U.S.ReutersFord recalls 125,000 vehicles over engine failures that can cause fires
Ford Motor Co said on Tuesday it is expanding and issuing a new recall for 125,000 sport utility vehicles and trucks because engine failures may cause a fire. The recall covers various Escape and Lincoln Corsair SUVs and Maverick compact pickup trucks from the 2020-2023 model years with 2.5L hybrid or plug-in hybrid engines, according to a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Ford said isolated engine manufacturing issues can cause the engine to fail prematurely and in that event engine oil or fuel vapor may be released, increasing the risk of fire and injury.
U.S.INSIDERJudge threatens to jail Hunter Biden for up to 6 months if he doesn't appear for questioning about his finances in his child support suit
First son Hunter Biden is embroiled in a legal battle over supporting his four-year-old daughter. Lunden Roberts, the child's mom, accused him of mischaracterizing his wealth in a child support suit. A judge has ordered Biden to appear in court next month to answer Roberts' questions.
U.S.BenzingaArnold Schwarzenegger Says 'No One Gives A S*** About Climate Change,' Calls For A New Name
Arnold Schwarzenegger, known for his activism on climate change, is advocating for a fresh approach to tackle the issue. In an interview with CBS News, Schwarzenegger expressed his belief that reframing the climate crisis as pollution could have a more significant impact on rallying people to protect the planet. Don't Miss: Why Jason Calacanis and Other Silicon Valley Elites Are Betting On This Startups Vision For Re-Uniting American Families Schwarzenegger argued, “As long as they keep talking about global climate change, they are not gonna go anywhere, because no one gives a s**t about that.
HealthIn The Know by Yahoo‘They were growing’: Woman claims her extreme digestive issues were caused by raw chia seeds in viral PSA
After consuming 2 tablespoons of raw chia seeds every day, a woman claims she experienced horrible digestive issues — and she's warning others not to make the same mistake. TikToker Jade Amber (@@jade.amberrrrr) gained over 5.4 million views, 715,000 likes, 60,000 saves and 11,000 comments when she shared her PSA online. Now, much like the firefighter who took to TikTok to reveal what can happen when you sleep with your bedroom door closed, Jade's PSA has people rethinking their everyday habits, especially those within the clean eating movement.
U.S.USA TODAYThis $250,000 apartment under an LA bridge is in demand as one of the city's cheapest homes
Over a stream and under a bridge lies one of the 10 properties for sale in Los Angeles County for under $250,000. Compass Real Estate is selling a one bedroom one bathroom apartment in Alhambra that's sought after despite – or possibly because of – its unique location. Built in 1949, the 462-square-foot apartment includes a terrace above the stream and a rooftop patio separated from a road bridge with a fence.
BusinessINSIDERHigh-profile CNN anchors Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, and Erin Burnett voiced their concerns about CNN boss Chris Licht: Wall Street Journal
Major CNN talent voiced concerns about CEO Chris Licht, The Wall Street Journal reports. Citing those close to the matter, WSJ said several hosts spoke to incoming COO David Leavy. The report follows a disastrous profile of Licht in The Atlantic by Tim Alberta.
U.S.Associated PressMan wanted in triple homicide is captured in Philadelphia; victims include 2 children
A relative previously told The Associated Press the boys' mother was working at a nearby convenience store when she heard gunfire and ran back home to find they had been shot. The boys were “very close” and always together playing, mostly with superhero figures, according to their uncle, Felix Muniz Torres. The shooters apparently targeted the third person who was killed, 19-year-old Joshua Lugo-Perez, over what authorities have called “a previous argument.
U.S.OxygenFormer Red Sox Star's Son Kills 8-Year-Old Boy, Then Himself 3 Years after Ex's Disappearance
The son of a former Boston Red Sox star was found dead in a New Bedford, Massachusetts home and is believed to be the perpetrator of a murder-suicide that has rocked the small community. Authorities were conducting a welfare check when they found the bodies of George Scott III, 54 — the son of former Red Sox first baseman George "Boomer" Scott — and his 8-year-old son, Dante Hazard, on Friday, June 2, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office said in a press release cited by NBC News. A relative of Scott had asked the police to check in on him and his son after days had passed without hearing from them.
