The season 5 trailer for 'Game of Thrones' has leaked

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Maisie Williams as fan favorite Arya Stark.

Winter is coming.

"Game of Thrones" fans know that means season 5 of HBO's wildly popular series is returning.

An exclusive look at Season 5  premiered after the first IMAX screening of the final two episodes from Season 4, and someone caught the trailer on video — which means that you can watch it below

Kendall Jenner Rumored In Affair With Scott Disick

Kendall Jenner Rumored In Affair With Scott Disick

Damn! Just when we thought Kendall Jenner had escaped the Kardashian stigma…here comes the rumor that the family’s model success has been getting it in with her sister’s boyfriend/babydaddy Scott Disick — while her sister was pregnant!

Guess she wasn’t kidding when she said she grew up too fast…. Via HollywoodLife:

Kendall and Scott have been having a steamy affair behind Kourtney’s back, according to the latest report from Star. The explosive report claims that Kendall and Scott had sex at a party and that a mutual friend told Kourtney the devastating news. Kourtney is reportedly not speaking to Scott or Kendall and said “they’re dead to me” when she discovered the news.

“After their partying episodes, he saw Kendall as an adult,” the insider tells the magazine. “A superhot and fun one at that.”

Their source also says: “This is what their relationship has turned into. What should be a brotherly/sisterly love has become sexualized. Scott clearly finds her attractive, and she likes the attention. It’s just wrong.”

“At first, Kourtney was in complete shock and disbelief. But after she processed the information, she was devastated … She started screaming at [Scott], calling him ‘sick.’ But he kept denying it. He stormed out and the next she heard of him, he was doing what he always does — drinking his problems away. This time it wasn’t in Las Vegas, it was in Aspen.”

Meanwhile, momager Kris Jenner is said to be “at a loss” and “worried” about Mason, Penelope and Reign.

“She confronted Kendall about it. But Kendall denied everything, then accused her mom of being happy about the rumors because they will raise her previous TV ratings.”

Scott seems to get sprung over a different one of Kourtney’s sisters every six months, doesn’t he? But if this is true…Momager Kris really needs to stop focusing so hard on wheeling deals and start concentrating on getting some control over her wild-azz daughters.

Lil Wayne sues Cash Money for $51 Million

It's not news that former best friends and business partners Lil Wayne and Birdman have fallen out over money, record deals, and artists under their label. What's new now is that the rapper is suing Cash Money for $51million with the hopes of ending his contract with the label.

According to TMZ, Lil Wayne filed a lawsuit asking a judge to end his contract with Cash Money. According to the lawsuit, Wayne says Birdman and company violated the deal by withholding tens of millions of dollars Cash Money owes him for his long-delayed album, "Tha Carter V." 

From TMZ

Wayne claims because Cash Money is refusing to pay, he's entitled to walk. But Lil Wayne wants more than just a declaration of freedom. He's suing for $51 MILLION. 

And Wayne wants the judge to declare he's the joint copyright owner of all Young Money recordings ... which includes Drake, Nicki Minaj and several others.

Sources connected to Wayne tell TMZ ... if Birdman antes up then he can release "Tha Carter V," but only if Wayne gets paid. Wayne says he was supposed to get an $8 million advance when he began recording in December, 2013 and another 2M when he completed the album a year later, but so far he's gotten nothing.

Update: Lil Wayne to Birdman - I'm willing to stay if the price is right

Lil Wayne will stay with Cash Money and Birdman IF they ante up the money he's owed ... in fact, we're told if Cash Money antes up, Wayne has no choice but to stay.

Sources involved in the case tell TMZ ... Wayne feels Birdman's decision to avoid paying him is nothing more than a power play. TMZ broke the story that Wayne is suing, and a central claim is that Birdman has consistently stiffed him over the last year.

There are 2 payments that have irked Wayne -- he says he was owed $8 million when he went into the studio to record "Tha Carter V" in December 2013, and another $2 mil when he completed the album last month.

We're told the hope is that Universal -- which distributes Cash Money records -- will step in and earmark the $10 mil for Wayne. And we're told Universal is already putting pressure on Cash Money to settle.

If Cash Money pays Wayne the $10 mil, it would essentially eliminate any breach of contract. That means Wayne would have no legal basis to ask out of the contract. Even though Wayne's suing for $51 million, most of that is predicated on future lost profits which would not be an issue if they settle.

As for the release of "Tha Carter V" ... even if the case settles the power would be in Birdman's claws.

There's A New Air Force One!

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The US Air Force has reportedly selected the Boeing 747-8 as the President's next official plane. 

According to Reuters, two sources "close to the decision" said that the Air Force is close to announcing its decision to replace the current 747 with the latest version of Boeing's jumbo jet.

The current fleet of Presidential aircraft entered service in 1990, during the George H.W. Bush administration. The two planes — with tail numbers 28000 and 29000 — are highly modified examples of the Boeing 747-200B airliner.

The US Air Force's decision should come as welcome news for Boeing's struggling 747 program. The company announced last month that it would slow production of the 747-8 due to lagging sales.

