The cast of Workaholics are out of work. Adam DeVine, who stars in the film adaptation of the sitcom, revealed the project has been scrapped by Paramount+, sharing on Instagram that that he was informed the movie didn’t fit into the streamer’s “new global strategy.” DeVine added that the film is being shopped around to other streamers “and hopefully we will get to make this insanely fun movie somewhere else.” Workaholics ran for seven seasons between 2011 and 2017 on Comedy Central. DeVine starred opposite co-creators Blake Anderson and Anders Holm as three college dropout pals working at a telemarketing company in Rancho Cucamonga, California…
Penn Badgley returns as unassuming serial killer, stalker, and book enthusiast turned suburban dad Joe Goldberg in the season 4 trailer for the Netflix series YOU, released on Monday. Unfortunately, his attempt to bury the past and start a new life in London is complicated when he returns to his old ways and becomes obsessed with his new neighbor. The first three seasons of YOU are now streaming on Netflix. Part 1 of season 4 drops Feb. 10, followed by part 2 on March 10…(Trailer contains uncensored profanity.)
Paramount+ on Monday released the first teaser trailer for Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, a prequel to the classic 1978 film musical Grease. The 10-episode series is set in 1954, four years before the events of the Grease movie, and centers on the titular young women who sparked “a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever.” Marisa Davila stars as Jane, Cheyenne Isabel Wells as Olivia, Ari Notartomaso as Cynthia, Tricia Fukuhara as Nancy, Shanel Bailey as Hazel and Madison Thompson as Susan. The cast also includes Feud: Bette vs. Joan‘s Jackie Hoffman as Assistant Principle McGee. Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies streams April 6, exclusively on Paramount+…
(NEW YORK) — Opening statements in the federal trial of a Manhattan, New York obstetrician/gynecologist charged with sexually abusing female patients highlighted a rare but devastating type of sexual misconduct — that of a patient by a medical professional.
Robert Hadden, a former obstetrician/gynecologist at Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, pled guilty to abusing patients in 2016, but avoided jail time in a controversial deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
Now, he’s on trial over federal charges. He pled not guilty to the federal charges, which accuse him of enticing women to cross state lines in order to sexually abuse them. His defense called it a “technical crime.”
Obstetricians and gynecologists regularly perform sensitive examinations when patients are emotionally and physically vulnerable. Those exams are medically important, which is why experts say abuse during such procedures is an egregious breach of trust — in addition to violation of physician ethics and also a criminal act.
“Although sexual misconduct is uncommon in clinical care, even one episode is unacceptable,” Dr. Kavita Shah Arora, chair of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) committee on ethics, said in an email to ABC News.
Health care providers should always fully explain all medical exams and only perform them with the patient’s consent, ACOG said in its position statement on sexual misconduct. Providers should use the minimal amount of physical contact necessary for the exam and a chaperone should always be in the room for all breast, genital and rectal examinations — regardless of the gender of the patient or health care provider, the group said.
The American Medical Association code of medical ethics recommends that health care providers make chaperones available during exams.
“In my entire career I never examined a patient without my nurse in the room,” says ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton, who is also a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist. “That is for both the patient’s and the doctor’s protection.”
Patients can always ask to see a doctor or care provider of the gender they’re most comfortable with, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) says in its guidelines on sexual abuse by medical professionals. They can also ask for a friend or family member to stay in the room during any type of exam, not just gynecologic exams, RAINN says.
RAINN says that it’s unacceptable for providers to refuse to answer questions, conduct exams without gloves, prevent others from coming into the room with a patient, insist on seeing body parts they’re not examining, or ask questions that make a patient uncomfortable.
Patients can also end an exam at any time and leave the room, Ashton says.
“If it feels wrong, trust your instincts and sit up — and end the exam,” Ashton says. “Gynecological exams, done properly, take seconds, not minutes — and they definitely don’t feel sexual.”
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(NEW YORK) — Dangerously stormy weather continues to wallop California, drenching the drought-stricken state with a sudden and near constant onslaught of rain and snow, leaving a trail of destruction.
