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CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert used Tucker Carlson’s spat with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over the Israel-Iran conflict and the United States’ role in it to smear President Donald Trump as “Nazi-friendly,” during his Late Show monologue on Wednesday. Stephen Colbert: ‘Trump Wasn’t Nazi Friendly Until 2017’ NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 17: Stephen Colbert speaks with Alex Edelman at 92NY on July 17,Noam Galai/Getty Images Jerome Hudson19 Jun 202513 1:42 CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert used Tucker Carlson’s spat with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over the Israel-Iran conflict and the United States’ role in it to smear President...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz stated that it is odd that Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who has “gone to just all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States, and he’s the one that, somehow, gets on somebody’s contact and then gets sucked into this group.” He also stated that Goldberg wasn’t on his phone, “a staffer wasn’t responsible. And, look, I take full responsibility.” Waltz also said that Goldberg’s contact “looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Tuesday that she “wasn’t aware” of warnings about the extreme winds that led to the devastating Palisades Fire on January 7, but she posted those warnings on her official X account on January 6. Bass gave her first television interview since the fire to Elex Michaelson of Los Angeles-area Fox affiliate KTTV-11. Bass left the country for Ghana before the fire and was there when the disaster happened — a “mistake,” she now says. In the interview, Bass returned to blaming Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley, saying that Crowley had not notified...

A man accused of plotting to detonate bombs in Britain acknowledged talking about blowing up the Houses of Parliament, but said the suggestion was meant as a joke. Omar Khyam, 24, who is standing trial along with six others, denies conspiring to cause an explosion. He told jurors at London's Central Criminal Court that, while watching Prime Minister Tony Blair take questions in the House of Commons in "we just made a comment 'Can you imagine if you dropped a bomb right there and then? You would take out all the MPs (members of Parliament)." Khyam confirmed it was he...

EVERY other Sunday afternoon since April 2003, advocates of animal rights have gathered with bullhorns across from 279 Central Park West, near 88th Street. They are there to protest Huntingdon Life Sciences, a product-development company that does scientific tests on animals, and its chief executive, Andrew Baker, who lives in the building. Or does he? Months ago, residents heard that he had moved out. And so, they wonder, why don't the protesters stop? "Someone would first of all have to provide really good proof that he's not in the building," said Camille Hankins, who organizes the events for the group,...

'If I wasn't so scared, I'd throw a party' By Jack Fairweather in Baghdad (Filed: 29/06/2004) A smile broke over the face of Fatima Khadil, a civil servant, as she learned about her new government yesterday morning. "If I wasn't so scared of the violence, I'd throw a party," she said as she queued to collect her wages at the Baghdad Citizenship office. "Does this mean America will give me a visa now?" she asked with a smile. Unlike the volleys of gunfire that heralded Saddam Hussein's capture in December, Iraqis quietly discussed the departure of the American administration and...