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Pam Bondi, the attorney general of Florida, had to decide in 2013 whether to join other state attorneys general's investigations into Trump University, where students paid up to $35,000 for business programs that detractors said were fraudulent. Bondi and Kamala Harris, the attorney general of California at the time, refused to participate in the inquiry despite student accusations of exploitation. Both claimed that the money affected their office's choice, despite having accepted campaign donations from Donald Trump. The two former state attorneys general have since taken diametrically opposed political trajectories. In the 2020 and 2024 elections, Harris criticized Trump, portraying him as a threat to democracy and a commercial scam.It was earlier this month that Trump was reelected. Ove...

As winter-pattern storms continue to move across the continental landscape from west to east, forecasters are increasingly predicting a cold and rainy Thanksgiving week. According to the Transportation Security Administration, the potentially rainy, snowy, and chilly weather might coincide with what is expected to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel week to date. According to NBC News meteorologists on Saturday, a lot of the country will continue to experience active weather over the holiday week. According to them, Wednesday and Thursday might see a storm system that produces both rain and snow, but there was little confidence in the specifics. According to the government Weather Prediction Center, a diagonal low-pressure front with rain, snow, and plunging temperatures was likely to affec...

Governor Jared Polis stated in a statement that a Civil Air Patrol jet crashed in Colorado on Saturday, killing two people and injuring one. The deceased were identified by Polis as aerial photographer Jay Rhoten and pilot Susan Wolber. The co-pilot was identified as the injured party. According to Polis, the aircraft, which belonged to the Thompson Valley Composite Squadron, crashed in Larimer County. In an XSaturday afternoon post, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office stated that it was responding to a plane crash at Storm Mountain, approximately 48 miles north of Boulder, in conjunction with Larimer County Emergency Services and local partners. The aircraft was identified as a Cessna 182 by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The Civil Air Patrol said that it was participati...

Authorities in Pennsylvania said this week that they had definitively identified the remains of a child whose corpse was discovered in 1973, concealed in undergrowth underneath a plastic sheet. At a press conference on Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Police Sgt. Josh Lacey informed reporters that the remains belonged to 14-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Brenneman. On October 10, 1973, some 47 miles from Brenneman's York County home, two game wardens discovered the decomposing body of a little girl in a forested area in Lebanon County, according to Lacey. The cause of her death was unknown. According to Lacey, authorities have been trying to identify the girl for the past 50 years. In May 2016, authorities exhumed the girl's body from Mount Lebanon Cemetery in an additional attempt to identify her, ...

The president-electBrooke Rollins, head of the America First Policy Institute, has been appointed agriculture secretary by Donald Trump. According to a statement released by Trump, Brooke will lead the charge to defend American farmers, who are genuinely the foundation of our nation, as our new Secretary of Agriculture. Rollins would oversee a 100,000-person organization with offices in every county in the US if the Senate confirmed him. The agency's duties would include commerce, agricultural research, forestry, home and farm lending, food safety, rural development, farm and nutrition programs, and more. In 2024, its budget was $437.2 billion. Both urban and rural Americans' diets and finances would be impacted by the nominee's plan. Among other things, Department of Agriculture employees...

BAKU — In a hard-won agreement reached at the COP29 meeting in Baku, countries agreed on Sunday to an annual financing target of $300 billion to help poorer countries deal with the repercussions of climate change, with affluent countries leading the payments. The new objective is meant to take the place of the developed countries' prior pledge to give poorer countries $100 billion annually in climate finance by 2020. That objective ends in 2025 and was achieved two years later, in 2022. The United Nations climate director Simon Steill praised the pact as an insurance policy for humanity, but underdeveloped countries denounced it as inadequate. After the agreement was approved, Steill remarked, "It has been a challenging journey, but we have delivered a deal." This agreement will save billi...

According to a Senate aide, a Republican senator has prevented a general who commanded forces in Kabul during the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan from being promoted. Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma took this action in response to President-elect Donald Trump's vows to dismiss senior officers and officials who were in charge of the botched 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. As previously reported by NBC News, it also occurs as Trump's transition team considers potential court-martial charges against current and former commanders engaged in the pullout. Army Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue was nominated to lead U.S. Army operations in Europe and be promoted to four-star general. According to the Senate aide, Donahue's nomination was one of over 900 potential nominations that were sent to the Se...

According to a Senate aide, a Republican senator has prevented a general who commanded forces in Kabul during the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan from being promoted. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, took the action after President-elect Donald Trump threatened to fire senior officers and officials who led the chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan. Trump's transition team is also considering the possibility of court-martial proceedings against current and former officers involved in the withdrawal. Army Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue was nominated to lead U.S. Army operations in Europe and be promoted to four-star general. According to the Senate aide, Mullin put Donahue's candidacy on hold despite it being one of over 900 recommended nominees that were given to the Senate...

Fans of the onstage musical may note certain alterations in the popular Wicked narrative, which recently made its big screen premiere. The friendship between Elphaba and Glinda, two witches made famous by the Wizard of Oz, is the basis for both the film and musical adaptations of Wicked, which are based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 book. There are two parts to the Wicked movie adaption. The events and songs of Act 1 of the musical are followed in the first film, which debuted in theaters on November 22.November 2025 is when Wicked: Part 2 is anticipated. "I approached making the film adaptation from a very specific perspective," director Jon M. Chu tells TODAY.com. He mentions the 2003 tryout performances of the musical before it debuted at the Gershwin Theatre, saying, "I saw it for the firs...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday that Hyundai Motor North America will be recalling over 42,000 vehicles because of a wiring defect that might enable the cars to roll away. According to the government, the 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz and Hyundai Tucson cars that are recalled have transmissions that can shift out of park without pressing the brake pedal, raising the possibility of an accident or damage. The recall applies to all 2025 Santa Cruz and Tucson vehicles sold in the United States, including over 35,500 Tucson and 6,900 Santa Cruz models; the NHTSA estimates that the defect affects about 1% of the vehicles. The Tucson is an SUV that sells for more than $28,000, while the Santa Cruz is a hybrid pickup truck and SUV with a starting retail price...