Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (D) amped up his rhetoric against President Donald Trump and his White House ballroom in a speech at a national monument.Krasner, who won office thanks to a massive donation by left-wing financier George Soros, called the president a "pain in the ass" on Tuesday and vowed to blow up the ballroom.'The man himself is the embodiment of hate. He is the embodiment of ignorance. He is the embodiment of depriving people of their vote and their education.'The DA was speaking at the 24th annual Commiseration at the President's House, a National Park monument and the site of a bitter feud between the city and Trump over an exhibit on slavery."There is a beautiful time coming. This memorial will be here!" said Krasner. "But let me tell you what will not be here. There will not be a ballroom. There will not be a ballroom."He also claimed that Trump would not prevail on putting his name onto the Kennedy Center for the Arts."In about 10 or 15 years, we are all going to be sitting here with smiles on our faces," he continued. "And I'm going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk. And do you know what that paperweight's going to be? It's going to be a piece of the ballroom after we all blow it up, that's what it's gonna be."He went on to say pieces of the Trump's White House ballroom would be sold to the public in order to pay for the demolition.Krasner also referred to the president as a "pain in the ass" before an audience member called Trump the devil."The man himself is the embodiment of hate. He is the embodiment of ignorance. He is the embodiment of depriving people of their vote and their education. That’s who he is."Krasner also agreed that there was "some evidence" that the president is the devil.RELATED: Philly DA warns Trump on election poll watchers: 'Break the law... I've got something for you.' The dispute over a slavery exhibit at the national monument led to a court feud between city officials and the Trump administration. A federal court sided with the president in June, but activists have said they will continue the legal fight. Soros donated nearly $1.7 million to Krasner's campaign coffers in 2017, and the liberal DA's actions in office have spurred condemnation and anger.In January Krasner vowed to "hunt down" Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who break the law, and when a mass shooting took the lives of three people in his city, he blamed the National Rifle Association.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A historic lawsuit spanning the United States and its territories ended abruptly this week, and its terms will make major changes to how children use social media.The lawsuit brought forth by 29 states accused Mark Zuckerberg's Meta platforms of knowingly being addictive and harmful to young users.'This framework will only work if all our peers join us.'The case has been in trial since August 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and it only took about a week for Zuckerberg and co. to come to an agreement with the accusing parties.On Wednesday morning, a settlement was announced that will have Meta paying up to $18 billion over 10 years, while implementing new child safety protocols on its platforms, Variety reported.Social media overhaulNew rules include a "hard cap" on daily time limits for children, totaling a combined two-hour daily limit across Instagram and Facebook, with mandatory pauses after 15 minutes of continuous use.Children will be blocked from accessing Meta platforms from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m., in addition to limited school-time access, with push notifications blocked for children between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. during the school year on weekdays.Age "assurance" measures were described as being "robust," while Meta promised more parental control, safeguards against bullying, and limitations on harmful content.The catch — and it's a big one — is that the usage limits are planned for just five years. At the same time, Meta said that it will drop its allowed usage to only 60 minutes for 10 years if Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube adopt comparable terms.The settlement payments also depend on other social platforms adopting similar policies. About 70% of the money will be allocated to participating states over the 10-year period, but the remaining 30% will only be released if YouTube and TikTok implement a one-hour daily limit, the night mode policy, and age assurance measures. As well, YouTube and TikTok must each pay an amount that matches the 30% sum figure, Variety reported.RELATED: Federal agents wanted to search his phone — now they say the trick he used to stop them is a crime David GRAY/AFP/Getty Images The lawsuit was led by California AG Rob Bonta, with the settlement garnering his state between $1.5 and $2.1 billion, if approved.Let the spin begin"Today, we have secured a settlement with Meta that will make social media less dangerous for our kids and make a world of a difference for children and their families," Bonta said in a statement. "Meta has agreed to make massive transformations that will reduce the risk of harm from its platforms — and will do it within months."According to Reuters, Meta denied wrongdoing in the settlement, which absolves it of accusations that its platforms are designed to have addictive features and knowingly exposed children to mental harms, among other claims.Meta