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- The Tate Brothers’ Lawyer Is on an Aggressive, AI-Riddled Quest to Win Their R...
It seems extremely unlikely that accused rapists and sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate will be released from Miami’s federal detention center, where they’re being held. For one thing, the brothers are awaiting extradition to the United Kingdom to face sprawling charges related to sex trafficking, rape, assault, and indecent images of a child, and the Trump administration has declined to step in. For another, as government prosecutors laid out in a filing opposing pre-trial release earlier this week, there is something of a flight risk, given that Andrew Tate previously used an alter-ego Twitter account to brag about being, in his words, “above the law” and “hard to kill,” as well as having of four or five passports and nine drivers’ licenses in several names. “I have had warrants out for my arrest and travelled freely,” @OfWudan, an account linked to Tate, tweeted in 2019. “I am smarter than you. I am Steven Seagal. I am above the law.” (Tristan Tate, according to the prosecutors’ filing, is similarly alleged by UK authorities to have a Mexican passport bearing his photo and date of birth, but with the name “Vladimir Scorpius,” a James Bond villain.) The mountain impeding the Tates’ pretrial release, then, is extremely high, but Joseph McBride is determined to climb it. McBride, a New York attorney representing both brothers, has launched an aggressive, quixotic, and highly public quest to free the Tates and promote a positive image of the two men. He’s using several tools to do so, including podcasting (both on his own, entitled Judgment Day, and through appearances on others’ shows), intense media engagement, a rally outside the jail, verbose tweeting, and, most unusually of all, a flood of AI-generated images released on X and Instagram. The conditions Andrew and Tristan Tate are being held in are a disgrace.Small filthy cell.Cockroaches.Shower water to drink.No chair.Lights they cannot control.Food that makes Taco Bell look like a Michelin restaurant.Beds too small for men who are 6’3” and 6’5”.Three… pic.twitter.com/gVZC0zwyI6— Joe McBride (@McBrideLawNYC) July 28, 2026 The faked images typically show the Tates manfully bearing their suffering in the clink: meditating in orange jumpsuits together atop a bunk, for instance, or dually staring at the viewer from inside a filthy cell. He also shared a striking image of the Tates sitting around a table with prominent men from across the historical spectrum—from Joe Rogan back through… [TheTopNews] Read More.20 hours ago - Scientists Have Created a New Category of Heat Waves: “Snow Eaters”This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Matthew LaPlante doesn’t have to go to a lab to see his research in action. On some mornings, he can just look out his own window in the mountains high above Salt Lake City. After a warm night when the temperature stays above freezing, he’ll wake up and see that the snow level has dropped by inches, revealing more of the aspens he taps for syrup. “It feels like a monster came and just in the middle of the night, took a bite out of a snowpack,” said LaPlante, a journalist and climate scientist at Utah State University. So it’s fitting that scientists have started calling these kinds of heat waves, marked by unusually high temperatures in the spring and early summer, “snow eaters.” LaPlante was part of a recent study, published in the journal Science Advances, that attempted, for the first time, to identify what conditions exactly make for a “snow eater.” Compared to normal warm spells or heat waves, the researchers determined that these events happen when temperatures stay above freezing through both day and night for multiple days, typically three to five. These events can roughly double the rate at which snow melts, causing flooding and making it challenging to manage water resources. “Snow eaters” appear to be occurring earlier in the year and becoming more widespread in the Western United States as the climate warms. Since the 1850s, the study found, the area affected by snow eaters has increased by an average of about 40,000 square miles per century, and the first snow eater of the season has been arriving about one month earlier per century. “Water that would otherwise be stored as snow comes out early, and then we have to deal with it as a hazard instead of a resource.” The term “snow eater” has a murky history. By at least the 1880s, people in the West were talking about “snow-eating” chinooks, warm mountain winds that make snow disappear quickly. More recently, the phrase “snow-eater heat wave” first made headlines in March, when an early heat wave enveloped much of the West, quickly wiping away snowpack in the Colorado Rockies and California’s Sierra Nevada. The scientists hope the catchy, evocative term can help draw more attention to this type of heat wave, since there’s still a lot to learn. The study only looked at the Western… [TheTopNews] Read More.20 hours ago
