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- Elie Mystal Invokes Malcolm X in Defense of Karmelo Anthony-Austin Metcalf Stabb...
Add Elie Mystal to the list of people defending convicted teen killer Karmelo Anthony. Mystal — who serves as the justice correspondent for The Nation and is a frequent guest on MS NOW — argued Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison simply for defending himself during an appearance on Joy Reid’s show on Friday. Reid said the Anthony case showed “you cannot defend yourself” if you’re a Black American, and Mystal agreed. “That’s the Karmelo Anthony issue of like, we can do violence to you and if you dare try to stop us, if you dare try to defend yourself, if you dare Malcolm X-it and go ‘By any means necessary,’ we will put yo a** under the jail, right?” he ranted. “We will build the jail around your Black a** for daring to try to defend yourself.” His eyebrow-raising Malcolm X-invoking defense comes a few weeks after the 19-year-old Anthony was convicted of stabbing Austin Metcalf to death at a 2025 high school track meet. Mystal and Reid may believe Anthony was merely defending himself, but the jury didn’t buy it. The jury found Anthony entered the tent for Metcalf’s HS track team and attacked Metcalf. Witnesses testified that Anthony told Metcalf, “Touch me, see what happens.” Fox News reported: The verbal dispute turned physical when Metcalf reportedly shoved or touched Anthony, prompting Anthony to stand up and stab the high school captain with a 3.5-inch folding knife. Witnesses… described Anthony as “the aggressor,” noting Metcalf was “unwilling to fight.” Austin Metcalf bled to death in the arms of his twin brother, Hunter. They are not the only ones who have argued Anthony slayed Metcalf to protect himself, though. The View co-host Sunny Hostin made a similar self-defense argument earlier this week. “We also have to look at self-defense here, because there seems to be two systems of justice at play in this country, and there have been for a very long time,” Hostin claimed on Monday. “In this case, this young man, you heard [Anthony] say, ‘He put his hands on me and I told him not to.’” She said another issue was that Metcalf severely outweighed Anthony; Hostin claimed Metcalf weighed 200 pounds, while Anthony was only 130 pounds. But that was wrong. As the New York Post reported, Metcalf was 6’0, 200 pounds, and Anthony was listed at 5’11 and 162 pounds. Both were 17 years… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - WATCH: Small Plane Falls From Sky, Bounces Off Tallest Skyscraper in Beijing’s...Dramatic video out of Beijing, China, shows a small plane falling from the sky and bouncing off the city’s tallest skyscraper before crashing to the ground. The building is known as CITIC Tower or China Zun, and is the headquarters of the state-owned CITIC Group. Reuters reported that two glass panels were damaged, and “there was no immediate official comment.” “It was so loud – louder than fireworks,” a courier told Reuters. “He said he had shot a video of the aircraft sticking out of the building, but later deleted it because he was scared of getting caught by police.” CNN’s Mike Valerio reported Friday, “So, we’re coming straight from the financial district in Beijing. And I can tell you, Wolf, that the section of the financial area of Beijing, where we’re coming to you from now, has been totally sealed off.” “Police here in Beijing are telling people not to take photos of this scene,” Valerio said, before continuing: So this building, Wolf [Blitzer], is 109 stories tall. And in the upper reaches of the building, just around 7 p.m., right around sunset, that’s when social media started to light up China’s heavily-controlled social media with reports of a small aircraft crashing into the upper reaches of that building. And ever since we’ve looked at Xiaohongshu, Chinese social media, we’ve been able to see the tail number, which registers to a domestic general aviation company here in the outskirts of Beijing. And one more point before we go, Wolf: we should note that drones, aircraft are not allowed anywhere near this part of Beijing. You can imagine this is similar to Washington, D.C., where drones and aircraft are not allowed anywhere near the Capitol or the White House. Valerio added, “Seemingly inconceivable that this could happen in this fortress of a city. And we’re trying to find out why, Wolf.” This is a developing story and will be updated. Watch the clip above via CNN.The post WATCH: Small Plane Falls From Sky, Bounces Off Tallest Skyscraper in Beijing’s Financial District Before Crashing first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- In Europe, Tesla Sales Are Rising Despite Views on Elon Musk
Price cuts and low-interest-rate loans are luring buyers, including people offended by the company’s chief executive. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CNN Data Guru Reveals Trump’s Border Wall Has Majority Support, Independents P...CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten showed public support for President Donald Trump on border security and extending the border wall is more popular now than during his first term, including among independents. Enten joined CNN’s Kate Bolduan on Friday morning to break down polling around border security following the Supreme Court siding with the administration with a ruling this week that officials can turn away asylum seekers at the southern border. Enten pointed out that Trump and the Republican Party have actually found more support in the president’s second term when it comes to border security. “President Trump has been the most transformative president when it comes to border security. And when it comes to border security, particularly, it’s paying off for him in the polls,” Enten said. According to polling from Fox News and Marquette University, Trump’s net approval on border security is 2 points positive. Former President Joe Biden was sitting at negative 23 points at the same point in his presidency on the subject of border security. “The American people, when it comes to President Trump, actually like the job that he’s doing when it comes to border security, in particular,” Enten said. Republicans, he added, likely want to shift focus to the southern border going into the midterms. “They would love to run on border security because just take a look at this party trust,” Enten said. According to Fox News data, the GOP is trusted more on border security by 16 points. Broken down to just independents, they have a net positive of 30 points. There is also growing support for extending the border wall, an issue that was key to Trump’s first election in 2016. ‘When it comes to extending the border wall, it was used to be quite unpopular. But now if you look at the latest data, take a look at here. Net support for extending the border wall in the U.S.