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Boeing has only 39 unfilled orders — 26 passenger versions and 13 cargo planes — for the 747, the Seattle Times reported.

According to Boeing, the 747-8 retails for $367.8 million.

5 family members found dead at home took 'drugs overdose' to escape 'apocalypse''

A couple and three of their children were found dead at home after taking a cocktail of drugs in a tragic 'murder-suicide' - to escape "the evil in the world".

Benjamin and Kristi Strack and three of their children, Benson, 14, Emery, 12, and Zion, 11, were found dead in Springville, Utah on September 27 2014.

On Tuesday police said they often discussed religiously-held notions of the apocalypse &orchestrated a multi-drug suicide using methadone and other medication.


Springville Police Department detective Greg Turnbow, the lead officer on the case, said:

"It was a fairly common theme for the parents to talk about, the apocalypse, the end of days, final judgment. Their surviving son, when he was interviewed, indicated that his mother had made comments that if things got bad enough she would much rather take herself and her family out in a comfortable way, rather than a painful way."

The information was released at a press conference yesterday Tuesday Jan. 27th that covered information from a medical examiner and broader information about the case, Turnbow said.

The parents deaths were ruled suicides. The children ages 11 and 12 were ruled homicides, and the 14-year-old son had a note in which he was aware of his "possible impending doom," Turnbow said.

The father had heroin in his body and the others had methadone and over-the-counter medication, Turnbow said, citing coroner's findings. There was no sign of a struggle.

Speaking on Tuesday, Springville Police Chief J. Scott Finlayson indicated that people who knew the family were worried about "evil in the world".

Relatives told investigators that the family had spoke about "leaving" this world to escape "impending doom" leading up to their deaths.

But they thought it meant they would be moving to a sparsely populated area and living "off the grid", KSL News reported.
The family all died of a lethal cocktail of drugs, which had been prescribed to Kristi, local media claim.

Investigators believe the children all drank from a small bucket that contained the lethal cocktail which first put them asleep before killing them.

Kristi died of a combination of drugs and her husband Benjamin died from toxic levels of heroin, according to a report from the Utah State Medical Examiner's Office.
Chief J. Scott Finlayson conceded: "There are some questions we can't answer and may never be able to answer.

"There is no evidence any of the family members were forced to take lethal doses of any drug combinations, nor was there any evidence they took the drugs willingly."

It is unknown whether the youngest children knew what they were drinking but police said there were no signs of struggle.

FBI: We Busted A Russian Spy Ring In New York City

The FBI announced on Monday that it had busted a Russian spy ring that was allegedly focused on obtaining economic information including details about US markets and sanctions on Russian banks. 

According to a federal complaint filed by FBI special agent Gregory Monaghan in a Manhattan federal court on Friday, an alleged spy, Evgeny Buryakov, posed as a banker in the New York office of an unnamed Russian bank.

Buryakov is reportedly being arraigned in the Southern District of New York.

Monaghan said Buryakov (aka"Zhenya") was on "deep cover" and working for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) to gather intelligence and transmit it back to Moscow. The SVR used multiple forms of cover.

The complaint includes several stunning revelations, including claims that staffers at an unidentified Russian news organization in the US are engaged in spying; and indications that American law enforcement bugged the New York office of the Foreign Intelligence Service. 

According to the complaint, Buryakov worked with two other men who were involved in intelligence-gathering activities for the SVR: Victor Podobnyy and Igor Sporyshev. The complaint said Sporyshev served as a trade representative to the Russian Federation in New York. Podobnyy was allegedly an attaché to the permanent mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations. 

A statement sent out by the office of the US attorney for the Southern District of New York said Podobnyy and Sporyshev "no longer reside in the United States and have not been arrested." 

The complaint said Buryakov was charged with one count of "conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government" and another count of "acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government." These charges stem from the fact Buryakov was allegedly posing as a private citizen while working for the SVR.

US regulations require people working on behalf of foreign governments in this country to register with the Department of Justice and Buryakov allegedly did not. Due to their government postings, the complaint said Podobnyy and Sporyshev seemed to be exempt from this registration requirement. Additionally, the statement from the US attorney's office said they had diplomatic immunity that prevented them from being arrested. 

According to the complaint, Buryakov, Sporyshev, and Podobnyy all worked for "a particular division of the SVR known as 'Directorate ER,' which focuses on economic issues." In addition to transmitting reports from Buryakov to Moscow Center, the SVR headquarters in Russia, the complaint said Podobnyy and Sporyshev engaged in other intelligence activities including "attempting to recruit New York City residents as intelligence sources for the Russian Federation."

The people they tried to recruit were described in the complaint as "several individuals employed by major companies, and several young women with ties to a major university located in New York" as well as a "number of other Russian-origin individuals associated with" the unnamed university. 

In a statement, Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said Buryakov was attempting to get "economic and other intelligence information."