- A Young Immigrant’s Deportation NightmareThe plane was stuck on the tarmac of a Louisiana airport, but Yurin Quiroa Ralda, 21, was not particularly eager to take off. He was being deported, based in part on misinterpreted records. And not to his birthplace, Guatemala, but to Ecuador, where he’d never even been. That alone was a nightmare, but Yurin’s situation was even more frustrating: After he’d crossed the US-Mexico border alone at age 16, the US government told him that if he waited patiently, he could apply for a green card because he had Special Immigrant Juvenile status, a classification reserved for kids who were abused, abandoned, or neglected by a parent. Congress created SIJ status in 1990, to give these kids a pathway to legal permanent residency so they wouldn’t have to go back to families that harmed them. Yurin, whose dad had abandoned him before he was born, had followed the rules and waited—and he’d recently became eligible to apply for a green card. Yet here he was on a plane bound for Ecuador. A judge in a similar case cited the administration’s “reprehensible act of unimaginable cruelty,” noting, “Unquestionably, the laws of human decency condemn such villainy.” Thousands of kids with SIJ status live in the United States, though many have grown into young adults. Like Yurin, whom I wasn’t able to interview directly for this story, they’ve spent years on waitlists because the government has a cap on visas that it can issue each year. While they waited, the Biden administration gave them deferred action, a designation that temporarily shields a person from deportation and allows them to work. But despite this safeguard, President Trump’s immigration officers detained about 400 people with SIJ status and deported 132 of them during his first year back in office, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data shared with Congress. These kids were told, “‘You should stay here; here’s your protection,” says Molly Huffaker, an attorney who represents Yurin at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center. “All they’ve gotten is a broken promise,” adds Ellie Norton, an attorney at the National Immigration Project who focuses on SIJ cases. The Trump administration officially ended Biden’s policy for SIJ youth in June 2025, saying it would no longer offer deferred action to people on the government waitlists. A court blocked that move on the grounds that DHS hadn’t jumped through the necessary bureaucratic hoops. The administration… [TheTopNews] Read More.20 hours ago
- For 2026, a new tax break for people claiming the standard deduction
Charitable donations up to $1,000 per taxpayer are now deductible By Mark Huffman of ConsumerAffairs August 14, 2026 A new federal tax provision will allow non-itemizers to deduct up to $1,000 in qualifying cash donations, or $2,000 for married couples filing jointly, beginning in 2026.Donors must keep a bank record or written receipt for every cash gift, while contributions of $250 or more require a detailed acknowledgment from the charity.Taxpayersnot charitable organizationsare responsible for ensuring donation records satisfy IRS requirements before filing.A federal tax break for charitable giving will return in 2026, allowing millions of Americans who claim the standard deduction to receive a tax benefit for qualifying cash donationsbut only if they keep the proper records.Single filers will be permitted to deduct up to $1,000 in eligible cash contributions, while married couples filing jointly may deduct as much as $2,000, according to Samuel Handwerger, an accounting lecturer at the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business.The above-the-line deduction could apply to roughly 90% of taxpayers, many of whom have had little reason to retain charitable receipts since the standard deduction was substantially increased under the 2017 tax law.Although the deduction is changing, the documentation rules are not. Handwerger said the restored benefit remains subject to the substantiation requirements of Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code.Youll need these recordsEvery cash donation requires either a bank recordsuch as a canceled check or credit card statementor a written record from the charity identifying the organization, donation date and amount.For individual contributions of $250 or more, taxpayers must obtain a written acknowledgment from the charity by the time they file their return. The document must also state whether the donor received any goods or services in exchange, such as a meal, event ticket or merchandise, and give their value when applicable.That language can be decisive even when there is no dispute that a donation was genuine.In the 2012 case Durden v. Commissioner, David and Veronica Durden claimed more than $25,000 in donations to their church. Although they retained canceled checks and received a letter listing their gifts, the IRS disallowed more than $22,000 because the acknowledgment failed to say whether the church had provided anything in return.The church later issued a corrected letter, but the Tax Court rejected it because the document was obtained after the relevant filing deadline and was therefore not contemporaneous.The donor bears the responsibilityThe case… [TheTopNews] Read More.20 hours ago - Forget Primetime … Radio Owns Mind Time
