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Fox News
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Full episode: "Ruthless" 8/1/2025
Vice President JD Vance sits down with the "Ruthless" hosts for a wide-ranging interview in this special episode.
Fox News
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
JD Vance sounds off on Sydney Sweeney ad uproar, mocks left's 'Nazi' strategy
Vice President JD Vance had some fun at the expense of the left over its wild response to the American Eagle ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. "My political advice to the Democrats is continue to tell everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi. That appears to be their actual strategy," Vance joked during Friday's appearance on the "Ruthless" podcast. American Eagle has sparked a social media firestorm with the launch of its fall clothing campaign, titled "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans." Progressive critics have linked the ad campaign to racism and Nazi-era eugenics. "It actually reveals something pretty interesting about the Dems, though," Vance said, "which is that you have like a normal, all-American beautiful girl doing like a normal jeans ad, right? To try to sell, you know, sell jeans to kids in America, and they have managed to so unhinge themselves over this thing. And it's like, you guys, did you learn nothing from the November 2024 election?" "Like, I actually thought that one of the lessons they might take is we're going to be less crazy," he continued. "The lesson they have apparently taken is we're going to attack people as Nazis for thinking Sydney Sweeney is beautiful. Great strategy, guys." That's how you're going to win the midterms." Especially young American men." "Their course correction lasted about 30 seconds," joked "Ruthless" co-host Josh Holmes. "That's right, [it] lasted 30 seconds, somehow has gotten even crazier," Vance responded. "But again, it's just so much of the Democrats is oriented around hostility to basic American life. So you have a pretty girl doing a jeans ad, and they can't help but freak out. It reveals a lot more about them than it does us." Tune in to "Ruthless" every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday on all podcast platforms and YouTube.
Fox News
15 hours ago
- Politics
- Fox News
JD Vance mocks Dem reaction to Sydney Sweeney ad on 'Ruthless' podcast
Vice President JD Vance sounded off on the left's wild response to the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad during his appearance on the "Ruthless" podcast.
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
6 unhinged Trump moments as he leaves UK singer feeling 'sick' with weird video
(Image: Anadolu via Getty Images) If I were Donald Trump, I'd have stayed in bed today and slept off the jetlag. He's back in Washington after a nice relaxing trip to Scotland, where he played a lot of golf, signed a trillion dollar trade deal with the EU and met Keir Starmer - costing UK taxpayers tens of millions to police and protect his golf courses. He managed to make even more news on Air Force One last night, giving more details about his falling out with Jeffrey Epstein. He's done a bunch of posting on his Truth Social account - including some which will probably make India a bit nervous. And this morning, his White House has upset a genuine national treasure. Here's everything that went on in Trump World in the last 24 hours that you need to know about. The official White House Twitter account posted this video, which pastiches UK Jet2 holidays ads for some reason. The video juxtaposes footage of people being deported from the US with the well-known Jet2 TV ad, featuring Jess Glynne singing "Hold My Hand". Content cannot be displayed without consent Ms Glynne is not amused. She posted a response, saying: "This post honestly makes me sick. My music is about love, unity and spreading positivity - never about division or hate. Because a day can't go by in Trump World where there isn't talk of the US President pardoning a convicted sex offender, an administration source tells Deadline that "serious consideration" is being given to pardoning Sean "Diddy" Combs. Combs, previously known as Puff Daddy, is facing up to ten years behind bars on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He's been denied bail and remains in prison pending his sentence. Given how his supporters feel about high-profile sex offenders, handing him a pardon would certainly be a ...choice. The Trump administration is moving to scrap the scientific finding that provides the basis for most US action to cut emissions and fight climate change. It would scrap the Environment Protection Agency's 2009 declaration that determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The so-called "endangerment finding" is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources that are heating the planet. Repealing the finding "will be the largest deregulatory action in the history of America," EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said yesterday. "There are people who, in the name of climate change, are willing to bankrupt the country," Zeldin said on the conservative "Ruthless" podcast. "They created this endangerment finding and then they are able to put all these regulations on vehicles, on airplanes, on stationary sources, to basically regulate out of existence, in many cases, a lot of segments of our economy. And it cost Americans a lot of money." The EPA proposal must go though a lengthy review process, including public comment, before it is finalised, likely next year. Environmental groups are likely to challenge the rule change