Author: Audrey Baker

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he is suspending access to the social media platform X for 10 days after clashing with owner Elon Musk over the country’s disputed presidential election. Maduro said he had signed a resolution “with the proposal made by CONATEL, the National Telecommunications Commission, which has decided to remove the social network…

Samsung is recalling more than 1 million electric stoves after the products were linked to hundreds of fires over the past decade. The stoves are equipped with front-mounted knobs that can be accidentally turned on by humans or pets, posing a fire hazard, Consumer Product Safety Commission officials said Thursday. Samsung has received over 300…

A Washington, D.C., government official has resigned after the city’s ethics board found she had been secretly working a separate full-time job and serving as an elected official in Virginia on government time. Caroline Lian earned $175,000 per year as deputy director of the District of Columbia Department of Buildings while also earning a six-figure…

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia, the Mexican drug lord who was taken into custody by federal agents last month, will stand trial in Brooklyn, New York, according to CNN. Zambada’s transfer to Brooklyn from El Paso, Texas, means the alleged top Sinaloa Cartel leader will likely be tried in the same federal courthouse as Joaquin…

A Maryland-based pest control company has agreed to pay Washington, D.C., nearly $140,000 after allegedly polluting the city with toxic chemicals. District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s office accused Kenmore Pest Control & Termite Services of illegally and repeatedly applying pesticides in the district, endangering residents and harming the city’s natural resources. Kenmore regularly…

Former President Donald Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of being “afraid” to show up to a debate hosted by Fox News. “Kamabla Harris is afraid to Debate me on FoxNews,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “She will be easier to defeat on the Debate Stage than Crooked Joe Biden, just watch!”…

Usha Vance, the wife of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), defended her husband’s controversial comments about “childless cat ladies” following bipartisan backlash. In an interview with Fox and Friends that aired on Monday, Usha Vance argued the Republican vice presidential nominee’s remarks were taken out of context. “The reality is he made a quip in service…

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said he does not think Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will win the support of 15% of black voters. “The fact of the matter is I don’t believe for one moment that Donald Trump will get 15% of the African American vote,” Clyburn said Wednesday in an interview with CNN host…

At least 33 people have been hospitalized after an ammonia leak at a food processing facility in Northern Virginia Wednesday night, according to Loudoun County Fire and Rescue. At approximately 8:36 p.m. last night, authorities responded to reports of a gas leak in a building on the 22400 block of Sous Vide Lane in Sterling,…

The United Auto Workers has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president ahead of Harris’s visit to Detroit next week. The UAW said its executive board voted to endorse the president on Wednesday. “Our job in this election is to defeat Donald Trump and elect Kamala Harris to build on her proven track record of…