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Friday on MS NOW’s “The Beat,” host Ari Melber said President Donald Trump dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded payout for investigations under the Biden administration could get him impeached. Former White House special counsel Ty Cobb said, “Clearly, in the case, they point to the fact that Pam Bondi, directed, her Justice Department to be loyal to Trump, not to the Constitution. Trump issued an executive order directing all government lawyers, all government personnel, government wide, you know, preventing them from taking positions that were contrary to his opinion about the…
As ties fray, Berlin and Washington are trading barbs over their decline, using each other’s crises to dodge their own mounting failures German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told an audience of local Catholics in the southwestern city of Wuerzburg that he no longer advises young people to travel to the United States for work and study, citing the rapidly changing “social climate” in the country.Merz, who has served as Chancellor of Germany since May 2025, said “I would not recommend to my children today that they go to the US to get an education and to work” – a comment that attracted…
The leading contenders seeking to topple Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer have both said that they would overturn the Brexit referendum and rejoin the European Union. Formally announcing his intention to wage a leadership campaign against Prime Minister Starmer, former Health Secretary Wes Streeting — who resigned from Starmer’s cabinet this week — said that if given power, he would look to rejoin the EU. Calling Brexit a “catastrophic mistake”, Streeting said per The Times of London: “The Vote Leave campaign deluded itself into thinking that the UK could forge a global free trade nirvana, as though we still had…
Friday on MS NOW’s “The Beat,” former White House special counsel and chronic Trump critic Ty Cobb claimed President Donald Trump’s “absence of frontal lobe control and impulse control” was causing “corruption.” Host Ari Melber said, “There’s new ethics filings that show because some of the system does still work, they are required to release this, and they did that. Trump has been trading heavily in the stock market, disclosing hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions, including in major companies. That includes securities and stocks in the tech space that obviously are involved with AI and other big ticket items…
Former Google CEO and Democrat mega-donor Eric Schmidt encountered widespread booing from graduates during his commencement address at the University of Arizona on Saturday as he spoke about young people’s “fear” of AI. His speech was already controversial based on rape allegations made by his former girlfriend. The New York Post reports that the 71-year-old tech billionaire was met with jeers from students as he delivered remarks about AI and automation at the university’s graduation ceremony. The hostile reception came after significant backlash over his selection as the commencement speaker in light of sexual harassment and rape allegations filed in a…
The United Nations has released footage appearing to show one of its vehicles coming under attack by a drone as it was attempting to deliver aid to the Black Sea city of Kherson. The Ukraine Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released footage of the attack, which it claimed occurred on Thursday, as its vehicle was making a delivery of food and solar lamps to the Ostriv area of Kherson. Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth, a representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said the vehicle was “clearly marked” as property of the U.N. when it came under attack by two…
Approximately 50 autonomous Waymo robotaxis have been circling a residential cul-de-sac in northwest Atlanta for hours at a time, raising safety concerns among local families and disrupting daily life in the quiet neighborhood. WSB-TV reports that residents of Battleview Drive in northwest Atlanta have found their quiet suburban street transformed into an unexpected gathering point for dozens of empty self-driving vehicles. Video footage captured by neighbors shows long lines of identical white Jaguar I-PACE robotaxis methodically navigating the narrow loop, executing repeated slow turns past single-family homes, lawns, mature trees, and driveways. The vehicles, which display prominent roof-mounted sensor arrays and…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) holds a wide advantage over primary challenger Mark Lynch in the latest South Carolina Republican Senate primary survey, with the incumbent leading among every demographic group included in the survey. A new InsiderAdvantage poll of likely Republican primary voters conducted May 13-14 shows Graham at 56 percent, Lynch at 13 percent, other candidates at 8 percent, and 23 percent with no opinion or undecided. “Graham leads among every single demographic group, something I rarely, if ever see in a poll,” InsiderAdvantage pollster Matt Towery said. “In other questions we included in the full survey more than sixty…
The Houston-based center will also sack five doctors who provided gender-affirming treatments to youth, the Texas Attorney General has said Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) will become the first American medical institution to open a clinic for adolescents seeking to reverse gender-related medical treatments, the US Department of Justice said.The move comes as part of a settlement of a years-long probe by the DOJ and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton into America’s largest children’s hospital over its alleged false billings to secure insurance coverage for pediatric gender-affirming treatments.The Justice Department said in a statement on Friday that Texas Children’s agreed not…
Indian academics at a Texas university conspired to exclude an American job-seeker from a tenured job, even to the point of labelling the Asian-American candidate as “white,” says a lawsuit by the Asian-American candidate named Sean Wang. The lawsuit described the alleged anti-American discrimination against Wang at Southern Methodist University: Since Hemang Desai (Indian-origin) became a full professor at SMU in 2006, its Accounting Department has had a systematic pattern of discrimination in tenure decisions. Among candidates of Indian descent who meet SMU’s stated productivity standard of at least four top-tier publications, 100% (2 of 2) were tenured: Neil Bhattacharya in 2008…