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The Pentagon said last month it had taken possession of the Boeing 747 jet, but there has been no formal agreement signed between Qatar and the U.S. that would finalize the transfer. Critics have raised security concerns about the plane and warned that the arrangement could violate the Constitution’s ban on accepting foreign gifts.
Billionaire Elon Musk appears to be doing some damage control after his public falling out with President Trump. The former head of DOGE posted in the early hours this morning: “I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far.”
Musk recently deleted a post in which he claimed, without evidence, that the government was hiding information about Trump’s association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Today, Mr. Trump told The New York Post that he thought it was very nice that Musk said something, but didn’t go any further towards repairing the relationship.
A jury in New York found Harvey Weinstein guilty of one of the sex crimes charges against him. The disgraced film producer was convicted of a first-degree criminal sexual act for assaulting a production assistant in 2006, but he was acquitted on another sex crimes charge. And jurors will continue to deliberate a third assault charge tomorrow.
Weinstein was initially convicted in 2020, a landmark moment for the MeToo movement, but a New York appeals court overturned that verdict last year over witness testimony. He has long maintained his innocence.
The world’s most popular TikTok personality has left the U.S. voluntarily after being detained since Friday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Khaby Lame is known as TikTok’s silent star. He doesn’t say a word in his comedy videos. Lame is Senegalese with Italian citizenship and has more than 162 million followers on TikTok.
He’d allegedly overstayed his visa. That’s according to ICE. The agency said in a statement that he was allowed to leave the U.S. without a deportation order which could have prevented him from being allowed back into the country for up to a decade.
Russia launched a new large-scale drone attack on Ukraine overnight. Authorities say three people were killed and at least 64 others were wounded.