(Getty Images/Simona Dumitru) Howard Robertson is CEO/founder of Spotset Media Network. I just stood there staring … at my 80-year-old father. Howard Robertson “Paw Paw” looked like he had peacefully slipped away. But I knew he was still alive. The hospice nurse led me to another room and instructed me to talk privately to him and, among other things, reassure him that I would take care of my mother and the family. Then she looked at me and said, “He needs that. He can definitely hear you and understand.” I did. He died hours later. They say hearing is the last thing we lose. Ironically, hearing, recognizing and responding to their mother’s voice is one of the very first things newborns can do. In the realm of advertising, word-of-mouth was the original form of message communication. It is one of the myriad reasons we love radio. Audio, be it the music or the message, is a straight shot to the head, heart, mind, memory and feelings. From a sensory perspective, sound is second only to smell in its power to transport your brain to another time, place or experience. I have spent more than 53 years in advertising and media, including years selling television after being trained on Madison Avenue. For about a third of my career, I was a media seller with experience in both radio and television. I sold TV, profitably. But I love radio, personally. Sight, sound, motion and emotion were the qualitative highlights of television messaging we always touted. I know television’s strengths. I also know what radio does, that no other medium can quite duplicate. Every week, radio reaches and affects more adults, more frequently and for longer periods of time than any other media. Most radio listening occurs Monday through Friday, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., during a commute, at work or during other daytime activities. Radio’s primetime is really… mind time. It is mind time because it includes the times of day when, among average adults, logical reasoning, speed, accuracy and executive function are highest, including some of the best times for insight and creative brainstorming. Television’s primetime describes the value of an inventory block. Radio’s primetime describes the listener’s state of mind. Network TV primetime is prime totally in the networks’ own self-interest. It is a three-hour time block at night, when adult audiences are anything but primed. Maybe they are… [TheTopNews] Read More.20 hours ago
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It seems extremely unlikely that accused rapists and sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate will be released from Miami’s federal detention center, where they’re being held. For one thing, the brothers are awaiting extradition to the United Kingdom to face sprawling charges related to sex trafficking, rape, assault, and indecent images of a child, and the Trump administration has declined to step in. For another, as government prosecutors laid out in a filing opposing pre-trial release earlier this week, there is something of a flight risk, given that Andrew Tate previously used an alter-ego Twitter account to brag about being, in his words, “above the law” and “hard to kill,” as well as having of four or five passports and nine drivers’ licenses in several names. “I have had warrants out for my arrest and travelled freely,” @OfWudan, an account linked to Tate, tweeted in 2019. “I am smarter than you. I am Steven Seagal. I am above the law.” (Tristan Tate, according to the prosecutors’ filing, is similarly alleged by UK authorities to have a Mexican passport bearing his photo and date of birth, but with the name “Vladimir Scorpius,” a James Bond villain.) The mountain impeding the Tates’ pretrial release, then, is extremely high, but Joseph McBride is determined to climb it. McBride, a New York attorney representing both brothers, has launched an aggressive, quixotic, and highly public quest to free the Tates and promote a positive image of the two men. He’s using several tools to do so, including podcasting (both on his own, entitled Judgment Day, and through appearances on others’ shows), intense media engagement, a rally outside the jail, verbose tweeting, and, most unusually of all, a flood of AI-generated images released on X and Instagram. The conditions Andrew and Tristan Tate are being held in are a disgrace.Small filthy cell.Cockroaches.Shower water to drink.No chair.Lights they cannot control.Food that makes Taco Bell look like a Michelin restaurant.Beds too small for men who are 6’3” and 6’5”.Three… pic.twitter.com/gVZC0zwyI6— Joe McBride (@McBrideLawNYC) July 28, 2026 The faked images typically show the Tates manfully bearing their suffering in the clink: meditating in orange jumpsuits together atop a bunk, for instance, or dually staring at the viewer from inside a filthy cell. He also shared a striking image of the Tates sitting around a table with prominent men from across the historical spectrum—from Joe Rogan back through… [TheTopNews] Read More.
