Posts on Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Two men have been arrested and charged after a U.S. Park Police officer was shot in Southeast D.C. Monday night. What we know: Authorities say two men opened fire around 7:30 p.m. as a USPP officer was driving an unmarked white Tesla in the 5000 block of Queens Stroll Place in the southeast. [snip] . The officer managed to drive a short distance before stopping, where other officers provided aid before he was flown to a hospital via helicopter. 21-year-old Darren Foster of Southeast, DC was stopped Monday shortly after the shooting. 22-year-old Asheile Foster of Southeast, DC was located on Tuesday.

Six Chinese citizens and two China-based pharmaceutical firms have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly selling and delivering chemical precursors used to make fentanyl intended to be smuggled into the U.S., FBI Director Kash Patel says. (snip) The defendants were also indicted for forging an alliance with a Mexican drug cartel (snip.) The indictments are part of Operation Box Cutter, the FBI-led multi-agency crackdown targeting the global supply chain of fentanyl precursors. Officials also said the FBI received assistance from China's Ministry of Public Security, which provided intelligence.

Six Chinese citizens and two China-based pharmaceutical companies have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly selling and delivering chemical precursors used to make fentanyl intended to be smuggled into the U.S., FBI Director Kash Patel says. Patel posted on X that indictments were handed down Tuesday. The defendants were also indicted for allegedly forging an alliance with a Mexican drug cartel, according to the Justice Department, Fox News reported. A grand jury in Dayton, Ohio, returned charges against the Shandong Believe Chemical Company and Shandong Ranhang Biotechnology, in addition to Chinese citizens Hanson Zhao, Gao Yanpeng, Xia Yi, Zhang Jian, Wang Zhoalan, and Zhang Chunhai.

Doomed Air Canada Flight 8646’s cockpit recorder has revealed how the trip turned from routine to tragic within 3 minutes on Sunday. Both the pilot and co-pilot were killed and more than 40 other people sustained injuries when the jet crashed into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York City around midnight. National Transportation Safety Board senior aviation investigator Doug Brazy shed some light on the plane’s harrowing final minutes Tuesday, providing a detailed timeline starting with the flight crew contacting the air traffic control tower up until the moment of the deadly crash:

Meta failed to protect kids from sexual predators and misled users about its platforms’ safety, violating New Mexico law, a jury found Tuesday in a landmark case. The tech giant was ordered to pay $375 million in civil penalties. The verdict came after six weeks of testimony from witnesses that included ex-Meta executives, teachers and online safety experts. New Mexico prosecutors argued that Meta hid the extent of safety issues that kids faced on Facebook and Instagram and failed to enforce its claimed minimum age limit of 13 – even as its algorithms allegedly made it easier for creeps to target kids for online harassment and even sex trafficking.

Maryland Del. Kathy Szeliga, R-Baltimore County, is calling out Maryland Democrats for backing a bill that would stock tampons in men’s bathrooms in state-owned buildings — an idea she says is emblematic of Annapolis’ misplaced priorities. Szeliga said that after she was made aware of HB 941, she took to the House floor to question which public buildings would be impacted. In particular, she wanted to know if the state's professional sports facilities, such as where the Ravens and Orioles play, would be impacted. During her remarks, the GOP Maryland lawmaker also questioned language in the bill ordering "appropriately sized tampons"

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported goods suffered a Supreme Court legal rebuke in late February, but they’re not doing much better in the court of public opinion. As the latest I&I/TIPP shows, a plurality of voters don’t believe the economy will get a boost from tariffs, which win strong majority support only from Republicans. It was once the case that most conservatives and many moderates rejected tariffs on imported goods as an unwanted distortion of free trade. Meanwhile, liberals embraced tariffs as a welcome tool of government “industrial policy.” But President Trump has flipped the script.

A CNN reporter was left stunned after security checkpoint wait times dropped from hours to minutes at a major Atlanta airport following President Trump’s deployed ICE agents to assist unpaid TSA agents. Senior National Correspondent Ryan Young reported in disbelief that the presence of unmasked immigration agents at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport sparked a dramatic shift, with travelers zipping through security after weeks of grueling lines amid the partial government shutdown. “Wolf, I almost can’t believe I’m able to say this, the times have dropped off tremendously this morning,” Young told anchor Wolf Blitzer Tuesday morning from inside the major

A California gubernatorial debate was canceled just hours before it was set to occur on Tuesday after mounting criticism that only white candidates in the crowded field had qualified for the event. The criteria to participate in the debate, which was set to be co-sponsored by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles TV station KABC, had emerged in recent days as a source of controversy in the wide-open race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom. The sprawling field includes eight prominent Democrats and two major Republicans, as well as several other lesser-known candidates. USC had faced condemnation for

Last month, 12-year-old Ava Little committed suicide. Apparently, she did so because she was being chronically bullied at Byron Middle School, Peach County, Ga. According to Little’s family, none of the school’s anti-bullying measures or guidelines was implemented, even as “other students targeted her over and over again.” The bullying began in fifth grade and intensified this year. According to Paige Day, Ava’s aunt, her parent’s tried to get the school to intervene, but Peach schools were “consistently underwhelming. They failed her 100%.”

Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott filed a lawsuit Monday against government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and one of its former employees after his tax returns were part of a major leak to media outlets in 2020. The lawsuit comes after President Donald Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department two months ago for their roles in the leak, which targeted multiple notable wealthy people, including Elon Musk.

OpenAI will soon shut down its Sora AI video-generation app, the company said in a surprising announcement Tuesday. "We’re saying goodbye to Sora," the company wrote in a post on X. "We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work." The closure of the resource-intensive AI app comes ahead of an expected initial public stock offering from OpenAI in the coming months. OpenAI has recently come under intense pressure from rival AI company Anthropic, whose AI systems have soared in popularity among leading businesses and software engineers.