🌮Taco Bell Stops Serving Items Amid “Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak”
🤖A.I. Movie Star!
👰♂️Taylor Swift Wedding: Details, Pictures, Cost
🚨Stocks⬆️,🛢️Oil🔻 Despite New Iran Attacks
Stocks rising, Oil prices dropping after spiking 6%. Gas up 4-cents in a day.
The U.S. military struck Iran in a new round of attacks, as President Trump in response to a question at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, about the Iran cease-fire, said: “To me, I think it’s over.” Trump adding, “I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum.” Trump promised he’ll hit Iran ‘hard’ for a second straight night and threatens to take over the oil facilities on Kharg Island.
Trump’s comments come after Iran’s armed forces said they had attacked U.S. military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait. The United States had earlier carried out airstrikes against several targets in Iran and reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil sales.
U.S. official said the targets included Iranian air-defense systems, coastal surveillance systems, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship cruise missile sites, drone launch sites and port facilities.
Iran launched three separate attacks Monday and Tuesday against commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
President Trump on Monday rang the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the Oval Office, reflecting how he has increasingly tied his presidency to the stock market.
📊By The Numbers At The Close 📊
Dow ⬆️ 100 Points
Nasdaq ⬆️ 1.20%
S&P 500 ⬆️ 0.70%
Gold ⬆️ $4175
Bitcoin 🔻$62K
Gas 🔻 $3.84/gal
⛽️GAS PRICE IN YOUR STATE⛽️
The national Gas average is up 4-cents from yesterday to $3.84 a gallon. While that number is higher than last year, it’s a relief from this past spring, when the national average peaked at $4.56 on May 21.
Today’s National Average: $3.84
One Week Ago: $3.91
One Month Ago: $4.29
One Year Ago: $3.17
It’s not only gas that is costing more as a result of the war — food prices are rising, mortgage rates are up as stagflation fears climb, costs are soaring for medicines and “downstream goods” such as plastics, batteries, helium, defense supplies, while Jet Fuel has doubled according to CEO Brandon Daniels of A.I.-Supply Chain company Exiger on NewsNation:
At least eight ships attempting to leave the Persian Gulf turned back between Friday and Saturday, in the latest sign that reopening the Strait of Hormuz remains complicated by Iran seeking to assert its control over the key waterway.
Another Ceasefire — if you’re counting this is the fourth time the U.S. and Iran have declared a stop to fighting. The agreement would allow ships to move freely through the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said. Iran has not confirmed the deal.
Exiger’s Scott LaFoy says handling of Iran’s Uranium stash is key to any hopes for a lasting peace plan:
High mortgage rates coupled with record-high prices is causing homebuyers to pull back.
Sales of previously owned homes in June dropped 2.4% from May to 4.09 million units on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. Housing analysts were predicting a slight gain month over month.
“The back-and-forth in monthly home sales activity, driven by mild fluctuations in mortgage rates, shows how sensitive home buyers are to affordability conditions,” said Lawrence Yun, the Realtors’ chief economist, in a release. “However, job gains—more than half a million since the beginning of the year—will continue to provide support for the housing market.”
This count represents closed sales, so contracts that were likely signed in May, when the average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage was still moving higher. It began rising sharply at the start of March at the start of the Iran war.
🌆NYC: Midtown Evacuated—Building Collapse Fears
A Midtown high-rise whose support beams were discovered buckling has been stabilized, authorities said.
The 37-story former Pfizer headquarters on East 42nd Street — which is being converted from commercial to residential use — was dramatically evacuated during the morning rush along with seven surrounding buildings when the terrifying safety breach was discovered.
“The concern is that since we have been on site in the early morning, we have seen continued shifting of the structure,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said early Tuesday afternoon. FDNY crews and other emergency responders have been monitoring the building with sensitive equipment and chillingly discovered the precarious situation, the mayor said.
“The way this building is constructed, it’s a steel-frame building, so it would not be a total collapse, it would be more of a localized collapse,” said FDNY Chief of Operations John Esposito.
When asked if that means the building could collapse into itself like a pancake, Esposito responded, “Possibly.”
🏥Mitch McConnell: Alive Or Dead?
A right-wing political activist with close ties to President Trump claims former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is “brain dead” and will not be returning to Congress.
The bombshell claim by online influencer Laura Loomer came after days of speculation swirling around the 84-year-old Kentucky senator’s ailing health.
EMS dispatch audio from the morning of June 14 suggests that emergency medical personnel were sent to McConnell’s home to attend to an unconscious person in cardiac arrest.
According to the dispatch audio, a call went out at 8:36 a.m. for an “unconscious” person at McConnell’s address, and an ambulance was sent with an advanced life support crew. Six minutes later a medic radioed that CPR was “in progress.” At 8:43 a.m., a dispatcher relayed the emergency as a “cardiac arrest.” McConnell is named nowhere in the recording, though the address is his.
On June 22, eight days after McConnell was hospitalized, his office said that he wouldn’t be voting that week “as he continues his recovery.”
⁉️Platner: Drops Out After Sex Charges
Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate nominee from Maine, dropped out as his support began to erode after reports that a woman had accused him of sexual assault, which he denied.
In a video posted on social media, Platner called the account “false.”
It’s unclear who will be the Democrat running against Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins.
Both parties see Maine as key to the battle for control of the Senate.
⚽️World Cup: USA Out, Despite Trump’s Fix
An ugly 4-1 loss to Belgium ended Team USA’s World Cup Dream. Belgium moves on to face Spain in the quarterfinals, with the Americans will have four years to fix everything that went wrong on their own soil.
FIFA, the world soccer authority, had cleared Team USA star Folarin Balogun to play in today’s World Cup match against Belgium, after a personal appeal by President Trump. It is a rare suspension of an automatic punishment that sparked outrage among competing teams. A red card usually leads to an immediate ejection and is automatically accompanied by a one-match suspension.
Trump phoned FIFA President Gianni Infantino after Balogun, who has scored three goals in this year’s tournament, received a red card for a foul against a Bosnia and Herzegovina defender. But that suspension has been lifted after Trump’s call.
“Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice,” Trump wrote on Truth Social while the White House celebrated Balogun’s reinstatement in the squad with a post on X saying: “USA-USA-USA.”
The U.S. men’s national team previously beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 in the World Cup round of 32.
BTW: Fox says more than 100 million Americans have watched at least some of the World Cup on its platforms.
⁉️Trump Has Made $2-Billion While President
A new mandatory disclosure report shows President Trump made at least $2.2 billion from his businesses in his second term. That compares to $622 million his enterprises pulled in for all of 2024, before he returned to the presidency.
Trump reaped a stunning windfall in his first year back in the White House, including about $1.4 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency businesses.
One of his biggest hauls in 2025 came when an investment firm tied to the United Arab Emirates bought nearly half of the Trump family’s main crypto company, World Liberty Financial, a transaction that blurred the line between foreign policy and private enterprise.
The President’s major real estate holdings, like Trump National Golf Club near Miami, pulled in $122 million in revenue, while his Mar-a-Lago club generated a total of $77 million for him.
Trump also collected hundreds of millions of dollars from sales of his $TRUMP memecoin and World Liberty’s sale of its own digital tokens.
First Lady Melania Trump, took in between $17.3 and $18.2 million last year. She made less than $1 million in 2024, federal disclosures show. The bulk of her revenue came from a $10.7 million licensing agreement related to the “Melania” movie, which was acquired and promoted by Amazon. The first lady also earned $6 million from sales of her memecoin and roughly $500,000 from the publication of her autobiography, “Melania.”
Democrats see an opportunity, they are casting the president’s growing in-office wealth as corruption and a sign he has lost focus on Americans’ finances. A number of Democratic candidates are now changing their campaign messages and vowing to combat such behavior.
🌮Taco Bell Stops Serving Items Amid “Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak”
Taco Bell restaurants are pulling fresh ingredients from the menu as a fast-growing parasite outbreak linked to explosive diarrhea spreads across multiple states.
Locations, including some in Metro Detroit, have posted signs telling customers they are temporarily unable to serve several produce items while health officials respond to a spike in cyclosporiasis cases.
“We are currently unable to sell Lettuce, Cilantro Onion, Pico de Gallo and Guacamole due to a nationwide recall,” the notices say.
👨⚖️Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Killer In Court
Charlie Kirk’s widow wiped away tears and leaned on the shoulder of her slain husband’s mother in a Utah courthouse as she came face-to-face with his alleged killer for the first time.
Erika Kirk was clad in black as she sat beside Charlie Kirk’s parents, Robert and Kathryn, inside the Provo courtroom, wiping away tears with a handkerchief as they confronted alleged assassin Tyler Robinson during a preliminary hearing.
Donald Trump Jr. was also inside the courtroom, as Charlie Kirk’s heartbroken family and friends were be shown gruesome evidence, including video from the horrific public assassination.
📺ABC Accuses FCC Of Violating 1st Amendment
ABC taking on the FCC head on.
As the Disney owned network faces multiple proceedings in front of the Federal Communications Commission, led by Chairman Brendan Carr, the network is going public in a major way, launching a campaign that urges viewers to support it in its fight with the regulator.
The campaign, which debuted its first spots during The View and will run across the network’s owned and operated station includes a spot urging View fans to weigh in on the investigation related to whether the show qualifies as a “bona fide” news program, and a spot focused on each local station, given the FCC‘s move to review their broadcast licenses. The spots will also run on digital platforms.
“The View has welcomed your favorite guests for nearly 30 years. Now the FCC wants to control who is allowed to appear on the show. Tell the FCC to let the viewers decide,” the View spot states, notably opening with a clip featuring the legendary broadcast journalist and The View creator Barbara Walters.
