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- Teenager drops social media addiction lawsuit against Meta
Claims from a 15-year-old boy were set to go to trial next week in Los Angeles, but the case has now been dropped. [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago - GOP House Chair Scolds Dem Accusing Rubio of Not Testifying on Iran: ‘Probably...
House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast (R-FL) scolded Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), ranking member on the committee, over Meek’s claim that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has avoided testifying before Congress on the Iran war. During a Wednesday House hearing, Meeks pressed United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz on increased costs amid the ongoing war and plans to end the conflict. He took a shot at Rubio and accused him of presenting no plan to Congress. “He’s coming back now asking the Senate and he’ll be asking the House about $300 billion more. He’s not come to Congress. He has not talked about and talked with us on how we end this war,” Meeks said. Waltz jumped in to note that Rubio has discussed the war with congressional members. “Secretary Rubio has been before Congress,” Waltz said, noting Rubio has been to the Capitol for hearings. Rubio appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House Appropriations Subcommittee, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee in early June. Meeks, who is the former chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, claimed Rubio “has not answered the questions.” “I’m taking advantage of everybody that is coming here because unfortunately there’s been no oversight in this committee and you have been the face of this war at the UN, sir,” the lawmaker said. Mast then jumped in to put Meeks on blast, accusing him of forgetting Rubio’s testimony because the NYC congressman left the hearing halfway through. “You may not recall the oversight of Secretary Rubio just about a month ago, because you left halfway through and never came back, so maybe you forgot about it. That might make sense,” Mast told Meeks. “I did not, he has not, have we had — he came here—” Meeks began as Mast continued. “You probably don’t remember because you missed half of it,” the chair said. “I didn’t miss half of it. I could see it in my office. You don’t know what I missed,” Meeks fired back. “I know what you missed. I know you weren’t sitting here next to the rest of us,” Mast said. “I know we have not had any hearings in Oversight. I know that,” Meeks said. Mast took another shot before moving on, thanking Meeks for attending a classified briefing. “Also, I would thank you for attending Monday’s classified briefing. I think it might have been the first… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago - Rahm Emanuel Clashes with The New Yorker’s David Remnick Over Whether Democrat... Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Democrats lost touch with the American public by fixating on trans rights instead of issues like housing costs and education. Emanuel got into a polite-but-passionate exchange with The New Yorker editor David Remnick on the magazine’s Tuesday podcast. The ex-mayor said he supports trans issues, but argued it should not be one of the main topics Democrats campaign on. “You have to prioritize what’s an A and a B [issue],” he said. “I’m gonna make sure children feel accepted, and the best way to make sure they feel accepted is they know reading, math, and high school graduation [are essential].” Remnick started the segment by pointing to Emanuel recently saying he was “done with the discussion of bathrooms” and locker rooms. “You’d like Democrats to be done with that, but Republican clearly aren’t,” Remnick said. “Should Democrats really be silent in response to attacks on trans people? It just seems that this line is clever, but it doesn’t do service to some human beings who want their rights.” Emanuel started off by saying he passed an ordinance in 2016 allowing trans men and women to use whichever bathroom they wanted, so he was more focused on education now. “Why can’t you do both?” Remnick asked. Emanuel answered: Because you have an issue in which coming out of Covid also is a lightening rod that distracted. I didn’t take Abraham Lincoln’s name off a school in San Francisco, I didn’t ask for defunding the police, I didn’t get yourselves wrapped around the axel on the term ‘Latinx,’ which nobody identifies with. It was an example, David, not just of this particular issue, of a party when people’s backs are against the wall — they’re holding onto that window sill and they can’t make a college payment, they can’t make a home mortgage payment, their healthcare is now being denied to them — they expect us Democrats to show up. And we’re showing up talking about bathroom access, sporting events, who gets to participate? Remnick responded that in the past, “groups didn’t have their rights and they were told to be patient,” and added that Emanuel’s comment on bathrooms sounded like “a tag line to differentiate” himself. “It’s not just a tagline!” Emanuel shot back. He then pointed again to his trans bathroom ordinance, saying, “I made sure kids had access to a bathroom, I just… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
