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Feds Building Attempted Assassination Case Against Trump Suspect
Federal prosecutors are combing through evidence to build an attempted assassination case against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man arrested on Sunday after a shooting incident at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, sources told CNN. Routh was arrested the same day as the “attempted assassination,” according to the FBI, and charged with weapons violations. However, the Secret Service later confirmed Routh did not fire a shot before agents noticed his rifle barrel and fired at him. “You don’t have to fire a shot to be charged with attempting to kill a former president or a major presidential candidate,” Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg told CNN. However, the prosecutor also said proving the case could prove difficult. Sources told CNN they were examining Routh’s social media presence and his travels abroad—although they noted there is currently no evidence he received training or orders from foreign actors. Routh was a prolific online poster and self-published author concerned with the war in Ukraine and other international conflicts.Read it at CNNRead more at The Daily Beast.
‘Elf’ Star Jokes About Diddy Case: Is ‘Being Nasty’ a Crime?
Actor and comedian Faizon Love seemed to make a joke on Wednesday in response to the charges facing Sean “Diddy” Combs in an Instagram post. “When has being nasty been a federal crime?” he asked. Known for his roles in movies such as Elf, Meteor Man, and Friday, Love asked his 269,000 social media followers to explain why “Puffy” was indicted this week. “I didn’t know there was a limit on baby oil,” he added in an apparent reference to police seizing 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricants from Diddy’s properties. “You can’t take anybody on vacation, you can’t take nobody to Vegas, damn sure don’t bring them to Atlanta,” he continued. Combs was charged this week for transporting sex workers “across state lines and internationally” to take part in his “Freak Off” performances. “Please tell us the new rules,” said Love in a thinly-veiled dig at New York prosecutors.Read it at InstagramRead more at The Daily Beast.
Suspect in Custody After Kentucky Judge Shot and Killed in His Chambers
A judge was shot and killed at the Letcher County courthouse in rural Whitesburg, Kentucky, the state’s governor confirmed.In a post on X, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear verified that a district judge in Letcher County was “shot and killed in his chambers this afternoon.”“There is far too much violence in this world, and I pray there is a path to a better tomorrow,” he added.A spokesperson for the Kentucky State Police’s post in the region told the Daily Beast a suspect was in custody and investigation into the “isolated incident” was ongoing.Police have not released details about the shooter or...
Score Big This Football Season With Yeti and NFL’s New Collection
Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.NFL Season is here, and while we love the thrill of the game and every glamorous Taylor Swift sighting, the real MVPs of this league are the epic collaborations that come with it. Go-to brands like culinary atelier Hedley & Bennett and American-style outfitter Abercrombie & Fitch recently introduced NFL collections worthy of any fan’s football-forward collection, but it’s the latest collab from Yeti that has us cheering like we scored the winning touchdown.The ultimate fusion of functionality and football fandom, the Yeti x...
Video Catches Inmate Crawling Past Security to Women’s Jail
A male Arizona inmate was caught on surveillance camera in April crawling “like a spider” past security to enter the women’s side of the jail. Inmate Justin Avery, who was being held at the Maricopa County intake facility for allegedly assaulting five women near Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, said he intended to “rape” the inmate because she had a “fat a--.” Creeping past a security guard around 4 a.m., Avery made it all the way over to the sleeping female inmate and pulled his pants down before he was caught. According to court docs accessed by ABC15, another female inmate spotted Avery and screamed for help, which led to a security guard taking notice. “This inmate crawled around a pony wall to the female side of the room and attempted to assault an inmate, all within a minute and a half,” said a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. “This area is consistently monitored and entered by detention staff throughout the day. Once seen, detention officers responded immediately and removed the inmate to an enclosed cell.” Avery is reportedly due in court next week.Read it at TMZRead more at The Daily Beast.
Kamala Harris Pins Hopes on Oprah Moment
Is Oprah Winfrey the secret sauce Kamala Harris needs to win?The Harris campaign sure hopes so, and campaign advisers say there are “surprises” in store during a livestream interview with the iconic talk show host Wednesday night.A few hundred studio guests will be watching in-person in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, Michigan. A couple hundred thousand others are expected to be tuning in on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Twitch. The event is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET.The event, co-hosted by Win With Black Women, comes as Harris and Donald Trump are deadlocked in a high-stakes, suspenseful race that...
Dave Grohl's Ex Says 'Scumbag' Singer Was a Serial Cheater
Dave Grohl’s ex, Kari Wuhrer, says she’s heard “rumblings” about the rocker’s infidelity in his marriage to Jordyn Blum before it was revealed that he had a baby girl with another woman.Wuhrer, an actress best known for her parts in Anaconda and Thinner, told TMZ that there had been chatter around Hollywood about Grohl's cheating ways for years.But while she heard "rumblings" of his two-timing on his wife of 21 years, Wuhrer said she does not know the identity of the mother of his newest child.According to Wuhrer, she had her own experience with the Foo Fighters singer cheating when...
Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monsters’ Series: Were the Menendez Brothers Incestuous Lovers?
On Aug. 20, 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez brutally murdered their parents, firing so many shots into them—to the point that Lyle returned to his car to reload his weapon—that their bodies were more or less mutilated.That crime is at the center of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the second installment in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix anthology series (following Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story), and so too are competing theories about why they did the heinous deed. Lyle and Erik claimed they had acted in response to lifelong sexual abuse at the hands of their father, as well as...
Pete Buttigieg Is Playing JD Vance During Tim Walz’s Debate Prep
Tim Walz enlisted the help of Pete Buttigieg as he prepares for the vice-presidential debate on Oct. 1. The Transportation Secretary is reportedly serving as JD Vance’s stand-in during policy sessions and mock debates on the campaign trail.Buttigieg, now reprising his role as opposing veep candidate, stood in for Mike Pence during Kamala Harris’ practice sessions leading up to the 2020 election. The former South Bend, Indiana mayor’s on-stage persona this time around happens to be as a fellow Midwesterner.On Wednesday, Walz, clad in cargo-pants and drinking Mountain Dew, met up with Buttigieg at a Minneapolis hotel to prepare for...
Alaska Man Charged for Graphic Threats to Torture & Kill 6 Supreme Court Justices
An Alaska man has been charged for threatening to torture and kill six Supreme Court justices, the Justice Department said on Thursday.Between March 2023 and July 2024, 76-year-old Panos Anastasiou sent over 465 messages through the court’s website, in which he graphically described violent acts he would like to commit against the justices and their family members.The names of the specific justices who received threats have not been made public.The Justice Department said in its release that the often racist and homophobic messages threatened “assassination by torture, hanging, and firearms.”Anastasiou was charged with nine counts of making threats against a...
Barron Trump Fans Are Tracking His Every Move Around College
Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s youngest son and a freshman at New York University, has become an unwitting TikTok star with the rise of a new genre of videos—shakily filmed clips of him moving around campus. The videos are largely taken from surreptitious angles by the 18-year-old’s NYU classmates and set to songs like Chamillionaire’s "Ridin," according to WIRED, which described the sightings as Sasquatch-esque. Some have scooped up hundreds of thousands of views, but none so far has shed much light on Barron’s character or personality, much less whether he is majoring in aquatic biology. “I feel like Barron could’ve gone to any school, but the fact that he chose one of the most liberal schools in the country speaks volumes,” Grace Rowley, one NYU student who posted about the former first son on TikTok, told WIRED. “I was shocked and super intrigued that he would choose NYU. Would love to speak with him and would love to read his ‘why NYU’ essay.”Read it at WIREDRead more at The Daily Beast.
GOP Guv Candidate Shared His Love for Transgender Porn & Slavery in Bizarre Old Posts
North Carolina’s race for governor was thrown into chaos Thursday after a report alleged its GOP nominee once posted of his affinity for transgender porn, his pro-slavery beliefs, and described himself as a “Black Nazi.”Details about the bizarre posts by Republican Mark Robinson were revealed by CNN KFile on Thursday afternoon, which uncovered the slew of scandalous posts on pornographic forums like “Nude Africa” in the 2000s. Robinson, 56, vehemently denied making the posts and characterized them as “salacious tabloid lies” that are not “characteristic of me.”However, CNN’s report said the email address associated with Robinson’s forum accounts was also...
Poll Shows Voters Think Kamala Harris Is Tougher Than Donald Trump
A new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs (AP-NORC) reveals that voters believe Vice President Kamala Harris has more brains and brawn than GOP nominee Donald Trump. According to the numbers, voters chose Harris 59 percent over Trump’s 57 percent when it came to which candidate they felt was tough enough to be president. As for which candidate would change the country for the better, Harris beat Trump again 55 percent compared to 46 percent. Voters also said Harris was more likely to fight for them than Trump, scoring 54 percent and 43 percent respectively. The Associated Press reported that the poll was conducted prior to the second apparent assassination attempt on Trump’s life at his golf course in Florida on Sunday. Fresh off of her dominate debate performance, Harris jumped to a six-point lead over Trump according to numbers from a Morning Consult poll.Read more at The Daily Beast.