💸No Help Wanted: Disappointing Jobs Report
Disappointing jobs numbers.
The economy added 57,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.2%, the government said Thursday.June’s drop in the unemployment rate was because of an exodus of workers from the labor force.
The labor force participation rate, which measures the working-age population of those either employed or looking for a job, fell to 61.5%, the lowest since March 2021, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Excluding the Covid-era jobs market, it was the lowest participation rate since June 1976. The labor force plummeted by 720,000 in June.
👰♂️Taylor Swift Wedding: Details & Pictures
The world’s most famous arena” was the scene for the world’s most-watched wedding:
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce hosted their friends and family at Madison Square Garden.
Guests include: Selena Gomez, Reese Witherspoon, Bradley Cooper, Gigi Hadid, Dakota Johnson, Hugh Grant, Ethan Hawke, Mariska Hargitay and Jason Sudeikis and Football stars Cooper Kupp and Chris Jones.
Just around 7:30 p.m. ET, MSG confirmed the news with pink digital screens around the venue that read, “JUST&T MARRIED!” They were up for approximately half an hour.
Swift and Kelce’s wedding looks were created by Christian Dior Haute Couture (designed by Jonathan Anderson, Creative Director of Dior Women’s, Men’s and Haute Couture Collections, in close collaboration with the bride and groom), with shoes custom-made by Christian Louboutin. Taylor wore jewelry by Cartier.
The newlyweds did not have any bridesmaids or groomsmen for the ceremony, which was officiated by Adam Sandler. Instead, Swift’s brother, Austin, served as the singer’s “Man of Honor,” while Kelce’s brother and “New Heights” co-host, Jason, was the athlete’s “Best Man.”
Costs for the wedding estimated between $15-$25 Million.
Tillie Norwood, the AI “actor” who sparked a frenzy of anger in Hollywood and across the wider industry in late 2025, is set to front her first feature film.
“Misaligned,” announced by Particle 6, the AI-focussed studio behind Norwood, is described as a comedy-drama telling a “coming-of-age story infused with existential AI chaos.” Set inside the so-called “Tillyverse,” a surreal digital world located somewhere up in the Cloud, the film will follow Tilly, an AI being with no real body, no childhood and no lived experience of her own … only access to everyone else’s. Things spiral when a seductive rogue bot from the dark web convinces her to abandon her guardrails and begin developing desires, impulses and ambitions, making her more human.
🛕Empire State Building: Climbers Arrested
Pictures worth a 1000 words.
A couple wearing black climbed to the top of the Empire State Building’s transmitting antenna nearly 1500 feet in the air, and by the time they climbed back down, they were engaged and arrested
The couple held a pro-peace banner at the very top of the spire and shared some kisses.
It read, “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.”
Their banner is a take on a quote frequently attributed to guitarist Jimi Hendrix, but actually spoken by 19th-century British politician William Gladstone.
Police took some time to attempt to talk them down, but they apparently had a mission. When the couple did eventually come down cops cuffed them.
👩⚖️Transgender Athletes Can Be Barred
The Supreme Court ruled states can prohibit transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, a decision that delivers the latest setback for transgender rights.
In two of the most closely watched cases of its term, the Supreme Court upheld laws from West Virginia and Idaho that restrict transgender athletes’ participation in school sports. The cases are known as West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh authored the opinion for the majority, writing that under Title IX — the landmark law that requires equal opportunity in sports — and the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, schools can base eligibility for women and girls’ sports teams on biological sex.
“Consistent with Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause, we hold that the States may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females. They may determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports based on biological sex,” Kavanaugh wrote. “The Constitution and Title IX do not require an overhaul of women’s and girls’ sports throughout America.”
🏛️SCOTUS: Babies Born in US are Citizens
The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States. In a decision by Chief Justice John Roberts, in Trump v. Barbara, the justices agreed with the challengers, as well as all of the lower courts around the country that have considered the issue, that Trump’s order cannot be reconciled with the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which confers citizenship on anyone “born … in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
Writing for the majority, Roberts emphasized that the “children born of parents unlawfully or temporarily present in the United States” “satisfy both elements of the Citizenship Clause.” “Under the Constitution,” he concluded, “they are citizens at birth.”
Trump issued the executive order at the center of the case on Jan. 20, 2025, shortly after he was sworn into office for a second term. It provided that babies who are born in the United States to parents who are in this country either illegally or temporarily are not automatically entitled to citizenship.
👨⚖️Supreme Court Expands Trump’s Power
The Supreme Court’s ruled President Trump could fire most independent government regulators for any reason, or no reason at all, despite federal laws meant to protect their jobs. The decision shifts more power to the executive branch, allowing presidents to dictate the leadership of more than two dozen agencies, including some created by Congress to serve as government watchdogs.
In a separate 5-to-4 ruling, however, the court carved out an exception for the Federal Reserve. All three liberals — plus Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both conservatives — said that Trump could not fire Lisa Cook, a Fed governor, without allowing her a chance to refute unproven allegations of mortgage fraud. Their decision suggested that the central bank has a “unique role” that should be free from political interference.
🔌Forcing AI Firms To Pay For Huge Electric Bills
The House is consideration a bipartisan bill to force tech companies to pay for artificial intelligence’s strain on the power grid, as voters across the country express dissatisfaction with data centers driving up electricity costs.
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and SpaceX are among the largest builders and operators of data centers.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee began considering the bill that would require data center builders to pay for upgrades to the grid needed to power them.
But, the top Democrat on Committee is backing a moratorium on AI data centers — a show of support from a mainstream, influential Democrat for a policy that has thus far been endorsed mainly by anti-establishment figures. During a committee meeting, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said, “I am in favor of a national AI data center moratorium until we can find a way to ensure they don’t harm our nation’s air, water and power bills.”
“Families and small businesses across the country shouldn’t be left to foot the bill for this new development, though the benefits of these innovations will be felt by all of society,” said House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie, R-Ky.
🤖A.I.: Coming For YOUR JOB
Main Street is worried about A.I. taking jobs.
Unemployment among 22-to-27-year-old college graduates is at 5.6%, the highest rate since 2013.
A survey of nearly 1,500 employers published by Strada Education Foundation reflects an ambivalence about hiring college grads.
The Class of 2026 is the first to compete for jobs with Artificial Intelligence. Commencement speakers, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, were met with boos when they invoked AI at graduation ceremonies this month.
A.I. feel like something of a Catch-22 for workers: If the technology succeeds in reshaping the economy, they could lose their jobs. If it fails to live up to the hype, their retirement savings could evaporate. No wonder so many Americans feel that the economy is rigged against them, said Heather Boushey, who served as an adviser in the Biden administration and has written a book about the economic impact of inequality
Meta — which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp —layed off 8,000 people in a day.
Amazon is laying off 14,000 corporate employees this year, and as many as 30,000 employees in the near future, driven by ‘Artificial Intelligence integration’.
Cisco said it would eliminate 4,000 jobs as it shifted more resources to
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the Wall Street giant will likely hire more AI specialists and fewer traditional bankers as the adoption of the technology accelerates.
Pope Leo has just warned politicians and corporate leaders to safeguard humanity from A.I.’s most disruptive effects comparing it to the biblical Tower of Babel. The risk, he said, is that humans will be reduced “to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency.”
In one poll after another, Americans have overwhelmingly voiced concerns about artificial intelligence a challenge to claims by industry executives that their technology would gain popularity by improving people’s lives. The University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index fell in May to its lowest level since it began surveying 74 years ago!
Job Losses: Roughly 2/3 of Americans believe AI will reduce the number of available jobs, and recent U.K. polling shows that 1/3 of university students fear AI will trigger social unrest.
Political Divide: Recent findings from the Axios Harris Poll 100 highlight a partisan shift: Democrats have grown more skeptical of AI, while Republicans are significantly more likely to trust the industry.
The Defense Department has completed agreements with seven technology companies to use their artificial-intelligence capabilities in classified settings. The DOD says it is now capable of using technology from the ChatGPT maker—OpenAI; Alphabet’s Google; Elon Musk’s Xai; Microsoft ; Amazon ; Nvidia ; and a startup, Reflection AI.
Meantime the nation’s automakers are being drafted into helping restock defense supplies.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels on NewsNation says that’s a win-win for the economy.
It comes as U.S. weapon supplies to fight the Iran War are depleted and have forced the Pentagon to rush bombs, missiles and other hardware to the Middle East from commands in Asia and Europe. The drawdowns have left the military less ready to confront potential adversaries like Russia and China.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation how to speed-up that pricey supply chain so troops are not in danger.
SpaceX shares slipped below their IPO price before gaining some ground Tuesday. The shares closed at $154.60 on Monday, the lowest level since their first day of trading.
Morningstar analysts have warned investors about trading the shares since before its IPO, arguing the company is “significantly overvalued” and that its market value is tied to technologies it claims are “novel and untested.””
This is the largest U.S. IPO ever, at least until Anthropic and OpenAI go public later this year, and makes SpaceX one of the world’s most valuable companies.
Elon Musk, now a trillionaire, didn’t sell any shares in the offering, which valued his initial position at over $866 billion.
🏠Home Cost 🆙: Trump Refuses To Sign Bill
President Trump canceled a planned signing ceremony for a landmark housing affordability bill that passed Congress by wide bipartisan margins, saying he will not sign the legislation into law until lawmakers pass an elections bill known as the SAVE America Act.
Trump was set to sign the bill, known as the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, during an event at the Capitol. The measure, the most comprehensive housing legislation in decades, aims to increase housing supply and bring down costs, including by limiting institutional investors from purchasing certain single-family homes.
