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- Investigator Sent to Deadly LaGuardia Crash Was Stuck in TSA Line for Three Hour...
The long TSA security lines at the airports are not just a hassle for travelers, they held up an investigator going to the scene of a deadly runway crash for hours until the National Transportation and Safety Board intervened. An Air Canada plane collided with a Port Authority fire truck that was crossing the runway shortly after the plane landed at LaGuardia Airport in New York late Sunday evening. The fire truck was responding to a call from a United flight that reported an odor in the cabin. Both of the Air Canada pilots were killed and dozens were sent to the hospital. LaGuardia remains shut down in the wake of the crash and is expected to remain closed through Tuesday afternoon. Earlier Monday, National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy held a press conference regarding the progress of the investigation. According to Homendy, the team of investigators “began to arrive around 3:10 am,” but some were “still en route” at the time of her press conference, meaning they had not yet had “a full day of investigation” yet. She acknowledged that there were “a lot of questions,” and said she wanted to “set expectations,” especially in light of the DHS shutdown. “We have DHS that is shut down, and we have long TSA lines,” she said. “Our air traffic control specialist, who was in line with TSA for three hours, until we called — in Houston — to beg, to see if we can get her through, so we can get her here. So it’s been a really big challenge to get the entire team here, and they’re still arriving as we speak.” CNN aviation and transportation correspondent Pete Muntean reported on the latest developments in the story on Monday’s episode of AC360, telling Anderson Cooper that the incident was “kind of symptomatic of an aviation system that’s really bursting at the seams.” While the issues with funding TSA workers’ paychecks were “not necessarily connected” directly to the crash, it was still “having an impact on aviation as a whole,” by causing “plenty of people” to miss their flights, and now “it’s impacted the NTSB work here.” “They can’t even get their people here,” said Cooper. Wow. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy says the agency had to "beg" to get a key LaGuardia crash investigator (a specialist on air traffic control) through TSA in Houston… [TheTopNews] Read More.39 mins ago - ‘I Didn’t Think Kamala Was Hot’: Jesse Watters Debates Whether Dems Need â...Fox’s Jesse Watters ripped former Vice President Kamala Harris, declaring her “not hot” in a heated debate about whether Democrats need an “attractive” candidate to win the 2028 presidential election. An article by The Bulwark, which proclaimed in its headline that “Dems Want Hotter Candidates on the Ballot,” sparked superficial conversation among Watters and his The Five co-hosts. Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary, kicked off the debate by noting the seemingly androcentric nature of the “hot” requirement after Fox played a clip of two women calling for an attractive male candidate. “Notice that it’s the women—the women aren’t suggesting that there is a democratic woman they would like to put forward, right?” Perino said. “Where is the girlhood? To me, Kamala Harris was an objectively beautiful person, and she couldn’t win, so I don’t think that’s what it is. I also think people are watching too much Love Story. I like the show very much, but they have this idea if they go back and they re-create JFK, that they’ll be able to win, but it’s more about policies than … pretty.” Co-host Emily Compagno went on to ponder if the so-called “hot” candidate requirement “stems from the media fawning over Gavin Newsom.” “Especially since he’s like a six at best,” co-host Greg Gutfeld said of Newsom, though he adopted the stance that “people aren’t attracted to ugly ideas.” Next, Watters jumped in to continue the hot-or-not style debate. “I have to disagree with Dana,” he said. “I didn’t think Kamala was hot.” “No, she was attractive,” Gutfeld spoke over him. “I said she was beautiful,” Perino corrected Watters. “I didn’t say hot.” Gutfeld offered up Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as a “hot” candidate, which Watters immediately shut down. “I’m not going to go there,” he said, before doubling down on his comments about Harris. “I don’t know,” Watters said. “I mean, she was okay. But if we’re talking hot, she’s not hot. Did you ever see the politicians before television? It was like old fat guys with no hair, with like mutton chop sideburns. So, TV is the thing. You’ve got to have a good-looking person, and now I like the fact that Democrats have gone from like, we need a transgender native American amputee, to just someone who is hot. And I feel like that’s progress.” Co-host Jessica Tarlov slammed the conversation, calling it “ridiculous.” “This is just being a normal human… [TheTopNews] Read More.58 mins ago
