‘Daily Show’ Comedian Mimics Fox News’ Faux Outrage To Hilarious Effect

Correspondent Desi Lydic returned to “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” on Wednesday for another round of “Foxsplaining.”

Lydic once again pretended to have watched hundreds of hours of Fox News ― with disastrous, but comedic, consequences.

This time, Lydic’s Fox News-inspired faux outrage centered on the cable channel personalities’ anger about America being called a racist country.

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FTC Sends Refunds To Those Affected By Bogus Credit Card Scheme

The Federal Trade Commission has sent refunds of over $11 million to consumers who lost money to a bogus credit card interest rate reduction scheme operated by E.M. Systems & Services.

More than 11,000 consumers will receive full refunds, averaging $995 each. Consumers who receive checks should deposit or cash their checks within 90 days.

The funds for refund came from the FTC’s case against First Data Merchant Services, the company that processed credit card payments for the defendants in this case.

According to the FTC, First Data allegedly ignored repeated warnings from employees, banks, and others that they were processing payments for companies that were breaking the law. First Data agreed to pay $40 million to settle the FTC’s charges.

The FTC and the State of Florida alleged that E.M. Systems & Services’ owners, Steven Short and Karissa Dyar, used a variety of phony business names with associated websites, cold-called consumers with credit card debt and falsely promised to save them thousands of dollars by reducing their credit card interest rates.

The FTC says that the defendants charged an up-front fee between $695 and $1,495, and falsely promised to provide refunds to consumers if they failed to reduce the interest rates.

According to the complaint, the telemarketers identified themselves as “card services,” “credit services,” and “card member services,” or used one of the defendants’ phony business names.

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Crypto currency ether rises to new record high

(Reuters) – Ether, the world’s second largest crypto currency after Bitcoin, on Thursday rose to a record high of $3,591.65 on the Bitstamp Exchange.

Ether was last up about 3.0% at $3,568.92. Bitcoin was down 0.7% at $57,109.40 and about 12% below its record intraday high at $64,895.22 set on April 14.

SpongeBob, ‘Star Trek’ and sports drive subscriptions to Paramount+.

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Brazil: 20 killed including an officer in police shootout with drug traffickers

At least 20 people, including a police officer, have died in a shootout with drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, according to local media.

The O Globo newspaper said two passengers on a metro train were also wounded in the shooting in Jacarezinho, a shanty town in northern Rio, Brazil.

The shootings, it said, happened during a police operation.

An O Globo tweet said witnesses reported “fear and violence” in the neighbourhood.

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Detroit Lions’ Frank Ragnow signs 4-year extension, becomes highest-paid center in NFL, per report

The Detroit Lions are serious about building one of the NFL's best offensive lines – and keeping it together for years to come.

The Lions agreed to a four-year contract extension with center Frank Ragnow on Thursday that should keep him in Detroit through the 2026 NFL season.

NFL Network reported the deal is worth $13.5 million per season, which makes Ragnow the highest-paid center in the NFL, and includes $42 million in guarantees.

The Lions took Oregon offensive tackle Penei Sewell with the seventh pick of last week's draft, when general manager Brad Holmes told the Free Press he wanted to build a "beast" upfront.

Jonathan Bush, brother of President George H.W. Bush, dead at 89

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Jonathan Bush, a younger brother to the late President George H.W. Bush and uncle to former President George W. Bush, died hours short of his 90th birthday.

A statement Thursday from the George and Barbara Bush Foundation said that “the foundation pauses to mourn the passing of President Bush’s beloved brother Jonathan. Our prayers and love are with the Bush family as we remember a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and brother, a fine gentleman, and a noble soul.”

“And knowing Jonathan, he also would like for us to observe he was a great song and dance man — without a doubt the best dancer of his siblings, all of whom he now joins in heaven,” the statement read.

According to the foundation, Bush died Wednesday night, hours before his birthday, which is Thursday.

Bush was the fourth child born to the late Sen. Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. He spent a career working in the banking services and investment industries and was a major contributor and fundraiser during the successful 2000 presidential campaign of his nephew, the then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

Bush was also the father of former NBC “Today” co-host Billy Bush.