The National Weather Service has warned of a “relentless parade of atmospheric rivers” in the West Coast over the coming week. President Joe Biden has issued an emergency declaration for California, ordering federal assistance to supplement state and local response efforts.
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Over 192,000 customers without power in California
More than 192,000 customers were without power across California early Tuesday, as storms unabatedly battered the Golden State.
As of 3:37 a.m. PT, there were 192,426 Californian customers without power, according to data collected by the website PowerOutage.us. A majority of those — 85,314 customers — were located in Santa Clara County.
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court is back in action for 2023 and staring down a long list of blockbuster decisions due for release in the weeks ahead.
The justices, who convened Monday for oral arguments for the first time this year, have been scrambling to draft opinions in 27 cases heard since October. The process is going more slowly than usual: not a single opinion has been released in a case heard over the past three months — record low productivity, according to Dr. Adam Feldman, who tracks the data at EmpiricalSCOTUS.com.
Reasons for the delay are unclear, but it could signal significant internal debate over the scope and outcome in several controversial cases.
“The five most conservative members of the court are interested in a maximalist strategy, basically to move the law as far and as fast as possible,” said Kate Shaw, ABC News legal analyst and professor at Cardozo School of Law.
The conservative majority has appeared ready to roll back, if not end, race-based affirmative action in college admissions; limit Voting Rights Act protections against race discrimination in election maps; and, make it easier for non-native families to adopt Native American children, limiting a landmark law protecting tribes for more than 40 years.
The court is also set to rule on whether some American businesses can deny service to LGBTQ people under the First Amendment. On immigration, they’ll rule on President Joe Biden’s deportation plan and a dispute over Title 42, as migrants continue to flood the southern border. And as 2024 looms, the court will rule on a major election law case over who decides when, where and how we can vote.
“Is it the state legislature alone? Can they violate the state constitution to do so? Who gets to decide that? Those are huge questions,” said ABC News legal contributor and former Justice Department attorney Sarah Isgur of the election case, Moore v. Harper.
The high court next month will also take up a fast-tracked challenge to President Biden’s plan to cancel federal student loan debt for up to 40 million Americans under emergency authority invoked during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an emotional case, the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, the only American killed in the 2015 Paris terror attacks, will ask the justices to end immunity for social media companies and greenlight their lawsuit against YouTube parent company Google. The family alleges the tech giant aided ISIS when its algorithms recommended and amplified the group’s extremist videos; Google denies the claim.
A separate but related case involving Twitter asks the justices to decide whether the platform can be held liable for aiding and abetting terrorism, even if its services were not used directly in connection with a specific terrorist act.
On environmental issues, the high court will rule on the scope of the Clean Water Act protection of wetlands, and a dispute over water from the Colorado River that is pitting states against Native tribes who demand a fair share.
The decisions are all expected before the end of June, when the court traditionally recesses for summer.
(MEXICO CITY) — The White House announced new agreements between the United States, Mexico and Canada on Tuesday, just hours before the countries’ leaders — the so-called “Three Amigos” — meet for trilateral talks in Mexico City.
But perhaps most notable was what’s missing so far — there was no fresh commitment on fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is smuggled across the border from Mexico, even after the White House said President Joe Biden would make specific asks of his Mexican counterpart, President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Instead, the White House said the three countries have committed to “increased information sharing on chemicals used in the illicit manufacture of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs” — a far cry from any new law enforcement operations, sanctions or other activity to disrupt fentanyl production and trafficking by drug cartels.
The North American Leaders’ Summit brings together Biden, Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for two days of talks, with border security and migration — both legal and illegal — as key topics.
On migration, the White House said the three countries have agreed to take small steps to try to encourage migrants to apply for legal status, rather than put their lives in the hands of smugglers and make the journey north. But those steps — including a new joint platform online to give migrants “streamlined access to legal pathways,” a new legal center in southern Mexico backed by private sector funding and “sharing best practices” — are similarly meager given the scale of the issue.