"The attempt by foreign nations to illegally gather economic and other intelligence information in the United States through covert agents is a direct threat to the national security of the United States, and it exemplifies why counterespionage is a top priority of the National Security Division," Carlin said.

The complaint claims Buryakov had "over four dozen meetings" where he used "clandestine methods and coded messages" to communicate with the other SVR spies. It describes several alleged meetings in some detail and said they typically involved Buryakov "passing a bag, magazine, or slip of paper to Sporyshev."

"These meetings typically took place outdoors, where the risk of effective surveillance was reduced relative to an indoor location," the complaint said. 

In communications monitored by the FBI, the complaint said Sporyshev and Buryakov regularly discussed the "need to meet to transfer 'tickets'" even though they have "never been observed attending, or discussing in any detail, events that would typically require tickets." 

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The complaint described one instance where Sporyshev did not meet with Buryakov in person and they talked on the phone. In that conversation Sporyshev allegedly asked Buryakov for "help in formulating questions to be used for intelligence-gathering purposes by others associated with a leading Russian state-owned news organization."

Though the news outlet was not identified, the complaint referred to it as having been "publicly identified by former SVR agents as an organization that is sometimes used by Russian intelligence to gain access to and gather intelligence under the cover of the news media." The complaint said Sporyshev specifically asked Buryakov for questions about subjects that would be "of interest to the Russian economic intelligence community." 

In transcripts identified in the complaint as coming from this conversation between the two men, Buryakov was quoted encouraging Sporyshev to have the news organization ask about Exchange Traded Funds. These funds are a basket of securities traded like individual stocks.

"You can ask about the ETF," Buryakov was quoted saying. "How they are used, the mechanisms of use for destabilization of the markets."

It seems Buryakov also allegedly recommended having the news organization ask about high-frequency trading and trades involving Russian products.

"Then you can ask them what they think about limiting the use of trading robots," he was quoted saying. "You can also ask about the potential interest of the participants of the exchange to the products tied to the Russian Federation."

The complaint said Buryakov was also monitored by the FBI agents in conversations with a confidential source who "posed as the representative of a wealthy investor." This source allegedly told Buryakov their employer wanted to work with his bank "to develop casinos in Russia."

In these meetings, the complaint said Buryakov made statements indicating "his strong desire to obtain information about subjects far outside the scope of his work as a bank employee, and consistent with his interests as a Russian intelligence agent," and his "willingness to solicit and accept" confidential US government documents.

In one instance, the complaint said the source gave Buryakov what he described as a list of Russian banks the US might impose sanctions on. In the past year, the US and its European allies have imposed sweeping economic sanctions against Russian banks in retaliation for their government's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.

The bank where Buryakov allegedly falsely posed as an employee was not named in the complaint. However, the website of Russia's Vnesheconombank identifies a man named Evgeny Buryakov as a "deputy representative" at the bank's office on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. According to the site, that office is the "representative office of Vnesheconombank in the USA."

The man named Evgeny Buryakov who worked at Vnesheconombank did not immediately respond to messages sent to his email address. Business Insider also called Vnesheconombank's Manhattan office on Monday. A woman who answered the phone would not confirm whether an employee there had been arrested and referred us to the bank's press office in Russia.

"I'm authorized to give you no comment," the woman said. 

Vnesheconombank's office in Russia did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

The US and Russia have experienced a number of spying spats in recent years. In 2013, Russia expelled an American suspected of being a CIA agent trying to recruit intelligence officers in Moscow. In an even more prominent 2010 incident, the US arrested 10 alleged Russian spies who were part of the so-called "Illegals Program." Those arrested included Anna Chapman, the "femme fatale" who was subsequently released as part of a prisoner swap with Russia.

Based on the complaint, it seems the charges against Buryakov may have stemmed from the 2010 incident. It noted the investigation that eventually led to the charges was opened "within a few months" of the guilty pleas entered by the "Illegals." 

The charges also seem to have involved surveillance of an SVR office in New York City. According to the complaint, the SVR's office in the city "is located within an office maintained by the Russian Federation in New York." The complaint included transcripts of conversations between Sporyshev and Podobnyy that allegedly occurred inside this office.

One of these conversations involved the pair allegedly discussing the Illegals Program. In another, Podobnyy was quoted describing Sporyshev as his boss who was under cover at the trade mission. A third conversation detailed in the complaint included the pair complaining about their jobs with Podobnyy lamenting that it wasn't like "movies about James Bond." He was quoted saying he knew he "wouldn't fly helicopters," but thought he would "pretend to be someone else at a minimum."

"I also thought that at least I would go abroad with a different passport," Sporyshev was quoted saying in response. 

Read the full complaint below: 

US v. Evgeny Buryakov, Et Al Complaint

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Tiger Woods replaces tooth that got knocked out

Golf legend Tiger Woods has replaced the tooth that got knocked out by a cameramen when he was in Italy last week to celebrate his girlfriend's Lindsey Vonn breaking World Cup ski record (pictured right). Tiger showed off his complete teeth while chatting with the media during a practice round at the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona on yesterday Jan. 27th. (left)