13+ min ago (327+ words) The journalist was named alongside Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and Rudy Giuliani in the suit Fox News has paid financial reporter and news anchor Maria Bartiromo a jaw-dropping $70 million since joining the network over a decade ago, according to new documents obtained by TheWrap. The massive sum was disclosed as part of Smartmatic's $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against'Fox News " which saw tens of thousands of exhibits released on Sunday. Bartiromo's eight-figure pay was shared in the journalist's deposition for the lawsuit, in which she has been named as a defendant by Smartmatic. (The company sued Fox News in 2021, alleging they knowingly spread false allegations about the 2020 election and, in turn, damaged their reputation. Fox News has denied the claims.) During the deposition, Bartiromo was asked: "And so is it fair to saythat you, from when you first started working at Fox…...

18+ min ago (426+ words) Stardust Solutions wants to dim the sun. Scientists are worried. Blotting out the sun might not fix climate change, but it could pause the warming process. The idea of using planes to "geoengineer" the climate by spreading sunlight-reflecting aerosols throughout the earth's atmosphere is controversial. It is also becoming closer to reality. Stardust Solutions, an Israel-based company, wants to "do nothing less than dim the sun" with a plan "modeled on volcanoes," said The New Yorker. Average global temperatures dropped in the aftermath of the Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines in 1991. Stardust wants to "market eruptions of its own" using "highly reflective particles" sprayed across the stratosphere. The plan comes with likely tradeoffs, with possible side effects including "shifts in regional weather patterns" that people depend on for crops. But continued warming may force a radical solution. The planet's…...

18+ min ago (253+ words) First lady Melania Trump on Monday welcomed this year's official White House Christmas tree, a white fir from Michigan that arrived by horse-drawn carriage. The tree, which came from Korson's Tree Farms, arrived at the North Portico. It was delivered by a pair of Clydesdales named Logan and Ben in... Melania Trump Welcomes Christmas Tree to White House First lady Melania Trump on Monday welcomed this year's official White House Christmas tree, a white fir from Michigan that arrived by horse-drawn carriage. The tree, which came from Korson's Tree Farms, arrived at the North Portico. It was delivered by a pair of Clydesdales named Logan and Ben in a carriage driven by one of three men in top hats, the AP reports. "It's a beautiful tree," the first lady said as she circled the carriage and posed for pictures. Wearing…...

35+ min ago (1712+ words) ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It's a New Record. It was Friday, June 6, and the rent was due. As soon as she finished an errand, Imelda Carreto planned on joining her family as they gathered scrap metal to earn a little extra cash. Her fianc, Julio Matias, and 15-year-old nephew, Carlos, had set out early, hitching a trailer to the back of their beat-up gray truck. Carreto didn't carry any proof that she had custody of the boy. She had left it in another car in her rush. She recalls officers saying her nephew would likely be released to her in a few days once she presented the proper documents. Before they drove him away, Carlos started to tear up. Carreto told him, "Don't cry. I don't know how, but I'll get you back....

35+ min ago (310+ words) Here are the key events from day 1,370 of Russia's war on Ukraine. Here's where things stand on Tuesday, November 25. Polish prosecutors have arrested and charged a third Ukrainian man suspected of collaborating with Russia to sabotage a rail track, authorities said. Two other Ukrainians, who fled to Belarus, had already been charged in absentia over the blast on the Warsaw-Lublin line connecting Warsaw to the Ukrainian border. Two young street musicians who were jailed for more than a month in Russia for singing anti-Kremlin songs have left the country after being released from detention, according to Russian media reports. Vocalist Diana Loginova, 18, and guitarist Alexander Orlov, 22, were detained on October 15 in central St Petersburg after an impromptu street performance deemed critical of Putin and the government. Oil prices climbed about 1 percent on mounting doubts about whether Russia will get a…...

46+ min ago (582+ words) The centralized office of the Department of Government Efficiency has closed, but the individual DOGE teams operating within federal agencies remain active, according to information provided to Fox News Digital. The teams continue to work launched under President Trump's January executive order directing federal agencies to identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse. White House spokeswoman Liz Huston told Fox News Digital on Monday that "President Trump was given a clear mandate to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government, and he continues to actively deliver on that commitment." MORE NEWS: GOP Senator Slams Zohran Mamdani's Netanyahu Arrest Pledge, Unveils Defunding Bill Reuters previously reported that DOGE no longer existed, citing remarks made earlier in November by Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor. He wrote that "the principles of DOGE remain alive and well: de-regulation; eliminating fraud,…...

49+ min ago (759+ words) A Manhattan psychotherapist says he has received a wave of hostile messages, including death threats, after publicly stating that some of his patients exhibit what he describes as "Trump derangement syndrome," a psychological pattern marked by obsession and emotional instability related to President Donald Trump, as reported by Fox News. Jonathan Alpert, author of the forthcoming book Therapy Nation, said the response intensified after he appeared on Fox News last week to discuss his Nov. 12 Wall Street Journal op-ed. In the op-ed, Alpert wrote that "patients across the political spectrum" frequently bring up President Donald Trump in therapy sessions "not to discuss policy but to process obsession, rage and dread." MORE NEWS: Adam Schiff Freaks Out At Donald Trump Over Saudi Visit, Despite Past Biden Cooperation [WATCH] After the column circulated, Alpert said he began receiving hostile text messages and…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago (264+ words) Feel free to check out our science wing while you have a chance," the comedian adds Jimmy Kimmel weighed in on Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation from Congress by applauding the Georgia representative's decision and inviting her to make herself at home" in reality." During Monday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!," the comedian commented on Greene's big news, which she dropped on social media Friday evening. There's going to be one less puddle of sweat on the floor mat of the congressional gym," Kimmel quipped, because Marjorie Taylor Greene, yet another Trump superfan, learns that loyalty to him goes only one way." After playing a snippet from her resignation video, in which a Christmas tree sits behind her, Kimmel joked: I have to say this woman is being attacked from all sides right now " somehow she still had time to put…...

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