More notable were the fresh commitments to increase economic cooperation — working together on key sectors, such as semiconductors and critical minerals, as well as on supply chains and advanced workforce training. While no financial commitments have been announced yet, those agreements include a cabinet-level summit on semiconductors, mapping mineral resources across the North American continent and promoting educational investment.
Both Biden and Lopez Obrador boasted that kind of cooperation during a one-on-one meeting on Monday, with the Mexican president describing his American counterpart as a “humanistic” and “visionary” leader and calling for new U.S. investment in the region.
“There would be no other leader that could implement this enterprise — beginning with you,” Lopez Obrador said to Biden in front of reporters. “You hold the key in your hand to open and to substantially improve the relationship among all the countries of the American continent.”
Biden, who has repeatedly talked about the importance of rebuilding U.S. manufacturing and moving supply chains closer to home, agreed up to a point — telling Lopez Obrador: “We’re at one of those inflection points where what we do in the next several years is going to determine what the world looks like in the next two, three, four decades.”
But Biden noted that the U.S. already provides more foreign aid than any other country and, “unfortunately, our responsibility just doesn’t end in the Western Hemisphere.”
There’s also a major, ongoing dispute over energy. Lopez Obrador has taken steps to box out foreign companies, especially in the renewable space, and instead prop up Mexico’s state-owned oil firm, Pemex. That triggered the U.S. and Canada to file a formal complaint in July under USMCA, a Trump-era free trade deal between the three countries that replaced the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
Not only did the White House make no mention of this dispute on Tuesday ahead of the trilateral talks, it said the three countries have recognized “the urgency for rapid, coordinated, and ambitious measures to build clean energy economies and respond to the climate crisis,” alongside another list of commitments, from reducing methane emissions and food waste to electrifying public buses and expanding conservation and electric vehicle chargers.
(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Monday night made good on a campaign promise by approving a bill that would zero-out funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which is intended to dramatically increase the IRS’ enforcement abilities — and, Democrats and the government say, target wealthy tax cheats.
Conservatives have cast the money another way, over pushback from the Treasury Department.
“Our first bill will repeal funding for 87,000 new IRS agents, because the government should be here to help you, not go after you,” declared newly minted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy upon taking the gavel early Saturday morning and ushering in a new session under Republican control.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which analyzes bills for lawmakers, reported in an analysis on Monday that the GOP’s IRS measure, known as the Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act, from Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb., would raise the deficit by $114 billion.
On Monday, the House passed the proposal in a party-line vote, 221-210.
The proposal has little chance of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate to head to President Joe Biden’s desk.
Republicans claimed throughout the midterm campaign that Democrats were sending “an army of IRS agents” to go after middle- and lower-class taxpayers with the new agency funding in the IRA, which passed along party lines last year.
Some Republicans even went so far as to suggest that the IRS agents would be armed.
Both claims are misleading.
The IRS has said it plans over the next decade to use the roughly $80 billion from the IRA to update its antiquated technology systems, after years of under-funding by Congress, and hire and train new information technology specialists and customer service representatives as well as new agents, only a small fraction of whom — in the Criminal Investigation division — are armed.
The Treasury Department estimated in a 2021 report that $80 billion would fund just under 87,000 new employees, but not all of those would be new agents.
The IRS currently has about 82,000 employees, according to past congressional testimony, of which more than half are eligible for retirement over the next five years.
Democrats and the Biden administration have said they plan to use the new IRS enforcement capability to help close the yawning tax gap, which is the amount the IRS is paid by taxpayers versus the actual amount that is owed. That shortfall is estimated to be roughly $310 billion, according to a recent IRS analysis released to the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Democrats also planned to use the increased tax revenue to help pay for the IRA itself.
“House Republicans’ legislation would allow wealthy and corporate tax evaders to continue avoiding taxes owed, increasing the burden on honest, hardworking families who pay their taxes with every paycheck,” a Treasury spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News. “The IRS audits nearly 80% fewer millionaires than a decade ago, and this legislation would deny the agency much-needed resources to hire top talent to go after the $163 billion in taxes avoided by the top 1% annually.”
