Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who met with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, has tested positive for the 2019 novel coronavirus, Brazilian news outlet Jornal O Dia and Fox News reported Friday. Bolsonaro was tested Thursday after his press secretary Fabio Wajngarten, who also met with Trump, tested positive for the virus. Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo, confirmed his father’s positive […]
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After a high-end escort in Los Angeles believed she was drugged, raped and filmed without consent by an Ohio plastic surgeon in town for a conference, she logged onto a secret database that women use to warn each other about predatory men. She saw several horrifying reviews of Dr. Manish Gupta, a flashy Toledo doctor who drove a blue Maserati and regularly flew to medical conferences […]
Kathleen Schroll came home from work on the evening of April 6, 2008, and got changed in the living room of her Kansas City home. The 45-year-old bank clerk left the clothes she’d worn that day in a pile on the floor beside a computer table and put on brand new nursing scrubs. Later, at 2:21 a.m., she called her mom. “Peter is here in the […]
President Trump announced late Friday that Congressman John Ratcliffe would become Director of National Intelligence despite the former Texas prosecutor withdrawing his nomination last year. Ratcliffe, a large Trump donor, dropped out from the nomination process last year, blaming unfair media coverage. But The Daily Beast found it was probably due to his proximity to a company accused of being instrumental in reprisal against a whistleblower. […]
On Wednesday, distraught Google product manager Sonam Saxena spoke to a local Hawaii newspaper, pleading for help in finding his missing wife. The couple from Washington state, who had two young daughters, were on their annual family vacation to Hawaii when Smriti Saxena disappeared at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday. Sonam said he’d left his wife on a secluded beach south of Anaehoomalu Bay to take […]
The only clue was a faded tattoo above her right breast: two red cherries attached to a green stem. Thirteen years ago, the woman’s dismembered torso washed up on a beach in Mamaroneck, in New York’s Westchester County. She was stuffed in a suitcase. She had no limbs, no head, and no DNA profile. The police dubbed her “Cherries Doe.” “It was a particularly violent crime […]
President Trump trashed his former Chief of Staff John Kelly on Thursday after the retired Marine Corps general finally let loose on his misgivings about Trump’s behavior regarding North Korea, illegal immigration, military discipline, Ukraine, and the news media. In a 75-minute speech and Q&A session at Drew University, first reported by The Atlantic, Kelly, who left the White House in early 2019, took some less-than-subtle […]