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CTV News
5 hours ago
- Business
- CTV News
U.S. deal to top agenda at Carney's premiers meeting: political commentator
Watch Political commentator Scott Reid on key issues expected at PM Carney's meeting with premieres next week, including focus on potential U.S. deal.
The Guardian
a day ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Newsom ready to pursue lawsuit against Fox News host despite on-air apology
The California governor, Gavin Newsom, and Fox News host Jesse Watters have locked into a political tit-for-tat after the network figure admitted to mistakenly claiming that Newsom lied about a phone call with Donald Trump during June's anti-immigration enforcement protests in the state. On Thursday, Watters issued an apology on his program stemming from a $787m defamation lawsuit filed by Newsom against the host and Fox News, as the Los Angeles Times and other outlets reported. Newsom's lawsuit claimed that Watters lied on air about the timeline of the governor's conversations with the president during the peak of the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) protests across Los Angeles. Newsom contended that Watters intentionally manipulated his reporting to make it seem as though the governor had lied about a phone call he had with Trump. On 10 June, Trump publicly said that he had spoken to Newsom 'a day ago', adding that he had called the governor to tell him 'you've got to do a better job, you're doing a bad job'. Trump's comments implied that the two leaders had spoken to each other on the same day that the president ordered several hundred US marines to be deployed to Los Angeles – a decision that was met with widespread opposition from California leaders. After Trump's comments, Newsom pushed back on social media against the president's narrative. Newsom had publicly said that he spoke to Trump after midnight on 7 June, during which there was no discussion of deploying any marines. In a post on X, Newsom wrote: 'There was no call. Not even a voicemail. Americans should be alarmed that a president deploying marines onto our streets doesn't even know who he's talking to.' Trump in response sent a screenshot of his 7 June call log to the Fox News anchor John Roberts. Watters then proceeded to show the screenshot on his program, as well as a video clip of Trump's comments on 10 June about his call with Newsom. In the video clip, the part where Trump said he had spoken to Newsom 'a day ago' was omitted, the Los Angeles Times reported. The outlet, which reviewed the clip, further added that the bottom of the screen said: 'Gavin lied about Trump's call.' As part of the defamation suit Newsom subsequently filed against the network, the governor's lawyers said that they would dismiss the case if Fox admitted to falsely misrepresenting the timeline of the phone call with Trump. 'We expect that you will give the same airtime in retracting these falsehoods as you spent presenting and amplifying them,' Newsom's lawyers said in a letter to Fox, which the Los Angeles Times reviewed. 'Further, Mr Watters and Fox News must issue a formal on-air apology for the lie you have spread about Governor Newsom.' On Thursday, Watters issued a lukewarm apology on air, saying: ''Not even a voicemail' – we took that to mean there was no call ever … We thought the dispute was about whether there was a phone call at all when he said without qualification that there was no call. 'Now Newsom's telling us what was in his head when he wrote the tweet,' Watters added. 'He didn't deceive anybody on purpose, so I'm sorry, he wasn't lying. He was just confusing and unclear. Next time, governor, why don't you say what you mean.' In response to Watters's comments on air, Newsom provided a statement to the Los Angeles Times suggesting he would forge on with his lawsuit. 'Discovery will be fun,' the statement reportedly said. 'See you in court, buddy.'
LBCI
a day ago
- Politics
- LBCI
Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun meets Speaker Nabih Berri
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun received Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at Baabda Palace on Friday, as part of their regular coordination meetings. The discussions focused on the country's general situation from various angles, including the latest regional developments. Speaker Berri left the presidential palace without making any public statement.