“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” he wrote. “Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT”
The voter ID measure, justified by Trump on false claims about voter fraud despite its near-nonexistence, is seen by critics as a thinly veiled Republican attempt at voter suppression aimed at disenfranchising Democratic voters.
Earthquake: Venezuela Death & Destruction
A pair of powerful earthquakes rocked Venezuela, tearing down buildings, closing the country’s main airport and sending panicked residents of the capital pouring into the streets. At least 900 people have died, and thousands injured, the acting president said, warning that the toll was expected to rise.
Footage on state TV showed three children, covered in dust but alive, pulled from the rubble in La Guaira state, which Acting President Delcy Rodríguez described as a “disaster zone” and the area hardest hit by Wednesday evening’s 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes.
🗳️Anti-Israel Democrat: Win NY Primaries
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s progressive and anti-Israel allies swept a series of congressional primaries sending shock waves through the Democratic Party.
The primary triumphs of Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier came after each was endorsed by Mayor Mamdani, whose advocacy for the Palestinian cause has been integral to his rapid political rise.
At a rally for the candidates last week, the Mayor called the nation’s leading pro-Israel organization part of a group of “monsters” that he said were too powerful in American politics.
Kennedy-heir Jack Schlossberg fell well short of his bid to win the highly contested Democratic congressional primary.
🎙️Tucker Carlson: Quits Republican Party
Tucker Carlson says he no longer supports the Republican Party, stating on the “Can’t Be Censored” podcast that he will not support either major political party.
Carlson argues the GOP is failing to represent American voters, claiming the party prioritizes foreign interests over U.S. citizens.
The comments come ahead of the November midterm elections and reflect Carlson’s growing break with the Republican Party since leaving Fox News in 2023.
🎶Clive Davis: Legendary Music Exec Dead
You know his music even if you don’t know his name.
Clive Davis, the hitmaker with a “golden ear” who brought Whitney Houston, Janis Joplin and Bruce Springsteen to the world and revitalized the careers of Carlos Santana, Rod Stewart and Aretha Franklin, has died
Davis, most recently chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment, a former head of labels Columbia, Arista Records and J Records and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died at his home in New York City, a rep announced. He recently had been hospitalized with an upper respiratory infection.
Through his six-decade career, the music mogul also nurtured such acts as Billy Joel, The Grateful Dead, Alicia Keys, Simon & Garfunkel, Jennifer Hudson, Barry Manilow, Pink Floyd, Earth Wind & Fire, Aerosmith, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Kenny G, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson and Patti Smith, who once said that Davis “has a weakness for the unique performer.”
Davis was the recipient of five Grammys, including the Recording Academy’s Trustees Award in 2000.
Clive Davis was 94.
🪦Alan Greenspan: Dead At 100 Years Old
Alan Greenspan, who as Fed chairman maneuvered the country through two decades of stunning prosperity, but whose decisions contributed to the near-collapse of the economy shortly after he left office, has died.
“Irrational exuberance“ is the famous phrase coined by the former Federal Reserve Chairman in a December 1996 speech. It describes how widespread investor enthusiasm can drive asset prices well above their fundamental values, creating speculative market bubbles that eventually lead to painful corrections.
The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, his wife, NBC report Andrea Mitchell, said in a statement.
“He was a giant of a man who helped shape the U.S. economy for decades under presidents of both parties, but was always honest in acknowledging his mistakes,” said Mitchell. “To me he was my husband, who shaped my life from our very first date in 1984.”
He attended the Juilliard music school, played the clarinet in a jazz band and was an acolyte of the philosopher Ayn Rand as a young man, Greenspan initially made his name as an economic forecaster and adviser to presidents Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.
President Trump admits problems with his more than $14 million renovation project had become so severe that the reflecting pool will likely have to be at least partly drained for “necessary repairs.”
The president’s announcement made on social media, was his starkest acknowledgment of the pool’s rapid deterioration in recent days. The water this week became covered by clouds of blooming algae, which were obscuring a floor that had just been painted a shade that Trump has called “American flag blue.” The paint then began to peel off, making it a tourist destination for unusual reasons.
The Interior Department said this week that agency workers had “killed the algae” that had expanded with heat and humidity. But on Friday afternoon, the water was stained by clumps of algae where National Park Service staff members had scrubbed away bright green blooms along the bottom of the basin. The pool’s new coating was also missing large sections, including a gap roughly the size of a park bench. Underneath appeared to be the original concrete basin.
🇮🇹Italy’s Maloney: Trump Full Of Boloney!
Italian prime minister Meloni laughed off President Trump’s suggestion that she hadhad “begged” him for a photo at the G7 summit. The dispute erupted after Trump told Italian broadcaster La7 that Meloni had pleaded with him for a photo at the meeting.
“She begged me to take a photo with her. She wanted a photo with me so badly — I could have skipped it, but I felt sorry for her,” Trump said in the brief interview, which was posted by the channel to its website Friday.
In her response, the Italian leader said she was “stunned” by Trump’s comments, before taking aim at Trump’s broader approach to international relations, suggesting he treats longtime Western allies with less respect than he shows their adversaries.
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel is betting consumers are so tired of looking at smartphone screens that they’ll be willing to pay over $2,000 for augmented reality glasses that bring digital visuals into a user’s field of vision.
The company says developers have already created hundreds of experiences for Specs, ranging from golf guidance and educational applications to immersive historical experiences. New development tools A.I. integrations with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, as well as a new Native Development Kit.
It’s a growing market, one already featuring more well-capitalized competitors. Meta’s Reality Labs has found some success with its Ray-Ban Meta glasses. And in May, Google showed off its upcoming AI-powered glasses, being developed with Samsung and eyewear makers Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, with an emphasis on audio.
And watch out Apple is about to move into the market as well wit glasses that use video to improve vision.
⚽️World Cup: US Beats Australia
Team USA became the second nation to reach the knockout stage of the 2026 World Cup with 2-0 victory over Australia in Seattle.
As in its 4-1 win over Paraguay, the U.S. made a lightning-quick start and took the lead when Cameron Burgess turned Folarin Balogun’s pass into his own net.
Alex Freeman then made sure of the three points when he nodded in Sergino Dest’s deflected strike.
The win means the U.S. follows fellow co-host Mexico into the Round of 32.
🏀KNICKS: Ticker-Tape Parade
The world champion New York Knicks are honored with a ticker-tape parade after clinching their first NBA championship in 53 years. The parade winding from Battery Park and traveling north along Broadway through the Canyon of Heroes before concluding at City Hall for a ceremony where the mayor gave the team keys to the city.
Behind an epic 45-point performance from Jalen Brunson, New York defeated San Antonio to the 2026 NBA title. On a poor shooting night from the Knicks, Brunson put the team on his back and carried them to a championship for the first time since 1973. No other Knick scored more than 14 points, which came from Mikal Bridges.
Dylan Harper put together another special performance, leading the Spurs in scoring with 25 points. Victor Wembanyama dropped 19 points on 7-of-19 shooting as his season came to a close.
New York is the 2026 NBA champion.
President Trump in the audience was booed by the crowd in game 3.
Trump and Mayor Zohran Mamdani were in the MSG crowd along with fans with a pair of courtside seats, near the V.I.P. section, going for $160,546 each on stubhub.
The Knicks success has transformed the energy of the city, whipping it into an irrepressible froth of orange and blue excitement.
🚨White House Attack: Plot Foiled
At least five people have been charged in connection with an alleged plot, to detonate explosive-laden drones over the White House, causing the crowd gathered for Sunday’s UFC cage match to scramble, and then shoot into the crowd as people fled, according to court records and FBI Director Patel.
The group of people made detailed plans to attack last Sunday’s UFC cage-fighting match on the White House lawn using drones, , and snipers with a red, white and blue machine-gun, but the plot was uncovered when a concerned mother called the police.
She said her son, 19-year-old Tycen Proper, had been communicating online with a group that was described in court documents as “ex-military and Christian-based,” with members who expressed “ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments,” and grievances over government corruption and the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
A criminal complaint filed Monday in federal court in Ohio and unsealed Tuesday depicted plans to carry out “a coordinated attack against the United States government” during the UFC event.
🏛️Newsom: “Trump Justice Dept Probing Me”
Federal agents have repeatedly questioned friends and associates of Gavin Newsom and his wife, the California Governor claims in a video in which he accused President Trump of using the Justice Department to punish a political enemy.
Newsom’s aides say part of the federal investigation appears to focus on his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Former employees of the governor and people affiliated with his wife’s nonprofit groups are among those who have been questioned by agents, according to the governor’s office.
A person familiar with the investigations, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said there were multiple federal investigations underway related to the governor, including one looking at his wife’s finances.
📺Paramount-Warner Merger: DOJ Clears Way
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division has approved Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The blockbuster deal was greenlit without requiring any divestitures or concessions. However, the deal faces potential legal challenges from state attorneys general and remains under regulatory review in the UK and Europe.
It comes as trouble is boiling over at Paramount’s CBS where ‘60 Minutes’ correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim said that they planned to stay on at the newsmagazine, capping days of turmoil for the show.
“We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay,” the three wrote in a memo to their colleagues at the program, but ultimately added: “We don’t want to see ‘60 Minutes’ die.”
It comes in the wake of CBS News firing Scott Pelley, a dayafter he confronted the show’s new executive producer at a heated staff meeting.
“Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you,” ‘60 Minutes’ executive producer Nick Bilton said in a letter addressed to Pelley.
“I therefore write on behalf of CBS News, Inc. to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated for cause effective immediately,” Bilton added.
In a written statement, Pelley expressed “gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again —a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.”
