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More like ... the Circuit Service! First Lady Melania Trump just walked into a White House Tech Summit with what may be the future most powerful person on Earth.

An A.I.-powered robot named Figure 03 accompanied Melania at an event focused on empowering children through educational technology Wednesday.

Watch the video, it's wild ... set to the "Flight to Neverland" theme music from "Hook," the First Lady awkwardly kept pace with her creepy wireless friend like a scene straight out of "I, Robot." The whole thing is very weird.

Officials at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety were packing up and moving to a new headquarters ... when they found several items connected to the state's extremist past stashed in a closet.

Ku Klux Klan artifacts -- including a robe, meeting notes, ledgers, propaganda materials and even a list of members who had or hadn't paid their dues -- were discovered in a suitcase in the building.

These date back to the 1960s, when membership in the Klan exploded in response to the Civil Rights movement. The items were donated to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for preservation. They include ...

TSA officials reportedly informed ICE agents that a woman and her 9-year-old daughter were under a detention order before they were arrested at San Francisco International Airport this week.

As we reported ... the mother -- identified as 41-year-old Angelina Lopez-Jimenez -- was held down and handcuffed by federal officers at SFO Sunday night, who immediately began the process of deporting Angelina and her daughter, Wendy Godinez-Lopez, to Guatemala.

According to The New York Times, TSA flagged Angelina and Wendy 2 days earlier, tipping off ICE agents on Friday about their planned trip from San Francisco to Miami.

NYT reports, Angelina had no criminal history, despite entering the country illegally ... and as we reported, the airport was quick to explain what went down.

President Donald Trump is clearly impressed with his newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin ... not just when it comes to his work -- but by his wife, too.

Mullin's swearing-in ceremony took place at the White House on Tuesday ... where Trump gave a nod to his family, saying he wouldn’t be there without them.

But then, Trump zeroed in on Mullin's wife, Christie ... gesturing toward her and their kids, saying, "And that goes especially for mom, who looks like she's about 22 years old. I see these kids, but she looks very young.”

The woman charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at Rihanna's home is in danger of losing her license to practice speech-language pathology.

According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, prosecutors in California say Ivanna Lisette Ortiz is licensed to practice speech-language pathology in the state ... and a member of the board that oversees licensing in her field wants her barred from practicing if she's released from law enforcement custody.

The board member says Ortiz got her license way back in April 2016 and it's not set to expire until June 2027.

Quadruple amputee and professional cornhole player Dayton Webber has got it pretty good behind bars for someone facing murder charges ... the dude's kicking back watching movies and TV and getting recreation time, plus three square meals a day, at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail in Virginia, TMZ has learned.

Webber's cushy lifestyle at the detention facility comes as he awaits extradition back to Charles County, Maryland, to be charged in this weekend's shooting death of Bradrick Michael Wells in La Plata, MD.

Albemarle-Charlottesville Superintendent Martin Kumer tells TMZ ... 27-year-old Webber is being well taken care of at the jail, which is totally equipped to take care of his medical needs.

OpenAI is shuttering popular video-creation app Sora the company said in a statement Tuesday.

The company announced on X ... "We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing."

The platform utilized generative A.I. to turn user-provided text prompts into realistic-looking videos ... of pretty much anything.

Last year, Sora was the focal point of a "South Park" episode -- where the characters were using the app to make a bunch of deepfake revenge videos of each other.

And in December, OpenAI made a 3-year deal with Disney ... allowing Sora users to create videos from more than 200 characters across their IP -- including Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and, of course, Disney. Disney+ was even adding some of these videos to its streaming service.

In the wake of the news, the media conglomerate pulled the plug on the OpenAI agreement. A Disney rep told Variety in a statement they "respect" the move to axe Sora and "appreciate the constructive collaboration."

Disney said ... "We will continue to engage with A.I. platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators."

Dayton James Webber -- the professional cornhole player accused of murder, who happens to be a quadruple amputee -- climbed into a tree with a rifle strapped to his back in a newly resurfaced clip.

More videos from Webber's YouTube account have begun circulating in the aftermath of his arrest ... with one showing him climbing a ladder toward what looks like an elevated hunting blind.

Check out the clip ... Webber swiftly climbs up to the structure while wearing camouflage and an orange vest -- with his rifle attached to his back. He hooks his elbows around the steps ... yanking himself up one at a time.

Dayton James Webber -- the professional cornhole player who happens to be a quadruple amputee now accused of murder -- showed people on social media how he can load and fire a handgun in a resurfaced clip.

