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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A United States Secret Service employee has been arrested in Florida for allegedly exposing himself.John Andrew Spillman, 33, was taken into custody Monday morning and booked into the Miami-Dade jail on a charge of indecent exposure.According to WSVN, in a statement, the Chief of the Secret Service emphasized that Spillman's actions are "unacceptable" and go against the professionalism and integrity expected from their personnel.

The latest man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump received an apology from the judge in his court appearance Monday. Attorneys for Cole Allen claimed in filings revealed during the hearing that the suspect had been wrongfully placed on suicide watch and denied access to a Bible. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui gave the government until the next day to update the court on where Allen would be held at the Washington, D.C., jail. "Whatever you've been through, I apologize for the prior week," the judge said to Allen, according to USA Today. "I'm sorry," the judge said...

About a month ago, Senator Jim Justice hosted the owners of the Omni Hotels & Resorts chain for a meeting at The Greenbrier Hotel to explore possibilities for working together. The meeting, by all accounts, had moments of strain, and lawyers for the Omni owners now allege the senator threatened his leverage over West Virginia’s courtrooms. Justice, a two-term Republican governor now serving in the U.S. Senate, and the Texas billionaires who own Omni are in conflict over control of The Greenbrier, its 710 guest rooms, four golf courses and casino. [snip] “At that meeting, the Senator and his counsel...

In the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists recently discovered a 1,600-year-old tomb with several mummies inside. Some of them were decorated with gold leaf or geometric patterns—features commonly found in burials of this kind.But one of the mummies was unearthed alongside a particularly unusual artifact: a papyrus fragment from Homer's Iliad, the epic poem set during the Trojan War. The ancient Greek text had been tucked beneath the wrappings on the mummy's abdomen during the embalming process."The fact that in this case the text, in Greek, refers to a literary text is truly novel," say Maite Mascort and Esther...

Three days before a 31-year-old male stormed the White House Correspondents Dinner, hoping to assassinate President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet, the New York Times published a 35-minute video titled: “‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ Why petty theft might be the new political protest.” In it, a Times editor interviewed two other members of the media aristocracy about the moral code shared by a large swathe of young Americans. That code justifies theft—and even violence—when harnessed to a fashionably left-wing cause. None of the participants—podcasting celebrity Hasan Piker, New Yorker writer Jia...

Listen to those like leftist podcaster Hasan Piker and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who openly support Hamas, and they’ll tell you that while they support the destruction of Israel, they want to assure Jews in the Diaspora that they have nothing to fear from them. Or, at least, not as long as they don’t support Israel. They are adamant in asserting that anti-Zionism—a movement that denies rights to Jews that no one would think to deny to any other group or people—is not the same thing as antisemitism. Indeed, like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, they are proud...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — An affidavits reveals new details in what led to police arresting a man who was seen carrying an AR-15 style gun inside of a restaurant on Chattanooga's Southside Sunday.Officers were dispatched around 4:17 p.m. after the affidavit says a concerned caller reported a suspicious man who may have been concealing a firearm.When police arrived at Bollywood Tacos, they found the man—later identified as 20-year-old Roman McDonald—sitting in a booth inside the restaurant.According to the arrest report, officers attempted to detain McDonald and discovered a Colt SP1 AR-15 rifle hidden in his pants.The weapon was loaded, with a...

Bixonimania, a made-up eye condition created to prove that large language models (LLMs) could be easily deceived, ended up tricking human researchers as well. Bixonimania was created in 2024 by a team led by Almira Osmanovic Thunström, a medical researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. They wanted to see whether large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini could see through what was considered obvious misinformation, or whether they would swallow this medical misinformation and present it as valid information. Within weeks of Thunström’s team uploading two fake studies about bixonimania to a preprint server, the made-up condition was already...

At a closed marine park in the south of France, two orcas swim lonely circles in an aging tank, its walls caked with green algae. Their fate has become a drama in France, where the government must decide soon whether to transfer them to another marine park or release them into a sanctuary in the sea. While the prospect of sending them into nature is appealing, evoking a sense of restitution for captive mammals, critics argue it is both experimental and unrealistic. These orcas — a female, Wikie, 25, and her son Keijo, 13 — were born in Marineland,...

Rick Harrison, the Las Vegas pawn shop owner and star of the hit show Pawn Stars, stood up at the White House Small Business Summit on Monday and said what a lot of Main Street business owners have been thinking. “Literally he’s going to go down as maybe the best president ever,” Harrison said of President Donald Trump. “I love this guy!” The moment drew cheers from a room packed with more than 130 business owners who had traveled from across the country to mark National Small Business Week at the White House. VIDEO AT LINK............. Harrison, who owns the...