- ‘Hey, Hey! Pay Attention!’ Mark Levin Blows Up at Joe Kent for Accusing Him ...Mark Levin went off on former Trump administration official Joe Kent during a contentious radio interview on Monday. Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center last week over President Donald Trump’s ongoing war in Iran, stating that despite the administration’s claims, Iran “posed no imminent threat” to the U.S. “I pray that you will reflect upon what we are doing in Iran, and who we are doing it for,” Kent wrote to the president. “The time for bold action is now. You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation, or you can allow us to slip further toward decline and chaos. You hold the cards.” Kent’s public resignation enraged Trump, who called him “weak” and questioned Kent for remarrying “fairly quickly” after his wife was killed in Syria while serving as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. Last week, Semafor reported that Kent is under federal investigation for potentially sharing classified information, which he categorically denied on Monday’s edition of The Mark Levin Show. During the interview, Kent accused Levin, a longtime hawk on Iran, of having lobbied Trump to start the war. “President Trump said, ‘No nuclear weapons,'” Kent said of the U.S. negotiations with Iran, which were derailed when the U.S. and Israel began bombing the country on Feb. 28. “And then, through official engagements, through the Israelis and then also the media echo chamber that won a regime change in Iran, said ‘No, no, we need to say that the Iranians can’t do enrichment and that–” Levin cut Kent off, which led to this exchange, where the latter accused the host of pushing Trump toward war, which Levin disputed: LEVIN: What about the media echo chamber your buddies, who didn’t want regime change in Iran? There’s a lot of echo chambers out there, wouldn’t you say? KENT: It appears that your media echo chamber was much more successful. LEVIN: No, it wasn’t. I never lobbied the president. [CROSSTALK] LEVIN: Hey, hey! Pay attention to me! KENT: I can hear you. LEVIN: I never lobbied the president. You guys keep putting that crap out there. I met with the president once at his request. And I said to the president, you ready for this, Joe? I said, “They’re telling– they’re saying out there that I’m lobbying you.” You know what he did? He laughed. You know what he said?… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- James Comer Praises ICE at Airports Because ‘It’ll Drive Democrats Crazy’Â...Rep. James Comer (R-KY) endorsed President Donald Trump’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports because doing so will incense Democrats. On Sunday, the president announced that ICE agents would be sent to airports across the country to assist the Transportation Security Administration amid the agency’s funding shortage due to the ongoing partial government shutdown. TSA employees who show up to work are doing so without pay. More than 400 TSA officers have quit since the shutdown began. Congressional Democrats have offered to fund Department of Homeland Security agencies such as TSA, but not ICE and Customs and Border Patrol, whose agents have been conducting sweeping immigration raids across the country. In January, federal immigration agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens in separate incidents in Minneapolis. Republicans have insisted that funding for DHS must also include money for ICE, which is enjoying a windfall of funds thanks to last year’s Republican-backed spending package. “It’s terrible what the Democrats have done,” Comer said on Fox Business on Monday. “The truth of the matter is, the Democrats want to disrupt the economy as much as they can because they know the number one issue in the election is the economy. So, the Democrats, who have always tried to hold themselves as the best representative party for the federal employees, they don’t care.” Comer went on to say he welcomes ICE’s deployment to airports because it will drive Democrats mad. “And I think it is terrible what is happening,” he continued. “I’m glad the president’s putting ICE in there for a multitude of reasons. That’ll drive the Democrats crazy, but at the end of the day, somebody’s got to step up and ensure that our air travel continues, or you are going to see further damage to our economy, which again, in my opinion, is what the Democrats want.” The ICE deployment appears to have done nothing to alleviate long security lines at airports. Social media users have posted a slew of videos featuring ICE officers milling about at various airports across the country, and it is unclear what agents are supposed to be doing. Watch above via Fox Business Network.The post James Comer Praises ICE at Airports Because ‘It’ll Drive Democrats Crazy’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Fox News Guest Says ‘We Need To Let the President Cook’ in