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- ‘He Was Fired’: Fox News Reports Navy Secretary Did Not Leave on His Own
Former Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was fired, Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reported on Wednesday. Multiple news outlets had reported that Phelan was leaving his post, but it was unclear if he resigned or was terminated. On Wednesday’s Special Report, Heinrich removed all doubt by reporting that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired him. The news comes amid the ongoing U.S. naval blockade of Iran. “The Pentagon spokesman just announced Navy Secretary John Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately, saying, ‘We wish him well in his future endeavors,'” Heinrich said. “It was not immediately clear from this post if he resigned or was fired, but Fox News has learned in the last few moments he was fired. He had a very close relationship, apparently, with Donald Trump Jr. and just hosted a bridal shower for his fiancée this past weekend in Palm Beach.” Heinrich added that Undersecretary of the Navy Hung Cao will become acting secretary. Cao served in the Navy and was endorsed by President Donald Trump in his unsuccessful 2024 Senate bid in Virginia. Phelan is the 34th officer Hegseth has fired, Heinrich noted. The president nominated Phelan, a Republican megadonor, to be Secretary of the Navy in November 2024, despite his lack of military experience. An avid art collector, Phelan was a major donor to the president in 2024, and reportedly hosted Trump at his $38 million Aspen home during the campaign. At the event, Trump went on a profanity-laden tirade against immigrants and claimed that if then-Vice President Kamala Harris won, the 2024 election “could be the last election we ever have.” Watch above via Fox News.The post ‘He Was Fired’: Fox News Reports Navy Secretary Did Not Leave on His Own first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago - Elizabeth Warren Defends Graham Platner Endorsement As Anchor Drops Scathing Lis...CNBC anchor Sara Eisen grilled Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday over her recent campaign appearances with progressive Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. Warren has endorsed Platner, who has been a lightning rod of controversy over his bigoted past social media posts and Nazi chest tattoo. “You campaigned with Graham Platner ahead of that state’s very pivotal Democratic primary. And I wanted to ask you about something you said. You said he’s your kind of man. And I’ve interviewed you for a long time and watched your hearings and listened to your questions. You care about character,” Eisen began, adding: This is a guy that had a chest tattoo with a Nazi symbol. OK, he apologized for it. It’s a guy who reportedly wrote that ‘people concerned about rape should take some responsibility for themselves and not get so effed up that they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to.’ He praised military tactics used by Hamas, reportedly, in comments online and Reddit when they were murdering Israeli soldiers. So I’m just curious why you think he’s your kind of man? “So, as you rightly point out, he has apologized. He’s out meeting with the people of Maine every single day so they can evaluate not who Graham Platner was, but who Graham Platner is today,” Warren replied, adding: And let me tell you exactly how that comment came to be. I was describing how I didn’t know Graham Platner from anybody. And I’m reading an interview with him, and he’s asked, “When did you first know that the game was rigged?” And he harks back to the 2008 crash, when 10 million families lost their homes, when 8 million people lost their jobs, when millions of people lost savings, and when big banks cheated folks, when non-bank financial institutions tricked them, robbed them of their homes. And Graham Platner’s answer on when he knew the game was rigged was when not one banker went to jail. And I said, “That’s my kind of man.” “Well, ‘I dig it’ next to a video of a bunch of terrorists killing five soldiers. I don’t know. I mean, you guys want to be the party of inclusivity, right?” Eisen followed up. “I want to be the party that stands up for hardworking people,” Warren replied, adding: I want to be the party that is transformative of an… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
- Georgia Paper Reports Congressman Who Just Died Is Seeking Reelection
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images The Atlanta Journal-Constitution informed its followers on Bluesky that Rep. David Scott (D-GA) is running for reelection – just hours after the paper reported he died. Scott, 80, died on Wednesday in the middle of his 12th term in the House. He is the fourth Democrat to die in this Congress, joining former Reps. Sylvester Turner (D-TX), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), and Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who were in their 70s. Scott was seeking reelection. And according to a social media post, he still is, despite being dead. “Despite the concerns about his health and age as well as facing another tough primary contest, U.S. Rep. David Scott said he will seek another term in the House,” the Journal-Constitution posted on Bluesky. The post, which has since been deleted, linked to an article from August 28, 2025 that raised concerns about his age and health. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will call a special election to fill the seat. Scott’s name will remain on next month’s primary ballot because, according to a spokesperson for the secretary of state, “It is too late to change the ballot as early voting starts Monday.” Before his death, Mediaite last covered Scott in December 2024 after he yelled at Politico photographer Francis Chung outside the Capitol. “Who gave you the right to take my picture, asshole?” Politico reported the congressman as saying. “I’m going to ask you to not come and take a picture of us as we’re trying to get into the Capitol,” a staffer told Chung. “I’m going to ask you very nicely to not do that. We will be reaching out to your editor, whoever it is we have to reach out to.”The post Georgia Paper Reports Congressman Who Just Died Is Seeking Reelection first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago - Reporter Grills Karoline Leavitt On Iran Refuting Trump’s Negotiation ClaimsWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the mainstream press to take reports from state-sponsored Iranian outlets with a huge serving of skepticism on Wednesday, after