Schmitt Refuses To Admit He Made An Embarrassing Mistake At The Jack Smith Hearing

The mystery surrounding the details of five men arrested on ‌suspicion of preparing terrorist acts in late September only deepened after the New York Times reported that it was actually one of the men who alerted authorities.

The man, who was inside one of several white vans that appeared to be heading toward RAF Fairford military air base in England, has not been identified. It is unclear why he called authorities and alerted them to the group’s movements.

The men have been released on bail, an unusual outcome for terrorism suspects, the outlet noted.

Investigators remain on high alert. The U.S. Air Force rushed all of its bombers from RAF Fairford on Sunday amid a sprawling investigation into a potential attack on the British military base used by the United States.

Country singer Zach Bryan sported a “Free Palestine” shirt during his Friday concert at Gillette Stadium weeks after Macklemore was banned from the stadium for speaking up about the war in Gaza.

Bryan’s fashion choice comes weeks after Gillette Stadium’s owner Robert Kraft pressured concert promoters to kick opener Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour after the rapper made a “Free Palestine” speech during one of his earlier tour stops. Kraft had told Sheeran that Macklemore wouldn’t be allowed to perform at Gillette Stadium.

Kraft said in a statement that he’s been focused on the “fight against antisemitism and hate of all kinds” and he felt “a responsibility to stand up when I believe that line has been crossed.”

A federal judge ruled that using data from Flock cameras to search a car without probable cause may violate the Fourth Amendment.

“The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and business without an adequate basis to do so,” U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill wrote in her Thursday decision.

In May 2026, Tulsa County Deputy Sheriff Freddie Alaniz ran a car’s out-of-state license plate through Flock’s system and found out that the driver had traveled from Oklahoma to California, remained in California for one day, and was headed back towards Missouri. He pulled the driver, Melisa Kyle, over and gave her a warning for some traffic violations, but then had his dog sniff her car and found drugs. Kyle was then arrested.

“That search was not supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation of Kyle’s Fourth Amendment rights,” Hill wrote, also calling the camera system “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance.”

Flock cameras record and log information such as vehicle details, including plate numbers, a car’s make, model and other identifying features.

President Donald Trump on Sunday entertained a not-so-fly and so-not-factual claim that penguins live in Greenland, sharing an AI-crafted image that sees him greeting a waddle of the seabirds on the Arctic island despite making a similar blunder earlier this year.

Trump took to his Truth Social page to drop AI slop that appears to show him looking ahead at a group of penguins — some of which have missing heads, while one has multiple flippers — while standing at the base of a snowy mountain.

All of the birds are wearing red, white and blue knit tops and hats while at least two are waving what appear to be American flags.

There’s just one major problem: Penguins aren’t native to Greenland.

In fact, almost all are native to the Southern Hemisphere, far from the semiautonomous Danish territory that’s become one of Trump’s fixations in his second term.

Trump’s latest faux image with the flightless birds arrives months after the White House dropped AI slop in January showing the president waddling with a penguin through the snow on the way to a range of mountains with the Greenlandic flag.

That post faced an embarrassing fact check at the time, with @PatriotTakes on X pointing out that nearly all penguin species live south of the equator.

“Perhaps you shouldn’t have dismantled the Department of Education so quickly,” the account wrote.

Jane Doe’s attorney said she is “not doing well” amid her ongoing lawsuit against Cornell University and the seven men who allegedly raped her.

“This has upended her life in such a tragic way,” Thomas Giuffra told NBC News on Friday. “She comes from a small town. Her dream, from when she was a little girl, was to go to the Cornell Hotel School. This was her desire.”

Earlier this month, Doe filed a lawsuit, in which she alleged she was raped by seven men at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University. The lawsuit alleges that the men were never formally charged and some of them had to write an essay as punishment. Doe has since dropped out of the school.

Giuffra continued, saying Doe has had “extensive” mental health treatment.

“She’s hanging on by a string,” he said, adding that the public support has been “really helpful,” however.

Singer Olivia Rodrigo spoke out against Cornell University for protecting the seven men who allegedly raped Jane Doe.

“Shame on Cornell and on every institution who protects rapists and abusers over women,” Rodrigo wrote Sunday on an Instagram story. “I stand with Jane Doe. Her bravery reverberates across the country and the crimes against her will not go unpunished. What she lived through matters, and so does the failure of those who could have intervened but chose not to. She deserves answers, consequences, and lasting change.”

After Doe reported the rape in 2024, the seven men, part of the Chi Pi fraternity, were investigated and none of them were charged. A few of them had to write an essay as part of their punishment. Doe has filed a civil lawsuit against Cornell and the seven men and Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office has reopened its investigation.

President Donald Trump on Sunday promoted an independent journalist’s evidence-free claims that a woman demonstrating against his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations was a “paid protester.”

“How much is she being paid, and by whom?” wrote Trump in a post to his Truth Social platform.

The post included photographgs of the woman, shared by D.C. journo Emily Miller, taken outside the reflecting pool and the proposed site for Trump’s Triumphal Arch/military complex.

In another post, Trump reshared a video from Miller that shows her confronting the woman — who was wearing a “Team Algae” tee — outside of the reflecting pool and asking her if she’s “getting paid.”

“It makes you look guilty if you don’t respond,” Miller chirped.

Trump has previously fumed over the “crazy pro-algae” protests after algae started to bloom in the pool following the renovations.

Later in the video, the woman slams conservatives for supporting the president’s renos before hurling profanities at Miller and others nearby in Charlie Kirk “Freedom” shirts.

“Her profanity finally got shouted down by patriotic bystanders,” wrote Miller, who neglected to mention that she appears to have joined in a “USA” chant to drown out the woman.

Trump captioned the repost by thanking Miller, writing, “There are many such people all over as the one you just caught, REDHANDED, who attempt to stop or defer Great Developments, Projects, and even Policies.”