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‘Has He Been Drugged?’ – The Atlantic

‘Has He Been Drugged?’ – The Atlantic

As she watched President Biden stumble through the most cringeworthy portion of his disastrous June 2024 debate, First Lady Jill Biden wondered if her husband had unknowingly ingested drugs or was having a medical episode on live television. “Is he short-circuiting?” Jill Biden thought. “Is this a stroke? I felt like we were watching an AI hologram of the man we knew, and the hologram was glitching. Has he been drugged?” Her mind then wandered to a more personal anxiety, considering how his nonsensical word salads—one of which ended with “we finally beat Medicare”—might implicate her as the person best positioned to know if the man who appeared to disassemble onstage was privately prone to incoherence. “Oh God—will people watching assume this is how he is all the time?” she writes in her new memoir, View From the East Wing, a copy of which The Atlantic obtained ahead of its June 2 release date. Part of Jill Biden’s goal for writing a book about her four years as first lady, it seems, is to dispel …

Efforts To Understand The Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump

Efforts To Understand The Nation’s Drugged Driving Problem Stall Under Trump

By Jace DiCola and KFF Health News HealthDay ReportersFRIDAY, May 22, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Two state transportation workers were replacing a sign on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 6 in western Colorado one morning when a Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved off the road and struck them. The workers, Nathan Jones and Trent Umberger, died in the September 2024 crash, as did a passenger in the Jeep. Tests found that the driver, Patrick Sneddon, then 59, had oxycodone and six times Colorado’s presumed impairment threshold for THC — the psychoactive compound in cannabis — in his blood. He pleaded guilty and is serving 30 years in prison on three counts of vehicular homicide and other charges. “Our four children are completely crushed without their Dad,” wrote Kristine Umberger, the wife of Trent, in a victim impact statement for the local district attorney. “We have lost our ability to live life like we used to.” Federal highway safety officials have long tracked the role of alcohol in fatal crashes, but they don’t track deaths that involve a driver …

Khloe Kardashian claims she was ‘drugged’ during her first Coachella trip

Khloe Kardashian claims she was ‘drugged’ during her first Coachella trip

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Khloé Kardashian has recalled her first — and only — experience at Coachella, where she claims she was accidentally “drugged.” The reality star, 41, attended the popular Southern California music festival in 2015, when AC/DC, Jack White and Drake headlined. Opening up about her trip to the desert festival on Wednesday’s episode of her Khloé in Wonder Land podcast, Kardashian admitted: “It wasn’t the best experience. I got drugged without me knowing, but I think everyone knew. “I don’t think anyone drugged me,” she clarified, adding, “I just think I was the dumb one and didn’t realize that everyone was on drugs and I remember drinking this drink and just feeling really crazy. No one wants to feel like that and not know why they’re like that.” She remembered being so scared that she locked herself in the bathroom for hours. …

Three men deny plot to sexually assault man’s drugged wife | UK News

Three men deny plot to sexually assault man’s drugged wife | UK News

Three men have denied involvement in a plot to rape and sexually assault another man’s wife after she had been drugged by her husband. A man in his 60s, who is from the Stockport area but cannot be named as it would identify the alleged victim, last month denied 48 offences dating back to 2004. He is accused of drugging his wife in order to rape and sexually assault her on his own over more than two decades, dating back to the early 2000s. Between 2023 and his arrest last year, he allegedly invited other men to sexually assault and rape his wife while she was unconscious. He appeared at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court by video link from Forest Bank prison, facing charges along with 12 other men, aged between 28 and 73, who also cannot be identified for legal reasons. The husband is charged with 23 counts relating to offences committed on his own – including some multiple incident counts – eight conspiracy offences and 17 attacks allegedly committed with other men. All …

Woman ‘drugged, raped and dressed in clown costume’ court hears | US | News

Woman ‘drugged, raped and dressed in clown costume’ court hears | US | News

The Alexander brothers now face life imprisonment after being found guilty of sex trafficking charges (Image: AP) The Alexander brothers, who were found guilty this week of sex trafficking offences following a disturbing five-week trial, kept a comprehensive blog documenting their encounters with their victims, including one occasion where they drugged, raped, and clothed a victim in a clown outfit before leaving her in freezing conditions, a court heard. Prosecutors revealed the harrowing piece of evidence towards the conclusion of the trial, after jurors had already heard distressing details of the alleged offences committed by twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 38, and their brother, Tal Alexander, 39. They contended that numerous entries in that space reflected a pattern of sexual abuse. Within the posts, there are multiple references to “clowns” or “clowning” women. In one entry from May 2008, the writer outlines a rulebook for “clowning” with women, authored by Oren. Amongst the rules, which was presented to the court, was a line that read, “Fk b–s get money.” That same year, a woman identified …

Paedophile camp leader Jon Ruben jailed for 23 years for sexually abusing children he drugged with sweets | UK News

Paedophile camp leader Jon Ruben jailed for 23 years for sexually abusing children he drugged with sweets | UK News

A summer camp leader who drugged children with sweets laced with a tranquiliser before sexually assaulting them has been jailed for more than 23 years. Warning: This report contains references to graphic material including self-harm and sexual abuse which readers may find distressing Leicester Crown Court heard Jon Ruben, 76, who ran a camp for at least 27 years, was arrested in July 2025 after eight children were taken to hospital. Liquid Xanax was found to have been used on some of the victims at Stathern Lodge in Leicestershire. The former vet admitted drugging and abusing two boys – pleading guilty to sexual assault of a child under 13, assault of a child under 13 by penetration, eight counts of child cruelty, three counts of making indecent images of children and four drugs charges. Image: Sweets seized by police and a tiny incision in one where Ruben injected the drugs. Pic: Leicestershire Police Ruben from Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, this week also admitted a further charge of drugging his wife Susan with temazepam so she would not …