-Mexico border. Look at this in term number one. In 2019, the net support more people oppose it than support it,” Enten said. Citing Pew Research data, Enten showed that in 2019 net support for a border wall was negative seven points. Today support sits at positive 14 points. “So what we’re seeing is, versus term number one, there are more hawkish views in the electorate when it comes to border security, in particular,” Enten said. “That’s why… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Victor Davis Hanson Imitates Kamala Harris in Brutal Roast: ‘She Knows Nothing... Veteran conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson skewered Kamala Harris by breaking into an impression of the “crazy” ex-vice president rambling about “hope” during a recent interview with Don Lemon. Hanson said Harris seemed drunk during the interview, which he mimicked during a segment on his Friday podcast for The Daily Signal. “It was just a disaster,” Hanson said about the Harris-Lemon conversation. “She knows nothing. Has no detail, no memory, [and has] a vocabulary of 500 words.” He then cracked up as he started his impression of Harris. “She started in on ‘This behavior and people expect — they have to have hope…” Hanson said in a loopy and airhead-y way. He then said Lemon thought to himself, “Wow, those right-wing SOBs are really correct: she is an idiot, isn’t she?” “And then, you never know whether how many drinks she’s had,” Hanson continued. “I’m not trying to be malicious, but she does act inebriated.” Hanson then got back to impersonating Harris blabbing nonsensically: I just can’t believe being in the samE room with her everyday. Can you imagine? [You ask] “What are we going to have for dinner?” [And Harris answers] “Dinner? It’s such a cosmic idea. I mean think about it, dinner it came after lunch. But what is lunch? Who knows. But everybody cares. Let’s talk about it. Think about it. We’re becoming lunch and then we become dinner, and that’s a process of becoming breakfast. It’s fascinating. Look at the stars, it’s the same thing.” His co-host Sami Winc got a kick out of VDH’s impression. If you missed it, the Harris-Lemon interview went fairly viral on X this past week. “We each have have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves,” remarked Harris at one point. “And when we feel that, and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, um and instead light — let that light kind of carry us, in particular through moments of darkness.” She continued, “That we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other. And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb.” You can see that moment below: Kamala explains to Don Lemon the… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- CNN: Expert Company Shot Down Trump Reflecting Pool Project Before He Gave It to...President Donald Trump’s Reflecting Pool project was shot down by an experienced company before he awarded the job to his own former pool guys, according to an exclusive new CNN report. The Reflecting Pool saga has only gotten deeper since Trump began trying to shift blame for the condition of the monument after weeks of bragging about it. Law enforcement and military personnel have been brought in, people have been arrested, ducks have died, and Trump still has produced no evidence for his claim that the renovation was attacked with a knife. But it all began with a conversation with his “pool guy,” as Trump tells it: And I said, my pool guy, I said, take a look at it. And he said, well, sir, we can do it. We’ll get industrial strength. And I use some guys, not him. I use some guys, but he gave me some good ideas because he’s a pro. You know, they got very upset when I sent my pool person. I said, who else am I going to send? So I sent him over and we sprayed it and put down beautiful, like a pool coating. It’ll last maybe 50 to 100 years. The CNN reporting team of Abigail Roederhsheimer, Isabelle Khurshudyan, and Sunlen Serfaty dropped a new scoop on the project Thursday morning — Trump’s pool guys weren’t the first to be offered the project: Several months before blue strips started floating to the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a company involved in its last renovation more than 15 years ago was approached with an opportunity to do this remodel as well. But the company said no. Specifically, it balked at two requirements – the Trump administration wanted it done by July 4, and the pool bottom had to be blue, according to two employees with the New Jersey-based Sika Corporation, which provided the concrete construction and sealing products for a 2010 renovation project to the Reflecting Pool. According to the two employees, who spoke to CNN on the condition they not be identified, both demands made the job “unfeasible.” On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, host Anderson Cooper broke down the report for viewers: COOPER: CNN has exclusive new reporting on the more than $14 million no-bid contract renovation to the D.C. Reflecting Pool, which has now been fenced off. A company that worked on the pool more than 15 years ago… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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