A jury in Los Angeles ruled last week that Meta, the parent of Facebook, and Google, the parent of YouTube, should be held liable for the mental health challenges faced by an unidentified woman who argued that these tech companies designed their products to make young users addicted.
Leon Black, the cofounder of Apollo Global Management, maintained an extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced pedophile who supposedly killed himself in a New York City jail cell in August 2019, and Epstein played a multi-layered role with Black – but mainly as his fixer, according to a report last week.
Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last shah who has been living in exile in the U.S., told an audience at CPAC 2026 on Saturday that the U.S. and Israel have the Iranian regime on the ropes and the war must not stop until there is regime change in Tehran.
This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas was a far cry from last year’s, which was young, optimistic, and energetic – and held shortly after President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
President Donald Trump said in an interview Sunday that he would like to take Iran’s oil, comparing a potential outcome of the war to Venezuela after the U.S. kidnapped its president, Nicolás Maduro, earlier in the year.