Ten billion and no evidence - judge stops Trump and shows where his lawsuits fail!
Donald Trump goes to court and demands ten billion dollars. What he gets back is not a settlement, no agreement, no compromise. It is a sentence that causes the entire case to collapse. Judge Darrin Gayles finds that it was not even plausibly demonstrated that the article was knowingly published as false. That is where everything is decided. The standard is clear. Anyone who sues as a public figure must show that a media outlet knowingly lies or ignores the truth. Not assume, not suggest, but prove. Trump cannot deliver that. That leaves the lawsuit without a foundation.
At the center is a report about a birthday album for Jeffrey Epstein, compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. It is said to contain a contribution from Trump. A drawing, a signature, a message with an unmistakably suggestive tone. Trump immediately denies it. He says he never wrote anything like that, never drew anything. One day later he files a lawsuit. Not only against the Wall Street Journal, but against the entire environment. News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Thomson, Dow Jones, plus two journalists. The demand is maximal, the approach broad.
The court looks at the sequence. The article is based on a document that was later also presented to the House Oversight Committee. The newsroom confronts Trump before publication. His response is in the text. His denial as well. This is exactly where the case collapses. When a newspaper researches, asks questions, and presents the opposing position, proving intent becomes extremely difficult. Gayles states that there are no indications that the newsroom violated its duty.
The lawsuit is dismissed without being finally concluded. Trump can come back. His team announces this immediately. He himself also says he will continue. The publisher responds briefly. It stands by its work and its accuracy.
It is not the first attempt of this kind. Trump has been taking legal action against media outlets for months. Against the New York Times, against CNN, against the BBC, against other organizations. A lawsuit for fifteen billion dollars was already dismissed last year and later refiled. Courts are reacting more and more clearly. Not only content is examined, but also the handling of the media is reflected in decisions. Public attacks, blanket accusations, pressure. That does not come without consequences.
At the end of March, a judge also stopped an order that was supposed to block funding for NPR and PBS. The reasoning was a violation of the Constitution.
What remains is a recurring picture. Trump files lawsuits, courts demand evidence, and it does not come.
Ten billion were on the table. One single sentence was enough.
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Incognito was only a promise - class action lawsuit hits Perplexity at the core
Perplexity AI is at the center of a class action lawsuit that could hardly be more serious. The allegation is clear. Millions of chat conversations with sensitive content are said to have been passed on to Meta Platforms and Google. Not just occasionally, but systematically. And especially even when users believed they were protected. Incognito mode played no role. According to the lawsuit, even these sessions were recorded, along with email addresses and other identifiers. What was meant as protection is now described as deception. An interface that suggests security while data flows out in the background. Claims of more than 5,000 dollars per violation are at stake. With millions of affected chats, this quickly becomes a sum that could be existential. The period covers the end of 2022 to the beginning of 2026. Three years of data that are now becoming a legal burden. It was not only simple queries that were recorded. The case involves content about health, finances, legal matters. Areas in which people write things they would not tell anyone else. These are exactly the data that are said to have been passed on via trackers. Meta Pixel, Google Ads, DoubleClick. Systems that are supposed to optimize advertising are here reaching deep into private communication.
The case does not stand alone. As early as October 2025, Reddit sued the company over alleged content scraping. Third parties are said to have systematically collected and passed on content. We reported on this. Now it is no longer about content, but about users themselves. About what they enter, share, upload. AI systems actively demand exactly that. More details, more context, more personal information. That is what makes them useful. And that is what makes them dangerous if that data does not remain where it belongs. Perplexity has not yet commented comprehensively. Meta and Google are also keeping their distance and point to the responsibility of the platform itself. What remains is a simple question. If even incognito does not protect, what does.
Magyar sets the line - no deals over people’s heads and an end to state money for party shows
Péter Magyar does not begin with a message to Washington, but with a clear boundary. Ukraine is the victim of this war, he says, and no one has the right to dictate under what conditions it should make peace. No country should be forced to give up its own territory. It is a sentence that is understood in Europe and not in Moscow.
He does not wait for Donald Trump. He will not call him. If someone from the United States reaches out, they will be reachable. Nothing more. No attempt at adjustment. A sober stance that shows how the balance is shifting without anyone saying it out loud. At the same time, Magyar draws a second line domestically. Events like CPAC can take place in Budapest if they want. Very gladly even. But not at the expense of taxpayers. Not anymore. What was previously financed from the state budget is to end.
He calls it by its name. The mixing of party work and public funds is a violation. Money intended for public purposes should never have flowed into political events. That it still happened is to be examined. Bodies created precisely for such cases are to be responsible for this in the future. That also brings institutions such as the Mathias Corvinus Collegium into focus. Structures that are closely tied to the previous power and have benefited from public funds for years. Magyar makes it clear that these connections will not simply continue. Anyone who wants such events should pay for them themselves. Fidesz, allies, supporters. But not the state. Not the public. And certainly not without oversight. This is more than a political change. It is an intervention in a system that has established itself over years. Magyar does not speak of reform, but of dismantling. Financial flows are to be disclosed, decisions reviewed.
At the same time, the tone in foreign policy remains calm. Anyone who wants to talk can do so. But on the terms set by Budapest itself. Between these lines, a picture emerges. Predictable outwardly, consistent inwardly. No deals over people’s heads and no more state financed party business. That is the starting point. What follows from it will now be decided.
