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Fox Business’s Jackie DeAngelis has filed a lawsuit against Whole Foods, saying she was attacked by a dog while in a New York store.

The lawsuit, which was first found and reported by the New York Post’s Sonya Gugliara on Saturday, alleges that DeAngelis, the co-host of The Big Money Show, was bitten by a dog at the Whole Foods at 10 Columbus Circle.

DeAngelis, 46, has worked as a financial correspondent, anchor, and host during her tenure at Fox Business. She began at the network in 2019.

She was allegedly left with “severe and permanent personal injuries” and with limited mobility after the black pit bull bit her left hand, she alleged in the court papers filed Aug. 20 in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Police told the Post the dog and its owner allegedly involved in the Sept. 20, 2023 incident left the store before they had arrived.

Whole Foods only allows pets in their stores if they are registered service animals, but DeAngelis claimed the animal was not a service pet and that Whole Foods should have been aware of this.

“The subject dog was present within the store for a sufficient period of time and under such circumstances that defendant, in the exercise of reasonable care, should have discovered its presence prior to the attack upon plaintiff,” she claimed in the legal filing.

DeAngelis alleged Whole Foods “failed to reasonably enforce its own policies” and “failed to exercise reasonable care in controlling and regulating the presence of unauthorized animals within its premises.”

According to the suit, DeAngelis underwent surgical treatment, but has been left with “significant scarring and disfigurement.”

“Plaintiff’s injuries and resulting damages are permanent and continuing in nature,” the suit states, adding she has been “unable to perform her usual activities and duties for periods of time and may continue to suffer limitations in the future.”

DeAngelis is seeking unspecified damages for her medical expenses and emotional distress.

Fox Business did not provide comment to Mediaite, while Whole Foods did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Dolly Parton’s younger sister admitted it’s been difficult for the legendary singer’s family to deal with what she called “endless garbage” being posted online since the icon’s death.

Stella Parton, 77, took to Instagram to thank members of the public offering what she described as “genuine” support for the family:

As most of you who follow my accounts know, I’m an early riser, so here goes during my coffee hour.

First let me say, thank you to the ones of you who have shown “genuine” support and love during this time of our family bereavement.

We will be okay in time but each of us will grieve in our own personal way.

Every human being experiences pain and loss in life and my family is no different.

Sadly, because of the way our lives have been lived in front of the public, we have no choice but to be subjected to incredible pressure and insensitivity from strangers.

There is a tremendous amount of AI and endless garbage being posted everyday and it’s been challenging to absorb and or ignore.

As time passes, those who are in the business of exploiting the loss and tragedies of others on a daily basis will move on to the next stampede of endless misinformation.

My big sister Dolly would be surprised and delighted by the love her family and she have been shown during this time.

She loved her fans and the public in general. That is the reason she chose not to express on a lot of things like politics, religion and individuals in the public eye.

Dolly Parton died Aug. 25 at age 80 after a reported battle with cancer.

Stella Parton’s admission of frustration came a day after Variety reported the famed singer, songwriter and actress’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame had been replaced — after someone vandalized it following news of her death.

The star on Hollywood Boulevard had been given to Parton in 1984, and had a crack in it before someone scratched the tribute, according to reports.

Comedian Bill Maher was slammed after he tried to joke about Parton’s death during the Aug. 28 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.

“All this was going on, and all America could really talk about this week was how sad it is we lost Dolly Parton,” Maher said.

“Everybody around the country, even around the world—London, they’re doing things, the Santa Monica ferris wheel is lit up with hearts, the Empire State Building was put up in pink. The Sphere in Las Vegas added a nipple.”

Critics shredded Maher as “lame” and a “soulless ghoul” for the joke.

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President Donald Trump claimed his former fixer, Michael Cohen, has recanted his 2024 testimony in Trump’s infamous New York hush money trial.

Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social:

I am pleased to report that Michael Cohen, the Prosecution’s Star Witness and, in actuality, only Witness in the New York State Attorney General and Manhattan DA Witch Hunt Cases brought against me, has just fully RECANTED his testimony. He was “pressured” and “coerced” to say things that were not true. I would like to thank Michael for having the Wisdom and Courage to step forward and do the right thing! His Act of Bravery is a Great Credit to the Justice System in New York City and State. I am sure it was not easy for him! Now we are asking that any remnant of those Politically Weaponized Cases against me be immediately terminated and dismissed. Their Star Witness said everything they did was WRONG and UNLAWFUL! Letitia James and Alvin Bragg broke the Law in order to do this in order to prevent me from becoming the President of the United States. Such a thing can never be allowed to happen again! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Cohen claimed in his Substack earlier this year that he felt pressured to testify during the trial, which resulted in Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records in relation to a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.

