Trump’s Pulled U.S. Ambassador Nominee Dies at 59

Former Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has died at 59, his family said in a statement. “Best known as Arizona’s 26th Attorney General, a state and federal prosecutor, and champion of justice, he will forever be remembered and cherished by us as a beloved father, husband, son, and brother‚” the statement read in part. A cause of death was not provided. Brnovich, who was the state’s top lawyer from 2015 to 2023, refuted President Donald Trump’s voter fraud claims after he lost the state of Arizona to Joe Biden by more than 10,000 votes. Brnovich had originally been highly critical of Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the election in Arizona. He later shifted his stance, however, and wouldn’t rule out that the election was not stolen during an interview with Jon Stewart, as he ran an unsuccessful campaign for Senate in 2022. Brnovich was most recently nominated by Trump in March to be the next U.S. ambassador to Serbia, but the nomination was pulled in October.

The West Wing star Timothy Busfield, 68, turned himself in to authorities after the U.S. Marshals Service was deployed to find him over child sex abuse charges. Busfield surrendered to authorities in New Mexico on Tuesday, TMZ reported. It came after a warrant was issued for his arrest by Albuquerque authorities on Friday on two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse. New Mexico police and U.S. Marshals then began a search for the actor. A criminal complaint claims two young actors, boys aged 7 and 8, were working on the set of The Cleaning Lady, according to the Associated Press. It alleged the show’s director, Busfield, inappropriately touched them. Both boys stated that Busfield inappropriately touched them, and one of the young boys specified that Busfield touched private areas in various instances over his clothing. The children stated that the alleged abuse took place between 2022 and 2024. Busfield firmly denied the allegations Tuesday, claiming he was ready to “confront these lies.” The Field of Dreams and Thirtysomething star told his lawyer hours before he turned himself in that “I did not do anything to those little boys,” according to recordings released by TMZ. Stanton Stein, a civil lawyer for Busfield, told The New York Times, “He is innocent and is determined to clear his name.” He also explained that his client traveled across the country “to confront these false and deeply troubling allegations” before New Mexico officials.

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The successful capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro—and, of course, Trump’s own starring role in the operation—has re-centered the White House. “It’s a new chapter,” one Trump insider explained, accepting that the no-foreign-wars White House and the geographically challenged president have entered their imperial phase. “We have a big stick,” Trump has been saying. “Nobody knows how we’re going to use it. We’re freaking everybody out. I’m unpredictable. I might do it. I might not do it. Nobody knows.” This, then, is the theory: By ramping up threats toward nations that would have no defense against U.S. military or economic power, they will willingly offer concessions and genuflection. In this, Trump gets to claim victory—a constant stream of victories, he foresees. It is a new foreign policy paradigm—not an existential face-off between superpowers, and that unsatisfying stasis, but superpower versus no power. Hence, Greenland. “Why?”—the United States already has a carte blanche military treaty and open invitation to exploit mineral resources—has quickly become “Why not?” With virtually no risk to American lives (or equipment, which Trump seems particularly focused on), and just some posturing and pronouncements, some “ownership” deal will be struck.

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Award-show aficionados may have noticed that Kate Hudson looked pretty upset that she didn’t win the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. (Rose Byrne won for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and in her speech, she clarified, jokingly, that she didn’t sing.) Hudson has been a bit of a lightning rod, after her performance as one half of a Neil Diamond tribute duo in Song Song Blue also got her nominated for an Actor Award (the atrocious new name for the SAG Awards). But here’s the thing: People shouldn’t be surprised, because she is that good. There’s a scene with Hugh Jackman near the end of the film where she has an epiphany about what she wants to do in her life that will take your breath away. Click through to Substack for the full, impassioned case on why Hudson has earned her place among this year’s Best Actress contenders, and should be nominated for her first Oscar since Almost Famous, 25 years ago.

