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Trump Nominee Withdraws After GOP Support Collapses

Office of Special Counsel nominee Paul Ingrassia came under fire after report on offensive texts

(Newser) - Paul Ingrassia has withdrawn from consideration to lead the Office of Special Counsel. President Trump's nominee to lead the federal watchdog agency announced the move Tuesday, a day after Politico reports that the 30-year-old had made offensive remarks in a text message chain, saying in one text that he...

State AG Hopeful's Own Words Made Him 'Sick to My Stomach'

Dem Jay Jones apologizes as messages emerge on '2 bullets to the head' for ex-GOP Virginia lawmaker

(Newser) - Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general, faced strong criticism Friday night after text messages from 2022 emerged in which he suggested then-state House Speaker Todd Gilbert deserved "two bullets to the head." The texts, first reported by the National Review and confirmed by the...

ABC Reporter Walks Back Comments on Suspect's Texts

Matt Gutman said they provided a 'very intimate portrait' of a relationship

(Newser) - ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman is backtracking after facing criticism for describing the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect's texts as "very touching in a way we did not expect" and as providing "a very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the suspect...

Mom Said She Was on Vacation, Got Assisted Suicide Instead

Maureen Slough actually traveled to Switzerland to die; her family found out via WhatsApp

(Newser) - When Maureen Slough informed people in early July that she was going on vacation to Lithuania with a friend, daughter Megan Royal didn't think much of it—until soon after, when one of her mom's friends got in touch with her. Royal says he told her that Slough,...

Blake Lively Can't Keep Swift Texts Under Wraps Anymore

Judge in Justin Baldoni sexual harassment suit says actor must hand over messages to, from famous pal

(Newser) - Taylor Swift's team has tried to put some light in between her and the Justin Baldoni film It Ends With Us, even as her friend Blake Lively is suing Baldoni , who co-starred in the movie with Lively that he directed, for sexual harassment. Now, a judge has ruled that...

Watchdog Probes if Pentagon Staffers Deleted Signal Texts

Inspector general also wants to know who had access to Secretary Hegseth's phone

(Newser) - A Pentagon watchdog is looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's aides were asked to delete Signal messages that may have shared sensitive military information with a reporter, per two people familiar with the investigation and documents reviewed by the AP . The inspector general's request focuses...

Lead Investigator Fired Over Crude Texts About Karen Read

Massachusetts state trooper Michael Proctor said he wished the suspect would 'kill herself'

(Newser) - The lead investigator in Karen Read's murder case was fired Wednesday for sending vulgar texts about the suspect. Defense lawyers referred to the texts at Read's 2024 trial, which ended with a hung jury, saying they showed Michael Proctor was biased against their client and singled her out...

Bogus Texts Warning of Unpaid Tolls Resurface
That Text About Your Unpaid
Tolls? You've Been 'Smished'
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Mar 1, 2025 7:00 AM CST

That Text About Your Unpaid Tolls? You've Been 'Smished'

FBI, FTC warn that scam messages have been hitting people's smartphones

(Newser) - If you recently received a text message reprimanding you for an unpaid road toll bill, or even "toll evasion" (as several Newser editors were accused of), you can probably ignore it. Authorities are warning that mystery texts blasted out across the country are phony, pretending to come directly from...

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Adding Periods to Texts
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Feb 20, 2025 5:35 PM CST

Adding Periods to Texts Changes. Their. Intensity.

Researchers say periods and text breaks may be 'equivalent to a dramatic pause'

(Newser) - We all likely spend a fair amount of time analyzing text messages. It's not always easy to gauge a sender's feelings from written words, as facial expressions and patterns of rhythm and sound often used to shape meaning in spoken conversations are absent. But "textisms"—a...

She Tried to Opt Out of Election Texts, Got a 'Text-Pocalypse'

WSJ columnist replied 'Stop' to the political texts on her phone, but the messages kept coming

(Newser) - Joanna Stern figured that, to stop all the political text messages she's been getting lately as Election 2024 heads into its final days, she simply had to reply "Stop" to those texts, as is standard protocol. But "in the game of political texts, 'Stop' apparently means...

