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- FCC Takes Steps Against Three Alleged NYC-Area Pirates
The FCC has affirmed a $20,000 fine against an alleged radio pirate and has proposed fines against two others. All three are in the greater New York City area. First, it affirmed a penalty against Jean Boncoeur for operating a station called “Radio Gold Stars” on 90.5 MHz in Spring Valley, N.Y. The commission had issued a notice of apparent liability in January, and it says Boncoeur never filed a response. His fine is supposed to be paid within 30 days. As with all such cases, if it’s not paid, the FCC may refer it to the Justice Department. [Related: “FCC Plans to Fine Four for Pirate Activity Around New York City”] Separately, the commission is proposing a $20,000 fine against the alleged operators of a station called “TOG Radio 105.3 FM” in the Bronx. They are Neville Morgan, Lilleth Morgan and The Sweet Hour of Prayer Inc. The Enforcement Bureau used direction-finding to trace that signal to a multi-family residential building. The station shares a website with Sweet Hour of Prayer, which identifies Neville and Lilleth Morgan as the station owners and operators and contains videos of broadcasts that identify them as its hosts. The website described TOG as “a new community radio station started in March of 2019, and it’s quite a successful radio station in the community.” It also states, “We are celebrating almost 18 years of our Radio Prayer Ministry. We have been on several radio stations over the almost 18 years, such as 91.7 FM Kingdom Connection and 97.3 FM.” Last, the FCC issued a notice of apparent liability for $25,000 against Albercio Mercado for operating “Manzana FM” on 94.9 MHz in the Bronx. That case dates to the summer of 2024, when agents said it responded to “consumer complaints” and traced a signal to a building on Kingsbridge Ave. The building superintendent told them an individual had asked for permission to install the antenna and equipment. Later that day, the agents spoke by phone with Mercado; they said he admitted being the operator of “Manzana FM,” and they told him to stop. But in June 2025, the FCC said it found the station at a new address on West 193rd Street. The building superintendent there said Mercado had paid him to allow installation. And in January of this year agents again traced the signal to the 193rd Street site. They again spoke with him… [TheTopNews] Read More.21 mins ago - Trump Erupts on ‘Magot’ Haberman in Wild Late-Night Post: ‘She Continues t...
President Donald Trump trashed New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman — one of the co-authors of a blockbuster new book about his second term in office. In a Truth Social post early Sunday just after midnight, the president sounded off about the new book — Regime Change — which sold more than 150,000 copies on its first day. “Based on a very quick and boring briefing concerning the Magot Hagerman book about me, it is mostly made up, Fake News, largely fiction, as have been most of the things she has written about me for so many years,” Trump wrote. “She is a third rate writer and intellect, who has made a first rate income because of your favorite President, ME. She was wrong about me on the Elections, although she knew I was going to win, BIG! She was wrong about me on the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, and she was wrong about me on just about everything else. But she continues to spew out garbage, and people continue to buy it.” Trump also denied that Haberman and co-author Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings from inside the Situation Room — which reportedly has been a concern of White House aides. “And they don’t have the audio tapes that they imply they have,” Trump wrote. “Just another Margot Con Job! And Iran will never have a Nuclear Weapon!!” Haberman and Swan, across numerous interviews promoting their book, have not commented on whether or not they have Situation Room tapes — which, if they did, would be a stunning leak from a highly-secured space. But Swan told MS Now on Monday, “it is notable that there haven’t been denials of very specific scenes inside the Situation Room, which include extensive dialogue.” There have been dozens of splashy revelations from the book, which has been the talk of Washington for the past week. ——The post Trump Erupts on ‘Magot’ Haberman in Wild Late-Night Post: ‘She Continues to Spew Out Garbage’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Fox News Delivers On Air Apology Over Kevin O’Leary’s Unsubstantiated Claims...
Fox News and Fox Business delivered a rare on-air apology across numerous shows over unsubstantiated claims made by Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary linking opponents of his Utah data center project to China. In a roughly 45-second statement at the conclusion of the Big Weekend Show Saturday, host Johnny Joey Jones addressed claims made by O’Leary that Alliance for a Better Utah and Elevate Strategies — two groups which have opposed O’Leary’s Stratos Project data center development — were funded by the Chinese Communist Party. “Kevin O’Leary appeared as a guest on the show on May 24 and discussed the ongoing controversy surrounding his planned data center project in Utah,” Jones said. “He made certain claims relating to the opponents of his project. Mr. O’Leary has now corrected the record and explained he has ‘no evidence’ that the Alliance for a Better Utah, Josh Kantor or Taylor Knuth are funded by China or the Chinese communist party. Fox News Media is likewise aware of no evidence that they are funded by, or acting in the direction of, or in coordination with Chinese interests in opposing Mr. O’Leary’s project. Fox News Media also apologizes for the error.” The apology has aired across four shows on Fox News and Fox Business over the past four days. In addition to the Big Weekend Show, it was also aired on the Kayleigh McEnany-hosted Saturday in America — as well as the Maria Bartiromo-helmed Mornings with Maria and the Big Money Show on Fox Business. O’Leary himself walked back the claims on social media — though he stopped short of an apology. “Recently I appeared on various news programs and would like to clarify that I have no evidence that Alliance for a Better Utah, Elevate Strategies, Gabrielle Finlayson, Taylor Knuth or Josh Kanter are funded by China or the Chinese Communist Party,” O’Leary wrote. In the original comments, O’Leary made clear he believes the opposition to his project is coming directly from China. “Who would want us to stop building our electrical grid?” O’Leary said on the May 11 edition of Mornings with Maria. “Who would want to stop us from having compute capacity to develop AI? Which adversary would want that? There’s only one. It’s China.” Watch above, via Fox News. The post Fox News Delivers On Air Apology Over Kevin O’Leary’s Unsubstantiated Claims Linking… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CNN Host Reminds Republican Lawmaker The Housing Bill Trump Refused To Sign Has ...CNN’s Omar Jimenez pressed Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) Saturday over why he was prioritizing President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act over the bipartisan housing bill that still awaits Trump’s signature. Trump is demanding that Senate Republicans pass the voter I.D. bill before he’ll sign any other legislation, including the housing bill. He reportedly told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) last week that “nobody gives a f*ck about housing.” “You came out very strongly this week, calling out the Senate over the SAVE America Act, and you were one of 25 Republicans who signed a letter vowing to vote no on any Senate bills until this legislation is passed,” Jimenez began on CNN Newsroom. “You also voted no on the bipartisan housing bill as part of that. And I just wonder, is the SAVE Act worth putting aside something designed to directly help the American people when so many people are hurting right now?” “If you look at the polling, the overwhelming majority of the American people, 80% — whether they are an independent voter, a Democrat, or a Republican voter — they want voter I.D. in federal elections. I mean, this is just common sense,” Donalds said, before recounting all the places where it’s required to present photo I.D. “And the only people who don’t want to see it happen are congressional Democrats, because congressional Democrats do not want to make sure that we are protecting the franchise of voting for the American people,” Donalds added. “Quite frankly, I think that’s sick.” Jimenez argued, “But, congressman…it’s not just Democrats here on the housing side of things, for example. This was a bipartisan effort…The problem that that’s sort of working to solve or working to make better in your eyes — we don’t have evidence of widespread voter fraud proven through the courts. We have evidence that people are struggling to buy homes in this country and are struggling to make ends meet.” “I have to give credit to Gov. [Ron] DeSantis (R) in the Florida legislature, because Florida has passed its version of the SAVE America Act, making sure that if somebody goes to register to vote in our elections, they have to demonstrate proof that they are an American citizen before they even register,” Donalds said, adding, “And we have Democrat senators who don’t want to protect it because they want an ambivalent, wide-open system where you’re… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago
- Trump Warns USA Is Getting ‘Forced’ to Wipe Out Iran, Once and For AllPresident Donald Trump said the United States carried out a counter-attack against Iran on Saturday for violating the ceasefire deal yet “AGAIN!” — which the president said threatened to wreck the ongoing negotiations to end the war. Trump said the U.S. could soon be “forced” to finish off Iran, if more violations occur. The president said America will have no choice, because Iran is showing it cannot be “reasonable” and “will never learn.” Trump posted on Truth Social: United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn! There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist! President DJT His post came shortly after U.S. Central Command reported the U.S. military hit multiple Iranian targets “in direct response to continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping.” “Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but elected not to when its forces launched a one-way attack drone,” the report said. As Mediaite’s Jennifer Bowers Bahney wrote earlier: The drone attack appeared to target the U.S. Navy’s regional headquarters and the 5th Fleet, which are based in Bahrain, Fox News’s Jennifer Griffin reported that the strikes were in retaliation for Iran hitting a ship in the Strait of Hormuz earlier Saturday. “It was about 4:30 a.m. when the ship was hit near Strait of Hormuz. That’s the second ship in two days,” Griffin said by phone. “This is the second night of bombing that the U.S. Military is carrying out. The targets include air defense systems, drone storage sites, cruise missiles, targeting radars, and minelaying capabilities, as well as surface-to-air missiles — that’s according to a U.S. official.” “I am told this strike is much larger than last night, which lasted for about an hour,” Griffin continued. “Iran, I’m told, had a chance to stop shooting. This official said they didn’t take it, instead they attacked another ship in Strait of Hormuz this morning. That ship was carrying about 200,000 barrels of oil and so, it could’ve been a disaster in Strait of Hormuz — very dangerous situation. These are attack drones, one-way attack drones, that Iran and the IRGC… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago
- ‘When Is It Enough?’ MS NOW Host Presses Dem Lawmaker on Support for Scandal...MS NOW anchor Elise Jordan pressed Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on what it would take for him to finally ditch supporting scandal-riddled Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D). Jordan asked the California liberal about it during an interview on The Weekend: Primetime on Saturday. “You have said that the allegations are upsetting and disturbing, but it’s not enough for you to disavow endorsing him,” Jordan said. “When is it enough?” She continued, “When it comes to a woman who says that she has been a victim of abuse reported by a credible newspaper, what’s the the line with you? I’m just curious, because in the years since the Justice Brett Kavanaugh hearing, the lines seem to have really moved for Democrats.” Well, of course I take sexual abuse and sexual assault very seriously. I mean, I led with Thomas Massie, the entire Epstein Files. And I think if you talk to survivors who were crying in my office, they would say that I have really taken that issue very personally and fought at great risk to my own career for that issue,” Khanna started off by saying. He then finally got to Platner, saying he believed if he was accused of sexual assault or domestic violence it would be “not forgivable.” But the accusations so far against Platner aren’t damning, Khanna argued. “What we have seen, as Sen. [Elizabeth] Warren and others have said, are toxic relationships where there was misogyny. And that’s unacceptable. But Plattner has taken responsibility for that. And we will see. Of course, I believe his message is resonating in Maine, but if there was some credible accusation or allegation of sexual assault, domestic violence, or rape, I would withdraw my endorsement.” His answer echoed what he said a few weeks earlier, when he said Platner’s actions were “shameful” — but didn’t disqualify him for being an elected official. The interview comes after Platner’s campaign has been hit with several scandals. He infamously had a Nazi tattoo on his chest — which he later removed and denied knowing it was tied to Nazi Germany; a former girlfriend later contested his claim and told The New York Times he knew exactly what it was. There have been plenty of other unsavory headlines, like Platner’s campaign admitting he sexted a number of women who were not his wife. Platner ripped the “establishment media” for trying to tear apart his loving marriage in response.… [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago
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