The tension reached a fever during a ‘60 Minutes’ staff meeting designed to introduce employees to Bilton, a technology journalist tapped by Weiss to be executive producer of the program. Pelley laced into Bilton.
Pelley in a meeting with other show staffers grilled Weiss’s newly installed executive producermabout what he dubbed ‘Black Thursday’— the day last week in which Weiss terminated Tanya Simon as executive producer, ousted Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega as correspondents, and canned other senior staffers.
👵 Social Security: May Run Out Of $ In 6 Years
A trust fund that helps pay Social Security benefits for more than 60 million retirees and family members is expected to run out of money in 2032. The problem isn’t mismanagement but demographics: More retirees are collecting benefits for longer, while fewer younger workers are paying in.
Unless Congress makes changes, seniors will see an automatic cut in their monthly benefits of 22%, according to a report released by Social Security Trustees.
“The Trustees recommend that lawmakers address the projected trust fund shortfalls in a timely way to phase in necessary changes gradually and give workers and beneficiaries time to adjust,” the report says.
The forecast shows the trust fund will be exhausted three months earlier than was predicted last year. Social Security’s finances are challenged by a falling birth rate, reduced immigration and the tax cut passed by the Republican Congress last year. Those moves are partially offset by stronger productivity gains.
📁Epstein Files: White House “Freakout
The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself, according to a new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
Vice President Vance took a seat at the head of the table in the John F. Kennedy Conference Room of the Situation Room complex. “This is a huge problem,” he told the group. Arrayed around him were the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles; the White House counsel, David Warrington; the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt; the deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich; the communications director, Steven Cheung; the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche; the associate attorney general, Stanley Woodward Jr.; and the deputy chief of staff James Blair. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, joined on speakerphone.
The vice president appeared panicked to others in the room about the way the subject of Epstein was already dividing the MAGA coalition. Some senior officials had the impression that Vance had bought into the darkest theories about Epstein and a cabal of predators hidden within the country’s ruling class. Wiles would tell others that the vice president had proved himself to be a major conspiracy theorist. Another top official said later that Vance had been pounding on the Epstein issue since the release of the memo. He was privately pressing for the administration to release all the Epstein files, everything in the Justice Department’s possession, even encouraging a congressional investigation.
A federal judge has released a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epsteinthat was sealed for years as part of the criminal case of his cellmate.
“They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” the note begins, adding that the result were charges going back many years.
“It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye,” the note continued.
“Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!” the note reads.
“NO FUN,” it concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”
A cellmate said he discovered the note in July 2019, after Mr. Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth around his neck. Mr. Epstein survived that incident but weeks later was found dead in the jail.
The note was eventually sealed by a federal judge as part of the cellmate’s own criminal case, according to documents and interviews. That means investigators scrutinizing Mr. Epstein’s high-profile death lacked what could have been a key piece of evidence.
A newly-released FBI document details disturbing allegations that President Trump struck a teen girl after she “bit the sh*t out of” his penis in an assault facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein. The woman, who is not identified in the documents, described the language Trump and Epstein allegedly used when referring to girls: “fresh meat”, “untainted,” and “not jaded.” The Justice Department released F.B.I. documents describing several interviews with the woman who said she was sexually assaulted by President Trump.
The typewritten notes recounted multiple interviews the F.B.I. conducted in 2019 with the woman, who said she had been sexually assaulted by both Epstein and Trump. Her accusations against Trump date back to the 1980s, when she was a teenager. Her description of being assaulted by Trump is among a number of uncorroborated accusations against well-known men, including the president, contained in the millions of documents released by Justice.
The pages had been previously withheld from the vast trove of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein because of what officials called a mistaken determination that they were duplicates.
🦈 Shark Attack: At Florida Naval Base—VIDEO
👶Designer Babies: Scientists Edit Embryo DNA
In a first, scientists at Columbia University have edited the DNA of early human embryos with unprecedented accuracy, an achievement that could open the way to babies engineered with particular characteristics.
The prospect has fueled controversy for years. On the one hand, the technology might one day enable parents to safely repair disease-causing mutations in embryos. But it might also be used to select desired traits — a practice that some ethicists have argued is nothing short of eugenics.
Dieter Egli, a geneticist at Columbia University who led the research, called for a public conversation about the pros and cons of altering embryonic DNA. “As a scientist, you can provide the data for discussion, but then essentially there you stop and let others take over,” he said.
📲Hey Siri: A.I. Comes to Your iPhone
The biggest news out of today’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), is the debut of the long-delayed, AI-infused version of Siri.
The “Siri AI” digital assistant will draw on user data to help answer more complicated questions and complete tasks. Executives demoed Siri AI buying concert tickets, creating event plans, and identifying and interacting with objects in photos.
Siri will have a new appearance—and voice. A Siri bubble will appear at the top of screens, and users can adjust the assistant’s expressivity and pace. Siri capabilities will be synchronized across devices and interactions will be documented in a new app. A number of demos showed users interacting with Siri by typing and voice.
🚚Driverless Trucks: Deliver Doritos To Stores
A 26,000-pound box truck loaded with Doritos and Frito-Lay chips rolls out of a distribution center, bound for a Walmart store about 4 miles away. It looks like any other truck, but there is no one at the wheel.
This is one of the 35 driverless trucks PepsiCo is running on Arizona roads, marking it as the first major U.S. consumer-goods company to disclose the real-life, large-scale use of autonomous trucks on public roads. They are traversing busy highways and local streets as they transport PepsiCo products between bottling plants, storage facilities and stores like Walmart and Dollar General.
The Wall Street Journal reports there are currently no federal laws regulating autonomous vehicles, though operators are asked to voluntarily submit safety evaluations to the regulators, including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and some state transportation departments.
💊Cancer Breakthrough: Promising New Drug
A new, experimental medication nearly doubled overall survival rates for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, according to the results of a study.
Researchers say the findings are a significant marker of progress toward treating a notoriously deadly type of cancer, for which there have historically been limited effective options for therapies.
The drug is called daraxonrasib and it blocks a mutated protein that fuels tumor growth in more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases — a target that had eluded treatment for decades.
“While not curing the cancer, it is a very large step forward,” said Dr. Zev Wainberg, of the University of California, Los Angeles, who helped lead the study.
The research team found that taking the medication, as a daily pill, reduced the risk of death by 60% for patients with metastatic, or spreading, pancreatic cancer who had previously received treatment. That was compared with survival rates of patients receiving standard chemotherapy, according to UCLA Health.
🧑⚖️Trump Tax Probe, Slush-Fund Blocked
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, told congress that the Justice Department was withdrawing a proposal to create a $1.8 billion slush-fund to compensate people claiming to be victims of unfair prosecution. The announcement follows a revolt from Republicans who saw it as an ethical and political abomination.
At the same time a federal judge has reopened President Trump’s $10 billion case against the I.R.S. in a striking turnabout, saying that she wanted to investigate “grievous allegations” that the hasty deal to resolve it was “premised on deception.” The deal with the IRS guaranteed no audits of Trump and his family forever.
The judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its $1.8 billion anti-weaponization slush-fund.
The controversial plan aimed to create an unprecedented mechanism to compensate people who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the government including the January 6th rioters, who were pardoned by Trump.
🎭Kennedy Center: Judge-Trump Can’t Rename
A federal judge has barred President Trump from adding his name to that of the Kennedy Center.
Judge Christopher Cooper also temporarily blocked the cultural landmark from being closed for two years for renovations.
“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so,” Cooper wrote in his order in U.S. District Court in Washington.
“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”
An upset Trump posts “Unfortunately, Judge Cooper and the Radical Left would rather see it DIE than have President Trump transform it into something that everyone could be proud of, much as I have done, in many cases, throughout my life.”
🎤Trump: Cancel Freedom 250 Concert As Artists Drop Out
President Trump on Saturday called for the cancellation of a concert series celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday this summer, after a wave of musicians pulled out.
After the lineup for the concerts was announced, the hip-hop artist Young MC said he would not perform, adding that “artists were never told about any political involvement with the event.” The funk-soul group the Commodores, the rock musician Bret Michaels and Morris Day and the Time also canceled performances.
“The country singer Martina McBride, who also said she would not participate in the event, wrote on social media that she had been presented with an opportunity to perform at a nonpartisan event, “but that turned out to be misleading.”
“Cancel it,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding, “We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain.”
The president had earlier said on social media that he should take the place of “these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists,’” saying he gets “larger audiences than Elvis.”
🚀BEZOS ROCKET: Blows Up On Launchpad
Launching a rocket is harder than delivering an Amazon package.
A powerful rocket owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin exploded in a spectacular fireball, sending billowing clouds of fire, smoke and flaming debris into the night sky.
The explosion occurred in a test firing of the New Glenn’s rocket (named for astronaut John Glenn) at Cape Canaveral. No one was hurt.
As the engines appeared to begin firing, something clearly went wrong at the base of the rocket. The 188-foot-tall first stage became enveloped in a rapidly growing fire, then the vehicle suddenly exploded as its load of methane fuel and liquid oxygen ignited in a roiling fireball.
The failure could slow NASA’s moon mission.
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Jill Biden said she was “frightened” by her husband Joe Biden’s 2024 debate performance and thought he was having a stroke.
“I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” Jill Biden told CBS News Sunday Morning in an interview airing Sunday.
“I don’t know what happened,” she said. “As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
The former First Lady played the supportive spouse in the immediate aftermath, joining Joe Biden at an Atlanta Waffle House and praising him for a job well done.
Biden was running for a second term when he stumbled through the June 2024 presidential debate against Donald Trump, prompting widespread calls for him to drop out of the race.
