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Two teenage girls from Germany were detained, arrested, and deported at an airport in Hawaii after immigration officials said it was suspicious they had not booked a hotel room. Backpackers Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu from Auckland while undergoing a round-the-world trip. The duo planned to spend five weeks in Hawaii before moving onto California and Costa Rica for the next legs of their journey. But despite having ESTA travel authorization, immigration officials accused them of attempting to enter the U.S. to work illegally, and they were placed in handcuffs and taken to a nearby...

Some anti-Trump critics called for a boycott against Airbnb after the company's co-founder reportedly joined the government accountability effort led by tech billionaire Elon Musk. Billionaire Joe Gebbia is going to sign on to the Department of Government Efficiency, according to a report by the New York Times. Gebbia is also a board member at Tesla, the electric car company owned by Musk. Opponents of the DOGE effort rushed to their accounts on X, which is also owned by Elon Musk, to complain and call for a boycott against a service owned by someone so closely aligned with the DOGE....

The FBI announced the arrest of a suspect Friday in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David "Chris" Maland near the Vermont-Canada border. Washington state resident Teresa Youngblut, 21, was taken into custody following the fatal shooting on Monday, according to the FBI’s office in Albany, N.Y. "The United States Attorney’s Office District of Vermont has charged Youngblut with assault on a federal law enforcement officer," it said. "Our hearts remain with our partners at U.S. Border Patrol Swanton Sector as they mourn this tremendous loss."

The mysterious duo who were pulled over in Coventry, Vt. in the deadly shootout are leftist trans militants with alleged ties to a trans terror cell allegedly involved in three other homicides. On Inauguration Day, the shocking news that a US Border Patrol officer had been shot dead near the Canadian border in Vermont in an incident involving a now-deceased foreign national was overshadowed by coverage of Donald Trump's events in the nation's capital. One week later, a 21-year-old Washington woman was charged over the deadly incident, but little has been reported about her and her deceased accomplice, a German...

I have a confession to make: I did a bad thing. Something the younger me Would hate myself for doing. Something that only a few people (and maybe Bytedance) know: I voted Republican last November. I know, I know I can hear the crush of disappointed voices: Say it ain’t so, Joe. And yes, I can hear other voices cheering in the background, welcome to the club. So I would like to take a few moments to explain this choice to my younger self who cast his first ballot for Al Gore in 2000. Young Joe, first of all, stop...

Federal investigators believe a US Army veteran who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans' French Quarter prepared the IED explosives at a nearby rental property. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen born and raised in Texas drove an electric vehicle from Houston to Louisiana to carry out the deadly attack which killed 15 and left at least 35 injured. Investigators are probing the theory he rented a nearby property on Airbnb in St. Roch for his base before carrying out the attack. Exclusive DailyMail.com photographs show the moment the FBI removed bomb making...

A fire that broke out at an Airbnb in New Orleans may be connected to the attack on Bourbon Street, according to Nola.com. First responders were called to the St. Roch area of the city early Wednesday due to reports of a fire breaking out at an Airbnb. According to the outlet, investigators now believe the Airbnb was rented by the suspect of what is being investigated as a terrorist attack on Bourbon Street and that the fire could therefore be connected.

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk1 🚨BREAKING: Authorities confirm that 4 or 5 other suspects involved in the New Orleans attack in addition to Shamsud Din-Jabbar. 11:48 AM · Jan 1, 2025

When Donald Trump became president-elect yet again, D.C. resident Stacy Kane felt she needed to do something.... So, as his Jan. 20 inauguration creeps closer, she decided to reach out to fellow Airbnb hosts with a request: Consider taking your rentals off the market that weekend, or increase your prices and donate the profits to liberal causes... The Airbnb initiative was born out of a desire to “try to make any kind of difference that we can in the situation we find ourselves in as D.C. residents and just as human beings right now,” said Kane, a 40-year-old charter school...

A Venezuelan gang trashed a stunning Colorado Airbnb after hiring it for a huge party, police said. The Evergreen property was left decimated after members of Tren de Aragua stayed in the home over the weekend, according to the sheriff's office. Owner Karen Martiz, 42, said she was left speechless when she saw the state of the rental, which also contained packets of suspicious pink powder and 400 empty alcohol bottles. Her furniture had been stacked in one room to make way for a 'rave', during which the guests had been smoking indoors and trashing the property, Martiz said. 'I...

