Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema acknowledged under oath that she repeatedly had sex with her married security guard while serving in the Senate, according to federal court filings in a lawsuit brought by the man's ex-wife.
Sinema, who was elected as a Democrat before becoming an independent, gave the testimony during a July 31 deposition in a case filed by Heather Ammel, the former wife of security guard Matthew Ammel.
Heather Ammel is suing Sinema under North Carolina's alienation-of-affection law, alleging the former Arizona senator helped destroy the couple's 14-year marriage.
Sinema's legal team moved the case to federal court and has sought to have it dismissed, arguing that the alleged relationship occurred outside North Carolina and that the court lacks personal jurisdiction over her.
During the deposition, Sinema said she first had sex with Matthew Ammel around Memorial Day 2024 while staying at an Airbnb in Napa,
Hayden Panettiere was pronounced dead Sunday after police and paramedics responded to a suspected overdose at a South Carolina loft apartment. She was 36.
The Hollywood actress was found unresponsive inside Greenville's Judson Mill Lofts, where emergency workers performed chest compressions in a desperate attempt to save her.
A 911 call came in at 1:51 p.m. A female dispatcher described Panettiere as suffering a "cardiac arrest." Moments later, a male dispatcher reported a suspected overdose at the residence.
Despite the lifesaving efforts, Panettiere was pronounced dead at 2:32 p.m., about 40 minutes after the initial call.
Detectives told the Daily Mail that officers responded after an "acquaintance" reported the star was "unresponsive."
The Greenville Police Department and medical examiner are investigating Panettiere's death. Authorities said the "preliminary investigation has not indicated any signs of foul play or suspicious circumstances."
President Donald Trump delivered a blistering warning to longtime U.S. ally Oman on Monday, threatening military action if the Gulf nation cuts a deal with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz that undermines American interests.
Oman has been negotiating with Tehran over an arrangement involving shipping through the vital waterway, which carries a significant share of the world's oil traffic.
Trump made clear during a Fox News interview that Washington will not simply sit back if Oman helps Tehran tighten its grip over the strategic passage.
'If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the s*** out of them.'
The blunt warning marked an extraordinary escalation toward Oman, which has long served as both a U.S. defense partner and a diplomatic middleman between Washington and Tehran.
The Strait of Hormuz has become one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the ongoing confrontation with Iran, with shipping disruptions rattling global
A California apparel company has packed up its headquarters and moved to Texas, with its CEO delivering a blunt verdict on the Golden State's business climate.
"Doing business in the state of California sucks," Hil Davis, CEO of Digital Brands Group, told Fox News Digital.
The company relocated its headquarters more than 1,300 miles to Round Rock, Texas, just north of Austin, where it leased roughly 70,000 square feet of warehouse and office space.
Davis said the Texas facility costs about the same as the company's former location in Vernon, California, despite giving the business more room to expand its collegiate sports apparel operation.
For Davis, though, rent was only part of the problem.
He pointed to California's high cost of living, long employee commutes, rising legal expenses and the broader cost of operating in the state.
"You start to add all those things up," he said. "It doesn't work.
The FBI uncovered evidence that Rep. Eric Swalwell may have been financially compromised by a woman linked directly to Chinese intelligence, according to explosive files declassified by President Donald Trump and released Monday.
The records detail the California Democrat's relationship with Chinese national Fang Fang, who also used the English name Christine Fang. Investigators suspected she used sex, campaign cash and congressional interns to gain influence while the bureau was trying to recruit her as an informant.
The White House Government Transparency Task Force released the documents as part of a broader push to expose foreign threats targeting America's elections and political institutions.
FBI officials knew early in the recruitment effort that Fang had ties to China's Ministry of State Security, Beijing's feared spy agency, the files show. Her parents were also identified as MSS agents.
Agents believed Fang was raising money for California Democrats and was prepared
President Trump unloaded on Fox News anchor Shannon Bream on Sunday, accusing her of stacking her show with guests, polls and graphics hostile to his administration and the MAGA movement.
The president's broadside followed Bream's interview with newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche on "Fox News Sunday."
Bream pressed Blanche on whether he could remain fair and independent if Trump attempted to influence federal legal matters.
"The president would never ask me to do something unethical or illegal. He never has; he never will," Blanche told Bream, dismissing concerns about possible interference.
Trump later took to Truth Social to blast Bream's handling of the Fox News program.
