https://meenews.co/post/6a922a652c5335ae104c8828 Tarik Skubal gets emotional during highly anticipated return to Detroit after blockbuster trade te 2026-08-29T00:40:05.635Z Tarik Skubal gets emotional during highly anticipated return to Detroit after blockbuster trade Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled off a blockbuster trade with the Detroit Tigers that brought aboard two-time Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal. Now, just weeks later, the Dodgers rolled into Motor City, and guess who got the start? … Yes, Tarik Skubal. TARIK SKUBAL SAYS HE WAS EMOTIONAL LEAVING DETROIT TIGERS FOR LA DODGERS, WOULD LOVE TO RETURN: 'I'M CRYING' Outfielder Zyhir Hope and right-handed pitchers Brady Smith and River Ryan went the other way in the deal. Skubal's return to Detroit came at an interesting time as the NL West leaders came into the evening fresh off of three-straight losses to the Atlanta Braves. So, despite all of the emotions, Skubal had some important work to do on the hill. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Those emotions briefly got the best of him when the Tigers played a tribute video on the big screen. The right-hander got a little misty-eyed as fans gave him a standing ovation. Detroit's Drew Anderson went through the first half-inning with a pair of strikeouts early, and with that it was time for Skubal to take the mound at Comerica Park in a Dodgers uniform. A mix of boos and cheers as he walked out onto the field. However, before he threw his first pitch, there was a light-hearted moment when Skubal's PitchCom wasn't working right. The Tigers' second baseman, Gleyber Torres, was the first former teammate Skubal had to face, and it didn't go particularly well as he sent a pitch deep to center field over Dodger Alek Thomas' head for a double. However, after that, he notched a pair of strikeouts and got out of the inning without allowing a run. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9221052c5335ae104c8679 CBC releases policy change after controversy about refusing to refer to 9/11 as ‘terrorist attacks’ te 2026-08-29T00:00:05.247Z CBC releases policy change after controversy about refusing to refer to 9/11 as ‘terrorist attacks’ The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced an internal policy change on Friday, explaining why it had previously told reporters and editors to refrain from describing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as "terrorist attacks." The memo was authored by Basem Boshra, CBC News' senior director of journalistic standards and public trust, and surfaced ahead of the attacks' 25th anniversary. The directive was first reported by Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella, who said it was addressed to CBC News staff. "Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks," the memo said. The memo instead described the events as hijackings that led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. It also said the World Trade Center was destroyed. AMERICA’S HEARTLAND COMES FACE-TO-FACE WITH 9/11 HISTORY AS 25TH ANNIVERSARY NEARS CBC released a memo on Friday addressing the controversy that erupted as the 25th anniversary of the terror attack, headlined, "How and why CBC News will adjust its 9/11 language guidance." "CBC News finds itself once again in a swirl of confusion about how our journalists use the words ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism,’ this time about the al-Qaeda attacks on New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001," it read. "The confusion stems from the leak of an excerpt from our internal language guide that was published and amplified by a number of outlets without full context or explanation. It has caused significant concern, anger and hurt for many people who believe CBC News seeks to minimize or obscure the horror of that day and who was behind it," Boshra continued. "That is the last thing we want to do. And our reporting on 9/11, through thousands of stories over the past 25 years, is an unflinching account of the devastating attacks by al-Qaeda, the hunt and prosecution of those responsible, the thousands of lives that were lost on that day and the incalculable loss and grief experienced by so many others as a result," he added further. "And we intend to mark the forthcoming 25th anniversary of 9/11 with extensive, special coverage that will continue to respectfully and thoughtfully reflect on the monumental nature of this tragedy." SYRIA OFF US TERROR BLACKLIST AFTER NEARLY 50 YEARS AS TRUMP ADMIN CLEARS INVESTMENT HURDLE "CBC's reporting on terrorism, wherever it occurs, has always been guided by the principle of attribution, and like other major news organizations, it has been our practice for decades," he explained. "The reason for the extreme care around the use of the words ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism’ was detailed in this earlier editor's blog." "But to be clear, CBC News has never said what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, was not terrorism, as some commentators have stated in recent days. We have reported fully and accurately on the reasons and motivations for those attacks as determined by police, governments and an independent commission. We've just made sure to do it with attribution," he said. "Clarity and understanding are at the heart of our journalism. The leaked excerpt without context or explanation has raised more questions for the public that we must now answer," he said. "After reviewing our current language guidance, we have decided to adjust it to clarify that direct attribution is not required for describing the historic events of 9/11 as terrorism." CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE "We are doing so to remove what has unfortunately (and unintentionally) become an impediment to clarity and public understanding," he concluded. "At the same time, as new acts of politically or ideologically motivated violence occur in our world, we will continue to follow the journalistically sound practice of attributing causes and motivations to officials and experts." Military judge Lt. Col. Michael Schrama on Friday threw out a confession made by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. In his ruling, he wrote that statements made by Mohammed to investigators in 2007 were not given voluntarily, according to the New York Post, complicating what has already been a decades-long wait for the suspected plotter to stand trial. Earlier this week, Schrama set a trial date for June 2028 for Mohammed and three co-defendants. Fox News' C.J. Womack and Louis Casiano contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a921eaf2c5335ae104c8103 Colorado Avalanche sign defenseman Cale Makar to record-setting eight-year contract extension te 2026-08-28T23:50:07.065Z Colorado Avalanche sign defenseman Cale Makar to record-setting eight-year contract extension Hockey players are getting absolutely paid this summer, and for the third time in just a few months, there’s a new highest-paid NHLer: Cale Makar. The Colorado Avalanche announced that they have come to terms on a contract extension with the two-time Norris Trophy-winning defenseman, and it's big. How does eight years, $163.2 million sound? ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! That works out to an AAV of $20.4 million per year, an NHL record by a significant margin. Markar's deal — which kicks in after this season — topped the contract extension that Sharks star Macklin Celebrini signed this summer at five years, $94 million, and an AAV of $18.8 million starting in 2027-28. SHARKS STAR MACKLIN CELEBRINI JUST MADE AN IMPRESSIVE BIT OF NHL AND VIDEO GAME HISTORY Celebrini’s contract topped the $18 million-per-season offer sheet the Philadelphia Flyers extended to Anaheim Ducks forward Leo Carlsson, which the Ducks matched. With the league's salary cap continuing to go up, players' salaries will too. But is it worth giving such a significant portion of a team's payroll to one player? Well, in Makar's case, it probably is. There are few players as valuable as a puck-moving, play-making defenseman who's still a solid defender on top of his offensive ability, and when you've got one of Makar's caliber, you do whatever it takes to keep him. The numbers kind of speak for themselves: 507 points (136G, 371A) in 470 games. Makar also quarterbacks the Avs' top power-play unit, and while the team was actually only 20th in the league last season by PP%, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better player in that role. Of course, the pressure is now on even more than it already was. Makar helped the Avs win one Stanley Cup, but given the big salary, fans are going to expect the team to be a perennial contender and win another one. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a921c5f2c5335ae104c80d9 Mohave College women’s soccer season opens with win te 2026-08-28T23:40:15.125Z Mohave College women’s soccer season opens with win No. 3 Brianne Kumashiro in action during the Bighorns’ game against Truckee Meadows. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a921c5e2c5335ae104c80d0 Scene pkg Aug 28 te 2026-08-28T23:40:14.252Z Scene pkg Aug 28 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a921c572c5335ae104c809c Measles deaths may have been 'fabricated,' RFK Jr claims after coroner raises questions te 2026-08-28T23:40:07.052Z Measles deaths may have been 'fabricated,' RFK Jr claims after coroner raises questions Days after Pennsylvania health officials reported two measles deaths, a public dispute has emerged about whether other factors played a role in the fatalities. The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) confirmed the two "measles-associated" deaths on Tuesday, noting that both individuals were unvaccinated. These were the state’s first measles-related deaths in 35 years, according to the release. On Wednesday, the DOH revealed that one of the deaths was a newborn baby from Lancaster County. That confirmation came after the county coroner — physician Stephen Diamantoni — said the newborn died shortly after birth from a lacerated spleen and had tested positive for measles acquired before birth, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. FORMER CDC ADVISOR SAYS DECLINE IN KINDERGARTEN VACCINATIONS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT: 'KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON' Diamantoni’s office was still investigating the newborn’s death, and the coroner said he was not aware of the other reported death, Axios reported. The Pennsylvania Department of Health stated that not all deaths are referred to a coroner under state law. The DOH says it uses the term "measles-associated" when laboratory or epidemiologic evidence of measles is present, even if a coroner or medical certifier does not identify measles as the immediate cause of death. Measles can affect the spleen, potentially causing enlargement and, in rare cases, rupture, according to Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst. Pregnant women, newborns and young infants can face a higher risk of serious measles complications, the doctor noted. Infants who are too young to receive the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine can be especially vulnerable. COMMON VACCINE LINKED TO 24% LOWER DEMENTIA RISK IN OLDER ADULTS HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has questioned whether Pennsylvania officials provided sufficient information to substantiate the two measles-associated deaths. In a Wednesday post on X, after the coroner’s comments were made public, Kennedy alleged that Pennsylvania had not given the CDC relevant information and suggested the deaths could have been "fabricated." "The announcement appears to have been premature, and the deaths may even have been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor's hopeful staffers," he wrote. "The Lancaster County Coroner says that it has no record of any measles deaths." RFK also accused Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his office of "fearmongering, misinformation, finger-pointing and the weaponization of infectious disease fears for political gain." Meanwhile, at a Tuesday press conference, Shapiro said the deaths showed the "real-life consequences" of misinformation about the measles vaccine. In a subsequent X post, the governor claimed Kennedy had "stoked confusion amongst parents and others — and the result has been less protection from measles and more cases." CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES In response to Kennedy’s comments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also spoke on X about the debate, expressing appreciation for RFK’s efforts to "clarify conflicting information" about the cause of the two reported deaths. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "CDC is working to determine what actually occurred," the agency wrote. "These discrepancies raise important questions, particularly because the Governor’s Office has not provided CDC with information relevant to the outbreak and has declined our offers of assistance." "Under President Trump’s and Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, CDC will follow the facts and tell the American people the truth." Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen disputed the CDC’s account, saying the two deaths were reported to the agency’s measles response team early Tuesday morning. In an X post from the Pennsylvania Department of Health account, Bogen said she had reviewed the case investigations and that state epidemiologists had thoroughly investigated both deaths. She confirmed that both individuals tested positive for measles. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER Meanwhile, Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons said he did not believe there was enough evidence to confirm the two deaths were caused by measles, citing information he said he received from the county coroner’s office, according to Local21 News. Siegel noted that measles weakens the immune system and increases the risk of pneumonia, which can stem from measles itself or from a secondary bacterial infection. "If the impact of measles on the immune system or stress on other major organs as a result of the disease leads to death, that would be a measles-associated death," he told Fox News Digital. When a patient has both measles and another immediate cause of death, several considerations come into play when infectious disease specialists are determining whether the virus was a contributing factor. "It has to do with whether the immediate cause of death is from measles itself, as in measles pneumonia, or due to damage to the immune system and secondary infections or other diseases that result," Siegel said. Lancaster County is at the center of Pennsylvania’s current measles outbreak. As of Friday, the state had reported 424 confirmed cases and 73 hospitalizations. Fox News Digital reached out to the involved government officials requesting comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a921c562c5335ae104c8093 Hochul boasts 'I just banned it' as New York outlaws local police partnerships with ICE te 2026-08-28T23:40:06.318Z Hochul boasts 'I just banned it' as New York outlaws local police partnerships with ICE New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday on "Morning Joe" that New York banned formal civil immigration-enforcement agreements between local law enforcement and ICE because she wants officers focused on local crime, while a DHS spokesperson said in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital that the restriction will force more federal agents into communities as 15 county sheriffs challenge the law in federal court. "When politicians bar local law enforcement from working with DHS, our law enforcement officers have to have a more visible presence so that we can find and apprehend the criminals let out of jails and back into communities," the DHS spokesperson said. "Seven of the top 10 safest cities in the United States cooperate with ICE. Instead of working with us, Governor Hochul and Attorney General James are choosing to RELEASE violent criminals from their jails directly back into our communities to perpetrate more crimes and create more victims." DHS cited five New York cases involving noncitizens who it said remained at large or were released despite ICE detainers after arrests or convictions involving attempted murder, rape, assault, weapons charges or child endangerment. ICE later took all five into custody, and one was removed to Mexico, the department said. BORDER CZAR HOMAN VOWS TO 'FLOOD' NEW YORK WITH ICE AGENTS DESPITE HOCHUL'S RESISTANCE Hochul’s office responded to DHS’s criticism Friday in a statement to Fox News Digital, disputing the department’s characterization of the law’s public-safety consequences. "Governor Hochul has been clear: You don't make New York State safer by co-opting local law enforcement to conduct civil immigration enforcement that targets families, children and hardworking individuals," a Hochul spokesperson said. "A federal court has already upheld New York’s Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, and the state will continue to work with federal and local law enforcement in cracking down on violent offenders while keeping our communities safe and enforcing our laws." During the interview on "Morning Joe", co-host Willie Geist asked whether ICE could still secure agreements with New York police forces. DEM GOVERNOR IN THE HOT SEAT AFTER TESTING LIMITS OF AUTHORITY WITH MAJOR MOVE AGAINST ICE "I just banned it," Hochul said. "It's against the law now in the state of New York to have these agreements." The Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, signed in May, took effect Tuesday. It prohibits state and local entities from entering or remaining in 287(g) agreements, which let trained local personnel perform certain federal civil immigration functions under ICE supervision. Hochul's office said the law does not prevent jails from notifying ICE about potentially deportable people in custody or transferring someone lawfully in custody to the agency, subject to local laws. Existing corrections law also requires the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to notify federal immigration authorities after receiving a noncitizen into custody, the governor's office said. NEW YORK SHERIFFS 'MAD AS HELL' AS HOCHUL PUSHES TO BAN KEY LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERSHIP The federal lawsuit, led by Rensselaer County Sheriff Kyle Bourgault, claims the ban unlawfully overrides independently elected sheriffs’ authority and impairs federally authorized agreements. The state said Rensselaer was the only one of 12 agencies with a 287(g) agreement that had not indicated it would dissolve the pact. Attorney General Letitia James sued Rensselaer County and its sheriff Thursday, seeking an order terminating the agreement. The action was the first filed by the state’s new Office of Immigrant Trust. A federal judge earlier this month denied the Justice Department’s request for a preliminary injunction against the 287(g) ban in a separate case, allowing Tuesday’s deadline to take effect. That litigation remains pending, and the 15 sheriffs have separately requested emergency relief in their new case. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a921a012c5335ae104c7c5c North Carolina vs TCU Horned Frogs best bet: Why Bill Belichick's Tar Heels are live underdogs in Week 0 te 2026-08-28T23:30:09.093Z North Carolina vs TCU Horned Frogs best bet: Why Bill Belichick's Tar Heels are live underdogs in Week 0 With all due respect to the FCS schools that played earlier this week, the real college football season kicks off when the North Carolina Tar Heels meet the TCU Horned Frogs at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, in Week 0 Saturday, Aug. 29, at noon ET.  UNC head coach Bill Belichick’s first season in Chapel Hill was an absolute disaster. It started with an embarrassing 48-14 loss to TCU in their season openers last year. The Tar Heels finished 4-8 last season, while the Horned Frogs went 9-4 and upset USC 30-27 in the Alamo Bowl. UNC WANTED THE DEION SANDERS EFFECT WITH BILL BELICHICK, ALONG WITH WINS. IT GOT SOMETHING MUCH DIFFERENT According to ESPN college football analyst Bill Connelly, North Carolina ranks 103rd nationally out of 138 schools in returning production from last year’s team, and TCU ranks 69th. Let’s break down Tar Heels-Horned Frogs and discuss the best way to bet this game.  I understand he’s old and dating a woman 40+ years younger than him, and it weirds people out, but Belichick still knows football. He has to. He’s a six-time Super Bowl champion and the greatest football coach ever. Plus, UNC recruited much more talent this year in Belichick’s first full recruiting cycle. The Tar Heels went from 35th in 247Sports.com’s 2025 recruiting rankings to 17th this season. Per college football analyst Phil Steele, 31 of their signees were "in for spring," and Belichick got to coach these kids up more this offseason. Meanwhile, TCU’S 2026 recruiting class is ranked 44th, and none of its signees were "in for spring". ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Also, the Horned Frogs are replacing former QB Josh Hoover, who went to play for Curt Cignetti and the reigning champion Indiana Hoosiers, and former WR Eric McAlister. Hoover threw for the third-most yards in school history from 2022-25, and McAlister led the team in catches (72), receiving yards (1,190) and touchdowns (10) last season. That said, I trust Belichick can build a better defense in an offseason more than Horned Frogs head coach Sonny Dykes replacing Hoover. To be fair, I’m lukewarm on receivers’ impact on winning and losing, so I don’t care about McAlister no longer being on the team that much. Both teams have transfer quarterbacks. The Tar Heels brought in QB Billy Edwards from Wisconsin after he missed most of last season with an injury. Edwards started 11 games for Maryland in 2024, completing 65.0% of his passes for 2,881 yards with 15 touchdowns and nine interceptions.  First-year Horned Frogs QB Jaden Craig transferred from Harvard, where he set the school record for most passing yards. Going from FCS competition to a Belichick-coached defense, where he has had all offseason to teach his scheme to the players he recruited, is a big jump for Craig. Furthermore, North Carolina ranks 31st in team talent, according to 247Sports.com, and TCU ranks 40th. So, the Horned Frogs have worse talent and less continuity.  This game is in Ireland, and I like backing the better coaches in these international games. There are more media obligations, and it’s a challenge keeping players focused on a business trip in a foreign country. Again, I trust Belichick more in this situation than Dykes. For the record, I’m risking 1.1 units (u) on the Tar Heels +9 (-110) and another 0.5u on their +275 moneyline.  _____________________________ Follow me on X @Geoffery-Clark, and check out my "OutKick Bets Podcast" for more betting content and random rants. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9219fe2c5335ae104c7c43 Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine te 2026-08-28T23:30:06.543Z Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9217a32c5335ae104c7bc1 Michelle Obama shrugs off missing active motherhood after daughters leave, says, 'I'm good' te 2026-08-28T23:20:03.875Z Michelle Obama shrugs off missing active motherhood after daughters leave, says, 'I'm good' Former first lady Michelle Obama faced criticism Friday after telling Jon Stewart on Wednesday's "IMO" podcast that she did not miss having her adult daughters at home. California Republican Party Delegate and mother Elizabeth Barcohana told Fox News Digital the remarks conveyed resentment amid a national debate over motherhood. Obama offered a terse response after Stewart explained that the daily job of parenting had given meaning and structure to his life and asked whether she missed it. "I’m good," Obama said. MICHELLE OBAMA’S ‘ME’ ANSWER ABOUT NEXT CHAPTER DRAWS SOCIAL MEDIA BACKLASH Barcohana said Obama appeared relieved that the active years of raising daughters Malia and Sasha had ended. "There is a difference between a mother expressing exhaustion from the demands of motherhood — which is real and relatable — and expressing resentment," Barcohana said. "Resentment is what appears to come through in Michelle Obama’s remarks, and it is especially painful to hear amid the national conversation surrounding the Lindsay Clancy trial. "She seems happy that her daughters’ childhoods are over. That is not a relatable feeling for most mothers at all." Obama said she did not miss having her daughters at home but immediately stressed that she loved them and planned to see them for dinner that night. OBAMA ADMITS 'GENUINE TENSION' IN MARRIAGE OVER PRESSURE TO STAY IN POLITICS "I don’t miss them. I don't. I love them. I’m going to see them tonight for dinner. I love them," she said. "But Barack cried when they went to college. I was like, ‘Bye, little — goodbye.’ Now I … now Friday nights aren’t wrecked with terror and fear about, ‘Where are you? Where are you?’" Conservative commentator Matt Walsh accused Obama of appearing eager for her children to leave despite the assistance he claimed the family's wealth afforded her. "And yet she still couldn’t wait for the kids to leave because the minor demands they made on her time and energy were still too much for her. Just a total raging narcissist," Walsh said. BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA'S FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY REPORTEDLY LEAVING NETFLIX TO GO INDEPENDENT Political commentator Link Lauren criticized Obama for what he characterized as repeated complaints about her family and lifestyle. "This podcast is just her sitting around her mansion in Martha’s Vineyard complaining about how hard her life of luxury is and how much she despises her husband and children," Lauren said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Obama further explained her empty nest reaction by saying she welcomed her daughters' independence and had already spent substantial time actively raising them. "I love my schedule. I have a great schedule, and it’s all mine," Obama said. "I mean, I’ve had so much quality time with my children. So much. Yeah, yeah. I know them inside and out." Obama also praised Barack Obama’s parenting last year, explaining that both parents deliberately prioritized their daughters throughout his presidency. "It was important for both of us, for me and Barack, to carve out that time in those eight years when our girls were in their formative years, you know," Obama said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a92154c2c5335ae104c7b65 Bryan Kohberger seeks judge’s removal in escalating bid to undo guilty plea te 2026-08-28T23:10:04.078Z Bryan Kohberger seeks judge’s removal in escalating bid to undo guilty plea Bryan Kohberger, the man convicted of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, is asking a court to disqualify the judge in his case and has asked for a change of venue as he attempts to take back his guilty plea.  Motions for both requests were filed Thursday by Kohberger's new court-appointed attorney, Gregory Rauch. The move came after Kohberger was convicted of first-degree murder.  He has since claimed that he is innocent and has blamed his defense team for leading him to make a false confession. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9212f52c5335ae104c7b08 Tennessee moves to rename Nashville airport for Dolly Parton days after beloved icon's death te 2026-08-28T23:00:05.374Z Tennessee moves to rename Nashville airport for Dolly Parton days after beloved icon's death Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport announced Friday that they intend to name the airport in honor of Dolly Parton, moving toward a major tribute to the icon after an outpouring of public support for the beloved late country music legend's legacy. Lee said he spoke with Parton's team about the proposal this week. Her team expressed appreciation for the support and is open to continuing the conversation, according to a joint announcement from the governor and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority. The proposal would place Parton's name on the gateway to Music City, connecting the transportation hub with a woman whose music, philanthropy and deeply rooted connection to her home state made her perhaps its most celebrated figure. TRUMP MOURNS DOLLY PARTON, ORDERS US FLAGS LOWERED NATIONWIDE AFTER COUNTRY MUSIC ICON DIES "Dolly Parton’s extraordinary life is forever woven into the fabric of our state," said Lee about the Tennessee native, who died Tuesday at 80 after a brief cancer battle. "From her rural mountain home in East Tennessee to global stages, Dolly carried the Volunteer Spirit with her. "At a place where Tennessee welcomes the world, it is fitting that Nashville International Airport would bear the name of our state’s favorite daughter and greet travelers with the enduring legacy of Dolly’s music, generosity, faith, and kindness." The announcement comes amid a groundswell of support for renaming the airport after Parton. A Change.org petition titled "Rename Nashville International Airport to Dolly Parton International Airport" had accumulated 155,501 verified signatures, according to the petition page. DOLLY PARTON DEFIED COUNTRY MUSIC'S EXPECTATIONS FOR WOMEN AND BUILT A CAREER ON HER OWN TERMS: EXPERTS The petition was originally launched in January 2025 by Lydia Popovich and Dan Dion, who argued that Parton's influence extended far beyond the music that made her famous, pointing to her philanthropy and her Imagination Library literacy program. Following Parton's death this week, the organizers said tens of thousands of additional supporters signed the petition and renewed their effort to have Nashville's airport carry her name. The campaign has also drawn support from Tennessee officials. State Rep. Todd Warner said in a response published on the petition page that he would introduce legislation supporting the change. "Yes I will definitely introduce legislation to rename the BNA airport Dolly Parton International Airport! Thanks, TW," Warner wrote, according to the response reproduced by Change.org. DOLLY PARTON'S LIFE IN HER OWN WORDS: FROM SMOKY MOUNTAINS POVERTY TO COUNTRY MUSIC IMMORTALITY Nashville Council member Russ Bradford also said he would sponsor a resolution asking the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority to consider the change, while stressing that the authority, rather than the council, has the ultimate say over the airport's name. "I'm proud to sponsor a resolution asking the Metro Nashville Airport Authority to consider renaming BNA to Dolly Parton International Airport," Bradford said in a response published by Change.org. The tribute carries particular resonance because Parton had previously resisted efforts to put her own legacy on a pedestal. In 2021, Parton asked Tennessee lawmakers to withdraw a bill that would have allowed a statue of her to be erected on the grounds of the state Capitol. STEVE DOOCY: THE DOLLY PARTON I SAW WHEN THE CAMERAS STOPPED ROLLING "I am honored and humbled by their intention, but I have asked the leaders of the state legislature to remove the bill from any and all consideration," Parton said at the time in a post shared to social media. She explained that she did not believe such an honor was appropriate while the country was confronting larger challenges, but left open the possibility that Tennessee might honor her in that way someday. "Given all that is going on in the world, I don't think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time," Parton said. "I hope, though, that somewhere down the road several years from now or perhaps after I'm gone if you still feel I deserve it, then I'm certain I will stand proud in our great State Capitol as a grateful Tennessean." The proposal to rename the airport will be discussed at the Metro Nashville Airport Authority’s next meeting on Sept. 17, according to their release. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a92109b2c5335ae104c7a91 Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses? te 2026-08-28T22:50:03.830Z Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses? Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment? Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a920e462c5335ae104c7200 LGBTQ group reveals which Dem nominee is sponsoring Halloween event featuring drag shows te 2026-08-28T22:40:06.099Z LGBTQ group reveals which Dem nominee is sponsoring Halloween event featuring drag shows As the Trump administration’s efforts have choked off federal funding for LGBTQ groups, Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta and Georgia's Democratic gubernatorial nominee, is sponsoring an upcoming Halloween event open to children that will include drag shows. "From 5-8, the little monsters roam free trick-or-treating through spooky trails and glowing Halloween worlds, and when night falls — the hallo queen show explodes with music, costumes and pure Halloween spectacle," ColGay Pride, an LGBTQ+ group based in Columbus, Georgia, said in a video. Notably, the group’s programming states that the "adults-only" portion of the night, which includes the drag shows, will begin after 9 p.m. Even so, Lance Bottoms’ support of the Halloween event, which includes a haunted walk, s’mores, an adult-and-kids costume contest — all centered around gender expression — adds to her record of supporting LGBTQ-related content around children. POWERFUL LGBTQ+ GROUP'S ENDORSEMENTS COULD TANK VULNERABLE DEMS OVER RADICAL YOUTH TRANS AGENDA ColGay Pride describes its goal as "promoting diversity, inclusion and equality for the LGBTQ community in Columbus and the surrounding areas and create a supportive and affirming environment through our programs and events." The group, which is throwing its final Halloween celebration after 13 years, said that Trump’s federal funding cuts had made it dependent on individual contributions. "We are closing our doors next year," the group wrote. "It has become far too difficult to raise money when our financial aid was cut off completely under Trump, when our own citizens — the very people we have served for twenty years — do not donate. Sometimes you simply reach a point where enough is enough," the post read. The group thanked Lance Bottoms for her support in a post to Facebook with a "digital sponsorship certificate." It’s unclear how much she contributed to the event. Bottoms' gubernatorial bid has been complicated by political liabilities. The Campaign Finance Commission fined her $37,000 in 2021 for accepting over $60,000 in contributions that exceeded legal limits as well as $110,000 that exceeded debt caps. She also announced that she would not pursue re-election as mayor of Atlanta amid a COVID-19 crime wave that spiked homicides by 58% over levels from the year before. In addition to those controversies, Bottoms has also received criticism from conservatives for her stances on gender policy. GOP FRONTRUNNER IN KEY GUBERNATORIAL RACE FORCED TO ANSWER ABOUT HIRING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: 'I DON'T KNOW' Recently, in a gubernatorial debate, the former mayor said she would have vetoed the Riley Gaines Act — a piece of legislation that banned biological men from competing in women’s sports. "I believe that decisions about who competes and how people compete shouldn’t be happening at the state capitol. I don’t support the government making decisions about who should compete in athletics. I believe that decision should be left to respective athletic associations," Bottoms said. That comment, in particular, has become a key campaign quote for her opponent, Rick Jackson, a businessman and the Republican nominee to replace outgoing Gov. Brian Kemp, as they set out to attack Bottoms' far-left positions on issues of gender and sexuality. "Keisha Bottoms and the other Democrats said they’d have vetoed the Riley Gaines Act. They won’t protect girls’ sports, but they will open the floodgates for woke ideology in our schools. We’re going to make sure they don’t get the chance," the campaign said in a post to X, highlighting the debate moment. Notably, Bottoms’ sponsorship of the upcoming Halloween event isn’t the first time she has supported drag-themed activities. In 2019, as mayor, she invited Ms. Terra Cotta Sugarbaker, a drag queen, to host a story hour after the Fulton County library system removed a scheduled "drag queen story time" from its events. "Ms. Terra Cotta Sugarbaker and all our LGBTQ friends are always welcome at Atlanta City Hall. How about we host your next story hour? Let’s make it happen!" she wrote in a post to X. RILEY GAINES AND MYKAYLA SKINNER SEND MESSAGE TO SIMONE BILES ON WOMEN'S SPORTS DEBATE AFTER SCOTUS RULING The Bottoms campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the upcoming event, what was included in her sponsorship, or whether it was appropriate to have children present for events centered around sexuality and gender expression. Having cleared her primary, Bottoms will face off against Jackson in the state’s Nov. 3, 2025, general election. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a920e452c5335ae104c71f7 'Veronica Mars' star Jason Dohring traded Hollywood for farming te 2026-08-28T22:40:05.406Z 'Veronica Mars' star Jason Dohring traded Hollywood for farming "Veronica Mars" star Jason Dohring has stepped away from acting to focus on a new passion. During a recent appearance on the "Don't Do Nothing" podcast, the 44-year-old actor shared that he developed an interest in gardening around four years ago and told his agents, "I'm just going to go farm for a minute." "I just got an interest in it and I've kind of the last three years I built like, I'm on my third farm now and we're just making great food for people cause I really realized that people are getting sick from the food that they're eating," he said. He first began planting in Los Angeles, before developing a 14-acre farm in West Virginia, where they planted 4,000 trees, including apples, cherries, pears, peaches and nectarines, noting he probably planted "3,500 of them myself." 'THE THORN BIRDS' STAR RACHEL WARD TRADED 'EMPTY' HOLLYWOOD FOR FARM LIFE IN AUSTRALIA The actor now lives on an 11-acre farm in Florida with his wife, Lauren Kutner, and their four kids, noting he moved there because of the weather. He said that when farming in California, they weren't allowed to drill a well and would run out of water. "L.A. is crazy. [You can go] eight, nine months with no rain. You know what I mean?" he said. "That's when I when we moved to Florida I was like we get infinite rain. We have infinite manure. Like you know you could farm for free." Dohring is proud of his Florida farm and the regenerative farming method he uses, which involves growing the crops without chemicals. Through this method, he says that on his farm, "stuff is starting to get much better." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "There was this old guy and he's like, ‘Are you the owner?’" he said about a recent experience on his farm. "And he's like, ‘I've been praying to God that the gate was open so I could come in here and see this cause I've been in agriculture since I was 12. I've never seen anything like this before.’" Dohring first rose to fame playing Logan Echolls on "Veronica Mars" opposite Kristen Bell, for three seasons, from 2004 to 2007. He starred in several other projects, including "Moonlight" and "The Originals," before returning to film the "Veronica Mars" feature movie in 2014 and the one-season revival in 2019. His last acting gig was four episodes of "SEAL Team" in 2021. While he has stepped away from acting for now, he admits, "I'll probably jump back into it at some point," adding he has already done a short film for a friend. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "I love art, and when I get around art, even talking about this is exciting to me," he said. "I think there's something in everybody that is aesthetic, meaning beautiful or wants to create." The actor married Kutner in 2004, shortly before "Veronica Mars" premiered. The two first met and became friends while in high school, with Dohring saying their friendship is the foundation of their marriage. Since getting married, the couple have welcomed four children: son Owen, and daughters Lily, Ainsley Mae and Isla Avery. "My wife and I were married 20 years ago today," he wrote on Instagram in July 2024. "We have had an amazing life together, including raising four incredible children. I consider her my best friend." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a920e442c5335ae104c71ee Sleeper teams from each Power 4 conference: Who will exceed expectations this college football season? te 2026-08-28T22:40:04.411Z Sleeper teams from each Power 4 conference: Who will exceed expectations this college football season? With college football beginning in earnest this Saturday, many fans are anxiously awaiting to see how the chips will fall in a wide open season in 2026. Sure, on paper, there is a clear delineation between the teams who have everything to win a national championship and the rest of the field, but as they always say, "paper never played a football game." With that in mind, I wanted to take a look at some of my favorite sleeper teams from each Power 4 conference. PREDICTING EACH POWER 4 CONFERENCE CHAMPION AHEAD OF THE 2026 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON I already discussed who I think is going to win each conference, but what about the teams no one sees coming that could upset the established order. These aren't necessarily teams that I would put money on to win their respective conferences, but they are certainly could if things break the right way. Let's take a look at some power conference teams who are flying under the radar this season. I wrote an entire article about how shocked I was to see the Hokies not in the preseason top-25, and I was even more shocked to see they were projected to finish 8th in the ACC. I understand it hasn't exactly been a bed of roses for Virginia Tech since legendary coach Frank Beamer retired, but the Hokies — at least to my eye — have everything they need to finish in the upper echelon of the ACC this season. For starters, landing head coach James Franklin was an absolute coup. RANKING THE TEN BEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES IN THE COUNTRY AHEAD OF THE 2026 SEASON I know I haven't been the most vocal defender of Franklin, but I still think he's a hell of a coach who will benefit from a change of scenery and a slightly less competitive conference. The Hokies also rank top-five in the country in returning production and will feature Franklin's handpicked signal caller Ethan Grunkemeyer under center. Grunkemeyer was forced into action after Penn State starter Drew Allar was lost for the season midway through 2025, and that experience will be invaluable for Virginia Tech this season. A soft start to their schedule could provide the perfect "ramp up" into the meat of their slate in late October, and I wouldn't be shocked at all to see the Hokies push teams like SMU and Louisville for that silver medal spot in the ACC this year. Everyone knows about Texas Tech and the stockpile of talent they have out in Lubbock, but I'm keeping my eye on another team on the opposite end of the Lone Star State to make some noise in the Big 12. I'm surprised I haven't heard more about the Cougars during the preseason hype sessions, considering they won 10 games and finished in the top-25 last season, but perhaps this is right where they want to be. Houston has all the ingredients to challenge the Red Raiders for the conference crown, including a great coach in Willie Fritz, an ascending defense, and one of the most experienced rosters in the Big 12 heading into 2026. A massive early-season showdown looms between the Cougars and the Red Raiders in September, and if Houston is able to keep that game close or even win it, it could be the statement they need to let everyone know they are for real. Other than the aforementioned date with Texas Tech, Houston avoids many of the other heavy hitters in the Big 12, including BYU and both Arizona schools, so another 10-win season could be in the books in H-Town. I think the world of Washington head coach Jedd Fisch, and even wanted him to replace Billy Napier at Florida before Jon Sumrall was hired, so it's no surprise I believe he and the Huskies could achieve big things this year. Looking at Fisch's trajectory, both at Arizona and now at Washington, will give fans a glimpse into what they could expect from the Huskies in 2026. THREE TEAMS RANKED OUTSIDE THE TOP-12 OF THE COACHES POLL WHO WILL MAKE THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF The Wildcats went from one win to five wins to 10 wins in three seasons under Fisch, and the current Washington head coach had win totals of six and nine in his first two seasons in Seattle, respectively. With dynamic quarterback Demond Williams Jr. returning as well as a roster that ranks in the top-15 nationally in returning production, Fisch has all the pieces in place to make a legitimate run at a Big Ten title or, at the very least, put together a remarkable season in the Pacific Northwest. Washington avoids Michigan and Ohio State this year and will play Penn State and Indiana at home. A forgivable schedule could help the Huskies outperform their preseason expectations and have a lot of critics eating crow by season's end. As far as SEC sleepers go, I've seen plenty of love for programs like South Carolina, Auburn, and even Kentucky, but for my money, I believe the Mississippi State Bulldogs will shock plenty of fans and media pundits alike in 2026. Jeff Lebby enters his third season as the head coach in Starkville, and many will view his 2025 season as a failure upon first glance. The losing record will cause many to believe the rebuild is behind schedule, but a closer look shows that the Bulldogs were a few bad bounces and missteps away from an eight-win season. Mississippi State took both Texas and Tennessee — two top-25 teams — to overtime, and were a terrible interception in field goal range away from beating Florida in The Swamp. The Bulldogs are a sneaky talented team, shockingly ranking in the top-20 of the 247Sports Team Talent Composite, as Lebby has done a remarkable job upgrading the personnel at Mississippi State. Sophomore quarterback Kamario Taylor was a highly-touted player coming out of high school and will unlock Lebby's offense with his combination of plus athleticism and uncanny arm talent. I'm not picking the Bulldogs to win the SEC outright, but don't be surprised if the Cowbell Clangers are spoiling a ton of talented teams' chance at winning the league this season. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a920bf32c5335ae104c6b5e Father-son duo puts music in the hands of Flagstaff te 2026-08-28T22:30:11.258Z Father-son duo puts music in the hands of Flagstaff Eric Corum took over ownership of Arizona Music Pro and opened Sunday Mourning Records and Things in a storage shed within the building. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a920bf22c5335ae104c6b55 FlagShakes presenting 'The Taming' and 'A Room in the Castle' beginning Sept. 17 te 2026-08-28T22:30:10.364Z FlagShakes presenting 'The Taming' and 'A Room in the Castle' beginning Sept. 17 The Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival will present "The Taming" and "A Room in the Castle" by Lauren Gunderson and directed by FlagShakes Artistic Director Amie Bjorklund. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a920bf12c5335ae104c6b4b NAU ROUNDUP: Volleyball makes five additions to roster ahead of 2026 season te 2026-08-28T22:30:09.416Z NAU ROUNDUP: Volleyball makes five additions to roster ahead of 2026 season The defending Big Sky Conference regular season champions made a few additions to bolster its roster ahead of its first tournament this weekend at Ole Miss. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a920bf02c5335ae104c6b42 LOCAL ROUNDUP: Coconino girls win second straight Rick Baker Cross Country Invitational te 2026-08-28T22:30:08.500Z LOCAL ROUNDUP: Coconino girls win second straight Rick Baker Cross Country Invitational The Coconino girls cross country team vastly improved in their second straight Rick Baker Invitational victory to begin the 2026 season. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9209952c5335ae104c6ad2 LGBTQ Arizonans emerge as a voting bloc that could tip close races te 2026-08-28T22:20:05.774Z LGBTQ Arizonans emerge as a voting bloc that could tip close races Photo by Devon Christopher Adams (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0 More than one in every eight Arizonans identify as LGBTQ, making up a demographic group that may prove consequential in the state’s close elections. A recent analysis of federal data across four years conducted by the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, estimated that 13.34% of Arizonans identify as LGBTQ. Ramiro Sarmiento, a spokesperson for the organization, said the number signifies electoral power. “We’re not a demographic footnote,” he said. “The LGBTQ community is a voting bloc that can decide control.”  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE Although long a stronghold for Republicans, Arizona in the past decade has transformed into a battleground state where top races are decided by slim margins. In 2022, Gov. Katie Hobbs defeated her Republican opponent, Kari Lake, by a little over a percentage point. That same year, Attorney General Kris Mayes eked out a victory over Republican Abe Hamadeh by a mere 280 votes.  Sarmiento warned that politicians who refuse to court LGBTQ voters — or outright antagonize them with anti-LGBTQ policy positions — risk electoral consequences. He pointed out that voters who identify as LGBTQ are more involved in politics than the rest of the electorate.  “We’re talking about a demographic that is highly engaged, that is very energized to vote,” he said. “And now, with the growing influence, we are going to be a consequential and politically motivated constituency that is poised to deliver a winning margin in competitive races, including in Arizona.”  A survey of voters across several states earlier this year found that 92% of people who identify as LGBTQ plan to vote in this year’s midterms, while only 68% of respondents who don’t identify as LGBTQ expressed a similar intent. In Arizona, LGBTQ rights are on the ballot in November. Republican lawmakers placed a wide-ranging proposal on the ballot that would make it impossible for trans girls to join sports teams, even privately run ones like Little League, that reflect their gender identity. The measure would also open up schools to lawsuits if a trans person uses a bathroom or locker room that best fits who they are.  And while candidates for the state’s top leadership positions aren’t running on a campaign that emphasizes LGBTQ issues, the question about whether the state has a right to legislate LGBTQ people out of existence remains an underlying theme.  Hobbs spent the last four years consistently vetoing discriminatory proposals from the GOP-controlled legislature that sought to make it more difficult for trans and LGBTQ students to be themselves at school. Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, who hopes to convince voters to award him the governorship, supported legislation as a state legislator that would have allowed businesses to refuse service to LGBTQ customers based on their religious beliefs, and claimed that trans kids are “children infected by the woke mind virus.”  In the attorney general’s race, Mayes faces a challenge from state Sen. Warren Petersen, who has repeatedly authored and supported anti-LGBTQ legislation. The Gilbert Republican, who is president of the Arizona Senate, helped pass a 2022 law barring trans girls from joining school sports teams that align with their gender identity and pushed a proposal that would have prohibited trans minors from receiving hormone therapy or puberty blockers. When two trans teens filed a lawsuit against the state’s athletic ban, Petersen went to court to argue for its preservation when Mayes refused to defend it.  Despite the increasing electoral power of LGBTQ Arizonans, Republican politicians continue to pursue policies that are actively hostile towards them in an effort to attract base voters. Sarmiento said that strategy won’t be successful for long.  “The things that play with the base don’t play with the general electorate,” he said. “As this community grows, it will eventually eclipse the political benefits that (Republicans) have seen and exploited for years. They’re doing that at their own electoral peril.” More than half of LGBTQ adults, 54%, are younger than 35, according to the analysis from the Human Rights Campaign. Sarmiento said that means the demographic is set to stick around and continue adding political pressure. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9209942c5335ae104c6ab1 Jewish educators face rampant antisemitism in teachers unions, new report finds te 2026-08-28T22:20:04.358Z Jewish educators face rampant antisemitism in teachers unions, new report finds Jewish educators are experiencing rampant antisemitism from teachers unions, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The organization surveyed 307 Jewish members of teachers unions, many of whom admitted to censoring themselves and being disappointed with how unions handled concerns about antisemitism. "What we found is not the work of a few bad actors. It is a structural and cultural failure," ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. "Jewish educators deserve to feel safe and protected in their union spaces. And instead of that, they are self-censoring and fearing backlash for raising concerns." Greenblatt added that the report's findings represented a "dangerous trend of institutionalized antisemitism." FEDS OPEN PROBE INTO NEW YORK CITY'S ANTI-ISRAEL TEACHERS Sydney Altfield, CEO of Teach Coalition, an organization that advocates for Jewish schools, said the report was particularly concerning because teachers unions were meant to represent and protect all educators. "What strikes me is that these unions are supposed to be homes for everyone, and [they're] not being that," Altfield told Fox News Digital. TEACHER WHO BATTLED UNION FEARS SHE’S BEING TARGETED AFTER SHIRT COMPLAINT: 'I'M AFRAID' One of the key findings of the report was the high rate at which Jewish educators were self-censoring out of fear of retaliation. According to the ADL, 70% of respondents "somewhat or strongly agreed" that bringing up concerns about how Jews were treated in union spaces "could lead to reputational or professional consequences." Additionally, 73.6% said they needed to censor themselves in union spaces and 47.6% said they reduced their participation in union activities due to "harmful rhetoric or behavior targeting Jews, Zionists/Zionism or Israel." A respondent told the ADL that their union leadership "actively works against" Jews and Zionists. The respondent noted that the union "hosted several events promoting extremely biased and nasty anti-Israel curriculum, including giving out flyers that praised the Al-Aqsa flood operation [Oct. 7 attack] and glorified their martyrs..." The respondent said their wife was "physically intimidated at a union event" and was "attacked publicly by union leadership online on social media." FAR-LEFT ACTIVIST CONFERENCE AT TEACHERS UNION HQ RAISES CLASSROOM CONCERNS Many respondents also reported pervasive anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-Zionist conduct and said hostile rhetoric continued well after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre in Israel. More than 70% of respondents "somewhat or strongly agreed" that union statements about the Israel-Hamas war failed to condemn the terror organization or the atrocities committed during the massacre. The ADL noted that approximately 52% of respondents said they witnessed minimization or denial of Oct. 7 atrocities, while nearly 49% said they heard the word "Zionism" used as a pejorative term in the past year. "[My local union] passed a resolution as official union policy that blamed Israel for the October 7 Hamas attack...We tried to come up with...amendments, but they voted us down and shouted us down," a respondent told the ADL. Sixty-nine percent of respondents who raised concerns about antisemitism to union leadership told the ADL that they were not satisfied with the response they received. The organization added that one of the top requests from respondents was for leadership to condemn threats and harassments against Jews. "Jewish educators have gone into hiding. They do not admit to being Jewish or wear any identifying clothing/jewelry. We are still being told not to speak," one respondent told the ADL. In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten acknowledged that "no institution" is "immune" to antisemitism. She also said that the AFT was working to address concerns brought up in the report. "Every student and every educator deserves to feel safe at school and in their unions," Weingarten said. "At a moment of real and rising antisemitism, no institution—including unions—is immune; the remedy requires constructive engagement that understands Jewish safety and strong unions go hand-in-hand, rather than binary approaches that pit communities against one another." ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE REACHES DEADLIEST LEVEL SINCE 1994, NEW GLOBAL REPORT FINDS Weingarten said that the AFT had partnered with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs on training, resources and local programs aimed at helping union members combat antisemitism, hate and extremism.  "There is much more work to do, and we’re looking forward to building on our partnership to ensure all educators and students are safe and respected in their schools," Weingarten added. A spokesperson for the National Education Association (NEA) told Fox News Digital that the union "stands firmly against antisemitism and hate in any form" and takes Jewish educators' concerns seriously. "Every NEA member, including our Jewish members, has the right to participate fully in their union and their workplace, free from discrimination and harassment," the spokesperson said. The NEA spokesperson noted that the union's Jewish Affairs Caucus brings members' concerns directly to union leadership. Additionally, the organization works with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs on antisemitism workshops and trainings, Holocaust education, and resources for educators. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Altfield told Fox News Digital that union leaders must address the problem if members believe that antisemitism is coming from the top, or that leadership may need to be changed altogether. "If people are specifically saying that this is coming from the leadership, then the leadership needs to change," she said. "You can pass resolutions, you can pass and put out different curriculums, but if the top is not living and breathing, you know, a secure place for Jews then it's never going to be trickled down to the bottom." The ADL report comes as the organization notes historic levels of antisemitism across the U.S. In 2025, there were 6,274 recorded incidents of antisemitism, an average of about 17 every day, according to the ADL. These incidents included 203 assaults, 4,003 instances of antisemitic harassment and 2,068 acts of vandalism. Out of the 203 assaults, 32 involved a deadly weapon. The survey covered teachers in 24 states, "with especially large representation from California, Massachusetts and New York," and nearly 99 percent of respondents worked in public schools. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a92028f2c5335ae104c69c3 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight, potentially reviving Arizona’s prosecution te 2026-08-28T21:50:07.501Z 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight, potentially reviving Arizona’s prosecution (Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor) A federal judge’s order blocking Arizona from prosecuting online prediction market company Kalshi for violating the state’s gambling laws is living on borrowed time after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that gambling on sporting events is not protected by the federal law that otherwise allows prediction market firms to operate. The ruling, which came in a similar but separate Nevada case, directly undercuts the rationale used by federal Judge Michael Liburdi earlier this year when he issued an injunction stopping Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes from prosecuting Kalshi and suing the firm for violating Arizona’s gambling laws and a law that makes it illegal to bet on election outcomes in the Grand Canyon State. Arizona could use the Nevada decision to argue that Liburdi should allow the Arizona case to proceed. GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE In its ruling that upheld a lower court’s decision to dissolve an injunction allowing Nevada regulators to bar Kalshi from offering trades — known as “swaps” in the commodities market, referring to a contract whose value depends on some future outcome — on sporting events, the three-judge panel concluded that sports events don’t qualify as “swaps,” and thus aren’t protected by federal law. In May, Liburdi sided with Kalshi’s broad reading of the federal Commodity Exchange Act and concluded that sporting events qualify as “events” and “occurrences” under that law, meaning they can only be regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that oversees prediction markets. And that agency has largely declined to stop companies like Kalshi from accepting bets on virtually anything they want, including sports and elections. But on Friday, the appellate judges — all of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump — rejected that view, holding that reading “event” to mean “outcome” is an “archaic or rare usage,” and that the words “event” and “occurrence” must carry independent meaning.  As an example, the court explained that whether the Super Bowl happens is an “occurrence,” but who wins it is not. “Congress did not take a wrecking ball to all sports gambling regulations built up over decades by federal, state, and tribal governments when it amended the (Commodity Exchange Act),” Judge Ryan Nelson wrote in the unanimous decision. Mayes’ office initiated an appeal of Liburdi’s ruling, but the 9th Circuit put the appeal on hold until it considered other cases centering on states attempting to regulate Kalshi and other prediction markets, including this Nevada case. Now that the appeals court has sided with states, it paves the way for Liburdi’s injunction to be dissolved. “This is a significant win for states’ authority to regulate gambling operations. Calling a sports bet a ‘swap’ doesn’t make it one,” Mayes said in a statement celebrating the ruling. “States like Arizona have built a comprehensive system to regulate gaming and today’s ruling affirms those regulations.” The 9th Circuit, Mayes added, “clearly” explained in its ruling in the Nevada case that the federal law regulating commodities “was never intended to strip states of their traditional police power over gambling.” “Kalshi’s position would have effectively federalized sports betting regulation nationwide and swept aside decades of state and tribal oversight built to protect consumers from the real harms of unregulated gambling,” Mayes continued. Mayes’s office said it was reviewing the ruling. From a practical standpoint, Arizona can now ask the 9th Circuit or Liburdi to lift the injunction based on the ruling in this case. If it succeeds, the state’s stalled 20-count criminal case against Kalshi could resume. The 9th Circuit ruling splits from an earlier ruling earlier this year by judges in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which sided with Kalshi and found that states have no authority to stop prediction markets from taking bets on sporting events.  The three Trump-appointed judges repeatedly and directly explained why they viewed the 3rd Circuit ruling as faulty. At its core, the 9th Circuit ruling says that Congress was not “hiding an elephant in a mousehole” when it amended the Commodity Exchange Act by upending “decades of careful regulation of gambling” at the state and federal levels. And the judges invoked the major questions doctrine, the principle that federal agencies can’t transform old laws into new laws through expansive statutory interpretation, teeing up a battle in the U.S. Supreme Court. Interpreting the Commodity Exchange Act to hand the Commodity Futures Trading Commission authority over sports betting — a multibillion-dollar field historically regulated by states and tribes — would be an “extraordinary” grant of authority requiring clear congressional authorization that has never happened, Nelson wrote. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a92028e2c5335ae104c69a2 Transgender Canadian golfer sends a blunt message to critics as victories over women pile up te 2026-08-28T21:50:06.389Z Transgender Canadian golfer sends a blunt message to critics as victories over women pile up Biological female golfers in Alberta, Canada, are suddenly being pushed off the top of the leaderboards, but why? It appears a 2025 ruling opened the floodgates for transgender golfers to dominate women's golf in the province and that's exactly what's happened. Trans golfers Veronica Ivy and Rachel Elser have now won five individual women's golf championships this summer, while Ivy, who used to dominate women's cycling in Great Britain, was also a member of the winning team in the 2026 Canadian Women's Mid-Amateur Championship. AMERICANS CLASH OVER TRANSGENDER ATHLETES AS DEBATE HEATS UP: ‘JUST GETTING OUTRAGEOUS' Elser's titles include the Fort McMurray Club Championship along with the 2026 Miskanaw Ladies Open title; Ivy won the B.C. Mid-Amateur and Mid-Master titles on the same day in June and an unidentified club title in August. What's Ivy's message to those who oppose biological males invading Canadian women's golf? Get better, ladies. "To the bigots: stay mad, and get a better hobby," Ivy wrote. "You're deeply unwell and you're obsessed with harassing a stranger. You're not going to make me stop existing and succeeding. I feel really sorry for you. You have my pity." Women & Girls Alberta, a group that is fighting to protect the rights, safety and dignity of Alberta's Women & Girls, according to its Facebook page, says enough is enough with Ivy and Elser. The group says that Alberta has legislation that should be protecting female golfers. But, based on the transgender rules set forth by Alberta Golf — the organization in charge of golf across the province — Ivy and Elser seem perfectly within the rules to go out and dominate biological females. "For individuals who have undergone gender reassignment after puberty, the following guidelines will be used: I. Male-to-female transgendered persons, to compete as a female, must submit documentation from a medical practitioner that gender reassignment has been ongoing for at least one year," Alberta Golf stated as its official policy in February 2025. And what would suffice as reassignment? Hormone therapy is good enough. U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE MAKES NEW TRANS ATHLETE FINDINGS AGAINST USA HOCKEY The results since then speak volumes. "I'm getting back into competitive golf, which was the sport I grew up with since I was 3," Ivy wrote on Instagram the same month as Alberta Golf updated its transgender golf rules. By late summer, Ivy had won the first of what is now a full list of championships. Ah, but Ivy says outlets like OutKick are making more out of this than we should. The competition, Ivy claims, is weak. "They just see that I won some competition–without any checking for what level of competition it was," Ivy told OutSports earlier this month. "I went from competing in elite world-level track cycling, though never making the national team or the Olympics, to contesting for age group provincial titles. "I still haven’t cracked the top 10 at the Canadian national mid-amateur championship. I’m just out here trying my best, being a good competitor. Transphobes are pathetic." Let that sink in, ladies. Ivy doesn't think beating you is that big of a deal because you're not very talented. Not talented enough, Ivy claims, for OutKick to make a big deal out of it. How pleasant. How brave of Ivy. What's Elser's golf background? Outside of a 2025 women's club championship, there's not much to report. Magically, out of thin air, suddenly Alberta women's golf titles are being won by transgenders. But, as Ivy says, that's not their problem. The biological females just need to get used to it or get better. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a92028c2c5335ae104c698f For Trump, the Iran War Is Stuck Between Combat and Genuine Peace te 2026-08-28T21:50:04.484Z For Trump, the Iran War Is Stuck Between Combat and Genuine Peace The war has deteriorated over the past six months into Mr. Trump’s own version of a “forever war,” with no clear goals and no end in sight. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9200372c5335ae104c6947 New York's Erie County axes DHS job fair over ICE role, drawing backlash: 'Totally inappropriate' te 2026-08-28T21:40:07.919Z New York's Erie County axes DHS job fair over ICE role, drawing backlash: 'Totally inappropriate' A Buffalo-area Republican accused Democratic Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz of overstepping his authority after the Buffalo Convention Center canceled a two-day Department of Homeland Security career expo set to begin Tuesday, because officials objected to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's participation and warned of possible protests. "The county executive has completely surpassed his power and authority. This was totally inappropriate for him to call on the management of the convention center to cancel this event," Republican Erie County Legislator Lindsay Lorigo said in an interview with Fox News Digital. Lorigo said she understood discussions about the event were continuing and hoped the center would reverse its decision. She said vendors had invested time and local labor into the expo’s setup. DEMOCRATIC MAYOR BLASTED BY DHS FOR 'HUNTING DOWN' PROPERTY OWNERS LEASING TO ICE: 'UNHINGED' "I have had discussions with vendors that are already set up there," Lorigo said. "They’re concerned that they’re going to have to close down their business because they can’t afford the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but now they don’t know who’s going to pay the bill." "I think he is blowing the safety concern out of the water," she added. DHS sharply defended ICE in a statement to Fox News Digital on Friday and rejected criticism as political. "Our agents are focused on protecting the American people — not entertaining performative outrage. Where is the outrage for Angel families who lost a loved one to illegal alien crime?" a DHS spokesperson said. "To most Americans, our brave ICE law enforcement are heroes. 80% of Americans support arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods." AMERICA NEEDS WORKERS, BUT TRUMP'S POLICIES ARE SHARPLY CUTTING LEGAL IMMIGRATION A May Harvard CAPS/Harris online survey found 80% supported deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally and committed crimes. USAJOBS described the expo as the department’s premier large-scale hiring event. It was open to the public, veterans, military spouses, people with disabilities and recent graduates, with recruiting planned across cybersecurity, intelligence, law enforcement, finance, human resources, immigration services, logistics and transportation security. New York Labor Department data released Tuesday showed 25,100 people were unemployed in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga area in July. Its 4.4% jobless rate was up from 4.3% a year earlier. DHS ISSUES SCATHING REBUKE AFTER FORMER ATLANTA MAYOR KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS TOUTS CUTTING TIES WITH ICE In a joint statement released by Poloncarz’s office Thursday, the county executive said Erie County owns the convention center but does not manage its bookings or daily operations. Poloncarz said he learned of the expo Wednesday and urged its management corporation to cancel the DHS contract. "The Buffalo Convention Center is a publicly owned community asset, and I do not believe it should be used to support recruitment efforts that are inconsistent with the values we have repeatedly expressed as a welcoming community," Poloncarz said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Convention center President and CEO Patrick Kaler said management first asked DHS to hold the event without ICE. "When it became clear that was not possible, we made the decision to cancel as we feel it’s in the best interests of our community at this time," Kaler said. Fox News Digital reached out to Poloncarz for comment, but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9200362c5335ae104c6935 James Roche, Embattled Air Force Secretary, Dies at 86 te 2026-08-28T21:40:06.322Z James Roche, Embattled Air Force Secretary, Dies at 86 A former executive in the weapons industry, he led the Air Force amid reports of sexual assault at its service academy and a multibillion-dollar procurement scandal. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91fde72c5335ae104c68aa Rory McIlroy makes embarrassing mistake in $10 million tournament, announcer rips him for being too 'cute' te 2026-08-28T21:30:15.510Z Rory McIlroy makes embarrassing mistake in $10 million tournament, announcer rips him for being too 'cute' Doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result is what some people call insanity. It’s also what Rory McIlroy did Friday. McIlroy was 2-under entering the third hole of the second round of the Tour Championship at East Lake when disaster struck. The two-time Masters champion was chipping uphill to the green, about 15 yards from the hole, and he didn’t give his chip enough power. He hit the uphill slope, and the ball bounced once before rolling straight back to his feet. McIlroy then took one quick practice swing and lined up his shot again. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! McIlroy then proceeded to do the exact same thing. He didn’t give the ball enough power when he hit it into the slope, and it bounced once before again rolling back to his feet. The third time was the charm as he finally hit the green and double-bogeyed the hole. However, he significantly hurt his chances of winning the tournament’s $10 million purse. "To get cute twice in a row," the ESPN+ broadcaster said. "Unbelievable, you just have to err long, especially when it’s your second time." YOUTUBE GOLFER GRANT HORVAT IS SELLING KIDS GOLF CLUBS WITH AN ALARMINGLY HIGH PRICE TAG ESPN’s Andy North said that McIlroy makes a lot of forced mistakes, which is why there’s such a difference between him and Scottie Scheffler. "It is very frustrating. He’s such a talented player," North said on the broadcast. "When he’s on, there’s maybe nobody better than him. "He just hits so many quality shots but you can’t keep short-siding yourself, you can’t keep making mistakes with wedges. You look at the difference between the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the world, Scottie doesn’t make a lot of forced mistakes like Rory does." McIlroy rebounded to finish 1-under on the day and 3-under for the tournament, but he was tied for 22nd out of 30 players. At the time of this writing, the Northern Irishman was six strokes off the lead, with Ryan Gerard in first at 9-under par. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91fb882c5335ae104c67bd Trump administration appeals latest order freezing rule on mail-in voting te 2026-08-28T21:20:08.080Z Trump administration appeals latest order freezing rule on mail-in voting A voter drops off a ballot on primary Election Day at the Salt Lake County Government Center on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (Photo by Marco Lozzi for Utah News Dispatch) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is appealing a federal judge’s temporary pause on a U.S. Postal Service regulation that places new restrictions on mail-in voting, according to a Friday court filing.  