IranFormer Deputy Assistant to the President Robert Greenway told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, “We need to let the president cook” in Iran. Greenway, a principal architect of the Abraham Accords during President Donald Trump’s first term, agreed with Ingraham’s statement that Iran is “toast” as the regime continues to deny that negotiations are taking place with the U.S. “Iran is publicly denying any negotiations, certainly any progress, calling Trump’s statements false,” Ingraham said. “But the reality is, look, they’re toast. Although they can still do some damage—we’ll get into that in a bit—but this is only a matter of time before the whole thing collapses.” Ingraham quoted stats from U.S. Central Command, citing that the U.S. has conducted more than 9,000 strikes on Iran since Feb. 28, sinking or damaging more than 140 Iranian naval vessels. “So, Iran right now has a five-day window to come to its senses,” she said. “Whatever happens, though, we’re going to win. It’s just a question of how much Iranian infrastructure will survive in the process.” She went on to express her disbelief that networks, naming ABC, NBC, and CNN, believe Iran on the matter of whether negotiations are taking place, asking Greenway if this is “where we stand now” that members of the press will “actually take the Iranian points of view at this point seriously?” Greenway appeared unfazed by the media reaction Ingraham described. “No surprise that too much of the media enterprise is sympathetic to our adversaries,” he said. “Look, three quick points, and you hit the most important. The only numbers that really matter are the fact that the United States and Israel are intercepting 92 to 94 percent of what is left of the Iranian inventory. And second, 100 percent of our strikes are successful. There is nothing the Iranians can do about it. You are 100 percent right: It’s just a matter of time. We need to let the president cook.” He praised Trump’s work in Iran. “Second, he is doing a masterful job of it,” he said. “He manufactured leverage by stating we will hit their power supply and generation facilities if they don’t stop within 48 hours. Lo and behold, we are in negotiations. Three, while he has a clear idea where he is headed, the Iranians are in absolute chaos, mostly because their leadership has been disseminated, but also because they’re disconnected from one another.… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- ‘Absolutely Not Enough’: AOC Slams Prediction Markets’ Latest Move to Curb...
AP Photo/Marijan Murat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed prediction markets’ latest move to curb insider training as “absolutely not enough” amid mounting criticism of these platforms within Congress. On Monday, Senators John Curtis (R-UT) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced legislation dubbed the “Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act.” If passed, it would ban prediction markets from creating “sports and casino-style event contracts”—a massive hit on prediction markets’ future business, given that a large chunk of their growth has come from sports. In response, two major prediction markets, Kalshi and Polymarket, announced new guardrails on Monday to ban insider trading. “We’re launching new technological guardrails that preemptively block politicians, athletes, and other relevant people from trading in certain politics and sports markets,” Bobby DeNault, Head of Enforcement and Legal Counsel at Kalshi, wrote in a blog post published to the company’s site. “These efforts, which have been in the works for months, proactively address the CFTC’s guidance and Congressional bill proposals to prevent insider trading.” Polymarket announced a broader ban on “trading on stolen confidential information,” “trading on illegal tips” and “trading by those who can influence the outcome. Ocasio-Cortez took to X, sharing her thoughts on an article announcing Kalshi’s new guardrails. “This is absolutely not enough,” she wrote. “Just on the policy piece alone, there are SO many individuals—staff, advisors, consultants, cabinet secretaries, spouses, and more—that can trade on insider information. This is just a fig leaf to deflect from criticism. We need to do more.” Although both prediction markets have come under fire in recent months, Polymarket was the subject of heavy criticism on Monday. Bets on the US-Iran ceasefire appeared to suggest insider trading, according to an article by The Guardian, which reported that eight Polymarket accounts, created while President Donald Trump was still making comments doubling down on the war with Iran, bet approximately $70,000 in total on a ceasefire being reached by March 31. The accounts stand to gain approximately $820,000. The post ‘Absolutely Not Enough’: AOC Slams Prediction Markets’ Latest Move to Curb Insider Trading first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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