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- JUST IN: Top Health Official Reportedly Heading For the Exit After Irking Trump
(Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images) Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is planning to resign on Tuesday, according to a report from The Washington Post. His exit comes shortly after he was “upbraided” by President Donald Trump for not moving swiftly enough to approve flavored vapes and nicotine products. Trump went off on the commissioner in a meeting earlier this month after a flurry of phone calls with advisers, where Trump asked about the importance of flavored vapes with young MAGA voters. The president vowed to “save” vaping during his 2024 campaign. “Advisers told the president that Makary has blocked Trump’s vaping agenda and described the commissioner as a problem for the administration,” the Wall Street Journal reported last week. “Makary earlier bucked White House preferences by refusing to OK menthol, mango and blueberry vape flavors from Los Angeles manufacturer Glas.” That same report said Makary was on “thin ice” with the Trump administration. Makary is set to join a growing list of officials who have left the administration this year, including recently-fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. This is a breaking news story and will be updated…The post JUST IN: Top Health Official Reportedly Heading For the Exit After Irking Trump first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.21 mins ago - ‘Republicans Ought to Do a Lot of Soul Searching’: Mike Pence Says His New B...
Former Vice President Mike Pence revealed that he wrote his forthcoming book, What Conservatives Believe, in an effort to persuade Republicans not to continue down the path his old boss, President Donald Trump, has led them. Pence made the comments during an appearance on Going Big! with Kevin Gentry, where he said: I wrote the book largely because I wanted people to know that while the the great contest of ideas in America has been between right and left for generations now, that increasingly while that battle between the right and the Republican Party, and the progressive left — increasingly more radical progressive left –in the Democratic Party goes on, that there’s a new fault line within Republican ranks. That I think Republicans face a new time of choosing, whether we’re going to stay on the path of the traditional conservative principles that have always defined our party for the last half century, or whether we are going to follow the siren song of populism unmoored to conservative principles. And there are loud voices in and out of government, some of which have been able to influence the new Trump administration, in ways that are taking our party and our movement far afield from those traditional conservative underpinnings and, you know, where we’ve always been the party of a strong defense and we see America as leader of the free world, the arsenal of democracy, there are a rising chorus of isolationist voices in the Republican Party — I write about that in my book. Where we have always been a party committed to low taxes, including low tariffs and free trade, now, as we witnessed the president impose unilateral tariffs on friend and foe alike until the Supreme Court stepped in and used the constitution to turn him back. And most poignantly to me is while we’ve been a pro-life party and the party of the sanctity of life throughout most of my adult lifetime, and now we have voices from the administration on down that are marginalizing the right to life in our party, suggesting it’s only a state issue. So I felt inspired to simply put together a book that described first and foremost what those principles are. And secondly, to juxtapose them against those crosscurrents on the left and on the populist right. And I’m looking forward to traveling the country and engaging in a great debate.… [TheTopNews] Read More.24 mins ago - Trump Trashes New York Times In Radio Interview, Claims Paper Reports Iran Is Fi...
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) President Donald Trump bashed The New York Times on Tuesday morning, claiming that the paper is lying to its readers and leading them to believe Iran is fighting “fantastically” against the U.S. Trump trashed his hometown paper in an interview with Sid Rosenberg on ABC 770 AM. The president rattled off examples of Iran’s military being decimated, including saying all 159 of its ships at the start of the war are now “lying at the bottom of the sea.” They have “no radar, no nothing,” Trump added. But he said the average Times reader is oblivious to how obliterated Iran is. “They are militarily defeated. And they probably don’t know it yet,” Trump said about Iran. “If you read The New York Times, you think that Iran is doing well. Think of it — they have no air force, they have no navy, they have no leaders — and if you read The New York Times, you’re saying ‘Oh, they’re doing fantastically.’ Same thing with the [2024] election.” Rosenberg was heard cracking up in the background as Trump went off on the paper. Trump continued, “The sad part is, the credibility of The Times, it should be great. I’d like it to be great. But the credibility has gone down so low.” His remarks came just a few hours after the president slammed The Times in a late-night social media rant. Trump was upset with a NYT report on the cost of revamping the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which had ballooned to $13.1 million, far more than he initially floated. Trump also criticized the paper recently over a report his administration “secretly gave” a “no-bid” deal to the company building his new White House ballroom. The president said The Times was trying to make him “look bad.” As for Iran, Trump told Rosenberg he is “100 percent” confident the country will ultimately hand over its nuclear dust to the USA. He also patted himself on the back for his new nickname for the Democratic Party; Trump now calls them the “Dumocrats.” “It’s such a simple [move], you just change the ‘E’ to a ‘U’ and get rid of the ‘B’ and you have ‘Dumocrat,'” Trump explained. “I have had more calls on that — I’ve been good at names over the years… some like ‘Pocahontus,’ like ‘fake news’ is my term.” That also got a chuckle out of… [TheTopNews] Read More.41 mins ago - iHeartMedia Plans More Cost-Cutting
