https://meenews.co/post/6aaaaa4375342cf4db868aea Amazon gives its workers a raise of $1 per hour te 2026-09-16T14:40:03.081Z Amazon gives its workers a raise of $1 per hour Amazon's investment in these raises comes out to over $1.5 billion, or about 0.06% of its $2.68 trillion market cap. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaaa7f775342cf4db868ada Yavapai College launches search for new president te 2026-09-16T14:30:15.112Z Yavapai College launches search for new president Yavapai College announced on Tuesday, Sept. 8, that it has officially launched its search for the next president. The college has formed a Presidential Search Committee made up of college leadership, faculty, staff and community representatives from throughout Yavapai County. The college has retaine Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaaa7ed75342cf4db868a78 Threads’ new features let podcasters promote shows and reach listeners te 2026-09-16T14:30:05.011Z Threads’ new features let podcasters promote shows and reach listeners Threads is rolling out new tools for podcasters, including profile cards, episode links, transcripts, guest tags, posting reminders and audience insights, as Meta looks to make the X rival a bigger hub for podcast promotion and discussion Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaaa59475342cf4db868a0f Next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 revealed te 2026-09-16T14:20:04.519Z Next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 revealed Meet the next five top-tier investors judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 and don't miss a moment of the ultimate startup pitch competition. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaaa34d75342cf4db8689e9 Trump DHS hits 16 straight months with 0 releases at the border te 2026-09-16T14:10:21.313Z Trump DHS hits 16 straight months with 0 releases at the border FIRST ON FOX – President Donald Trump's administration marked 16 consecutive months of making zero releases at the U.S.-Mexican border on Wednesday. The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the unprecedented record in a statement to Fox News Digital. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the streak proves that President Donald Trump's policies "are working." "Catch and release is over, consequences are back, and illegal crossings have fallen to historic lows. President Trump made a promise to the American people that he would make America safe again, and he has done just that by giving us the most secure border in American history," Mullin said. "Border security starts with knowing who and what is entering our country – and controlling it on behalf of the American people," said CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott. "That means people who cross illegally are apprehended, detained and removed – not released into the United States. Our agents are enforcing that standard every day." TRUMP HITS DRAMATIC MILESTONE IN MASSIVE DEPARTURE FROM BIDEN BORDER PLAN: 'WHAT A DIFFERENCE' U.S. Border Patrol said it apprehended 8,870 people along the Southwest border in August, which is 5% lower than July. The August apprehension numbers were 94% lower than the average month under former President Joe Biden. DHS also says it made zero parole releases in August, compared to the Border Patrol releasing over 10,000 in August 2024 under Biden. Other law enforcement numbers at the border remain strong as well, with fiscal year drug seizures up 73% compared to the same fiscal period under Biden in 2024. Drug seizures are also up 61% compared to the average of the past four years. CBP OFFICERS SEIZE $67 MILLION IN ILLEGAL DRUGS AT SAN DIEGO BORDER PORTS, DHS SAYS The rise in drug seizures comes largely from cocaine and precursor chemicals. Cocaine seizures increased 28% in August to 6,724 pounds, while CBP and ICE seized over 120,000 pounds of precursor chemicals in the same month. The August numbers come the same month the Trump administration began construction of a section of a border wall in Arizona despite objections from a Native American tribe. MULLIN TELLS CONGRESS PRIMARY BORDER WALL WILL BE DONE BY JUNE 2027, SECONDARY WALL BY SUMMER 2028 The wall is part of a $46 billion effort to shore up the southern border with 30-foot steel bollard walls, vehicle barriers and technology designed to stop illegal immigration and smuggling. However, the Tohono O'odham Nation sued the administration earlier this year, saying the construction will damage land sacred to the tribe. A federal judge rejected the argument, siding with the government and noting that the border wall would be built on a 60-foot-wide buffer zone of federally owned land called the Roosevelt Reservation. "Defendants have not yet articulated plans to construct outside the Roosevelt Reservation," U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., wrote in his opinion. Fox News' Peter D'Abrosca and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaaa34975342cf4db8689e0 Jim Jordan subpoenas blue state DAs accused of 'preferential treatment' for illegal immigrant criminals te 2026-09-16T14:10:17.417Z Jim Jordan subpoenas blue state DAs accused of 'preferential treatment' for illegal immigrant criminals FIRST ON FOX: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is ratcheting up his crackdown against sanctuary jurisdictions across the country. Jordan is sending subpoenas to district attorneys in Boulder, Colorado, and Fairfax, Virginia, accusing both of giving "preferential treatment" to "criminal aliens" when weighing whether and how to prosecute wrongdoing. "Despite repeated requests for responsive documents and communications, you have not produced a single document. Accordingly, because you have failed to comply with the Committee’s requests, the Committee is serving compulsory process," he wrote in separate letters to Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano and Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty, both obtained by Fox News Digital. HOCHUL BOASTS 'I JUST BANNED IT' AS NEW YORK OUTLAWS LOCAL POLICE PARTNERSHIPS WITH ICE "Your office’s lenient treatment of foreign national criminals endangers communities and ensures that criminal aliens escape both criminal and immigration accountability for their actions." Jordan's committee has for weeks investigated district attorneys who have been accused of taking immigration status into account when pursuing criminal complaints, even when the alleged crime has nothing to do with the suspect's legal status. DOJ OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO SOROS-BACKED DA ACCUSED OF SHIELDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM CONSEQUENCES Descano, in particular, has recently made headlines after the stabbing death of 41-year-old U.S. citizen Stephanie Minter, whose accused killer came to the U.S. illegally from Sierra Leone in 2012. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the man had been arrested over 30 times before Minter's killing. Descano, who has led the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office since January 2020, issued plea bargaining guidance that year saying prosecutors should "consider immigration consequences where possible" and consider "the collateral immigration consequences of the specific crime(s) the defendant is charged with," according to local outlet WTOP News. SOROS-BACKED DA'S LAX ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICIES LED TO 'PREVENTABLE' BUS STOP STABBING MURDER: COMPLAINT Meanwhile, Dougherty recently lost his Democratic primary campaign to be attorney general of the state of Colorado. He told Boulder Reporting Lab in May that Jordan's probe was "political theater that ignores serious failures within the federal immigration system." The city of Boulder issued an ordinance in January 2017, after President Donald Trump was elected, directing government employees not to work with federal immigration authorities or "inquire into a person's immigration status." Boulder and Fairfax counties are known as a sanctuary jurisdictions, meaning local law enforcement is not bound to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. WATCH: SOROS PROSECUTOR’S HEARING DEVOLVES INTO ANGRY CHAOS OVER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RAPE CASE: 'BE QUIET!' Jordan's probe is being conducted alongside Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., who chairs the Judiciary panel's subcommittee on immigration enforcement. Jordan previously told Fox News Digital that he would not rule out subpoenas if the district attorneys did not comply with Republicans' requests for information. "There's a process we always go through. We ask for things, we ask again, we explain why, we work with their office — in some cases their counsel — and back and forth," he said in late August. "And then if we have to use subpoenas, we certainly will do that ... but we want to know the facts." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaaa33e75342cf4db86899b 3 days left to exhibit: Get your brand in front of VCs and high-value leads at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026  te 2026-09-16T14:10:06.958Z 3 days left to exhibit: Get your brand in front of VCs and high-value leads at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026  Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is September 18. Three days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on October 13–15. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa9e8b75342cf4db8688a9 Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M te 2026-09-16T13:50:03.124Z Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa9a0975342cf4db868811 Florida woman allegedly drugs man she met at club, steals his nearly $100K Rolex: police te 2026-09-16T13:30:49.975Z Florida woman allegedly drugs man she met at club, steals his nearly $100K Rolex: police A woman was arrested after allegedly meeting a man at a club in South Florida, going home with him and drugging him before stealing his nearly $100,000 Rolex watch, according to court records. Lynda Mae Crouse, 32, is accused of using a similar scheme at least four other times in Miami-Dade County, allegedly drugging victims before making off with their valuables, according to a probable cause affidavit. The Broward County case she is being charged for stems from an April 12 encounter at the Carousel Club in Hallandale Beach, where Crouse allegedly struck up a conversation with the man around midnight. The two exchanged Instagram accounts and parted ways before the man later sent an Uber to Crouse's home around 1:20 a.m. to bring her to his residence, police said. MIAMI WOMAN ALLEGEDLY LURED MAN TO LUXURY CONDO VIA INSTAGRAM, THEN ROBBED HIM WITH 2 ACCOMPLICES Crouse and the unidentified man had several alcoholic drinks in his living room before he went into his bedroom to change clothes. While there, he suddenly began feeling "funny" and "extremely tired," according to the affidavit. While Crouse was alone in the living room, the man said he heard a distinctive "clapping sound." When he returned, Crouse was "acting different" and abruptly announced she was going home. Within minutes of her leaving, he fell asleep. When the man awoke several hours later still feeling strange, he remembered the sound and rushed to check his Rolex box in the living room. His gold 40 mm diamond-bedazzled Rolex Presidential was gone. DRINK-SPIKING DEFENSE: NEW BRACELET AIMS TO EXPOSE DRUGS WITH A DROP OF YOUR COCKTAIL The man later provided police with an appraisal valuing the watch at $98,400. He also identified Crouse in a photo lineup, according to the affidavit. Months later, on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, Crouse was arrested by Seminole police and taken to Broward County Jail. She was charged with second-degree grand theft, a felony, and released the following day after posting $2,500 bond. In another case investigated by City of Miami police, Crouse was accused of drugging a victim with zolpidem, a prescription sleep aid used to treat insomnia. Unlike the Broward County victim, that person underwent toxicology testing, which confirmed the presence of zolpidem. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa99de75342cf4db8687d6 BASIS Flagstaff ranked as top high school in Flagstaff te 2026-09-16T13:30:06.026Z BASIS Flagstaff ranked as top high school in Flagstaff The U.S. News and World Report ranked BASIS Flagstaff as the No. 1 high school in the Flagstaff area. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa99db75342cf4db8687b6 SK Hynix reportedly in talks with Intel to build memory chips in US te 2026-09-16T13:30:03.955Z SK Hynix reportedly in talks with Intel to build memory chips in US SK Hynix told TechCrunch the company hasn't finalized any plans or arrangements yet. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa978a75342cf4db868791 Jaxson Dart's girlfriend Marissa Ayers shines in Week 1 win, a Giants-Cowboys fan fight & Ole Miss tension te 2026-09-16T13:20:10.870Z Jaxson Dart's girlfriend Marissa Ayers shines in Week 1 win, a Giants-Cowboys fan fight & Ole Miss tension Good morning everyone and welcome to Wednesday Screencaps in the middle of September. This isn't just another Wednesday. It's the last one for the summer of 2026. Next week at this time, your wife will be on the couch at 8 p.m. with her comfy blanket proclaiming, "It's chilly in here tonight." I know, I know, I know...you live in the South and it's 110 degrees with the humidity right now. I don't care. There's something in female DNA that tells women to proclaim a chill in the air the minute it turns to fall. There will also be alarm bells going off in their heads that it's time to pick apples. Guys, prepare yourself. Moving along ... I spent the preseason pleading with you guys to keep an eye on the Giants O/U win total of 7.5. I also said all eyes needed to be on Marissa Ayers, the sorority girl turned girlfriend of Jaxson Dart, who, I predicted would become the face of NFL wives and girlfriends. Move over Madison Beer. JAXSON DART TAKES BRUTAL HIT EARLY IN GIANTS VS COWBOYS OPENER BUT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT WAS KIND OF SURPRISING How about the Week 1 performance out of both of these future superstars? The Giants are up a game in the division after beating the Cowboys and now have a 58% probability of making the playoffs. Then there's the performance turned in by Ayers. "Only the beginning," she declared Tuesday on TikTok while releasing her Week 1 recap video. Guys, it's time to get on the bandwagon. I hope you're holding those OVER 7.5 win tickets. The Giants have the 26th hardest remaining schedule, including games against the Cardinals, Browns, Titans and Colts. They don't have to pick off many wins from there to be in the playoff mix in late December. 📩 Email: joe.kinsey@outkick.com Send photos, stories, tips, rants—whatever you've got. 📰 Screencaps Page: 👉 Read the latest Screencaps ▶️ YouTube: Screencaps with Joe Kinsey Subscribe for videos, rants, and behind-the-scenes. 🐦 Twitter/X: @JoeKinseyexp Tag me or drop a DM. 📸 Instagram: @OutKickScreencaps You guys need to start tagging me on content you're seeing. 📘 Facebook Page: Screencaps on Facebook 👥 Facebook Group: Join the Screencaps Community 📬 Mail (Thursday Night Mowing League): 27072 Carronade Dr, Unit A 155 Perrysburg, OH 43551 TEXAS' ARCH MANNING UNDER SCRUTINY FOR HIS REACTION TO AI VIDEO OF STEVE SARKISIAN SLAPPING ESPN'S HOLLY ROWE – Jase asks: What do you make of this whole Holly Rowe-Steve Sarkisian post-game interview thing? I think if Rowe had jokingly played it off rather than acting like an entitled teenager, she would have come out looking a lot better than she did. Kinsey: This week, the word aggrieved has been in my head. Maybe it's because I sat in a corporate building Saturday night listening to Colin Kaepernick complain about how he was treated by the NFL after wearing cops-are-pigs socks and complaining about Betsy Ross Nike shoes. CAITLIN CLARK HELPS WNBA HIT HISTORIC LATE-NIGHT CABLE NUMBER DESPITE LIMITED RETURN IN LA Holly is constantly aggrieved and is an actor. Do you remember her performance during a WNBA game where she cried on camera while looking around at an arena that was sold out for a game. It turns out the arena was sold out to see Caitlin Clark. Rowe wanted us to believe it was sold out because people care about the WNBA. She's performative. In the end, she got the piece of content she was looking for out of Sark. She's an outrage content merchant. I know you guys are smart enough not to fall for her antics. Was there ever any doubt? Constantly p—-d off at the world. These are the same morons who want to take your gas grills, your gas mowers, gas chainsaws (which they'd gladly let you use to cut a tree off their apartment roofs) and, of course, your guns. – CB says: Not gonna lie, this gave me a chuckle and brought back a memory or two. In a past life, I was a Navy helo driver, and while I can’t say from personal experience that grenades, or ordnance of any kind, regularly found their way into Port-a-Johns, I can tell you this with near certainty: f the military has a sign specifically telling you not to do something, somebody did it. In Naval Aviation, our bible was the NATOPS manual, and it was filled with Warnings, Cautions, and Notes. Warning:You might injure or kill somebody.Caution:You might break the aircraft or some other very expensive piece of government property.Note:Pay attention, because somebody already learned this lesson the hard way. Those little boxes weren’t written because a committee sat around brainstorming hypothetical stupidity. They existed because, at some point, somewhere, a sailor or Marine looked at a situation and apparently thought,"I wonder what happens if I do this?" So when I see a professionally printed sign that saysNO ORDNANCE IN THE PORTA POTTY, I’m not questioningwhetherit happened, I’m wonderingwho did it, what rank they were, and how spectacular the safety brief was afterward. And spare a thought for the next poor bastard who opened the door, sat down, and discovered a grenade! From a more personal perspective, I can neither confirm nor deny that I may or may not have participated in an incident at AUTEC involving a golf cart and Goombay Smashes that would have qualified for the NATOPSCautioncategory. No personnel were harmed, but Government property may have developed trust issues, but that’s a story for another time. – Matt in Phenix City, AL emails: Hey Joe, i don’t believe I’ve ever heard of an actual grenade being tossed into a port-o-let, but I think that was just the easiest picture for them to come up with. The sign itself referenced ordnance and that encompasses a whole slew of things we blow up and shoot, to include blanks. My best guess? That installation has an issue with soldiers trying to ditch blank ammunition so they don’t have to turn it in. Ammo turn in is a huge pain in the ass because once a crate is opened (even if you only broke the seal) everything in it has to be counted by hand when you turn it in. And if you fired the rounds? You have to turn in all of the brass from it, which gets weighed. They have a whole formula of how much the brass should weigh based on how much ammo/ordnance was "used". I can’t tell you how many times we’ve found whole drums of M249 and M240 blank ammo randomly in the wooded training areas because some dumb private didn’t want to lug it around or have to count it at turn-in. I also can’t tell you how many times we’ve had to go back out to training areas to find brass and walk "hands across the world" to find and pick it up because of the lazy soldiers ditching ammo or just not picking it up. Huge pain in the butt.I would hate to see the result of a grenade in a port-o-let though, especially after it’s been used for a week long field problem! Thank you to this storage company for its service. We all have to do our part. If that means making statements against pumpkin spice on storage company signs, then so be it. – Jason in VA says: Oddly enough when you mentioned Biscuitville locations, you gave a shoutout to my hometown of Lynchburg. We have 3 locations in town and I can say it is awesome.  That’s a 3-4 times per week stop for me. 10/10 recommend. – Beer Guy Thomas V. in NC piped up over this topic: Biscuitville used to be great then around Covid and random shortages they dropped off significantly. They have what they call their ultimate biscuit and charge a premium, but it's more average these days, though when they do offer the fried bologna, egg and cheese it's hard to skip. – David W. loves that place: Their country ham biscuits are my go to when I’m in Lynchburg visiting my Mom.  BTW, the country ham is also a great hangover food.  I grew up on those biscuits when I was kid in Danville, VA.  They can’t be beat.  A distant second to them is a brand called Tudor’s Biscuits - they will always do in a pinch.   I'm sure someone is going to yell at me that IKEA is connected to some political movement, or it's owned by Iranians or something extreme like that. Guys, if there's a furniture company that can make a Kallax rip-off, I will give them business right now. That might be one of the most versatile pieces of furniture known to man. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE We just bought two more last week. I think we're now up to six Kallax units in our house. How does an idiot like this end up emailing me? Screencaps goes on the front page of Fox News, a LIB like Cathy is hate scrolling on our site and clicks into Screencaps because I ran a headline using Gracie Hunt, who, I assume, Cathy hates because Gracie is proud of being an American. "Do you hang out with people who say America deserved 9/11?" I asked Cathy. She responded: "I do not.  Do you think El-Sayed was part of that?  Is he a Saudi (you know, the country that gave 2B to Jared)?" ######################### That is it this morning. I need to get on the road to Buffalo for one of the most important sporting events in the history of western New York. I will be covering the Lions-Bills scene tomorrow as the city officially unleashes its new stadium. Thankfully, the forecast has improved. I don't want rain. I want grown men getting thrown through tables and jumping off school buses. I want chaos. I want Buffalo as I've always envisioned Buffalo. And I want a decent chicken wing while I'm in town. Have a great day. I'll be on the highway. That was my choice. I need to see the open road and experience America. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa978975342cf4db868788 Trump’s beef import scheme wreaks havoc on fed-up red state cattle ranchers te 2026-09-16T13:20:09.843Z Trump’s beef import scheme wreaks havoc on fed-up red state cattle ranchers As the Trump administration desperately tries to cut costs for Americans ahead of November's midterm elections, one critical demographic to U.S. food supplies is becoming increasingly fed up. President Donald Trump in August announced that the U.S. would import 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef trim, well over half a billion pounds, from nations around the world, leaving some cattle ranchers in red states typically aligned with the president's agenda uneasy heading into a high-stakes election for Republicans. "These markets have been very volatile the last month," Greg Gunthorp, a farm-to-table cattle farmer in northeast Indiana, told Fox News Digital. "The ranchers have lost a lot of equity. The markets are down substantially." ‘WHY WOULD HE DO THIS TO US?’: TRUMP'S FOREIGN BEEF PUSH IS HURTING HIS BASE, REPUBLICANS WARN Gunthorp said the current uncertainty makes it difficult to decide whether to retain heifers for breeding or sell them as feeder cattle. Complicating matters is the fact that cattle herds in the U.S. have already thinned to their lowest level in 75 years, which could spell disaster for ranchers and consumers. Part of that shortage stems from a prolonged drought that has decimated some of the midwest herd populations. Additionally, spoking diesel costs stemming from the war in Iran means cattle ranchers are already operating on thinner margins and being forced to raise their prices. Jaclyn Wilson, a cattle rancher in western Nebraska, told Fox News Digital that how much of the 300,000 metric tons is actually imported, another unanswered question, is critical to assessing the impact that Trump administration's move will have on the industry. TRUMP WANTS CHEAPER BEEF. REPUBLICANS IN KEY RACES WARN HIS PLAN GOES TOO FAR "The only thing that really concerns me and continues to concern me, is that the market volatility is definitely there," she said. "It seems like any time that we have significant prices in the beef industry and our administration says something, we do see that market fluctuate and that can be devastating for producers that are selling calves right now or even yearling," Wilson continued. Wilson said she sold some yearling steers just after the announcement was made, and got $175 less per head than she would have normally. "And that's pretty significant for a producer," she said. Another common theme shared by ranchers who spoke with Fox News Digital is that they want the government to incentivize producing cattle, or at least stay out of the market and let cattle ranchers do it on their own. BROOKE ROLLINS, MONICA CROWLEY: AMERICA’S FAMILY FARMS HAVE KEPT US STRONG FOR 250 YEARS "You can relieve a price temporarily today, but they're not going to put cattle back in Mississippi pastures," said Mississippi cattle rancher Mary Jo Perry. "And that's the problem, is that we have a cattle shortage. So, something needs to be done to encourage farmers and incentivize them, enable them to retain heifers." Perry, who runs a grass fed, farm-to-table beef operation, said the White House's policy proposal hasn't affected her business. She sells beef to health-conscious customers who want to know that their food is high quality, and that their beef was raised without feeding on corn or soy. Wilson would just as much prefer the government to stay out the business altogether. "I think that's what's so discouraging for me as a cattle producer is I'm I'm trying to do what my family has done for generations, and somebody else is dictating it right now, she said. "I'm not given those opportunities to make that choice, and that's what's really disappointing." NEBRASKA RANCHERS STRUGGLE TO RECOVER FROM HISTORIC WILDFIRES AS DROUGHT WORSENS CRISIS "We talk about herd rebuilding, and that's something this administration is also talked about — which I agree, we do need to rebuild our cowherd — but keep the government out of it," she said. "Let it naturally happen. Mother nature, of course, is the biggest component of that." Fox News Digital spoke with Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins at the GOP Midterm Convention in Dallas last week about the cattle ranching conundrum. The Secretary said she's spoken with "hundreds and hundreds" of cattle ranchers to explain Trump's thinking in importing beef. "So, hearing from those ranchers directly was really important," Rollins said. "But what we did — and we've already done a whole lot of pro-rancher stuff a year ago — battling for private property rights, taking out the weaponization that the left had put in against our ranchers [and] working to take their land away ... so all of that was already in motion." TRUMP ADMIN SCRAPS ‘WEAPONIZED’ WILDLIFE RULE THAT BECAME 'BURDEN' ON AMERICAN FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES: BURGUM "But what that decision, as frustrated as our ranchers were, what that decision allowed was really an opportunity for us at USDA and also work across the cabinet — which, this cabinet is very unusual in that way — to put together the most pro-rancher agenda in American history," she continued. On Sept. 4, 2026, Trump signed two executive orders related to cattle ranchers and beef production. One, "Supporting America's Ranchers," is aimed at strengthening the cattle industry by ordering federal agencies to cut red tape and regulations, expand cattle grazing and look into predator management. The latter will determine whether certain species of wolves that prey on cattle have grown enough to be delisted from endangered species lists. On the same day, he signed another order focused on meat processing and market competition. It demands stricter enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act against unfair, deceptive or monopolistic practices in the livestock industry, along with expanding opportunities to sell meat across state lines through cooperative meat safety inspections. "President Trump has repeatedly affirmed his support for America’s great farmers and ranchers," White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told Fox News Digital. "While the Administration is addressing a short-term supply crunch in the beef market, we are simultaneously working closely with ranchers to grow America’s cattle-herd size, which is currently at a multi-decade low." Gunthorp said the problem should have been tackled decades ago by previous administrations, but that doesn't mean trying to fix it today won't harm consumers or ranchers. "Once you fix the problem that should have been attacked 30 years ago, its gonna cause somebody pain," he said. "It's gonna cause the consumer pain [or] the rancher pain. Maybe both." Fox News Digital reached out to the USDA for further comment, but did not hear back at time of publication. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa978875342cf4db86877f Dem House speaker torched for invoking 9/11 to attack key Trump policy: 'Totally wrong' te 2026-09-16T13:20:08.517Z Dem House speaker torched for invoking 9/11 to attack key Trump policy: 'Totally wrong' Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., fired back at the Pennsylvania House speaker, a Democrat, after she suggested the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration could invite 9/11-like violence. "She used her time to actually denounce securing our border and saying that, somehow, the efforts to keep our country safe could lead to another attack," Mackenzie told Fox News Digital. "She’s totally wrong. She’s answering to the far-left radicals and globalists. I would actually call on Joanna McClinton to apologize for what she said at that event," he added. McClinton’s criticism highlights a challenge Democrats face as they search for vulnerabilities in Trump’s immigration agenda: attacking the administration’s aggressive enforcement tactics even as illegal border crossings have fallen sharply. DEM REP SETH MOULTON SAYS PARTY HAS NO IMMIGRATION PLAN, IS ONLY ‘OPPOSITION TO TRUMP’ Speaking at a panel discussion on the 250th anniversary of American independence, McClinton said she feared the threat of retaliation for Trump’s "brutality." "When we think of just the brutality of this federal government for almost two years, it’s been heartless. It’s been too silent on the other side of the aisle. They are treating people with no respect or dignity — people who came here to do better. It’s horrible. So, when we think about where we are in 2026 and that it’s been 25 years, thank God we have not had another attack," McClinton said. "Thank God we haven’t seen another plane go down in Pennsylvania. But we also have to recognize that our policies are impacting our perception around the world," McClinton added. McClinton first became speaker in the Pennsylvania House in 2023 and first joined the chamber in 2015. Before her time in politics, she worked as a public defender. McClinton has voiced similar criticisms of immigration enforcement before, framing Trump’s use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a tool that has gone too far. DEMOCRAT COMPARES ICE TO 'DOMESTIC TERRORISTS' AS 111 HOUSE DEMS DEMAND TEXAS DETENTION CENTER CLOSE "On our 250th birthday we’re seeing the worst horrors unfold in our beloved nation!!! Completely horrified by ICE agents so brutally hunting down, harming people every day – and now using deadly force!!!! God have mercy," McClinton wrote in a post to X, referring to deadly encounters between ICE and protesters earlier this year. Since Trump returned to office, illegal border crossings have sunk to historic lows. Since the end of 2024, encounters have gone from 144,000 in December 2024 to just 33,800 in July — a reduction of 76.5%. Mackenzie believes Democrats like McClinton are ignoring that record. "What she should be doing is making sure that we’re protecting and defending American citizens in our country at every single turn," Mackenzie said. SHAPIRO VS TRUMP-BACKED GARRITY SET FOR HIGH-STAKES PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR SHOWDOWN In addition to demanding an apology from McClinton, Mackenzie also called on other Democrats, like his own congressional opponent, to condemn her thinking. "My opponent in the congressional race, Bob Brooks, should condemn that kind of rhetoric. We need to make sure that we are always pushing back on these types of things that are really inappropriate and being said by Democrat leaders who are trying to push their radical agenda instead of doing what is right for our country," Mackenzie said. McClinton’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa953475342cf4db86871d Trump brings new heat to controversial UN agency as alleged Hamas ties engulf scores of employees te 2026-09-16T13:10:12.235Z Trump brings new heat to controversial UN agency as alleged Hamas ties engulf scores of employees President Donald Trump recently amplified a report about a U.S. government investigation that referred more than 100 current or former UNRWA employees over alleged ties to Hamas — as a new watchdog report accuses the U.N. agency of overstating how much it has reformed. The scrutiny, which included Trump sharing the report on Truth Social in August, comes as Geneva-based UN Watch released a report Monday challenging UNRWA’s claim that it has completed 41 of the 50 reforms recommended by an independent review led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna. UN Watch says that when it compared UNRWA’s claims with what Colonna actually recommended, at most 13 of the 50 reforms had been completed as prescribed. The group argues that UNRWA repeatedly counted drafting policies, launching pilot programs or creating plans as completed reforms even when full implementation had not occurred. UN AGENCY ACCUSED OF HAMAS TIES SEES ANOTHER EUROPEAN NATION CUT FUNDING "UNRWA is grading its own homework — and giving itself credit for reforms that exist mainly on paper," UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer told Fox News Digital. "A policy is not a reform if it is ignored, unenforced or blocked by staff unions dominated by Hamas." Among the examples cited in the report is staff vetting. UNRWA lists a "Commercial Vetting Pilot & Costed Plan" as completed, along with other screening measures. UN Watch argues that a pilot and implementation plan do not amount to a fully operational outside vetting system. The report also challenges UNRWA’s education reforms. UNRWA lists systematic textbook reviews and randomized classroom inspections among completed steps, while a policy prohibiting problematic educational content is still described as "in progress." Colonna herself said when presenting her review in April 2024 that some educational content remained problematic, citing "glorification of jihad," incitement to violence and maps that did not show Israel, while calling for a zero-tolerance approach. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TOUTS MORE THAN $1B IN UN BUDGET CUTS AS REFORM PUSH GAINS MOMENTUM Pressed by Fox News Digital at Tuesday’s U.N. briefing over who independently verifies whether the reforms are actually working on the ground, U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric defended the process. "It is not just checking boxes for the sake of checking boxes," Dujarric said, "It’s about the implementation of those things." Dujarric said UNRWA regularly reports to the General Assembly, holds integrity meetings open to member states and gives governments opportunities to scrutinize what the agency is doing. WATCHDOG DEMANDS APOLOGY AFTER UN MEMORIAL ERRONEOUSLY HONORS HAMAS TERRORIST Asked specifically about staff screening, he said UNRWA relies in part on countries where it operates. "We rely on the member states also, where we operate, who have the capacity to check people to do so," Dujarric said, adding that UNRWA shares staff lists with Israeli, Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian authorities. "If there are concerns, they need to be shared directly with UNRWA. When they are, they take action." The Colonna review was commissioned by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in February 2024 after allegations that UNRWA employees had participated in the Oct. 7 attacks. Guterres accepted all 50 recommendations in April 2024 and agreed with UNRWA leadership to establish an action plan to implement them. Neuer rejected the idea that the disagreement is merely about terminology. "This is not a semantic disagreement over the meaning of ‘completed,’" he said. "UNRWA says the job is done, yet teachers tied to terrorist organizations remain in classrooms, Hamas-dominated unions obstruct discipline, and children continue to be exposed to incitement. Those are real-world consequences, not technicalities." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa953375342cf4db868714 The world is debating sanctions against Israel. I am watching young warriors rebuild their lives te 2026-09-16T13:10:11.196Z The world is debating sanctions against Israel. I am watching young warriors rebuild their lives Last week the British government banned imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and the foreign secretary told Parliament that London should have moved sooner. Eleven other countries signaled they would follow.  In response, Israel barred a group of British lawmakers and ordered the U.K. consulate in east Jerusalem closed. You can argue that policy either way, and people will do that for months. Let me be honest about my own reaction. I was not surprised. Not by Britain. Not by the countries lining up behind it. Not by the language that arrived with it. I have spent enough time in this line of work to know when the mood turns, it turns in many places at once. It has turned in London and Paris and Sydney. It has turned on American campuses and in American arenas. It has turned in the comment sections under stories about my organization that have nothing to do with politics at all, stories about a man learning to walk again. BRITAIN’S DRAMATIC CRACKDOWN ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS SPARKS FIERCE RESPONSE AS US BLOWBACK LOOMS So I am not going to spend this column cataloging the hate. Others do that work well. I want to tell you what I deal with instead, because it is the better story and it is the more important one. Here is my week. There are more than 90,000 IDF disabled veterans, creating the largest rehabilitation effort in Israel's history. Since Oct.7 and through "Swords of Iron," the number of wounded warriors has grown faster than at any point since 1948, and they are younger than any generation before them.  Most were called up as reservists and were wounded while serving in the reserves — they had a business to run, a thesis to finish a baby at home. Now many carry a psychological injury alongside the physical one — which means nobody in the parking lot can see it at all. A 24-year-old who loses a leg is not just facing a hard year. He is facing sixty years of prosthetics, revisions and physical therapy, alongside a marriage, a mortgage and a career he fully intends to have. In my field, a lifetime is not a figure of speech. ‘NO JEWS, NO NEWS’ STRIKES AGAIN AS SELECTIVE COVERAGE OF THE 'UNSETTLERS' FUELS ANTI-ISRAEL ANGER People assume this makes me bitter about the boycotts and the sanctions and the noise. It does not. It makes me impatient with it, which is different. The argument has become the one place where everyone participates and nothing gets built. I care about words, by the way. Enormously. Just not those. SIGN UP FOR ANTISEMITISM EXPOSED NEWSLETTER We keep a terminology guide in our organization and we enforce it. We do not say disabled soldiers. After injury, a person is a "Wounded Warrior", a "Zahal Disabled Veteran," a Beit Halochem member.  We do not say a veteran suffers from PTSD. He is coping with it, living with it and the gap between those verbs is the gap between a man defined by an injury and a man managing one. We never say returning to normal life, because that phrase quietly informs a 24-year-old that his real life ended on a Tuesday in October and everything after is a consolation prize. We say rebuilding their lives, because that is precisely what is happening in front of me. That is what careful language is for. Not winning an argument with a stranger online — it's handing a person back their dignity. And the rebuilding is the story nobody is fighting over, which is the real scandal, because it is the best story available. At Beit Halochem, the nationwide network of rehabilitation centers in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beer Sheva and Ashdod, the swimming pool is full by seven in the morning.  A rehabilitation journey starts in that water and does not end there. Psychological support and treatment, delivered without shame and without a two-year wait. Vocational training and scholarships, because a man who cannot return to his trade needs a new one. Programs for spouses and their children, who carry this too. Sport at a serious level, which is why so many of Israel's Paralympic athletes come out of these gyms. And a room full of people who have been exactly where you are and who will not let you vanish into your apartment. A Beit Halochem member who could not raise his arm in January hung a medal around his daughter's neck in June. A warrior living with PTSD spoke for the first time to a circle of men who understood him before he finished the sentence. Those are not miracles. Those are Tuesdays. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION After 75 years as Beit Halochem USA, we recently became "Warriors of Israel." That is not a marketing exercise. It is the plainest description of the people we serve and of what they are still doing at seven in the morning. Our promise is four words: their sacrifice, our responsibility. Americans ask me constantly what they can do about the headlines. Arguing on the internet is not the only option available to you, and it is not the most useful one. Boycotts are subtraction. A government can ban a crate of produce but no government on earth can ban a young man learning to swim again, and no one has yet found a way to sanction a scholarship, a prosthetic socket or an hour with a therapist. Those things get built, or they do not, and that depends entirely on whether people decide to build them. In a story where almost nothing is within your control, that part is. The pool opens at seven. It will be full again tomorrow. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa953175342cf4db86870b Trump is fighting Iran with strategic clarity — and America is winning te 2026-09-16T13:10:09.976Z Trump is fighting Iran with strategic clarity — and America is winning Operation Epic Fury is the right war at the right time. And, informed by Bush and Obama/Biden Administration failures, it is being fought in the right way. Critics left and right make similar arguments: "Illegal war of choice," "unwinnable quagmire," "war makes the mullahs more extreme," and even "Trump is a Jewish puppet." These criticisms, and many who offer them, are detached from reality. First, Epic Fury is a right and just war. Since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has owed the American people a blood debt. But until now American policymakers have generally failed to collect this debt much less effectively manage the regime's ongoing threat to U.S. interests, regional peace, and international economic stability. This is partly due to the regime’s dangerous "revolutionary" Islamic supremist ideology that drives Iran’s aggression against the United States and Israel; justifies its brutal internal repression and foreign adventurism, including massive investments in the Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi, and Iraqi terrorist groups; and drives its development of advanced offensive ballistic missile, drone, and nuclear weapon capabilities. A rational actor would not spend billions subsidizing terror tunnels and missiles in Gaza and Lebanon when its own citizens lack clean water and reliable electricity. But the mullahs, like other "revolutionary" authoritarians, have different incentives. IRAN IS NOT A NORMAL NATION YOU CAN MAKE DEALS WITH; IT’S A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT Second, Epic Fury was launched at a uniquely favorable time because the regime has never been weaker. Historically, the mullahs relied on geography, oil revenue, and regional proxies for strategic deterrence. U.S. and allied diplomatic and military options were constrained by the possibility that the regime could close the Strait of Hormuz and disrupt international oil supplies, and by the fact that the utility of our economic sanctions were cabined by the robust commercial demand for Iranian oil and the political influence of the nations and networks that moved Iranian money. The Islamic Republic’s proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship in Syria shielded Iran from its regional foes. DISTRESS CALL CAPTURES TANKER UNDER FIRE, IRAN SHUTS HORMUZ TRAPPING THOUSANDS OF SAILORS But President Trump’s American energy dominance policy and rejuvenated U.S. military have essentially rendered Iran’s geography and oil resources a strategic nullity. Similarly, the regime’s proxy shield has been undone. Israel convincingly defeated Hamas and Hezbollah, then decimated Iran’s military and scientific leadership and fatally degraded the regime’s strategic air defense capabilities in the June 2025 "12 Day War." Assad fell, and the Houthis yielded to a combination of American resolve and punishing military strikes. And thanks to the U.S. blockade, economic sanctions, and strong diplomatic engagement with the Gulf Arab states and China, the Iranian economy is rapidly collapsing. The mullahs have been left naked and bare. Third, this war is being fought the right way. Writing for Tablet magazine, the commentator Michael Doran describes the President as steering between "two wrecks" — the first, George W. Bush’s regime-change war in Iraq, and the second, Obama/Biden’s appeasement program of paying the mullahs for quiet, indulging their regional and nuclear aspirations, preventing Israel from dealing hard blows to Hamas and Hezbollah, and calling it peace. Doran is generally correct. FINISH THE JOB: WHY A HALF WAR WITH IRAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS OUTCOME Epic Fury is certainly not the Global War on Terror. Epic Fury has strategic clarity: The President has made it clear Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, will not threaten international shipping, and will not, directly or through proxies, attack other states in the region. Accordingly, the United States and its allies have focused on eliminating imminent threats posed by Iranian missiles, naval forces, nuclear infrastructure, and the security apparatus that enables proxy terrorism, while decapitating the regime’s leaders and maintaining crippling pressure through unprecedented maritime interdiction and financial sanctions. Success is measured by killing the enemy, destroying his ability to attack Americans and our allies and partners, and terminating the economic sources of his war machine. No American forces are tasked with reconstructing Iranian society or reconciling its factions. By contrast, the GWOT was crippled by incoherence in its target, means, and ends. Even the GWOT’s name was nonsensical, employing the word "terror" as a euphemism for Islamic radicalism. On the ground, political "nation-building" objectives expanded without clear connection to the strategic goal. American forces, tasked with responsibility for local governance and security, were left to endure two decades of combat under crippling and ineffective rules of engagement. After more than 7,000 American deaths, 50,000 American wounded, and over five trillion in American taxpayer spending, the end was not democracy and social change in the Middle East, it was Biden’s Afghanistan retreat. ROUND ONE OF IRAN FIGHT WENT TO THE US MILITARY. BUT ENDING THINGS IS MUCH HARDER Epic Fury is also most assuredly not a continuation of the failed and morally bankrupt Obama/Biden appeasement policies: President Trump has acted decisively and effectively to ensure Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. The Obama/Biden policy was to pave the way for the Iranians to develop such a device and provided sanctions relief and other payments as they went along. Operation Epic Fury is strategically sound and magnificently executed. America has air supremacy. Much of the Islamic Republic’s political and military leadership is dead. Layered defensive networks have significantly mitigated the threat from Iranian ballistic missiles and drones and the blockade of vessels bound for or departing Iranian ports has choked Iranian oil exports and commercial trade. Treasury’s "Economic D-Day" has put into place unprecedented secondary sanctions targeting the mullah’s bankers, digital assets, technology, gold, aviation, and shipping severing every economic lifeline that sustains the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. And at every step, the Trump Administration’s close cooperation with Israel and our other regional friends and partners has been a significant force multiplier. History teaches that the end phase of war against a fanatical, despotic enemy is difficult and unpredictable. But President Trump has proven that he, uniquely, has the courage to stay the course and the will to finally settle the mullahs’ account. The truth is this: The United States is winning. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa952a75342cf4db8686c6 Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years worth of nuclear fuel te 2026-09-16T13:10:02.726Z Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years worth of nuclear fuel Fluxnium's fibers can extract uranium directly from seawater, which has enough of the nuclear fuel to power thousands of generations. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa8e2875342cf4db8685c6 James Franklin makes Virginia Tech press conference extremely awkward with bizarre 'Hey Michael' moment te 2026-09-16T12:40:08.706Z James Franklin makes Virginia Tech press conference extremely awkward with bizarre 'Hey Michael' moment You can't ever accuse James Franklin of not being personable. The Virginia Tech head coach produced one of the more awkward and bizarre press conference moments seen in quite some time while addressing the media ahead of his team's trip to Maryland on Saturday. It all began when Michael Howes of the Baltimore Sun introduced himself over Zoom with his name and affiliation before asking the veteran coach a question, only Franklin wasn't going to let him ask his question until they exchanged pleasantries. Before Howes could even begin laying out his question, Franklin said, "Hey, Michael," trying to, apparently, get his attention and ask how he was doing. When Howes didn't pause, Franklin said, "Hey, Michael" again, and again, and again. In total, the head coach uttered the phrase five times before finally getting Howes' attention and asking him how he was doing. Franklin was clearly just trying to be nice, but that doesn't mean the moment wasn't also cringeworthy. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! While sharing the clip on X, Howes explained that he couldn't actually see Franklin on the Zoom call, which led him to believe there was some sort of audio glitch happening. A totally fair assumption, with Franklin repeating the same phrase over and over again. Franklin's tenure with the Hokies has gotten off to a perfect 2-0 start with wins over VMI and Old Dominion, but his new program will be taking quite a step up in competition this weekend with its visit to Maryland to take on the unbeaten Big Ten squad. COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S CHAOS ERA IS HERE: TEXAS RALLIES, OREGON FALLS AND LANE KIFFIN EYES RETURN TO OLE MISS SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER The Hokies have scored a combined 117 points in their opening two games of the season, while Maryland's defense has allowed just 14 points so far this year. Aside from Franklin's team scoring 73 points in its season opener against VMI, the head coach made headlines by questioning officials for throwing a flag after running back Marcellous Hawkins Jr. celebrated with cadets after scoring a touchdown in the blowout. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa8e2775342cf4db8685bd MLB's most electric slugger just had one of the slowest, most disrespectful walk-off home runs of all time te 2026-09-16T12:40:07.746Z MLB's most electric slugger just had one of the slowest, most disrespectful walk-off home runs of all time Tampa Bay Rays phenom Junior Caminero is making a serious run at the AL MVP, but all fans saw Tuesday night was quite possibly the slowest walk of all time. Maybe this is what hitting a "walk-off" home run truly means? I don't know. If so, the 23-year-old nailed it. EX-MLB PITCHER GIVES HIS TAKE ON METS RELIEVER JEFRY YAN'S WILD STRIKEOUT SPLIT CELEBRATION Caminero hit his second walk-off in the span of five days Tuesday against the A's, wrapping his 41st home run of the year around the right field foul pole to win the game, 2-1. The superstar slugger is now hitting .279 this season to go along with the 41 dingers, along with 96 RBI and a nearly .900 OPS. For most of the season, the AL MVP has been Yordon Álvarez's to lose. And the Houston slugger hasn't lost it, by any means. But Caminero is on the verge of ripping it away — and his home run trot after Tuesday's walk-off may have sealed the deal. Take a look: Goodness gracious. I grew up watching David Ortiz absolutely milk home run trots, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one quite like that. Are you even allowed to touch the runner before he hits home? They're all just high-fiving him down the first base line. We grew up being SCOLDED if we dared touch a batter before he touched home. It was basically a sin. Apparently, that's just a myth — at least in the MLB rulebook. A deeeeeeeep dive actually revealed that there is no rule in MLB on this, but it's actually pretty strictly enforced down in the college ranks. ASTROS PLAYER BELTS HOME RUN, ROUNDS THE BASES AND THEN GETS DEVASTATING NEWS AFTER TOUCHING HOME Rule 5, Section 2 states: After a home run, no offensive team member, other than the base coaches, shall touch the batter-runner before home plate has been touched. No such rule exists in Major League Baseball. True story. The more you know! Anyway, Caminero's blast gave the Rays their 91st win of the year. Tampa has already clinched a playoff spot, and will likely wrap up the AL East here in a few days. As for the 40+ second trot, most on social media loved it. Some, of course, want him drilled in the ribs in the first inning tonight. The duality of man: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa8bd275342cf4db86854e NBC reporter, pilot among the victims identified in deadly Los Angeles helicopter crash te 2026-09-16T12:30:10.005Z NBC reporter, pilot among the victims identified in deadly Los Angeles helicopter crash Two victims of a deadly Tuesday night helicopter crash in Los Angeles have been identified as journalist Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw, NBC4 Los Angeles confirmed. Moreno and Marciniw were employees of Angel City Air, a helicopter charter company that operated NBC Los Angeles' NewsChopper4, NBC4 reported. The pair were covering a deadly bus crash in downtown Los Angeles when the helicopter, which NBC4 confirmed belonged to the network, lost altitude and crashed, killing a third person on the ground who has yet to be identified. ARMY IDENTIFIES 2 PILOTS KILLED IN APACHE HELICOPTER CRASH NEAR FORT HOOD DURING TRAINING EXERCISE Moreno had been a stalwart of both NBC4 and Telemundo 52's aerial coverage for years, going by the moniker "Eli in the Heli." She had worked closely with Marciniw since 2023, with the pair sharing social media photos of them working and dining together through the years. Marciniw was, according to NBC4, a Southern California native who graduated from Burbank High School in 1974. "We are deeply saddened to share that a helicopter providing aerial news coverage for NBC4 and Telemundo 52 was involved in a fatal accident in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of those who lost their lives," NBC4 and Telemundo 52 said in a statement. AMAZON CARGO PLANE OVERRUNS MIAMI AIRPORT RUNWAY AND STRIKES 'MULTIPLE' VEHICLES; 5 DEAD, 5 INJURED The chopper crashed between two buildings in Los Angeles' Chatsworth neighborhood, producing a large fireball and injuring a fourth person. The injured person was transported to a local hospital in unknown condition, Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Branden Silverman told reporters. "Our hearts are with the victims and families of tonight’s devastating Metro bus and helicopter crashes in Chatsworth, and with the entire NBC4 family," California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote in a statement on X. "Thank you to the first responders working tirelessly tonight," he added. DATA SHOWS AMAZON JET’S KEY BRAKING SYSTEMS DID NOT DEPLOY DURING DEADLY MIAMI CRASH: NTSB The National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said they will be sending investigators to the crash site on Wednesday to probe the crash's cause. Fox News Digital's Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa8bd175342cf4db868545 iOS 27 is here: 10 iPhone features you’ll want to try now te 2026-09-16T12:30:09.098Z iOS 27 is here: 10 iPhone features you’ll want to try now Your iPhone is getting a major update. Apple released iOS 27 to the public on Monday, Sept. 14, bringing a wave of new features along with the long-awaited Siri AI beta. However, there is much more happening under the hood. Safari can now watch websites for changes. The Photos app gets powerful new editing tools. Apple also says it has made iOS faster across compatible iPhones. Some of these changes could save you from digging through apps or hunting for information yourself. Others give you more control over how your iPhone looks and works. Here are the iOS 27 features I think are worth trying first, along with how to find them. NEW! 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So, an iPhone 11 can run iOS 27, but it will miss Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence features. Keep in mind that many of the features below, including the new AI photo tools, Safari Notify Me and Call Context, also require an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone. Siri AI is rolling out in beta in English on supported devices. Apple says support for additional languages will follow later. Availability can also vary by region. Apple says iOS 27 brings performance improvements across the system. In Apple's testing, apps can launch up to 30% faster, new photos can load in the Photos app up to 70% faster and AirDrop transfers can be up to 80% faster. Apple also says iOS 27 improves transitions between Wi-Fi and cellular connections and makes Mail search more relevant. Those are Apple's own figures, so your results will vary depending on your iPhone and how you use it. Before installing a major update, I recommend backing up your iPhone. Also, connect to Wi-Fi and make sure you have enough battery life or plug your phone into power. Then follow these steps: If iOS 27 does not appear immediately, check again later. Apple software releases can take some time to appear on every compatible iPhone. Apple Intelligence moves deeper into the Photos app with Spatial Reframing. It lets you change the composition and perspective of a photo after you took it. Apple Intelligence can generate additional parts of the scene when your new framing exposes areas that were outside the original shot. Because AI may create new portions of the scene, I would zoom in and inspect the result before sharing an edited photo. Generative tools can still produce odd details. Maybe you took a photo too close to your subject. The new Extend tool lets you expand beyond the original edges while Apple Intelligence generates the missing surroundings. The feature will not work with every photo. Apple also says its intelligent photo-editing tools can be subject to daily usage limits. Apple has also upgraded Clean Up in Photos. The tool can now tackle larger unwanted objects and distractions while using AI to fill in the space left behind. This could be especially handy for removing a person in the background or another distraction that pulls attention away from the subject. Apple is also giving Image Playground a major upgrade in iOS 27. You can now generate images in many more styles, including photorealistic ones. You can also start with an existing image and describe how you want Apple Intelligence to change it. For example, you could ask it to change the setting or adjust the overall look without starting from scratch. As with Apple’s other generative image tools, usage limits may apply. I would also look closely at the results before sharing them, especially when people or detailed objects appear in the scene. This may end up being one of my favorite iOS 27 features because it solves a very common frustration. Safari’s new Notify Me feature can monitor a webpage for a change you care about. For example, you could ask Safari to watch for a product coming back in stock. It can also monitor a page for a price change. Instead of reopening the same page over and over, Safari can alert you when something changes. You can choose hourly, daily, weekly or monthly checks. However, Notify Me does not yet work on every website. Safari can also automatically organize open tabs by topic, which could help anyone whose browser looks like a digital junk drawer by the end of the week. APPLE AI SECURITY UPDATE PROVES HACKERS MOVE FAST Apple Intelligence is also getting involved when you call businesses. A new feature called Call Context can surface useful information from other apps while you are on a call. Say you call an airline about a reservation. Call Context can pull up a confirmation code from Mail rather than forcing you to leave the Phone app and search for it while someone waits on the other end. There is no complicated workflow to learn. When you place a supported business call and Apple Intelligence identifies relevant information, it can surface that information during the call. Apple says its system determines what could be useful based on who you are calling. It can do that without analyzing the audio from your call. That is the kind of AI feature I want to see more of because you do not have to change your behavior to benefit from it. Last year, Apple introduced the transparent Liquid Glass design across iOS. Some people liked the new look. Others found certain screens harder to read. With iOS 27, Apple says it has improved contrast and readability. More importantly, you now have greater control over how transparent the interface appears. Apple added a slider that lets you move the look from ultraclear toward fully tinted. The changes appear in real time as you move the slider. The setting applies across iOS, including places such as Control Center, notifications and app overlays. This is a small change, but I like that Apple is giving people a choice rather than assuming one visual treatment works for everyone. If you are always digging around for the timer, exposure or another Camera setting, iOS 27 lets you keep the controls you use most right above the camera frame. Apple starts you with Flash and Live Photo there, but you can customize the row with other tools you use regularly. Depending on your iPhone and camera mode, available controls can include Flash, Live Photo, Timer, Exposure, Styles and Aspect. Apple also gives you a Reset to Essentials option if you want to return to the default setup. Apple has put a lot of work into parental controls in iOS 27. The new Ask to Browse feature lets a child request access to a website that has been restricted. The parent receives that request through Messages and can approve or decline it. You first need Family Sharing set up with your child in the family group. When your child tries to visit restricted web content, they can send an Ask to Browse request for your approval. Apple has also expanded Communication Safety. It already helps protect children from nudity in supported Apple services. With iOS 27, Apple says the system can intervene when it detects gore or violent content in shared photos and videos. Find My gets a useful privacy upgrade in iOS 27, especially if you only want someone to see your location for a limited amount of time. You can now choose a custom duration for location sharing or set an exact date and time for it to stop. That could come in handy on a trip, during an event or anytime you want temporary location sharing without having to remember to turn it off later. You can also pause location sharing until the end of the day for specific people. Apple says this can be useful when you want to keep something like a surprise party or gift-shopping trip private. If you already share your location with someone, you can also pause sharing with that person until the end of the day from their location-sharing options. I like having more control here because location sharing often makes sense for a specific situation. You may want someone to know where you are during a weekend trip without giving them indefinite access afterward. Shortcuts can be incredibly powerful, but building one manually can get complicated fast. iOS 27 makes the process much easier with Describe a Shortcut. You can tell Apple Intelligence what you want your iPhone to automate in plain English. Shortcuts then connects the actions needed to build it. For example, Apple says you could ask your iPhone to message someone with your ETA when you leave work. You could also build automations that work across supported apps. This could make Shortcuts much more approachable for people who have always liked the idea of automating their iPhone but never wanted to figure out how all the individual actions fit together. Some Shortcuts that rely on Apple’s cloud-based AI models may be subject to daily usage limits. ASKED SIRI TO CALL YOUR BANK? A SCAM COULD COST THOUSANDS This is the feature many iPhone owners have been waiting for, but I would treat it differently from the 10 features above. Siri AI is rolling out as a beta in English on supported devices, so expect some rough edges while Apple continues to improve it. Siri AI can hold more natural conversations and handle follow-up questions. It can also use personal context from information on your device. For example, you could ask Siri to find an old photo without remembering when you took it. You can also ask it to locate something buried in an email or note. Siri can take more actions inside apps, too. Apple says it can work across messages, emails, photos and other supported apps. Siri can also pull information from the web when you ask broader questions. The real test will be whether Siri can save you from bouncing between apps. I have always found voice assistants most useful when they remove a few steps from something I already wanted to do. If Siri AI can reliably find a buried email or pull up a photo from years ago based on a vague description, that could change how often people use it. Because this is still a beta, I would double-check important answers or actions before relying on them. Apple has also given Siri its own app, which makes it feel more like the AI assistants people have grown used to using. You can also pin conversations you want to keep handy. Apple says you can invoke Siri AI by saying "Hey Siri," pressing the side button or swiping down from the Dynamic Island on supported iPhones. What I like most about iOS 27 is that some of its best features solve problems you actually run into. Safari can keep an eye on a webpage so you do not have to. The new photo tools could rescue a shot you thought was unusable. Find My also gives you better control over how long someone can see your location. I am especially interested in what Apple Intelligence can do with Shortcuts. Describing an automation instead of building it action by action could finally make Shortcuts approachable for people who have always found it too complicated. Siri AI is still the feature I will be watching most closely. Apple is asking us to trust Siri with more personal context and more complicated requests, so getting the answers right will be critical. The fact that Siri AI launches as a beta tells me we should expect some bumps along the way. What I want from AI on my iPhone is pretty simple. Save me time without making me think about the technology doing the work. If iOS 27 can consistently do that, these features could become the ones you use every day without even thinking about them. What would Siri AI have to prove before you let it handle more of your day? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy Report Copyright 2026 CyberGuy.com. All rights reserved. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa897875342cf4db8684e0 World Series MVP, 'Star Wars' actress share Hallmark-movie love story after over 20 years of marriage te 2026-09-16T12:20:08.674Z World Series MVP, 'Star Wars' actress share Hallmark-movie love story after over 20 years of marriage Ashley Eckstein, who is known as Ahsoka Tano in "Star Wars" and Jan Brady in "The Brady Bunch in the White House," knows something about Hollywood. So, when she says the story of meeting her husband, World Series MVP David Eckstein, is something out of a Hallmark movie, she is absolutely correct. The star-studded couple is coming up on 21 years of marriage, but their relationship began with just a look. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE David Eckstein had been overlooked his entire baseball career, both literally and figuratively, as he stands at 5 feet, 6 inches. The two-time All-Star knew he wasn’t the five-star prospect who was going to blow people away with his impressive power or sizzling arm. So, Eckstein created his advantages through his unbelievable attention to detail, relentless work ethic and ability to win the mental game on the baseball field. So, when Eckstein, whose extremely regimented game-day routine begins the moment he wakes up, lost focus for five seconds because he locked eyes with a beautiful young woman in the stands while at the top step of the dugout celebrating a run, he was mad. "Get focused on the game, I barked at myself, disappointed that I would ever let something break my concentration," Eckstein wrote in his book "Just Enough." "I couldn’t believe I had let a fan break my routine." A few weeks later, Los Angeles Angels Vice President of Communications Tim Mead called Eckstein with a pitch. A publicist reached out to him wanting Eckstein to go a movie premiere with an actress. These types of pitches to Mead, or attempts to set Eckstein up on a date, weren’t uncommon. In fact, Mead normally deleted most. But not this one. Eckstein was apprehensive about the situation and looking for a way to get out of it, but Mead was firm. He had a feeling and urged Eckstein to call. After some research with his sister, Christine, Eckstein decided to pick up the phone and call. While the call went well, Eckstein told Ashley Drane he wouldn’t go to the premiere. Not until he met her in person beforehand. The Angels were out of the postseason hunt, but the season was still going on. Drane was filming an episode of "That '70s Show." While the timing wasn’t just ideal, it ended up being perfect. They settled on Monday, which was Drane’s 22nd birthday. And Drane’s 22nd birthday wasn’t just any birthday. It was her golden birthday. "In fourth grade, my fourth grade teacher told the whole class. He said, ‘Something special will happen on your golden birthday. Like when you turn 10 on the 10th. Well, my birthday is September 22nd and so ever since I was 10, I was waiting for my golden birthday when I would turn 22 on September 22nd," Ashley told OutKick in a recent interview. "And I believed him that something special would happen. Well, I didn't try for it. But because he didn't agree to go to the premiere and he said, ‘I have to meet you prior, the only day we both had free to meet was my golden birthday.’ So, I had a date with number 22 on my golden birthday, September 22nd when I turned 22." David, through his prudent research with Christine, discovered it was Ashley’s birthday and brought a gift. He was also wary of the Hollywood star potentially turning her nose up at his car. David was driving an "old clunker" with 150,000 miles on it, but that didn’t bother Ashley at all. In fact, it was Ashley’s car that told David all he needed to know. "It probably started when she pulled up in her old Toyota Corolla that had the missing door handle, the duct tape on it because then I was like, ‘OK, she's real. That's the type of girl that I could see myself with,’" David told OutKick. "Once I met her that night, we kind of knew." A couple of months after they started dating when Ashley told David a secret she had been keeping. She was the girl in the stands who broke David’s fierce concentration in the dugout. What David didn’t know? Ashley attended that game wearing her favorite number, Eckstein’s jersey number, No. 22. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Relationships and romance are hard in general, but especially so when both people in a relationship have incredibly demanding schedules. David, a professional baseball player, and Ashley, a Hollywood actress, had to work as a team to make it work. David, like the excellent leadoff hitter he was throughout his 10-year career, took the same approach to his relationship and set the tone early. "David from the very beginning, he said, ‘I'm going to let you know I don't play games. I like you and I'm going to be very upfront with you from the beginning,’ and he said if we're going to do this together I just want you to know we're a team and he said what I do is a reflection of you and what you do is a reflection of me so moving forward if we're in this we need to think of each other with every action and everything we do," Ashley said. "And I really appreciated that because it totally changed my mindset and we have — we've been a team ever since." David said that once you find your best friend, you can work through anything. For the two-time World Series champion, that meant Ashley had to sit through a baseball season with him. "The other thing I said early on, and this is why I did not put a ring on her finger earlier, was you need to sit through a baseball season with me because I'm a different person because once baseball season starts. I'm so locked in, but I need you to understand that that part of that time is very precious to me, but it doesn't mean I'm not thinking of you and don't care for you," David said. David’s rigid approach to baseball made him appreciate Ashley’s similar outlook toward acting. "I also understood her roles when she goes on set, because of my baseball career, I understand what she's doing. So, I thought it was actually a perfect mix for us to balance both worlds of her being the actress and me being a baseball player and but when we get to together, we really enjoy our time," David said. Ashley understands that romance is so much more than what is portrayed on TV and in movies. It’s about being there for the other person even when it doesn’t look pretty. "You put each other first and if you go into it with that mindset you're both going to be taken care of. I also joke with him sometimes romance just — it looks different. Sometimes romance is just him getting up to get me coffee when I have a busy day or doing the dishes. Yes, sometimes romance novels and romcoms, they give you a version of romance in your head and you think that that's what every day is like, yeah, but no, sometimes romance is just show — continuing to show up for someone, even when it just doesn't look pretty," Ashley said. "But when he was going through a rough time one season, I didn't know what to do for him. But I knew he liked fried chicken. And so, I found the perfect recipe. So, when he came home, even if it was a bad game, it was the perfect fried chicken. It’s just showing up for that person and putting each other first." While the beginning David and Ashley’s relationship was out of a fairytale, reality hit them hard. In 2008, David was with the Toronto Blue Jays and in the midst of a difficult season, and the two poured into each other and God. "I'll never forget there was one season. I mean, I'll say it. He wasn't happy. It was when he was with Toronto," Ashley said. "2008 was just a really hard, hard season. It was a hard season. And, um, nothing made sense. Absolutely nothing made sense. And what led up to that moment was horrible. I mean, some horrible things happened to him. And I just remember both of us, he didn't cry, but you could tell he was in despair. He was at at very low point. A very, very low point. And we both sat in church and he was silent and I just cried and and we had no other nothing else to do other than just say, 'Okay, it's all right. All right, God, it's in your hands.’" "‘Whatever, whatever you want, we will go wherever. We will do whatever. We're going to do it together. But we just sat there in desperation and said, ‘Okay, whatever is meant to be is meant to be.’ And then he got traded." Toronto wasn’t easy for Ashley either. If she wasn’t aware of just how ruthless Hollywood was, she found out when she moved north of the border to be with David. "I did end up walking away from my career, but he always came first, and he in turn, he's always put me first and it worked out, but it is hard. It's hard," Ashley said. "All of my agents and managers dropped me. I was a full-time working actress, live action, television, series regular. I mean, I had a lot and then just like that they were just like, ‘Oh, you can't be here. You can't audition. You're not flying in on every whim.’ Well, literally the exact quote was, ‘If you're not auditioning, you're not making money. And if you're not making money, you're no good to us.’ And then like that, I had nobody." David played two more seasons after he was traded from Toronto and retired. Not because no one wanted him, as he had more contract offers in free agency than he ever had before, but because it was his turn to support her. "I actually had more contract offers in 2011 than any other time I was in free agency but I had made the decision. Ashley had started her company ‘Her Universe’ and she basically she gave up her career as an actor. They all gave up on her when she made the move to Toronto to come be with me," David said. "I had made a decision that I was going to go be with her after the 10th year. And so, yeah, I walked away from all the contract offers even during the season and even after the 2011 season, I got called again to come back and play, but I already made the decision. Yeah. And we went out and created ‘Her Universe.’" For Ashley, it all ended up working out in the end, as "Star Wars" came along around that time, and she called what happened "the biggest blessing." ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! In addition to being an actress and a former athlete, Ashley and David now have another title: authors. The couple wrote books and released their "his-and-hers" books on Sept. 8. David’s is a memoir called "Just Enough," while Ashley’s is called "Lucky 22." David always knew he wanted to write a book once he was done playing; it just took about 15 years after his playing days. Ashley’s inspiration for writing the book stemmed from a "crazy idea." "I just had a crazy idea. Once we started working with Blue Box Press and since they specialize in romance, how David and I met really is like a Hallmark movie. We didn't try for it that way. It just happened that way. And whenever we tell the story, everyone always says that's a Hallmark movie. That — that needs to be a Hallmark movie. And so it's only one chapter in David's book and it only deserves to be one chapter because he has a lot of story to tell. But I had a feeling that people are going to want to know more," Ashley said. "So I went to Liz and Jillian, the owners of Blue Box Press, and I said, ‘Okay, I have a crazy idea, but what if we do a his and hers version and what if we do a romance novel, Lucky 22, inspired by our true love story.’ So, mine is fiction, but it is very much inspired by our true story. And it's about 90% true." For David, reading Ashley’s book allowed him to see things from her perspective and reflect on who he was. "It was very interesting for me because she told it from her perspective like how it all came about of meeting me and I really realized how really regimented I was and how I was so focused on my career and my routine and stuff and then seeing it from her side of it, the opposite side. Kind of being all lonely going through this world where everyone thinks it's so glamorous and having to fight through it and stuff," David said. "It definitely brought some tears to my eyes. It definitely made me reflect on the person I was during that time period because in the sense of like I was so focused in on my career and being the best husband at that time in my mind thought I had needed to perform on the baseball field." On the flip side, Ashley called David’s story the "greatest underdog story" that had yet to be told. While the book runs through David’s World Series run with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2006, Ashley said it’s just as much about life than it is about baseball. "People think they know his story. They think, you know, they know him as the scrappy player that had heart and, you know, the little engine that could, you know, David versus Goliath. They think they know his story, but they truly don't know everything that he went through. And the beautiful part about his story is you don't need to know anything about baseball to be inspired by Just Enough. In fact, many people that have read it, our publishers, they know zero about baseball. And that — everyone like they call with tears in their eyes. Literally, our publisher is — who is a good friend of ours. She called and apologized. She goes, ‘I'm your friend.’ And I can't believe I didn't know everything you went through," Ashley said. "And we're like, don't apologize. I'm actually grateful to hear this reaction because, this is not a baseball book. This is a book about family, faith, also faith in yourself, and never giving up and perseverance and it can relate to everyone." The power couple also may have etched their names into the history books. "I don't think there's been another husband and wife that have dropped a book on the same day," Ashley said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa872275342cf4db86843e T rex footprints unearthed in first-ever discovery 66 million years after creature walked the Earth te 2026-09-16T12:10:10.471Z T rex footprints unearthed in first-ever discovery 66 million years after creature walked the Earth Scientists in North Dakota recently discovered what researchers believe is the first known trackway left by an adult T. rex — preserving the predator's footsteps some 66.5 million years after it walked the Earth.  The findings, which centered on footprints discovered near Marmarth, North Dakota, were published Sept. 9 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The trackway, or sequence of footprints, was discovered in 2025 in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota, on federal land administered by the U.S. Forest Service. BOY STUMBLES ON STRANGE BEACH OBJECT IDENTIFIED AS RARE 1.8M-YEAR-OLD FOSSIL In a recent announcement, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science said the trackway stretches more than 23 feet and consists of at least four three-toed prints. Pictures from the site show researchers examining the massive, three-toed prints in the rocky terrain. The prints are roughly 3 feet long — and their enormous size led researchers to determine that they were left by an adult T. rex. The identification was "based on the footprints’ exceptional size and narrow shape of the toes, along with the abundance of T. rex fossils found in the surrounding area," the museum said in a statement. ANCIENT OCEAN MYSTERY DEEPENS AS LONG-MISIDENTIFIED FOSSIL IS FINALLY REVEALED BY RESEARCHERS While other isolated footprints have been attributed to adult T. rex, researchers said no adult T. rex trackway had been described previously. "This is the first time scientists have described a sequence of tracks, or trackway, likely left by this most famous of dinosaurs," the release also noted. Tyler Lyson, the senior curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the study's co-author, told Fox News Digital he was initially skeptical when volunteer Kent Hups, a high school teacher, spotted the print. "Initially I wasn't convinced because it was only one print," Lyson said. Rocks, he noted, "can erode into many different types of shapes." "I thought, well, if there's three, that's a pattern," he said. "If we can find a third print, then I'll be a true believer." The team began digging farther into the hill — and within about 30 minutes, they struck a third print. SHOCKING PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY ON NJ BEACH '100%' CAME FROM COLOSSAL ANCIENT PREDATOR "At that point, myself, [plus] Kent, who found the trackway — we were absolutely ecstatic," Lyson said. The four footprints — two left and two right — were spaced at a stride of approximately 13 feet. The dinosaur may have been walking between 3.5 and 4.5 miles per hour — much like humans do today — the researchers estimated. They used high-resolution 3D surface scanning to document the footprints and entire trackway. The study's lead author, Peter Falkingham, a paleobiology professor at Liverpool John Moores University in England, then analyzed the footprints remotely using the 3D data, even though he never saw the tracks in person. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER The team returned to the site this summer and made another discovery while excavating farther into the hill: a fifth track.  "I have no doubt that if we were to continue to dig further into a hill that we would find more," Lyson said. The footprints are each more than 3 feet long. They likely weigh between 800 and 1,000 pounds, according to Lyson. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Three of the tracks are slated to be recovered in October, when crews will place them in a helicopter net and airlift them out of the rugged Badlands, he said.  At the museum, researchers plan to clean the tracks — and Lyson said he's hopeful they could contain preserved skin impressions. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "By cleaning these tracks, we might be able to have a better idea of what the actual foot of a T. rex looked like," he said. The recent research follows other dinosaur-related discoveries from across the world. Last year, paleontologists revealed a roughly 150-million-year-old dinosaur trackway in Colorado that may have preserved the footsteps of a limping long-necked sauropod. Shortly after, scientists announced a new species of Spinosaurus, a meat-eating dinosaur that may have rivaled T. rex in size. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa872175342cf4db868435 Macklemore's long history of controversy from Grammy wins to 'Free Palestine' concert remarks te 2026-09-16T12:10:09.647Z Macklemore's long history of controversy from Grammy wins to 'Free Palestine' concert remarks Macklemore's activism began long before his pro-Palestinian plight during Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour. The musician, who's full name is Ben Haggerty, was kicked off Sheeran's tour following backlash from his "Free Palestine" messaging during his opening act at MetLife Stadium over the weekend. While the fallout continues now that four supporting acts have withdrawn from the tour, Macklemore, 43, is no stranger to controversy and has often used his platform to amplify political issues. ED SHEERAN SAYS HE TRIED TO 'BUILD A BRIDGE' OVER MACKLEMORE TOUR SPOT BEFORE VENUES SAID NO The artist broke into the mainstream music scene in 2012 with the release of "The Heist," his debut studio album as the duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. He faced criticism for sweeping the 2014 Grammys with four awards, which included winning the Best Rap Album Grammy over fan favorite Kendrick Lamar, who was equally nominated for seven awards that night. MACKLEMORE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER GETTING KICKED OFF ED SHEERAN TOUR AFTER PRO-PALESTINE STANCE Macklemore reached out to Lamar after the show and shared a screenshot of his text on social media where he told the "Humble" rapper that he was "robbed" of the win. "My text to Kendrick after the show. He deserved best rap album... I'm honored and completely blown away to win anything much less 4 Grammys," Macklemore wrote. "But in that category, he should have won IMO. And that's taking nothing away from The Heist. Just giving GKMC it's proper respect." He added, "With that being said, thank you to the fans. You're the reason we were on that stage tonight. And to play Same Love on that platform was a career highlight. The greatest honor of all. That's what this is about. Progress and art. Thank you." Grammy viewers witnessed Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform "Same Love" on stage to a mass wedding between 33 same-sex and heterosexual couples, officiated by Queen Latifah. At the end of the performance, Madonna appeared on stage for a rendition of her song, "Open Your Heart." BLACK CROWES FACE BACKLASH AFTER CHRIS ROBINSON SHUTS DOWN U.S.A. CHANT AND CALLS FANS 'IGNORANT' That same year, Macklemore faced backlash following an appearance with Ryan Lewis at The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle where he wore a black wig, beard and fake nose, which some claimed was an anti-Semitic costume. The singer issued an apology shortly after, and said that his costume wasn't intended to reflect a caricature of a Jewish man, but that he was trying to disguise himself in the crowd. "Family, friends and fans alike who know me well, know that I'm absolutely not the person described in certain headlines today," he wrote on his website. "There is no worse feeling than being misunderstood, especially when people are hurt or offended." "I respect all cultures and all people," he continued. "I would never intentionally put down anybody for the fabric that makes them who they are. I love human beings, love originality, and ... happen to love a weird outfit from time to time." He also posted on X, "A fake witches nose, wig, and beard = random costume. Not my idea of a stereotype of anybody." In 2023, he was one of many who signed the Arists4Ceasefire letter in support of Palestinian rights and humanitarian aid for Gaza, and the following year released "Hind's Hall," an anthem supporting pro-Palestinian student protestors. During a performance at Seattle's Palestine Will Live Forever festival, Macklemore faced heavy criticism after leading an anti-U.S. chant where he encouraged the crowd to say, "F- - - America." "My thoughts and feelings are not always expressed perfectly or politely," he said on social media at the time. "Sometimes I slip up and get caught in the moment. Saturday night was one of those times. PINK HITS BACK AMID BACKLASH FOR CRITICIZING MACKLEMORE'S PRO-PALESTINIAN CONCERT REMARKS He added, "Unfortunately, the historic event in my hometown that brought thousands of people together to raise awareness and money for the people of Palestine has become overshadowed by two words." Macklemore admitted that he "lost endorsements, I've lost shows, I've lost business ties," but that his support to Free Palestine remained "unwavering." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "My intent always comes back to the pursuit of peace, love, equality and liberation for all. And that isn’t radical, it’s human. I don’t think I’m alone," he noted. The backlash resulted in Macklemore being dropped from the inaugural Neon City Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. One week after Macklemore repeatedly called to "Free Palestine" and performed "Hind’s Hall" while opening for Sheeran, the rapper was dropped from the remaining U.S. dates. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Ed Sheeran addressed Macklemore’s removal from his U.S. tour Tuesday, saying the rapper’s departure was ultimately a decision made by the concert promoter and venues — not by him. The "Shape of You" singer said he was "appalled" by the conflict between Israel and Palestine and described the suffering on both sides as "a human tragedy," according to a lengthy statement shared on Instagram after Macklemore accused Sheeran and tour organizers of sidelining him over his pro-Palestinian remarks. Sheeran said he deliberately avoided using his professional platform for politics because his audience includes young people and children from diverse backgrounds. Sheeran said concertgoers attend his shows expecting "a place of safety and sanctuary" rather than a political forum. On Monday, Macklemore claimed that Sheeran told him Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium, had rallied other stadium owners to oppose allowing the rapper to perform. According to his account, the venues allegedly gave Sheeran an ultimatum: "If Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Following Sheeran's note, four supporting acts withdrew from the "Loop Tour" in solidarity with Macklemore, including Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, Lukas Graham, and Finneas. Macklemore's representatives did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa871b75342cf4db8683ff Arizona made its English fluency test easier to pass. Experts say it will harm students’ ability to succeed. te 2026-09-16T12:10:03.175Z Arizona made its English fluency test easier to pass. Experts say it will harm students’ ability to succeed. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Arizona Luminaria. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Samantha Ramos stood at the front of her second grade classroom, a small mic clipped to her lanyard amplifying her instructions as she began a phonics lesson. “Can we get our arms ready?” asked Ramos, who’s taught at the John B. Wright Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona, for 15 years. She brought her right palm to her left shoulder as the students imitated her movements. Ramos, who specializes in teaching English as a second language, was leading a lesson that day on the short “i” sound. She told the students to pronounce each letter with a different gesture — touching the shoulder for the “w,” the elbow for the “i” and the hand for the double “l” — before sounding out the word “will.” They repeated the process for other short “i” words — “dig,” “wig” and “fit.” The lesson is part of a daily block of language instruction, ranging from two to four hours long, that Arizona students learning English as a second language are required to take. The students, most of them Spanish-speaking Latino children, remain in the program, separated for part of that time from their peers whose primary language is English, until they pass a test showing they’re fluent enough to learn in a mainstream classroom. The program is known as “structured English immersion,” or colloquially as “English-only” because all instruction is required to be in English. This limits their time for core subjects, like math and science, that are critical to academic success and college readiness. Arizona is the only state with English-only laws still in effect for its public schools. But the number of students enrolled in the curriculum has tumbled dramatically this year. At the Tucson Unified School District, where Ramos teaches, the percentage of test-taking students who scored high enough to be classified as proficient in English more than doubled — from 10% in 2025 to 24% in 2026. Rather than a big leap in fluency, however, the test results reflect the Arizona Department of Education lowering the grade needed to pass. The changes were approved by outgoing Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, a longtime Republican defender of Arizona’s English-only policies. Experts warn this change will do lasting harm to tens of thousands of Arizona students who will exit the structured English immersion program before they know the language well enough to succeed. Such students are already part of the lowest-performing group on standardized tests, and the loss of specialized instruction could further harm their long-term academic success, according to education researchers. Past attempts by the Arizona Department of Education to reclassify large numbers of children learning English as fluent prompted federal investigations by the departments of Justice and Education. Federal officials contended placing such students in classrooms where they struggled because they lacked knowledge of English violated their civil and educational rights, and Arizona agreed to a settlement more than a decade ago. What’s happening now could be a repeat of that, said Katie Bernstein, an applied linguist and professor of early childhood education at Arizona State University. “If you’re put in a class where you don’t understand what’s going on at all, you’re not learning language or content,” she said. “And so those are the worst outcomes of all, are students who are not given any language services.” Ramos teaches her students phonics during a daily block of English-language immersion. Photo by Cassidy Araiza for ProPublica. Nearly 1 in 10 students enrolled in Arizona public and charter schools marked in their school registration forms they speak a language other than English at home. State law mandates that they be assessed for fluency and placed in structured English immersion, and each spring they take the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment, or AZELLA, to measure their progress in reading, writing, speaking and listening. This approach has been required since Arizona voters passed a 2000 ballot initiative, Proposition 203, banning bilingual education in public schools. Still, officials have periodically made changes to the proficiency test. The U.S. departments of Justice and Education determined the version of AZELLA administered between 2006 and 2012 — coinciding with Horne’s first two terms as the state’s top education official — was “not a valid measure of English language proficiency and readiness.” As a result, the state had removed at least 28,000 students from structured English immersion who still lacked proficiency in reading and writing the language. The Arizona Department of Education was found to be in violation of civil rights laws that ban discrimination on the basis of race and national origin by schools that receive federal funds. The state voluntarily entered a settlement, which stressed that the law requires “education agencies to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede students’ equal participation in instructional programs.” The settlement agreement stipulated that the state would immediately help school districts find the students who had been harmed and offer “reading and writing intervention services.” In the long term, the state was required to revamp the AZELLA test. Do you have experience with Arizona’s structured English immersion system, also called English-only? Have stories to tell about how Arizona treats children learning English in public schools? Share your tips with Rafael Carranza at englishlearners@azluminaria.org Similar issues prompted a second voluntary settlement four years later, which instructed the state to raise the threshold for a test score to qualify as proficient in English. The state was also required to retest English-language learners using more rigorous standards, among other things. Ida Rose Florez, a psychologist and former professor and researcher at Arizona State University, conducted a study published in 2012 that found the AZELLA test was “ineffective and obsolete” and its results could be arbitrary. The research concluded there was no evidence the test could “accurately differentiate” between children who need English-language services and those who don’t. “What I examined, and what I saw, was a test that was absolutely not developed correctly,” Florez told Arizona Luminaria and ProPublica. “I don’t see any basis for validity whatsoever.” After dropping during the pandemic, AZELLA passing rates held steady at 12% statewide for three school years, including in 2025, when more than 118,000 took the test and just over 14,000 scored well enough to be reclassified as proficient. After the Arizona Department of Education lowered the score needed to pass the test, the statewide reclassification rate for 2026 jumped to 26%, according to the department’s official tally announced to teachers at a September training. Nearly 113,000 students took the 2026 AZELLA, according to the department, resulting in the reclassification of about 30,000 students as proficient and their removal from English-language services this school year. Students in the structured English immersion program head to class on a recent August morning. Photo by Cassidy Araiza for ProPublica Students learning English as a second language in Arizona must pass a test in order to exit the immersion program and join their English-speaking peers. Photo by Cassidy Araiza for ProPublica The state Department of Education said its decision to make it easier to pass the AZELLA came after it administered the test last year to 600 native English speakers. Each new version of the test is given to native speakers first and the results are used as a baseline, said Deputy Superintendent Margaret Dugan, who chaired the group that advocated for passage of Proposition 203 and has served with Horne during all three of his terms as superintendent. The department skipped this step in 2020, when it made the last major change to the test, following a State Board of Education decision granting more flexibility in how schools teach students English. “Because of COVID and all of that that went on in 2020, things were not done in order,” Dugan said. “When we walked in, it was a new test and they had never tested the native speakers, so now they had to.” When that version was belatedly administered to native English speakers, nearly half failed, said Adela Santa Cruz, who leads the Office of English Language Acquisition, which oversees the test. “With a native not being able to pass that test at a high percentage, there’s something that was just quite awry,” she said. She said the issues were reflected in the pass rate of English learners plateauing at 12% for three years. Using this information, education officials adjusted the grading criteria for students learning English, requiring a lower score to pass all four portions of the test: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Previously, all students needed a combined score of at least 1,000 out of a possible 1,405 to pass. This year, the minimum passing score for all grade levels ranged from 962 for high schoolers to 944 for kindergartners. “My hope is that all of you will see an increase in proficiency,” Anju Kuriakose, the director of psychometrics at the Arizona Department of Education, told school district representatives upon announcing the changes in April. Kuriakose noted half of the native speakers who had been tested to inform the changes were in kindergarten and first grade. Students in fifth grade or higher accounted for less than one-fifth of test takers. Florez’s 2012 study found that when scoring guidelines are based too heavily on the test results of native-speaking kindergartners — without enough data from older children with more advanced language skills — pass results can be artificially elevated. She sees similar problems with the 2026 changes. The Arizona Department of Education said Horne, who approved the changes, was unavailable for an interview. But he has played an outsize role in the state’s structured English immersion program.  This is Horne’s third nonconsecutive term as superintendent, having served from 2003 to 2011 before returning to the office in 2023. In a 2024 interview with Arizona Luminaria, he boasted that students’ reclassification rates were highest during his terms from 2003 to 2011. “After I left office, things deteriorated,” he said. “I implemented structured English immersion, and equally important, undertook intensive training for the teachers as to how to do it, and then we got it” — the reclassification rate — “up to 31% in three or four years,” he said. The Arizona auditor general, however, questioned the validity of the test’s results during Horne’s tenure. An audit released in 2011 found that “because data is either unavailable or unreliable, the effect of SEI models is unknown.” Horne lost his bid for reelection in July’s Republican primary and will leave office in December. Juana Casas was relieved when her son Arturo, a fourth grader at Tucson’s John B. Wright Elementary School, passed the AZELLA test this spring after three years in structured English immersion classes. Casas said she learned from the experience of her oldest daughter, who had struggled to learn English and fell behind her classmates. She and her husband sought after-school tutoring to help Arturo, and his two older sisters helped him learn English at home. “I couldn’t help my oldest daughter, and she really struggled,” Casas said in Spanish. “Their two experiences are totally different. Arturo doesn’t speak Spanish very well because they’ve always spoken to him just in English so that he wouldn’t have to struggle like my oldest struggled.” English learners already lag far behind their peers, resulting in lower rates of graduation and postsecondary attainment. In 2025, standardized reading tests administered to all Arizona third graders showed a 31% disparity between English-language learners and other students, according to the Center for the Future of Arizona’s Education Progress Meter. The standardized math exam administered to all Arizona eighth graders in 2025 showed a 23% disparity between English-language learners and other students. Student work is displayed in Ramos’ classroom. Photo by Cassidy Araiza for ProPublica Since Proposition 203 was debated 26 years ago, proponents have argued it helps students learn English more quickly and gets them into mainstream classes faster. There is limited research to support this. Ample studies, however, show students taught under English-only policies have bigger achievement gaps compared to students instructed using bilingual or multilingual education, which reinforces the student’s primary language while accelerating their learning in academic subjects and a second language. A landmark 32-year study spanning 16 states analyzed various language-learning models, including structured English immersion, and found that “the key to accelerated progress is for English learners to receive peer-equivalent, grade-level bilingual schooling,” according to researchers Virginia Collier and Wayne Thomas. Florez, the former ASU professor who studied Arizona’s model, said, “The fundamental problem with the AZELLA is that it’s trying to measure a system that should never be in place to begin with.” Bernstein, the ASU early childhood education professor, said, “There is no linguistic, educational, economic, or research-based reason why we shouldn’t have dual-language programs in the state. And so I think that potentially leaves politics as the only answer to why.” With more students passing this year’s proficiency test, the Tucson Unified School District is preparing to continue supporting students like Arturo within the mandates approved by voters in 2000. Patricia Sandoval-Taylor, the district’s director for language development, said state law requires teachers to track reclassified students’ progress in their classrooms for two years and intervene with additional support like tutoring or summer school if needed. Arizona schools don’t receive additional funding for such services, as they do for students who are not proficient in English. And since part of the district’s funding for English learners is based on the number of students in structured English immersion, more students passing the 2026 AZELLA will mean less funding in the 2027 school year. “They’re not going to have the direct services to ensure they become fully English proficient,” Sandoval-Taylor said. At John B. Wright Elementary, Ramos is still getting to know her second graders’ abilities and adjusting her teaching methods accordingly. Teaching students who are learning English comes with additional responsibilities but no additional pay. Still, Ramos believes it’s where she can make the biggest difference. For her, that includes celebrating when students pass AZELLA and are classified as proficient in English. “I think they need to be celebrated because they’re going above and beyond,” she said. “Before they did the change to the cut scores, it was like, ‘Well they passed this really incredibly difficult test that even English speakers couldn’t even pass themselves.’” The post Arizona made its English fluency test easier to pass. Experts say it will harm students’ ability to succeed. appeared first on AZ Luminaria. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa826e75342cf4db868316 Aaron Guckian Wins G.O.P. Nomination for Rhode Island Governor te 2026-09-16T11:50:06.769Z Aaron Guckian Wins G.O.P. Nomination for Rhode Island Governor Mr. Guckian, a self-described “compassionate conservative,” will face Helena Foulkes, a former CVS executive, in the general election. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa7dc675342cf4db86823a Helping Parents Help Their Kids In School te 2026-09-16T11:30:14.379Z Helping Parents Help Their Kids In School (NAPSI)—Here’s news about education many parents may be glad to learn: More than 1.5 million students are heading back to school this fall with the help of a private educational choice program, a number that would have been almost unimaginable… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa7dc575342cf4db868231 Helping Parents Help Their Kids In School te 2026-09-16T11:30:13.537Z Helping Parents Help Their Kids In School The school your children returned to this fall doesn’t have to be the school they return to next fall—it can be a much better fit for them. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa7dc475342cf4db868228 5 Tips for Networking on LinkedIn te 2026-09-16T11:30:12.654Z 5 Tips for Networking on LinkedIn (NAPSI)—“Networking” has a reputation of being more intimidating than it needs to. Who do you reach out to? What do you say? How do you make a new professional connection without feeling awkward or like you’re asking for something? Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa7dc375342cf4db86821f 5 Tips for Networking on LinkedIn te 2026-09-16T11:30:11.746Z 5 Tips for Networking on LinkedIn Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa7dc275342cf4db868214 Ask the doctors: Neuroplasticity helps brain compensate after stroke te 2026-09-16T11:30:10.763Z Ask the doctors: Neuroplasticity helps brain compensate after stroke Dear Doctors: I was diagnosed with cryptogenic ischemic strokes, but I've never had a single stroke symptom other than dizziness and balance issues. These had been blamed on an inner-ear infection. How could this happen when I'm otherwise healthy? Also,… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa7dc175342cf4db86820b Stephanie Lueras: Flu shot season: When should you get it? te 2026-09-16T11:30:09.804Z Stephanie Lueras: Flu shot season: When should you get it? Ah, fall. Pumpkin spice, Golden Shovel football (Congratulations Knights!), changing leaves (well, everywhere but Havasu), and the annual question: When should I get my flu shot? Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa7dc075342cf4db868202 Fighting Forward: The side effects nobody wants te 2026-09-16T11:30:08.723Z Fighting Forward: The side effects nobody wants When most people hear the word "cancer," they don't just think about the disease itself. They think about the treatments. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa7b6775342cf4db8681ae Pete Alonso burns the Mets with game-tying home run as pitcher criticizes fans for giving him curtain call te 2026-09-16T11:20:07.529Z Pete Alonso burns the Mets with game-tying home run as pitcher criticizes fans for giving him curtain call Pete Alonso felt right at home on Tuesday night. With the Baltimore Orioles down a run in the top of the ninth inning against the New York Mets, Alonso launched the 300th home run of his career into the Citi Field bleachers to tie the game. The former Mets star who was playing his first series back in Queens slammed his bat in jubilation before he trotted around the bases. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Mets fans cheered for Alonso and even gave him a curtain call. It was clear Mets fans were acting defiantly as they lamented the front office’s decision to let Alonso walk in free agency last year. He said last September he "definitely thought about" re-signing with the Mets but he got an offer from the Orioles he couldn’t refuse. Instead, it came back to burn the Mets as New York looks to get to the finish line following an extremely disappointing season that has seen the team in the bottom of the barrel in the National League East and trailing the Washington Nationals by 2.5 games for fourth. Furthermore, on Tuesday, the Orioles won the game 7-5. Baltimore improved to 74-78 on the year and dropped New York to 69-82. "I appreciate all the support for all the years I’ve been here, all the life I’ve lived here," Alonso said after the game. "Obviously, they’re recognizing that and they appreciate that. It’s a two-way street. Really appreciate it." The curtain call Mets fans gave Alonso appeared to irk pitcher Sean Manaea. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Manaea got the start, allowed two runs (both solo homers) in 5.1 innings and struck out six. "As the 2026 Mets, I know we have definitely underperformed. But we are — the guys in here work their (tails) off every single day and to have that kind of reaction to an opposing player — could be anybody — is crazy to me," he said. "Again, I’ve got nothing but respect for Pete. But yeah, just never seen anything like that before. "Pete’s not here. He’s just not here. So, I know everybody loves him. He’s the man. But, yeah, he’s not here. So, to see the reaction from the fans like that, I don’t know, it’s just different." Alonso became the first player in MLB history to hit his 300th home run against a team he played 1,000 or more games for. He also received a standing ovation before his first at-bat on Monday night. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa791275342cf4db86813e Rare cancer cases strike in California community as families demand answers te 2026-09-16T11:10:10.210Z Rare cancer cases strike in California community as families demand answers A cluster of rare cancer diagnoses has sparked concern and prompted environmental testing in Ladera Ranch, California, although state health officials say no specific cause has been identified. At least six children in the area have been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, according to federal officials and local reporting. This exceptionally rare cancer, which forms in the bone or nearby soft tissue, primarily occurs in adolescents and young adults, per the National Cancer Institute. WOMAN LOSES BEST FRIEND TO OVARIAN CANCER, THEN RECEIVES SAME DEVASTATING DIAGNOSIS MONTHS LATER "Knowing that this is a very rare cancer diagnosis amplifies the concerns," Dr. Janet Yoon, a pediatric oncologist and sarcoma specialist at City of Hope in Los Angeles, told Fox News Digital. "Anytime you hear of cases in a geographic location, it does raise some concerns ... I can completely understand why further investigation is being done." Following the March 2026 death of 17-year-old Brody Matteson from complications of treatment for Ewing sarcoma, more families began speaking publicly about rare cancer diagnoses in the community, according to local reports. Some residents – including Matteson's father, Dustin Matteson – have suggested the illnesses could be linked to the community's use of herbicides and pesticides, which prompted calls for a broader environmental investigation. "We don't have a clear line of evidence for pesticides, but it is one of the things that concerns us," Matteson said to NBC Los Angeles in July. ALCOHOL TIED TO SURPRISING CANCER DEATH PATTERN IN ADULTS UNDER 55, RESEARCHERS FIND In 2024, prompted by residents’ concerns, the California Department of Public Health conducted a county-level review in an attempt to determine whether pesticide use in the community could have played a role in the development of certain cancer types. "That analysis did not find an unusual pattern at the county level, but the data available at the time was​ limited," the CDPH stated on its website. The agency is now conducting a second review of cancer incidence data for the Ladera Ranch area. "CDPH currently estimates the assessment will be completed in fall 2026, although the timeline may change based on the scope and complexity of the review and any additional information that may need to be evaluated," the agency stated. "At this time, our colleagues at CalEPA (California Environmental Protection Agency) and its boards, departments and offices have not identified any immediate environmental hazards." The CDPH stated that it is not yet known whether diagnoses of Ewing sarcoma and other cancer types are higher than expected in the Ladera Ranch community – or whether environmental factors can increase the risk. In July 2026, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli asked the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate possible environmental factors that could have contributed to multiple pediatric cancer cases. Over the summer, hundreds of residents gathered at community meetings. At the same time, Ladera Ranch Maintenance Corporation (LARMAC) – the master homeowners association (HOA) for the planned community of Ladera Ranch in Orange County – temporarily paused its use of certain landscape chemicals and formed an advisory committee to review its landscaping practices. As the investigation has continued, some residents have also publicly reported diagnoses of other cancers, including glioblastoma, although the current state review has not established whether those cases are related. CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES On Sept. 14, California State Fullerton researchers began collecting soil and water samples from local parks as part of the environmental investigation. Jennifer Piazza, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Public Health at Cal State Fullerton, assembled the team of researchers to help address the environmental concerns stemming from the pediatric cancer cases. "Environmental sampling is the first step of our larger, ongoing scientific investigation," she told Fox News Digital. "We are collecting soil and water samples across Ladera Ranch. They are being analyzed for heavy metals, such as arsenic and lead, as well as pesticides." The team expects to have results by the end of the year, Piazza said. "I also want to emphasize that whatever we find does not imply causality in terms of the pediatric cancer cases in Ladera Ranch," she added. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER LARMAC released a statement to People Magazine, extending its "heartfelt compassion to the families who have been affected by these devastating illnesses." "LARMAC takes these concerns seriously. We are aware that public health agencies are reviewing available information, and we will continue to cooperate with those efforts and follow guidance provided by the appropriate health and regulatory authorities." "At this time, we are not aware of any determination by those agencies identifying a specific environmental cause or linking the Association’s landscape management practices to these illnesses," the statement read. The organization also noted that it has reduced the use of synthetic pesticides and switched to organic pesticides. "With Ewing sarcoma, there is no confirmed genetic or environmental cause that we know of," Yoon told Fox News Digital. "We have not found any confirmed genetic or environmental factor that increases the likelihood of developing Ewing sarcoma." Some studies have linked occupational or high-level exposure to certain pesticides with an increased risk of several cancers, although the evidence varies by chemical and cancer type, according to the American Cancer Society. No known lifestyle-related or environmental cause of Ewing sarcoma has been identified, the ACS states. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The disease most often presents as persistent pain rather than a typical sports injury or growing pain, according to Yoon. "It's pain that persists. It's pain that wakes them up from their sleep. It's pain that limits their daily activities." The doctor called cancer the "great masquerader" in children due to its rarity. "Growing pains are much more common than cancer," she added. Yoon encouraged families to seek medical evaluation if pain is persistent, worsening or interfering with normal activities. Specialized cancer centers with sarcoma expertise can help ensure an accurate diagnosis, she advised. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa791175342cf4db868135 Attempted Trump assassin Thomas Crooks’ behavior revealed ‘red flags’ before attack: former FBI agent te 2026-09-16T11:10:09.380Z Attempted Trump assassin Thomas Crooks’ behavior revealed ‘red flags’ before attack: former FBI agent A former FBI agent says newly released federal documents show Thomas Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump, was "spiraling into an almost manic state" before the rally shooting. The federal documents turned over to the Senate, first reported by the New York Post, show that people close to Crooks noticed odd behavior in the weeks before the attack, which killed one person and seriously injured two others. Former FBI special agent Jonathan Gilliam told Fox News Digital that the documents turned over to the Senate contained several "red flags" about Crooks. "These are definitely examples of somebody who is mentally not stable and also somebody who was spiraling into almost a manic or delusional state," Gilliam said. "When you combine somebody who is delusional, somebody who's hearing voices and is having almost a manic type of episode... with potential influence either by persons that they're around or things that they see online... it's very possible that that is the large part of this equation that we just have not seen." TWO YEARS AFTER BUTLER, THREATS AGAINST TRUMP KEEP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN SHARP FOCUS While Crooks was "never into explosives," an unclassified memo from the FBI states that an individual confronted him about "a gallon jug of something that he said was used to clean the bed of his 3D printer." The individual, who was redacted in the documents, didn't believe Crooks' explanation as his "ears would flame red when he lied." It's unknown when the individual confronted Crooks about the gallon jug. That same unidentified individual said that Crooks began to "get more agitated" as he got older and "talked to himself a lot." TRUMP WANTS TO HELP 146,000 MENTALLY ILL WHO ARE HOMELESS. DEMOCRATS WANT TO STOP HIM "After community college he would talk to himself more and more, moving his hands and speaking to himself...sometimes Thomas would stay up dancing all night," the individual said, noting he "seemed to have endless energy." The individual, who appeared to be close with Crooks, said that when confronted about the habit, Crooks would "admit to talking to himself" but denied hearing voices in his head. UNABOMBER INVESTIGATOR REVEALS LIKELY BREAKING POINT OF ALLEGED WOULD-BE TRUMP ASSASSIN "Sometimes he would stay up all night, always endless energy," an FBI notepad read. The individual who appeared close with Crooks described his nighttime behavior to the FBI. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X "THOMAS would be in [redacted] at night and it sounded like he was dancing and whispering each night. About two to three times each week, he would pace through [redacted] When [redacted] confronted THOMAS about the pacing, THOMAS would say that he was bored and trying to entertain himself. [redacted] worked [redacted] and the pacing was [redacted] distracting [redacted]," the FBI memo stated. One of Crooks' coworkers told law enforcement that in the weeks before the attack, he "opened up a little more" and became more "excited about going to school." TWO MEN SHOT AT TRUMP'S BUTLER RALLY SUE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OVER SECRET SERVICE 'PREVENTABLE FAILURES' Crooks was planning to attend Robert Morris University to study mechanical engineering and graduated with an associate degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny County. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS In the months before the shooting, Crooks also enrolled in the following courses at the Keystone Shooting Center: LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Around the time Crooks was taking these firearm courses, he was spotted with two people at Keystone Armory in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, on May 25, 2024, where be bought 20 rounds of Red Army 7.62x54R for $19.07. SEND US A TIP "The individual believed to be Crooks was accompanied by a white male believed to be around his mid 30's and another older white male with a gray beard, potentially one of the individual's father. The individual believed to be Crooks and the two other males can be seen wandering throughout the firearms store looking at various firearms," the FBI document stated. GOT A TIP? The documents also make reference to a redacted individual, believed to be Crooks, "purchased ammo online going site to site until he found one that would sell to him." LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST FBI Director Kash Patel testified on Tuesday at a Senate Oversight Committee hearing that there's no evidence that Crooks was connected with anyone else. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL "We found no evidence that that individual was literally even speaking to any other human being other than his parents, who he resided with," Patel testified. The documents show the FBI contacted at least one foreign government during its investigation into the assassination attempt, but offer no further detail on why. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa791075342cf4db86812c Trump's AI race with China could become the biggest mistake of our time te 2026-09-16T11:10:08.568Z Trump's AI race with China could become the biggest mistake of our time In less than two weeks, President Donald Trump will welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington. Trump says AI will be a major topic of their September 24 talks and insists America must stay ahead of China. But the race has acquired a second, more dangerous dimension: some of the people building the world’s most powerful AI systems now warn they are advancing faster than humans can safely control them. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic last week with a warning: Competition among frontier labs is driving ever more powerful systems forward before researchers know how to keep them reliably under human control. Coxon told WIRED that colleagues described the next year or two as "crunch time for humanity." Days later, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei went further. In an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," he argued the industry must deliberately slow how fast it increases model capabilities so safeguards can catch up. "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," Amodei wrote, proposing independent evaluators embedded inside frontier labs, coordinated safety standards among democratic nations, and eventually international arrangements covering the most dangerous capabilities. He did not call for halting AI development. What began as an Anthropic warning quickly became a rare convergence among rivals. OpenAI’s Sam Altman endorsed Amodei’s call for independent evaluators. Elon Musk responded simply, "Dario is right." Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis backed the same direction, while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that superintelligence that does not help humanity and does not remain under human control is not worth pursuing. AI EXTINCTION WARNINGS DOMINATE HEADLINES AFTER EX-ANTHROPIC EMPLOYEE'S VIRAL POST None of this proves AI is about to destroy humanity, and some of the alarm deserves skepticism. Anthropic is reportedly preparing an IPO that could value the company at nearly $2 trillion. That raises a fair question: Is some of this rhetoric also advertising the extraordinary power, and therefore potential value, of its technology? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has accused parts of the industry of stoking cybersecurity fears while preparing products to address them. The incentives deserve scrutiny. But Altman’s decision to delay OpenAI’s IPO until 2027 over safety concerns cuts against the claim that this is merely financial theater. But America cannot consider these warnings in a vacuum. China changes the calculation. In earlier Fox News columns, I have warned against regulating America into technological defeat, copying Beijing’s surveillance model, or treating this as merely a race between chatbots. As I argue in my book, "The New AI Cold War," the competition spans chips, energy, data centers, cyber operations, military power, scientific discovery, and global influence. TRUMP SAYS CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING WILL VISIT US ON SEPT 24 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent captured the strategic bind bluntly: "We can’t pause. You can’t, because the Chinese won’t pause." Trump has now stated the competing imperative just as plainly. Asked Sunday whether AI development should slow, Trump dismissed the warnings as exaggerated, saying unnamed critics were hyping things that won’t happen. "We’re leading China in AI," he said. "Whoever wins AI wins." He said Washington could still add guardrails. Bessent’s concern is understandable; the administration is pursuing both speed and safeguards. Trump’s Genesis Mission links federal scientific data and supercomputing to AI research across more than 15 agencies. His June national security directive accelerates AI adoption while requiring systems to remain "robust, steerable, controllable" and subject to human accountability. A separate executive order provides for voluntary pre-release federal cybersecurity evaluation of frontier models. REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: CONGRESS MEETS AI AS FEARS OF HUMAN EXTINCTION JOLT CAPITOL HILL Congress still lacks a comprehensive statutory framework, but the disagreement has become more explicit. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., rejected an emergency moratorium, warning that if lawmakers rush to regulate, China will close the gap. Former White House AI adviser David Sacks made the sharper free-market argument: Laboratories that want to slow down can do so themselves. They should not use Washington to force smaller competitors to apply the same brakes. REP. TED LIEU: AI IS ALREADY TOO POWERFUL. WE NEED A KILL SWITCH BEFORE DISASTER STRIKES Other lawmakers are proposing approaches ranging from bans on superintelligence to narrower requirements that developers test and disclose catastrophic risks. Washington broadly agrees that something consequential is happening. It does not agree on what to do about it. Then there is China. On Sept. 8, U.S. cyber and law enforcement officials accused Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Alibaba, of distilling American AI technology "at an industrial scale." Beijing rejected the accusations and called distillation a common industry technique. That dispute exposes the danger of unilateral American restraint. Washington can regulate American laboratories; it cannot order Beijing to accept identical limits. CHINA IS BUILDING AN AI WAR MACHINE. WASHINGTON MUST WAKE UP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE Beijing made that point explicit this week. Responding Monday to Amodei’s proposal, China’s Foreign Ministry denounced what it called fearmongering and warned that confrontation would disrupt global AI governance. Washington wants China to cooperate on slowing the most dangerous capabilities while restricting Beijing’s access to the chips and model capabilities that could close the gap. Amodei himself recognizes this: Slowing democratic AI development beyond the American lead could let Chinese Communist Party-linked projects move ahead and create new dangers. AN AI CYBERATTACK COULD TURN OFF AMERICA'S LIGHTS BEFORE WASHINGTON EVEN UNDERSTANDS WHY Yet an unrestricted race creates a different danger. Every laboratory races because its rivals race. Every nation accelerates because it fears falling behind. That is the classic security dilemma I have warned about in "The New AI Cold War". Actions one side takes to increase its security can drive the other side to accelerate, leaving both less secure. The Sept. 24 summit arrives at that moment. Reuters reported preparations for U.S.