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- Anderson Cooper Can’t Believe Trump’s Threat To Bomb Middle East Partner: â€...
Anderson Cooper expressed some amazement at President Donald Trump’s threat to bomb a key U.S. ally in the Middle East. During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning, the president was asked about a New York Times report that Iran has discussed potentially enlisting Oman in its ongoing tolling scheme in the vital Strait of Hormuz, which Iran closed after the U.S. and Israel launched the ongoing war on the country in February. About 20% of the world’s oil flows through the narrow waterway. “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.” For good measure, the president added, “And Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow ’em up. They understand that. They’ll be fine.” On Wednesday’s AC360 on CNN, Cooper reported that the U.S. conducted more strikes on Iran despite the ceasefire. He then pivoted to Trump’s remarks about Oman and aired them. “Again, Oman is an ally,” Cooper reacted. “Gives access to air bases and a port to American forces. And if you think the president’s statement about blowing up Oman was a slip of the tongue, the State Department posted that clip with the president making the threat on social media not long after he said it.” Elsewhere during the cabinet meeting, Trump dismissed the political ramifications of the war’s unpopularity. A Fox News poll released last week shows that 64% of Americans believe attacking Iran was the “wrong decision.” Meanwhile, 65% disapprove of Trump’s handling of the issue. “I don’t care about the midterms,” he said. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I’m doing that for the world.” Watch above via CNN.The post Anderson Cooper Can’t Believe Trump’s Threat To Bomb Middle East Partner: ‘Again, Oman Is an Ally’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Cop Pulls Over Woman For Holding Phone In Right Hand – Which She Does Not HaveA video of a traffic stop went viral this week when a woman, pulled over for driving while holding a phone in her right hand, revealed that she lacked the extremity. The Florida woman was pulled over in early February on North Dixie Highway by a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s official over a citation for holding a device while driving. In the now viral video, the officer identified himself before explaining why he was making the stop. “This is why you’re being pulled over: the city of Lake Worth today, we’re doing an operation for distracted driver, and you drove past me holding the phone with your right hand, manipulating that phone,” he said. The woman promptly held up her right arm, which ends above the elbow and is distinctly handless. “So, obviously not,” she said, laughing. “So, you want to just call this a day?” Yet, oddly, the cop continued to press the issue, despite the woman continuing to brandish her arm. “I don’t want to call it a day,” he said. “You had a hand up, manipulating the phone.” Their exchange continued: WOMAN: You just said my right hand. OFFICER: Well, I thought I saw your right hand. You had a hand– WOMAN: So, you didn’t. OFFICER: –right hand. I saw you manipulate– WOMAN: So, you didn’t. OFFICER: With the right hand, perhaps not, right? WOMAN: But, you didn’t see me with my right hand. You’re saying you saw me with my right hand. OFFICER: I know what I just said. I’m asking you now, did you or not have your phone in your hand? WOMAN: I did not. The officer then asked the woman to promise “hand to god” that she was not using her phone. When she lifted her right arm, he asked her to raise “the other hand.” The woman, whose first name is Katie, challenged the citation for “Wireless Comm. Device/Handheld While Driving – First Offense” in court. She announced in a video on Wednesday that the case was dismissed. “You guys, I cannot make up the reason behind why it was dismissed,” she said. “It says ‘lack of evidence.’ Bro, we knew that already.” Watch above via CBS News.The post Cop Pulls Over Woman For Holding Phone In Right Hand – Which She Does Not Have first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Google worker charged for using internal data to make $1.2m on bets
A longtime Google employee was charged in New York on Wednesday for breaking insider trading laws. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Winner of CBS-Funded Scholarship Blasts Network In Acceptance SpeechA young journalist who won a scholarship funded by CBS News blasted the network in his acceptance speech, claiming that the outlet’s direction “stains the legacy” of the award’s namesake. Santiago Campos was awarded the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship at Wednesday’s News Night for the 47th News & Documentary Emmys. The scholarship is funded by a grant from CBS and given to a student seeking to pursue a career in television journalism. The fund is named for legendary broadcaster Mike Wallace, one of the first anchors on CBS’s 60 Minutes. Campos, a high school senior from Washington, D.C., thanked his family and friends in his acceptance speech. He then moved to call out CBS News directly, amid applause from the audience. He said: While I want to thank CBS News for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship. As corporate elites take hold over the very pipes through which our information flows, journalism that serves people becomes increasingly harder to come by, yet ever more crucial. And what the people want is the truth. So if at any time you hesitate to utter the word ‘genocide’ or remain silent in the face of blatant lies, remember to