Bondi Blocked From Fox News Interviews Over Epstein Files Outrage

Pam Bondi was temporarily forbidden by the White House from doing Fox News interviews at the height of the public’s outrage over the Epstein files, CNN reports. Todd Blanche, her deputy who has now taken over her job after her firing this week, was tasked with handling public messaging while her own performance was under scrutiny. Her tenure as attorney general never fully recovered from a “primetime flub” in her first month on the job, in which she told Fox News that a client list of Jeffrey Epstein was “sitting on my desk right now,” according to the report. That statement, hugely popular among Trump’s base at the time, aged like milk. The Justice Department and the FBI wrote in a joint memo in July that no client list existed, that there was no evidence Epstein blackmailed high-profile associates, and that evidence pointed to Epstein taking his own life. The memo contradicted Bondi’s promise to deliver answers about Epstein’s clients, which she told Fox months earlier, “Americans have a right to know.” The issue of the Epstein files would explode shortly after, fracturing the MAGA base and leading to immense pressure on lawmakers to pass legislation that ordered the files released. Others in the Trump administration immediately spotted an issue with Bondi’s doomed Fox appearance on Feb. 21, 2025, and that misstep only spiraled out of control after Congress passed the law mandating the release of the files.

Kim Zolciak has been temporarily stripped of custody of the four children she shares with ex-husband Kroy Biermann, according to court documents obtained by TMZ. A Georgia judge ordered that the children remain with Biermann from April 3 until the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star completes four parent therapy sessions, with the earliest possible reunion date given as April 13. The ruling comes after Biermann sought sole custody last week, alleging that Zolciak missed court-ordered therapy, spent two weeks out of the country, and saw the children only once during that whole period. He also claimed one of the children was bitten by a dog while in her care. Zolciak denied the allegations to TMZ, calling them “completely false” and accusing Biermann of trying to defame her. “I spent five weeks away working on two TV shows to support my family and make sure my children are cared for—something I will never apologize for," she said. The couple were married in 2011, called it quits in 2023, and have been fighting over custody ever since.

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise was spotted enjoying a beach vacation on Friday as D.C. remains embroiled in a Homeland Security budget shutdown and the U.S.-led war with Iran continues to escalate. Photos published by TMZ show the Louisiana Republican leaving a seafood market in Orange Beach, Alabama, with a bag of food, flanked by security and a driver. A spokesperson for Scalise told TMZ that Democrats were to blame for the shutdown and said House Republicans had voted four times to fully fund DHS, and would do so again once Congress returns from recess. President Trump has tried to patch over the fallout by ordering pay restored for TSA workers and, more recently, all DHS employees. But the shutdown has dragged on for weeks with Congress still away and no full funding fix in place. Meanwhile, a number of Trump allies have been seen enjoying their time off, including warmongering Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was seen riding Space Mountain at Walt Disney World, and GOP Rep. John James, who was caught pretending he was at a Tigers game in Detroit not long after he was seen in Turks and Caicos.

An Arizona police captain who tracked down Christina Marie Plante, discovered to be alive this week, 32 years after she was reported missing, said he was “dumbfounded” to learn the reason why she disappeared as a 13-year-old in 1994. “I guess she wasn’t happy with where she was living and who she was living with, and she ran away,” Gila County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jamie Garrett explained to NewsNation. Her case was classified as suspicious, and officials warned she was endangered. Advances in DNA technology generated fresh leads, enabling investigators to locate her. Plante, now 44, confirmed that her own relatives helped facilitate her escape and that she has been living a full life elsewhere, dispelling the belief that she was kidnapped. “She said that was a long time ago, that was an old life,” Garrett said. “She’s in her adult life. She has her family now. That’s not something she even thinks about.” Plante has supposedly been using an assumed identity for years, which officials have not revealed out of respect for her privacy.

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Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett says he has received briefings on extraterrestrial life that would deeply unsettle the American public if word got out. The Republican told Newsmax that multiple federal agencies have shared chilling news about life outside of Earth. “I’ve been briefed by about every alphabet agency there is,” he said. “And, I’ll just say this, if they were to release the things that I’ve seen, you’d be up at night, worrying about, thinking about this stuff.” Burchett, 61, also claimed that he saw information just two weeks ago that “would have set the Earth” on fire and would have caused the country to come “unglued.” He also suggested there could be some truth to a conspiracy that connects the deaths and disappearances of scientists researching extraterrestrial life to the sensitive things they research. “The only thing that ties them together is that they worked on things that are dealing with outer space, whether it’s UFOs or nuclear secrets or what have you,” Burchett said. “But I think we need full disclosure.” The MAGA lawmaker has previously claimed that the U.S. government has recovered debris from alien craft and that underwater extraterrestrial bases may exist off the coast of the country.