BBC News
a day ago
- Politics
- BBC News
Bolsonaro: Court orders him to wear ankle tag and imposes curfew
Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle tag and put under curfew to prevent him absconding while he stands trial. He governed Brazil from 2019 to 2022 and is accused of plotting a coup to prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office in January 2023. He denies any follows US President Donald Trump's attempts to quash the case, which he has called a "witch hunt", by threatening steep tariffs on Brazilian said the court restrictions amounted to "supreme humiliation" and that he had never considered leaving Brazil. On Friday, police raided his home and political headquarters on orders from the Supreme Alexandre de Moraes also ordered that Bolsonaro be banned from social media and barred from communicating with his son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, who has been lobbying for him in the US, and foreign ambassadors, diplomats or ex-president will be placed under 24-hour surveillance and have to comply with a nighttime Moraes said Bolsonaro was acting deliberately and illegally, together with his son Eduardo, to have sanctions imposed on Brazilian public a statement, Bolsonaro's lawyers expressed "surprise and outrage" at the court's decision, adding that the former president had "always complied with the court's orders".According to the Federal Police, Bolsonaro has attempted to hinder the trial and undertaken actions that constitute coercion, obstruction of justice and an attack on national week, the US president threatened a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods from 1 August, directly citing Brazil's treatment of Bolsonaro. Lula hit back, saying he would match any tariffs imposed on Brazil by the US. In a post on X, the president said Brazil was a "sovereign country with independent institutions" and "no one is above the law".On Thursday, Trump posted a letter on Truth Social that he sent to Bolsonaro in which he said the criminal case amounted to political persecution and that his tariff threat was aimed at exerting pressure on Brazilian authorities to drop the US president has compared the prosecution to legal cases he himself faced between his two presidential is standing trial along with seven accused over events which culminated in the storming of government buildings by his supporters a week after Lula's inauguration in January eight defendants are accused of five charges: attempting to stage a coup, involvement in an armed criminal organisation, attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, aggravated damage and deterioration of listed found guilty, Bolsonaro, 70, could face decades behind bars. The former president has consistently denied the charges against him, calling them "grave and baseless" and claiming to be the victim of "political persecution" aimed at preventing him running for president again in in court in June, Bolsonaro said a coup was an "abominable thing" and there had "never been talk of a coup" between him and his military narrowly lost the presidential election to his left-wing rival Lula in 2022. He never publicly acknowledged defeat. Many of his supporters spent weeks camped outside army barracks in an attempt to convince the military to prevent Lula from being sworn in. A week after Lula's inauguration, on 8 January 2023, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court and the presidential palace in what federal investigators say was an attempted was in the US at the time and has always denied any links to the rioters.A federal investigation into the riots and the events leading up to them was launched. Investigators subsequently said they had found evidence of a "criminal organisation" which had "acted in a coordinated manner" to keep then-President Bolsonaro in 884-page report, which was unsealed in November 2024, alleged that "then-President Jair Messias Bolsonaro planned, acted and was directly and effectively aware of the actions of the criminal organisation aiming to launch a coup d'etat and eliminate the democratic rule of law".Brazil's Attorney General Paulo Gonet went further in his report published last month, in which he accused Bolsonaro of not just being aware but of leading the criminal organisation that he says sought to overthrow Lula.
Fox News
a day ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Stefanik uses viral CEO cheating photo to slam Mamdani, Hochul
It was the Kiss Cam seen around the internet, and now one House Republican is using it as a political cudgel. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., used the viral moment caught during a Coldplay concert that sparked allegations that Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his head of human resources, Kristin Cabot, were having an affair, to bash New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. "Commie Mamdani holding [Gov. Kathy Hochul] headed for re-election in 2026," Stefanik said on X. Fox News Digital reached out to Hochul and Mamdani's offices for comment. Stefanik has so far flirted with a bid for the New York governor's mansion, but has yet to throw her name into the race. She was previously the number three Republican in House GOP leadership until she was tapped to be President Donald Trump's U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. However, Trump pulled his nomination and Stefanik returned to the House, where she again earned a spot in leadership. However, Stefanik is not the only House Republican eying a challenge against Hochul, who first took office in 2021 after former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is now battling Mamdani in New York City's mayoral contest, resigned. She won her first full term in 2022. Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., is also mulling a bid against Hochul, and like Stefanik, has yet to announce his intentions. Lawler has twice won in typically Democratic districts, while Stefanik has held her seat in a deep red portion of upstate New York. But a recent poll found that if either entered the race, along with a potential third in Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, they would have an uphill climb against Hochul. A recent poll from Sienna College found that Hochul leads each potential gubernatorial candidate by at least 20 points each. Meanwhile, Mamdani is fresh from Washington D.C., where he met with the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. He's now back in New York to meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., in a bid to secure their endorsements in his quest to beat New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