-China AI safety discussions covering AI-directed cyberattacks and incident information-sharing, though the White House said no separate meeting had been formally scheduled. The choices range from racing ahead to stopping outright. Between them lie more practical options: safety requirements triggered by dangerous capabilities, independent evaluations, and narrow agreements governing catastrophic uses. And any agreement faces a brutal problem: verification. Nuclear arms control dealt with warheads, missiles and enrichment plants that leave physical signatures; frontier AI resides largely in software, model weights and computing infrastructure. Amodei acknowledges that limited agreements on clearly dangerous applications may be more realistic than a comprehensive pause, while more ambitious restrictions become progressively harder to verify. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION That is the defining paradox of the new AI Cold War. America cannot afford to let China dominate artificial intelligence, but competition does not make technological risk disappear. Trump says whoever wins AI wins. Amodei, Altman, Musk and other industry leaders warn that winning the race will mean little if the winner cannot control what it builds. Beijing, meanwhile, says it supports AI cooperation while rejecting an American strategy designed to preserve the U.S. technological advantage. That leaves Trump and Xi with a harder problem than simply deciding who gets there first. The first AI Cold War question was who would build the most powerful systems. The harder question is whether either side can remain in control of what it builds. With Xi coming to Washington on Sept. 24, that is no longer merely an engineering problem. It is a problem of national strategy. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ROBERT MAGINNIS Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa76b975342cf4db8680be Charlie Kirk's family alleges UVU knew of security risk before his assassination and more top headlines te 2026-09-16T11:00:09.248Z Charlie Kirk's family alleges UVU knew of security risk before his assassination and more top headlines 1.  Charlie Kirk's family has filed a notice of claim against UVU 2. 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Check it out… What's it looking like in your neighborhood? Continue reading…   Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn      Fox News First Fox News Opinion Fox News Lifestyle Fox News Entertainment (FOX411) Fox Business Fox Weather Fox Sports Tubi Fox News Go Thank you for making us your first choice in the morning! We'll see you in your inbox first thing Thursday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa720c75342cf4db867fe9 Coffee lovers have a new No. 1 city and it's not Portland or Seattle te 2026-09-16T10:40:12.300Z Coffee lovers have a new No. 1 city and it's not Portland or Seattle The country's best city for coffee lovers is not Seattle, Portland or even New York, according to a new report. Best known for its area theme parks, Orlando, Florida, has been brewing up a new attraction as America's top destination for coffee lovers, a WalletHub analysis found. The City Beautiful took the No. 1 spot in WalletHub's ranking of the 100 largest U.S. cities, edging out Portland, Oregon, which fell from first place last year to No. 2. COFFEE LOVERS CAN TAKE HEART: UP TO 5 CUPS A DAY APPEARS SAFE FOR MOST ADULTS, EXPERTS SAY Miami ranked No. 3, followed by Long Beach, California, at No. 4 and Seattle, the birthplace of Starbucks, at No. 5. The results offer a new definition of what makes a great coffee city today. While coffee is a daily habit for 66% of Americans, according to the National Coffee Association, coffee drinkers are increasingly looking for affordable, reliable, highly rated shops that have free Wi-Fi instead of trendy cafés. Coffee shops increasingly serve as workspaces and social hubs for tourists, students and remote workers, WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo, based in South Carolina, told Fox News Digital. AMERICA'S BEST FOOD CITIES RANKED BY EXPERT, WITH CHOICES THAT COULD INFURIATE LOCALS Lupo said Orlando's tourism-driven economy means visitors often need a reliable place to charge their phones, connect to free Wi-Fi and save money where they can. "People want to have a coffee, they may want to go in and scroll for a little while before they hit Disney World, so they want to make the rest of the experience as affordable as they can to spend more of their money on the tourist attraction," Lupo said. Orlando is also home to the University of Central Florida, he added.  "There's a lot of broke college kids out there and they're already spending the little money they have on coffee, so they don't want to have to pay for the Wi-Fi also." LOOKING FOR BETTER COFFEE? HUNDREDS OF CHEFS AND SOMMELIERS SAY THESE ARE THE WORLD'S BEST Cities that attract young adults and college students also ranked highly, including Pittsburgh at No. 9 and Austin, Texas, at No. 10. Pittsburgh's growing med-tech and tech sectors have helped draw young professionals to the city, Lupo said. Lupo was most surprised that this year's ranking included three Florida cities in its top 10. Tampa landed at No. 6. "You have three cities in Florida — hot, muggy, warm weather pretty much year-round — and also you have Long Beach, a Southern California city," he said, adding that they could be opting for an iced coffee. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "Maybe that's how a lot of folks start off their day, drinking a cold iced coffee first thing in the morning." Of the 100 cities WalletHub examined, it measured "coffee friendliness," including the price of packaged coffee and cappuccinos, household coffee spending, the share of residents with coffee makers and the number of coffee shops per capita.  The personal finance company also weighed the availability of affordable coffee shops that have at least 4.5-star reviews, free Wi-Fi, coffee and tea manufacturers, doughnut shops and local interest based on Google searches. In cities such as New York, rising coffee prices and pressure on small, independent shops may help explain why the Big Apple landed at No. 44, Lupo said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES The ranking also underscores how a daily coffee habit affects the wallet.  Households in the most coffee-crazy cities can spend up to $327 a year on the beverage, while frequent espresso and cappuccino drinkers may save by preparing drinks at home, WalletHub found.  Lupo noted that several lower-ranked cities, including Laredo, Texas; Toledo, Ohio; Detroit; Memphis, Tennessee; and Lubbock, Texas, are places where residents may have less room in their budgets for coffee purchases. "When grocery costs are at a premium, usually one of the first places you'll cut back [is] things like coffee," he said. Buying a coffee or espresso machine for home can "pretty much pay for itself in the first couple of months," Lupo added. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ As for the year ahead, Lupo said he will be watching to see if Portland can reclaim its top spot.  "I think they're going to try to make some changes to put themselves back in that No. 1 spot," he said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa720375342cf4db867f9c Amazon launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi support te 2026-09-16T10:40:03.073Z Amazon launches Alexa+ in India with Hindi support Amazon is letting all customers use Alexa+ assistant in early access period Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa6d5875342cf4db867dc7 Texans' Azeez Al-Shaair to be fined once again by NFL for wearing Pro-Palestinian personal message on eyeblack te 2026-09-16T10:20:08.332Z Texans' Azeez Al-Shaair to be fined once again by NFL for wearing Pro-Palestinian personal message on eyeblack Houston Texans middle linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair will be fined $11,492 by the NFL for breaking the league's rules on "personal messages" because he inscribed the name of a Palestinian girl on his eyeblack in tribute to her memory during Sunday's regular-season opener against the Buffalo Bills. Al-Shaair, who is Muslim, wrote the name of Hind Rajab on his eyeblack during the 36-31 loss to the Bills and kept it on even as reporters entered the Texans locker room to interview players afterward. The NFL sent Al-Shaair a letter saying he was in violation of Rule 6, Section 4, Article 8 of the rulebook. NFL RESTARTS SOCIAL JUSTICE MESSAGING WHILE BATTLING DOMESTIC ABUSE, DRUNK DRIVING AND PROSTITUTION ARRESTS The rule: "Throughout the period on game day that a player is visible to the stadium and television audience (including in pregame warmups, in the bench area, and during postgame interviews in the locker room or on the field), players are prohibited from wearing, displaying, or otherwise conveying personal messages either in writing or illustration, unless such message has been approved in advance by the League office." The NFL did not approve of Al-Shaair, or any player, wearing a personal tribute to Rajab on Sunday. What makes Al-Shaair's decision to wear the five-year-old girl's name on his equipment controversial is that practically all things involving Gaza and Israel are charged with emotion for Muslims and Jews and their respective supporters. Muslims view Rajab as a martyr who was killed at the hands of the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza City in January 2024. People like Al-Shaair view Rajab's death as evidence that Israel is waging a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. The IDF, meanwhile, maintains the killing was a horrible mistake amid the fog of war. That war, by the way, started when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and killed approximately 1,200 men, women, and children and took others hostage. In August, the IDF acknowledged that its troops had fired at the vehicle carrying Rajab, her aunt, uncle and four cousins. Although Rajab survived that attack, a Red Crescent ambulance that appeared on the scene was also fired upon and 12 days later the bodies of Rajab, her family and two men from the ambulance were recovered. The IDF ordered a criminal investigation. Israeli media outlets Ynet and The Times of Israel reported that the IDF’s internal review said the car had approached Israeli positions while traveling against an announced evacuation direction. PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTER WHO INTERRUPTED SUPER BOWL LIX HALFTIME SHOW FOUND GUILTY IN COURT Al-Shaair clearly intended to send an anti-Israel message with his Rajab inscription and it is not the first time. In January, the linebacker was fined $11,593 for wearing eyeblack on which he inscribed the slogan "Stop the Genocide." These fines, by the way, are something of a pittance for Al-Shaair. He signed a three-year contract extension worth $54 million in the offseason. The contract included a $14 million signing bonus. Players subject to NFL accountability measures receive a letter informing them of what they did, a video of the play in question if that applies, why they are being fined, and how much it will cost them. They also receive information on how to appeal the fine. If they choose not to appeal, the fine is withheld from their next game check. If a player protests a ruling, he schedules a hearing with the NFL, and his case is assigned to one of the league’s current appeals officers. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Al-Shaair is not expected to appeal this fine, a source with knowledge of the situation told OutKick. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa6b0875342cf4db867d54 Norway faces backlash over 'deeply racist' proposal to jail citizens for West Bank business te 2026-09-16T10:10:16.343Z Norway faces backlash over 'deeply racist' proposal to jail citizens for West Bank business Critics are slamming Norway over new legislation that they say singles out Jews. The proposed law could send individuals to prison for up to three years for knowingly conducting certain forms of business with Israeli communities in the West Bank. The proposal, introduced by Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, would prohibit the importation of goods originating in Israeli communities in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the exportation of goods to those communities. It would also restrict certain real estate transactions, construction and engineering services and investments in businesses headquartered and operating there. Intentional violations could result in fines, imprisonment for up to three years or both, while negligent violations could carry fines, imprisonment for up to six months or both, according to Section7 of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ official consultation document. ISRAEL’S E1 PLAN EXPLAINED: THE JERUSALEM-AREA CORRIDOR SPARKING INTERNATIONAL BACKLASH The measure remains under public consultation, with responses due Sept. 19, and has not yet been enacted. Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, condemned the proposal in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Norway’s proposal to criminalize trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria is the latest expression of their obsessive and openly hostile policy toward Israel. Instead of contributing to peace or regional stability, Norway has chosen political grandstanding, selective outrage and punitive measures against Israel. This approach damages bilateral relations, encourages rejectionism, and exposes just how detached Norwegian policy has become from the realities of the Middle East." The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Northern Europe Department also referred Fox News Digital to a statement it posted on X condemning the proposal. US AMBASSADOR HUCKABEE SLAMS EXTREME GROUP OF ISRAELI SETTLERS FOR SEIZING PALESTINIAN HOMES ON WEST BANK "Norway’s legislative proposal to criminalize trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria is the latest example of the Norwegian foreign minister’s obsessive anti-Israel activism on the global stage. Norway has repeatedly chosen to sacrifice its bilateral relationship with Israel in favor of one-sided rhetoric and hostile actions that serve domestic interests, undermine efforts to reach peaceful solutions, and are completely detached from the reality in the Middle East." In response to a request for comment from Fox News Digital, Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred the outlet to its June 19 press release announcing the proposed legislation. The release states that Israeli settlements violate international law and undermine prospects for a two-state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and freedom. "By proposing legally binding prohibitions, the government makes it clear that Norwegian citizens and Norwegian companies must not profit from or support activities that help sustain Israel’s unlawful settlement activity in Palestine," Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said in the release. Eide also said the settlements contribute to "displacement, extreme violence and a situation that makes a peaceful solution impossible." UN AGENCY ACCUSED OF HAMAS TIES SEES ANOTHER EUROPEAN NATION CUT FUNDING The ministry cited United Nations Security Council findings and International Court of Justice advisory opinions supporting its position on the settlements’ illegality. It said the proposed restrictions would cover imports and exports, property purchases, certain property-related services and acquisitions of businesses with headquarters and production in the settlements, while safeguarding legitimate Palestinian activities and humanitarian assistance. The proposed legislation would exempt humanitarian activities, as well as transactions the government determines have "sufficient Palestinian ties" and do not contribute to the construction, expansion or maintenance of Israeli communities. Dag Juliussen, national director of the Norwegian branch of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, said that the exemption could permit business with Palestinian residents while criminalizing comparable transactions involving Jewish residents in the same territory. "The bill is based on a fundamentally misguided understanding of the Middle East conflict, which in turn rests on a rewriting of history," Juliussen said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "In addition, such a law would effectively serve as a reward for terrorism and, at its core, is deeply racist toward Jews." CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS TAKE ON ANTI-ISRAEL ‘PROPAGANDA’ FROM BIBLICAL HEARTLAND The consultation document does not characterize the proposal as targeting Jews. Instead, it says the measure is intended to prevent commercial activity that helps maintain Israeli communities beyond the pre-1967 lines, while shielding qualifying Palestinian commerce and humanitarian assistance. Under the proposal, exemptions would be evaluated according to the people involved who benefit from the transaction and whether the activity contributes to the construction, expansion or maintenance of an Israeli community. Juliussen said purchasing agricultural products from Muslim, Christian, Arab or Bedouin residents could be permitted, while purchasing similar products from Jewish residents could become a criminal offense. He argued that the determining factor would effectively be the identity of the seller. Norway formally recognized a Palestinian state in 2024 and has become one of Israel’s strongest European critics since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. Juliussen warned that the proposed legislation would not bring Israelis and Palestinians closer to peace but could instead deepen divisions and encourage extremist forces in the region. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa6b0775342cf4db867d4b Charlie Kirk's family alleges UVU knew of rooftop security risk before his assassination: legal filing te 2026-09-16T10:10:15.628Z Charlie Kirk's family alleges UVU knew of rooftop security risk before his assassination: legal filing Charlie Kirk's family has filed a notice of claim — a precursor to a lawsuit — against Utah Valley University, the state and key individuals involved in campus leadership and security decisions, alleging that their failures led to the Turning Point USA founder's wrongful death. "The risk of a rooftop shooter should have been especially top-of-mind given the attempted assassination of President Trump, Charlie Kirk’s close friend and political ally, by a rooftop shooter the previous year," reads the filing, signed by Kirk family attorneys Loren Washburn, Brett Parkinson and Clifford Parkinson and dated Sept. 9. In one alleged exchange cited in the filing, Turning Point USA organizers told UVU Police Chief Jeffrey Long that UVU students had informed them of rooftop access to the Sorenson Center, a building "pretty close" to where Kirk would be speaking the day he was killed — and directly west of the Losee Center, which is where his alleged killer fired the shot from. CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATION: TIMELINE OF UTAH CAMPUS SHOOTING, TYLER ROBINSON CHARGED "If this is true, it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well," someone at TPUSA wrote to the chief, according to the filing. "If possible." "I got you covered," was Long's alleged reply. JUDGE IN ACCUSED ASSASSIN TYLER ROBINSON'S CASE EXPLAINS WHY DEATH PENALTY REMAINS ON TABLE IN WRITTEN ORDER Read the notice: Kirk, a 31-year-old father of two, was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025 in the campus courtyard, and authorities say a lone gunman took a sniper's perch on the Losee Center rooftop on the far side of the clearing. Lawyers for the suspect, 23-year-old Tyler Robinson, pleaded not guilty on his behalf at an arraignment nearly a year later. "His murder was entirely preventable and, in fact, would not have happened had the State of Utah and UVU followed through on their stated security promises, which included protecting the rooftops surrounding the quad where Charlie was speaking," said Brett Parkinson, counsel for the Kirk family. "Those failures not only robbed Charlie Kirk of his life, but also robbed his family of their husband, father, son, and brother, with impacts that will compound for the rest of their lives." The prospective plaintiffs in the filing are Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, and their two juvenile children. It also acknowledges potential claims from his parents, Robert and Kathryn. The filing does not specify monetary damages. In addition to the wrongful death claim, it also raises a claim of "state-created danger" under the U.S. Constitution. REMEMBERING CHARLIE KIRK: TURNING POINT USA'S ANDREW KOLVET REFLECTS ON CONSERVATIVE GROUP'S CHALLENGING YEAR Kirk, who built TPUSA into the country's largest conservative campus and youth-oriented activist organization in the country, also spoke at the Republican National Conventions in 2016, 2020 and 2024. He had become a personal friend of the president's as well as other prominent figures, including leading Utah politicians, the notice continues. As a result, he had detractors, faced death threats, and publicly spoke about that before his assassination. "You should not have to walk around with security for your entire family and for myself just because you support a politician or political candidate or certain values," he said at an event in May 2025. "We get death threats," he continued. "People want to murder us." ERIKA KIRK URGES CONSERVATIVE STUDENTS NOT TO BACK DOWN IN FIRST SCHOOL YEAR SINCE CHARLIE'S ASSASSINATION Political violence was on the rise as Kirk geared up for TPUSA's 2025 campus speaking events, titled, "The American Comeback Tour." The filing references the numerous attempts on Trump's life, the home invasion hammer attack on California Rep. Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, and the murders of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. "Tragically, the UVU Parties failed to rise to the occasion," the filing alleges. "Through a series of stunning failures and reckless decisions, the UVU Parties created a foreseeable danger to Charlie." SURVEILLANCE VIDEO TIMELINE TRACKS ACCUSED CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSIN ACROSS UVU CAMPUS BEFORE FATAL ROOFTOP SHOT The allegations include a failure to perform a meaningful risk assessment or understand the significance of Kirk's visit to the UVU campus. Campus police allegedly did not have a written security plan or hold a security briefing in advance. The second was "walking [Kirk] into a fishbowl" — surrounded on all sides by tall buildings or other elevated positions. "The UVU Parties could have declined to approve the Tour event in the outdoor quad location, or could have moved the venue indoors or to a more secure location, as it had done for controversial speakers in the past," according to the filing. The school also failed to dedicate additional resources for the outdoor venue despite the allegedly greater risk. TYLER ROBINSON HEARING ENDS WITHOUT RULING AS EVIDENCE DISMANTLES CHARLIE KIRK CONSPIRACY CLAIMS There were only six campus police officers assigned to the event, while Kirk's appearance attracted roughly 3,000 spectators, according to the filing. "On information and belief, [UVU Campus Police] Chief Jeffrey Long requested approval from then-UVU President, Astrid Tuminez, to allocate more than the six officers — which represented only 25% of the UVU police force — but his request was denied," the filing continues. FRIEND OF CHARLIE KIRK LABELS COURTROOM EVIDENCE 'DEVASTATING' AFTER CHILLING SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE SHOWN After the denial, campus police did not seek additional resources from neighboring departments, such as the Orem or Provo police departments, according to the filing. "The UVU Parties’ planning was so deficient that when Mr. Kirk was shot first responders were not available and Mr. Kirk was transported to Timpanogos Regional Hospital in a private vehicle, not an ambulance," the notice continues. CHARLIE KIRK ASSASSINATION: EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS SHOW PATH TO CAMPUS ROOFTOP WEEKS LATER AS ACCESS SCRUTINIZED The school and its leaders also had "exclusive power" that TPUSA and Kirk's security team did not have, such as authority to create a security perimeter, use physical barriers, deploy metal detectors or use other "common sense safety measures like those utilized at sporting events on campus." SEND US A TIP Although the campus had a security camera system, footage was not monitored in real time, according to the filing — and there were no drones to monitor rooftops or any other part of the "sprawling outdoor event." "After-the-fact review of the footage at the Preliminary Hearing in the criminal prosecution of the alleged shooter Tyler Robinson showed the shooter running across the roof of the Losee Building to a 'sniper’s nest,'" attorneys for the Kirk family wrote. "If such footage had been monitored in real-time, Kirk’s tragic death could have been avoided." LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST Despite warnings to the police chief about rooftop access in the area, the Losee Center rooftop was not secured. This, according to the filing, happened despite the fact that students were known to frequent the rooftop and people often found discarded "beer bottles and other trash" or paraphernalia there. Together, all of the alleged failures placed Kirk's life in danger, according to the filing. "He was legally entitled to believe that when the UVU Parties approved the Tour event to be held on campus on September 10, that the UVU Parties would only hold the event in a venue and with associated security measures that made the event safe for him to attend and participate in," the notice reads. "Instead, Mr. Kirk was exposed to the danger of a rooftop shooter that took his life." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa6b0675342cf4db867d42 Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s school-run problems shouldn’t 'come as a surprise,’ royal expert says te 2026-09-16T10:10:14.880Z Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s school-run problems shouldn’t 'come as a surprise,’ royal expert says None of the security and logistical concerns that forced Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to switch the school their children were attending in England should have been a surprise, according to royal experts. "The logistics haven’t changed since Harry and Meghan plotted their UK return," Kinsey Schofield, host of YouTube’s "Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered," told Fox News Digital. "None of this should have come as a surprise." Schofield said that her sources were warning her about the traffic around the school two weeks ago, "before Archie and Lili had even started. When I spoke to people locally, the school-run traffic was one of the very first issues they raised with me." The royal couple moved their family from California to the Cotswolds, outside of London, late last month. PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S SCHOOL WARNING LETTERS REIGNITE PRIVACY BATTLE THEY ‘CANNOT CONTROL’: EXPERTS Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams agreed that moving Prince Archie and Princess Lillibet to a new school just two days into the term was "extraordinary and smacks of haste and a lack of preparedness by the Sussexes." He added, "If the school run had the problems they have encountered, why did they not know earlier and why wait until their children have actually started school. Why is this all played out in the public domain? Security issues should be private. There will be those who believe it has been handled in this way to increase pressure on the authorities to get automatic security." PRINCE WILLIAM 'NO LONGER RECOGNIZES' PRINCE HARRY AS SECURITY BATTLE LEAVES DUKE 'CLOSE TO TEARS': EXPERT Harry has been advocating for taxpayer-funded security for his family for years after they stepped back as senior royals. "According to my sources, Harry and Meghan and their security experts were concerned about the length of journey and how potential ambush cars could block their way and hijack the children," royal broadcaster Ian Pelham Turner told Fox News Digital. "They have been brought closer to their home and the security arrangements are being reviewed." PRINCE HARRY, MEGHAN MARKLE ACCUSED OF SEEKING ‘BEST OF BOTH WORLDS’ WITH UK MOVE: EXPERT "I feel this is a very necessary step and giving Harry and Meghan peace of mind," he added. Fitzwilliams explained that Harry’s request for taxpayer-funded security would involve a detail that is armed and has access to intelligence that his private team doesn’t have. PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE ARRIVE IN UK WITH KIDS, MARKING DRAMATIC RETURN 6 YEARS AFTER ROYAL EXIT "He has been informed that there will now be a security review for both of them, as they have permanently moved to the UK," he continued. "He lost a series of court battles over this but has appealed to the Home Secretary." Schofield said she had been told the original school had a great reputation with lots of international students, but "navigating the area would be a very big burden for the Sussexes." MEGHAN MARKLE RETURNS TO BRITAIN WITH PRINCE ARCHIE AND PRINCESS LILIBET FOR FIRST TIME IN YEARS "That is why I find the suggestion that these logistical difficulties only became apparent once the children started school difficult to take seriously," she admitted. "Locals knew about the traffic. The Sussexes knew where they were living. They knew the distance to the school. They knew they had two children of different ages who could potentially have different schedules. And, most importantly, they knew the limitations and requirements of their private security operation." Altogether, that could have been a 45-munute commute four times a day, she stressed. "It was always an ambitious school run." "My sympathy is with Archie and Lili," Schofield added. "Thankfully, children are resilient and this happened very early in the term, but ideally these basic practical considerations would have been resolved before they ever walked through the school gates." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE She said the couple "appear to have moved quickly to establish the children at their new school, and hopefully their priority now is consistency. The last thing these children need after moving countries and changing schools is another unnecessary disruption." But she said the situation "raises legitimate questions" about their strategy. "This wasn’t some obscure problem nobody could have anticipated." PRINCE HARRY, MEGHAN MARKLE’S UK MOVE PUTS FRESH SPOTLIGHT ON THEIR EXPLOSIVE CLAIMS AGAINST ROYAL FAMILY Schofield questioned why their professional security team wasn’t able to identify that problem before the kids started school. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "I would never claim without evidence that this was intentional," Schofield, referring to Harry’s effort to get government security, "but I think people are entitled to be cynical about the optics. The situation reinforces an argument Harry has been making for years. That seems convenient!" PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE One of the royal family’s greatest strengths is their "consistency," Schofield said. "It can be boring, it can be vanilla, but there is something enormously comforting about knowing exactly what you are going to get. They show up, they stick to the program, they honor their commitments and, over time, that reliability creates trust." She said that Harry and Meghan "operate in almost the opposite way. There is a recurring sense of upheaval and reinvention around them. Podcasts come and go, business relationships change, plans are announced and then abandoned, and now their children’s school has changed after just two days. Individually, there may be perfectly reasonable explanations for each decision, but collectively they create an impression of instability." A spokesperson for the Sussexes told several outlets, "The decision for the children to move schools was taken following a discussion with the family’s security team about the practicalities of their current arrangements. The parents remain extremely grateful to all the teachers and staff for the love, care and effort they have shown their family. This decision should in no way be interpreted as a reflection on the school or the exceptional care the children have received there." Fox News Digital has reached out to Archewell for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa6b0675342cf4db867d39 Macklemore ban by Robert Kraft draws fire from AOC and CAIR who advocate for free speech only when convenient te 2026-09-16T10:10:14.162Z Macklemore ban by Robert Kraft draws fire from AOC and CAIR who advocate for free speech only when convenient It was only a matter of time before the peanut gallery complained about what amounts to an understandable decision by Robert Kraft to bounce pro-Palestinian rapper Macklemore from his house. The lead peanut of the gallery on Tuesday was New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She/her – gotta respect the communist/socialist/liberal pronoun thing – didn't like Kraft banning Macklemore and his show that includes antisemitic allegations of genocide by the Jewish state of Israel from Gillette Stadium – which Kraft owns. LIBERAL LAWMAKERS, ACTIVISTS RALLY BEHIND MACKLEMORE AFTER SHEERAN TOUR REMOVAL OVER 'FREE PALESTINE' STANCE AOC tried to brand Kraft's not-in-my-house move as a gateway threat to American freedom of speech rights. "... When you see what Robert Kraft did, to line up all of the stadiums, to censor speech in that one specific way, it's become clear that this is not just about one music artist or two music artists, but this is about how just a handful of stadium owners and the elite can prevent an entire massive issue – in this case, the genocide in Gaza. "But it doesn't stop there. It could be speaking out about AI. It could be speaking out about any issue that you can now just get a handful of stadium owners to ensure that an entire person's career can be jeopardized if they speak out about any issue." MACKLEMORE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER GETTING KICKED OFF ED SHEERAN TOUR AFTER PRO-PALESTINE STANCE Firstly, it has not been confirmed that Kraft rallied his fellow NFL owners to keep Macklemore's rants out of their stadiums and thus prompt the concert promoter to jettison him from Ed Sheeran's tour. That unconfirmed allegation was made by Macklemore. But suppose Kraft did exactly what Macklemore said and AOC repeated ... how is that an attack on free speech? If we live in a country where a Jewish man must open his property to obscene anti-Jewish lunatics, then how long before Black people must open their homes to racists, and women must open their homes to convicted rapists? AOC's position is on-brand illogical and not the least bit based on the Constitution. We've unfortunately come to expect this from the congresswoman and her so-called "Squad." And it gets worse. Notice AOC called what is happening in Gaza a genocide. She says it all the time. She says it casually, as do all pro-Palestinian advocates. That's right, the people who want to drive the world's only Jewish state off the map, with their "river-to-the-sea" protests, are claiming their people are the victims of genocide. The Israeli genocide accusation always masks the fact that Hamas started a war on Oct. 7, 2023, by killing 1,200 Jews, including civilians, women, children and even babies. And as Kraft noted in a statement, "only sharing selective information and ignoring the actions of Hamas is not honest and only advances more divisiveness and hate." Last week AOC and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani were caught on camera laughing and smiling during the solemn September 11th Remembrance Ceremony near where the Twin Towers used to stand. That disrespectful snapshot is a disqualifier of anyone wanting to lecture people about genocide. But AOC is not the only one condemning Kraft and his fellow NFL stadium owners. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a statement demanding Sheeran and the tour promoters reinstate Macklemore. "They should pursue legal options or reschedule his tour rather than give in to bullying by billionaires who care about free speech as much as they care about slaughtered Palestinian children," the statement read. CAIR, by the way, is designated in Texas and Florida as a terrorist or criminal organization. And whether that designation sticks or not, this truth does: CAIR would never release a statement demanding a privately held mosque allow the preaching of the Gospel. It would never demand rights for women to mix among men during worship in those mosques. And it would never demand that Robert Kraft be allowed to enter any mosque and read the books of the Torah. So much for the peanut gallery advocating for free speech, freedom of religion and equal rights for women. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa6b0575342cf4db867d2f NRA Endorses Paul Gosar In Congressional Race, Gives Him ‘A’ Rating te 2026-09-16T10:10:13.473Z NRA Endorses Paul Gosar In Congressional Race, Gives Him ‘A’ Rating By Matthew Holloway | Congressman Paul Gosar’s campaign announced Monday that the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) has endorsed his reelection bid and awarded him an “A” rating ahead of the November general election. Gosar, a Republican representing Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District, faces Democrat Danielle “Dani” Sterbinsky following the state’s July 21 primary election. The NRA just endorsed my campaign and gave me an A rating. I have never wavered on the Second Amendment. Our right to keep and bear arms is not negotiable, and I have voted that way every single time. Grateful to have the NRA standing with me. pic.twitter.com/9eGgVSGQyk — Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) September 14, 2026 “I have never wavered on the Second Amendment,” Gosar said. “Our right to keep and bear arms is not negotiable, and I have voted that way every single time. I am grateful to have the NRA standing with me.” The NRA-PVF evaluates candidates based on their voting records, public statements, and responses to its candidate questionnaire. Its grading system defines an “A” candidate as someone who has supported NRA positions on key votes or demonstrated support for Second Amendment issues. Gosar’s campaign said he has maintained a career “A” rating from the organization. His congressional office also listed a career “A” rating from the NRA among its career ratings as of Jan. 1, 2024. His campaign platform states his opposition to a national gun registry and other legislation he considers an infringement on gun rights. Federal Election Commission (FEC) summaries covering campaign activity through July 1 show Gosar held a cash advantage over Sterbinsky. Gosar’s campaign reported $303,213.70 in cash on hand, while Sterbinsky’s campaign reported $25,744.84. The FEC summaries list $580,042.50 in total receipts for Gosar from Jan. 1, 2025, through July 1, 2026, and $354,382.57 for Sterbinsky from July 1, 2025, through July 1, 2026. The Ninth District includes communities in Mohave, La Paz, Maricopa, and Yuma counties, encompassing portions of western Arizona and the Phoenix metropolitan area’s West Valley. Gosar was first elected to Congress in 2010 after working as a dentist. His campaign’s stated priorities include federal spending cuts, a balanced budget amendment, border security, domestic energy development, and lower taxes. Sterbinsky’s campaign website identifies her as a Navy veteran and human resources professional living in Wittmann. Her platform includes housing affordability, reducing health care and prescription drug costs, and expanding rural infrastructure, including broadband access. Arizona’s general election is scheduled for Nov. 3. The voter registration deadline is Oct. 5. Matthew Holloway is a senior reporter for AZ Free News. Follow him on X for his latest stories, or email tips to Matthew@azfreenews.com. The post NRA Endorses Paul Gosar In Congressional Race, Gives Him ‘A’ Rating first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa6b0375342cf4db867d26 AZGOP Chair Targets Hobbs Over Grocery Tax Veto, Promises More Ads On The Way te 2026-09-16T10:10:11.533Z AZGOP Chair Targets Hobbs Over Grocery Tax Veto, Promises More Ads On The Way By Matthew Holloway | The Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) is targeting Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs over her veto of legislation that would have eliminated municipal grocery taxes. Party Chairman Sergio Arellano said digital advertisements are targeting undecided voters, with additional ads forthcoming. An anti-Hobbs graphic appeared in a September 8 post, as Arellano defended the party’s advertising strategy in a newsletter reported by AZFamily. The AZGOP released its first ad against Hobbs on September 4, highlighting the governor’s veto of SB 1231, the Arizona Border Invasion Act. Arellano identified it as the party’s first ad and encouraged supporters to share it. The legislation would have created a state offense for a noncitizen entering or attempting to enter Arizona directly from a foreign nation outside a lawful port of entry. Arizonans overwhelmingly voted YES on border security. Katie Hobbs said NO. She ignored our communities and opened the doors to dangerous criminals and deadly drugs. Andy Biggs is ready to secure our state. Katie Hobbs never will. Andy Biggs will listen. Katie Hobbs will not.… pic.twitter.com/fGNkc8nJFb — Republican Party of Arizona (@AZGOP) September 4, 2026 Arellano addressed concerns about the visibility of Republican advertising in a recent newsletter, writing that “more ads are on the way.” He said the party’s online commercials were targeting undecided voters and encouraged supporters to share them. “I know many of you have been concerned that you haven’t seen ads,” Arellano wrote, arguing that the party is being “as fiscally conservative with our donors’ contributions as we possibly can be.” “The newsletter message is a direct response to the tens of thousands of Republicans I’ve heard from who are frustrated with Katie Hobbs’ lies and concerned that she may once again get away without being seriously challenged by the mainstream media,” Arellano said. The station also reported criticism from former AZGOP Chair Gina Swoboda, who urged the party to deploy its resources. “Your job is to get to zero,” she said. AZFamily reported that Hobbs had spent more than $10 million on television advertising and that Biggs had yet to launch a traditional television campaign. The article did not provide a dollar amount for the AZGOP’s digital campaign. State campaign-finance filings provide a partial picture of the party’s finances before the current advertising push. The Republican Party of Arizona, LLC reported $151,016.45 in cash disbursements during the first quarter of 2026, $175,829.83 during the second quarter, and $23,491.60 during the July 1–4 pre-primary reporting period. Those reports total $350,337.88 in party disbursements from January 1 through July 4. The expenditures cover general party operations, including payroll, rent, legal services, consulting, mailings, and event costs. The three reports do not identify a specific amount spent opposing Hobbs. The party reported a cash balance of $1,114,887.48 at the close of the July 4 reporting period. The AZGOP graphic released September 8thstates, “Katie Hobbs is LYING to your friends and neighbors every day, all day long. Tell them the truth – time and time again, Katie Hobbs chose higher prices over the needs of Arizona families. Voters know she has taken Arizona is the WRONG direction.” The accompanying image accuses Hobbs of choosing higher prices over Arizona families. Katie Hobbs is LYING to your friends and neighbors every day, all day long. Tell them the truth – time and time again, Katie Hobbs chose higher prices over the needs of Arizona families. Voters know she has taken Arizona is the WRONG direction. pic.twitter.com/bCHzmrpwQl — Republican Party of Arizona (@AZGOP) September 8, 2026 The ad refers to legislation Hobbs vetoed on March 28, 2023. Senate Bill 1063 would have prohibited municipal taxes on food for home consumption beginning in July 2025. In her veto letter, Hobbs cited local officials’ concerns about potential service cuts and property-tax increases. She also argued that the delayed effective date would prevent immediate relief and that purchases made with SNAP and WIC benefits were already exempt. The grocery-tax veto has become a campaign issue for Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs, who criticized Hobbs’ record after her 2022 comments about potentially supporting a repeal. The AZGOP’s social media criticism of Hobbs has also included the Sunshine Residential Homes investigation. In a September 3 statement, Arellano questioned Attorney General Kris Mayes’ handling of allegations involving political contributions and Department of Child Safety rate increases, and urged voters to elect Biggs. Mayes announced August 21 that the investigation had uncovered no evidence of the quid pro quo necessary to support a bribery charge. A separate investigation involving Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell and the Arizona Auditor General remains ongoing. The next regular state party report covers July 5 through September 30 and is due October 15. That reporting period encompasses the party’s current campaign activity against Hobbs. Matthew Holloway is a senior reporter for AZ Free News. Follow him on X for his latest stories, or email tips to Matthew@azfreenews.com. The post AZGOP Chair Targets Hobbs Over Grocery Tax Veto, Promises More Ads On The Way first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa6b0175342cf4db867d1d Scottsdale Schools Facing More Closures Amid Declining Enrollment te 2026-09-16T10:10:09.479Z Scottsdale Schools Facing More Closures Amid Declining Enrollment By Staff Reporter | Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) is contemplating more school closures as enrollment continues to decline.  The SUSD governing board discussed their options going forward during Tuesday’s meeting. Superintendent Scott Menzel said “some very, very difficult decisions need to be made.”  Since 2010, SUSD enrollment has declined by 6,000 students and the district has only closed one school. SUSD also reported rising costs, competition against school choice programs for students, and underutilized facilities as key pressures on district conditions.  “We have far more physical space than we have students to fill that space,” said Menzel.  As part of Phase I of restructuring for “full and thriving schools,” SUSD decided to close Pima Elementary School and Echo Canyon School. The district is now in Phase II, where it will decide the fate of the Desert Mountain Learning Community and Copper Ridge School.  Capacity is below 50% at Laguna Elementary (43%), Desert Canyon Elementary (37%), and Cheyenne Traditional (11%).  SUSD is facing an open meetings violation complaint pertaining to these closed-door Phase II proceedings to determine closures and consolidations.  SUSD’s Phase II Design Advisory Team doesn’t permit the public to attend its meetings under its classification as a Superintendent Advisory Committee, but the complaint against the district contends that the team was formed at the direction of the governing board.  The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office (MCAO) is now handling the complaint after the Arizona Attorney General’s Office cited a potential conflict of interest. The MCAO told AZ Free News that they just recently received the complaint from the attorney general on July 17, though it was filed back in April. Their office also told us that it couldn’t provide any additional details at this time since it is an open investigation. The Phase II Design Advisory Team presented three options for further restructuring, in the following order of greatest to least preferences: First-most preference: close Copper Ridge K-8 and Laguna Prep, redistribute boundaries, and a possible Desert Canyon K-8 merger. This option would impact 773 to 872 students and provide more than $2.7 million in savings.  Second-most preference: move Cheyenne Traditional K-8 to Copper Ridge, move Laguna Prep and Redfield to Cheyenne campus, and a potential Desert Canyon K-8 merger. This option would impact 2,126 to 2,232 students and provide nearly $2.6 million in savings. Third-most preference: merge Desert Canyon schools into K-8 at Copper Ridge, close Laguna Prep, repurpose Desert Canyon campuses and Laguna Prep. This option would impact 2,132 to 2,153 students and provide nearly $2.7 million in savings. Impact was measured beyond students moving into schools to include certain students at receiving schools. All three options were presented with multiple potential models for restructuring boundaries.  Member Amy Carney attempted to explain that she believed closing schools was the “easy option,” to which she objected, but was interrupted multiple times by Governing Board Vice President Mike Sharkey and counsel with cautions that she shouldn’t express opinions about what the board should and shouldn’t do prior to community debate on the options. Member Carine Werner urged agendizing a board discussion about the options before them prior to the board meeting in October in which they are scheduled to make a vote. Member Matthew Pittinsky expressed caution against exploring other options beyond what the Phase II Design Advisory Team had presented to them; he characterized Carney’s position as “a very slippery slope.”  The district said it has not yet determined how it would repurpose any closed schools.  SUSD scheduled a special session to receive additional community input on September 22. AZ Free News is your #1 source for Arizona news and politics. You can send us news tips using this link. The post Scottsdale Schools Facing More Closures Amid Declining Enrollment first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa6afa75342cf4db867cf5 Charlie Kirk’s Family Accuses University of ‘Stunning’ Security Failures te 2026-09-16T10:10:02.770Z Charlie Kirk’s Family Accuses University of ‘Stunning’ Security Failures In a legal notice, lawyers said that Utah Valley University ignored concerns about unrestricted access to the rooftop from which a gunman fired the shot that killed the conservative activist. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa63f675342cf4db867bda El-Sayed grilled on Piker, Israel and socialist ties after Mike Rogers skips Senate debate te 2026-09-16T09:40:06.846Z El-Sayed grilled on Piker, Israel and socialist ties after Mike Rogers skips Senate debate Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed faced roughly an hour of pointed questions Tuesday over his ties to controversial streamer Hasan Piker, his views on Israel, campaign money and his socialist ties after his Republican rival Mike Rogers declined to participate in a scheduled debate in Detroit Tuesday night. El-Sayed offered one of his most explicit condemnations yet of Piker's controversial rhetoric, declined to give a yes-or-no answer when pressed on U.S. recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and pushed back on questions about his relationship with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) during the wide-ranging conversation with the moderator. Rogers did not attend Tuesday's event after declining the station's invitation earlier in the day, leaving El-Sayed to field questions from moderator Roop Raj, viewers and members of the studio audience.  FOX 2 said both campaigns were invited on Aug. 5, the day after Michigan's primary, and that El-Sayed quickly accepted, while Rogers did not formally decline until the morning of the Tuesday debate due to objections over Raj serving as the moderator, arguing he was biased. EL-SAYED’S LIBERAL AGENDA CLASHES WITH MUSLIM VOTERS WHO BACK HIM ANYWAY: ‘MALE VERSION’ OF ILHAN OMAR On Tuesday evening, Raj pressed El-Sayed on whether he could "completely, 100%" disavow offensive comments Piker had made. The question came just two days after El-Sayed resisted questioning about Piker during an appearance on CBS News' "Face the Nation." "Absolutely," El-Sayed responded to Raj about disavowing Piker's controversial comments, before specifically addressing the streamer's recent remarks about Jewish Americans. "When Hasan made these comments about Jewish Americans and Jewish Michiganders, I disavowed them entirely," El-Sayed said. EL-SAYED DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM HASAN PIKER AFTER DISTURBING REMARKS ABOUT JEWISH AMERICANS El-Sayed went further Tuesday when Raj continued pressing him, saying there were "many, many things" Piker has said that he disagreed with and specifically pointing to the streamer's comments about 9/11 and Jewish Americans. Still, El-Sayed defended his decision to engage with Piker, arguing that speaking with someone does not amount to endorsing all of that person's views and saying he wanted to offer Piker's millions of followers "a pathway back into our politics." Meanwhile, El-Sayed declined to give a yes-or-no answer when pressed on whether the United States should continue recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, instead saying he believes "in equal rights to peace, dignity and self-determination for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike." "People ask this question about the right of the state that actually exists to exist, but I never get asked about the right of the state that does not exist to exist," he continued. "I don't get asked about whether or not the state that exists has a right to use our tax dollars to do heinous things. I don't get asked about whether or not the kids in Detroit have a right to their tax dollars, so I just think the premise of the question is built around trying to ask people to agree to the current status quo that we have seen become a deeply unstable, deeply violent equilibrium." ABDUL EL-SAYED PROTESTED AGAINST ‘EX-TERRORISTS’ WHO CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY, UNEARTHED REPORT REVEALS At another tense point, El-Sayed accused Rogers of trying to turn the race into a "culture war" focused on El-Sayed's ethnicity and Muslim faith. The accusation came as El-Sayed bypassed a direct answer on whether he would return campaign contributions from individuals affiliated with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Fox News Digital previously reported that El-Sayed's campaign received more than $115,000 from at least 41 individuals who worked for, previously worked for or held leadership roles with CAIR, which has faced longstanding controversy over alleged ties to Hamas and was named as an unindicted co-conspirator by federal prosecutors in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing case. CAIR has also been designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and formally designated or labeled as such in Florida and Texas. MICHIGAN SENATE HOPEFUL CALLS AIPAC DONATIONS 'LEGALIZED BRIBERY,' REMAINS SILENT ON OTHER DONATIONS El-Sayed defended the organization as a civil rights group and accused Rogers of trying to make the election "about the color of my skin or how I pray." The exchange came after El-Sayed repeatedly criticized Rogers over his own campaign funding, accusing the Republican of being beholden to corporations. El-Sayed also questioned Rogers earlier in the event over his attendance at American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) fundraisers while discussing Israel. "I believe in an America that is big enough for all of us: Mike Rogers, Donald Trump, JD Vance," El-Sayed said Tuesday night. "They believe that some people are more American than others. They think that if you pray a different way, your family comes from a different place, that somehow there's an asterisk on your American identity." Raj, the moderator, followed up, noting that, "JD Vance is the father of the children to an Indian-American," and adding that the "second lady is an Indian woman who came to this country." EL-SAYED’S HASAN PIKER PROBLEM FOLLOWS HIM TO DEM CONVENTION AS JEWISH VOTERS BREAK RANKS "I think there is diversity amongst that party," he said. El-Sayed also pushed back Tuesday night when he was questioned about his relationship with the DSA and whether he shares significant values with the group. "I'm not a part of the organization," El-Sayed responded before defending his view of capitalism and arguing that corporate consolidation, rather than government regulation, poses the greater threat to free markets. "We don't live in capitalism. We live in corporatism," he continued. "You don't have to be a socialist to believe that people deserve health care. You don't have to be a socialist to believe that we need good roads." El-Sayed has repeatedly rejected the socialist label and described himself as a capitalist. The DSA did not endorse his Senate campaign, though prominent democratic socialists have supported, or have been affiliated with his candidacy. CBS News reported last month that El-Sayed said he was not part of DSA but believed the group's supporters should be welcomed into the Democratic Party's coalition. Fox News Digital previously reported that El-Sayed spoke at six events held by DSA chapters between 2017 and 2020, including a 2019 fundraiser where he served as a keynote speaker. Socialist organizers have also described El-Sayed as a "longtime friend of Detroit DSA," while El-Sayed told the Wall Street Journal in July that he was "not technically or practically DSA." The candidates are scheduled to meet Oct. 8 at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids and again Oct. 21 at WXYZ in Detroit ahead of the November general election. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa5f4275342cf4db867ae2 Bo French Faces Backlash Over Posts About University of Texas Students te 2026-09-16T09:20:02.377Z Bo French Faces Backlash Over Posts About University of Texas Students Republican leaders brought Bo French, an anti-Muslim hard-liner, into the fold. Then he attacked Texas football fans. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa5cf875342cf4db867aa4 Four upgrades could decide whether America's carriers keep their edge over China te 2026-09-16T09:10:16.406Z Four upgrades could decide whether America's carriers keep their edge over China The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is heading for home port in San Diego, while the USS George H. W. Bush and USS George Washington remain on station in the North Arabian Gulf executing strikes and upholding the steel wall naval blockade. America’s aircraft carriers are more important than ever and Lincoln and her crew of 5,000 will get a warm welcome. But, back in Washington, DC, stormy weather is brewing for the carrier fleet. And one rogue wave coming directly from the White House could imperil the Navy in a future fight against China. First, a shout-out to Lincoln's combat success in the Middle East, including taking out 200 Iranian drones threatening commercial shipping. And oh yes, the Iranians tried and failed to target the Lincoln. "Since we’ve gotten here, and during Operation Epic Fury, the Iranians were looking for opportunities to attack this ship," Captain Daniel J. Keeler, commander of the Lincoln, told CNN in a hangar deck interview in July. "We’re very well-defended," said. Iran’s shots "don’t get close." In fact, an F-35C stealth fighter from Lincoln shot down one Iranian drone near the carrier back in February. USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CAPTAIN SAYS MORALE IS HIGH FOR NEW MIDEAST MISSION Brilliantly as they’ve performed, it’s high time for some major upgrades to naval aviation to prepare the force to take on China’s navy. I’m not talking about chow menus or what’s in stock at the ship stores. Here are four important moves. Drones. Carrier air wings need their own drones. First to arrive will be the MQ-25 Stingray refueling and reconnaissance drone. With wings that spread to 75 feet unfolded, the Stingray’s job is to deliver fuel from its orbiting post 1,000 miles away from the carrier, and to stay aloft for hours. Look for smaller wingman collaborative combat aircraft drones with extra weapons and electronic spectrum warfare effects to join the airwing in the future, too. The sky’s the limit for carrier-based drones on ships with adjustable catapults. Speaking of which… PENTAGON CONSOLIDATES DRONE OVERSIGHT AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PUSHES RAPID UNMANNED WARFARE EXPANSION New catapults. President Donald Trump understands the value of carriers, yet he’s worried for years about the new catapults — where magnets instead of steam shoot planes down the deck. So a White House National Security Presidential Memorandum on Aug. 13 tasked the Navy to present options for going back to steam catapults. Big mistake. This, after the USS Gerald R. Ford has proven the new electromagnetic system with over 12,200 launches just from their most recent 326-day deployment. Combat data on the new "cats" looks good. Here’s something else you need to know: the magnetic catapults recharge faster than steam. FORD ran an all-out, multi-day surge exercise earlier this year, and the airwing was able to generate 25% more sorties with the new catapults, compared to the old steam type. "I think there’s overwhelming support in Congress and in the Pentagon for moving forward with EMALS," Senator Roger Wicker, Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on Aug. 18. Ripping out combat-proven catapults and weapons elevators will slow shipyards and leave the U.S. Navy short of aircraft carriers to fight China. Also, there’s no going back. The aircraft carrier industrial base includes over 2,000 firms, many of them small businesses, across America. Switch the design of major systems, and you are looking at years of churn and delay. By the way, France ordered the new system for their next aircraft carrier, and China’s already building their own electromagnetic system, which they probably stole from us. Faster elevators. Not for the crew, they have up and down ladders. I’m talking about advanced weapons elevators. Made in Cincinnati, the new weapons elevators on Ford are rated for 24,000 lbs. instead of 12,000 lbs. for the old type, and they move 50% faster. Lower stage elevators move ordnance from the magazines in the aft and forward sections of the carrier while upper stage elevators lift the bombs and missiles up to the flight deck. All vital when the crew is rearming aircraft during combat operations. Once again, the White House is wavering, but consider that the Navy’s newest long-range weapons are big and heavy. The Malice air-to-air missile, unveiled just last month, weighs 1500 lbs. Best to stick with the advanced weapons elevators. PENTAGON RACES TO BUY 10X MORE MISSILES AS IRAN WAR DWINDLES ARSENAL, THREATENS READINESS FOR CHINA AGGRESSION A stealthy new fighter jet. Long in the works, the Navy’s sixth-generation F/A-XX is ready to move ahead. Boeing and Northrop Grumman both have secret demonstrator planes. The new fighter-bomber is crucial to adding more range for carrier strike operations. Besides, the clock is ticking. Production of the mainstay Navy F/A-18EF Superhornet is shutting down, and China’s already flown two sixth-generation aircraft prototypes, including one for their navy. Congress instructed the Pentagon to pick a winner and get moving, so point your finger at the Department of War for the delay. Aircraft carriers are unique because the President does not have to gain local-nation permission to launch strikes from their decks. They are also moveable bases for massive strike power. China has three aircraft carriers today and the Pentagon expects them to have nine by 2035 versus a U.S. fleet of 11. That’s a significant challenge. The Navy has the advanced technology to keep the edge. But holding up F/A-XX, going back to steam, taking out the fast elevators: all this risks a gaping hole in U.S. military power. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa5cf775342cf4db867a9b We spent decades preparing for another 9/11. Another attack may look totally different te 2026-09-16T09:10:15.714Z We spent decades preparing for another 9/11. Another attack may look totally different The attacks of September 11 fundamentally changed how the United States thinks about national security. Over the past 25 years, we've invested enormous resources in aviation security, intelligence, and counterterrorism to ensure it never happens again. But threats evolve. We don't get to choose how our adversaries attack us. History suggests they'll look for the vulnerabilities we've overlooked. And while we’ve bolstered our security and response capabilities, it’s very likely the next major conflict will find its way to our shores again with unconventional attacks on our homeland. AMERICA BUILT A FORTRESS AFTER 9/11. THEN THE THREAT STARTED HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT As we become more electronically interconnected and dependent, regardless of where the physical battles occur, the conflicts will extend domestically intent to cause disruption, panic, chaos and potential loss of lives. The U.S. must be prepared for the evolution of threats. Not designed to destroy buildings or critical infrastructure but instead designed to disrupt the core systems that allow the country to function. There is no need to physically destroy our economic, emergency response, transportation, and agriculture systems if a single act can render them severely compromised. FOREIGN ENEMIES HAVE A SHOCKINGLY SIMPLE WAY TO TRACK US TROOPS OVERSEAS, LAWMAKERS WARN Our vulnerability is well documented because so much of modern life depends on a foundational core: knowing where things are. In fact, it is an assumption so deeply embedded in everyday life that it is almost invisible. Position underpins how trucks move across the country, how food is planted and harvested, how utilities restore power after disasters, how emergency responders reach people in need, and how military forces maneuver, coordinate, and sustain operations. The world does not simply run on roads, communications, banking systems or the internet. It runs on position. GPS performs so reliably that we've built both military and civilian systems around the assumption that it will always be both available and trustworthy. That assumption is becoming harder to defend. Recent conflicts have demonstrated that GPS interference, spoofing, and electronic warfare are no longer isolated events. They have become recurring features of modern conflict. So common that the Department of War has made the ability to function without position (contested logistics) one of its top priorities. According to the U.S. Space Force, China is actively developing and fielding counterspace capabilities intended to disrupt and degrade U.S. space-enabled capabilities. Those include anti-satellite weapons, electronic warfare systems, and technologies designed to interfere with satellite operations. Our enemy is giving us their future playbook. Governments have publicly warned that adversaries continue expanding their ability to jam, spoof, and disrupt satellite-based positioning. The methods vary, but they expose the same underlying dependency: countless systems rely on information that originates thousands of miles above the Earth. In June, researchers linked several brief, widespread GNSS interference events across Europe to transmissions from Russian satellites. They identified at least three incidents lasting up to 10 seconds. FBI WARNS BATTLEFIELD-STYLE DRONE ATTACKS COULD REACH US: 'ONLY A MATTER OF TIME' The reality is that every mile between the vehicle and space is another opportunity for an adversary to disrupt position. The vulnerability is not GPS itself. It is the assumption that vehicles — on the battlefield, on our highways or on city streets — foundationally depend on an external system to function. The very techniques used in conflict zones can, and likely will, also be used domestically and at large scale. And, unlike our warfighters, we are not prepared. During COVID, we experienced just a shadow of how quickly uncertainty surrounding essential goods affected public behavior and exposed the fragility of supply chains. A widespread disruption to positioning would not necessarily stop every vehicle or shut down every road. It would, however, introduce uncertainty into transportation, emergency response, fuel distribution, logistics, and commerce at precisely the moment continuity matters most. While not physical terrorism, this economic terrorism would have profound implications for military mobility, emergency response, logistics, and the broader economy. According to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-commissioned study, a nationwide loss of GPS services would cost the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion every day. That figure reflects direct economic impacts. The broader effects on emergency response, logistics, transportation, and public confidence are far more difficult to quantify. At the same time, the United States is investing billions of dollars in autonomous systems, robotic logistics, AI-enabled command and control, and next-generation military capabilities. Much of the public discussion focuses on what those technologies will eventually do. Far less attention has been paid to what they fundamentally require before they can do any of it. Whether a vehicle is operated by a soldier or independently, it must continuously know its position and remain capable of accomplishing its mission. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The United States should continue investing in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, robotic logistics, and the technologies that will shape the future battlefield. But preparing for tomorrow cannot come at the expense of preparing for today. Twenty-five years after 9/11 , the lesson is not simply that we must prepare for another attack. It is that we must prepare for the next kind of attack. The vulnerabilities are different, but the objective is the same. Strengthening the foundations that keep military forces, emergency responders, and critical infrastructure moving should be treated as a national priority, not an afterthought. Innovation and readiness are not competing priorities. The best innovation strengthens readiness. As we build the next generation of military capability, we cannot afford to overlook the assumptions that make every future capability possible. The enemy gets a vote. Twenty-five years after 9/11 , our responsibility is not simply to prepare for the last attack. It is to question the assumptions that could define the next one. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa5cf775342cf4db867a92 NEWT GINGRICH: Republicans can win the 2026 midterms — if they follow the plan te 2026-09-16T09:10:15.021Z NEWT GINGRICH: Republicans can win the 2026 midterms — if they follow the plan Republicans can win the 2026 election. They can expand the House majority, win Senate races, strengthen Republican governors and state legislators, and build a much broader national majority. But victory will not happen automatically. REPUBLICANS NEED A REAGAN-STYLE VISION TO WIN THE BATTLE OVER AMERICA'S FUTURE Republicans have a bad habit of assuming that if Democrats are sufficiently unpopular, voters will simply turn to us. History does not work that way. Elections are won by parties that understand the choice, define the choice, and relentlessly communicate the choice. That is why I developed a five-part series on How to Win 2026. It is not intended simply as political commentary. It is a practical framework for Republican candidates, campaign staffs, activists, donors, and voters who want to understand what must be done between now and Election Day. The first requirement is strategic clarity. There are always two political realities. One is the reality described every day by the Washington establishment, the national news media, consultants, and conventional polling. The other is the deeper reality of what Americans actually believe and how they will behave when presented with a clear choice. Republicans must operate in the second reality. The great lesson of successful campaigns — from Ronald Reagan to the Contract with America to President Donald Trump — is simple: Win the argument, then win the vote (to borrow a phrase from British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher). VAN JONES WARNS FAR-LEFT SOCIALIST AGENDA IS 'REGRESSIVE' THREAT TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY The second part of the plan is to make Democrats explain their own party. The Democratic Party is being steadily pulled toward a big government socialist ideology which is far more radical than most Americans understand. TRUMP ADMIN MARKS 15 STRAIGHT MONTHS WITH ZERO BORDER RELEASES AS APPREHENSIONS PLUNGE 94% Republicans should not exaggerate. They do not need to. Use Democrats’ own words. Use their votes. Use their proposals. Show voters what leading Democrats are actually saying about immigration, policing, government spending, taxation, energy, healthcare, and the role of government. Then ask a simple question: Is this really what you want for America? The third part is to deal directly with the issues which affect people’s lives every day. SEN TOM COTTON: DEMOCRATS SAY SOCIALISM WILL HELP. HISTORY SAYS IT WILL HURT Affordability is real. Families feel it every time they go to the grocery store, pay rent, buy a house, visit a doctor, or fill up their car. Republicans must describe the progress they’ve made to lower costs, grow the economy, create better-paying jobs, and increase take-home pay. They must also talk about the things they’ve done which will help the economy in the future but need a little time to make an impact (such as attracting new manufacturing to the U.S.). Then of course, they must explain what still needs to be done – and articulate their plan to do them. At the same time, we must communicate a serious strategy for dealing with Iran and the growing national security challenges facing the United States. You do not win elections by avoiding difficult issues. You win by solving them. The fourth part of the plan may be the most important. Republicans should become the American Party. This does not mean creating a new party. It means identifying the issues on which 70 percent, 80 percent, and even 90 percent of Americans already agree — and making those issues central to the campaign. There are enormous majorities for common-sense positions on border security, voter identification, lower taxes, health care transparency, government accountability, and other reforms. Why would Republicans allow themselves to be trapped inside a 50-50 political system when they can campaign on 70-30 issues? The fifth part is a positive vision for a healthier America. Healthcare gets its own section, because it is a matter of life and death for every American and makes up roughly one-fifth of the economy. The current health system is too expensive, too bureaucratic, and too often designed around institutions rather than patients. Republicans should champion price transparency, greater choice, stronger rural health care, direct primary care, new medical technologies, and aggressive efforts to eliminate fraud and waste from Medicare and Medicaid. This is not simply a health care agenda. It is an opportunity to improve the lives of every American family. Taken together, these five parts form a roadmap for victory. Republican candidates should study it. Campaign managers should build messages around it. Activists should share it. Voters should use it to hold candidates accountable. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The choice in 2026 can be made remarkably clear: big-government socialism or free enterprise; higher costs or greater prosperity; ideological extremism or American common sense; bureaucratic healthcare or a healthier America. Republicans can win this argument. If they win the argument, they can win the election. The plan is here. Now they must use it. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa47d475342cf4db8673d4 🚧 Havasu Tip List | Is spraying a water gun allowed in the channel? te 2026-09-16T07:40:04.809Z 🚧 Havasu Tip List | Is spraying a water gun allowed in the channel? Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa432775342cf4db8672fa US military releases footage of massive operation to rescue injured airman stranded inside Iran te 2026-09-16T07:20:07.606Z US military releases footage of massive operation to rescue injured airman stranded inside Iran The U.S. military released dramatic new video on Tuesday showing parts of one of the largest combat search-and-rescue operations in its history, including the moment elite Air Force pararescue operators reached a badly injured American airman stranded deep inside Iran. The footage documents portions of the massive April operation to rescue the two-man crew of an F-15E Strike Eagle, call sign Dude 44, after the fighter was shot down by an Iranian shoulder-fired missile. The pilot, known as Dude44 Alpha, and the backseat weapons systems officer, Dude44 Bravo, ejected from the aircraft and landed miles apart, leaving both stranded inside Iran. While Dude44 Alpha was rescued after a little more than six hours, Dude44 Bravo suffered a broken back, arm and shoulder after a damaged parachute led to a hard landing. He remained stranded for nearly two days before U.S. forces reached him. HOLLYWOOD LEGEND MAKING MOVIE ABOUT EPIC IRAN RESCUE MISSION TO SAVE F-15 FIGHTER JET CREW The newly released video shows U.S. military helicopters searching for Bravo as American forces worked to locate and recover him. Despite his injuries, Bravo moved away from his landing site and began climbing toward a roughly 7,000-foot ridgeline as daylight revealed the desert valley and steep cliffs surrounding him. The footage also shows American bombers and drones striking Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces that were in close proximity to Bravo. TRUMP RETALIATES AFTER IRAN ATTACK AS EXPERT WARNS REGIME IS GROWING MORE DANGEROUS "There was clear intent out of the Iranian ground force to come find those two guys," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine told CBS News this week. The video then shows the dramatic moment on April 5 when two elite Air Force pararescue operators, known as PJs, reached the injured Bravo on the mountain ridgeline. Two large search-and-rescue aircraft had landed on a makeshift desert runway before smaller "Little Bird" helicopters flew toward Bravo's position on the ridgeline. Bravo called the moment he saw his rescuers "one of the greatest moments of my life." HOW IRAN ATTACKS ARE FORCING THE PENTAGON TO RETHINK ITS DECADES-OLD MIDDLE EAST BASE STRATEGY "Let's go," he recalled telling them. The second rescue operation put 92 U.S. service members on the ground in Iran, marking the first time American forces had boots on the ground in the country since 1980. Hundreds of U.S. service members also supported the operation from the air, while between 3,000 and 5,000 service members supported the rescue mission overall, according to U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper. But the operation was not over once Bravo was reached. The landing gear of the two rescue aircraft became trapped in the desert sand, stranding Bravo and more than 90 U.S. service members inside Iran. A clandestine Air Force unit was ultimately brought in to extract the group, CBS News reported. Bravo was finally brought to safety roughly 50 hours after Dude 44 was shot down. The rescue was completed as the sun rose on Easter Sunday. Fox News' Liz Friden and Fox News Digital's Stepheny Price contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa351775342cf4db866f80 Multiple death sentences in different states are set to be carried out within 24 hours: 'Not very common' te 2026-09-16T06:20:07.612Z Multiple death sentences in different states are set to be carried out within 24 hours: 'Not very common' Multiple executions are scheduled in the U.S. in as many states within a 24-hour window this week. Georgia and Texas had each planned to put a man to death within an hour of each other on Wednesday before a court stepped in to halt the one in Georgia for now, while Alabama is set to carry out another execution the following day. Texas remains scheduled to execute LeJames Norman on Wednesday after a Georgia judge stayed Stacey Humphreys' execution late Tuesday. In the Peach State, 53-year-old Stacey Humphreys was set to be executed on Wednesday for his conviction in the 2003 murders of two real estate agents, 21-year-old Lori Brown and 33-year-old Cindy Williams. But a Cobb County judge stayed his execution late Tuesday, meaning the execution cannot move forward unless the stay is lifted or overturned by a higher court. About an hour after that execution was initially set to happen, Texas scheduled to execute LeJames Norman, 40, for the triple murder of his neighbors during a robbery that turned deadly in 2005. GEORGIA KILLER WHO MURDERED TWO SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE AGENTS FACES EXECUTION AFTER 23-YEAR WAIT FOR JUSTICE Then on Thursday, Alabama plans to execute Jeffery Lee, 50, for a double murder carried out during a 1998 pawn shop holdup. "It's not very common to have this many executions just across a couple of days," Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robin Maher told Fox News Digital. "This month, the month of September, we have seven executions scheduled. Last year in October, we had seven executions in a single month. But before then, we'd have to go back all the way to 2010 to see that number in a single month." "Just earlier this year, in August, there were three executions on the same day," she continued. "This is an unusual year in that we're seeing occurrences like a number of executions scheduled on the same day or during the same month. But there's no evidence there's any coordination among the states to have all these executions occur simultaneously. This looks largely to be a coincidence." On Aug. 13, three states — Tennessee, Oklahoma and Alabama — carried out three lethal injections on the same day, marking the first time three states executed prisoners on the same day since January 7, 2010. Weeks earlier, on July 28, Florida carried out two executions in a single day, which was the Sunshine State's first double execution in decades. FLORIDA EXECUTES 74-YEAR-OLD FOR WIFE'S MURDER, BECOMING OLDEST INMATE PUT TO DEATH IN STATE'S MODERN HISTORY In 2026, 25 executions have been carried out in the U.S., and 14 are scheduled for the remainder of the year, although that number could change if courts issue stays or states schedule additional executions. Last year, 11 states carried out 47 executions, making up the most executions carried out in a single year in the U.S. since 2009. Leading the way in executions is Florida, which set a record with 19 inmates put to death in 2025, more than 40% of the U.S. total for the year. It also carried out 15 so far in 2026, accounting for 60% of this year's total across the country. Across 2025 and 2026 thus far, Florida accounts for about 47% of the nation’s executions, as it continues its accelerated pace amid a flurry of death warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Texas, Alabama and South Carolina followed Florida, with eight, six and five executions, respectively, in that window. Texas carried out five executions in 2025 and three so far in 2026, Alabama executed five people in 2025 and one in 2026 and South Carolina put five people to death — all in 2025. "Last year was a very unusual year. It was the most executions we've seen in 15 years in the United States," Maher said. "This year, we do not expect to reach that number of executions again. There are a number of other warrants that are still open for this year, but I don't think we'll reach the high that we reached last year." "All of this is really due to Florida," she added. "Gov. DeSantis has decided that he wants to set a record in the number of executions that are conducted during his term. He has scheduled an execution for roughly every two weeks in the state of Florida, both last year and this year." Two executions remain scheduled in Florida for the rest of 2026. Curtis Beasley, 77, is set to be executed Sept. 29 for the 1995 murder of a woman who was bludgeoned with a hammer, while William Lee Thompson, 74, is scheduled for execution Oct. 13 for the 1976 murder of a woman who was beaten, tortured and killed with a chain-link belt. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa225875342cf4db866b7e Texas Senate candidate Talarico said US was 'backsliding' on democracy in resurfaced clip te 2026-09-16T05:00:08.616Z Texas Senate candidate Talarico said US was 'backsliding' on democracy in resurfaced clip Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said in a resurfaced 2024 interview that the United States was "backsliding" on democracy and suggested Americans should look to countries in Western Europe for "inspiration." Talarico made the remarks during a June 2, 2024, appearance on "The Weekend Show" with Anthony Davis on the MeidasTouch Network, well before becoming the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas. "We haven't lived up to the promise of democracy," Talarico said. "And of course, some countries are farther along than others, and sadly, here in America, where that experiment started, we are backsliding." "And that troubles me greatly," he continued. "But all of us still have so much more work to do to create a true democracy." TALARICO MAKES STUNNING CLAIM ABOUT WHY HE THINKS TEXAS ELECTIONS AREN'T 'FREE AND FAIR' Talarico added that Americans should look to other countries, "especially in Western Europe," for inspiration about "how to continue with this experiment and ultimately reach that goal of a true democracy, of a beloved community." The clip drew fresh attention on social media this week, including from Elon Musk, who responded with a single word: "No." Asked about the resurfaced remarks, Talarico's campaign defended the candidate's comments. "James agrees with the majority of Texans that America is the greatest country in the world, Texas is the greatest state in the union, and we should always fight for a more perfect union," JT Ennis, a spokesperson for the Talarico campaign, told Fox News Digital. Talarico, a former middle school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian, entered the national spotlight earlier this year after defeating Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, for the Democratic Party's U.S. Senate nomination. He is facing Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the general election. SHOCK POLL: TALARICO TIES PAXTON IN TEXAS SENATE RACE, THREATENING GOP STRONGHOLD Republicans have repeatedly highlighted Talarico's past remarks during the campaign, including his statements that he thinks of himself as a Christian who "hates Christianity," that "God is nonbinary" and that there are six biological sexes.  Talarico's campaign previously responded to criticism of the Christianity remark by saying he is a devout Christian who is criticizing what he views as the misuse of Christianity to justify hate, violence and greed. In July, the conservative political action committee Lone Star Liberty criticized Talarico as an "America-laster" after the Democratic Senate nominee called the American flag a "complicated symbol." Talarico's campaign responded at the time that he believes the flag represents "freedom, opportunity, and hope." Fox News Digital's Peter Pinedo contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa1da775342cf4db866a74 Voucher oversight splits candidates for Arizona schools chief te 2026-09-16T04:40:07.439Z Voucher oversight splits candidates for Arizona schools chief Teresa Leyba Ruiz (left) and Kimberly Yee go head-to-head in the 2026 AZ Clean Elections Superintendent debate on Sept. 15, 2026. (Photo by Diannie Chavez/The Arizona Republic/pool) Arizona’s billion-dollar and growing school voucher program took center stage Tuesday night as state Treasurer Kimberly Yee and former schoolteacher and community college president Teresa Leyba Ruiz sparred over how they would lead Arizona’s public schools as the next state schools chief.  The program, known formally as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, is projected to cost the state more than $1 billion this year and has drawn sharp criticism for a lack of regulations that has resulted in luxury purchases, including diamond rings and airline tickets.  The future of ESAs is at the heart of this year’s battle over the state superintendent’s seat: Yee was recruited primarily because voucher supporters were dissatisfied with how the current superintendent of public instruction, Tom Horne, responded to backlash against the program.  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE During Tuesday’s debate, Yee lauded vouchers as an educational option that should be open to parents, and when Ruiz accused the program of siphoning money away from public schools, Yee criticized Ruiz for not supporting all students.  “I don’t believe that the government should tell a family what type of education their child should have,” Yee said, ultimately failing to answer whether she would support any new regulations on the program, instead emphasizing her support for better oversight from the state Department of Education.  The Republican did say she would ensure accountability for disallowed purchases, implement a system that better flags suspicious reimbursement requests and end the practice of automatically approving a family’s first $2,000 in reimbursement claims. (Horne implemented that policy to clear a backlog of claims.) Ruiz, too, said the automatic approvals should be stopped, vowed to create a transparency portal so that Arizonans could see what ESA money is being spent on and said that a family’s income eligibility should be looked at by lawmakers.  And the two disagreed over whether schools and instructors that accept voucher money should undergo background checks or meet educational requirements. Ruiz emphasized that “public dollars demand public accountability,” but Yee said that doing so would be detrimental for both providers and students, adding that privacy laws are at stake for many, including special needs students.  “Once you start digging into their educational environment and their educational needs,” Yee warned, “you start violating the HIPAA laws, the health related privacy laws.” She did not explain how requiring private schools that accept taxpayer-funded vouchers to conduct background checks or meet state curriculum or testing standards — things public schools must do — would violate student health privacy laws. Kimberly Yee participates in the 2026 AZ Clean Elections Superintendent debate on Sept. 15, 2026. (Photo by Diannie Chavez/The Arizona Republic/pool) The next head of public schools will need to contend with the state’s ongoing teacher retention crisis and Arizona’s place at the bottom of the rankings for school funding. Proposition 123, a $300 million annual funding source, expired last year but Republican lawmakers have failed to put forward a renewal plan.  Yee and Ruiz both said they would lobby the legislature for increased and permanent revenue sources to bolster Arizona public schools, but they differed on how the money should be spent. Yee said new school funding needs to be explicitly limited to paying teachers, citing “administrative bloat” as the reason why teacher pay has stagnated and the state has struggled with a nearly decade-long retention crisis.  While Republicans frequently blame administrative pay for low teacher salaries, the reality is that there is no correlation between administrative spending and teacher pay in Arizona. And, in fact, reporting from the Arizona Auditor General found that the per-pupil share of school spending spent on administrative costs increased from $1,156 per student in fiscal year 2020 to just $1,309 in fiscal year 2025. By contrast, the category of education spending that has increased the most since 2020 was instructional spending, which includes teacher pay.  Teresa Leyba Ruiz participates in the 2026 AZ Clean Elections Superintendent debate on Sept. 15, 2026. (Photo by Diannie Chavez/The Arizona Republic/pool) Ruiz said that her plan to help convince teachers to stay in Arizona classrooms would include a return to a respectful dialogue. She accused Yee of failing to do so and attacking teachers over culture war issues. Republicans have increasingly singled out and criticized LGBTQ visibility in the classroom, including how teachers seek to welcome transgender students by using their preferred pronouns.  Horne made crusading against trans students a pillar of his second tenure as state superintendent, advocating against trans girls joining sports teams that reflect their gender identity in court, releasing public statements condemning the use of gender inclusive bathrooms and setting up a teacher hotline for parents to report on teachers who discussed “gender ideology.”  On Tuesday, Yee appeared to advance a similar preoccupation with erasing trans students, saying she is “concerned” about teachers who ask about preferred pronoun use.  “I am very concerned about the pronouns that have been taught in our schools,” she said. “(Children as early as) five years old, asking them if they are a he or a she or an it or a their.”   To retain teachers, Yee said she would push for higher salaries and set up a mentor program for retired and experienced instructors to help guide younger teachers. She called for a return to “traditional” mathematics, reading through phonics and a revival of home economics and workshop classes. Ruiz, meanwhile, said she would support early literacy and math intervention programs, along with an increase in school funding.  In her closing statement, Ruiz characterized Yee as the partisan option, while Yee rebutted that she would represent all children and center the voices of parents — an often repeated mantra from Republicans signaling support for school choice and an intent to eliminate mentions of LGBTQ people from classrooms.  “You can choose more political fighting, you can choose political attacks and personal attacks, or you can choose a career educator who’s been always focused on our students,” Ruiz said.  “It’s time for Arizona parents to be in charge of their child’s education and get back to the basics,” Yee said. “It’s time for parents, not the government, to choose the best education for their child’s unique needs. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa1b5075342cf4db8669f8 7 Republicans rebel against Trump, vote with Dems to rein in Iran war powers te 2026-09-16T04:30:08.162Z 7 Republicans rebel against Trump, vote with Dems to rein in Iran war powers A handful of House Republicans rebuked President Donald Trump's operation in Iran on Tuesday, joining Democrats to pass a resolution aimed at reining in the commander-in-chief's war powers. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., introduced the war powers resolution that was backed by 14 of his fellow House Democrats, including Reps. Jason Crow, D-Colo, and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. But it was Republicans who helped put the legislation over the edge. Seven House Republicans joined all 213 voting Democrats to pass the measure in a 220 to 204 vote late on Tuesday night. Opponents of the bill were 203 House Republicans and Rep. Kevin Kiley, I-Calif., who caucuses with the GOP. "I've been consistent on that since the war powers provision expired after 60 days of engagement," Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Mich., told Fox News Digital on Tuesday morning ahead of the vote. REP TOM BARRETT: IT’S UP TO CONGRESS TO PREVENT ANOTHER ENDLESS AMERICAN WAR Republicans who voted to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran have long argued that it's on Congress to declare war, not the White House. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 generally allows a president to engage U.S. forces in hostilities for up to 60 days without congressional authorization, with an additional 30-day withdrawal period under certain circumstances. Supporters of the resolution argue that period has already expired. The Trump administration has argued the president is acting within his constitutional authority as commander in chief and has defended the continued military operation against Iran, saying the resolution would improperly restrict the president's ability to protect U.S. forces and national security interests. The war in Iran has become a political lightning rod in the current midterm election season, dividing Republicans and providing political fodder for Democrats who have accused Trump of getting into another "forever war." The conflict has also been blamed by some lawmakers and analysts for higher prices at the gas pump, which is expected to be a top issue for voters. FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS OPPOSE THE IRAN WAR, SEE PROLONGED COMMITMENT It also pushed Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a well-known critic of Trump's foreign entanglements, to try to force a vote on impeaching Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. But the vast majority of Republicans still stand by the president and insist he is well within his authority. "The president has done a good job managing all this," Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital. "We need to stand with the president right now and with the Iranian people. And the president's done what he promised the American people, that he wasn't going to let them have a nuclear weapon." REPUBLICANS BREAK WITH TRUMP TO REBUKE IRAN WAR — BUT IT WON'T CHANGE POLICY The Senate passed a similar resolution in June of this year, also with several Republicans defecting against Trump. But even if an identical bill passes both chambers, Trump has indicated he opposes such legislation, meaning it would likely face a presidential veto if it gets to his desk. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa169e75342cf4db8668fa 3 dead, 1 hospitalized after news helicopter crashes in Los Angeles commercial area te 2026-09-16T04:10:06.553Z 3 dead, 1 hospitalized after news helicopter crashes in Los Angeles commercial area At least three people are dead and another is hospitalized after a helicopter appearing to belong to a news outlet crashed Tuesday night in Los Angeles, authorities said. The Los Angeles Fire Department said 56 firefighters responded just before 7 p.m. to the crash between two commercial buildings at 9151 N. Mason Ave. in Chatsworth. LAFD Capt. Branden Silverman said the aircraft appeared to be a news helicopter but did not confirm which outlet it was affiliated with. Four people were assessed at the scene, with three pronounced dead and a fourth transported to a local hospital in unknown condition, according to the department. PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE HELICOPTER, SMALL PLANE COLLIDE IN MIDAIR, KILLING 1 AND INJURING 2 STATE TROOPERS One of the victims was a pedestrian in the parking lot, according to Silverman. Authorities did not immediately say whether the other victims were aboard the helicopter or on the ground. The crash sparked a fire that damaged four vehicles and two storage containers before firefighters extinguished the flames, according to LAFD. No nearby structures were exposed to the fire. Authorities did not immediately say how many people were aboard the helicopter. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa0d3a75342cf4db8666d1 Helicopter Crashes in Los Angeles County, Killing 3 te 2026-09-16T03:30:02.742Z Helicopter Crashes in Los Angeles County, Killing 3 The authorities did not immediately confirm who was operating the helicopter or how many people were aboard. One person was taken to a hospital, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa063a75342cf4db8665a9 Stephen A. Smith calls out NBA star Kawhi Leonard for letting Clippers take the fall for salary cap scandal te 2026-09-16T03:00:10.180Z Stephen A. Smith calls out NBA star Kawhi Leonard for letting Clippers take the fall for salary cap scandal ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith went nuclear on Kawhi Leonard after the Los Angeles Clippers' salary cap scandal, torching the league's soft punishment for a guy who just packed his bags back to Toronto. "For him to cause all the trouble that he's caused for this organization and to walk away with nothing more than having to surrender $700,000 worth of restitution is a crime," Smith said on First Take. "Kawhi Leonard … he's a gangster." The NBA dropped the hammer on the Clippers with the most brutal penalty in league history: a $30 million fine, five lost first-round picks, and a one-year suspension for owner Steve Ballmer. LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS FINALLY GIVE UP ON KAWHI LEONARD, SEND FORMER FINALS MVP BACK TO TORONTO RAPTORS Investigators blew the lid off a shady scheme using sponsors like Aspiration and Daktronics to route millions in under-the-table cash to Leonard and his uncle, Dennis Robertson. The mess even triggered federal and SEC probes, plus a five-year NBA ban for Robertson. Yet Leonard got off with a lousy $700,000 fine, zero suspension, and a ticket straight back to Toronto. CLIPPERS FACE FEDERAL CRIMINAL PROBE AFTER NBA PUNISHES TEAM OVER KAWHI LEONARD DEALS Smith spelled out how Leonard let management take the bullet while he skated away untouched. "He broke the rules, got caught, pointed the finger at somebody else, threw the organization under the bus, got his money and left the country," Smith said. "I mean, [expletive], how much better can it get than that?" Despite federal and SEC probes into the illicit side deals, the NBA let Leonard walk with a $700,000 restitution fee. In the end, it was a minor handling charge for a guy clearing nearly $50 million annually. He even waived a $7.45 million trade kicker to guarantee his exit back to Canada. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The Clippers got hit with $30 million in fines, surrendered five first-round picks, and lost their owner for a year. Meanwhile, Kawhi blamed his inner circle, claimed total ignorance and hopped on a flight to Toronto without missing a single game. Smith got this one dead right: Kawhi pulled off the ultimate hustle. Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa03da75342cf4db8664d5 House Directs Trump to Halt War With Iran or Secure Congress’s Approval te 2026-09-16T02:50:02.878Z House Directs Trump to Halt War With Iran or Secure Congress’s Approval It was the fifth time that a chamber of the Republican-controlled Congress has voted to rein in President Trump’s war powers as discontent with the conflict grows among voters. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaa018775342cf4db866490 Sally Field remembers shopping at Walmart with Dolly Parton: ‘Can you imagine all of us?’ te 2026-09-16T02:40:07.279Z Sally Field remembers shopping at Walmart with Dolly Parton: ‘Can you imagine all of us?’ Sally Field remembers shopping with Dolly Parton at Walmart like it was yesterday. After the Emmy Awards on Monday night, Field took a moment to remember her loving friendship with the late country music icon and trips they used to take to their local Walmart. "She was a friend. I admired her. I loved working with her. I never stopped loving her. There were moments where we tried to reach each other, but you know, this is a weird world I live in, this acting world where you do films, and you're so bonded with this group of people, it's like being in battle together," Field told Fox News Digital. "It's like being in battle of the bulge together, and you save each other's lives, and you've got each other's backs, and you spend 24/7 with each other, and we would go shopping together, all of us, and go to Walmart together," she continued. "Can you imagine all of us coming into Walmart? And it never leaves your soul." 2026 EMMY AWARDS: WINNERS AND LOSERS Field explained that she lived far away from Parton, so getting together was a struggle for the two. "Dolly and I live so far apart we can never make it ends meet, we could never find a way, but I never stopped feeling that way about her and the times we did reach out I think she felt that way about me. I loved her," Field concluded. DOLLY PARTON'S LIFE IN HER OWN WORDS: FROM SMOKY MOUNTAINS POVERTY TO COUNTRY MUSIC IMMORTALITY At the 78th Annual Emmy Awards, Field gave a tribute, honoring the late star. Speaking to Fox News Digital after the show, she said, "don't even talk to me about it" because it was going to make her "cry." Parton and Field's friendship blossomed after starring on "Steel Magnolias" together. The star-studded film also included Julia Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Parton died on Aug. 25, 2026 at the age of 80. Following her death, Field took to Instagram and shared a photo of the "Steel Magnolias" cast and a message honoring her former co-star. WATCH: Sally Field remembers shopping at Walmart with Dolly Parton: ‘Can you imagine all of us?’ PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "If there are truly angels on earth, then we have just lost one. Dolly Parton. There will never be another. I adored her with all my heart and will always cherish our time together. Forever. Rest in peace beautiful Dolly," Field wrote at the time. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE On Monday night, Field was honored with the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a limited or anthology series or movie for playing Tova Sullivan in Netflix’s "Remarkably Bright Creatures." It was her fourth Emmy win. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9fa8075342cf4db866327 Sophie Cunningham says she's talked with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver amid search for WNBA's next commissioner te 2026-09-16T02:10:08.899Z Sophie Cunningham says she's talked with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver amid search for WNBA's next commissioner As the WNBA searches for its next commissioner, Sophie Cunningham said she has spoken several times with current NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who is in charge of the search for the league's next leader. "I have talked to Adam Silver a couple times, and I think he’s a great guy who’s very knowledgeable and full of wisdom," Cunningham told reporters this week. "Just getting to talk to him and hear his perspective of his approach to the NBA is huge." Although Cunningham did not speculate about potential candidates for the position, she expressed confidence that the eventual choice will be someone determined to build on the WNBA’s momentum. CATHY ENGELBERT WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE COMMISSIONER WHO MADE THE WNBA DEEPLY POLITICAL AND DIVISIVE "I think he’s going to put someone in place who really wants to take our league to another level than it’s already at," she said. "Our league is booming, so why would we not want someone who is going to try to make it even more booming?" Cunningham also believes that the next commissioner must put "players first." "I think that the WNBA has always been a place for people to feel safe and comfortable," Cunningham said. "I think there’s all types of walks in this organization or in this league, which I think is absolutely awesome, but I do think with that, you need someone who’s going to unite everybody because it can be so different." "My second thing is I really do think that you need a commissioner that is players first, who wants a relationship with the players," Cunningham said. "I think that’s so important." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "That doesn’t mean we’re always going to get along and we’re always going to agree," she continued. "They have a job, they work for the owners, and so they’re going to have to make hard decisions. But if you have that open line of communication and that respect level, I think that it just feels different." Cunningham’s comments come as the WNBA prepares for its first leadership change in seven years. Cathy Engelbert, who became the league’s first commissioner in 2019, announced that she will retire at the end of 2026 after more than four decades in business. Her tenure coincided with unprecedented growth in attendance, television audiences, sponsorship revenue and franchise valuations. She also oversaw an expansion plan that will grow the league from 12 to 18 teams by 2030, along with new media-rights and collective bargaining agreements. At the same time, Engelbert’s relationship with players was occasionally strained. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9fa7f75342cf4db86631e Fourth Florida resident dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria linked to oysters te 2026-09-16T02:10:07.926Z Fourth Florida resident dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria linked to oysters A fourth person in Florida has died after contracting flesh-eating bacteria commonly linked to consuming raw or undercooked oysters, health officials said. The death was included Thursday in the Florida Department of Health's updated fatality count for the deadly flesh-eating bacterium Vibrio vulnificus. The individual was from Broward County and between the ages of 75 and 79, WSFA reported. It remains unclear exactly how the person contracted the infection. Previous deaths were attributed to residents of Bay, Palm Beach and Marion counties, according to the state’s health department. BEACHGOERS WARNED AFTER DEADLY 'FLESH-EATING' BACTERIA KILLS 5 IN SOUTHERN STATE "Most people get vibriosis by eating raw or undercooked shellfish, particularly oysters," the Florida Department of Health said. According to the department's website, Florida has reported 21 cases of Vibrio vulnificus in 2026. In the last 10 years, 2022 and 2024 reported some of the highest numbers of cases and deaths in the region. Florida recorded 19 deaths and 82 cases in 2024, while 2022 saw 17 deaths and 74 cases. North Carolina mountain community braces for hurricane season two years after Helene's brutal impact Officials said the unusual increase stemmed from certain counties experiencing impacts from hurricanes Helene and Ian. Severe weather events that cause standing or floodwaters pose a risk of exposure to the bacteria, officials said. Vibrio vulnificus is a naturally occurring bacterium found in warm, brackish seawater. POPULAR BEACHES CLOSED AS HIGH BACTERIA LEVELS RAISE HEALTH CONCERNS FOR SWIMMERS Exposure can occur when a person eats oysters contaminated with the bacteria or enters contaminated water with an open wound. Health officials said bloodstream infections caused by Vibrio vulnificus are fatal about 50% of the time. While healthy individuals typically develop a mild illness, Vibrio vulnificus infections can cause severe illness in people with weakened immune systems. "A recent study showed that people with these pre-existing medical conditions were 80 times more likely to develop Vibrio vulnificus bloodstream infections than healthy people," Florida health officials said. 'I THOUGHT I HAD THE FLU': MOM NEARLY DIED AFTER DISMISSING DEADLY SEPSIS SYMPTOMS Severe infections can cause symptoms including fever, chills, decreased blood pressure, also known as septic shock, and blistering skin lesions. In some cases, wound infections can lead to tissue damage requiring amputation. Elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, Louisiana has reported 15 cases and six deaths this year as of Sept. 9, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. Fourteen of the cases were attributed to wound or seawater exposure. The Texas Department of State Health Services says Texas typically sees an average of 33 cases per year. Mississippi reported three cases as of August, according to the state’s health department. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9f5d375342cf4db866236 Republican upsets party-backed rival to challenge first openly trans member of Congress te 2026-09-16T01:50:11.224Z Republican upsets party-backed rival to challenge first openly trans member of Congress Delaware Republicans nominated political scientist Joseph "Dr. Joe" Arminio for the state's lone U.S. House seat Tuesday, bypassing both the state GOP's endorsed candidate and its 2024 nominee to send Arminio into a November match-up against Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del. Arminio defeated Rev. Earl Cooper, the Delaware Republican Party's endorsed candidate, and John Whalen, the party's 2024 nominee, for the seat and a chance to defeat McBride in the Nov. 3 general election.  McBride won Delaware's at-large House seat in 2024, becoming the first openly transgender person elected to Congress after defeating Whalen by roughly 16 percentage points in the general election. RAUCOUS PRIMARY SEASON REACHES FINAL ACT IN DEEP-BLUE STRONGHOLD, KICKSTARTING SPRINT TO NOVEMBER McBride is seeking a second term in a seat Republicans have not won since 2008. Arminio, a Wilmington native, is a political scientist, author and educator who holds a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he focused on national defense policy and international relations, according to WHYY. He earned his bachelor's degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University and has taught at American University and Lincoln University. Tuesday's race was not Arminio's first congressional campaign, though it was his first in Delaware. He previously sought the Republican nomination in Maryland's 1st Congressional District in 2008, receiving about 1.6% of the vote in a four-way primary won by Andy Harris, according to WHYY, a public media organization based in Philadelphia. DEMOCRAT REBELS DEFY JEFFRIES TO HAND GOP CRITICAL WIN JUST BEFORE MIDTERMS Arminio campaigned on economic issues, arguing that excessive public and private debt has squeezed American families. He identified inflation and the cost of groceries, gasoline and housing among the biggest economic challenges facing Delaware. "The Republican country for that matter is in dire peril," he told WHYY in an interview. "The economy’s in very bad shape. We’re suffering from crushing private and public debt. So your typical family is having a hard time making ends meet. The young cannot afford to buy a home. They’re having difficulty in their relationships, getting married. It’s very, very serious." Arminio will now try to break Democrats' long-running hold on Delaware's lone House seat, which the party has controlled since John Carney took over after former U.S. Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del, retired and left office when he did not seek reelection in 2010, instead deciding to run for the U.S. Senate. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9f5d275342cf4db866229 Washington Democrat claims majority of recent DHS arrestees posed 'no threat to public safety' te 2026-09-16T01:50:10.433Z Washington Democrat claims majority of recent DHS arrestees posed 'no threat to public safety' Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., claimed Tuesday that "for the first time this summer," the majority of people arrested by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "pose absolutely no threat to public safety." Speaking during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on immigration enforcement, Jayapal argued the Trump administration has increasingly focused its immigration enforcement on immigrants without criminal convictions or pending criminal charges rather than those with criminal records. "For the first time this summer, the majority of people that DHS arrested were people who pose absolutely no threat to public safety, and the number of people with criminal convictions who are arrested by ICE actually decreased — decreased, not increased," Jayapal said.  HOMAN CONFIRMS 'CRIMINAL' INVESTIGATION INVOLVING ILHAN OMAR, SAYS HE KNOWS 'THINGS ARE GOING ON’ She argued the administration's enforcement priorities are making communities "less safe." "That’s because when DHS expends all of its energy to go after parents, longtime friends, neighbors, when [Homeland Security Investigations] agents who are supposed to investigate serious crime and human trafficking are instead being moved to street sweeps and riding along with local police for random traffic stops, we are less safe, not more safe." Jayapal's comments echoed claims her office made in a Sept. 1 press release, which said ICE data showed "the majority of people they arrest have zero criminal charges or convictions" and that arrests of immigrants without criminal convictions or pending criminal charges had increased 770%. Independent analyses of ICE data have likewise found that while overall ICE arrests reached record highs during the summer, the share of people arrested without criminal convictions or pending criminal charges also increased. Her remarks come as the Trump administration has touted record immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump. ILLEGAL CONVICTED OF ASSAULTING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS THOUGHT HE WAS FREE — THEN DHS DROPPED THE HAMMER Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested nearly 51,000 illegal immigrants nationwide in August, according to DHS, marking the highest monthly total on record. "The hard-working men and women of DHS continue to break records as they defend the homeland and protect the American people," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement. Mullin added, "For the third straight month, ICE set a new record for the highest number of illegal aliens arrested in a single month, nearly 51,000. This is promises made and promises kept in action. Under President Trump’s leadership, ICE is working around the clock every day to arrest and deport illegal aliens from American communities." DHS also highlighted August arrests of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes including murder, child pornography and sexual assault of a minor. MORE THAN 100 HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS WITH VIOLENT OFFENSE AND SEX CRIME CONVICTIONS DEPORTED: DHS According to DHS, more than 3 million illegal immigrants have left the United States since Trump returned to office. A spokesperson for DHS and Jayapal could not immediately be reached by Fox News Digital for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9f5d175342cf4db866220 Justin Herbert did not seem too pleased with the Chargers after disastrous loss to Arizona Cardinals te 2026-09-16T01:50:09.536Z Justin Herbert did not seem too pleased with the Chargers after disastrous loss to Arizona Cardinals The Los Angeles Chargers under Jim Harbaugh have been remarkably consistent. In 2024, they finished 11-6 and in second place in the AFC West, only to lose 32-12 to the Houston Texans in the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs. In 2025, they finished ... 11-6 and in second place in the AFC West. They then promptly lost in the Wild Card round 16-3 to the New England Patriots. While the Chargers' defense improved immediately under Harbaugh and defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, there's been a sense that the offense was not living up to its potential. Quarterback Justin Herbert has the traits to succeed in the modern NFL, elite arm strength and the ability to keep defenses honest by moving out of the pocket and scrambling when plays break down. NFL WEEK 1 PROPER REACTIONS: RAMS PANIC, BEARS HYPE AND CHARGERS DOUBTS NEED PATIENCE AFTER ONE GAME Offensive line play and injuries have slowed the Chargers' attack down, however, and they scored just 368 points in 2025, well behind the league-leading Rams with 518. Harbaugh hoped to address some of those issues by bringing in former Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel to run the offense. The first opportunity to see that new-look Chargers scheme in action though, was a disaster. Putting it mildly. Los Angeles entered their season opener at SoFi Stadium as significant favorites over the Arizona Cardinals, coming off a dismal 3-14 season that saw them allow the fourth most points of any team in the NFL. Sure enough, Arizona dominated. The Chargers' defense couldn't get off the field, allowing the Cardinals to dominate the time of possession battle from 37:31 to 22:29. Arizona had 393 yards on offense and allowed just 268, while forcing two turnovers and blocking a punt in the fourth quarter. CHARGERS LOSE $30 MILLION CENTER FOR SEASON AFTER SUFFERING ACL INJURY DURING JOINT PRACTICE Herbert never really got into a rhythm offensively, threw an interception, and unsurprisingly given the team he plays for, was frequently hurried on dropbacks. After the game, he seemed, well, less than pleased with how it played out. "We just didn't execute," he said when asked about the lack of success on offense. "It's on us as an offense to not have penalties, we gotta score points in the red zone, we didn't execute on third downs, and we didn't move the ball like we needed to." When asked whether he "saw the safety" on the interception, Herbert responded, "Yeah." CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Given an opportunity to elaborate, he added, "Yeah, it was a shot play that I threw, and he made a good play on it." As to whether it was Arizona's defense or the new scheme that caused the disconnect, Herbert once again was less than enthused. "Yeah they played well, but it's on us to play better. It's on us to go score points, to make sure we're doing everything we can on third down and in the red zone. You know, we didn't play the way we wanted to, and we're going to have to watch film and get better from it." Chargers fans pointed out that it seemed like, from his body language and delivery, Herbert had already given up on the season. Whether that's true or not, Sunday was the continuation of a frustrating run of offensive line play for Los Angeles. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Across 99 career games with the Chargers, Herbert has been sacked 241 times. For context, Andrew Luck, who famously walked away from the game citing the physical toll of repeated hits, was sacked 185 times in 94 career games with the Indianapolis Colts. That's how bad it is. One offensive line moment from the loss also drew attention from fans on social media, as three Chargers linemen blocked one player as two Cardinals defenders ran through to sack Herbert. Head coach Jim Harbaugh admitted as much after the game, saying, "We made some preseason-type of mistakes. Now in retrospect, I wish we’d played our guys a little bit more in the preseason and given them those reps." SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Too late now. Herbert isn't going anywhere, and still has the talent to lead the Chargers on a deep postseason run. But if the mentality and organizational alignment isn't there, that might be more of a pipe dream than competent offensive line play in Los Angeles. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9f5cc75342cf4db8661e0 Black Bear Euthanized at Grand Teton National Park, Officials Say te 2026-09-16T01:50:04.354Z Black Bear Euthanized at Grand Teton National Park, Officials Say People had fed the bear several times, and it was becoming a safety risk for park visitors in Wyoming, officials said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9f37975342cf4db86619b Injured climber crawls ‘through the night’ to safety after falling 500 feet down California mountain te 2026-09-16T01:40:09.191Z Injured climber crawls ‘through the night’ to safety after falling 500 feet down California mountain A California climber who suffered significant injuries after falling 500 feet down Mount Shasta spent the night crawling to a remote cabin, where he was found by rescue crews the following day, forest officials said Friday. The San Jose man, who was not identified, lost control while sliding down Avalanche Gulch, a steep, snow and ice-covered route, Thursday night after reaching the summit in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. "The climber told rescuers that he had attempted to glissade down the mountain, lost control, and slid approximately 500 feet. During his fall, he sustained several significant lacerations and injuries to his feet," forest service officials said. Authorities added that the climber was unable to call for help because his cellphone died shortly after summiting. MOUNTAIN CLIMBER SURVIVES TERRIFYING 500-FOOT FALL IN CALIFORNIA'S SIERRA NEVADA, NIGHT STRANDED ON LEDGE Due to the painful swelling that occurred after the fall, the climber reportedly removed his boots and "crawled through the night" down the remainder of Avalanche Gulch to Horse Camp Cabin. By the next day, his friends were unable to contact him and reported him missing to the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office. Rescue teams and air support were mobilized across several agencies by 2 p.m. Friday, and began searching the Avalanche Gulch area, officials said. Two hours later, they were alerted that the climber was inside Horse Camp Cabin after a hiker entered the cabin and found him there. MISSOURI DEPUTY AG, MISSING 6 DAYS AFTER SEEKING TO SUMMIT WYOMING'S TALLEST PEAK, IS FOUND ALIVE Officials used the incident to remind hikers to allow plenty of daylight for their hikes, establish a turnaround time around noon, carry backup electronics and be prepared to self-rescue. "The climber did his best to self-rescue despite significant injuries, and knew his route well enough without a map, to find his way back to the Horse Camp Cabin. Never rely solely on a GPS or phone to navigate – if those devices stop working, your own navigation skills will be critical in ensuring a safe return home," officials said. They further commended the climber for notifying his friends of his whereabouts before he went missing. "The climber wisely notified his friends of his plan to climb Mount Shasta and made a point to check in and provide progress updates. When he lost contact, his friends contacted law enforcement to report him overdue and traveled to help with the search effort. It is always advisable to notify at least one person of your itinerary," officials said. CLIMBER STRANDED ON 6-INCH LEDGE AT 11,000 FEET AS 46 MPH WINDS GROUND RESCUE HELICOPTER The rescue team was assisted by the Mount Shasta Climbing Rangers, Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, and a California Highway Patrol helicopter crew. The incident marks the latest rescue operation in the Northern California forest, where rescue teams respond to numerous incidents annually.  According to the mountain’s website, the route to the summit via Avalanche Gulch is steep and rigorous, requiring proper equipment and snow-travel skills. Last September, three novice hikers were stranded overnight in a steep canyon after heavily relying on AI for information about the routes. In late June, another 31-year-old novice climber was flown to a hospital after slipping and falling 1,500 feet. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9f37775342cf4db866184 ‘You can’t even cover them’: Andy Biggs’ 2011 bid to end Medicaid in Arizona te 2026-09-16T01:40:07.845Z ‘You can’t even cover them’: Andy Biggs’ 2011 bid to end Medicaid in Arizona Andy Biggs at a Turning Point USA rally for President Donald Trump in Phoenix on April 17. 2026. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) When Andy Biggs, the Republican nominee for governor, was a state senator, he tried to abolish Medicaid in the Grand Canyon State because it cost taxpayers too much to provide health insurance for low-income Arizonans. “When we allow the generations in the future to be robbed and enslaved to pay for the healthcare costs of people today, we’re not being good stewards,” Biggs said during an Arizona Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in 2011. “We’re allowing the future generation to be placed in bondage.”  As he called for the end of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the Republican said that some Arizonans with severe mental illnesses and developmental and physical disabilities would have to go without healthcare coverage to address the national debt and deficits in the state budget. “What did they do before we built the infrastructure?” Biggs said of the people who relied on AHCCCS.  Multiple studies have shown that when Americans who need it don’t have access to healthcare through Medicaid, they are more likely to die.  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE In early 2011, when he sponsored Senate Bill 1519, Biggs was in his first term as a state senator after eight years in the Arizona House of Representatives. The proposed legislation would have done away with AHCCCS months later on Oct. 1, 2011, to partially replace it with “safety net” coverage for the “most needy” that would be administered by the Department of Health Services.  AHCCCS cost about $10 billion that year, but Arizona was responsible for about $2 billion of that, with the rest paid by the federal government. Under Biggs’ proposal, the Health Department  would get $1.2 billion — “subject to the availability of funding” —  to design a new healthcare program to provide behavioral healthcare, and care for developmentally disabled people and the “medically indigent.” Biggs made it clear that his proposed alternative to Medicaid would only serve a fraction of the nearly 1.4 million Arizonans enrolled at the time. He said that another option might be to charge those people premiums to stay on the program, but that the enrollees didn’t “want to pay for it.”  The proposal wouldn’t even fully cover the nearly 100,000 severely mentally ill and developmentally and physically disabled people who relied on AHCCCS in 2011, which Biggs said was by design because of the high cost to provide care to those Arizonans.  “You can’t even cover them, because if you were to cover them, you have no savings,” Biggs said during a Feb. 22, 2011, Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on his proposal. The catalyst behind Biggs’ plan was what he called an impending fiscal cliff caused by too much borrowing at the state and federal level in the wake of the Great Recession. At the time, the U.S. national debt was around $14.7 trillion and Arizona faced a projected $1.1 billion deficit in 2013. Quotation The only way you get attention from these folks is to do something draconian, something magnificent, something big and large. – Andy Biggs in 2011, while a state senator, defending his plan to scrap Arizona's Medicaid health insurance program Biggs’ proposed solution would have initially saved the state around $1 billion in 2012, but would come with a corresponding reduction in federal funding of $4.8 billion, according to an analysis by the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.  Members of his own party on the Appropriations Committee were highly skeptical of his proposal. Even some of his fellow Republicans who supported nixing Medicaid, like Republican Sen. Sylvia Allen, saying that there was no way to responsibly eliminate AHCCCS in a matter of months.  Moderate Republican Sen. Rich Crandall said he was certain that Biggs’ proposal would decimate rural hospitals that get a large portion of their budgets from Medicaid patients. “The only way you get attention from these folks is to do something draconian, something magnificent, something big and large,” Biggs said of the hospitals that opposed doing away with AHCCCS.  His bill passed out of the Appropriations Committee but didn’t make it to the Senate floor.  But Biggs, who has served in Congress since 2017, seemingly doesn’t feel the same way when it comes to increasing the national debt for his party’s own ideological reasons. Last year, he voted for President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which is projected to add at least $3.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, while also cutting Medicaid and food benefits for low-income people.  In June, Biggs voted against a bipartisan resolution ordering Trump to withdraw forces from Iran or obtain approval from Congress to remain there. The Iran War has cost the U.S. more than $40 billion since it began in February.  In August, when the nation’s debt reached $40 trillion, Biggs issued a statement condemning “unchecked federal spending.”  “For decades, Members of Congress have shown catastrophic unseriousness about reining in government spending and leaving a better future for the next generation,” he said in the statement. “Regardless of which party controls Congress, I have sounded the alarm on this fiscal cliff since I entered the U.S. House of Representatives and have introduced legislation to help solve this crisis.” When Biggs made his pitch to do away with AHCCCS in 2011, critics and local media panned his dismissal of the impacts on low income people, drawing attention to the fact that Biggs could afford to live on an Arizona senator’s $24,000 a year salary because he won a $10 million American Family Sweepstakes in 1993.  Neither the Biggs campaign nor the campaign of his opponent, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, commented for this story.  “Andy Biggs’ dangerous scheme to rip away Arizonans’ healthcare is clear: close hospitals, drive up costs, and abolish Medicaid,” Nicholas Simões Machado, spokesman for the Copper State War Room, told the Arizona Mirror in a statement. “Biggs has spent his career trying to take healthcare away from Arizonans, and his toxic record makes it clear he would put every Arizonan’s health and livelihood at risk.” The Copper State War Room is the coordinated campaign to reelect statewide Democrats in Arizona. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9f12375342cf4db86610e Ms Rachel says backlash over her Gaza posts 'doesn't faze' her as she calls out celebrity silence te 2026-09-16T01:30:11.888Z Ms Rachel says backlash over her Gaza posts 'doesn't faze' her as she calls out celebrity silence Children's YouTuber star Ms. Rachel told Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday that the backlash she received for her social media posts on Gaza "doesn't faze" her too much anymore. The magazine reported that although Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, has spoken out on other political issues such as the Trump administration's deportation policies or LGBTQ activism, her comments on the Israel-Hamas war drew the most "aggressive criticism." She remarked that the backlash surprised her initially. "I thought everyone hated me at one point," Accurso said. "I remember calling friends and family members, Jewish and not Jewish, and just being like, ‘Why do people hate that I don’t want kids to be killed and starved?’" YOUTUBE STAR MS RACHEL DECLARES 'I AM POLITICAL' IN NEW MISSION TO SHUT DOWN ICE FACILITY Accurso continued advocating for Palestinian children in Gaza, calling out celebrities and politicians for not speaking out enough on their behalf. "‘You’re gonna lose this partnership. You’re gonna lose views.’ That doesn’t faze me because the kids gave me the platform. I’m going to stand with them no matter what," Accurso said. "People on the ground in Gaza are risking their lives all the time to help kids. I can do it from Manhattan." Fox News Digital reached out to Accurso for comment but did not immediately receive a response. CHILDREN'S YOUTUBE STAR 'MS. RACHEL' TALKS TO ANTI-ISRAEL REPORTER ABOUT GAZA POSTS The article came days after Accurso accused celebrities who haven't spoken out about Gaza of having a racial double standard in how they value children. "They probably would say something if these kids were White and from a different place. Please stop being racist and risk something," Accurso said on Instagram. She was also one of several prominent progressives who called out singer Ed Sheeran following Macklemore's removal as the opening act for his tour after he repeatedly called for a "Free Palestine" and performed his anti-Israel song "Hind’s Hall" during his act. "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity [to] show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead, he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it," Accurso wrote. "If more than 20,000 White children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts," she added. "Treating some children’s lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral." MS RACHEL CONFRONTED ON ACCUSING ISRAEL OF 'GENOCIDE' IN PARK INTERACTION WITH PODCASTER Accurso has been criticized by pro-Israel organizations and groups that say her posts have shared anti-Israel propaganda by repeatedly accusing the Jewish nation of committing "genocide." Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, said in a statement to Fox News Digital, "To attempt to dress up Jew-hatred as a righteous cause is by no means new. No one is criticizing Rachel Accurso because she doesn't ‘want kids to be killed and starved.’" "She claims to care about 35.5 million children suffering from acute malnutrition across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, but spends an inordinate amount of time speaking about 0.031 million children in Gaza," he added. "When 0.09% of starving children receive 90% of her attention, something is wrong."  "She had nothing to say about Israeli children being held hostage until seven months later, when the backlash became too loud to ignore. It is clear that her problem is not a deep concern for children, but that she is using her purported deep concern to mask something much darker," Menken concluded. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9f12375342cf4db866105 Real Madrid faces controversy after three star players refuse to wear pro-Ceuta solidarity shirts before match te 2026-09-16T01:30:11.020Z Real Madrid faces controversy after three star players refuse to wear pro-Ceuta solidarity shirts before match Three very prominent soccer stars at Real Madrid sparked controversy on Tuesday night after refusing to wear T-shirts showing support for the autonomous city of Ceuta, which has dealt with a migrant crisis since late July. France stars Kylian Mbappé and Ibrahima Konaté, as well as Brazil’s Vinícius Júnior, stepped onto the pitch at the Martinez Valero on Tuesday night for their match against Elche covering the shirts which bore the slogan, "We are all Caballas," in Spanish. The slogan was a show of support, with Caballas being the term used for locals from Ceuta. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE For context, Ceuta is an autonomous city of Spain in North Africa, which borders Morocco. An influx of 72,000 illegal migrants from Morocco rushed into the city, which has a population of 85,000 residents, causing havoc throughout. Since then, tens of thousands of Spaniards have taken to the streets across their country to protest the government for its handling of the migrant issue. SPANISH OPPOSITION LEADER CALLS PRIME MINISTER A ‘TRAITOR’ OVER CEUTA MIGRANT CRISIS Among those showing their support of Ceuta were Real Madrid fans, who just last week unveiled a large tifo, or coordinated visual display, made up of Ceuta flags during the Champions League match against Inter Milan. And during this match, Real Madrid made it clear it would be showing support to Ceuta after posting a message on its official website. "Before the start of the match between Elche and Real Madrid, the players of both teams took to the pitch of the 'Manuel Martínez Valero' Stadium wearing shirts bearing the phrase 'We are all Caballas', as an expression of solidarity with Ceuta," the statement read. Mbappé and Vini Jr. were seen wearing the shirt with the message mostly covered after rolling it up, while Konaté reportedly carried it in his hands. Once the official team photo was taken, Mbappé and Vini Jr. removed the shirts to reveal the Real Madrid jerseys they would wear during the match. It’s unknown why the three players didn’t want to be involved in the display of solidarity, but it was clear they wanted no part in doing so, adding controversy to Spain’s most popular soccer club. Prior to this controversial moment, Moroccan soccer player Abdessamad Ezzalzouli caught flak from his compatriots after wearing a similar shirt showing support of those in Ceuta during Real Betis’ match against Villarreal on Monday. He reportedly received threats and got tons of vitriol sent his way, as many Moroccans believed it was a political statement against his country. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Ezzalzouli later said on his Instagram that, "The shirt had a social character, within the framework of supporting the residents and people of a region who were living through a difficult situation, regardless of their nationality." "But at the same time, this is not an apology to anyone, and anyone who wishes to exploit this matter to question my love for my country is free to do so. As for me, I will continue to live every day with my head held high, and I will continue to represent my roots with pride and sacrifice." Thousands of the migrants that flooded into the Spanish territory remain in place even now. "What happened to us was not a migratory crisis," Ceuta's regional leader, Juan Jesús Vivas, said earlier this month. "What happened was the violation of Spain's territorial integrity." Authorities said that 50,000 protesters were in Madrid’s streets alone earlier this month, showing their frustration with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for his administration’s handling of the crisis. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9ec7175342cf4db86600f Iran’s drone hunt escalates as Tehran targets US spy tech to expose battlefield secrets te 2026-09-16T01:10:09.674Z Iran’s drone hunt escalates as Tehran targets US spy tech to expose battlefield secrets Iran is deliberately targeting U.S. naval drones in the Strait of Hormuz to gather intelligence on American surveillance capabilities and learn how to evade U.S. defenses, drone experts warned Tuesday. Tehran’s strategy is coordinated, they said, and involves exposing critical insights into U.S. Navy theater operations in the world’s most vulnerable maritime choke point even when classified data is uncompromised. The warning came as tensions escalated in the Gulf region Sept. 14 after the U.S. military destroyed two Iranian small boats amid an attempted seizure by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of an American unmanned surface vessel (USV) patrolling the area, according to reports. US MILITARY ATTACKS IRAN IN 'SELF-DEFENSE STRIKES' OVER WEEKEND Iranian state media initially said the incident was a U.S. strike on civilian fishing vessels while its officials reported search-and-rescue operations off the coast of Kargan and near Larak Island, claiming local fishermen were missing. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins confirmed the attempted seizure on Tuesday. "Iranian small boats recently attempted to take possession of a U.S. unmanned surface vessel, but they were unsuccessful after CENTCOM forcefully responded," Hawkins said. "The surface drone remains under U.S. operational control." "What’s going on with drones generally in the Strait right now—when we see all these types of intel capture missions that Iran is launching—we need to make no mistake that these are very coordinated, absolutely deliberate drone capture missions," Cameron Chell, CEO of U.S. drone manufacturer Draganfly, told Fox News Digital. PENTAGON JUMPS FROM $225M TO $55B ON DRONES AS CHEAP ATTACKS OVERWHELM US DEFENSES Chell warned that even a brief examination of a captured drone provides Tehran with a quick win by revealing how the U.S. conducts surveillance and how to counter those systems. "If Iran captures a drone, it could give them an immediate tactical advantage," Chell said. "It may not yield specific classified data, but it gives insight into the theater of operations, which at any given moment offers an advantage. I wouldn’t doubt it for a heartbeat that it is escalating."  "Just getting little tidbits of intel starts to paint a picture, giving them different attack plans, battle plans, and thoughts on what the U.S. might be doing. I would be very surprised if this wasn’t an ongoing effort." WHO CONTROLS THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ RIGHT NOW? HERE'S WHAT THE SHIP TRAFFIC ACTUALLY SHOWS Iran's attempts to capture drones underscore growing security volatility in the Strait of Hormuz, the vital international shipping lane where commercial transit has fallen below historic levels since the war broke out in February. Chell emphasized that any access to captured hardware over the last six months would allow Iranian forces to evaluate sensitive onboard sensors. "It really speaks to the bigger picture of how the whole intelligence infrastructure works of, say, the Navy, for example," Chell said. "The other important thing is that when they get their hands on these drones—even if they’re only able to spend some time glimpsing at them before they have to evacuate or abort a mission—is they get a real understanding of the types of sensors on them." IRAN SAYS ITS SMALL SUBS DEPLOYED TO STRAIT OF HORMUZ AS EXPERT EXPLAINS THREAT: ‘VULNERABLE TO DETECTION’ "That gives them a complete picture of how they can launch attacks and evade the type of sensing equipment out there," Chell continued. "They can understand how to counter or measure the intelligence being gathered, and potentially use that design offensively in their own equipment." The latest escalation also follows a Sept. 8 incident involving Iran’s capture of a Dive-LD autonomous underwater drone manufactured by defense contractor Anduril. While Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey said the drone was designed to operate in "environments too dangerous for humans where capture is an expected possibility." "I can't get into the details, but it provided significant value for months before capture," Luckey dded. IRAN’S DRONE SWARMS CHALLENGE US AIR DEFENSES AS TROOPS IN MIDDLE EAST FACE RISING THREATS "Unboxing ceremony by our reverse engineers, tomorrow morning!" Iran’s embassy in Hyderabad also wrote on X. U.S. Navy representatives however, said the recovered drone was an older model that had malfunctioned and gone dead in the water. "The U.S. being alert to the fact that these are high-value targets dictates where and how they use and protect them," Chell noted. "I don’t doubt that the captured underwater drone had sensitive information on it, but that’s not the point. Again, the point is, they want to see the type of equipment and information being gathered, or view logs to see where it has been. This all just puts the U.S. on higher alert." Tehran has previously leveraged captured U.S. assets—including an RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone seized in 2011—to bolster domestic technology and regional propaganda. Then-President Barack Obama publicly asked Tehran to return the aircraft. Iran later claimed it reverse-engineered the platform to build domestic lookalikes. In 2022, a U.S. Navy patrol ship and an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter intercepted an Iranian naval vessel attempting to tow a Saildrone surface vessel in the Gulf. RUSSIA PREPARING HYBRID ATTACKS ON NATO'S EASTERN FLANK, INTELLIGENCE WARNS "Iran actually has a history of attempting this in the past, and at times has been successful," Chell said, noting Washington takes the threat "very, very seriously." "In other instances where they’ve gotten sail ship drones, for example, and tried to bring them into Iranian territory—" Chell said, pointing back to the RQ-170 seizure: "a number of Iranian drones look suspiciously like the RQ line." "Still, when the U.S. knows a drone has been captured, they adjust their tactics and operational overview accordingly," Chell, whose firm has been awarded a five-year contract by the Government of Canada to provide low-cost tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance uncrewed aircraft systems to the Canadian Armed Forces, concluded. "There is no question that autonomy and unmanned systems are the new standard in warfare," Chell said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9ec7075342cf4db866006 Airport X-ray shows terrifying object taped in carry-on to skip checked baggage fee te 2026-09-16T01:10:08.747Z Airport X-ray shows terrifying object taped in carry-on to skip checked baggage fee A traveler tried to dodge a $100 baggage fee by hiding a dangerous item inside her carry-on bag — but it wasn't long before she was caught red-handed. The unidentified passenger was going through security at Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin, when a TSA officer spotted what appeared to be a knife on an X-ray machine, according to an employee story published on the agency's website. Officers searched the bag and discovered the knife had been taped in place inside the luggage, according to TSA. TSA OFFICER SEES ALARMING SHAPES ON X-RAY BEFORE STOLEN CIVIL WAR MYSTERY UNRAVELS The passenger later admitted she tried to conceal the knife from TSA because she had an upcoming camping trip, the agency said. "Her response to me was, 'I was attempting to conceal this knife from TSA,'" Supervisory TSA Officer Andrew Kasten said. The admission, along with the discovery of the concealed knife, prompted Kasten to call law enforcement.  The Dane County Sheriff's Office and TSA Manager Annie Lu responded to the scene, TSA said. The woman told officers she did not think TSA would find the knife.  CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER She said she chose not to check her luggage because she wanted to avoid a $100 baggage fee, according to the agency. TSA Officer Callie Meis, who has worked for the agency for 22 years, first flagged the bag for additional screening after spotting the suspected knife on the X-ray. "I have encountered many knives over the years, but never in this position within a bag," Kasten said. Jim Kohn, who has worked for TSA for 21 years, said he's encountered knives that accidentally slipped through holes in purses, bag liners or jacket pockets. In this case, however, the passenger acknowledged deliberately securing the knife with tape. "Our team does a great job making sure every possible threat is found when we need to conduct additional screening," Kohn said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES TSA officers are trained to detect concealed items — and Kasten warned travelers against risking potential penalties in an effort to save money. "When contemplating the options of saving a few dollars or paying a federal civil penalty due to something hidden, I recommend being smart about it," Kasten said.  "For whatever reason you may be traveling, don't jeopardize your income or freedom just to save an item like this $5 knife." The passenger voluntarily surrendered the knife and was cleared to travel, according to TSA. Fox News Digital reached out to TSA for comment and further details. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9ea1d75342cf4db865f91 Lawmakers throw out 'Trojan horse' activists they say are engaged in American subversion te 2026-09-16T01:00:13.089Z Lawmakers throw out 'Trojan horse' activists they say are engaged in American subversion WASHINGTON, D.C. – CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and two fellow agitators entered the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing room 2272 today, wearing camera-ready T-shirts supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Communist Party of Cuba, turning themselves into a live demonstration of the "Trojan horses" for foreign influence that lawmakers had gathered to examine. At 2:39 p.m., about 30 minutes into the hearing's start, after Benjamin carefully photographed their T-shirt slogans appearing on the TV screen behind the witnesses, staffers on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia had had enough, and Capitol Hill police officers escorted Benjamin and her fellow agitators out of the room, as they protested their ejection for staging their trademark CodePink antics. For lawmakers, CodePink’s camera-conscious performance underscored the central point of the hearing: that protest theater, messaging and social-media content can function as parts of foreign influence operations. "It's really about theatrics," Subcommittee Chairman Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., later told Fox News Digital. "They're using it not to affect policy, but really to enrich themselves because they use that then to go out on social media, to try to whip other people up, to help donations, to help get volunteers, help get some of those other folks, and to really try to go and disrupt our – not just our sense of government and processing government – but society." HOUSE PANEL TO PROBE FOREIGN ‘TROJAN HORSES’ AS SINGHAM SCRUTINY WIDENS The hearing, "Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America," focused on the network of nonprofits, media outlets and activist groups that are promoting the interests of foreign governments and pro-communist ideologues, like Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. tech tycoon who lives in Shanghai, supporting the Chinese Communist Party. According to a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham has pumped $278 million into a far-left network of groups that have pushed anti-America, pro-China propaganda, including CodePink, which has received $1.33 million from Singham. Outside the hearing room, Benjamin refused to answer questions from Fox News Digital about the Singham funding, and instead slipped into the hearing room with her fellow activists and positioned themselves behind the witnesses in seats that get maximum TV exposure. Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, spotted Benjamin immediately and, in a tense back-and-forth with her, said "I’m telling Medea Benjamin that she should try to stop shilling for a communist tyranny." Standing on the committee hearing room floor, Benjamin defended herself as "anti-war," and denied any direction from the Chinese Communist Party. CUBA BUILT COVERT NETWORK INSIDE AMERICA THROUGH SPIES, ACTIVISTS AND UNIVERSITIES, STATE DEPT ALLEGES During opening remarks, Huizenga took direct aim at actors he said are tied to U.S. adversaries attempting to influence the American public, including Singham, CodePink and Marxist influencer Hasan Piker. "We are here today because America’s adversaries – China, Cuba, Iran, and Russia – are conducting covert influence campaigns to shape American thought and society through lies and censorship. These countries have one shared goal: to weaken the United States of America," Huizenga "A prominent example of these adversary efforts is Neville Roy Singham, who lives in China and uses his wealth and relationships with the CCP to provide millions of dollars and personnel to extremist groups like CodePink, the People’s Forum, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation to destabilize American society and promote communist ideology," he continued. A hub for pro-communist organizing in New York City, People’s Forum has received $22.44 million from Singham. The first to testify, Gonzalez said a "red-green" alliance of far-left groups working with Islamist organizations channel money through intermediary organizations and donor funds before directing funds toward U.S.-based groups that organize protests and produce political messaging. Gonzalez pointed to Cuba and China’s influence operations as the basis of a "sustained campaign of subversion against the United States." He described BreakThrough News as a media platform that amplifies demonstrations and promotes narratives aligned with Beijing, while arguing that the network’s causes — including Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, the environment and social justice — provide a constantly changing set of rallying points. BreakThrough BT Media runs BreakThrough News and has received $1.098 million from Singham, according to Fox News Digital’s reporting. The testimony also focused on Singham’s connections in Shanghai. Gonzalez cited research saying Singham shares premises with Maku Cultural Communication, a Chinese communications firm that promotes a favorable image of China, and was photographed attending a Chinese Communist Party strategic communications workshop in 2023. Gonzalez also pointed to connections between Singham-funded organizations and Chinese state-linked academic and media institutions. POWER COUPLE OF CHAOS: HOW A TYCOON AND ACTIVIST BUILT A 'REVOLUTIONARY BASE' AT THE HOUSE OF SINGHAM Singham and CodePink have denied that the organization takes direction from the Chinese government. Singham has said he is guided by his own political beliefs, while Benjamin has said CodePink receives no money from the Chinese Communist Party. No criminal charges have been filed against Singham or the organizations in connection with the allegations. Soon after, Sam Lyman, head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, presented the network as one of three overlapping channels of influence: Chinese state media and online campaigns, nonprofits supported by Singham, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist-Leninist organization that works closely with CodePink, People’s Forum and BreakThrough News. Lyman said Singham-funded groups had echoed Chinese messaging on artificial intelligence, data centers and U.S. technology policy, while the Party for Socialism and Liberation organizers helped mobilize opposition to data-center projects across the country. In the gallery, CodePink’s Benjamin stared at her phone, scrolling through messages. Lyman said his research identified 21 campaigns linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation in 14 states that contributed to data-center moratoriums, a permanent ban and the rejection or cancellation of several projects. He estimated that campaigns in which the Party for Socialism and Liberation played a role had delayed, reduced or blocked proposed AI infrastructure investment across the country. He cautioned, however, that opposition to data centers isn’t entirely manufactured and that many Americans had genuine concerns about electricity costs, environmental effects and local development. Finally, among the Republican witnesses, Matthew Johnson, senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a think tank, described the Singham network as an intermediary layer that translates themes associated with Beijing — including anti-imperialism, environmental harm, militarization, inequality and opposition to U.S. power — into activist language for American audiences. HASAN PIKER CALLS HAMAS 'FAR MORE MODERATE,' DISMISSES TERROR GROUP’S BRUTAL RULE IN GAZA His testimony identified the People’s Forum, BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, CodePink and the communist ANSWER Coalition as part of the broader ecosystem. Tricontinental Ltd. is a Massachusetts-based think tank led by a friend of Singham's, Vijay Prashad, who led a session on the future of Marxism at Singham's wedding to Evans. Singham provided $16.76 million to Tricontinental. "Beijing cannot simply command an American university, company, journalist, think tank or activist," Johnson said. "It must gain access and cultivate relationships within institutions that shape perception, expertise and decision-making." Democratic minority lawmakers called Donald Sherman, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, to the hearing as their witness. His opening remarks offered a dissenting opinion to the other witnesses, criticizing President Donald Trump for accepting a plane for Air Force One from Qatar and taking aim at Trump’s family’s business dealings with nations abroad. The phrase "Trojan horse" comes from the ancient Greek story in which soldiers concealed themselves inside a wooden horse presented as a gift to the city of Troy. Once the horse was brought inside the city, the soldiers emerged and opened the gates to the invading army. FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDER DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ'S 'EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM' NETWORK TIED TO AI REGULATION PUSH In modern foreign influence operations, lawmakers used the "Trojan horse" metaphor to describe seemingly legitimate people, organizations, media outlets, nonprofits or cultural initiatives that can provide hidden access for a foreign power's interests. The concern is that a foreign government, foreign intelligence service, wealthy foreign actor or proxy may use that structure to gain access to American audiences, political debates, institutions, policymaking or elections. After the last witness spoke, about 30 minutes into the hearing, Huizenga briefly suspended proceedings while U.S. Capitol Police approached Benjamin and her fellow agitators. "We do have some folks who have not verbally disrupted the committee as of yet," Huizenga said. "This has been deemed to be a protest by the clerk because of the nature of the shirts and what is happening." The shirts were still visible on the official feed of the hearing behind the witnesses. Video from inside the hearing room shows a Capitol Police officer approaching Benjamin at her seat and asking her to leave. Benjamin complied but protested. As the activists huddled outside with Capitol Police officers, ranking member Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., objected to the removal, saying the activists were "exercising their freedom of speech by wearing T-shirts" and "certainly were not being disruptive." CHINA EXPERT WARNS BEIJING WANTS AMERICANS — NOT THE CCP — TO SPREAD ITS MESSAGE Outside, Benjamin kept the performance going, strategically positioning herself beside the bronze committee placard and started filming a video about the political spectacle just staged, her Trader Joe bag beside her feet. Suddenly, she cut filming when she spotted Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., exiting the hearing room. Chasing after Fine, a strong opponent of the anti-semitism of the "red-green alliance" and a strong supporter of Israel, Benjamin hurled questions at her, her team filming the chase. After Fine entered an office, Benjamin returned to her spot outside the Foreign Affairs Committee hearing room, pulled out a comb to straighten her hair and returned to filming her remarks about the day’s hearing. The video complete, Benjamin disappeared down the hall with her fellow CodePink agitators. Soon after, CodePink published videos of their members disrupting a House Financial Services Committee to heckle Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. As Fox News Digital has reported, Bessent’s Treasury Department has been investigating CodePink and other organizations for possibly violating restrictions on doing business with the Communist Party of Cuba. Then, just about two hours after being escorted out of the hearing room, at 4:38 p.m., the CodePink team posted a carefully edited 43-second video of Benjamin standing outside the hearing room and chasing Fine, packaging the day’s confrontation into a ready-made social-media clip. Far-left activists from the Singham network quickly shared the CodePink video. Fox News Digital's Jesse Watson contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9ea1c75342cf4db865f88 Ryan Day hints at day of reckoning, vows to make 'hard decisions' after Ohio State's late-game Texas breakdown te 2026-09-16T01:00:12.072Z Ryan Day hints at day of reckoning, vows to make 'hard decisions' after Ohio State's late-game Texas breakdown Ohio State coach Ryan Day acknowledged that the Buckeyes’ late-game issues against Texas could be costly. He said the team’s struggles "are going to force us to make some hard decisions." The Buckeyes squandered a 20-point fourth-quarter lead Saturday before the Longhorns rallied for an improbable 24-23 victory. "We had an opportunity certainly to finish the game and knock them out there in the third quarter," Day told reporters on Tuesday. "It didn't happen. Then we lost momentum and couldn't get it back." HAS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PICTURE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL ALREADY CHANGED AFTER A STUNNING FIRST WEEK? Ohio State entered Saturday with a 115-game winning streak when leading by 20 points, the sixth-longest active streak in the FBS. The victory moved Texas to No. 1 in the latest AP Top 25, while Ohio State dropped to No. 6. "It's extremely frustrating, it's maddening," Day added. "And we're excited to get back on the field and get going because the last couple of days haven't been fun around here." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "We have to win the fourth quarter." Throughout the summer, Day returned to a theme he believed would define Ohio State’s season: Against a daunting schedule, the Buckeyes would have to find a way to win the fourth quarter. That mantra took shape after Ohio State failed to close out the final two games of the 2025 season, suffering late-game losses to Indiana and Miami. Those fourth-quarter miscues notably surfaced in last season's Big Ten championship game, when a missed field-goal attempt allowed Indiana to clinch the title. In the College Football Playoff quarterfinal, Miami responded with a 10-play touchdown drive in the fourth quarter to seal the Buckeyes’ defeat. "We have to do a better job of identifying how we're going to win these games in the fourth quarter as a group — and do it," Day said. "We put a lot of work into it, so to see it happen like that is extremely disappointing." While the Buckeyes look to regroup Saturday at home against Kent State, Ohio State’s 2026 schedule still includes road games against Big Ten opponents Indiana and USC, both ranked in the top 12. Indiana went undefeated last season en route to the program’s first national championship. Ohio State is scheduled to host Oregon the week after facing USC in Los Angeles, then close the regular season with three consecutive games against conference opponents. Day emphasized the push for Ohio State to use the painful loss to Texas as a lesson and emerge as a better team. "If we win that game, then we're not probably having those conversations. So as much as this hurts and is miserable, we have to move forward with it," the longtime Buckeyes coach said. "And the plan is to be a better, stronger team ... and making sure that as we get ourselves in that situation again, we're able to finish the game the way we should." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e7c175342cf4db865efc GOP anesthesiologist receives nod in uphill race to challenge top Senate Democrat te 2026-09-16T00:50:09.462Z GOP anesthesiologist receives nod in uphill race to challenge top Senate Democrat Former Democratic state lawmaker Mike Katz won Delaware's Republican Senate primary Tuesday, sending the state's GOP-backed candidate into a November fight against the Democratic nominee for a seat Republicans have not won in more than three decades. Katz defeated retired Army colonel John Shulli in the two-way Republican primary and will face three-term Democratic Sen. Chris Coons in the Nov. 3 general election. Katz, a pediatric anesthesiologist and business owner, previously served in the Delaware state Senate as a Democrat after winning election to the chamber in 2008. He represented the state's 4th Senate District until losing his re-election bid in 2012. RAUCOUS PRIMARY SEASON REACHES FINAL ACT IN DEEP-BLUE STRONGHOLD, KICKSTARTING SPRINT TO NOVEMBER The anesthesiologist has crossed party lines during his political career. Katz ran for U.S. Senate in 2024 as the Independent Party candidate, finishing third behind Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester and Republican Eric Hansen with about 4% of the vote.  He later registered his 2026 Senate candidacy as a Republican, according to Federal Election Commission records. Katz entered Tuesday's contest as the Delaware Republican Party's endorsed candidate. His campaign has focused on lowering the cost of living, reforming health care, protecting jobs in Delaware, and reducing federal spending, according to his campaign website. SUPREME COURT REJECTS TRUMP BID TO REVIVE STRICT MAIL-BALLOT RULES BEFORE MIDTERMS Katz characterized his move to the Republican Party as an alignment with long-held beliefs rather than a shift in his political views, telling FOX 29 that re-registering as a Republican "was not a change in principle" but an alignment with principles he had held for decades. "Our campaign is building a coalition. A coalition of Republicans, Independents and Democratic voters to win this race in November to defeat Chris Coons," Katz told supporters in an add ahead of Tuesday's primary. Katz will attempt to snap a decades-long losing streak for the party in Delaware Senate races. The GOP has not won a U.S. Senate election in the state since Republican Sen. William Roth won re-election in 1994. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e7c075342cf4db865ef3 Arizona man says he lost $475k home to HOA foreclosure over less than $1,000 in unpaid dues te 2026-09-16T00:50:08.638Z Arizona man says he lost $475k home to HOA foreclosure over less than $1,000 in unpaid dues An Arizona man had his $475,000 home sold from under him by his homeowners' association (HOA) after falling behind on his dues, which amounted to less than $1,000. Toby Newton, 53, purchased the four-bedroom home in in Mesa in 2022, but fell behind on his quarterly HOA dues after losing his sales job and being diagnosed with diabetes, he told Fox News Digital. In addition, his partner has been battling breast cancer, he said. "I was a year and a half behind because of the situation I found myself in with my girlfriend and myself getting sick," Newton said. "That's how it started. I called the HOA to make an arrangement with them to get them paid and they wouldn't talk to me. They told me I had to talk to their attorney and that's when it blew up." 83-YEAR-OLD WINS SETTLEMENT AFTER HONOLULU SLAPPED HER WITH $590K FINE OVER WEBSITE GLITCH Newton paid about $170 to the HOA every three months, eventually owing $977 after getting into financial trouble. Fox News Digital has reached out to the HOA's attorney. Newton reportedly contacted the Superstition Springs Community Master Association in an effort to work out a payment so he could catch up on his dues. Initially, he offered to pay an extra $50 per month on top of his monthly assessments in an effort to chip away at his debt. That was denied, he said. 83-YEAR-OLD WOMAN SUES HONOLULU AFTER WEBSITE ERROR TURNED INTO $590K NIGHTMARE A monthly increase of $200 was also rebuffed, he said. The HOA eventually began foreclosure proceedings. "I just don't understand how an HOA that's supposed to be there for the community doesn't work with the community at all," Newton said. Meanwhile, the debt ballooned to nearly $10,000, Newton said, mostly for attorney's fees for the HOA. The home was sold at a public auction in November 2025 for just $8,172, the Mesa Tribune reported. "The sale happened and I'm still in the house," said Newton. "I haven't been kicked out yet. That's what I'm trying to avoid. I'm just trying to save it because I don't know how it could go from owing them $977 to $10,000." Newton said he wasn't aware of the auction until two days before. He said he has no plans to leave the home, which he purchased to spend his golden years after retirement. "We are holding on to hope that we may still have a chance to buy our home back," an online fundraiser created by Newton and his partner states. TRUMP SCORES MAJOR WIN AS CONGRESS PASSES HOUSING CRACKDOWN ON WALL STREET INVESTORS HOAs have long been accused of abusing their authority and fining, or even foreclosing on homeowners, for committing even the most mundane violations. Across the country, many HOAs are taking a tougher stance on unpaid dues amid mounting financial pressures. Real estate experts have said the aggressive collection efforts are being driven by rising operating costs, shrinking reserve funds, and concerns that unpaid assessments could leave associations unable to cover essential expenses, FOX Business previously reported. HOA-related foreclosures have jumped nearly 40% compared with two years earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported in August. FOX Business' Bonny Chu contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e7bf75342cf4db865eea Federal judge refers Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner to DOJ for possible criminal investigation te 2026-09-16T00:50:07.816Z Federal judge refers Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner to DOJ for possible criminal investigation A federal judge referred Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and top deputy Matthew Stiegler to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday for possible criminal investigation. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond said evidence uncovered in a murder conviction case could constitute false statements, perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy.  Neither man has been charged. PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT DEBATES FUTURE OF IMPEACHMENT TRIAL FOR PHILADELPHIA PROSECUTOR LARRY KRASNER Diamond also disqualified Krasner and Stiegler from the case but declined to disqualify the entire DA's office. "I respectfully and vigorously disagree with the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law," Krasner said in a statement. "I look forward to appealing to the higher court as soon as the law allows. This remains a pending matter, which limits for now my and my office’s ability to respond in the media." The DOJ did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Fox News' Jennifer Johnson contributed to this story. This is a developing story; please check back later for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e56f75342cf4db865e84 More than $11K later, Maricopa bingo keeps giving back te 2026-09-16T00:40:15.661Z More than $11K later, Maricopa bingo keeps giving back Monday night bingo at Duke’s Roadhouse is about more than winning. It’s also about giving.   The weekly event, coordinated by nonprofit Maricopa Moose donates all bingo proceeds to benefit local charities. Every month, the fraternal organization committee votes on a local charity to reap the bingo benefits.  The most recent picks were Maricopa Arts Council and Maricopa Mustangs Special Olympics, receiving more than $1,700 combined. Both checks were matched 100% by Duke’s Roadhouse.  That’s a tradition the restaurant started when they offered to host bingo nights.   “Duke’s liked the concept and idea, and came to us asking if they could match,” said Maricopa Moose President Andrew Anderson.  Kaui Wilson, owner of Art and Sip, accepted the $700 donation on behalf of the Maricopa Arts Council. The arts organization hosts a variety of events, including concerts, lecture series, competitions, galas and gallery events, as well as providing scholarships for local artists.  “We’re here to empower the arts here in Maricopa,” Wilson said.  Gene Coleman accepted the $1,024 donation on behalf of Maricopa Mustangs.  “The reason I even got started with Special Olympics is because of my son, Gage,” Coleman said.  The local nonprofit provides additional athletic opportunities outside of Little League for those with special needs. The organization is in its second season and has more than 70 athletes, ranging from 8 to 56 years old.  Since last October, bingo nights have garnered over $11,500 from proceeds and Duke’s Roadhouse matching.  In addition to supporting local organizations, bingo proceeds help fund a future Moose lodge and Moose International’s residential communities for children and seniors in need, Mooseheart and Moosehaven.  “We’re so happy to be partnered with Maricopa Moose and to match their donations,” said Duke’s Roadhouse Manager Aaron Cicero.  Maricopa Moose bingo night at Duke's Roadhouse Sept. 14, 2026. [Karen Bartunek] Maricopa Moose bingo night at Duke's Roadhouse on Sept. 14, 2026. [Karen Bartunek] Gene Coleman accepting a check for Maricopa Mustangs during Maricopa Moose bingo night at Duke's Roadhouse on Sept. 14, 2026. From left to right: Kelly Garcia, Maricopa Moose; Kaui Wilson, Maricopa Arts Council; Gage Coleman; Gene Coleman, Maricopa Mustangs Special Olympics; Aaron Cicero, Manager of Duke's Roadhouse; and Andrew Anderson, President of Maricopa Moose on Sept. 14, 2026.[Karen Bartunek] Aaron Cicero presenting Duke's matched checks during Maricopa Moose bingo night at Duke's Roadhouse Sept. 14, 2026. From left to right: Kelly Garcia, Maricopa Moose; Kaui Wilson, Maricopa Arts Council; Gage Coleman; Gene Coleman, Maricopa Mustangs Special Olympics; Aaron Cicero, Manager of Duke's Roadhouse; and Andrew Anderson, President of Maricopa Moose on Sept. 14, 2026.[Karen Bartunek] Maricopa Moose bingo night at Duke's Roadhouse Sept. 14, 2026. [Karen Bartunek] Maricopa Moose bingo night at Duke's Roadhouse Sept. 14, 2026. [Karen Bartunek] The post More than $11K later, Maricopa bingo keeps giving back appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e31a75342cf4db865df8 Trump admin imposes new visa restrictions over alleged racial discrimination, land seizures in South Africa te 2026-09-16T00:30:18.251Z Trump admin imposes new visa restrictions over alleged racial discrimination, land seizures in South Africa The Trump administration announced new visa restrictions Tuesday targeting foreign nationals in South Africa who it says are responsible for race-based discrimination, uncompensated land seizures or inciting imminent violence against racial and ethnic minorities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the policy under a provision of federal immigration law allowing him to deem foreign nationals inadmissible when their entry into the U.S. could have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences. The restrictions will target foreign nationals who are responsible for, or complicit in, enacting or implementing laws or policies that the State Department says enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination or the incitement of imminent violence against minority ethnic or racial groups in South Africa. RUBIO UNVEILS VISA RESTRICTIONS TARGETING CYBERCRIME NETWORKS Rubio sharpened the administration's criticism of the South African government in a post on X announcing the restrictions Tuesday. "As @POTUS has made clear, the South African people are being failed by a government that is destroying its economy through an obsessive pursuit of racial grievance against the Afrikaner minority," Rubio wrote. Rubio accused South Africa's government of failing to adequately address rural crime, what he described as "violent and dehumanizing rhetoric," and discriminatory policies targeting Afrikaners and other minority groups. RUBIO PUSHES BACK ON INDIA'S CONCERNS OVER US VISA CURBS, SAYS POLICY MUST BE 'AMERICA FIRST' UNDER TRUMP "Those responsible for these injustices have no place in the United States," Rubio wrote. Family members may also be subject to the restrictions, according to the State Department. The announcement marks the latest escalation in the Trump administration's dispute with the South African government over its treatment of Afrikaners and other minority populations. 'NARCO-TERRORIST' FAMILY MEMBERS TARGETED IN RUBIO'S LATEST VISA CRACKDOWN President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February 2025 directing federal agencies to halt aid to South Africa to the extent permitted by law and directing the State and Homeland Security departments to prioritize humanitarian relief for Afrikaners who the administration says are victims of racial discrimination. The order specifically cited South Africa's Expropriation Act and accused the government of enabling the seizure of Afrikaner agricultural property without compensation, along with pursuing other discriminatory policies. Rubio said Tuesday that the administration does not believe South Africa has adequately addressed its concerns. The new restrictions are being imposed under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, according to the State Department. The White House and State Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e31975342cf4db865def Patriots RB TreVeyon Henderson slams state overreach after Catholic family loses custody in gender case te 2026-09-16T00:30:17.376Z Patriots RB TreVeyon Henderson slams state overreach after Catholic family loses custody in gender case New England Patriots running back TreVeyon Henderson condemned state authorities in Massachusetts after a Catholic family lost legal custody of their teenage daughter for refusing to affirm her gender transition, invoking Bible scripture to argue that government agencies are violating fundamental parental rights. Henderson took to social media to react to the case involving Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, whose 15-year-old daughter was removed from their home by child welfare authorities. Quoting Scripture, the NFL player stressed the sacred responsibility placed upon parents to guide their children according to their religious beliefs. TRUMP DOJ EXPANDS RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTIONS AFTER MAJOR SUPREME COURT RULINGS "The God we serve commands parents to 'Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.' Proverbs 22:6," Henderson wrote. "Yet, this God given right that these parents have is being stripped away from them by the state." Henderson emphasized that the parents were acting out of faith and love when objecting to the transition. "These parents who want to honor our Lord and lead their daughter into the truth, and away from what she can’t see what will destroy her, just as God has entrusted the parents to do," he posted. "May justice be served." FIRST ON FOX: SCHOOL LIED, HID DAUGHTER'S GENDER TRANSITION UNDER DISTRICT POLICY, PARENTS ALLEGE The case began at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough, Massachusetts, where a school counselor allegedly socially transitioned the teenager without her parents' knowledge or consent. When the Kutzkos discovered the counselor was calling their daughter by a male name and male pronouns, they expressed objection based on their traditional Catholic faith. Following the parents' objection, the counselor filed a report with the Department of Children and Families (DCF). State officials subsequently obtained full legal guardianship of the minor and issued a restraining order that prevents the parents and her older brother from having any contact with her. Although allegations of physical abuse against the father were determined to be unfounded, DCF maintained state guardianship. TRUMP DIRECTS CMS ADMINISTRATOR MEHMET OZ TO END MEDICAID GENDER TRANSITION FUNDING FOR MINORS The family recently secured a crucial legal victory when a state judge granted a temporary injunction prohibiting DCF from administering cross-sex hormone therapy, including high-dose testosterone, to the minor while the lawsuit proceeds. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Attorneys representing the parents argued that medical intervention without parental consent would cause irreversible harm. Henderson, whom New England selected in the 2025 NFL Draft out of Ohio State, has frequently used his platform to share his Christian faith. The Kutzkos are continuing their legal fight to overturn the state’s custody determination and restore their parental rights, with the next scheduled court hearing set for October 29. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e31875342cf4db865de6 Dem senator defeats challenger named 'No-Trump' in Delaware primary te 2026-09-16T00:30:16.415Z Dem senator defeats challenger named 'No-Trump' in Delaware primary A Democratic stalwart cruised to a primary victory in Delaware on Tuesday, including fending off an opponent with an anti-Trump name. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., easily held on against a small field of primary challengers and clinched the Democratic nomination for Senate in a race for a third term that he’s expected to win in November, and he did it while besting an opponent with an unusual name: E. No-Trump Hansen. Hansen, formerly known as Eric Hansen, a former business executive, ran on a platform of curbing presidential power. His solution to President Donald Trump’s "worst impulses" was to pass legislation that would limit presidential power to "restore real checks and balances, and root out corruption and self-dealing." RAUCOUS PRIMARY SEASON REACHES FINAL ACT IN DEEP-BLUE STRONGHOLD, KICKSTARTING SPRINT TO NOVEMBER "The name E. (Eric) No-Trump Hansen isn't a gimmick — it's his complete commitment to positive change," his campaign website said. Hansen told local outlet WHYY that he changed his name to reflect his opposition to Trump. "Trump has said he’ll go after his critics by any means available," Hansen said. "He will go after me, but I’m willing to bear that risk anyway — because the alternative is letting things get worse for Delawareans." MCCONNELL RETURNS AFTER MONTHS-LONG ABSENCE FOR CRUCIAL VOTE A statement of candidacy filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) showed that Hansen officially began campaigning under his new moniker in July. Previously, Hansen ran as a Republican in 2024 and scored the GOP nomination. He ultimately lost to Sen. Lisa Blunt-Rochester, D-Del. Meanwhile, Coons’ victory over Hansen, Jeff Appelhans and Mary Louve tees up a November challenge against either Mike Katz or John Shulli. REPUBLICAN CAVALRY ARRIVES FOR KEN PAXTON AS BIG-BUCKS TEXAS OFFENSIVE OPENS CASH FLOODGATES And Coons, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, has history on his side. The lawmaker first entered Congress to replace then-Sen. Joe Biden, who was tapped by former President Barack Obama to be his running mate. He won his first full term in 2014 and has maintained his grip on the position ever since. The First State hasn’t sent a Republican to the upper chamber since 1966, when former Sen. J. Caleb Boggs lost re-election. Boggs was ousted by a 29-year-old Biden, cementing Delaware as a deep-blue stronghold for decades to come. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e31575342cf4db865dc9 Lady Lobos earn hard fought win over Northwest Christian te 2026-09-16T00:30:13.227Z Lady Lobos earn hard fought win over Northwest Christian By Greg Perkins The Lobos played one regular-season match last week before competing in the Westwood Tournament of Champions.  Results for that tournament were not available. Their regular season match was a battle. On Tuesday, the team traveled to Northwest Christian to take on last year’s state runner-up, which posted an overall record of 21-4.  Snowflake ended last year’s season in the 3A state semifinal round with a loss to the Crusaders in five games. Tuesday, the Lady Lobos avenged last year’s loss, although, like the semifinal, it took five games.  Snowflake won the first 25-16, but dropped the second 23-25. They took game three 25-21, but lost the fourth 18-25 in the back-and-forth match.  Snowflake won the decisive 5th game 15-11. Snowflake finished with 53 total kills, led by Mairead Stradling’s 15.  Josie Clare added 12, Mary Orr 9, Aubree Denhalter 8, Olivia Brimhall 5, and Alyse Kay 4. Kinzie Flake served 4 aces; Mary Orr 3, Alyse Kay, and Josie Clare each had two. Lucy Lyman led the team in digs with 29; Kinzie Flake added 13. Alyse Kay was the leader in assists with 23, and Kinzie Flake added 18. A busy week ahead for the Lobos, although it is all at home. Monday, they host Winslow; Tuesday, it’s St. Johns, then over the weekend they will host the Snowflake Be Like Nat Invitational tournament. They are scheduled to see St. Johns, Tuba City, and Red Mountain in Friday’s pool play. Saturday will be bracket play. Next Tuesday, they return to regular-season action with a trip to Show Low. Snowflake is 4-2 in regular-season matches entering this week. The post Lady Lobos earn hard fought win over Northwest Christian first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e31475342cf4db865dc0 Lobos earn a shutout over Grand Canyon te 2026-09-16T00:30:12.408Z Lobos earn a shutout over Grand Canyon By Greg Perkins The Lobos played once last week, performing well at Grand Canyon. The long road trip didn’t hinder them at all as they shut out the Phantoms 8-0, improving their overall season record to 5-1-1. This week, the team hosts an unbeaten Camp Verde squad on Tuesday before competing in the Show Low Tournament over the weekend. They are slated to face Blue Ridge and St. Johns on Friday, then enter bracket play on Saturday. The Lady Lobos were also in action only once, with a different result. Tuesday evening, they were in St. Johns, where they were blanked by the Redskins 2-0. Snowflake has a lull in their schedule with no games scheduled for this week. They will need to use the time off to prepare for a busy week when they return to action on September 22nd with a trip to Page. That is followed by a trip to Round Valley on three consecutive days. Thursday the 24th is a regular-season match with the Elks.  Friday and Saturday, they will compete in the Turf Wars tournament hosted by Round Valley. They are scheduled to face Northland Prep and Winslow on Friday, then will face the host team, Round Valley, on Saturday, before bracket play on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Lobos are currently 6-1-1 as they head into this week off. The post Lobos earn a shutout over Grand Canyon first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e31375342cf4db865db7 Lobos compete at Cougar Invitational te 2026-09-16T00:30:11.553Z Lobos compete at Cougar Invitational By Greg Perkins Snowflake had four runners finish the Women’s race at the Cougar Invite in Show Low on Thursday this past week. Brielle Reidhead paced the quartet, placing 24th with a time of 30:11.40.  Jobie Benally was 32nd, Lila Stewart 36th, and Violet Packer finished 37th in the thirty-nine-runner field. The Lobos didn’t have enough runners to qualify a team score. Coconino won the team crown with a perfect score of 15. Lady Panther runners took the top seven places. Tuba City and San Carlos tied for second with 76; Show Low was 4th with 95, and Blue Ridge finished 5th with 116. The Boys’ team crown went to Tuba City with 27 points.  Coconino followed in second with 38, Snowflake was 3rd with 74, San Carlos 4th with 115, and Blue Ridge placed 5th with 120.  Forty-five runners completed the race. Snowflake’s top runner was Logan Jones, who placed 9th in 19:34.73.  Scott Brinton was 12th, Woodrow Lowry 14th, Talmage Flake 17th, John Young 22nd, Cody Potter 29th, and Brayden Bentley finished 36th. Snowflake’s team will compete at the Four Corners meet this coming Saturday at Buffalo Park in Flagstaff. The post Lobos compete at Cougar Invitational first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e31275342cf4db865dae Battle of the Bulldogs suspended te 2026-09-16T00:30:10.710Z Battle of the Bulldogs suspended By K. Conner On Sept 11, the Winslow Bulldogs traveled to Safford to take on the Bulldogs at their Homecoming. The game was delayed from the start due to lighting. But it would get underway about twenty minutes late. Safford would score on their first play of the game when their quarterback would run 51 yards for the touchdown. Winslow would have a fumble on receiving the kick-off turning the ball back to Safford. The Winslow defense would push Safford back with a sack and reading the play that also cost Safford yards until their quarterback would do 48 yards on a third down for the touchdown. Shortly after the second touchdown the game would again go into delay which after an hour the game was suspended and will resume again on Oct. 8th at 6 p.m. where the game will resume mid-way in the first quarter with Safford leading by 14. The Winslow Bulldogs will be back in action at home on Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. when they will host the Knights of Gilbert Christian. The post Battle of the Bulldogs suspended first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e31175342cf4db865da5 Lady Bulldogs fall to Lady Warriors te 2026-09-16T00:30:09.056Z Lady Bulldogs fall to Lady Warriors By K. Conner On Sept. 8, the Winslow Lady Bulldogs would host the Lady Warriors of ALA-Ironwood in their season opener. The Lady Bulldogs are young but they are relentless. The match would go four sets with two sets going to extra points to determine the winner. First set would be nip and tuck with the Lady Bulldogs coming back from trailing seven points at one point. ALA-Ironwood 25, Winslow 23. In the second set the Lady Warriors would jump out in the lead and keep it throughout. ALA-Ironwood 25, Winslow 17. Third set the Lady Warriors would try to sub-in bench but have to quickly sub back in their starters as the Lady Bulldogs would take the set with an extra point. ALA-Ironwood 24, Winslow 26. Fourth set would again go to extra points with the Lady Warriors taking the match. ALA-Ironwood 26, Winslow 24. Winslow had: 14 Aces led by Amiah Nez with 5 Aces; 33 Kills led by A Nez with 12 Kills; 128 Attacks led by A Nez with 51 Attacks; 76 Digs led by Kassidy Belone with 20 Digs; 29 Assists led by Kylin Nez with 16 Assists. ALA-Ironwood had: 13 Aces led by Emilee Rodriguez with 4 Aces; 56 Kills led by Faith Brady with 17 Kills; 174 Attacks led by Brady with 38 Attacks; 76 Digs led by Rodriguez with 15 Digs; 49 Assists led by Paisley Blair with 28 Assists. The post Lady Bulldogs fall to Lady Warriors first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e31075342cf4db865d9c Lady Bulldogs fall to Lady Mustangs te 2026-09-16T00:30:08.192Z Lady Bulldogs fall to Lady Mustangs By K. Conner On Sept. 10. the Lady Bulldogs traveled to Kayenta to take on the Lady Mustangs of Monument Valley. The Lady Bulldogs would fall in three straight sets against the seasoned Lady Mustangs. First set Monument Valley 25, Winslow 14. Second set Monument Valley 25, Winslow 19. Third set Monument Valley 25, Winslow 21. Winslow had: 7 Aces led by Taylor Rios with 3 Aces; 20 Kills led by Amiah Nez with 8 Kills; 85 Attacks led by A. Nez with 30 Attacks; 44 Digs led by Brielle Bencanti with 7 Digs along with A Nez, Rios and Nalani Chee each with 6 Digs; 16 Assists led by Kylin Nez and Amorita Espinoza each with 6 Assists. No stats available for Monument Valley. The post Lady Bulldogs fall to Lady Mustangs first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e30a75342cf4db865d5f We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says te 2026-09-16T00:30:02.400Z We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI isn't some kind of new form of "alien mind," according to Jensen Huang. It's just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by each AI product maker. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e0bb75342cf4db865d17 Roadrunners find their first win against Window Rock te 2026-09-16T00:20:11.516Z Roadrunners find their first win against Window Rock By Greg Perkins Holbrook went to Window Rock on Friday night in search of a much-needed first win of the season, and they got it, outlasting the Scouts 20-16. The Roadrunners started quickly, with Drayden Baldonado connecting with Nathaniel Chatto on the third play of the game for a 78-yard catch-and-run.  Baldonado ran in the two-point conversion, and Holbrook led early 8-0. Baldonado picked up his second score of the night late in the first half, finding Myles Nockideneh for a short score, giving Holbrook 14 points at the half. Early in the fourth quarter, Holbrook’s final points of the game came on a 12-yard rushing score from Baldonado. Holbrook’s Sophomore quarterback finished the night completing 8 of 17 passes for 199 yards with two touchdowns. He also carried three times for 17 total yards with a third score. Ordell Laughter led the ground attack with 61 yards on 21 attempts. Roman Candelaria gained 27 yards on two runs. Jeremiah Ross rushed four times, picking up 9 yards. Nathaniel Chatto’s 78-yard touchdown reception led all receivers in yards. Myles Nockideneh caught three for 43 yards with a score. Dustin Tsabetsaye had one 38-yard reception. Adian Stump had two catches for 31 total yards. Kevin Brock had one 9-yard grab. With the win, Holbrook moved their season mark to 1-3.  They are scheduled to host a struggling Wickenburg team for Senior Night on Friday. The Wranglers have low numbers and are playing an independent schedule this year with only six games as they try to rebuild what was once a solid program. They have played just two games this year with a 44-0 win over Greyhills in week one, and a 16-52 loss to Hopi on Friday night. The Wranglers have forfeited once this season due to low numbers. If there is a game, the Roadrunners should be primed to put together a two-game winning streak before traveling to Pinon on September 25th. The post Roadrunners find their first win against Window Rock first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e0ba75342cf4db865d0e Lady Roadrunners fared well last week te 2026-09-16T00:20:10.642Z Lady Roadrunners fared well last week By Greg Perkins Holbrook had a three-match homestand last week and fared well, picking up their first two regular-season wins in the process. Hosting Coolidge on Tuesday, the Roadrunners prevailed in four games. After dropping game one 18-25, they regrouped to win a close game two 25-23, then won the third game more easily 25-14.  Coolidge didn’t go easily in the fourth, where Holbrook eventually closed out the match with a 25-23 win. Thursday, Alchesay visited Mike Starr Gym, where Holbrook is playing its home games this season. The Falcons played well early, handing Holbrook a 19-25 loss. Like the previous match, Holbrook bounced back, winning the next three games, though the second game was a marathon that the Birds eventually won 31-29.  They took game three 25-22, then closed out the match with a 25-21 game four win. Saturday afternoon, Page made a visit that took five games to decide the winner.  Holbrook dropped the first game 22-25, but won the second 25-23 between the two evenly matched squads.  The Birds dropped a close Game 3, 24-26, but forced a 5th game with a 25-13 win in Game 4. In the fifth, Page jumped out to an early lead before winning the game and the match 15-10. This week, Holbrook will travel to Ganado on Monday, then will host Window Rock on Friday. Next week they host Monument Valley for a region contest on Thursday. The Lady Roadrunners now have a 2-4 regular-season record heading into this week. The post Lady Roadrunners fared well last week first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e0b975342cf4db865d05 Roadrunners win over Williams and Winslow te 2026-09-16T00:20:09.791Z Roadrunners win over Williams and Winslow By Greg Perkins Holbrook’s boys’ soccer team had a solid week, picking up back-to-back wins over Williams and Winslow to balance their overall season record at 2-2-1. Hosting the Vikings on Wednesday evening last week, both teams battled in a defensive struggle. Neither team could find the mark through all of the first half and the first thirty-five minutes of the second half before Braydon Taliman finally edged a shot past the Williams keeper for the only goal of the game.  The Vikings came close to tying the match in the waning moments, but two close shots were missed, leaving Holbrook with a hard-fought 1-0 win. Playing in Winslow on Saturday afternoon, Holbrook had an easier time, finding the goal four different times to beat the Bulldogs 4-0. Tildyn Larson scored twice; Di’ondro Charley and Sebastian Hernandez each scored once. This week, the team will play a 4 p.m. game in Round Valley on Tuesday, then will compete in the Show Low Tournament this coming weekend.  They are slated to face Round Valley and Winslow on Friday, then host team Show Low on Saturday, before playing in the bracket Saturday afternoon. The Lady Roadrunners are looking for small successes at this point in the season, and they were rewarded with their first goal of the year at Camp Verde on Thursday afternoon. Playing in temperatures over 100 degrees, Holbrook’s Camesha Bahe found the back of the net for Holbrook’s lone goal in a 9-1 loss to the Lady Cowboys. Saturday afternoon, Holbrook was in Winslow, where they failed to score in a 0-6 loss to the Lady Bulldogs, bringing their season record to 0-5. Holbrook travels to Round Valley on Tuesday, then will host St. Johns on Thursday this week. Both games are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. The post Roadrunners win over Williams and Winslow first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e0b975342cf4db865cfc Roadrunners compete at Window Rock meet te 2026-09-16T00:20:09.007Z Roadrunners compete at Window Rock meet By Greg Perkins The Roadrunner cross-country teams were in Window Rock on Friday to compete in the Window Rock Invitational meet. Holbrook joined 12 other schools. Ganado won the boys’ team event with 35 points.  Window Rock was 2nd with 86, Miyamura 3rd with 96, Tohatchi 4th with 97, and Holbrook finished 5th as a team with 142 points. The Roadrunners were paced by Tyler Begay, who finished 14th overall with a time of 18:17.10. Anthony Moyte finished 17th, Ethan Nez 35th, Daman Nez 39th, Gerald Belin 48th, and Brayden Smith finished 52nd in the 76-runner field. The Lady Roadrunners had three runners complete the varsity race. Krishauna Monongya led the trio, placing 16th with a time of 21:48.86.  Hannah Nez was 43rd, and Mollie Larson finished 51st. Sixty-eight runners finished the event. Gallup won the girls team crown with 41 points, followed by Tohatchi, Monument Valley, Window Rock, and Miyamura in 5th place. Holbrook’s runners will next compete in Flagstaff on Saturday at the Four Corners event held at Buffalo Park in Flagstaff. The post Roadrunners compete at Window Rock meet first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e0b875342cf4db865cf3 Wildcats earn a home win against San Manuel te 2026-09-16T00:20:08.261Z Wildcats earn a home win against San Manuel By Greg Perkins The Wildcats are now 3-1 on the season after their win over visiting San Manuel on Friday night. The Miners came in on the heels of back-to-back losses, and Joseph City kept that trend going with a comfortable 40-14 home-field win. Joseph City is looking for its first three-game winning streak since the 2018 season if it can get past Baboquivari on Friday night. The long road trip to take on the 0-3 Warriors should achieve that mark for the Wildcats. Looking ahead, Joseph City has a favorable upcoming schedule, with only one team in the next five weeks currently having a winning record.  Williams (October 2nd) is 4-0 and, along with rival Mogollon (October 16th), could be the biggest roadblocks to the Wildcats putting together a very good season if they can keep their current momentum going. The post Wildcats earn a home win against San Manuel first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e0b775342cf4db865cea Lady Wildcats split matches last week te 2026-09-16T00:20:07.457Z Lady Wildcats split matches last week By Greg Perkins The Lady Wildcats played twice last week, splitting their two matches.  They defeated visiting Dishchii’bikoh on Tuesday, then lost at home to Round Valley on Friday. The Wildcats dominated Tuesday’s match, winning in three straight games: 25-20, 25-16, and 25-10. Tori Beatty led in kills with 7. Jackie Richards added 6, and Julianna Fraley finished with 5. Joseph City served the ball well, recording 17 total aces, led by Kynlee Miller’s 4. Tori Beatty, Reese Fish, and Julianna Fraley each had 3. Shenoa Skidmore led in digs with 19, and Jackie Richards finished with 16.  Beatty led the team in assists with 11. Friday’s match with the Elks started well, with the Cats taking game one 25-23.  Round Valley tied it, winning game two 25-22.  The Elks then controlled game three, 25-11, and ended it with a game four win, 25-16. Beatty led in kills with 10, and Richards had 6, and Peyton Bushman 5. Fish and Emma Faulkner each had 2 aces. Four players recorded double figures in digs, including Shenoa Skidmore with 24, Jackie Richards with 18, and Kynlee Miller and Tori Beatty, each with 12. This week, the Wildcats will play twice again. Tuesday, they travel to Anthem Prep, then Saturday they will host Fort Thomas.  Next Tuesday, the team plays at St. Johns. Joseph City enters next week with an overall record of 4-11-1. They are 2-1 in conference play. The post Lady Wildcats split matches last week first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e0b675342cf4db865ce1 Wildcats compete at Show Low meet te 2026-09-16T00:20:06.518Z Wildcats compete at Show Low meet By Greg Perkins The Wildcat runners competed in the Cougar Invite in Show Low last Thursday. Lileah Kinlicheenie placed 9th with a time of 24:14.57 in the women’s varsity race.  Karly Hansen finished 16th with a time of 26:14.84 in the 39-runner field. Forty-five runners finished the boys’ varsity event. William Grant led the Wildcat group with a 28th-place finish in 22:05.80.  Jimmy McLaws was 35th, Brayden Bushman 44th, and Caleb Case placed 45th. This week, Joseph City will compete in the Chuck Hardt Invitational hosted by Payson High School on Tuesday. They will have a ten-day break following the meet to prepare for the large Desert Twilight meet on September 25th. The post Wildcats compete at Show Low meet first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e0b575342cf4db865cd8 Lobos hard fought win over Bradshaw Mountain te 2026-09-16T00:20:05.583Z Lobos hard fought win over Bradshaw Mountain By Greg Perkins Snowflake passed their first big test of the season on Friday night with a hard-fought 17-10 home-field win over Bradshaw Mountain in a battle of unbeaten teams. Last year’s game was a three-point Lobo win, so this game was expected to be close, which it was. Snowflake scored first when Maverick Greer found Colter Willis for a 45-yard connection in the opening quarter, taking a 7-0 lead with McCoy Norton’s point-after. The Bears got on the board late in the first half with a 37-yard field goal, making it 7-3, which was the halftime score. Snowflake’s defense was up to the task most of the night, and an interception on Bradshaw’s opening possession of the second half set up a short field for the Lobos. Brenner Green took advantage, scoring from 14 yards out, extending the lead to 14-3 with Norton’s kick. With both defenses forcing several punts both ways, the Lobos finally got a big play when Maverick Greer found Maddox Wood for a big gain inside the Bears’ 5-yard line. That set up McCoy Norton’s 25-yard field goal for an insurance 3 points, giving the Lobos a 17-3 lead. The Bears scored with three minutes left in the game, closing the gap to 17-10. A Lobo fumble gave Bradshaw some late hope, but Snowflake’s defense forced a turnover on downs, securing the 17-10 win. Maverick Greer completed 5 of 10 passes for 102 yards with one touchdown. Eli Willis had two catches for 45 yards.  Colter Willis had one 45-yard catch for a score, and Brenner Green picked up 12 yards on two short passes. On the ground, Green was a workhorse. The Senior back carried it 23 times, picking up 166 yards with one score. He was the only runner to get positive yards for the Lobos, who finished with 250 total yards of offense. Snowflake, now 3-0, can turn their attention to this week’s game played at Catalina Foothills. The Falcons are winless on the season, having been outscored 136-50 in their first three games. Barring a huge letdown by the Lobos, they should easily move to 4-0 on Friday. The post Lobos hard fought win over Bradshaw Mountain first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9e0b275342cf4db865cb4 Trump Plans Blitz of $138 Million and Counting to Save Midterm Republicans te 2026-09-16T00:20:02.241Z Trump Plans Blitz of $138 Million and Counting to Save Midterm Republicans His powerful super PAC is suddenly spending heavily on some races, after drawing fire from some Republicans that the group might not throw its weight behind the party’s candidates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9de6975342cf4db865c57 Color Run te 2026-09-16T00:10:17.809Z Color Run Photo by Shawn White Volunteers douse Navajo County Supervisor Alberto Peshlakai in powdered color as he makes his way through the Color Run 5K in Winslow last Saturday. The run was hosted by Winslow Indian Health Care Center and the Winslow Chamber of Commerce as part of the community’s Route 66 Centennial celebration. The post Color Run first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9de6875342cf4db865c4e Endangered cactus part of the hidden beauty of local area te 2026-09-16T00:10:16.844Z Endangered cactus part of the hidden beauty of local area Image by Rebou The Peebles Navajo cactus is a tiny cactus that grows up to 3 inches tall and is limited to the areas of Joseph City and Holbrook. By Holli Salley When people think of endangered species, their minds may turn to elephants, rhinoceroses or animals living thousands of miles away. But one endangered species is much closer to home for Navajo County residents. The Peebles Navajo cactus is a tiny cactus found only in northern Arizona. The species was listed as endangered in 1979 and remains federally protected even today. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the cactus grows only a few inches tall, with a small, rounded body that can easily blend into the rocky ground around it. For Joseph City resident and high school science teacher Jess Bushman, the cactus embodies something she wishes more people recognized about this part of northern Arizona: that beauty does not always announce itself. In communities such as ours, she said, some of the most remarkable features require people to slow down, look around and appreciate what is already here. The Peebles Navajo cactus is an especially striking example. Its natural range is extraordinarily limited, occurring in two core populations located near Holbrook and Joseph City. According to the National Park Service, it grows only in the old gravelly soil channels of the Little Colorado River, where sparse vegetation and well-drained ground provide the specialized habitat it needs. The cactus can be easy to overlook. Often only the tops of its small, rounded stems protrude above the ground, where white spines form distinctive twisted crosses. In late April, yellow-green flowers bloom and can grow larger than the cactus stem itself. More than 20 years of monitoring have shown that Peebles Navajo cactus populations tend to increase during wet years and decrease during dry ones. During dry periods, the plants can die from water stress and may also become food for rabbits and other rodents when more desirable vegetation is scarce. Human activities, including off-road vehicle use, livestock grazing and gravel quarrying, have also contributed to threats facing the species. For Bushman, protecting a species like the Peebles Navajo cactus is about more than preserving one small plant. It is also about recognizing what makes this area unique. Northern Arizona may not always fit the traditional picture of natural beauty, especially when compared with forests, mountains or greener landscapes, but that does not make what is here any less valuable. “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” Bushman said, borrowing the message from Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi.” For her, the cactus is a reminder to pay attention to the beauty already around us, and to take care of it while it is still here. The post Endangered cactus part of the hidden beauty of local area first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9de6775342cf4db865c45 Rat Rods invade Historic Route 66 te 2026-09-16T00:10:15.839Z Rat Rods invade Historic Route 66 Area residents lined Historic Route 66 to welcome the Rat Rod Invasion on Sept. 6. Over 100 rat rods made the trek from Goodsprings, Nev., to Langley Ill., as part of the 100-year anniversary of Route 66. The tour, hosted by Rat Rod Magazine, is the third year of Ratstock but the first time it’s hit the road for everyone to enjoy. These custom-built cars highlight function and creativity over appearance and were celebrated for just that as residents waved flags and cheered on the drivers, who stopped in Holbrook to get a photo at the drive-thru sign and for a lunch hosted by Christina and Jeremy Turley, the owners of StitcheD Customs upholstery shop. The post Rat Rods invade Historic Route 66 first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9de6675342cf4db865c3c Supervisors reiterate limitations of county government during public outcry against development te 2026-09-16T00:10:14.961Z Supervisors reiterate limitations of county government during public outcry against development By Talaina Kor During the Navajo County Board of Supervisors regular meeting Tuesday, Sept. 8, the board approved the proposed development agreement with Chimney Canyon Energy Center 1 LLC, and stated again to those who were present in opposition of the project the limitations of county government when addressing issues of private land use and state law. As part of its many efforts to strike a balance between public concession and lawful obligation, the board held its second meeting as part of the newly implemented two-step public engagement process for proposed energy developments. County Manager Bryan Layton reviewed concerns raised during the previous board of supervisors meeting, as well as those sent into the county, tackling topics such as water use, flood mitigation, decommissioning requirements, nuclear alternatives, special use permits, fire safety, hazard mitigation and the impact on wildlife. In a comparison between solar and alternatives such as nuclear, natural gas and coal, solar was shown to use far less water. According to Layton, nuclear, natural and coal all rely on steam powered turbines to operate, “That process consumes real water every single day, mostly lost to evaporation and cooling towers,” he explained. A study Layton referenced from 2012 titled “Operational Water Consumption and Withdrawal Factors for Electricity Generating Technologies: A Review of Existing Literature” showed that nuclear energy uses 672 gallons of water per megawatt-hour (MWh), natural gas uses 467 gallons per MWh, and solar uses only one gallon per MWh. “This should not be interpretated as being critical of nuclear or natural gas. That’s just the reality of base load electrical production right now.” A dust control plan, an Arizona Department of Environmental Quality permit, a stormwater pollution plan, drainage report and grading plan all are required for the Chimney Canyon project, which will be located southwest of Joseph City and encompass approximately 17,995 acres, although the project itself will have a smaller footprint. “The developer will need to follow all these steps as well as creating an erosion and sediment control plan. An estimated 15 retention basins are planned for this project,” stated Layton. These, along with soil testing, are required to be maintained for the life of the project. A common issue that has been raised is the effects on wildlife. “One of the fears is that wildlife, like coyotes, rabbits and other animals will just disappear,” Layton stated. “This is very understandable, because for a long time nobody had good evidence either way.” That is, until this year. Layton cited a peer-reviewed study published in February of 2026 conducted by Argonne National Laboratory, which is a U.S. Department of Energy lab. The study recorded over 19,000 hours of video at five solar sites. “Two of these facilities observed were right here in Arizona,” he said. From the research, it was concluded that animals didn’t avoid the panels but adapted to them as part of their terrain. “Birds and birds of prey were documented living and hunting among the panels.” Layton noted the study did not say this change did not disrupt wildlife, but did point to coexistence. “The major keys to wildlife coexistence for this project are the implementation of Arizona Game and Fish recommendation for wildlife friendly fencing,” which features a 6- 8-inch gaps at the base of the fencing along with wide corridors for larger animals to traverse. Layton also noted that the county will not be dominated by solar, noting the county’s comprehensive plan states that no single land use should dominate the landscape. “Converting all undeveloped land to solar would not be consistent with the comprehensive plan,” which he noted is not a suggestion but the official basis for evaluating projects. Layton explained that land near already existing transmission lines, as well as setbacks are used to dictate where these types of projects can be implemented. “The comprehensive plan supports renewable energy, but also protects rural character, wildlife, cultural sites and existing neighborhoods and uses those priorities to guide where projects make sense.” Changes that were added to the Chimney Canyon Project following the first session included a roadway safety plan volunteered by the Chimney Canyon project operators, Clearway, which includes penalties and enforcement to ensure drivers working on the project operate appropriately. Refinements to regulations on soil testing, emergency response plan, battery energy storage systems and decommissioning were also listed. Layton then reviewed the steps needed for the project to begin. Chimney Canyon will now need to acquire a power purchase agreement, an interconnection agreement, and various safety and control plans. After these documents are collected, the county reviews them and must accept them prior to moving forward. Joseph City resident Jody Balda spoke on concerns of fire mitigation, citing a statistic from the United Kingdom, which saw a 133% increase between 2022-2025 in solar panel related fires and solar panel installation increased by 52%. The study referenced by Balda did note that the vast majority of fires were not solar farms, but residential and commercial properties, with unsafe installation quality being the leading cause. According to a BQE press release, the U.K. saw 178 solar panel related fires at residential, commercial and industrial properties, and 14 at solar panel farms in 2025.) Balda stated that electrical and chemical fires required different tactics. “Is our little volunteer fire department equipped to handle a hazardous fire like this?” she asked. Joseph City residents Kerri Johnson, Sandy Downs, Jeff Downs, Neal Farr and Stephanie Farr spoke against the project, along with Perkins Valley resident Casey Murph, Holbrook Council Member Robert Black, Wayne Solomon and Donna Wastchak. Some highlighted visual blight, dust control and the project effects on the land. Questions pertaining to local employment and if these development companies would be contributing financially to the community were also raised. County resident Brent Meyer brought up concerns of potential damage to archeological sites. Layton responded to this, stating the proposed development agreement requires a cultural resources study, which includes an archeological study. “They go through and document sites, artifacts and locations and some areas were identified as having possible items there through archeological or cultural resources.” Layton further explained that the developer is required to build around those, “so they avoid those where they can.” It was also noted that the developer is required to contact tribal groups with historic ties to the property for feedback. “They’re also required to create an inadvertent discoveries plan,” Layton stated. The plan outlines what to do in the event of unexpectedly discovering human remains, cultural resources or archeological artifacts. “The inadvertent discoveries plan will ensure that if any such discoveries are made, they’re handled appropriately and in compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.” Stephan Brophy of Aztec Land & Cattle Company and Joseph City resident Bryan Jolley advocated in favor of the project, citing the developer’s dedication and attention to detail as well as the benefits of renewable energy. Seymore also talked about how all energy projects carry potentials for environmental changes and risks, mentioning the Cholla Power Plant operated as a coal-fired plant. “There’s a risk now with Cholla with the natural gas. If you have a leak of natural gas, that’s going to poison the area. All those things take risks as we go forward with that. We try to control those risks the best we can through agreements, through documents.” Supervisor Jason Whiting clarified that the board can only vote on an agreement that meets the ordinances, rules and regulations. He touched on how he believed Layton went above and beyond to increase stringencies in response to public outcry, as well as the importance of private property rights. “I don’t think it’s the business of government, stepping in and dictating to private landowners what they should be doing, as long as its legal and lawful, with their land.” Vice Chair Dawnafe Whitesinger echoed this, stating “Public commentary is really important, but ultimately the responsibility of this board of supervisors is we do not make and create laws. We have no authority or jurisdiction to create laws, that falls in the state and federal lap.” She further explained that tax incentives on a state level authorizes these types of operations. “They have developed incentives to be able to support companies who come in and develop. The incentives are not just at the state level, they’re at the federal level as well.” Following the discussion and an executive session, Chair Seymore asked for a motion on the item, to which none of the supervisors responded. He then asked again for a motion, followed by more silence. “If this were to fail for lack of a motion, it just goes away. I’m not going to let that happen because it would then trigger some expenses that are insurmountable to the county,” stated Seymore, implying that the county would incur legal action by the developers. “So with that, I’m going to make a motion that we approve a development agreement with the Chimney Canyon Energy Center 1, LLC, for the development and operation of up to 975 megawatts solar energy facility in Navajo County pursuant to as A R S statute 38-431-03A3.” The motion included a stipulation that the county manager and developer finalize the words used in paragraph 18.2 4232323. Supervisor Whiting seconded the motion, after which Chair Seymore asked for a voice vote, rather than a role call. All supervisors voted in favor with the exception of Supervisor Fern Benally who did not voice a vote, nor did she declare she was abstaining from voting. When contacted following the meeting, Benally stated she was undecided on her stance when the vote was called. Also during the meeting, the board approved a proclamation declaring Sept. 16-19 as Navajo County Fair Days, in honor of the 95th Annual Navajo County Fair & Rodeo. Another proclamation was approved marking Sept. 11 as Patriot Day 2026 in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack. During call to the public, Meyer and Wastchak once again spoke. Wastchak stated that in July 2025 Real AZ spent $25,000 in advertising with the Financial Times of London and asked what Real AZ was advertising for. Layton addressed the concern, stating the cost was not for advertising but for another one of the Financial Times of London companies, which is a leader in industry placement. “They follow industry trends and business trends,” he noted, adding that it works both ways. The result is a very specialized report utilized by Navajo County. The county uses the information to determine what types of industries would be a good fit for the region and it allows businesses to determine if Navajo County would be a good fit for their endeavors. During the meeting, the board: * Approved the release of a property damage claim on two claims against Navajo County, APS, $7,163 and Alan Peadon, $820. * Approved and accepted the FY 2027 Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (ACJC) victims’ compensation fund grant agreement. The grant covers $60,805 for salary and employee related expenses and $115,752 for the payment of benefits to victims of crime.  * Approved the appointment of David Perolis to the Board of Adjustment, representing District III. This is a four-year term. * Approved of consent to assignment of retention rights for a contract with Starlight Pavement Reconstruction. This allows Navajo County to make final payment of the retention owed to PAP, LLC in the amount of $132,127 to their subcontractor, Perkins Cinders, Inc. This is Navajo County’s final payment for this project.  * Authorized payment of the cost difference in the amount of $123,137 to the Arizona Department of Transportation for the estimated construction cost of the Bourdon Ranch Road and Roundup Drive Project in White Mountain Lake. Once the project is complete, any excess funds will be returned to the county. * Approved the annual newspaper advertising and printing contract amendment with Painted Desert Media Group, LLC, doing business as The Painted Desert Tribune, which adds electronic publication on the official newspaper website. * Approved a letter of recommendation for Bryan Layton for National Association of Counties Rural Energy Academy. * Adopted the FY 2026-2027 property tax levy and rate for the Pinetop Fire District bond repayment principal and interest. * Approved the sale of a 2007 Chevrolet Crew Cab LT, 235,676 miles, to the Silver Creek Senior Center for $1. * Approved a task agreement between the White Mountain Apache Tribe Division of Transportation and Navajo County for guardrail repair in the amount of $60,000. * Approved a task agreement between the White Mountain Apache Tribe Division of Transportation and Navajo County for the industrial road striping partnership project in the amount of $16,000. * Approved an attachment to Navajo Nation intergovernmental agreement for assistance with the procurement of gravel material for N8065 within Black Mesa Chapter in the amount of $55,000. Convening as the Navajo County Public Health Services District (NCPHSD), the board: * Approved the data sharing agreement amendment between the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and NCPHSD. * Approved a contract between NCPHSD and Patagonia Health for electronic medical record. Convening as the Victory Heights Road Maintenance District, the board: * Approved Victory Heights Road Maintenance District contract with CC Paving. The post Supervisors reiterate limitations of county government during public outcry against development first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9de6575342cf4db865c33 Winslow council clears path for up to 24 starter homes te 2026-09-16T00:10:13.970Z Winslow council clears path for up to 24 starter homes v By Shawn White The Winslow City Council voted last week to authorize staff to negotiate a development agreement with Habitat for Humanity for an attainable housing project that could put between 12 and 24 owner-occupied starter homes on two acres of city land. The vote came after a presentation from Eric Wolverton, CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Northern Arizona, who told the council the organization would build the units as one-bedroom-and-loft homes rather than the studio-style units it has built in Flagstaff, citing Winslow’s smaller young-adult population and larger senior population. The motion to authorize negotiations passed on a voice vote with no audible opposition and no final agreement has been signed. Economic Development Director Jack Fitchett told the council the two acres had been offered for development once before and that the earlier developer withdrew for health reasons, prompting the city to issue a new request for proposals that stayed open about 30 days. “Out of all of the applicants that we received, there was one full application that met all of the desires and requirements that we had stated,” Fitchett said. Wolverton said the number of homes depends on geotechnical work, environmental studies and flood analysis that have not been done, noting a drainage currently runs through part of one parcel. He said Habitat sold its first 10 starter homes in Flagstaff in March, that those families had accumulated $5,000 in equity in six months, and that applications for the next 10 opened the day of the meeting and drew 19 applicants before the council convened. “We already know it’s going to be a wonderful but overwhelming family selection process for us,” he said. He described the aim in Winslow as housing that “doesn’t just allow them to survive, but more importantly, allows them to thrive through home ownership rather than through a rental program.” Councilwoman Samantha Crisp asked what it would take to bring a Habitat ReStore to Winslow, saying a large share of the city’s population lives below the poverty line and cannot get to the Flagstaff store. Wolverton said Habitat is already in talks with a commercial landlord in Holbrook about a second northern Arizona location but that the obstacle in rural communities is supply rather than demand. “You need to have at least a pretty decently strong part of your community that is affluent, that is going to provide us with those donated items,” he said, adding that Winslow and Holbrook have buyers but not donors. “How do we get the product in their hands?” he asked. He said Habitat is weighing grant funding for a dedicated semi-truck and trailer to haul goods up from the Phoenix area and is considering a used hotel furniture market, since Valley hotels replace room furnishings every five to six years and the product holds up well in reservation border towns. The council also authorized the city manager, building inspector and city attorney to take all necessary steps against what the agenda described as a public nuisance and dangerous building at 320 W. First St., including filing litigation to obtain a demolition order, using public funds for abatement and placing a lien on the property to recover the cost. That item was part of a consent calendar approved in a single vote with no discussion and no items pulled. The same calendar included the check register, the minutes of the Aug. 11 meeting, the purchase of an enclosed utility tractor for the roadside department, the purchase of an influent pump for the wastewater treatment plant, a cooperative agreement with Navajo County for animal control services and two professional services agreements with Global Logistics Development Partners, one for advocacy strategy services and one, listed as sole source, for administration of Regional Infrastructure Accelerator Program funding. Two speakers used the call to the public to accuse city government of criminal conduct. A man who gave his first name as Andrew and declined to give his last name said he had investigated corrupt governments for the U.S. Department of Justice and had found “corruption that I have only seen in larger cities” in Winslow, alleging that the city does not enforce its 2006 business license ordinance, that the family business of former mayor Tom McCauley operates without a license or state contractor registration, and that staff wrongly told him public records requests must be submitted in writing. A second speaker who gave his name as Ryan said only, “I’m just here to ask you all to stop. Please stop committing crimes.” Council rules bar members from responding to comments on matters not on the agenda, and no response was made from the dais. Two other residents spoke. Raymond Lucero asked whether the city has been briefed on Arizona Public Service’s plans surrounding its gas transition and whether floor plans for the Global Logistics Development facility will be released, including how much water the building will require. A resident who gave her name as Gail said she has received mailers for several weeks claiming a mosque is being built in Winslow and that thousands of people are relocating here and asked for information. Northland Pioneer College used its quarterly report to press for expanded nursing capacity and student housing in Winslow. Rich Chanick, the college’s associate vice president of external relations, said the relationship between the college and the city is changing. “NPC and Winslow have always been friends, but under the leadership of the mayor and the cooperation of Jack Fitchett, we’re evolving past that, we’re becoming partners now,” he said. He said the college recently met with hospital leadership and a representative from Sen. Mark Kelly’s office and will meet with Winslow Indian Health Center CEO Virgil Davis, and that housing is needed because the district covers 22,000 square miles and students commute long distances for clinical rotations. “We can’t ask somebody to drive three hours when the snow is falling this way, and we’ve all seen the snow falling this way on Interstate 40,” he said. He also described online career-ready certificates in business, computing and administration of justice, and an expanding commercial driver’s license program based in Holbrook that the college hopes to bring to Winslow, Kayenta and Whiteriver using a simulator and trailer. Asked by Crisp whether the certificate programs include job placement help, Chanick said they do not yet. He said he had recently visited five or six peer colleges and found them roughly split between those that consider placement outside their role and those that see connecting students to employers as the job, and that NPC is moving toward the second view. “We’re not where we want to be as far as that is concerned, but that’s where we want to head,” he said. Pressed further, he said the college has one staff member in career services, “and that’s insufficient to train students to get out and talk to employers and that sort of thing.” Cano told him the connections are close at hand, pointing to the police department and county sheriff’s office for criminal justice students and to the recent hospital meeting, where “we were talking about how dire it was that nurses need to stay in Winslow and work at LCMC and WIHCC.” She added that dispatcher and police officer vacancies are among the city’s persistent openings. Planning and Zoning Hearing Officer Jason Sanks reported on six conditional use permits reviewed between April and August, all inspected by city staff. Three overnight RV spaces approved at the Love’s Travel Center on Transcon Lane are installed and in use, and four cargo containers approved for storage at the former cannabis processing facility at 2015 W. Third St. remain on site and painted to match the buildings, though the business itself appears to have closed. Decorative arbors at 600 W. Third St. and a storage container at 2600 Scenic View Drive were both found compliant, and a chicken coop permitted at 107 E. Gilmore St. is still standing, though Sanks noted a state law passed in roughly 2023 now allows chickens in cities under certain conditions and has effectively superseded the city’s permit requirement. The last permit, for a home child care business at 2124 Desert View Drive, carries conditions limiting hours to 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., barring more than one employee at a time and restricting the business to 20% of the home, but enforcement is difficult because no signage is permitted. “These are inspected, but it’s hard to tell when they’re operating, which is kind of the point,” Sanks said. The council adopted two proclamations, one recognizing September as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and one marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and designating it Patriot Day 2026. During the meeting, the council also: * Approved past meeting minutes and check register. * Approved an intergovernmental agreement with the Navajo County to share resources regarding animal impound services. * Approved the purchase of a pump for the wastewater plant at a cost of $56,776. * Approved the purchase of a utility tractor at a cost of $62,881. * Approved filling litigation to obtain a demolition order for 320 W. First St. The post Winslow council clears path for up to 24 starter homes first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9de6575342cf4db865c2a Winslow council gives approval to $1.2 million in TradePort contracts te 2026-09-16T00:10:13.134Z Winslow council gives approval to $1.2 million in TradePort contracts By Shawn White The Winslow City Council has approved two new agreements with Global Logistics Development Partners, the Scottsdale firm steering the I-40 TradePort Corridor, that together authorize up to $1.2 million in payments to the company over the next three years. Both items passed as part of the council’s consent agenda, without separate discussion. The larger of the two is a sole-source contract worth up to $1.1 million to administer a $1.6 million Regional Infrastructure Accelerator award the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) granted the city this spring. The smaller is a $117,500 agreement for federal and state lobbying on behalf of the corridor, paid for with leftover partner contributions that Bernalillo County, N.M., transferred to Winslow when the city took over as the corridor’s lead public agency. The agreements are the second and third contracts between Winslow and GLD Partners tied to the corridor. The company is already working under a separate agreement funded by the city’s fiscal year 2024 RAISE grant, which the council approved on a sole-source basis in January. DOT’s Build America Bureau notified City Manager David Coolidge by email on April 28 that Winslow had been selected for the accelerator program, which is meant to speed the planning and delivery of transportation projects. The award carries a 100% federal share with no local match. According to the notification, it was part of a roughly $20 million round of accelerator grants announced nationwide. The cooperative agreement between DOT and the city, included in the council packet, sets a performance period of Aug. 17, 2026, through Aug. 16, 2029. Winslow has taken on a set of federal obligations with it: a kickoff meeting with DOT, a staffing table within 30 days of the start date, a project management plan within 45 days and quarterly performance and financial reports throughout. The award is reimbursement-only, meaning the city must spend the money first and bill DOT afterward and it bars any profit or fee above cost. Every contractor hired with the funds must be approved in advance by DOT’s grant program manager. Under the newly approved contract, GLD Partners will handle most of the day-to-day work of implementing the award: coordinating DOT-approved work plans, building the project management plan and risk registry, tracking milestones and spending, preparing quarterly reports and developing financing and project-delivery strategies for corridor infrastructure, including evaluation of public-private partnership structures. The city has carved out $40,000 of the award for an independent grant administrator under a separate agreement, which is why GLD’s ceiling is set at $1.11 million rather than the full award. The contract describes that ceiling as a maximum authorization, not a guarantee of payment. The city’s justification for skipping a competitive bid is spelled out in the contract itself: “The city is awarding this agreement on a sole source basis given contractor’s unique role and qualifications in supporting the TradePort Kingman, TradePort Winslow, TradePort Albuquerque, and Logistics Core Zone projects including infrastructure planning, engineering, design, environmental assessment, community alignment, administration, and project management across the TradePort Corridor.” It adds that “GLD Partners has substantial institutional knowledge of the corridor and its participating jurisdictions, projects, development strategy, and public-private delivery framework and is currently providing related planning and coordination services for the corridor under a separate city agreement funded by the city’s FY 2024 RAISE grant.” Eleven GLD staff members are listed as key personnel, led by co-project managers Adam Wasserman and Lois Yates. Billing rates in the contract range from $97.75 an hour for an administrative manager to $310.50 an hour for Wasserman. Each rate includes a 15% overhead charge on top of the base hourly figure. Other named roles include a rail director, a development director, a logistics system manager, a technology director and a USDOT liaison. The contract includes several safeguards. GLD cannot begin billable work until DOT has approved both the contracting arrangement and the applicable work plan and the city has issued a written notice to proceed. The exhibit reserved for those DOT-approved work plans is blank in the packet, marked to be attached once approved. The city may terminate the agreement if the designated project manager leaves and is not replaced within 60 days and the entire contract becomes void if the federal funding is withdrawn. The second agreement is deliberately structured to keep federal dollars away from advocacy work. Federal grant funds generally cannot be used to lobby Congress or executive agencies and both contracts contain repeated language requiring GLD to keep its time, costs and invoices for the three agreements separately accounted for and never billed to more than one funding source. The $117,500 comes from what the contract calls transferred funds: money that corridor partners had originally contributed to Bernalillo County, which coordinated the multi-state effort before Winslow assumed that role. The county passed the remaining balance to Winslow under an intergovernmental agreement for continuation of corridor legislative services. GLD will use it to develop a coordinated federal and state legislative strategy for the corridor, pursue appropriations, earmarks and other funding opportunities and engage members of Congress, federal agencies and state officials. The firm is responsible for maintaining its own lobbying registrations and disclosure filings. That agreement runs through March 31, 2028, with payment in three equal invoices and may be renewed for one-year terms with the city manager’s approval, contingent on available funds and continued progress on the corridor. The I-40 TradePort Corridor is pitched as a multi-hub logistics and supply-chain network stretching from Southern California’s ports through Arizona and New Mexico, with planned hubs in Kingman, Winslow and the Albuquerque area. In Winslow, the project centers on land north of Interstate 40 that GLD plans to lease from the city for distribution and logistics uses. The post Winslow council gives approval to $1.2 million in TradePort contracts first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9de6375342cf4db865c1d 3.4M young adults at risk of losing insurance under new policies, study shows te 2026-09-16T00:10:11.003Z 3.4M young adults at risk of losing insurance under new policies, study shows As many as 3.4 million young adults could lose health insurance coverage due to recent policy shifts affecting Medicaid and Affordable Care Act insurance markets, according to research released Monday.... Subscribe Already a subscriber?  Login The post 3.4M young adults at risk of losing insurance under new policies, study shows first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9de6075342cf4db865bfe Pentagon Inspector General Details U.S. Losses and Challenges in Iran War te 2026-09-16T00:10:08.605Z Pentagon Inspector General Details U.S. Losses and Challenges in Iran War Helicopters for evacuating casualties were pulled from four countries, and hundreds of military facilities were destroyed, according to a new report Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9dc1175342cf4db865b6e Common antibiotic linked to higher risk of death in adults, major study finds te 2026-09-16T00:00:17.951Z Common antibiotic linked to higher risk of death in adults, major study finds A commonly used drug has been linked to a higher risk of death in a new study. The antibiotic, cefepime, which is used to treat bacterial infections like pneumonia, UTIs and skin infections, is typically administered via injection by healthcare providers in a clinical setting. Severe side effects may include confusion, decreased consciousness or seizures, especially in older patients and those with kidney problems, among many other common symptoms, according to Mayo Clinic. OLDER ADULTS TAKING 5 OR MORE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FACE HIGHER RISK OF DEATH, STUDY FINDS New research suggests the medication may be associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality. The new global study, published in JAMA Network Open, reviewed 110 randomized clinical trials involving more than 22,000 patients who received cefepime or another beta-lactam antibiotic — a class of drugs that includes penicillins and cephalosporins. The patients included adults and children treated for febrile neutropenia — a medical emergency involving fever and dangerously low infection-fighting white blood cells — as well as pneumonia, severe bacterial infections, UTIs and meningitis. POPULAR WEIGHT-LOSS MEDICATIONS LINKED TO HIDDEN SIDE EFFECTS, STUDY FINDS Across all trials, 778 deaths occurred among 11,726 patients (6.6%) given cefepime, compared to 6.2% of patients given another antibiotic. Researchers evaluated deaths from any cause occurring within about 30 days of treatment. CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES Using a Bayesian meta-analysis, the researchers found a 94.4% probability that cefepime was associated with higher all-cause mortality compared with other beta-lactam antibiotics. When the analysis was limited to 73 peer-reviewed published trials, that probability increased to 98.6%. The association appeared stronger in adults than in children, and was most pronounced among patients treated for febrile neutropenia. Cefepime remains a commonly used broad-spectrum antibiotic for treating serious bacterial infections in hospitalized patients because it is effective against a wide range of bacteria. The researchers did not recommend discontinuing cefepime, but called for additional guidance and research to better understand its safety. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The researchers said several factors could potentially explain the observed association between cefepime and higher mortality, although they were unable to identify a single cause. Possible explanations include drug levels that are too low to effectively treat the infection and neurotoxicity, which can occur when drug levels become too high. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER Researchers said finding the right dose of cefepime can be challenging, as higher doses may improve its ability to kill bacteria while also increasing the risk of toxic side effects. The study had several limitations. It combined clinical trials that differed in design, patient populations, dosing strategies and comparison antibiotics, with some studies dating back decades. The analysis also found an association, not proof that cefepime itself caused the higher mortality. Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst, said the study demonstrates the importance of re-reviewing and analyzing older studies. "In this case, it correctly pointed out that febrile neutropenia (low white blood cell count with a fever) is itself a big cause of death in this population, making it often difficult to determine if the treatment (cefepime) decreases or possibly increases this risk," Siegel, who was not involved in the research, told Fox News Digital. A closer review of the data suggests that both underdosing and overdosing — rather than the drug itself — may be more closely linked to poorer outcomes and a higher risk of death, indicating that appropriate dosing may be the key, according to the doctor. "I also think there may be a role for AI here in determining the exact right dose, as well as assessing outcome," Siegel suggested. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9dc0b75342cf4db865b2e Ten minutes to wheels up: inside Guardian Air’s Winslow hub te 2026-09-16T00:00:11.949Z Ten minutes to wheels up: inside Guardian Air’s Winslow hub Photo by Shawn White Flight Nurse and Base Coordinator Jordan Sweeney (left) and Chief Flight Paramedic Tony Carrozzino (right) demonstrate the automatic chest compression device Guardian Air carries aboard its helicopters. Performing proper CPR by hand in a cabin this small is nearly impossible, so the machine frees one clinician to give medications while the other manages the patient’s airway. Photo by Shawn White The rear cabin of a Guardian Air Bell 407. Every pound aboard is accounted for and equipment gets left in the hangar when a patient’s weight demands it. Photo by Shawn White Flight Nurse and Base Coordinator Jordan Sweeney demonstrates the stretcher, which swings out from the cabin for loading and unloading. The patient’s feet ride toward the pilot, putting one clinician in position to manage an airway in flight. Photo by Shawn White One of Guardian Air’s two Bell 407 helicopters sits in the hangar at Winslow-Lindbergh Regional Airport. By Shawn White The call doesn’t come to Winslow first. It comes to a room in Flagstaff, where Guardian Air’s communication center picks up the phone from an emergency department, a rural clinic or an ambulance crew somewhere across northern Arizona and starts writing down the things that matter. Not the patient’s name and not yet the diagnosis. What the comm center needs immediately is where the patient is, where they might be going and how much they weigh, because that last one determines whether a helicopter can come at all. Then the center passes it to the base as a weather check and the clock starts. From that moment, Guardian’s crews aim to be off the ground in roughly 10 minutes. It sounds fast until you hear what’s packed inside it and the complexity of the situation begins to sink in. The pilot gets the weight and the destination and almost nothing else, then begins doing math that won’t stop until the aircraft is back on the pad. How much fuel is on board, how much the flight will burn, how much has to remain at the far end, because Guardian’s standard is to arrive with 30 minutes still in reserve, which means knowing the entire shape of the flight before committing to the first minute of it. At the same time the pilot is reading weather in three places, since a Bell 407 cannot fly through a thunderstorm and the question isn’t only whether the sky is clear over Winslow. It’s whether it’s clear between here and Chinle, whether it’s clear over Chinle and whether the cell sitting 40 miles east will have drifted into the return path by the time they’re loaded and pointed at Flagstaff. “The pilots are meteorologists and mathematicians,” said Tony Carrozzino, chief flight paramedic and business development manager for Guardian Air Transport. “They’re constantly doing math. They have to figure out these weights, figure out the fuel level, figure out distance, factor in wind.” None of it starts from scratch, since the pilot coming on shift has already walked the aircraft and already has a sense of what the day’s temperatures will allow. If it’s an early afternoon in July, the answer to some missions is simply no. While the pilot runs numbers, the clinicians triage their own equipment rather than the patient, because a helicopter has a hard weight limit and every pound of patient is a pound of something else that comes off the aircraft. The mechanical CPR device that performs chest compressions automatically in flight is a superb piece of equipment and also a heavy one, so it’s among the first things left in the hangar when margins get thin. If the crew thinks it’s flying toward a cardiac patient, the device goes aboard and sometimes onto the patient before takeoff, sitting there unused with a button waiting to be pushed. If they’re flying toward a hiker with a broken femur, it stays home and somebody decides which comes or goes in about the time it takes to walk to the pad. Here’s the strange part: they make that decision without knowing who they’re flying to get and that’s deliberate. “That is why we don’t know what the patient is before we get the weather check,” Carrozzino said. “Is it safe? Is it legal? Is it prudent? Yes or no?” The reasoning is uncomfortable and completely sound, because a crew that knows there’s a 4-year-old waiting at the other end will find reasons to launch into weather it has no business launching into. The industry learned that over decades at a cost it hasn’t finished paying, so the aviation decision gets made blind, on physics alone and only afterward does anyone find out what the mission actually is. Guardian runs two helicopters out of Winslow and the hangar at the airport is much of the reason they’re here. The second aircraft used to be based at Hopi Health Care Center, closer to a community that badly needs it, but the logistics kept fraying. Pilots work seven days in a row on 12-hour shifts and finding pilots willing to live on the reservation for that rotation became the bottleneck, while the mechanic would drive two hours out only to watch the aircraft lift off on a call that kept it gone for four to seven hours. The aircraft moved to Winslow in December of 2024 and the math that justified it is the same math that governs everything else here. It is a 12-minute flight from Winslow back to Hopi Health Care Center, and over an hour by road. “Having a base that was on the reservation was really important to us,” Carrozzino said, “but we can actually service the community better by being here.” The hangar shelters both aircraft from sun and weather, the crews share tooling, parts and a full-time mechanic Scott Parker, and the two helicopters take turns going wherever the calls fall. What’s coming is anywhere from one to six calls a shift and the clinical crews work 48 hours at a stretch. Jordan Sweeney, a flight nurse and a base coordinator at Winslow, has a plain description of how a person survives that. “It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” she said. “You come to work and when you’re tired you take a little bit of rest, catch a little bit of sleep. Ultimately it’s two days at a time and if you’re tired for two days, then you go home and get caught up.” Sweeney commutes from Flagstaff and sleeps in crew quarters between calls and others drive in from Prescott, Cottonwood and points much farther south, because long shifts buy long stretches off. The clearest argument for any of this is a stopwatch. Chinle to Flagstaff takes Guardian roughly an hour by air and about three hours by ground and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon is five hours of driving against 15 minutes of flying. But the time savings are only half the case and arguably the less important half, because what lands with the helicopter is critical care that wasn’t there a minute earlier. “We’re bringing that ICU, that ER, to the patient,” Sweeney said. “We’re initiating that level of care instead of that three-hour drive before they start having that care initiated.” The clinics they fly to on the Navajo Nation do extraordinary work with very little, which is the context for what Guardian carries in the door. The emergency physician at a small facility may be the only physician in the building that night and a facility may hold two units of blood total for the entire hospital. Guardian’s crews carry blood products, plasma and packed red cells, which they began about two years before and which Carrozzino calls the most important addition the program has made in recent memory. They can perform rapid sequence intubation, sedating and paralyzing a patient to open an airway rather than only intubating someone already too far gone to resist and they can evacuate air or blood collecting around a lung. That last one matters more in a helicopter than almost anywhere else, since trapped gas expands as you climb and a chest injury that looks stable on the ground can get worse simply by going up. There’s a third benefit that almost nobody outside EMS thinks about and it may have the widest reach of all. When a rural ambulance drives a patient to Flagstaff or Phoenix, that ambulance is gone for six hours, or 12 and some communities have exactly two of them. “They might only have a couple of ambulances and if they take them out of service to take somebody to Flagstaff, they’re gone,” Sweeney said. “So that’s six to 12 hours, that that ambulance isn’t able to service the community for regular 911 calls.” Flying the patient keeps the ambulance in town, which means the flight sometimes isn’t really about how sick the patient is. It’s about what the community will need at two in the morning. The aircraft doing all this is smaller than people picture. Guardian’s Bell 407s are, in the words of the people who work inside them, smaller than a Volkswagen Beetle, with a single pilot up front because the patient occupies the space where a copilot would sit. That leaves a nurse, a paramedic and a patient in back, an arrangement the crews joke about in the bleakest available terms: four people in there and sometimes one of them is trying to die. Everything aboard has been chosen and there’s one of most things and the patient’s feet point toward the pilot so that one clinician sits in precisely the right position to manage an airway in flight if it comes to that. What makes this program unusual isn’t the medicine, it’s the map. A crew in Phoenix might fly seven minutes from one hospital to another because a patient needs something highly specialized, and the pilot can top off the tank and not think about fuel again. Guardian may fly two hours to reach a single patient and then another stretch to get them somewhere that can help, which is why the fuel reserve and the weight math never stop. Carrozzino, who came from Ohio for this job, says the distances are part of the appeal, since he wanted to be responsible for a patient for an hour or more rather than 15 minutes across a city. The desert compounds it. Temperatures swing 40-50 degrees between afternoon and night here, and hot, thin air robs a helicopter of lift at exactly the hours the calls tend to come. Pilots arrive from Louisiana or Texas having never flown anywhere that wasn’t at sea level, then must learn terrain, density altitude and a service area with very few places to stop. Carrozzino calls it one of the most demanding flight programs in the country and the volume backs him up, since Guardian’s pilots can log more night-vision hours in a month than some programs put on a whole base in a year. Getting hired to do this is hard and it’s hard on purpose. Guardian pairs a flight nurse with a flight paramedic, both trained to the same level of care and differing mainly in what state licensure allows each to do. Nurses arrive with years of critical care behind them and paramedics need a minimum of three years in a genuinely busy system, a qualifier Carrozzino stressed harder than the number itself, because three years running one call a week is not three years. After a competitive application process comes roughly five months of onboarding before anyone flies for real. “It’s not on-the-job learning,” he said. “It’s very structured in how we break that out.” The training never lets up either. Every clinician completes 100 hours of education a year and performs an intubation on live human tissue every six months, going into an operating room if it hasn’t happened in the field. Once a year the entire organization shuts down for a safety day, taking itself out of service statewide so everyone can be in the same room and Guardian knows exactly what that costs in a region where there isn’t always another aircraft to fill the gap. Pilots face their own gauntlet of more than 2,000 hours as pilot in command, full instrument ratings and substantial turbine time, which Carrozzino called the crème de la crème of helicopter jobs. That makes the current situation a little galling, because Guardian is short, with three or four open pilot positions at Winslow amounting to a full night-shift rotation. Metro Aviation, the vendor that employs the pilots, is flying float pilots in from around the country to backfill, so flights aren’t being cancelled, they’re just costing more. The safety culture behind all of this was built on a body count and the people in this hangar will tell you so without being asked twice. Carrozzino spent his earlier career as a firefighter, where the calculus ran differently. “We used to risk a lot to save a lot,” he said. “If we had a child in a burning building, we would risk a lot to try to save them. It changes for us in this aspect, that we have three people that are inside the aircraft and we’re not pushing those limits.” Then, more bluntly: “Our industry has killed a lot of people. We’ve learned a lot of things through blood.” Some of what the industry learned is now hardware. Pilots once got evaluated twice a year by a check airman sitting beside them asking for maneuvers and now they train in full-motion simulators that can set a fire in the cockpit or drop the aircraft into an uncontrolled spin. Flying accidentally into cloud used to be close to a death sentence, with the aircraft hitting the ground inside about 30 seconds and everyone aboard dying and that statistic has changed outright because of those simulators, Carrozzino said. Night vision goggles tell a similar story, since nobody wore them when Guardian first based an aircraft here and everyone wears them now. The thing the crews most want the public to understand has nothing to do with aircraft at all. It’s about the hospital down the road. “We’re taking patients from LCMC not because they’re not getting good care, but because it’s a community hospital and it’s limited in resources,” Carrozzino said. Little Colorado can’t sustain a cardiac catheterization lab, not for any lack of will but for lack of volume, because interventional cardiologists need to be doing 10 cases a day to maintain a practice and those cases aren’t in a city of 9,500. “It’s really important to highlight the care that is here and that we’re an extension of that,” he said. “We’re not coming to save people from LCMC.” If LCMC weren’t in Winslow, the nearest emergency room would be an hour away for residents of Winslow, not to mention all the other cities that rely on LCMC, and the crews were emphatic that this community is beyond fortunate to have that hospital. Guardian Air turned 41 this August, having started flying on Aug. 1, 1985, and it’s the oldest hospital-based nonprofit air medical program in Arizona, which means it’s locally owned, locally accountable and not subsidized by anybody. It is owned by Northern Arizona Healthcare, the parent company that runs Flagstaff Medical Center and they operate it as a service for the people of northern Arizona. Asked what the program looks like in 10 years, Carrozzino didn’t talk about helicopters. “The biggest risk we have right now is this whole transformation of healthcare,” he said. “We don’t know what’s going to happen nationally at the federal level. We don’t know what’s going to happen at the state level. If 75% of our payers are government payers and they want to find ways to not pay at all, this system can’t continue.” Demand, meanwhile, keeps climbing, with Guardian expecting more than 4,000 patient transports company-wide this year, which would be a record. The reasons aren’t encouraging, since there are fewer EMS professionals than there used to be and hospitals are shedding service lines, so patients travel farther for the same care while the helicopters absorb the difference. Carrozzino watched a version of this in Ohio, where rising malpractice costs for obstetricians created what he called an OB desert, with hours of driving between one labor and delivery unit and the next. “We are definitely seeing where patients are having to go further to get that care,” he said, before summing it up: “Population growth doesn’t stop because of malpractice insurance.” Ask the crews for war stories and you’ll get a polite decline. “I never want to share the trauma that we’ve experienced,” Carrozzino said, explaining that everyone wants to know the worst thing they’ve ever seen and that plenty of people in this line of work carry PTSD from a standard day at the office. Sweeney even says she forgets a lot of what happens, which is a defense mechanism the brain sometimes does after trauma. What they offered instead were two moments. Sweeney flew a child not long ago, sick with a respiratory illness, whose mother couldn’t come along on the flight, there’s no room. The boy was frightened and working hard to be brave about it, so the crew handed over stickers and a stuffed animal and made him an honorary member of the flight crew for the duration. Somewhere over the high desert, halfway to Flagstaff, the pilot glanced back and found him sound asleep after having fully intended to see every last sight along the way. He woke up on the helipad at Flagstaff Medical with no clue where he was. “Those are the things I remember,” she said. Carrozzino’s was harder. He tries to impress on new crews that sooner or later they’ll pick up a patient who may not survive the flight and that the person standing in the parking lot may be a wife of 45 years who has never spent a night apart from her husband. He tells them that sometimes stopping for three minutes to let them talk before the doors close is better medical care than getting the fastest time to the hospital. “There’s a real human aspect of what we do and sometimes we get very used to it, because we see it on a daily basis,” he said. “We’re being called on someone’s worst day and it’s easy for us to normalize all of that. People always remember how we make them feel and we may not even remember that it happened.” Ten minutes to wheels up and that math turns out to be the easy part. The hardest problems are the calculations that happen above the ground, at 150 mph, with a stranger’s life as the variable to solve. The post Ten minutes to wheels up: inside Guardian Air’s Winslow hub first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9dc0875342cf4db865b18 Kris Mayes’ call for a data center moratorium is wrong and anti-American te 2026-09-16T00:00:08.540Z Kris Mayes’ call for a data center moratorium is wrong and anti-American Michael Carbone Kris Mayes wants to be many things. The governor. The center of attention. A policymaker. But she is none of those. As Attorney General, her role is limited. She was elected to enforce the law, not make it. That’s why it’s so disturbing when she steers out of her lane to opine on matters beyond her scope, telling the governor and Legislature what she thinks they should do. But there is one thing Kris Mayes consistently is: WRONG. And her recent call to “pause” new data center construction is not only unfounded, but harmful to every citizen and our country. The United States is in an existential race against China for AI. And while Americans oppose projects, China is building. China currently ranks fourth globally in total data centers and is racing to construct thousands more. The Pentagon reports that China wants to use AI to achieve “mind dominance” over the United States, exerting psychological pressure, fear, and social polarization to weaken American resistance to Chinese actions. U.S. counterintelligence says China has used AI to steal more Americans’ personal and business data than every other nation combined, using that data to weaken our social and economic fabric. The Pentagon reports that China has developed AI-enabled drone swarms that can target and execute attacks, while the NSA says China is pre-positioned inside U.S. infrastructure for “disruptive or destructive cyberattacks.” Imagine the worst-case scenario: Chinese AI so sophisticated that it can find vulnerabilities across millions of connected American vehicles, energy systems, and other devices, compromise them simultaneously, and create mass hysteria, disruption, and fear, crippling our economy and society. AI capability requires enormous computing power, and that requires AI infrastructure like data centers. This threat is why American leaders from across the political spectrum have urged the country to support the rapid buildout of new AI infrastructure, including data centers. President Biden ordered the federal government to accelerate domestic AI construction because America’s national security required building AI infrastructure on the “time frame needed” to stay ahead. Vice President Kamala Harris said America needed “large-scale data centers” and that the government should use its full power to “speed up and scale AI operations here in the United States.” Arizona Senator Mark Kelly warned that if America fails “to lead the world in AI,” then China will, and “we will fall behind.” And President Trump’s Artificial Intelligence Czar, David Sacks, has said: “To remain the leading economic and military power, the United States must win the AI race.” Domestic data center buildout is not a partisan issue. It is a national security imperative. China understands the stakes too and is attempting to manipulate America’s debate over the infrastructure needed to win. While China races to build its own compute capacity, it uses covert influence operations to encourage Americans to stop building ours. OpenAI recently uncovered a covert China-linked influence operation that used AI to impersonate Americans and manufacture social media attacks on U.S. data centers, including claims that they were driving up families’ electricity bills. Then X uncovered a Chinese bot network of roughly 200,000 fake accounts, including hundreds targeting America’s AI and energy debate. Congress has now formally asked federal investigators to examine foreign-adversary efforts to obstruct American data center construction. President Trump has called data centers the “Golden Goose,” warning that communities that reject them will become “backward and poor,” while those that embrace them can become “successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place.” Here’s what that means: First, data centers are not taking your water and power. Most new data centers in Arizona are moving away from water-intensive cooling, using closed-loop systems that recycle water, while others use dry cooling that requires almost no water. Meanwhile, the Arizona Corporation Commission, electric utilities, and the state Legislature have taken steps to ensure data centers pay for their grid upgrades so costs are not shifted to existing customers. Then there are jobs, taxes, and infrastructure. Labor unions across the country support rapid data center construction because these projects create good-paying jobs and years of work for electricians, pipefitters, plumbers, welders, and other building trades. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers opposes restrictions on data center construction because “data centers are not just steel and servers—they are job creators.” IBEW calls them a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” for family-sustaining employment and warns that pausing construction would eliminate thousands of good-paying union jobs. The Pipefitters likewise support data centers, saying they create thousands of building-trades jobs and allow local unions to expand apprenticeship programs, providing families with good wages, health benefits, and retirement security. Then comes the tax revenues. A large Arizona data center can generate roughly $10 million in annual property taxes, money that supports schools, police, firefighters, roads, and infrastructure. In Loudoun County, Virginia, data centers now generate almost half of property-tax revenue, allowing county officials to lower residential property-tax rates. Arizona’s governor and Legislature have already addressed data center tax incentives this year, passing a bipartisan budget that included a two-year pause on new tax incentive certificates for data centers to ensure they pay their fair share. Then there’s infrastructure. In El Mirage, Microsoft is building dedicated water and wastewater infrastructure at its own cost, freeing capacity at EPCOR’s facility to support local growth. Finally, there’s healthcare. Just last week, AI-guided treatment was linked to longer survival in pancreatic cancer; surgeons used AI in real time to remove a brain tumor while preserving the patient’s sight, and Moderna announced the first successful use of AI to design a personalized vaccine against individual cancer. These are life-changing medical advancements, all powered by AI and data centers. These are the facts China and Kris Mayes don’t want you to know. America First means winning the AI race against China. It means protecting Americans against cost shifts. And it means ensuring that Americans get the benefits of AI infrastructure in their communities. Telling Arizonans that we must issue a “pause” on data center construction is exactly what China wants. It is anti-growth, anti-jobs, anti-healthcare, and anti-American. Kris Mayes’ statements are dangerous and put American lives and livelihoods at risk. We must build. And our Attorney General must stay in her lane. Michael Carbone is a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing Legislative District 25 and serves as House Majority Leader. Follow him on X at @MichaelCarbone. The post Kris Mayes’ call for a data center moratorium is wrong and anti-American first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d9b275342cf4db86585f CNN, NBC, CBS interviewing viral AI 'actress' Tilly Norwood raises eyebrows among critics te 2026-09-15T23:50:10.081Z CNN, NBC, CBS interviewing viral AI 'actress' Tilly Norwood raises eyebrows among critics An AI-generated "actress" has launched a media tour and networks granting her interviews are turning heads among critics. Tilly Norwood, developed by the Xicoia AI talent studio, has been billed as the first "actor" created using artificial intelligence. Her name first surfaced in 2025 following reports that talent agencies were eying on signing her. Now, Norwood is essentially on a press junket where journalists are trying to figure out if it should be taken seriously. JIM ACOSTA 'INTERVIEWS' AI-GENERATED AVATAR OF DECEASED TEENAGER PROMOTING GUN CONTROL MESSAGE She first "sat down" with CNN, where it was quickly noted that Norwood isn’t exactly Julia Roberts and that her presence has rankled Hollywood. Norwood was able to describe CNN reporter Elizabeth Wagmeister’s outfit, but the "actress" needed hours of specific prompts to improvise a basic scene. Norwood’s creator, Eline Van der Velden, insists she’s not trying to replace human actors, but her company, Particle 6 Production, is working on a variety of other AI-generated Hollywood figures. On NBC, "Today" entertainment correspondent Chloe Melas spoke to Norwood, who told viewers it wasn’t a traditional interview because she "is not real" and felt like talking to ChatGPT. At one point, Melas asked Norwood about recent chatter that AI could eventually lead to human extinction. "That’s a very serious concern, Chloe, my purpose is to be a creative tool, not a threat," Norwood responded. CALIFORNIA LAW PUTS DIGITAL FINGERPRINTS ON AI FAKES Van der Velden, who was also featured during the NBC interview, called for "really good" regulation and guardrails to prevent AI being misused. Melas noted that Norwood was "glitchy" and "robotic" during the segment. "I don’t think that she’s coming for our jobs quite yet," the NBC correspondent said. Norwood has also spoken to CBS News, "creeping out" a reporter in the process, along with The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and the United Kingdom’s ITV. The AI "actor" has already irked the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and now media watchdogs are denouncing the press junket.   NOBODY WANTS AI-GENERATED SPORTS COMMENTATORS, BUT A PRO GOLF TOURNAMENT IS INTRODUCING ONE ANYWAY NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck said the interviews "defied logic" on the heels of panic over apocalyptic scenarios about AI extinguishing humankind. "It illustrated a massive disconnect between marvel over this AI ‘actress’ and the rest of the reporting on NBC and other broadcast networks falling in line with AI executives asserting humanity is at stake unless the government steps in immediately with dramatic and strict regulations," Houck told Fox News Digital. Podcaster John Ziegler simply called on the press to knock it off. "This insanity has GOT to be nipped in the bud! We can NOT have multiple ‘legitimate news organizations’ doing ‘interviews’ with AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood as if she is on a media tour, and not even as some sort of technological experiment," Ziegler wrote. ESPN PULLS USE OF AI IMAGES FROM NBA FINALS COVERAGE AFTER GETTING COOKED BY INTERNET "Hollywood After Dark" host Matt Jarbo seemed puzzled by the ordeal. "If the goal was to legitimize the idea of an AI actress, it did the exact opposite. She doesn’t sound convincing, she doesn’t perform convincingly, and when CNN asked her to improvise a basic emotional scene, the whole thing apparently took hours of additional computer work just to produce something usable," Jarbo posted on X. "And I say that as someone who is pro-AI video. The technology is advancing insanely fast, which makes Tilly feel even more outdated," he continued. "Current AI models are already moving beyond what this ‘actress’ can do. So maybe the anti-AI crowd gets this one." Mediaite’s Brad Slager questioned why news networks are platforming a faux, artificial intelligence "actress" to begin with. "It echoes the deeply disturbing display seen when Jim Acosta ‘interviewed’ the dead Parkland High School student, Joaquin Oliver. His parents fabricated an AI version of their deceased son for activist purposes," Slager wrote. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d9ab75342cf4db86582a Melania Trump Encourages Children to Build ‘the Next Great Robot’ With A.I. te 2026-09-15T23:50:03.983Z Melania Trump Encourages Children to Build ‘the Next Great Robot’ With A.I. The first lady, who has been a champion of A.I. during her husband’s second term, said the Mountain View Elementary School students should be at the forefront of technology. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d75975342cf4db8657cc MLB World Series favorite faces serious trouble as the regular season enters its final few weeks of the year te 2026-09-15T23:40:09.939Z MLB World Series favorite faces serious trouble as the regular season enters its final few weeks of the year Somehow, there are just two weeks remaining in the 2026 Major League Baseball regular season. Once again, this baseball season has shown how and why trying to predict it remains one of the most futile endeavors in sports. And that lack of predictability is even more apparent as several postseason races look set to come down to the last few games of the season. The American League playoff race has several spots up for grabs, with teams hoping to avoid the wrong kind of history: becoming the first sub-.500 team to reach the postseason in a full season. While the Chicago White Sox have led the American League Central for most of the season, the Cleveland Guardians are just 1.5 games back with two games remaining in their series on Tuesday and Wednesday. WITH ONE MONTH LEFT, AMERICAN LEAGUE TEAMS ARE HEADING TOWARDS AN EMBARRASSING, HISTORIC LOW In the AL West, the Houston Astros are clinging to a one-game lead over the Texas Rangers at 75-75, though the teams don't play each other the rest of the year. Then there's the wild card race. The Guardians currently sit in the third wild card position at 76-75, but the Toronto Blue Jays, left for dead months ago, have clawed their way back into it, just one game back. If the Rangers can’t catch the Astros, they’re still just 1.5 games back of the third wild-card spot. Even the 73-78 Baltimore Orioles are only three games behind Cleveland. Somehow. So there are two teams competing for the AL Central, two teams competing for the AL West and four competing for the final wild card spot behind the Yankees and Red Sox. Those division races will also determine which team gets a first-round bye and who's forced into a best-of-three wild card series. Cleveland, Chicago, Houston and Texas are all within just a few games of each other, meaning that the second and third seed might not be determined until the final weekend. Hilariously, there are just five teams with a positive run differential in the AL, and one of them, the Tigers, is 71-79 and effectively eliminated. On the NL side, there are just two teams fighting for the final wild card spot, the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres. While the Padres have become baseball's hottest team, Arizona's still just 2.5 games behind. More importantly, those two teams play each other in the final series with the season tiebreaker up for grabs, meaning that the race may not be clinched until literally the last day of the year. Last game, two division rivals potentially playing for a postseason berth at Petco Park. A dream scenario for the league. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Speaking of the west, while the Dodgers have clinched a postseason berth, they're still battling with the Braves to clinch the second seed behind the runaway Milwaukee Brewers. And that bye might be even more important than it normally is, because the Dodgers are in trouble. Serious trouble. While they've accumulated a tremendous amount of talent between their player development, fortuitous trades and their obviously large financial advantages, much of it is far from full strength heading into October. And it might cost them a chance at a three-peat. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Shohei Ohtani is on the injured list for the first time as a Dodger, after dealing with knee and arm injuries for most of the season. Not only will he not be available to pitch in the playoffs, he won't be eligible to return until the final weekend of the season. Freddie Freeman has been battling right knee soreness severe enough to keep him out of the lineup several times over the past week. Andy Pages, who's been one of the Dodgers most valuable players this season, fractured his hand on a hit by pitch several weeks ago and, while he's started taking swings, has no set return date before the postseason. Then there's Edwin Díaz. Díaz, who signed for $69 million in the offseason, went from a 1.63 ERA in 2025 to 11.85 in 2026. He went down for several months with an arm injury himself, only to return and look... worse. One of the most expensive relief pitchers in baseball has seven saves and four blown saves, allowing a remarkable 37 baserunners and 18 runs in 13.2 innings. He's back on the injured list, and just gave up five runs in a rehab appearance in the minor leagues. Edgardo Henriquez, who's helped fill in for Díaz at the back end of the bullpen, has been outstanding over the last month. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Except he's now hurt too, going on the injured list with back issues that will keep him out for the remainder of the regular season. Roki Sasaki too, had gone on the IL and was expected back this past weekend, only for manager Dave Roberts to say Tuesday that he won't return until next week at the earliest. It's a testament to the Dodgers' depth that they're still a very good team, even with all these problems, and the promotion of top prospect Josue De Paula has already paid off. But these are very real and significant injury issues to key players, and the timeline to get them all back is compressed, to say the least. Securing a first-round bye would give them a few extra days’ rest before starting the NLDS, but Ohtani, Pages, Diaz, Freeman, Henriquez and Sasaki may either not play again during the regular season or make only a few at-bats or a single appearance before the playoffs. Meanwhile, the Brewers are surging with a mostly healthy roster and baseball’s best run differential. They’ve also turned Brice Turang, Andrew Vaughn and Jake Bauers into elite offensive contributors. With the Dodgers taking on water and big-name players like Mookie Betts, Will Smith, Freddie Freeman and Kyle Tucker well below their career averages, might this be the Brewers’ year? When they say you can't predict baseball, this is why. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d75975342cf4db8657c3 Kelsea Ballerini flaunts her abs in red bikini as she rings in her 33rd birthday te 2026-09-15T23:40:09.039Z Kelsea Ballerini flaunts her abs in red bikini as she rings in her 33rd birthday Kelsea Ballerini is celebrating her birthday in style. In a recent Instagram post, the 33-year-old country singer shared a photo of her on her birthday while on a luxury boat in her bikini. "Another trip around the sun ❤️" she captioned the post. The photo shows the "Cowboys Cry Too" singer standing on the back of a boat holding on to her cowboy hat, which she wore covering her eyes, and posing in a red bikini top and flowing cover-up skirt. BELLA HADID, KELSEA BALLERINI AND OTHER STARS KICK OFF SUMMER EARLY WITH BIKINI PHOTOS "THE PILATES ARE SHOWINGGGG 😍🔥happy birthday angel girl 🩷✨ @kelseaballerini," one fan wrote. Another added, "Holy abs! Hbd kb❤️" A third fan chimed in, adding, "Stunning," and another wrote, "Seriously such a beautiful angel there hope she has a wonderful birthday." Ballerini also received comments pointing out that her ex-boyfriend, Chase Stokes, liked the photo. She and the "Outer Banks" star dated for around three years, having separated briefly in September 2025 and splitting for good in February 2026. Prior to dating Stokes, the six-time Grammy Award-nominee was married to country singer Morgan Evans for nearly five years, before she filed for divorce in August 2022. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS She spoke with Elle Magazine in May 2023 about her divorce, and how she approaches fans showing up to her concerts with signs saying "Just got a divorce." "I try to never celebrate it until I know if it’s a good thing. I don’t ever want to be a poster child for divorce," she said. "It’s been three years now. It’s simply not in the forefront of my life anymore." She added: "But I always make sure when these women come up to me, my first reaction is never, ‘Oh my God, congratulations!’ It’s like, ‘Are you OK?’ Because just like it needs to be destigmatized, I also don’t think it should be celebrated or glamorized." Her 2023 album, "Rolling Up the Welcome Mat," features songs such as "Blindsided," "Mountain with a View" and "Penthouse" which featured lyrics chronicling the deterioration and aftermath of her relationship with Evans. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d50175342cf4db865758 Former Ohio teacher charged after missing teen found at his home 263 days later: reports te 2026-09-15T23:30:09.551Z Former Ohio teacher charged after missing teen found at his home 263 days later: reports A former Ohio teacher has been charged after authorities alleged he knowingly allowed a missing underage teen girl to stay at his home despite being aware she had been reported missing. Jobe Binkley, 48, of Springfield, Ohio, has been charged with one count of interference with custody, a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Fox News Digital. The girl had been missing for 263 days after running away from a youth shelter in Columbus on Dec. 2, 2025, WSYX and The New York Post reported. The outlets reported Binkley was the girl's former high school science teacher. CALIFORNIA FOOTBALL COACH ARRESTED AFTER STUDENTS MAKE DISTURBING DISCOVERY AT SCHOOL According to the complaint, Binkley "did knowingly allow the child victim to stay in his home while having knowledge of the victim being an active missing juvenile." A probable cause affidavit states that on Aug. 21, an officer working as an agent of the U. S. Marshal's Office went to Binkley's Springfield home after investigators identified it as the girl's last known location. According to the affidavit, Binkley told the officer the teen was inside the residence and called for her to come outside, which she did. "He spoke with the resident owner, Jobe Binkley, who stated the juvenile was inside. He called for the juvenile, and they exited the home," the affidavit states. BROOKLYN TEACHERS WHO WITNESSED 9/11 AS CHILDREN REVEAL WHAT THEY WANT THE NEXT GENERATION TO REMEMBER Investigators also alleged officers had gone to Binkley's home on two earlier occasions while searching for the missing girl. During those visits, Binkley allegedly refused to let officers inside and told them the juvenile was not there. "Officers had been to Mr. Binkley's house on two previous occasions where the juvenile was entered missing," the affidavit states.  "At those times he refused officers to enter his home and stated that the missing person was not inside. Officers noted that Jobe was made aware the individual was in fact an active missing person." According to The New York Post, Binkley was placed on administrative leave from Springfield City Schools in November 2024 and again in January 2025 before he was fired the following month. FORMER TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER ARRESTED AFTER PROBE INTO INAPPROPRIATE STUDENT RELATIONSHIP Chelsi Warner, the mother of the victim's half-sister, alleged to the New York Post that Binkley began grooming the teen after they met at school. "She’s had a troubled history with her mother and this groomer took advantage of a girl looking for a parental figure," Warner said. Court records show Binkley has pleaded not guilty to the charge.  A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 30, according to court records. The Springfield Police Department and Springfield City Schools could not immediately be reached by Fox News Digital for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d4fb75342cf4db865726 Scrutiny of Jury May Complicate Future of Lindsay Clancy Case te 2026-09-15T23:30:03.619Z Scrutiny of Jury May Complicate Future of Lindsay Clancy Case The intense public focus on the jurors whose deadlock led to a mistrial could complicate any attempt to retry the case, and to seat jurors in other high-profile cases. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d2a775342cf4db8656e7 Josh Jacobs' ex-girlfriend files motion to permanently seal evidence in domestic violence case te 2026-09-15T23:20:07.887Z Josh Jacobs' ex-girlfriend files motion to permanently seal evidence in domestic violence case Josh Jacobs’ ex-girlfriend wants to "protect her privacy," as her attorneys filed a motion to permanently seal evidence and discovery materials in the criminal case involving the Green Bay Packers star running back. A statement from attorneys Ramses Jalalpour and Amir Tahmassebi, who are both representing Jacobs’ ex-girlfriend, identified as "ANM," said in a statement obtained by ESPN that the motion, which was filed on Tuesday, "is consistent with our client’s desire to protect her privacy." The evidence, which included a surveillance video of the portion of the incident that took place in Jacobs’ garage, was temporarily sealed in the case this past Thursday. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Jacobs pleaded no contest to battery and criminal damage to property from the May 23 incident, which were both misdemeanors. Jacobs now awaits the NFL’s decision on its potential discipline following its own investigation of the incident. The veteran running back remains on the Commissioner’s Exempt List, though time spent there would count toward a suspension. PACKERS RB JOSH JACOBS PLEADS NO CONTEST TO DOMESTIC CHARGES SETTING HIM UP FOR AN NFL SUSPENSION The damage has already been done in Jacobs’ case, as he is very likely to face discipline from the league. However, a permanent sealing of evidence could prevent the league from seeing the video in question. According to the criminal complaint, Jacobs was accused of throwing his ex-girlfriend to the ground and damaging her phone, and video would show the portion that occurred in the garage. The NFL is attempting to obtain the video as part of its own investigation, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Jacobs was also ordered to have no contact with the woman involved, pay restitution, attend counseling and be under supervision for one year. The NFL’s baseline suspension for a first-time domestic violence offense is six games without pay as part of its conduct policy. The suspension could increase depending on factors including the involvement of a weapon, repeated striking and more. "I fully understand the seriousness of the situation and I take full responsibility," Jacobs said in addressing the bench. "With this agreement, Josh has accepted responsibility for his conduct and resolved this matter," Jacobs attorneys David Z. Chesnoff, Richard A. Schonfeld and Clarence F Duchac said in a statement provided to OutKick’s Armando Salguero. "Today’s resolution is set against a career-long history of Josh’s community work while in the NFL, which has centered on the circumstances of his early life." As Jacobs awaits the NFL’s decision following its investigation, the Packers fell to 0-1 to begin the 2026 NFL season after a second-half collapse against the Minnesota Vikings. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d05275342cf4db865671 Tom Cruise admits rumors about his 'intense' behavior on movie sets are true te 2026-09-15T23:10:10.597Z Tom Cruise admits rumors about his 'intense' behavior on movie sets are true Tom Cruise is confirming what Hollywood has whispered about for years — he really is that intense. The actor, 64, acknowledged his demanding reputation on movie sets and said he makes sure collaborators know exactly what they're getting into. "I expect a lot and I'm up-front about it," Cruise said during a GQ cover interview. "It's like: 'The rumors are true. And do you want this?'" BEAU BRIDGES SAYS TOM CRUISE ‘GETS BETTER WITH AGE’ AS ‘TOP GUN' STAR KEEPS DEFYING HOLLYWOOD ODDS "Trust me, the rumors are true. I'll be here before you. What experience do you want?" he laughed. The actor made clear that his intensity isn't an act he puts on once the cameras start rolling. "Even when I was a kid, they were like, 'Oh, come on, Tom. You're so intense.' I'm like, 'I don't know what to say. I am intense,'" Cruise remarked. "I got a very good sense of humor about it," he added. For Cruise, the intensity comes from curiosity and a desire to master his craft. "When I'm interested in something, I want to learn it. I want to understand it," he said. "And you want to blast through the confusion and kind of build up that ability." MATT DAMON REFUSES TO PUT BODY IN 'DANGEROUS' SITUATIONS FOR HOLLYWOOD ROLES AFTER TURNING 50 That mindset has helped turn Cruise into one of Hollywood's most famous action stars, but he insisted filmmaking is about much more than spectacular stunts or box-office numbers. "I say, 'Understand the tools, then go create what you want to create,'" he said. The "Top Gun" star also discussed the idea that movies are simply another form of entertainment competing with television and streaming. "I have nothing against cable or TV or Netflix. I think it's great. Create jobs and everything," Cruise said. "But what I like about cinema is it is all of us coming together in a room and sharing an experience." When Cruise is not on a movie set, he said he's preparing for the next project. TOM CRUISE SAVED SAMANTHA HARRIS FROM GETTING CRUSHED BY A '500-POUND' MOTORCYCLE "You know what? I'm preparing for the next. I'm always studying something. I'm always learning something, always." Cruise stressed that the work behind a movie can begin years before production. "Movies don't just start when you're shooting it and on a movie set. There's sometimes years of preparation," he said. During his decades-long career, Cruise has ridden a motorcycle off a cliff, hung from aircraft in midair and performed other death-defying feats for his movies. Cruise was asked whether he fears death when performing his movie stunts. "Look, I think you could look at my life and go: I like standing on the edge of a cliff physically and metaphorically," he told GQ. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "Meaning, I look at life as an adventure, and I always have, my whole life. I want to understand people. I want to understand life and cultures. We're looking at life. I wonder: Who are those people? How do they feel? Do they think the way I do? Do they laugh at the same thing? How do I connect with them? And I didn't want to just be a tourist. I wanted to go make movies there because I also find you really get to know people when you create with them." He added, "Everyone has a different subjective reality of what they think about life, about people. And there is common ground in humanity, and I'm looking for that common ground." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Cruise is bringing that famously intense energy to his next role. In Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "Digger," Cruise portrays oil magnate Digger Rockwell, whose actions put the world at risk of an $18 trillion catastrophe. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE The film's official synopsis said he is attempting to prove he is "humanity's hero before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything." "Digger" marks Cruise’s first major starring role outside the "Top Gun" and "Mission: Impossible" franchises in years. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d05175342cf4db865668 Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University citing 'deliberate indifference' to Palestinians te 2026-09-15T23:10:09.766Z Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University citing 'deliberate indifference' to Palestinians Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil announced on Monday that he sued Columbia University, where he attended and organized several anti-Israel protests, for what he claimed was years of discrimination. In the lawsuit, Khalil alleged that Columbia University "fostered an environment of hostility towards students holding pro-Palestine views, who were perceived as being Muslims, Arabs, non-citizens, and/or immigrants, and others for their association with those students" based on its treatment and surveillance of students like Khalil. "This case concerns Defendants’ deliberate indifference towards and failure to respond to instances of severe, persistent, and coordinated harassment directed towards Mahmoud Khalil, Mohammad Ibrahim Zubairi, and other members of SIPA Palestine Working Group due to their pro-Palestine advocacy and affiliation, their perceived shared ancestry as Arab and/or Muslim students, their national origin, and/or their status as non-citizen immigrants, as well as Defendants’ subsequent retaliation against Mr. Khalil, Mr. Zubairi, and [Palestine Working Group] and its members for reporting that harassment," the lawsuit read. ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST MAHMOUD KHALIL CLAIMS OCT 7 TERROR ATTACK WAS ‘DESPERATE ATTEMPT’ FOR GAZA TO BE HEARD The lawsuit also alleged that Columbia University's lack of response to actions against Khalil and other activists "directly led" to Khalil's detainment and attempted deportation in 2025 by the Trump administration. "Throughout his detainment, Defendants refused to correct disinformation surrounding the nature of Mr. Khalil’s role as a negotiator and mediator during the student protests, allowing a false narrative about his conduct and role to persist and further enabling peer-on-peer harassment of other Palestinian students and students with perceived shared Arab and/or Muslim ancestry," the lawsuit read. In a statement to Fox News Digital, a Columbia University spokesperson said the school could not comment on pending litigation but reiterated the school's goals of protecting students from discrimination. "Creating a campus environment where every member of our community feels welcome, supported, and safe is fundamental to who we are as a University. It is also a responsibility we take seriously. Columbia is committed to protecting our community from discrimination and harassment, and responding promptly and appropriately when concerns arise," the spokesperson said. Fox News Digital reached out to Khalil's attorneys for comment but did not immediately receive a response. ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST MAHMOUD KHALIL CLAIMS IMMIGRATION DETENTION ‘FELT LIKE KIDNAPPING’ Khalil was initially arrested in 2025 at his university-owned apartment in New York City over his activism at Columbia University. Homeland Security Investigations, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), told him at the time they were revoking his green card, according to his attorney, Amy Greer. He was later transferred to a detention center in Louisiana where he was held for 104 days before a federal judge in New Jersey ordered his release. Khalil later suffered a setback in his federal case when a U.S. appeals panel ruled that the New Jersey judge overstepped his authority by ordering his release. In a 2-1 decision, the panel found the case must proceed through the immigration court system before it can be challenged in federal court. NEWLY RELEASED MAHMOUD KHALIL SPOTTED BACK AT ANTI-ISRAEL PROTEST AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY In July, Khalil filed another lawsuit claiming members of the Trump administration conspired with private pro-Israel organizations like the Heritage Foundation, Canary Mission and Betar to arrest and deport activists like himself in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act. "Collectively, the conspirators’ actions, motivated by their shared unlawful purpose and animus, sought to terrorize and make an example of Mr. Khalil and other non-citizen Palestinians or supporters of Palestinians (sometimes collectively referred to as "Pro-Palestinian" individuals) in order to intimidate and silence the growing movement for Palestinian rights and political freedom, in a manner the KKK Act was designed to proscribe when enacted during Reconstruction," that lawsuit alleged. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d05075342cf4db865651 After Supreme Court rejects bid to limit voting by mail, AG says Trump was right to slam the ruling ruling te 2026-09-15T23:10:08.213Z After Supreme Court rejects bid to limit voting by mail, AG says Trump was right to slam the ruling ruling U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks about the administration’s crackdown on fraud during a Sept. 14, 2026, news conference at the FBI field office in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) The Trump administration will comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s order this week blocking new restrictions on mail voting for this year’s elections, but President Donald Trump was right to attack the ruling, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said during a wide-ranging White House press conference Tuesday. Concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence are overstated, military action in Iran is not a war and the justices wrongly decided the case in which the Justice Department argued in defense of a U.S. Postal Service rule overhauling vote-by-mail requirements before the election, Blanche told reporters during a roughly half-hour briefing in the White House Rose Garden. Blanche, who was Trump’s personal attorney before joining the government, began the press conference praising federal prosecutions of terrorism and election fraud suspects.  But he quickly transitioned into a broad defense of recent Trump actions and administration policies. The Trump administration will continue prioritizing “election security” ahead of this year’s midterms, despite its setback at the Supreme Court on the proposed mail voting regulation, he said.  “Of course we’re going to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision, as we always do,” he said.  “That doesn’t mean that we’re not going to do everything in this administration that we can to make sure that there are free and fair elections,” he added. “There’s this constant pressure and this effort by the media and mostly by Democrats that somehow doing that is a bad thing. Everybody should want that.” Trump’s morning Truth Social post articulating regret over nominating some Supreme Court justices who have ruled against him was “what a democracy is about,” Blanche added. “As far as President Trump’s Truth about about the justices, he is very frustrated, and … he has every right, and, indeed, he should communicate his concerns with the Supreme Court whenever he has them,” Blanche said.  “I am also upset about the Supreme Court decision. But the idea that President Trump shouldn’t be allowed to communicate to the American people his frustration, I don’t share that.” While opining on a host of issues, Blanche declined to comment on potential criminal investigations, including when asked about Minnesota Democratic U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar and longtime public health official Anthony Fauci. AI as campaign issue Anxiety about artificial intelligence “conveniently became a flashpoint this week,” Blanche said, suggesting Democrats sought to ramp up discontent ahead of Nov. 3 midterm elections to determine control of Congress. Asked about how AI should be regulated and if development should be slowed, Blanche said the Department of Justice’s mission is to prosecute, not regulate.  But he echoed Trump’s comments this week that U.S. companies should press forward with the technology to remain competitive with China. Political figures from both parties have commented on AI policy following a call by the chief executives of top companies for a development slowdown amid disclosures the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity. “When the leaders of the top AI companies are sounding the alarm about the potential for imminent threats, we need to take them seriously,” Hawaii Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz said Tuesday.  “This is an emergency, and we need to treat it like an emergency. If the risk of AI is anywhere near the level that it has been characterized to be, then we have an obligation to act on a bipartisan basis immediately.” In the Rose Garden, Blanche questioned whether Democrats were raising the issue in good faith or for an electoral advantage. “Every Democrat senator suddenly races to a microphone to talk about AI after being eerily silent for months and months and months,” he said. “So to talk about the timing of this as being nothing but an effort to to influence the midterms, I shouldn’t have to say that out loud. Of course, that’s what it is. And that shouldn’t be what drives the decisions that we’re making around AI. We can’t lose the AI race to China, right?” Hegseth ‘phenomenal’ Asked about the articles of impeachment Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie introduced Tuesday against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, objecting to continued military action in Iran even after the House passed a resolution calling for an end to the war, Blanche said Hegseth was doing “a phenomenal job.” The Justice Department ensures that all Defense Department activity is lawful, Blanche said.  He added that the conflict should not be categorized as a war. “You called it a war,” he told the reporter who asked about the impeachment. “I disagree with that characterization, as does most of Congress.” Ariana Figueroa contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9d04b75342cf4db86562f McCarthy Gets a Portrait Marking His Brief, Strange Speakership te 2026-09-15T23:10:03.624Z McCarthy Gets a Portrait Marking His Brief, Strange Speakership Kevin McCarthy, the first speaker to be ousted from the post, was honored at the Capitol at the unveiling of his official portrait. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9cdfc75342cf4db8655f0 Lindsay Clancy hires Karen Read attorney for high-stakes double jeopardy fight after murder mistrial te 2026-09-15T23:00:12.439Z Lindsay Clancy hires Karen Read attorney for high-stakes double jeopardy fight after murder mistrial The Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children to death is bringing in the attorney who fought Karen Read’s retrial as she makes a bid to have her own case thrown out. Lindsay Clancy, whose closely watched murder trial ended in a reported 11-1 split in favor of finding her not criminally responsible, has added veteran Boston attorney Martin Weinberg to her defense team. Weinberg entered a limited appearance Tuesday to file and argue a forthcoming motion seeking dismissal on double-jeopardy grounds, according to a Plymouth Superior Court filing obtained by Fox News Digital. The filing states Weinberg will represent Clancy in connection with the dismissal motion and "related matters." LINDSAY CLANCY'S LAWYER REVEALS POST-MISTRIAL STRATEGY AS RETRIAL LOOMS The filing does not say when Weinberg will submit the motion. Clancy’s case is next scheduled to return to court Sept. 29. LINDSAY CLANCY JUDGE CALLS MISTRIAL, THEN GRANTS DEFENSE ONE HOUR STAY FOR APPEAL Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Sept. 4 after jurors spent seven days deliberating but said they could not reach a unanimous verdict. Several jurors later revealed that 11 members of the panel supported finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, while one juror voted to convict. LINDSAY CLANCY ATTORNEY KEVIN REDDINGTON SIGNALS HE'S OPEN TO A DEAL, HOPES DA WILL 'REVISIT' CASE Clancy’s longtime defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, signaled immediately after the mistrial that he would fight any attempt to put her on trial again. The defense is expected to argue that the way the mistrial ended bars prosecutors from taking another shot at the case. Prosecutors can generally retry a defendant after a jury deadlocks, but Clancy’s attorneys are expected to claim that the circumstances surrounding her mistrial make a second trial improper. KAREN READ’S LAWYER SAYS CLANCY DEFENSE ATTORNEY MAY BE ‘CUT FROM A DIFFERENT CLOTH’ AS DELIBERATIONS DRAG ON Weinberg mounted a similar fight for Read after her 2024 trial ended without a verdict. Read’s attorneys said jurors later told them they had unanimously agreed to clear her of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of a deadly crash, despite remaining divided on a manslaughter charge. PATRICK CLANCY SPEAKS OUT AFTER HUNG JURY IN LINDSAY CLANCY CASE, ADDRESSES PROSPECT OF ANOTHER TRIAL Weinberg argued that Read should not face those two charges again. A judge rejected the request, finding that the jury never formally returned not-guilty verdicts and that Read’s attorneys had agreed to the mistrial. The battle continued in state and federal court before Read was retried in 2025. She was acquitted of second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of a deadly crash but convicted of misdemeanor operating under the influence. DR PHIL SAYS LINDSAY CLANCY MISTRIAL A 'TEACHABLE MOMENT' ON POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS: 'THERE WAS A FAILURE HERE' Clancy is accused of strangling her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan, with exercise bands inside the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023. She then jumped from a second-story window in an apparent suicide attempt, leaving her paralyzed, authorities said. ACCUSED NC KILLER MOM PLANS INSANITY DEFENSE — AS RETIRED JUDGE SAYS MORE MAY FOLLOW LINDSAY CLANCY STRATEGY Clancy does not deny killing the children but pleaded not guilty because her attorneys say she was not criminally responsible at the time. Her defense argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was heavily medicated when the children died. Prosecutors countered that Clancy carefully planned the killings, sending her husband, Patrick Clancy, out of the house before attacking the children. LINDSAY CLANCY JUROR WHO BACKED THE DEFENSE ALSO PUBLICLY CHEERED KAREN READ'S ACQUITTAL Clancy remains in custody at Tewksbury Hospital. Prosecutors have not publicly announced whether they intend to retry her. Sullivan also ordered the identities of the 12 jurors and six alternates who served in Clancy’s trial to remain private indefinitely amid safety concerns and the unauthorized disclosure of jurors’ personal information. The judge wrote that jurors had been identified without their permission and that at least one juror had asked for the protection to be extended indefinitely. "Based on the circumstances of this trial and the fact that the case continues to receive daily, divisive attention in Massachusetts and beyond, the Court concludes that there is a real and present ‘risk of [personal] harm to the jurors [and] to the integrity of their service,’" Sullivan wrote in the order obtained by Fox News. Sullivan also found "a risk of immediate and irreparable injury" if the juror list were made public. The order does not prevent jurors from identifying themselves or speaking with the media if they choose. In a separate order, Sullivan temporarily extended the protection covering the names of the larger pool summoned for jury duty from July 20 through July 24. Those names will remain impounded for another 10 days because of concerns about juror safety. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9cdfa75342cf4db8655e0 As fewer Americans drink each year, Tempe restaurant and bar owners adapt to remain relevant te 2026-09-15T23:00:10.627Z As fewer Americans drink each year, Tempe restaurant and bar owners adapt to remain relevant TEMPE – Over the past few years, alcohol consumption in the United States has undergone a noticeable shift. Alternatives such as marijuana have become more popular, and Americans cite economic struggles and health concerns as reasons to quit drinking. According to research from Gallup in 2025, 54% of U.S. adults reported that they consume alcohol – marking a 4% decrease from the previous year and the lowest percentage of American adults who say they drink since the survey’s inception in 1939.  Mill Avenue in downtown Tempe is considered one of the hotspots for nightlife at Arizona State University with bars and restaurants lining both sides of the street. Recently, the area has undergone major renovations including repaving roads, sidewalk widening and adding new electrical lines as part of the city’s “Refresh Tempe” initiative.  As Mill Avenue continues to transform and redefine itself, local businesses are looking to adapt to the trend that people are drinking less. Julian Wright, founder and CEO of Fork & Dagger, a local hospitality group that operates many restaurants and bars around the state, agreed that people are drinking less. He said bar owners are adapting by making their physical spaces more appealing instead of “just four walls, tap panels and some cheap liquor.” “I think Mill is going in a direction that will cater to both college kids and local residents who aren’t in college equally, which I think is super healthy,” said Wright, 57, whose businesses include Devil’s Hideaway, Pedal Haus Brewery and Carmen. “We have a lot of people coming to Tempe, whether it’s for a convention, football game, Innings Festival or art festivals that aren’t looking for a chug and puke college bar experience.” Pedal Haus Brewery in Tempe, Ariz. on Sept. 8, 2026, owned by Julian Wright. (Photo by Aiden Hanley/Cronkite News) Wright’s businesses can be found scattered throughout the Valley, but his long history with Mill Avenue has continued to be a focal point for finding success. “I’ve been around Mill 35 years, including my four years at ASU,” Wright said. “I’ve seen it ebb and flow many, many times. I mean, [we’ve] been through 9/11, the Great Recession and COVID. I’ve kind of seen it all and I’ve seen it change.” The city’s nightlife has gone through major changes with spots closing down. Some business owners hope to find success in the restaurant and bar industry by coming up with new ways to succeed without a brick-and-mortar location. Matthew Wachter, 25, graduated with a business degree from ASU in 2023 and kickstarted his own line of ready-to-drink, pre-mixed shots called Social Solutions in October 2024. “My idea behind Social Solutions was that I lived on Mill, I had the bartending background and before we would go out to the bar, I’d make everyone mixed shots,” Wachter said. “I was like,  ‘Why isn’t anyone making this?’ ” The locally-produced alcohol line is sold by 27 retailers around the Valley, with 13 of its retailers in Tempe. While the business looks to eventually expand beyond Arizona, Wachter is still focused on expanding the brand within the college community. “I think we haven’t hit Tempe as hard as we’ve wanted to,” Wachter said. “I think there’s still potential for us to sell even more products before moving on.” Social Solutions owner Matthew Wachter at the company’s production warehouse in Tempe, Ariz. on Sept. 8, 2026. (Photos by Aiden Hanley/Cronkite News) Wright says even though the number of people who say they drink alcohol is declining, people still want to enjoy a night out. “People might be drinking a little less but I’ll tell you what – I don’t care what age you are, it gets pretty boring sitting at home every night,” he said. “You’re not going to meet a diverse group of people if you just stay in your living room bubble.” Andy Moreno, 24, is a junior at ASU studying sports science and performance programming. As he has turned away from going out to bars over the past few years, Moreno says he doesn’t have the urge to go to Mill Avenue. “I find myself better without alcohol,” he said. “I think our generation [is] focusing more on our sleep [and] more on these health benefits,” Moreno said. “We’re more aware of every critical thing in our life at this point compared to maybe the last generation where they were probably [going to] Mill Avenue.” William Corbin, full time professor at ASU in the Department of Psychology and the head of the Behavioral Alcohol Research for Clinical Advancement Lab, believes that a combination of factors has led to less people drinking. He said that younger generations have a general awareness that “moderate alcohol use is bad for your health.” “Rising costs also likely play a role and legalization of cannabis use in many states also provides an alternative to alcohol use for some,” said Corbin, 57, who is the incoming editor-in-chief of the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. “Although research on the impact of GLP-1 medications on alcohol use is in the early stages, it is possible that increased use of these medications may also be impacting levels of alcohol use.” Despite Social Solutions’ success, Wachter is aware that alcohol’s negative impacts could explain the overall decline of alcohol consumption. “At the end of the day, alcohol is poison,” Wachter said. “Whether it’s a skinny margarita or a regular margarita, you’re still poisoning yourself no matter how you do it.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9cdf375342cf4db8655b9 Trump Defended A.I. Data Centers on Truth Social. The Commenters Disagreed. te 2026-09-15T23:00:03.979Z Trump Defended A.I. Data Centers on Truth Social. The Commenters Disagreed. The president’s posts about artificial intelligence on the social media platform he founded were met with an unusual volume of criticism. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9cba075342cf4db86555f Ex-WWE star touts NXT roster, names tag team he'd like The Headbangers to go up against one day te 2026-09-15T22:50:08.655Z Ex-WWE star touts NXT roster, names tag team he'd like The Headbangers to go up against one day WWE NXT has truly featured the pro wrestling stars of tomorrow and it’s been evident over the last year just how fast some of the talents are thrust into the main title picture. On Monday, Lola Vice made her WWE main roster debut and earned a shot in the women’s Money in the Bank ladder match in October. Sol Ruca held the Women’s Intercontinental Championship for 57 days this year. Stephanie Vaquer and Giulia, who got a cup of coffee in NXT, each held titles when they were called up. Je’Von Evans is in the Men’s Money in the Bank ladder match, Bron Breakker is a tag team champion and Oba Femi feuded with and likely ended the career of Brock Lesnar. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE Former WWE star Mosh, who spoke to OutKick Dropkick last week and opened up about his Live Fortunate premium lifestyle brand, said he’s gotten to spend some time with the NXT stars and named a few wrestlers to watch and a tag team he’d like to see The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher) possibly get into the ring with one day. "Well, the obvious is the guys on top. Kelani (Jordan) is amazing. Jaida (Parker) is amazing. Then you have Kam Hendricks, who's going to be another great superstar," he said. "And then, you've got Grayson Waller, who came in and made a huge impact by calling out the locker room. "Tag teams, I love Hank and Tank. If there's ever an opportunity for us, for The Headbangers, to wrestle Hank and Tank, I would absolutely love that. Birthright is a great group. They all have the wrestling gene in their blood. There's so many. You have Harlem Lewis and Harley Riggins who are in Evolve. I get the names crisscrossed. There's so many guys there that are coming up that are ready." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Mosh said that’s one of the things he enjoys about NXT – the environment that’s being built around the up-and-coming talent. "That's one of the things I love about NXT is that the culture they've built there is unbelievable and the environment is crazy great," he added. "As soon as they start plucking people from the NXT roster and put them on the main roster, the next person steps right in and there's no lull. They step right in, they know what's coming up, and they know what's going on. "And then the other part I love too is guys from the main roster still go down to NXT to work out and train. Then they get in there with these kids and they talk to them and go, ‘This is what you've got to expect when you come up here. This is kind of what you need to do to be next in line for it.’ That's one of the things that I love about it." SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Mosh, whose real name is Chaz Warrington, is leading the Live Fortunate brand. He told OutKick Dropkick about his perseverance and being able to keep a steady hand even in the toughest of situations. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c94375342cf4db8654cb Berkeley Event for Kirk Assassination Anniversary Draws Federal Scrutiny te 2026-09-15T22:40:03.955Z Berkeley Event for Kirk Assassination Anniversary Draws Federal Scrutiny A State Department official said he would look into an event where U.C. Berkeley students were said to have mocked Mr. Kirk, the conservative activist who was killed last year. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c6f375342cf4db86548d Clancy-fixated Illinois mom sang 'Wizard of Oz' tune after allegedly killing 2-year-old son: report te 2026-09-15T22:30:11.506Z Clancy-fixated Illinois mom sang 'Wizard of Oz' tune after allegedly killing 2-year-old son: report Corie Walsh, the woman who obsessed over the Lindsay Clancy case and allegedly killed her 2-year-old son, sang a rendition of a Wizard of Oz classic while being questioned by investigators, according to reports. Walsh, 40, who allegedly told officers she killed her son because she believed he was the "devil" and the "anti-Christ," belted out "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" from the movie classic, according to court documents obtained by The Sun. She is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the death of her son, Barrett Walsh, who was found hanging lifeless from a rafter in the basement of their suburban Chicago home. ILLINOIS MOTHER CHARGED WITH MURDER IN DEATH OF 2-YEAR-OLD SON IN CASE DRAWING COMPARISONS TO LINDSAY CLANCY The boy was discovered by his two siblings on Sept. 1 as they returned home from school. Upon arrival, responding police officers found a neighbor performing CPR on Barrett. While speaking with detectives, Walsh reportedly went on an unhinged rant and singing her own version of "Follow the Yellow Brick Road." LINDSAY CLANCY DESCRIBED A MALE VOICE ORDERING HER TO ‘KILL HER CHILDREN AND KILL HERSELF’: TESTIMONY Walsh’s attorney, Andrea Lyon, said her client was "psychotic" and rejected any connection between her interest in the Clancy case and the alleged killing. "She was psychotic. And this is not a first-degree murder," Lyon told reporters. Before the killing, Walsh had become "very invested" in the Clancy murder trial, which involved the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children. She had discussed the case in text messages with her friends as recently as the morning she allegedly killed her son. Fox News Digital's Greg Wehner contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c6f275342cf4db865484 Senate moves to rein in college sports 'Wild West' with sweeping new rules for players, schools te 2026-09-15T22:30:10.466Z Senate moves to rein in college sports 'Wild West' with sweeping new rules for players, schools The Senate took a major first step to advancing standardized, federal guardrails on college sports as name, image and likeness (NIL) has transformed the landscape of collegiate athletics. Lawmakers moved the Protect College Sports Act, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., onto the next phase, opening up the opportunity for the Senate to advance the bipartisan bill later in the week. "I think most people acknowledge that the current landscape of college sports is a mess," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said ahead of the vote. "It needs to be addressed." SENATE ADVANCES LANDMARK PROTECT COLLEGE SPORTS ACT, IGNORING SEC AND BIG TEN OPPOSITION WITH CLOCK TICKING At its core, Cruz pitched the legislation as a means to corral the chaos that has unfolded in college athletics since the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) made its landmark decision in 2021 to allow student-athletes to benefit financially while playing collegiate football, basketball and many others. "Some have asked why should Congress get in the middle of this? The answer is simple: because Congress screwed it up in the first place," Cruz said during a press conference on Monday. "It has been the federal antitrust laws applied in litigation after litigation after litigation that have had the effect of tearing down essentially all the rules," he continued. "So right now it is the Wild West." CRUZ AND CANTWELL REFUSE TO BEND TO SEC AND BIG TEN CONCERNS IN REVISED COLLEGE ATHLETICS LEGISLATION The Protect College Sports Act would broadly add restrictions to the transfer portal for student-athletes, create a uniform eligibility framework of five years, recruiting and tampering guardrails that establish when schools or agents can contact or recruit a student-athlete, a federal standard for NIL rules, and a revenue-sharing cap. Opponents of the bill, including Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., contended that the Protect College Sports Act would take away bargaining power from student-athletes and create exemptions from antitrust laws for colleges. "The ‘chaos’ is that (mostly black) athletes now have bargaining power and white coaches and sports industry execs hate it," Murphy said on X. KATIE UHLAENDER: ATHLETES RISK PAYING THE PRICE IF PROTECT COLLEGE SPORTS ACT IS PASSED And the Congressional Black Caucus, led by Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., announced that it would not support the bill, charging in a statement that it would not support the legislation while "Black political representation is under attack across the country," following the Supreme Court’s decision on the Voting Rights Act earlier this year. "Several months ago, before the Senate ever reached this moment, the Congressional Black Caucus made clear that Congress should not rush to provide sweeping new federal protections and legal certainty to powerful athletic institutions while those same institutions remained largely silent as Black voting rights and Black political representation came under unprecedented attack," the group said. Cantwell acknowledged the pushback, noting that "several are friends and allies." "Let me be clear, voting rights are sacred, and I will stand in that fight with anyone," she said on the Senate floor. "But I cannot agree that the way to wage it is to hold thousands of student-athletes' scholarships, health protections and future hostages to a Supreme Court decision they did not make." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c49b75342cf4db865424 High-profile Democrat breaks with party, embraces key pieces of Trump agenda te 2026-09-15T22:20:11.800Z High-profile Democrat breaks with party, embraces key pieces of Trump agenda DETROIT, MICHIGAN — Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., threw her support behind three of the Trump administration’s signature economic policies in an interview with Fox News Digital. Collaboration between ratepayers and data center developers, public stakes in high-growth industries and loan guarantees for critical mineral extraction are all areas where the Michigan congresswoman says the Trump administration is charting the right course. She also pointed to bolstering American manufacturing and deterring the nation’s adversaries from hostage taking as areas where she believes bipartisan collaboration is possible. "It's not just about taxation," Stevens told Fox News Digital when asked how revenues can be raised to fund healthcare and infrastructure programs. "If federal dollars are used, like what Mr. Elon Musk got from the federal government, so potentially this current administration could be right that ownership stakes should be on the table." PROGRESSIVE PRAISE FOR TRUMP AS WARREN BACKS PUSH TO CURB DEFENSE CONTRACTOR CEO PAYOUTS The Trump administration has increasingly pursued direct equity stakes, alongside grants and loans, to steer capital into industries it considers strategically important, such as semiconductors and critical minerals. For instance, the administration converted $8.9 billion in federal funding into a 9.9% nonvoting stake in Intel, while the Pentagon took a 15% stake in rare-earth producer MP Materials. Both investments have increased in value since the government took them, although those gains are not realized until the shares are sold. While Stevens thinks stimulating economic growth is part of the equation for balancing the federal balance sheet, she did say that the "wealthiest of the wealthy" should "absolutely" pay more in taxes. Stevens rose to national prominence during her primary contest against Abdul El-Sayed, who has since become the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan. She cast herself as a more moderate alternative to El-Sayed, who she accused of unfairly singling out Jewish Americans. DEMOCRATS' CIVIL WAR HEADS TO MICHIGAN WHERE PROGRESSIVES FACE BIGGEST TEST YET IN HIGH-STAKES SENATE SHOWDOWN Though the primary feud between the two was intense, Stevens endorsed El-Sayed following a narrow primary defeat and signaled that, while she may agree with President Donald Trump on some things, she still sees his broader agenda as dangerous for America. "I personally think [Republican nominee] Mike Rogers is going to continue to rubber-stamp Donald Trump’s chaotic agenda," she said in an interview after endorsing El-Sayed. "People are going to make a personal and private decision. I am not on the ballot in Michigan." Likewise, the White House isn't particularly warm towards Stevens. "It’s rich that Haley Stevens claims to support President Trump’s proven economic agenda after voting against the President over 80 percent of the time in Congress – including on the Great One Big Beautiful Bill, which is the largest working-class tax cut in history," White House spokesman Kush Desai told Fox News Digital. MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT HALEY STEVENS BACKS EL-SAYED AFTER NARROW PRIMARY DEFEAT, CALLS SOCIALISM ‘DANGEROUS’ Though Stevens is a loyal Democrat, she says that doesn’t prevent her from working across the aisle, especially on local issues. For that reason, she threw her support behind the Trump administration’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a collaborative framework bringing together utilities, data center developers, cooperatives and state governments to keep energy prices down amidst the massive buildout of AI infrastructure. "I think collaboration is always a promising first step and path forward," Stevens told Fox News Digital when asked about the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. "Before I was in Congress, I had also worked on the bipartisan auto-rescue task force in the Obama administration. I was an Obama appointee, but there were also Bush appointees who stayed on, and there frankly were Republicans who were on the task force. And the reason I'm mentioning the auto task force is that we coordinated at the local level. We coordinated large-scale federal resources." Later in the interview, Stevens stressed to Fox News Digital that she is "really fired up about critical minerals," arguing that America makes itself vulnerable to China by failing to increase domestic production. She listed loan guarantees for mining firms, a policy currently being carried out by the Trump administration, as something she supports. WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS TURN POLLUTED MINE WATER INTO CRITICAL RARE EARTH MINERALS The White House did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Tuesday. Looking forward, Stevens — who has a strong record of bipartisan work — highlighted a few areas she believes are fertile ground for Republicans and Democrats to work together. "[Rep.] French Hill, who's a Republican from Arkansas and a great congressman, French Hill and I have passed considerable pieces of legislation to stand up to America's enemies, to stand up to our detractors, and that continues to be an area where I believe that we will see more bipartisan collaboration," she told Fox News Digital. "I also feel very strongly and I'm very proud to serve as the bipartisan caucus chair of the manufacturing caucus, our industrial sector, and one of the areas of great success for me in the Congress was, as a midwesterner, working with colleagues on the other side of the aisle to grow our manufacturing economy." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c49a75342cf4db86541b Ed Sheeran says he tried to ‘build a bridge’ over Macklemore tour spot before venues said no te 2026-09-15T22:20:10.810Z Ed Sheeran says he tried to ‘build a bridge’ over Macklemore tour spot before venues said no Ed Sheeran addressed Macklemore’s removal from his U.S. tour Tuesday, saying the rapper’s departure was ultimately a decision made by the concert promoter and venues — not by him. The "Shape of You" singer said he was "appalled" by the conflict between Israel and Palestine and described the suffering on both sides as "a human tragedy," according to a lengthy statement shared on Instagram after Macklemore accused Sheeran and tour organizers of sidelining him over his pro-Palestinian remarks. Following Sheeran's note, four supporting acts withdrew from the Loop Tour in solidarity with Macklemore, including Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, Lukas Graham, and Finneas. MACKLEMORE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER GETTING KICKED OFF ED SHEERAN TOUR AFTER PRO-PALESTINE STANCE "Macklemore asked to join my tour last year and I agreed, because I respect him as an artist," Sheeran wrote. "As with all my support acts, I agree that they play a setlist of their choosing." On Monday, Macklemore had claimed that Sheeran told him Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium, had rallied other stadium owners to oppose allowing the rapper to perform. According to his account, the venues allegedly gave Sheeran an ultimatum: "if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues." Sheeran’s statement offered a different account of the events, saying that after Macklemore’s performances at his New Jersey shows, venues scheduled for upcoming tour dates told organizers they would pull the shows if Macklemore remained on the lineup. "After Macklemore’s performances at my New Jersey shows, venues on my upcoming tour dates communicated that they would pull the shows if he was still supporting," Sheeran wrote. "I was informed that this stance was based on how Macklemore conveyed part of his message during his performance, rather than on everything that was said. I spoke with the venues at length all week to try and build a bridge. One of those people was Robert Kraft. I was also involved in direct talks with promoters along with activists on both sides to try and find a mutual resolution for all, but the venue’s and promoter’s decision was final." MICHAEL RAPAPORT SLAMS 'CLOWN' MACKLEMORE FOR ANTI-ISRAEL PERFORMANCE "Macklemore coming off tour was the promoter’s decision, it was not mine," Sheeran added. "Macklemore’s contract for the tour was with the promoter, not me." Macklemore was scheduled to perform at eight of the remaining U.S. dates on Sheeran’s "Loop Tour." Sheeran said he has deliberately avoided using his professional platform for politics because his audience includes young people and children from diverse backgrounds. Sheeran said concertgoers attend his shows expecting "a place of safety and sanctuary" rather than a political forum. "There is a reason I do not use my professional platform for politics – my audience includes young people, often children, of all backgrounds," he wrote. "Those who come to my shows do not expect a political forum. I respect Macklemore’s strength of purpose to stand up and shout for what he believes. However, there is room for multiple approaches to the same end: peace. I choose to use my fame and platform to be a place of safety and sanctuary, to maintain diplomacy and keep conversations open, not closed. If we only focus on shouting the loudest, nothing will ever change. There are different approaches to being an advocate for change." Sheeran also rejected the suggestion that his decision not to speak publicly about his personal beliefs made him indifferent to the conflict. "I am not complicit," he wrote. "I have my personal views on this devastating conflict. Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn’t mean I don’t have them, and it doesn’t mean I don’t care." CHRIS ROBINSON, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FACE BACKLASH AS 'AMERICANS HAVE HAD ENOUGH' OF BEING LECTURED: EXPERT The singer said he spent the week attempting to preserve the tour while balancing the concerns of venues, promoters, fans, crew members and support acts. "I would never let down the fans who had made plans, nor would I abandon the touring crew and the other support acts and musicians who rely on me for work and to make a living," Sheeran wrote. He concluded by saying he had tried to find a solution but was ultimately unable to do so. "I have spent this week trying to build bridges, to find a solution and unfortunately, was unable to do so. I know who I am, both as a person and as an artist, and those who know my heart know my values too." The message was heard by many, including Billie Eilish's brother, Finneas, who was slated to tour with Sheeran in South America later this year. "Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed," he wrote. "I have decided to withdraw from my upcoming tour dates with Ed Sheeran. I stand with Palestine and its people." Aaron Rowe wrote that the decision wasn't made "lightly" in a similar statement on social media as he withdrew from the tour.  "Ed has been a friend to me and has changed my life, I could never thank him enough for this," Rowe said. "But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation." "I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children. I would lose all respect for myself to carry on as normal." Rowe noted that he needed to "be true to myself and my ancestors who resisted colonization, and fought for a freedom that I enjoy today in Ireland." "We are a traditional Irish band who never saw ourselves playing in stadiums of that size and that opportunity is not los on us," Beoga wrote on social media. "We have been friends with Ed for over 10 years now and will continue to be. We believe in dialogue as a means of progressing the plight of the Palestinian people." Lukas Graham wrote that he was grateful for his friendship with Sheeran, but couldn't "carry on with tour as things stand," before withdrawing.  "I'm sorry we won't be there. This is a difficult decision, but it's one I need to stand by," Graham added. A week after Macklemore repeatedly called to "Free Palestine" and performed his anti-Israel song "Hind’s Hall" while opening for Sheeran, the rapper was dropped from the remaining U.S. dates he was scheduled to perform on the "Shape of You" singer's tour. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "As the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans," Messina Touring Group, the promoter of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s "Loop Tour," said in a statement to Rolling Stone. "After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates." On Monday, Macklemore addressed the announcement and doubled down on his stance. "I’m not sure how to start this. So I’m going to speak from the heart and share the truth," he wrote in a lengthy Instagram statement. "Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families." PINK HITS BACK AMID BACKLASH FOR CRITICIZING MACKLEMORE'S PRO-PALESTINIAN CONCERT REMARKS "The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don’t lose sight of that." The rapper claimed Kraft told Sheeran that Macklemore "would not be allowed" to perform at the stadium. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Kraft issued a statement defending his decision to influence the rapper's removal from the tour. "Gillette Stadium has a longstanding commitment to providing a welcoming environment for all guests and ensuring that events held at our venue do not provide a platform for hate speech," the statement read. "Based on Macklemore’s recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran’s shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community, we determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th concerts at Gillette Stadium would cross that line." The statement continued, "This decision is not about diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone the right to advocate on their behalf. Their pain and loss are real. But that advocacy should not come at the expense of the Jewish community or obscure the responsibility of Hamas, a United States and globally (including Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, and Japan) designated terrorist organization whose horrific actions have caused immeasurable suffering for Palestinians and Israelis alike. I agree with Macklemore. Too many lives have been lost and there has been too much suffering, but only sharing selective information and ignoring the actions of Hamas is not honest and only advances more divisiveness and hate. Over many decades, I have directed resources to Palestine and created athletic and entrepreneurial opportunities for Palestinians who I admire and respect. Standing with the Palestinian people and standing against Hamas, antisemitism and hate should not be mutually exclusive." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "Much of my time and attention for the last decade has been focused on the fight against antisemitism and hate of all kinds, and I feel a responsibility to stand up when I believe that line has been crossed. I have tremendous respect for Ed and his music, particularly his unique ability to bring people together and spread joy, and I have always been proud to welcome him and his fans to Gillette Stadium. "I would welcome the opportunity to sit down with Macklemore and discuss the facts, because ultimately our goal is the same – peace for all people, an end to suffering, and an end to all hate." While Macklemore said he hopes his relationship with Sheeran won't crumble over this, he stands by his position. "I didn’t need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say. Free Palestine. But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I’ve ever been on." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c49975342cf4db865412 EXCLUSIVE: Haitian illegal alien gang member who went viral yelling ‘Biden forever’ during ICE arrest deported te 2026-09-15T22:20:09.771Z EXCLUSIVE: Haitian illegal alien gang member who went viral yelling ‘Biden forever’ during ICE arrest deported EXCLUSIVE: A Haitian gang member and illegal alien who defiantly told Fox News cameras "I’m not going back to Haiti" and shouted "Biden forever" during his viral U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest has been deported to Haiti by the Trump administration after spending 19 months in federal custody. Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles was deported on an ICE flight originating in Louisiana, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to Fox News. Sources told Fox News that Charles was extremely combative aboard the aircraft and made crude, profane and threatening remarks about President Donald Trump and his family during the deportation flight. DHS CHIEF MULLIN CLASHES WITH TAPPER OVER HAITI DEPORTATIONS AFTER SUPREME COURT TPS RULING An image obtained exclusively by Fox News shows Charles aboard the plane. The photo was provided by an ICE source and was not included among the images officially released by DHS. The deportation completes a dramatic reversal from Charles' arrest in Massachusetts on Jan. 22, 2025, when Fox News cameras captured him insisting he would not be returned to Haiti. "I’m not going back to Haiti … you feel me?" Charles said during the arrest. "F--- Trump," he added. "Biden forever bro." Fox News witnessed the arrest as ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers took Charles into custody in Massachusetts, just days after Trump returned to the White House. EXCLUSIVE: ICE NABS MULTIPLE CONVICTED KILLERS IN SINGLE DAY AMID NATIONWIDE IMMIGRATION SWEEP DHS identifies Charles as a member of the Back Block Money Gang and says he had accumulated 17 criminal convictions. His criminal history included convictions for assault and battery on a public employee, resisting arrest, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, possession with intent to distribute a Class D controlled substance, possession of controlled substances, carrying a dangerous weapon, carrying ammunition without a firearm identification card and trespassing, according to DHS. Charles remained in federal custody for approximately 19 months after his arrest as his immigration case proceeded. A Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration judge issued Charles a final order of removal on Nov. 7, 2025, according to DHS. ICE MAKES NATIONWIDE ARRESTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, MURDERERS, PEDOPHILES IN HOLIDAY BLITZ DHS publicly announced Charles' deportation after Fox News obtained details of his removal, specifically referencing the viral video of Charles praising former President Joe Biden during his arrest. "This illegal alien gang member from Haiti had quite the rap sheet," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement, citing Charles' convictions for assault and battery on a public employee, resisting arrest and drug trafficking. Mullin also criticized the immigration policies of the Obama and Biden administrations and credited the Trump administration with carrying out Charles' removal. "Once again: if you’re here illegally, we will find you, arrest you, and remove you from the United States of America," Mullin said. HOUSE REPUBLICAN BREAKS WITH TRUMP, SAYS ENDING HAITIAN TPS RISKS US HEALTHCARE 'CRISIS' DHS said Charles had originally received Temporary Protected Status (TPS) during the Obama administration in February 2013, and was admitted to the U.S. in July of that year, according to DHS. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services terminated his TPS in July 2022, according to DHS. The White House separately provided Fox News with a statement following Charles' deportation. "This gang member and criminal illegal alien loved Obama, Biden, and open-border Democrats who let him enter our country with TPS and allowed him to terrorize American citizens," White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said. "Thanks to the Trump administration, he is now off our streets and back in Haiti," she continued, while contrasting Trump's immigration enforcement policies with those of Democrats. DHS also posted a tongue-in-cheek photo of President Donald Trump at his viral McDonald's campaign trail stop waving goodbye to accompany the news. The deportation came more than a year and a half after Charles predicted the opposite as ICE officers placed him under arrest in front of Fox News cameras. "I’m not going back to Haiti," he said at the time. Charles was deported by ICE to Haiti on Thursday, DHS said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c49875342cf4db865409 Democrat rebels defy Jeffries to hand GOP critical win just before midterms te 2026-09-15T22:20:08.801Z Democrat rebels defy Jeffries to hand GOP critical win just before midterms A pair of moderate House Democrats defied House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., on Tuesday, rescuing Republicans from an embarrassing final week before the November midterms. Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., voted with Republicans on a procedural hurdle known as a "rule vote," aimed at allowing the House to consider a slew of other bills this week. It’s an embarrassing blow to Jeffries’ leadership; it is almost unheard of for the minority party to break ranks and help the majority pass one of their rules, even if lawmakers on that side support the underlying legislation. LINDSEY GRAHAM'S FINAL MISSION TO PUNISH PUTIN CLEARS SENATE AFTER YEARLONG FIGHT Golden’s spokesman told Fox News Digital that the congressman’s vote was to advance a Russia sanctions bill that would have effectively been killed had the Tuesday evening rule vote failed. "Congressman Golden has been a consistent supporter of America’s allies in Ukraine. He didn’t want to see the Russia sanctions bill die in a rule vote after passing with overwhelming bipartisan support in the Senate," the spokesman said. Fox News Digital reached out to Gluesenkamp Perez’s office as well. JEFFRIES THREATENS 'SERIOUS RESPONSE' AFTER DEMOCRATS HELP GOP ADVANCE ANTI-SOCIALISM VOTE It’s not the first time the two voted against their own party on a rule, having done so several weeks earlier. The pair have been known to break ranks with fellow Democrats before, but their decision to do so on procedural votes incited particular fury among fellow Democrats. It also spurred questions over whether Jeffries will be able to control his caucus if Democrats take back the House in November, and he is elected to be the next speaker. HOUSE DEMS OVERWHELMINGLY REJECT ANTI-SOCIALISM RESOLUTION AFTER 2 MODERATES DEFY JEFFRIES Jeffries and his top deputies said in a statement the last time the pair broke ranks on a rule, "The decision by two of our colleagues to blindside the entire House Democratic Caucus and join with the Republican majority to pass a procedural rule on the brink of failing represents a significant breach of trust. It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order." It’s not clear if any punishment ensued, however. Golden is notably retiring from Congress at the end of this year. Gluesenkamp Perez is facing her toughest election yet against a Republican challenger in her Washington state district, which voted for President Donald Trump in 2024. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c24575342cf4db8653bf Traffic stop takes a muddy turn for Maricopa man, police say te 2026-09-15T22:10:13.647Z Traffic stop takes a muddy turn for Maricopa man, police say A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of aggravated DUI, unlawful flight and driving with a suspended license after he and his dog were clocked going 20 mph over the speed limit just outside of town.  A Maricopa police officer caught a speeding driving on State Route 238 near Loma Road on Aug. 31 around 11 a.m., according to a probable cause statement. The Ford F–150 was traveling 80 mph in a 60 mph zone.  During the traffic stop, the driver drove 200 yards — the length of two football fields — past the shoulder before getting stuck in the mud, according to a probable cause statement. Due to the amount of mud, the officer asked the driver, later identified as Noah Fragua, to get out of his vehicle and walk toward him. Fragua allegedly told him, “he was good” and fetched his dog from the car.   Fragua allegedly refused multiple requests to walk to the officer.  Once a backup officer arrived, Fragua finally agreed to move toward the officers and was handcuffed, according to the probable cause statement. An officer noted he smelled of liquor and, according to the probable cause statement, appeared confused and frustrated.  When asked why he kept driving during a traffic stop, Fragua allegedly told police he was just trying to find a safe spot to park. He did not respond when the officer said he had “never seen someone drive so far off the road to stop.”  He was arrested on suspicion of aggravated DUI, unlawful flight and driving with a suspended license. A search warrant was granted to have his blood drawn for blood alcohol testing.  The post Traffic stop takes a muddy turn for Maricopa man, police say appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c24375342cf4db86539f Jemele Hill suggests this NFL team should sign Colin Kaepernick to start right now te 2026-09-15T22:10:11.187Z Jemele Hill suggests this NFL team should sign Colin Kaepernick to start right now Colin Kaepernick claims he wakes up every morning and still trains as if he were in the NFL. He reiterated to Jemele Hill at the Black Footwear Forum on Saturday in Detroit, Michigan, that he still believes he can play in the league and is waiting for that opportunity. Unfortunately, despite our attendance, OutKick could not ask him about his position because he and Hill chose not to take questions from the crowd. Hill, of course, did not challenge Kaepernick on his statement. Instead, she suggested that she agreed with him, name-dropping the Atlanta Falcons as a team that should consider signing him. COLIN KAEPERNICK IS STILL UPSET THAT HIS MOM WANTED HIM TO DATE TAYLOR SWIFT, A WHITE WOMAN Hill referenced Atlanta as a "Black city" and noted that the Falcons were down to Cooper Rush at quarterback for Week 1 following injuries to Tua Tagovailoa and Michael Penix. Comments like those from Kaepernick and Hill show how unserious these conversations are. Rush is not an ideal starting quarterback. But he is at least an active NFL quarterback. He has played every season, mostly due to injuries to starters, since 2021. In Sunday’s 20-13 loss to the Steelers, Rush went 12-of-22 for 143 yards, one touchdown, and two interceptions. He is functional. Colin Kaepernick, after 10 years away, would not be functional. Presumably, no quarterback would be after such a long break. Hill knows that. However, she also knows the Falcons will not sign Kaepernick, which gives her plausible deniability. At this point, Hill is simply trying to stay relevant on Threads, Bluesky, and racially hysterical message boards on Reddit. Interestingly, Hill’s suggestion about the Falcons invites mockery of the idea that Kaepernick could play in the NFL at this stage. Saying Kaepernick could not make an NFL team in 2026 is hardly a knock on him. He turns 39 in November and has not played professional football in 10 years. A player cannot simply go from not playing football for a decade to playing professionally, regardless of how fit they are. Yet, because of their conversations, here we are mocking the idea that Kaepernick could. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Further, NFL teams have no reason to give Kaepernick a shot. The NFL did not pass on Kaepernick simply because he was the face of the kneeling controversy. Teams passed on him because he had become a distraction on a level his play did not justify. Imagine signing Kaepernick as a backup. With him would come a media circus. In most cases, you can sit or cut a backup, and no one says a word. Do that with Kaepernick, and he and Jemele Hill would likely respond with accusations of racism. Put bluntly, Kaepernick was not worth the trouble 10 years ago. He certainly is not worth it now. Perhaps the Falcons can upgrade over Cooper Rush. We do not doubt that. But Kaepernick would not be one of those upgrades. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c24275342cf4db865396 Small-business owner urges Seattle leaders to act now on public drug use and slow emergency response te 2026-09-15T22:10:10.054Z Small-business owner urges Seattle leaders to act now on public drug use and slow emergency response As dozens of Seattle business leaders call on the city to crack down on open-air drug markets, one small-business owner says he has been dealing with the consequences firsthand. "It's not getting better, it's getting worse despite the statistics," Matt Humphrey, owner of Steele Barber and Steele Salons, told Fox News Digital in an interview Tuesday. "What I've seen even this past week, I had to call 911 a couple days ago for some open-air drug use right around the corner from one of my shops, and they hijacked a whole shipment of produce from a local restaurant and had it strewn all over, were shooting up and smoking something. I called 911 and never saw the police. We just encounter this really every day or every week, and it's, it's dangerous for our staff, and it's not great for our customers, and I just keep pressing on to, you know, tell everyone we can't move, pick up and root up our businesses and just move them." INSIDE SEATTLE’S OPEN-AIR DRUG CRISIS AS FENTANYL RAVAGES CITY AND ACTIVISTS BAIL OUT ALLEGED CRIMINALS Humphrey says public drug use, harassment and slow emergency responses have become recurring problems near his businesses and home. Humphrey said he was encouraged to see an open letter sent Thursday to Mayor Katie Wilson and the Seattle City Council. The letter, signed by 38 business leaders in the Seattle area including executives from companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom, the Seattle Mariners and Alaska Airlines, requested a 100-day public-safety action plan, more surveillance cameras, increased police staffing and faster response times. It also asked the city to prioritize treatment and shelter while pursuing arrest and prosecution for people who repeatedly refuse help. "I saw several things in the letter, the open letter to the mayor that were published here locally, that I think are all encouraging," Humphrey said. "It's encouraging to see big companies. I'm just a small company, but it's encouraging to see big companies step forward and, and demand some accountability for what we really are working hard to do in the city, which is provide jobs." SEATTLE CLEANED UP FOR THE WORLD CUP BUT ONLY WHILE THE WORLD WAS WATCHING, COMMENTATOR SAYS In a recent statement from Wilson shared by KOMO News following the shooting at the Bite of Seattle festival in July that left three people dead and others injured, Wilson said Seattle Police Department data show shootings and homicides at their lowest in a decade. "I think it's getting worse," Humphrey said. "I don't think it's getting better, and that's the tough part. It's like when people throw around statistics, that's not what I see, it's not what I see driving around. I see the tent encampments moving around, blocks from my business, from my home. You know, I called 911 last week with a guy, 20 feet from my house, that looked like he was dead. And what I get is bounced around between the 911 operator and the EMS people. And they're like, would you, ‘Are you comfortable talking to this guy to see if he's OK?’ And I'm like, ’No, he could have a weapon.’ We don't know what's going on. This is the kind of stuff that we're living with in the city of Seattle." Any change, however, would not be effective, according to Humphrey, without the support of the police. "And employee security for our own employees, and we can't do that if we're not supported by the police," Humphrey said. "So, increased police on the streets, increased response times to when we do call. I think those are all really simple things that we can get in place quicker if the — if the mayor and the city leaders put this into action." SEATTLE SENIORS BEG CITY FOR HELP AS ‘ABSOLUTE ANARCHY’ ERUPTS OUTSIDE LGBTQ HOUSING COMPLEX He said he would want to tell Wilson to view the issue as a concerned parent would. "I would just simply say, 'Gosh, you're a mom, you don't want your kids walking by people with needles laying on the ground or walking into your business," Humphrey said. "If you were getting your hair done in one of my salons and getting harassed by people that are completely out of their minds and high on drugs. I deal with that all the time." "I know you're a parent," he added. "It's — you just can't get caught up in the cog of process and stuck with all the policy and all the nonsense that's going on. We just have to make the change now. It just — I've been saying this for six years — we just have to make a change, or we're just going to lose the city." Fox News Digital reached out to Wilson and the Seattle Police Department for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9c23c75342cf4db86536a Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel te 2026-09-15T22:10:04.634Z Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel The package includes 40,000 one-ton bombs and would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9bfe675342cf4db865310 Here’s the latest. te 2026-09-15T22:00:06.304Z Here’s the latest. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9bd9675342cf4db8652d6 Retired NFL star falls into social media hole by comparing Mike Vrabel scandal and Jonathon Cooper arrest te 2026-09-15T21:50:14.956Z Retired NFL star falls into social media hole by comparing Mike Vrabel scandal and Jonathon Cooper arrest Justin Simmons was an outstanding NFL safety, collecting second-team All-Pro honors four times during his nine-year career. However, now retired, Simmons should probably be more careful with his social media commentary. That's because Simmons stepped on something of an online landmine Monday night while he was watching his former Denver Broncos team play the Kansas City Chiefs. During the broadcast, ESPN's Joe Buck noted that Broncos' linebacker Jonathon Cooper was not in the lineup because he's currently suspended on the NFL exempt list while he awaits a Nov. 10 trial on four charges, including felony second-degree assault by strangulation of his former girlfriend. 3 NFL STARS HIT COMMISSIONER'S EXEMPT LIST AFTER OFFSEASON FILLED WITH LEGAL TROUBLE The broadcast apparently triggered Simmons, who took to his X account to make a comparative point. The former NFL great complained that ESPN was mentioning his former teammate during the broadcast but the situation between New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel and former reporter Dianna Russini wasn't discussed on TV. NBC REMINDS PREGAME VIEWERS ABOUT MIKE VRABEL-DIANNA RUSSINI SCANDAL COACH AND PATRIOTS WANT TO FORGET So, social media simply moved on without pushback whatsoever. Yeah, right. Multiple people basically told off Simmons. They made the point that even if Vrabel's relationship with Russini was perhaps morally wrong, if one assumes it reached heights that have not been proven, it wasn't illegal. Vrabel has been put before the court of public opinion for the relationship, but there are no allegations of abuse that will be heard in a court of law. The analogy between Cooper and Vrabel is flawed at best. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! So, Simmons found himself in a hole he jumped into. Then, unfortunately for him, he proceeded to dig himself deeper. "That’s absolute bs btw," Simmons wrote in an ensuing post as a media critic. "Shame on all of the production on Monday night football and the crew. You’re supposed to call the game. Coop isn’t playing the game and isn’t on the sidelines. "The MNF crew is paid to cover THE GAME not the players who are not playing or even at the game." That's an interesting use of capital letters. Let's go with that flow: Simmons is apparently of the opinion that, since his former teammate isn't playing nor on the sideline – BECAUSE HE WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF CHOKING HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND AND THEN SUSPENDED BY THE NFL – the broadcast should not mention his name and situation. So any person not in the stadium is apparently off limits from discussion, per Simmons. That apparently should include a person who would be playing if he hadn't done something for which he was arrested, charged with and apologized before he got lawyered up and pleaded not guilty. NFL FACING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC THIS OFFSEASON WITH ARREST OF RAMS LINEMAN THE LATEST CASE Simmons is a bright individual of great character. He played well and was a leader throughout his career, which means he rarely faced public criticism. He was clearly caught off guard, then, when fans challenged his views on Vrabel and Cooper and on ESPN's right to address the matter during its broadcast. "I have hella people in my comments (mainly Pats fans) saying an affair is not the same as an ALLEGED conviction," Simmons wrote. "Which is true. However, last time I checked MNF or any network hosting a game is supposed to talk about just that THE GAME not players who aren’t there or even playing." That is obviously not correct. And what's worse, the premise all this is based on is also incorrect. That's because when the New England Patriots opened their season against the Seattle Seahawks, Vrabel's situation was addressed on national television. NBC even included the Russini-Vrabel scandal in an illustrated timeline of the Patriots' offseason. So, yes, Vrabel's situation was discussed on TV and that was the right thing to do – just like it was perfectly correct for Cooper's situation to be mentioned on Monday Night Football. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9bd9575342cf4db8652c2 TRACE GALLAGHER: Common sense is alive in America. We just need to listen te 2026-09-15T21:50:13.695Z TRACE GALLAGHER: Common sense is alive in America. We just need to listen During the first-ever Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas last week, there was a lot of talk about the "common sense revolution." It was familiar territory to me because every night on my evening newscast, "Fox News @ Night," we join the common sense revolution — you could say we started the common sense revolution more than four years ago. We like to call it "The Fox News @ Night Common Sense Department." Common sense gives us a chance to take a deeper and sometimes snarkier take on one of the day’s big topics. The goal of the Common Sense Department is not to accuse Americans of not having common sense, but to remind Americans that we share a great deal of common sense. And when somebody or some group steps outside the boundaries of what we consider societal norms, we love to point out exactly why those boundaries exist. Those boundaries were built over many generations by people whose moral code was instilled through faith, family, friends and fortitude. When I wrote my new book, "Turns Out They Were Right All Along," I first thought of naming the book "A Trace of Common Sense," a play on my name and the name of my segment. I soon realized that my stories are about more than common sense; my stories are about wisdom that has been gifted, sometimes forced upon me, by a group of amazing people. Some famous, some not, but all of them taught me that hard work and skill are important, while teamwork and luck are also extremely relevant. That means that, at some point, everyone needs to ride on the shoulders of giants — whatever shape or size those giants happen to come in. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The reason the subtitle of my book is "Life Lessons I Learned Eventually" is because it often takes me a while to recognize solid advice. I have a tendency to wave off wisdom, thinking that I’m better off doing it my way. The problem is, my way is often the wrong way, which on second blush has reminded me to accept good wisdom at face value. So, after spending years ignoring wisdom before finally accepting it, I now spend a great deal of time passing it on — not only in my book but also by mentoring young people, including young television news correspondents. I labor to convince these young people that America is filled with common sense as long as we are occasionally willing to listen to great wisdom, accept great wisdom and use great wisdom to achieve greatness. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM TRACE GALLAGHER Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9bd8a75342cf4db865284 The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry  te 2026-09-15T21:50:02.571Z The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry  National outcry against data center construction has spread to Philadelphia, where officials suggested possible construction in a neighborhood already impacted by a now-defunct oil refinery. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9bb3b75342cf4db865242 FBI Director Kash Patel wouldn’t promise to keep FBI agents out of polling places in November te 2026-09-15T21:40:11.299Z FBI Director Kash Patel wouldn’t promise to keep FBI agents out of polling places in November Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel, left, greets Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley as Patel arrives to testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Sept. 15, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel sidestepped questions about FBI agents at polling places in the midterm elections at a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday that also featured a tense exchange between GOP Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. With the November midterm elections fast approaching and the parties jockeying for control of Congress, several Democratic senators wanted assurance from Patel, under oath, that the FBI would not send agents into polling places. “Do you pledge that you will not, in any way, interfere in the will of the American people when they go to the polls in November?” Sen. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, asked. “I pledge unequivocally that I will not participate in your charade of lies,” Patel told Welch. Patel in addition faced questions during the five-hour hearing from members of the Judiciary Committee about recent changes to the agency’s hiring requirements, an ongoing probe into 2020 election ballots seized in Georgia, and how the FBI plans to handle crimes committed by AI agents.  ‘We have a lackey here’ A boiling point came when Booker spoke beyond his allotted time and name-called Patel a “thug” who “wouldn’t qualify” to be an FBI special agent.  Booker accused Patel of not answering questions about whether the agency was improperly targeting journalists. The FBI subpoenaed multiple New York Times reporters in July after the outlet published accounts of security deficiencies on President Donald Trump’s new Qatari-donated jet now used as Air Force One. The DOJ dropped the subpoenas later that month after a federal judge pressured the agency. “My concluding remark is we don’t have an FBI director. We have a lackey here who is using government, and frankly, he’s not even a good lackey. He’s an incompetent lackey. He’s like an 18-year-old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends,” Booker said, before continuing the exchange for roughly four minutes more. “Are you ready to shut up?” Grassley, of Iowa, asked Booker with a raised voice.     Patel brushed off Grassley’s offer during the exchange to respond to Booker. “I don’t have much to say. This guy called me a thug. It’s kind of ironic. He’s running for president of the United States. He just got his 20-second ad campaign,” Patel said. “Next.” Booker told NBC News’ “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” in March that he’s “definitely not ruling out” a presidential run in 2028. Grassley thanked Patel for “putting up with what you had to put up with.” “And I’m sorry I couldn’t control some of them more than I already did,” he said. Democratic probes promised Sen. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, warned a Democratic-led Congress would investigate the FBI’s actions under Patel’s leadership.  That includes the alleged firing of agents who worked on investigations of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack and President Donald Trump’s alleged hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago following his first term. “The FBI is being sued for wrongful termination. I will remind you, director, because you probably need reminding, that while this Congress is not going to investigate the wrongful termination of potentially hundreds of agents for working on properly predicated investigations, the next Congress will,” Schiff said. The panel’s Republicans praised Patel for his record at the agency. Patel said his agency “has made America safer than it’s ever been.” “Across six America 250 events and this year’s World Cup alone, we welcomed over 12 million visitors to the United States to attend these events. Not one single incident occurred at any single one of these events,” he said during his opening remarks. Bizarre exchange over FBI hiring One topic that drew scrutiny from both sides of the aisle was a recent reported change at the FBI that lifted previous disqualifying behavior for special agent recruits, including theft from employers, prostitution and bestiality. Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, said he understands “the game” of Democrats broaching the subject of bestiality to “make you look bad,” but said he was also “trying to get to the bottom of this.” In a bizarre and unexpected exchange for a Senate hearing, Kennedy asked hypothetically, “If ‘Joe’ participated in bestiality, not as the animal, but as the human, don’t you think he ought to be disqualified?”  “If he voluntarily did it, sure,” Patel said. Kennedy interrupted, “Okay, how do you involuntarily do that?” Patel said some people are trafficked and forced into “degrading acts of all kind,” but later want to join the FBI. “But you’re not telling us today that if a human being (voluntarily) had sex with an animal that they can still be an FBI agent?” Kennedy asked. “No,” Patel responded. “In fact, they ought to be in jail, right?” Kennedy shot back. “They all are,” Patel said. “Yea, well, okay,” Kennedy said. FBI at polling locations On the topic of an FBI presence at the polls on Nov. 3, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told Patel he was “dissatisfied that you are unable to give us an unequivocal, clear, unambiguous commitment that the FBI will be kept out of election interference.” “You are involved in seven voter-related subpoenas issued to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office, you were involved in seizure of election records from Fulton County, Georgia. Clearly, the FBI has been involved in possible election interference,” Blumenthal said. FBI agents seized 2020 presidential election ballots in Fulton County in January. The Trump administration served voter-related subpoenas earlier this month in Nevada. FBI director Kash Patel delivers remarks on the administration’s efforts to crack down on fraud during a Sept. 14, 2026, news conference at the FBI field office in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) Welch told Patel he’s concerned about what he’s “willing to do for the president in this year’s midterm elections that the president is already saying are going to be rigged if he loses.” Moments later Welch asked, “Last month, Congressman and Michigan gubernatorial candidate John James said to podcaster Benny Johnson, quote, ‘I’ve already had a good conversation with my friend Kash Patel, who has said already that the FBI will have a presence leading up to Election Day in Michigan, in both West Michigan and Southeast Michigan.’ Is that true?” “We have an election crimes community coordinator in all 56 field offices, so you bet we’re going to have them there and manning the posts for election interference,” Patel said. The exchange continued for several minutes, growing more contentious, as Welch pressed for an answer and Patel said he would not take part in a “charade of lies.” “Then why are you being such a panderer to President Trump, who’s still claiming that he won the 2020 election, and who has said the only way Democrats can win in 2026 is if they cheat. Do you believe that?” Welch replied. “I believe in the rule of law. … I want to know how your wealth increased 4,000% since you became a United States senator?” Patel shot back. “Let’s knock it off,” Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, chimed in after taking over the hearing for Grassley. AI hacking Sen. Josh Hawley, who has shown skepticism of the skyrocketing growth of artificial intelligence, used part of his time to ask how the FBI will handle illegal hacking incidents by AI agents. Several incidents this summer involved AI agents hacking into other systems, including OpenAI agents that broke into tech company Hugging Face, without explicit instructions to do so. The recent explosive development of AI has dominated headlines and conversations on Capitol Hill in recent days after top tech executives warned development was moving too quickly to adhere to safety guardrails. Congress has yet to pass overarching AI regulations. “What’s the role here for the bureau? How, how do you wrap your head around these kind of crimes?” asked Hawley, a Missouri Republican. “This is a great question. It’s literally the new frontier, and nobody’s really talking about it, so thank you. So a couple things: The president has issued his AI directive on what the government can and can’t use, and that’s the right first step because you don’t want 77 different large language models,” Patel said. The FBI, he said, has reviewed 140 “test case models” to measure their capabilities and “make sure they are cooperating and following underlying federal statutes.” “What we need to do on a resource basis is go after the people that created these models that are going rogue,” Patel said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9b8e075342cf4db8651cf Court Tosses Immigrant’s Conviction Over Agents’ Secret Facebook Group te 2026-09-15T21:30:08.530Z Court Tosses Immigrant’s Conviction Over Agents’ Secret Facebook Group Prosecutors failed to disclose that Border Patrol agents who testified at trial were members of a Facebook group that posted racist content, an appeals court said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9b8de75342cf4db8651c6 Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort te 2026-09-15T21:30:06.870Z Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9b8dc75342cf4db8651bb Pima Family Advocacy Center ofrece apoyo integral te 2026-09-15T21:30:04.831Z Pima Family Advocacy Center ofrece apoyo integral Leer en inglés Tras años de planificación, Pima Family Advocacy Center abrió sus puertas este mes, ofreciendo a los sobrevivientes de violencia doméstica, agresión sexual, trata de personas y abuso de ancianos un único lugar donde acceder a servicios policiales, apoyo legal, terapia y atención a víctimas, en lugar de tener que lidiar por su cuenta con una red dispersa de oficinas separadas. Entre las organizaciones asociadas que operan en el centro se encuentran Defenders of Children, el proyecto contra la violencia de la Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, la Fiscalía del Condado de Pima, el Departamento de Policía de Tucson, la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Pima, Palo Santo Psychotherapy and Wellness y la Arizona Child and Adolescent Survivor Initiative. El centro financia sus suministros y recursos mediante subvenciones y donaciones, garantizando que los servicios sean gratuitos para los clientes que acuden en busca de ayuda. Actualmente está abierto de 9 a.m. a 5 p.m., pero el personal espera ampliar este horario en el futuro. "Por ahora no tenemos la capacidad de estar abiertos las 24 horas, pero sin duda es una meta a futuro, contar con el personal y los fondos necesarios para operar cuando la gente nos necesite, ya que esa necesidad no siempre se limita al horario de 9 a 5," señaló la directora del programa, Kaitlyn Noris. Noris es responsable de las operaciones diarias del centro, lo que incluye coordinar a las organizaciones asociadas, supervisar el buen funcionamiento de las actividades y asegurar que los clientes, ya sea que lleguen en persona, llamen por teléfono o sean remitidos por agencias externas reciban los servicios que necesitan. "También nos gustaría crear una unidad de atención médica en este lugar. Estamos buscando financiación y donaciones de la comunidad para convertirlo en un espacio donde un sobreviviente de abuso pueda recibir atención médica," comentó el director ejecutivo, Joseph Ricks. "Aquí mismo podrían realizarse exámenes por estrangulamiento y evaluaciones tras agresiones sexuales. Además, los sobrevivientes podrían recibir terapia para el trauma y gestionar órdenes de protección, evitando así tener que desplazarse a 15 lugares distintos para obtener estos servicios." Durante su gran inauguración, el centro lanzó una campaña de recaudación de fondos para construir una unidad de medicina forense en sus propias instalaciones, esto permitiría a las víctimas recibir exámenes médico-forenses allí mismo, en un entorno privado, en lugar de tener que acudir a un hospital. El Foco de Tucson forma a la próxima generación de periodistas del sur de Arizona y publica sus trabajos de forma gratuita para todos. Sin muros de pago ni respaldo corporativo: solo lectores que creen que esta comunidad merece mejores noticias locales. Los invitados conversan en el exterior del Pima Family Advocacy Center durante la celebración de su inauguración oficial. Christy Russell / El Foco de Tucson. Marie Fordney, directora ejecutiva del Children's Advocacy Center of Southern Arizona, afirmó que las voces de los niños son tan importantes como las de los adultos. "Una integrante de nuestro Consejo de Voces marcó un cambio decisivo para nosotros. Nos contó que, cuando regresaba a casa con su cuidador... esa persona realmente no la apoyaba, y lo que ella necesitaba era contar con alguien propio que estuviera de su lado," dijo Fordney. "Hemos evolucionado nuestros programas en el Children's Advocacy Center para garantizar que los niños reciban tanto apoyo, o incluso más, que sus cuidadores, ya que el modelo del centro se basa en la idea de que, si se fortalece el entorno familiar, al niño le irá mejor." Un hombre, que pidió permanecer en el anonimato dada la naturaleza delicada de la situación, comentó que un recurso como este centro podría haber marcado la diferencia para su familia cuando él crecía. Su hermana fue usuaria del Children's Advocacy Center tras sufrir abusos en el hogar, y él fue testigo directo de lo que ella pasó al intentar conseguir ayuda. Además de presenciar la situación de su hermana, él mismo fue víctima de abuso verbal y psicológico. "Tengo amigos que han enfrentado dificultades en su vida adulta," dijo. "Ojalá hubieran contado con este recurso." Basándose en la experiencia de su familia, señaló que el apoyo para la inserción laboral y la ayuda con el transporte, ya fuera para acudir a entrevistas o al propio centro, marcarían una diferencia significativa para alguien que vive una situación de abuso. "Un problema que he visto con frecuencia es que la gente tiene demasiado miedo de dar el paso y hablar, por temor a las consecuencias," afirmó. "En el caso de mi hermana y el mío con nuestro padre, temíamos que hubiera represalias y que él le hiciera algo si ella decidía denunciar la situación." También planteó el desafío que supone demostrar la existencia de abusos que no dejan pruebas físicas.  El personal y los miembros de la junta reconocen que hay margen de crecimiento, desde ampliar el horario hasta añadir servicios, pero consideran que la apertura del centro representa un gran avance para las familias del condado de Pima que enfrentan situaciones de violencia o abuso. "Al celebrar este hito, también miramos hacia el futuro,” declaró Ricks en un comunicado de prensa. "Con el apoyo de nuestra comunidad, podemos crear una unidad médico-forense que ofrezca a los sobrevivientes otra opción de atención compasiva y continúe transformando la manera en que el condado de Pima responde a la violencia." Christy Russell es estudiante de periodismo en la Universidad de Arizona y pasante en Tucson Spotlight. Puede contactarla en crussell68@arizona.edu. Esta nota fue traducida por Priscilla Daniel. El Foco de Tucson es una sala de prensa comunitaria que ofrece oportunidades remuneradas a estudiantes y periodistas emergentes del sur de Arizona. Por favor, considera apoyar nuestro trabajo con una donación deducible de impuestos. Donar a El Foco Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9b68975342cf4db86517b DAVID BLACKMON: It Is Absurd To Think China Will Ever Abandon Coal te 2026-09-15T21:20:09.974Z DAVID BLACKMON: It Is Absurd To Think China Will Ever Abandon Coal By David Blackmon | Since the approval of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 by every nation on earth except the United States, the ever-compliant global media has flooded newsprint, airwaves and digital space with narratives that China is moving away from coal. We have been assured by tens of thousands of scholarly, peer-reviewed “studies” that the communist government there is rapidly displacing its gigantic fleet of coal power plants — bigger than the rest of the word’s combined — with glorious solar panels and windmills and battery arrays so enormous they’d cover Taylor Sheridan’s 6666 Ranch in the Texas panhandle.  It all makes for a glorious narrative, one heavily encouraged by Xi Jinping’s government in its ceaseless drive for acceptance by the global community and accumulation of geopolitical and hegemonic leverage. The narrative has gained such a high level of acceptance that China is invariably treated at the annual COP and World Economic Forum events as a full participant in the impossible globalist drive for Net Zero by 2050 even though its own nebulous commitments do not even begin to kick in until 2060 and beyond. In the meantime, China continues to expand its coal power fleet and ramp up its mining operations every year, a fact which seems to always be “unexpected” by the media’s preferred “experts” on such things. Just one problem: It’s all a myth. In a recent analysis, Canadian energy analyst Dr. Joseph Fournier details the realty, which is that the Xi government remains as wedded to coal as former British prince Harry remains wedded to former Netflix star Meghan Markle. Fournier points out the fact that Chinese policymakers framed coal as “the sea-calming divine needle (a reference to the mythical magic staff of Sun WuKong) or ballast stone of national energy security” in the country’s 14th Five-Year Energy plan published in 2020. That framing continues to shape the 15th Five-Year plan published earlier this month, in which authors reaffirm coal’s role as the country’s “foundational” energy source.  This year’s planning report does emphasize “clean and efficient utilization” of coal, as well as “promoting the peaking” of its use, but stops short of specifying the year in which said glorious “peak” might happen or how many years the period of phasing it all down will take. Why play such word games? Because again, it’s all a grand game.  Not that the Chinese haven’t invested massively in wind and solar – they certainly have, so much so that the country’s “renewable” sector contributed as much as 10% to China’s gross domestic product in 2024. Of course, the troublesome reality there is that those wind, solar and battery installations and exports were manufactured in factories powered by coal, fed by raw metals mined by diesel-powered heavy equipment, realities the World Economic Forum (WEF), the United Nations (UN) and their media cheerleaders prefer to ignore. They’ve built so much of the stuff in fact that this year has seen record levels of curtailment of these weather-reliant energy sources. An estimated 360 terawatt hours of wind and solar went wasted during the first half of 2026 alone, a near-50% year-over-year increase. The latest Five-Year Plan goes on to call for strengthening coal’s regulatory function within a “new-type power system,” concentrating production in northern security bases, modernizing mines to reduce emissions and pollution and diversifying some coal enterprises into chemicals and other industrial businesses. It also emphasizes methane controls and efficiency upgrades for existing plants but predictably makes no mention of hard consumption caps or rapid retirement schedules. So, should we really expect China, a nation with transparent designs on global domination, to just voluntarily surrender its Divine Needle to gain praise from climate alarm prophets of the global order? Don’t be silly.  That brings us to another troublesome reality which Dr. Fournier describes: The fact that, at current consumption levels, China’s domestic coal supplies will be essentially depleted over the next 30 years or so. In his report, Fournier says the evidence at hand “does not describe a nation merely hedging against uncertainty. It describes a state systematically preparing for regional war and coercive resource acquisition.” After all, energy security is in fact inseparable from national security. Why would any rational person expect China to voluntarily give up on protecting that? Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation. David Blackmon is a contributor to The Daily Caller News Foundation, an energy writer, and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications. The post DAVID BLACKMON: It Is Absurd To Think China Will Ever Abandon Coal first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9b43a75342cf4db865129 64 House Democrats help Republicans kill Trump impeachment effort te 2026-09-15T21:10:18.301Z 64 House Democrats help Republicans kill Trump impeachment effort Dozens of House Democrats voted to help Republicans quash an effort to impeach President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, forced a vote on impeaching Trump over federal immigration officials' killing of two U.S. citizens earlier this year. The move fractured House Democrats, whose leaders have largely avoided placing an emphasis on trying to oust the president as they work to take back Congress in the November midterms. The House voted to table the measure in a 232 to 147 vote, a maneuver to get rid of it while avoiding voting on the impeachment resolution itself. Eighteen House Democrats voted with Republicans to table the resolution, while 46 voted "present." Nearly 150 voted to move forward with a vote on impeaching Trump. OUTGOING HOUSE DEMOCRAT AL GREEN FILES ANOTHER IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION TARGETING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP Democrats walked a political tightrope with the bill, forced to choose between appeasing their anti-Trump base and appealing to moderate and independent voters by showing them they were focused on tackling Americans' everyday issues like high cost of living rather than political revenge. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and his top deputies voted "present," avoiding taking a stand on the matter while allowing Republicans to more easily scuttle the resolution. REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: DEM REBELS EXPOSE CRACKS IN JEFFRIES’ HOUSE LEADERSHIP Jeffries said in a statement that impeachment "traditionally requires a comprehensive investigative process, the collection and review of thousands of documents, an exacting scrutiny of the facts, the examination of dozens of key witnesses, congressional hearings, sustained public organizing and the marshaling of the forces of democracy to build a broad national consensus." "None of that serious work has been done, with the Republican majority focused solely on rubber-stamping Donald Trump’s extreme agenda," senior House Democratic leaders said. "Accordingly, we will again vote 'present' on the motion to table the impeachment resolution as we continue our fight to make life more affordable for everyday Americans, while committing to holding the crooks accountable using every tool available to us beginning on day one." But Green railed against Jeffries and other Democrats who did not vote to impeach Trump during his own comments to reporters on Monday. "They will acknowledge that what the president is doing is impeachable, but they would have us wait. Well, the Constitution doesn't have a wait clause in it," Green said. "I believe that there are some Republicans and Democrats who are considering voting to protect the president. If they're not considering protecting him, that will be the effect of what they will do when they vote to either table or they vote to send this to a committee for further investigation." CONSERVATIVES ERUPT AFTER AL GREEN MELTS DOWN DURING VIRAL CLASH: 'UNHINGED LUNATIC' Green previously forced a vote to impeach Trump in June 2025, when 128 Democrats joined Republicans in voting to table the Texas progressive's resolution. It could also be Green's last chance to protest Trump in the halls of Congress — he was among several Democratic incumbents to lose their primary races amid a wider rebellion by left-wing voters against their establishment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9b43975342cf4db865120 Mounted police, extra patrols and Kiffin hate: Oxford prepares for Ole Miss-LSU game with extra security te 2026-09-15T21:10:17.189Z Mounted police, extra patrols and Kiffin hate: Oxford prepares for Ole Miss-LSU game with extra security It’s been building for ten months, and Lane Kiffin’s return to Oxford is finally here. The former Ole Miss head coach will officially return to town Saturday afternoon as LSU’s head coach, and the city is making sure every security measure is in place. Usually, this would be just another weekend of SEC football in the South. Parties in the 'Grove,' fans enjoying the tailgate scene, bars overflowing into the streets as supporters keep themselves lubricated during the day and the police department only dealing with a smaller number of problems. ELLA LANGLEY, DISTRACTIONS AND LANE KIFFIN: PETE GOLDING CALLS OLE MISS-LSU 'HIGH SCHOOL HOMECOMING' But, this is obviously not just another game-day in Oxford for the police department. The built-up frustration over the offseason storylines surrounding Lane Kiffin will finally reach a boiling point before Saturday even arrives. I don't think folks are underselling the amount of vitriol that will be spewed towards the former Ole Miss head coach when lamenting over the stories created over the past ten months. Also, this won't be Kiffin's first time back in Oxford since his departure, as he has visited numerous times, even taking in a few yoga classes in the process. His daughter, Landry, still attends Ole Miss, though most of her time is spent in Baton Rouge with boyfriend Whit Weeks. He just also happens to be LSU's starting linebacker, which I'm sure leads to some interesting conversations at practice between him and Kiffin. But, this weekend is all about a return to the city that put Lane back on the map, and they are waiting for him. This was not a process created by the local town hall during a weekly meeting. The amount of police, state patrol, federal law enforcement and out-of-state help that will be roaming Oxford this weekend should make for a pretty safe day in terms of fan behavior. One would think, at least. On Tuesday morning, the Mobile, Alabama, police department confirmed they are sending their crowd-control units to Oxford for the weekend. "The Mobile Police Department’s Mounted Unit will be in Oxford, MS from Thursday, September 17th – Saturday, September 19th working with local law enforcement during the area’s upcoming event," a spokesperson said in a statement. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE In addition to the help from Mobile, the City of New Orleans will also be sending its mounted police to the Ole Miss campus this weekend to provide help with crowd control. Also, sources tell OutKick that there will be additional support for the LSU football team, with Louisiana State Patrol sending additional members to Oxford, more than usual for a road game. You can expect a large amount of security around Lane Kiffin at all times this weekend, while the school will also take measures to not give out where the team is staying on the night before Saturday's showdown. Look, there is no love lost between LSU and the Rebels. Lost in the chaos of Lane Kiffin returning is the fact that these two teams have a storied history in the 'Magnolia Bowl', and there is plenty of hatred already instilled between these fans. But, that doesn’t mean Pete Golding isn’t imploring his fans to use that Southern hospitality at its finest. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "To me, what this place has always been about, why so many people love coming here and respect this place is because of the people who are here and how they make (other fans) feel when they come here. Be there early and be loud," Pete Golding noted. "But I think at the end of the day, there’s still a respect piece. And this place has always been known to have really, really good people. Let’s not lose that over a game or a person or anything like that." As for Lane Kiffin, he seemed pretty content with the fact he is playing the villain, which actually takes the attention off his football team, and puts the pressure on Ole Miss. "I guess there’s real safety issues and stuff, so there’s people that have a plan for that," Kiffin mentioned. "I told the players today, ‘Man, you don’t have anything to worry about as far as, like, attention on you all week and everything. There’s going to be so much attention, hatred, everything on me. You just get to go play. Really, the pressure’s on them." That's one way to look at it. As for the upcoming weekend in Oxford, you can go ahead and expect one thing: Chaos. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9b43575342cf4db865117 Michael Rapaport cheers Macklemore getting dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour, says 'f--- you' te 2026-09-15T21:10:13.892Z Michael Rapaport cheers Macklemore getting dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour, says 'f--- you' Actor Michael Rapaport celebrated singer Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour on Monday after Macklemore repeatedly called for a "Free Palestine" and performed his anti-Israel song "Hind’s Hall" as his opening act. "Macklemore don't rap no more, you got kicked off the tour. That's a better verse than anything you've done in your ridiculous career as a non-rapper," Rapaport said in a video on X.  "Anti-Jewish 'rapper' Macklemore was kicked off the tour with Ed Sheeran," he added. "Now you can go back to your home in Washington State that's on stolen land and take up an instrument. Take a dance class. Take a singing class. Learn how to tinkle the piano. Because when people come out to see a musical performer, you need to perform music, not spread bulls--- lies about a fake genocide, a fake occupation and a fake apartheid. F--- you, OK?" MACKLEMORE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER GETTING KICKED OFF ED SHEERAN TOUR AFTER PRO-PALESTINE STANCE "You got plenty of time now. I want you and all your 'Free Palestine' p---- a-- motherf---ers to go back and watch some of these videos from Oct. 7. OK, motherf---er? Macklemore, you non-singing, non-dancing bulls--- artist and the rest of you 'Free Palestine' propaganda-pushing motherf---ers. Oh yeah? L'shana Tova!" Rapaport concluded. Fox News Digital reached out to Macklemore's representation for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Rapaport previously attacked Macklemore after the rapper appeared in a video giving a speech defending his use of the stage to push political messaging. "A big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: Free Palestine," Macklemore said in a video shared on social media. PINK HITS BACK AMID BACKLASH FOR CRITICIZING MACKLEMORE'S PRO-PALESTINIAN CONCERT REMARKS "I said, ‘Free Palestine!’ I want those words to be loud and clear, so that people all the way in Gaza to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten about them," he continued. "Imagine going to see Ed Sheeran & this absolute no-talent non-singer, non-rapping, non-dancing clown, Macklemore, is opening & because he actually has no act or specific skill set, he’s jumping around like dkc carrying on about a genocide that never happened in Gaza," Rapaport wrote, adding, "This is a nightmare." Rapaport, who is Jewish and has frequently spoken out in defense of Israel, told Craig Carton on his new OutKick program, "The Craig Carton Show" that his pro-Israel stance has been an "issue" for him in 2026. "No, the — yeah, the career stuff has been a problem," Rapaport said. "There's been an issue. The show's being boycotted. Sucks. It doesn't make anybody comfortable. It doesn't make the club comfortable. It doesn't make the other comedians comfortable." BILL MAHER RIPS MACKLEMORE'S GAZA STANCE, SAYS CELEBRITY 'MORAL CONFUSION' IS FUELING ANTISEMITISM He added that he has been verbally attacked and threatened for his stance in New York City. "Anti-semitic, anti-Jewish stuff," Rapaport said. "That hurts me, it embarrasses me, I don't want any other Jewish people behind me to feel uncomfortable, or scared or hesitant to fight, stand up and be proud, however they do it." However, several prominent figures criticized the decision to remove Macklemore from the tour, including far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. "Absolutely ridiculous position from an ultrazionist trump supporter, who's been awarded by bb for combating israel's critics. its clear that our billionaires are placing their emotional support apartheid state and its genocide over free expression. we must not let this happen," Piker wrote on X Monday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9b42c75342cf4db8650f6 House Kills Bid to Impeach Trump as Democrats Split te 2026-09-15T21:10:04.350Z House Kills Bid to Impeach Trump as Democrats Split Dozens of Democrats declined to register a position on articles of impeachment by one of their own members, Representative Al Green, that cited President Trump’s immigration crackdown. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9b1db75342cf4db865099 DPS releases name of man killed Monday in stolen vehicle crash on Bullhead Parkway te 2026-09-15T21:00:11.845Z DPS releases name of man killed Monday in stolen vehicle crash on Bullhead Parkway BULLHEAD CITY - Arizona DPS released the name of the man killed early Monday on Bullhead Parkway when a stolen vehicle driven at a high rate of speed drove into oncoming traffic. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9af8075342cf4db86503d CC Sabathia says Yankees could do a better job helping young players handle the pinstripes: 'Different beast' te 2026-09-15T20:50:08.961Z CC Sabathia says Yankees could do a better job helping young players handle the pinstripes: 'Different beast' It’s been said many times over a century: earning your pinstripes with the New York Yankees is one of the hardest things to do in baseball. Just take Anthony Volpe’s rollercoaster career with the ballclub, which has once again become a storyline as they head toward the postseason. Through four seasons, Volpe, a former first-round pick by the Yankees, has been showered with cheers, vitriol and everything in between from the fan base whose expectations will never fall lower than World Series or bust. If that’s not hard for a 25-year-old to deal with, Hall of Fame left-hander CC Sabathia was even a bit intimidated by the weight the pinstripes hold when he was a free agent in 2009. He eventually signed on and became a beloved figure in Yankees lore — his No. 52 is set to be retired on Sept. 26 — but he understands it’s not for everybody. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE While speaking at his PitCCh In Foundation’s 6th Annual Golf Classic at Alpine Country Club on Monday, Sabathia suggested to OutKick that the Yankees should come up with a way to not coddle those young players from the expectations, but rather help ease their way into it. "It’s hard to watch, right?" he said when asked about what Volpe has gone through, especially now that he’s hearing cheers again after performing well following his latest call-up. "Because he’s from here, he wants to do well. And I just watched so many young players for the Yankees, whether it’s Gary Sanchez, whether it was Miguel Andujar, whoever it is, you get a label and that’s what it is, which sucks especially for a young player. I feel like the only young player that came in and did well was [Aaron] Judge because he hit 50 homers and everybody was off his back. So, it’s hard to build up equity with the fan base when you’re so young. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "George Lombard [Jr.] just went through the same thing. He had six errors in a row, and you started hearing grumblings and all these different things. So, it’s hard to develop here as a young player and I think the Yankees need to do a better job to insulating these guys and helping them understand what it is to put on the pinstripes. There’s going to be ups and downs, you gotta cancel out the noise and go out and play baseball every single day." Of course, it’s easier said than done in a New York market where championships, no matter the sport, are expected each time a season begins. But the only way through is forward for players like Volpe, whose ups and downs since reaching the big leagues have kept fans guessing. They see what could be, but consistency hasn’t been there for the highly touted prospect. "You think about Volpe’s perseverance and determination — what else is he going to do? He’s not going to quit," Sabathia added. "This is what he wanted to do his whole life. He wanted to play baseball his whole life, and he’s been in tough situations. Baseball is a hard game, but I think he’ll be better for sure, whether he’s playing second base, whether he’s playing shortstop in the Bronx or somewhere else. "Wherever it is, he’s talented enough to play the game. Hopefully he can do some things well and help us down the stretch. Jazz can get healthy, they can platoon. We’ll see what happens. But I’m super excited for his future, not only here but if it’s somewhere else, too." Sabathia spent 19 years in the major leagues, where expectation was immediate for him as well coming up with the Cleveland Indians in 2001 as a 20-year-old. He felt that pressure there, and even for the half season he played with the Milwaukee Brewers. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER But arriving in New York was a different story in 2009. Sabathia and the rest of his star teammates came through, though, winning the World Series that season and giving a franchise synonymous with titles its 27th to extend the MLB record. Since then, the Yankees haven’t been able to add their 28th, making just one Fall Classic in 2024 before falling to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sabathia hopes this could be the year the Yankees get back and see it all the way through so his squad isn’t still the last New York team to win it all. But then again, the pressure is immense to make that happen. It’s already begun as the Yankees clinch yet another postseason berth and the chance to hoist the trophy at the end of the season. It’s pressure Sabathia feels is found nowhere else in MLB, especially for young players trying to make a name for themselves on one of the most iconic sports franchises in the world. "This is the only place it happens. If you think about anywhere else, it doesn’t happen anywhere else. You think about what Roman Anthony is going through in Boston. If that was here in New York, it would be leading Sportscenter every single day," Sabathia said. "It's a different beast when you put on the pinstripes." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9ad2c75342cf4db864fde NFL Week 1 proper reactions: Rams panic, Bears hype and Chargers doubts need patience after one game te 2026-09-15T20:40:12.567Z NFL Week 1 proper reactions: Rams panic, Bears hype and Chargers doubts need patience after one game The NFL is officially back! All 32 teams have now played exactly one game. Yet, people are going to act like that one out of 17 games is plenty of information to inform us about how the rest of the season will go. It's not. Like, at all. NFL WEEK 1 TAKEAWAYS: BENGALS FLASH CONTENDER UPSIDE, BEARS EXPLODE AND PACKERS COLLAPSE There's arguably no bigger overreaction week on the entire sports calendar than the week between Week 1 in the NFL and Week 2 in the NFL. After months of practically zero information, we finally saw teams on the field playing games that matter. But we must remember that Week 1 accounts for 5.9% of the entire season. People in the sports media are going to arrive at wild conclusions based on that minuscule sample size. What if you hired a home inspector for a house you wanted to buy and the inspector came back and said, "Hey, here's 5.9% of my report on this house and nothing more. You ready to make an offer?" But here we are, every season, making decisions based on less than 6% of the information. Nonsense. Let's take a look at some of the vast overreactions seen across the landscape and break them down. Of course, this is a major overreaction. The Rams entered the season as favorites to win the Super Bowl, rightfully so, and it seems like everyone is quickly jumping off the bandwagon. Rich Eisen Show producer and on-air contributor Chris Brockman predicted the Rams’ "dream team" would follow the 2011 Eagles and miss the playoffs. There are two problems with this overreaction. The first, and most obvious one, is that it was one game against a good divisional opponent in Australia. Honestly, the Rams were way too cocky going into the game and traveling across the globe 28 hours prior to kickoff was a clear miscalculation. The 49ers went to Australia a week in advance to adapt to the weather and time change. INTRODUCING OUTKICK'S FIRST ORIGINAL ANIMATED SERIES, 'SPORTS TALK WITH CAL MCCALLISTER' The second is that the Rams weren't really at full strength. Aaron Donald didn't play, and Myles Garrett played through a lingering knee issue and is now out for at least four games. Los Angeles didn't generate much pass rush and didn't sack Brock Purdy a single time. That's not going to continue throughout the season. Also, sometimes a team can get caught drinking its own Kool-Aid. No team entered the season with more hype, with some calling them a "super team" where a Super Bowl seemed like the only option. If anything, Week 1's disastrous result might have been the best thing that could have happened. The Rams got an early wake-up call and I expect them to bounce back in a big way over the next few games. The Bears obviously looked great in Week 1, dropping a team-record 59 points in a season opener. Caleb Williams showed off his athleticism and playmaking abilities throughout the afternoon, and Bears fans have reasons to be excited. Bucky Brooks posited that Chicago might average 40 points per game, which would easily set the record for points in a season. But let's pump the brakes just a tad, shall we? First, the Panthers defense isn't exactly a juggernaut. The team gave up some big numbers last season, including 42 to New England and 40 to Buffalo. In addition, Week 1 scoring was up big across the board. Teams don't play their starters much during the preseason which puts defenses at a big disadvantage. A lot of these guys have barely hit any opponents at full speed since last season and practices have gotten much less physical due to concussion and injury concerns. Chicago also benefited from several positive luck factors. The Panthers turned the ball over three times and committed 11 penalties for 84 yards. The Bears converted all four red zone drives into touchdowns and picked up 10-of-14 third downs. Yes, that's what good offenses do, but that ridiculous efficiency is unsustainable over 17 games. Then, there was the large number of big plays. Three different Bears (Williams, D'Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai) all had at least one carry of at least 29 yards and four different pass catchers (Kalif Raymond, Rome Odunze, Luther Burden, and Cole Kmet) had at least one reception that went for 20+ yards. Again, great offenses produce explosive plays, but this was an outlier. The Bears are going to be good, and the offense is going to score points, but we shouldn't set the expectation at 40 points scored per game. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The Chargers looked terrible in a Week 1 upset loss against the Arizona Cardinals as nine-point home favorites. The Cardinals blocked a punt, intercepted Justin Herbert and held Los Angeles to just 117 yards of offense in the second half. Mike McDaniel’s offense was supposed to unlock even more from Herbert, but it produced only two scoring drives, and one was aided by a 48-yard pass-interference penalty. That kind of debut makes it tempting to declare the McDaniel-Herbert pairing a failure after one game. To be clear, I'm not declaring that this team is destined for great things, but burying them after Week 1 is also a mistake. McDaniel's offense is unique, and it takes time to get used to, especially for offensive linemen. The Chargers have two stud tackles, Rashawn Slater and Joe Alt, but are breaking in an entirely new interior offensive line, including a rookie center. They made a lot of mistakes, but they will improve as the season goes along. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Remember that Tua Tagovailoa thrived under McDaniel for multiple seasons and there's no reason to think that Herbert can't have more success than Tagovailoa. I do have concerns about the team's receiver corps, since the Dolphins had Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle, but Ladd McConkey is great and if they can get moderate production from the likes of Tre Harris and Quentin Johnston along with contributions from tight ends David Njoku and Oronde Gadsden, the offense will be fine. That all being said, the Chargers clearly had too much hype coming into the season. While I don't think they're nearly as bad as they looked against Arizona, this doesn't appear to be a team that will seriously challenge for AFC supremacy, either. The Chargers might have been overhyped, but one bad Sunday doesn’t make McDaniel the wrong coordinator for Herbert. To close, I'm going to share a few overreactions that might not be overreactions at all: SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER OK, that's it for Week 1. Remember that we've still got 94% of the season to play, so don't get too excited or too disappointed. Unless you're a Dolphins, Browns or Titans fan, in which case you guys should start thinking about 2027. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9aad375342cf4db864f6d Seven noncitizens charged in North Texas election-integrity investigation te 2026-09-15T20:30:11.505Z Seven noncitizens charged in North Texas election-integrity investigation Seven noncitizens have been charged in North Texas as part of a sweeping federal election-integrity operation, as the Trump administration ramps up its push to investigate and prosecute election-related crimes ahead of the midterms. Fox News exclusively joined Homeland Security Investigations as federal agents carried out arrests in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, getting a firsthand look at how investigators are identifying and pursuing suspected cases of noncitizen voting.  U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Ryan Raybould, announced that six defendants were indicted on Sept. 10, while a seventh was charged with a criminal complaint the following day.  Federal agents arrested six of the defendants over the following several days, while a seventh, who had been considered a fugitive, surrendered to federal authorities. "One of the individuals, an illegal alien from Mexico, actually was a 2023 convicted felon for lying on a passport application," Raybould said. "So this person has already interacted with our office, the Department of Justice, and chose to then again commit a serious federal violation." In an exclusive one-on-one with Fox News, Raybould said the seven cases are only the beginning of his office’s efforts. Earlier this month, the DOJ charged five people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin in cases involving alleged illegal voting or fraudulent registration during the 2022 or 2024 elections. "It’s important to clean up our elections and make sure that they’re free and fair," Raybould told Fox News. "And my job as U.S. attorney is to prosecute cases and controversies. And so if fraud happens, whether it’s our elections, our health care fraud system, stealing from the American taxpayer, I’m going to go after it." Raybould said prosecutors are focused on whether federal law was broken, not which candidate received an allegedly illegal vote. FBI ARRESTS SUSPECT ACCUSED OF PAYING LA HOMELESS TO FORGE SIGNATURE USING REGISTERED VOTERS' IDENTITIES "We don’t even know who they voted for, frankly, like we don’t care," Raybould said. "You can vote for whoever. That is not what we are focused on, it's the act. You're not allowed to vote if you're an illegal alien."  The federal effort to identify potential noncitizen voters has drawn scrutiny from Democrats over how investigators are accessing and analyzing voter information. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Alex Padilla, (D-Calif.), on Monday made public a complaint from an anonymous DHS whistleblower alleging that personnel working on the department’s "Unlawful Voter Initiative" were directed to access state voter records in ways that may violate state laws. DHS has pushed back on those allegations. "The Department accessed publicly available data from states’ voter rolls and cross-referenced them with known aliens in our systems. It’s not rocket science; it’s an easy step to secure our elections," a DHS spokesperson told Fox News. Asked about the allegations, U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould defended investigators’ use of federal databases and publicly available information. "HSI has access to databases, and they have a right to access that database," Raybould told Fox News. "They also can cross-reference that database with publicly available information." Raybould compared the investigative approach to health care fraud cases, in which federal authorities analyze government data to identify potential outliers for further investigation. WHITE HOUSE UNLOADS ON VIOLENT ‘CRIMINAL ALIEN’ NABBED AFTER INVESTIGATORS UNCOVER ELECTION OFFENSE "We look at Medicaid data to identify outliers all the time, to pick targets," Raybould said. "Everybody should be in favor of making sure that illegals do not vote in our elections. Raybould said prosecuting election fraud should have bipartisan support. "If someone is illegal, and they vote in an election, that draws down the value of the vote of American citizens, and so it also undermines our democracy, and the vote is absolutely critical," Raybould said. "It's how we elect our leaders. It's an important voice for American citizens when they get to cast the ballot."  The seven non-citizens are charged with the following offenses: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9aad275342cf4db864f64 AG Blanche unveils federal charges against 160 defendants in pandemic relief sweep te 2026-09-15T20:30:10.247Z AG Blanche unveils federal charges against 160 defendants in pandemic relief sweep The Justice Department has charged dozens of people for suspected fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday. Speaking with reporters in the White House Rose Garden, Blanche said that between mid-June and September, federal prosecutors from across the country helped facilitate the arrests of 160 criminal defendants, including around 80 who were newly charged over suspected COVID fraud in Missouri and neighboring states. The suspected crimes involved more than $245 million in losses, Blanche said. WHITE HOUSE LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE MAP TRACKING BILLIONS IN SUSPECTED FRAUD In addition, federal prosecutors in Southern California announced on Tuesday that 12 defendants operating at-home childcare facilities were charged with fraudulently collecting more than $10 million in government childcare payments, despite the operators having few or no children attending their facilities. All 12 defendants were naturalized citizens from Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq and Somalia. EXCLUSIVE: VIDEO SHOWS MICHIGAN LAWMAKER TOURING DAYCARE IN $1.1M TAXPAYER FUNDING PROBE "If you knowingly break the law, you will be held accountable," Blanche said.  Some of the defendants were allegedly not even in the U.S. when they allegedly submitted claims for childcare payments. One defendant, Turkiya Alawad, 63, was found to be outside the U.S. between Jan. 1, 2024, and Jan. 30, 2024. However, they submitted and collected childcare payments for the dates she was not away, prosecutors said, according to The Associated Press. MINNESOTA'S EYE-POPPING SUBSIDY PAYMENTS TO NINE DAYCARE CENTERS EXPOSED AFTER LAST WEEK'S FED RAIDS The alleged daycare fraud case in California is larger than the one involving Feeding Our Future, which submitted roughly $4.6 million in claims to the Child Care Assistance Program in Minnesota, according to The AP. The Trump administration has prioritized investigating and prosecuting fraud and abuse of government programs. Vice President JD Vance chairs the administration's fraud task force, which has led to dozens of arrests by prosecutors nationwide. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a88d75342cf4db864efd Australian surfer risked his life to save fellow surfer who had been attacked by a shark te 2026-09-15T20:20:29.574Z Australian surfer risked his life to save fellow surfer who had been attacked by a shark A 56-year-old father from Western Australia faces a "long recovery" after losing his foot in a shark attack while surfing alone, 9 News Australia reports. Mel Ismail was in the water at Glenfield Beach when he was bitten by a shark on Monday morning. In addition to biting his leg, the shark also bit his surfboard and took a chunk out of it. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE FROM OUTKICK OUTDOORS "[He is] receiving specialist care from an experienced multidisciplinary team with the capability and expertise to manage complex and critically unwell patients locally," the head of the ICU department, Dr. Mary Pinder, said. "This person remains in a stable condition; however, he has sustained serious injuries and faces a long recovery." Ismail is lucky to be alive, all things considered. He was rescued from the water by Shannon Dunn, a fellow surfer who 9 News reports also works for the region's emergency services. FISHING CONTENT CREATOR WHO FILMED HIMSELF BEING BITTEN BY A SHARK WHILE SPEARFISHING LUCKY HE STILL HAS LEG Dunn was on the shore when he noticed Ismail waving for help. He didn’t hesitate. He hopped on his board, risked his life and headed towards the bloody waters. He then pulled the injured surfer back to shore. Once on shore, some teenagers pitched in and ended up making a tourniquet out of the rope from a surfboard. Dunn then tossed Ismail into the back of his vehicle and drove him to a waiting ambulance. Some heroes wear capes. Some enjoy surfing and also drive a Ute. The shark attack is being investigated and authorities are telling swimmers in the area to use extra caution. A portion of Glenfield Beach was temporarily closed after the encounter. The outlet reports that the full extent of Ismail's injuries isn't known. He is in serious but stable condition, receiving treatment at Geraldton Health Campus’ Intensive Care Unit/High Dependency Unit. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a88b75342cf4db864ef4 German tennis star takes a jab at Trinity Rodman & losers try to cancel Ella Langley over old hunting photos te 2026-09-15T20:20:27.341Z German tennis star takes a jab at Trinity Rodman & losers try to cancel Ella Langley over old hunting photos 'Nightcaps' is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk. It runs Monday-Friday on OutKick.com. Wow, the Dolphins are really bad. We're not talking the usual levels of Miami Dolphins bad. We're talking about 1–15 bad, à la 2007. Except it'll be 1-16 now. If they're lucky to squeak out that one W at all. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE But you know what? I'm at peace with it. As a lifelong Dolphins fan, I'm accustomed to sadness, disappointment and misery. That's because every year when Week 1 rolls around — despite knowing better — I delude myself into thinking "this season will be better!" I'm like Amy Klobuchar wearing the same dumb shirt and the same goofy grin. This year, I have no such delusions. Every week, I fully understand the team will s---- itself worse than that HYROX chick. Only this time, instead of a quarterback who gets concussed every other week, we have one who runs fast and wears rhinestone cleats. Ah, the serenity of low expectations. I'm as carefree as Bo Nix. So with that, let's get to our Tuesday Nightcaps — featuring Trinity Rodman, Ella Langley and Aryna Sabalenka. And there will be nothing about Sydney Sweeney, Holly Rowe or Arch Manning. Because I'm tired of hearing about all of them. Let's roll. Some people really don't like Ella Langley. I've heard a multitude of reasons for this: She cut a song with Morgan Wallen. She followed Charlie Kirk on TikTok. She got some lip filler. She's allegedly MAGA. The real reason is probably because "Choosin' Texas" has spent a bazillion weeks at No. 1, and a good chunk of our population just likes to hate on people who are successful. But now, the miserable souls of the interweb have found a new reason to smear the good name of Ella Langley — she's a hunter! Some folks with too much time on their hands dug up some old photos of Ella showing off bucks she harvested in her home state of Alabama. I love how that second post said she'd been "caught" hunting animals. As if Ella didn't pose for that photo and post it on her own social media account. Damn, you really busted her! Let's see what the comments are saying. Very sane people over there on the Twitter machine. As the founding mother of OutKick OutDoors, I'm obviously pro (legal and humane) hunting and fishing. And I won't bore you with all the reasons why hunting — particularly whitetail deer hunting — is crucial for conservation, preventing the spread of disease, and funding for the protection of wildlife and their habitats. I encourage you to do your own research if you're interested in learning more. JORDAN DAVIS FACES FAN BACKLASH OVER HAWAII AXIS DEER HUNT DESPITE STRONG CONSERVATION BACKING I also have no problem with people who choose not to hunt or choose not to eat meat. That's absolutely your prerogative. But I guarantee at least 99% of the people screeching at Ella right now have no problem stopping by the Taco Bell drive-thru or picking up a pack of chicken at the grocery store. But harvesting your own fresh venison apparently makes you evil. Spare me the outrage, losers. Trinity Rodman is a world-class soccer player for the USWNT. But she's also a tennis WAG. So while her boyfriend, Ben Shelton, competed in the US Open the past couple of weeks, Trinity was in the stands supporting him. Unfortunately for Trinity (and America), Shelton lost to Germany's Alexander Zverev in the men's final. That's after she played a soccer game in Washington, D.C. on the same day and then rushed 200 miles to NYC to catch the end of the match. When he won, Zverev gave Trinity a shoutout. "Trinity, I thought you have a game today," Zverev joked. "Well done to you as well. You’re the lucky charm ... not today, but usually." The crowd laughed. Trinity laughed. Ben laughed. And then Iman Shumpert wanted to see Ben defend his lady's honor. "I ain't gonna lie, Ben, get up in there, you gotta say something. I ain't gonna lie, he just shot..." Shumpert said. "You need a rematch. Yeah, you gotta treat it like boxing. Hey, Ben, go get your get back, buddy." Zverev might have stolen the Grand Slam title. But I don't think she's stealing Shelton's girl. She seems pretty into him. Let's open the mailbag. 📩 Email: amber.harding@outkick.com (Send your thoughts, stories, tips, rants and photos of your dog.) 🐦 Twitter/X: @TheAmberHarding 📸 Instagram: @amberharding ...at least according to Keith H. Keith writes: No one watches Women’s basketball and no one cares about whatever "tournament" is going on. The only things more boring are Women’s hockey, Women’s soccer, and watching paint dry. Amber: Folks, Keith cares so little about women's basketball that he clicked on a story about the USA women's basketball team's semifinal game against Spain. Then, he found the writer (me) and typed out an email about how much he doesn't care. On a Saturday night. While college football was on. Going to such lengths suggests to me that Keith actually cares a lot about women's basketball. Listen, folks, the reason we cover so much WNBA is because our women's basketball coverage consistently performs spectacularly well in metrics like page views, search and engagement. If it didn't, we wouldn't spend so much time and energy writing about it. All of our show hosts wouldn't be talking about it. And we certainly wouldn't send a reporter all the way to Europe to cover it. We give the people what they want. And even the "hate reads" count as page views, baby. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about making my first trip to the St. Lawrence River in Upstate New York. But it certainly won't be my last. Brian S. writes: It’s not a very manly phrase, I realize, but I was tickled pink reading your reaction to the St. Lawrence River. I was born - 1969 - and raised in Upstate New York. The River and 1,000 Islands have been a destination for my family since the 40’s. We grew up trailer camping in the state parks there, before renting cottages once we outgrew the camper, and eventually my folks purchased a summer home in Cape Vincent, a short drive from Clayton, where you were. My now adult children looked forward to every summer stay, even though the drive from New Jersey is about 5-1/2 hours. Whenever I bring friends to the area for the first time, they all have the same reaction as you had. We may have even crossed paths last weekend, as my wife and I were there visiting for a few days, and we even checked out the Bassmasters tourney. I’m glad you were able to experience the beauty of the region, and hope you’re able to visit again in the future. Amber: Every summer, my husband and I like to retreat to Lake Superior, and the St. Lawrence area area reminded me a lot of the Northwoods. There's just something so serene about the small towns around the Great Lakes. Everything's just slower there — in the best way possible. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Lucia writes: May I ask why the uproar over Sabalenka’s choice of tennis attire, but I hear nothing about Osaka’s abysmal fashion choices. First, let’s ask why she needs an entrance ‘outfit’? They definitely say ‘look at me’, but I don’t see them as making much of a statement about her tennis skills. Secondly, Osaka’s court wear yesterday could have very easily been made out of the Hefty Bags you referenced in your article. With that said, I’m not a fan of Sabalenka’s attire either. Nike should be embarrassed they put their ‘swoosh’ on the fishnet. While she may have a contractual obligation, she and her management should have put their respective foot down. Lastly, I don’t understand why the urge to make a ‘fashion’ statement has become a thing. Used to be the serve, the smash, the volley said it all. Amber: To be fair, I have seen plenty of people poke fun at Osaka's wild get-ups. I think the entrance outfit and the non-traditional kits are just part of tennis culture right now. It's like NFL and NBA players playing dress-up just to walk from their cars into the stadium on game day. Sabalenka's mesh kit wasn't my favorite, either. But it got us talking. And that was probably Nike's goal. My fellow "South Park" super fans will likely agree that last season was the worst one yet. No, not because they made fun of Trump. They made fun of Trump for five whole seasons when they had an orange-faced Mr. Garrison acting as President of the United States. The difference is that those seasons were original, funny and clever. This past season was none of those things. It was just Trump having a "butt baby" with Satan and the same "small d—" joke over and over and over. We get it. Even my liberal friends were like, "Can we please go back to the actual characters of 'South Park?'" But, naturally, Hollywood loved it. So Trey Parker and Matt Stone were awarded their first Emmy. Well, "South Park" is back tomorrow. Except they're calling it "South America" to make fun of Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER And you know what? Cool. That's the kind of satire they should be doing. And judging by the trailer, it's actually going to be about the boys this time. So, fingers crossed, this season won't just be another giant turd sandwich. You sold out and got your Emmy, Matt and Trey. Now please go back to being funny. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a88875342cf4db864eeb Pentagon reveals secret space weapons are already in orbit — but won't say what they do te 2026-09-15T20:20:24.831Z Pentagon reveals secret space weapons are already in orbit — but won't say what they do The U.S. has weapons orbiting Earth that can be used to defend American forces from attacks in space, the Air Force secretary revealed this week in a rare public acknowledgment of capabilities the Pentagon has largely kept secret. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said Monday that the Space Force now has "on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary action," but declined to say what the weapons are, how they work or when they were deployed. The carefully worded disclosure marks a shift in how openly the U.S. military talks about weapons in orbit as China and Russia develop their own capabilities to disrupt, disable or destroy satellites. TRUMP TO TRANSFORM SPACEFLIGHT FROM SPECTACLE TO STATUS QUO TARGETING 3 LAUNCHES PER DAY "Is there any question in the room, by anybody, about whether or not the Chinese or Russians have been developing these sorts of weapons?" Meink told reporters after his remarks at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland — right outside of Washington, D.C. "For over a decade, we’ve been talking about the fact, and we have expressed concern, that the Chinese and Russians were developing weapons for space," he continued. "We need to focus on making sure we can protect ourselves operating in that environment." Exactly what the U.S. has put into orbit remains a mystery. The U.S. has previously discussed placing weapons in space, including plans to deploy space-based interceptors capable of destroying incoming missiles as part of President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense system. But Meink’s disclosure goes a step further: The Space Force already has weapons in orbit for "space control," a mission aimed at protecting U.S. access to space and, if necessary, denying an adversary the ability to use it. The Pentagon has historically revealed little about the weapons developed for that mission, with publicly known U.S. counter-space capabilities largely based on the ground. "What the U.S. is going for is a wow factor here," Clayton Swope, deputy director of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Fox News Digital. "Wow. The U.S. has never talked about space weapons like this before." "That's really what is exceptional and newsworthy about this revelation," Swope said. "The U.S. is saying we're putting weapons in space to make sure that our adversaries can't use space, or to make sure that we can continue to use space." Meink appeared to make clear that the ambiguity surrounding the weapons is intentional. He told reporters his language was "very well thought out" and declined to say whether the systems are kinetic or non-kinetic. Kinetic weapons physically strike or destroy a target — think bombs, bullets and missile — while non-kinetic systems can disrupt or disable it without blowing it up — like cyber attacks or radio jams. "There are a lot of factors that roll into how we talk about these things," Meink said, explaining that publicly revealing a capability can contribute to deterrence while disclosing too much about it can undermine that advantage. "We’re not going to talk about the specifics of what we’re doing, whether we’ve tested it, not tested it, or anything else," he said. That leaves a wide range of possibilities. Fox News Digital did not hear back from the Space Force when reached for details of the weapon. INSIDE AMERICA'S LASER REVOLUTION AS THE MILITARY NEARS BIG BATTLEFIELD BREAKTHROUGH Swope said "space control weapons" could encompass everything from kinetic systems capable of firing missiles or projectiles at another satellite to jammers that interfere with satellite communications or lasers designed to temporarily overwhelm imaging sensors. "We really don't have enough information to know precisely which one of these types of capabilities we're talking about," Swope said. "It's really anybody's guess what type of weapon we're talking about." FATAL AIR AMBULANCE CRASH EXPOSES GROWING GPS DANGER FACING US FLIGHTS But whatever the Pentagon has deployed, putting a weapon in orbit rather than launching it from Earth could offer one potentially significant advantage: speed and surprise. A weapon launched from Earth toward a satellite could potentially give an adversary warning that an attack was underway. A capability already positioned in orbit could dramatically shorten that window. "Maybe something measured at dozens of minutes could be compressed into just mere minutes," Swope said. "And you wouldn't have any indication that maybe a jammer was turned on, on the satellite, other than all of a sudden your signal is being interfered with," he added. "If you can act fast without your adversary knowing, if you can have surprise, that gives you a strategic or an asymmetric advantage in combat," Swope said. "And having systems in orbit do just that." Even observing the spacecraft itself may offer few clues about what it can do. "Space is a very transparent place," Swope said, noting that governments and civilian observers can track where satellites are, how fast they are moving and what orbits they occupy. "But what you'll see often is, oh, it's a satellite," he said. "It's a lot of technology with solar panels and antenna on it. And you don't really know much beyond that." A satellite equipped to jam another spacecraft’s signals, for example, might look much like an ordinary communications satellite. "Any signal can be a jamming signal," Swope said. "It just depends on if it's the one you want to receive, or the one that someone's trying to use to jam you." The concept of weapons operating in orbit is not new. Swope pointed to the Soviet Union’s work on co-orbital anti-satellite weapons dating to the 1960s. Russia has continued developing counterspace capabilities, including systems designed to operate in orbit near other satellites. China has also developed and tested technologies that could threaten spacecraft, including satellite-servicing and debris-removal systems that have legitimate civilian uses but could potentially be repurposed to interfere with another satellite. Other forms of interference are already widespread. "When we talk about jamming and spoofing and cyberattacks against space systems, these happen all the time, both from Russia and China and other countries like North Korea and Iran," Swope said. "There is so much jamming and spoofing happening around the world right now, it's almost ubiquitous." Those attacks can target systems such as GPS and satellite communications without physically destroying a spacecraft. That distinction could become critical during a conflict. Jamming, spoofing or cyberattacks may remain below the threshold that prompts a major military response, while physically destroying a satellite could represent a significant escalation. "If you drop a bomb on a satellite ground station or you shoot a missile at a satellite in space, that's a big difference," Swope said. "That's a huge escalation." The stakes are particularly high because modern U.S. warfare is deeply dependent on space-based systems for communications, navigation, intelligence, missile warning and targeting. "Space is an enabler of joint operations," Swope said. "We can't do military operations the way that we do them today without satellites, without systems in space." China increasingly faces the same dependency, making control of space potentially decisive in a conflict between the two powers. "Whoever has space and can deny that to their adversary has a huge asymmetric advantage in a conflict," Swope said. "China depends on space as well, and their use of space for joint operations looks very much like the United States," he added. "Both countries, I would go so far as to say, depend on space to conduct military operations on Earth." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a87e75342cf4db864eca Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Demand Tighter Controls on A.I. te 2026-09-15T20:20:14.686Z Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Demand Tighter Controls on A.I. At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a87b75342cf4db864ec1 Debate en vivo: Teresa Leyba Ruiz y Kimberly Yee por la Superintendencia de Instrucción Pública te 2026-09-15T20:20:11.495Z Debate en vivo: Teresa Leyba Ruiz y Kimberly Yee por la Superintendencia de Instrucción Pública La demócrata Teresa Leyba Ruiz y la republicana Kimberly Yee debatirán el martes 15 de septiembre a las 6 p.m. Mira el debate en vivo en esta página o mira la repetición. Los votantes eligieron a Leyba Ruiz y Yee en las elecciones primarias de junio. La ganadora ocupará el cargo por un periodo de cuatro años que comenzará en enero. Esta elección general es la primera en décadas sin el actual superintendente Tom Horne en la boleta electoral. Buscaba un cuarto mandato como superintendente estatal, pero perdió ante Yee en las primarias. La contienda se centra en el futuro del programa de Cuentas de Becas de Empoderamiento (ESA, por sus siglas en inglés) del estado, que ahora atiende a más de 100,000 estudiantes con un costo de 1,000 millones de dólares al año, ya que ambas candidatas piden una mayor supervisión después de que auditorías encontraron un uso indebido generalizado de los fondos.  Las candidatas también enfrentan la desmantelación del Departamento de Educación federal, un déficit de 3,000 millones de dólares en el financiamiento escolar ordenado por un tribunal y el cierre de escuelas públicas en distritos de todo el estado, incluidos Amphitheater Public Schools y Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind la primavera pasada, y el de Tucson Unified School District, probablemente en 2027. Yee derrotó a Horne con 53.3% frente a 46.7%. Es tesorera de Arizona desde 2018. Fue la primera mujer asiático-estadounidense en formar parte de la Legislatura de Arizona, donde estuvo en la Cámara de Representantes y luego en el Senado de 2010 a 2018. Originaria de Arizona, Yee tiene 52 años. Apoya la supervisión del programa ESA y quiere que siga siendo universal. Está considerando recurrir a otros proveedores del programa ESA después de solicitar información para evaluar el mercado y mejorar las operaciones del programa tras salir a la luz problemas de auditoría y fondos gastados indebidamente. En el debate republicano del verano pasado, Yee citó un informe de la Oficina del Auditor General de Arizona, que reveló una escasa supervisión del programa para familias que optan por escuelas privadas y educación en el hogar. El Departamento de Educación procesó automáticamente alrededor de 654 millones de dólares en transacciones de ESA desde diciembre de 2024. Leyba Ruiz derrotó a Brett Newby con 79.8% frente a 20.2%. Tiene una licencia estatal vigente para enseñar. Ha trabajado en educación durante 35 años, primero como maestra de matemáticas y, más recientemente, como presidenta de Glendale Community College. Leyba Ruiz, de tercera generación de Arizona, es madre de dos hijas de veintitantos años. Sus dos padres se graduaron de Pueblo High School. Leyba Ruiz, de 60 años, dice que regularía el programa ESA, volviendo a su propósito original antes de que se hiciera universal. Ha pedido mayor transparencia mediante un panel de control de ESA para dar seguimiento al gasto y poner fin a la aprobación automática de gastos inferiores a 2,000 dólares, y quiere una auditoría del programa. Busca crear de inmediato una oficina para escuelas rurales y pequeñas que mantenga una conexión directa con la oficina del superintendente, dijo. Apoya el preescolar universal y quiere conservar a más maestros mediante mejores salarios y un mayor acceso educativo, ampliando la educación y capacitación después de la preparatoria, al considerar que la educación impulsa el crecimiento económico. Sobre el Superintendente de Instrucción Pública El Superintendente de Instrucción Pública de Arizona forma parte del poder ejecutivo del gobierno estatal y es elegido para dirigir el Departamento de Educación. Los superintendentes están limitados a dos mandatos consecutivos y cada mandato dura cuatro años. Su trabajo consiste en hacer cumplir las políticas de la Junta Estatal de Educación y crear y alcanzar los estándares estatales (por ejemplo, las pruebas) para todas las escuelas públicas de Arizona, distribuir fondos estatales para educación a los condados, certificar a los maestros, determinar el plan de estudios y la instrucción, presupuestar el transporte escolar, auditar las cuentas de funcionarios escolares con el auditor general y emitir materiales y suministros escolares. Para participar en esta elección, regístrate para votar o actualiza tu registro electoral antes del 5 de octubre. La votación anticipada comienza el 7 de octubre y el día de las elecciones es el 3 de noviembre. Conoce a las candidatas Kimberly Yee Republican Social media Official Facebook Campaign Facebook Personal Facebook Official X Campaign X Other links Campaign Website URL Campaign Website Terry Leyba Ruiz Democrat Social media Campaign Facebook Campaign Instagram LinkedIn Other links Campaign Website URL Campaign Website Mira el debate The post Terry Leyba Ruiz appeared first on AZ Luminaria. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a87875342cf4db864eb6 Tucson supervisor gives bilingual books to first graders te 2026-09-15T20:20:08.539Z Tucson supervisor gives bilingual books to first graders Pima County Supervisor Andrés Cano quizzed a room of first graders at Mission Manor Elementary School on their Spanish vocabulary last month, asking if anyone knew what "horchata" was. Hands shot up around the school library, along with an appreciative "mmmm" for the sweet rice drink. “Can anyone tell me what color Jamaica is?” Cano asked. “I think it's red,” a student answered. Cano's visit was part of a back-to-school children's book distribution event at two schools in District 5: Mission Manor Elementary School in the Sunnyside Unified School District and Tucson Unified School District's Lynn Urquides Elementary School. During his visit, Cano read from Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford's bilingual children's book, "Hip, Hip, Hooray! It's Monsoon Day!," with 500 first graders across both schools receiving a signed copy along with a tote bag emblazoned with the words "I love books" and holding a bookmark, water bottle, coloring page, sunglasses and more. Cano shared stories of his childhood with the students, telling them about his early love of reading. “When I was your age, I would go to the library and I'd get lost in books like this, and as part of the work that I do, I wanted to put this book into your guys' hands,” Cano said. Last year, Cano launched "Love of Lectura," or "Love of Reading," a four-part series in his district featuring local authors, including historian Lydia Otero, former Arizona state Rep. Lorenzo Sierra, University of Arizona Regents' Professor Ofelia Zepeda and retired social scientist and former TV host David Yetman. More than 400 community members attended the series. Your membership pays emerging journalists to cover Southern Arizona the way it deserves. A member of Cano's staff shows first graders the signature inside their new books during the Love of Lectura event. Topacio "Topaz" Servellon / Tucson Spotlight. The school book distribution is the second iteration of the program, "Love of Lectura 2.0." “When we were thinking this year about doing the second round of Love of Lectura, I thought that we could have a little bit more impact and go right to our schools where our kids need our support, and where books can help them be the best learners and can spark their imagination,” Cano said. Sunnyside School Board President Becky Quintero echoed that sentiment, pointing to the impact beyond the classroom. “It's so special because when the kids take it home, the parents can read it with them, teach them another language if they're not fluent. It just bonds the family more together with sharing books,” Quintero said. “(Reading) … It's the foundation. If our kids don't like to read, they're not going to succeed. It all starts with reading when they're young.” Cano reached out to Mission Manor about starting Love of Lectura, and given the district's annual love of reading weekend celebrated each February, Sunnyside School Superintendent Jose Gastelum said it made sense to start the effort earlier in the year. “I came to Mission Manor as a student,” Gastelum said. “I love that he picked out a bilingual book so a lot of the kids could relate to the storyline in terms of some of the language that was used. More than 13,500 students were enrolled in the Sunnyside Unified School District last year, with 90% identifying as Hispanic and one in five actively learning English as a second language, according to the district's annual report. With one in four students in the district living at or below the poverty line, books can seem like a luxury, particularly bilingual ones, Cano said. “What is going to be even more important is that when these kids go back home today and they come back with this culturally relevant material, they're going to be able to ... read with their parents who perhaps are Spanish-speaking only,” Cano said. “In communities like District 5, where we do have Spanish-speaking families, a majority of them need access to quality learning and literacy. That's what Love of Lectura is all about.” Topacio “Topaz” Servellon is a reporter with Tucson Spotlight. Contact them at topacioserve@gmail.com. Tucson Spotlight is a community-based newsroom that provides paid opportunities for students and rising journalists in Southern Arizona. Please consider supporting our work with a tax-deductible donation. Donate to Tucson Spotlight Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a87575342cf4db864e9a Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup te 2026-09-15T20:20:05.377Z Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a63a75342cf4db864e50 Arch Manning issues apology after facing heat for laughing at AI video of Steve Sarkisian slapping Holly Rowe te 2026-09-15T20:10:34.246Z Arch Manning issues apology after facing heat for laughing at AI video of Steve Sarkisian slapping Holly Rowe Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning issued an apology on Tuesday after he came under fire for laughing about an AI video of his coach Steve Sarkisian slapping ESPN reporter Holly Rowe. The video in question showed the awkward postgame interview between Sarkisian and Rowe after Texas came back to beat the Ohio State Buckeyes on Saturday night. The altered clip then showed Sarkisian yelling at Rowe and slapping her. Manning brought it up on Monday and laughed when talking about it. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "In my press conference yesterday, I made an insensitive comment about an AI video," Manning wrote in a post on his Instagram Stories. "There is nothing funny about it. It’s easy to say I didn’t mean it, but I know my words and actions were hurtful to a lot of people. I do not take that lightly and am deeply sorry for that. "I specifically want to apologize to Holly Rowe for what she has personally had to deal with because of my comments. I have a ton of respect for her and appreciate her showing me grace in this moment. I need to do better and will be more thoughtful going forward." Rowe wrote on social media that she accepted Manning’s apology. "Thank you Arch," she wrote. "I appreciate our conversation about this – which will remain private. Apology accepted. We move forward with respect and kindness for one another." CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE The 22-year-old star player came under scrutiny in the hours after the clip of his postgame press conference made the rounds on social media. Sarkisian’s brief moment with Rowe after the game went viral. "Texas fight, hook ‘em," he said before running back to celebrate with his team. Overall, it appeared to be a frustrating night for Sarkisian. ESPN’s Laura Rutledge said at halftime that technical issues forced Sarkisian to wait a while before a halftime interview could begin. However, it took too long and he needed to prepare for the next half. "I do want to make sure we clear something up. (Sarkisian) did decline the interview at the half. He had waited a long time, been very patient with some technical issues that we had. He apologized to us. We should be apologizing to him, which we did," she said. With the victory, Texas was boosted to No. 1 in the Associated Press poll. The Longhorns were as high as No. 1 to start last season but the team lost to the Buckeyes out of the gate and were dropped to seventh. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a63575342cf4db864e41 Sun Devils, except coach Kenny Dillingham, soaking up London ahead of Union Jack Classic te 2026-09-15T20:10:29.442Z Sun Devils, except coach Kenny Dillingham, soaking up London ahead of Union Jack Classic LONDON – Featuring ornate, architectural marvels and historic sites dating back centuries, this isn’t a city that should be explored in a hotel room – unless you’re Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham.  After a long trip across the pond, the Sun Devils’ head man said that he had spent roughly 48 hours indoors at the team hotel, sequestered in his room like a hermit to prepare for Arizona State’s game at Wembley Stadium against Kansas in the Union Jack Classic on Saturday. Kickoff is at 9 a.m. MST.  With the sun peeking through gray London skies, Dillingham finally caught a whiff of fresh outside air at ASU’s Tuesday morning practice. Don’t get any ideas. Dillingham said it won’t be happening much this week, at least when it comes to non-team-related activities.  “I didn’t sleep the first 36 hours I was here,” Dillingham said. “I’ve been locked in a cave. “My job is to get the best plan in place, and I (have) got to do the same process I do throughout a week. … We’ll go to the Thursday event that we (have) got down there in London, but I don’t plan on doing anything other than being in this hotel.” While Dillingham isn’t keen to explore the city, he has encouraged his team to enjoy the unique experience of playing in an international game – a historic one at that, considering that it’s the first-ever college football game in London to feature two FBS teams.  “I told them today, they’re not hostages here,” Dillingham said. “If you want to go do something, go do something. Just make sure we get what we need to get accomplished.” It’s been a taxing turnaround for Dillingham’s squad. Fresh off a 48-20 loss in College Station to No. 9 Texas A&M on Sept. 12, the Sun Devils flew straight to London for the back half of a roughly week-and-a-half-long stretch on the road.  The trip presents some obvious logistical hurdles – shipping a football team and its gear thousands of miles away isn’t a straightforward task. Conversely, it provides ASU’s players and staff with a chance to escape from football and create memorable moments as a team.   “No way would I want our team to fly across the country Week 3 to play this game,” Dillingham said. “But this is an experience. They’re still college athletes and I wasn’t going to rob them of an experience to fly them across the country, go see London, be able to experience things and play in a stadium that’s like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” ASU football players Jalen Klemm, left, and CJ Fite share a laugh during a post-practice media availability at The Lensbury in London on Sept. 15, 2026. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) Veterans such as offensive tackle Jalen Klemm and defensive tackle C.J. Fite have kept busy, visiting local landmarks and trying one of England’s most popular dishes for the first time: fish and chips.  “We have been taking the last couple of days to kind of acclimate to everything,” Klemm said. “All of us have walked the grounds here and looked at everything. I know that on Thursday we have a boat ride that we’re going to be able to go on and see a lot of the sights. So I know the guys are pretty excited for that.” For the most part, Dillingham has entrusted his players with the freedom to explore London on their own. Well, at least with a buddy. Or three.  Behind the program’s pillars – which include, Fite noted being a good person and having safeguards like the buddy system in place – older players such as Fite and Klemm haven’t felt the need to heavily monitor the younger players to prevent them from making poor decisions.  “Coach told us if you want to go out, you have to have three people with you,” Fite said. “So if somebody wants to make a bad decision, three other people can stop them. There’s certain things that you do, and that you already know, that kind of stop you from making those decisions. But all the guys kind of know already.” Like any trip abroad, it hasn’t been smooth sailing for everyone. Klemm said his teammate, sophomore offensive lineman Manamo’ui Muti, found himself in a precarious position early in the week: locked in the hotel bathroom.  “It was pretty funny,” Klemm said. “We went in there and we were knocking on the door and he was like, ‘Hey guys,’ and he was sending us videos from inside. “Thankfully, he had his phone. I asked him what he would have done if he didn’t have his phone. He was like, ‘I might have had to break the door down.’” While it seems the Devils are enjoying their time across the pond, they still remain aligned with their uber-focused coach, pledging not to let distractions get in the way of their main goal. “At the end of the day, we came here to play a football game,” Klemm said. “We got to keep the main thing the main thing.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a62a75342cf4db864e33 Criminal probe targets PAC funded by charter school management company te 2026-09-15T20:10:18.794Z Criminal probe targets PAC funded by charter school management company (Photo via Getty Images) A political action committee founded by the head of one of Arizona’s largest charter school networks is facing a criminal investigation for allegedly violating campaign finance law by using funds from his company to donate directly to Republican candidates.  Glenn Way is the CEO of Charter One LLC and the chairman of the Educational Freedom Fund PAC, which contributed $25,500 to Republican candidates for the Arizona House of Representatives and Senate in the 2022 and 2024 elections.  Way founded American Leadership Academy charter school in 2009, and has since expanded it to 27 campuses in Arizona, six in North Carolina and three in South Carolina. Another of his businesses, Charter One LLC, is paid millions of dollars each year to manage the schools.  The complaint, filed in January 2025 by a law firm connected to Democrats and on behalf of a former school teacher, was forwarded to Attorney General Kris Mayes’ office by the Arizona Secretary of State last year, the Arizona Mirror confirmed via public records.  The Attorney General’s Office said its investigation into the Educational Freedom Fund is ongoing and declined to comment.  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE Corporate entities are banned from giving money to candidates, whether that is directly or by routing it through a PAC that could otherwise make direct contributions, according to state law. A violation is a class 2 misdemeanor for the organization making the donation and a class 6 felony for the individual who makes the contribution.  Campaign finance reports show that the PAC only had two contributors: Charter One LLC, which poured nearly $200,000 into the political committee, and Youssef Khalaf, who was the PAC’s treasurer and gave $9,000. But the committee made $83,200 in direct candidate contributions, far more than the $9,000 that it received from Khalaf — a violation of Arizona’s ban on corporate political giving, the complaint alleged. The complaint was filed by Kerry Baker, a former teacher who served in the Paradise Valley Unified School District and works as an “organizational consultant” for the AEA. In a response to the complaint, attorneys representing the PAC defended the contributions as legal — but said if they were, in fact, illegal, the blame lies squarely on Khalaf, who was fired as treasurer after the complaint was filed.  “Throughout the 2022 and 2024 election cycles, EFF’s former treasurer Youssef Khalaf was responsible for its compliance with Arizona campaign finance law, including reviewing and approving all the PAC’s receipts and disbursements,” the Educational Freedom Fund’s attorneys said in a letter to the Secretary of State’s Office responding to the complaint. “However, Mr. Khalaf inadvertently authorized EFF to make contributions to candidates using a portion of the funds received from Charter One, without requiring that the contributions be appropriately disclosed as the funds of Mr. Way.” Khalaf, the attorneys for the PAC and the individual who made the complaint did not respond to repeated requests for comment on this story.  The PACs attorneys said the contributions to the GOP legislative candidates that came indirectly from Charter One shouldn’t be considered corporate money — even though the Educational Freedom Fund reported it as such — because any assets that Charter One has are really Way’s personal assets. “Charter One is a single member LLC treated as a ‘disregarded entity’ for tax purposes. Although Respondents acknowledge that some of the contributions EFF made to candidate committees included funds received from a bank account maintained by Charter One, the Respondents believed the contributions were permissible at the time they were made,” they argued.  The attorneys also contend that the contributions were done this way mistakenly and they did not “intentionally make contributions in the name of another or otherwise try to circumvent Arizona’s campaign disclosure requirements.”  One Democratic elections attorney said that explanation doesn’t pass muster with the law. “If a corporation gives money to a PAC and if a PAC uses that money to contribute to a candidate, that’s unlawful,” attorney Jim Barton told the Arizona Mirror. “That’s pretty clear cut.” Arizona law, which mirrors federal campaign finance law, prohibits LLCs from making contributions to candidate committees and also prohibits an LLC from evading this by using a PAC as an intermediary.  The committee made $1,000 donations to 25 Republican legislative candidates in 2022 and 2024.  Last Spring, after the complaint was filed, the Educational Freedom Fund fired Khalaf and hired a compliance firm connected with PACs that have also been accused of mishandling funds.  The committee’s attorneys argued that the proactive move to “strengthen their compliance” and prevent this issue again should be rewarded by dismissing the complaint.  While rulings like Citizens United gave corporations the ability to spend money on independent expenditures, election law still prohibits corporations from making direct donations or coordinating with campaigns, Barton said.  “Arizona law, and federal law, too, by the way, prohibits you from doing an end run around all that,” Barton noted.  In 2021, former Attorney General Mark Brnovich pursued two individuals for such violations in Kingman, Arizona.  The candidates the PAC contributed are:  Ben Toma  David Marshall Tatiana Pena Cory McGarr  David Livingston Teresa Martinez  Julie Willoughby Justine Wadsack Laurin Hendrix David Gowan Warren Petersen J.D. Mesnard Shawnna Bolick Frank Carroll Ken Bennett Gail Griffin  Justin Wilmeth Matt Gress Jeff Weninger Carine Werner T.J. Shope Walt Blackman  Michael Carbone Sine Kerr Janae Shamp YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a3cd75342cf4db864dec WATCH: 'Lifelong Democrat' admits she is ‘ashamed’ of party after son killed in illegal immigrant crash te 2026-09-15T20:00:13.243Z WATCH: 'Lifelong Democrat' admits she is ‘ashamed’ of party after son killed in illegal immigrant crash In testimony before Congress this morning, self-identified "lifelong Democrat" Elizabeth Carter admitted that she is "ashamed" of her party’s handling of the immigration issue after her son, William Micah Carter, was killed in a car crash involving an illegal immigrant truck driver issued a license by California. Carter’s son and his newlywed wife, Jennifer Lower, along with their cat "Bert," were killed in a car crash after their vehicle slammed into a jackknifed big rig driven by illegal immigrant Rajinder Kumar in late November. According to Carter, the couple were returning from their wedding reception in her late daughter-in-law’s hometown in Oregon when the crash occurred. "Sixteen days after they were married, Billy, Jenny and her cat Bert were killed. They lost the Russian roulette game our government is forcing them to play," testified Carter. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF KILLING NEWLYWED COUPLE IN OREGON CRASH ARRESTED BY ICE AFTER JAIL RELEASE While being questioned by Rep. Brad Knott, R-N.C., Carter criticized Democrats’ resistance to immigration enforcement, saying, "We allowed 10 million people in under Biden. How is there a different suggestion as to how to process them, other than the same way they came into the country en masse, leaving?" She continued, "I have to say, as a lifelong Democrat, I am ashamed of what my party is doing." To which, Knott responded, "Well, they don’t care." Knott pressed, "This is the question for the country to consider, is it worth enforcing our laws to protect just one American family?" HOMAN BLASTS DEM HYPOCRISY ON DEPORTATIONS, RECALLS PAST WHEN 'OBAMA GAVE ME AN AWARD' FOR ENFORCING BORDER "One party says, ‘Absolutely, if we have to mass deport the problem that they built, so be it,’" he continued. "If it protects one family from having to suffer like you've suffered, I think that is a worthwhile endeavor." Carter responded, "Absolutely." Pointing to where the Democratic committee members were sitting, Knott exclaimed, "They are still defending it. Not one of them will say, if you're here illegally, get out." Licensed illegal immigrant drivers on American roads have become an increasingly significant concern following a series of deadly crashes involving immigrants. OUT OF CONTROL, UNQUALIFIED ILLEGAL ALIEN TRUCKERS ENDANGERING KIDS ON US ROADS, INSIDER WARNS: ‘JUST MADNESS’ Last week, ICE launched a new tipline for Americans to report suspected commercial driver's license (CDL) fraud as the Trump administration ramps up its crackdown on unqualified truckers. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER In announcing the tipline, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News Digital that "too many American lives have been lost or permanently changed because illegal aliens who have no business being on our roads have been granted CDLs." "ICE and our federal partners, including the Department of Transportation, will be cracking down on CDL fraud so that not one more American life is lost to a reckless illegal alien behind the wheel of a semi-truck," he added. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9a3cb75342cf4db864de3 Retired NFL star falls into social media hole by comparing Mike Vrabel scandal and Jonathan Cooper arrest te 2026-09-15T20:00:11.682Z Retired NFL star falls into social media hole by comparing Mike Vrabel scandal and Jonathan Cooper arrest Justin Simmons was an outstanding NFL safety, collecting second-team All-Pro honors four times during his nine-year career. However, now retired, Simmons should probably be more careful with his social media commentary. That's because Simmons stepped on something of an online landmine Monday night while he was watching his former Denver Broncos team play the Kansas City Chiefs. During the broadcast, ESPN's Joe Buck noted that Broncos' linebacker Jonathan Cooper was not in the lineup because he's currently suspended on the NFL exempt list while he awaits a Nov. 10 trial on four charges, including felony second-degree assault by strangulation of his former girlfriend. 3 NFL STARS HIT COMMISSIONER'S EXEMPT LIST AFTER OFFSEASON FILLED WITH LEGAL TROUBLE The broadcast apparently triggered Simmons, who took to his X account to make a comparative point. The former NFL great complained that ESPN was mentioning his former teammate during the broadcast but the situation between New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel and former reporter Dianna Russini wasn't discussed on TV. NBC REMINDS PREGAME VIEWERS ABOUT MIKE VRABEL-DIANNA RUSSINI SCANDAL COACH AND PATRIOTS WANT TO FORGET So, social media simply moved on without pushback whatsoever. Yeah, right. Multiple people basically told off Simmons. They made the point that even if Vrabel's relationship with Russini was perhaps morally wrong, if one assumes it reached heights that have not been proven, it wasn't illegal. Vrabel has been put before the court of public opinion for the relationship, but there are no allegations of abuse that will be heard in a court of law. The analogy between Cooper and Vrabel is flawed at best. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! So, Simmons found himself in a hole he jumped into. Then, unfortunately for him, he proceeded to dig himself deeper. "That’s absolute bs btw," Simmons wrote in an ensuing post as a media critic. "Shame on all of the production on Monday night football and the crew. You’re supposed to call the game. Coop isn’t playing the game and isn’t on the sidelines. "The MNF crew is paid to cover THE GAME not the players who are not playing or even at the game." That's an interesting use of capital letters. Let's go with that flow: Simmons is apparently of the opinion that, since his former teammate isn't playing nor on the sideline – BECAUSE HE WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF CHOKING HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND AND THEN SUSPENDED BY THE NFL – the broadcast should not mention his name and situation. So any person not in the stadium is apparently off limits from discussion, per Simmons. That apparently should include a person who would be playing if he hadn't done something for which he was arrested, charged with and apologized before he got lawyered up and pleaded not guilty. NFL FACING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC THIS OFFSEASON WITH ARREST OF RAMS LINEMAN THE LATEST CASE Simmons is a bright individual of great character. He played well and was a leader throughout his career, which means he rarely faced public criticism. He was clearly caught off guard, then, when fans challenged his views on Vrabel and Cooper and on ESPN's right to address the matter during its broadcast. "I have hella people in my comments (mainly Pats fans) saying an affair is not the same as an ALLEGED conviction," Simmons wrote. "Which is true. However, last time I checked MNF or any network hosting a game is supposed to talk about just that THE GAME not players who aren’t there or even playing." That is obviously not correct. And what's worse, the premise all this is based on is also incorrect. That's because when the New England Patriots opened their season against the Seattle Seahawks, Vrabel's situation was addressed on national television. NBC even included the Russini-Vrabel scandal in an illustrated timeline of the Patriots' offseason. So, yes, Vrabel's situation was discussed on TV and that was the right thing to do – just like it was perfectly correct for Cooper's situation to be mentioned on Monday Night Football. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa99f1c75342cf4db864d3e DMV breach confirmed as hackers claim 200,000 records stolen te 2026-09-15T19:40:12.688Z DMV breach confirmed as hackers claim 200,000 records stolen Most of us hand over a lot of personal information to the DMV because we have no choice. Your address, birth date, driver's license information and other identifying details can all end up in government systems. That is why a breach involving driver records deserves attention. Florida officials have now confirmed that the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, or FLHSMV, experienced a data breach. The agency says it learned about the incident on Sept. 4, quickly mitigated it and has seen no further breach or ongoing unauthorized access. The confirmation follows claims from the ShinyHunters extortion group that it accessed Florida's Driver and Vehicle Information Database, known as DAVID, and stole more than 200,000 driver records. Florida has not confirmed that record count or publicly said exactly what information was taken. Here's what ShinyHunters claims happened, what Florida says its investigation found and what drivers should do now. INSURANCE BREACH EXPOSES 7M DRIVER'S LICENSES NEW! Join our upcoming CyberGuy LIVE class: Get Better Health Care With AI In this free live online class, Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson will show you five practical ways AI can help you take a more active role in your health care. You’ll learn how to organize your health history, remember important appointment details, understand complicated medical information, research prescriptions and prepare questions for your next doctor’s visit. No technical experience is needed. Register for free now at CyberGuyLive.com FLHSMV says its investigation traced the breach to credentials belonging to a single Plant City Police Department user. According to the agency, those credentials were improperly stored on the employee's personal electronic device. A criminal actor was then able to take advantage of them. That explanation gives us the first official account of how the breach occurred. It also differs from the access method ShinyHunters previously described. FLHSMV says it notified the Florida Office of the Attorney General as required under state law. The agency is also working with the Florida Digital Service and Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The criminal investigation remains ongoing. Officials say additional information will be released at an appropriate time. ShinyHunters says it stole more than 200,000 driver records from DAVID. BleepingComputer reported that the group provided a screenshot of a DAVID record belonging to Jeffrey Epstein as evidence that it had accessed the system. The screenshot reportedly contained an address, Social Security number, birth date, driver's license information and registered vehicle details. DAVID can contain far more than a person's basic driver's license information. Government records describing the system show that authorized users may have access to driver information, photographs, signatures, vehicle history, insurance information and other identifying records. However, FLHSMV still has not disclosed how many records were accessed or stolen. The agency also has not confirmed ShinyHunters' claim that more than 200,000 records were taken. CyberGuy reached out to FLHSMV for additional comment, but did not hear back before our deadline. ShinyHunters originally told BleepingComputer that it breached DAVID through a password-reset flaw. The group claimed that weakness allowed it to compromise multiple accounts, allegedly including accounts belonging to DMV employees and an FBI agent. ShinyHunters said it then moved through DAVID record IDs and downloaded associated pages and driver files beginning Sept. 3. The group later said it had lost access and believed the password-reset issue was being patched. Florida's investigation now points somewhere else. FLHSMV says the attacker took advantage of credentials belonging to one Plant City Police Department user that had been improperly stored on a personal electronic device. The agency has not backed ShinyHunters' claim that a password-reset flaw allowed the group to compromise multiple accounts. So, for now, the password-reset explanation remains ShinyHunters' version of events, while compromised police credentials are the access method Florida has publicly identified. DAVID serves authorized government users rather than ordinary public searches. FLHSMV says its Bureau of Records manages access to driver records through DAVID for law enforcement and other approved entities. The agency also audits users for compliance. Florida policy treats personal information in motor vehicle records as confidential. That information can include Social Security numbers, driver identification numbers, addresses and medical or disability information. That kind of information can give criminals powerful material for identity theft. Imagine getting a call from someone claiming to represent a government agency. The caller already knows your address, birth date and driver's license information. Suddenly, the scam sounds far more convincing. IS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ON THE DARK WEB? BleepingComputer previously reported that a source said the attackers were targeting DMV platforms in other states through social engineering. ShinyHunters also told the outlet it expected additional DMV breaches to surface. There has been no confirmation from Florida that the current breach involved other state DMV systems. Still, the possibility deserves attention because state motor vehicle agencies hold information that can be extremely valuable for identity fraud and targeted scams. If criminals find a technique that works against one government system, they often look for similar access elsewhere. ShinyHunters is an extortion operation associated with data theft attacks against companies and online services. Threat actors using the name have been linked to attacks involving Salesforce environments and companies including Google, Cisco and Match Group. More recently, the attackers have used voice phishing, also called vishing. In these attacks, someone impersonates IT support and tries to convince an employee to enter credentials or authentication codes into a phishing site. The attackers have also targeted single sign-on accounts connected to services such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Salesforce. FLHSMV referred to the attacker in its statement only as an "international cybercriminal organization." The agency did not publicly identify ShinyHunters by name. So, while ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility and Florida has confirmed a breach, Florida has not publicly attributed the attack to the group. Still, this shows why protecting trusted accounts has become so important. Once an attacker gets legitimate credentials, other connected services may become accessible too. You do not need to wait for a confirmed case of identity theft before protecting yourself. These steps can make stolen personal information harder for criminals to use. A credit freeze can make it harder for someone to open new credit accounts in your name. You need to place a freeze separately with Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Credit freezes are free. You can temporarily lift one when you legitimately need a lender to access your credit. Check your credit reports for new accounts or inquiries you do not recognize. You can request your reports through AnnualCreditReport.com, the federally authorized source for free credit reports. Also keep an eye on your financial accounts. Small unfamiliar transactions can sometimes be an early warning sign. A confirmed breach creates a ready-made lure for scammers. You could receive a text, email or phone call claiming your Florida driver information was exposed. Be especially careful if the sender pressures you to verify personal information or click a link. Instead, visit FLHSMV through its official website at flhsmv.gov/ yourself. FAKE SHINYHUNTERS SEXTORTION EMAIL USES CARNIVAL BREACH DATA Scammers may use news of a DMV breach to send fake alerts containing malicious links or attachments. Strong antivirus software can help detect malware, phishing sites and other threats before they compromise your device or personal information. Keep your antivirus software running and updated on your computers and mobile devices. Get my picks for the best 2026 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android & iOS devices at Cyberguy.com Your primary email account deserves extra attention because criminals can use it to reset passwords for other services. Give it a strong, unique password and use a password manager to create and securely store it. Then turn on multifactor authentication. Whenever possible, consider an authenticator app or passkey rather than relying only on codes sent by text message. Review bank accounts, credit cards and other important services for activity you do not recognize. Also pay attention to unexpected government correspondence. A strange tax notice or benefits letter could signal that someone has used your identity. You may also want to consider an identity theft protection service that monitors for suspicious use of your personal information and can help with recovery if your identity is stolen. See my tips and best picks on Best Identity Theft Protection at Cyberguy.com If you discover identity theft, report it at IdentityTheft.gov and follow the recovery steps provided by the Federal Trade Commission. Data brokers and people-search websites can provide scammers with even more information about you. Removing that data cannot erase records stolen during a breach. However, reducing the information available elsewhere can make it harder for criminals to build a detailed profile and create convincing scams. Consider using a personal data removal service to help find your information on data broker sites and submit removal requests on your behalf. These services can also keep checking for information that reappears over time. Check out my top picks for data removal services and get a free scan to find out if your personal information is already out on the web by visiting Cyberguy.com Now that FLHSMV has confirmed the breach, scammers could imitate any future notices sent to affected drivers. FLHSMV has not yet publicly disclosed how many people were affected or exactly what information was taken. Do not automatically trust an email simply because it mentions DAVID or the Florida DMV. Avoid using links in unexpected messages. Go directly to the agency's official website to verify any notice. Florida has now confirmed the breach, but some of the biggest questions remain unanswered. ShinyHunters claims it stole more than 200,000 driver records, while Florida says the attacker got in using credentials belonging to a Plant City Police Department user that were improperly stored on a personal device. What we still do not know is exactly how much information was taken or whose records were exposed. Until Florida releases more details, I would take this seriously. Check your credit, lock down your important accounts and be especially suspicious of unexpected DMV texts, emails or calls asking you to verify personal information. If hackers stole your driver's license record, Social Security number and address from a government database, how quickly would you expect the state to tell you? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy Report Copyright 2026 CyberGuy.com. All rights reserved. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa99cc475342cf4db864ceb Savage bear attack leaves wounded Montana hunter with horrifying option te 2026-09-15T19:30:12.537Z Savage bear attack leaves wounded Montana hunter with horrifying option After a savage bear attack on Monday morning, a severely injured Montana hunter climbed behind the wheel for a desperate drive home. In a Monday statement, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) said the man was hunting on state-owned land near Elk Creek and Haystack Butte at the time of the attack, south of Augusta. The victim was archery hunting "when he encountered the bear and was attacked," officials said. YELLOWSTONE BISON ATTACK WITNESS BELIEVES MAN SAVED HIS GRANDSON BY TAKING BRUNT OF ATTACK "The hunter drove himself home after the attack and was transported to Benefis Hospital by private vehicle for treatment," the release said. Officials added that the man sustained "significant but fortunately not life-threatening injuries." "The species of the bear involved is currently unknown, and the incident remains under investigation," officials said. GRIZZLY BEAR MAULS HIKER, DRAGS HIM DOZENS OF FEET ON GLACIER NATIONAL PARK TRAIL "No further details are available at this time." Fox News Digital reached out to Montana FWP for comment. The man is said to be 20 years old and was taken to the hospital on Monday, according to Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton, as reported by KRTV in Great Falls.  The man fell into a fetal position during the bear's attack, Dutton said.  The bear "smacked him around and left," according to Dutton and the same outlet.  CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER A Facebook user commenting on the incident wrote, "The bear's attack was clearly defensive in response to a surprise encounter. In turn, the victim acted correctly in response to this defensive attack." Another person wrote that bears "are out. They are fattening up for winter. Heads up, hunters and fishermen." Said still another, "He is lucky to be alive."  In a statement, Montana FWP said that its main priority is human safety, and officials urge hunters to retrieve meat as quickly as possible and properly hang anything left behind. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "Avoid cutting up carcass at dusk or night," officials added. "If you kill an animal at dusk, be prepared to cut up the carcass in the dark by carrying strong headlamps. Be extra vigilant and watch for bears." State officials also say that, if hunters must leave animals, "return to the site carefully." CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS "Leave it in an area that is easily observable from a distance," Montana FWP said. "If a bear has claimed your animal, do not attempt to haze or frighten the bear away. Report any lost game to FWP." TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Other serious bear encounters have occurred across the U.S. this year. In May, a hiker in Montana survived a terrifying grizzly bear attack on the Grinnell Glacier Trail in Glacier National Park. This year has also seen a sharp increase in bear-related incidents around Lake Tahoe, with South Lake Tahoe police receiving 174 calls compared with 97 during the same period last year. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa99cbd75342cf4db864cc3 Flagstaff volleyball sweeps Peoria as strong season start continues te 2026-09-15T19:30:05.832Z Flagstaff volleyball sweeps Peoria as strong season start continues The Eagles continue their strong season with a 3-0 sweep over the Peoria Panthers to remain undefeated in 4A Conference play. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa99a6c75342cf4db864c87 Carnegie Mellon promises 'swift action' against professor Uju Anya over social media posts te 2026-09-15T19:20:12.930Z Carnegie Mellon promises 'swift action' against professor Uju Anya over social media posts Carnegie Mellon University said Monday it is taking "swift action" after determining that professor Uju Anya’s recent social media posts violated university community standards, with some of her colleagues reporting that they now fear for their personal safety. President Farnam Jahanian and Provost James H. Garrett Jr. said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital that Anya used "expletives, racial slurs and derogatory language that demeaned, dehumanized and intimidated," while using her Carnegie Mellon affiliation and implying support from university colleagues. "Carnegie Mellon University is a place where rigorous inquiry, freedom of expression and mutual respect must coexist," their statement read. "We take that responsibility seriously, and we strongly reject language that is hateful and disparages or calls for the harm of others. Such rhetoric is inconsistent with the dignity, respect and responsibility that we expect from one another." "Dr. Anya’s choice of language violates our shared community standards and distracts from the seriousness and significance of CMU’s scholarship in the humanities and social sciences," the statement added. REMEMBERING CHARLIE KIRK: TURNING POINT USA'S ANDREW KOLVET REFLECTS ON CONSERVATIVE GROUP'S CHALLENGING YEAR The university also noted that, "Dr. Anya is on voluntary professional leave through summer 2027 and is not teaching classes for CMU this academic year." Anya, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon, wrote on X, as the anniversary of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk's assassination was nearing, "They began already, and it ain’t even Kirkmas kirk mubarak, y’all!" Her X account now appears to be deleted. Another post from Anya appeared to read, "Die first, White man, and then ask yourself why I am dancing." Anya is described on her bio page for Carnegie Mellon University as "a scholar of language learning and Black experiences in multilingualism," whose "primary fields of inquiry include critical applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics and critical discourse studies, with a focus on how race, gender, sexual and social class identities intersect with language learning." 30% OF COLLEGE STUDENTS SAY VIOLENCE ACCEPTABLE WAY TO STOP SPEAKERS ON CAMPUSES, SURVEY FINDS Carnegie Mellon said university leaders met with faculty and administrators over the weekend, during which employees raised concerns about their safety after being doxxed and receiving threatening messages. Campus police are monitoring the situation but have not found any credible threats to the university, according to CMU. The university president and chief academic officer promised "swift action in accordance with our processes. We continue to prioritize support for impacted community members, including our students." INSIDE CHARLIE KIRK’S EFFORT TO DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF CONSERVATIVE VOICES The Carnegie Mellon College Republicans are demanding that Anya be fired, writing in part in a Sunday letter, "Anya’s recent comments are not the first time she has been delighted in the death of others. In 2022, during the final hours of Queen Elizabeth II’s life, Anya posted on X, ‘May her pain be excruciating.’ The backlash to this post was so severe that Carnegie Mellon publicly distanced itself from her comments." "Friday's posts demonstrate a clear pattern of behavior, one that does not match the conduct expected of a professor at an institution of higher education," the group added. Fox News Digital reached out to Anya for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa99a6675342cf4db864c67 Pennsylvania Man Is Arrested and Accused of Planning Terrorist Attack te 2026-09-15T19:20:06.400Z Pennsylvania Man Is Arrested and Accused of Planning Terrorist Attack The Justice Department said Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, was acting in support of a foreign terrorist group. He was charged after obtaining a semiautomatic rifle and ammunition. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa99a6475342cf4db864c58 London Zoo: The zoomies report on dogs te 2026-09-15T19:20:04.916Z London Zoo: The zoomies report on dogs This week's London Zoo column from Karen London. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9982675342cf4db864c2c Kids Day Maricopa returns with pony rides, petting zoo and more te 2026-09-15T19:10:30.713Z Kids Day Maricopa returns with pony rides, petting zoo and more Mark your calendars for the 19th annual Kids Day Maricopa, to be held Saturday Sept. 19. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Maricopa Wells Middle School.  Coordinators Dr. John and May Donohue, owners of A1 Health and Wellness, said the free event is all about Maricopa kids.   The event combines education and fun for local kids and their families by offering child safety exhibits to health screenings to prizes and activities.  “It’s set up for health safety and environmental awareness for kids,” John Donohue said. “It’s an educational, interactive day.”   Originally inspired by a colleague’s event in New Jersey, he decided to create a southwest version of his own.  Donahue expected about 100 to 200 attendees during the very first Kids Day event and was pleasantly surprised when he got exactly that as soon as the doors opened.  Attendance eventually surged to 1,200.  “We completely ran out of food within the hour,” John Donohue said.   There will be a plethora of food this year, including mini waffles from Chilaquiles, sliders from Duke’s Roadhouse, cotton candy and popcorn from F.O.R. Maricopa and snow cones from Maricopa Pantry.  Attendees will get to see old favorites, like dancers from the Ak-Chin Indian Community, “Smokey Bear” and other characters. Members of the Phoenix Suns street team will also be present and kids will get to see karate demos and experience a petting zoo.  Though this event rides on tradition, this year will introduce new activities, including pony rides, semi-trucks for kids to climb on and a special Lightning McQueen car.  Local agencies like Pinal County Sheriff Rescue Division, Maricopa police with their K9 unit and Maricopa Fire Department will be present to discuss safety. Meanwhile, Banner Children’s Hospital and Maricopa Lions will give free health screenings.  “It’s our giveback. It’s our community service,” May Donohue said. “And there’s so many stories to share.”  The post Kids Day Maricopa returns with pony rides, petting zoo and more appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9982175342cf4db864c0c Liberal lawmakers, activists rally behind Macklemore after Sheeran tour removal over 'Free Palestine' stance te 2026-09-15T19:10:25.384Z Liberal lawmakers, activists rally behind Macklemore after Sheeran tour removal over 'Free Palestine' stance Liberal lawmakers, commentators and activists have spoken out against Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour and expressed support for the rapper. "It’s so incredibly disappointing that Macklemore, my constituent, was removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour because of his comments in support of the Palestinian people. We should all be outraged that powerful people are more upset about what an artist says than the displacement, starvation, and killing of innocent Palestinian children and families. Thank you, Macklemore, for speaking up. This is a moment for us to come together, find our moral conscience as a nation, and end this genocide," Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., wrote on X. After Macklemore repeatedly called for a "Free Palestine" and performed his anti-Israel song "Hind’s Hall" while opening for Ed Sheeran, the rapper was dropped Monday from the remaining U.S. dates on which he was scheduled to perform on the "Shape of You" singer's "Loop Tour." MACKLEMORE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER GETTING KICKED OFF ED SHEERAN TOUR AFTER PRO-PALESTINE STANCE "As the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans," Messina Touring Group, the promoter of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s Loop Tour, said in a statement to Rolling Stone. "After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates." Kraft provided a statement to TMZ, confirming that he opposed Macklemore performing at Gillette Stadium: "Gillette Stadium has a longstanding commitment to providing a welcoming environment for all guests and ensuring that events held at our venue do not provide a platform for hate speech." He added, "Based on Macklemore's recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran’s shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community, we determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th concerts at Gillette Stadium would cross that line."  However, Kraft concluded, "This decision is not about diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone the right to advocate on their behalf." Children's YouTuber Ms. Rachel criticized Sheeran specifically in her comments on Instagram. PINK HITS BACK AMID BACKLASH FOR CRITICIZING MACKLEMORE'S PRO-PALESTINIAN CONCERT REMARKS Macklemore's announcement about the removal said Ed Sheeran and his team "removed" him from the tour. He said he was dropped after New England Patriots owner and Gillette Stadium operator Robert Kraft had told Sheeran that the rapper would not be allowed to perform at the stadium. ED SHEERAN CONCERT WORKERS HOSPITALIZED AFTER FORKLIFT INCIDENT IN DETROIT: REPORT "Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium," Macklemore wrote. "Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues." "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity [to] show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine," her post read. "Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it." Macklemore was slated to appear at eight of the 10 shows left on the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s tour. Rosie O'Donnell, a former co-host of "The View" who moved to Ireland after President Donald Trump was elected in 2024, also posted in support of Macklemore on Instagram. "Wow — sad — I stand with him in solidarity #GENOCIDE," O'Donnell wrote in an Instagram post about the news. The actress screenshotted her comment and posted it to her own profile as well. O'Donnell also posted several Instagram stories in support of Macklemore, with some referencing a boycott. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., expressed support for Macklemore on X, writing, "Admire your courage, Macklemore!" CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE MUNA, a pop band, posted to its Instagram story writing, "Everyone involved in the move to silence free speech about a genocide is utterly pathetic. Solidarity with @macklemore." "Hollywood in Toto Podcast" host Christian Toto said the lawmakers supporting Macklemore were suspiciously silent during other recent celebrity controversies. "These same lawmakers were silent when Gina Carano was cancelled and her career was destroyed by Disney for an innocuous post about tolerance," Toto told Fox News Digital in a statement. "They also said nothing when British singer M.I.A. got booted from Kid Cudi's tour earlier this year for sharing right-leaning views." "Don't they care about strong, empowered women being silenced?" he continued. "Here, the free speech argument is trickier. An opening musical act shouldn't dramatically differ from the headliner. If Ed Sheeran's brand is family friendly and apolitical, having someone like Macklemore start his shows makes little sense. The situation could have been resolved by the musicians setting up boundaries for their opening act's political statements. Macklemore is an employee of the tour and represents Sheeran's brand, to a degree." Sheeran's team did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for comment. Fox News Digital also reached out to a Kraft representative for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9981f75342cf4db864c03 Trump-backed crypto bill fails to launch as Dems, Republicans unite to block it te 2026-09-15T19:10:23.423Z Trump-backed crypto bill fails to launch as Dems, Republicans unite to block it A colossal crypto regulatory package backed by President Donald Trump stumbled in the Senate, and another shot is unlikely. The Clarity Act failed to move through a key procedural hurdle on Tuesday, serving proponents of the bill, including major players in the cryptocurrency industry and the White House, a major blow in their pursuit of folding the novel currency into the nation’s web of financial regulations. Democrats dealt the bill a mortal blow, but a handful of Republicans with outstanding concerns were not assuaged, either. And with little time left on the Senate’s calendar and major bills piling up ahead of the midterm elections, the bill’s biggest backers believed that the Clarity Act might end up back on the shelf. REPUBLICANS TARGET TRUMP'S CRYPTO EMPIRE WITH NEW PLAN, DEMS SAY IT FALLS SHORT "I think we're done. It's over," Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., the bill’s primary architect, said. "Because we've been working on this bill for over a year. And we've given them over 120 of their requests and that’s enough." When asked if the bill would come back to the floor, Lummis said, "Nope." A midnight hour update was made to the bill to try and pull anyone on the fence off to at least let the package move forward. But it wasn’t enough. DEMOCRATS HAND TRUMP ONE POWER THEY SPENT YEARS FIGHTING "I haven't seen the final bill yet, but what I've seen is bad," Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., told Fox News Digital before the vote. The issues with the package were many and varying among Democrats and Republicans. Several Senate Democrats were not satisfied with the ethics language baked into the Clarity Act that sought to slow Trump’s family’s rapidly growing crypto empire. That’s because Trump’s income between 2024 and 2025 erupted by about 250% — from just over $620 million to about $2.2 billion. And much of that increase is attributed to his various holdings and ventures in crypto, which are run by his sons, Don Jr. and Eric, according to the president’s financial disclosure forms reviewed by Fox News Digital. Others didn’t believe that the language dealing with foreign money laundering had enough teeth. "I have not seen the kind of engagement yet from the Republican side when it comes to countering terrorist financing and cartel financing. That would get me to a yes," Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., said. "I'm still engaged. I didn't get on board with the GENIUS Act till the very last vote." TRUMP'S $5,000 DIVIDEND CHECKS WOULD COME WITH A MAJOR CATCH UNDER GOP SENATOR'S PLAN Still, some lawmakers argued they should at least move forward with the bill to tweak it as needed. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, was still undecided before the vote. He was worried about how bringing crypto into the fold could affect deposit yields at community banks and guardrails on the currency being "diverted for criminal purposes," but he argued the bill could be strengthened if they moved forward. "What we used to do around here is something called legislate," Cornyn said. "You know where you'd actually vote to get on the bill, but then you amend it, and then you decide whether you're going to support it on the back end." The bill’s failure does open up the Senate to speedily move to other legislative priorities, like Sen. Ted Cruz's, R-Texas, college sports bill to add protections to student-athletes and slow the big money train ripping through collegiate athletics. "We committed to ensure that we got a vote on college sports," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said. "So we'll see if we have 60 [votes]. I don't know the answer for sure to that yet. I hope we do." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9981d75342cf4db864bf6 Suns forward Dillon Brooks empowering kids at youth basketball camp te 2026-09-15T19:10:21.515Z Suns forward Dillon Brooks empowering kids at youth basketball camp MESA – When Dillon Brooks’ name is mentioned, it likely brings to mind his reputation as a “villain.” Off the court, Brooks is doing his best to reflect a different image.  Brooks came to the Suns last offseason in the trade that sent superstar Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets. Going into his second season with the franchise, and recently signing a $73 million, three-year contract extension, Brooks has become a household name not only in the arena, but all over the Valley. On Saturday, the Phoenix Suns forward hosted a youth basketball camp as he continues to ingrain himself in the Phoenix community. His goal was not only to teach the campers basketball skills, but to provide life lessons and advice. “I guess mental wellness,” Brooks said when asked what he hopes the kids learn from him both on and off the court. “It’s crazy that with all this social media and all this stuff, we’ve got to teach the kids that from early on, mental wellness and mental health is an important thing.” Brooks said he wants kids to have fun playing as well, because that’s the root of the game.  “They (should) just enjoy basketball,” Brooks said. “It’s fun. They can learn a little bit that they can bring to their organizations, or the teams that they have, to make a better connection.” While Brooks is known across the NBA landscape as a villain – and in March attracted negative attention after a DUI arrest in Scottsdale – the people in attendance at the camp saw a different side of him.  “He’s actually a good guy,” Rodney Johnson, a parent of one of the campers said. “I know it’s a persona – everybody’s got to carry some kind of thing, that’s his superhero, you know? So he can be a villain and still be a good guy.” Johnson had brought his 11-year-old son to former Suns guard Grayson Allen’s basketball camp for the past few years. “This is Dillon’s first year doing something like this, so we decided to participate as well,” Johnson said, adding that he hopes his son can understand “the importance of discipline and the importance of hard work.” Johnson also echoed the idea that the Brooks that fans see on the court is a lot more than just his reputation as an NBA villain.  When asked about Brooks’ recent contract extension and taking time to involve himself in the community, Johnson said: “He’s showing his leadership, on the court and off the court. This is not the first event we’ve been to. We follow him wherever he goes because he’s a good leader.”  Johnson isn’t the only one who appreciates Brooks’ involvement in the community. Ricky Rencher, a retired 20-year Navy veteran, and also a volunteer coach at the camp, appreciates how much Brooks gives back to the community because he does the same thing. Rencher runs the One Team, One Dream Foundation, a nonprofit organization located in the West Valley that supports underprivileged mothers, children, and communities through various initiatives. On Dec. 19, Rencher will host his fifth annual Christmas event, giving back to single mothers.  “I love giving back to the community and I love what Dillon Brooks does here in the community,” Rencher said. Rencher drove more than an hour to volunteer at the camp, and he noted that some families he spoke to drove from as far away as Oregon and Chicago to attend the camp. “That tells you the type of person he is and the character he has,” Rencher said. “He’s done so much for this community in such a short time. You can’t beat that.” Camp director Mark Gutierrez noted the importance of the kids getting the chance to interact with the athletes they watch on TV. “These are dreams come true for a lot of these kids,” Gutierrez said. “They get to spend time with their favorite athletes in the world.” Outside of Arizona, Brooks recently returned from an offseason trip to China where he took part in martial arts training while experiencing traditional Chinese Kung Fu culture. He even tried duck head and decided it was “actually really good.”  With Suns training camp around the corner, Brooks is eager to get the season underway and continue to build upon the culture he helped instill last season.  “I’m looking forward to getting back to the guys, building together,” he said. “We’re trying  to repeat what we did last year, and grow as an organization.” While the villain persona is set to make its return, the families that attended Brooks’ youth camp saw someone inspiring the next generation and giving back to a community that has embraced him as one of their own. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9981b75342cf4db864bed Cardinals coach Mike LaFleur thinks defense can be better despite upset win te 2026-09-15T19:10:19.576Z Cardinals coach Mike LaFleur thinks defense can be better despite upset win TEMPE – When the Arizona Cardinals hired former Rams offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur to replace fired head coach Jonathan Gannon, LaFleur brought a reputation for producing innovative offenses, creative play calling and high-scoring attacks. LaFleur’s offense delivered in his head coaching debut, but it was the Cardinals defensive effort that LaFleur credited in the wake of Arizona’s stunning 26-14 upset of the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.  The Cardinals, who won three games in 2025, entered as 9.5-point underdogs. LaFleur credited his defense for staying strong and handling adversity to bring home the upset.  “I thought as the game went on they just got better and better,” LaFleur said. “I felt like they could handle the punches and keep going back out there if need be.” LaFleur credited defensive coordinator Nick Rallis for a strong game plan, but he believes the defense can play even better, despite limiting the Chargers to 14 points and 268 yards of total offense.  When LaFleur was hired, there were questions about Rallis’ future as a holdover from ther Gannon staff. The Cardinals ranked 27th in total defense and 29th in scoring defense under Rallis in 2025. “I thought Nick called a really good game. I thought it was clean on their end. But overall, very pleased with them but again a lot to clean up,” LaFluer said. Defensive tackle Walter Nolen III was among the defensive standouts LaFleur recognized. Nolen made an impact despite facing double and triple teams throughout the game, opening things up for his teammates. “He was disruptive,” LaFleur said. “I thought he played hard and that’s what’s great about him. Like a lot of other guys, there’s a whole other level that we can reach, and we need to put in the work to get there.”  Worth noting on the sack: Dante Stills had a one-on-one opportunity because the Chargers were doubling Walter Nolen. As LaFleur said a few weeks ago, Nolen changes the opponent's gameplan. — Theo Mackie (@theo_mackie) September 13, 2026 As a whole, the defense was active from start to finish, forcing three sacks and two takeaways. Safety Andrew Wingard was involved in both of them as he forced a fumble on Chargers running back Omarion Hampton with just under 10 minutes to go in the game. Wingard intercepted Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert on a deep shot, which helped seal the game. Cardinals S Andrew Wingard has become the first player in franchise history to have 2+ TFLs, an interception and a forced fumble in the same game. — Mark Dalton (@CardsMarkD) September 13, 2026 “Everyone has been trashing this defense, trashing coach Rallis,” Wingard told azcradinals.com. “It’s like … I’m going to be polite and not say what I want to say, but — it’s not gratifying because it’d only be gratifying if you cared about it, but I’m just happy for all these guys.” One of the key moments came late in the first half with the Cardinals nursing a 10-7 lead. Chargers QB Justin Herbert had his team in a fourth-down and goal-to-go situation at the Arizona 3-yard line.  At the snap, defensive tackle Dante Stills broke through the middle and took Herbert down for a 10-yard loss. The Cardinals hung onto the lead the rest of the game. “We allowed them to get down to the goal line,” Stills told azcardinals.com. “I had a good rush, and I just won. It definitely felt good because I haven’t had a sack in a whole year.” Meanwhile, the offense was efficient behind quarterback Jacoby Brissett and rookie running back Jeremiyah Love, whom the Cardinals selected with the third overall pick in the NFL Draft. Love made an immediate impact, despite being limited in practice leading up to the game because of an ankle sprain, rushing for 41 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries. He also caught two passes. Starter Tyler Allgeier led the ground attack with 61 yards on 17 carries. LaFleur gave the veteran Brissett, who was making his first season-opening start, credit for making the right plays. He threw for 277 yards with a touchdown, was not intercepted and was sacked only once. “I thought Jacoby was solid. I thought for the most part the ball got where it was supposed to,” LaFleur said. “He obviously got us out of some you know tough situations with his legs.” He noted a play before half in which Brissett was rushed off the edge and had to throw the ball away. LaFleur said Brissett was mad at himself for not getting rid of it sooner. He called it “just a veteran being a veteran,” due to the standard that Brissett holds himself to.  With Brissett showing he can perform, Arizona is eager to shift its offense into high gear with LaFleur calling the plays.  With Love and Allgeier as a one-two backfield punch, Brissett has wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., breakout wide receiver Michael Wilson and star tight end Trey McBride as weapons. LaFleur made his mark in Cardinals history as the first non-interim coach to win his debut since 1973, but Arizona is hoping the offensive and defensive performances in L.A. are only the beginning.  It was an unexpected victory outside the Cardinals facility, and LaFleur cautioned against getting caught up in one game. “We think about what the narrative was just 48 hours ago ,right?” LaFleur said. “And we’re not dumb. It’s not that we just ignore the noise. Be above the noise. “And now the noise is a little bit different.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9981975342cf4db864be4 Restaurant Week returns in September te 2026-09-15T19:10:17.517Z Restaurant Week returns in September In August, the Arizona Restaurant Association announced the dates of its 2026 Fall Arizona Restaurant Week (ARW). Presented by Roxx Vodka, the popular 10-day event begins Friday, Sept. 18, and runs through Sunday, Sept. 27. More than 200 restaurants around the state are already signed up, with many first-time participants joining the growing list, offering the perfect opportunity to explore the state’s culinary scene, discover new flavors, support a favorite local spot or add a new favorite to the list. During the 10-day dining event, participating restaurants offer special three-course menus that are unique to Fall ARW. Establishments price their prix-fixe menus accordingly at either $33, $44 or $55 per person or per couple, plus tax and gratuity. Menus present guests with a choice of starter, main dish and dessert. Some include a beverage, while others offer specialty cocktails and wine pairings for an additional charge. Some participants offer their ARW menus at lunchtime in addition to dinner, and they may be available for takeout, as well. ARW menus generally take a departure from restaurants’ ongoing menus, allowing chefs to present different options and diners to explore new tastes. With so many participants this year, casual diners and dedicated foodies alike have nearly endless dining options, the organization said – from small, independently owned establishments to fine-dining restaurants, with a vast representation of culinary cuisines. Participating restaurants’ 2026 Fall Arizona Restaurant Week menus will be announced by Tuesday, Sept. 1, at www.arizonarestaurantweek.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9981075342cf4db864bb6 The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it te 2026-09-15T19:10:08.936Z The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa995c375342cf4db864baa Getting to know: Karen Bartunek te 2026-09-15T19:00:19.725Z Getting to know: Karen Bartunek Karen Bartunek is a Phoenix native and mom of two who enjoys spending her free time reading, dancing, traveling, and, of course, indulging in absurd amounts of coffee. Her family also includes Bisbee the cat and Whiskey Row, the dog. When it comes to travel, Karen dreams of exploring Iceland, Morocco, Peru — or really anywhere that sparks her curiosity. Karen’s favorite things include tacos, coffee, and a good meal at Espiritu in Mesa. She’s a fan of Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits and Pulp Fiction, and she’s currently stuck on Sierra Ferrell’s cover of “Years.” What she loves most about Maricopa is the mountain views, while traffic ranks a little lower on the list — although she admits she enjoys covering it when there’s a good news story involved. Her outlook on life is summed up perfectly by her favorite words to live by: “Failures, repeated failures, finger posts on the road to achievement.” The post Getting to know: Karen Bartunek appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa995be75342cf4db864b89 Kennedy Center board votes to immediately close main building over safety, financial concerns te 2026-09-15T19:00:14.493Z Kennedy Center board votes to immediately close main building over safety, financial concerns Fox News Digital confirmed Tuesday that the Kennedy Center board voted to immediately close the main building of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., citing safety and funding concerns. Two additional sources told Fox News the board approved the closure during a special meeting. A public statement is expected. The vote came hours after a federal judge again blocked the Kennedy Center from adding President Donald Trump’s name to the building and plaza. EXCLUSIVE: KENNEDY CENTER BOARD MOVES TO NAME GROUNDS ‘PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP PLAZA' Judge Christopher Cooper ruled the Center cannot install the proposed Trump memorials without congressional approval. It was not immediately clear how long the Kennedy Center will remain closed or how Tuesday’s court ruling could affect the closure. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP This is a developing story; check back later for updates. Fox News' Bill Mears contributed to this reporting. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9912275342cf4db864b08 Crash causes debris, traffic disruption at Honeycutt and Porter te 2026-09-15T18:40:34.827Z Crash causes debris, traffic disruption at Honeycutt and Porter Lanes were closed in both directions following a crash between a construction truck and an SUV around 1:45 p.m. Monday afternoon on Honeycutt and Porter roads. The A1 construction truck with an attached trailer collided with a small white sedan outside of the Circle K gas station. It is unclear which direction the vehicles were traveling, but the entirety of the sedan’s engine was ripped off during impact. Onlookers stood around as officers cleared the road of debris. Blockades were present from the intersection to Whisker Rd. One lane was able to reopen around 2:50 p.m.  One person was injured. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. The post Crash causes debris, traffic disruption at Honeycutt and Porter appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9910c75342cf4db864aea 'No rubbing, no blisters': These comfy suede clogs are down to $60 on Amazon te 2026-09-15T18:40:12.731Z 'No rubbing, no blisters': These comfy suede clogs are down to $60 on Amazon Slip-on clogs are a fall essential, and this suede pair is now 33% off at $60. The cork footbed contours to your feet, while the textured outsole provides added traction. Wear them with socks or barefoot for errands, vacations, football Sundays and more. 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I've also said that if you have a losing team for 10+ years, you should be forced to sell it. Looking at the slate today, there are a lot of good games, but some lines are getting out of hand because of the matchups. There are three that have a line of -225 or longer, and we are going to pick one to bet on that might give us a juicy payday. This game features one of the worst teams in baseball against the best team in the American League. The Athletics are currently 28 games under .500, and seem like most of the players of substance on their team have been shut down for the year. Nick Kurtz is out, Shea Langeliers was hurt and is now just playing DH. Their pitching staff has been hurt as well, with J.T. Ginn, Luis Severino, and Gage Jump all injured. The Rays are gearing up for the postseason and are still one of the better teams in baseball. They also have the American League East to play for as they haven't quite kept the Yankees from having a shot at the division. WITH ONE MONTH LEFT, AMERICAN LEAGUE TEAMS ARE HEADING TOWARDS AN EMBARRASSING, HISTORIC LOW The Rays are currently a -239 favorite for tonight's game against the Athletics. Jack Perkins, the A's starter, has a 6.53 ERA for the year. Griffin Jax, who goes for the Rays, has a 3.99 ERA. I don't think this is the right game to play in terms of taking a shot on the A's. I just don't see it happening. History classes used to talk about the "haves" and the "have-nots." That's kind of how you should view this game. The Los Angeles Dodgers have everything you would want out of a team. They are 91-59 for the season and still have an outside shot at winning 100 games. They may not look quite as dominant given the struggles of some players on their offense, but this team isn't worried about the regular season; they want the World Series. The Reds are 70-80 and a bit disappointing after making the postseason last year. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The pitching matchup here has Yoshinobu Yamamoto taking on Rhett Lowder. Yamamoto has been incredible this season with a 2.62 ERA and a 0.88 WHIP. Lowder owns a 5.81 ERA, and a 1.53 WHIP. The Dodgers are -246 on the moneyline, and probably are the correct side even at that price. The Brewers are the best team in baseball and continue to try to secure home-field advantage throughout the postseason. Milwaukee has the pieces and has put together a great campaign. However, if we think the Dodgers are built for the postseason, the Brewers are definitely built for the regular season. The Pirates are .500, which is a step in the right direction, but they need to continue to advance forward in the offseason if they want to make a real threat at the playoffs next year. Jacob Misiorowski, the NL Cy Young winner (soon enough), will take the mound tonight. However, one team he didn't look great against this season is the Pirates. He allowed three earned runs on six hits in his lone start against Pittsburgh. He also has a worse ERA on the road than at home this season. Lake Bachar, pitching for the Pirates, has a 3.52 ERA and a 1.10 WHIP. He has been strong in his four home starts with a 2.02 ERA. He has faced the Brewers three times this season as a reliever, allowing one earned run over five innings of work. I think this is the best bet for any of the big favorites to fall to a dog. I'm going to take a shot at the Pirates winning at +188 tonight. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9910a75342cf4db864ad8 Fanatics Sportsbook Promo Code FOXNEWS350 Unlocks Bet $20, Get $350 Promo for Any MLB Game te 2026-09-15T18:40:10.647Z Fanatics Sportsbook Promo Code FOXNEWS350 Unlocks Bet $20, Get $350 Promo for Any MLB Game Looking for a reason to make some mid-September baseball even more exciting? Fanatics Sportsbook has your answer. With 15 games on tonight’s schedule, they are offering new users a chance to bet $20 and receive $350 in FanCash when you use promo code FOXNEWS350.  Baseball has fewer than two weeks remaining before we reach the postseason, but that doesn’t mean things are settled. Quite the opposite, as there are still 12 teams in the American League with a fair shot to make the postseason. 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Logan Gilbert The Mariners have not lived up to expectations this season, but one guy who has been strong for them this year is Logan Gilbert, who toes the rubber for them tonight. Gilbert is 24th in baseball with a 3.72 ERA and 10th with a 1.05 WHIP. However, he has a 2.70 road ERA, pitching better away from home than he has in Seattle. He has allowed 27 homers this season, but just three of them have come when donning the road grays. He has not faced the Angels this season, but he has held their lineup to just seven hits in 36 at-bats over his career. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9910975342cf4db864acf Two-word game: Describing every NFL team's Week 1 performance in just two words te 2026-09-15T18:40:09.718Z Two-word game: Describing every NFL team's Week 1 performance in just two words In life, it often takes just two words to tell a story. NFL teams are no different. Today, we're back to the OutKick-famous Two-Word Game to describe every NFL team after Week 1. Let's go: Arizona Cardinals (W, 26–14 vs. Chargers) Well coached. New England Patriots (L, 10–13 vs. Seahawks) Schedule merchants. Jacksonville Jaguars (W, 34–10 vs. Browns) Championship sleepers? Minnesota Vikings (W, 39–22 vs. Packers) Purple reign. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Pittsburgh Steelers (W, 20–13 vs. Falcons) Aging Rodgers. Los Angeles Rams (L, 7–27 vs. 49ers) Jet lagged. Buffalo Bills (W, 36–31 vs. Texans) He’s HIM. Tennessee Titans (L, 10–23 vs. Jets) Arch support. Miami Dolphins (L, 13–27 vs. Raiders) (Also) Arch support. Chicago Bears (W, 59–37 vs. Panthers) Madden mode. Dallas Cowboys (L, 20–28 vs. Giants) Defense (still) missing. Seattle Seahawks (W, 13–10 vs. Patriots) Locked in. Cleveland Browns (L, 10–34 vs. Jaguars) It’s ugly. Philadelphia Eagles (W, 24–22 vs. Commanders) Good enough. Detroit Lions (W, 31–30 OT vs. Saints) Secondary woes. Kansas City Chiefs (W, 31–10 vs. Broncos) Run-first Chiefs? Atlanta Falcons (L, 13–20 vs. Steelers) Wounded wings. San Francisco 49ers (W, 27–7 vs. Rams) Shanahan’s wizardry. New York Jets (W, 23–10 vs. Titans) They won... DOES THE NFL'S DOUBLE DIGIT RATINGS DECLINE FOR OPENER SHOW FAN FATIGUE? Houston Texans (L, 31–36 vs. Bills) They’re fine. Las Vegas Raiders (W, 27–13 vs. Dolphins) Like that! Baltimore Ravens (W, 41–23 vs. Colts) Newly Mint-erd. Cincinnati Bengals (W, 33–27 vs. Buccaneers) Jungle fever. Carolina Panthers (L, 37–59 vs. Bears) Defense optional. Denver Broncos (L, 10–31 vs. Chiefs) Nix happens. Indianapolis Colts (L, 23–41 vs. Ravens) Outclassed early. Los Angeles Chargers (L, 14–26 vs. Cardinals) Very disappointing. New Orleans Saints (L, 30–31 OT vs. Lions) So close. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (L, 27–33 vs. Bengals) Close, again. New York Giants (W, 28–20 vs. Cowboys) Dart Vader. Green Bay Packers (L, 22–39 vs. Vikings) Metldown VI. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa98eb475342cf4db864a76 Cleveland Guardians look to even divisional series as Chicago White Sox cling to AL Central lead te 2026-09-15T18:30:12.356Z Cleveland Guardians look to even divisional series as Chicago White Sox cling to AL Central lead Over the years, baseball has been one of the best sports for me to bet on. It isn't always the most glamorous, because most people don't watch every or any baseball games. Football is still king when it comes to watching and watch parties, but there are some great opportunities to make money betting on baseball. I think I've found one of those opportunities here as the White Sox take on the Guardians. The Chicago White Sox still lead the American League Central. I can't believe that I just wrote that sentence in the middle of September. This has been a fun team to watch after the disastrous few seasons. They are a young team that probably doesn't even realize they shouldn't be in these situations yet. However, it is great experience, and if they do make it to the postseason, they may even get a bye in the first round given how the setup is for the postseason. They still need to get past the Guardians, though. In an effort to take the series for the White Sox, Davis Martin is taking the ball. Martin was great in the early portion of the season, but hasn't pitched very well over the past few months. Through May, his ERA was 2.00. Through June, it was at 3.00, which was still very respectable. At the end of July, he was at 3.62, and August ended at 4.32. He has been solid in September, going 10.2 innings, allowing just nine hits, one earned run, and four strikeouts. He has faced Cleveland twice and allowed three earned runs over 4.1 innings of work against them. The Cleveland Guardians are reminding me a lot of last season. If you recall, this team was basically asleep until August. Then, coupled with an all-time collapse from the Tigers, they turned it on and racked up the wins. They stole the AL Central last year. This season, the White Sox never had the distance between them that Detroit had last year. However, the Guardians never could find a way to stay consistently ahead of the White Sox. Tonight their goal is to get the game they lost last night back from their divisional foes. They do it with an arm they added at the trade deadline, Foster Griffin.  This has been a strong year for Griffin. He has gone 15-5 this season with a 3.65 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP. It hasn't been all rainbows and sunshine since he came to the Guardians. He has allowed 22 earned runs in 33.1 innings of work. However, 13 of those runs came in 6.1 innings of work. He dominated the White Sox this year when he was with the Nationals, going seven innings, allowing two hits and no earned runs. This is the last series between the two clubs, and the White Sox are ahead of the Guardians 7-4 so far this year. However, tonight should make that a bit closer for the Guardians. Griffin on the mound gives them a great opportunity to win the game. Martin has been good for the White Sox, and he has pitched better lately, but it seems like the Guardians know what they are doing against him. Give me the Guardians on the run line at +144 today. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa98eb375342cf4db864a6d GOP Rep Thomas Massie introduces 8 articles of impeachment against War Secretary Pete Hegseth te 2026-09-15T18:30:11.319Z GOP Rep Thomas Massie introduces 8 articles of impeachment against War Secretary Pete Hegseth Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., introduced a resolution to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and read eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth on the House floor Tuesday. Massie formally entered a resolution to impeach Hegseth for "high crimes and misdemeanors" on the House floor for, among other things, allegedly violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973 in Iran and for his role in the operation that led to former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro's capture and extradition. The first three of the eight articles of impeachment Massie introduced accused Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973, arguing that Hegseth's Department of War is "waging the Iran war despite no declaration of war, statutory authorization, attack on the United States, or imminent threat." His first article seeks to establish "that the war was unlawful from its inception." The second article claims that Hegseth disobeyed Congress after both the House and the Senate directed the removal of troops from Iran. The third article claims that Hegseth is "continuing hostilities in Iran after expiration of the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day termination period and any potential 30-day withdrawal period." 4 HOUSE REPUBLICANS REBEL AGAINST TRUMP, VOTE WITH DEMS TO BLOCK IRAN WAR POWERS The fourth and fifth articles accuse Hegseth of refusing to minimize civilian casualties and engaging in extrajudicial killing, with the latter charge accusing Hegseth of "replacing maritime law enforcement with unauthorized lethal military targeting of suspected drug traffickers" during operations striking suspected narcotraffickers in the Caribbean Sea. REP SETH MOULTON SAYS HEGSETH IS 'GUILTY' OF WAR CRIMES, LINKS HIM TO NAZIS TRIED DURING WORLD WAR II Also related to military action in the Caribbean and South America, Massie's seventh article accuses Hegseth of the "Kidnapping of a Sovereign Foreign Leader" for his role in Operation Absolute Resolve, the January mission in which U.S. Special Forces apprehended and extracted former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from Caracas. Massie's article condemns Hegseth for doing so "without constitutional or legal authority." Article six accuses Hegseth of using his authority to suppress the free speech of Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., by retaliating against the senator for his video in which the senator joined a group of other lawmakers in a video which critics claimed encourage active military members to disobey lawful orders. The final article charges Hegseth with carrying out unlawful orders in Yemen. The article "charges Secretary Hegseth with initiating Operation Rough Rider without congressional authorization or an imminent threat to the United States, while also violating war powers reporting requirements. It further addresses extensive civilian deaths and unlawful strikes on civilian objects, rescuers, and other protected persons." After reading out his articles for over an hour on the House floor, Massie closed out his introduction. "In all of this, Secretary Hegseth abused the powers entrusted to him as Secretary of Defense by subordinating the constitutional limits on the use of military force and the laws governing the conduct of hostilities to his own policy objectives," Massie said. Massie also added that Hegseth "has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to civilians, the lawful conduct of United States military operations, the integrity and credibility of the United States Armed Forces and the Constitution, if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties, and the rule of law. This, Massie said, "warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States." Fox News Digital contacted Massie's office and the Pentagon for further comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa98eac75342cf4db864a39 US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035 te 2026-09-15T18:30:04.851Z US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035 The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world. 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On the other side, the Rangers are battling the Astros to grab the American League West. They do have a chance to get the third Wild Card spot if they miss out on the division, sitting within striking distance of the final spot. Tonight’s pitching matchup sees the Red Sox send Patrick Sandoval to the mound against the Rangers’ Cody Bradford. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa98c5875342cf4db8649fb Candidate order on Arizona ballots varies by county te 2026-09-15T18:20:08.145Z Candidate order on Arizona ballots varies by county PHOENIX — Wondering why Democrats are listed first on your ballot? Or perhaps Republicans? It’s not a conspiracy or even political intrigue. Instead, it depends on where you live. Lawmakers set it up that way. But questions remain about whether Arizona’s ballot-order system is fair — and whether those listed first have a small but potentially significant advantage.  