Just before congressional Democrats passed the IRA, both the IRS and the Treasury Department — to which the IRS reports — told lawmakers the new funding would not impact those making less than $400,000 annually, a key campaign promise of President Joe Biden.
“The IRS has struggled for many years with insufficient resources to fulfill our important mission. During the next 10 years, these funds will help us in many areas, including adding critical resources to not just close the tax gap but meaningfully improve taxpayer service and technology,” IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said in a statement in mid-August shortly before the Democrats’ climate, tax and health care bill passed.
That same month, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explicitly directed Rettig not to use the new funding to increase audits of taxpayers earning under $400,000.
Yellen also singled out “misinformation from opponents of this legislation.”
But Republicans say they are not buying the assertions from administration officials and have vowed to keep up scrutiny of the IRS and, in particular, Biden’s nominee to lead the agency, Danny Werfel — a former acting commissioner and top budget official under Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., was selected by House Republicans on Monday to lead the powerful Ways and Means Committee, which oversees all tax law. Smith vowed that Werfel, if confirmed, “should plan to spend a lot of time before our committee” and encouraged whistleblowers to come forward.
Smith also indicated his panel would probe the “leaking of sensitive taxpayer information,” a reference to some of former President Donald Trump’s tax records being leaked to the media.
(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Monday approved news rules for the chamber for the next two years, in the first major legislative action after the chaotic and historic process of electing Kevin McCarthy speaker.
McCarthy, R-Calif., had offered multiple concessions to his GOP critics, including rules changes, in order to win the necessary support for the speaker’s gavel — though the deal rankled some centrists in the party.
The new rules mark a sharp change in procedure on Capitol Hill, where Democrats have been in control for the last two years. The new rules also underline what is likely to be a period of tension with the Democratic Senate and Biden White House, such as on spending.
The protocols further reflect McCarthy ceding some power as speaker to his rank-and-file members.
Motion to vacate the chair
One of the main changes McCarthy agreed to was lowering the threshold needed to trigger a vote on booting any speaker, including him.
Before 2019, when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., took control, any one member could trigger a vote under the so-called motion to vacate the chair. Under Pelosi, such a vote could only be sparked if a majority of either party supported one.
McCarthy, in order to win over some of the dissenters, had suggested lowering the threshold back down to five lawmakers. But ultimately he agreed to one.
While the motion has never been used successfully, the threat of it has helped push two recent speakers — John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Paul Ryan, R-Wis. — into retirement.
During the speakership negotiations, McCarthy also vowed that he would use upcoming debt ceiling negotiations to force the Biden administration to enact spending cuts — a tactic the White House swiftly rejected over GOP outcry that they were being intractable.
On top of that, the new rules package no longer requires the House to automatically increase the borrowing limit through a budget resolution that would be enacted by borrowing that breaches that limit.
The budget ceiling is set to be reached at some point this summer.
Increased amendments to spending bills
Another change in the new rules is allowing any one lawmaker to offer amendments to spending bills.
The move’s supporters say it is intended to increase transparency in some of the government’s most sprawling pieces of legislation — shortly after the passage of a $1.7 trillion spending bill late last year that was largely negotiated behind closed doors.
However, the change could also lead to increased gridlock on legislation that is foundational to keeping the government — from welfare programs to the military — running. Critics say the new amendment process may result in what is essentially a House version of the Senate filibuster, in which a single lawmaker uses procedure to delay legislation.
The House has 435 members, each of whom will be able to talk for 10 minutes on the floor to introduce their spending amendments, meaning in theory there could be over three straight days of amendments just being introduced — if lawmakers didn’t take any breaks.
The amendment rule change “makes it messy. It makes it time-consuming,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, acknowledged on CNN on Sunday. “But it does make members feel like they actually have a voice.”
