for the Biden administration.The atmosphere was exemplified as the White House set…
Former President Donald Trump is still not over his wife Melania’s Christmas decorations being panned.In a speech at the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, the former president criticized the media for going after his wife’s White House Christmas displays.”I have to just start by wishing everybody a very, very merry Christmas,” Trump said during…
Right-wing provocateur Steve Bannon is going full-steam ahead with a plan to turn his criminal case into a one-man reconnaissance mission involving the White House, the Justice Department, and the Jan. 6 Committee, where he hopes to find anything that’ll smear Democrats who’ve come after him.Earlier this month, The Daily Beast laid out Bannon’s strategy…
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) branded Rep. Jim Jordan a “traitor to the Constitution” after the Ohio Republican admitted to sending a text to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Jan. 5 suggesting then-Vice President Mike Pence should stop the certification of the 2020 election.“Look, Jim Jordan is a traitor. He’s a traitor…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday withdrew his senatorial candidacy in next year’s elections in his latest change of mind over what he plans to do after his turbulent term ends, when critics say he would likely face an array of lawsuits for an anti-drugs crackdown that has left thousands of…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was facing calls for his resignation on Thursday after a leaked video showed his staff joking about hosting an illegal Christmas party while the country underwent strict COVID-19 restrictions last year.According to a report from the British tabloid The Daily Mirror, the party took place on December 18, 2020, and…