in court. Donald Trump has claimed Jeffrey Epstein "stole" his most well-known victim from him. The US President described for the first time during his trip to Scotland on Monday the events that led to his falling out with former friend Epstein. He told reporters during a Q&A session with Keir Starmer that the bust-up had been caused by Epstein doing something "inappropriate" - namely, poaching staff from him. Trump said he'd told him not to do it once, but that Epstein had repeated the behaviour, and so he'd ordered him to stay away from his Mar A Lago club in Florida's Palm Beach. Content cannot be displayed without consent As the Mirror noted the same day, Epstein's most well known victim, Virginia Giuffre, was allegedly 'hired' by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein while she was working in Trump's spa at Mar A Lago. Aboard Air Force One last night, Trump said he was upset that Epstein was "taking people who worked for me." The women, he said, were "taken out of the spa, hired by him - in other words, gone." "I said, listen, we don't want you taking our people," Trump said. When it happened again, Trump said he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. Asked if Giuffre was one of the employees poached by Epstein, he demurred but then said "he stole her." The White House originally said Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because he was acting like a "creep." Trump announced on Truth Social this morning that India is "our friend" but its "tariffs are far too high" on US goods. He threatened to impose a 25% tariff on goods from India, plus an additional "penalty" because they still buy Russian oil. The threat comes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the White House in February, not long after Trump took office - and promised to start buying American oil and gas. But months later, the outlines of a trade deal haven't been finalised. As the world attempts to keep up with Trump's antics, the Mirror has launched its very own US Politics WhatsApp community where you'll get all the latest news from across the pond. We'll send you the latest breaking updates and exclusives all directly to your phone. Users must download or already have WhatsApp on their phones to join in. All you have to do to join is click on this link, select 'Join Chat' and you're in! We may also send you stories from other titles across the Reach group. We will also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose Exit group. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. CLICK HERE TO JOIN The federal grand juries that indicted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on sex trafficking charges didn't hear evidence from any of Epstein's victims, according to Justice Department officials. Trump has ordered the release of evidence presented to the grand jury - which decides whether a prosecution should go ahead. There had been concerns that releasing the documents would be detrimental to survivors. But according to documents filed in court last night, there were only two witnesses - and both of them were law enforcement officers. While the memo didn't detail what was in the grand jury testimony, it dampened expectations that the transcripts would contain new revelations, saying that "certain aspects and subject matters" contained in them became public during Maxwell's trial in 2021 and that other details have been made public through many years of civil lawsuits filed by victims. Trump ordered the release of the evidence after he faced a huge backlash for failing to publish the files held by the FBI relating to the investigation. We don't know what's in the transcripts, but it seems unlikely his angry supporters will be satisfied by them. BLUESKY: Follow our Mirror Politics account on Bluesky here. And follow our Mirror Politics team here - Lizzy Buchan, Mikey Smith, Kevin Maguire, Sophie Huskisson, Dave Burke and Ashley Cowburn. POLITICS WHATSAPP: Be first to get the biggest bombshells and breaking news by joining our Politics WhatsApp group here. 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CNN
3 days ago
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Trump EPA proposes revoking pollution limits based in part on document authored by 5 climate contrarians
Climate change Pollution Federal agencies Air quality FacebookTweetLink In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced. If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government's most powerful way to control the country's planet-warming pollution and fight climate change. The repeal was based in part on a hastily produced report — authored by five researchers who have spent years sowing doubt in the scientific consensus around climate change — that questions the severity of the impacts of climate change. The 2009 scientific finding at the heart of this repeal has served as the basis of many of the Environmental Protection Agency's most significant regulations to protect human health and environment, and decrease climate pollution from cars, power plants and the oil and gas industry. Zeldin on Tuesday spoke proudly of his agency's move to repeal the endangerment finding as the 'largest deregulatory action in the history of America,' speaking on 'Ruthless,' a conservative podcast, and referred to climate change as dogma rather than science. 