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Hunter Biden delivers profanity-laced response to Melania Trump’s $1B notice for ‘defamatory’ Epstein remarks

Hunter Biden delivers profanity-laced response to Melania Trump’s B notice for ‘defamatory’ Epstein remarks

Hunter Biden, in another profanity-laced interview, brushed off first lady Melania Trump’s recent $1 billion legal notice over what she claims are “false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements.” “F— that. That’s not gonna happen,” Biden said during an interview with “Channel 5” podcaster Andrew Callaghan that was published to YouTube Thursday.  Callaghan had offered Biden the opportunity to apologize to the first lady for a previous video interview titled “Hunter Biden Returns” earlier in August, when the former first son claimed “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep.”  “Mrs. Trump is seeking $1 billion in damages if we don’t take the video down, and if Hunter here doesn’t issue a formal apology to Mrs. Trump,” Callaghan told Biden, before the former first son brushed off the notice. “So now we’re here maybe to give you the platform to apologize to the first lady for your statements that you made about her possible connection to Jeffrey Epstein.”  FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP PUTS HUNTER BIDEN ON $1B NOTICE OVER ‘FALSE, DEFAMATORY’ EPSTEIN COMMENTS Biden doubled down in his most recent interview, and welcomed sitting down at a deposition over the matter.  “I also think they’re bullies, and they think that a billion dollars is going to scare me,” he said. “I have this to say to them: if they want to sit down for a deposition and clarify the nature of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein – if the president, the first lady, want to do that, and all of the known associates around them at the time of whatever time that they met – I’m more than happy to provide them the platform to be able to do it.”  Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the letter that Alejandro Brito, an attorney serving as litigation counsel for the first lady, sent to Biden and his attorney, Abbe Lowell, Aug. 6.  MELANIA TRUMP POSTS VICTORY X POST AFTER JAMES CARVILLE REMOVES PODCAST ALLEGING ‘EPSTEIN CONNECTION’ Brito demanded that Biden “immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump,” which were contained in the “Channel 5” video published to YouTube in early August.  “Failure to comply will leave Mrs. Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to her to recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that you have caused her to suffer,” Brito wrote. Biden had also claimed in the earlier interview that “Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania, and that’s how Melania and the first lady and the President met.” TRUMP REVEALS MELANIA’S KEY ROLE IN DEALING WITH PUTIN ON UKRAINE WAR “These false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory statements are extremely salacious and have been widely disseminated throughout various digital mediums,” Brito wrote. “Indeed, the video has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide.” Brito added: “Consequently, you have caused Mrs. Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm.” Brito demanded, on behalf of the first lady, that Biden “immediately issue a full and fair retraction of the video and any and all other false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading and inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump in as conspicuous a manner as they were originally published.” He also demanded, on behalf of the first lady, that Biden “immediately issue an apology for the false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading and inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump.”  Fox News Digital reached out to Biden attorney Lowell’s office for any additional comment on the matter, but did not immediately receive a reply. 