- Lawsuit Against Meta Over Social Media Addiction Is Dropped
For Meta, the move was a reprieve after it and YouTube were found guilty in another case in March of negligence and personal injury for their platforms’ addictive features. [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago - Fox’s Jennifer Griffin Details the Lives of Fallen US Soldiers In Somber Tribu...Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin joined Fox News’s America Reports on Wednesday to discuss the dignified transfer of four fallen U.S. soldiers, which was attended by President Donald Trump. Anchor Sandra Smith introduced Griffin during their coverage of the somber event, which included a lengthy moment of silence as the coffins were being transferred. “Sandra, every president says that this is the most difficult thing that they have to do during their presidency — to go to Dover to meet the families and to greet the caskets of the fallen, knowing that they have sent these individuals, these soldiers, to war. It weighs heavily on them. We’ve heard President Trump speak about that in the past,” Griffin began, before offering a lengthy description of the lives the four fallen soldiers left behind: This is the third time that he has been to Dover since the start of the Iran War. There were the six service members who were killed early on in the conflict when a drone hit their base in Kuwait. There were the six service members who died in the KC-135 air refueling plane that went down over Iraq. And now today we have these four other soldiers. First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan — we’re learning more about his life from his family. His family in Utah has set up a scholarship fund for ROTC students at his former alma mater, the University of Southern Utah, with the death gratuity — the $100,000 that each service member’s family will be given by the Department of War — and his family has decided to devote that to future service members. He was supposed to return home and get married. His family remembers him as an adventurer. He went to Mount Everest base camp. He hiked the Camino Trail. He was planning to come home and get married. Then there was Private Isabella Gonzales, just 19 years old. She had just graduated last year from high school. She told her English teacher, just before she graduated, that she planned to enlist so that she could eventually go to college. She’s from Northern Texas, from Carrollton, Texas. Sergeant Michael Swinton — his wife is from Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. His wife, Mia, posted a heart-rending post on Facebook showing him hugging his four-year-old daughter. It was the last picture she would… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
- ‘He Got Me!’ Charlamagne Stunned After Learning NYC’s Zohran Mamdani Canâ€...Charlamagne Tha God was shocked to learn New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) doesn’t have the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Wednesday’s The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne said Mamdani “got” him, because he assumed the mayor had the right to enforce the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Netanyahu while the Israeli prime minister visits New York. Mamdani walked back his pledge to arrest Netanyahu in a video posted to social media this week, where he admitted he does not have the legal authority to arrest Israel’s leader after “active” talks with law enforcement officials. The Big Apple mayor called on federal authorities to enforce the warrant, but the administration has dismissed calls for Netanyahu’s arrest as a “publicity stunt.” “But why is it a publicity stunt if there’s actually an international arrest warrant? Like, there’s actually an international arrest warrant and there’s an elected official who wants to enforce that, what’s the problem? Isn’t that the law? What am I missing here?” Charlamagne asked. He was then informed only federal officials could enforce the warrant, which Mamdani noted in his video. “It’s a damn good publicity stunt because he got me. I was like, damn, he’s trying to enforce the like that? You said you want to arrest Bibi?” Charlamagne said, adding, “I thought he had the power to do it especially if he came to New York.” The radio host continued, “Listen, he got me. I didn’t know. Wow.” Mamdani declared in his video that Netanyahu “is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large.” He accused Netanyahu of being the “architect” of a “horrific genocide against the Palestinian people,” referring to Israel’s strikes on Gaza, which have led to thousands of civilian deaths. The ICC arrest warrant against Netanyahu, issued in 2024, accuses him of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the war in Gaza. Watch above via The Breakfast Club. Jason Cohen contributed to this report. The post ‘He Got Me!’ Charlamagne Stunned After Learning NYC’s Zohran Mamdani Can’t Actually Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
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