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Trump critics are flooding the company that is demolishing part of the White House with one-star reviews. Maryland-headquartered Aceco LLC is facing backlash for destroying a portion of the East Wing, which houses the first lady’s offices, to make way for President Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom. “Destroying ‘The People’s House’ with no regard for their permission,” read a one-star review on Google Maps. “Deplorable act no matter the reason.” Another person added, “The White House is a Historical Landmark. How is this legal?” The company’s rating dropped at one point to 1.8 stars, until Google revised it to 4.1. Former CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta also questioned the project in a Monday post on X. “So any president can just start destroying portions of the White House? Is that how this works?” he wrote. Trump’s 90,000-square-foot project is expected to be completed “long before” the end of his presidency, according to White House officials. “They’ve wanted a ballroom for 150 years,” Trump said during an event at the White House. “And I’m giving that honor to this wonderful place.” The ballroom marks the White House’s first structural change since the Truman Balcony was added in 1948. Netflix stars have welcomed their first child after meeting in ‘The Pods’ in the first series of Love is Blind. Cameron Hamilton and Lauren Speed-Hamilton met “sight unseen” on the show that tests whether personality alone is enough to base a relationship on. They were one of eight couples to get engaged in the first series of the show, which has a 25 percent success rate, according to Life & Style Magazine’s calculations. The couple told People earlier in 2025 that they’ve been trying for a baby for four years, and finally welcomed Ezra William Hamilton into the world on Oct. 1. He arrived earlier than expected with Speed-Hamilton telling her 2.5 million Instagram followers that she spent days in the hospital and struggled with preeclampsia, but she said her baby was “perfectly on God’s time.” Since finding love on the show, the pair have launched a YouTube series, Hanging with the Hamiltons, hosted a podcast, The Love Seat, and written a book, Leap of Faith: Finding Love the Modern Way. Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. With winter just around the corner, there’s nothing better than a home sauna to ease the transition into colder weather and help detox before the holiday season hits. Whether you’re seeking the laundry list of long-term health benefits saunas have to offer, a peaceful post-workout recovery tool, or a restful way to destress, Peak Saunas’ lineup of luxury saunas delivers. 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Osan police held a pre-arrest interrogation, and the woman could be charged with negligent arson and negligent homicide. The police will conduct further investigations into the case before transferring it to the prosecution. The executive chairman of Soho House, Ronald Burkle, has had an application rejected for the second time to build a mansion in a village in the English Cotswolds. The 72-year-old businessman was hoping to build a six-bedroom country house on nearly 120 acres of farmland, which would have included a gun room, wine store, stables, gardens, pool house, and a solar farm, as well as a new lake. The village of Little Tew, where Burkle planned to build his mansion, currently consists of around 150 houses and a church. The first rejection for the Roman Pantheon-inspired mansion came in 2022, as the design was not deemed a “truly outstanding development.” One resident of Little Tew said the plans were “more suited to Disneyland than the village,” and another called it “truly outstanding grotesquery,” The Independent reported. In response to resident critiques, Burkle told The Daily Mail, “My English grandmother taught me, ‘If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all,’ so I won’t react to comments from people I’ve never met.” Planners turned down Burkle’s second application, as it would bring “substantial harm” to the conservation area. In 2020, Burkle bought Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch for $22 million. “I tend to have too many houses,” he told The Wall Street Journal after buying Jackson’s estate, refusing to disclose the “non-defensible” number he owns. Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. We’ve all been there—you splurge on the latest gadget, only for a newer, better version to drop a few months later. Frustrating, right? Denon, a global leader in premium audio, has designed a first-of-its-kind subscription service called Denon+ that aims to end this all-too-common annoyance. Here’s how it works: Every 12 months, you can trade in your current device for a new one of equal or lesser value—or upgrade to Denon’s latest release. Your subscription also gets you Accidental Loss Coverage (if your device is ever damaged, lost, or stolen, you’re eligible for a replacement) and membership perks like exclusive discounts and product giveaways. Right now, Denon+ is available for the PerL earbuds and the Denon wireless home speakers. Denon PerL Headphones The PerL earbuds use Masimo Adaptive Acoustic Technology to measure your ear’s response to sound, creating a listening profile perfectly tuned to you. 