The video posted to Webber's YouTube -- which is making the rounds online after Webber was arrested for murder -- features Webber out in a field ... sitting on grass littered with shotgun shells and other casings.

Watch the video ... Webber forces the magazine into the weapon with one arm while balancing it on his leg -- before picking it up and holding it between the end of his left arm and the bicep of his right.

A professional cornhole player who happens to be a quadruple amputee is facing murder charges over the shooting death of a man in Maryland ... TMZ Sports has learned.

According to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, Dayton James Webber was booked Sunday after witnesses said he shot and killed a passenger in his car earlier the same day.

The sheriff's office says the witnesses were in the back seat when Webber -- who they say was driving -- got into an argument with the front seat passenger. Witnesses told police that’s when the 27-year-old pulled a gun and fatally shot the passenger. Cops say they all knew each other.

According to law enforcement, the witnesses said Webber pulled the car over and asked them to help pull the body out of the car ... but they told authorities they said no, and got out of the car … while Webber drove off with the alleged victim's body still in the car.

Later, cops say they got a call about a body in a yard … and identified the man as Bradrick Michael Wells, also 27, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers say they found Webber’s car in Charlottesville, Virginia before tracking him down at a nearby hospital … where they say he was trying to get treated for “a medical issue.”

He was booked in Virginia by the Albemarle County Police Department and subsequently charged as a fugitive from justice. According to officers, he’s set to be extradited back to Maryland, where authorities say he will be charged with first-degree and second-degree murder, and other charges.

Back in 2023 … Webber wrote an essay for "Today" about playing cornhole professionally with the American Cornhole League as a quadriplegic.

Hours before ICE officers were officially deployed at airports across the U.S. to assist TSA, bystanders recorded federal agents manhandling a mother travelling with her daughter and putting the woman in handcuffs at San Francisco International Airport Sunday night.

Watch the video ... while two men hold the woman down, a female bystander who's filming asks the men for a badge number, as neither man appears to be in uniform. The men forcibly detain the struggling woman as other cops stand by.

The text accompanying a social post featuring the video reads, "According to the eyewitnesses who posted this video, the woman was with her daughter who is reportedly a U.S. citizen. The mother could not prove her citizenship and was taken into custody."

A horrible collision between an airplane and a fire truck on the runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport claimed the lives of 2 pilots overnight ... and there's now video being shared of the incident.

You can see the plane barrel right into the vehicle and burst into flames on Sunday night in the video that's making the rounds on X.

Dozens of passengers were injured. Officials say the Air Canada Express regional jet landing in Queens early Monday collided with a Port Authority fire truck. The plane left Montreal, Canada Sunday night.

10:22 AM PT --  There's now video being shared of the incident.

A collision between a plane and a fire truck on the runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport overnight killed two pilots and injured dozens of people, according to authorities.

Officials say the Air Canada Express regional jet collided with a Port Authority fire truck while landing in Queens early Monday after departing from Montreal, Canada on Sunday night.

ATC.com audio captured the moments leading up to the tragedy, with the fire truck initially receiving permission to cross the runway. But then an air traffic controller abruptly says, “Stop, Truck 1, stop!” Seconds later, a controller adds, “Jazz 646, I see you collided with a vehicle.”

As delays mount at airports across the country, President Trump has sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to aid Transportation Security Administration officers in keeping the long lines moving amid the partial government shutdown.

Check out the pics ... officers touched down at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, above, as weary travelers shuffled through airport security.

And more agents looked over the shoulders of TSA officers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, as lines were extending out the door.

An unsettling situation went down this morning at Newark Liberty International Airport … with air traffic controllers evacuated from the tower after reports of smoke, triggering a ground stop.

The FAA said the tower was evacuated due to a burning smell coming from an elevator ... and said there was no fire. As a result, arrivals and departures are temporarily paused.

The incident is especially unnerving given what went down at LaGuardia Airport just hours earlier ... when a collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck on the runway killed two pilots and injured dozens of people. As a result, the airport will be closed until 2 PM ET Monday at the earliest.

Savannah Guthrie is not giving up hope in the search to track down her mom, Nancy. The journalist posted an uplifting message Sunday as the investigation enters its 7th week.

In the post, Savannah shared an image of Christ's ascension along with the text, "I believe, I believe."

This comes after Savannah and her siblings, Annie and Camron Guthrie, along with their respective spouses, released a statement Saturday night in response to KVOA's special "Bring Her Home: The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie."