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The UK's competition watchdog says it is looking at five firms in its investigation into misleading online reviews. [TheTopNews] Read More.40 mins ago - Phillies All-Star Sues Parents for Millions, Alleges They Took His Money To Cove...
Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire/Icon Sportswire via AP Images Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm filed a lawsuit against his parents in a Philadelphia court, alleging that they siphoned large sums of money from him and used the cash to pay for their expenses. The suit, which was filed on Wednesday, says Bohm’s parents, Daniel and Lisa Bohm, had managed financial accounts for the ballplayer, who was frozen out of the accounts. Bohm recently sought to review his financial matters in recent months, but says his parents refuse to let him access the accounts or provide information about them. The lawsuit alleges that Bohm’s parents have transferred millions of dollars from his account to their own. “Mr. and Mrs. Bohm love their son very much and have always acted in his best interests, both personally and professionally, and still do so to this day,” a lawyer for the player’s parents said. Bohm, who debuted with the Phillies in 2020 and was a National League All-Star in 2024, homered in the Phillies’ 5-3 opening day win at home against the Texas Rangers on Thursday. After the game, he told reporters, “I’m not going to address any personal matters right now.” “Both parties say the first of the accounts was opened in 2019,” the Associated Press reported. “His parents told him that they assigned themselves a 10% stake, strictly for administration purposes, and that Bohm was the ‘true’ owner of all of the LLC’s assets, Bohm’s lawsuit said.” The suit, which says Bohm’s parents live in an RV and travel the country, also claims the parents took money from the Alec Bohm Foundation, the ballplayer’s charity, to pay their expenses. Bohm is seeking at least $3 million in damages and control of the accounts he has allegedly been frozen out of.The post Phillies All-Star Sues Parents for Millions, Alleges They Took His Money To Cover Their Expenses first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - An Invisible Bottleneck: A Helium Shortage Threatens the Chip Industry
With a third of the global supply offline because of the war in Iran, gas companies are scrambling to assure critical A.I. chip makers there will be no disruptions. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Elizabeth Warren Announces, ‘I Have Questions for MrBeast’ About Crypto and ...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images, Rebecca Blackwell/AP Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a twelve-page letter to YouTuber MrBeast on Thursday, posing numerous questions about his company’s recent expansion into cryptocurrency. Warren requested more information about the February purchase by Beast Industries of the banking app Step and the app’s push to promote its services to young users. “Despite Step’s careful claims that crypto investing by minors was only with the permission of a parent or guardian, Step published resources encouraging kids to pressure their parents into crypto investments,” wrote Warren in the letter to Beast Industries’ chief executives. Warrant put it more directly in a post announcing the letter, writing, “I have questions for MrBeast.” The senator asked for further information about the company’s move into the financial sphere, posing over a dozen questions and raising concerns about the company’s banking partner, Evolve Bank & Trust. The financial services company has had a series of problems in years past, including facing enforcement actions from the Federal Reserve Board over deficiencies in the bank’s anti-money laundering programs. Much of the letter focused on Beast Industries’s potential marketing of cryptocurrency to children, who make up a significant portion of MrBeast’s viewers. “Beast Industries is primarily an entertainment and consumer product company — and any foray into financial services, particularly services aimed at children — must be done with great care and in compliance with the law,” wrote the senator. In an emailed statement, Beast Industries claimed the company was focused on aiding the “financial future” of young people, noting that it was putting specific focus on complying with the law and developing the app in a careful manner. “Our primary motivation behind this deal is to improve the financial future of the next generation,” a Beast Industries spokesman wrote. “Now that we’ve completed the transaction and have ownership control, we’re examining all existing offerings and marketing approaches to ensure that Step’s future is developed thoughtfully and deliberately, meets our very high quality standards, and is in compliance with applicable laws and regulatory requirements.” The company added that “we appreciate Senator Warren’s outreach” and would be “engaging” with her on the Step project in the future.The post Elizabeth Warren Announces, ‘I Have Questions for MrBeast’ About Crypto and Children first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - CNN’s Harry Enten Gives Trump ‘Reality Check’ After President Touted Poll ...