Bed, Bath & Beyond is back. The homeware chain will soon return to shopping plazas across the country, its president, Amy Sullivan, tells Axios. The brand, which closed its physical stores after filing for bankruptcy in 2023, says it plans to acquire Elfa, Closet Works, and The Container Store, having already bought Kirkland’s on Thursday, paving a path to re-establish its physical footprint. The Container Store operates over 100 stores, which will become part of Bed Bath & Beyond as part of a $150 million deal closing in July. It comes as part of the brand’s ambition to become an “Everything Home” destination again, three years after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. “We really want to get into the home services business… It’s a way for us to get closer to the customer and something that is almost e-commerce proof,” Sullivan said. “If you put Container Store and Bed Bath together, it becomes the destination for moving or moving into a dorm.” Sullivan says the company will open brick-and-mortar locations as early as 2027.

Investigators are examining whether an air traffic controller stepped away from their console to answer an emergency phone line in the seconds before a deadly collision at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board is probing the late-night crash of an Air Canada flight into a fire truck on March 22, which killed pilots Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther—the airport’s first fatal accident in more than 30 years. Sources told the New York Times that one line of inquiry is whether a controller left their workstation to reach a “crash phone,” a dedicated emergency line that, depending on tower layout, may not be within arm’s reach of active consoles. Two controllers were on duty at the time—standard overnight staffing—though investigators are also examining whether roles had been combined before midnight, a departure from standard procedure. The airport’s ground radar system failed to detect the fire truck because it lacked a transponder, meaning it was invisible to controllers. No conclusions have been reached.

A news host has suffered through a tough case of the hiccups while live on air. Jayne Secker, 53, struggled through her Sky News bulletin on Thursday, clearly fighting back hiccups. “The wait is over,” the U.K.-based journalist said at the top of the show. “After more than half a century, astronauts are finally on their way back [hiccup] to the moon!” On screen at the time was footage from the Artemis II mission, which is taking four astronauts around the Moon and back to Earth in 10 days. Secker was out of shot as a result, but the audio footage suggests there may have been efforts to suppress giggles in the studio. She paused, trying to maintain her composure, before continuing, “Artemis II are currently orbiting the Earth, tonight their rocket is due to change direction and head towards its destination.” Another pause followed. “Back down on the ground, the launch was watched by thousands, some of whom had traveled halfway across [hiccup] the world.”

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A transatlantic flight turned into a days-long travel nightmare for passengers dumped in a below-freezing Canadian city with only the clothes on their backs. Travelers aboard a British Airways flight from London to Houston, Texas, were diverted to Newfoundland after a medical emergency occurred mid-flight on Tuesday. The plane landed at St. John’s International Airport in Canada’s easternmost major city, a spokesperson for the airline tells the Daily Beast. Instead of being welcomed to Houston’s sunny 81-degree temperatures, passengers were forced to brave freezing 18-degree weather without their luggage, which they had been ordered to leave behind, and were told they would have to stay at a hotel in the city overnight before continuing on to Houston, reports the Daily Mail. However, their replacement flight the following day was instead slated to take them back across the pond to London—only to be abruptly canceled mid-boarding because of a technical issue, reports the Mail. Passengers again stayed overnight in the chilly Canadian province, ultimately being offered a flight to Houston on Thursday, which took off without issue. Passengers said the airline offered vouchers worth $660 for the inconvenience. Their unwanted two-night stay in Canada was also paid for by British Airways.

Diff’rent Strokes star Todd Bridges is divorcing his wife after three years of marriage, TMZ reports. He and mom-of-four Bettijo B. Hirschi had been separated for three months, according to TMZ, and on Tuesday he filed for a legal separation in Maricopa County, Arizona. The documents, obtained by People, ask for a petition for dissolution of marriage without minor children, and state that the marriage is “irretrievably broken.” Neither is requesting any form of spousal support. “After much prayer and reflection, my spouse and I have made the difficult decision to separate,” Bridges told People following the announcement of their separation in January. “This was not an easy choice, and it comes with a heavy heart, but also with love and gratitude for the life we shared.” He married the designer and photographer in 2022 in Beverly Hills, nine months after meeting on a dating app. From 1998 to 2012, the child star, 60, was married to Dori Bridges. The two have a 27-year-old son, and Todd Bridges has an adult daughter from a previous relationship.