From YouTube’s corporate blog: Chart your way to the top …of YouTube’s new Weekly Podcast Shows chart! Today, we’re announcing a US-based, weekly chart to showcase the most popular podcasts on YouTube. On charts.youtube.com/podcasts, you can check out YouTube’s Top 100 podcast shows in the US to see where your favorite podcasts rank, or which podcasts you’re really missing out …

The Daily Beast reports: A producer who pitched the Department of Homeland Security a reality show for U.S. citizenship is defending the concept, insisting it’s not the dystopian nightmare critics fear. “This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants,” producer and writer Rob Worsoff told the Wall Street Journal of his show, called The American, which is reportedly under review by …

Truthout reports: Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — a far-right federal judge in the Northern District of Texas with a record of aligning with the GOP’s most extreme legal positions — has issued a ruling declaring that Title VII no longer protects LGBTQ+ people from workplace discrimination. The decision directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s landmark 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, …

The Military Times reports: The Defense Department will begin screening troops for gender dysphoria during their routine physicals in an effort to boot transgender service members from the armed forces. In a memo published Thursday, the Pentagon’s acting head of personnel and readiness tasked unit commanders to help implement the policy “immediately.” “Commanders who are aware of service members in …

Nashville’s ABC affiliate reports: A jury of six men and six women found former House Speaker Glen Casada guilty for his involvement in what was a trial on public corruption charges against him. He was found guilty on 17 of 19 counts. The jury found his aide Cade Cothren guilty on all charges for his stake in the trial. Former …

Courthouse News reports: More than 1 million Europeans have called on the EU to ban “conversion”‘ practices targeting LGBTQ people, the results of a petition showed Friday. The landmark result, reached in the afternoon, means the initiative has secured enough backing to force the European Commission to provide a detailed response. The United Nations has called for a global ban, …

The Independent reports: Glen Rogers, a convicted Florida murderer and suspected serial killer known as the “Casanova Killer,” used his last words Thursday to share his support for President Donald Trump. “President Trump, keep making America great. I’m ready to go,” Rogers, 62, said just before receiving a lethal injection at the Florida State Prison. Rogers, who was once linked …

“I see that Highly Overrated Bruce Springsteen goes to a Foreign Country to speak badly about the President of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — Just a pushy, obnoxious JERK, who fervently supported Crooked Joe Biden, a mentally incompetent FOOL, and our WORST …

The Hill reports: Fiscal hawks on the House Budget Committee on Friday blocked the panel from advancing the bill full of President Trump’s domestic priorities. The 16-21 vote marks a major setback for leadership hoping to get the bill to the Senate before Memorial Day. The Budget Committee must advance the 1,116-page bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” before …

The Associated Press reports: The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. Rushdie did not return to court to the western New …

The Texas Tribune reports: In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court found Texas’ ban on homosexual conduct to be unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas. More than 20 years later, the Legislature took its first steps to remove that prohibition from the books. On Thursday, the Texas House voted 72-55 to preliminarily approve House Bill 1738, which would remove from state statute …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. would begin unilaterally informing many of its trading partners of new tariff rates, rather than securing deals with the countries individually as the White House has repeatedly promised. After his sweeping April tariff plan sent markets spiraling and set in motion a global trade war, Trump reversed course and issued …

“He knew what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you’re FBI director and don’t know what that meant, that meant assassination and it says it loud and clear. He wasn’t very competent but competent enough to know what that meant.  “He did it for a reason and he was hit so hard because people like me and …

“When we have two assassination attempts on the president’s life, when we have people who look to guys like Comey, [who have] been celebrated by MSNBC and the Democrat elite and CNN as the beacon of integrity, the law and order guy, the guy who would tell the truth no matter what the consequences, this is the guy who’s issuing …

First, a reminder from September 2024: Taylor Swift‘s endorsement of Kamala Harris is clearly rattling Donald Trump. The former president lashed out at the pop superstar on his Truth Social account Sunday (Sept. 15) following her recent endorsement of the vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Trump wrote in all caps. The pop star’s …

“The Radical Left SleazeBags, which has no cards remaining in its illegal bag of tricks, is, in a very coordinated manner, PLAYING THE REF with regard to the United States Supreme Court. They lost the Election in a landslide, and with it, have totally lost their confidence and reason. They are stone cold CRAZY! I hope the Supreme Court doesn’t …

Reuters reports: Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration’s decision in January to cut global aid programmes. …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Donors are being offered a “dedicated VIP experience” at several events that President Trump is planning with the U.S. military this summer, according to several donors familiar with the matter. Those who give to America250, a committee created to support what Trump envisions as a large national celebration next year for America’s 250th birthday, will …

Axios reports: Charter Communications has agreed to buy Cox Communications from Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises for approximately $34.5 billion, the companies announced on Friday. The combined company would become America’s largest cable TV and broadband provider by subscribers, leapfrogging Comcast. The combined company eventually will be called Cox Communications, with Charter CEO Chris Winfrey retaining his title and Cox Enterprises CEO …

ABC News reports: The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told staff members on Thursday that he believes President Donald Trump is a bold man with a bold vision for the agency — but that FEMA doesn’t yet have a full plan to tackle hurricane season. “As FEMA transforms to a smaller footprint, the intent for this hurricane …