"Watching FoxNews with Shannon Bream is always like watching the Worst of Fake News CNN. I don't know Shannon, but she always seems to pick guests, charts, and 'polls' that are negative, never talking about all of the incredible things that the
A former Detroit television anchor was caught on video blasting her boss as a "bitch" during a tense newsroom confrontation that has now become a central piece of a legal battle over her firing.
Taryn Asher, a longtime anchor at WJBK-TV Fox 2 Detroit, was recording a public service announcement when the exchange unfolded.
Asher was pulled from the air in November and is now suing the station for sex discrimination and retaliation. Fox says her removal followed what it described as "unprofessional workplace behavior" and "outbursts."
The video, first highlighted by FTVLive and Deadline Detroit, shows Asher arguing over scripts and newsroom workflow as she prepared to go on camera.
"I am. I'm in Amy's script, the Amy's Angels one," Asher says.
"There was—the second thing didn't make sense, so I was just trying to fix that part and…"
"I know, but I didn't have time because we have
The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the door on President Donald Trump's long-shot bid to revive his challenge to the $5 million verdict won by writer E. Jean Carroll.
The justices rejected Trump's request in a one-sentence order that offered no explanation and listed no dissents. The Supreme Court had already declined in June to hear his appeal.
Rehearing requests are almost never granted. Supreme Court rules require substantial, "intervening circumstances" before the justices will reconsider a denial.
A Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, an advice columnist who accused him of attacking her inside a luxury store in the 1990s. Trump has denied her account.
His appeal argued that jurors should not have been allowed to hear from other women who have accused him of assault.
After the Supreme Court refused to take the case, Carroll received the $5 million judgment plus interest
Preliminary autopsy results in the death of actress Hayden Panettiere found no signs of trauma that contributed to her death, offering the first official medical update after the 36-year-old star was found unresponsive inside a South Carolina apartment.
Panettiere was pronounced dead Sunday after police and paramedics responded to Greenville's Judson Mill Lofts following a report of an unresponsive woman and a suspected overdose.
A 911 call came in at 1:51 p.m. A female dispatcher described Panettiere as suffering a "cardiac arrest." Moments later, a male dispatcher reported a suspected overdose at the residence.
Emergency workers performed chest compressions and other lifesaving measures, but Panettiere was pronounced dead at 2:32 p.m., roughly 40 minutes after the initial call.
"First responders and Emergency Medical Services arrived on scene and located a female in cardiac arrest," the Greenville County Coroner's Office said in a statement. "EMS personnel initiated advanced cardiac
Chilling new testimony in the trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy revealed that she had disclosed thoughts of harming her children weeks before she strangled all three of them inside the family's Duxbury home.
Clancy's mother, Paula Musgrove, took the stand Monday as the defense began presenting its case following weeks of testimony from prosecutors seeking to prove the killings were deliberate and planned.
Clancy, 36, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of her children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan.
Her attorneys do not dispute that Clancy killed the children. Instead, they argue she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from severe mental illness, including what the defense says was undiagnosed postpartum psychosis.
Musgrove testified that her daughter began showing increasingly alarming signs of mental deterioration in the months before the killings.
By December 2022, Clancy had disclosed
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff dragged a female White House aide into his attacks on President Donald Trump, using a crude insinuation unsupported by any evidence as he fights to keep his seat in November.
The Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender targeted Natalie Harp, Trump's executive assistant, during a Sunday campaign rally in Atlanta.
"While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings, he golfs, and trades stocks," Ossoff said.
He then turned his fire on Harp.
"He doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar," Ossoff said.
The line drew cheers from the Democratic crowd and attention on X, where commenters zeroed in on Ossoff's decision to invoke Harp by her first name.
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President Donald Trump unloaded on CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes in the Oval Office on Monday, repeatedly ordering her to "be quiet" after she interrupted him with questions about aide Natalie Harp.
The tense exchange unfolded as Trump was responding to criticism from Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, who had mocked the president over his relationship with Harp during a rally in Georgia.
Holmes asked Trump about Ossoff's claim that he would rather "build his ballroom and travel with Natalie" than do the job of president.
Trump fired back by ridiculing the Georgia Democrat and defending renovations at the White House.
Trump called Ossoff a "Pee Wee Herman lookalike" and said that "we're fixing a White House that hasn't been taken care of."
Holmes then attempted to jump in with another question about South Korea before Trump had finished speaking.
That did not go over well.
'Quiet. Quiet. Quiet!' Trump shouted at Holmes.
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