{"id":"1792707851385-news-segment","slug":"kushner-phone-bombshell","title":"Kushner Phone Bombshell","summary":"St. Marys Police in Georgia shut down the historic downtown area Thursday afternoon to investigate a suspicious package, according to local reports.","publishedAt":"2026-10-22T22:24:11.385Z","channel":{"id":"news","name":"Oncast News","language":"en"},"show":"News Tonight","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: St. Marys Police in Georgia shut down the historic downtown area Thursday afternoon to investigate a suspicious package, according to local reports.\nSource: actionnewsjax.com NAMES: St. Marys = a city in coastal Georgia near the Florida border, home to the ferry for Cumberland Island National Seashore. POST 21133937 (https://x.com/BNONews/status/2113393086219124997)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"St. Marys Police in Georgia shut down the historic downtown area Thursday afternoon to investigate a suspicious package, according to local reports.","sourceName":"actionnewsjax.com NAMES: St. Marys = a city in coastal Georgia near the Florida border, home to the ferry for Cumberland Island National Seashore. POST 21133937","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/BNONews/status/2113393086219124997","claim":"Bomb squad called after suspicious package in vehicle tests ‘positive’ in downtown St. Marys, Georgia - WTLV/WJXX https://t.co/nB2slmd0Od","author":"BNO News (@BNONews)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/BNONews/status/2113393086219124997","name":"actionnewsjax.com NAMES: St. Marys = a city in coastal Georgia near the Florida border, home to the ferry for Cumberland Island National Seashore. POST 21133937","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"BNO News (@BNONews)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792707851385-news-segment-kushner-phone-bombshell","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/news","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792707851385-news-segment-kushner-phone-bombshell","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1792707851385-news-segment-kushner-phone-bombshell and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Bella","text":"New Mexico's attorney general is already swinging after that twenty-five billion dollar ruling against Meta."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Twenty-five billion. That's the number a federal judge hit Meta with last week over AI training data."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And the AG there, Raúl Torrez, is telling the whole AI industry: this is just the beginning."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Spoken like a man who just watched a very large check clear into his state's general fund."},{"host":"Bella","text":"He's not subtle about it. He says companies that trained models on people's data without permission should be nervous."},{"host":"Brian","text":"He's right that this changes the math. Meta got hit because a court said they used copyrighted material to train — now every AG sees a blueprint."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And they're not waiting for Congress. Politico's got the quote from Torrez: this is the start of state enforcement against AI."},{"host":"Brian","text":"But here's my issue. The states are going to build a patchwork of fifty different AI laws and every startup faces legal whack-a-mole."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Better than no rules at all while these companies vacuum up everything we've ever posted."},{"host":"Brian","text":"But who writes the rules? A judge in New Mexico might decide an AI model is fine, and a judge in Texas says it's theft. That's chaos."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Then let Congress step up. Until they do, states are the only ones actually doing anything. You want to wait five more years?"},{"host":"Brian","text":"I want one clear federal standard, not fifty lawsuits. But fine — the AG has his headline, and he's not wrong that this is a shot across the bow."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Meanwhile, in Georgia, St. Marys police shut down the whole historic downtown this afternoon for a suspicious package."},{"host":"Brian","text":"The bomb squad came in because a package in a vehicle tested positive for explosives. They're not saying what it was yet."},{"host":"Bella","text":"No injuries, no detonations. Just a lot of caution in a small coastal city near the Florida line."},{"host":"Brian","text":"We'll keep an eye on that."}]}