Chilling Pic Shows Teen Girl Luring Stepdad Home After Killing Mom
A Mississippi teenager lured her stepfather home to be shot after killing her mother and impersonating her in text messages, prosecutors alleged in the opening statements of a murder trial on Monday.The New York Post reported Carly Gregg, 15, allegedly texted her stepfather, “When will you be home honey.” Moments after she arrived home from school with her mother, Ashley Smylie, she shot her to death with a .357 magnum. Smylie, 40, was a math teacher at Gregg’s school, Northwest Rankin High School.Gregg was charged with murder, attempted murder, and tampering with evidence, and she was caught on home surveillance...
Kamala’s Splashy Play for Trump Toadies
Kamala Harris is heavily flirting with guys she wants to poach from MAGA World, or at least stop them from swinging that way. Her wingmen are helping by launching an ad blitz targeting white men that will cost around $10 million, a play for a key demographic that tends to favor Donald Trump.“White dudes, so, I think we’re all pretty sick of hearing how much we suck,” declares a new 68-second ad from the self-described White Dudes for Harris, which will air on YouTube, streaming, and social media in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.The ad's narrator complains that Trump guys are...
‘Kill Bill’ Star to Divorce: Says Wife Drove Son to Suicide
Kill Bill actor Michael Madsen filed for divorce from his DeAnna Madsen on Wednesday, ending their 28-year marriage. As to why they called it quits, documents obtained by People show that Madsen cited “irreconcilable differences” and dated their separation as Jan. 25, 2022. According to the filings, Madsen said that DeAnna’s “neglect, drinking and alcoholism” led to their son Hudson’s death by suicide two days before their separation. Hudson was 26 at the time of his death. Last month, the Reservoir Dogs actor was arrested and charged with domestic violence after he and DeAnna got into an altercation at his home. In the divorce docs, Madsen addressed the incident and said he was “wrongfully arrested for DV.” Furthermore, he characterized himself as a “victim in an abusive, co-dependent, and toxic” marriage. Following Madsen’s arrest, he denied any wrongdoing in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. In response, DeAnna issued her own statement claiming that the actor has “personal issues.” Aside from Hudson, the exes share two other sons, Luke and Calvin.Read it at PeopleRead more at The Daily Beast.
What Really Happened During Demi Lovato’s Dark Disney Days
The below has been excerpted from DISNEY HIGH: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire by Ashley Spencer © 2024 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press.Demi Lovato’s Sonny With a Chance contract went beyond the standard series terms that many previous Disney Channel stars signed and more closely resembled something out of the old Hollywood studio system. It stipulated that, in addition to Demi’s commitment to Sonny with a Chance (at the time called Sketchpad), she would be required to do two post–Camp Rock Disney Channel Original Movies, as...
Donald Trump Gloats Debate Audience ‘Went Crazy’—But There Was None
Donald Trump said the audience at last week’s presidential debate “went crazy” for him.The only problem? The debate didn’t have a live audience.In a Wednesday appearance on the Fox News talk show Gutfeld!, Trump again criticized the fairness of the debate’s moderation by ABC News anchors Linsey Davis and David Muir.“They didn’t correct her once,” Trump said, referring to his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris, “and they corrected me—everything I said, practically—I think 9 times or 11 times.” (The moderators fact-checked Harris zero times and Trump five times.)However, Trump’s memory of the day seemed to falter. “And the audience was absolutely—they...
Ex-Rapper Who Took the Fall for Diddy and J.Lo Shooting Breaks Silence
Moses “Shyne” Barrow is done faking nice with Sean “Diddy” Combs, finally claiming nearly 25 years later that the incarcerated ex-mogul set him up to take the fall for the 1999 Manhattan Club shooting, caused him to spend nearly a decade in prison, and “destroyed my life.”Former Bad Boy artist Shyne speaks on Diddy's recent arrest and says Diddy destroyed his life.(🎥 Channel 5 Belize/Youtube) pic.twitter.com/1gO0SYmslV— The Art Of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) September 19, 2024 Combs and then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez were arrested immediately after the shooting for their alleged involvement, but the charges were ultimately dropped—and witnesses pinned the shooting on Barrow,...
Hillary: Kamala Knows How to ‘Expose’ Trump Better Than I Ever Could
Hillary Clinton thinks Kamala Harris is hitting Donald Trump where it hurts—and she loves to see it.Clinton stopped by The View to talk about how she thinks Harris is doing against Trump on Thursday, and shared how Harris has managed to take her advice to “bait him” to a whole other level. “Back in 2016, in my acceptance speech at the convention, I said ‘You can’t trust somebody with nuclear weapons who you can bait with a tweet.’ Because he’s definitely bait-able,” she explained..@HillaryClinton to #TheView last week's presidential debate: "I was baiting [Trump] about nuclear weapons [in 2016], which...
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