ask yourself: Who is this for? I hope you choose us. CBS News has been the center of consistent controversy since parent company Paramount’s controversial merger with media giant Skydance in August– a deal that required approval from President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission. New owner David Ellison has made sweeping changes to CBS, many of which are more in line with the president’s preferences. The network chose not to renew its contract with Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a frequent critic of the president. Ellison also installed The Free Press‘ Bari Weiss as the network’s new editor-in-chief in early October. Her tenure faced widespread media attention for her controversial decision to abruptly pull a 60 Minutes segment on deportations to El Salvador’s CECOT prison by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who announced on Wednesday that her contract was not renewed by the network. “This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom,” she wrote in her… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- DOJ Launches Investigation Into Woman Whom Jury Found Trump Sexually AssaultedThe Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the woman whom a jury found President Donald Trump sexually assaulted, according to multiple sources. Writer E. Jean Carroll won millions in damages in two separate cases against the president, one that found him liable for sexual assault in 2023 and one that found Trump defamed her the following year. Both decisions were upheld on appeal, though the president has appealed the sexual assault case yet again, this time to the Supreme Court, which has postponed its choice on whether or not to take up the case twelve separate times, including on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday came CNN’s report that Trump’s Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation into Carroll surrounding the possibility that she committed perjury when she claimed in a 2022 deposition that her lawsuit against the president was not funded by any outside backers. Billionaire Reid Hoffman, Carroll’s lawyers later told the judge, paid some of her legal fees. Carroll’s legal team claimed she had no association with the Hoffmans’ nonprofit that helped pay the fees, and the judge allowed Trump’s lawyers to question Carroll in another deposition, though they were blocked from further questions about Hoffman during the trial. “We can confirm that no U.S. Attorney’s Office has declined to investigate any case relating to the subject matter of CNN’s inquiry,” a Justice Department spokesperson told CNN. “We will not comment beyond that.” CNN host Erin Burnett spoke with colleague Paula Reid about the story on Wednesday’s OutFront. “Now, over at the Justice Department, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, I am told, has recused from this case because he worked on one of the appeals related to the Carroll case,” said Reid. “Now, I’m told he has not attended any meetings or been in any discussions about this investigation. The case is currently being handled out of the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago.” Sources told the outlet the location of the case in Chicago is due to Hoffman’s nonprofit, which is located in the city. Carroll’s team declined to comment to CNN, and the outlet’s attempts to reach Hoffman on Wednesday were unsuccessful. Watch above via CNN.The post DOJ Launches Investigation Into Woman Whom Jury Found Trump Sexually Assaulted first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Katie Miller Says Telling Her ‘Ugly F***’ Husband to ‘Shut Up’ Is ‘Vio...Former Trump administration official Katie Miller slammed a tweet from the official X account of the Democratic Party, which called her husband “ugly.” On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated John Cornyn in a U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff and will face Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in November. Republicans’ attacks on Talarico have been vicious, if not sophomoric. On Wednesday, Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters referred to the lawmaker as “James Talafreako” and repeated the false claim that Talarico is a vegan. The GOP has seized on Talarico’s past claim that god does not have a gender. Previously, he alleged there are six biological sexes. On Fox News, one host questioned whether the 37-year-old single lawmaker’s girlfriend even exists. Miller’s husband, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, posted on X that Talarico is “transgender,” to which the official Democratic Party account replied, “shut up you ugly f***.” Katie Miller appeared on Wednesday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News, where she alleged that response amounted to violent discourse. “This is the same violent political rhetoric that is leading people to shooting up, whether it be the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, or President Trump in Butler,” she said. “But what remains to be seen is this is an anonymous account, and it is run actually by a sad liberal woman named Paulina, which is why Pew says 50% of liberal women at some time have identified that they have a mental health disorder. And she is certainly one of them. What a sad state for the pathetic Democrat party.” Miller was referring to Paulina Mangubat, who posts on the Democrats’ official X account.The post Katie Miller Says Telling Her ‘Ugly F***’ Husband to ‘Shut Up’ Is ‘Violent Political Rhetoric’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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