New spending must be counterbalanced with cuts
Reflecting Republicans’ fiscal focus, the rules package also requires that any new spending that the chamber passes must be offset by cuts, though it doesn’t explicitly say where those reductions would have to come from.
However, the GOP has long targeted entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicaid.
Defense spending cuts
Defense spending has emerged as one of the main sticking points for some Republican centrists, with more traditional hawks taking issue with future caps.
The language in the package seeks to limit discretionary federal government spending at the 2022 level for the next 10 years — which, if enacted and applied to defense programs, would translate into a roughly 10% reduction.
While some Republicans more aligned with former President Donald Trump’s foreign policy advocate for a smaller international footprint, arguing that the Pentagon’s budget is bloated, other conservatives have said it creates national security risks.
Subcommittee to investigate
The new rules include language regarding the formation of a House judiciary subcommittee to investigate the “weaponization of the federal government.”
The panel will have the ability to look at how the federal government collects and analyzes information on Americans and probe any ongoing criminal inquiries. Boosting the committee’s power, it will also get access to the highly classified information typically shared only with the House Intelligence Committee.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will chair the group and is also expected to lead the larger Judiciary Committee.
“We got more resources, more specificity, more power to go after this recalcitrant Biden administration,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said on Fox News on Friday after winning the concessions from McCarthy on the panel and its purview.
Among other things, the committee will be able to investigate the Justice Department’s investigation into the Capitol attack last year, which has ensnared some lawmakers.
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., who had his phone seized by the FBI last year as part of the inquiry, this weekend did not commit to recusing from the subcommittee, denying that it would constitute a conflict of interest.
“Why should I be limited? Why should anybody be limited just because someone has made an accusation? Everybody in America is innocent until proven otherwise,” Perry told ABC News’ This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday.
Holman Rule
The new protocols include the so-called Holman Rule, which allows lawmakers to propose amendments to spending bills that would cut funding for specific programs to $1, essentially defunding them.
The move comes as Republicans target existing investigations into the Jan. 6 insurrection and Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
As with the other spending changes, it’s unlikely that any push to defund those efforts will pass the Democratic-controlled Senate and be signed into law by President Joe Biden. But it could be used as a negotiating tool for Republicans with must-pass legislation.
(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice has launched a preliminary review into classified documents found at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., sources told ABC News.
In a statement, an attorney for President Joe Biden said his team first flagged the materials to both DOJ and the National Archives and Record Administration.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” Richard Sauber, a special counsel to Biden, said in a statement.
Sauber said the documents were found on Nov. 2 and the National Archives was notified by the White House on the same day, then took possession of them on Nov. 3.
The documents were found by Biden’s personal attorneys while they were “packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space” at the Penn Biden Center, said Sauber, who noted “the documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives.”
“Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives,” Sauber said.
The president helped launch the Penn Biden Center after leaving office as vice president under Barack Obama.
Biden “periodically used this space from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign,” Sauber said.
The center operates independently from the administration, according to its website.
Sources said the matter seems to involve only a handful of documents.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch with leading the review into how the documents ended up at the Penn Biden Center, a source familiar confirmed.
Lausch’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The FBI referred comment to the DOJ, who declined to comment.
CBS News first reported the review.
Former President Donald Trump is also being investigated for his handling of classified and sensitive government records. The FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida in August.
In that case, according to court records, federal authorities say a criminal referral was sent to them by the National Archives’ inspector general after 15 boxes were handed over by Trump’s team in 2022 that included “highly classified records” intermingled with otherwise innocuous documents.
The subsequent FBI search at Mar-a-Lago found additional sets of documents of various classifications ranging from confidential to top secret and sensitive compartmented information, court records show.
The Justice Department has been investigating the violation of criminal statutes including obstruction of justice. Trump denies wrongdoing.
(NEW YORK) — Allen Weisselberg, one of former President Donald Trump’s most trusted and loyal employees, will face sentencing Tuesday after he pleaded guilty last year to 15 state crimes then testified against the Trump Organization this past fall.