CNN data analyst Harry Enten offered a “reality check,” and perhaps something of a walk-back after President Donald Trump repeatedly touted some highly favorable polling data. Last week on CNN News Central, Enten highlighted an NBC News poll showing Trump has an approval rating of 100% among self-described MAGA voters. “Sometimes you look at the polling data, and there are numbers that just jump off the screen at you, and this is one of those,” Enten said last week. “Because, just take a look here. ‘MAGA GOP view of Trump’ approve 100%! One hundred percent! If you are a member of MAGA and the GOP, you approve of Donald John Trump. Zero percent say that they disapprove.” Not surprisingly, Trump ran with the equally unsurprising survey data showing that MAGA voters unanimously approve of the leader of MAGA. “The CNN poll said I’m 100%, and they’ve never seen that before, which is an honor,” the president said in response last week. On Wednesday, he reiterated, “I got 100 percent in the CNN poll.” Enten appeared on Thursday’s edition of The Source, where host Kaitlan Collins noted that Trump is quite fond of the poll he cited. “Can you give us a reality check of where the president does stand?” she asked. Entend replied: Yeah, I’ll give you a reality check. Look, President Trump is quite popular with MAGA. MAGA very much enjoys this [Iran] war. They very much love the president. But of course, they are just a certain portion of the electorate. When you expand it out. The reality check is this. Donald Trump has never been more unpopular in his second term in office. Enten then pointed to a Fox News poll released on Wednesday showing Trump with his highest disapproval rating ever in that survey, including his first term. “And I will note this, Kaitlan Collins,” he continued. “It is not just the Fox News poll where Donald Trump is at an all-time highs in terms of his disapproval ratings, all-time lows in terms of his approval rating. It is in the polling aggregate as well. It has been poll after poll after poll in which he’s either at or near an all-time high in terms of his disapproval rating.” Watch above via CNN.The post CNN’s Harry Enten Gives Trump ‘Reality Check’ After President Touted Poll Showing 100% Approval first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - ‘The Cruelest’: Anderson Cooper Shreds Trump for ’Stigmatizing Millions of...CNN’s Anderson Cooper shredded President Donald Trump on Thursday over his characterization of dyslexia as a “mental disability,” calling out the president for choosing “the cruelest” way to attack his political enemies. Trump claimed at a Thursday cabinet meeting that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) disqualified himself from the 2028 presidential race when he “admitted” to having a “mental disability,” referring to the governor’s frequent discussion of his struggle with dyslexia. “I don’t want a person with mental disability to be my president. You don’t want to have a person with a mental disability being your president. And Gavin Newsom said he can’t read a speech, he can’t do almost anything,” said Trump. “He’s actually a very stupid person. So, I believe he is out of the running. I think that statement, that interview, he admitted he is a stupid person. I don’t want a stupid person being president.” Cooper, who himself struggled with dyslexia as a child, hit back at the president’s claims, telling viewers Trump was displaying “his own ignorance” of dyslexia before providing examples of intelligent and successful figures who live with this type of neurodivergence. “Well, the president shows his own ignorance when he claims that people living with dyslexia are somehow dumb,” he said. “If the president actually read books or anything on the topic, he would know that– he would know that.” The host then pointed out that Trump’s former close advisor, Gary Cohn, has severe dyslexia, noting that the White House press release announcing his appointment actually mentioned this as part of his “inspiring personal story.” “He could also have asked Gary Cohn, his chief economic advisor in his first term. Cohn was profiled by writer Malcolm Gladwell as someone whose severe dyslexia forced him to develop remarkable memorization skills,” he said. “Someone in the White House back then read that book because when president elect trump first announced Cohen’s appointment, he– the press release actually highlighted Cohen’s dyslexia. Quote, ‘In addition to his incredible business history, Mr. Cohen has an inspiring personal story. He was diagnosed at age seven with dyslexia, which made it difficult for him to read and spell.’ Apparently, President Trump didn’t read that either.” After discussing other examples of prominent people with dyslexia, Cooper took a jab at Trump himself, noting that “even those who don’t have dyslexia can still sometimes struggle with reading teleprompters and getting their words out.”… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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