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President Trump on Wednesday responded to reporters’ questions about the Epstein files, and he again defended Attorney General Pam Bondi and said that “certain Republicans got duped” by the Democrats’ hoax. Trump was asked if he would ask Bondi to release more documents, and he said, “whatever’s credible, she can release,” slamming some Republicans for getting “duped” by Democrats and comparing the situation to Russiagate. The President later said, “She says I gave you all the credible information.” “If she finds any more credible information, she’ll give that too.” “I was surprised, but they got duped,” he said of Republicans…
Broadcast TV has now fallen to less than 20 percent of TV use, according to the latest Nielsen viewership survey. Nielsen only started tracking all TV use on all platforms four years ago and now includes streaming and Internet-based services. But in that time, regular broadcast TV has cratered in viewership. The latest ratings found that over-the-air broadcast has dwindled to just 18.5 percent of usage, down from the 20.1 percent measured by the service in May, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Despite the continued fall from grace of the old broadcast networks, TV use grew by three percent, Nielsen…
President Donald Trump meets with the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa on Wednesday, July 16. Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa is expected to announce billions in new investments by Bahrain in the United States. Bahrain was one of the first countries to sign the Abraham Accords to normalize relations with Israel during Trump’s first term. Read the full article here
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday warned Brazil, China, India, and other heavy buyers of Russian oil they could face stiff secondary sanctions if they keep doing business with Moscow. “My encouragement to these three countries, particularly is, if you live now in Beijing, or in Delhi, or you are the president of Brazil, you might want to take a look into this, because this might hit you very hard,” Rutte told reporters after meeting with President Donald Trump and U.S. lawmakers in Washington, D.C. “So please make the phone call to Vladimir Putin and tell…
President Donald Trump indicated that he supported Attorney General Pam Bondi, stating that she had handled files relating to convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein “very well.” When speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump revealed that Bondi had given him a “very quick briefing” regarding the memo released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and added that the files were “made up by” former FBI Director James Comey and former President Barack Obama, ABC News reported. Trump’s response comes after the DOJ and FBI released a memo that found that there was no evidence…
More cryptocurrency drama is unfolding on the House floor Wednesday, a day after conservative hard-liners foiled GOP leaders’ plans to advance a trio of regulatory bills. The hard-liners climbed back aboard following a Tuesday night meeting with President Donald Trump and a last-minute negotiation Wednesday with House leaders that allowed the chamber to take an initial procedural step on the legislation. But the deal they cut — to merge the market-structure-focused CLARITY Act with a separate bill banning a central bank digital currency — has sparked backlash from members of the committees that crafted the legislation. Speaker Mike Johnson is…
The scheme would violate international law and trigger legal and market risks, the depository’s CEO has said European Union plans to move frozen Russian sovereign assets into riskier investments would amount to expropriation, the Belgium-based settlement house Euroclear has warned.In an interview with the Financial Times published Wednesday, Euroclear Chief Executive Valerie Urbain said such a move could expose the EU’s financial system to both legal and systemic risks.Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, the US and EU have frozen more than $300 billion in Russian state assets. In May, the EU approved a plan to channel…
Credit: Michelle Obama YouTube Screenshot Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle jointly broke their silence regarding rumors over the state of their marriage in an interview. As The Daily Mail reported, Barack appeared as a guest on his wife’s podcast IMO taped for Wednesday, which she co-hosts with her brother Craig Robinson.a While on the show, he and Michelle attempted to use humor in a desperate attempt to put a happy face on their relationship. And Michelle’s brother was more than happy to play along. “Wait, you guys like each other?” Robinson asked in mock astonishment. “Oh yeah,…
A fresh volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula overnight spread with a second fissure opening up on Wednesday, with the famous blue Lagoon spa and local settlements evacuated by police. A second, longer fissure opened in the ground near Grindavík on the Reykjanes Peninsula, some 25 miles south-west from the Icelandic capital Reykjavík opened on Wednesday. Measuring approximately 1.5 miles in length, reports Fréttastofa RÚV, the Icelandic national broadcaster’s news service, the second is considerably larger than the 1/3 mile long first fissure that opened last night and prompted a series of evacuations of tourists and locals. The world-famous Blue Lagoon spa and the…
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that the newly constructed immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” needed to be “shut the hell down.” Host Jake Tapper said, “Over the weekend, you and a delegation of lawmakers toured the immigration detention center that Governor DeSantis calls Alligator Alcatraz. Immediately after you toured it, you called for it to be shut down. What did you see?” Wasserman Schultz said, “Well, what we saw were humans caged. I mean, 32 detainees per cage, eight cages inside a tent, wall to wall people. But, you know, like,…