Prince fans will be given the opportunity to live how the iconic music star lived, for a small fee. Lisa and Wendy of The Revolution band have restored Prince's childhood home in Minneapolis, Minnesota and are making it available on Airbnb from October 26 to December 14. Over the 25 consecutive nights, fans will be allowed to book a one-night stay, with up to four guests for $7 per person – a nod to the former musician's favorite number.

An Airbnb host was seemingly so triggered by Republican volunteers getting out the vote in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earlier this week that they removed ballot chasers with Citizens Alliance’s PA CHASE program from their rental property. According to PA CHASE’s webpage, “The Pennsylvania Chase was launched by door-knocking guru Cliff Maloney. The project is a dedicated initiative aimed at matching the Democrat’s tactics for mail-in ballot success and securing a significant victory for liberty-loving Republicans in the 2024 election.” The group aims to knock on 500,000 doors across Pennsylvania during early voting. On Monday, the ballot chasers were reportedly given an...

A single mom in Durham, N.C. is finally getting her home back after squatters took it over. Two people booked Farzana Rahman's two-bed, two-bath property via Airbnb for seven months. They then refused to leave when their stay was up in May 2024, claiming they're "legal residents" of the home. Rahman ended up taking them to court to get her property back. But after they didn't show up to the hearing, the judge sided with Rahman and issued an eviction order. The Durham Sheriff's County Office served it to the guests on July 3, 2024. Rahman changed the locks and...

A months-long Airbnb rental has become a nightmare for the North Carolina host, because the renters refuse to leave. A single parent in the Triangle is out money and now is having to fight to get her property back. "Now they're refusing to leave until there's an eviction order. I think they're just trying to gain time to stay there for free because they haven't paid," Farzana Rahman said. This all started when Rahman's most recent Airbnb guests made a long-term rental reservation through Airbnb. They checked in on October 25 with a check out date of May 24. When...

No matter how much you like your colleagues, don’t think of your workplace as a family, says Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky. In 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Chesky penned a note to employees explaining that the company would conduct layoffs. “I have a deep feeling of love for all of you,” he wrote. It made sense: Workplace families were a particularly popular loyalty-building concept among tech companies pre-Covid, with perks like free food, dry cleaning and in-office gyms encouraging employees to spend more time in the office than with their actual families. But today, Chesky...

A family fled the Airbnb they were renting in rural Kentucky after making several startling observations about the house. The family, which consisted of the renter, Laura Schilling, her mother, and four teenage girls, were visiting Lexington the weekend of April 13 for one of the girls' equine competition. They were from outside the state, so they booked an Airbnb for the duration of their stay. They landed in Kentucky late on Thursday night, and were alarmed to find the front door wide open. In a Facebook post that chronicled her harrowing stay, Schilling wrote: 'I went in knowing that...

It was a nightmare-bnb experience. A UK family had to cancel their dream Spanish vacation just hours before departure after losing more than $5,000 in an elaborate Airbnb “clone” scam. “I felt devastated for my children and my husband,” Emma Last, 48, told PA Real Life of the holiday hornswoggling. “One [of her children] didn’t speak for a day.” The Lancashire resident had planned an eight-night trip to Majorca — one of Spain’s idyllic Balearic Islands — in August 2023 with her husband Zak, 51, Last’s parents and their three children: Scarlette and Henri, both 17, and Xander, 14. The...

As the housing crisis deepens, the corrosive impact of Airbnb on communities becomes increasingly evident. With over 1,000 San Diegans falling into homelessness each month, the question arises: How many Airbnb properties sit empty, exacerbating the crisis? Complicating matters further is a colossal loophole in the ordinance meant to regulate short-term rentals (STRs). While cracking down on Airbnb alone may not be a catchall solution, it’s undeniable that taking thousands of residential units offline hampers efforts to meet housing goals.

Fulton Count Georgia DA Fani Willis used a legal filing where she defended her 'personal' relationship with a special prosecutor on her team to hit directly at the lawyer for a Trump codefendant who exposed her affair. Willis admitted to the stunning affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade in her 176-page filing Friday, saying it posed no conflict with her role overseeing the case against Trump and associates on racketeering charges. But in between passages making dry legal arguments, she included a color picture of the lawyer who blew the whistle on her affair. She also dug up the lawyer's...

“she was not required to pay rent because the city had never approved the unit for occupancy and that its shower was constructed without a permit.” Because of those code violations, the city determined that Jovanovic couldn’t evict Hirschhorn