For the first time since her family reported her missing last month, Hannah Kobayashi, a 30-year-old Maui woman who was the focus of a thorough search, is speaking up. In a letter sent via her aunt Larie Pidgeon on Monday, Kobayashi stated that she had just arrived back in the United States from Mexico on Sunday and was only now becoming aware of the extensive attention she has gotten. "I was unaware of everything that was happening in the media while I was away, and I am still processing it all," she stated in her statement. According to family relatives, the Hawaiian woman missed a trip to New York City after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport on November 8. A few days later, her family reported that she stopped talking to them, which worried them. The Los Angeles officials De...

Months before the 2020 presidential election, a former FBI informant entered a guilty plea on Monday for giving federal officials misleading information about President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. This year, Alexander Smirnov was charged with providing his FBI handler with false information about the Bidens in June 2020. The information claimed that the father and son had received $5 million each from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that hired Hunter Biden, during the Obama administration, when Biden was vice president. A confidential human source document linked to Smirnov's claims was cited by numerous House Republicans as the main component of their impeachment investigation into Biden, who denied any misconduct. After agreeing last week to enter a guilty plea to inducing t...

President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden both took actions Monday that may have an impact on the future of the U.S. Postal Service, just over a month before Inauguration Day. At a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, Trump hinted at a potential privatization of the Postal Service. In response to a question concerning the agency, Trump stated that we are considering privatization and that it is not the worst proposal he has ever heard. That is being discussed. According to Trump, many individuals have long supported this idea. Hundreds of thousands of employment would be impacted by privatizing the Postal Service, which runs the risk of upending a system that predates the United States itself, having been established in 1775. Even though the USPS is a government or...

David Hogg, a prominent anti-violence activist and survivor of the 2018 shooting at his Parkland, Florida, high school, has entered a bid to lead the Democratic prominent Committee. The 24-year-old Hogg declared his intention to compete for vice chair of the Democratic National Committee on Monday, claiming he would concentrate on regaining the support of young voters who had defected from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. According to NBC News exit polling, that change occurred suddenly and dramatically in November when young people who had overwhelmingly supported President Joe Biden only four years prior voted Donald Trump in greater percentages than any other Republican presidential candidate since 2008. In order to rebuild our coalition following the significant shift to t...

The president-elect's attempt to overturn his guilty judgment on the grounds of presidential immunity was rejected by the New York judge who oversaw Donald Trump's hush money trial. Judge Juan Merchan wrote, "Defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment and verdict is denied," in a ruling on Monday. After rejecting Trump's claim that his election victory already grants him presidential protection, he issued the ruling. When the judge wrote, "This court does not agree," Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman, criticized the decision, saying it was a clear breach of the Supreme Court's immunity judgment. "This lawless case should have never been brought, and the Constitution demands that it be immediately dismissed," he stated. In May, Trump was found guilty on 34 charges of falsifying business do...

The president-elect's attempt to overturn his guilty judgment on the grounds of presidential immunity was rejected by the New York judge who oversaw Donald Trump's hush money trial. Judge Juan Merchan wrote, "Defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment and verdict is denied," in a ruling on Monday. After rejecting Trump's claim that his election victory already grants him presidential protection, he issued the ruling. When the judge wrote, "This court does not agree," Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman, criticized the decision, saying it was a clear breach of the Supreme Court's immunity judgment. "This lawless case should have never been brought, and the Constitution demands that it be immediately dismissed," he stated. In May, Trump was found guilty on 34 charges of falsifying business do...

An individual described by officials as a teenage student at Abundant Life Christian School opened fire on Monday, killing a teacher and a student at a private school in Wisconsin. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told reporters that the alleged shooter was deceased and six people were injured. For live coverage, follow. What we know about the shooting is as follows: When did the shooting happen? At 10:57 a.m., authorities were called to Abundant Life Christian School, which is located east of Madison's downtown, in response to a report of an active shooter, according to Barnes. "Abundant Life made the 911 call," he stated. According to Barnes, officers had been preparing for such situations at the time of the incident. According to him, what started out as a training day turned int...

Washington In an effort to defeat the second Trump administration, a strong group of congressional Democrats on Monday suggested Virginia Representative Gerry Connolly over New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez for the top Democratic position on the House Oversight Committee. According to a panelist, the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which closely resembles Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., held a closed-door meeting and Connolly received 34 votes while Ocasio-Cortez received 27. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the top Democrat on Oversight, challenged Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., for a comparable position on the Judiciary Committee, forcing Nadler to resign, creating the vacancy. In a surprise move, the Steering group on Monday suggested Rep. Angie Craig of M...

The sudden increase in drone activitiesOnline blogs and conspiracies that make strange claims to explain the drone "hysteria," some including missing nuclear material and an approaching alien invasion, are being fueled by the lights that are lighting up the night skies over New Jersey and other states. In recent days, federal government authorities have played down the reports, stating that the objects are not a threat to national security or public safety and that they may just be regular commercial air activity that is mistaken for drones in certain situations. Since mid-November, the FBI has received over 5,000 drone-related reports from all over the Northeast, but warns that most of them are not worth looking any further and that some are duplicates. However, the ambiguity has only inc...

The president-elect's attempt to overturn his guilty judgment on the grounds of presidential immunity was rejected by the New York judge who oversaw Donald Trump's hush money trial. Judge Juan Merchan wrote, "Defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment and verdict is denied," in a ruling on Monday. After rejecting Trump's claim that his election victory already grants him presidential protection, he issued the ruling. When the judge wrote, "This court does not agree," In May, Trump was found guilty on 34 charges of falsifying business documents pertaining to a hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels by his former attorney, Michael Cohen, during the final days of the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has refuted Daniels' claim that she had a sexual encounter with him in 2006. G...