Donald Trump is now taking aim at the wife of the New York judge overseeing his $250 million civil fraud trial, Raw Story reports. On his Truth Social platform Tuesday, the former president shared at least four posts from conservative activist Laura Loomer that accuse New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s wife, Dawn Marie Engoron, of attacking Trump via images shared to X/Twitter. One post Loomer screenshotted showed the account, screen-named Dawn Marie with the handle @dm_sminxs, post an image of a person spray-painting “F—k Trump” on a brick wall, while others showed him in prison wear. Other posts from the account also mocked Trump lawyer Alina Habba’s courtroom performance.
In a statement to Newsweek earlier this month, Dawn Engoron firmly denied making the posts and told the outlet that the account does not belong to her. “I do not have a Twitter account. This is not me. I have not posted any anti Trump messages,” she said. While conservatives argued the posts should result in a mistrial or dismissal of the civil case, former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek that the social media of a judge’s spouse is “not by itself grounds to disqualify a judge,” pointing to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas’, pro-Trump posts.
“Judges themselves have to post something that raises concerns about their impartiality for recusal or disqualification to be appropriate. Family member social media activity, even one’s spouse, isn’t enough,” Rahmani added. Trump’s sharing of these attacks comes as he awaits a ruling from an appeals court on a gag order Engoron imposed on him early in the trial that prohibited him from talking about court staff. The gag order, which has been temporarily suspended does not bar discussing the family members of court personnel.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts noticed a disturbing statistic: Starting in 2020, the average American life expectancy began to plummet. The downward trend was primarily attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic, but as early as the 2010s, the average American life expectancy had started to plateau and even slightly dip. In addition to a historic pandemic, Americans’ collective health has taken a hit due to the obesity epidemic and inequitable access to quality health care.
Yet according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American life expectancy rose by 1.1 years between 2021 and 2022. Through the CDC’s Division of Vital Statistics, agency experts ascertained the average life expectancy is 77.5 years — or 80.2 years for women and 74.8 years for men.
“Declines in mortality due to COVID-19 were the primary reason for the increases in life expectancy from 2021 to 2022 observed for the total population and each of the five Hispanic- origin and race groups shown in this report,” the authors wrote. Decreases in COVID-19 mortality accounted for 92.4% of the life expectancy increase for Hispanic Americans, 80.6% of the increase for White Americans, 79.5% of the increase for Asian Americans, 71.9% of the increase for Black Americans, and 70.0% of the increase for American Indian and Alaska Native non-Hispanic populations. The news is not all rosy. The average life expectancy would have been even higher if not for increases in mortality due to malnutrition, kidney disease, flu and pneumonia and birth problems.
Henry Kissinger, who worked U.S. foreign policy throughout the administrations of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford, has died at the age of 100. The news broke on Wednesday night via a statement from his consulting firm, detailing that he passed at his home in Connecticut, but not revealing an exact cause of death.
As The Washington Post highlights in their coverage, Kissinger was the only person to be both White House national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time, describing him as someone who “exercised a control over U.S. foreign policy that has rarely been equaled by anyone who was not president.” Other outlets, such as Rolling Stone, sum him up as a “war criminal.” To that end, those very words can be found right beneath his name, presently, in the “what’s happening” column of X (formerly Twitter) as people flood the platform with what could only be viewed as celebration.
“Everybody is celebrating Kissinger dying and no one is thinking about the low wage workers forced to build an entire new level of hell at depths never reached before. You guys are so anti-labor,” writes Mo Weeks.
“It finally happened!!!” writes Alejandra Caraballo, along with an illustration of the Grim Reaper pulling Kissinger out of a claw machine.
Per his consulting firm, Kissinger will be interred at a private family service and, at a later date, there will be a memorial service in New York City.
Maryann Mooney-Rondon and her son, Rafael Rondon, were sentenced on Wednesday for aiding in the theft of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, receiving 12 and 18 months of home incarceration, respectively.
During sentencing, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb referred to their case as a “difficult” one, according to NBC News, saying that neither of the defendants were “criminal masterminds” and describing their actions on the day in question as being “juvenile.”
Prior to being handed down their time, Rondon admitted to the FBI that “he helped a man who was trying to rip cords out of Pelosi’s laptop, which she used for Zoom meetings,” per the outlet’s reporting, saying “that was probably stupid of me.” And Mooney-Rondon “admitted that she helped a man who took the laptop, giving him gloves so he wouldn’t leave fingerprints behind,” calling it “a very bad lapse of judgment.”