Final Text From Doomed Titan: 'All Good Here'

Coast Guard opens 2-week hearing on causes of submersible's implosion

(Newser) - The final message from OceanGate's doomed Titan submersible was fleetingly correct as the crew descended to the wreck of the Titanic: "All good here," read the text to the Polar Prince support ship at the surface above. That response came after a query about whether the Titan...

Rob Lowe's Globes Snafu Teaches Him a Texting Lesson

'Parks and Rec' star says he texted congrats meant for winner Robert Downey Jr. to Bradley Cooper

(Newser) - A congratulatory message that Rob Lowe sent to former high school classmate Robert Downey Jr. after the latter won a Golden Globe earlier this month didn't quite go the way Lowe had planned. Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday, the Parks and Recreation actor lauded Downey, who won...

Hot Air Balloon Victim Texted Girlfriend as It Went Down

28-year-old victim sent text after she exited the balloon: 'This isn't going to be good, I love you'

(Newser) - Kinsey Taylor was one of eight skydivers who made a successful jump out of a hot air balloon on Sunday morning before it crashed in the Arizona desert, killing four other people still in the balloon and critically injuring one. Taylor's boyfriend, Chayton Wiescholek, was one of those who...

Carlson Addresses His Hate Texts on Trump

Fox host says he 'wounded' former president, told him 'I love Trump' when Trump called him

(Newser) - An upset Donald Trump called Tucker Carlson after the public airing of private text messages in which the Fox News host claimed to passionately hate the former president . "I was absolutely infuriated," Carlson said Monday about the release of his texts and emails as part of Dominion Voting...

'A Shock to All': Mom Charged With Cyberbullying Own Teen

Kendra Licari faces 5 charges after allegedly sending 'tens of thousands' of mean texts

(Newser) - A mother in Michigan is facing five felony charges after allegedly sending thousands of bullying messages to teens—including her own daughter. Prosecutors say the harassment began in early 2021 when Kendra Licari was working as a basketball coach at her daughter's school. The 42-year-old actually helped investigate the...

Lawyers 'Messed Up,' Sending Alex Jones' Texts to Opponents

Infowars host had said under oath that there was nothing on his phone about Sandy Hook killings

(Newser) - Alex Jones said in a sworn deposition that there's nothing on his cellphone about the Sandy Hook school massacre. That position became uncomfortable Wednesday when the Infowars host was on the stand in his defamation trial in Texas and learned that his lawyers "messed up." Mark Bankston,...

Texts From DHS Officials Are Missing, Too

Inspector General Joseph Cuffari failed to notify Congress: 'Washington Post'

(Newser) - Texts from Secret Service agents related to Jan. 6, 2021, aren't the only messages to have escaped the peering eyes of the House select committee. According to the Washington Post , texts between the two top officials at the Department of Homeland Security under former President Trump sent in the...

Secret Service Finds 1 Text. 'I Smell a Rat,' Raskin Says

Jan. 6 committee member finds agency's loss of messages an odd coincidence

(Newser) - A subpoena for Secret Service text messages issued by the House committee investigating the Capitol attack has yielded precisely one transmission. The communication turned over was a request for help sent Jan. 6 by Steven Sund, a Capitol police officer at the time. "That's all that we have,...

Committee Subpoenas Secret Service Over Text Messages

Agency says it will answer Jan. 6 panel quickly

(Newser) - Update: The House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol has issued a subpoena for Secret Service text messages sent on Jan. 5 and 6, 2021. The committee had been told Thursday that the agency deleted the records. Democratic Chairman Bennie Thompson wrote the Secret Service that the committee wants...

In New Texts Between Hannity and Mark Meadows, a Shift

Fox host went from 'staunch supporter' of election lies to warning against 'fing lunatics,' per CNN

(Newser) - CNN has more texts from Mark Meadows , this time dozens of them between the former White House chief of staff and Fox News host Sean Hannity. The two exchanged more than 80 messages between Election Day 2020 and President Biden's inauguration, which the news outlet says show "...

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