Nexstar reports: About 100,000 Crayan brand mattresses, which were sold exclusively on Amazon, are being recalled over concerns they don’t meet federal safety flammability requirements and could catch fire. The recalled mattresses were sold online at Amazon.com from July 2022 to June 2024, for $100-$220. Consumers should stop using the mattresses immediately, says the retailer, Foshanshi Liyue Jiaju Youxian Gongsi, …

CNN reports: France, Germany and the United Kingdom are ready to make an offer to Iran for “complete negotiations,” French President Emmanuel Macron said just hours before a high-stakes diplomatic meeting gets underway in Switzerland. Macron warned there should be “no laxity” when it comes to managing the prospect of an “Iran endowed with nuclear arms,” speaking to reporters on …

Axios reports: Eight in 10 Americans want legally required and publicly released cognitive tests and disease screenings for U.S. presidents — and age limits on the presidency, according to the latest Axios-Ipsos American Health Index. About 3 in 4 say politicians aren’t honest about their health, and that presidents should be legally required to share their medical records with the …

Reuters reports: Tesla is expected to tiptoe into its long-awaited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, as soon as Sunday with about 10 of its Model Y SUVs that will operate within strict limits. CEO Elon Musk has said the company is being “super paranoid” about safety and that humans will remotely monitor the fleet. Remote access and control – known …

The New York Times reports: A French member of Parliament has urged American authorities to reverse a decision to deny him entry to the United States, after he said they rejected his request for a visa to meet with progressive lawmakers and intellectuals about life under the Trump presidency. Pouria Amirshahi, a member of the Green party, said he had …

The Daily Beast reports: MAGA conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer has unleashed on right-wing host Tucker Carlson in a wild social media tirade. Loomer has filled her X account with venom aimed at the conservative figures she believes have betrayed Donald Trump over his Middle East backflip. This week, the MAGA camp has fractured with key figures including Marjorie Taylor Greene, …

Mediaite reports: Former Republican congressman turned cable news host, Matt Gaetz, was brutally roasted on Thursday for a post suggesting that the Arab population of Israel can’t vote. Gaetz replied to an X user in the early hours of Thursday morning who attacked his recent One America News Network monologue on the Israel-Iran conflict. Gaetz hit back at Yaron Samid …

New York City’s ABC affiliate reports: The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating death threats against New York City mayoral candidate and Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani reportedly received multiple death threats in recent weeks, including a threat to blow up his car. At least four threats were left via voicemail in the assemblyman’s Queens office and included Islamophobic statements, …

The Associated Press reports: The Environmental Protection Agency told a federal appeals court it will reconsider the Biden administration’s ban on the last type of asbestos used in the United States to determine whether it went “beyond what is necessary.” Asbestos is linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually and causes mesothelioma as well as other cancers. It has …

CBS News reports: Ohio Rep. Max Miller said he was “run off the road” on Thursday in Rocky River, Ohio, by a driver who showed him a Palestinian flag and threatened him. “Some unhinged, deranged man decided to lay on his horn and run me off the road when he couldn’t get my attention, to show me a Palestinian flag, …

Courthouse News reports: A Ninth Circuit panel said late Thursday that President Donald Trump can continue “federalizing” the California National Guard while California Governor Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit challenging if the president had the power to mobilize the troops against Los Angeles protests pends in federal court. The panel — consisting of U.S. Circuit Judge Mark J. Bennett and U.S. Circuit …

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump appeared to criticize Juneteenth celebrations in a post on social media, saying there are “too many non-working holidays in America.” “It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed,” Trump said on June 19. “The workers don’t want it either! Soon we’ll end up having a holiday for …

Variety reports: Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee and Jet Li may soon return to global screens in digitally resurrected form. At the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival, the China Film Foundation and partners launched two major AI-driven initiatives under the Kung Fu Film Heritage Project: a large-scale effort to restore 100 classic martial arts films using artificial intelligence, and the unveiling …

Gothamist reports: A decade after Uber upended New York’s yellow taxi industry, another Silicon Valley giant is threatening to push the city’s cabbies to the brink of extinction. Waymo, a robot-driven car service owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, applied for a permit Wednesday with the city transportation department to test out a small fleet of autonomous vehicles in an …

Ars Technica reports: In a move that further intensifies the reflection of the cable business it’s slowly killing, Netflix will start showing broadcast channels next summer. The world’s largest streaming provider announced today that starting next year, all Netflix subscribers in France will be able to watch broadcast channels from TF1 Group, France’s biggest commercial broadcaster, which also owns streaming …

Wired reports: When the facts of the story emerged—that the alleged shooter had been registered in other states as a Republican, was said to have voted for President Donald Trump and, as WIRED reported, had participated in an evangelical ministry where he preached against abortion and demonized the LGTBQ community—the conspiracy theories didn’t stop. Instead, they just changed. Posters then …

Religion News Service reports: A federal appeals court ruled that a lawsuit against Christian financial guru Dave Ramsey by a former employee who was fired for being pregnant while unmarried can go forward. Caitlin O’Connor sued the Lampo Group, Ramsey’s Franklin, Tennessee-based company, alleging religious discrimination. But the company said O’Connor was fired for violating the company’s ban on premarital …

Fresno’s NBC affiliate reports: An updated rulebook for Yosemite National Park would criminalize activists for flying certain flags within the world-renowned landscape. In February, park rangers held an upside-down American flag from the historic mountain as federal cuts were made to the National Park Service. More recently, on May 20, what was described as the largest flag hung from the …

NBC News reports: Some ready-to-eat chicken fettuccine Alfredo meals are being voluntarily recalled by food manufacturer FreshRealm following a nationwide listeria outbreak linked to 17 illnesses and three deaths. FreshRealm issued the recall Tuesday for refrigerated chicken fettuccine Alfredo meals sold nationwide at Kroger and Walmart stores under Marketside and Home Chef brand names, the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Food Safety …

The Hill report: Former Vice President Pence warned in a new essay that the conservative movement is being threatened by what he describes as “populist fervor” and the “transformation into the anti-woke movement.” “An existential identity crisis now grips the American right,” Pence wrote in the essay, which was co-authored by a founder of the Heritage Foundation conservative think tank. …