https://meenews.co/post/6aaf1b0275342cf4db87b71b Three Cowboys players fined more than $33,000 combined after season-opening loss to Giants te 2026-09-19T23:30:10.342Z Three Cowboys players fined more than $33,000 combined after season-opening loss to Giants Three Dallas Cowboys players were fined by the NFL for penalties committed during the team’s season-opening loss to the New York Giants. Linebacker DeMarvion Overshown, defensive end Donovan Ezeiruaku and running back Javonte Williams received fines totaling $33,409, according to the NFL’s weekly accountability report. Overshown was fined $9,527 for a late hit on Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart with 9:38 remaining in the first quarter. The unnecessary roughness penalty gave New York 15 yards during a drive that ultimately ended with a touchdown. JAXSON DART TAKES BRUTAL HIT EARLY IN GIANTS VS COWBOYS OPENER BUT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT WAS KIND OF SURPRISING Ezeiruaku received an $11,941 fine for grabbing a Giants player’s facemask with 2:10 remaining in the fourth quarter. The penalty helped New York drain the clock and secure its 28-20 victory. Williams was also fined $11,941 for taunting Giants safety Tyler Nubin following a fourth-quarter touchdown. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Williams held the ball toward Nubin after crossing the goal line, drawing a 15-yard unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty that was enforced on the extra-point attempt. Brandon Aubrey subsequently missed the 48-yard kick, leaving Dallas eight points behind. "I don’t know why I did it. It’s just out of character. You don’t got to worry about that no more," Williams said afterward, according to NFL Network’s Jane Slater. "The damage is already done. It’s my fault. I’m better than that. I’m a pro." Dallas finished the loss with nine accepted penalties. The Giants were assessed 11 penalties of their own as the NFC East rivals combined for 20. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf18a975342cf4db87b6ca Engelbert Humperdinck reveals how an untied shoelace saved his life during British Army service te 2026-09-19T23:20:09.194Z Engelbert Humperdinck reveals how an untied shoelace saved his life during British Army service British singer, Engelbert Humperdinck, is reflecting on how his shoelace saved his life during his service in his country's army. During a recent episode of "The Engelbert Humperdinck Show," the 90-year-old singer reflected on his time in the British Army, sharing that he enlisted in 1954 when he was 18 years old and that an undone shoelace saved his life. He explained that prior to being stationed somewhere, he was hoping he would end up in Cyprus, as his friend was already stationed there, but ended up in Germany. "The way they choose people and when you're in training, you form a rank of threes and the adjutant goes around with the sergeant major, and he goes counts out 24 people, and they'll say hit Cyprus, Germany, Belgium or whatever it is, wherever you're going to." ROGER MILLER GIVEN STARK CHOICE AFTER GETTING CAUGHT STEALING: ‘YOU CAN GO TO JAIL OR YOU CAN GO IN THE ARMY’ Humperdinck recalled that when the time came to line up for their assignments, "all of a sudden I looked down and my bootlace had came undone." He took a moment to pause and tie his shoelace, noting that "in the meantime, everybody's forming into ranks of three." "So I ran after I tied my shoelace and stood where I possibly could in the front line, and they started counting Malaya, Cyprus, and I was the next one. Germany. I went to Germany. I was just I just missed Cyprus by one." He added: "I think God was watching over me because, later on, I found out all the people that went to Cyprus never got there. They got killed in an ambush on the way to Nicosia." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE The singer went on to say that it was "unbelievable that I wasn't in that batch" because he only missed it by one. He went on to call the time he served in Mulheim, Germany, "an interesting couple of years." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Humperdinck, born Arnold George Dorsey, had his big break in the music industry in 1967, with the release of his song, "Release Me," which reached No. 1 in the U.K. According to his official biography, Humperdinck has sold more than 140 million worldwide throughout his career, received four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe for entertainer of the year and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "I never thought that. I was just happy to have success at that time," he told Billboard in June 2017 about celebrating 50 years in the industry. "It was always a question in my head about how long it was going to last. "If you don’t put out material that’s going to last, you’re not going to last. Over the years, I sold over 150 million records. My music has been my passport to the world, and it’s been amazing for me." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf165075342cf4db87b682 Vanderbilt pulled off the most improbable last-second victory you'll ever see in college football te 2026-09-19T23:10:08.935Z Vanderbilt pulled off the most improbable last-second victory you'll ever see in college football The Music City Miracle now has a rival after Vanderbilt's improbable, and frankly incomprehensible, last-second victory against NC State on Saturday afternoon. NC State controlled the game from the jump in Nashville, going into halftime with a 17-7 lead, and were in position to seal an upset victory over Vanderbilt following an interception by Wolfpack safety Brody Barnhardt with just over a minute left to play. What happened on the ensuing drive was easily one of the most incredible, stunning yet devastating endings you’ll ever see, depending on where your loyalties lie. Vanderbilt had only two timeouts, so it had no hope of getting the ball back unless it somehow forced a turnover. NC State ran for three yards, and Vanderbilt called timeout. The Wolfpack gained another three yards on the next play, prompting another timeout. ARCH MANNING AND TEXAS LONGHORNS ERASE 20-POINT DEFICIT TO STUN OHIO STATE IN SHOCKING COMEBACK FOR THE AGES With 53 seconds remaining, the Wolfpack had victory in its sights. NC State then ran for one yard to kill more clock before taking a delay-of-game penalty with six seconds left. That brought up fourth-and-7 at the 4-yard line. Wolfpack quarterback CJ Bailey simply needed to kill the clock and, if things got dicey, run out of the end zone for a safety, keeping his team ahead by one point and securing a well-deserved victory. Bailey took the snap and rolled to his right. Instead of going down, he absorbed an initial hit before edge rusher Miles Capers dislodged the ball. Cornerback Cayden Daniels immediately recovered the fumble with one second remaining. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! It was incredible, improbable and asinine all at the same time. After a touchback, the Wolfpack regained possession but eventually fell to the Commodores following a failed lateral play as time expired. I'm not sure what to call this new Music City Miracle, but it will easily go down as one of the most insane finishes in college football history. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf13f475342cf4db87b61a Bikes, busking and 2,000 miles later, Sean Golightly’s debut memoir 'Seattle, at Least' is set for publication te 2026-09-19T23:00:04.579Z Bikes, busking and 2,000 miles later, Sean Golightly’s debut memoir 'Seattle, at Least' is set for publication Memoir blends literary storytelling, magical realism, humor and vulnerability in this transformative journey. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf119a75342cf4db87b5cb Trump Faced Loss After Loss. He Then Turned to a Familiar Target: The Press. te 2026-09-19T22:50:02.484Z Trump Faced Loss After Loss. He Then Turned to a Familiar Target: The Press. The president’s ban of three media outlets from the White House fits a pattern of using the apparatus of government to crack down on his perceived enemies. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf0f4975342cf4db87b595 Melanie Griffith stuns in black swimsuit during wellness retreat: 'Healing and renewal' te 2026-09-19T22:40:09.719Z Melanie Griffith stuns in black swimsuit during wellness retreat: 'Healing and renewal' Melanie Griffith is reflecting on a relaxing weekend away filled with "wellness, healing and renewal." In a recent Instagram post, the 69-year-old actress shared photos from her week at the VIVAMAYR Maria Wörth health resort in Austria, which included pictures of her in a black one-piece swimsuit. The photos show Griffith lying on a lounge chair with one leg bent and her arms up on the armrests on a dock, with the lake and mountainside scenery behind her. Her blonde hair is tied up in a messy bun and she accessorized with black sunglasses. "You look amazing Melanie," one fan wrote in the comments section, while another added, "looking like an angel! " HEATHER GRAHAM SIZZLES IN WHITE BIKINI DURING SOUTH OF FRANCE GETAWAY Other photos show the Academy Award-nominated actress covering up with a pair of cutoff denim shorts while out on the lake in a boat, as well as doing yoga in a bright pink workout set. It gave me the chance to truly recharge, replenish and relax," she said of her vacation. "'The Cure' is an amazing health reset, centered around being good to your body, mind and soul. She added: "I’m so grateful to all of the wonderful doctors, therapists and health practitioners who make the experience so special. -A little heaven on earth. ♥️" Griffith rose to fame in the 1980s starring in movies such as "Body Double" and "Something Wild," before landing her defining role in the 1988 movie, "Working Girl." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS She followed in her mother, actress Tippi Hedren's footsteps, and her own daughter, Dakota Johnson, followed in her footsteps, also choosing to pursue a career as an actress. Dakota has spoken in the past about how growing up with famous parents influenced her career choice. She told Vogue Germany in 2025, she wanted to be an actress since she was a kid and "be a part of what the people around me were doing." "As a child, I was obsessed with movies," she said. "I was the kid who watched the same thing over and over again for a year. I think that shapes your imagination and what you think is possible for yourself, especially when you watch movies with other children, like ‘Mary Poppins’ or ‘Home Alone.’" Although she comes from Hollywood royalty, her father being "Miami Vice" actor Don Johnson, she did not have an easy start when it came to her own career. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE During an interview with Elle UK in May 2025, she shared that her father cut her off when she decided not to go to college. "For a couple of years it was hard to make money," she admitted. "There were a few times when I’d go to the market and not have money in my bank account or not be able to pay rent, and I’d have to ask my parents for help – I’m very grateful that I had parents that could help me and did help me. But it certainly was not fun. The auditioning process, as you know, is the f------ worst." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf0a9f75342cf4db87b503 Facial tattoos helped Walmart employee identify alleged shoplifter: Police te 2026-09-19T22:20:15.976Z Facial tattoos helped Walmart employee identify alleged shoplifter: Police A bottle of Dr. Pepper is what ultimately landed a Thunderbird Farms man in jail earlier this month.   As a woman “caused a disturbance” inside Walmart, store employees recognized the man with her as a previous shoplifter from just days earlier, according to a probable cause statement.  A security guard recognized 46-year-old Jason Bayt by his facial tattoos on Sept. 3 and contacted police. According to security, Bayt shoplifted approximately $78 in merchandise by switching tags on several items so he could pay a lower price on Aug. 31.   On this second visit, Bayt allegedly stole a Dr. Pepper valued at $2.58.  The couple was found 15 minutes later at Slim Chickens where Bayt was in the bathroom, according to the probable cause statement.  When Bayt was searched for the stolen items, police also found a small bag of methamphetamine in his cargo pants pocket.  Bayt was arrested and booked into Pinal County Jail on suspicion of shoplifting, dangerous drug possession and drug paraphernalia possession.  The post Facial tattoos helped Walmart employee identify alleged shoplifter: Police appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf0a9d75342cf4db87b4e3 New Jersey mom charged with obstruction after 'missing' son found hiding in her crawl space te 2026-09-19T22:20:13.071Z New Jersey mom charged with obstruction after 'missing' son found hiding in her crawl space A New Jersey woman was charged with obstruction this week after her missing son was found hiding in a crawl space in her home, authorities confirmed. After the 17-year-old boy’s father reported that his son wasn’t at his scheduled drop-off on Tuesday evening, his mother, Jennifer Buckley, reportedly told police the boy wasn’t at her house and she couldn’t find him. She also reportedly said that the boy didn’t want to go to his father’s home and expressed concern that he might be a danger to himself. MISSING TEEN FOUND HIDING IN CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER'S CLOSET IN FLORIDA, SHERIFF SAYS "The East Brunswick Police Department initiated an extensive effort to locate the juvenile," the department said. "Patrol officers and other department personnel devoted significant resources to the search, while detectives conducted a follow-up investigation in the days that followed." The investigation, which included putting the teen’s information into the National Crime Information Center, uncovered a number of discrepancies in Buckley’s story. FLORIDA-LED OPERATION RESCUES 163 CHILDREN AROUND GLOBE IN HISTORIC STATE SWEEP, HUNTS SUSPECTED PREDATORS When police finally did a search of her home, the boy was found hiding in a crawl space in the basement, and officers determined he had been there the whole time and she helped conceal him. There is no evidence he was harmed in any way. BABYSITTER ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING TWO YOUNG SISTERS WAS PREVIOUSLY CHARGED WITH ABDUCTING NEWBORN She was arrested and charged with obstructing the administration of law. "Whenever a juvenile is reported missing, particularly when there are concerns for that child's safety, our officers take the report seriously and commit the resources necessary to locate them," East Brunswick Police Chief Frank LoSacco said in a statement. "I commend the patrol officers, detectives, and other personnel who worked diligently to locate this juvenile and ensure his safety. Providing false or misleading information to law enforcement undermines those efforts and unnecessarily diverts officers and resources away from members of our community who may need immediate police assistance." Fox News Digital has reached out to the East Brunswick Police Department for more information. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf0a9b75342cf4db87b4da Flight attendants reveal 90-second 'hotel room autopsy' that could save your life te 2026-09-19T22:20:11.270Z Flight attendants reveal 90-second 'hotel room autopsy' that could save your life Before unpacking their bags, many flight attendants perform what they call a "hotel room autopsy" — a quick, six-step safety check to make sure their room is safe before settling in. The routine is popular among airline crew members who spend hundreds of nights in hotels each year, and it includes everything from checking door locks to locating emergency exits. "This is not a nervous habit," a recent post from CabinCrew24, an online resource for flight attendants and aviation professionals, said. "It comes from years of sleeping in strange rooms, in different countries, under different fire rules and different levels of hotel security." 'DO NOT PHYSICALLY RESIST': US ISSUES CHILLING ROBBERY WARNING FOR AMERICANS OVERSEAS Some of the advice even aligns with recommendations from the U.S. State Department for hotel safety, Travel + Leisure reported. First, flight attendants scan the room to make sure nobody is inside. They keep the door propped open to check and also make sure that housekeeping has finished cleaning. "I just want to familiarize myself with the space and make sure everything looks as it should," Aura Martinez, a New York-based flight attendant for 19 years, told Fox News Digital. "It doesn't need to become a 20-minute inspection." AIRBNB GUESTS CHECK INTO THEIR RENTAL TO FIND STARTLING DISCOVERY ON WALL Then, they inspect common hiding spots including the bathroom, shower, bathtub, closets and behind the curtains. Next, frequent travelers locate the nearest emergency exit. They also review the evacuation map posted on the back of the hotel room door in case of a fire or other emergency. "In an actual emergency, that's not when you want to be figuring out the floor plan for the first time," Brian Rooney, Texas-based travel advisor and founder of GetCruiseInfo.com, told Fox News Digital. VACATION PARADISE UNDER ATTACK AS OFFICIALS SUSPECT ARSONISTS MAY BE BEHIND INFERNO Martinez recommends taking it a step further. "Know whether you turn left or right when you leave your room, approximately how far the stairwell is and, if possible, how many doors you would pass before reaching it," she said. Flight attendants also check the locks to make sure the doors, deadbolt, security latch and windows lock properly. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER They also advise making sure the room phone is working so that they can reach the front desk or emergency services in case their cellphone isn't working. "If someone unexpectedly comes to the door claiming to be hotel staff, call the front desk and verify before opening it," Rooney added. Martinez agreed, adding, "You can be courteous and still be cautious." CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Finally, experts recommend placing a portable door alarm or door wedge at the base of the door so you know if someone is trying to enter. "A portable door alarm or wedge can provide an additional layer of reassurance, particularly for a solo traveler, but it shouldn't replace checking that the hotel's own locks work correctly," Rooney said. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Martinez also said a small flashlight is an "incredibly underrated" item to pack for your travels. The goal is to be aware of your surroundings — not to be scared out of traveling, Rooney added. "A minute or two spent checking the room, the lock and the emergency exit lets you get on with enjoying the trip." Martinez agreed, saying, "The purpose is to be prepared, not frightened." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf084175342cf4db87b493 Pro-Palestinian protesters target Ed Sheeran’s Philadelphia concert after Macklemore removed from tour te 2026-09-19T22:10:09.508Z Pro-Palestinian protesters target Ed Sheeran’s Philadelphia concert after Macklemore removed from tour Ed Sheeran fans were met with backlash Saturday in Philadelphia, ahead of his return to the stage following the dramatic fallout of his entire slate of opening acts. Pro-Palestinian protesters descended upon Lincoln Financial Field waving Palestinian flags and chanting "Free Palestine," one week after Macklemore was dropped from Sheeran's tour. Macklemore, who's full name is Ben Haggerty, was kicked off Sheeran's Loop Tour following criticism from his "Free Palestine" messaging during his opening act at MetLife Stadium last weekend. TAYLOR SWIFT QUIET AS FRIEND ED SHEERAN TAKES HEAT OVER MACKLEMORE'S 'FREE PALESTINE' CONCERT FIASCO GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Ed Sheeran addressed Macklemore’s removal from his U.S. tour Tuesday, saying the rapper’s departure was ultimately a decision made by the concert promoter and venues — not by him. The "Shape of You" singer said he was "appalled" by the conflict between Israel and Palestine and described the suffering on both sides as "a human tragedy," according to a lengthy statement shared on Instagram after Macklemore accused Sheeran and tour organizers of sidelining him over his pro-Palestinian remarks. MACKLEMORE'S LONG HISTORY OF CONTROVERSY FROM GRAMMY WINS TO ‘FREE PALESTINE’ CONCERT REMARKS On Monday, Macklemore claimed that Sheeran told him Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium, had rallied other stadium owners to oppose allowing the rapper to perform. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS On Monday, Macklemore claimed that Sheeran told him Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium, had rallied other stadium owners to oppose allowing the rapper to perform. The venues allegedly gave Sheeran an ultimatum: "If Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf084075342cf4db87b48a ESPN reporter claims she 'made it out alive' after vintage Bill Belichick sideline interview te 2026-09-19T22:10:08.672Z ESPN reporter claims she 'made it out alive' after vintage Bill Belichick sideline interview NFL fans and reporters alike know what it's like to be trapped in the vortex that is a Bill Belichick sideline interview. The normally surly Super Bowl winning head coach has been known to chew up and spit out even the most veteran of sideline reporters, even while his team is eviscerating the competition. It didn't matter if his Patriots were up by 100 or down by 50, The Hoodie was a man of few words whenever a microphone was shoved in his face. BILL BELICHICK FINALLY PROVIDES UNC WITH A PULSE, BUT NOW HE HAS TO EARN THAT $10 MILLION PAYCHECK It's nice to see not much has changed in that regard, as Chapel Bill has made his way to the college ranks with his same trademark snark in tow. Today's unlucky contestant in the "Bill Belichick Sideline Interview Sweepstakes" is none other than Stormy Buonantony, who was tasked with asking the Tar Heels head coach all the banal football questions he hates to answer. The whole exchange lasted less than 20 seconds, so see if you have the attention span to sit through this back and forth. As Buonantony's broadcast partner, Bob Wischusen, put it, "welcome to the club, Stormy." Man, that Belichick guy sure has a way with words, doesn't he? THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Louis Riddick, who played for Belichick during his days in the NFL, said that his former coach was "locked in," and that he's seen that side of him before. Yeah, so have a bunch of traumatized sideline reporters. To her credit, Buonantony rolled with the punches and laughed it off with her colleagues after the fact. "I'm fine," she revealed. "I made it out alive, guys." If Stormy needs a support group, though, I'm sure there are a few dozen beat writers in the greater New England area that would love to offer up some words of encouragement. Thank you for your service this afternoon, Stormy. You've certainly earned your paycheck today. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf05e675342cf4db87b42f News Outlets Express Solidarity After Trump Bars Some Reporters te 2026-09-19T22:00:06.544Z News Outlets Express Solidarity After Trump Bars Some Reporters Some Democrats said President Trump’s ban was an attempt to control the press and distract voters as Republicans face deep challenges in the midterm elections. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf05e575342cf4db87b423 Flagstaff and northern Arizona area make for happy mushroom hunters te 2026-09-19T22:00:05.346Z Flagstaff and northern Arizona area make for happy mushroom hunters Arizona Mushroom Society provides yearlong education and events, such as forays, dinners and lectures. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf039075342cf4db87b3e0 Popular honeymoon destination declares national emergency over massive HIV surge te 2026-09-19T21:50:08.641Z Popular honeymoon destination declares national emergency over massive HIV surge Fiji has officially declared a national HIV emergency on its shores after alarming data revealed that one in 60 adults in the South Pacific island nation is currently living with the virus. The Fijian government is urgently expanding testing and treatment to combat a massive surge in new infections, which the United Nations program UNAIDS notes has increased 12-fold over the past 15 years, according to The Associated Press (AP). Highlighting the rapid acceleration of the crisis, Fiji recorded more than 2,000 new cases in 2025 alone, representing a staggering 16-fold increase compared to 2019, The New York Times reported. HIV EPIDEMIC EXPLODES IN POPULAR HONEYMOON DESTINATION AS CRYSTAL METH USE SURGES The scope of the epidemic is vast for a nation of fewer than one million people. UNAIDS estimates that some 9,000 people were living with HIV in Fiji as of 2025. Just five years ago, the infection rate was one in 167 adults, but it has since climbed to one in 60, with one in 50 pregnant women now infected, the AP said. The human toll is already mounting. Fifty-nine infants were born in 2025 with the virus, as the AP and Reuters reported — and 18 died before their first birthday. Health officials have pointed to a growing epidemic of injected drug use as the primary catalyst. As island nations increasingly serve as transit hubs for illicit drugs moving toward Australia and New Zealand, local markets for substances like methamphetamine have flourished. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER The emergency stems from a sharp rise in high-risk methamphetamine use, with widespread needle sharing among drug users acting as a primary driver for the surging infection rates, the AP reported. Antonio Lalabalavu, Fiji's health minister, announced that the situation, previously labeled an outbreak in January 2025, now requires a comprehensive, whole-of-government response. Lalabalavu emphasized that the approach is focused on protecting people rather than judging, watching or shaming them. The government is expanding free testing, providing clean needles for drug users, and offering free antiretroviral treatments, addressing a critical gap given that currently only 39% of patients know their status and a mere 22% are receiving care. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS The international community is raising alarms over the speed of the transmission. Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS executive director, said the situation in Fiji is one of the sharpest increases in new HIV infections globally — serving as a stark reminder that the AIDS epidemic is not over, AP and Reuters reported. Regional health directors also warned that because Fiji operates as a major transport and tourism hub, the crisis could easily spread to other South Pacific nations if swift, stigma-reducing action is not taken by government, community and religious leaders. In December, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a rapid assessment detecting unsafe injecting practices. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ These practices can put people who inject drugs in Fiji at an increased risk of HIV transmission. The "Bluetooth trend" has impacted the spread — with individuals injecting the blood of an already intoxicated person to achieve a high when they cannot afford their own drugs. There were 1,583 new HIV cases reported in 2024, while 1,226 cases were indicated in the first six months of 2025, according to the assessment. The most popular drug was crystal methamphetamine, with the assessment finding that 50% of interview participants injected themselves with a potentially contaminated syringe. At the time, Munkhtuya Altangerel, U.N. Development Program representative, said the findings of the assessments were a wake-up call. "Fiji’s HIV epidemic is not just a health issue — it is a development and human rights challenge that threatens lives, communities and progress," said Altangerel in a release. "We must act decisively and urgently to scale up harm reduction, expand access to HIV testing and treatment, and ensure that no one is left behind." Ashley J. DiMella of Fox News Digital, as well as The Associated Press and Reuters, contributed reporting. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaf013a75342cf4db87b3aa ICE agents arrest 2 in Sedona te 2026-09-19T21:40:10.537Z ICE agents arrest 2 in Sedona At 8:44 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, the Sedona Police Department was notified that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the city to arrest two people in West Sedona, city spokeswoman Julie Graham said. The men, ages 44 and 52, live and work in Sedona. ICE agents took both men into cu Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaefc8975342cf4db87b2cf NORAD F-16 intercepts aircraft that violated restricted airspace over Camp David with Trump present: officials te 2026-09-19T21:20:09.748Z NORAD F-16 intercepts aircraft that violated restricted airspace over Camp David with Trump present: officials A NORAD F-16 fighter jet intercepted an aircraft that violated restricted airspace over the area of Camp David Saturday morning while President Donald Trump is spending the weekend there, according to officials. There is a permanent no-fly zone over Camp David in Maryland, with additional restrictions when the president is there. NORAD dispensed flares during the intercept to get the pilot’s attention, and were able to safely escort them out of the area, the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) said in a release. NORAD F-16S INTERCEPT MULTIPLE AIRCRAFT VIOLATING TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS OVER NEW JERSEY "Should NORAD aircraft intercept a general aviation aircraft, the pilot should immediately come up on frequency 121.5 or 243.0 and turn around to reverse course until receiving additional instructions on one of those frequencies," the release said. NORAD F-16S INTERCEPT MULTIPLE AIRCRAFT VIOLATING FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS OVER NEW JERSEY Turmp left for Camp David on Friday evening. "Pilots! @NORADCommand fighter aircraft intercepted an aircraft violating restricted airspace over Thurmont, MD, resulting in flares being deployed," the First Air Force, part of NORAD, wrote on X on Saturday. "Make sure to check NOTAMs before takeoff to ensure you have current information about TFRs in your area. Stay Safe, Fly Informed!" A plane was last intercepted over Camp David in June when Trump was staying there. That pilot was also safely escorted away. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaefc8975342cf4db87b2c6 Rams coach Sean McVay's '60 Minutes' interview reveals why you shouldn't find your identity in your job te 2026-09-19T21:20:09.031Z Rams coach Sean McVay's '60 Minutes' interview reveals why you shouldn't find your identity in your job Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay is a football mastermind, Coach of the Year award winner, and a Super Bowl Champion. He's reached the mountain top in the NFL, but his comments on a recent "60 Minutes" episode revealed how those accolades and finding his identity in the pursuit of winning, ultimately left him empty. While sitting down with L. Jon Wertheim, McVay opened up about insecurities and a lack of fulfillment, which almost led to him walking away from coaching to pursue a career in broadcasting. "The lies I told myself were ‘Once we win a Super Bowl, I’ll be happy’," McVay said. "My identity was so tied up into winning or losing games, and that’s where I felt my self worth lied." Hearing this I couldn't help but think about Tom Brady's "60 Minutes" interview, which echoed these same sentiments by McVay about a lack of fulfillment in winning awards, Super Bowls and other accolades. BILL BELICHICK CONFIRMS FEUD WITH TOM BRADY WAS FICTION, PRAISES HIS QUARTERBACK'S LEADERSHIP FROM DAY ONE Even after winning three Super Bowls by the age of 27, Tom Brady admitted that the championships didn’t provide the lasting fulfillment he expected. In a 2005 interview with "60 Minutes," Brady was asked what he still wanted after accomplishing so much at such a young age. His response was sobering: "There’s got to be more than this." Brady explained that despite reaching the pinnacle of professional football success, he was still searching for something deeper. Twenty years later in a newsletter, Brady reflected on that statement saying that there is "more to life than playing football and winning championships." CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! McVay later explained, "I was ready to run away from coaching and hide behind a convenient narrative of some media opportunities." But then his wife told him: "That never sounded like the kind of leader you wanted to be." SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER When I hear stories like this, I'm reminded of all the times I've found my worth in what I do, as if that is who I am. My job is not my identity, neither is it for McVay. Our successes are not what define us. For those of a competitive nature, success is never enough. There's always something bigger and better. There's always another championship to win, more money to make, and more followers to gain. If that's what you think will provide you the hope, peace, value, and fulfillment we're all searching for, it will leave you feeling empty. It's fleeting, ultimately. Pursuing excellence in your job is not a bad thing, as long as it is not made into an idol because you consider it the source of your worth and happiness. It will fail you every time. This is why I personally believe that putting your identity in anything other than Jesus Christ may provide satisfaction for the short term, but it will not satisfy you eternally. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaefa3075342cf4db87b27d NORAD F-16 intercepts aircraft that violated restricted airspace over Camp David with Trump present te 2026-09-19T21:10:08.772Z NORAD F-16 intercepts aircraft that violated restricted airspace over Camp David with Trump present A NORAD F-16 fighter jet intercepted an aircraft that violated restricted airspace over the area of Camp David Saturday morning while President Donald Trump is spending the weekend there, according to officials. There is a permanent no-fly zone over Camp David in Maryland, with additional restrictions when the president is there. NORAD dispensed flares during the intercept to get the pilot’s attention, and were able to safely escort them out of the area, the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) said in a release. NORAD F-16S INTERCEPT MULTIPLE AIRCRAFT VIOLATING TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS OVER NEW JERSEY "Should NORAD aircraft intercept a general aviation aircraft, the pilot should immediately come up on frequency 121.5 or 243.0 and turn around to reverse course until receiving additional instructions on one of those frequencies," the release said. NORAD F-16S INTERCEPT MULTIPLE AIRCRAFT VIOLATING FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS OVER NEW JERSEY Turmp left for Camp David on Friday evening. "Pilots! @NORADCommand fighter aircraft intercepted an aircraft violating restricted airspace over Thurmont, MD, resulting in flares being deployed," the First Air Force, part of NORAD, wrote on X on Saturday. "Make sure to check NOTAMs before takeoff to ensure you have current information about TFRs in your area. Stay Safe, Fly Informed!" A plane was last intercepted over Camp David in June when Trump was staying there. That pilot was also safely escorted away. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaef32a75342cf4db87b192 Hasan Piker says he’d ‘absolutely’ campaign for AOC in 2028 as El-Sayed distances himself te 2026-09-19T20:40:10.178Z Hasan Piker says he’d ‘absolutely’ campaign for AOC in 2028 as El-Sayed distances himself Twitch streamer Hasan Piker said he would "absolutely" campaign for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., if she runs for president in 2028, as some Democratic politicians distance themselves from the streamer over his past remarks. Appearing on an episode of "The Axios Show," taped in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Piker revealed his interest in working as a campaign surrogate for Ocasio-Cortez. "What goes on behind the scenes in the Democratic Party and what gets talked about is entirely different, I think in many respects," Piker said. Asked point-blank if he would campaign for Ocasio-Cortez in 2028, Piker said, "Oh, absolutely, yes."  HASAN PIKER MAKES AOC HIS 2028 PICK FOR PRESIDENT, SAYS IT'S 'NOT EVEN A QUESTION’ The controversial streamer revealed he has also been in touch with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, along with "politicians that you would not expect, that are not immediately seen as allies to Democratic socialists." Piker's comments come as some Democratic politicians have begun distancing themselves from him following controversial remarks — including Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in Michigan. ABDUL EL-SAYED DISMISSES QUESTIONS ABOUT HASAN PIKER TIES ON 'FACE THE NATION,' PIVOTS TO GROCERIES When asked if Piker had been invited to campaign for El-Sayed, he said that he had not been asked to stay away from — or come to — Michigan. "If my services are needed, I’ll go wherever," Piker said. HASAN PIKER INSISTS ABDUL EL-SAYED ASKED HIM TO 'STUMP' FOR MICHIGAN CAMPAIGN AMID BACKLASH He added that if El-Sayed were to call on him to campaign this close to the upcoming midterms, "there’d be real deep problems." "My job isn’t to get 65-plus-year-olds out to vote for the Democratic candidate," Piker continued. "My job is to get under 45-year-old, college-educated, and non-college-educated men to come out and participate." LIZ PEEK: HASAN PIKER EXPOSES DEMOCRATS' DESPERATION TO WIN BACK YOUNG MEN Piker's comments during the Axios interview drew a public rebuke from El-Sayed after interviewer Alex Thompson recalled Piker's previous statement that "America is the top dog in terrorism." "Do you think America, then, is worse than al Qaeda?" Thompson asked. RADICAL EL-SAYED ALLY DOUBLES DOWN ON ANTI-AMERICAN RHETORIC WITH STUNNING TERRORIST COMPARISON "Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes," Piker replied. "We have caused tremendous terror all around the world." "I think that that is not only terror that we are waging on regular civilians, and nations in the periphery, but it's also having consequences on ourselves," the Twitch streamer continued. "It's having dramatic consequences on the home front." RASKIN CALLS PIKER’S RHETORIC 'IRRELEVANT DISTRACTION' AFTER THE STREAMER SAID HE'D VOTE FOR HAMAS OVER ISRAEL "One clear example of this is what we did in Minab [Iran]," Piker said, referring to a strike on a school earlier this year. A United Nations fact-finding mission said it found "reasonable grounds to believe" the U.S. carried out the strike and that the attack amounted to the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack. "There's no distinction between blowing up a school, triple-tapping it with Tomahawk missiles. If you're killing 140 schoolgirls, that is an act of terror." WATCH: Hasan Piker says he would campaign for AOC if she runs for president Piker finished his thought by conceding that not all Americans are terrorists, but emphasized the need for an "environment of accountability." ABDUL EL-SAYED PLAYS DOWN HASAN PIKER TIES AFTER STREAMER’S VIRAL ANTISEMITISM FIRESTORM The Twitch streamer’s inflammatory stance was quickly denounced by El-Sayed’s campaign, which condemned the views in a statement to Axios and Fox News Digital. "I do not agree with this statement [on al-Qaeda], nor do I give much weight to the statements made by a social media streamer," the campaign told the outlet. "I am more concerned with the dangerous policies of Donald Trump and Mike Rogers that are raising the prices of gas, groceries and healthcare for Michiganders." FAR-LEFT STREAMER HASAN PIKER CALLED OUT BY MS NOW HOSTS IN FIERY EXCHANGE OVER HIM BEING A DRAG FOR DEMOCRATS Piker’s apparent scramble to align himself with high-profile Democrats ahead of the midterm elections was noted by Kaivan Shroff, a media commentator and former digital organizer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. "The central tension with Hasan is that he wants his electoral influence taken seriously, but he also wants to operate like a streamer with no responsibility for what his comments create for the candidates he supports," Shroff told Fox News Digital. "You can’t claim credit for helping politicians win and then treat the consequences of your own rhetoric as their problem." CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Shroff said that Piker’s comments regarding Ocasio-Cortez are "a perfect example," adding that, "saying publicly that you’re talking to her and her team turns that relationship into a political story whether they wanted one or not. If the goal is to help a candidate, sometimes the most useful thing you can do is not make yourself the story." He also pointed to the conflicting priorities between Piker and El-Sayed, which may be a factor in the division between the two far-left Democrats. "El-Sayed has every reason to make clear that Hasan does not speak for his campaign, and Hasan criticizing him for creating that distance exposes the conflicting incentives here," Shroff said. "A candidate has to answer to voters…a streamer has to keep an audience engaged. If Hasan really wants to help the candidates he supports, an easier solution would be to stop handing them inflammatory comments they then have to explain and go away for a while." Fox News Digital reached out to Piker and representatives for Ocasio-Cortez for comment. Fox News Digital’s Peter D’Abrosca contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaef32975342cf4db87b189 Arkansas campus resembles a ghost town as no one shows up to watch Razorbacks get beaten down by Georgia te 2026-09-19T20:40:09.386Z Arkansas campus resembles a ghost town as no one shows up to watch Razorbacks get beaten down by Georgia There's a saying that "it just means more" in the SEC, and while that may be true at most schools, Arkansas isn't one of them. The team has only had four winning seasons in the past decade, never once eclipsing the ten-win threshold, and it doesn't look like things are getting better in The Natural State anytime soon. The Razorbacks are fresh off a beatdown at the hands of the Utah Utes, and after returning from Salt Lake City to play the Georgia Bulldogs, you would assume the fanbase would be there to support their team and watch a conference game at home. USC FOOTBALL RIPPED FOR PATHETIC CROWD AT HOME OPENER: 'ABSOLUTELY EMBARRASSING' Apparently, that wasn't the case, as Fayetteville and, more specifically, the University of Arkansas campus looked like a ghost town all Saturday morning. This is an SEC school on gameday? I've seen busier streets in a zombie apocalypse movie. But hey, maybe everyone is just really excited for the start of the game and wanted to get to their seats before kickoff. I'm sure that's it, right? Good Lord, that's brutal! We are three games into the Ryan Silverfield era at Arkansas, and it looks like the fans have already had enough. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! It takes time to get your players in the building and get everyone to buy in, and Silverfield is basically starting from scratch, but Hogs fans don't seem to care one way or another. It doesn't look like they missed much either, as the Bulldogs predictably dragged the Razorbacks up and down their home turf for four quarters en route to a 45-17 drubbing. The Woo, Pig Sooie faithful absolutely saw this one coming and apparently wanted no part of it. Can you blame them, either? Arky fans have had to endure a lot of crap these past several years, and until things improve on the field, this might be the new norm at the house that Donald W. Reynolds built. Darren McFadden and Felix Jones ain't walking through that door anytime soon, so it might be another long autumn in northwest Arkansas. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaef32175342cf4db87b151 Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts te 2026-09-19T20:40:01.620Z Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaef0cd75342cf4db87b0f4 Judy Gumbo, Who Found Freedom as a Yippie, Dies at 83 te 2026-09-19T20:30:05.667Z Judy Gumbo, Who Found Freedom as a Yippie, Dies at 83 She was part of the leftist radical group, which mocked institutional authority with political satire and street theater. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeee7b75342cf4db87b0bf Wendy's revives nostalgic yellow packaging after it spent decades away te 2026-09-19T20:20:11.629Z Wendy's revives nostalgic yellow packaging after it spent decades away Eating at Wendy's in the coming weeks will offer a new experience that may look familiar to customers who grew up with the fast-food chain. A company spokesperson told TODAY.com that Wendy's is bringing back the iconic yellow packaging that appeared on its fry cartons, cups, wrappers and other items for decades. RED LOBSTER'S 37-YEAR-OLD CEO BETTING ON NOSTALGIA, AI TO FUEL CHAIN'S COMEBACK AFTER BANKRUPTCY "Fans have been asking for its return for years, making it one of the most requested comebacks in Wendy's history," the spokesperson said in the statement. "Yellow has been part of Wendy's since the very beginning and is something many fans instantly recognize." Wendy's will begin rolling out yellow packaging for its Frostys, nuggets, burgers and fries on Sept. 28, with the throwback look continuing into 2027, USA Today reported. Dave Thomas opened the first Wendy's restaurant in Columbus, Ohio in 1969. Yellow became a recognizable part of the chain's look, though Wendy's branding changed over the years to feature red and white more prominently. "Like any brand, Wendy's has refreshed its look and feel over time, and our packaging evolved along with it," Wendy's chief marketing and customer growth officer Tariq Hassan told USA Today. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Yet customers apparently missed the yellow. "Fans asked. Constantly," Hassan said. "It's one of the most requested things we've ever had come back." Social-media users have been expressing nostalgia for Wendy's vintage-style packaging for years. "I miss the old Wendy's," a Facebook user captioned photos of Wendy's food in yellow packaging in 2025, adding, "The yellow packaging had powers I think." "They should do a throwback limited-time deal and bring the yellow back!" someone commented. "Throwback, when all the Wendy's had the yellow packaging, you just had to be there to remember," another Facebook user captioned a photo collage posted in February showing a 1990s-era Wendy's restaurant, complete with its recognizable sunroom, along with food in yellow packaging. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Reddit discussions about the return of Wendy's old-school look have also drawn dozens of comments, with some users calling for the chain to revive other elements they remember from the 1980s and '90s, including its salad bars and older-style fries. Wendy's nostalgic packaging is part of a broader trend of major restaurant chains revisiting elements of their past. More than 150 Pizza Hut locations, for instance, feature old-school dining rooms with red cups, salad bars, checkerboard tables and Tiffany-style stained-glass lamps reminiscent of the chain's restaurants in the 1980s and '90s. Known as "Pizza Hut Classic" restaurants, the locations also feature promotional materials for BOOK IT!, the reading incentive program Pizza Hut launched in 1984 and continues to operate today. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS People drive from as far as three hours away to eat at Pizza Hut Classic restaurants, a franchise owner previously told Fox News Digital. Taco Bell has similarly tapped into nostalgia through its "Decades" campaigns, bringing back fan-favorite menu items from different eras while rolling out retro-inspired merchandise, commemorative cups and other throwback experiences. The chain's latest Decades menu, launched in August, revived several items associated with 2016, including the Naked Chicken Chalupa, Meximelt, Beefy Crunch Burrito and Caramel Apple Empanada for a limited time. McDonald's has also returned past favorites to its menu. Spicy Chicken McNuggets and Mighty Hot Sauce are currently back at participating restaurants for a limited time. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeee7a75342cf4db87b0b6 Trump announces new 'AI Force,' vows to protect industry as AI czar announcement nears te 2026-09-19T20:20:10.929Z Trump announces new 'AI Force,' vows to protect industry as AI czar announcement nears President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he is creating an "AI Force" and plans to name an artificial intelligence czar as his administration pushes to accelerate the growth of AI in the U.S. Trump said in a lengthy Truth Social post that his administration would resist efforts to restrict the rapidly developing technology while using the existing criminal and civil justice systems to address potential wrongdoing. "We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry," the post read. "Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!" GOP LAWMAKERS SMELL SOMETHING ELSE BEHIND BIG TECH'S AI DOOMSDAY WARNINGS: 'SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON' Trump added that the government would also be "looking for BAD" and said existing criminal and civil laws could be used to address problems involving the technology. "For this purpose, I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term," the president's post continued. "To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI ‘Czar’ — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!" Trump did not provide details about the structure, authority or membership of the proposed AI Force, or identify potential candidates to serve as its czar. POWERFUL COLD WAR-ERA TOOL TRUMP COULD USE IN AN AI EMERGENCY IS SET TO EXPIRE IN DECEMBER Trump's announcement comes as lawmakers grapple with whether and how to regulate the rapidly developing technology. Some Republicans have questioned calls for additional government oversight, while others have pushed for safeguards after AI industry leaders raised concerns about increasingly capable models. Earlier this week, Trump joined the debate by rejecting calls for additional government regulation of the industry, arguing that restrictions could hinder the U.S. in its competition with China. In Saturday’s post, Trump compared criticism of AI and data centers to several other political controversies and argued that opposition to data-center construction had largely failed. RAND PAUL CLASHES WITH FELLOW REPUBLICAN OVER AI 'KILL SWITCH' AS SENATE GRAPPLES WITH 'TERMINATOR' FEARS Trump also predicted that AI could eventually account for as much as 25% of U.S. gross domestic product, though he did not cite a source for the estimate. "AI is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country’s GDP," he wrote. "We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!" In a separate Truth Social post, Trump asked people to choose within the post on what to call AI. "Many people think that the words "Artificial Intelligence" are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI)," he wrote. "This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing "Revolution?" President DONALD J. TRUMP" Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeee7a75342cf4db87b0ad SPAM's newest flavor embraces buzzy trend but divides fans: 'Absolutely NOT' te 2026-09-19T20:20:10.250Z SPAM's newest flavor embraces buzzy trend but divides fans: 'Absolutely NOT' The hot honey craze has officially reached one of America's most recognizable — and polarizing — canned meats. Hormel Foods this week unveiled SPAM Hot Honey, the first permanent addition to the brand's lineup in two years. "The launch taps into one of today's fastest-growing flavor trends," the company told Fox News Digital, saying the sweet-and-spicy combination brings "fresh excitement" to the nearly 90-year-old brand. MCDONALD'S BRINGS BACK POPULAR ITEM FOR SHORT TIME AS ONE STATE GETS A TREAT "SPAM Hot Honey Flavored reflects the SPAM brand's ongoing commitment to flavor innovation," the company added. "Whether someone prefers sweet, spicy or savory flavor profiles, this variety delivers the best of both worlds with a balance of sweetness and heat." SPAM Hot Honey is now at select grocery retailers nationwide, joining the brand's lineup of more than 10 flavors. To celebrate the launch, Hormel partnered with New York City's Win Son Bakery, where customers can try two limited-time menu items through Sept. 20 at its Brooklyn and Manhattan locations: a breakfast sandwich and a fan tuan, a traditional Taiwanese sticky rice roll, according to a press release. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Some fans said they were excited to try the new flavor. "I'd give it a shot," one person said on Facebook. "I try every new SPAM that comes out," added another. But not everyone is convinced. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES "I'm still a fan of just the original flavor," one SPAM purist said on Facebook, adding, "Sweet and Spicy may taste good fried, but I will have to pass." Another commenter exclaimed, "Absolutely NOT in any flavor!" TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "So tired of this hot honey trend everywhere," one Reddit user said. The SPAM launch is the latest example of hot honey spreading across grocery shelves and restaurant menus. In recent years, chains and brands have rolled out hot honey menu items, sauces, potato chips and bacon, as companies recognize a growing appetite for "swicy" — sweet and spicy — flavors. Introduced by Hormel in 1937, SPAM gained popularity during World War II, when more than 100 million pounds were shipped to feed Allied troops. Today, the canned meat has sold more than 9 billion cans worldwide and remains especially popular in Hawaii and parts of Asia, Fox News Digital previously reported. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeee7475342cf4db87b091 Built for the next play: Case Cookus enters NAU Athletics Hall of Fame te 2026-09-19T20:20:04.334Z Built for the next play: Case Cookus enters NAU Athletics Hall of Fame Case Cookus was officially enshrined in the NAU Athletics Hall of Fame last weekend, putting a bow on an outstanding Lumberjack career that came out of nowhere. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeec2175342cf4db87b057 Clay Aiken 'died inside' after Rosie O'Donnell outed him on 'The View' in 2006 te 2026-09-19T20:10:09.252Z Clay Aiken 'died inside' after Rosie O'Donnell outed him on 'The View' in 2006 Clay Aiken is reflecting on a difficult moment in his life. During a recent appearance on Page Six Radio, the 47-year-old singer opened up about being outed by Rosie O'Donnell during an episode of "The View" in November 2006 during an on-air discussion with Kelly Ripa. "I died inside a lot that week," he said. "I got woken up by my son's mother who said, 'Um, you need to wake up because Rosie just outed you on 'The View.' I woke up. I was freaked out." O'Donnell's confrontation with Ripa came shortly after Aiken playfully put his hand over Ripa's mouth while he was co-hosting "Live with Regis and Kelly." Ripa didn't find the joke funny, and after removing his hand from her mouth said, "I don’t know where that hand’s been, honey." CLAY AIKEN SAYS KELLY RIPA FEUD SPARKED THE 'MOST CATASTROPHIC' WEEK OF HIS LIFE When discussing the incident on "The View" a few days later, O'Donnell called the comment "homophobic" while defending Aiken, telling Ripa, "from where I sit as a gay person in the world, I have to tell you, that's how it came off to me." "I was in L.A. when that aired, and I don't have any ill feelings against Rosie, she did mean well," he said. "Her words were, I think, chosen in the heat of like, 'why the hell is this girl on live TV with me right now?'" At the time, Ripa defended herself from O'Donnell, saying her comment was made because "he's shaking hands with everybody in the audience" during cold and flu season, saying it was "outrageous" to imply she was being "homophobic." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Aiken later referenced the awkward on-air moment when presenting at the VMA Awards with Tori Spelling a few weeks later, calling her "very gracious" in "trying to diffuse the whole situation." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS While O'Donnell mistakenly outed the "Invisible" singer while defending him, Aiken didn't publicly confirm his sexuality until September 2008, when he posed for the cover of People with his newborn son with the headline, "Yes, I'm Gay." "It was the first decision I made as a father," Aiken told the outlet at the time. "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn’t raised that way, and I’m not going to raise a child to do that." His son was born via invitro fertilization with his close friend and music producer, Jaymes Foster. Aiken made a name for himself when he competed on season two of "American Idol" in 2003. He finished in second place as the runner-up to Ruben Studdard. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "Nobody thought that anybody was going to ... Even Kelly [Clarkson] had not had anything happen for her yet, right? Her album had not even come out when we auditioned," he told People in July. "So none of us realized that the stakes were there." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaee9c275342cf4db87afc3 Trump suggests rebranding AI with a new name, says he’s also creating an AI Force te 2026-09-19T20:00:02.650Z Trump suggests rebranding AI with a new name, says he’s also creating an AI Force Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaee51775342cf4db87af2c 'Freedom Bridge' may become official name for Havasu's second bridge te 2026-09-19T19:40:07.779Z 'Freedom Bridge' may become official name for Havasu's second bridge Lake Havasu City's second bridge is set to officially receive a name on Tuesday evening. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaee51675342cf4db87af23 Arizona Supreme Court strengthens public records protections te 2026-09-19T19:40:06.907Z Arizona Supreme Court strengthens public records protections PHOENIX -- Government entities that destroy a public record that they know has been requested violate state law and can be held liable -- and even forced to pay the challenger's legal fees -- the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaee51575342cf4db87af1a Fire rekindles at Lake Havasu City home hours after crews leave te 2026-09-19T19:40:05.938Z Fire rekindles at Lake Havasu City home hours after crews leave A fire tore through a Lake Havasu City home Thursday afternoon, then rekindled early Friday with flames burning through the roof, according to the Lake Havasu City Fire Department. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaee2c675342cf4db87aec7 Sharon Stone claims ex-husband signed her up for brain surgery without her consent after stroke te 2026-09-19T19:30:14.267Z Sharon Stone claims ex-husband signed her up for brain surgery without her consent after stroke Sharon Stone is opening up about a traumatic time in her life. During a recent appearance on the "Mayim Bialik's Breakdown" podcast, the 68-year-old actress recalled the moment she woke up on a gurney to find she was on her way to get exploratory brain surgery, which her husband at the time, Phil Bronstein, allegedly signed her up for, but she never consented to. The incident occurred in 2001, after she found herself in the neurological intensive care unit following a subarachnoid hemorrhage and stroke which caused her to go in and out of consciousness. "First I woke up, and I was being wheeled to exploratory brain surgery," she said. "He had signed me up for exploratory brain surgery without my knowledge or consent. And I woke up again because the gurney hit something on the floor." 'GAME OF THRONES' STAR EMILIA CLARKE WAS CONVINCED SHE 'CHEATED DEATH' AFTER SURVIVING TWO BRAIN ANEURYSMS Stone recalled the doctor continuing to wheel her to surgery despite the fact that she didn't consent to or want it. She explained he told her, "Don't worry. It's all been taken care of." "So I stood up on the gurney with my hospital gown open, my a-- in the breeze, and suddenly everyone came running – nurses, orderlies, everybody," she said. "And this a--hole doctor, and he had a fax in his hand and he was screaming, 'You can't do that. I'm on the phone with People magazine.'" She continued arguing with the doctor and telling him she never signed off on that, to which the doctor replied, "Yes, you did. I said you did. And I'm on the phone with People magazine," implying he has told them she is in surgery. After telling her he had the right to speak with the magazine because he was her doctor, Stone said she fired him. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "He said, 'You can't do that,' and this head nurse who saved my life, this like 50-year-old head nurse, beautiful blonde woman, came out, and she said, 'Well, she just did, sir. She just did,'" Stone said. "And she said, 'Take her back to her room.' And I wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for her." During the interview, Stone also alleged that Bronstein initially delayed taking her to the hospital and then kept telling doctors "that I was faking it." Stone has spoken about her stroke many times over the years, and went into detail about her recovery in a 2014 essay in The Hollywood Reporter. "I had a massive brain hemorrhage. So I know what the alternative to growing older is," she wrote for the outlet. "I bled in my brain for nine days. I spent two years learning to walk and talk again. I came home from that stroke stuttering, couldn’t read for two years. I was in an ICU for nine days and the survival rate for what I went through is very low. I don’t need someone to make me feel bad about growing older. I’ll tell you what makes you feel bad: when you think you might not." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Bronstein and Stone separated in July 2003, and their divorce was finalized in early 2004. SANDRA BULLOCK'S WAKE-UP CALL THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING DURING LATE PARTNER BRYAN RANDALL’S ILLNESS Their divorce was followed by a custody dispute over their son, Roan. In 2008, a San Francisco court denied Stone's attempt to alter the custody arrangement which listed Bronstein's San Francisco home as Roan's primary residence, with Stone getting visitation rights. Stone has since said she believes her role in "Basic Instinct" led to some prejudice against her in that case. "I had had a brain hemorrhage and was an actress who had made sexy movies." she told AARP in January 2012. "I would go to these [philanthropic] events where I had to get on stage. I would be in the wings, with people looking at me, my head on the floor, praying: 'God, please help me. I know I have to go out there and raise money. But I've lost my child, I've lost my health, I've lost everything.' I was just broken." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaee2bd75342cf4db87aea9 Flagstaff football comes up just short in Homecoming battle with 5A Paradise Valley te 2026-09-19T19:30:05.597Z Flagstaff football comes up just short in Homecoming battle with 5A Paradise Valley The Flagstaff Eagles put up their best performance of the season, nearly defeating a 5A school during its Homecoming game. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaede1075342cf4db87ae23 Caesars Sportsbook Promo Code FOXNEWSDYW: Double Your Winnings on 10x Bets Ahead of UFC 331 te 2026-09-19T19:10:08.715Z Caesars Sportsbook Promo Code FOXNEWSDYW: Double Your Winnings on 10x Bets Ahead of UFC 331 The excitement is building for UFC 331, featuring an impressive slate of fights from top to bottom. 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It doesn’t matter which side of the fight you’re on, as Caesars just requires you to bet $1 on the match to receive 100% profit boost tokens using code FOXNEWSDYW.  *Odds are subject to change* Saturday, September 19, 2026 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaede0f75342cf4db87ae1a Despite sky-high prices, Las Vegas tourism is finally showing signs of a rebound te 2026-09-19T19:10:07.841Z Despite sky-high prices, Las Vegas tourism is finally showing signs of a rebound Las Vegas tourism took a hit last year, but new data suggests Sin City may be showing signs of life again. Las Vegas topped Priceline's list of U.S. destinations with the biggest year-over-year increase in searches for September, beating out Orlando and New York, the New York Post reported. The city also welcomed 2.7% more visitors in July compared with the same month last year, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). That marks a partial recovery after visitation fell 12% in July 2025. LAS VEGAS PRICES SQUEEZE EVERYDAY TRAVELERS AS POPULAR CITY EMBRACES EXPENSIVE MAKEOVER Hotel occupancy in July rose 1.1 percentage points year over year to 77.2%, while convention attendance fell 5.6%, according to the LVCVA. Vegas' signs of life come amid frustration from tourists over the rising cost of visiting the city. A $26 minibar bottle of water at Aria, for example, sparked social-media outrage in 2025 after a guest's complaint was published by travel blog "View from the Wing" and picked up by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It became a symbol of complaints that visitors were being nickel-and-dimed. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Las Vegas has yet to fully recover to its pre-pandemic tourism levels. In 2025, Las Vegas welcomed 38.5 million visitors, down 7.5% from 2024, according to the LVCVA. Visitor spending fell to $50.8 billion that year, down from $55.1 billion in 2024, according to a report presented to the LVCVA board. LVCVA President and CEO Steve Hill told the Nevada Economic Forum earlier this month that annual visitor volume remains about 10% below the 42.5 million visitors recorded in 2019. One major factor is the decline in Canadian travelers, historically Las Vegas' largest international market. Canadian visitation is down about 30% from 2019 levels, Hill said, while airfare to and from Las Vegas has climbed more than 20% in recent months, according to reports. "We are still gradually losing leisure travelers," Hill told the panel. "But right now our convention attendance is so strong that it is more than overcoming that number." Las Vegas visitors are also getting wealthier — and fewer of them are in their 20s. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER In 2025, 75% of visitors earned $100,000 or more, according to the LVCVA, and 44% earned $150,000 or more, News 3 Las Vegas reported. Meanwhile, visitation among tourists ages 21 to 29 has fallen more than 10% since 2022, according to the LVCVA. "Gaming was once the dominant revenue driver," luxury-travel expert Whytney Rawls previously told Fox News Digital. "Today, a much larger share comes from premium room rates, luxury dining, nightlife, entertainment, retail, and large-scale events." Vegas has evolved to capitalize on booming luxury travel by increasingly catering to wealthy clientele, Rawls added. Lavish new restaurants, upgraded hospitality packages and high-profile events such as the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix illustrate the city's push toward premium experiences. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Live entertainment remains another major draw. The Sphere grossed $379 million on 1.7 million tickets sold in 2025, making it the world's highest-grossing arena for the year, according to Pollstar data reported by The Wall Street Journal. Jessica Mekles of Fox News Digital contributed reporting. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaedbc075342cf4db87adcc Maricopa expo offers seniors, families a game plan for preventing falls te 2026-09-19T19:00:16.508Z Maricopa expo offers seniors, families a game plan for preventing falls No one plans to fall, but being prepared can make all the difference.   That’s the message behind a Fall Prevention Awareness Info/Expo being held next weekend at Maricopa Library and Cultural Center where seniors and their families can learn how to identify risks and prepare themselves and their homes if a fall happens.   The free event runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 26 at 18160 N. Maya Angelou Drive.  Hosted by Maricopa Senior Living and Arizona Falls Prevention Coalition, the expo will showcase information on how seniors can maintain an independent lifestyle to actively prevent falls and injuries.  “As we become older, we do become more susceptible to falls. This isn’t intended to create fear, but to identify it,” said Province resident Ron Smith, the brains behind Maricopa Senior Living.  The expo will include vendors, presentations and fire department workshops. This includes Copper Sky Fitness, a yoga instructor from the Ak-Chin Indian Community, as well as fitness and physical therapists.  Presentations will include nutrition advice, health and wellness, and home health care. Maricopa Fire/Medical Department will also present information on how to know if you’re susceptible to falling and what to do if you fall.  Falls were among the leading emergency calls MFMD responded to last year, according to the department’s 2025 annual report.   Smith will also provide a self-penned guide for fall prevention.  Maricopa Senior Living is a nonprofit organization Smith began after his mother experienced a major fall.   After experiencing a couple of falls himself, Smith realized the necessity of being prepared in the face of an emergency like that and was inspired to provide preventative resources for the senior community.  “You know all the things that can potentially happen. It goes through your head. It was really scary,” Smith said.  Preventing a fall can involve small changes like installing household items like a shower bar, a raised toilet seat and having an alert pendant handy in case of a fall. It also means learning how to use tools like walkers or canes, and making sure the house is decluttered.  “You need to be willing to take that step, not see it as a matter of weakness, just something you need to do,” Smith said.  “You have a whole lot more control than you think.”  Registration is required. Email each attendee’s full name, email and phone number to Ron@MaricopaSeniorLiving.org.  Flyer for ads and promotion – 1 The post Maricopa expo offers seniors, families a game plan for preventing falls appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaedbbc75342cf4db87adac Chase Daniel nearly made Tim Tebow walk off the set of 'SEC Nation' with 'derogatory' comment about Florida te 2026-09-19T19:00:12.885Z Chase Daniel nearly made Tim Tebow walk off the set of 'SEC Nation' with 'derogatory' comment about Florida All is fair in love and war, they say, but perhaps they should have added a third subject to that phrase: college football trash talk. I've heard some downright despicable things being bandied back and forth between fans of rival teams in my years on social media. Nothing is off limits, in theory, but sometimes fans can get carried away and cross a line that causes some hurt feelings. HIGH STAKES, SOCIAL MEDIA BARBS REMIND COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS THAT AUBURN AND FLORIDA SHARE HISTORY OF HATRED Apparently, that isn't just reserved for anonymous profiles on social media either, because two prominent former college quarterbacks had a moment that would remind you of the average interaction on X. Chase Daniel and Tim Tebow were chopping it up on the set of ESPN's "SEC Nation" show live from Auburn's campus, and the subject came up about the Tigers' opponent, the Florida Gators. UNLV COACH DAN MULLEN THROWS DIG AT FORMER EMPLOYER, FLORIDA, BUT NUMBERS TELL A COMPLICATED STORY As you are all probably aware, Tebow is an alumnus of the university and won a Heisman trophy as well as two national championships in his four seasons with the team, so when Daniel dropped a backhanded "compliment" about Tebow's former squad, the latter nearly lost it. "I do think Florida could be the next Vandy," Daniel said, as his fellow co-hosts smirked. "Let me just explain something." Tebow was having none of it, as he nearly got up and walked off the set. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE "Chase, you can't say that," an incensed Tebow fired back. "That is the most derogatory thing I have ever heard in my life." COUNTRY STAR MORGAN WALLEN WALKS OUT WITH FLORIDA LEGEND TIM TEBOW, REFUSES TO GATOR CHOMP To Daniel's credit, he goes on to explain that he thinks the Gators can be the surprise team of 2026, much like the Commodores were the surprise team of last season. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! But, let's be honest here, he knew exactly what he was doing when he said this. For any college football fan that's over the age of 20, you probably know Vanderbilt as the doormats of the SEC. Growing up in the 90s and 2000s, Vandy was a walkover for the Gators - and pretty much anyone else with a pulse - so comparing them, even favorably, to the 'Dores rightfully sent Tebow, as well as anyone else alive during the Spurrier and Meyer years, into a tizzy. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER "I get your point," Tebow said as he covered his face. "But the wording, 'Florida could be Vandy?'" I realize it hasn't been a parade of championships in Gainesville in the past decade and a half, but come on, Chase, don't put that evil on Tebow and the Gators. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaedbbb75342cf4db87ada3 Ole Miss hosts LSU in top game in the country, but Rebels not even most decorated football team on own campus te 2026-09-19T19:00:11.973Z Ole Miss hosts LSU in top game in the country, but Rebels not even most decorated football team on own campus While Oxford, Mississippi is the epicenter of the college football world this weekend, with Ole Miss set to host its former head coach Lane Kiffin and LSU on Saturday night, the town is also home to a defending national champion in football. Flag football, that is. The Ole Miss Special Olympics College Flag Football Club represented the state of Mississippi over the summer at the Special Olympics in Minneapolis and, well, "Hotty Toddy," the Rebels won the whole darn thing. Gold medal and all. Pretty sure that makes this group of football Rebels the most decorated on campus. "Hopefully, they (the football team) see us and they’re like, ‘Well, we’ve got to go get a national championship now," Ole Miss senior Jason Skocy said with a smile. FROM FOOTBALL SATURDAYS TO ROUTINE WEEKDAYS, THE MUSIC NEVER STOPS AT THIS UT HOUSE FULL OF COLLEGE MUSICIANS EVEN ON OPENING WEEKEND, FOOTBALL PLAYERS AT CLEMSON, LSU MIGHT BE UPSTAGED ON CAMPUS BY THESE FURRY FRIENDS Skocy is a center for the flag football team, which is comprised of Ole Miss students like Skocy, who are called partners, along with local and regional individuals with intellectual disabilities. They are called athletes. Flag football in this category is played 5-on-5, and for each team, there are always 3 athletes to 2 partners on the field at all times. Make no mistake, there might be flags instead of tackles, but this is still football. There are playbooks, touchdowns, running, passing and players chasing each other all over the field. "These kids have play cards on their arms, I call plays," said Hunter Crabbs, the intramural sports and sports clubs coordinator at Ole Miss who was one of the coaches of the gold medal flag team. "It’s a much smaller playbook than what we might be using on Saturday night (against LSU), but it’s a very similar process." Abbreviated or not, something in the playbook is working. After earning the right to represent the state of Mississippi at the Special Olympics by defeating a team from Mississippi State, the Rebels overcame all kinds of adversity in Minnesota to bring Mississippi its first-ever intercollegiate gold medal in flag football. They lost their first two games in Minneapolis, felt down in the dumps, but rallied to get to the championship game. In that final game, against Iowa, one of the teams to tag an early loss on the Rebels in pool play, one key player for Ole Miss went down with a serious injury. The score was tight at the time. But the Rebels dug deep again, and came away with the emotional victory. Chants of "Hotty Toddy" rang through the Ole Miss fan section and along the Ole Miss sideline. "We were so excited, we were all jumping around," said 27-year-old Madison Dennis, an athlete who plays defense for the team. She is also the only woman on the team. "We honestly couldn’t believe it. It was awesome to bring home gold back to Ole Miss." The Rebels brought back so much more than gold. They brought back memories, and friendships, and confidence and self-esteem that had grown and blossomed. "There’s a couple of our athletes who, going into this trip, I would have said they’re probably going to be maybe a little shy, maybe not want to interact with other teams," Skocy said. "I was completely wrong. They were out there, making friends, staying up, playing Xbox in the lobby. It was cool to see." The team also took a trip to Mall of America, toured Minneapolis and went to a baseball game. There were also all kinds of fun activities in the athletes’ Olympic Village that kept the players busy. For Dennis, making friends became just as important as chasing down quarterbacks, which she does with glee. "Oh yes, I did that," Dennis smiled as she recalled her pursuits of opposing quarterbacks. "I just love flag football. And it has helped me build new friendships, different people that I would have never gotten to meet. "And the partners, I like having them there to help us. That’s a pretty cool thing." CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE The Rebels traveled with 9 players to Minnesota, but there are enough players in the Ole Miss intramural flag football program to make up at least six teams. The team that won the national championship returns all of its players, and one highlight on this year’s schedule as the Rebels defend their national title is the annual Egg Bowl game against Mississippi State. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "It’s a big one for us," Skocy said. "The Egg Bowl probably means just as much to us as the gold medal. That’s big on the calendar, so practices are going to rev up here in a little bit." In the meantime, the flag football champs are revved up to cheer on their fellow Ole Miss football brethren in the big showdown Saturday night against LSU. Last weekend, the football team honored the gold medal winners during a home game against Charlotte. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER "I don’t know what it sounded like to the rest of the stadium, but down there on the field, when the camera panned to the athletes, it sounded like the student section erupted and you would have thought that we just ran in a touchdown," Crabbs said. "They were cheering so loud for our athletes and partners and it was really awesome to observe. "Our players, they’ve definitely become mini celebrities." 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaed96075342cf4db87ad4a Homecoming: Resilient Saguaro football team returns to field for first game in three weeks te 2026-09-19T18:50:08.820Z Homecoming: Resilient Saguaro football team returns to field for first game in three weeks SCOTTSDALE – As Saguaro High School’s football players came out of the locker room on homecoming night, their fans burst into cheers. It had been three weeks since the once-powerful program had played a game. After opening the season with a blowout loss to Scottsdale Desert Mountain on Aug. 28, the school canceled the Sabercats’ next two games amid a rash of injuries and concern about the remaining, small number of players on the roster. The result on Friday, a 45-6 loss to Glendale Mountain Ridge, was not what the home crowd or team wanted, but the enthusiasm of Saguaro’s players was evident as they took the field, yelling and ready to play a game for which they had practiced hard during the week. “I’m just proud of these kids, they competed,” Saguaro coach Butch Goncharoff said. “I know it’s a program with great tradition, but we started spring with three kids, we got to 13 and 30, and these kids are battling and they haven’t quit and I’m proud of them. I mean, you saw it, they didn’t give up out here at all tonight.” Saguaro has a storied football tradition. In the past two decades, the Sabercats have captured 13 state titles at various levels, including six straight from 2013-2018, with their last title coming in 2023. But rampant coaching turnover, Arizona’s open enrollment rules and competition from other schools has left the program a shadow of what it once was. Mountain Ridge struck quickly on Friday, as Luke Weber caught a deep touchdown to give the Mountain Lions a 6-0 lead on their first drive. But a big kick return by junior running back Mar’taj Meadows set up the Sabercats in prime field position, ready to answer. Meadows took the ball from 25 yards out, making multiple defenders miss him along the way as he bolted into the end zone to tie the game. The Saguaro student section erupted as the Sabercats scored for the first time in 2026.  “I think he (Mar’taj) is really special,” Goncharoff said, “I wouldn’t trade him for anybody. He’s explosive. He’s a great kid and he makes plays and he is really good in space.” Unfortunately for Saguaro, the game went downhill from there. Mountain Ridge sophomore running back Ben Rich made it 14-6 late in the first with a four-yard touchdown run and the two-point conversion tacked on. Then, on Saguaro’s next drive, the Sabercats fumbled the ball and the Mountain Lions capitalized, with safety Ace Rizzo taking it 20 yards to the end zone for a two-possession lead.  The Sabercats had to use all their timeouts early in the first quarter. They played numerous freshmen and players often played both sides of the ball, with some playing in positions they had never played before. That led to some confusion and multiple procedural penalties during the first half, but Goncharoff was still proud of the way his players battled given the circumstances. “We have five or six freshmen out there, sophomore linemen, kids that haven’t played and they competed,” Goncharoff said. “I think that’s the thing, we got better.” When they came out for the second half, down 28-6, spirits were still high for Saguaro. They fumbled on their next drive after moving the ball deep into Mountain Lions’ territory, and Mountain Ridge recovered and returned it for a touchdown. Once Mountain Ridge found the end zone on a Luke Weber rushing touchdown, the clock went to running time for the rest of the game, per Arizona Interscholastic Association rules in a blowout. Mountain Ridge coach Andrew Johnson was an assistant at Saguaro from 2020 through 2023, also coaching the youth program, the Scottsdale Argonauts, that served as a feeder. The lopsided result produced mixed emotions for Johnson. “I got a lot of love here and a lot of people I still love here,” he said. “It’s weird seeing it from across the other sideline, but it’s good. I feel good for our team and we’re in a good spot right now, so I love all these guys up and they play their hearts out for what they got and I appreciate them.” Despite the final score of the game, Saguaro’s players were grateful they finally got to field a roster and play a game for the first time in three weeks. Goncharoff said Saguaro plans to play the rest of the games on its schedule, including its next opponent, Phoenix Pinnacle, on Sept. 25. “I feel like we fought for all four quarters, and that’s all you can ask for,” Saguaro junior linebacker Antony Smith said. “We’re low on numbers. Everybody knows that. Everybody gave it their all. We had a few people go down, get tired, but that’s just football, you know, so we fought our hardest.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaed4bb75342cf4db87acab FanDuel Promo Code: $350 Bonus Bets Available for UFC 331, Yan-Pantoja te 2026-09-19T18:30:19.654Z FanDuel Promo Code: $350 Bonus Bets Available for UFC 331, Yan-Pantoja UFC 331 is almost upon us, and there are plenty of great matchups to look forward to on the card. 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Saturday Football Schedule: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaecfff75342cf4db87abd7 'Ruthless' hosts track down top Republicans at RNC midterm convention in new Fox Nation special te 2026-09-19T18:10:07.886Z 'Ruthless' hosts track down top Republicans at RNC midterm convention in new Fox Nation special The "Ruthless" podcast hosts hit the Dallas convention floor, taking viewers behind the scenes at the Republican National Committee's Midterm Convention and bringing their unfiltered coverage and political banter. In a special insider episode on Fox Nation, the team tracked down top Republicans and Cabinet officials to get the inside scoop on the party's push ahead of the November midterms. The special gives viewers a front-row seat to the convention floor, blending midterm strategy with the hosts' unscripted humor. "We might catch a Cabinet secretary or two, I think there are people that are walking around," host Josh Holmes said in a preview of the episode. CAN THE 'BEST SHOWMAN IN POLITICS' DELIVER AGAIN? GOP BETS ON TRUMP AT HISTORIC MIDTERM CONVENTION The hosts did just that, speaking with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy about President Donald Trump's vision for hosting a first-of-its-kind Republican midterm convention. "What I love about President Trump is like, he's so innovative. He's creative, he thinks differently. He thinks outside the box. So, for the first time, we're [going to] do a midterm convention," Duffy said. "I think this is a great idea: energize our base." GOP FACES BRUTAL MIDTERM HEADWINDS AS REPUBLICANS PAINT ELECTION AS ‘COMPETITION WITH COMMUNISM’ Beyond Duffy, the hosts spent their floor walk hunting down other big-name guests at the Dallas convention. Viewers hear from Linda McMahon, Chris LaCivita, James Blair and others as the group dives into the political fights and strategies shaping the midterms. The "Ruthless" hosts partnered with Fox News Media in 2025 as part of the company's New Media expansion. The podcast launched in October 2020 with Republican strategist Josh Holmes and Shashank Tripathi, better known as "Comfortably Smug," bringing an irreverent approach to conservative politics. EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE VANCE'S INTIMATE CAPITOL HILL HUDDLE AS REPUBLICANS CONFRONT TOUGH MIDTERM TERRAIN Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook, who worked alongside Holmes as founding partners at public affairs and digital advocacy consulting firm Cavalry, later joined "Ruthless" as co-hosts, rounding out the four-man lineup. Fans can stream the full behind-the-scenes special on Fox Nation to catch the convention-floor action as "Ruthless" takes its signature political banter to the midterm campaign trail. Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaecdaf75342cf4db87ab7b Dabble Promo Code FOXNEWS: Play $5, Get $50 on Your Favorite College Football Matchup te 2026-09-19T18:00:15.546Z Dabble Promo Code FOXNEWS: Play $5, Get $50 on Your Favorite College Football Matchup College Football instills a lot of loyalty and support in people for their alma mater through the thick and thin of the program’s success. Dabble is giving you a chance to bet on (or against) your favorite team today with a play $5, get $50 offer using code FOXNEWS.  There is one game that stands out more than others on tonight’s schedule, and that is LSU vs. Ole Miss. Both teams are entering the game 2-0 and are ranked seventh and eighth, respectively. LSU hasn’t looked all that sharp, with their quarterback throwing four interceptions in two games. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaecdae75342cf4db87ab72 Richard Branson’s wife could have survived with crucial medication, coroner finds te 2026-09-19T18:00:14.811Z Richard Branson’s wife could have survived with crucial medication, coroner finds The death of Richard Branson's wife, Lady Joan Branson, could have been prevented if she had received medication to prevent blood clots, a British coroner reportedly found. Lady Branson died at 80 after being admitted to the hospital in November 2025 after a fall weeks earlier on Necker Island, a British Virgin Island owned by her billionaire husband. Her cause of death was determined to be a pulmonary embolism caused by deep vein thrombosis (DVT), in which a blood clot travels to the lungs and blocks an artery, the BBC reported. KIM KARDASHIAN REVEALS NEW HEALTH SCARE WITH HAUNTING CONNECTION TO FATHER'S CANCER DEATH Senior coroner Fiona Wilcox told Westminster Coroner's Court earlier this month that Lady Branson did not receive preventive anticoagulants, commonly known as blood thinners, at the hospital despite a "very high risk of developing deep vein thrombosis," according to the outlet. According to testimony during the legal inquest, Lady Branson's biggest risk factors included her immobility after a fracture following her fall. "I do find her death would have likely been prevented and the lack of anticoagulation did cause or contribute to her death probably," Wilcox said. COMMON ANTIBIOTIC LINKED TO HIGHER RISK OF DEATH IN ADULTS, MAJOR STUDY FINDS Wilcox added, however, that the case was not one of neglect because Branson did receive medical care. The inquest, she said, was to "explore the facts, come to the correct conclusions and learn lessons from this," The Independent reported. During the inquest, doctors gave differing testimony about whether bleeding risk justified withholding the medication, namely enoxaparin, an injectable blood thinner commonly used to help prevent blood clots in hospitalized patients. EVERYDAY HABIT LINKED TO DRAMATICALLY LOWER RISK OF DYING FROM HEART DISEASE The hospital's admitting doctor, Dr. Basir Kunduzi, testified that he did not complete a bleeding risk assessment on the day of Lady Branson's admission. Kunduzi said Lady Branson's death led him to "reflect on [his] role as a doctor" and the importance of "good communication between team members," according to the BBC. CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES Fox News Digital has reached out to the hospital for comment. The findings highlight the lifesaving role of blood thinners, which are often used in hospitals to help prevent DVT in patients who are unable to move normally after surgery, fractures or prolonged bed rest. They can increase the risk of bleeding, however, so doctors must weigh both risks before giving them. Nearly all hospitalized adults should receive some form of blood clot prevention, either with blood-thinning medication or mechanical devices that help keep blood flowing in the legs, Dr. Jared Ross, a South Carolina-based emergency medicine physician, told Fox News Digital. "In the vast majority of cases, the benefits outweigh the risks," Ross, who was not involved in the inquest or Branson's care, added. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER A spokeswoman for Sir Branson said the family does not plan to comment on the inquest and pointed to the numerous social media posts he has made for his wife. "Life will never be the same without her," Branson wrote on Instagram last year, calling her the "shining star" of the family. "But we have fifty incredible years of memories — years filled with tears and laughter, kindness, and a love that shaped our family more than words could ever capture. It was a relationship that worked. We just had lots of laughs. We were very lucky." CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Although pulmonary embolisms can be life-threatening, prompt treatment greatly improves the chances of survival, making early recognition critical. Symptoms of DVT can include swelling, pain or tenderness, warmth and redness in the affected leg or arm, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a clot travels to the lungs, may cause shortness of breath, chest pain that worsens with deep breathing or coughing, a rapid or irregular heartbeat, coughing up blood, lightheadedness or fainting. The CDC and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute say anyone with symptoms of a pulmonary embolism should seek immediate medical attention. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaecb5275342cf4db87ab0c Security expert hails Trump's Greenland pact as a 'big deal' on par with Alaska purchase te 2026-09-19T17:50:10.459Z Security expert hails Trump's Greenland pact as a 'big deal' on par with Alaska purchase President Donald Trump's newly announced security agreement with Denmark and Greenland would block U.S. adversaries from establishing bases in Greenland and limit adversarial investments on the island, a move one security expert says limits China and Russia's ambitions in the region. Speaking on "Fox & Friends Weekend," Center for Security Policy senior fellow and retired U.S. Marine Col. Grant Newsham compared Trump's pact with Denmark and Greenland to the U.S. acquisition of Alaska in 1867. Newsham argued the agreement secures vital North American defense geography while limiting Russian and Chinese expansion. "This is a big deal. This is right up there with Secretary of State Seward getting Alaska," Newsham said Saturday. RUSSIA’S QUIETER NUCLEAR SUBMARINES THREATEN NATO, FORMER COMMANDER WARNS "It's a little different, because we haven't bought the place, but it locks up or brings into the fold, really, key terrain, key geography, up on our northeast," he explained. "Russia and the Chinese, in particular, they can't get in there militarily, and they cannot get in economically." On Friday, the president announced the deal in a post on Truth Social, saying the agreement would give the U.S. permanent control over security in Greenland. "I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns," Trump wrote. "There will be NO COST to the United States! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America," he added. DENMARK VOWS TO DEFEND GREENLAND AFTER TRUMP REITERATES US SHOULD CONTROL TERRITORY Denmark and Greenland have emphasized that the agreement, which requires formal signatures and parliamentary procedures before taking effect, will preserve their "sovereignty and territorial integrity." RUBIO WARNS CHINA AFTER PANAMA SHIP DETENTIONS, CALLS HEMISPHERE SOVEREIGNTY 'NON-NEGOTIABLE' Newsham compared the move to Trump's previous foreign policy decisions, arguing the Greenland agreement fits what he sees as a broader strategy to defend the U.S. homeland. "Look at how the Chinese have been rolled back in Panama. And look what President Trump has done with Venezuela. You can see that there's a plan here for defending our homeland. And this really is a big deal, to put it in simple terms," Newsham said. TRUMP ENVOY WARNS CHINA'S POWER MOVE AT SEA IS THREAT 'WE CANNOT AFFORD TO IGNORE' Newsham said he believes the agreement gives Washington the freedom it needs to keep adversaries out of Greenland, though he predicted China and Russia would voice opposition. "They'll complain. They won't like it, but there's not much they can do about it," Newsham said. "They'll probably step up their activities in the territories they have up there. But nonetheless, this is a huge advance for the United States and our position." GREENLAND TALKS ON ‘GOOD TRAJECTORY,’ WHITE HOUSE SAYS AMID TRUMP TAKEOVER PUSH Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also highlighted the president's plans to expand the U.S. military presence in Greenland, reposting part of Trump's statement: "We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many." Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised the Greenland agreement, writing on X, "This historic deal is a huge win for the United States and the American people. Thanks to President Trump's vision and leadership, this historic agreement permanently guarantees U.S. security interests in the Arctic at zero cost to the U.S. taxpayer." "Greenland will forever be part of the strategic defense area of North America and exclude any adversary from it and the surrounding area. This deal permanently and completely addresses our national security concerns in Greenland," Rubio added. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaecb5175342cf4db87ab03 LA homelessness fraud cases expose deeper problem than stolen millions, oversight hawk warns te 2026-09-19T17:50:09.712Z LA homelessness fraud cases expose deeper problem than stolen millions, oversight hawk warns Federal charges alleging that millions of dollars were siphoned from Los Angeles homelessness programs are exposing what one lawmaker told Fox News Digital is a deeper failure in the way Washington funds and measures such programs. The latest cases out of Los Angeles fuel the concern of Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas that only are corrupt providers stealing taxpayer money, but that the programs aren't meeting their goal of getting people off the streets. "The only people really getting upward mobility in these programs, it would seem, is the people running the programs," Cloud told Fox News Digital after a House Oversight hearing examining federally funded homelessness programs in Los Angeles, Seattle and elsewhere. "And that’s not really what the program’s supposed to be about." LA REAL ESTATE VET COMES AT MAYOR BASS WITH RECEIPTS OVER DAMNING HOMELESSNESS REPORT: 'SHE DOESN'T GET IT' Federal prosecutors charged three defendants Wednesday in separate homelessness-fraud cases involving alleged misuse of taxpayer funds, including money allegedly spent on a nightclub and adjacent bingo hall and bribes allegedly tied to fake housing referrals. Los Angeles’ homelessness agency paid one of the suspect nonprofits more than $75 million, according to federal prosecutors, leading Cloud to seek out the real culprits blazing the money trail. WHITE HOUSE PUSHES 'WATERSHED' FRAUD-FIGHTING REFORM IN CONGRESS AS VANCE CONVENES TASK FORCE Cloud said the fraud itself is only one piece of a broader problem, and that the system appears to reward spending and program activity without adequately measuring lasting outcomes. Government too often judges success by "how much money we send out the door" instead of whether the spending is "actually helping people" or whether safeguards are in place to ensure taxpayer dollars are being used properly, Cloud said – describing the system as having been "incentivized for fraud." "We’ve got to take those incentives out and get back to making sure that all these programs have incentives for oversight and that the dollars are managed well," Cloud said. LETITIA JAMES FACES SCRUTINY AFTER NEW YORK CITY SPENDS $81,700 PER HOMELESS PERSON AMID SHELTER SCANDALS Some programs can keep a person "kind of in a cycle of dependency so that the program manager has job security, in a sense, and gets to live off the government dime," Cloud said "You [are seeing] as we begin to look into waste, fraud and abuse, why is it that these Democrat-led states are saying, no, we don't want the controls in place," he said, pointing to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ decision to step down from the LAHSA commission. Los Angeles is not alone, he said, citing what has been called the feds’ "Housing First" philosophy – generally prioritizing placing homeless in housing with less immediate regard for sobriety, mental-health treatment or overall stabilizing services. WATCH: DR. OZ SAYS NEWSOM, OTHER BLUE STATES HAVE TURNED MEDICAID FRAUD INTO A 'FEATURE' Cloud did not use the term "Housing First" during the interview, but he described the concern behind that critique, arguing that some homelessness programs define success in ways that leave people dependent on government rather than moving toward independence. Housing First is distinct from HUD’s "Continuum of Care" framework, which is the local funding and coordination structure through which nonprofit providers, state and local governments and other organizations receive federal homelessness money. WALZ ADMINISTRATION IGNORED FRAUD WARNINGS AS BILLIONS VANISHED, HOUSE OVERSIGHT REPORT ALLEGES In Los Angeles, LAHSA leads the local Continuum of Care, which HUD says received nearly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the previous five years. Under Secretary Scott Turner, HUD moved to suspend LAHSA this year, citing alleged failures involving financial management, internal controls and safeguards against conflicts of interest. LAHSA has challenged the federal action in court. "The ‘housing first’ experiment failed Americans by warehousing the vulnerable without results," Turner said in June when HUD announced a $4.04 billion Continuum of Care funding opportunity. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER "This ideology promised to end homelessness. Instead, billions of taxpayer dollars were spent while homelessness increased to record levels." That funding will focus on organizations aiding treatment and recovery, while setting aside $1.3 billion for new projects prioritizing transitional housing and supportive services and adding measures intended to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaebf9d75342cf4db87a938 Pat McAfee might have made an illegal immigration joke on 'College GameDay,' liberals lose their minds te 2026-09-19T17:00:13.715Z Pat McAfee might have made an illegal immigration joke on 'College GameDay,' liberals lose their minds ESPN's "College GameDay" has been in hot water since committing the egregious sin of hosting Texas Senator Ted Cruz on the program to discuss the Protect College Sports Act. The pageantry for "College GameDay" is unmatched. The show is in the heart of campuses across the country, with tailgaters, students, and opposing fans packing in like sardines around the set, holding clever signs hoping to be featured on the broadcast. It's a spectacle and recently, it's become a very polarizing program to some Americans. On Saturday morning at Ole Miss, which will play the most anticipated game of the season (so far) against Lane Kiffin and the LSU Tigers, Pat McAfee added more fuel to the fire. FORMER ESPN HOST HYPOCRITICALLY CALLS NETWORK A 'POLITICAL LOBBYING FIRM' AFTER TED CRUZ APPEARANCE Early in the broadcast, the Mississippi National Guard was featured flying over the "College GameDay" set. Flyovers seem to be fairly routine for the program, with personalities like McAfee going out of their way to honor our military. As the National Guard got closer to the set with the raucous crowd chanting ""USA! USA! USA!," host Rece Davis said jokingly, "It's only for pageantry. They're just sending in the Mississippi National Guard for the pageantry of it." Then McAfee made a comment that not-so-surprisingly has Americans on the left side of the political aisle losing their minds, "We certainly appreciate the hell out of the American military. And if you're not the United States of America and you hear that sound, your ass better run." Davis followed up McAfee's comment with, "That's the one thing the two sides here can agree on, for sure." PAT MCAFEE THREATENS TO SUE LIBERAL TROLL WHO ACCUSED HIM OF USING 'N-WORD' AFTER SITTING WITH TRUMP Whether it was an overt statement regarding illegal immigration, I do not know. McAfee is not available for comment as of the writing of this article, but one thing is for sure, it struck a nerve with many online. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE One X user said, "Gameday quickly [becoming] Fox News Sports. Embarrassing." Another said, "Kinda sad I don’t look forward to College Gameday because of blatant propaganda pushing like this." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Someone else who wasn't a fan stated, "Lose me with this jingoistic, macho bulls***." If you don't get chills hearing the patriotic chants and showcase of American exceptionalism, there's something wrong with you. These moments of highlighting our brave men and women in uniform, as well as the strength of our military is what sets "College GameDay," and college football in general, apart from other programs and sports. Maybe McAfee was just talking about America's enemies, taking a jab that they should be shaking in their boots when the red, white, and blue come to take care of business militarily. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER HERE IS HOW PAT MCAFEE HAS SURPASSED STEPHEN A SMITH AS THE FACE OF ESPN | BOBBY BURACK Love him or hate him, McAfee is always making headlines. He's leapfrogged Stephen A. Smith as the most prominent and influential personality at ESPN and in sports media. He's one of a kind and there's no doubt he loves America and its military. 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During Friday night's game against Wake Forest, Mensah set an ACC record with 24 straight completions and has been hovering above the 90% mark in that category for most of the season. Worth every penny of that reported $6 million contract, eh? With the kind of numbers Mensah has been putting up — and likely will continue to put up — the Hurricanes are almost a lock to make the College Football Playoff and, by extension, their signal caller will almost certainly be invited to New York City as a Heisman finalist. DEFYING THE ODDS: WHY THESE THREE LONG SHOTS COULD BE HEISMAN TROPHY WINNERS THIS SEASON But will Mensah and the Canes be victims of a Charmin soft schedule? To be fair to Miami, they don't make their conference schedule, and they do have to play Notre Dame in early November, but their 2026 slate, by and large, is a bit of a joke. They've done everything in their power to bludgeon the teams in front of them, hanging 77 points on FAMU just a week earlier, but while some of their contemporaries will face a murderer's row this season, Miami likely won't face a ranked team until that aforementioned meeting with the Fighting Irish. The ACC features three teams ranked in the AP Top-25 as of week three, Louisville Virginia, and SMU, and the Hurricanes will avoid playing all three in the regular season. ACC SUPREMACY: IS IT REALLY THE MIAMI HURRICANES VERSUS THE FIELD FOR THE 2026 SEASON? Again, that isn't their fault, and a lot could change in the coming weeks, but it won't help the case of their talented quarterback when it comes time for award season. Miami's case for making the College Football Playoff is secure, given its high ranking to start the season and the fact that the Hurricanes just need to win the ACC title to get an automatic bid. Mensah, on the other hand, could very well get dinged for facing lesser competition. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE The numbers he's putting up may end up being too good to ignore, but he will likely have to be virtually perfect for an entire season to overcome the accusations of an easy schedule. NICK SABAN HAS THE BEST SOLUTION FOR FIXING THE PROBLEMS WITH COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULING There are a gaggle of teams on Miami's slate that are currently undefeated, and if they keep up the good play, it could go a long way in helping strengthen the Hurricanes' metrics at the end of the season. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Miami fans should be pulling for a team like Pitt to continue its impressive start to the year, because it could mean the difference between Mensah hoisting a bronze statue or clapping as someone else does. I can't say for sure if it will matter one way or another, I mean for God's sake, the kid has more touchdowns on the season (11) than he does incompletions (eight). Regardless, Canes fans should just be happy to have these kinds of problems. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER It wasn't too long ago the Hurricanes were fighting to make a bowl game during the first few years of the Mario Cristobal era. Oh, how times have changed! Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaebaeb75342cf4db87a860 Carrot Top hospitalized, forced to cancel weekend performances te 2026-09-19T16:40:11.280Z Carrot Top hospitalized, forced to cancel weekend performances Carrot Top has been hospitalized in Las Vegas, Fox News Digital can confirm. The comedian, whose real name is Scott Thompson, has a standing show at Luxor Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. His regular shows on Friday and Saturday have been canceled. "Mr. Thompson is recovering in the hospital and is receiving the care and support he needs," Thompson's representative told Fox News Digital. "His family and those closest to him are deeply grateful for the concern, prayers and respectfully ask for privacy." BARRY MANILOW, 82, GIVES UPDATE ON HIS CANCER BATTLE AS HE CANCELS MORE TOUR DATES When reached by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a spokesperson for MGM Resorts said, "Scott is a beloved member of the Luxor and MGM Resorts family, and we are relieved to hear that he is recovering. We are thinking of him and wish him strength as he receives the care and support he needs." The outlet also reported that Thompson was seen at a bar in town around 2 p.m. on Friday, hours before his show was set to begin at 8 p.m. As of now, tickets for his shows next week are still available for purchase. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Thompson has had a historic run in Las Vegas, performing his comedy in a residency at Luxor since 2005. His current contract has him at the venue through 2030. During a 2025 appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, Thompson spoke about the "great advantage" of having the Las Vegas residency: no constant travel. "I'm home at 10:30, 11:00 at the latest," he said, adding that "You can have a normal day. I had a dog for a bit, you can take a dog, you can then go to work, come home, you're watching SportsCenter at 10:30, in bed by 11:00." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE They also spoke about Thompson's specific brand of comedy, with Rogan telling him, "You became so successful as a prop comic, you kind of stole the market. There's no young [prop] comics coming up." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Thompson laughed, "Because nobody wants to be a Carrot Top, I think. I think that's what it is. You know how much s— I still get?" Rogan said it doesn't seem like he gets as much criticism as he used to in the earlier days of his fame, which Thompson agreed with. "You still get the aftermath of it," Thompson admitted. "Like just on the plane today, some guy was like ... 'I don't care what everybody else says, you're funny.' I'm like, 'Who's everybody else?' I get that a lot, all the people like, 'Hey, I personally think you're funny,' that kind of stuff." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaebae475342cf4db87a843 Trump Says His Son Would Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party te 2026-09-19T16:40:04.331Z Trump Says His Son Would Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party The president said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., had decided to return the money but defended the gift worth hundreds of thousands of dollars as “totally allowed.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeb89175342cf4db87a7fe Bill Maher hammers Macklemore over Gaza remarks, highlights rapper's controversial 'Jew' costume from 2014 te 2026-09-19T16:30:09.824Z Bill Maher hammers Macklemore over Gaza remarks, highlights rapper's controversial 'Jew' costume from 2014 Comedian Bill Maher doubled down on his criticism of rapper Macklemore on Friday, reviving a 12-year-old costume controversy and suggesting that "everyone is just really so stupid." During Friday’s episode of HBO’s "Real Time," Maher continued his criticism of Macklemore, 43, after the "Thrift Shop" singer was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s "Loop Tour" following a string of anti-Israel remarks. "Everyone’s paying more. Macklemore had to pay an arm and a leg for a giant fake prosthetic ‘Jew’ nose," Maher said, referring to an onstage costume worn by Macklemore in 2014 in which he wore a dark wig, beard and fake nose. Shortly after the incident, Macklemore issued an apology on his website, saying, "Family, friends and fans alike who know me well, know that I'm absolutely not the person described in certain headlines today. There is no worse feeling than being misunderstood, especially when people are hurt or offended." BILL MAHER RIPS MACKLEMORE'S GAZA STANCE, SAYS CELEBRITY 'MORAL CONFUSION' IS FUELING ANTISEMITISM Maher continued discussing the controversy, pointing to Macklemore’s previous comments about the Israel-Hamas war. "Apparently, [Ed Sheeran] is old buddies with Macklemore from 15 years ago, back when Macklemore had his one hit," he continued. "So, Ed Sheeran let Macklemore be his opening act on his tour. And when I say, ‘act,’ he goes out there and repeats lies about how Gaza is a genocide." MACKLEMORE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER GETTING KICKED OFF ED SHEERAN TOUR AFTER PRO-PALESTINE STANCE He added, "Not that they care, but that’s a lie." "Everyone is just really so stupid," he added. "Listen to this, AOC was asked yesterday would she change the channel on the radio if Ed Sheeran came on. And she said, ‘Yes. Yes, I would.’ You know, AOC? Way ahead of you. I’ve always changed the channel when [Ed Sheeran comes on]." MACKLEMORE BAN BY ROBERT KRAFT DRAWS FIRE FROM AOC AND CAIR WHO ADVOCATE FOR FREE SPEECH ONLY WHEN CONVENIENT The "Real Time" host then pivoted to the dispute between Macklemore and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Macklemore said in an Instagram post that Sheeran told him Kraft would not allow the rapper to perform at Gillette Stadium, which the Kraft Group owns. "Ok, so Robert Kraft, who is a rich guy owns the Patriots, owns the stadium where this concert was about to take place, he was understandably offended by this and said, ‘You can’t play my stadium,’" Maher said. "So, now Macklemore’s fans hate Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran’s own band won’t play with him. And Ed Sheeran needs a new opening act." BARSTOOL CHIEF DAVE PORTNOY BLASTS MACKLEMORE'S SHADY PAST, STRONGLY SUPPORTS PATRIOTS OWNER ROBERT KRAFT Later in the show, Maher returned to his criticism of musicians using concerts to promote political causes. "But I think just any kind of echo of that old cancel culture from the past is going to be a loser in today's environment," Maher said. "Is anyone looking for any of this at a concert? I mean, do I really need a lecture on politics of any stripe right when the molly is kicking in? It's so arrogant on both their sides." MICHAEL RAPAPORT CHEERS MACKLEMORE GETTING DROPPED FROM ED SHEERAN'S TOUR, SAYS 'F--- YOU' The comments come on the heels of the highly publicized Sheeran-Macklemore story, in which Macklemore told the crowd at a New Jersey show that, "A big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so that I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very, very dear to my heart: Free Palestine." After being dropped from the tour, Macklemore donated $1 million dollars to Palestinian aid efforts — prompting Kraft to make a $2 million donation to Gaza after the rapper called on him to match the amount. ROBERT KRAFT PLEDGES $2M FOR HUMANITARIAN AID AS MACKLEMORE FACES FALLOUT OVER VENUE BAN Maher’s comments drew criticism from political commentator Kaivan Shroff, who told Fox News Digital the comedian’s approach of blasting musicians for sharing their political opinions has an underlying tone of hypocrisy. WATCH: Why Macklemore Got Kicked Off Ed Sheeran’s Tour "Maher’s whole premise falls apart the minute he starts mocking celebrities for having political opinions. Bill Maher is a celebrity with an opinion on virtually everything. He can think Macklemore is wrong, AOC is ridiculous or Ed Sheeran is overrated. But pretending the problem is that entertainers are weighing in on politics is absurd when that has been his own business model for decades," Shroff said. The former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer then pointed to Maher’s rehashing of Macklemore’s 2014 costume incident. "The Macklemore costume is relevant, especially given the subject matter. But Maher takes that legitimate point and buries it under a bunch of cultural sniping," Shroff told Fox News Digital. MIKE HUCKABEE CALLS OUT MACKLEMORE ON ANTISEMITISM: 'VOICE' OF 'JEW HATRED' "AOC said she would change the station because of Sheeran’s involvement in the controversy, Maher jokes that he changes it because he dislikes Sheeran’s music. That may get a laugh, but it does not actually respond to her position in any meaningful way. The same is true of calling Macklemore a one-hit wonder. None of that tells us whether the underlying argument is right or wrong." As the fallout continues, Axia Public Relations CEO Jason Mudd said Sheeran should make a decision and stick to it. "Every hour of silence gives someone else the opportunity to control the narrative," Mudd told Fox News Digital, adding, "Strong crisis decisions share three things: They're fast. They're clear. They're final. Sheeran doesn't need a new decision. He needs one decision he can stand behind." CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE "I'll stick to Sheeran's own communication strategy here, not the politics behind it," Mudd continued. "If Sheeran were my client, I'd advise him to pick a direction and hold it. One clear explanation is enough. Circling back to it in public is a common mistake. It’s perceived as doubt and invites more discussion and debate." Fox News Digital reached out to Macklemore’s representatives for comment. Fox News Digital also reached out to Sheeran's representatives as well. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeb63b75342cf4db87a799 History-making Miss USA reveals how she got swimsuit-ready while raising 2 young kids te 2026-09-19T16:20:11.301Z History-making Miss USA reveals how she got swimsuit-ready while raising 2 young kids Justus Kelley made history as the first mother and first married woman to win Miss USA — and she got there in an unconventional way. On Aug. 27, the organization hosted the 75th edition of the national pageant in Miami. The 31-year-old, who was Miss Virginia USA 2026, succeeded last year’s winner, Audrey Eckert, 24. The pageant opened the competition to married women and mothers in 2023. "My pageant prep, it did look different," Kelley told Fox News Digital. "I'm not going to pretend like I was able to dedicate the same amount of time as what I did in the past. I had to get creative. Their nap time was my prep time. It was late nights. It was after the bath and bed routine. I did walking classes with my baby on my chest, in his carrier. I did squats in my living room while holding my two-year-old. I practiced interview questions while feeding my toddler." NAVY VETERAN TRADES MILITARY UNIFORM FOR MISS GEORGIA SASH FOLLOWING HEARTBREAKING LOSS "There were days when I wished I could just take the entire day to dedicate to pageant prep, but that's not where I am," Kelley said. "That's not the season of life that I'm in. And we made it work, and my family was fully on board with this experience. They know that they're along for the journey; they're along for this ride with me." The Miss USA pageant began in 1952 in Long Beach, California, with New York's Jackie Loughery becoming its first winner. The competition is separate from the Miss America pageant, which traces its history to a 1921 event in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Kelley, a foster mom of two, is the first married mother to retain the Miss USA title. In 1957, Mary Leona Gage was crowned Miss USA but was stripped of the title the following day after pageant organizers learned she was married and the mother of two sons. WATCH: MISS USA 2026 REVEALS HOW SHE TRAINED FOR PAGEANT WITH KIDS IN TOW Kelley said she ditched social media and TV in favor of workouts whenever she found a spare moment while caring for her two young children. "I love abductor and adductor exercises, something that I usually do on a machine at the gym," she explained. "But if I can't make it to the gym, I'm just lying on the floor, elevating my leg and mirroring what I would've done on that machine. For me, leading up to a pageant, knowing there's a fitness component, I'm going to be in a swimsuit on that stage. I want to feel good. I want to show off all this hard work." "I really focused on core," she said. "So a lot of times you'll find me at home in the living room. I might be watching a movie or doing some self-care, but I am on the floor crunching it out during that movie, saying, 'Let's try to get through this whole scene doing crunches,' and then you pause. It was really all about focusing on core." Kelley said her husband's support also helped her through the competition. "The crown might be his because all he keeps saying is, 'I can't believe I'm Mr. USA,'" Kelley said with a laugh, referring to her college sweetheart. "I'm like, 'Babe, I don't know if that might be trademarked. Stop saying that!'" "He is so over the moon," Kelley said. "We've been together for 13, going on 14 years and married for nine. He's been a part of every bit of this journey. I've been competing for over 10 years now. And from my very first pageant, he was there holding a sign with my face on it up until the very end. I did not get here alone. He's been a huge supporter. My husband's a consultant, and he's been calling himself my pageant consultant. But he's been a huge help in getting me to this point." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE This year's prize package, valued at more than $685,000, includes a $150,000 salary, a Range Rover, a one-year lease at a luxury Miami apartment, a Westgate Vacation Home Club membership and a $30,000 Miss Universe wardrobe, according to People magazine. "The prize that made me go, 'Wow, and I have some questions,' was knowing that the Range Rover is a part of traveling in style even after your year as Miss USA. I think that's huge. But my first question was, 'Does it fit car seats?'" Kelley said she wants her year as Miss USA to challenge the idea that women need to choose between their families, careers and personal dreams. "You don't have to choose one part of who you are," Kelley said. "You can be all of who you are. That, to me, is the message. We can embrace every part of who we are. It doesn't take away from the other. It doesn't mean there aren't trade-offs, and there aren't times when we have to lean on our village more heavily to get through all the things that we may be pursuing. But know that we don't have to sacrifice ourselves." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Looking ahead, Kelley said her victory wasn't only personal — she also saw it as a chance to represent mothers and wives balancing family life with their own ambitions. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "Knowing that history was made as the first mom, as the first wife, as the first woman in her 30s, my first thought was how amazing it is to get to do this and to represent women from all over the country, from all over the world that resonate with, 'Hey, we're still dreaming,'" she said. "We're raising our families, but we still have dreams. We still have things that we want to go after and pursue. But what an honor. I get to do this. I get to represent these women. What an honor." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeb63475342cf4db87a77b Vikki Goodwin Accuses Dan Patrick of Violating Texas Deepfake Law te 2026-09-19T16:20:04.017Z Vikki Goodwin Accuses Dan Patrick of Violating Texas Deepfake Law The complaint raises new questions about how a state law applies to the growing use of A.I.-generated attack ads. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeb18f75342cf4db87a6a1 Costco brings back a fan-favorite food court treat after years off the menu te 2026-09-19T16:00:15.894Z Costco brings back a fan-favorite food court treat after years off the menu Costco fans who have spent the last two years begging for one discontinued food court favorite to be brought back are finally getting their wish. The retailer announced Friday that its twisted churros will return to U.S. food courts for a limited time, ending speculation after the company teased the comeback on social media. Earlier in the week, Costco teased the announcement with a cryptic Instagram video showing two employees discussing a mystery menu item before its name was bleeped out, prompting fans to flood the comments with guesses ranging from the meat-and-vegetable-topped combo pizza to the Polish hot dog and acai bowl. COSTCO SHOPPERS CHALLENGE INFLUENCER'S CLAIM THAT 'INSANE' CHICKEN MEAL CAN FEED FAMILY OF FIVE Many correctly guessed the cinnamon-sugar dessert, which was pulled from menus in 2024, according to reports and social media users. "The Churro is BACK in U.S. food courts for a limited time!" the warehouse club announced Friday. "Look out for it at your local warehouse over the coming weeks as exact launch dates vary." MCDONALD'S NEWEST MENU ITEM HAS FANS BEGGING FOR ONE DISCONTINUED FAVORITE The treat is expected to cost $1.49, the same price as before it was discontinued, according to reports. Many social media users rejoiced. "Dreams do come true," one man commented on Instagram. "FINALLY," another one wrote. COSTCO FANS ERUPT AFTER BELOVED FOOD COURT ITEM REPLACED BY HIGH-CALORIE NEWCOMER "The scream my kid just screamed," a mom commented. But not everyone was satisfied. "LIMITED TIME???? NO. YOU KEEP IT ON THERE!" one Instagram user exclaimed. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS "Limited time better be the next 50 years," said another. Other people were disappointed that the twisted churro, which was reportedly introduced in 2021, was being brought back and not the classic straight version that dates back to the 1990s — which only cost 99 cents. "We meant the old school straight churros, not these twisted imposters," one person said. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Others were still hung up on the pizza of the past. "Combo pizza next please!" one said. The announcement marks the latest change to Costco's closely watched, low-priced food court menu, which has developed a dedicated fan base. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ This year alone, Costco added chicken tenders nationwide and a hot dog-and-water-bottle combo while continuing to test other menu items. Costco tried to satisfy fans earlier this year by adding mini churro bites to a $2.99 caramel sundae, but many shoppers said it wasn't the same as the full-size food court churro they had been requesting, Fox News Digital previously reported. It's unclear how long the churro will be on menus for. Fox News Digital has reached out to Costco for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeaf3375342cf4db87a649 Test your pop culture: From Hollywood to the Heartland te 2026-09-19T15:50:11.936Z Test your pop culture: From Hollywood to the Heartland The Pop Culture Quiz is your weekly test of what’s making headlines and breaking the Internet, from the Heartland to Hollywood. This week's quiz spotlights country confessions and star-studded reunions. Can you get all 5 questions right? For more Entertainment articles, visit www.foxnews.com/entertainment To try your hand at more quizzes from Fox News Digital, click here. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeaf2a75342cf4db87a60e Prices go up in 7 days. Get your Disrupt ticket now. te 2026-09-19T15:50:02.584Z Prices go up in 7 days. Get your Disrupt ticket now. Current ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket until then.. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeacda75342cf4db87a5d5 Entire California high school football team suspended after mascot's obscene gesture te 2026-09-19T15:40:10.742Z Entire California high school football team suspended after mascot's obscene gesture Another football Friday in the books for all high school teams across this great country ... Except one. Victor Valley High School, located in Victorville, California, sat out Friday night's scheduled game against Brea Olinda because the entire team, including the coaching staff, was suspended. That's right. Suspended. All of them. A one-game timeout for everyone. And it's all because the team's mascot got a little rowdy after last week's Bell Game win over rival Apple Valley. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "There is a clear line between passionate competition and unacceptable conduct," the school's principal and district's superintendent said in a joint statement. "That line was crossed."  That line? A couple birds, apparently: Well, that's one way to your entire team suspended! Goodness gracious. Thoughts? First impressions? Mine? Eh. This was a rivalry game. Come on. It's a mascot. Seems a little harsh to me. I know it's high school football. I get it. Young minds are getting molded right there in the stadium, and on that field. But come on. It's a couple middle fingers from the team's mascot. Is that really worth suspending the entire team? Feels like an overreaction to me. CALIFORNIA FOOTBALL COACH ARRESTED AFTER STUDENTS MAKE DISTURBING DISCOVERY AT SCHOOL Unless, of course, there's more to the story. The school had more to say in its joint statement: "Members of the Victor Valley High School football team behaved in an unsportsmanlike manner toward the opposing team and its fans, including offensive gestures and language. As a result, the VVHS varsity football players and coaching staff are suspended for football activities for one week. "There will be accountability. There will be reflection. And there will be a clear expectation that this cannot happen again." This line in particular seemed aimed at the coaching staff, which could offer up some clues as to who was involved in whatever happened after the win. "Our responsibility as educators is not simply to develop better athletes, it is to develop better human beings." Here's the full statement: Were you at the game? Let us know what happened! Zach.Dean@OutKick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaeacd975342cf4db87a5cc Tropical disease spread by mosquitoes claims first recorded death in southern US state te 2026-09-19T15:40:09.985Z Tropical disease spread by mosquitoes claims first recorded death in southern US state Florida recorded its first confirmed dengue fever death of 2026 earlier this month, according to the Florida Department of Health. Gay Small of Hillsborough County died on Sept. 4 — her 80th birthday — from complications of a dengue infection, including septic shock and multi-organ failure, after she was bitten by a mosquito near her home on Bayshore Boulevard, the Tampa Bay Times reported. "Cheated, just, you know, it’s so unfair because she was in good health, and she worked hard to stay healthy, and she walked, and she ate right and you know, all the things that you’re supposed to do," Small's daughter, Anna Small, told Tampa's WFLA Channel 8. DANGEROUS MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS SPREADS IN ONE STATE AS OFFICIALS WARN OF RISING CASES "And you know, this virus just kind of comes out of nowhere. She met the wrong mosquito, and that’s it," Anna Small said. Small's family said they believe Gay Small first caught dengue years ago while traveling abroad but didn't know it. People who have had dengue before are much more likely to develop severe symptoms. "While in the hospital, Small said her mother was weak, her hands turned red, and she had trembles that she could hear in her voice," reported WFLA. "She had to go into the ICU by the middle of the week." Small's late husband, Bob Small, spent his career working on dengue vaccines, according to the couple's daughter. The Florida Department of Health confirmed the death Friday after completing its investigation, but did not release additional information, WFLA reported. The Times, citing University of South Florida public-health instructor Kristi Miley, reported that a dengue death had not been recorded in the Tampa Bay area in nearly a century. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral illness that can cause fever, severe aches, nausea, rash and, in rare cases, life-threatening complications, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The virus is most prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions, including Southeast Asia, the Western Pacific islands, Latin America and Africa. Though less common in the continental U.S., locally acquired cases have been recorded in Florida, California and Texas. Florida mosquito-control agencies have stepped up surveillance, inspections and spraying, as locally acquired dengue fever cases — which means people contracted the illness where they live rather than while traveling abroad — have climbed in recent weeks. The Times reported that since July, Florida "has been experiencing an unprecedented outbreak of locally caught cases." Hillsborough County, where Small lived, "has been at the epicenter of the epidemic." Hillsborough and Pinellas counties are under mosquito-borne illness alerts issued by the Florida Department of Health. "Dengue does not stop at county lines," Pinellas County Mosquito Control Director Alissa Berro told Fox 13. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS "The mosquitoes that transmit the virus generally stay within a relatively small area, but people travel throughout the Tampa Bay area every day," he said. "When someone infected with dengue enters a new area, a local mosquito can bite that person and later spread the virus to others. As cases rise across the region, so does the potential for additional local transmission." In addition to increasing aerial and ground treatments in areas showing dengue virus activity, Hillsborough County Mosquito Management Services has also been inspecting private properties for potential mosquito breeding sites, according to local reports. The increased application of insecticide and larvicide by helicopters appears to be working, the Times reported, as, "Of the last 1,500 mosquitoes they've sent for testing, all have returned negative for dengue." The Florida Mosquito Control Association (FMCA) is urging residents to empty or cover standing water around their homes. The mosquito that spreads dengue is a container breeder, meaning it lays eggs in buckets, planters, plant saucers, tires, discarded toys and other objects that collect small amounts of water, experts say. The FMCA also advises people to follow what it calls the "three Ds." TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Many people infected with dengue have no symptoms, and most people who do become sick recover within a week or two, according to Mayo Clinic. In some cases, however, the illness can progress to severe dengue, a potentially life-threatening condition. Warning signs can develop quickly, often within a day or two after the fever subsides. Those may include severe stomach pain, repeated vomiting, unusual bleeding or bruising, difficulty breathing, extreme tiredness and irritability, or restlessness. People experiencing warning signs of severe dengue should seek immediate medical care. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaea82c75342cf4db87a505 'Shut up' and listen: Trace Gallagher shares 'unexpected' wisdom learned from being a 'girl dad' te 2026-09-19T15:20:12.207Z 'Shut up' and listen: Trace Gallagher shares 'unexpected' wisdom learned from being a 'girl dad' For 30 years as a broadcast news anchor, Fox News chief breaking news correspondent Trace Gallagher has built his career on knowing exactly what to say when the camera turns on. Yet when it comes to raising daughters in an increasingly hyper-connected and chaotic world, the veteran newsman says the most powerful tool in a father’s arsenal is paying attention in silence.  "These are different people," Gallagher said with a smile about his two daughters, now 25 and 22. "When they have a problem, they don’t really want you to talk to them about their problem. They just want you to hear them about the problem. You need to sit, you need to shut up and you need to listen." TRACE GALLAGHER: COMMON SENSE IS ALIVE IN AMERICA, WE JUST NEED TO LISTEN  In an era defined by fast-moving feeds, constant commentary and increasing mental health challenges for young women, fathers often fall into the trap of trying to repair, analyze or lecture their way through their daughters' anxieties, he suggested.  Gallagher, who details his parenting journey in his new book "Turns Out They Were Right All Along," admits that overruling his own instincts to speak was an important step in making use of the good advice he's received over a lifetime. "I’m a talkative guy. My career is talking," Gallagher said. "When I was younger with them, I would try to explain what I think." Gallagher figured out that his daughters did want to hear from him. 5 REASONS MORE AMERICANS ARE CUTTING OFF THEIR OWN PARENTS, ACCORDING TO PSYCHOLOGIST What they wanted was to simply be heard. "So then you learn through the years, you just listen, and you nod, and you only jump in when they ask you to jump in," he said. When daughters know their fathers are paying quiet, steady attention without rushing to judge or correct, it fosters a unique sense of security — which Gallagher has learned firsthand. "They want to be heard, they want to get it off their chest," he said. "Instead of screaming and yelling, these girls just want to talk it out. And when requested, they want your advice — but only when requested." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Although he once dreamed of having an "all-American quarterback" son, Gallagher admitted that having girls is "the greatest thing in the world." This active presence extends beyond daily conversations and into how fathers help their daughters build resilience against life's inevitable bumps, he said. Gallagher recalled watching his youngest daughter take a hard fall during a youth soccer match. "I'm looking at her, and she's looking at me, and I said, 'Hey, it's all good. You know, it'll be fine,'" Gallagher recalled. "She scores a goal five minutes later, and she looks over at me.... It is soothing for them to know that somebody is really paying close attention." This contrasts with his mother’s approach when an eight-year-old Gallagher tried to quit football. Instead of making the call for him, his mother — nicknamed "Big Red" — forced him to go to practice and tell the coach himself. By the end of the day, Gallagher was hooked on the game, in part thanks to a coach who likely sensed his hesitation and put him straight to work. "The first couple of weeks, it was just tackling and blocking and calisthenics and jumping jacks and push-ups, and I'm like, "Oh I hate this,'" he recalled. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES "So, I'm sitting in my full pads in my mom's avocado-green recliner ... and I said [to my mother], 'I don't want to play football anymore. I want to quit.' And she said, 'Fine, go quit.' "I walk on to the practice field and the coach looks at me, and he blows the whistle three times, and then he screams at me, 'Gallagher! You're late! Give me five laps.'" Gallagher did as his coach said until he was instructed to get out on the field and stay quiet. And finally, there were footballs. "I fell in love with football and played it through college," he said. "[Coach] saw me coming from a mile away and was not about to let me quit — and my mom knew." TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "And I think that today, kids need to be put in that very same position. If you want to do something, if you want to quit something, you need to do it. You need to fight your own battles." While talent and teamwork are important for being successful in life, the fortitude to show up every day, despite challenges, is what propels most people forward, he indicated. "You build your career, you build your character and you build your esteem. You build your confidence," he said. "Career, confidence, character." In his new book, Gallagher drives home the message that great guidance is "so valuable to young minds." And some of the most valuable life lessons sometimes come at the most unexpected times from the most unexpected people, he said.  "It's so good for young minds and young bodies to get good guidance, but you don't always recognize good guidance," he said. "The best lesson is that wisdom, guidance, advice — it comes at the most unexpected times." "My advice to everybody is listen," he went on.  "Listen to people. Hear them out. Sometimes it hits you like a sledgehammer, and sometimes it seeps in, and you don't really understand it for years. So listen." Khloe Quill of Fox News Digital contributed reporting. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaea82b75342cf4db87a4fc Ole Miss fans open ESPN's 'College GameDay' with a vulgar chant for Lane Kiffin te 2026-09-19T15:20:11.464Z Ole Miss fans open ESPN's 'College GameDay' with a vulgar chant for Lane Kiffin It's here. The game we've had circled since last November is finally here. LSU and Ole Miss. Lane Kiffin,'s return to Oxford nearly 12 months after fleeing town on a jet right before the playoffs. He's been in the safe haven of Baton Rouge all season. Not anymore. Not tonight. 'HE'S DUST': OLE MISS STUDENTS RIP LANE KIFFIN AS LSU COACH PREPARES FOR HATRED IN OXFORD Kiffin and the Tigers are in town ahead of tonight's primetime showdown, and fans spent the morning warming up the vocal chords ahead of kickoff. And by that, I mean they let Kiffin HAVE IT just 30 seconds into ESPN's College GameDay. LANE KIFFIN'S DAUGHTER DISGUSTED BY 'VULGAR' BED SHEET BANNERS ACCUSING HER OF HAVING SEX WITH A PLAYER Take a ... listen: Amazing. This is why college football is the best. Frankly, there's not a close second in terms of atmosphere. Rebel fans are FIRED UP for tonight's game. It's personal for them. Oxford is buzzing right now. The national guard is on hand. Police presence has tripled over the past few days. Hotel prices have soared into the quadruple-digits. The Grove, by all accounts, has been mayhem. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE And it's all because Lane Kiffin ditched town last fall, with Ole Miss on the cusp of a legit national title run, for LSU. It was the biggest story in sports for months. "Would Lane leave?" THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Some thought he'd stay. Others thought he'd go to Florida. But, in the end, LSU was always the logical choice. And so, Lane hopped on his PJ, and left Oxford in the dust. Just like that, he was gone. And the fans were furious. Rightfully so, by the way. Kiffin built Ole Miss into a national championship program, and then bolted before finishing the job. Tonight, he returns. All eyes will be on Oxford. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER LSU. Ole Miss. If this morning's College GameDay was any indication, maybe watch the game on mute if the kiddos aren't in bed yet. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaea5d375342cf4db87a461 Congressman Tom Barrett: 'Being a socialist should disqualify him for people's consideration in my district' te 2026-09-19T15:10:11.903Z Congressman Tom Barrett: 'Being a socialist should disqualify him for people's consideration in my district' Control of Congress may very well run through Michigan's seventh district. Anchored by Lansing, the state capital, it features a large blue city, surrounded by reddish suburbs, and deep red rural areas. It is consistently described as one of the closest swing districts in the country. Freshman Congressman Tom Barrett narrowly won the district in 2024, and is now locked in a tight race with William Lawrence, an activist and founder of the climate change-focused Sunrise Movement. Barrett is a 21-year Army veteran helicopter pilot, who served numerous deployments overseas, before returning to Michigan and spending nearly a decade in the state legislature. 7 REPUBLICANS REBEL AGAINST TRUMP, VOTE WITH DEMS TO REIN IN IRAN WAR POWERS The race has recently been roiled by a series of controversial social media posts. In some of them, Lawrence called the nuclear family "an isolating, violent way of organizing society" and praised campaigns to abolish the police.  He now claims that his views have changed. Barrett argues that the newfound shift is about political expediency, not genuine conviction: "I think we got to take him at his word that this was his absolute true ideology and it wasn't just this one statement that he made. He made repetitive statements against police, calling to not just defund but abolish the police altogether. He wanted to throw open the borders. He said if we're a humane country, we've got to throw open the borders and redistribute all of the wealth.  "He called the nuclear family a violent way to organize society, as you said. Countless other statements that he's made and other things that he has done that show a pattern of behavior that this is not an isolated incident.  "And obviously it's clear to any neutral observer that he is doing this because he is running in a competitive district trying to get elected to Congress. He's not running in Rashida Tlaib's district or AOC's district where they're far more sympathetic to these DSA-aligned socialist candidates. He's running in the district that I live in where I'm raising my own nuclear family." Barrett contends that the implementation of Lawrence's border and immigration policies would pose a clear and present danger to the safety of Americans: "Well, the foremost obvious risk of these open border policies of my opponent is just starting with the public safety threat. So take out all of the other economic factors: just the physical threats to our communities are substantial.  "There are criminal gang activities. We have cartels that were freely operating both ways across the border under the Biden administration. We had upwards of ten or even fifteen million illegal immigrants that came into our country completely unvetted." Barrett also argues that the fentanyl crisis is directly tied to border and immigration policies as well. "The leading cause of death of Americans my age wasn't cancer, wasn't heart disease, it was fentanyl overdose deaths. People that I served with in the military that came home and survived combat and died of fentanyl overdose…because of drugs that were pouring across our border.  "For the first time in my life, we have seen a significant decline in fentanyl overdose deaths, really because of the efforts…to secure our border, and my opponent, William Lawrence, would entirely reverse that, throw the border open again, abolish the police at the same time.  "And we can only assume the outcome of that would be far more Americans dying of fentanyl deaths, as well as gang activity and other tragic circumstances that arise when you have an open border and no public safety to protect Americans." William Lawrence is also a longtime member of the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), but recently claims that he let his membership lapse. Barrett argues that Lawrence remains a fervent believer in socialist ideology, but is merely trying to downplay his true beliefs to win a competitive race: "Well, I think being a socialist should disqualify him for people's consideration in my district. You look at the tenets of socialism and what they want to do and the endorsement of that.  MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE TRIES TO JUSTIFY DELETED POSTS THAT REVEAL FAR-LEFT BELIEFS "My opponent…cleverly claims that he let his membership lapse, I don't know, two weeks before the primary election on the eve of him winning…to face off against me in one of the most competitive congressional races in the country that will arguably decide control of the House of Representatives.  "So he doesn't disavow the democratic socialists…He has embraced all of their positions, gathered all of their support, really benefited from the support of the democratic socialist movement.  "And then when the time comes to defend those positions, he wants to say, well I let my membership lapse so you can't hold me accountable for all their positions. But I didn't leave under any actual disagreement with them. I'm simply leaving for political reasons because he's so focused on trying to win this election in a desperate attempt to not be accountable to his own record, but to distract away from the devastating effects of socialism and what that would mean for our country if he were to be elected." Perhaps the most controversial of Lawrence's statements involved a post expressing frustration and outrage with politicians on climate policy. Lawrence, specifically targeting West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, wrote: 'Hurry up and die so that we can get started." Barrett believes that this type of rhetoric should put the voters of the seventh district on high alert: "Obviously that's entirely inappropriate, something that should really raise the attention of every single reasonable American to say that that's not how we go about our rhetoric here in our country. Politics is a full contact sport…but I've never in my political life, in any campaign, called on political figures to 'F you and hurry up and die.'  "And that shows the radicalization…He was a founding member of the Green New Deal Alliance in Michigan, calling to ban gasoline-powered vehicles that we build in my district that employ thousands of people in my district." Midterm elections generally hinge on economics and affordability issues are driving the political narrative today in tight races around the country. Barrett makes the case that congressional Republicans have delivered on everyday pocketbook issues: "Well, we lowered costs on people's taxes, certainly…and we expanded the child tax credit. We saved families taxes to the expanded standard deduction, streamlined filing for individuals. No taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, no tax on Social Security. I wanna take that a step further and have no taxes health care. Give every American a tax-exempt health savings account and expand the things that they can use it for, for healthy groceries, gym memberships, fitness equipment. "Obviously bring down the cost of gas as well with the conflict in Iran that I have again voted my conscience on as well and want to see gas prices come down and that will affect a lot of other parts of the economy as well around affordability. These are things that we can face.  "But if we hand our country over to radical socialists who are simply going to tax Americans to death and then pass on benefits to illegal immigrants and people who refuse to go to work and participate in the economy. We will be worse off for that. "So this is a very, very important election. I stand on my own merits. I know what I've done here in Congress. It's my job to go out and make the case to the voters in my district, and contrast that with the exact things that my opponent has said what he has stood for and what his pattern of behavior has shown in what he would do if he were elected to Congress." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaea5cc75342cf4db87a42a AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable te 2026-09-19T15:10:04.438Z AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaea5ca75342cf4db87a421 Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes te 2026-09-19T15:10:02.984Z Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaea37e75342cf4db87a3ee SMU vs Louisville could be a college football shootout with the over at 58.5 looking strong te 2026-09-19T15:00:14.109Z SMU vs Louisville could be a college football shootout with the over at 58.5 looking strong Week 0 and Week 1 were not good looks for me. They were brutal results, and I lost a bunch of plays that I shared with readers. Luckily, Week 2 saw me get wins and get some of that cash back, but there is still work to be done. There are quite a few tasty matchups on the docket for today’s College Football schedule. One that stands out to me is this one between SMU and Louisville. Coming into the season, SMU was ranked 19th, and after two victories, they’ve moved up slightly to 16th. The opening game of the Mustangs’ season was not easy and was a strong challenge for them. They faced Florida State in Florida, and despite the Seminoles having struggles lately, this was still a good opponent. They alternated scores all game, but the Mustangs scored first and last, which resulted in a win for the Mustangs. They kicked a game-winning field goal with just 20 seconds remaining. Last week, the team had a significantly easier game, facing UC Davis, and they did exactly what they were expected to do: win, and win big. The team dominated them 56-10. On offense, the team dominated through the air. Kevin Jennings has completed 40-of-52 passes this season for 767 yards and eight touchdowns. He does have two interceptions this year as well, but that might happen as they seem to be a pass-first team. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! The Louisville Cardinals had a tough start to their campaign, but a respectable loss actually moved them up in the rankings as opposed to down. They started the season ranked 24th, and now are sitting at 23rd in the nation after last week’s win. What I liked about their opener against Ole Miss was how impressive their passing game looked. Lincoln Kienholz, the quarterback, was dominant both through the air and on the ground. He racked up 307 yards and two touchdowns through the air, and 69 yards and a touchdown on the ground against Ole Miss. Last week was a much easier game for the Cardinals as they took on Villanova. They pulled out a 59-13 victory over the Wildcats, and once again had their passing attack at the forefront. Kienholz threw for 332 yards and two touchdowns. Again, he wasn’t one-dimensional, getting another two scores on the ground. The defense still looks a bit questionable, but maybe that is more of a sign of how good Ole Miss is than how bad the Cardinals defense is. NEW AP POLL TOP 25 PUNISHES OHIO STATE, OKLAHOMA, OREGON, TEXAS JUMPS TO NO 1 AFTER BIG COMEBACK This game should see a lot of attacks through the air. I am not really comfortable backing either one of the defenses in this game. I do think Louisville might be the right side given that this game is at home for them. However, I like the over 58.5 for the game. I think with two dynamic quarterbacks, the defenses will both struggle. This could be one of the more exciting games of the weekend. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaea12175342cf4db87a37f Trinidad Chambliss leads Ole Miss Rebels offense as Lane Kiffin faces former team in SEC football spotlight te 2026-09-19T14:50:09.081Z Trinidad Chambliss leads Ole Miss Rebels offense as Lane Kiffin faces former team in SEC football spotlight Gee, I wish there were some storylines for this game between the LSU Tigers and the Ole Miss Rebels. There isn’t going to be a game this week that has more attention than this one. I’m excited to see what happens with the crowd as much as I am on the field. The product on the field should be one of the best games of the weekend as well. The LSU Tigers are off to a good start and are currently ranked at 7th in the nation. The main story you’ll hear about is Lane Kiffin, and I feel like I should share my opinion. Lane Kiffin leaving Ole Miss for LSU is… not a big deal. Everyone in the world has goals and desires, and outside of a family business, you're going to work for a competitor if they are paying you more or have a better reputation. That is exactly what you should do. People will get over it, but we all knew this would be a major story this week, and probably much of the season. As for the actual players of this game, it has been a good start against bad teams for the Tigers. They blew out Clemson 51-10 in their first game, and in the second, they took down Louisiana Tech by a final score of 45-14. I’ve got some questions about how much of a leash Sam Leavitt has after throwing four interceptions compared to two touchdowns in his two games. ELLA LANGLEY, DISTRACTIONS AND LANE KIFFIN: PETE GOLDING CALLS OLE MISS-LSU ‘HIGH SCHOOL HOMECOMING’ Ole Miss really shouldn’t feel bad about Kiffin leaving, and so far, they’ve done everything you need to do to make a team and school forget about him. They are 2-0 for the season, winning over one quality opponent and one easier one. Their season opener was against Louisville, and they took them down 41-38 in Week 1. Last week, they beat Charlotte with a final score of 41-9. That was a much more comfortable win, obviously. All eyes tonight will be on quarterback Trinidad Chambliss. He was a key piece of Kiffin’s success at Ole Miss last year. After a court battle giving him eligibility, Chambliss has looked good, going 44-for-62 so far with five touchdowns and one interception. I’ve been impressed with their work on the ground as well. Half of the carries have gone to Kewan Lacy, and he has 148 yards and three touchdowns. I think the biggest question about this game is which one will get the stop when they need it. The game opened somewhat as a pick’em, but has moved in favor of the Tigers taking this one. I do think this will be a very hostile environment for LSU to play in. I also have been really unimpressed with Leavitt. I’m taking the points here, and I do think Ole Miss can win this game outright. Give me the Rebels +3. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae9c7175342cf4db87a2c4 The week Gainesville forgot about football: Inside the terror that gripped Florida during the 1990 murders te 2026-09-19T14:30:09.031Z The week Gainesville forgot about football: Inside the terror that gripped Florida during the 1990 murders College football season in Gainesville is everything. Everything. The town has forever revolved around the Florida Gators. Gainesville is a college town. It's built around the university. As the program goes, so does the town. With all due respect to Miami and FSU, most would argue that Florida is a Gators state. Yes, I know that'll ruffle some feathers. Let's not get caught up on that, please. Just bear with me. My point? Very few things in life can actually take attention away from the Florida Gators during football season — especially with a legend like Steve Spurrier set to return home, this time as the program's head coach. August of 1990 did just that. HOW A PODCAST COMMUNITY HELPED RESTORE THE CONTROVERSIAL 'GATOR BAIT' CHANT FOR FLORIDA FOOTBALL TEAM "I remember at Walmart, the gun line was down the aisle," former UF student Erik Tallbacka told OutKick this week. "When a hurricane's coming, and you're at Home Depot and preparing, there's that kind of electricity, like something's coming. And it was that hurricane sensation. "But it wasn't a hurricane's coming. It was people getting killed every night, for three nights in a row. The whole campus, the whole town, just had that palpable feeling of 'everybody's in this together.'" Earlier this week, I wrote about ESPN's recent 30 for 30 on Danny Rolling, also known as the "Gainesville Ripper." Rolling brutally murdered five students in August 1990 — days before Labor Day weekend and roughly two weeks before the start of a new football season. Rolling was eventually arrested, pled guilty to the murders — along with several in Shreveport, Louisiana — and was later sentenced to death. He died via lethal injection in 2006. Rolling became known as the "Gainesville Ripper." His killing spree, which had no real motive, led to several books, and one movie. The horror franchise "Scream" is loosely based on the Gainesville Murders, according to the screenwriter Kevin Williamson. So, yes — 36 years later, that infamous week is still fresh one everyone's minds. You don't simply live through that and forget, you know? I had dozens of readers reach out to me after I wrote about it on Wednesday — most of them UF alumni who were on campus while Rolling was at large. The word they all used? Horrific. "You could drive down the road or through apartment complexes and people had braces in their windows to keep someone from opening them," remembered Duane Engel. "No one had any clue who was involved." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Of course, there was no social media, either. This was decades before X. Tallbacka said you watched the nightly news for any new information, and that was all you got. Everyone was on edge. "As you walked around town and campus, I remember, if you're going into a store, just looking at everybody, like it could be any guy," he recalled. "And we just had no idea. When you'd go to bed at night, especially by the third day, when there'd been five murders, I mean, that night, you're wondering, is somebody going to break into my apartment? "And so sleeping was weird. I was living with a couple other guys, my girlfriend was living with a couple girls, and we were sleeping over there. And like I mentioned, we didn't have guns. I was a big hunter, but didn't have any guns in college. But we had brought golf clubs and baseball bats and we were sleeping on the couch. Any noise that you heard, you know, a car door slamming, you were just so on edge." Spurrier famously allowed the girlfriends of players to sleep in Yon Hall — a high-security complex where the entire football team lived. Matt Sovic had just returned to campus for his senior year, and attended a party the weekend the murders began. He was staying with friends at Williamsburg Village — the same complex where freshmen Sonja Larson and Christina Powell lived. "I parked my car directly in front of the of the door to the four units that contained the residence of the first victims," he said. "As we left to go party that Saturday night, when my old roommate entered my car he tossed his beer can out of my window and into the yard. "The next day we watched as it was placed into an evidence bag. I can guarantee you that beer in the evidence bag was a tall boy Budweiser. Not knowing yet there was a double murder, we jokingly told our friend he was a suspect for whatever happened now that they had his prints." Rolling murdered five students from Aug. 24 to Aug. 27. Four of them were females with brunette hair and brown eyes, the same as his mother. The fifth was 23-year-old Manny Taboada — a 6-foot-2, 200-pound male. "It wasn’t until we found out he killed that massive guy, who worked on the corner of Acher and I think 34th, that all the egos took a fall on campus," remembered Kevin Letize, who was just starting his senior year. "We all thought it was a typical perv killer until that came out. "Once the big kid was killed, all the 'tough' students took it much more seriously." So, how does football fit into all of this? Well, it really doesn't — beyond, perhaps, a much-needed bookend to the most terrifying week in the history of the town. After much discussion, Florida, and Spurrier, kicked off the new season Sept. 8 against Oklahoma State. The murders had stopped, at least for a few days, but a lot of students had left for good by then. The ones who stayed did their best to get back to some sort of normalcy. The Gators won, 50-7. Shane Matthews instantly became a household name. Spurrier had revived Florida football. More importantly, the team had revived a town in desperate need of a reason to smile. "I've never seen a place so terrorized," said Glenn Summers. Added Tallbacka: "I guess everybody was in a fog. But I think by the time that game happened, it had been over a week since anybody been killed. And I do think, in retrospect, watching that game brought everybody back to normalcy. It wasn't just going to class and classes are canceled. And every night for three nights, somebody has been killed. "By the time a week went by, by the time the football game happened, I think that must have been when everybody finally relaxed. I think that was the conclusion." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae9a1b75342cf4db87a264 Strange rock catches scientist's eye during creek search, leading to rare discovery te 2026-09-19T14:20:11.395Z Strange rock catches scientist's eye during creek search, leading to rare discovery A scientist surveying a California creek recently stumbled across something unexpected: a tooth from the mouth of an Ice Age giant. The discovery of the tooth, which belonged to an ancient Pacific mastodon, was announced by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (Midpen) in San Mateo County, California. Mastodons were massive, elephant-like herbivores that went extinct roughly 11,700 years ago, near the end of the last Ice Age. SHOCKING PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY ON NJ BEACH '100%' CAME FROM COLOSSAL ANCIENT PREDATOR The tooth was found in a Midpen preserve creek by Brigid Lynch, a Balance Hydrologics geomorphologist who was surveying the area as part of an effort to improve the habitat of the threatened California red-legged frog. "As a geologist, I've gone out and seen stuff in the field, but definitely nothing as exciting as this," Lynch said in a release. Pictures of the molar show its strange shape, which Lynch initially thought was an oddly shaped rock. The tooth is in "immaculate condition," Wayne Thompson, CEO of Pacific Paleontology, told Fox News Digital in an interview.  T REX FOOTPRINTS UNEARTHED IN FIRST-EVER DISCOVERY 66 MILLION YEARS AFTER CREATURE WALKED THE EARTH Thompson, whose job it was to examine the fossil and assess the site where it was discovered, said the tooth likely dates back between 50,000 and 100,000 years, based on where it was found. "There is a lot of misinformation going around about the age of the tooth," he said. "Most of the reports out [there] are saying it's 10,000 years old, but it's not 10,000 years. "From the location where the specimen was found, we can pretty confidently say that it’s much, much older than 11,700 years — probably on the order between 50 and 100,000 years," he added. ANCIENT OCEAN MYSTERY DEEPENS AS LONG-MISIDENTIFIED FOSSIL IS FINALLY REVEALED BY RESEARCHERS Thompson said the condition of the tooth also offers clues about what happened to it after the mastodon died, noting that it "hadn't moved very much in the stream where the creature died." "Mastodon teeth are — the roots are extremely fragile — and this one had the majority of the roots of the molar still preserved with it intact, and so, it wasn't tumbled around in the stream," he said. The paleontologist believes the rest of the animal may still be at the site. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "It probably recently came out of the skull and the skull, along with the rest of the bones, are still buried out there," he said. It is "extremely rare" to find a mastodon molar in such well-preserved condition, Thompson said. "It doesn't happen often. ... [It's] quite uncommon," he said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Looking ahead, researchers from Stanford University's Doerr School of Sustainability plan to carbon date the molar to determine its exact age. Researchers will also create a 3-D scan of the tooth, which will be used to produce a replica. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Thompson said mastodons favored creek and river valleys, browsing on leaves rather than grazing on grasses as mammoths did. Alder trees, he said, were among their preferred food sources — and they still line the creek where the tooth was found. "Even today, when we went out to the site to inspect where the biological monitor was surveying, there were still hundreds of alders along the stream," Thompson said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae9a1a75342cf4db87a25b John Ritter's widow Amy Yasbeck details the fatal misdiagnosis she says led to his death te 2026-09-19T14:20:10.668Z John Ritter's widow Amy Yasbeck details the fatal misdiagnosis she says led to his death Amy Yasbeck reveals John Ritter was misdiagnosed with a heart attack the night he died, when a CT scan could have detected his aortic dissection. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae97c375342cf4db87a220 Sedona residents create a rec center wish list te 2026-09-19T14:10:11.930Z Sedona residents create a rec center wish list 65 people turned out for the city’s second Community Conversation The general sentiment from the 65 people who came out to Sedona City Council’s second Community Conversation at Community Library Sedona on Wednesday, Sept. 9, is that residents would like an indoor pool if a future recreation center Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae956e75342cf4db87a1ac Heidi Klum officially kicks off Oktoberfest with annual tapping of the keg, Lane Kiffin memes & bad highways te 2026-09-19T14:00:14.090Z Heidi Klum officially kicks off Oktoberfest with annual tapping of the keg, Lane Kiffin memes & bad highways As I dump out this fresh edition of Saturday Screencaps, it's a wet, cloudy, rainy, cool, miserable morning that will eventually make for an amazing day of college football once I get done watching 4th grade soccer and junior high cross-country. Let's get this morning rolling with some beer news, since so many of you are going to sit home and crush beers and watch college football. This week, Heidi Klum held her annual tapping of the Hofbrau keg in Hollywood, where she threw her annual party. Drink up, fellas. It's officially Oktoberfest. AMERICA'S BIGGEST BEER-LOVING STATES REVEALED — SEE WHERE YOURS RANKS If that Instagram embed doesn't load, try this TikTok embed. 📩 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 Make sure you're opening it. Don’t hurt the open rate. • As a guy who roots for content, I'm taking LSU -3 and the OVER. Feels like a 35-31 game. A last-second loss for Ole Miss could result in cars burning. Let's hope it doesn't get too out of control in Oxford tonight. Yes, they sell beer at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. • Was I right or was I right? Where are all the emailers who called me an idiot for my Wendy's prediction? You're damn right I'm not going to pat myself on the back. Some are even calling me #NostraKinsey. • I need you guys to tell me where the worst stretches of highways are in the United States. I-75 through Monroe, MI is horrendous (granted, they're working on it right now), but there's a new stretch that is absolutely awful and embarrassing. I spent 4 1/2 hours driving home yesterday and there was a 40-mile stretch that had me dropping verbal f-bombs. While I was typing, I thought about a stretch of I-71 into Louisville where I was equally pissed off. As a matter of fact, haven't I called Louisville highways as absolute sh-tholes? NFL COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL CONFIRMS LEAGUE WANTS MULTIPLE TEAMS BASED OUTSIDE THE US: 'NO DOUBT' • Best new business I've seen all week: a folding table business that popped up this week in Buffalo. The guy running this operation told me his boss told him to stand at the Big Tree Inn and sell tables. Yep, wait until Bills fans get drunk and want to create content. The idea is that they'll need a table to break and money will be no object. This is American capitalism at its finest. • This week, Roger Goodell made sure to hint, again, that the NFL really, really wants a team in London. Today, we're getting. Kansas vs. Arizona State in London. Drip...drip...drip. It's going to seem bizarre when the NFL announces a London franchise, but it's coming, guys. Give Roger three years before the announcement. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE In total, London football fans will get four games this fall — today's college game and three upcoming NFL games. The writing is on the wall. – Eric P. in the PnW asks: I need assistance on whether I should join a country club , and more specifically, one of the nicest in the state of Washington. Sure, it was a beautiful 75 degree day yesterday when I had the chance to try the course, which is difficult but would improve my game. but pretty soon the weather will hit and it’s at the base of the mountains, so Nov-Feb. are more than likely limited play times. The fact that it’s one of the nicest courses  the Senior tour  plays at helps; But it’s 25 miles from my house, so I wouldn’t necessarily use the practice facilities or restaurant as much as I should.  i’d have to play 10-12 times a month to make the monthly dues acceptable. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! I’m on the fence as they offered me a great deal with two years to pay off the initiation with no interest; a years free dues and cart and a huge food credit.     I’d love to hear from someone that has joined a club and loved it. And someone that has joined a club and regretted it.  And it’s even nicer surroundings  than the photos show. Kinsey: This is a great question and is actually something I've been throwing around in my head. There's a country club a mile down the road that I've contemplated joining. Screencaps Jr. wants to play golf, which is great, but it's also $100 for he and I to play a 2 1/2 star course. He and I would need to play five times a month to get the value out of the membership. Seems doable. But then I wonder if there will be burnout. Would we really want to play the same course 35 times a year? SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER #################### That is it this morning. Stay safe if you're in Mississippi. For the rest of us, stay dry, have a great weekend and let's go finish off summer. Fall arrives next week. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae931275342cf4db87a155 Former ESPN anchor smears Caitlin Clark fans with sweeping, false accusations of racism | Matt Calkins te 2026-09-19T13:50:10.606Z Former ESPN anchor smears Caitlin Clark fans with sweeping, false accusations of racism | Matt Calkins Did you know that Caitlin Clark is an "avatar for people who want to spread hate"? Because Cari Champion does. Did you know that the fans who latched onto her are just middle Americans "who want to see White women do well in a sport that's traditionally Black"? THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Champion's all over that, too. The former ESPN anchor would also like you to know that Clark hasn't done enough to give Black players their respect, and that the WNBA is coddling Caitlin and her "MAGA" fans to the detriment of the league. She shared these insights in separate podcasts with Jemele Hill and Bakari Sellers. It was all very enlightening. And by enlightening I mean ridiculous. No doubt that Clark — the most popular women's basketball player ever — has displayed traits that warrant criticism. She can be petulant. She can be hostile toward refs. And she's about to lead the league in turnovers for the third consecutive season. But the racial narratives the media manufactures with her are as absurd as the maligning of her fan base. Who's really the hateful one here? Let's start with Champion's notion that Clark's fans are essentially country bumpkins looking for a white face to cheer for. This makes no sense. Sue Bird, Dianna Taurasi, Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu, and Kelsey Plum were all No. 1 overall picks who won the Wooden Award in their final year of college. All White — but none were selling out arenas. ELLE DUNCAN BLAMES CAITLIN CLARK, HER FANS FOR MEDIA SMEAR CAMPAIGN WHILE IGNORING FACTS That's because they weren't pulling up from 28 feet ten times a game en route to setting the all-time NCAA scoring record while leading the country in assists for three straight years. Clark didn't rise to fame because she played college basketball unlike any woman who's come before her, she did it because she played college hoops unlike any person had before. Given how popular athletes such as Serena Williams and Simone Biles were, it seems silly to think Clark wouldn't have achieved the same notoriety if she were Black. Plus, wasn't it LeBron James who posted "if you don't rock with Caitlin Clark's game you're just a FLAT OUT HATER!!!!!"? And isn't it Tyrese Haliburton who's a courtside regular at her Fever games? Could just be me, but those guys don't look very White. Next, there is Champion's assertion that Clark's fans are trying to "spread hate." Or that the league looks the other way when this "entitled" and "nasty" fan base "behaves like MAGA." She went so far as to say that Clark supporters can't accept other players' "queerness" or "blackness." Really? The source Clark detractors always cite is online vitriol, and there's no doubt that exists. But such vitriol never seems to be quantified in a way that's comparable to other famous athletes' fan bases. The unfortunate truth is that there are always going to be internet trolls who want to denigrate people behind their cat avatar on X. But are there any examples in which Clark fans crossed the line from online noise into real-world harassment? SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER In 2024, Brittney Griner said "I don’t appreciate the new fans that sit there and yell racial slurs at myself, my teammates and the people that I play against." But she provided no specifics or evidence to substantiate the claim, and though she didn’t single out Fever fans as the culprits, there was a strong implication that they were. Similarly, in May of last year, Angel Reese claimed that Fever fans hurled racist comments her way during a game. But after a review involving fans, team and arena staff and audio and video from the game, the WNBA said it could not substantiate the allegation. Does this mean it never happened? Not necessarily. But concrete evidence of Clark fans acting in a hateful manner — at least in real time — is severely lacking. What's not lacking, however, is the hostility toward Clark and her fans. Champion said that Clark being heterosexual, White and Catholic helped bring a new fan base that the WNBA is "coddling" for the sake of business. First of all, Clark being the most entertaining women's basketball player in the world is what brought in all those new fans — but could you imagine the inverse of that statement? That if a broadcaster bemoaned the "coddling" of a gay, Black and Muslim fan base? Instant cancellation. But Champion goes on. And she seems to disapprove of Clark not going out of her way to highlight Black players in a league that is 70 percent Black. She wishes Caitlin could be more like Wings point guard Paige Bueckers, who, in her 2021 ESPY's speech, said that Black women's basketball players were being overlooked. OK. Two things. 1)Every women's basketball player was being overlooked before Clark came on the scene. Her arrival elevated the popularity of players Black and White alike. 2) Could you imagine if a pundit said that Tiger Woods should do more to highlight his white peers in a white-dominated sport? Or that Shohei Ohtani should thank all the white players that came before him? Outrage would justifiably ensue. So let's stop with that idea. Sports leagues are not built on color. They are built on talent. Saying white players such as Clark or Bueckers should pay homage to their Black peers is as absurd as saying Steph Curry and Jalen Brunson should pay homage to their tall peers. It's about the individual. And if we're being honest here, Clark's race and sexual orientation may very well be working against her. Last year, after being called for a foul involving Clark, Griner was caught on camera saying what appeared to be "trash, f---ing White girl." Then, there was this year's All-Star voting, where Caitlin was ranked second among guards by the fans, third by the media....and 11th by the players. One might say this was pure jealousy, except that Kelsey Plum, who is also white and straight, finished sixth among fans, fifth among media and 12th among players. The year before, it went 6-6-16 for Plum. Most of us who follow Clark are aware of the hits she takes on the court, whether it's Chennedy Carter hip-checking her to the ground or Alyssa Thomas making closed-fist contact with her throat. But the hits are just as blatant from within press boxes or studios — and it's fair to question people's motivation. No one here is saying Caitlin or her supporters are above criticism. But all of Champion's rhetoric about Clark and her supposedly bigoted fan base? Some might see it as provocation. I can't help but wonder if it's projection. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae931175342cf4db87a14c 'Resident Evil' Review: Director Zach Cregger delivers infectious reboot to gory video game franchise te 2026-09-19T13:50:09.834Z 'Resident Evil' Review: Director Zach Cregger delivers infectious reboot to gory video game franchise Zach Cregger might not be your cup of tea, but his incredible gift behind the camera cannot be ignored.  The writer/director comes armed with absolute terror and hilarity, two things that seem incompatible on the surface, yet he's able to blend seamlessly.   And his latest horror film, "Resident Evil," is no different.  BOX OFFICE COMEBACK: HOW SUMMER 2026 OFFERS A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR HOLLYWOOD IN THE POST-COVID ERA If "Resident Evil" sounds familiar, that's because it's a long-running video game franchise that turned into a long-running movie franchise starring Milla Jovovich.  In this version of "Resident Evil," her character Alice is nowhere to be found. Instead, it stars Austin Abrams, who plays a medical courier named Bryan urgently tasked with delivering what he believes is a vital organ to a hospital in Raccoon City. 'THE DOG STARS' REVIEW: JACOB ELORDI FIGHTS FOR SURVIVAL IN RIDLEY SCOTT'S DULL POST-APOCALYPTIC WESTERN What was supposed to be a quiet, uneventful drive devolves into a series of unfortunate events for Bryan, the cause of which stems from a lab leak of a virus (we all know how easily this can happen, right?) developed by the Umbrella Corporation that transforms organisms into what can only be described as ungodly monsters from the darkest of nightmares. The "Resident Evil" movies we've been used to feature Jovovich being a gun-slinging badass with a zombie body count in the thousands. Here, the scrawny Bryan can barely figure out how to turn the safety off. He's not your knight in shining armor — in fact, he's kind of an idiot. Yet, there's something endearing and relatable about him.  It was a bold choice for Cregger to cast Abrams as Bryan. You may recognize Abrams for his stints in "Euphoria" and "This Is Us" or various movies, like Cregger's 2025 Oscar-winning breakout "Weapons," but he hasn't been the star of such a high-profile project, particularly as big as this. His performance is able to generate big laughs as he maintains such seriousness (after all, Bryan is literally fighting for survival). "Resident Evil" should hopefully mark a new chapter in Abrams' career as a leading man — because he's certainly capable. Abrams is essentially a one-man show, but Paul Walter Hauser ("Richard Jewell," "I, Tonya"), Kali Reis ("True Detective") and Zach Cherry ("Severance") make memorable, albeit brief, appearances. ‘MUTINY’ REVIEW: JASON STATHAM TAKES NO PRISONERS IN MINDLESS BUT AMUSING BRAWLER FLICK ON THE HIGH SEAS As a fan of the original source material, Cregger brings the video game experience to life, playing around with first-person angles as we see from Bryan's view of where he's aiming his gun, or the tracking shot as we follow him in the snowy terrain or an eerily quiet house. He and co-writer Shay Hatten (who wrote the more recent "John Wick" installments) were able to stick the landing by juggling bloody thrills with gallows humor.  And no offense to Cregger's franchise predecessor Paul W.S. Anderson, but the production value is just far superior in this "Resident Evil" between the cinematography from Oscar nominee Dariusz Wolski ("The Martian"), the score from brothers Hays and Ryan Holladay and the editing from Joe Murphy (all of whom worked on "Weapons" and Cregger's solo feature debut "Barbarian") as well as the gruesome special effects and makeup work.  ‘THE END OF OAK STREET’ REVIEW: ANNE HATHAWAY, EWAN MCGREGOR FIGHT DINOSAURS IN SURPRISINGLY FUN MOVIE While it's difficult to rank this higher than "Barbarian" and "Weapons" ("Barbarian" is still my favorite of the three), Cregger is flexing his muscles taking on a Hollywood franchise and has cemented his status among the small elite group of rising filmmakers who have had such a strong streak so early in their careers (think Jordan Peele or Yorgos Lanthimos). And if he keeps it up, perhaps he can reach Christopher Nolan's status where audiences flock to see his movies because the man in the director's chair has become the real star.  CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MEDIA AND CULTURE NEWS "Resident Evil" comes back to life in this fun, infectious reboot thanks to Zach Cregger's brilliance behind the camera and Austin Abrams' charming performance as an unlikely lead in front of it. If you can't stomach the gore, this isn't for you. But for those who get a kick out of it, get that bucket of popcorn ready. "Resident Evil" is rated R for strong bloody violence, gore and language throughout. Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes. In theaters now. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae89b875342cf4db879fdb NEWT GINGRICH: Xi is coming to Washington. He should bring one unexpected guest te 2026-09-19T13:10:16.708Z NEWT GINGRICH: Xi is coming to Washington. He should bring one unexpected guest When Chinese President Xi Jinping comes to Washington to meet with President Donald J. Trump next week, the agenda will be crowded. The two men will talk trade, artificial intelligence, investment and international competition — and ultimately the future of the world’s most important bilateral relationship. Reports indicate Xi is preparing to bring a substantial delegation of Chinese business executives with him — a sign of China’s interest in strengthening ties with America. No doubt, Xi wants President Trump to reduce tariffs on Chinese goods and ease other trade restrictions that are throttling China’s economy. WHAT XI WANTS FROM TRUMP AS BEIJING SEEKS LEVERAGE IN HIGH-STAKES SUMMIT But if Xi wants to amplify this signal and show that he’s genuinely interested in playing fair with the West, he should bring another man: Jimmy Lai. PRESIDENT TRUMP REVEALS XI JINPING'S RESPONSE TO POSSIBLY RELEASING IMPRISONED CHINESE CRITIC JIMMY LAI Lai is 78 years old. He is a British Catholic, newspaper publisher and longtime advocate of democracy in Hong Kong. In December 2025, a Hong Kong court convicted him of national security and sedition offenses (which were based on a ludicrous, draconian Chinese security law). On Feb. 9, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. For a man of his age, this is effectively a life sentence. Lai’s detention was clearly an example of the Chinese Communist Party seeking to silence public dissent in Hong Kong. It was nearly universally rejected by the Western world. President Trump has been calling for Lai’s release since he campaigned in 2024. He reportedly brought it up again with Xi when they met in May, telling reporters prior to the meeting that "[Lai] tried to do the right thing. He wasn't successful. Went to jail, and people would like him out. And I'd like to see him get out, too. So, I'll bring him up again. I have brought him up." TRUMP LEAVES CHINA WITH BREAKTHROUGHS — AND UNFINISHED BUSINESS ON XI’S BIGGEST FIGHTS In addition to President Trump’s disapproval of Lai’s incarceration, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for his immediate release. Other governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other G7 countries, have also called for Lai’s release. He has spent more than five years in prolonged solitary confinement amid, at times, incredibly hot summer conditions. This time does not count toward his two-decade sentence. He reportedly has a litany of health problems that require close monitoring, including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart issues and crippling fatigue. All the while, Lai has been denied independent specialist medical treatment. While Hong Kong authorities claim his prosecution was a matter of national security, it is clear Lai is merely being punished for participating in journalism and peaceful political activity that criticized the Chinese government. PASTOR FREED FROM CHINESE PRISON AFTER TRUMP RAISED HIS CASE WITH XI JINPING If President Xi wants to make a strong impression — and clearly communicate that he is serious about seeking a better relationship with President Trump and the U.S. — he should bring Lai with him to Washington and release him to the care of his family. Releasing Lai would not automatically settle disagreements over tariffs, Taiwan’s independence, rare earth minerals, technology trade, industrial policy, human rights or a host of other complex issues, but it would be a strong signal of good faith. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Releasing and exonerating Lai could be a strong step toward resetting what has been a difficult international relationship between the U.S. and China. It would certainly begin Xi’s discussions with President Trump on a good note. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM NEWT GINGRICH Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae89b875342cf4db879fd2 Lawyer says 250-foot Trump arch disrupts historic sightlines cherished by veterans seeking burial at Arlington te 2026-09-19T13:10:16.013Z Lawyer says 250-foot Trump arch disrupts historic sightlines cherished by veterans seeking burial at Arlington President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot arch at Memorial Circle in Washington, D.C.—which he said would be the largest in the world—is being opposed by three Vietnam veterans who say the project would block views between the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, and Arlington House, some of the most well-known views in and around the city. Veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, and Jon Gundersen—along with architectural historian Calder Loth—have been engaged in a months-long legal battle with the Trump administration over the "Great Triumphal Arch". "Our plaintiffs are three Vietnam veterans and an architectural historian. All of them have a deep personal relationship with Arlington National Cemetery," Nicolas Sansone, an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group representing the plaintiffs, told Fox News Digital. "Two of our veteran plaintiffs hope to be buried there." DEMS UNLOAD ON TRUMP’S LATEST DC UPDATE WITH ‘CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST’ BROADSIDE, LEGAL PUSH Trump has said the arch should be built near Arlington National Cemetery, which serves as the final resting place for more than 400,000 military service members. Critics of the project contend that the planned structure is disrespectful to the solemn character of the cemetery. In addition, the Trump administration acknowledged in a planning document that the project will have "adverse effects on historic properties". "Such adverse effects cannot be fully avoided while retaining the location-dependent purpose of the undertaking," the National Park Service wrote in the document. The nation's capital was designed to keep historic landmarks from being obscured by other structures, Sansone said. LINCOLN MEMORIAL'S HIDDEN 15,000-SQUARE-FOOT UNDERCROFT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC AFTER A CENTURY UNDERGROUND "One of the sort of central design features is that the capital has been laid out in a very deliberate way to create this uninterrupted view between the Lincoln Memorial on the east side of the Potomac River and Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, on the west side in Arlington National Cemetery," he said. "So our plaintiffs… are really sort of concerned about the impact that this sort of enormous structure is going to have on that sort of historic symbolic view that each of them finds really meaningful," he added. GOLDEN EAGLES, LIONS AND A WINGED LADY LIBERTY TOP TRUMP'S PROPOSED 250-FOOT DC TRIUMPHAL ARCH DESIGNS Earlier this month, the administration announced that excavation work for the project would begin within the next two weeks. The plaintiffs have asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order to keep the project from moving forward, saying it can't be built without authorization from Congress. TRUMP SIGNS ACT CLEARING THE WAY FOR MEDAL OF HONOR MONUMENT ON NATIONAL MALL The Trump administration has cited a 1925 law that originally authorized a pair of 166-foot columns in Washington, D.C., that were never built. Administration officials argue that past congressional approval grandfathers the triumphal arch project and allows them to avoid authorization from Congress. "The idea is that really it's just an institutional question of who gets to decide: Is it one person, the person sitting in the White House, or should it be a sort of democratic deliberative process to sort of figure out what these monuments should look like, where they should be situated, what they should commemorate, and the like," Sansone said. "Congress's authorization to have a particular project built at a particular time subject to a specific price cap by a now-disbanded commission can't reasonably be relied on to authorize a totally different independent project that's going to cost way more money centuries into the future," he added. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae89b775342cf4db879fc9 Women turn to testosterone for low sex drive as doctors confront treatment ‘experimentation’ te 2026-09-19T13:10:15.333Z Women turn to testosterone for low sex drive as doctors confront treatment ‘experimentation’ When women ask their doctors about taking testosterone to help with menopause symptoms, they can run into insurance rejections, confusing workarounds and dosing guesswork, as no testosterone product is FDA-approved for women in the U.S. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) convened a public workshop to examine the evidence, safety and research gaps surrounding testosterone therapy for menopausal women. Interest in testosterone therapy has grown as more women seek treatment for symptoms such as low sexual desire, fatigue and reduced quality of life during menopause — yet the lack of an FDA-approved product has left physicians relying on off-label prescribing and compounded formulations. MELINDA FRENCH GATES SAYS IT TOOK 3 DOCTORS TO DIAGNOSE THE CONDITION SHE WAS SUFFERING FROM Dr. Kudzai Dombo, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, Menopause Society-certified practitioner, and prescribing physician at Alloy Health, said she sees this dynamic playing out daily in her own Los Angeles practice. Once patients get settled on standard estrogen and progesterone regimens, "The immediate next question is, do I need testosterone?" Dombo told Fox News Digital. Although women may hear about a wide range of potential benefits on social media and from friends, current evidence-based guidelines support testosterone therapy for only one indication: hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), or persistently low sexual desire. Clinical evidence supporting its use for energy, mood, bone health or sleep remains limited — though many patients are eager to try it for those secondary benefits, according to Dombo. Because no female-specific formulation exists, doctors must navigate off-label workarounds. They typically choose between using custom compounding pharmacies or micro-dosing FDA-approved male gel packets, which patients must carefully measure out at home. ALZHEIMER'S RISK MAY BE 35% LOWER WITH COMMON MENOPAUSE TREATMENT, STUDY FINDS This lack of standardized options creates administrative and financial hurdles. Because the therapy is off-label, insurance routinely denies coverage, forcing clinicians and patients to improvise — a frustration that Dombo experienced firsthand. "When I was prescribed testosterone, my insurance denied coverage, and my physician recommended a compounded cream to avoid the administrative burden," Dombo recalled. "I said, 'Well, I've already tried compounded and I actually want to try the gel.'" Using a discount coupon, she paid out of pocket and discovered that a 10-month supply of male gel packets was actually cheaper than a single month of compounded cream. "It's just an example, I think, of how we have to adapt to a system that has not supported patients when it comes to access to testosterone therapy," she said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES Dosing male products can also present clinical challenges. Dombo described a patient in her private practice who precisely measured out one-tenth of a male gel packet daily using a syringe. Despite three months of consistency, follow-up bloodwork showed no change in hormone levels, and the patient experienced no symptom relief. "We're left to kind of decide, 'Well, what now?'" Dombo said. "It's all experimentation ... We don't have a set guideline for how to be able to do this for women. We have to rely on the art of medicine." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER The latest federal meeting represents a critical step forward, according to Dombo, who believes grassroots advocacy from patients and clinicians is forcing regulatory action. "We're not going to stop knocking on the door, because there are several of us who believe that women deserve to be able to have access to just what they need," she said. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "Sexual health is part of your entire health," Dombo emphasized, expressing optimism that regulatory agencies will eventually adapt to support safer, standardized access. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae89b675342cf4db879fc0 Deprogrammed: Former DSA insider reveals ‘frightening’ socialist agenda drove him from ‘extreme’ ideology te 2026-09-19T13:10:14.592Z Deprogrammed: Former DSA insider reveals ‘frightening’ socialist agenda drove him from ‘extreme’ ideology Jake Altman, a former executive board member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in Boston, is sounding the alarm about the organization’s efforts to "force their agenda down other people's throats." "I had been involved in my local union and met some people who were far, far to the left, in like, a frightening way. I was looking for a more pragmatic and thoughtful option on the left that was focused on economic policy," Altman told Fox News Digital. "One of the concerns I had very quickly was that [the] DSA was beginning to sound more and more like those extreme groups on the left that I, you know, certainly didn't want anything to do with," he continued. FORMER DSA MEMBER ALLEGES COMMUNISTS HAVE ‘CAPTURED’ SOCIALIST GROUP, WARNS DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NEXT Altman went on to recall an incident in 2017 that raised his concerns, when the DSA elected longtime Austin, Texas, activist Danny Fetonte to its National Political Committee. A few weeks after his election, Fetonte "abruptly resigned from his position at DSA, and encouraged others to question their membership with the group." His departure from the organization came after the DSA found that Fetonte had worked for the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT) — a police union — and a reality that Altman called "troubling." DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS ERUPT OVER 2028 ENDORSEMENT AS AOC SPECULATION GROWS: 'DANGEROUS PATH' The former DSA leader recalled voicing concern in 2019 after the DSA issued a statement that he characterized as "defending or apologizing for the Maduro regime." "I raised a concern about that … and I said, DSA should be denouncing Maduro … the Democratic socialists and social Democrats in Venezuela are in the opposition — there should be free and fair elections," he continued. "The person disagreed with me and defended, you know, essentially defended the Maduro regime," Altman revealed. WAR ERUPTS ON FAR LEFT AS DSA ENDORSES CHALLENGER AGAINST SITTING HOUSE PROGRESSIVE "Flash forward to today … you have DSA members saying, Bernie Sanders, AOC, they're not socialists," Altman relayed. "They're willing to fall over themselves apologizing for any regime that opposes the United States, simply because it opposes the United States," he added. "In [the] DSA right now, you've seen a marriage between more traditional Marxist utopianism and what you might call third worldism … boiling it down [it’s] this view that America is a unique evil in the world and that its enemies have a point," he said. "I personally think that just given the organization and the structure inside, that a lot of dissident voices have been silenced. A lot of dissident voices have left the organization. My advice would be [to] leave," Altman said. Fox News Digital reached out to the DSA for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae89b575342cf4db879fb7 Philly serial killer probe could expose larger network behind apparent 'snuff' films, expert says te 2026-09-19T13:10:13.884Z Philly serial killer probe could expose larger network behind apparent 'snuff' films, expert says The potential serial killer investigation involving gruesome images discovered at the home of a dead pornographer could take a much darker turn if it turns out the sadistic images were being distributed to a wider network, according to a prominent police and forensic psychologist. Raymond "RC" Horsch, an 82-year-old who produced brutally themed pornography and books, died last year. But after his son Eugene Horsch, 44, was arrested in June on charges involving unlawful firearms and forgery, police made a series of unsettling discoveries at the family home on Chew Avenue in Philly's Olney neighborhood. WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO PAYING FOR SEXUAL TORTURE VIDEOS INVOLVING MONKEYS FOR ONLINE GROUP: 'SICK PERSON' The findings include alleged "snuff" videos believed to show multiple missing women and a drum of chemicals hooked up to the water system. FOX HOLLOW CORONER REVEALS WHY HE DOUBTS SUSPECTED SERIAL KILLER ACTED ALONE IN HUNT FOR ANSWERS "The fact that the father was involved in the pornographic industry indicates that there may have been, in addition to the sadistic motives that we usually see in serial murders, that there may have been profit in distribution of so-called snuff films," said Dr. Kris Mohandie, a board-certified forensic psychologist. So far, police say the Horsch home has been linked to the cases of seven missing women, at least five of whom are believed to be dead. No homicide charges had been filed as of Friday. SEN LANKFORD ACCUSES PORNHUB OF 'PREYING ON CHILDREN' IN BLISTERING LETTER RC Horsch was a convicted producer of methamphetamines and an author of sexually explicit and violent books. In one, 2014's "Empathy," there is a chapter about dissolving a murdered woman's body with boiling chemicals. Amazon and Goodreads de-listed the volume Friday. 9/11 VICTIM'S IDENTITY EMERGES NEARLY 25 YEARS LATER AFTER DNA BREAKTHROUGH CRACKS MYSTERY Philadelphia police have said they found more than a million pieces of digital evidence, including photos and videos, inside the home. As of Friday, they'd only reviewed less than a third of it — and they've allegedly identified four of the missing women in those images. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X FLORIDA ‘SADIST’ CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY BEING HIRED BY UK WOMAN TO TORTURE AND KILL HER Two have been publicly identified: Gabrielle Amarando and Maribel Fresses. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS The video evidence was particularly alarming to Mohandie. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE "This may very well be in addition to all the heinous alleged crimes that seem to be part of this, you know, abduction, rape torture and so forth, things that sadistic offenders will do to victims — there may very well also have been a participation in distributing so-called snuff films to underground networks of people that are into this stuff," Mohandie said. "It's scary, and I'm hoping that the investigators are able to resolve some of those questions." INVESTIGATORS REVISIT FLORIDA SERIAL KILLER CASE AS SEARCH RESUMES FOR POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL VICTIMS At the time of Eugene Horsch's arrest in the spring, authorities have alleged a woman with him was carrying the ID of one of the missing women. GOT A TIP? Excavation crews have been seen searching outside and under the home, including the sewers. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST The younger Horsch has not been charged in connection with the missing women. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL The investigation remains ongoing. Fox News' Alexis McAdams and Kimberly Ruiz contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae89b475342cf4db879fa8 Going global: ASU open to play playing more international games in more sports te 2026-09-19T13:10:12.248Z Going global: ASU open to play playing more international games in more sports LONDON – Under trademark grey London skies, tourists crammed the entrance to the Adidas Flagship store on Oxford Street on Friday, standing shoulder to shoulder. It’s not uncommon for the store to be so busy. It’s located on a road that has been coined the busiest shopping street in Europe.  The peculiar aspect of this day came from the uniformity in color of the tourists’ attire – maroon and gold – and their willingness to sing along to the tunes of a marching band that flew in from more than 5,000 miles away.  Arizona State athletic director Graham Rossini smiled as he watched, admiring the crowd of ASU football fans. Given that this was only the Sun Devils’ second-ever international game, it wasn’t clear how many Arizona State fans would show up in London. Leading up to ASU’s game in the Union Jack Classic on Saturday, the early returns looked good for the university. “(It’s) just been an unbelievable turnout from the Sun Devil nation,” Rossini said. “We got in Sunday, right off of the game at College Station; the yellow shirts were at the airport here at the airport, and it’s only grown ever since.” With their fans showing up in droves across the pond, Sun Devil Athletics has begun discussions to go global again.  Arizona State’s football team will likely stay within the U.S. borders – at least for now. If ASU plans to open another international school, and a perfect scenario springs up, it might get called off the bench again, but coach Kenny Dillingham’s test run in London has opened the door for other ASU sports to explore international opportunities.  “We do have several sports that we’re talking about international play,” Rossini said. “It needs to be the right situation. We want to make sure that the coaches are comfortable doing it before we’d say yes. But every sport having that opportunity for global exposure is something we’re very focused on.”  Who would be the next Sun Devil team to go international? There are options. ASU baseball coach Willie Bloomquist isn’t opposed to the idea. In fact, he even tossed out a few suggestions for Rossini. “I would love to do it,” Bloomquist said. “Whether it’s in the fall or in the spring during our regular season, it would be something I would love to entertain and see if we can do. Whether it’s Mexico (or) Puerto Rico, somewhere like that would be outstanding.” Arizona State women’s basketball coach Molly Miller is fine going anywhere. Miller has been to London before, but wouldn’t mind coming back a third time around with her team.  “I need to make a call to admin,” Miller said. “Like, ‘When’s the women’s basketball game in London?’ I’m not picky.” As someone who enjoys traveling overseas, Miller believes that athletes can find significant value in making an international trip.  “International travel is one of my favorites,” Miller said. “I’m a foodie, so I love that. I also love the opportunity to explore. I think something like this, you can learn a lot, maybe even more so than (in) a classroom setting. You’re experiencing new culture, experiencing new things and history, so it’s really a great opportunity.”   It wouldn’t be unusual to see either of those teams schedule an international contest.  Every few years, most big-time college basketball programs make a summer global trip. Arizona’s men’s basketball team is a month removed from completing an 11-day summer exhibition in Lithuania.  The Wildcats competed against several Lithuanian teams, with the trip serving as a homecoming for a few players, including projected NBA draft pick, center Motiejus Krivas.  Scheduling an international game during the season, however, is a challenge that would be unprecedented. But so was the Sun Devils’ decision to play in London. ASU joined Kansas to become the first-ever FBS teams to play in England.  “It’s right up the ASU DNA to be first,” Rossini said. “No. 1 in innovation, that can apply to athletics as well.” Given the smaller roster sizes and fewer logistics involved as a result, a plan to bring another ASU team, other than football, could come together quickly. Rossini said the Union Jack Classic took nearly two years to plan.  Which sport is next remains to be seen, but Rossini made it clear that nothing is off the table, and ASU is listening.  “You want to make sure that it’s the right matchup, the right venue, the right scenario to plan for,” Rossini said. “There’s some that could happen in the next couple years. There’s some that might be a few years beyond that, but we’re all ears right now trying to understand what those options could be.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae89ac75342cf4db879f71 Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking te 2026-09-19T13:10:04.467Z Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae805275342cf4db879de4 Missouri woman federally indicted over chilling death threats sent to Austin Metcalf's family te 2026-09-19T12:30:10.473Z Missouri woman federally indicted over chilling death threats sent to Austin Metcalf's family A Missouri woman was federally indicted in Texas after allegedly threatening the family of Austin Metcalf following Karmelo Anthony's conviction for the teenager's killing. Sharifa Nicole Henderson, 34, was arrested in Kansas City on Sept. 11, two days after a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas indicted her on three counts of interstate threatening communications. Anthony's trial concluded on June 9, and prosecutors allege Henderson made three separate death threats against the Metcalf family in the days that followed. On June 10, Henderson sent a message through Facebook Messenger to one of the Metcalf family members saying she would kill them and put them in a body bag before stating, "now this is a threat take me to court [expletive]," according to the indictment. KARMELO ANTHONY SUPPORTER REPORTEDLY FIRED AS OTHER BACKERS FACE BACKLASH OVER VERDICT REMARKS Again on June 10, Henderson called the Collin County government, which prosecuted the case against Anthony, and said she would "demolish" the Metcalf family and "strangle" one of them, per the indictment. And on June 11, prosecutors say Henderson sent another threatening message on Facebook Messenger to a family member. "Don't worry I'll kill you next," she allegedly wrote, according to the indictment. "I will hunt you forever until I kill you...I will be there. You will always have to look over your [expletive] shoulder." If convicted, Henderson faces up to five years in prison for each charge. AUSTIN METCALF'S FATHER ACCUSES MEDIA PUNDITS OF TRYING TO MONETIZE HIS SON'S DEATH 'FOR CLICKS' Jeff Metcalf, Metcalf's father, recently told FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth that his family has received more than 100 threats since the end of the murder trial. The case drew national attention and became racially charged, with supporters of Anthony criticizing the lack of Black jurors and calling for his acquittal, while supporters of the Metcalf family gathered outside the courthouse seeking justice. Anthony, 19, was convicted more than a year after fatally stabbing Metcalf, 17, during a regional high school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, 2025. Anthony, then a Centennial High School student, made his way over to the Memorial High School team's tent and sat under it, according to investigators. Metcalf, a student at Memorial High, then allegedly told Anthony to leave. Prosecutors said Anthony provoked the confrontation that ended with Metcalf being fatally stabbed in the chest. Surveillance footage later released showed Anthony running from the tent. In police reports obtained by Fox News Digital, Anthony was heard telling arresting officers: "I'm not alleged, I did it." Authorities would later say they found no evidence suggesting the two knew each other prior to the incident. A Collin County jury sentenced Anthony to 35 years in prison. Last month, a judge denied Anthony's motion for a new trial, though the family is readying another appeal. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae7dfb75342cf4db879575 Jennifer Aniston’s romance with Jim Curtis faces celebrity relationship trap, expert warns te 2026-09-19T12:20:11.364Z Jennifer Aniston’s romance with Jim Curtis faces celebrity relationship trap, expert warns Jennifer Aniston’s relationship with hypnotherapist and life coach Jim Curtis has gotten serious in the more than a year and a half since they started dating, but a matchmaker worries the "Friends" star could be making classic mistakes as the higher-profile partner. "I think one of the biggest mistakes is when a woman tries to kind of manage the guy," Los Angeles-based matchmaker Gina Hendrix told Fox News Digital. "When a woman steps into this role, and it's always a great, successful, amazing woman, she thinks, ‘I did it for myself, I can do it for you too,’ and she tries to build the guy up." Hendrix warned that the guy often "ends up with all this new great life, but then he resents her for the help, and she takes on a very unsexy role, and then usually it just all fizzles out from there." JENNIFER ANISTON’S BOYFRIEND, JIM CURTIS, REVEALS WHAT 'FRIENDS' STAR IS REALLY LIKE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS She said it takes an "incredibly secure person" to date a celebrity and "share that kind of spotlight, but still be out of the spotlight to keep this relationship afloat." It’s always better to "keep your relationship out of the public eye as much as humanly possible for so many reasons, and if you can live a life where it's under the radar, and you can live a life that is as private as you could possibly have," she added. THOMAS RHETT REVEALS WHY HE AND WIFE LAUREN REJECT CELEBRITY PERKS FOR COUNTRY LIFE Hendrix said she appreciates it when celebrity spouses avoid red carpet events. "You really should just keep it out, keep it away as far as you can" from the public eye, she added. WATCH: JENNIFER ANISTON'S ROMANCE WITH JIM CURTIS FACES CELEBRITY RELATIONSHIP TRAP, EXPERT WARNS MACKENZIE PHILLIPS SHOCKS WITH 15-YEAR CELIBACY CONFESSION AS SHARON STONE, TERI HATCHER RETHINK ROMANCE MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY'S PIECE OF RELATIONSHIP ADVICE THAT KEEPS HIS MARRIAGE TO CAMILA ALVES STRONG The key to a successful relationship involving a celebrity who has "kind of souped up their partner" is "mutual respect," she said. "You have to be with somebody that, you know, that you want their opinion. You value how they think," she said. "And I think beyond the typical things of attraction and the butterflies in the stomach and the great sex and all these things, you also have to respect this person. And you do have to have a deep friendship because that's really what's going to sustain it way after the looks fade and things start to get ugly, no pun intended." WORLD SERIES MVP, 'STAR WARS' ACTRESS SHARE HALLMARK-MOVIE LOVE STORY AFTER OVER 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE Hendrix said Lady Gaga and fiancé Michael Polansky are a "great example of two people who are living off-grid, living under the radar. And I don't know him, don't know her, but it does seem like that is the route you want to take versus, you know, going on social media with your guy and trying to help build him up." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "Find a man who already has a strong footing, strong boundaries, and can kind of be your anchor, not your anchor to pull you down, but your anchor that holds everything in place," she added. JENNIFER ANISTON, BOYFRIEND JIM CURTIS’ CHEMISTRY SHINES AS SHE REVEALS ‘DEEP FEAR’ DURING INTERVIEW Speaking specifically about Aniston’s relationship, Hendrix, who clarified that she doesn't know Aniston or Curtis, said: "For whatever reason, she’s decided to sort of help him with his social media." SYDNEY SWEENEY, SCOOTER BRAUN ROMANCE FACES BIGGEST CHALLENGE YET AS EXPERT WARNS COUPLE TO 'BE PREPARED' Earlier this week, Hendrix posted a video on her Instagram, saying Aniston was making all the "classic, biggest mistakes" in a relationship involving a woman who is more successful than her partner, especially in trying to bring him up to her level. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Curtis recently told the Sunday Times that the "drive" in his relationship with Aniston "was more natural, more organic, less needy. In the past, I’ve felt this idea of, ‘I need you to be in love with me …’ I wasn’t searching for love anymore. And what do I feel now? I feel real joy, real presence, real calmness, real partnership." He said in his own life coaching that 82% of his clients are women, attributing that partially to his "nurturing and empathetic" tone. "It’s softer," he said. He told the reporter that he aims to embody the "divine masculine" and be "a person that is not disrupted easily, so I can hold your fear, trauma, suffering, chaos. Like a tree with deep roots, where in a storm you’ll find safety." He noted that he's "very careful" how he engages as a newly-minted celebrity, which includes not reading anything about his relationship. "It’s certainly not helping me, and it’s sensational," he said. "So I have decided it’s better if I don’t look." Relationships are "hard enough for anyone," Hendrix told Fox News Digital. "You factor in celebrities and all of a sudden it’s coming from all angles, the scrutiny." Curtis is Aniston's first high-profile relationship since her 2018 split from actor and husband Justin Theroux. She divorced her first husband, Brad Pitt, in 2005. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae7dfa75342cf4db87956c Law professor's killer stalked him 'like a shark circling' before ex-mother-in-law's murder-for-hire ambush te 2026-09-19T12:20:10.731Z Law professor's killer stalked him 'like a shark circling' before ex-mother-in-law's murder-for-hire ambush After leaving the gym, Dan Markel drove home expecting an ordinary day. Instead, his killer was waiting for him. As he arrived home, the prominent Florida State University law professor was talking on the phone with music teacher Stewart Schlazer about school options for his children. Then the conversation took a terrifying turn. "Can you please hold on a second? There's an unfamiliar person in my driveway," Markel said. SLAIN DAD'S DAUGHTER KNEW ‘BLACK SWAN’ EX-BALLERINA SHOT HIM AFTER ONE CALL: 'SHE KILLED HIM, DIDN'T SHE?' Seconds later, Schlazer heard what he described as "a loud boom." "There are really eerie parts of those final hours," producer Lily Fletcher told Fox News Digital. "You look at the CCTV footage, and it's a normal day. Dan dropped off the kids at school, he's gone to work out at the gym, and then there's a Prius driving around the gym car park. It never stops. It's clearly waiting for him." "It's always reminded me of a shark circling," Fletcher said. "There was something just so sinister and eerie during such a mundane part of his day, just going to the gym. That really stayed with me. That's a really chilling part, just watching that footage." Markel was shot in the head while sitting in his car in the garage of his Tallahassee, Florida, home on July 18, 2014. The 41-year-old died the following day. The case is the subject of a new true crime docuseries from ABC News Studios, "Welcome to the Family: The Murder of Dan Markel," now streaming on Hulu. It features exclusive interviews, including with FBI agent Pat Sanford and a recorded conversation with Rob Adelson, the oldest Adelson son, who testified against his mother, Donna Adelson, at her trial. It largely follows the prosecution's investigation and trial evidence, while also including testimony and recordings introduced during court proceedings. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Markel married Wendi Adelson in 2006 after the two met online. The docuseries depicts prosecutors' theory that Wendi's mother, Donna, was a dominating, controlling figure in their lives with strong opinions about her daughter's choices. Wendi later said the couple's marriage fell apart after they had two sons, Benjamin and Lincoln. Their contentious divorce in 2013 centered on one question: where the boys would grow up. Wendi fought to move them to South Florida to be near her family, while Markel pressed to keep them in Tallahassee, where the parents shared custody. According to the docuseries, Donna was furious after the relocation request was denied. Prosecutors said the custody dispute became the catalyst for a murder-for-hire plot that would take years to unravel. They argued at trial that Donna helped orchestrate Markel’s killing after he stood in the way of letting her daughter and two young grandsons make the move south. They also revealed that her son Charlie Adelson arranged for Markel's killing through his then-girlfriend, Katherine Magbanua, who connected him to Sigfredo Garcia, the father of her children, and Garcia's friend Luis Rivera. Prosecutors said Garcia shot Markel while Rivera drove the getaway car. Over the next decade, investigators used cellphone records, surveillance video, financial records and secretly recorded conversations to build the case. "Investigators suspected members of the family were involved, but weren't able to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt for a really long time," Fletcher said. "And I think what really surprised me about the investigation was how incredibly thorough and how many needles in how many haystacks they went through to find the evidence, whether it was tracking silver-colored Priuses across Florida, or going through thousands of phone data to find any links to the family and near the crime scene." SIGN UP TO GET THE TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER At trial, prosecutors painted Donna as the calculated matriarch of an affluent South Florida family with the means and motive to orchestrate the killing of the ex-son-in-law she "hated." Defense attorneys, however, insisted the state didn't have sufficient evidence to link her to the murder plot. In 2023, Charlie, a dentist, was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder in his former brother-in-law's killing. Prosecutors told jurors that Charlie paid to have Markel killed and used Magbanua to hire Garcia. They said Garcia enlisted the help of Rivera, his childhood friend. SEND US A TIP Charlie testified that he had nothing to do with the killing and was stunned when Magbanua came to his home and said her friends were the killers. According to reports, he also said he needed to pay more than $300,000 in 48 hours or he would be killed. He was sentenced to life in prison. Magbanua and Garcia were convicted of first-degree murder, and Rivera was sentenced to 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and cooperating with prosecutors. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL In 2025, Donna was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder. She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and an additional 30 years for the conspiracy and solicitation convictions. While Fletcher said the surveillance video is one of the documentary's most haunting moments, she believes the hundreds of FBI wiretap recordings provide the clearest window into the Adelson family. GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB "There are hundreds of wiretapped phone calls of the Adelson family," Fletcher said. "As a team, we listened to all of them. I think just the brazen way with which the family was continuing their lives during the investigation, really believing that they'd got away from it, was very disturbing. They really thought that they were above the law." "Fletcher said listening to the wiretaps left her with the impression that some family members believed they would avoid accountability. "They weren't used to not getting their way," Fletcher continued. "And I think that is really alarming to me, that there are people like that who believe that they can operate outside of the constraints of the law." LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST Two years after Markel's murder, Donna and Charlie spent hours discussing Wendi's boyfriend at the time and whether she should stay in the relationship. Fletcher said the conversations showed her how deeply Donna and Charlie involved themselves in Wendi's personal life. "It's hours and hours of conversations," Fletcher said. "It's Donna encouraging Charlie, and Charlie is suggesting to his mother as well that he will go and speak to Wendi. Just the meddling and the way they're speaking about Wendi and making decisions for her life, I felt that to be obviously really damning for them about their involvement in the case in terms of what the dynamics are like in their family." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Wendi has repeatedly denied any involvement in her ex-husband's killing and has not been charged. "I don't know why people online have such strong levels of certainty," Fletcher said. "In listening to the wiretap conversations of Wendi's mother and brother, and the way they are so accustomed to meddling in her life and deciding what is best for her, I could imagine a scenario in which she wasn't involved in it at all. I think that the vitriol around Wendi, especially online, is sad in a way. I imagine a scenario in which Wendi's family did this without her knowledge." SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS Fox News Digital reached out to Wendi’s attorney for comment. GOT A TIP? "This is the story of a breakdown of a marriage, a custody dispute, and problems that escalated and seemed so irreconcilable," Fletcher said. "But this was an instance where things got so out of hand, and no one comes out with what they want." The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae7dfa75342cf4db879563 BROADCAST BIAS: Networks embrace their latest form of panic – the AI apocalypse te 2026-09-19T12:20:10.059Z BROADCAST BIAS: Networks embrace their latest form of panic – the AI apocalypse Broadcast news often has a problem telling us what happened yesterday, or earlier in the day. These shows want to scare viewers about some dark and desperate future. Forecasts, not facts. The newest eruption of doom came over artificial intelligence, and how it could end up causing the destruction of all humanity within a decade. So much for soft-pedaling it. Coming out of the weekend, on the Sept. 14 "Today," NBC co-host Savannah Guthrie sounded the alarm in the first seconds of the program: "Doomsday warning! The country’s leading developers of AI coming forward to call for a slowdown in the technology, saying humanity itself is at risk." Guthrie interviewed Josh Tyrangiel of The Atlantic magazine, asking: "How worried should we be?" He said, "Extremely worried," and laid out OpenAI’s "Hugging Face incident" from July, when AI bots independently engaged in a cyberattack on the AI startup called Hugging Face. That led Guthrie to play up the possibility of "apocalyptic outcomes." AI HYSTERIA HAS A Y2K PROBLEM — AND THE STAKES THIS TIME COULD BE FAR HIGHER On Sept. 15, on ABC’s "World News Tonight," anchor David Muir sounded like a TV news snippet from a disaster movie. "We do begin tonight with President Trump rejecting the new and dire warnings about AI, even as three of the top AI rivals agree now that it's time to slow it down, alarmed by what they're seeing and how quickly this is all moving." It was President Donald Trump versus the big brains: "And tonight, even after that warning from a former AI researcher that there's a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all humans in a decade, tonight, President Trump saying the only guardrail AI needs is a high-IQ president, calling it a ‘hoax.’" TRUMP UNLOADS ON TECH TITANS PUSHING FOR SLOWDOWN ON EMERGING INDUSTRY: ‘WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!’ You can sense the elitist sarcasm against Trump between the lines. A similar spin led "NBC Nightly News," as anchor Tom Llamas echoed: "We begin with President Trump thundering into the debate today over AI regulation and perhaps the fate of humanity, saying that any predictions that artificial intelligence could destroy the human race are, quote, ‘a hoax.’ It comes as some of the country's top AI leaders say the opposite, that the danger is real and must be regulated." LIZ PEEK: AI ALARM BELLS ARE RINGING AND TRUMP NEEDS TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY To their credit, the "CBS Evening News" at least allowed an expert to challenge this new doomsaying trend, Trump’s former AI czar David Sacks. "I think we are in a political season right now. It feels like a panic is being ginned up. And so, I do think that the threat here has been exaggerated." CBS reporter Jo Ling Kent pushed back with the president’s "hoax" language, to which Sacks replied: "The hoax is that somehow we're going to be extinct as a species within a few years because of AI, and therefore we have to stop completely." It can be hard to listen to all of this very sudden panic-mongering and not think back on all the apocalyptic predictions we have heard about global warming since 1988 – and the left never wants anyone to remember them. DAVID MARCUS: BIG TECH INVENTED AI DOOMSDAY TO DUCK REAL LIFE PROBLEMS In 1990, a PBS documentary series titled "Race to Save the Planet" featured narrator Meryl Streep forecasting the future weather: "By the year 2000 – that's less than 10 years away – the earth's climate will be warmer than it's been in over 100,000 years. If we don't do something, there'll be enormous calamities in a very short time." Streep and her ideological allies despise anyone calling this kind of prediction a "hoax" – because the leftist elites always think they have a monopoly on facts and truth, and because it suggests that they are insincere, spinning doom to achieve more government control over our lives. FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDER DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ'S 'EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM' NETWORK TIED TO AI REGULATION PUSH If we’re going to gin up frightening forecasts, there’s always the conspiracy theory that the left wants to keep a dominant share of the AI environment, just as they always want a dominant share over our media environment. In the same spirit in which the left pushed around Big Tech to shut down conservative "misinformation," they might use AI to spread their information dominance. For most Americans who do not have a deep understanding of computer science – as well as climatology – it's hard to dismiss the scariest of forecasts when the media marshals the capital-E experts. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION In this case, the AI panic is being driven by the makers of AI themselves. Does that make them more credible? Or should it raise suspicions about precisely how they want to "pace the frontier"? We can observe the media trends over the years and be skeptical of wild talk about how "we may all perish if we don't take a drastic course of action immediately." It can feel like a high-pressure sales pitch insisting we're suicidal fools if we don't submit to Experts. The global-warming example is not encouraging. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM TIM GRAHAM Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae7df975342cf4db87955a Beloved restaurant chain dwindles from 850 locations to 87, but expert sees 'a lot of life left' te 2026-09-19T12:20:09.259Z Beloved restaurant chain dwindles from 850 locations to 87, but expert sees 'a lot of life left' A casual-dining chain known for its ice-cream desserts, burgers and family atmosphere that once operated roughly 850 restaurants has dwindled to fewer than 100 locations in 11 states. Friendly's was founded as the "Friendly" ice-cream shop in Springfield, Massachusetts, by "spunky" brothers Prestley and Curtis Blake in 1935 — at the height of the Great Depression, according to the company's website. The two young entrepreneurs — Prestley was 20 years old and Curtis was just 18 — sold double-dip cones for 5 cents. FUDDRUCKERS BECAME THE 'BLOCKBUSTER' OF BURGERS, AND NOW IT'S NEARLY GONE In 1940, they expanded with a second location and began offering food, with hamburgers among the first additions to the menu. By 1951, there were 10 Friendly restaurants operating in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and by 1974, that number had grown to 500 restaurants across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Friendly's marked its 90th year in business in 2025. Along the way, the company introduced new food and dessert items to its menu, began distributing its ice cream in supermarkets, set a Guinness World Record for the largest sundae in 1980 and added the apostrophe and "s" to its name in 1989. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Friendly's also changed hands throughout the decades and filed for bankruptcy twice. Hershey's acquired Friendly's from the Blakes in 1979 and sold the chain nine years later to Tennessee Restaurant Company. By the mid-1990s, Friendly's had grown to about 850 restaurants. Friendly's first filed for bankruptcy in 2011 and again in November 2020. "Over the last two years, Friendly's has made important strides toward reinvigorating our beloved brand in the face of shifting demographics, increased competition and rising costs," then-Friendly's CEO George Michel said in a news release in 2020. "Unfortunately, like many restaurant businesses, our progress was suddenly interrupted by the catastrophic impact of COVID, which caused a decline in revenue as dine-in operations ceased for months and re-opened with limited capacity." In 2021, Friendly's announced that Amici Partners Group, LLC had acquired the company and was "dedicated to reinvigorating 130-store restaurant chain." Today, 90% of Friendly's restaurants have closed, and there are 87 locations in 11 Eastern states, The Takeout reported. Twenty-two of the restaurants – or about 25% of them – are in Massachusetts. Some Friendly's restaurants were seen as old and tired and as failing to keep up with modern trends, Barbara E. Kahn, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, told Fox News Digital. Nevertheless, Kahn said there's "a lot of life left" in the Friendly's brand. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "It has a legacy that could be built on and could serve to bring people in, especially on this trend of nostalgia, which can be a plus in restaurants," she said. "But it also has to keep up with changing times and changing tastes." Kahn said Friendly's has "positive DNA" the brand can build upon by capitalizing on the restaurants' nostalgia and strong brand legacy surrounding its ice cream, while also modernizing its offerings. "People who remember that brand from its heyday think of it as a fun place to go, a family restaurant known for its ice cream and fun food," she said. McDonald's is one brand Kahn pointed to as having stood the test of time by tweaking its offerings, adjusting to trends and maintaining fresh appeal. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Kahn said adding more non-meat items, healthy grains and salads could possibly help Friendly's attract new customers. Fox News Digital reached out to Friendly's for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae76f175342cf4db879429 Caitlin Clark ‘would sign up’ for potential WNBA game overseas after returning from World Cup te 2026-09-19T11:50:09.965Z Caitlin Clark ‘would sign up’ for potential WNBA game overseas after returning from World Cup Caitlin Clark may already be prepared for another trip across the ocean. The Indiana Fever star said she would welcome an opportunity to play a WNBA game overseas after recently returning from the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Berlin. "I think we’re just scratching the surface of where we can go globally," Clark told reporters following the Fever’s 103-85 victory over the Toronto Tempo on Friday. "I wouldn’t be surprised if next year you see a game played overseas of some sort. I would sign up for that. I think it’d be really good to help expand the WNBA, and I’m looking forward to that." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The WNBA has not announced plans to hold a game in Europe next season, making Clark’s comments a prediction rather than confirmation of a league initiative. Clark made her first appearance in a major international tournament this month while helping the United States win its fifth consecutive World Cup championship. Team USA defeated France 97-79 in the final Sunday in Berlin. The tournament also offered Clark her first extended opportunity to play in Europe. "That was the first time I’ve really played in Europe, and obviously basketball is really loved in Europe," Clark said. "It was fun to get to play in front of those fans." Clark said she was particularly struck by the passion international players displayed while representing their countries. "I think one of the biggest things I took away is how much pride those girls play with, especially the ones that are in the WNBA going to play for their home country," she said. "It means so much to them. I think that’s really cool, and they’ve done so much to help grow the game in their specific countries." WNBA LEGEND BREANNA STEWART OPENS UP ON REPRESENTING AMERICA AT FIBA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP The international influence within the WNBA has already reached record levels. According to the league, 51 foreign-born players had appeared in at least one game during the opening week of the 2026 season, setting a single-season record. A total of 70 current and former WNBA players later appeared on rosters for the World Cup. The league’s geographic footprint has also expanded beyond the United States. The Tempo began play this season as the WNBA’s first Canadian franchise, joining the returning Portland Fire as the league grew to 15 teams. Franchises in Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia are scheduled to begin play between 2028 and 2030, eventually bringing the league to 18 teams. The WNBA played its first regular-season game outside the United States in Vancouver in 2025, but a game in Europe would further accelerate its international ambitions. Clark saw evidence of the league’s reach throughout Team USA’s run in Germany. "The amount of young kids and young fans that were super excited to see us was cool," Clark said. Clark returned to WNBA action Friday and recorded 28 points and 14 assists in Indiana’s win over Toronto. Kelsey Mitchell scored 33 points and broke the league’s single-season scoring record during the victory. The Fever have three regular-season games remaining before the playoffs begin. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae749975342cf4db8793b1 Ole Miss, Lane Kiffin set for emotionally charged showdown 10 months after bitter split te 2026-09-19T11:40:09.659Z Ole Miss, Lane Kiffin set for emotionally charged showdown 10 months after bitter split A military flyover took place Friday afternoon over Oxford’s iconic Square ahead of Saturday’s matchup, when Ole Miss will welcome Lane Kiffin back to campus in a game 10 months in the making. Fans streamed through the area, buying up Ole Miss gear while making stops within local restaurants to kick their weekend off. There is nothing quite like Oxford, Mississippi, from its Southern charm to the small-town feel that defines it. An estimated 300,000 people are expected on campus today, with most of them partying in "The Grove" like it's going out of style. LANE KIFFIN'S RETURN TO OLE MISS COMES WITH BETRAYAL, LAWSUITS AND MEMORIES OF HIM TRYING TO BURN IT ALL DOWN ON WAY TO LSU The truth is, fans have had this weekend circled for 10 months. Ole Miss faithful are going to try to unleash nearly a year’s worth of aggravation over 24 hours, hoping to party into the early morning hours Sunday — or at least until local police kick them out around 1 a.m. CT — regardless of the outcome. Scenes that look more like something out of a John Grisham thriller tucked away in a small Mississippi town, it's not hard to notice how much this means to a fan base that has been put through the ringer over these past 10 months. 'HE'S DUST': OLE MISS STUDENTS RIP LANE KIFFIN AS LSU COACH PREPARES FOR HATRED IN OXFORD In reality, they have a team capable a competing for a national championship this season. But first, they have a lot to get off their chest when it comes to their former head coach, Lane Kiffin. A man who captivated a fan base, led them to heights rarely achieved and had them finally in the college football playoff after fumbling the opportunity in 2025, left them for a better job. But, it was how he left Ole Miss that will forever tarnish his legacy in Oxford. This, along with trying to take nearly every star on the Rebels football team, left fans with a worse feeling than had he just bolted for LSU without trying to burn it all down on the way out. Looking back, Lane has admitted to those around him that he should have handled the entire situation better. Maybe this weekend doesn’t contain as much vitriol. Maybe, Kiffin receives plenty of boos from the crowd, but deep down inside they are content with how things would have played out if he had chosen to act like a grown-up during the entire ordeal while contemplating whether to take the Florida or LSU job. But, we don't live in a "what if" world. We live in reality, and that will be welcomed by Lane on Saturday when he walks off the bus that is tucked away inside a fenced-in area just outside Vaught Hemingway Stadium. There is not much Ole Miss fans can say to Kiffin that he isn’t already prepared for. But, that doesn’t mean deep down inside it doesn’t bother him. As much as he loves playing the villain, he's still just a guy who feels lost at times without his father around any longer. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Roaming around "The Grove" on Friday afternoon, Ole Miss fans had plenty to say about their former head coach, and the guy they worshiped for nearly six years. "Man, I'm not gonna lie bro, F--- Lane Kiffin," one Rebels fan said. "Lane Kiffin is 'K' bro. We smokin' him, no cap. Whatever Lane Kiffin did, it's bulls---. He could have waited to leave until after the season. Nah, he wanted to wait until he got us to the playoff to leave. "F--- Lane Kiffin, bro. And, f--- LSU." There's no denying we are about to witness one of the more cinematic scenes in this sport's history. I was in Austin last weekend as Arch Manning led Texas to the comeback win over Ohio State, and I'm still amazed at what I witnessed. But, even that monumental game does not have the built-in drama compared to what we will witness inside Vaught Hemingway Stadium. Lane Kiffin will stroll off the LSU bus later this afternoon, acting as if none of the noise is bothering him. He will walk into a stadium that he helped revitalize, alongside a number of assistant coaches on his LSU staff that helped him do it in this same town. On the other side, Pete Golding will receive a hero’s welcome when he takes his first steps onto the field in front of the Ole Miss student section. It's fitting. After the past ten months of buildup to this matchup that feels more like a heavyweight fight we used to witness in the late '90s. I'm fascinated to see how this plays out, alongside 60,000 fans wearing mostly powder blue and red, with a smattering of purple and gold. We made it. No more talking. No more jabs being traded through social media and television networks. The only thing left to do is watch two teams trade haymakers for 60 minutes, with Lane Kiffin and Pete Golding entrenched in their own war along each sideline. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae723d75342cf4db87931e Flagstaff Event Almanac for September 19 te 2026-09-19T11:30:05.003Z Flagstaff Event Almanac for September 19 Sept 19 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6fe875342cf4db8792db Gabby Petito's mother urges public 'ripple effect' to help find the missing 5 years after daughter's murder te 2026-09-19T11:20:08.751Z Gabby Petito's mother urges public 'ripple effect' to help find the missing 5 years after daughter's murder If you or someone you know is the victim of domestic abuse, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233. BLUE POINT, N.Y. — Five years after Gabby Petito’s remains were found in Wyoming, her mother is asking the public to pay closer attention to the missing-person flyers that cross their social-media feeds because a single share can create a "ripple effect" that leads to someone being found. "What I would say with missing cases is, if you see missing flyers pass by your feed, stop and take a look," her mother, Nichole Schmidt, told Fox News Digital Friday. "Don't just share it quickly." GABBY PETITO TOLD HER EX SHE WAS SCARED TO LEVE BRIAN LAUNDRIE BUT WANTED TO, JUST BEFORE MURDER: NEW DOC FORMER OHIO TEACHER CHARGED AFTER MISSING TEEN FOUND AT HIS HOME 263 DAYS LATER: REPORTS Look at it first, check the comments in case there are new developments, and verify the source, she suggested. GOT A TIP? "If it seems legitimate, maybe give it a share," she said. "Because you never know who might see that with your share, and it causes a ripple effect — and missing people have been found by regular people just sharing flyers." FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Petito's remains were found on Sept. 19, 2021, in a remote campground north of Jackson, Wyoming. She is believed to have been killed three weeks earlier by Brian Laundrie, her former fiance. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Laundrie drove home to his parents' house in Florida in her Ford Transit van before taking his own life before heavy rains in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park. His remains weren't found for a month, after a nationwide search that ended when floodwater receded and his own parents led detectives to one of his favorite clearings in the preserve. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS Since then, Petito's parents and stepparents have launched a foundation in her name, combatting domestic violence and raising awareness for other missing person cases. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST LYNETTE HOOKER MISSING IN BAHAMAS: TIMELINE OF MICHIGAN WOMAN’S DISAPPEARANCE, HUSBAND’S ARREST They've lobbied for new laws in multiple states, including Florida, Utah and New York, and even at the federal level. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL But another focus of theirs is getting attention for the families of missing people who haven't gotten the same news coverage their daughter did. If you or someone you know is the victim of domestic abuse, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6d9175342cf4db879239 Delivery robots swarm Chicago sidewalk in viral video te 2026-09-19T11:10:09.951Z Delivery robots swarm Chicago sidewalk in viral video You expect traffic jams on Chicago streets. You probably do not expect one on the sidewalk caused by a bunch of food delivery robots. That is exactly what runner Becca Ostien encountered near Lincoln Park. At least a dozen Coco delivery robots had gathered along North Clark Street, leaving her to navigate what looked like a miniature robot traffic jam. The strange scene quickly spread online. Yet behind the viral video sits a bigger question about the growing number of delivery robots rolling through American cities. What happens when the technology designed to make deliveries easier starts getting in your way? NEW! 🩺 Free CyberGuy LIVE class: Get Better Healthcare With AI Saturday, Sept. 26 at 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson will show you five practical ways AI can help you organize your health history, remember important appointment details, understand complicated medical information, research prescriptions and prepare smarter questions for your doctor. No technical experience is needed. Save your free spot at CyberGuyLive.com. UBER EATS DRONE DELIVERY COULD SOON REACH YOUR HOME Ostien regularly travels through the area near Lincoln Park. During a recent morning outing, she came across a group of Coco robots clustered together on the sidewalk. Some appeared to be trying to maneuver out of the group. Others remained stationary. Ostien described the robots as "swarming" and said someone without agile feet would have had trouble getting through. Video of the encounter shows roughly a dozen robots packed into a narrow stretch of sidewalk. Their lights flashed as they moved around one another with nowhere obvious to go. That may look funny for a few seconds on social media. For someone who depends on a clear pedestrian route, the situation can become far more serious. One commenter described the scene as "an actual nightmare" for a disabled person. Other reactions raised concerns about people using wheelchairs or walkers trying to get through. Coco Robotics acknowledged the problem and apologized. In a statement to CyberGuy, Coco said a "sidewalk deployment error" caused several robots to reroute at the same time as they left their station to begin their daily routes. "That's not how our robots are designed to operate, and we understand the disruption it caused," Coco told CyberGuy. The company said its team identified and corrected the problem quickly, clearing the robots and returning them to normal operation within minutes. "We've since solved the routing behavior that led to this and added safeguards to prevent it from recurring," the company said. Coco called the situation rare and said it has completed tens of thousands of trips during its two years operating in Chicago. The company also estimates those deliveries have saved consumers roughly $500,000, created skilled fleet-maintenance jobs and reduced vehicle traffic. ROBOT DOG COULD DELIVER YOUR NEXT PACKAGE AND AN AD The Lincoln Park pileup did not happen in a vacuum. Delivery robots have been operating in Chicago through a pilot program, and the rollout has already faced resistance from some residents. Petitions have called for the city to pause the program. There have also been documented crashes involving delivery robots and bus shelters. Those incidents help explain why another viral robot problem can quickly trigger frustration. The technology offers an obvious convenience. A small autonomous machine can handle short food deliveries through a neighborhood. However, city sidewalks already have plenty of competition for limited space. Adding autonomous machines raises questions about how much room they should get and what happens when their navigation systems fail. The bigger issue is pedestrian access. Public sidewalks need to work for people with very different mobility needs. A cluster of robots can narrow or block the path for someone using a wheelchair or another mobility device. A blind pedestrian may have difficulty navigating an unexpected obstruction. Parents pushing strollers can face the same problem. For someone who cannot safely step around a robot or leave the sidewalk, a temporary blockage can become a serious obstacle. Coco says it is also working on accessibility through a partnership with BlindSquare, a GPS app for people who are blind or partially sighted. The partnership operates in Chicago and other cities. According to Coco, its robots log sidewalk hazards such as fallen e-scooters and broken curb cuts. That data flows into BlindSquare, which provides spoken alerts in 26 languages about hazards roughly 10 meters ahead. Coco says BlindSquare users can also report when an obstacle has been cleared, allowing the company to update its routing maps in real time. "Robots built to navigate the pedestrian environment have a responsibility to improve it for everyone who shares that space," Coco told CyberGuy. The partnership adds important context to the accessibility concerns surrounding delivery robots. However, the Chicago incident also underscores the challenge: the robots themselves cannot become another obstacle on the sidewalk. That makes preventing deployment and routing failures especially important as these fleets expand. Delivery robots are becoming more common in public spaces. We have already seen companies push these machines from college campuses toward grocery delivery and busy city neighborhoods. That means more people could soon encounter autonomous robots during an ordinary walk. For consumers, convenience remains the appeal. You order lunch and a robot brings it down the sidewalk. But cities also have to decide how these machines fit into crowded pedestrian spaces. A successful system has to account for people who cannot simply step around a stalled robot or squeeze through a narrow gap. One strange Chicago morning gives us a pretty good preview of the challenge. WHAT HAPPENS IF THE WAYMO COMPUTER FAILS? Delivery robots could become a normal part of getting food and packages around crowded cities. I can see why companies are investing in them. They could make some short deliveries quicker and keep another car off the road. Coco's response adds important context. The company says this was a rare routing problem, that it has fixed the behavior behind it and that new safeguards are in place. I also find the BlindSquare partnership interesting because Coco's robots are already moving through the same sidewalks where accessibility hazards can create real problems. Using those robots to identify obstacles could be genuinely useful. But the Chicago pileup also shows why reliability has to come first. A robot that warns someone about a blocked sidewalk cannot become the thing blocking that sidewalk. As more of these machines appear in cities, companies will have to prove that their safeguards work when something unexpected happens. People should not have to compete with delivery machines for a safe route down the sidewalk. Would Coco's response and its work with BlindSquare make you more comfortable having delivery robots in your neighborhood, or do you still think they should stay off sidewalks? 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/6aae6b4175342cf4db8791ca Synchronization Deficit framework connects hidden coordination strain to execution reliability te 2026-09-19T11:00:17.471Z Synchronization Deficit framework connects hidden coordination strain to execution reliability Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6b4075342cf4db8791c1 Top Realtor in Kirkland, WA Shares Benefits of Award-Winning Global Marketing Platform for Luxury Properties te 2026-09-19T11:00:16.765Z Top Realtor in Kirkland, WA Shares Benefits of Award-Winning Global Marketing Platform for Luxury Properties Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6b3f75342cf4db8791b8 Leading DWI Lawyer in Tyler, TX, Advises Clients on Steps to Take Immediately After an Arrest te 2026-09-19T11:00:15.995Z Leading DWI Lawyer in Tyler, TX, Advises Clients on Steps to Take Immediately After an Arrest Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6b3f75342cf4db8791af Paint Me Like Raises the Bar for the Best Custom Paint-by-Numbers Kits With 96 Canvas Configurations te 2026-09-19T11:00:15.158Z Paint Me Like Raises the Bar for the Best Custom Paint-by-Numbers Kits With 96 Canvas Configurations Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6b3e75342cf4db8791a6 MMDC Alchemy Expands Its Signature Miracle Alchemy Program te 2026-09-19T11:00:14.445Z MMDC Alchemy Expands Its Signature Miracle Alchemy Program Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6b3d75342cf4db87919d Hansen & Berg Launches Luxury Biocompatible Skincare Line Designed for Post-Procedure and Bruise Recovery Care te 2026-09-19T11:00:13.686Z Hansen & Berg Launches Luxury Biocompatible Skincare Line Designed for Post-Procedure and Bruise Recovery Care Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6b3c75342cf4db879194 GC Tactical Secures Major Contracts for Use of Force Training and Crisis Intervention Programs Across the Security Sector te 2026-09-19T11:00:12.911Z GC Tactical Secures Major Contracts for Use of Force Training and Crisis Intervention Programs Across the Security Sector Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6b3c75342cf4db87918b Svanelle LLC Builds Growing Online Community Around Shared Passions for Beauty and Pet Companionship te 2026-09-19T11:00:12.124Z Svanelle LLC Builds Growing Online Community Around Shared Passions for Beauty and Pet Companionship Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae6b3b75342cf4db879182 Roberto Gonzalez Flowers Redefines Luxury Gatherings With Immersive Botanical Architecture That Transforms Spaces Into Living Art te 2026-09-19T11:00:11.028Z Roberto Gonzalez Flowers Redefines Luxury Gatherings With Immersive Botanical Architecture That Transforms Spaces Into Living Art Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae668975342cf4db8790c0 Who is Dario Amodei, the Anthropic CEO pushing independent AI oversight, te 2026-09-19T10:40:09.920Z Who is Dario Amodei, the Anthropic CEO pushing independent AI oversight, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes artificial intelligence (AI) companies need the help of independent outside watchdogs to safeguard their developing technologies. But one of the organizations he believes could do the job, METR, is closely connected to the same AI safety community that has ties to Anthropic's start. Many of its leading figures have ties to a movement called "effective altruism (EA)" — the belief that evidence and careful reasoning can help maximize the good that companies and people can do with their time and resources. METR describes itself as an AI safety testing laboratory. ANTHROPIC CEO LIKENS AI FIGHT WITH CHINA TO COLD WAR, SEEKS 'DISARMAMENT NEGOTIATIONS' "METR evaluates frontier AI models to help companies and wider society understand AI capabilities and what risks they pose," its website reads. Although its website and public materials don’t make mention of effective altruism, its founders have used it as a framing for their work. Beth Barnes, METR’s founder and CEO, worked at OpenAI alongside Amodei as the company developed early versions of ChatGPT. At an Effective Altruism Global event, she laid out her vision for how to maintain AI safety. "Our overall plan is — it sort of seems like it would be good if it was someone’s job to look at models and decide if they’re going to kill us, think through the ways that that might happen, anticipate them, figure out what the early warnings would be, that sort of thing," Barnes said. Similarly, Paul Christiano, who led the research around OpenAI’s efforts to ensure its models followed acceptable strategies for delivering requested results, later founded the first iteration of METR. He too has framed parts of his approach to AI safety as a form of effective altruism. "My suspicion is that it is more important for the ‘effective altruism’ movement to have a fundamentally good product and to generally have our act together than for it to grow more rapidly," Christiano said in a 2014 article. Figures like Barnes and Christiano provide informal links to Anthropic — a company that received funding from effective altruism’s largest supporters when it emerged as a way of thinking among tech moguls. Barnes and Christiano also both worked on evaluations involving Anthropic models, providing safety checks for Anthropic's flagship AI, Claude. Most notably, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, led Anthropic's 2022 Series B financing round before his company collapsed and he was convicted in a multibillion-dollar fraud case. Before FTX's downfall, Bankman-Fried was one of the highest-profile proponents of the Effective Altruism movement, publicly saying it shaped his approach to earning and giving money. ANTHROPIC'S MORAL COMPASS ARCHITECT SUGGESTED AI OVERCORRECTION COULD ADDRESS HISTORICAL INJUSTICES RUTHLESS EXCLUSIVE: PENTAGON CTO REVEALS REASONING FOR ANTHROPIC REMOVAL Similarly, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn led Anthropic's 2021 Series A financing round. Tallinn has been one of the Effective Altruism movement's most prominent supporters, speaking at Effective Altruism Global conferences, helping found the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute, and donating more than $1 million to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, an organization focused on AI safety and alignment research. Amodei isn’t calling for the rest of the industry's leaders to submit to the thinking of METR, specifically. But in a recent letter, he used them as an example of the guidance he believes the industry needs. Amodei proposed a plan: accountability could come through "embedded evaluators" that would supervise AI development companies. "Each frontier AI company commits to giving ongoing, employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators (such as METR) whose role it is to verify adherence to safety practices and commitments, report incidents and help assess the alignment of not just completed AI models but training pipelines and processes. "Regardless of what commitments we make, the public deserves to know what is going on. We are still the ones choosing what to include and omit. Embedded evaluators will change this dynamic," Amodei wrote. Few figures in the AI space are as well known for their efforts on AI safety as Amodei. Amodei originally studied biophysics, earning a Ph.D. from Princeton in 2011. He would go on to become a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine. After his studies, Amodei worked for a series of technology companies like Baidu, Google Brain, and, in 2016, OpenAI — the company that developed ChatGPT .During his time at Baidu, Amodei worked to develop speech recognition through machine learning, a kind of pattern identification. And at Google, he began working on safety while helping develop the company’s neural-net research, computer models that loosely mimics brain function. At OpenAI, Amodei continued those themes, eventually becoming vice president of research as the company developed its ChatGPT 2 and ChatGPT 3 models. In its early stages, the GPTs were asked to fill in blanks to sentences like: "Today, I went to the ______ and bought some milk and eggs," and "I knew it was going to rain, but I forgot to take my ______." But just as the company began to discover that it could amplify the power of its models through larger and larger language models, Amodei left OpenAI in 2020. He believed the company wasn’t doing enough to install guardrails on what he saw as a budding reality of the technology he had long theorized about. He also didn’t know if he could trust the company to set aside its financial interests. "When you feel that you can't trust someone, when you feel that their values are not what they say they are, when you feel that they're not honest, when you feel that they're not in it for the reasons that they say, when you see disturbing patterns of behavior, dishonesty, that makes it very hard to continue to work with a company, to continue to trust the company," Amodei said in an interview with Bloomberg earlier this year. Since leaving OpenAI, Amodei helped start Anthropic, a company that has made AI safety a key part of its makeup. Anthropic even has a sort of constitution for its flagship AI; a guiding document laying out boundaries for its research."Anthropic wants Claude to be genuinely helpful to the people it works with or on behalf of, as well as to society, while avoiding actions that are unsafe, unethical, or deceptive," the company wrote. BIOWEAPON THREAT EXPOSED AS ANTHROPIC SOUNDS ALARM ON FOREIGN ACTORS PLOTTING VIRUS EXPERIMENTS That directive has caused the company to clash with the U.S. Department of Defense over developing tools that could be used to autonomously target humans on the battlefield. It also refused to do work that, in its estimation, amounted to mass surveillance. Although that tension cost Anthropic a $200 million contract, Amodei believes it's time for the industry to take similar stances, especially as some companies began to report trouble controlling their own agents. Amodei continues to believe that AI capabilities can grow safely, but only if the industry sets standards for how it achieves "safe." "I continue to believe that AI can enormously improve the quality of human life. My desire to achieve these benefits is undimmed. But the benefits will only be achieved if we build the technology in the right way, and — so long as we use the time we gain well — it is worth taking unusually deliberate care to get it right," Amodei wrote in his letter. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae643275342cf4db879047 DMX Smart Link Puts Professional Lighting Control Within Reach for Volunteer-Run Churches and Small Venues te 2026-09-19T10:30:10.369Z DMX Smart Link Puts Professional Lighting Control Within Reach for Volunteer-Run Churches and Small Venues Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae61de75342cf4db878fee Clancy holdout juror taps former Trump lawyer to fight back as he’s ‘dragged through the mud’: attorney te 2026-09-19T10:20:14.872Z Clancy holdout juror taps former Trump lawyer to fight back as he’s ‘dragged through the mud’: attorney The lone juror whose holdout forced a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case has retained a lawyer who once represented President Donald Trump, the attorney said. One legal scholar following the case said the move signals the juror is ready to "stand up for himself." Clancy, 36, faced three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the slayings of her children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — who were discovered strangled at the family's home in January 2023. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on Sept. 4 after jurors could not agree on a unanimous verdict, with the panel split 11-1. Attorney Edward Paltzik told Fox News Digital Friday that he is representing the holdout juror, Michael P. Desronvil. LINDSAY CLANCY HOLDOUT PRAISED AS 'AMERICAN HERO' BY LAWYER WHO SAYS HE REPRESENTS HIM Desronvil, the lone dissenter from the jury, has come forward and said he didn't sway away from his belief that prosecutors proved Clancy was criminally responsible in killing her three children in January 2023 in a statement first reported by NewsNation that was confirmed by Paltzik to Fox News Digital. "I didn't have any doubts. As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present," Desronvil said. "Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned." Most notably, Paltzik represented Trump in his lawsuit against the New York Times, which he said falsely cast his business success as fraudulent ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2025, but has since been refiled. Paltzik was also involved in Trump's lawsuit against CBS after "60 Minutes" was accused of selectively editing an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. In July 2025, Paramount Global agreed to pay $16 million, which the company said would go toward Trump's future presidential library. Paltzik said at the time that the CBS interview generated confusion and "mental anguish" among viewers, misled voters and diminished attention to Trump and his online platform, Truth Social. He also represented Trump during his lawsuit against ABC News, which settled for $15 million, with the funds going towards his future presidential library. LINDSAY CLANCY HOLDOUT JUROR ‘LOOKED AT THE CASE AND HE MADE THE CALL,’ HIS BROTHER SAYS In another high-profile case, Paltzik is representing three friends of Nolan Wells. Wells, 18, went missing July 4 after a boat trip with friends to Horn Island, a barrier island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Crews searched the area for two days before a National Parks Service ranger found his remains on the island's northwestern tip on July 6. Paltzik began representing the friends of Wells in August after several social media influencers made false allegations about them. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X "We are proud to stand with and fight for three completely innocent young men: Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo, and Morgan Seymour. Starting today, those who wish to continue trafficking in lies about these Good Ocean Springs People will be held accountable to the maximum extent of the law. We, on the other hand, will be focused solely on the truth, which is that these innocent young men had nothing whatsoever to do with the tragic death of Nolan Wells," Paltzik said alongside Tyler Cox, a Mississippi-based attorney, in a statement to Fox News Digital. Paltzik said Desronvil won't be doing any other media interviews at this time, calling him an "American hero" and "Champion of justice." LINDSAY CLANCY ATTORNEY KEVIN REDDINGTON SIGNALS HE'S OPEN TO A DEAL, HOPES DA WILL 'REVISIT' CASE "Again, we are focused entirely on his health, safety, and well-being. There will be a time for accountability and a time for the real story of the Lindsay Clancy Trial to be told. But not right now," Paltzik said on X. "This American Hero and Champion of Justice thanks all of you who have stood by him for your kindness, prayers, and support," he added. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS The statement was made as Plymouth County prosecutors weigh whether to retry Clancy, while her attorneys have also raised the prospect of resolving the case without a second jury trial. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Mark Astor, a former prosecutor and behavioral health law expert, told Fox News Digital it's clear that Desronvil has retained counsel to "stand up for himself." SEND US A TIP "I think there's certainly some indication that his name and reputation is now being dragged through the mud," Astor said. "The other issue obviously is he's basically been attacked not just by potentially the other jurors, but by Mr. Reddington on the foot of the courthouse, since we had that mistrial declared by the judge. So I mean, I think he feels like he needs to, you know, at least stand up for himself." Astor said the exposure from the Clancy jury threatens a system that depends on people being willing to serve. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST "I think it's a terrible thing that we're having to see this," Astor said. "The whole idea of the jury is sort of this sacred arena where jurors get to decide a verdict in a case. And now we're taking what is really a sacred arena and we're exposing it to the public." GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL Clancy is due back in court on Sept. 29 for a status hearing, at which more information about the future of her case may be revealed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae61de75342cf4db878fe5 U.S. Deficit Reaches $1.97 Trillion With One Month Left In Fiscal Year 2026 te 2026-09-19T10:20:14.220Z U.S. Deficit Reaches $1.97 Trillion With One Month Left In Fiscal Year 2026 By Ethan Faverino | The federal government recorded a nearly $167 billion budget deficit in August, bringing the total shortfall for Fiscal Year 2026 to nearly $2 trillion with one month remaining in the fiscal year. According to the latest Monthly Fiscal Update released by the Joint Economic Committee (JEC), federal spending exceeded revenues by $166.8 billion in August. The cumulative deficit from October 2025 to August 2026 reached approximately $1.966 trillion. Federal outlays have totaled $6.811 trillion so far this fiscal year, while the government has collected approximately $4.845 trillion in revenue. Based on those figures, about 28.9% of federal spending has not been covered by revenues. The government has spent approximately $1.41 for every $1 collected. Despite approaching $2 trillion, the year-to-date deficit is slightly below the comparable period last year. Through August of Fiscal Year 2025, the federal government had accumulated approximately $1.973 trillion in deficits, putting the current fiscal year’s total about 0.4% lower. The federal government ultimately finished FY25 with a $1.775 trillion deficit. The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest projections estimated a $1.853 trillion deficit for FY26, followed by $1.887 in FY27, and $2.080 in FY28. The current fiscal-year deficit has already surpassed that $1.853 trillion projection with September still remaining. Spending has continued to increase compared with last year. Federal outlays totaled $526.8 billion in August and reached $6.811 trillion for the fiscal year through the end of the month. That represents an increase of approximately 2.2% from the $6.664 trillion spent during the same period of FY25. Social Security remains one of the largest areas of federal spending, accounting for $1.526 trillion in outlays through August. Net interest costs have surpassed $1 trillion for the fiscal year, reaching approximately $1.017 trillion. Other major spending categories include roughly $1.041 trillion for income security and veterans benefits, $979 billion for Medicare, $833 billion for defense, and $655 billion for Medicaid. Foreign aid accounted for $32 billion through August. Federal revenues have also increased. The government collected approximately $360 billion in August, bringing FY26 receipts through August to $4.845 trillion. That is about 3.3% higher than the $4.691 trillion collected during the comparable period last year. Individual income taxes have provided the largest share of federal revenue this fiscal year, totaling $2.548 trillion, or more than half of all receipts. Social security insurance and retirement taxes generated another $1.663 trillion. Corporate income tax receipts totaled $295 billion through August, while customs duties generated about $167 billion. The CBO’s February budget outlook projected federal spending of approximately $7.449 trillion and revenues of $5.596 trillion for FY26. Its projections also anticipated deficits remaining near or above $2 trillion in the coming years as federal spending and interest costs continue to rise. With one month left of FY26, the final September figures will determine the government’s full-year deficit and how it ultimately compares with both FY25 and the CBO’s earlier projections. Ethan Faverino is a reporter for AZ Free News. You can send him news tips using this link. The post U.S. Deficit Reaches $1.97 Trillion With One Month Left In Fiscal Year 2026 first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae61dc75342cf4db878fdc Jasser Tells Stanton ‘House Needs A Doctor, Not A Politician’ During CD4 Forum te 2026-09-19T10:20:12.494Z Jasser Tells Stanton ‘House Needs A Doctor, Not A Politician’ During CD4 Forum By Matthew Holloway | Republican congressional candidate Dr. Zuhdi Jasser confronted Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton (AZ-04) over health care costs, border enforcement, tariffs, and the conflict with Iran during an Arizona PBS candidate forum for Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District. The Arizona Republican Party highlighted the exchange Tuesday, days after Jasser and Stanton appeared together on the Sept. 10 edition of “Candidates in Conversation.” Arizona PBS described the program as an open exchange rather than a formal debate. Jasser, a primary-care physician and Republican nominee, identified rising health-insurance premiums as the most pressing issue facing the district. He blamed the Affordable Care Act and a lack of competition and price transparency for making coverage increasingly expensive. Stanton, the Democratic incumbent who has served in Congress since 2019, said the broader cost of living was the leading issue. He pointed to tariffs, energy costs, and federal health care policy as contributors to household expenses. The discussion became contentious when Stanton accused Jasser of supporting repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Jasser denied advocating repeal and said his position was to make health insurance more affordable through competition and transparency. Jasser then argued that Congress needed a physician’s perspective on health policy, telling Stanton that “the House needs a doctor, not a politician that has been there since the iPod was made.” For 25 years, I’ve fought for patients against insurance companies that put profits before care. Greg Stanton is fighting to prevent any affordability reforms to the Unaffordable Care Act and instead wants to send BILLIONS more in subsidies to the C-Suites of Big Insurance while… pic.twitter.com/kXKRnnnXeM — Dr. Zuhdi Jasser For Congress (@DrZ4AZ) September 15, 2026 The Arizona Republican Party paraphrased the remark in its post by referring to the introduction of the iPad and wrote that it was time for Stanton to leave office. Stanton said he would continue defending Affordable Care Act protections, including coverage for people with preexisting conditions, and work to reduce insurance costs. Jasser said Stanton’s years in elected office had failed to produce an affordable health care system. The Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, nine years before Stanton entered Congress. Stanton previously served on the Phoenix City Council and as the city’s mayor from 2012 through 2018. The candidates also found limited agreement on tariffs. Jasser said he disagreed with President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs and the administration’s involvement with Intel. Stanton called the tariffs unlawful and said they were increasing consumer costs. Their sharpest foreign-policy disagreement involved Iran. Stanton characterized the conflict as a war of choice and linked it to higher gasoline prices. Jasser defended presidential authority to respond to national-security threats and criticized Stanton’s approach to military and border policy. On immigration, Stanton acknowledged that the Biden administration mishandled the southern border. He said he supports border security alongside a comprehensive immigration overhaul. Jasser called for continued enforcement of immigration law along with support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local police. He also criticized Stanton for appearing with Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-03) during a congressional oversight visit to a federal detention facility. Stanton responded that members of Congress have an obligation to inspect federal facilities and review how federal agencies are carrying out immigration enforcement. Jasser also rejected the suggestion that he would vote in lockstep with Trump or Republican leadership. He cited his disagreement with the administration on tariffs and Intel while describing himself as an independent voice with medical, military, and business experience. Jasser served for 11 years in the U.S. Navy and founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. He has also served as a commissioner and vice chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Stanton serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee. He is also chairman of the NewDem Action Fund, which supports candidates affiliated with the centrist New Democrat Coalition. Stanton won the Democratic primary with 35,551 votes, while Jasser received 39,431 votes as the Republican nominee. Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District lies entirely within Maricopa County and includes portions of Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, and Chandler. Matthew Holloway is a senior reporter for AZ Free News. Follow him on X for his latest stories, or email tips to Matthew@azfreenews.com. The post Jasser Tells Stanton ‘House Needs A Doctor, Not A Politician’ During CD4 Forum first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae61da75342cf4db878fd3 Tempe Holds First Police Oversight Meeting After ASU Student Attacks Officer te 2026-09-19T10:20:10.741Z Tempe Holds First Police Oversight Meeting After ASU Student Attacks Officer By Staff Reporter | The city of Tempe held the first meeting for its Public Safety and Community Oversight Council Subcommittee on Monday.  Councilmember Bobby Nichols is chairing the subcommittee. Mayor Corey Woods and Councilmember Brooke St. George are also members of the subcommittee.  The subcommittee is focused on reviewing progress on implementation of recommendations made by the city’s 2020-2021 Public Safety Advisory Task Force. Additionally, the subcommittee plans to review and evaluate policies, data, and procedures related to 911 response, police deescalation, and police use of force.  Woods created the task force following the summer of Black Lives Matter-led riots initiated by the death of George Floyd while in police custody.  The task force issued seven pages of recommendations for police reform in Tempe. Recommendations included: Creating an unarmed unit to respond to nonviolent crimes and situations, with a suggestion for police to base call response on the interpretation of the threat level and consideration of how beliefs around race, gender, or class may influence threat level interpretations.  Restructuring the 911 Emergency Call Center to be modeled after a now-defunct program in Oregon which provided mobile crisis intervention services for mental health issues, conflicts, homelessness, and first aid. Conducting a diversity audit of the 911 Emergency Call Center. Establishing a civilian-based investigative body for police use of force violations or complaints. Providing families with body-worn camera footage and reports within 48 hours of officer-involved shootings. Establishing a settlement fund for victims of police brutality within the police department’s budget.  Shifting resources from police to social services, including expanding and increasing funds for CARE 7, which houses the city’s crisis response team and victims services advocacy.  Ceasing police hiring and recruitment until task force recommendations and “a culture shift” occur.  The subcommittee plans to explore further the city’s progress with implementing these recommendations at their next meeting on September 28. The recent arrest over the summer of Arizona State University (ASU) student Eryn Bonner prompted the council to create the subcommittee. Surveillance footage and police body camera video reflect that Bonner was arrested after refusing to comply with law enforcement orders to remain at a distance during the arrest of two men. Bonner approached arresting officers twice while yelling and grabbing at them. She then approached a third time, attacking the officer who had twice pushed her away from the other arresting officers.  According to police records and as indicated by body camera footage, Bonner struck the arresting officer multiple times in the head as he attempted to arrest her. It appears that only after Bonner attacked the officer that he struck Bonner to subdue her.  Police have filed misdemeanor charges against Bonner including assault, disorderly conduct, obstruction, and resisting arrest.  Community stakeholders present at this first meeting included Casey Clowes, an SRP board member; DeAnna Alvarez, advocacy director for AANHPI for Equity; Kema Charles with the Scottsdale chapter of Black Lives Matter; Michelle Ivette Ponce and Raquel Britain, program manager with the Phoenix Metro chapter of Black Lives Matter; and Nicole Gutierrez-Miller, governing board member with Tempe Union High School District.  One item of particular focus at this meeting was the Tempe Citizens’ Review Panel for Police Complaints and Use of Force. The city established the panel in 1999 to provide civilian oversight over police use of force, similar to one of the recommendation items posed by the 2020-2021 Public Safety Advisory Task Force.  The subcommittee plans to discuss whether other municipalities have civilian oversight bodies that have proven effective at securing accountability, restoring public trust, and offering resolutions to incidents. AZ Free News is your #1 source for Arizona news and politics. You can send us news tips using this link. The post Tempe Holds First Police Oversight Meeting After ASU Student Attacks Officer first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae53c975342cf4db878d8c Kirk family has powerful evidence — but Utah law could derail wrongful death case: experts te 2026-09-19T09:20:09.918Z Kirk family has powerful evidence — but Utah law could derail wrongful death case: experts A Utah government immunity law could upend the Kirk family’s efforts to bring a wrongful death lawsuit against Utah Valley University over alleged security failures surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Attorneys for Kirk’s family filed a notice of intent to sue on Sept. 9, one day before the anniversary of his death. The filing alleges a series of security failures by the university, including declining additional police officers, failing to adequately address concerns from Kirk's security team and not having an adequate security plan in place for his visit. But legal experts say the Kirks face an uphill legal battle because Utah law grants government entities — including their officers and employees — broad immunity from lawsuits arising from a lengthy list of circumstances, including the performance or failure to perform discretionary functions and claims involving assault, battery, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and civil rights violations. "Unfortunately, Charlie Kirk's family is going to have a very difficult time prevailing in a wrongful death case in Utah," Tenielle Brown, a University of Utah law professor, told Fox News Digital. "And that's because Utah's government immunity statute is phrased in such a way that says even if the state and UVU were reckless, they retain immunity in cases that arise out of a battery, and that would include gunshot wounds." JUDGE IN ACCUSED ASSASSIN TYLER ROBINSON'S CASE EXPLAINS WHY DEATH PENALTY REMAINS ON TABLE IN WRITTEN ORDER Kirk, 31, co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012 and grew the conservative youth organization into a major force on high school and college campuses nationwide. He was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem on Sept. 10, 2025. Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Fox News Digital that wrongful death claims against the government are already difficult for plaintiffs to win because government entities generally enjoy broad immunity from lawsuits stemming from assaults or batteries committed by third parties. "I've handled lack of security cases, including lack of security cases against the government," Rahmani told Fox News Digital. "They are tough because you are trying to hold the police or city, county or state responsible for someone else's criminal actions." But Rahmani suggested the Kirk family's strongest evidence could be a message from UVU Police Chief Jeffrey Long acknowledging concerns about rooftop access to the Sorenson Center, a building located "pretty close" to where Kirk was scheduled to speak. The Sorenson Center sits directly west of the Losee Center, where prosecutors say Tyler Robinson fired the shot that killed Kirk. In response to the security concerns, Long messaged Kirk's team, "I got you covered." TYLER ROBINSON HEARING ENDS WITHOUT RULING AS EVIDENCE DISMANTLES CHARLIE KIRK CONSPIRACY CLAIMS "That means they're gonna argue that they assume the responsibility to make sure Charlie Kirk was safe, and they failed to do so," Rahmani said of the Kirk family. "In cases where you have the government taking on a duty, that tends to be better than simply arguing that the government has a duty to protect everyone because we know that murders happen all the time, and you can't sue the government just because someone is killed." But Brown said Utah law can shield government officials from lawsuits even when they fail to perform their job functions. "There have been a number of cases where the plaintiffs and the family of the victims have sued for either wrongful death or battery," Brown told Fox News Digital. "And in some cases, the government did behave recklessly, and they could show carelessness and recklessness and the plaintiffs were not able to prevail because it arose out of a battery. And that's unusual. Most states don't have that broad of a statute." Brown pointed to the case of Mika Scott, a 19-year-old Utah Valley University student who sued Utah County and the Utah County Sheriff's Office after Shawn Leonard, a prisoner with a violent criminal record who had escaped from a work-release program, raped her in 2010. "They were supposed to screen inmates to make sure that they weren't violent," Brown told Fox News Digital. "And then when they went out in the community on the job sites, they were supposed to make sure that they were policing the boundaries so that these inmates couldn't escape and in a really terrible situation." "And she could have shown carelessness and maybe even recklessness, but because of the government immunity statute and because this claim arose out of a battery, she was not able to prevail against the state," Brown continued. CHARLIE KIRK SUPPORTERS RETURN TO SITE OF ASSASSINATION 1 YEAR LATER: ‘WE ARE STILL STANDING’ The Utah Supreme Court addressed the statute's language in its 2005 decision in Wagner v. Utah, which held that civil battery does not require an intent to cause physical or psychological injury. "The court said, it may not be prudent for the state to continue to retain immunity here," Brown told Fox News Digital. " And they're kind of signaling to the legislature that the legislature should probably change the statute to allow for suits in cases like Charlie Kirk's." "But the state has not revised the statute and so it still says very clearly that you can't sue the state if the claim arises out of a battery," Brown continued. Brown said state workers who are not elected cannot be held accountable at the ballot box for failing to do their jobs. "The president of UVU, the campus police, those people are not elected, and so if you were to say sovereign immunity is all about letting people decide whether they're state actors or careless at the ballot box, then you vote them out of office," Brown said. "That doesn't work," Brown continued. "That argument doesn't for the UVU president because nobody can vote them of office, nobody is having any political check on the campus police." Astrid Tuminez, who served as the school's president at the time of Kirk's assassination, stepped down from her position in May 2026 after eight years. She and Long are named in the filing by Kirk's family. "We are aware of the notice of claim," a Utah Valley University spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "UVU addresses legal matters consistent with our established processes. Our focus remains on supporting our campus community." SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Kirk leaves behind his wife Erika Kirk and their two small children. Fox News Digital reached out to the Kirk family's lawyers for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae53c975342cf4db878d83 Dem’s data center attack in critical Senate race hits snag when money trail surfaces: 'Jekyll-and-Hyde' te 2026-09-19T09:20:09.273Z Dem’s data center attack in critical Senate race hits snag when money trail surfaces: 'Jekyll-and-Hyde' FIRST ON FOX: Former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is targeting Republican Sen. Jon Husted over Ohio's growing data center industry in a new campaign ad that features a facility owned by Google — whose corporate PAC and lobbyists have contributed thousands of dollars to Brown's campaigns. The Sept. 4 ad features an Ohioan blaming Husted for spearheading "the push to bring data centers to Ohio" and linking their expansion to "higher electric bills." The facility featured in the ad, which opened in Lancaster in 2023, is owned by Google. Campaign finance records reviewed by Fox News Digital show Google's corporate PAC contributed $20,000 to Brown over his political career. Brown also received thousands of dollars from individuals who lobby for Google, including two whose firms have worked on permitting, grid reliability and energy affordability issues. WATCH: GOP SENATOR UNLOADS ON 'CREATURE OF WASHINGTON' CHALLENGER IN CRITICAL SENATE SHOWDOWN "Apparently Google is terrible enough to put in a campaign attack ad, but perfectly acceptable when the political contributions are coming in," Mehek Cooke, a GOP strategist and attorney in Ohio, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "That is the contradiction Brown needs to answer. If Google’s Lancaster investment is so bad for Ohio, why was Google political money acceptable to Sherrod Brown?" Among the contributors are Google lobbyist Lisa Kountoupes, who donated $3,500 in March, and Google lobbyist Michael D. Smith, who donated a total of $10,200 to Brown since 2017, according to Federal Election Commission records. The contributions were made to Friends of Sherrod Brown, Brown's principal campaign committee. Kountoupes’s firm, Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, was hired by Google in December to lobby on "issues related to permitting reform" tied to the company's data center needs, Politico previously reported. Smith's firm, Cornerstone Government Affairs, reported lobbying for Google on "issues related to permitting reform for grid reliability and energy affordability," according to federal lobbying filings. FEC records show Brown also received a combined $6,000 over the past decade from three additional Google lobbyists. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Lauren Chou, a spokeswoman for Brown's campaign, highlighted Brown's opposition to Ohio's data center expansion, saying Husted "led the charge," but did not address Brown's past campaign contributions. "Husted is a ‘chief reason’ Ohio has 226 data centers and is ‘the face of data centers’ in Ohio," Chou wrote. "Ohioans shouldn’t be forced to subsidize these costs and Ohioans – not Jon Husted and his billionaire friends – should get to decide if data centers are built in their community." Cooke accused Brown of acting like his "Google relationship in Washington does not count," calling it "Jekyll-and-Hyde politics." FOX NEWS POLL: ECONOMIC ANXIETY AND CANDIDATE CONCERNS DEFINE OHIO SENATE RACE "For nearly five decades, Brown has sold himself as the plaid-shirt, working-class populist," she said. "He lost in 2024, and now he is back running the same playbook: say one thing to Ohioans while his Washington record tells a very different story." Brown, who is seeking to return to the U.S. Senate in the high-stakes race against Husted, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 before losing his reelection bid in 2024 to Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. But this isn’t the first time Brown’s comeback campaign has faced questions over conflicting positions. FOX NEWS POLL: DEMOCRATIC UNITY, REPUBLICAN CROSSOVERS SHAPE OHIO SENATE RACE In 2015, Brown celebrated the construction of an Amazon data center in central Ohio, saying in a press release the new facility "is great news for New Albany and central Ohio." Despite his public praise, Brown has become an outspoken critic of Ohio's growing number of data centers, a defining issue in Ohio politics ahead of the midterms. President Donald Trump has pushed to expand the facilities, warning that communities that block them would "end up being backwards and poor." But Cooke said this about more than one local data center. "America is in a global race for AI, computing capacity and energy infrastructure," she said. "China is not slowing down because American politicians discovered that attacking data centers makes a convenient campaign commercial." In a statement to Fox News Digital, Husted campaign spokesperson Amy Natoce said that Brown failed Ohio families during his 32 years in Washington and is "once again resorting to lies instead of facing his abysmal record head-on. " "The House overwhelmingly passed Sen. Husted’s bipartisan legislation requiring data center companies to pay for the power they use, but Senate Democrats blocked it," Natoce said. "Sherrod Brown and his friends would rather play politics and stick Ohio families with higher electric bills than pass a commonsense solution. It’s despicable." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae516e75342cf4db878d03 Texas Billionaire John Poindexter Plans to Revive Shafter Ghost Town te 2026-09-19T09:10:06.860Z Texas Billionaire John Poindexter Plans to Revive Shafter Ghost Town An 81-year-old billionaire has a vision for preserving a tiny West Texas mining town, even as other forces are reshaping the land around it. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae516e75342cf4db878cfa Trump Won Their Votes. Now His Trade War Is Dividing Them. te 2026-09-19T09:10:06.164Z Trump Won Their Votes. Now His Trade War Is Dividing Them. The president’s standoff with Canada has drawn criticism from voters in some of the border states and industrial states that could decide control of the Senate in the midterms. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae516d75342cf4db878cf1 After North Carolina’s Gerrymander, Democrat Don Davis Trumpets His Centrism in 1st District te 2026-09-19T09:10:05.501Z After North Carolina’s Gerrymander, Democrat Don Davis Trumpets His Centrism in 1st District Representative Don Davis is seeking re-election in a district redrawn by state lawmakers to lean more Republican. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae516c75342cf4db878ce8 Tracking Assault Weapons Bans Across the Country as Court Battles Continue te 2026-09-19T09:10:04.819Z Tracking Assault Weapons Bans Across the Country as Court Battles Continue Here are the states that have sought to limit access to some of the most lethal firearms, as gun restrictions face new legal challenges. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae516b75342cf4db878cdf Sherrod Brown Tries a New Retort to Criticism on Transgender Issues te 2026-09-19T09:10:03.990Z Sherrod Brown Tries a New Retort to Criticism on Transgender Issues A spot from the Senate candidate in Ohio seeks to dismiss the Republican Party’s focus on transgender rights as a distraction from economic issues. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae16d375342cf4db878326 Air Force Officer Charged After Protesting Trump Says He Spoke to Defend Constitution te 2026-09-19T05:00:03.011Z Air Force Officer Charged After Protesting Trump Says He Spoke to Defend Constitution Major Jason Watson could face court-martial in what could become a rare test of a service member’s right to publicly dissent. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae041a75342cf4db878064 Pedestrian hospitalized after being struck in John Wayne Parkway crosswalk te 2026-09-19T03:40:10.418Z Pedestrian hospitalized after being struck in John Wayne Parkway crosswalk A pedestrian was transported to the hospital for minor injuries after he was struck by a vehicle on John Wayne Parkway tonight. The crash happened about 7:20 p.m. when a vehicle hit the unknown man “at low speeds in the crosswalk” on Edison Road, according to a police spokesperson. First responders were seen treating the man on the sidewalk before loading him into an ambulance. Police said the driver “was cooperative with officers” and was cited for failure to yield. Several pedestrians were near the scene as medics treated the man. That included Christopher Blaisdell, a Maricopa resident since 2010. He said he was recently injured as a pedestrian when he was clipped by a vehicle in town. That crash put him in a foot cast and wheelchair, he said. “People just don’t pay attention, there’s a lot that needs to be addressed out here,” he said. “This [area] is a real hotspot, even in the parking lot.” Last year, Maricopa police responded to 13 crashes involving pedestrians and 14 involving bicyclists. And with an uptick in crashes earlier this year, the department published an educational video reminding drivers to yield to pedestrians.   In April, Maricopa City Council attempted to address those issues by approving an ordinance that would allow bicycles, electric bikes and scooters on sidewalks instead of having them compete on the roadway with vehicles. It became effective May 21. Still, pedestrians like Blaisdell said he hopes to see more done. “Everyone’s in such a rush, they’re not paying attention to anything. It’s sickening, it’s sad,” he said. “There’s just no respect for pedestrians, period.” A crash involving a pedestrian on John Wayne Parkway and Edison Road on Sept. 18, 2026. [Monica D. Spencer] Medics treat a pedestrian injured in a crash on John Wayne Parkway and Edison Road on Sept. 18, 2026. [Monica D. Spencer] Medics transport a pedestrian injured in a crash on John Wayne Parkway and Edison Road on Sept. 18, 2026. [Monica D. Spencer] Pedestrians on John Wayne Parkway and Edison Road watch as Maricopa Fire and Police investigate a crash involving a pedestrian on Sept. 18, 2026. [Monica D. Spencer] The post Pedestrian hospitalized after being struck in John Wayne Parkway crosswalk appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aae041775342cf4db878043 Caitlin Clark returns after FIBA title as Kelsey Mitchell sets WNBA scoring mark in Fever victory over Tempo te 2026-09-19T03:40:07.733Z Caitlin Clark returns after FIBA title as Kelsey Mitchell sets WNBA scoring mark in Fever victory over Tempo Kelsey Mitchell’s 33-point performance Friday night added another chapter to her record-setting season. The Indiana Fever guard became the WNBA’s single-season scoring leader in a 103-85 victory over the Toronto Tempo. Mitchell now has 1,034 points this season. A’ja Wilson, the reigning back-to-back WNBA MVP, set the previous mark in 2024, when she scored 1,021 points for the Las Vegas Aces. Mitchell’s teammate, Caitlin Clark, added 28 points Friday and matched her season high with 14 assists as Indiana earned its eighth win in 10 games. Mitchell also scored at least 20 points for the 25th consecutive game, extending her WNBA record. She shot 12 for 17 and went 7 for 11 from 3-point range. SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM SAYS SHE'S TALKED WITH NBA COMMISSIONER ADAM SILVER AMID SEARCH FOR WNBA'S NEXT COMMISSIONER Clark went 2 for 8 from distance for her 14th double-double in her first game since helping the U.S. win the women’s FIBA World Cup in Germany. She made 12 free throws without a miss. Clark also had 14 assists in a home win over Toronto on June 16. The game was the first for both teams following a nearly three-week World Cup break. Toronto’s Laura Juskaite scored 22 points and Kiki Rice had 18. Isabelle Harrison and Temi Fagbenle each scored 16 points, but the Tempo lost their fifth straight. Toronto started its inaugural season 9-9 but has gone 2-21 since. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The Tempo were without veteran guard Marina Mabrey. On Wednesday, the team said Mabrey will miss the final four games of the season because of a right adductor injury. Mabrey hasn’t played since a home loss to Indiana on Aug. 18. The Fever return home next, hosting the Washington Mystics on Sunday. The Tempo will face the New York Liberty in their next game. Toronto has already been eliminated from postseason contention, while Indiana has clinched a playoff spot and, after Friday’s win, moved into a tie with the Atlanta Dream for first place in the Eastern Conference. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadf60875342cf4db877e1b Mountain lion caught on camera evading capture in San Francisco before being tranquilized, released te 2026-09-19T02:40:08.498Z Mountain lion caught on camera evading capture in San Francisco before being tranquilized, released A mountain lion evaded capture for several hours in San Francisco on Friday after it was spotted in the busy Sunset District, the city's largest neighborhood. Officials, including police, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, animal control, and the San Francisco Zoo, surrounded the animal in Outer Sunset and eventually tranquilized it. It was later released back into the wild. WASHINGTON HOMEOWNER HEARS MYSTERIOUS BANGING, CALLS 911 BEFORE POLICE FIND GROWLING BOBCAT AT TOP OF STAIRS Animal Care & Control shared a couple of videos of the cougar getting out of its crate later in the day and heading back into a wooded area. The mountain lion was wearing a collar which it didn’t previously have. "We're happy to report that our mountain lion visitor has been released back to the wild by our friends at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife," the organization wrote on Facebook. BLACK BEAR CAUGHT ON VIDEO WANDERING INTO CALIFORNIA WATER DISTRICT OFFICE AFTER PUSHING OPEN FRONT DOOR The group added: "We're so grateful for the collaboration today between so many agencies and organizations. It takes a village to wrangle a mountain lion! Thank you to the San Francisco Zoo for their expertise darting the lion and documenting the scene. Thank you to the San Francisco Police Department for having our backs and thank you to the wonderful Santa Cruz Puma Project!  "And of course, thank you to our fabulous Animal Control Officers who go above and beyond helping animals and people every single day!" BLACK BEAR RAIDING A GARBAGE CAN AT LAKE TAHOE GARAGE TRIGGERS DRAMATIC WILDLIFE ENCOUNTER A mountain lion was spotted in the city’s Panhandle neighborhood earlier this month, but it went back into the woods on its own. It’s unclear if it was the same mountain lion on Friday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadf15b75342cf4db877d78 Proposed 500-megawatt battery project near Maricopa hits county setback te 2026-09-19T02:20:11.114Z Proposed 500-megawatt battery project near Maricopa hits county setback A proposed 500-megawatt battery storage project in Hidden Valley encountered a temporary setback yesterday. The Pinal County Planning and Zoning Commission voted 9-0 to continue multiple requests for Epic Star Energy’s Horseshoe Energy Project to a future date, according to the Phoenix Business Journal. The proposal included a natural gas power plant on approximately 159 acres near Table Top and Fulcar roads, outside city limits. The commission’s Sept. 17 agenda listed four related requests from applicant Horseshoe BESS. The requests would change the property’s zoning from single-family residential to industrial. They would also change its comprehensive plan designation from residential to employment. Additionally, the applicant seeks to remove the property from the existing Hidden Valley Estates planned area development. A separate development overlay would establish standards for the energy facility, substations and supporting infrastructure. InMaricopa previously reported divided opinions about the gas plant and battery storage proposal. During an October 2025 neighborhood gathering, some residents supported placing energy infrastructure near the existing Pinal West Substation. Others raised concerns about noise, heat, water use and battery fires. At that time, Epic Star co-founder Kelly Sarber said nearby utility infrastructure made the location attractive. She also said the company would study existing noise and lighting conditions. Horseshoe joins a broader discussion about energy and technology projects around rural Maricopa. This included the October approval of a land use request for a proposed data center along Porter Road, although residents detailed concerns about water, noise and preserving rural character.  The post Proposed 500-megawatt battery project near Maricopa hits county setback appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadea4f75342cf4db877c51 Arizona Supreme Court strengthens public records law in ruling against U of A te 2026-09-19T01:50:07.875Z Arizona Supreme Court strengthens public records law in ruling against U of A (Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror) Destroying a public record after a member of the public requests it should land government agencies in legal trouble, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today.  Matthew Abraham, a former English professor at the University of Arizona, sued the Arizona Board of Regents after the university denied access to a list of records pertaining to hiring practices — including a committee meeting recording destroyed by the university despite an outstanding record request.  In a unanimous decision, the Arizona Supreme Court on Friday ruled that destruction of a public record sought by a member of the public constitutes a denial of access. And, the justices said, it needs to be courts, not government agencies, who determine whether a withholding or redacting public records is in line with public records law.  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE “This decision makes clear that public entities cannot avoid their disclosure obligations by destroying requested records, delaying production, or simply deferring to their own determinations about what the public is entitled to see,” Benjamin Rundall, an attorney for Abraham, said in a statement. “This is an important victory not only for Dr. Abraham, but for every Arizonan who relies on public records to understand what their government is doing.” In 2017, Abraham was a member of the committee on faculty governance, known as the “Committee of Eleven.” He raised concerns about the university’s adherence to an Arizona law prohibiting hiring and admissions based on race, sex or gender.  And after Abraham was rejected from program director positions, he started filing public records requests related to the university’s appointment and hiring practices from November 2018 to September 2020.  Among his requests were survey data, records pertaining to the search and selection process and an audio recording of an October 2019 Committee of Eleven meeting.  The university produced some records with redactions and withheld others outright, citing privacy, confidentiality and an exception in Arizona public records law that shields records from public view if withholding them is in “the best interest of the state.”  The university first denied his request for the audio recording, but then said it would allow Abraham to listen to it in a private space — though it refused to give him a copy. Abraham denied that offer and persisted in his request.  Abraham eventually hired an attorney, who sent a demand letter to the Arizona Board of Regents renewing his past requests for records. And with attorneys now involved, the university reversed course in some instances, acknowledging it incorrectly withheld some records. But the university stood its ground on withholding other records. And it informed Abraham the recording of the meeting was no longer available because it had been destroyed.  Then, Abraham took the issue to court.  A trial court judge ruled that, although the university initially violated public records law by withholding some of the documents, it “cured” its fault by eventually turning them over. The judge also said the university was empowered to decide which records it chose to withhold or redact. And the trial court found Abraham’s claim regarding the destroyed committee meeting recording was no longer valid because the record no longer existed.  The judge also ruled that Abraham was not entitled to any attorneys fees because his lawsuit did not result in any more records being provided.  The Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court, concluding that the Arizona Board of Regents had acted within its discretion to redact and withhold certain documents. It also took no issue with the destroyed record.  Abraham’s appeal left the Arizona Supreme Court grappling with destruction of records, the standard of review for records disputes and how to discern who truly won a public records case when sorting out attorneys fees.  The high court saw it differently than the appellate and trial court.  In an opinion authored by Justice Clint Bolick, the court deemed the post-request destruction of a document to be the “ultimate denial,” and an illegal one at that.  Bolick wrote that the destruction of the recording “seems an obvious violation of the statutes,” finding Abraham had the statutory right to listen to the recording and to obtain a copy. And, he wrote, ABOR had the obligation to maintain the record after it was requested. “Given that it was the subject of a public records request, it surely had further legal value, making its destruction improper,” Bolick wrote. “An agency’s retention policy must yield to the statute. The destruction and concomitant failure to produce were therefore a wrongful denial of a public record.”  The justices further found that the court must look at and decide public records access cases with fresh eyes, not simply deferring to the government agencies denying the records in the first place.  And as for attorneys fees, the Supreme Court said that courts must also take into account the legal action taken before a lawsuit is filed when deciding whether a plaintiff “substantially prevailed.”   “A contrary reading would frustrate the purposes of the public records laws by allowing a public entity to stonewall a request until just before a lawsuit is filed without financial penalty,” Bolick wrote. “Thus, the court should consider the requester’s overall success, not merely any additional success that might accrue after the lawsuit is filed.”  Rundall said the ruling “reaffirmed that our public records laws exist to ensure government transparency and accountability.”  Attorneys for two groups who filed amicus curiae, or “friend of the court” briefs, celebrated the ruling, too.  Nicholas Ansel, an attorney for the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, said the ruling clarified and reinforced the importance of public records law and government accountability. It cements the fact that agencies can’t just “destroy documents and then wipe your hands of it.”  “It’s really the court’s role to police the government’s withholding of what qualifies as public records, and the extent to which a confidentiality interest that the government serves can outweigh the people’s right to see what the government’s up to,” Ansel said.  Parker Jackson, an attorney for the Goldwater Institute, noted the Arizona Supreme Court’s recent pattern in reinforcing public records law.  He pointed to a recent ruling in the Goldwater Institute’s case against the City of Phoenix, in which the justices unanimously found government agencies withholding records must demonstrate a degree of likelihood that it would face specific, material harm if it disclosed the record.  “The ruling demonstrates that government transparency is on a roll at the Arizona Supreme Court,” Jackson said. “It reinforces that public records disputes when they go in front of a judge are on a level playing field, that the judge actually has to meaningfully scrutinize a government’s decision to withhold records.”  Friday’s ruling sends the case back down to the trial court to determine whether additional records must be produced and whether Abraham substantially prevailed and is eligible for attorneys fees.  ABOR deferred comment to the University of Arizona. The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aade59f75342cf4db877b81 Passyunk Avenue became Sun Devil Street ahead of the Union Jack Classic te 2026-09-19T01:30:07.533Z Passyunk Avenue became Sun Devil Street ahead of the Union Jack Classic LONDON –  The pints were cold, the accents were often British and for one night, the loudest people in the room were raving and reminiscing about Tempe, Arizona.  As Arizona State and Kansas prepared to square off in the inaugural Union Jack Classic at Wembley Stadium, a Sun Devil-friendly pub became a temporary outpost for Sparky and his fans. For those thousands of miles from home, it offered a chance to recreate game-day rituals in an unfamiliar environment.  Passyunk Avenue is one of the few establishments in London that regularly shows live American college sports on television. When conversations began between the pub and Union Jack Classic organizers, “It was a naturally strong pairing,” associate general manager Mark Janz said. “To have this opportunity to be spotlit for such a strong community across these schools and states feels really good for us. How far we’ve come, growth-wise in the last four years is invigorating.” Passyunk’s location in Waterloo was the official pre-game party spot for Arizona State fans, while its location in Battersea was the official spot for Kansas fans. Both crowds saw overlaps in fan attendance. When Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham was presented with the opportunity to play the first FBS college football game in historic Wembley Stadium, it was an inconvenient, yet easy decision to make. “There’s zero positive from a football perspective,” Dillingham said. “No way would I want our team to fly across the country Week 3 to play this game, but they’re still college athletes. I wasn’t going to rob them from an experience to fly across the country, see London and play in (Wembley), a once in a lifetime opportunity.” The Sun Devil faithful seemed to carry the same sentiments. Most came from the United States exclusively for the game, and the days leading up to it. From left to right, John, Chris, Kayla and Mark Alvarez ‘13 enjoyed their time in the Leake Street tunnels at Draughts, next to Passyunk Avenue in London. (Photo by Ian King/Cronkite News) “Saw it on the website, we’re there,” said Kelly Rosales, ’88. She even convinced her husband, Mundo, a University of Arizona graduate, to come along and rep maroon and gold all the way from Indianapolis. Mark Alvarez, ’13, a season ticket holder alongside three family members, chooses one ASU road game every season to attend. While Texas A&M the previous week was the original plan, Alvarez said that all it took was a “why not” to convince his family to replace it with the trip overseas. Sam Ferguson is a committed and tenured ASU fan who lives in London, but he never attended the school. Ferguson was in the British Army, based in Yuma, Arizona in 2015, when a few Arizona State alumni took Ferguson to then-Sun Devil Stadium for a football game. He was “hooked.” “I couldn’t believe it when I saw ASU was coming here,” Ferguson said. “I instantly said ‘We’re going.’” Rick and Nicole Rockrlin ‘01, ‘05 are from Kansas City, but took their honeymoon in London, which made the decision to come back for a game easy. With all the time that had passed, they were able to bring their 11-year-old son Miles and convert him into a Sun Devil fan. Will Caspari, who also lives in London, did a one-semester exchange program in the spring of 2019, meaning he’s never been to an ASU game in Tempe. Although the Jayhawks are technically the home team, Caspari is highly anticipating the neutral field Wembley will offer. “If people (in the UK) could experience a college atmosphere over there, they would (love) a team immediately,” Caspari said. “I had a better time at ASU games than the average soccer game (in the UK).” With the pre-game festivities out of the way, all that remains is the matchup between Arizona State and Kansas, which takes place at 9 a.m. MST. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aade0ea75342cf4db877a8f India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos te 2026-09-19T01:10:02.897Z India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadde9b75342cf4db877a27 Sorority alumnae take legal fight to federal court after being 'given a brother' instead of sisterhood te 2026-09-19T01:00:11.366Z Sorority alumnae take legal fight to federal court after being 'given a brother' instead of sisterhood Sorority alumnae returned to federal court on Monday, asking judges to revive their lawsuit against Kappa Kappa Gamma after they alleged the sorority's national leadership improperly allowed a chapter to admit a transgender woman. Plaintiff Allie Coghan told Fox News Digital that while she has since graduated, she hopes the appeal will establish a clear legal precedent that protects single-sex private spaces and keeps national organizations from overriding local member consent. "We were promised a sisterhood, and we were given a brother," Coghan said. "If Kappa wants to redefine the word woman to include men in the definition, that's fine, but they have to go through the proper procedures to do so and allow members to vote, which they did not." SMITH COLLEGE 'MAKES A MOCKERY' OF ALL-WOMEN STATUS BY ADMITTING TRANSGENDER STUDENTS, EDUCATION WATCHDOG SAYS The legal fight stems from 2022, when transgender student Artemis Langford was allowed to join the University of Wyoming chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Coghan said that despite reservations from her and other sorority sisters, Langford was admitted into the sorority. Coghan said the chapter did not follow its normal voting procedures during the process. Instead of using what she described as the chapter’s traditional recruitment app, Coghan said members were required to submit non-anonymous Google Forms attached to their email addresses. "They were knocking on girls' doors asking for proof that you had voted," Coghan said, adding that officers told members they would be labeled "transphobic" if they voted against membership. Coghan said that despite attempts by members and parents to contact the organization’s national leadership, executives did not answer phone calls and eventually stopped answering emails. She and several of her sorority sisters ultimately launched a legal challenge. US OLYMPIAN'S LAWSUIT AGAINST USA FENCING FOR ALLEGED TRANS ATHLETE IN WOMEN'S COMPETITION IS DISMISSED The initial lawsuit was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson, who ruled that Kappa Kappa Gamma, as a private organization, could interpret its own membership requirements. However, the alumnae, supported by the Independent Women's Law Center, appealed the ruling to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard oral arguments in Denver on Monday. "It was very surreal to be back. I mean we were in college. We just wanted to be sorority girls, finish our degrees, graduate, go out into the real world," Coghan said. "I remember when I was trying to decide if I wanted to sign my name on this, asking the lawyer, am I [going to] be married with kids before there's any sort of resolution? And he just kind of laughed at me and said, ‘I guess it depends on how soon you get married.’ Well, I actually just got married two weeks ago," she added. FEMALE VIRGINIA OFFICER SUES POLICE DEPARTMENT AFTER ALLEGEDLY SHARING LOCKER ROOM WITH BIOLOGICAL MALE Coghan described the situation in school as toxic and said the sorority house became a "political war zone." She said that while Langford did not live in the house, the student was granted 24/7 access to the living quarters and common rooms, including an area young women needed to walk through to get to the showers. "The entire dynamic of the house completely shifted. It became a political war zone," Coghan said. "You would see him sitting in the common rooms upstairs and girls have to walk past those rooms to get to the shower. We don’t have a space to undress to get into the shower, so you would just walk in your towel and go take a shower and come back." While Coghan has since graduated, she said a sense of duty to younger women keeps her involved in the case and seeking a resolution in the courts. "I don't understand how the feminist movement has shifted so much that it's no longer pro-women, it's pro-woman erasure," Coghan said. "I hope that it will really set a standard of woman means woman. Woman does not mean man who thinks he is woman. Woman is not up for interpretation. A woman is an adult human female," she later added. Coghan and her fellow plaintiff, Hannah Holtmeier, also spoke on the "Riley Gaines Show" podcast, discussing the moment they said their chapter president told them that if they didn’t like the change in their house, they were welcome to drop out of the group. "She basically told us, if you don't like it, your values don't align with Kappa's, and you can drop," Holtmeier told Gaines. "Being told that if you don't like it, you can drop and not live in a house that I had called a home for already a year and a half was absolutely mind-boggling to me." NHS DOCTOR SUES AFTER 'BEARDED' TRANS PATIENT ALLEGEDLY EXPOSES HIMSELF ON WOMEN'S PSYCHIATRIC WARD She echoed Coghan’s comments about conditions in the sorority house, saying women would sometimes act as lookouts for one another when they were in the shower to ensure the hallway was clear. "It was to the point where girls would have like a lookout basically when they're in the shower. They would text their roommate, say, ‘Hey, I'm coming back,’ and they would have to clear the hall," Holtmeier said. "It was definitely an unnerving feeling in those intimate spaces, especially upstairs when that's where our showers were," she added. The recent oral arguments before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver represented a new phase in the legal battle. The three-judge panel is considering whether to overturn the lower court’s dismissal and revive the breach of contract lawsuit. The plaintiffs argued that the national leadership of the group could not legally redefine core membership terms, including what constitutes being a "woman," without a formal vote from the organization's members or an amendment to its bylaws. The appeals court’s ruling will determine whether the lawsuit remains dismissed or is allowed to move forward. Fox News Digital reached out to Kappa Kappa Gamma for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaddc4175342cf4db8779ce Cuba plunges into total blackout as electrical grid collapses again, US Embassy warns te 2026-09-19T00:50:09.822Z Cuba plunges into total blackout as electrical grid collapses again, US Embassy warns Cuba experienced a total power failure on Friday, according to the U.S. Embassy in Havana. The embassy said the failure was due to the "collapse of Cuba’s electrical grid.  According to Cuban regime media, the reason for the collapse is under investigation and the timeline to restore power is unknown." "All U.S. citizens in Cuba or planning to travel to Cuba should be aware and plan accordingly. There are reports of cellphone and internet outages," the embassy added, noting that Cuba’s electrical grid is "increasingly unstable," which has led to "multiple" nationwide power outages in the last few months. CUBA’S ECONOMIC FREEFALL IS HIDING A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT JUST MILES FROM FLORIDA: REPORT The embassy added, "The electrical system remains vulnerable, and additional regular outages have been occurring more frequently and for longer periods. Scheduled power cuts occur daily, and unscheduled outages persist throughout Cuba." Cuba’s energy ministry also posted about the power outage on social media. LEFT-WING INFLUENCER DOWNPLAYS CUBA BLACKOUTS: WORSENING SHORTAGES; 'PEOPLE ARE PARTYING' The country’s power system has been struggling because of fuel shortages, the U.S.-imposed oil blockade and crumbling infrastructure. CUBA’S DICTATORSHIP HAS LONG BEEN A THREAT TO AMERICA. NOW, IT’S FINALLY TEETERING Even when there isn’t a national outage, the country often suffers through rolling blackouts that leave millions without power. The last national outage happened just last month, and Friday's marks the seventh one this year. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaddc4075342cf4db8779ba Andy Biggs revives Kari Lake’s push for cameras in Arizona classrooms to spot ‘woke’ teachers te 2026-09-19T00:50:08.292Z Andy Biggs revives Kari Lake’s push for cameras in Arizona classrooms to spot ‘woke’ teachers Rep. Andy Biggs debates with his Republican opponents in the 2026 AZ Clean Elections governor primary debate at Sneaky Big Studios in Scottsdale on June 17, 2026. Pool photo by Diannie Chavez/The Arizona Republic) Andy Biggs, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, said last year that he would support putting cameras in public school classrooms so that parents can keep an eye on “woke” teachers. Experts say that doing so would put student safety and privacy at risk because, even if streaming camera feeds are meant for a private audience, like parents, they can be hacked.  After a Phoenix area elementary school teacher was criticized for how she spoke to students about the shooting death of Charlie Kirk, conservative radio show host Garret Lewis asked Biggs if he would support putting cameras in classrooms so that parents could monitor them.  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE “Absolutely, I would,” Biggs said during the Oct. 15, 2025, radio show. “I mean, you’ve hit on the reasons why, but look, you wouldn’t need to do it if you didn’t have what we’re seeing with some of these woke teachers and these woke lessons that are going on, and the indoctrination that’s taking place here.” Biggs declined to comment for this story. Michael Beyer, a spokesman for the Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ reelection campaign, told the Arizona Mirror in a statement that Biggs’ plan would “fulfill the wish list of pedophiles.”  “Andy Biggs’ plan to put government cameras in classrooms is the latest gift to predators from a politician with a disturbing record when it comes to protecting Arizona’s children,” he said. “Biggs blocked bipartisan legislation to combat a corrupt pedophile cult that was abusing women and children in Colorado City, and now he’s pushing a classroom surveillance scheme that former Republican Governor Doug Ducey warned could allow predators to monitor children.” Biggs has defended his vote on that legislation, saying it was poorly drafted, and accused Hobbs of protecting pedophiles for vetoing legislation that would give tougher penalties to sex offenders.  The idea of putting cameras in classrooms to monitor teachers for ideological reasons isn’t a new one. In 2021, then-gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, also a Republican, said she backed the idea. At the time, people like Lake and former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson were up in arms over untrue allegations that critical race theory, a graduate-school level concept, was being taught in public K-12 schools.  In 2022, legislation was introduced by Republican lawmakers in Iowa and Florida to require livestream monitoring of public school classrooms, but neither proposal became law.  While Biggs said during the radio interview that he would agree to cameras in classrooms only if access was limited to parents, there would be no guarantee that parents wouldn’t share their login information or that it wouldn’t be stolen. In 2021, the Associated Press reported that a small hacking group accessed cloud-based live feeds of tens of thousands of Verkada security cameras, including those at schools and hospitals, and monitored them for two days. After that, Verkada said that it beefed up security.  Buckeye Union High School District confirmed in May that it installed Verkada cameras with artificial intelligence recognition capabilities at Estrella Foothills High School, but said the AI capabilities had been turned off.  “When you hook up a camera to the internet, you are making it vulnerable,” Jay Stanley, a policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote in 2021. “And you are making the privacy of anybody recorded by that camera vulnerable.” Hackers used a “super admin” login to access Verkada’s video feeds, which allowed as many as 100 staffers, from salespeople to interns to access the livestreams from digital devices.  “Digital security is difficult,” Stanley wrote. “The bottom line is that it’s simply easier to attack an online asset than to defend it. To protect it, your defenses have to be perfect, while an attacker only needs to find one way to succeed — one weak password, one unpatched vulnerability, or one gullible worker.” In a 2024 settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Verkada agreed to pay a nearly $3 million civil penalty and to “implement extensive data security measures.” Even if classroom video stays in the hands of people who are supposed to have access to it, that doesn’t mean students are safe from predators. Last month, a former Tempe Union High School District surveillance officer was indicted for voyeurism for downloading security video of Corona del Sol High School students in a dance room where female students were changing clothes.  “Andy Biggs is proving yet again that he’s taking lessons from Kari Lake, dusting off her reckless proposal to put surveillance cameras in Arizona classrooms,” Nicholas Simões Machado, a spokesman for Copper State War Room, a messaging arm of a campaign to elect Democrats, told the Arizona Mirror in a statement. “Even former Republican Gov. Doug Ducey warned the plan could compromise student privacy and put children in predators’ crosshairs. Biggs continues to show he’ll put predators first and children’s safety second. Arizonans already gave Kari Lake’s extreme agenda a failing grade twice, and this November, Biggs is turning in the same failed agenda.” A swift kick from the budget An initial version of this year’s state budget included $2 million for a pilot program to put cameras with biometric scanners in Mesa Public Schools. The cameras would send alerts to analysts if the scanners identified registered sex offenders, people with criminal histories or missing kids. The proposal did not allow for live viewing of the camera feeds.  After criticism over privacy concerns, it was swiftly removed. During a June 10 legislative hearing on the budget, Arizona Sen. Mitzi Epstein, D-Tempe, said that she and others had a lot of concerns about putting more cameras in schools.  “It’s of great concern, the idea of having cameras on students all day long, and the anxiety that that could produce,” she said. Nearly all of the students who participated in ACLU focus groups in 2023 said that surveillance negatively impacted their interactions with staff and friends. And 26% of 500 high school-age students who responded to a YouGov survey commissioned by the ACLU said they were concerned about how their data, obtained via surveillance at school, was being used.  Several Arizona school districts already use cameras with biometric scanners, purchased with federal grants within the last few years, including Piñon School District on the Navajo Nation and Tolleson Union High School District.  A new law went into effect in Louisiana in February that requires some special education classrooms to have cameras in them, and many parents and teachers regarded it as a win to protect some of the most vulnerable students from abuse or neglect. But some parents had privacy concerns.  “We understand parents who are supportive of having cameras in the classroom, and at the same time, we’re understanding of some parents who may worry about over surveillance of children in schools,” Lauren Winkler, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center who represents parents of special needs children, told the Louisiana Illuminator in January “So we, you know, we want it to be used to help families, but not to be harmful to children.” YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadd79175342cf4db877905 Yankees star Aaron Judge heads back to injured list weeks after returning from broken rib te 2026-09-19T00:30:09.435Z Yankees star Aaron Judge heads back to injured list weeks after returning from broken rib As the New York Yankees make a final push for October baseball, slugger Aaron Judge is likely to miss most of the remaining regular season. The Yankees announced Friday that they plan to place Judge on the 10-day injured list with a right calf strain. The move can be backdated to Thursday, which would make the three-time American League MVP eligible to return for the Yankees’ regular-season finale Sept. 27. Judge has appeared in just 66 games this season after playing more than 150 games in each of the previous two seasons and winning back-to-back American League MVP awards in 2024 and 2025. AARON JUDGE RETURNS TO YANKEES AFTER 83 GAMES MISSED WITH RIB INJURY AHEAD OF POSTSEASON PUSH The 34-year-old last played Wednesday in the Yankees' series finale against the Minnesota Twins. But Judge was removed from the game in the sixth inning because of leg discomfort, though he said afterward that the move was precautionary. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Judge has one extra-base hit in seven games since returning last week from a broken rib, which kept him out of the lineup for more than three months. The Yankees continue their latest road trip Friday night playing the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix. New York entered Friday night's action five games behind the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays. Both the Yankees and Rays have already clinched postseason berths. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadd53575342cf4db87788c Kennedy Center Supporters Rally Amid Speculation About Possible Demolition te 2026-09-19T00:20:05.739Z Kennedy Center Supporters Rally Amid Speculation About Possible Demolition Photos of President Trump reviewing a poster board with the title “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED” spurred the largest gathering yet in support of the performing arts institution. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadd53475342cf4db87786b Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI te 2026-09-19T00:20:04.344Z Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadd2e075342cf4db877842 Why the House let out early: a matter of debate as Johnson says chamber has 'done its work' te 2026-09-19T00:10:08.838Z Why the House let out early: a matter of debate as Johnson says chamber has 'done its work' It’s a matter of debate as to why House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., sent the House home a day early this week. This is in addition to the House lopping off two additional weeks from its schedule later this month and into early October. "We're going to modify the House schedule by a day. And let me explain to you why. The House has done its work," said Johnson as House Members fled Capitol Hill early Wednesday night. "House Republicans are going now back to our districts. We're going to make the case to the American people on what we have delivered on their behalf." The House isn’t scheduled to reconvene until November 9, just after the midterms. But outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., believes there’s a different reason Johnson cut everyone loose early. The Kentucky Republican introduced eight articles of impeachment for Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth. Because Massie’s push for impeachment is "privileged," the House had 48 hours max to consider the articles. THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO MASSIE SAYING JOHNSON IS SENDING THE HOUSE HOME EARLY TO PREVENT HEGSETH IMPEACHMENT "I figured out why we canceled tomorrow," said Massie. "Tomorrow would be the vote on impeaching Secretary of Defense Peter Bryan Hegseth. And it looks like that vote's not going to happen." A senior House Republican leadership source insisted to Fox last week that Members would be on Capitol Hill "for a full week." But by Wednesday, the House had synced up with the Senate and passed the Russia sanctions bill. It okayed legislation to protect consumers from high electricity and water bills associated with data centers – foisting the cost on tech companies. Yes, there were calls by bipartisan lawmakers that the House should remain in session to address intensifying concerns about AI. But the House was running out of floor traffic. Except for Massie’s measure to impeach Hegseth. REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: HOUSE CONTROL COULD HINGE ON WHETHER THE OLD POLITICAL RULES STILL APPLY Now you can determine for yourself why Johnson dismissed lawmakers a day early – to say nothing of the plan for the House to cut town two weeks sooner than originally planned. But you can imagine what Massie thought. "Exactly what I predicted," said Massie on the House floor. "Why did he just cut another day off the calendar?" I found Massie off the floor after he concluded his speech. "Do you think they adjourned the House because you have the votes on Hegseth?" asked yours truly. "Chad, they cut two weeks off of the calendar to keep me from getting to 218 votes on the Epstein discharge petition. And then we came into this week and I introduced eight articles of impeachment against Peter Hegseth and they have 48 hours to vote on that," replied Massie. "He cut off the day tomorrow to avoid the vote." Here are the parliamentary mechanics. The House was compelled to consider Massie’s impeachment articles if it met this past Thursday. Otherwise, the resolution covering the eight impeachment articles would expire. The 48-hour window associated with such privileged resolutions disappears. Sure. Massie could bring them up when the House next meets in November. But that is seven weeks from now. But let’s say the House met on Thursday and was forced to bring up Massie’s impeachment articles, Republicans would likely have offered "a motion to table." This is an effort to kill Massie’s gambit. Thus the vote would not have been on impeaching Hegseth, but whether or not to set aside Massie’s plan.  If the House voted to table Massie’s articles of impeachment, the gig is up. It’s done. The House never even considered the actual impeachment resolutions. The vote was one step removed from a straight, up/down vote on actually impeaching Hegseth. But let’s say the motion to table were to fail? That means the House immediately skips to the articles of impeachment. The possibility suddenly exists that Hegseth could face eight impeachment votes – even through there’s been no investigation. No committee hearings. No "process." Nowhere does it say in the Constitution that Congress is required to wrestle with the usual parliamentary volutions to impeach someone. If a simple majority in the House votes to impeach you, you’re impeached. Nuff said. REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: CONGRESS MEETS AI AS FEARS OF HUMAN EXTINCTION JOLT CAPITOL HILL This is why Republicans likely would have moved to table Massie’s impeachment articles. A vote to table inoculates Members from having to take a challenging vote on the underlying issue. Keep in mind that there are a number of House Republicans who are aggravated with Hegseth and beside themselves about the war in Iran. This vote would have put them in an interesting position – especially since many if not all Democrats may have voted to impeach. So I asked Massie the following about the motion to table. "That would have put (Members) in a tough spot. Or would if they had to vote on that, that would have passed?" I asked. "A vote on a motion to table — he may not have survived that vote," declared Massie. In other words, Massie believes the House could have defeated the motion to table. That would have triggered votes on actually impeaching Hegseth. And, from Massie’s standpoint, that’s why Johnson sent the House home.  You might remember that there was a bipartisan effort last summer by Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to go around Johnson and deposit a measure on the floor forcing release of the Epstein files. Johnson let the House out early for summer break then. Later, Johnson kept the House out of session for most of the 43-day government shutdown as the special effort to bring action on the resolution loomed. The House voted to re-open the government in mid-November. And one of the first things the House did after that? Voted 427-1 to require a release of the files. The lone nay vote against releasing the files? Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La. Even though there aren’t votes until early November, Massie is still a Member of the House. He’ll be a Member in the lame duck session through early January. Massie lost his primary to Republican Ed Gallrein — a candidate backed by President Donald Trump. And Hegseth took the unusual step of traveling to northern Kentucky this spring to campaign for Gallrein. It’s unclear if the Hegseth articles of impeachment will return late this fall or winter. But Massie is back. At least for a little while. And whether Johnson adjourned the House to prevent a vote on the impeachment articles will remain a matter of debate. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadd08e75342cf4db8777e9 Hiker, 61, battles agonizing injury on grueling climb, resets dislocated shoulder himself te 2026-09-19T00:00:14.592Z Hiker, 61, battles agonizing injury on grueling climb, resets dislocated shoulder himself A 61-year-old hiker popped his own dislocated shoulder back into place during a hike on New Hampshire's Mount Washington — and kept climbing. Connecticut resident Kurt Siuzdak was hiking Mount Washington earlier this week when he suffered the painful injury after slipping on wet granite. The news was reported by The Boston Globe on Thursday, citing a Wednesday statement from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. HUSBAND AND WIFE GET TRAPPED IN PREMIER HIKING DESTINATION; ONLY ONE OF THEM MAKES IT OUT ALIVE Siuzdak began hiking at around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the report. Six hours later, at around 10 a.m., he slipped on a wet granite slab in a section called the Lakes of the Clouds. In the fall, he dislocated his shoulder and injured his back. About a mile and a half from the summit of Mount Washington, Siuzdak decided to keep going — slowly and steadily.  CLIMBER STRANDED ON 6-INCH LEDGE AT 11,000 FEET AS 46 MPH WINDS GROUND RESCUE HELICOPTER He was found by another hiker about five hours later. Siuzdak told rescuers he planned to press on and "figure out his options" once he reached the summit, as the Globe noted. When two officers hiked down to meet him at around 5 p.m., Siuzdak was still making his way up the mountain at a slow pace, officials said. Flanked by the two officers, Siuzdak kept climbing. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER He eventually reached the summit under his own power. After being evaluated by emergency personnel, he asked to be taken to his car so he could drive himself to urgent care, the Globe reported. At some point during the hike, Siuzdak managed to reset his dislocated shoulder himself, officials said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS In a statement, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department highlighted Siuzdak's preparedness. The agency noted he had followed the agency's recommendations by packing extra gear, including warm clothing and a first aid kit. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "These items turned out to be much needed after his accident, and he was thankful that he had heeded the recommendations," officials said, according to The Boston Globe. Fox News Digital reached out to Siuzdak for comment. Fox News Digital also reached out to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadd08675342cf4db8777c5 LOCAL ROUNDUP: Coconino flag football shuts out Peoria for second straight year te 2026-09-19T00:00:06.449Z LOCAL ROUNDUP: Coconino flag football shuts out Peoria for second straight year A look at how local teams fared recently, including Coconino flag football’s second straight shutout to start the season. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadce3475342cf4db87776d Paramount appears to learn from its 'Big Brother' racial double standard on 'The Challenge' te 2026-09-18T23:50:12.171Z Paramount appears to learn from its 'Big Brother' racial double standard on 'The Challenge' Three contestants were abruptly removed from MTV’s long-running athletic reality competition series "The Challenge" this week following a reported racial incident that the show chose not to air. At the beginning of Wednesday’s episode of "The Challenge: Cutthroat," host T.J. Lavin entered the house without Leo Dionicio, Josh Goldstein and Nelson Thomas present. "Leo, Nelson and Josh all broke the code of conduct here on 'The Challenge,' so they're all gone," Lavin told the remaining contestants. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The show did not air the incident that led to the three disqualifications or provide any additional details. Page Six reported that Dionicio, who is Black, used the N-word during a game and Goldstein, who is White, repeated it. According to the report, Thomas became angry over Goldstein’s use of the word and later damaged the kitchen. Production then removed all three contestants. The Paramount+ original is the 42nd season of the long-running MTV franchise. "The Challenge" is generally classified as reality television, but the modern version is built around athletic competition. Contestants run, swim, climb, wrestle, carry heavy weight and race through obstacle courses that test strength, endurance and mental toughness. Seasons typically end with a grueling final that can stretch across multiple days and resemble an adventure race more than a reality show. The controversy also bears a striking resemblance to one Paramount faced three years ago on another reality competition show. The company appears to have learned from a racial double standard it applied back then. Thomas subsequently confirmed at least part of the reported account. "I let my emotions take over, broke dishes, destroyed [the] kitchen and violated the code of conduct," Thomas wrote on X. "That’s on me." Thomas also claimed that Goldstein apologized to him privately and urged Goldstein to address the situation publicly. "Saying you have Black friends doesn’t give you a pass to use the N-word," Thomas wrote. Dionicio, meanwhile, discussed his removal during an appearance on fellow "Challenge" competitor Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio’s "Death, Taxes and Bananas" podcast. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER At the beginning of the discussion, Devenanzio said they had been instructed "from the top" not to reveal the specifics of the incident. Despite that, Dionicio argued that he did not deserve to be included in the mass disqualification. "I was really, really upset because what was said was super ignorant," Dionicio said. "I thought the hand I was dealt was pretty messed up considering I didn’t really do s--- wrong." Dionicio said he believed one contestant should have been fined, another should have been removed and he should not have been punished at all. Johnny "Bananas" pushed back on Dionicio’s argument. "I think what’s understood is that they have to have a rule, and it has to apply to everybody equally," he said. Later in the conversation, however, Dionicio acknowledged that every contestant had signed the same agreement. "I know we all signed the same contract," Dionicio said. "It’s just frustrating because I didn’t really think that would apply to me. But then I realized, you know, I’m not bigger than the program, unfortunately." Dionicio never explicitly said, "I’m Black, so I should be allowed to use the N-word." But taken together, his comments strongly suggest that is his position. He reportedly used the word, said he did not believe the rule should have applied to him and then emphasized in a separate post on X that he is Black and Afro-Latino. Paramount declined to discuss the specific actions that led to each contestant’s removal. A source familiar with the production said Bunim/Murray Productions has a clear code of conduct and that all three cast members were removed after violating it. The source directed OutKick to Thomas’ public comments about the incident. The response did not confirm whether Dionicio and Goldstein were removed for using the same word or whether the same provision was applied to both contestants. But Paramount also did not dispute the reported account or challenge OutKick’s interpretation that the rule was enforced equally. Dionicio and Goldstein did not respond to requests for comment prior to publication. In August 2023, CBS removed "Big Brother" contestant Luke Valentine after he used the N-word inside the house. The network said Valentine violated the show’s code of conduct and that it had "zero tolerance" for the use of a racial slur. Except, as OutKick reported at the time, another contestant, Kirsten Elwin, had used the same word days earlier and received no apparent punishment. Valentine is White. Elwin is Black. At the time, I wrote that CBS could not claim to have a zero-tolerance rule while applying different consequences based on the race of the person who violated it. I wasn’t arguing that a White person and a Black person using the N-word carry the same social meaning because they don’t. But a television production’s code of conduct is either a rule or it isn’t. If contestants are told that a particular word is prohibited, their skin color should not determine whether the rule applies to them. CBS and MTV were both under the Paramount umbrella when the "Big Brother" incident occurred, just as they are now. This time, the company appears to have applied the standard equally. Again, Paramount’s refusal to explain the disqualifications prevents us from saying that definitively. But the available reporting indicates that Dionicio and Goldstein used the same word and were both removed from the competition. Dionicio’s subsequent comments suggest he believed being Black should have changed how the rule applied to him. If the reported account is accurate, production enforced the rule against everyone rather than determining who was socially entitled to violate its conduct policy. Paramount deserves credit for apparently correcting the double standard it applied on "Big Brother" in 2023. Now it should be transparent enough to confirm that equal enforcement is exactly what happened. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadce3275342cf4db877750 Scene pkg Sept. 18 te 2026-09-18T23:50:10.738Z Scene pkg Sept. 18 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadce3175342cf4db877747 Mohave College women’s soccer falls in last three games te 2026-09-18T23:50:09.598Z Mohave College women’s soccer falls in last three games MOHAVE COUNTY – The Mohave College Women’s Soccer team continued its 2026 season with matches against Pima Community College, Yavapai College and Arizona Western College. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadce3075342cf4db87773e Mohave College women’s soccer falls in last three games te 2026-09-18T23:50:08.483Z Mohave College women’s soccer falls in last three games Alayna Littlewood plays during Mohave College’s game against Arizona Western College. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadcbd975342cf4db8776e9 Vance calls midterms a referendum on ‘common sense versus pure unadulterated crazy' te 2026-09-18T23:40:09.342Z Vance calls midterms a referendum on ‘common sense versus pure unadulterated crazy' Vice President JD Vance called out Democrats on Friday, saying that the midterms will be a referendum on "common sense versus pure unadulterated crazy." While stumping in Iowa, Vance said Democrats are no longer "the party my grandparents grew up talking about." Raised by a union steelworker, Vance said his father told him that "FDR’s Democrat party, that JFK’s Democrat party was the party of the workingman." THE ONE LINE FROM JD VANCE’S GOP KEYNOTE THAT REVEALS HIS VISION FOR AMERICA He added, "This is not FDR’s party, as much as we might wish it was. It's not JFK’s party. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s not even Bill Clinton’s party." Vance said that today’s Democrats don’t believe the country needs to be "built upon" but "utterly transformed." "In New York," he said, some of the midterm candidates are calling for the "total eradication of Western civilization. Somebody running for Congress in New York — and I promise I’m not joking about this — said that July Fourth is actually about the liberation of Palestine and Puerto Rico." To loud boos, Vance said, "you could almost laugh about" the idea of Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence and thinking about the liberation of Palestine and Puerto Rico. MORNING GLORY: FIVE SENATE RACES SHOW WHY DEMOCRATS MAY REGRET THEIR PRIMARY CHOICES "But unfortunately, it’s not funny because those people are dead serious, and this election is a referendum on common sense versus pure unadulterated crazy. Let’s send the crazy packing and get them out of Washington, D.C." he said to cheers. Vance also claimed some Democratic candidates are "out-and-out lunatics" who have "lost their ever-loving minds." "These are the ones who will tell you that our history is evil and this country needs to be bulldozed and started over from the beginning," he continued. 'JESUS WAS A RADICAL': PROGRESSIVES INVOKE CHRIST TO SELL LEFT-WING AGENDA ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL But he said that other Democrat candidates are "smart enough to realize that the country hasn't lost its mind, and so they try to be just a little bit more subtle." Calling out Democrat Senate candidate Adam Hamilton of Kansas, Vance claimed he gave off a "kind of ‘gee whiz, I’m a nice pastor’ vibe," but he's a man that tells his congregation not about the gospel of Jesus Christ, but that they need to repent for their White privilege." Recent polls have shown a tightening race between Hamilton and GOP incumbent Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall. During the rally, Vance threw his support behind Iowa Republicans, including gubernatorial nominee Zach Lane, Rep. Ashley Hinson and congressional candidate Chris McGowan. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadcbd875342cf4db8776e0 Trump announces White House ban against three media outlets te 2026-09-18T23:40:08.521Z Trump announces White House ban against three media outlets President Donald Trump announced Friday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico will be banned from the White House. "I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW ... and Politico ... from the White House as a result of their constant 'reporting' FAKE NEWS!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. Trump doubled down on his announced ban while taking questions from reporters at the Oval Office, citing "cumulative stories" the three outlets have published over the years. "You get sick of it," Trump said. CNN FIRES BACK AT TRUMP WHITE HOUSE OVER ATTACKS ON REPORTER, CALLS THEM 'BENEATH THE OFFICE' Trump denied he was trying to intimidate the press from doing its job in an exchange with another reporter. For decades, CNN has been part of a rotating pool of five networks, including Fox News, that travel with the president around the world. Notably, CNN has already been selected to lead network pool coverage Monday as Trump is set to attend the United Nations General Assembly. TRUMP BLASTS NEW YORK TIMES, CNN FOR 'SEDITIOUS' COVERAGE OF IRAN WAR Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Republican Arkansas governor and former White House press secretary during the first Trump administration, was in attendance at the Oval Office event focused on healthcare and rejected the notion that Trump opposes a free press that's enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution. "I think it's hard for you to argue against a free press when you're literally standing in the Oval Office asking questions of the president of the United States," Sanders told reporters. "He has been more accessible and easier to talk to than any president in history." CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MEDIA AND CULTURE NEWS Past efforts by the Trump administration to ban outlets and individual journalists have been blocked by federal judges. "I don't think that a court should allow fake news to be written day, after day, after day. I think that somebody has a right to keep them away," Trump said. Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy said CNN was still broadcasting live from their tent on the media row outside the White House, but a senior White House official told him that the top brass at CNN, MS NOW and Politico were being informed that their journalists cannot come to the White House grounds beginning Saturday. "CNN stands fully behind our White House team and their fair and accurate reporting," the network said in a statement on X. "We have a right under the U.S. Constitution to do that reporting without hindrance or interference from the government. Should the ban which President Trump threatened go ahead, it would be an illegal assault on that fundamental and constitutionally-protected right." Politico also issued a statement, telling Fox News Digital, "Politico will continue to fairly report on this White House and future ones. We will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights against any attempt to restrict them." A spokesperson for MS NOW declined to comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadc97975342cf4db877650 A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI te 2026-09-18T23:30:01.842Z A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadc72475342cf4db8775f7 AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation te 2026-09-18T23:20:04.858Z AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation “It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadc72375342cf4db8775ee Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments te 2026-09-18T23:20:03.350Z Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadbdca75342cf4db8774b1 Taylor Swift quiet as friend Ed Sheeran takes heat over Macklemore 'Free Palestine' concert fiasco te 2026-09-18T22:40:10.374Z Taylor Swift quiet as friend Ed Sheeran takes heat over Macklemore 'Free Palestine' concert fiasco Taylor Swift hasn’t publicly spoken out in support of her close friend Ed Sheeran as controversy over Macklemore's removal has engulfed Sheeran's latest tour. Sheeran has faced scrutiny from some pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists, after his tour promoter and venues dropped rapper Macklemore from his Loop Tour following Macklemore’s onstage chants of "Free Palestine" earlier this month. Meanwhile, groups including StopAntisemitism and the Combat Antisemitism Movement called for his removal, while singer Pink criticized Macklemore's performance. MACKLEMORE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER GETTING KICKED OFF ED SHEERAN TOUR AFTER PRO-PALESTINE STANCE It was during his opening set on the tour at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium that the Grammy-winning Macklemore also described Israel’s actions using terms such as "genocide" and "apartheid." Since the dust-up, Sheeran released a statement addressing the situation, saying the decision to remove Macklemore was made by the tour’s promoters and venues, not by him personally. He also noted his desire to continue the tour and not let down fans or crew members who rely on his concerts for their income. That was followed by four of his tour openers withdrawing from his concerts in solidarity with Macklemore, while also noting their own opposition to what they described as genocide in Gaza. Macklemore notably drew fierce criticism in 2014 when he donned what appeared to be an antisemitic costume caricaturing Jewish people, although he claimed it was unintentional.  As Sheeran has been navigating one of the most public controversies of his career, his longtime friend and collaborator Swift has been quiet, reflective of a career where she's generally, but not always, stayed out of political strife. ED SHEERAN FACES GROWING BACKLASH AS RADIO STATION BANS SONGS, PROTEST GROUPS RESPOND TO MACKLEMORE'S REMOVAL Swift has shared a close personal and professional relationship with Sheeran spanning more than a decade. It has even been described as one of the most high-profile friendships in modern music history, with the pair mutually supporting each other through the years and collaborating both in the studio and onstage. Sheeran appeared as the opening act for the North American leg of Swift’s "Red Tour" in 2013, and the two have teamed up on songs including the duet "Everything Has Changed" from that tour and the 2021 song "Run." He also was a "surprise guest" during her Eras Tour. Plenty of other memorable moments have ensued between the two. When Swift won her first BRIT Award in 2015, she publicly thanked Sheeran in her acceptance speech, crediting him with teaching her about British culture and pubs. Sheeran has been known to appear at her concerts, even one time dressed as a clown as he went onto the stage during one of her Nashville shows. Both artists have often described how they’re able to relate to one another because of the unique pressures they experience at their level of fame. Swift’s reps are known for protecting the singer’s brand, and Swift herself has historically been selective about when she speaks out, but she has used her platform to advocate for some progressive causes in recent years, such as endorsing Kamala Harris and supporting gay rights. She also has tried to get more voters registered, including when she endorsed Harris in 2024. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE In 2018, Swift criticized Republican Tennessee Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn over her conservative voting record and opposition to LGBTQ+ and women’s rights, instead endorsing her Democratic opponent, former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen. She also described President Donald Trump as a poor leader during the COVID-19 pandemic and accused him of cheating to win. Some who've worked in the entertainment industry think it's best for performers to remain quiet about politics, whether it's Macklemore, Swift or any other celebrity. "My general feeling is they ought to stay in their own lane," David Sams, CEO of Sam’s Global Companies, a conglomerate of media networks and talent management, and former head of global marketing and creative affairs at King World, told Fox News Digital. "It’s a lot of noise and with everything going on in the world right now, to even give five seconds to their shenanigans is ridiculous." Swift has also at times been criticized by the left for being insufficiently outspoken on issues. Fox News Digital reached out to Swift for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadbb7675342cf4db87744f 'He's Dust': Ole Miss students rip Lane Kiffin as LSU coach prepares for hatred in Oxford te 2026-09-18T22:30:14.948Z 'He's Dust': Ole Miss students rip Lane Kiffin as LSU coach prepares for hatred in Oxford OXFORD, Miss. — Ole Miss fans have been waiting for this game since Lane Kiffin left town 10 months ago for LSU, so one more day won't hurt. But that doesn’t mean the animosity toward their former head coach in Oxford has to simmer down before kickoff. It took me around five minutes of traversing campus to start hearing the banter about the guy who used to roam the Rebels' sidelines for six years. As he makes his way back to Oxford on Saturday afternoon to lead his Tigers into hostile territory, it's pretty obvious that a large percentage of the fan base still holds a grudge for the way in which Lane Kiffin bolted town after Thanksgiving last year, and just two weeks before the College Football Playoff was set to begin. LANE KIFFIN’S RETURN TO OLE MISS COMES WITH BETRAYAL, LAWSUITS AND MEMORIES OF HIM TRYING TO BURN IT ALL DOWN "Man, I'm not gonna lie. F--- Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin's 'K', we smokin him bro, no cap," one Ole Miss student said inside "The Grove" on Friday afternoon. He wasn’t alone in his thoughts, as you could imagine around the Ole Miss campus. "Man, he's dust," another Ole Miss student exclaimed. "He's nothing but dust. He's defiantly scheming, he knows what he's doing, whether that's putting Leavitt on the injury report, he's f---ing playing. He's just a scumbag." On a beautiful, but hot, Friday afternoon in Oxford, fans flooded the historic Square located in the middle of downtown Oxford for some good eats and drinking. The party atmosphere started on Wednesday night, and I don't imagine this thing comes to an end until sometime Sunday afternoon. No matter what takes place on the field inside Vaught Hemingway Stadium on Saturday evening, LSU head coach Lane Kiffin will be at the forefront of a hostile environment. At this point, fans were expecting nothing less. MOUNTED POLICE, EXTRA PATROLS AND KIFFIN HATE: OXFORD PREPARES FOR OLE MISS-LSU GAME WITH EXTRA SECURITY Months of talking through social media, Vanity Fair, podcasts and interviews, Lane Kiffin is clearly enjoying the attention that he's garnering before this showdown with his former team. And, if any one thinks different, you don't know Kiffin. Think of it as a professional wrestler drawing boos from a crowded arena. Now, think of Lane playing the role of Hulk Hogan's NWO persona. Everything is a show, and Kiffin is selling advertisement for his return to Oxford. Think about what took place earlier this week when the LSU head coach put Sam Leavitt on the initial injury report, listing him as 'doubtful', before upgrading him to 'questionable' on Thursday evening. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding wasn’t buying it, not for one minute. "Well, I got the text before the report went out from Lane, like 'Hey, our quarterback's out,'" Golding mentioned to Pat McAfee. "I'm like, 'Ok buddy, I bet he is.' I've been around here a lot of Wednesday’s with you man for three and half years. I said, I think our first one had 42 guys on the first ever SEC injury report on a Wednesday. "So, I was like, 'Yea man, see ya Saturday.'" There will be trash talking that takes place on Saturday that would make a standup comedian blush. Most of it will be directed at Lane Kiffin, while LSU fans will undoubtedly take some of the heat on deflection. But, this is what makes college football so great. A wild day around the campus of Ole Miss awaits, along with the official arrival of the most hated man in the state of Mississippi. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadbb7575342cf4db87742e Sun Devils, except coach Kenny Dillingham, soaking up London ahead of Union Jack Classic te 2026-09-18T22:30:13.394Z Sun Devils, except coach Kenny Dillingham, soaking up London ahead of Union Jack Classic LONDON – Featuring ornate, architectural marvels and historic sites dating back centuries, this isn’t a city that should be explored in a hotel room – unless you’re Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadbb7475342cf4db877425 Sun Devils, except coach Kenny Dillingham, soaking up London ahead of Union Jack Classic te 2026-09-18T22:30:12.519Z Sun Devils, except coach Kenny Dillingham, soaking up London ahead of Union Jack Classic ASU football coach Kenny Dillingham answers questions from the media following the Sun Devils’ practice at The Lensbury in London on Sept. 15. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadbb6c75342cf4db877413 Republicans Are Now the ‘Elitist’ Party, Voters Say te 2026-09-18T22:30:04.923Z Republicans Are Now the ‘Elitist’ Party, Voters Say We spoke to independents who have soured on Trump. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadbb6b75342cf4db87740a Appeals Court Restricts Trump Administration Deportation Effort te 2026-09-18T22:30:03.998Z Appeals Court Restricts Trump Administration Deportation Effort The ruling allows migrants to contest deportations to countries other than their place of origin. The case could head to the Supreme Court. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadb91975342cf4db8773c8 Unsealed FBI interviews reveal Obama, Emanuel discussions about Blagojevich Senate seat deal te 2026-09-18T22:20:09.505Z Unsealed FBI interviews reveal Obama, Emanuel discussions about Blagojevich Senate seat deal Anyone who has a conversation with former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is likely to hear his claim that he was never going to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by former President Barack Obama in 2008, insisting his innocence in the high-profile case that led to him serving nearly eight years in federal prison. Blagojevich has repeated for years that he was closing in on a deal to appoint Lisa Madigan to the U.S. Senate. Hers is a name that has largely dropped out of the public arena. At the time of the scandal, Madigan served as the Illinois Attorney General. More relevant to this case, she is the daughter of the very powerful and entrenched then-Speaker of the Illinois House Mike Madigan. The former Speaker has since gone to prison for a separate corruption case. (Welcome to Illinois.) Blagojevich claims he would have appointed Lisa to the Senate, in exchange for the father supporting his health care package and budget. Shortly after the arrest of Governor Blagojevich in December 2009, both President-elect Obama and his incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel were interviewed by the FBI. Obama on December 18, 9 days after the Governor was arrested. Emanuel was interviewed on the 20. The records of those interviews were kept out of both criminal trials and away from the public, until now. Fox News has obtained the partially redacted FBI FD-302s of those interviews. The Obama interview notes: "Obama was asked whether he was aware of Emanuel having a conversation with the Blagojevich administration regarding Lisa Madigan being considered for the Senate seat in exchange for legislation being passed." RAHM EMANUEL WARNS DSA AGENDA DOESN'T PLAY WELL OUTSIDE 'UPPER WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN' "Emanuel would have been aware that Lisa Madigan was an acceptable candidate to Obama." And "Emanuel had an open line of conversation with the Blagojevich administration." The Emanuel interview notes that on December 8, 2008, "(David) Axelrod and Emanuel went to see (U.S. Senator Dick) Durbin, D-Ill. In this meeting they all agreed that Lisa Madigan would be a good candidate." "As a result of this conversation, Emanuel contacted (Blagojevich Chief of staff, John) Harris and told him the merits of appointing Lisa Madigan as Senator." The next morning, December 9, 2009, just after 6 a.m., Blagojevich was arrested at his home in Chicago. RAHM EMANUEL WARNS ‘BERNIE BROS’ COULD SINK DEMOCRATS BY SADDLING MODERATES WITH SOCIALIST AGENDA Then-U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald said, "Governor Blagojevich was arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree. We acted to stop that crime spree." "That just proves the Madigan deal was very much front and center. It was something I was about to do," Blagojevich said in light of the newly unsealed information. "There never was a crime spree that Mr. Fitzgerald, the U.S. Attorney said he was stopping to justify arresting a sitting governor in his home." Other interesting notes from the interviews: President Obama initially wanted Valerie Jarrett to succeed him the Senate. But he reversed his thinking early in the process deciding, "that he would like Jarrett to join him at the White House as a senior advisor." However, "Emanuel was still interested in Jarrett taking the senate seat rather than working in the White House." Because, according to the Emanuel interview, "the fact that she is the President-elect’s best friend, having her on the White House staff would be awkward." "Rahm’s a crafty, political, crafty, cunning and very effective political operator," Blagojevich chimed in. "He was interested in being closer to the king." Eventually, according to the Emanuel interview, Obama became resolute. "Obama told Emanuel he made a decision that Jarret was going to the White House and he was not going to reconsider this decision." After that, a gaggle of familiar names entered the ring for consideration: Tammy Duckworth, and Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. (Who also went to prison for a separate case.) MINNESOTA FRAUD SCANDAL WILL HAUNT FLANAGAN IN HIGH-STAKES SENATE RACE, TOP HOUSE REPUBLICAN WARNS Then Obama, busy with establishing a new administration, stated, "He did not want to put his thumb on the scale." Still, he dispatched Emanuel to communicate with the Governor’s office that "Obama was interested in someone who he thought would be a good Senator for the people of Illinois and who could also hold the seat in the 2010 election." Blagojevich ended up appointing Roland Burris to Obama’s vacated seat. Burris did not run for re-election. Republican Mark Kirk won the seat in 2010 and was defeated by Tammy Duckworth in 2016. Blagojevich served 7 years 11 months in prison until President Trump commuted his sentence in 2020. Blagojevich received a full pardon in 2025. Fox News reached out to both former President Obama and Rahm Emanuel. They did not respond. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadb91875342cf4db8773b0 Appeals court strikes down Trump policy of fast deportations to third countries te 2026-09-18T22:20:08.128Z Appeals court strikes down Trump policy of fast deportations to third countries An airplane sits on the tarmac at Mesa Gateway Airport on the evening of April 9, 2026, outside of the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, an ICE facility where detainees are temporarily housed before they are put on a plane to either be deported or moved to a different ICE facility. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror) WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court Friday struck down the Trump administration’s policy to quickly send noncitizens to countries they are not from, finding that immigrants must have an opportunity to challenge their removal if they fear for their safety. The decision largely upheld a Boston federal judge’s February ruling that found the Department of Homeland Security’s policy unlawful. But the immigration officers can still conduct third-country removals if they follow the proper procedures, such as adequate notice and an opportunity for an immigrant to raise a fear-based claim to that country of removal. Third-country removals, deportations from the United States to a nation other than an immigrant’s home country, occur when the immigrant’s home country does not accept the person’s repatriation.  Once rare, the procedure has spiked under the second Trump administration that has entered into partnerships with several countries, some with human rights concerns, to take third-country removals from the U.S. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit also raised doubts that a country that accepts a person that is not their own citizen could “credibly provide blanket assurances that all removed noncitizens will not be persecuted or tortured there unless it intends to provide them with some sort of affirmative protection against rogue agents and non-state actors.”  The panel also upheld the lower court’s finding that the notice to a third country was inadequate – about 24 hours – and that the policy was unlawful. It gives “no notice at all of an impending third-country removal when the country to which the noncitizen is to be removed has provided credible (in the State Department’s judgment) diplomatic assurances that noncitizens removed there from the United States will not be persecuted or tortured,” the panel wrote. The panel included circuit judges Lara E. Montecalvo, Jeffrey R. Howard and Seth R. Aframe. Former President Joe Biden nominated Montecalvo and Aframe. Former President George W. Bush nominated Howard. The Trump administration in May 2025 made an emergency request to the Supreme Court after U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy blocked the policy. The Supreme Court in June 2025 temporarily allowed for the removals, before sending it back to the lower court.  Murphy again in February issued an order that blocked the policy and required DHS to carry out the statutory obligations of proper notice of removal to a third country and to give a noncitizen enough time to raise any concerns for their safety to their removal to a third country.  The Trump administration later appealed to the First Circuit, and could appeal again to the Supreme Court.  DHS did not respond to States Newsroom’s request for comment Friday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadb91275342cf4db87739c U.S. Has Reached Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says te 2026-09-18T22:20:02.738Z U.S. Has Reached Security Deal on Greenland, Trump Says The full contours of the deal were unclear, but Denmark and Greenland both indicated they expected an agreement to be signed soon. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadb6be75342cf4db877341 Trump Has Tried to Ban Reporters From Government Spaces Before te 2026-09-18T22:10:06.925Z Trump Has Tried to Ban Reporters From Government Spaces Before There are several instances where the president made an effort to stifle the work of journalists. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadb6bd75342cf4db877336 Flagstaff author draws on years of theater experience to write 'Blue Mountain Rose' te 2026-09-18T22:10:05.013Z Flagstaff author draws on years of theater experience to write 'Blue Mountain Rose' It quickly becomes obvious to the reader that it was written by someone deeply entrenched in the theater life. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadb47075342cf4db8772f1 Illegal immigrant rideshare driver charged with rape in Maryland had prior NYC sex abuse arrest te 2026-09-18T22:00:16.231Z Illegal immigrant rideshare driver charged with rape in Maryland had prior NYC sex abuse arrest An illegal immigrant rideshare driver accused of sexually assaulting a teenage female passenger in Maryland has a history of sex abuse in New York, federal authorities said. Abdoulaye Dia, of Lanham, Maryland, is charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping, second-degree assault, and third-degree sex offense, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. On Tuesday, Montgomery County Police officers were called to a hospital where an underage teen girl reported a rape. She told police that she was raped by an Empower rideshare driver. RIDESHARE DRIVER ARRESTED IN ALLEGED SCHEME TARGETING IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS FOR SEX: PROSECUTORS Dia, a citizen of Guinea, took her to a parking lot in Silver Spring, where the alleged assault occurred. Investigators identified Dia through information obtained from the rideshare app. He was arrested Wednesday. TWICE-DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH RAPE AS DHS URGES FAIRFAX TO HONOR ICE DETAINER Dia was previously arrested on June 10 in New York City for sexual abuse by forcible compulsion, forcible touching of the sexual/intimate parts of another person, injuring a child less than 17, and sexual abuse without consent, a DHS spokesperson told Fox News. He entered the United States illegally through Arizona in December 2023 and was released by the Biden administration, DHS said. Fox News Digital has reached out to Empower for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadb46775342cf4db8772d0 Full speed: Remembering Ryan Bousquet te 2026-09-18T22:00:07.639Z Full speed: Remembering Ryan Bousquet The Ryan Bousquet Memorial Run completed its 18th anniversary in August at Esperanza High School in Anaheim. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadb46575342cf4db8772c7 NAU ROUNDUP: NAU Athletics announces senior staff hires and promotions te 2026-09-18T22:00:05.818Z NAU ROUNDUP: NAU Athletics announces senior staff hires and promotions NAU Athletics announces a handful of seniors staff hirings and promotions as part of President José Luis Cruz Rivera's Elevating Excellence strategic roadmap to 2030. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadb20a75342cf4db877254 Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture? te 2026-09-18T21:50:02.831Z Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture? Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadafbb75342cf4db877213 Trump declares victory in historic deal with Greenland as he secures 'permanent' US military rights te 2026-09-18T21:40:11.722Z Trump declares victory in historic deal with Greenland as he secures 'permanent' US military rights FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump struck a sweeping agreement with Denmark and Greenland this week granting the United States permanent military rights on the strategically placed Arctic island. The U.S. will now have permanent access, basing and overflight rights in Greenland, and the ability to establish additional military installations as needed, according to a senior U.S. official who outlined the deal exclusively to Fox News Digital. The deal bars China, Russia and other non-NATO countries from establishing military bases or maintaining troops in Greenland. It also restricts adversaries from investing in sensitive sectors that could pose a threat to U.S. national security. "This historic deal is a huge win for the United States and the American people," Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News Digital. "Thanks to President Trump’s vision and leadership, this historic agreement permanently guarantees U.S. security interests in the Arctic at zero cost to the U.S. taxpayer." DENMARK VOWS TO DEFEND GREENLAND AFTER TRUMP REITERATES US SHOULD CONTROL TERRITORY "Greenland will forever be part of the strategic defense area of North America and exclude any adversary from it and the surrounding area," Rubio said. "This deal permanently and completely addresses our national security concerns in Greenland. The new agreement, which has no expiration date, stops short of transferring sovereignty over Greenland to the U.S. But administration officials still view its permanence as key to addressing the security concerns that drove Trump's push to acquire the territory in the first place. "The difference here is we're not spending any money for the right," to expand the U.S. military presence, the senior official explained. The deal is designed to remain in effect even if Greenland eventually becomes an independent country, they added. "For over 100 years, Presidents have known the strategic importance of Greenland, but NONE of them were able to do anything about it. I am proud to be the President that permanently and conclusively addressed this very important situation. This is an "Infinite Life" Agreement, there is no end!" Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday.  Fox News Digital reached out to the governments of Greenland and Denmark for comment. Trump had repeatedly argued that control of Greenland was necessary for U.S. national security, pointing to the island's strategic location in the Arctic as Russia and China expand their presence and capabilities in the region. The deal significantly expands on the longstanding U.S. defense relationship with Greenland. The U.S. already operates Pituffik Space Base and has maintained military access to the island under a defense agreement dating back to 1951. Under the new agreement, however, Denmark and Greenland would not have approval authority over additional U.S. military installations. The U.S. would consult with them but would have the right to build new installations when it determines they are necessary without needing their buy-in, the official said. The administration believes an expanded U.S. military footprint in Greenland could eventually play a role in Trump's planned Golden Dome missile defense system. "We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many. We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction," Trump added.  RUSSIA’S QUIETER NUCLEAR SUBMARINES THREATEN NATO, FORMER COMMANDER WARNS The deal only allows the U.S. and its allies to make "sensitive investments" on the island, such as telecommunications infrastructure, undersea cables, ports and critical minerals. The administration is seeking to prevent Greenland from becoming another version of what it sees as the strategic vulnerability that developed around the Panama Canal, where Chinese commercial interests have fueled U.S. concerns that ostensibly civilian infrastructure could have national security implications. "We're never going to face that in Greenland as a result of this," the official told Fox News Digital. Officials from both Greenland and Denmark, which holds sovereignty over the self-governing island territory, initially scoffed at Trump’s insistence that the U.S. must ‘own’ Greenland. But months of negotiations between Rubio, White House adviser Stephen Miller and officials at the State Department and National Security Council led to a deal that satisfied all sides, a second official told Fox News Digital. Representatives from all three countries went through "various rounds of quiet negotiations that never leaked and never got out there" starting in February, as Denmark and Greenland came to see the agreement as serving their own security interests. "They recognize at the end of the day that they have a national security concern here as well," Rubio said. "Denmark and Greenland understand that they don't have the financial means necessary to defend Greenland if it were to come under attack or be threatened. The United States has the power to do that." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadafb575342cf4db8771f4 High-performance boat, vehicles recovered in burglary arrests te 2026-09-18T21:40:05.215Z High-performance boat, vehicles recovered in burglary arrests A joint operation by the Riverside and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Offices recovered multiple vehicles, high-performance watercraft, and other items allegedly stolen during a Sept. 13 burglary in Blythe. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadad6575342cf4db8771bf Dignity Health expands Maricopa care with new family medicine clinic te 2026-09-18T21:30:13.435Z Dignity Health expands Maricopa care with new family medicine clinic Community members gathered yesterday to celebrate the opening of the new Dignity Health Family Medicine Clinic in the Maricopa Professional Village plaza.  The celebration included a ribbon-cutting ceremony, speeches from Dignity Health and Maricopa leaders and tours of the facility.  “Today marks a significant milestone here in the community,” said Dignity Health Hospital Administration President Mario Garner.  Though Dignity Health has an urgent care clinic just a half-mile south in the Shops at Maricopa Fiesta, this is their first family practice clinic in Maricopa.  The family health clinic intends to focus on wellness and preventative care, immunizations and health screenings, sports physicals, low risk obstetrics and gynecology, mental health services and lab services.  The 21300 N. John Wayne Parkway clinic is open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.   “We’re sharing the celebration with the community and donors today and we’re also already looking at what else we can add to this community,” said Abed Asfour, Interim Enterprise President for Dignity Health.  The practice is dedicated to delivering high quality, compassionate care and access to Maricopa and nearby communities, according to the Dignity Care website.  Mayor Nancy Smith, who briefly spoke at the event, also hinted at one of the best perks about the clinic opening.   “This is a beautiful partnership between Dignity Health and Maricopa,” she said. “The best part is you won’t have to travel the 347.”  The post Dignity Health expands Maricopa care with new family medicine clinic appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadab0b75342cf4db877144 7 best slow cookers for comfort food season, according to Amazon shoppers te 2026-09-18T21:20:11.512Z 7 best slow cookers for comfort food season, according to Amazon shoppers A slow cooker cuts down on hands-on cooking time for hearty weeknight meals, letting soups, stews and other fall favorites simmer while you handle the rest of your day. We rounded up top-rated models from Crock-Pot, Hamilton Beach, Our Place and more, with options for everything from small kitchens to family gatherings and tailgates. Best for feeding a crowd: Hamilton Beach Stay or Go extra large 10-quart slow cooker Best-reviewed: Crock-Pot 7-quart manual slow cooker Best programmable: Hamilton Beach portable 6-quart Set and Forget programmable slow cooker Best mini slow cooker: Crock-Pot 2-quart manual slow cooker Best multifunction: Our Place Dream Cooker Best for easy cleanup: iCook 3.5-quart slow cooker with removable ceramic pot Best for transporting: Crock-Pot Design Series 7-quart programmable slow cooker Hamilton Beach's extra-large slow cooker offers a deep cooking pot that fits large cuts of meat and family-size meals without taking up excessive counter space. One reviewer said it easily fits ribs alongside potatoes and onions, adding, "I can be the queen of the family gathering. No mess on the drive, plenty of food for everyone and so easy." Original price: $59.99 With more than 62,000 reviews, a 4.6-star rating and more than 9,000 bought on Amazon in the past month, this 7-quart Crock-Pot is a popular pick. Its roomy capacity handles everything from soups and stews to pot roasts and pulled chicken. "This has become one of the most-used appliances in my kitchen because it makes preparing delicious meals incredibly simple," one reviewer wrote, adding that meals come out "tender, flavorful and perfectly cooked." Take the stress out of weeknight dinners with this programmable slow cooker. Three automatic cooking modes make it easy to prepare family-size meals with minimal hands-on effort. "Use the included thermometer probe to check if your meat — like chicken, turkey or pork — is cooked to your liking," one reviewer wrote. Once the meat reaches your programmed temperature, the slow cooker automatically switches to Warm. READ MORE: October Amazon Prime Day starts soon — here are the dates, shopping tips and early deals Original price: $23.99 This 2-quart mini slow cooker is a practical option for anyone short on counter space or cooking for one to three people. "It's simple to use, heats evenly and is great for soups, dips and shredded chicken," one reviewer said. "Cleanup is easy, and it doesn't take up much room." Replace several countertop appliances with Our Place’s Dream Cooker, a 6-quart multi-cooker that pressure cooks, slow cooks, sautés and keeps food warm. Its ceramic nonstick pot also makes cleanup easier. "I bought it for its aesthetics, and I'm not shy about displaying it on my countertop," one reviewer wrote after using it for everything from fall-off-the-bone chicken to flavorful beans. READ MORE: Skip the ironing board with this popular clothing steamer — now under $30 on Amazon Original price: $49.99 This 3.5-quart slow cooker is sized for three to four people and has a removable nonstick ceramic pot that goes straight into the dishwasher for easy cleanup. One Amazon reviewer called it a "kitchen gem," noting that it makes "tender pot roasts, creamy soups and fall-off-the-bone stews with zero babysitting." Cool-touch handles also make it easier to move from the kitchen to the table. For more deals, visit www.foxnews.com/deals Original price: $74.95 Bring this Crock-Pot to potluck dinners and tailgates thanks to its locking lid, which helps prevent spills in transit. One Amazon reviewer said they use it about three times a week for roast beef, turkey and pulled pork, noting that meats come out especially tender. They also use leftovers to stretch meals throughout the week, turning Sunday roasts and its juices into stew a few days later. 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/6aadab0a75342cf4db87713b Olympic swimmer Réka György calls out Virginia Governor Spanberger for withdrawing female sports regulation te 2026-09-18T21:20:10.633Z Olympic swimmer Réka György calls out Virginia Governor Spanberger for withdrawing female sports regulation Hungarian Olympian Réka György, who lost a place in an NCAA swimming final after competing against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, criticized Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s administration for abandoning a proposed regulation intended to protect female sports and private spaces. György was one of three female swimmers who petitioned the Virginia Board of Health to enact the regulation last year. The board unanimously approved the petition under former Gov. Glenn Youngkin, but the regulatory action was withdrawn in July after Spanberger took office. "It’s really sad for me because I had the petition filed a year ago, and Youngkin approved it and wanted to take the next step and protect female athletes and female spaces in Virginia," György told OutKick. VIRGINIA GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER QUIETLY ROLLS BACK YOUNGKIN'S PLANS TO PROTECT GIRLS' SPORTS "I don’t like to see that people are using their power, especially political power, to make decisions and hurt other people. And also, it’s coming from a female." György added that she was "really disappointed" by the decision. György filed the petition in April 2025 alongside former Roanoke College swimmers Lily Mullens and Carter Satterfield. It asked the Board of Health to adopt regulations preventing biological males from participating on female-only athletic teams or entering female-designated spaces where women and girls could be undressing. After receiving more than 2,300 public comments, the board voted 14–0 in August 2025 to begin the regulatory process. The Youngkin administration subsequently approved a Notice of Intended Regulatory Action, which was published that November. SUPREME COURT MAKES RULING ON TRANS ATHLETES IN WOMEN'S SPORTS However, the Spanberger administration withdrew the action on July 30, after an additional public-comment period had concluded. The withdrawal was not accompanied by an announcement from the governor’s office and was later published in the Virginia Register of Regulations. The official notice said the State Board of Health would not proceed "upon review of statutory authority." György questioned why the administration did not call greater public attention to the decision. "I have a feeling that she’s afraid of the backlash of people, what they’re going to say or think," György said. "Other than that, I don’t know what her motivation is." György’s advocacy stems from her experience at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. The Virginia Tech swimmer finished 17th in the preliminary round of the 500-yard freestyle, one place short of advancing to the consolation final. Thomas, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, qualified for the championship final and went on to win the national title. "Because the rule-makers let him compete in the women’s category, I got bumped out from the final," György said. "I got 17th, and I wasn’t allowed to swim in the finals. It ended up being me who got knocked out of the finals at night." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! György represented Hungary at the 2016 Rio Olympics and was a two-time ACC champion and two-time NCAA All-American during her career at Virginia Tech. She said she had devoted approximately 18 years to swimming before her final collegiate championship appearance. "I put everything into swimming that I had," she said. "The 2022 NCAA Championships was my senior year in college, so I was ready to retire from swimming, but before I did that, give my best. I had everything that I was capable of putting into practices to prepare myself to give my best at that competition. "And the chance to actually swim in the final was taken away." György also recalled sharing a women’s locker room with Thomas during the championship meet. "You were in just constant fear," she said. "You had no idea when he was going to enter the locker room." György explained that putting on a high-level racing suit can take between 15 and 25 minutes, preventing swimmers from simply changing quickly and leaving. "I was always looking behind my shoulder because I had no idea when my privacy was going to be robbed away," she said. "You try to cover yourself, which usually you don’t do because you are surrounded by other females and you don’t have that issue. But that competition was different." The experience ultimately prompted György to become an outspoken advocate for sex-separated athletic competition and private spaces. "I just had this feeling that I had to speak up because, obviously, the people who were in charge of that competition didn’t do anything to protect us females," she said. "One day, maybe I will have a daughter, and I don’t want my daughter to be in a situation where I had to share the locker room and compete against a male." György, who continues to live in Virginia, joined the petition effort after being contacted about the controversy involving Mullens, Satterfield and the Roanoke College women’s swimming team. In 2023, members of the team objected when a transgender student sought to join the women’s roster. Roanoke College later said the student had chosen not to compete. György said she has not yet contacted Spanberger because she only recently learned the regulatory action had been withdrawn, but she plans to seek a conversation with the governor. "I want to tell her that I hope she sees where I’m coming from," György said. "I hope she sees where other people are coming from when we are trying to protect little girls and females in sports and women-only spaces." "Title IX was created for a reason," she added. "I really do hope that she is going to follow this rule, and she is going to stand up for women in Virginia." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aadab0975342cf4db877132 'Pro-life' vs 'socialism': GOP lawmakers divided over controversial guaranteed income programs te 2026-09-18T21:20:09.658Z 'Pro-life' vs 'socialism': GOP lawmakers divided over controversial guaranteed income programs Although guaranteed income programs have faced partisan pushback nationwide since gaining national traction in 2018, a growing faction of conservatives is finding common ground with direct cash initiatives centered on mothers and newborns. According to Tegan Lecheler, national program director for the Mother and Infant Cash Coalition (MICC), the "common-sense" nature of early childhood cash transfers has prompted conservative lawmakers and advocates to reach out to her organization in support. "I think we're in a really polarized time politically right now," Lecheler told Fox News Digital. "We are not a political organization and want to work to improve families' outcomes. We believe an effective strategy for doing that is to build a big tent – a wide tent with a lot of people underneath it." EXCLUSIVE: PENCE GROUP KNOCKS VANCE PLAN TO PAY STAY-AT-HOME PARENTS UP TO $9K PER CHILD Lecheler noted that early childhood support aligns with pro-family conservative principles. "Some of the solutions that we're putting forward really resonate with have been folks who agree that people should be able to have families that look the way they want," Lecheler said. "There are certain factions that are excited by the idea of cash transfers specifically within the period surrounding the birth of a child because it enables families to have the number of kids that they want to have." Founded in 2023, the Mother and Infant Cash Coalition grew out of a broader movement toward direct financial support for young families. Lecheler, who previously managed operations with The Bridge Project — an unrestricted cash transfer initiative launched in 2021 that operates across 14 red, blue, and purple states — noted that momentum for direct cash assistance built rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates and researchers increasingly argue that flexible cash benefits offer a more cost-effective way to improve family stability than traditional, highly restricted in-kind welfare programs. As direct cash initiatives expanded, organizations focused specifically on the perinatal period — from pregnancy through early infancy — began coordinating nationwide. That collaboration formed the Mother and Infant Cash Coalition, which aims to leverage early-childhood cash transfers to strengthen family stability and drive better maternal and child health outcomes. Member organizations include the Magnolia Mother’s Trust (MMT), launched in 2018, which provides selected mothers with $1,000 per month in unconditional cash for a full year. Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, a coalition of over 150 mayors, bids to solve the affordability crisis with cash handouts. The coalition is responsible for over 100 pilot programs launched since 2018 and the establishment of the program in Cook County, Illinois, which was the first municipality to expand a guaranteed income program permanently. Despite fierce national pushback against guaranteed basic income (GBI) programs — which opponents often criticize as "lottery socialism" — Lecheler stresses that conservative interest often stems from fiscal pragmatic arguments. "There are other folks who are excited about it from sort of an efficiency angle, and think about this work because it is a lower administrative burden," Lecheler told Fox News Digital. "It is also more cost-effective to prevent poor birth outcomes like low birth weight or preterm birth than it is to respond to them after the fact." MAYORS WANT TO KEEP HANDING OUT FREE CASH AFTER FEDERAL FUNDS DRIED UP The debate over early cash aid reached a flashpoint in Michigan over "Rx Kids," a citywide initiative providing expectant mothers with a lump-sum payment of $1,500 during pregnancy, followed by $500 per month for up to 12 months post-birth. While Rx Kids is not a member of the Mother and Infant Cash Coalition, it operates on a similar direct-cash model. Michigan House Republicans launched a formal inquiry into the initiative, which has absorbed more than $300 million in combined public and private funding. House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jay DeBoyer, R-Clay Township, criticized the program's lack of oversight, arguing it functions as a "redistribution of wealth" that fails to solve systemic poverty without spending guardrails. However, other Michigan Republicans view the policy through a pro-life lens. State Sen. John Damoose, R-Harbor Springs, publicly broke with critics to endorse the initiative. "Helping moms and babies truly fits into the call of Jesus," Damoose wrote in an op-ed for the Detroit Free Press. "I believe in the sanctity of life. I believe we need to be champions for the unborn. That means more than just calling ourselves ‘pro-life’ — it means doing everything we can to make it easier for expectant moms to choose life. It means being there for families from the very beginning — and offering them the resources they need to thrive." MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN LAWMAKER WARNS GUARANTEED INCOME PROGRAMS DO NOT WORK, VOICES OPPOSITION TO STATE POLICY Similar policy rifts are playing out nationwide as conservative lawmakers evaluate direct cash policies alongside conservative economic priorities. "We have people from the right that have organically reached out to us to voice support," Lecheler noted, pointing to conservative support for policies like the Federal Child Tax Credit (CTC) and proposals to expand Child Care and Development Fund assistance. "Cash assistance is widely supported across party lines, and we see that with the proliferation of cash proposals at the federal level, continued support for different versions of the CTC, as well as promising pilots like Rx Kids and the ASCEND program in New Mexico," Shafeka Hashash, Director of Cash Initiatives at Economic Security Project (ESP), told Fox News Digital. "Growing concerns about the cost-of-living crisis and how AI will impact the workforce are also driving bipartisan support for cash." IOWA SUPERVISOR SLAMS BAN ON GUARANTEED INCOME PROGRAMS AS STATE ‘WAGING IDEOLOGICAL WARS’ Nevertheless, major state-level legal and legislative efforts to restrict or eliminate cash transfer programs continue in red states: As of 2026, four red states — Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, and South Dakota — have enacted laws banning or restricting local guaranteed income and unconditional cash-aid programs. In addition, Kansas passed similar restrictive legislation when a bill became law without the governor's signature. To date, Cook County remains the primary local municipality to enact a permanent guaranteed basic income program. For advocates like Lecheler, the policy push comes down to basic economic survival for young families. "In the richest country in the world, I feel strongly that families shouldn't have to work three or four jobs just to keep food on the table," Lecheler said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada8b375342cf4db8770c2 Kyler Murray out with concussion so door opens for Carson Wentz as Vikings' new starter – perhaps for a while te 2026-09-18T21:10:11.323Z Kyler Murray out with concussion so door opens for Carson Wentz as Vikings' new starter – perhaps for a while The Minnesota Vikings and their quarterback hijinks are at it again, as Carson Wentz will start Sunday's game against the Chicago Bears because Kyler Murray remains in the concussion protocol and J.J. McCarthy remains at the back of the depth chart. Coach Kevin O'Connell told reporters that Murray, who suffered a concussion in the regular-season opener against the Green Bay Packers, is still working his way back to health. So, it's Wentz time again. 2026 NFL SEASON PREDICTIONS: DIVISION WINNERS, PLAYOFF TEAMS AND SUPER BOWL PICK REVEALED We say again because the Vikings had Wentz starting last season in Weeks 3 through 8 when then-starter McCarthy was out with an ankle injury. Wentz went down in Week 8 and that, as much as McCarthy's recovery, thrust the Vikings 2024 first-round back into the starting lineup. And here we are again. With Wentz surprisingly being promoted from the No. 3 quarterback during training camp, to No. 2 ahead of McCarthy prior to last week's opener, then to the starter on Sunday at Chicago. And all the while, McCarthy remains on the bench despite having been involved in a competition for the starting job against Murray. This all suggests things: It shows the Vikings promoted Wentz because they thought he was more experienced than McCarthy, yes, but also better. That becomes clear because, again, it is Wentz starting ahead of a healthy McCarthy this weekend. It also suggests Wentz has an opportunity going forward. WHY THE MINNESOTA VIKINGS OVER 9.5 WINS LOOKS LIKE A STRONG BET EVEN WITH KYLER MURRAY UNDER CENTER Wentz took over in the opener when Murray got knocked out of the game on the Vikings' third possession of the game. Murray was down for a time but eventually walked into the team's locker room for a concussion examination which came back positive. The Vikings were trailing, 9-0, when Murray left and faced a 22-10 deficit with 2:08 left in the third quarter when Wentz threw a TD pass. And then he threw another TD pass in the fourth quarter. And the Vikings scored two other times as Wentz completed 12 of 19 passes for 133 yards with 3 TD passes and without a turnover. So, Minny beat the rival Packers in dramatic comeback fashion. O'Connell this week wasn't going to reward Wentz's role in that comeback win by benching him in favor of McCarthy. But what if Wentz keeps playing well? What if he beats the Bears? Would the coach bench the quarterback who helped his team get to 2-0 if Murray is ready to play in Week 3? As ESPN noted, the starter change this week marks the 11th time the Vikings have flipped quarterbacks during a season in O'Connell's five-year tenure. Yeah, not good. A majority of those moves came in situations similar to what the team is facing now: An injury to a starter. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Last year, J.J. McCarthy started the first two games but injured his ankle and missed the next five games while Wentz played. Wentz was then injured in Week 8 and that's when McCarthy took his job back the following week. The Vikings had a 2-3 record with Wentz in the lineup. If Wentz plays well and stays healthy and keeps winning, the question will loom: Does Murray get his job back even when he's healthy? FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada66375342cf4db877070 Third person dies after mosquito is reportedly trapped on plane to Germany in 'airport malaria' phenomenon te 2026-09-18T21:00:19.776Z Third person dies after mosquito is reportedly trapped on plane to Germany in 'airport malaria' phenomenon Three people have died from malaria after a mosquito was transported aboard a flight to Germany, according to reports. Several people were rushed to a hospital amid a rare outbreak of the tropical disease following flights to Frankfurt, The Sun reported.  It was unclear where the flights departed from. The third person, a resident of Schwanheim, just north of the airport, died recently. In August, an airport worker also died from the disease. Neither had traveled to a malaria-endemic region. MEASLES-INFECTED TRAVELER MAY HAVE EXPOSED PASSENGERS AT LAX AND NEARBY HOTEL, HEALTH OFFICIALS WARN Another German resident also came down with malaria, which can only be contracted from the bite of an infected mosquito and cannot be spread from human to human. "Both individuals had become infected with the ​malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum, even though they had not traveled to a malaria-endemic region and had not worked ​at the airport," city officials said. DEADLY MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS CLAIMS FIRST LIFE IN MAJOR US CITY AS CASES SPREAD The terrifying phenomenon, known as "airport malaria," occurs when an infected mosquito becomes trapped aboard a plane or inside luggage, is carried to a malaria-free area and bites someone locally. In July, airport officials set traps around the property to contain the malaria outbreak, The Sun reported. WEST NILE VIRUS DETECTED IN SOUTHERN STATE AS HEALTH OFFICIALS WARN RESIDENTS ABOUT MOSQUITOES Germany's Robert Koch Institute, the agency responsible for disease control and public health, said airport workers became ill after contracting malaria between July 4 and July 6. In total, six employees contracted the disease, according to Fraport, the firm that operates Frankfurt Airport, The Express reported. "We have provided comprehensive information to all employees and encourage them to consult a doctor if they experience any symptoms," the firm said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada66275342cf4db877063 Fox News Campus Radicals Newsletter: Trump bashing, chilled speech and a major saga renewed te 2026-09-18T21:00:18.728Z Fox News Campus Radicals Newsletter: Trump bashing, chilled speech and a major saga renewed SPEECH CHILLED: Colorado college TPUSA chapter enrollment stagnant amid fears of retaliation against conservatives ‘FALSE ALLEGATIONS:' University drops 'doxxing' probe of Republican students amid widespread backlash over viral cake incident CAMPUS CHAOS: Viral video shows Trump piñata getting hit at California college as students erupt in cheers BLAME SHIFT: Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University citing 'deliberate indifference' to Palestinians CAMPUS SHOWDOWN: University event with Hasan Piker in Texas draws backlash from both sides of the aisle Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada66175342cf4db87705a Trump is 'unfettered' and more comfortable with power in his second term, journalists say te 2026-09-18T21:00:17.784Z Trump is 'unfettered' and more comfortable with power in his second term, journalists say NEW YORK, NY - President Donald Trump is more comfortable on the job in his second term, according to a panel of journalists tasked with covering his every move. Atlantic reporters Jonathan Lemire, Ashley Parker, Missy Ryan and Michael Scherer discussed what it’s like to cover the White House and other powerful institutions Thursday on stage during the magazine’s annual festival at Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York City. "We’re seeing someone who completed, arguably, the greatest comeback in American political history, he trusts his instincts and very few others, and is sort of an unfettered version of himself," Lemire said. Lemire said that Trump’s second administration is filled with "true believers" and "loyalists," while remnants of the "old Republican establishment" are long gone. TRUMP SAYS IRAN WAR 'HOPEFULLY' NEARING END AS HOUSE SPEAKER VOWS TEHRAN WON'T GET NUCLEAR WEAPON "He also is just more comfortable with the job and how to use the levers of power," Lemire said. "That also includes the relationship with the press and how he dictated change in terms of that relationship." Parker said the presence of Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has helped, while Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller spent the four years out of power "plotting and planning" how to run a "bigger, stronger, faster, better, more ruthless" White House the second time around. Scherer agreed, noting that Trump came back with a much clearer idea about what he can accomplish and how it would impact his legacy. "I was in Dallas last week when he did the midterm convention. His message was, ‘Vote for me one more time,’" Scherer said. "There's sort of a different, almost nostalgic approach he's taking to things," he continued. "But it is really about like, ‘This is my last chance to do what I can to get to make my mark.’" JASMINE CROCKETT DISPARAGES MAGA VOTERS, TRUMP AS 'MOST UNPATRIOTIC PEOPLE' Ryan, who covers national security and foreign policy, isn’t thrilled that the Pentagon hasn’t held a formal press briefing for months, and staff writer Vivian Salama, who moderated the conversation, said it's harder for journalists to get scoops this time. Scherer said the lack of leaks from inside the White House showed how it "operates as a unified body" under Wiles. "The people under her are loyal to her. They're loyal to the president also, but it operates as a functioning organization," Scherer said. "The first Trump term, there were three or four camps in that same space. They were often warring with each other and stabbing each other in the back and competing for the president," Scherer continued. "It's harder now. It's harder to get inside the room details than it was in the first term, but it can still be done." NEBRASKA SENATE CANDIDATE SEEMS TO CONFIRM AUDIO CLAIMING TRUMP SUPPORTERS' LIVES 'SUCK SO F---ING BAD' While the second Trump administration has been tighter-lipped than the first administration, Scherer said that the Obama and Biden administrations operated like bureaucratic law firms. "We still have more access here, I think, than we had in recent Democratic administrations, just because they had so much discipline. They had a different ethos about them," Scherer said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada66075342cf4db877051 Margot Robbie turns heads in blue bikini on set of new 'Ocean's Eleven' prequel te 2026-09-18T21:00:16.697Z Margot Robbie turns heads in blue bikini on set of new 'Ocean's Eleven' prequel Margot Robbie was spotted sporting a blue bikini while filming her latest project. The 36-year-old actress was photographed in a 1960s-style blue bikini top and matching high-waisted bottoms while filming her new movie in Saint-Tropez, France, with Bradley Cooper. Some of the photos feature the actress standing knee-deep in the ocean and walking along the shore, while others showcase behind-the-scenes moments in which she was hanging out with Cooper and reading the script. Robbie and Cooper are currently filming the prequel to the 2001 comedy heist movie "Ocean's Eleven," starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Julia Roberts. MARGOT ROBBIE AND JACOB ELORDI DEVELOPED INTENSE CHEMISTRY FILMING ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ The prequel follows the story of Danny Ocean’s parents, played by Robbie and Cooper, as they attempt to pull off a heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix. "Before Danny Ocean ever stepped foot in Vegas, two masterminds taught him everything he knows — his parents," Robbie said at CinemaCon in July, per Variety. "You’ll see them in their prime, and in our new movie, pulling off an epic heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix." In addition to Cooper and Robbie, the film will feature Academy Award-nominated actor Wagner Moura, Josh Gad and Academy Award-nominated actress Monica Barbaro. Cooper is also acting as a writer and director of the film, which is being produced by Robbie's production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, which she owns with her husband, Tom Ackerley. The "Wuthering Heights" star got her start on the Australian TV show "Neighbors," but had her big breakthrough in the 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street," alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE She has worked steadily in Hollywood since, but explained to Variety for its January 2026 issue that things have changed for her the longer she has been in the industry. "Earlier in my career, I’d speak more freely in interviews. I’ve just been burnt so many times, when people have taken what I’ve said out of context. And I read stuff all the time where people put me in quotation marks saying things I’ve never said." Robbie recalled not being able to "get my head around it" the first time that happened to her, and said she "just had to accept that." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS After becoming a mother, however, Robbie explained there are certain things she will not tolerate anymore, noting, "I’m trying to keep that side of things private and protect him." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "When you shift from your 20s to your 30s and beyond, you think, ‘I am going to do things differently. Here are my new boundaries,'" the actress said. She and Ackerley welcomed their son in October 2024. The couple has chosen to keep details about their son private, and have not shared his name, public photos or any additional details. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada65675342cf4db877026 Coconino volleyball notches third sweep and first winning streak under Rhoton te 2026-09-18T21:00:06.573Z Coconino volleyball notches third sweep and first winning streak under Rhoton The Coconino Panthers go 2-0 in their brief home stretch in between tournaments for the first winning streak of the season. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada40d75342cf4db876fd3 Hasan Piker calls Bin Laden a ‘spoiled brat,’ labels 9/11 ‘blowback’ in Axios interview te 2026-09-18T20:50:21.093Z Hasan Piker calls Bin Laden a ‘spoiled brat,’ labels 9/11 ‘blowback’ in Axios interview Hasan Piker, the internet streamer and YouTube personality known for his progressive commentary, called Osama bin Laden a "spoiled brat" for his reasoning in orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, which he called "blowback" for U.S. actions in the Middle East in the preceding years. Speaking with Axios, Piker discussed bin Laden's remarks about why he targeted the United States: U.S. support of Israel, American oil policies and U.S. bases in the Middle East. He noted that bin Laden was once a U.S. ally when the U.S. trained, funded, and armed the mujahideen in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War. "The action was so heinous and so violent that — and also … given his position as formerly an American ally … I think that he came across a little bit more as a spoiled brat that wasn't getting his way. With many backers in the Saudi kingdom as well, and the royal family," Piker said. CLINTON, BUSH RECEIVED MULTIPLE WARNINGS ON BIN LADEN HIJACK PLOTS BEFORE 9/11, DECLASSIFIED FILES SHOW The left-wing streamer said he wants fewer actors like bin Laden to "exist in general." "The other path of least resistance is to not interfere in these affairs in general and not continue to dominate and create an environment where people are going to seek out revenge and put us in a position of danger," he said. RADICAL EL-SAYED ALLY DOUBLES DOWN ON ANTI-AMERICAN RHETORIC WITH STUNNING TERRORIST COMPARISON Piker called the Sept. 11 attacks a "horrifying tragedy" and called them blowback for U.S. actions in the Middle East. "Blowback is not a justification. Blowback is just what it is," he said. "A justification offers either a moral condemnation or a moral acceptance of the act. I do not accept the act of 9/11 morally". HASAN PIKER INSISTS MIDDLE EAST WOULD BE 'MORE STABLE' IF IRAN HAD NUCLEAR WEAPONS DURING AXIOS INTERVIEW GOT A TIP? Piker has faced backlash for remarks in the same interview where he compared the United States to al-Qaeda "pound for pound". "Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes," Piker said. "We have caused tremendous terror all around the world". Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada40c75342cf4db876fca Lane Kiffin's visit to Oxford isn't the first time a coach made an unwelcome return to his former school te 2026-09-18T20:50:20.160Z Lane Kiffin's visit to Oxford isn't the first time a coach made an unwelcome return to his former school By now, most of you are painfully aware of the game taking place in Oxford, Mississippi, this weekend between LSU and Ole Miss. It's less of a game and more a national event, given the added stakes of Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin making his return to Vaught Hemingway Stadium for the first time since leaving the Rebels in the lurch to make his way to Baton Rouge. There will be plenty of bad blood to go around for all parties involved, but this kind of "reunion" isn't entirely unprecedented. Prominent head coaches will, occasionally, leave their teams on less than ideal terms, and when they make the return trip to the place they used to call home, it can get a little toxic. With that in mind, I decided to take a look at a few other times head coaches made their way back to the schools that used to employ them and how those trips compared to Kiffin's welcome committee in Oxford. MOUNTED POLICE, EXTRA PATROLS AND KIFFIN HATE: OXFORD PREPARES FOR OLE MISS-LSU GAME WITH EXTRA SECURITY Some of these went a little more amicably than others, but all were fairly noteworthy, so let's dive in. Before he became the unquestioned GOAT in the annals of college football, Nick Saban was a wildly successful coach at LSU in the early to mid-2000s. After a pair of SEC Championships and a national title during his five-year tenure with the Tigers, Saban departed for the NFL, leaving many folks on the bayou feeling embittered and betrayed. Following an unremarkable pair of seasons with the Miami Dolphins, Saban decided it was time to return to the college ranks, opting to don the headset at LSU's biggest rival, Alabama, in 2007. OLE MISS AND LSU WILL DELIVER CINEMA, BUT THE NEXT WEEK FOR EACH TEAM COULD BE THEIR MOST PIVOTAL TESTS Tiger fans would only have to wait one year before their former head coach made his way back to Death Valley, as the top-ranked Crimson Tide made their way to Baton Rouge to play 15th-ranked LSU. The atmosphere around the game was tense and filled with anger and resentment toward Saban, and it didn't help that the Tide escaped with a 27-21 overtime win to effectively knock the Bayou Bengals out of the SEC Championship hunt. Saban was given a police escort out of the stadium, and years later, the six-time national champion would call leaving LSU the biggest mistake of his career. Throughout the entirety of the 90s and into the early 2000s, Steve Spurrier and Florida football were synonymous with one another. The Head Ball Coach won a Heisman Trophy in 1966 while quarterbacking the Gators, and when he returned to roam the sidelines in 1990, he fulfilled the prophecy of "awakening the sleeping giant" once uttered by Alabama legend Paul "Bear" Bryant. Six SEC Championships and one national title later, and Spurrier figured he had accomplished all he needed to, leaving the friendly confines of The Swamp - the name he gave to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - for an NFL coaching gig with the Washington Redskins in 2002. Much like Nick Saban, Spurrier wasn't long for the pros, returning to the SEC in 2005 as the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks. This didn't sit well with a majority of Gator fans, seeing their visor-clad Messiah coaching an SEC East rival, and it made it even worse that he beat his old school in his first year on the job. When Spurrier and the Gamecocks made their first trip to The Swamp together in 2006, a game with national championship implications for the home team had new stakes attached to it. While the fans weren't openly hostile towards their former coach (most were even downright warm), it felt almost like watching a weird alternate reality simulation for those in attendance. The game was an instant classic, with Gators defensive end Jarvis Moss blocking a potential game-winning field goal to preserve the 17-16 win for Florida, and keep their BCS title game hopes alive in the process. Spurrier once said "only Gators get out alive" when referring to The Swamp, and that very phrase came back to bite him on that day in November 2006. Hey, look! A familiar face! Yes, Lane Kiffin is no stranger to making his way back to old stomping grounds, as he had to do something similar just a few years ago. When Tennessee hired Kiffin in 2009, the then-33-year-old was fresh off of a failed stint as the Oakland Raiders' head coach, and was looking to make a splash in the SEC. A "splash" is putting it mildly, as Kiffin immediately went into prison survival mode and tried to pick a fight with the biggest guy in the pen, that being Florida and head coach Urban Meyer. Kiffin ruffled feathers, accusing Meyer of recruiting violations and promising to "sing Rocky Top all night long" after beating the Gators in The Swamp, but after a year of empty promises and a 7-6 campaign, the brash offensive genius left for sunny Southern California to coach the USC Trojans. Vols fans revolted, burning couches and rioting on campus, while Kiffin left under cover of darkness. Flash forward to 2021, and Tennessee fans finally got their chance to let their old head coach know how they really felt in person, as the Rebels made their way to Neyland Stadium. Kiffin had bounced around as an offensive coordinator and head coach at a few different stops before settling into Oxford to coach the Ole Miss football team, and a night game in Knoxville presented an opportunity for some madness. The game was crazy enough on its own, as the two teams combined for nearly 1,000 yards of total offense and the Vols even had the ball trailing by only five with only a minute left in the fourth quarter. A controversial review then led to a nearly 20 minute delay, as Volunteer fans chucked mustard bottles and golf balls onto the field, the latter of which allegedly hit Kiffin. As he was being interviewed on the field following the win, Kiffin did his best George Costanza impression, presenting the very golf ball that struck him to a shocked ESPN audience watching at home. The fact that this game took place nearly a dozen years after his departure did nothing to snuff out the anger Vols fans held toward their former head coach. Here's one that a lot of people may have forgotten about, but it deserves mention all the same. The first three instances on this list are comprised of coaches who decided to stay in conference and take jobs with rival SEC programs, but what happens when a coach who made an unceremonious exit just happens to be on the schedule by way of a cupcake matchup scheduled years before he even agreed to take the job? For those who need a history lesson, Bobby Petrino coached the Arkansas Razorbacks in the late 2000s and early 2010s, even leading the team to a Sugar Bowl berth in 2010 and a top-five finish in 2011. He was incredibly successful in the short time he called Fayetteville home until 2012, when he crashed his motorcycle with a former Arkansas volleyball player riding on the back. This led to an investigation and, eventually, his termination from the university, ending a promising rise for the Razorbacks under Petrino. A decade later, Petrino found his way back to Frank Broyles Field by way of coaching the Missouri State Bears, a lower-end FCS school. Arkansas, conversely, was ranked in the top 10 and looked to improve upon their nine-win season in 2021 with third-year head coach Sam Pittman. It appeared as though the Hogs were going to exact some revenge on their motorcycle-obsessed outcast, but, in a game that may have been a precursor to how the rest of the Pittman era would go, the Razorbacks needed to score 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to eke out a 38-27 victory. Petrino would actually go on to be the offensive coordinator for Pittman just one year later, and would even be the interim head coach in 2025 when Pittman was given the axe. They truly can't quit the one that got away in Fayetteville. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada40575342cf4db876fa2 Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds te 2026-09-18T20:50:13.181Z Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada40375342cf4db876f99  JTED asks voters for first-ever bond in Prop. 427, citing growth and expansion for Southern Arizona students te 2026-09-18T20:50:11.952Z  JTED asks voters for first-ever bond in Prop. 427, citing growth and expansion for Southern Arizona students Pima County’s Joint Technical Education District will ask voters to raise property taxes for JTED for the first time ever, citing explosive growth in career and technical education. JTED — a separate school district born in 2007 and serving about 30,000 students throughout Southern Arizona — has a $250 million bond on the November ballot.  Pima JTED asks Pima County homeowners to pay more in taxes over the next 15 years to mainly expand its central campuses where 3,000 of its 30,000 Southern Arizona high school students are educated in free classes on how to become a birth doula or veterinary technician or a welder and everything in between. JTED also offers free programs at various high schools including automotive, construction and sports medicine. For Pima County property taxpayers, the bond known as Proposition 427 on your ballot, would increase taxes by $41 a year on a $250,000 home over 15 years. Voting FAQs What you need to know to participate in this election. Key dates Oct. 5 – Voter registration deadline Oct. 7 – Ballots mailed to voters and early voting begins Oct. 23 – Last day to request a mail-in ballot Oct. 27 – Recommended deadline to mail back your ballot Nov. 3 – Election Day Register to vote or check your registration details Pima County Recorder’s Office JTED is not eligible for state funding for facilities like traditional public school districts. The expansion is focused on constructing buildings for its programs, including welding; construction and engineering; robotics; and automation, administrators say. The bond package features two new buildings, a human services center and an engineering and construction center at JTED’s main campus, at Interstate 10 and Park Avenue on Tucson’s south side.  The current Bridges Campus has a medical career building and another, which houses Innovation Tech High School, a career and technical education school in the Tucson Unified School District. “We’re also looking at more cosmetology or a barber program. The state board was excited to hear that we might do a barber program,” said Greg D’Anna, JTED director of public relations, adding early childhood education, cyber security, EMT programs and microchip manufacturing are also a possibility.  But some Southern Arizona school districts oppose the bond, saying most of the funds would go to the central JTED campuses and not to individual schools. About a dozen districts signed a letter last December saying the bond allocation is unfair because most students attend JTED through their high schools. The conflict between Career Technical Education Districts and other school districts is not new in Arizona. Nine school districts in Phoenix’s East Valley sued the East Valley Institute of Technology in Tempe last summer and won the right to spend career and tech education funds without oversight from the institute. In Southern Arizona, about 90% of JTED students attend 14 satellite campuses. And 75% of bond money would go to central campuses where expansive programs need more space for training and development. The campuses also have a 600-800 student waitlist, administrators say. Just over $186 million is planned for central campus expansions and new buildings to address booming enrollment and space shortages. About $64 million is designated for satellite school district programs across Southern Arizona. JTED also included $16 million in the bond for a southern regional tech hub along Interstate 19 to capitalize on the mining boom in Santa Cruz County, officials say.  “Mining is taking off with the price of copper rising,” JTED Chief Financial Officer Ken McGovern said, adding local mining operations are investing in that area and those companies also “need strong robotics and automation, engineering and students with those backgrounds. We’re looking at offering courses that would feed into those industries there.”  Surrounding districts were asked to submit proposals for JTED funding by June 1, McGovern said. Four districts — Ajo, Baboquivari, Marana and Vail did that and their proposals will be included in the bond allocation, he said. A student in the Pima County Joint Technical Education culinary program preps for baking during class, where a large restaurant-style kitchen is the classroom. Pima JTED serves about 3,000 students at its central campuses in the Tucson area. Credit: Pima JTED Member districts rallied last spring and created a formula-based solution for CTE bond funding, Sunnyside Unified School District CTE Director Mario Castro told Sunnyside’s Governing Board in June. He said the CTE funding formula was denied. Sunnyside was one of 10 districts that did not submit proposals to JTED last summer. “We do believe in career and technical education courses. We believe in being good partners with Pima County JTED and we exist because they exist. And there’s a lot of pathways for students and it’s helped create our college and career academies,” Sunnyside Superintendent Jose Gastelum said at the June meeting. “We also have to be good partners when it comes to making these decisions that affect several communities in 14 districts.” JTED primarily offers courses in Pima County and also educates students in parts of Pinal and Santa Cruz Counties. Its main campuses include charter, private and homeschool students. No Pima County school-related proposition has any official arguments against it, the Pima County Schools Superintendent’s Office told Arizona Luminaria. JTED says it will continue to enhance CTE programs at all its campuses if the bond does not pass, but supporting growth is the goal. “The bond would allow us to respond more quickly to the growing demand for JTED programs,” D’Anna said. “Without it, we will continue to grow, but we will not be able to expand facilities and programs as quickly as the demand from students and industry is growing.” The post  JTED asks voters for first-ever bond in Prop. 427, citing growth and expansion for Southern Arizona students appeared first on AZ Luminaria. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada1ad75342cf4db876f55 Third person dies after mosquito is reportedly trapped on plane to Germany in 'airport malaria' phenomenon te 2026-09-18T20:40:13.049Z Third person dies after mosquito is reportedly trapped on plane to Germany in 'airport malaria' phenomenon Three people have died from malaria after a mosquito was transported aboard a flight to Germany, according to reports. Several people were rushed to a hospital amid a rare outbreak of the tropical disease following flights to Frankfurt, The Sun reported.  It was unclear where the flights departed from. The third person, a resident of Schwanheim, just north of the airport, died recently. In August, an airport worker also died from the disease. Neither had traveled to a malaria-endemic region. MEASLES-INFECTED TRAVELER MAY HAVE EXPOSED PASSENGERS AT LAX AND NEARBY HOTEL, HEALTH OFFICIALS WARN Another German resident also came down with malaria, which can only be contracted from the bite of an infected mosquito and cannot be spread from human to human. "Both individuals had become infected with the ​malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum, even though they had not travelled to a malaria-endemic region and had not worked ​at the airport," city officials said. DEADLY MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS CLAIMS FIRST LIFE IN MAJOR US CITY AS CASES SPREAD The terrifying phenomenon, known as "airport malaria," occurs when an infected mosquito becomes trapped aboard a plane or inside luggage, is carried to a malaria-free area and bites someone locally. In July, airport officials set traps around the property to contain the malaria outbreak, The Sun reported. WEST NILE VIRUS DETECTED IN SOUTHERN STATE AS HEALTH OFFICIALS WARN RESIDENTS ABOUT MOSQUITOES Germany's Robert Koch Institute, the agency responsible for disease control and public health, said airport workers became ill after contracting malaria between July 4 and July 6. In total, six employees contracted the disease, according to Fraport, the firm that operates Frankfurt Airport, The Express reported. "We have provided comprehensive information to all employees and encourage them to consult a doctor if they experience any symptoms," the firm said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada1ac75342cf4db876f4c Patriots coach Mike Vrabel does about-face on TreVeyon Henderson's activism after Russini scandal te 2026-09-18T20:40:12.055Z Patriots coach Mike Vrabel does about-face on TreVeyon Henderson's activism after Russini scandal New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel has softened his stance on running back TreVeyon Henderson’s social activism since April, when he cautioned the player to remember that he represents the team. Vrabel was asked Friday about Henderson’s defense of a Massachusetts couple who say they lost custody of their daughter to DCF after refusing to allow her to transition to a boy. Authorities have made it clear that the issue had to do with allegations of abuse by the couple, although they have not been convicted of any crime. TREVEYON HENDERSON EXPLAINS SIDING WITH FAMILY OVER DCF IN CUSTODY DISPUTE INVOLVING GENDER IDENTITY Henderson spent significant time the past couple of days defending the couple on social media and with beat reporters on Thursday. And, none of this has really anything to do with football. But Vrabel was asked on Friday how he views Henderson's public position considering in April the coach spoke about there being a "fine line" when it comes to expressing personal beliefs publicly. "I think he's handled it, I mean, about as maturely," Vrabel said. "I think he tried to explain himself. TreVeyon is a special person, great teammate. I love being around him. "And I think he pretty much spoke on what he thought and what he believes, and I think that that's impressive. You know, for him to be able to speak on it, and [I] leave it up to him." So, who is this coach? He is very different from the one who sat at a roundtable with reporters during the NFL annual meeting in Arizona in April and did not embrace Henderson advocating on behalf of former Chicago Bulls player Jaden Ivey. Ivey, you may recall, was released by the Bulls after he spoke out against the NBA promoting Pride Month and "unrighteousness." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! This is how Vrabel reacted to Henderson's defense of Ivey in April. "I think there's a fine line," Vrabel said. "I'll tell you, I love TreVeyon. I love the person. He cares deeply about our team. He cares deeply about his faith. He cares deeply about his family. His wife. The people in our building. "And so, I want them to be able to express what they believe in their heart and in their mind. But also, I want to make sure that they're educated. We want to be inclusive. Everything we want to do wants to provide an environment for people to feel comfortable. "But also to share their personal beliefs and, also, we represent the team and we represent the organization." There was none of that get "educated" talk from Vrabel on Friday because perhaps he realized those comments suggested his player didn't know what he was talking about. And there was definitely none of the "represent the team" narrative from Vrabel because, well, we know why. Vrabel didn't exactly "represent" the Patriots well during the offseason when it was discovered by Page Six that he spent the days prior to an Arizona meeting with former NFL reporter Dianna Russini at a Sedona resort. It wasn’t a good look for the Patriots that their married coach was photographed with a married female reporter holding hands, embracing and spending time together at a pool and hot tub. That entire episode was obviously embarrassing for Vrabel. But perhaps it was also instructive in that he has realized a player taking a moral stand on a topic is not representing the team poorly regardless of whether some people disagree or not. So, maybe something good has come out of the Russini scandal for Vrabel. Maybe. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aada1ab75342cf4db876f43 Fox News Entertainment newsletter: King Charles draws ‘line in the sand'; Harry and Meghan's school-run issues te 2026-09-18T20:40:11.042Z Fox News Entertainment newsletter: King Charles draws ‘line in the sand'; Harry and Meghan's school-run issues PALACE VERDICT - King Charles draws ‘line in the sand’ with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle after couple caught off guard: expert PLAN OF ACTION - Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s school-run problems shouldn’t 'come as a surprise,’ royal expert says PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE ROYAL TAKE - King Charles responds to Charles Spencer's claims about Princess Diana in a rare statement LAUGH FACTORY - Prince Harry's homecoming goes off the rails with brutal TV roast LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CRYSTAL CLEAR - Prince Harry, Meghan Markle feeding the 'publicity machine' despite privacy demands: expert Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad9f5075342cf4db876e90 F.A.A. to Roll Out New A.I. Tool for Washington Airports te 2026-09-18T20:30:08.733Z F.A.A. to Roll Out New A.I. Tool for Washington Airports The tool, called SMART, will crunch scheduling and weather data to predict and avoid delays. It will be deployed in the Washington region’s three major airports next week. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad9f4e75342cf4db876e5f Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation te 2026-09-18T20:30:06.122Z Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable, by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad9f4b75342cf4db876e4d Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures te 2026-09-18T20:30:03.911Z Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad9cfa75342cf4db876e13 Judge says case challenging Trump’s anti-weaponization fund ‘still alive and kicking’ te 2026-09-18T20:20:10.553Z Judge says case challenging Trump’s anti-weaponization fund ‘still alive and kicking’ President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Saul Loeb/Pool - Getty Images) WASHINGTON — A federal judge told the Trump administration Friday a case against the Department of Justice’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is “still alive and kicking.” The administration sought to dismiss the case brought against President Donald Trump’s negotiated settlement terms to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service for a years-old grievance over leaked tax returns.  The settlement, brokered by the DOJ and Department of Treasury and met by heated opposition even from Republicans, established a massive taxpayer-funded settlement fund to pay “victims of lawfare.” It also included retroactive relief from tax audits and enforcement for Trump, his sons Don Jr. and Eric, and the Trump Organization. Critics of the fund asserted the likelihood that violent participants who assaulted police during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol could reap a reward from the pot of money. The administration maintains the fund never became operational and that the case is moot, though it refused to provide a sworn statement requested by the court saying as much.  Attorney General Todd Blanche testified at his July 15 confirmation hearing that the fund is “dead” and “never started.” 30 days to produce documents On Friday, Judge Leonie Brinkema at the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia overruled the government’s objection to producing evidence and gave DOJ 30 days to produce documents potentially revealing who structured the deal.  The “real concern,” she said is “this concept of taxpayer money being used to promote political viewpoints.” “I think the fund now is gone, but is there a functional equivalent?” she asked, noting violators of federal laws that the administration opposes, like protections for abortion clinic clients, could be paid from a DOJ judgment fund. Plaintiffs, including individuals and interest groups, sued the DOJ, Blanche and Treasury officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and IRS CEO Frank Bisignano. Among the numerous plaintiffs are Andrew Floyd, a former assistant U.S. attorney who alleges he was fired for prosecuting Jan. 6 defendants, and the nonprofit National Abortion Federation, which represents abortion providers and advocates for abortion access. Pooja Boisture, counsel for the plaintiffs, argued Friday the fund is “discriminatory.” “This fund was designed to reward and give credence to election deniers and violators of the FACE Act,” she said, referring to the 1994 law that penalizes violence or threats from protesters against those entering to abortion clinics. In response to a request for comment on Friday’s hearing, a DOJ spokesperson said, “The Department is confident that the court lacks jurisdiction over this lawsuit against the (anti-weaponization fund), which never started and isn’t moving forward.” Constitutional question The plaintiffs also allege the tax immunity arrangement for Trump, his sons and private conglomerate amounts to an unfair gain or advantage for the president, therefore violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause. The National Treasury Employees Union is also party to the suit and brought the claim of an emoluments violation, as well as allegations of injury to tax auditors who may have been told to stop any audits of Trump. “These members have no good options: If they comply with a request to terminate audits, they violate their oath of office; and if they refuse to comply, they will likely face retaliation for insubordination,” the union argued in a court filing. The plaintiffs allege the president has ongoing audits that will be terminated under the immunity deal.  Lisa Newman, attorney for the legal advocacy group Democracy Forward that is representing the plaintiffs, also told Brinkema, “We do plead that the president was participating in negotiation of the settlement.” Newman referred to public reporting by The New York Times on May 19 that a loss in an IRS audit of Trump’s previous tax returns could cost him roughly $100 million. Andrew Block, senior counsel for the Justice Department, told Brinkema he’s “not aware there are or (are) not” audits of the president’s tax returns from that period of time. “It is speculation to say … that there was an improper request,” he said. Brinkema shot back that Trump’s underlying $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS is “unique.” “The plaintiff is absolutely controlling the defendants” who are at risk of being fired by the president on “a whim,” she said. Settlement ‘castrated’ by judge Brinkema said the Florida federal judge in Trump’s IRS case “castrated” the settlement in a July 13 order, adding the president’s underlying lawsuit against the nation’s tax enforcement agency is “extraordinarily relevant” to the lawsuit before her. Judge Kathleen Williams for the  U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, where Trump filed his lawsuit, wrote in a 56-page order that “No sitting President has ever sued federal agencies completely subject to his control for monetary benefits, or any benefits that inure to him, his family, and associates.”  “The failure of any attorney in this case to address, on this docket, the relationship of this Article II proscription with the benefits conferred by the ‘settlement’ is a glaring omission that speaks to the control of the Lead Plaintiff,” Williams wrote. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad9cf275342cf4db876de4 World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets te 2026-09-18T20:20:02.866Z World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad9aa375342cf4db876dbb Singing the Canadian National Anthem at the Buffalo Bills Home Opener was a mistake te 2026-09-18T20:10:11.295Z Singing the Canadian National Anthem at the Buffalo Bills Home Opener was a mistake The Buffalo Bills inaugural regular season home opener couldn't have gone much better. The brand new Highmark Stadium was buzzing from hours before the game in the parking lot with fans crashing through foldable tables, to the final whistle in a convincing win over Detroit. The one stain on the night was how it started. The team decided to honor neighboring Canada by singing their national anthem. To many fans it felt strange and out of place to sing a foreign nation's anthem when there was no Canadian team involved in the game. I wholeheartedly agree. The Buffalo Bills have a longstanding relationship with the people north of the border. The team has a substantial footprint in Canada, with many fans making the short drive to attend Bills games for decades. The organization even had a 2026 draft pick announced from Canada on the broadcast. Bills owner Terry Pegula also owns the Buffalo Sabres, who sing "O Canada" before every home game, regardless if they are playing a Canada-based team. I still don't believe this was the right decision on Thursday night. SABRES FANS JUMP IN AS ANTHEM SINGER'S MIC CRAPS OUT DURING 'O, CANADA' While the Barenaked Ladies, a Canadian alternative rock band sung a subpar rendition of "O Canada", the broadcast showcased a massive Canadian flag on the field by one end zone and an American flag on the other. It felt odd to watch the inaugural regular season game of America's newest stadium, featuring American teams exclusively, go out of their way to honor a foreign nation. Honestly, it came across more like a marketing ploy and virtue signaling more than anything. I know I'm not alone in that sentiment. Many fans expressed confusion online, including Canadians, and even Fox News Contributor and US Marine Joey Jones scolded the decision. Jones said, "We play the [United States] National Anthem not to honor fans who enjoy entertainment, but to honor the men and women serving this country, providing freedom and security so we can do that during a time of war." FOX NEWS' JOHNNY 'JOEY' JONES REENLISTS IN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS Jones went on to provide a history lesson to the Bills and the National Football League saying, "We play our national anthem because in 1918 we entered WWI, and they wanted to honor a Navy player that was out on the field. They wanted to honor that our sons and some daughters were fighting a war in trenches in some of the ugliest warfare every seen in our lives." Jones is exactly right. This isn't about not liking our neighbors to the north. It's not about refusing to be friendly. It's not about Trump. It's incredible to see so many Canadians enjoy our sports, but honoring their nation by singing their national anthem goes too far, especially when no Canadian teams are involved. You can honor the Canadian Bills fans and season ticket holders without honoring the nation as a whole. If the Bills wanted to give a special shoutout to Canadian fans pregame, thanking them for their support and dedication over the years, I'd have no problem with it, but going as far as honoring another nation, is borderline disrespectful to the history of our anthem and those that have fought and died to defend its rights and freedoms. The funny and ironic aspect of all of this, is the fact that Ford Field (Lions stadium) is just as close to the Canadian border as Highmark Stadium is, yet they have never sung "O Canada" in order to "honor" their prominent Canadian fan base. I don't see this as much of a virtue signal as singing "Lift Every Voice," also known as the Black National Anthem, but it's a close second. When American teams are playing an American sport on American soil, we should stick to honoring our nation. America has one anthem and if foreign sports fans want to come over the border to enjoy these games, they are welcome, we're glad they're here, but they shouldn't expect or want us to honor their nation through songs of allegiance. The Bills are said to only perform the Canadian National Anthem for their home opener. Let's hope that is the case. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad984c75342cf4db876d5a Midair brawl erupts on packed flight as screaming passengers jump from seats te 2026-09-18T20:00:12.860Z Midair brawl erupts on packed flight as screaming passengers jump from seats Dramatic video has captured the moment a midair brawl erupted between two passengers on a London-bound flight — causing fellow travelers to scream and jump from their seats. The incident took place aboard a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight traveling from Sylhet, Bangladesh, to London Heathrow on Sept. 16, according to news agency Jam Press. One man's T-shirt was badly torn as the altercation unfolded in front of passengers. ‘WE NEED TO RETURN IMMEDIATELY,’ FLIGHT CREW WARNS AS PILOT HEALTH EMERGENCY UNFOLDS The incident reportedly began as an argument between the two passengers before turning physical, Jam Press said. The cause of the argument is unknown. Men and women were seen jumping from their seats and attempting to break up the fight as the men exchanged blows in the aisle. Several passengers attempted to separate the pair before crew members intervened and defused the situation. Children as well as elderly travelers were among those on board, Jam Press reported. FLIGHT PASSENGER YELLS, 'I WANT OFF,' CALLS CREW 'IDIOTS' AND YANKS OPEN EMERGENCY EXIT DOOR The outlet obtained video of the altercation, which later circulated on social media, along with a statement from Biman Bangladesh Airlines confirming the incident. "The flight departed Sylhet for London this morning," said Mohiuddin Ahmed, general manager of the airline's public relations department. "At some point during the flight, two passengers got into a physical altercation." "The cabin crew later intervened and resolved the situation between them," he added. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Fox News Digital reached out to the Metropolitan Police at Heathrow Airport to ask whether any arrests were made or if further action was taken following the incident. Fox News Digital also reached out to Biman Bangladesh Airlines for comment, but did not immediately hear back. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Sylhet is a city in northeastern Bangladesh, about 125 miles northeast of Dhaka, the country's capital. FlightAware reported that flights between Sylhet and London can take more than 11 hours. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The incident is the latest in a string of disruptive encounters involving passengers aboard commercial flights. Earlier this summer, an easyJet flight from Tenerife to Liverpool was forced to return to the airport after a brawl involving around 10 passengers erupted shortly after takeoff. In 2024, an American Airlines passenger was taken into custody after allegedly injuring a flight attendant while attempting to open a cabin door mid-flight, prompting three fellow passengers to restrain him with tape. Fox News Digital's Tessa Hoyos contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad95f875342cf4db876cb2 'Lioness' star Laysla De Oliveira reacts to the explosive rescue episode in season three te 2026-09-18T19:50:16.911Z 'Lioness' star Laysla De Oliveira reacts to the explosive rescue episode in season three *WARNING: Possible spoilers below. "Lioness" star Laysla De Oliveira is pulling back the curtain on the episode that shocked viewers. Episode seven of season three aired this past Sunday, and viewers finally saw the moment the entire season had been building up to: The rescue of Joe (Zoe Saldaña). ZOE SALDAÑA SHARES BEHIND THE SCENES INSTAGRAM POSTS FROM BRUTAL 'LIONESS' TORTURE SCENE A brutal gunfight unfolded after Texas police stopped her captors. Eventually, Joe's team swooped in and saved their boss with gunfire from the ground and the team on the helicopter. The payoff was worth the wait for fans of the series, and it has set the stage for what should be a wild season finale. Oliveira, who plays Cruz on the hit Taylor Sheridan series, spoke with ScreenRant in an interview published Thursday about her reaction to the explosive rescue episode. She loved watching it all unfold, despite knowing exactly what was coming. "I'm just so happy that we're finally rescuing her, because it's one thing shooting the season, and we're shooting out of order, and with different timelines. It's another thing watching with everyone and being like, 'Damn, they're right, like, X amount of weeks have gone by, and we haven't found Joe.' I've been really enjoying all the videos of people teasing us and saying that they're gonna go find her themselves. I'm happy that we can give that to the audience, that that is resolved, and that also that there is more to come," the talented actress told the outlet. Now, fans are dug in waiting to see what happens in the finale episode of season three, which is titled, "The Unraveling." It's worth noting that the finale of "Yellowstone" season one was also titled "The Unravelling." Read into that as much as you'd like! Is Sheridan hinting at stakes similar to when it went down in the "Yellowstone" universe? Might be time for a re-watch. There are also plenty of theories flying around online on Reddit about who the mysterious mole might be. That's the last large looming question that needs to be answered. Have a fun theory on what is going on in the shadows and who the puppet master might be? Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad95f775342cf4db876ca9 'The View' co-hosts challenge Joy Behar after she says Trump health gets less media scrutiny than Biden's te 2026-09-18T19:50:15.586Z 'The View' co-hosts challenge Joy Behar after she says Trump health gets less media scrutiny than Biden's "The View" co-host Joy Behar got some pushback from fellow co-hosts after she said the media isn't covering President Donald Trump's health like they did former President Joe Biden's health, with Sara Haines noting Behar sounds the alarm daily. "The media does not cover Trump the way they covered Joe Biden," Behar said. Behar's claim followed the co-hosts' discussion about Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his return to Congress for a vote this week after several months away due to a fall he had in June. MCCONNELL WAS FOUND 'UNCONSCIOUS' IN HOME LAST MONTH AS CONDITION REMAINS UNKNOWN Haines said there was a contrast for Biden and argued, "Trump has always sounded like this." "He moves all over to the point where you don’t remember what the original question was," Haines said of the president. She also said that Biden "once sounded normal," and that there was a noticeable contrast for the former president. "No, no, no, no," Ana Navarro jumped in. "He falls asleep in basketball games, he falls asleep behind the Oval Office. His ankles are the size of cacti. His hands are purple," Navarro said. Haines said she wasn't defending Trump, and added, "The greater the contrast, the clearer the message." "I think the media does cover that Trump is declining," co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said during the exchange. Haines then told Behar she brings it up daily on the liberal talk show. "Here alone Joy, you talk about him every day!" she said as Behar broke for a commercial break. 'THE VIEW' CO-HOST DEMANDS 25TH AMENDMENT BE USED AGAINST TRUMP, SUGGESTS CABINET COULD DO IT AFTER MIDTERMS "‘Joyless’ Behar is an extremely unlikeable, talentless hack with a poorly rated TV show who clearly suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome. I lose braincells every single time I have the displeasure of hearing her speak," White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital in a statement. Biden exited the 2024 presidential contest after a disastrous debate performance against Trump and weeks of pressure from fellow Democrats. During an interview on "The View" in 2025, Biden denied reports that he experienced cognitive decline. "They are wrong, there’s nothing to sustain that, number one," he said during the interview, which included his wife, former first lady Jill Biden. "Number two, you know, think of what we left with," he continued. "We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection when I started, not since the Civil War. We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we — well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, a million people dying. And we’re also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues, which I won’t go into in the interest of time. And so we went to work, and we got it done and, you know, one of the things that — well, I’m—" Jill Biden jumped in to say that anyone who wrote about it did not see her husband working in the White House on a daily basis. JILL BIDEN CONFRONTED ON TOUTING JOE'S DEBATE SHOWING DESPITE THINKING HE MAY HAVE HAD A STROKE ONSTAGE "Alyssa, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us," she said. "And they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean, he’d get up. He’d put in a full day, and then at night he would — I’d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings. Working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop." Jill Biden praised her husband for working hard and said, based on the state of things at the time under Trump, "Give me Joe Biden any time," leading to loud applause from the audience. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad95f075342cf4db876c82 F.A.A. Safety Request for the Top of Trump’s Arch: Eternal Fire te 2026-09-18T19:50:08.142Z F.A.A. Safety Request for the Top of Trump’s Arch: Eternal Fire The aviation agency deemed the mammoth arch safe for air travel if it includes a constant flame and other safety measures to help make it visible to planes. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad939e75342cf4db876c2f Clay Holmes and Chase Burns set up a pitchers' duel as Cubs visit Reds at Great American Ball Park te 2026-09-18T19:40:14.178Z Clay Holmes and Chase Burns set up a pitchers' duel as Cubs visit Reds at Great American Ball Park It is somewhat difficult to believe that the baseball season is almost at a close. I was considering some of the early or preseason thoughts and where they are now. I thought the Royals and Mariners would be good teams this season. I didn't expect the Rays to be quite this good. I did have the Brewers and Cubs being successful, and in this order. I was way off on any awards, but my player props look like they are in great shape. Now we head into the last few days of baseball. Tonight the Cubs take on the Reds. The Chicago Cubs are 85-68 for the season and currently in control of the first wild-card spot. The problem for the team is that their record is identical to Philadelphia's, and they are just a game ahead of the San Diego Padres. They could finish anywhere from first to third, and remember that first place hosts a game instead. The Cubs have one of the best offenses in the history of their organization, and they still can't overcome the Brewers because their pitching is among the worst in baseball. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE They tried to address the issues with pitching this season, but they seem to be trying to fix a leaking boat with duct tape. One of the guys who has been helpful is Clay Holmes. For the season, Holmes is 6-7 with a 2.85 ERA and a 1.15 WHIP. He might be the most reliable starter in the Cubs rotation at the moment, but that doesn't mean he's been flawless. He has made seven starts with the Cubs and has allowed 15 earned runs, but eight of them came in one outing against the Marlins. He hasn't faced the Reds this season, but he is holding them to a .160 average over 25 at-bats. CUBS SET FRANCHISE RECORD FOR MOST HOME RUNS IN A SINGLE GAME WITH OFFENSIVE OUTBURST VS RIVAL BREWERS The Cincinnati Reds have to be fairly frustrated themselves about how this season has gone. Last year they snuck into the postseason, and this one will see them fall under .500. That isn't to say there haven't been bright spots for the team. Sal Stewart has looked great for them, hitting 32 homers and 109 RBIs. Elly De La Cruz has continued to establish himself as one of the best in the game. Even the pitching staff from Cincinnati has some good pieces. Arguably, the best pitcher for Cincinnati this season is tonight's starter, Chase Burns. For the year, Burns has racked up 15 wins against just three losses. He has a 2.80 ERA and a 1.15 WHIP while striking out 181 strikeouts. He doesn't qualify for the ERA or WHIP rankings because most of his starts don't see him go overly deep into games. He has only completed six or more innings in 12 of 28 starts this season. He has been superb at home with a 2.09 ERA in 13 starts. The Cubs faced him once this season and got two earned runs off of him over 5.2 innings. This is a game that I think we see runs as tough to come by. Burns is a really talented pitcher, and Holmes is also a good pitcher. You don't want a fly ball pitcher for games at Great American Ball Park, and Holmes is a ground ball guy. I think this is a good game to take the under through five innings. The problem is that you can't trust either bullpen, so give me under 4.5 through five innings. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad939d75342cf4db876c26 Kim Kardashian reveals new health scare with haunting connection to father’s cancer death te 2026-09-18T19:40:13.010Z Kim Kardashian reveals new health scare with haunting connection to father’s cancer death Kim Kardashian is opening up about a new health diagnosis that hits close to home. In a new trailer for "The Kardashians," the reality star, 45, revealed that she has esophagitis, which is inflammation of the esophagus. The diagnosis held a particular significance given that her father, Robert Kardashian Sr., died of esophageal cancer in 2003 at age 59. ALCOHOL TIED TO SURPRISING CANCER DEATH PATTERN IN ADULTS UNDER 55, RESEARCHERS FIND In the episode, the Skims founder is seen lying on a hospital bed as someone off camera asks, "Didn’t your father ... isn’t it what he died of?" Kardashian’s manager and mother, Kris Kardashian, became emotional at this suggestion, saying, "I can’t, it makes me want to cry." Experts have noted, however, that the two conditions are not the same. CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES Kim Kardashian's diagnosis, esophagitis, is inflammation of the esophagus, the muscular tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach. It is most commonly caused by acid reflux, certain medications, infections or allergies, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Esophageal cancer occurs when malignant cells form in the tissues lining the esophagus, per the National Cancer Institute. There are two main types: squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. While esophagitis itself does not directly cause cancer, the chronic inflammation can in some cases lead to Barrett's esophagus, a precancerous condition that can increase the higher risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma. This risk is higher among those with ongoing acid reflux (GERD). CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER About 5% to 15% of people with GERD develop Barrett's esophagus, although most people with Barrett's do not develop esophageal cancer, the NIDDK states. For those who have been diagnosed with esophagitis, Mayo Clinic provides the following recommendations to manage symptoms and reduce future cancer risk. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ In another health scare, Kardashian revealed in 2025 that her doctors discovered a small, unruptured brain aneurysm during an MRI scan. "They’re like, 'It’s been there for like years. It was here a few years ago,’" she said in an episode of "The Kardashians." Fox News Digital reached out to Kardashian requesting comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad939b75342cf4db876c1d Syracuse football coach mocked for trying to intimidate a ref, Mets medical staff looks lost & MLB WAG Brylie! te 2026-09-18T19:40:11.760Z Syracuse football coach mocked for trying to intimidate a ref, Mets medical staff looks lost & MLB WAG Brylie! '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. Second Friday of both college and NFL season being in full swing? Sign me up! What a weekend we have staring us right in our fat, American faces. Incredible weekend of college football, by the way. Unless you're the Big Ten. Hilarious schedule. Relax! It's a joke. We're having fun today. Let's keep this class light, loose, and FAST. It's a Football Friday, after all. We've all got better things to do. Let's roll. Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — the one where former Mississippi State softball star, and current MLB WAG, Brylie St. Clair says goodbye to summer as we near the astronomical beginning of fall. It's this coming Tuesday, for those who care. Don't say you didn't learn anything today! What else? I've got Syracuse coach Fran Brown whiffing on his intimidation attempt, Sophie Cunningham going to bat for Sydney Sweeney the day after Paige Spranaic did the same, and did you know there is a Big 12 conference game tomorrow ... ... in LONDON. London! IT'S ONLY WEEK TWO, BUT KANSAS QB ISAIAH MARSHALL MIGHT HAVE COMPLETED THE PASS OF THE YEAR Why? No clue. But we're gonna dig in here in a minute. Grab you a dog for Responsible Dog Ownership Day, whatever that is, and settle in for a Friday 'Cap! You know who is probably taking the day off for this special day? Kirk Herbstreit. Did y'all see it last night during our first Thursday Night game of the season? That's right. You saw it. I saw it. We all saw it. Amazing. Look, I like Herbie. I think he's one of the best, if not the best, analysts in the game. He's smart. He's not annoying like Romo, or horrible like those awful Jason Witten years on MNF. He's just really solid. But goodness, does the dog shtick annoy the piss out of me. It's just the worst. I couldn't believe it when that commercial came on during the game last night. I was stunned. I shouldn't have been. I should've known better. But still, my jaw dropped. It's enough already. Please. We're still early enough in the season where we can turn this thing around, Herbie! OK, let's get this class started with someone I'm not sure can turn it around any more ... Syracuse head coach Fran Brown: I'm not sure I've ever seen a coach do that — at any level, in any sport. That was embarrassing. How can you look your guys in the eye after pulling that, and still ask them to respect you? That's supposed to be a LEADER of men! Pathetic. Kudos to the ref for not moving a muscle. Elite response. And then he tosses the flag. Perfection. Syracuse, by the way, has won just once since last September — a 66-3 win over New Hampshire two weeks ago. At least the Orange responded WELL to Brown's little gimmick on the field last night: Yep. That's it, right? That's the worst field goal attempt of all time. Has to be! Lordy, what a kick. OK, let's leave the gridiron and head to the hardwood, where Sophie Cunningham told the gaslighters to pipe down over Sydney Sweeney this week: "Why are girls mad?" Cunningham asked on her newly revamped, "No Hesitation" podcast. "That is literally what she does. Why is anyone mad? It is a gambling ad: men, sports, naked women. Of course, that’s going to draw attention." Amen, Sophie! This. All of this. I've been screaming it for a week now. All the gaslighting and virtue-signaling over this Sydney Sweeney ad from female athletes saying she set women's sports back decades makes ZERO sense. It was a GAMBLING ad. Sweeney was catering to one very specific audience, as her and new podcast partner, Drew Hanlen, pointed out. Drew, who wouldn't stop talking (take a breath, Drew!), figured around 75% of sports bettors are men. I think that's way off. I'd put it closer to 90%. Maybe 95%. Regardless, that's who the ad was for — and it worked! THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! OK, let's rapid-fire this Friday class into a big weekend of FOOTBALL. Speaking of ... did y'all know there was an actual college game in London tomorrow? That's right. Kansas and Arizona State will be playing a Big 12 conference game at Wembley Stadium. Why? I have no earthly idea. None. Seems incredibly wasteful, for multiple different reasons. That being said ... this coach is an absolute animal: I've played for a lot of coaches in my life. A LOT. Some were bad. A few were awful. A couple were really, really good. This Andy Kotelnicki is someone I'd like to get in a foxhole with. Give me this guy over Mr. Flincher from Syracuse any day of the week! Next? On the way out, let's go ahead and check in with the medical staff for the New York Mets: CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Goodness gracious. First of all, that was an awful collision. Tough watch. The good news? Word is Jared Young is OK. He's moving. Seems like he's gonna be fine. Now, let's talk about the medical staff ... I was on pins and needles the whole time. I was SWEATING. They couldn't get him up, and then when they finally did, they just jerked him around like he was a piece of meat. Have they never done that before? Seriously. It looked like they had no clue how to get the stretcher to go up, which seems like Day 1 stuff in that field. Wild scene. Wild year for the Mets, and not in a good way. OK, that's it for today — and this week! Good work, everyone. Let's go enjoy some football this week. AND some baseball! Regular season ends in nine days. A lot on the line. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Take us home, San Francisco Giants WAG, Brylie St. Clair! Is the Syracuse coach cooked? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad939475342cf4db876bf6 St. Paul Mayor’s Behavior Faulted After Police Chief’s Complaint te 2026-09-18T19:40:04.021Z St. Paul Mayor’s Behavior Faulted After Police Chief’s Complaint An outside investigation found that Mayor Kaohly Her had engaged in offensive behavior, but found no evidence that she sexually harassed colleagues. It did find that she had engaged in “offensive” behavior. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad914675342cf4db876bac Illegal immigrant arrested in Indiana for allegedly voting in federal election: DHS te 2026-09-18T19:30:14.637Z Illegal immigrant arrested in Indiana for allegedly voting in federal election: DHS EXCLUSIVE: An illegal immigrant from Guatemala is accused of voting in a national election in Indiana, a crime that federal officials said steals votes from American citizens, while announcing the woman's arrest. Helda Araceli Mendez-Merida was arrested Sept. 3 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Indianapolis, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. "The patriots of ICE arrested this illegal alien from Guatemala after she illegally voted in a past election," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said. "This illegal alien will be deported so she can never again poison our elections. ICE ARRESTS PERUVIAN NATIONAL ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY VOTING IN 2024 ELECTION AS DHS CITES SIMILAR CASES "If even one noncitizen casts a vote, it steals a vote from an American citizen." It wasn't clear which election Mendez-Merida allegedly voted in, officials said. However, she illegally entered the U.S. through Arizona in September 2015 during the Obama administration, according to DHS. WHITE HOUSE UNLOADS ON VIOLENT ‘CRIMINAL ALIEN’ NABBED AFTER INVESTIGATORS UNCOVER ELECTION OFFENSE She was arrested by a U.S. Border Patrol officer and released. An immigration judge issued a final order of removal for her in September 2019. "The right to vote is the cornerstone of democracy in the United States," ICE Enforcement Division Acting Assistant Director Patricia Hyde said. "Helda Araceli Mendez-Merida attempted to subvert a national election by unlawfully casting a vote. DHS APPROVES PLAN TO VERIFY VOTER CITIZENSHIP, MONITOR MAIL BALLOTS AS TRUMP PUSH INTENSIFIES "Voting in U.S. elections is a privilege that is reserved exclusively for U.S. citizens, and we cannot allow that sacred right to be perverted by foreign nationals who seek to undermine American democracy." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad914575342cf4db876ba3 Foreign hackers breach two more US water utilities, threaten safety of Colorado residents te 2026-09-18T19:30:13.423Z Foreign hackers breach two more US water utilities, threaten safety of Colorado residents Foreign actors hacked two Colorado water utilities' computer systems last month, changing pumping cycles, disabling alarms and altering equipment settings before operators regained control, state officials said Thursday. The intrusions did not affect drinking water quality or treatment processes, according to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis' office. But the incidents add Colorado to a widening series of breaches on U.S. water and wastewater infrastructure. High-profile cyberattacks have targeted more than 100 drinking water and wastewater systems across 12 states this year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, expanding the footprint of a threat that federal authorities warned this summer was disrupting water operations across the country. WATER CYBERATTACK HITS AT LEAST 7 STATES Colorado officials have not identified the actors behind the intrusions of the two small systems or said whether they are connected to the broader activity reported elsewhere in the country. "These were brief incidents, and the risks were quickly addressed by the providers themselves, who subsequently alerted the state," Polis spokeswoman Eric Maruyama said in a statement. The hackers altered equipment settings, disabled remote access and alarms and changed pumping cycles, according to the governor's office. The incidents demonstrate how hackers can reach beyond traditional computer networks and gain access to operational technology used to control physical equipment at water facilities, including pumps, valves and other machinery. The water utility systems that were impacted provide drinking water to approximately 400 people. IRANIAN HACKERS ATTACKED OUR WATER SYSTEMS. HERE ARE 5 THINGS OUR LEADERS NEED TO DO NOW Federal authorities warned in July that malicious cyber actors were targeting internet-connected operational technology at water and wastewater utilities. At the time, the FBI and EPA said utilities in at least seven states had reported incidents, some of which degraded water operations. The agencies said attackers had remotely accessed internet-facing programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, and tampered with device configurations, in some cases causing utilities to lose monitoring or control capabilities. Reported operational effects included loss of water pressure and flooding. The Colorado breaches follow a series of attacks on water systems across the country this summer, including cyber activity affecting more than 30 community water systems in Minnesota. Federal investigators have examined whether Iranian actors or hackers affiliated with Iran were responsible for the Minnesota attacks, though officials had not publicly attributed the activity at the time. President Donald Trump disputed suggestions that Iran was behind the Minnesota attacks, saying during a Cabinet meeting, "They blame it on Iran. I don't think so," and instead blamed Minnesota officials. IRAN’S CYBERWAR TARGETS ORDINARY AMERICANS. WE NEED TO DISMANTLE THE HACKER NETWORK The recent incidents have renewed attention on longstanding cybersecurity vulnerabilities within America's water infrastructure, particularly among small and rural utilities that can have limited cybersecurity staff and resources. Many utilities use internet-connected industrial control systems to remotely monitor and operate pumps, valves, water pressure and other equipment. Federal officials have urged operators to remove programmable logic controllers from direct exposure to the internet and strengthen authentication and access controls. The EPA, which serves as the federal government's sector risk management agency for water and wastewater systems, told Fox News Digital it is working with utilities, states and federal partners to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen cybersecurity. Since fiscal year 2025, the agency has identified more than 900 vulnerabilities at over 650 water systems and helped eliminate about 700 at more than 500 utilities. EPA has also conducted more than 710 cybersecurity risk assessments and provided direct technical assistance to approximately 15,900 utilities. The FBI declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad913d75342cf4db876b7c Cost of Iran War Estimated at $43.6 Billion te 2026-09-18T19:30:05.349Z Cost of Iran War Estimated at $43.6 Billion For the first time, the Pentagon reported costs incurred by each armed service. The figures are almost certainly on the low side, congressional officials said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad8c9175342cf4db876a98 Arizona Financial participating in Arizona Credit Union Week te 2026-09-18T19:10:09.716Z Arizona Financial participating in Arizona Credit Union Week Arizona Financial Credit Union is among 18 credit unions in Arizona participating in Arizona Credit Union Week from Oct. 12-16. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad8c8f75342cf4db876a8f Yucca man gets 12-year prison term in armed Windsor Beach dispute te 2026-09-18T19:10:07.991Z Yucca man gets 12-year prison term in armed Windsor Beach dispute A dispute between two groups of boaters at the Windsor Beach launch ramp at Lake Havasu brings more than a dozen year prison sentence for a Yucca resident. William Wachtveitl, 54, was sentenced Sept. 17 by Mohave County Superior Court… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad8a3475342cf4db876a29 Judge Who Struck Down Trump’s Compensation Fund Asks: Will Trump Just Pay Allies Another Way? te 2026-09-18T19:00:04.857Z Judge Who Struck Down Trump’s Compensation Fund Asks: Will Trump Just Pay Allies Another Way? The question was raised at a court hearing by a federal judge who has already barred the fund from moving forward. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad87db75342cf4db8769b2 A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers te 2026-09-18T18:50:03.993Z A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad858d75342cf4db87697b Robert De Niro gets emotional as Amy Poehler praises him for speaking 'truth to power' as regular Trump critic te 2026-09-18T18:40:13.484Z Robert De Niro gets emotional as Amy Poehler praises him for speaking 'truth to power' as regular Trump critic Actress Amy Poehler made Robert De Niro emotional on Tuesday as she thanked him for being so vocal, as the actor is a regular critic of President Donald Trump and his administration. Poehler thanked De Niro during an interview on her podcast, "Good Hang," telling the actor, "I just personally want to thank you for doing what you do and speaking out in the way that you do about where we are in the world. There's a lot of people that are asked to speak truth to power, and they're usually members of the margins. They are people that are young, don't really have as much currency or a footing as other people. It's often people of color. It's often women." "To see a person like yourself, the age that you are and the status that you are, it reminds me of – the best way I can describe it is when it's like if someone's giving a terrible speech at a wedding, and they're ruining the wedding, and the wedding is America and there's another adult who says like, 'We don't talk like that. That's not how you're supposed to treat people. This is insane,'" she added, telling De Niro it made everyone feel "safe."' BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN REIGNITES TRUMP FEUD, SAYS 'CRITICAL PATRIOTISM' DEFINES A PATRIOT De Niro grew teary-eyed as he thanked her for her words. The actress told De Niro he was standing up for a lot of people who don't have the same kind of power he does. DE NIRO CALLS CONTROVERSIAL MAMDANI POLICE COMMENTS 'RIDICULOUS' AS HE DEFENDS MAYOR GOING TO 9/11 SERVICE "It's true. It is," she said. "There's not a lot of men who, in your position, who do that and White men of a certain age, like who, frankly, you know, have a ton of power and don't use that responsibility in a way that they could. So, thank you," Poehler said. De Niro told Poehler that it was "so upsetting" to see what was happening in the U.S., and added, "It's so crazy." 100 DAY SPRINT TO THE MIDTERMS KICKS OFF AS REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS CLASH FOR CONTROL ACROSS THE COUNTRY "I mean, in a way, that's better that it's so blatant, because this will happen again, and this guy will influence people, and they'll come up, and they'll say, 'Well, I can do it this way or that way.' And we have to always be on guard with what's happening now," De Niro said. The actor told Poehler people had to fight, even if they feel hopeless. Christian Toto, editor of Hollywood in Toto, told Fox News Digital in a statement, "Amy Poehler is one of our most talented comic actresses. Her work on 'Parks and Recreation' alone proves it. And she's just as clueless about the culture as most celebrities, alas." "What Robert De Niro has done over the last decade is nothing less than beclown himself over all things Trump. His ill-informed, one-note attacks on the President are embarrassing. He's done nothing to raise the level of discourse, and using every bully pulpit to rage against a political leader has made many look askance at his otherwise sterling film career," he continued. "He's neither brave nor inspired. He's simply regurgitating what all his peers think and say. And many say what he says, but often in a slightly more coherent tone. He should know better. And Poehler should understand how badly the Oscar winner's ravings land with the public." De Niro grew emotional over the state of the country during a February 2026 interview with Nicolle Wallace on her podcast, "The Best People." Wallace told him he played a big role as one of Trump's most outspoken celebrity critics. After accusing Trump officials of not respecting many of America’s law enforcement institutions, she asked the 82-year-old actor what he worries about for New York under the ongoing Trump administration. He voiced concern that there would be a campaign of retribution against the people of New York, such as sending in ICE agents. ART GARFUNKEL JOINS GROWING LIST OF CELEBRITIES CONSIDERING A MOVE ABROAD OVER TRUMP PRESIDENCY "People have to resist, resist, resist, resist, resist. That's the only way. There's no magic. There's no nothing – people are not going to go away, even if Trump dies for some reason by having an illness or something," he warned. "Parts of that movement are still there, and that's the scary part. It has to be neutralized by the people." CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Wallace followed by recalling an Academy Award speech he gave in 1981, when he thanked the people he worked with, saying he has continually lifted people up around him. When she asked him why he emphasized lifting people up around him so much, he went right back to politics. "You have to," he said, starting to cry. "You have to lift people up. You have to bring them together. Period. You can't divide people. You can't win that way. It's a no-win situation." De Niro claimed in June that he can't love an America led by Trump. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad858c75342cf4db876972 Judge says issues in Trump administration anti-weaponization case 'alive and kicking' despite DOJ push te 2026-09-18T18:40:12.196Z Judge says issues in Trump administration anti-weaponization case 'alive and kicking' despite DOJ push ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Department of Justice lawyers have asked U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema to dismiss a case connected to the Trump administration's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund," arguing that Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal recission order in August and has affirmed many times, including under oath before Congress, that the fund is dead. However, Brinkema seemed skeptical on Friday. "The issues that underly this case are still alive and kicking in my view," Brinkema said. "The real concern that lurks... is the concept of taxpayer money being used to promote particular political views," Brinkema said, pointing to pro-life activists convicted of violating the FACE Act and others who attempted an "insurrection" on January 6th "to overthrow the legitimate election." CLINTON JUDGE INDEFINITELY BLOCKS TRUMP'S $1.776B ANTI-WEAPONIZATION FUND "That entity is gone," said Brinkema, referring to the Anti-Weaponization Fund and agreeing that Blanche has said under oath at his confirmation hearings that the fund is dead. "But is there a functional equivalent?" Brinkema said, referring to the DOJ's ordinary Judgment Fund authority. The Judgment Fund is a permanent U.S. Treasury account managed by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service that pays court judgments and DOJ legal settlements against the federal government. Brinkema called that fund "a less transparent structure" and suggested that some defendants convicted of FACE Act crimes have already received large payouts from the DOJ's Judgement Fund. JUDGE TEMPORARILY BLOCKS TRUMP DOJ'S NEARLY $2B 'ANTI-WEAPONIZATION' FUND Here Brinkema affirmed she was talking about the case of Paul Vaughn. Vaugh, of Centerville, Tennessee, was convicted in January 2024 for his role in blockading an abortion clinic in Mount Juliet, Tenn., in March 2021. Vaughn ultimately received a pardon and a taxpayer-funded payout from the DOJ's Judgment Fund which he has confirmed to Fox News is "seven figures." BIDEN ADMIN USED ABORTION GROUP DOSSIERS, INCLUDING PHOTOS OF MINORS, TO TARGET CHRISTIANS, DOJ REPORT REVEALS DOJ lawyer Andrew Block asked what remedy the plaintiff wants given asked "the fund is dead." Brinkema countered that although the case is nowhere near the remedy stage, "I think there are remedies." She brought up the possibility of requiring a "neutral" person to oversee a fund, "not someone from the DOJ, which I see unfortunately as coerced," in this matter. "A proper, unbiased look... There's been too much talk from members of the administration, which undercut [DOJ's] position," Brinkema said. "They contradict themselves all the time." Brinkema closed the hearing by telling both sides she intends to craft a new discovery order in the coming days, suggesting this case is far from over. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad834375342cf4db876913 The best cheese for a burger, according to expert — and why some popular picks fall flat te 2026-09-18T18:30:27.208Z The best cheese for a burger, according to expert — and why some popular picks fall flat It's National Cheeseburger Day, but while Americans may agree that cheese makes a burger better, deciding which cheese belongs on top is another matter. A 2015 YouGov/HuffPost survey of 1,000 U.S. adults found that 71% preferred cheeseburgers, compared with just 20% who preferred hamburgers.  American was the top choice among cheeseburger fans, with 40% choosing it, followed by cheddar at 31%. Swiss cheese earned 10% of the vote, while provolone garnered 5% and blue and Jack both received 4% each. AMERICA'S BEST FAST-FOOD BURGER REVEALED — AND IT’S NOT AVAILABLE IN EVERY STATE But choosing the right cheese isn't just a matter of taste. How a cheese melts — and whether it stays put on the burger — comes down to science. "A classic cheeseburger, what I think of is that orange slice, which is usually an American cheese or cheddar cheese," Gina Mode, coordinator of the Cheese Industry and Applications Group at the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) in Madison, Wisconsin, told Fox News Digital. The slice has to do three things at once, she said: taste like something, melt well and stay put. "You want it to have that nice cheese flavor, that cheddar flavor," Mode said. "You want it to have a nice softness to it when it melts, and you also don't want it to flow off your burger." A good melt comes down to a few scientific variables, Mode explained. The cheese needs to have the right composition, the right pH and the right amount of intact casein, which is the milk protein. As cheese ages, that structure changes, building flavor but working against meltability. "You'll notice an older cheddar is going to crumble, and it's probably going to oil off if you melt it," Mode said. Young, natural cheeses that hold their structure are safe bets for a burger. They include Colby, Monterey Jack, Muenster, Swiss, low-moisture mozzarella and provolone. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS That doesn't mean aged cheese is off the table, however. Mode said it can and should be included as part of a cheeseburger, just incorporated differently. CDR's own research chef is a fan of a smoked blue cheese or Brie with a burger, she noted. "You could shred those cheeses or crumble those cheeses on your burger," Mode said. "Or you could even put them inside the burger patty for one of those Juicy Lucy burgers." American cheese is a favorite because it melts the same way nearly every time. "American cheese is a processed cheese," Mode explained. "You start with a natural cheese, like a cheddar, and you shred it or grind it, and then you cook it along with an emulsifying salt." Cheese is essentially protein, fat and water, and the latter two "don't want to mix together," Mode said. The emulsifier binds the components together and leads to a smooth, complete melt. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Mode herself grew up on a fifth-generation dairy farm, and CDR is dairy farmer-funded and serves cheesemakers across an 11-state region. She encourages people to try new cheeses with their burgers and pointed to a new "natural American cheese" with no emulsifying salt recently introduced by a Wisconsin cheesemaker. "They changed the cheesemaking recipe — the way they make the cheese, so that it has the same or similar functionality to an American processed cheese while it still is a natural cheese," Mode said. "So there's that out there, too, for folks [who] are looking for a cleaner label." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Mode is also enthusiastic about flavored cheeses that contain a little spice, herbs or smoke. She also recommends people consider cold pack cheese, the spreadable kind usually reserved for crackers. "It's great to spread on your burger bun, especially if you toasted the bun so it's a little warm," she said. As far as when and how to apply cheese for a perfect melt, Mode said to do it at the very end. "The burger is finished cooking, and usually at the end you let it rest a little, and that's the perfect time to add the cheese," she said.  "If it's one that takes a little more oomph to melt, like a nice thick piece of cheddar, you can put a cover on it, and it'll hold that heat in." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad833475342cf4db8768ee Trump Courts North Korea’s Leader, but Might Need China to Reignite the Flame te 2026-09-18T18:30:12.467Z Trump Courts North Korea’s Leader, but Might Need China to Reignite the Flame President Trump has gotten no love back yet from Kim Jong-un. He could turn to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to help set up a summit when Mr. Xi visits Washington next week. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad7e8475342cf4db876842 Socialist Claire Valdez faces calls for federal probe after Mexico ‘fight’ pledge te 2026-09-18T18:10:12.443Z Socialist Claire Valdez faces calls for federal probe after Mexico ‘fight’ pledge A New York City socialist seeking to replace a retiring Democrat drew criticism Thursday after pledging to carry the "fight" inspired by Mexico’s struggle for independence into Congress, with critics pointing to her disclosure that she met with members of Mexico’s ruling left-wing party. Claire Valdez, who is seeking Rep. Nydia Velazquez's seat in a district that includes Bushwick and Ridgewood, is facing calls for the State Department to investigate her under the Logan Act, a rarely enforced 1799 law that criminalizes certain unauthorized efforts by private citizens to influence foreign governments in disputes involving the U.S. Democrats have also invoked the law in connection with President Donald Trump. In response to her post, immigration attorney and columnist Alicia Nieves tweeted at Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, a former ambassador to Mexico, calling for an investigation of Valdez after the candidate disclosed that she had met with members of Morena, Mexico’s ruling left-wing party. "Given that she is currently a congressional nominee, not a member of Congress, and appears to have discussed facilitating support contrary to current U.S. policy as well as describing our country an ‘empire’ that has ‘stolen from us’… I hope the administration will review whether these communications warrant investigation under the Logan Act." COLORADO'S SOCIALIST CANDIDATE CALLS FOR 'MORE IMMIGRANTS INTO OFFICE' TO STOP AMERICA'S 'EXPLOITATIVE' NATURE The act, enacted in 1799, came after the John Adams administration and congressional Federalists objected to Pennsylvania politician George Logan’s unauthorized trip to France, where he sought to ease tensions during what was called the "Quasi-War." Federalists feared private diplomacy could undermine the U.S. government’s foreign policy. Adams and his Federalist allies also viewed Logan’s actions through the partisan tensions surrounding the 1800 presidential race against Thomas Jefferson. In her tweet, Valdez wrote, "215 years ago, Mexicans fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor. And we won." "I'll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York's first Mexican-American representative," Valdez pledged. "And I'm strengthened not just by Mexico's history but its present." She said she met "comrades" in the Morena Party who are "standing up to the empires and corporations that have always taken from us — and building a government for the working class. Viva la Independencia, Viva México!" MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST PREVAILS IN CROWDED PRIMARY TO REPLACE RETIRING REP Fox News Digital reached out to Valdez and the Mexican government for comment. Morena could not immediately be reached. Critics also pointed out that Valdez's father, Larry, is connected with a company that helped construct a Texas immigration facility during the Obama administration. They contended that the connection conflicts with her opposition to immigration enforcement. "This would be a great campaign for Congress in Mexico," added Christina Pushaw, a top communications official for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Fox News Digital also reached out to community organizer Melvin Rivera, the Republican opponent facing Valdez, for comment. Democrats cited the Logan Act in connection with Trump after he publicly remarked, "Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing" in reference to his 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton. Then-Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada suggested that Trump had violated the Logan Act. The law has also been invoked against other public figures, including former Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, but no prosecution under the statute has resulted in a conviction. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Two men faced proceedings under the Logan Act but were never convicted. A grand jury indicted Kentucky farmer Francis Flournoy in 1803 after he advocated a separate Western United States allied with France. Jonas P. Levy was arrested and held to bail under the law in 1853 after writing to Mexico’s president. Valdez, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 7th Congressional District, will face Republican community organizer Melvin Rivera and other candidates in the November general election. Fox News Digital reached out to Rivera for comment on Valdez’s remarks. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad7c3b75342cf4db876802 Lit lights up Thunder Valley te 2026-09-18T18:00:27.044Z Lit lights up Thunder Valley Thunder Valley Rally returns to Cottonwood’s Riverfront Park on Friday, Sept. 18 and Saturday, Sept. 19, hosted by the city of Cottonwood’s Parks & Recreation Department and local sponsors. Festivities include a bike show, local vendors, the Miss TVR contest at Main Stage bar and live music at River Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad7c3975342cf4db8767f9 Old & New World to blend te 2026-09-18T18:00:25.791Z Old & New World to blend Ezequiel y Los Conjunto Addictz opens for Kilted Spirit at Red Dirt concert It’ll feel like the United Nations but with more clapping in this week’s installment of the free Red Dirt Concert Series, Friday, Sept. 18, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Posse Grounds Pavilion at the Barbara Antonsen Memorial Park. El Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad7c3875342cf4db8767ed Maricopa’s new indoor sports facility opens next month te 2026-09-18T18:00:24.049Z Maricopa’s new indoor sports facility opens next month Maricopa’s newest indoor sports facility is ready for its close-up. The Fieldhouse at Copper Sky will celebrate its grand opening Saturday, Oct. 10, giving residents their first chance to explore the city’s new indoor recreation space. The free event runs from 9 a.m. to noon, 17985 W. Greythorn Drive, and will include a ribbon-cutting ceremony, sports activities, food trucks and professional wrestling. Visitors can shoot hoops, play volleyball and pickleball, take part in arts and crafts and let kids burn off some energy in an inflatable play area. Phoenix Championship Wrestling also will put on a professional wrestling show. The 42,000-square-foot facility has been in the works for more than two years. The city first proposed the project in 2024 as a $16.2 million facility designed to add indoor court space as Maricopa’s recreation programs continued to grow. Construction began in June 2025. The building can accommodate four basketball courts, six volleyball courts and 12 pickleball courts, although not all courts can be used simultaneously. City officials have said the additional space is needed as Copper Sky’s existing facilities have become increasingly booked. The post Maricopa’s new indoor sports facility opens next month appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad7c3175342cf4db8767cc Dems abandon candidate who said MAGA 'more destructive' than Nazis, but she’s stuck on the ballot te 2026-09-18T18:00:17.462Z Dems abandon candidate who said MAGA 'more destructive' than Nazis, but she’s stuck on the ballot A Democrat running for the state legislature in battleground North Carolina remains on the ballot despite her party publicly abandoning her after inflammatory social media posts she made resurfaced. The North Carolina House Democratic Caucus and a county party group both condemned posts by Shelly Headen in which the legislative candidate called for an attack on U.S. soil targeting red states, and compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. But Headen remains a candidate because the filing deadline to drop out of the race was Aug. 20, and the general election ballots are finalized and were sent out to voters starting on Sept. 4. Headen, who is challenging Republican state Rep. John Blust for the House District 62 seat in Greensboro-anchored Guilford County, posted a year ago, "I think our only hope is an attack on US Soil … preferably Alabama, Louisiana … where the stupid people live." WATCH: HUGH HEWITT'S TAKE ON THE HEADEN CONTROVERSY In separate posts, she argued that the damage done by Trump was "getting close to surpassing Hitler," and claimed that the "MAGA cult may be more destructive and evil than the Nazis." Breitbart reported that a Facebook post by Headen which pictured her at a memorial at the Nazis' Dachau concentration camp in Germany, where tens of thousands of people were murdered during World War II, with the words, "This is where Trump supporters belong." Headen denied last week to the Greensboro News and Record that she posted the concentration camp image, and said she believed the image was edited to include the words over a real photo. Her old comments grabbed new national attention earlier this week when the White House Rapid Response account that supports Trump shared them on X and charged that Democrats "ARE SICK PEOPLE!" DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB North Carolina Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley posted on social media a photo of Headen and former Gov. Roy Cooper, the Democratic Senate nominee, and argued, "Roy Cooper still stands with NC Dem who called for the genocide of Republicans. This is against everything America stands for." Cooper's campaign emphasized in a statement, "These remarks are reprehensible – Roy strongly condemns them and all forms of political violence and he believes it’s up to all of us to speak responsibly." Headen, a certified public accountant and small business owner, told WFDD, a public radio station in North Carolina, that she didn't remember making the posts but apologized to those hurt by them. And she added that she understood the party’s decision to drop support for her. But in an interview with The Assembly, a digital-first news operation in North Carolina, Headen defended her posts, describing them as "a few angry moments." "I’ve sacrificed myself just like Jesus sacrificed Himself on the cross, and Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and all the people that put themselves out there to sacrifice for our country," Headen also told The Assembly. "If a few angry moments on social media are the end, then so be it. MAGA will keep winning if we continue with not standing up for what’s right." The Assembly's reporting preceded the move by Democrats to drop support. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER "Shelly Headen’s posts are unacceptable and do not reflect the values we expect of our candidates," the North Carolina House Democratic Caucus said in a statement. The caucus added that it "condemns these comments without qualification and will not support Shelly Headen’s candidacy." The Guilford County Democratic Party said in a statement, "We unequivocally reject and condemn the social media posts by Shelly Headen. These statements violate everything our party represents. Effective immediately, the county Democratic Party is formally withdrawing all financial, operational and organizational support for Shelley Headen’s campaign." Headen earlier this week told Fox News Digital that she's received death threats in recent days, but declined to give any further responses regarding her posts. In an article published Thursday in the Rhino Times, Headen reiterated, "I’ve been getting death threats and now all I want to do is protect myself and my family." "My whole world has been collapsing," she added. And she acknowledged that she took down her social media pages, saying, "I don’t have access to any of my accounts anymore." Republicans have spotlighted the controversy. North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall called Headen's comments "Absolutely disgusting." And the North Carolina House Republicans wrote on X, "Democrat Shelly Headen who is "Running to Restore Human Decency" just posted that she wants an attack on US soil. It is unclear whether Shelly would prefer ISIS or China to attack the United States, but it’s clear she wants an attack." Meanwhile, the popular conservative X account Libs of TikTok argued that Headen "should drop out immediately. She doesn’t belong anywhere public office." The attention over the resurfaced comments comes a week after Headen faced a separate controversy following a move by State House Republicans to release two 2024 Guilford County Sheriff's Office incident reports involving her and her husband, Gregory Thomas Headen. The reports, which identify the alleged domestic offense as physical assault, list Headen as the suspect and her husband as the potential victim. In a statement she released earlier this month, Headen said that during a stressful time in their marriage, she and her husband had "a couple of arguments that escalated." She said that during one argument, her husband grabbed her, causing her to fall backward and hit her head, and that she then called 911. Headen, in her statement, described herself as having experienced abuse. And she argued that Republicans were using a private family matter for political gain. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad7c3075342cf4db8767ba Ihsan Sacko’s golden boot chase afoot with Phoenix Rising in playoff hunt te 2026-09-18T18:00:16.015Z Ihsan Sacko’s golden boot chase afoot with Phoenix Rising in playoff hunt PHOENIX – Rising, coming off last Saturday’s thrilling 2-1 victory over reigning USL Western Conference champion FC Tulsa, are riding a five-game unbeaten streak and are ninth in the Western Conference standings at 33 points, only one point behind the last team in, Lexington SC. FC Tulsa, however, is in a four-way tie at 36 points, meaning that three points separates fourth and ninth place in the conference.   With only six games remaining in the regular season, it is critical that Rising maintain their momentum. To do so, they’ll likely have to keep banking on high performances from Sacko, their French forward, to stay afloat. Sacko has bounced around from club to club for much of his football career. He first played for big French clubs RC Strasbourg Alsace and OGC Nice, then suited up for smaller teams Troyes (France), Cosenza (Italy), US Avranches (France) and FC Thun (Switzerland). At age 29, “Nino” has settled in with Phoenix and has become the oil that runs Rising’s machine this season. “He has been critical (to) us all year,” Rising coach Pa-Modou Kah said. “I think if you look at him, (he is) one of the best players in the league this year.” In 22 appearances this season, Sacko has 12 goals, four assists, 49 shots and 47 chances created. All of those numbers are team-leading. He is the first Rising player to score 12 goals in a season since Daniel Trejo scored 19 in 2023. Sacko is currently tied for second in the golden boot race, which goes to the league’s top goal scorer, and there is a tie for the league lead at 14 goals between El Paso Locomotive’s Rubio Rubin and Colorado Springs Switchbacks’ Khori Bennett. “I knew some moments for when I go up and down,” Sacko said, “and in this moment of my career I am going up. So for me, I just have to stay focused on that and still work out like I usually do.” Sacko’s game is made more impressive by his versatility on the field. He has played at forward, winger and even in the midfield, allowing him to be effective on every play and stay consistent in every game. “He just needs to keep up what he is doing,” Rising goalkeeper Patrick Rakovsky said. “Obviously, I know he has been moving around a lot from middle, right, left, whatever it is. I don’t think there was ever complaining that he was like ‘I want to be there now.’ He’s fully behind the team and he’s basically playing where we need him.”  Sacko’s versatility has helped 10 different Rising players score this season, with seven of them scoring two or more. “I applaud him and his performances and getting all those goals,” defender Collin Smith said. “Whenever we go into these matches, we can just keep looking at each other and keep relying on each other to perform and do better.” Sacko’s dominating season revolves around more than just a race for the golden boot. Rising have been searching for a true scoring anchor ever since Trejo left in 2023.   Forward Rémi Cabral scored a team-leading seven goals in 2024 and six goals last year. This season he plays for FC Tulsa, where he has five goals.  Midfielder Charlie Dennis led the team with eight goals last year. This season, after scoring only once, he was sent on loan to New Mexico United, clouding his future in Phoenix. Even midfielder Hope Avayevu, who led the team in assists, shots and chances created last year, has been unable to maintain his form. Sacko has excelled in all of these offensive categories and is one of  the biggest reasons Rising are still in the playoff chase. A player of his caliber performing at a high level could offer the team an opportunity to lock in a true anchor on offense. Sacko said he doesn’t pay much attention to the golden boot race. “I wasn’t focused on that, I don’t look forward to it,” Sacko said. “I’ll check sometimes to see who is the top scorer, but I am not focused on that. We have an objective to get Phoenix Rising into the playoffs at the end of the season. So if I can help my teammates score a lot of goals, we win the game and take it.” Sacko’s contract is set to expire on Nov. 30,  leaving his future with the team uncertain. “If we can have an agreement with everybody, a good agreement for everybody, why not?” Sacko said when asked if he would return. “And if I don’t have any better, I don’t think I will leave. But the option is on them, not me.” Rising takes on Rubin and El Paso Locomotive on Saturday at home,  The Locos are on top of the Western Conference with 43 points and are riding a seven-game win streak. This match could be critical to both Sacko’s golden boot chase and the Rising’s pursuit of the USL Championship playoffs. PHOENIX – Ihsan Sacko’s chase for the golden boot has been impressive, adding spice to Phoenix Rising’s season, but it’s not the only race grabbing attention.  Rising, coming off last Saturday’s thrilling 2-1 victory over reigning USL Western Conference champion FC Tulsa, are riding a five-game unbeaten streak and are ninth in the Western Conference standings at 33 points, only one point behind the last team in, Lexington SC. FC Tulsa, however, is in a four-way tie at 36 points, meaning that three points separates fourth and ninth place in the conference.   With only six games remaining in the regular season, it is critical that Rising maintain their momentum. To do so, they’ll likely have to keep banking on high performances from Sacko, their French forward, to stay afloat. Sacko has bounced around from club to club for much of his football career. He first played for big French clubs RC Strasbourg Alsace and OGC Nice, then suited up for smaller teams Troyes (France), Cosenza (Italy), US Avranches (France) and FC Thun (Switzerland). At age 29, “Nino” has settled in with Phoenix and has become the oil that runs Rising’s machine this season. “He has been critical (to) us all year,” Rising coach Pa-Modou Kah said. “I think if you look at him, (he is) one of the best players in the league this year.” In 22 appearances this season, Sacko has 12 goals, four assists, 49 shots and 47 chances created. All of those numbers are team-leading. He is the first Rising player to score 12 goals in a season since Daniel Trejo scored 19 in 2023. Sacko is currently tied for second in the golden boot race, which goes to the league’s top goal scorer, and there is a tie for the league lead at 14 goals between El Paso Locomotive’s Rubio Rubin and Colorado Springs Switchbacks’ Khori Bennett. “I knew some moments for when I go up and down,” Sacko said, “and in this moment of my career I am going up. So for me, I just have to stay focused on that and still work out like I usually do.” Sacko’s game is made more impressive by his versatility on the field. He has played at forward, winger and even in the midfield, allowing him to be effective on every play and stay consistent in every game. “He just needs to keep up what he is doing,” Rising goalkeeper Patrick Rakovsky said. “Obviously, I know he has been moving around a lot from middle, right, left, whatever it is. I don’t think there was ever complaining that he was like ‘I want to be there now.’ He’s fully behind the team and he’s basically playing where we need him.”  Sacko’s versatility has helped 10 different Rising players score this season, with seven of them scoring two or more. “I applaud him and his performances and getting all those goals,” defender Collin Smith said. “Whenever we go into these matches, we can just keep looking at each other and keep relying on each other to perform and do better.” Sacko’s dominating season revolves around more than just a race for the golden boot. Rising have been searching for a true scoring anchor ever since Trejo left in 2023.   Forward Rémi Cabral scored a team-leading seven goals in 2024 and six goals last year. This season he plays for FC Tulsa, where he has five goals.  Midfielder Charlie Dennis led the team with eight goals last year. This season, after scoring only once, he was sent on loan to New Mexico United, clouding his future in Phoenix. Even midfielder Hope Avayevu, who led the team in assists, shots and chances created last year, has been unable to maintain his form. Sacko has excelled in all of these offensive categories and is one of  the biggest reasons Rising are still in the playoff chase. A player of his caliber performing at a high level could offer the team an opportunity to lock in a true anchor on offense. Sacko said he doesn’t pay much attention to the golden boot race. “I wasn’t focused on that, I don’t look forward to it,” Sacko said. “I’ll check sometimes to see who is the top scorer, but I am not focused on that. We have an objective to get Phoenix Rising into the playoffs at the end of the season. So if I can help my teammates score a lot of goals, we win the game and take it.” Sacko’s contract is set to expire on Nov. 30,  leaving his future with the team uncertain. “If we can have an agreement with everybody, a good agreement for everybody, why not?” Sacko said when asked if he would return. “And if I don’t have any better, I don’t think I will leave. But the option is on them, not me.” Rising takes on Rubin and El Paso Locomotive on Saturday at home,  The Locos are on top of the Western Conference with 43 points and are riding a seven-game win streak. This match could be critical to both Sacko’s golden boot chase and the Rising’s pursuit of the USL Championship playoffs. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad7c2e75342cf4db8767b1 Big test at Wembley: ASU faces Kansas in Big 12 matchup on London’s grandest stage te 2026-09-18T18:00:14.507Z Big test at Wembley: ASU faces Kansas in Big 12 matchup on London’s grandest stage LONDON – Freddie Mercury rocked Wembley Stadium. Madonna performed before 70,000-plus fans in the same setting. On Saturday, it’s the Arizona State football team’s turn to perform on London’s grandest stage.  In a first-of-its-kind neutral site clash, ASU will square off with Kansas at Wembley Stadium at 9 a.m. MST. The international Big 12 matchup will be the first game in England to feature two FBS teams. The Sun Devils are no stranger to big venues. They played in front of more than 102,000 fans at Kyle Field last week in a 48-20 loss to then-No. 10 Texas A&M in College Station. But this will be a different vibe. Wembley, which seats 90,000, won’t replicate a typical college atmosphere. It will likely feature fans donning jerseys from NFL teams and other college programs. Somewhere in between, the contingent of Sun Devil fans wearing maroon and gold will try to turn the crowd partisan. Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham isn’t taking the opportunity to play in this sports cathedral for granted.   “I’m expecting a fun crowd, like an unbelievable stadium and an unbelievably fun crowd that’s excited to watch college football,” Dillingham said. “Any time you get to play in an iconic stadium, it’s special.” Logistically, the trip presents challenges. With the game fixed in Week 3, instead of being a traditional Week 0 game, the Sun Devils faced a difficult turnaround, playing in College Station last week and flying straight to London with no time back home.  Dillingham noted that Kansas received an extra day of rest, having lost to then-No. 23 Missouri 38-21 on Sept. 11, compared to the Sun Devils, who played the following morning. “There’s no advantage from a football perspective,” Dillingham said. “Week 3 of a season to fly across the country to play a football game. There’s zero positive from a football perspective. The only positive is our kids get an experience that I wasn’t going to rob them of.  “Does it hurt? Yeah, that’s not a positive for my personal career. No way would I want our team to fly across the country, Week 3, to play this game. But this is an experience.” Kansas coach Lance Leipold agreed that it has been difficult to plan for the game. The Jayhawks have faced similar challenges, although they arrived in London later in the week, leaving for England on Tuesday.  “It’s a huge undertaking,” Leipold told reporters Wednesday. “A lot of different people have made this happen. … Our rosters are a lot bigger than the NFL rosters, so there are just more things that are happening.”  Leipold dismissed notions that his team has a competitive advantage, even going so far as to suggest that ASU might have an edge.  “The game ended at close to 11 p.m., and they kicked off at 11 a.m., so I don’t know if it’s exactly as much as we want to make it out,” Leipold said. “I think they got the advantage maybe to come here and get acclimated. I don’t know.” Count Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham among those excited to play at London’s historic Wembley Stadium, which will host the Union Jack Classic between the Sun Devils and Kansas on Saturday. “Any time you get to play in an iconic stadium, it’s special,” Dillingham said. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) Dillingham has never coached a game overseas, so he sought guidance from NFL minds to help him plan for the trip. They discussed topics such as when the team should arrive during the game week.  “I’ve reached out to a bunch of people, not just one, to get advice,” Dillingham said. “Most of the teams that we spoke to that were our side were just saying to get out there fast, especially if you have an away game before. (There’s) no point to fly home and then fly back out two days later … that was the kind of advice I got from people was get out there fast.” Once the Devils touched down in London, Dillingham went straight to work, toiling away in his hotel for nearly two days before stepping outside to prepare for Kansas.  The Jayhawks played well at home in a rivalry game against Missouri – at least for a half. After going into the break tied 14-14, Kansas wilted in the second half, much like ASU did against Texas A&M. The Tigers outscored the Jayhawks 24-7 in the final two quarters in what finished as a 38-21 Missouri win.  Similar to his team, Kansas’ starting quarterback, sophomore Isaiah Marshall, showed flashes of excellence at times, hitting receivers while facing pressure and throwing on the run. In other instances, he showed his youth, making questionable decisions, including tossing two interceptions.  For ASU, the key will be containing Marshall within the pocket, something the Sun Devils executed well, for the most part, against Texas A&M quarterback Marcel Reed last week.  “There’s a little bit of help from playing a guy who’s athletic, but we’ll face a lot of athletic guys this year,” Dillingham said of the experience his team got playing Reed. “That’s kind of what college football has gone to. It’s a lot of athletic guys back there.” On the flip side, Arizona State will look to build on the offensive momentum it has developed in the first two weeks. The connection between sophomore quarterback Cutter Boley and senior wide receiver Reed Harris has proved especially strong. The pair connected for two touchdowns and 189 yards against Texas A&M.  “Reed’s been awesome. He’s a worker,” ASU wide receivers coach Hines Ward said of Harris. “For me, it’s just about trying to help him be consistent, week in and week out.” Harris, a 6-foot-5 wideout, emerged on the national scene last week with a signature performance against the Aggies and now has a chance to star on an international stage. Dillingham has taken note of Harris’ relentless work ethic, noting that it shows up in practice every day.  “He goes full speed. He has one of the higher workloads in every single practice we’ve had. We have to tell him, ‘hey, hey, hey,’” Dillingham said, motioning to calm down with his hand. “I think that shows up on game day with not just how he catches the football, but I think that shows up with his effort, with how he blocks, and I think it’s an all-inclusive reflection of him.” Turnovers proved to be problematic for Arizona State against A&M. The Sun Devils gave the ball away on three straight possessions in the fourth quarter.  With two offenses that have shown some promise early in the season – but with a taste of recklessness – the Devils and Jayhawks could deliver fireworks for the fans in attendance at Wembley Stadium for this historic event.  “They’re very talented. They were very similar to us with second-half turnovers, especially for them, it was in the fourth quarter,” Leipold said of ASU’s performance against Texas A&M. “They played toe-to-toe with them.  “I’m sure they came out of it with a lot of confidence they can play with a lot of people in the country.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad7c2475342cf4db876780 Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters te 2026-09-18T18:00:04.706Z Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer. 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Castro told investigators he was being attacked with a broom and shovel before opening fire, but prosecutors say surveillance footage contradicted his account. During his Friday court appearance, Castro, 52, was wearing an ankle monitor and was instructed by a judge to travel only between Minnesota and South Texas. If he has any altercation with law enforcement, he is required to report it within 72 hours, the judge said. He was then released. ICE OFFICER PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO LYING ABOUT MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING INVOLVING VENEZUELAN MAN Castro was previously held in Texas custody for about 90 days before he was released. He was held for so long partly because Texas Gov. Greg Abbott refused to sign an extradition warrant to hand him over to Minnesota authorities. Castro was booked in Minnesota last week following his release in Texas, his home state. Per his release there, Castro was required to wear an ankle monitor and to surrender his passport and firearms. He faces federal and state charges related to the shooting. ABBOTT TAUNTS FAR-LEFT AG WITH FIERY WARNING OVER ICE EXTRADITION FIGHT: 'SUCH BAD LAWYERS' Prosecutors said Castro lied about the circumstances of the shooting, which occurred during "Operation Metro Surge" — part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. He said he was being attacked with a broom and shovel before he fired his weapon. The law enforcement operation saw thousands of federal agents in Minnesota that resulted in sweeping arrests, as well as the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens. ‘UNPRECEDENTED’: JUDGES REVEAL BEHIND-THE-SCENES COORDINATION ON TRUMP IMMIGRATION CASES Minnesota authorities have battled the Trump administration over who should handle any charges against Castro. The administration contends that only federal authorities have jurisdiction over the case. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad79d475342cf4db876738 Swing state mayor sued as city’s Muslim holiday displays ignite religious-favoritism fight te 2026-09-18T17:50:12.858Z Swing state mayor sued as city’s Muslim holiday displays ignite religious-favoritism fight A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges the city of Dearborn spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on public displays celebrating Muslim holidays while ignoring a Christian resident’s repeated requests for Easter and Passover recognition. Margot Cleveland, a journalist with The Federalist, filed a civil rights lawsuit with the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) against the city of Dearborn and Democratic Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, alleging the city violated her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, including protections involving religious establishment, free speech and equal protection. "The City of Dearborn spent taxpayer money to light up its streets and parks for Ramadan while stonewalling a resident who simply asked that Easter, Passover, and other Christian and Jewish holy days be treated the same way," Robert J. Muise, AFLC co-founder and senior counsel, said in a statement. "That is a straightforward Establishment Clause violation, and the retaliation our client faced for speaking up about it only compounds the constitutional harm." PASTOR UNLEASHES ON DEARBORN AS RELIGIOUS TENSIONS ERUPT AT CITY COUNCIL MEETING: 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH' Dearborn is home to one of the largest Arab American communities in the country. The city had 109,976 residents in the 2020 Census, and 54.5% reported Middle Eastern or North African ancestry. Michigan Avenue, the city’s main thoroughfare, is lined with businesses featuring Arabic-script signs and Middle Eastern cuisine. There are ten mosques within the city limits, according to an online directory. Hammoud was first elected mayor in November 2021, becoming the first Muslim and Arab American to lead the city of Dearborn. "What makes this case especially troubling is that City officials, up to and including the Mayor, responded to a citizen’s respectful request for equal treatment with silence, stonewalling, and outright hostility — including the Mayor’s own words telling a Christian resident he is ‘not welcome’ in his own city," David Yerushalmi, an attorney on the case, said. "Our client is simply asking the City to treat Christians and Jews as equal citizens." Lawyers for Cleveland pointed to a September exchange between Hammoud and Christian pastor Ted Barham as evidence of what they allege is the city’s hostility toward Christians. Barham had raised concerns during a City Council meeting over the city’s decision to rename a street after Usama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News, who has made statements expressing support for Hezbollah. TRUMP INAUGURATION PASTOR SAYS DEARBORN CHRISTIANS 'AFRAID' TO SPEAK OUT IN MUSLIM-MAJORITY CITY In the exchange, Hammoud called Barham a "bigot" and an "Islamaophobe." "And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here," Hammoud told the Christian pastor. "And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city . . . because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence." But Cleveland’s lawsuit alleges that city leaders ignored her requests for the city to also recognize Christian and Jewish holidays after she began seeing "Ramadan Kareem" banners and large crescent moons displayed across the city in spring 2025. A FOIA request revealed that the city had spent $1,500 on Ramadan banners and $5,000 on the crescent-moon display. The Dearborn Police Department was also selling Ramadan-themed T-shirts. In emails to the city, Cleveland said she did not want the city to stop celebrating Muslim holidays but wanted equal recognition for Christian and Jewish holy days. "I much prefer to ensure equality of faith traditions, as opposed to a challenge to the display," Cleveland wrote in an email. MASSACHUSETTS HIGH COURT BLOCKS CITY FROM DISPLAYING CATHOLIC SAINT STATUES HONORING FIRST RESPONDERS Not only did the city allegedly ignore Cleveland’s requests, but in February 2026, it expanded its Ramadan displays, commissioning crescent-and-star lights that were displayed on municipal streetlights across the city. "This initiative reflects who we are as a city," Hammoud said in a statement. Tensions between Cleveland and city officials continued in April, when Cleveland alleges she was told she could attend a community meeting as a resident but not as a journalist. The lawsuit also alleges Hammoud made what it describes as a "snide comment" about residents who criticize the city on social media to monetize their posts. The lawsuit also alleges that in February 2026, the city expanded its Ramadan displays, commissioning crescent-and-star lights for municipal streetlights across the city. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Cleveland pushed back, according to the lawsuit, saying she was simply "a concerned resident who was ignored when I asked for the City to treat Christians and Jews equally." "Despite the repeated requests, they treated her as if she were an outsider and not a full member of the political community," Muise told Fox News Digital. The lawsuit comes during Michigan’s closely watched 2026 U.S. Senate race, with Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who is Muslim and the son of Egyptian immigrants, facing Republican nominee Mike Rogers for the state’s open Senate seat. Religion and antisemitism have become points of dispute in the race, with Republicans and some Democrats criticizing El-Sayed over his association with streamer Hasan Piker, who said the U.S. was worse than al Qaeda "pound for pound, as far as the number of deaths," while arguing that U.S. military actions that kill civilians can amount to acts of terror. At the same time, El-Sayed and his supporters have accused opponents of targeting him with anti-Muslim rhetoric. Fox News Digital reached out to Hammoud’s office and Cleveland’s attorneys for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad79d375342cf4db87672f How CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin's family foundation became a major funder of left-wing activist groups te 2026-09-18T17:50:11.670Z How CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin's family foundation became a major funder of left-wing activist groups CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin's family foundation became a major financial backer of a network of left-wing activist organizations over more than two decades, providing nearly $3.2 million to CodePink while also bankrolling protest groups, legal advocacy organizations and progressive nonprofits, a Fox News Digital investigation found. The foundation, Arc of Justice, is a $54.6 million private foundation formerly known as The Benjamin Fund. A review of its complete IRS filing history found it made nearly 1,500 grants totaling about $24.6 million to organizations involved in anti-war activism, progressive policy, legal advocacy and campaigns involving immigration enforcement, China, Cuba and the Israel-Hamas war. Among its largest recipients were CodePink, Global Exchange, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Grassroots International and Social Good Fund, alongside grants to dozens of other organizations involved in anti-war activism, progressive policy, legal advocacy and progressive media. Arc of Justice provided CodePink more than twice the approximately $1.33 million the group received from the funding network linked to Shanghai-based Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham. A previous five-part Fox News Digital investigation found Singham's network directed at least $278 million into organizations that promoted pro-China messaging. LAWMAKERS THROW OUT 'TROJAN HORSE' ACTIVISTS THEY SAY ARE ENGAGED IN AMERICAN SUBVERSION Arc of Justice has come under scrutiny after California revoked its charitable registration following years of financial compliance failures, though the foundation has been working to regain its standing with California regulators. Benjamin, who co-founded CodePink with Singham’s wife Jodie Evans, has remained one of the group's most visible public faces, frequently leading protests and interrupting congressional hearings. On Tuesday, she was escorted from a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on alleged foreign malign influence after protesting during the proceedings. The Fox News Digital investigation also found the foundation itself has undergone sweeping changes in recent months, with Benjamin stepping down from the board, new leadership taking over and the organization saying it intends to chart a different course for its charitable giving. Arc of Justice began funding CodePink in 2009 and provided grants to the organization in 15 tax years through 2024, totaling $3,195,280. According to the documents, CodePink was Arc of Justice's largest activist beneficiary. Since 2009, the foundation and its predecessor, The Benjamin Fund, also directed about $2.05 million to Global Exchange, the anti-war and social justice advocacy group Benjamin co-founded with her former husband, Kevin Danaher, which has long campaigned against U.S. military intervention and economic sanctions. Arc of Justice also provided about $2.24 million to Grassroots International, which funds grassroots social movements around the world; $1.61 million to Social Good Fund, which provides nonprofit infrastructure and fundraising support for charitable projects; about $1.29 million to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a legal advocacy organization; and about $114,000 to Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), an activist nonprofit. AFGJ has drawn scrutiny over its past fiscal sponsorship of Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian activist group later sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury. Benjamin said Arc's final grant to Alliance for Global Justice was $10,000 in 2022 and that the foundation "was not aware of any specific groups fiscally sponsored by AFGJ" when it made its grants. Through attorney David Levitt, the foundation said both CodePink and Alliance for Global Justice were recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt public charities and that Arc was entitled to rely on that status when making its grants. The grantmaking reached across a much broader activist network. Since 2009, IRS filings reviewed by Fox News Digital show Arc of Justice and its predecessor gave about $492,000 to World Beyond War, roughly $255,000 to the Institute for Policy Studies and about $124,000 to Jewish Voice for Peace. It also gave $110,000 to Grassroots Global Justice and about $90,000 to the Center for Popular Democracy. IRS filings also show Arc of Justice and its predecessor provided about $65,500 to Democracy Now! since 2009, where Benjamin has frequently appeared as a guest over the years. Founded in 2002 with the aim of preventing the Iraq War, CodePink has grown into one of the country's most visible anti-war protest groups, repeatedly disrupting congressional hearings and protests involving senior U.S. officials, including then-Secretaries of State John Kerry and Mike Pompeo. The group has also participated in nationwide No Kings protests, opposed ICE enforcement actions, organized anti-Israel rallies, campaigned against U.S. policy toward China, Cuba and Iran. Earlier this year CodePink led a delegation to Cuba that included Twitch political streamer Hasan Piker. Asked about Arc's long-term funding of CodePink and other activist organizations, Matthew Johnson, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, said sustained financial support can have an impact well beyond the dollar amounts involved. "Small amounts of money can actually go a long way toward impacting the broader media ecosystem... from the perspective of political organization, they may be having an outsized impact on the kind of information that is available to Americans," Johnson told Fox News Digital. Johnson, who testified before Congress Tuesday about how foreign adversaries may use nonprofits and other organizations to shape U.S. public opinion and policy, told lawmakers that CodePink launched its "China Is Not Our Enemy" campaign in 2020 following meetings in Beijing and has since pursued China-focused advocacy and organized travel. The campaign argued the United States should pursue cooperation with Beijing rather than confrontation. CodePink and Benjamin have denied taking direction from the Chinese government. WATCH: Heritage Foundation senior fellow confronts CodePink's Medea Benjamin before House hearing Benjamin told Fox News Digital the grants were intended to support CodePink's anti-war work. "The foundation's donations to CodePink were made to support its anti-war work," she said in an email response. At the House hearing on Tuesday, Benjamin also rejected suggestions that she or CodePink took direction from foreign governments. "I've been an anti-war activist from the days of Vietnam," Benjamin said. "I never had a foreign government tell me what to do." Singham and the organizations he has funded identified in the Fox News Digital report have denied taking direction from the Chinese government, and neither Singham, Benjamin, nor the organizations have been charged with wrongdoing. CHINA EXPERT WARNS BEIJING WANTS AMERICANS — NOT THE CCP — TO SPREAD ITS MESSAGE Arc of Justice was formerly known as The Benjamin Fund, Inc., with California corporate records showing the foundation formally changed its name in November 2019. Benjamin's father, Alvin Benjamin, a prominent Long Island real estate developer who founded The Benjamin Companies in the early 1960s, provided some of the foundation's earliest documented financial backing. The Benjamin Fund's initial 2003 IRS return shows he contributed a partnership interest valued at $683,715 to the foundation, with Medea Susan Benjamin serving as president. Much larger contributions followed. In 2010, the estate of Benjamin's mother, Rose Benjamin, contributed $10,863,060, according to the foundation's IRS filing. Five years later, the Estate of Alvin Benjamin contributed another $15 million, followed by another $8,603,450 in 2019. Medea Benjamin — identified as Susan Benjamin on the filing — personally contributed $1 million to Arc of Justice in 2022, listing a Miami address. Arc of Justice's wealth was largely tied to an investment portfolio that continued to grow while the foundation distributed millions of dollars in grants. Federal tax returns reviewed by Fox News Digital show the foundation's assets grew from $39.63 million at the end of 2020 to $54.64 million in 2024, as it distributed millions of dollars annually in grants. Arc of Justice generated much of its annual income from its investment portfolio, collecting dividends from stocks and mutual funds, interest on cash holdings and profits from investments that had increased in value. In 2023, the foundation reported nearly $2 million in revenue, including $1.11 million in dividends and interest from securities, $166,421 in interest on savings and temporary cash investments and $686,919 in net gains from asset sales. Its investment holdings also produced substantial gains as the portfolio increased in value. In 2020, Arc of Justice reported $12,344,501 in unrealized gains on securities, helping push its year-end assets to nearly $40 million. Over more than two decades, IRS filings reviewed by Fox News Digital repeatedly reported no compensation for the foundation's officers and no highly paid employees, while the foundation directed millions of dollars to outside organizations. After California revoked Arc of Justice's charitable registration, Fox News Digital reported that a new Florida nonprofit using the Arc of Justice name was incorporated at the Miami home of Benjamin's longtime partner, Tighe Barry, raising questions about the future of the foundation and whether its assets or operations were being moved out of California. The address is a modest turquoise home largely obscured by trees — an unassuming setting for an organization tied to a private foundation with more than $50 million in assets. Benjamin and Barry have frequently appeared together at CodePink demonstrations over the years. Levitt later told Fox News Digital the Florida corporation had been created as a "placeholder" while the foundation considered relocating its operations from California, but the move was never completed. He said the California corporation was never formally dissolved, no assets were transferred and the Florida entity "holds no assets and has conducted no business." The foundation has been attempting to get its registration reinstated after recently filing five years of overdue reports covering 2020 through 2024 and paying $1,800 in filing fees and penalties as part of a petition for reinstatement, documents submitted to California regulators show. $54M CODEPINK-LINKED FOUNDATION SHUT DOWN IN CALIFORNIA POPS UP AT RAMSHACKLE MIAMI HOME In the reinstatement petition, Levitt attributed the missed filings to what he described as an administrative misunderstanding over whether the foundation had successfully relocated from California to Florida. He wrote that, during the tenure of the foundation's "former president," who served through the end of 2025, foundation leaders believed Arc was no longer subject to California's charitable registration requirements because it had moved to Florida. The petition says the foundation later appointed a "new president," who discovered the compliance problems in 2026 and began the process of bringing the organization back into compliance. The petition also states that the foundation's directors and officers personally paid the penalty portion of the overdue filing fees. The filings identify Maya Danaher, Benjamin's daughter, as president of the California foundation. Danaher previously served as the foundation's treasurer before becoming president. "As previously reported, I have resigned from the foundation's board, and its new management will set its own funding priorities going forward," Benjamin said. LAWMAKERS SAY THEY ARE STANDING AT THE GATES AGAINST 'TROJAN HORSES' PROMOTING MALIGN FOREIGN INTERESTS It is unclear why Benjamin resigned from the board, why the proposed move to Florida was ultimately abandoned or why the foundation's new leadership decided to shift its grantmaking priorities away from the causes it had supported for more than two decades. Benjamin was not listed as an officer or director of the Florida corporation, where Barry was listed as secretary and registered agent. Its stated goal is blunt: "WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT SOCIAL JUSTICE NON PROFITS," according to the articles of incorporation. Levitt said the foundation's new leadership intends to shift its grantmaking away from the causes it historically supported. "Going forward, the foundation's new management intends to focus its grant-making on domestic childhood enrichment programs and organizations that support the well-being of children, families and individuals in need throughout the US," Levitt said. WATCH: Cuba expert says CodePink acts like a ‘Trojan horse' for communist interests inside the US Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad79cb75342cf4db8766ea In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza te 2026-09-18T17:50:03.396Z In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza Availability of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India's quick-commerce apps. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad777d75342cf4db8766b9 Obama's brother-in-law rejects civil rights, racism argument against college sports overhaul te 2026-09-18T17:40:13.948Z Obama's brother-in-law rejects civil rights, racism argument against college sports overhaul While a bill to add a new swath of regulations to college sports is generating a swell of bipartisan support, some opponents are suggesting that the bill itself is racist. The Protect College Sports Act, pushed by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., has so far survived two key hurdles in the Senate and is on its way to a final vote in the coming week. However, NAACP President Derrick Johnson, the Congressional Black Caucus and Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., one of a handful of Senate Democrats pushing against the bill, have argued that the bill would disproportionately affect Black student-athletes and put their newfound agency in decision-making granted by name, image and likeness (NIL) back into the hands of White coaches and college presidents. SENATE MOVES TO REIN IN COLLEGE SPORTS 'WILD WEST' WITH SWEEPING NEW RULES FOR PLAYERS, SCHOOLS "It's a civil rights issue, that's the reason the NAACP is strongly opposing this bill, because they see it as a civil rights issue," Murphy told Fox News Digital. "I didn't make that up. That's the reality." "The athletes who will be most affected by this bill are largely Black athletes, and the people who will be helped by this bill are largely White coaches and White college sports executives," he continued. "I’m not the one who sees this as a civil rights issue, the NAACP opposes it because they see this as a civil rights issue." The Protect College Sports Act would broadly add restrictions to the transfer portal for student-athletes and create a uniform eligibility framework of five years, recruiting and tampering guardrails that establish when schools or agents can contact or recruit a student-athlete, a federal standard for NIL rules, and a revenue-sharing cap. Proponents of the bill, including former President Barack Obama's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, who is the executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, argued that the bill did not disenfranchise Black athletes. SENATE ADVANCES LANDMARK PROTECT COLLEGE SPORTS ACT, IGNORING SEC AND BIG TEN OPPOSITION WITH CLOCK TICKING "Well, you know everybody is entitled to their interpretation of what's going on," Robinson told Fox News Digital. "I would disagree with that, and I would point out that if we don't fix this system, the same student-athletes they're talking about are not going to be college educated, because you cannot get educated by transferring to four or five different schools. You can't get a college degree doing that, so that's what I would say." Robinson was one of several former coaches who made the trip to Washington, D.C., this week to promote and support the bill. Craig Bohl, executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, told Fox News Digital that the assertion that the legislation had racist undertones was "the farthest thing from the truth." CRUZ AND CANTWELL REFUSE TO BEND TO SEC AND BIG TEN CONCERNS IN REVISED COLLEGE ATHLETICS LEGISLATION "You know, one of the things that has been good for me, you know, working 43 years, coaches care deeply about all our players," Bohl said. "And while I appreciate their convictions on it, it's a misguided statement." "What we're looking at is opportunities for all. We want players to have an opportunity for compensation," he continued. "We want players to be able to have the ability to transfer. We also are looking for some stability with eligibility. We don't need NFL players coming back playing in our game." The Congressional Black Caucus has argued against the bill for months and charged that its members would not support the legislation after the Supreme Court’s decision on the Voting Rights Act earlier this year. "Honestly, some of those concerns initially were over redistricting, and, you know, I'm not solving that problem with this bill," Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., one of the co-leads of the bill, told Fox News Digital. "We're just trying to address the chaos that exists right now in college athletics, where 27-year-olds are playing against 17-year-olds, unlimited transfers, graduation rates are plummeting," he continued. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad777475342cf4db87667b Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households te 2026-09-18T17:40:04.267Z Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad751e75342cf4db87660a Judge denies efforts to end oversight of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as racial profiling of latinos persists te 2026-09-18T17:30:06.190Z Judge denies efforts to end oversight of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as racial profiling of latinos persists This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Arizona Luminaria. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. A federal judge has denied efforts to remove oversight of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, saying the agency continues to show racial disparities in traffic arrests of Latinos — and that there is not enough evidence that efforts to improve would stick without legal monitoring. In his 72-page ruling issued Sept. 10, U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow stressed Sheriff Jerry Sheridan’s role in the department’s racial profiling since the start of the case more than a decade ago, including fighting court-ordered reforms and stymieing investigations. Sheridan was the No. 2 under former Sheriff Joe Arpaio when the county was found out of compliance with federal law. “Then Chief Deputy, now Sheriff, Sheridan in particular was found to have abused his authority over MCSO’s internal affairs process by obstructing and manipulating misconduct investigations and disciplinary proceedings — including those involving himself — to shield deputies and Command Staff from accountability and undermine the enforcement of remedies designed to address the constitutional violations against the Plaintiff class,” the judge wrote in an opinion that mentions Sheridan 30 times. The department declined to comment on Snow’s statements about Sheridan. But the sheriff previously told Arizona Luminaria and ProPublica that he disagreed with Snow. “I was very truthful. To this day, I think he got that wrong about me,” Sheridan said. In his ruling, Snow said it may no longer be necessary for the court to track some areas originally identified for oversight in the 2013 decision, recognizing the “burdens” that go into monitoring certain elements.  County leaders have repeatedly cited costs as they’ve called for an end of court oversight. Maricopa County filed the motion in December, with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office later joining, arguing the violations were no longer occurring. The yearslong federal monitorship of Arizona’s largest sheriff’s office dates back to a 2007 class action racial profiling lawsuit that found the department under Arpaio had violated the constitutional rights of Latinos in the state’s most populous county. Today, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, there are an estimated 1.5 million Latino or Hispanic people living in Maricopa County — all of whose rights are protected under the lawsuit. In 2013, Snow ordered the department to document all traffic stops to detect any patterns of racial bias and to employ additional investigators to probe reports of deputy misconduct. Snow also appointed a monitor to oversee compliance with the settlement. In the 13 years since, the department has yet to convince the judge that its deputies don’t racially profile Latino drivers and that it adequately investigates deputies’ alleged misconduct. In denying the recent motion, Snow cited data showing that sheriff’s deputies in Maricopa County continue to search and arrest Latino drivers at a higher rate than white drivers, echoing the racial disparities that first led to court oversight of the department. “Those disparities remain,” Snow added. A key part of the judge’s analysis results from traffic reports collected by the sheriff’s office. An analysis of those reports on behalf of the plaintiffs by a professor of computer science from the University of California, Berkeley approximates that Hispanic motorists are 40% more likely to be arrested than white motorists, are stopped 30% longer than white motorists and are 2.5 times more likely to be searched than white motorists.  The responsibility is on the defendants to explain the stark disparities for Latino drivers, Snow said. “They have failed to do so.” To end court oversight, the sheriff’s office must be in full compliance with the reforms continuously for three years. An investigation by Arizona Luminaria and ProPublica found that despite the monitor’s annual reviews showing ongoing racial disparities in traffic stops, Sheridan and county leaders continued to press for an end to court oversight.  Arpaio’s wide-ranging, illegal traffic sweeps prompted the lawsuit, known originally as Melendres v. Arpaio, named for Manuel de Jesus Melendres Ortega, a legal resident who was arrested in such a sweep. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office holds a town hall at a community center in Gila Bend, Arizona, in 2025. Credit: Jesse Rieser for ProPublica Under Arpaio, Maricopa County became an early testing ground for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program, which lets local police enforce federal immigration laws. Many Arizonans say abuses from that time, including profiling of Latino motorists, foreshadowed what’s playing out now under the Trump administration’s expanded use of 287(g) and its mass deportation system. The arrests of hundreds of American citizens by immigration authorities since President Donald Trump returned to the White House have prompted widespread accusations of racial profiling. In response, the Department of Homeland Security told ProPublica that agents do not racially profile or target Americans. “We don’t arrest US citizens for immigration enforcement,” wrote spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. The decade-plus of legal oversight of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department, criminal justice experts have said, offers insight into the difficulties of reforming law enforcement agencies charged with endemic racial bias. Sheridan, a Republican, was found in civil contempt in 2016 for denying knowledge of Snow’s court order to stop making illegal immigration arrests. Sheridan has said he was always truthful. He inherited the settlement when he took office in January 2025.  A 2025 evaluation by the monitor found the department complied with more than 90% of the requirements but fell short in the two areas that most directly impact Latino drivers: eliminating racial bias in traffic stops and quickly investigating allegations of deputy misconduct. In trying to end federal oversight, Sheridan and county supervisors argued that racially biased Arpaio-era policies were no longer written department policy and there were few complaints of misconduct by deputies against Hispanic drivers. “MCSO has reformed its policies, improved its workforce, and implemented mechanisms to assure that racial profiling never occurs. This litigation has been a success, and the time has come to allow MCSO to stand on its own two feet, freed of oversight,” the county’s original motion said. Filing a complaint Snow’s original requirements for ending oversight of the Sheriff’s Office include modifying the MCSO code of conduct to keep employees from using county email to denigrate people for their race or skin color, improving record-keeping so unredacted complaints are available to the monitor upon request and implementing a program to determine whether employees are providing appropriate and accurate information about the complaint process. Members of the public who would like to file a complaint against MCSO can do so by contacting the monitoring team or filing a complaint directly with MCSO.  MCSO monitor team: monitormcso@gmail.com 602-812-7513 Complaints to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office can be submitted through its online form, in person at any MCSO facility or through the following methods:  Call: 602-876-5429 or a free 24-hour hotline at 844-887 4483 Text: 602-876-1000 Fax: 602-876-0070 Mail: Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Professional Standards Bureau, 550 W. Jackson St., Phoenix, AZ 85003 Since joining the Melendres case and settlement in 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice had supported Snow’s federal oversight and the reforms. But with Trump back in the White House, an attorney with the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division informed the court in January that the department supported ending oversight. Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chair Kate Brophy McGee and Vice Chair Debbie Lesko, both Republicans, as well as a spokesperson with Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, said they were disappointed by the judge’s ruling. Steve Gallardo, the county’s lone Democrat on the five-member board, has opposed ending oversight, advocating for continued progress toward eliminating racial bias in policing. “The court has maintained an unelected and unaccountable federal monitor over MCSO – creating bureaucracy and regulatory burdens that have cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. That ‘oversight’ comes at the cost of public safety, as the county must pay the monitor and his staff by foregoing other critical services,” said a joint statement from McGee and Lesko.  Following complaints by Sheridan and Republican county supervisors that oversight costs topped $200 million, the court ordered an audit of the sheriff’s office spending. Court findings, shared in 2025, showed that nearly 72% of the sheriff’s office spending was misattributed or misappropriated. Only $63 million was appropriately charged to the settlement, they said.  Officials with the sheriff’s office, however, welcomed parts of the judge’s latest ruling. “We believe MCSO has implemented durable remedies for violations that occurred 19 years and three administrations ago,” Sgt. Joaquin Enriquez said. “We are encouraged that the Court has provided a framework on eliminating portions of the Order that are no longer necessary and focusing compliance efforts on the remaining issues to be addressed.”  Speaking to a Phoenix-area radio station, Sheridan said he saw positive elements of the judge’s order but wondered whether his office could ever satisfy all parties to the lawsuit.   “We at the sheriff’s office feel we’re in compliance with all the” court’s orders, Sheridan told KTAR News. “But the court-appointed monitor does not believe so. It’s a matter of us making a pitch to the court directly, not through the monitor.”  Notably, the judge’s ruling said, there was no evidence that the department would continue to remedy the violations should oversight to ensure Latinos’ constitutional rights end.  Raul Piña in Phoenix’s Encanto Park in 2025 Credit: Jesse Rieser for ProPublica “The record does not support a finding that, absent federal monitoring, Defendants are unlikely to resume the conduct that necessitated the Court’s injunctive Orders,” the ruling stated.  Raul Piña, a member of a court-mandated community advisory board tasked with helping the sheriff’s office rebuild trust with Latinos, said the problems at the department went beyond one specific leader, to multiple systems that have allowed biased policing long-term. To change that, Piña said, you need a broader overhaul. “You can paint the house, but if the foundation is broken you will have the same problem,” he told Arizona Luminaria and ProPublica.  The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, which originally filed the lawsuit on behalf of citizens and legal residents caught in Arpaio’s sweeps, celebrated the current ruling.  “Any other decision would have had a devastating impact on Maricopa County’s Latino residents,” Christine Wee, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Arizona, said in a statement. “The Court’s decision recognizes that any current and future misconduct committed by MCSO will not be tolerated. Simply put, MCSO is not ready for the court-ordered reforms to end.” The post Judge denies efforts to end oversight of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as racial profiling of latinos persists appeared first on AZ Luminaria. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad751b75342cf4db8765eb Joby Aviation’s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis te 2026-09-18T17:30:03.867Z Joby Aviation’s 3,100-mile autonomous flight signals its push beyond electric air taxis An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation's autonomy technology flew across the United States without a human pilot taking control at any point. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad72cd75342cf4db8765bb Michael Rapaport rips NYC Mayor Mamdani during Jewish gathering outside Gracie Mansion te 2026-09-18T17:20:13.849Z Michael Rapaport rips NYC Mayor Mamdani during Jewish gathering outside Gracie Mansion Outspoken actor and comedian Michael Rapaport excoriated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a Jewish gathering outside of Gracie Mansion on Friday. "Zohran the moron is the most divisive mayor in the history of this city by far," the celebrity asserted. "He's a two-bit con man." "His wife is an antisemite. His wife is a racist" as well as "a homophobic," Rapaport said. MICHAEL RAPAPORT CHEERS MACKLEMORE GETTING DROPPED FROM ED SHEERAN'S TOUR, SAYS 'f--- YOU' The mayor's office on Friday responded to Fox News Digital's comment request by referring to remarks Mamdani made when asked earlier this week about the planned gathering. "I welcome them," the mayor said. "They can have a vigil, or I've heard some describe it even as a protest." Mamdani said whatever the gathering "is intended to be, they have the room and space to do so outside of Gracie Mansion." "I think that at the time that they are there I will probably be somewhere else across the city," he said. Rapaport said he is "absolutely considering running for mayor," though he left the door open to backing another candidate if that person would have "a better chance of winning." The next Big Apple mayoral contest is in 2029. MAMDANI MAKES EYEBROW-RAISING CLAIM ABOUT NETANYAHU PROTESTS AHEAD OF NYC VISIT Rabbi Binyamin Krauss, principal of SAR Academy, a Modern Orthodox school in New York City, explained the plans for the gathering in a piece published by The Times of Israel. "On Friday morning, students from SAR, Ramaz, and a number of other schools will stand on East 88th Street and daven. They’ll sing. A few of them will speak. Then they’ll get back on the buses and return to class, two days before Yom Kippur," Krauss wrote. "Here’s what we want students to learn in the three periods this costs: you belong in this city, and when Jews feel unsafe we gather, and we pray, out loud. We express both our vulnerability and our agency at the same time. Showing up is a civic act, one the Constitution protects and one they’ll need for the rest of their lives," he noted. "Our students love this city and they love Israel, and they don’t see a contradiction." MAMDANI'S NEW $4M NYC PUBLIC BATHROOMS AUTO-OPEN DOORS AFTER 10 MINUTES There were also individuals who appeared to be Jewish counter-protesters expressing anti-Israel sentiments near the gathering on Friday. They could be seen with a sign with the messages, "Mayor Mamdani A Friend of Jews While Opposing Israeli Crimes" and, "Anti-Zionism Is NOT Anti-Semitism." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad72cc75342cf4db87659f Second lawsuit this month challenges ICE presence at the polls te 2026-09-18T17:20:12.137Z Second lawsuit this month challenges ICE presence at the polls Signs in English and Spanish direct voters to the polls at the Salt Lake County Government Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) WASHINGTON — A coalition of civil rights groups and union organizations Friday sued the Trump administration to prevent the deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling locations during November’s midterm elections. The suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is the second this month, following comments from top Trump officials citing a federal policy to allow ICE officers to enter polling locations in certain circumstances to conduct immigration enforcement. The groups argue the policy violates the federal law that prohibits “armed men” at election sites, and also causes voter intimidation, which is barred under the Voting Rights Act. Under federal law, “troops” or “armed men” are allowed at polling locations only if “such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.” And the section of the Voting Rights Act the groups cite prohibits “intimidation,” “threats,” or “coercion” against a person for voting or attempting to vote. “The result is predictable: voters across the country—particularly Black, Latino, and Asian voters, naturalized citizens, and members of mixed-status families—are afraid to vote, help others vote, and participate in civic life,” according to the suit.  Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin earlier this month noted that agents could conduct immigration enforcement at polling places. And before U.S. senators this week, FBI Director Kash Patel did not rule out sending FBI agents to polling locations, but said officers would “follow the law.” The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to States Newsroom’s requests for comment Friday.  “We reject this administration’s attempt to desecrate our polling sites by converting them into militarized zones through the unlawful deployment of ICE or any other federal agent,” Kristen Clarke, the NAACP’s general counsel, said in a statement.  NAACP is one of nine groups that filed suit. The rest are Mi Familia en Accion, Asian Pacific American Advocates, the National Urban League, Minnesota 8, the Service Employees International Union, the American Federation of Teachers, the International Union of Painters and the United Food and Commercial Workers International. “Turning the fundamental right of exercising our vote into a high-stakes encounter with the militarized strong arm of the current administration isn’t protection and it isn’t oversight; it’s disenfranchisement, period,” Clarke said. “The NAACP calls on the court to reject this blatant attempt by federal officials to obstruct our elections through tactics pulled straight from the Jim Crow playbook.”  The nine groups are represented by the Legal Defense Fund, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the National Immigration Law Center, Protect Democracy and the Democracy Defenders Fund. 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The warning letter marks an escalation in DHS' tactic of targeting illegal immigrants and problematic asylum seekers or green-card holders by also targeting the attorneys who represent them and seek to help them remain in the U.S. "Asylum offers protection to aliens who have fled their countries due to persecution by the government on account of a protected ground," Percival warned the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) on Wednesday. TRUMP PUTS ASYLUM LAWYERS ‘ON NOTICE’ WITH NEW FRONT IN WAR ON FRAUD "To be eligible for asylum, an alien must show that he is a "refugee" as defined in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A), meaning that he is unable or unwilling to return to his country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." Percival said asylum is discretionary and not guaranteed for someone who believes they are being targeted in their home country, even if they meet the eligibility requirements. "We have been abundantly clear: If immigration attorneys commit fraud for their clients, the attorneys will be fined," Percival told Fox News Digital on Thursday. He warned of a growing backlog of asylum cases clogging up the immigration courts system and warned AILA against exacerbating it, should they then face consequences. "Filing a frivolous asylum application generally renders an alien permanently ineligible for most forms of relief and other immigration benefits ... The Department will vigorously pursue all available remedies against anyone engaging in this conduct," Percival warned in his letter. "We must restore order and accountability to our immigration framework now, or we risk dismantling the humanitarian safety net for those who need it most." In 2025, AILA previously criticized President Donald Trump after he raised concerns over "rampant fraud and meritless claims" in a directive to DHS and the DOJ. AILA officials called the missive "chilling" and rejected that their members are engaged in frivolous litigation or conduct. Fox News Digital reached out to AILA for further comment. Percival wrote Wednesday that an asylee’s persecution must be committed by a "state actor" to be considered by the U.S. system, while adding that private actions against an asylee are potentially valid when that person’s government acts in a way unwilling to confront the persecution. CHICAGO'S DEADLY JUNETEENTH WEEKEND LEAVES 7 DEAD AS TRUMP SHAMES DEM GOV FOR INACTION But he said that carve-out is a high bar, appearing to take a shot at Illinois leaders over the state's persistent crime problems. "[T]his requires an extraordinary showing, as residents of crime-ridden cities like Chicago could easily claim that the government is unwilling or unable to control private actors. To meet the high legal threshold of the government being ‘unable or unwilling’ to control the non-state actor, the alien must establish that the home government has fundamentally breached its basic duty of protection to its citizens," Percival said. DHS DIRECTS ICE ATTORNEYS TO SEEK EARLY DISMISSAL OF LEGALLY DEFICIENT ASYLUM CLAIMS With many of the border-crossers in recent years coming from Central and South America, Percival indicated that conditions in most Western Hemisphere countries are not extreme enough to warrant a legitimate basis for entry into the U.S. under current policy. "Recent trends show that individuals who illegally migrate within the Western Hemisphere generally do so not because they seek a safe haven from persecution but instead primarily due to a variety of non-humanitarian factors, including economic incentives and misinformation about migration policies," he said. He said many such meritless claims are filed to either stifle the ability for the feds to deport them or to secure grounds on which to obtain work permits. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER "Claims that lack a reasonable legal or factual basis and claims filed with an improper motive are improper and will be dealt with accordingly," he said. The warning comes as the Trump administration, more broadly, is conducting nationwide crackdowns on multiple forms of alleged fraud beyond illegitimate asylum claims, including social services fraud, election fraud and other areas. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad706c75342cf4db876502 UA professor fights health gap through Hopi dry farming te 2026-09-18T17:10:04.009Z UA professor fights health gap through Hopi dry farming A University of Arizona professor and Hopi dry farmer is working to close a health and economic gap that leaves some Arizona tribes facing an 80% diabetes rate and a life expectancy 33 years shorter than communities just across the highway. As a young man, Michael Kotutwa Johnson attended the Southwest Indian Bible Conference when his grandfather, Fred Aptvi Johnson, was president. Each time they went, his grandfather bought food for attendees, holding a core belief that no one should go hungry. With that value instilled in him, Johnson has become a prominent activist for tribal health and agriculture. He teaches at UA's School of Natural Resources and the Environment, where he focuses on conservation, including dry farming, a traditional Hopi agricultural method. Dry farming demands a great deal of labor and patience given Arizona's low rainfall, reinforcing Hopi resilience and spiritual beliefs. As one of the oldest tribes in the United States, the Hopi had other places to go, but they ultimately flourished in Arizona. “We don't always have enough soil moisture and therefore sometimes don't even get a crop,” Johnson said. “But it's that process over 3,000 years living in this same place and not being relocated, like a lot of tribes, that's given us our character, identity and shaped our cultural landscape to actually farm in the semi-arid region that only receives 6 to 10 inches of rain a year.” Dry farming “puts the culture back in agriculture,” Johnson said. “I think one of the things that really amazes me is that the Hopi people chose to live there,” he said. Johnson also works as an Indigenous resilience specialist at UA's Indigenous Resilience Center, which is dedicated to finding ways to give back to local tribes after massive land loss. Tucson Spotlight just won a national award for local journalism collaboration. Get the stories that earned it delivered straight to your inbox. Michael Kotutwa Johnson speaks at a University of Arizona event about his work in Indigenous agriculture and dry farming. Courtesy of Michael Kotutwa Johnson. With deep ties to the 22 tribes in the state, Johnson uses his resources to create opportunities. “I just recently was able to get a stakeholder to donate two greenhouses to put them on the lands of the Yaqui and the Salt River to help with their community, to improve the health of their community,” Johnson said. Johnson's work with local tribes is one of the most important aspects of his career. He believes in upholding their right to identity and culture while ensuring the tribes' future health. He works with UA's Cooperative Extension program, which identifies agricultural needs in the community and proactively addresses them. “I specifically work on issues that tribes face when it comes to agriculture,” Johnson said. “Whether it's more traditional agriculture, like Hopi, where I'm from … or whether it's kind of like the farms they have in Gila River and even the Colorado River Indian Tribes where they're producing big-time agriculture, where they grow a lot of cotton, alfalfa, and other vegetables.” The Arizona Institute for Resilience recently published a study highlighting massive Indigenous agriculture production, co-authored by Johnson, that verified the disparity between land management and profit. “A lot of people don't know that, you know, here in the state of Arizona that 66% of the agriculture producers are American Indian and of the 12 million acres that has actually farmed or has cattle production in Arizona, American Indians sit upon 80% of that,” Johnson said. His research also focuses on the economic imbalance of non-native agricultural producers, who make around five times more than Indigenous producers, causing financial opportunities to leave the reservations. Another key part of Johnson's work focuses on health disparities that affect various tribes. He also raises questions about food quality, including the difference between eating traditional versus processed food. “One tribe here in Arizona … has an 80% diabetes rate, which is the highest in the globe,” Johnson said. “Then you have one tribe that has a 52 year old life expectancy rate when right across the highway, it's 85 years old, on a non-reservation.” Michael Kotutwa Johnson holds Hopi corn in his UA office, where he works to expand access to traditional Indigenous food systems. Courtesy of Michael Kotutwa Johnson. Johnson's work with Arizona's tribal nations has grown into community education and outreach efforts outside of tribes. The impact of his work resonated when he first spoke to a group of non-tribal members about the health and economic disparities within tribes, who quickly asked what they could do to help. “The gift that I have for speaking and for getting people together, to work with and collaborate with all people across all races and politics, I realized I was having an impact then,” Johnson said. His reach has grown exponentially over the past four years, during his time at UA and in the community. But he still faces an uphill battle due to his unfamiliar approaches, which many community members have not previously seen. Johnson uses activism, rather than money, to accomplish his goals in agriculture. He believes UA should be serving the public instead of focusing on the economic aspect of development, and says most people view him as a farmer instead of an academic. “It's more about me going out there and putting boots on the ground and becoming visible,” Johnson said. “Because once you leave your community, you have that responsibility to always come back or figure out ways to help them keep going.” Even though Johnson is several hours away from his home on the Hopi Reservation, he takes people there on occasion to create learning experiences. He said his mission in life is to create as many opportunities and choices as possible. “Right now, a lot of times American Indians in this country do not have those opportunities nor do they have the access,” Johnson said. “I'm trying to open those doors. I cannot make you stop eating potato chips, but what I can do is give you an alternative, because at the end of the day, it's all about choice.” Johnson is continuing his work locally while also spreading the word at conferences nationwide, visiting Dickinson College in Pennsylvania last April to lecture about his efforts to revitalize what he calls the American Indian food system. The American Indian food system goes beyond agriculture to include hunting and gathering, and having access to the places where those practices once happened. Rebuilding that access, he said, requires relearning how to relate not just to the environment, but to oneself and to community members. “That's my number one goal, in my lifetime just to try to do that,” Johnson said. Katlyn Vargas is a University of Arizona student and Tucson Spotlight intern. Contact her at katlynvargas@arizona.edu. Tucson Spotlight is a community-based newsroom that provides paid opportunities for students and rising journalists in Southern Arizona. Please consider supporting our work with a tax-deductible donation. Donate to Tucson Spotlight Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad6e2175342cf4db8764ca ‘COVID 2.0’: Lawmakers push back on sweeping health 'police power' in key battleground state te 2026-09-18T17:00:17.844Z ‘COVID 2.0’: Lawmakers push back on sweeping health 'police power' in key battleground state Pennsylvania lawmakers are warning that proposed changes to the state’s public health rules could usher in "COVID 2.0," giving health officials sweeping "police power" over residents during future disease outbreaks. Lawmakers opposing Pennsylvania's planned 502-page rewrite of state health code rules are urging the public to submit comments before the deadline, warning the proposal could serve as a roadmap to unfettered and intrusive restrictions and surveillance efforts, including the reported ability for agency representatives to enter private homes. "This absolutely is COVID 2.0, but it's even worse because [Governor] Josh Shapiro is trying to circumnavigate or skirt the constitutional provision that we the people in Pennsylvania voted to take that kind of power away from the governor," said State Rep. Russ Diamond, R-Lebanon, who is leading the charge against the policy changes. "We were the only state in the nation to reduce our governor's powers by a constitutional amendment after COVID," Diamond said, adding that "surveillance, segregation and quarantine" are areas being assessed. SOVIET-BORN ANALYST EXPOSES HOW PANDEMIC-ERA NEIGHBOR SNITCHING UNLOCKED A 'NATURE OF EVIL' IN AMERICA Pennsylvania voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2021 limiting the duration of a governor’s disaster declaration to 21 days unless extended by the General Assembly. Those emergency powers played a central role in then-Gov. Tom Wolf’s statewide mitigation orders. In the 502-page proposed Regulation 10-242, Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases, the Pennsylvania Department of Health proposes expanding the list of reportable diseases, infections and conditions and updating the rules to reflect changing expert standards. "The Department proposes to add language in this subsection, indicating that the Department or a local health authority may enter an apartment, a building, a health care facility, a school, college or university, or other location as necessary to conduct its investigation under 208 this chapter," one provision highlighted by critics reads. "I don't think that we want a very left-leaning governor with his Department of Health and their henchmen having this kind of police power in Pennsylvania," Diamond said. A spokesperson for Health Secretary Dr. Debra Bogen — who led the Pittsburgh area’s COVID mitigation response — said Shapiro "did not personally propose" the updates and rejected critics’ characterizations. "Any misconstruing of these proposed changes designed to scare Pennsylvanians is inaccurate and disingenuous," Neil Ruhland told Fox News Digital. A Shapiro spokesperson also responded to criticism Wednesday, saying the governor’s philosophy is that "public health depends on trust" and emphasizing that the proposed health regulations are part of a larger effort to update about 200 regulatory areas across state agencies. Lapowsky told Fox News Digital that the public, stakeholders, independent regulators and the legislature can review and respond to the proposed changes. "Once public comment concludes later this month, [Shapiro] will weigh in, and the regulations will be revised accordingly," she said. Lapowsky said Shapiro’s emphasis on public trust includes respecting parental rights. Critics say the proposed regulations could give health officials greater authority over certain disease-control measures involving children, including masking. Lapowsky added that the governor believes "government should work closely with the people it serves." GOV SHAPIRO SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER ‘LIFESAVING REPRODUCTIVE CARE’ IN ESCALATING ABORTION BATTLE Ruhland said the Pennsylvania Department of Health began analyzing and proposing regulatory updates several years ago and that the regulations in question are 25 years old and need modernization to "better support evolving public health needs and manage dangerous disease." While the proposed regulations do not themselves enact a new mask mandate, they would broaden disease-control language beyond "surveillance," a term central to litigation over Pennsylvania’s statewide school masking order during the pandemic. Pennsylvania House Minority Leader Jesse Topper told Fox News Digital that although the proposed regulations directly affect Pennsylvania, Americans elsewhere should also pay attention. "Everybody in the United States was impacted by COVID one way or another," said Topper, R-McConnellsburg. "We were one of the worst locked-down states in the entire nation. And we had one of the worst death rates from COVID… We don't want unelected bureaucrats making those decisions. We need to follow the [Commonwealth] Constitution, which says, ‘Hey, you can declare a public health disaster emergency if you want. But after 21 days, the legislature gets to say whether you can continue that or not’." SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER State Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Gettysburg, who along with Diamond led demonstrations against lockdown policies during COVID, told Fox News Digital that the proposed regulations are an "end-round" around voters. "Pennsylvania endured enough government overreach during COVID. We will not go back," said Mastriano, whom President Donald Trump nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to Slovakia. Jason Richey, an attorney and the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, also dubbed the changes "COVID 2.0." "These are even worse than the COVID rules... [DOH] can look at your medical records. They can enter any building and go in without a warrant to do an investigation. They can even take your kid from school and talk to him privately without your consent," Richey said in a video recorded outside a Pennsylvania Department of Health office in Lehigh County last week. Beyond the public health implications, Topper said he is concerned that the proposed regulations would expand government authority. 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Experts now say those authorities could also give the executive branch significant leverage over frontier AI companies if one of their systems posed catastrophic national security risks. Exactly how the government could use DPA's powers against a dangerous AI system remains largely untested, but national security and legal experts who spoke with Fox News Digital described a range of existing authorities that could apply — including laws in the act that encompass cyberattacks, exports, federal contracts and civil liability. THE AI REVOLUTION COULD BECOME A NATIONAL SECURITY DISASTER IF WE AREN'T CAREFUL "The authorities could be a little clearer," James Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Fox News Digital. "But you could probably cobble together a solution using the legal authorities we have now." The question has taken on new urgency after leaders at some of the nation's most powerful AI companies issued stark warnings this week about increasingly capable models and backed calls to slow the pace of development so safety measures can catch up. Trump said this week that the administration already has "tremendous criminal and regulatory power" over AI companies as he pushed back on calls from industry leaders for new guardrails on increasingly powerful models. That largely remains because Congress recently extended most of the DPA's authorities, which were set to expire on Sept. 30, through Dec. 11, 2026. This is sure to set up another reauthorization fight later this year, right before the power of the legislative body could change after November's midterms in the new year. TRUMP PLAN TAPS US FIRMS TO FIGHT FOREIGN CYBERCRIME Lewis said the cyber threat has already changed. Finding vulnerabilities that once took months can now take days or even hours, he explained, while AI can help attackers chain smaller weaknesses together into more damaging attacks. "The threat itself is not new," Lewis said, recounting a recent conversation with a senior official from a Five Eyes intelligence partner. "We've known about this for a while, but people weren't taking it seriously." AI, he said, has "changed the landscape dramatically." The Trump administration has already begun building a framework to identify when those capabilities become dangerous. A June executive order directed federal agencies, including the NSA and CISA, to establish classified benchmarks for advanced cyber capabilities and determine when an AI system should be designated a "covered frontier model." The order also calls for a voluntary framework through which developers can give the government early access to covered models before their release — while expressly stopping short of creating mandatory federal licensing or pre-clearance for frontier AI. But knowing a dangerous capability exists is only the first problem. The next question is what Washington can actually do about it. One potentially powerful use of the Defense Production Act would come before an AI system ever caused damage: forcing companies to tell the government what they are developing. James E. Baker, a former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces who previously served as a legal adviser to the National Security Council, pointed to the DPA's broad information-gathering authority. "What you could use the DPA for is to require reporting, and that's the first step to making sound policy," Baker told Fox News Digital. "You can have a debate about whether there should be regulation and what the regulation should look like. But you really can't argue against knowing what's happening." "That's the first place to start: know what's happening, and then you can react with either a policy prescription, a legal prescription or nothing at all." The DPA's limits, however, are just as important. Paul Rosenzweig, a lawyer and former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, said the law was principally designed to ensure the government could obtain goods and services needed for national defense — not to give Washington broad power to stop private companies from producing them. "The Defense Production Act is more about mandating the production of things for the United States rather than preventing the production for the general public," Rosenzweig told Fox News Digital. Where it could prove particularly useful, he agreed, is giving the government access to information. "What it does give them, I think, and this is the best part about it, is it does give them a pretty good handle for demanding more information about a defense-sensitive kind of product, which frontier AI certainly could be reasonably characterized as," Rosenzweig said. If the DPA could help Washington understand what AI companies are building, other existing authorities could potentially come into play depending on the threat. Export controls can restrict sensitive technology from reaching foreign adversaries. Government contracting rules can impose conditions on companies seeking federal business. And criminal laws continue to apply when AI is used to commit crimes. The June executive order, for example, directed the attorney general to prioritize enforcement of existing federal criminal laws against people who use AI to illegally access or damage computer systems. Trump has separately directed national security agencies to expand their use of frontier AI while requiring systems used by the military and intelligence community to remain controllable and preserve clear lines of human accountability. "I think it's important to understand that there's no broad AI exemption from generally applicable law," Rosenzweig said. Both federal and state governments already have "a host of legal authorities" potentially applicable to frontier AI, he said, ranging from tort liability and privacy rules to consumer protections and criminal law. But Rosenzweig cautioned that no one knows precisely how well that patchwork would hold up in a true AI emergency because it has never been tested. The uncertainty becomes even greater if an AI system causes damage on its own. If a model autonomously hacked a hospital, company or critical infrastructure network, for example, Rosenzweig said courts would have to determine whether the developer was negligent, whether a stricter product liability standard should apply and whether the damage could even be reliably traced back to a particular AI system. "I tend to think that liability is going to be difficult to establish early on," Rosenzweig said. "Right now, that's not where I would base my deterrence model." That uncertainty points to the limits of the government's existing toolkit. The laws already on the books give federal and state authorities multiple avenues to respond to dangerous uses of AI, but many have never been tested against a system acting with increasing autonomy. For now, Rosenzweig said, that leaves policymakers applying laws written for other threats to a technology evolving faster than the legal system around it. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad6e1d75342cf4db8764af WATCH: Ilhan Omar denies feds have contacted her after border czar Homan confirms 'criminal' investigation te 2026-09-18T17:00:13.619Z WATCH: Ilhan Omar denies feds have contacted her after border czar Homan confirms 'criminal' investigation Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told Fox News Digital she has not been made aware of any criminal investigation into her after White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investigating allegations involving Omar. "No, they have not," Omar said after being asked if the DHS had reached out to her about any investigation. Homan confirmed that there is an "ongoing criminal investigation" into the Minnesota Democrat on "The Sunday Briefing." Homan declined to give comment on whether the federal government had evidence that Omar committed immigration or naturalization fraud — a popular allegation against Omar that has prompted numerous calls for a probe. Homan declined to give specifics on what the investigation is centered on. HOMAN CONFIRMS 'CRIMINAL' INVESTIGATION INVOLVING ILHAN OMAR, SAYS HE KNOWS 'THINGS ARE GOING ON’ When asked directly whether Homan was confirming an investigation involving Omar, Homan replied, "I'm confirming that ICE is, yeah — look, I said months ago that there's something that's been reported and needs to be looked at." Fox News Digital asked Omar for her response to the allegations, particularly the claim that she married a man who critics allege is her brother as part of a scheme to obtain citizenship in the U.S. "The right wing has always had this s--- going, so I don't really worry about it," Omar said about the allegations. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad6bc275342cf4db876443 'Leftist delusions' face reckoning as one of America's biggest colleges makes major shake-up te 2026-09-18T16:50:10.900Z 'Leftist delusions' face reckoning as one of America's biggest colleges makes major shake-up Texas’ flagship public university is ending new enrollment in three majors focused on gender, sexuality and race in a move that is being hailed by many conservatives as a major victory. Students applying to the University of Texas at Austin can no longer select Women’s and Gender Studies, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies or African and African Diaspora Studies as majors, the institution has confirmed. The move follows a slew of other universities dropping similar majors and heated internal deliberations at UT Austin about whether to keep theirs. "In recognition of the changing degree offerings in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, the University is no longer enrolling new students in three majors: Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies, and Women’s & Gender Studies," a university spokesman told Inside Higher Ed. "So, as you might expect, those majors have been removed from the University’s admissions applications to avoid new students enrolling in majors that are changing. Students currently enrolled in those majors will be able to complete their degree," the statement continued.  LIBERAL FACULTY STILL HUGELY OUTNUMBER CONSERVATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: REPORT "I don’t know the particulars of UT Austin’s programs. But this news is unsurprising. Across the Anglosphere, ethnic and sexuality studies have long been captured by political activists," Timur Kuran, a professor of economics and political science at Duke University, wrote on X. "Other state universities, and even private ones, will follow." Low enrollment has been part of the broader debate over the programs, although UT Austin has not publicly said it was the reason for ending new enrollment in the three majors. Earlier this year, the Austin American-Statesman reported that the university had just 307 students enrolled across the entirety of African and African diaspora studies, Mexican American and Latino studies, women and gender studies and American studies, citing institutional data. That represents less than 1% of the 44,315 undergraduates who were enrolled at the university in Fall 2025. UT Austin, which is one of the largest universities in the nation, has also faced growing pressure from Republican state and federal officials over how it handles race, gender and other politically sensitive subjects. The University of Texas System has reviewed courses on gender identity to assess compliance with state and federal law and alignment with Board of Regents priorities. An internal email obtained by the Austin American-Statesman indicates that, while the majors may be on the way out, much of the coursework could remain. The plan appears to be to consolidate the defunct majors into a single offering. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES TITLE VI INVESTIGATION INTO DEI PROGRAMS AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY "Gender and ethnic studies have transformed the study of the humanities and social sciences, and now they are what they are," Lisa Moore, the university’s chair of women and gender studies, said prior to the consolidation announcement. "We can’t unknow what we know… It’s just not the case that we can believe that only a small slice of human beings are responsible for everything that’s good about the world." Conservatives, unsurprisingly, have a less rosy view of the field. Steve McGuire, a fellow at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, called axing the majors "the pedagogically responsible thing to do." "Excellent news. These programs are not ‘viewpoint diversity.’ They are ridiculous Leftist delusion[s] that have no place in truth-seeking institutions," J.D. Haltigan, a research fellow at the Centre for Heterodox Social Science, wrote on X. "They should be abolished entirely from every institution of higher-learning." TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PROPOSES STRIPPING TAX-EXEMPT STATUS FROM SCHOOLS USING RACE-BASED PROGRAMS Some on the right see this as a sign of things to come. "Every red state should follow suit with their universities," independent scholar Varad Mehta wrote on X. Indeed, a number of universities in red states have already scaled back similar programs. Texas A&M University, Wichita State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Toledo are among the institutions to make such cuts. UT Austin did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Friday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad696e75342cf4db8763a7 Trump Calls A.I. Fears a Hoax. Inside the White House, the Debate Is More Complex. te 2026-09-18T16:40:14.355Z Trump Calls A.I. Fears a Hoax. Inside the White House, the Debate Is More Complex. The president seems driven chiefly by the sense that A.I. is the way to economic growth, and nothing can be allowed to stand in its way. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad696875342cf4db87639b Pima County tightens NDA rules after Project Blue backlash te 2026-09-18T16:40:08.736Z Pima County tightens NDA rules after Project Blue backlash Pima County supervisors tightened rules on non-disclosure agreements tied to economic development, requiring public disclosure of NDA materials 90 days before any board action, in a move sparked partly by secrecy surrounding the Project Blue data center proposal. The county's NDA with Amazon for Project Blue, a proposed 290-acre data center near the Pima County Fairgrounds, drew sharp criticism after its terms were largely kept from the public, and the Tucson City Council later voted to reject the project outright. Supervisors also voted during their Sept. 8 meeting to expand the economic development due diligence process to include large-scale water and power users. Both changes were approved 4-1, with District 4 Supervisor Steve Christy opposing. The NDA policy change means the county will send letters to each party it's engaged with in a non-disclosure agreement, detailing the changes, including timeframe limits for the agreements. It will also require public disclosure of materials in the county's possession related to the topic covered in the NDA, released 90 days before any action requested by the Board of Supervisors or other county bodies like the Planning and Zoning Commission. The letters will also ask NDA holders to confirm they want the agreement to remain in place, with no response within 30 days terminating it. Supervisors receive quarterly reports on the county's NDAs during their meetings, but those discussions happen in executive session, closed to the public. The county does not enter into unilateral NDAs, and any changes to agreements must be discussed with the county administrator and county attorney's office. County policy also requires the county administrator to report to supervisors on the scale of a project and its NDA once the agreement's timeframe expires, which defaults to 180 days, if the other party requests a one-year renewal for board approval. The change also clarifies the administrator's role in that process. Tucson Spotlight trains the next generation of Southern Arizona journalists and publishes their work free for everyone. No paywalls, no corporate backing — just readers who believe this community deserves better local news. Pima County supervisors approved new NDA and due diligence rules Sept. 8, prompted partly by the secrecy surrounding Project Blue. District 3 Supervisor Jennifer Allen said she does not support the use of non-disclosure agreements in government. While she said they make sense for negotiating purchase agreements, she called obscuring information from the public and reducing transparency "problematic." “I think this policy is a great step towards putting in place transparency and creating some process by which we get a little bit of the NDA can be retained, but setting some clear communication about what that process is and when it ends and what can and cannot be obscured,” Allen said. The board also expanded due diligence requirements for economic development projects, requiring a comprehensive project profile report with detailed information from proposers. The changes extend the process to anyone who uses more than 7.48 million gallons of water per month, the threshold for a large-scale water user, or who upgrades or builds a substation with an input voltage of 115 kilovolts or greater. The board held a hearing and unanimously approved a request by Tucson Electric Power for a 138-kilovolt substation that falls under that criteria. Despite several questions from residents, officials said the substation is unrelated to Project Blue. Allen suggested the due diligence policy borrow from the Pima County Health Department's data center framework, which calls for analyzing a project's pre-construction, construction and operations phases, not just within the project's bounds but also its cumulative impact on the region. County Administrator Jan Lesher called the health department's framework the county's "gold standard" template for other departments working with large projects. District 5 Supervisor Andrés Cano said he learned that several county staff members were "encouraged to refrain" from providing technical expertise on Project Blue. Lesher responded that unifying county information into one response template would help address that, along with potentially putting together a "minority report" if possible. Allen said data centers are drawn to Arizona because of light regulation and called for the county to step up and handle that analysis in the absence of stronger rules. “This policy is a step towards ensuring that we are doing that analysis. I think it creates the space for departments to know that that analysis is encouraged and it is now structured and codified in policy and we want to know their analysis for what is in the four corners of the project,” Allen said. “I think it's a really important policy to make sure that we are doing the due diligence to understand the information that we don't get from the absence of a larger regulatory environment so that we get impacts on land, air, water, public health, culture, history and the things that we need to protect and the things that make us the community that we love.” Supervisors also approved a proposed 2027 fiscal year budget of more than $33 million for the Regional Affordable Housing Commission program. The budget passed 3-1, with Christy opposing and District 2 Supervisor Matt Heinz abstaining. That's an increase from fiscal year 2026, when the county directed $21 million toward building more affordable housing and an additional $3.5 million toward keeping others in affordable housing. That funding brought a total increase of 618 housing units, including 23 for transitional housing for the homeless, with 1,239 more units in development and 910 households able to remain in housing. The additional funds will include $5 million to construct more housing and $3.7 million to help keep people housed. Tom Litwicki, chair of the county's regional affordable housing commission, praised the county for "historic" investments in affordable housing, urging consideration of an additional $1 million from the general fund that the commission unanimously recommended. Litwicki said rising interest rates are driving up construction costs, while a shrinking number of vouchers assigned to such projects is reducing rental support statewide, along with the state's low-income housing tax credits going unrenewed. The board took no action on the additional $1 million. Ian Stash is University of Arizona alum and freelance journalist in Tucson. Contact him at ianjgs16@gmail.com. Tucson Spotlight is a community-based newsroom that provides paid opportunities for students and rising journalists in Southern Arizona. Please consider supporting our work with a tax-deductible donation. 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"I was shocked and heartbroken to hear that the man responsible for our son and daughter-in-law's death, the driver of the 18-wheeler that they collided with, that he was a part of Biden's catch-and-release policy," angel mom Elizabeth Carter told "Hannity" Thursday. Carter's son, William Micah "Billy" Carter, 25, and his wife, Jennifer Lynn Lower Carter, 24, were killed in Nov. 2025, when their Subaru struck a tractor-trailer that had jackknifed across both lanes of U.S. Highway 20 in Oregon. The couple had been married for just 16 days. WATCH: 'LIFELONG DEMOCRAT' ADMITS SHE IS ‘ASHAMED’ OF PARTY AFTER SON KILLED IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRASH The truck's driver, Indian national Rajinder Kumar, was charged following the crash and has pleaded not guilty. Federal immigration authorities who later took him into custody say Kumar entered the U.S. illegally near Lukeville, Arizona, in Nov. 2022 and was released by the Biden administration, pending immigration proceedings. He later received work authorization and a CDL issued in California, according to Houston's FOX 26. "If it weren't for that, our son and daughter-in-law would still be alive," Carter said, pinning blame on both federal and state policies that made the tragedy possible. The heartbroken mother's comments came after speaking on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, where she pleaded for lawmakers to make a change to immigration policies. ICE LAUNCHES CDL FRAUD TIPLINE AS DHS HIGHLIGHTS DEADLY CRASHES INVOLVING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS "[My son and daughter-in-law] lost the Russian roulette game our government is forcing them to play," she said. "We allowed 10 million people in under Biden. How is there a different suggestion as to how to process them other than the same way they came into the country, en masse, leaving?" "I have to say, as a lifelong Democrat, I am ashamed of what my party is doing." Carter's husband, Dennis, also voiced frustration Thursday, focusing his criticism on policies that allowed Kumar to obtain a CDL. "Just because someone is incompetent and can't do the job that they wanted to do, just because they got here, that doesn't mean, ‘Okay, they're here, we should give them a job that they can't do and just turn them loose on the road,’" he told "Hannity." Dennis identified himself as a lifelong Republican and also offered a contrast to his wife's political background, saying their marriage demonstrates that political differences do not have to become personal divisions. "We have learned that the two parties can exist in the same household, and we actually get along," he said. Elizabeth agreed, saying the couple knows "how to disagree without tearing each other apart" and instead tries to better understand the issues on which they differ. Elizabeth also imparted a challenge to the Democratic Party during her appearance, pleading for them to "grow up" and start communicating with ICE at the state level. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad671375342cf4db876350 China firm gave Iran lifeline to collect Hormuz tolls before pulling plug amid US warning te 2026-09-18T16:30:11.347Z China firm gave Iran lifeline to collect Hormuz tolls before pulling plug amid US warning Iran’s sanctioned Persian Gulf Straits Authority (PGSA) regained secure online access for four days after a Shanghai-based internet security firm provided and then revoked its web credentials, enabling Tehran to vet vessels, collect Strait of Hormuz tolls and operate despite U.S. digital restrictions, global internet monitors said. TrustAsia issued an automated domain-validated certificate, a routine process that verifies control of a website domain through server checks and typically does not involve manual vetting or background checks.  The move prompted U.S. sanctions experts, including Jeremy Paner, a partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, to urge TrustAsia to review its compliance program before offering further services to the IRGC-linked maritime authority — with Paner warning them to act "before it is too late."  The PGSA first said its website was disrupted Aug. 10 because of "the enemy's political influence on the internet service provision systems," according to a post on X. IRAN REQUESTS TALKS WITH US AS WHITE HOUSE WARNS 'VIOLENCE WILL BE MET WITH VIOLENCE' NetBlocks CEO Alp Toker told Fox News Digital that the authority had lost its web security credentials after the entity was added to the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list on May 27. The loss of standard SSL/TLS certificates, Toker said, made the PGSA website inaccessible using standard browsers. This forced shipping firms to use unencrypted connections that, according to Toker, could leave their data vulnerable to interception. While no data breaches resulting from the use of these connections have been made known, and there are no known instances in which a shipping firm’s data was intercepted and used to its detriment because of the certificate expiration, Toker said the site’s inaccessibility resulted in a shift to what he described as "insecure protocols." "The digital transparency records are authoritative on this," he said, adding that the measure forced the traffic into a format that could be readily intercepted. "This is a class of vulnerability open to government exploitation, rather than a corporate breach or personal data leak." Toker claimed this could make it easier for authorities to read communications sent through the platform, potentially identifying shipping firms collaborating with the PGSA. TRUMP SAYS IRAN WILL PAY — WHAT IT TAKES TO END THE WAR REMAINS UNCLEAR "The net result was that the website was more difficult to access, because most web browsers strongly encourage the use of secure HTTPS," Toker said, adding that any form submissions could have been easily "eavesdropped on because they're no longer encrypted in transit."  "The mentioned issue has been resolved, and the secure domain https://pgsa.ir is now once again available for submitting requests using any browser," the PGSA said six days later on Aug. 17 and in another post shared on X.  "If the issue recurs in the future, the HTTP domain will again be temporarily available using the Firefox browser." Toker confirmed that Iran had turned to Shanghai-based certificate authority TrustAsia Technologies, which he said issued new digital security credentials to the PGSA despite the U.S. sanctions and restoring secure access to its website.  "Iran’s IRGC extorts vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz through the so-called Persian Gulf Strait Authority," the Treasury Department said in May when designating the entity, adding that the PGSA "spearheads an Iranian-controlled scheme that flagrantly violates international law and U.S. sanctions." "Anyone cooperating with the so-called strait authority may be providing support to and receiving services from the IRGC, which ultimately benefits from this attempted extortion, and may therefore be exposed to sanctions risk," the Treasury Department warned. The Chinese firm bills itself as a "leading and professionally certified certification authority in China with its focus on trusted, secure and cryptographic communications in the digital world." Its mission, it says, is to "Build trust everywhere in the digital world." "Almost all of these root authorities do business with the U.S., so they tend to comply with U.S. sanctions," Toker said. But TrustAsia, he noted, had "gone its own way, building a China-first certificate infrastructure that sidesteps the West." Toker said TrustAsia had "simply gone ahead and issued Iran's PGSA with a new certificate, and Iran was once again collecting revenue from ships passing the Strait via its secure online portal." TRUMP CALLS ON ARAB NATIONS TO SIGN ABRAHAM ACCORDS Paner warned that U.S. authorities would have enforcement powers over such actions. "The U.S. has incredibly broad authority to impose sanctions on non-Iranian companies that provide any sorts of services to sanctioned Iranian companies," he told Fox News Digital. "Many times, that authority will be abbreviated or explained as being providers of material support to sanctioned Iranian companies. But in fact, any level of services whatsoever could be the basis for the United States imposing sanctions against the company for providing services to Iran." "Restoration of the certificate is unequivocally sanctionable," Paner warned. "Restoring the certificate is/was a service provided to the PGSA, which can be the basis for imposing sanctions pursuant to Executive Order 13224, as amended. "That authority does not in any way require that the service be "knowingly" provided to the PGSA. In other words, the automated nature of the service is irrelevant and does not make the service any less sanctionable," the lawyer added. In a statement to Fox News Digital on Aug 20, a spokesperson for TrustAsia confirmed that the firm issued a "Domain Validated TLS certificate for pgsa.ir." "Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention," the firm said before clarifying that "DV certificates are issued through automated validation of control over the requested domain names." IRAN ACCELERATES EXECUTION CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANTI-REGIME ACTIVISTS AMID INTERNET CENSORSHIP "This process does not verify or assert the legal identity, affiliation, or sanctions status of the entity operating or benefiting from the domain. "As a result, the relationship described in your inquiry was not identified during the automated issuance process." Following the firm's review, TrustAsia said it "added the entire pgsa.ir domain namespace to our restricted-issuance list to prevent further issuance or renewal. " "We also expect to complete revocation of the existing certificate within this week," the spokesman said on Aug. 20. These actions are precautionary compliance and risk-control measures. They should not be interpreted as a finding that the certificate was technically misissued, TrustAsia said. Toker confirmed the TrustAsia certificate's privilege had been withdrawn on Aug. 21 at 12:15:25 UTC. "This usually means the issuer has taken action," he said. The internet expert clarified that the revocation will gradually be coming into effect, with the firm "signaling that the PGSA certificate should no longer be trusted, and they're distributing this notice that privilege is withdrawn, usually meaning customer misuse or breached terms of use." "The secure website will stop working in most browsers, unless the owners can find a certificate authority that's willing to issue a new certificate," Toker said. IRAN’S UNSEEN SUPREME LEADER BECOMES WEAPON IN ESCALATING POWER STRUGGLE, EXPERTS SAY After reviewing TrustAsia's statement, Paner also said that OFAC would expect the company to "use the discovery as an opportunity to enhance its compliance program before it is too late." The former OFAC official clarified that Iran's revenue collection in the waterway would likely draw high-level scrutiny in Washington. "Iran's attempt to extort the world in the movement of oil through the Strait of Hormuz is of the utmost importance to OFAC, which is the agency that implements and enforces U.S. economic sanctions. Because major U.S. web browsers currently recognize TrustAsia’s root certificates, American systems would have automatically trusted the sanctioned Iranian portal. Toker claimed the Treasury Department could have found TrustAsia in violation of sanctions for providing material assistance to a blocked entity, potentially forcing tech giants such as Google and Microsoft to revoke trust in TrustAsia. There is no evidence that this process had begun or was likely to occur. "This could have splintered the global chain of trust and potentially render much of the Chinese web inaccessible from the West," Toker warned. IRAN IS NOT A NORMAL NATION YOU CAN MAKE DEALS WITH; IT’S A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT Paner clarified that the certificates authenticate the site, boosting its credibility, and suggested TrustAsia should have weighed the risks of working with sanctioned entities. "There's always reputational risk involved in any company that decides to do business with the IRGC." "If I were advising TrustAsia, I would at minimum immediately identify all other IRGC companies receiving services." Paner added that this latest situation aligned with broader warnings from administration officials. "I think this dovetails pretty nicely with Secretary Bessent's comments about how the coming sanctions are going to be unlike any that has come prior. Sanctions require a careful balancing of the costs and the benefits. "When it's a Chinese tech company providing necessary services to the IRGC, I'm confident that the U.S. government is going to forego any sort of balancing in that regard." The United States on Aug. 24 had sanctioned nearly 60 Iran-linked individuals, entities and vessels and expanded the threat of secondary sanctions, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. These did not include TrustAsia. Bessent described the measures as part of an "economic onslaught" targeting Tehran’s global financial networks under "Operation Economic Outcast."  A Chinese Embassy spokesperson also said in a statement: "I am not aware of the specifics you mentioned. I have no information to provide." Fox News Digital reached out to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and The White House for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad64b675342cf4db8762ca Houston Cougars vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders Friday night preview and over 53.5 prediction te 2026-09-18T16:20:06.992Z Houston Cougars vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders Friday night preview and over 53.5 prediction One of my favorite things about college football as the season goes on is that we get it on multiple days. Right now, it is pretty much only on Friday and Saturday. However, as the season gets further into it, we see games on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and the NFL fills in the rest. I’m excited to see what happens tonight, as there is a Friday game between two top teams as Houston takes on Texas Tech. The Houston Cougars come into tonight’s contest with a 2-0 record and a ranking of 22nd in the nation. They are one of those teams that are good, but probably not quite good enough to make the college football playoffs. My guess is that they end up with some sort of solid Bowl Game. Before they get there, they have a long way to go. The team has had two games so far, with the first against Oregon State, which is a decent but not great team. Last week’s game was against the Southern Jaguars. Houston has been impressive on the gridiron offensively. Their quarterback, Conner Weigman, has looked great in his first couple of games, throwing for 425 yards and four touchdowns. He does have one interception. They also have gotten quite a bit of production from their two primary running backs, Makhi Hughes and Reshaun Sanford. They have combined for 242 yards and four touchdowns over 40 rushing attempts. IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A BIG 12 WINNER NOT NAMED TEXAS TECH OR BYU, CONSIDER THE HOUSTON COUGARS The Texas Tech Red Raiders are one of those clubs that is borderline for the College Football Playoff race. They will need some big wins in order to get into the race officially. As of right now, the team is 2-0 and currently ranked 13th in the nation. They faced Abilene Christian in their first game of the season and won 33-10. In the next game, they took down Oregon State. That was a closer game, but still a comfortable win for the Red Raiders, winning 35-24. It isn’t often that you get to see two teams with a common opponent this early in the season. It does give us a little bit of insight to review, but not a ton. In Texas Tech’s two games, they’ve been able to attack both via the air and on the ground, but their offense has been a bit more balanced than their opponent. Texas Tech has 62 passing attempts vs. 86 rushing attempts. They have racked up 495 passing yards compared to 328 rushing yards. TEXAS TECH HEAD COACH BLASTS USC, LINCOLN RILEY, FOR POOR ATTENDANCE AT LA COLISEUM IN WEEK ZERO In the Oregon State games, Houston scored 33 and allowed 20. Texas Tech scored 35 and allowed 24 points. This puts both of those totals at 53 and 59. I am looking at the games and how they’ve been played and think the offenses are a bit ahead of the defenses for both squads. I like both quarterbacks in this game. I also think the running games should find their way to make an impact. Give me the over 53.5 for this one. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad626775342cf4db87623a 'Scream' star admits he's 'ashamed' of sequel return after actress fired over anti-Israel comments te 2026-09-18T16:10:15.660Z 'Scream' star admits he's 'ashamed' of sequel return after actress fired over anti-Israel comments "Scream" actor Matthew Lillard said Tuesday that he felt "ashamed" for returning to the horror franchise after actress Melissa Barrera was fired over social media posts about Israel and the war in Gaza, telling fans during a 30th anniversary screening in Austin, Texas, that he believed he ended up on the "wrong side of history." Lillard, who reprised his role as Stu Macher in the seventh installment, said his excitement about returning to the franchise overshadowed his concerns about how Barrera had been treated. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Lillard said, "I went back to do Scream, and I got called out. And I’m like, ‘Oh, f---. That’s brutal.’" "I feel bad about that. I feel ashamed about that. Because in that moment I was so excited to go back, I didn’t really think about Melissa and that journey." "I’m embarrassed, that’s the truth… I blew that. I’m on the wrong side of history for that. I still like being in the movie [but] it may not have been the best idea," Lillard continued. PEREZ HILTON JOINS 'TOMI LAHREN IS FEARLESS' AND DECLARES CANCEL CULTURE IS NOW A SPORT Barrera was dropped from the franchise in November 2023 after publishing and sharing a series of posts criticizing Israel following Hamas' Oct. 7 terrorist attack. In one post previously reported by Fox News Digital, Barrera accused Israel of committing "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" in Gaza. "Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp," Barrera said. "Cornering everyone together, with no where to go, no electricity no water … People have [learned] nothing from our histories. And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen. THIS IS GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING." In another post, Barrera claimed Western news outlets were disproportionately presenting Israel's side of the conflict and told followers to draw their own conclusions about why. ‘NO JEWS, NO NEWS’ STRIKES AGAIN AS SELECTIVE COVERAGE OF THE 'UNSETTLERS' FUELS ANTI-ISRAEL ANGER "Because western media only shows the other side. Why they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself," Barrera said. Spyglass denied at the time that Barrera was removed merely for supporting Palestinians, instead saying it viewed some of her rhetoric as antisemitic. "Spyglass’ stance is unequivocally clear: We have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech," the company said. Fox News Digital reached out to Spyglass Media for comment about Lillard's remarks.  Barrera subsequently rejected the suggestion that she was promoting antisemitism and defended her criticism of governments, Fox News Digital reported in May. MORE THAN 180 JEWISH ENTERTAINERS RALLY BEHIND ACTOR MARK RUFFALO IN PROTEST LETTER "I believe a group of people are not their leadership and that no governing body should be above criticism. I pray day and night for no more deaths, for no more violence and for peaceful co-existence," Barrera said. The controversy resurfaced earlier this year when Barrera criticized former cast-mates who returned to the franchise without her. When asked whether actors who went back for "Scream 7" were "scabby," Barrera agreed. "One hundred percent. I think they all are," Barrera said. "And they have to live with that." At Tuesday’s screening, Lillard directly defended Barrera’s position and criticized the lack of public support she received after her firing. "Melissa Barrera, who’s a beautiful actor, was fired for what she said after the whole Palestinian... what started happening in Israel," Lillard said. "It’s really f-—– bulls--- and really hard, and she’s on the right side of history." "When that happened to Melissa, the whole world didn’t pipe up, but she was a year early on what the f---’s going on. But the whole world should have popped up and said, ‘She’s right.’ And they didn’t. And that’s brutal." Despite the upheaval surrounding its development, "Scream 7" was released Feb. 27 and eventually crossed $200 million at the global box office, becoming the highest-grossing film in the franchise’s history, according to Paramount. The film shifted its focus back to Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott and brought back several franchise veterans, including Lillard. When reached for comment by Fox News Digital, Hollywood in Toto editor Christian Toto said of Lillard’s remarks: "Now that the Palestinian cause is spiking in his far-Left industry, he has regrets. Now. Months after shooting the film. Months after its release. Months after the actress in question lost the role."  Toto added, "Will he give all the money back? Does he know what she actually said about Israel and the timing of those comments? Is he aware of other artists who have had their free speech rights trampled?" Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad626175342cf4db8761f2 F.B.I. Temporarily Halted Cooperation With Canada Over References to 9/11 te 2026-09-18T16:10:09.684Z F.B.I. Temporarily Halted Cooperation With Canada Over References to 9/11 The abrupt move by Kash Patel, the bureau’s director, came as President Trump was ramping up his attacks on the country. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad625f75342cf4db8761e5 Rio Nuevo compromete $15 millones para Friedman Block te 2026-09-18T16:10:07.424Z Rio Nuevo compromete $15 millones para Friedman Block Leer en inglés El mes pasado, Rio Nuevo adelantó aproximadamente $2 millones en fondos para la reurbanización del Friedman Block y prorrogó los plazos de varios proyectos en el centro de Tucson, aun cuando la junta afronta compromisos pendientes por valor de unos $15 millones. Los promotores del proyecto paralizado Friedman Block presentaron una propuesta preliminar de reurbanización durante la reunión de la junta celebrada el 11 de agosto, y Grant Krueger, propietario de Union Hospitality Group, informó a la junta el 25 de agosto que el problema del estacionamiento se había resuelto. El plan de estacionamiento original y preferido contemplaba compartir plazas con el complejo de apartamentos vecino, Council House, el cual podía aportar hasta 166 plazas adicionales, una mejora considerable respecto a las 82 plazas del aparcamiento actual. Krueger afirmó que la colaboración convertiría, en última instancia, al Friedman Block en una propiedad sustancialmente mejor, pero que el plan resulta costoso, supone un desembolso inicial adicional de $500,000 para los promotores, más $250,000 en reembolsos del impuesto TPT y honorarios de abogados. También existe un plan de contingencia, para el caso de que Council House rechace compartir sus espacios con Friedman Block, que consistiría en adquirir 26 plazas de aparcamiento en la calle Plumer Avenue y alquilar 60 plazas al M. Lee Starr Learning Center, situado inmediatamente al norte de la propiedad. Krueger opinó que el simple hecho de contar con un plan de contingencia probablemente facilita las negociaciones con Council House. “Creo que podemos sacar adelante el proyecto Council House, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que tenemos un plan para hacerlo sin ellos,” afirmó. Noticias del sur de Arizona escritas por periodistas que viven la realidad de la zona. Gratis en tu bandeja de entrada. El Friedman Block se encuentra en la Sunshine Mile de Tucson, donde los promotores trabajan en la reurbanización de la propiedad. Arilynn Hyatt / El Foco de Tucson. Los promotores solicitan entre $250,000 y $500,000 a Rio Nuevo para cubrir el déficit y pagar a Council House, o bien para abonar el alquiler del centro de aprendizaje, dependiendo de qué plan de estacionamiento se adopte finalmente. Tras una sesión a puerta cerrada para analizar los pasos a seguir, la junta votó por unanimidad impulsar el proyecto, sujeto a ciertas condiciones. Rio Nuevo aportará $500,000 en efectivo inicial, estableciéndose un límite de $2 millones para los reembolsos a los promotores. Asimismo, se fijarán plazos estrictos para el avance del acuerdo, especialmente dada la prolongada duración del proyecto. Tras la votación, el director financiero Dan Myers presentó el informe económico e informó a los miembros de que Rio Nuevo había gastado aproximadamente $3.1 millones hasta el 31 de julio. Sin embargo, debido a importantes compromisos adquiridos con proyectos como el Tucson Inn and Market y el hotel Moxy, entre otros, Rio Nuevo tiene un saldo pendiente de unos $15 millones. Myers señaló que la junta directiva deberá recurrir a sus inversiones anteriores para seguir financiando los proyectos más recientes. “Están pasando muchas cosas y se está gastando mucho dinero, pero creo que todo vale la pena,” dijo Myers. En la reunión también se evaluó la relación de Rio Nuevo con Empire Pizza, que ya suma tres años, y su expansión hacia un edificio contiguo en el 145 E. Congress St., lo que permitirá contar con más espacio para el servicio de comedor y las instalaciones del bar. La solicitud de permiso de construcción ya ha sido presentada y revisada por la mayoría de los departamentos, pero ha quedado pendiente de una revisión adicional por parte del departamento encargado de los distritos históricos. La junta debatió la posibilidad de conceder una prórroga de un año, se señaló que, dado que el proceso de revisión histórica y de diseño probablemente demora entre tres y cuatro meses, dicha extensión otorgaría a Empire tiempo suficiente para obtener las aprobaciones correspondientes. Jacqueleen Larson, propietaria y gestora de El Ritual, un estudio de bienestar social ubicado en el 401 N. Toole Ave., está llevando a cabo actualmente las obras de acondicionamiento del local, el cual se centrará en la terapia de contraste, la terapia de sonido, el trabajo de respiración y la meditación. El proyecto presentaba un avance de aproximadamente el 75% el mes pasado. El acuerdo de beneficios económicos entre Larson y la junta estableció el 31 de agosto como fecha límite para finalizar las obras de acondicionamiento. Por precaución, Larson solicitó una prórroga hasta el 30 de noviembre ante la posibilidad de cualquier contratiempo antes de concluir el proyecto. La junta no tomó ninguna decisión sobre la prórroga, pero es probable que vote al respecto en la próxima reunión. Larson está trabajando en la fase final de la adecuación de El Ritual, intensificando la promoción en redes sociales y organizando visitas para los miembros fundadores. La gran inauguración está prevista provisionalmente para octubre. La junta también escuchó a representantes de Eleven Eleven Tucson, un nuevo grupo de hostelería y ocio nocturno centrado en revitalizar la experiencia del centro de la ciudad. El socio director Fernando Minjarez y su hermano, Geovanny Minjarez, presentaron los planes para un nuevo salón, discoteca y bar clandestino en el número 121 de la calle E Congress. El inmueble albergaba anteriormente el Zen Rock Nightclub, otro centro de entretenimiento y discoteca de varios niveles. Fernando Minjarez señaló que el espacio requiere “un concepto renovado, una reinversión considerable y un equipo dispuesto a operarlo con un propósito claro.” “Nuestra visión no es la de una discoteca unidimensional. Estamos creando un destino sofisticado y de concepto múltiple, capaz de acoger a distintos tipos de público por diversos motivos,” afirmó. Un rasgo distintivo del proyecto de los hermanos Minjarez es el aprovechamiento de los tres niveles de la propiedad. El diseño incluye un bar y una zona de salón con piano en la planta superior, pensados ​​para ofrecer una experiencia más exclusiva y refinada, mientras que la planta principal servirá de espacio para eventos de mayor envergadura y dinamismo, así como para la faceta de discoteca del proyecto. En la planta inferior se ubicará un bar de estilo clandestino speakeasy, y el edificio contará además con una cocina completa, una incorporación totalmente nueva a la propiedad. Se trata del edificio ubicado en el 121 E. Congress St., antigua sede de la discoteca Zen Rock, donde Eleven Eleven Tucson busca obtener financiación de Río Nuevo para crear un nuevo lounge, discoteca y bar clandestino speakeasy. Los hermanos destacaron el valor de ofrecer tres experiencias distintas en una misma ubicación del centro, señalando que sería una gran oportunidad para fomentar las visitas recurrentes y generar ventas sujetas a impuestos para la ciudad. El grupo solicita $355,368.38 a Rio Nuevo para ayudar a financiar la renovación del inmueble. La junta no tomó ninguna decisión, pero expresó su interés en colaborar. “Es un proyecto magnífico, creo que estaríamos encantados de apoyarlo,” afirmó el presidente Fletcher McCusker. La junta debatió la posibilidad de ofrecer reembolsos en lugar de simplemente efectivo, de forma similar a lo planteado en el caso del Friedman Block. Para concluir la reunión, la junta recibió información actualizada sobre el proyecto del Tucson Children’s Museum, que se está ampliando hacia el edificio histórico adyacente, situado en el 130 S. Scott Ave. El proyecto incluirá una cafetería en colaboración con El Charro y una nueva tienda de regalos. La directora ejecutiva, Hilary Van Alsburg, informó que se están ultimando los planes para el interior y el exterior del edificio. Señaló que se prevé finalizar la construcción para mayo de 2029 y solicitó una prórroga del acuerdo EBA hasta esa fecha. La junta aprobó la solicitud de prórroga. Ahva Ghazanfari es estudiante de la Universidad de Arizona y pasante de Tucson Spotlight. Puede contactarla en ahvanghazanfari@arizona.edu. Esta nota fue traducida por Priscilla Daniel. El Foco de Tucson es una sala de prensa comunitaria que ofrece oportunidades remuneradas a estudiantes y periodistas emergentes del sur de Arizona. Por favor, considera apoyar nuestro trabajo con una donación deducible de impuestos. Donar a El Foco Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad625d75342cf4db8761c9 Family offices are clamoring for AI investments te 2026-09-18T16:10:05.263Z Family offices are clamoring for AI investments Whether it's a permanent shift or part of a familiar cycle is worth asking, though. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad600a75342cf4db87618c Roger Goodell details NFL expansion possibilities and a timetable for a full season of international games te 2026-09-18T16:00:10.461Z Roger Goodell details NFL expansion possibilities and a timetable for a full season of international games Commissioner Roger Goodell made the rounds during the NFL's first week of the regular season and into Thursday night's opening of the new Highmark Stadium in Buffalo. Out of that travel that spanned continents, we're getting a picture of his plans for league expansion. Bottom line: Goodell sees NFL expansion outside the United States on the horizon. "I think if we continue to grow, continue to get the kind of reaction, I do think a franchise will be international at some point in time," Goodell said prior to the Thursday night game between the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions on Prime's pregame show. "I think Europe is the most likely [place], for a lot of reasons. One, the length of time we've been playing there. But also, the scheduling is going to be a lot easier." ROGER GOODELL DISMISSES 49ERS COACH'S CONCERNS ABOUT PLAYING IN AUSTRALIA, SAYS IT'S PART OF LONG-TERM PLAN The NFL began playing regular-season games in Europe in 2007 and to date has played 55 regular-season games there. One could also argue Europe makes sense for international expansion because most of the teams in the AFC East and NFC East and some teams in the AFC South and NFC South are within a seven-hour flight to, say, London. Other places simply don't make similar sense at this time. "Australia might create a few complications for us," Goodell admitted. NFL TO COMMEMORATE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS ACROSS ALL ITS STADIUMS AND EVEN IN AUSTRALIA Goodell apparently is not thinking about expanding by one team in Europe. That would throw off the league's 32-team symmetry. "I also believe we could have more than one team, which I think, ultimately, the support is there," Goodell said. "Two more teams." So when will all this happen? Goodell recently signed a new contract that carries his tenure as commissioner through the 2030 season. There has been speculation his goal is to have international expansion by the time his contract expires. Is that the timeline? "I don't think so," Goodell said on the Netflix pregame show recently. "There was no connection to the two. "You know, listen, our vision here is to make it a global sport. The NFL deserves to be, it's a great game, and we all believe in it passionately." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! But while expansion by the end of the contract isn't a Goodell goal, having a full season's worth of international games is definitely on his radar. This year the NFL is playing nine games abroad. Next year that number rises to a record 10 international games. "I think our work here will be to get to 16 regular-season [International] games," Goodell said. "When we get to that point, then we'll be looking for the next, you know, stage to grow. But we think we'll be there in a few years. "That may happen within four years." FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad5db275342cf4db87610b GOP lawmakers smell something else behind Big Tech's AI doomsday warnings: 'Something else going on' te 2026-09-18T15:50:10.847Z GOP lawmakers smell something else behind Big Tech's AI doomsday warnings: 'Something else going on' Republicans on Capitol Hill are grappling over whether and how to regulate artificial intelligence companies even as top AI business leaders warn the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity. The simmering debate over AI guardrails has exploded this week as House lawmakers worked through their final week in Washington until after the midterm elections. The flurry of activity was partially spurred by tech CEOs like Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman warning that the pace of innovation should be slowed after both companies saw AI models hack into other organizations of their own accord. And while some in Congress are demanding swift action, others who spoke with Fox News Digital are questioning the motivation of AI companies in calling for the government to step in. "I think there's a false sense of urgency," Rep. Troy Downing, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital. REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: CONGRESS MEETS AI AS FEARS OF HUMAN EXTINCTION JOLT CAPITOL HILL Downing spent his young adulthood in tech, having previously been a research scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and founding online calendar company WebCal, which was later acquired by Yahoo!. "Yes, we should be taking it seriously, but I think the hyperbole is misplaced right now," Downing said. "Any one of those people crying gloom and doom has the possibility of stopping it in their own shops, so there's something else going on there." Rep. Brad Knott, R-N.C., a former assistant U.S. attorney, also doubted AI companies' motives. AI 'DOOMERS' RISK KNEECAPPING US VS CHINA, BUT EX-PENTAGON VET SAYS BOTH EXTREMES MISS THE MARK "I'm very skeptical of people in big business who want to leverage big government to suppress competition," Knott said. "I'm afraid that's what we're seeing. That'd be like ... Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple saying, 'We need to regulate all tech.' Whether it's software or hardware. It's like, guys, you're here already, right? And if there's one thing that I'm confident in, to protect AI for good, there has to be more than one option." Still others believe lawmakers do not broadly have enough knowledge to take on AI guardrails. Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital that Congress should instead repeal Section 230, a federal law shielding internet and tech companies from liability for what third parties post. "I think the warning is real, and I think that AI is unbelievable — look, AI is going to cure cancer. AI is going to find solutions to get rid of diseases that we never thought we could get rid of, but it does need to have some oversight. It needs a kill switch," Patronis conceded. "But again, I don't think Congress has the expertise to tell an emerging technology what's the best way to go." Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said when asked if Congress should act before the end of this year, "It's too complex a subject. You've got to understand it." Meanwhile, President Donald Trump also joined the debate by dismissing AI companies' calls for more government regulation. TRUMP UNLOADS ON TECH TITANS PUSHING FOR SLOWDOWN ON EMERGING INDUSTRY: ‘WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!’ "AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX," he wrote on Truth Social. "The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" But others are pushing for the government to step in to at least some degree, with some Republicans arguing for human guardrails to ensure AI does not go too far by itself. RAND PAUL CLASHES WITH FELLOW REPUBLICAN OVER AI 'KILL SWITCH' AS SENATE GRAPPLES WITH 'TERMINATOR' FEARS "The sooner we can act, the better," Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., chair of the House's AI task force, told reporters Wednesday. "Certainly, we've had some warning shots lately that have been very concerning ... So, God forbid we have a Chernobyl moment at some point here that really causes harm to people and focuses the public's attention on AI in a way that we hope it will never be." When asked by Fox News Digital about Trump's warning, however, he said, "I think the president was talking about the dangers of over-regulation, and that's something I very much agree with him on." RESEARCHER WHO DEPARTED AI ROLE OVER FEARS OF RACING INTO EXTINCTION SAYS PEOPLE ARE 'BEGGING' FOR REGULATION Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., held a press conference alongside Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., on Thursday pushing legislation to stop "rogue" AI agents such as those that broke out of containment during trials by OpenAI and Anthropic. "We want to make sure that people remain in control. This isn't about stopping AI or stifling innovation," Lawler said. "Some states have put a moratorium on the infrastructure that powers this technology. That does not invent a kill switch." Gottheimer said the bill "tells the National Institute of Standards and Technology [to] get in a room and set standards, so organizations can find every agent on their network, verify who built it, who's running it, watch it in real time for anything suspicious, and cut off its access the second something looks wrong." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad5db075342cf4db8760f0 Wildfires threaten tribes’ health, income and cultural traditions te 2026-09-18T15:50:08.882Z Wildfires threaten tribes’ health, income and cultural traditions The Columbia Princess Ferry stays on the Gifford side of the Columbia River as the Modrite Fire exhibits extreme fire behavior just south of Inchelium, Washington. Fires in the state hit tribes particularly hard this year. (Photo courtesy of Colville Tribal Broadcasts, News and Information) Neighbors across the Colville Tribes communities in Washington state knew Matilda Bob’s log home as the “rainbow house,” for its brightly painted exterior. Now it’s gone. Sparked by a lightning strike in mid-July, the Kaiser Canyon Fire destroyed Bob’s home and 42 other houses on the Colville Reservation, along with 100 outbuildings such as sheds and barns, tribal leaders said. “I couldn’t believe that it had happened,” said Bob. “It went so fast.” Tribal leaders across Washington and Oregon told Stateline that this year’s record-breaking wildfires burned timber that they rely on for income, threatened food sources and waterways, and harmed the health of their communities. Power outages left families without food they’ve hunted or gathered and frozen. Hotter, drier conditions driven by climate change already have made wildfires nationwide more frequent and intense, a trend that is expected to accelerate. Substandard housing and higher rates of acute and chronic underlying health conditions, including respiratory illnesses, make tribal communities more vulnerable during and after the fires.  “What typically used to be like a two-month fire season for us when I first started fighting fire about 25 years ago — now that’s at least three months and sometimes longer, depending on the year,” said Cody Desautel, executive director of the Colville Tribes, who is also a forester and wildland fire expert. An especially warm winter also left Washington state with about half its usual snowpack, raising drought concerns and wildfire risks. Nighttime view of the Kaiser Canyon Fire during firing operations on Whitmore Mountain. (Photo courtesy of Colville Tribal Broadcasts, News and Information) This year saw particularly devastating fires in eastern Washington, including arson-instigated fires that destroyed over 700 homes in Spokane. The conditions prompted Washington state Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson to declare a statewide state of emergency on Aug. 1, citing an “unprecedented” red flag alert of extreme fire danger from the National Weather Service.  The Colville Reservation includes the southern portion of Ferry County, which has the second-lowest median household income of all counties in the state. The tribe lost a significant amount of timber, a main source of income, during the fires. Many residents didn’t have home insurance because the housing didn’t qualify or they couldn’t afford it, said Cindy Marchand, chairwoman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, adding that about half of homes destroyed in the fires weren’t insured. Other residents couldn’t afford to upgrade to more fire-resistant material, she said. “The rates are just astronomical in the sense that a lot of people in our area are not able to afford this,” Marchand said. “We have elders living on a single income, they’re on a fixed income, and so they’re having a hard time making it as it is.” By mid-September, the total acres burned across the state reached roughly 900,000 acres, the worst since 2015.  Since July, about 200,000 acres burned across the Colville Reservation alone, with the Kaiser Canyon Fire scorching over 138,000 acres and the Modrite fire burning more than 57,000 acres. In Oregon, over 60,000 acres burned across the reservation of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, where at least six homes were destroyed. The Wrights Spring Fire in Oregon burned through 55,000 acres across Klamath County, national forest and tribal lands. Health effects Faith Zacherle-Tonasket has seen how the wildfires have affected perinatal health. Founder of xa?xa? Indigenous Birth Justice, which offers perinatal and doula support across the Colville Reservation, Zacherle-Tonasket said three of her clients went into early labor during this year’s fires. She and her team believe stress amid displacement due to evacuations contributed to the early labor. Emerging research is also showing how wildfire smoke is a primary pollutant affecting pregnancy. Zacherle-Tonasket also helps lead the River Warrior Society, a nonprofit offering wildfire relief for tribal and non-tribal members. The group has been coordinating shelter placements for elders, donations and food assistance. “This is one of the biggest fires our reservation has had,” she said. “The biggest need we have on our reservation is air purifiers.” Respiratory health has been a major concern post-wildfires amid smoke and poor air quality. American Indian and Alaska Native people disproportionately have chronic respiratory health conditions exacerbated by wildfire smoke, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Matilda Bob’s father, a veteran who is now displaced with her, has COPD. Along with respiratory distress, there’s been “tremendous stress, anxiety, grief, trauma — and we expect and know that those behavioral health needs are going to continue beyond this current emergency. Post-fire recovery creates additional health concerns,” said Dayna Seymour, the Colville Tribes’ health and human services chair. “Our members are going in now to clean up the ash and debris, and aren’t really always sure what’s in that ash and debris, whether there’s hazardous materials, heavy metals, asbestos or other contaminants.” Seymour added that community members helped deliver medications to their displaced neighbors and helped each other dig fire lines. Research shows disproportionate smoke exposure among tribes in California, noted University of Kansas Assistant Professor Melinda Adams, a cultural fire practitioner and scholar who teaches in the Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment. “Because wildfire is increasing in frequency and intensity,” said Adams, a member of the N’dee San Carlos Apache Tribe of Arizona, “we must look at cumulative effects and identify patterns in human and environmental health while investing in climate and wildfire mitigation strategies that include Indigenous knowledge.” Prescribed burns, carefully controlled fires to reduce brush that could fuel megablazes, are crucial tools in preventing dangerous wildfires and preserving ecosystem health. But regulatory barriers have made implementing traditional Indigenous burn practices difficult, Desautel and Adams said. This week, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee advanced legislation that would streamline approval of prescribed burns, while the EPA issued guidance last year.  Funding and staffing limitations are also a barrier, Desautel added. The Indian Forest Management Assessment Team found that Indian trust forest lands are funded at about a third per acre of comparable federal forests.  Waterway pollution, cultural art lost Seymour added that traditional foods including huckleberries and herbs and roots, such as bitterroot and camas, that the tribes rely on were scorched across the land. “Those are things that we utilize to help us in ceremony, that we utilize to eat for subsistence. So that was a huge loss for our people,” Seymour said. In Oregon, while no homes were lost on the Klamath Tribes’ lands, leaders still have concerns and uncertainty around environmental aftereffects, particularly on traditional food systems the tribes were finally in the process of regenerating. The tribes had just started restoring their ancestral salmon after removal of four dams two years ago. Last year, the tribes documented the first adult Chinook salmon in the Williamson River, and earlier this year detected the first salmon hatch in over a century in the tributaries of the Upper Klamath Lake. “The biggest (wildfire) impact is the effects on hunting and gathering that may be felt in the future. …With this high-intensity, high-severity wildfire, there’s likelihood of sedimentation into the streams that could serve as spawning grounds for that new salmon,” said Tim Sexton, Wildland Fire Program Manager at the Klamath Tribes. Research is showing how wildfires affect fish habitats. Deer stand near firing operations on the western perimeter of the Kaiser Canyon Fire, near Omak Lake Road and Coyote Creek Road area on July 25, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Colville Tribal Broadcasts, News and Information) Klamath Tribes Chairman William Ray Jr., a former firefighter of 40 years, said he’s been advocating for tribal control of the waterways amid pollution that already existed before this year’s wildfires. “We have ecological collapse going on. Our water quality in our lake and rivers isn’t very good,” he said. At the Colville Reservation, Zacherle-Tonasket said many of her community members are holding off on traditional hunting and instead her nonprofit has gotten discounts from local butchers to help families. “We don’t want to hunt this year,” she told Stateline. “It’s just ethically not right to hunt when our own animals are suffering the way we are.” Bob said that many cultural heirlooms burned — her own traditional beadwork, a 100-year-old berry basket passed down from her great grandmother, and her nephew’s handmade attire worn during special dances at powwows.  But her family will continue to dance as they do “for the people who can’t,” she said, on their ancestral land. “Every time your foot hits the floor’s a prayer,” she said. “We were raised to respect the land. … We’re still standing in the fact that we’re all OK, that we all made it, that we didn’t lose anybody.” Stateline reporter Nada Hassanein can be reached at nhassanein@stateline.org. This story was originally produced by Stateline, which is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network which includes Arizona Mirror, and is supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad5dab75342cf4db8760a8 FBI, Coast Guard boarded hacked oil tankers heading towards US coast te 2026-09-18T15:50:03.711Z FBI, Coast Guard boarded hacked oil tankers heading towards US coast The feds are said to be investigating the compromise of the tankers' networks, which in one case interfered with one of the tanker's navigation and propulsion systems. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad5b5b75342cf4db876082 Duncan Sheik, ‘Barely Breathing’ singer, dead at 56 te 2026-09-18T15:40:11.904Z Duncan Sheik, ‘Barely Breathing’ singer, dead at 56 Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter behind the hit "Barely Breathing" and the Tony and Grammy-winning musical "Spring Awakening," has died. He was 56. Sheik died Thursday from organ failure, his mother, Suzanne Sheik, told The New York Times.  Representatives for Sheik did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. While "Barely Breathing" made Sheik a familiar voice on ’90s radio, Broadway ultimately became a defining chapter of his career. "With the exception of our director, we are all kind of Broadway outsiders. We wanted to shake things up a bit. And we just set out to make this really cool piece of theater," Sheik told The Associated Press in 2007 of "Spring Awakening." This is a breaking news story. Please check back for more developments. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad5b5a75342cf4db876079 Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton tells Macklemore he is ‘standing’ in solidarity with him on Palestine te 2026-09-18T15:40:10.663Z Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton tells Macklemore he is ‘standing’ in solidarity with him on Palestine Pop star Macklemore has generated quite a buzz recently with his "Free Palestine" messaging while on Ed Sheeran's "Loop Tour." The 43-year-old musician was kicked off the tour following backlash from his pro-Palestine stance, but there have been a few "woke" celebrities who have come to Macklemore's defense. Following the Seattle native's pledge to donate $1 million to Palestinian aid organizations, children's YouTube star Ms. Rachel said she would match his donation and urged "every wealthy White celebrity" to do the same. MACKLEMORE DONATES $1M TO PALESTINIAN AID ORGANIZATIONS AFTER ED SHEERAN TOUR FALLOUT Ms. Rachel isn't the only one to throw her public support behind Macklemore, though, as Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton took to social media to praise the rapper for his stance. Hamilton commented under Macklemore's Instagram statement on the matter, pledging to "stand" in solidarity with him. COLIN KAEPERNICK ACCUSES NFL OF 'COLLUDING' AGAINST MACKLEMORE AMID 'FREE PALESTINE' CONTROVERSY If you know anything about Hamilton, then this shouldn't come as a shock. The 41-year-old was at the forefront of the Black Lives Matter movement, especially when it reached a fever pitch following the death of George Floyd in 2020. Hamilton took part in the protesting of the U.S. National Anthem, kneeling during its playing before every Grand Prix event he entered in that same year. He's been spotted wearing shirts supporting causes linked to Black Lives Matter quite often and has also been a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ issues. Between those incidents and his past comments about Formula One's lack of diversity - Hamilton is mixed-race and is the only Black driver in the sport - it's easy to see why he was so quick to jump on the bandwagon to support Macklemore for his pro-Palestine stance. As others continue to excoriate the rapper for his "Free Palestine" messaging, such as Barstool founder Dave Portnoy, you can expect many more on the other side of the aisle to voice their support for him. It's an issue that has been around for a long time, and it certainly isn't going away any time soon. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad5b5375342cf4db876021 Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 te 2026-09-18T15:40:03.648Z Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad590875342cf4db875fec Pilot’s sudden death during overnight layover puts spotlight on fatigue concerns te 2026-09-18T15:30:16.545Z Pilot’s sudden death during overnight layover puts spotlight on fatigue concerns An Air India captain was found unresponsive in his hotel room during an overnight flight layover in New Delhi, and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The captain has been identified as Sunny Sharad Asaldekar, 46, The New Indian Express reported. He had checked into the hotel Thursday, and his brother contacted the hotel manager the following evening after Asaldekar stopped answering calls. The hotel manager entered the locked room with a master key and found Asaldekar unconscious and unresponsive, according to the outlet. 'WE NEED TO RETURN IMMEDIATELY,' FLIGHT CREW WARNS AS PILOT HEALTH EMERGENCY UNFOLDS Police responded to the hotel, and Asaldekar was taken to a hospital, where he was declared dead. "Air India is deeply saddened at the passing away of a cockpit crew member in Delhi last night," the airline said in a statement to The New Indian Express. "He was on a layover rest at a hotel in Delhi where he was found unconscious last evening. He was rushed to the hospital immediately, where he was declared dead." A post-mortem examination was conducted, but the cause of death has not yet been determined. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER The Federation of Indian Pilots renewed its call for an urgent review of fatigue-management practices after the pilot's death but said it was not directly linking fatigue to his death, according to The Times of India. Matthew "Whiz" Buckley, a former U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot who also flew for American Airlines and FedEx, told Fox News Digital that fatigue has long been a concern in commercial aviation. "Pilot fatigue in aviation has been an issue since day one," Buckley said. While passengers may assume an overnight layover gives pilots plenty of time to recover, Buckley said required rest does not always mean pilots get enough sleep. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES "A layover is just that. It's a crew laying over in a city that is not their home base," he said. Pilots may arrive at a hotel in the early morning hours and then try to sleep during the day, Buckley said, which can work against the body's natural sleep cycle. "It's just unnatural to sleep during off hours," he said. Buckley said he faced that challenge while flying overnight routes himself — and that pilot fatigue was among the reasons he made changes in his career. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Long-haul flights can be especially difficult when pilots cross multiple time zones, he added. "Where it really takes a toll on the body for pilots is east-west," Buckley said. "When you're crossing multiple time zones, [that's] when your body can really get messed up." Fatigue can also build up beyond one flight or layover, according to Buckley, who cited irregular hours and prolonged periods of sitting, plus diet issues, exercise challenges and time away from family as factors that can affect pilots. Buckley said U.S. safeguards include federal crew-rest requirements, airline policies and labor agreements, but pilots also play a key role in deciding whether they are fit to fly. "At the end of the day ... you know who determines if a pilot is fit to fly? You," Buckley said. Fox News Digital reached out to Air India for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad590375342cf4db875fa2 Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Says He Didn’t Doubt Her Guilt te 2026-09-18T15:30:11.138Z Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Says He Didn’t Doubt Her Guilt The juror, Michael P. Desronvil, defended his decision not to join other jurors in voting for Ms. Clancy’s acquittal. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad58fd75342cf4db875f82 I’m so mad that I love Orion’s $2,195 AI mattress pad te 2026-09-18T15:30:05.053Z I’m so mad that I love Orion’s $2,195 AI mattress pad Sleeping on the Orion is like flipping your pillow to find “the cool side,” except that your whole entire bed is the cool side. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad58fb75342cf4db875f79 Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer te 2026-09-18T15:30:03.095Z Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer Muse is now available on the Mac, where it can work with your files and apps to take action on your behalf. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad56a875342cf4db875f52 Riley Green drops 19-track album 'That's Just Me' and country music fans can't get enough te 2026-09-18T15:20:08.910Z Riley Green drops 19-track album 'That's Just Me' and country music fans can't get enough Riley Green fired up fans Friday with the release of his new album. Green is one of the most popular talents in the country music world, and his rise over the past couple years has been beyond impressive. His music covers the entire spectrum, and he's built a rabid following of millions of fans. Country music followers were eager for his latest album, and it's finally here. COUNTRY MUSIC STAR RILEY GREEN KEEPS COOKING WITH NEW SINGLE 'THAT'S JUST ME' FROM UPCOMING ALBUM Green's new album "That's Just Me" hit streaming platforms and shelves Friday morning. It includes a total of 19 tracks. Five singles from the album were previously released prior to September 18. RILEY GREEN DROPS NEW SINGLE 'GO AGAIN' WITH HANNAH MCFARLAND AHEAD OF SEPTEMBER ALBUM As country music fans would expect, it's generating some serious buzz, and one new song is particularly good: "Lookout Mountain" with Randy Owen. The emotional song featuring Owen is classic Riley Green. It's about heartbreak and loss, and very on-brand. Give it a listen below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. People in the comments on YouTube were quick to offer plenty of different reactions. One person wrote, "Love this song." Another added, "This whole album is nearly flawless. I hope it doesn't fly under the radar because this is the best record I've heard from a male country artist in many years." A third added, "Great song." SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Overall, the album is outstanding. Expectations were high prior to "That's Just Me" coming out. I have a feeling many fans will feel like expectations weren't just met. They were exceeded. Have you already listened to all 19 songs? Let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad545575342cf4db875ed5 Country music star pulled her Bible into bed with her to get through divorce te 2026-09-18T15:10:13.395Z Country music star pulled her Bible into bed with her to get through divorce Accustomed to performing under the bright lights of concert halls as well as TV studios during her time as a finalist on "The Voice," country music star Karen Waldrup of Nashville never anticipated the darkness and despair that would accompany a divorce. But she told Fox News Digital this week in a moving interview how she got through the most "awful" times in the fall of 2025, even while recording new songs, including "Keeping the Faith" and "Just in Case," which is out Friday, Sept. 18. The songs and the phrases have deep resonance with her Christian faith, she said.  105 YEAR-OLD CREDITS THE GOOD LORD FOR HER LONG LIFE: ‘EVERY DAY IS A BLESSING’ "'Keeping the Faith' is one of my favorite songs I've ever been a part of," she said. It's not just about "keeping the faith, it's about keeping the hope, keeping the dream, keeping the focus, keeping the optimism. I went through a really challenging time in the fall of 2025. ... It was awful. So many people know the disheartening horror of that experience, and it was terrible." "But I decided to make a song, ‘Keeping the Faith,'" said the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter.  "And the day that I tracked that song was a tough day. It was the toughest day that I've ever been in the studio. And I didn't know if it was even going to come out good because I felt so broken.  ‘QUIET QUITTING’ IN MARRIAGE: THE SUBTLE SIGNS A SPOUSE HAS EMOTIONALLY CHECKED OUT  "But I think in the end, the song came out great because of the brokenness," she said. "I think you can kind of hear it in the vocal, the desperation of keeping the faith and saying, ‘Hey, you know what, no matter what goes on, you got to get back up and go, you got it. Pick it up. You got to keep the faith.’ And so I'm proud of that song." Waldrup was not only a top 5 finalist on Season 25 of "The Voice," she’s a BMI songwriter and a member of the Recording Academy (NARAS) and the Country Music Association (CMA). She's won 12 Nashville Industry Music Awards and has seven studio albums and over 50 songs released worldwide.  "After a lot of time, reflection and prayer, I’m ready to share that my marriage has ended in divorce," she wrote to fans in February on her Facebook page. "This has been a deeply personal journey, and I’ve taken the time I needed to process it privately. I’m grateful for the love, grace and support around me, and I appreciate kindness as I continue to move forward." She told Fox News Digital, "There's a bridge [in the song ‘Keeping the Faith’] that says, 'There's a reason I'm still standing here stronger than I ever knew." "And I think after you go through something like that, your whole dream of a lifelong marriage goes away and is no longer a part of your life — it's so heartbreaking. But after you come out of it, I truly believe that you are stronger. People are stronger from this experience." "My faith definitely carried me through that season, the fall of 2025. I was very vulnerable," she said.  "We were working on the record, and I had to keep going. I look at people like Dolly Parton or Reba [McEntire], and I think about how many times they had somebody pass away, and they had to get back up on stage — or they had their mom in the hospital or something, and they had to go play a show," she added.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS "And when I was going through that, I was actually sleeping with my Bible every single night, in the bed with me at night. I was waking up every morning, opening my scripture and reading it. My faith was definitely the foundation of what got me through that." She said her friends made a difference as well. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "My friends believed in me. They believed I would get through it. They never doubted me. And one of the things I did, I made a list of the top six people — one being God, so God plus five people — that I felt like I could really talk to about what I was going through without them making me feel worse." "And I tried to really only talk to those five people," said Waldrup. "Sometimes when you're going through something like a divorce, everyone has their opinions. Everyone has all these different things that people want to say. And so I found that was a really helpful thing. "When you're going through something tough in life, rather than listening to the opinions of 50 people, you can kind of go, OK, these are the five people that, when I talk to this person, make me feel like I'm gonna get through this. And those are the people that I really leaned on. So my faith, my scripture and my friends." TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Waldrup said she believes she is "living God's purpose for my life." "I do think part of my purpose in music is to inspire. I don't make my musical experience all about me," she said. "This music is a gift, this show is a gift, this moment is a gift." And "I believe in giving," she added.  "I don't really need to be important. All I need to do is do God's work. … He gave me this voice. And we're talking about faith, we're talking about music, we're talking about joy, we're talking about friendship, and about love — or the lack thereof.  "There are so many things that we are called to talk about in life. And I do feel like I'm living God's purpose for my life." Waldrup has performed in more than 15 countries.  Her newest single "Just in Case" is available now. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad544e75342cf4db875e93 Trump’s Open Claims That He Directs Super PAC Spending Draw Watchdog Complaint te 2026-09-18T15:10:06.125Z Trump’s Open Claims That He Directs Super PAC Spending Draw Watchdog Complaint Federal law bars those holding federal office from directing spending decisions for a political organization with no contribution limits. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad544b75342cf4db875e72 Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 te 2026-09-18T15:10:03.562Z Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Robinhood’s Abhishek Fatehpuria on winning the modern financial consumer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 before September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad51fb75342cf4db875e42 Young swing-state voters cozy up to Democratic Socialists, say party establishment must ‘learn’ from DSA wins te 2026-09-18T15:00:11.670Z Young swing-state voters cozy up to Democratic Socialists, say party establishment must ‘learn’ from DSA wins Gen Z and young Millennial voters in Michigan who are leaning blue for the midterm election say they welcome the ideas of the Democratic Socialists of America, with a couple of voters agreeing that Americans should abolish the Senate. Fox News Digital was on the ground at Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's "Students v. Billionaires" rally at Michigan State University on Sept. 11 and at the Detroit Health Department's annual block party, where young Democratic voters said rising costs and the complacency of the Democratic establishment have made the DSA more appealing to them. "I feel as if they actually focus on the people," said Detroit resident Shelby Campbell, who is also a 2023 Wayne State University graduate. "It's not as, I guess, capitalistic or just bought into the system. They want to do good, but they are just another big organization, and I think we just need to get rid of all the political parties and be independent." SHOCKING PERCENTAGE OF DEMOCRATS IDENTIFY AS 'DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS' ACCORDING TO NEW POLL: 'TOXIC POLICIES' So far this election cycle, dozens of Democratic Socialists of America candidates have won their primary races, including Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney, who defeated incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich. But some of the biggest upsets came out of New York, where New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialists of America member, saw three candidates he endorsed — Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Brad Lander — win their Democratic congressional primaries. The flurry of DSA-backed primary victories has put Republicans on the offensive while fueling concern among some Democrats about the socialist movement’s growing influence within the party. Noel Otteson is a sophomore at Michigan State University. He described himself as a "leftist" and "anti-capitalist," but he said he supports El-Sayed for his Medicare for All stance and his promise to get money out of politics. SCHUMER DODGES QUESTION ON WHETHER DSA BELONGS IN DEMOCRATIC PARTY "I believe in the power of people and democracy over corporations and oligarchs running everything, putting millions upon millions if not billions of dollars into Congress too," Otteson told Fox News Digital. "The system is rigged against the average person and is in favor of corporations and special interests and lobbyists," Otteson continued. Otteson said he supports the DSA's proposal to abolish the U.S. Senate, which he called "undemocratic." "The way that the Senate is set up is inherently undemocratic," Otteson said. "I'm someone who always, always, prioritizes democracy, and the Senate isn't that." "Some states hold more power than others based on population, and I would probably advocate for a more parliamentary system, you know, things like the U.K. and a lot of other European countries have, or most other countries have actually," Otteson said. NEWSOM ADMITS DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST IDEAS ‘MAINSTREAM’ IN DEMOCRAT PARTY: ‘PRETTY ALIGNED’ He proposed that the House of Representatives should be expanded. And in the heart of Detroit, Jahdante Smith, who is a Green Party candidate for District 9 of the Michigan House of Representatives, agreed that the Senate has got to go. "Their stance on abolishing the Senate, I think that is something that can work, only because the Senate is one of the most exclusionary clubs in politics and is also very, very hard to get into, and I think if you have a Republican and Democrat in the U.S. Senate in one state, they kind of cancel each other out, and they really don't get anything positive done," Smith told Fox News Digital. Smith said he supports the DSA's anti-ICE agenda and Medicare for All proposals, but wants to see the organization bring about actual change. "I support their ideas, but I love to see them have more traction in getting things actually done. Policy is something that you have to enact. It's not bills die in Congress, bills die on Capitol Hill every day," Smith told Fox News Digital. "You have to be able to get those bills passed through. I do support their stance on anti-ice." SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Blake, a Michigan State University freshman, said he likes a lot of what the Democratic Socialists of America is pushing but said he's not on board with everything on its agenda, including abolishing the Senate. "The standard democrat has shown themselves to more or less be incapable of standing up for themselves and standing up for what's right," Blake told Fox News Digital. "So I've leaned on, I've decided to take my allegiances with further parties on more extreme sides of leftism because they can do what needs to be done." "And I feel like that's a lesson that normal Democrats need to learn," Blake continued. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad4fa275342cf4db875dd4 Council & city staff talks housing strategy te 2026-09-18T14:50:10.850Z Council & city staff talks housing strategy Rent Local, STR deed restriction programs may be discontinued; city has $19 million in fund Sedona City Council heard an updated draft of the city’s Balanced Housing Strategy on Sept. 8, from Community Development Director Tony Allender and Housing Coordinator Laura Stewart. The city aimed at a targ Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad4d4875342cf4db875ce7 Bonded by a bolt: Four lifelong friends recall 1976 lightning strike on Humphreys Peak te 2026-09-18T14:40:08.594Z Bonded by a bolt: Four lifelong friends recall 1976 lightning strike on Humphreys Peak Doug Laguarta, Mark "Dan" Ayub, Stephen Mott and Kevin Kveton reunited in Flagstaff 50 years after being struck by lightning while climbing the San Francisco Peaks. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad4d4775342cf4db875cde ACS holding annual Climb to End Cancer event in Flagstaff Sept. 19 te 2026-09-18T14:40:07.173Z ACS holding annual Climb to End Cancer event in Flagstaff Sept. 19 Adult registration costs $50 and is available at flagstaffclimb.com through 8:30 a.m. the day of the event. "Living proof" registration for those who have been diagnosed with cancer is $35. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad4d4475342cf4db875cbd Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s next big bet is fusion: Go inside it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 te 2026-09-18T14:40:04.717Z Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s next big bet is fusion: Go inside it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Inertia co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson joins the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 by September 25. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad4aec75342cf4db875c59 Jury Reaches Mixed Verdict in Death of Reporter Covering Super Bowl te 2026-09-18T14:30:04.760Z Jury Reaches Mixed Verdict in Death of Reporter Covering Super Bowl The Telemundo reporter, Adan Manzano, was found in his hotel room just before the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad463f75342cf4db875b36 The clock is ticking: Final 24 hours to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 te 2026-09-18T14:10:07.434Z The clock is ticking: Final 24 hours to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is today, September 18. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on October 13–15. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad463d75342cf4db875b2d Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI te 2026-09-18T14:10:05.735Z Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad43e975342cf4db875b01 Maye Musk defends Sydney Sweeney's nude sports ad and recalls 12-year path to citizenship te 2026-09-18T14:00:09.245Z Maye Musk defends Sydney Sweeney's nude sports ad and recalls 12-year path to citizenship Maye Musk, swimsuit model and mother of Elon Musk, joined OutKick’s "Tomi Lahren Is Fearless" to tackle Sydney Sweeney, government fraud, and her 18 grandkids. Musk jumped into defending Sydney Sweeney after the actress caught online heat over going nude for a sports ad. Lahren noted that Musk, who famously graced the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover at age 74, knows a thing or two about the industry. SYDNEY SWEENEY FIRES BACK AT TROLLS AFTER FACING CRITICISM ONLINE FOR PROVOCATIVE SPORTS AD "She’s a model," Musk told Tomi. "Well, she’s an actress, but she’s a model and modeling, you can look sexy and acting, you can look sexy and have fun." "I think she’s fabulous," Musk added. "I mean beautiful, fabulous and she seems to have a great sense of humor. So she’ll need it." To Maye, women can use their looks to build massive careers and have fun without taking a lecture from progressives. Musk also slammed tax dollars funneled to dead people and fake nursing homes, praising independent journalist Nick Shirley as "cheeky," "smart," and "funny" for exposing millions sent to an empty Minnesota learning center. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Then, things got real when Musk recalled her own 12-year grind to earn American citizenship. "When I moved to America, it took me 12 years to become a citizen," Musk said. "When I was there with the ceremony, I was just crying. I was so happy to be a citizen." Maye contrasted playing by the rules with illegal migrants receiving taxpayer-funded hotels and benefits, questioning why Americans are footing the bill. Musk wrapped things up with a simple rule for her 18 grandkids: no Christmas presents, just hugs. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "You never have enough hugs," Musk said. "Hugs count." Maye's next move ... hit a Tennessee Volunteers football game with Lahren in Knoxville. Go Vols. Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad419175342cf4db875a79 Country music star pulled her Bible into bed with her to get through 'awful' divorce te 2026-09-18T13:50:09.566Z Country music star pulled her Bible into bed with her to get through 'awful' divorce Accustomed to performing under the bright lights of concert halls as well as TV studios during her time as a finalist on "The Voice," country music star Karen Waldrup of Nashville never anticipated the darkness and despair that would accompany a divorce. But she told Fox News Digital this week in an interview how she got through her most "awful" times in the fall of 2025, even while recording new songs, including "Keeping the Faith" and "Just in Case," which is out Friday, Sept. 18. The songs and the phrases are deeply tied to her Christian faith and her beliefs, she said.  105 YEAR-OLD CREDITS THE GOOD LORD FOR HER LONG LIFE: ‘EVERY DAY IS A BLESSING’ "'Keeping the Faith' is one of my favorite songs I've ever been a part of," she said. It's not just about "keeping the faith, it's about keeping the hope, keeping the dream, keeping the focus, keeping the optimism. I went through a really challenging time in the fall of 2025. ... It was awful. So many people know the disheartening horror of that experience, and it was terrible." "But I decided to make a song, ‘Keeping the Faith,'" said the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter.  "And the day that I tracked that song was a tough day. It was the toughest day that I've ever been in the studio. And I didn't know if it was even going to come out good because I felt so broken.  ‘QUIET QUITTING’ IN MARRIAGE: THE SUBTLE SIGNS A SPOUSE HAS EMOTIONALLY CHECKED OUT  "But I think in the end, the song came out great because of the brokenness," she said. "I think you can kind of hear it in the vocal, the desperation of keeping the faith and saying, ‘Hey, you know what, no matter what goes on, you got to get back up and go, you got it. Pick it up. You got to keep the faith.’ And so I'm proud of that song." Waldrup was not only a top 5 finalist on Season 25 of "The Voice," she’s a BMI songwriter and a member of the Recording Academy (NARAS) and the Country Music Association (CMA). She's won 12 Nashville Industry Music Awards and has seven studio albums and over 50 songs released worldwide. She married Cody Henderson in Sept. 2020.  "After a lot of time, reflection and prayer, I’m ready to share that my marriage has ended in divorce," she wrote to fans in February on her Facebook page. "This has been a deeply personal journey, and I’ve taken the time I needed to process it privately. I’m grateful for the love, grace and support around me, and I appreciate kindness as I continue to move forward." She told Fox News Digital, "There's a bridge [in the song ‘Keeping the Faith’] that says, 'There's a reason I'm still standing here stronger than I ever knew." "And I think after you go through something like that, your whole dream of a lifelong marriage goes away and is no longer a part of your life — it's so heartbreaking. But after you come out of it, I truly believe that you are stronger. People are stronger from this experience." "My faith definitely carried me through that season, the fall of 2025. I was very vulnerable," she said.  "We were working on the record, and I had to keep going. I look at people like Dolly Parton or Reba [McEntire], and I think about how many times they had somebody pass away, and they had to get back up on stage — or they had their mom in the hospital or something, and they had to go play a show," she added.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS "And when I was going through that, I was actually sleeping with my Bible every single night, in the bed with me at night. I was waking up every morning, opening my scripture and reading it. My faith was definitely the foundation of what got me through that." She said her friends made a difference as well. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "My friends believed in me. They believed I would get through it. They never doubted me. And one of the things I did, I made a list of the top six people — one being God, so God plus five people — that I felt like I could really talk to about what I was going through without them making me feel worse." "And I tried to really only talk to those five people," said Waldrup. "Sometimes when you're going through something like a divorce, everyone has their opinions. Everyone has all these different things that people want to say. And so I found that was a really helpful thing. "When you're going through something tough in life, rather than listening to the opinions of 50 people, you can kind of go, OK, these are the five people that, when I talk to this person, make me feel like I'm gonna get through this. And those are the people that I really leaned on. So my faith, my scripture and my friends." TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Waldrup said she believes she is "living God's purpose for my life." "I do think part of my purpose in music is to inspire. I don't make my musical experience all about me," she said. "This music is a gift, this show is a gift, this moment is a gift." And "I believe in giving," she added.  "I don't really need to be important. All I need to do is do God's work. … He gave me this voice. And we're talking about faith, we're talking about music, we're talking about joy, we're talking about friendship, and about love — or the lack thereof. There are so many things that we are called to talk about in life. And I do feel like I'm living God's purpose for my life." Waldrup has performed in more than 15 countries.  Her newest single "Just in Case" is available now. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad419075342cf4db875a70 Reaction to ‘Ted Lasso’ shows left-wing critics are never satisfied, so why does Hollywood keep trying? te 2026-09-18T13:50:08.630Z Reaction to ‘Ted Lasso’ shows left-wing critics are never satisfied, so why does Hollywood keep trying? Apple’s major hit show "Ted Lasso" centered its return on women’s soccer and nearly every grievance progressive critics prioritize. They still said it failed women. It should serve as a reminder to Hollywood that trying to please people who are never satisfied is a losing battle. And Hollywood really should stop ruining good shows trying to chase that approval. Now, I loved the first two seasons of "Ted Lasso." The third season wasn't as good, but I watched the entire thing. So, when Apple brought the show back after a three-year hiatus, I was willing to give Season 4 a chance. I didn't make it through the premiere. During the opening sequence, Ted is working at a Kansas City grocery store and casually stealing food from his employer. When a coworker asks whether he worries about getting caught, Ted says he doesn't, "probably due to my deeply ingrained white male privilege." It was a throwaway joke that arrived almost immediately, before the show established its new story or gave viewers much of a reason to care. It felt deliberate, like the writers were telling the audience exactly what kind of season this would be. RIDICULOUS USA TODAY COLUMN PROVES THAT THE DEMAND FOR MISOGYNY IN SPORTS FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY Then came the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum scene. Leslie Higgins visits the museum after discovering that the American Jazz Museum is closed for a private event. A tour guide explains how Black baseball players, including Satchel Paige, were denied opportunities in Major League Baseball because of segregation. Higgins responds by comparing their experience to women once being prohibited from playing soccer in England. Using the color barrier in American baseball as a narrative bridge to the challenges facing a fictional English women's soccer team felt painfully forced and over-the-top. My wife rolled her eyes. I looked at her and asked whether there was any reason to keep watching. She agreed there wasn't. So, we turned it off. I couldn't stomach watching the remaining episodes, but I did review the transcripts of all seven that Apple has released as of Sept. 17. I paid particularly close attention to the first four episodes, which were among those provided to television critics before the season premiered. Those transcripts confirmed exactly what the opening episode suggested: Gender politics aren't a minor component of the new season. They are the season. The second episode revolves heavily around whether Rebecca is sufficiently feminist after hiring Ted to coach AFC Richmond's new women's team. Alice Chilton, who helped construct the team, tells Rebecca she is resigning after being passed over for the head-coaching position. Before leaving, Alice asks Rebecca whether she considered her for the job. Rebecca says no. Alice then asks whether Rebecca considered any woman. Again, Rebecca says no. This sends Rebecca into a panic over whether she is supportive enough of women. She begins reading feminist literature and delivers a painfully awkward press-conference speech declaring that women are "just as capable and compelling as men" and that "the future is female." She then introduces the manager of Richmond's women's team, "who just happens to be a man." The show plays Rebecca's desperation for laughs. But the underlying conflict is whether Ted, as a man, should have received the opportunity at all. Remember what Ted accomplished with Richmond. He took the club through relegation, earned promotion back to the Premier League and then led it to second place after entering the final day of the season with a chance to win the championship. Ted was overqualified to coach a brand-new second-division women's team. Yet the show treats Rebecca's decision to hire him as evidence that she might have failed women. The first four episodes introduce several predictable progressive talking points surrounding supposed oppression of women in sports: lower salaries, inferior facilities, inadequate media coverage and a lack of financial support. One might argue that those are products of capitalism and not some nefarious plot to hold down female athletes, but I digress. Then comes a cascade of storylines centered on female athletes, as if the writers had a checklist and had to make sure they hit them all. One player leaves the team after becoming pregnant. A single mother brings her child to open tryouts because she couldn't arrange childcare. Sponsors threaten to abandon the team, while male shareholders mock the entire idea as a waste of money. Then Zelda Southport, a wealthy investor in women's sports, delivers a speech accusing executives of using women's soccer for "reputation-laundering" while hiding their "fake allyship." She invokes the "patriarchy" for good measure. Again, the writers aren't trying to hide their political messaging. Quite the opposite, in fact. The political messaging is the entire plot. On Aug. 5, the day Season 4 premiered, "Ted Lasso" co-creator Brendan Hunt appeared on Sarah Spain's podcast. Spain is a radical left-wing activist who has referred to Vice President J.D. Vance as a "demon" and launched a disgusting personal smear of Sophie Cunningham for having the temerity to argue against "biological men" in women's sports. Hunt chose Spain's show to help promote the new season, which felt like a very intentional promotional choice. The following night, Jason Sudeikis, Hunt, Juno Temple and several members of the new cast appeared at an exclusive "Ted Lasso" event at the Paley Museum. Megan Rapinoe, another radical far-left-wing activist, served as the moderator. The people behind "Ted Lasso" knew whose approval they wanted and went directly to Sarah Spain and Megan Rapinoe to seek it. The interview with Hunt also made clear how central the women's team was to the show's return. He said Sudeikis kept thinking about doing the series with a women's team after Season 3. That idea led to a small writers' retreat intended to determine whether the show remained "fertile ground." The writers decided it did. In other words, women's soccer wasn't simply the setting selected after the decision to revive "Ted Lasso." It was the idea that convinced the creators to revive it. Despite my reaction, plenty of people watched the Season 4 premiere. According to Nielsen data provided by Apple, the episode generated 296.6 million viewing minutes in the United States across Aug. 4 and Aug. 5. More than 200 million minutes came on Aug. 5 alone, making "Ted Lasso" the most-streamed program in the country that day. Apple called it the biggest launch in Apple TV history. That's impressive, but it also isn't terribly surprising. "Ted Lasso" was one of the most popular streaming shows in America during its original run. It won 13 Emmy Awards, became Apple's signature television series and disappeared for three years after what many viewers believed was its finale. Of course people wanted to see it return. Nielsen's first weekly report was also strong. "Ted Lasso" generated 866 million viewing minutes across 35 available episodes, including the first three seasons, during the week of Aug. 3 through Aug. 9. The Season 4 premiere accounted for 36% of that total, and the show ranked second among streaming originals. But those figures establish only that people were interested in the return of "Ted Lasso." They don't tell us whether the audience stuck around as the season progressed. OutKick/Fox News Digital reached out to Apple and asked for episode-by-episode viewing totals for the subsequent Season 4 episodes. We also asked whether the company had internal data showing how many viewers who started the premiere finished it and continued watching the season. Apple did not respond. The company eagerly supplied the figure that allowed it to announce the biggest premiere in the history of its streaming service. It became much less communicative when asked for the numbers that would show whether those viewers kept watching. If the later episodes were setting similarly historic marks, it is reasonable to think Apple would be just as eager to publicize those numbers. Instead, the company that celebrated the premiere hasn't released any viewing data on the show in over a month. While that doesn't prove viewership collapsed after the premiere, there is no public evidence that the record-setting launch translated into equally historic retention. TIME critic Judy Berman received the first four episodes of Season 4 for review. So, she saw Ted invoke his "white male privilege," Rebecca admit that she never considered a woman for the coaching job, Alice confront her over that decision, players struggle with pregnancy and childcare, sponsors abandon the women's team and wealthy investors get lectured about the patriarchy and their "fake allyship." The show couldn't have worked harder to establish its progressive credentials. Despite all of that, Berman's headline read: "Ted Lasso Doesn't Know What to Do With Women's Soccer." Berman argued that Ted's presence could come across as "paternalistic" and said the character sometimes resembled a "cringey, try-hard male feminist." She complained that Rebecca and Keeley still felt filtered through the "male gaze" and noted that many qualified female coaches could have received Ted's job. "A different coach is going to have to inspire those locker rooms, because Ted Lasso just doesn't belong," she concluded. You know, for a group of people who constantly complain that men think women "don't belong" in sports, they sure don't seem to have a problem proclaiming that men don't belong in women's sports. Well, except the men who "identify" as women, of course. Those men are to be celebrated. Variety critic Alison Herman wrote that "feminist commentary was never the series' strong suit" and argued that despite the show's pivot toward women, longtime male characters like Ted, Beard and Roy remain "load-bearing" and "space-occupying" protagonists. The Times of London critic Carol Midgley criticized the decision to sideline Alice in favor of Ted and argued that other storylines played into gender stereotypes, concluding that "occasionally you could argue the show itself is sexist." Apparently, building the season around women's sports, sexism, representation, unequal funding and male privilege wasn't enough. Even one of the people enlisted to celebrate the season found another way the show elevated a man at women's expense. At the end of Spain's interview with Hunt, she recounted a conversation in which Malala Yousafzai argued that the series should really be called "Rebecca." Her reasoning was that Ted's compassionate coaching style is possible only because Rebecca, as the club's owner, permits it. Spain said Malala believed a male owner would have fired Ted and hired a more traditionally masculine manager. Spain later asked Sudeikis what he thought of Malala's argument. "They're not changing the name," he replied, according to Spain. Hunt was far more accommodating. Spain quoted him calling Malala "incredible" and saying, "Everything she says makes sense," before joking that Warner Bros. probably didn't want to relabel all the merchandise. Think about the moving target here. "Ted Lasso" resurrected itself around a women's team, filled its opening episodes with feminist grievances, pushed its title character toward the sidelines and promoted the season alongside Sarah Spain and Megan Rapinoe. The response was still that the woman wasn't receiving enough credit and perhaps the man's name should be removed from the title. As of this writing, Season 4 holds an 88% critics score and a 69% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on those numbers, critics generally approved of the season's direction more than the audience did, yet prominent progressive reviewers still found new ideological shortcomings to condemn. What was "Ted Lasso" supposed to do? Hollywood studios repeatedly bend popular franchises around the demands of progressive critics. Writers center the "correct" political issues, diversify the cast, elevate female characters and turn familiar stories into vehicles for approved social messages. The audience gets a less entertaining product and critics still aren't satisfied. So, what's the point? You see, for the left-wing media, satisfaction would undermine the entire industry. A critic whose influence comes from identifying perceived sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and whatever other "isms" and "phobias" they will invent in the next few years has little incentive to declare that a mainstream television show handled everything correctly. The standard changes because the criticism is the product. Hollywood keeps playing along, presumably because executives want favorable coverage, awards and protection from the online backlash that comes with refusing to follow the approved script. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Yet "Ted Lasso" demonstrates how little that protection is worth. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER The show's creators resurrected a beloved series and rebuilt it around the issues progressive television critics claim to care about most. They then took it directly to sympathetic figures in left-wing sports media for promotion. The progressive critics still weren't happy. At some point, Hollywood might consider making shows for the people watching them instead of people professionally committed to manufacturing grievances on behalf of whichever "marginalized group" the show has supposedly wronged. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad418c75342cf4db875a2f Civil Rights Groups Sue to Keep Armed Agents Away From Voting Sites te 2026-09-18T13:50:04.328Z Civil Rights Groups Sue to Keep Armed Agents Away From Voting Sites The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send agents to polling stations violate the Voting Rights Act. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad3f3875342cf4db8759de Buffalo Bills fans pay eye-opening prices for beer and food at Highmark Stadium opener te 2026-09-18T13:40:08.784Z Buffalo Bills fans pay eye-opening prices for beer and food at Highmark Stadium opener The sun is shining this morning in Buffalo, New York as I pump out an edition of Friday Screencaps before hopping in the car for the drive back around Lake Erie to a whole different world from what I just experienced in Orchard Park. My mission going in from my boss was simple: Go ask questions, talk to the people and document the opening of the new Highmark Stadium. What I experienced was what I suspect it's like to be on a drug-induced trip like those people in San Francisco experience where they're taking dumps in the streets and hunched over in paralysis as the drugs run wild through the bloodstream. Gameday in Buffalo is unlike anything I've ever experienced, and I've been to all the biggest mainstream sports experiences in the U.S. NEWLY RELEASED DATA SHOWS WHICH AMERICAN CITIES HAVE THE MOST PASSIONATE FANBASES IN THE NFL The locals don't even blink at the sight of guys like this who are about to delete 32 beers. The real members of Bills Mafia have their own looks. Thousands of looks. They don't even blink at a 400-pounder walking around with his rack hanging out. This is a place where adults make the pilgrimage to the legendary Pinto Ron and Pizza Pete tailgate spot in the Hammer Lot where Pinto Ron's team of merry pranksters pour shots of liquor into a bowling ball finger hole. Drinking the shot is just one part of the routine. Throwing the ball to the ground and then blowing on a vuvuzela is also included in the bit. For the ladies, Ron's crew provides cherries that are dangled over their faces. Most of the classy women will not suck the cherry off the stem. Some, however, go for the full experience. I assume the cherries have been soaked in moonshine. BUFFALO BILLS' LATEST EDITION TO THEIR NEW STADIUM IS PREDICTABLY (AND PAINFULLY) ON BRAND Hundreds and hundreds of people drink the shot out of the same hole over the course of a tailgate. Sanitation isn't a thing here. The liquor kills the germs. Pinto Ron's team also cooks right on the hood of the most famous Pinto in Buffalo. Bacon and dogs were on the menu Thursday. Yes, I'm told the Pinto runs. LIONS AVOID FRANCHISE-WORST COLLAPSE AS DEFENSE STOPS SAINTS TWO-POINT CONVERSION IN OT Meanwhile, about 20 yards from Ron's holy grail of tailgating, Lions fans had their own headquarters. That's where the infamous Tubgaters held court with their traveling hot tub that is mounted on a trailer. The owner tells me that when he rolls into town, he'll pull up to a house and ask the locals if he can fill up his tub. On Thursday, he had the water up to 98 degrees, but he assured me it could get up to 115 degrees for those really cold winter nights. Buffalo Bills games are Disney World for NFL tailgating debauchery, but there's a method to the madness. People are cordial. Free food is very common. It's everywhere. Free liquor is everywhere. Friendship isn't hard to come by. You can arrive by yourself and leave with dozens of friends. RYAN FITZPATRICK SAYS FRIENDS RAVING ABOUT HIGHMARK STADIUM DESPITE HARSH CRITICS: 'ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE' Needless to say, I'll be back. My dad needs to see this. 📩 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 When I think of loud stadiums, I think of places like Autzen Field in Oregon or Arrowhead. Highmark Stadium IS LOUD. It's loud from the second you walk in. The music being played pregame was LOUD, super loud. The in-game experience is the same thing. I'm talking piercing noise. The other big takeaway for fans has to be concession pricing. Not that we should be shocked. I found this couple who just exited a concession room where they picked up the prized Bills beer horns and some food. Here's what you get for $113: • Two beers (16 oz, I believe) • Two of the prized beer horns – yes, they have lids so you don't spill beer as you're walking around • A bucket of popcorn • A personal pizza Other food prices that I spotted: • Souvenir bucket of popcorn: $19 • Dill pickle popcorn: $10 • Pierogies: $14 • Sweet Italian sausage on a sub roll: $14 CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE • Order of chicken wings (I assume you get six): $18 Other observations from Highmark: – The concourses are a mess in the areas where they're selling the beer horns. In one area of the 300 level, an escalator dumps fans into an area where fans had waited over an hour for the horns. "How long have you been waiting for a beer," I asked one guy. "An hour and fifteen minutes," the guy replied. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! I thought he was screwing with me. "Are you serious," I fired back. That's when others in line spoke up. He wasn't lying. An hour or more wait was common. But, if you were to ask a Bills fan if the lines, and prices, and insanely packed concourses were worth it after the Bills worked over the Lions in their new stadium, they'd tell you it was all worth it to watch Josh Allen have another career night. All was right in the world as long as you don't look at your credit card statement. ################ SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER And with that, I'm going to close down my Buffalo operation and get home to Ohio. Thank you to Buffalo. It was a trip I won't soon forget. Have a great day. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad3f3375342cf4db87599d Civil Rights Groups Sue to Keep Armed Agents Away From Voting Sites te 2026-09-18T13:40:03.331Z Civil Rights Groups Sue to Keep Armed Agents Away From Voting Sites The lawsuit argues that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send agents to polling stations violate the Voting Rights Act. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad3ce075342cf4db87595e Ex-Dem insider reveals why Biden's daughter threatened to sue her: 'Bordered on parody' te 2026-09-18T13:30:08.708Z Ex-Dem insider reveals why Biden's daughter threatened to sue her: 'Bordered on parody' Ashley Biden, the daughter of former President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, threatened to sue a former Democratic fundraiser for spilling secret internal discussions about her father’s cognitive and political decline in the 2024 presidential election. Lindy Li, a former Democratic fundraiser who switched her party affiliation over unheeded warning signs about Biden's decline in the 2024 election, said Ashley Biden posted the threat to Instagram in February of last year. "They wanted to scare me. That was the goal," Li told Fox News Digital. Li’s account of the threat, in her view, was one of the many attempts to intimidate her that she received after deciding to speak out about the fear, disorganization and secrecy that had paved the path for Biden to run for re-election in 2024 despite looming concerns about his age. Also, the fact that those threats never materialized is evidence to Li that even her critics recognize the validity of her testimony. EX-DEM FUNDRAISER TORCHES BIDEN AS BOOK LAUNCH IMPLODES: 'NO ONE WANTS TO READ' Li described the threat from Ashley Biden in her book, "Unburdened." "Ashley later threatened to sue me for saying there was a cover-up of her father’s decline, lashing out on Instagram with a bravado so crude it bordered on parody: ‘This woman is a bonavide [sic] liar. Karma is a real bad b----, Lindy,’" she wrote. "’I don’t know you but can’t wait to meet your a-- in court. Ready for a lawsuit? Let’s go! I won’t put up with this BS anymore.’" In an interview with Fox News Digital, Li showed screenshots of the post, which she said was taken down just a day later. She recalled thinking it was odd; beyond the lawsuit threat, Ashley Biden claimed she didn’t know who Li was. But Li had met Ashley Biden on a number of occasions and shared pictures of the two of them with Fox News Digital as proof. "Doesn’t even pass the smell test," Li said. EX-DEM INSIDER DROPS BOMBSHELL ON WHERE HARRIS RANKED IN SECRET POLL FOR BIDEN REPLACEMENTS As a top fundraiser for both Biden and Harris, Li worked closely with top donors, high-profile members of the party and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). When she decided to go public with revelations about Biden’s age, she said the retaliation began immediately. "When I went on Shannon’s show to say Biden needs to step aside — and three hours later he did — my access immediately vanished and all my fears about speaking up were justified," Li told Fox News Digital. "I knew that if I spoke up my life would be ruined and frankly, in that respect, it was. I was never invited to the White House again, never spoke to Biden again. Prior to that, I was invited to the White House every two to three weeks. There was always some event." When Li brought Ashley Biden’s threat to her legal representation, her lawyers dismissed the possibility but said that the Bidens would likely try to avoid a painful disclosure battle that could drag more details into the public eye over his cognitive decline. EX-DEM INSIDER EXPOSES WHAT HARRIS TOLD TOP DONORS DAYS BEFORE BIDEN DROPPED OUT: 'INSULTING' "My lawyer’s eyes lit up: ‘You want her to use you. The discovery would be incredible,’" she recalled. "Truth, after all, remains the strongest shield against defamation." "Everything I said was true so... I’m still waiting to hear exactly what I said that is legally actionable," Li said. Representation for Ashley Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad383375342cf4db875872 Flock CEO, tech rivals called to testify before senators over AI camera privacy concerns te 2026-09-18T13:10:11.307Z Flock CEO, tech rivals called to testify before senators over AI camera privacy concerns FIRST ON FOX: The CEOs of four companies, including Flock Safety, are being called to testify before a Senate panel next week as lawmakers look to crack down on AI-powered surveillance camera tracking Americans’ movements, Fox News Digital has learned. A number of lawmakers and several governors have called for investigations into alleged privacy violations regarding the handling of images and data generated by AI-backed surveillance cameras. The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism will hold a hearing titled "Always Watching: Flock’s Nationwide AI Surveillance Network" on Sept. 23. THREE NEW COMPANIES FACE JOSH HAWLEY'S INVESTIGATION INTO AI SURVEILLANCE AND VEHICLE TRACKING "Americans do not surrender their privacy rights when they drive to work, drop their kids off at school, or go to church," subcommittee Chairman Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital in a statement. "I’m investigating these companies to determine WHO has access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ data - and what they’re doing with it." Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock Safety, Rick Smith, CEO of Axon Enterprise Inc., Greg Brown, CEO of Motorola Solutions, and Filip Kaliszan, CEO of Verkada, have all been invited to testify before the committee. Fox News Digital reached out to the four companies invited to testify. AI-powered surveillance cameras have been heavily scrutinized by lawmakers over concerns that the cameras track individuals’ movements without reason, regardless of whether a crime is being committed. FORMER PENTAGON AI CHIEF WARNS FLOCK CAMERAS COULD CREATE 'CHINA-LIKE SURVEILLANCE STATE' IN THE US A number of politicians have taken action against the devices, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordering the removal of all license plate reader cameras from Florida state roads and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordering all state agencies to stop spending state money on Flock Safety cameras. Flock Safety cameras, along with other similar brands and technology, use artificial intelligence to automatically track and identify vehicles and license plates for local law enforcement use. Nationwide concern has grown about whether the AI-backed system should be allowed to track the movement of vehicles without a warrant or the consent of drivers. FLOCK SURVEILLANCE SPREADS ACROSS THE SOUTH AS RED-STATE LAWMAKERS SEEK TO AX '1984'-STYLE TRACKING TOOLS A total of about 120,000 Flock Safety cameras are operating in the U.S. in every state except Alaska. Opposition to Flock Safety cameras has created an unlikely political overlap, with Republicans and far-left activists criticizing the technology for very different reasons. Republican lawmakers have largely centered their objections on privacy rights, government overreach and warrantless surveillance, while socialist and communist organizers have incorporated the cameras into broader campaigns opposing artificial intelligence, law enforcement, immigration enforcement, data center development and what they describe as an emerging "police state" or "AI surveillance state." LICENSE PLATE CAMERAS ARE TRACKING DRIVERS EVERYWHERE President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that he supports the idea of Flock Safety cameras "because of law enforcement" and the aid AI-powered cameras provide to police and local law enforcement. Over the last year, several far-left organizations tied to a network funded by Shanghai-based tech businessman Neville Roy Singham have organized local opposition to Flock Safety cameras while simultaneously campaigning against new data center projects. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders have continued to champion data center construction as part of the administration's broader technology and infrastructure agenda. FIRST ON FOX: ‘NO KINGS’ PROTEST NETWORK BEHIND FIGHT AGAINST AI DATA CENTERS AND FLOCK CAMERAS The Party for Socialism and Liberation's Denver chapter teamed up with Indivisible and the far-left Sunrise Movement in May to promote a public forum focused on the alleged link between data centers and mass surveillance, contending that both exist to serve billionaires instead of everyday communities. TEA PARTY FOUNDER LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE 'DATA CENTER REVOLT' AGAINST AI DATA CENTER EXPANSION The Party for Socialism and Liberation's Tucson chapter joined "deFLOCK Tucson" and the "No Desert Data Center Coalition" on July 25 for a gathering dubbed "It's ALL Connected," held at the Global Justice Center on E. 26th Street. Event advertisements posed a question about what mass surveillance, data centers and electricity have in common, responding with a single message: "IT'S ALL CONNECTED." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad383275342cf4db875869 Can tech really get you off your phone and into real life? te 2026-09-18T13:10:10.250Z Can tech really get you off your phone and into real life? How many times have you picked up your phone to check one thing and found yourself still scrolling 30 minutes later? I know I've done it. Our phones make it incredibly easy to stay connected. Yet something interesting seems to be happening at the same time. Many people are looking for more reasons to put those phones down and spend time with other people in the real world. Run clubs are growing. Local gatherings are drawing attention. Phone-free events are popping up. People seem hungry for experiences that feel a little less like another feed. That raises an interesting question: Could the same technology that keeps pulling us online also help get us back into real life? That idea is behind NewTree Social, an early-stage community events app from 29-year-old founder Maddy O'Connor. She wants people to use their phones to discover something happening nearby, make a plan and then go experience it. And the timing may be right. RESTAURANTS BAN DINERS' PHONES DURING MEALS AS NO-SCROLL TREND GROWS: PUT IT AWAY OR ELSE NEW! 🩺 Free CyberGuy LIVE class: Get Better Healthcare With AI Saturday, September 26 at 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson will show you five practical ways AI can help you organize your health history, remember important appointment details, understand complicated medical information, research prescriptions and prepare smarter questions for your doctor. No technical experience is needed. Save your free spot at CyberGuyLive.com There is some real data behind this shift. Eventbrite's 2026 Social Study surveyed people ages 18 to 35 in the U.S. and U.K. It found that 79% planned to attend more events in 2026. Among Gen Z respondents, 46% said they were limiting screen time and 74% said in-person experiences were more important than digital ones. Now, keep in mind that this research comes from Eventbrite, a company whose business revolves around live events. Still, those numbers line up with something we are seeing play out in the real world. Eventbrite says phone-free experiences listed on its platform grew 567% globally between 2024 and 2025. Attendance at those events rose 121%. The company based those numbers on events that used "phone-free" terminology in their title or description. For people who have spent years with a smartphone within arm's reach, intentionally putting it away feels significant. It also creates an unusual opening for technology. Instead of asking how an app can keep you scrolling longer, what if the goal becomes helping you find something worth closing the app for? That is where O'Connor comes in. She told CyberGuy that the idea for NewTree grew partly from her own experience living in Washington, D.C. without an established group of friends. Her experience changed depending on where she lived and whether she could find places where meeting new people felt natural. At the same time, she was watching interest grow around run clubs, wellness events, social clubs and other in-person experiences. So she started building around that behavior. NewTree is designed to help people discover local activities and meet others through something they already want to do. I think that part is important. Walking into a room of strangers solely because you are supposed to meet people can feel awkward. Walking into a fitness class, community event or gathering you already find interesting gives you a reason to be there before you ever introduce yourself. For someone who recently moved or simply wants to expand a social circle, that could make taking the first step a little easier. Open NewTree and the basic experience should feel familiar. There is a feed. You browse events nearby. You can RSVP and get reminders about something you want to attend. But the idea behind that feed is a little different. O'Connor comes from a graphic design background and told CyberGuy that she deliberately wanted NewTree to feel more like a social platform than a traditional events directory. The app currently focuses on community, fitness and wellness events around Tampa, St. Pete and Clearwater. Apple describes it as an app for discovering local events, RSVPing and meeting new people. Hosts can add photos and videos to event listings. Users can browse what is happening around them and RSVP from their phones. O'Connor also wants reviews to play a bigger role in what people discover. She says reviews of a host's events can affect how those events perform in the feed instead of simply sitting on a profile. There is something almost funny about the concept. You open another social-style app because you want to spend less of your social life inside apps. But maybe that is exactly the point. EXPERTS REVEAL WHY 'NONNAMAXXING' TREND MAY IMPROVE MENTAL, PHYSICAL HEALTH NewTree is entering a crowded space. Meetup, Eventbrite and Facebook already help people discover events nearby, and both Meetup and Eventbrite offer personalized recommendations. So what is NewTree trying to do differently? O'Connor says she wants the experience to feel more like a social platform built specifically around getting people together in person. She also says reviews can influence how a host's events perform in the feed, so better-reviewed experiences can potentially receive greater visibility. During NewTree's early pilot, O'Connor is personally reviewing and approving hosts before their events can appear publicly. None of those ideas completely reinvents event discovery. The bet is that putting them together in a more curated, community-focused experience will give people another useful way to find things to do and meet people nearby. Whether that gives people enough reason to add NewTree to the apps they already use is one of the biggest things the company still has to prove. Here is what I would be watching. Does NewTree help people make plans they actually follow through on? Getting someone to download an app is one thing. Getting them to put on shoes, leave home and show up somewhere is much harder. The idea works if you spend a few minutes browsing NewTree, find something interesting and eventually put the phone back in your pocket because you have somewhere to go. It becomes a lot less interesting if people simply scroll through another feed filled with things they might someday do. O'Connor is very open about just how early NewTree is. She told CyberGuy that NewTree is pre-traction and pre-revenue. Tampa Bay is the starting point because she wants to prove that people will use the platform in one market before trying to expand throughout Florida and eventually nationwide. So there is a long way to go. But the behavior NewTree is betting on already appears to be taking shape. Of course, using an app to find events where you may meet strangers brings some very real safety questions. O'Connor says she has taken a hands-on approach during NewTree's MVP stage. She told CyberGuy that she personally reviews and approves hosts before their events can appear on the platform. Users can report content or other users and block people. Hosts can also remove or report attendees. NewTree's current support page says business profiles are reviewed before they can post. However, there is an important limitation. A verified badge means NewTree says it has confirmed that the business is who it claims to be. It does not mean NewTree is endorsing or guaranteeing a specific event. NewTree's terms go further. They say events are generally operated independently by outside hosts and that NewTree does not ordinarily perform criminal background checks or identity verification on users, attendees, hosts or organizers. So I would still do some homework before showing up at an unfamiliar event. Look up the organizer independently. Check the venue. If you are uncomfortable going alone, bring someone you trust. Technology can help you find people. It cannot remove all of the risks that come with meeting people you do not know. Privacy deserves a close look too. O'Connor told CyberGuy that NewTree collects basic account information, including your name, email, date of birth and location. She says the app can use a saved profile location or, with your permission, your device location. She also said the information is stored through NewTree's Supabase database, with database-level access controls designed to limit who can access different information. When someone RSVPs to a free event, O'Connor says the host receives the attendee's name, email and location information so they can manage and communicate with attendees. 