Day: February 5, 2025

CIA offering buyouts to its entire workforce: report

8:05 am February 5, 2025

The Central Intelligence Agency, in what officials reportedly claimed was an effort to bring the agency in line with Trump’s agenda, offered buyouts to its entire staff on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported that the agency is the first to tell its employees they can quit and get eight months of pay and benefits. […]

Benedict Cumberbatch sorry he ‘upset people’ with comedic non-binary role: ‘It backfired’

8:00 am February 5, 2025

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch said he’s “had to apologize” numerous times for playing a nonbinary character as a gag in the movie “Zoolander 2.” Variety reported on how Cumberbatch, best known for playing Doctor Strange in Marvel movies and the titular detective in “Sherlock,” cringed at having played a non-binary fashion model named “All” in the […]

‘Social Network’ star bristles at being associated with ‘problematic’ Mark Zuckerberg

7:30 am February 5, 2025

Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg, who portrayed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film, “The Social Network,” is distancing himself from the tech titan, calling Zuckerberg’s recent actions “problematic.” In an interview with BBC News, Eisenberg reacted to still being thought of for his Zuckerberg role and admitted he’d rather not be “associated” with the […]

Democratic lawmakers slam Elon Musk’s access to Treasury Department: ‘We are at war’

7:24 am February 5, 2025

Democratic congressional lawmakers on Tuesday gathered to passionately voice opposition to Elon Musk’s access to a Treasury Department office responsible for disbursing payments, days after they were told to punch back against the Trump administration. The House lawmakers have come out against Musk after he was granted access to a Treasury department called the Bureau […]

‘Profound reminder’ of courage: Maine police K-9 shot, killed in the line of duty

7:17 am February 5, 2025

A Maine man was killed by authorities after fatally shooting a Maine State Police (MSP) K-9 named “Preacher” in the line of duty. The 4-year-old Belgian Malinois was killed on Monday during a tactical team operation in Portage. Preacher and his handler, Sgt. Jonathan Russell, were deployed to a domestic dispute that led to an […]