'This has been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,' Zeldin said. In addition to reversing the endangerment finding, the EPA's proposal also seeks to repeal rules that regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, since they stem from the finding. The Biden EPA sought to tighten those standards to prod the auto industry to make more fuel-efficient hybrids and electric vehicles. The text of the proposal said that while greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise in the atmosphere, it has been 'driven primarily by increased emissions from foreign sources,' and has happened 'without producing the degree of adverse impacts to public health and welfare in the United States that the EPA anticipated in the 2009 Endangerment Finding.' The US is the world's second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and historically has emitted more planet-warming pollution than any other country. Many rigorous scientific findings since 2009 have showed both climate pollution and its warming effects are not just harming public health but killing people outright. In the nearly 16 years since the EPA first issued the Supreme Court-ordered endangerment finding, the world has warmed an additional 0.45 degrees Celsius (or 0.81 degrees Fahrenheit) to 1.4 degrees Celsius, according to climate scientist Zeke Hausfather. Numerous international and US scientific findings have found 'increasingly incontrovertible evidence' that humans are causing this warming by burning oil, gas and coal. Even that fraction of a degree, when spread across the planet, has had an enormous impact on our weather, water and food systems. The world is at a dangerous threshold with individual years, including 2024, already exceeding the 1.5-degree guardrail laid out in the Paris Agreement — the point at which scientists believe the effects of climate change will likely be near impossible to reverse. Many climate scientists no longer believe the long-term target of 1.5-degrees is achievable, as fossil fuel pollution continues and the world heads closer to 3 degrees Celsius of warming during this century. Zeldin said during the podcast he believes the scientific finding that climate change threatens human health was a guise used to attack polluting industries, and that the human health finding was 'an oversimplified, I would say inaccurate, way to describe it.' The Trump administration commissioned the new report on climate change and climate science in conjunction with its proposed regulatory repeals, Energy Sec. Chris Wright announced during a Tuesday afternoon press conference. The document calls into question the seriousness of climate impacts and informed EPA's repeal of the endangerment finding, according to the proposal. Wright's Energy Department recently hired three prominent researchers who have questioned and even rejected the overwhelming scientific consensus on human-caused climate change, CNN previously reported — John Christy and Roy Spencer, both research scientists at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, and Steven E. Koonin of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Christy, Spencer and Koonin are on the byline of the DOE report, along with Canadian economist Ross McKitrick and Georgia Tech professor emeritus Judith Curry — also considered to have opinions on climate change that contradict the scientific consensus. The group took around two months to complete the report. Wright said climate change 'is a real, physical phenomenon' that is 'worthy of study' and 'even some action.' 'But what we have done instead is nothing related to the actual science of climate change or pragmatic ways to make progress,' Wright said. 'The politics of climate change have shrunk your life possibilities, have put your business here at threat.' Hausfather told CNN he was 'surprised' this would be released as an official publication, and said it was notable the Trump administration had selected 'five authors who are well known to have fringe views of climate science' to author it. 'It reads like a blog post — a somewhat scattershot collection of oft-debunked skeptic claims, studies taken out of context, or cherry-picked examples that are not representative of broader climate science research findings,' he said. 'The fact that this has been released at the same time that the government has hidden the actual congressionally mandated national climate assessments that accurately reflect the science only further shows how much of a farce this is.' And Hausfather strongly pushed back the idea that the scientific record shows anything other than climate change presenting danger to humans. The findings of international climate scientists have been reaffirmed in the fourth and fifth US climate assessments, the former of which was released during the first Trump administration. 'Both the scientific certainty around climate change and evidence of the dangers it is causing have grown stronger since 2009,' he said in an email. 'There is no evidence that has emerged or been published in the scientific literature in the past 16 years that would in any way challenge the scientific basis of the 2009 endangerment finding.' Global warming is supercharging extreme weather events such as heavy precipitation, heat waves and wildfires. It is making these extremes more likely, intense and in some cases, longer-lasting. 'These changes in climate have moved out of the domain of pure science into the domain of everyday life,' said Phil Duffy, a climate scientist and former Biden official in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Duffy, who lives in California, said he can now only buy wildfire insurance through the state insurer of last resort — a reality for many Californians as wildfires are increasing in size amid hotter temperatures. 'The evidence (in 2009) was overwhelming, but it's even stronger now,' he said. This story has been updated with additional information. Rene Marsh contributed reporting.