He dropped out a month later, with 107 days to go until the general election, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee
Meantime, Joe Biden has sued the Department of Justice seeking to bar the release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his biographer in 2016 and 2017.
🔫GUNMAN: Killed Outside White House
A man approached the White House complex on Saturday evening, took a gun out of a bag and opened fire before being shot and killed by Secret Service police officers.
A bystander was also struck by gunfire, the Secret Service said in a statement, though it did not give details on the nature or severity of the injuries. It was unclear who fired the shot that struck the bystander.
The gunman, who was identified by two officials with knowledge of the investigation as Nasire Best, 21, was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No officers were injured, the Secret Service said.
🚨IVANKA TRUMP: Assassination Plot Foiled
First Daughter Ivanka Trump was reportedly targeted for assassination by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps trained terrorist in a plot to avenge the president taking out Iran’s military chief.
Recently captured Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, made a “pledge” to kill Ivanka and even had a blueprint of her Florida home, according to the New York Post.
The Iraqi national was allegedly targeting President Donald Trump’s family in response to the killing of Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad.
“After Qasem was killed, he [Al-Saadi] went around telling people ‘we need to kill Ivanka to burn down the house of Trump the way he burned down our house,’” Entifadh Qanbar, a former deputy military attaché in the Iraqi embassy in Washington.
Al-Saadi also posted a picture of a map showing the enclave in Florida where Ivanka and husband Jared Kushner have a $24 million home on X, alongside a chilling threat in Arabic which translates to: “I say to the Americans look at this picture and know that neither your palaces nor the Secret Service will protect you. We are currently in the stage of surveillance and analysis. I told you, our revenge is a matter of time.”
🧨MUSK: Soon To Be First Trillionaire
Elon Musk’s SpaceX just publicly took the wraps off its I.P.O., by far the biggest in history. It is sure to make Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
But Wall Street is wondering not only how investors will digest that megadeal, but also two other potential offerings — from OpenAI and Anthropic — hot on its tail.
It sets up a race among three artificial intelligence giants to capture investors’ wallets, and raises questions about how they’ll fare in the public markets.
🦠EBOLA: U.S. Doctor Infected as Deadly Disease Spreads
The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that he was “deeply concerned about the scale and speed” of the Ebola outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, as the suspected death toll in Congo climbed to over 130 people.
Laboratory testing has now definitively linked 30 cases to the virus in Congo’s northeastern Ituri Province, where the outbreak was first identified, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the W.H.O., said in an address to the World Health Assembly.
Dr. Tedros said the deaths of health care workers, high population mobility in the area and the absence of vaccines or therapeutics for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola behind the outbreak raised fears of further spread and deaths.
⛴️HANTAVIRUS: 40 Americans Monitored
40 Americans are being monitored after 11 cases of hantavirus have been identified by the World Health Organization, three in people who have died. It said nine of the cases were confirmed to be hantavirus and that two more were “probable.”A U.S. citizen has tested positive and a French woman is now critically ill, and relying on an artificial lung.
17 Americans are in quarantine most in Nebraska, others at the CDC in Atlanta. While Doctors say the disease is difficult to spread person-to-person a CDC official says, “There are no guarantees in life”.
Passengers and crew on that cruise hit by the outbreak were evacuated after the ship anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands. 3 people died onboard the MV Hondius. Global health officials have sought to calm fears about the passengers’ return to their home countries by vowing to closely monitor any signs of disease.
Hantavirus is typically only spread through rodent droppings, but one rare strain, the Andes virus, can spread between people and carries a 40% mortality rate – and it’s likely the culprit behind the outbreak, which has killed three passengers and sickened at least seven others, the World Health Organization said.
Meantime, The World Health Organization declared the spread of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda is a global health emergency, after Africa’s leading public health authority first announced an outbreak in a province in northeastern Congo linked to dozens of suspected deaths.
🕍U.S. SYNAGOGUE ATTACK PLOT: Arrest Made
A man with ties to a terrorist group appeared in court to face charges alleging he tried to hire someone to carry out an attack on a New York City synagogue, among other U.S. targets, according to prosecutors.
Mohammad al-Saadi — who has alleged ties to Iran-backed Iraqi Shia militant group Kata’ib Hizballah, as well as the group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya, or HAYI — went before a judge in federal court in lower Manhattan Friday afternoon to face terrorism charges. He was charged with six counts in total, including four charges related to providing material support for terror and two related to the synagogue bombing plot.
Al-Saadi was arrested by Turkish authorities earlier this week and was handed over to U.S. authorities.
CHINA: Trump Leaves—No Breakthroughs
President Trump returned to the White House from Beijing, with no indication that he and Chinese Leader Xi Jinping have resolved any major points of contention on trade, the war in Iran or other issues during their talks.
Their discussions yielded no clear breakthroughs on the big foreign policy and economic divisions between the two countries and fell short of delivering the big business deals the White House seeks from international summits.
China’s Xi warned Trump that the two countries could clash over Taiwan if the issue was not handled properly, an unusually harsh warning that stood in contrast to Trump’s praise for his counterpart.
Taiwan is home to the world’s most important computer chip maker — as both the U.S. and China are pushing hard into artificial intelligence.
The exchange at a highly anticipated summit in Beijing underscored just how far apart Trump and Xi remain on thorny issues, including the war in Iran, trade disputes and Washington’s relations with Taiwan, which is self-ruled but which China claims as part of its territory.
Trump offered platitudes, telling Xi: “You’re a great leader. Sometimes people don’t like me saying it, but I say it anyway, because it’s true.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning says, Xi told Trump that “the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-U.S. relations.”
There are increasing fears that Trump will make concessions to China as he meets with their leaders.
With the U.S. midterm elections approaching Trump needs visible wins such as Chinese purchases of American soybeans, corn and natural gas that could play well in swing states, but Trump will need to give China something huge in return such as trade concessions and American A.I. know-how.
The President has taken along executives from some of the biggest U.S. companies — including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook, BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg.
The executives are joining Trump on the trip during which he has said he hopes to secure a series of business deals and purchase agreements with Beijing.
The summit agenda is expected to cover trade, artificial intelligence, export controls, Taiwan and the Iran war, with both sides entering the talks after weeks of escalating tensions.
🏀 KNICKS: Sweep Cavs Head To NBA Finals
The New York Knicks are heading to the NBA Finals with a one-sided sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers that plunged the Big Apple into jubilant chaos.
The win ended a 27-year dry spell since their last Finals appearance — and Knicks nation was quick to use the opportunity to make up for lost time.
“The city has been waiting for it since 1999. We’ve been through so many losses and the fans have always stuck close. It’s nice to finally be on the winning side,” Kevin Calle, a 30-year-old human resources manager from New Jersey, told The NY Post outside of Radio City’s watch party.
🥊NO KIDDING: U.F.C. Fight At White House
It looks like a rollercoaster soaring above the White House.
It’s the centerpiece of an Ultimate Fighting Championship arena on the South Lawn of the White House as construction crews install a soaring 90-foot tall, open-air structure.
Below the arc will be a 5,000-seat arena and octagon-shaped cage where UFC fighters will square off on June 14 ‒ a spectacle President Trump has promised will be the “biggest event we’ve ever had at the White House.”
The event falls on the president’s 80th birthday and Flag Day.
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How much would you spend to watch the Knicks in the NBA Finals?
New York delivered for fans in the Eastern Conference Finals, defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in a clean sweep of the series. They head to the finals for the first time since 1999.
All that excitement comes at a price.
Tickets on websites like StubHub and SeatGeek were reselling for more than $3,000 for games at Madison Square Garden for the nosebleed sections.
Game 6, however, is a different story.
The third and final game played in New York, if the series goes that far, has tickets going for $4,800.
Now, all those prices are your cheapest options. There are some court-side offering that will truly break the bank: like a $121,699 listing on StubHub for Game 6.
🦻APPLES’ LATEST: AirPods With Cameras!
Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods are reportedly in the final stages of development and nearing mass production. The earbuds will look mostly like AirPods Pro 3, just with slightly longer stems to house cameras in both the left and right buds. Those cameras feed visual data to Siri so it can answer questions about whatever you’re looking at.
The idea is to let users ask questions about an item they might be looking at. For instance, they could be facing food ingredients and ask what they should cook for dinner. It’s a similar experience to what someone gets from uploading photos in AI services like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or the iPhone’s own Visual Intelligence function. And much more!
📺TED TURNER: CNN Founder Dead
Ted Turner, the entrepreneur media titan who helped shape the modern cable-television industry, ushering in the era of 24-hour news with CNN while building other major networks that bear his name is dead.
Turner who married and divorced actress Jane Fonda died at age 87, according to a spokesman.
🛩️NO SPIRIT: Airline Shuts Due To ⬆️Fuel Prices
Spirit Airlines, casualty of high fuel price due to the Iran war, is out of business.
Spirit hoped to emerge from bankruptcy this summer as a smaller company, but those plans fell apart as jet fuel costs rose in recent weeks due to the Iran war and is grounded.
The airline has canceled all flights effective immediately and told passengers not to go to the airport, according to a notice posted on its website shortly after 2 a.m. On the homepage, where customers could previously make reservations, a bright yellow banner declared that Spirit was “winding down all operations.”
17,000 out of work, passengers trying to figure out how to get to destinations.
The budget airline had lost billions of dollars in recent years, filing for bankruptcy in 2024 and 2025.
🏛️BILLION DOLLARS: For Trump’s Ballroom?!
For months, President Donald Trump portrayed the big new ballroom that he’s building on White House grounds as a gift to the nation, courtesy of patriotic private donors. “And by the way, no government funds,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last November.
But, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has released a long-term immigration and border patrol funding bill that includes $1 billion earmarked for security improvements accompanying the overall ballroom project.
