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DHS chief maintains stake in company despite founder’s ‘abuse’ admission
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin maintains an investment of up to $1 million in Botanic Tonics, a company manufacturing Feel Free energy drinks. Feel Free is widely known as “gas station heroin” due to its addictive properties, reports Punch Up. The company’s founder, J.W. Ross, a convicted felon who has admitted deliberately testing…
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Howard Stern’s lawyer slams ex-assistant’s ‘frivolous’ new claims over ‘fabricated’ NDA in private email
Howard Stern’s lawyer excoriated the shock jock’s former assistantover what he believes to be “frivolous” accusations in a newly revealed private email. Leslie Kuhn’s attorney John Joseph Leonard submitted a screenshot of the alleged email from Stern’s lawyer Andrew Mark Goldsmith in an exhibit filed with the New York County Clerk on Sunday. Addressing Leonard…
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Paramount CEO David Ellison says the Warner merger is still on track
Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison isn’t waving a white flag. After Paramount agreed Friday to delay its proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery to battle a stiffer-than-anticipated antitrust challenge from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general, Ellison is resetting expectations. In a Monday memo to employees, Ellison wrote that…
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Judge blisters Todd Blanche with warning over fights to hide Epstein ‘co-conspirators’
A federal judge warned that sealed records in a sex-trafficking suit against the bank that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used could expose Justice Department documents and court files identifying alleged co-conspirators. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff issued the protective order Monday in Jane Doe v. FirstBank Puerto Rico, a suit alleging the bank was…
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Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not always stay between you and a chatbot. Just ask Google. Over the weekend, people were surprised to discover that some Anthropic Claude chats could be easily found via web search. The issue, which appears to have been first flagged by a redditor, exposed chats that…
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Trump gives Iran ‘not much time’ to reach a deal before war comes roaring back
President Donald Trump warned Iranian negotiators Monday that time was running out to reach a negotiated settlement to end the war, warning that unless a deal was reached soon, the United States would “go back to very strong military action,” Axios’ Barak Ravid claimed. “We are in very deep talks with Iran. If they don’t…
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SAG-AFTRA Backs WGA, State AG Opposition to Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
SAG-AFTRA has joined the growing opposition in Hollywood to the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger as the actors guild’s national board voted to formally oppose it over the weekend. “The resolution affirms our strong support for the attorneys general from a dozen states and the Writers Guild of America, who have filed anti-trust lawsuits to…
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‘Fox & Friends First’ star Carley Shimkus welcomes baby boy
“Fox & Friends First” co-host Carley Shimkus has welcomed a baby boy, the network announced Monday. Shimkus, 39; her husband, Peter Buchignani; and their first son, three-year-old Brock, have welcomed baby boy Harrison to their growing family. “We have a brand-new member of the ‘Fox & Friends’ family. Carley Shimkus, giving birth to her son,…
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Florida researchers bring endangered elkhorn coral pieces ashore to protect them
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Scientists working to save a coral species from extinction transported 30 pieces from nurseries off the Florida coast to a hatchery on land in recent days, fearing that warming waters could trigger a mass bleaching event this summer that could wipe them out. Elkhorn coral populations were decimated by a 2023 heat wave…
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Trump hit with ‘hard truths’ about Iran war by Vance and top general: report
Senior officials raised alarms during a White House meeting about the toll the Iran conflict is taking on America’s military stockpiles, according to new reporting. CNN’s Zachary Cohen reported that Gen. Dan Caine and Vice President JD Vance delivered blunt warnings during the discussion Friday, with Caine specifically flagging concerns about depleted supplies of critical…