The administration is headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to try to halt U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s temporary restraining order issued late Thursday that froze for two weeks an administration plan to carry out parts of an earlier executive order to limit vote-by-mail. Talwani’s order in a Massachusetts federal court reinstated a pause she lifted after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a temporary procedural victory to Trump on his March executive order to curb mail-in voting.  Democrat-led states and voting rights groups refiled lawsuits earlier this week to try to stop the administration from implementing a final rule that executes Trump’s executive order.  They argue the rule impedes states’ power to administer elections, comes too close to the November midterms to be implemented and would disenfranchise voters that depend on mail-in voting.  The administration says the rule will help secure elections, though it has not offered evidence that fraudulent mail-in voting is a major problem. The administration said in a Thursday brief the regulation did not affect election administration and dealt only with the federal mail. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91fb852c5335ae104c6794 California Sues Trump Administration Over Offshore Wind Cancellation te 2026-08-28T21:20:05.901Z California Sues Trump Administration Over Offshore Wind Cancellation The state is asking a court to reverse a Trump administration agreement and reinstate a planned offshore wind farm. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91fb842c5335ae104c678b Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens te 2026-08-28T21:20:04.938Z Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens The turmoil has left a leadership vacuum in the Army at a moment when it is trying to find ways to defend troops against the threat posed by cheap drones. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91f92e2c5335ae104c671f Media obsession with Natalie Harp continues as CNN reporter treats her presence at work as news te 2026-08-28T21:10:06.799Z Media obsession with Natalie Harp continues as CNN reporter treats her presence at work as news The media’s obsession with Natalie Harp, one of President Donald Trump's most trusted aides, continued this week when her presence at work was treated as a newsworthy event.  Harp was dragged into a political firestorm after being name-dropped in a viral stump speech by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., earlier this month. CNN and MS NOW fixated on Harp in the days following Ossoff’s remark, giving much attention to reports of the letters she had written to Trump expressing staunch loyalty and how she joined him on his secret plane switch last month. At the height of the frenzy, CNN even drew backlash for interviewing Harp's estranged brother on air. CNN White House reporter Alejandra Jaramillo took to social media on Thursday to declare she "spotted" Harp "in the back of the Oval Office." The widely mocked post included a candid photo of Harp standing in the back of the room as the president fielded questions from reporters.  JON OSSOFF'S CONTROVERSIAL TRUMP JAB SPARKS MEDIA FEEDING FRENZY OVER WHITE HOUSE AIDE NATALIE HARP The post prompted swift criticism from a variety of conservatives, many of whom noted Harp was literally doing her job. One user joked, "Democrat shocked that an employee actually shows up for work," while another joked that it was nice to see "honest reporting" from CNN.  The saga began when Ossoff appeared to suggest that Harp and Trump had an inappropriate relationship, but the Democrat has since attempted to distance himself from the innuendo. "I’m not quite sure what CNN was attempting to accomplish here," Heritage Foundation media fellow Tim Young told Fox News Digital.  "First of all, they’re showing a White House staffer who is staffing the White House, but ultimately, they are trying to make this false story of Natalie Harp having some illicit affair with Trump come true -- and pretend that Harp would be so embarrassed by it that she would actually ‘still show her face’ in the Oval Office," Young continued. "They’ll deny that that’s their intended goal, but ultimately that’s what they were doing."  CNN, MS NOW HAVE MENTIONED TRUMP AIDE NATALIE HARP HUNDREDS OF TIMES SINCE OSSOFF'S VIRAL JAB Many others offered their thoughts:  WHITE HOUSE TEARS INTO OSSOFF WITH BRUTAL TAKEDOWN AFTER JAB AT KEY TRUMP AIDE: ‘LIGHTWEIGHT LOSER’ When reached for comment, the White House directed Fox News Digital to an X post from White House communications director Steven Cheung, who pointed out that Jaramillo publicly criticized Trump in 2016.  CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91f92c2c5335ae104c6711 It’s Trump’s Capital Now, but Voters Aren’t Living in It te 2026-08-28T21:10:04.868Z It’s Trump’s Capital Now, but Voters Aren’t Living in It His obsession with remaking Washington might hurt his party politically. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91f92b2c5335ae104c6708 Milo Yiannopoulos, a Right-Wing Provocateur, Is Arrested by ICE te 2026-08-28T21:10:03.531Z Milo Yiannopoulos, a Right-Wing Provocateur, Is Arrested by ICE Mr. Yiannopoulos, a prominent early supporter of President Trump, was detained at the New Orleans airport. The Trump administration publicized his arrest and shared a mug shot. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91f6d52c5335ae104c66b7 Woman accused of defacing WWII Memorial with spray paint indicted by federal grand jury te 2026-08-28T21:00:05.682Z Woman accused of defacing WWII Memorial with spray paint indicted by federal grand jury The woman accused of vandalizing the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., was formally indicted on Friday, Fox News Digital has learned. Melissa Farris has been charged on two counts, including destruction of a veterans’ memorial and destruction of government property. The Kentucky woman allegedly spray-painted the words "Clean hands, dirty money," in bright-pink paint and dumped bubble soap into the fountain at the center of the memorial, according to authorities. WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL ON NATIONAL MALL VANDALIZED WITH PINK SPRAY; FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWING WITH BUBBLES Federal prosecutors allege that cleanup and restoration costs already exceeded $1,000. Farris did a Facebook live before turning herself in and her arrest on Aug. 14, in which she admitted to the alleged vandalism the day before.  "It's me. I am going to turn myself in," she said. "I'm outside district federal court. I am just trying to do the right thing … I was trying to get people to listen… I tried to reach the media, I tried to fight back. I tried to ignore it." Farris claimed she lived in a paper-thin camper that she "boarded up with cardboard in the winter to feel a little bit warmer." Fox News Digital has reached out to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for comment. WWII MEMORIAL VANDALISM SUSPECT IN CUSTODY, CHARGED WITH TWO FELONIES, PIRRO SAYS U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said in a statement after Farris was charged: "Vandalizing our World War II Memorial is a despicable attack on a sacred monument honoring the Americans who fought and died for our freedom. Those Americans include my father and grandfather." Pirro said the charges carry penalties of up to ten years in prison. "Our beautiful World War II Memorial was just hit by Spray Painting Vandals," President Donald Trum wrote earlier this month on Truth Social. "THERE CAN BE NO GREATER INSULT TO THOSE AMERICAN HEROES WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II. First the Reflecting Pool, now this. We are on their trail! Where do these animals come from???" Several people, including Olympic canoeist David Hearn, were arrested in June for allegedly vandalzing the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, but the charges were dropped earlier this month. TRUMP BLAMES VANDALS FOR DEAD GRASS ON NATIONAL MALL WHERE HE HOSTED 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION Prosecutors cited evidence indicating the damage may have stemmed from a botched renovation rather than vandalism. U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Aug. 16 said he "absolutely" supported Pirro’s decision to drop the charges, "as does President Trump," he told NBC’s "Meet the Press." Trump has spoken out against the decision this month, saying he "disagrees 100%" with Pirro’s decision. Fox News' Robert McGreevy, Bonny Chu and Ashley J. DiMella contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91f47e2c5335ae104c6641 Police operation takes unexpected turn when officers stumble upon ancient burial cave te 2026-08-28T20:50:06.325Z Police operation takes unexpected turn when officers stumble upon ancient burial cave Israeli police recently stumbled on an ancient burial cave in an unlikely place while carrying out an operation in Jerusalem. The discovery was announced by the Israel Police, Israel's civilian law enforcement agency, on Aug. 24. While carrying out an operation related to what police described as a "violent family conflict" in Silwan, a village in East Jerusalem, officers came upon the cave. ARCHAEOLOGISTS MAKE UNUSUAL FIND NEAR SITE WHERE ARK OF THE COVENANT WAS ONCE KEPT The operation followed a deadly clash between feuding families that erupted into gunfire and Molotov cocktail attacks, according to The Jerusalem Post. The violence prompted police to launch an operation aimed at locating those involved in the conflict. "As part of the activity, Jerusalem Border Police officers conducted searches in Silwan and accompanied government authority representatives at a compound where individuals involved in the incident reside," police said in a translated statement. Officers then found the burial cave beneath a building — along with other "archaeological finds." ANCIENT GOLD RING UNEARTHED AT GRAVE CARRIES 2,000-YEAR-OLD SECRET MESSAGE "Representatives of the Israel Antiquities Authority arrived at the scene, and an initial examination indicates that the graves date to the Second Temple period," police said. "Security forces are securing the scene to allow for the continued handling and examination of the finds." Rock-cut burial caves were commonly used as family tombs in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, though officials did not provide a more precise date for the newly discovered graves. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER The Second Temple period lasted from roughly 516 B.C. to 70 A.D., when Roman forces destroyed the temple during the First Jewish-Roman War. Pictures released by Israeli police show the dark interior of the rock-cut burial cave, with debris scattered across the floor. Fox News Digital reached out to the Israel Police and the Israel Antiquities Authority for additional comment. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Jerusalem has been inhabited for thousands of years, and remnants of its ancient past are still emerging today. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The cave is one of several archaeological finds recently uncovered in the Holy City. Earlier this summer, officials announced the discovery of charred wooden beams in Jerusalem dating back roughly 2,600 years — likely remnants of the destruction of Solomon's Temple. Another major find came last year, when archaeologists uncovered the longest and best-preserved section of Jerusalem's Hasmonean-era wall found to date. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91f2222c5335ae104c65de “We will not let this destroy our sacred sites”: Indigenous leaders fight Trump administration’s border wall te 2026-08-28T20:40:02.788Z “We will not let this destroy our sacred sites”: Indigenous leaders fight Trump administration’s border wall Standing near the pond at Quitobaquito Springs, Lorraine Marquez Eiler, a Hia-Ced O’odham elder, shared how her ancestors held ceremonies at the sacred site — a desert oasis in a national park that the federal government is set to bulldoze for a new border wall. She pulled out a photo of her great-great grandparents and her great-grandparents, who would walk about 50 miles through the Sonoran Desert to the springs. The O’odham call the water flow A’al Vaipia. She showed the image of her ancestors to a group that included Indigenous leaders and a U.S. congressional representative — all there on Monday to condemn the border wall construction. “All of my lifetime of work has been for the memories of my ancestors, of what they went through. With the incoming wall, should it be disrupted?” Marquez Eiler said in a determined voice, speaking of her ancestral lands. “That’s just another slap in the face, as far as I’m concerned, to my ancestors. And so I ask: Why?” Lorraine Marquez Eiler’s photo of her great-great grandparents and her great-grandparents, who would walk about 50 miles through the Sonoran Desert to the springs. Surrounded by more than 100 community members at a town hall that followed the visit to Quitobaquito, Marquez Eiler hoped the federal government would pause border construction, as it did earlier this month in Texas after public backlash.  Quitobaquito is sacred to the Hia-Ced O’odham, the Tohono O’odham and other Indigenous people in Southern Arizona and México, who have traveled to the site for generations to join religious pilgrimages and ceremonies. They fear the spring is at risk of drying up if another border wall is built on the protected lands about 30 miles east of Tohono O’odham Nation. The Nation is now fighting to halt border construction on two fronts: On O’odham land, where the federal government plans to build a new 30-foot border wall; and on adjacent federal land where another new border fence threatens Quitobaquito. The projects are part of the Trump administration’s push to spend nearly $50 billion in taxpayer funds on border wall construction. This is far from tribal citizens’ first fight with the U.S. government over destruction and division of their sovereign tribal lands. From the beginning, people of Tohono O’odham Nation have lived on lands that had no borders. The Quitobaquito pond sits near the U.S.-Mexico border just west of the Lukeville port of entry on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. The Trump administration is attempting to build a second border fence 150-feet from the existing border, which O’odham tribal members and environmentalists say would damage Quitobaquito, a sacred site to the O’odham and other indigenous people. Credit: Stephanie Casanova When the U.S. and México governments agreed to separate territories, the Tribal Nation wasn’t informed. For years and until today, O’odham citizens — on both sides of a border they never agreed to — travel freely across their nation. While they have tried to work with border officials to quell crime, they have fought border walls that separate their people and harm their ancestral lands. The recent fights under the Trump administration have spurred a legal battle and a high-profile standoff between federal agents and law enforcement from the Tohono O’odham Nation. O’odham people are now fighting for Tribal sovereignty in the face of a Republican-led federal government arguing for U.S. sovereignty. Feds already razing the land In the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, where Quitobaquito Springs sits about 13 miles west of the Lukeville border port of entry, the Trump administration has proposed a 30-foot tall border fence 150 feet from the existing one. Marquez Eiler is worried she will no longer be able to access land that for generations has been part of her Tribal Nation’s religious traditions, if that wall is built. Parts of Quitobaquito lands originally belonged to a family of Hia-Ced O’odham descent. In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt signed a proclamation establishing the Organ Pipe National Monument as a way to preserve a vast swath of the Sonoran Desert. The new monument was part of a U.S. National Park Service effort to preserve “ecological wonders of the country,” the agency’s website states. Now, a few miles east of the pond, construction equipment from federal government contractors sits next to the border, the land around it already cleared. Cactuses along the border are marked with a colored string, and a rope lines the proposed area where a second border wall may be built.  Construction equipment is seen near the U.S.-Mexico border just west of the Lukeville port of entry on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. Credit: Stephanie Casanova If that line continues west, the Quitobaquito pond is right in its path. If contractors bulldoze the cacti, they will destroy legally protected desert plants. They will destroy flora that is sacred to the O’ohdam people, who traditionally believe that plants and the earth are their ancestors. When the U.S.-México boundary was created through the 1854 Gadsden Purchase, it divided the Tohono O’odham Nation’s ancestral lands. Today, there are about 3,000 enrolled O’odham citizens living in Sonora, México, and families often cross the border to visit family, visit cultural sites, and for religious ceremonies.  Tohono O’odham Nation sues federal government About 30 miles east of Quitobaquito — on O’odham land — the administration has also proposed building a 30-foot fence in three areas where the border is currently marked by heavy steel fencing a few feet tall.  In June, the Tohono O’odham Nation filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security in an attempt to block border wall construction on their land.  “While the Nation values its close relationship with the Department, it has long opposed construction of a border wall on the Reservation,” the lawsuit states.  “The Nation understands that construction of the wall would entail significant devastation on the Reservation, including the destruction of mountain peaks sacred to the O’odham,” the suit argues. “It would fray the ties between O’odham communities and families on opposite sides of the border, interfere significantly with O’odham religious rituals and practices, and destroy plant and animal resources sacred to the O’odham.”  The Nation’s lawsuit cited instances earlier in the year when federal contractors “destroyed ancestral sites of great importance while constructing the wall” adjacent to O’odham land. In April, a Department of Homeland Security contractor damaged the Las Playas Intaglio, a 1,000-year-old fish-shaped geoglyph in Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge that pointed toward the Gulf of California.  Border Patrol continues construction In a memorandum outlining opposition to the lawsuit, the federal government’s attorneys said the Tohono O’odham Nation failed to show that the border wall construction is being done in excess of the federal government’s legal authority. The document also emphasized the U.S. government’s “preexisting right to secure the border.”  “While the United States has worked — and will continue to work — cooperatively with Plaintiff to promote their shared interest in border security, Plaintiff does not hold veto power over the United States’ sovereign duty to secure its borders,” the memo said.  While waiting for a decision from the courts, tribal leaders put up “No Trespassing” signs on Aug. 7, saying in a news release that border wall contractors who attempted to enter the Tohono O’odham Nation would be “illegally trespassing.” Early Tuesday morning, contractors entered the Nation accompanied by about 20 “masked, armed” border patrol agents, according to a news release from the Tohono O’odham Nation.  In an emailed statement Thursday to Arizona Luminaria, Rodney Scott, U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, said CBP is moving forward with the federal government’s border wall construction project along the 62 miles that cut through the Tohono O’odham Nation.   “The project will close one of the most dangerous smuggling and trafficking corridors on the Southwest border: remote desert that has facilitated decades of drug loads, migrant deaths, and cartel activity,” Scott wrote.  A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson in the same email said, “the worksites are inside the 60-foot Roosevelt Reservation,” referring to designated land north of the U.S.-México border that the federal government manages. Rep. Adelita Grijalva, left, and Tohono O’odham Chairman Verlon Jose listen as Lorraine Marquez Eiler, a Hia-C’ed O’odham elder, shares how her ancestors would hold ceremonies at Quitobaquito Springs. Grijalva visited the springs with tribal leaders on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. Credit: Stephanie Casanova “This is about tribal sovereignty” At Quitobaquito Springs, Marquez Eiler, the tribal elder, led U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva toward the pond to share more with the congresswoman about the tribal communities’ fight.  “After standing here today, seeing this land, and directly hearing from the nation, I am more convinced than ever, this is not just a border construction project,” Grijalva said. “This is about tribal sovereignty, it’s about sacred land, it’s about history, culture and spiritual practices of the O’odham people and others.”  Tohono O’odham Chairman Verlon Jose and Vice Chairwoman Carla Johnson organized the trip to Quitobaquito to stand against the Trump administration’s insistence on building a new border wall.  For the Tohono O’odham and other Indigenous people, the land is their church, where they hold ceremony and prayer, Jose said. The federal government has a history of destroying the O’odham’s sacred land, he added.  When the first border fence went up between 2019 and 2020, contractors blasted through O’odham burial sites on Monument Hill.  “This is not ours to own. It is ours to protect, to protect for the people. To protect for you and I and everyone the creator has placed here on this earth,” Jose said. Sara Mae Williams, Justice of the Peace in Ajo and a Tohon O’odham member, shares their concerns regarding border wall construction on Tohono O’odham land at a town hall at the Ajo Plaza Rec Hall on Monday, Aug. 24, 2026. Credit: Stephanie Casanova “Why do we not want a wall?” A few hours after their visit to Quitobaquito on Monday, the International Sonoran Desert Alliance, which Marquez Eiler co-founded, hosted a town hall in Ajo, about 40 miles north of the springs. Grijalva, Jose and Johnson shared their efforts to stop the construction projects and listened to residents’ concerns. More than 100 people filled the Ajo Plaza Rec Hall.  They shared worries over whether the wildlife would survive another construction project – the Quitobaquito pupfish, an endangered species, the Sonoyta mud turtle, the desert caper plant and the Quitobaquito tryonia, a tiny springsnail, call the springs their home.  They criticized the taxpayer cost for the border fence as too high – more than $46 billion in federal funding for projects from California to Texas. They urged Grijalva to push for comprehensive, humane immigration reform instead. “Why do we not want a wall? Because we are not afraid of who is on the other side,” said Sara Mae Williams, Justice of the Peace in Ajo and a citizen of the Tohono O’odham Nation. “It’s us. It’s our people. It pains me when they try to divide us.”  On Tuesday, Grijalva and other Democratic federal lawmakers who represent the borderlands – Reps. Veronica Escobar of Texas and Raul Ruiz and Juan Vargas of California – sent a letter opposing the wall to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of the Interior.  The lawmakers urged the Trump administration to stop further construction of the border wall “until meaningful government-to-government consultation has occurred with the Tohono O’odham Nation and Congress has received a full accounting of the project’s impacts on Tribal lands, cultural resources, and surrounding communities.” The fight continues U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon denied the Nation’s motion for a preliminary injunction on Aug. 14. In a written opinion explaining his decision, the judge said the Tohono O’odham Nation is “unlikely to succeed on the merits because the federal Roosevelt Reservation exists along the international border and, in any event, plaintiff has not established that construction of a border wall will indeed alter Reservation boundaries.” “The international border is an area of great significance to both the United States and to the Nation,” Leon wrote. “While I have concluded that a preliminary injunction is unwarranted, I fully expect the Government in the months ahead to follow through on its guarantees of consultation and cooperation with the Nation to address the Nation’s concerns regarding border wall construction!” The Tohono O’odham Nation appealed that decision on Wednesday, court records show.  “We will not let this destroy our sacred sites, our burial sites, our holy places, the places of our ancestors,” Jose said at the town hall, pausing to stress his sentences. “We will not let it destroy our environment. We will not let it further divide our people. We will not let it divide our reservation.” The post “We will not let this destroy our sacred sites”: Indigenous leaders fight Trump administration’s border wall appeared first on AZ Luminaria. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91efcf2c5335ae104c6595 Internet goes wild for Little League World Series player's extremely relatable dream job te 2026-08-28T20:30:07.701Z Internet goes wild for Little League World Series player's extremely relatable dream job It has been around for as long as I can remember, but I think the Little League World Series player questionnaire really hit its stride when Big Al filled us all in on his habit of hitting dingers. Well, it looks like we may have found a new LLWS player questionnaire all-star, and his name is Daniel Huang. The center fielder for Canada's Little Mountain Little League out of Vancouver asked what his dream job is, and his answer was used during a recent game against South Korea. Man, oh man, did the internet ever get hit in the proverbial feels by this one. LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM GETS ABSOLUTELY SCREWED ON FINAL PITCH OF NO-HITTER, FANS STUNNED BY CALL I understand this. We all understand this. Although I would suggest young Daniel here not have his eyes so fixed on his AARP that he forgets to enjoy his college years. The beauty of the player questionnaire is you get a bunch of kids, many of whom are away from their parents for the first time in their lives, just lettin' it rip on these questions. It's like "Kids Say The Darndest Things" without a certain former Jell-O spokesman MCing it all. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Of course, on social media, people were eating up Huang's answer that is so relatable to anyone who has ever worked a day in their life. I mean, being retired does seem awesome. I can't even comprehend just going out and doing things on weekdays. It must be like when you were a kid in the summer, and you'd lose track of what day of the week it was because it simply doesn't matter. So retirement is basically one big fixed-income summer until you take a dirt nap. What a way to go. Unfortunately for the team from Canada, while they beat the youngsters from Seoul, South Korea, in the game with Huang's viral answer, they dropped their next game against the team from Tokyo, Japan. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91efcb2c5335ae104c657a Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips te 2026-08-28T20:30:03.566Z Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ed7a2c5335ae104c64f1 Progressives study the conservative playbook to build power in the states te 2026-08-28T20:20:10.708Z Progressives study the conservative playbook to build power in the states Montana state Sen. Cora Neuman, a Democrat, speaks at a January news conference in the Minnesota Capitol surrounded by state lawmakers from across the country amid a surge in immigration enforcement there. Democrats say they are increasingly organizing lawmakers across state lines to better compete with the influence of organized conservative groups. (Photo by Michelle Griffith/Minnesota Reformer) Progressive activist Gaby Goldstein thinks her opponents are brilliant. Despite her deeply held liberal politics, she admires the work of conservative groups that for decades have built influence in state governments across the country.  “We on the left have left a huge amount of power on the table,” said Goldstein, the founder and president of State Futures, a nonprofit launched last year that coordinates hundreds of Democratic lawmakers across the states. Few on the right have been as influential as the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. Founded in 1973, ALEC touts over 2,000 lawmakers as members — nearly a quarter of the country’s total state lawmakers. Despite fierce criticism, the organization has made an indelible mark on state policy by pushing hundreds of pieces of model legislation that have reshaped public education, state labor laws and taxation.  “One of the things the right has known for decades is that by moving state policy, you move national policy,” Goldstein said.  State Futures is among a growing number of progressive groups looking to combat the influence of groups such as ALEC. Experts say the left has years of work ahead if it wants to match the prowess of the organized right, which coalesced more readily around a few core issues. But the second Trump administration has rallied Democrats across the states seeking to oppose federal policies. This year, State Futures has worked with lawmakers who proposed nearly 250 bills in state capitols seeking to place limits on federal immigration efforts.  Attention on state policymaking has only heightened as Democrats see the potential to flip hundreds of state legislative seats this November and chip away at the GOP’s hold on American politics.  But Goldstein and other organizers say the left needs to make significant investments in state politics and policy that outlast any individual election cycle. In working to build Democratic power across the states, she’s studied the ALEC playbook. Aside from its relentless focus on state capitols over the years, she compliments the organization’s work of nurturing relationships that connect conservative lawmakers coast to coast. “These are real people who are real friends,” she said. “I admire ALEC very much. I admire a lot about the right.” For its part, ALEC says it welcomes more attention on state policy — even from those on the other side of the aisle. Jonathan Williams, the organization’s president and chief economist, says more people are concurring with ALEC’s belief that changing policy starts with the states. “There’s lots of groups out there that have tried to replicate ALEC from the left,” he said. “And there is some irony … that a lot of the left wanted to take ALEC out there for many years, and now they want to join in and try to replicate it.” Williams said new progressive groups have often sprouted up with massive war chests focused on specific areas of policy. In contrast, ALEC has built a strong base of support from conservative and free-market lawmakers and consistent funders including businesses, nonprofits and trade associations. “You just don’t see years and years of concentrated and growing support from a wide base of supporters,” he said of progressive groups. “Some of these groups come out of nowhere, it seems.” California Democratic Assemblymember Sade Elhawary said state lawmakers increasingly recognize the power of working across state lines. Sometimes, that’s done through pushing similar pieces of legislation. But other times it means just showing support — such as January’s gathering of Democratic lawmakers from more than a dozen states in Minnesota following a large deployment of federal immigration officers there.  “We are so much stronger together,” she said. “We shouldn’t be doing it on our own, because then we can get attacked on our own.” Elhawary is among the 112 lawmakers from 35 states working on federal response issues with State Futures. She said the national Democratic Party is losing the messaging war as it struggles to mount an opposition to President Donald Trump. But she said state lawmakers have the ability to articulate a clearer vision for voters by working on  issues that most matter to their constituents. “When we can organize beyond our state, I think we can organize folks on the ground,” she said. “This is not about just the legislators. This is about community.”  Connecting state lawmakers Liberal groups have sought to offset the growing influence of conservative movements for years. A group with the acronym ALICE, the American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange, in 2012 aimed to counter ALEC’s national influence. Liberal activists started the group in Wisconsin in direct response to the hotly debated policies of Republican Gov. Scott Walker, a former ALEC member. In 2011, Walker signed highly publicized legislation eliminating collective bargaining rights for most public employees, a policy championed by ALEC.  ALICE in 2014 merged with the Progressive States Network and the Center for State Innovation, creating what is now known as the State Innovation Exchange, or SiX. The group, which says it includes about 1,800 state lawmakers across 50 states, helps legislators to strategize on legislation that can reshape policy across state lines.  While the group does work to counter the organized right, Executive Director EJ Juárez said it employs different tactics than conservative groups like ALEC. He said lawmakers work with their communities to craft legislation that is responsive to current needs — not just a wish list from outside interests. “It’s not just, ‘Pass this bill because we wrote it and we think it’s good,’” he said. ALEC maintains that its model legislation is crafted and debated by member lawmakers.  Last month, SiX unveiled a national push for legislation to hold federal immigration officers accountable by allowing residents to sue agents for constitutional violations. Democratic lawmakers in Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Utah and Washington said they would work to rewrite state laws to make it easier to sue federal agents. They cited recent laws passed by Connecticut, Maryland and Rhode Island in announcing their broader effort. To date, the American Civil Liberties Union says no federal immigration agent has ever been convinced of criminal wrongdoing while on duty.  “This is about using all the tools that are granted to the states to create the accountability and democracy that we deserve,” Juárez said.  He said enthusiasm is rising among state Democrats looking to respond to Trump administration policies. But Juárez said the left still doesn’t have the sustained political infrastructure touted by the right at the state level. “When you look at the organization of infrastructure on the left, it is completely different,” he said. “It is much more responsive, and it is much more reactive. And what that does is it robs many great efforts of the ability to scale to true nationwide-changing power.” All eyes on elections While national Democratic groups have spent months organizing in opposition to federal immigration policies, many are now turning their sights to November’s midterm elections.  In July, Democratic lawmakers from 15 states met ahead of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ summit in Chicago to discuss not just politics, but how states should prepare for the potential of federal election interference. Those lawmakers said they were more determined than ever to exert their inherent state authority as they look to oppose Trump.  “None of us are in this alone,” said Pennsylvania Democratic state Rep. Leanne Krueger. “There are so many things coming at us that hearing best practices from other places is really helpful.” That meeting was hosted by the States Project, which was founded in 2017 to elect Democrats and build power at the state level. Most state lawmakers are employed part-time, making it difficult to research policy matters and connect with lawmakers across the country, said Mandara Meyers, the executive director of the organization.  But those needs have only accelerated during the second Trump term.  “We’re just in an unprecedented moment, right?” she said. “I think states are dealing with a different kind of challenge and a different kind of federal interference than they ever have before.” The States Project is one of the largest outside spenders on Democratic state legislative races. But that work is viewed as more crucial this cycle as Democrats have a path to flip several Republican-held legislative chambers and break GOP supermajorities in states across the country this November. But Meyers acknowledged that groups on the left are still building out the organizations needed to win and sustain power in states. And despite a renewed appreciation for the power held by states, many still view state legislative races as the “kids’ table” of American politics.  While Democrats are poised well in state races this fall, they still have a long way to go in building out the kind of institutional power the right has enjoyed in states, said Peverill Squire, a political science professor emeritus at the University of Missouri who has researched state legislatures for years.  Even in this favorable midterm cycle, it’s unlikely that Democrats can capture the majority of legislative seats in states. GOP lawmakers currently hold nearly 55% of the nation’s 7,386 state legislative seats and Republicans have control of all chambers in 28 legislatures.  With groups like ALEC, Squire said, Republicans and corporate interests have benefited from pushing a fairly straightforward agenda centered on deregulation and tax cuts. But he said the left has a wider range of policy interests that could make it difficult to push model legislation in states. “My guess is that it would take considerable time and effort for them to coalesce on a common platform in the same way Republicans managed to do over the last two decades,” he said.  Stateline reporter Kevin Hardy can be reached at khardy@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/6a91ed792c5335ae104c64dd Illegal immigrant tuition perks put 4 states in Trump DOJ crosshairs te 2026-08-28T20:20:09.577Z Illegal immigrant tuition perks put 4 states in Trump DOJ crosshairs The Trump administration filed lawsuits against four states Thursday over laws allowing illegal immigrants to receive financial benefits offered to state residents, including in-state tuition, state grants and state-funded student loans. The Justice Department argued that laws in Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona allowing illegal immigrants to receive benefits are in violation of a federal law that states an illegal immigrant is ineligible to receive higher education in-state benefits unless those same benefits are available to every U.S. student. "This is a simple matter of federal law: Colleges cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens," Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said in a statement.  "This Department of Justice will not tolerate American students being treated like second-class citizens in their own country." DOJ SUES NEW JERSEY OVER LAWS GIVING ILLEGAL ALIENS IN-STATE TUITION, SAYS CITIZENS TREATED AS 'SECOND-CLASS' The latest lawsuits bring the number of states facing legal challenges over laws granting illegal immigrant students the same benefits as lawful residents to 21. The Justice Department has won its cases in Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Illinois. "Our efforts will not cease until President Trump’s promise is fulfilled: Illegal aliens will not receive benefits denied to American citizens," Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. said in a statement. The difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition costs at public universities in the four states is significant. The complaint showed that for the 2026-2027 school year, Washington residents would pay $13,406, compared with $44,460 for out-of-state students at the University of Washington. This means illegal immigrants could receive a $31,054 discount if they earned a high school diploma or equivalent in the state, lived there for at least one year for reasons other than attending college and signed an affidavit saying they would seek permanent residency when eligible. TRUMP'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES NEW YORK, OTHER BLUE STATES OVER TUITION FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS The Justice Department's lawsuit against Arizona also showed a significant difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition costs, with the largest gap at Arizona State University totaling $24,448. The lawsuit alleged that in fall 2025, 432 illegal immigrants received in-state tuition benefits at Arizona State University amounting to $10.5 million in reduced tuition. The lawsuit also cites a report from the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting that estimates more than 3,600 illegal aliens per year could qualify for in-state tuition under Arizona’s law. A spokesperson for the Arizona Board of Regents, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said the school system follows state law. "We are reviewing the lawsuit and will work closely with Arizona leaders on the appropriate next steps," a spokesperson said. The benefits extend beyond tuition costs. COURT CHECKS PRITZKER AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SCORES ANOTHER IMMIGRATION WIN In Oregon, only in-state students enrolled at Oregon Health & Science University can receive a Rural Nurse Scholars Scholarship, which covers the full cost of tuition and a $1,500 travel stipend. The Justice Department alleges that illegal immigrants are eligible for the scholarship under state law. In Washington, not only do illegal immigrants qualify for in-state tuition and grants, but the state also created a financial aid program for illegal immigrants living in the state who are unable to obtain federal financial aid. The program is known as the Undocumented Student Support Loan Program, and it was created under a bill passed in 2020.  Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said in a statement to Fox News Digital that he stands by the state's laws.  "Washington state won’t be bullied into changing how we provide opportunities for young people in our state," Ferguson said. "We’ll see them in court, and we expect to win." A June 2024 report estimated that roughly 408,000 illegal immigrants were enrolled in higher education, with 29.1% arriving in the United States at age 17 or older. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Lawsuits are pending in Minnesota, Virginia, California, New Jersey, Kansas, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Colorado, New York, Connecticut and Vermont. Fox News Digital reached out to Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona's governors' offices for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ed782c5335ae104c64cb Demi Lovato celebrates 34th birthday in colorful string bikini during Bahamas getaway te 2026-08-28T20:20:08.630Z Demi Lovato celebrates 34th birthday in colorful string bikini during Bahamas getaway Demi Lovato is keeping her birthday celebration going in the Bahamas. The 34-year-old singer kept the birthday fun going Thursday, sharing new shots of herself riding a jet ski in a colorful bikini against the bright blue Bahamas water. Lovato opened the Instagram carousel with a close-up selfie taken while sitting on a red jet ski. JESSICA SIMPSON TURNS HEADS IN BIKINI PHOTOS FROM TRIP TO TURKS AND CAICOS She wore a red, black and yellow patterned string bikini with dark sunglasses and small hoop earrings. Her dark hair fell loosely around her shoulders as she leaned toward the camera for the selfie. "Hi," Lovato captioned the post. "Bye!" she added. A second photo showed the singer from farther away on the same jet ski, giving a wider look at the colorful swimsuit and surrounding water. Fans quickly flooded the comments with praise for Lovato's vacation photos. One fan referenced Lovato’s 2015 hit, writing, "She’s really cool for the summer." "You’re prettier than the prettiest water I’ve ever seen!" another added. One commenter also pointed out how the look coordinated with the jet ski, writing, "The suit matching the jet ski 🙂‍↕️" PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE The new photos came just days after Lovato shared more highlights from the same Bahamas getaway. "Someone’s gotta hold it down in the bahamas," she captioned the earlier post. BRITTANY ALDEAN WOWS IN VACATION STYLE DURING BAHAMAS GETAWAY WITH JASON ALDEAN In one of those photos, Lovato stood in shallow water wearing a bright red string bikini with both arms raised above her head. She smiled as the clear water surrounded her, while the tropical shoreline could be seen in the distance. SOFIA VERGARA SIZZLES IN RED BIKINI WHILE CELEBRATING 54TH BIRTHDAY ON YACHT IN ITALY Another image captured Lovato floating on her back in the water in the same red bikini. The singer stretched out across the surface with her arms relaxed at her sides as the blue water filled the frame. Lovato turned 34 on Aug. 20. The birthday getaway comes during a celebratory year for the singer, who recently marked her first wedding anniversary with husband Jordan "Jutes" Lutes. Lovato and Lutes married in California in May 2025 after first going public with their relationship in 2022. Earlier this month, Lovato opened up about what she has learned during her first year of marriage. "When you’re able to communicate with each other what you need, what you want, it creates a safe space for the two of you to share your feelings with one another," Lovato told People at the Aug. 10 premiere of "Camp Rock 3." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "My love for Jordan grows every single day, and I’ve never been so happy in my life. So I think communication is a big part of that," she added. The singer also recently returned to one of the roles that helped launch her career. Lovato reprised her role as Mitchie Torres in "Camp Rock 3" and served as an executive producer on the film alongside the Jonas Brothers. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS The original "Camp Rock" premiered in 2008, followed by "Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam" in 2010. Lovato's Disney roots stretch back to her childhood, when she appeared on "Barney & Friends." She later broke out as Mitchie Torres in "Camp Rock" before starring in her own Disney Channel series, "Sonny with a Chance." Those projects helped launch Lovato's acting and music career, making her return to "Camp Rock" nearly two decades later a full-circle moment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ed772c5335ae104c64c2 Judge throws out Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 9/11 confession in already long wait for trial te 2026-08-28T20:20:07.818Z Judge throws out Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 9/11 confession in already long wait for trial A military judge on Friday threw out part of a confession made by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. In his ruling, military judge Lt. Col. Michael Schrama wrote that statements made by Mohammed to investigators in 2007 were not given voluntarily, the New York Post reported.  The ruling could complicate what has been a decades-long wait for the suspected plotter to stand trial. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ed772c5335ae104c64b9 NASCAR WAG holds on for dear life with her watermelon farmer boyfriend, Kirk's dog is back & Al vs Trump! te 2026-08-28T20:20:07.024Z NASCAR WAG holds on for dear life with her watermelon farmer boyfriend, Kirk's dog is back & Al vs Trump! '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. Final Friday of August. Can you believe it? We had 22 FCS games last night, and a couple were wild. What a return for football! We have Bill Belichick in Dublin tomorrow. We have NASCAR in Daytona tomorrow. We have a full weekend of Sox-Yanks in the Bronx. And yes, the Fever play tonight, which means we are obligated to cover it. But after tonight? We officially start spending our weekends watching football. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Live it up, WNBA! Your time is short. Let's roll. Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — the one where NASCAR WAG Jordyn Mallory goes for a test ride and holds on for dear life in a Daytona tuneup. What else? I've got a couple insane moments from the world of FCS last night, Al Michaels still pumping his fastball and Kirk's dog, once again, being shoved down our throats. Did y'all miss Kirk's dog?! Well, he's back! This guy is amazing. It HAS to be a bit at this point, right? OK, let's get this show on the road. I've gotta head on up to Daytona for a big weekend of automobile racing, and I'd prefer to not hit the terrible stretch of traffic in Melbourne and Cocoa Beach. Grab you a $11 Busch Light from the Daytona International Speedway infield — Lord knows I will — and settle in for a Friday 'Cap! I took that picture a few years ago — the first Daytona 500 after Trump got re-elected — and all folks could talk about was Anheuser-Busch changing it from "Domestic" to "American" beer. That was a big story that week in the infield. They never came out and admitted it, but it was very clearly because Trump was back in office and everyone was trying to cover their tails from the wokeness of the last four years. Hilarious. Anyway, this will be my 11th summer race at Daytona, dating back to my years at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Eleven! Time flies. My first ever race I covered was way back in 2016 — a month after I got married. Fun fact from that race: I didn't know what to do or where to go. Had no idea. More importantly, I had no idea where I was ALLOWED to go. So, naturally, I walked straight into a TV interview after a big wreck in an area that was very clearly restricted to just drivers. If you scroll to the 2:00:25 mark, you'll see young, dumb, ignorant Zach on his phone as Jimmie and Jamie argue about the wreck: I nearly got kicked out of the track once the PR folks figured it out. What a rush! And now, here we are, 11 years later and ready for another race weekend. Can't wait. On that note, here's Ross Chastain's girlfriend, Jordyn Mallory, going for a ride to help get us ready for the green flag: Chastain, for those who don't know, is a seventh-generation watermelon farmer from down here in Alva, Florida. His family owns Chastain Farms. True story. He's also a good little driver, and probably ain't the worst bet at +3500. You never know with Daytona. This place is quite literally the Wild Wild West. Carson Hocevar at +1600, Denny Hamlin at +2000 and Austin Dillon at +2800 probably aren't bad sprinkles, either. You're welcome! (Or not) OK, let's keep this class moving and head on up to Cleveland, where Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit got in a little preseason work last night and managed to take a dig at Donald J. Trump in the process: "That is Lake Erie. We think it is still called Lake Erie... We're not quite sure at this point. But we'll be by Lake something like Ontario or whatever it's going to be called by the time we get to Buffalo. Anyway, you know what I'm talking about... Read the news." Al! Some folks are pissed at Michaels today for mocking Trump's shiny new acquisition (Lake America!), while others loved it. LONGTIME REPUBLICAN AL MICHAELS TOOK A JAB AT TRUMP AND NFL FANS WENT SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL Shockingly, the internet was divided on this one. That almost never happens! Al, by the way, has a long history of donating to the GOP. Not saying he's a Trump guy, but I'm certain he's not a Kamala guy. OK, let's rapid-fire this Friday class into a big weekend. First up? You know what the internet is NOT divided over today? Herbstreit's dog: ENOUGH! I love Kirk Herbstreit. He's the best analyst in the game right now, in my opinion. Love him on GameDay. Love him on Thursday nights. Love him on Saturday nights. But I'm so out on the dog shtick. I've been quietly out on it for years now, but, clearly, I don't need to be quiet anymore. Everyone is sick and tired of the dog. Peter is EVERYWHERE. He's on the plane. On the field. In the booth. He's on the GameDay set every Saturday. It's too much. Please, for the love of God, give Peter a rest this year. We're begging you. Next? For those who didn't feel like subscribing to ESPN+ last night (all of you), we had an incredible first night of FCS football: Amazing. What a start to the season! The best. My question? What in the world is the point of ESPNU? There were 22 (!!!) FCS games last night, and the big-wigs in Bristol couldn't put one on ESPNU? What the heck is the point of that channel?! I was stunned. Anyone else think it was odd? OK, that's it for today — and this week. We haven't done enough baseball today, so here's umpire Laz Diaz accidentally trolling 70,000 fans in Atlanta last night. See you Monday. Was Al out of line? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ed752c5335ae104c64b0 Matthew Berry has had talks with ESPN about a return, following Pat McAfee model te 2026-08-28T20:20:05.934Z Matthew Berry has had talks with ESPN about a return, following Pat McAfee model Matthew Berry left ESPN in 2022, in part, because the company was not open to employees operating their own media companies. Berry then joined NBC, where he appeared on "Football Night in America" while building his own fantasy football company on the outside. Berry has since departed NBC to focus on Fantasy Life, his independently owned media company on pace to generate eight figures in revenue this year. ESPN has since changed its philosophy. Management is now open to partnering with talent who retain ownership of their content. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Berry spoke to OutKick this week on video about his career, business, and future. During the discussion, we asked whether he had talked to ESPN about a potential return in recent months. "Yes," Berry responded without hesitation. "I have [talked to ESPN]," he continued. "When you leave and go out on your own, you look at [Pat McAfee] as the great model. ESPN specifically has done it with some people [in that the talent either license their show to ESPN or can retain ownership of a media brand outside of the network]." In addition to McAfee, Berry cited other unique agreements ESPN has made recently. MATTHEW BERRY DISCUSSES WITH OUTKICK WHETHER HE'D HIRE DIANNA RUSSINI FOR HIS BUDDING FANTASY FOOTBALL EMPIRE "Rich Eisen brought his show over [to ESPN] on a licensing agreement. They have other talent where they do not necessarily license the show, but they allow them to have outside businesses. You think about Bussin’ With The Boys or Josh Pate." As Pate exclusively told OutKick, he and Bussin’ With The Boys co-hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan will host a new college football show on ESPN each Friday this season. Their podcast will remain separate. "I’ll be honest," Berry added. "I have a very good relationship with Jimmy Pitaro and Burke Magnus. I have remained friendly with them over the years since I left." Berry cautioned that, while the talks have been positive, "no deal is imminent" with ESPN. Frankly, it would have been surprising if Berry and ESPN had not discussed a partnership. Berry’s digital content ranks among the most popular in sports media. During football season, his podcast downloads are on par with Barstool’s "Pardon My Take" and "The Bill Simmons Podcast." He is an ideal fit for ESPN’s current strategy of teaming with the top digital creators in sports, with McAfee as the most notable example. For the same reasons, we suspect Berry is also having conversations with Amazon, Netflix, Paramount, and various gambling providers about amplifying Fantasy Life. Later in the interview, Berry said he will not take home as much money this year as he did in salary at ESPN. However, he expects to exceed his television salary by the third year. Watch Berry’s full interview with OutKick on YouTube here or below: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91eb1e2c5335ae104c645d Lions' Dan Campbell delivers awesome message about high school football amid college football chaos te 2026-08-28T20:10:06.670Z Lions' Dan Campbell delivers awesome message about high school football amid college football chaos As college football has descended into chaos amid NIL and players returning from the NFL to play collegiately again, high school football is the last amateur level that is truly pure. With high school football season getting underway, Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell detailed what makes it so special in a message to young kids. "You guys grew up together, and I know this: we've got a couple of coaches that have seniors. They have seniors that are opening up tonight. And man, you never forget your senior year for sure. You don't forget all of them, but man, wherever you're at, make the most of it because you're not guaranteed to be able to get a chance to play and be with those guys that you grew up with. Enjoy the game at that level," Campbell told reporters on Thursday. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE The 50-year-old head coach said high school football is the last level that’s truly no-nonsense. He recalled the smell of freshly cut grass and playing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. "The wins and the sacrifice and the hard work and the blood and the sweat and the tears. It's a special time. Enjoy it," Campbell said. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Campbell called on the young players on high school football rosters to give it their all for the seniors on the team. "If you're a young guy, man, I'm a freshman. I'm a sophomore. I mean, you owe it to the seniors because this may be the last time – you get one more shot – They don't," Campbell said. "So give them everything you got and make it a special year for them because next year is your year. and you're going to want those young guys to help you. So, man, enjoy it. It doesn't last, and you'll remember it the rest of your life." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91eb1d2c5335ae104c6454 Viral video of homeless encampment around city of Berkeley sparks safety concerns from parent te 2026-08-28T20:10:05.550Z Viral video of homeless encampment around city of Berkeley sparks safety concerns from parent A homeless encampment located near University of California (UC), Berkeley student housing in Berkeley, California, went viral on X after a parent posted a video of the scene while moving her child into an apartment. Lyanne Melendez, a longtime reporter for San Francisco's ABC7 News, shared the video after dropping off her son at University Village—a university-owned housing complex located in neighboring Albany. "I just dropped my son off at @UCBerkeley housing and as we were approaching we saw this behind his apartments," Melendez wrote on X, calling out the city of Berkeley, the city of Albany, and Berkeley administration. UCLA SORORITIES HIRE PRIVATE SECURITY AMID TERRIFYING HARASSMENT BY HOMELESS MEN: REPORT While the housing complex sits within Albany city limits, the proximity to campus facilities has drawn reactions from students who navigate surrounding encampments daily. "The [encampment] not on University property... and we have no jurisdiction or ability to address this issue. Please contact the City of Berkeley," a UC Berkeley spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "Turns out it's not really right next to the main UC Berkeley campus, so that's an important thing to note, but there are still issues," John Paul Leon, a UC Berkeley student, told Fox News Digital. Leon, a senior double-majoring in economics and philosophy with a minor in public policy, told Fox News Digital that seeing homeless individuals is a daily reality for students, even if it startles visiting families. "One of the normal things I go through every day is walking past three homeless people on my way to class," Leon said. "It's just a usual occurrence. It's something I've gotten used to, but I'm sure it's something that a lot of parents would not feel right about their children being subject to." FURIOUS RESIDENTS CONFRONT HOMELESS HOUSING LEADERS AS POPULAR BEACH COMMUNITY HITS BREAKING POINT Leon added that he believes university administrators are motivated to address the issue in ways that clear encampments from campus property and surrounding streets while directing individuals toward resources. Nearby business owners have also voiced frustration over conditions along the corridor. Emily Winston, founder and CEO of Berkeley-based Boichik Bagels, told Fox News Digital that the conditions around the corner from her headquarters resemble a "slum out of a third-world country." "There's been feces found all over on various properties. It's been found on our property. I've had to clean it up personally before. Needles, very scary threats to staff that work in the different businesses here," Winston said. She added that the encampment sometimes takes up the "entirety of the sidewalk." Winston, who opened up the Sixth Street location in 2023, said she’s seen onsite sales drop as families avoid the area. "We have this awesome patio. We say, 'Come get a bagel and watch our robots make bagels.’ It's a fun family sort of event," Winston said. "And strangely enough, people don't want to bring their kids around the corner from this because it's pretty scary." SOCIALIST MAYORAL CANDIDATE IGNITES ONLINE MOCKERY FOR TOUTING BASIC CITY SERVICE She also said employees have been forced to navigate dangerous or unsettling encounters.  "My staff had to beg someone to get out of our dumpster. They had actually gone in our dumpster and closed the lid on top of them," Winston recounted to Fox News Digital.  "No one on my staff should be picking up human excrement from the sidewalk in front of our property or used needles. This is not what I built this business here to do," she later added. Winston called the corridor a "dystopian scene" and said she regretted choosing the location. "Had I known what was [going to] happen... I probably would not have signed this lease, and I would have built this elsewhere," Winston said.  She urged city leaders to clear the encampment permanently.  "We're all paying rent, we're paying very significant fees and trying hard to make successful, thriving businesses here," she said. "And this is just, it’s rough, and it’s really exhausting, and it’s just gone on way too long." Winston and other local businesses joined a lawsuit against the city in 2024 over corridor conditions. She said city officials have told her "their hands are tied" because of lawsuits challenging encampment sweeps, but compared the city's actions to housekeeping that only temporarily tidies up.  "I know it's frustrating for them," she added. Barry Braden, co-founder and CEO of Fieldwork Brewing Co. on Sixth Street, told Fox News Digital that the encampment has created ongoing challenges for businesses. "Fieldwork Brewing is deeply concerned about the ongoing conditions surrounding the encampment on Harrison Street and the impact they are having on our employees, our customers, neighboring businesses, and the broader community," Braden said. "We recognize that homelessness is a complex issue requiring compassion and meaningful solutions, but the current situation has created persistent public safety, sanitation, and access concerns that cannot be ignored," he added. Braden said the brewery has been in contact with Berkeley officials and is asking city leaders to take action.  "We have been in communication with the City of Berkeley and are asking City leaders to take prompt, effective action that both connects individuals in the encampment with appropriate services and restores a safe, clean, and accessible environment for everyone who lives, works, and visits the area," he told Fox News Digital. KAREN BASS GRILLED OVER BROKEN HOMELESSNESS PROMISE, BLAMES BUREAUCRACY FOR SLOWED PROGRESS In response to inquiries regarding local encampments, a spokesperson for the city of Berkeley highlighted ongoing municipal and legal efforts to address public health and safety concerns. "The City has methodically laid out its work in the area and our efforts to comply with court orders in numerous filings with the court," the spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "We were recently in front of the Judge on August 13 and numerous declarations were filed in advance of that hearing. These declarations include extensive documentation of conditions on the street. If you review those records, you will gain insight into all that we are doing to address the encampments and address the public health and safety concerns," the spokesperson added. Melendez did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91e8ce2c5335ae104c642a Use of masked agents on Tohono O’odham land sparks Native outrage at Cherokee DHS chief Markwayne Mullin  te 2026-08-28T20:00:14.681Z Use of masked agents on Tohono O’odham land sparks Native outrage at Cherokee DHS chief Markwayne Mullin  WASHINGTON – The recent incursion by masked federal agents on Tohono O’odham land didn’t just anger that tribe, which has been trying to block border wall construction along the remote stretch it controls in Arizona. It also infuriated Native Americans who had higher hopes for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the former Oklahoma senator who is only the second Indigenous cabinet member ever. “This is especially disappointing when the DHS is headed by … a member of the Cherokee Nation,” said Angelique EagleWoman, director of the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minnesota.  Agents from Customs and Border Protection and the Bureau of Indian Affairs entered the Tohono O’odham Nation at 4 a.m. on Tuesday to prevent tribal authorities from blocking contractors, according to a statement issued that day by the Nation. Jason Nichols, like Mullin a member of the Cherokee Nation, called the incursion by masked agents a “step backward” in federal-tribal relations – and surprising, given Mullin’s “knowledge on the importance of tribal sovereignty.” Tohono O’odham sue DHS over border wall that would divide tribal land along 62-mile frontier with Mexico The former mayor of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was Mullin’s Democratic opponent in 2018 when he won a U.S. House seat. He was dubious about Mullin’s preparation for the homeland security post, he said, but had been relatively impressed with his performance on border policy until this incident. “What I’m hoping for is that they take a deep breath, you know, take one step back,” Nichols said, referring to Mullin’s department. He called for “substantive consultation with the tribe, because I do think the tribes have proven to be willing and even eager partners.” Indeed, the Tohono O’odham have long cooperated with the federal government on border security, though the Nation has also strongly opposed wall construction. One all-Native American unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement called the Shadow Wolves patrols the Sonoran desert from its base on the Nation. The Tohono O’odham has members and communities on both sides. Its land spans 62 miles of the border west of Nogales. In April, a DHS contractor partly destroyed a sacred archaeological site. The Tohono O’odham filed a lawsuit in June to block further construction and in early August it posted “no trespassing” signs. But on Aug. 14, a federal judge in Washington rejected its request for a temporary pause, despite pleas that construction threatens many other sacred sites.  DHS defended the ongoing construction, though officials deflected questions about the use of force to keep tribal authorities at bay. “The project will close one of the most dangerous smuggling and trafficking corridors on the Southwest border: remote desert that has facilitated decades of drug loads, migrant deaths, and cartel activity,” CBP commissioner Rodney Scott said in a statement his office provided to Cronkite News. “Congress funded this work, a Federal court has affirmed it, and CBP is carrying it out under the legal authorities that apply.” According to the Tohono O’odham Nation, contractors engaged in “pre-construction activities” with drilling equipment at three locations. CBP and BIA agents and a SWAT team used a vehicle blockade to prevent their removal by tribal police, who could only monitor the activity from a distance, according to the tribe. EagleWoman said “the trespassing and covert-style operations” likely violated internal DHS protocols. Meghan Bishop, director of policy of the National Congress of American Indians, said federal authorities had plenty of better options. “I don’t think any tribal nation wants to ban people from their lands, but as sovereigns they have the ability and capability to do that,” she said, “The federal government should respect that.” “From everything that I have seen and understand, the Department of Homeland Security has not engaged in a collaborative, consultative, good fair manner with the nation,” Bishop said.  Another Oklahoman, Joe Deere, a tribal councilor of the Cherokee Nation, also criticized DHS for ignoring the tribe’s objections.  “They have violated treaties before, and they are overstepping the tribal consultation,” Deere said. “Tribal sovereignty should come first, no matter what protection of the people.” Aaron Wright, a preservation anthropologist with Archaeology Southwest who advises tribes, noted that Mullin’s experience in Oklahoma is very different from that of someone who grew up on a Nation that spans an international border.  “Obviously, the Cherokee Nation does not share a border with Mexico, and I suspect that there aren’t many, if any, enrolled Cherokee members who live in Mexico and cross that border to visit family and relatives on a semi-regular basis,” he said.  Delvina Charley, an Indigenous activist in Arizona and member of the Navajo Nation, called Mullin a “sellout” who cannot be trusted by fellow Native Americans. “If this was someone else’s backyard – in Paradise Valley, at the White House – this would be handled differently,” she said. The post Use of masked agents on Tohono O’odham land sparks Native outrage at Cherokee DHS chief Markwayne Mullin  appeared first on Cronkite News. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91e66f2c5335ae104c63ab Reagan-era official warns ‘red-green alliance’ has shared goal of ‘destroying’ America te 2026-08-28T19:50:07.217Z Reagan-era official warns ‘red-green alliance’ has shared goal of ‘destroying’ America A former Reagan administration national security official is sounding the alarm over what he calls a growing "red-green alliance" between radical Islamists and far-left socialists, warning the unlikely ideological partners are joining forces around a shared anti-American agenda. Frank Gaffney sat down with Fox News Digital to discuss the growing influence of the Democratic Socialists of America and what he believes are the true intentions and potential threats to U.S. national security. "One can argue that the Sharia supremacists are pursuing communism with a God, or at least a patina, a veneer of religiosity to it," Gaffney explained. "Fundamentally, they're at the hip in totalitarianism. Yes, with different outcomes in mind, but still perfectly willing to make common cause for the immediate shared objective of destroying the United States, which stands in the way of either of their ambitions." DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS SEIZE THE MOMENT WITH EXTREME, ANTI-AMERICAN VIEWS THAT BADLY TARNISH THE PARTY "So that's where we find ourselves at the moment — with a red-green axis that seeks the destruction of our country and is making that a goal being pursued now in the Democratic Party." Gaffney served as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy under former President Ronald Reagan and graduated from Georgetown University with a Master of Arts in international studies from Johns Hopkins University. He founded the Center for Security Policy think tank in Washington, D.C., in 1988 and currently serves as the president of the Institute for the American Future. The "red-green alliance" describes the political cooperation between far-left movements, represented by the color red, and Islamist movements, represented by green. ISRAEL, JEWS TARGETED WORLDWIDE AS WELL-FUNDED LEFTIST, ISLAMIST GROUPS JOIN FOR ‘NAKBA 78’ PROTESTS The Reagan-era official argued that while the far left and Islamists have different ultimate goals, they share a common adversary in the American constitutional system, which he said stands in the way of both movements’ ambitions. These concepts were recently debated during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing titled "Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America" that took place earlier this month. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questioned Kyle Shideler, director and senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, about whether the Muslim Brotherhood partners with groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America and characterized that relationship as the "Red-Green Alliance." COUNTERTERRORISM EXPERT WARNS ABDUL EL-SAYED SENATE BID RAISES HOMELAND SECURITY CONCERNS Shideler agreed with Cruz's characterization and said he has seen evidence that the "red-green alliance" shares a "revolutionary objective" to squash Americanism, including the Constitution. "This threat cannot be ignored because it is politically inconvenient," Cruz posted to X. "A counterterrorism expert testified that the Muslim Brotherhood and the DSA are united by a shared hatred of America — and a revolutionary objective to overthrow the U.S. Constitution." AGITATORS UNITED BY CHINESE MONEY, HATE FOR AMERICA TARGET DATA CENTERS, EXPERTS WARN Gaffney agreed with the sentiment during his interview with Fox News Digital, taking it one step further to say the two movements are "perfectly willing to make common cause" around what he described as an "immediate shared objective of destroying the United States." TRUMP ADMIN ACCUSES HAMAS OF BACKING GAZA FLOTILLA, SANCTIONS ACTIVIST AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD NETWORKS "What they have in common is much more important than their differences," Gaffney explained. The "red-green alliance" has also been scrutinized by some Muslim critics of radical Islamism. In May, Fox News Digital spoke with Dalia Ziada, a Muslim scholar who was forced to flee Egypt after criticizing Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. She said that the nexus of radical Islamism with the radical left in the "red-green alliance" threatened the U.S., American politics and Western society. "For five or seven years now, we have been seeing some kind of a ‘sinful marriage’ between the radical left and radical Islamism, the groups that hate Western liberal democracies and desire to destroy them," she told Fox News Digital. A Fox News Digital investigation found roughly 425 organizations spanning communist groups, Muslim advocacy organizations and anti-Israel activist coalitions are part of a coordinated transnational protest network that collectively brings in about $1 billion in annual revenue. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91e66e2c5335ae104c63a2 Former Disney Channel star alleges she was sexually abused at 14 after being told to ‘bond’ with employee te 2026-08-28T19:50:06.373Z Former Disney Channel star alleges she was sexually abused at 14 after being told to ‘bond’ with employee A former Disney Channel star made disturbing allegations about her time on set in a new lawsuit. Raquel Lee Bolleau claimed that an adult male employee sexually abused her when she was just 14 – after Disney personnel allegedly encouraged her to "bond" with him. The alleged abuse began during production of the 2001 Disney Channel movie "The Poof Point," after personnel directed her to spend time with the adult employee. According to the complaint obtained by Fox News Digital, the man supplied the then-14-year-old with alcohol and repeatedly sexually assaulted her during filming. After the alleged sexual assault, Bolleau recalled the employee telling her: "You're old enough. You can handle it." FORMER DISNEY STAR MAITLAND WARD SAYS YOUNG ACTORS WERE TREATED LIKE A 'PRODUCT' IN HOLLYWOOD FACTORY Bolleau claimed she returned to set smelling of alcohol, vomiting and visibly changed after the alleged assault, but Disney personnel failed to investigate how a 14-year-old got alcohol or seek medical care for her. Instead, the complaint claimed, an executive branded her "out of control," said the movie had gone "haywire" and told her representatives Disney was "extremely upset." On another occasion, an on-set Disney executive producer allegedly repeatedly told Bolleau she "need[ed] Jesus" and told her mother, "your daughter has a demon inside her," according to the complaint. Bolleau alleged Disney repeatedly separated her from her guardian despite California protections requiring a guardian of a performer under 16 to remain within "sight or sound" of the child. According to the complaint, her guardian could not watch Bolleau while she filmed or accompany her to wardrobe and makeup, and production personnel once told the guardian, "we do not even need you on set." Bolleau claimed those practices left her without adequate adult supervision and gave her alleged abuser unrestricted access to her. 'LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE' STAR SAYS CHILD ACTORS GET 'DROPPED' AFTER HOLLYWOOD FAME FADES Bolleau alleged the employee also sexually harassed and touched her in front of others on set. She claimed he regularly gave her unsolicited hugs, rubbed his genitals against her and whispered comments including "last night was so good" while cast members were still wearing microphones. Bolleau alleged sound technicians could hear many of the comments, but no one intervened or asked what the adult employee was saying to her. "Instead of protecting and supporting its minor employee who was being repeatedly raped, sexually assaulted, sexually abused, and harassed, Disney covered up Mr. Doe’s abuse, and blamed Ms. Bolleau for the impact of Mr. Doe’s horrific misconduct," Bolleau's lawyers wrote. "Disney’s egregious role in Mr. Doe’s abuse of Ms. Bolleau is part of a broader, institutional, and systemic pattern of institutional and individual failures at Disney that extends far beyond 'The Poof Point.'" Bolleau claimed the alleged abuse continued after filming wrapped. According to the complaint, Disney booked Bolleau in first class while seating her guardian in economy on the flight back to California. Bolleau alleged the employee told her to sit next to him and bring a blanket to cover them before sexually assaulting her during the flight and continuing until their row began to deboard at Los Angeles International Airport. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Bolleau sued The Walt Disney Company, specifically alleging Disney failed to protect her from sexual abuse when she was a 14-year-old actress. She claimed the company ignored warning signs, violated child-actor protections and failed to properly supervise her alleged abuser. She is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, along with attorneys’ fees, costs and interest. "Over the last decade, countless child actors have come forward to bravely share their experiences of abuse by adults in entertainment," Bolleau's lawyers, Doug Wigdor and Jane Kim, told Fox News Digital in a statement. "As former government prosecutors, our message to the entertainment industry is simple: This conduct is inexcusable, and those involved – directly or indirectly – must be held accountable." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Bolleau began acting as a child, with an early television appearance on "Malcolm & Eddie" before getting her breakout opportunity on Nickelodeon’s "The Amanda Show." She appeared as a regular performer during the sketch comedy series’ first season alongside Amanda Bynes. She subsequently moved into Disney projects, playing Marie, the sister of Tahj Mowry’s Eddie, in "The Poof Point." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE She went on to voice Nubia Gross, one of the intimidating Gross Sisters, on "The Proud Family" from 2001 to 2005. Bolleau claimed Disney threatened and did cancel her role in a production following the alleged sexual assault in 2001 in the lawsuit. Disney did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91e66b2c5335ae104c6395 Trump Administration Appeals Ruling Halting Mail-In Voting Rules te 2026-08-28T19:50:03.723Z Trump Administration Appeals Ruling Halting Mail-In Voting Rules The Postal Service appealed an emergency decision from Thursday that blocked it from changing its procedures for mail-in voting ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91e4162c5335ae104c632b These solar string lights make your patio more inviting for fall — and they're priced at an all-time low te 2026-08-28T19:40:06.689Z These solar string lights make your patio more inviting for fall — and they're priced at an all-time low Patio season is far from over, so give your yard a facelift with these solar string lights while they’re at their lowest price to-date. They give you 52 feet of warm, inviting light, and the solar-powered panel keeps them going without a cord or the need for batteries. Original price: $39.99 The 55% discount makes these solar string lights a particularly good buy right now. An additional coupon also gives 20% off at checkout, dropping the price to $15. Beyond that, the shatterproof plastic bulbs hold up in any season, making them ideal for patio spaces, decks or camping.  READ MORE: 17 backyard additions under $200 that make your outdoor space feel brand new At 52 feet, these lights are long enough for most spaces, but they also come in lengths up to 202 feet. On a full charge, the battery lasts for 26 hours. The solar panel keeps charging, even on cloudier days, so all you have to do is flip a switch and the lights automatically turn on each night. A remote lets you control the lights from anywhere, and create a customized atmosphere. Four adjustable brightness modes dim or brighten the bulbs, giving you the perfect mood lighting for dinners and gatherings. You can also set the lights to stay on steadily, twinkle or flash. Plus, if you don’t want the lights on all night, use the remote to set a six to eight-hour timer.  With more than 2,000 reviews, these string lights earn 4.4 stars out of 5 on Amazon. They’re highly reviewed for quality and ease of use.  READ MORE: 25 useful Amazon finds under $25 that make everyday life easier "I have bought these twice now," one reviewer said. "I loved them so much on my porch I decided to invest in a set for the backyard…We have had cloudy days this last week and that hasn't stopped these at all…They seem to have no issue getting enough power and staying on for a long time." "They nailed it with these string lights," another reviewer wrote. "The bulbs are plastic, but look real. The filament-style bulb looks very nice, gives off a nice bright, natural-toned color light. The solar panel works really well and it's super sleek and small. One day of charging, and they stayed lit until I went to sleep." The included remote gets especially high praise with reviewers, with one saying, "The remote is actually really useful and works from a surprisingly good distance. I love the timer settings and the different flashing/fade options." If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can get these lights 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/6a91e4132c5335ae104c630d An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI te 2026-08-28T19:40:03.893Z An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91e1c42c5335ae104c62f0 Weekend Freeway Travel Advisory – Aug. 28-31 te 2026-08-28T19:30:12.157Z Weekend Freeway Travel Advisory – Aug. 28-31 The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) announced that closures or lane restrictions are scheduled along several Phoenix-area freeways this weekend, Aug. 28-31. Drivers should allow extra travel time and use detour routes as needed for these improvement project restrictions: Westbound Loop 101 (Agua Fria Freeway) closed between 51st and 75th avenues in the Northwest Valley from 10 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday (Aug. 31) for widening project. Both Interstate 17 ramps to westbound Loop 101 closed. Westbound Loop 101 on-ramps at 27th and 35th avenues closed. Detours: Consider exiting ahead of the closure and using westbound Bell Road or Union Hills Drive to travel beyond the closure. Note: The eastbound Loop 101 ramps to north- and southbound I-17 will be closed overnight from 9 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday (Aug. 31). Consider exiting ahead of the ramp closures and using alternate routes to reach I-17. Southbound State Route 51 narrowed to two lanes between Northern Avenue and Bethany Home from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday (Aug. 31) for pavement improvement project. Southbound SR 51 on-ramps at Northern Avenue, Glendale Avenue and Bethany Home Road closed. Allow extra travel time. Detours: Consider using southbound Interstate 17 as an alternate freeway route to downtown Phoenix. Northbound State Route 51 closed between Indian School Road and Colter Street (north of Camelback Road) from 9 p.m. Saturday to noon Sunday (Aug. 30) for pavement improvement project. Northbound SR 51 on-ramps at McDowell and Thomas roads closed. Detours: Consider exiting ahead of the closure and using northbound 16th or 24th streets to travel beyond the closure. Note: When this closure ends Sunday, northbound SR 51 will be narrowed to the two right lanes around-the-clock near Camelback Road for ongoing pavement improvement work. Consider using northbound I-17. Click on the Weekend Travel Advisory map graphic or visit the ADOT website for a complete listing of restrictions for this weekend. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91e1bd2c5335ae104c62c3 Antifa-linked sites go dark after State Department terror designation of tech collective te 2026-08-28T19:30:05.375Z Antifa-linked sites go dark after State Department terror designation of tech collective Websites tied to Portland’s Rose City Antifa and the militant abortion-rights group Jane’s Revenge began going dark in the days after the State Department designated their Italy-based technology provider a global terrorist entity. Fox News Digital first reported this week that the State Department had designated Autistici/Inventati, known as the A/I Collective, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist over its alleged support for violent far-left networks. "Today’s news demonstrates the extent to which the A/I Collective was the digital infrastructure of the global Antifa terror network," a State Department official told Fox News Digital. RUBIO PUTS ENTIRE WORLD ON NOTICE AGAINST RISE OF 'POISONOUS' FAR-LEFT TERROR 'MASKED AS EQUALITY' "Just one day after the extremist collective was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, an untold number of servers and websites — used by far-left extremists to plot violent attacks, target federal agents, and conceal their crimes from law enforcement — have been shut down," the official said. Among them was Rose City Counter-Info, a Portland-based website that the State Department says Rose City Antifa used to publish personal information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and organize violent activity against federal agents. 15 ANTIFA RADICALS INDICTED, 12 ARRESTED IN SWEEPING FEDERAL PROBE INTO MINNEAPOLIS ANTI-ICE OPERATIONS The State Department said the group used the site to distribute an online flyer urging supporters to use laser pointers against Customs and Border Protection helicopters. Federal records show one man later pleaded guilty to aiming a laser at a CBP helicopter, forcing the aircraft to abort a planned landing. Jane’s Revenge also used A/I services to publish communiqués claiming responsibility for attacks on pregnancy centers and to incite copycat violence, according to the State Department. The group claimed responsibility for the May 2022 firebombing of a crisis pregnancy center in Madison, Wisconsin. The NoBlogs platform, which is hosted by A/I and contains thousands of sites, was intermittently unavailable Friday. Some individual pages remained accessible while others returned errors or timed out. The State Department has not said whether any U.S. agency directly disabled A/I infrastructure or whether the outages resulted from decisions by the collective, its vendors or its users after the designation. FBI SAYS NEW MISSION CENTER HAS IDENTIFIED 'NEFARIOUS' PROTEST FUNDING AND SUBJECTS The sanctions action blocks Americans and U.S. financial institutions from doing business with A/I and freezes any assets it holds under U.S. jurisdiction. The State Department says A/I provided encrypted chat and email services, web hosting, secure video tools and anonymity services to violent left-wing groups in the United States and Europe. The department also said a media organization using A/I services disseminated material from Hamas, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and other designated terrorist groups. A/I denied the allegations in a statement posted on a NoBlogs-hosted page. The collective described itself as "a small, volunteer-run, technology collective from Italy" that provides tools for "digital self-defense." SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER "We will not back down," the group said. "Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism." "The terror designation of the A/I Collective dealt a devastating blow to the transnational far-left networks that have plagued America and our allies for years," the State Department official said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91df662c5335ae104c6264 Trump calls ISS crew from Houston to praise space pioneers and offer 'Oval Office time' te 2026-08-28T19:20:06.284Z Trump calls ISS crew from Houston to praise space pioneers and offer 'Oval Office time' President Donald Trump on Friday spoke with American astronauts aboard the International Space Station from Houston, where he honored the Artemis II crew moments earlier. Trump joked at the beginning of the phone call that many Americans would love to travel to space. "I wouldn't do it," he said from NASA's Johnson Space Center. "I hate to admit it. I would not want to do it. But some people love it more than anything." TRUMP TO TRANSFORM SPACEFLIGHT FROM SPECTACLE TO STATUS QUO TARGETING 3 LAUNCHES PER DAY The astronauts said they were "thrilled" to speak with Trump and that they were "in the middle of several spacewalks," with another one planned for next week. Trump called the crew a group of "pioneers" for their efforts in space exploration. He welcomed other officials to speak to the ISS crew and offered to welcome the astronauts to the White House when they return. 'WOKE' MILITARY ACADEMIES TARGETED IN NEW BLUEPRINT FOR SWEEPING WARFIGHTING OVERHAUL "We're going to see you when you get back," he said. "In fact, if you want Oval Office time, right?" A short time earlier, Trump honored the crew of the Artemis II with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and signed an executive order establishing the U.S. Space Force Academy. "It will be at that same level when you serve West Point, Air Force, Coast Guard, Navy, Annapolis," Trump said, comparing it to the other U.S. military academies. "It's going to be at that level." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91df642c5335ae104c6258 Trump Administration Looks to Give a Swath of Yosemite Park to Developer te 2026-08-28T19:20:04.189Z Trump Administration Looks to Give a Swath of Yosemite Park to Developer The proposed land swap would allow easy access to the crown jewel of the national park system. Democrats and former Park Service officials are incensed. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91dd0f2c5335ae104c6207 Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE, held at major deportation hub in Louisiana te 2026-08-28T19:10:07.251Z Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE, held at major deportation hub in Louisiana Controversial former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is being held in federal immigration custody in Louisiana, Fox News has learned. ICE sources told Fox News that Yiannopoulos is currently detained in Alexandria, Louisiana, a major hub used by the agency for deportation operations. Yiannopoulos is a United Kingdom national. His current U.S. immigration status and the specific circumstances that led to his arrest were not immediately clear. MILO YIANNOPOULOS NAMED GRAND MARSHAL OF BOSTON'S 'STRAIGHT PRIDE' PARADE ICE's online detainee locator also shows Yiannopoulos in the agency's custody, according to a screenshot reviewed by Fox News. Yiannopoulos rose to national prominence as a provocative far-right political commentator and former editor at Breitbart News. He became a highly controversial figure through his speeches and online activity, including at UC Berkeley. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP Fox News has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for additional information about Yiannopoulos' arrest, immigration status and whether he faces deportation. This is a developing story; check back later for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91dd0d2c5335ae104c61fe Jerry Sandusky granted new evidentiary hearing after accuser recants testimony te 2026-08-28T19:10:05.989Z Jerry Sandusky granted new evidentiary hearing after accuser recants testimony Disgraced Penn State defensive coordinator and convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky is scheduled to return to court next month more than a year after one of his accusers recanted his allegations, according to court documents. Sandusky, 82, was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison after his conviction in June 2012 on 45 counts of child sex abuse. Several prior petitions for post-conviction relief had been denied over the years. He filed a new one in September 2025, which a Pennsylvania judge initially dismissed. That decision was vacated over a procedural misstep, and Sandusky was later granted an evidentiary hearing after one witness, identified as R.R. in court documents, recanted his testimony. EX-PENN STATE FOOTBALL COACH JERRY SANDUSKY MAINTAINS INNOCENCE YEARS AFTER CHILD SEX ABUSE CONVICTION "Affidavits from R.R. (alleged Victim 10) and the mother of alleged Victim 9 also establish that the Commonwealth engaged in questionable tactics to influence testimony of its witnesses," Sandusky's attorneys wrote in their amended petition. Read Sandusky's amended petition for post-conviction relief: They placed R.R.'s recantation within their broader allegation that authorities influenced Sandusky's accusers with therapy and suggestive interviewing, as well as undisclosed changes in witness accounts, according to court filings. "[T]hroughout the pretrial process, I was told — both directly and indirectly — that trauma may have fragmented my memory, and that I could safely affirm details I did not fully recall," R.R. is quoted as saying in an exhibit attached to Sandusky's petition. "I was assured this was common and even expected." IDAHO JUDGE GRANTS BRYAN KOHBERGER TWO HEARINGS NEXT YEAR AS ADMITTED KILLER SEEKS TO WITHDRAW GUILTY PLEA Sandusky's lawyers allege that R.R. "was coached extensively and asked to revisit and reframe his allegations." R.R.'s estranged wife, identified in the filings as Jasmine Rittmeyer, provided an affidavit and could testify, according to Sandusky's amended petition. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Lawyers for the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office have described her as R.R.'s "soon-to-be" ex-wife. Read the prosecution's motion: SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS "The opinion of R.R.' s estranged spouse thirteen years after defendant's trial, pondering what she thinks may or may not have really happened to R.R. when he was 10 years old, or any other Sandusky child victim for that matter, is irrelevant and inadmissible," Deputy AGs Cari Mahler and Jaime Keating wrote. The Commonwealth wrote in court filings that Rittmeyer’s affidavit alleges Sandusky investigator Frank Parlato contacted R.R. and "suggested that it would be beneficial for [him] to recant his testimony" before the recantation. SEND US A TIP They are asking the judge not to allow Rittmeyer to testify about her opinion regarding Sandusky's guilt or innocence or whether she believes R.R. told the truth at trial. They also want the focus of the hearing to be on R.R.'s recantation and not the entire case against Sandusky. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST Sandusky's lawyers had raised several other claims in the original petition, including that he was denied due process and is entitled to a new trial over allegations that prosecutors influenced the testimony of a different witness and later profited from his allegations. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL Sandusky has maintained his innocence after more than a decade behind bars. He's due in a Bellefonte courthouse on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 9:30 a.m. for the evidentiary hearing. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91dab92c5335ae104c5d78 Trump DOJ widens legal war on states giving college benefits to illegal immigrants te 2026-08-28T19:00:09.513Z Trump DOJ widens legal war on states giving college benefits to illegal immigrants The Trump administration filed lawsuits against four states Thursday over laws allowing illegal immigrants to receive financial benefits offered to state residents, including in-state tuition, state grants and state-funded student loans. The Justice Department argued that laws in Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona allowing illegal immigrants to receive benefits are in violation of federal law, which states that an illegal immigrant is ineligible to receive higher education in-state benefits unless those same benefits are available to every U.S. student. "This is a simple matter of federal law: colleges cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens," Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said in a statement. "This Department of Justice will not tolerate American students being treated like second-class citizens in their own country." DOJ SUES NEW JERSEY OVER LAWS GIVING ILLEGAL ALIENS IN-STATE TUITION, SAYS CITIZENS TREATED AS 'SECOND-CLASS' The latest lawsuits bring the number of states facing legal challenges over laws granting illegal immigrant students the same benefits as lawful residents to 21. The Justice Department has won its cases in Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Illinois. "Our efforts will not cease until President Trump’s promise is fulfilled: illegal aliens will not receive benefits denied to American citizens," Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. said in a statement. The difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition costs at public universities in the four states is significant. The complaint showed that for the 2026-2027 school year, Washington residents would pay $13,406, compared with $44,460 for out-of-state students at the University of Washington. This means illegal immigrants could receive a $31,054 discount if they earned a high school diploma or equivalent in the state, lived there for at least one year for reasons other than attending college and signed an affidavit saying they would seek permanent residency when eligible. TRUMP'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES NEW YORK, OTHER BLUE STATES OVER TUITION FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS The Justice Department's lawsuit against Arizona also showed a significant difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition costs, with the largest gap at Arizona State University totaling $24,448. The lawsuit alleged that in fall 2025, 432 illegal immigrants received in-state tuition benefits at Arizona State University, amounting to $10.5 million in reduced tuition. The lawsuit also cites a report from the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting that estimates more than 3,600 illegal aliens per year could qualify for in-state tuition under Arizona’s law. A spokesperson for the Arizona Board of Regents, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said the school system follows state law. "We are reviewing the lawsuit and will work closely with Arizona leaders on the appropriate next steps," a spokesperson said. The benefits extend beyond tuition costs. COURT CHECKS PRITZKER AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SCORES ANOTHER IMMIGRATION WIN In Oregon, only in-state students enrolled at Oregon Health & Science University can receive a Rural Nurse Scholars Scholarship, which covers the full cost of tuition and a $1,500 travel stipend. The Justice Department alleges that illegal immigrants are eligible for the scholarship under state law. A June 2024 report estimated that roughly 408,000 illegal immigrants were enrolled in higher education, with 29.1% having arrived in the United States at age 17 or older. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Lawsuits are pending in Minnesota, Virginia, California, New Jersey, Kansas, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Colorado, New York, Connecticut and Vermont. Fox News Digital reached out to Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona's governors' offices for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91dab72c5335ae104c5d6d Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Uphold Ban on Transgender Troops te 2026-08-28T19:00:07.037Z Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Uphold Ban on Transgender Troops President Trump issued an executive order barring transgender service members from the military as part of a broader attack on transgender rights. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91dab42c5335ae104c5d54 Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases te 2026-08-28T19:00:04.515Z Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases Brave's browser begins testing an email alias feature that lets you keep your main email info private. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91d6042c5335ae104c5cb9 Trapped Nepali workers pulled from hydropower tunnel after catastrophic flooding te 2026-08-28T18:40:04.742Z Trapped Nepali workers pulled from hydropower tunnel after catastrophic flooding Stunning video shows rescue workers in Nepal dragging trapped citizens out of the mud in a hydropower plant tunnel after the devastating mudslide that has left over 1,000 people missing. The video, released by Nepal’s Prime Minister’s Office on Friday, shows a series of rescue workers pulling trapped people through a tunnel that’s been saturated with mud. In a post on Facebook, the Prime Minister’s Office said it had rescued 350 people from the tunnel but that efforts continue to evacuate more than 100 people still trapped. The post also added that workers had moved another 533 residents to safety from flooded areas. The rescue operation is intended to save people after a disastrous mudslide struck the valley in the Rasuwa district in northern Nepal, also affecting neighboring Chinese province Tibet. TERRIFYING VIDEO CAPTURES PEOPLE FLEEING INCOMING MUDSLIDE AT NEPAL-CHINA BORDER At least 538 people have been confirmed dead in Nepal, according to the most recent estimate from the Nepal National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) and the Nepal Police. MORE THAN 3,000 MISSING AFTER COLOMBIA EARTHQUAKE AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PROVIDES $15.5 MILLION IN RELIEF People unaccounted for on the Nepal side now number up to 1,924, according to The Associated Press. Chinese authorities also report that, on the Chinese side of the border in Tibet, which was also affected by the deluge and ensuing mudslide, five people were confirmed dead with another 558 missing. AMERICAN HIKER VANISHES ON TROPICAL TREK AS FLASH FLOODS, MUDSLIDES TURN JUNGLE GETAWAY INTO DESPERATE SEARCH Of the many missing people are approximately 90 Americans, according to the U.S. State Department. President Donald Trump commented on the disaster Thursday, telling reporters, "That was a brutal... that was mud and water. It’s a mixture that nobody’s ever seen anything quite like that, where very powerful, strong, well-built buildings were wiped out like they were toothpicks." A 7.8 MAGNITUDE QUAKE IN THE PHILIPPINES KILLS AT LEAST 32, COLLAPSES BUILDINGS AND SPARKS TSUNAMI The uniquely devastating natural disaster was likely caused by a giant ice rock that crashed into the Lhende Khola River after an earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). "On Wednesday morning (local time), 26 August 2026, a catastrophic debris flow and flood was likely triggered by a glacial collapse in Langtang National Park, Nepal, near the border with China," the USGS said in a post on its website. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLEDGES $150M IN AID, DEPLOYS NAVY WARSHIPS AFTER DEADLY VENEZUELA EARTHQUAKES "This debris flow and flooding travelled nearly 100 km and impacted populated areas downstream along the Trishuli and Bhote Koshi Rivers, including Gyirong Port, China. Preliminary media reports and imagery analysis indicate many buildings and infrastructure have likely been buried or destroyed, including a vital highway connecting China and Nepal," the post added. Fox News Digital contacted the Nepalese Foreign Ministry and the U.S. State Department for further comment. Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91d6022c5335ae104c5ca5 Autopsy Shows Man Killed by National Guard in Memphis Was Shot in Back te 2026-08-28T18:40:02.369Z Autopsy Shows Man Killed by National Guard in Memphis Was Shot in Back The death of the man after a confrontation with National Guard troops is under investigation. An autopsy by a medical examiner shows that he was shot in the back and declared it a homicide. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91d3b22c5335ae104c5c20 Chinese hackers target NASA and key US agencies, DOJ alleges te 2026-08-28T18:30:10.204Z Chinese hackers target NASA and key US agencies, DOJ alleges Some cyberattacks start with a suspicious email. Others begin somewhere you would probably never think to look. It could be an old router in someone's home. Maybe it is a forgotten security camera that still connects to the internet. Hackers can compromise vulnerable connected devices and use them to disguise where an attack really comes from. That tactic played a role in a China-linked hacking operation that U.S. authorities say took aim at some of America's most sensitive networks. On Aug. 26, the Justice Department and FBI confirmed intrusion attempts since 2018 against NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Justice Department and the U.S. Senate. Other targets included the Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health. Four unnamed companies in the United States and South Korea were reportedly targeted as well. The names behind the operation sound like something from an IT department: QScan and QTRouter. Yet what these tools allegedly did should get your attention. Here is how the hacking operation worked, how authorities shut it down and what you can do to keep your own connected devices from becoming part of an attacker's network. THIS SATURDAY! 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The Justice Department alleges that the company offered hacking services to paying customers, including China's Ministry of State Security and People's Liberation Army. Authorities say QTFY infrastructure has been used to compromise critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks since at least 2018. Court documents also describe targets that included hospitals, telecommunications providers, financial institutions and defense contractors. CyberGuy reached out to NASA about the Justice Department's announcement. "NASA is committed to the cybersecurity and the protection of our systems," NASA spokesperson Jennifer Dooren said. "We work closely with our federal partners, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to quickly address identified vulnerabilities. We continuously collaborate with software partners and actively monitor and assess our networks, software, and data for potential risks. For security reasons, NASA does not comment on specific reports of potential vulnerabilities or incidents. For additional information regarding this matter, please contact the Department of Justice." We also reached out to the Chinese Embassy in Washington about the Justice Department's allegations. "I am not aware of the specifics you mentioned," an embassy spokesperson told CyberGuy. "China is a firm defender of cybersecurity. The Chinese government firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyberattacks in accordance with the law. We urge the U.S. side to stop using cybersecurity issues to smear or discredit China. China firmly opposes the U.S. overstretching the concept of national security and using it as a pretext to impose discriminatory restrictions on Chinese companies and will firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies." After we sent the embassy the specific Justice Department release outlining the allegations involving QScan and QTRouter, the embassy told CyberGuy it had "no further information to add at the moment." China has repeatedly denied accusations that it sponsors malicious cyber activity. What stands out here is the infrastructure behind the attacks. Federal investigators describe a system designed to find vulnerable devices and then use some of those devices to help hide malicious activity. QScan handled the hunting. The Justice Department says the platform scanned for vulnerable systems and automatically infected thousands of internet-of-things devices around the world. Those compromised devices could then become part of QTRouter. QTRouter served as what investigators call an obfuscation network. In everyday language, it helped conceal where an attack really came from. The network included compromised IoT devices along with commercial proxy devices and leased virtual private servers. Attackers could route malicious communications through that infrastructure. As a result, the activity could appear to originate outside China or even near the network being targeted. That creates a serious challenge for security teams trying to track an attacker. Think about all the internet-connected equipment people rarely touch after setting it up. A router might sit in the corner for years. A security camera could keep running long after its manufacturer stops releasing updates. Hackers pay attention to forgotten devices because those devices can give them somewhere to hide. FBI Director Kash Patel emphasized how the infrastructure helped conceal the attackers. "These tools were used by PRC cyber actors to hide the origin of their attacks," Patel said. TRUMP PLAN TAPS US FIRMS TO FIGHT FOREIGN CYBERCRIME You were probably nowhere near the hackers' list of targets. NASA and the Federal Reserve operate in a very different security world from your living room. However, the infrastructure behind these attacks creates a connection to everyday technology. QScan allegedly infected IoT devices and pulled them into a larger network. Those compromised devices then helped disguise malicious traffic. So an insecure connected device can become useful to an attacker even when the attacker has little interest in its owner. You may never see a ransom note. Your smart device could continue working normally. Yet vulnerable equipment can potentially provide infrastructure for malicious activity happening somewhere else. That is one reason I keep telling you to pay attention to the router sitting behind the couch. The Justice Department obtained court authorization to seize domains used by QScan and QTRouter. Those domains turned out to be a critical weakness. Federal officials say the domains were hard-coded into the malware and used for essential functions, including communication and authentication. Once authorities seized them, the Justice Department says QScan and QTRouter became inoperable. Investigators went after infrastructure that the hacking platforms needed to work. Black Lotus Labs says targeting shared infrastructure like this can damage more than one cyber operation at a time. Its researchers wrote that "taking down a single quartermaster's obfuscation network systematically degrades the capabilities of multiple active threat campaigns at once." Black Lotus Labs also says it shared threat intelligence with U.S. government agencies about emerging risks and null-routed traffic to known infrastructure used by the operators. The researchers describe the operation as a kind of cyber "quartermaster," providing shared reconnaissance, routing and concealment infrastructure that multiple China-linked threat actors could use. That approach has become a recurring part of the U.S. response to China-linked cyber operations. The latest operation follows several previous federal efforts targeting Chinese hacking groups. In 2025, the FBI removed PlugX surveillance malware from more than 4,000 U.S. computers infected by the China-sponsored Mustang Panda group. In 2024, federal agents disabled a botnet made up of hundreds of thousands of infected IoT devices associated with Flax Typhoon. The FBI previously disrupted another botnet used by Volt Typhoon to conceal attacks targeting U.S. and foreign critical infrastructure. CyberGuy has also reported on Salt Typhoon, the China-linked hacking campaign that penetrated major American telecommunications networks. These operations work differently. However, they show how valuable compromised infrastructure can become for state-backed hackers. You cannot personally stop a nation-state hacking operation. However, you can make your own devices much harder for attackers to compromise or use as part of their infrastructure. Your router runs software called firmware, and security fixes are often delivered through firmware updates. Open your router's app or administration page and check for updates. If your router supports automatic updates, turn them on. An old router can keep working long after the manufacturer stops protecting it. Check your router's model number on the manufacturer's website to see whether it still receives firmware and security updates. If it has reached end of its life, replace it with a supported model. The FBI has previously warned that cybercriminals actively exploit aging routers that no longer receive security patches. Do not leave the router's administrator account using its original or default password. Create a long, strong and unique password that you have never used for another account. A password manager can help you generate and securely store it. If your router offers two-factor authentication (2FA) for administrator access, turn it on. Your Wi-Fi network should also have its own strong, unique password. Avoid names, addresses, phone numbers or other information someone could easily guess. Do not reuse the password you use to administer the router. Check your router's wireless security settings. WPA3-Personal offers stronger protection and should be your first choice when your router and devices support it. If WPA3 causes compatibility problems with older devices, use WPA2-Personal with AES or a WPA2/WPA3 compatibility mode. Avoid older WEP and WPA security. Most people have no reason to change their router settings while away from home. Look for a setting called Remote Management, Remote Administration or WAN Access. Disable it unless you specifically need it. The FBI has specifically warned that exposed remote administration can give attackers another way to target vulnerable routers. Wi-Fi Protected Setup, or WPS, can make connecting devices easier. However, most people do not need to leave it enabled after setup. Also check Universal Plug and Play, or UPnP. It allows devices to automatically request network access and open connections through your router. If none of your devices require it, turning UPnP off can reduce unnecessary exposure. Most routers include a built-in firewall. Check your router settings and make sure the firewall remains enabled. Avoid changing advanced firewall settings unless you understand what they control. If your router supports a guest network or dedicated IoT network, consider putting security cameras, smart plugs, speakers and other connected gadgets there. Separating those devices from the laptops and phones where you keep sensitive information can limit an attacker's reach if one smart device gets compromised. Your router is only one piece of the network. Check security cameras, doorbells, smart TVs and other connected devices for software or firmware updates. Enable automatic updates when available. If a smart device has reached the end of its support life and no longer receives security fixes, consider replacing it. Some cameras, smart-home hubs and other IoT gear come with preset administrator credentials. Change those passwords during setup. Use a unique password for each important device or account. Open your router's app or administration page and look at its list of connected devices. Make sure you recognize what is there. If you see a device you cannot identify, investigate it. Change your Wi-Fi password if necessary and reconnect only the devices you trust. An old security camera in the garage or smart plug sitting in a drawer can still be connected to your network. Remove devices you no longer use from your Wi-Fi. Disconnect or reset the hardware before getting rid of it. Install operating system and security updates on your computers, phones and tablets as soon as practical. Strong antivirus software can also help detect malware, malicious downloads and dangerous links before they create another route into your devices. Get my picks for the best 2026 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices at CyberGuy.com. Unexpected settings changes, unfamiliar devices appearing on your network, repeated connectivity problems or unusual router behavior deserve attention. If something looks wrong, reboot the router and check its settings for changes you did not make. If suspicious activity continues, contact your internet provider or router manufacturer. You may need to factory-reset the router and set it up again using trusted settings. What catches my attention here is how much effort went into hiding the origin of these attacks. The hackers allegedly built infrastructure that could scan for vulnerable devices, compromise them and then use those devices as cover. Federal agents eventually found a pressure point by seizing domains the malware needed to operate. That is a significant win. Still, one disruption leaves a much larger cyber fight in place. State-backed groups keep looking for vulnerable infrastructure because forgotten connected devices are everywhere. Your router may seem like nothing more than the box keeping Netflix running and your phone online. To an attacker, an unpatched device can have an entirely different purpose. For you, the lesson is surprisingly practical. That router you have ignored for five years deserves a checkup. The same goes for old smart-home gear that still connects to the internet. If a manufacturer stopped protecting a device, think carefully about whether you want to keep giving it access to your network. Do you think the U.S. is doing enough to stop China-backed hackers from targeting American networks and using vulnerable devices to cover their tracks? 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/6a91d3b12c5335ae104c5c17 El-Sayed dragged over ‘weird’ fixation on ‘talking about other people’s wives’ after latest Trump attack te 2026-08-28T18:30:09.230Z El-Sayed dragged over ‘weird’ fixation on ‘talking about other people’s wives’ after latest Trump attack The Abdul-El Sayed campaign on Thursday launched an attack aimed at White House aide Natalie Harp just a week after attacking second lady Usha Vance in a similarly vicious manner. After President Donald Trump’s edict renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America during a heated trade battle with Canada the EL- Sayed campaign waited into the fray on X. "If we’re just renaming everything now… When are we making this official?" the campaign said in their post, adding a doctored image of the official White House webpage for First Lady Melania Trump, crossing out her name and replacing it with Harp’s. The post was quickly criticized by conservatives on social media. HOUSE DEM'S 'LAKE NATALIE' JAB AT TRUMP AIDE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ABLAZE: 'STAY CLASSY' "This is just such a weak, phoned-in effort," GOP communicator Matt Whitlock posted on X. "My four year-old could come up with better burns than this." Whitlock added, "Weird how much time this campaign spends talking about other people‘s wives. When Abdul’s not talking about (and clearly thinking a lot about) the vice president and his wife, apparently he’s thinking about President Trump and his wife?" "That boy Abdul is drowning, and his team keeps throwing him bricks," journalist James David Dickson posted on X. "So this is just gross, right?" Conservative advocacy group Michigan Forward posted on X. SECOND LADY USHA VANCE FIRES BACK AT POINTED JAB FROM DEMOCRATIC SENATE NOMINEE ABDUL EL-SAYED "A lil more sexism and misogyny from the Left," political commentator Melik Abdul posted on X. "This time, it's from the Guy who plays foootsie with Hasan Piker." Harp is a longtime Trump supporter, who credited his first-term "right to try" order for saving her life after a serious battle with bone cancer. She then joined the second Trump administration as an aide to the president. In recent weeks, Harp has become the subject of intense media scrutiny and online speculation about the nature of her relationship with Trump. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER In a post over the weekend, responding to Vice President JD Vance’s comments that his grandfather, whom he called Pawpaw, would be shocked to know that El-Sayed is a serious US Senate contender, the socialist-aligned candidate from Michigan responded by invoking Second Lady Usha Vance, who is of Indian descent. "So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…," El-Sayed wrote on X. Fox News Digital reached out to El-Sayed’s campaign. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91d3b02c5335ae104c5c0e Fox News AI Newsletter: The industry sparking blue-collar jobs boom te 2026-08-28T18:30:08.053Z Fox News AI Newsletter: The industry sparking blue-collar jobs boom IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER: - One of the world's hottest industries is sparking a blue-collar jobs boom - From Netflix to GPS: 10 ways this hidden tech infrastructure quietly powers modern life - OpenAI, 100+ companies warn of coming surge in AI-powered cyberattacks, call for global defense push HARD HAT HYPE: The race to build the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence is creating a new boom for America's blue-collar workforce, as construction firms scramble to fill jobs building data centers, power systems and the facilities that keep the technology running. HIDDEN HARDWARE: Data centers are the hidden infrastructure behind much of modern life, powering everything from the apps on your phone and the shows you stream to online shopping, banking and artificial intelligence. DIGITAL DEFENSE: OpenAI released a letter Thursday warning that within months, artifical intelligence (AI) models could become powerful enough to allow bad actors to launch increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks on hospitals, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure. BEYOND THE GRID: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said Wednesday that solar-powered facilities in space could tap the sun’s energy without competing for the land, water and grid capacity required by sprawling data centers proposed across the country. BIG BROTHER: Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies have been brought under scrutiny by lawmakers in Washington as privacy hawks warn that the growing sophistication of artificial intelligence technology is testing the bounds of what ALPR devices can legally learn about drivers on the road. COST CRUNCH: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended his decision to "rip the Band-Aid off" on the company’s gross margins as the chip giant continues to power some of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence models. OPINION: Data centers have gone from a niche policy issue to one of the most controversial topics of the midterm elections. Fewer than 30% of Americans support a data center being built in their community and the reason why is simple; the industry forgot about consumers. DIGITAL DOSSIER: AI companies are giving their assistants more ways to remember what you tell them. In some cases, AI can also draw from activity beyond a single conversation. That raises a bigger privacy question. What happens when an AI assistant can build a more detailed understanding of you over time? MONEY TALKS: There’s an ugly political fight brewing in the Lone Star State over data centers, and both candidates running for Senate are racing each other to unveil their plans to slow the AI boom in Texas. OPINION: The progressive left is working hard to derail America’s AI dominance by blocking data center construction. So is China. DOUBLE-EDGED AI: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) will present major challenges as it reshapes industries and work, suggesting that it could be helpful to explore ways to reserve work in certain areas for humans to ease the transition. ROOFTOP REVELATIONS: AI could potentially be the wealth-of-knowledge generator that places practical expertise directly in the hands of young people failed by the current systems. 'AMERICA MUST LEAD': Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., on Saturday dismissed "AI doomsdaying," warning that China benefits from "overreaction" by the United States as the two countries compete for dominance in artificial intelligence. FOLLOW FOX NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook Instagram YouTube X LinkedIn SIGN UP FOR OUR OTHER NEWSLETTERS Fox News First Fox News Opinion Fox News Lifestyle Fox News Health DOWNLOAD OUR APPS WATCH FOX NEWS ONLINE Fox News Go STREAM FOX NATION Fox Nation Stay up to date on the latest AI technology advancements and learn about the challenges and opportunities AI presents now and for the future with Fox News here. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91d3ac2c5335ae104c5bfc $42 Million Abu Ghraib Jury Verdict Is Overturned on Appeal te 2026-08-28T18:30:04.904Z $42 Million Abu Ghraib Jury Verdict Is Overturned on Appeal A Fourth Circuit panel ordered the case to be dismissed, citing a new Supreme Court ruling limiting the ability of foreign citizens to sue in U.S. court. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91d3ab2c5335ae104c5bf3 Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts te 2026-08-28T18:30:03.519Z Trump Creates a Space Academy and Honors the Artemis Astronauts President Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew, which took a journey around the moon. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91d1562c5335ae104c5bab Karoline Leavitt invited as a guest on ABC's 'The View' after leaving White House role te 2026-08-28T18:20:06.278Z Karoline Leavitt invited as a guest on ABC's 'The View' after leaving White House role Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has been invited as a guest on ABC's "The View," according to a CNN report Thursday. CNN's Brian Stelter reported on the news in response to a Daily Mail rumor suggesting "Karoline Leavitt in secret talks to join TV’s most controversial show." Stelter clarified that Leavitt has only been invited as a one-time guest rather than as a host or guest host. "She would not be a guest host on the talk show or join in a more official capacity," Stelter wrote. "All six co-hosts of 'The View' are returning for the new season that begins in September. And while the show occasionally features guest hosts, that’s not what the outreach to Leavitt was about, the ABC source said." TRUMP SAYS KAROLINE LEAVITT WILL LEAVE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY ROLE, BECOME OUTSIDE ADVISOR Fox News Digital later confirmed the report. The news followed Leavitt's last official day as White House press secretary after serving the Trump administration since the start of President Donald Trump's second term. Speaking with "Fox & Friends," Leavitt revealed that she has been advising Trump on choosing her replacement and said that she plans to spend her time with her two young children. ABC MORE CAUTIOUS OF BOOKING CANDIDATES ON 'THE VIEW' AMID FCC PRESSURE, DISNEY'S FIRST AMENDMENT LAWSUIT SAYS "It has been the adventure of a lifetime, and I am so grateful to him for believing in me and allowing me to serve in this role over the last 20 months, and now being very understanding as a boss and a friend, that it's time for me to take a step back so I can spend more time with my two beautiful children," Leavitt said. "Of course, I have a two-year-old and a four-month-old. They're just at a critical time in their life where they need their mom home a little bit more, so I look forward to spending more time with them, but continuing to serve the president as a top advisor on the outside." The rumors also followed a report last month that suggested "The View" was easing back on hosting political guests since the FCC launched an investigation into the program and ABC. The investigation was launched after the show hosted then-Texas Democratic Senate primary candidate James Talarico in what the FCC viewed as a violation of the equal time rule. ‘THE VIEW’ CO-HOSTS SAY THEY WANT MORE REPUBLICANS ON THE SHOW, CLAIM THEY'RE TOO ‘SCARED’ TO COME ON Though ABC and its parent company, Disney, have argued that the show is "bona fide news" and not beholden to the equal time rule, the program hasn't hosted anyone running in a competitive midterm race since Talarico in February. However, "The View" can host political figures outside a competitive race. In June, the ABC talk show hosted Vice President JD Vance as part of his book tour for his spiritual memoir, "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith." Leavitt's appearance would also be a significant move by the show known for its heavily liberal hosts and guests. A study from the Media Research Center found that in 2025, out of 341 guests who appeared on "The View," only two were "conservative." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91d1522c5335ae104c5b8a Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets te 2026-08-28T18:20:02.897Z Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91cefe2c5335ae104c5b51 Yankees rookie makes dubious history, becomes first shortstop since 1915 with six-game error streak te 2026-08-28T18:10:06.798Z Yankees rookie makes dubious history, becomes first shortstop since 1915 with six-game error streak New York Yankees rookie shortstop George Lombard Jr. is making all kinds of history in his first 20 games in the big leagues – some good and some bad. The good? He became the first Yankees shortstop to homer in his debut. The bad? He has made an error in six straight games, becoming the first Yankees shortstop to achieve the dubious mark since Roger Peckinpaugh did it in 1915. "It’s something we’re trying to figure out," Lombard said. "It’s not acceptable. It can’t happen at this level. If you make your pitchers have to get extra outs, it just makes it way harder on us, and teams are going to capitalize. So it’s something that we’re definitely going to have to clean up and I've got to be better tomorrow." CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Lombard, who has dazzled with some spectacular plays, has struggled with the routine ones during this stretch. He has made seven errors in 20 games this season. Lombard’s error in the Yankees’ 5-1 loss to the Houston Astros on Thursday led to a run. With a runner on second base and the Yankees down 4-1 in the top of the eighth inning, Astros first baseman Christian Walker hit a ground ball to Lombard. He tried to come around and fire it to first, but the ball bounced up off his glove instead of into it. Yankees third baseman José Caballero then picked the ball up off the carom and proceeded to airmail it over first baseman Luis Garcia Jr.’s head. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Both Lombard and Caballero were charged with errors on the play as the run scored on the two misplays. "The one today, it’s kind of that in-between ball. So you’re like, is the third baseman getting there?" Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "Is he not? There’s a little indecisiveness there. So I think that played into that a little bit." Despite Lombard’s recent struggles, Boone has full confidence in his 21-year-old shortstop. "The good thing about George is you know he’s so skilled and gifted out there and foundationally he’s really good, too," Boone said. "So he will get through it." The Yankees (75-58) need Lombard to be at his best this weekend, as they enter into the weekend with a huge four-game series against the Boston Red Sox (73-60). The Yankees hold a two-game lead for the top wild-card spot in the American League over their bitter rivals. The first game of the series is Friday night at 7:15 p.m. ET at Yankee Stadium. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ccab2c5335ae104c5ad8 Arizona’s poet laureate takes storytelling beyond the page te 2026-08-28T18:00:11.517Z Arizona’s poet laureate takes storytelling beyond the page Key Points:  Arizona appointed a poet laureate, Laura Tohe, after an eight-year vacancy  Tohe aims to expand literary access across rural, tribal communities Workshops act to break down barriers, create... Subscribe Already a subscriber?  Login The post Arizona’s poet laureate takes storytelling beyond the page first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91cca82c5335ae104c5ab0 Potential security threat prompts US travel suspension for border city on alert te 2026-08-28T18:00:08.629Z Potential security threat prompts US travel suspension for border city on alert U.S. officials have suspended government activities and travel to a Mexican border city over a potential security threat. Mexicali, a city directly across from Calexico, California, is the subject of a new security alert after officials received information about a potential threat. In a statement, the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico said that government activities in and travel to Mexicali were suspended on Aug. 25. TOURIST HOT SPOT SLAPPED WITH US TRAVEL WARNING RENEWAL DUE TO CRIME AND TERROR "We are alerting U.S. citizens of this potential threat," the embassy said. Officials urged Americans to avoid government buildings in Mexicali and remain aware of their surroundings. In addition, Americans were advised to seek shelter in the event of an incident, follow instructions from Mexican law enforcement and notify friends and family that they are safe. "Follow instructions from Mexican law enforcement," the embassy's statement added. "Monitor local media for updates." MAN DIES AFTER VEHICLE GETS STRANDED IN DEATH VALLEY, ATTEMPTS TREK ACROSS BLISTERING SALT FLATS The threat involved a potential armed attack by Los Rusos, a criminal group, against law enforcement facilities in Mexicali, UPI reported. The reported threat came days after Mexican authorities seized roughly 265 pounds of fentanyl from a warehouse in Mexicali, according to the same source.  Authorities estimated the seizure amounted to about 4 million doses. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Mexicali, the capital of Baja California, is a major port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border. Though not considered a major tourist destination, Mexicali is a busy hub for cross-border travel and commerce. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS More than 5.4 million personal vehicles and 3.1 million pedestrians entered the U.S. through Calexico in 2025, according to federal transportation data. It is unclear whether the alert remains in place. Fox News Digital reached out to the U.S. Consulate General in Tijuana and the State Department for additional information. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The warning comes as Mexico continues to grapple with cartel violence and organized crime. Earlier this year, cruise ships bypassed Puerto Vallarta amid a wave of violence following the killing of cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho." The unrest prompted U.S. security warnings, while shelter-in-place orders were imposed in several Mexican cities before being lifted days later. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91cca62c5335ae104c5aa7 Trump election fraud crackdown lands first arrest, putting longtime critics in White House crosshairs te 2026-08-28T18:00:06.829Z Trump election fraud crackdown lands first arrest, putting longtime critics in White House crosshairs The first arrest in what a Trump administration prosecutor says will be a broader election fraud crackdown was announced Friday in Los Angeles, as the White House seized on the case to hit back at longtime critics. First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli announced a Honduran national was charged with two felony counts and could face deportation if convicted, while criticizing California’s current voter-registration safeguards and renewing DOJ demands for a voter-roll audit.  "Today’s arrest is the first of many to come. Unfortunately, because states like California allow non-citizens to easily register to vote and receive a ballot by mail, there’s no telling how many non-citizens are currently registered to vote," Essayli said in a statement announcing the capture of Darwin Jonathan Rivera-Flores. CALIFORNIA ACCUSED OF BLOCKING FEDERAL VOTER ROLL AUDIT AS DOJ ESCALATES PROBE OF ELECTION FRAUD CLAIMS "We again renew our request that California immediately comply with our requests to audit their voter rolls so that all voters can have confidence in our elections." Fox News Digital reached out to Gov. Gavin Newsom for comment. Rivera-Flores, of the Winnetka neighborhood west of Van Nuys, was charged with fraudulent voter registration and false claim of U.S. citizenship. He did not vote in an election, according to the DOJ.  Rivera-Flores entered the U.S. during the George W. Bush administration and was a green-card holder, but not a U.S. citizen, according to the affidavit. FOUR NONCITIZENS CHARGED WITH ILLEGALLY VOTING IN 2020, 2022 AND 2024 FEDERAL ELECTIONS IN NEW JERSEY He was previously charged with a misdemeanor for "disrupting immigration law enforcement operations" at a federal building in Camarillo, California, and sentenced to one year of probation. Rivera-Flores also allegedly sent a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent a slew of taunting text messages, calling the officer "not the good guy" and saying he could not "wait until the midterms" because he believed the agent would not have qualified immunity — legal protection that can shield law enforcement officers from certain civil claims arising from their official conduct. Text messages between Rivera-Flores and the agent reviewed by Fox News show several profane jabs directed at the officer, including, "How you f---ing treat people ... that’s not f---ing protecting, you’re hurting these people," and, "Chris, you know you’re a b----, right." CLICK BELOW TO READ THE AFFIDAVIT Rivera-Flores obtained the agent’s number after the agent unblocked it on his government-issued phone to contact him during an investigation, according to the affidavit. The White House said Rivera-Flores’ case indicates mainstream media and political critics are off-base in their countervailing reporting and allegations about the existence of voter fraud. "Despite the media and Democrats claiming it never happens, the evidence of non-citizens registering to vote in our elections continues to pile up," White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital. "Any non-citizens found registering to vote and voting in our elections will be held accountable. Only Americans should be electing American leaders." WATCH: TRUMP DOJ VOWS TO PURSUE ‘EVERY SINGLE’ VOTING VIOLATION AFTER NJ ROLL SHOCKER CNN HOST ADMITS HE WAS WRONG TO SAY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT VOTING 'NEVER HAPPENS' AFTER NEW JERSEY ERROR Essayli said the case bolsters DOJ’s demand that California comply with Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s request for a comprehensive voter-roll audit. Dhillon said in a statement that noncitizens who "commit fraud so they can vote in American elections" violate federal law and should expect to be prosecuted. "Let this criminal complaint serve as a reminder that the Justice Department stands ready to enforce the laws Congress enacted to ensure only American citizens vote in federal elections." SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Californians will decide in November whether to impose additional voter-ID and citizenship-verification requirements. Under current law, people registering to vote must state under penalty of perjury that they are U.S. citizens and provide identifying information. The initiative is being led by state Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach, and Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego. Fox News’ Matt Finn contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ca512c5335ae104c5a44 Trump border wall construction kicks off in Arizona amid clash with Native American tribe te 2026-08-28T17:50:09.365Z Trump border wall construction kicks off in Arizona amid clash with Native American tribe The Trump administration has started construction of a section of a border wall in Arizona despite objections from a Native American tribe. 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 has said the construction will damage land sacred to the tribe, The Associated Press reported. MULLIN TELLS CONGRESS PRIMARY BORDER WALL WILL BE DONE BY JUNE 2027, SECONDARY WALL BY SUMMER 2028 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the desert spanning the Tohono O’odham Nation, which sits on both sides of the border, is a major corridor for drug smuggling. "The project will close one of the most dangerous smuggling and trafficking corridors on the Southwest border: remote desert that has facilitated decades of drug loads, migrant deaths, and cartel activity," said CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott. TRUMP TO SHRINK 2 UTAH NATIONAL MONUMENTS BY 90% The tribe, which has 37,000 members, including many who live in Mexico, sued the federal government in June in an attempt to halt the project. The lawsuit argued the construction would cause "significant devastation" on the reservation, including the destruction of mountain peaks sacred to the tribe. TRUMP SCORES MAJOR IMMIGRATION VICTORY AS JUDGE CLEARS WAY TO END TPS PROTECTIONS FOR THOUSANDS OF SOMALIS 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. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION NAMES ROSARIO 'PETE' VASQUEZ TO SERVE AS NEXT US BORDER PATROL CHIEF The tribe said the construction still constitutes trespassing, even if the project is contained to the Roosevelt Reservation. The tribe set up "No Trespassing" signs this week and said masked CBP agents set up a vehicle blockade to stop tribal police from removing the contractors. "The contractors, who are on the Nation illegally, were accompanied by agents as they worked on three separate locations near the border with drill trucks to conduct soil sampling and other activities," tribal officials said in a statement. The tribe said it was exploring other legal means to remove the contractors. Fox News Digital has reached out to CBP and the Tohono O'odham Nation for comment. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ca4f2c5335ae104c5a33 Tank That Imploded at Washington Paper Plant, Killing 11, Was Known to Be Unsafe, Report Says te 2026-08-28T17:50:07.337Z Tank That Imploded at Washington Paper Plant, Killing 11, Was Known to Be Unsafe, Report Says A chemical disaster in Washington in May involved a tank that had been deemed at risk of failure nearly a year before, according to federal investigators. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91c7fa2c5335ae104c59fb Flagstaff football drops hard-fought season opener in Delgadillo’s varsity head coaching debut te 2026-08-28T17:40:10.181Z Flagstaff football drops hard-fought season opener in Delgadillo’s varsity head coaching debut The Flagstaff Eagles put up a fight in Andres Delgadillo’s debut as varsity head coach, but could not stop Marcos de Niza’s run game Thursday night. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91c7f62c5335ae104c59d2 Luis Castillo faces Dean Kremer as White Sox and Twins meet in crucial AL Central series te 2026-08-28T17:40:06.630Z Luis Castillo faces Dean Kremer as White Sox and Twins meet in crucial AL Central series The postseason race is heating up, and I'm here for it. I tend to think that baseball has the best postseason races. I'm not sure that I have a great justification for it, but I'll share my reasoning anyway. The NFL tends to have too many spots locked up too soon. The NBA has too many spots in general, and with essentially 20 teams getting some sort of playoff shot, it's just not interesting. The NHL has a pretty decent race, but the postseason itself for the NHL is more entertaining. With baseball, the trade deadline gets a flurry of moves, and then we see the race. No spot has been locked up yet, but we have a general idea of those with a true chance and those without. The Chicago White Sox may actually pull this off. They are 70-63 for the season, and currently own a 2.5-game lead in the American League Central. However, the vast majority of their success has come at home. They are 29-36 on the road, and maybe that is just a sign of a young team. If you're a pessimistic Sox fan, you look at their road record and the fact that Cleveland is always lurking, and you can't be comfortable. However, the optimist says they are in control of their destiny and playing with house money this season, regardless of what happens. They made their biggest splash in years by acquiring today's starter, Luis Castillo. It is hard to blame them for a lack of moves when the team was a disaster for the past few years, so it was nice to see them adding instead of subtracting. Castillo is having a rough year, though. For the season, he is 4-10 with a 5.19 ERA and a 1.42 WHIP. Since coming over from Seattle, he has allowed 12 earned runs in 18.1 innings. He does have a good track record against the Twins, though. He has allowed them to hit just .228 against him in 123 at-bats. The Minnesota Twins were one of those borderline teams at the deadline. You could've made a case to abandon the season and tell them to look to next year. However, they were in a position where they could also make a run at the division. They ultimately held onto their key pieces despite a lot of interest. The team hasn't been able to find their footing, though, and are now 6.5 games back in the division, and they are 64-70 at the moment. I suppose a series sweep here could go a long way if they want a true shot at the postseason. Twins Promote Top-15 MLB Prospect OF Walker Jenkins To Make Debut vs. White Sox The Twins did make some moves at the deadline, even if they didn't trade away the guys others wanted. They acquired today's starter, Dean Kremer, from the Orioles. For the year, Kremer is just 2-4 with a 5.22 ERA, but he has a strong 1.18 WHIP. Part of the issue is that he has allowed 14 homers in 58.2 innings. So he isn't allowing a ton of baserunners, but when people are hitting him, they are hitting him hard. Almost 30% of the hits he has allowed have left the yard. Sox hitters are batting just .205 against him in 39 at-bats. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM I'm really not sure how a team can trust either of these guys right now. However, I have more faith in Kremer than I do Castillo. Essentially, it boils down to the traffic on the basepaths. Kremer allows fewer guys on the bases than Castillo, so I think he gives the Twins a better chance to win games. Give me the Twins tonight as they start this series with the White Sox. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91c7f52c5335ae104c59c9 DAVID MARCUS: Woke 1.0 is why entertainers needed our secret conservative club te 2026-08-28T17:40:05.705Z DAVID MARCUS: Woke 1.0 is why entertainers needed our secret conservative club As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., laughs off the excesses of what she now calls "Woke 1.0," it is worth remembering just how bad censorship was under that politically correct cultural regime, and how it got so bad that Hollywood conservatives needed to form their own secret club. In a recent podcast interview, actress Patricia Heaton, of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ fame, spilled the beans on Friends of Abe, a secret organization for conservatives and independents in the entertainment industry, which she helped form during the Obama administration. Abe, in this case, references the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. AOC SAYS ‘WOKE 1 WAS CRAZY,’ BUT DEMOCRATS STILL OWE VOTERS AN EXPLANATION A small core group that included stars such as Gary Sinise and Kelsey Grammar, soon turned into a loose organization of thousands, with a New York City chapter that I joined somewhere around 2012, and which was an oasis in a Gotham arts scene that made Mao look like William F. Buckley, Jr. As Heaton put it, "You could ask someone if they are a friend of Abe, or FOA, and if they said yeah, then you know there was another conservative or independent, or someone who is not a Democrat, that you could talk to without feeling like you were going to get in trouble at your job." KELSEY GRAMMER SUSPECTS HE 'MAY HAVE' LOST HOLLYWOOD ROLES DUE TO CONSERVATIVE VIEWS It is hard to overstate just how dangerous expressing conservative ideas was 5 to 15 years ago in the entertainment industry. Take actor Gina Carano, who lost her role in a Disney TV show because she posted on social media that conservatives should not be treated as enemies. In the New York theater scene at this time, in which many New York Friends of Abe toiled, to even question progressive shibboleths on the trans issue or, eventually, the evils of President Donald Trump, could garner a lifetime ban. GINA CARANO SAYS DISNEY WENT QUIET AFTER SETTLEMENT AS SHE GEARS UP FOR ROUSEY FIGHT A conservative in theater was so rare, that when I "came out" as a conservative, as host of a regular 10-minute series, and sparred with the Bowery Poetry Club's hyper liberal audience, people — including good friends of mine — assumed for years that I was doing a bit. For many in the arts at that time, including on the technical side of things, being known as right wing could have real consequences — as direct as not getting a job, or as indirect as just not getting invited to professional events. KEVIN SORBO BLASTS HOLLYWOOD 'BLACKLISTING' OF CONSERVATIVES AS 'SEVENTH GRADE MEAN GIRLS' CULTURE What made Friends of Abe’s monthly meetups so special for us was just that we could talk freely, something that, prior to the emergence of wokeness, we all took for granted. None of us take it for granted anymore. When we look at how few liberals say they are proud of our nation, and how many — like Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico — say the American flag is a "complicated symbol," can there be any doubt that the wholesale excising of conservative ideas from Hollywood played a role in that? There was almost nobody in Hollywood writing rooms — save maybe for shows like South Park and a few others — defending the founding fathers, stressing how far race relations in America have come, or, God forbid, questioning the ability of men to transform themselves into women. As meaningful and important as the fellowship that FOA provided was for its members, the fact that it was needed at all goes a long way to showing just how intolerant of conservative ideas the entertainment industry had become, and for many conservative Americans, how detached it was from their own realities. STEPHEN COLBERT'S 'LATE SHOW' JOKES TARGETED CONSERVATIVES 87% OF TIME IN FINAL YEARS, STUDY SAYS The mere fact that Heaton can talk about FOA today does show a real thawing from the censorious ice age we recently came through. Today, more celebrities are comfortable talking about conservative ideals, including their faith. But, make no mistake, there is still a long way to go. Just because people aren’t being fired for tweets anymore, doesn’t mean that Hollywood isn’t still 95% progressive, and that its output won’t continue to reflect that. Though I’m not in the industry anymore, I’m glad conservatives who still are don’t need to hide it so much anymore, and hope that their influence is soon felt on our screens and in our lives. Until then, and even after, I will remain a proud friend of Abe. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91c7f42c5335ae104c59c0 Good Good Golf doesn't deserve to be canceled for their dumb ad in collaboration with Callaway te 2026-08-28T17:40:04.556Z Good Good Golf doesn't deserve to be canceled for their dumb ad in collaboration with Callaway Cancel culture is making a comeback, unfortunately. In case you missed it, Good Good Golf has been dragged by the golf establishment for an advertisement they posted in collaboration with Callaway golf, which promoted the Quantum Max Driver with Good Good branding. The ad features many of Good Good's top personalities, including co-founder Garrett Clark, who is seen shoving a woman before she's able to get a hold of the driver in his bag. He stands over her as she lays on the ground and tells her not to touch his driver. Reading this makes it sounds bad, and watching it is "cringe," as Clark stated, while apologizing in a lengthy Instagram post following the backlash. The advertisement was done and presented in poor taste and the public didn't receive it well. Even though it was meant to take inspiration from the hit horror movie "Obsession," as Clark stated in his instagram video, where a character becomes obsessed with another due to a magic spell, causing them to be insanely and violently overprotective, it was not perceived that way. Many viewers missed the point and it fell flat, to say the least. But, what has been done in the aftermath since the deleted post, is what is unjust and concerning to me. NFL PUTS 'INSPIRE CHANGE' AND 'CHOOSE LOVE' ON FIELDS BUT NOT SO AGGRESSIVE ABOUT ITS DOMESTIC ABUSE ISSUES This whole situation has turned into a way for companies to virtue signal about domestic violence and supporting women, though most, if not all of these companies have done nothing to protect women and girls as their sports and spaces have been invaded by males over the years. Clark, in a 9-minute long video said neither him, nor the company, support or meant to insinuate any form of domestic violence. It was clearly a skit, but retail companies and even the PGA Tour are actively cancelling the popular YouTube golf brand, making them the fall guy for an ad that Callaway is just as responsible for, in my opinion. YOUTUBE GOLFER GRANT HORVAT IS SELLING KIDS GOLF CLUBS WITH AN ALARMINGLY HIGH PRICE TAG Golf Galaxy, Dick's Sporting Goods, Target, and the PGA Superstore have pulled Good Good products from their shelves and online. Golf Channel cancelled the latest season of the reality show in collaboration with Good Good, "Big Break." Good Good announced Thursday the cancelation of their title sponsorship for the PGA Tour event, the Good Good Championship in Texas saying, "After thoughtful discussion with the PGA Tour and careful reflection, we have decided to step away as sponsor of the Tour event in Austin this Fall." Callaway also ended their partnership with the popular golf brand stating, "we have listened and reflected deeply on the hurt and disappointment caused by the video we reposted. We heard from individuals who shared personal experiences related to violence against women, and their stories were powerful reminders that this issue touches the lives of far too many people. Unequivocally, violence against women is unacceptable and should never be trivialized, normalized, or used as entertainment." Yes, violence and mistreatment of women should be called out and women and girls should be protected, but these decisions and statements are just pure, unadulterated corporate virtue signaling. MARY CAIN'S BOOK AND NIKE'S TRANS-ATHLETE STUDY REVEAL THE SAME PATTERN OF CORPORATE HYPOCRISY Here's the worst part: Has Callaway's merch been pulled from stores? Nope. Has Callaway dealt with any reprecussions from the PGA Tour? Nope. That is exactly what Good Good Golf CEO, Matt Kendrick called out early this morning in a post on X stating, "Interesting that @CallawayGolf asks us to make an ad then approves it then asks us to take the fall then drops us in a coordinated media blitz and covers it up by giving a million dollars away thinking everyone will be ok with it." Bingo. In other words, Good Good is the bad guy, and Callaway gets to virtue signal their way into receiving no backlash from the golf establishment and media because they're donating $1 million "to support organizations working to prevent violence against women, provide resources to survivors, and advance education and awareness efforts." Good grief. Get off your high horse, Callaway. This is clear and obvious cancel culture. PEREZ HILTON JOINS 'TOMI LAHREN IS FEARLESS' AND DECLARES CANCEL CULTURE IS NOW A SPORT Cancel culture is an unjustified public shaming and social ostracism for a perceived wrong, mostly due to something liberals consider not politically correct under their ridiculous societal standards. It's not an actual wrong, worthy of relentless public shaming and corporate canceling. When I told people publicly to avoid shopping and supporting Bud Light, Target, Ulta and others promoting transgenderism through kids clothing, "tuck-friendly" swimwear, a man pretending to be a woman telling women how to be women (Dylan Mulvaney), that is not cancel culture. That's an objective moral wrong. Companies promoting body mutilation through "gender affirming care", gender fluidity, and more nonsense, is worth boycotting. FROM COLIN KAEPERNICK TO DYLAN MULVANEY, NIKE'S DECADE OF LEFT-WING ACTIVISM HAS FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO IT The Bud Light boycott was the most successful boycott in recent history after they partnered with Mulvaney to celebrate "one year of womanhood." It was a justified boycott. Anyone comparing Bud Light to this poorly-acted, dumb advertisement, which was obviously presented in poor taste, is being dishonest. Cancel culture was Twitter banning and suspending accounts like The Babylon Bee, myself, Charlie Kirk, and many others years ago, for calling former Assistant Secretary for Health under the Biden administration, Rachel Levine and swimmer Lia Thomas, men. DAN GAINOR: WE GOT TWITTER/X AS A PLATFORM 20 YEARS AGO AND GLOBAL CENSORS STILL HATE AND FEAR IT Cancel Culture is Fanatics firing from hosting their live shows in 2021 because I went to the gym without a mask in Arizona, the day the Governor dropped the mask mandate. What is being done to Good Good is cancel culture. It’s wrong. Clark never actually shoved that woman, as he stated on Instagram. It was acting. Yes, poor acting and a very bad idea. I've stated online that I have no idea why they thought this way a good idea, especially in a culture ready and willing to overreact, but it was in no way a promotion or endorsement of domestic violence. NIKE REMOVES RUNNING AD IN BOSTON FOR 'PACE SHAMING' I can relate to this in a real way because I was an actor in a video for my Christian college's chapel program, where I played a version of the old Terry Tate: Office Linebacker Reebok commercial, where he tackled men and men throughout the office. I "tackled" and "shoved" men and women in the video. I even stood over a female chapel card monitor yelling at her for accepting a blank chapel attendance card from a student. It was clearly satire. It was a dumb, yet fun video. No women were harmed. No women were outraged. Thousands laughed when it was shown at a semester-end chapel. No one was canceled or was called to be canceled. There have been many advertisements over the years with men tackling or shoving women. Betty White got trucked in a Snickers commercial playing football. In an early 2000s commercial, Michelob Ultra portrayed a woman getting viciously tackled in a football game at a park. There was a clear understanding of satire and acting. It wasn't real. It wasn't a prescription for abusing women. More than anything, there's a clear double standard at play with the way Callaway is being treated by the PGA Tour, Golf Channel, and retailers. Callaway saw this dumb advertisement in collaboration with Good Good Golf, signed off on it, published it, and they are going through the situation unscathed. No, I'm not calling for Callaway to be canceled. Both should have just said the ad was dumb, apologized for how it was received, taking accountability for a lack of clear messaging, saying that it was a spin-off of Obessesion, and move on. Instead, Good Good is faced with their products no longer in major retailers, pushed out of their title sponsorship for a PGA Tour event, and a public corporate shaming that is one of the worst in history. All because the PGA Tour and corporations want to make an example out of a group, so they can look morally superior. It's shameful. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91c59e2c5335ae104c596d Trump signs order creating new Space Academy akin to West Point, location to be determined te 2026-08-28T17:30:06.950Z Trump signs order creating new Space Academy akin to West Point, location to be determined President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to establish the U.S. Space Academy. Trump said the location of the academy was yet to be determined, but compared its significance to that of the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The U.S. Space Academy will be for students looking to enter the U.S. Space Force, a new branch of the military Trump created in his first term. Trump said it will also serve NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry. "We're going to have an academy for what the people in this room love the most. That's exciting. That's really exciting. And I'm going to be choosing a location very shortly," Trump said during remarks at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The other purpose of the event was to award the four Artemis II astronauts with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Behind Trump stood more than a dozen astronauts throughout the ceremony. After signing the executive order, Trump presented the vaunted award, which was first given to Neil Armstrong in 1978, to all four members of the Artemis II crew. The crew consists of NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, the mission commander; NASA astronaut Victor Glover, the pilot; NASA astronaut Christina Koch, a mission specialist; and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, also a mission specialist. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91c3462c5335ae104c5925 With costs high and Trump unpopular, Democrats favored to retake the House te 2026-08-28T17:20:06.441Z With costs high and Trump unpopular, Democrats favored to retake the House U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks at the Detroit NAACP Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner on April 26, 2026. Jeffries is in line to become House speaker if Democrats win control of the chamber in November. (Photo by Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance) WASHINGTON — With less than 70 days until midterm elections, Democrats remain favored to regain the majority in the U.S. House.   President Donald Trump’s anemic approval ratings amid the war in Iran, concerns over the economy and a coalitional shift within the party mark some of the largest headwinds facing Republicans heading into November, according to election analysts and political scientists interviewed by States Newsroom.  Though the GOP’s mid-decade redistricting push could help them shore up several seats and the battleground of competitive districts stands relatively small, Democrats maintain an edge to win the House, said Erin Covey, an editor specializing in U.S. House races for the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter.  Photo illustration by Getty Images “I would say that Republicans have a path to holding the House, but they kind of have to pitch a perfect game at this point in the cycle,” Covey said.   The GOP’s current House majority stands at 218-212. The Cook Political Report lists 21 House races as toss-ups, with Republicans defending 16.  Costs haven’t dropped Robert Speel, an associate professor of political science at Penn State Behrend in Erie, pointed to Trump’s dismal approval ratings and the impact of the war in Iran on gas prices as among the major disadvantages facing the GOP heading into Election Day on Nov. 3.   “Trump’s popularity is down below 40% in pretty much every poll now, and even in the low 30s or high 20s in some polls, and the Iran war is not even popular with Republicans, which has led to higher gas prices and his tariffs have led to inflation,” Speel said.  “It seems, from some numbers, possibly job losses in the last year and a half, so the economy is not doing particularly well, and I … expect it to drag down the Republicans in November,” he added.  Just 33% of Americans approve of how Trump is handling his job as president, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Aug. 24. The result tied for the lowest approval rating the pollster found since Trump took office in 2017. Just 31% of respondents expressed approval of U.S. military strikes against Iran, including 69% of Republicans.   Among registered voters, 36% said Democrats had a better plan or policy regarding the cost of living, compared with 28% choosing Republicans.    When the GOP secured a trifecta of the White House, Senate and House in 2024, voters gave the party homework to lower prices and do so right away, but Republicans failed that assignment, said Democratic campaign strategist Reed Adamson.  “Prices have gone up, and so, you’re going to see them try and wiggle out of that every time, but it comes up in so many different ways, whether it is anecdotes about cost of groceries or gas or just overall cost of living or even just consumer sentiment about the economy,” Adamson said.  “It is going to be really hard for them to wiggle out of it, and I think Democrats, for the most part, have been just sort of really disciplined in hammering that home,” he added.  Gas prices are displayed on a billboard in North Salt Lake, Utah on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (Photo by McKenzie Romero/Utah News Dispatch) Dems confident The Democratic Party’s campaign apparatus for House races expressed confidence they will take back the House. “Democrats are going to flip the House majority in November because we have the better message, better candidates, and strong momentum on our side,” Nebeyatt Betre, a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesperson, said in a statement shared with States Newsroom.  “All Republicans have to offer are higher prices families hate, unpopular rigged maps voters hate, and devastating health care cuts everybody hates,” Betre said. “Democratic candidates are winning over voters because they’re talking about their plans to lower costs, strengthen access to health care, and make Congress work for working people.” GOP’s map, cash advantages Meanwhile, the GOP’s campaign arm for House races sees several factors in their favor, including that progressive candidates have won Democratic primaries in some competitive races.   “House Republicans are running on a more favorable map with historic fundraising, stronger candidates, and a commonsense agenda, while Democrats are saddled with a deeply unpopular agenda and radical socialist nominees hijacking the must-win districts they need to take the majority,” Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in a statement shared with States Newsroom.  Twenty-three Democrats are running in districts Trump won in 2024, including 21 where Trump garnered more than 50% of the vote, according to a June NRCC battleground memo.  The NRCC also holds a $13.7 million cash-on-hand advantage over the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, as of mid-July.   And, despite low poll numbers for Republicans, their opponents have not sold voters on a clear alternative, Daniel Scarpinato, a Republican campaign strategist, said. “Republicans face some headwinds, but Democrats actually have to say, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do differently,’ and they haven’t really been able to articulate that,” Scarpinato said. “It’s really just been a pretty anti-Trump message, but they haven’t told people, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do.’” He noted that in focus groups, swing voters are not “ecstatic about the Democratic Party.” President Donald Trump’s unpopularity, due in part to an inability to execute his campaign promise to lower costs, is likely to hurt Republican congressional candidates in the midterms, according to political scientists and analysts. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Turnout problem Republicans are also facing a challenge in getting their voters to the polls, as their coalition has transitioned to include fewer college-educated and older people, and those groups historically turn out the most in midterms, according to Ryan Owens, a political science professor and director of the Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University.  Trump has pivoted the party more toward blue-collar voters and away from the more affluent and educated voters whose high turnout rates buoyed the party in past midterm election cycles.  Without Trump up for reelection, the party will likely struggle to activate the coalition that twice sent him to the White House, Owens said. “You used to see Republicans do really well in midterm elections,” he said. “But now that they don’t rely so much on that college-educated, white vote, their coalition doesn’t turn out as much as it used to in midterms. “Without having Trump on the ballot, without having a presidential election that generates that kind of enthusiasm to turn out, Republicans have been doing worse and worse during midterms,” he added.  Covey, of the Cook Political Report, said Republicans’ redistricting blitz and the number of pickup opportunities Republicans drew themselves across Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina and other Southern states is the main reason they have any path to keeping their majority.  However, “there’s a lot of variance in that because the seats that were redistricted, many of them are still quite competitive, and so, there’s a world in which Democrats hold on to them this cycle, for sure,” she said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91c3442c5335ae104c5904 Hochul ICE policy ‘written in the blood of victims,’ opponent says as sheriffs sue te 2026-08-28T17:20:04.771Z Hochul ICE policy ‘written in the blood of victims,’ opponent says as sheriffs sue New York Gov. Kathy Hochul faces new legal and political challenges over a law restricting local law enforcement cooperation with ICE after her Republican gubernatorial opponent warned it was "written in the blood" of crime victims. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, whose county borders sanctuary New York City, warned more New Yorkers will be hurt by Hochul’s move, pointing to recent cases of people maimed by illegal immigrants. "I want to be very clear about this law: This law is written in the blood of the victims, past, present and future," Blakeman said. "This law is completely misguided and will make our communities less safe," Blakeman said. "We have a governor and a legislature [wherein] every major criminal justice initiative makes it easier for criminals to prey on our communities." DEM GOVERNOR IN THE HOT SEAT AFTER TESTING LIMITS OF AUTHORITY WITH MAJOR MOVE AGAINST ICE Blakeman’s warning came as a coalition of 15 sheriffs representing counties from the shore of Lake Champlain to the Massachusetts line filed a lawsuit challenging the ban on 287(g) ICE agreements. His campaign referred Fox News Digital to his remarks when asked for additional comment. In a memo outlining the "Local Cops, Local Crimes Act," Hochul argued that "current federal immigration efforts have made communities less safe" and that using local officers and assets for federal civil immigration enforcement draws resources away from local public-safety functions. A Hochul spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Blakeman’s "understanding of New York’s bail and immigration laws is incorrect," and said the governor’s top priority remains public safety. BLAKEMAN CUTS INTO HOCHUL'S NEW YORK GOVERNOR'S RACE LEAD IN NEW POLL, AS LIKELY VOTERS GIVE DSA JUDGMENT "The Local Cops, Local Crimes Act does not tie the hands of our police or stop them from apprehending dangerous criminals, and local law enforcement can and will continue to work with federal authorities on criminal investigations and violent crime just as they always have," the spokesperson said, adding that the law doesn't prevent cooperation on "ordinary criminal investigations." EXCLUSIVE: LEGAL GROUP TELLS NYPD COPS THEY CAN CONTACT ICE DIRECTLY DESPITE BLUE CITY'S SANCTUARY RULES Hochul recently signaled she'd enlist Attorney General Letitia James to take action against counties that do not comply with the law, while quipping that police should not be converging on churches and schools to help "Stephen Miller reach his quotas." Miller is a White House aide credited with crafting much of President Donald Trump's immigration policy. "We have reviewed this law with the county attorneys and we looked for every possible way not to comply with this law," Blakeman said in his recent remarks. "However, it was concluded that we would have to abide by the law. I am a law-and-order county executive. I believe in the rule of law, even when it's a bad law," he said. ICE EYES $20M PURCHASE OF ELECTRIC SHOCK GLOVES AS HOCHUL WARNS OF LEGAL CONSEQUENCES Blakeman said the law makes it harder for police to keep communities safe, pointing to the recent killing of Westchester County resident Sheridan Gorman, which authorities have attributed to an illegal immigrant, while she was attending college in sanctuary Chicago. Blakeman cited Illinois’ restrictions on state and local participation in federal immigration enforcement as he argued that New York was moving in a similar direction. Closer to home, Blakeman said an illegal immigrant from Honduras was charged days ago in his county with second-degree rape and endangering the welfare of a 14-year-old. Rep. Michael Lawler, the Rockland County Republican who has often warred with Hochul, tweeted this latest law shows she is "the worst governor in America" and "doesn't give a s— about public safety or the rule of law." Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin opposed the 287(g) ban before it took effect, calling the agreements "common sense." McLaughlin, whose Capital Region county is one of the 15 challenging the law, invited Hochul to follow through: "We don’t really care what this legislature did, we are not going to let them endanger our citizens," he told ABC’s Troy affiliate in June. "I dare you to confront me on this, governor. We’re not stopping." Late Thursday, Hochul announced a countersuit against Rensselaer County’s sheriff for noncompliance. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Blakeman said he similarly sought a route to noncompliance, pointing to the recent seizure of dozens of illegal handguns and several kilograms of drugs, as well as one of the "largest gang takedowns" in the U.S., which netted 42 gang members in 2025. Blakeman argued Wednesday that ICE involvement allowed authorities to keep some suspects in custody who otherwise might have been released under New York's cashless bail and other laws. The law-and-order debate is also playing out elsewhere on the statewide GOP ticket, where former Brooklyn federal prosecutor Saritha Komatireddy, who is vying against James, is in a faceoff over criminal justice policies. Fox News Digital's Kiera McDonald contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91c0f52c5335ae104c5897 Matt Rhule sounds alarm on NFL returnees, $45 million rosters and college football’s payroll problem te 2026-08-28T17:10:13.628Z Matt Rhule sounds alarm on NFL returnees, $45 million rosters and college football’s payroll problem The debate over whether NFL returnees should be allowed back into college athletics isn’t going away anytime soon, especially with the amount of court proceedings taking place amid new conference guidelines. Over the past few months, dozens of lawsuits have been filed across the country challenging the eligibility rules for athletes from the 2022 class. What began as a fight over an additional year of eligibility has now turned into a full-blown battle involving conferences, schools, attorneys and state court judges. GOVERNOR LANDRY BACKS LANE KIFFIN, LSU IN FIGHT WITH SEC: 'DON'T HATE THE PLAYER, HATE THE GAME' The fallout has led conferences across college athletics to enact new guidelines outlining potential punishments for schools that roster plaintiffs granted an injunction or temporary restraining order by a local judge. In Louisiana and Texas alone over the past week, more than 50 athletes have been granted another year of eligibility. Attorneys are now adding conferences, including the SEC, to their lawsuits because of the new guidelines meant to deter schools from taking these players. One of the more interesting debates around this entire saga has centered around the competitive advantage these athletes would have on the field. While some might wonder how much better a fourth string player participating in NFL camp would actually be with a return to college, Nebraska's Matt Rhule told OutKick's Dan Dakich that these athletes would have a considerate advantage over players who have been practicing on a college campus. "Twice as good, twice as good," Rhule told Dakich. "I mean, I think the hardest thing, you know, when you're coaching these guys is you're always telling them like, 'hey guys, do this, this is what it's like, or the next level'. You know, half of it is like as a kid, you know they’re kids, right?...Like just the growth you make. "They train for the combine. They train in a pro facility, had an agent pay for their meals, trained with NFL teams, they had training camp...I think if an NFL player came back, it would be twice, if not three times better than they were." Whether or not you believe that is a entirely different topic of discussion, but I think most would take the word of the Nebraska head coach. LSU’S LANE KIFFIN FIRES BACK AT NFL RETURNEE BACKLASH: BLAME THE NCAA, NOT US FOR RECRUITING PRO ATHLETES Though, maybe he's just saying this to create fear for judges across the country. We are essentially living in an era where college sports should be viewed more like Double-A baseball than the amateur model administrators spent decades trying to protect. Better yet, think of how much it will cost these schools to continue fielding a roster that is in the CFP conversation when the first week of November comes around. As for the entire "name, image and likeness" conversation, Rhule says that is no longer the proper way to describe how college athletes are being compensated. "People use the term NIL for a while. We gotta get rid of that, it's just payroll. It's player payroll," Matt Rhule noted to Dan Dakich. "You look at the National Football League, all the major sports, they all have a salary cap because they say the number one expenditure is paying players. In college football, the spending on players has gone up 60% every year. "What was once a $24 million roster is now a $30 (million). Playoff teams this year, outside research, is about $45 million. Some of the numbers coming out might not havw the right word, but some of the numbers are low, it's about $45 million a year.." While Rhule would go on to say that Nebraska has great deals and makes a ton of money from sponsorships and other forms of revenue, it comes down to a decision that the school has to make on where to spend, and how much. And yes, there are programs spending the type of money Rhule described. LSU and Texas are certainly on that list. But as college football continues to push the limits — with potential changes still coming through congressional legislation — the cost of building a competitive roster will only continue to rise. Programs with the resources will adapt and find the money. Others will be left trying to compete for conference championships and playoff berths with rosters that cost half as much as the teams sitting across from them. In other words, welcome to college athletics in 2026. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91c0ee2c5335ae104c5876 How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems  te 2026-08-28T17:10:06.475Z How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems  Sophia Bendz, founder of Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosystem. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91bc452c5335ae104c5818 YENDI PARKER: From Yuma To The Capitol: How A Local Effort Helped Deliver Historic Property Tax Relief For Arizona Veterans te 2026-08-28T16:50:13.616Z YENDI PARKER: From Yuma To The Capitol: How A Local Effort Helped Deliver Historic Property Tax Relief For Arizona Veterans By Yendi Parker | For anyone who has lived in Yuma, the sound of military aircraft overhead isn’t unusual. It’s part of daily life. So perhaps it is fitting that an effort to significantly expand property tax relief for Arizona’s disabled veterans has roots here. The reforms, championed by Rep. Michael Carbone, whose Legislative District 25 includes portions of Yuma and Maricopa counties, have unfolded over multiple legislative sessions. They significantly expand Arizona’s property tax benefits for disabled veterans, with additional changes taking effect in tax year 2027. But the story didn’t begin at the Capitol. It began with his constituents. Yuma resident and military veteran Josh Pembleton wrote the original constituent proposal and brought it to Carbone about two years ago. Fellow veteran Josh Wright also provided his thoughts and perspective as the idea developed. “That makes me so proud, because it came from our citizens,” Carbone said. Pembleton said the idea grew from conversations with veterans frustrated by Arizona’s existing property tax exemption system. Income restrictions and other requirements meant too few veterans were benefiting from the policies already in place. He began looking at what other states were doing and saw an opportunity for Arizona to do better. “I think it is more than fair to provide a benefit to those that have sustained lifelong injuries while providing service to our great country,” Pembleton said. “If the VA recognizes these veterans in reference to disability rating, we should too.” Barry Todd, also a veteran, was part of the effort, listening to disabled veterans across Arizona about where the system was falling short. “Our goal was never political,” Todd said. “We simply wanted the law to reflect the sacrifices veterans made and remove barriers that kept them from receiving benefits they had earned.” That persistence eventually paid off. Arizona now provides a full property tax exemption on the primary residence of qualifying veterans with a 100% service-connected disability. Veterans with service-connected disability ratings from 10% through 90% can receive property tax relief prorated proportionally according to their disability rating. The reforms also removed the previous property-assessment ceiling for disabled veterans and provide protections for qualifying surviving spouses. Beginning in tax year 2027, disabled veterans and their surviving spouses will no longer be subject to the household income limits that previously prevented many from qualifying. For Carbone, the changes represent a dramatic improvement in Arizona’s treatment of veterans. “The thing that makes me the happiest is going from one of the worst to one of the best now,” Carbone said. “We want you to stay here in Arizona. And it is the right thing to do.” House Republicans describe the resulting program as one of the most generous veteran property tax benefits in the nation. For those who helped push the reforms forward, the goal is to lead from the front while honoring veterans and making Arizona a place where they can afford to put down roots after their military careers. Passing legislation, however, is only part of the job. Arizona’s county assessors now have to make it work. Yuma County Assessor Stevie Seale said his office will be prepared to help local veterans navigate the new benefit when implementation begins. “Starting in January 2027, Yuma County will be ready to implement this new law and make the process as clear and straightforward as possible for our veterans,” Seale said. “The Legislature got this right. This was an issue I advocated for while running for assessor, and it’s rewarding to see it become a reality and provide this benefit to those who have served our country.” Veterans seeking the exemption will work through their local county assessor, putting those offices on the front line of turning the statewide reform into a tangible benefit for veterans and their families. For Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls, the effort fits a community where supporting military families and veterans is part of its identity. “Yuma is a community that takes a lot of pride in our military and veteran presence,” Nicholls said. “We want Arizona to serve as our veterans’ home after they retire. We welcome them here in Arizona and in Yuma.” That commitment has earned national recognition. Yuma was named a 2025 Great American Defense Community, one of only three communities nationwide selected that year. As a Yuma resident of eight years and the wife of an active-duty Marine now in his 21st year of service, I’ve seen that relationship firsthand. Here, military service isn’t something observed from a distance. It is woven into everyday life. That’s also why this story is about more than property taxes. Veterans who choose Arizona after leaving the military become our community members. Helping them build their next chapter here honors their service while strengthening the communities they join. And maybe that is the best part of this story. A Yuma veteran saw a problem and wrote a proposal. Other veterans lent their voices. Their state representative listened and carried the issue to the Capitol. Lawmakers acted. Now local officials will help deliver the benefit. Years from now, most Arizonans probably won’t remember the bill numbers. But disabled veterans and their families may remember something far more important: Arizona made it easier for them to remain in the place they chose to call home. And behind that statewide change is a story with roots in a community where military service has never been an abstract idea. It has always been part of life in Yuma. Yendi Parker is an English teacher at Yuma Catholic High School. She also serves as the Eastern Arizona Chapter Manager for Our America and 3rd Vice President for the Arizona State Federation of Republican Women. The post YENDI PARKER: From Yuma To The Capitol: How A Local Effort Helped Deliver Historic Property Tax Relief For Arizona Veterans first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91bc3e2c5335ae104c57ec Enes Kanter Freedom pushes back after Cameron Brink dismisses transgender athlete debate as 'non-issue' te 2026-08-28T16:50:06.278Z Enes Kanter Freedom pushes back after Cameron Brink dismisses transgender athlete debate as 'non-issue' Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from Sunday’s Chicago Sky game after a confrontation with guard Natasha Cloud late in the third quarter. Freedom had been seated along the baseline wearing a black shirt that read, "WOMAN noun. adult human female." The Sky later announced that the 6-foot-10, 250-pound former NBA center would be barred from future games at Wintrust Arena. Team owner Michael Alter said the ban would remain in place "unless sometime in the future he’s able to prove to us to our satisfaction that he is able to abide by our rules without being a potential threat." Los Angeles Sparks star Cameron Brink also weighed in on the controversy surrounding Kanter, calling the debate over transgender athletes "non-issue" for the WNBA and suggesting the retired NBA center was "just trying to stay relevant." LA SPARKS STAR DIRECTS EXPLICIT RANT AT ENES KANTER FREEDOM OVER TRANS DEBATE: 'STUPID PIECE OF S---' Kanter fired back at Brink’s comments Thursday during an appearance on "Fox News @ Night." "You guys are the one that [have] been advocating about male[s] playing in your league or against your team. Well here I am, I have arrived and I have every right to play because I identify as a woman," he said, before then accusing Brink of taking a position he characterized as inconsistent with support for transgender athletes. "For you to come out and act like I shouldn't be playing, you are anti-trans and it is unacceptable." Kanter also responded to Megan Rapinoe. The two-time Women’s World Cup champion with the U.S. women’s national team had questioned his assertion that he was "just out there to protect women." "Well, oh my God, thank you so much because that’s what we were asking for. In fairness, you did warn us about men forcing their way into WNBA spaces, and lo and behold," Rapinoe said. ENES KANTER FREEDOM EJECTED FROM SKY-FEVER GAME AFTER VERBAL ALTERCATION WITH NATASHA CLOUD "I grew up playing soccer and you are one of those female athletes [who] advocated [for] males playing in women's sports, so here I am. I am offering you $5 million to any charity you want, if you beat me one-on-one in soccer." The confrontation with Cloud last Sunday unfolded shortly after she scored in the paint with less than two minutes remaining in the third quarter. The Fever called timeout and Cloud celebrated with teammate Aicha Coulibaly before turning and walking toward Freedom along the baseline. Cloud, who led the WNBA in assists in 2022, began shouting and pointing toward the 34-year-old Freedom as she approached him. Freedom then rose from his seat and stepped onto the court with his arms extended as security personnel and several Sky players moved between them. "It was pretty clear to us that his purpose of coming here was trying to be provocative and just see how much attention he could get and stir up and create," Alter told reporters. Kanter said he would be willing to speak directly with Cloud about the incident. "Of course I would sit down and talk to her," Kanter told "Fox News @ Night" host Trace Gallagher. He then laid out a condition for ending the dispute, saying, "Unless the WNBA adds the word 'biological' next to the [word] 'female' in their collective bargaining [agreement] in Article 13, Section 1A, then I will drop everything." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91bc3d2c5335ae104c57e3 Newsom targets major affordability squeeze in ‘striking’ convergence with Trump te 2026-08-28T16:50:05.217Z Newsom targets major affordability squeeze in ‘striking’ convergence with Trump California Gov. Gavin Newsom is making affordability a focal point of his agenda as the potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender moves to tackle housing costs — seizing on an issue that hurt Democrats politically while converging with pieces of President Donald Trump’s deregulatory housing agenda before the midterms. Newsom’s biggest recent housing reforms in California came before Trump’s March 2026 executive order on regulatory barriers, but the two are pushing some of the same ideas, including faster approvals, fewer regulatory hurdles and more housing construction. "This is a pattern that we've seen a couple times with Democrats, where they will fight tooth and nail against economic common sense, but if it starts pulling the wrong way for them, then they'll come around to reality. So you know he's focusing on a lot of things that Trump has been championing," economist Peter St. Onge told Fox News Digital. "...These are things that the free-market economists have been championing for decades." St. Onge said while Newsom’s "transformation has been certainly striking," California’s struggle to rebuild after the Palisades fire underscores whether that shift will translate into results. THE KEY STRATEGY RED STATES ARE USING TO LOWER HOUSING COSTS REVEALED "We saw this with the Palisades fires where thousands of houses were burned. And people go through… and look at exactly how many houses are under construction and it’s pretty close to zero. The regulatory blockade is insurmountable," said St. Onge. Newsom has embraced some of the same supply-side housing tools Trump has pushed nationally, including faster approvals, fewer regulatory barriers and efforts to reduce construction costs. California enacted its major recent reforms in June 2025, before Trump issued a housing-specific executive order targeting regulatory barriers in March 2026. The push comes after Democrats notched big wins in 2025 by campaigning on affordability, reclaiming ground on an issue that had worked in Trump’s favor in 2024. The Golden State governor signed a housing package in June 2025 to exempt certain projects from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and streamline environmental review for qualifying housing and infrastructure development. Some Coastal Commission housing appeals were limited and new residential building standards through 2031 were placed on hold. Newsom followed those changes in July by signing another housing package aimed at streamlining affordable-housing financing and project reviews. "We can’t speak to the Trump administration’s approach, because he hasn’t done anything. Trump’s failed economic policies and tariffs (also called taxes on Americans) have increased prices and shut down supply chains – slowing building across the country," Newsom director of communications Tara Gallegos told Fox News Digital when approached for comment. "In contrast, in California, Governor Newsom has enacted historic reforms in California to boost affordability, accelerate housing production, and hold local governments accountable for planning and building the housing their communities need," Gallegos added. $104,200 SALARY IN ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA CONSIDERED 'LOW-INCOME' BY STATE OFFICIALS Trump already made reducing regulatory barriers to home construction part of his federal housing agenda. He signed an executive order in March directing agencies to identify ways to speed permitting, reduce regulatory costs and encourage state and local governments to ease barriers to new construction. The White House’s Economic Report of the President, published in April, went further by recommending specific state and local reforms, including by-right approval for code-compliant projects, deadlines of no more than 60 days for a right-to-build decision and 30 days for later permits and inspections, limits on certain fees, third-party inspections and fewer green-energy mandates. "Unlike incompetent Governor Gavin Newscum, President Trump has been laser-focused on making housing more affordable. The President signed an Executive Order prohibiting large Wall Street firms from purchasing single-family homes, directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase $200 billion in mortgage bonds that helped drive rates to four-year lows, and cut unnecessary red tape at a historic pace to boost supply, speed construction, and lower costs," White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital . "The President will not stop fighting until the American Dream of homeownership is within reach for every American, which is why he continues to sign bold new executive orders and calls on Congress to pass further legislation," added Ingle. John Gibbs, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies Director at The Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital that housing is better handled by state and local governments. .TRUMP SCORES MAJOR WIN AS CONGRESS PASSES HOUSING CRACKDOWN ON WALL STREET INVESTORS "While California's recent efforts to streamline approvals and limit local barriers to development reflect policies to increase housing supply that many economists across the political spectrum support, it is important to recognize that housing supply is ultimately governed primarily by state and local governments, not Washington," said Gibbs. The president and governor both have different powers in their pockets they can use. Newsom can directly use state power to override local zoning, streamline CEQA/permitting and pressure cities to build. Trump’s levers are largely federal — mortgage finance, federal regulation, GSEs and incentives/guidance to states. "Federal policymakers have far greater control over demand-driven housing policies such as mortgage guarantees, federal mortgage insurance programs, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), and monetary policy, than they do over local zoning and land-use decisions," Gibbs explained. Manhattan Institute senior fellow Judge Glock also Fox News Digital there are contrasts to the president and Newsom’s plans. TRUMP’S AFFORDABILITY PLAN FACES CONSERVATIVE PUSHBACK AS POCKETBOOK ISSUES LOOM OVER MIDTERMS "One problem is that many of Newsom's housing laws contain handouts to unions or to environmental groups that further drive-up housing prices, such as requirements for union labor or for solar-paneled roofs," said Glock. "The Trump administration, by contrast, has tried to limit such requirements for new housing." "The Trump administration has also focused more on trying to expand cities outward and allowing more single-family homes, while Newsom has focused on densifying existing areas and building more apartments," he added. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91bc3c2c5335ae104c57da Jelly Roll rolls away from apolitical past after Trump jokes spark MAGA and ‘snowflake’ labels te 2026-08-28T16:50:04.146Z Jelly Roll rolls away from apolitical past after Trump jokes spark MAGA and ‘snowflake’ labels Making his final appearance as guest host of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Thursday night, country music star Jelly Roll walked back his previous assertions that he is apolitical just days after mocking President Donald Trump’s weight, physical fitness and approval ratings. "A lot of people seem to think these Jimmy Kimmel writers have secretly been pulling the strings and forcing this good old country boy to poke fun at our commander-in-chief," Jelly Roll told the audience. "But let’s be real about this y’all: Do you think I would take orders from some sweaty little dork named Josh? No, I was just telling it like it is. And for some reason that seemed to freak a lot of people out. I guess now that I’ve lost all this weight, folks can finally see I have balls." The country music star continued, adding, "It is funny that before this week everybody thought I was MAGA. And now they think I’m some sort of liberal snowflake." DOLLY PARTON REFUSED TO PICK POLITICAL SIDES FOR DECADES: ‘I’M NOT IN POLITICS, I’M AN ENTERTAINER’ He went on to walk the audience through his cultural and political evolution, and pushed back on criticism of his celebration of the UFC Freedom 250 event held at the White House in June — using the event as a catalyst for his message surrounding his political views. "But just because I watched a fight on TV, doesn’t mean I support everything this administration does," Jelly Roll said. "Just like how hosting Jimmy Kimmel’s show doesn’t mean I have all of Jimmy Kimmel’s politics." TRUMP ADMIN OFFERS BLUNT ADVICE TO WHITE HOUSE UFC CRITICS AS 11TH-HOUR LAWSUIT LOOMS "Sure, I lean left on some things," he continued. "But like most folks, I’m pretty down the middle. I am a Christian. I am a country music singer. I’m a farmer. I’m a bow hunter. And most of the things I eat, I prefer to get with a stick and a string. That’s the truth." He concluded the segment of his monologue by joking about his newfound friendships with Kimmel’s crew, adding, "And I truly am going to miss all of my communist, Antifa friends here on the staff of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’" LUKE COMBS’ BRUTAL RESPONSE TO ‘LIBERAL’ LABELS: ‘WHY DO WE ALL CARE?’ Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, then gave a heartfelt, sometimes emotional explanation of his previous unwillingness to share his political views, in which he addressed a moment during the 2026 Grammys Awards where he declined to offer a personal opinion about the country’s political climate and questioned why people would seek his views. "For the last six months, I’ve watched people decide who I am, what I am, what I believe, what I support and what I don’t support," he said. "And I felt that even more this week, just because I told a couple of jokes. And honestly, this goes back further for me, y’all. This goes back to February this year. I won my first [Grammy]. Actually, somehow on that night, I won three of them." MUSICIAN KENNY CHESNEY'S REFUSAL TO SPEAK OUT ON POLITICS SPARKS ARGUMENT ON 'THE VIEW' He added that shortly after receiving his award, he was asked a question invoking his political stance and "fumbled his words." "Looking back, I don’t necessarily regret asking for more time before I spoke," Jelly Roll said. "I wish more people took more time before they spoke. But I do wish I had found the words to express my heart just a little bit sooner. But I was afraid that anything I was going to say was going to be immediately taken as a political statement." JOHNNY CARSON'S FRIEND SAYS LATE-NIGHT KING WISELY AVOIDED PARTISANSHIP AS KIMMEL CONTROVERSY GROWS Jelly Roll — who has a years-long history of run-ins with the law and was pardoned by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee in December 2025 — pointed to his new ability to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, but did not reveal who he plans to cast his ballot for. "And, ironically, by trying so hard not to make a political statement, I became one," he said. "I spent my entire career trying not to belong to a political party — partly because until March of this year, I wasn’t even allowed to vote. But now that I have that right, it’s one I plan to exercise this coming November." JELLY ROLL SAYS LIFELONG GUN BAN AS A FELON SHOULD HAVE 'PATH TO REDEMPTION,' WANTS HIS RIGHT TO HUNT BACK He added that he wants to "speak for the unspoken for," and expressed a sense of regret for his unwillingness to talk about his views when given the platform. "My daddy always told me it is never too late to do the right thing," he said. "So I am going to try to do the right thing right now because human dignity isn’t Republican nor Democrat. Compassion isn’t left-wing and mercy isn’t right-wing." "Pain and healing knows no partisanship," he added. "Hurting hearts are more important than poll numbers and there are no boundaries or borders for broken families." Jelly Roll concluded his week of hosting with an anecdote about his father, a "blue back Democrat," and his uncle, a "red hat Republican," telling the audience there was little the two agreed on. AOC SAYS ‘WOKE 1 WAS CRAZY,’ BUT DEMOCRATS STILL OWE VOTERS AN EXPLANATION "This might be hard for people to understand out there, but they were absolutely best friends," he said. Jelly Roll’s apparent transparency and candidness while hosting "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" may have been the right play, CEO of Axia Public Relations Jason Mudd told Fox News Digital. "If Jelly Roll were my client, I'd tell him to keep doing exactly what he did on that stage. State the distinction, then stop talking. The second you start defending and justifying, the audience assumes you're hiding or protecting something," Mudd said. Mudd pointed to Jelly Roll’s use of a personal family story to highlight the key point of his monologue — a decision the PR expert believes paid off. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE "The part I keep coming back to isn't about politics at all," Jelly Roll said. "It's the story about his dad and his uncle, one a Democrat, one a Republican, best friends anyway. That's America. That's the real point of his whole monologue. Everything else is decoration around it." Fox News Digital reached out to Jelly Roll for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91b9ec2c5335ae104c5796 MALC and Mohave boys golf compete at Lee Williams, Thunderbird girls in Prescott te 2026-08-28T16:40:12.647Z MALC and Mohave boys golf compete at Lee Williams, Thunderbird girls in Prescott The Mohave Accelerated and Mohave boys golf teams traveled to Kingman on Tuesday to face Lee Williams at Cerbat Cliffs Golf Course. The Patriots finished second behind Lee Williams with a 276. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91b9eb2c5335ae104c578d MALC and Mohave boys golf compete at Lee Williams, Thunderbird girls in Prescott te 2026-08-28T16:40:11.637Z MALC and Mohave boys golf compete at Lee Williams, Thunderbird girls in Prescott Aryana Burch finishes her swing at Cerbat Cliffs Golf Course on Aug. 19. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91b78b2c5335ae104c5701 Judge Excludes Key Confession in Sept. 11 Case te 2026-08-28T16:30:03.710Z Judge Excludes Key Confession in Sept. 11 Case Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91b5372c5335ae104c535e Kamala Harris dives into midterm fight only to get roasted for never having 'an original thought in her life’ te 2026-08-28T16:20:07.605Z Kamala Harris dives into midterm fight only to get roasted for never having 'an original thought in her life’ Critics mocked former Vice President Kamala Harris after she warned Republicans are "trying to cheat" in the midterms while echoing President Donald Trump’s signature "too big to rig" rallying cry in a new video urging Democrats to turn out in force. "We are two months away from the midterms. Get out and vote. Let’s get everyone out to vote. They are cheating," said Harris in a recorded video Thursday posted on X. "They are trying to cheat, and we have got to turn out in big numbers and be too big to rig. I’ll see you out there," Harris added. Trump repeatedly used "too big to rig" during the 2024 campaign, after years of casting doubt on U.S. election integrity following his loss in the 2020 election. Harris is using the same phrase while accusing Republicans of trying to cheat in the 2026 midterms. 2026 MIDTERMS STATE OF PLAY: KEY RACES UNFOLD AS STEVENS, EL-SAYED BATTLE IN MICHIGAN "Kamala Harris has never had an original thought in her life," wrote TPUSA Spokesman Andrew Kolvet. "47 seconds. 15 jump cuts. She must be high as a kite," wrote popular account End Wokeness. "Nice to know she's still stealing Trump's ideas," said conservative commentator Shawn Farash. "Sounds familiar," said Turning Point show host Jobob Taeleifi. FEDERAL JUDGE AGAIN BLOCKS TRUMP'S MAIL BALLOT ORDER JUST BEFORE MIDTERMS In her video, Harris pointed to Monday’s Supreme Court ruling allowing parts of Trump’s mail-voting order to move forward while the legal fight continues. The court did not rule on whether the restrictions themselves are legal. A federal judge on Thursday again temporarily blocked the Postal Service from enforcing the new mail-ballot requirements, setting up another round of litigation over the policy ahead of November’s midterms. FOX NEWS POLL: AS ECONOMIC PAIN DEEPENS, DISAPPROVAL OF TRUMP HITS NEW HIGH Harris urged Democrats to turn out in large numbers while arguing that Trump’s mail-voting policies could make it more difficult for some voters to cast ballots. "By the way, he votes by mail from Mar-A-Lago, but he doesn’t want you to vote by mail. Just this week the U.S. Supreme Court backed up the president’s agenda. He’s trying to make it more difficult for you to vote by mail," Harris said in the video. Fox News Digital reached out to Harris for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91b5362c5335ae104c5355 Lindsay Clancy verdict: Retired judge explains what happens if insanity defense prevails te 2026-08-28T16:20:06.647Z Lindsay Clancy verdict: Retired judge explains what happens if insanity defense prevails If jurors find Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for strangling her three children, her civil commitment to a mental institution could come up for review every year — making it difficult to predict how long she could remain hospitalized, according to a retired judge. Clancy would not face "a 'life sentence in a public mental hospital,'" Carol Erskine, a retired Massachusetts judge and child welfare advocate, wrote in a post on X. "She could remain hospitalized for many years — even indefinitely — but only as long as the legal criteria for civil commitment continue to be met." The first move is in the trial judge's hands, Erskine later told Fox News Digital. LINDSAY CLANCY DIDN'T SHOW 'BREAK WITH REALITY' AS JURY WEIGHS PSYCHOSIS DEFENSE: SUSAN SMITH PROSECUTOR "The initial aspect of what happens is an order by the judge," she said. "If the judge so orders it, a 40-day evaluation in a locked unit." After that, there would be an evaluation and hearing on whether she should be committed for further. "If the recommendation is for a civil commitment because there's likelihood of serious harm under the statute, then there would be a commitment for a period of six months," she said. "And that would, again, be in a locked unit." LINDSAY CLANCY DEFENSE SCORES ‘EXTREMELY HELPFUL’ PSYCHOSIS CONCESSION AS EXPERT FLAGS NEXT HURDLE FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Beyond that, Clancy would be up for review every year to determine whether there is still a likelihood of serious harm and if she should still be be committed to a mental institution, she said. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS "It’s really impossible to say how long she would be committed if she’s committed because it all depends on if she is initially committed [and] these yearly evaluations," Erskine said. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE After the evaluation, the facility's superintendent could recommend discharge. If there is a petition to discharge, the district attorney's office and Clancy's defense attorney can be heard in court. PROSECUTOR IN INFAMOUS KILLER MOM CASE SAYS WOMEN ON LINDSAY CLANCY JURY MAY BRING ‘STRANGE TWIST’ TO VERDICT That's just one potential outcome as jurors, who began deliberating Thursday, weigh Clancy's fate. GOT A TIP? Clancy is charged with three counts of murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old. Jurors could find her guilty of first- or second-degree murder, manslaughter, or not criminally responsible via the insanity defense. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST LINDSAY CLANCY DESCRIBED A MALE VOICE ORDERING HER TO ‘KILL HER CHILDREN AND KILL HERSELF’: TESTIMONY Investigators have said that after strangling them with exercise bands, she attempted to kill herself by cutting herself and jumping out a second-floor window. The resulting injuries have left her paralyzed. LINDSAY CLANCY'S FAMILY WAS 'VERY CONCERNED' ABOUT HER MENTAL HEALTH IN THE MONTHS BEFORE SHE KILLED HER KIDS But her limited mobility is likely not going to be a factor when she is evaluated for her potential for harm in the future, Erskine said. "I don’t think it would play a huge role in how they evaluate whether she has a mental illness that creates a likelihood of serious harm because we’re talking about serious harm to herself as well," she explained. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91b2dd2c5335ae104c511d Rio Nuevo aborda seguridad y crecimiento del centro te 2026-08-28T16:10:05.314Z Rio Nuevo aborda seguridad y crecimiento del centro Leer en inglés La Junta Directiva de Rio Nuevo se reunió el 29 de julio por primera vez desde la repentina renuncia de un miembro de la junta y el tiroteo ocurrido el mes pasado en el centro de la ciudad; abordó ambos asuntos y, al mismo tiempo, continuó impulsando proyectos de expansión comercial en todo el centro de Tucson. Crystal Moore, presidenta y directora ejecutiva de Downtown Tucson Partnership, expuso ante la junta las medidas para mejorar la seguridad en el centro, entre ellas una mejor gestión de la economía nocturna, una mayor visibilidad de la seguridad pública y la coordinación de horarios del personal municipal, como los embajadores de seguridad, los agentes de policía del distrito y los policías fuera de servicio. La medida más polémica ha sido la adopción de escáneres de identificación Patron Scan por parte de los negocios que participan en la iniciativa de seguridad Together Tucson. Estos escáneres recopilan el nombre y los apellidos, la fecha de nacimiento y el código postal de las identificaciones escaneadas, almacenando la información en una base de datos durante un periodo de entre 24 horas y 21 días, según el criterio del operador. Cuando se prohíbe la entrada a infractores en un establecimiento participante, dicha prohibición se aplica automáticamente en todos los demás locales adheridos al programa. El presidente de la junta, Fletcher McCusker, señaló que el programa, con un coste de $55,000 ya ha suscitado críticas en internet, donde miembros de la comunidad han expresado su preocupación por la privacidad. Moore defendió el uso de los escáneres, afirmando que recopilan menos datos que el antiguo sistema obsoleto que utilizaba anteriormente Together Tucson. "Probablemente, su teléfono genera más información que simplemente su nombre y apellidos, su fecha de nacimiento y su código postal," afirmó, añadiendo que ya se ha registrado un descenso de los incidentes violentos en el centro desde la implementación del sistema. McCusker elogió la actuación de los policías fuera de servicio durante el tiroteo del mes pasado, en el que resultaron heridas nueve personas, así como en otro tiroteo desde un vehículo ocurrido en mayo. "En dos ocasiones durante los últimos meses, estos agentes han corrido hacia donde se producían los disparos," declaró McCusker. "No solo intervinieron, sino que dispararon contra el agresor. La rápida actuación de nuestros agentes salvó muchas vidas." Unos peatones cruzan la avenida North Sixth en el centro de Tucson, a pocas cuadras del lugar del tiroteo del 19 de julio que dejó nueve heridos y motivó nuevas medidas de seguridad por parte de Downtown Tucson Partnership y Rio Nuevo. Foto de Gracie Kayko. Moore estuvo de acuerdo y atribuyó el mérito a la coordinación realizada entre bastidores. "El Departamento de Policía de Tucson hizo un trabajo excelente hace 12 días, y Rio Nuevo tuvo algo que ver en esa respuesta," dijo Moore. "Eso se debe al plan estratégico que tenemos para esas noches de gran actividad." La junta también habló sobre la renuncia del exmiembro Edmund Marquez, quien decidió centrarse en su reciente adquisición de la mayoría accionaria de los Tucson Sugar Skulls; dicha renuncia se produjo aproximadamente una semana después de la reunión de la junta del 14 de julio. "Nos sorprendió a todos con su renuncia entre una reunión y otra," comentó McCusker. La junta debatió cómo cubrir los vacíos dejados por la renuncia de Marquez, incluyendo la sustitución de su función como segundo firmante de cheques por la veterana miembro Jannie Cox y el nombramiento de Mike Levin para el grupo de marketing de la junta. McCusker manifestó que no le interesaba celebrar elecciones en la junta para elegir a otro directivo. Kyle Jefferson y Linette Antillon compartieron detalles sobre sus planes para ampliar Pueblo Vida Brewing Company, negocio que la pareja ha poseído y gestionado durante más de 12 años. El establecimiento se encuentra en el número 115 de East Broadway Boulevard, pero ambos trabajan en un proyecto en el local contiguo, en el número 121 de la misma calle, que ha permanecido vacío durante ocho años. La empresa planea implementar tres conceptos que permitirían mantener el edificio abierto durante toda la jornada laboral, incluyendo colaboraciones con otros dos negocios locales. "Tendríamos un servicio de café por la mañana... en colaboración con Presta Coffee," dijo Antillon. "Contaríamos con un nuevo concepto gastronómico a cargo de Anello para ofrecer almuerzos y cenas y, por supuesto, nuestra sala de degustación con cerveza artesanal, aunque también ofreceríamos un menú ampliado que incluiría vino." El Centro de Tránsito Ronstadt en el centro de Tucson, situado dentro del distrito que abarca la iniciativa de seguridad "Together Tucson" de la organización Downtown Tucson Partnership. Foto de Gracie Kayko. Sin embargo, debido a su antigüedad, el edificio requiere una remodelación integral. "Cuando adquirimos la propiedad hace aproximadamente un año y medio, lamentablemente no había nada utilizable y nada cumplía con la normativa vigente", señaló Jefferson. "Se trata de una modernización completa del inmueble." Estos planes incluyen un sistema integral de climatización (HVAC) que ya ha sido instalado. Jefferson comentó que el proceso de construcción avanzó más rápido de lo previsto, al tiempo que mostraba representaciones visuales de cómo luciría el edificio una vez terminado. La pareja indicó que la ampliación generaría unos $7 millones en ingresos en un plazo de tres años; esto produciría cerca de $613,000 en impuestos sobre las ventas y aportaría unos $183,000 al proyecto de desarrollo urbanístico planificado de Rio Nuevo. Solicitaron a Rio Nuevo 400.000 dólares para cubrir parte del costo total del proyecto estimado en $1.2 millones, desglosados ​​de la siguiente manera: $100,000 de inmediato, otros $100,000 en el plazo de un año y $200,000 mediante reembolsos de impuestos sobre las ventas de las parcelas. Se prevé que el establecimiento ampliado abra sus puertas en octubre. Favin Gebremariam, propietaria del complejo de entretenimiento etíope Z-Street, dio seguimiento a su solicitud de $65,000 dólares para construir una estructura de sombra permanente, similar a las de los parques infantiles, un tema que ya se había abordado en una reunión anterior. Presentó a la junta tres opciones distintas para la estructura, basadas en los presupuestos de empresas constructoras: una de American Play Systems y dos de Shade Industries (empresa con sede en Phoenix). El diseño de American Play Systems tendría un costo aproximado de $57,500 mientras que los dos diseños de Shade Industries costarían alrededor de $73,000 y $91,000 respectivamente. Zemam's es propiedad de la familia Gebremariam, quienes también poseen el complejo de entretenimiento etíope Z-Street. Durante la reunión de la junta directiva de Rio Nuevo celebrada el 29 de julio, la familia solicitó 65.000 dólares para instalar una estructura de sombra permanente en Z-Street. Griffen Engelberg / El Foco de Tucson. Gebremariam solicitó financiación para la opción más costosa, la cual incluye tres toldos en lugar de los dos contemplados en la propuesta inicial y siete postes de acero. "Esta opción preserva la mayor cantidad de espacio útil para reunirse y crear recuerdos, y así se mantendrá durante los próximos 15 a 20 años," afirmó. La junta se mostró reticente a aprobar dicha opción, citando las recientes preocupaciones presupuestarias de Rio Nuevo. Un flujo de caja mensual de apenas $240,000 ha obligado a la entidad a recurrir a sus reservas. Corky Poster, miembro de la junta, sugirió prescindir del toldo adicional por el momento; a su juicio, esto reduciría el precio a un nivel similar al de la opción más económica ofrecida por Shade Industries. "Podría ser algo que añadan dentro de seis meses o un año, con un coste y un gasto relativamente bajos," señaló Poster. "Simplemente intento mantener bajos nuestros costes de capital." Taunya Villicana, también miembro de la junta, preguntó si la familia Gebremariam había negociado un plan de pagos con Shade Industries. Gebremariam respondió que aún no habían consultado a Shade Industries sobre un plan de pagos, ya que acababan de recibir la información de contacto y los presupuestos esa misma semana, aunque se mostró dispuesta a averiguar qué margen de flexibilidad ofrecían. McCusker recomendó explorar opciones de reducción de costes o de financiación. Asimismo, la junta concedió prórrogas a dos proyectos: Cornish Pasty Co. y Herbert's Deli. Cornish Pasty Co. obtuvo una extensión hasta el 31 de diciembre, mientras que Herbert's recibió una prórroga hasta el 28 de febrero. Benjamin DePue es estudiante de periodismo en la Universidad de Arizona y pasante en El Foco de Tucson. Puede contactarla en bdepue@arizona.edu. Esta nota fue traducida por el equipo bilingüe de El Foco de Tucson. 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/6a91b0892c5335ae104c50a4 Enes Freedom vs Natasha Cloud: The opposing activists at the center of the WNBA's latest signature moment te 2026-08-28T16:00:09.640Z Enes Freedom vs Natasha Cloud: The opposing activists at the center of the WNBA's latest signature moment Enes Kanter Freedom and Natasha Cloud just couldn't help themselves. The duo gave the WNBA its closest equivalent to the "Malice in The Palace" incident on Sunday night, and the Chicago Sky turned it into a week of news with a ban and an interview. Here's how activism set both Freedom and Cloud on a collision course into sports hysteria: ENES KANTER FREEDOM OPENS UP ON CONFRONTATION WITH NATASHA CLOUD THAT LED TO EJECTION, WNBA PURSUIT They came from opposite ends of the world. Freedom built his public identity fighting governments abroad. Cloud built hers challenging institutions here in the U.S. Both came to see an athlete’s platform as an obligation. Both became comfortable with confrontation. But they developed nearly opposite definitions of who needed protection and what posed the threat. Freedom’s activism came first, and it came with consequences. Born in Switzerland and raised in Turkey, Freedom moved to the United States as a teenager and became the third overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. Basketball gave him a career. Turkey gave him a cause. Freedom traces his political awakening to 2013, when corruption allegations engulfed the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He became an outspoken Erdoğan critic and a prominent supporter of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-based cleric whom Turkey blamed for the failed 2016 coup attempt. Freedom accused Erdoğan’s government of crushing dissent, jailing journalists and using terrorism charges against political opponents. His criticism eventually made a return to Turkey unsafe. Then the conflict reached his family. Freedom’s relatives publicly disowned him as pressure mounted. His father lost his university job, faced prosecution on terrorism charges and was eventually acquitted. Turkish authorities canceled Freedom’s passport in 2017, leaving him temporarily detained at a Romanian airport during an international charity tour. He later skipped NBA travel outside the United States because he feared detention or forced return to Turkey. Freedom received U.S. citizenship in 2021 and legally added Freedom to his name. His advocated for speech without government retaliation, religion without persecution and dissent without prison. America, in his telling, was special to him because it allowed the criticism that authoritarian countries punished. Then during the 2021-22 NBA season, Freedom wore custom shoes highlighting China’s treatment of Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims. He promoted Hong Kong and Taiwanese autonomy, attacked forced labor and accused the NBA, Nike and prominent players of muting criticism to protect business interests in China. A Chinese streaming service stopped showing Boston Celtics games after his first Free Tibet demonstration. Freedom continued anyway. Meanwhile, Cloud, during her upbringing, enjoyed many of the American liberties that Freedom did not when he was growing up. She was raised in a predominantly White family in Broomall, Pennsylvania. Cloud entered the WNBA in 2015 and joined a league already more politically outspoken than most American sports institutions. By 2016, she was participating in the Washington Mystics’ protest of the police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. The Mystics wore "Black Lives Matter" shirts and joined a media blackout intended to pressure the league. WNBA PLAYER NATASHA CLOUD FIRES OFF PRO-TRANS MESSAGE FOLLOWING ALTERCATION WITH ENES KANTER FREEDOM In 2019, two shootings near Hendley Elementary School forced children into lockdown twice in two weeks. The school sat less than two miles from the Mystics’ arena in Southeast Washington. Cloud responded by pressing city leaders for action and temporarily refusing to discuss basketball with reporters. She turned the team’s media availability into a campaign for school safety and sustained investment in Ward 8. Her advocacy expanded into a broader effort against gun violence. The Mystics won the WNBA championship later that year. But Cloud walked away from the title defense. After George Floyd’s death in 2020, Cloud opted out of the entire WNBA season to work on racial-justice initiatives. She helped lead marches, promoted voter registration and pushed for the Mystics’ arena to serve as a polling location. Converse supported the decision and covered the salary she forfeited. The WNBA later presented the choice as the defining turn in her development as an activist. Cloud’s cause became broad but consistent. Racial justice. Police accountability. Gun control. Voting access. LGBTQ rights. Investment in women’s sports. Thus, they naturally ended up on opposite sides of the transgender debate. Freedom sees the female category as a protected boundary that gender ideology threatens to dissolve. Cloud sees transgender people as part of a broader community that political movements have targeted. He frames his campaign as a defense of women. She frames opposition to transgender inclusion as another attack on a vulnerable group. Freedom and Cloud did not need a courtside seat to find each other the first time. Their first major public clash came in July 2023, when Cloud criticized the United States against the backdrop of Supreme Court rulings affecting affirmative action and LGBTQ rights. "Our country is trash in so many ways and instead of using our resources to make it better we continue to oppress Marginalized groups that we have targeted since the beginning of times. Black/brown communities & LGBTQ+ man we are too powerful to still be attacking issues separate," Cloud wrote on social media at the time. Freedom responded, writing "Just ask your colleague Brittney Griner how ‘trash’ America is. Calling America trash huh? Let me know when your season is over…" as Griner's detention in a Russian prison had been a national storyline that year. Cloud responded more diplomatically then than she did on Sunday. "I have respect for @EnesFreedom lived experience in his country," Cloud wrote. "I would expect him to have the same respect for MY lived experience as a black gay woman in my country." Freedom recalled the incident in a recent interview with OutKick. "Me and Natasha Cloud got into it back in 2023, and not many people know about it, when she called America trash," Freedom said. "When people have no idea what the other side looks like, they can call America anything that they want, but it was unacceptable, so I checked her on that one." At 2:31 p.m on Sunday., Freedom’s manager, Hank Fetic, texted Sky general manager Jeff Pagliocca to say they would be at the game. The message, obtained by OutKick, said Pagliocca had "always been fair" and "deserved a heads up in advance." "Enes and I will be at the sky game tonight," Fetic wrote. Pagliocca responded at 5:30 p.m., approximately 30 minutes before tipoff: "Appreciate the text, hope you are well too." Sky principal owner Michael Alter told OutKick that he and his team considered the phrase "deserved a heads up" a warning that Freedom planned to do more than watch basketball. "When you say you deserve to know, why would you say you deserve to know?" Alter said. "That’s a clear, direct indication that be ready, trouble’s coming." Alter said organization alerted security but allowed Freedom inside. Alter said staff members were instructed to ignore him and not "take the bait." But Alter said the players were not told he was coming, a decision he admitted he regretted. That decision resulted in consequences in the third quarter, when Cloud initiated a now-infamous altercation. Freedom said Cloud first turned toward him and said, "She’s not going to sleep with you," in response to him cheering for Sophie Cunningham. Freedom said he responded that he was not trying to sleep with Cunningham and was there to support her and "protect women." According to Freedom, Cloud answered with repeated profanity. "She started to drop a lot of F-bombs, and she started to curse a lot, and she started to bark at me," Freedom said. "I’m like, ‘There are lots of kids and teenage girls in the stands idolizing you. This is unacceptable.’" With 1:22 remaining in the third quarter, Cloud scored inside before a timeout, chest-bumped teammate Aicha Coulibaly and walked in Freedom’s direction. Video shows Cloud yelling and pointing as she approached the baseline. Freedom stood, extended his arms, gestured toward Cloud and stepped forward. Security arrived almost immediately while teammates and staff restrained Cloud. Freedom was ejected. Cloud remained in the game and there is no public knowledge of any discipline assigned to her. The Sky said Wintrust Arena security, NBA Security and Chicago police determined that Freedom became a potential threat when he opened his arms, pointed at Cloud and moved toward the playing surface. In a written response obtained by OutKick, the organization said WNBA officials agreed with the decision and would have demanded Freedom’s removal if security had returned him to his seat. Alter said the response was remarkably fast. "It was the quickest decision I’ve ever seen in someone being ejected from a game," he said. But Alter acknowledged that he did not know whether Freedom crossed the baseline. He had not reviewed the officials’ written report and did not possess documentation showing that Chicago police made a separate threat assessment. No report or direct statement from the security entities identified by the Sky has been publicly released. "I can’t tell you what his intent was beyond his actions," Alter said. "I don’t know what was in his head." Freedom insisted there was nothing more in his head—or in his feet. "That was my last step," he said. "I’m telling you right now, I was not gonna take another step. I was gonna stop there." Freedom argued that 11 years in the NBA had taught him where a spectator could and could not stand. "If I step over the baseline, yes, they have every right to throw me out of the game," he said. "I literally simply opened my arms and said, ‘I’m here to protect women.’" The written rules settle more of the warning dispute. Freedom repeatedly argued that security was required to warn him before ejecting him. The WNBA Fan Code of Conduct, however, says guests who fight, throw objects or attempt to enter the court will be "immediately ejected." It does not require a warning for that offense and expressly permits future-game bans. A warning provision does appear in the 2026 WNBA Official Rule Book, but under the narrower category of "Verbal Fan Interference." It applies when verbal abuse interferes with a coach’s ability to communicate with players during a game or huddle. Freedom would have been entitled to a warning under that provision before an ejection for continued verbal interference. If security reasonably determined that he attempted to enter the court, immediate removal was permitted. Alter defended that distinction with the interview’s most incendiary line. "He wasn’t given a warning because certain threats don’t get warnings," Alter said. "To use an extreme example, when you shoot a gun at someone, you don’t get a warning, ‘Don’t do that again.’" Meanwhile, the WNBA rulebook identifies profanity and taunting as unsportsmanlike conduct that can warrant a technical foul. The available evidence does not establish Cloud’s exact language, whether officials heard the alleged profanity or whether her actions required any automatic penalty. But Freedom thinks she should be fined and required to review the league’s player-conduct rules. "Of course, obviously, as an owner, he’s gonna try to do whatever he can to protect his player," Freedom said. "But she should be disciplined for sure." Alter repeatedly declined to say whether Cloud will be penalized while speaking to OutKick. Cloud did not give reporters a detailed account. She instead returned to the political subject online, posting a message of support for transgender people after the game. Sky coach Tyler Marsh defended her as someone who protects her teammates and "people that need to be protected." The Fever won 113-90. Freedom displayed his shirt to the crowd while security escorted him away, spoke with police in the arena lobby and posted that he had been ejected "for supporting WOMEN." Cloud remained with the Sky and spoke with team and league security after the game. Then the organization extended the incident beyond Sunday. Alter announced Tuesday that Freedom was banned from future Sky games at Wintrust Arena unless he could prove that he understood the rules and would no longer present a potential threat. Alter did not identify a formal reinstatement process or explain exactly what Freedom would need to do. "I’m not going to give him a roadmap," Alter said. On Wednesday, Freedom sent a formal letter to WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert that OutKick obtained. He requested an explanation for his ejection, a review of Cloud’s conduct, a refund for his tickets and preservation of arena video, security reports and internal communications. He also asked whether his shirt, advocacy or announced effort to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft influenced the decision. The letter accused the league of selective enforcement and cited other recent security controversies involving messages about transgender participation in women’s sports. One week before the Chicago game, the WNBA acknowledged that security at an Atlanta Dream game acted improperly by directing fans to cover shirts carrying messages on both sides of that debate. "This should not have happened," the league said afterward. The Sky denied that Freedom’s viewpoint or clothing caused his removal. That explanation is supported by the fact that the organization knew he was coming, admitted him in the shirt and allowed him to remain courtside for more than two quarters. Its stated line was the step toward the court. Freedom’s letter nevertheless demanded a written response within five business days. A day later, after hearing Alter’s gun analogy, Freedom raised the stakes again. "Me and my legal team will definitely be taking actions against Chicago Sky and Michael Alter," Freedom said in Wednesday's interview with OutKick. Freedom did not identify a legal claim or provide a filing timeline. The incident and its fallout may have yielded the WNBA and the Sky another PR headache, but also profit. The game averaged 3.31 million viewers across NBC and Peacock and peaked at 3.82 million, making it the most-watched WNBA regular-season game since the league’s opening weekend in 1997 and the third-most watched ever. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91b0852c5335ae104c5082 More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey te 2026-08-28T16:00:05.296Z More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ae2d2c5335ae104c4fdd Massive Chinese bot farm caught conducting US ‘influence operations’ pushing coordinated online narrative te 2026-08-28T15:50:05.668Z Massive Chinese bot farm caught conducting US ‘influence operations’ pushing coordinated online narrative The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has uncovered a massive suspected Chinese bot farm conducting "influence operations" online in the United States, including pushing an anti-artificial intelligence and anti-data center narrative. This comes as a national debate rages over the costs and benefits of continuing to develop artificial intelligence at breakneck speed and the massive data centers required to power it. The debate also has immense political implications, dividing parties internally as many members of the GOP break with President Donald Trump on AI and data centers. As this national conversation unfolds, X’s Global Government Affairs account said the platform’s safety team identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 inauthentic Chinese accounts "involved in influence operations." The X team said that within the bot farm, 200 accounts were found posting "in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy." BLANCHE URGED TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN FIGHT AGAINST DATA CENTERS According to the platform, posts by these accounts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. The X team said other accounts also posted AI-generated cartoons depicting data center developers enriching themselves at the public's expense. One image shared by the team depicted horrified citizens across from data center developers with bags of cash with the caption, "Data centers get subsidized while we foot the bill!" Another image read that "the AI industry is booming, but the costs are being borne by ordinary people." Earlier this summer, OpenAI announced that it had banned a "cluster of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in China" that were being used to generate a "covert influence operation" primarily targeting U.S. audiences. OpenAI said the accounts generated short comments and images similarly claiming that data centers and AI were increasing electricity demand and causing higher costs. The influence campaigns were discovered as debate rages over AI. Critics of AI development say the data centers required to power it harm the environment, drive up electricity costs and decrease neighborhood property values. Proponents, meanwhile, say AI data center development is critical to national security and boosts local economies by creating jobs. REPORT: CHINESE PROPAGANDA, SINGHAM NETWORK, FOREIGN DARK MONEY LINKED TO CAMPAIGNS AGAINST DATA CENTERS Speaking at the White House earlier this week, Trump suggested that the AI industry needs "a little public relations help," pointing to a May Gallup poll that showed a majority of Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities. He said that local communities and states should want to welcome data centers because "the jobs are enormous, and the money paid, the taxes paid are just enormous." "And if you don't take it, you're going to be left behind because there are plenty of places that want it," he added. Meanwhile, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has warned that China benefits from "overreaction" to "AI doomsdaying" in the U.S. as the two countries compete for dominance in the industry. Fetterman wrote that "AI supremacy and energy dominance underpins our national security." FETTERMAN ALIGNS WITH TRUMP ON AI PUSH, WARNS CHINA BENEFITS FROM US 'OVERREACTION' Following the discovery of the Chinese influence campaign, X’s Global Government Affairs team wrote that "we take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy." SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER The platform said it remains "committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest." Fox BUSINESS' James Cirrone and Fox News Digital's Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91ae2c2c5335ae104c4fd4 San Diego Padres vs Tampa Bay Rays betting preview: why the first five innings favor McClanahan te 2026-08-28T15:50:04.292Z San Diego Padres vs Tampa Bay Rays betting preview: why the first five innings favor McClanahan I ended up going 1-1 yesterday in the two WNBA plays that I put out for the night. Not the end of the world, but I'm glad we have a full slate of baseball games again today for us to choose from. I'm back at it with some really intriguing games tonight. We have Tarik Skubal returning to Detroit for the first time since he was traded, and honestly, I'd probably fade him as it might be pretty emotional. But, I have my eyes set on a different former Tigers hurler as the Padres take on the Rays. The San Diego Padres have been one of the hotter teams in baseball. They are currently sitting at 72-62 and owner of the final Wild Card spot. This team has more than enough talent, but it seems like they haven't been able to put it together for a full season. I still maintain that if they can get it together in the postseason, they have a roster dangerous enough to win the World Series. Sure, you can probably say that about a lot of teams, but I think it is more true of the Padres than the majority of teams simply due to the talent on the roster. New Padres owner Kwanza Jones puts on a performance for the ages at introductory presser As usual, they went out to add more talent at the trade deadline. One of those additions takes the hill tonight, as Casey Mize comes to the mound. He is 5-7 for the season with a 3.44 ERA and a 1.09 WHIP. Mize has struggled on the road a bit more than in his home stadium this season, but the majority of those numbers came when he was with the Tigers. Since coming to San Diego, he has had two strong starts and two awful ones. Rays hitters have rocked Mize in the past, with 12 hits in 29 at-bats, so this could be another ugly one from him. The Tampa Bay Rays are one of the best teams in baseball, and currently own the No. 1 spot in the American League. They probably will be the owner of the spot when the playoffs are finalized. If it isn't them, then it is probably going to be some other American League East team. The Rays would need a complete collapse for them to lose a postseason spot. Based on batting average, this team is the best offensive team in baseball. However, even that success hasn't always translated to runs. The team is at just 17th in the league. The pitching staff has been equally strong for the Rays. They have a 3.78 ERA collectively and a 1.15 WHIP. Throwing today for the Rays is one of their aces, Shane McClanahan. For the season, he is just 9-6, but he owns a 3.10 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP. He has been outstanding at home with a 2.32 ERA and holds opponents to just a .189 batting average. He hasn't allowed more than three earned runs in a start since the middle of July, and in 16 of 22 starts, he has held opponents to two or fewer earned runs. Padres hitters are batting just .197 against him. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM I bet on McClanahan last time he pitched when he took on the Orioles. He went five strong innings and didn't allow a run. We are going to back him again here, but I'm going just the first five innings. The bullpen let me down last time, and the Orioles won in 10 innings. I'm taking the Rays to win this one, but just through five innings. I think Mize might struggle, and I think we have a good chance to win both on the run line and money line. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91abd42c5335ae104c4f5d Friend-focused photo sharing app Retro snags $21M te 2026-08-28T15:40:04.334Z Friend-focused photo sharing app Retro snags $21M Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91a9812c5335ae104c4f05 ICE officer charged in Minneapolis shooting released in Texas after judge declines to intervene te 2026-08-28T15:30:09.100Z ICE officer charged in Minneapolis shooting released in Texas after judge declines to intervene A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who was charged in connection with shooting someone in Minnesota earlier this year was released from lock up in Texas on Thursday. A judge on Wednesday declined to take action to prevent the man's release and force Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to send the individual back to Minnesota. Minnesota officials have been pushing to have the man held as they fight for his extradition in the Hennepin County case. The man, Christian Castro, "was released at 6:59 a.m.," Cameron County Sheriff Manuel Trevino told Fox News Digital in an email on Thursday. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced in May that Castro was "being charged with four counts of assault in the second degree and one count of falsely reporting a crime." JUDGE CLEARS PATH FOR ICE AGENT ACCUSED IN MINNESOTA SHOOTING CASE TO LEAVE TEXAS JAIL "Mr. Castro fired his service weapon at the front door of a home knowing there were people who had just run inside that presented absolutely no harm to him or anyone else," Moriarty asserted, saying the bullet hit Julio Sosa-Celis in the leg and eventually lodged "in the wall of a child's bedroom." Castro was arrested in Texas, and Minnesota has been pressing for Texas to extradite him from the Lone Star State. 'POLITICAL STUNT' PROSECUTION OF ICE AGENT FOR 'ROAD RAGE' PROVOKES HEATED DHS RESPONSE U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr.'s Wednesday order denying a temporary restraining order declared, "In May, the State of Minnesota charged Castro with various crimes based on that incident. By the time these charges arose, however, Castro was no longer in Minnesota, leading a county judge to issue a nationwide warrant for his arrest. When authorities in the State of Texas arrested Castro in late May, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz initiated the process under the Extradition Act of 1793 and the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act to secure Castro’s extradition to Minnesota." "Under the UCEA, Castro can be detained on the strength of the Minnesota warrant only until August 27, 2026. As the day approached, and fearing that Castro will flee into Mexico should he be released, Minnesota made repeated inquiries of Texas regarding the status of the extradition request. On August 18, having not received a definitive answer, Minnesota filed this action, alleging that Governor Abbott 'has refused' to sign a rendition warrant, violating the Extradition Clause of the United States Constitution, the Extradition Act, and the UCEA," the order stated. ABBOTT TAUNTS FAR-LEFT AG WITH FIERY WARNING OVER ICE EXTRADITION FIGHT: 'SUCH BAD LAWYERS' "Minnesota moves for a temporary restraining order to avoid Castro’s release before Governor Abbott signs a rendition warrant. On August 25, the Court held a hearing on the request. Based on the record and the applicable law, the Court concludes that Minnesota fails to satisfy the requirements for the issuance of a temporary restraining order," the judge's order noted. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91a9802c5335ae104c4efc Trump admin blocks more than $1.6B in potentially improper Medicare lab payments, agency says te 2026-08-28T15:30:08.179Z Trump admin blocks more than $1.6B in potentially improper Medicare lab payments, agency says Federal officials have blocked or clawed back more than $1.6 billion in potentially improper Medicare laboratory payments since President Donald Trump returned to office, including $732 million tied to 157 lab providers booted from the program for alleged fraud. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said the labs were suspected of billing Medicare for tests that were never performed, tests patients did not need and services billed at higher rates than they should have been. "When laboratories bill Medicare for tests they never performed, it drains the Medicare Trust Fund and diverts resources away from beneficiaries who need them," CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said. DOJ CHARGES 19 DEFENDANTS IN ALLEGED $4M PHILADELPHIA MEDICARE AND MEDICAID FRAUD In one case, the owner of a consulting company enrolled 14 labs in Medicare and billed the program more than $24 million, even though CMS said none of the labs appeared to be operating. CMS has since held back $12 million in payments to the labs and recovered another $7 million. Eleven of the 14 labs have been removed from Medicare, while the remaining three are still under investigation. CMS said it is using artificial intelligence and other technology to sift through Medicare claims and spot unusual billing that could be a sign of fraud. The technology looks for billing that falls outside normal patterns and can flag suspicious claims for closer scrutiny. CMS can then hold, reject or deny a claim before Medicare pays it. Of the $1.6 billion cited by the agency, more than $500 million in suspected fraudulent payments were stopped through 185 payment suspensions after CMS investigated 600 labs. "The previous administration treated our taxpayer-funded programs as piggy banks for fraudsters," the White House told Fox News Digital. "That is no longer the case, thanks to President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Dr. Oz, who is an anti-fraud superstar." TREASURY HAILS SUCCESS OF ANTI-FRAUD PROCESS THAT FLAGGED AND PREVENTED $99 MILLION IN PAYMENTS TO DEAD PEOPLE The agency also recovered more than $276 million in overpayments made to 442 suspect labs and said another $127 million in potentially fraudulent payments was prevented after 85 cases were referred to law enforcement. CMS pointed to two recent cases in Texas as examples of labs suspected of billing Medicare for services they did not provide. One lab began billing Medicare in late February. CMS said it caught the suspicious activity early and denied $1.2 million in claims. The lab then changed the way it billed Medicare in early April in an apparent attempt to get around the agency’s safeguards, according to CMS. Officials continued watching its claims and stopped more than $150,000 in additional payments before removing the provider from Medicare later that month. DR OZ SAYS 800 HOSPICE PROVIDERS SUSPENDED IN CALIFORNIA OVER ALLEGED $1B MEDICARE FRAUD SCHEME Another Texas lab began billing heavily in May after submitting test claims two days earlier in the year. CMS denied $1.9 million in claims and captured another $1.7 million in payments. The lab remains under review and could be removed from Medicare. The lab cases are part of a wider Trump administration push to combat improper Medicare billing involving medical equipment, hospice care, skin treatments and other services. CMS said its Medicare fraud prevention efforts saved $42 billion in fiscal year 2025. So far in 2026, the agency says it has identified $1.8 billion in Medicare overpayments and recovered $378 million in overpayments from post-payment reviews. Since Jan. 1, CMS has also frozen more than $371 million in Medicare payments involving 267 providers and suppliers. That includes more than $226 million in suspected improper billing for medical equipment, more than $53 million involving skin treatments and more than $23 million involving hospice providers. "We won't stop until we've restored program integrity and ensured that fraudsters have nowhere left to hide," Oz said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91a97f2c5335ae104c4ef3 Taylor Sheridan's Landman faces lengthy wait as season 3 production timeline revealed te 2026-08-28T15:30:07.067Z Taylor Sheridan's Landman faces lengthy wait as season 3 production timeline revealed "Landman" fans better be ready to wait for new episodes. Taylor Sheridan's hit show about the oil business in Texas with Billy Bob Thornton leading the way is an exceptional series. It has plenty of dark moments like much of Sheridan's other works, but it also has the perfect blend of light-hearted moments and comedy. 'LANDMAN' STAR SAM ELLIOTT SAYS FANS FLOCK TO HIT SHOW TO ESCAPE THE ‘S---' IN THE WORLD TODAY The drama is also mega-popular with TV fans. Viewers have been eager to get an update on when it will return. Spoiler: not for some time. Season two of "Landman" came to an end on January 18, 2026. There had been some hope that maybe season three would premiere this year. That's not going to happen. Star James Jordan addressed the status earlier in August with comments that flew under the radar until ScreenRant made them go viral this week. "I believe we’re bringing back the same director, Stephen Kay, who I adore. So it’s going to be a great ride. We start that sometime in September and we’ll shoot that through the first quarter of next year," Jordan told Us Weekly. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK CULTURE COVERAGE If production is going into the first quarter of 2027, then "Landman" fans 100% aren't getting season three in 2026. That's absolutely not happening. At best, fans might be looking at a release at some point between May 2027 and late summer 2027. ALI LARTER DEFENDS TAYLOR SHERIDAN'S WRITING OF FEMALE CHARACTERS, CALLING CRITICISM A 'FALSE NARRATIVE' Ideal? No, but delays sometimes happen. In fact, they happen all the time in the entertainment industry. What I can say with complete certainty is that fans will be more than happy to wait as long as Taylor Sheridan's show returns with the same excellence fans saw in the first two seasons. All will be fine as long as the product meets expectations, and when it comes to Sheridan, it almost always does. What do you hope to see in "Landman" season three? Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91a72a2c5335ae104c4ea0 Engelbert Humperdinck makes blunt admission about mysterious decades-long Tom Jones feud te 2026-08-28T15:20:10.424Z Engelbert Humperdinck makes blunt admission about mysterious decades-long Tom Jones feud Engelbert Humperdinck said this week that he and Tom Jones were friends for a "long time" before their decades-long rift, and he doesn’t know what tore them apart. "To this day, I still think that Tom is probably one of the best singers the world has ever known, you know, and we don't speak to each other," the "Release Me" singer told Raymond Arroyo on his "Arroyo Grande" podcast on Wednesday. He continued, "I don't know. Something happened and it just went." SAMMY HAGAR BURIES DECADES-LONG FEUD WITH DAVID LEE ROTH AFTER TOUR DATES ARE AXED He denied that it had anything to do with another woman, as some rumors have suggested. "I don't know what it is, you know, it just happened after my manager died," Humperdinck said. "He died of cancer, and then right after that, because I left Gordon [Mills] before he passed away, and he took umbrage to that, I guess, for some reason, but I can't tell you, I don't know why." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Mills, who died in 1986, also managed Jones at the same time. "To this day, I would embrace him if he ever put his hand out to me," he continued. "There's no point, there's no — I don't like animosity. I don't hate the man. As a matter of fact, I love his singing, you know, and I think he's been a great asset to the world of music." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS As someone who was successful before him, Humperdink said the "It's Not Unusual" singer taught him a lot about the business. The legendary '60s crooners were even roommates in London for a time when their careers were starting. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "We had a good relationship in the early years, and what has happened now is something I can't put my finger on, but I really hope that one day, like Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, we'll be together again." Fox News Digital has reached out to Jones’ reps for comment. Jones, 86, told The Sun in 2024, Humperdinck "has tried, but I don’t want to talk." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91a7272c5335ae104c4e97 Man accused of posing as 49ers player in $1.3M romance scam appeared in video obtained by OutKick te 2026-08-28T15:20:07.650Z Man accused of posing as 49ers player in $1.3M romance scam appeared in video obtained by OutKick OutKick obtained a video in late 2024 that appears to show Daejon Labrayae Love signing what he represented to be an NFL contract. When the cameraman asks Love who he is signing with, Love responds, "Niners, you already know, Niner gang." OutKick did not publish a story at the time because we could not independently verify Love’s claimed NFL affiliation and had no evidence that he had sought or received money from women. The material suggested Love was using a purported 49ers affiliation to impress women but didn't indicate an investment scheme. MORE DETAILS ABOUT JED YORK'S ARREST IN A PROSTITUTION STING COME TO LIGHT AND BEGS QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 49ERS Now, newly unsealed federal court records provide a far different account. An FBI affidavit says Love filmed himself "supposedly signing an employment contract with the 49ers" while claiming he would be a wide receiver for the team. The video obtained by OutKick appears to match the affidavit’s description. Representatives for the NFL and 49ers told investigators Love had never been employed by the team or the league, according to the affidavit. On Aug. 25, 2026, the Justice Department announced that Love, 35, and Taylor Jamie Chan, 18, were charged in Portland, Oregon, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. Federal authorities allege Love and Chan used a false 49ers persona, a lavish lifestyle, fictitious investment accounts and romantic relationships to defraud 26 women in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California out of about $1.3 million. The affidavit says Love allegedly portrayed himself to women as an NFL player for the 49ers or a wealthy Swiss real estate developer. Chan allegedly posed as Love’s financial advisor, joining three-way FaceTime calls with women and displaying purported investment gains. Investigators said Love posted misleading photographs, videos and statements online to support the 49ers claim. FORMER COLLEGE BASKETBALL GUARD KERR KRIISA INDICTED IN ALLEGED $2.2M WIRE FRAUD SCHEME The FBI also said Love posted screen-recorded videos that appeared to show legitimate NFL players, with the original posters’ information removed. According to the affidavit, Love then presented the videos as his own to convince women he played for the 49ers. Agents identified three videos from Love’s iCloud accounts that had been shared roughly 185 times, including with numerous alleged victims. Two showed Love wearing a 49ers jacket, according to the affidavit. In one video, Love allegedly said San Francisco "offered me the most money," claimed he had received a signing bonus and said he attended team meetings and workouts. The affidavit says Love also claimed friendships with current and former NFL players Tyreek Hill, Antonio Brown and John Brown, and used those purported relationships to explain how he received tryout invitations. Investigators said Love’s financial records showed no identifiable legitimate income and no direct deposits or payroll checks from the 49ers or another legitimate employer. Court records also describe how investigators say Love built his image online and in person. The FBI said Love spent more than $1,160 at Green Gridiron, a website that sells custom football helmets. Investigators also found purchases from Prop Money Inc., which sells realistic fake cash for movies, and from companies that sell social media followers, likes and views. Love posted photos in 49ers apparel and was photographed with a 49ers helmet. He also had a 49ers-themed "LOVE 1" cake. The affidavit alleges Love used phone applications to create fake bank and investment account balances that he then showed women as proof of his wealth and investment success. In January 2024, according to the affidavit, Love asked Chan to make a screenshot showing a $3.4 million account balance. The following month, investigators say Love asked Chan to create a stock account appearing to be worth $11 million. SHE DIDN’T EXIST, BUT THE MONEY DID: A REAL INFLUENCER SOUNDS THE ALARM ON AI DECEPTION The government alleges Chan helped give the alleged scheme credibility by posing as Love’s financial advisor. Chan allegedly exchanged messages with Love about fictitious investment opportunities, then joined FaceTime calls in which women were shown false investment gains. Love and Chan were arrested together at Boise Airport on Aug. 24, 2026, according to the Justice Department. The complaint lists an alleged offense window of February 2022 through March 2026, while the Justice Department said the alleged scheme continued until the Aug. 24 arrests. The affidavit identifies Chan as 18 but does not list his date of birth. Under the government’s timeline, Chan would have been 13 or 14 when the alleged scheme began. In the affidavit’s first detailed account from February 2022, Love allegedly told a woman within days of meeting her on a dating app to invest $10,000 with Chan. In a separate Idaho filing, prosecutors asked a judge to detain Love pending his transfer to Oregon. The government alleged Love was wearing 49ers apparel when he was arrested and that agents later found $3,000 in cash and 49ers gear, including a helmet, in an Airbnb associated with him. As of publication, OutKick could not immediately verify whether detention or transfer rulings had been entered following their scheduled initial appearances. Prosecutors also said in their Idaho detention motion that Love was in Boise while actively trying to defraud three additional Idaho victims. The San Francisco 49ers and Love’s attorney did not respond to requests for comment before publication. Love and Chan are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91a01d2c5335ae104c4c51 House Dem's 'Lake Natalie' jab at Trump aide sets social media ablaze: 'Stay classy' te 2026-08-28T14:50:05.321Z House Dem's 'Lake Natalie' jab at Trump aide sets social media ablaze: 'Stay classy' A House Democrat's jab at one of President Donald Trump's most loyal aides prompted a firestorm on social media. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., is getting heat from the right and praise from the left after she quipped about Trump's decision to rename Lake Ontario.  "Let’s just call it Lake Natalie so we know you’ll start protecting our Great Lakes," she wrote on X. Trump signed an order on Thursday renaming one of the five Great Lakes "Lake America" amid an ongoing trade dispute with Canada. HOUSE DEM DEBBIE DINGELL PLACES TRUMP'S LAKE ONTARIO NAME CHANGE IN THE CROSSHAIRS Dingell's comment appears to be aimed at Trump aide Natalie Harp, a close confidante of the president, whom Democrats have seized on after she was reportedly one of the small group of people who joined Trump on a separate plane after a potential Iranian plot to take down Air Force One. The comment has prompted fierce backlash from Trump allies who accuse Democrats of unfairly targeting a White House aide trying to do her job — a sentiment that was on full display online this week. JON OSSOFF DODGES ON WHY HE INVOKED TRUMP AIDE'S NAME DURING GEORGIA CAMPAIGN RALLY "You're being exactly who I said Democrats were all along. You don't care about protecting women from sexism/misogyny. You just care if they have an R behind their name," GOP commentator Melik Abdul wrote on X. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson said, "Wow. Stay classy, Michigan." OBAMA STRATEGIST TURNS ON RISING DEM STAR OVER VIRAL TRUMP ATTACK: 'GRATUITOUS AND UNNECESSARY' "Ouch! Not so nice to a young woman staffer .. i suspect your target is the President but it is not nice to the young staffer.. why does she deserve this ? …this all started with a snarky comment by a dem senator," veteran news anchor Greta Van Susteren wrote. Van Susteren was referencing a comment by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., that kicked off the frenzy over Harp in the first place. Ossoff said during a rally that Trump would rather "build his ballroom and travel with Natalie" than do the job of president. CNN, MS NOW HAVE MENTIONED TRUMP AIDE NATALIE HARP HUNDREDS OF TIMES SINCE OSSOFF'S VIRAL JAB "Is this the new move when a dem wants to pretend they’re relevant?" former Trump spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko wrote on X. Pundit Rich Baris wrote, "We're starting to see glimmers of the Ole' Democrat crazy we all have come to know in the Trump Era." But left-wing social media circles cheered Dingell on. "Debbie wins the Internet today, full stop," wrote former conservative lawyer and failed congressional candidate George Conway. Democrat Janice Hough wrote, "Rep. Debbie, I was not familiar with your game." "Debbie hits a grand slam," quipped Norman Ornstein, contributing editor for The Atlantic. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91a01a2c5335ae104c4c42 For Once, a New York Jet Is Destined to Win Something te 2026-08-28T14:50:02.773Z For Once, a New York Jet Is Destined to Win Something A House race in Arizona pits Jay Feely, a former Jets kicker, against Amish Shah, a former sideline doctor for the team. Jets fans in the district say it’s a welcome distraction from all the losing. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a919dc42c5335ae104c4b83 Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again te 2026-08-28T14:40:04.502Z Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again Now, Apple TV subscriptions will cost $14.99 per month, up from its previous price of $12.99 per month. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a919b6f2c5335ae104c4a86 Biden-honored Iraqi official lands on US terror watchlist as Trump State Dept revokes visa te 2026-08-28T14:30:07.559Z Biden-honored Iraqi official lands on US terror watchlist as Trump State Dept revokes visa FIRST ON FOX: Four years ago, Taif Sami Mohammed was being celebrated by the United States as one of the world’s most courageous women. Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the senior Iraqi official as the country’s "Iron Woman," crediting her with stopping bribes, uncovering schemes that enriched corrupt officials and fighting corruption despite threats against her. Today, Mohammed is believed to be outside Iraq, on the U.S. terrorist watchlist and can no longer enter the United States. A State Department official told Fox News Digital that the department revoked Mohammed’s visa this week, marking a dramatic reversal for an official who received one of the Biden administration’s highest-profile awards for women in 2022. "While the Biden State Department shamefully celebrated and awarded foreigners who threaten our nation, the Trump State Department revokes their visas and ensures these individuals are removed from our country," Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs Dylan Johnson told Fox News Digital. TRUMP ADMIN EYES HISTORIC MASS VISA REVOCATION TARGETING UP TO 200K ASYLUM SEEKERS: REPORT "Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio, suspected terrorists will never be allowed to remain in the United States." The State Department did not immediately provide details about when Mohammed was placed on the terrorist watchlist or the intelligence that led to that determination. Mohammed’s fall from Washington’s favor had been building publicly for more than a year. Republican lawmakers previously accused her of helping facilitate terrorist financing through Iraq’s financial system and urged the Trump administration to take action against her. Reps. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., and Greg Steube, R-Fla., called Mohammed a "key enabler of terrorist funding in Iraq" and pushed the administration to impose sanctions. Those allegations stand in stark contrast to how the Biden administration described Mohammed when it selected her for the State Department’s International Women of Courage Award in 2022. At the time, Mohammed was Iraq’s deputy finance minister and director general of its budget department. The State Department described her as a "frontline leader against corrupt practices" who had been integral to preventing corruption in Iraq’s budget. Blinken went further during the March 2022 awards ceremony, saying Mohammed had "stopped bribes" and uncovered efforts to inflate government payrolls and enrich corrupt officials. The ceremony, hosted by Blinken and featuring remarks from then-first lady Jill Biden, honored twelve women whom the State Department said had shown extraordinary courage and leadership. Mohammed later rose to become Iraq’s finance minister, overseeing the federal budget, government spending and Baghdad’s financial relationship with Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Her troubles have since spread beyond Washington. An Iraqi court summoned Mohammed and placed her on a judicial wanted list as authorities widened a corruption investigation into former senior government officials, IraqiNews reported Aug. 9, 2025, citing sources familiar with the proceedings. FBI BRINGS IRAQI MAN ACCUSED OF COORDINATING NEARLY 20 TERROR ATTACKS IN EUROPE TO FACE TRIAL IN NEW YORK According to the report, Mohammed is believed to be outside Iraq and has not been detained. The court action is part of an investigation and does not establish that she committed wrongdoing. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER The investigation grew out of a broader corruption probe involving government contracts and large sums of public money and has reached other former Iraqi officials, according to the report. Mohammed’s placement on the U.S. terrorist watchlist represents a separate and potentially more serious development. The State Department has not said whether it is connected to the terrorist financing allegations raised by members of Congress, the Iraqi corruption investigation or other intelligence gathered by the U.S. government. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9199162c5335ae104c4a12 Dolly Parton slept as little as 3 hours, did her own hair and makeup on set, co-star Danica McKellar says te 2026-08-28T14:20:06.273Z Dolly Parton slept as little as 3 hours, did her own hair and makeup on set, co-star Danica McKellar says Dolly Parton's former co-star, Danica McKellar, is sharing who the country music legend really was when the cameras weren't rolling. During an interview with Fox News Digital, McKellar said that Parton told her that she would only sleep three to five hours a night and then wake up and do her own hair and make-up. "She told me she only slept three to five hours a night. She was always dreaming stuff up and just busy. She'd sleep on her big travel bus, if she was traveling and doing things, and wake up early in the morning... She did her own hair and makeup, her own wig and her own makeup. And she'd get to work," McKellar said. McKellar's professional relationship with Parton began through Parton's Imagination Library, which included McKellar’s children’s book, "Goodnight, Numbers," in its literacy program. DOLLY PARTON'S LIFE IN HER OWN WORDS: FROM SMOKY MOUNTAINS POVERTY TO COUNTRY MUSIC IMMORTALITY McKellar later narrated the documentary "The Library That Dolly Built" before pitching the idea for the 2019 Hallmark movie "Christmas at Dollywood," in which she starred opposite Parton. While working with Parton, McKellar told Fox News Digital that the "9 to 5" singer was "everything that you hope she could possibly be and much more." "She's incredible, great work ethic. She wanted to rehearse a lot and I was like, 'I would love to rehearse with you.' I'd love to just be in her presence. She was incredible. She walked on the set and made everyone feel comfortable because people were so nervous to meet Dolly Parton." "And she just walked on this set and said, 'Merry Christmas everybody.' Like to the whole room and everyone just was charmed, like that was it," she said. WATCH: Dolly Parton slept just 3 hours and did her own hair and makeup, co-star recalls GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE WATCH: Dolly Parton charmed everyone on set with one simple Christmas greeting, co-star says LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Parton died Aug. 25, 2026, at age 80 after what her team described as a brief battle with cancer. The country music icon died at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville surrounded by loved ones. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE McKellar believes Parton would want her legacy to remind people to treat one another with kindness. "Because she knew how to make everybody feel good about themselves," McKellar said. "That's what she taught me the most. And what I think is her message for the world, treat each other kindly. You have a choice. You have so much power, more power than you realize." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9199152c5335ae104c4a09 Country singer Lauren Alaina credits small-town Georgia roots for strong work ethic, faith te 2026-08-28T14:20:05.335Z Country singer Lauren Alaina credits small-town Georgia roots for strong work ethic, faith Country singer Lauren Alaina is thankful for her small town roots and the lessons they taught her. During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, the 31-year-old singer spoke about her upcoming album, "Stages," and shared why she credits growing up in Rossville, Georgia for her success and her work ethic. "I come from a long line of hardworking people and believers and dreamers in their own way, whatever their path was," she said. "Mine obviously looked very different than the rest of my family because my working hard and my dreaming was leaving home and going to a new place, which people don't do a ton in Rossville, Georgia." She explained that not only did she learn the importance of working hard from growing up in her small town, but also of "being kind, being grateful [and] being funny," saying she got her "sense of humor from back home for sure." One of "the biggest lessons" she learned, growing up in her small town, is to keep "working hard and being kind to people, and if you work hard, it pays off." WATCH: Lauren Alaina credits her small town upbringing for her work ethic and faith "I do think my work ethic definitely came from watching every one of my family. My mom worked really hard, my dad worked really hard, and my grandparents. They all had very different careers and different lives, but they just worked really hard and they kept their faith strong." As an adult, she is now "thankful" to have grown up where she did and to have a strong faith and work ethic as some of the things were instilled in her throughout her upbringing. Alaina is gearing up for the release of her fourth studio album, "Stages," which she calls "a deeply personal album," which covers three different phases of her life. "It feels like it represents me fully because I feel like I finally landed in the place of who I am supposed to be in this stage of my life," she said. "And I was able to kind of take a look back and share all of my stories. I'm really proud of it. It's a deeply personal album. It's really fun too. It's not overly serious. It is serious in parts and carefree and my mid 20s in parts and represents my hometown in parts as well. So I'm very proud of that." The "Road Less Traveled" singer admits that each stage was hard for her to revisit, be it her parents' divorce, navigating heartbreak and losing her father unexpectedly. WATCH: Lauren Alaina titled her latest album 'Stages' to represent the different phases of her life CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER There are bright spots in there too, including when she met her husband and when she welcomed her daughter. "I closed the album with a song called 'Heaven Sent,' which is one of my favorites, and it's about my dad sending my daughter for me to help me heal and move forward," she said. "But the songs about my dad are definitely the hardest. It's the biggest loss I've ever gone through. It's still very hard, but the songs about him are incredibly difficult." Alaina got her start when she was a teenager as a contestant on "American Idol." She competed on the show's 10th season in 2011. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS When speaking with Fox News Digital, Alaina said if she could go back and talk to her 15-year-old self, she would tell her, "Thank you so much because this decision you're making changes your life so much." WATCH: Lauren Alaina would thank her 15-year-old self for taking a risk on 'American Idol' "All the things that you dream of having, you get them," she said. "I mean, the journey obviously looked completely different than my 15-year-old self could have ever imagined, and there were highs, there were lows, there were ups, there was downs, but I wish I could just tell her about the stage of life I'm in now. Where my career's doing really well. I have this amazing husband and this beautiful little girl and, like all of our dreams came true." "Stages" is out now. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9196c32c5335ae104c49d9 Yavapai County supervisors reject YCSO’s new APLRs te 2026-08-28T14:10:11.105Z Yavapai County supervisors reject YCSO’s new APLRs Three Ekin Patrol mobile license plate reader cameras pulled off consent agenda and unanimously denied The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected contracts for three Ekin Patrol automated license plate readers for the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office at its Aug. 19 meeting. The ALPR Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91920e2c5335ae104c492c Judge again freezes Trump mail-voting rule, citing states’ constitutional election power te 2026-08-28T13:50:06.864Z Judge again freezes Trump mail-voting rule, citing states’ constitutional election power Volunteers at the Denver Clerk and Recorder's office check and organize primary ballots on June 30, 2026. (Photo by Andrew Fraieli/Colorado Newsline) A federal judge froze for two weeks a Trump administration regulation to restrict mail voting late Thursday, calling the U.S. Postal Service rule a violation of states’ power to administer elections. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s temporary restraining order reinstated a pause that she had lifted just a day earlier, following a U.S. Supreme Court procedural ruling Monday that allowed the administration to implement the policy. The federal government will likely appeal Thursday night’s order. Throughout months of litigation, Talwani, whom President Barack Obama appointed to the Massachusetts federal court bench in 2013, has shown strong skepticism about President Donald Trump’s power to compel states to overhaul their mail voting systems. She did so again Thursday, saying the government had not produced any evidence of fraudulent mail voting that the rule was intended to fix. The voting rights groups and Democratic states that sued, however, had shown that voters would be disenfranchised in the Nov. 3 midterm elections if the rule remains in place then, she wrote. “The USPS’s interest in correcting an unsubstantiated problem through likely unconstitutional means is dwarfed by the overwhelming risk of pervasive disenfranchisement of citizens who need access to mail ballots in order to vote,” Talwani said. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled Monday the two dozen Democratic state officials had sued too early when they challenged Trump’s executive order that USPS had not yet codified in a final rule. The ruling did not mention that the Postal Service had actually published a final rule the previous business day, Aug. 21. The states and voting rights groups promptly refiled lawsuits Wednesday to challenge the final rule, asking Talwani to keep it from taking effect while the case proceeded. In the interim, the Trump administration forged ahead with the rule’s implementation, publishing an FAQ earlier Thursday on various aspects of the rule and arguing in court that it was not seeking to take over election administration. The rule creates new requirements for mail ballot envelopes, which states say would present a major challenge to complete before this year’s elections. It also requires states to send the federal government lists of voting-age citizens, which would be cross-referenced with federal citizenship data, and forbids the Postal Service from delivering or collecting ballots from people who are not confirmed to be eligible voters through that process. Trump and administration officials have characterized the rule as a tool for election integrity and Trump has long claimed fraud was rampant in mail voting, without ever providing evidence. All states allow some form of mail voting. Eight states, primarily in the West, and the District of Columbia, mail ballots to every registered voter. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91920d2c5335ae104c490c Viral nature video captures stunning albino deer in Wisconsin Northwoods, and it lives up to the hype te 2026-08-28T13:50:05.674Z Viral nature video captures stunning albino deer in Wisconsin Northwoods, and it lives up to the hype An epic nature video is going viral for all the right reasons. We've been pumping out nature content left and right here at OutKick following the launch of OutKick Outdoors. The content machine never ends. Fortunately, the nature topic is one of the easiest topics on the internet when it comes to golden footage and photos. TWO KANGAROOS THROW PUNCHES LIKE UFC FIGHTERS IN AUSTRALIAN MAN'S BACKYARD IN VIRAL VIDEO That leads us to one of the coolest videos that we've seen in a long time. Instagram user @joelord_wi shared a video this week that is nothing short of absolutely incredible. The footage going viral on Instagram shows an albino buck with a massive rack running across a road in Wisconsin. WISCONSIN TEEN'S TURKEY HUNT TAKES A WILD TURN WHEN A BOBCAT LUNGES AND GRABS HIS ARM ON CAMERA "Well I hope this was a good omen for fishing this week in the Wisconsin Northwoods. Can’t explain what it was like getting so close to such a majestic Unicorn! Wild Wisconsin, albino whitetail," he captioned the video. That certainly sums it up well. BEAR CUBS SPAR ON WOMAN'S FRONT PORCH IN ADORABLE VIRAL NATURE VIDEO, REACTIONS POUR IN Check out the stunning footage below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. That's certainly some of the coolest nature footage that I've seen in a long time. Seeing an albino deer never gets old. JORDAN DAVIS FACES FAN BACKLASH OVER HAWAII AXIS DEER HUNT DESPITE STRONG CONSERVATION BACKING My brother-in-law captured footage of an albino deer back in 2024 that you can see below. While the exact number of albino deer in Wisconsin isn't known, it's estimated that one out of every 30,000 births of white-tail deer are albino. I grew up in Wisconsin and spent countless hours outdoors. I've seen an albino deer in-person one time in my entire life. That's what makes seeing one so incredibly special. It might only happen once, if it happens at all. What do you think of the footage? Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91920c2c5335ae104c4903 Hillary Clinton's dig at Trump over Lake Ontario name change sparks viral backlash: 'Shooting blanks' te 2026-08-28T13:50:04.648Z Hillary Clinton's dig at Trump over Lake Ontario name change sparks viral backlash: 'Shooting blanks' Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton found herself on the wrong end of social media criticism after taking issue with President Donald Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario amid a heated trade war with Canada. "It's Lake Ontario," Clinton posted on Thursday, inserting herself into the debate stemming from Trump’s executive order instructing the Department of Interior to refer to the lake as "Lake America" from now on. Clinton, whose X account does not allow replies, was immediately mocked by conservatives over her failed presidential run against Trump as the post surpassed 3 million views in just a few hours. "It’s not President Hillary Clinton…and never will be," conservative commentator CJ Pearson posted on X. CLINTON’S EYEBROW-RAISING SOCIALISM TAKE SPARKS BRUTAL MOCKERY: ‘DEFINITION OF INSANITY’ "Trump Controls the News Cycle Volume 87187585124782," former Trump DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin posted on X. "It’s President Donald J. Trump," the Republican National Committee (RNC) posted on X. "And you’ll never be President," Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., posted on X. ‘CAPTAIN CANADA’ FIREBRAND UNLOADS ON TRUMP WITH PROFANE ONE-LINER AS TRADE WAR ESCALATES "Loser says what?" conservative commentator Jillian King Anderson posted on X. "Democrats preferring Canada to America is the least surprising thing I’ve seen all day," conservative commentator Michael Knowles posted on X. "Hillary's out here shooting blanks ," conservative radio host Vince Coglianese posted on X. Trump's move to rename the lake, which sits on the U.S.-Canada border, came amid a breakdown in trade between both nations, with Trump accusing Ottawa of unfair trade practices. The U.S. imposed new 50% tariffs on Canadian goods such as wine, furniture and dairy products, while Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said U.S. trade demands proved Washington wanted to "destroy our major industries," including autos, steel and aluminum. "Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade," Trump said Thursday. "Very sadly, even the military, you know, we defend Canada for nothing. We don't get anything. They don't pay us to defend Canada." Trump previously used geographic names to make political statements, ordering the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in January 2025. "The Lake of America was something I've been thinking about for a long time, actually. As you know, we took something called the Gulf of Mexico — we changed it — and now it's very routinely the Gulf of America," Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. Several prominent Democrats have come out against the name change, including New York's Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul who said New York, which borders the lake's southern side, "won't be calling it that." Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano contributed to this report . . Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a918fb62c5335ae104c46ff Jena Sims makes a golf commercial that won't get canceled, 12U football coaches tangle & Chris Sale's shutout te 2026-08-28T13:40:06.482Z Jena Sims makes a golf commercial that won't get canceled, 12U football coaches tangle & Chris Sale's shutout Welcome to the final Friday Screencaps for August where we give thanks to the patio gods for the great weather we're about to experience this weekend. I'm talking 80 degrees and sunny today. 82 and sunny Saturday and 87 and sunny on Sunday. Here's what I want you to do right now. Go hide all the pumpkin spice candles your wife has out. Replace them with Yankee Candle's 'Sun & Sand' candles. Or a variation. If you don't have that scene, go buy it today on your lunch break. It's still summer, dammit! Moving along....what a week for the golf industry and commercials. I'm sure you guys have been following the Good Good vs. Callaway drama. Let this serve as a reminder that it isn't hard to make a golf commercial. For example, look at how Chili's made this commercial, or social media content, with PGA golf wife Jena Sims. This is how you make a golf commercial that won't get canceled. BACKLASH OVER GOOD GOOD GOLF AD GOES TOO FAR AS STORES PULL MERCHANDISE, PGA TOUR EVENT POTENTIALLY CANCELED You hire a hot woman. You have her hit a golf ball off a cart barn, everyone laughs, the hot woman smiles, everyone feels great and woke mobs don't even blink. "At least I look cute," Sims says as she hits one off the barn. Exactly. 📩 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 🗞️ Newsletter: 👉 Subscribe here • Thank you to all of you who took time to subscribe this week to the Screencaps YouTube page. I had no idea so many people would want to hear my take on viral videos, but here we are over 1k and rolling along. • Screencaps Jr. turns 14 today. The best part about this age for me is watching him handle himself in public. Wednesday night, he needed new spikes for cross-country, so I took him to the local running shoe store. When we walked in, I told him to handle the conversation with the clerk, who is a cross-country runner himself. I stayed out of it.    One of my biggest goals with my kids is for them to be able to handle themselves in public and have the ability to read a room. He handled himself the other night like a pro. It was fun to watch. • Speaking of running, the road to the Ohio Jr. High State Championships starts tomorrow in Celina, OH. I still can't believe where we're at today vs. a year ago with cross-country. I had never been to a cross-country event. I'd never watched it online. Not a single immediate family member had ever run. NFL ENDS PRO BOWL AFTER DECADES OF DECLINING INTEREST, WILL TURN ALL-STAR GAME INTO AN AWARD FOR 88 PLAYERS Now? We're pumped up to get on the road and drive 90 minutes to watch a 12-minute race. The hope is that he'll be running sub-12 to start the season. We'll see. There's a sinus cold going through the house. It's time to power through. God bless those of you who deal with this stuff week after week. I love watching football, but I don't think I could possibly stand to be living inside this world. – Tom T. loves having football back: Just sitting here watching the Maine Black Bears v Towson State (MD) Tigers on Monumental Sports Network… football is back. I don’t know what it is about the game that has drawn me in since I was 6 years old. I only played organized football for 3 years, but I love it wholeheartedly. I sat in front of the TV by myself as a kid and watched it all… Archie Griffin, Sonny Jergenson, Army v Navy, Anthony Davis and USC v Notre Dame.. an epic comeback, Bear Bryant, #1 Buckeyes getting beat on the last play by Sparty, ABC World Wide of Sports and Keith Jackson. Fast forward to App State beating Michigan, tailgates, fantasy football. Here is a re-cap of that Buckeye v Sparty game … The Upset That Time Forgot: MSU Topples No. 1 Ohio State - Pigskin Dispatch Football is great because we all still care. These games are more compelling than any Premier League or World Cup match. God Bless the USA and God Bless football! – Jess in Alabama emails: CHRIS SALE! That’s it. And hopefully the site can have a few headlines today featuring the Braves surprisingly sweeping the Dodgers instead of the WNBA. Thanks for all you do! Kinsey: Why was Sale's kid shocked? His dad was allowed to go back out and pitch the 9th inning in a 1-0 game while nearing 100 pitches. Sales ended up with 109 pitches. Why is this impressive? Because no pitcher in Major League Baseball has more than one complete game shutout this season. There have been just nine this season. – Jase asks: What do you think about the NFL discontinuing the Pro Bowl as a game? I'm surprised it took this long. The only All-Star Game I still watch is MLB. Kinsey: I'm convinced the NFL will replace it with some sort of flag football championship. Don't think for a second the NFL is going to give up that weekend to the NBA. That's not happening. They're cooking up something and with flag football at the 2028 Olympics, I'm expecting them to use this open weekend for their new baby, NFL Flag. – Chris B. in Florida/North Carolina emails: A few years ago — well into the Commanders' era — I was checking out of a hotel in Baker City, Oregon (there’s a whole other story, but it’s not relevant to this). The desk clerk, who was clearly Native American (probably Payute or Nez Perce in that area, but I didn’t ask) was wearing an old-school Redskins cap. I complimented him on it and his excellent use of irony, and he just thanked me and laughed. – Philly Ray in MN shares: Your story about the kid needing to raise $600 for school reminded me of my favorite fundraiser. Our neighbor's son played on the high school football team and they sold, and delivered water softener salt before the season started. He even emptied the bags into the softener so he got some extra lifting and saved me a trip to Home Depot (not sponsored). Please get rid of the coupon books, wrapping paper and magazine subscriptions for something most people can use. Kinsey: The local boys lacrosse team delivers mulch in the spring. This is the first I'm hearing of a water softener salt fundraiser. I'm with you. Provide something we can all use and let's talk business. Or I'll just give cash. The marching band kids come through with a bucket. I'm fine with that. – 'Sheriff' John in Houston says donate a little more and the benefits are actually pretty good: I think I've written you about this subject before, but this year - my last year of having a kid in school - I explicitly told the football coach and the band director earlier this month that I was making the maximum "family sponsorship" to the respective booster clubs ($500 apiece) and did not intend for my son to participate in the organized begging this year (otherwise known as "fundraising"). Neither party complained and thus far it has been quite pleasant getting to avoid the constant shaming and I don't feel guilty at all. An interesting aspect - when you make the maximum sponsorship you get all kinds of goodies in return: spirit merchandise, a discount code for more merchandise for family members, your name on the t-shirt, and your name at the top of the membership list that literally is emailed out once a month. When you give in to the begging nowadays you don't get anything in return anymore, not even a World's Finest chocolate bar. I wish I had thought of this sooner. As promised, here's a look at the work we've been putting in. Looking at where we're at now vs. where we were just a couple of years ago is startling. We actually have hydrangeas that look great and crisp edges thanks to my new Stihl tools. Go enjoy your weekend. You've earned it. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a918d602c5335ae104c4499 House Dem Debbie Dingell places Trump's Lake Ontario name change in the crosshairs te 2026-08-28T13:30:08.680Z House Dem Debbie Dingell places Trump's Lake Ontario name change in the crosshairs Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich. declared that she will introduce legislation targeting President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America. "The Great Lakes are a shared treasure that generations of Americans and Canadians have worked together to protect. That’s why I'm introducing legislation to keep Lake Ontario as Lake Ontario and block President Trump’s idiotic order," Dingell declared in a Thursday post on X. The president's executive order called for updating "the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) to reflect the renaming of the Lake and remove all references to Lake Ontario from the GNIS, consistent with applicable law." The order also stated that, "The Board on Geographic Names shall provide guidance to ensure all Federal Government references to Lake Ontario, including on executive department and agency maps, contracts, and other documents and communications, shall reflect its renaming." TRUMP RENAMES LAKE ONTARIO 'LAKE AMERICA' AMID INTENSIFYING US-CANADA TRADE DISPUTE Trump posted to Truth Social on Thursday what appeared to be the content of a message from U.S. Geological Survey Director Dr. Ned Mamula. "As of 4:30 pm today the U.S. Geological Survey has officially designated the former Lake Ontario to be renamed as Lake America in all official USGS electronic documents," Mamula noted. "The change will begin occurring in printed documents over the next several days. This change has also been made official in the Geographic Names Information System." Dingell's post on X linked to a Politico report, which stated that Dingell noted in an interview that she plans to introduce a measure on Monday to nullify Trump's move to change the lake's name. NEW YORK GOV HOCHUL REJECTS TRUMP'S 'LAKE AMERICA' RENAMING WITH BLUNT MESSAGE The report linked to a copy of Dingell’s proposed "Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act," which would declare that Trump’s Aug. 27 order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America," along with actions taken under it, has "no force or effect." Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and to Dingell's office early on Friday morning. TRUMP FLOATS RENAMING THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS AFTER REBRANDING HISTORIC LAKE Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared in a Thursday post on X, "The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means 'the lake is beautiful, the lake is big'. The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. "We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always," Carney said in the post. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a918d5f2c5335ae104c4490 Soros-backed DA accused of going easy on illegal immigrants gets squeezed by House GOP te 2026-08-28T13:30:07.704Z Soros-backed DA accused of going easy on illegal immigrants gets squeezed by House GOP House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is warning that subpoenas are on the table if county prosecutors accused of going easy on illegal immigrants who commit crimes do not cooperate. Jordan's committee is investigating district attorneys for so-called "sanctuary jurisdictions" 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. "If we have to, we'll use subpoenas to get the documents that we think they may not be giving us. 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," Jordan explained in an interview with Fox News Digital. "And then if we have to use subpoenas, we certainly will do that ... but we want to know the facts." DOJ OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO SOROS-BACKED DA ACCUSED OF SHIELDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM CONSEQUENCES Of particular concern, Jordan said, is Fairfax County, Virginia, DA Steve Descano. Descano was recently thrust under scrutiny 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. SOROS PROSECUTOR IN DANGER OF BEING REMOVED AFTER GRIEVING MOM’S DESPERATE ALARM: ‘CAN’T BELIEVE THIS’ Descano, who has led the Fairfax County District 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. Fairfax County is known as a sanctuary jurisdiction, meaning local law enforcement is not bound to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. SANCTUARY COUNTY REFUSED 615 ICE TRANSFER REQUESTS, TURNED OVER JUST 11 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, RECORDS SHOW "This is one of the dumbest policies I've ever heard of. You're going to tell local law enforcement not to work with federal law enforcement when it comes to enforcing federal law?" Jordan said. "And then you have people like Mr. Descano, who are releasing bad guys, and they have a stated policy saying, you know, 'We will look at their immigration status before we make a decision on charging,' and in certain clear agreements and they're releasing guys. You have then you have bad things happen." He noted Minter's case as an example. SOROS-BACKED PROSECUTOR SET FOR CAPITOL HILL GRILLING AS SANCTUARY POLICIES FACE RECKONING Descano's 2019 campaign for DA notably received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Justice and Public Safety PAC, which boasts billionaire George Soros among its backers. Fairfax County happens to be a major suburb of Washington, D.C. Jordan argued its proximity to the country's national security epicenter made its sanctuary policies even more dangerous. "That's definitely a concern that I think probably any American with common sense would have," he said. But there are other sanctuary jurisdictions his committee would probe as well, Jordan suggested. DOJ ACCUSES MARYLAND OF 'ACTIVE AND DELIBERATE EFFORT' TO PREVENT DEPORTATIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: LAWSUIT "You've got not just Descano, but it looks like Alvin Bragg up in New York, [Larry Krasner] in Philadelphia, so many of these DAs who are doing the same darn thing," he said. Fox News Digital reached out to Descano's office for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a918d5d2c5335ae104c446e a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’ te 2026-08-28T13:30:05.244Z a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’ The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9188af2c5335ae104c42a8 Scott Brown on Ruthless: Sophie Cunningham has the guts to challenge men competing in women’s sports te 2026-08-28T13:10:07.042Z Scott Brown on Ruthless: Sophie Cunningham has the guts to challenge men competing in women’s sports In an interview with the Ruthless Podcast, Scott Brown, former U.S. Senator and current Senate candidate in New Hampshire, commended Indiana Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham for her advocacy on behalf of women’s sports.  "I don’t miss a game when the [Indiana] Fever [are] playing," Brown said in an interview released Friday morning. "Sophie Cunningham had the guts to get up and challenge this crazy ideology and put up with that crap." Cunningham made news earlier this summer when she said that female athletes shouldn’t have to compete against biological men.   SEN RON JOHNSON DETAILS SENATE FILIBUSTER STRATEGY ON ‘RUTHLESS' Brown is no newcomer to the women’s sports debate. His daughter, Ayla, was a basketball player at Boston College. "My daughter committed to Boston College at 15," Brown, who served as ambassador to New Zealand during President Donald Trump's first term, said. "[She was a] Gatorade Player of the Year, two years in a row, 2,358 points in high school. And they had men, practice players, coming in and trying to make them better because they were bigger and stronger. To think one of them was going to take my baby's job." Earlier this month, Brown criticized the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) in an opinion piece in the Union Leader over its policies regarding transgender athletes.  "It's hypocritical," Brown said of the league to the Fellas in the interview. "It's a no-brainer. The WNBA better get their you-know-what together because they're going to lose it all without even blinking." NEW HAMPSHIRE CANDIDATE JOHN SUNUNU BLASTS DEMS FOR MOVING ‘FIRST IN THE NATION PRIMARY’ ON RUTHLESS  Brown is currently running for Senate, looking to replace the retiring Jeanne Shaheen.  Brown shocked the political world with his January 2010 Massachusetts U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, defeating Martha Coakley in a special election to finish the term of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. In the Republican primary on Sept. 8, Brown faces another former senator: John Sununu. Ruthless interviewed Sununu earlier this month.  On the Democratic side, Rep. Chris Pappas faces several challengers, including Karishma Manzur." The general election will take place on November 3rd. CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW THE RUTHLESS PODCAST The interview took place as part of the Ruthless Midterm Interview Series, an ongoing initiative to interview major candidates across the country. The hosts have already interviewed candidates in 19 states, with more scheduled ahead of the November midterms.  Podcast co-host Josh Holmes commended Brown for his commitment to conservative values in a region not known to be easy for Republicans. "You're a good man," Holmes told Brown. "I'm glad you stayed in it for as long as you have because you've been a real warrior in a bunch of places that aren't easy to be for sure." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9188ae2c5335ae104c429f STEPHEN MOORE: Data centers aren’t just buildings. They are economic engines te 2026-08-28T13:10:06.317Z STEPHEN MOORE: Data centers aren’t just buildings. They are economic engines On November 17, 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed an executive order fixing the eastern terminus of the transcontinental railroad at Council Bluffs, Iowa. A modest town on the Missouri River became Mile Zero of the infrastructure that built industrial America. By the early 20th century, eight major railroads ran through Council Bluffs, and a farm-state river crossing had become one of the great junction points of the American economy. A century and a half later, Council Bluffs is Mile Zero again. In 2007, Google chose this town of 62,000 for one of its first company-built data centers. The company recognized, as Lincoln did, that America's infrastructure runs through the middle of the country. What’s also clear today are the extraordinary benefits that flow to the states and cities hosting 21st century infrastructure, such as data centers. A SOUTHERN STATE JUST TOOK THE TOP SPOT IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S FASTEST-GROWING INDUSTRIES Consider Iowa, where Google has now invested more than $20 billion since breaking ground in Council Bluffs. The investment is ongoing. Last year, the company committed another $7 billion to expand its presence in Council Bluffs and build an entirely new campus in Cedar Rapids. Google is not alone in committing capital to Iowa. Meta operates one of its largest data center campuses in Altoona. Microsoft has poured billions into West Des Moines. The state that critics once flew over has become the crossroads of the cloud. SILICON VALLEY IS LOSING THE DATA CENTER FIGHT, RISKING A REPEAT OF A CLASSIC FAILURE A small but vocal band of pressure groups claim that data centers are big buildings with few workers inside. But judging a data center by the headcount is like judging the transcontinental railroad by the number of stationmasters. The wealth was never in the depot. It was in everything the depot made possible. Look at what the buildout actually creates. Google is funding a partnership with an entity known as the electrical training ALLIANCE. It was created by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the National Electrical Contractors Association and the partnership will massively expand Iowa's electrical workforce pipeline. Seven hundred apprentices will be trained in Cedar Rapids by 2030. META OFFERS PAID TRAINING FOR AI DATA CENTER JOBS These are careers in the skilled trades: electricians, pipefitters, welders, HVAC technicians. No four-year degree, no student debt. A high school graduate in eastern Iowa can walk into an apprenticeship and wire the machines that run the artificial intelligence economy. Construction of a single campus puts more than a thousand tradesmen to work for years at a time. And the ripple effects reach Main Street: Google's presence generated $2.7 billion in economic activity for Iowa last year. That translates to high-paying jobs for Iowa workers throughout the state. The community dividends are just as concrete. When Google learned that some Council Bluffs students had laptops but no internet at home, it extended its own wireless network to serve them for free. The company has put millions into local schools and nonprofits and funded the city's free public Wi-Fi. It also committed to replenishing 120 percent of the water it consumes, starting with a $1.3 million Missouri River Basin conservation project. AMERICA'S AI BOOM IS A JOBS OPPORTUNITY, NOT AN EXCUSE FOR UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME None of this happened by accident. Iowa's leaders — Governor Kim Reynolds, Senator Joni Ernst, local officials in both parties — competed for this investment with low taxes, sensible permitting, and a simple message: build here. Other states chose differently. They held hearings, added conditions, studied the question until the cranes went elsewhere. The capital didn't wait. It never does. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION This is the choice now facing hundreds of American communities, because the AI buildout is the largest infrastructure project in our history — bigger in real dollars than the railroads, rural electrification, or the interstate highways. Lincoln understood, even amid a brutal civil war, that laying the groundwork to bind the country together with iron and steam merited his firm commitment. That same resolve is needed today. The states and cities that welcome the technology companies laying the foundation for America’s economic future will, like Council Bluffs, reap the benefits of being at the junction points of the next American century. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9188aa2c5335ae104c4278 In one Armory Park kitchen, dinner for 100 unhoused neighbors starts at noon te 2026-08-28T13:10:02.840Z In one Armory Park kitchen, dinner for 100 unhoused neighbors starts at noon Each Wednesday evening, upwards of 100 people line up on a sidewalk adjoining Tucson’s Armory Park for a hot meal served in heaping portions from steaming containers lined up on a folding table.  It’s a bounty of food offered to an unhoused community that is often food insecure — and each week the food for Community Care Tucson’s weekly distribution is prepared in a small handful of home kitchens. In early July, amid the dog days of summer, one of those is the home kitchen of Ash Fortune, a longtime volunteer and career kitchen worker who has perfected the art of cooking batch meals to appeal to a broad range of diners.  “It feels important to give back, to be aware of how lucky and privileged I am to not be worried about my next meal,” says Fortune, who has cooked for the distribution nearly every week for the past two years.  A table of food at a mutual aid homelessness food distribution by Community Care Tucson It’s a glimpse into one part of the labor behind Tucson’s mutual aid network, through which a handful of different groups provide food, clothing and sometimes medical care in different areas around the city.  ”We can all just do things —  you can just get together with your friends and start addressing the needs you see in your community,” Fortune says.  Ash Fortune makes a shopping list for Community Care Tucson’s weekly mutual aid distribution. Noon: Making a shopping list Fortune leans over the counter of her kitchen and looks down at her shopping list. “I think 3 pounds of butter is good,” she muses. “Or maybe 4?”  A 1920s kitchen with modern day appliances in Armory Park is where the magic happens. “My workspace,” she says.  Then it’s time to go to Restaurant Depot, where she gets about 40 pounds of frozen chicken, a bunch of boxes of frozen green beans and, crucially, butter. The total cost is $265, paid for by Fortune with the support of her partner’s steady job. “Butter was the big ticket item today,” she says.  Ash Fortune shops at Restaurant Depot for Community Care Tucson’s weekly mutual aid distribution. Another household will be preparing some 50 pounds of potatoes plus rice and beans as Fortune gets going on the chicken and green beans; a group of people also makes about 200 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every week.  Vegetables aren’t always popular, but today’s green beans are going to get the star treatment. “The veggie side I bring will probably be drenched in garlic butter.” Ash Fortune cooks a meal for Community Care Tucson’s weekly mutual aid distribution. 1:35 p.m. The first vat of light salted water goes on to boil for vegetables as Fortune rinses the chicken. There will be three trays of chicken, each of which will hold 20 pounds of meat. Fortune seasons the chicken with zeal: whole Mexican oregano, black pepper, chili powder, cumin, garlic and vegetable salt.  “I measure with feeling in my heart,” she laughs.  Then the chicken slides into the oven to cook for the next hour and she sanitizes the countertops. If there wasn’t a reporter and photographer in the room, Fortune says, she’d listen to an audiobook, maybe on local Indigenous history or about archaeology, with her headphones on.  Ash Fortune cooks a meal for Community Care Tucson’s weekly mutual aid distribution. 2 p.m  As green beans are tipped into large metal vats boiling away on the stove, Fortune pours the animal fats into a plastic tin to be used later for gravy.  Then Fortune turns to the lemonade:  RECIPE: 5 GALLONS OF LEMONADE 8 cups of lemonade concentrate 8 cups of water 9 cups sugar  1 tablespoon of salt  Dissolved in 10 cups of hot water Add the sugar water and 8 cups of lemon juice to the 5 gallon jug and fill the rest of the way with cold water  Ash Fortune cooks a meal for Community Care Tucson’s weekly mutual aid distribution. 3 p.m.  The biggest challenge to working outside a commercial kitchen, says Fortune, is keeping the food at an appropriate holding temperature. To do that, she’s created an ad hoc steam table that is going alongside the vat of boiling green beans.  RECIPE: GRAVY FOR GREEN BEANS  Take 2-3 cups of fat drippings from baked chicken, and boil until shimmery Add 3 tablespoons of flour to make a roux  Cook until the color darkens  Stir, then add vegetable stock Simmer on low as the liquid continues to thicken Ash Fortune cooks chicken for Community Care Tucson’s weekly mutual aid distribution. 5:41 p.m.  It’s over 100 degrees outside, and the temperature inside is rising as well as the second batch of chicken continues cooking.  Fortune moves through it all smoothly, navigating the multiple dishes while also making lemonade and putting together a few extra containers of rice and beans to have on hand just in case they run out.  “It’s just awful to not have enough. It feels really bad,” she says.  There are less than two hours to go, and eight minutes left on the chicken. Fortune glances at the time on her phone anxiously. Ash Fortune cooks a meal for Community Care Tucson’s weekly mutual aid food distribution. 6 p.m. One hour until the distribution starts, and Fortune, with a sigh of relief, confirms the chicken is cooked. She pours the drippings into a pan and puts the green beans in the oven.  Then, wearing black gloves and wincing at the heat, she shreds the steaming chicken, and generously slathers it with barbecue sauce as she appraises the pan. “Juiciness to properly cooked-ness is the battle we are all fighting.”  People gather during a mutual aid homelessness food distribution by Community Care Tucson 7:30 p.m. People are usually lined up before 7 p.m., when Community Care Tucson’s distribution formally starts, and they watch as the distribution tables unfurl from people’s trunks and backseats: there is a hot chocolate and coffee station, a wound care station and a pet care station.  By 7:38 p.m., Fortune has moved on to handing out the second pan of chicken.  Platters of food at a mutual aid homelessness food distribution by Community Care Tucson The food distribution by Community Care Tucson includes food for pets. 8 p.m.  As people move through the line, some holding big backpacks or pulling carts and others leading dogs, Fortune is on the third tray of chicken and the 50 pounds of potatoes are almost done.  The table is also out of green beans.  Does she feel a sense of accomplishment?  “I think I do feel accomplishment if everyone gets fed,” she says. And that week, they did.  A man eats at a mutual aid food distribution by Community Care Tucson 9 p.m.  At the end of the night, Fortune sends a photo of her workhorse kitchen.  The post In one Armory Park kitchen, dinner for 100 unhoused neighbors starts at noon appeared first on AZ Luminaria. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9183fb2c5335ae104c41cb Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label te 2026-08-28T12:50:03.707Z Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9181a52c5335ae104c4191 Senator Chris Murphy calls idea mass immigration is putting US at risk a 'fake problem' te 2026-08-28T12:40:05.677Z Senator Chris Murphy calls idea mass immigration is putting US at risk a 'fake problem' U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., argued on Wednesday that the idea that mass immigration puts the U.S. at risk is a "fake problem." During an interview with Connecticut news outlet the CT Mirror Murphy was asked about the arrests of parents at a bus stop in Danbury by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Murphy said the intent of these arrests was to "terrorize these little kids" before promoting his work to oppose ICE and protect immigrants. Host John Dankosky then asked Murphy, "Longer term, what can and should be done to solve this problem?" Murphy argued that President Donald Trump's administration was trying to solve a "fake problem" of mass immigration creating more crime rather than fixing an immigration system that appears to operate "without rules." MAMDANI SHRUGS OFF DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONCERNS OVER HIS 'ABOLISH ICE' PUSH "The problem, according to the Trump administration, is a country that has been invaded, a country that is at risk physically because of the presence of people from other countries," Murphy responded. "That is a fake problem. That is not a real problem." "Nobody likes to hear this," he added, "but immigrants, first generation immigrants and undocumented immigrants both commit crimes at rates lower than natural-born Americans, than people that are born here in this country. So if you want to live in a safe community, you are actually better off living in a community with people that just got to the United States of America. And so we're not seeking to solve ‘a problem’ of migrant crime." Murphy conceded that the U.S. immigration system does "frustrate" Americans across the political spectrum "when we have a system of immigration that appears lawless, that appears without rules." "That you can have your mom or dad or grandmother wait in line for years and years and years and then someone comes across the border who doesn't actually have a legal claim to stay in the U.S. and gets to be here for years. That's the problem we have to solve," he added. When asked by a listener whether he would dismantle ICE as an institution, he replied that people need to "tear down ICE and rebuild it" arguing that "this version of ICE should not remain or come back if Democrats control the presidency or Congress." Murphy has drawn scrutiny over his stance on immigration, including past comments stating that Democratic policy has "failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country." Daniel Di Martino, a Manhattan Institute fellow and Venezuelan-born economist, suggested that while Murphy’s point about immigrant crime levels may be technically correct, demographic differences skew those figures. "It is true that the average immigrant, legal or illegal, is less likely to commit crime. For example, while according to the census' latest five-year American Community Survey over 2% of [A]merican-born between 18 and 59 years old are imprisoned, only 0.75% of immigrant men are," he began." When we split groups by nativity and race, we see that even non-Hispanic White men are more likely to be in prison than foreign-born men with 1.2% of White men in prison. Black and Native American men lead with the highest imprisonment rate with nearly 6.5% of each of these groups in a carceral facility." MORE THAN 100 HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS WITH VIOLENT OFFENSE AND SEX CRIME CONVICTIONS DEPORTED: DHS Di Martino noted that crime rates among immigrants also vary by country of origin. "Among immigrants, it is Hondurans who have the highest imprisonment rate at 1.7% of their men in jail. Mexicans also have a higher imprisonment rate than White men at 1.4%. Europeans, South Americans, and Asian immigrants all have very low crime rates," he said. "Indian men specifically are the group with the lowest imprisonment rate among all large immigrant origins with barely 0.09% of them in jail, likely because the majority of Indian immigrants are high-skilled immigrants on H-1B visas or already have green cards or citizenship through employment." Beyond demographics, he argued that one key feature skews the number of crimes committed by American-born citizens. "But the crime gap between immigrants and natives in the United States hides an important fact: Immigrants who commit a crime tend to be deported and thus cannot reoffend," he said. "Since most crimes are committed by career criminals who reoffend after release, non-citizens do not get as many chances to reoffend as native-born Americans. This is a good thing and criminal non-citizens should be deported." CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Theo Wold, former assistant attorney general and former White House deputy assistant for domestic policy under Trump, spoke to Fox News Digital about Murphy’s comments. "There are no reliable statistics showing that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes — and Democrats are the reason. They have blocked efforts to record and report illegal immigrant crime for decades so they can spout pseudo-statistics like these, made up out of whole cloth," he said. "Illegal immigration is a real issue for ordinary Americans — both crime and economic displacement. I grew up in Stockton, the first American city where foreign-born residents became the majority of the population, and it is now consistently one of the nation’s most violent municipalities," he added. "My father owned a carpentry business that he later shut down due to illegal aliens undercutting his prices. Chris Murphy should leave the bubble of his donors’ swanky mansions along Connecticut’s Gold Coast if he wants to see how illegal immigration has affected this country." A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security also defended ICE. "Our agents are focused on protecting the American people — not entertaining performative outrage. Where is the outrage for Angel families who lost a loved one to illegal alien crime?" the spokesman asked. "To most Americans, our brave ICE law enforcement are heroes. 80% of Americans support arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods. These officers put their lives on the line every day to arrest the worst of the worst, including murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and terrorists all while facing a 1,300% increase in assaults, a 3,300% increase in vehicular attacks, and an 8,000% increase in death threats against them." The spokesman concluded, "Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S. We will find you, we will arrest you, and we will deport you whether Connecticut’s pro-criminal illegal alien senator likes it or not." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9181a42c5335ae104c4188 Longtime Republican Al Michaels took a jab at Trump and NFL fans went spiraling out of control te 2026-08-28T12:40:04.824Z Longtime Republican Al Michaels took a jab at Trump and NFL fans went spiraling out of control Al Michaels, 81, might still have his fastball. For years, he's been teetering. Believe me, I've spent many a Friday morning writing about how bad Al was on the call the night before. But during Amazon Prime's one and only preseason game Thursday night, Michaels came out firing — and, naturally, set the internet ablaze in the process. "That is Lake Erie. We think it is still called Lake Erie ... We're not quite sure at this point," Michaels said during the Patriots-Browns broadcast in Cleveland. TRUMP FLOATS RENAMING THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS AFTER REBRANDING HISTORIC LAKE "But we'll be by Lake something like Ontario or whatever it's going to be called by the time we get to Buffalo. Anyway, you know what I'm talking about ... Read the news." Incredible. A couple things ... TRUMP TAUNTS CANADA ON RENAMING LAKE ONTARIO THE 'LAKE AMERICA' AMID RISING BORDER TRADE RIFT Now, because we live in such a divisive time, fans went nuts over Al's comments last night. Some loved the jab at Trump. Others hated it. Weirdly, the internet couldn't seem to agree on it. Shocking, I know. "NFL fans don’t want to watch Trump-hating, America-last announcers. Al Michaels must apologize," one fan said on X. "He should be grateful to live in a country that would pay someone who is barely alive millions to butcher a football game," added another. "Remember when Bob Costas tried to get political in 2012 about gun control and he managed to piss off pretty much every person and the nation ..." said a third. Amazing. Of course, you had the complete other side of the spectrum, too. "Ironically, Al Michaels was a big republican back in the day." "I’ve seen enough. Al Michaels comeback season. Top of his game!" And, of course, my personal favorite: That's true. Al would absolutely give us a history lesson on all the great lakes in America (Canada?) if he had the time. Lord knows Bob Costas would've done it whether he had the time or not. Anyway, I'd chalk it up to a solid start to Thursday Night Football this season. Al Michaels is still making waves at 81, and that's say something after the past few years. Well done. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a917f4d2c5335ae104c3c27 Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India te 2026-08-28T12:30:05.694Z Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a917cf92c5335ae104c3211 Popular beach town rejects noise, trash and traffic as it weighs stricter vacation rental rules te 2026-08-28T12:20:09.089Z Popular beach town rejects noise, trash and traffic as it weighs stricter vacation rental rules A popular Florida beach community is weighing tighter rules for its short-term vacation rentals after full-time residents have raised concerns about visitors' noise, overflowing trash and parking complications. The proposal under consideration for Pensacola Beach could create a registry for vacation rentals. It could require owners to designate someone who can be reached 24/7 when problems arise, according to reports. Rhonda Dorfman, president of Pensacola Beach Advocates and a full-time resident of the island, told Fox News Digital that one concern is giving law enforcement a clear point of contact when complaints are made at rental properties. POPULAR DESTINATION CRACKS DOWN HARD ON TOURISTS AS NEW LIMITS THREATEN SUMMER GETAWAYS "The sheriff's deputies have a very difficult time finding out who's in charge here," Dorfman said, noting that calls can involve complaints about noise and underage drinking. She said many problems are tied to larger vacation homes that can accommodate dozens of guests. "It's not the three- and four-person families that come out to the beach," Dorfman said.  Instead, she said, some homes "sleep 30 or 40 people — and that is where we're getting the problems." Large groups can also put pressure on parking and trash collection, she said. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "If you have a home that sleeps 30 or 40 people, even if you put five people in a car, that's six cars," Dorfman said. Trash left outside between guest checkouts and scheduled collection days has also become a concern, she indicated. "That trash sits out there in the heat. It stinks. It's ugly," she said. Noise can become another issue at night, with Pensacola Beach's noise ordinance taking effect at 10 p.m., according to Dorfman. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES Still, she noted that vacationers come to Pensacola Beach to enjoy themselves during the summer. "You work 50 weeks out of the year, you save up for your vacation, and you want to have a good time," she said. "We know you're here on vacation, and we want you to have a wonderful time, but you are in a residential community," Dorfman said.  Online discussions reveal the competing perspectives on tourism.  Some Reddit commenters have pushed back against criticism of visitors, pointing to the economic activity that tourism brings to the Pensacola area. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Other commenters highlighted the appeal of visiting Pensacola Beach despite its crowds. "The beaches are beautiful," another commenter wrote, while advising travelers to "pack your patience" when the area becomes particularly busy. Dorfman emphasized that the residents who support additional rules are not seeking to eliminate vacation rentals. "We don't want to get rid of short-term rentals," she said. "We want our low-density residential communities to still feel like a community." She said officials are looking at regulations used in other Florida communities, including Gulf Breeze, Anna Maria Island and Panama City, as they consider what could work for Pensacola Beach. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a917cf82c5335ae104c3202 Free climber stranded on Georgia rock face calls 911, prompting dramatic rescue by firefighter te 2026-08-28T12:20:08.122Z Free climber stranded on Georgia rock face calls 911, prompting dramatic rescue by firefighter A free climber who called 911 after becoming stranded on a Georgia cliff face was rescued Tuesday by a firefighter who rappelled down to reach him. The climber, who hasn't been identified by authorities, was stuck on the west face of Mount Yonah, a 3,166-foot mountain ridge in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in North Georgia. According to White County Public Safety officials, the man called 911 at around 7 p.m. to report that he was unable to safely climb up or down the mountain. Authorities used a drone to locate the man, who was standing on a 20" by 20" ledge approximately 260 feet up the mountain. 11 VISITORS TRAPPED AS DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING TEARS THROUGH ICONIC NATIONAL PARK White County firefighter Will Roper rappelled down the mountain to reach the man. Drone video showed Roper maneuvering beneath him before securing him in a harness and clipping him to the rope. The climber was then hoisted to the top of the mountain. The entire rescue operation took about 42 minutes, officials said. Roper told FOX 5 Atlanta said this was the first time he's had to rescue someone on a mountain. FIREFIGHTERS, POLICE PULL YOUNG WOMAN FROM SEWAGE-FILLED RAVINE AFTER DAYS TRAPPED IN 104-DEGREE HEAT "I've done a lot with dummies and a lot with other firefighters in training, but that's the first time that I've ever done it, kind of in the heat of the moment with a live subject," Roper said. "It was a little nerve-racking going over the edge," he added. Roper said the climber was strikingly calm, telling FOX 5 he jokingly asked him: "Have you been rescued before? You're pretty good at this." The climber told Roper that he had experience with Mount Yonah but simply picked the wrong route and got stuck. "I've been on kind of a high since then, just to have the first rescue," Roper said, adding that he was glad to be able to help someone using his technical training. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a917cf62c5335ae104c31f0 Micah Parsons' brother defends Josh Jacobs for maybe being guilty of only 'a shove' of ex-girlfriend te 2026-08-28T12:20:06.902Z Micah Parsons' brother defends Josh Jacobs for maybe being guilty of only 'a shove' of ex-girlfriend Terrence Parsons Jr. is the older brother of Green Bay Packers edge rusher Micah Parsons and, aside from that, he's known for controversial opinions about the NFL. But on Thursday evening big brother stepped on a figurative landmine. That's because Parsons Jr. decided to discuss the Josh Jacobs legal situation that is now the top story for the Packers. And it was a disaster. Jacobs is in the investigative crosshairs of both the Brown County District Attorney and the NFL after being charged with misdemeanor battery on his ex-girlfriend. He's also charged with damaging her phone. GREEN BAY PACKERS PRO BOWL RB JOSH JACOBS ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE DOMESTIC ABUSE CHARGES It's a rough situation because, as OutKick reported on Thursday, the DA's office says it has surveillance video from a garage camera of the alleged physical altercation between the running back and the woman. So, what's the problem for Parsons Jr.? He apparently doesn't think Jacobs allegedly knocking down the woman and busting up her phone, resulting in the misdemeanor charges of battery and criminal damage to property, is that serious. Certainly not serious enough to cost Jacobs his NFL career. "A shove?" Parsons typed on X. "Yall gotta relax anger gets the best out of anyone everyone deserves a second chance misdemeanors at that." Ooof. Parsons Jr. diminished the seriousness of what Jacobs allegedly did and rightly got ratioed for that opinion. But the backlash made him sit down, reflect, consider that an NFL player knocking down a female is never a good idea, and then the brother to one of the league's best pass rushers walked it all back. No he didn't. He doubled down. "I’ll never be afraid to stand on what I believe in," Parsons Jr., then posted. "yall act like he sucker punched that girl this ain’t a ray rice situation never said he was right but it ain’t right calling for that man’s career." This is where it must be stressed that Terrence Parsons Jr.'s opinion does not necessarily reflect that of Micah Parsons. But Parsons Jr. bills himself as a "media personality," who is well known to Dallas Cowboys fans (and the team) for sharing opinions that make the organization cringe because of who he's related to is his thing. It would not be surprising if the Packers are not happy with this. This opinion will very likely result in Micah Parsons at some point having to answer for his brother's defense of Jacobs. Parsons Jr. is right in that he recognizes Jacobs is in deep trouble regardless of whether he is convicted of the two charges that carry up to an 18-month combined jail sentence or not. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM The NFL is investigating Jacobs. It can, at its discretion, hand down discipline that could include a six-game suspension for Jacobs violating the league's Personal Conduct Policy. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell can also decide to place Jacobs on the exempt list, which is basically a paid suspension until the matter is decided. But Jacobs' status is also at risk long-term if the video District Attorney David L. Lasee described in his incident report indeed shows the NFL player allegedly knocking down his ex-girlfriend. That could potentially put Jacobs at risk of getting the Ray Rice treatment from NFL teams who want nothing to do with the bad publicity of having him on their roster. Parsons Jr. recognizes that. And he decided minimizing what Jacobs did to try to help avoid that for his brother's teammate was the way he wanted to address the matter. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9178492c5335ae104c2d3c Norway's King Harald dies peacefully at 89, son Crown Prince Haakon to succeed him te 2026-08-28T12:00:09.276Z Norway's King Harald dies peacefully at 89, son Crown Prince Haakon to succeed him Norway's King Harald died Friday at 89, the Royal House of Norway announced. "It is with deep grief that we announce that His Majesty King Harald has passed away," the royal palace said in a statement. "King Harald died peacefully at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet Friday 28 August at 6:35 AM," the statement continued. NORWAY RAISES SECURITY CONCERNS OVER MANHATTAN-SIZED ARCTIC LAND SALE AS TENSIONS RISE Harald, who was Europe's oldest living monarch, was hospitalized with a blood infection on Aug. 17. He had previously received a pacemaker after falling ill during a vacation in Malaysia in 2024.  Harald announced he would be drawing down his number of public appearances that same year. The monarch had served as Norway's head of state since 1991. He was Norway's first royal heir to be born in the country in more than 500 years. In 1905, after Norway gained its independence from Sweden, Harald's grandfather, King Haakon VII, became the first king of an independent Norwegian state since 1387. Harald was viewed as a reformer and advocated for his fellow European royals to continue a trend towards openness with the public.  "If you've opened the gate it's very difficult to close it again," he told Reuters. "I'm not sure I'd want to close it. So far so good, as far as I'm concerned."  When the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940, Harald's mother fled with him, first to neutral Sweden, then to the United States, where they briefly lived in the White House after then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt offered the pair safe haven.  Harald, his mother and his sisters soon moved to Bethesda, Maryland and would often meet with Roosevelt, who Harald said was like a grandfather to him.  Harald's son, Crown Prince Haakon, 53, will succeed him and take the name King Haakon VIII. Haakon and his wife, who will become Queen Mette-Marit, have been embroiled in scandal since it was revealed she exchanged emails with and had multiple meetings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  CROWN PRINCESS METTE-MARIT OF NORWAY SAYS SHE REGRETS HER TIES TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN Mette-Marit said she regrets her ties to the deceased billionaire and claimed she had no knowledge of his sordid past while communicating with him.  Additionally, Mette-Marit's son, Marius Borg Høiby, who she had from a previous marriage, was convicted of several charges of rape and domestic violence in June. He was sentenced to four years in prison, and both he and prosecutors are appealing the sentence.  Reuters contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9178472c5335ae104c2d20 14 tailgating essentials for grilling, watching the game and staying warm te 2026-08-28T12:00:07.914Z 14 tailgating essentials for grilling, watching the game and staying warm College football season has just started, and the NFL isn’t far behind. Whether you’re setting up your backyard for game-watching or heading to a tailgating event, things like portable grills, Bluetooth projectors and coolers help you show up prepared. Original price: $424.99 Pop this Coleman RoadTrip grill in your backyard and get 285 square inches of cooking space. Two folding side tables give you prep room and the rollable wheels make it easy to move. If you’re watching the game outside, the Monster Vision 2 entertainment system offers a 15.2-inch screen and up to eight hours of video playback. Just connect to your favorite smart streaming device with the HDMI port and you can start watching. The weather-resistant casing stands up to light rain. READ MORE: Best tech deals this week: Save on Apple AirPods, HP laptops and more Original price: $109.99 Broadcast college and NFL games outside with a portable Bluetooth projector. It works with most streaming sticks like Fire TV Sticks and Roku Sticks, and you can connect it to Bluetooth speakers for stronger sound. With the coupon price, the projector costs just $70 — a $40 savings. Coleman’s rolling cooler accommodates food and drinks for a party of people. Plus, it acts as additional seating, holding up to 250 pounds. Large, all-terrain wheels help you move it, even when fully stocked. If you’re bringing just enough drinks for yourself and a few friends, the YETI Roadie 15 has space for up to 22 cans (without ice). It even fits standard wine bottles and 2-liter soda bottles. An extra-tough strap adds to the portability. Lay out all your food or set up your entertainment system on this 4-foot folding table. It conveniently folds in half for easy storage in the back of your car. READ MORE: 14 slip-on shoes that make getting out the door easier, from sneakers to clogs Relax in a GCI rocker chair while you enjoy the game. The shock-absorbing steel frame supports 250 pounds and has an oversized seat for comfort. Original price: $58.99 Bring this lightweight Coleman camping chair to games and tailgate parties for a convenient place to sit. A cupholder and multiple pockets give you room for drinks, snacks and on-the-go tech. Original price: $99.95 The JBL FLIP 5 is a waterproof Bluetooth speaker so it can withstand rainy fall football games. The near-perfect 4.8-star rating and thousands of positive reviews praise the sound quality and lightweight design, ensuring you’re getting a solid speaker built to last. Original price: $129 Clip this mini Bose speaker to your bag or keys for music on the go. The 12-hour battery life keeps the music going no matter how long you’re waiting for the game to start. Despite its small size, customizable bass and treble options give you the sound quality you’d expect from Bose. READ MORE: 25 useful Amazon finds under $25 that make everyday life easier College football often means early morning games and chilly weather. A Mr. Heater portable heater runs off small propane cans. It heats up to 95 square feet, enough for a single person or pair. Original price: $169.99 If you’re sitting in the stands, take the chill away with these heated stadium seats. Powered by any USB battery, they offer three heat settings up to 130 degrees. An anti-slip bottom prevents falls, while the waterproof 600D Oxford canvas keeps the internals dry in the rain. A football-themed cornhole set gives you a fun activity to stay occupied with while you wait for kickoff. This portable set comes with all-weather boards and enough bean bags for two players. For more deals, visit www.foxnews.com/deals Original price: $29.99 Whether you’re at home or in a public space, a pop-up trash can helps your area stay clean. It collapses down when empty, and includes a zip-on lid that prevents bugs or animals from getting 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/6a9173942c5335ae104c2c4b Kirk Cousins dominates Raiders preseason quarterback play but coach Klint Kubiak still won't name the starter te 2026-08-28T11:40:04.232Z Kirk Cousins dominates Raiders preseason quarterback play but coach Klint Kubiak still won't name the starter The preseason has ended for the Las Vegas Raiders and Kirk Cousins clearly outplayed rookie first-round pick Fernando Mendoza in those games, but coach Klint Kubiak is stubbornly still refusing to name a starting quarterback. The rookie coach is refusing to do what everyone knows he will eventually do and name Cousins the starter for the Sept. 13 2025, regular-season opener against the Miami Dolphins. "I still don’t think we need to name anybody," Kubiak told reporters after Thursday's loss to the San Francisco 49ers. KIRK COUSINS JOINS RAIDERS TO KEEP SEAT WARM FOR FERNANDO MENDOZA Alrighty, then. We know this is some kind of motivational mind game thing Kubiak is playing because last week he told everyone he simply doesn't want any player getting comfortable with his status on the team. And that includes the quarterbacks. That's fine. But this borders on being comical. Because in the same news conference Kubiak declined to pick a starter, he spoke of Mendoza taking backup repetitions once regular-season practices begin. RAIDERS ROOKIE FERNANDO MENDOZA THANKS GOD FOR AN NFL DEBUT THAT COMPARES FAVORABLY TO 'MR BRADY' He also said Mendoza could benefit from three more preseason games. And then there's the statistics that blare as if through a bullhorn that Cousins is the guy. Cousins on Thursday evening completed 8 of his 11 passes in action limited to the first quarter. Cousins finished the preseason 13 of 17 (76.5 completion percentage) for 101 yards with 1 TD. That means Cousins authored a 110.2 passer rating in the preseason and the team announced that is the best mark by a Raiders quarterback since 2017 for anyone with a minimum of 17 attempts. Translation: Cousins balled out. "Kirk looks great, he looks ruthlessly efficient," Mendoza said. RAIDERS FRANCHISE THAT ONCE EMBRACED AN OUTLAW IMAGE NOW HAS 'NO TURDS,' COACH KLINT KUBIAK SAYS Mendoza didn't look that way the past couple of games. He threw an interception last week and another on Thursday night. He completed 5 of 9 attempts to be barely above the 50 percent completion mark for the second consecutive week. And unless Kubiak is seeing Mendoza dominate in some super secret practice that no one else in the organization is attending, then this is a delayed announcement for the sake of, well, who knows what? The oddly obvious part that telegraphs Kubiak's intention to name Cousins the starter is that he tells the truth a lot when offering an evaluation of the NFL's first overall draft pick. "He needs another three preseason games, all those rookies do," Kubiak said of Mendoza. "And now that the season is starting, the practice reps get smaller and that's just life. "But us, as coaches, we got to keep getting him ready to play, keep developing him." SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST SPORTS NEWS Once teams begin regular-season practices, they give their established starting quarterback the majority of work in practice so he can be prepared for the games that count. The backup gets limited practice work. And as Kubiak himself said, that's Mendoza. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91713d2c5335ae104c2be2 Uber Eats drone delivery could soon reach your home te 2026-08-28T11:30:05.880Z Uber Eats drone delivery could soon reach your home Your next Uber Eats order could arrive without a car pulling up outside your home. Uber Eats drone delivery is moving closer to everyday life through a new partnership with Zipline, one of the most established names in autonomous delivery. Uber and Zipline announced the deal earlier this month. The companies say the first deliveries will begin later this year in existing Zipline markets. From there, they plan to expand into dozens of U.S. cities. Their long-term target is huge: 1 million drone deliveries per day by the end of 2029. That does not mean a drone will show up with your meal tomorrow. The rollout will start in markets where Zipline already operates, including Dallas and Houston, before expanding to additional areas. 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PAPA JOHNS DRONE DELIVERY SKIPS THE PIZZA The experience should eventually feel much like placing any other Uber Eats order. The companies say eligible Uber Eats customers will have the option to receive their orders through Zipline when the service launches later this year. Today, customers in Zipline's existing U.S. service areas can download the Zipline app, enter their address and browse available restaurants and stores. Once someone places an order, the business prepares it and loads it into Zipline's autonomous delivery system. Zipline handles the flight with its Platform 2 system, also called P2. The electric aircraft can carry up to 8 pounds and has a 10-mile service radius. Zipline says the system can make some 10-mile deliveries in about 10 minutes. Its current fact sheet lists a cruise speed of about 70 mph. When the aircraft reaches the delivery location, it hovers around 300 feet above the ground. A smaller delivery unit descends on a tether, steers toward the selected drop-off spot and gently places the order on the ground. The delivery unit then returns to the aircraft, and the drone flies back to recharge for its next order. Zipline told CyberGuy that the entire process happens autonomously. So you do not need a drone landing pad next to the house. Zipline can place deliveries in a yard or another approved location while the larger aircraft remains overhead. According to the joint announcement, Zipline has completed more than 2.7 million commercial deliveries. Its aircraft have flown more than 135 million autonomous commercial miles. Zipline also says it now makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 20 seconds. In the U.S., its P2 home delivery system has already been operating with Walmart and restaurant partners. Zipline's fact sheet says the service launched in Pea Ridge, Arkansas and more than 20 communities around Dallas-Fort Worth. The company has been expanding quickly as well. In July, Zipline said the number of businesses offering delivery through its app had grown 13 times during the first half of 2026. Roughly 70% of its flights were taking place in the United States at that point. CyberGuy recently looked at another side of that expansion when Zipline began carrying eligible prescriptions to Cleveland Clinic patients. The drone stays overhead while a tethered unit lowers the medication to the patient's property. The obvious appeal is speed. A drone can take a more direct path than a car crawling through traffic. It also avoids the hunt for parking near a busy restaurant. Zipline says its P2 system can make some 10-mile trips in about 10 minutes. Of course, that does not mean every meal reaches your house 10 minutes after you tap Place order. The restaurant still needs to prepare the food. Severe weather or certain flight conditions could still affect whether a drone can complete a delivery. Local flight conditions may also change what the system can do. Still, cutting time on the road could help your dinner spend less time getting cold in the back seat of a car. MISSOURI TESTS MEDICAL DRONES TO SPEED UP RURAL HEALTH CARE The Zipline deal also reveals a bigger part of Uber's strategy. Uber says it is building a delivery network that combines human couriers with autonomous technology. Depending on the trip, that technology could include a sidewalk robot or a drone. We have already seen pieces of this plan. Uber Eats uses autonomous sidewalk robots in some markets. CyberGuy previously looked at how those machines navigate streets and bring food directly to customers. Uber also invested in drone company Flytrex in 2025. At the time, Uber called that its first investment in drone delivery technology. Now Zipline joins the picture. That suggests Uber wants the Uber Eats app to become the layer connecting customers with different delivery systems. A drone may make sense for one neighborhood. A robot may work better somewhere else. You may eventually care less about what carries your dinner and more about which option gets it there faster. Noise could be one of the first things people notice when drone delivery arrives in their neighborhood. One delivery overhead may be easy to ignore. Regular flights throughout the day could be another story. Zipline says it has spent years working to make its aircraft quieter. The company says its drones now typically fly at least 300 feet above the ground. During delivery, the aircraft stays high while a smaller unit lowers the order on a tether. Zipline says the full delivery takes about 90 seconds. Flying higher helps reduce how much sound reaches people below. Still, the real question is how noticeable these drones will be once they become part of everyday neighborhood traffic. A delivery service flying over homes has a much higher bar than the hobby drone someone sends up at the park. Zipline's aircraft fly autonomously with onboard systems that help them understand their surroundings. The company has also received FAA approval for certain beyond visual line of sight, or BVLOS, operations. That allows approved flights without requiring ground observers to watch the aircraft along the entire route. Zipline says it put P2 through extensive testing before launching home deliveries. That included tens of millions of simulated flights and more than 150,000 deliveries at test facilities. However, regulatory approval does not automatically mean drone delivery can appear everywhere. The companies still need the right operating area and infrastructure before a neighborhood can participate. Uber is also making a strategic investment in Zipline as part of the agreement. The companies have not disclosed the size of that investment in their official announcement. However, they describe the relationship as a long-term effort to accelerate drone delivery across the U.S. Zipline itself has plenty of money riding on this expansion. Earlier this year, the company announced that it had raised more than $600 million and reached a valuation of $7.6 billion. The companies now have a very ambitious benchmark in front of them. Reaching one million drone deliveries every day by the end of 2029 would require far more aircraft and participating businesses. The network would also need to reach many more homes. CyberGuy reached out to both Uber and Zipline for comment, but neither company responded before our deadline. Most Uber Eats orders will continue arriving the familiar way for now. However, if you live in an area where Zipline already operates, watch the Uber Eats app later this year. The companies say qualifying customers will eventually have the option to receive an order by drone. Before selecting drone delivery, pay attention to the drop-off location. You should also check what happens when weather prevents a flight. Then look closely at the price. Uber and Zipline have yet to explain whether customers will pay an additional fee for the drone option. If the cost stays reasonable, speed could become the selling point. Waiting for dinner feels a lot longer when your phone says a drone could get it there in minutes. The larger change may happen almost without us noticing. Once people stop thinking of drone delivery as unusual, choosing one could eventually feel as routine as selecting a faster delivery window today. I've watched drone delivery go from something that felt years away to something people are actually starting to use. What jumps out to me here is how quickly Uber could help push it into the mainstream. Millions of people already know how to order dinner through Uber Eats, while Zipline already has drones making real deliveries. Put those two pieces together and this starts to feel a lot closer to everyday life. Of course, people will have questions once these drones start showing up over their neighborhoods. How much noise will they make? Will the delivery really be faster? And how much extra will Uber charge for the convenience? For me, that last part could be the dealbreaker. If a drone can get my food to me noticeably faster without adding a hefty fee or becoming a neighborhood nuisance, I can see a lot of people giving it a try. The real test will come when that drone delivery option actually pops up on your phone, and you have to decide whether you want dinner coming by road or through the sky. Would you choose a drone if it could get your Uber Eats order to your door faster, or would you rather keep delivery traffic on the ground? 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/6a916ee62c5335ae104c2b6e EXCLUSIVE: Bad Bunny, Marxism and 'Nasty Women' among courses offered at Ivy League, elite colleges te 2026-08-28T11:20:06.891Z EXCLUSIVE: Bad Bunny, Marxism and 'Nasty Women' among courses offered at Ivy League, elite colleges EXCLUSIVE: From "Religion and Nasty Women" to "Decolonizing French Food," students at some of America’s most prestigious universities can take courses on Bad Bunny, Marxism, gender and even why dancing matters if the world is ending. Collegiate conservative organization Young America’s Foundation (YAF) shared the eye-catching offerings in its 2026-27 "Comedy & Tragedy Report," obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital. At Columbia University, "Religion and Nasty Women" takes its name in part from President Donald Trump’s "nasty woman" remark about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign. CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM EXTENDS BEYOND STUDENT PROTESTS AND INTO CLASSROOMS, ADL WARNS The course description says the phrase has since become a "badge of honor and a rallying cry for women’s empowerment." Students examine goddesses, prostitutes and virgins across several religious traditions in what the description calls a survey of "religious-based misogyny" and women’s responses to it. Columbia also offers "Marxism and Cultural Theory," though the course description makes clear students shouldn’t expect a deep dive into Marx himself. LIZ PEEK: TRUMP IS STARVING THE MACHINE THAT CREATES AMERICA'S SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARIES "This course will not offer an intensive study of the writings of Karl Marx," the description states. Instead, the class examines Marxism as a theory of culture, including its relationship to global capitalism, financial crises and other "discourses of social justice." Bad Bunny, aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, may need to add college course namesake to his list of accomplishments, with the Puerto Rican musician suddenly inspiring multiple classes at elite universities. CONFIDENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION SLIPS AFTER BRIEF RECOVERY, GALLUP POLL FINDS At Princeton, "Thinking with Bad Bunny: the Cultural Politics of Race, Language, and Empire" examines his music, lyrics, activism, "gender non-conforming performances" and business strategies. The course also explores how Bad Bunny navigates his status as a global Latino icon, while coming from what its description calls "Puerto Rico's colonial context." THE PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION MACHINE IS COLLAPSING. WE SHOULD LET IT FALL Yale gets in on the Bad Bunny action, too, with "Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics," a course examining his music alongside Puerto Rico's history, politics and "colonial past and present." At the University of Pennsylvania, "Decolonizing French Food" starts with wine, cheese and baguettes before examining how French culinary traditions have been shaped by colonialism. Stanford University’s "Gender in the Wild" course reportedly examines how gender shapes ideas about wilderness, freedom, heroism and risk, drawing on feminist texts, "Indigenous knowledge" and "Black environmental thought." DEMOCRATS OUTNUMBER REPUBLICANS 6-TO-1 AMONG COLLEGE GRADUATION SPEAKERS, REPORT FINDS Swarthmore College offers "Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology," a religion course examining feminist and queer interpretations of God. "The God of the Bible and later Jewish and Christian literature is distinctively masculine, definitely male. Or is He?" the course description asks. The class explores whether characteristics including nurturing, forgiveness and love can be understood as feminine or female, and seeks to "stretch the limits of gendering-and sexing-the divine." Swarthmore also offers "The Fat Renaissance," which examines depictions of body size in early modern England and their relationship to what the course description calls the modern-day "obsession with bodily regulation and control of body size." The class is taught from the perspective of "conscious respect for bodily diversity." For YAF, the unusual subjects are no laughing matter. MED SCHOOL DEANS COME UP EMPTY IN TENSE HEARING WHEN ASKED POINT BLANK IF MEN CAN HAVE BABIES: 'RIDICULOUS' "Higher education has been hijacked by progressive ideology, transforming too many of our colleges and universities from places of learning into institutions of indoctrination," YAF President Gov. Scott Walker said. "This report pulls back the curtain on what students are being taught and exposes just how deeply ideological agendas have taken root on campus. "That is why YAF is fighting back, to ensure students receive an education, not an indoctrination, and to restore intellectual freedom and academic excellence to America’s campuses." The courses reported also come with elite-school price tags. YAF estimates a three-credit course at Princeton costs $5,778, while its report puts the equivalent at $5,613 at Penn. The organization says its estimates are based on U.S. Department of Education tuition data, with annual tuition at flat-rate institutions divided by a standard 30-credit academic year. YAF told Fox News Digital it surveyed available course catalogs covering the 2026-27 academic year from schools in the Ivy League, Big Ten, SEC and PAC-12, along with U.S. News & World Report’s top 10 liberal arts colleges. The organization said course titles and descriptions were reproduced unedited from university websites and course catalogs, and said its selections represent a sample rather than an exhaustive list. YAF has published its "Comedy & Tragedy Report" since 1995, arguing that the courses it documents demonstrate a lack of ideological diversity in higher education. Columbia, Princeton, Penn, Stanford and Yale did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a916ee62c5335ae104c2b65 Common vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia risk in older adults te 2026-08-28T11:20:06.210Z Common vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia risk in older adults A recent study led by researchers at Brown University appears to strengthen the link between shingles vaccination and a reduced risk of dementia diagnoses in older adults. The study, published in The Annals of Internal Medicine, evaluated electronic health records and Medicare claims for more than 509,926 U.S. adults 66 and older who were admitted to skilled nursing facilities. Individuals who received at least one dose of the recombinant shingles vaccine, commercially known as Shingrix, experienced a 24% relative reduction in dementia risk over a four-year period compared to people who did not receive the shot, the researchers found. ALZHEIMER'S RISK MAY BE 35% LOWER WITH COMMON MENOPAUSE TREATMENT, STUDY FINDS However, the findings show an association and do not prove that the vaccine directly prevents dementia, the researchers noted. Dr. Ajeet Sodhi, a clinical neurologist and neuro-interventionalist in Orlando, Florida, noted that while the finding is "remarkable," it builds upon a growing foundation of scientific literature rather than standing alone. "This is maybe the third or fourth study, and they all came to the same conclusion," Sodhi, who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital. "It seems that by giving patients the shingles vaccine called Shingrix, in the next couple of years, we see a clinically significant decline in the development of dementia." Researchers have proposed several possible explanations for the association, including the vaccine's role in preventing shingles and its potential complications. The virus has also been linked to vascular events such as stroke, which can contribute to vascular dementia. CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES Sodhi noted that recent medical literature continues to support larger cardiovascular benefits as well. "In addition to the study that we're talking about today, there was a study published just this week that showed the shingles vaccine results in a clinically significant reduction in the incidence of both cardiovascular disease and cerebrovascular disease," he told Fox News Digital. "So that's heart attacks and strokes." The neurologist emphasized that while the data shows a strong correlation, the vaccine is not currently classified as a direct therapeutic treatment for cognitive decline. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER "It's not at this time considered a treatment," he noted. "This association is ... very, very suggestive, but we can't say one-to-one it proves that this treats dementia. And this finding, honestly, is kind of like icing on the cake." Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus responsible for chickenpox, according to Mayo Clinic. After a person recovers from chickenpox, the virus lies dormant in nerve tissue near the brain and spinal cord, where it can reactivate decades later as a painful rash with fluid-filled blisters. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The primary function of the vaccine remains the prevention of the severe nerve pain and rash caused by shingles reactivation. Shingles can lead to severe complications, including post-herpetic neuralgia, a debilitating condition causing long-term nerve pain that persists after the rash clears, according to Cleveland Clinic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends two doses of Shingrix for adults 50 and older, as well as adults 19 and older who are or will be immunocompromised. The vaccine is FDA-approved to prevent shingles and related complications — not to prevent or treat dementia. The study received funding from GSK, the maker of Shingrix; the authors stated that the company had no role in the study’s design, analysis or publication. For individuals concerned about memory loss or family medical history, experts recommend consulting a doctor early. "The common theme in all of this is the sooner you seek evaluation, the better it is for the treatment," Sodhi advised. "The treatment is more likely to work the earlier you are in the onset of the disease." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a916ee52c5335ae104c2b5c Want to know what's really in your food? The Trump administration is trying to help te 2026-08-28T11:20:05.501Z Want to know what's really in your food? The Trump administration is trying to help Americans have a right to know what is in their food. That shouldn’t be controversial. You should be able to walk into a grocery store, read a label, and be confident that the ingredients listed on the food you are buying have been subject to transparent, science-based oversight and are safe for consumption. The Trump administration has now taken an important step toward doing exactly that. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a rule requiring food manufacturers to notify the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) whenever they determine that an added substance is Generally Recognized as Safe, or "GRAS." When Congress passed the Food Additives Amendment in 1958, the idea was simple: ingredients with a documented history of safe use or those that qualified experts had agreed were safe should not face the same pre-market approval process as brand-new food additives. Everyday substances like salt, vinegar, black pepper, and baking powder fall into this category. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EXPANDS 'PRODUCT OF USA' LABEL AS PUSH FOR AMERICAN-RAISED BEEF GROWS Unfortunately, our regulatory system has fallen short of that basic standard. And over time, the exception became the rule. Under the current system, manufacturers can self-determine whether a new additive is GRAS and introduce it to the U.S. food supply without notifying the FDA or the public. The manufacturer is still responsible for maintaining evidence to support its own determination, but the FDA may have no advance notice when a new substance enters the supply chain. And that is the problem. The FDA cannot effectively oversee substances and ensure our health if it does not know they are entering the food supply, and Americans cannot make fully informed choices when our system lacks transparency. That’s a loophole. GEN Z TURNS ON CLASSIC SNACKS, FORCING MAJOR GROCERY SHAKE-UP: 'THEY DON'T TRUST THEM' One that has allowed large food manufacturers to flood the domestic food market with new substances without FDA review or even FDA notification. We’ve raised this issue before at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI). Last year, we laid out this problem in an issue brief, "Make America Healthy Again by Ensuring Safe Foods," calling for greater transparency and accountability in the GRAS process. RFK JR HAILS FIRST US HOSPITAL TO PROMISE HEALTHIER MEALS: 'WE HAVE A TEMPLATE' The proposed rule would require the FDA to maintain a public list of GRAS notices, giving researchers, regulators, and consumers visibility into ingredients entering the marketplace. For substances already on the market, the Trump administration is proposing a streamlined process to ensure the public has transparency about what is in their food. This is exactly how you modernize our food system and close loopholes: increase transparency and give responsible manufacturers a path to compliance. We’ve already seen why reform is necessary. Consider tara flour, a food additive that entered the food supply without the manufacturer submitting a GRAS notice to the FDA. After hundreds of illnesses and hospitalizations were later associated with the substance, the FDA conducted its own review and found that tara flour did not meet the standard for GRAS. We should learn from that experience. But this shouldn’t be confused with the choice between consumer safety and a thriving food industry. Manufacturers that promote transparency in the products they sell benefit from consumer confidence. Companies that invest in safety and transparency should not be put at a disadvantage by a system that lets competitors introduce substances into the food supply without regulatory oversight. Americans should not have to wait for people to get sick before regulators identify the substances and ingredients entering our food system. This is not about government dictating every decision made at the dinner table, but about ensuring consumers have access to transparent, reliable information on what they’re eating. BROOKE ROLLINS, DR. BEN CARSON: WE ARE PUTTING REAL FOOD BACK ON SCHOOL LUNCH TRAYS President Trump and Secretary Kennedy are getting that right, taking a step toward restoring accountability in a flawed system that has drifted far from its original purpose. Regulators gain insight into what is reaching the food supply, manufacturers don’t circumvent transparent rules, and families have all the facts they need to make their own choices. If a substance is safe enough to put on Americans’ plates, requiring manufacturers to tell the FDA should not be controversial. Americans have a right to know what is in their food. Taylor Hood is an Analyst of Healthy America Policy at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI). Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a916ee42c5335ae104c2b53 Trump clears Supreme Court hurdle on mail ballots as states vow another fight and more top headlines te 2026-08-28T11:20:04.462Z Trump clears Supreme Court hurdle on mail ballots as states vow another fight and more top headlines 1. Trump clears Supreme Court hurdle on mail ballots 2. Trump changes Lake Ontario’s name to ‘Lake America’.  3. Norway mourns the death of King Harald   TEHRAN'S THREAT — Iran addresses reports of potential plot to assassinate Barron Trump. Continue reading … DIVIDED NATION — Hot takes on accused killer mom Lindsay Clancy could put your paycheck at risk: expert. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a916c952c5335ae104c2b16 TrulyCar Launches Transparent Vehicle History Platform with One-Time Pricing and Salvage Auction Photo Access te 2026-08-28T11:10:13.194Z TrulyCar Launches Transparent Vehicle History Platform with One-Time Pricing and Salvage Auction Photo Access Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a916c942c5335ae104c2b0d TrulyCar Launches Transparent Vehicle History Platform with One-Time Pricing and Salvage Auction Photo Access te 2026-08-28T11:10:12.423Z TrulyCar Launches Transparent Vehicle History Platform with One-Time Pricing and Salvage Auction Photo Access Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a916c932c5335ae104c2b04 HomeAssure Administration Spotlights Specialty Coverage for Modern Home Systems te 2026-08-28T11:10:11.627Z HomeAssure Administration Spotlights Specialty Coverage for Modern Home Systems Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a916c922c5335ae104c2afb HomeAssure Administration Spotlights Specialty Coverage for Modern Home Systems te 2026-08-28T11:10:10.857Z HomeAssure Administration Spotlights Specialty Coverage for Modern Home Systems Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a916c8d2c5335ae104c2abd Dolly Parton defied country music's expectations for women and built a career on her own terms: experts te 2026-08-28T11:10:05.214Z Dolly Parton defied country music's expectations for women and built a career on her own terms: experts From the get-go, Dolly Parton was a force to be reckoned with. She challenged social norms, broke barriers for women in country music and ultimately helped redefine what a female country star could be. Throughout her life, Parton — who died Aug. 25 after a brief battle with cancer — helped "expand the narrative" of how women were perceived, not only in country music but beyond it, experts told Fox News Digital. "Dolly followed some other pioneering women like Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn who had already challenged expectations and proved that women’s experiences belonged in country music," Dr. Tracy King, a chartered clinical psychologist, writer and pop-culture commentator, told Fox News Digital. DOLLY PARTON DIES AT THE AGE OF 80: A LOOK AT HER LIFE THROUGH PHOTOS "However, where they belonged was still within a narrow narrative of specific roles such as: the respectable woman, the suffering wife, the attractive female or the supporting partner to a more ‘powerful’ man." "Dolly helped expand the narrative," King continued. "She could be the glamorous star, serious songwriter, ambitious decision-maker, owner of her work and a brand manager of her public identity all at the same time. She did not have to remove her femininity, accent or background to become powerful." WHY DOLLY PARTON COULD BRING TOGETHER AMERICANS WHO AGREE ON ALMOST NOTHING "This gave other women much more possibility," she added. "You could be emotionally open without being seen as weak, commercially ambitious without being masculine and visible without surrendering control of your story." Long before the rhinestones, platinum records and entertainment empire, Parton was one of 12 children raised in a one-room cabin in rural Tennessee, where money was scarce but music was a constant. "I’ll always be a country musician because I’m a country girl," she told People in 1975. "My style is my soul and my feelings. I’ll tell the world in my songs what I wouldn’t have told my mother." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Parton would eventually turn the struggles and values of her childhood into the foundation of her songwriting. STEVE DOOCY: THE DOLLY PARTON I SAW WHEN THE CAMERAS STOPPED ROLLING "Dolly refused to treat the things that made her different as problems that needed correcting," King said. "Her appearance became instantly recognizable, her voice very distinct and her background became central to the stories she told." "She did not deny the poverty of her childhood, but she refused to accept that it made her inferior," King continued. "In ‘Coat of Many Colors,’ the homemade coat for which she was mocked also represented her mother’s love. Dolly acknowledged the shame and hurt, but she didn’t allow the cruelest interpretation of that experience to become the only one." DOLLY PARTON’S SIX-DECADE LOVE STORY WITH CARL DEAN BEGAN AT A LAUNDROMAT "This is what it means to reclaim your story," she added. "We cannot always prevent other people from judging us, but we can refuse to let their judgment become our identity. Her accent and background also helped create trust. People felt that she remembered where she came from and had not reinvented herself by rejecting her earlier life. She became successful without treating the person she had once been as someone who needed to disappear." But Parton’s roots weren’t the only thing she refused to shed on her way to the top. The Grammy Award winner leaned heavily into her trademark appearance — refusing to accept the idea that femininity and authority were mutually exclusive. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "Dolly understood the assumptions people made about her appearance and used humor to demonstrate that she knew exactly what they were thinking," King said. "She was in on the joke, but she was never the joke." Parton "consciously created her image" rather than allowing the industry to create it for her, King said. DOLLY PARTON REFUSED TO PICK POLITICAL SIDES FOR DECADES: ‘I’M NOT IN POLITICS, I’M AN ENTERTAINER’ "The contrast between that image and her intelligence made other people’s prejudice visible," she said. "It exposed the judgers. Women are still frequently told that authority must look restrained, serious and almost masculine. Dolly rejected that. She did not change her appearance to prove she was intelligent; she made her intelligence impossible to deny and that femininity could run alongside and did not have to be denied." Parton’s carefully constructed image didn’t prevent her from earning respect. It became part of what made her success so significant. TRUMP MOURNS DOLLY PARTON, ORDERS US FLAGS LOWERED NATIONWIDE AFTER COUNTRY MUSIC ICON DIES Professor Susan McClary, a professor of music at Case Western Reserve University, said Parton entered the industry with "two strikes against her" — only to turn both into strengths. "When Dolly Parton began her career, she had two strikes against her: she performed country music — a genre disdained by many listeners; and she presented herself in her attire and make-up as a cartoonish stereotype," McClary said. "Through perseverance, talent, self-deprecating sense of humor, and generosity, she managed to win over a vast fanbase while never compromising her values." "Feminists who might have dismissed her appearance came to see her as a role model who insisted on creating and maintaining her own image," McClary said. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE But Parton’s determination to control her own identity extended far beyond her looks. Behind the larger-than-life image was a savvy songwriter and businesswoman who was equally determined to control her own work. "Dolly built on the groundwork of Kitty Wells, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette and expanded the range of what a female country performer could become," King said. "She opened the door to women being recognized as authors of their careers rather than being selected and managed by men. She wrote her own material, protected her publishing rights, left a successful partnership with a powerful male performer and developed businesses beyond the control of the traditional Nashville system." "She showed younger artists that creative freedom depends not only on being heard, but on retaining ownership and decision-making power," she added. Parton also demonstrated that female country artists did not have to remain confined to what society expected of them. "A female country artist could enter pop music, film and television, establish a production company, build businesses and still remain connected to country music," King said. "We can see elements of that broader template in the careers of performers such as Reba McEntire, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Trisha Yearwood, The Chicks, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves." "Her songwriting opened another door by showing that women’s inner lives could carry major commercial songs," King added. "Female characters could be jealous, angry, ambitious, sexually judged, economically exploited, ashamed, heartbroken or ready to leave. Later female performers had greater permission to write from their own point of view rather than to present a version of womanhood that was comfortable for a male audience." Parton’s influence ultimately stretched far beyond music. She built a business empire centered in her home state of Tennessee, with Dollywood becoming one of the state’s most recognizable attractions. Her charitable work through the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library left another lasting mark. The Imagination Library, inspired by Parton’s father, who never learned to read or write, provides free books to children from birth to age 5. The program grew into an international literacy initiative, distributing millions of books to children around the world. Following Parton’s death, tributes poured in from some of the women who followed the path she helped widen. "Dolly, thank you for all the wonderful things you did for us here on earth," Reba McEntire wrote on Instagram. "Your love, your music and you gave so much with your huge huge heart. There will never ever be another you. We will remember and cherish every memory and every note you ever played and sang." "Thank you, Lord, for Dolly," she concluded. "She’s gonna have a blast in heaven singing all her favorite songs with all her family and friends who have gone on before her." Shania Twain also shared an emotional tribute, calling Parton her "mentor." "Dolly was pure light sent from heaven," Twain wrote on Instagram. "My mentor is gone. My songwriting teacher and hero of grace and humility. There is a hole in my heart but the joy of just the thought of her smile will continue to fill me with inspiration for as long as I live." Decades after she first entered an industry with narrow expectations for female performers, Parton left women in country music with far more room to define success on their own terms, said King. "Dolly left female performers with a much wider blueprint: write the story, own the work, control your own narratives and shake off the ones anyone else may have given you," King said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a916c8c2c5335ae104c2ab4 LA merchants fight to save 97-year-old cross as lawyer warns of nationwide stakes te 2026-08-28T11:10:04.418Z LA merchants fight to save 97-year-old cross as lawyer warns of nationwide stakes A legal battle over a nearly century-old cross tradition and longstanding Nativity display in the historic heart of Los Angeles could threaten generations of Mexican-American traditions and leave religious monuments across the country vulnerable, an attorney representing local merchants fighting to preserve the displays told Fox News Digital. "If the cross and nativity were taken down, it would just be the first step in unraveling the vibrant community cultural celebrations, a lot of which have their roots in Mexican-American Catholic history and really decimating this tight-knit community," Andrea Butler, counsel at Becket and lead attorney for the merchants, told Fox News Digital Thursday in an interview. A cross has stood at the head of Olvera Street since 1929, when the original was raised to celebrate Los Angeles' 148th birthday, while a life-size Nativity is displayed each December as part of the community's traditional Las Posadas celebration. SUPREME COURT SHOWDOWN LOOMS OVER ST MICHAEL STATUE BLOCKED FROM PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING Last year, according to Becket, a resident sued the city asking it to remove or cover the cross and stop the Nativity display, arguing the display "offends [him] and makes [him] feel excluded as a non-believer." The religious-liberty group said merchants have helped preserve those traditions since the area was revitalized in the 1920s, with some current vendors belonging to families that have operated at the market since it opened in 1930. Merchants also help organize annual cultural and religious celebrations, including Día de los Reyes, Día de los Muertos and Las Posadas. In its Monday filing, Becket asked the Ninth Circuit to allow the Olvera Street Merchants Association Foundation to join the legal battle over a nearly century-old cross and longstanding Nativity display at El Pueblo in Los Angeles. Becket said the merchants are seeking to defend religious and cultural traditions their families have helped preserve for generations. According to Becket, El Pueblo attracts millions of visitors each year to its Olvera Street marketplace, historic sites and cultural events celebrating the neighborhood’s Mexican-American heritage. YOU SHOULDN’T NEED A PERMIT TO PRAY IN YOUR OWN HOME — THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD AGREE "El Pueblo and Olvera Street are some of the most historic areas in Los Angeles," Butler said. "They are very near the site of the original founding of the city back in the 1700s, and the area has had a long and sometimes bumpy history throughout the history of LA. It… went through substantial decline for centuries, and then in the 1930s, the historic and cultural value of the area was really recognized, and there was a concerted effort to restore the area, preserve the city's historical and cultural history through designating it as El Pueblo Historical Monument. And at the time of the 1930s when the restoration efforts were really underway, that's when the Olvera Street Market took shape, and our clients, the merchants, are members of families who have been selling their goods on the market on Olvera Street since the 1930s." Butler added, "Most of them are third or fourth generation members of this community. And so the cross and the nativity are really vital components of long-standing history and tradition, most of which, in the context of El Pueblo, is Mexican-American history really celebrated in Los Angeles culture." She said the case is about whether the First Amendment will be upheld in protecting the displays. "At the Becket Fund, we believe that religion is a natural part of human culture and history, and it's something that should be celebrated just like any other part of our heritage, history, culture, and it's not something that needs to be basically thought of as kind of a dirty word or something that needs to be taken down because some people might find it offensive," Butler said. "It's something that is a natural part of human culture and should be part of the displays that we see celebrating our culture throughout the country," she added. "And the idea that the founders would have thought a passive religious display celebrating a historical moment in time needed to be taken down because it violated the First Amendment is really absurd." FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS TEXAS LAW REQUIRING TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC CLASSROOMS In a statement to Fox News Digital, Valerie Hanley, treasurer of the Olvera Street Merchants Association Foundation, said, "Olvera Street is not just a part of our families’ heritage, it’s at the heart of Los Angeles’s history. One offended bystander shouldn’t get to decide which parts of our City’s story we can tell." Fox News Digital reached out Jack Gerritsen, one of the plaintiffs in the case, for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9167e02c5335ae104c291e Socialist mayoral candidate ignites online mockery for touting basic city service te 2026-08-28T10:50:08.119Z Socialist mayoral candidate ignites online mockery for touting basic city service A Los Angeles councilwoman’s celebration of a newly painted neighborhood crosswalk has drawn online mockery after critics seized on the months-long timeline and glossy "street infrastructure" rollout for what they said amounted to a basic city service. Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is facing online mockery after celebrating the completion of a neighborhood crosswalk project, which was first raised by the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council late last year, in a post on X. The post featured before-and-after images and thanked her field team for "continuing to problem-solve, push for solutions, and make our streets safer." "Dear Lord, Nithya. Your standards are so incredibly low," responded Richard Grenell, Presidential Envoy for Special Missions amid Donald Trump's second term. "They didn’t even fix the street, they painted over cracks. And it took them a year….." "Holy s—t, my sides...Nithya Raman's big accomplishment is taking 9 months to paint 7 yellow stripes over a cracked street?" quipped former L.A. mayoral candidate and reality television star Spencer Pratt. "How dumb do you have to be to post this? BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" DEM'S MELTDOWN OVER ‘TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER’ HASAN PIKER TRIGGERS INSTANT CONSERVATIVE MOCKERY: ‘YIKES’ "This is beyond parody," responded conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. "Eight months to paint some yellow lines. Huge infrastructure victory! Make her mayor!" "They're calling it the most ambitious infrastructure project since the Golden Gate Bridge," added the Manhattan Institute's Chris Rufo. AOC'S SOCIALIST CREDENTIALS FACE FRESH SCRUTINY AFTER GLARING 7-YEAR GAP SURFACES: ‘VERY CONVENIENT’ Fox News Digital reached out to Raman’s office and Pratt for comment but did not receive a response before publication. Raman’s announcement labeled the work "Improving Our Neighborhood Street Infrastructure" and included before-and-after photos showing yellow crosswalk markings across the cracked roadway. She said the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council had brought the issue to her office in late 2025. The post did not specify the project’s cost, when physical work began, which city department performed it or whether the work involved safety improvements beyond the painted markings. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9167de2c5335ae104c290c One of the world's hottest industries is sparking a blue-collar jobs boom te 2026-08-28T10:50:06.997Z One of the world's hottest industries is sparking a blue-collar jobs boom The race to build the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence is creating a new boom for America's blue-collar workforce, as construction firms scramble to fill jobs building data centers, power systems and the facilities that keep the technology running. The rapid buildout is putting a new premium on skilled trades, with data centers requiring armies of workers to prepare sites, pour concrete, install electrical systems and handle the infrastructure needed to bring them online. "For many years, there's been a lack of focus just in general from what is the benefit of a career in the trades," explained Cole Renken, general manager of Merlo America, the U.S. division of Italian construction equipment manufacturer Merlo Group. "It's a very stable income, very stable lifestyle that you can provide for," he added. ONE OF AMERICA'S OLDEST MANUFACTURERS SAYS AI IS CREATING JOBS — NOT REPLACING THEM Now, the AI infrastructure boom could bring renewed attention to those careers. U.S. construction spending is projected to climb from $2.22 trillion in 2026 to $2.85 trillion by 2031, according to a new report from Merlo America developed with predictive sales intelligence firm BiltData.ai. Industrial construction, which includes factories and data centers, is projected to reach $684 billion by 2031, representing 24% of total U.S. construction spending. Much of that growth is being driven by the infrastructure needed to power AI, cloud computing and 5G, with data centers emerging as a major source of construction and industrial activity. And building those facilities requires skilled workers at nearly every stage of a project. Renken said large projects require heavy-equipment operators to prepare sites and logistics workers to coordinate materials, followed by concrete workers, electricians, plumbers and other skilled trades as construction progresses. Electrical workers, he said, could face particularly high demand. A SOUTHERN STATE JUST TOOK THE TOP SPOT IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S FASTEST-GROWING INDUSTRIES And the jobs don't necessarily disappear once construction is complete. Brittany Kaiser, CEO of AI infrastructure company Alpha Compute, told Fox News Digital that data centers require workers not only to build the facilities and energy infrastructure, but also to install equipment, monitor operations, perform maintenance and support future expansion. "These are projects that can provide hundreds or thousands of jobs over many, many years," Kaiser said. "It's not a quick construction project." She described data centers as "a constant construction project," requiring workers across construction, electricity, energy development, monitoring and maintenance as facilities grow and expand. That ongoing demand could create opportunities for surrounding communities, particularly for workers who can be trained for specialized positions. "It's jobs that can also be taught and trained," Kaiser said. "So it's very possible to engage with the community on education and training initiatives to allow people to get access to these higher paying jobs that they didn't have a skill set for before." But as projects multiply, finding enough skilled workers could become a challenge. Renken said shortages in the trades have persisted throughout much of his career and could intensify as more projects come online. The boom, he said, is also a reminder that even the most advanced technology depends on physical infrastructure and the skilled workers needed to build and maintain it. That need, he said, could bring new attention to skilled trades that have long been overshadowed by the focus on high-tech jobs. "To me, it has been kind of an overshadowed market that hasn't gotten the attention that it needs," he said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9165842c5335ae104c268f Music industry fends off flood of AI music 'stealing' the charts te 2026-08-28T10:40:04.974Z Music industry fends off flood of AI music 'stealing' the charts Artificial intelligence is stepping into the music industry as artists, producers and songwriters fight to keep the human soul on the airwaves. According to Deezer, a music streaming app, AI-generated music accounts for about 44% of daily music downloads. Last year, after riding the momentum of two popular songs called "Walk My Walk" and "Livin’ On Borrowed Time," the AI-generated band Breaking Rust debuted at number nine on the Emerging Artists chart. Unlike a real band, Nashville-based country music artist Ben Gallaher said fake AI bands cannot compete with live entertainment.  "I'm a live guy, so you can't take an AI band and go see the show because there is no in-person band," Gallaher said. ROBOT SMASHES USAIN BOLT'S LEGENDARY SPRINT MARK THEN SLAMS INTO WALL Gallaher has been playing the guitar since he was six years old. He said there's nothing AI can do to take all those years of experience away. "AI can't replace the human heart," Gallaher said. "Nashville's a special place. There's no place like it in the world musically, and it's always been that way. AI is not taking that away." Writing music with AI is a slippery slope, but using it to streamline business operations and hammer down a tour schedule is something Gallaher supports.  "If AI writes a line, you can't then use that line and say you wrote it," Gallaher said. "We can use AI to help find certain venues based on the demographics of where people are listening to the music. That's an amazing tool." The recording studio is one of the places where AI is used to refine workflow in the early stages of song creation.  Ocean Way Nashville Director of Operations, Joe Baldridge, said using AI is like having another collaborator in the room to bounce ideas off of.  "They're going to want to use it to create an edge in their workflow," Baldridge said. "You could use it as a collaborator. You could use it as an editor." Although AI can be used to lay down basic ideas in the song-creating process, Baldridge said nothing can replace the authenticity of human-created music.  He said most people can detect when something is made by a computer.  AI FIREFIGHTING DRONES TAKE AIM AT WILDFIRES "We've had drum machines for a long time. We've had ways to manipulate vocals for a long time. We've had ways to grab incredible sounds from many different things and program them together to mock up a track," Baldridge said. "Humanity and that representation of authenticity and art is going to be something that audiences will seek out." There are no federal laws to protect human artists from AI-generated music topping the charts.  Artists like Grimes, David Guetta, Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine, Lauv, Kanye "Ye" West and Tyga have shown support for AI in music. However, the list of artists that openly oppose it is much longer. In 2024, over 200 artists joined the "Artist Rights Alliance" in signing a letter against the use of AI in music. Lee Miller, board president of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, said more needs to be done to protect songwriters from AI programs that copy human art.  "Every song comes from a lifetime of experience," Miller said. "You will absolutely destroy the art if you take away the human experience." When someone prompts AI to write a song, Miller said the robot analyzes and copies the style and words of a real songwriter, adding that it "muddies the waters" of what is art and what is a "spreadsheet." "Is that what the public wants? Do you want to live in a society where everything is just generated by the robot?" Miller said. "I feel like, at the very least, the lawmakers are going to have to step in and put guardrails on what is copyrightable and what isn't, what's protected and what isn't." Entertainment attorney Barry Shrum said the United States' copyright law is "human centric." The U.S. Copyright Office does not grant copyright protection to anything that is created solely by artificial intelligence. "Our copyright law was developed and foreseen as something that would incentivize humans to create things so that we can benefit society and grow our culture," Shrum said. In July, the Recording Industry Association of America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry started preposing guidelines to protect human creators. "They want the streaming platforms to identify AI-generated and AI-assisted [music]," Shrum said.  In August, Apple Music announced that it would start labeling AI music by the end of 2026.  Spotify allows AI-generated songs on its platform. However, the streaming service announced a new policy which will label artists' profiles with an "AI Persona" badge. SoundCloud also allows AI-generated songs on its platform. Unlike Apple Music and Spotify, SoundCloud currently discloses if music is AI generated. However, it prohibits third parties from using artists' content to train generative AI models to mimic creators. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9160dc2c5335ae104c2606 Our View: Western Arizona is having a moment in the governor’s race te 2026-08-28T10:20:12.592Z Our View: Western Arizona is having a moment in the governor’s race For years, Phoenix politicians treated Western Arizona like a remote backdrop—out of sight, out of mind, and largely left to fend for itself. Now, in the race for governor, Democratic incumbent Katie Hobbs and Republican challenger Andy Biggs have suddenly… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9160d72c5335ae104c25d6 Popular summer fruit has an edible part most people throw away, USDA reveals te 2026-08-28T10:20:07.387Z Popular summer fruit has an edible part most people throw away, USDA reveals When most people are done eating the sweet, juicy flesh of a watermelon, they toss the rind. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently added an official nutrition profile for watermelon rind, providing new information about its nutritional value while highlighting a potential way to reduce food waste. A one-third-cup serving of raw, seedless watermelon rind contains 10 calories, 1 gram of dietary fiber, 140 milligrams of potassium and 4 milligrams of vitamin C, according to the USDA. While the rind is edible, it is not necessarily a replacement for the fruit's nutrient-dense flesh. POPULAR GROCERY STAPLE COULD TAKE HIT AS CALIFORNIA FACES MAJOR SUPPLY VULNERABILITY Watermelon rind nutrition has previously been analyzed by other institutions around the world, but not according to the USDA's standardized requirements, Stephanie Barlow, senior director of communications for the Florida-based National Watermelon Promotion Board (NWPB), told Fox News Digital. The NWPB funded the watermelon rind analysis and spearheaded the effort to add watermelon rind to the USDA's FoodData Central database, Barlow said. "Most consumers do not know the rind is edible," she said. "Plain and simple." A watermelon is, on average, 70% flesh and 30% rind, and 62% of consumers throw out the rind, according to the NWPB's 2023 Watermelon Consumer Usage Study. SEAWEED-BASED COATING COULD KEEP STRAWBERRIES FRESH FOR DAYS WITHOUT REFRIGERATION, STUDY FINDS Barlow said that amounts to an average of five pounds of rind that could instead be used in a wide range of recipes. "The watermelon rind is an interesting addition to the nutrition conversation, especially because it is a part of the fruit we typically throw away," Lisa Young, registered dietitian and adjunct professor of nutrition at New York University, told Fox News Digital. "Eating the rind can be a simple way to get a little more nutrition while reducing food waste." Young added that she wouldn't call watermelon rind a nutritional powerhouse or suggest eating it instead of the juicy flesh.  "The flesh provides important nutrients and antioxidants, including lycopene," she said. "Rind is tougher and less sweet, so preparation matters. … Just be sure to wash the watermelon well before cutting and eating the rind." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER As more consumers look for ways to stretch their food budgets and use food in new ways, interest in watermelon rind recipes and the rind's versatility has increased year after year, Barlow said. "Food creators on TikTok and YouTube have contributed to watermelon rind awareness in recipes from around the world, and interest continues to grow," she said. Because of increasing consumption of the rind, "we wanted to explore what the nutritional benefits of the rind were," Megan McKenna, NWPB's senior director of marketing and food service, told Fox News Digital. "This required employing the services of a USDA-approved lab to do the testing, as well as working with health professionals to verify the results." "The new USDA nutrient profile gives dietitians and health professionals standardized data they need to confidently incorporate watermelon rind into recipes and nutrition guidance," Barlow added. "It helps consumers – and also food service – get even more value from every watermelon they bring into their kitchens." For someone interested in trying watermelon rind, one of the easiest preparations is adding it to a smoothie, she said. Her favorite way to incorporate it is in a rind slaw that involves shredding pieces of rind and adding vinegar, sugar, salt and oil. The recipe "even leaves on the edible outer green skin and is easily made with simple ingredients," she said. Watermelon rind can also be pickled, used in stir-fries, roasted or incorporated into baked goods. "Proper food safe handling at home with all watermelon must start with washing the watermelon under cool, running water," Barlow said. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "A simple rinse is best, no need for any abrasive scrubbing or solutions. Once your whole watermelon is rinsed and dried, it's ready for cutting into slices, dices, sticks and cubes, reserving that rind for recipes." If a recipe calls for removing the green outer skin, a vegetable peeler works well, she said. "The rind skin is similar to its cousin, the cucumber, and it peels right off," Barlow said. For storage, the NWPB recommends refrigerating cut watermelon in a glass or plastic container, where it should keep for three to five days, McKenna said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS "Our watermelon rind pickles keep for up to two weeks when sealed in a glass jar and refrigerated," she said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9160d62c5335ae104c25cd GOP firebrand targets booming business letting foreigners exploit US citizenship laws te 2026-08-28T10:20:06.746Z GOP firebrand targets booming business letting foreigners exploit US citizenship laws House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is subpoenaing a doctor allegedly behind a sprawling birth tourism scheme based in Florida. It comes as Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is setting his sights on a new target after his crackdown on the Smithsonian Institution made headlines and thrust fresh scrutiny onto its teaching of American history. Gill's task force on investigating institutional abuses, which is part of the House Oversight Committee, is now gearing up for a hearing on the practice of birth tourism — something the White House sounded the alarm on just this month. As part of the hearing, Comer sent a subpoena to Dr. Wladimir Lorentz of Have My Baby in Miami, a South Florida business that's aimed at helping foreigners give birth in the United States. The hearing is expected to take place Sept. 1. Comer accused Lorentz of refusing to voluntarily appear via his attorney, and in a letter sent with the subpoena on Tuesday, Comer said Lorentz's attorney argued he could not speak with the committee due to a pending criminal probe being conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. "As the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of a company doing business as 'Have My Baby in Miami,' your knowledge regarding the company’s marketing practices and direct observations relevant to the birth tourism industry is vital to the immediate investigation," Comer's subpoena letter read. SEN ERIC SCHMITT SEEKS TO END BIRTH TOURISM, REVOKE CITIZENSHIP FOR BABIES OF FOREIGN DIPLOMATS "Furthermore, given the national security concerns raised by birth tourism, delaying the hearing or deferring your testimony to some unknown date in the (potentially far) future would be an extraordinary action that would curtail the Committee’s ability to glean valuable information that will inform its oversight and further its legislative goals." Meanwhile, Gill echoed Comer's concerns over national security. BIRTH TOURISM FIGHT SHIFTS TO US ‘TROPICAL MATERNITY WARD’ WITH HISTORY OF CHINESE EXPLOITATION "A growing industry is openly marketing American citizenship to foreign nationals who travel here for the express purpose of giving birth on U.S. soil. This abuse of our immigration system also raises serious national security concerns, particularly given the number of birth tourists traveling from adversarial nations like China and Russia," the House GOP firebrand said. His panel's Sept. 1 hearing is also expected to feature testimony from Dr. Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies. The medical director and owner of a company called International Maternity Services, Dr. Julio César Novoa, was also invited. TEXAS GOV ABBOTT SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER CRACKING DOWN ON 'BIRTH TOURISM,’ SAYS US CITIZENSHIP NOT FOR SALE Gill's new task force, which was founded this year, has largely focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts across various sectors of American life. He's held hearings on whether the Smithsonian's teaching of U.S. history involved overly ideological and political leanings, and whether DEI plays a role in running the American Bar Association (ABA). Birth tourism is the colloquial term for the general practice of foreign nationals coming to the U.S. on temporary visas for the purpose of having a child who then automatically becomes an American citizen. President Donald Trump targeted birth tourism in a recent executive order after the Supreme Court struck down his efforts to curb birthright citizenship writ large. He also signed an order banning specific categories, such as children born to foreign government workers, from automatically getting U.S. citizenship. Have My Baby in Miami is just one company that appears to make it more accessible for foreigners to give birth in the U.S. Its website and social media pages appeared to be disabled as of Thursday. But a YouTube page that appears to be associated with the business states, "Many people have questions about how to have a child in the United States, and we can help clarify how to deliver in Miami, how to live in the United States during your pregnancy, how to have a baby in the United States, how much it costs to deliver in the United States and how to go through pregnancy in the United States." "Children who are born in the United States, with rare exceptions, have US citizenship," the summary states. An October 2025 article by Local 10 in Florida appears to have obtained information from the now-deleted pages, including that the company reportedly touted that it helped deliver 2,000 babies. It's not yet clear if Lorentz will appear. But defying a congressional subpoena could risk criminal charges. Fox News Digital reached out to his lawyer for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9160d62c5335ae104c25c4 Mail-voting crackdown moves ahead as Trump court win opens door to federal action te 2026-08-28T10:20:06.101Z Mail-voting crackdown moves ahead as Trump court win opens door to federal action The next phase of President Donald Trump’s effort to change America’s mail-in-voting system is taking shape after the Supreme Court issued a largely favorable ruling for the White House in a challenge to Trump's mail-in ballot restrictions. Former White House deputy counsel Gene Hamilton said federal agencies such as the Postal Service can now move forward with parts of Trump’s election-integrity order, including new ballot-mail standards and efforts involving state citizenship lists, as opposing states wait to see which concrete federal actions could form the basis of new lawsuits. "It’s really interesting what the court did [and] it’s actually exactly what you would expect the court to do," Hamilton told Fox News Digital. TRUMP SCORES SUPREME COURT WIN ON MAIL-IN VOTING RESTRICTIONS BEFORE MIDTERMS Hamilton said that when Trump directed USPS, DHS and DOJ to prepare for the new protocols, several states immediately claimed harm, but the court’s majority rejected their challenge. Originally, a Boston federal judge agreed with them, but the Supreme Court effectively said "you can’t enjoin [the feds] from thinking" — in Hamilton’s words — because no action had taken place yet. JACKSON RIPS INTO SUPREME COURT COLLEAGUES' 'SERIOUS LEGAL ERROR' ON TRUMP MAIL-IN VOTING ORDER "It reminds the American people … just because something might happen in the future [it] doesn't mean that you're actually harmed today, and that's really the crux of what the court did." Hamilton quipped that if the states challenging the order were proven right — and the possibility of future harm were enough to obtain a legal stay — his organization would "have a field day across the country" trying to head off new policies he and his clients oppose. In that regard, he added that the district judge ultimately overruled by the Supreme Court made an "egregious" misread of Article III powers and essentially said states can dictate which cases the attorney general and DOJ try to prosecute. He emphasized that the legal landscape could change quickly once Trump’s actions get underway, but said states challenging executive action must show a concrete or sufficiently imminent injury rather than rely on predictions about what agencies might eventually do. DHS APPROVES PLAN TO VERIFY VOTER CITIZENSHIP, MONITOR MAIL BALLOTS AS TRUMP PUSH INTENSIFIES Besides USPS, Trump’s order directs DHS to compile and provide states with lists of adult U.S. citizens, while DOJ was told to prioritize investigations and potential prosecutions involving ballots issued to ineligible voters. "Let’s see what the departments and agencies actually do. Well, let's see what they say they're going to do," Hamilton told Fox News Digital, as new concrete federal rules will come next. USPS WOULDN'T DELIVER BALLOTS IN STATES THAT REFUSE TO FORK OVER MAIL-IN VOTER INFO UNDER PROPOSED RULE The clock is ticking to implement the plan and respond to further legal challenges as states distribute mail ballots progressively earlier than in past decades. USPS first proposed its ballot-mail rule in June and has since finalized it, requiring standardized ballot envelopes and unique tracking barcodes while directing states to use a federal portal to identify voters receiving mailed federal ballots. States that fail to comply could see outbound federal ballot mail refused or returned. But the agency signaled at the time that it won’t implement the rule for the midterms unless the litigation is resolved. A separate injunction obtained in litigation by the League of Women Voters currently blocks USPS from implementing the rule. "Why wouldn't you take steps like getting a list of eligible voters, like asking the USPS to use standard mail security measures that they use for other things," Hamilton commented. Asked which provisions of Trump’s order the administration plans to implement following the ruling, when those actions would begin and how states would be directed to comply, the White House did not provide specifics. "These are commonsense measures that protect the security of mail-in ballots and ensure only Americans are electing American leaders. This administration will continue to lawfully enact the agenda President Trump was elected on — which includes the safety and security of our elections," White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital. California Attorney General Rob Bonta — who led the plaintiffs from 23 states along with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro — criticized the Supreme Court for letting Trump "try to make it harder for Americans to vote." Shapiro was listed separately because Pennsylvania Republican Attorney General David Sunday had not signed the state onto the suit. "Not so fast," the potential 2028 presidential candidate said in a statement. "Donald Trump does not run elections here in Pennsylvania — or in any state." "[The] SCOTUS decision does not deal with the substance of Trump’s unconstitutional Executive Order and does not mean his illegal attempt to restrict mail-in voting will go forward." On Wednesday, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes responded to the ruling, declaring, "Over my dead body is that rule going to go into effect. We are going to fight this tooth and nail in the courts." Bonta pledged to continue the fight and noted that Obama-appointed Judge Indira Talwani of Boston had originally sided with the plaintiffs. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Hamilton predicted such disputes would produce another round of litigation as agencies make their next moves. "We have to get through the arbitrage of lower court proceedings, and I'm sure there's going to be a lot more fighting to come," he said. Shapiro echoed the plaintiffs’ opposition to the ruling, tweeting: "We’ll see the Trump Administration in court." Fox News Digital's Hannah Brennan and Melissa Chrise contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9160d52c5335ae104c25bb Dems derided Trump’s midterm gamble — until he ended up winning big te 2026-08-28T10:20:05.386Z Dems derided Trump’s midterm gamble — until he ended up winning big One year ago this week, Texas passed a new congressional redistricting map, giving President Donald Trump his first major victory in his push to give Republicans a big boost heading into the midterm elections by drawing more right-leaning districts.    One year later, as they fight to hold their razor-thin House majority, Republicans are the big winners, with partisan redistricting netting them at least 10 additional right-leaning congressional seats in time for the midterms. Democrats and left-leaning pundits repeatedly railed against Trump's efforts and charged they would "shred our country’s democracy." Top Democrats aimed to fight fire with fire but fell short. Their efforts to keep pace with the GOP were derailed following major court rulings by the Supreme Court and Virginia's top court earlier this year, which were seen as major legal victories for Republicans. And the GOP scored another redistricting win earlier this month in Missouri, when a judge allowed a new map, backed by Trump and passed last year by Republican state lawmakers, to be used in November's elections. BLOCKBUSTER SUPREME COURT RULING IGNITES REDISTRICTING WARS ACROSS SOUTHERN STATES Progressive pundits that cast Trump’s push for Texas to redraw its congressional map before the 2026 midterms as a threat to voting rights and democracy. Among them was former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid. She branded the fight a "Voting Rights 911" and later titled a segment on "The Joy Reid Show" as "Texas’s War on Democracy Through Gerrymandering." John Oliver, host of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO, was also among a group of pundits that criticized the redistricting push as a power grab by Trump and the GOP. Oliver said gerrymandering was the practice of manipulating maps "to get the outcome you want," and called it "putting a heavy thumb on the scale of who gets elected." Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Reid and Oliver to see if they continue to stand by their criticism, but didn't receive responses by the time this story was published. It wasn't just pundits who spoke out. Top Democrats also took action, after Trump, aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms, first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard of, mid-decade congressional redistricting. After Texas led the way last summer, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin called a ruling by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court to greenlight the redistricting a victory for a "rigged map" meant to protect the GOP from midterm accountability. "But it will backfire," Martin predicted. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who led a successful redistricting effort in his Democrat-dominated state last year to negate the GOP gains in Texas, emphasized, "California will not sit idle as Trump and his Republican lapdogs shred our country’s democracy before our very eyes." TWIN COURT RULINGS RESHAPE HOUSE BATTLEFIELD AS DEMOCRATS FIGHT UPHILL REDISTRICTING BATTLE And Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, who considered but decided against redrawing congressional maps in the blue-leaning state, charged that Trump and Republicans were aiming to "erode our democracy and drag us toward authoritarianism." A veteran Republican strategist sees the Democrats' arguments as hypocritical. "The left’s overcharged political rhetoric is undermined by Governor Gavin Newsom’s willingness to spearhead a power grab in his state that eliminated at least 5 GOP congressional seats," Colin Reed told Fox News Digital. Reed argued that "Democratic leaders had the same goal as Republicans with mid-decade redistricting; they just weren’t as successful, but their intent makes any complaints about democracy ring hollow." But Democrats stand by their resistance. "Elected leaders in every state should respond aggressively to this unAmerican attempt to rig control of congress for a generation," John Bisognano, executive director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, told Fox News Digital. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER While Texas and California were the first major battlegrounds in the redistricting war, the fight quickly spread from coast-to-coast. Republican-controlled Florida, Missouri, and Ohio and swing state North Carolina, where the GOP dominates the legislature, drew new maps as part of the president's push. But in blows to Republicans, a Utah district judge late last year rejected a congressional district map drawn by the state's GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that created a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the midterms. And Republicans in Indiana's state Senate in December defied Trump, shooting down a redistricting bill that had passed the state House. But Democrats were dealt a major blow this spring when the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the Democrat-controlled state's congressional redistricting ballot measure, which would have produced up to four more left-leaning House seats. DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB Concurrently, a blockbuster decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that gutted key portions of the landmark Voting Rights Act – ruling that race should not dictate the redrawing of legislative districts – gave a handful of GOP-dominated Southern states the greenlight to move forward with redistricting. The legal rulings locked in an advantage for Republicans in this year's battle for the House. Now it's up to voters to decide which party will control Congress. But the redistricting fight is far from over. Democrat-controlled New York is taking steps toward redistricting in time for the 2028 elections. So is blue state Maryland, but a court ruling on Wednesday dealt Democrats a setback. A Maryland court blocked Democrats from adding a congressional redistricting initiative to the November ballot on Wednesday. The Democrat-backed effort would have allowed Maryland residents to vote on an amendment to the state constitution to let lawmakers redraw district maps ahead of the 2028 elections. Meanwhile, battleground Georgia, where Republicans currently control the governor's office and state legislature, is also mulling a move. "The gerrymandering crisis Trump started last year is is not over. We expect him to continue demanding new congressional maps that manipulate voting districts to protect Republicans despite what American voters want," Bisognano told Fox News Digital. He urged state leaders to speak out and draw "responsive maps to ensure the national congressional map reflects the make up and the will of the American people." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9160d42c5335ae104c25b2 Fox News Digital's News Quiz: August 28, 2026 te 2026-08-28T10:20:04.562Z Fox News Digital's News Quiz: August 28, 2026 Test your news knowledge with this week's Fox News Digital News Quiz, featuring former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom getting banned from a WNBA arena and a Missouri deputy attorney general surviving after going missing for six days. Looking for another challenge? The Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary and President Donald Trump’s reported Turkey departure were featured in last week's News Quiz. Test your knowledge of presidential portrayals, summer sips and more in this week's American Culture Quiz. If you're looking to play even more, you can find all of our quizzes by clicking here. Check back next week for the latest News Quiz from Fox News Digital. Thanks for playing! Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a915e862c5335ae104c2585 Brad Bettencourt Cites $1.5 Million Community Budget Fix In Bid For LD9 House Seat te 2026-08-28T10:10:14.890Z Brad Bettencourt Cites $1.5 Million Community Budget Fix In Bid For LD9 House Seat By Staff Reporter | One Republican is competing against two Democrats for two seats in the highly competitive Arizona House of Representatives race in Legislative District 9. Bradley (Brad) Bettencourt is facing off against Democratic incumbent Lorena Austin and Democratic newcomer Jacob Martinez. Bettencourt fell right in the middle of the pack for voter turnout in the primary election. Austin received about 11,200 votes, Martinez received about 9,300 votes, and Bettencourt received about 10,400 votes.  Bettencourt believes his banking career and budgeting prowess — which he says are evidenced by his role in fixing over $1.5 million in budget errors at his Dobson Ranch community — can bring the Arizona budget off life support and onto the path of recovery.  “I’m running because the numbers have to add up: for our state budget and for the families who live here,” said Bettencourt in a recent news release. “I stepped up when my own community of 5,000 homes discovered more than a million and a half dollars in budget errors and helped get the finances back on track. Arizona families are dealing with rising prices while paychecks struggle to keep up. They deserve a representative who will bring practical solutions, not games or extremes.” Along with the budget, Bettencourt has his eye on strengthening approaches to the biggest issues facing the state today: water security, housing affordability, educational outcomes and choice, legal immigration, and border security.  Bettencourt generally advises more aggressive government action on Colorado River negotiations, cuts to bureaucratic red tape that impact housing, border security, legal immigration pathways, first responder funding, increased penalties on certain crimes like fentanyl distribution, regular infrastructure improvements, and tax cuts to incentivize family growth. As for the other priorities, Bettencourt proposed government actions that support the individual freedom to act, like protecting educational choice and increasing educational outcomes through competitive teacher pay and expansions of career preparation pathways for students, and opposing new restrictions or burdens on lawful gun ownership.   Bettencourt is an Arizona native that resided in other states and traveled through Latin America before returning to the Valley. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Arizona State University, and has previously resided in southern Arizona, where he worked for a bank in Yuma and Nogales.  So far, Bettencourt has been outraised by his Democratic opponents. His campaign has raised more than $64,000, out of which $29,000 has come from himself.  The other top single donors to his campaign are the Freedom Club PAC, which gave $2,500; Michelle Masters, who gave $2,000; Gary Golka, who gave $1,000; the NFIB Arizona PAC, which gave $1,000; Veronica Law, who gave $1,000; and Don Tapia, who gave $1,000.  Austin has raised more than $104,000. Her top 10 donors are: AFSCME People, $11,000 Elizabeth Simons, $5,500 Western States Regional Council of Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee, $5,500 The Next 50 PAC, $5,500 Ross Boucher, $5,400 Jane Fonda Climate PAC, $5,000 Peter Francis, $3,000 Climate Cabinet PAC, $2,500 Int’l Ass’n of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers Local 359 PAC, or SMART PAC, $2,500 Arizona Education Association Fund for Public Education, formerly AZ PAC, $2,000 Martinez has also raised a similar amount at more than $100,000. His top 10 donors are very similar to Austin’s top 10: AFSCME People, $11,000 Western States Regional Council of Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee, $5,500 Joseph Rich, $5,500 The Next 50 PAC, $5,500 Jane Fonda Climate PAC, $5,000 Ross Boucher, $3,500 Int’l Ass’n of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers Local 359 PAC, or SMART PAC, $2,500 Climate Cabinet PAC, $2,500 Ironworkers Local 75 PAC, $2,000 United Food & Commercial Workers Local 99 PAC, $2,000 AZ Free News is your #1 source for Arizona news and politics. You can send us news tips using this link. The post Brad Bettencourt Cites $1.5 Million Community Budget Fix In Bid For LD9 House Seat first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a915e842c5335ae104c257c Shope Accuses Mayes Of Providing ‘Election-Year Cover’ For Hobbs Amid Sunshine Investigation te 2026-08-28T10:10:12.981Z Shope Accuses Mayes Of Providing ‘Election-Year Cover’ For Hobbs Amid Sunshine Investigation By Ethan Faverino | Arizona Senate President Pro Tempore T.J. Shope (R-LD16) is accusing Attorney General Kris Mayes of providing political cover for Governor Katie Hobbs after Mayes declined to prosecute the governor following a two-year investigation into alleged pay-to-play activity involving Sunshine Residential Homes. Shope is also challenging Mayes to publicly support legislation aimed at increasing transparency around political contributions and state contracts, measures he said her office has previously declined to support. Last week, Mayes announced that her office found insufficient evidence to establish that political contributions made by Sunshine Residential Homes and individuals connected to the company were exchanged for rate increases approved by the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS). The attorney general’s decision does not close the matter entirely. A separate investigation being led by the Arizona Auditor General, with assistance from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, remains ongoing. The Arizona House of Representatives has also commissioned an independent investigation into the allegations. Shope originally requested the investigation in 2024 after Sunshine Residential Homes and individuals associated with the company made combined political contributions of $580,840 benefitting Hobbs, her inaugural fund, her legal defense fund, and the Arizona Democratic Party, according to the senator’s office. 🚨FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: President Pro Tem Shope Condemns AG Mayes' Election-Year Cover for Governor Hobbs' Pay-to-Play Scandal Full press release: https://t.co/yvXkJnhWVr@TJShope pic.twitter.com/Ykq5Yysyli — AZSenateRepublicans (@AZSenateGOP) August 24, 2026 Sunshine founder Simon Kottoor and his wife Elizabeth also contributed to Hobbs’ campaigns. Kottoor even served on Hobbs’ inaugural committee and became a gold-level sponsor of her inauguration. Sunshine initially sought a DCS rate increase in December 2022 but was denied in February 2023. The company reapplied several months later and received a mid-contract increase in May 2023. Its rate was subsequently increased again during its April 2024 contract renewal, making it the state’s highest paid group-home provider per child. Internal DCS communications that surfaced during the controversy also acknowledged Sunshine’s political connections and discussed keeping the company’s special rate increase from competitors. Despite the scrutiny, Hobbs did not agree to an interview with investigators. Instead she provided two written statements through her attorneys. Shope said Mayes’ decision is particularly concerning because he previously introduced legislation intended to address the types of conflicts raised by the Sunshine investigation. “For two years, Kris Mayes had every opportunity to support meaningful pay-to-play reforms, and she chose silence,” Shope said. “She allowed Hobbs to avoid questioning, ignored the growing trail of political contributions, and then cleared her fellow Democrat after a two-year investigation. Only after the Legislature adjourned did Mayes suddenly discover that reform was necessary. That’s not leadership. It’s political damage control.” Shope sponsored SB 1612 in 2025, legislation that would have required companies seeking state contracts or certain grants to disclose political contributions and other items of value connected to the governor, political committees, and affiliated organizations. The bill also included requirements for state agencies to retain records used in evaluating contract proposals. Hobbs vetoed the bill. Shope introduced similar legislation again this year through SB 1186. The bill retained requirements for companies seeking state contracts or grants to disclose political contributions and for state agencies to preserve records used to evaluate contract proposals. Hobbs again vetoed the measure in June, amid the continuing investigation into Sunshine Residential Homes. “Katie Hobbs took the political money, her administration approved the rate increases, she refused to answer investigators’ questions, and then she vetoed the reforms designed to prevent this from happening again,” added Shope. “Now her political ally wants Arizonans to believe the matter is closed. It isn’t.” Mayes has called for legislative action following her decision not to prosecute Hobbs, saying changes to state law are needed to address potential conflicts involving political contributions and government contracting. Shope said he plans to bring his legislation back during the next legislative session and intends to challenge Mayes to publicly testify in support of the reforms she is now calling for. “If Mayes is sincere, she can endorse the legislation, appear before lawmakers, and demand that Hobbs sign it,” continued Shope. “If she refuses, Arizonans will know her call for reform was nothing more than election-year cover for the governor. The other investigations must continue without interference, and their complete findings must be made public,” Shope concluded. Ethan Faverino is a reporter for AZ Free News. You can send him news tips using this link. The post Shope Accuses Mayes Of Providing ‘Election-Year Cover’ For Hobbs Amid Sunshine Investigation first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a915e832c5335ae104c2573 Biggs Calls For Statewide Flock Camera Ban As Hobbs Expresses Support For The Surveillance Technology te 2026-08-28T10:10:11.039Z Biggs Calls For Statewide Flock Camera Ban As Hobbs Expresses Support For The Surveillance Technology By Ethan Faverino | Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs is calling for a statewide ban on Flock automated license plate reader cameras, putting him at odds with Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs, who said she trusts individual law enforcement agencies to decide whether they want to use the surveillance technology. The disagreement came during a public safety forum hosted by the Arizona Police Association on Tuesday at Arizona State University’s Downtown Phoenix campus. Biggs and Hobbs answered questions separately and did not share the stage, with both candidates addressing issues including border security, police funding, and automated license plate readers (ALPRs). According to Fox 10, the forum was intended to allow voters and Arizona law enforcement officials to hear each candidate’s position on public safety issues ahead of the November gubernatorial election. Biggs said he would ban Flock cameras throughout Arizona if elected governor. This isn’t a partisan issue, but it’s a clear difference between me and Katie Hobbs. We can find ways to support law enforcement without putting our civil liberties in danger. https://t.co/POoqxvCiaU — Andy Biggs (@andybiggs4az) August 26, 2026 Hobbs took a different position. According to KTAR News, Hobbs claimed she trusts individual law enforcement agencies to determine whether they want to use surveillance technology such as Flock cameras. The disagreement came as several Arizona cities and police departments have recently suspended, investigated, or terminated their use of Flock cameras following concerns over the potential misuse of the technology. The debate over Flock cameras gained new significance on Wednesday when the City of Tempe announced it had shut down its entire network of Flock automated license plate readers and would terminate its contract with the company. Tempe has turned off its Flock automated license plate reader system and will end its contract with the company. The cameras are no longer collecting license plate data, and Tempe will not seek another company to replace the system. While the cameras have helped Tempe Police… pic.twitter.com/sFqfpOPiqd — City of Tempe, AZ (@Tempegov) August 26, 2026 The city previously ended automatic data sharing from its Flock cameras earlier this month. Although the city said its own audits did not uncover improper use of the system, officials said recent incidents involving other Arizona law enforcement agencies raised concerns about the potential for misuse. A Chandler police officer recently resigned after admitting to improperly using the department’s Flock system to locate a family member. The city subsequently discontinued its 40-camera Flock system and said it would not renew its current agreement with the company. In Apache Junction, former officer Joshua McDaniel also resigned after an investigation found that he had used the Flock system to search for his wife’s vehicle. Two dispatchers who assisted with the search were also disciplined. Goodyear has also launched a criminal investigation after an internal-affairs audit identified potential misuse of its Flock system by an officer. That officer was placed on administrative leave and had access to department computer systems restricted. Surprise initially suspended its Flock system after an audit identified an anomaly and placed an officer on administrative leave. The city then canceled its Flock contract and requested that the company’s equipment be removed. However, the officer was cleared of wrongdoing on after investigators determined the apparent anomaly was caused by a technical issue rather than improper use. The Surprise Police Department has concluded a formal Professional Standards Unit investigation into an anomaly found during a routine audit of its Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) system, fully clearing the involved police officer of any system misuse. Consistent with… pic.twitter.com/xrY2NYMAc9 — Surprise Police Dept (@Surprise_PD) August 26, 2026 Sedona, Flagstaff, South Tucson, Pinal County, and Cave Creek have also ended or announced plans to end their Flock contracts within the last year. With Flock cameras becoming an increasingly controversial issue across Arizona, the technology is expected to draw further debate at the state Capitol during the upcoming legislative session. Lawmakers have already attempted to establish statewide regulations governing automated license plate readers, with several proposals introduced and debated earlier this year. Senator Kevin Payne (R-LD27) introduced SB 1111, which sought to establish statewide requirements for ALPR use, including restrictions on data access, mandatory training, and regular audits. The bill advanced through the Senate but ultimately did not become law. Senator Mark Finchem (R-LD11) introduced SB 1138, which also sought to establish restrictions on ALPR use, including requirements governing access, training, and data retention. The bill was later amended into an unrelated measure. Ethan Faverino is a reporter for AZ Free News. You can send him news tips using this link. The post Biggs Calls For Statewide Flock Camera Ban As Hobbs Expresses Support For The Surveillance Technology first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9157752c5335ae104c2431 As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space te 2026-08-28T09:40:05.178Z As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space Launched by Belgian startup Any, LUV1 is a modular electric motorcycle with 120 liters of cargo space that can be used to carry bags, work equipment, or even pets. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9152c72c5335ae104c2389 JONATHAN TURLEY: James Carville's latest tirade reveals the left's all-consuming politics of rage te 2026-08-28T09:20:07.344Z JONATHAN TURLEY: James Carville's latest tirade reveals the left's all-consuming politics of rage In "Breaking Bad," the character Walter White explains to a major drug dealer why cheaper knockoffs of his signature Blue Sky methamphetamine are just not enough: "So… it’s grade-school tee-ball vs. the New York Yankees. Yours is just some tepid… off-brand, generic cola. What I’m making is classic Coke." This week, veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville released his own uncut, undiluted classic product to a nation of rage addicts. Blue Sky rage. What set off Carville was telling. He and others were outraged that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries met with Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser Jared Kushner to discuss areas of common ground. Such dialogue "with the enemy" is unthinkable in what I consider our "age of rage," particularly for someone like Carville. The political strategist who previously threatened that, once Democrats are back in power, Trump allies and institutions that enabled the president should be treated the same way as Nazi collaborators were after World War II. Carville went into his signature berserker trance on his podcast, appropriately called the "Politics War Room": "These people are a pack of felons and traitors, and you do not meet with them! You do not meet with them. There’s only one thing you can do with people that you genuinely believe deep inside of every fabric of your body are a pack of thieves and a pack of traitors." JAMES CARVILLE GOES NUCLEAR ON JEFFRIES OVER JARED KUSHNER SIT-DOWN AND DEMANDS DEMOCRATS DRAW A LINE As usual, Carville delivers the line with the intensity of a man seconds away from a self-induced stroke. The message, however, is clear. Anyone seeking a middle ground or compromise is a traitor and will be dealt with the same way as Nazi collaborators once Democrats regain power. What is really on display is rage politics. When you feed this addiction, you have to keep your product pure to avoid the pain of rage withdrawal. Carville is asking Democrats the same question as Walter White when asking whether they really want some cheap knockoff when they can have the real thing. Go with the classic. Go with the rage. JEFFRIES' REPORTED MEETING WITH KUSHNER ABOUT POSSIBLE TRUMP COOPERATION DRAWS LEFT-WING BACKLASH Over in what's become the social media safe space for liberals, BlueSky, Carville is being heralded as a prophet of furor. It was a perfect combination. BlueSky was created for liberals to remove themselves, particularly from X, because of conservatives returning to social media after years of censorship. Many in the media saw BlueSky as the future, as they predicted the rapid death of X. It did not exactly work out that way. Some liberal influencers proclaiming their abandonment of X never actually left, and many others have returned. BlueSky is now little more than a progressive boutique in comparison to X. It has an estimated 43 million users, as opposed to up to 600 million for X. (Monthly active users drop to around 27 million versus more than 300 million.) In practice, BlueSky has developed a reputation for a largely liberal political culture and robust user-controlled moderation tools. It offers a protected zone for liberals to rave among themselves without the distraction of as many opposing views or voices. JAMES CARVILLE BLASTS FAR-LEFT 'WHITE TURDS' AMONG DEMS WHO HE SAYS VALUE LENIN MORE THAN MLK It is a social platform that is premised on the same "you do not meet with them" screed offered by Carville. Recently, the seasoned strategist has lashed out at the far left of his party, such as Democratic Socialists, over their radical agenda. However, he and other establishment figures are primarily objecting to the fact that it appears these radical policies will not succeed in the upcoming midterm elections and return them to power. Carville appears to have no problem trashing the system to secure and maintain power. He previously called for packing the Supreme Court but notably told Democrats not to actually talk about it: "If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F— it. Eat our dust. Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it." LEFT-WING PODCASTER BLASTS SCHUMER, JEFFRIES AS 'FASCIST COLLABORATORS' Other Democratic leaders continue to try to co-opt the mob for their own uses. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer dismissed questions about the DSA platform to eliminate the presidency, the Supreme Court, and the Senate. These are small differences, according to Schumer, compared with the need to win elections: "Not everyone has the same exact view on every single issue." One of those small disagreements is the very existence of the institution that Schumer so desperately wants to lead. Carville and Schumer, however, appear to agree on the key element of the political strategy of keeping the rage alive. The greatest threat to that strategy is any dialogue between Democrats and their Republican neighbors. If reason were to break out before the elections, all could be lost. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The effort reflects the fact that the rage in an age of rage eventually burns off. People look into a mirror on both sides and realize that we have become grotesque by yielding to the anger and hate. Once people start to talk with one another again, it is harder to hate so completely and blindly tap into the rage that hate traffickers need. So Blue Sky rage is hitting the streets. The Classic Coke of hate is to be injected directly into the veins of a nation of rage addicts. After all, as Walter White asked his fellow traffickers, "Do you really wanna live in a world without Coca-Cola?" CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM JONATHAN TURLEY Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9152c62c5335ae104c2380 DOUG SCHOEN: Why Democrats cannot break free from the far left’s transgender demands te 2026-08-28T09:20:06.584Z DOUG SCHOEN: Why Democrats cannot break free from the far left’s transgender demands The most formidable challenges facing establishment Democrats in November’s midterms are the success of far-left, socialist, or progressive candidates in primary elections and mainstream Democrats’ surrender to that wing of the party. Alongside advocating for an agenda that is radical in its drive to reshape America – and is broadly unpopular – the DSA’s influence has left Democrats on the wrong side of an issue that the party has been hobbled by in the past: transgender policies. Simply put, the DSA’s strong opposition to legislation banning biological males from competing in women’s sports has come to define where the national Democratic Party stands, much to its detriment. FORMER BERNIE SANDERS OPERATIVE WARNS RADICAL LEFT HAS 'OVERTAKEN' THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FROM WITHIN And while this problem did not suddenly become an issue – Democrats had been trending this way for years before the 2024 election – it is only getting worse and will continue to do so. Indeed, we have already seen examples of it becoming a prominent topic in 2026 campaigns. DEMOCRATS STAY QUIET ON NEXT STEPS AFTER SUPREME COURT TRANSGENDER SPORTS RULING In Florida, Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds has made transgender issues a central line of attack against Democrat David Jolly, including Jolly’s position on gender-affirming care for minors. Jolly disputes Donalds’ characterization of his position. Moreover, in Massachusetts, during a debate against incumbent Democratic Sen. Ed Markey, primary challenger Rep. Seth Moulton was forced to reverse himself and walk back comments he made just two years ago. MASSACHUSETTS SENATE CANDIDATES TRADE SHARP ATTACKS IN FIERY DEBATE AS INCUMBENT MARKEY SKIPS EVENT At the time, Moulton said, "I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete." Fast-forward to their 2026 debate earlier this month: Moulton walked back his phrasing, apologizing to the trans community for any pain caused while insisting his underlying goal was to encourage open debate within the party. BATTLEGROUND DEMOCRAT FLIP-FLOPS ON CONVERSION THERAPY AFTER LEFT-WING BACKLASH Does Moulton now fear more for his primary prospects with an increasingly dominant far-left base than he does for his daughters’ safety? Both of these examples show the pressure Democrats face from their left flank and their refusal to distance themselves from a position the American people and most Democrats do not endorse. HOUSE DEMS HAND GOP A WIN ON TRANS SPORTS AS PARTY UNITY CRACKS Analyses of the 2024 election compellingly suggest that this could well have played a decisive role in the outcome. The DNC’s post-election autopsy "determined [Kamala] Harris had no answer" to "Republicans’ very effective advertisements" highlighting Harris’ position. NEVER-TRUMP REPUBLICAN IS TOP DEM CHOICE IN CRUCIAL FLORIDA PRIMARY Further, according to one PAC’s analysis, then-candidate Donald Trump’s "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you" ad was so effective that it shifted the race almost 3 points in Trump’s favor, double his 1.5 percentage-point margin of victory in the popular vote. The Trump campaign also pointed to the ad’s success with suburban women, a key demographic. DEMOCRATIC INFIGHTING GROWS AS CONGRESSWOMAN EXPOSES ‘DISRESPECTFUL’ WELCOME OF SOCIALISTS INTO ‘BIG TENT’ Make no mistake, Democrats are on the wrong side of the transgender debate given public opinion. According to Gallup’s May 2025 survey, roughly 7 in 10 (69%) Americans – including 72% of independents and a plurality of Democrats – believe transgender athletes should only be allowed to play on sports teams that match their gender at birth. Even among Democrats, support for allowing transgender athletes to play on teams that align with their current gender identity has dropped 10 points since 2021, now sitting below a majority, at 45% – despite party leadership’s embrace of the position. Pew found that 49% of Americans favored requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms matching their sex at birth, while 26% opposed such policies. Americans continue to support laws that would require transgender people to use public restrooms that match their sex at birth, not the one to which they have transitioned. However, when it came time to actually take a stand, no Democratic senators and just two Democratic House members supported a 2025 bill that sought to bar transgender athletes from competing against girls in K-12 schools. DEM REP HENRY CUELLAR REJECTS DSA AGENDA, SAYS SOCIALISTS ARE TRYING TO 'USE' DEMOCRATIC PARTY To that end, neither Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer nor House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has been willing to take specific positions aligning with popular views favoring bans on transgender athletes competing in women’s sports. Schumer has been the most explicitly opposed to the bans, calling them "despicable," while Jeffries has been more measured, simply saying that Democrats care about "fairness in sports" but refusing to support legislation seeking to bar the practice. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION In Maine, Gov. Janet Mills has publicly clashed with the Trump administration over the state’s policy allowing transgender students to participate in school sports according to their gender identity. Ultimately, despite broad public opposition to allowing transgender athletes to compete according to their gender identity – and a sharply divided Democratic electorate – the party’s elites continue supporting policies allowing this to occur, or at best equivocate. At the same time, the data make clear the dilemma establishment Democrats face: continue mollifying the far left, or risk having the transgender issue hurt the party in general elections. Put another way, the far left’s and DSA’s veto over Democratic policy puts the entire party on the wrong side of another key issue. And unfortunately, all signs point to this problem continuing to be a drag on Democratic support in the midterms and into the 2028 presidential election. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM DOUG SCHOEN Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9152c52c5335ae104c2377 America faces a crisis in our military arsenal that Trump is racing to fix te 2026-08-28T09:20:05.781Z America faces a crisis in our military arsenal that Trump is racing to fix The world feels more dangerous than it's been in a generation. As the United States finds itself back in active conflict in the Middle East, Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine grinds into its fifth year. The world holds its breath to see whether China moves on Taiwan. And after decades of treating our defense industrial base like a peacetime operation, that strain is exposing just how fragile America's arsenal can become. For decades, the Pentagon has bought munitions the way a peacetime military does: year to year, program by program, with procurement requests that shift with each budget cycle. Years of perceived peace let us coast on the stockpiles already built, without reckoning with the impact this had on our industrial base. Manufacturers were left guessing at demand from one year to the next, and that uncertainty withered production capacity over time. The war in Iran put this problem on full display. The conflict has put sustained demand on precision munitions and air defense interceptors – affecting both the United States and our allies. Gulf partner nations have warned U.S. officials that their interceptor stocks are running dangerously low, and the Pentagon has been forced to pull THAAD and Patriot batteries out of South Korea to cover the gap. MORE THAN HALF OF SOME US WEAPONS STOCKPILES USED IN IRAN WAR, RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT CHINA THREAT This didn’t happen in a vacuum. Munitions production has been under-resourced across administrations for years and this is now showing up on the ground. Troops and commanders are having to make calls about where scarce weapons get allocated. Despite these operational constraints, U.S.-made air defense systems continue to perform admirably in battle. The problem is depth, not capability. Iran has made it clear that we simply don't have enough of that proven hardware to sustain a long fight. US DRAINS CRITICAL MISSILE STOCKPILES IN IRAN WAR AS YEARSLONG REBUILD LOOMS Fortunately, recent contract announcements from the Pentagon show that a commitment to fixing this problem is taking hold. The Navy announced a $22.9 billion, seven-year contract to ramp up Tomahawk cruise missile production from roughly 60 a year to more than 1,000. This multiyear commitment provides long-range certainty that lets industry hire the workforce, expand facilities and lock in suppliers around real, sustained demand, as opposed to reacting to it year to year. It’s a welcome shift that’s part of a larger trend. Since January, the Pentagon signed long-term framework agreements with both RTX and Lockheed Martin covering seven major weapons systems, all built on the same seven-year model. Together, these deals will push AMRAAM production to 1,900 units a year, SM-6 to more than 500, PAC-3 interceptors from 600 to 2,000, and THAAD from 96 to 400. The message behind the numbers is straightforward: The Pentagon wants stockpile depth built in permanently, not scrambled together the next time a war breaks out. VANCE PUSHES BACK ON REPORT OF STOCKPILE CONCERNS AS US RACES TO BOOST MISSILE PRODUCTION While this is a helpful first step, it won't single-handedly solve the problem. Even under these agreements, full production capacity will take time to arrive, and Congress must approve continued appropriations to fund them through completion. The military is also still working against an outdated procurement process that limits how fast any new capability, not just these missile systems, can reach the warfighter. The U.S. still averages more than 12 years to move a major weapons program from concept to fielding, and that's a separate challenge the Pentagon and Congress still need to resolve. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Moving forward, the Pentagon and Congress should understand that treating sustained, elevated defense investment as the standing cost of this era, not a wartime exception that ends when the current conflict does. The industrial base that wins the next fight is the one we choose to build now, deliberately, before we need it. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91506d2c5335ae104c2321 The Town Council Race Was Tied. The Three of Spades Called It. te 2026-08-28T09:10:05.901Z The Town Council Race Was Tied. The Three of Spades Called It. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91506b2c5335ae104c2306 Jury Deliberations Underway in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial te 2026-08-28T09:10:03.239Z Jury Deliberations Underway in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial In order to reach a verdict, jurors must agree on whether Ms. Clancy should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a913db52c5335ae104c1abf NAU backup quarterback competition coming down to the wire te 2026-08-28T07:50:13.372Z NAU backup quarterback competition coming down to the wire The decision on who NAU’s backup quarterback will be is heavily contested. Two young players from Arizona are battling for the role, with a decision to be made this week before the season opener. 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"King Harald died peacefully at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet Friday 28 August at 6:35 AM," the statement continued. Harald's son, Crown Prince Haakon, 53, will succeed him. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a913b542c5335ae104c1a0b New Hampshire man allegedly steals rescue truck from firefighters battling his burning home te 2026-08-28T07:40:04.896Z New Hampshire man allegedly steals rescue truck from firefighters battling his burning home A New Hampshire man whose home was going up in flames allegedly stole a rescue truck from responding firefighters, then crashed into a fire engine, drove over active hoses and narrowly missed three firefighters before fleeing the scene, authorities said. Nestor Roman II, 30, of Dalton, faces multiple charges after authorities said he stole the rescue vehicle and later crashed several miles from his burning home. According to New Hampshire State Police, troopers were responding around 3:50 a.m. Tuesday to assist Dalton Fire & Rescue with a house fire when they learned that a Whitefield Fire & Rescue vehicle had been stolen. NYC 5-ALARM FIRE INJURES AT LEAST 17 FIREFIGHTERS, OTHERS AS BLAZE DAMAGES MULTIPLE APARTMENT BUILDINGS Dalton Fire & Rescue said crews had been dispatched to a fully involved structure fire near Faraway Road and Mountain Road, with several neighboring departments responding as mutual aid. As firefighters battled the blaze, Roman allegedly got into Whitefield Fire & Rescue's F550 rescue truck and drove away shortly before 5 a.m., according to the fire department. NY POLICE CAR CATCHES FIRE, TROOPERS INJURED IN 3-CAR COLLISION The department said Roman allegedly drove around Whitefield's E3 fire engine, nearly striking two firefighters and narrowly missing a third who could have been pinned between the two large trucks. Roman then allegedly crashed into the E3 and a small pickup while "forcing their way onto the road ahead," according to the department. State police said Roman drove over multiple water supply lines while fleeing. Dalton Fire & Rescue said two charged hoses being used to fight the fire were run over but were not damaged. Roman also allegedly struck a firefighter's personal vehicle farther down the road and damaged neighboring property, according to fire officials. State police said wooden fences at two separate properties were also damaged. WATCH: MISSOURI SUSPECT DIVES HEADFIRST OFF BRIDGE IN WILD BID TO EVADE DEPUTIES The escape came to an end several miles away after a Dalton homeowner reported that the stolen rescue vehicle had crashed on their property, according to state police. The homeowner also reported that Roman was allegedly attempting to take items from the porch. Troopers arrived moments later and found Roman on the porch. Police said he was uncooperative but was ultimately taken into custody. Roman was charged with three felony counts of reckless conduct with a deadly weapon, burglary and two counts of theft by unauthorized taking. He also faces misdemeanor charges of obstructing government administration, four counts of conduct after an accident, resisting arrest and detention, driving after suspension subsequent and two counts of driving over a fire hose without consent, according to state police. Despite sustaining significant damage, Whitefield's E3 was able to remain in operation, and firefighters ultimately extinguished the flames. MYSTERY STRANGER VANISHES AFTER FAMILY SAYS FRANTIC WARNING SAVED THEIR LIVES DURING DEVASTATING HOUSE FIRE Fire officials said the house was a "complete loss." The New Hampshire State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the cause of the fire. "We are extremely thankful that no firefighters were physically injured despite the close call," Dalton Fire & Rescue said in a statement. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a91137d2c5335ae104c0d37 Federal judge again blocks Trump's mail ballot order just before midterms te 2026-08-28T04:50:05.157Z Federal judge again blocks Trump's mail ballot order just before midterms A federal judge on Thursday again blocked President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail-in voting, halting the directive, at least for now, for a second time with only about a week before the first mail ballots are expected to be sent out for the upcoming midterm elections. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani issued a 14-day temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the new U.S. Postal Service rule implementing the order. The ruling is likely to be quickly appealed and could soon make its way back to the Supreme Court, days after the nation's highest court handed down a procedural decision that allowed the administration to move forward. Thursday's ruling comes after Democrats and voting rights groups refiled their lawsuits to comply with the recent Supreme Court decision. The high court did not address the legality of Trump’s order, only finding that Talwani had acted too soon. JACKSON RIPS INTO SUPREME COURT COLLEAGUES' 'SERIOUS LEGAL ERROR' ON TRUMP MAIL-IN VOTING ORDER The administration has now issued a formal rule governing how states must prepare and submit mail ballots for USPS acceptance, effectively taking the legal fight back to square one. The case will have a significant impact on November's midterms, as nearly one-third of Americans vote by mail and election officials argue there is not enough time to amend their systems to comply with the new directives. The Postal Service said it will not accept outbound mail ballots if states do not submit required recipient information through its portal and meet the rule’s envelope and barcode requirements. "Plaintiff states have neither time nor funds to design new mail ballots, seek approval of the new designs, order production of mail ballots, update their own election management systems, train election officials to use the USPS portal and upload citizen data to the portal, all before the midterms," Talwani wrote in Thursday's ruling. A hearing in the case is scheduled for Sept. 3. USPS WOULDN'T DELIVER BALLOTS IN STATES THAT REFUSE TO FORK OVER MAIL-IN VOTER INFO UNDER PROPOSED RULE Democrats and voting rights groups argue that the Postal Service rule and Trump’s order are unconstitutional. They say the Constitution grants states, as well as Congress in some cases, the authority to establish election rules, noting that the president and Postal Service do not have that power. USPS, however, says the rule does not determine voter eligibility or compare submissions with state voter rolls, and that states retain control over who may vote by mail. "This rule is a clear attempt by the federal government to interfere in elections it has no power to control. Today, a federal court halted it before this administration could wreak havoc on our elections," New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of two dozen Democrat attorneys general who filed one of the lawsuits, said in a statement. Trump’s first executive order, which was issued last year, was blocked on those grounds. The order attempted to change election procedures, including by requiring additional physical documentation to register to vote, such as a U.S. passport, a REAL ID or military ID indicating U.S. citizenship or a government-issued photo ID accompanied by proof of citizenship. Trump has long criticized mail-in voting, which he falsely attributes to his 2020 election loss to former President Joe Biden. But Trump himself uses mail-in voting to cast his ballot as a registered voter in Florida. FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM RESTRICTING MAIL-IN BALLOTS AHEAD OF MIDTERMS According to a 2025 report by the Brookings Institution, mail-in voting fraud was recorded in only about four cases out of every 10 million mail ballots cast, contradicting claims by Trump and his allies that election fraud is widespread. The analysis covered general elections from 2016 through 2022 and relied in part on a database that its source says is not comprehensive. Trump issued the executive order targeting mail-in voting in March, leading to legal challenges.  In a separate case, a federal judge in Washington declined earlier this year to block the order at that stage, finding the challenge premature because the administration had not yet implemented the directive. The Supreme Court struck down one of those holds earlier this week. Talwani removed the second injunction a short time later. The plaintiffs then refiled their challenges, pointing to the Postal Service’s publishing of its final rule, in an effort to build a stronger case. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a910a1c2c5335ae104c0b66 Suspected human smugglers lead cops on 100-mph chase before bailing and allegedly committing armed carjacking te 2026-08-28T04:10:04.527Z Suspected human smugglers lead cops on 100-mph chase before bailing and allegedly committing armed carjacking Two suspected human smugglers led authorities on a 100-mph chase in Texas on Thursday before bailing out of their vehicle, with one allegedly carjacking a civilian at gunpoint, authorities said. Helicopter video from U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations shows the high-speed pursuit unfolding along Interstate 10 in Fabens. Authorities are seen pursuing the suspected human smugglers before their vehicle was disabled and both occupants fled on foot. VIDEO SHOWS ILLEGAL ALIENS FOUND CRAMMED INSIDE SEMI-TRUCK SLEEPER CAB IN ALLEGED SMUGGLING BUST An official can be heard over radio communications saying the vehicle's front right tire may have been damaged by a spike strip. Moments later, the vehicle slows down and two occupants jump out and run. "Bail out, bail out, bail out!" someone is heard shouting in the video. The two men are then seen running across the highway, with one quickly apprehended by a member of the Texas Department of Public Safety. 2 COLOMBIAN NATIONALS ARRESTED IN STOLEN MERCEDES LINKED TO VIOLENT CALIFORNIA CARJACKING The other suspect allegedly carjacked a civilian at gunpoint before he was also later taken into custody, authorities said. Authorities have not released information about how many people were allegedly being smuggled or their nationalities. "Outstanding coordination by Border Patrol, AMO, HSI and Texas DPS," CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott posted on X alongside video of the pursuit. "Suspected human smugglers hit 100+ mph and bailed out when their vehicle was disabled," Scott continued. "One then carjacked a civilian at gunpoint. Smugglers risk lives for profit. We will keep taking them down." The incident took place near a Speedway gas station at around 9:16 a.m., according to KFOX14. The suspects are expected to face human smuggling and evading arrest or detention charges, the station reported. Fox News Digital has reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for additional information. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a910a1b2c5335ae104c0b5d Fiery views on Lindsay Clancy at work could get you fired — and be perfectly legal, employment lawyer warns te 2026-08-28T04:10:03.677Z Fiery views on Lindsay Clancy at work could get you fired — and be perfectly legal, employment lawyer warns Sharing fiery views at work about the Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three young children could get you canned and still be legal, according to an expert on employment law who is following the case. Lindsay Clancy, 36, is accused of strangling her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — and trying to end her own life by dropping from a second-floor window after sending her husband to pick up takeout and something from a pharmacy, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office. The case has drawn national attention, pro-Clancy protesters to the courthouse and impassioned discussions about who is responsible online after her defense argued she is not guilty by reason of insanity or mental defect. "That disciplinary measure, it's not on its face illegal if you get fired for starting, you know, fiery speech about Lindsay Clancy and how you support her," said Nicole Brenecki, a New York-based attorney who specializes in employment law. LINDSAY CLANCY MURDER TRIAL BECOMES SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSION AS TIKTOKERS, SLEUTHS DEBATE CONTROVERSIAL CASE Still, Brenecki warned, a fired employee could still raise legal concerns if their Clancy-related statements were used as a pretext to get rid of them for other reasons. "If a case like this came to the court system, it would not be viewed in the context of the free speech alone," she said. "It would also be viewed in the contexts of employment laws." LINDSAY CLANCY TRIAL: POSTPARTUM IS REAL, BUT CHILD KILLING DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY, VETERAN PROSECUTOR SAYS As a "general rule," however, she said employers would be allowed to prohibit such discussions about the case. Other considerations would involve whether the speech took place during working hours, disrupted business operations or whether there was discrimination against protected groups involved in the firing. "Every single case in our court system is very highly and intensely fact-based," she said. "So we cannot give...any specific explanation as to whether something would be illegal or not. We have to look at the facts." FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Still, Brenecki advised against arguing over strong opinions at the water cooler. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS "If you truly want to voice them in a workplace, then be prepared to have to find greener pastures," she said. There could be other consequences as well. Earlier this month, an attorney named Alex Thomason said in a TikTok video of his own that he has already spoken with men involved in custody disputes with women who have been posting the "solidarity hold a heart thing" for Clancy. In one instance, he said, he is looking to have a woman's visitation rights stripped away. "I want to be able to have a forensic psychiatrist interview this woman just to see how wack-a-doodle she is, and we're gonna use her TikTok posts," he said. LINDSAY CLANCY DESCRIBED A MALE VOICE ORDERING HER TO ‘KILL HER CHILDREN AND KILL HERSELF’: TESTIMONY LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Defense attorney Kevin Reddington has argued that Clancy was under the effects of postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors allege she acted deliberately and understood what she was doing was wrong. SEND US A TIP Dozens of supporters have rallied outside the courthouse, carrying signs and wearing shirts with phrases like, "Stand in Peace for Lindsay." LINDSAY CLANCY DIDN'T SHOW 'BREAK WITH REALITY' AS JURY WEIGHS PSYCHOSIS DEFENSE: SUSAN SMITH PROSECUTOR Jurors began deliberating after both sides delivered their closing arguments Thursday. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST PROSECUTOR IN INFAMOUS KILLER MOM CASE SAYS WOMEN ON LINDSAY CLANCY JURY MAY BRING ‘STRANGE TWIST’ TO VERDICT They will decide whether Clancy is guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder or manslaughter in the deaths of her three children — or not criminally responsible by reason of the insanity defense. WATCH: Jury instructions outline verdict options in Lindsay Clancy trial GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL If convicted of any of the three counts of first-degree murder she faces, Clancy would see a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. WATCH: Judge commends attorneys for efforts in 'emotionally taxing' Lindsay Clancy trial Fox News' Adam Sabes contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a9100be2c5335ae104c00f4 Aliyah Boston addresses Caitlin Clark's viral smile at Angel Reese on 'Post Moves' podcast te 2026-08-28T03:30:06.324Z Aliyah Boston addresses Caitlin Clark's viral smile at Angel Reese on 'Post Moves' podcast Caitlin Clark found herself at the center of another viral moment after the Indiana Fever’s overtime win over the Atlanta Dream earlier this month. As Angel Reese reacted to a missed potential game-winning layup in the final seconds of regulation, cameras captured Caitlin Clark smiling in the background as the Dream forward was consoled by teammate Rhyne Howard. It was not immediately clear what prompted Clark’s reaction, but social media quickly turned the clip into a viral meme. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! The exchange added another chapter to the long-running Clark-Reese rivalry, which dates to Reese’s "You can’t see me" gesture toward the then-Iowa star during the 2023 national championship game. On this week’s episode of the "Post Moves" podcast, Boston addressed Clark’s viral moment alongside co-host and Basketball Hall of Famer Candace Parker. During a discussion about the Aug. 16 Fever-Dream matchup, Parker mentioned the much-discussed moment. "Did you see Caitlin’s reaction to the Dream’s missed putback?" the three-time WNBA champion asked the Fever center. "... In real time you see nothing but we [the Fever] saw it after and I was like, ‘Here we go,’" Boston said. Boston then addressed the online reaction, adding: "No ‘cause like, we just—peace, love and happiness. We will never be free!" Parker also suggested the Fever have been involved in some of the WNBA season’s biggest viral moments, including Sophie Cunningham’s pointing gesture and Paige Bueckers telling Clark to calm down. She added that Reese has had also had her share of meme-worthy moments. ANGEL REESE AND CAITLIN CLARK EXCHANGE WORDS IN SECOND DREAM-FEVER MEETING IN THREE DAYS "I would have been like Paige, too," Parker said. "I’d have been like, ‘Calm down. I’m trying to foul you.’" Boston was unmoved, suggesting that telling someone to calm down rarely has the intended effect. "No, I don’t care," she noted. The Dream have won four straight games since their Aug. 16 loss to Indiana, clinching a postseason berth. The Fever defeated the Chicago Sky last Sunday in a game that drew record viewership. Indiana returns home Friday to face the Connecticut Sun. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90f9bc2c5335ae104bffc2 Tony Romo hit with several new citations after OWI arrest, further jeopardizing return to NFL broadcasts te 2026-08-28T03:00:12.148Z Tony Romo hit with several new citations after OWI arrest, further jeopardizing return to NFL broadcasts Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo made headlines in July when he was arrested on charges of allegedly operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Romo was stopped on a highway, then did not perform well when given field sobriety tests by police. He was released, and is supposed to appear in court in September. Almost immediately afterward, CBS Sports announced that they would put him on leave from broadcasting duties "until further notice." Now, he's facing several additional citations in Milwaukee related to that arrest, per a new report from the New York Post. According to newly filed court records, Romo now faces "first-offense operating while intoxicated, unsafe passing on the right side, and possessing open intoxicants inside his vehicle," the report says. TONY ROMO ARRESTED IN MILWAUKEE FOR ALLEGED OWI OFFENSE: REPORT A spokesperson for Romo issued a statement saying that he "accepts full responsibility" for what happened and reiterating that it’s a civil, not criminal, matter. "Tony accepts full responsibility for his actions and has taken proactive steps to ensure that this isolated civil matter is properly resolved. We are working with local authorities to bring this matter to a close and we are communicating with CBS about next steps." After the arrest, many speculated that his time in the CBS broadcast booth may be over. Boomer Esiason said it’s likely he’ll have to move on and get things "straightened out." BODYCAM SHOWS TONY ROMO ARGUING WITH OFFICER BEFORE REFUSING BREATH TEST DURING DUI ARREST "If I had to guess, purely speculation given what’s going on right now, I would think it’s over," Esiason said on WFAN. "He may end up going somewhere else and getting things straightened out." CBS Sports president David Berson said recently that it's still an "evolving situation" and that it's unclear when, or if, Romo ever returns to the booth with CBS. "It’s an evolving situation and therefore we are still assessing," Berson explained. "There is no timetable or final decision at this time." "I hope you can respect and appreciate this is a personnel matter and a legal one for Tony, so I can’t speak to that aspect of things," he said. These new citations might not help his chances. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90f9b92c5335ae104bffb6 Climber Stranded for Hours on 6-Inch Rock Ledge Before Rescue te 2026-08-28T03:00:09.985Z Climber Stranded for Hours on 6-Inch Rock Ledge Before Rescue Racing against the darkness, rescuers in California on Saturday saved a man who had become stranded on a ledge perched atop a soaring peak on the Sierra Nevada. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90f5042c5335ae104bfeeb California authorities identify final unknown victim of ‘Happy Face Killer’ Keith Jesperson after 34 years te 2026-08-28T02:40:04.708Z California authorities identify final unknown victim of ‘Happy Face Killer’ Keith Jesperson after 34 years The final unidentified victim of notorious serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, known as the "Happy Face Killer," has been identified more than three decades after her body was discovered along a California highway, authorities announced Thursday. The Riverside County District Attorney's Office identified the woman, long known to investigators only as "Claudia," as Lydia Jane Wade McWhorter of Texas, after DNA testing confirmed a connection to a member of her maternal family. McWhorter's body was discovered Aug. 30, 1992, along Highway 95 about seven miles north of Blythe, California. Jesperson, a long-haul truck driver who confessed to killing eight women across multiple states, later admitted killing her. Jesperson told investigators he knew the woman as "Claudia," but authorities were unable to determine whether that was her real name. INVESTIGATORS FIND RELATIVES OF ‘HAPPY FACE’ SERIAL KILLER’S LAST UNKNOWN VICTIM IN MISSION TO IDENTIFY HER The identification comes after Riverside County investigators publicly renewed their effort to identify McWhorter in 2024, when genetic genealogy had connected the unknown victim to relatives on her father's side but had not produced the maternal connection needed to confirm her identity. Fox News Digital reported at the time that DNA testing had identified Summer Gonzales as the victim's paternal half-sister. Gonzales said she wanted to learn her sister's real name and eventually lay her to rest with family. An investigative lead ultimately brought the cold case team to one of McWhorter's direct maternal relatives, according to the district attorney's office. Investigators then identified a possible genetic connection to another member of the maternal family. A DNA sample confirmed that connection earlier this week, allowing investigators to positively identify McWhorter nearly 34 years after her body was found, authorities said. REMAINS FOUND IN UTAH DESERT 28 YEARS AGO WITH HELP OF A PSYCHIC FINALLY IDENTIFIED THROUGH DNA GENEALOGY McWhorter's sisters, who grew up with her, had spent decades without knowing what happened to her after she disappeared from Texas in the 1990s, according to prosecutors. "I want to thank the public for the role you play in our investigations," Billy Hester, supervising investigator of the Cold Case Unit, said in a news release. "When people take the time to share information, submit a tip or simply pay attention to what is happening in their community, it can make a real difference. You may not know where a piece of information will lead, but our investigators will follow it. Most importantly, I hope this will finally bring closure to Lydia’s family." The district attorney's Division of Victim Services is working with McWhorter's family as they decide how to honor her and lay her to rest. 'HAPPY FACE' KILLER WARNS FELLOW SERIAL KILLER REX HEUERMANN COULD BE 'TOSSED TO THE WOLVES' IN PRISON Jesperson was arrested in 1995, and eventually confessed to killing eight women between 1990 and 1995 in California, Washington state, Oregon, Florida, Nebraska and Wyoming. He became known as the "Happy Face Killer" after sending letters about his crimes to the media that he signed with a smiley face. He pleaded guilty to McWhorter's murder in Riverside County on Jan. 8, 2010, and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.  He is serving multiple life sentences in Oregon. With McWhorter's identification, Riverside County's cold case team has now closed the final unidentified-victim case tied to the murders for which Jesperson was convicted. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90f2af2c5335ae104bfd89 Old Al Michaels stumbles through awkward Lake America-Trump jab during Thursday Night Football broadcast te 2026-08-28T02:30:07.432Z Old Al Michaels stumbles through awkward Lake America-Trump jab during Thursday Night Football broadcast Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime is already an endurance test. Between brutal offensive line play, endless commercials and whatever disaster the Cleveland Browns are trotting out, sitting through four quarters takes serious grit. Throw in 81-year-old Al Michaels auditioning for late-night TV over an aerial shot of Cleveland, and watching him crash and burn in real time is pure banana land. Coming back from commercial during the Browns-Patriots game, Uncle Al dropped his cutting-edge political commentary on Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" amid the ongoing U.S.-Canada trade war. TRUMP FLOATS RENAMING THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS AFTER REBRANDING HISTORIC LAKE "That is Lake Erie. We think it is still called Lake Erie ... We're not quite sure at this point. But we'll be by Lake something like Ontario or whatever it's going to be called by the time we get to Buffalo. Anyway, you know what I'm talking about ... Read the news." WATCH: Oof. You could physically feel the oxygen get sucked out of the booth. Kirk Herbstreit, a guy who carefully tiptoes around political landmines so he can host "College GameDay" in peace, completely froze. Herbie sat there like a hostage before mumbling under his breath: "Some of us know ..." Translation: Al, please. Do not drag me into your country club Resistance Twitter jokes. Al Michaels is a broadcasting legend. Miracle on Ice, manning the booth for 11 Super Bowls, all of it. But watching old Al try landing a smug Trump jab on live TV hits with the force of a wet paper towel. It’s classic boomer-broadcaster energy, like your blue-haired cousin dropping political riffs at Thanksgiving. Maybe Uncle Al wasn't feeling particularly patriotic with New England in town. DEBUT OF FORMER STEELERS COACH MIKE TOMLIN ON NBC SNF HAD HIGHLIGHT MOMENTS BUT WAS TOO CAREFUL AND REHEARSED Or maybe he spent his pregame prep doom-scrolling political Twitter in his trailer. Imagine the Cleveland Browns dropping 27 first-half points and the worst part of the entire night is still Al Michaels forcing his anti-Trump tight-five on the audience. Absolute fever dream on Amazon Prime. "Read the news," Al smugly instructed at the end of his bit. How about we stick to calling the game, Al? If he attempts another political tightrope walk like that, Amazon might just pull the plug and swap him out for A.I. Michaels for the rest of the season. At least the digital version stays on script. Leave the monologues to the late-night guys, and let Herbie live to see Saturday. Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90f2ae2c5335ae104bfd80 New York Gov Hochul rejects Trump's 'Lake America' renaming with blunt message te 2026-08-28T02:30:06.419Z New York Gov Hochul rejects Trump's 'Lake America' renaming with blunt message New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday responded to President Donald Trump's executive order to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" amid his ongoing trade war with Canada, saying her state would continue using the old name. "New York won’t be calling it that," Hochul, a Democrat, wrote on X. Trump's order, directs the Interior Department and Board on Geographic Names to update federal records and provide guidance so federal references reflect the new name. But Canada and international bodies are not required to adopt the new name. TRUMP RENAMES LAKE ONTARIO 'LAKE AMERICA' AMID INTENSIFYING US-CANADA TRADE DISPUTE "The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means 'the lake is beautiful, the lake is big.' The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America," Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement. "We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario — then, now and always," he added. U.S. states are also not bound by the order and can continue using "Lake Ontario" on state maps, highway signs and tourism materials. Hochul, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and Vermont Gov. Phil Scott were among state leaders who criticized or mocked the move. "And I just renamed Lake Michigan Lake Wisconsin. See, I can sign napkins that say things, too," Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, wrote on X alongside a video of himself writing "Lake Wisconsin" on a McDonald’s paper napkin and signing the bottom. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, called Trump's move to rename the lake over the trade feud "petty and disappointing." "We should be at the negotiating table, finding a path forward that strengthens both the U.S. and Canadian economies. Further escalating tensions does nothing to help American or Canadian families and businesses," Scott said. The name Lake Ontario is also commonly traced to an Indigenous word translated as "lake of shining waters," and includes around 5.6 million Americans and Canadians in its watershed, according to the Center for Great Lakes Literacy. The lake borders Canada's Ontario province and New York, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Hochul has criticized Trump for the trade war with Canada, saying earlier this week that the president is "treating our allies as enemies" and that "American families continue to suffer because of it." TRUMP TAUNTS CANADA ON RENAMING LAKE ONTARIO THE 'LAKE AMERICA' AMID RISING BORDER TRADE RIFT New York is among many states expected to be hit hard by the trade war with the U.S.'s northern neighbor. U.S. goods and services traded with Canada totaled an estimated $872.3 billion last year, according to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer's office. Carney said the Canadian government would impose retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. beginning Sept. 8 in response to the Trump administration’s new 50% tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, which took effect earlier this month. The prime minister said Canada "will match Washington's new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, and businesses." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90f0562c5335ae104bfd1a Fired Stars and Stripes staffers sue Pentagon, allege retaliation and First Amendment violation te 2026-08-28T02:20:06.709Z Fired Stars and Stripes staffers sue Pentagon, allege retaliation and First Amendment violation The three Stars and Stripes staffers who were fired last week over alleged insubordination have filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon over their terminations, alleging they are facing "imminent retaliation and termination in violation of their First Amendment and statutory rights." "Defendants are attempting to fire Plaintiffs for speaking up as private citizens in support of the press’s freedom to cover military operations, its need to reach all servicepersons, and in retaliation for their publication of a news report on deteriorating conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln during its extended tour of duty in the Mid-East," the lawsuit filed Thursday stated. "This action seeks to prevent the blatant violation of the First Amendment rights of these journalists and challenges the U.S. Department of Defense’s extraordinary censorship efforts in violation of both the First Amendment and DoD regulations and policies." The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., was brought by ousted Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, longtime publisher Max Lederer and Middle East reporter Lara Korte. PENTAGON FIRES LONGTIME PUBLISHER, EDITOR, REPORTER FROM MILITARY NEWSPAPER STARS AND STRIPES The firings stem from Slavin and Korte's unauthorized participation in a "CBS Sunday Morning" segment that aired last month about the Pentagon's efforts to overhaul the paper and Lederer's refusal to fire them at the direction of Pentagon leadership. According to the lawsuit, the trio allege Pentagon leadership "understood these interview statements expressed personal opinions, and therefore took no immediate action, despite their displeasure" and that it wasn't until Stars and Stripes published its report on the alleged strife aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln that the Pentagon's stance had shifted. The lawsuit notes that Pentagon leadership demanded Lederer to fire Slavin and Korte just one day after the report was published. PENTAGON OFFICIALS MULLING THE FIRING OF MILITARY NEWSPAPER STARS AND STRIPES PUBLISHER Listed as the defendants in the lawsuit are The Pentagon, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell and his principal deputy assistant Andrew Brey. "Our goal is to protect the rights of service members and their families to a free and independent press," Slavin, Lederer and Korte said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Stars and Stripes has served them for generations, and that independence is essential to keeping military communities fully and accurately informed." "This lawsuit is about safeguarding that mission and ensuring our civilian and military journalists can do their jobs without retaliation," they added. PENTAGON VOWS TO REFORM MILITARY NEWSPAPER STARS AND STRIPES, REMOVE 'WOKE DISTRACTIONS' A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment. The Pentagon kicked off 2026 by announcing its overhaul of the long-running newspaper. "The Department of War is returning Stars & Stripes to its original mission: reporting for our warfighters," Parnell posted on X in January. "We are bringing Stars & Stripes into the 21st century. We will modernize its operations, refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members. "Stars & Stripes will be custom tailored to our warfighters. It will focus on warfighting, weapons systems, fitness, lethality, survivability, and ALL THINGS MILITARY," the statement continued. "No more repurposed DC gossip columns; no more Associated Press reprints. Stars & Stripes has a proud legacy of reporting news that’s important to our service members. The Department of War is committed to ensuring the outlet continues to reflect that proud legacy." The Pentagon previously fired the Stars and Stripes ombudsman in April after being an outspoken critic of the Trump administration's oversight of the paper. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90f0552c5335ae104bfd0b Judge Once Again Bars Postal Service From Restricting Mail-In Vote te 2026-08-28T02:20:05.029Z Judge Once Again Bars Postal Service From Restricting Mail-In Vote After reviewing the agency’s final plan to comply with President Trump’s demands, a federal judge barred the Postal Service from imposing new restrictions on mail-in voting. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90edfc2c5335ae104bfc9b AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10 te 2026-08-28T02:10:04.044Z AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10 A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — covering AI, sports investing, community-building, venture economics, and politics, with cocktails, food, and networking t Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90eba62c5335ae104bfc31 Maine meteorologist suffers giggle attack on live TV after prank backfires spectacularly te 2026-08-28T02:00:06.868Z Maine meteorologist suffers giggle attack on live TV after prank backfires spectacularly A local meteorologist is experiencing viral fame after he was caught on live television suddenly breaking into an uncontrollable fit of giggles that grew increasingly hysterical as he struggled to keep his composure. Patrick Osborn, who was delivering a regularly scheduled weather report on Maine news station WABI, left viewers completely stunned Sunday morning as he repeatedly tried, and failed, to hold back his laughter. In the video, Osborn was seen gasping for breath as he blurted out temperatures between chuckles, repeatedly apologizing before the laughter finally rendered his speech completely incomprehensible. The laughing fit stretched on for about a minute, with Osborn stepping off camera before returning and eventually tossing back to a colleague. SPORTS COMMENTATOR MICHAEL HOLLEY IS 'FINE' AFTER FAINTING DURING LIVE BROADCAST IN TERRIFYING SCENE Recalling the moment with WABI co-anchor Brian Sullivan, Osborn said, "I got a fit of laughter that I was not able to control on air, unfortunately. A lot of times, something funny happens, and I’m able to contain myself, but this one, it was just a little too overwhelming." He revealed that the laughter was triggered by a prank he had attempted to play on fellow anchor Josh Gabbard, only for the joke to backfire on him. During a commercial break, Osborn said he played a short Charlie Brown video for its sound effects but failed to realize the clip was actually an hour-long compilation that periodically replayed the sound every few minutes. DAD JOKES MAY BE GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN IN ONE SURPRISING WAY, EXPERTS SAY He said the audio then unexpectedly played again while he was starting his weather segment, almost instantly sending him into hysterical laughter. "It’s the Charlie Brown phone call noise. It’s one where his mom or teacher calls him, and it’s the ‘Wa, wa, wa,’" Osborn told his station. "Something as silly and light-hearted as a Charlie Brown sound made me completely lose my composure." "I was just trying to keep it together but I couldn't. Like, when you're not supposed to laugh, you're in an environment when you can't laugh, and you're trying to hold it back, that just makes it 10 times worse," he said. Osborn added: "I tried to get through it," but "Josh had to leave the studio." "Thats the hardest I’ve heard … really anyone laugh," Sullivan said, laughing along. WABI posted the clip to TikTok. As of Thursday night, the clip had nearly nine million views. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90e94c2c5335ae104bfbda Broncos coach Sean Payton buries Geoff Schwartz after analyst butchers Bo Nix's downfield game te 2026-08-28T01:50:04.214Z Broncos coach Sean Payton buries Geoff Schwartz after analyst butchers Bo Nix's downfield game Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton has little patience for careless sports TV analysis, especially from former NFL players who should know what goes into evaluating a quarterback. So when former offensive lineman-turned-TV analyst Geoff Schwartz mischaracterized Bo Nix on national television this week, Payton responded directly. Schwartz appeared Wednesday on "First Things First" as the panel debated whether Nix was primed for a major second-year jump or likely to level off. Schwartz argued Nix was still essentially the same quarterback he had been in college. NO, LAMAR JACKSON DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE RANKED AMONG THE NFL'S TOP 10 QUARTERBACKS "I do think he just is what he is at this point. He looks like the same quarterback he was in college... He's consistent. He's not gonna make mistakes. But he's not gonna push the ball down the field all that often." The clip quickly drew a Community Note correcting Schwartz’s claim: Nix has thrown the most touchdown passes of 20-plus air yards in the NFL since the start of the 2024 season, with 19 including the postseason ... That makes Schwartz’s assessment difficult to defend. Nix may not be a finished product, and questions about his long-term ceiling are fair. But claiming he does not push the ball downfield ignores how Denver has used him. BRONCOS STAR QUARTERBACK BO NIX UNDERWENT SECOND PROCEDURE ON SURGICALLY REPAIRED ANKLE: REPORT Payton caught Schwartz's take and brutally offered his own assessment. "Always easy to tell who works at it and who doesn't," Payton said, responding to Schwartz. Payton quoted the post and went straight at the work behind Schwartz’s take. Former players are hired to provide perspective beyond standard debate-show talking points. That is why Schwartz’s claim stood out. Nix’s deep-ball production is not an obscure or cherry-picked statistic. It directly contradicts the premise of Schwartz’s take. Schwartz may believe Nix has limitations as a passer. That is a fair discussion. But presenting him as a limited quarterback who rarely attacks downfield is not supported by the numbers. Schwartz got sacked, plain and simple. Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90e6f52c5335ae104bfb43 Dodgers owner Mark Walter denies reports, says team payroll is supported by revenue: 'There has been no fraud' te 2026-08-28T01:40:05.720Z Dodgers owner Mark Walter denies reports, says team payroll is supported by revenue: 'There has been no fraud' The Los Angeles Dodgers have become baseball's villain in the minds of opposing fans, thanks to their criminal dedication to trying to win more games. And if there's one thing fans won't tolerate, it's trying to win more games instead of putting profits first. But fans who have that view were handed an enormous gift recently when news broke that the team's principal owner, Mark Walter, was under investigation by the federal government. Walter is alleged to have used investment funds to make loans directly to other businesses. Some of which were also part of Walter's portfolio of businesses. That's not illegal, but there are specific requirements for disclosure and investor exposure for such private-credit deals, and it's again alleged that Walter's organizations did not accurately describe the scale and scope of those loans. The scale of these loans is such that it's believed Walter may be looking to bring in $16 billion to $20 billion in order to fully settle them. ALEX RODRIGUEZ DEFENDS DODGERS' SPENDING SPREE AS LIKELY LOCKOUT GETS CLOSER: 'I THINK IT'S GREAT' The assumption of many in the anti-Dodgers baseball fan community quickly turned to an unsubstantiated belief that the team's high payroll was supported by loan fraud. That their deferred contracts were to allow Walter to skate by without paying for star players. And that the World Series wins deserved some sort of asterisk, for an inexplicable reason. Well, Walter's company, TWG Global addressed those comments and concerns in a new statement this week, flatly denying the rampant conspiracy theories. "Over the past several weeks, multipronged attacks against TWG have been advanced by unnamed sources with self-serving interests that have been reported in the media. It is important to set the record straight," it said. "TWG stands firmly behind the integrity of its business and remains focused on continuing to deliver value to its stakeholders." More specifically, the statement says that "despite what has been reported, there has been no fraud." "There is no victim here. No one has been harmed, and no one has claimed they were harmed," the statement says. "TWG is committed to working with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve their inquiries." COULD SHOHEI OHTANI LEAVE THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS IF MARK WALTER SELLS THE TEAM AFTER LAKERS DEAL? With regard to the Dodgers, TWG was even more direct. "The Dodgers have the highest revenue in baseball," they added, "and it significantly exceeds the team's obligations to its players." That's always been obvious. The Dodgers reportedly became the first baseball team to generate over a billion dollars in revenue in a single season. At least a billion. Even including luxury tax penalties and player payroll, they're spending roughly 55% of that income. Not to mention the biggest question; if Walter was committed to using insurance company loan stop make himself richer through the Dodgers, why would he not just pocket that extra income instead of spending more money on players? ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! He’s committed to fraud, but he’s willing to sacrifice, say, an extra $100 million to $150 million a year in income just to try to win? As for Walter selling the Los Angeles Lakers, the company explained that he was "approached" by the eventual buyers, and that the sale was made out of opportunity, not necessity. None of this will matter to those who have made their minds up, but it's yet another example of how the rush to find a villain can create false, inaccurate narratives that don't hold up to scrutiny. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90e49d2c5335ae104bfae7 Dolly Parton's beloved literacy mission sees surge of support after country icon's death te 2026-08-28T01:30:05.091Z Dolly Parton's beloved literacy mission sees surge of support after country icon's death Dolly Parton's legacy of putting books into the hands of children is receiving a surge of support in Alabama following the country music icon's death, with hundreds of residents backing a specialty license plate that would help fund her Imagination Library across the state. Parton died Tuesday at 80. Beyond a career that produced classics including "Jolene," "9 to 5" and "I Will Always Love You," Parton built an extensive philanthropic legacy, with the Imagination Library becoming one of her signature initiatives. Kaelyn Christian, Alabama state director for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, told Fox News Digital that the proposed plate had roughly 40 pre-commitments at the beginning of the week but had surged to more than 550 as of Wednesday afternoon, putting it more than halfway toward the 1,000 needed for the plate to go into production. DOLLY PARTON OFFERED TO TRY EXPERIMENTAL DRUGS IF ‘NO HOPE’ FOR CANCER BATTLE TO HELP OTHERS, SISTER SAYS "It's exploded over the last 24 hours really," Christian said. "It's been amazing," she continued. "If you had asked me last week if I thought we would make a thousand I would have said I'm not sure, but now I'm really confident I think that we'll hit that 1,000 mark." Christian said roughly $50 from each plate would go back to the Imagination Library program in the Alabama county where the vehicle is registered. Drivers would pay the fee annually, creating an ongoing source of support for local programs and an easy way to "almost set up a recurring donation to your local Imagination Library," she said. Parton launched the Imagination Library in 1995 in honor of her father, who never had the opportunity to learn to read or write. Registered children receive a free book every month until they turn 5, with children enrolled from birth eligible to receive up to 60 books. DOLLY PARTON’S SIX-DECADE LOVE STORY WITH CARL DEAN BEGAN AT A LAUNDROMAT Since the program's founding, more than 300 million books have been gifted around the world. Christian said about 114,000 Alabama children are currently enrolled in the program and that registrations had also "gone crazy in the last 24 hours." She said the money generated by one specialty plate would cover the cost of providing books to two children every month for almost two years, or roughly 48 books. Beyond the numbers, Christian said part of Parton's legacy can be found in children growing up excited to find a new book in their mailbox every month. DOLLY PARTON’S PRIVATE CANCER BATTLE HIGHLIGHTS WHY SOME PATIENTS DON’T SHARE THEIR DIAGNOSES Her own son, who is nearly 5, is enrolled in the program. "He just loves the books that we get every month," Christian said. "He talks about them all the time. And he talks about Ms. Dolly sent me another book." Christian also recalled speaking with a mother who wanted to pre-commit to the license plate because her children were about to graduate from the Imagination Library and she wanted to help provide the same experience to another child. She said the program can also have a lasting impact on families who otherwise may not have been able to afford books for their children. Christian recalled hearing from one family that told her, "We couldn't afford books for our home and so we enrolled in this program." "Now my middle school child reads 200 books a year," the parent told her, according to Christian. DOLLY PARTON'S ‘ALL-AMERICAN HEART’: HOW COUNTRY ICON FORGED SPECIAL BOND WITH US MILITARY "It just really is the gift that keeps on giving for children," Christian said. "The full point of the program is to inspire a love of reading. That's what we want." Christian emphasized that the specialty plate is more than a way to commemorate Parton, saying the recurring funding could help local partners continue operating their programs for years to come. She described those partners as the "boots on the ground," responsible for finding and enrolling children, promoting the program in their communities and raising money to help fund it. "I think it really gives them the security that they will be able to continue their local program long term," Christian said. In 2023, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced a statewide expansion of the Imagination Library. Christian said the program achieved coverage in all 67 Alabama counties in early 2025 and that the state provides 50% financial support for participating children. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90dfed2c5335ae104bfa34 CNN apologizes after mistakenly airing image of Dolly Parton impersonator during report on icon's passing te 2026-08-28T01:10:05.447Z CNN apologizes after mistakenly airing image of Dolly Parton impersonator during report on icon's passing CNN offered a mea culpa after the network mistakenly aired a photo of a Dolly Parton impersonator during its coverage of the passing of the American icon. Parton died Tuesday at age 80 following a brief battle with cancer. Her death sent shockwaves around the world, with millions paying tribute to the country music legend. On Tuesday's installment of "Laura Coates Live," a montage of photos appeared onscreen as CNN correspondent Shimon Prokupecz was reporting live from Nashville. DOLLY PARTON DEAD AT 80 However, among them was an image of Patron tribute artist Kelly Vohnn, seen attending a screening last year of "Song Sung Blue," a film about the real-life Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. "We regret the error and apologize to the Parton family," a CNN spokesperson told Fox News Digital. DOLLY PARTON DIES AT THE AGE OF 80: A LOOK AT HER LIFE THROUGH PHOTOS Vohnn spoke with The New York Post about how her phone began blowing up after her image appeared on CNN, calling the experience "weird." "I started getting all these texts in from friends saying that I was on CNN, and I couldn’t believe it," the Canadian-born impersonator told The Post. "I felt so sorry and apologetic for Dolly... and CNN just picked something not appropriate." DOLLY PARTON'S LIFE IN HER OWN WORDS: FROM SMOKY MOUNTAINS POVERTY TO COUNTRY MUSIC IMMORTALITY "It was quite embarrassing, to be honest," Vohnn said about the network's mistake. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90dd9a2c5335ae104bf9f2 Arizona State Treasurer's Office asking for submissions to AZ529 essay contest te 2026-08-28T01:00:10.874Z Arizona State Treasurer's Office asking for submissions to AZ529 essay contest Fifth and sixth grade students from across Arizona can submit an essay answering the question: "What is your dream job and how do you plan on achieving it in the future?" Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90dd992c5335ae104bf9e9 Coconino quarterback situation tight amid sudden Utley transfer te 2026-08-28T01:00:09.590Z Coconino quarterback situation tight amid sudden Utley transfer Coconino football has a tough decision to make on who will be the starting quarterback week one against Snowflake after junior Hendrix Utley’s sudden departure to AZ Compass Prep. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90db3c2c5335ae104bf963 Mark Ruffalo accused of antisemitism by Hollywood insiders over Paramount merger remarks te 2026-08-28T00:50:04.999Z Mark Ruffalo accused of antisemitism by Hollywood insiders over Paramount merger remarks Hollywood producers Haim Saban, Lawrence Bender and Teddy Schwarzman accused actor Mark Ruffalo of "simple antisemitism" in an online statement issued by a group of nearly 1,000 industry insiders on Tuesday, arguing that the actor invoked tropes about Jewish wealth and power while attacking Paramount leadership and its proposed $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. "This is not commentary on a merger. It is not a criticism of a government. It is simple antisemitism, where Jewish executives are portrayed as a secretive and powerful wealth-hoarding elite delighting in mass death," the group, which calls itself The Brigade, told the Hollywood Reporter. Paramount responded to Fox News Digital Thursday after being asked about The Brigade’s statement and Ruffalo’s denial that his remarks were antisemitic. "We stand by the statement," Paramount spokesperson Melissa Zukerman said, adding that they had no further comment. MARK RUFFALO FIRES BACK AT PARAMOUNT OVER 'APPALLING' ANTISEMITISM ACCUSATION TIED TO ELLISON MERGER CRITICISM Elizabeth Barcohana, the California Republican Party’s Jewish engagement chair, told Fox News Digital Thursday that Ruffalo’s prominence in the opposition to the merger reflected Hollywood’s liberal political activism, while praising The Brigade for challenging him. "Ruffalo as an anti-merger spokesman is an odd choice given his extremist rhetoric that has completely discredited him with rational people. He is an activist more than an actor (indeed maybe that’s one in the same). I applaud The Brigade for organizing an oppositional force against the explosion of antisemitism within Hollywood, and standing up to Ruffalo’s Israel Derangement Syndrome," Barcohana said. The Brigade described itself as a group of nearly 1,000 members, friends and allies of the Jewish community working across entertainment. The statement's signatories also included Ram Bergman, Matti Leshem, Anthony Bregman, Micah Green and Lynn Harris. Ruffalo rejected Paramount's earlier accusation in a statement provided to Fox News Digital on Saturday, maintaining that his objections targeted political and corporate decisions rather than Jewish people. ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE REACHES DEADLIEST LEVEL SINCE 1994, NEW GLOBAL REPORT FINDS "The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people," Ruffalo said. The Brigade directly rejected that distinction, arguing that Ruffalo's focus on Israel while targeting Jewish executives imported a conspiracy narrative into a corporate debate. "Singling out Jewish executives and describing them in terms lifted from centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy theories, while invoking Israel as the frame for that attack, is antisemitic," The Brigade said. The dispute began after Ruffalo shared an August video of Oracle executive vice chair and Paramount board member Safra Catz discussing technology Oracle used to assist Israel following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks. Ruffalo connected Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the father of Paramount CEO David Ellison, to financing behind the proposed acquisition. PARAMOUNT ESCALATES THREAT TO LEAVE CALIFORNIA AS DEM AG'S ANTITRUST LAWSUIT STALLS WARNER BROS MERGER "These ‘really profoundly scary technologies’ will most likely be merged into one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and one day used on you," Ruffalo said. "Look how she revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle." Paramount responded that Ruffalo had crossed from criticism of the transaction into prejudice and said it does not tolerate bias against anyone. Hollywood figures have split over the dispute. John Cusack publicly backed Ruffalo over the weekend, while "Hacks" actress Hannah Einbinder called the antisemitism allegation ludicrous. The Simon Wiesenthal Center sided with Paramount, commending the company for responding. The proposed transaction would place CNN, HBO and Warner Bros. studio assets under the same family’s control. A coalition of 12 state attorneys general sued to block it on antitrust grounds, and the companies agreed not to close until five days after a court ruling on the merits or June 1, 2027, whichever comes first. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90db3b2c5335ae104bf95a Prosecutor says he has portion of Josh Jacobs' domestic incident with ex-girlfriend on video te 2026-08-28T00:50:03.936Z Prosecutor says he has portion of Josh Jacobs' domestic incident with ex-girlfriend on video The District Attorney who charged Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs with two domestic misdemeanors on Thursday initially released a statement about reviewing new available evidence, and now we know that evidence is surveillance video related to the alleged battery. After police investigated the incident at the scene of Jacobs' alleged battery on his ex-girlfriend, they later did more legwork according to District Attorney David L. Lasee. And they uncovered a security camera in Jacobs' garage where he and his ex-girlfriend allegedly had a physical altercation. JOSH JACOBS FACES TWO MISDEMEANOR CHARGES AFTER MAY ARREST The incident report from Lasee's office says ANM, as they are identifying the player's ex-girlfriend, told officers as she was trying to exit the garage door to get outside, "Jacobs grabbed her and threw her to the ground and she struck her head, suffering an injury," the report reads. "Jacobs then took her phone from her while she was on the ground. ANM laid on the ground for a while and then struggled to walk back into the house." ATTORNEY FOR DENVER BRONCOS DEFENDER JONATHON COOPER PLAYS RACE CARD IN DOMESTIC ABUSE CASE Lasee's incident report says this is on video. The "surveillance footage from the camera system within the garage of the Tretni Mar residence from May 23, 2026, between 8:30 a.m. and 8:38 a.m. corroborates the relevant portions of ANM's statement that one would expect to have seen on video, including both ANM and Jacobs departing the residence in their respective vehicles and returning to the residence, as well as their actions on the security camera in the garage. "The surveillance video further shows Jacobs took ANM's phone while she was on the floor of the garage, and approximately 40 seconds later, Jacobs returns to the garage and appears to damage ANM's phone." The video is not available for independent inspection at this time. It will obviously be used as evidence in the case against Jacobs. BRONCOS STAR SPEAKS OUT FOLLOWING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ARREST, FIRES OFF AN APOLOGY He was charged Thursday with one count of misdemeanor battery and one count of criminal damage to property. Jacobs turned himself in to police on May 26, three days after the incident at his Hobart, Wisconsin home. So far, the case has been tried in the court of public opinion as a he-said versus she-said account, with Jacobs enlisting a legal team that claims he will be exonerated of the allegations. But if the District Attorney's office indeed has a video that prosecutors say shows Jacobs getting physical with his ex-girlfriend in that garage, his legal situation will be much worse and his status as an NFL player could be at risk. The NFL, which studies practices, meetings, and games on tape, obviously frowns upon video of a battery by one of its employees and has a history of separating from such episodes. Ray Rice's career ended when a 2014 video of him striking his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer, in the face during an argument became public. The video Lasee viewed before deciding to charge Jacobs comes with its own backstory outlined in the DA's incident report: "Your complainant reviewed a follow up report from Investigator Van Lanen of the Hobart-Lawrence Police Department received on August 6, 2026, and a digital forensic examination report prepared by Frank Angel for the Brown County Sheriff’s Office, received on August 13, 2026. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM "Those reports relate an on or about July 27 and 28, 2026, of recovered electronic devices from Jacobs’s residence, including components of a video surveillance system, as well as cellular phones from both Jacobs and ANM. "Angel’s report outlines the process used to conduct the forensic exam of the devices, and explained that the recovery of video files from the surveillance system was complex and took several weeks, culminating in a final verification on July 21, 2026. "Based on the foregoing, the complainant believes this complaint to be true and correct." The Packers released a statement about Thursday's charges. "We are aware of the charges brought against Josh Jacobs," the team said in a statement. "We will continue to cooperate with the NFL as we work through the process. We will have no further comment at this time." The NFL's investigation of the entire episode is ongoing and Jacobs is subject to discipline under the Personal Conduct Policy and may even be placed on the commissioner's exempt list, which would mean he'd get paid but cannot play. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90d8e62c5335ae104bf919 Butler Valley: A water transfer basin ready for use te 2026-08-28T00:40:06.309Z Butler Valley: A water transfer basin ready for use Bruce Babbitt Interior Secretary James Burgum has just ordered a drastic and punitive reduction in Arizona’s share of the Colorado River. We must now respond both by preparing for possible litigation, and by accelerating our efforts to develop new in-state water supplies. High on the list of potential supplies is an obscure, little known groundwater transfer basin in western Arizona called Butler Valley. The Valley is 150 square miles of empty, unoccupied land. This makes it the perfect, conflict-free place to develop the next water transfer to the metro Phoenix area (formally, the Phoenix Active Management Area or AMA).  That the Butler Valley has remained vacant, and available for groundwater transfers, goes back to a prescient recommendation that Wes Steiner, the renowned state water engineer, made to us  when we were in office in 1982 — that we set aside and reserve the entire Butler Valley groundwater basin for future water transfers. We acted on Steiner’s recommendation by instructing the State Land Department to designate the Valley as a groundwater reserve. We then implemented land exchanges that placed 99% of the land in the Valley in state ownership.  As a result, the Butler Valley groundwater reserve remains in public ownership, awaiting transfer action.   Robert Lane How much water is there? The Department of Water Resources estimates that the groundwater basin holds some six and a half million acre feet of accessible water, enough to supply a city the size of Tempe for a hundred years.  Typically, water transfers run into practical obstacles because moving water over any distance requires costly infrastructure. But, as luck would have it, the Butler Valley is located only about a mile from the Central Arizona Project canal that brings water from the Colorado River into the Phoenix AMA. The cost of infrastructure to connect the two will be minimal compared to other groundwater basins in the region. To activate a transfer process will require close cooperation and planning between two state agencies that have very little history of working together. It is time for the State Land Department, which holds title to Butler Valley, and the Central Arizona Project, which owns the canal, to wake up and prepare a joint transfer program. And it is up to Governor Hobbs and the Central Arizona Project Board of Directors to make certain that they do so. Bruce Babbitt served as governor of Arizona from 1978-1987. He then served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1993-2001. Robert Lane served as Arizona Land Commissioner from 1983-1987. The post Butler Valley: A water transfer basin ready for use first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90d8e32c5335ae104bf8f0 3 illegal aliens arrested in major Virginia child exploitation sting released on bond te 2026-08-28T00:40:03.448Z 3 illegal aliens arrested in major Virginia child exploitation sting released on bond Three of nine men arrested in a major Virginia child exploitation sting are illegal aliens with lengthy criminal histories, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Fox News. The three men have since been released on bond. The suspects allegedly traveled to Fairfax County to meet with minors for sexual encounters after engaging in sexually explicit conversations online with undercover detectives posing as juveniles, police said Wednesday. The three illegal aliens were identified as Reyben Leono Sanchez Hernandez, 21, of El Salvador; Wilmer Alexander Aguilar Cruz, 28, of El Salvador; and Henry Adalberto Flores Herrera, 39, DHS told Fox News. DHS said the three men were previously caught illegally entering the U.S. before being released under the Obama administration. DHS blamed the administration’s immigration policies and Fairfax County’s "sanctuary" policies for what it described as an influx of criminal illegal aliens. SPANBERGER RIPPED OVER IGNORED ICE DETAINER AFTER ILLEGAL ALIEN WITH 18 PRIOR CHARGES ACCUSED OF SEX ASSAULT According to DHS, Sanchez Hernandez’s criminal history includes solicitation of prostitution from a minor. Fairfax County police also said he was charged with driving on a suspended license. Sanchez Hernandez was caught illegally entering the U.S. near the Rio Grande Valley on Sept. 25, 2013, officials said. He was released into the country about a month later. ICE placed a detainer on Sanchez Hernandez with the Fairfax County Detention Center on July 29, officials said. However, police said he has since been released on a $3,000 secured bond. DHS TORCHES SPANBERGER AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH CHILD SEX ABUSE AT BABYSITTER'S HOUSE GRANTED BOND Aguilar Cruz was caught by Border Patrol near Hidalgo, Texas, in late 2012 before being released into the country under the Obama administration about two weeks later, according to DHS. His criminal history includes allegations involving computer solicitation of a child, indecent liberties, proposed sex acts, sodomy, extortion and threats to burn, DHS said. On April 27, 2019, police in Prince William County, Virginia, arrested Aguilar Cruz on charges of threatening to bomb or burn and making a threat in writing. ICE arrested him two days later, and he was released on bond on Aug. 9, 2019, according to DHS. ICE placed a detainer on Aguilar Cruz with the Fairfax County Detention Center on July 31, officials said. However, local police said he has since been released on a $3,000 secured bond. Flores Herrera’s criminal history includes felony solicitation of prostitution from a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor, driving under the influence of liquor and a traffic offense, according to DHS. ICE placed a detainer on Flores Herrera with the Fairfax County Detention Center on July 17, officials said. He has since been released on a $5,000 secured bond. DHS did not disclose how Flores Herrera entered the country. SPANBERGER'S ICE ROLLBACK TO BLAME FOR TODDLER KILLING, VIRGINIA 'HOTBED' OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIME: DHS A DHS spokesperson blamed former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as former Vice President Kamala Harris, for policies the department said paved the way for millions of unvetted illegal aliens to enter the U.S. "These criminal illegal aliens were hand-delivered to Fairfax County communities by President Obama, who, like Sleepy Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, unleashed millions of unvetted illegal aliens into American communities and abused the law to do so," the spokesperson said. "President Trump and Secretary Mullin are now enforcing the law, arresting illegal aliens who have no right to be in our country—and have reversed Democrats’ deadly catch and release policy." The department also urged Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger to increase cooperation with ICE to turn over detained immigrants. "Under Governor Spanberger, Virginia has become a hotbed of illegal alien crime. During her first days in office, Governor Spanberger signed executive orders banning state cooperation with ICE as well as terminating 287(g) state and local agreements," the department said. "We are urging Governor Spanberger to put her community first and turn over this criminal illegal alien to ICE." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90d68c2c5335ae104bf84a RNC threatens legal action against New Jersey officials over noncitizens on voter rolls: 'On notice' te 2026-08-28T00:30:04.647Z RNC threatens legal action against New Jersey officials over noncitizens on voter rolls: 'On notice' The Republican National Committee is escalating its fight with New Jersey election officials over voter roll records, threatening legal action as it seeks information related to noncitizens found on the state's rolls. The RNC sent formal National Voter Registration Act violation notices Wednesday to New Jersey's secretary of state, and election officials in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties. The committee is seeking records related to noncitizen removals, citizenship verification efforts and other voter roll maintenance activities. Officials have until Sept. 15 to produce the records or potentially face litigation, according to the RNC. "Democrat (Gov.) Mikie Sherrill admitted what the RNC already uncovered through public records requests: noncitizens are on New Jersey's voter rolls," RNC Chairman Joe Gruters said in an RNC release. "Now, election officials are refusing to turn over records explaining how it happened. "Voters deserve answers, and the RNC is putting officials on notice: comply with the law, hand over the records, or face legal action." NEW JERSEY GOVERNMENT UNDER CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION AFTER EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS ON NONCITIZEN VOTERS The RNC claims Bergen County records identified 134 noncitizens removed from New Jersey voter rolls between January 2023 and August 2026. Of those, 91 registrations were linked to the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC), according to the committee. Sherrill's administration has separately disclosed that a software error at the MVC improperly registered approximately 6,600 people to vote between June 2023 and June 2024, before she took office. DEMOCRATS CONCEDE NJ VOTER-ROLL FAILURE WAS ‘HORRIBLE’ — BUT REJECT BROADER FRAUD FEARS Her administration said approximately 5,100 people affected by the error were removed from the voter rolls because they had no separate registration or attestation of eligibility. Another approximately 1,450 registrations were changed to rejected status pending further review by county election officials. The state said approximately 340 people newly registered because of the software error voted. It also identified approximately 220 people affected by the error who voted, but had previous registrations or separate attestations indicating they may have been validly registered. Sherrill said county officials had been directed to resolve remaining cases before the November election. HOUSE REPUBLICANS CONFRONT NJ GOVERNOR OVER 6,600 NONCITIZENS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN ALLEGED SOFTWARE FAILURE She has also accused the Trump administration of seeking greater federal control over state voter rolls and resisted federal efforts to obtain nonpublic voter information, calling the effort a "phishing expedition here in New Jersey." The governor's office has said its investigation into the MVC error remains ongoing. The RNC, New Jersey secretary of state's office, and Sherill's office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90d4362c5335ae104bf784 Huge Knicks fan Kylie Jenner talks courtside fits & desire to become even bigger fan with enhanced implants te 2026-08-28T00:20:06.618Z Huge Knicks fan Kylie Jenner talks courtside fits & desire to become even bigger fan with enhanced implants EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains explicit language in direct quotations. Feel free to criticize Kylie Jenner's Knicks fandom if you want. You're not going to catch me doing that, and I have a feeling after you hear what she has to say about her journey to becoming a fan, you're not going to either. She discussed falling in love with the team on the "Better Half" podcast. She talked about her dedication to courtside outfits, and a desire to become an even bigger fan by one day enhancing her breast implants. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Kylie's appearance is being considered, by some, to be one of the greatest interviews of all-time. I don't allow myself to be a prisoner of the moment, at least I try not to be. I can't go along with that. Not right now anyway. I can go along with her being considered a huge Knicks fan. It started, she revealed, when she went to her first Knicks game with boyfriend Timothée Chalamet. "I never was into it unless it was, like, someone was married or dating someone, and then I would watch it," Kylie said, reports the NY Post. "It wasn’t until I went to my first Knicks game that I fell in love." She knows how special it was for the Knicks to win an NBA championship just a couple of seasons into her fandom and for her to get to witness it all courtside. "For them to win, I mean, I'm the luckiest Knicks fan 'cause I feel like I am a new Knicks fan … and I got to see them win!," Kylie admitted. KYLIE JENNER INSPIRES KNICKS LINGERIE, SWIFT-KELCE MSG WEDDING RUMORS & GERMAN DISCOVERS WAFFLE HOUSE You can save your breath if you think she didn’t put enough time in as a fan. She more than made up for the lack of hours rooting for the team by sacrificing her style while her feet were on the hardwood. She often wore a big shirt or jacket due to the difficulties of being a fan with a big butt. She dipped into her closet filled with blue and orange to make sure her crack wasn't out during the games. "When you have a big, fat, juicy ass, and you’re sitting down, and you’re wearing a little crop top, it’s just, like, my ass crack is always just out... ," Kylie told the hosts. "I always have to bring a jacket or something so I can enjoy the game and not worry if, you know, I'm naked." That's doing what it takes to win. That's sacrifice for the good of the team, but that's not all Kylie Jenner had lined up for the discussion. She talked about becoming an even bigger fan of the New York Knicks one day. Bigger as in enhancing the size of her breasts. She said, "They need to be bigger and more out there. I want my tits to walk in before I do." That is how you make a statement. It's also how you put together a complete argument to counter anything critics of your fandom dare to come at you with. It's hustle, it's dedication, it's winning basketball. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90d4342c5335ae104bf776 Los Angeles Mayor, Stung in Debate, Eases Street Vending Crackdown te 2026-08-28T00:20:04.824Z Los Angeles Mayor, Stung in Debate, Eases Street Vending Crackdown Mayor Karen Bass had compared the ubiquitous purveyors of street food with homeless encampments. Her opponent, Nithya Raman, said vendors should be brought into the system. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90d1dd2c5335ae104bf71a Social media erupts after cops reportedly raid home of Ilhan Omar's son: 'Not a good look' te 2026-08-28T00:10:05.947Z Social media erupts after cops reportedly raid home of Ilhan Omar's son: 'Not a good look' Social media is in a frenzy over a report that police raided the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar's son over charges in connection with allegations involving his roommate. Minneapolis police raided the home of Adnan Hirsi earlier this week when they confiscated guns and ammunition before arresting his roommate, Abdulrahman Abdi, Alpha News reported. Hirsi, Omar's son, has not been implicated in any wrongdoing, nor is the congresswoman implicated in the reported incident. But the report's mention that the suspect shares an apartment with the progressive lawmaker's son was enough to make her right-wing critics on social media erupt. "Nothing to see here. Move along," Steve Ferguson, a small business owner with nearly 300,000 followers on X, posted. CAUGHT ON CAMERA: SQUAD DEM SQUIRMS WHEN PRESSED ON VANCE DOJ FRAUD PROBE Right-wing activist Benny Johnson wrote, "Not a good look for Ilhan Omar." Online influencer "Spitfire" wrote on the site, "This Omar investigation is getting more interesting by the day." "Anyone shocked that a horrible person would be a horrible mother? What do you expect from someone who marries their brother?" wrote Townhall columnist Derek Hunter, referencing an unproven online conspiracy theory that Omar previously was married to her brother, which she has denied. REP ILHAN OMAR'S DAUGHTER STRIKES HARD-CORE COMMUNIST POSE AS MOM BATTLES CLAIMS SHE IS RICH Commentator Gunther Eagleman called to "deport Ilhan Omar and her family." "Ilhan Omar: Supports violent jihad. Ilhan's daughter: Arrested during pro-Hamas campus riots; traveled to Cuba with a CCP-linked group. Ilhan's son: Home raided by police; guns and ammunition seized," wrote Eitan Fischberger, a former staff sergeant in the Israeli military and a current opinion columnist. The report itself was also shared without comment by former Trump advisors Corey Lewandowski and Sean Spicer. The report said that a search warrant was executed on Tuesday at the home that Abdi shares with Hirsi, and that guns and ammunition were recovered. Abdi was reportedly arrested earlier in the day. No wrongdoing by Hirsi was reported. The Minneapolis Police Department declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital did confirm that Abdi was arrested by Minneapolis police and booked just after noon on Tuesday. He was released just before midnight the next day, records show. Omar herself is a staunch advocate for gun control. Fox News Digital reached out to her office for comment on the incident. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a90d1db2c5335ae104bf70d Lake Ontario Didn’t Ask for This te 2026-08-28T00:10:03.958Z Lake Ontario Didn’t Ask for This There is a U.S.-led war in the Middle East and the midterm elections on the horizon, but President Trump’s latest priority seems to be “Making The Great Lakes Even Greater.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/home