It’s unclear if Cohen has officially recanted his testimony. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump and Cohen recently sat down for a wild interview, in which Trump told his former longtime employee “they forced you” to testify.

“Look, you took back, you recanted your testimony,” Trump said. “They forced you to do that. They threatened you with jail, they threatened you with everything if you didn’t go against Trump — and you took it back. I wouldn’t even be talking to you right now if you didn’t, to be honest. You did something very few people have done.”

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Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy had jokes for Vice President JD Vance during the latter’s press briefing Thursday.

The event was the first since former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt exited the post in August.

“I just want to ask you, if there’s been reports about this, but I have not heard you talk much about you lost a ton of weight lately. How much sauerkraut do you eat in a day?” Doocy asked.

Vance appeared caught off guard by the question.

“Oh my lord, okay. So when you’re the vice president of United States and one of the first questions at a press conference in the White House is how much weight you’ve lost, you must have gotten very fat, that’s one thing that I take from that question. So I’ll tell you a little story,” he answered.

Vance continued:

So every Lent I try to — I’m a devout Christian, I try to take it very seriously. So I try to do some kind of self-denial. And so I was talking to my wife on Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, and I was like, I think I’m going to give up sugar, and I think I’m going to give up social media. Okay? So if I want to tweet something, I tell these guys to tweet something for me and otherwise I try to stay off social media. So I call Bobby Kennedy. And I’m like, I know you’re really into health. I’m thinking about giving up sugar. What do you think? And Bobby Kennedy says,’No, no, no, I got something that’s way better than that and way more intense’, and basically it’s like yeah, a lot of high protein stuff and I a lot of sauerkraut, and let’s just say that if that was Fat Tuesday, fat Wednesday never came. So, my advice to you is if you want to lose weight, call Bobby Kennedy. If you want to enjoy what you eat, do not call Bobby Kennedy.

The White House debuted a new food pyramid from U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in January. His version places “Protein, Dairy and Healthy Fats” alongside fruits and vegetables at the top, and lists steak, turkey, and salmon as potential protein choices.

Watch the above via Fox News.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) claimed President Donald Trump listens to him the “vast majority of the time” on foreign policy as he was pressed about a potential 2028 run.

Cruz joined Patrick Bet-David on The PBD Podcast on Wednesday, where Bet-David pushed Cruz for an answer on 2028 and asked him multiple times to lay out the differences in policy between him and two other rumored 2028 candidates, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Cruz took some subtle shots at Vance, calling him more “isolationist” in his foreign policy and arguing Vance would likely not have the same foreign policy measures as Trump in office.

Cruz then placed blame on a now-abandoned MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between the U.S. and Iran which controversially included a framework for $300 billion in funding for reconstruction, though the money would not have been tax dollars, but rather private investment.

“That was a terrible deal,” Cruz said.

He put responsibility for the negotiations on Vance and added, “That would have been staggeringly foolish.”

Cruz went on to say he talks to Trump at least weekly and suggested he has the president’s ear when it comes to foreign policy. The president and Cruz have of course had a tense relationship at times, going all the way back to Trump throwing out personal insults when they ran against each other in 2016.

“I spend a lot of time talking to President Trump. I talk to President Trump every week, sometimes every day and on foreign policy I will say he has listened to me the vast majority of the time. Not all the time, but a great deal of [the] time,” the senator said.

He took another jab at the MOU, calling it a “serious policy mistake” and arguing it would have led to Iranian terrorists killing Americans.

“The MOU thankfully collapsed. Had the MOU gone into effect, Americans would have died. That money would have been used by Iranian terrorists to murder Americans so I’m glad we’re not sending them the money,” he said.

When asked about a potential run by Cruz in 2028 last week, Trump called him a “talented guy” and “friend” and predicted he could do well.

“I would say that he’s very talented. He’s a very good friend of mine. I think he might do good, yeah. He’s a talented guy,” the president said.

Watch above via The PBD Podcast.

Jason Cohen contributed to this report.

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President Donald Trump warned Iran the USA’s latest strikes are nothing compared to the fury he is ready to unleash if it dares to retaliate against America’s “justified attack.”

