Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has built a nearly four-hour documentary around the premise that Elon Musk is a fraud, relying heavily on disgruntled former partners and a Starlink election-rigging theory that officials already debunked. The film, titled Musk, premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday and is scheduled to open in theaters October 16. […] The post Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour Musk documentary leans on scorned exes and debunked conspiracy theories appeared first on American Almanac .
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has built a nearly four-hour documentary around the premise that Elon Musk is a fraud, relying heavily on disgruntled former partners and a Starlink election-rigging theory that officials already debunked. The film, titled Musk, premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday and is scheduled to open in theaters October 16. It runs three hours and forty-five minutes, including a ten-minute intermission, a runtime that suggests Gibney needed every spare minute to stitch together a case that keeps circling back to claims the public record has already addressed. Gibney, who previously directed documentaries on Enron and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, began the project in 2023 and expanded its scope…Open
Six men tied to the Black Axe criminal network landed in U.S. custody Friday after spending five years in a South African jail, accused of running online romance scams that drained more than $6 million from over 100 American women. South African police handed the six Nigerian nationals over to FBI and U.S. Secret Service […] The post Six Nigerian nationals extradited to U.S. after allegedly swindling American women out of $6 million in romance scams appeared first on American Almanac .
Six men tied to the Black Axe criminal network landed in U.S. custody Friday after spending five years in a South African jail, accused of running online romance scams that drained more than $6 million from over 100 American women. South African police handed the six Nigerian nationals over to FBI and U.S. Secret Service agents at Cape Town International Airport on September 11, 2026, closing out a lengthy extradition process that began with their arrest in Cape Town in 2021. The men face wire fraud and money laundering charges in the United States, where federal authorities will now prosecute the case. South African police spokesperson Katlego Mogale told CBS News : "Through the coordination of Interpol South Africa, the six will today…Open
Tokyo police arrested two 25-year-old American women at Haneda Airport after they allegedly flew from New York with 66 pounds of cannabis hidden in their suitcases, and one suspect says she took the job for a free trip to Japan. Cartron Jamere Bourbon Castillo and Jocelyn Dizon Natividad Patrin arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on […] The post Two American women face up to 10 years in Japanese prison after alleged $1 million cannabis smuggling scheme appeared first on American Almanac .
Tokyo police arrested two 25-year-old American women at Haneda Airport after they allegedly flew from New York with 66 pounds of cannabis hidden in their suitcases, and one suspect says she took the job for a free trip to Japan. Cartron Jamere Bourbon Castillo and Jocelyn Dizon Natividad Patrin arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on September 5 carrying two suitcases that police say contained roughly 30 kilograms of dried cannabis divided among more than a dozen packages, the New York Post reported . The seized substance carried an estimated street value of 150 million yen, approximately $970,000. A Tokyo police spokesman told AFP that "cannabis-like dried plants were secretly stored" in the luggage and that the women "conspired with…Open
A former CIA officer who allegedly fabricated his military record and academic credentials, and who was found with 303 gold bars, $2 million in cash, and dozens of luxury watches at his Virginia home, is negotiating a plea deal that could spare the government a trial tangled in classified material. David J. Rush, a onetime […] The post Former CIA officer found with $40 million in gold bars moves toward plea deal appeared first on American Almanac .
A former CIA officer who allegedly fabricated his military record and academic credentials, and who was found with 303 gold bars, $2 million in cash, and dozens of luxury watches at his Virginia home, is negotiating a plea deal that could spare the government a trial tangled in classified material. David J. Rush, a onetime official in the CIA's science and technology division, and federal prosecutors filed a joint motion Friday in federal district court in Virginia asking a judge to extend the indictment deadline to Oct. 8. The filing stated that both sides had reached "a plea agreement in principle" and were working to finalize terms before the case reached a grand jury. CBS News reported that the court document did not specify what…Open
The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority board voted 6-0 to start renaming Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton, a move backed by both the governor and the mayor just weeks after the singer's death. Six commissioners cast their votes on September 11, clearing the first official hurdle in what could make Nashville's airport one of a […] The post Nashville airport board votes unanimously to begin renaming process after Dolly Parton appeared first on American Almanac .
The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority board voted 6-0 to start renaming Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton, a move backed by both the governor and the mayor just weeks after the singer's death. Six commissioners cast their votes on September 11, clearing the first official hurdle in what could make Nashville's airport one of a handful in the country named for a cultural icon. The unanimous decision came less than three weeks after Parton died on August 25 at age 80, following a short battle with cancer, CBS News reported . No final name has been chosen. The board approved the renaming in principle and modified its existing naming policy to allow the process to move forward, but the specific title the airport will…Open
A Los Angeles federal jury cleared Grammy-winning Chicago rapper Lil Durk of all charges in an alleged murder-for-hire plot, but federal prosecutors say they will get another chance when his racketeering trial begins in October. Durk Devontay Banks, the 32-year-old rapper known as Lil Durk, walked away from every count against him Friday after three […] The post Federal jury acquits rapper Lil Durk in Los Angeles murder-for-hire case, but a second trial looms appeared first on American Almanac .
A Los Angeles federal jury cleared Grammy-winning Chicago rapper Lil Durk of all charges in an alleged murder-for-hire plot, but federal prosecutors say they will get another chance when his racketeering trial begins in October. Durk Devontay Banks, the 32-year-old rapper known as Lil Durk, walked away from every count against him Friday after three days of jury deliberation, CBS News reported . The charges, conspiracy, stalking resulting in death, and murder for hire, carried a potential life sentence. The jury rejected all of them. The verdict did not end the case entirely. Two co-defendants, Deandre "OTF Dede" Wilson and David "Browneyez" Lindsey, were convicted on stalking-related charges, including conspiracy to commit stalking,…Open
A high school teacher volunteering on a fossil dig stumbled onto four connected Tyrannosaurus rex footprints in the North Dakota badlands, the first trackway ever confirmed from a full-grown T. rex. Kent Hups, an amateur fossil hunter, made the find in 2025 while working on a dig led by Dr. Tyler Lyson, senior curator of […] The post Paleontologists find first-ever adult T. rex trackway in North Dakota badlands appeared first on American Almanac .
A high school teacher volunteering on a fossil dig stumbled onto four connected Tyrannosaurus rex footprints in the North Dakota badlands, the first trackway ever confirmed from a full-grown T. rex. Kent Hups, an amateur fossil hunter, made the find in 2025 while working on a dig led by Dr. Tyler Lyson, senior curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The site sits on U.S. Forest Service land near Marmarth, a small town in southwestern North Dakota close to the Montana border. A peer-reviewed paper describing the discovery was published this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Before this find, only two isolated adult T. rex footprints had ever been confirmed anywhere on Earth, one in New…Open
