Rep. Pramila Jayapal faced an armed intruder at her Seattle home in 2022 who shouted racist threats, while Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene endured hundreds of death threats that intensified and turned against her family after she broke publicly with Donald Trump. Greene announced her resignation from Congress in November 2025, citing the danger to her family as too great a burden to bear.
According to reports from The Washington Post, New York Times and Politico, the White House is drafting an executive order that would let OMB Director Russell Vought approve or reject every grant awarded by the NIH. The move follows a meeting in which NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya reportedly failed to stop the effort, marking the latest attempt by Vought to steer the agency's funding decisions after earlier attempts to cut its budget and impose political criteria on grants were blocked by Congress and the courts.
The Toronto Blue Jays posted an animated promotional clip for a Nestea brand partnership that showed telltale signs of AI generation, including garbled text and a character with three arms. When fans called out the flaws, the team's social media account insisted the video was made by a real animator, a claim a community note later disputed.