💸TRUMP’s NET WORTH: Triples to $6.5 Billion
President Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. Many say the president administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.
TrumpIRA joins TrumpRx and Trump Accounts as the President signs an executive order to launch retirement plans for workers whose employers don’t provide one.
TrumpIRA aims to give users access to a wider range of investments than President Obama’s plan, which was limited to Treasury bonds.
AI could massively increase unemployment and gig work by replacing jobs and by making it easier for companies to manage distributed, project-based workforces. That will expose a vulnerability in America’s already fragile retirement system — its reliance on employers to set up and administer the plans — and leave the government to fill in the gaps.
💿ROLLING STONES: New Album—Listen⬇️
62 year after their first album, the Rolling Stones are teasing their new album, Foreign Tongues, with a new single, “Rough and Twisted,” which they teased with a grassroots campaign billing themselves as the Cockroaches, lead off the LP’s 14 tracks. The album, due July 10, follows up 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, which was a Number Three hit in the U.S. and won the band a Grammy. Featured on the new album are Paul McCartney and Steve Winwood. Rock on!
🥩GOVERNMENT’s BEEF WITH PRICES
With beef prices hitting new highs, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Department of Justice is looking into possible antitrust violations in the cattle and beef industries and said the government would be announcing a settlement that would “directly affect” the prices of chicken, pork, turkey and other meats this week.
🔫DINNER SHOOTER: Back In Jail
The alleged gunman at the White House Correspondents’ dinner is expected back in court TODAY to determine if he will remain in federal custody. He faces up to life in prison if convicted.
He called himself ’FRIENDLY FEDERAL ASSASSIN’, and he’s now been officially charged with attempted assassination of President Trump. 31 year old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, a teacher, did not enter a plea in Federal Court this afternoon.
President Trump was rushed out of the dinner on Saturday night after several shots were heard outside the ballroom, as Secret Service officers, with guns drawn, ran through the aisles to reach the president.
President Trump said that the gunman had written a “manifesto”. Shortly before the attack, the suspect reportedly sent messages to his relatives denouncing Trump administration policies and suggesting he intended to take violent action.
Reports are the alleged shooter charged the magnetometer closest to the front door and took a shot at a Secret Service member who was wearing a bulletproof vest. The agent is reportedly fine and has been released from a hospital. There are reports the suspect was a guest at the Washington Hilton hotel where the event was taking place and had a stash of weapons in his room. President Trump called him a likely “lone wolf whack job” who “looked pretty evil.”
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The Pentagon has released more than 160 files related to sightings of UFOs dating back nearly 80 years.
The disclosure follows a presidential order from February calling for transparency around “alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).”
“The American people can now access the federal government’s declassified UAP files instantly. The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place — no clearance required,” the Pentagon said in a post on X broadcasting the file dump.
📺ABC BROADCAST LICENSES: Under FCC Review
Federal regulators haveordered a review of all station licenses owned by ABC, an extraordinary move to pressure a major television network whose programming has frequently angered President Trump.
The FCC said in a filing that the review was related to an investigation into ABC’s diversity and inclusion policies. But it came in the middle of a fight between President Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Jimmy Kimmel, that prompted the president to demand that ABC fire the late night host.
On his show on Thursday night, Kimmel parodied Saturday’s Correspondents dinner in advance, delivering a mock roast. In it, he joked that Melania Trump had a “glow like an expectant widow."
ABC’s parent Disney owns eight ABC TV stations in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The licenses for those stations come up for renewal between 2028 and 2031.
⁉️COMEY INDICTED: For SeaShell Photo
It sounds like a bit from Saturday Night Live, only it’s real.
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted over a social media post, of seashells, yea seashells.
It’s a renewed effort by the Justice Department to pursue charges against him after its bid last year ended in failure.
The case, which centers on an image of seashells spelling out ‘8647’ that Comey posted on Instagram, is the latest salvo in the department’s longstanding efforts to satisfy the demands of President Trump to go after longtime targets of his wrath.
Some say the post means eliminate the 47th President.
📹OPRAH On AMAZON: Video Podcast
TV is dead—long live podcasts—Oprah Winfrey is coming to Amazon.
The queen of daytime talk will produce twice-a-week video podcasts beginning this summer, create specials focused on her Favorite Things and Book Club labels, and repurpose the 25-season library from The Oprah Winfrey Show.
“This is the ultimate validation of where the world is going,” said Steve Boom, an Amazon vice president. “You have the most influential talk show host in history, by orders of magnitude, leaning heavily into this new world. Now we see where the world is going and we at Amazon are just happy to be along for the ride.”
📡SiriusXM/iHeart: Talk Merger
iHeart Media, the largest owner of radio stations, is reportedly holding talks about a possible sale to Sirius XM Holdings, the biggest satellite audio company creating an audio giant they hope can grow even as radio fades. But it’s also about podcasting, both companies have large stakes in that growing business.
IHeart has more than 860 stations in 160 markets. The company filed for bankruptcy court protection in 2018 and emerged from that largely owned by creditors. The shares have lost more than 80% of their value since hitting a high in 2021.
Music industry titan Irving Azoff and Apollo Global Management are allegedly involved to try and help facilitate a deal.
🏛️USA FINALLY UNITED: We ALL Hate Congress
Finally—something both right and left agree on—
We universally loathe Congress.
Just 10% of Americans approve of Congress, according to a new Gallup poll. This is sharply down from March 2025, when 31% of Americans approved of Congress.
The big collapse in support, according to Gallup, has come from Republicans bailing on their representatives. Democrats were already pretty down on it. Currently, just 3% of Democrats approve of Congress .
Congress doesn’t have much of an “agenda” at the moment. They aren’t tackling big issues that matter to either conservatives or liberals this year, and the GOP has all but succeeded its power to President Trump.
Meantime, Disapproval of President Trump has climbed to the highest level of his second term, according to The New York Times polling average, which found that 58% of Americans disapprove of the president’s job performance while only 39% approve.
That is the highest disapproval rating Trump has faced since the end of his first term, in the aftermath of his re-election campaign loss and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
🚬MARIJUANA: Feds Loosen Laws
Smokin’
The US Justice Department has reclassified state-regulated marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a major shift that could dramatically increase legal cannabis sales in the coming years.
It follows an executive order from the president last year to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug, which is a years-long process.
Reclassifying marijuana eases U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration barriers to researching the drug’s potential use cases.
It would not immediately legalize marijuana, nor would it affect the sentences of those incarcerated for possession.
🗳️Virginia Voters Boost Democrats in Midterms
Democrats fighting fire with fire.
Virginia voters approved a measure to boost Democrats in the midterms. With 97% of the vote to redraw the state’s congressional map counted, the Yes vote had 51.5%, while the No vote had 48.5%. Backers said the gerrymandering is needed to counter efforts by Trump and Republicans in Texas and other states to create more red seats in the closely divided House, while opponents said the move undermines Virginia’s efforts at fair representation.
📺Warner Bros./Paramount : Deal Approved
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders have voted “overwhelmingly” in favor of the merger with Paramount Skydance, clearing a critical hurdle.
The media world is shocked. CNN staffers are panicking wondering about their future under the new Trump-friendly management.
Now the hard part begins as state attorneys general have pledged to take a hard look at the deal, which will also most likely require approval from European regulators.
Netflix pulled the plug on its deal soon after the Warner board of directors said it determined Paramount’s latest offer for the entire company (including CNN) was superior to Netflix’s bid.
It comes after Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos meetings with the White House and DOJ Thursday.
President Trump broke precedent last year by inserting himself directly into the sale process, saying he would “be involved” in the outcome and favored Paramount.
Paramount CEO David Ellison reportedly told the Trump administration that he would “make sweeping changes to CNN” were his company to acquire it. Trump publicly weighed in, saying it is “imperative that CNN be sold.” Trump has long complained about the network, which he maintains is unfair to him.
📱APPLE: Stock 🔻, CEO Tim Cook Steps Down
Apple shares are lower as Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO, with John Ternus taking over on Sept. 1 and Cook becoming executive chairman. Ternus will lead Apple as it struggles to rekindle innovation in the AI era.
A central question for Ternus is how he can help Apple maintain its dominance at a time when most of its rivals are investing hundreds of billions of dollars into computing infrastructure and embedding cutting-edge AI tools into their products and daily workflows.
During Cook’s tenure, Apple’s market value grew by nearly $3.7 trillion, to about $4 trillion, surpassing the value created by any other American CEO in total dollars, save Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.
💸TARIFFS: Will Biz Share Refunds With YOU?
The Trump administration is set to take its first steps toward returning more than $166 billion collected from tariffs that were struck down in February.
Just over a year after imposing many of the duties, the government is expected to begin accepting requests for refunds from businesses, surrendering its prized source of revenue — plus interest.
The extent to which YOU, the consumer realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some consumers have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving payouts.
🤖GET THIS: Ukraine ROBOTS Defeat Russians
It’s not science fiction anymore
Ukraine military captured a Russian position using only ground robots and aerial drones — completely unassisted by any infantry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.
No lives were lost when the robot force went into highly dangerous enemy-occupied territory and forced the soldiers there to surrender, he said.
“The future is already on the front line — and Ukraine is building it. These are our ground robotic systems,” Zelensky said.
The front line is more like ‘Terminator,’” a drone operator with Ukraine’s 25th Airborne Brigade, named Bambi, told the Guardian earlier this month. “A land robot arrives at your position and there is nothing you can do about it.
“You can shoot a person in the chest and they stop firing. If you shoot a ground robot, it doesn’t feel pain.”