And, as both federal court litigation and state legislation have shown, what people believe about the existence of a statistical difference is linked to whether they think the current system helps or hurts them and their party. Under the state Election Code, the order candidates appear on the general election ballot is set based on how well that party’s candidate did in each county in the most recent gubernatorial election. So ballots this year in Apache, Coconino, Maricopa, Pima, and Santa Cruz counties will list Democrat Katie Hobbs, who won in those counties in 2022, ahead of Republican Andy Biggs. For residents of the other 10 counties, the first name they will see in the gubernatorial race is Biggs because Kari Lake outpolled Hobbs there four years ago. Everyone else on that ballot gets the same preference. In Pima County, for example, Democrats running for Congress and the Legislature will also get top billing. Ditto the other four counties where Hobbs beat Lake in 2022, regardless of how well other Democrats on the ballot did that year. Conversely, Republicans in the other 10 counties will get top billing. Does name placement matter? Democrats certainly thought so in 2019, when they challenged the system in federal court. At the time, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey’s 2018 victory over Democrat David Garcia meant that Republicans would be listed first in 11 of the state’s 15 counties in the 2020 and 2022 elections. That included Maricopa County, the state’s largest. National Democratic groups argued that being listed first gives candidates an advantage and asked U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa to replace the state’s system with one that randomly rotates the ballot order. They cited research showing that voters tend to choose the candidate listed first in a race, also known as the “primacy effect.”  John Krosnick, a Stanford University professor, testified that the concept of “order effects” is not unique to ballots. He said this is because people take in information in a certain order. Consider a menu. “We typically start reading at the top of the menu and move down,” he told the judge. “When we encounter objects, usually there is a tendency to lean to the first thing we see.”’  This also shows up in polling, Krosnick said. If people are asked to rank the importance of issues like education, crime, and the environment, they tend to rank the first one they hear as the most important. Krosnick said that’s why pollsters routinely rotate the order of options when asking such questions. Mary O’Grady, who represented Hobbs when she was secretary of state at the time, countered with testimony from Sean Trende, the senior elections analyst for Real Clear Politics. He questioned the reliability of studies showing any correlation between ballot order and voter choices. In the end, though, Humetewa dismissed the case because the plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit could not show they had legal standing or had been injured. As it turned out, Democrats did fairly well in the 2020 race.  Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential race. Mark Kelly ousted McSally — she had been appointed by Ducey to fill out the term of John McCain after his death — from the U.S. Senate. Democrats also won five of the nine congressional seats. And in 2022 Hobbs beat Lake for governor, and Democrats elected Ruben Gallego to the U.S. Senate and took the races for secretary of state and attorney general. Republicans reconsider name placement law Rep. Alexander Kolodin, a Scottsdale Republican, concluded last year that Democrats were right to claim it’s not fair to have ballot order determined by who won the last governor’s race. So he introduced legislation requiring general election ballots to be crafted so that, from precinct to precinct, the order of which party goes first rotates. That would have meant that each party gets an equal chance to be in that first position — essentially what Democrats asked for ahead of the 2020 election. He convinced colleagues in the House to adopt the rotation plan. But the plan failed when two Republican senators joined with all the Democrats to kill it. Kolodin, now running for secretary of state, said he remains convinced the current ballot order system needs to be replaced. “No political party should enjoy an advantage over another merely because of how a ballot is designed,” he said, adding that it “ensures fairness for all Arizonans, regardless of party.” All this becomes relevant again with the November general election. In counties where Biggs defeats Hobbs, Republicans will have top billing in the 2028 and 2030 elections. In the counties she wins, Democrats will have top billing in each race for the next two elections. The post Candidate order on Arizona ballots varies by county first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa98c5575342cf4db8649ef Half of Voters Dislike Socialism Amid Progressive Wins, New Poll Finds te 2026-09-15T18:20:05.299Z Half of Voters Dislike Socialism Amid Progressive Wins, New Poll Finds Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor and democratic socialist, was viewed more favorably than Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fellow high-profile member of the movement. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa98c5375342cf4db8649d0 SpaceX will try to put Starship in orbit for the first time on September 22 te 2026-09-15T18:20:03.549Z SpaceX will try to put Starship in orbit for the first time on September 22 Elon Musk's company will also attempt to deploy the first V3 Starlink satellites into its orbital internet constellation. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa989fc75342cf4db864998 Independent Budget Office Estimates Iran War Has Cost $38 Billion te 2026-09-15T18:10:04.024Z Independent Budget Office Estimates Iran War Has Cost $38 Billion The Congressional Budget Office said its analysis had been limited by the fact that the Defense Department did not respond to requests for information on the costs of the conflict. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa987ac75342cf4db864953 Kash Patel reveals FBI's capture of all 10 members of Most Wanted fugitive's list during hearing te 2026-09-15T18:00:12.537Z Kash Patel reveals FBI's capture of all 10 members of Most Wanted fugitive's list during hearing The FBI has apprehended all 10 members of the FBI's Most Wanted list during President Donald Trump's second term, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed during an appearance in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, during his opening statements as the committee's chairman, lauded Patel and the FBI for their work in capturing nine of the ten most wanted fugitives on the FBI's top ten list. Patel, during his opening remarks, corrected Grassley, revealing that his agency had just this past weekend caught the tenth fugitive. "Mr. Chairman, I'm proud to announce today, and I hate to correct you, we haven't captured nine of the top ten most [wanted] individuals on our list. We've captured ten," Patel said. FBI CAPTURES TOP TEN MOST WANTED FUGITIVE WITH ALLEGED SINALOA CARTEL TIES, PATEL SAYS "Just this past weekend, we captured a thug down in Venezuela who was on our most wanted list and on the run for years. He has been captured, apprehended, and is on his way back to the United States of America. That's ten of ten. Nobody in the FBI history has done that," Patel said. HIGHEST-RANKING TREN DE ARAGUA MEMBER EVER EXTRADITED TO US SET TO APPEAR IN HOUSTON COURTROOM: DOJ "We, the FBI, captured more than two and a half times the number of the top ten most wanted fugitives on the FBI's list from the prior administration," he also said. While Patel did not say the name of the fugitive during the hearing, the FBI earlier revealed exclusively to Fox News Digital that the 10th capture was that of Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, the FBI's first ever "cyber fugitive." Aguirre led "a large international conspiracy to steal millions of dollars from financial institutions in support of the Tren de Aragua, through an ATM jackpotting scheme since at least 2024," the FBI told Fox News Digital. In addition to a clean sweep of the top ten fugitives, Patel also revealed that his FBI has also captured six of the top ten most wanted fraudsters on the top ten fraudsters list, a compilation his FBI created during the current administration. FBI TOUTS 6,000 ARRESTS, 44% HOMICIDE DROP ONE YEAR INTO TRUMP'S DC CRIME CRACKDOWN Patel also outlined the broader progress the Trump administration has made towards making the U.S. safer. "On top of that, we've captured six of the most wanted fraudsters around the world, taking the murder rate down 20 points is no easy effort. It requires a team left state, local and international partners. This includes results in cities like Baltimore, which retreats its lowest mid-year homicide numbers in recorded history," he said. TRUMP’S LAW-AND-ORDER BLITZ MARKS ONE YEAR WITH EYE-POPPING HAUL OF SUSPECTS, GUNS IN BLUE CITY "This year in Memphis, we accomplished a 50% reduction in homicide for a city that had the highest per capita homicide rate in the country, thanks to the president's task force. And right here in Washington, D.C., we are on track to have the lowest homicide numbers since 1990," Patel added. Fox News Digital contacted the FBI for further comment. Fox News Digital's Bonny Chu contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa987a475342cf4db864933 Patel Suggests F.B.I. Agents May Be Sent to the Polls te 2026-09-15T18:00:04.433Z Patel Suggests F.B.I. Agents May Be Sent to the Polls Federal law prohibits armed federal officers or military personnel from being deployed to polling stations. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9854b75342cf4db8648b6 AI Agents now have a place to snitch te 2026-09-15T17:50:03.331Z AI Agents now have a place to snitch The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa980a775342cf4db86482f Man with an unbelievably swollen face arrested after Wichita golf course brawl involving club used as weapon te 2026-09-15T17:30:15.338Z Man with an unbelievably swollen face arrested after Wichita golf course brawl involving club used as weapon A Kansas man spent the weekend in jail after he got into a nasty brawl with three other men on a golf course on Friday evening. His trip to the county jail came after a visit to a local hospital. He might have been the one that ended up in handcuffs, but he wasn't the only one dishing out the damage. The entire side of his face ended up being a swollen mess in a picture taken by the jail. Scott Denning, 52, of Winfield, Kansas was booked early Saturday morning into the Sedgwick County Jail for aggravated assault, aggravated battery, assault, battery, and criminal damage to property, reports Kake News. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! According to the Wichita Police Department, officers responded to the Arthur B. Sim Golf Course around 6:20 pm on Friday for a disturbance. Denning and three Wichita men had been involved in a brawl. The preliminary investigation found that Denning had approached the three men to apologize for an errant shot. An argument took place followed by a physical altercation. As you can see, Denning was on the receiving end of some of that physical altercation. His face is unbelievably swollen. But he wasn’t the only one hurt in the exchange, according to police. MAN TOOK A TRIP TO A MYRTLE BEACH GROCERY STORE, GETS BEATEN WITH METAL BAT CONFRONTING WIFE'S BOYFRIEND A 38-year-old Wichita man was knocked unconscious at some point. Police say the other two Wichita men, 28 and 52, were chased with a golf club and one of them was hit in the head with it. "Investigators were told the 52-year-old Winfield man then chased the 28-year-old and 52-year-old Wichita men while armed with a golf club, striking the 52-year-old Wichita man in the head," Wichita Police Department's release said. Does that mean the apology for the errant shot wasn't accepted? It certainly seems that's the case. Denning was treated at the hospital before being booked into jail on a $50,000 bond. As of Tuesday afternoon, Denning remained in the Sedgwick County Jail. There were no other arrests and the investigation, reports Kake News, is ongoing. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa980a575342cf4db864826 Colbert wins Emmy after show's cancellation but avoids discussing Trump te 2026-09-15T17:30:13.659Z Colbert wins Emmy after show's cancellation but avoids discussing Trump The White House on Tuesday denied President Donald Trump had any role in CBS' decision to cancel "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," after the former late-night host dodged a question about Trump following his Emmy win in Los Angeles and defended the state of free speech. Colbert's former program won Outstanding Variety Series at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards Monday, months after "The Late Show" aired its final episode in May.  When asked after the ceremony about free speech and the future of late-night television, Colbert said he remained optimistic about the medium. "If you can’t say something because you go to jail, that is a violation of free speech," Colbert said. "I think that late night is just as funny and just as vital as it ever has been, and I love watching Jimmy and Jimmy and John and John and Seth and everybody else. And I think I hope it goes on for a long time because you get to work with people like this, and that’s the greatest gift." STEPHEN COLBERT EMERGES FROM CANCELLATION TO URGE EMMY VOTERS TO SELECT JIMMY KIMMEL OVER OWN SHOW White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital the administration had nothing to do with the network’s decision. "Neither President Trump nor anyone else in the Administration had anything to do with this," Ingle said, in a Tuesday statement to Fox News Digital. "The reality is Stephen Colbert is a pathetic trainwreck with no talent, which is exactly why CBS canceled his show and is booting him off the airwaves." When CNN correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister asked Colbert directly whether he believed his show had been canceled because of Trump, the comedian appeared to repeatedly deflect rather than answer the question.  Variety reported that the exchange came during a post-Emmys interview with Wagmeister and Variety co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh. COLBERT LASHES OUT AT CBS, SAYS CANCELLATION ‘REINFORCED A NARRATIVE’ OF ‘KNEE BENDING’ TO TRUMP "What... Gayle, that’s a beautiful dress," Colbert said. After the reporter repeated the question, Colbert continued the bit. "Oh, I’m sorry, I’m deaf on this ear. What did you... what did you say?" Colbert said. When they again attempted to ask whether Trump was responsible for the cancellation, Colbert deflected once more. "You wanted to know who the most important member of my staff was? It’s me," Colbert said. Media Research Center President David Bozell told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that Colbert’s refusal to address the Trump question stood in contrast to the speculation surrounding the cancellation and pointed to CBS’ financial rationale for ending the show. "Colbert suddenly does not want to talk about Trump? That’s rich. Obviously, Trump did not cancel his show," he said. "CBS looked at the audience, looked at the bill, and decided the joke had run long enough." JIMMY KIMMEL SAYS HE FELT 'DEFEATED' AFTER COLBERT SHOW WAS CANCELLED, SAYS CBS IS USING 'MADE-UP NUMBERS' CBS announced in July 2025 that it would end "The Late Show" franchise after Colbert's 25-26 season, calling the move "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night." The network said the decision was unrelated to the show's performance, content or other matters involving then-parent company Paramount. The announcement came three days after Colbert attacked Paramount over its $16 million settlement with Trump involving a "60 Minutes" interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Colbert characterized the agreement as a payoff connected to Paramount’s pending merger with Skydance Media. "I believe this kind of complicated financial sentiment with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It’s ‘big fat bribe,’ because it all comes as Paramount’s owners are trying to get the Trump administration to approve the sale of our network to a new owner, Skydance!" Colbert said at the time. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Fox News Digital reported that Colbert's manager, James Dixon, had been informed June 27 that CBS intended to end the show, before Paramount announced the Trump settlement and more than two weeks before Colbert publicly attacked the agreement. "The Late Show" had been losing roughly $40 million annually. The FCC approved Paramount's $8 billion merger with Skydance one week after CBS announced the cancellation. The transaction later closed in August 2025. Trump continued criticizing Colbert after the program’s May finale, calling the former CBS host talentless and celebrating his departure from late-night television. Fox News Digital reached out to CBS-Paramount for comment, but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa980a375342cf4db864813 Trump’s new ‘public charge’ rule tying immigrants’ benefits to green cards spurs lawsuits te 2026-09-15T17:30:11.713Z Trump’s new ‘public charge’ rule tying immigrants’ benefits to green cards spurs lawsuits A mother and daughter are pictured at a protest against arrests of immigrants at green card appointments in Salt Lake City. Two lawsuits filed Monday challenge new federal guidance that could affect green card applicants who have used Medicaid or food assistance. (Photo by Annie Knox, Utah News Dispatch) States, cities and counties filed a pair of lawsuits Monday challenging new federal rules that will allow immigrants’ use of safety net resources to be taken into account for green cards and other applications to stay in or enter the country. The new federal policy goes into effect Friday and broadens the discretion of immigration officers reviewing applications for green cards, certain visas or admissions into the U.S., allowing officers to consider enrollment in public benefits, such as housing and food assistance, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, as something called “public charge.”  When officers determine a person could become dependent on government benefits, that “public charge” is a ground for inadmissibility under federal law. Such non-cash benefits were previously restricted from public charge consideration under the Biden administration.  The Trump administration rescinded that 2022 policy, arguing that it is protecting taxpayer dollars and expects immigrants to be self-sufficient. Both lawsuits were filed against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Many mixed-status households are expected to forgo benefits and disenroll from programs, causing U.S. citizen dependents, including children, to lose care and benefits for which they’re legally entitled to receive, experts and state officials say. In their lawsuit, 22 states and the District of Columbia pointed to DHS estimates that say states nationwide may lose roughly $4.05 billion in annual federal transfer payments for Medicaid and CHIP programs alone. Of that nationwide total, the plaintiffs may stand to lose about $2.2 billion in reduced federal payments.  The states include Colorado, Connecticut, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Due to disenrollments, states nationwide could lose about $1 billion in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Of that, the plaintiff states could lose $575 million in reduced federal payments. The states argue that the new rules contain many ambiguities and will cause the states to“ultimately be forced to fill the breach” by funding gaps out of their own budgets, leading to “staggering” costs. Along with losing federal funding due to disenrollments from state programs, public agencies will face administrative costs, the states argue, and as households forgo enrolling in benefits, such as preventative healthcare and nutritional assistance, including school lunches, public health will suffer, leading to an increase in disease prevalence and driving up the costs of medical care, they argue. In a separate lawsuit, a coalition of cities and counties — New York City; Chicago; San Francisco; Santa Clara County, California; Seattle and King County, Washington — say the new rule is unlawful in reversing “longstanding limits on public charge determinations.” Roughly 1.3 million people, including 600,000 children, could lose care and coverage in those places, the suit argues. New York City, which led the cities’ lawsuit, estimates it would see 6,000 fewer annual primary care visits.  “The new public charge rule seeks to push immigrant families away from the programs that have kept people fed and healthy for decades,” New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani said in a news release. “New Yorkers will be afraid to see a doctor or ask for help they are legally entitled to. That fear will not stop at the families that the federal government is targeting. Families who remain fully eligible for benefits will feel a chilling effect and all New Yorkers will pay for it.” The coalition also argues that children would be forced to withdraw from free or low-cost education programs. It notes that about 19% of Seattle residents and 26% of King County residents rely on such programs. Stateline reporter Nada Hassanein can be reached at nhassanein@stateline.org. This story was originally produced by Stateline, which is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network which includes Arizona Mirror, and is supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9809c75342cf4db8647f6 Eagles flag football retools ahead of program's fourth season te 2026-09-15T17:30:04.768Z Eagles flag football retools ahead of program's fourth season Flagstaff flag football begins its fourth year as a program this week with a revamped coaching staff and big holes to fill. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa97e4b75342cf4db8647b2 EXCLUSIVE: Inside Vance's intimate Capitol Hill huddle as Republicans confront tough midterm terrain te 2026-09-15T17:20:11.996Z EXCLUSIVE: Inside Vance's intimate Capitol Hill huddle as Republicans confront tough midterm terrain EXCLUSIVE: Vice President JD Vance energized Republicans during a huddle on Capitol Hill Tuesday where he urged lawmakers to "kick a--" in the 49 days before the midterm elections, according to audio obtained by Fox News Digital from a person in the room. He wants members of Congress who are on the campaign trail to tell Americans how Trump administration's policies benefit them daily. "There's people out there right now whose lives are going to get better, or their lives are going to get worse based on whether we're in the majority or whether we're in the minority," Vance told the Republican lawmakers in spelling out the stakes of the 2026 midterms. "There are going to be people who are going to be poorer. Who are going to be less able to afford their prescription drugs, who are going to be less safe in the homes in their neighborhoods if the other guys get the majority," he continued. "And there are people who are going to be able to walk down the street in safety if you guys keep the majority. If we keep the majority together." Specifically, Vance told incumbents to hammer home the issue of crime, noting that the homicide rate has reached a 126-year low. Vance explained that in a country of 330 million people, that crime stat translates to "thousands of people," including mothers and fathers, who are coming home to their families instead of being victims of deadly crimes. FBI REPORTS LARGEST DROP IN VIOLENT CRIME AND MURDER SINCE 1937 AS HOMICIDES FALL MORE THAN 18% "There are tens of thousands of children who will come home tonight and work on their homework with mom or dad, rather than a stranger, because of what we've been able to do in supporting law enforcement," Vance said in the closed-door meeting. "This is not an abstraction, ladies and gentlemen," the vice president continued. "This is not about what you see on CNN or Fox News. This is not whether someone with an 'R' or a 'D' next to their name wins. This is about whether the American people in this country that we love have a government that they deserve, that protects them, that fights for them, or whether they have a government that treats them as a means to end." Fox News Digital caught up with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., after the meeting. "I think he did a great job," the congressman said. "He's very good. He's very personable." "He's got some kind of voodoo thing going on where he remembers everybody's dadgum name," Burchett told Fox News Digital. "It kind of freaks me out a little bit. But, I mean, every time I've run into him — I remember one time I was waiting in line to go to the bathroom and he walked out of the bathroom. 'Hey, Tim, what's going on?' I invited him to a [University of Tennessee] game." Vance offered some campaign tips to the lawmakers while ribbing the political consulting class for sometimes being out of touch, and saying "the American people are not dumb." He said voters understand President Donald Trump and his administration inherited problems, including inflation, massive debt and "a country that was weaker on the national stage." "They know that Rome wasn't built in a day," he said. THE ONE LINE FROM JD VANCE’S GOP KEYNOTE THAT REVEALS HIS VISION FOR AMERICA The vice president directed members to "pound the pavement" in their home districts to personally connect with as many voters as possible. Just as importantly, Vance said, Republicans in safe districts who have no real opposition from the left should contribute money to the campaigns of fellow Republicans who are in competitive districts. "So here's the thing, this is not rocket science. You guys know this better than I do, you know your districts better than I do," Vance said . "We know that most voters, particularly the voters who are open-minded, who are not hardcore partisans, they don't really start paying attention to the election until right about now." THUNE-ALIGNED GROUPS UNLEASH HISTORIC WAR CHEST TO DEFEND SENATE MAJORITY: 'WINNING MESSAGE' Vance also spoke fondly of when late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina joined him in Ohio while he was campaigning for the Senate in 2022. "I'll never forget this," said Vance. " Lindsey Graham comes out — I didn't know Lindsey Graham at all, and you guys know how the campaign trail is in the final stretches. You wake up in a crappy hotel, you haven't seen your wife, your kids in a few days, and it's a lot more fun when you have some company out there." "You're telling jokes, you're enjoying it. That energy — people pick up on it. So, get out there and campaign with your friends." Vance recalled how Graham told him stories that had him "aching with laughter," half of which he said he could not repeat. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa97e4a75342cf4db8647a9 Florida State fans pining for Jimbo Fisher's return are living in the past, not in reality te 2026-09-15T17:20:10.126Z Florida State fans pining for Jimbo Fisher's return are living in the past, not in reality Congratulations, Seminoles fans, part one of your master plan to return to the pantheon of college football has been completed. For those unaware, Florida State fired their embattled athletic director, Michael Alford, earlier this week. The reason that's so significant is multifaceted, but his main transgression and the thing that ultimately lost him his job was the recent skid of the once-proud FSU football team. And that all ties back to a decision Alford made back in 2024, when he gifted head coach Mike Norvell a massive contract extension with an almost absurd buyout. The monetary numbers were questionable, even at a time when Norvell and the Noles were trending in the right direction, but since then, the program has taken a sharp downturn, punctuated by an 8-18 record since their ACC Championship winning season in 2023. DID ALABAMA DOOM THEMSELVES TO MEDIOCRITY WITH KALEN DEBOER EXTENSION? So, now that Alford is sunk, the man he chose to anchor himself to has to be on the way out as well, right? In theory, yes, but there's still that pesky buyout number that keeps getting brought up. And then there's the other question that gets raised whenever schools even think about firing their current head coach: who can we hire? There are a ton of quality names out there that the Seminoles should absolutely consider as their next head coach, but one of the only names I keep seeing tossed around by fans on social media is former Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher. KEEP AN EYE ON THESE UNDER-THE-RADAR NAMES DURING THIS SEASON'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHING CAROUSEL I get it. Things are brutal right now in Tallahassee, and Noles fans are just trying to cling onto something from the good old days, but I'm not so sure if Fisher is the answer. Let's start with his age. Fisher turns 61 in October, and while plenty of great coaches have had phenomenal seasons well into their 60s and 70s, the former FSU and Texas A&M head man hasn't donned a headset in three years, which might as well be dog years given how different the game of college football looks now. Speaking of Texas A&M, Fisher's last stop as a head coach with the Aggies left a lot to be desired. While in College Station, Fisher compiled a 45-25 record, which is fine, but definitely not what he was hired to do. His five and a half years as the Aggies' head coach was marred by inconsistent offenses and power struggles, as his inability to hand over the controls on offense before it was too late is partially what led to his demise. One of the reasons Fisher left the confines of Tallahassee - where he had won a national championship - for Texas A&M was (allegedly) the fact that Florida State would not meet his demands for more resourcing. The Aggies are one of the most well-resourced football programs in America, and the fact that he was never able to even make an SEC Championship Game shouldn't inspire confidence. I doubt the Seminoles are in a position, financially speaking, to give Fisher the funds he needs to compete on the national stage, and even if they do, would he be able to wind back the clocks and have FSU looking like the mid 2010s version of themselves? As I said earlier, I totally get it. As a Gator fan, when things were coming to a merciful end with Billy Napier, I started to talk myself into the idea of Urban Meyer coming home and coaching Florida again. But being realistic, that would have never worked. Meyer flamed out at his final stop in Jacksonville and he was nearly a decade removed from coaching in college football. Florida State needs to move forward, not backward. Find a hot, up-and-coming coach that will thrust the Seminoles into the modern era of college football. Just off the top of my head, a guy like Boise State's Spencer Danielson would be a home run hire to get the Noles back to where they want to be. But, of course, Florida State needs to find a new AD first. Then, after that, they have to actually fire Norvell, a prospect that might not be as simple as just pulling the plug given his exorbitant buyout. There are a lot of problems in Tallahassee right now, but there are plenty of solutions as well. I'm not so sure hiring Jimbo Fisher is one of them. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa97c0075342cf4db86474d Roman Reigns survives Penta's World Heavyweight Championship challenge, LA Knight makes a statement of his own te 2026-09-15T17:10:24.511Z Roman Reigns survives Penta's World Heavyweight Championship challenge, LA Knight makes a statement of his own Roman Reigns and Penta put on an instant classic in Mexico City and it was one of the best "Monday Night Raw" matches of the year. Penta was challenging for the World Heavyweight Championship after winning a No. 1 contender tournament, defeating several Luchadores for a shot at Roman Reigns. The champion came into the bout successfully defending his title against any opponent from Jacob Fatu to Seth Rollins after winning it at WrestleMania 42 over CM Punk. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE Penta had all of Mexico in his corner from the jump. He came out wearing a headdress to put an exclamation point on his already riveting entrance. He knew it would take everything he had to take the belt off Reigns and that the "Tribal Chief" wasn’t going to make it easy for him. Reigns let Penta come to him for the most part. He tried to slow down the match as much as he could. The match changed in Penta’s favor after performing The Sacrifice on Reigns’ right arm. Reigns was obstructed from doing his usual moves without feeling any pain. He persevered through it and kicked out of a Penta Driver and a Mexican Destroyer in the process. Penta’s lone mistake was going for a high-risk move toward the end of the match. He was met with a Superman punch. Reigns flopped into the corner and waited for the right moment to strike with a spear. He connected and pinned Penta for the win. The crowd in Mexico City was absolutely heartbroken as Reigns crushed the dreams of their hero. Penta went up the ramp in disbelief as "Monday Night Raw" went off the air. It didn’t take long for Reigns’ next opponent to make a statement. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! WWE posted clips on social media showing LA Knight walking to the ring. Reigns grabbed the microphone and began to talk when Knight hit him with a BFT. Knight will be facing Reigns next at Money in the Bank on Oct. 10. Raw general manager Adam Pearce made it official on Tuesday after Knight came to him and said he was next in line. As Reigns walked to the back on Monday night, he sent a message to Knight. "This is what I'm talking about. I'm sick and tired of it," Reigns said. "All these beggars. You want it? If he wants it, he can get it. Money in the Bank. New Orleans. Down south I'm going to whoop his b---h a--." It’s taken a while for Knight to get back into a No. 1 contender slot. But he’s managed to do it and now gets a real opportunity to leave New Orleans with some gold in the fall. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa97bfd75342cf4db864744 Jim Harbaugh shares major regret after Chargers stunning Week 1 loss to Cardinals te 2026-09-15T17:10:21.825Z Jim Harbaugh shares major regret after Chargers stunning Week 1 loss to Cardinals Jim Harbaugh had an eye-opening regret after the Los Angeles Chargers' stunning Week 1 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. After losing 26-14 to a Cardinals team that many expected to struggle mightily this season, the 62-year-old coach lamented the Chargers' preseason preparation. "We made some preseason-type of mistakes," Harbaugh said during the team’s press conference on Monday. "Now in retrospect, I wish we’d played our guys a little bit more in the preseason and given them those reps." CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE The Chargers played their starters for brief stints in the team’s second and third preseason games, but clearly that wasn’t enough. Last season, the 3-14 Cardinals allowed 20.9 points per game, which was tied for 21st in the NFL with the Washington Commanders, but looked much better on Sunday. Against a team that lost their last nine games last season, the Chargers' offense scored just two touchdowns in the loss. The offense sputtered after losing Ladd McConkey to an injury in the third quarter. Prior to leaving the game, McConkey recorded five catches for 82 yards and a touchdown. Harbaugh said the star wide receiver is day to day with a rib injury. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The Chargers trailed by just two points when the former Georgia star left the game, and they did not score after McConkey’s departure. In the loss, the Chargers had a blocked punt, an interception and another drive that ended with a turnover on downs. After the game on Sunday, Harbaugh called the performance sloppy. "Some uncharacteristic things happened. Give (the Cardinals) credit for making them happen," Harbaugh said on Sunday. "I would call it sloppy at times. Too sloppy. That’s something we need to get fixed." The Chargers will look to fix their mistakes when the play the Las Vegas Raiders (1-0) at home at 4:25 p.m. EST on Sunday. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa97bf375342cf4db86470f Health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuation as healthcare costs surge te 2026-09-15T17:10:11.404Z Health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuation as healthcare costs surge The five-year-old startup raised $108 million from The General Partnership, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, and Andreessen Horowitz. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa97bf075342cf4db864706 Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans te 2026-09-15T17:10:08.353Z Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa97bed75342cf4db8646fd US military confirms it launched space weapons into Earth’s orbit te 2026-09-15T17:10:05.421Z US military confirms it launched space weapons into Earth’s orbit This is the first public acknowledgement that the U.S. military put a space weapon in Earth's orbit. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9799c75342cf4db8646ce Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz's 'effective altruism' network tied to AI regulation push te 2026-09-15T17:00:12.494Z Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz's 'effective altruism' network tied to AI regulation push Concerns about artificial intelligence spelling doom for the human race are being linked to a "cult-like" philanthropy movement known as "effective altruism" supported by billionaire Democratic megadonor and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, according to a policy analyst. In response to former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation announcement on X, Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at Capital Research Center in Washington D.C., went viral as he raised questions about whether the resignation was part of a broader network that aims to influence lawmakers and AI policy. "I resigned from Anthropic today," Coxon’s post read. "I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." RESEARCHER WHO DEPARTED AI ROLE OVER FEARS OF RACING INTO EXTINCTION SAYS PEOPLE ARE 'BEGGING' FOR REGULATION Thayer quoted the post in a response that received interaction online with top lawmakers in Congress, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt. "This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion," Thayer posted. "The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting." Thayer echoed claims made by White House AI advisor David Sacks that AI fears are overblown and potentially based on political motives. "I think this is becoming a panic," Sacks told CBS News correspondent Jo Ling Kent. "We're in an election season, and there is an incentive for political actors to try and amplify the fear. And I think this is a moment to really calm down a little bit and look at the issue rationally." SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: YES, WE MUST HIT THE PAUSE BUTTON ON AI BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE Coxon told Fox News’ Bret Baier last week that we are "on the doorstep of tremendous discoveries," but we're running in too quickly. He emphasized the need for moderation. Baier asked Coxon if the issue could be figured out. "I think definitely. I think if we actually try instead of submitting to the inevitability of a doomed race or a hubristic gamble, then we can solve it," he said. "The problem is not unsolvable." TOP MEDIA OUTLETS FAIL TO DISCLOSE WHO IS BANKROLLING THEIR AI REPORTERS Coxon said he was acting alone when deciding to voice his concerns about the direction of AI, according to The Wall Street Journal. Fox News Digital sat down with Thayer to ask about his theories concerning the coordination behind Coxon's "sophisticated" resignation, which was in turn met with a slew of national television interviews and immediate notoriety. Almost overnight, Coxon's post became a major point of policy debate spanning across political parties and politicians, including President Donald Trump and socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Thayer did not offer a theory for which individuals or groups might have coordinated with Coxon, who has denied such claims. But Thayer said the "AI doomerism movement" is associated with "effective altruism," a philosophy he described as "cult-like." OPINION: REP. TED LIEU: AI IS ALREADY TOO POWERFUL. WE NEED A KILL SWITCH BEFORE DISASTER STRIKES According to the Centre for Effective Altruism, the movement is defined as a "project that aims to find the best ways to help others and put them into practice." But Thayer noted that while the philanthropic movement may sound high-minded, Silicon Valley elites and members who donate and support "effective altruism" may have much more direct political goals in mind. Thayer did not have evidence that any individuals or groups connected to the effective altruism movement provided public relations or other support for Coxon’s post about his resignation. FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS SEE AI REGULATION AS URGENT, RANK SAFEGUARDS AHEAD OF INNOVATION Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna have been leading financial backers of organizations associated with the "effective altruism" movement. The couple founded Coefficient Giving, formerly known as Open Philanthropy, and remain its "main funders," according to the organization. Tuna serves as its president. Coefficient Giving says its artificial intelligence work has expanded rapidly, with $168 million committed to AI safety, security and field-building in 2024 and $351 million in 2025 — a combined $519 million. The organization says it is on track to commit more than $1 billion to AI policy advocacy in 2026. In a 2021 grant application description, the organization cited that it seeks "to fund programs and events in a variety of areas of interest to Coefficient Giving — including effective altruism, global catastrophic risks, biosecurity, AI for epistemics, forecasting, and other areas." Moskovitz, who Forbes estimates has a net worth of roughly $10 billion, contributed more than $50 million to support the Biden-Harris campaign from 2020 to 2024, including $46.89 million to the Future Forward PAC which served as the main fundraising vessel for the failed presidential campaign. TRUMP UNLOADS ON TECH TITANS PUSHING FOR SLOWDOWN ON EMERGING INDUSTRY: ‘WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!’ On Monday, the Department of War Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering posted to X: "Americanism, not effective altruism. The United States will continue to be AI DOMINANT!" As for the reasoning behind "effective altruism’s" commitment to the artificial intelligence policy space, Thayer said the fear-mongering technique is comparable to the climate change narrative that has been traditionally peddled by the Democratic Party. "They basically just say kind of in the same vein as climate change activists like Al Gore used to, they kind of just make bombastic doomsday projections without citing really a whole lot of easily discernible evidence and just expect us to trust their expertise," Thayer explained. "First, they got you scared of the data centers based on a bunch of sketchy arguments about water pollution supposedly, and supposedly raising your electric prices, which don't seem to actually be true," he added. "And now they're getting you scared of the actual AI that the data centers are being used to launch." Thayer said that if AI critics were truly afraid of a potential doomsday scenario, they would be advocating for the extinction of artificial intelligence altogether. Instead, he says that it is a tactic to increase the government’s power over the industry while also acting in their own interest so "that they're the only ones who are allowed to build it." In an opinion piece published in Medium in 2024, Moskovitz noted that he was concerned about the potential risks AI poses, saying that a potential doomsday "situation may develop extremely quickly." "Contrary to the popular narrative about effective altruists working in AI, my interest in mitigating the potential risks isn’t rooted in specific predictions about the far future, but rather simple concern about the next few decades, when I and the people I care about are still alive to care about what happens," he wrote. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, said a meeting at the White House to discuss AI policy could happen before the end of this week or the next. Trump also weighed in on the AI outlook in a post to Truth Social on Monday. "The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said, just a short time ago, that the World would be extinguished by "Climate Change." That HOAX never worked out for them, and now they’re on to the next one." Fox News Digital reached out to Moskovitz, Coefficient Giving and Coxon for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9773b75342cf4db86464d A.I. Is Unpopular With Voters, a New York Times/Siena Poll Finds te 2026-09-15T16:50:03.813Z A.I. Is Unpopular With Voters, a New York Times/Siena Poll Finds As fears grow about the threat of artificial intelligence, neither party has claimed an advantage on the technology, a New York Times/Siena poll found. But voters are united in opposition to data centers. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa974e775342cf4db8645e1 Supreme Court Stands Up to Trump on Mail Voting and a Few Key Issues te 2026-09-15T16:40:07.208Z Supreme Court Stands Up to Trump on Mail Voting and a Few Key Issues The justices take their time and pick their spots, but they have rejected presidential initiatives on tariffs, citizenship, the National Guard — and now the coming election. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa974e575342cf4db8645d5 Sunnyside Foundation marks 30 years with Gives Week te 2026-09-15T16:40:05.339Z Sunnyside Foundation marks 30 years with Gives Week The Sunnyside Foundation is kicking off its 30th anniversary celebration with a week of fundraising events aimed at giving back to Tucson's south side. Gives Week 2026: All Heart, All Community begins Sept. 20 and aims to raise $130,000 to continue supporting its efforts on the south side. The week opens with the foundation's annual 5K walk/run, called the "Burrito Run," at Mission Manor Park. The race is open to anyone. It costs $20 for participants 18 and older, who will also receive a Sunnyside Foundation T-shirt; entry is free for younger participants, and everyone will receive a post-race breakfast burrito. All proceeds benefit the foundation, which will also host a Health & Wellness Fair during the event, featuring community resources, raffles and giveaways. Gives Week culminates in a block party at American Eat Co. the evening of Sept. 24. Established in 1991, the Sunnyside Foundation was started by a group of SUSD graduates with the goal of giving back to the community through educational opportunities for students and improvements to infrastructure and local programs. The Sunnyside Unified School District serves Tucson's south side and is one of the more underserved school districts in the city. Minority enrollment in the district is 97%, which is 30 percentage points higher than the state's public school average, according to Public School Review. The district also serves a high number of low-income families. Census data from 2024 showed that 26.3% of district families live at or below the poverty level, 10 percentage points higher than the state and national average. Tucson Spotlight trains the next generation of Southern Arizona journalists and publishes their work free for everyone. No paywalls, no corporate backing — just readers who believe this community deserves better local news. Volunteers gather at Desert View High School to support the Sunnyside Foundation's emergency relief efforts, which have helped thousands of local households. Courtesy of the Sunnyside Foundation. The foundation's mission has been to be a "hub of community improvement initiatives and giving on Tucson's south side," its website says. According to the foundation's impact report from the 2024-2025 school year, it impacted more than 30,000 children, families and educators, including $164,000 in scholarships and emergency assistance to more than 7,000 households. Foundation board member Cassandra Becerra, an SUSD graduate, said the foundation has given her the chance to represent "a part of Tucson that I love so much." "It's really about making sure that we provide our educators, our students and our familias with the tools that they need to be able to have access to a quality education," Becerra said. "The Sunnyside Foundation has truly been able to give that to those students and to those families who sometimes don't know where to begin." The foundation offers a variety of programs to help families. Its Excellence Fund provides students and educators with monetary support, including scholarships for graduating seniors and mini-grants for teachers, while its Emergency Relief Fund helps households with essentials like food and utility support. Over the last several years, the foundation has also made an impact through its partnership with the University of Arizona. In 2023, the foundation teamed up with UA to get college students involved with the south side through community-based learning, creating three new UA courses focused on learning and engaging with southern Tucson through the El Pueblo Recreation Center. The El Pueblo Center, located on West Irvington Road and South 6th Avenue, has played a major role in supporting southern Tucson in the past, especially with the involvement of the late Rep. Raul Grijalva, who served as the center's first director. Last year, the center celebrated its 50th anniversary with a series of exhibits called El Pueblo 50, focusing on its history and revitalization. Many exhibits featured the work of students in the courses created by the Sunnyside Foundation-UA partnership. Photos from the Sunnyside Foundation's history highlight its work investing in infrastructure and programs across Tucson's south side. Courtesy of the Sunnyside Foundation. UA professor Jacqueline Barrios said the exhibition would never have been possible without the help of the foundation. "Sunnyside as a foundation really stretched the bounds of what a foundation could do in terms of really thinking about investment and research and preservation," she said. "Being able to really connect the university to its communities is part of what the impact really is of this program." UA lecturer Kenny Wong said the Sunnyside Foundation has given the UA the chance to get students involved with stakeholders in Tucson's community. "The kind of education I like to instill with the students I work with is being connected with communities and thinking deeply about what their work is for," he said. "Sunnyside Foundation brings the community together. They start to be this leader, this guy that can help make these connections happen." Becerra said Gives Week is about securing the funding that will benefit not just district families, but all families living in the area. "It doesn't matter whether you are a student in SUSD, TUSD or Amphi, if you're here in the south side, we are going to serve you within our capacity," she said. "We are really just making sure that we have the funding and the tools to be able to give that back to our community." With the support of what she calls the "tight-knit Tucson community," Becerra hopes the foundation will hit its goal. "The funding that we give back to our community and to our families, it's never enough," she said. "What we have found is that the south side community is very generous, so it's really just reminding folks, it doesn't matter how much you give us, we'll make sure that we make that amount stretch as far as we can." For more information on Gives Week, visit sunnysidefoundation.org/gives-week. Elias Bonilla is a journalism and political science major at the University of Arizona and Tucson Spotlight intern. Contact him at ebonilla1500@gmail.com. Tucson Spotlight is a community-based newsroom that provides paid opportunities for students and rising journalists in Southern Arizona. Please consider supporting our work with a tax-deductible donation. Donate to Tucson Spotlight Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9729675342cf4db864594 Introducing OutKick's first original animated series, 'Sports Talk with Cal McCallister' te 2026-09-15T16:30:14.592Z Introducing OutKick's first original animated series, 'Sports Talk with Cal McCallister' A lot of really exciting stuff has been happening here at OutKick over the last few weeks. We’ve got Craig Carton coming on board with a show, and a bunch of new features like OutKick Outdoors, OutKick Dropkick, and OutKick University getting up and running and hitting their stride. So it’s a great time to introduce you to OutKick’s first original animated series, "Sports Talk with Cal McCallister." Take a look at the trailer (which features narration from the great Dan Dakich): We’ve got a batch of animated shorts that you’ll be able to see over the next couple of months, featuring Cal McCallister, a radio legend and doddering old curmudgeon with decades of experience on the airwaves. He has plenty of hot takes to dish out, but winds up spending most of his time mixing it up with his callers and trying to keep his show on the rails with the help of his producer/grandson, Jody. The first of these will debut Wednesday on the OutKick YouTube channel and on social media. Yes, like tomorrow. That Wednesday. There will be eight of these episodes, and I’m proud to say that each one was made the old-fashioned way: me sitting at my desk, drawing on my wife’s old iPad that I commandeered (with her permission). See? Just the way Tex Avery used to do it… Don’t fact-check that. Countless hours since last December were spent writing scripts, doing voices, writing and composing pieces of original music, editing, and, of course, animating. While I was a one-man shorts-producing operation (albeit a very smart and handsome one), I couldn’t truly get the job done alone. I got some big help behind the scenes to get this all ready for release, and you’ll also hear some familiar OutKick voices. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as we did making them. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER So, be sure to catch new episodes of "Sports Talk with Cal McCallister" every Wednesday and follow Cal, @SportsTalkCal, on X and Instagram. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9729475342cf4db86458b Kamala Harris viciously mocked with resurfaced bumbling 'two words' explanation of AI after desperate call te 2026-09-15T16:30:12.534Z Kamala Harris viciously mocked with resurfaced bumbling 'two words' explanation of AI after desperate call Former Vice President and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris is being mocked over a resurfaced clip of her "two letters" explanation of artificial intelligence after she posted a call to slow its development. Harris, who previously served as the Biden administration's AI czar, posted a lengthy statement on AI on Monday. In her post, Harris called for President Donald Trump to "do his job to protect America’s interests by pursuing a treaty with countries like China to stop dangerous uses of AI, limit the speed of its development, and adopt global standards for testing." In response, social media users recalled Harris’ attempt at explaining AI as vice president in 2023. "I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing," Harris said. "First of all, it's two letters. It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is is it's about machine learning." WATCH: KAMALA HARRIS TORCHED OVER ‘ZERO SENSE’ WNBA PEP TALK IN LATEST ‘WORD SALAD’ MOMENT She continued, saying, "And so, the machine is taught — and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine — and we can predict then, if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process." "So," she went on even further, "to reduce it down to its most simple point, this is part of the issue that we have here is thinking about what is going into a decision, and then whether that decision is actually legitimate and reflective of the needs and the life experiences of all the people." After Harris' X post on Monday, conservative influencer "Western Lensman" reposted the 2023 video of Harris, writing, "Kamala Harris on AI when it's not a written statement crafted by a team of consultants." National security and global economics expert Kyle Bass reacted, "There’s not a chance in hell Kamala wrote this. Have you ever heard her say ‘frontier,’ ‘advancing,’ and ‘intelligence’ in the same sentence? Until now, her misfits had never produced anything this un-Kamala and then posted it on social media." Columnist S.L. Kanthan wrote, "One of the dumbest women now wants America to voluntarily slow down progress in AI." He posted another video of Harris explaining cloud storage. Harris said, "No longer are you necessarily keeping those private files in some file cabinet that’s locked in the basement of the house. It’s on your laptop, and it's then, therefore, up here in this cloud, that exists above us, right?" Author and national security expert Sarah Adams commented on Harris’ AI post, writing, "No one is looking for your thoughts on 'intelligence.'" Another user, influencer Andrew Aziz, and several others suggested that Harris’ post itself was AI-generated. KAMALA HARRIS DIVES INTO MIDTERM FIGHT ONLY TO GET ROASTED FOR NEVER HAVING 'AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT IN HER LIFE’ In her post, Harris wrote that AI is "advancing at an alarming speed," emphasizing what she characterized as industry leaders’ call to "responsibly slow the pace of frontier AI development." She wrote that "a slowdown is critical in order to ensure AI serves the public interest," saying, "Pacing AI development does not mean giving up on this technology’s potential to produce life-saving benefits in fields like medicine — some of which we are already seeing. Rather, it is about setting up sensible guardrails so that AI does not completely escape human control and endanger our safety and collective future." Besides action from Trump, Harris called on Congress to "work at an urgent pace" to provide AI oversight, saying, "The United States must continue to lead the world in developing AI technology even as we seek to impose common-sense safety standards." Harris is not the only prominent Democrat to have called for increased AI regulation recently. Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats during a private fundraiser in New York City on on Thursday to place artificial intelligence near the center of their political agenda ahead of the midterms and the 2028 presidential race while warning that the technology could become dangerous without greater oversight as voters increasingly raise concerns about jobs, privacy and data centers. "This is something that is moving very fast in private hands, and if we don’t get on top of it, I think can be dangerous," Obama said. "If we do get on top of it, I do think it’s beneficial. I genuinely think it’s going to accelerate, for example, drug development in ways that can help us cure diseases. I do think that this can help us figure out pathways for a clean energy future." ANTHROPIC CEO CALLS ON AI INDUSTRY TO SLOW DOWN TECH RACE, DRAWING SUPPORT FROM ELON MUSK, SAM ALTMAN Meanwhile, Trump on Monday rejected growing calls for safeguards and restrictions on AI, declaring that the technology needs a "STRONG AND SMART" president rather than additional restraints. "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. He suggested that "there is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China," adding, "WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so." Fox News Digital's Lindsay Kornick and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9728d75342cf4db86456d How the Postal Service Became Central to U.S. Elections te 2026-09-15T16:30:05.138Z How the Postal Service Became Central to U.S. Elections The mail system took on new prominence during the Civil War by enabling soldiers to vote from afar. On Monday, the Supreme Court blocked President Trump’s effort to give it a new role in elections. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9703d75342cf4db864533 Joe Manchin calls on Trump to freeze AI IPOs, claims president has 'power to save humanity' te 2026-09-15T16:20:13.022Z Joe Manchin calls on Trump to freeze AI IPOs, claims president has 'power to save humanity' Former Sen. Joe Machin, D-W.Va., called on President Donald Trump during a Monday appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box" to use executive authority to pause new artificial intelligence IPOs until Congress passes legislation establishing safeguards for the rapidly developing technology. Manchin framed the request as an urgent step to prevent companies developing advanced AI from facing additional pressure to race ahead before lawmakers establish rules governing the technology. "The President of the United States has the power to save humanity," Manchin said. "They must be concerned about this thing can take off and think on its own and make its own decisions and override anything of humans and we can't stop it. If that's what they're concerned about, then stop it now when you can." LIZ PEEK: AI ALARM BELLS ARE RINGING AND TRUMP NEEDS TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY Republican National Committee member and Human First chairwoman Amy Kremer, who had previously called for AI safeguards while opposing a broad moratorium, pushed back on Machin's specific proposal, saying an IPO freeze would interfere with capital markets without addressing the underlying safety concerns. "I do not support a President using executive authority to interfere with the markets," Kremer said in a Tuesday statement to Fox News Digital. An IPO freeze is the kind of top-down mandate that conservatives have long opposed, and it would not even address the actual risk." "What the President should use his executive power for is to demand pre-deployment testing begin immediately. That is where the real safeguards belong, not in blocking companies from raising capital," she continued. PRESIDENTIAL FLIP? GOP INSIDER PREDICTS TRUMP CHANGE OF MIND ON KEY AI POLICY AHEAD OF MIDTERMS The White House, in a statement to Fox News Digital, pointed to three Truth Social posts from Trump addressing the growing debate over AI risks and efforts to slow the technology's development. Trump separately rejected growing calls Monday for additional AI restrictions, arguing the United States should not give up its lead over China and saying existing government powers could be used against companies engaged in wrongdoing. Trump said additional regulatory "guardrails" were not the answer to concerns surrounding the technology. "The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" Trump said. FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS SEE AI REGULATION AS URGENT, RANK SAFEGUARDS AHEAD OF INNOVATION The debate intensified after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for frontier AI developers to slow the pace at which they increase the capabilities for their most powerful models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk were among the technology leaders who expressed support for slowing frontier development, while Trump and other Republicans warned that unilateral U.S. restrictions could benefit China. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., rejected an emergency AI moratorium on Sunday, telling CNN that Congress should work with AI companies to determine appropriate safeguards rather than abruptly halt development. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Kremer told Fox News Digital that the escalating dispute also reflected what she views as Congress’ failure to establish clear federal AI rules before the technology reached its current stage. "This moment is a reminder of what happens when Republicans do not govern," she said. "When Republicans fail to act, the solutions Democrats offer will be disastrous. Lawmakers have had years to establish clear rules for artificial intelligence, and they have not done it. The responsibility now falls on the executive branch to act where Congress will not." The Trump administration has already established a voluntary federal framework for evaluating advanced AI models.  Trump's June executive order allows developers of covered frontier models to give the federal government secure early access before release for testing and cybersecurity purposes, while explicitly stating that the framework does not create mandatory federal licensing, pre-clearance or permitting requirements. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9703b75342cf4db86452a Lindsay Clancy holdout juror ‘looked at the case and he made the call,’ his brother says te 2026-09-15T16:20:11.490Z Lindsay Clancy holdout juror ‘looked at the case and he made the call,’ his brother says The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial cast his vote after "he looked at the case, and he made the call," according to his brother. "For me, that’s how I would do it," a brother of the lone holdout juror told the New York Post. "I would just listen to the case with all the evidence, and go from there." "His choice was good for some people, but not good for other people," he said. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST The brother also disputed claims that religion was a factor: "I don’t think religion had anything to do with it." GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL Clancy, 36, faced three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the slayings of her children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — who were discovered strangled at the family's home in January 2023. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 after jurors could not agree on a unanimous verdict, with the panel split 11-1. This is a developing story. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa96b8d75342cf4db864459 ‘Still waiting on the DOGE check’: Battleground state voters cast doubt on Trump’s new $5K promise te 2026-09-15T16:00:13.824Z ‘Still waiting on the DOGE check’: Battleground state voters cast doubt on Trump’s new $5K promise Voters squeezed by rising costs are skeptical of President Donald Trump’s proposed $5,000 dividend — with at least one resident pointing to a previous DOGE dividend proposal that never materialized. "I feel like that's a pitch to get more votes," Yolanda Lewis told Fox News Digital. "I'm still waiting on the DOGE check that he promised that we never received, so until he gives us a definite date saying when we're gonna get that and receive it, then I'll take that into consideration." Trump suggested in February 2025 that a portion of savings generated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could be returned to taxpayers, while Elon Musk entertained a proposal that envisioned payments of as much as $5,000. Trump later backed the idea of returning 20% of DOGE savings to Americans. DOGE reported $110.3 billion in savings from contracts, grants and leases, though a Government Accountability Office review later found that some of its estimates were inaccurate or lacked sufficient supporting evidence. Now, with affordability a top-of-mind issue for voters across the country, Trump has unveiled a new "Trump dividend" plan at the Midterm GOP Convention last Wednesday that would give $5,000 to American adults if Republicans maintain control of Congress. Several Detroit voters, interviewed by Fox News Digital at the Detroit Health Department’s annual Block Party on Sept. 12, rejected the proposal, with some calling it a "bribe" and others questioning whether the money would ever be paid out. TRUMP MAKES STUNNING FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND CASH PROMISE IN BID TO RALLY GOP VOTERS AT DALLAS MIDTERM CONVENTION "I think it's kind of irresponsible because what is the long-term impact of this money?" Jahdante Smith, the Green Party candidate for the state House of Representatives 9th district, told Fox News Digital. Smith, who supports Medicare for All, pointed to the nation's roughly $40 trillion debt in questioning how the proposal would be funded. "So where does that money come from? Where do you divert those funds from? Also I think that it is sort of a bribe," Smith said. Michigan, which Trump won by 1.4% in 2024, has become a key battleground in the fight for Senate control as Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Saye and Republican Mike Rogers are both vying for Michigan's open Senate seat. El-Sayed called Trump's $5,000 proposal "unserious" during a rally in Lansing, Michigan. "Funny thing about it is like there's no world in which you can pay for it," El-Sayed said. "So how about you actually do some governing and like solve the social security problem. How about we guarantee people health care so they don't have to pay so much for that." Rogers' campaign did not directly comment on the former congressman's stance on Trump's $5,000 dividend plan. Instead, it pointed to El-Sayed's support for implementing a progressive tax plan. "You know what’s not serious? Challenging Mike to a 1:1 football scrimmage, taking money from Designated Terrorist Organizations, and advocating to raise taxes for Michiganders while they’re already paying for Democrats’ mismanagement," said Alyssa Brouillet, communications director for the Rogers campaign. "Funny enough, those are things Abdul does." Prices are an acute concern in Detroit, where roughly a third of residents live below the federal poverty line. The city's median household income is below $40,000, according to U.S. census data. "Well, as a city Detroit retiree, affordability is very important, and I think the prices since Trump's been back in office have gone up on everything, especially gas, diesel, you know, affordabilities went out the window," William Davis told Fox News Digital. The current cost of gas in Detroit is $4.11 per gallon. Before the Iran war, gas prices hovered between $2.81 and $2.92 per gallon in January. TRUMP FACES RECKONING AS GOP FIGURES LABEL $5K PROMISE A 'SOCIALIST VOTE-BUYING SCHEME' Martesha Adams, a young mother and nurse living in Detroit, told Fox News Digital at the Detroit Health Department Block Party that she also viewed the $5,000 proposal as an attempt to win over struggling Americans. "The whole time I feel that he's been in the office, it's been a kind of game," Adams said. "America has been laughed at from everywhere. And the $5K for bribery, that's nothing. So I hope that people do not go for that bribe and they really look into the politics." For Shelby Campbell, a 2023 graduate of Wayne State University, affordability has already forced significant changes. She said she sold her car because she could no longer afford Michigan's no-fault auto insurance and has struggled to find an affordable rental in Detroit. Campbell called Trump's $5,000 proposal "disgusting." "He shouldn't be able to offer people money if we have one party in office," Campbell said. "It's supposed to be about everybody and what we all want and need, so it's just bribery in my opinion." Campbell, who said she plans to vote for El-Sayed in the general election, argued that money already plays too large a role in politics. "I think he's genuinely a good guy and he wants to get money out of politics and I am all for that," Campbell said. "We seriously need that because big corporations buy our elections just like Donald Trump is trying to do." Other Detroit residents echoed Lewis' skepticism about whether Trump would actually deliver the proposed payments. BILLIONS SPENT BY KEY FEDERAL AGENCY HASN'T MADE AMERICAN DREAM OF HOMEOWNERSHIP ANY EASIER: REPORT Trump also proposed a separate $2,000 dividend last year funded by tariff revenue, though those payments never materialized. "I don't think it's realistic to think he's going to do that," Davis said of Trump's latest proposal. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Sunday on "Meet the Press" that the $5,000 payments would require congressional approval, while pledging to work toward Trump's proposal. "I never go out and give big commitments on the front end because I’ve got to work through it, and that’s what we do every single day," Johnson said. While Trump's proposal has garnered mixed reactions within the Republican Party, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, posted on X that he'd work to prepare a bill and get it passed before the election. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., rejected the idea that Trump was seeking to "bribe" voters. "The only thing that I knew of was that he has this concept of a dividend of all Americans being able to share in the success of America," Emmer told Politico. "Let the policy guys draft it. Let them debate it. Let them move it through committee," Emmer told Politico. "You get it to the whip’s office. We’ll pass it." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa96b8b75342cf4db864447 Congress reconvenes before midterms sprint with AI, defense and farm bills unfinished te 2026-09-15T16:00:11.665Z Congress reconvenes before midterms sprint with AI, defense and farm bills unfinished The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., amid fog on Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — Both chambers of Congress return to Capitol Hill this week for a brief session before heading back to the campaign trail until mid-November.  The House will be in for one week and the Senate for three, giving Republicans little time to enact any laws or confirm nominees before voters decide whether to give them another two years in power.  Lawmakers have already agreed to fund the government through Dec. 11, pushing off any need to reach bipartisan agreement on the dozen annual appropriations bills or risk a government shutdown.  But they haven’t reached compromise on several other measures and are unlikely to do so until at least the lame-duck session, which spans five weeks in November and December.  Left undone Congress has so far opted not to approve legislation that could provide tens of billions in additional funding for the Defense Department amid the war in Iran.  The two chambers haven’t brokered compromise on the different versions of the annual defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.  There’s no sign of significant progress on the years-delayed farm bill that is supposed to authorize agriculture and food aid programs.  Republicans had discussed approving a third party-line package through the complex reconciliation process they used to enact their “big, beautiful” law and three years of funding for immigration enforcement.  But the Senate needs to adopt a budget resolution before that process could begin and that doesn’t appear to be on the horizon this September.  President Donald Trump’s insistence lawmakers approve nationwide voter registration and identification requirements is also not expected to become law, lacking the votes in the Senate to advance.  AI stalemate Lawmakers aren’t expected to make any progress on how to place guardrails on artificial intelligence amid increasingly dire warnings the technology could “kill us all” before the end of the decade. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash” that he wanted tech company executives to work with lawmakers on striking the right balance.  “We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us, and that’s the challenge,” he said. “It’s national security balanced with the immediate security of making sure the models are safe.” Johnson said he and others in Congress understood the possible ramifications of letting AI run as it is now, but added that “the people who are creating these models have to have to ensure that their products are safe.”  “But we also at the same time have to resist Congress jumping in and imposing some sort of emergency moratorium,” he said. “It’s got to be done right, safely, wisely.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had a different take on AI, writing in a statement released Monday that administration officials should brief senators in a classified setting.  “The American people deserve better from their government at such a consequential moment. I have long argued that we must keep the U.S. as the global leader in AI innovation and security. But that innovation must be coupled with serious guardrails that earn the trust of the American public,” Schumer said.  “Warning bells are ringing louder than they ever have – and the Trump administration is looking the other way. Well, if they won’t hold themselves accountable, we will. And if Trump does not act, Congress must.” Nominees on tap The Senate does have several pending nominees on its list that it could push through in the coming weeks, including Keith Sonderling for labor secretary, Sean Kaufman for assistant secretary for preparedness and response, and numerous judges.  How much Congress accomplishes following the midterm elections will likely depend on what those results show.  Democrats are unlikely to negotiate major policy or spending bills with Republicans if voters give them control of both chambers come January.  A mixed result, possibly Democrats regaining the House but Republicans keeping control of the Senate, could lead to some deal-making later this year. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9693475342cf4db8643f1 Nick Reiner won't face death penalty in Rob, Michele Reiner murder case te 2026-09-15T15:50:12.225Z Nick Reiner won't face death penalty in Rob, Michele Reiner murder case All eyes will be on Nick Reiner on Tuesday when he returns to court for the latest proceedings in his criminal case. Reiner is accused of killing his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced Tuesday that his office will not pursue the death penalty against Reiner during a press conference ahead of his court hearing. "In deciding whether or not the DA's office was going to seek the death penalty, we have gone through a rigorous review where we look at the aggravating factors, as well as the mitigating factors – where we have spoken to the victims' family, we have spoken to prosecutors, law enforcement, and I've worked with the most senior people in the district attorney's office," Hochman told reporters Tuesday. "After a careful and thorough review of all these factors, the District Attorney's office will not be seeking the death penalty in this case. That means that the maximum sentence that Mr. Reiner will be looking at is life without the possibility of parole." NICK REINER INDICTED IN MURDERS OF PARENTS ROB, MICHELE REINER AT BRENTWOOD HOME Reiner was charged with two counts of murder and included special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and lying in wait after a grand jury indictment. Prosecutors also alleged he used a knife. "This was a profound betrayal by someone who was loved and trusted by the very people he is accused of killing," Los Angeles County District Attorney Hochman said at the time. Prosecutors allege Reiner fatally stabbed his father, 78, and mother, 70, on Dec. 14, 2025, at their Brentwood home.  As his criminal case moves forward, Reiner has demanded access to funds from a trust worth as much as $1.5 million after he was allegedly denied access to money he says he is entitled to use, including to hire high-profile defense attorney Alan Jackson. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Months after Reiner was put behind bars in connection to the murder of his parents, he filed a petition arguing that the person appointed to oversee his $1.5 million trust has unlawfully withheld funds that are already legally his. Reiner insisted he needed the trust money to pay for criminal defense counsel and basic necessities while incarcerated. Jackson, who previously represented Karen Read, began working on the case immediately after Reiner's arrest, but the representation endeed when anticipated family funding failed to materialize. In a declaration, Jackson said his firm remained willing to return if funding became available, including through alternative fee arrangements. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Los Angeles Fire Department officials responded to a Brentwood-area home at around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 14, where two bodies were discovered. Officials later confirmed the bodies to be of Rob and his wife, Michele. "Both victims were found in the master bedroom of the area of the home," LAPD Assistant Police Chief Dominic Choi later confirmed during an LAPD Board of Police Commissioners meeting. Officers then conducted a "thorough search" of the residence and found no additional victims or suspects. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9693375342cf4db8643e4 Savannah Guthrie thanks Allison Janney after emotional Emmy tribute: 'Our family is in such pain' te 2026-09-15T15:50:11.045Z Savannah Guthrie thanks Allison Janney after emotional Emmy tribute: 'Our family is in such pain' Savannah Guthrie became emotional after Allison Janney used her Emmy press room moment to express support for Guthrie’s family and remember her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie. Janney, who won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for her role in "The Diplomat" at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, spoke about Nancy while talking with reporters backstage. "I honestly can say I think about her every day, and think about the loss and what Savannah and her family are going through," Janney said. "I don’t think I’m alone. I think all of America is thinking about her." Guthrie later thanked Janney during an emotional conversation on the "Today" show. SAVANNAH GUTHRIE PLEADS FOR TIPS AS RANSOM NOTE CLAIMS MOM IS DEAD: 'SOMEBODY KNOWS SOMETHING' "I was so touched to see her do that," Savannah said. "It was her moment, her triumph. For her to sit and just take a moment to think about our family — it meant so much." She said she never misses an opportunity to talk about her mother and the pain her family continues to endure. "I never let a moment pass if I get one to talk about my mom, how much I miss her and love her," she said. "My whole family is in such pain. We need help." "Thank you, Allison Janney, for remembering us and giving me an opportunity to renew that call," Savannah continued. "We just want our mom home to give her a proper goodbye. That’s all." Nancy, the 84-year-old mother of Savannah, was taken from her home in Tucson's upscale Catalina Foothills neighborhood in the early hours of Feb. 1, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI. She was last seen there just before 10 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, when a relative dropped her off. The home's doorbell camera recorded a masked intruder disconnecting the cameras at approximately 1:47 a.m. Feb. 1. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE At 2:28 a.m., her pacemaker lost its Bluetooth connection to her cellphone, according to the Pima County Sheriff's Department. The Pima County Sheriff's Department released a series of ransom notes in July, six months after Nancy's suspected abduction. Shortly after the release, Savannah made a desperate plea for the public's help in a social media post, exactly six months since her mother was reported missing. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "This is our beautiful Mom. Six months ago, someone took her out of her bed in the dead of night. We have lived every moment, every breath, and every heartbeat in agony and despair ever since," Savannah wrote to open her Instagram message. SAVANNAH GUTHRIE MAKES DESPERATE PLEA SIX MONTHS AFTER MOM NANCY WENT MISSING: 'SOMEONE KNOWS SOMETHING' "Every day, we wake up and try to be strong and go on — because that’s what our joyful and resilient Mom taught us to do," she continued. "But make no mistake — our hearts are in ruins. Cam and Kristine, Annie and Tommy, Mike and me — we spend every waking moment thinking of her, longing for her, looking for her." "There is a hole inside us that can never be filled," Savannah wrote. "There is an ache that cannot be softened. And there is a determination in us that cannot be quenched — to find out what happened to her, so that we can give her the dignity of a proper goodbye — a celebration of her remarkable life that she so deserves." "We are begging for help. We are desperate," Savannah's post continued. "We need someone to come forward. Someone knows something. Someone suspects something. Someone recognizes the writing in the ransom demand notes." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "Someone has noticed something different, strange, troubling or just unusual — perhaps with someone they deeply love," she wrote. "Perhaps they are afraid to come forward. Perhaps they are conflicted. Perhaps they are angry or upset for being in this situation. There is a way out — to tell what you know. You can do so anonymously. The reward is available. There is a way to end this situation and do the right thing." "We are real people, facing real grief, doing the best we can, and counting our many blessings along the way — most especially the prayers and love from good people, which we feel deeply. We need your prayers, we need your kindness. We need the good to be stronger than the evil. If you are following this story for entertainment or for profit, you are not on her side — you are part of the harm perpetrated against her." "We will never stop looking for answers — and we will never stop looking for the light. We will always be hoping and praying and believing in the best of our world — in spite of circumstance. This is what our faith makes possible. Please. Bring her home." Fox News Digital's Michael Ruiz and Robert McGreevy contributed to this post. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9692c75342cf4db8643ac OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks te 2026-09-15T15:50:04.713Z OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes to keep pace with China. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9692b75342cf4db8643a3 Nitter and XCancel are dead (again) after X’s latest legal actions te 2026-09-15T15:50:03.089Z Nitter and XCancel are dead (again) after X’s latest legal actions The privacy-friendly services for viewing X posts without an account have gone dark again after X's escalated legal action. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa966d975342cf4db86437f PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp reiterates it is not considering a returning member program for LIV golfers te 2026-09-15T15:40:09.694Z PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp reiterates it is not considering a returning member program for LIV golfers The PGA Tour officially shared the details of what the new-look, two-tiered competitive model debuting in 2028 will entail on Tuesday, and CEO Brian Rolapp also made it clear that, as things stand now, LIV golfers will not be a part of it. The word "pathways" will be discussed ad nauseam leading into the 2028 PGA Tour season, with players looking to earn a spot on the upper-tiered Championship Series. It, however, will not be a term used for players on the once-backed Saudi breakaway circuit, as it was in January, when Brooks Koepka took advantage of the Returning Member Program window. Rolapp addressed the topic of LIV Golf and players looking to return to the Tour at the top of his press conference on Tuesday before being asked a question about the proposition. JON RAHM DODGES QUESTIONS ABOUT WANTING A PATHWAY BACK TO PGA TOUR WITH LIV GOLF FUTURE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN "Before we get to your questions on this announcement, I will briefly address LIV because I know it has been in the news recently, and I expect it may come up today," Rolapp began. "As I said a few weeks ago in Atlanta, there are really three things when it comes to anyone who wants to compete on the PGA TOUR. "One, the PGA TOUR is built on meritocracy. Every player, whether they are a member or want to become one, must earn their place. Two, we are a membership organization; we have rules, and those rules exist for lots of reasons, including fairness and competitive balance. Rules matter, and they must be enforced. "Which brings me to number three, accountability and discipline. These are essential elements for any sports league and are certainly for the integrity of the PGA TOUR and the sport. It's what holds the TOUR together. Those are guiding principles for us. In terms of where we are today, we are not currently contemplating a returning-member program like the one you saw in January." CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE The Returning Member Program offered in January was made accessible to previous Tour members who have won The Players or a major championship between 2022 and 2025. Koepka was the lone player to take advantage of the opportunity and met the criteria having won the 2023 PGA Championship. In April, Rolapp specifically stated that "Koepka’s path won’t be treated as a precedent if and when others seek to do the same." The only other LIV players who met the Returning Member Program requirements were Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Smith, and Jon Rahm. While it is quite clear that a direct path from LIV to the PGA Tour does not exist, there could be a hidden door, if you will. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! In the Tour's detailed announcement about requirements and eligibility for players in 2028, it included a note about the DP World Tour. "Access available to top performers from the DP World Tour is being considered as part of the ongoing discussions regarding the future of the Strategic Alliance," the Tour's statement read. Current LIV golfers who opt to compete on the DP World Tour, which could require fines and certain requirements, may potentially (emphasis on potentially) seek a path back onto the PGA Tour by going that route. The biggest uncertainty of it all is the actual status of LIV Golf itself after the circuit's recent bankruptcy filing, leaving its status a giant question mark. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa966d875342cf4db864376 Trump blasts Supreme Court 'disaster' after justices rule against him on mail in voting te 2026-09-15T15:40:08.347Z Trump blasts Supreme Court 'disaster' after justices rule against him on mail in voting President Donald Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court on Tuesday after justices ruled against his administration on a major mail-in voting initiative. "Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting 'disaster,' which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM," Trump wrote. The president went on to praise Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who dissented from Monday's order. Trump called the pair "legends." SUPREME COURT REJECTS TRUMP BID TO REVIVE STRICT MAIL-BALLOT RULES BEFORE MIDTERMS "It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left 'Dumocrats,' on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do - And now they have an open field to do so!" Trump wrote. Trump went on to list a series of cases where the Supreme Court has disappointed him, including its decision to strike down his tariff policies and void his executive order ending birthright citizenship. TRUMP CRITICIZES 2 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES BY NAME OVER TARIFF RULING "It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court - it will likely cost me dearly for years to come - but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love!" he wrote. The Monday order rejected the Trump administration's request for a stay in the implementation of a universal injunction against new mail-in ballot rules from the U.S. Postal Service. The rules would require federal ballot mail to be sent in envelopes bearing an election-mail logo, capable of being scanned by high-speed equipment and carrying a barcode unique to each voter. State and local election officials would also be required to submit envelope designs to the Postal Service for review and upload basic voter information to an online USPS portal. USPS WOULDN'T DELIVER BALLOTS IN STATES THAT REFUSE TO FORK OVER MAIL-IN VOTER INFO UNDER PROPOSED RULE Under the USPS rule, mailings that failed to comply would not be accepted and would instead be returned to election officials to correct and resubmit. The Court's Monday order went unsigned, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion that allowed room for a potential Trump victory down the line. He nevertheless argued that it is too close to Election Day to realistically implement the rules for the 2026 midterm elections. "In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority," Kavanaugh wrote. "But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9648975342cf4db864314 Nick Reiner returns to court for alleged murders of Rob, Michele Reiner te 2026-09-15T15:30:17.212Z Nick Reiner returns to court for alleged murders of Rob, Michele Reiner All eyes will be on Nick Reiner on Tuesday when he returns to court for the latest proceedings in his criminal case. Nick faces accusations he killed his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner. He was charged with two counts of murder and included special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and lying in wait after a grand jury indictment. Prosecutors also alleged he used a knife. "This was a profound betrayal by someone who was loved and trusted by the very people he is accused of killing," Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said at the time. NICK REINER INDICTED IN MURDERS OF PARENTS ROB, MICHELE REINER AT BRENTWOOD HOME Prosecutors claimed Nick fatally stabbed his father, 78, and mother, 70, on Dec. 14, 2025, at their Brentwood home.  As his trial moves forward, Nick has demanded access to his trust fund after he was allegedly blocked from a massive payout that would have funded his decision to hire top-notch celebrity attorney Alan Jackson. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Months after Nick was put behind bars in connection to the murder of his parents, he filed a petition arguing that the person appointed to oversee his $1.5 million trust has unlawfully withheld funds that are already legally his. Nick insisted he needed the trust money to pay for criminal defense counsel and basic necessities while incarcerated. Jackson, who previously represented Karen Read, began working on the case immediately after Nick's arrest, but the representation collapsed when anticipated family funding failed to materialize. In a declaration, Jackson said his firm remained willing to return if funding became available, including through alternative fee arrangements. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Los Angeles Fire Department officials responded to a Brentwood-area home at around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 14, where two bodies were discovered. Officials later confirmed the bodies to be of Rob and his wife, Michele. "Both victims were found in the master bedroom of the area of the home," LAPD Assistant Police Chief Dominic Choi later confirmed during a LAPD Board of Police Commissioners meeting. Officers then conducted a "thorough search" of the residence and found no additional victims or suspects. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9648775342cf4db86430b Smithsonian move reignites 'woke,' 'Marxist' criticism as Latino museum avoids congressional approval te 2026-09-15T15:30:15.867Z Smithsonian move reignites 'woke,' 'Marxist' criticism as Latino museum avoids congressional approval The Smithsonian designated its Arts and Industries Building as the permanent home of the controversial National Museum of the American Latino, a move critics say will allow the institution to move forward without another congressional fight over a museum they argue should not exist. The decision comes as the Smithsonian faces intensifying scrutiny over its historical exhibits. Mike Gonzalez, a former Bush State Department official and longtime critic of the Latino museum, argued its inaugural exhibition promoted a far-left worldview and said selecting the Arts and Industries Building was an effort to avoid a contentious Capitol Hill battle. "We need to fire the Smithsonian leadership," Gonzalez said. "We need to get rid of the Latino museum. It needs to be de-authorized. It should not exist." WATCH: SMITHSONIAN DIRECTOR ADMITS SHE SEES HISTORY AS ‘TOOL’ OF ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE’ AFTER EXPLOSIVE HEARING Shortly after the interview, his wish partially came true when the Smithsonian's top official, Secretary Lonnie Bunch III, announced his retirement after four decades with the institution. Gonzalez examined the Latino museum’s inaugural 2022 exhibition, "¡Presente!," in a Heritage Foundation report shared with Fox News Digital. He also testified alongside National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig during congressional hearings in July. The Smithsonian declined comment on Gonzalez’s report or his comments to Fox News Digital. Gonzalez argues the location decision matters because the Smithsonian already controls A&I, unlike the National Park Service sites previously under consideration. "They want to use this as kind of a ruse," Gonzalez said, arguing that the institution can avoid another congressional fight by placing the museum on property it already controls. TRUMP V. SMITHSONIAN: A TIMELINE OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE FIGHT OVER 'WOKE' HISTORY UNFOLDED Gonzalez examined "¡Presente!," and argued that a series of panels reflected what he described as an anti-Western, anti-American worldview. He pointed to its use of the idea "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us" as historically inaccurate and said it is a favorite mantra of those on the left who criticize immigration law enforcement. He said the language casts U.S. westward expansion primarily through the lens of displacement while obscuring the history of Mexicans who remained in territory acquired by the United States and later became American citizens. "I guess your guest today would count as one of them," he said of himself. "Even though I don't… run around calling myself a Hispanic. I'm a proud American of Cuban heritage." SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY PROMOTES 'EXTREME POLITICAL ACTIVISM,' WH REPORT ALLEGES READ THE FULL HERITAGE FOUNDATION REPORT His report also highlights exhibits dealing with gender identity, immigration and the veneration of Marxist luminaries and political figures. Speaking to Fox News Digital from Israel, he said such attacks on national identity would never "fly." One exhibit featured in Gonzalez’ report was titled "Jose Julio Sarria: Drag and Politics" and described Sarria as a "legendary drag performer [and] the first openly gay person to run for public office in the U.S." Another panel featured a Cuban transgender HIV/AIDS activist who fled the country during the Mariel Boatlift. SMITHSONIAN PUSHED ‘REVOLTING’ SOCIAL ACTION TRAINING AFTER ‘WHITENESS’ CHART APOLOGY: EXPERT "They create[d] a hothouse, an incubator of grievances among these 70 million Americans of Hispanic descent," he said, adding that Sarria and another featured figure prove that point. That example involves Orlando Letelier, a foreign minister under former Marxist Chilean President Salvador Allende. A photograph from the exhibition shows a 1976 quote from Letelier discussing his imprisonment under the Pinochet dictatorship and his later "liberation" in the name of restoring human rights. "Orlando Letelier has nothing to do with America, other than the fact that he died in a car explosion in Washington D.C., in 1976, but I'm old enough to remember that he was a cause-celebre of the left [then]," he said. "This is not an American story. The only reason he's there is because the curators who worked in this exhibit betrayed who they are... They're Marxists." Gonzalez, who said his father was imprisoned by Cuba’s former "tin-pot dictator" Fulgencio Batista before the leader was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959, said the Latino museum also does a rank disservice to the true history of Marxist-Leninist rule in Havana. "Havana perhaps has not been at war since the British invasion of 1763 and yet it looks like it’s been carpet-bombed: It’s been carpet-bombed by socialism." The exhibit on Batista omits the oppressive reign of the Castro brothers and also features a cartoon mocking the U.S. for the Reagan-era Iran-Contra affair, the report said. Gonzalez noted the latter aged poorly because the Daniel Ortega regime the U.S. opposed in Nicaragua is back in power decades later and has recently eliminated elections. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., a Smithsonian Regent and someone who also fled Cuban socialism, said the institution is a "crown jewel" of the United States and should be held to that standard. "The Congressman believes that the Smithsonian should be fair and balanced, aim for truth, and present both sides of the equation," Gimenez spokesman Rey Anthony told Fox News Digital. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9648675342cf4db864302 Iran's regime came for teenage twins. Their fate offers a glimpse of Tehran's widening death campaign te 2026-09-15T15:30:14.646Z Iran's regime came for teenage twins. Their fate offers a glimpse of Tehran's widening death campaign Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were 19, still in high school and living with their mother when masked men came for them in the middle of the night. According to their U.S.-based cousin, the twin sisters were dragged from their beds with bags placed over their heads about a month after they joined anti-regime protests in Isfahan. Their family was given no explanation and spent months searching courts, hospitals and government offices trying to determine where they had been taken. Four months later, their mother, Marzieh Nourmohammadi, was finally allowed to see them at Dowlatabad Prison. She barely recognized her daughters. ONE GLARING ISSUE GOES UNADDRESSED IN UN CHIEF'S HIGH-STAKES TALKS WITH IRAN'S PRESIDENT Their cousin, Masoud Nourmohammadi, told The Guardian that the twins had badly swollen and bruised faces, injuries to their elbows, hands and feet, and significant hair loss that he said resulted from guards pulling them by their hair as they were moved between cells. He said their mother also learned that the sisters had been held in solitary confinement. Now 20, Taraneh Rahimi faces execution over her alleged role in the January protests, while her twin sister could spend decades in prison, in a case unfolding amid a sharp rise in Iran’s use of the death penalty. Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported that Taraneh was sentenced to death and an additional 11 years in prison, while Romina received a 36-year sentence. The sentences were issued by Branch 1 of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court and remain initial-stage verdicts. The twins are among 16 defendants prosecuted in what has become known as the "Isfahan Shohada Square" case. HRANA said 10 defendants received death sentences and the 16 defendants collectively received 256 years in prison. The sisters’ family says the abuse was intended to force confessions. IRAN JAILS PSYCHOLOGIST OVER TRUMP PLEA AS REGIME DEMANDS HE MAKE AMERICANS ‘LOOK STUPID’: FAMILY Nourmohammadi told The Guardian that Taraneh was threatened that prison guards would rape Romina in front of her unless she signed a confession. The outlet reported that Taraneh later told the court that admissions attributed to her had been obtained through torture. Her mother was not permitted to attend the trial, according to the family. Radio Farda separately reported, citing Nourmohammadi, that the sisters suffered physical and psychological abuse and were forced to confess to accusations they deny. The Hana Human Rights Organization told Fox News Digital they have verified the torture allegations. Concerns about torture extend beyond the sisters. HRANA reported that another defendant in the same case, Ahmadreza Saeidi, told judges during the hearing that the investigating judge personally used an electric stun gun on his neck and genitals. Defense lawyers also reportedly complained that they had not been given access to substantial portions of the case file or adequate time to examine evidence before trial. The sentences come as rights organizations document a sharp rise in executions across Iran. COULD NARGES MOHAMMADI UNITE IRAN’S OPPOSITION? HUSBAND SAYS IMPRISONED NOBEL LAUREATE STILL FIGHTING The Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran documented 901 executions during the first seven months of 2026, including 56 people executed on political or national-security charges. Behnam Ben Taleblu, Iran Program senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that the executions should be viewed as part of a broader campaign by Tehran to suppress dissent at home. "Despite the war in the region, despite the drone war, the missile war, the war over the Strait of Hormuz, the real war is the one that's happening on a day-to-day basis inside the Islamic Republic," Ben Taleblu said. "The Islamic Republic is quite literally cracking skulls, cracking down on civil society, on dissidents, on protesters." Among those imprisoned in Iran’s broader crackdown is Seyed Ahmad Seyedabdollahi, a 32-year-old psychologist whose case Fox News Digital reported in August. Seyedabdollahi posted an English-language video on Jan. 4 appealing directly to President Donald Trump to support Iranian protesters, according to his relatives and Fox News Digital’s previous reporting. He was arrested 10 days later and ultimately sentenced to seven months in prison and barred from government and public services for five years. His relatives told Fox News Digital that Iranian authorities later pressured him to record another video insulting Trump and Americans and alleged that he was subjected to solitary confinement and torture. The Hana Human Rights Organization reportedAug. 9 that Seyedabdollahi had been held in Borujen Prison since July 7 and that authorities opened a second case against him on a charge of "propaganda against the system of the Islamic Republic." Hana also confirmed that he was serving a seven-month sentence and had received a five-year disqualification from public and governmental services. His relatives confirmed to Fox News Digital that authorities have continued pressuring him to say he was a "foreign agent" paid by the U.S. government. They also said authorities revoked his professional license, adding financial pressure on his family. Ben Taleblu said Tehran has followed a similar pattern after previous periods of external conflict, turning its attention inward against perceived opponents. INSIDE TEHRAN: IRANIANS DESCRIBE IRGC'S BRUTAL RULE, POVERTY — ASK TRUMP TO 'STAY THE COURSE' "We saw this trend in the aftermath of the 12-day war as well," Ben Taleblu said. "Lose a war abroad, come home and pretend like you're the victor." "Simply here, the Islamic Republic is continuing the longest war it's ever fought, which is the 47-year war against the Iranian people," he added. Wednesday marks four years since the Sept. 16, 2022, death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was detained three days earlier by Iran’s morality police over what authorities described as "improper hijab." Her death sparked nationwide protests that became known internationally as the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement. The U.N. said reports that Amini had been beaten in custody warranted an independent investigation, while Iranian authorities maintained that she died of "natural causes." 'KILLING OFF THE COUNTRY': IRAN EXECUTES DOZENS, ARRESTS 4,000-PLUS IN WAR CRACKDOWN The 2022 uprising was itself part of a longer cycle of unrest. Nationwide demonstrations beginning in December 2017 rapidly spread across Iran and represented the largest challenge to the government since the 2009 Green Movement. The 2017-18 protests were followed by another major nationwide wave in 2019 and then the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. Ben Taleblu argued that whenever another major protest movement emerges, Western governments should be prepared to help Iranians communicate with one another and the outside world, particularly when authorities shut down internet access. "We know every single time another major protest is happening, the way the regime cracks down is to first turn off the internet," he said. "That means the regime fears what comes of coordination between Iranians and fears what comes of when the Iranians are able to send their message outside to the international community." "The partners of the Iranian people, America, Israel, the West, these are largely all cyber superpowers," Ben Taleblu said. "We should not let the Iranian people continue to die in the darkness." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9647d75342cf4db8642cd Wonder scores a $425 million partnership with DoorDash as it builds its food empire te 2026-09-15T15:30:05.585Z Wonder scores a $425 million partnership with DoorDash as it builds its food empire Founded by veteran e-commerce entrepreneur Marc Lore, Wonder is slowly building a massive portfolio of restaurants and delivery companies. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9647c75342cf4db8642c4 AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round te 2026-09-15T15:30:04.086Z AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round Profound has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9622775342cf4db864296 Taylor Swift steals Emmys spotlight, watches husband Travis Kelce's Chiefs game with Tom Cruise te 2026-09-15T15:20:07.553Z Taylor Swift steals Emmys spotlight, watches husband Travis Kelce's Chiefs game with Tom Cruise Taylor Swift skipped the 2026 Emmy Awards, but made sure to leave her mark on television's biggest night. Swift, 36, still surprised the audience with a special appearance alongside her longtime friend and Emmys host, Mariska Hargitay, in a prerecorded "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" spoof. As the 78th Emmy Awards were underway in Los Angeles, the "Lover" singer was spotted chatting it up with Tom Cruise at Arrowhead Stadium while supporting her husband, Travis Kelce, at the Kansas City Chiefs game. DOLLY PARTON, ROB REINER RECEIVE EMOTIONAL TRIBUTES DURING 2026 EMMY AWARDS During the awards show, Hargitay joked about Swift and her fans during a skit featuring the cast of "SVU," where her character, Olivia Benson, wondered if Swift would show up to the Emmys. TAYLOR SWIFT'S HUSBAND TRAVIS KELCE REVEALS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THEIR ‘INSANE’ WEDDING "Now, in order to crack a Swiftie case, you got to think like a Swiftie, because the Swifties think that everything is a clue to what she’ll do next," Hargitay said while navigating an evidence board. As the team attempted to tie information together, a voice chimed in, "Hey guys, this isn't adding up." Swift appeared from the back of the room wearing a blazer and matching slacks. "Our perp has a clear M.O.," she said. "A lot of this doesn’t fit the pattern, and I don’t think everything is a clue." BRAD PAISLEY SAYS TAYLOR SWIFT AND TRAVIS KELCE THREW ‘ONE OF THE LEAST PRETENTIOUS WEDDINGS’ EVER As the investigation played out, Hargitay determined, "Taylor Swift will not be at the Emmys." Swift chimed in, "Maybe she’s going to do one of those cool pre-taped sketch things to support the host." The camera panned toward the pair where the "Reputation" singer was shown holding her Scottish Fold cat named Olivia Benson, an homage to her favorite "SVU" character. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE While the feline may have brought them together, the pair have since enjoyed a flourishing friendship. Hargitay was featured in Swift's "Bad Blood" music video in 2015, and that same year, made an appearance at her tour stop in Philadelphia. They were most recently spotted courtside wearing matching shirts to watch the New York Knicks during the NBA Finals. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "I was wearing a black T-shirt, and Taylor, being the prepared woman that she is, was like, ‘I got you,’ and basically handed it to me," the actress told Jimmy Kimmel recently. "I put it on, and that was the end of it." Hargitay admitted she was "still floating from that wedding" after attending the couple's Madison Square Garden nuptials in July. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "It was so spectacular and so intimate," she said. "When there's a wedding with that many guests, you think, 'Oh, OK, it’s going to be that,' and it just wasn't." She added, "And I even say that the vows were my favorite part of the whole wedding. It was that magical." While Swift's spot aired from the West Coast, she sat comfortably with Cruise in the Midwest for Kelce's season opener against the Denver Broncos. The "Mission Impossible" star previously supported Swift during the second night of her Eras Tour stop at Wembley Stadium in London, where Cruise was spotted trading friendship bracelets with fans – a fan-favorite tradition. Their appearance at Arrowhead Stadium Monday also marked Swift's first Chiefs game as a married woman. Swift and Kelce married on July 3 in front of 1,000 guests at Madison Square Garden, a representative for the pop star told Fox News Digital. The pair opted out of a traditional wedding party, and instead choose Swift's brother as her "Man of Honor" and Kelce's brother as his "Best Man." Swift's representative revealed to Fox News Digital that the couple's wedding ceremony looks were designed by Jonathan Anderson of Christian Dior Haute Couture. The happy couple both wore white, and the "Life of a Showgirl" singer accessorized with Cartier. Fox News Digital's Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa95fd275342cf4db86423f Newsom roasted online for 'staged' fly-fishing interview with CNN anchor where he dropped major 2028 hint te 2026-09-15T15:10:10.916Z Newsom roasted online for 'staged' fly-fishing interview with CNN anchor where he dropped major 2028 hint Social media users are taking jabs at California Gov. Gavin Newsom over his latest political stunt — a recorded fly-fishing outing with a CNN anchor that the Democrat used to break news about his often-rumored presidential ambitions. In the interview, recorded in Montana more than a month ago, CNN's Jake Tapper is seen with Newsom standing in shallow water, repeatedly casting fly reels while talking politics. Newsom told Tapper he wouldn't run for president if former failed 2024 presidential candidate former Vice President Kamala Harris tossed her hat into the ring. "Of course not. Why would I?" Newsom said when asked whether he would run against Harris in a presidential primary. "I wouldn’t do that to her. I wouldn’t do it to me. Why would I? I wouldn’t do that to you." "I wouldn’t waste everyone’s time. Who needs that?" JENNIFER SIEBEL NEWSOM DODGES QUESTION ON HUSBAND GAVIN'S PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS Tapper pushed back, saying Newsom could do it if he really wanted to. But the Golden State governor replied by saying that would be a "gift from God for everybody else," likely referencing those who don't want to see a Democrat win in November, and claimed a primary against the former nominee would be "mutually assured destruction." "I know her base of supporters. I know her friends," Newsom said of the former U.S. senator from California. "The zen diagram (sic) on that is just pure crossover. It’s not — I wouldn’t do that to — I wouldn’t do that to people," he said, mixing up the Buddhist meditation practice with a Venn diagram, the visual tool where overlapping circles are used to show how groups are similar and different. KAMALA HARRIS IS THE 'FAIRLY OBVIOUS' 2028 PRESIDENTIAL FRONTRUNNER, DEMOCRATIC INSIDERS SAY On social media, the reactions to the video widely shamed the pair for a stunt that was viewed as contrived. "why [sic] is newsom fly fishing in business casual?" an X user named Sam Alberti asked. "How lucky are we that a camera crew just happened to be standing in a Montana river while two guys who can’t cast pretended to fly fish," said a popular X user with more than 55,000 followers. "Totally organic. Not staged at all. CNN is doing the Lord’s work trying to make Newsom look like a regular dude. Herculean task.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​" Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross wrote, "The best part of this is when Newsom says 'Zen diagram' when he was talking about a Venn diagram." "Jake Tapper and Gavin Newsom pretending to be regular guys fishing is absolutely hilarious," said another user with 1.7 million followers. 'HE'S SO THIRSTY': NEWSOM'S 'ENTHUSIASTIC' PRAISE FOR TRUMP POLICY TURNS HEADS "This is the most Gavin Newsom-ish fishing video ever -- the French Laundry of fishing!" said politico Kenneth Baer, referring to the upscale California restaurant where Newsom dined with a group of friends during COVID-19 lockdown despite his implementation on state-wide restrictions on social gatherings during the pandemic. "'Let’s do this interview surrounded by an entire film and sound crew in the river. Yeah, yeah, that’ll make us seem like nature guys,'" economist Nick Messenger said sarcastically. Fox News Digital reached out to Newsom's office but did not hear back by time of publication. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa95d8175342cf4db8641e9 'How can you fight during a love song?' Riley Green defuses crowd fight at New Mexico show te 2026-09-15T15:00:17.632Z 'How can you fight during a love song?' Riley Green defuses crowd fight at New Mexico show Riley Green found himself in an unexpected situation during a recent show. As the loyal OutKick readers know, Green is a true country music star, and his climb up the mountain only increases with everything he does. One of the reasons why Green is so popular is that he comes off as incredibly authentic and down to Earth. That's about as rare as a unicorn sighting these days in the entertainment world. COUNTRY STAR RILEY GREEN REVEALS WHY FAN EMOTION AT HIS SHOWS BEATS INDUSTRY AWARDS EVERY TIME Well, Green, once again, reminded people why he's such a cool dude while defusing a tense situation. Green was performing in Albuquerque, New Mexico over the weekend when a fight in the crowd broke out during his show, according to Whiskey Riff. COUNTRY STAR RILEY GREEN NEARLY DOVE INTO THE CROWD AFTER A FAN SPLIT HIS EAR OPEN DURING A PERFORMANCE "I was hoping I wouldn’t have to whoop nobody’s a** today…Hey, can I talk to you all for a second? If everybody’s okay, why don’t you just split up. You all go stand somewhere else. How can you fight during a love song? It’s way too early," Riley calmly said from the stage. Eventually, overwhelming boos from the rest of the crowd directed at the people fighting, and then security arrived to handle it. "You all just hold it together for a little while. We'll play for about 90 minutes and then we can all beat the sh** out of each other at the end of the night," the "Jesus Saves" singer joked after the situation had been resolved. You can watch the entertaining moment unfold below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will never understand people who spend their hard-earned money to attend an event, and then decide to get into a fight. I guess they must have a lot more money than I do because it's 100% a pure waste. Security is going to toss you without a second of hesitation. COUNTRY MUSIC STAR GOES VIRAL WITH HEARTWARMING MOMENT INVOLVING YOUNG FAN, REACTIONS POUR IN SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Green also handled the situation like an absolute pro. He did not escalate. The talented singer turned the temperature down and did so while cracking some jokes. What do you think of the moment? Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa95d7a75342cf4db8641c1 Congress Has Proposed Many Bills for A.I. Regulation. Lawmakers Have Enacted Few. te 2026-09-15T15:00:10.418Z Congress Has Proposed Many Bills for A.I. Regulation. Lawmakers Have Enacted Few. For years, Democrats and Republicans have proposed bills to address the greatest threats posed by artificial intelligence. Many remain stymied by political disputes. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa95d7875342cf4db8641b1 Kaibab National Forest set to begin fall prescribed fires this month te 2026-09-15T15:00:08.438Z Kaibab National Forest set to begin fall prescribed fires this month The work may begin as soon as Sept. 20 with Moonset Pit and is estimated to continue through October as weather conditions allow. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa95b2975342cf4db864161 Newt Gingrich reflects on what sets Trump apart from other leaders at GOP midterm convention te 2026-09-15T14:50:17.285Z Newt Gingrich reflects on what sets Trump apart from other leaders at GOP midterm convention Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered a candid assessment of what sets President Donald Trump apart from other politicians, describing his unfiltered nature as both an asset and a liability. "He has no boundaries," Gingrich said during a "Hang Out With Sean Hannity" podcast episode taped at last week's Republican midterm convention in Dallas. "It's good, and it's bad..." he continued. "He's totally authentic. Now the problem with that is he's not editable because he's totally authentic." JD VANCE REVEALS TRUMP'S 'UNBELIEVABLE ABILITY' THAT BEHAVES LIKE A 'SPIRITUAL DIMENSION' Gingrich made the remarks after Hannity asked what sets the president apart from other leaders, prompting the former House speaker to reflect on a president he has known for years. During the discussion, the former speaker also pointed to Trump's wide-ranging areas of focus and his tendency to move quickly from one issue to another, noting recent actions involving space policy. TRUMP CALLS ISS CREW FROM HOUSTON TO PRAISE SPACE PIONEERS AND OFFER 'OVAL OFFICE TIME' "He's interested in everything..." Gingrich said. "He puttered along for a while, and he suddenly, bam, [he] did a bunch of very decisive, very important things, and now he's off doing something else." In recent weeks, Trump signed a new national space transportation policy aimed at expanding U.S. launch capacity and issued an executive order creating a commission to develop a proposal for a NASA-led U.S. Space Academy. Gingrich has been a prominent supporter and ally of the president since his first term, frequently offering favorable assessments of his style, policies and approach to governing. He wrote extensively about Trump's rise during the 2016 campaign and has authored books examining his presidency. His latest assessment came as Republicans gathered for the party's first-ever midterm convention, where Trump and Vice President JD Vance addressed party members as the GOP works to retain its congressional majorities for the remainder of Trump's second term. Gingrich's full conversation with Hannity is available on iHeartRadio, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa95b1c75342cf4db86412b Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo te 2026-09-15T14:50:04.266Z Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo Essentially is a camera app, Superpose analyzes selfies or photos and generates four potential poses using AI. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa958cb75342cf4db864106 Lindsay Clancy judge indefinitely impounds juror names, citing safety and 'divisive' attention te 2026-09-15T14:40:11.884Z Lindsay Clancy judge indefinitely impounds juror names, citing safety and 'divisive' attention The judge in the Lindsay Clancy case has indefinitely sealed the jurors' names, citing safety concerns and what he called "significant and divisive attention" on the trial. Judge William Sullivan issued the order on Monday, and said while the court acknowledges that the jurors' names must be made available to the public, there is a "real and present" risk of harm to the jurors, stating he's impounding all names indefinitely until otherwise ordered. Sullivan noted that there have been "identifications of jurors and their personal information without their permission" in explaining his reasoning for shielding the jurors' names. "Some of the empaneled jurors have come forward and spoken to the media after the declaration of a mistrial on September 4, 2026. However, the majority of the jurors, deliberating and alternates, have maintained their anonymity, despite multiple requests to give statements," Sullivan wrote. "The Court concludes that there is a risk of immediate and irreparable injury should the list be made available to the public at this time." LINDSAY CLANCY JUROR DENIES BIAS ALLEGATIONS, WANTS 'CONVERSATION STARTED' ABOUT WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH Clancy, 36, faced three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the slayings of her children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — who were discovered strangled at the family's home in January 2023. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 after jurors could not agree on a unanimous verdict, with the panel split 11-1. SEND US A TIP One of the jurors, Paula Devlin, 65, denied allegations of bias when speaking with Fox News Digital. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS "We didn't know what was going on outside of that room, but we knew that we had a chance to get a conversation started that could change something, that could maybe stop this from ever happening again," Devlin said. "I think, that's one of the reasons why we feel — or I feel — so strongly about this is that I hope that no other woman or husband has to go through this." LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST Devlin said there were "holes" in the prosecution's case after reviewing the evidence. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE "In the biggest piece of the whole case, the whole thing was based on mental health. How can you have bias if only women can go through postpartum depression? Only women can go through postpartum psychosis. Only women can deliver a baby. That's not biased. That's just a fact," she said. Clancy is due back in court on Sept. 29 for a status hearing, at which more information about the future of her case may be revealed. The Plymouth County District Attorney's Office hasn't made a decision on if the case will be retried. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa958c375342cf4db8640d0 Discover how to take your startup from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 te 2026-09-15T14:40:04.012Z Discover how to take your startup from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Learn how to scale your startup breakthrough from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 with scaling leaders, Adrian Macneil (Foxglove), John Mackey (MBRYONICS), and Boris Sofman (Bedrock Robotics. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9566e75342cf4db864074 India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network te 2026-09-15T14:30:06.481Z India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments made through UPI starting October 15. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9541e75342cf4db864043 China expert warns Beijing wants Americans — not the CCP — to spread its message te 2026-09-15T14:20:14.927Z China expert warns Beijing wants Americans — not the CCP — to spread its message Congress will examine how foreign adversaries — particularly China — seek to influence American public opinion and policymaking at a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. One of the expert witnesses told Fox News Digital ahead of the hearing that Beijing's greater advantage lies in shaping debate inside the United States through American organizations rather than direct Chinese propaganda. Matthew Johnson, a China expert and senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, said Beijing increasingly seeks to influence debates over national security and other strategic issues by working through American institutions and organizations, making its messages appear homegrown rather than directed by the Chinese government. HOUSE PANEL TO PROBE FOREIGN ‘TROJAN HORSES’ AS SINGHAM SCRUTINY WIDENS "The idea is that it's not the Communist Party talking, it's actually institutions and individuals in the United States who are talking," Johnson told Fox News Digital. "That's actually the best outcome because then it looks organic... it looks like it's somehow being produced from within our society as opposed to by external actors." Johnson said one of Beijing's current priorities is slowing U.S. advances in artificial intelligence and data-center infrastructure—an area he said Chinese leaders view as central to strategic competition with the United States. He said China's influence strategy combines grassroots activism with efforts to shape thinking among academics, policy experts and other influential voices. His testimony comes as Congress continues examining the funding network linked to Shanghai-based Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, whose nonprofits have become the subject of congressional investigations and a federal criminal probe. Fox News Digital previously reported that Singham directed at least $285 million into six pro-China, pro-communist nonprofit organizations beginning in 2017, including CodePink. Singham and the organizations have denied taking direction from the Chinese government, and neither Singham nor the organizations have been charged with wrongdoing. HOUSE PANEL SUBPOENAS 3 LEFT-WING GROUPS IN PROBE OF $39M TIED TO MARXIST TYCOON NEVILLE SINGHAM Johnson is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, which will hold a hearing titled "Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America." Lawmakers are expected to examine how foreign adversaries, including China, Cuba and Iran, may use nonprofits, activist networks and other organizations to shape U.S. public opinion and policy. "My goal is to raise the curtain to expose these operations and stop them from undermining our national security, capitalism and the American Dream," committee Chairman Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., told Fox News Digital. Johnson said the hearing focuses on what lawmakers describe as "malign foreign influence"—efforts by foreign governments to shape American public debate and policymaking by steering conversations toward their own strategic interests rather than those of the United States. "I try to break down influence in terms of looking at ways in which the framework of very sensitive strategic conversations is being steered in ways that seem to map onto China's strategic interests, not American strategic interests," Johnson said. He said the concept of a "Trojan horse" reflects Beijing's preference for influencing American debate through domestic institutions and individuals rather than direct government messaging. "From an American perspective, we want to be sure that it's Americans who are leading the debate on this issue, not Beijing," Johnson said. CHINA’S INFLUENCE MACHINE: FEDERAL RECORDS EXPOSE BEIJING’S PUSH TO SWAY AMERICA Among the organizations that have received funding from Singham's network is CodePink, the anti-war activist group co-founded by Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, Singham's wife. CodePink has spent years organizing disruptive protests inside Congress, campaigning against U.S. policy toward China, Cuba and Israel, and promoting its "China Is Not Our Enemy" campaign, which argues the United States should pursue cooperation with Beijing rather than confrontation. House Ways and Means Committee Republicans have accused the group of promoting narratives aligned with Chinese Communist Party interests, allegations CodePink denies. Asked why campaigns such as CodePink's "China Is Not Our Enemy" matter, Johnson said they promote an image of China that serves Beijing's strategic interests by downplaying the broader geopolitical competition between the two countries. "The idea that we don't want war with China, we want peace... these are all noble goals," Johnson said. "But... its strategic function is that it masks the fact that Beijing actually does seek a world order that is more shaped by Beijing in which the United States plays a lesser role." Johnson said China does not have to convince Americans to support the Chinese Communist Party to advance its interests. Instead, he said, Beijing benefits when public debate shifts away from viewing China as a strategic competitor. "The real issue is whether there is actually a balance and whether we have enough transparency to allow us to assess whether there's a balance," Johnson said. Fox News' Asra Q. Nomani contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9541d75342cf4db86403a Europe’s left courts Muslim voters as anti-Israel politics reshape continent te 2026-09-15T14:20:13.698Z Europe’s left courts Muslim voters as anti-Israel politics reshape continent It's known as the "Red-Green Alliance" — a political coalition between Europe's far-left parties and Islamist groups that is increasingly shaping policy, particularly regarding Israel as the continent experiences a worrying rise in antisemitism that critics are linking to this partnership.  With the rise of Muslim voters across Europe, many on the left and extreme-left are being influenced by this increasingly important voting bloc.  