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- Alphabet Quadruples Profit to Nearly $120 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments
Google’s parent company, which has spent heavily on artificial intelligence, also showed growth across its businesses, particularly in cloud computing. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Trump Declares ‘We Don’t Need the Hormuz Strait’
President Donald Trump declared the USA has no need for the Strait of Hormuz — but he still wants to pummel Iran to prove it can never control the vital oil passage anyway. The president said during a Wednesday rally in Georgia the strait isn’t a big deal for America because the U.S. already controls a huge huge chunk of the oil market. Trump said it was thanks in large part to the operation that plucked Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro from his bed at the start of the year. “It’s been incredible actually, it’s got serious oil,” Trump said about Venezuela. “In fact, if you combine us and Venezuela, we have about 62% of the world’s oil market, so we don’t need straits, we don’t need anything.” The audience clapped and hollered in approval. Trump continued, “We don’t need the Hormuz Strait, but we do it because we have to do it. Because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.” He then turned away from the microphone and soaked up the roar from the crowd. Trump’s speech followed his threat a few hours earlier in a Truth Social post to wipe out “ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT” for every ship Iran attacked in the strait. The president’s turbocharged version of “an eye for an eye” comes after the war reignited earlier this month when Iran attacked a Cyprus-flagged ship in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s attack spurred retaliatory strikes from the U.S. military right after, and those strikes have continued unabated since then. The U.S. conducted its 11th straight night of strikes on Iran on Tuesday. Trump has argued Iran cannot control the Strait of Hormuz and use it to fund its nuclear ambitions. He told the crowd on Wednesday Iran is run by murderous thugs who have killed 52,000 protesters in the last year, but the “fake news never mentions that.” Watch above via Fox News.The post Trump Declares ‘We Don’t Need the Hormuz Strait’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - CBS Mornings Notches Its Lowest-Rated Week in Program History
Screenshot via CBS CBS Mornings saw a dip in ratings in July that led to the lowest-rated week in the history of the program, according to new data. For the week starting with July 13, Nielsen reported that CBS Mornings had an average viewership of 1.59 million. It was the first time the program’s average fell below 1.6 million since ratings have been tracked. Additionally, the show’s average viewership has fallen significantly from the same period last year. From July 14 to July 18 of 2025, CBS Mornings had an average of 1.83 million. This year’s figure marked a 13% decline from last year. The declining viewership followed a trend from the previous month, which was described as CBS’s “worst-rated June ever” following the firing of 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. Despite the dip, CBS Mornings maintained its lead over Fox & Friends in the weekday morning slot. The Fox News program had an average viewership of 1.46 million last week — trailing CBS Mornings by 9%. Fox has closed the gap signifigantly however as CBS led Fox News between 7 and 9 a.m. during the same period last year by some 30%. While CBS Mornings saw a 13% drop from last year, Fox & Friends boasted a 4% increase over the same period. In the prime time weekday average, Fox News led the pack with 2.9 million viewers on average. Behind Fox were NBC (2.5 million), ABC (2.4 million), and CBS (2.1 million). Topping all cable news programs that week was The Five, which drew an average audience of 3.4 million. Fox’s Special Report with Bret Baier, which follows The Five, had an average viewership of 2.6.The post CBS Mornings Notches Its Lowest-Rated Week in Program History first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Tesla Profit Falls Even as Car Sales ReboundThe company is selling more cars, but the company’s profit was down because of price cuts and higher expenses. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Trump Says He Offered Family of Servicemember Killed in Iran a Ride in Air Force...President Donald Trump offered the family of a servicemember killed in Iran a ride in Air Force One, he told attendees at an event held at Atlanta’s Wheeler High School Wednesday. The president arrived in Atlanta after departing Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, “which is an incredible place,” he said, “but oftentimes very sad, because that’s when they bring the bodies of our great heroes, our great patriots, warriors.” “They bring them back to Dover, and I’ve been there many times before,” Trump continued. “This was in particular something very sad. I attended the dignified transfer ceremony for four great U.S. Service members killed in the conflict with Iran. As they returned to American soil at Dover, one of the families happened to be traveling to Georgia, a beautiful family. A beautiful wife and husband and brother-in-law, and I said, ‘I’m going to Georgia too. Where are you going?’ They said, ‘Well, after this, sir’—they lost their beautiful son, and I said, ‘If you want, after this, I’ll give you a ride on Air Force One, ‘ and they said, ‘Wow.'” The family joined Trump today. “So today, I then said, on Air Force One, and it’s quite nice, I must say. And they said, ‘Wow, this is something. Thank you so much.’ But they are heartbroken. They are heartbroken, and they live very close to here. They live minutes away.” On Wednesday, Trump attended the dignified transfer of the remains of four servicemembers killed in Iran. The servicemembers have been identified as Angel S. Rampersad of New York, Michael Emmanuel Swinton of North Carolina, Tyler James Feehan of Hawai’i, and Isabella Gonzales of Texas. “We’re going to Dover. Some of you are going with us. To honor our heroes, and they are indeed great heroes, actually. They said, and all of them said very strongly, we can’t let, we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” the president told reporters today, per NBC News. “They won’t have a nuclear weapon. So we’re going to honor them. And it’s one of the hardest things to do, for me, it’s one of the hardest things to do as a president, but has to be done.”The post Trump Says He Offered Family of Servicemember Killed in Iran a Ride in Air Force One: ‘They Said Wow’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Paris Hilton Pushes House on Deepfakes Legislation: ‘Really Hope They Move Thi...
J. Scott Applewhite, Lindsey Wasson/AP Photos Socialite Paris Hilton is pushing the U.S. House of Representatives and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to pass a bipartisan bill that would legally deep-six those who make and distribute sexual deepfake images. The model and former reality television star has backed the DEFIANCE Act, sponsored by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Laurel Lee (R-FL), which would give victims the right to sue those who “knowingly produce, distribute, solicit and receive or possess with the intent to distribute nonconsensual sexually-explicit digital forgeries.” The bill passed the Senate in January in a unanimous vote. Johnson was asked about the DEFIANCE Act Tuesday, but didn’t commit to getting it passed. “No, I remember that. I don’t know,” Johnson said according to video posted to X. “I don’t know what the status of it is though. I’m obviously in favor of that. It’s a very important piece of legislation. Laurel’s done great work on it. We’ll have to see.” I’m proud to support @RepLaurelLee @AOC’s #DEFIANCEAct to provide victims of explicit deepfakes access to justice,” Hilton posted on X. “It passed the Senate UNANIMOUSLY and is awaiting a vote in @JudiciaryGOP – Leadership has the ability to pass this and I really hope they move this bill as this issue is impacting women and girls in every neighborhood @MikeJohnson @HouseGOP @SpeakerJohnson,” she wrote. Hilton has been an outspoken advocate for abuse victims and was infamously the victim of a sex tape scandal in 2003, when she was just 19. “People called it a scandal. It wasn’t. It was abuse,” she said during her January appearance in Washington to push for the DEFIANCE Act. “There were no laws at the time to protect me. There weren’t even words for what had been done to me. The internet was still new, and so was the cruelty that came with it. They called me names, they laughed and made me the punchline,” the now 45-year-old said at the time. “They sold my pain for clicks, and then they told me to be quiet, to move on, to even be grateful for the attention. These people didn’t see me as a young woman who had been exploited. They didn’t see the panic that I felt, the humiliation or the shame. No one asked me what I lost.”The post Paris Hilton Pushes House on Deepfakes Legislation: ‘Really Hope They Move This Bill’… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
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