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She then slipped round onto her front, squeaking down the slide before being dumped on the floor in a salmon-like fashion. She exhibited professionalism, however, by instantly getting up and continuing the show. The Tampa, Florida, native’s popularity exploded in 2021, signing with Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol Records the following year. In July, the virtuoso rapper played the world-famous Glastonbury Festival in the U.K. The “Anxiety” singer, 27, has also enjoyed huge success on streaming services, with scores of her tracks receiving hundreds of millions of plays on Spotify. In February, she became only the third woman to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album. New information has come to light following the death of Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers at the age of 48. According to TMZ, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office received a call regarding a “non-responsive person in cardiac arrest.” The force added, “Deputies responded to an attended death at that address.” The nu-metal star passed away at his home on Saturday, with the band announcing his death later that evening. The cause remains unclear. According to the outlet, an attended death is “one in which the deceased has been a patient under medical care for a serious or life-threatening illness that will likely lead to death in a relatively short period of time.” It adds that this means people who are not expected to live for years, but rather weeks or months. In a post paying tribute to their bandmate, Limp Bizkit said, “Today we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat. Sam Rivers wasn’t just our bass player—he was pure magic.” It added, “He was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of human. A true legend of legends. And his spirit will live forever in every groove, every stage, every memory. We love you, Sam. We’ll carry you with us, always.” A woman has been charged after allegedly being involved in another audacious museum theft in Paris. The Chinese-born suspect is accused of stealing six gold nuggets from the French capital’s Museum of Natural History in September. The haul, taken from the museum’s geology and mineralogy gallery, is estimated to be worth around $1.75 million, according to the BBC. Items linked to the 19th-Century California gold rush were also taken, according to Fox News. The suspect was detained in Barcelona on September 30 while trying to dispose of some melted gold. It is believed that the woman was part of a team of thieves who carried out the heist after being made aware that the museum’s alarm and surveillance systems had been disabled in a cyberattack. A museum spokesperson told French newspaper Le Figaro that the gang was “clearly very experienced and well-informed.” The female suspect is believed to have been en route to China when Spanish police arrested her. The charges arrive just days after the thieves broke into the Louvre and made off with eight priceless crown jewels during a brazen morning raid at the world’s most visited museum. A man who faked his own death and fled the country to escape rape allegations has been sentenced after an international game of cat and mouse. Nicholas Rossi was handed a jail term of five years to life in the first of two sentencing hearings in northern Utah, per the BBC. He was convicted in separate trials in August and September for the 2008 rapes of two women in the state, with the second sentencing due next month. Judge Barry G. Lawrence said Rossi was a “serial abuser of women” and the “very definition of a flight risk.” He said Rossi “took on an alias and, even in response to this case, refused to admit who he was.” In February 2020, an obituary of Rossi appeared online, saying he had died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In reality, the Rhode Island native, real name Nicholas Alahverdian, had fled to Scotland under the alias of Irish orphan Arthur Knight. His ruse came unstuck when he was admitted to hospital in Glasgow with COVID in 2022, and staff there recognized him from an Interpol wanted poster. He appeared in court in Scotland in a wheelchair and was extradited back to the U.S. in January 2024. Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. We’re a little over halfway through Sober October, the viral 31-day challenge that prompts participants to reset and reassess their relationship with alcohol. 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United Airlines Flight 1093 was traveling from Denver to Los Angeles on Thursday when it had to divert to Salt Lake City. The Boeing 737 MAX’s windshield was shattered, and burn marks were left on the cockpit metal, sparking confusion about what could have caused it. John Dean, CEO of weather balloon firm WindBorne, thinks he may be able to help shed a little light. “I think this was a WindBorne balloon,” he said in a post on X. ”We learned about UA1093 and the potential that it was related to one of our balloons at 11 p.m. PT on Sunday and immediately looked into it. At 6 a.m. PT, we sent our preliminary investigation to both NTSB and FAA, and are working with both of them to investigate further.“ One of the pilots was left bloodied in the incident, with passengers onboard saying it was “really scary.” The Daily Beast has contacted WindBourne for more information. A woman who pleaded guilty to submitting a mail-in ballot on behalf of her dead mother has been ordered to read a book about the history of voting and write a 10-page paper about the importance of voting. Danielle Christine Miller, 51, of rural Nashwauk, Minnesota, admitted that she had filled out and signed an absentee ballot for her mother, an ardent Trump supporter who died before the election. She said she was intoxicated when she submitted the ballot and pleaded guilty last week to intentionally making or signing a false certificate. Her sentence includes up to three years’ probation and an $885 fine. Judge Heidi Chandler also ordered her to read Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America by Erin Geiger Smith and write a paper about “the importance in voting in a democracy and how election fraud can undermine the voting process.” The prosecutor told AP the outcome was unorthodox but fair, and was designed to help Miller understand the gravity of her actions.