Vance explains: Trump was just joking - we just did not understand it
JD Vance said that Trump’s post on Truth Social, which showed him in biblical clothing as a healer at a sickbed, surrounded by eagles, the American flag, and heavenly light - was a joke. Trump deleted it because he realized that many people did not understand his humor. One sits with this sentence and does not know what is more disturbing - that Trump posted the image, or that his vice president stands in front of cameras and explains that it was humor, and does so with a face that leaves no doubt.
And then this ... and the question: “What is actually true now?”
Question: Did you post this image of yourself in which you are portrayed as Jesus Christ?
Trump: I posted it, and I thought I was portrayed as a doctor and that it had something to do with the Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with something like that.
A man who threatens a civilization with the stone age, who publicly attacks the Pope, who wants to award himself the Medal of Honor, who sits at a combat sports event while peace talks fail - this man posts himself as Jesus Christ and his closest confidant says: joke. Not understood. Move on. Perhaps that is the most precise description of this administration: it does things that have no words - and when the words come, they explain that we were too stupid to understand the punchline.
Trump: Not his opponents - his own base is becoming the problem
Many US Catholics voted for Donald Trump, which is exactly why his attack on Pope Leo XIV now hits his own camp. The president publicly goes after the first American Pope, calls him wrong, rejects any apology, and doubles down, while the image of him as a healer has long been deleted. JD Vance explains that it was a joke that many simply did not understand. But that explanation only intensifies the situation. Criticism does not come from outside, but from within his own ranks. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the statements inappropriate, Bishop Robert Barron speaks of disrespect and calls for an apology. Clear opposition also comes from the evangelical environment. David Brody publicly calls on Trump to delete the post and reminds that no one is God. Willy Rice calls the image clearly wrong, Doug Wilson speaks of blasphemy, and Megan Basham calls on Trump to ask for forgiveness.
The president nevertheless remains firm. No apology, no concession. At the same time, Leo XIV represents the opposite. Calm, clear, without personal attacks. He speaks about war, about power, about responsibility without naming names. This contrast is more powerful than any debate. On one side a president who escalates, on the other a Pope who restrains. And in between a base that suddenly no longer appears united. When even loyal voices begin to distance themselves publicly, it changes the situation. Not because of a single post. But because it becomes visible that even there, limits exist where they long were not drawn.
Europe re-arms - Rheinmetall and Destinus turn missiles into mass production
Rheinmetall and Destinus are founding a joint company and thereby taking a step that has long been foreseeable. The name is clearly chosen, Rheinmetall Destinus Strike Systems, the purpose just as clear. Missile production for Europe and parts of NATO, on a scale that has not existed before. Rheinmetall holds 51 percent, Destinus 49. The founding is planned for the second half of the year. The focus is on cruise missiles and rocket artillery, systems that are no longer used only selectively but are to be available in significantly larger quantities. That is exactly the point. Europe has depleted its stocks in recent years, especially through support for Ukraine. At the same time, pressure is growing to replenish them and to prepare for new conflicts at the same time.
Mikhail Kokorich, CEO of Destinus, says openly where the problem lies. Not demand, but production. The systems are changing, from limited projects to industrial products. Rheinmetall speaks of demand rising to thousands per year, with the prospect of significantly higher numbers. Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall, calls this a necessity, not an option. The industrial base must grow, quickly and visibly. Behind this is a market that in the short term amounts to hundreds of millions of euros and in the medium term can move into the billions. This is no longer a side issue. It is a restructuring. Europe is preparing for the idea that war is no longer an exception, but a calculation.
A generation without jobs - and no one is stopping it
Ajay Banga, president of the World Bank, says a sentence that lingers. 800 million young people in developing countries could be without work in the next 10 to 15 years. Not maybe. Not someday. But in a timeframe that has already begun. The calculation behind it is simple. Around 1.2 billion people will reach working age during this period. Under current conditions, the economy will only create about 400 million jobs. The rest will be left out. This is a reality that is building. Year after year, without pause. Banga openly says how difficult it is to get attention for it.
Crises come and go, short term issues dominate. Long term problems disappear from view. Still, he insists. Jobs, access to electricity, clean water. Things that should actually be self evident remain at the top. At the same time, work is being done on solutions. Less bureaucracy, less corruption, simpler rules for companies. All points that have been known for years. In parallel, a project is to be launched that will give one billion people access to clean water. But the warning is clear. If these jobs do not emerge, the consequences will not remain local. More migration. More instability. The United Nations already speaks of more than 117 million people worldwide who are displaced. This number can rise further. Not because of a single conflict. But because work is missing.
Orbán falls - and of all people McConnell holds up the mirror to Trump
Mitch McConnell, Republican senator from Kentucky and long time leader in the US Senate, uses the election result in Hungary for a reckoning that is rarely heard from within his own ranks. Viktor Orbán has been voted out after 16 years, clearly, without room for interpretation. Donald Trump and his vice president JD Vance had openly supported him, Vance even traveled to Hungary and declared on a stage that Orbán would of course win. Trump was connected in and called him a fantastic man, he fully supported him. One day later this statement is worthless.
McConnell addresses exactly this point. In an op-ed he writes that many in the United States have made Orbán’s Hungary into a model, an alleged countermodel to a liberal Europe that they consider sick and decadent. He clearly calls this a myth. He recalls that under Orbán neither religious participation nor birth rates have increased. He speaks of concentration of power, of economic favoritism for close circles, of restrictions on free speech. And he goes further. Orbán’s closeness to Russia, his openness to Chinese interests, and his contacts with Iran are not only problematic, but directly run counter to American interests. McConnell thus questions not only Orbán, but also those in the United States who have declared him a model. The real question that lies between the lines is simpler. If one commits so clearly and is so clearly wrong, what does that say about one’s own judgment.
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