chief legal officer C.J. Mahoney said publicly that the new framework "will empower parents to easily manage how their children access our platforms.""This framework will only work if all our peers join us," Mahoney added."Because teens move fluidly across dozens of apps, we need an industry-wide solution. We therefore call on our industry peers, TikTok and YouTube, to implement this new framework, right away. As a parent, I'm proud of both the work Meta has done to protect kids historically, and of this new groundbreaking agreement. But its success depends on all other social media platforms following Meta's lead," he concluded.RELATED: RIP your nostalgia — the top owner of kids' TV shows is giving its characters a high-tech makeover Enrico Fabian/The Washington Post/Getty Images In a statement provided to Blaze News, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation said that the settlement is "one step [in] Big Tech's reckoning" for the harms it has enabled against children.Executive Director Haley McNamara said the settlement is "a crucial step to hold Meta accountable for protecting children, and we commend the state attorneys general for carrying these cases forward.""Attention must now turn to Congress to establish a foundation for Big Tech companies like Meta to follow when it comes to protecting children online," McNamara added.Meta expects to accrue around $10 billion in legal expenses its third quarter of 2026.As noted by Georgia's Office of the Attorney General, the case included 52 attorneys generals across 47 states (excluding Florida, New Mexico, and Texas) and the jurisdictions of Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.There's a catchFlorida Attorney General James Uthmeier explained in a post on X why his state did not join the settlement. Uthmeier called the payouts "peanuts" that are inequal to the "profound harms" Meta's features have inflicted on kids."A slap on the wrist for a trillion-dollar corp that'll pay more to lawyers than to the states. We'll see them at trial," the Florida AG said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Archaeologists working at a Stone Age site in Turkey have discovered a unique depiction of a person sitting on the back of a leopard. The 11,000-year-old statue may reflect the culture's fascination with virility and masculinity, experts say.The statue was unearthed this summer at Karahan Tepe (also written as Karahantepe), a Neolithic site in southern Turkey, according to an Aug. 25 translated statement from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The unique statue, which measures about 28 inches (70 centimeters) tall, was made in "a style unlike anything seen before," Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkey's minister of culture and tourism, said in the statement.Excavators found the statue on a platform that ran along the wall of a round structure about 10 feet (3 meters) in diameter, according to the statement. Karahan Tepe is one of the oldest known villages in the world. It was built around 9750 B.C. in Turkey's Urfa province (also known as Şanlıurfa), where other early settlements, including Göbekli Tepe, were established. Several of these early settlements produced enigmatic artwork depicting men and wild beasts.In 2023, archaeologists at Karahan Tepe unearthed an enormous 11,000-year-old statue of a man clutching his penis, which possibly represents an important ancestor. Another life-size sculpture of a man holding his penis, known as Urfa Man, was found near Göbekli Tepe in 1993. And in 2022, archaeologists working at the site of Sayburç in the Urfa region found a carved scene depicting two leopards, a bull and a man grasping his penis. The newly discovered sculpture "seems to be a mirrored version of the known type of 'animal mounting on top of a human,'" Jens Notroff, a Neolithic archaeologist at the German Archaeological Institute who was not involved in the project, told Live Science in an email. A statue of a human with a leopard on their back was previously discovered at Karahan Tepe and is now in the collection of the Şanlıurfa Museum. Notroff thinks the Sayburç leopard scene and the new statue of a person on a leopard may be linked. "Leopards were common feline predators in the region," he said. "They are vigorous, dangerous animals, so probably challenging game for skilled hunters. That might have added to their symbolic meaning."Although the exact meaning of the human-and-leopard motif is unknown, Notroff suggested it could relate to courage or strength.RELATED STORIESRitual solstice structure 1,000 years older than Stonehenge unearthed in Czech RepublicStone Age family may have been cannibalized for 'ultimate elimination' 5,600 years ago, study suggestsAncient 'female-centered' society thrived 9,000 years ago in proto-city in Turkey"An individual fearlessly shown among these animals, as in Sayburç, or even apparently mastering one, as in this new sculpture from Karahan Tepe, could be read as maybe a symbol of power, of control over this vigor and danger," Notroff said.The statue may also yield important new information about the earliest human settlements in the region, according to the statement."I believe this discovery, which opens the door to new questions about the earliest periods of human history, will have a wide impact on the scientific community," Ersoy said.What do you know about the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic eras? Find out with our Stone Age quiz!