The day Israeli settlers lynched two young men in the West Bank

The day Israeli settlers lynched two young men in the West Bank

Rizik ran on. Next to him was a young man who spoke to Al Jazeera later, requesting anonymity for his safety. He said Rizik fell while jumping over a stone wall, hurting his legs, but that when they saw two boys who needed help, Rizik joined the young man in carrying them to safety. But then Rizik and his friend found themselves surrounded by settlers. They ran, but just as he dove for cover in the bushes, the friend saw a settler shoot Rizik in the chest. “The settlers started shouting: ‘Yes! I got you!’” he recalled, describing how several settlers gathered around Rizik as he lay on the ground. At about the time of the shooting, Rizik had called his family, but the family told others the call lasted only seconds, with no response from Rizik, although they heard shouts in Hebrew in the background. Rizik’s friend ran for his life down the side of the mountain, heading east. At 3:18pm, he sent a panicked voice message to local WhatsApp groups, begging for help: “Someone’s been martyred!” he beseeched. [Audio]: Witness to Muhammad Rizik al-Shalabi’s shooting, believing he’s been killed and sending a voice message calling for help. Later reconstructions estimated that Rizik may have still been alive at the time, but he was dead by the time search parties were able to access the area to look for him. Meanwhile, Saif and others were running for their lives further south, headed towards Ain al-Sarara. As family members confirmed to Al Jazeera, one of those young men was caught along the way and tied up by a gang of about nine settlers. Witnesses say the settlers repeatedly smashed the young man in the knee with their weapons, then dragged him, tied up, into a car and shot bullets all around him. Then they threw him to the ground over and over, until the young man was begging them to kill him. “They said: ‘I’m not going to kill you,’” a friend recalled on TikTok. “‘I’m going to chop off your arms and your legs and throw you on the side of the road like a dog.’” According to Sinjil activist Ayed Ghafari, among the settlers was Yahariv Mangory, reportedly the leader of the outpost builders in al-Baten, who was carrying an M16 rifle. Mangory later identified himself in an interview with Israel’s Channel 14 as the “owner” of the al-Baten outposts. Saif and the others had managed to go up a hill, but at about 3:30pm, they were met by a group of settlers coming downhill and attacked them from above, according to Ghafari, who spoke with the young men. The settlers were pelting the young men with rocks, with occasional bullets zooming past them as they made their way down the hill. A settler hit Saif square in the back with a rock, toppling him. He was instantly surrounded by a group of settlers who beat him with clubs and sticks all over, according to witnesses. Dazed, Saif staggered to his feet after the settlers stopped beating him, heading south down the hill until he came across a big oak tree where a young Palestinian man was hiding. Battered, he sank to the ground there for the next two and a half hours as the young man tried to reach out to people from Mazraa, asking for help. Saif was vomiting and struggling to breathe, his condition worsening by the minute. That was when Muhammad caught word that his big brother was in trouble. (Al Jazeera) Adblock test (Why?)

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 23 people as four more die from malnutrition

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 23 people as four more die from malnutrition

At least 23 people, including 10 seeking aid, have been killed on Thursday in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to Palestinian health authorities, as four more people died from malnutrition amid a growing starvation crisis in the besieged territory. Hospital sources told Al Jazeera that 10 people seeking aid were among 12 people killed by Israeli forces near Rafah in southern Gaza. One person was killed and several others were wounded in an Israeli attack near an aid distribution site, the sources said. Eight people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential home in Gaza City in northern Gaza, medical sources said. Two other people were killed in an Israeli attack on the city’s Tuffah neighbourhood, hospital sources told Al Jazeera. The killings come as Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza City, the largest city in the enclave, after the country’s security cabinet approved plans for the military to seize the city, an operation that could forcibly displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to concentration zones in southern Gaza. The plan has received international condemnation from the United Nations and even dissent from within Israel’s own military. Al Jazeera correspondents reported on Thursday that large swaths of northern Gaza have been turned into “lifeless wastelands” amid the Israeli escalation. Palestinians in Gaza City have spoken of their fears of further displacement, following an Israeli forced evacuation order to areas further south, ahead of the proposed occupation. Advertisement Walaa Sobh said she had already been displaced during the war from the northern city of Beit Lahiya to Gaza City, and was unable to move again. “We’re afraid to move anywhere else, because we have nowhere to go, no income – and I am a widow,” she told Al Jazeera. “If they want to force us out, then at least find us a place, give us tents, especially for the widows, the children, and the sick. You’re not only displacing one or two people; you’re displacing millions who have nowhere to stay.” Another woman, Umm Sajed Hamdan, said she would refuse to follow the order. “I am a mother of five and the wife of a detainee. I cannot escape with my children from one place to another,” Hamdan told Al Jazeera. “I would rather face death here in Gaza City than go to al-Mawasi.” Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said Israel’s plans to occupy Gaza City are a serious cause for concern. “It’s a terrible escalation, really,” said Bishara. “[Netanyahu] really intends to reoccupy Gaza … send the military in and just take it on again.” Truce talks As Israel continues to escalate attacks on Gaza City, Mossad spy chief David Barnea is visiting Qatar in an effort to revive talks over a Gaza ceasefire, two Israeli officials told the Reuters news agency on Thursday. The visit follows a reported expression of positivity from Hamas officials to restart ceasefire negotiations during a meeting with Egypt’s intelligence chief in Cairo earlier this week. Earlier on Thursday, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said that a non-Israeli, peaceful civilian administration for Gaza was among the Israeli government’s five key principles for ending the war. The other principles include the release of captives still held in Gaza, the surrender of weapons by Hamas, the full demilitarisation of Gaza, and Israel retaining overriding security control, he said. Aid still ‘a drop in the ocean’ Meanwhile, more than 100 aid groups on Thursday accused Israel of obstructing life-saving aid from entering Gaza, resulting in vast quantities of relief supplies remaining stranded in warehouses across Jordan and Egypt as more Palestinians starve. “Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there is no limit on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, most major international NGOs [nongovernmental organisations] have been unable to deliver a single truck of life-saving supplies since 2 March,” the groups said. There is aid sitting all around the boundary between Israel and Gaza that is not being allowed in, Natasha Davies, a nursing activity manager with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), told Al Jazeera. Advertisement “We’ve had a couple of trucks in [to Gaza], but really, it’s just a drop in the ocean … We run primarily a trauma surgical hospital, so every single patient has a wound of some sort that needs fixing with supplies that we are intermittently receiving,” Davies said by videolink from Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. “It’s just a humanitarian catastrophe. There are these GHF sites, which are slaughter masquerading as aid, which create mass casualty incidents, which create more injuries for us to treat with limited resources,” she said. The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the US-based GHF, has reached 1,881, with more than 13,863 injured, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The total count of hunger-related deaths is now 239, including 106 children, the ministry records. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,776 people and wounded 154,906. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive. Adblock test (Why?)