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Civil Rights icon Claudette Colvin has died at the age of 86. The Claudette Colvin Foundation confirmed her death on Tuesday afternoon, writing, “To us, she was more than a historical figure. She was the heart of our family, wise, resilient, and grounded in faith.” On March 2, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, pregnant 15-year-old Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus. The event happened nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, sparking the bus boycott. Rosa Parks said at the time of Colvin’s pregnancy, “If the white press got hold of that information, they would have a field day. They’d call her a bad girl, and her case wouldn’t have a chance.” Colvin was one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, which challenged bus segregation in Alabama. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama ruled the segregation unconstitutional. Colvin moved from Alabama to New York City in 1958, and worked as a nurse at a nursing home in Manhattan in 1969.

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Chipotle has distanced itself from billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman after he publicly supported a fundraiser for the ICE agent who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis. In response to the mounting backlash to its former majority shareholder’s $10,000 donation, the restaurant chain wrote on Threads, “Bill Ackman is not affiliated with Chipotle.” Ackman, who has been a vocal supporter of the Trump administration, confirmed on X that he donated the money to ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s GoFundMe. In his post, Ackman called slain mom Renee Nicole Good a protester “whose actions in a split second led to her death,” while simultaneously praising Ross, saying the agent was “doing his best to do his job.” The donation sparked online criticism, including calls for a boycott of Chipotle, where Ackman served as a major shareholder of the company from 2016 until fully divesting his shares in November.

A 72-year-old passenger collapsed mid-flight from Amsterdam to Hong Kong and was pronounced dead “on arrival” by the police. In a statement to People, the Hong Kong Police Force stated that a “post-mortem examination will be conducted later to ascertain the cause of death of the deceased.” According to the statement, police were notified that a passenger had collapsed at around 7:22 a.m. local time on Sunday, Jan. 11, as the flight was approaching Hong Kong airport. The passenger was then transferred to a local hospital and certified dead. Cathay Pacific—the airline the passenger was on—confirmed the death of one of its passengers to People and praised crew members who “immediately provided first aid and called ambulance service on standby.” The flight arrived at its destination at 7:38 a.m., with paramedics boarding the plane, and the airline stated they “later” learned that the passenger “passed away in the hospital.” The Daily Beast has contacted Cathay Pacific for further comment. In December, a 20-year-old passenger on the same airline attempted to open a door on a U.S.-Hong Kong flight in mid-air and was later arrested.

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Samuel Beal, 29, a former cornerback for the New York Giants, has been missing since July. “Tomorrow makes it 7 months since we’ve last heard from or seen my brother,” Beal’s sister, Essence Zhane, posted on Facebook on Monday, declaring that the family is in “desperate need of support” to find the NFL player. According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System database, Beal was last seen on July 12 by his girlfriend when he was dropping her off at a family member’s house. He borrowed her vehicle, intending to go to work, but instead drove to Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he called his girlfriend the following day to say he was coming back home. However, Beal never arrived and the vehicle was later found by a family member, with his socks and shoes left on the floor of the passenger seat. “I’m not here to answer a bunch of why’s and how’s I just need this to land in the right direction to gain some form of answers or closure,” Zhane wrote in her Facebook message, urging anyone who has any information to contact the police department. Beal played in nine games during his time with the Giants and was released in 2021.

Princess Caroline of Monaco’s first husband has died at the age of 85. French venture capitalist Philippe Junot’s family revealed that he died Thursday. No cause of death was provided for Junot, who was best known for his age gap marriage to Caroline, which ended after two years in divorce. Junot was 36 years old when he began dating the princess, who was 20 years old at the time. Caroline’s parents, the famed American actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco, had initially disapproved of he relationship with the notorious playboy and sent the princess away on a trip to keep them apart. However, the love-stricken couple married in 1978 before divorcing in 1980. They would both later remarry, with Caroline going on to wed two more times. Junot moved on with Nina Wendelboe-Larsen, having three children together before they separated in 1997. His daughter, Victoria, paid tribute to him on Instagram Friday after his death. ”To my legendary Papa, oh how we love you, we will miss you, no adequate words,” she said.