🛩️SPIRIT AIRLINES: U.S. May BailOut
Flying Spirit Airlines?—you need to make backup plans. But the Trump administration may be lending the airline $500 Million.
The low-cost carrier, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late 2024, has been working toward a financial overhaul aimed at stabilizing operations and improving liquidity. But a recent surge in fuel prices – driven by the ongoing war with Iran – is creating fresh headwinds at a critical stage in the process.
The dire situation has led some creditors to explore a potential liquidation of the airline, according to reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, as its low-cost structure leaves it more exposed to triple-digit increases in fuel costs.
Fuel remains one of the largest expenses for airlines, and the recent spike is hitting Spirit particularly hard given its ultra-low-cost model. Unlike larger carriers, Spirit has limited flexibility to offset higher costs through fare increases without risking a decline in demand.
💣FIREBOMBING: Open A.I. Founders Home
Target A.I.
A 20-year-old man has been arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of Sam Altman, chief executive of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI.
The incendiary device lit a fire on the exterior gate of Altman’s home before dawn, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement. The suspect then fled on foot but was found about an hour later, at the OpenAI headquarters about three miles away, where he was threatening to burn down the building, the police said.
No one was hurt, and it was unclear if Mr. Altman was home. Allison Maxie, a police spokeswoman, said that charges were pending against the suspect, whom she did not name.
🤔HEGSETH GOES BIBLICAL: But Mistakenly Quotes Samuel L Jackson
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read a fake Bible quote from Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 movie Pulp Fiction during a prayer service at the Pentagon on Wednesday.
Discussing the Sandy 1 rescue mission of a downed pilot in Iran this month, Hegseth (as first flagged by A Public Witness, a religion-themed Substack) urged his audience to join him in a prayer, which he claims was delivered at the beginning of the mission.
“This prayer was recited by Sandy 1, which is one of the Sandies, to all Sandies, all those A-10 crews, prior to all CSAR missions, but especially this CSAR mission, which happened in real time,” Hegseth said. “They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel
✝️TRUMP’ POPE: Derangement Syndrome
Pope Leo has criticised leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants” in unusually forceful comments during a visit to Cameroon.
The pontiff blasted those he said had manipulated “the very name of God” for their own gain, while touring a region ravaged by a deadly insurgency.
President Trump posted this picture as he mocked the Pope, but has since deleted after widespread criticism. The AI-generated image depicting himself as a Christ-like figure sparked outrage among his Catholic and evangelical Christian supporters.
Pope Leo says he had “no fear of the Trump administration,” after Trump attacked him in a Truth Social post as too liberal and “weak on crime.”
Leo’s admonishments of the war in Iran have become more pointed in recent days. Speaking to reporters on a flight to Algeria, Leo said he was not afraid of “speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do.”
Trump On Truth Social
“I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country.”
“And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History.”
🎟️TICKETMASTER/Live Nation: Ruled Monopoly
Live Nation, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster has operated as a monopoly in violation of federal and state antitrust laws, a federal jury has found. A ruling that could have far-reaching consequences.
The judge overseeing the case will determine remedies in a separate proceeding. That could include significant divestments by Live Nation, or even a breakup of Live Nation and Ticketmaster — an outcome that the federal government had called for when filing its case almost two years ago, though it is sure to be vigorously contested by Live Nation.
‼️SEX ABUSE: 2 Congressmen Resign
The abrupt resignations of two congressmen over sexual misconduct opened a new front in the ongoing battle between California and Texas over control of the House.
The administrations of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas wasted no time on Tuesday discussing the possibility of filling their respective seats — one formerly held by a Bay Area Democrat, the other by a West Texas Republican, both accused of sexual misconduct — while eyeing each other, their aides said.
Neither has yet said what they plan to do.
🏈NFL FOUL?: U.S. Investigates Anticompetitive Tactics
The Justice Department is investigating whether the National Football League has engaged in anticompetitive tactics that harm consumers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Media companies, regulators and members of Congress have raised concerns in recent months over how difficult it is for consumers to watch their favorite sports games as a result of rights deals.
“To watch every NFL game during the past season, football fans spent almost $1,000 on cable and streaming subscriptions,” Republican Sen. Mike Lee, chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, wrote in his letter to the FCC.
The NFL has said it is the most fan-friendly league with 87% of its games available on local TV, more than many other sports that have largely migrated to streaming services and cable channels.
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🚀🌔ARTEMIS: Splash Down After Historic Flight
The astronauts aboard Artemis II are home after traveling farther from earth than any other humans--248,655 miles.
But the Astronauts report a mysterious burning smell coming from the 23 million dollar advanced toilet system which previously malfunctioned after takeoff.
Four astronauts are on a high-stakes flight around the moon, the first lunar voyage in more than half a century and the leadoff in NASA’s push toward a landing in two years.
Carrying three Americans and one Canadian, the 32-story rocket rose from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center where tens of thousands gathered to witness the dawn of this new era. Crowds also jammed the surrounding roads and beaches, reminiscent of the Apollo moonshots in the 1960s and ’70s. It is NASA’s biggest step yet toward establishing a permanent lunar presence.
🤖A.I.: Coming For YOUR JOB
Payrolls rose by 178,000 in March, more than expected as unemployment declined to 4.3%.
The numbers are based on data collected before the energy price shock caused by the war in the Middle East tightened its grip on the economy.
The larger-than-expected increase was padded by the return of 31,000 striking nurses. Better weather last month may have also helped.
STILL, nearly three-quarters of Americans expect A.I. to slash their jobs.
Amazon is Laying off 16,000 on a push to invest heavily in artificial intelligence. UPS is cutting 30,000 jobs as Amazon eliminates using big brown to deliver many of its packages. Home Depot laying off 800.
Polls showing President Trump’s approval rating on the economy are at a dismal 33% as people struggle to make ends meet.
Kingsview’s Scott Martin on NewsNation says it’s a tale of two economies.
President Trump has ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi.
It ends a tumultuous tenure atop the Justice Department marked by failed efforts to prosecute Trump’s favored targets and a view by the president and his advisers that she mismanaged the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, will be the acting attorney general.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement.
Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement President Trump and Hegseth’s vision for the Army.
Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that George “will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately. The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement.”
👨⚖️SCOTUS: Trump Storms Out Of Hearing
President Trump failed to sit through a lengthy Supreme Court hearing discussing his unprecedented challenge to birthright citizenship on staying for around an hour and a half before dipping.
The president stayed for the arguments made by U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer in favor of his plan to limit birthright citizenship, but then left as soon as Cecillia Wang, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union began arguing against it.
Chief Justice John Roberts and other conservative as well as liberal justices struck a skeptical tone during oral arguments.
🤴NO KINGS: Record Rally Crowds
Thousands of organized demonstrations stretched across the country. Minneapolis was a focal point of the protests after a tumultuous immigration crackdown and the killings of two protesters.
Other large protests took place in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. In Manhattan, demonstrators passed through Times Square in a procession that stretched for more than a mile. In Washington, D.C., marchers passed near the residence of Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, and called for his removal.
The No Kings organizers said that eight million people took part; their estimates in some cities were higher than those of local public safety officials.
📺SAVANNAH’S RETURN: Blockbuster Ratings?
Savannah Guthrie returned to NBC‘s “Today” amid the disappearance of her mother, Nancy. Joined by co-anchor Craig Melvin, Guthrie got right into the news and did not spend any time addressing the ongoing investigation into her mother’s whereabouts. Guthrie tee’d up the morning’s big stories, from Trump’s war in Iran to inflated gas prices, the Artemis II mission to journey around the moon, Prince William and Kate Middleton attending their first Easter service in three years and more. Monday’s return is expected to generate record audience numbers.
“Today” is watched by 3 million viewers each weekday — generated nearly $203.5 million in advertising in 2025, according to Guideline, a tracker of ad spending. Add the 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. hours to the mix, and NBC made around $315.4 million from the weekday editions of the program.
Guthrie is offering up to $1 million for information that leads to finding her mother, Nancy, who was abducted from her home more than three weeks ago. Guthrie revealed in a video she and her family have accepted that her mom, Nancy Guthrie, may be dead as the search for the 84-year-old enters its 24th day.
The DNA on a potentially crucial glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home — as well as other genetic material in her house — do not match any records in the FBI’s database, officials reveal.
The genetic material on the discarded glove, which was discovered 2 miles from Guthrie’s house in Tucson, resulted in no hits within the agency’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, database, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.
At least three people were taken into custody in two separate investigations late Friday — including swarming a local Tucson property, all were questioned and released.
💻BIG TECH’s: Big Tobacco Moment
Big Tech facing a Big Tobacco moment—
It’s a landmark decision that could open social media companies to more lawsuits over users’ well-being. Some comparing it to earlier rulings against cigarette companies.
A jury rules Facebook parent Meta and Google-owned YouTube harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress, essentially the modern-day equivalent of cigarettes.
Meta and YouTube must pay $6 million in damages for pain and suffering and other financial burdens — which the companies vowed to appeal.
The bellwether case, which was brought by a now 20-year-old woman identified as K.G.M., had accused social media companies of creating products as addictive as cigarettes or digital casinos.
K.G.M. sued Meta and YouTube over features like infinite scroll and algorithmic recommendations that she claimed led to anxiety and depression.
More than 3,000 other similar lawsuits against Meta, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok“ are pending in California courts.
Just a day before, a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million after finding the company violated state law by misleading users about the safety of its platforms and allegedly enabling child sexual exploitation.
🕍TERROR ATTACK MI SYNAGOGUE: Full of Children
A man armed with a rifle was fatally shot by security after ramming his vehicle into a suburban Detroit synagogue. Temple Israel calls itself the nation’s largest Reform synagogue, with 12,000 members. At the time the synagogue was filled with young children at day care.