“I’m a very — generally — measured, calculated person. I think things through. How the heck that happened, I really don’t have a clue,” the mother said. In a statement made prior to sentencing, she reflected further, saying, “I was the adult in the room and I failed. I have brought embarrassment to my family.”
“Beverly Hills, 90210” star Shannen Doherty is opening up about her Stage 4 breast cancer, recently revealing that her cancer has spread to her bones.
“I don’t want to die,” she told People on Wednesday. “I’m not done with living. I’m not done with loving. I’m not done with creating. I’m not done with hopefully changing things for the better. I’m just not — I’m not done.”
The “Charmed” star was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 and went into remission two years later. However, in February 2020, Doherty announced that her cancer returned the year before and was categorized as stage 4. In June of this year, she took to Instagram to share that it had metastasized to her brain.
“When you ask yourself, ‘Why me? Why did I get cancer?’ and then ‘Why did my cancer come back? Why am I stage 4?,’ that leads you to look for the bigger purpose in life,” she explained.
Doherty said she hopes to raise awareness and funds for cancer research, adding, “It’s insane to me [that] we still don’t have a cure.” She also wants to counter the misconception that those with cancer are now useless:
“They put you out to pasture at a very early age — ‘You’re done, you’re retired,’ and we’re not,” she said. “We are people who want to work and embrace life and keep moving forward.”
Doherty continued, “I know it sounds cheesy and crazy, but you’re just more aware of everything, and you feel so blessed. We’re the people who want to work the most, because we’re just so grateful for every second, every hour, every day we get to be here.”
Mali — an Asian elephant gifted to former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos by the Sri Lankan government in 1981 and held captive at Manila Zoo in the Philippines for 45 years — has died. The announcement of her death was made during a news conference held on Wednesday by the city’s mayor, Honey Lacuna, and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is outraged as they’d extended an offer to transport her to a sanctuary, but their offer was turned down.
Often referred to as the “world’s saddest elephant” because she lived completely alone in what PETA is calling a “barren” enclosure where she endured “intense confinement, loneliness, boredom and isolation,” Mali was seen rubbing her trunk against a wall towards the end of her life, which Dr. Heinrich Patrick Peña-Domingo, the chief veterinarian at the zoo, said is an indicator that she was in pain. According to CBS News, “vets gave her antihistamines and vitamins when she was breathing heavily on Tuesday, but she died later that day.” In a statement to CBS News, PETA Asia said Mali died because of “indifference and greed.”
“Despite PETA’s repeated warnings, zoo and city officials ignored Mali’s clearly painful foot problems, sentencing her to years of suffering,” PETA Asia’s statement furthers “The Manila Zoo has announced that Mali had cancer that was not detected by their veterinarians until after she died. Due to the fact that there is no elephant expert in the country, Mali was never provided with routine veterinary care—something she would have been given at the sanctuary PETA was prepared to transfer her to.”
Sebastian Stan is playing young Donald Trump in a movie titled “The Student” from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (“Holy Spider”), Variety can confirm.
The cast also includes “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. According to the logline, “‘The Student’ is an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”
Gabriel Sherman, author of “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country,” will write the film about Trump. His novel inspired the Showtime miniseries “The Loudest Voice,” which starred Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes. “The Student” is a co-production between Daniel Beckerman of Scythia Films, Jacob Jerek of Profile Pictures and Ruth Treacy of Taylored Films. Executive Producers are Grant Johnson, Gabriel Sherman and Amy Baer.
This year, Stan received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for his portrayal of rocker Tommy Lee in Hulu’s biographical drama “Pam & Tommy.” He’s most well known for his Marvel Cinematic Universe role as Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier. His most recent appearance as the hero came on the Disney+ series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” and he’s next due to star in “The Thunderbolts” in 2025. Stan also played Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev in this fall’s GameStop stock movie “Dumb Money,” and his recent roles include “Ghosted,” “Sharper,” “Bupkis,” “Fresh” and “The 355.”
Abbasi’s most recent film “Holy Spider” was selected as Denmark’s entry for best international feature film at this year’s Academy Awards. The film, about a journalist investigating a serial killer in Iran, also competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and won the best actress award for Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Abbasi also directed two episodes of HBO’s “The Last of Us.”
Stan is repped by CAA, Brookside Artist Management, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Abbasi by CAA, LARK in the U.K., and Entertainment 360; and Sherman by Entertainment 360. Strong is repped by WME and Sugar23.
Deadline Hollywood first broke the news.