1 IN 6 ADULTS PLAGUED BY LONELINESS AS RESEARCHERS REVEAL LASTING IMPACT OF COVID PANDEMIC Another detail could cause some confusion. Apple currently gives NewTree a 13+ age rating. NewTree itself says you must be at least 18 years old to create an account or use the platform. O'Connor told CyberGuy that Apple's 13+ label reflects its content-based App Store rating rather than the minimum age NewTree allows on the platform. So, despite what you may see on the App Store listing, NewTree says the service itself is for adults 18 and older. Right now, Apple lists NewTree as an iPhone app. O'Connor told CyberGuy that Android support is planned but not available yet. The business model is still taking shape too. O'Connor says she is leaning toward keeping the app free for users while eventually offering optional premium tools for businesses and hosts. Exactly what those paid features would include has not been decided. So I would look at NewTree for what it is today: a very early app built around a much larger change in the way some people are thinking about technology. Most of us could probably use a few more reasons to put the phone down and do something in the real world. Our phones have become where we communicate, work, watch videos and fill just about every empty moment. Sometimes the screen starts taking the place of the experiences it was supposed to help us find. Maybe the better approach is expecting more from the technology we already use. If an app helps you discover a local event, try something you would never have considered or meet someone you otherwise never would have crossed paths with, the phone becomes the starting point. Then it can get out of the way. I like that idea. Use the technology to find something worth doing. Then look up from the screen and go do it. What stands out to me here is how good technology has become at keeping us looking down. Notifications pull us back in. Feeds always have something else waiting. Before you know it, another chunk of your day has disappeared into a screen. Now we are seeing signs that many people want something different. They still want technology, but they also want more opportunities to be around people in the real world. NewTree has a lot to prove. But I like the problem O'Connor is trying to solve. Your phone already knows how to keep you home and entertained for hours. Maybe the next really useful social app will be the one that gives you a good reason to leave. Would you use an app designed to get you off your phone and out meeting people, or does downloading another social app defeat the whole purpose? 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/6aad383075342cf4db875860 The AI revolution could become a national security disaster if we aren't careful te 2026-09-18T13:10:08.800Z The AI revolution could become a national security disaster if we aren't careful Reindustrialization is alive in America. Yet the recent backlash on artificial intelligence (AI) data centers reveals we have not learned from our offshoring mistakes: creating dependencies that will not be easily reversed. Whether or not AI data centers are built in America, AI is here to stay. Either we choose to shape the trajectory of AI technology by embracing the AI data center buildout or cede this advantage to other nations that are eager to lead the AI race. China, for example, announced nearly $300 billion in data center investment through 2030, not including private sector spending. India is offering a 20-year tax holiday for foreign cloud operators and the Republic of Korea is offering regulatory relief. Meanwhile, many Americans are calling for moratoriums. The national security consequences of who hosts AI data centers go beyond competition with China. If we do not build AI data centers in the United States, we risk everything that is inside the data centers: the data, compute, and intellectual property (IP) that drive innovation, protect privacy, and enable sovereignty. We will also forfeit our ability to set the security standards for this critical infrastructure. LIZ PEEK: CHINA IS CHEERING AS THE LEFT BLOCKS AMERICA’S AI INFRASTRUCTURE If AI data centers are the engines of AI innovation, data is the fuel. A significant amount of data is required to make AI useful, all of which must pass through AI data centers. Data, therefore, must be handled carefully — especially for privacy reasons — and viewed as a national asset. Adversaries will view data routed through AI data centers as an opportunity to advance their own AI ambitions. Data may be collected for espionage purposes or to accelerate adversaries’ own AI models, as we have seen China do time and again in cyberspace and through adversarial distillation. Adversaries may also conduct adversarial attacks during model training, which could, without our knowledge, degrade and manipulate data that determines the performance of AI models. Either way, insecure or compromised data impacts everyone — from large businesses to individuals — and exposes potentially sensitive information. Then there is compute. America currently hosts 75% of global high performance compute, making it a true strategic advantage. CHINA-LINKED HACKERS INFILTRATED US GOVERNMENT NETWORKS BEFORE FBI TAKEDOWN Strong export controls on advanced compute enable us to widen America’s AI lead against adversaries and work with allies and partners to shape the trajectory of AI. Our commitment to increased domestic semiconductor production through implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act is reinforcing our lead with new U.S. capacity. But where do chips go once we have them? Many of them go to AI data centers. By sending AI data centers overseas, the chips will follow — and potentially the businesses that supply them. Re-offshoring will have a detrimental impact on U.S. resiliency and the U.S. economy, which has prepared for the reindustrialization of semiconductor manufacturing for the past four years. CHINA IS BUILDING AN AI WAR MACHINE. WASHINGTON MUST WAKE UP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE Today, China’s semiconductors are a few generations behind the leading-edge due to U.S. export controls on high-end chips and equipment. But if chips are increasingly housed overseas where we cannot enforce security standards, we may increase the ease of remote access instead of closing this loophole, further enabling China to accelerate its own AI development. Relying on overseas AI data centers will also kneecap us in the event of a global crisis because other nations–not the United States–will decide where to surge compute. There is no guarantee that America will receive any of that capacity, but what we do receive will be slow because it will not be on our shores. Compute capacity is already severely constrained and will only become more limited as demand grows for AI tools. This will impact our military, which already faces a potential compute bottleneck, and our innovators powering new breakthroughs, including researchers, students, and startups. Having AI data centers in America ensures we can comfortably prioritize access during a crisis while continuing to foster our innovation economy and technical workforce. Tying together data and compute is AI IP, which includes the AI models and model weights that have enabled America to stay at the frontier. IP is already a well-known target for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and this extends to AI. China has already engaged in IP theft through adversarial distillation to compete with proprietary, American frontier models. Sending AI data centers overseas is like handing IP over to the CCP, which they will continue to use for their own market dominance and, presumably, their military advantage. Luckily, America currently hosts the most AI data centers. However, given about 60% of announced projects for this year have yet to begin construction, this lead cannot be taken for granted. As companies and policymakers seize this moment to reframe the narrative about resource use and benefit to local communities, three immediate actions can build public confidence and ensure America’s security interests. CHINESE BOT FARM CAUGHT RED-HANDED TRYING TO INFLUENCE HEATED AI DATA CENTER DEBATE First, America should leverage federal land to start rapid AI data center buildout. In July 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to open up federal land and streamline permitting for commercial AI data centers. By using this authority, America can ensure AI is viewed as a common good instead of a local burden. It also puts the responsibility on the U.S. government, rather than local communities, to work with data center developers to scale AI using modest resources. Second, the Commerce Department should leverage the AI Exports Program to promote secure, global AI data center buildout with allies and partners. Allies and partners need AI capacity as much as the United States, and we should help enable their success. Standards for cyber and physical security of AI data centers are vital to securing and shaping AI use, but are still in development. The AI Exports Program, which aims to share the American tech stack with allies and partners, can be the enforcement mechanism to standardize safe and secure AI data center operations overseas. Through this program, we can mitigate the impact of insider threats and natural disasters; failures of interdependencies, such as water and energy; and compromise of data, compute, and IP. By setting these expectations through an established program, companies can confidently build and other countries will know how to leverage the American tech stack for their own advantage, reinforcing it as the secure alternative to China’s tech stack. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Third, we must save room for AI data center improvements. Although we do not want to stall AI data center buildout, which erodes their value, it is worth asking if the pace of this buildout is necessary to stay ahead in AI. Not every data center proposed is expected to be built, but estimates project that we could reach $7 trillion in global AI data center investment by 2030. The domino effect of more compute is greater opportunity to innovate better methods to power AI that may not require a massive data center, or to improve AI models so that they do not need as much power. We must give innovators time to make these breakthroughs, and us the flexibility to adapt. America is poised to lead or lose the AI industrial revolution — a physical representation of its security interests. It must choose to lead by embracing AI data center buildout in the United States. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad337f75342cf4db875763 Ryan Clark again accuses ESPN of leaking his firing to OutKick: Here’s the real story te 2026-09-18T12:50:07.777Z Ryan Clark again accuses ESPN of leaking his firing to OutKick: Here’s the real story Ryan Clark once again accused ESPN of leaking the news of his firing to OutKick to embarrass him. This time, he said so during an appearance on the influential Black radio show "The Breakfast Club." "Everybody that got laid off got told on Tuesday. Only one person got told on Monday on set. Me. That’s the distinction," Clark told the hosts Tuesday. "It was also purposeful. It was also meant, in my opinion, to humiliate. In leaking it to OutKick, you now know if anybody is going to curry favor for you in this decision, it’s going to be them because it’s me." ESPN informed Clark of his firing during a commercial break of the July 22 edition of "NFL Live." He did not return to the program. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! He continued, "There’s so many reputable sports publications. Whether it’s you know Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, The Athletic. If this is going to be as big a news as it turned out to be, why not give it to them? Because you knew who you were giving it to. You knew the small amount of people within that building that knew it. Then the humiliation that you at least purposed it to come along with me being laid off." "I do feel like it was about that humiliation, and he wanted to save me from that. It was already going to be enough written. It was already going to be enough laughs, enough jokes that I worked that day anyway. So I appreciated him." This is not the first time Clark has made that claim. Nor is it the first time listeners of "The Breakfast Club" have heard it. The day after OutKick reported the news, one of the show’s hosts claimed a source told them ESPN executive Burke Magnus leaked the information to OutKick to spite Clark. It is possible the source was someone who spoke with Clark — or Clark himself. The version of events Clark and the show’s hosts are presenting, however, is not accurate. I would know. I am one of three people who know how OutKick obtained the information and why ESPN informed Clark of his firing during a live program. So let’s go step by step. TOMI LAHREN DEFENDS OUTKICK'S ESPN SCOOP, TORCHES JEMELE HILL, BACKS SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM We must first return to Super Bowl week in February. Although the game aired on NBC, agents, executives, and on-air talent from various networks routinely descend on the host city for meetings and negotiations. One of the most notable pieces of information to emerge that week was that Clark’s standing at ESPN had deteriorated ahead of the network’s first Super Bowl broadcast in 2027. Sources told us Clark was unlikely to remain part of ESPN’s "Monday Night Countdown," which was scheduled to serve as the network’s Super Bowl pregame and halftime show. They also questioned whether he would remain with ESPN at all. The rumblings were not entirely surprising. Despite what Clark says, he was not universally loved inside ESPN. He had supporters, including Stephen A. Smith, ESPN NFL studio executive Seth Markman, and Mina Kimes. But he also had plenty of detractors. Complaints about Clark included his handling of previous contract negotiations, including videos and regular updates; demeaning comments about Robert Griffin III for marrying a white woman; an on-air and behind-the-scenes blowup with Peter Schrager; reckless comments about Louisiana police; and multiple headlines that had little to do with sports. ESPN would not fire Clark over any single incident. The network tends to tread carefully when dismissing Black talent because of the risk of false accusations of racism, accusations Clark eventually made anyway. Waiting for a broader layoff period made sense. Those rumblings continued throughout the spring and summer, especially after ESPN omitted Clark from its upcoming Super Bowl plans during the network’s May upfront presentation. Before July, OutKick also reported several times that Clark’s future with ESPN was uncertain. RYAN CLARK MADE IT TOO DIFFICULT FOR ESPN TO JUSTIFY KEEPING HIM AFTER YEARS OF CONTROVERSY Now let’s jump to July. On Friday, July 17, a friendly media ally told me they had heard ESPN planned to let go of Clark the following week, when the network was expected to announce layoffs. For context, this person was not a source. Everything we discuss is private and off the record. They did not give me the information for publication, and I had no plans to report it. Two days later, on Monday, others in the industry began asking whether I had heard about the layoffs, who was on the list, and whether Clark was among those who'd be dismissed. That afternoon, I learned that my OutKick colleague Dan Zakhsheske had also heard that ESPN planned to lay off Clark on Tuesday. Zakhsheske and I then gathered the information and confirmed it with two additional sources. We typically avoid reporting transactional media news, but Clark had become a significant figure in the broader sports conversation because of his racial and political commentary. We decided the story was substantial enough to report. Around 4 p.m. ET that day, in accordance with our standard editorial policy, we informed ESPN’s public-relations department that we planned to report Clark’s firing. ESPN PR said it would get back to us. Around 4:48 p.m., the network responded that it had no comment. We published our story, only to learn that The Athletic had reported a bare-bones version at approximately the same time. We later learned that ESPN informed Clark of his firing during the commercial break, right around 4:48 p.m. — before sending us its response. The timeline makes clear that ESPN did not work with OutKick. No one high up at the company leaked the information to us or intended, as Clark put it, to "humiliate" him. So why did ESPN handle it this way? ESPN has told multiple people who inquired about the situation that management did not think OutKick would hold the news until after "NFL Live." The network feared Clark would learn about his firing from our report. The executive who informed Clark — and told him OutKick knew about it — was Seth Markman, one of Clark’s allies. It appears Markman made that decision because he believed Clark was better off hearing the news directly from him. In our view, Markman handled the situation poorly and helped create the secondary storyline surrounding Clark’s firing: the OutKick angle. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE ESPN also deserves blame for assuming OutKick would not hold the story until it addressed the layoff with Clark. The fact that we reached out to the network indicated that we would wait. The network then added to the circus by tipping off The Athletic that we had the story. As for why Clark’s firing was announced a day before the rest of the layoffs, the answer is simple: He was the only person whose name moved the needle. Cam Newton was the second-biggest name laid off. OutKick reported his termination the following morning. For all the drama, headlines, and accusations, OutKick did not contribute to the situation beyond reporting the news. We heard about a story from sources and reported it after seeking comment from ESPN. Every other subplot was the product of ESPN’s poor handling of the situation and Clark accusing us of conspiring with his former bosses. To avoid another situation like this, ESPN should stop assuming our intentions are poor and do a better job keeping sensitive information concealed. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Perhaps unbeknownst to ESPN management and Clark, his impending firing was relatively well known in and around ESPN. People talk. And OutKick has never needed an intentional leak to learn what is happening inside ESPN. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad2ed075342cf4db874b40 Sophie Cunningham says what other gaslighting female athletes won't about the naked Sydney Sweeney ad te 2026-09-18T12:30:08.897Z Sophie Cunningham says what other gaslighting female athletes won't about the naked Sydney Sweeney ad After a full week of women athletes fuming at Sydney Sweeney for, apparently, setting women's sports back decades with her naked gambling ad, Sophie Cunningham has set the record straight. And, to the surprise of approximately nobody, the WNBA's most sane player offered up the most sane take of this entire, silly ordeal. "Why are girls mad?" Cunningham asked on her newly revamped, "No Hesitation" podcast. "That is literally what she does. Why is anyone mad? It is a gambling ad: men, sports, naked women. Of course, that’s going to draw attention. "Do I agree with it? Morally, I think it’s kind of weird, but each to their own. Go do your thing, sis." SYDNEY SWEENEY FIRES BACK AT TROLLS AFTER FACING CRITICISM ONLINE FOR PROVOCATIVE SPORTS AD Shockingly, it's another home run for Sophie Cunningham. She just doesn't miss. What a run! Look, Cunningham's right. This is what Sweeney does. She likes to take her clothes off, if you haven't noticed. It's sort of her shtick. In fact, the whole ad campaign was her idea, according to Novig CEO Jacob Fortinsky! Sweeney literally came up with the whole thing. SYDNEY SWEENEY LEAVES LITTLE TO THE IMAGINATION IN PROVOCATIVE NEW CAMPAIGN "It really was Sydney who was driving a lot of the visuals and the messaging," he said during a panel earlier this week. "We're hugely supportive of women's sports. I think it's a huge component of our platform. We never intended to portray female sports." Correct. This ad had nothing to do with women's sports. It was about gambling. Aren't they all nowadays? Seems like it. Sweeney was catering to one very specific audience, as her and new podcast partner, Drew Hanlen, pointed out. Drew, who wouldn't stop talking, figured around 75% of sports bettors are men. I think that's way off. I'd put it closer to 90%. Maybe 95%. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Regardless, that's who the ad was for — and it worked! SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM ADDRESSES PERCEPTION THAT SHE IS THE 'SEX SYMBOL' OF THE WNBA "I can understand when you first see that ad that like it could kind of deflate women, because it’s like we’ve worked so hard to get a little bit of respect around here," Cunningham continued. "But when you really think about it, it’s like, screw it, let that girl do her thing. This has nothing to do with us. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER "At the end of the day, I’m really loving seeing all these girls who are powerful, strong, showing young girls what it looks like to be an athlete. I don’t think the ad was coming for women in sports." Another win for the WNBA's most sane player. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad2ecf75342cf4db874b37 Dave Rubin breaks down Hasan Piker's transition from Twitch streamer to political player te 2026-09-18T12:30:07.763Z Dave Rubin breaks down Hasan Piker's transition from Twitch streamer to political player Hasan Piker may be a major name in online political media now, but when he got his start at The Young Turks, a network co-founded by his uncle, Cenk Uygur, he was a young, loud guy looking to make a splash in the online political discourse. Dave Rubin, who formerly worked on The Young Turks, recalls Piker as "a big dude" who was "really loud." "[Cenk] just put Hasan on air, even though virtually everyone there wanted to be on air," Rubin recalled in a conversation with Fox News Digital. Rubin said that most of the staff at The Young Turks wanted to be on camera, but "once [Hasan] just showed up, he just got on camera. Cenk just gave him the keys to the kingdom and I guess he became some sort of personality since then." While Piker has continued to profess anti-capitalist and progressive views, while building an audience of loyal followers, Rubin later had a political epiphany and realigned himself with the right. In a 2017 PragerU video, Rubin explained that the Left had gone from being "progressive to regressive," pointing to cancel culture and calls for censorship, among other things. HASAN PIKER IS BECOMING THE 'FACE OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT,' FORMER DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVE WARNS Rubin said he was not surprised that Piker had gone from Twitch streamer to what he called the "brain trust" of Democratic Socialists. "The Rubin Report" host explained that he saw Piker as filling a void for the Left as the Right saw a rise in online personalities. Rubin also pointed to the ways in which Piker differed from the typical left-leaning personalities, which he said have made the Twitch streamer resonate with young people. "There weren't that many entertaining new people on the left online. As I said, the right had this rich group of people that was growing and growing and going, whether it was Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson or me or Steven Crowder or whoever it might be. There was this long list of people. The left had a couple people…. They were all sort of dorky, effeminate, weird, kind of limp-wristed, low testosterone," Rubin said. "And he came on, and again, he's big, he kind of jacked, you know, he wears his fancy clothes, he is aggressive, it's not really what progressives are," he said. Beyond Piker’s physical presence and media rise, Rubin argued that the streamer's ideology is anchored in an aggressive critique of Israel, something that he said has become more common among left-wing personalities. He argued that progressives "have an endless obsession and hatred of Israel," which he said "is just an extension of hatred of the Jews." FAR-LEFT STREAMER HASAN PIKER EQUATES ISRAEL'S 'RIGHT TO EXIST' TO NAZI GERMANY "You don't have to agree with everything any government does or anything else, but when you have no standards for any other country, and then you hold only one country to any standard whatsoever, and that country happens to be the place where the Jews live, maybe it has a little something to do with Jews," Rubin said. Piker has faced accusations of antisemitism and sparked backlash with a recent comment about Jewish Americans' support for Israel. During his Aug. 20 stream, Piker said, "People don't f--- with Israel any longer. And if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they're singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone will come around and take action not against Israel, mind you, but against American Jews." Several lawmakers condemned the remarks, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who campaigned with Piker, responded to the streamer's remarks, saying "I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence." EL-SAYED DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM HASAN PIKER AFTER DISTURBING REMARKS ABOUT JEWISH AMERICANS Rubin believes that one of the reasons behind the focus on Israel is that "Jews don't fit into the intersectional calculator." He said that, while Jews had been historically persecuted, their success in America has made it so they don't fit the mold of an "oppressed minority" the way other groups do. "If you're an oppressed group that's not oppressed, it debunks their whole ideology," Rubin said. According to Rubin, the central hypocrisy comes down to Piker's lifestyle versus the beliefs the streamer professes to hold. This dynamic, Rubin warns, could leave Piker's audience bearing the consequences of his ideas. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE "I have no doubt he lives like a capitalist while promoting socialism and he won't be eaten by the revolution the way some average kid who gets confused by his ideas and then probably gets out there and does something stupid will," Rubin said. Fox News Digital reached out to Piker and The Young Turks for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad2a2375342cf4db874a3a Sydney Sweeney’s provocative sports ad 'reinforces the image she has already built' despite backlash: expert te 2026-09-18T12:10:11.576Z Sydney Sweeney’s provocative sports ad 'reinforces the image she has already built' despite backlash: expert Sydney Sweeney sparked backlash across the aisles following the release of her provocative campaign for a sports trading app. No stranger to controversy or criticism, Sweeney, 29, faced the music from Olympic athletes, entertainment icons and millions of keyboard warriors who voiced their opinion of the naked ad. Adrienne Uthe, founder of Kronus Communications, exclusively told Fox News Digital that while Sweeney's latest ad may have ruffled feathers, "women having agency also means allowing women to make choices about their image that other women may not personally agree with." SYDNEY SWEENEY FIRES BACK AT TROLLS AFTER FACING CRITICISM ONLINE FOR PROVOCATIVE SPORTS AD "People are entitled to dislike the ad, just like women athletes are entitled to criticize it for their own reasons," Uthe said. "But I don't think this is materially damaging to Sydney Sweeney in any way, shape or form. "In fact, I don't think it's a large departure from who she is and what her brand represents. She's a beautiful woman right now at the peak of her career, and she ultimately can decide which projects she wants to take and which ones she doesn't." She added, "And she's chosen to make sexuality a part of her brand for better or for worse." WATCH HERE: EXPERT WEIGHS IN ON SYDNEY SWEENEY PROVOCATIVE AD CONTROVERSY Sweeney's latest ad featured several shots with strategically placed sports equipment covering her mostly nude body. "Think you know sports? Prove it. Novig is just sports. So, they wanted a show," the "Euphoria" star said in the campaign. SYDNEY SWEENEY, SCOOTER BRAUN ROMANCE FACES BIGGEST CHALLENGE YET AS EXPERT WARNS COUPLE TO 'BE PREPARED' Several female athletes didn’t appear to take too kindly to the ad. Australian Olympic gold medalist swimmer Ariarne Titmus, British sprinter Amy Hunt and former American gymnast Gracie Kramer were among those to denounce the ad. Uthe believed Novig's creative team accomplished its goal, but stressed the significance of effective marketing. "Going viral tells me they captured attention. It doesn’t tell me they captured the customer," Uthe said. "This is where social media completely distorts reality, and we've seen this across all platforms in pop culture, politics, sports and beyond. So the narrative that is the loudest isn't necessarily what is true and what the majority opinion is." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Uthe noted that one side claimed the ad objectified women in sports, while the other narrative questions why there's outrage over an obviously provocative ad. "Once one of those frames takes over, whether it's through different content that someone is viewing or someone just inherently has a bias for this topic, that perception is really gonna make it a reality for them," Uthe said. "And that's why I always say, if you can make it trend, you can it true." Olivia Bennett, Senior Account Director at Go Up, thought that the campaign was simply "bad for women in sport." "I can understand the commercial calculation behind choosing Sydney Sweeney," Bennett told Fox News Digital. "Novig will know its audience, and Sydney has built a public brand where sex appeal, provocation and controversy consistently generate attention. "But this was a national campaign. When you choose someone with such a heavily sexualized and frequently controversial public image, you know the campaign is going to travel far beyond your existing customer base. The wider reaction was entirely foreseeable." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Bennett believed that the bigger issue at hand was what the ad said about women in sports. "What I find most telling is that female athletes themselves are now pushing back and saying: this isn’t how we want women in sport to be represented," she said. "Once the people who actually work and compete in that world start using your campaign as an example of the problem, you have a much bigger reputational issue than a few negative comments online." She added, "For Sydney, I don’t think the campaign is off-brand at all. If anything, it reinforces the image she has already built. But that doesn’t make it good for women in sport. Personal-brand fit doesn’t remove the wider impact of the message you’re putting into the world." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE In what appeared to be a response to the backlash, Sweeney shared a number of ESPN magazine covers featuring nude athletes, including Serena Williams, Ronda Rousey, Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe and Caroline Wozniacki. "It's gamedayyyy," the blonde bombshell wrote before tagging the newly launched sports platform. While many comments encouraged "The Housemaid" actress, Sweeney was hit with accusations of sexualizing a predominantly male-dominated field. "As a former athlete and a woman who has personally experienced sexualized comments, I’m genuinely disgusted and deeply disappointed by this campaign," one user wrote. "We’ve spent years fighting to be seen and respected for our talent, strength, and achievements-not reduced to our bodies." "The campaign was about embracing a fun idea," Sweeney said in a statement, according to Variety. "The concept is simple: cut through the noise and put the focus entirely on sports. The campaign brings that idea to life with confidence, humor and a playful edge." Sweeney's representatives did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad2a2275342cf4db874a31 1,000-year-old church mystery cracked by students from King Charles' alma mater te 2026-09-18T12:10:10.593Z 1,000-year-old church mystery cracked by students from King Charles' alma mater Boarding school students in Scotland helped uncover something extraordinary during a school trip: the remains of what's believed to be a 1,000-year-old Viking-era church. Young people from Gordonstoun, located in Moray, Scotland, uncovered the foundations of an altar and a step inside the long-known ruins on the deserted island of Swona in Orkney. Gordonstoun — the alma mater of King Charles III and his late father, Prince Philip — runs an annual service project on the remote island called the Swona Service Project, where students take part in archaeological and restoration work. ANCIENT VIKING SWORD DISCOVERED 'STICKING UP OUT OF THE GROUND' AFTER 1,300 YEARS Gordonstoun housemaster Daniel McLean, who is also the organizer of the project, told Fox News Digital the structure had long been known locally as a "kirk," or church, but its origins remained uncertain. While the ruins themselves were already known, it was unclear whether the structure had actually been a church. The excavation uncovered altar foundations and a step, lending new weight to a local legend that the ruins were once a church. The team had surveyed the site the previous year, McLean said, and found several characteristics consistent with early medieval church architecture. 'SIGNIFICANT' EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH EMERGES BENEATH FORMER FISH MARKET IN ANCIENT CITY "Everything about the structure [fit]," he said. "The size of it, the length, the width ratio, the east-west orientation, the location of the door, the construction methods — it all [fit] for it to be an early medieval church." When the team returned to excavate the site, McLean said they began digging along the inside of the eastern wall, where they believed an altar would have stood. "I thought if there's anything churchy here, we may find the remains of where the altar was on the inside of the east wall," McLean said. The team quickly uncovered the foundations of the altar and a step in front of it. RARE ROYAL ARTIFACT LINKED TO INFLUENTIAL KING-TURNED-SAINT UNCOVERED AFTER DECADES MISSING The church is believed to date to the 10th or 11th century, based on similarities to other Viking-era churches in the region. For Archie Maclean, one of the students who worked on the excavation, seeing the remains up close made the discovery feel real. "When you see the altar in person, you go, 'Oh my gosh, it's still an altar after all of this time,'" Maclean told Fox News Digital. Maclean helped dig the original test pit and later cleaned up the altar and doorway for photographs. He said he was struck by how well the structure had survived. DISCOVERY BENEATH SOCCER FIELD REVEALS MASSIVE MEDIEVAL CONVENT LOST FOR CENTURIES "Same with the doorway as well, the structure of the building is still so visible, even after years of earth and wind and weather eroding the outside — I found [it] fascinating personally," Maclean said. The school has a unique arrangement with the island's owners, the Annal family, and the Swona Heritage Group, to make the experience possible. The 10 students traveled roughly 10 hours by bus, ferry and boat to reach Swona, a remote island about seven miles north of John o' Groats. Alfie Pullin, a student who helped restore the old house where the group stayed, told Fox News Digital the team worked to replace its wooden living room floor, which had rotted away because of drainage problems. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER The house had no electricity, while the students pumped fresh water from a 1,000-year-old well, according to Gordonstoun. Pullin described spending a week working on the isolated island without knowing what the experience would bring as "very surreal." "I think it's very surreal to go onto an island with a task, but also a sense of [not knowing] what will actually happen while you're on there for a week," he said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Pullin added the experience allowed the students "to make these discoveries and to upkeep the island and come away knowing more and leaving the island in a better state than it was before." School officials plan to return to Swona next year for further investigations of the archaeological sites. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The team also plans to use GPS data and digital images collected at the site to create a 3D model of the church, while archaeologists hope further analysis will help determine its age. Maclean said discoveries on remote sites such as Swona can provide clues about the communities that once lived there, as well as how Christianity spread. "Even in places that seem like the middle of nowhere, you can find these parts of history that can re-contextualize a whole village there, or even up to the way that Christianity was spread in this example," said Maclean. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad2a1d75342cf4db874a0c Funding fight in Prop 320 could affect school safety te 2026-09-18T12:10:05.778Z Funding fight in Prop 320 could affect school safety Key Points: Prop 320 would require some school districts to allocate 60% of operational spending toward specific classroom needs Supporters say the measure would increase academic achievement Opponents say it... Subscribe Already a subscriber?  Login The post Funding fight in Prop 320 could affect school safety first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad27ca75342cf4db874997 Federal judges reveal private coordination behind Trump immigration cases and more top headlines te 2026-09-18T12:00:10.160Z Federal judges reveal private coordination behind Trump immigration cases and more top headlines 1. DHS accuses judges of 'essentially conspiring' against Trump immigration fight 2. 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Hook ‘em!" before running off back to the locker room to celebrate the victory with his team. At the time, Rowe hadn’t even asked her first question to him postgame, and she seemed quite upset as she darted out of camera view after Sarkisian ran away. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Sarkisian addressed the situation ahead of the team’s next scheduled contest against UTSA. "As it pertains to after the ball game, again there was a delay after I greeted Coach Day in the middle of the field. There was a delay in the moment, you know, through that delay, I wanted to go celebrate with our team," he said, per On Texas Football. "We just had a 21-point fourth-quarter comeback against the No. 1 team in the country. If hindsight’s 20/20, if I could do it all over again, I would have exuded more patience in that moment and sat through and waited for the interview with Holly." TEXAS' ARCH MANNING UNDER SCRUTINY FOR HIS REACTION TO AI VIDEO OF STEVE SARKISIAN SLAPPING ESPN'S HOLLY ROWE Sarkisian added that he has "a ton of respect for ESPN and Holly" and didn’t mean to let the moment get the better of him. "Holly and I go way back to even my days of playing at BYU, and we’ve got a great relationship. ESPN is a great partner of ours. We know we’re going to have more opportunities with that crew covering us, and we’re looking forward to those opportunities. So, could have definitely handled that situation better with a little bit more patience in the moment." The viral moment was one social media users ran with, creating AI versions in which Sarkisian was seen slapping Rowe before running off the field. And those AI-manipulated videos led quarterback Arch Manning to have to issue an apology to Rowe after describing those videos as hilarious during his Monday press conference. Manning, who led the Longhorns back in the second half on Saturday night, apologized to Rowe on Tuesday following his Monday news conference, calling his comments "insensitive" and saying he will be "more thoughtful going forward." Rowe accepted his apology. "Obviously Arch recognizes he made a mistake, and it’s an unfortunate one," Sarkisian added. "Nowhere do we condone domestic violence or violence against women. Nothing in our program says that nor Arch individually. I think if he could take it back, he would." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! As for Sarkisian, there was also a moment after the first half that could’ve led to his reaction postgame, as ESPN’s Laura Rutledge and the crew had technical difficulties that irked the Texas head coach for having to wait to go back in the locker room and figure out how to come after Ohio State in the second half. Rutledge was even spotted sprinting toward the tunnel in an attempt to reach Sarkisian, only to find he had already headed to the locker room. She acknowledged his patience during the delay, though that patience wore thin once ESPN's technical issues dragged on too long. In the end, Sarkisian and Manning offered their apologies, and the Longhorns are now ready to move on as one of the AP poll’s top teams in the country after their victory. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad256e75342cf4db87490a 119,000 fake shops could steal your credit card details te 2026-09-18T11:50:06.469Z 119,000 fake shops could steal your credit card details You find a product you want for 65% off. The site looks polished, the branding feels familiar and the deal seems hard to pass up. That could be exactly the trap. Cybersecurity company Nebty has linked about 119,000 domains to a fake shopping operation called DoppelCart. The sites impersonate legitimate businesses and can steal payment details at checkout, including one-time bank verification codes. BleepingComputer reports that more than 105,000 DoppelCart shops were active in Nebty's latest scans, while Nebty says the majority of the cluster remains online. So, before you jump on a huge discount from a store you do not recognize, take a closer look at who is really behind the checkout page. FAKE RENTAL LISTING SCAMS CAN COST YOU THOUSANDS NEW! 🩺 Free CyberGuy LIVE class: Get Better Healthcare With AISaturday, September 26 at 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson will show you five practical ways AI can help you organize your health history, remember important appointment details, understand complicated medical information, research prescriptions and prepare smarter questions for your doctor. No technical experience is needed. Save your free spot at CyberGuyLive.com Nebty discovered DoppelCart while investigating fake shops that targeted several of its customers. Researchers noticed that stores impersonating different companies shared technical characteristics. They began following those connections through publicly available website scans. The investigation eventually grew to roughly 119,000 associated domains. Nebty says that, to its knowledge, DoppelCart represents the largest publicly documented fake-shop cluster when measured by associated domains. The company also makes an important point about attribution. Shared infrastructure does not prove that one person or organization controls every DoppelCart store. Even so, the technical overlap is striking. Nebty CEO Benedikt Scheungraber told BleepingComputer that 96% of the confirmed shops shared identical build files and resolved to 27 commerce backends. Most of the domains connected to DoppelCart use the .shop top-level domain. Nebty's September 2026 data included 118,787 distinct .shop domains linked to the cluster out of 4,361,908 .shop domains in the company's snapshot. That's 2.72%, or roughly one out of every 37 domains in that particular data set. However, that number needs some context. Nebty says the snapshot represents domains listed in the .shop DNS zone. It does not tell us how many legitimate or fraudulent stores were operating at the same moment. For comparison, researchers previously documented BogusBazaar, a fake-shop operation involving more than 75,000 domains. Nebty cautions that observation periods and counting methods differ between investigations, so the numbers are not perfectly comparable. We reached out to GMO Registry, which operates the .shop domain, for comment but did not hear back before our deadline. The days when every scam website looked like somebody threw it together in five minutes are long gone. DoppelCart sites can copy product catalogs from real companies along with descriptions, branding and other material. In some cases, researchers found fake stores loading assets directly from the legitimate company's servers. That creates a real problem for shoppers. You may recognize the brand. The products look right. Nothing on the page immediately screams scam because much of the material came from the real business in the first place. Scheungraber says DoppelCart shops mimic 44,182 different brands, with a median of two clones for each brand. Some brands received much more attention. Researchers found more than 30 shops apiece targeting companies including SodaStream, Velasca, CurrentBody, Daniel Wellington, Dreame, Horze, MOVA and SPARK PAWS. This is where the scam can catch you. Most of us shop around before spending money online. Finding the same product at a dramatically lower price can feel like a great deal. DoppelCart stores take advantage of that reaction. Researchers found fake shops advertising discounts as high as 65%. Of course, a steep discount does not automatically mean you're looking at a scam. Real stores run clearance sales every day. Still, if you've never heard of the retailer and its price beats everyone else by a mile, spend another minute checking who you're buying from. CyberGuy has a full guide on the warning signs worth checking before buying from an unfamiliar website: Tips to help you tell if an online store is real or a scam. 'THE ODYSSEY' STREAMING SCAM COULD STEAL YOUR BANK INFO The real danger starts when you decide to check out. Nebty tested several checkout pages tied to the DoppelCart cluster and found code collecting: According to the researchers, those fields can be transmitted through WebSockets to command-and-control infrastructure in real time. So, an attacker may receive the information while you're still sitting on the checkout page. The technique has similarities to web skimming, where malicious code captures payment information as a shopper types it into an online checkout page. We've previously broken down how that kind of attack works and why shoppers may see no obvious warning: Web skimming attacks target major payment networks. This is the part I find especially concerning. Many of us have been trained to see a verification code from our bank as an extra layer of protection. DoppelCart can potentially turn that security step against you. Nebty found that the checkout code can relay the one-time confirmation code issued by a victim's bank. Attackers may then try to use the code to get past protections surrounding a fraudulent transaction. So, don't automatically enter a bank code simply because a checkout page asks for it. Read the bank's message carefully. Look at the merchant and transaction details if they're included. If something does not match the purchase you're making, stop the transaction and contact your bank through its official app or the number printed on your card. DoppelCart creates another headache after the purchase. Some fake shops display the real company's legitimate customer support address. Now imagine you place an order and nothing arrives. You find the support information on the site and contact the business demanding to know where your purchase went. The company you're calling may have no idea what you're talking about because you never bought anything from it. Nebty says legitimate businesses have received complaints from shoppers over orders those businesses never processed. The scammer gets the payment information. Meanwhile, the legitimate company gets the angry customer and has to explain that somebody copied its store. Nebty says it tried to contact the main hosting provider associated with DoppelCart sites but received no response. Want to see whether a brand or website appears in the DoppelCart investigation? Search Nebty's DoppelCart database at investigations.nebty-id.com/doppelcart APPLE PAY TEXT SCAM THREATENS $8,250 LOSS IN 35 MINUTES A professional-looking site no longer gives you enough information to decide whether a retailer deserves your trust. Instead, slow down when you're shopping somewhere unfamiliar. Look at the domain in your browser before entering payment information. A fake site may use a recognizable company name inside a completely different domain. If you're trying to buy directly from a well-known brand, find its official website independently. Also, don't let the padlock or HTTPS fool you. HTTPS tells you a website encrypts the connection. It does not prove the seller behind the site is legitimate. Scammers can encrypt websites too. A 65% discount can make you want to buy before the deal disappears. That's when I would slow down. Check the product on the company's official website or compare it with a retailer you already know. If the price difference looks unusually large, investigate the seller. Search the store's name before buying. Look beyond reviews displayed on the website itself. Search for independent complaints or reports that connect the domain to scams. Then check the company's contact information. A cloned website can look impressive while having very little legitimate history behind it. The Federal Trade Commission recommends paying by credit card when possible for online purchases because credit cards provide protections when a transaction goes wrong. Some issuers also let you use virtual card numbers for online purchases. Availability varies by issuer. A virtual number can keep your primary card number away from the merchant and may let you shut down the virtual number if something goes wrong. Don't treat a one-time verification code as a routine box to fill in. Read the message your bank sends. If the merchant or transaction looks unfamiliar, do not enter the code. Contact your card issuer through a trusted channel instead. Check whether your bank or card issuer lets you receive notifications when purchases hit your account. Alerts can help you spot an unfamiliar transaction quickly. Do not ignore a small charge simply because the amount looks harmless. Any transaction you don't recognize deserves a closer look. Strong antivirus software can help warn you about known malicious websites and dangerous links. Get my picks for the best 2026 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android & iOS devices at Cyberguy.com However, no program catches every newly created fake shopping site. That means your own judgment still plays an important role when a store you've never heard of suddenly offers the deal of the year. Act quickly if you think you purchased from a DoppelCart site or another fake retailer. The FTC recommends contacting the financial institution you used to make the payment as soon as possible. Use the number on the back of your card, your bank's official app or its official website. Tell the issuer that you entered your card information on a suspected fraudulent website. Ask whether the card should be locked or replaced with a new number. If you also entered a one-time verification code from your bank, tell them that too. Review your recent transactions and continue watching the account. If you paid the fake retailer, tell your issuer that you believe the transaction involved a scam. Also report any other charges you do not recognize. The FTC recommends asking the card issuer or bank whether it can reverse the fraudulent transaction and return your money. If the fake store asked you to create an account and you reused a password from somewhere else, change that password on the other accounts. Give important accounts unique passwords. A password manager can help generate and store strong passwords without forcing you to remember every one. Remember what DoppelCart checkout pages can collect. The people behind the operation may have your contact information along with payment details. Be suspicious of unexpected bank warnings, delivery messages or refund offers connected to the purchase. Scammers sometimes target people who already lost money and then pose as someone who can help recover it. Go directly to your bank or the company's official website rather than clicking a link in an unexpected message. If you downloaded a file, installed software or gave the suspicious site additional access to your device, update your security software and run a scan with strong antivirus software. If all you did was type card information into the fake checkout, focus first on protecting the payment account and watching for fraudulent transactions. Report suspected fraud to the Federal Trade Commission at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. Reports can help authorities identify fraud patterns and investigate scam operations. What bothers me most about DoppelCart is how convincing these fake stores can look. You may recognize the products and the branding because scammers copied them from a real business. For me, that changes how I look at a bargain from a store I don't know. If the price seems unusually low, I want to know exactly who I'm buying from before I enter my card information. Take a minute to check the web address and search for the retailer on your own. That small pause could save you from having to replace your card or deal with fraudulent charges later. Have you ever landed on an online store that looked completely legitimate but something made you suspicious, and what tipped you off? 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/6aad1e6a75342cf4db874780 Celebrity plastic surgeon reveals when it's too soon for a facelift, and when waiting can backfire te 2026-09-18T11:20:10.672Z Celebrity plastic surgeon reveals when it's too soon for a facelift, and when waiting can backfire When it comes to getting a facelift, timing may be everything. Going under the knife too soon could mean having surgery before it’s necessary — but waiting too long can also backfire, according to celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow. During an episode of Josh Peck’s podcast, "Good Guys," the Beverly Hills-based surgeon said some women are jumping the gun and getting the procedure too soon. CHEAP SURGERY OVERSEAS MAY COME WITH DEVASTATING COMPLICATIONS, DOCTORS WARN "For those people in their 30s who want some skin tightening, they need to wait, 'cause there will be the technology that will allow early facelifts without cutting," he said. Dubrow also mentioned Kris Jenner’s recent facelift, which may have motivated women to seek out the procedure based on her results. "That made facelifts like, ‘Oh, Kris Jenner did it and made it public. Now it's cool. Everybody get a facelift,’" he said. "So then you're seeing 38-year-old people in your office wanting a facelift, and you go, ‘OK, hold on a second. You don't even need a facelift. You need to wait, because, you know, a facelift is incisions, and scars, and elevating up the skin, numbness, and all sorts of potential things that can go wrong." MEN FACE NEW PRESSURE TO STAY ‘HOT’ AS THEY AGE — AND IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT LIVING LONGER Dubrow warned that if people have too many facelifts, "when it starts to relax, it can relax in weird ways." "You've all seen it – people who look pretty good, but there's something about the way their skin lies on their face that looks unnatural, and it ruins the whole look," he warned. "If you have early laxity, don't go in for your ‘Kris Jenner facelift.’ Still wait, because that technology is just around the corner." Conversely, the surgeon has warned that waiting too long – while relying on other nonsurgical fixes – can also backfire. "A lot of women are staying on the ‘nonsurgical treadmill’ for too long," Dubrow told Fox News Digital. DO RED LIGHT THERAPY AND COLD PLUNGES REALLY WORK? A DOCTOR REVEALS THE TRUTH "They keep adding filler, lasers and tightening treatments, when the real problem is that the deeper tissues have dropped." While it is possible to get a great result with a later-in-life facelift, the doctor pointed out that as the skin becomes looser, the tissues descend further, which may require more extensive surgery. "My feeling is that once those treatments stop producing a natural result, continuing to postpone surgery can actually make you look less natural." That’s not to say that non-surgical treatments don’t have their place, he noted. CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES "Fillers, lasers and tightening treatments can buy you time when they are used intelligently – but fillers cannot lift sagging tissue, and too much filler can make someone look distorted." Aggressive energy treatments can also create scarring under the skin and make surgery more difficult later, Dubrow cautioned – "so, ask whether a treatment is truly delaying a facelift or just delaying the decision." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER There is no "magic age" in terms of best results with a facelift, according to Dubrow. "For some women, it is their late 40s. For others, it is their 50s or 60s," he said. "It comes down to genetics, skin quality, and what is happening along the jawline and neck." Advice for facelift timing can vary depending on what type of expert you see, and every specialist tends to see the problem through the treatments they perform, the doctor noted. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "A dermatologist may explain what can still be accomplished without surgery, and a board-certified plastic surgeon can tell you when those options have reached their limit … and when it is time to actually reposition the anatomy," he said. Ultimately, he suggests getting opinions from both sides. "The right time should be based on your face, not the doctor’s menu," Dubrow said. "Choose what makes sense for your anatomy, your goals and your tolerance for surgery." "The best facelift is the one nobody knows you had, but the best advice often comes from hearing more than one point of view." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad1e6975342cf4db874777 Jasmine Crockett torched for honoring singer with notorious history of violence: 'Completely vile' te 2026-09-18T11:20:09.786Z Jasmine Crockett torched for honoring singer with notorious history of violence: 'Completely vile' Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, who recently lost her Senate bid, is facing online backlash after she honored music artist Chris Brown by entering him into the congressional record this past weekend. "Now, y’all know I tend to get in trouble every once in a while. I’ma make this real quick. I need to know who run it! So is Dallas in the building?" Crockett said as she took the stage alongside Brown on Saturday evening. "Let’s give it up for Chris Brown," she added to applause from the audience. The moment drew scrutiny from viewers online, raising questions about Crockett’s status as a lawmaker and whether it should be used to celebrate Brown, someone with a history of domestic violence. AMERICA OWES BLACK WOMEN 'EVERYTHING,' REP JASMINE CROCKETT RANTS OVER JULY 4 WEEKEND Among other instances of misconduct, Brown pleaded guilty in 2009 to felony assault after he attacked his then-girlfriend and famous singer, Rihanna. Many images of her injuries were made public, sparking intense condemnation from the music industry. His violence, however, wouldn’t stop there. He was involved in a 2013 altercation with Frank Ocean, another singer, and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge that same year. In 2017, another ex-girlfriend was granted a domestic violence restraining order against him after she alleged physical abuse. Most recently, Brown pleaded guilty to charges of striking producer Abe Diaw twice in the head with a glass tequila bottle in July 2023. He is expected to receive a sentence in October for a separate charge for affray, a criminal charge in English law for unlawfully threatening violence against another person. Andrew Kerr, an investigative reporter with the Washington Free Beacon, quickly noted Brown’s past in a post to X after news of Crockett’s tribute began to spread online.   "Kamala Harris-endorsed Rep. Jasmine Crockett uses her congressional authority to honor Chris Brown, the rapper best known for beating ever-living sh-- out of Rihanna in 2009," Kerr wrote. Shannon Watts, a Democratic activist and political commentator, also pointed out Brown’s storied past. WATCH: HEARING TURMOIL AS JASMINE CROCKETT UNLOADS ON MLK'S NIECE IN WILD RACIALLY-CHARGED RANT "Chris Brown pled guilty to felony assault after brutally attacking Rihanna. Another ex, Karrueche Tran, later obtained a five-year restraining order after testifying that he abused and threatened her. He has also faced multiple allegations of violence and sexual assault against other women," Watts wrote. Crockett’s member statement, a form of recognition that lawmakers can have entered into the congressional record without any vote, recognizes "the artistry of Chris Brown and Usher Raymond." On stage on Saturday, Crockett framed her member statement as a way to recognize two key artists who had helped shape contemporary R&B and pop music, especially for the Black community. "I know it’s almost Sunday, so I wanna be clear. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. And right now, we are experiencing Black joy to the highest level, and I wanted to make sure we document that in the Congressional Record," Crockett said. But Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross believes that the moment was a political miscalculation, coming across as ignorant of the challenges in the Black community. "Chris Brown has a problem, and several folks beyond Rihanna have met his violent rage. It’s well-documented. This was a ridiculous move by Crockett," she wrote on X. "Also, when Black women suffer [domestic violence] at the highest rates and often fatally, this was tone deaf as hell," she added. Eric Michael Garcia, the D.C. bureau chief of the Independent, echoed Cross’ thinking. "Absolutely disgusting to see Jasmine Crockett platform and honor an abuser of women. Just completely vile," Garcia wrote in a post of his own. Dan Winslow, a New York Times bestselling author, hinted that the moment had changed his view of her. WATCH: TALARICO EMBRACES ‘FREAKY’ IDENTITY AS CROWDS CHANT NAME MEANT AS INSULT: ‘SO WEIRD’ "CHRIS BROWN plead guilty to beating Rihanna. It was a horrific and savage beating. Crockett thought he deserved to be honored. Absolutely disgusting behavior. I am glad she lost. I will never support her again," Winslow wrote. In response to the public backlash, Brown posted a response to his Instagram account, pleading to be left alone and expressing displeasure at Crockett having put him in the spotlight. "Funny thing is... YALL CAME TO ME WITH THIS! NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. I was minding my own d-mn business. My shows in Dallas were already sold out. I ain't asked to be honored because I knew some sh-t like this would happen... I have an idea how about y'all leave me the f--- alone and let me focus on the fans that spent their money to actually see and support me," Brown wrote. Having decided to give up her seat to pursue a Senate bid, Crockett will not be returning to the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the next congress after she lost to James Talarico, the Democratic nominee in the Lone Star State. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad1e6875342cf4db87476e There is a way to fix Social Security. And the solution might surprise you te 2026-09-18T11:20:08.972Z There is a way to fix Social Security. And the solution might surprise you Every few months, another headline tells Americans that Social Security is going broke. It's scary. It's also not quite true. Social Security isn't going to wake up one morning with zero dollars coming through the door. Even if its trust fund reserves are depleted, millions of workers will still be paying Social Security taxes every payday. CONGRESS SPENDS $7 TRILLION. HERE’S HOW THAT MATH WORKS OUT IF YOU THINK OF JUST $100 The problem is that those taxes eventually won't generate enough money to pay 100% of scheduled benefits. So, let's stop pretending Social Security can't be fixed. It can. You're just probably not going to like the fix. Here are three changes Washington should seriously consider. In 2026, employees pay 6.2% into Social Security and employers contribute another 6.2%, but the tax stops once wages reach $184,500. SIX DIFFERENT WAYS THAT PROVE THE WEALTHY PAY A LOT MORE THAN THEIR ‘FAIR SHARE’ Someone making $100,000 pays Social Security tax on every dollar. Someone making $1 million doesn't. That's going to become increasingly difficult politically and mathematically to defend. My first suggestion: Raise the Social Security taxable wage ceiling to $400,000. For somebody earning $400,000, that would expose another $215,500 of wages to Social Security taxes. It also doesn’t make Social Security an infinite tax like Medicare. PROGRESSIVES WANT TO TAX BILLIONAIRES FIRST, AND YOU'RE NEXT ON THE LIST At today's 12.4% combined employee-employer rate, that's potentially another $26,722 annually flowing into the system from that worker and employer combined. Depending on exactly how Congress structured the change, we're potentially talking about well over $1 trillion of additional revenue over a decade. Higher earners won't like it. I wouldn't like paying it either. But Social Security needs revenue. It’s called a compromise. Here's the second part politicians really won't want to advertise. Especially Democrats. TOP SENATE DEM’S NEW TAX IDEA GETS TORCHED AS CRITICS WARN NEARLY EVERY AMERICAN COULD PAY Everyone needs some skin in the game. Instead of suddenly slamming workers with a giant payroll-tax increase, raise the employee Social Security tax rate from 6.2% to 7.2% gradually over 10 years. That's just 0.1 percentage point each year. Employers would see a corresponding gradual increase. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS HAVE LOTS OF IDEAS, BUT HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR THEM? For someone earning $75,000, the first increase amounts to about $75 for the entire year. Ten years later, the employee would be paying an additional $750 annually at today's income. Nobody enjoys paying more taxes. But slowly adjusting the rate over a decade gives workers and businesses time to adapt. AMERICA'S LIFESPAN HAS DOUBLED SINCE 1776 — EXPERTS REVEAL WHAT CHANGED Now comes the third rail. Retirement age. Today's full retirement age is 67 for people born in 1960 or later. Don't change the deal for someone who's 62 and has spent their entire working life planning around 67. Instead, draw a line. If you were born after 1990, gradually move full retirement age to 70. Someone born in 1991 turns 35 this year. They have decades to plan for the change. People are living longer than generations before them. If we're going to make Social Security financially sustainable for another generation, the retirement-age math eventually has to reflect longevity. Here's the political problem. Republicans don't want tax increases. Democrats don't want benefit reductions. Workers don't want to pay more. Employers don't want to pay more. High earners certainly don't want another $200,000-plus of wages subjected to payroll taxes. And nobody wants to hear they're working until 70. Welcome to compromise. There are really only three levers available to fix Social Security and it’s really this simple unless you start doing means testing. Tax more income. Raise more revenue. Reduce future benefits. This plan pulls all three. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Higher earners pay Social Security tax on more wages. Workers and employers gradually contribute more. Younger Americans wait longer for full retirement benefits. And importantly, Social Security doesn't "run out of money." Payroll taxes continue coming in even if the trust fund reserves are exhausted. That's why Congress should stop scaring Americans and start solving the problem. Because the longer Washington waits, the uglier the eventual solution becomes. Nobody gets everything they want under this plan. That's exactly why it might actually work. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM TED JENKIN Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad1e6875342cf4db874765 El-Sayed tries to put the Hasan Piker debate behind him as midterms approach te 2026-09-18T11:20:08.162Z El-Sayed tries to put the Hasan Piker debate behind him as midterms approach Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has faced backlash for months over his relationship with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who is known for his controversial rhetoric. The candidate has yet to disavow Piker and now seems to be tiring of the questions, looking to shift focus to the issues that he says are really at the heart of the race. El-Sayed's relationship with Piker was scrutinized before the two of them appeared at a campaign event in April 2026. On March 30, El-Sayed posted a video with the caption "Let's talk about Hasan." In the video, the Michigan Democrat explained that he was looking for a way to access people who "feel locked out of our politics," saying that they are the same people who Piker speaks to through his daily streams. He went on to clarify where he agrees with Piker, which included the streamer's stances on the war in Iran, AIPAC's involvement in U.S. politics and healthcare. "Now, he streams for eight hours a day, every day. A lot of the things that he said, I might not agree with, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to have a conversation with him, and that doesn't mean that the people who listen to him don't deserve to listen to their politicians and to have a pathway into politics to vote for the things that they need and deserve," El-Sayed said. ABDUL EL-SAYED SAYS RALLYING WITH HASAN PIKER DOESN'T MEAN HE ENDORSES 'AMERICA DESERVED 9/11' REMARK The Michigan Democrat joined "FOX & Friends" ahead of his event with Piker, where he said that appearing with someone did not mean that he agreed with them. While he did not disavow Piker specifically, he referred to the streamer's past remarks, saying, "Of course, I oppose rape. Of course, I don't think 9/11 was justified." Amid the scrutiny of his decision to campaign with Piker, El-Sayed repeatedly blamed the criticism on "cancel culture" and insisted that Democrats needed to be willing to speak with people at their level. The event with Piker went on as planned, but El-Sayed still faced questions. He was asked while standing next to Piker to disavow the streamer's past rhetoric, which he refused to do. "I'm not here to disavow people's views. I'm here to have a conversation about how to get money out of politics, put money back in pockets, and pass Medicare for all. That's the conversation that folks are here to listen to," El-Sayed said in response. EL-SAYED PALS AROUND WITH FAR-LEFT STREAMER HASAN PIKER THE DAY BEFORE CRUCIAL MICHIGAN SENATE ELECTION The controversy surrounding the April campus appearance would set off a months-long line of questioning, with El-Sayed repeatedly walking the line between condemning some of Piker's rhetoric without going into specifics or alienating the streamer's audience. This became more common after El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., in the Democratic primary in August. Following El-Sayed's victory, Piker called for those who opposed the Michigan Democrat to be "punished" by the party. "You can't be out here saying like, 'Oh, I'm a centrist Democrat. And I think Abdul is a bridge too far.' That must be punished," Piker said. After his primary victory, El-Sayed was asked in multiple interviews to comment on Piker's past rhetoric. When CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked El-Sayed whether he would renounce Piker in August, something that Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., had urged him to do, the Michigan Democrat said he was "less focused on folks who are campaigning with me, more focused on the folks I'm campaigning to." A few days later, El-Sayed was asked about Piker again, this time during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." In response to host Kristen Welker's question, El-Sayed repeated what he said on CNN about focusing more on voters than those who appear with him on the campaign trail. Shortly after El-Sayed's appearance on "Meet the Press," Piker drew the ire of several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle after making a comment that some interpreted as blaming antisemitic attacks on American Jews' support of Israel. "People don't f--- with Israel any longer. And if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they're singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone will come around and take action not against Israel, mind you, but against American Jews," Piker said during his Aug. 20 stream. HASAN PIKER CALLS FOR DEMOCRATS WHO OPPOSE ABDUL EL-SAYED TO BE 'PUNISHED' The comment set off a wave of condemnations from lawmakers, including Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J.; Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.; and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev.; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; and Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J.; Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y.; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Brad Schneider, D-Ill.; Greg Stanton, D-Ariz.; and Hillary Scholten, D-Mich. El-Sayed issued a statement in which he seemed to distance himself from Piker amid the backlash. "I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence. This is particularly true for communities that have been intimidated for their beliefs in the past," El-Sayed wrote on X. "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters," he added. "Antisemitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all its forms. And I stand against any rhetoric that puts the community at risk." Shortly after the controversy over Piker's remarks, El-Sayed told Semafor that he had "no plans" to campaign with the streamer. However, this did not stop the press from asking the Michigan Democrat about Piker. During an appearance on "The Breakfast Club" in late August, El-Sayed framed criticism of his ties to Piker as a form of "cancel culture," saying that there was a "massive effort to cancel Hasan." "I think we've got to stop with the cancel culture. It's not about, like, 'Where are you on this one individual?' It's more, 'Do you agree or disagree with the thing that the person said?' And, the thing about it is, that, like, when we play as if the whole person can be reduced to a single soundbite that you took out of context, you're not, you're not dealing with real life," El-Sayed said. ABDUL EL-SAYED DISMISSES QUESTIONS ABOUT HASAN PIKER TIES ON 'FACE THE NATION,' PIVOTS TO GROCERIES El-Sayed's exasperation with the media's questions about Piker became apparent during a Sept. 13 appearance on "Face the Nation." When CBS News' Weijia Jiang asked El-Sayed about Jewish Michiganders' concerns regarding his ties to Piker, the Michigan Democrat appeared to be fed up. "Weiija, with all due respect, this is the third time you’ve asked about a Twitch streamer in California. I’ve done four events in Michigan this week. You know what didn’t come up? Twitch streamers in California," El-Sayed responded. The candidate said that voters would rather discuss grocery prices, healthcare and the environment, among other things. "I’m not interested in having a conversation about streamers in California because they are not raising the prices of gas and groceries," El-Sayed added. Fox News Digital reached out to El-Sayed's campaign and Piker for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad1c0f75342cf4db8746e1 Robert Kraft opposes dangerous lies, not free speech | Matt Calkins te 2026-09-18T11:10:07.241Z Robert Kraft opposes dangerous lies, not free speech | Matt Calkins Based on the way American attitudes have shifted toward a certain country in the Middle East, Robert Kraft likely lost a lot of fans with a recent decision. But that doesn't mean it was the wrong decision. Not in the least. The Patriots' owner said Monday that Macklemore will be removed from two of Ed Sheeran's shows later this month at Gillette Stadium (which Kraft also owns) for what he deemed "hate speech" toward the Jewish community. Macklemore has made no secret of how he feels about Israel, regularly using his platform to decry a "genocide" he falsely says is taking place in Gaza. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! His protest song "Hind's Hall" — in which he says former President Joe Biden has blood on his hands and that the music industry is "complicit" with its "silence" — is hardly subtle. It celebrates the violent and illegal actions by students, faculty and outside activists on the campus of Columbia University. And though some may accuse Kraft of launching an attack on free speech, I think he was saying something else: enough. That takes a lot of spine when it's clear there will be backlash. All of the other opening acts for Sheeran (not to mention his own band) quit the tour in solidarity with Macklemore, while Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounced Kraft's choice as "censorship" against "the genocide in Gaza." Kraft has since pledged $2 million toward humanitarian aid in the Israel-Gaza region but he's held firm on his Macklemore ban. Other owners have followed suit. Good on them. The genocide talk has to stop — because it has real consequences. "Real Time" host Bill Maher expressed a similar sentiment during his "New Rule" segment last Friday. It was a long way from an Israel hagiography, but he pushed back against the genocide lie that so many have adopted as fact. ROBERT KRAFT, GILLETTE STADIUM BOOT MACKLEMORE FROM ED SHEERAN TOUR OVER ‘FREE PALESTINE’ RANT Genocides, Maher said, are attempts to wipe out entire populations. The attacker won't stop until all of its human targets are exterminated. That isn't what's happening in Gaza — just as it wasn't what was happening when the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of World War II. A stat that Maher used to bolster his point was that about 73,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli counter attacks since October 7, 2023,(according to Hamas, while not distinguishing how many were part of Hamas) which comprises roughly three percent of their population. He then pointed out how nearly 99 percent of the three million Jews in Poland were killed during World War II. The first reflects the tragedy of war. But only the second is a genocide. Still, polling has shown that Americans are more likely to believe that a genocide is taking place in Gaza than not. And it coincides with a Gallup poll showing that more Americans are sympathetic toward Palestine than it is Israel. Another study found that almost half the country has difficulty distinguishing American Jews from the Israeli government. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Might that be why the Anti-Defamation League reported a 360% increase in antisemitic incidents since Hamas' attack on Israel three Octobers ago? Or why a 2025 American Jewish Committee poll found that 91 percent of American Jews felt less safe as a Jewish person due to violent attacks in the U.S? Or why 55 percent said they have changed their behavior (such as hiding Jewish identity) over a one-year span for fear of antisemitism? If you watch this video of Pro-Palestine supporters blocking a Jewish student from going to class, you'll see a clear case of young minds being poisoned by rhetoric. Kraft, who's Jewish, knows the effect that type of rhetoric can have. So, he did something about it. This, of course, is much different than preventing someone from speaking their minds in a public space. Free speech in that respect must be preserved at all costs. But the First Amendment doesn't stop words from having consequences. Sometimes they get you fired, sometimes they tarnish your reputation, and sometimes they make it so you can't perform in privately-owned stadiums. This isn't the first time Macklemore has been muted for what's come out of his mouth. After he said "F--- America" at a show in Seattle two years ago, the Mariners stopped playing his song "Can't Hold Us" during the seventh-inning stretch. No doubt the rapper has the right to say what he wants. But Kraft and other owners have the right — or perhaps in this case, duty — to say "not on our turf." I'm generally not a big fan of end-zone messaging like "End Racism." It just feels performative. But Yom Kippur — the holiest of Jewish holidays — starts at sundown Sunday. If the NFL insists on those end-zone slogans, maybe "End Antisemitism" should get a turn Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad0e0275342cf4db8743dd Psychosis evidence changes everything in Clancy judge's other killer mom case: retired judge te 2026-09-18T10:10:10.947Z Psychosis evidence changes everything in Clancy judge's other killer mom case: retired judge Judge William Sullivan, who drew national attention earlier this month after declaring a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case, also presided over another closely watched child-killing trial that a retired Massachusetts judge says would look dramatically different if retried. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last month vacated the murder convictions of Brockton mother Latarsha Sanders, ruling jurors were improperly prevented from seeing psychiatric records central to her insanity defense and ordering a new trial. "They ordered a new trial which will fundamentally change the way the case is going to be tried," retired Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Jack Lu told Fox News Digital. LINDSAY CLANCY MISTRIAL DECLARED AFTER JURY DEADLOCKS IN KILLINGS OF HER THREE CHILDREN Sullivan, who presided over Sanders' 2022 trial and later sentenced her to two concurrent life terms without parole, has returned to the national spotlight following the closely watched Clancy trial, which ended in a mistrial after jurors deadlocked over whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children. Like Sanders, Clancy admitted killing her children but argued she lacked criminal responsibility because of mental illness. "There is no doubt the defendant committed these incomprehensible crimes," Justice David Gaziano wrote for the unanimous court in Sanders' case. "The sole issue before a Superior Court jury was whether she lacked criminal responsibility." LINDSAY CLANCY JUDGE CALLS MISTRIAL, THEN GRANTS DEFENSE ONE HOUR STAY FOR APPEAL The justices concluded Sanders was entitled to a new trial because jurors never saw medical records documenting diagnoses and treatment of mental illness that were relevant to the only issue disputed at trial: whether she lacked criminal responsibility. Lu said the ruling does far more than simply order another trial. "Thousands of pages of mental health records will be admitted ... and the jury's gonna get it all," he said. Lu cautioned against judging Sullivan's decision with the benefit of hindsight. "The trial judge did an excellent job ... but now I'm a great Monday morning quarterback just like everybody else," Lu said, explaining that the evidentiary issue was unusually difficult before the SJC clarified the law. Sanders admitted killing her sons, 8-year-old Edson "Marlon" Brito and 5-year-old La'Son Brito, but argued she was legally insane at the time of the attacks. Her attorneys contended she was suffering from severe mental illness and psychosis, while prosecutors argued she appreciated the wrongfulness of her actions despite bizarre statements she made before and after the killings. According to evidence summarized by the Supreme Judicial Court, Sanders had become consumed by conspiracy theories involving the Illuminati and expressed fears about voodoo before the killings. After the deaths, investigators said she gave police multiple conflicting accounts before eventually telling detectives the stabbings were part of a "ritual" tied to voodoo and the Illuminati. At trial, Sanders' defense called a clinical neuropsychologist who testified she was "grossly psychotic" at the time of the killings and suffered from a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder. The expert based that opinion in part on thousands of pages of psychiatric treatment records from prison and a state psychiatric hospital. Those are the records Lu said a future jury would likely hear if prosecutors pursue another trial. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X The Supreme Judicial Court said that was an error, concluding the excluded records documented repeated observations of paranoia, hallucinations, delusional thinking and schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses that formed the medical foundation of Sanders' defense. Read the court's ruling: "We hold that the exclusion of the MCI-Framingham and WRCH medical records documenting the defendant's post-arrest diagnoses or treatment of mental illness ... impermissibly stripped the sole defense 'of the medical foundation that supported it,'" the court wrote. "The defendant is entitled to a new trial." SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS Lu said the opinion should not be interpreted as a determination that Sanders was legally insane or wrongly convicted. Instead, he described it as the resolution of a difficult evidentiary question that changes what evidence jurors would be permitted to consider if the case is retried. During oral arguments before the Supreme Judicial Court, Sanders' attorney, Robert Shaw, argued the trial judge's exclusion of medical evidence deprived his client of "a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense," FOX 25 in Boston reported. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Assistant Plymouth County District Attorney Melissa Johnson countered that Sanders showed no documented psychotic behavior for months after the killings and that the records were properly excluded, the station reported. SEND US A TIP The justices also addressed two issues that would likely shape any future trial. GOT A TIP? First, they said prosecutors could refer to Sanders describing herself as "evil" because the statements were relevant to whether she appreciated the moral wrongfulness of her actions, so long as the argument remained tied to that legal issue rather than serving as a personal attack. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST However, the court found prosecutors improperly suggested Sanders may have borrowed elements of her story from episodes of "Law & Order: SVU," ruling there was no evidence supporting that theory. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL The ruling vacates Sanders' convictions and sends the case back to Plymouth Superior Court for a new trial. An overturned conviction does not clear Sanders of the charges, Lu said. "It just means you have to do it all over again," he said. Fox News Digital has reached out to Sullivan, Sanders' attorney and the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad0e0275342cf4db8743d4 Prince Harry, Meghan Markle feeding the 'publicity machine' despite privacy demands: expert te 2026-09-18T10:10:10.299Z Prince Harry, Meghan Markle feeding the 'publicity machine' despite privacy demands: expert Sources close to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are "pushing back" after King Charles issued new guidance on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's positions now that they are back in the United Kingdom. King Charles issued guidance claiming that Harry and Markle are "akin to private citizens" via a letter issued by the Lord Chamberlain on Sept. 7. Sources told People magazine that Harry and Markle are "public figures" and that if Harry and Markle were private citizens, the Lord Chamberlain "would not have needed to issue a letter of formal guidance." "Members of the public know who they are. The idea that they can live a normal, ‘private’ life is sadly not realistic," the source added. Kinsey Schofield, host of YouTube’s "Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered," addressed the "not realistic" claim by the source and told Fox News Digital that the "private citizen" guidance just means that they do not represent the king. KING CHARLES DRAWS ‘LINE IN THE SAND’ WITH PRINCE HARRY, MEGHAN MARKLE AFTER COUPLE CAUGHT OFF GUARD: EXPERT "I want to push back on this argument coming from People Magazine and sources close to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle that it's somehow unrealistic for the Sussexes to live as private citizens. Being a private citizen does not mean you're anonymous. It simply means you don't represent the king. The jobs you accept and the responsibilities you take, you take them on as yourself, not the crown," Schofield began. Schofield drew a comparison between Princess Anne's children – Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips. Princess Anne is Queen Elizabeth's only daughter and the sister of King Charles. She chose not to give her two kids royal titles at birth. "They're recognizable, have commercial interests, attend major royal family events, but they do not represent the monarch, yet they have both successfully built lives outside of the working institution. Harry and Meghan could pursue a quieter life, a life like Zara and Peter. They choose not to. In my opinion, you can't repeatedly feed the publicity machine and then complain about a lack of privacy," she said. Schofield argued that the king’s clarification was necessary as Harry and Markle’s public profile has become increasingly intertwined with the controversies surrounding them. MEGHAN MARKLE’S UK RETURN POSES PALACE CONTROL ‘NIGHTMARE,’ EXPERT WARNS "Prince Harry is classified as a non-working member of the royal family whose position is akin to a private citizen. Of course, Harry and Megan are famous. Nobody's disputing that, but where does their fame end and infamy begin? Fame can inspire people to invest in you emotionally and financially. Infamy means people know your name because controversy follows you," she began. Schofield continued, "And after years of feuds, lawsuits, and relationships that deteriorate, I think it's fair to ask how much of the Sussex's enormous public profile today is driven by admiration and how much is driven by controversy, which is precisely why the king has every reason to make their status crystal clear." Ian Pelham Turner, royal broadcaster, disagrees with Charles's stance on labeling his son and his wife as private citizens. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "Harry is the son of a king. He has prominence in Britain. Thus, whether William likes it or not the King should decide not to weakly disenfranchise his second son," Turner said. "He is a billionaire with vast fortunes. Pay for his son’s full security rather than looking like an Ebenezer Scrooge after." He continued, "Although some royals still live in Dickens times, we are actually in the 21st century. How would the King feel if a second tragedy happens in his lifetime, first Diana, and potentially Harry and his family?" Private citizens are not granted security like members of the royal family are. Richard Fitzwilliams, royal commentator, told Fox News Digital that Charles' letter, declaring Harry and Markle private citizens, is a "total mess." "The current situation with the King’s letter about their status and the Sussexes response is a total mess. The raising of the security issue which, in the Sussexes view, is a further example of the risks they face, was, in fact, highlighting the incompetence on their part as no proper recce [reconnaissance] has been done during term by their team," Fitzwilliams said. Fitzwilliams argued that the king's letter was a "slap on the wrist" for Meghan and Harry, proving his lack of trust for the former senior royals. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "The King’s letter restated the facts without giving them much of a chance to 'clarify' things. It was clearly intended as a slap on the wrist and evidence that the King didn’t trust them. Unfortunately, nothing is going to stop matters becoming a circus, with royal engagements overshadowed by what they get up to," he said. As for what's to come, the royal experts are stumped. "It is simply impossible to anticipate the way this may go. It is only clear that, whatever their motives and mistakes, the Sussexes are news whatever they do. That strengthens their hand because it gives them a very high profile. This has nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of any issues involved," Fitzwilliams said. Schofield explained that Markle and Harry are "unpredictable." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "Harry and Megan are unpredictable. The palace can't have governments, charities, businesses, even members of the public wondering whether their activities somehow carry the endorsement of the crown. It doesn't. They don't. King Charles is saying, absolutely not," she said. Schofield continued, "Harry spent years insisting that he wanted independence from the institution. Independence means you don't get to demand the privileges or the authority or the special treatment afforded to people who stayed and did the job. It's the king who determines who represents the crown, not Prince Harry, not Megan Markle, and certainly not anonymous sources briefing People Magazine. Harry wanted his freedom from the system. He got it, but freedom from the system also means accepting that you no longer have a seat at the table." Fox News Digital has reached out to Archewell and Buckingham Palace for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad0e0175342cf4db8743cb Man loses weight eating nothing but a certain food for 25 days — and paid a price te 2026-09-18T10:10:09.609Z Man loses weight eating nothing but a certain food for 25 days — and paid a price A New Jersey man ate nothing but certain foods from a fast-casual chain for 25 days — an experiment that left him nine pounds lighter and craving a slice of pizza. Tim Donahue, a 27-year-old Hoboken resident who works in advertising in New York City, documented his challenge as a modern-day spin on Morgan Spurlock's 2004 documentary "Super Size Me," he told Fox News Digital. But instead of eating McDonald's for a month, Donahue wanted to see what would happen if he exclusively ate at a chain on the opposite end of the fast-food spectrum. AMERICA'S FAVORITE FAST-FOOD CHAIN NAMED: MCDONALD'S WINS HEARTS BUT NOT BEST BURGER, SURVEY SAYS "I think it felt the furthest possible opposite of McDonald's," Donahue said of choosing Sweetgreen. The idea also came from watching his health-conscious co-workers routinely order Sweetgreen for lunch while he showed up with fast food. "Everyone inside my office is very healthy, and they were getting Sweetgreen bowls every single day for lunch," Donahue said. "I myself would go pick up a fast-food burger and everyone would razz and make fun of me." Donahue originally intended to make his experiment last for 30 days, but there was a practical problem. EATING 5 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES A DAY MAY NOT BE ENOUGH FOR HEART HEALTH, STUDY FINDS "I wanted to do 30, but if you try to look at your calendar and try to fit [it into] any 30-day window, there was always a wedding, a work trip, a reason why I couldn't do 30," he said. "I said, 'You know what, it's either going to get done with 25 days or I'm never going to it done.'" His primary rule was simple: Whatever he consumed had to be available on Sweetgreen's menu, although he made an exception for black coffee. And while Sweetgreen offers more than salads, Donahue tried to keep the experiment centered on its bowls. By the third day, he said, there was little chance of turning back. Donahue didn't begin the challenge expecting to lose weight, but by the end, the number on his scale had dropped by about 9 pounds. He also found a clear favorite on the menu. AMERICA'S LATE-NIGHT FAST-FOOD CULTURE MAY BE MAKING A COMEBACK — HERE'S WHY "I was rocking with the hot honey chicken bowl," he said. "I was getting that all the time." Donahue said the variety made eating from the same restaurant for nearly a month easier than one might expect. The bigger challenge, he said, was arranging his life around the experiment. "The most challenging aspect of the project was not the food, it was the logistics," he said. Meals had to be planned around the store's operating hours. Going out with friends meant skipping drinks and potentially bringing a salad along. Even dates with his girlfriend took a back seat. One thing Donahue doesn't recommend about his experiment today is the price tag. "You can cook at home and make a salad at home and spend a significantly smaller amount of money," he said. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Donahue said he offset some of the expense by deciding not to spend money on alcohol or other restaurant meals during the challenge. But, he admitted, it was a "very expensive" project. "Out of pocket, this is not a sustainable thing to do over groceries," he said. Donahue also emphasized that Sweetgreen didn't pay him to conduct the experiment. The company subsequently embraced his idea, Donahue said. "His video inspired us to launch our own 30-day Sweetgreen challenge," Nicolas Jammet, Sweetgreen's co-founder and chief concept officer, told Fox News Digital. "We put out an open call for 30 participants to eat only Sweetgreen for 30 days and document how they feel throughout, and we already received hundreds of applications." CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS After 25 days of salad bowls, Donahue headed to his favorite neighborhood pizzeria. "A cheese pizza after a month of salads was incredibly well-deserved," he said. There was just one problem. The sudden return to heavier food didn't sit particularly well. "It did make me feel quite sick because it's a shock to your system," Donahue said. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Despite dropping weight and saying he experienced benefits, including more energy, Donahue isn't presenting his experiment as nutritional advice.  He stressed that he isn't a doctor or nutritionist and didn't undertake the challenge to tell others how they should eat. "The experiment was largely a fun filmmaking journey for me," he said. "I would never prescribe this to someone." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad0e0075342cf4db8743c2 Fox News Digital's News Quiz: September 18, 2026 te 2026-09-18T10:10:08.844Z Fox News Digital's News Quiz: September 18, 2026 Test your news knowledge with this week's Fox News Digital News Quiz, featuring Macklemore and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft going back and forth over Israel and Mideast aid, and a romance scam costing one woman nearly $1 million. Looking for another challenge? A stark warning about artificial intelligence and Nike's struggles were featured in last week's News Quiz. Test your knowledge of gridiron grazing, silver-screen secrets 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/6aad0e0075342cf4db8743b9 ‘Voters get to choose — just not the result’: Russia’s parliamentary election reaches occupied Ukraine te 2026-09-18T10:10:08.100Z ‘Voters get to choose — just not the result’: Russia’s parliamentary election reaches occupied Ukraine Russian State Duma elections began Friday — the first since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — including in occupied areas of Ukraine, where Russia will look to reinforce the illusion of popular support for its full-scale invasion and annexation of eastern Ukraine. OSCE election observers are not invited to monitor the outcome of the elections, a telling signal, critics say, that the Kremlin has no intentions of conducting free and fair elections. "Russia’s refusal to invite an election observation mission seriously breaches its international commitments and shows a worrying disregard for democratic standards. Election observation is not optional — it is something that all OSCE participating States have agreed to, and it is a cornerstone of transparency and accountability," OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President, Pere Joan Pons told Fox News Digital. Russia enacted strict censorship laws after the invasion, criminalizing any dissent about the operation or the armed forces and spreading misinformation about the war. CIA DIRECTOR JOHN RATCLIFFE MET WITH RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS IN VISIT TO MOSCOW, KREMLIN SAYS As the Kremlin has tried to keep popular support in favor of its war against Ukraine, a Russian court sentenced Lev Shlosberg, a vocal critic and leader of one of Russia’s only opposition parties to over 11 years in a penal colony for criticizing the war. Prior to Shlosberg’s sentencing, Russia's Supreme Court banned his opposition Yabloko Party from participating in September’s Duma elections. There are nine parties on the list, all supportive of Putin, including the Kremlin's own United Party in the elections, the Associated Press reported.  Shortly after Russia’s invasion in 2022, Moscow unilaterally annexed portions of occupied Ukrainian territory in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. In 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation allowing elections to take place in the occupied territories. Ukraine, and the international community, do not recognize Russian sovereignty over the occupied regions. Elections in Russia, and by extension in the occupied territory, are seen by his critics as window-dressing opportunities used by Putin to highlight his narrative that the war in Ukraine and the annexation of Ukrainian territory was a legitimate and lawful action. Keti Korkiya from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Russia Program told Fox News Digital that, "Russians are ready to support, symbolically, Putin, the Kremlin and the war, but if they have to pay a personal price, or even [an] economic price, they are unwilling to do that. That's why Russia has not done another wave of mobilization." The upcoming elections, like most elections in Russia, will take place under a climate of pervasive fear and manipulation, not the freedom to exercise a democratic right, according to critics. "It’s a total regime of terror," Jaroslava Barbieri, Research Fellow at the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House, told Fox News Digital. The last time Russian elections were held in the occupied territories was in 2024, when Putin secured a sixth term in office, winning nearly 90% of the vote. Residents in occupied Ukraine were forced to acquire Russian passports, which is how authorities are able to compile lists of voters. FORMER GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS NATION'S ELECTION WAS 'RIGGED,' AND 'WRITTEN IN MOSCOW' "Election officials are escorted by Russian soldiers carrying ballot boxes door-to-door. Ostensibly framed as a security measure against Ukrainian partisan strikes, this is about direct intimidation, and it is a flagrant violation of international law," Barbieri added. President Vladimir Putin said in August that the State Duma elections will reaffirm Russia's stability on the world stage, noting the election will highlight the "maturity" of Russia’s political system and resilience in the face of foreign aggression, according to Turkey's Anadolu Agency. Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) approved new electoral regulations that will be implemented in occupied Ukraine. The Commission stressed the importance of early and at-home voting to prevent large gatherings which could be exploited by Ukrainian attacks. Russia's ministry of foreign affairs posted on X that preparations for overseas voting in Russia’s State Duma elections are nearly complete. It said there are 326 polling stations set up at Russian embassies & consulates in 152 countries. Volodymyr Ariev, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, said people living in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories should boycott the staged Russian elections. "Any sort of elections held in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories is illegal and a breach of international law. Ukraine will never recognize any person "elected" as a Member of Parliament in the temporarily occupied territories," Ariev told Fox News Digital. Ariev said people living in the occupied east should leave their homes and spend election day someplace else, to avoid being coerced into voting. PUTIN PLANS FOR NEXT 6-YEAR TERM AS RUSSIANS VOTE IN 'NEITHER FREE NOR FAIR ELECTION' Ivana Stradner, who focuses on Russian information security and influence operations at the FDD, says as Russia’s battlefield momentum stalls, the costs of war mount, and Ukraine brings the conflict to Russia’s doorstep, Putin is seeking political legitimacy this election. "The State Duma elections give the Kremlin a chance to manufacture the appearance of public support…not only for United Russia, but for continuing Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. When the battlefield gets harder to sell, the ballot box becomes another way to sell the war," Stradner told Fox News Digital. In the 2024 presidential elections, the annexed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic delivered well above the current targeted 70% support, voting well over 90% for President Putin. "Apparently, in Putin’s version of democracy, the voters get to choose… just not the result," Stradner added. The three days of voting ends on September 20. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad0dff75342cf4db8743b0 Top DOJ official warns of deadly smuggling route after 42 vanish at sea te 2026-09-18T10:10:07.420Z Top DOJ official warns of deadly smuggling route after 42 vanish at sea A Colombian smuggler’s guilty plea is shedding new light on a deadly route to the United States after a boat carrying 42 people vanished at sea and a top Justice Department official said the danger would not have ended if they reached land. Luis Enrique Linero Pinto, 41, also known as "El Calvo," pleaded guilty in federal court in El Paso, Texas, after being extradited from Colombia for his role in a smuggling conspiracy that prosecutors said used bribery and maritime routes to move migrants north. The boat left Colombia’s San Andrés Island for Nicaragua on Oct. 21, 2023, carrying approximately 40 migrants and two captains. It never arrived, and no one aboard has been seen or heard from since. "This was a particularly sad and disturbing situation," Assistant Attorney General Tysen Duva, who leads the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, told Fox News Digital. OVERCROWDED MIGRANT VESSEL WITH 240 PEOPLE ON BOARD INTERCEPTED NEAR TURKS AND CAICOS "These 40 individuals and the two boat captains, once they set out from San Andrés Island to Nicaragua, were never heard from again," Duva said. "These individuals are, of course, missing and presumed dead, and it appears that there were no survivors." ELEVEN INDICTED IN ALLEGED TEXAS SMUGGLING SCHEME THAT LEFT 7 MIGRANTS DEAD IN SHIPPING CONTAINER Duva said the disappearance offers a brutal look at the danger posed by transnational smuggling organizations that turn vulnerable migrants into commodities while pursuing routes toward the United States. "It’s all about money," he said. "Anybody who’s involved with a cartel or transnational smuggling in this regard, it is about money. It’s about preying on people’s misfortune." MEXICAN NATIONAL SENTENCED IN BORDER CHILD SMUGGLING CASE INVOLVING THC-LACED CANDY According to the Justice Department, Linero Pinto advised migrants on how to reach San Andrés Island, personally received them upon arrival, arranged their accommodations and transported them to boats bound for Nicaragua. From there, the migrants intended to travel through Central America and Mexico before illegally entering the United States, prosecutors said. CBP JOINS FORCES WITH COAST GUARD TO INTERCEPT 3 SMUGGLING BOATS, APPREHEND 60 PEOPLE OFF CALIFORNIA COAST Linero Pinto also bribed members of the Colombian Navy to obtain real-time intelligence about the positions of patrol vessels between San Andrés Island and Nicaragua, allowing smuggling boats to evade authorities, according to court documents. He admitted helping smuggle the migrants aboard the boat that vanished in October 2023. INSIDE UNDERGROUND EL PASO STORM DRAIN SYSTEM BORDER PATROL SAYS CARTELS EXPLOIT TO SMUGGLE ILLEGAL MIGRANTS Duva said the victims had not even completed the opening stretch of the dangerous route when they disappeared. "That’s the first leg. They didn’t even finish the first leg here and get to Nicaragua and then try to come north by land," he said. "It’s a really long journey, and it’s full of really bad things that can happen." DOJ SAYS 11 MIGRANTS INDICTED IN MULTI-STATE SEX TRAFFICKING, DRUG, FIREARMS CASE The danger, he warned, is not confined to the open water. Duva said migrants can face treacherous terrain while traveling through South and Central America and across the U.S.-Mexico border. Even those who reach the United States may be trapped by mounting debts and pushed into sex trafficking, he warned. "You pay money to come to the United States, and then when you get here, the co-conspirators or those involved in the criminal enterprise will say, ‘But now you owe more, and you’re going to work this off in the sex trade,’" Duva said. "Cross-border smuggling cases often times just morph right into human trafficking cases," he continued. "The crime sort of changes along the way. The travelers are the ones victimized, and this comes at a significant cost in terms of public safety." Linero Pinto was charged in October 2024 and arrested in Colombia that December at the request of the U.S. government. He was later extradited to the United States and made his first appearance in federal court in El Paso in December 2025. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit alien smuggling and placing lives in jeopardy. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, though a sentencing date has not been set. ‘GHOSTS’ ON FLORIDA HIGHWAYS: ROADSIDE STINGS SNARE 249 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, OFFICERS WARN MANY MORE HIDING A case against alleged co-conspirator Hernando Manuel de la Cruz Rivera remains pending, Duva said. The prosecution is part of Operation Take Back America and was coordinated by Joint Task Force Alpha, the Justice Department-led initiative targeting cartels and other transnational organizations involved in high-impact human smuggling and trafficking. Duva praised President Donald Trump and his administration for putting a "tremendous focus" on the initiative and providing the Justice Department with additional resources to pursue smugglers, cartels and other transnational criminal organizations. "We’re super thankful to President Trump," Duva said. "We’re deeply thankful to the White House for that. We’re thankful to Congress for that, and we’re going to keep doing what we’re doing." Duva said funding approved through Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill allowed the Criminal Division to hire additional prosecutors and place experienced attorneys in sections handling the administration’s priorities. "People think, ‘Well, what is that? What did it do?’" he said. "We’re feeling the effects of that. We’re able to put skilled prosecutors in these different sections to attack these administration priorities." Duva said the task force is hunting criminal networks along the southern border, maritime routes near Florida and the northern border with Canada. "We are focusing on these cases at any border that we have," he said. His warning to smugglers operating beyond America’s borders was blunt. "Our reach is substantial," Duva said. "We are going to chase these cases no matter where they originate from or where we find them." Duva said the department’s expanded international partnerships are critical because the criminals behind the operations often believe distance will protect them from prosecution. "They just think, ‘Well, they catch other people, but they’re not going to get me,’" he said. "You really try to combat that one case at a time." Joint Task Force Alpha has produced more than 483 domestic and international arrests, over 436 U.S. convictions and more than 371 significant prison sentences, according to the Justice Department. FIRST TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBER EXTRADITED TO US ON HISTORIC TERRORISM CHARGES APPEARS BEFORE HOUSTON JUDGE Duva said the mission should transcend partisan fights because the networks being targeted threaten migrants and American communities alike. "It shouldn’t be partisan," he said. "It should be obvious that anybody who’s in the White House, anybody who is in Congress, should be lauding these cases and the work that’s being done by Criminal Division entities like Joint Task Force Alpha." The Justice Department’s ultimate goal, Duva said, is the "total elimination" of cartels and the criminal organizations profiting from human suffering. "You do it one case at a time," he said. "We are focused on doing the very best cases that we can for the American people. That’s what we get up every day and think about." For Duva, however, the vanished boat remains a haunting illustration of why that mission matters. "I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of anybody who survives that one after several months and a year," Duva said. "It’s super tragic, and hopefully people realize when they hear about this case just how dangerous it is and how important it is that you target these smuggling groups." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad0dfe75342cf4db8743a7 Judge Judy warns of 'danger' if prosecutors don't retry Lindsay Clancy after murder trial ends in mistrial te 2026-09-18T10:10:06.641Z Judge Judy warns of 'danger' if prosecutors don't retry Lindsay Clancy after murder trial ends in mistrial Judge Judy Sheindlin weighed in Thursday on the closely watched Lindsay Clancy murder case following its mistrial, warning there could be a "danger" in prosecutors deciding not to retry the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children. The 83-year-old judge and television personality was asked by TMZ whether Clancy should face another trial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict earlier this month. "I think there's a danger in that, in not retrying," Sheindlin responded. Sheindlin, who launched the popular syndicated show "Judge Judy," which aired for 25 seasons, was also asked about her view on the outcome of the trial after the jury's deliberations ended in a reported 11-1 split in favor of finding Clancy not criminally responsible. PATRICK CLANCY SPEAKS OUT AFTER HUNG JURY IN LINDSAY CLANCY CASE, ADDRESSES PROSPECT OF ANOTHER TRIAL "I can't give you a two minute answer on that," Sheindlin said. She was then asked whether she believed Clancy should have been found guilty. "There's no question, my dear, that she killed her children," Sheindlin said. "The only question is, is there an excuse for it? Make up your own mind on that one." DR PHIL SAYS LINDSAY CLANCY MISTRIAL A 'TEACHABLE MOMENT' ON POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS: 'THERE WAS A FAILURE HERE' TMZ also asked Sheindlin about Rep. Nancy Mace's public call for Clancy to be publicly executed. "I think it's ridiculous," Sheindlin responded. Clancy's defense does not dispute that the 36-year-old former delivery room nurse strangled her three children with exercise bands in January 2023. Her defense has argued that she was not criminally responsible because of mental illness or defect. LINDSAY CLANCY JUROR DENIES BIAS ALLEGATIONS, WANTS 'CONVERSATION STARTED' ABOUT WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Sept. 4 after seven days of deliberations when jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict. Several jurors later said 11 members of the panel favored finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, while one favored conviction. Immediately after the mistrial was declared, Clancy's longtime defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, signaled that he would fight another attempt to put her on trial. The defense has indicated it plans to argue that the circumstances surrounding the mistrial should bar a second trial. However, in a recent interview with Fox News' Bryan Llenas, Reddington said that if prosecutors reduced the top charge to second-degree murder, he would opt for a bench trial — one without a jury — in the hope that she would receive probation. Clancy remains in custody at Tewksbury Hospital and is due back in court Sept. 29. Fox News Digital's Michael Ruiz and Stepheny Price contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad06f775342cf4db874229 ‘Unprecedented’: Judges reveal behind-the-scenes coordination on Trump immigration cases te 2026-09-18T09:40:07.457Z ‘Unprecedented’: Judges reveal behind-the-scenes coordination on Trump immigration cases Federal judges in Minnesota tasked with deciding a flood of habeas petitions challenging the detention of immigrants swept up during President Donald Trump's Operation Metro Surge weren't working entirely on their own — behind the scenes, they were regularly consulting one another through running email threads and developing tools to quickly handle recurring legal questions. The behind-the-scenes coordination among Minnesota's federal bench, revealed in a New York Times report Thursday, included regular meetings, running email threads, an informal spreadsheet created by court clerks showing which judges to turn to with particular legal questions, and templates some judges developed to quickly issue orders when similar detention disputes repeatedly came before the court. The disclosures are fueling questions over whether the judges were colluding on separate cases involving the same Trump administration immigration policies, or simply sharing expertise to manage an extraordinary caseload. FEDERAL JUDGE TIES ICE AGENTS' HANDS WITH RULING ON WARRANTLESS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARRESTS "The idea of a running email chain involving a variety of cases — it strikes me as very weird and frankly unprecedented," Robert Luther III, a professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School whose work includes federal courts and judicial ethics, told Fox News Digital. Federal judges can and routinely do consult colleagues, Luther said, particularly about procedural or evidentiary questions. But each judge is ultimately responsible for independently deciding the cases assigned to them — a distinction Luther said makes the coordination significant. The disclosures have also drawn criticism from the Trump administration on two fronts. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) General Counsel James Percival accused the former chief judge who led the district during Metro Surge of "essentially conspiring with his judicial colleagues" to thwart federal immigration enforcement. The Justice Department (DOJ), meanwhile, questioned the decision by sitting judges to give extensive on-the-record interviews about their experience with the administration's immigration operation. Seven of the district's judges spoke to the Times for Thursday's report, including former Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz, who sat for a 90-minute interview about the court's experience during Metro Surge. Schiltz declined to discuss ongoing cases, according to the Times, but described what happened in Minnesota's federal court as having "created a grave threat to the rule of law." "It is remarkable that sitting federal judges are giving on-the-record interviews attacking this Administration's policies rather than ruling from the bench," a Justice Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "If judges followed the law in adjudicating cases, there wouldn't be an 'overwhelming' habeas caseload. Judges who have made public comments on pending or related matters should consider whether recusal is warranted going forward." OBAMA, BIDEN JUDGES DRAW FRESH FIRE AS TRUMP'S IMMIGRATION COURT CLASHES HEAT UP: ‘ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE’ But Chief Judge Eric Tostrud, who was himself among the Minnesota judges interviewed by the Times, rejected suggestions that the coordination described in the report compromised individual decision-making. He told Fox News Digital that every member of the bench independently decided the merits of each petition assigned to them, while pointing to an extraordinary surge in litigation — from 12 alien-detainee habeas petitions during all of 2024 to 1,427 through August of this year — and noting that many involved similar or identical, often novel, legal questions. "The bottom line is that each of us made an independent decision with respect to the merits of each and every petition we were assigned," Tostrud told Fox News Digital. Tostrud stressed that the judges did not uniformly reach the same conclusions, saying that while some reached the same result on certain legal questions, they "reached different outcomes regarding other legal questions." He said the judges' ability to communicate helped them resolve the cases quickly and thoughtfully, regardless of whether individual petitions were granted. What exactly the judges were sharing behind the scenes, however, remains unclear. Tostrud declined to disclose the contents of the court's internal working materials, saying documents created by judges and court staff "are not public." TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S IMMIGRATION PUSH FUELS ICE'S BIGGEST ARREST MONTH IN AGENCY HISTORY That distinction could be significant, according to Luther, who said administrative templates are commonplace in federal courts, but drew a line between those and templates touching the substance of a case. "Templates that deal with administrative matters strike me as entirely appropriate and commonplace in federal courts," Luther said. "Templates for substantive matters — that seems like something altogether different." The coordination unfolded amid a broader clash between Minnesota's federal bench and the Trump administration over Operation Metro Surge. The dispute came as immigration litigation inundated the district. During the first three months of 2026, Minnesota's federal court received 1,116 habeas petitions, compared with just two during the same period the previous year, according to the Times. Court staff worked 16-hour days, seven days a week to process the incoming cases. Patrick Schiltz, who served as the district's chief judge during Metro Surge before taking senior status — a form of semi-retirement — this summer, emerged as a prominent judicial critic of the administration's handling of the operation. In a Jan. 28 order, Schiltz accused ICE of violating nearly 100 court orders during that month and warned that "ICE is not a law unto itself." OBAMA JUDGE'S PECULIAR TRUMP REBUKE IGNITES FURY OVER 'UNPROFESSIONAL' LANGUAGE: 'EMBARRASSMENT' The cases cited in Schiltz's January list of alleged violations have largely concluded, according to the Times, which reported that the administration ultimately corrected the issues flagged by the court in many of them. DOJ said its review of the cases found that in the "large majority" of them, detainees were released on time and no violation occurred, while in most of the remaining cases the department said it ultimately did what the court ordered despite missing an additional deadline. MASSACHUSETTS' HIGHEST COURT PUBLICLY REPRIMANDS JUDGE ACCUSED OF ENABLING IMMIGRANT TO ESCAPE ICE Federal judicial ethics rules generally prohibit judges from publicly commenting on the merits of pending or impending cases, but permit judges to explain court procedures and engage in broader speaking and teaching about the law, legal system and administration of justice. The DOJ argued that judges who publicly commented on pending or related matters should consider whether recusal is warranted. The Times reported, however, that Schiltz declined to discuss ongoing cases, while Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee who also participated in the interviews, defended judges' ability to speak publicly about judicial independence. "We are allowed to speak out about judicial independence," Brasel told the Times. "And so we should, in order to keep it." Luther, however, took a different view of the judges' decision to participate in the interviews. "Judges should be speaking through their judicial orders, not through their surrogates at The New York Times," he told Fox News Digital. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad06f575342cf4db874203 Our View: Let’s bring the Mohave County Fair to more of Mohave County te 2026-09-18T09:40:05.787Z Our View: Let’s bring the Mohave County Fair to more of Mohave County The Mohave County Fair is worth celebrating. For generations, county fairs have given families a place to gather, young people a place to show what they have learned and communities a chance to celebrate what makes them special. Mohave County… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad024a75342cf4db874121 We should use Reagan as a guide in handling our modern arms race with China te 2026-09-18T09:20:10.150Z We should use Reagan as a guide in handling our modern arms race with China I can still remember, as a young Air Force officer, sitting in the cockpit of my B-1 bomber knowing that we could deliver nuclear weapons virtually anywhere in the world. I also remember watching President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986 to negotiate nuclear arms reductions. The whole world was watching. The nuclear arms race was a global threat, and the world’s two most powerful nations had a responsibility to confront it. Now imagine that, as Reagan sat across the table from Gorbachev, American companies were selling Moscow the technology it needed to make its nuclear arsenal even more powerful. ANTHROPIC CEO LIKENS AI FIGHT WITH CHINA TO COLD WAR, SEEKS 'DISARMAMENT NEGOTIATIONS' The idea would have been absurd. Yet today, as the United States enters another potentially historic technological arms race, we are entertaining a remarkably similar proposition: selling China the advanced computer chips it needs to build the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence. CHINA IS BUILDING AN AI WAR MACHINE. WASHINGTON MUST WAKE UP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE Advanced AI chips are not nuclear weapons. But in the emerging competition over artificial intelligence, they may be the closest equivalent we have to the strategic materials that powered the last great arms race. In short, they are the fuel. Without enormous quantities of advanced chips and computing power, China cannot train frontier AI systems at the same scale or speed as the United States. That is precisely why Beijing wants them, and precisely why Washington should think very carefully before selling them. TRUMP'S AI RACE WITH CHINA COULD BECOME THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF OUR TIME When President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House this month, there will be no shortage of issues to discuss. Trade. Security. Technology. The future of the world’s most consequential relationship. But Trump should make one principle clear: America will not help China build the technology that could erase one of our greatest strategic advantages. CHINA’S ROUTING OF BIDEN IN CHIP WAR WITH US CREATED A COMMUNIST TECH GIANT The United States currently possesses enormous leverage. America remains at the center of the world’s most advanced AI ecosystem, and China still depends heavily on access to American-designed chips and the broader technological infrastructure surrounding them. We should not give that leverage away. Earlier this year, the United States began allowing some advanced AI chips, including Nvidia’s H200, to be sold to China on a case-by-case basis. Those sales come with restrictions and security requirements. But the strategic question is more fundamental: Why should we accelerate China’s ability to compete with us in the first place? US ADVERSARY TURNS UP THE HEAT ON AMERICA’S AI LEAD WITH AN UNDERESTIMATED EDGE Supporters of chip sales argue that keeping China dependent on American technology preserves our influence and supports American companies. They also argue it disincentivizes China from developing its own capabilities. But there is great evidence that it has exactly the opposite effect. China is using our chips to accelerate their own capabilities. And national security should never be reduced to an argument over market share. An advanced AI chip sold to China does not simply power a search engine or make a factory more efficient. At sufficient scale, these chips provide the computing power required to train increasingly capable AI systems with applications in intelligence, cyber operations, military planning, autonomous weapons, scientific research and countless other fields. RUBIO WARNS AMERICA MUST 'STAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE' AS CHINA WORKS TO SURPASS THE US WITH STOLEN TECH We would never have looked at Soviet demand for strategic nuclear technology and concluded that the important question was whether an American company could make the sale. We understood that some technologies were too consequential to treat as ordinary commerce, and AI chips increasingly belong in that category. This does not mean America should retreat from AI development. Quite the opposite. We should build faster, innovate more aggressively and maintain as large a technological advantage over China as possible. But there is a difference between racing ahead and helping your adversary catch up. Trump should use the Xi meeting to turn America’s chip advantage into negotiating leverage. If China wants greater access to advanced American computing power, then Beijing should have to accept meaningful, verifiable limits on the most dangerous forms of AI development. We should demand transparency around massive compute clusters and clear restrictions on capabilities that could threaten U.S. national security or escape meaningful human control. And any agreement must be enforceable. China has given us little reason to rely on promises. The standard should be simple: Trust nothing. Verify everything. This is where Reagan’s example matters. He did not negotiate with the Soviet Union because America was weak. He rebuilt American strength first, then used that strength to secure limits on a dangerous arms race. He understood something we should remember today: You do not surrender your leverage before negotiations begin. Trump should apply that lesson to the defining technological competition of our time. America should lead in AI. America should win. And America should negotiate from strength to keep this race from carrying both nations somewhere neither can control. But we cannot negotiate from strength while handing China the fuel it needs to catch us. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Selling advanced AI chips to Beijing while worrying about China overtaking us makes about as much strategic sense as selling nuclear technology to the Soviets during the Cold War. Reagan would have understood that immediately. Our current leadership should too. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY CHRIS STEWART Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad024975342cf4db874118 LEE CARTER: The Fed finally raised rates. The real danger now for the GOP is what happens next te 2026-09-18T09:20:09.504Z LEE CARTER: The Fed finally raised rates. The real danger now for the GOP is what happens next The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time since 2023. There will be much discussion about what this means for the economy. There should be. But there is another question, less technical and perhaps more important as we approach the midterms. What does it mean to the people living in the economy? FOX NEWS POLL: SQUEEZED BY COSTS, FRUSTRATED VOTERS TURN TO THE DEMOCRATS The Fed sees an economy strong enough to withstand higher rates. Growth is solid. Consumers are still spending. Businesses are investing. The labor market is holding up. These are good things. And yet there is something strange about the word economists keep using to describe the American consumer. Resilient. Americans have certainly been that. They have absorbed years of higher prices. They have adjusted household budgets. They have postponed purchases. They have watched mortgage rates make houses they once could afford suddenly unaffordable. They have put more on credit cards and paid more interest for the privilege. US ECONOMY NOTCHES REMARKABLE NEW RECORD, SPARKING CHEERS: ‘GOOD JOB EVERYONE’ And they have kept going. But perhaps we’re asking too much of the word "resilient." A family can be resilient because it is thriving. It can also be resilient because it has no choice. A consumer can keep spending while putting more on a credit card. A small business can keep its doors open while canceling the expansion it hoped to finance. The spreadsheet calls that resilience. The voter may call it exhaustion. FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS: VOTERS SAY THEY’RE IN ECONOMIC PAIN, BUT WILL DEMOCRATS GAIN? There comes a point when people don’t want to hear that they’re weathering the storm remarkably well. They want the storm to end. That is the part of Wednesday’s decision Washington should be thinking about. The Federal Reserve raised rates because inflation remains too high. Higher interest rates are meant to slow demand. Borrowing becomes more expensive. People spend less. Businesses invest less. The economy cools and, eventually, inflation should cool with it. This is sound economic theory. It is also someone’s life. A small-business owner who was thinking about expanding now looks again at the cost of the loan. A young couple thinking about buying their first home runs the mortgage calculation one more time. A family that hasn’t paid off its credit card watches another month’s interest accumulate. None of them thinks: Monetary policy is working. They think: This is getting harder. FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS WANT MAJOR CHANGE AMID ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DISCONTENT And there is another complication. Some of today’s inflation pressure isn’t simply a story of Americans buying too much. Energy prices have surged amid geopolitical turmoil. Tariffs have added pressure to some goods prices. Supply matters, too. The Fed has a powerful tool for suppressing demand. It does not have a tool for producing oil. That distinction becomes important when the cure for higher prices is making money itself more expensive. Economist Mitch Roschelle put the larger dilemma this way: Monetary policy can suppress demand, but it cannot manufacture supply. The policies Washington says will eventually increase supply may take years to bear fruit. Voters aren’t living years from now. They’re voting this November, after the Federal Reserve has just delivered an unmistakable message: Inflation is still a problem. That leaves the consumer caught in the middle. The policies that might increase supply take time. The interest-rate hike designed to suppress demand does not. Its effects begin showing up in the cost of money now. And that may be the essential disconnect of this economy. FOX NEWS POLL: 'RESILIENT DISCONTENT' DEFINES THE US MOOD AT 250TH ANNIVERSARY Washington lives in the eventually. Consumers live in the now. Washington can debate whether today’s inflation began with pandemic spending, the Inflation Reduction Act, tariffs, oil prices, the war in the Middle East, consumer demand or some complicated combination of all of them. Voters don’t have to settle that argument. They know what a gallon of gas costs. THE AMERICAN DREAM NOW COMES WITH A ZIP CODE: HERE'S WHERE STARTER HOMES ARE STILL WITHIN REACH They know what they spent at the grocery store last Saturday. They know whether their credit-card balance is bigger than it was a year ago. They know whether the house they hoped to buy still feels possible. And they know whether they feel as if they are getting ahead or falling behind. That is why economic statistics and economic sentiment can tell such different stories. The statistics measure the economy. People measure their lives. There is, inevitably, a political dimension to all of this. IT’S NOT THE ECONOMY, STUPID. AMERICANS VOTE BASED ON THEIR PERSONAL ECONOMY President Trump has repeatedly called for lower interest rates. On Wednesday, the independent Federal Reserve looked at the economy and concluded that rates needed to go higher. Democrats will point to that decision as evidence that inflation remains a problem on Trump’s watch. Republicans will point to energy prices, geopolitical turmoil and other forces beyond the president’s control. Both arguments will be made loudly. But voters may hear something simpler. The president has said prices are coming under control. The Federal Reserve just said inflation remains elevated and raised interest rates to fight it. That doesn’t tell us who caused inflation. It tells us inflation isn’t over. And politically, that may be the more important distinction. Because Washington thinks about causation. People think about experience. GEN Z IS WORKING HARD, BUT THE ECONOMY IS PUTTING THE AMERICAN DREAM OUT OF REACH FOR MANY There is an echo here of the 1970s, although history is never as neat as politicians would like it to be. Then, too, oil shocks collided with an inflation problem already underway. Paul Volcker ultimately broke entrenched inflation with extraordinarily aggressive monetary tightening, at enormous economic cost. We are not living through the 1970s again. But history sometimes asks familiar questions. What happens when part of your inflation problem comes from things monetary policy cannot fix? And what happens when the cure lands on people who already feel they have been taking the medicine for years? That is why Wednesday’s Fed decision matters beyond the markets. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Politicians will argue about causation. Economists will allocate responsibility. Voters get to ask two considerably simpler questions: How am I doing? And: Who’s in charge? The Fed thinks the economy can take the medicine. The question for November is how Americans feel after swallowing it. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aad024875342cf4db87410f America runs on data. If we don’t build the infrastructure, China will te 2026-09-18T09:20:08.761Z America runs on data. If we don’t build the infrastructure, China will Most Americans don't think much about digital infrastructure because, for the most part, it is always there. We carry supercomputers in our pockets and expect instant access to our bank accounts, medical records, airline schedules, businesses, families and virtually any piece of information we need. We have become so accustomed to that availability that it is easy to forget there is an enormous physical infrastructure behind it. Both of us learned the value of information long before we entered the critical infrastructure industry. Kirk learned it beneath the ocean aboard U.S. Navy nuclear submarines, while Mike experienced it years later on the battlefields of the Global War on Terror with special operations forces. The missions and eras were different, but the lesson was the same: Having the right information at the right time can save lives. Knowing where your people are, understanding what is happening around you and acting on reliable information faster than an adversary can determine the outcome of a mission. That lesson applies to the challenge America faces today. The race for artificial intelligence isn't simply about who develops the best software or algorithm. It is also about who can build the power generation, transmission, data centers and workforce required to run it. If we fail at that part of the equation, it won't matter how innovative we are. 8 EVERYDAY THINGS THAT WOULD QUIT WORKING WITHOUT DATA CENTERS For generations, one of America's greatest strengths was our ability to turn innovation into physical capability. We built interstate highways, ports, power plants, factories and telecommunications networks that fueled economic growth while strengthening our national security. THE MACHINES THAT KEEP AMERICA ALIVE ARE FAILING. WE FORGOT HOW TO REPLACE THEM We are at another such moment, except we aren't moving fast enough. Permitting delays, grid bottlenecks and supply-chain constraints are slowing new generation and transmission at precisely the moment AI and advanced computing are creating enormous new demand for electricity. China understands this. It is aggressively expanding power generation, transmission, manufacturing and computing capacity because technological leadership ultimately requires physical capacity. While Washington debates how AI should be governed, our competitors are making sure they have the infrastructure to deploy it. US ADVERSARY TURNS UP THE HEAT ON AMERICA’S AI LEAD WITH AN UNDERESTIMATED EDGE That is why the way we talk about data centers also needs to change. They aren't simply large commercial buildings filled with servers. They are part of what we call the Fifth Utility, the interconnected compute, power, fiber and digital infrastructure that supports banking, healthcare, transportation, commerce, emergency communications, national intelligence and defense. None of that means communities should accept development without asking tough questions. Residents deserve to know how projects will affect power, water, land, electricity rates and local infrastructure. Developers have an obligation to show up early, answer those questions honestly and invest responsibly in the communities where they build. DATA CENTERS FORGOT THE CONSUMER — AND THAT COULD COST AMERICA THE AI RACE We can protect communities and ratepayers while still building the infrastructure America needs. In fact, we must do both. The same is true of our workforce. Data centers and power plants don't build themselves. America needs electricians, line workers, welders, high-voltage technicians, construction professionals and mission-critical operators. Meanwhile, roughly 200,000 men and women leave military service every year with many of the qualities this industry desperately needs: technical discipline, leadership, adaptability and the ability to perform when failure isn't an option. FROM NEW YORK TO TEXAS, STATES SHOULD RESPECT LOCAL CONTROL ON DATA CENTERS Creating stronger pathways from military service into critical infrastructure careers should be part of our national strategy, not simply a workforce initiative. We spent our military careers understanding that information superiority matters only if you have the people, systems and infrastructure to deliver it when it counts. Technology may have changed, but the principle hasn't. America still has the capital, energy resources, technology and talent to lead the digital age. What we cannot assume is that those advantages will last while we take years to build what our competitors are building now. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The digital world may feel invisible, but the infrastructure behind it isn't. It requires power, transmission, fiber, steel, concrete and skilled people. If America intends to lead the digital age, we need to start building like it. Kirk Offel is a Navy nuclear attack submarine veteran and the CEO of Overwatch Mission Critical, a Texas-based Service-Disabled Veteran Owned data center company that trains and hires future leaders for high-skill jobs in the data center industry. He is a Top 10 ranked global voice on data centers. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM KIRK OFFEL CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM MIKE SARRAILLE Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacffed75342cf4db874058 Ashley Hinson, a Republican ‘Minivan-Driving Mom,’ Steers Away From Trump in Midterm Elections te 2026-09-18T09:10:05.610Z Ashley Hinson, a Republican ‘Minivan-Driving Mom,’ Steers Away From Trump in Midterm Elections Representative Ashley Hinson is hoping to keep a crucial Senate seat red in Iowa, where the president has created major headwinds for her party. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacffec75342cf4db87404f Abortion Rights Activists in Idaho Find Their Pitch: Bring Back the Doctors te 2026-09-18T09:10:04.781Z Abortion Rights Activists in Idaho Find Their Pitch: Bring Back the Doctors Organizers of a referendum to repeal an abortion ban in deep-red Idaho are far more focused on how the ban has broadly affected health care in the state. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacffeb75342cf4db874046 Ocasio-Cortez Donates to N.Y. Democrats, Will Barnstorm State Ahead of Midterms te 2026-09-18T09:10:03.848Z Ocasio-Cortez Donates to N.Y. Democrats, Will Barnstorm State Ahead of Midterms The news has reignited speculation about whether the progressive representative from the Bronx is considering a run for senator or president. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacf8f075342cf4db873ee8 U.S. Consumer Prices Rise 0.4% In August While Phoenix Inflation Hits 2.5% te 2026-09-18T08:40:16.218Z U.S. Consumer Prices Rise 0.4% In August While Phoenix Inflation Hits 2.5% By Matthew Holloway | The U.S. Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in August, accelerating from July’s 0.1% increase, while annual inflation remained at 3.4%, according to the latest release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Gasoline prices accounted for more than one-third of the monthly increase. In the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area, consumer prices increased 2.5% over the year ending in August, below the national rate, but eased back from June’s 2.8%. Local energy prices rose 19.1% over that period, including a 32.5% increase in gasoline prices. Nationally, gasoline prices increased 3.9% during August, and the broader energy index rose 2.1%. Shelter costs increased 0.3%, while food prices rose 0.1%. Grocery prices were unchanged for the month, and food away from home increased 0.3%. CPI-U increased by 0.40% in August & rose to 3.40% over the past year. Core CPI, which excludes food & energy, +0.29% in Aug & +2.45% over the past year. Energy inflation +2.10% in Aug & +16.28% over the past year. Food inflation +0.12% in Aug & +2.67% over the past year.… — Joint Economic Committee Republicans (@JECRepublicans) September 11, 2026 Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, increased 0.3% in August following a 0.2% rise in July. Over the preceding 12 months, core prices increased 2.4%, energy prices rose 16.3%, and food prices increased 2.7%. The national monthly figures are seasonally adjusted. The annual changes are measured before seasonal adjustment. The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) Republicans’ August inflation update, released this month, provided calculations to two decimal places. It reported monthly headline inflation of 0.40% and core inflation of 0.29%, compared with Cleveland Federal Reserve forecasts of 0.36% and 0.20%, respectively. The committee’s calculations placed annual headline inflation at 3.40% and annual core inflation at 2.45%. Its report notes that differences in change figures can result from rounding. Across the four regions identified in the committee’s accompanying release, annual inflation was highest in the Northeast at 3.9%, followed by the Midwest at 3.6%, the West at 3.2%, and the South at 3.1%. In its release accompanying the update, JEC Republicans reported annual inflation of 3.9% in the Northeast, 3.6% in the Midwest, 3.2% in the West, and 3.1% in the South. Phoenix-area prices increased 0.5% over the two months ending in August. During that period, local energy prices increased 4.6%, food prices declined 1.6%, and prices excluding food and energy rose 0.5%. The local BLS figures are not seasonally adjusted and cover a two-month period. Over the year, Phoenix-area food prices increased 1.7%, including a 1.0% increase in grocery prices and a 2.5% increase in food away from home. Local core inflation was 1.3%, while shelter prices declined 0.3%. Inflation-adjusted earnings were mostly steady in August. Real average weekly earnings for employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased 0.16%, while real average hourly earnings declined 0.09%. Over the year, real hourly earnings declined 0.3% and real weekly earnings increased 0.3%. Matthew Holloway is a senior reporter for AZ Free News. Follow him on X for his latest stories, or email tips to Matthew@azfreenews.com. The post U.S. Consumer Prices Rise 0.4% In August While Phoenix Inflation Hits 2.5% first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacf8ee75342cf4db873edf New Arizona Property Tax, Deed Laws Take Effect te 2026-09-18T08:40:14.621Z New Arizona Property Tax, Deed Laws Take Effect By Matthew Holloway | Arizona laws affecting property taxes, deed recording, and county assessor operations took effect Saturday, Sept. 12, the general effective date for the 2026 legislative session. Additional property tax exemptions for disabled veterans and their surviving spouses are scheduled to begin with the 2027 tax year. “Ensuring the public has clear and timely information about changes in property tax laws is central to our mission,” Maricopa County Assessor Eddie Cook said. “This year’s legislative session brought meaningful improvements for property owners, especially veterans and individuals with disabilities, and protections from deed fraud – an issue that has surged nationwide.” An earlier measure, HB 2792, took effect Feb. 12 and specified that the full property tax exemption for veterans with a 100% service-connected disability rating applies to their primary residence. Under HB 4168, the full exemption will also cover a veteran whose service-connected disability status is total disability based on individual unemployability. The law removes household income limits for disabled veterans and eligible surviving spouses, and allows a qualifying surviving spouse to receive the exemption for which the veteran was eligible. Those changes apply beginning with the 2027 tax year. A separate measure, HB 2120, adds a written Social Security Administration disability determination to the documentation accepted when establishing eligibility for a property tax exemption. Property owners also face new procedures when recording documents. SB 1479 generally requires valid photo identification when documents are recorded in person at a county recorder’s office or recording kiosk, with exceptions for specified professionals and institutions. It increases the criminal penalty for knowingly recording a forged or false real estate claim and adds a thumbprint requirement for certain notarized documents. The same law directs county assessors to establish a voluntary system by Jan. 1, 2027, to alert participating owners when the assessor receives notice of a change in property ownership or the owner’s mailing address. The Maricopa County Assessor’s Office said Cook championed the measure. Other changes address how assessors work with property owners. HB 2173 allows tax officers to accept electronic responses and, when a taxpayer elects to submit one, an electronic notice of claim in property tax error cases. The existing deadlines remain in place, and communications that require certified mail must still be served that way. SB 1294 permits an assessor to retain a property’s classification for up to five years after destruction by a verifiable accident, unless its use changes sooner. That provision applies retroactively to Sept. 13, 2024. Two laws change agricultural-property inspections. HB 2104 generally bars an assessor from reclassifying or inspecting agricultural property for three years after the owner prevails in a qualifying appeal, subject to specified changes involving the property. HB 2105 requires advance notice of inspections and a copy of the inspection report for property owners, and limits consecutive-year inspections of qualifying agricultural property. HB 2327 allows eligible people to request broader restrictions on identifying information in county assessor, recorder, and treasurer records. HB 2950 allows counties and municipalities to establish tourism improvement areas funded by assessments on participating lodging businesses. Finally, SB 1067 prevents certain county abatement liens from being extinguished by a property tax lien sale or foreclosure. Those provisions expire Oct. 1, 2028. Matthew Holloway is a senior reporter for AZ Free News. Follow him on X for his latest stories, or email tips to Matthew@azfreenews.com. The post New Arizona Property Tax, Deed Laws Take Effect first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacf8ec75342cf4db873ed6 Biggs Introduces Bill To Expand Colorado River Water Supplies, Accelerate Infrastructure te 2026-09-18T08:40:12.918Z Biggs Introduces Bill To Expand Colorado River Water Supplies, Accelerate Infrastructure Ethan Faverino | Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05) introduced legislation this week aimed at increasing water supplies and accelerating infrastructure projects across the Colorado River Basin. The legislation comes as the region faces historically low reservoir levels and new reductions in Lower Basin water deliveries. The Colorado River Basin Water Security and Infrastructure Act would direct federal resources toward water augmentation, storage, desalination, recycling, treatment, and conveyance projects while changing federal permitting requirements for certain water infrastructure. Today, I introduced the Colorado River Basin Water Security and Infrastructure Act to expand water supplies, accelerate critical infrastructure projects, and strengthen long-term water security throughout the Colorado River Basin. Congress and the people we serve cannot simply… pic.twitter.com/7WoWt97KQc — Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) September 16, 2026 The legislation comes amid continued uncertainty over the Colorado River’s long-term management. The seven Basin states did not reach consensus on a long-term post-2026 operating framework earlier this year. The Department of Interior subsequently finalized operating guidelines for 2027 and 2028 in August. Those guidelines call for 1.25 million acre-feet in annual reductions to Lower Basin deliveries during each of the next two years. “The goal of this legislation is simple: add new water, strengthen the Basin, and protect the farms, communities, and military installations that depend on the Colorado River,” stated Congressman Biggs.  Under the bill, certain water-supply projects would be exempted from requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Federal agencies would also face deadlines for reviewing project applications, including 30 days to determine whether an application is complete and 180 days to issue a final decision. The legislation would also allow project sponsors to rely on a broader range of existing feasibility and impact studies rather than repeating previous engineering work. Major federal projects included in the legislation would receive congressional pre-authorization in an effort to shorten the time between planning and construction. Another major component of the proposal is the creation of a Basin-wide Water Augmentation Fund. The program would provide a 2-to-1 federal cost share for eligible projects pursued by states, tribes, municipalities, utilities, and private partners. Projects eligible for funding would include desalination, water reuse, storage and conveyance infrastructure, aquifer recharge, and salt cedar removal, among other efforts intended to increase available water supplies. The legislation would also authorize or accelerate several large infrastructure projects throughout the Basin, including restoring the Yuma Desalting Plant to full capacity and pursuing binational desalination projects with Mexico. Other provisions would support capturing ocean discharges in California for potential water supply, augmentation projects in Arizona and Nevada, and new Upper Basin development projects. Biggs argued that increasing the Basin’s overall water supply should play a larger role in addressing the region’s water challenges. “My bill offers a path forward by investing in new water, modernizing critical infrastructure, and removing unnecessary federal barriers that can delay projects for years,” said Biggs. “Increasing the amount of water available to the Basin will bolster our single-family housing market, and strengthen food security, economic security, and national security throughout the American Southwest. Congress and the people we serve cannot simply wait for relief from the drought or conserve our way out of this crisis.” The Colorado River provides water to more than 40 million people, supports approximately 5.5 million acres of farmland, and serves 30 tribes. The river also supplies hydropower and water resources across seven U.S. states and Mexico. Conditions across the system have deteriorated during the prolonged drought. The Bureau of Reclamation reported in August that the combined contents of Lake Powell and Lake Mead had fallen to levels not seen since Lake Powell began filling in the 1960s. The agency said the Basin has experienced an unprecedented drought for the past 26 years, with conditions worsening in 2026. Biggs has been involved in several other Colorado River-related efforts this year. In March, he led Arizona Republican members of Congress in raising concerns about the Bureau of Reclamation’s draft environmental review for post-2026 operations at Lake Powell and Lake Mead. In April, Biggs joined Arizona Congressman Greg Stanton (D-AZ-04) in urging federal officials to release funding for drought-related projects across the Basin. Biggs later partnered with Nevada Congresswoman Dina Titus in seeking additional Colorado River funding as part of an emergency funding package. The most recent legislation places an emphasis on expanding water supplies and infrastructure throughout the Basin. Biggs said the proposal is intended to provide greater long-term certainty for communities and agriculture rather than relying solely on reductions in existing water use. “We must think big, be leaders, and deliver real solutions that will bring relief for decades to come,” said Biggs. “I urge my colleagues to act quickly and send this legislation to the President’s desk.” Ethan Faverino is a reporter for AZ Free News. You can send him news tips using this link. The post Biggs Introduces Bill To Expand Colorado River Water Supplies, Accelerate Infrastructure first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacf8e975342cf4db873ec8 Work continues on SR 51 – closures scheduled next two weekends te 2026-09-18T08:40:09.988Z Work continues on SR 51 – closures scheduled next two weekends The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising Phoenix area drivers to plan for the following weekend closure and nightly lane restrictions for work on the State Route 51 pavement rehabilitation project between Interstate 10 (Papago Freeway) and Shea Boulevard: Southbound SR 51 will be CLOSED from Glendale Avenue to Indian School Road from 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, to 5 a.m. Monday, Sept. 21. The following ramps also will be closed: The southbound SR 51 on-ramp at Northern Avenue DETOUR: Drivers may consider taking westbound Glendale Avenue to southbound 16th Street to eastbound Indian School Road to access SR 51 south of the closure. In addition: Southbound SR 51 will be narrowed to one lane between Indian School and McDowell roads nightly from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., starting Monday, Sept. 21, and ending Friday morning, Sept. 25. Southbound SR 51 is scheduled to be CLOSED between Indian School Road and I-10 from 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, to 5 a.m. Monday, Sept. 28. For more information about the SR 51, I-10 to Shea Boulevard Pavement Rehabilitation Project, visit azdot.gov/SR51-I-10-Shea-Pavement-Rehab. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacf8e775342cf4db873ebf Kiwanis tournament a success te 2026-09-18T08:40:07.229Z Kiwanis tournament a success Close to 150 golfers participated in the 31st Annual Sunstroke Open charity golf tournament, a fundraiser for programs supported by the Valley of the Sun-Camelback Kiwanis (photo courtesy of Jim Lunseth). The Valley of the Sun-Camelback Kiwanis 31st Annual Sunstroke Open charity golf tournament, held June 6 at the Arizona Biltmore Golf Course, was an overwhelming success, the organization said. Close to 150 golfers had the opportunity to putt for prizes donated by Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits, before the 7:30 a.m. start of the tournament. Online, silent and live auctions were held during a “fabulous” lunch in the Arizona Golf Course Ballroom. After lunch, numerous prizes and awards were handed out to the lucky golfers. The Kiwanis club is an all-volunteer charity that has been supporting Valley children for over 75 years. With the success of the Sunstroke the organization said they are able to continue supporting high school Key Club efforts, elementary school Terrific Kids programs, awarding student scholarships, supporting vulnerable youth by sending them to weekend camps, assisting foster kids and supporting local school districts by filling in the gaps with funds and volunteers engaging in fun service projects. Those interested in getting involved should contact Scott Holcomb at 602-358-4033. Find more information at https://k02959.site.kiwanis.org. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaced3575342cf4db873b9e Minnesota woman's mugshot goes viral after social media users spot resemblance to Jennifer Lopez te 2026-09-18T07:50:13.121Z Minnesota woman's mugshot goes viral after social media users spot resemblance to Jennifer Lopez The mugshot of a Minnesota woman arrested for allegedly stealing batteries is going viral after social media users noticed her resemblance to a famous pop superstar. Cyrena Anne Quast, 35, was arrested Aug. 30 on a theft charge in Monticello after she allegedly stole two double packs of power tool batteries valued at around $580 from a store, according to a criminal complaint obtained by TMZ. But it was Quast's booking photo that had the internet doing a collective double take. JENNIFER LOPEZ'S BOLD WIMBLEDON HAT DIVIDES FANS OVER ROYAL BOX ETIQUETTE Social media users quickly pointed out that the mugshot appeared to bear a striking resemblance to Jennifer Lopez. "It really does look like her!" one user exclaimed, while others suggested the two could even pass for twins. Another referenced Lopez's 2002 hit "Jenny from the Block," declaring Quast, "the real Jenny from the block." Others had a little more fun with the comparison, with one saying Quast looked like J.Lo if the global superstar "had a really rough week." JENNIFER LOPEZ SENDS FANS INTO A FRENZY AS SHE SHOWS OFF CHISELED ABS IN GYM SELFIES Another suggested Quast might have a future as Lopez's stunt double. Still, not everyone was seeing double, with plenty of social media users pushing back on the supposed "uncanny" resemblance. "She looks absolutely nothing like her," one user quipped. Her alleged return visit raised red flags when an employee recognized Quast from a similar theft days earlier and alerted police, according to the complaint. Quast was arrested and booked into the Wright County Jail on a gross misdemeanor theft charge. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaced3375342cf4db873b81 NAU ROUNDUP: Freeman, Copeland earn Big Sky weekly honors after career outings te 2026-09-18T07:50:11.717Z NAU ROUNDUP: Freeman, Copeland earn Big Sky weekly honors after career outings NAU football's Deliyon Freeman and soccer's Emery Copeland put up performances to remember last week, garnering each of them Big Sky Conference honors. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaced3275342cf4db873b78 Emery Copeland te 2026-09-18T07:50:10.743Z Emery Copeland Northern Arizona goalkeeper Emery Copeland (1) pins the ball underneath her right foot during a match against UTEP on Aug. 30 at Lumberjack Stadium. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacca0875342cf4db873427 Hoffman subpoenas Hobbs, Mayes over foster care contract increase te 2026-09-18T05:20:08.324Z Hoffman subpoenas Hobbs, Mayes over foster care contract increase PHOENIX -- Sen. Jake Hoffman is issuing subpoenas to Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes to demand they tell his Senate Government Committee what they know about a 2023 decision by the state to give a nearly 60%… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacca0775342cf4db87341e Bill aimed at voter anger over data centers passes House te 2026-09-18T05:20:07.411Z Bill aimed at voter anger over data centers passes House The House passed legislation Wednesday that would direct states to consider adopting federal standards for large-scale industrial power users, an attempt to address growing voter anger over the speed and scale of data center development. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacca0675342cf4db873415 Bullhead Schools holding first surplus sale of semester on Friday, Sept. 18 te 2026-09-18T05:20:06.315Z Bullhead Schools holding first surplus sale of semester on Friday, Sept. 18 BULLHEAD CITY — The Bullhead City School District's first surplus sale of the new school year is Friday, Sept. 18. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacc0ae75342cf4db87324f Bills cruise past Lions to christen new home behind Josh Allen's five-touchdown performance te 2026-09-18T04:40:14.887Z Bills cruise past Lions to christen new home behind Josh Allen's five-touchdown performance The wait for regular-season football at the Buffalo Bills' new home ended Thursday night, when Highmark Stadium hosted its first regular-season game. Right on cue, Buffalo's star quarterback Josh Allen orchestrated a picture-perfect first half as the home team raced to a 27-10 halftime lead over the Detroit Lions. Allen threw three touchdown passes and ran for two scores to power the Bills to a 41-31 victory. Allen recorded the fourth five-touchdown game of his career Thursday, one week after throwing two touchdown passes and running for two more in a 36-31 season-opening win over the Houston Texans. BUFFALO BILLS' PLAN TO FEATURE CANADIAN ANTHEM AT STADIUM OPENER MET WITH MIXED REACTIONS The $2.1 billion stadium that officially opened last month was built across the street from the Bills' former home. Allen followed the pregame fireworks celebration with more fireworks of his own by overseeing touchdown drives on each of Buffalo’s first four possessions. Bills running back James Cook had 134 yards rushing and put the game away with a 1-yard TD run with just under three minutes remaining. Allen’s two rushing touchdowns upped his career total to 83, moving him into a tie for 18th on the NFL list with Jim Taylor. He also picked up his 90th regular-season victory, becoming one of just four quarterbacks to reach that milestone in their first nine seasons. The Lions were undone by an injury-depleted defense, and a banged-up offensive line that had difficulty opening holes for Jahmyr Gibbs and protecting Jared Goff. After rallying from a 21-0 deficit to cut Buffalo’s lead to 34-24, the Lions' offense stalled midway through the fourth quarter. Backed up at their own 10, the Lions went three-and-out and were forced to punt after Goff had two passes tipped by Deone Walker, and Gibbs was stopped for no gain. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Goff finished 26 of 38 for 327 yards and four touchdowns, while Amon-Ra St. Brown had nine catches for 142 yards and two scores. Gibbs scored on an 11-yard catch but was limited to 52 rushing yards, and Sam LaPorta added a 1-yard touchdown reception. Despite being an open-air facility, the Bills' new home was designed to withstand Buffalo’s weather. Underground heating coils keep the natural-grass field from freezing, while roof sensors monitor snowfall and activate the world’s largest stadium snow-melt system. The new stadium will also shield most fans from the wind with its 360-degree canopy. Highmark Stadium seats 60,108 fans, about 10,000 fewer than its predecessor. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aacb9a175342cf4db8730eb Archbishop of Canterbury withdraws award from Muslim cleric after past Osama bin Laden praise surfaces te 2026-09-18T04:10:09.222Z Archbishop of Canterbury withdraws award from Muslim cleric after past Osama bin Laden praise surfaces The Archbishop of Canterbury's office has withdrawn an interfaith award given to a Muslim cleric after past comments surfaced in which he praised Osama bin Laden. Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi received the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation at Lambeth Palace last Friday, during a ceremony that coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Lambeth Palace announced the reversal Thursday after previous comments by Ashrafi had "come to light," causing it to reconsider the award. "It is a longstanding principle of interfaith dialogue and co-operation that we must engage with one another across deeply-held differences, and that remains the case," Lambeth Palace said in a statement. BUSH REVIVES ‘ISLAM IS PEACE’ MESSAGE WITH FRESH FOCUS ON POST-9/11 MOSQUE VISIT "However, previous comments made by Imam Ashrafi have come to light that have led Lambeth Palace to reconsider this award and we can now confirm today that the award has been withdrawn," the statement continued. "We have contacted Imam Ashrafi to make him aware of this decision." Lambeth Palace added that it continues "to pray for the Christian community in Pakistan, and for all those working for interfaith dialogue and harmony in Pakistan and around the world." According to Lambeth Palace, the award was given to Ashrafi because of his "longstanding support for religious minorities in Pakistan, particularly the Christian community." SEAL WHO KILLED BIN LADEN RECALLS 9/11 MOMENT THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE: ‘WELCOME TO MY WORLD’ According to the BBC, Ashrafi said in 2007 that bin Laden — the architect of the 9/11 attacks — had "been fighting for Islam against the Russians, Americans and British." The BBC also reported that Ashrafi said he would give bin Laden the title "Saifullah," meaning "Sword of God." Ashrafi told the BBC that his remarks had been "totally taken out of context" and described the backlash against him as an "unfair campaign." He said he made the remarks about bin Laden in 2007 in response to "the hurt felt by many Muslims" over the British government's decision to knight "The Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie. During the award presentation last week, the Archbishop's office said Ashrafi was being honored for "his outstanding work as an ambassador of interfaith harmony in Pakistan, known for his commitment to promoting religious tolerance." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaca6e275342cf4db872ceb Suns forward Dillon Brooks empowering kids at youth basketball camp te 2026-09-18T02:50:10.801Z Suns forward Dillon Brooks empowering kids at youth basketball camp MESA – When Dillon Brooks’ name is mentioned, it likely brings to mind his reputation as a “villain.” Off the court, Brooks is doing his best to reflect a different image. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaca6e175342cf4db872ce2 Suns forward Dillon Brooks empowering kids at youth basketball camp te 2026-09-18T02:50:09.813Z Suns forward Dillon Brooks empowering kids at youth basketball camp Suns forward Dillon Brooks hosted a youth basketball camp on Sept. 12 in Mesa, Arizona. While Brooks is known for his villain persona on the court, camp organizers and attendees saw an entirely different person. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaca6de75342cf4db872ccf Wild Coffee recognized as one of DoorDash's top coffee shops in Arizona te 2026-09-18T02:50:06.224Z Wild Coffee recognized as one of DoorDash's top coffee shops in Arizona Wild Coffee in Lake Havasu City has been named to DoorDash’s list of top coffee shops for 2026, one of two Arizona businesses to receive the recognition. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaca48375342cf4db872c28 Trump Moves Ahead With F-35 Jet Sales to Saudi Arabia Despite Intelligence Concerns te 2026-09-18T02:40:03.339Z Trump Moves Ahead With F-35 Jet Sales to Saudi Arabia Despite Intelligence Concerns U.S. intelligence agencies have warned in internal reports that China could acquire or steal U.S. warplane technology if F-35 jets are sent to Saudi Arabia. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aaca22c75342cf4db872bb1 Immigration Officer Found Guilty of Sexually Assaulting and Robbing Women te 2026-09-18T02:30:04.284Z Immigration Officer Found Guilty of Sexually Assaulting and Robbing Women The officer, a Customs and Border Protection agent at a Chicago airport, was accused of assaulting and threatening four women, all of Chinese descent, at hotel rooms in 2022. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac9fd575342cf4db872b42 Arizona asks US Supreme Court to halt prison healthcare takeover in ‘Hail Mary’ filing te 2026-09-18T02:20:05.443Z Arizona asks US Supreme Court to halt prison healthcare takeover in ‘Hail Mary’ filing Photo by Matthew Hendley | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 Attorneys for Arizona’s prison system ran to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to make one last plea to delay a court-ordered takeover of its healthcare system. A federal district court judge and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals already denied the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry’s request to put off receivership of the prison healthcare system until an appeals court makes a final call. But in a final attempt to buy more time, a lawyer for the Corrections Department argued the state is entitled to the opportunity to fully argue its case before it loses control of its employees, its contractors and its multimillion-dollar healthcare budget. “The gravity of that action and the costly and disruptive consequences for the department and the state are hard to overstate,” former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement wrote in an application to stay filed with the high court on Sept. 16. GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE An attorney representing the roughly 25,000 inmates in Arizona prisons called the request a “Hail Mary” and noted they had yet to receive a deadline to respond to the stay request. But in any case, Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, said their clients cannot wait any longer for constitutional healthcare. “You wish that the time and money that they’re spending on fancy Supreme Court attorneys to write these briefs for them were better spent focusing on improving the healthcare and implementing the reforms and working collaboratively so that the receiver can get in place.” Kendrick said.  Inmates first sued the department in 2012, alleging prison medical, mental and dental care posed a threat of serious injury and death and constituted “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment. After more than a decade of litigation and an ultimately unsuccessful settlement agreement, Judge Roslyn Silver issued a final injunction in 2023, finding the department’s healthcare system was “plainly grossly inadequate.” Two years after the order, attorneys for the plaintiffs claimed slow progress by the department and continual harm to the state’s incarcerated population warranted a takeover of prison healthcare.  And in February, citing after court-appointed monitors reported the department’s failure to comply with 131 of the court order’s 154 “quality indicators” and eight deaths in custody, Silver greenlit receivership. She then appointed Annette Chambers-Smith, former director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, to serve as receiver, effective Oct. 19. The department immediately sought a stay to delay Chambers-Smith’s start date until after the receivership issue was decided by the appellate court. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to press pause but agreed to speed up briefing on the appeal.  The department then filed a last-ditch request for a stay on the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” where justices can decide on emergency and procedural orders without oral argument, extensive briefing or written opinions.  In the filing, Clement argued receivership is meant to be the “remedy of last resort” but has not been treated as such by the district court. “Rather, the court reached for one of the most powerful and federalism-defying tools in its arsenal as a first resort when the state did not promptly live up to the court’s expectations under a wide-ranging and demanding injunction,” Clement wrote. He claimed Silver had ignored the improvements the department has made since she issued her final injunction in March 2023 and incorrectly focused on the more than decadelong history of litigation. The arguments are largely the same as the Corrections Department argued before Silver and the appellate court when they asked those courts to pause the receivership. Clement contended the department had made “tangible” progress since Silver’s final order, pointing to the department’s work growing its healthcare staff by more than 50%, opening and improving facilities, increasing access to treatment for substance-use disorder and implementing a new model of care. He added that Silver’s order was “impatient,” too, as the receiver was allowed a minimum of five years to fix the healthcare system, while the department had less than three between the final injunction and the receivership order. At bottom, Clement said Silver was legally required to start with the least invasive fix and move toward receivership only after initial attempts to compel compliance failed. “The district court inverted that approach here, dropping the proverbial nuclear bomb without exhausting less devastating firepower,” Clement wrote. Kendrick noted that Silver had, in fact, taken steps to push the department in the right direction.  “The facts and the history shows that (Silver) has bent over backwards for years, and court judges before her tried to avoid receivership,” Kendrick said. “But ADCRR was just so intransigent that she found that it was absolutely necessary.”  Kendrick said attorneys for the plaintiffs are waiting on the justices to set a deadline for response.  Meanwhile, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is starting to delve into the merits of the receivership order itself.  In an opening brief filed Sept. 15, the department’s attorneys leaned on the same arguments presented in the bid to the Supreme Court.  A response from the plaintiffs is due Oct. 15. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac9b2975342cf4db872a71 Juror who blocked Lindsay Clancy verdict disputes fellow jurors' claims: report te 2026-09-18T02:00:09.549Z Juror who blocked Lindsay Clancy verdict disputes fellow jurors' claims: report The lone holdout juror whose refusal to find Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity led to a mistrial is speaking publicly for the first time, disputing claims from fellow jurors that he expressed doubts about the prosecution's case. Michael P. Desronvil said in a statement to NewsNation that he never wavered in his belief prosecutors proved Clancy knew what she was doing when she strangled her three young children in January 2023. "I didn't have any doubts. As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present," Desronvil said. LINDSAY CLANCY HOLDOUT JUROR ‘LOOKED AT THE CASE AND HE MADE THE CALL,’ HIS BROTHER SAYS "Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned," he added. His comments directly contradict accounts from fellow jurors, who said after the mistrial that Desronvil appeared to acknowledge reasonable doubt during deliberations but still refused to join the other 11 jurors in finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury deadlocked 11-1, with Desronvil standing alone in favor of convicting Clancy rather than accepting her insanity defense, prompting Judge William Sullivan to declare a mistrial. JUROR ON LINDSAY CLANCY TRIAL SAYS 'WE LET DOWN LINDSAY' FOLLOWING MISTRIAL The public statement comes as Plymouth County prosecutors weigh whether to retry Clancy, whose attorneys have also floated the possibility of resolving the case without another jury trial. Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley previously told Fox News Digital that prosecutors face the difficult task of deciding whether they can persuade a future jury to unanimously reject Clancy's insanity defense after the first panel failed to reach a verdict. "The question is whether they could ever get a jury, particularly in Massachusetts, that would unanimously vote against this defendant," Turley said. "For prosecutors, they have to weigh that, but they may find the alternative equally unappealing — to simply walk away and say, 'There are three dead children here, but we just don't think we could ever win this case.'" Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, admitted killing her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — but argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from severe mental illness at the time of the killings. Prosecutors argued she planned the murders and understood the wrongfulness of her actions. Judge Sullivan has ordered jurors' identities and questionnaires sealed, citing safety concerns following the high-profile mistrial. Clancy is due back in court Sept. 29 as prosecutors determine whether to seek a retrial. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac967875342cf4db872988 Brutal MLB collision leaves New York Mets first baseman Jared Young motionless on the field te 2026-09-18T01:40:08.021Z Brutal MLB collision leaves New York Mets first baseman Jared Young motionless on the field New York Mets first baseman Jared Young was carted off on a stretcher Thursday night following a terrifying collision with teammate Nolan McLean during a game against the Phillies at Citi Field. The play unfolded in the top of the sixth inning when the Phillies' Justin Crawford grounded a slow roller up the first-base line. Both Young and McLean, the Mets' starting pitcher, converged to field the ball. As Young dove toward the grounder, McLean attempted to jump over his teammate. BLUE JAYS STAR VLADIMIR GUERRERO JR GETS KNEED IN THE HEAD DURING CHAOTIC PLAY, LEAVES GAME McLean's knee made contact with what appeared to be the side of Young's head during the play, sending Young face-down into the dirt. He lay there without moving for several moments. Medical staff from the Mets dugout rushed onto the field to treat the 31-year-old infielder. Trainers stabilized Young's neck and evaluated him on the field before placing him on a stretcher. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Young offered a positive sign to the Citi Field crowd as he was driven off the field, raising his thumb to give a thumbs-up as fans responded with a supportive ovation. Mark Vientos replaced Young at first base when play resumed. The Mets have not yet released an official medical update regarding Young's status. The team is expected to provide further details following complete hospital evaluations and concussion testing. Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac941b75342cf4db8728e0 Former Institute of Peace Workers Warn Trump May Push to Engrave Name on Building te 2026-09-18T01:30:03.848Z Former Institute of Peace Workers Warn Trump May Push to Engrave Name on Building As part of a lawsuit, the workers have asked a federal court to stop any plans to engrave the building with President Trump’s name. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac91c575342cf4db872877 Michael Ray Cunningham te 2026-09-18T01:20:05.795Z Michael Ray Cunningham Michael Ray Cunningham, 76, passed away on Aug. 23, 2026.       He was born Dec. 8, 1949, in Winslow, to Willard and Esta Lee Cunningham. He grew up in Winslow, graduating from Winslow High School in 1967.       In 1968, he began the Santa Fe Railway, with a railroad career that lasted 30 years. He was a life member of the United Transportation Union.       He was a big baseball fan and coached Winslow Little League for many years, serving as president of the league for five years. He was a lifetime member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, serving in several officer positions and as Exalted Ruler in 1983.       He enjoyed hunting, fishing and camping. His greatest pleasure, though, was being a grandfather to his four grandsons, Hunter, Conner, Tyler and Gage.       He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Cora; his son, Robby, and daughter-in-law, Shelly of Burleson, Texas; his daughter, Megan Cunningham of Flagstaff; his grandsons, Hunter and Conner Cunningham of Burleson, and Tyler and Gage Zickerman of Flagstaff; his brother, Don Cunningham of Flagstaff; and many nieces and nephews.       He was preceded in death by his parents, Willard and Esta Lee Cunningham; his brother, Rich Cunningham; and his sister, Sue Cunningham. Screenshot The post Michael Ray Cunningham first appeared on Painted Desert Tribune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac8f7175342cf4db8727ed Ms Rachel urges 'every wealthy White celebrity' to match Macklemore's donation to Palestinian causes te 2026-09-18T01:10:09.497Z Ms Rachel urges 'every wealthy White celebrity' to match Macklemore's donation to Palestinian causes Children's YouTube star Ms. Rachel announced on Thursday that she plans to match singer Macklemore's $1 million donation to Palestinian causes and urged "every wealthy White celebrity" to do the same. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Macklemore shared his plans to donate his earnings from the "Loop Tour" with Ed Sheeran to six organizations, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), HEAL Palestine, Gaza Soup Kitchen, Medical Aid for Palestinians, UNRWA USA National Committee and American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA). The 43-year-old rapper was previously dropped from Sheeran's tour on Monday after he repeatedly called for a "Free Palestine" and performed his anti-Israel song "Hind’s Hall" during his opening act at MetLife Stadium earlier this month. MS RACHEL SAYS BACKLASH OVER HER GAZA POSTS 'DOESN'T FAZE' HER AS SHE CALLS OUT CELEBRITY SILENCE In response, Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, wrote on Instagram that she plans to match Macklemore's donation and called specifically on White celebrities to do the same. "I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy White celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza. Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day. We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights," Accurso wrote, adding that she will be donating to the PCRF. Fox News Digital reached out to Accurso for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Macklemore has challenged New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft to match his donation after Kraft refused to host the rapper at Gillette Stadium because of his activism. Kraft responded that he had already committed $2 million to Palestinian aid in the region, referencing his longtime humanitarian work in the Middle East. MS. RACHEL CLAIMS CELEBRITIES SILENT ON GAZA WOULD ‘PROBABLY’ SPEAK IF CHILDREN ‘WERE WHITE’ Accurso was also one of several prominent progressives who called out Sheeran following Macklemore's removal as the opening act for his tour, suggesting that silence to the cause was "racist." "If more than 20,000 White children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts," Accurso said. "Treating some children’s lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral." Accurso has been criticized by pro-Israel organizations and groups that say her posts have shared anti-Israel propaganda by repeatedly accusing the Jewish nation of committing "genocide." BILL MAHER RIPS MACKLEMORE'S GAZA STANCE, SAYS CELEBRITY 'MORAL CONFUSION' IS FUELING ANTISEMITISM Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, previously said in a statement to Fox News Digital, "She claims to care about 35.5 million children suffering from acute malnutrition across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, but spends an inordinate amount of time speaking about 0.031 million children in Gaza. When 0.09% of starving children receive 90% of her attention, something is wrong."  "She had nothing to say about Israeli children being held hostage until seven months later, when the backlash became too loud to ignore," he added. "It is clear that her problem is not a deep concern for children, but that she is using her purported deep concern to mask something much darker." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac8d1b75342cf4db87276c Former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, 84, remembered for decency and major legacy on Western water policy te 2026-09-18T01:00:11.726Z Former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, 84, remembered for decency and major legacy on Western water policy PHOENIX – Former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, who shaped Western water policy over more than a quarter century in Congress, died Wednesday night at age 84. Kyl was diagnosed with dementia in December 2025. His family announced the death Thursday and said it was “due to complications from a neurological disease.” Kyl won a Senate seat in 1994 after four terms in the House. Reelected twice, he rose to the No. 2 post in the Senate GOP conference, influencing tax policy and judicial nominations as a member of the Finance and Judiciary committees. Former colleagues remembered him as a dedicated and principled public servant with an unusually strong grasp of water policy.  ”If it meant a lot to Arizona it meant a lot to Jon Kyl,” former Sen. Jeff Flake, a fellow Republican who won the seat Kyl gave up in 2012, said by phone.  Both Gov. Katie Hobbs and her challenger, Rep. Andy Biggs, recalled Kyl with fondness. “Arizonans are mourning the loss of former U.S. Senator Jon Kyl,” Hobbs, a Democrat, said in an X post. “Throughout his decades of public service in the House and Senate, he was a dedicated statesman who always cared deeply for our state.” Biggs, a Gilbert Republican, called Kyl “an exemplary public servant who understood Arizona, fought tirelessly for our interests, and approached his responsibilities with humility and conviction. “His example demonstrated that public service can be carried out with principle, dignity, and a genuine devotion to the people one represents,” he posted on X. Time magazine named Kyl one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. In 2014, Arizona State University launched the Kyl Center for Water Policy to promote long-term solutions to the state’s water needs. Kyl helped by lending his name, sharing his expertise and serving as a spokesperson. “He was doing water policy long before he got to Congress in the private sector,” Flake said. “To have ASU carry on that legacy with the Kyl Center, it just meant a lot to him because it meant a lot to Arizona.” In a statement, the Kyl Center called Kyl “a visionary statesman and a brilliant water attorney who fundamentally believed that Arizona’s water future depends on collaboration, stewardship, and finding common ground. His legacy is woven into everything we do, and we remain dedicated to honoring his vision.”  In a 2019 interview with PBS, Kyl said water settlements he helped hammer out were among his proudest achievements. Among those was the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, a landmark tribal water rights law that ended decades of litigation over Gila River Indian Community water rights. The complex deal involved the state, Salt River Project, federal government, Phoenix and other cities, and an assortment of irrigation districts and others. Tom Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, called it “one of the most technically and politically challenging of all Tribal water settlements,” and the largest water settlement in Arizona’s history.  He emphasized that the resolution “would not have been possible without Senator Kyl’s skillful leadership.” He also noted that Kyl successfully represented the state in a key Supreme Court case in 1983, before seeking office. “His influence in the development of water policy in the Southwest will be felt for generations to come,” Buschatzke said in a statement. Kyl was known to be civil in his approach to policy and encouraged parties working together in order to solve Arizona’s unique problems.  “I never heard Jon Kyl disparage another member of congress or anyone. He was just a kind, honorable man, and that allowed him to develop coalitions and work with people across the aisle that some members just can’t do,” said Flake.  When Sen. John McCain died in office in August 2018, Gov. Doug Ducey appointed Kyl to fill the vacancy temporarily. He served four months.  “He was a true statesman, mentor to so many and a giant in Arizona and our country,” Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Bullhead City, posted on X. “His service to AZ and our country will never be forgotten.” McCain, in a tribute when Kyl retired from Congress in 2012, said that “I’ve never failed to be impressed by the qualities Jon brings to these matters. His unflappable patience, his tireless work ethic, his careful attention to detail, his determination to be fair to all parties involved, and achieve results that are in the best interest of our state of Arizona.” Kyl became a lobbyist at Covington & Burling after leaving the Senate, with clients including chipmaker Qualcomm and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Gordon James, a friend and public relations specialist who met Kyl while helping on one of his campaigns, said Kyl was an example of “how the United States should be and Arizona should be represented.” “I can’t ever remember anyone, Republican, Democrat, independent, ever say anything derogatory about him,” James said. “He was the go to guy (and) they would want to throw their ideas by him.” Kyl’s involvement with ASU went beyond the center that carries his name,  though he received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Arizona. He joined ASU as a Distinguished Fellow and scholar in 2013 and later periodically taught undergraduate classes.  “It is with deep sadness that the ASU Community recognizes the passing of Senator Jon Kyl. A true statesman and public servant, Jon was dedicated to representing Arizonans and advancing the interests and reputation of the state he loved dearly,” ASU President Michael Crow said in a statement. “I have been very fortunate to count him as a friend and ASU has benefitted from his support and commitment. … We will proudly continue the important work we undertook together as part of his great legacy.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac8d1475342cf4db87273a S.U.V. Driver Charged With Murder in Los Angeles Bus Crash te 2026-09-18T01:00:04.562Z S.U.V. Driver Charged With Murder in Los Angeles Bus Crash Prosecutors said the driver was impaired by drugs and ran a red light before ramming a city bus on Tuesday. Two people died. Compounding the tragedy, a news helicopter also crashed. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac8abf75342cf4db8726f9 University event with Hasan Piker in Texas draws backlash from both sides of the aisle te 2026-09-18T00:50:07.832Z University event with Hasan Piker in Texas draws backlash from both sides of the aisle The University Democrats, a student group at the University of Texas at Austin, unintentionally brought together political heavyweights from both sides of the aisle after announcing earlier this month an event featuring controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. Piker, who hosts hours-long streams on a daily basis, is known for his incendiary rhetoric, anti-capitalist views and anti-Israel stance. The streamer has recently become a source of an offline debate over how Democrats engage with voters. According to University Democrats, Piker is expected to address "a variety of topics, ranging from immigration, to genocide, to the future of the Democratic Party." The group noted that the event, which is scheduled for Sept. 30 and limited to UT Austin students, staff and faculty, will include a Q&A session. WHO IS HASAN PIKER? MEET THE FAR-LEFT STREAMER WHO IS STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY AND DIVIDING DEMOCRATS On Monday, University Democrats claimed in an X post that UT Austin was violating its own policies by "failing to accommodate" the event and provide a large venue. Fox News Digital was not able to independently verify the club's claim. It didn't take long for Texas lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, including Gov. Greg Abbott, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Henry Cuellar, to voice their disapproval of the event and condemn Piker. "Hasan Piker’s scheduled appearance at the University of Texas is deeply concerning," Cuellar wrote on X. "Free speech allows difficult and controversial views, but it does not require anyone to stay silent when someone has a history of hateful comments about Jewish Americans, 9/11, and Hamas terrorism." "Jewish students at UT should not be made to feel targeted or unsafe on their own campus," he added. PIKER DEMANDS DEMOCRATS DEFEND HIM FROM ATTACKS, CLAIMS HE’S NO ‘TOXIC RADICAL FORCE' In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, Cruz said that Piker's appearance at an event by University Democrats was a statement about the status of the Democratic Party. "Hasan Piker is an America-hating Marxist who has said that America deserved 9/11 and celebrates political violence against Republicans," Cruz's statement read. "Americans are entitled to free speech, but it is incumbent upon good people to condemn Piker's incitement. Instead, some Democrats are bringing him to college campuses, while almost all other Democrats are conspicuously silent or worse. It says everything about the state of their party." Andrew Mahaleris, press secretary for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, also chimed in, telling Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) that "Terrorist sympathizers have no place in Texas." "Hasan Piker said America deserved 9/11 and praised the brutal terrorist organization Hamas. University Democrats at UT Austin are choosing to amplify that disgusting rhetoric," Mahaleris told JNS. CONTROVERSIAL STREAMER HASAN PIKER'S LECTURE AXED BY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AMID FREE SPEECH QUESTIONS While lawmakers focused their criticism on Piker's past rhetoric, the streamer pushed back, saying that the pressure campaign to cancel the event presented a constitutional issue. "Ted cruz, greg abbott ken paxton and now, henry cuellar have demanded that i have my speech at UT austin get cancelled. it's a public university. this is a direct violation of the 1st amendment. free speech must be protected. dems should push back against this attack!," Piker wrote on X. The controversy over the event reflects growing tension over Piker's increasing prominence on the political stage. While some argue that he brings in younger voters, critics say that his rhetoric goes too far. Fox News Digital reached out to University Democrats, UT Austin and Piker for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac8abe75342cf4db8726f0 Patriots' TreVeyon Henderson explains siding with family over DCF in custody dispute involving gender identity te 2026-09-18T00:50:06.871Z Patriots' TreVeyon Henderson explains siding with family over DCF in custody dispute involving gender identity New England Patriots running back TreVeyon Henderson stood his ground Thursday when questioned about a social media post defending a Massachusetts family that claims the state took custody of their teenage daughter after the parents refused to affirm her gender transition. The parents, Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, have been fighting DCF to regain custody of their daughter since charges were filed against them in January 2025, around the time they claim they refused to consent to medical procedures intended to transition her to a male. In the post, Henderson, a devout Christian, shared a video clip from Fox News, and quoted Scripture. He said, "These parents who want to honor our Lord and lead their daughter into the truth, and away from what she can’t see that will destroy her just as God has entrusted the parents to do. May justice be served." BLUE STATE SCHOOL DISTRICT ACCUSED OF DEFYING SUPREME COURT, HIDING GENDER TRANSITIONS FROM PARENTS Henderson, who is a Christian, stood on Biblical principles on an 80-20 issue. His post so far is resonating. It had 3.5 million views as of Thursday evening. But when he met with reporters in Foxboro on Thursday, they seemingly asked as many questions about that issue as his status for Sunday's home opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers. "Yeah, I think the biggest thing, what I saw on my end is I saw the, the state take away someone's child because they didn't want to affirm the daughter as a boy," Henderson said in explaining his reasoning for the post. "And I heard that the school, without the parents' permission, tried to transition a child or do some sort of thing to transition her into a boy. "And I don't believe that's right. I believe the family, being a Catholic family and having certain morals that they go by and live by, they have the God-given right to raise up their kid, to know the Lord, to honor the Lord. "...I think what they were doing, trying to raise up their kid the right way from, from what I've read and heard, I think that the family did right by not affirming their daughter as a boy, but choosing to affirm her the way that God created her to be as a girl." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Reporters pressed Henderson on local reports that the child's father is alleged to have pulled his daughter's hair and even threatened to kill her. The allegations led to no criminal findings and, indeed, all charges are scheduled to be dropped if the father stays away from the girl. And, again, Henderson held firm. "It doesn't mean that he was guilty of those charges," Henderson said. "It's just accusations. Just as the same way people make accusations against me, it doesn't mean that those accusations are true. It's just accusations at the end of the day. "I think you're innocent until you're proven guilty. So if he was guilty, then that's on me, because I didn't know all of that. But if he's not guilty, if these are just accusations that they're making about the father, then I don't think that's right to run away with that and say, the father did this, so we have to take his daughter away. "I still don't think that's right." The Boston Herald has reported that Kutzkos’ attorney, Vernadette Broyles, said a restraining order stands against the parents after an unidentified adult assisted the child in obtaining the order against them after being in state custody for nearly a year. Those details aren't moving Henderson, who believes his advocacy is coming from God. "I think my perspective of this world has changed," he said. "I just try to look at this world through a Biblical lens now, and, yeah, I feel the calling on my life. I'm not here to just play football. I think I have it in my bio that football is what I do, but a child of God is who I am. "And so, first and foremost, I'm going to honor God above all else. I know it comes with a cause. But like the Bible says, like, what do I gain if I hold on to my life, but at the end of the day, I lose it? But if I lose my life for His name's sake, then I gain true life, and that's what I gained." So football is becoming secondary to God for Henderson. "With this game or without this game, with money or without money, as long as I have Jesus, I got everything that I need," he said. "And so my heart is fulfilled. And I'll continue to honor the Lord and live for him, no matter what it costs me, because I know at the end of the day, it'll all be worth it." FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac8abd75342cf4db8726d8 Immigrant rights group launches $10M plan to mobilize Latino and independent voters te 2026-09-18T00:50:05.507Z Immigrant rights group launches $10M plan to mobilize Latino and independent voters Canvassers for Living United for Change in Arizona pose for a picture. (Photo courtesy LUCHA) An immigrant rights group will spend millions and knock on tens of thousands of doors to fire up Latino voters ahead of the November midterms, in the hopes of electing progressive candidates who will push back against President Donald Trump.  Living United for Change in Arizona, which frequently campaigns on behalf of Democrats, is planning to invest as much as $9.9 million over the next six weeks on voter outreach efforts in both federal and statewide races. Control of Arizona’s  government is on the ballot this year as the statewide offices are all up for grabs, along with two U.S. House seats that could help decide which party controls Congress.  And local progressive groups, including LUCHA, are once again aiming to flip the state legislature, which Republicans have controlled for all but two terms since 1966.  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE The funding is an impressive sum from an organization that made just under $9 million in revenue in 2024, the last year its tax records are available, and demonstrates the energy behind progressive campaigning efforts in this year’s election cycle. César Fierros, a spokesman for LUCHA, said the money comes from a mix of member support, individual and philanthropic contributions and the group’s political action committee. Stephanie Maldonado, LUCHA’s political director, said the goal is as much to erect a bulwark against the Trump administration as it is to create a legislative environment that results in Arizona-centered policies. The group has long called for worker and renter focused policies at the state level, including mandatory paid family and medical leave and affordable housing solutions that have been mostly rebuffed by Republicans, who decide which proposals are considered. “We need candidates that are going to fight back,” she said. “(Who) are going to hold the line for everyday, hardworking Arizonans and not just protect private interests, like those of corporations, data centers, electric companies and corporate landlords.”   The campaign strategy is to connect with at least 400,000 voters through door-knocking, phone calls, mailers and digital outreach. And that’s more of a minimum for the group, which has years of experience canvassing and has outperformed that number in past elections.  In both the 2022 and 2024 cycles, LUCHA made contact with more than half a million voters; in 2024 alone, activists knocked on over 630,000 doors.  Maldonado said the focus will be on Latino voters and voters who aren’t registered with either major political party, noting that both are electoral blocs with the potential to swing close races. In 2022, Democrat Katie Hobbs defeated her opponent, Republican Kari Lake, and captured the governor’s seat with just a little over a percentage point. And Kris Mayes was elected state attorney general with a razor-thin 280-vote margin.  About 34% of voters in Arizona aren’t registered with a party, according to a July report from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, placing the group closely behind registered Republicans, who make up the state’s largest group of voters, at 35%.  And about 25% of Arizona’s voters, or 1.3 million, are Latino. That demographic, Maldonado said, deserves representation and LUCHA is committed to ensuring their voices are heard at the ballot box.  “Latinos are the second highest population in the state,” she said. “They’re a very important electorate bloc that makes decisions in statewide races.”  Part of the impetus behind motivating Latino voters is the Trump administration’s vitriol against the immigrants. Trump’s mass deportation campaign has led to the violent arrests and mistreatment of hundreds of people, many with American family members, and racial profiling tactics that have ensnared citizens. Maldonado pointed out that Arizona, as a border state, is at the center of the White House’s anti-immigrant agenda, and noted that how much state officials get involved with federal deportation efforts is likely to be decided in November.  Hobbs has so far refused to wade into immigration enforcement but her opponent, Republican Andy Biggs, has been a vocal proponent of Trump’s deportation campaign. And in the attorney general’s race, Republican Warren Petersen has vowed to aid federal agents in deporting immigrants, including those who came to the country as children and are currently shielded from removal under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.  “Every election is the most important election, however I do believe that what happens in this election will really decide what happens in the next two to four years,” Maldonado said.  YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac886b75342cf4db872672 ICE deports ex-Liberian fighter accused of torture, recruiting child soldiers te 2026-09-18T00:40:11.234Z ICE deports ex-Liberian fighter accused of torture, recruiting child soldiers EXCLUSIVE – A former Liberian combatant believed to have ordered and participated in killings, torture and the recruitment of child soldiers was deported after spending nearly two decades in the United States. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Amos Sheik Massaquoi, 55, to Liberia on Aug. 11, officials told Fox News Digital. He is believed to have served as chief bodyguard to Maj. Gen. Daniel Chea, a former leader in Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia. ICE said Massaquoi is believed to have ordered and participated in extrajudicial killings, acts of torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, forced labor and the recruitment of child soldiers during the Liberia's civil wars from 1989 to 2003. "If you are a confirmed human rights violator and you believe you can hide in the United States, you are mistaken," ICE Chicago Field Office Director Frank Padula said. LIBERIA AGREES TO ACCEPT 1,200 THIRD-COUNTRY DEPORTEES FROM US WITHIN A YEAR "ICE will pursue, arrest and remove any individuals who committed atrocities abroad and ensure our communities are not used as a sanctuary from accountability." EXCLUSIVE: 25 YEARS AFTER 9/11, ICE SAYS MORE THAN 2K KNOWN OR SUSPECTED TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN DEPORTED Massaquoi legally entered the U.S. in August 2006 but was only authorized to remain until Nov. 6 of that year, according to ICE. He remained in the country until Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested him in Maryland in August 2019 for being illegally present in the U.S. An immigration judge granted him bond less than two months later, and he was released. TRUMP DOJ ESCALATES CITIZENSHIP CRACKDOWN ON GROUP ACCUSED OF HIDING TERROR TIES, VIOLENT CRIMES Massaquoi was taken back into custody by ICE Baltimore on April 1, 2025, after officials said he failed to comply with the terms of his release. An immigration judge ordered him removed the following month. ICE said Massaquoi also received specialized military training at an academy in China in 2004, one year after Liberia's second civil war ended. Liberia's civil wars killed almost 250,000 people, most of them civilians, according to the United Nations. Taylor, who led the rebel movement before becoming Liberia's president, was later convicted of aiding and abetting crimes committed by rebel forces in neighboring Sierra Leone. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison, according to the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone. FORMER SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA "Amos Sheik Massaquoi is believed to have engaged in cruelty and terror, marked by killings, torture, forced labor, unlawful imprisonment and the recruitment of children into armed conflict," HSI Maryland Special Agent in Charge Akil Baldwin said. "If it is confirmed that an individual has engaged in such bloodshed anywhere in the world, then you have no place in the United States," he added. FIRST USE OF ALIEN TERRORIST REMOVAL COURT SENDS AFGHAN WOMAN BACK AFTER ELECTION DAY ISIS PLOT: DOJ The investigation was supported by ICE's Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, which tracks people suspected of atrocities abroad who try to enter or remain in the U.S. Since 2003, ICE has arrested more than 520 people for human rights-related violations and removed 1,178 known or suspected human rights violators, according to the agency. The center has also stopped more than 415 suspected human rights violators and war crimes suspects from entering the country. Anyone with information about a suspected human rights violator in the U.S. can contact the ICE tip line at 866-DHS-2-ICE or submit a tip online. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac861675342cf4db872611 SR 347 construction returns with straight week of lane restrictions te 2026-09-18T00:30:14.081Z SR 347 construction returns with straight week of lane restrictions State Route 347 gave Maricopans a two-day breather, but now it’s back to business. Construction resumes tonight, with another weekend of one-lane traffic in both directions between Casa Blanca Road and Mammoth Way. Here’s the schedule: Thursday, Sept. 17: Southbound SR 347 will be narrowed to one lane from 8 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday for paving. Friday, Sept. 18-Monday, Sept. 21: Both directions will be narrowed to one lane around the clock for paving. Northbound restrictions begin at 8 p.m. Friday and continue until 4 a.m. Monday. Southbound restrictions begin at 8 p.m. Friday and continue until 5 a.m. Monday. Monday, Sept. 21-Wednesday, Sept. 23: Both directions will be narrowed to one lane nightly for materials testing. Northbound restrictions will run from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m., while southbound restrictions will run from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 24: Both directions will face overnight lane restrictions for paving. Northbound traffic will be narrowed to one lane from 8 p.m. Thursday to 4 a.m. Friday. Southbound traffic will be narrowed to one lane from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Drivers should slow down, follow posted speed limits and merge safely through work zones. ADOT also advises allowing extra travel time and watching for construction personnel and equipment. See State Route 347’s live traffic cams on InMaricopa.com. The post SR 347 construction returns with straight week of lane restrictions appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac861075342cf4db8725f0 Hasan Piker insists Middle East would be 'more stable' if Iran had nuclear weapons during Axios interview te 2026-09-18T00:30:08.245Z Hasan Piker insists Middle East would be 'more stable' if Iran had nuclear weapons during Axios interview Progressive commentator Hasan Piker is not opposed to Iran having nuclear weapons, according to comments he made in an interview with Axios. "Do you think Iran should be free to build a nuclear weapon?" Axios correspondent Alex Thompson asked in a clip that aired Thursday on CNN. "I think Iran, much like any other sovereign nation, has a right to defend itself, regardless of its domestic policies," Piker responded. RADICAL EL-SAYED ALLY DOUBLES DOWN ON ANTI-AMERICAN RHETORIC WITH STUNNING TERRORISM COMPARISON The popular Twitch streamer went on to cite political scientist John Mearsheimer in the belief that "mutually assured destruction is the only way for countries to have sovereignty," something he said would bring regional stability. "Now having said that, do I want Iran to have nuclear arms? No. But I also don't want America, or Russia, or China to have a nuclear arms either," Piker said. "Do you think the Middle East would be more stable if Iran had a nuclear weapon?" Thompson followed. "I believe yes. I think that the Middle East would more stable," Piker responded. ABDUL EL-SAYED DISMISSES QUESTIONS ABOUT HASAN PIKER TIES ON 'FACE THE NATION,' PIVOTS TO GROCERIES The far-left personality went on to stress that he's not "advocating" for a nuclear-armed Iran or that they should have weapons-grade enriched uranium, but insisted that the nuclear conversation is a "distraction." "Time and time again, they have shown, the Iranian government, regardless of whether you want to trust them or not, you can just look at their actions, have proven that they are utilizing the conversation of enriched uranium as a point of leverage to bring America back to the table to get sanctions relief," Piker said. CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MEDIA AND CULTURE NEWS Piker began generating headlines earlier in the day when he claimed the U.S. is responsible for more terrorism than al-Qaeda "pound for pound." Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who campaigned alongside Piker during the primary, has repeatedly been asked about Piker's commentary and has attempted to distance himself from his latest comments, telling Axios "I do not agree with this statement [on al-Qaeda], nor do I give much weight to the statements made by a social media streamer. I am more concerned with the dangerous policies of Donald Trump and Mike Rogers that are raising the prices of gas, groceries and healthcare for Michiganders." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac83b375342cf4db87254f Jury Reaches Mixed Verdict in Death of Reporter Covering Super Bowl te 2026-09-18T00:20:03.677Z Jury Reaches Mixed Verdict in Death of Reporter Covering Super Bowl The Telemundo reporter, Adan Manzano, was found in his hotel room just before the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac816775342cf4db872506 Colin Kaepernick accuses NFL of 'colluding' against Macklemore amid 'Free Palestine' controversy te 2026-09-18T00:10:15.618Z Colin Kaepernick accuses NFL of 'colluding' against Macklemore amid 'Free Palestine' controversy Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick accused New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and other NFL owners of "openly colluding" to force Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour following the rapper’s pro-Palestinian remarks. Kaepernick drew a direct comparison between Macklemore’s removal and his own allegation that NFL owners conspired to keep him out of the league after he began protesting during the national anthem in 2016. "What Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore the opportunity to go out and perform with Ed Sheeran is that they are willing to collude," Kaepernick told Ben Meiselas during a MeidasTouch interview. "They are openly colluding." MACKLEMORE DOUBLES DOWN AFTER GETTING KICKED OFF ED SHEERAN TOUR AFTER PRO-PALESTINE STANCE Macklemore had been scheduled to open for Sheeran at Gillette Stadium, which is owned by Kraft’s company, as part of the singer’s "Loop Tour." However, Macklemore said Sheeran informed him that Kraft objected to his appearance and contacted other NFL stadium owners after the rapper used his performances at MetLife Stadium to say "Free Palestine," criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement and perform his Gaza protest song "Hind’s Hall." Kraft confirmed that Macklemore would not be allowed to perform at Gillette Stadium but disputed the suggestion that the decision was intended to silence advocacy for Palestinians. He instead cited what he characterized as Macklemore’s history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery. Tour promoter Messina Touring Group subsequently removed Macklemore from the remaining dates, saying multiple venues had indicated they would not host the concerts with him on the bill. Sheeran said the decision belonged to the promoter and maintained that he had attempted to facilitate a conversation between Macklemore and Kraft. Kaepernick argued that the episode demonstrated the willingness of powerful owners to coordinate when they believe their interests are threatened. KAEPERNICK TELLS 'THE VIEW' THAT NFL OWNERS KEPT HIM OUT OVER POLITICS AND POWER, CLAIMS THEY DONATE TO TRUMP "They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you," Kaepernick said. "They will organize against you, which means that we collectively have to organize to be able to protect our interests as well." "When we filed the grievance, it was like, 'well, the owners wouldn’t do that. Everybody just wants to win within the NFL,'" he added elsewhere in the interview. "And the realization is, 'no. They want to protect their interests. They want to protect their power. They want to protect their money.'" Kaepernick opted out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers in March 2017 and has not appeared in an NFL game since the end of the 2016 season. He filed a grievance later in 2017 accusing NFL owners of colluding to prevent teams from signing him in response to his protests against police brutality and racial injustice. The league denied that its teams conspired against Kaepernick. The two sides reached a confidential settlement in 2019 without a ruling on the merits of his claim. Kaepernick also used the MeidasTouch interview to revisit the NFL’s response to the player-led protest movement. He referenced a 2017 meeting at which Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula reportedly said the league needed a prominent Black spokesperson to help resolve the controversy surrounding the demonstrations. Kaepernick claimed the NFL initially attempted to work through the Players Coalition before approaching him about leading its social-justice initiatives. He said he rejected the proposal and accused rapper Jay-Z of eventually stepping "into that role" through his partnership with the league. Kaepernick characterized Jay-Z as the "Black face" NFL owners sought to help "subvert the protests," arguing that the partnership redirected attention away from police killings, incarceration and resources for Black communities. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The NFL and Roc Nation announced their partnership in 2019, giving Jay-Z’s company a role in the league’s live-entertainment strategy and social-justice initiative. At the time, Jay-Z said the country had moved beyond kneeling and should focus on actionable change. Macklemore, meanwhile, pledged to donate the $1 million he said he earned from Sheeran’s tour to six organizations supporting Palestinians and publicly invited Kraft to match the contribution. Kraft later said Sheeran had already privately asked him to contribute $2 million toward humanitarian relief. The remaining supporting acts on Sheeran’s tour, including Finneas, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe and Beoga, withdrew amid the controversy. Kaepernick said the fallout strengthened the parallel he sees between Macklemore’s experience and his departure from the NFL. "They want to protect their interests," Kaepernick said. "They want to protect their power. They want to protect their money." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac816675342cf4db8724fd Alexandra Daddario stuns in gingham bikini months after split from husband Andrew Form te 2026-09-18T00:10:14.864Z Alexandra Daddario stuns in gingham bikini months after split from husband Andrew Form Alexandra Daddario is soaking up some time away following a year of major changes. The 40-year-old actress shared a series of vacation photos on Instagram Wednesday, including two shots of herself relaxing outdoors in a blue-and-white gingham bikini. Daddario opened the Instagram carousel reclining on a cushioned lounge chair while looking directly at the camera. She wore the checkered two-piece with her long brunette hair loose and swept across one side of her face. JESSICA SIMPSON TURNS HEADS IN BIKINI PHOTOS FROM TRIP TO TURKS AND CAICOS The "White Lotus" star appeared to keep the look natural and accessorized simply with a silver ring as she leaned on one arm for the close-up shot. "Vacation details," Daddario captioned the post. A second photo captured Daddario from a different angle as she stretched out on the same chair. She rested her head against one arm while peeking toward the camera, offering another look at the pale blue gingham swimsuit. Fans quickly took notice of the vacation photos. "If she broke my heart i would apologize…," one person joked. "We missed the Daddarios," another commented. "Your not allowed to look so good effortlessly @alexandradaddario," another fan added. Daddario traded her swimsuit for a more dressed-up look elsewhere in the carousel. In a mirror selfie, the "Baywatch" actress posed barefoot in a cream-colored matching set covered in a bold floral and bird print. The look featured a sleeveless fitted top and floor-length skirt, with a cutout along one side of her waist. Daddario held her phone in one hand and stretched her opposite arm above her head against the wall as she captured the full look. 'WHITE LOTUS' STAR MICHELLE MONAGHAN SHOWCASES HER TONED FIGURE IN STRING BIKINI DURING INDONESIAN VACATION The vacation glimpse comes seven months after Daddario and film producer Andrew Form announced the end of their marriage. A representative for Daddario confirmed the split to People in February after more than three years of marriage. "Alexandra Daddario and Andrew Form have made the decision to end their marriage," her representative told the outlet. "The decision was made with love and respect," the statement continued. "They will continue to co-parent their child together and appreciate privacy as they navigate this transition." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE   Daddario and Form married in New Orleans in June 2022 after making their relationship Instagram official the previous year. The former couple welcomed their first child together, a son, in October 2024. Form also shares two sons with his ex-wife, actress Jordana Brewster. JENNIFER LOPEZ STUNS IN PATTERNED SWIMSUIT WHILE SOAKING UP FINAL DAYS OF SUMMER Daddario had previously opened up about her journey to motherhood, revealing in a 2024 interview with Vogue that she experienced a pregnancy loss before welcoming her son. "It's long and complicated, so I don't want to be too specific," she told the outlet at the time. "Those kinds of losses and trauma are very hard to explain unless you've been through them." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Daddario added, "I really relate to all the women who have been through those kinds of things in a way that I didn't understand fully before. It's very, very painful." The actress has remained busy professionally amid the changes in her personal life. Earlier this month, Daddario stepped out during New York Fashion Week for Montblanc's 100 Years of Leather celebration at the Crane Club in Manhattan. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Speaking at the event, Daddario reflected on how her outlook has evolved as she's gotten older. "When I was younger, I never wanted to use them," she told WWD while discussing the luxury items she once saved for special occasions. "I didn't want to use the best skin care product. I didn't want to use my fancy bag." "And now that I get older, I'm like, 'I'm alive. Things are meant to be used. You use them until they wear out, and that's what's good about them.'" Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac816575342cf4db8724ec Trump may strip Mexican gray wolf protections prematurely, risks further endangerment te 2026-09-18T00:10:13.323Z Trump may strip Mexican gray wolf protections prematurely, risks further endangerment WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump initiated a review on the status of Mexican gay wolves on the Endangered Species List in an executive order earlier this month, despite the species’ population count falling short of the minimum requirement. It’s a move conservationists argue ignores science and threatens to remove protection of Mexican wolves in order to appease the ranching industry, which has advocated against the species for decades. “The Trump executive order is just a more extreme example of openly putting politics above science,” said Carlos Carroll, an ecologist who studies the population growth of gray wolves. According to Trump’s executive order, the Secretary of the Interior has 90 days from Sept. 4 to decide whether the Mexican gray wolf species is healthy enough to be downlisted to the “threatened” status or be removed off of the Endangered Species list altogether. “FWS will be evaluating all applicable science, existing laws and the ESA listing status of Gray and Mexican Wolves,” a spokesperson for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service said in a written statement to Cronkite News. “The Executive Order does not change the current threatened or endangered status of any wolf populations.” While the executive order does not immediately change the status of the species, Carroll and other conservationists have long voiced concerns about the long-term health of the wolf species if their endangered status is touched too soon.  As of 2025, there are 319 Mexican gray wolves living in the United States, between Arizona and New Mexico. For the past 50 years, the gray wolf subspecies has been marked as “endangered” on the list, giving them federal protection, along with federally initiated programs which assist with reintroduction measures and population monitoring. To be downlisted from “endangered” to the “threatened” tier, the wolves must maintain a U.S. population average of 320 or more over the course of four years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. To be removed off the list completely, the wolves must average a population of 320 in the U.S. and 200 in Mexico for at least eight years; numbers that have not yet been reached. “We still want to know the genetic health of the wild population before removing protections,”said Craig Miller, an Arizona senior representative at the Defenders of Wildlife  The FWS’s own data show the Mexican gray wolves have not reached the population stability required for their endangered status to be revised in any capacity. They have averaged an estimated population of 276 over four years and 222 over eight years in the U.S., falling short of the required averages. And based on their own population modeling, reaching a steady 320 population count in the United States is necessary for the species’ resiliency without federal intervention, according to the FWS Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan. An earlier research study commissioned by the FWS in 2013 found that a wolf population of 750 over an eight year period was more likely to facilitate a self-sustaining species. Carroll, who was one of the ecologists who worked on the 2013 study, said the agency dismissed the findings and hired a new team of researchers who decided a wolf population of 320 was a sufficient measurement. In 2019 Carroll and a group of researchers questioned the scientific integrity of the new findings. “The last iteration of the recovery group was dominated by the state game agencies,” Carroll said. “So it’s not surprising to me that they ended up with a lower number.” Both Carroll and Miller said they expect the federal government’s  sharp pivot was partially due to a pacifying attempt to appeal to the deer-hunter rancher community, which has been vocal against the reintroduction of the wolves. Ginger Cheney is a rancher located along the Arizona-New Mexico border in Blue, Arizona, with 300 heads of cattle between her two ranches. She said this past year she had at least 16 cows killed by Mexican gray wolves.  Cheney wasn’t concerned that the federal government’s possible premature status revision would put the wolf population at risk, because she said she did not believe the official count of 319 Mexican gray wolves was correct. She said she believes the count is much higher and a portion of wolves were miscounted.  “There’s a lot of uncollared wolves out there, in unknown packs,” Cheney said. “I don’t think that they need to worry that we haven’t hit the 320 because we have.” She said lethal measures are the most effective ways of securing her cattle’s safety. In his executive order, Trump suggested that the Department of the Interior consider allowing lethal removal of Mexican gray wolves to assist ranchers in combating livestock predation.  “Illegal killing remains their greatest threat,” Miller said. “The president’s suggestion that, you know, people can shoot them now is blatantly wrong, and it demonstrates a disturbing disregard for both science and the law.” Conservationists continue to fight for the protection of the animals. “It doesn’t take much for one bad year and it can dip again,” said Hollie Colahan, the executive director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. “Just want to see that it’s at that level and then see that it can maintain that level.”  Colahan said if the wolf species is removed from the Endangered Species list now, it is likely the population will decline.  “That 320 over four years was a decision that was based on science,” Colahan said. “It was based on the biology of the wolves and the population.” According to the FWS’ 2017 recovery plan, the eight year period to remove the wolves from the Endangered Species list is approximately two wolf generations, providing assurance that reproduction and mortality rates are “performing such that recovered status is likely to be maintained after delisting.”  “We consider a resilient population to be one that is able to maintain at least a 90% likelihood of persistence over a 100- year period,” the Fish and Wildlife Service said in the recovery plan.  Colahan said averaging the population over a longer period of time is also important in case one measured year is a “fluke,” inaccurately representing the long-term population size.  Colahan said removing the wolves from the list is counterproductive, because the species’ population will presumably drop to endangerment level again, resulting in another extensive process to get them back under endangered status.  “What we want to do is get them up to the level that we feel they’re self-sustaining, so they don’t need to be on there anymore, and don’t have to come back on the list at some future point,” Colahan said.  If the wolves are removed from the list completely, they will lose all federal protections and funding for reintroduction programs. The wolves’ protections will then be the responsibility of each state. Jim Devos, Mexican wolf coordinator for the Arizona Game and Fish Department, said the department does not comment on executive orders, but does manage the wolf population along with state and federal partners. Colahan said she remains concerned the state may follow the federal government’s lead, upsetting the ecosystem. “Wolves being at the top there, those apex predators are really important in keeping things in balance.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac816275342cf4db8724d5 Sen. Mitzi Epstein won’t run again, but politics is in her blood te 2026-09-18T00:10:10.111Z Sen. Mitzi Epstein won’t run again, but politics is in her blood Sen. Mitzi Epstein might not be running for the Legislature again, but she plans to stick around in politics.  You might see her around the Capitol. Or the Maricopa County Stadium District Board. Or advocating for fair taxes. Either way, Epstein, D-Tempe, who served six years in the House and four in the Senate, most recently in Legislative District 12, is still talking politics.  The questions and answers have been edited lightly for style and clarity. What first sparked your interest in running for office?  Education has been the focus from the beginning and always. I was looking at how things were going for my kids and all the other kids, and I was very active in creating advocacy groups of parents and teachers and retirees and so on to support public schools. I kept noticing, “Oh, the bottom line here is the funding from the state is inadequate.”  School funding is still an issue 10 years later. What’s your response to that? Folks in my generation need the younger generations to be all that they can be, and if we’re not funding their schools adequately, then we’re doing ourselves a disservice.  We have had some good steps forward. Red for Ed – I am never going to forget how great it felt to stand with 75,000 people at the Capitol – parents and teachers and retirees and grandparents and students to say invest in education.  When I was minority leader, I simply said, “Look, we need $300 million just to catch up with inflation for K-12.” The education community agreed, the governor agreed, and we did get $300 million in the budget to try to address the gap between how inflation has grown so much faster than our funding per pupil has grown.  What impact did you bring to your district?  When I was elected, we turned our district from red to blue. I think that our community feels very strongly about education. They prefer to bring money to all the kids in the state, more than fix this one pothole or create a fish pond or various other kinds of projects I’ve seen over time. How have politics changed from when you started to now?  I’ve been a Legislature watcher for much longer than that, and there was a time when every speech on the floor and every committee speech started with, “I respect all of you so much, and here’s something nice about everybody,” and then go on with your explanation of what you want to be different.  It’s frustrating to hear certain legislators who seem intent upon winning points for their political party and denigrating, insulting and making wild accusations about the other party. Even worse is when they stand up and make wild accusations that are completely unfounded about everybody on the left. That is just plain bigotry and prejudice. It needs to stop.  What can the legislature do better as a whole, regardless of who is in power? More transparency and time. Giving us an amendment and saying, “Vote on this in five minutes,” is ridiculous. There’s no time to vet it.  We need time to avoid mistakes. Every single year in recent times, we pass budgets, and we always have to do supplementals the next year. Never mind the dollars and cents, just changing the words because we were in a hurry, and the Republican Party wanted us to rush it through, so they’re full of mistakes, and we have to go fix them. When there’s a law that has a mistake, that affects people’s lives.  We need to raise the [legislative] salaries. It’s hard to recruit smart, hardworking people who also need a full-time salary. Our salaries haven’t even kept up with inflation since the 1990s. What is your proudest accomplishment while in the Legislature? In 2024, when I was the Senate Minority Leader, I felt like the coach, responsible for a whole team whose job was to get the torch across the finish line after the other Olympians had carried it to the stadium. They had done all the talking to get this groundswell of public support to repeal the 1864 ban on abortion, and we in the Legislature had to actually make it happen.  Our pitcher was Sen. [Priya] Sundareshan, and our quarterback was Sen. Anna Hernandez. With a brilliant staff, we planned many different chess moves and used set plays to create a strategy for whatever punts, strikes, and foul balls the opponents might throw at us. Each of our caucus members took a turn with a speech here and a point of order there, and lots of conversations about the importance of this freedom for women to determine their own lives. What will you miss most about the Legislature? I will miss not having a microphone to write the wrongs in society. In my first year on the House Ways and Means Committee, I saw a legislator share information that was wrong. It was really frustrating to hear people say things that were just wrong. I can’t do anything about it sitting in the audience, but it suddenly dawned on me: I have a microphone.  I’ve used a microphone to correct mistakes and to right wrongs and to speak up the way that I know my constituents want us to speak up on the floor in committees and press conferences and conversations with great reporters.  What won’t you miss? This goes back to those insults that my colleagues would make from time to time, where they just broadly say everybody on the left is mean to puppies. It’s prejudice, and I will be glad to be getting away from that. The post Sen. Mitzi Epstein won’t run again, but politics is in her blood first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac816075342cf4db8724b0 NAU football leads nation in takeaways ahead of game at Utah Tech te 2026-09-18T00:10:08.689Z NAU football leads nation in takeaways ahead of game at Utah Tech NAU leads all of Division I football in takeaways and turnover margin heading into Saturday night’s showdown against Utah Tech in St. George. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac815e75342cf4db87248d Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal te 2026-09-18T00:10:06.555Z Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal Geothermal startup Mazama is drilling three miles underground to tap superhot rock, with one well capable of generating 15 MW of electricity 24/7. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6aac7f0675342cf4db872434 Alabama Executes Inmate After Supreme Court Blocked Last Attempt te 2026-09-18T00:00:06.081Z Alabama Executes Inmate After Supreme Court Blocked Last Attempt Jeffery Lee had raised concerns about use of nitrogen gas and the legacy of an abandoned practice that allowed judges to override juries on death sentences. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/home