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The chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections was charged after Wilmington police said they found evidence he placed illegal narcotics in his granddaughters’ ice cream. On Aug. 8, James Edwin Yokeley Jr. told an officer that his two juvenile granddaughters found two pills in ice cream purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.…

President Donald Trump is calling for ABC and NBC to have their licenses revoked, accusing the two networks of producing unfavorable coverage of his administration at a rate of 97%. “Despite a very high popularity and, according to many, among the greatest 8 months in Presidential History, ABC & NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the…

The House Oversight Committee has received the first wave of Epstein files, raising new questions for Trump and the DOJ. Rep. Melanie Stansbury of the Oversight Committee joins The Weeknight to discuss what comes next in the investigation.

Conservative journalist Geraldo Rivera turned some heads this weekend with an attack on Donald Trump. Rivera took to X, starting with some comments about the legal cases he perceived as “lawfare” against the president. “President Trump was obviously right to challenge and expose fake cases, especially the Mar-a-Lago documents, and New York State’s enormously inflated…

A professor and former Department of Labor economist is warning that unelected White House advisor and multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk is sending the United States headlong into a huge recession. In a post on Bluesky, Jesse Rothstein, a University of California, Berkeley public policy professor who was the DOL’s chief economist at the start of the…

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Friday afternoon that he was “releasing the complete transcript and audio of my proffer of Ms. Maxwell. The transcript and audio are linked below.” Blanche’s meeting with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in late July came amid ongoing fury at Trump’s DOJ and FBI releasing a memo in early…

A judge rained on Donald Trump’s crime crackdown parade when she released from a youth holding facility two teens charged in connection with the alleged assault of a former DOGE staffer. The teens, a boy and a girl, both 15 and from Maryland, had been held at Washington, D.C.’s Youth Services Center since being charged…

Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage. Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind…

An Israeli government official charged with soliciting a minor believed he was meeting a 15-year-old girl for “sexual contact”, according to police – and brought a condom to the planned rendezvous in Las Vegas. Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a division head at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, was arrested in a police sting operation aimed at…

Owning a farm was a no-brainer for Carrie Underwood, who grew up on one in Checotah, Oklahoma. A self-described green thumb, the country star, 42, lives on 400 acres with her husband, former NHL player Mike Fisher, and their two young sons in Tennessee. But a source said the constant grind of farm life is…