The president told Iran to think long and hard about its next moves in a Tuesday post on Truth Social, shortly after U.S. Central Command announced the military had conducted airstrikes.

“If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!” Trump posted.

Trump wrote that the U.S. was conducting the strikes “as we speak,” and the military was pummeling Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz.

He said the “large and powerful” strikes were payback for Iran’s “failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan.”

The president was referring to Iran’s missile attack at dawn on Monday, which Trump vowed to to hit the country “hard”  for soon after. Later in the day, Trump ripped a reporter who asked if he had “ruled out” using a nuclear weapon on Iran.

“I would never say that, but yes, there’s no reason for it. What a stupid question that is, actually,” Trump vented. “Here they are, they’re totally defeated militarily. So now I defeat ’em and now I should use a nuclear weapon on top of ’em? What a stupid question!”

All of this follows the U.S. resuming strikes on Iran for the first time in a few weeks on Sunday.

Those strikes coincided with the Washington Post reporting top generals recently warned Pete Hegseth about extending the war, but Trump told Fox News that same day he had no choice but to launch Operation Epic Fury because Iran was on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon. He said Iran’s theocratic leaders would have certainly used it against Israel.

“We would probably be next,” Trump added.

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Tree stump at DC golf course

The default approach to any news story since last January is that if President Trump does something, it must be wrong. Dismissing conflicting data and facts has been the reporting code during Trump-2.0, and at the Washington Post, they hold to this standard, even with the most innocuous of stories.

Now Trump is chopping down cherry trees, like he is George Washington going off his meds. This weekend we were all supposed to feel the outrage, courtesy of sports reporter Rick Maese.

It may seem odd that Maese is on the tree-felling beat, but since most of the alleged arboreal murder takes place along a golf course, it may be justified. The horror detailed is that improvements have been taking place along the course of the East Potomac Golf Links.

The president has pledged that he would begin improvements on the course with a start date of September 1; however, dozens of trees have been seen cut down and removed. This would be where the Washington Post suggests we are to become enraged.

Of course, since the administration is undertaking – well, anything – there has been a lawsuit brought forward. This, even as Maese asserted that tree removal is a common practice with course renovations. Regardless, a legal challenge was brought in February to halt any progress on the plans.

Initially, the filing was about debris from the White House East Wing being placed in the park where the course rests, but it also addressed the plans to renovate the three courses and bring those up to championship standards. This…was considered bad.

The group also argues that the administration’s plans to convert East Potomac into a golf course suitable for professional tournaments would produce a venue with inflated maintenance costs that is beyond the skill of most recreational players. The envisioned course would be of a piece with the numerous championship-style golf courses that President Trump, who fancies himself an avid golfer, owns elsewhere, the lawsuit states. “Predictably, the cost of a tee time at such a venue would inflate accordingly.”

This has already been swept aside. A new agreement was forged so the trust that operates the golf courses would remain in control, and the price point for hacks on the links would not spike.

The other dose of outrage concerns the removal of trees in the process. But even in presenting this upfront as a problem, Maese eventually concludes much of the work was justified. “Tree removal is common in major golf course renovations, often to widen playing corridors, improve sight lines, and allow more sunlight and air to reach the turf.”

An administration official also noted that many of the trees were problematic. They asserted it was “selective removal of hazard trees, non-native invasive trees, and declining and dying trees that cannot be brought back to good health through any degree of intervention.” Rick Maese even confirmed this to be the case.

Many of the remaining stumps were visibly hollow or showed signs of decay. In other areas, the stumps had already been ground down, leaving only circles of dirt. On the 13th hole of the Blue Course, a crew took down a large tree that showed clear signs of decay.

The press has been excitable over the removal of the famed cherry blossom trees, and Maese somewhat confirms this to be the case. “Among the most conspicuous was a cherry tree near the 14th green of the Blue Course.” That would be – one. And as the press this summer had been rather frothing over the timber attacks, what was rarely, if ever, noted were the details, of course.

The supposed historical offense committed by the president had to elide the small detail that cherry blossom trees carry an average lifespan of 30-40 years. So no, any trees planted by First Lady Helen Taft cannot be affected. There is one additional fact that every one of these barking bromides from the press had to avoid.

The nation had been gifted 250 new cherry blossom trees from the nation of Japan for our nation’s 250th celebrations. The Washington Post has known this.  That sure sounds like welcome, beneficial, and positive news on the landscape. But as we know, that type of reporting concerning this administration is not permitted.

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