Andy Valdez

Ears were raised in a Los Angeles courtroom as routine surrogacy petitions

which are usually a quick rubber stamp process, began showing the same name again and again.

Xu Guo, a billionaire Chinese video game developer, had filed 12 parentage petitions with the court.

Online, he has claimed to have fathered over 100 surrogate children in the US, raising serious questions about the surrogacy system.

While the judge did block the petitions for now, legal experts point out that Xu appears to have acted within the law.

When Alex Simpson was born, doctors gave her at most four years to live because of a rare condition called hydranencephaly, which left her with only a few grams of brain tissue at the base of her skull.

While most patients with the condition don't live past their first birthday, Alex celebrated her 20th with her family on November 4th.

Although Alex was born without the parts of her brain responsible for hearing and sight, her family says the 20-year-old woman seems to be deeply in tune with the emotions of those around her.

To her family, Alex's 20 years are not just a medical mystery, but a testament to perseverance, prayer, and unexpected grace.

As Democrats slam President Trump for building a privately funded ballroom at the White House, the administration has posted a new major events timeline online, highlighting not just renovations, but past Democratic scandals.

Among them, Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, Barack Obama's 2012 Muslim Brotherhood visit, and who could forget, the 2023 discovery of cocaine in the West Wing.

Critics call it political trolling, but the White House calls it transparency.

Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt says presidents have always modernized the residence.

Trump's just doing it in style.