Iranians need access to weapons to challenge their rulers, President Donald Trump said on Monday, arguing that protesters would fight effectively if armed but are currently outmatched by government forces. “They have to have guns. And I think they’re getting some guns. As soon as they have guns, they’ll fight like, as good as anybody there is,” Trump said in an interview with The Hugh Hewitt Show. Trump also suggested that US military pressure had already significantly weakened Iran and that further action could be completed within a short timeframe. Trump: The Iranian people have to have guns and I...

The United States said Iranian attacks on shipping and forces in the Persian Gulf have so far remained below the level that would trigger a broader conflict, a senior US military official said. “They’ve attacked US forces more than 10 times, all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point,” said Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He said Iran had also fired at commercial vessels nine times and seized two container ships since a ceasefire was announced, adding the actions were part of efforts to disrupt global trade. Caine said around 22,500 mariners...

FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) — Californians are facing growing uncertainty at the pump after the state’s last major oil shipment from the Strait of Hormuz arrived in Long Beach on Monday, as leaders warn the state has roughly four to six weeks of fuel supply left under normal conditions.The shipment was the last to leave the Strait of Hormuz since Iran closed it in February, forcing state officials and refinery operators to find new sources of crude while also trying to keep up with converting it into gasoline to meet consumer demand.

Area 51 experienced at least 17 earthquakes in a single day this week, with stumped experts admitting the behavior is highly “unusual.” The secretive Nevada Air Force base, long associated with reports of UFOs, was hit by comparatively shallow quakes, prompting conspiracy theories about nuclear testing. The cluster of earthquakes ranged in magnitude from 2.5 to 4.4 and struck near the base, which is about 80 miles from Las Vegas, according to US Geological Survey (USGS) data. The first, most powerful quake, struck 2.5 miles below ground just after 3 p.m. Wednesday local time, followed by more than a dozen...

A Secret Service employee was arrested and placed on leave after he was allegedly caught masturbating in front of guests at a Miami hotel, according to authorities and reports. John Spillman, 33, was charged with indecent exposure for the disturbing incident that unfolded at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport and Convention Center on Sunday night, according to court records and WSVN. Hotel guests told investigators they were in the hotel lobby around midnight when Spillman allegedly followed them to their room, according to an arrest report obtained by the outlet. The guests then alarmingly spotted him “masturbating next...

The list of names that will be used for tropical storms and hurricanes that form during the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season includes some simple ones like Arthur, Fay and Kyle. But it also marks the return of Isaias — a storm name that was used during the 2020 hurricane season and proved to be tough to pronounce. Isaias is supposed to be pronounced ees-ah-EE-ahs, but many TV and radio newscasters butchered it. (The most common mispronunciations included eye-ZAY-us and ee-SAY-us.) On the serious side, Isaias turned out to be a category 1 hurricane when it made landfall in North Carolina...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Voters in Mid-Michigan will hit the polls on Tuesday, May 5 to decide on a number of school and public safety bond proposals and millage renewals. The May election comes before voters will decide on gubernatorial candidates and U.S. Senate and House of Representatives primary races in August. Earlier this month the Michigan Democratic Party nominated its candidates for attorney general and secretary of state, while Republicans made their nominations at their March convention.

When her fellow travelers aren't smashing in Starbucks windows to stick it to the man, Mayor Katie Wilson is busy ridding the Emerald City of one of its most iconic Seattle brands. She's busy eating the rich and pontificating about forcing grocery stores to do her bidding. She's like Zohran Mamdani, New York City's mayor, but is less talented and much, much less likable. Seattle used to be a place where the arts were bigger than Antifa, food culture was bigger than fentanyl, and where hardworking citizens were prized above homeless addicts. With every utterance or move she makes, however,...

President Donald Trump’s revenge tour to unseat Indiana Republicans who snubbed his push to redraw the state’s congressional districts could come to fruition on Tuesday during the state’s primary elections. The Hoosier State will see 10 state Senate seats on the ballot in Tuesday’s election, with eight state Republicans who voted against gerrymandering the state map seeking reelection. rump has issued endorsements in seven of the eight races, with only state Sen. Rick Niemeyer escaping the president’s retribution effort, where he has followed through with endorsing incumbents’ primary challengers. Dubbing them “Republicans in Name Only,” Trump endorsed against state Sens....

A massive liberal donor network is planning to spend “ten of millions” of dollars on new media to counter conservatives. Democracy Alliance, founded in 2005 to pool liberal funds, spent most of 2024 trying to flip House seats in New York and California. The group has spent $2 billion on electoral campaigns, media outlets, and think tanks since its creation. But following the new media success of conservatives, the group is shifting its strategy to developing alternative media, Semafor first reported. “It became crystal clear after 2024 that we collectively had relied too much on forms of media that were...