WorldReuters VideosUkraine troops 'storm Russia posts near Bakhmut'
STORY: The body camera footage showed a mechanized assault operation involving armored vehicles. The 3rd Assault Brigade wrote on Telegram that it undertook "coordinated work of M113 storm troops, 60 mm mortars, tanks and aerial reconnaissance. The result: they pushed back the Russians for a kilometer."
U.S.ReutersFox News says Tucker Carlson breached his contract -Axios
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Fox News on Wednesday notified Tucker Carlson's legal team that the former prime-time host violated his contract with the network when he launched his own Twitter show on Tuesday, Axios reported, citing a copy of a letter obtained by the news website. Carlson released the first episode of his new show on Twitter on Tuesday, weeks after being taken off the air by Fox following a damaging defamation lawsuit over false claims of election fraud. Fox News general counsel Bernard Gugar sent a letter to Carlson's legal team saying Carlson "is in breach" of his contract agreement after he posted a clip of his new show on Twitter on Tuesday evening, according to Axios.
U.S.The Florida Times-Union17-year-old Florida girl stabbed 15 times before attacker cuts his own throat. What we know
Afterward, the 18-year-old suspect started to "steadily" cut his own throat, according to an arrest warrant. year-old stabbed 15 times: Arrest warrants says girl stabbed 15 times in Ponte Vedra restaurant before suspect sliced his throat Four people stabbed: Four people taken to the hospital after stabbing at a Ponte Vedra Beach restaurant Here's what we know so far. Who was injured in the attack?
BusinessBuzzFeedOkay Okay Okay, I Seriously Can't Stop Laughing At All These Ignorant Americans Who Got Absolutely Roasted Into Oblivion So Far This Year
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U.S.In The Know by Yahoo‘The damage this can cause is unreal’: Woman secretly records strangers for fake TikTok ‘tea,’ and people are enraged
However, the footage lives on thanks to another TikTok user, Kelsi (@kbuffhen) — who claims to be a very close friend of the people recorded in Heather's video. Now, Kelsi is clearing the air, along with her friends' good names, and slamming people like Heather for violating people's privacy and spreading false rumors, all in the hopes of going viral. Kelsi's video response begins with Heather's since-deleted footage, in which viewers can see two dressed-up people smiling and chatting at a bar.
WorldThe Daily BeastA Terrifying Secret in Putin’s War Is Now Impossible to Hide
KHARKIV OBLAST, Ukraine—When Yulia's husband, a Ukrainian soldier fighting on the front lines against Russia's invasion, told her that 25 men in his unit had died in a single day of fighting, she was absolutely furious. The Ukrainian woman—who lives in Kyiv and spoke under a pseudonym—told The Daily Beast she had seen photos of one of her colleagues sipping drinks in Berlin on social media earlier that day. At the beginning of the war, a patriotic fervor overran Ukraine, with men and women volunteering in the tens of thousands.
WorldINSIDERMarjorie Taylor Greene, who previously called climate change a 'scam,' is now using it as an argument to deter migrants away from the US
"I don't think this is very safe for migrants here in America," she said. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia tried to use extreme weather events as a reason migrants should be kept from entering the US — despite having previously dismissed the climate crisis as a scam. Speaking at a border security and enforcement hearing on Tuesday, the Republican argued that migrants should steer clear of the US given the prevalence of what she called "natural disasters."
BusinessYahoo FinanceTesla stock surges as all Model 3 sedans now qualify for full EV tax credit
Tesla stock (TSLA) is surging today, up as much as 4% in early trading and hitting highs not seen since early October of last year, as investor bullishness grows following news that all Model 3 sedans now qualify for the full federal electric vehicle tax credits. Tesla stock is on track for its ninth straight day of gains, its longest winning streak since January 2021. Earlier this week Tesla announced on its website that all versions of the Model 3 sedan now qualify for the full federal EV tax credit of $7,500; previously the cheaper Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive (RWD) version qualified for half the amount.
U.S.Sacramento BeeCalifornia’s oldest, longest-serving state worker dies after nearly 80 years on the job
California's oldest and longest-serving state employee has died. May Lee — who spent nearly 80 years working in civil service — died on May 26, according to the Department of General Services. “We will greatly miss her enthusiastic and cheerful disposition along with her irreplaceable institutional knowledge,” the department said in a statement.
