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- ‘SIT DOWN!’ Australian Politician Barks at His Dog in Bizarre Live TV Moment
Australian Member of Parliament Barnaby Joyce was right about to answer a serious question during a live TV interview on Monday when he took a quick detour to bark at his dog. “SIT DOWN!” Joyce screamed. The prime minister turned to his left and looked down at the pooch, which was off-camera, before turning back to the camera. “Sorry, it’s a dog,” Joyce said. He then let out a little giggle. The Guardian Australia political reporter Josh Butler posted Joyce’s yelp on X, which you can see below: Barnaby Joyce pausing mid-interview on ABC 7.30 to bellow SIT DOWN at his dog (off camera) is going to be hard to beat for TV blooper of the year pic.twitter.com/gJYEF6P3g2 — Josh Butler (@JoshButler) July 20, 2026 The bizarre moment happened during an interview on ABC 7.30, a nightly current affairs program. Anchor Sarah Ferguson had asked Joyce if he was “comfortable” with his political pal Pauline Hanson meeting with right-wing British activist Tommy Robinson, who has argued for banning all Muslim immigration to the U.K. Hanson is the founder of the One Nation party, which Joyce defected to last year. “It seems to me Barnaby Joyce, it seems to me your decision to defect to One Nation is dragging you further into a place of intolerance and racial discrimination,” Ferguson said. “You’re defending your leader, but are you comfortable with where she is taking you?” “I think it’s incredibly important we see the Australian people also — also — have changed their view,” he said after he shouted at his dog. “We’ve got about 30% of people in the last poll who have clearly said they want a change in direction in where Australia goes. And what my role is, is to make sure we get a proper process that gives the Australian people that choice.” Ferguson then asked if he had set a “limit” on how far he was willing to go to support Hanson. Joyce scoffed at the question. As for canines, Butler pointed out Joyce got into a public battle with Johnny Depp in 2015 over the actor’s pups. Joyce ripped Depp for not declaring his two dogs with customs or following Australia’s dog quarantine rules. “Mr. Depp has to either take his dogs back to California or we’re going to have to euthanize them,” Joyce said. Depp flew the dogs back just before the 50-hour… [TheTopNews] Read More.21 mins ago - Trump Promises Iran Will Pay ‘Many Times Over’ For Every American Soldier Ki...
Saul Loeb/AP photo President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to the government of Iran via Truth Social Monday. “Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over!” the president wrote on his social media platform. “This directive has been passed on to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Daniel Caine, and every Leader in the Military,” he added before signing off, “President DONALD J. TRUMP.” The president’s message was posted after the Pentagon released the names of two U.S. servicemembers who were killed in Jordan after Iran fired missiles at an American military base in the country. First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, was killed Saturday, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, was killed Friday. Per The New York Times, Gonzales was assigned to the 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany, and Feehan to the 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The identity of a third servicemember who was killed in northern Iraq Saturday has not been released. A fourth servicemember is still missing. The Times also reported that a U.S. official who spoke with the newspaper on the condition of anonymity “said that remains at scene were believed to be those of the missing soldier.” Four other servicemembers who were wounded in the attacks were taken to hospitals in Jordan and have since been discharged. The president also took to Truth Social to defend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday. He wrote, “Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America. He is fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which recently killed 52,000 innocent protestors, and has spent the last 47 years killing American Soldiers, and others. The only ones that should be arrested are the people that led Iran into this unprecedented SPIRAL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, something that should have been dealt with years ago, by previous Presidents!”The post Trump Promises Iran Will Pay ‘Many Times Over’ For Every American Soldier Killed first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.23 mins ago - Podcast consumers: Leaning in and leaning back (Nielsen)
In the podcast industry’s ongoing effort to attract advertiser attention and buy-in, much of the effort is focussed on basic popularity metrics of the category. In a newly released survey study by Nielsen, the intent is to profile the listeners… Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.50 mins ago - Suspect Who Ignited Incendiary Device at NYC Federal Building ID’d, Had ‘Ant...A suspect accused of tossing an “incendiary device” at a New York City federal building on Monday has been identified as a 43-year-old who reportedly had “anti-ICE stuff on him.” The man has been identified as 43-year-old Andrew Arrabaca. Authorities say he’s the man who threw an incendiary device at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, a building that houses both FBI and ICE offices. In a social media post, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote, “This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza in New York. The individual is in custody and two minor injuries reported thus far. FBI