20 hours ago
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Matthew LaPlante doesn’t have to go to a lab to see his research in action. On some mornings, he can just look out his own window in the mountains high above Salt Lake City. After a warm night when the temperature stays above freezing, he’ll wake up and see that the snow level has dropped by inches, revealing more of the aspens he taps for syrup. “It feels like a monster came and just in the middle of the night, took a bite out of a snowpack,” said LaPlante, a journalist and climate scientist at Utah State University. So it’s fitting that scientists have started calling these kinds of heat waves, marked by unusually high temperatures in the spring and early summer, “snow eaters.” LaPlante was part of a recent study, published in the journal Science Advances, that attempted, for the first time, to identify what conditions exactly make for a “snow eater.” Compared to normal warm spells or heat waves, the researchers determined that these events happen when temperatures stay above freezing through both day and night for multiple days, typically three to five. These events can roughly double the rate at which snow melts, causing flooding and making it challenging to manage water resources. “Snow eaters” appear to be occurring earlier in the year and becoming more widespread in the Western United States as the climate warms. Since the 1850s, the study found, the area affected by snow eaters has increased by an average of about 40,000 square miles per century, and the first snow eater of the season has been arriving about one month earlier per century. “Water that would otherwise be stored as snow comes out early, and then we have to deal with it as a hazard instead of a resource.” The term “snow eater” has a murky history. By at least the 1880s, people in the West were talking about “snow-eating” chinooks, warm mountain winds that make snow disappear quickly. More recently, the phrase “snow-eater heat wave” first made headlines in March, when an early heat wave enveloped much of the West, quickly wiping away snowpack in the Colorado Rockies and California’s Sierra Nevada. The scientists hope the catchy, evocative term can help draw more attention to this type of heat wave, since there’s still a lot to learn. The study only looked at the Western… [TheTopNews] Read More.
20 hours ago
The plane was stuck on the tarmac of a Louisiana airport, but Yurin Quiroa Ralda, 21, was not particularly eager to take off. He was being deported, based in part on misinterpreted records. And not to his birthplace, Guatemala, but to Ecuador, where he’d never even been. That alone was a nightmare, but Yurin’s situation was even more frustrating: After he’d crossed the US-Mexico border alone at age 16, the US government told him that if he waited patiently, he could apply for a green card because he had Special Immigrant Juvenile status, a classification reserved for kids who were abused, abandoned, or neglected by a parent. Congress created SIJ status in 1990, to give these kids a pathway to legal permanent residency so they wouldn’t have to go back to families that harmed them. Yurin, whose dad had abandoned him before he was born, had followed the rules and waited—and he’d recently became eligible to apply for a green card. Yet here he was on a plane bound for Ecuador. A judge in a similar case cited the administration’s “reprehensible act of unimaginable cruelty,” noting, “Unquestionably, the laws of human decency condemn such villainy.” Thousands of kids with SIJ status live in the United States, though many have grown into young adults. Like Yurin, whom I wasn’t able to interview directly for this story, they’ve spent years on waitlists because the government has a cap on visas that it can issue each year. While they waited, the Biden administration gave them deferred action, a designation that temporarily shields a person from deportation and allows them to work. But despite this safeguard, President Trump’s immigration officers detained about 400 people with SIJ status and deported 132 of them during his first year back in office, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data shared with Congress. These kids were told, “‘You should stay here; here’s your protection,” says Molly Huffaker, an attorney who represents Yurin at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center. “All they’ve gotten is a broken promise,” adds Ellie Norton, an attorney at the National Immigration Project who focuses on SIJ cases. The Trump administration officially ended Biden’s policy for SIJ youth in June 2025, saying it would no longer offer deferred action to people on the government waitlists. A court blocked that move on the grounds that DHS hadn’t jumped through the necessary bureaucratic hoops. The administration… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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Charitable donations up to $1,000 per taxpayer are now deductible By Mark Huffman of ConsumerAffairs August 14, 2026 A new federal tax provision will allow non-itemizers to deduct