Weisselberg, 75, pleaded guilty in August to devising and operating a 15-year scheme to defraud federal, state and city tax authorities by evading more than $1.7 million in taxes on unreported income in the form of company-provided perks that included the rent on his Manhattan, New York apartment, the leases on cars for himself and his wife and tuition for his grandchildren.
As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, he testified in the subsequent trial of the Trump Organization, which a Manhattan jury found guilty last month of criminal tax fraud for paying the personal expenses of some executives without reporting them as income, and of compensating them as independent contractors instead of full-time employees.
Weisselberg, while no longer the company’s chief financial officer, remained employed with Trump’s family real estate firm and expected to make more than $1 million last year in salary and bonuses, according to his testimony.
He was promised a sentence of five months in jail to be served on Rikers Island and five years’ probation in exchange for his testimony, and agreed to repay nearly $2 million in taxes owed.
Weisselberg pleaded guilty in August to one count of grand larceny in the second degree; three counts of criminal tax fraud in the third degree; one count of scheme to defraud in the first degree; one count of conspiracy in the fourth degree; one count of criminal tax fraud in the fourth degree; four counts of offering a false Instrument for filing in the first degree; and four counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
“Allen Weisselberg admitted in Court that he used his position at the Trump Organization to bilk taxpayers and enrich himself,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at the time of his guilty plea. “Instead of paying his fair share like everyone else, Weisselberg had the Trump Organization provide him with a rent-free apartment, expensive cars, private school tuition for his grandchildren and new furniture — all without paying required taxes.”
Weisselberg’s attorney, Nicholas Gravante, declined to comment in advance of Tuesday’s sentencing hearing, but said he would make a statement when it was over.
Weisselberg testified at the trial of the Trump Organization that he reduced his reported salary by the total amount of personal expenses paid and that the company benefited by paying less in payroll taxes. He also testified his primary motive was greed.
As part of this testimony, he told a story about sitting with Trump in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower one day in 2012 when Donald Trump Jr. walked in with checks for his father to sign to cover tuition payments for Don Jr.’s children.
Trump looked over at Weisselberg with a chuckle and said, “I might as well pay for your grandkids too,” according to Weisselberg’s testimony.
Trump then began paying $100,000 a year for Weisselberg’s two grandchildren to attend Columbia Grammar School. Weisselberg did not declare it as income and never paid taxes on it, he testified.
Trump, who was not a defendant in the case against the Trump Organization, denied any wrongdoing and called the case “a continuation of the Greatest Political Witch Hunt in the History of our Country.”
(HOUSTON) — A Texas grand jury has declined to indict a man who hurled two cans of White Claw hard seltzer at Sen. Ted Cruz during the Houston Astros’ World Series victory parade in November, according to court records.
After hearing evidence from prosecutors, the Harris County grand jury decided there was not enough probable cause to indict 33-year-old Joseph Arcidiacono, ABC Houston station KTRK-TV reported, citing court documents.
The panel’s decision on Friday prompted the 182nd District Court in Harris County to dismiss charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon previously filed against Arcidiacono.
During his initial court appearance in November, officials said Arcidiacono admitted throwing the White Claw cans at Cruz, telling police when he was detained, “I know I’m an idiot. I’m sorry.”
Cruz was riding on the back of a Humvee during the Nov. 7 parade on Smith Street in downtown Houston when he suddenly found himself dodging the cans tossed at him from the crowd.
A viral video of the incident showed one can missing the 52-year-old Texas Republican senator. A second unopened can appeared to hit Cruz in the forearm when he tried to deflect it.
The senator did not require medical attention, police said.
Police officers standing nearby quickly arrested Arcidiacono and jailed him on assault charges. Police initially said the suspect threw beer cans at Cruz, but later clarified that the objects were cans of White Claw.
Afterward, Cruz tweeted a video of the incident and issued a statement thanking the Houston Police and Capitol Police for their quick action.
“I’m also thankful that the clown who threw his White Claw had a noodle for an arm,” Cruz said in his statement.
