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"Scott said, 'You're a fraud. You're a total fraud," Bannon said in an interview. Musk then rammed his shoulder into Bessent's rib cage "like a rugby player," Bannon said, and Bessent hit him back. Multiple people stepped in to break up the scrum as the two men reached the national security adviser's office, and Musk was shuffled out of the West Wing. "President Trump heard about it and said, 'This is too much,"" Bannon said.

A relative of the father and son accused by police of shooting and beating a man early Wednesday morning (Dec. 28) in New Orleans East said the man shot had repeatedly "terrorized" her family after his relationship with her granddaughter ended. New Orleans police say Emile Blackburn Jr., 72, and Emile Blackburn III, 47, pulled up to the 50-year-old man's Viola Street home about 12:10 a.m. The younger Blackburn walked up behind the man and opened fire, police said, striking him twice in the back of the head. Blackburn Jr. grabbed a baseball bat and started hitting the man in...