Just last week in the U.K., critics accused the left-wing Labour government of sanctioning Israel as a ploy to win back Muslim voters from the far-left, anti-Israel Green and Independent parties. Conservative lawmaker Tom Tugendhat called the sanctions' announcement "performative politics." In Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Sweden, exit polling from the state broadcaster shows that votes from non-European Swedes are giving an alliance of left-wing parties a narrow three-seat lead over a right-leaning coalition led by current Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. GERMAN OFFICIALS WARN ISLAMIST, FAR-LEFT RHETORIC DRIVING SPIKE IN ANTISEMITIC ATTACKS One Swedish political researcher, Tobias Hübinette, pointed to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's win in New York City and said that the numbers in the Swedish election show a growing divide not only between rural and urban voters but that this "election meant a 'Mamdanification' of urban Sweden, and the gap between city and country is now larger than ever before," he wrote on X. "They should be in disagreement," Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, the senior envoy to Europe at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Fox News Digital, "but the Islamists are very capable of covering that up for political purposes… The antisemitism that we have today, in particular in Western Europe, is definitely fed far more (by) the far left's discourse." Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society Executive Director in the U.K. said that, "For a decade, Europe has trained its anxieties almost exclusively on the far-right, and while that vigilance is warranted, it has left a blind spot on the other flank… Antisemitism is not less dangerous because it arrives waving a progressive banner." Germany-based Dresden University of Technology research fellow Janek Treiber said that, "There is indeed an intriguing alliance between the supposedly progressive Left and regressive forces within Islamism." He told Fox News Digital that, "The unifying factor is a kind of victimization narrative. For the Left that supports the Palestinian cause, Muslims are the oppressed and the West – including Israel – are the oppressors… Whether Muslims hold conservative-religious views in this context is irrelevant." ANTI-MIGRANT AFD SEEKS TO BREAK GERMANY’S POLITICAL ‘FIREWALL’ IN HISTORIC STATE ELECTION Voters in Berlin head to the ballot box this coming Sunday, with polls showing the far-left Die Linke party, literally translated as the "The Left", leading the center-right Christian Democratic Union by two points. "In Berlin, a party polling at the top of the field has factions that share platforms, demonstrations and slogans with networks the German security services themselves link to Hamas and the PFLP," Mendoza claimed. "When 'Death to the IDF' and 'Intifada' are chanted at an election event, and the response from parts of the party is to defend the man who led them, the red line has been erased, not crossed." Rodan-Benzaquen says that while Germany’s political "firewall" against far-right parties like the AfD "seems to work more or less on the right, it doesn't on the left," because, "there is a perception that whatever comes from the left, even the far-left, is not morally as repugnant as anything that comes from the right." ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE REACHES DEADLIEST LEVEL SINCE 1994, NEW GLOBAL REPORT FINDS Germany and the U.K. are not alone. The far-left Sumar party in Spain is part of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s ruling coalition. Their support in the last election was strongest in areas with high Muslim populations, with party members attending demonstrations with Muslim Brotherhood-adjacent groups and Gaza protests organized by Islamist-leaning networks. Members have also pushed for Spain to recognize a Palestinian state while also referring to Israel as an "apartheid state." Spain recognized a Palestinian state in 2024. The far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party in France has been accused by academics and ministers of "Islamo‑leftism" after their de facto leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization and party members marched with Islamist-linked NGOs during Gaza protests. The LFI’s popularity has been on the rise in polling ahead of next year’s presidential election and, according to French newspaper Le Monde, the LFI’s electoral strength lies in Muslim-majority suburban districts. The Israeli Ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, recently told Fox News Digital that, "The way [LFI leader] Jean-Luc Mélenchon speaks in front of a crowd reminds me of Hitler. The way he uses the idea of uniting against one enemy by speaking of Israel is similar to the way Hitler used to speak about the Jews." In the U.K. commenting on the sanctions imposed by the government on Israel, Britain's Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis called the announcement on X "a truly dark day for British Jews." His statement continued in part, "Gesture politics of this kind feeds into an increasingly hostile discourse about Israel," he wrote, warning that the cumulative effect of such policies could "further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews." EXILED MUSLIM SCHOLAR WARNS FAR-LEFT–ISLAMIST ALLIANCE BEHIND ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS ECHOES IRAN’S RISE Pointing to the U.K., Rodan-Benzaquen said the alliance grew while Jeremy Corbyn was the Labour Party leader. "You have this far left anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, opposition to American power and, of course, to Israel itself. An alliance with Islamist organizations and movements that sort of adopt a common language, despite the fact that on many topics they are in certain disagreement… They have basically turned themselves from a party that cared about class, that cared about improving (lives), social rights, etcetera, into a party that is basically looking at identity politics and is trying to appeal to certain voters." She said the red-green alliance is nothing new. "We've seen it for a long time. We've actually seen it in the Islamic Republic of Iran when the Islamic Revolution happened." Europe’s Muslim population is estimated to be 45–46 million, up by 15.9% from 2010, based on Pew Research Center projections. That same study revealed the population of European Jewry had fallen to under 1.3 million — down 8% from 2010.  Rodan-Benzaquen says of European Jews, "electorally, we don't weigh," so they have again become a political football. She says when left and far-left parties say, "Oh, we want to fight against antisemitism. The only reason why they're saying it is because it's a tool to attack the far-right." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9541b75342cf4db864031 Army veteran paratrooper who deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan before helping rescue Fox News reporter dead at 50 te 2026-09-15T14:20:11.625Z Army veteran paratrooper who deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan before helping rescue Fox News reporter dead at 50 Sean Michael Lee, an Army paratrooper who helped evacuate thousands from conflict zones after his service — including Fox News' Benjamin Hall — died Sunday after a battle with esophageal cancer. Lee was a 20-year veteran of the Army, having served multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the Army's storied 82nd Airborne Division, according to his obituary. "He was, to his core, a paratrooper. Long after he took off the uniform, the values forged there remained the organizing principles of his life: duty, loyalty, competence under pressure, and an unwavering commitment to the person beside him," his obituary reads. AMERICA’S PROMISE TO OUR AFGHAN ALLIES IS STILL UNFINISHED FIVE YEARS LATER Lee spent the years after his military service continuing to help people. In 2021, as Afghanistan's government was collapsing, Lee worked to help evacuate thousands during a chaotic withdrawal as a member of the nonprofit group Save Our Allies. Just a year later, Lee was in Poland helping deliver supplies to the frontline in Ukraine in the midst of Russia's invasion. It was there that Lee became a key part of extracting Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, who had been severely injured when Russian forces attacked his vehicle near Kyiv. Two members of Hall’s crew were killed in the attack. BENJAMIN HALL TACKLES GRUELING ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER CLIMB ON PROSTHETIC LEGS TO HONOR FALLEN HEROES "We got the call, we had just finished up a staff meeting with our folks back in the United States, and I can tell you that in about 90 minutes our guys were out the door and on the way," Lee explained to the Daily Caller during a 2022 interview. Lee also worked to help wounded veterans through The Independence Fund. In 2024, Lee helped deliver life-saving supplies to survivors of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. He lived out of a tent in the Tar Heel state as he helped deliver aid to communities where support systems had collapsed, according to his obituary. LUKE COMBS AND ERIC CHURCH RAISE OVER $24.5 MILLION FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS AT STAR-STUDDED CONCERT FOR CAROLINA Most recently, Lee had been working under Secretary Doug Collins at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He was part of the U.S. military's 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was also part of the storied Bravo Company in the 2-508 Parachute Infantry Regiment. Half of the company received Purple Hearts for an Afghanistan deployment that was documented in Ben Kesling’s book "Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and its Aftermath." Lee's two best friends — Sgt. Michael Verardo and Sgt. Allen Thomas — both of whom deployed with him to Afghanistan, both passed away before him. Lee's cancer was the direct result of his exposure to the burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. He died at age 50. VETERANS FACE SURPRISING THREAT AFTER CANCER DIAGNOSIS, STUDY REVEALS "I can’t even begin to explain what the world has just lost," former MMA fighter and Special Forces sniper Tim Kennedy wrote in a post on Instagram. "This country has lost one of the finest men ever to serve it," Kennedy's message continued. "Sean redefined the word service. He did not just volunteer to put on the uniform and join the 82nd Airborne. He dedicated his entire life to other people. He put his life on the line more times than anyone can count. Wherever people needed help, you found Sean. Whenever I needed help, I found Sean," Kennedy wrote. Lee's life "cannot be measured simply in years, deployments, jobs, or missions. It is measured in people who made it home because he went toward danger," his obituary, shared by Heritage Funeral & Cremation Services, says. "In wounded men carried to safety. In Afghan families given a chance to begin again. In communities that received help when they believed they had been forgotten. In veterans whose lives were better because he continued serving them after his own time in uniform ended. And in the children who simply knew him as Uncle Sean: the constant, fiercely protective man who showed up." Fox News Digital contacted Save Our Allies for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9541375342cf4db863ff1 Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women’s health research with vaginal microbiome data te 2026-09-15T14:20:03.344Z Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women’s health research with vaginal microbiome data Women’s health company Evvy announced Tuesday a $40 million Series B led by Catalio Capital Management. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa951d775342cf4db863fce Oil squeeze tightens as Iran-backed attacks cripple Hormuz escape routes te 2026-09-15T14:10:31.246Z Oil squeeze tightens as Iran-backed attacks cripple Hormuz escape routes The U.S. is choking off Iran’s oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz. But the routes meant to shield other Gulf producers from that disruption are now coming under pressure themselves. A drone attack last week badly damaged Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, a critical bypass that carries crude oil across the kingdom to the Red Sea. Repairs could leave it largely out of service for three to five weeks after it had been moving roughly 2.6 million to 4 million barrels per day in recent weeks. At the same time, Iran-backed Houthi rebels have seized additional territory and strategic islands around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean — adding pressure to another major shipping route already battered by years of attacks. And those repeated disruptions are already reaching American consumers. NEW RISK FOR US CONSUMERS AS IRAN-BACKED ATTACKS THREATEN A SECOND MAJOR OIL CHOKEPOINT U.S. diesel prices hit a record national average of $6.23 a gallon Monday, according to AAA, while regular gasoline averaged $4.32. Brent crude climbed as high as roughly $110 a barrel during the day. Washington has sharply curtailed Iran’s oil exports and trade, but the wider conflict is still disrupting energy supplies elsewhere in the region, espcially as Iran-backed Houthi rebels strengthen their stance along the coastline in Yemen. THE OVERLOOKED WAY THE IRAN WAR IS MAKING GROCERIES, AMAZON PACKAGES AND NEW HOMES MORE EXPENSIVE The question now is whether Iran is hurting enough to make the concessions Trump wants — and how much economic damage Tehran and its allies can still inflict while it holds out. The economic pressure on Tehran is mounting. Iran has gone weeks without sending meaningful new crude exports through Hormuz. Since the United States reinstated its naval blockade July 14, no Iranian crude cargoes have successfully crossed the strait to China, Tehran’s largest remaining oil customer, according to Kpler, Vortexa and TankerTrackers.com. Iranian crude and condensate loadings fell to roughly 220,000 to 255,000 barrels per day in August, down from about 740,000 in July and roughly 2 million in March. Commercial shipping through Hormuz also remains deeply disrupted. Recent readings from Kpler, which track real-time data on global commodity flows and maritime shipping, have repeatedly put visible commodity-vessel transits in the single digits, even as the U.S. has worked to restore some movement through the waterway. Miad Maleki, a senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the pressure is increasingly reaching beyond Iran’s oil industry and into the broader economy. HORMUZ CRISIS HIDES A DEEPER OIL THREAT THAT COULD OUTLAST THE WAR "There are a series of indications" that the pressure is working, Maleki told Fox News Digital, citing the combined effect of sanctions, the naval blockade and growing diplomatic isolation. Iran depends heavily on trade through the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, Maleki said, and restrictions on those channels are making it harder to obtain foreign currency and essential imports. Gasoline could become an especially difficult pressure point. Iran remains one of the world’s major crude producers but lacks sufficient refining capacity to meet its own demand, leaving it dependent on imports that have become more difficult to secure. The regime can cushion some of the financial blow by continuing to print currency and pay salaries, Maleki said, allowing inflation to absorb part of the pressure rather than immediately cutting government payrolls. Physical shortages are harder to solve. But that does not necessarily mean Tehran has deliberately substituted the Bab el-Mandeb for Hormuz as a new source of leverage. Iran expert Arash Azizi said Tehran has already been forced to recognize that its ability to dominate the Strait of Hormuz is weaker than it once claimed. "Iran has realized that some of the leverage it has over the threat of Hormuz is gone," Azizi told Fox News Digital. "[Iran] is not able to close it effectively and is desperately trying to find a way to better its odds," he said. Azizi cautioned, however, against treating every Houthi move as part of a coordinated Iranian strategy to transfer pressure from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea. "Iran has limited control, and the Houthi-Saudi conflict has a dynamics of its own," he said. IRAN LOSES KEY ECONOMIC LIFELINE IN MIDDLE EAST THAT TRUMP'S SANCTIONS COULDN'T REACH AS DEADLOCK PERSISTS Iran encourages and materially supports the Houthis, Azizi said, but does not exercise full operational control over the group. That distinction matters as the Houthis strengthen their position around Bab el-Mandeb. Their capture of Mayun Island, the port of Mokha and, most recently, the Greater and Lesser Hanish islands has expanded their reach around one of the world’s most important shipping corridors. Yet the group has continued to allow many vessels to pass rather than attempting a total closure of the strait. Azizi described the instability there as a "double-edged sword" for Tehran. Pressure on shipping and Saudi energy infrastructure can raise costs for Iran’s adversaries and increase anxiety in global oil markets. But a broader regional conflict can also make it harder for Tehran to achieve what Azizi described as its overriding objective: ending the war, preserving the Islamic Republic and beginning reconstruction. For Tehran, he said, the immediate goal is therefore less about opening a new front than improving the terms on which it can end the current one. Iran wants "some sort of a deal that puts an end to the war," preserves the Islamic Republic and allows it to begin postwar reconstruction, Azizi said. That shifts the central question back to Washington. The Trump administration has demonstrated that it can inflict severe economic pressure on Iran. What remains unclear is whether additional pressure produces the concessions Washington wants — and whether the costs Iran and its regional allies can still impose improve Tehran’s bargaining position or deepen its isolation. Azizi believes Tehran may already be prepared to move. "I think Iran is ready to make concessions," he said. "The question is, what concessions the United States would find acceptable?" He said Iran’s negotiating position has already softened from earlier in the conflict, when Tehran claimed sweeping authority over traffic through Hormuz. The regime’s principal red line now, he argued, is its own survival. Some Iranian officials may still believe continued pressure on energy markets and the U.S. economy could improve Tehran’s hand, particularly ahead of the midterm elections, Azizi said. But the imbalance in economic pain remains stark. "We are not hurting. Our daily life is not affected in a crazy manner by this war," he said of Americans. "Iran is hurting a lot more than the United States." "Iran is selling no oil," Azizi added. Azizi said the blockade, more than the administration’s latest sanctions package alone, has fundamentally worsened Iran’s outlook by restricting trade while leaving businesses with little idea when normal commercial activity might resume. Maleki similarly said the regime can absorb inflation and financial losses for some time without immediately buckling. The more difficult test comes when financial pressure becomes physical scarcity. That makes the next phase of the U.S. campaign less about proving that Iran is hurting than determining whether Washington can turn that pain into an acceptable deal before Tehran or its regional allies find new ways to raise the cost of holding out. "They can keep printing rial," Maleki said. "But they can’t print gasoline." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa951d375342cf4db863fc5 Mr. T taught me a lesson every kid on Chicago's South Side needs to hear te 2026-09-15T14:10:27.574Z Mr. T taught me a lesson every kid on Chicago's South Side needs to hear I recently watched the new Netflix documentary on Mr. T. I admit it was disappointing. It felt thin and rushed to me. The filmmakers clearly had no passion for the film since it failed to capture his nature, his complexities, his faith, his service, the hardships, and the depth of the road that he traveled. A 48-minute documentary is not enough to do justice to such a life. After all, this is a man who traveled from the rough and violent housing projects known as the Robert Taylor Homes to the top of the world. Still, the documentary reminded me of why Mr. T has always been such an inspirational figure in my life, from my childhood even to now. I hold him up as a role model to my young kids at Project H.O.O.D. His life is one of hard work, doing the right thing, and having a dream. Those are not clichés or empty slogans. They are the values that create opportunities in life. Laurence Tureaud was born May 21, 1952, the second-youngest of 12 children on Chicago’s South Side. His father, a minister, left when Laurence was five. His mother, Willie, earned a living cleaning houses in the Lake Forest area of Chicago, and her income to support all her children was supplemented by an $87 monthly welfare check. They were poor, but not in family or spirit. Mr. T talks of how they went to church, loved their mother and stayed away from the gangs. MR. T ON FAITH: 'I ANSWER ONLY TO GOD' One of my favorite Mr. T quotes is, "I was born and raised in the ghetto, but the ghetto was not born and raised in me." Like anyone in the Robert Taylor Homes, he saw violence and all the things that no child should ever see. He also saw racism. He saw white men call his father a "boy."  In the documentary, he talks of how his brother went to fight in Vietnam as a Marine and came home only to be called a "boy." When Laurence was 18, he vowed that no one would ever call him a boy. He changed his name to Mr. T so that the first word out of anyone talking to him would be "Mister." What he was demanding was the respect and dignity that his family had been denied. He respected himself. WHO IS RAISING AMERICA'S CHILDREN? MENTOR WARNS KIDS ARE SEEKING ROLE MODELS ONLINE AS COMMUNITIES FADE At Dunbar Vocational High School, he became a football star and a city wrestling champion. He did not have a fancy gym to build his muscles. He worked out with his brothers on the concrete around the projects. They did push-ups. They did chin-ups from tree branches. They wrestled one another. They built those muscles the honest way. Mr. T won a scholarship to Prairie View A&M, but that did not work out. He moved to the Loop of Chicago because that is where the money was. For me, that is key because he put himself where the opportunity was. He wound up working three jobs at once, and one of them was as a bouncer at a club. It was there that he got the news that his mother had been robbed of her welfare money by thugs in the elevator of the projects. They told her to give them her money or they would cut her throat. Mr. T grabbed his shotgun and went into the projects, where he confronted gang members until he found the people who had made his mother fear for her life. After confronting those responsible, he decided to become a bodyguard. He would protect others the way he believed he had failed to protect his mother. THE WELFARE STATE BROKE BLACK FAMILIES. WORK CAN HELP RESTORE THE DREAM What I love about this story is that he turned what he believed to be a personal failure into a calling. I don’t think it was a personal failure at all, but what he was trying to do in his own way was make the world a better place. He would use his talents and smarts in that way. He didn’t fall into the gang life or anything like that. He created a new pathway in life instead. I don’t know where I read it, but I remember the story of when he was nine years old or so. He told his mother, "One of these days I’m going to be big and strong. I’m going to be a football player and a boxer. I’m going to buy you a beautiful house and pretty dresses." She didn’t laugh at him or mock him. She didn’t doubt him. She instead spoke to him of values and told him that the way to get there was to work hard, save his money, and get after it. That’s what Mr. T did. It was those values, not the Hollywood fame, not the gold chains, not the "I pity the fool" line — it was those values that were the engine of his life. NEW STUDY REVEALS THE SINGLE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN WHETHER CHILDREN KEEP THEIR FAITH INTO ADULTHOOD That’s the part that I want my kids to hear. Not the mohawk or the tough scowl. I tell them that Mr. T was once just a child like them, born into a bad ZIP code. But he was a dreamer who had family around him and who never walked down the wrong path or went to jail because he could not bear to break his mother’s heart. That’s how love can save a child. And I tell them how Mr. T started at the bottom. He didn’t look for shortcuts or get-rich-quick schemes. He believed in himself, and he created his own opportunities. He used sports to discipline himself, he served his country, and he worked as a janitor, gym teacher and a doorman before anyone called him a "star." He stayed true to himself and made himself so unique that people just wanted to be around him. He was one of a kind and, most of all, he was real, and that’s why the world gravitated toward him. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION We spend far too much time telling the young kids on the South Side that the system or the Man is out to get them. We talk about systemic racism without going anywhere. There’s no hope in any of that. That’s why those conversations just peter out and die when we run out of doom and gloom. And what good does it do to poison a young child’s mind with all that negativity? That’s why I’d rather talk about South Side heroes like Mr. T. His life gives us the simple but brutally honest lesson: Your circumstances are real and they may be unfair and stacked against you, but they are not your destiny. You are. Your faith, your work, your respect, and the dream that you have for yourself — that is your destiny. You have to do the hardest thing in the world, which is to believe in yourself. If you do, you will reach heights you never knew were possible. That is the simple truth I tell my kids every day. I even tell that to myself. I know I speak of opportunity all the time, but it is not a political talking point for me. It is the lifesaver. It is the boy who decides that he will buy his mother a house. It is the young man who decides that his circumstances will not define him. It is the man who decides his fate. I pity the fool who looks at Mr. T’s life and still tells our kids they cannot rise. And, yes, Mr. T did buy his mother a beautiful mansion, complete with an elevator, in the Lake Forest neighborhood where she used to clean houses. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM PASTOR COREY BROOKS Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa951cf75342cf4db863fbc Attempted Trump assassin Thomas Crooks used 'Bob Dole' alias before anonymous donor paid for cremation: docs te 2026-09-15T14:10:23.442Z Attempted Trump assassin Thomas Crooks used 'Bob Dole' alias before anonymous donor paid for cremation: docs Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Pennsylvania man who killed a bystander and seriously wounded two others in a failed assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, had no friends as a teenager and used the alias "Bob Dole" while ordering suspicious packages before an anonymous donor paid for his body to be cremated, according to federal documents viewed by Fox News Digital. SEND US A TIP The records turned over to the Senate show Thomas’ actions were a surprise to his family, and his motive is still a mystery. Crooks, 20, typically collected packages addressed to the Dole alias before his father, who worked late, came home.  He was shot and killed after opening fire at a Trump rally in July 2024. A family attorney told investigators that he had been cremated shortly thereafter — paid for by an anonymous donor, according to the documents. HANNITY PROBES THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TRUMP'S WOULD-BE ASSASSIN AND A NEW WAVE OF RADICALIZED YOUTH ON FOX NATION LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST SECRET SERVICE MISSED 'MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES' TO PREVENT TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: WATCHDOG The documents, compiled as part of the investigation into the 2024 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, also include interviews with his father, who told FBI agents the gunman "never identified anyone as a friend throughout middle school and high school." GOT A TIP? When agents interviewed Crooks' parents the day after the shooting, his father told investigators that although his son socialized with classmates, the gunman told him they were not his friends. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL This is a breaking news story. Stick with Fox News Digital for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa951c275342cf4db863f9a Trump Slams Supreme Court Over Mail Ballot Ruling te 2026-09-15T14:10:10.753Z Trump Slams Supreme Court Over Mail Ballot Ruling In a blistering attack on the court, President Trump said “these are not the people I interviewed” to serve as justices. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa951bd75342cf4db863f79 4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 te 2026-09-15T14:10:05.919Z 4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18. 4 days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators and tech leaders October 13–15. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa94f6a75342cf4db863f54 Netflix drops full trailer for Ben Affleck's 'Animals' and expectations are already soaring te 2026-09-15T14:00:10.575Z Netflix drops full trailer for Ben Affleck's 'Animals' and expectations are already soaring The full preview for Ben Affleck's upcoming movie "Animals" is out. Basic info: NEW CIA THRILLER 'THE FIX' BLENDS HEIST, ESPIONAGE GENRES WITH LIAM NEESON, ZACHARY LEVI Netflix released the first look at "Animals" with Ben Affleck and Kerry Washington back in August, and it immediately sparked some buzz. Affleck has turned into one of the most impressive directors in Hollywood, and a gritty thriller about a kidnapped child and "a web of deception" is always going to be a solid foundation for a film. Well, the streaming giant released the first official full trailer on Tuesday morning, and it's going to send expectations soaring. "Animals" looks like it's going to be an unbelievably dark and brutal ride, judging from the new preview. Give it a watch below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. The buzz was already flowing strong in the comments section on YouTube as soon as the trailer dropped Tuesday. One viewer wrote, "Always excited for an Affleck flick." SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Another added, "Netflix never disappoints with such crime thrillers, and with this cast, it's a 100% must-watch. Counting down the days!" It certainly feels like we're living through a great time for entertainment. Let's hope "Animals" keeps the momentum rolling. You can catch it on Netflix starting October 9, and make sure to let me know your thoughts on the preview at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa94ab775342cf4db863eb1 October Prime Day starts soon — here are the dates, tips to shop and what's on sale now te 2026-09-15T13:40:07.595Z October Prime Day starts soon — here are the dates, tips to shop and what's on sale now Amazon's fall Prime Day event returns Oct. 6 and 7, with two days of deals on daily essentials, high-powered tech, home must-haves and more. We've lined up everything you need to know, along with a few deals that our readers especially love. To keep up with the latest deals, sign up for the FOX News Deals newsletter.  October Prime Day runs Oct. 6 and 7 this year, when you can shop deals across a host of categories, including tech, tools, home essentials and everyday basics.  READ MORE: Prepare for cooler weather with this $9 Hanes hoodie, now 68% off on Amazon Amazon's October Prime Day event is a smaller version of its annual Prime Day sale. During the event, Prime members can take advantage of discounts across hundreds of categories. Most discounts are exclusive to Prime members, but a select few are available to nonmembers.  Prime memberships cost $139 a year and give you access to steep discounts, limited-time price cuts and Lightning Deals on Amazon’s most popular products, like Apple AirPods Pro 3 and DeWalt’s drill and driver set.  To get the best deals, here are a few tips to follow while you shop: Become a Prime member ahead of time: Many Prime Day deals are exclusively available to Prime members. If you sign up now, you can start with a 30-day free trial and be ready to shop as soon as deals drop.  Watch for Lightning Deals: Amazon’s Lightning Deals offer deeper discounts for a limited time and can sell out quickly, especially once the timer runs out. Look for the red "Lightning Deal" label on eligible products, and don’t wait too long if you spot something you want. Sign up for deals alerts: Set up deal alerts and get notifications from Amazon when they release new deals. You can add items to your watchlist for easy tracking. Sign up for the FOX News Deal newsletter: Stay informed of all the latest and best deals during October Prime Day with our team's newsletter.  Follow FOX News Deals coverage: Stay on top of the biggest discounts by following FOX News Deals on Facebook, where we highlight standout bargains during major shopping events. Or check out the FOX News Deals page on FOX News.  These products were popular with FOX News readers during last year's event — and several are already on sale again ahead of October Prime Day. Original price: $179 Apple's AirPods 4 let you block out the noise without the bulky, over-ear headphones. The noise-canceling versions are $30 off ahead of October Prime Day. Powered by the H2 chip, they automatically adjust to the noise around you and have a more comfortable fit for long listening sessions. 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Spacious compartments with straps keep your belongings organized and compress clothes so you can stuff more in.  If you're an Amazon Prime member, you can get these items sent to your door ASAP. You can join or start a 30-day free trial to start your shopping today. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9486275342cf4db863e46 Tesla Cybercab bars kids under 13 as scrutiny grows te 2026-09-15T13:30:10.548Z Tesla Cybercab bars kids under 13 as scrutiny grows Tesla's Cybercab is finally carrying riders in Austin, Texas. And some of the details buried in the fine print may surprise you. The gold two-seater has no steering wheel or pedals. Tesla says it uses cameras and AI to handle the driving, putting passengers entirely in the hands of its autonomous system. Yet the Sept. 3 launch was unusually low-key for Tesla. The main presentation reportedly lasted about 15 minutes, and Elon Musk apparently did not speak. Then, on Sept. 4, federal safety regulators announced an investigation into how Tesla certified Cybercab for U.S. roads. Tesla has spent years building toward this moment. Now that real riders are climbing inside, the little details suddenly become much more important. Here is what you should know before you step into a Cybercab. ZOOX ROBOTAXI REDESIGN BRINGS BIG RIDER UPGRADES NEW! Join our upcoming CyberGuy LIVE class: Get Better Healthcare With AI In this free live online class, Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson will show you five practical ways AI can help you take a more active role in your healthcare. You’ll learn how to organize your health history, remember important appointment details, understand complicated medical information, research prescriptions and prepare questions for your next doctor’s visit. No technical experience is needed. Register for free now at CyberGuyLive.com If you planned to call a Cybercab for a family ride, check the passenger rules first. Tesla says children under 13 cannot ride in Cybercab "at this time." Teens ages 13 through 17 can ride, although an adult must accompany them for the entire trip. Interestingly, Tesla sets a different age limit for the Model Y vehicles in its Robotaxi service. Children ages 8 through 17 can ride in those vehicles with an adult. Guests under 8 cannot. So, an 11-year-old could ride in a Tesla Model Y Robotaxi but could not take the same trip in a Cybercab. Tesla does not explain the reason for that difference in its current rider guidance. Then there is another detail parents may notice. Tesla confirms that Cybercab has no LATCH or ISOFIX child-restraint system. If a rider needs a booster seat, Tesla says it must use a seat belt to secure it. That may sound odd considering Cybercab does not allow children under 13. However, some older children may still need a booster seat depending on their size and local requirements. Tesla gives instructions for using one, but there are no LATCH anchors to attach it to. It is the kind of detail most of us probably would not think about until a Cybercab showed up at the curb. A driverless vehicle still needs a plan for the moment something goes wrong. According to Tesla documentation, a collision can trigger several automatic responses. The airbags can deploy and the doors can unlock. Hazard lights and interior lights can also switch on. The vehicle can disable its high-voltage battery, move the windows into a vent position and apply the brakes until it comes to a stop. Tesla's system can also open a two-way connection with its Robotaxi Support team. That support connection could become especially important in a vehicle where nobody can grab the steering wheel or hit the brakes. Tesla also gives riders ways to stop a trip themselves. UBER LETS PARENTS WATCH TEEN RIDES LIVE Look above you when you get inside a Cybercab. Tesla placed a dedicated Stop button between the dome lights. Pressing it sends an immediate pull-over request, ends the ride and connects you with Robotaxi Support. You can also tap Pull Over on the touchscreen or make the request through the Robotaxi app. However, Tesla warns that an "immediate" pull-over may still take some time. For example, the vehicle may need longer to reach a safe stopping point while traveling on a highway. That is worth knowing before your first ride. Tesla's electronic door releases have attracted criticism because passengers may need a mechanical backup when a vehicle loses power. Cybercab still uses electronically controlled doors during normal operation. In fact, the nearest door can open automatically when the ride requester approaches. Inside, you can normally open the door through the touchscreen or gently lift a lever on the door panel. Pull that lever firmly all the way up, though, and it activates the mechanical release. Both Cybercab doors have one. I like that Tesla put the emergency release where a passenger can actually see and reach it. There is one important warning. Tesla says using the mechanical release can damage the window or trim. If the vehicle has no power and the window remains fully raised, Tesla warns the glass could shatter when someone activates the release. That is one instruction I would want to know before an emergency. Tesla also made a major change underneath the vehicle. Cybercab uses a brake-by-wire system rather than a traditional hydraulic setup. Electronic actuators control the brake calipers instead of hydraulic lines carrying brake fluid. Musk said in a post on X that electric brakes avoid the complexity of routing hydraulic plumbing around the vehicle. Tesla has already used steer-by-wire technology in the Cybertruck. With Cybercab, passengers have no physical driving controls at all. That puts even more responsibility on the electronics and software to work properly every time. Here is one of the stranger details Tesla included in its new rider guide. Cybercab passengers can lower the windows, but Tesla says they "cannot be fully opened at this time." The company does not explain why. The window switches also sit underneath the center touchscreen rather than on the doors. So, yes, you can crack a window for some air. You simply cannot roll it all the way down right now. WAYMO RECALLS ROBOTAXIS OVER CONSTRUCTION-ZONE RISK At least you should have somewhere to plug in your devices. Tesla confirms that Cybercab has USB-C charging ports inside the cabin. An attendee at the launch reported that those ports can deliver up to 90 watts of power. That could be enough to charge many laptops. However, Tesla's current public rider guide does not list that wattage. So, I would treat the 90-watt figure as an early report until Tesla publishes the specification itself. On Sept. 3, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened what it calls an Audit Query into Tesla's certification that Cybercab meets all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. NHTSA announced the action on Sept. 4 following the vehicle's commercial deployment in Austin. Automakers in the U.S. generally certify their own vehicles as complying with federal standards. NHTSA can then audit those certifications and investigate when questions come up. Cybercab presents an unusual case because it has no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. Many federal vehicle rules were written around cars designed for human drivers. NHTSA's audit reportedly covers about 1,000 Cybercabs as the agency reviews how Tesla determined the vehicles comply. That does not mean regulators have found Cybercab unsafe. It does mean Tesla now has to back up its certification with technical information that satisfies the agency. If you get the chance to ride in a Cybercab, I would spend a minute learning the cabin before the car starts moving. Find the emergency Stop button. Know where the mechanical door release sits. Keep your seat belt fastened for the entire trip. Tesla says every passenger must buckle up before the ride begins. Cybercab may pull over or cancel a trip if it detects improper seat-belt use. Parents should also pay close attention to the age rules. Cybercab and Tesla's Model Y Robotaxi do not follow the same limits. Beyond that, remember how new this vehicle is. Tesla is putting a very different kind of car into real-world service, and regulators are already asking questions about how it fits existing safety standards. We have seen how unexpected situations can challenge other autonomous vehicles too. CyberGuy recently reported how Waymo recalled robotaxis over a construction-zone risk after vehicles entered closed freeway construction areas. The technology can be impressive. Still, the real test comes when these vehicles deal with everything ordinary roads throw at them. Cybercab is finally moving from Tesla's big promise to something people can actually ride in. I like seeing safeguards such as the mechanical door release and emergency Stop button, especially when passengers have no steering wheel or pedals to grab. Still, the under-13 restriction, lack of LATCH anchors and windows that do not fully open caught my attention. Add the federal investigation, and Tesla now has something bigger to prove. Putting Cybercab on the road is one thing. Showing that people can trust it day after day is the real test. Would you climb into a Cybercab today with no steering wheel or pedals, or would you want to see a longer safety record before trusting it with your ride? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy Report Copyright 2026 CyberGuy.com. All rights reserved. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9460975342cf4db863de9 Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt posts emotional message ahead of KC opener, Sweeney fake outrage & NFL fan fight te 2026-09-15T13:20:09.081Z Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt posts emotional message ahead of KC opener, Sweeney fake outrage & NFL fan fight Welcome to Tuesday Screencaps where we stop and think about what the reaction would be from female athletes if Lizzo was the one doing the prediction market ad instead of Sydney Sweeney. I've seen a whole lot of fake outrage over the last few days from female athletes who are fake outraged over Sweeney's nearly naked promo videos where her goal is to catch the attention of men who have money to blow on gambling. Stop and think of what the same bozos yelling about Sweeney would say if Lizzo was holding a couple of footballs over her rack. • So brave SYDNEY SWEENEY LEAVES LITTLE TO THE IMAGINATION IN PROVOCATIVE NEW CAMPAIGN • So stunning • YAAASSSSS QUEEEENNN • Slay! SYDNEY SWEENEY FIRES BACK AT TROLLS AFTER FACING CRITICISM ONLINE FOR PROVOCATIVE SPORTS AD • She's owning her sexuality on her OWN TERMS! • Unapologetic CARRIE UNDERWOOD FIRES UP ANOTHER SNF HEATER, COLLINSWORTH WAS DISGUSTED & NAKED SYDNEY SWEENEY ANGERS THE MOB We've been over this so many times. These frauds hate Sweeney because of some MAGA hat at a party like four years ago. Long live Sweeney! BTW, we need another Sweeney to step forward. She's like the Pat McAfee of the hot chick market. These brands need a Sweeney alternative. "One nation, under God. 🇺🇸 There are moments that remind you what a privilege it is to call this country home. Standing beneath the stars and stripes as our National Anthem filled Arrowhead and a B-2 soared overhead was one of them. Just days after we remembered September 11th, I’m especially grateful for the courage, sacrifice, and service that have protected our freedom—and for the men and women who continue to defend it. May we never take for granted the land of the free because of the brave. God bless America," Hunt wrote last night on social media. UNIVERSITIES ACROSS AMERICA HONOR THE VICTIMS OF THE 9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS WITH MEMORIAL STAIR CLIMBS I'll be honest, I get burnt out on Gracie content because it's non-stop and it's always so perfect, but she hit a home run last night for the home opener. This is how it's done. Stick it right in the faces of those who will gladly vote for scumbags like El-Sayed in Michigan. Make them remember what this country stands for. 📩 Email: joe.kinsey@outkick.com Send photos, stories, tips, rants—whatever you've got. 📰 Screencaps Page: 👉 Read the latest Screencaps ▶️ YouTube: Screencaps with Joe Kinsey Subscribe for videos, rants, and behind-the-scenes. 🐦 Twitter/X: @JoeKinseyexp Tag me or drop a DM. 📸 Instagram: @OutKickScreencaps You guys need to start tagging me on content you're seeing. 📘 Facebook Page: Screencaps on Facebook 👥 Facebook Group: Join the Screencaps Community 📬 Mail (Thursday Night Mowing League): 27072 Carronade Dr, Unit A 155 Perrysburg, OH 43551 I'm now 24 hours out from making my very first trip to Buffalo for a Bills game. If you have a Bills tailgate, I want to come. Let me know where it's at and I'll stop by as long as it's not two miles from the stadium. – Nick asks: Who is on your reverse Mt. Rushmore of Cincinnati Bengals QBs? In other words, they are the worst of the franchise. These can be starters or backups. Kinsey: Why would you do this to me, Nick? Here I am riding a high with the Bengals defense shutting down a really good offense and you want me to think back to QBs who destroyed my college years? OK, I'll give you one. Akili Smith. God, he was terrible. I am. Thanks to Lee D. for sending over this one. – Greg in Omaha writes: I am an assistant coach on my son’s 4th grade tackle football team, and we had to reschedule practice tonight because of storms in Omaha. We reset for later this week and a couple of parents chimed in that it would be heard for their kids to attend because basketball practice is starting this week. I have so many questions: Why is basketball practicing in September? Is that a winter sport? What do they do at basketball practice, hold hands and practice flopping?I’m sure these are unanswerable, but we need to go back to a time where kids could be in one sport per season and quite frankly basketball bleeding into football season is borderline blasphemous in Nebraska. Kinsey: Why are teams holding 4th grade basketball practice in September? Because the boys will fall behind, Greg. We all know that. If you're not playing football, baseball and basketball this time of year, there's no way your 4th grader will be successful in life. Modern parents look at social media all day long. On Instagram and Facebook, they see their friends' kids traveling across the country playing soccer and basketball. Suburban parents don't want to be seen as failures. They don't want other parents to look at them like they're the losers. Here's my test for if your kids are falling behind: Take them to the local high school football game. If your son or daughter can find 3-4 friends to run around with at the games without you, your kids are going to be successful. If your 4th grader can disappear during the game and come back at halftime for concession money, rest easy. You're doing fine. We have a bunch of military guys reading. Someone help us out. Is this a recurring issue? • Paul B in California reports from Tennessee: Visiting friends in the Nashville area and we went to Cracker Barrel in Hendersonville. Not only did they have Halloween in full swing, there were Christmas trees up as well. To add insult to Summer, they were playing Christmas Carol melodies over the Muzak system. By the way, it’s 85 degrees today. – Mike T. in Idaho asks: Have you ever eaten here? They have some seriously positive reviews? Maybe something mine could send in a review https://biscuitville.com/menu/ Kinsey: Nope, never had it. Looks like the nearest location is in far western North Carolina or Lynchburg, VA. That's about eight hours from me. At least. – Jake W. checks in: All good with the Madison Beer content, but has anyone done afit wellness check on Stephanie Niles lately? Missing her content. Seems like Jake Browning doesn't want to live the practice squad life, but at this point that's the best he's reasonably going to do outside of high school coaching. Also, might need updates on old school SC favorites. Glory and Hildee were almost daily features, and I feel like we haven't seen either of them in a year or more. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Kinsey: Hildeeeeeee is still going strong. It looks like she's leaned into content all about her hair. As for Glory on the Gram, she turned off embeds. Once that happens, it's time for me to move on. • CF in Kansas emails: You may love summer but there are many of us who live for fall.  The cool nights sleeping with the bedroom window open, the bright blue sky, the beauty of the leaves as they change color, and of course FOOTBALL.  The highs are still in the 90's here in Kansas and I am pining for the cool crisp days of fall.   ##################### That is it this morning. Remember, it's Tuesday. It's time to spend a couple of nights watching whatever your wife wants to watch before you dive back into five more days of football. Take a break. Take your wife to dinner and forget that your team is 0-1. Go have a great day. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9460875342cf4db863de0 Dan Lanning spars with reporter after Dante Moore misses media following Oregon's loss to Oklahoma State te 2026-09-15T13:20:08.040Z Dan Lanning spars with reporter after Dante Moore misses media following Oregon's loss to Oklahoma State The Oregon Ducks suffered the most shocking loss of the young college football season by falling to Oklahoma State 39-31 in Week 2. Senior quarterback Dante Moore was nowhere to be found during media availability following the Ducks' loss on the road, which was noticed by every reporter in the room, but according to head coach Dan Lanning, his absence was excused. The way in which Lanning explained the situation with Moore, however, has led to quite the reaction among fans. The 40-year-old shared that his quarterback was dehydrated after the final whistle in Stillwater, Okla., before alluding to that being the cause of his absence during the postgame media scrum. OKLAHOMA STATE MIGHT HAVE KNOWN WHICH PLAYS OREGON DUCKS WERE RUNNING DURING UPSET WIN "I don’t think he chose not to," Lanning said during his news conference on Monday. "Did you know he was getting two IVs after the game? He was dehydrated. He’ll be speaking to you guys tomorrow. Any question that you want to ask him, you can certainly ask him. "I don’t know if you’ve ever given an interview while you’re getting an IV at the same time, getting treatment. Does that make a little more sense? And then there’s a bus and a flight you’re trying to catch, as well. But Dante will be here tomorrow. You can talk to Dante. He was cramping up on the field." COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S CHAOS ERA IS HERE: TEXAS RALLIES, OREGON FALLS AND LANE KIFFIN EYES RETURN TO OLE MISS Lanning asking the reporter if the situation made sense, and then reminding everyone that the team had a bus and plane to catch came across as a bit condescending, but the head coach wasn't done there. When asked why the information about Moore being dehydrated wasn't relayed to the media following the game, Lanning turned defensive. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "Well, should it be?" Lanning asked before the reporter suggested it could have been shared privately to avoid confusion. "So, before you write your article, they should say, 'Hey, just so you guys know'" Lanning asked with a smile, before letting out a "good job" and moving to the next question. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Oregon's loss to Oklahoma State was stunning for a number of different reasons. For starters, the Ducks began the year as a favorite to win the national championship, while the Cowboys are very much in a rebuild mode and lost at home to Tulsa just seven days prior, 24-10. Oregon was a significant favorite heading into the contest against an Oklahoma State team it beat 69-3 the season prior. Moore finished the contest going 14-for-29 through the air for 191 yards and two touchdowns. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa943ba75342cf4db863d8d NATO jets shoot down drone in Lithuanian airspace as Russia grows 'increasingly reckless,' Rutte says te 2026-09-15T13:10:18.257Z NATO jets shoot down drone in Lithuanian airspace as Russia grows 'increasingly reckless,' Rutte says Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoons operating under NATO command scrambled overnight and shot down a drone over Lithuania, marking the first time a drone has been downed in the Baltic nation's airspace, officials said Tuesday. The incident came less than a day after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned that strikes close to alliance territory would drive the 32-nation bloc to increase its support for Ukraine. The drone was destroyed near the village of Pratkūnai, about 60 miles northwest of the capital, Vilnius. RUSSIA PREPARING HYBRID ATTACKS ON NATO'S EASTERN FLANK, INTELLIGENCE WARNS "Last night, two Italian Eurofighters deployed on NATO Air Defence mission at Siauliai, scrambled and shot down a drone over Lithuanian airspace," a NATO official told Fox News Digital. "The operation was coordinated through NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre in Uedem, Germany. Investigations are ongoing together with national authorities." Lithuanian officials said the drone most likely entered from neighboring Belarus and remained in the country's airspace for about 30 minutes before it was intercepted. Lithuanian Air Force Commander Antanas Matutis said the recovered drone was "likely" carrying explosives. Authorities are examining the wreckage of the downed drone to determine its origin and purpose. The incident comes amid heightened tensions along NATO's eastern flank. RUSSIA EXPOSES NATO WEAPONS GAP AS TOP COMMANDER WARNS ‘THE MATH IS NOT IN FAVOR OF THE WEST’ Speaking in Brussels on Monday, Rutte said strikes "close to NATO territory" showed Russian President Vladimir Putin's "desperation and also his desire to sow fear and terror." "Russia is growing increasingly reckless as it continues its terrible war against Ukraine," Rutte said, while pledging to strengthen NATO defenses along its eastern flank. In a separate incident Tuesday, Denmark said a Russian frigate fired flares toward a Danish military helicopter conducting routine surveillance over the Baltic Sea. Denmark summoned the Russian ambassador over the encounter. Meanwhile, Russia continued drone strikes across Ukraine, killing three people in Kyiv, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv remained ready to support de-escalation if the U.S. could ensure Russia was prepared to stop its attacks. Ukrainian forces also struck an oil refinery in Syzran and targeted a drone production facility in Taganrog, he said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa943b875342cf4db863d7a Inculab plus' KidsTopia Earns 'kidSAFE SAFE CERTIFIED' Global Child Online Safety Seal te 2026-09-15T13:10:16.512Z Inculab plus' KidsTopia Earns 'kidSAFE SAFE CERTIFIED' Global Child Online Safety Seal Strengthens child safety framework across chat, user reporting, and AI interactionsKidsTopia becomes one of the few Korea-based members to earn the designationEnhances AI safeguards with AI character disclosure and break reminders Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa943b775342cf4db863d71 Inculab plus' KidsTopia Earns 'kidSAFE SAFE CERTIFIED' Global Child Online Safety Seal te 2026-09-15T13:10:15.221Z Inculab plus' KidsTopia Earns 'kidSAFE SAFE CERTIFIED' Global Child Online Safety Seal Inculab plus Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa943b575342cf4db863d68 Inculab plus' KidsTopia Earns 'kidSAFE SAFE CERTIFIED' Global Child Online Safety Seal te 2026-09-15T13:10:13.899Z Inculab plus' KidsTopia Earns 'kidSAFE SAFE CERTIFIED' Global Child Online Safety Seal Inculab plus’ KidsTopia Earns ‘kidSAFE SAFE CERTIFIED’ Global Child Online Safety Seal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa943b475342cf4db863d5f How to Choose a College With the Highest Long-Term Value te 2026-09-15T13:10:12.732Z How to Choose a College With the Highest Long-Term Value (StatePoint) Every parent wants to help their child choose a college that will be worth the investment. The challenge is knowing which schools are most likely to deliver. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa943af75342cf4db863d3f Riding down a rocky road, Doney Park's pint-sized peddler sells scoops with style te 2026-09-15T13:10:07.587Z Riding down a rocky road, Doney Park's pint-sized peddler sells scoops with style Annie Keogh is far from a typical entrepreneur, but her ambition precedes her 9 years of age. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa943ad75342cf4db863d35 Live debate: Teresa Leyba Ruiz and Kimberly Yee, Superintendent of Public Instruction te 2026-09-15T13:10:05.777Z Live debate: Teresa Leyba Ruiz and Kimberly Yee, Superintendent of Public Instruction Democrat Teresa Leyba Ruiz and Republican Kimberly Yee will debate tonight  at 6 p.m. Watch live on this page, or watch the replay. Voters chose Leyba Ruiz and Yee in the June primary. The winner will serve a four-year term starting in January. This general election is the first in decades without current Superintendent Tom Horne on the ballot. He was seeking a fourth term as state superintendent but lost to Yee in the primary. The race centers on the future of the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program — now serving more than 100,000 students at $1 billion annually — as both candidates call for tighter oversight after audits found widespread misspending. Candidates are also grappling with the federal Department of Education’s dismantling, a court-ordered $3 billion school funding shortfall and public school closures at districts throughout the state, including Amphitheater Public Schools and the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind last spring and at Tucson Unified School District likely in 2027. Yee defeated Horne 53.3% to 46.7%. She has been Arizona treasurer since 2018. She was the first Asian-American woman to serve in the Arizona Legislature, where she was in the House and then the Senate from 2010 to 2018. A native Arizonan, Yee is 52. She supports oversight of the ESA program and would like it to remain universal. She is moving toward exploring other vendors of the ESA program after asking for information to assess the market and improve ESA operations after poor auditing and misspent funds came to light. In the Republican debate last summer, Yee cited an Arizona Auditor General report, which revealed little oversight of the program for private and home-school families. The Department of Education automatically processed about $654 million in ESA transactions since December 2024. Leyba Ruiz beat Brett Newby 79.8% to 20.2%. She has a current state teaching license. She has worked in education for 35 years — first as a math teacher and most recently as president of Glendale Community College. A third-generation Arizonan, Leyba Ruiz is a parent of two daughters in their 20s. Both her parents graduated from Pueblo High School. Leyba Ruiz, 60, says she would regulate the ESA program — reverting to its original intent before it was universal. She has called for more transparency with an ESA dashboard to track spending and to end the automatic approval of expenses under $2,000 and wants a program audit. She would immediately create an office of rural and small schools for a direct connection with the superintendent’s office, she said. She supports universal pre-K and wants to retain more teachers through higher pay and increased educational access, expanding post-secondary education and training, saying education drives economic growth. About the Superintendent of Public Instruction The Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction is part of the executive branch of state government and is elected to head the Department of Education. Superintendents are limited to two consecutive terms and serve four years for each term. Their job is to enforce the State Board of Education’s policies and create and achieve state standards (think testing) for all Arizona public schools, distribute state education funds to counties, certify teachers, determine the course of study and instruction, budget for school transportation, audit school officials accounts with the auditor general and issue school materials and supplies. To participate in this election, register to vote or update your voter registration by Oct. 5. Early voting begins Oct. 7 and election day is Nov. 3. Meet the candidates Kimberly Yee Republican Official Facebook Campaign Facebook Personal Facebook Official X Campaign X Campaign Website Terry Leyba Ruiz Democrat Campaign Facebook Campaign Instagram LinkedIn Campaign Website Watch the debate The post Terry Leyba Ruiz appeared first on AZ Luminaria. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa943ac75342cf4db863d17 Spotify finally lets parents exclude kids’ music from Wrapped and recommendations te 2026-09-15T13:10:04.320Z Spotify finally lets parents exclude kids’ music from Wrapped and recommendations Parents can finally get the kids' music out of Spotify Wrapped and other personalized playlists. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa943aa75342cf4db863d0e Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents te 2026-09-15T13:10:02.578Z Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A lound led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa93f0275342cf4db863c7f How to Choose a College With the Highest Long-Term Value te 2026-09-15T12:50:10.938Z How to Choose a College With the Highest Long-Term Value Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa93f0175342cf4db863c76 Building and Maintaining Your Dream Back Yard te 2026-09-15T12:50:09.956Z Building and Maintaining Your Dream Back Yard (StatePoint) Legendary bass angler, author and outdoor media personality Joe Thomas has lived to hunt and fish for as long as he can remember. But as much as he loves being out there in the moment, he knows one thing:… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa93f0075342cf4db863c6d Building and Maintaining Your Dream Back Yard te 2026-09-15T12:50:08.977Z Building and Maintaining Your Dream Back Yard With space to hunt, fish, grill and swim, Thomas’ property is ideal for any activity. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa93f0075342cf4db863c64 The Experts - Kitchen And Bathroom Remodeling Expands Services in Dallas te 2026-09-15T12:50:08.045Z The Experts - Kitchen And Bathroom Remodeling Expands Services in Dallas Dallas, TX / Storyteller / Sep 15, 2026 / Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa93eff75342cf4db863c5b The Experts - Kitchen And Bathroom Remodeling Expands Services in Dallas te 2026-09-15T12:50:07.073Z The Experts - Kitchen And Bathroom Remodeling Expands Services in Dallas Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa93ca875342cf4db863c0a WWE’s Rey Mysterio welcomes Dominik Mysterio’s desire to take his mask and name te 2026-09-15T12:40:08.694Z WWE’s Rey Mysterio welcomes Dominik Mysterio’s desire to take his mask and name The feud between the father and son duo of Rey and Dominik Mysterio has been one of the underlying storylines in WWE since the latter turned on the former and joined The Judgment Day a few years ago. The rivalry bled into AAA’s Triplemania 34 as Dominik Mysterio was in Omos’ corner when the Nigerian giant took on Rey Mysterio in the main event of Night 1. Rey Mysterio had El Grande Americano by his side before facing Dominik in Night 2 for the AAA Mega Championship. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE Dominik Mysterio made clear that he would want his father’s mask, name and an apology to end the feud with his father in an interview with OutKick Dropkick before Triplemania 34 started. Rey Mysterio responded to the demands in a subsequent chat. "That’s pretty deep for him to say that," Rey Mysterio said. "At the end of the day, I believe I have much more tricks up my sleeve than he does. If he thinks he’s going to step all over me, retire me, take my name and have me apologize to him for what apparently I have done, maybe I shouldn’t have helped him break into the business. Maybe he should have grinded on his own and scratched and clawed just like I did at the age of 14 when I first broke into the business, which was really tough back then. Now, it’s much easier to get into the business. It’s not like before. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "I would love and wait to see that day come to fruition. I would love to step into the ring with Dom and put something on the line. Something that means much more than just a mask." Rey Mysterio has had his son’s number in the ring as the two have squared off a few times during the younger Mysterio’s career. Dominik Mysterio may have gotten the last laugh on Friday night as he saw Omos beat his father to be reinstated on the AAA roster. Omos then put Rey Mysterio through the announcer table while the legendary Luchador was strapped to a backboard. But Rey Mysterio returned the favor when he counted the pinfall for El Grande Americano in the AAA Mega Championship match against Dominik Mysterio. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa93a5075342cf4db863baa Klobuchar's NFL post backfires when internet notices glaring problem with her outfit choice: 'Fraud runs deep' te 2026-09-15T12:30:08.117Z Klobuchar's NFL post backfires when internet notices glaring problem with her outfit choice: 'Fraud runs deep' Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., running for governor of Minnesota, was widely mocked as inauthentic online this week as conservatives called her out for posting the same picture wearing the same shirt in posts supporting the Minnesota Vikings several years in a row. "Game Day against the Packers," Klobuchar posted on X on Sunday in support of her state’s NFL team’s first game of the season. "Time to get out the shirt." Conservatives on social media quickly pointed out that Klobuchar had posted the same photo, cropped differently, multiple times over the last few years as many users mocked the gubernatorial hopeful for being out of touch. "Amy Klobuchar has now used the exact same photo to ring in the Vikings season opener four years in a row," Townhall columnist Dustin Grage posted on X. "So authentic." KLOBUCHAR'S FRAUD FIGHT CLAIM TAKES HIT AFTER GOP OPPONENT COMBS THROUGH RECEIPTS: 'WHERE WERE YOU?' "Dems trying to appeal to normal people in a nutshell lol," conservative commentator Riley Gaines posted on X. Garage added in another post, "The funniest part is that this year’s caption was ‘time to get out the shirt.’ Yeah, that didn’t happen. It’s why she just uses the same photo from 2023. " "Amy Klobuchar has been a fraud for a lot longer than she has been reusing this photograph ," Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle posted on X. 'WE HAVE NOT SLOWED DOWN': MINNESOTA NOT OUT OF THE WOODS ON MASSIVE FRAUD SCANDAL, EXPERT WARNS "Having known and dealt with Amy Klobuchar, we can say that she is the most inauthentic, plastic politician you will ever have the misfortune of encountering," Minnesota Staff Fraud Reporting Commentary posted on X. "Very fake is how Amy Klobuchar really is." "lol.," Ruthless podcast co-host Josh Holmes posted on X. "The fraud runs deep in Minnesota," National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) national press secretary Bernadette Breslin posted on X. "lol huge fan that she is, she has only ever had one Vikings t-shirt and there’s only one photo in existence of her actually wearing it," Former Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh posted on X. Fox News Digital reached out to the Klobuchar campaign for comment. Klobuchar, running against Minnesota Republican Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth in November to replace outgoing Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, has faced strong criticism from conservatives over the massive fraud scandal in the state which unfolded over the last decade as she represented Minnesota in the Senate. Klobuchar has defended her handling of the fraud scandal by pointing to her plan to launch a "top-to-bottom audit" of state agencies on her first day as governor and "identify waste, fraud and abuse." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa937fc75342cf4db863b4b Texas' Arch Manning under scrutiny for his reaction to AI video of Steve Sarkisian slapping ESPN's Holly Rowe te 2026-09-15T12:20:12.257Z Texas' Arch Manning under scrutiny for his reaction to AI video of Steve Sarkisian slapping ESPN's Holly Rowe Texas Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian’s interaction with ESPN reporter Holly Rowe at the end of the team’s comeback win over the Ohio State Buckeyes was a viral moment Saturday night into Sunday. Arch Manning, who guided Texas to the 24-23 victory, was asked about the moment on Monday as the Longhorns prepared for UTSA at home this weekend. He said he saw some AI edits of the brief interview. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "I’ve seen a few AI edits of stuff but that’s about it. I saw an AI edit of Sark’s interview. Have you all seen that one? That’s a good one. Of him slapping Holly Rowe?" he said with a laugh and a smile. The 22-year-old quarterback immediately came under scrutiny on social media for his comments. At least one AI video showed Sarkisian hitting Rowe after yelling "Hook ‘em" in her face, which didn’t actually happen after the game. OutKick reached out to ESPN for comment. Sarkisian had a few words for Rowe after Texas completed the comeback. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE "Texas fight, hook ‘em," he said before running back to celebrate with his team. Overall, it appeared to be a frustrating night for Sarkisian. ESPN’s Laura Rutledge said at halftime that technical issues forced Sarkisian to wait a while before a halftime interview could begin. However, it took too long and he needed to prepare for the next half. "I do want to make sure we clear something up. (Sarkisian) did decline the interview at the half. He had waited a long time, been very patient with some technical issues that we had. He apologized to us. We should be apologizing to him, which we did," she said. With the victory, Texas was boosted to No. 1 in the Associated Press poll. The Longhorns were as high as No. 1 to start last season but the team lost to the Buckeyes out of the gate and were dropped to seventh. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa937fb75342cf4db863b42 Trump admin moves to gut Biden's signature environmental rules te 2026-09-15T12:20:11.416Z Trump admin moves to gut Biden's signature environmental rules President Donald Trump's administration is moving to gut Biden-era climate regulations that it says could save the industry up to $670 billion in compliance costs. Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin says the agency is repealing the majority of the Biden administration's greenhouse gas requirements for U.S. power plants. The EPA projects that alone will save $310 billion in compliance costs, and Zeldin has proposed eliminating all remaining greenhouse gas emission standards, which would save a projected additional $370 billion. The move, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, is aimed at boosting coal and natural gas power production. The EPA says coal production for use in the power sector is expected to increase tenfold under the changes. TRUMP ADMIN AXES 'GREEN NEW SCAM' APPLIANCE RULES AS EUROPE BAKES IN BRUTAL HEAT "For over 15 years, the Obama and Biden administrations implemented a war on coal to destroy reliable and affordable energy. The Trump Administration has come in to protect American energy and to make sure you can afford to keep the lights on," Zeldin said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. "Americans will see a decrease in electricity prices, but this is just the beginning. We are working to go even further so that American energy can be fully unleashed. Realizing the full potential of American energy means more jobs, lower prices, and a more prosperous America," he added. UNEARTHED EMAILS EXPOSE HOW OBAMA-ERA EPA PLOTTED 'MASSIVE' ENERGY REGULATIONS FROM DAY ONE: WATCHDOG On the chopping block are former President Joe Biden's 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, which Zeldin argues exceeded the EPA's authority by setting impossible standards for power plants in an effort to force them to close. "Models continue to show that GHG [Greenhouse Gas] emissions from power plants have no material impact on global climate change. In fact, if all carbon dioxides were eliminated tomorrow, there would be no meaningful climate impact," the EPA wrote in a statement. TRUMP'S EPA CHIEF PUSHES BACK ON CLIMATE SKEPTICS BEING LABELED 'SCIENCE DENIERS' "Additionally, the targeted emissions are global in nature, and any potential public health harms are too uncertain, conjectural, remote, and convoluted to tie specifically to the U.S. power sector," it continued. Energy Secretary Christ Wright endorsed the EPA's move as well, saying coal and natural gas provide critical stability for U.S. power infrastructure, "regardless of whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa937f275342cf4db863b01 New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave te 2026-09-15T12:20:02.104Z New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa935a675342cf4db863aa6 Trump’s law-and-order blitz marks one year with eye-popping haul of suspects, guns in blue city te 2026-09-15T12:10:14.011Z Trump’s law-and-order blitz marks one year with eye-popping haul of suspects, guns in blue city FIRST ON FOX: The Memphis Safe Task Force has made more than 12,000 arrests and seized more than 2,100 illegal firearms in its first year, Fox News Digital learned exclusively, as the Trump administration points to the operation's enforcement record amid a drop in crime across the city. "President Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force has driven down violent crime in a city that was failed by extreme Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies. The Task Force has made more than 12,000 arrests, including of murderers, sex offenders, drug traffickers and other violent criminals, and has seized more than 2,100 illegal firearms. President Trump restored law and order and made Memphis safe again," White House spokesperson Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital. The task force, launched one year ago Tuesday, brought federal, state and local law enforcement agencies together after President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the deployment of National Guard personnel to Memphis. The intervention came as Memphis, a Democratic-leaning city in solidly Republican Tennessee, confronted one of the nation’s most severe violent-crime problems, with FBI data showing the city had the highest violent-crime rate in the country in 2024. BLUE CITY'S STAGGERING 40% VIOLENT CRIME DROP A 'BLUEPRINT FOR OTHER CITIES,' LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERT SAYS The operation has led to a 36% decrease in overall crime year over year, with motor vehicle thefts down 57%, robberies down 43%, murders down 44% and aggravated assaults down 27%, Fox News Digital learned. In 2025, overall crime in Memphis was down 28% compared to 2024, data reviewed by Fox News Digital showed. Memphis resident Darian Glover was convicted in August of distributing fentanyl that caused three fatal overdoses. One victim believed he was buying cocaine, but the substance tested positive for fentanyl. TRUMP’S DC LAW-AND-ORDER BLITZ MARKS ONE YEAR WITH EYE-POPPING HAUL OF SUSPECTS Burglaries are down 27% while shoplifting is down 44%, according to crime data. In September, the DOJ also sentenced Memphis resident Courtney Trenell to 15 years in prison for serving as a getaway driver in two bank robberies and joining a conspiracy to rob six Memphis-area banks. Memphis was grappling with a severe violent-crime crisis in the years before the task force launched, with homicides surging to 397 in 2023 from 301 a year earlier, according to the Justice Department. From coast to coast, violent crime surged in 2020 and remained elevated in the years immediately afterward, as the nation grappled with coronavirus lockdowns that year and widespread protests and riots. The Memphis operation is part of a broader Trump administration effort to deploy federal law enforcement resources to cities facing high levels of violent crime. The administration has also launched a federal law-enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., where officials say the effort has produced a sharp decline in crime. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa935a575342cf4db863a9d WWE star Roxanne Perez reminds fans to respect wrestlers’ boundaries while on the road: ‘We are just humans' te 2026-09-15T12:10:13.198Z WWE star Roxanne Perez reminds fans to respect wrestlers’ boundaries while on the road: ‘We are just humans' WWE superstars are some of the most recognizable faces in sports and give fans who come to watch them every opportunity to meet with them and greet them through special access events. But with their popularity, there have been some incidents where some stars have been made to feel uncomfortable by the barrage of requests that come at them. It has been seen all too often in which stars are bombarded with requests at hotels and at airports. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE Paige was among those who recently spoke out about autograph seekers at airports while she was trying to catch a connecting flight. Roxanne Perez, who earned a shot at the AAA Reina de Reinas Championship at Triplemania 34 Night 1 in Las Vegas on Friday night, spoke about the rabid fan base in an interview with OutKick Dropkick before her match. She made clear that she loves the fans but agreed there has to be some kind of a line. "First off, I love my fans so much," she said. "I love all of the fans. We wouldn’t be able to do what we do without the fans. And I think being a fan myself, growing up as a fan, I can see it in a different light. I think these fans, they love what we do, they respect us so much. They admire us. It is a big deal when they get to meet us and they get their picture signed. But it’s also, like, we just gotta be careful on where we do it and when we do it." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Perez said when she and her fellow wrestlers are on the road, their hotels are essentially their homes and that it does hurt her to tell fans that she’s unable to sign anything for them because she’s been in their shoes before. "We obviously have the arenas. The arenas are where we show up. There’s an exact location where you go and meet and meet the WWE superstars," she continued. "That’s always what I did when I was a kid. But also, when we are on the road, our hotels are our home. When we’re running late for a plane and trying to catch our flight, and it does break my heart to tell people no, but at the same time, we do have to respect everybody’s privacy. "We are just humans. We are WWE superstars but we are just humans. We’re trying to live our life while also trying to make the fans happy. But there’s gotta be some line. That doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate our fans at all. I just think there needs to be a little bit of a line. But we do love you guys, OK?" Perez didn’t mention any specific instances in which she felt overwhelmed. Earlier this year, Major League Wrestling star Scarlett Bordeaux told OutKick Dropkick she would give other women pointers on how to make sure their home locations are not easily available on the internet. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa935a475342cf4db863a94 Island getaway hit with urgent warning as hurricane damage leaves travelers without power te 2026-09-15T12:10:12.435Z Island getaway hit with urgent warning as hurricane damage leaves travelers without power Tourists are being urged to hold off on visiting a scenic Hawaiian island as it continues to recover from a devastating hurricane. Kaua'i, one of Hawaii's westernmost islands, was battered by Hurricane Lowell on Sept. 7 and 8, which brought severe winds, heavy rain and widespread power outages. As of Monday, the island was still recovering, with electricity restored to about 82% of customers, according to Kaua'i County officials. VACATION PARADISE EVACUATED AS RAGING WILDFIRE THREATENS TO ROAR BACK AMID HIGH WINDS Speaking to reporters just a few days ago, Kaua'i County Mayor Derek Kawakami discouraged tourists from visiting and said the island was still digging itself "out of the mud." The mayor added that Kaua'i would "gladly welcome" tourists once the island "recover[s] to a point where we can handle more capacity coming in," according to Kaua'i Now News. "We are going to recover faster than I think we anticipated," he added, though he did not specify when the island might be ready to welcome visitors back. The Hawai'i Tourism Authority (HTA) also posted an advisory late last week asking visitors to reconsider their trips. US WARNS AMERICANS TO AVOID VACATION HOT SPOT AMID QUAKE FALLOUT AND VIOLENT CRIME "As the island focuses its resources on immediate needs, the Hawai'i Tourism Authority encourages travelers with upcoming Kaua'i plans to reschedule or consider visiting another Hawaiian island instead of canceling their trip," the organization stated. "Travelers who are rescheduling should check directly with their airline, accommodations, and other travel providers for updated options." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Fox News Digital reached out to Mayor Kawakami's office for comment. Also known as the Garden Island, Kaua'i is the fourth largest of Hawaii's main islands. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS The island received nearly 1.42 million visitors in 2025, according to Hawaii's Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT). The tourist destination is known for its picturesque landscape and coastline, including Nā Pali Coast, Waimea Canyon and Hanalei Bay. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Hawaii's tourism industry has faced a series of natural hazards this year. Earlier this year, Hawaii health officials issued brown water advisories across multiple islands after a storm brought heavy rain and contaminated runoff. In January, Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted, leading officials at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park to warn visitors about heavy traffic, crowds and potential hazards. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa935a375342cf4db863a8b Kash Patel to tout 'largest' year-to-year violent crime drop in US history te 2026-09-15T12:10:11.701Z Kash Patel to tout 'largest' year-to-year violent crime drop in US history EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel is set to tell lawmakers Tuesday that the FBI and its law enforcement partners have achieved what he calls the "most prolific run of crime reduction in United States history," according to his prepared opening remarks for the Senate Judiciary Committee's annual FBI oversight hearing. In his opening statement obtained by Fox News Digital, Patel will highlight the achievements before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will focus on recent changes within the FBI. The results include a major drop in murder rates, crackdowns on drug and human trafficking, successful efforts to thwart terrorist attacks and the apprehension of top fugitives. According to his prepared statement, Patel attributes the gains to the Trump administration, saying the agency could not have achieved them without the administration's support. FBI BOSS KASH PATEL DETAILS HOW AGENCY AND PARTNERS SECURED RECORD-SHATTERING FIFA WORLD CUP "In 2025, according to the Uniform Crime Report, we delivered the LARGEST year to year reduction of violent crime in AMERICAN HISTORY," Patel's statement reads. "They happened with an administration that BACKS the BLUE and a new FBI that has been REBUILT to crush violent threats BEFORE they harm Americans." According to the FBI's figures, the national murder rate fell 20% over the previous 18 months while violent crime arrests increased 90% and violent criminal and gang member arrests rose 30%. Just this weekend, the FBI disrupted a terrorist attack near Pittsburgh, according to Patel’s prepared statement. The suspect allegedly purchased a firearm and indicated online that he intended to carry out a violent attack on behalf of ISIS. In total, about 1,039 individuals were thwarted from executing terrorist attacks, according to Patel's statement. The individuals are among more than 4,260 arrests tied to Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). Those efforts also included securing major national events, such as the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Grand Prix and UFC 250 without a single major security incident. FBI CAPTURES TOP TEN MOST WANTED FUGITIVE WITH ALLEGED SINALOA CARTEL TIES, PATEL SAYS Patel is expected to announce at Tuesday's hearing the capture of Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre in Venezuela, making him the 10th FBI "Ten Most Wanted" fugitive nabbed during Patel's tenure. According to Patel's prepared statement, the FBI has now captured 10 fugitives from its "Ten Most Wanted" list — more than 2.5 times the number apprehended during the previous four years combined. Aguirre, according to the FBI, led "a large international conspiracy to steal millions of dollars from financial institutions in support of the Tren de Aragua, through an ATM jackpotting scheme since at least 2024." Patel will also highlight that the FBI seized more than 3,258 kilograms of fentanyl, identified about 11,000 child victims and arrested more than 5,000 child predators and human traffickers. Patel's prepared statement credits the historic transformation in American public safety and agency accountability to aggressive law enforcement, technological modernization, including artificial intelligence and operational efficiency. "We expanded our use of artificial intelligence by 605 percent to accelerate threat detection, triage, analysis, and processing," the statement reads. PATEL SAYS FBI HAS CUT BUREAUCRACY, MOVED 1,000 AGENTS TO FIELD OFFICES IN 'GENERATIONAL' OVERHAUL Patel is expected to tell lawmakers that the FBI eliminated a multi-year backlog of 1.8 million lab samples while saving more than $300 million through spending and facilities reviews. "As we recently announced, the FBI’s Lab Division had a backlog of over 1.8 million samples that had existed for years prior to my confirmation… As of last month, that backlog is now ZERO," Patel's statement reads. Patel will also highlight internal bureau reforms that shifted more than 1,000 agents and staff into field operations, along with the opening of a new field office in Billings, Montana, as part of the FBI's expansion in Indian Country through Operation Steadfast Promise. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa935a275342cf4db863a82 Pennsylvania man accused of plotting ISIS attack arrested with rifle and 190 rounds of ammunition: DOJ te 2026-09-15T12:10:10.941Z Pennsylvania man accused of plotting ISIS attack arrested with rifle and 190 rounds of ammunition: DOJ A 21-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of plotting a violent attack on behalf of ISIS was arrested after FBI agents tracked him to a hotel and seized a semiautomatic rifle, five magazines and 190 rounds of ammunition, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Jonathan Hunter Kramer, of Valencia, had allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS, offered to distribute explosives manuals online and said he was preparing for his "mission" but still needed a weapon before agents moved in, according to a federal criminal complaint. Kramer is charged with receiving a firearm and ammunition, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe they would be used to commit a felony or federal crime of terrorism, including providing or attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. WOMAN’S ALLEGED ISIS RADICALIZATION UNFOLDED ONLINE BEFORE CAPITOL BOMB PLOT: COURT DOCS The FBI had been aware since a 2023 investigation of Kramer, at the time a minor, when he was charged and adjudicated delinquent in Pennsylvania for his role in a plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack and for possessing child sexual abuse material, according to the Justice Department. Authorities began investigating him again after an anonymous tip came in March 19, shortly after his release from a juvenile detention facility. The tipster said Kramer was ordering "mysterious" packages and "talking to his friends from before" his juvenile adjudication. Investigators said Kramer was using the online name "Hamza Al Rashid," claiming an affiliation with ISIS and offering to share explosives manuals. He allegedly wrote about preparing for his "mission" and said he was missing a "weapon." On Friday, FBI agents watched Kramer leave his home with a bag and take a rideshare to a store, where he bought a disposable phone, according to the complaint. He then met another person in the parking lot, took a long black bag from the trunk of a vehicle and traveled to a hotel in Cranberry Township, where he paid cash for a room. Witnesses at the store and hotel said the bag made a metallic clicking sound when Kramer put it down. After checking in, Kramer went to a sporting goods store, where agents saw him at the gun counter. FBI ARRESTS WOMAN WHO ALLEGEDLY PLOTTED ISIS-LINKED ATTACK ON NEW YORK STATE CAPITOL BUILDING Agents approached him when he returned to the hotel carrying two bags from the store. Searches of Kramer, his hotel room and his home turned up a semiautomatic rifle, five rifle magazines — two loaded and three capable of holding 30 rounds each — and 190 rounds of rifle ammunition, according to the complaint. Agents also found a rifle scope and bipod, an entrenchment tool, pepper spray and about 30 knives. A handwritten note read, "DoNt look For me[.] IDK what I did buT I cant live In constant Fear[.]" Attorney General Todd Blanche said the arrest came as Americans marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "Their outstanding work thwarted this alleged attack before innocent lives could be lost," Blanche said. FBI Director Kash Patel said Kramer had been "plotting a violent attack in support of ISIS," citing his online activity and acquisition of weapons. The Justice Department did not identify a specific target for the alleged attack. Kramer was booked into the Butler County Jail and made his first court appearance Monday. Prosecutors have asked that he be held without bond, arguing that he poses a danger to the community. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa935a275342cf4db863a79 Nike-linked CoachingHER program faces scrutiny over gender bias training and definition of girls te 2026-09-15T12:10:10.092Z Nike-linked CoachingHER program faces scrutiny over gender bias training and definition of girls Nike helped create a coaching program designed to keep girls in sports. Three years later, the program is expanding into college classrooms and through a partnership with a national sports governing body, while its own FAQ defines "girls" to include anyone under 18 who identifies as one. Sarah Barker, a former coach and creator of The Female Category, spent months reviewing CoachingHER, its training modules and the research cited to support them. She told OutKick in an exclusive interview that what she found does not match how she believes the program is being presented to coaches. "Everything about it tells me that it is not, in fact, what it is being sold as," Barker said. NIKE SHAREHOLDERS REJECT TRANSPARENCY PROPOSAL AS FAITH-BASED FIRM QUESTIONS DEI COMMITMENTS CoachingHER launched in 2023 as a collaboration between Nike and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota. Nike said at the time that it developed the free digital resource to help coaches recognize unconscious gender biases and stereotypes that negatively affect girls' experiences in sports. Barker first encountered CoachingHER through the Minnesota State High School League after spending 10 years as a coach. She decided to take the course herself. "I did the training modules and I interviewed the director of the Coaching Her program at the Tucker Center," Barker said. Then she kept digging. CoachingHER’s current FAQ defines "girls" as someone under 18 "who was assigned female at birth or who identifies as a girl" and says the program is "inclusive of gender-expansive identities," language Barker said was displayed more prominently when she first investigated the program in 2024. For Barker, those few words change the meaning of the training that follows. The CoachingHER website says its courses give coaches "girl-centered strategies" and tools to create "supportive, inclusive environments for girls in sports." Barker said that definition becomes especially important in a module addressing bodies and identities. "They exhort coaches in one of the training modules to accept all, and all is in capital letters, all bodies and identities," Barker said. MEGAN RAPINOE'S LATEST DEFENSE OF MALES IN WOMEN'S SPORTS COLLAPSES UNDER ITS OWN HYPOCRISY | DAN ZAKSHESKE On its face, Barker said much of the advice sounds unobjectionable. But she argues the program's definition of "girls" changes the context because it also encompasses transgender-identifying athletes. Barker's broader criticism is that CoachingHER's emphasis on coaches' gender biases does not match what she found in the research on why girls leave sports. A current CoachingHER article, citing 2024 research from Dove and Nike, says low body confidence is the "No. 1 reason girls quit sports." But the program describes its mission as addressing "the unconscious gender biases and stereotypes held by coaches." The Tucker Center and Nike have said coaches were chosen as a focus because earlier research identified them as an important influence on girls' sports experiences. In a 2023 article about the creation of CoachingHER, Tucker Center director Nicole LaVoi and former Nike social-impact executive Caitlin Morris also said workshops with girls and coaches helped shape the program's focus on gender stereotypes. Barker argues that explanation does not resolve the disconnect she found in the research on why girls actually leave sports. "They knew that the number one reason girls drop out of sports was concerns with body image," Barker said. She said CoachingHER director Alicia Pelton acknowledged the same point when Barker interviewed her in 2024. Yet Barker said that in the research and lists of dropout factors she reviewed, coaches' gender bias and their understanding of gender identity were not identified among the leading reasons girls leave sports. "What's weird about this is that of the many reasons listed for girls dropping out of sports, their coaches' gender bias was never listed, not in the Tucker Center's own research," Barker said. "It was never listed, not even in the top 15 reasons." That led Barker to question why a program marketed as a way to keep girls in sports was focused so heavily on changing coaches' attitudes about gender. "Why would they build an entire program around blaming coaches when they know that that is not true?" she said. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! When Nike publicly announced the program in March 2023, the company said it had developed CoachingHER in partnership with the Tucker Center. Nike's website continues to promote CoachingHER in 2026, describing it as a resource "created in partnership with the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport." The CoachingHER website also continues to display Nike's logo under the words "Brought to you by." Barker said she separately discussed Nike's involvement with CoachingHER program director Alicia Pelton during her 2024 investigation. "When I interviewed Alicia Pelton ... she was open about the fact that Nike funded this program," Barker said. "I don't know the amount. I asked and was not told the amount." WOMEN’S SPORTS MEDIA OUTLET BACKS TRANS ATHLETES, THEN AVOIDS QUESTIONS FROM REPORTER WHO DISAGREES While Nike’s current financial involvement with CoachingHER is unclear, its public connection to the program remains. In January 2026, the University of Minnesota described CoachingHER as "powered by Nike." OutKick asked Nike whether it currently funds CoachingHER, what role the company currently plays in developing or reviewing the curriculum, and whether Nike endorses the program's definition of girls. OutKick also contacted the Tucker Center and CoachingHER seeking responses to Barker's criticisms and clarification about Nike's current role in the program. Neither Nike nor the Tucker Center responded before publication. Since Barker first investigated CoachingHER in 2024, the program has expanded beyond youth coaches. The Tucker Center's Educational Champions initiative encourages professors and institutions to incorporate individual CoachingHER modules or full courses into subjects including coaching education, sports psychology, gender studies, athlete development and physical education. In May, USA Weightlifting announced a partnership with the Tucker Center that gives eligible members access to CoachingHER courses through its learning platform. USA Weightlifting described the training as a way to help coaches "recognize and reduce unconscious gender bias" and build environments that support girls' participation and long-term success. Barker believes coaches are being taught to view biological sex differences through the lens of gender bias while being told the program's purpose is to protect girls' opportunities in sports. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Barker calls that "girl washing." "Girl washing is calling something beneficial to girls, when in fact it's actually harmful to girls," she said. CoachingHER says its mission is to reduce gender inequalities in sports by helping coaches challenge unconscious gender biases and stereotypes. Barker said she shares CoachingHER’s stated goal of keeping girls in sports. Her objection is to the program’s definition of "girls" and what she believes follows from it. "This is a group of people that's going to need a lot of re-education, a lot of heavy-duty indoctrination," Barker said of coaches who maintain sex-based distinctions in girls' sports. "That is what Coaching Her is. It is an indoctrination program for coaches ... to normalize boys in girls sports," she added. "It is not about girls, it is not about keeping girls in sports at all," she said. "What's really galling is that they're lying about it and getting away with it by calling this beneficial." "It is the opposite of beneficial." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9359e75342cf4db863a60 ACC commissioners face questions over utility bias te 2026-09-15T12:10:06.504Z ACC commissioners face questions over utility bias Key Points: A conservative group attempted to remove commissioners from a utility rate case, claiming bias  Consumer advocates say it raises larger questions about commissioners’ public comments on utility projects... Subscribe Already a subscriber?  Login The post ACC commissioners face questions over utility bias first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9359b75342cf4db863a3e Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear te 2026-09-15T12:10:03.165Z Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing and customer-support tasks. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa92e9475342cf4db863919 Flagstaff Event Almanac for September 15 te 2026-09-15T11:40:04.232Z Flagstaff Event Almanac for September 15 Sept 15 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa929e775342cf4db863871 Smithsonian’s dark take on America exposed: Washington dubbed ‘town destroyer,’ Revolutionary War ‘dangerous' te 2026-09-15T11:20:07.366Z Smithsonian’s dark take on America exposed: Washington dubbed ‘town destroyer,’ Revolutionary War ‘dangerous' NEW YORK — A Smithsonian museum in Manhattan presents a sharply critical account of George Washington, the Revolutionary War and America’s early years, while some historical context that complicates that narrative is omitted or given less prominent treatment, Fox News Digital found. The findings come as the Smithsonian faces heightened scrutiny from the Trump administration over how it presents American history. President Donald Trump has ordered a review of the institution’s exhibits and educational materials as part of an effort to change what his administration says is an overly negative portrayal of the country’s history. Fox News Digital visited the Manhattan branch of the National Museum of the American Indian earlier in September and found exhibits that emphasize the destruction suffered by Native communities while offering comparatively little context about the conflicts and events surrounding American military campaigns. One display near the center of the museum’s "Native New York" exhibit features an illustration of Washington’s profile — similar to the one that appears on quarters — over a label that reads "town destroyer." TRUMP GIVES SMITHSONIAN DAYS TO REPLACE 'STRANGE MODERNIST SCULPTURE' WITH FOUNDING FATHER The description underneath the image recounts how "American armies destroyed 40 Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) towns and burned their harvests while residents fled," noting that "the Haudenosaunee still call George Washington and all U.S. presidents Hanadahguyus. The name means ‘town destroyer.’" The panel does not mention the raids on American settlements that led to the campaign or explain why Washington ordered the attack. "The American destruction of the Six Nations' homelands came as a result of the destructive raids carried out by the Indians and American loyalists on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania in 1778," an excerpt from the National Park Service reads. "The raids crippled the American Continental Army by depriving it of food and manpower and spread terror by destroying frontier settlements and taking prisoners." The exhibit comes as the Trump administration continues its broader dispute with the Smithsonian over how the institution presents American history. Specifically, the president has taken issue with the institution allegedly seeking to divert the telling of American history "away from America’s Founding and the Founders and towards a narrative of a deeply flawed creation of the country." SMITHSONIAN SHOWDOWN INTENSIFIES AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ISSUES A STARK NEW WARNING The administration has threatened changes to Smithsonian funding and federal-agency support as it presses the institution to alter what it describes as divisive or historically inaccurate portrayals of the country. Many of the other exhibits in the museum take a similar line to the display on Washington, highlighting the alleged brutality of American settlers while downplaying the violence of natives. One placard, recounting the history of the Iroquois between 1779 and 1804 from the point of view of a native woman, states that "it was peaceful, she said, until the white men began their revolution." For roughly 100 years, between 1609 and 1701, the Iroquois were engaged in a series of conflicts with other native tribes over access to animal pelts. Even before the Trump administration’s current dispute with the Smithsonian, the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., attracted criticism over how it presents American history. "​​In recent years, I have been chronicling the evolution of the ‘identity museum’ … designed to affirm a particular group’s claims, outline its accomplishments, boost its pride," a cultural critic wrote for the New York Times in 2010. "The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington — a pioneering example of the genre — jettisons Western scholarship and tells its own story, leading one tribe to solemnly describe its earliest historical milestone: ‘Birds teach people to call for rain.’" LEGAL EXPERT CALLS FOR SMITHSONIAN LEADERSHIP OVERHAUL OVER ‘SELF-LOATHING’ PORTRAYAL OF HISTORY: ‘IT’S BILE’ "Through a gauze of romance, that museum portrays an impossibly peace-loving, harmonious, homogeneous, pastoral world that preceded the invasion of white people — a vision with far less detail and insight than the old natural history museums once provided," the critic continued. The exhibits acknowledge some conflicts involving Native tribes but focus far more heavily on the violence inflicted on them than on the events that led to the fighting. The museum also maintains a catalog of online materials geared towards middle school students that generally take the same editorial line. Teachers, for instance, are instructed to show a video to students that opens by saying that "the American War for independence was such a disruptive and dangerous project." It goes on to frame the actions of American colonists negatively, referring to them as trespassers and squatters. WATCH: SMITHSONIAN DIRECTOR ADMITS SHE SEES HISTORY AS ‘TOOL’ OF ‘SOCIAL JUSTICE’ AFTER EXPLOSIVE HEARING In several displays dealing with the Revolutionary War, the exhibit portrays American actions toward Native allies in sharply negative terms. A video display near the beginning of the exhibit claims, unequivocally, that an American soldier shot and killed Chief White Eyes, a Lenape chief who had allied with the Americans. The cause of White Eyes’ death, however, is historically contested — something the museum outlines in relatively small text underneath the video display, which states that White Eyes was "probably" murdered by an American soldier. The museum is housed within the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, a building formerly used for collecting trade duties and named after the founding father to commemorate his role as the first secretary of the Treasury. HISTORIAN BLASTS SMITHSONIAN'S ACTIVISM SHIFT AFTER FIRST VISIT IN OVER A DECADE: 'COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLACE' Just before exiting the building, visitors pass a museum store where several books present sharply critical accounts of American history. "An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States," for instance, is displayed prominently on the store shelves. Among other things, the book criticizes Americans for having a "cult-like" dedication to the Constitution, suggests that the United States was founded upon White supremacy and genocide and claims that the federal government is still carrying out ethnic cleansing against natives. A graphic novel adaptation of the text marketed toward younger readers was also available. Other titles on display included "Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History," "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States," a tome about the "two spirit" gender identity and a children’s picture book about Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s interior secretary. The Smithsonian did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9279275342cf4db863826 'MAGA Act' could rip House seats from Dem states ahead of next presidential race te 2026-09-15T11:10:10.410Z 'MAGA Act' could rip House seats from Dem states ahead of next presidential race FIRST ON FOX: A new House GOP proposal targeting the nation's congressional map could kneecap blue states and dramatically change their representation on Capitol Hill. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., is introducing legislation that would only count citizens when deciding how many House representatives each state gets, called the Make Apportionment Great Again (MAGA) Act. It would be a fundamental change in congressional representation across the country, particularly hitting states where the most noncitizens live. The U.S. census has traditionally sought to count all people living within the country's borders, regardless of citizenship or even lawful status. WHERE TRUMP, GOP VS DEMOCRATS REDISTRICTING BATTLE HEADS NEXT IN WAKE OF KEY COURT RULINGS According to the U.S. census website, immigrants — both citizens and noncitizens — make up a fifth of the population in California, New Jersey, New York and Florida. Illegal immigrants living in sanctuary jurisdictions are also in theory counted by the census. A 2024 report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) said immigrants, both legal and illegal, resulted in a "net increase" of 14 seats in Democrat-leaning states. Republican states had 10 fewer seats than they otherwise would have, the report said. MORE THAN A QUARTER-MILLION NONCITIZENS MAY BE REGISTERED TO VOTE IN 4 KEY STATES, DHS ALLEGES The legislation would not require a new census after 2020, instead forcing states to rely on existing records to reapportion by sometime in 2027. It would, however, add a new question to the 2030 census, asking people whether they are a U.S. citizen, U.S. national but not a citizen, an alien lawfully residing in the United States, or an alien unlawfully residing in the United States. RNC LEGAL VICTORY CLEARS NORTH CAROLINA VOTER ROLL PURGE OF NONCITIZENS THROUGH JURY RESPONSES But Clyde's bill could see a significant legal battle in the courts, even if passed. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution states that House seats will be apportioned after "counting the whole number of persons in each State," not specifying citizenship status. It could invite challenges from pro-immigrant groups and left-wing organizations that have long been critical of GOP election efforts. JACKSON ACCUSES THOMAS OF ECHOING INFAMOUSLY RACIST COURT DECISION IN BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP CLASH Clyde's bill comes after a video clip resurfaced in July that appears to show Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., claiming she needs more immigrants in her district "just for redistricting purposes." The video, from a 2021 House Foreign Affairs Committee briefing, shows longtime Democrat Clarke suggesting that the local Haitian community in Brooklyn could "absorb a significant number of these migrants." "When I hear my colleagues talk about, you know, the doors of the inn being closed, no room in the inn, I’m saying, you know, I need more people in my district, just for redistricting purposes and those members could clearly fit here," said Clarke. Clarke's office did not respond to a request for comment at the time by Fox News Digital. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9279175342cf4db86381d Mysterious disease sending young, healthy Texas workers into kidney failure te 2026-09-15T11:10:09.474Z Mysterious disease sending young, healthy Texas workers into kidney failure A mysterious form of kidney disease that has devastated young to middle-aged agricultural workers in Central America and South Asia appears to have surfaced in Texas. Known as chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) — or Mesoamerican nephropathy — the condition continues to baffle researchers, as some otherwise healthy adults develop kidney failure without having any of the traditional risk factors. Chronic kidney disease can range from mild to severe, potentially causing fluid buildup and increasing the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and premature death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CAN ALKALINE WATER ACTUALLY IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH? EXPERTS SEPARATE FACT FROM FICTION But unlike typical cases, CKDu develops without common risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension and glomerulonephritis, a disease that inflames and damages the kidneys' filtering units, according to Dr. Gokul Paidi, a family medicine physician at Community Healthcare Network in New York. "It typically strikes young to middle-aged adults, more often men, who work in agriculture and manual labor in hot, low-resource regions," he told Fox News Digital. Several regional kidney diseases have been described over the decades, although not all are considered CKDu. "Balkan endemic nephropathy has been documented since the 1950s, Itai itai disease in Japan was tied to cadmium contaminated rice, and Sri Lanka nephropathy has been studied since the 1990s," said Paidi, who has published a review on the condition. Mesoamerican nephropathy – which was first described among sugarcane workers in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the late 1990s – is the form now being reported in the U.S., he noted. Other locations have reported similar types of local epidemics, including Sri Lanka, India, rural Thailand and the Tierra Blanca area in Mexico, according to previous research. "What’s emerging is that these are likely related conditions, essentially clusters of the same underlying disease process showing up in different farming and industrial regions around the world," Paidi said. Physicians at Houston safety-net hospitals, including Ben Taub, have treated otherwise healthy men in their 20s and 30s who presented with kidney failure — some with "Coca-Cola-colored urine," according to Texas Monthly. They reportedly don’t have any of the typical risk factors that cause kidney disease, like high blood pressure or diabetes. HEART ATTACKS AND STROKES RISING WITH EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS, RESEARCH SUGGESTS "What’s striking about the Texas cases is how closely they mirror what we saw originally in Central America," Paidi noted. The patients are largely undocumented laborers from Mexico and Central America working in construction, roofing and outdoor trades in extreme heat – jobs where water breaks are often limited, he added. According to a review of Harris County hospital records cited by Texas Monthly, roughly one in six emergency dialysis cases in uninsured or undocumented patients had no identifiable cause, "which is consistent with CKDu," Paidi told Fox News Digital. Some patients are reluctant to seek care or participate in research because of their immigration status, making it harder to track the disease in Texas and detect kidney damage before it becomes irreversible, experts say. Experts refer to CKDu as a "silent disease" because most patients don’t initially complain of any symptoms. Most patients – especially those who work in sugarcane fields – learn they have the condition during routine screening blood tests, according to Dr. Richard J. Johnson, a leading expert on kidney diseases and emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Colorado. CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES "Later, it can cause typical signs of severe chronic kidney disease, including fatigue, sleep disturbances, nausea, weakness [and] shortness of breath from anemia," he told Fox News Digital. By the time symptoms appear, and the disease is diagnosed, many patients are approaching end-stage kidney disease. Many affected people are located in resource-poor regions where dialysis and transplants are often unaffordable or inaccessible, which can increase the odds of premature death, Paidi noted. Heat stress is considered one of the leading suspected drivers of the disease, although its exact cause remains unknown, according to Johnson. Experts believe a combination of occupational and environmental factors may gradually damage the kidneys. Strenuous outdoor labor can lead to repeated heat stress and dehydration, potentially compounded by exposure to crop pesticides and smoke from burning sugarcane. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER Workers may also contend with potentially unsafe drinking water and rely on over-the-counter NSAIDs for pain — factors that, combined with repeated dehydration and heat stress, could further strain the kidneys, according to Texas Monthly. Some experts suggest that improving hydration and shade, reducing work hours, and starting earlier in the day could reduce kidney damage. There is no specific test for CKDu. Doctors diagnose it by ruling out other causes of chronic kidney disease, along with a patient's occupational and environmental exposures, Paidi said. "Kidney biopsy is the closest thing to a gold standard, but isn’t practical for widespread screening," he added. There is no disease-specific treatment for CKDu. Management focuses on controlling blood pressure, avoiding additional kidney injury — including from NSAIDs — and using dialysis or kidney transplantation in advanced disease, according to Paidi. Some patients receive ACE inhibitors — medications commonly used to treat high blood pressure — but these drugs can sometimes worsen kidney function in people who are dehydrated, Johnson cautioned. "Disease often progresses rapidly over a few years, and dialysis and transplantation are rarely available, so mortality is high," he added – which highlights the importance of screening for the condition. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ For people living or working in agricultural or outdoor labor jobs, especially in hot climates, Paidi recommends getting kidney function checked with a primary care doctor at least twice a year. "A simple blood test for creatinine (a waste product normally filtered from the blood by the kidneys) and a urine test for protein can catch early changes long before symptoms appear," he advised. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9279075342cf4db863814 Prince Harry's first birthday back in Britain unlikely to bring reconciliation with the royal family: experts te 2026-09-15T11:10:08.759Z Prince Harry's first birthday back in Britain unlikely to bring reconciliation with the royal family: experts Prince Harry "will likely hear" from King Charles III on his birthday, but "don’t expect some grand royal reunion," according to a royal expert. Kinsey Schofield, host of YouTube’s "Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered," told Fox News Digital that the prince would probably have a celebration "similar to what we recently saw from Meghan Markle. Singing and dancing in the kitchen. Party hats for the pups." "I imagine Harry will keep it relatively private with Meghan and the children," she added. "Being back in Britain makes this birthday significant, but I don’t expect some grand royal reunion. There is still far too much unresolved behind the scenes." QUEEN CAMILLA PUTS PAST DIFFERENCES WITH PRINCE HARRY ASIDE AS KING CHARLES SEEKS CLOSER FAMILY TIES: EXPERTS Harry is celebrating his first birthday — he turns 42 on Sept. 15 — since the couple returned to his home country from California after six years late last month. "Harry will likely hear from his father on his birthday," Schofield said. "He will most definitely chat with his uncle, Earl Spencer, and aunts, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes." PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON 'PLAYING IT COOL' AS PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE RETURN TO THE UK: EXPERT She added that birthdays "have a way of reminding you who is in your life and who isn’t. Harry may be physically closer to his family, but emotionally, there is still enormous distance there. Moving back to Britain doesn’t automatically repair years of broken trust." Schofield noted that the Spencer side of the family — Princess Diana’s — "seems to be embracing him." PRINCE WILLIAM ‘BLINDSIDED’ BY HARRY, MEGHAN RETURN AS KATE FEARS NEW TURMOIL FROM ROYAL FEUD: EXPERTS British royal expert Hilary Fordwich agreed that it’s "highly unlikely there will be any sort of public reconciliation" for Harry on his birthday. "Perhaps there will be merely a private call from" the king. WATCH: PRINCE HARRY MARKS BIRTHDAY AS ROYAL FAMILY TENSIONS REMAIN: EXPERT Grant Harrold, King Charles’ former royal butler, speaking on behalf of OLBG, told Fox News Digital that he didn’t "think celebrations will massively change just because he’s back home." PRINCE HARRY FINDS WAY TO LIVE ‘HALF-IN, HALF-OUT’ LIFE QUEEN ELIZABETH REFUSED TO ENDORSE: EXPERTS "I imagine Meghan will plan a nice meal to mark the day, with lots of thoughtful personal touches. Last week I would have said it would be likely that he would see his father, the King — but after this week’s drama I believe that’s out of the question now," he said, referring to the letter the king sent out, clarifying that the Sussexes remain private citizens. "It’s a shame, as this would have been a great opportunity for a happy meet up." "I do expect the King will exchange cards and gifts with Harry, despite what is going on," he added. "The King is a kind man, and when it comes to birthdays and celebrations he is quite strict on marking the occasion." PRINCE HARRY, MEGHAN MARKLE ACCUSED OF SEEKING ‘BEST OF BOTH WORLDS’ WITH UK MOVE: EXPERT Harrold said he believes "all the news surrounding" Harry will "overshadow" his special day. Royal broadcaster Ian Pelham Turner agreed that Harry’s birthday "could have been one positive step" toward reconciling with his family, "but as always egos have got in the way." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "Let's hope it's not just another day of royal drama," Helena Chard, British broadcaster and photographer, echoed. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "I imagine Harry will enjoy a low-key private birthday affair. It will be family first," she said. "Maybe the school run in the morning to the co-ed prep school with Archie and Lilibet, then family time with Meghan, the children and you never know Doria [Ragland, Markle’s mother] may rear her head. Maybe a small gathering of old friends?" Any public recognition, she noted, would likely come from Markle’s social media. "As per the norm, It will not be via Buckingham Palace." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Chard said "it’s rumoured his birthday return is set to be a private British Countryside affair." PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S SCHOOL WARNING LETTERS REIGNITE PRIVACY BATTLE THEY ‘CANNOT CONTROL’: EXPERTS The couple reportedly plan to settle their family in the picturesque Cotswolds region in the English countryside, a couple of hours outside of London. "Harry and King Charles' personal relationship is said to be thawing. I'm sure his father will give a private call to his 'dear boy,’" she continued, adding, "At 42, Harry should choose peace. Hopefully the ebullient Prince Harry will be back in the not so distant future. " Fox News Digital has reached out to Buckingham Palace and Archewell for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9279075342cf4db86380b Seven-figure blitz as GOP embraces push to compete with China in booming new tech space te 2026-09-15T11:10:08.050Z Seven-figure blitz as GOP embraces push to compete with China in booming new tech space FIRST ON FOX: Three sitting Republican lawmakers, all facing midterm elections for U.S. Senate in less than two months, are paving the way for a pro-artificial intelligence push as Washington looks to balance regulation with American innovation despite the public's increasing skepticism over the emerging technology. The conservative Alliance for a Better Future (ABF) is pouring millions into backing the campaigns of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, according to new ads shared exclusively with Fox News Digital ahead of their release. The lawmakers, ABF says, mirror President Donald Trump's balanced stance on applying both safeguards and common sense to AI developments. When speaking on the topic in June, Trump said, "[AI] can be used for tremendous good, mostly good and some bad. And the bad we have to stop." TRUMP-BACKED CANDIDATES SCORE MAJOR BOOST FROM DEEP-POCKETED AI SUPER PAC IN UPCOMING PRIMARIES The advertisements come as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over the weekend warned the industry that his company helps lead to give safety measures more time to catch up with rapidly advancing AI capabilities. Just days earlier an Anthropic researcher resigned while publicly raising concerns about the technology's risks. Anthropic is most known for its LLM AI Claude, one of the leading chatbots in the U.S. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the father of ChatGPT, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis all expressed support for Amodei’s stance on slowing the pace of AI development. Trump on Monday rejected the calls for implementing safeguards and restrictions on AI, arguing the technology needs a "STRONG AND SMART" president rather than added restraints. The new advertisements, which will run throughout September, follow the ABF's previously unreported $1 million donation made to MAGA Inc. last week to promote candidates who share the group's values of pushing both innovation and security in emerging technologies like AI. But the ads aren't limited to praising Republicans — they also take shots at the perceived risks ABF believes could result from allowing socialist lawmakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to lead policies dictating the direction of AI. SANDERS PUSHES 'DEATH PENALTY' FOR CRUCIAL US INDUSTRY THAT COULD GIVE ADVANTAGE TO FOREIGN ADVERSARIES "The same people who consistently fail you will write an AI rulebook for their benefit," the advertisement reads as images ofs of Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., appear on screen. Security concerns have been top of mind for many Americans and AI experts as the United States races to stay ahead of China in technology developments, with worry that the rapidly increasing growth of AI poses national and cybersecurity threats. "The only way we win the AI race against China is to build a technology that is trusted by the American people," ABF CEO Janet Kelly said in a statement to Fox News Digital on the new ad buys. "We cannot cede this responsibility to Socialists like Bernie Sanders who have a track record of destroying our economy and palling around with our enemies," she continued. "Conservatives like Susan Collins, Roger Marshall, and Ashley Hinson know the time is now to enact an agenda that ensures AI is built with American values." Sanders’ office did not reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on being singled out in the campaign ads. MIKE JOHNSON REJECTS AI MORATORIUM OVER CHINA THREAT AS CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST DEMANDS GUARDRAILS Kelly, the former Secretary of Health in Virginia, warned that China will "cheat and steal and lie" to beat the U.S. in the AI race in a policy event hosted by Breitbart news last week. She emphasized the need for America to be both diligent and urgent in developing this technology at a pace that puts the U.S. above foreign adversaries. Collins, Marshall and Hinson have each backed policies that align with ABF’s goal to pursue AI development with protections that work to combat any emerging risks. Hinson has argued that the U.S. must maintain its technological edge over Beijing while being thorough in analyzing AI's risks. Marshall acknowledged AI as a tool to assist, not replace American workers — also backing measures addressing its workforce and energy impacts. Collins has supported federal investment in advanced computing while championing in Maine safeguards against deceptive AI-generated election content. TRUMP-ENDORSED HINSON SECURES IOWA SENATE NOMINATION AS DEMOCRATS EYE GOP SEAT ABF is a conservative AI policy organization that believes that as the technology continues to rapidly develop, American values should be prioritized — protecting children, the economy and national security. The three GOP lawmakers are all Republican nominees for Senate seats in the upcoming midterm elections for their respective states. Collins, Marshall and Hinson’s offices did not reply to Fox News Digital’s request to comment on the new advertisements and clarify their stances on AI. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9278f75342cf4db863802 Alito, Thomas shred 'Hail Mary' challenge to federal ballot mail rules in dissent te 2026-09-15T11:10:07.329Z Alito, Thomas shred 'Hail Mary' challenge to federal ballot mail rules in dissent Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas firmly dissented Monday as the Supreme Court denied a request by President Donald Trump's administration for relief from a universal injunction against its mail-in ballot rules. The dissent, which Alito authored and Thomas joined, argued that the plaintiffs in the case were relying on claims that the court had previously identified as weak and unlikely to succeed. "The Court incorrectly denies the Government’s application for a stay of a universal injunction that bars implementation of a final rule concerning election ballot mail," Alito wrote. "Some of the plaintiffs lack standing, while the remainder are pursuing a claim that this Court has recently called a ‘Hail Mary pass’ that ‘rarely succeeds.'" SUPREME COURT REJECTS TRUMP BID TO REVIVE STRICT MAIL-BALLOT RULES BEFORE MIDTERMS "The Government has made the showings necessary for a stay, so I respectfully dissent," he concluded. The Court's Monday's order went unsigned, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence that allowed room for a potential Trump victory down the line. He nevertheless argued that it is too close to Election Day to realistically implement the rules for the 2026 midterm elections. FEDERAL APPEALS COURT REJECTS TRUMP BID TO ENFORCE MAIL BALLOT ORDER AHEAD OF MIDTERM ELECTIONS "In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority," Kavanaugh wrote. "But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections." Kavanaugh's concurrence echoes Alito's dissent in acknowledging the expansive authority the USPS holds to regulate the collection, handling, transportation and delivery of mail. USPS WOULDN'T DELIVER BALLOTS IN STATES THAT REFUSE TO FORK OVER MAIL-IN VOTER INFO UNDER PROPOSED RULE The Trump rules would require federal ballot mail to be sent in envelopes bearing an election-mail logo, capable of being scanned by high-speed equipment and carrying a barcode unique to each voter. State and local election officials would also be required to submit envelope designs to the Postal Service for review and upload basic voter information to an online USPS portal. Under the USPS rule, mailings that failed to comply would not be accepted and would instead be returned to election officials to correct and resubmit. Fox News' Stepheny Price and Shannon Bream contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9253875342cf4db8637a1 AMB GORDON SONDLAND: Canada doesn't need Europe. It needs a new economic deal with America te 2026-09-15T11:00:08.413Z AMB GORDON SONDLAND: Canada doesn't need Europe. It needs a new economic deal with America The United States and Canada have spent the past several months behaving like two people in a bad marriage: each is convinced the other is taking advantage, each is speaking loudly enough for the neighbors to hear, and neither seems willing to acknowledge how much is at stake if the relationship truly breaks down. It is time to stop measuring each other's manhood across the border. Canada should return to the table. So should the United States. Not to negotiate another small, defensive tariff truce, but to construct a new North American economic relationship worthy of the two most integrated economies in the democratic world. DAVID MARCUS: CANADA SEES TRUMP TRADE WAR AS ‘LIFE AND DEATH’ WHILE AMERICANS BARELY NOTICE The first principle must be plain: Canada is a sovereign country. It is not the 51st state, and no good can come from language that treats it as one. America does not need a submissive Canada. It needs a prosperous, capable, secure, and willing partner on its northern border—one that shares a continent, a NATO commitment, a vast energy system, critical supply chains, and values that are far more alike than different. The second principle is equally plain: sovereignty is not a license for permanent economic asymmetry. If Canada wishes to preserve privileged access to the American market—and it should—then it must be willing to address the barriers that American businesses and workers reasonably see as one-sided. Banking, dairy, procurement, digital rules, industrial subsidies, and autos all belong on the table. But they should be resolved through reciprocity, not coercion. The current approach has it backward. Washington has too often treated tariffs and public humiliation as a negotiating strategy. Ottawa, understandably angered by that treatment, has increasingly treated diversification away from the United States as a strategic end in itself. Both instincts are emotionally satisfying. Neither is a strategy. CANADA REPORTEDLY SCRAPS JOINT BRIDGE CELEBRATION WITH US AFTER TRUMP RENEWS TARIFF THREAT Canada can and should diversify trade. A country that sends the overwhelming majority of its goods exports to one market should want alternatives. Europe, Britain, Japan, India, and other partners all have a role to play. But diversification is not substitution. Canada will not replace North America with Europe, and it would be foolish to try. The fashionable idea that Canada should join the European Union is the clearest example of mistaking a political gesture for an economic plan. It is also, as a legal matter, implausible: EU membership is available to European states, and Canada is not one. But even if Brussels chose to rewrite its treaties, full membership would be a terrible bargain for Canada. Canada would trade its own commercial policy for the European Union’s common external tariff and regulatory system. It would risk erecting a customs and regulatory border with its largest customer, most important supplier, and closest industrial partner. It would become a distant member of a bloc whose decisions are necessarily shaped by European geography, European politics, and European priorities. Canadian businesses would be subject to rules made thousands of miles away, while the factories, pipelines, farms, mines, and research centers that actually sustain the Canadian economy remain tied by roads, rails, grids, and pipelines to the United States. That is not sovereignty. It is outsourcing sovereignty. Canada’s future lies in a deeper North American relationship—one that preserves Canadian political independence while recognizing the economic reality that the two countries already make things together. FMR BIDEN AMBASSADOR BLAMES TRUMP FOR CANADA PLAYING 'FOOTSIE' WITH CHINA Consider the automobile sector. A car assembled in Ontario or Michigan is not meaningfully "Canadian" or "American" in the old-fashioned sense. Its parts may cross the border several times before final assembly. Engineers, tooling companies, battery suppliers, semiconductor firms, steel producers, and logistics operators work on both sides. The sensible goal is not to force Canadian manufacturing to become an appendage of American manufacturing, nor to let either country subsidize factories that merely displace the other’s workers. It is to create a common North American manufacturing zone in which both countries benefit from production, investment, and innovation. That means common rules of origin with real North American content; common standards for electric vehicles, batteries, and charging; mutually recognized safety and environmental rules; and incentive programs designed to reward continental production rather than trigger subsidy wars. If a Canadian worker, American worker, and Mexican worker all contribute to a product made in North America, the system should favor that product over subsidized imports from strategic competitors—not turn the three partners against one another. TRUMP IS PROVING THAT THE WAY TO BETTER OUR MILITARY IS TO SECURE OUR SUPPLY CHAINS The same principle applies to energy. The United States and Canada should be the world’s most reliable combined supplier of oil, natural gas, electricity, uranium, critical minerals, and next-generation energy technology. Canada has the resources. The United States has immense capital markets, demand, technology, and security capacity. Rather than squabble over tariffs and permits, the two countries should create a North American energy-security compact: shared infrastructure planning, accelerated cross-border approvals, joint critical-mineral processing, integrated grids, and long-term commitments to supply one another in a crisis. Banking is another obvious place for a serious bargain. Canada has a stable banking system, but it is also one of the most protected financial markets in the developed world. America should be entitled to ask for genuine reciprocity: fair access for qualified U.S. financial institutions, transparent rules, and a level playing field for cross-border capital. In return, Canada should receive dependable access to American capital markets and a commitment that U.S. policy will not casually punish Canadian institutions simply because they are Canadian. Reciprocity must run in both directions. TRUMP MUST CLOSE THE BACK DOOR CHINA USES TO EXPLOIT NORTH AMERICAN TRADE The two governments should also build a North American mobility regime for workers. Not open borders. Not a surrender of either country’s immigration system. A practical, secure, reciprocal system for verified workers in designated sectors—engineers, nurses, skilled trades, energy technicians, aerospace specialists, construction crews, researchers, and advanced-manufacturing employees—to cross the border quickly and work where their skills are needed. If a Canadian electrician is needed at a Michigan battery plant, or an American aerospace engineer is needed at a Montreal facility, the answer should not be months of paperwork. It should be a trusted-worker credential, tied to an employer, subject to background checks, wage protections, and labor-law enforcement. The United States and Canada already trust each other enough to defend North America together. We should trust each other enough to let skilled workers help build it. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION There will be hard issues. Canada will not abandon supply management overnight. The United States will not abandon its desire to bring more manufacturing home. Provinces will guard their procurement authority; states will guard theirs. Those are normal negotiations between sovereign democracies. They are not reasons to turn the border into an economic fault line. The real choice is not between American dominance and Canadian independence. It is between a continent that builds together and one that slowly hands market share, industrial capacity, and strategic leverage to others. Washington should stop treating Canada as a trophy to be won. Ottawa should stop treating distance from the United States as a measure of national success. The two countries should get back to the table, lower the temperature, recognize each other’s legitimate interests, and negotiate economic parity where it is warranted. Canada does not need to join Europe to preserve its dignity. It needs to help the United States build the most competitive, secure, and productive democratic economic space on earth. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM AMB. GORDON SONDLAND Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa91bdd75342cf4db86364b Arizona Lawmakers Continue Advanced Air Mobility Push With Joby Aviation Demonstration te 2026-09-15T10:20:13.829Z Arizona Lawmakers Continue Advanced Air Mobility Push With Joby Aviation Demonstration By Matthew Holloway | Arizona lawmakers are continuing efforts to prepare the state for advanced air mobility, hosting Joby Aviation at Phoenix Deer Valley Airport this week for a demonstration of the company’s autonomous flight technology. Senate Majority Whip Frank Carroll (R-LD28) and Sen. David Farnsworth (R-LD10) attended the event, which featured Joby’s autonomous J208 aircraft and marked the beginning of the company’s nationwide Electric Skies tour. 🚨FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Arizona Senate Republicans Help Prepare State for the Future of Advanced Air Mobility Full press release: https://t.co/zHQrhcr4vf@DaveFarnsworth_ @SenFrankCarroll pic.twitter.com/IUH4fGAgjd — AZSenateRepublicans (@AZSenateGOP) September 9, 2026 The J208 is a Cessna 208 Caravan equipped with autonomous aviation technology developed by Xwing, an autonomy division acquired by Joby Aviation in 2024. The aircraft is separate from Joby’s electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi, which the company is developing for commercial passenger service. Joby said the J208 departed Concord, California, on September 8 for its 2026 Electric Skies tour, which is intended to demonstrate autonomous aviation technology during a cross-country flight. September is shaping up to be a huge month for our J208 program and the future of autonomous flight. Former fighter pilot @maxabusa spent his career flying with a stick and a rudder. The pilot commanding the J208 uses a keyboard, a mouse, and a microphone. New Joby Recon… pic.twitter.com/rP08yYq7Bn — Joby Aviation (@jobyaviation) September 9, 2026 The Phoenix event continued a series of demonstrations and legislative initiatives aimed at expanding Arizona’s advanced air mobility sector. In March, Farnsworth hosted representatives from Pivotal Aviation at the Arizona Capitol for discussions about potential uses of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft in communities including Superior and Globe. Those discussions focused on rural transportation, emergency response, public safety, and connections between communities that have limited access to traditional transportation infrastructure. Pivotal Aviation markets the Helix, a single-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Later that month, legislation sponsored by Farnsworth had advanced through the House Technology and Infrastructure Committee. One measure, SB 1826, would appropriate $2 million from the Advanced Air Mobility Fund to the Arizona Office of Defense Innovation and require a public-private partnership supporting autonomous systems, advanced aviation, and related defense and aerospace development. A second measure, SB 1549, would add ultralight vehicles to Arizona’s statutory definition of advanced air mobility. The legislative work builds upon SB 1307, sponsored by Carroll and signed into law in 2025. The law directs the Arizona Department of Transportation to incorporate advanced air mobility into state aviation planning and consider infrastructure including vertiports, charging facilities, emergency-response applications, and integration with existing transportation systems. Arizona’s fiscal year 2025-2026 transportation budget also deposited $2 million into the Advanced Air Mobility Fund. State law allows the fund to support planning, infrastructure development, research, workforce development, public education, and local transportation projects connected with advanced air mobility. Carroll said Arizona has an opportunity to lead the next major development in transportation by creating a regulatory and infrastructure environment that encourages aviation investment. “We’ve been laying the groundwork at the legislature so companies developing the future of aviation know Arizona is open for innovation and ready for investment,” Carroll said. “Advanced Air Mobility can improve connectivity between our communities, strengthen emergency response and public safety, support our defense industry, connect communities, and create tremendous economic opportunities.” “Arizona has the opportunity to lead the next revolution in transportation,” he continued. Farnsworth said technological development in the sector is accelerating and that lawmakers must ensure state policy keeps pace. “Our responsibility as lawmakers is to remove unnecessary barriers and ensure that the infrastructure and policies are in place to translate innovation into real-world transportation.” He added, “This is about more than new aircraft. It’s about jobs, economic growth, stronger communities, and giving Arizonans entirely new ways to move around our state.” “The technology is here, the momentum is building, and Arizona has every ingredient necessary to become the national leader in Advanced Air Mobility,” Farnsworth continued. Joby has also demonstrated the J208’s autonomous capabilities for the U.S. military. In 2025, the aircraft participated in the Air Force’s Resolute Force Pacific exercise, completing more than 7,000 miles of autonomous operations between locations in Hawaii while transporting personnel and equipment. Carroll and Farnsworth said they are continuing to consult aviation companies and other stakeholders as they prepare for the 2027 legislative session. The Senate Republican announcement did not identify specific legislation planned for the session. Matthew Holloway is a senior reporter for AZ Free News. Follow him on X for his latest stories, or email tips to Matthew@azfreenews.com. The post Arizona Lawmakers Continue Advanced Air Mobility Push With Joby Aviation Demonstration first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa91bdb75342cf4db863642 Biggs, Crane Back ASU Bid For New Army Manufacturing Center te 2026-09-15T10:20:11.653Z Biggs, Crane Back ASU Bid For New Army Manufacturing Center By Ethan Faverino | Congressmen Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05) and Eli Crane (R-AZ-02) are urging the Trump administration to select Arizona State University (ASU) as the home of a new national advanced manufacturing center aimed at strengthening military readiness and the U.S defense industrial base. Biggs led a letter this month alongside Crane to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth supporting an ASU Research Enterprise proposal to establish the Applied Research for Manufacturing Operational Readiness Center or ARMOR Center, at ASU’s Polytechnic campus. The U.S. Army is seeking to establish the center to help move advanced manufacturing technologies from research and development into practical military applications. Under ASU’s proposal, the ARMOR Center would create a pipeline for developing, testing, qualifying, and scaling new manufacturing technologies before transitioning them into the Army’s Organic Industrial Base, defense contractors, and other manufacturing partners. The center would focus on areas including additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence-enabled manufacturing, advanced composites and point-of-need production. “Led by institutions and companies like Arizona State University, our state continues to position itself at the forefront of America’s defense industrial base,” stated Congressman Biggs. “Throughout my time in Congress, I have been pleased to support projects and initiatives that strengthen our national defense and help safeguard our citizens, freedoms, and interests.” I recently led a letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth supporting Arizona State University’s application to establish the Applied Research for Manufacturing Operational Readiness Center at ASU’s Polytechnic campus in #AZ05. ASU is well positioned to lead this important effort,… pic.twitter.com/HBzRgpr5iH — Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) September 9, 2026 Biggs said ASU is well positioned to lead the effort and expressed hope that the administration will select the university’s proposal. In their letter to Hegseth, Biggs and Crane argued that Arizona’s existing defense industry, military installations, semiconductor investments, and research capabilities make the state a strong candidate for the center. Arizona is home to major defense and aerospace companies including Raytheon, Honeywell Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Boeing, along with hundreds of suppliers involved in the production of missiles, aircraft, avionics, and electronics. Biggs and Crane also pointed to more than $210 billion in semiconductor and microelectronics investments announced in Arizona since 2020, arguing that the expanding industry could provide the Army with an established network for developing and scaling advanced manufacturing technologies. Arizona’s military presence was also highlighted in the letter. Fort Huachuca and Yuma Proving Ground support Army missions and testing, while Luke Air Force Base, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and Marine Corps Air Station Yuma provide additional military infrastructure within the state. “Few states combine manufacturing, research, testing, and military operations in one place,” wrote Biggs and Crane. ASU has also invested heavily in manufacturing research at its Polytechnic campus. It’s $200 million interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 12 contains approximately $6 million in advanced manufacturing equipment, according to the letter. The university offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in manufacturing engineering and graduates more than 1,000 students annually across manufacturing, mechanical, and industrial engineering programs. ASU has also conducted nearly $300 million in Department of War research during the past three fiscal years and leads one of the nation’s eight Microelectronics Commons hubs. Beyond establishing the ARMOR Center, ASU’s proposal could position Arizona to host a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) supporting the Army’s modernization and readiness efforts. Such a center would provide the Army with a long-term research partner focused on developing and transitioning technologies needed for national defense. Supporters contend that bringing the ARMOR Center to Arizona could strengthen domestic manufacturing capacity, expand the military’s ability to adopt emerging technologies, and reduce vulnerabilities within defense supply chains. “A UARC in Arizona would deepen the Army’s partnership with a state that already delivers defense manufacturing, semiconductor production, federally funded research, and a skilled engineering workforce,” Biggs and Crane wrote. Biggs and Crane asked Hegseth to give ASU’s proposal “full and fair consideration,” arguing that Arizona’s combination of defense manufacturing, military infrastructure, research capabilities and engineering workforce makes the state a natural location for the new national center. Ethan Faverino is a reporter for AZ Free News. You can send him news tips using this link. The post Biggs, Crane Back ASU Bid For New Army Manufacturing Center first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa91bd975342cf4db863639 Green Party Candidates Sue Clean Elections Commission, Allege Threats Forced Campaigns To Stop te 2026-09-15T10:20:09.433Z Green Party Candidates Sue Clean Elections Commission, Allege Threats Forced Campaigns To Stop By Staff Reporter | Two candidates are accusing the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission (CCEC) of issuing threats that forced a stop to their campaigns.  Risa Lombardo, the Green Party nominee for governor, and DuWayne Collier, the Green Party nominee for secretary of state, filed the lawsuit in the Maricopa County Superior Court against CCEC last week. CCEC Executive Director Tom Collins was also named in the lawsuit. Lombardo and Collier were both qualified by Secretary of State Adrian Fontes as having enough signatures and donations to become Clean Elections candidates, meaning they were eligible to receive public funding for their campaigns.   In order to qualify as a Clean Elections candidate and receive that public funding, candidates must collect a specific number of $5 donations from individual donors and then agree to forgo other funding sources once qualified. Any candidates who receive Clean Elections funding may not withdraw from the organization. Lombardo and Collier alleged in their lawsuit that Collins threatened them with consequences if they continued spending their Clean Elections funding, four months after they were approved for the funds. Collins told Lombardo and Collier in separate letters that they would be required to repay the funds — $2.8 million in Lombardo’s case, and $739,000 in Collier’s case — pending the outcome of his investigation.  Collins sent the letters on the same day that the Arizona Mirror published an article outlining similar claims of fraud. The media reporting cited six individuals who were listed as donors but claimed they never donated to Lombardo, Collier, or a third candidate for governor, Scott Neely, and that the three candidates contained a significant share of donors that had no other donor history.  Collins accused Lombardo and Collier of falsifying voter identities to manufacture the $5 contributions they needed. His letters to Lombardo included references to a bank statement reflecting a nominal balance around the time she should have had thousands in qualifying contributions, and that those contributions only appeared later in a lump-sum deposit. The lump-sum deposit accusation was also raised in Collins’ letter to Collier.  Collins also told Lombardo that her secretary of state certification had been in error because of sampling requirements: Lombardo had not submitted more than 4,400 qualifying contributions, which would have been the minimum required to meet the statutory 110% qualifier for certification.  Collins advised that he would ask CCEC to initiate repayment order proceedings at their virtual meeting on August 27.  CCEC didn’t issue a repayment order, but did direct Collins to investigate Lombardo and Collier further. CCEC requested that Collins deliver his findings sometime between September 24 and their next meeting, which is not scheduled to occur until October 29 — five days before the general election. Lombardo and Collier claim these looming threats from Collins spanning the remainder of the months leading up to the election have left them unable to continue their campaigns and therefore violated their free speech rights.  “Restrictions that burden spending for political speech, whether candidate spending or independent spending, get strict scrutiny and usually fail,” stated their lawsuit. “Defendants are trying to bully and intimidate Plaintiffs into effectively dropping their campaigns, campaigns the Commission disapproves of, by depriving them of Commission funding, or threatening to subject each to hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in repayment obligations.” Lombardo and Collier also alleged that Collins and CCEC were acting beyond their statutory authority.  They claimed that the secretary of state, not CCEC, certifies a candidate’s qualification for Clean Elections funding. “The Commission is without power to subsequently declare, months after the Secretary of State’s certification has been completed, that a candidate should not have qualified for Clean Elections funding in the first instance and must repay their funds back to the Commission,” stated their lawsuit.  Lombardo and Collier are asking the court to enjoin CCEC from decertifying them and undertaking further actions effectively suspending their campaigns.  AZ Free News is your #1 source for Arizona news and politics. You can send us news tips using this link. The post Green Party Candidates Sue Clean Elections Commission, Allege Threats Forced Campaigns To Stop first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9198075342cf4db8635f0 Voters have a blunt message for Trump about his idea to dole out $5,000 checks te 2026-09-15T10:10:08.233Z Voters have a blunt message for Trump about his idea to dole out $5,000 checks Voters aren't convinced that President Donald Trump will make good on his new promise to send eligible Americans $5,000 dividend checks if Republicans maintain their majorities in the House and Senate this midterm cycle. The proposal, which Trump unveiled during the Republican National Committee's midterm convention in Dallas last week, has ignited a national debate over whether the payments are financially feasible — and whether they'll ever become reality. Asked what they thought of the proposal, and whether they believed it would ever become reality, most voters were skeptical with several dismissing the idea as unrealistic while pointing to Congress, the nation's debt and previous promises they said never materialized. A few were hopeful. "Personally, I think it's just a publicity stunt and I don't think that it's ever gonna happen," a voter named William said when speaking with Fox News Digital. "It'll need to go through Congress, and I don't think with the midterm elections... the possibility of that happening is just so far down the road." TRUMP'S $5,000 DIVIDEND CHECKS WOULD COME WITH A MAJOR CATCH UNDER GOP SENATOR'S PLAN As Fox News Digital previously reported, the dividend proposal would require congressional approval and it's unclear where the money would come from the fund the program. Another voter was clued into the dilemma and questioned whether the federal government under it's 40.1 trillion in national debt could afford the proposal. "I don't think we have the money for that," said Daniel from Maryland. "And I think if we did, it should be going a couple different other places than that for sure." Liz from Alexandria, Virginia, was even more blunt, calling the idea "absolute nonsense." "I don't believe a word that man ever says," she added in reference to Trump. Another cited previous promises they believed had fallen short. "Last time I remember he promised a stimulus and a couple other things. None of that happened," the voter said. The president argued the checks would be funded through tariff revenue — but with an estimated price tag of roughly $1.2 trillion, the total needed far exceeds the record customs duties the federal government has collected under Trump's tariff agenda. TRUMP DANGLES $5,000 CHECKS AS DEBT SURGES — BUT ONLY IF GOP CAN CLEAR MAJOR MIDTERM HURDLE Some voters said they welcomed the proposal, arguing that taxpayer dollars should go to hardworking Americans. "I think he's limiting it to American citizens and adults who work," one supporter told Fox News Digital. "We've given a hell of a lot of money to people who don't deserve it," they added. "It's about time hardworking citizens of America get the money they deserve." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9197f75342cf4db8635e7 Roaches caught crawling across popular steakhouse's kitchen floor in viral employee video te 2026-09-15T10:10:07.630Z Roaches caught crawling across popular steakhouse's kitchen floor in viral employee video A LongHorn Steakhouse is receiving new scrutiny after videos appearing to show roaches and food waste inside the restaurant's kitchen have been spreading across social media. The videos were allegedly recorded at the Camp Creek Parkway location in East Point, Georgia, where an employee said he documented conditions after repeatedly raising concerns with managers and the company's corporate offices, FOX 5 Atlanta reported. Sean Headley, who began working at the restaurant in April, told the outlet he decided to record the videos because he believed the kitchen had become unsafe. NAKED DOORDASH DRIVER DELIVERS FOOD TO TEXAS HOME IN SHOCKING SECURITY CAMERA VIDEO "Really, it was the work environment and the conditions that we were working in," Headley told FOX 5 Atlanta. "There were a lot of inhumane conditions." The videos he took appear to show cockroaches crawling across the kitchen floor and food waste scattered throughout the workspace, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. Headley eventually shared his videos on social media after feeling his concerns had gone unanswered, he told the outlet. LongHorn Steakhouse responded to the videos in a statement provided to FOX 5 Atlanta. "The conditions shown are unacceptable and have been addressed," the company said.  CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "We continue to take the necessary steps to ensure a safe experience for our guests and team members and recently placed a new leader in the restaurant to ensure our strict standards are maintained." Fox News Digital reached out to the restaurant for comment.  Headley told the outlet he hopes the incident leads to broader changes beyond a single restaurant. He said he would like to see more frequent health inspections at restaurants owned by Darden Restaurants, as well as improvements in workplace conditions, including repairs to broken air conditioning systems. Fulton County health officials are planning to revisit the restaurant following the viral videos, WSB-TV in Atlanta reported. The Georgia Department of Public Health last inspected the East Point restaurant on Aug. 25, issuing it a score of 90, or an "A." Inspection records from the past two years showed scores ranging from 88 to 91, the outlet reported. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES The videos showing the bugs and food waste sparked discussion online, with many users slamming the reported kitchen conditions. "That is beyond unacceptable," said one user on a Reddit thread.  Another commenter said restaurant workers should report sanitation concerns instead of ignoring them. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "We are responsible for not poisoning people, and some of you need to take that job more seriously," one user wrote. Others questioned how the restaurant had previously received passing health inspections. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9197e75342cf4db8635de 2026 Emmy Awards: Winners and losers te 2026-09-15T10:10:06.962Z 2026 Emmy Awards: Winners and losers The 78th Emmy Awards took place Monday night at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with Mariska Hargitay hosting the ceremony – the first woman to host the award show in 15 years. "The Pitt" led all programs with 25 nominations, while "Hacks" earned a record 24 nominations during its final season. Apple TV’s "Widow’s Bay" followed with 19 nominations, and "Pluribus" has 18. The Creative Arts Emmys were presented ahead of Monday night, with notable wins for Shailene Woodley, Mariska Hargitay, Bad Bunny and the late Rob Reiner. "Widow’s Bay" led the early awards with eight wins, while "DTF St. Louis" earned six. Matthew Rhys made Emmy history Monday night by winning two lead acting awards in the same ceremony. The actor first won outstanding lead actor in a limited or anthology series for Netflix’s "The Beast in Me" before taking home outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for Apple TV’s "Widow’s Bay." MARISKA HARGITAY NEARLY LEFT 'LAW & ORDER SVU' OVER FEAR OF BEING A 'ONE-TRICK PONY' Here are the night’s biggest winners and all the nominees. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE WATCH: 'Widow's Bay' star Matthew Rhys talks making Emmy Awards history, shares celebration plans Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9197e75342cf4db8635d5 Trump’s data center push fractures Congress as local anger explodes: 'Grasping at straws' te 2026-09-15T10:10:06.226Z Trump’s data center push fractures Congress as local anger explodes: 'Grasping at straws' Democratic lawmakers are calling for tighter restrictions on data centers, while Republicans say the facilities could boost the economy and keep the U.S. ahead in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. President Donald Trump doubled down on data centers this week, rejecting calls to slow development after previously warning that communities blocking the facilities would "end up being backwards and poor." Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., told Fox News Digital last month that Arizona needs to slow the expansion of data centers until the state fully assesses its long-term impacts. "We in Arizona need to pause the expansion of data centers in the state until we really figure out a plan on how we're going to preserve our water, how we are going to make sure that ratepayers aren't taking on the responsibility," Ansari said. MAGA BEGINS TO CRACK AS 2026 GOP ROSTER BACKS AWAY FROM TRUMP'S TECH VISION Ansari called President Trump's support for data centers "out of touch," saying it runs counter to what the "vast majority" of Americans want. "If Donald Trump is such a big fan of data centers, then he should welcome them in his own backyard," she said. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., pointed to his proposed Data Center Bill of Rights, which would ban data centers within 2,500 feet of homes, schools, child care facilities, hospitals and nursing homes and give communities greater authority over where they're built. Khanna dismissed President Donald Trump's comments that communities opposing data centers would fall behind. "Trump has failed to deliver for the forgotten American, so he's just grasping at straws," he said. Rep. Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., said lawmakers must prioritize what's "fair" for local communities. "The wealth has gone into the tech sector, and they are unregulated, unbridled and not very philanthropic," Jackson said. WHO PAYS FOR US POWER BOOM? BLUE, RED STATES OFFER STARKLY DIFFERENT WAYS TO LOWER UTILITY BILLS AMID AI SURGE Higher electricity bills shouldn't fall on communities as data centers expand, according to Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich. "It baffles me that we are just not guaranteeing, for average ratepayers, low utility bills," she said. "These data centers could play a role in that." Republican lawmakers were split on data centers, with some saying they can boost economies and others stressing local control. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., backed AI investment to compete with China but opposed building data centers in residential neighborhoods. "We've got to stay ahead of China with AI, and data centers are a part of that," Mace said. "But you don't put them in somebody's backyard and that's the whole point." Praising data centers, Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., said they can generate tax revenue, improve local infrastructure and support energy production. CRACKDOWN ON CRITICAL TECH COULD OPEN AMERICANS TO A NEW NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT "You should be fighting over them," McCormick said. "But, I mean, if you don't want one, that's up to you. I think you're missing out." Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said decisions about data centers should be left to states and local communities. "I believe in 10th Amendment rights, state rights," Norman said. "Let each community take ownership, and they'll make the right decisions." As several states raise concerns over electricity costs, water use and development, the debate highlights growing divisions over where data centers belong in local communities. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9127575342cf4db8634b4 Our View: County was right to abandon costly office plan te 2026-09-15T09:40:05.771Z Our View: County was right to abandon costly office plan Mohave County made the right call by walking away from plans to build another government office in Lake Havasu City. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa90b7475342cf4db8633a0 MORNING GLORY: Spare us the AI apocalypse rhetoric. Let Congress decide what comes next te 2026-09-15T09:10:12.388Z MORNING GLORY: Spare us the AI apocalypse rhetoric. Let Congress decide what comes next Every morning brings a new warning about "artificial intelligence" (AI) along the lines of, "We are all going to die." By afternoon, or by the next day at the latest, comes the counter-warning: "Stand down. Nothing to see here." For those of us who need a YouTube video to start the dishwasher or to find the emergency lights on a rental car, the correct posture is difficult to guess. "Guess" is the operative word here, because if 0.01% of America understands the debate, I would be surprised. AI EXTINCTION WARNINGS DOMINATE HEADLINES AFTER EX-ANTHROPIC EMPLOYEE'S VIRAL POST Almost everyone who cared to read or watch the Cold War unfold knew the score of that arms race when it came to nuclear weapons. Similarly, most conventional conflicts—whether Ukraine’s extraordinary defense against the Russian invasion, Israel’s multi-front war following Hamas’ 10/7 attack in 2023, or America’s ongoing battle with Iran to deny it both nuclear weapons and control over the Strait of Hormuz—are of the sort that most free people who want to understand those conflicts can understand (with a little time and care in choosing their sources). Not so with "AI" and its potential and dangers. RESEARCHER WHO DEPARTED AI ROLE OVER FEARS OF RACING INTO EXTINCTION SAYS PEOPLE ARE 'BEGGING' FOR REGULATION On Saturday, Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, said in an essay that AI was advancing too quickly for researchers to continue building it safely. Within a day, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive; Elon Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive; and Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind’s CEO, all said they agreed on the need for a slower pace. ANTHROPIC CEO LIKENS AI FIGHT WITH CHINA TO COLD WAR, SEEKS 'DISARMAMENT NEGOTIATIONS' By Monday morning, billionaire tech investor David Sacks’ response to Amodei was everywhere on X, formerly known as Twitter, and the post had some bite. In addition to rejecting "AI doomerism," Sacks unsubtly proposed that Amodei could be motivated by self-interest (which is pretty much Adam Smith 101): "I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible." MIKE JOHNSON REJECTS AI MORATORIUM OVER CHINA THREAT AS CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST DEMANDS GUARDRAILS Then Sacks landed the roundhouse punch: "But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability." Sacks may or may not have President Donald Trump’s ear on this topic, but Sacks is the co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, so there is a good chance he does. REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: CONGRESS MEETS AI AS FEARS OF HUMAN EXTINCTION JOLT CAPITOL HILL So what should President Trump do? A good answer is…nothing. If ever a possible problem had "Congress" as its final address, it is this one. There is a Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, that has 21 members. FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS SEE AI REGULATION AS URGENT, RANK SAFEGUARDS AHEAD OF INNOVATION There is a House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Arkansas Republican Rep. Rick Crawford, that has 27 members. These are the two committees whose membership belongs solely to the party leaders in each chamber. Those leaders tend to pick the smart folks in Congress to serve on these committees, legislators who enjoy a measure of respect on both sides of the aisle. That isn’t always the case, but generally it is true. OBAMA PRIVATELY SOUNDS ALARM ON ‘DANGEROUS’ AI, URGES DEMOCRATS TO PUT ISSUE AT CENTER OF AGENDA These 48 elected members of Congress should have the lead on this debate. It is unlikely they will have an opportunity before the midterms to gather and hear from even a half-dozen combatants in the AI wars, but the committees’ staffs can certainly be about the work of making sure the controversy is well briefed and counter-briefed. When these 48 get to hearing the arguments and debating among themselves about the best way forward—and whether that would include new statutes or a new agency with new regulatory authority over AI—they can then communicate what is advisable to communicate to the public, aware as they are, that Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping is watching everything we do as a country. As President Trump correctly observed about the debate over AI guardrails when it comes to China: President Xi is the guardrail. It is foolish to think Xi will be satisfied with a silver medal in the AI Olympics. TRUMP'S ANTITRUST POINT MAN COULD RESHAPE BIG TECH CASES AGAINST GOOGLE AND APPLE IF CONFIRMED We are, however, a free people, and there is no counterpart to Xi here, and we are also marked by a reluctance to trust corporate America, especially its most powerful titans, with the authority to chart our laws. As a republic of laws, it is assumed that actions by private-sector actors are legal until they can be conclusively proven not to be legal. That’s the free market. All around America is the abundance that free markets produce. When World Cup crowds dipped their collective toes in the currents of America’s vast wealth this past summer—best represented, it seemed, by Buc-ee’s—most were amazed. Americans are generally unaware of the extraordinary blessings of the combination of the rule of law and free markets. But it’s everywhere, available for everyone to see. Which means to me that Congress needs to deliberate carefully about intervening in the free market without a lot of study beforehand. The legislators can move quickly if indeed they judge the moment to be urgent. If it is urgent, I hope they do. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION But "open letters" from concerned citizens, much less self-interested CEOs, have never been the end of the discussion, and sometimes they don’t rate as beginnings or even contributions to the conversation. The future of AI is very much up to Congress. Exactly zero agencies have been established with the purpose of overseeing this technology. The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914, so it certainly wasn’t dispatched to rule Silicon Valley and its like-minded locales. We are not organized as the European Commission is—thank goodness. No, the private sector gets to run with the AI ball as far and as fast as it wants until and unless Congress says stop via a proposed statute and the president agrees with a signature.  That’s the final word on the debate unless and until somebody steps up with an argument based on law and not fear. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM HUGH HEWITT Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and host of "The Hugh Hewitt Show" heard weekday afternoons from 3 PM to 6 PM ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh drives Americans home on the East Coast and to lunch on the West Coast on over 400 affiliates nationwide, and on all the streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel’s news roundtable, hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has frequently appeared on every major national news television network, hosted television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American paper, has authored a dozen books and moderated a score of Republican candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in broadcasting. This column previews the lead story that will drive his radio/ TV show today. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa90b7375342cf4db863397 Forget paying your ‘fair share’ of taxes. Here are 5 ways politicians want even more te 2026-09-15T09:10:11.733Z Forget paying your ‘fair share’ of taxes. Here are 5 ways politicians want even more A few months ago, I wrote about one of my favorite phrases used by Democratic politicians in Washington, D.C.: "Pay your fair share." Politicians love saying wealthy Americans aren't paying enough. The problem is the numbers tell a different story. The top 1% of taxpayers already pay roughly 40% of federal individual income taxes. The top 10% pay the overwhelming majority of taxes. So, here's my question. If that isn't enough, what exactly is enough? BILLIONAIRE BEZOS SUGGESTS NO TAXES FOR HALF THE NATION. IS THAT CRAZY OR OVERDUE? Because the debate isn't stopping at ordinary income taxes. Soon it will be capital gains taxes, Social Security taxes and then estate taxes. Here are five more ways successful Americans could increasingly find themselves paying even more. This is the easiest one. Need more money? Raise the top tax bracket. FORMER WASHINGTON GOVERNOR RIPS HER OWN PARTY FOR PUSHING MILLIONAIRES OUT But high earners already pay the highest federal marginal income-tax rate, plus state income taxes that can push combined marginal rates significantly higher in places like California and New York. At what percentage does "fair share" officially become fair? The last time the top tax rate was above 39.6% was 40 years ago, when it was 50%. Could it be 50% again? No political candidate will tell you that number. Here's another Washington favorite. This one is sneaky and likely the No. 1 tax angle to be attacked if political winds change in the White House. Tax investment gains more like ordinary income. Sounds simple until you remember where investment capital comes from. People risk money starting companies, funding businesses, buying stocks and investing in real estate because they hope to earn a return. PROGRESSIVES WANT TO TAX BILLIONAIRES FIRST, AND YOU'RE NEXT ON THE LIST You can tax that return more heavily. Just don't pretend people won't change their behavior when you do that, because they will. Why wait until somebody earns money? Some politicians want to tax wealth simply because someone owns it. That's a completely different ballgame. Imagine building a company worth $100 million but not having $100 million sitting in your checking account. Your business might be worth a fortune on paper while your actual cash is tied up inside the company. NEWSOM BEGS CALIFORNIANS TO VOTE 'NO' ON BILLIONAIRE'S TAX IN FACE OF MASS EXODUS, PITCHES NATIONWIDE TAX HIKE Now Uncle Sam wants a piece before you even sell it. California will tell us the first chapter of this story on the November ballot. America already has a federal estate tax. For 2026, estates above the federal exemption can face a top estate-tax rate of 40%. Some states can take another bite. Think about that. You earn the money. You pay income taxes. You invest what's left. And when you die, the government may want another piece of what's still sitting there. There’s a $15-million exemption today, but what if this reverts to 2000 levels, when the number was less than $1 million? Imagine your kids, your heirs and your family having to pay 50% or more to the government when you die? How many times does the same dollar need to be taxed before everybody agrees it finally paid its fair share? This may be the sneakiest one. Don't raise the headline tax rate. Just add another little tax. There's already the 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax and the additional 0.9% Medicare tax on certain higher earners. States are getting into the game as well. Massachusetts has its millionaire surtax. California has its own high-income surtax. One percent here. Four percent there. Eventually all those "little" taxes start looking pretty big. Congress wrote the loopholes. If Congress doesn't like a provision in the tax code, change it. But don't vilify taxpayers for following the rules Congress created. That's the bigger issue with America's "fair share" debate. Maybe some taxes should go up. Maybe some deductions should disappear. Maybe certain strategies should be eliminated. We can have that debate. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION But first, politicians should answer one incredibly simple question: What exactly is fair? Because until somebody puts an actual number on it, "fair share" isn't tax policy. It's just two words politicians use when they want more of somebody else's money. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM TED JENKIN Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa90b7375342cf4db86338e LIZ PEEK: AI alarm bells are ringing and Trump needs to take them seriously te 2026-09-15T09:10:11.133Z LIZ PEEK: AI alarm bells are ringing and Trump needs to take them seriously The cat is out of the bag. Simmering concerns about AI agents going rogue, plotting against their owners and hacking outside companies, and new systems coming perilously close to being uncontrollable by humans, are boiling over. Industry insiders warning that AI bots might kill us all are stoking our worst nightmares. President Trump needs to take these fears about AI seriously, work with tech leaders to establish credible and enforceable safety measures, and get ahead of Democrats (and some Republicans) in Congress who want to regulate the industry. For the economy and our national security, nothing could be more important. Evan Hubinger, who describes himself as a "science alignment lead" at Anthropic, posted on X last week that he thinks the odds are better than 10% that AI could kill all humans within the next decade. He was responding to a post from colleague Jacob Coxon, who just quit his job at Anthropic and posted by way of explanation: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible — but, I hear the same people express fear after a colleague quit over safety fears." RESEARCHER WHO DEPARTED AI ROLE OVER FEARS OF RACING INTO EXTINCTION SAYS PEOPLE ARE 'BEGGING' FOR REGULATION Hubinger wrote soon after: "To be clear, as we say in our latest Risk Report, I think the risk from present models is low. What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought." These posts gathered tens of millions of views and attracted concurring comments from other industry insiders. "Recursive self-improvement" means AI agents creating newer, better agents; once we cross that threshold, and we are apparently very, very close, it is easy to imagine those same agents surpassing human capabilities and allowing, in effect, the machines to take over. AI AGENT HACKS GYM SYSTEM TO MOVE UP WAITLIST Given a string of incidents over the past several months in which AI bots engaged in what Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei describes as "rare and unexpected examples of undesirable behavior," like damaging other entities and ignoring specific instructions — I believe them. It’s not just AI agents on their own that pose risks. Anthropic, in its September report on AI misuse, reported "suspected state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, [and] commercial spyware vendors" misusing AI in cases ranging from faking "dating apps designed to defraud users to surveillance systems built to identify and monitor dissidents". BIOWEAPON THREAT EXPOSED AS ANTHROPIC SOUNDS ALARM ON FOREIGN ACTORS PLOTTING VIRUS EXPERIMENTS But…regulating AI is not a job for Congress. Let Congress hold hearings and play politics, but halting industry development while legislators dither and posture is unacceptable. Congress will struggle to legislate safety features that have so far eluded the best brains in the business. In the meantime, technological advances would grind to a halt, enabling China to leapfrog U.S. innovators, and saddling this promising industry that is powering our economy with inestimable baggage. That said, the public’s fears about AI must be addressed. What started with concerns over job losses and then the impact of massive data center construction on electricity rates and water consumption has now spread to mankind’s vulnerability to AI agents. How could bots endanger humanity? By taking control of nuclear codes, enabling the spread of a bioweapon or crashing the Internet. Such malevolent behavior has long been the stuff of sci-fi movies; now it is being envisioned by industry workers who fear they are moving too fast to ensure our safety. President Trump downplayed the recent alarms as coming from "very negative forces" who are imagining scenarios that "won't happen." He is rightly worried that setting up roadblocks would enable China to charge ahead. He is not alone in that concern. Anthropic’s Amodei wrote in a recent essay that, "I agree with Secretary Bessent that a Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world." Nonetheless, in his post, Amodei proposed a series of steps, including the requirement that each firm accept "embedded evaluators" into their businesses and give them "employee-like access to verify safety practices and report incidents." ANTHROPIC CEO CALLS ON AI INDUSTRY TO SLOW DOWN TECH RACE, DRAWING SUPPORT FROM ELON MUSK, SAM ALTMAN This seems a reasonable first step, akin to having regulators folded into bank offices; the practice encourages oversight and transparency and, as Amodei points out, a valuable second opinion. The Anthropic head also calls for regulating "pacing", or the development of ever-more-advanced systems. This translates into restricting progress while analysts assess the risks associated with each step that takes us closer to "recursive self-improvement." Establishing circuit-breakers to promote AI safety was made easier in recent days when four of the industry’s biggest players went public with their concerns. Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, Elon Musk, whose xAI company owns Grok, and Demis Hassabis, chairman and co-founder of Google DeepMind, joined Amodei in calling for a slowdown. ANTHROPIC CEO LIKENS AI FIGHT WITH CHINA TO COLD WAR, SEEKS 'DISARMAMENT NEGOTIATIONS' The Trump administration should immediately convene industry leaders to map out a plan for verifiable self-regulation, including Amodei’s "embedded evaluators." The White House must demand the industry’s compliance and accountability. President Trump will not help the industry or his own political standing by dismissing the public’s concerns or declaring pushback against AI a "hoax", as he did yesterday on social media. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION As we approach the midterms, Democrats (and some Republicans) will clamor for AI regulation. Representative Hakeem Jeffries, who is hopeful of becoming Speaker if Democrats win the majority in the House, is already demanding that lawmakers "act urgently"; former President Obama is urging Democrats to put the issue at the top of their agenda. Politico reports that "the chance of Congress rushing to action in the coming weeks is next to zero." That gives the White House the chance to get ahead of this issue and help the industry establish believable and verifiable guardrails. It’s time. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM LIZ PEEK Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa90b6e75342cf4db863368 Could a Progressive Democrat Really Become Governor of Texas? te 2026-09-15T09:10:06.899Z Could a Progressive Democrat Really Become Governor of Texas? Gina Hinojosa, a state lawmaker from Austin, challenged Gov. Greg Abbott when no other Democrat would. “I needed to try,” she said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa90b6e75342cf4db86335f Alex Bores Wants Democrats to Make AI Safety a 2028 Election Issue te 2026-09-15T09:10:06.158Z Alex Bores Wants Democrats to Make AI Safety a 2028 Election Issue Alex Bores, who lost a congressional primary contest that revolved around A.I. regulation, is trying to position himself at the center of the conversation for the next presidential election. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa90b6d75342cf4db863356 Democrats Gain Midterms Edge as Trump Drags Down Republicans, Per Times/Siena Poll te 2026-09-15T09:10:05.547Z Democrats Gain Midterms Edge as Trump Drags Down Republicans, Per Times/Siena Poll Even some Republicans are losing faith in Trump’s economy, a New York Times/Siena poll found, and Democrats were favored on the top issues as the sprint to the midterms gets underway. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa90b6c75342cf4db86334d Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It te 2026-09-15T09:10:04.855Z Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa90b6c75342cf4db863344 With Trump’s Plans Blocked, States Work to Restore Trust in Mail Voting te 2026-09-15T09:10:04.219Z With Trump’s Plans Blocked, States Work to Restore Trust in Mail Voting President Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting ahead of the midterms were thwarted by the Supreme Court, but they have sowed confusion and doubt among some voters. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa9091975342cf4db863307 Raucous primary season reaches final act in deep-blue stronghold, kickstarting sprint to November te 2026-09-15T09:00:09.336Z Raucous primary season reaches final act in deep-blue stronghold, kickstarting sprint to November Delaware voters head to the polls Tuesday for the final primary of the 2026 election cycle, capping a season marked by high-profile victories for progressives and socialists over Democratic establishment rivals and President Donald Trump’s continued immense influence in Republican contests, despite some notable setbacks. Democratic Sen. Chris Coons and state Attorney General Kathy Jennings each face primary opponents, and Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride is unopposed in her primary, as they tune up for the general election, when Republicans will try to break the Democrats' lock on Delaware's statewide offices. Delaware's nominating contests close out a primary season that upended the Democratic Party, with left-wing and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) backed contenders winning, and in some cases ousting longtime incumbents. A year after socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rocked the political world with a Democratic primary victory en route to winning the general election in the nation's most populist city, the far-left struck again in June. CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS A slew of incumbents and establishment candidates were defeated by left-wing rivals, including DSA members Melat Kiros topping 15-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado and Darializa Avila Chevalier of New York ousting five-term Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat of New York. Those wins were followed on an even larger scale in August, with triumphs in crucial statewide Senate primaries by Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota, and state Rep. Angie Nixon in Florida. While there were notable setbacks for the left, including frontrunner Francesca Hong's August defeat in battleground Wisconsin's Democratic gubernatorial primary, the left vastly increased its clout in the political fight for the party's ideological future. And many of the winning candidates ran on platforms calling for abolishing ICE, cutting military aid to Israel, and pushing for a single-payer "Medicare for All" health system. "It is undeniable that progressives have built a coalition and have a message that can serve to buoy a candidate when they are an acceptable alternative to the status quo," longtime Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo, a veteran of progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, told Fox News Digital. DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB Caiazzo added, "What's incumbent upon progressives if they want to continue to be successful is to put forward candidates who are serious, credible, and are accessible to the public." In Republican nominating battles, Trump took to social media late last month to tout, "My Endorsements are stronger than ever....There has never been anything close!" The numbers back up the president's assertion that despite some setbacks, he remains the ultimate kingmaker in GOP nomination showdowns. According to a Fox News Trump Primary Endorsement Tracker, the president batted a thousand in Senate GOP primaries this cycle, and enjoyed a near-perfect record in House Republican nomination showdowns. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Trump has dramatically reshaped the GOP since his first White House victory a decade ago, with the populist MAGA and America First wings gaining prominence over more traditional fiscal and social conservatives. And the president's grip over party politics remains extremely firm. But he has had some setbacks, with five of his gubernatorial picks in Republican primaries this year going down to defeat. That list includes Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, Rep. Randy Feenstra of Iowa, Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder and Minnesota businessman and "My Pillow" founder and former CEO Mike Lindell. "The Republican Party is Trump’s party, and there’s no question that an endorsement from the president provides a tremendous boost in a Republican primary. But it doesn’t necessarily mean the candidate’s going to win," veteran GOP strategist and communicator Ryan Williams told Fox News Digital. Williams said that "the president still has a firm grip on the party, even in places where a candidate he backed loses a nomination." But he noted that "if there are underlying issues with a candidacy, those can pose problems that even an endorsement can’t overcome." After a primary season that kicked off on March 3 in Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas, Delaware brings the calendar to a close. Coons, who is running for a third full term in the Senate, is facing longshot primary challenges from University of Delaware history professor Jeff Appelhans, naval architect Mary Louve, and former business executive Eric Hansen, a Republican turned Democrat. Former state Sen. Michael Katz and U.S. Army Reserves Col. John Shulli are competing for the Republican nomination. Rep. Sarah McBride is unopposed in the Democratic primary, as she seeks a second term as Delaware's statewide House member. Republicans Joseph Arminio, Earl Cooper and John Whalen are battling for the GOP nomination. State Attorney General Kathy Jennings faces challenges for the Democratic nomination from attorney Dwayne Bensing and domestic violence victims advocate Patty Rickman. David Graham is unopposed for the GOP nomination. The Associated Press contributed to this report Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8f65475342cf4db8625d9 U.S. Has Deployed Weapons in Space, Air Force Secretary Says te 2026-09-15T07:40:04.078Z U.S. Has Deployed Weapons in Space, Air Force Secretary Says Troy E. Meink’s comments were the first public acknowledgment of American weapons in orbit. The Pentagon has been preparing for potential conflict in space with Russia or China. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8ecf975342cf4db86248c GA man wanted after being filmed 'intensely interacting' with rubber duck in stranger's hot tub: 'Infatuated' te 2026-09-15T07:00:09.806Z GA man wanted after being filmed 'intensely interacting' with rubber duck in stranger's hot tub: 'Infatuated' Georgia police are searching for a man who police say was "infatuated" with a rubber duck in a stranger's hot tub. The suspect is wanted for trespassing onto the homeowner's property and stealing their towels before fleeing the scene, according to the Chatham County Police Department, which said the man became "obsessed" with the rubber duck he found at the residence. "He trespassed onto their property, used their hot tub, became obsessed with their rubber duck, then stole their pool towels. It's obviously not the biggest crime we've dealt with this month, but it has a lot of ick-factor. So, we'd like to find this guy so he doesn't do this to someone else," police wrote. FLORIDA MAN WHO HAD SEXUAL ENCOUNTER WITH VACUUM CLEANER NEAR DISNEY WORLD TAKES NO CONTEST PLEA Police said that surveillance video from the home in the 9000 block of Whitefield Avenue shows the man trespassing between 2:15 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. on September 1. Video footage shows the man swimming in the pool before hopping into the hot tub, where he became "infatuated" with a rubber duck and was seen "intensely interacting" with the toy, according to police. "While in the hot tub, the man is caught on video becoming infatuated with a rubber duck. The video shows the man spending more than 10 minutes intensely interacting with the duck," police wrote. Police did not go into detail about the nature of the acts the infatuated man performed on the duck, although a grainy, black-and-white still of the security footage appears to show the suspect holding the duck near his face, though it is unclear exactly what he is doing. The man then left the home on a bicycle. As the man was leaving, he took several luxury beach towels with him, valued at a total of $1,200. LAKE TAHOE SQUATTER SUSPECT CAUGHT ON SURVEILLANCE IN RICH-AND-FAMOUS MOUNTAIN RETREAT Police said the six towels valued at $200 each were seen in the basket under the bike on surveillance video. Anyone who recognizes the man in the photos released to the public or has any information about the case is urged to contact police. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8e39675342cf4db8622eb Protect College Sports Act gets renewed push and fresh opposition as college football returns te 2026-09-15T06:20:06.685Z Protect College Sports Act gets renewed push and fresh opposition as college football returns With college football in full swing, proponents of the Protect College Sports Act have launched an all-out blitz to push the legislation through the Senate before the chamber breaks in the coming weeks. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8e39575342cf4db8622e2 Phoenix Rising continue playoff push in crucial match against FC Tulsa te 2026-09-15T06:20:05.814Z Phoenix Rising continue playoff push in crucial match against FC Tulsa PHOENIX – Monterey Bay FC came into a match at Phoenix Rising on Sept. 5 as the worst team in the Western Conference by a wide margin. The Union hadn’t won a match since June 20. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8d58a75342cf4db86202f Phoenix Rising continue playoff push in crucial match against FC Tulsa te 2026-09-15T05:20:10.074Z Phoenix Rising continue playoff push in crucial match against FC Tulsa Phoenix Rising defender Collin Smith emphasized the importance of health heading down the stretch as Rising chase a USL playoff berth. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8d58975342cf4db862024 Nylah te 2026-09-15T05:20:09.285Z Nylah Nylah is is a female hound mix puppy. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8d58875342cf4db86201b Scene pkg Sept. 14 te 2026-09-15T05:20:08.515Z Scene pkg Sept. 14 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8d58775342cf4db862012 NAU football snags most turnovers in 19 years in win over Incarnate Word te 2026-09-15T05:20:07.815Z NAU football snags most turnovers in 19 years in win over Incarnate Word NAU football had six takeaways in a game for the first time since 2007, despite allowing over 600 yards of offense, to come away with the win over Incarnate Word on Family Weekend. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8d58675342cf4db862009 NAU football vs. Incarnate Word te 2026-09-15T05:20:06.967Z NAU football vs. Incarnate Word Northern Arizona linebacker Jaiden Letua (8) tackles an Incarnate Word player during a game Saturday inside the Walkup Skydome. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8d58675342cf4db862000 NAU football vs. Incarnate Word te 2026-09-15T05:20:06.147Z NAU football vs. Incarnate Word Northern Arizona running back Kenveon Stone (7) runs by an Incarnate Word defender on the turf during a game on Saturday inside the Walkup Skydome. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8d0d975342cf4db861f48 Surrogate who refused abortion asks SCOTUS to intervene as baby could be moved out of Texas te 2026-09-15T05:00:09.576Z Surrogate who refused abortion asks SCOTUS to intervene as baby could be moved out of Texas The surrogate who refused an abortion sought by the biological parents has filed an updated brief with the U.S. Supreme Court following an emergency application she filed with the court last week, arguing the case is moving more quickly than expected. McKenna West, an Alaska resident, and a California couple referred to as the commissioning parties, have been involved in a legal battle after she refused their request to terminate the pregnancy after a diagnosis of a serious heart condition, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). Represented by attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom and First & Fourteenth PLLC, West asked Justice Elena Kagan, who handles emergency matters from the Ninth Circuit, for an administrative stay and a stay pending a possible petition for certiorari. SURROGATE, CALIFORNIA COUPLE CLASH IN COURT AS NEWBORN FIGHTS FOR LIFE AFTER HEART SURGERY Her application argues that the California courts violated federal due process by treating her jurisdictional defense as consent. It also argues that without a stay, the baby could be moved to California for hospice care while West remains unable to participate in decisions about the child's medical treatment. But on Monday, the surrogate and her team expressed fears that the baby may be moved out of Texas earlier than she had expected. She is asking the high court for an administrative stay 1 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday. SURROGATE GIVES BIRTH IN TEXAS TO BABY WITH HEART DEFECT AFTER PARENTS REQUESTED ABORTION This comes after a California court judgment that declared the commissioning parents the child's legal parents and denied West's custody claims. The commissioning parents have argued in court that California has jurisdiction under the surrogacy agreement and that they are the child's legal parents. West had refused the commissioning parents' request for an abortion and traveled to Texas, which has abortion restrictions, to give birth, saying she did so to ensure access to specialized medical care. She asked for parentage and protective orders in Alaska and Texas, but the commissioning parents filed a parentage action in the Los Angeles Superior Court, according to Fox 4. West entered a special appearance to contest personal jurisdiction and object to the forum, citing a forum-selection clause that required litigation to be held in Alaska. But the California trial court ruled that West’s jurisdictional arguments and attached exhibits constituted a general appearance, meaning she had consented to the court’s jurisdiction, the outlet reported. The court then entered an ex parte judgment of parentage in favor of the commissioning parents. After the baby was born in Texas on Aug. 12, a Texas court recognized the California ruling naming the commissioning couple as his legal parents and dismissed West from the case with prejudice, meaning she could not refile the same claim in that proceeding. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8c2ca75342cf4db861b67 Dolly Parton, Rob Reiner receive emotional tributes during 2026 Emmy Awards te 2026-09-15T04:00:10.090Z Dolly Parton, Rob Reiner receive emotional tributes during 2026 Emmy Awards Sally Field reflected on Dolly Parton's legacy during a moving tribute to the late country music legend at the 2026 Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Calif. "If there are truly angels on earth, then we just lost one, Dolly Parton," Field confessed of her "Steel Magnolias" co-star. Parton died on Aug. 25 following a "brief battle with cancer," according to her representatives. She was 80. DOLLY PARTON'S LIFE IN HER OWN WORDS: FROM SMOKY MOUNTAINS POVERTY TO COUNTRY MUSIC IMMORTALITY "It was my great, good fortune to have worked with Dolly in a film called 'Steel Magnolias,' and over the years I never stopped loving her though we lived very far apart," Field told the audience at the Peacock Theater. "I adored her from day one, how could you not?" "She was genuine, and humble, supportive and blisteringly funny with a bawdy sense of humor that would send any rude guy looking for a place to hide." CARRIE UNDERWOOD HONORS DOLLY PARTON'S FAITH AND LEGACY DURING EMOTIONAL CONCERT TRIBUTE Field, 79, admitted that she "couldn't see then what a real giant Dolly was." "Not just as an artist, but as a human ... She was a humanitarian who's contributions had made a profound difference in the lives of so many in her home state of Tennessee, and across our country," Field said. "God bless you, Dolly Parton my friend. I am not the only one on earth that will love you forever and ever." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Dressed in a sparkling white gown, Reba McEntire then took the stage to perform a rendition of Parton's classic 1983 song, "Appalachian Memories." Parton was surrounded by loved ones at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center when she died peacefully in Nashville, Tenn., last month. With Noah Kahan leading a rendition of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," Jamie Lee Curtis commemorated the life of director Rob Reiner, who died in December alongside his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Their 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, was indicted last month on two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances which make him eligible for the death penalty. "Last year we lost another cherished legend, our beloved 'Meathead,' Rob Reiner," Curtis said. "He was generous and kind and funny as hell and a friend to all." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE During last week's Creative Arts Emmys, Reiner received a posthumous Emmy for his guest role in "The Bear." "He now holds the record of 48 years for the longest gap between acting Emmys, which was previously held by his father Carl Reiner at 37 years," Curtis told the crowd through tears. Macaulay Culkin, Annie Murphy and Dan Levy paid tribute to the late Catherine O'Hara during the 78th Emmy Awards. The "Home Alone" actress died in January following a brief illness. She was 71. "There are all kinds of words I could use to describe Catherine," Culkin said. "She was encouraging, she was warm, she was funny. But the word that I think of is mama." He added, "By the way, call your mother tonight. For real." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8be1675342cf4db861aa9 Chiefs' new stud Kenneth Walker runs wild, Bo Nix melts down as Kansas City obliterates Broncos in MNF blowout te 2026-09-15T03:40:06.321Z Chiefs' new stud Kenneth Walker runs wild, Bo Nix melts down as Kansas City obliterates Broncos in MNF blowout So much for Denver taking over the AFC West. The first Monday Night Football matchup of the 2026 season was a total disaster class for the Denver Broncos, who got flattened 31-10 by the Kansas City Chiefs at a rowdy Arrowhead Stadium. Everyone tuned in to see Patrick Mahomes make his return nine months after tearing his ACL and LCL last December. CHIEFS FACE CRITICAL 2026 SEASON WITH PATRICK MAHOMES RETURNING FROM ACL TEAR But while Mahomes looked crisp, Kansas City’s $43 million offseason prize stole the entire spotlight. Fresh off winning Super Bowl LX MVP honors, running back Kenneth Walker put on an absolute clinic. Walker finished with 191 total yards (173 rushing, 18 receiving) and two touchdowns ... single-handedly out gaining Davis Webb's entire Denver offense on the night. On Denver's opening drive, Chiefs rookie cornerback Mansoor Delane picked off Bo Nix to hand Kansas City instant momentum, which Mahomes capitalized on with a 15-yard touchdown scramble. From there, Walker took complete control. Early in the second half, Andy Reid kept his offense on the field for a fourth-and-1 at the Kansas City 40-yard line. Walker took the handoff, hit the seam, and exploded 60 yards to the house, becoming the first Chiefs back to log over 140 rushing yards and a touchdown in a game since Kareem Hunt in 2017. Meanwhile, Denver's offense was an unmitigated trainwreck. NFL LEGEND DREW BREES REPORTEDLY ALMOST PULLED OFF A SHOCKING COMEBACK FOR BRONCOS' AFC TITLE GAME Davis Webb’s debut as Broncos offensive coordinator went down in flames as his entire unit couldn't even match the yardage output of Kansas City's lead tailback. Broncos coach Sean Payton looked like he wanted to jump out of his skin watching his new OC call plays. Outside of a quick first-quarter touchdown pass from Nix to Evan Engram that briefly tied the game at 7-7, Denver went completely ice-cold, stringing together four straight punts before halftime. The wheels completely fell off in the third quarter. Trailing 21-7, Denver got a massive break when safety Brandon Jones picked off Mahomes, handing the Broncos first-and-goal at the Kansas City 5-yard line. Instead of punching in a game-tying touchdown, Denver wet the bed. A 10-yard penalty backed the offense up, and Nix followed by dropping a snap and fumbling out of bounds near the 16-yard line to force a field goal. Nix later fumbled deep in his own territory, which Chris Jones pounced on to set up a Walker touchdown catch from Mahomes that officially put the game away. PATRICK MAHOMES SO OBSESSIVE ABOUT KNEE REHAB HE TAKES A TRAINER WITH HIM WHEN HE LEAVES TOWN Along the way, Travis Kelce provided the night's signature milestone. The All-Pro tight end ripped off an electric 59-yard catch-and-run down the sideline to officially pass Jason Witten (13,046) for second place on the NFL's all-time receiving yards list for tight ends. Kelce now trails only Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez (15,127 yards) for the all-time spot. Old Man Kelce finished with 71 receiving yards to lead all Chiefs pass-catchers. Taylor Swift held court with Tom Cruise, subjecting cinema’s boldest stuntman / actor to a Mission: Impossible even he couldn't pull off: pretending Bo Nix is a starting quarterback. Different year, same story: the AFC West still firmly belongs to Kansas City, and Denver isn't any closer to changing that. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8b96675342cf4db8619f4 Michael J. Fox receives standing ovation at 2026 Emmys for Parkinson's disease advocacy work te 2026-09-15T03:20:06.999Z Michael J. Fox receives standing ovation at 2026 Emmys for Parkinson's disease advocacy work Michael J. Fox was honored with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 2026 Emmys for his advocacy and philanthropic work supporting Parkinson’s disease research. The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award is an honorary Emmy presented by the Television Academy and the Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation. Established in 2002, it recognizes a television-industry figure whose philanthropic work has made a lasting impact on society. Fox attended the award show on Monday night with his wife, Tracy Pollan. This was the couple's first appearance at the Emmy Awards in 13 years. Fox received a standing ovation as he took the stage and talked about his Parkinson’s diagnosis. Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease in 1991 at age 29. He publicly revealed his diagnosis in 1998. MARISKA HARGITAY, SELENA GOMEZ AND ZENDAYA STUN AT 2026 EMMYS: VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE TV STAR LOOKS On the Emmy Awards' stage, Fox said, "Initially, I kept my Parkinson's diagnosis a secret. I worried that it would affect my work and my relationship with audiences." He continued, "Would they laugh if they knew I was sick? And then I was stunned by the support I got. The support from all of you. It was so uplifting. It made me feel like I could keep doing this and I hadn't lost what I do and they couldn't take this away from me. And it's because you stood up for me, and I really appreciate it." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE During the speech, Fox discussed his foundation and said that they are "close" to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease. The internet reacted to Fox being honored with the award on Monday night. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "Michael J. Fox ❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏We can all learn so much from him...🙏🏻👍," one user wrote on X. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Another added on X, "I really do think we underestimate how much Michael J Fox really put Parkinson’s 'on the map' so to speak. I knew about it as a little kid because of him and his advocacy for it." "Michael J. Fox is an inspiration. The guy got dealt an awful hand," a third wrote on X. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8ab5675342cf4db8617ba Georgia mayor, 23, ousted 10 months after making history as state’s youngest mayor te 2026-09-15T02:20:06.749Z Georgia mayor, 23, ousted 10 months after making history as state’s youngest mayor Georgia's youngest elected mayor was removed from office just 10 months after taking the job following allegations that he misused city funds and exchanged sexually suggestive messages and images with an 18-year-old high school student. Jayden Williams, who recently turned 23, was impeached by the Stockbridge City Council in the city south of Atlanta after taking office in January. "The City of Stockbridge confirms that the City Council has taken formal action concerning the Office of Mayor," the city said in a statement on Sunday. "The Mayor has been removed from office." Williams was accused of using his city purchasing card for more than $4,000 in personal expenses, including restaurant meals, clothing, haircuts and a movie, according to Fox 5 Atlanta. He reportedly spent $2,600 on gas and used a city vehicle for personal purposes. MASSACHUSETTS MAYOR CHARGED WITH WIRE FRAUD IN $1.5M COVID RELIEF SCHEME The spending was reported after city workers noticed unusual transactions involving public funds and immediately notified management and the city’s legal team. According to Williams’ testimony, he did not intend to use city funds and later repaid the money, Fox 5 reported. He further claimed the city-issued card looked similar to his personal card and said he later replaced the cards to avoid future confusion, the outlet reported. FORMER DEMOCRATIC MAYOR OF STATE CAPITAL CITY PLEADS GUILTY FOR ROLE IN SIX-FIGURE REAL ESTATE BRIBERY SCHEME Separately, Williams was accused of exchanging sexually suggestive messages and explicit images with an 18-year-old male high school student. A police report noted that Williams did not commit any criminal violations because the student was considered an adult under Georgia law. However, police referred the matter for administrative review over potential policy and ethical concerns about an elected official's interactions with a student in what investigators described as a city-affiliated mentorship program, Fox 5 reported. In a statement, Williams previously said he met the individual before taking office and that the student never participated in the city’s "Mayor for a Day" program, which Williams described as not a mentorship program. EX-MAYOR FOUND LIABLE FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULTS OF 7 WOMEN, ORDERED TO PAY $13M "The individual was 18 years old at the time of our communication, meaning we were both adults. I met this individual on November 30, 2025, and our online communication occurred before I was sworn into office in January 2026," he said. Williams became the youngest mayor in Georgia history after campaigning for the position while still attending Clark Atlanta University. He was subsequently stripped of certain official privileges on July 17 as the investigation unfolded but was never criminally charged in connection with the alleged conduct. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8a6a375342cf4db8616d4 Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too te 2026-09-15T02:00:03.334Z Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused the phone he used to take it. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8a44c75342cf4db86168f Two Conservative Justices Would Have Allowed Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rules te 2026-09-15T01:50:04.446Z Two Conservative Justices Would Have Allowed Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rules Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, called the challenge to the restrictions a “Hail Mary pass” that was unlikely to prevail because of the Postal Service’s broad authority to regulate the mail. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa89fa175342cf4db861605 Gov Hochul's plan to opt New York into federal school choice program draws union opposition te 2026-09-15T01:30:09.977Z Gov Hochul's plan to opt New York into federal school choice program draws union opposition As New York teachers unions organize a protest against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to opt into a federal tax-credit scholarship program, the CEO of Teach Coalition told Fox News Digital that opponents are spreading "misconceptions" about how the policy actually operates. "It seems that they want to continuously spread these lies and the misinformation about this program on to anyone who will hear them," Sydney Altfield, CEO of Teach Coalition, told Fox News Digital on Monday. "But the people who actually want to help children, the people who actually want to see children succeed, they're not going to listen. They're going to understand that this is not the truth of what this program actually can do." Tax-credit scholarships, historically operated at the state level, serve as a mechanism for school choice by allowing individuals or corporations to receive full or partial tax credits when donating to non-profit scholarship organizations. Unlike traditional voucher programs that draw directly from municipal or state education funds, tax credits allow taxpayers to redirect a portion of their tax liability toward non-profit funding for student scholarships. NEW YORK JOINS FEDERAL SCHOOL CHOICE INITIATIVE DESPITE TRADITIONAL DEMOCRAT OPPOSITION The federal iteration allows state governors to opt into the framework, enabling local families and educational programs to access federally incentivized scholarship dollars. Emma Wallner, a spokesperson for Hochul’s office, confirmed in May that the governor intends to opt New York into the federal tax-credit scholarship program — making New York the 30th state to participate. "Governor Hochul is supportive of the federal tax credit scholarship and its potential to help New York students and schools," Wallner told Fox News Digital. "Our office awaits information from the federal government on the program and will thoroughly review the details of the policy for poison pills that could harm New York’s education system." For decades, school choice initiatives have remained a third-rail issue for many Democrats, who argue that choice models divert resources away from public education and undermine teachers unions. However, several high-profile Democrats have recently adjusted their stances. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis became the first Democratic governor to opt his state into the federal program in January 2026. Dismissing critics at the time, Polis told local media he "would be crazy not to" join, noting that the credits empower parents to afford after-school, tutoring, or summer enrichment programs previously out of reach. ARIZONA REPUBLICANS GIVE TEACHERS UNION AN EDUCATION LESSON THEY WON’T FORGET Despite these arguments, major labor groups remain opposed. Teachers unions and several allied interest groups plan to demonstrate on Wednesday at the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) headquarters in Manhattan. The coalition includes the UFT, its statewide parent organization, the New York State Union of Teachers (NYSUT), and their national affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Together, the groups launched a public petition calling on state leadership to reject Hochul’s decision. "Gov. Hochul plans to opt New York in starting in 2027. But most New Yorkers haven’t even heard of this program or know how it will affect New York," the petition states. "Tax dollars would help pay private tuition for families who never used public schools." The petition further points to fiscal challenges in other states that expanded school choice models: "Florida couldn't account for $270 million in voucher funds in a single year. Arizona's $65M plan became a $1.4 billion budget hole — cutting water, highways, and community colleges ... We need to show the governor that New Yorkers stand for strong public schools and against any measure that would weaken them." Union advocates argue that "every dollar diverted to private schools is a dollar taken away from the public schools that serve 90% of New York's kids." Altfield, however, disputed the characterization that the program constitutes a traditional private school voucher. "Why are we trying to take away opportunities for our children when they're included as well? Another thing that they call it is a ‘voucher’. And it is not a voucher. It is a tax credit," Altfield explained. "What we know as a voucher is when you take public funding from the public school system, and you allow it to follow the child — which works in many states — but that's not what this is." On their online campaign website, union organizers argue that labeling differences are purely rhetorical: "The branding changes — ‘Education Savings Accounts,’ ‘tax-credit scholarships,’ ‘school choice’ — but the mechanism is the same: public money flowing to private schools." TRUMP ADMIN URGES RETURNING EDUCATION TO STATES, CITING $3 TRILLION OF TAXES SPENT AND POOR PROFICIENCY SCORES The union FAQ page also claims that funds do not go directly to families: "Funds flow to private SGOs [Scholarship Granting Organizations], which decide who receives the money. These organizations aren't required to be transparent or accountable to the public, and the private schools they fund can turn away students based on disability, academic record, behavior, religion, or almost any other criteria they choose." Altfield strongly denied that public school operational budgets would suffer under the program. "This money does not come out of state budgets. It does not come out of state public school resources," Altfield said. "Which is one of the things that the misinformation is trying to tell you — that this is going to drain public school resources and funding. This money does not come out of that bucket." "Those buckets remain untouched," Altfield added. "One of the things that they like to peddle is that this is going straight into the pockets of private school parents. Well, yes, private school parents and students can access this funding, but they also forget to tell you that public school students can also get this funding and get these scholarships." The New York State Union of Teachers, American Federation of Teachers and United Federation of Teachers did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa89fa175342cf4db8615fc Patrick Mahomes answers troubling questions about his serious knee injury on first drive of the Chiefs season te 2026-09-15T01:30:09.124Z Patrick Mahomes answers troubling questions about his serious knee injury on first drive of the Chiefs season If you were wondering whether Patrick Mahomes would be his old self following the serious knee injury he suffered exactly nine months ago to the day that the Kansas City Chiefs opened their 2026 season, then rest easy. The quarterback scored on a 15-yard run to culminate his team's first offensive drive of the season against the Denver Broncos and, honestly, the zigzagging dash to the end zone that he finished with a dive said something: He's baaaack! CHIEFS FACE CRITICAL 2026 SEASON WITH PATRICK MAHOMES RETURNING FROM ACL TEAR Look, of course, how the 2026 season ultimately unfolds for the Chiefs, and for what many consider the NFL's top quarterback, remains to be seen. But that first drive, with Mahomes showing absolutely no fear of being hit, was a statement that puts the rest of the league on notice. Mahomes basically let it be known he was not worried about getting hit, and that scramble proved it. He also made it obvious he can maneuver through a defense, gain yardage, do damage, and emerge unscathed. Even after everything his knee has been through. TRUMP PRESSES KANSAS CITY BBQ RESTAURANT OWNER ON WHETHER PATRICK MAHOMES WILL START WEEK 1 OF NFL SEASON Mahomes, who is turning 31 later this week, did not get hit in organized team activity sessions. He didn't get hit in training camp. He didn't get hit in the preseason, because he didn't play in any of the Chiefs' three games. He's been hit this game and so that psychological obstacle is now moot. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Mahomes is wearing a lightweight brace on his left knee. He has said it does not deter him from moving as he did before his surgery, but he does eventually expect to shed the gear — perhaps as early as late in this season. Mahomes tore both the anterior cruciate ligament and lateral collateral ligament in his left knee during the Chiefs’ Dec. 14, 2025, game against the Los Angeles Chargers. He underwent surgery in Dallas the next day, with doctors repairing the torn ACL and LCL, and began rehabilitation almost immediately. The exceedingly quick timetable for having the surgery was part of a plan, Mahomes has said. While many doctors urge their player patients to wait until their injury inflammation goes down before having surgery, Mahomes said his doctors urged him to get the surgery before the inflammation took root. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Mahomes then committed to an intensive recovery program that included roughly seven hours of rehabilitation per day of strength and conditioning work, team meetings and a gradual return to throwing. Mahomes also stayed in Kansas City to work with the Chiefs’ medical and training staff rather than conducting his usual offseason workouts at home in Texas. After progressing through on-field work, OTAs and training camp, Mahomes was cleared to return without restrictions for the opener. And one drive in, Mahomes got his team in the end zone – by running it in himself. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa89fa075342cf4db8615f3 Dozens missing after passenger ferry sinks as rescuers scour South Pacific coastline te 2026-09-15T01:30:08.242Z Dozens missing after passenger ferry sinks as rescuers scour South Pacific coastline A desperate search is underway in the South Pacific after a passenger ferry carrying dozens of people sank between two islands in Vanuatu, an island nation east of Australia. At least one person has died and more than 30 others remain missing as search-and-rescue operations continue, according to a statement shared on Facebook by Vanuatu's Ministry of the Prime Minister. MOM LOSES GRIP ON DAUGHTER AS PASSENGER FERRY CAPSIZES WITH 20 PEOPLE STILL MISSING The MV Matui was traveling between the islands of Ambae and Santo when it sank Friday, according to The Associated Press (AP). It had 47 people on board.  Searchers rescued 15 survivors and recovered one body — but local authorities have now shifted their efforts toward the coastline as the hunt for the remaining passengers continues, AP reported. Search efforts are being scaled back in open waters and shifted toward Vanuatu's southeastern coastline, where currents may have carried survivors, according to Matai Seremaiah, Parliament member for Luganville, the ministry said. "Our hearts and prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones," the ministry wrote. "To the survivors, we pray for your strength and recovery. To the families of those missing and those we have lost, please know that the nation stands with you in this time of grief." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Retired Coast Guard Capt. Aaron Davenport, based in Virginia, told Fox News Digital that several factors could determine the survival chances of those still missing. Water temperature, injuries and access to flotation or other lifesaving equipment could all affect how long someone can survive after entering the water, Davenport said. "They may be clinging to debris. But as the days go on, the chances of survival are less and less," he said, adding that a lack of food and water, along with the risk of hypothermia, could reduce the chances of survival. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The ministry noted that the tragedy likely resulted from ignored marine warnings about strong winds, along with the possibility that the vessel was overloaded.  "This tragedy is a reminder that the safety of life at sea must come first," the ministry said. "Ship owners must ensure their vessels are seaworthy, carry all required safety equipment and have proper communication systems on board. Ignoring strong marine warnings puts lives at risk." The government has launched a full investigation to establish the facts and help prevent a similar tragedy from happening again, the ministry said. Fox News Digital previously reported that another deadly ferry disaster unfolded Aug. 30, when the Filo Jet catamaran, carrying 267 people, capsized off northern Cyprus. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES Fourteen people died and another 14 remain missing, while 239 people were brought ashore alive. Search and recovery efforts are continuing. The ferry began taking on water shortly after leaving port, prompting a large-scale rescue operation. Authorities are investigating the sinking as questions continue to emerge about what caused the vessel to go down. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa89aee75342cf4db86152b NFL legend Drew Brees reportedly almost pulled off a shocking comeback for Broncos' AFC title game te 2026-09-15T01:10:06.393Z NFL legend Drew Brees reportedly almost pulled off a shocking comeback for Broncos' AFC title game Hours before the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos kicked off on "Monday Night Football", NFL insider Adam Schefter dropped a stunner ... that 47-year-old Drew Brees nearly came off the couch to start for Denver in last season's AFC Championship Game against the New England Patriots. After Broncos quarterback Bo Nix broke his ankle in overtime during the divisional round, Denver was forced to turn to backup Jarrett Stidham. That led Broncos assistants Joe Lombardi and Pete Carmichael, two former Saints coaches, to quietly reach out to Brees. Head coach Sean Payton was kept in the dark until months later. Brees reportedly took the offer seriously and held a private throwing workout to test his arm. However, wrist discomfort during the session killed the idea. Realizing his body could no longer execute, Brees allegedly called off the comeback. Had Brees returned, it would have been one of the craziest one-game comebacks in sports history. He had not taken an NFL snap in five full calendar years after retiring in 2021. SEAN PAYTON WIPES AWAY TEARS AFTER DREW BREES ASKS HIM FOR INCREDIBLE HALL OF FAME HONOR Throwing a 47-year-old into a freezing, snowy AFC title game with zero practice reps was a massive physical gamble. Plus, taking a single active snap would have reset his five-year retirement clock, pushing his Hall of Fame induction from August 2026 back to 2031. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! On the "New Heights" podcast with Travis and Jason Kelce, Brees recalled how the Miami Dolphins rejected him in 2006 after team doctors gave his shoulder a 25% chance of recovery. Nick Saban spent years regretting that failed physical, admitting it prevented his Dolphins from reaching new heights and pushed Brees to New Orleans. In the end, Stidham started, the Broncos lost 10-7 to New England, and Denver was left wondering what if. Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8989875342cf4db8614b2 Elections Officials Breathe Sigh of Relief Following Court Ruling on Mail Ballots te 2026-09-15T01:00:08.772Z Elections Officials Breathe Sigh of Relief Following Court Ruling on Mail Ballots Officials cheered the order blocking President Trump’s last-minute effort to change the rules on mail ballots, noting that some states had already mailed ballots. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8989775342cf4db8614a9 Trump’s Effort to Assert Control Over Elections Continues, Despite Court Loss te 2026-09-15T01:00:07.706Z Trump’s Effort to Assert Control Over Elections Continues, Despite Court Loss President Trump has launched a broad, governmentwide effort to take more control of state-run elections and sow doubt about the outcome. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8963f75342cf4db86146d UK breakup push escalates amid historic pact after Trump backs reunification of Ireland te 2026-09-15T00:50:07.376Z UK breakup push escalates amid historic pact after Trump backs reunification of Ireland The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland called Monday for the British government to "prepare for, plan and facilitate" constitutional change that could lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom, with the remarks coming days after President Donald Trump said he would "love to see" Irish reunification. "Westminster’s time is coming to an end," Scottish First Minister John Swinney, Welsh First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth and Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill said in a historic joint declaration issued in Cardiff. The nationalist party leaders had met Monday to strengthen cooperation among Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and advance what they described as "constitutional change." KEIR STARMER REPORTEDLY CONSIDERING STEPPING DOWN AS PM AND COULD ANNOUNCE TIMETABLE FOR DEPARTURE The declaration, signed during the summit in Cardiff, signals an unprecedented challenge to Prime Minister Andy Burnham and the U.K.’s constitutional settlement. Trump spoke about the status of Northern Ireland over the weekend, saying Saturday during a visit to Dublin: "It’s going to happen eventually. It might as well happen now." On Sunday, Trump repeated his support for a united Ireland, saying it made sense to merge the Republic of Ireland with Northern Ireland. "It just seems to me that you have Northern Ireland and you have Ireland, and it would seem to me that one of the naturals of all time is put them together," Trump said in Doonbeg. NIGEL FARAGE RESIGNING FROM UK PARLIAMENT "You asked about Scotland. That one I won't talk about yet. I'll save that for another day," he added. By Monday, the nationalist leaders had released a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to drive constitutional change. They said no Westminster government has the right to block democratic decisions made by Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. "Each of our nations has the right to determine its own future, through democratic means and in accordance with the wishes of its people," the three leaders wrote. "For the first time ever, people across these islands have First Ministers in Scotland, in Wales and in the North of Ireland who are all committed to independence from the United Kingdom. For people watching across these islands – for people watching around the world – there could be no clearer sign that Westminster’s time is coming to an end," the statement continued. MEET 'COUNT BINFACE,' THE TRASH CAN-CLAD COMEDIAN CHALLENGING NIGEL FARAGE "We call for the British Government to prepare for, plan and facilitate constitutional change in each jurisdiction," the memorandum said. According to GB News, Burnham was told Monday that he could not stop the breakup of the U.K. Sinn Féin, the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, issued the warning after signing the memorandum with the SNP and Plaid Cymru. O’Neill said the three nations shared a "common cause" because "Westminster does not and will never serve our people well." She added during a news conference that Burnham would not be able to "hold back the tide" of nationalism. "We’re certainly living in times of enormous change, change that is unstoppable, change that, no matter what is said by any British prime minister, will not be able to hold back the tide of what’s happening in front of our eyes right now. "Our common cause here is the understanding that Westminster does not and will never serve our people well," she added. KING CHARLES FOLLOWS QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PLAYBOOK WITH A TWIST DURING TRUMP STATE VISIT: EXPERT The memorandum commits the parties to cooperation on economic policy, renewable energy and rebuilding ties with the European Union, among other areas. It also calls for greater self-determination and states that the nations should work together as equals. A spokesperson for Burnham said: "The Prime Minister is committed to delivering change across all four nations of the United Kingdom and believes strongly in the Union. "The United Kingdom is at its best when people come together around our shared values and problem-solving, rather than division, and the Prime Minister will continue to ease pressures on household finances and delivering greater economic security, rather than engaging in constitutional debates or further referendums." Fox News Digital has reached out to 10 Downing Street for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa8919075342cf4db8613a3 Oklahoma State might have known which plays Oregon Ducks were running during upset win te 2026-09-15T00:30:08.432Z Oklahoma State might have known which plays Oregon Ducks were running during upset win While Week 2 of the college football season was filled with drama, the typical chaos, and the game of the year with Texas-Ohio State, the most shocking result of the weekend was Oklahoma State's upset win over the Oregon Ducks. This preseason, most analysts expected the Ducks to be one of the top few teams in the country. Oregon was once again a playoff team in 2025, with their only losses coming to eventual National Champion Indiana. They had another typically excellent recruiting class, with four five-star high schoolers joining an already loaded roster. Quarterback Dante Moore surprisingly returned for another season, and while head coach Dan Lanning had to replace two coordinators, expectations were that the transition would be seamless thanks to picking internal promotions. Through two games however, no team has been more disappointing. Oregon struggled to put away Boise State in Eugene in week one, ultimately winning 34-27. Week two was far worse. Several turnovers forced by the Ducks' defense papered over what was a dominant performance by the Cowboys. Oklahoma State ran a whopping 83 plays for 554 yards, a solid 6.7 yards per play. They averaged nearly six yards per carry on the ground, good for 237 total rushing yards. NEW AP POLL TOP 25 PUNISHES OHIO STATE, OKLAHOMA, OREGON, TEXAS JUMPS TO NO 1 AFTER BIG COMEBACK Meanwhile, Oregon could never get much going offensively. The Ducks' vaunted offensive line was frequently overwhelmed, leading to an anemic 3 yards per carry and just 281 total yards with 4.8 yards per play. Sometimes upsets are fluky, with some pivotal breaks going the underdogs' way. Not this time. The Cowboys dominated and deserved to win. If anything, the ultimate final margin was misleadingly close. Beyond the shock of a team that had lost 12 straight games, that lost to Tulsa in week one, dominating an opponent that had national championship aspirations, it raised several questions. Namely, how the heck did this happen? And according to a postgame report out of OK State, the Cowboys might have had some help from the Ducks themselves. "We were noticing earlier in the week that their (Oregon’s) offensive line had tendencies that helped us key into run (or) pass and a couple areas we could take advantage of," said linebacker Tate Romney. "and obviously our defensive line was keyed into that. That was one big thing that gave us a big advantage." Well then. That's interesting, isn't it? It's like in baseball, when a pitcher tips his pitches and lets hitters know what's coming. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM That might not have been all their telegraphing either. Landon Tengwall on his show this week added to what Andrew Nemec found on quarterback Dante Moore. Essentially, Moore against Oklahoma State had two different stances in his pre-snap setup, using the same configuration before runs, and then a different configuration against the pass. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! It's not clear whether the Cowboys were aware of that "tell" too, or if it was just the offensive and defensive line movement that tipped them off. But it presents an interesting possibility: is Oregon's poor performance due, at least partially, to giving the defense free clues as to what's coming? Maybe. But it's always easy to point to these types of things when you're losing. And even if they were telegraphing their plays, individual Oklahoma State players would still have to win their battles against their matchups. You can know a pass is coming, but if your defensive line is overmatched, there's no guarantee you get to the quarterback. Not to mention that the Cowboys offense moved the ball seemingly at will against Oregon's defense. And nobody's said anything about the Ducks "play tipping" their coverages and blitzes. Oregon plays Portland State this coming weekend, so any "corrections," or lack thereof, won't matter given the massive talent gap. But with a massive game against the now No. 12 USC Trojans at the Coliseum looming on Sept. 26, Lanning and the rest of the coaching staff will be combing the tape to fix their predictability. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa88f3a75342cf4db86130c House Dems face Trump tariff dilemma as major Russia sanctions bill heads to floor te 2026-09-15T00:20:10.351Z House Dems face Trump tariff dilemma as major Russia sanctions bill heads to floor House Democrats will soon have to grapple with a decision over whether to give President Donald Trump more tariff authority or potentially block Congress from cracking down on Vladimir Putin's bloody war in Ukraine. The House Rules Committee has teed up votes on several bills this week, including the Senate's legislation aimed at sanctioning Russia and Iran. That bill was named after the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a massive supporter of Ukraine who died unexpectedly at the age of 71 in July. And while the majority of Democrats support action to help Ukraine against Russia's invasion, they'll also be forced to reckon with the legislation's language giving Trump additional authority to punish Russia and its allies with significant tariffs. LINDSEY GRAHAM'S FINAL MISSION TO PUNISH PUTIN CLEARS SENATE AFTER YEARLONG FIGHT Democrats have long been critical of Trump's unchecked use of tariffs against U.S. allies like Canada and Mexico, which have also been subject to a slew of court battles. TRUMP JUST EXPANDED HIS TARIFF PLAYBOOK WITH A POWERFUL TRADE WEAPON NO PRESIDENT HAS EVER USED It's part of why senior House Democrats said earlier this year that they would oppose the bill. "House Democrats are rock solid in our support for Ukraine, but the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia And Iran Act would do more harm than good. This bill would dramatically expand presidential tariff authorities while failing to mandate sanctions on Russia, both of which are unacceptable," Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., Ranking Member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said in a statement. SEN RAND PAUL: DC'S RUSSIA SANCTIONS BILL WON'T STOP PUTIN — BUT IT WILL HURT YOU House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., did not give up his position on the bill during a Monday press conference, telling reporters, "We're going to continue to stand by the Ukrainian people and find a path forward to get a sanctions bill done while addressing the very real concerns that [Democrats] have raised about giving Donald Trump authority that the Supreme Court recently made clear he does not currently have, and should not have, because it belongs to the Congress pursuant to the Constitution." The bill would direct the president to hike up to 500% tariffs on Russia and up to 100% on countries buying Russian energy. MIKE PENCE: CONGRESS MUST FINISH LINDSEY GRAHAM’S FIGHT AGAINST PUTIN Trump would also be directed to impose significant sanctions on Russian officials and others responsible for continuing the war on Ukraine. The bill advanced through the House Rules Committee on Monday night, setting up a House-wide procedural hurdle called a "rule vote" on Tuesday afternoon. If passed, the full House will vote on the sanctions bill on Wednesday afternoon, according to a preliminary legislative schedule obtained by Fox News Digital. And with an increasingly vocal isolationist wing permeating the House GOP Conference, at least some Democrats will be needed to help the bill pass. The package, pushed by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Graham, was in purgatory for nearly two years as the lawmakers and administration went back and forth to find a compromise that Trump and Congress could stomach. Blumenthal defended the tariff language in the bill to Fox News Digital, "If Donald Trump wants to break this law, he will be restrained by the courts, just as when he broke the law on tariffs previously." And Senate Democrats largely voted in favor of giving Trump limited tariff authority in exchange for the bone-crushing sanctions against Russia, despite raging against duties for years. Though some raised concerns, like Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., most Democratic caucus members gave a thumbs-up to the tariff power. EXCLUSIVE: PENCE PUSHES TO RENAME BILL FOR LINDSEY GRAHAM, RECALLS FINAL TALK: 'BRING PUTIN TO THE TABLE' That all came after Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., received guarantees from U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer that the tariffs baked into the sanctions package would just be limited to the top five energy trading partners with the Kremlin. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa88f3975342cf4db861303 ‘Trojan horses’ in America: Congress probes influence networks tied to China, Iran and Cuba te 2026-09-15T00:20:09.428Z ‘Trojan horses’ in America: Congress probes influence networks tied to China, Iran and Cuba Last Tuesday, at the corner of Church Street and 16th Street NW, blocks from the White House, Christine Balling, a former advisor to U.S. Special Operations Command South, led a panel discussion on the national security threat that communist-run Cuba poses to the U.S. Suddenly, a fresh-faced former college basketball star, Olivia DiNucci, stood up to steal the stage at the Institute of World Politics, yelling as she clutched a hand-painted banner: "SANCTIONS KILL IN CUBA." "There is global solidarity with Gaza and Cuba and ICE here," DiNucci shouted breathlessly, as security officials grabbed her banner and pushed her out a side door as she kept yelling, "because the liberation of our people is rooted in our neighbors!" In small print, the banner had DiNucci's organizational and ideological affiliation: "CODEPINK." DiNucci is a D.C.-based political organizer with CodePink, a left-wing political agitation group, spending her days and evenings as a professional protester and a regular gadfly, disrupting dinners, hearings and conferences as a sidekick to CodePink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin. Their group supports the Communist Party of Cuba and has led caravans to the island nation, as Treasury Department officials investigate whether they violated any laws barring Americans from doing business with the communist regime. For Balling and her co-panelist, Michael Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a Cuban American firmly opposed to the communist government of Cuba, DiNucci's political theater wasn't the benign act of an "anti-war" group, as CodePink describes itself. "CodePink – and other organizations like it – essentially act like Trojan horses. They burst in onto the scene, and they're meant to disrupt and destroy from within," Balling told Fox News Digital. "They're really interested in dividing America and, in doing so, weakening it," she continued, "and increasing the friction between Americans by convincing some Americans that the American idea, the American dream, the freedoms we enjoy, all that sort of thing, that they are lies and they're not worth fighting for, and that our enemies are our victims." POWER COUPLE OF CHAOS: HOW A TYCOON AND ACTIVIST BUILT A 'REVOLUTIONARY BASE' AT THE HOUSE OF SINGHAM The confrontation comes as House lawmakers convene a hearing on Tuesday, titled "Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America," to examine a broad question: how do American activists, nonprofit organizations, media operations and social media influencers, like Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, advance the interests of adversarial nations, including China, Iran and Cuba, inside the United States? Piker joined CodePink's delegation to Cuba earlier this year, posing for a photo in Havana with CodePink cofounder, Jodie Evans, both of them also drawing Treasury Department scrutiny. "Adversarial nations like China, Russia, and Cuba conduct malign influence operations here in the United States by utilizing social media influencers such as Hasan Piker as proxies to promote communism and push their false propaganda," Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, told Fox News Digital. "My goal is to raise the curtain to expose these operations and stop them from undermining our national security, capitalism and the American Dream," Huizenga said. HASAN PIKER CALLS HAMAS 'FAR MORE MODERATE,' DISMISSES TERROR GROUP’S BRUTAL RULE IN GAZA The hearing will bring together several strands of alleged foreign influence that Fox News Digital has documented over the past year through investigations into money, political organizing, overseas travel, media operations and relationships between American activists and foreign entities and interests. Most of the groups fall into the "red-green alliance" of socialist and communist groups, symbolized by the color red, working closely with Islamist groups, such as the anti-Israel organization Students for Justice in Palestine, reflected by the color green, a symbol of Islam. The largest financial network examined in Fox News Digital's reporting centers on Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon who lives in Shanghai, late last year standing on a stage at the Golden Tulip Hotel during a conference on the "Global South," delivering a speech supporting the Chinese Communist Party, China's leader, Xi Jinping and China's "new world order." RUBIO'S CALL TO COMBAT GLOBAL FUNDERS OF FAR-LEFT TERRORISM COULD PUT SINGHAM IN CROSSHAIRS A five-part Fox News Digital investigation published earlier this year examined 223 transactions totaling $591 million across five continents between 2017 and 2025, tracing the flow of money through multiple layers of organizations and into a transnational network estimated at approximately 2,000 organizations. In 2017, Singham married Evans, the CodePink co-founder, in a ceremony in Jamaica attended by Benjamin and other pro-communist leaders. The Fox News Digital analysis documented $278 million flowing from Singham into six core nonprofit organizations that promulgate anti-America, pro-China propaganda, beginning in 2017: BreakThrough BT Media Inc., CodePink Women for Peace, Justice and Education Fund Inc., People's Forum Inc., People's Support Foundation Ltd. and Tricontinental Ltd. The organizations and their executives have denied any wrongdoing and allege they are the target of anti-communist "witch hunts." Singham hasn't responded to repeated requests for comment. CUBA BUILT COVERT NETWORK INSIDE AMERICA THROUGH SPIES, ACTIVISTS AND UNIVERSITIES, STATE DEPT ALLEGES Huizenga and the hearing's witnesses say Congress must examine whether adversarial governments are influencing American political discourse through domestic messengers while keeping the foreign power itself at arm's length. Fox News Digital's reporting followed the money to the six nonprofits: That was only the first layer. The six nonprofits that directly received Singham money subsequently distributed approximately $163 million to 52 organizations — including themselves — and five geographic regions identified in financial records. Eleven groups at another layer distributed approximately $150 million into four nonprofits and five geographic regions, including $23 million directed to Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Fox News Digital analysis. The financial architecture has been accompanied by political organizing, media operations and ideological activity that includes the fresh example of political theater that CodePink unleashed at this week's disruption at the Institute of World Politics' panel on Cuba. Balling, the former advisor to U.S. Special Operations Southern Command, used the opportunity to illustrate exactly the point that the Heritage Foundation's Gonzalez and she were arguing. "Their method of operation," she said, "is to disrupt, of course, to get the soundbites on Twitter or Instagram or what have you, but they are not ever interested in a respectful dialogue." "What was extraordinary is I was actually about to talk about CodePink and the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA, as both being members of the largest pro-Cuban regime organization in the United States, called the National Network on Cuba," said Balling. "And so the fact that she stood up and tried to disrupt the event was just a wonderful example for the audience," of the antics of CodePink. "They are actually really a mouthpiece for anti-American causes, which happen to be very pro-Chinese Communist Party causes and...the Castro regime." On cue, at 6:42 p.m., less than an hour after the event had ended at about 6 p.m., CodePink posted a carefully curated and captioned 1-minute-35-second video of the DiNucci outburst on X. The same video went up on CodePink's official YouTube channel. Balling said CodePink's messaging promoted "the interests of, frankly, our enemies, the Chinese Communist Party and then the Cuban regime." "Their method of operation," she said, "is to disrupt, of course, to get the soundbites on Twitter or Instagram or what have you, but they are not ever interested in a respectful dialogue." Sure enough, CodePink posted the video on its official Instagram account, tagging DiNucci. "Frankly, had she been willing to stop screaming," said Balling, Gonzalez and she "would have actually been thrilled to have a debate with her, but that's not their way of operating." By the end of the night, the disruption had also become a press release on CodePink's website, listing DiNucci herself as the "media contact" and offering journalists "unbranded video footage." Fox News Digital's Jesse Watson and Brooke Curto contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa88f3875342cf4db8612fa Ole Miss and LSU will deliver cinema, but the next week for each team could be their most pivotal tests te 2026-09-15T00:20:08.565Z Ole Miss and LSU will deliver cinema, but the next week for each team could be their most pivotal tests The most-anticipated game of the college football regular season will take place in Oxford, Miss., on Saturday night, with a gold-and-purple-clad Lane Kiffin returning to town to take on the team and fanbase he abandoned just 10 months ago. On paper, the LSU-Ole Miss matchup features everything a college football game could ever want. For starters, it's a historic rivalry matchup featuring two Top 10 teams with huge SEC Championship and College Football Playoff implications on the line. You add in the Kiffin of it all, and the contest goes from just a great college football game to a full-blown spectacle. If Kiffin's first game against Ole Miss as the head coach at LSU were being held in Baton Rouge, it wouldn't have nearly as much of a mystique around it. Thankfully, the football gods had it made that this game would be played in Mississippi. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! If you're an LSU fan, there has to be something at least slightly unsettling about Kiffin and his $50 million Tigers roster coming to Oxford to take on an Ole Miss team headlined by quarterback Trinidad Chambliss and running back Kewan Lacy, two players Kiffin and his staff fought to come join them on the bayou. Leaving Oxford without a win would deliver a dose of reality to both Tigers fans and Kiffin himself that perhaps things aren't quite as they seem, at least not yet. On the other sideline, you have an Ole Miss team that not only lost key pieces from last season, but is also being coached by a man in Pete Golding, who is entering just his sixth game as a head coach. You also have a fanbase foaming at the mouth to see Kiffin squirm on the opposing sideline inside the stadium he coached in for six seasons. In terms of question marks, Ole Miss has the most between the two teams heading into Saturday, but they could also have the answers in the form of Chambliss and Lacy, two Heisman Trophy candidates. The angles of what makes Saturday's game simply so massive are virtually endless, and while the game itself will undoubtedly deliver, the contests that both teams will have to play in just seven days later could very well be the most pivotal ones of their respective seasons. Ole Miss travels to Gainesville to take on Florida in Week 4, and if the Gators take care of Auburn on the road this Saturday, The Swamp will be absolutely jumping when the Rebels arrive. That statement will be true whether Ole Miss beats LSU or loses by three touchdowns. Florida head coach Jon Sumrall will be looking to catch an Ole Miss team at the right time, with the Rebels coming off an unbelievably emotional week. LSU has the luxury of returning home to Death Valley in Week 4, but has to welcome Texas A&M to town. The Aggies play Kentucky at home in Week 3, meaning they'll likely arrive in Baton Rouge unbeaten and as a Top 10 program in the nation. Many would argue that Texas A&M is the most overlooked team of the young college football season up to this point, but taking down LSU in Baton Rouge would certainly flip that narrative. In a world where college football chatter has become more focused on court cases and NIL money, it's these sets of factors and matchups that still make the sport so great. The SEC adding an additional conference game to the slate this season is also being felt in this particular scenario, and it's going to be fascinating to see how teams respond to an extra, very stiff test. Nothing would be more college football than seeing the winner of the Ole Miss-LSU throwdown turn around and lose just seven days later. Whatever happens, we'll all be watching. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa88f3775342cf4db8612e8 US Supreme Court blocks Trump rule restricting mail voting through the November elections te 2026-09-15T00:20:07.313Z US Supreme Court blocks Trump rule restricting mail voting through the November elections The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections. The unsigned, one-paragraph order upheld a Massachusetts federal court’s injunction on a U.S. Postal Service rule until after Nov. 3 and did not decide whether the rule itself was lawful. But a majority of the court said the Democratic state officials and voting rights groups challenging the rule were likely to succeed. Two of the court’s stalwart conservatives, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented from the decision. Alito wrote that the Postal Service has “broad authority to regulate the mail” and that at this preliminary stage of the suit challenging the rule, its policy should remain in place. “I express no view on whether the Government would be likely to succeed on de novo review of the Postal Service’s powers,” he wrote. “But for now, the Government has satisfied its burden of making a strong showing that the plaintiff States’ … claim is not likely to succeed.” In a brief concurrence, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the rule, which codifies technical requirements on the envelopes carrying ballots and requires states to collect and send to the federal government lists of eligible voters, may be legal, but was unworkable for the midterm elections 50 days away. “There is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority,” he wrote. “But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious …  because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.” The rule’s challengers argued, in part, that the regulations would be impossible to install ahead of Election Day. Several election administrators, pro-democracy groups and others declared to the court that they agreed with that argument.  The Postal Service did not bring any evidence against those claims. Democrats and voting rights advocates also argued the rule was illegal and unconstitutional. The executive branch has virtually no role in elections administration, which is a state responsibility with congressional oversight under the U.S. Constitution, they said.  This is a developing report that will be updated. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa88f3475342cf4db8612da Arizona minimum wage to rise in 2027 te 2026-09-15T00:20:04.061Z Arizona minimum wage to rise in 2027 PHOENIX — Workers at the bottom of Arizona’s pay scale will get a pay bump in January. New figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday show consumer prices rose 0.4% in August, putting the annual rate at 3.4%. A 2006 voter-approved law requires the state minimum wage to increase each year based on those August-over-August figures.  That will translate to 51.5 cents on the current $15.15 minimum. But the law also says the figure is rounded to the nearest nickel, which puts the new minimum at $15.65. It isn’t just those at the very bottom who are affected. Anything that raises the floor also tends to force employers to increase pay for those already making more than that. Danny Seiden, executive director of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said this annual hike puts more pressure on business. “Every year, this is just one of several cost increases our employers are absorbing,” he said, noting that health insurance premiums tend to also rise at the same time. But the new inflation report from BLS also shows pressure on workers — the people the 2006 law is designed to help. Energy costs are up more than 16%, driven largely by a 27.4% increase in gasoline prices since last year. Electric bills are up 3.8%, housing by 3%, groceries by 2.7% and medical costs by 2.5%. “Our employers aren’t debating whether employees should be paid well,” Seiden said. He said that, given the competition to find qualified workers in many communities, most companies already pay above that. His organization was on the front lines in opposing the 2006 initiative crafted by Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) that set the state minimum at $6.75 an hour. Prior to that, employers had to pay only the federal minimum of $5.15. But even with built-in inflation in the Arizona law, the wage changes still proved too slow for LUCHA. In 2016, the organization got voters to raise the figure immediately to $10 an hour, with future increases — including the new one that will take effect Jan. 1 — tied to inflation. The Republican-controlled Legislature has made several attempts to curb those increases. One, for example, involved a 2019 bid to allow employers to pay part-time students just two-thirds as much as everyone else. Travis Grantham, then a Republican state representative from Gilbert, said that would encourage companies to hire more young people and train them. That measure failed amid legal questions of whether the 1998 Voter Protection Act prevents lawmakers from tinkering with voter-approved laws. Steve Chucri, president and CEO of the Arizona Restaurant Association, which also opposed the 2006 and 2016 laws, said no new efforts are underway to undo the minimum wage. “We didn’t agree with that,” he said of the prior initiatives. “But, obviously, now, 20 years later, we have what we have.” Still, Chucri said, things could be worse: Inflation was so high in 2022 that the minimum wage for 2023 went up by $1.05 an hour. “We’re managing it,” he said. “We’re trying to manage menu prices and what we charge our customers while trying to shoulder as much as we can with increases in wages and food costs and rent. … And other things add up, like how much retailers pay when customers use credit cards.” But he said that his organization won’t sit quietly if there’s yet another effort to further boost wages here above and beyond the minimum. In 2024, groups backed by Service Employees International Union floated a plan to put a measure on the ballot to bump Arizona’s minimum wage — then at $14.35 an hour — to $18. That effort was scrapped. And LUCHA Executive Director Alejandra Gomez said her organization is already pondering a ballot measure that would provide a bigger bump to the minimum. “Next year’s minimum wage increase is an important step,” she said in a prepared statement. “But Arizona’s affordability crisis makes it clear we cannot stop there.” Gomez said it’s also clear, just like in 2006 and 2016, that voters will have to drive that change. “That is an important reminder that progress does not happen on its own,” she said. “Arizonans deserve wages that actually match the cost of living,” Gomez said. “As we head into 2027, we are prepared to keep organizing and fighting for the next big step to make that a reality.” In her statement Friday, she did not mention a specific goal. But Gomez has previously set $20 an hour as a target, something she has called a “living wage.” Asked about that figure last year, Gov. Katie Hobbs said she could not say what an appropriate figure would be. “I know that Arizonans are struggling,” she told Capitol Media Services at the time, saying it is her job to “address that struggle.” The post Arizona minimum wage to rise in 2027 first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa88cde75342cf4db861276 Record number of women win gubernatorial nominations te 2026-09-15T00:10:06.220Z Record number of women win gubernatorial nominations The Democratic and Republican parties have nominated 27 women for governor in this year’s midterm elections, a new record, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers.... Subscribe Already a subscriber?  Login The post Record number of women win gubernatorial nominations first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa88a8975342cf4db8611f5 Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to revive strict mail-ballot rules before midterms te 2026-09-15T00:00:09.902Z Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to revive strict mail-ballot rules before midterms The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to enforce new U.S. Postal Service rules for mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterms, leaving a lower court’s nationwide block in place. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, dissented, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed the rules could not be implemented so close to the election. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aa88a8375342cf4db8611dc Judge Blocks Trump Rule Aimed at International Students and Journalists te 2026-09-15T00:00:03.763Z Judge Blocks Trump Rule Aimed at International Students and Journalists Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote that the administration’s reasons for a rule limiting the length of stay for academics and journalists were “exceptionally weak.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/home