After state sees four deaths and 40 hospitalizations, public health officials and foraging experts urge caution A wet winter in California has produced a surge of wild fungi – a shroom boom that would typically have foragers cheering. But among the chanterelles and porcinis, a much more dangerous fungus called the death cap – also … Read more
Polymarket and Kalshi are less regulated than betting sites, but users can win or lose large sums on the platforms Yadin Eldar, 21, has been betting on prediction markets since 2019. His friends think he’s “crazy”, he said. But the craze surrounding these platforms is rapidly gathering steam. Users can bet on virtually anything, from … Read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi clashed with lawmakers during a hearing over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. At one point, Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked Epstein survivors in the audience to stand and offered Bondi the opportunity to apologize to them. “I’m not gonna get in the gutter for her theatrics,” Bondi said. NBC’s Ryan … Read more
The Trump Department of Homeland Security is clapping back at New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill after she pledged to help members of the public track U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers through an online portal. After Sherrill, a U.S. Navy veteran, recently announced, “We are going to be standing up a portal, so people … Read more
Alex Bores, a New York state lawmaker at the center of the political fight over the future of artificial intelligence, released an eight-point plan for a national AI framework Wednesday, wading further into the issue that is defining his campaign for Congress
In her first interview since taking office after the Trump administration’s ouster of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is sitting down exclusively with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker to talk about the future of the country and its relationship with the United States. “I can tell you that President Nicolás Maduro is … Read more
Information appears to contradict court testimony by banker in 2025 over nature of ties to convicted sex offender The former Barclays boss Jes Staley was named as a trustee of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate until at least May 2015, according to documents that appear to contradict court testimony given by the banker. Earlier this month the … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: A new Inspector General’s report released Thursday morning accuses the former Biden administration of bypassing federal rules when issuing a more than half-a-billion dollar “sole source contract” to a nonprofit led by a former Biden official to deal with the unaccompanied minor crisis in 2021. The Administration of Children and Families (ACF), which is … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans
Former President Joe Biden will be feted by South Carolina Democrats later this month, to mark the sixth anniversary of his Palmetto State primary landslide, a comeback victory that rocketed Biden to the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and later the White House. But with many Democrats still smarting from their party’s major 2024 election setbacks, … Read more