up to $1,000 in qualifying cash donations, or $2,000 for married couples filing jointly, beginning in 2026.Donors must keep a bank record or written receipt for every cash gift, while contributions of $250 or more require a detailed acknowledgment from the charity.Taxpayersnot charitable organizationsare responsible for ensuring donation records satisfy IRS requirements before filing.A federal tax break for charitable giving will return in 2026, allowing millions of Americans who claim the standard deduction to receive a tax benefit for qualifying cash donationsbut only if they keep the proper records.Single filers will be permitted to deduct up to $1,000 in eligible cash contributions, while married couples filing jointly may deduct as much as $2,000, according to Samuel Handwerger, an accounting lecturer at the University of Marylands Robert H. Smith School of Business.The above-the-line deduction could apply to roughly 90% of taxpayers, many of whom have had little reason to retain charitable receipts since the standard deduction was substantially increased under the 2017 tax law.Although the deduction is changing, the documentation rules are not. Handwerger said the restored benefit remains subject to the substantiation requirements of Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code.Youll need these recordsEvery cash donation requires either a bank recordsuch as a canceled check or credit card statementor a written record from the charity identifying the organization, donation date and amount.For individual contributions of $250 or more, taxpayers must obtain a written acknowledgment from the charity by the time they file their return. The document must also state whether the donor received any goods or services in exchange, such as a meal, event ticket or merchandise, and give their value when applicable.That language can be decisive even when there is no dispute that a donation was genuine.In the 2012 case Durden v. Commissioner, David and Veronica Durden claimed more than $25,000 in donations to their church. Although they retained canceled checks and received a letter listing their gifts, the IRS disallowed more than $22,000 because the acknowledgment failed to say whether the church had provided anything in return.The church later issued a corrected letter, but the Tax Court rejected it because the document was obtained after the relevant filing deadline and was therefore not contemporaneous.The donor bears the responsibilityThe case… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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(Getty Images/Simona Dumitru) Howard Robertson is CEO/founder of Spotset Media Network. I just stood there staring … at my 80-year-old father. Howard Robertson “Paw Paw” looked like he had peacefully slipped away. But I knew he was still alive. The hospice nurse led me to another room and instructed me to talk privately to him and, among other things, reassure him that I would take care of my mother and the family. Then she looked at me and said, “He needs that. He can definitely hear you and understand.” I did. He died hours later. They say hearing is the last thing we lose. Ironically, hearing, recognizing and responding to their mother’s voice is one of the very first things newborns can do. In the realm of advertising, word-of-mouth was the original form of message communication. It is one of the myriad reasons we love radio. Audio, be it the music or the message, is a straight shot to the head, heart, mind, memory and feelings. From a sensory perspective, sound is second only to smell in its power to transport your brain to another time, place or experience. I have spent more than 53 years in advertising and media, including years selling television after being trained on Madison Avenue. For about a third of my career, I was a media seller with experience in both radio and television. I sold TV, profitably. But I love radio, personally. Sight, sound, motion and emotion were the qualitative highlights of television messaging we always touted. I know television’s strengths. I also know what radio does, that no other medium can quite duplicate. Every week, radio reaches and affects more adults, more frequently and for longer periods of time than any other media. Most radio listening occurs Monday through Friday, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., during a commute, at work or during other daytime activities. Radio’s primetime is really… mind time. It is mind time because it includes the times of day when, among average adults, logical reasoning, speed, accuracy and executive function are highest, including some of the best times for insight and creative brainstorming. Television’s primetime describes the value of an inventory block. Radio’s primetime describes the listener’s state of mind. Network TV primetime is prime totally in the networks’ own self-interest. It is a three-hour time block at night, when adult audiences are anything but primed. Maybe they are… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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