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Critics pounce after new report shows Trump-aligned super PAC paid Melania Trump $155,000

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A pro-Trump super PAC paid Melania Trump $155,000 in 2021, according to newly certified personal financial disclosure report -- prompting attacks from some Trump critics. A pro-Trump super PAC paid former President Donald Trump's wife Melania Trump $155,000 in 2021, a newly certified personal financial disclosure report from the former president revealed Thursday -- prompting attacks from some Trump critics. The super PAC, dubbed Make America Great Again, Again, in its separate Federal Election Commission filing from earlier last year, had listed the expenses to a firm called Designer's Management Agency, thereby masking the true recipient of its payments to the firm. The firm lists Melania Trump as a client on its website. The super PAC's filing showed two payments to the firm -- one which came on Dec. 2, 2021, in the amount of $30,000, and the next payment the following day, in the amount of $125,000. But Trump's financial disclosure shows the super PAC's p...

Dragon at Disneyland bursts into flames, no injuries reported

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All cast members were evacuated from Tom Sawyer Island, where the show is staged, due to the fire, according to a Disneyland official. Elaine Gilmer has seen the performance of "Fantasmic!" at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, over 100 times, but Saturday evening's show was one to remember. "The dragon's head started to glow, and I see fire and kind of smoke coming out," she said with hesitation. "I was like, 'Oh ... they added some new stuff because that didn't didn't happen like that before.'" However, Gilmer's daughter Elyssa began to realize that the fire from the animatronic dragon's mouth appeared to spread to the body of the 45-foot creature, which is styled after the storybook villain of Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent. An image captured by an attendee shows Tom Sawyer Island as an animatronic dragon catches fire during a showing of Fantasmic! at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, April 22, 2023. Brenda Coutiño ...

House Jan. 6 committee releases final report on Capitol attack

After interviews with hundreds of witnesses, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has released its final report. After nine public hearings and interviews with hundreds of witnesses, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol released its final report late Thursday night. The 814-page document is divided into eight chapters: The Big Lie, "I just want to find 11,780 votes," Fake electors and the "President of the Senate strategy," "Just call it corrupt and leave the rest to me," A coup in search of a legal theory, "Be there, will be wild," 187 minutes of dereliction, and Analysis of the attack. The committee on Monday released a 160-page summary with an overview of its findings, which identified former President Donald Trump as the "central cause" of the Jan. 6 attack. The summary of the report presented the committee 's conclusions as 17 findings, including that Trump ...