JTTF is investigating the incident.” Citing law enforcement sources, Fox Digital reported that Arrabaca had “anti-ICE stuff on him” at the time of his arrest. In addition, the suspect had some kind of a cart with him that was emblazoned with the words, “ICE off our streets.” In response, border czar Tom Homan said “good luck with that” on Fox News, and vowed to boost ICE’s presence in the Big Apple. “ICE isn’t leaving the streets at all,” Homan told America’s Newsroom host Sandra Smith. “Matter of fact, we are going to increase our presence in New York.” The New York Post reported that the man was armed, and threatening people walking by on the street after setting off fireworks at the building. Watch above via Fox News.The post Suspect Who Ignited Incendiary Device at NYC Federal Building ID’d, Had ‘Anti-ICE Stuff on Him’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.55 mins ago
- JUST IN: Judge Pauses Paramount Mega Merger After Democratic AGs Sue
screenshot A federal judge has paused the blockbuster $110B media deal between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery after 12 state attorneys general brought an antitrust lawsuit last week. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín found that the attorneys general “raised serious questions about the anticompetitive nature of the deal,” according to reporting in The Washington Post. The judge granted the states’ request for a temporary restraining order that will pause the merger for 14 days. “If the merger closes, it would combine the Paramount and Warner Bros. studios, the TV giants CNN and CBS, and streaming services HBO Max and Paramount+,” the report said, adding, “The deal would also put David Ellison — son of billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison, an ally of President Donald Trump — in charge of one of the most powerful companies in American media.” Shortly after the suit was filed by California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta on behalf of the 12-state coalition, CNN’s Brian Stelter reported: Now, Paramount has been bracing for this potential lawsuit. So it’s been pointing out in recent statements that regulators in other markets all around the world have already blessed this deal…Paramount said, quote, “This transaction will create a stronger challenger to dominant global streaming and technology platforms. It will expand consumer choice, it will increase investment in premium content and theatrical distribution and create more opportunities for creators and workers.” So, you can tell Paramount is going to contest this lawsuit vigorously. It has already retained a Supreme Court litigator in case it gets to that point. Paramount says it needs to be able to get bigger to compete with big tech companies. But now…a judge will have to weigh in and start to assess the situation. Bonta later released a statement, saying this merger would “Lead to higher prices, lower quality and less content for film and TV, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately audiences on every sofa and movie theater seat in the U.S.” This is a breaking story and has been updated.The post JUST IN: Judge Pauses Paramount Mega Merger After Democratic AGs Sue first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Trump Admin Seeks Phone Records Of NYT Journalists — And Their Relatives
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The Trump administration is going after the phone records of several New York Times journalists — and even their relatives — in an attempt to root out the confidential sources who provided intel on security deficiencies with the Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The Times reported earlier this month “that the new jet, which he flew to Turkey, lacks the same defensive countermeasures as the older model, including antimissile capabilities.” Just 24-hours after the report was published, the Justice Department hand-delivered subpoenas compelling the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury. Times reporter Michael M. Grynbaum wrote Monday, “The government’s actions amount to an extraordinarily aggressive and unorthodox attempt by the Trump administration to unearth the confidential sources of independent journalists whose reporting had angered the president.” Grynbaum added, “The additional subpoenas — which also sought information about calls and messages on the phones of two of the reporters’ spouses — were described in a motion filed on Saturday by lawyers for The Times, which is seeking to quash the requests. The motion was unsealed on Monday morning by Judge Arun Subramanian of U.S. District Court in Manhattan.” The president seemed to confirm the Times’s reporting at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday, when he said the jet was being taken out of service for additional work. After a reporter asked why Trump was flying on an aircraft that lacked antimissile defense systems usually employed to defend the president, he responded, “It has a lot of capability, but as I understand it, in about a month or so, they’re going to send it to have it be maxed out.” Times reporter Maggie Haberman wrote in a separate piece Monday, “It was not clear what specific upgrades Mr. Trump was referring to, or whether the time frame he gave of a month until it is ready was realistic. Nonetheless, it appeared to be an admission from the president that the plane’s security measures are not as extensive as the models that have been designed to be built from the ground up to serve as Air Force One.”The post Trump Admin Seeks Phone Records Of NYT Journalists — And Their Relatives first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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