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- WATCH: Car Explodes, Bursts Into Flames Just Steps From Wall Street’s Charging...
A car exploded near Wall Street on Tuesday evening after catching fire and sending thick black smoke across a busy stretch of Lower Manhattan near one of New York City’s most visited financial landmarks. Police and firefighters rushed to the scene near Broadway and Stone Street shortly before 6 p.m. after reports of a car fire close to the famed Charging Bull statue, according to the FDNY. Videos circulating online showed flames rapidly engulfing the vehicle as stunned onlookers gathered behind police barriers in the heart of the Financial District. Moments later, the car exploded, sending fire and a plume of dark smoke high above surrounding buildings as onlookers fled the area. A vehicle caught fire and exploded in a huge fireball in #NewYork, near the Charging Bull statue in Lower Manhattan's Wall Street area on at around 6 PM Tuesday.@FDNY responded & extinguished the fire with no injuries reported. Initial accounts identify the vehicle as an… pic.twitter.com/GS7aCI0nSk — Shafek Koreshe (@shafeKoreshe) May 20, 2026 The vehicle appeared to be affiliated with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, according to ABC7, though officials have not confirmed ownership or whether the car was in service at the time of the fire. The blaze broke out around 5:42 p.m. ET, the FDNY said. Firefighters battled the flames for more than an hour before bringing the situation under control shortly before 7 p.m. No injuries were reported. Watch above via ABC7.The post WATCH: Car Explodes, Bursts Into Flames Just Steps From Wall Street’s Charging Bull Statue first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Anti-Trump Guests Call BS on Scott Jennings Over Epstein Files Take: ‘Be Hones...Anti-Trump panelists called BS on CNN GOP analyst Scott Jennings over his take on President Donald Trump and the release of the Epstein Files, demanding he “be honest” about the pressures that prompted the disclosures. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was defeated in his reelection primary bid Tuesday night, losing to Trump-backed candidate Ed Gallrein. Massie is the leader of a group of Republicans who joined Democrats to force the vote that eventually resulted in the release of the Epstein files after Trump and his administration spent months fighting the effort. On Tuesday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, guest anchor Sara Sidner hosted a panel that included Jennings, Tara Setmayer, Lydia Moynihan, Denver Riggleman, and Ana Navarro. When Jennings insisted he wanted to do “a little fact-checking” by noting the near-unanimous vote and Trump’s signature on the law, Setmayer and Navarro not-so-gently reminded him of some important context: TARA SETMAYER: Massie is another casualty of the retribution tour, but I think people need to understand that the reason why Donald Trump went after him was because he was not subservient to him on the Epstein files, and that is a problem, because America will remember who protected predators. SCOTT JENNINGS: Can we just do a little bit of fact-checking on the Epstein issue? Did every member of the House Republican Conference except for one vote to release the Epstein files, yes or no? SETMAYER: Because there was a discharge petition where they had to. JENNINGS: The answer is yes. SETMAYER: Yes. JENNINGS: Did Donald Trump sign it into law, yes or no? SETMAYER: Because he knew that he was going to lose the discharge petition, so be honest about that, Scott. JENNINGS: The Republicans voted to release it, Donald Trump signed it. Now — SETMAYER: Because there was a discharge petition and they were forced to put it on the floor, Scott. They weren’t — come on. If they were open to doing it, then they would not have had to go through a discharge petition. JENNINGS: I know you’re trying to rearrange — SETMAYER: No, I’m telling you the facts, Scott. JENNINGS: But the facts are — SETMAYER: Mike Johnson said it was unfortunate when it happened. JENNINGS: The Republicans passed it and Trump signed it. ANA NAVARRO: Scott, the White House brought in Lauren Boebert to the Situation Room and put all sorts of pressure on her to not vote for the discharge petition. And now Trump is going against… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- ‘Trump is My President!’ Lauren Boebert Tries to Get Back in Trump’s Good ...
AP Photo/Alex Brandon Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) celebrated President Donald Trump on Tuesday, after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was unseated and Trump threatened to do the same to her. In a social media post on Tuesday evening, shortly after Massie was defeated in the Republican primary for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District by Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein, Boebert attempted to get back in the president’s good graces with a social media post praising him. “Tonight I celebrated my son’s graduation! My friend & Co-Chair gave his all in Kentucky! Trump is my President! Jesus is Lord!” wrote Boebert. “I look forward to a lifetime filled with joy, purpose, and gratitude. May God continue to bless America and the freedoms that make this nation the greatest.” Tonight I celebrated my son’s graduation! My friend & Co-Chair gave his all in Kentucky! Trump is my President! Jesus is Lord! I look forward to a lifetime filled with joy, purpose, and gratitude. May God continue to bless America and the freedoms that make this nation the… pic.twitter.com/QqMHMLv8aV — Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) May 20, 2026 The congresswoman’s post came just days after Trump attacked her in a Truth Social post and threatened to endorse a Republican primary challenger to remove her from Congress. “Boebert is campaigning for the Worst ‘Republican’ Congressman in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, and anybody who can be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!” Trump threatened on Saturday. “Even though I long ago endorsed Boebert, if the right person came along, it would be my Honor to withdraw that Endorsement, and endorse a good and proper alternative. Just let me know, or announce your Candidacy, and I will be there for you!” Out of the four Republicans in Congress who split with Trump by signing a discharge petition to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, just two will soon remain after Massie was defeated on Tuesday, and Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned in January. It remains to be seen whether Trump will back a primary challenge against Boebert, who was one of the four dissenting Republicans, while Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has so far managed to avoid Trump’s wrath.The post ‘Trump is My President!’ Lauren Boebert Tries to Get Back in Trump’s Good Graces After Massie is Wiped Out in GOP Primary first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Joe Scarborough Mocks Botched Regime Change Plot to Free Iran’s Imprisoned For...Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough left co-hosts and contributors cackling as he mocked the botched plot to install Iran’s former hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with a failed strike where he’s being held under house arrest, as “some Team America sh*t.” The reference to the South Park creators’ 2004 film Team America: World Police satirizing U.S. interventionism came after a bombshell revelation in a Tuesday report by The New York Times which alleged that the U.S. and Israel had consulted Ahmadinejad about taking over the regime he once led, but that a failed strike on his home in Tehran on the first day of war in February, designed to kill the guards keeping him prisoner, left him injured. Former President Joe Biden’s ex-national security advisor John Kirby noted that the report showed that regime change was a “key part of the motivation” for the conflict, “more than” administration officials “have been willing to admit.” “Clearly this was baked right into the beginning of it,” he said, arguing the approach seemed modeled on the operation to replace Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Scarborough then mocked the idea outright, repeating his previous claim that “there have never been moderates in Iran.” Running through the U.S.’s fraught history with the regime over its 47-year history, the host laughed out loud at the idea that the Trump administration had hoped Ahmadinejad might be an option. Throughout Ahmadinejad’s term as president of Iran, between 2005 to 2013, he repeatedly threatened to attack Israel and spouted anti-U.S. rhetoric. Scarborough jibed that the U.S. overtures had failed to move the regime: “After all these years, 47 years, and [Reagan advisor] Bud McFarlane’s birthday cakes and bibles, here we are, and we’re left with Ahmadinejad.” “That’s where America and Israel have landed for the moderate who is going to deliver them from this crisis. Yeah. And then they try to bomb the prison to get him out and almost kill him,” the host sneered, before the punchline that left other hosts laughing. “That is some Team America sh*t right there.” Watch above via MS NOW.The post Joe Scarborough Mocks Botched Regime Change Plot to Free Iran’s Imprisoned Former President: ‘Some Team America Sh*t Right There’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Trump Blurts Stunning Gas Price Rant Amid Sinking Polls: ‘This is Peanuts!’President Donald Trump blurted out a stunning dismissal of pain at the pump as his approval rating sinks, telling reporters, “This is peanuts,” and he doesn’t “even think about that.” The president spoke to reporters on Tuesday morning against the backdrop of the massive and cacophonous East Wing construction project and took questions for about 45 minutes. In one exchange, he praised CNN’s Harry Enten not long after Enten delivered a breathless report on a new round of sinking approval polls — all in the 30s. But that didn’t stop Trump from delivering a new version of the gaffe he uncorked before his China trip, insisting he doesn’t even think about gas prices in his pursuit of victory in Iran: REPORTER: Mr. President, you’ve pushed to suppress the federal gas tax–. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah. REPORTER: Are there other initiatives that you’re thinking of (CROSSTALK) to try to lower costs– PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, there may be. It’s very temporary. Yeah, there may be. Anything to keep it down. Look, as soon as this war is over, gas is going to–. You know, I had gasoline down to $1.85 cents in Iowa. I was in Iowa and the stations had it at $1 and 85 cents. But I was down to– in many cases, less than $2 a barrel, a gallon. And then I said to myself… This is great. We just hit a new high in the stock market. Everything’s going good. I’m sorry, but we have to go down and take a little journey down to– we have to do something with Iran. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. You want to see the world exploded? You want to see a problem? And this is peanuts! And I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. It won’t be much longer. But you’re going to have, and frankly, there is so much oil out there. One of the things that is happening is these big ships are coming up to Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, and they’re loading up. But I don’t even think about that. What I think about is you can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon, and they won’t have a nuclear weapons, and then they fully understand it. Watch above via White House Press Pool.The post Trump Blurts Stunning Gas Price Rant Amid Sinking Polls: ‘This is Peanuts!’ first… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘Releasing the Epstein Files Was Our Demise,’ Says Marjorie Taylor Greene Af...
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite “Releasing the Epstein files was our demise,” former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Tuesday after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was defeated in his Republican primary by Trump-backed candidate Ed Gallrein. Reacting to Massie’s defeat in a social media post, Greene wrote: I am proud and thankful to have served in the U.S. House of Representatives with my friend Thomas Massie, a giant among weak pathetic men. Releasing the Epstein files was our demise. But it was worth every single bit because now everyone knows the truth. You are ruled by the Epstein class that cares nothing about you and your elected leaders are bought and controlled by a foreign lobby. Tonight the future of the Republican Party was destroyed. The Real America First Movement will rise led by the younger generations, who hate the old guard with an unquenchable passion. Let us pray that we have a country left by the time these creatures are gone. During a discussion with Tucker Carlson this month about the discharge petition, which led to the Epstein Files Transparency Act being signed into law, Massie named three of his Republican colleagues who had “suffered” most since splitting from Trump over the Epstein files. “There’s three women – Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert – who signed their names on that discharge petition and all suffered,” said Massie. “Marjorie practically gave up her political career over this. She and her children got death threats over this. Not from the left, from the right.” Massie went on to claim that Trump “vetoed a bill that would’ve brought water to a large portion of Colorado” as revenge after Boebert backed the petition to release all government documents related to the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Trump was a close friend for several years. After Massie’s Tuesday defeat and Greene’s resignation in January, just two out of four of the Republicans who signed the Epstein files discharge petition – Boebert and Mace – will soon remain in Congress. Trump attacked Boebert in a Truth Social post on Saturday, threatening to back a primary challenger against the congresswoman over her endorsement of Massie. “Boebert is campaigning for the Worst ‘Republican’ Congressman in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, and anybody who can be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!” Trump… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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