a British reporter asked for the administration’s response to Iranian media “openly mocking” President Donald Trump over the ceasefire extension. Leavitt was asked about it while speaking to reporters in front of the White House. “In the same day, the president said that he does not want to extend the ceasefire and the bombs would start falling after the end of the ceasefire, and unilaterally, he declared the ceasefire would be extended indefinitely. Iranian state media are openly mocking the president of the United States,” the reporter said. He then said the Iranian press reported the country’s theocratic leaders didn’t even ask for the extension Trump gave them. “The response is, you guys all see a lot of different messaging coming out of Iran, a lot of different rhetoric and language from them,” Leavitt said. “I would caution you to take anything that they say at face value. What we’ve seen is what they say publicly is much different than what they concede to the United States and our negotiating team privately.” She added, “I’ve said that repeatedly to all of you in the news media and you should take our word for it.” Leavitt was asked the question after Trump reportedly added 3-5 days to the ceasefire, which was set to expire on Wednesday. A U.S. official briefed on negotiations told Axios the extension was to give what’s left of Iran’s leadership a chance to “get their sh*t together.” And in related news, Leavitt went on Fox News on Wednesday afternoon and told the mainstream media to stop blowing stories like Iran attacking three cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz “out of proportion.” Watch above via Live Now on Fox.The post Reporter Grills Karoline Leavitt On Iran Refuting Trump’s Negotiation Claims first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago
- FBI Investigated NY Times Reporter Who Wrote Unflattering Kash Patel Story
Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images New York Times investigative reporter Michael S. Schmidt revealed on Wednesday that the FBI investigated one of his colleagues after she wrote on an unflattering story about FBI Director Kash Patel. Schmidt reported that the FBI started investigating Elizabeth Williamson, a Washington DC based features writer for the Times, in March. Williamson penned a report on Patel’s use of government resources to give his country singer girlfriend Alexis Wilkins both security and transportation. “Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team,” was the title of Williamson’s article on the subject, which ran in late February. “Agents interviewed the girlfriend, queried databases for information on the reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, and recommended moving forward to determine whether Ms. Williamson broke federal stalking laws,” reported Schmidt, citing sources familiar with the investigation. Schmidt added: Those actions prompted concerns among some Justice Department officials who saw the inquiry as retaliation for an article that Mr. Patel and his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, did not like, and who determined there was no legal basis to proceed with the investigation, according to the person briefed on the matter. The FBI responded to the Times’s request for comment on the investigation, confirming the investigation, but adding that “while investigators were concerned about how the aggressive reporting techniques crossed lines of stalking,” the bureau is not looking at a case against Williamson. Patel is currently suing The Atlantic for $250 million after the publication ran a story in which two dozen witnesses alleged Patel has engaged in “bouts of excessive drinking” and had “unexplained absences,” causing concern at the Department of Justice.The post FBI Investigated NY Times Reporter Who Wrote Unflattering Kash Patel Story first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago - Major Prediction Market Reveals US Politicians Were Caught Betting on Their Own ...
(Photo by Davide Bonaldo/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Kalshi, one of the leading prediction markets in the budding industry, announced this week it caught three U.S. congressional candidates trading on their own elections. In a statement released Wednesday, Kalshi revealed that the three candidates — one running for Senate and two running for the House — traded in markets related to their own races. One of those cases involved the Democratic primary for the 2nd District of Minnesota. The statement read: Our systems alerted us to a candidate in the Democratic Primary for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District who had traded a small amount on the outcome of his own election. After running its investigation, the surveillance team used internal information obtained from the trader and open source intelligence to confirm that the identity of the trader was the same as the candidate. The candidate was then alerted to the rule violation and quickly negotiated a settlement. As part of that settlement, he acknowledged that the trading activity violated Kalshi exchange rules, agreed to pay a fine of $539.85, and to a suspension from Kalshi for a period of 5 years. In the Republican primary for Texas’s 21st District, a candidate reportedly placed a “slightly larger amount” on the outcome of his election. He was fined $748.20, and was also handed a five-year suspension. The third case involved the Democratic primary for Virginia’s Senate race, where incumbent Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) is all but certain to prevail. In that one, the candidate effectively bet on themselves becoming a candidate before they officially announced their run for office. The statement continued: We found a candidate for the Democratic Primary for Virginia’s U.S. Senate election who traded in two markets related to his campaign. The first was a market on individuals who would run for public office in 2026. This person placed a trade on himself in this market. Then, once the trader announced himself as a candidate for the Democratic Primary election for Virginia U.S. Senate, he again traded on his own candidacy. That candidate was fined more than $6,2000 in addition to a five-year suspension from Kalshi. “Regardless of the size of a trade,” Kalshi said in the statement, “political candidates who can influence a market based on whether they stay in or out of a race violate our rules. No matter how small the size of the trade, any trade… [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago
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