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- Musicfirst Pushes Congress to End Radio’s Performer Pay Loophole
Radio has collected value from music for decades without paying the performers behind the recordings, and musicFIRST is calling that gap what it is: a loophole that should end now. For publishers, songwriters, artists, and rights holders, the fight over the American Music Fairness Act is about whether terrestrial radio [TheTopNews] Read More.48 mins ago - Larry Jackson Sues to Unmask Anonymous Defamation CampaignMusic executive Larry Jackson is taking legal action to identify the anonymous person or people behind what he calls a coordinated, malicious, and ongoing campaign aimed at him, his independent label Gamma, and the label’s artists. The case matters because it centers on how quickly false claims can be amplified [TheTopNews] Read More.53 mins ago
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- Gavin Newsom Says California Will Seek 100% Tax on Residents Who Get Money From ...
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) pledged to seek a 100% tax on any money Californians receive from President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund. This month, the Department of Justice created the fund in exchange for Trump dropping his lawsuit against the IRS. In January, the president sued his own administration for $10 billion in damages stemming from a leak of his tax returns that occurred during his first term. His sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who run the Trump Organization, also sued. Based on the leaks, the Times reported in 2020 that the billionaire president paid just $750 in income tax in 2016 and in 2017. The unprecedented $1.776 billion fund will make payouts to those who demonstrate to a DOJ commission that they were victims of weaponization. Critics have noted that any number of people who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot could qualify. Upon taking office a second time in January 2025, Trump pardoned virtually every Jan. 6 defendant. Newsom slammed the scheme on Wednesday and said any Californians who receive payments from the fund should be taxed on those gains at a rate of 100%. “Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we wanna tax 100% of those proceeds,” he said. “And that’s an action the state of California can take. It’s an action we look forward to taking. ” In a social media post containing the governor’s remarks, Newsom called the pool of money a “slush fund.” Democratic lawmakers in New York and New Jersey have already started drafting legislation that would tax payouts from the fund at 100%.The post Gavin Newsom Says California Will Seek 100% Tax on Residents Who Get Money From Trump’s ‘Slush Fund’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Abby Phillip Reports Trump Has Threatened 1 Out of Every 13 Countries In the Wor...
CNN host Abby Phillip said that President Donald Trump had threatened one out of every thirteen countries in the world on Wednesday after his comment about Oman. Trump made his latest threat at a Wednesday cabinet meeting when asked about a New York Times report that claimed Iranian officials have engaged in discussions with neighboring country and U.S. ally Oman. The talks reportedly center on the possibility that the two could partner on Iran’s ongoing efforts to charge fees to all vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz. “Nobody’s gonna control it,” Trump said of the strait. “We’re gonna watch over it. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s gonna control it. That’s part of the negotiation that we have. They would like to control it. Nobody’s gonna control it. It’s international waters. And Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow ’em up. They understand that. They’ll be fine.” During a conversation about the threat on Wednesday’s edition of NewsNight, Phillip noted a new CNN analysis that the president had now threatened a massive number of countries. “I’m not really sure what that is all about, but I guess it’s worth noting that Trump has now threatened one in thirteen nations on this planet,” she said. “The fifteenth time he’s threatened a country since, I guess, he became president the second time around. I mean, is the answer to, I guess, if it’s a nail and you’ve got a hammer, the only thing that you can do is just use the hammer?” The analysis clarifies that some of those threats were made in both terms, and some were directed at specific parties rather than governments. It outlines the seven countries Trump has launched strikes against– Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen– and the other threatened nations. These are Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark via Greenland, Mexico, Panama, and Oman. The president’s threats against Mexico and North Korea were made in his first term in office. Watch above via CNN.The post Abby Phillip Reports Trump Has Threatened 1 Out of Every 13 Countries In the World first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
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