One security guard was hurt.
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said that “no kids or no staff were injured whatsoever.”
Investigators are still working to identify the man and his motives.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), in a statement: “This is heartbreaking. Michigan’s Jewish community should be able to live and practice their faith in peace.”Antisemitism and violence have no place in Michigan. I am hoping for everyone’s safety.”
About a dozen parents sprinted to get their children from an early childhood learning center inside the building this afternoon after getting approval from police to do so.
📺CBS NEWS LAYOFFS: CBS RADIO Killed
Time marches on…
CBS News is killing its century-old radio division as part of a round of layoffs announced by the network’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.
More than 60 employees, or roughly 6 percent of the news division, are set to be laid off under the plan.
CBS News Radio was once among the premier news broadcasters in the country. Onetime home to Edward R. Murrow, Charles Osgood and Walter Cronkite.
But the decline of radio, coupled with the rise of podcasts and other online sources of information, made the decision inevitable.
🚨NOEM: DHS Secretary OUT!!!
President Trump has fired homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. He plans to replace her with Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. But it wasn’t the killings of Americans Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis immigration protests that finally cost Noem her job, Instead, it was her self-promotion.
The final straw, was Noem’s decision to allot $200 million for an advertising campaign, featuring herself sitting on horseback, urging people living illegally in the U.S. to self-deport. Trump denies authorizing the ad.
Trump announced the change on social media, along with a new, and previously nonexistent, role for Noem: special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, which he said would be a new security initiative for the Western Hemisphere.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said new leadership at DHS will not change Democrats’ demands for restrictions on immigration enforcement. “The rot is deep,” he said.
🤖A.I. : Worries Pentagon Will Spy On YOU
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic—the maker of the AI model Claude—a supply chain risk to national security.
The dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic is over two usage restrictions in Anthropic’s military contract—prohibitions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
President Trump directing “EVERY Federal Agency” to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE” using Anthropic’s technology. Hegseth’s designation includes a six-month transition period during which Anthropic will continue providing services to the military during the transition to Open AI. Anthropic, in turn, has vowed to “challenge any supply chain risk designation in court.”
Open AI has accepted no such restrictions and is now being used by the government. Is mass surveillance next?
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His name is Eddie Dalton…and has three hits in the iTunes top 10. One of them is number 1. One of his YouTube videos has ONE MILLION views.
But he’s not real but an A.I. creation.
All of his computer generated material comes from a company called Crusty Tunes.
Crusty describes themselves: “We believe technology is a tool for creative expansion, not something to be resisted. Crusty Records actively embraces emerging platforms and production methods to help artists move faster, reach wider audiences, and retain ownership. Progress isn’t the enemy – stagnation is. ”
⚾️PLAY BALL: Robot Umpires First Call
It’s officially called the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System or A.B.S., BUT many call it the robot ump.
The Yankee’s José Caballero thought for sure the pitch from Logan Webb had missed the strike zone in the season’s opener, so he challenged the human umpire’s call - and made major league history in the process.
Caballero lost the first challenge taken to Major League Baseball’s so-called robot umpire, unsuccessfully appealing a strike by the San Francisco Giants right-hander in Wednesday night’s season opener that the Yankees won, 7-0.
Caballero didn’t hesitate. “Nope, I wanted to go for it,” he said.
A network of cameras set up in every ballpark track the baseball’s exact location and make a final determination. Each team gets two challenges per game.
M.L.B. officials say polls suggest that fans overwhelmingly support the challenge system.
But it will be a human umpire at least for now saying “Play ball!”
📕 A.I.: Book Written By Robot Is Discontinued
A novel apparently written by A.I. has been pulled off shelves.
“Shy Girl,” about a desperate young woman who is held hostage by a man she met online and forced to live as his pet, was self-published in February 2025. The book quickly found an audience among horror fans, and Hachette published it in the UK last fall and planned to release it in the U.S. this spring.
In the months since “Shy Girl” was released in Britain, morereaders voiced their suspicions online that the writer relied on A.I., citing nonsensical metaphors and odd, repetitive phrasing. As a chorus of allegations built online in late January that the novel was A.I. generated, Hachette stayed silent.
In response to questions from The New York Times about the A.I. allegations against “Shy Girl,” Hachette told The Times that its imprint Orbit has canceled plans to release the novel in the United States and that Hachette will discontinue its U.K. edition.
🏠MORTGAGES: Surging
The average 30-year fixed mortgage is up again close to 7%.
➡️Housing Expert Rick Sharga says the American dream is turning into the American nightmare:
FedEx has filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s government, seeking a full refund plus interest for what it paid in trade duties stemming from tariffs enacted last year. Others filing suit include Costco, Revlon, Bumble Bee Foods and Kawasaki Motors. Many other company bosses WANT THEIR MONEY BACK.
💸WHAT’S NEXT? Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels on NewsNation:
The Cuban government said Wednesday that a speedboat from Florida that had entered Cuban waters was carrying weapons and that its occupants, Cuban nationals living in the U.S., allegedly planned to carry out terrorism on the island. Cuba’s coast guard killed four people on the boat after the occupants opened fire, the interior ministry in Havana said.
The boat was one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino canal in Cayo Falcones, the ministry said, and had a Florida registration number. When five members of the Border Guard Troops approached the boat for identification, those aboard the speedboat allegedly began shooting. The commander of the Cuban boat was injured, the ministry said.
Cuba’s Interior Ministry said the boat was carrying 10 people armed with assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails, bulletproof vests, telescopic sights and camouflage uniforms, and the occupants of the boat were attempting to “carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.” The ministry said all 10 people were Cubans living in the U.S., and alleged that most “have a known history of criminal and violent activity.”
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The United States and China have signed off on a deal that would hand control of TikTok’s U.S. operations to a group of investors backed by President Donald Trump, according to a White House official.
The deal, facilitated by the Trump administration, means the U.S. version of TikTok will become majority-owned by a group of investors that includes the American tech giant Oracle, the California-based private equity fund Silver Lake and the United Arab Emirates investment firm MGX.
China’s ByteDance will keep a 19.9% stake in the U.S. operation, TikTok said in a December memo.
Exiger’s Bob Kolasky worries that China still has access to your data
As we head into 2026 Freedom of the Press is in greater danger than ever and it comes from the man who is supposed to uphold that constitutional guarantee— President Donal Trump.
In one of his latest rants on Truth Social the President writes:
If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated?,” He then answered his own question: “I say, YES!”
While the FCC cannot cancel broadcasting licenses for TV networks such as ABC, CBS, and NBC, they can pull the licenses of their owned and operated local stations.
Trump further accused the New York Times of “endangering national security”, calling the newspaper “a serious threat” in another rant on his Truth Social platform.
“The Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation,” he wrote.
“Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never ending way, must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! Thank you for you attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DJT”.
Trump said The Times published what he described as false and misleading reporting and accused it of biased coverage, without providing any evidence to support the allegations.
🛍️Buy Now Pay Later -or is it-Buy Now Regret Later❓
Cyber Monday spending grew more slowly in the U.S. then Europe, a new phenomenon that partly reflects the impact of President Trump’s trade war on tariff-stung shoppers. Global online spending increased about 5%, while US spending rose by 2.6%, according to Salesforce.
Bargain-hunters clicked their way online to spend $12 Billion on Black Friday weekend, 5% more than last year.
But many consumers are financing their purchases with Buy-Now-Pay-Later plans. The Consumer Guy with warnings from Mark Scribner of Wealth Enhancement Group:
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🚬SMOKIN’: Trump Orders Pot Rules Relaxed
Cannabis stocks HIGHER as President Trump eases restrictions on marijuana.
Trump has ordered marijuana reclassified as a less dangerous drug, a move that represents one of the biggest shifts in US policy toward cannabis in decades.
Trump has discussed the idea with marijuana industry executives, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz.
Listening to music in your senior years could cut your dementia risk by 40%.
Older adults who listened to music at least once a week had a significantly lower risk of dementia, according to a new study in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.:
Always listening to music was associated with a 39% reduced dementia risk and better global cognition and memory scores.
Playing an instrument was associated with a 35% reduced dementia risk, but no significant association with changes in cognitive test scores over time.
Regularly engaging in both music listening and playing was associated with a 33% decreased risk of dementia and 22% decreased risk of cognitive impairment no dementia.
So rock on!
🛫Airplane Safety Worries For Your Next Trip
Two people were found dead in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane from New York City after it landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline said Tuesday. It’s the latest in a string of incidents that have raised concerns over airline security.
A Jeju Airlines plane burst into a deadly fireball during a failed belly landing in South Korea, killing 179 people.
If your fear of flying has ramped up in recent months you’re not alone. More than half of travelers say recent news of aircraft and airline incidents has affected the way they book travel.
The latest problem: turns out new Boeing and Airbus jets have parts made from titanium, sold using fake documentation.
Exiger President Carrie Wibben tells NewsNation it raises concerns about the structural integrity of those planes.
💻Hackers Take Advantage Of Airline Computer Glitch
It keeps getting worse!
Regulators are investigating how Delta Air Lines is treating passengers affected by canceled flights after the airline’s global tech outage, which forced Delta to cancel more than 5000 flights.
CrowdStrike now warning its customers: hackers are trying to exploit the computer outage.
Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance says that shiny-new iPhone you want to buy may be made by Chinese slave labor. Vance named China the biggest threat to the U.S. & Democratic VP Candidate Tim Walz agrees.
While Apple denies it uses slave labor, China and Supply Chain expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation many US companies unknowingly use Chinese slave labor, and that needs to stop now.
