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The 56-year-old former nurse is reportedly under investigation in northern Italy in a case that has been dubbed the "Mrs Doubtfire scandal". An Italian man has been accused of disguising himself as his dead mother— complete with wig, lipstick and jewellery — to fraudulently claim her pension, according to domestic media reports. The unemployed former nurse, who has not been identified, allegedly claimed thousands of euros in pension payments following the death of his mother in 2022, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported. Italian press dubbed it the Mrs Doubtfire Scandal, after the 1993 film starring the late Robin Williams,...

Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.V., and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5 million to the IRS in previously unpaid federal income taxes dating back to 2009, according to court records filed Monday. The West Virginia senator committed to paying that hefty sum just hours after the Justice Department sued him and his wife, Cathy Justice, on behalf of IRS tax collectors, who said they had repeatedly attempted to recover the unpaid taxes, but to no avail, according to a complaint filed earlier on Monday. “Despite notice and demand for payment of the assessments,” the suit read, “[Justice] and...

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., appeared on MS NOW's "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Monday, where he responded to the Pentagon's announcement that it has opened a formal review into allegations of misconduct over a video calling on service members to "refuse illegal orders." On Monday, the Pentagon announced its investigation into Kelly, a retired Navy captain, and said it may call the senator back to active duty to face court-martial proceedings or other administrative actions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). When asked by Maddow about the Pentagon's investigation, Kelly said, "Well, Rachel, I said something that was...

Prosecutors announced they will be seeking the death penalty for a Pennsylvania man accused of raping and killing his 2-year-old son in August. The McKean County District Attorney’s Office announced the filing on Monday against 33-year-old Tyler Prescott of Bradford, citing four reasons that support the commonwealth’s first execution this century. That sentence, however, would hinge on Prescott being convicted of first-degree murder, which is the only crime that can be punished by death according to PA law, but also comes with an alternative sentence of life in prison. McKean County DA Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer said the Commonwealth will list the...

Tesla shattered Norway’s decade-old annual sales record this month, overtaking Volkswagen’s long-standing milestone with over one month still left in the year. Backed by surging demand ahead of Norway’s upcoming VAT changes, Tesla has already registered 26,666 vehicles year-to-date, surpassing Volkswagen’s 2016 record of 26,572 units. With November alone delivering 4,260 new registrations month-to-date, Tesla has cemented its most dominant year ever in one of Europe’s most mature EV markets. Model Y drives historic surge in Norway Tesla’s impressive momentum has been led overwhelmingly by the Model Y, which accounted for 21,517 of Norway’s registrations this year, as noted in...

On November 18, 2025, Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince walked into the Oval Office and treated it like a showroom floor. Every sentence was a sales pitch. Every claim was polished to sound like victory. And every lie was delivered with the confidence of people who assume the public won’t bother checking the fine print.What you’re about to read is a highlight reel of contradictions, fantasy numbers, selective memory, and the kind of strategic blindness that gets entire regions burned to the ground.They said the quiet parts out loud, assuming no one would connect the dots.So I did.Below is...

According to the former head of European diplomacy, the EU should recognize the shift in American policy and respond accordinglyBRUSSELS, November 25. /TASS/. Europe can no longer consider the United States an ally after American President Donald Trump put forward his plan for the Ukrainian settlement without any input from the EU, former head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell said. As evidenced by the 28-point plan for a Ukrainian settlement, the United States under Trump can no longer be considered an ally of Europe, which is not even consulted on issues affecting its own security, he wrote on X. According...

...The Justice Department filed a friend of the court brief in support of the plaintiffs suing Hawaii over a new law that curbs where people with concealed carry permits can bring their firearms, making it a misdemeanor to carry on any private property without "unambiguous written or verbal authorization" or where "clear and conspicuous signage" grants permission from the owner. "Hawaii's law plainly violates the Second Amendment," Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on X.

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal prosecutors to end what critics said was illegal “algorithmic collusion.”The deal announced Monday by the Department of Justice follows a yearlong federal antitrust lawsuit, launched during the Biden administration, against the Texas-based software company. RealPage would not have to pay any damages or admit any wrongdoing. The settlement must still be approved by a judge.RealPage software provides daily recommendations to help landlords and their employees nationwide price their available apartments. The...

THE CENTER SQUARE—An energy worker advocacy group sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security urging it to review whether climate advocate Greta Thunberg—along with others—should be allowed entry to the nation due to safety concerns arising after recent bannings she has faced elsewhere and the pattern of “disruption” that appears to follow her. Founder and executive director of energy group Power the Future Daniel Turner told The Center Square: “Secretary [Kristi] Noem and the Trump Administration are working tirelessly to keep America safe, and we urge them to take a hard look at whether agitators like Thunberg should...