iHeartMedia plans to cut more costs in 2026 than originally projected, with savings made possible through technology and AI. The company updated its projection while releasing financial results for the first three months of this year. Overall revenue grew by 9.6% in the first quarter compared to the same period a year prior. Its net revenue in Q1 was $884 million, led by its Digital Audio Group, up 18%. Broadcast revenue in the quarter for the largest U.S. radio group was up 4% to $493 million. It said another phase of “cost reduction work and the new savings” will generate $50 million of annual savings, which it will begin realizing in the second half of the year. This is in addition to $100 million in savings it had previously projected for 2026, savings made possible by technology and AI, of which about $28 million was to come from “head count” reductions. Chairman/CEO Bob Pittman led off Monday’s call with financial analysts highlighting the additional reductions. “As you know, we continually reevaluate our organizational structure, flatten layers of management and push the adoption of new technologies and tools, including AI, to improve our operating efficiency, and this latest announcement is further evidence of that commitment,” Pittman said. iHeart posted a net loss in the quarter of $96 million, down from $281 million the year prior. Its consolidated operating income was $1.5 million compared to operating loss of $25.4 million in the first quarter of 2025, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. At quarter end, its debt was approximately $5 billion. iHeart’s interest cost for 2026 is estimated at $440 million. iHeart leadership did not address the company’s preliminary merger talks with SiriusXM, first reported in April by Bloomberg. Such a merger would shake up the audio marketplace. In specific segments of its business, Digital Audio Group revenue for the quarter was $327 million. iHeart said podcast continues, with revenue up 26.9% in the quarter from a year earlier to $147 million. Broadcast revenue from its 870 stations was up 6.1% to $361 million in Q1. However, Premiere Network saw its revenue drop by 2.2%. According to the SEC filing, adjusted EBITDA for the Multiplatform Group, of which radio is part, was $47 million compared to $70 million in the prior year. Leadership was confident it can return the radio segment to growth. Pittman said programmatic advertising is… [TheTopNews] Read More.55 mins ago - Democrat Who Resigned From Congress Insists She’s ‘Strongest Candidate in th...
Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images Former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) is unapologetically confident about her chances for re-election, despite resigning amid scandal less than a month ago, having a nearly depleted campaign account, and a Democratic heavyweight considering jumping into the district. Last month, the House Ethics Committee found that Cherfilus-McCormick was guilty of 25 out of 27 counts of embezzling funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that were intended for Covid-19 vaccination programs. She had been accused of improperly funneling $5 million through a health care company she and her brother, Edwin Cherfilus, ran, using the money for her personal use and to bankroll her congressional campaign. The siblings were indicted by the Department of Justice in November for their scheme. Cherfilus-McCormick was charged with fifteen charges including theft, money laundering, illegal campaign contributions, and filing a false tax return. She faces up to 53 years in prison, according to a DOJ press release. Cherfilus-McCormick has denied wrongdoing, pleading not guilty to the federal charges against her and maintaining that the House Ethics Committee’s hearing was “not a fair process” and a “witch hunt.” Nonetheless, she announced in April that she was resigning from Congress, just hours before the House had scheduled an expulsion vote that was widely expected to succeed. Four days before her resignation, Cherfilus-McCormick filed her re-election paperwork with the Florida Division of Elections, and was defiantly optimistic about her chances when interviewed by the South Florida Sun Sentinel at a gathering of Broward County Democratic clubs on Monday. Florida’s 20th congressional district was reconfigured along with the rest of the state by a redistricting bill pushed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and passed by the GOP majority legislature during a special session in late April. Longtime Florida Democratic power player Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), a former Democratic National Committee chair who spent years representing Broward County in the Florida House and then Senate, saw her 25th congressional district chopped up by the redistricting and has openly pondered switching to the 20th. Wasserman Schultz told the Sun Sentinel she was definitely running for re-election — “There is no way that I would back down from this fight” — but was still weighing her options about which district she should choose. “I really need to have a lot more of those conversations,” she said. “I’m not going to be careless or presumptuous regarding this… [TheTopNews] Read More.57 mins ago - E2TS: Using Technology to Enable Creators
Ed Bukont programs new Axia gear at Salem Media Group’s facility in Columbus, Ohio.Credit: Scott Spillers, Salem Media Group E2 Technical Services LLC is an integration services and support company founded by Edwin Bukont. He describes it as a small firm offering a range of competencies for addressing the challenges of continued change in broadcasting and related industries. “Our strengths are project management, systems design and integration, testing, AoIP, custom solutions and remote support,” he said. E2 also has experience in video and visual radio systems, which are of increasing use in radio. “We often work with a client’s existing technical resources. This may not even be an engineer, rather the OM, IT and AV specialties, trades, other integrators, manufacturers and vendors.” Principle certifications include NetGear, QSC/Q-SYS, Dante, Avixa CTS/ANP, SBE and Axia/Livewire. E2 has offered services and support via remote access for more than a decade. “To address travel-related concerns, we may look at a client’s systems via remote access tools and then generate certain deliverables including documentation and pre-engineering of equipment, making time on site more plug and play that design on-the-fly at customer’s expense.” Added shipping costs are offset by savings in travel. E2 calls this “packaging the integration.” It also has a small AoIP sandbox test lab. “We provide training for what we build and training in technologies, sometimes for specific product lines. Our service as an integrator has value in knowing what has to happen between technologies,” he said. “Brand loyalty has been eclipsed by network compatibility, and no one vendor makes everything necessary to bring a project in on-time, on-scope, on-budget.” Bukont said E2 tries to engineer beyond the wiring and tech. “As Telos founder Steve Church once put it, we want to be known not as engineers but as artists in the application of science.” [Related: “Monitoring and Control Go Far Beyond the Transmitter”] The post E2TS: Using Technology to Enable Creators appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.57 mins ago
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