LA28 to be first Olympic Games to sell naming rights for venues

LA28 to be first Olympic Games to sell naming rights for venues

The organising committee for the Los Angeles Olympics says some deals are already in place for the 2028 Games. Organisers of the Los Angeles Olympics will sell naming rights for a handful of its venues in deals expected to bring multiple millions of dollars to the 2028 Games while breaking down the International Olympic Committee’s long-sacrosanct policy of keeping brand names off its arenas and stadiums. The organising committee announced the landmark deal Thursday, saying contracts were already in place with two of its founding partners – Honda, which already has naming rights for the arena in Anaheim that will host volleyball, and Comcast, which will have its name on the temporary venue hosting squash. LA28 chairman and CEO Casey Wasserman said revenue from the deals goes above what’s in LA’s current $6.9bn budget. He portrayed the deal as the sort of paradigm-shifting arrangement that Los Angeles needs more than other host cities because, as is typical for American-hosted Olympics, the core cost of these Games is not backed by government funding. “We’re a private enterprise responsible for delivering these games,” Wasserman said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It’s my job to push. That doesn’t mean we’re going to win every time we push, but it’s our job to always push because our context is pretty unique.” Wasserman said he also spent time explaining to IOC members how arena and stadium names are part of the lexicon in US sports. “People know ‘Crypto’ as ‘Crypto,’ they don’t know it as ‘the gymnastics arena downtown,’” Wasserman said of the home of the Lakers, Crypto.com Arena, which will host gymnastics and boxing in 2028. Advertisement Rights for up to 19 temporary venues could be available. The IOC’s biggest sponsors – called TOP sponsors – will have the first chance to get in on the deals. Wasserman said no venues will be renamed – so, for instance, if organisers do not reach a deal with SoFi (opening and closing ceremonies, swimming) or Intuit (basketball), no other sponsor can put its name on the arena. Not included in this new arrangement are the LA Coliseum, Rose Bowl and Dodger Stadium, some of the most iconic venues in a city that hosted the Games in 1932 and 1984. Organisers said IOC rules that forbid advertising on the field of play will still apply. The deal adds to a growing list of accommodations pushed through for Los Angeles, which is once again poised to reshape the Olympic brand, much the way it did in 1984. In 2017, the city was bidding for the 2024 Games against Paris, but agreed to instead host the 2028 Games. It was part of a then-unheard-of bid process that rescued the IOC from the reality that cities were becoming reluctant to absorb the cost and effort to bid for and host the Summer Games. Olympic watchers viewed the return of softball and baseball for 2028, along with the introduction of flag football, with help from the NFL, as changes that maybe only Los Angeles could have pulled off. LA will also make a major scheduling change for the Olympics Games, moving track and field to the opening week of the games and swimming to the end. Wasserman said the organising committee’s position as a private entity plays a major role in its relationship with the IOC. “We spend the time, we do the work, we make the argument, and we don’t settle for a ‘No,’ because we don’t have that luxury,” he said. Adblock test (Why?)

Celestial Weapons of a New Age: How India mastered missile technology

Celestial Weapons of a New Age: How India mastered missile technology

The IAF chief called it “the biggest-ever confirmed hit by a surface-to-air missile.” He also highlighted how India’s S-400 air defence system can strongly deter enemies, and how BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles proved extremely accurate, playing a game-changing role in the battle.