Vice President Vance fired back at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday after the former Senate republican leader warned the Trump administration not to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin in the emerging Ukraine peace deal.“This is a ridiculous attack on the president’s team, which has worked tirelessly to clean up the mess in Ukraine that Mitch–always eager to write blank checks to Biden’s foreign policy–left us,” Vance wrote in a post on the social platform X.“I wonder if the three candidates to replace McConnell in Kentucky share his views here,” he continued.Vance was responding to a quote from McConnell, who...

Planned Parenthood shooting suspect Robert Dear dies in custody by: Jacob Factor Nov 25, 2025 DENVER (KDVR) — Robert Dear, the man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic nearly ten years ago has died in federal custody. One police officer and two civilians were killed in the shooting at the clinic on Nov. 27, 2015. Dear had been accused in the shooting and charged both federally and at the state level, though judges have repeatedly found him incompetent to stand trial. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate lookup lists Dear as deceased and a...

A state court instituted a map that created one blue seat in the state.Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said the Legislature is awaiting Gibson — who was appointed to the bench by former Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican — to “wrap up her final decision,” at which point the Legislature will appeal to the state’s highest court. Legislators have also said they will attempt to impeach Gibson.This is the latest episode in a yearslong redistricting saga in Utah. In 2018, Utah voters passed Proposition 4, an anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative that created an independent redistricting commission, which the GOP-controlled state Legislature...

Before we get into the weeds on the latest example of the Democrats becoming the party of, by, and for unstable white cat ladies, I must give a shoutout to the parents of Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn (D-Knoxville) for naming their daughter so perfectly. If Charles Dickens were alive today and writing political satire set in the American South, he'd have named his crazy female character "Aftyn Behn." Well played, Mr. and Mrs. Behn. Behn first gained national attention last week, when we learned — courtesy of PJ Media's own Robert Spencer — that she "hates" the city she...

A suspected terrorist accused of stabbing three people in Madrid before attacking police shouting 'Allahu Akbar' reportedly told his mum he was on a mission to 'kill Christians.'The 18-year-old, a Spaniard of Moroccan origin, remains in hospital after being tasered and shot by anti-terror police when he holed himself up in a flat following the triple stabbing and violently resisted attempts to arrest him.A judge at Spain's central criminal court is now investigating the incidents on Saturday afternoon as suspected Islamic terrorist crimes.Cops had told the judge the teenager, who is currently under police guard at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital,...

"Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva," said Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council secretary, Rustem Umerov Ukraine said on Tuesday that it has agreed to the "core terms" of the U.S. peace deal proposal to end its war with Russia.Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council secretary, Rustem Umerov, posted on X: "We appreciate the productive and constructive meetings held in Geneva between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations, as well as President Trump’s steadfast efforts to end the war."Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the...

A new poll of likely Republican primary voters shows U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s support continuing to decline ahead of the 2026 Texas GOP primary, with Cornyn now falling into third place in a three-way matchup. The poll, conducted November 21–22 by Stratus Intelligence, surveyed 857 likely Republican primary voters in Texas. It found Attorney General Ken Paxton leading with 36 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt at 26 percent, and Cornyn at 25 percent. Fourteen percent of voters remain undecided. Cornyn’s favorability rating has also declined. The survey shows him at 35 percent favorable and 51 percent unfavorable, with...

Who wants to see that?Oh no, perish the thought. We can’t possibly lose our current action movie landscape in which painfully diverse casts including 5’2 girl bosses defeat entire armies using the power of special effects while delivering quips originating from a now MeToo’d writer who wrote them for a teenage girl show before infecting Marvel with his brand of dialogue.They’re so popular that movie theaters are standing empty.So you can see why Semafor’s story about Trump impacting the culture is set to strike terror into the hearts of wokes everywhere.But now Larry Ellison, one of Trump’s most prominent financial...

In light of actual progress toward a peace proposal in the Russo-Ukrainian War, warmongers scrambled to hurl their favorite smear at the Trump administration. According to them, anything less than a total crushing victory over Russia is no different than British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany in 1938 and paves the way for further Russian aggression.We’ve heard this accusation thrown around time after time from neocons, Democrat politicians, the propaganda press, and really anybody who is personally offended when America stays out of a foreign conflict for more than two seconds. Continuing in that vapid...

Multiple reports in American mainstream media, echoed by Ukrainian state news, indicated on Tuesday that U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll is holding meetings with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to discuss a U.S.-proposed end to the Ukraine invasion. Reports from Reuters, CBS News, and the Associated Press, among others, suggested that talks have begun between American and Russian officials to refine what began as a 28-point peace plan presented by Washington last week. The Ukrainian state media outlet Ukrinform did not independently verify the report, but shared the report citing the American news outlets, suggesting...