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You may be running out of time to ‘Shoot the Hooch,’ owner says he doesn’t ‘feel safe’ opening
A longtime business owner who has sent thousands of tubers down the Chattahoochee River for the last 20 years says he may be going out of business. Shoot the Hooch owner Bill Odrey says after having to move his business earlier this year, he doesn't feel the part of the river he is in is safe for his clients. In March, the National Park Service moved river recreation businesses from Powers Island to about 20 miles north near Duluth.
WorldAssociated PressIran unveils what it calls a hypersonic missile able to beat air defenses amid tensions with US
Iran claimed on Tuesday that it had created a hypersonic missile capable of traveling at 15 times the speed of sound, adding a new weapon to its arsenal as tensions remain high with the United States over Tehran's nuclear program. The new missile — called Fattah, or “Conqueror” in Farsi — was unveiled even as Iran said it would reopen its diplomatic posts on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia after reaching a détente with Riyadh following years of conflict. The tightly choreographed segment on Iranian state television apparently sought to show that Tehran's hard-line government can still deploy arms against its enemies across much of the Middle East.
U.S.Business InsiderA man on a Delta flight was accused of groping the woman beside him. He blamed bad eyesight saying he was aiming for her thigh.
He said he tried to squeeze her thigh but got her crotch as he didn't have his glasses on. A Georgia doctor who was charged after allegedly groping the crotch of a passenger sitting beside him on a Delta Airlines flight blamed poor eyesight, and said he was just trying to squeeze her thigh. Jake Namjik Cho has been charged with abusive sexual contact aboard an aircraft, according to court records seen by Insider.
U.S.The Daily BeastFox News Host Harris Faulkner Caught Telling Whopper About 1918 Pandemic
Fox News Tonight guest host Harris Faulkner gave her primetime audience Tuesday some revisionist history regarding the 1918-19 influenza pandemic when trying to make a point about school closures due to COVID-19. To Faulkner, these are “pandemic lockdowns and keeping our own children home from schools when a virus was hurting them far less often than adults”–a clear reference to the curtailed aspects of public life brought on by COVID-19. In an apparent attempt to contrast the wise decisions of government officials in 1918 with the ones made a century later, Faulkner then wrongly claimed that schools did not close back then.
U.S.Associated PressUtah district's Bible ban spurs protest by parents, Republicans
Republican lawmakers rallied with more than one hundred Bible-toting parents and children at Utah's Capitol on Wednesday to protest a school district's decision to remove the Bible from middle and elementary school libraries in the wake of a GOP-backed “sensitive materials” law passed two years ago. Concerned parents and children holding signs that read “The Bible is the original textbook” and “Remove porn, not the Bible,” said they were outraged after the Davis School District announced that a review committee concluded the Bible was too “violent or vulgar” for young children. The committee ruled that it did not qualify as obscene or pornographic under the sensitive materials law, but used its own discretion to remove it from libraries below the high school level.
PoliticsINSIDERPolitics has reached the point where Trump wants to know if Chris Christie has a problem with 'SIZE'
Trump wants to know if Chris Christie has a problem with "SIZE." Christie, a onetime Trump ally turned sworn rival, announced his 2024 campaign on Tuesday. Once allies and now bitter rivals, presidential candidates Chris Christie and Donald Trump have taken to slinging insults at each other as the GOP primary heats up with a bevy of new contenders.
U.S.Fox NewsHomeowner clashes with thief in backyard after security camera catches break-in attempt
A Staten Island, New York, homeowner raced back to his house to confront an alleged burglar after his phone alerted him to activity on his doorbell camera. "I checked out the motion alert and saw that there was a gentleman in front of my house," the homeowner, Christian Schlager, told SILive in a report Sunday. Schlager said he was on his way to Brooklyn when he received the alert on his phone, prompting him to call police to report the suspected break in of his home.
U.S.Associated PressJustice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosure
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disclosed Wednesday that she received a $1,200 congratulatory floral display from Oprah Winfrey and $6,580 in designer clothing for a magazine photo shoot in her first months as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Thomas, along with Justice Samuel Alito, sought an extension for up to 90 days. Thomas' receipt of gifts, valued at several hundred thousand dollars, from the Republican donor Harlan Crow has prompted calls for ethics reform on the nation's highest court.
