https://meenews.co/post/6a8a8c632c5335ae1049fa85 Two Phoenix Police Officers Fired and Arrested After Violent Traffic Stop te 2026-08-23T06:00:03.722Z Two Phoenix Police Officers Fired and Arrested After Violent Traffic Stop The officers are accused of beating a couple and shocking them with a stun gun during an unreported traffic stop this month. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a729f2c5335ae1049f81d Bear crashes couple's anniversary getaway, rummages through Tennessee tea shop before jumping on counter te 2026-08-23T04:10:07.908Z Bear crashes couple's anniversary getaway, rummages through Tennessee tea shop before jumping on counter A couple's anniversary getaway took a wild turn when a bear strolled into a Gatlinburg tea shop and began rummaging through merchandise before suddenly jumping onto the counter in a startling encounter caught on video. The couple, Victoria Puyol and Joshua Card, were visiting Gatlinburg to celebrate their seventh anniversary when they stopped at The Spice & Tea Exchange on Friday, which is where Card spotted an unexpected visitor near the entrance. "There's a bear," Card recalled saying. At first, Puyol said she didn't quite process what was happening, but when Card and the store clerk repeated themselves, she turned and saw the animal standing in the doorway. HIDDEN DANGER AT POPULAR US NATIONAL PARK FORCES TRAIL CLOSURES AS BEAR SIGHTINGS CLIMB The couple recalled guidance to back away from bears, but as they stepped away, the bear ventured farther into the store. The clerk directed them behind the register, where they had access to an emergency exit. The curious intruder appeared particularly interested in the shop's inventory, tearing into a sweet-tea blend and investigating tea diffusers as a crowd gathered outside. An employee from a neighboring store sounded an air horn, the couple said, but it appeared to have little effect on the bear. Card began recording as the bear approached the counter. "Hey, what you doing there, buddy?" Card can be heard saying in the video. BLACK BEARS INVADE LAKE TAHOE HOMES AS BREAK-INS SURGE AND LOCALS FORTIFY DEFENSES The bear then turned and jumped onto the counter, prompting Card to step backward. "He's talking to this thing like it's a puppy," Puyol recalled. "It's a bear. It's not a puppy. It's a bear." Card said he initially thought the animal might have been a "show bear" on a leash with a handler nearby because they were in such a populated area. He quickly realized it was a wild bear. Card, a military veteran who also has experience as a lifeguard, said his background dealing with emergency situations helped shape his reaction. He described feeling uncertain about what the young animal was capable of and whether he should intervene or simply give it space. "This didn't really feel like an emergency," Card said. "It felt unpredictable to me." BEAR CUBS SPAR ON WOMAN'S FRONT PORCH IN ADORABLE VIRAL NATURE VIDEO, REACTIONS POUR IN Card said the bear appeared more curious than aggressive. "He didn't really seem threatened," he said. "Even when he jumped up on the counter, I was like, okay, well, I'm going to take a step back." Puyol said she was more shocked than frightened. "I wasn't scared," she said. "I was just shocked." "I wasn't like, 'Oh my God, it's a bear, I'm going to die,'" she continued. "No, it was like, there's a wild animal, like eight feet away from me." Adding to the irony, Puyol said she had repeatedly told Card before the trip that she hoped to see a bear during their anniversary getaway. "Be careful what you wish for because I wanted to see a bear, not that up close and personal," she said. WOMAN STALKED BY CHARGING BEAR ON MORNING DOG WALK CAPTURES TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER ON CAMERA The clerk eventually told the couple about another exit through the second floor, but the bear suddenly ran out before they needed to use it. Card and the clerk then shut the door and waited to make sure it was safe before leaving. Puyol estimated the entire encounter lasted roughly 10 to 15 minutes. The couple said store employees told them the bear appeared to be a repeat visitor and had entered the business earlier in the week. The shop also posted a photo of a bear earlier in the week with the caption, "This young bear came into our shop today, snagged some sugar and came back for more!" Now that they made it out safely, the couple said the encounter made for an anniversary they will never forget. "The trip has been filled with oddities, and so this just kind of ... fuels that whole experience," Card said. Fox News Digital has reached out to The Spice & Tea Exchange of Gatlinburg for additional information. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a729b2c5335ae1049f80d Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ Private Beach on Martha's Vineyard Is Open to All. But It’s a Hike. te 2026-08-23T04:10:03.311Z Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ Private Beach on Martha's Vineyard Is Open to All. But It’s a Hike. Caroline Kennedy and her family sold more than 330 acres of coastal land on Martha’s Vineyard to conservation groups. It comes with some caveats. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a64902c5335ae1049f31c Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell combine for big nights as Fever fall short against Liberty te 2026-08-23T03:10:08.201Z Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell combine for big nights as Fever fall short against Liberty New York had to earn this one down the stretch. Two-time WNBA Finals MVP Breanna Stewart scored 22 points and Leonie Fiebich made an immediate impact in her first game since July 3, adding 20 as the Liberty held off the Indiana Fever 109-102 on Saturday night. Jonquel Jones chipped in 19 points and 10 rebounds for New York, which improved to 23-15. The game was tied at 100 before Stewart split a pair of free throws to put the Liberty in front. After an Indiana miss, Fiebich converted a basket through contact with 57.5 seconds remaining, though she missed the ensuing free throw. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Caitlin Clark had a chance to answer on the other end, but her driving layup would not fall, and Fiebich came down with the rebound. Astier then drew a foul with less than 30 seconds remaining and sank both free throws to give New York a five-point cushion. Both teams knew how important this game was, with playoff positioning at stake and the standings tight from third through eighth place. New York led by four at the half, and then Sabrina Ionescu and Fiebich got going. The pair combined for 19 of the Liberty’s 31 points in the period as New York extended its lead to 85-78 heading into the fourth. Indiana rallied to tie it on Kelsey Mitchell’s 3-pointer with 1:44 left. Mitchell finished with 25 points. Aliyah Boston had 22 and Clark 21. New York finally had its full lineup healthy for the first time in nearly six weeks as Fiebich played her first game since suffering a foot injury. Jones was back after missing most of the Liberty’s last game against Chicago on Tuesday with a tweaked left ankle. SPARKS STAR CAMERON BRINK HELPED OFF THE COURT AFTER BRUTAL COLLISION WITH BREANNA STEWART With Indiana visiting, there were rallies outside the arena before the game both for and against transgender women in sports. Fever reserve Sophie Cunningham had said in an ESPN profile published last month that she was opposed to transgender girls and women competing in girls’ and women’s sports. Cunningham was met with a mixture of boos and cheers from the sellout crowd. Jones got going early, as she’s done ever since the All-Star break. The Liberty’s 6-foot-6 center had 17 points and seven rebounds at the half as New York held a 53-49 advantage. The Fever are in the middle of a brutal stretch of five road games in eight days. They have gone 2-2 so far. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a648b2c5335ae1049f305 Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders te 2026-08-23T03:10:03.035Z Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders Flipkart's quick-commerce venture is delivering 1.1 million to 1.2 million orders a day, nearly triple its November volume. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a542b2c5335ae1049f1a7 Police make arrest after gunfire during California high school football game leaves 1 dead te 2026-08-23T02:00:11.820Z Police make arrest after gunfire during California high school football game leaves 1 dead A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection to a gang-related shooting that left a 17-year-old dead during a high school football game in Bakersfield, California, authorities told Fox News Digital. The shooting happened shortly after 8 p.m. Friday at Independence High School as the school hosted Centennial High School for its season opener, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. Neither the suspect nor the victim attended Independence High School, police confirmed to Fox News Digital. Police said that while the shooting was not directly related to the football game, it happened while the game was underway. The shooting occurred within the exterior fence of the football stadium, but outside the chain-link barrier surrounding the field and track. CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION SHOOTING KILLS TEEN, INJURES CHILD AND TWO OTHERS Officers found the 17-year-old suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to Kern Medical, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities have not publicly identified the victim. Police announced the arrest of the 15-year-old suspect Saturday on suspicion of murder, firearm-related offenses and participating in a criminal street gang, police told Fox News Digital. POLICE ANNOUNCE ARREST AFTER 5 WOUNDED IN VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY SHOOTING: REPORT Investigators said the suspect and victim knew one another and that the shooting "was not a random act of violence." Police said a fight involving several people happened before the shooting. The gunfire erupted while the game was underway, sending players and spectators from the area, according to reports from the scene. The game was canceled following the shooting. Police told Fox News Digital that the gun used in the shooting has not been recovered. Investigators do not believe there are any additional suspects outstanding. FEDS DISMANTLE ALLEGED GUN TRAFFICKING RING THAT FUNNELED DOZENS OF FIREARMS FROM GEORGIA TO CHICAGO GANGS Officers from the Kern High School District, Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office responded to the campus after reports of gunfire. "Our deepest sympathies remain with the family and loved ones of the 17-year-old who tragically lost his life. We also recognize the impact this incident will have on the family of the 15-year-old who was arrested," the Bakersfield Police Department said. "Two young lives and two families have been forever changed by an act of violence, and we extend our compassion to everyone affected by this tragedy." STUDENTS' PRE-PROM GATHERING TURNS INTO DEADLY NIGHTMARE AS BULLETS FLY Kern High School District Superintendent Dr. Michael Zulfa said Independence High School staff and members of the district police department responded immediately after the shooting to protect students and spectators, and assist law enforcement and emergency personnel. The school district said it is working with law enforcement as the investigation continues and will review the circumstances surrounding the shooting, Zulfa said. Counseling and other support services will also be available to students and staff. "Friday night should have been an evening of school spirit, friendship, and community—a time for students and families to come together and celebrate the beginning of a new school year. Instead, an act of violence forever changed the lives of those who were there and has deeply affected our entire District," Zulfa said. The investigation remains ongoing. Fox News Digital also reached out to the Kern County District Attorney's Office for additional information but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a4f772c5335ae1049ebe0 Woman in her 30s who pretended to be a child and lived with family found guilty of fraud te 2026-08-23T01:40:07.870Z Woman in her 30s who pretended to be a child and lived with family found guilty of fraud A woman in Brazil was found guilty this week of living with a foster family for more than a year while pretending to be a child, officials said. Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira, who is in reality 37 years old, was convicted of fraud and false identity on Thursday, according to a translated release from the Court of Justice of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Oliveira, who the family took in as their daughter for 14 months until her scheme was uncovered, claimed she had fled abuse. FEDS BUST ONE OF LARGEST ALLEGED MARRIAGE FRAUD SCHEMES IN US HISTORY INVOLVING 1,000-PLUS CHINESE SHAM UNIONS The woman later admitted to creating a false identity and age, the court said. Oliveira had been living falsely as a child for 15 years in an "elaborate fraud," the Washington Post reported, using a high-pitched, childlike voice and even telling people she had been forced to get hormones to make her look older. COLLEGE FOOTBALL NATIONAL CHAMPION WHO WORE WIGS IN FRAUD SCHEME PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGES She was sentenced to one year, six months and 10 days in prison, along with four months and 18 days of detention. One of her lawyers, Lúcio Sousa, said that Oliveira’s scheme was how she "survived." "She admits that she invented an identity," Sousa said before the verdict, according to the Post. "It was the way she found to survive. But she has been a vulnerable person for more than 20 years.  "She has lived on the streets, and there has been no allegation that she obtained any financial advantage, or committed robbery or theft, which, in theory, means the elements of fraud have not been established." Oliveira said she never meant to hurt anyone. "Of course, I deceived people, I lied," she said, according to police, the Post reported. "But I didn’t intend to scam anyone." She said she wanted to experience the love she never got as a child. "There was a certain void in me, a need to have that kind of care, so I always sought it out," she said. After the verdict, Sousa said in a statement on Instagram, they would "pursue all appropriate legal measures and appeals before the higher courts." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a4f772c5335ae1049ebd7 Bandido, Athena put on a show at Ring of Honor's Death Before Dishonor in Philadelphia te 2026-08-23T01:40:07.175Z Bandido, Athena put on a show at Ring of Honor's Death Before Dishonor in Philadelphia Ring of Honor’s (ROH) Death Before Dishonor event returned to the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia on Friday night and the fans in the iconic pro wrestling venue got to witness some of the best matches of the year. Title changes were few and far apart on the show, but it wasn’t for the lack of trying. COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON OUTKICK Bandido put the Ring of Honor World Championship on the line against Nick Wayne. The two pro wrestlers put on one of the best matches of the entire year. Wayne was left bloodied after his face was scraped against the side of the steel steps. The "Most Wanted" man and "The Prodigy" were building momentum to an insane finish. They each hit German suplexes on each other before Wayne nailed a cutter on Bandido. The sequence continued with a poisonrana from Bandido, but Wayne ate it and planted Bandido with a crucifix driver. Wayne thought he was going to win the match at the end. He hit Bandido with the Prodigy Plex but Bandido was able to catch him off guard and roll him up with a crucifix pin. Bandido’s victory was just an appetizer for the main event. Athena was looking to continue her historic Ring of Honor Women’s Championship reign against Stardom’s Hazuki. Two of the best women’s pro wrestlers in the sport right now, Hazuki seemed to have an answer for everything Athena was throwing at her. But it was pure grit that kept the "Fallen Goddess" alive in the match. She took a huge splash from Hazuki while lying on the announce table. Hazuki also hit her with a suplex on the aisle of the entrance ramp. Sure, Billie Starkz and Diamanté may have been at Athena’s side to back her up, but that’s what they were supposed to do. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Athena finally got a chance to hit the O-Face and pinned Hazuki for the win. Athena’s title reign is up to 1,350 days. Meanwhile, two ROH championships changed hands. Action Andretti received help from Hook and Anthony Bowens to help defeat Lio Rush and capture the ROH TV Championship. It is Andretti’s first singles championship as a member of the Ring of Honor roster. In a Fight Without Honor match, Andretti did what he could to leave Rush bloodied and a little more broken than before he came into the ring. Andretti nailed a gnarly 450 splash on Rush through the table. Earlier in the night, The Outrunners (Truth Magnum and Turbo Floyd) and Dalton Castle put the ROH Six-Man Tag Team Championship on the line against Lethal Twist (Jay Lethal, Blake Christian, Lee Johnson). Christian was able to get the pinfall with the help of Lethal’s leverage on the outside. The intensity of the crowd felt familiar as the chants of "this is awesome," rang out through the arena consistently. Now, Ring of Honor looks toward the fall in what’s shaping up to be a solid end of the year for some of its key wrestlers. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a486f2c5335ae1049eb2f Judge denies Karmelo Anthony's bid for new trial after ex-lawyers detail dispute that kept him from testifying te 2026-08-23T01:10:07.043Z Judge denies Karmelo Anthony's bid for new trial after ex-lawyers detail dispute that kept him from testifying A Texas judge denied Karmelo Anthony a new trial Saturday, after his attorneys argued that courtroom restrictions, hearings held without Anthony present and the handling of an unwritten agreement between his former lawyers and prosecutors violated his rights. Retired District Judge Michael Chitty denied Anthony’s request after reviewing the motion, court record, evidence and arguments, briefs and relevant case law, according to his order. The order did not detail his reasoning for the decision. The decision leaves Anthony’s murder conviction and 35-year prison sentence in place. His challenge will continue on direct appeal. UNTAPPED KARMELO ANTHONY EVIDENCE CACHE SHOWED HE STALKED EX-GIRLFRIEND, HAD 'KNIVES' OBSESSION: PROSECUTORS Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis said his office expected the decision and remains confident in the case. "We respect, and expected, the court’s decision denying the motion for a new trial. The jury’s guilty verdict stands, and we remain confident in the process," his statement said.  "Every defendant has the right to appeal, and our thoughts and prayers remain with the Metcalf family in the painful wake of last week’s hearing." Chitty heard two days of testimony in McKinney, Texas, after Judge Sid Harle removed the judge who presided over Anthony’s murder trial, Judge John Roach, from the remaining trial court proceedings earlier this week. JUDGE DEFENDS BARRING CAMERAS FROM KARMELO ANTHONY MURDER TRIAL, SAYS IT WAS 'AN EASY DECISION' Harle found that a reasonable outside observer could question whether Roach appeared impartial after he publicly said the jury "got it right" and defended several of his trial decisions. At the center of the new trial hearing was an oral agreement between Anthony’s original defense attorneys and prosecutors to keep potentially damaging character evidence involving both sides from reaching the jury. KARMELO ANTHONY STAYS SILENT AS ANALYSTS WARN DEFENSE FACES UPHILL BATTLE IN TRACK MEET STABBING TRIAL Former lead defense attorney Mike Howard testified that he understood the agreement to allow Anthony to testify if he stayed focused on the confrontation under the tent at a Frisco track meet. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X On the final day of the trial, prosecutors told the defense the agreement would not apply if Anthony took the stand and that the defense had opened the door to character evidence. Howard said the dispute led to a heated break in the proceedings and made Anthony unwilling to testify. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS Under cross-examination, Howard acknowledged the lawyers never expressly agreed on whether a testifying defendant was covered by the arrangement. He also said he could not say whether prosecutors acted in bad faith. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Former defense attorney Toby Shook gave similar testimony Friday, saying the original defense team understood the agreement to include Anthony’s testimony about the confrontation. The position prosecutors took caught Shook off guard because the defense had always expected Anthony to take the stand in support of his self-defense claim. KARMELO ANTHONY BLASTS JUDGE IN NEW FILING OVER HANDLING OF MURDER TRIAL The defense also introduced a training presentation that lead prosecutor Bill Wirskye had used in continuing legal education courses on self-defense. One slide advised defense lawyers that the client "(probably) needs to testify."  GOT A TIP? During a break, the defense updated Anthony and explained that Roach said he could not enforce the unwritten agreement, Shook testified. That left Anthony unsure whether testifying would allow prosecutors to introduce character evidence the agreement was meant to keep out. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST Wirskye disputed that the agreement was broken. He said the lawyers never discussed the details of what it would allow if Anthony testified and that prosecutors remained willing to honor it. The state feared testimony from Anthony or his mother could inadvertently open the door to character evidence, Wirskye said. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL Chitty also considered claims that courtroom access restrictions violated Anthony’s Sixth Amendment right to a public trial and that jury instructions limited jurors’ ability to consider self-defense. Anthony, 19, was convicted in June of stabbing and killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during an altercation at a Frisco track meet. A Collin County jury sentenced Anthony to 35 years in prison. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a41682c5335ae1049e7d0 Hasan Piker sings mocking 'We Are Charlie Kirk' song at live podcast show te 2026-08-23T00:40:08.078Z Hasan Piker sings mocking 'We Are Charlie Kirk' song at live podcast show Far-left streamer Hasan Piker was seen and heard singing the meme song "We Are Charlie Kirk" at a stop of his "Fear& LIVE" tour over the weekend, drawing a strong reaction online. Leading a cheering crowd, Piker sang, "We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We'll fight for the Gospel, we'll honor his name," while his co-hosts could be seen laughing on stage. At one point, Piker could appear to be heard saying it was one of the most surreal moments of his life. Piker, in addition to his streaming on Twitch, co-hosts the weekly comedy and pop culture podcast "Fear&," along with three others. Their live show is on a West Coast swing that began Friday in San Francisco, where the video appeared to be shot, according to a photo Piker shared online of him and his co-hosts. The song, thought to be AI-generated, was released on Sept. 18, 2025, shortly after Kirk's assassination in Utah. It is in the style of a Christian power ballad, with lyrics like, "He spoke the truth when the cost was high / He lived for Jesus, unafraid to die." WHO IS HASAN PIKER? MEET THE FAR-LEFT STREAMER WHO IS STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY AND DIVIDING DEMOCRATS It is frequently used online in memes to mock Kirk and conservatives. Piker, who has become a political lightning rod for his controversial rhetoric and hard-left views, quickly went viral with the song that appeared to be mocking Kirk, who was revered by many on the political right for his founding of Turning Point USA and work in Republican politics. "Hasan Piker is engaging in pure, unadulterated evil," Turning Point spokesman Andrew Kolvet wrote on X. "Whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished. Proverbs 17:5." MARK HALPERIN CALLS HASAN PIKER A 'HORRIBLE PERSON’ AS DEMOCRATS FACE PRESSURE TO DISTANCE FROM STREAMER "He’s just a trash human being. Piker was supposed to debate Charlie Kirk a few days after he was assassinated. Piker actually talked about how much the shooting shook him. Now, he’s mocking it all for the pleasure of his loser fans," the Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross wrote. "[Hasan] Piker making fun of Charlie Kirk on stage… absolutely disgusting," another account wrote. Piker appeared to make a nod to the song after the show, posting a photo of the show with the caption, "carried the flame tn." One of the song's lyrics is, "We carry the flame." FLORIDA SOCIALIST ANGIE NIXON SAYS SHE DOESN'T ‘REALLY KNOW’ HASAN PIKER Piker also reposted an account going after his critics, which read, "The same conservatives crying over Hasan singing a meme song were openly celebrating the murder of American citizens. These people don’t care about anything." Kirk founded the conservative group Turning Point USA as a teenager and was known for his viral debates on college campuses, in addition to becoming a close ally of President Donald Trump and was a key figure in his 2024 re-election. Kirk also previously debated Piker on socialism. Piker's influence over the Democratic Party as democratic socialists are ascendant in the 2026 cycle has become one of the top media stories of the cycle. He has campaigned alongside several prominent candidates, including Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a41662c5335ae1049e7bc Mohave Accelerated football earns a win as River Valley falls in season openers te 2026-08-23T00:40:06.809Z Mohave Accelerated football earns a win as River Valley falls in season openers The football season began on Friday with Mohave Accelerated on the road and River Valley at home. The Patriots would get the win over Mogollon and the Dust Devils fell to a tough Crismon team. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a41662c5335ae1049e7b3 Desert Star gets commanding win on new field in season opener te 2026-08-23T00:40:06.013Z Desert Star gets commanding win on new field in season opener Desert Star hosted Pinecrest Academy-Cadence (NV) on Friday after the cancellation of the Kingman Academy season. The Titans came out of the gate strong and by the end, won 62-18. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a3f0f2c5335ae1049e765 Deshaun Watson booed by Browns fans, fires back after poor outing opens door for Shedeur Sanders te 2026-08-23T00:30:07.812Z Deshaun Watson booed by Browns fans, fires back after poor outing opens door for Shedeur Sanders Deshaun Watson and the Cleveland Browns fan base weren’t shy about showing their disdain for each other Saturday, even as the quarterback is locked in a competition with Shedeur Sanders for the starting job. So Watson is effectively fighting a two-front war now. Browns fans don't like that Watson has delivered only 19 touchdown passes in 19 games during his $230 million contract. They don't like that his time with the team has been punctuated by a suspension, a season-ending shoulder injury, a season-ending Achilles injury and another Achilles injury that kept him out all of last season. DESHAUN WATSON'S FIRST GAME SINCE 2024 A SUCCESS BECAUSE HE WASN'T AS BAD AS SHEDEUR SANDERS OR DILLON GABRIEL Watson is not their guy even though he's on their team. And in Watson's first game at Huntington Bank Field since 2024, he heard it from the fans as they booed him lustily. "It sucks," coach Todd Monken said of the fan reaction. Watson, meanwhile, made it clear that if Browns fans don't like him, the feeling is mutual. "It's a disrespectful thing," Watson said of the fan reaction. "So, yeah, I mean, I'm going to keep whatever I feel with me and my family internally on how I feel about that. "Last time I played on this field, I tore my Achilles. And that same fan base, they cheered when I got hurt. So what does that have to do with anything about performance when a person gets hurt, especially for your own city? "And they cheer." DESHAUN WATSON HARBORS NO ILL WILL TOWARD CLEVELAND AFTER COLLECTING $184M FOR 19 TDS IN FOUR SEASONS Watson said he's tried to earn the love of the Browns fans. He thought being effectively away with injuries, doing charity work in town and working hard to get back on the field would endear him to the fans. "I guess it hasn't," he added. "So that's why I say it's more, it's personal. It is what it is and there's only so much you can do to change that." That's a huge problem for Watson right now. But that's not his only issue. The fans who dislike him get an opinion from their seats and then they go home and nothing else happens. But Monken decides who will win the starting quarterback job between Watson and Sanders. And he thinks it is all definitely about performance. "They don't want to get booed, it's about playing good football," Monken said. "Let's play good quarterback. Let's play good on offense, play good as a team, and then you don't have to worry about all that. "When we play good football, everybody will be fine." So who played "good" this game? It was Sanders over Watson. The statistics clearly leaned to Sanders who completed 9 of 11 passes for 74 yards with 1 TD and 1 interception. Sanders started the game and played the entire first half, mostly with Cleveland's backups against Buffalo's backups. CLEVELAND BROWNS PLAYERS PUBLICLY BAPTIZED AT CLEVELAND FOR CHRIST EVENT IN POWERFUL DISPLAY OF FAITH Then Watson took over in the third quarter and played with second- and third-string guys against Buffalo's second- and third-string defenders, and he struggled. He completed 5 of 12 passes for 36 yards and threw an interception. Watson may have collected more boos than passing yards. Monken, with the help of other leadership within the Browns organization, wanted to pick a starter by the start of next week. That timetable is uncertain now. Watson only half-jokingly said that if he earns the job, he’ll feel like he’s playing 17 away games this coming season based on the reaction from Browns fans. That won’t necessarily happen because Monken said Sanders offered "a lot there to like" with his performance. "He plays with a certain amount of confidence," the coach added. "He has gotten a lot better at getting rid of the ball. He wants to make a play." And he didn't get booed by Browns fans, for what it's worth. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a3a602c5335ae1049e6f0 Connecticut police officers shot, suspect killed after attempted arrest sparks hectic chase te 2026-08-23T00:10:08.861Z Connecticut police officers shot, suspect killed after attempted arrest sparks hectic chase Two Connecticut police officers were shot, and a suspect was killed, after an attempted arrest led to a car chase and exchange of gunfire near Hartford late Friday, authorities said. Hartford police officers were investigating what the department described as illegal activity at about 11:07 p.m., when a male suspect ran from the scene. An officer chased the suspect and attempted to take him into custody. During a struggle, the officer felt what he believed was a gun in the suspect's waistband, according to Hartford police. The suspect managed to get into a car and drive away, prompting officers to chase him through the city as information about the vehicle was shared with surrounding police departments. TWO POLICE OFFICERS SHOT, SUSPECT 'ACTIVELY FIRING AT POLICE' IN SYRACUSE STANDOFF LASTING HOURS: REPORT The chase eventually reached Webster Court in Newington, a town south of Hartford near the Rocky Hill town line. After the suspect got out of the car, there was an exchange of gunfire that left two officers wounded and the suspect dead, police said. The wounded officers were identified as Hartford Police Officer Alex Diaz and Rocky Hill Police Officer Jon Escobar. Both officers were taken to a hospital following the shooting and were later released, according to local authorities. NYPD OFFICER SHOT, GUNMAN KILLED AFTER ARMED BARRICADED STANDOFF IN BROOKLYN: POLICE Hartford police said Diaz was released from the hospital Saturday and was recovering at home. A gun was recovered at the scene, police said. Authorities have not publicly identified the suspect or provided additional details about the activity Hartford officers were investigating before the attempted arrest. The circumstances surrounding the exchange of gunfire, including which officers fired their weapons, remain under investigation. The Connecticut Office of Inspector General is investigating the use of deadly force. Hartford police referred Fox News Digital's questions about the investigation to the Office of Inspector General. The Office of Inspector General did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. The investigation remains ongoing. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a3a5c2c5335ae1049e6d7 Violent Extremist Who Targeted Young People Online Is Sentenced to 77 Years te 2026-08-23T00:10:04.377Z Violent Extremist Who Targeted Young People Online Is Sentenced to 77 Years Kyle William Spitze was part of an online extremist movement that coerces young people to do self-harm, officials said. Two of his victims died by suicide. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a380e2c5335ae1049e69c Parker at Needles 8-21 (173).JPG te 2026-08-23T00:00:14.058Z Parker at Needles 8-21 (173).JPG Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a380d2c5335ae1049e693 Parker at Needles 8-21 (104).JPG te 2026-08-23T00:00:13.107Z Parker at Needles 8-21 (104).JPG Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a380c2c5335ae1049e68a Parker at Needles 8-21 (77).JPG te 2026-08-23T00:00:12.162Z Parker at Needles 8-21 (77).JPG Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a380a2c5335ae1049e681 Parker at Needles 8-21 (73).JPG te 2026-08-23T00:00:10.978Z Parker at Needles 8-21 (73).JPG Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a38092c5335ae1049e678 Parker at Needles 8-21 (63).JPG te 2026-08-23T00:00:09.500Z Parker at Needles 8-21 (63).JPG Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a33522c5335ae1049e5e5 ‘It’s Been Terrible’: Thousands in Indiana Remain Without Power te 2026-08-22T23:40:02.954Z ‘It’s Been Terrible’: Thousands in Indiana Remain Without Power Gov. Mike Braun called on the local utility to “match the urgency” of Gary area residents who have had to endure an outage approaching its second week. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a31002c5335ae1049e5a9 Sydney Sweeney sizzles in Wonder Woman corset costume as she soaks up summer romance with Scooter Braun te 2026-08-22T23:30:08.469Z Sydney Sweeney sizzles in Wonder Woman corset costume as she soaks up summer romance with Scooter Braun Sydney Sweeney is turning up the heat with her superhero alter ego. The "Euphoria" star channeled iconic "Wonder Woman" actress Lynda Carter as she and boyfriend Scooter Braun turned a lakeside escape into a superhero-themed affair in her latest social media post. The Instagram carousel offered a peek at the couple's summer getaway, with Sweeney posing in a Wonder Woman-inspired corset costume and coordinating headband alongside Braun in his Superman getup. SYDNEY SWEENEY AND SCOOTER BRAUN TAKE THEIR RED-HOT ROMANCE TO THE STREETS OF NEW YORK Carter, of course, played the iconic DC Comics superhero in the popular TV series from 1975 to 1979. In one video, Sweeney, 28, balanced on an inflatable water obstacle course as Braun, 45, rode a jet ski nearby. Other snapshots showed the couple swimming, soaking up the sun and singing karaoke. Sweeney gave fans a glimpse of the playful outing on Saturday, Aug. 22, captioning the post, "Camp '26," alongside a superhero emoji. SYDNEY SWEENEY POSES IN LINGERIE FOR RACY NEW MIRROR SELFIE PHOTOS The playful getaway comes as Sweeney and Braun continue to put their relationship front and center. SYDNEY SWEENEY FIRES BACK AT 'EUPHORIA' CRITICS WITH PROVOCATIVE BEHIND-THE-SCENES PHOTOS Earlier this summer, Braun gave fans another glimpse of their relationship during a New York City date night, filming the pair as they rode Citi Bikes. "When you’re in bed at 11pm and your girl says 'I’ve never been to Times Square….'" he wrote alongside the video. The music executive also captured Sweeney grabbing a bite at Shake Shack during the outing. Braun has made no secret of his feelings for the actress. SYDNEY SWEENEY KICKS OFF STAGECOACH WEEKEND WITH DUET ALONGSIDE BAILEY ZIMMERMAN AS LINGERIE WAR HEATS UP During an appearance on the "Second Thought" podcast, he described Sweeney in glowing terms. "I've met an extraordinary woman, kind and generous and smart and real and down to earth," he said. He also called their relationship "one of the biggest surprises ever." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE The pair first fueled romance speculation after being photographed together in 2025. They were spotted at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos' wedding in Venice, Italy, and continued to make appearances together into 2026. Sweeney and Braun made their relationship Instagram official May 1 after attending Stagecoach together. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "cowboy kind of weekend," Sweeney captioned the photos. The relationship began months after Sweeney called off her engagement to film producer Jonathan Davino in March 2025. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Braun was previously married to entrepreneur and activist Yael Cohen. Their divorce was finalized in 2022, and they share three children. Sweeney, meanwhile, has continued to skyrocket to fame in Hollywood since breaking out on HBO's "Euphoria" and earning critical attention for her work on "The White Lotus." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a2ea82c5335ae1049e56c Alex Palou takes pole for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix with a chance to lock up the championship te 2026-08-22T23:20:08.742Z Alex Palou takes pole for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix with a chance to lock up the championship After months of build-up and anticipation, we now know who will lead the field to green in the Freedom 250 Grand Prix. That honor — in what could be the only running of this race — goes to four-time series champion Alex Palou. After an interesting day of practice that saw drivers familiarizing themselves with the tricky, seven-corner Freedom 250 Grand Prix Circuit around the streets of Washington, D.C., it was time to bolt on some red alternate Firestone tires for some high-speed runs. HERE ARE 5 DRIVERS TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS INDYCAR HITS THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON FOR FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX In the first group — which had some serious heavy-hitters in it — several drivers clipped the wall, including Marcus Ericsson, Rinus VeeKay and Will Power. The big stunner was Ed Carpenter Racing's Alexander Rossi, who made an early exit after looking solid all day long. Andretti Global's Kyle Kirkwood topped the group with a 56.773, followed by Meyer Shank Racing's Marcus Armstrong and Chip Ganassi Racing's Alex Palou, who can clinch a fifth career IndyCar title if he leaves the District of Columbia with a 163-point lead in the standings. Unusually, the fastest time, which belonged to Team Penske's David Malukas, would not have been fast enough to get into the second round had he been in the first group. DRIVERS JOSEF NEWGARDEN AND KYLE KIRKWOOD TALK INDYCAR'S 'ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME' FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX Scott Dixon looked like he was on the verge of topping the group, but his Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Kyffin Simpson brought out a red flag, throwing out Dixon's lap. In the second round, Kirkwood topped the group with a 56.829 and moved on with Scott McLaughlin, Alex Palou, Marcus Armstrong (who hit the wall out of Turn 7 on his fastest lap), David Malukas and Christian Rasmussen, who turned in a really strong performance to get into the Fast 6, which features single-car qualifying. All six drivers opted for red alternate tires with Kirkwood's team opting to run first. On his run, the Jupiter, Florida, native had a moment into Turn 1 but held it together and finished the lap. His 57.466 was well off his fastest times of the day. Next was Alex Palou, who seemed to have his car on the absolute limit into the first corner, but managed to drop a 56.899, beating Kirkwood by four tenths. And that was the time that stood. Palou — with a chance to lock up the title — will start from pole on Sunday alongside Kirkwood in second, followed by McLaughlin and Rasmussen on row 2. Now it all comes down to a grueling 250 miles around the National Mall. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a2ea42c5335ae1049e55a Judge Denies New Trial for Karmelo Anthony in Texas Teen’s Killing te 2026-08-22T23:20:04.537Z Judge Denies New Trial for Karmelo Anthony in Texas Teen’s Killing Mr. Anthony, 19, was convicted of murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet last year. His lawyers are appealing the case. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a2c522c5335ae1049e52c Trump plan taps US firms to fight foreign cybercrime te 2026-08-22T23:10:10.493Z Trump plan taps US firms to fight foreign cybercrime Most of the time, when I warn you about cybercriminals, I focus on how you can stop them before they get into your accounts or steal your money. Now the U.S. government wants to take the fight closer to some foreign criminal organizations behind cyber-enabled crime. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum that creates a framework for vetted private U.S. companies to conduct cyber operations against certain foreign criminal groups. The federal government would direct and oversee those operations. The memorandum allows two broad types of activity. Companies could secretly collect intelligence from targeted computer systems. With federal approval, they could also manipulate, disrupt, deny access to, degrade or destroy systems and digital infrastructure that targeted criminal organizations control. So, what could these companies actually do, and what could this new approach mean for you? New! Free live CyberGuy class: Protect Your Money From Today’s Biggest Threats Join us on Saturday, Aug, 29, at 10 a.m. ET for a free CyberGuy LIVE class covering five simple steps to help defend yourself against AI scams, fraud, identity theft and financial hacks. Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson will explain how to set up bank alerts, strengthen your account logins, protect your phone number, freeze your credit and help secure your retirement savings against unauthorized transfers. No technical experience is needed. You’ll also receive our financial protection checklist, and every registrant will get a link to the class recording afterward. Reserve your free spot today at CyberGuyLive.com. FRAUD EXPERT WARNS AI IS HELPING CRIMINALS OUTPACE THE GOVERNMENT: 'DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TOOLS' Cybercrime continues to cost Americans staggering amounts of money. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 1,008,597 complaints in 2025, with reported losses reaching $20.877 billion. Those losses were up 26% from 2024. The White House says foreign-based criminal organizations are responsible for sophisticated campaigns involving ransomware, phishing, financial fraud and impersonation scams targeting Americans and U.S. interests. Technology is making some of those attacks increasingly difficult to recognize. As I've previously reported, AI is helping criminals create more convincing impersonation scams and other cyberattacks. Stolen personal information can also keep circulating after the original crime. That is one reason identity theft victims may find themselves targeted again. The new program is designed to give the federal government another way to pursue certain foreign criminal organizations involved in cyber-enabled crime. [EMBARGO] META LEADS LARGEST-EVER ANTI-SCAM OPERATION WITH FBI AND DOJ, RESULTING IN 63 ARRESTS The memorandum establishes two broad types of operations that participating companies could conduct under federal authority. One is called a Cyber Surveillance Operation. That can involve secretly accessing targeted computer systems to collect information or intelligence. The memorandum says these operations are carried out with the intent to remain undetected and may involve accessing systems without authorization from the owner or operator. The second is called a Cyber Effects Operation. Those operations can manipulate or disrupt information systems. They can also deny access, degrade systems or destroy information and infrastructure controlled through those systems. However, this does not give private companies permission to start hacking suspected criminals on their own. Companies participating in the program must be accepted by the government and enter into contractual agreements with either the Department of Justice or Department of Homeland Security. Operations conducted through the program must happen on behalf of the federal government and under its supervision. The program's DOJ and DHS executive directors must review cyber operations packages and provide written approval and direction before a participating company can act. Companies will also face vetting requirements. Those standards can examine technical proficiency, past cyber operations, facility security, personnel vetting and reliability. The rules must allow both large companies and smaller companies that may be better suited for specialized operations to participate. DOJ or DHS may also require a participating company to maintain a bond or escrow account of at least $1 million. The money could be forfeited if the company violates its contractual agreement. The memorandum does not identify any companies that will participate. GLOBAL PARTNERS ARE JOINING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND THIS FBI TO TAKE DOWN SCAM EMPIRES FOR GOOD The program isn’t written to target anyone suspected of committing a cybercrime. The memorandum defines the targets as Cyber-Enabled Transnational Criminal Organizations, or CE-TCOs. These are foreign groups that conduct cyber-enabled crimes against the U.S. government, Americans or U.S. interests. The definition excludes organizations that are an institutional part of a foreign government or wholly operated under a foreign government's direction. That boundary is important because the operations being authorized can be highly intrusive. The memorandum includes safeguards for operations that accidentally move outside their approved boundaries. If a participating company discovers that an operation has unintentionally targeted a U.S. person, a system located in the United States or a system controlled by a U.S. person, it must stop the operation. The company must also carry out required minimization procedures and immediately notify the National Coordination Center, which must notify the Justice Department. Operations involving a U.S. person or other constitutional, federal law or international law concerns must also go through a Justice Department review and receive any required authorization before approval. There is another major restriction involving what the memorandum calls a Critical Outcome. An operation reaches that threshold if it is likely to result in loss of life or serious injury, or rise to the level of a use of force or armed attack under international law. The DOJ and DHS officials running the program are not allowed to approve operations that would produce those Critical Outcomes. The public memorandum does not spell out what would happen beyond that point. The memorandum creates the framework for the program, but many of its operating procedures still need to be established. Program leaders have 60 days from Aug. 12 to develop rules governing how it will operate. Those procedures must address company eligibility, targeting, legal review, reporting and federal oversight. Participating companies must also be evaluated for continued participation at least once every year. Within 180 days, program leaders must produce a status report for the White House homeland security adviser and the National Cyber Director. Additional reports are required annually after that. So, the overall framework is now in place. The detailed rules governing how these operations will actually work are still being developed. You do not need to sign up for anything or change a setting because of this new policy. The potential impact is happening much farther behind the scenes. The program would give the federal government another way to pursue certain foreign cybercriminal organizations. Approved operations could gather intelligence or disrupt systems and infrastructure controlled by those groups. At the same time, participating private companies would be carrying out powerful cyber operations under federal direction. How those operations are controlled will depend heavily on the procedures now being written. For you, your own cybersecurity habits remain as important as ever. If you suspect someone has already gotten into one of your devices, here are the steps I recommend taking if your computer has been hacked. I've spent years showing you how to defend yourself when cybercriminals come after your money, identity or devices. What catches my attention here is the government's attempt to put more pressure on some of the foreign criminal organizations carrying out these attacks. If federal officials approve operations that disrupt criminal infrastructure or produce useful intelligence, those efforts could add another layer to the defensive steps Americans already take. There are also plenty of reasons to watch how this develops. Secretly accessing or disrupting somebody else's computer systems can have serious consequences if an operation reaches the wrong target. The memorandum requires federal approval, legal review and operational safeguards. Now I want to see what the final rules look like and how closely federal officials supervise participating companies once operations begin. Would you feel safer knowing vetted U.S. companies could help the government disrupt foreign cybercriminals, or does giving private companies this kind of role make you uneasy? 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/6a8a2c502c5335ae1049e51d Parker at Needles 8-21 (34).JPG te 2026-08-22T23:10:08.685Z Parker at Needles 8-21 (34).JPG Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a2c4f2c5335ae1049e514 Parker at Needles 8-21 (30).JPG te 2026-08-22T23:10:07.807Z Parker at Needles 8-21 (30).JPG Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a2c4f2c5335ae1049e50a Photos: Needles football home opener vs Parker Aug. 21, 2026 te 2026-08-22T23:10:07.056Z Photos: Needles football home opener vs Parker Aug. 21, 2026 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a2c4e2c5335ae1049e501 Mohave Accelerated, Desert Star football earn wins as River Valley falls in season openers te 2026-08-22T23:10:06.035Z Mohave Accelerated, Desert Star football earn wins as River Valley falls in season openers The football season began for three teams on Friday with Mohave Accelerated on the road and Desert Star and River Valley at home. The Patriots and Titans came away with wins but the Dust Devils fell. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a29f82c5335ae1049e4c4 Massachusetts fishermen land 1,260-pound blue marlin, just short of world record te 2026-08-22T23:00:08.386Z Massachusetts fishermen land 1,260-pound blue marlin, just short of world record Two Massachusetts fishermen spent three hours fighting to reel in what they at first thought was a shark, but turned out to be likely the largest Atlantic blue marlins ever caught off the East Coast. Damon Stacco said the day started off with no luck, then after he and client Walter Chapman loaded up the boat with yellowfin tuna, he saw a fin while fishing roughly 100 miles off Cape Cod. A "huge dorsal," he wrote on his Instagram page. "Am I really seeing this? Four feet high but pointed. A blue hue flashed beneath it. Pecs? Holy s--- it's a marlin! The fin dissappeared [sic] when I screamed. I dropped back the rod beside me and the tip bounced. Line ripped from beneath my fingers." TENNESSEE ANGLER LANDS MONSTER 15-POUND LARGEMOUTH BASS THAT SHATTERS STATE RECORD HELD SINCE 2015 He told reporters he at first thought the fish was "too big" to be a marlin. "Well, it’s official," he wrote on Instagram on the Wednesday catch, explaining that the fish weighed in at 1,260 pounds on an IGFA certified scale in Falmouth. 8-YEAR-OLD BOY REELS IN BIZARRE SURPRISE DURING WEEKEND FISHING TRIP AT PENNSYLVANIA LAKE He called it a "gift from the Gods and new blue marlin Mass. state record and possibly for the Western Atlantic." It was also just 142 pounds short of the world record, which was a 1,402 Atlantic blue marlin caught off Brazil 34 years ago. Stacco said Chapman did most of the work on his charter boat, Castafari, joking that his job was to "drive the bus around and yell at people." 8-YEAR-OLD BOY REELS IN BIZARRE SURPRISE DURING WEEKEND FISHING TRIP AT PENNSYLVANIA LAKE Walt Golet, director of the University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab, said the catch in waters off Massachusetts is even more remarkable because the water is too cold most of the year. Golet estimated the fish might be 25 to 30 years old as its head was taken to his lab for confirmation. SHARK WEEK ADVISORY AS WARMING SEAS PUSH BLACKTIPS FARTHER NORTH ALONG EAST COAST "I don’t suspect there will be a whole lot of blue marlin caught in the Atlantic in general that are going to top 1,200 pounds for the next several years," he said. Stacco said the fish also left some holes in the boat’s transom, which he called "war marks." Chapman, who is also a lifelong fisherman, said the meat would be divided among about a dozen people. "I wasn't going to eat a 1,200-pound fish all by myself," he said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a22ee2c5335ae1049e3fd Seen in Havasu: Locals enjoy evening at free Iron Wolf pool party te 2026-08-22T22:30:06.887Z Seen in Havasu: Locals enjoy evening at free Iron Wolf pool party The Iron Wolf Golf and Country Club greeted visitors and locals on Friday, during a weekly pool party at the venue. The event features live music, food and refreshments, as well as games and tournaments for those in attendance. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a20982c5335ae1049e21e Mark Ruffalo fires back at Paramount over 'appalling' antisemitism accusation tied to Ellison merger criticism te 2026-08-22T22:20:08.853Z Mark Ruffalo fires back at Paramount over 'appalling' antisemitism accusation tied to Ellison merger criticism Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo hit back against accusations that his criticism of the Ellison family's proposed Warner Bros. Discovery merger amounted to antisemitism, responding to Paramount in a statement to Fox News Digital. "The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest," Ruffalo said Saturday. "Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life," he added. PARAMOUNT ACCUSES MARK RUFFALO OF INVOKING 'ANTISEMITIC TROPES' IN WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY MERGER DISPUTE The Marvel actor's remarks came after a Paramount spokesperson accused Ruffalo of injecting "antisemitic tropes" into what it described as a corporate dispute. The accusation came after Ruffalo reposted video remarks of Paramount board member Safra Catz appearing to tout the "really profoundly scary technologies" the Larry Ellison co-founded company Oracle used to assist the Israeli military following the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. Ruffalo wrote of Oracle, "This is the company that Larry Ellison is using to fund his son David's Warner Bros acquisition." "These 'really profoundly scary technologies' will most likely be merged into one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and one day used on you. Look how she revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle," he added in part. A spokesperson for Paramount fired back, writing, "[The company is] troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute," according to Variety. ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE REACHES DEADLIEST LEVEL SINCE 1994, NEW GLOBAL REPORT FINDS "Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe." The spokesperson added that the company does not "tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone." The Marvel actor's response to the company on Saturday went on to discuss the "real consequences" of the merger, both for the people who would feel its immediate effects as well as the country at-large. "Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary," he said. CALIFORNIA AG ROB BONTA FACES ‘POLITICAL FAVOR’ CLAIMS OVER NETFLIX-LINKED $1M TRAIL IN PARAMOUNT SUIT "The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede." The potential merger at the center of the dispute is being challenged by a coalition of 12 state attorneys general, and the companies have agreed not to close the deal until June 1, 2027, or until after a court decision on the states' claims, whichever comes first. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a1be92c5335ae1049e038 Flock Safety CEO calls for national 'compromise' amid camera sabotage and public revolt te 2026-08-22T22:00:09.608Z Flock Safety CEO calls for national 'compromise' amid camera sabotage and public revolt Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley addressed balancing privacy and safety amid Americans' oversight concerns in an interview Saturday with Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany. From destroyed camera poles to viral signs blocking surveillance lenses, Americans are pushing back against neighborhood surveillance cameras. Automated license plate readers, known as Flock cameras, are used by law enforcement in dozens of states to record vehicle data that can aid criminal investigations, but residents in communities with the cameras have raised concerns about privacy and potential misuse by law enforcement. The pushback has even reached Capitol Hill, where Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proposed banning the technology outright and Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., has pushed to cut federal funding for local installations. LICENSE PLATE CAMERAS ARE TRACKING DRIVERS EVERYWHERE Speaking on "Saturday in America," Langley argued the technology is vital for safety and called for compromise. "When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they're prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise," Langley told Fox News. "How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?" SIGNALTRACE CAN LINK DEVICE SIGNALS TO YOUR CAR Flock Safety’s website describes the tools as "technology that helps communities deter crime, respond to emergencies, and investigate safety incidents." The company's website states that it aims to balance public safety and privacy. Some opponents have taken their concerns directly to the cameras. Earlier in August, Fox News correspondent Danamarie McNicholl reported on a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, who held a "Down with the Flock" sign in front of a camera lens as a form of peaceful protest. ‘DARTH VADER’ USES DARK SIDE TO MOCK CONTROVERSIAL SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS: 'THE EMPEROR IS A FAN OF FLOCK' "My biggest concern is I don’t want people to know where I go and when I go. That’s my business, not anyone else’s," Carl Gunn told McNicholl. Flock cameras have also been reported vandalized or stolen in New York, Minnesota, California and Illinois. Langley said the issue is not so black and white, noting that Flock has helped law enforcement in over a million investigations and helped locate more than 10,000 missing people. LICENSE PLATE CAMERAS AT HOME DEPOT AND LOWE’S SPARK PRIVACY FEARS He said the company is focused on ensuring the technology is used for good, including by recommending seven-day data retention limits and holding those who misuse the system accountable. "Today, it is too often that in Flock and in other technologies, there's no regulation. There's no accountability, and we think that's wrong," Langley said. "We announced changes that required auditing, that required using our audit assistance tool, which detects abnormal behavior, and we're calling on state regulators to focus less on banning this type of technology and more [on] holding our law enforcement community accountable," he said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a1be82c5335ae1049e02f Nancy Kassebaum Baker, trailblazing GOP senator who broke barriers for women in Congress, dead at 94 te 2026-08-22T22:00:08.782Z Nancy Kassebaum Baker, trailblazing GOP senator who broke barriers for women in Congress, dead at 94 Former Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker of Kansas, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without previously having a husband serve in Congress, died Friday at 94. Her son, Bill Kassebaum, told The Associated Press that she died of natural causes. "She loved Kansas. She loved people from Kansas and representing Kansas for 18 years in the U.S. Senate," he told AP. "She was an independent-minded Republican who was willing to stand up for what she thought was right, even if that meant going against the party." Kassebaum Baker won election to the Senate in 1978 and served three terms before leaving office in 1997. The daughter of former Kansas Gov. Alf Landon, the Republican Party's unsuccessful 1936 presidential nominee, she built a reputation as a moderate Republican willing to break with her party. TRAILBLAZING FORMER REPUBLICAN REP KAY GRANGER DIES AT 83: 'BROKE BARRIERS' Her election brought immediate national attention. By the time she announced her retirement, she was one of eight women serving in the Senate and the only woman chairing a Senate committee. Kassebaum Baker also developed a reputation for working across party lines. A landmark 1996 health insurance law bore her name alongside that of Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy. Her political independence occasionally put her at odds with conservatives. She supported an assault weapons ban backed by then-President Bill Clinton and said the vote generated the angriest mail of her Senate career. Kassebaum Baker remained highly popular in Kansas, winning re-election with 76% of the vote in 1984 and 74% in 1990. LINDSEY GRAHAM'S SISTER CARRIES ON LATE SENATOR'S WORK, BECOMING SOUTH CAROLINA'S FIRST FEMALE SENATOR She married former Republican Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee in 1996, shortly before leaving the Senate. It marked the first marriage between a man and woman who had both served in the Senate. Howard Baker, who served as President Ronald Reagan's chief of staff and later as U.S. ambassador to Japan under President George W. Bush, died in 2014. Kassebaum Baker continued public service after leaving Congress, including serving on a bipartisan commission on campaign finance reform during the Clinton administration. Later in life, she increasingly broke with the Republican Party's direction and endorsed Democrats in several Kansas races, including Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. FEDERAL APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS CONTROVERSIAL ILLINOIS BAN ON SEMIAUTOMATIC GUNS She also called for President Donald Trump's impeachment following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. "This just has gone too far," she told Kansas City's KMBC at the time. Despite her decades in national politics, Kassebaum Baker maintained a close identification with Kansas. Before leaving for Japan during her husband's ambassadorship, she reflected on what she would miss. "All I can say is, I will miss the Kansas prairie," she said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a19902c5335ae1049dff4 ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ star John Schneider admits he lied his way into iconic Bo Duke role at 18 te 2026-08-22T21:50:08.159Z ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ star John Schneider admits he lied his way into iconic Bo Duke role at 18 John Schneider didn't exactly follow the traditional path to Hollywood stardom. At just 18 years old, the New York native convinced producers of "The Dukes of Hazzard" that he was a 24-year-old Georgia farm boy with racing experience — and somehow, the gamble paid off. "I told them, I said, 'Look, I'm 24 years old from Snailville, Georgia. I grew up on a farm, and I just came in first in my class at the Georgia School of High Performance Driving.’ Which did not exist… You couldn't ask your phone if this place existed." ‘DUKES OF HAZZARD’ STAR JOHN SCHNEIDER BREAKS SILENCE ON EX-WIFE'S COURT BATTLE: 'EVERYTHING'S A NEGOTIATION' The wild confession came as Schneider looked back on his unlikely rise to television fame during an appearance on "Arroyo Grande with Raymond Arroyo." "I learned a long time ago, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression," Schneider said. "I gave them exactly what I thought they wanted." "Yeah, they were looking for good old boys from the rural South, 24 to 30, with no acting experience, but a lot of racing experience." Schneider checked almost none of those boxes. ‘BRADY BUNCH’ STAR SHARES THE SIMPLE WORD THAT SAVED HER FROM HOLLYWOOD TRAPS "And of course, I was 18, from Westchester County, New York… I've done theater for 10 years." "Years later, I found out that one of the producers was — his opinion was, ‘Over my dead body is this hick going to have anything to do with my television show.’" Another producer, however, saw something the first one didn't. JOHN SCHNEIDER BLASTS CLAIMS THE AMERICAN FLAG IS A 'DIVISIVE SYMBOL': 'THESE PEOPLE ARE OUT OF THEIR MINDS' "But the other one, thankfully, who had a little bit more juice, said, ‘That's him. That's Bo Duke.’" "He and I finally won that argument… that was 1978." Schneider's story was so audacious that Arroyo had to ask the obvious question: Was it "nerve" or "desperation"? "What's the difference?" Schneider laughed. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE For Schneider, it was neither. "When the smoke clears, no… it was where preparation meets opportunity." And the actor had already been studying Hollywood's biggest opportunities. "You know, I recognized ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ had just beaten all the box office records in ’77 until ‘Star Wars’ came along." But Schneider's connection to the Burt Reynolds classic was even more improbable. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE He was living in Atlanta at the time and wanted to get onto the set. "I was, but I wasn't supposed to be… I acted, some people would say — or lied, some other people would say — my way onto that set as well." Schneider laughed off the admission, explaining that he has always operated with an expectation that something big could happen. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "So, I guess… it was not desperation. It was just, I’ve always, for some reason, expected great opportunity every day." "The Dukes of Hazzard" premiered in 1979 and followed "the fast-drivin’, rubber-burnin’ Duke boys of Hazzard County." The series ran for seven seasons and 147 episodes, becoming a massive Friday-night ratings draw and at one point attracting as many as 40 million viewers. Schneider went on to become synonymous with Bo Duke, later appearing in projects including "Smallville." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a198a2c5335ae1049dfd5 Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors te 2026-08-22T21:50:02.125Z Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a12872c5335ae1049dae5 Reality star accused of upstaging bride with ‘too close to white’ gown at son’s wedding te 2026-08-22T21:20:07.626Z Reality star accused of upstaging bride with ‘too close to white’ gown at son’s wedding A reality-television star sparked an online firestorm after appearing to wear white to her son’s wedding. Dolores Catania, known for her role on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," posted several photos of herself wearing what was described as a pale blue, dramatically embellished gown at her son Frank Catania Jr.’s wedding to Nicole Perricho in Portugal. COURTHOUSE WEDDINGS ARE BOOMING AS MANY COUPLES SKIP PRICEY TRADITIONAL CEREMONIES A post in the BravoRealHousewives subreddit titled "Dolores wore white to her son’s wedding" drew hundreds of comments about the apparent etiquette faux pas. "Of course she did," a Redditor commented. "She wanted to upstage the bride…" "She’s already the ‘TV personality,’ the least she could do is try to dress subtle and keep a low profile to give the girl her day. But alas, monster-in-law it is," wrote another. "I mean, I expected nothing less," someone else commented. "Not a good look," wrote another commenter. Several Reddit users argued that the dress was not, in fact, white, while others said it was too close to white to be acceptable. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "It looks like it has a hint of green, but here’s my thing, WHY do you need to wear something so close to white on this day?" someone wrote. "Any other color isn’t good enough at someone else’s wedding?" "It wasn’t white, it was like a light blue," a Redditor wrote. "Personally, I stay away from pale colors like that for weddings because they can photograph white like this." "Not defending it at all, it’s definitely way too close to white on any day….but it looks a little silver to me?" another user wrote, prompting a response that said, "As an experienced TV personality, she should know how things photograph. She wanted the limelight, end of story." White became the standard color for Western bridal gowns relatively recently. Before the mid-19th century, many Western brides simply wore the best dress they owned, often one they had worn before, according to History.com. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS In 1840, however, Queen Victoria captured the public’s attention when she wore a white satin gown to marry Prince Albert, according to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Before that, Western brides commonly wore gowns in a range of colors and patterns. "Due partly to economic progress and the rise of the middle classes, by the late 1800s, the white wedding gown became the expected choice for most brides," the museum reports. As for the bride herself, the Emily Post Institute says, "Today, if you choose a dress that is not a shade of white, you aren't breaking a rule of etiquette. However, when considering veering from the tradition, recognize that your choice may draw attention away from the purpose of the day or be upsetting to others from older generations." Post advises brides to "take into account the big picture (both your personal taste and its effect on others) when making this important decision." When it comes to guest attire, traditional wedding etiquette holds that guests should avoid upstaging the bride and generally steer clear of white. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Wedding-planning site The Knot recommends that guests check the couple’s wedding website for information about the wedding party’s colors and consult the invitation for details about the dress code. Etiquette expert Diane Gottsman has said gold can be appropriate for the mother of the bride as long as the dress "doesn’t look like you are the one getting married," and the bride approves. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a102f2c5335ae1049daa5 Judge rules on Karmelo Anthony new-trial bid after ex-lawyers detail dispute that kept him from testifying te 2026-08-22T21:10:07.021Z Judge rules on Karmelo Anthony new-trial bid after ex-lawyers detail dispute that kept him from testifying A Texas judge denied Karmelo Anthony a new trial on Saturday, after his attorneys argued that courtroom restrictions, hearings held without Anthony present and the handling of an unwritten agreement between his former lawyers and prosecutors violated his rights. Retired District Judge Michael Chitty denied Anthony’s request after reviewing the motion, court record, evidence and arguments, briefs and relevant case law, according to his order. The order did not detail his reasoning for the decision. The decision leaves Anthony’s murder conviction and 35-year prison sentence in place. His challenge will continue on direct appeal. UNTAPPED KARMELO ANTHONY EVIDENCE CACHE SHOWED HE STALKED EX-GIRLFRIEND, HAD 'KNIVES' OBSESSION: PROSECUTORS Chitty heard two days of testimony in McKinney, Texas, after Judge Sid Harle removed the judge who presided over Anthony’s murder trial, Judge John Roach, from the remaining trial-court proceedings earlier this week. JUDGE DEFENDS BARRING CAMERAS FROM KARMELO ANTHONY MURDER TRIAL, SAYS IT WAS 'AN EASY DECISION' Harle found that a reasonable outside observer could question whether Roach appeared impartial after he publicly said the jury "got it right" and defended several of his trial decisions. At the center of the new-trial hearing was an oral agreement between Anthony’s original defense attorneys and prosecutors to keep potentially damaging character evidence involving both sides from reaching the jury. KARMELO ANTHONY STAYS SILENT AS ANALYSTS WARN DEFENSE FACES UPHILL BATTLE IN TRACK MEET STABBING TRIAL Former lead defense attorney Mike Howard testified that he understood the agreement to allow Anthony to testify if he stayed focused on the confrontation under the tent at a Frisco track meet. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X On the final day of trial, prosecutors told the defense that the agreement would not apply if Anthony took the stand and that the defense had opened the door to character evidence. Howard said the dispute led to a heated break in the proceedings and made Anthony unwilling to testify. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS Under cross-examination, Howard acknowledged the lawyers never expressly agreed on whether a testifying defendant was covered by the arrangement. He also said he could not say whether prosecutors acted in bad faith. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Former defense attorney Toby Shook gave similar testimony Friday, saying the original defense team understood the agreement to include Anthony’s testimony about the confrontation. The position prosecutors took caught Shook off guard because the defense had always expected Anthony to take the stand in support of his self-defense claim. KARMELO ANTHONY BLASTS JUDGE IN NEW FILING OVER HANDLING OF MURDER TRIAL The defense also introduced a training presentation that lead prosecutor Bill Wirske had used in continuing legal education courses on self-defense. One slide advised defense lawyers that the client "(probably) needs to testify." GOT A TIP? During a break, the defense updated Anthony and explained that Roach said he could not enforce the unwritten agreement, Shook testified. That left Anthony unsure whether testifying would allow prosecutors to introduce character evidence the agreement was meant to keep out. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST Wirske disputed that the agreement was broken. He said the lawyers never discussed the details of what it would allow if Anthony testified and that prosecutors remained willing to honor it. The state feared testimony from Anthony or his mother could inadvertently open the door to character evidence, Wirske said. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL Chitty also considered claims that courtroom-access restrictions violated Anthony’s Sixth Amendment right to a public trial and that jury instructions limited jurors’ ability to consider self-defense. Anthony, 19, was convicted in June of stabbing and killing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during an altercation at a Frisco track meet. A Collin County jury sentenced Anthony to 35 years in prison. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a09262c5335ae1049d9d2 Federal judge blasts Rubio’s 75-country visa freeze as ‘Orwellian,’ strikes down policy te 2026-08-22T20:40:06.462Z Federal judge blasts Rubio’s 75-country visa freeze as ‘Orwellian,’ strikes down policy A federal judge struck down the Trump administration’s freeze on immigrant visas from 75 countries Friday, ruling Secretary of State Marco Rubio lacked the legal authority to order denials for applicants otherwise found eligible to enter the United States. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, a Biden appointee in Manhattan, vacated the State Department policy and any visa refusals based solely on it, directing the government to revisit those cases. "The Court holds that the Policy is contrary to law and was issued in excess of Secretary Rubio’s statutory authority, Vargas wrote in her 61-page opinion. The State Department enacted the policy in January, suspending immigrant-visa issuance to nationals of 75 countries the department deemed at high risk of becoming dependent on public benefits. The list spans Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. BOASBERG DELIVERS FRESH IMMIGRATION SETBACK TO TRUMP IN FREE-SPEECH CLASH Rubio’s policy told consular officers to review each applicant individually. But even applicants who passed that review, showed "additional evidence that demonstrates he or she overcomes the public charge refusal" and had no other reason to be denied were still refused visas if they came from one of the 75 designated countries. "While the Policy permits consular officers to exercise their normal functions up to a point, whatever determinations they make as to eligibility for the applicants subject to the Policy are ultimately irrelevant," Vargas wrote. "The outcome is predetermined. The visa will be refused." The judge said the directive effectively imposed a nationality-based ban on immigrants from nearly 40% of the world’s countries and sidelined the consular officers Congress charged with deciding whether individual applicants qualify for visas. FEDERAL JUDGE STRIKES DOWN TRUMP’S $100K H-1B VISA FEE, RULING IT AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL TAX "The Policy thus displaces consular officers from the role Congress assigned them in the visa issuance process," Vargas wrote. "In addition to its other defects, the Policy also exceeds the statutory authority that the INA vests in the Secretary of State," Vargas continued. "Specifically, Secretary Rubio’s Cable directing consular officers that they 'must refuse' immigrant visas to nationals of certain countries cannot be reconciled with Congress’s express limitation on his authority as Secretary of State." The Trump administration argued the refusals were lawful because officers formally issued them under Section 221(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, an existing provision governing visa refusals. Vargas rejected that rationale, saying the government had failed to identify a law allowing an officer to deny a visa to an applicant already found eligible. "The Government engages in what is best described as an exercise in Orwellian logic," Vargas wrote. She found the policy violated the INA’s bar on nationality-based discrimination in immigrant-visa issuance, as well as provisions allowing visa refusals only when an applicant is legally ineligible. The administration’s approach, she wrote, drew "pernicious distinctions based upon nationality." Vargas also rejected the administration’s argument that the policy preserved consular officers’ authority because they still entered the denials themselves. "The fact that the mandatory visa refusal is ultimately effectuated by the consular officer hardly means that the consular officer’s role in the statutory scheme has not been usurped," she wrote. TRUMP ADMIN SUED OVER VISA TIME RESTRICTIONS FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS, JOURNALISTS The judge distinguished the policy from the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling upholding Trump’s first-term travel ban. That case involved presidential authority over who may enter the country, Vargas noted, while this case centered on whether the State Department could refuse immigrant visas to applicants otherwise eligible under the law. The ruling does not invalidate visa denials based on other independent grounds of ineligibility, but it wipes out refusals based solely on the 75-country freeze and returns those cases to the government for further proceedings consistent with the decision. The lawsuit was brought by the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC); African Communities Together (ACT), a Harlem-based immigrant advocacy group; five prospective employment-based immigrants; and six U.S. citizens seeking to bring family members to the country. Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a06d12c5335ae1049d98c World Cup energy carries into Freedom 250 Grand Prix as global fans celebrate America's historic birthday te 2026-08-22T20:30:09.784Z World Cup energy carries into Freedom 250 Grand Prix as global fans celebrate America's historic birthday America has been heavily criticized from the political left, whether from citizens or politicians. Our nation has also received relentless condemnation from foreign citizens around the world, especially over the last decade. There seemed to be a shift during the World Cup, though. Fans from all over the world had the ability to experience the beauty of the United States of America through our unique culture, landscape, patriotism, hospitality and more. It was the best PR campaign I've ever seen for our nation. Now, with the Freedom 250 Grand Prix IndyCar race in Washington, D.C., fans from all over the world are flocking to our nation's capital and expressing that same love and respect we heard during the World Cup. While walking through the National Mall, with the United States Capitol building in the background peeking over the top of the grandstand, I spoke with multiple fans who had nothing but great things to say about America and the work Trump and his administration put in to make this race a reality. They urged their nations to take notes on how well America celebrates its history and brings people together through sports. A fan who lives "right by the track" in Silverstone, England, told me, "D.C. is one of my favorite cities. So much history," and went as far as saying, "I love America. It’s a beautiful country and beautiful people." INDYCAR STAR ALEX PALOU REFLECTS ON WHITE HOUSE, OVAL OFFICE VISIT WITH TRUMP: 'INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE' My follow-up was, "Isn't it a little weird to say how much you love America being from the UK?" He chuckled and said, "Yeah, but [America] 250. I won’t live to see another 250 [years of America], but it’s cool to see this one celebrated." He went on to compliment how well America celebrates its history, saying, "The UK is a much older country, but we don’t celebrate our history like you guys. You guys preserve it and look after it, and that’s really respectable." AMERICA'S 250TH BIRTHDAY EVENTS TAKING PLACE THIS SUMMER CALLED 'ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME' TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES I also spoke with other European fans, including one man in an Erling Haaland jersey. He explained how events like the World Cup and now the Freedom 250 Grand Prix showcase "how great the country is and the people." No one expressed the beauty of how sports can transcend political divisiveness and bring a nation and the world together better than the fan from England, though. He said, "There are a lot of bad things in the world. Celebrate the good things. Celebrate unity and family and sport. It’s a great blessing we’ve got." RILEY GAINES: WORLD CUP VISITORS ARE REMINDING AMERICANS WHAT MAKES THIS COUNTRY GREAT Amen. I've always said that sports have the ability to bring us together better than any other outlet. An event like the Freedom 250 Grand Prix can and is doing just that. Whether you were lucky enough to get a ticket to attend the race or you're watching from home, whether you're an American or not, enjoy the majestic backdrop of historic American buildings and monuments like the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol building as these drivers take every turn and accelerate down straightaways. America is a beautiful place and this race will showcase the best of it. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a06d12c5335ae1049d983 Hayden Panettiere's co-star Justin Chatwin 'pissed off' over Hollywood culture after her passing te 2026-08-22T20:30:09.144Z Hayden Panettiere's co-star Justin Chatwin 'pissed off' over Hollywood culture after her passing Justin Chatwin is "pissed off" over Hollywood culture as he grieves the death of his "Sleepwalker" co-star Hayden Panettiere. In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Chatwin — who recently worked alongside Panettiere on what became her final film — said his grief has turned to anger over what he sees as a lack of support for people struggling with trauma and addiction in the entertainment industry. "I'm a man, so I process things by getting pissed off," Chatwin said. "And so I'm kind of angry that this is the culture that — and this is the industry — that people aren't taken care of." HAYDEN PANETTIERE AND THE CHILD STARS WHOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR MOMAGERS TURNED COMPLICATED "They get the work, they sell the product," he continued, "and there's just a lot of people in our industry that are dying from … inability to feel pain or heal trauma." Chatwin added that "there's not enough support or awareness around these issues," before saying, "Yeah, I'm grieving." Panettiere died Sunday, Aug. 16, at the age of 36.  The "Heroes" and "Nashville" star was found in cardiac arrest at her home in Greenville, South Carolina, according to the Greenville County Coroner's Office. Emergency personnel attempted life-saving measures before Panettiere was pronounced dead. An autopsy found no signs of trauma that contributed to her death. WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO MOURNS FORMER FIANCÉE HAYDEN PANETTIERE, VOWS TO KEEP HER MEMORY ALIVE FOR DAUGHTER KAYA Her official cause and manner of death have not yet been determined, and the investigation remains ongoing. Chatwin said the struggles he witnessed extend far beyond Hollywood, describing trauma and addiction as an issue affecting people across the country. "It's not just her," Chatwin said. "We've lost a lot of people, and not just Hollywood, in all of America. It's an epidemic that needs to be looked at." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Chatwin said his final time with Panettiere came after the two finished working together on "Sleepwalker," when they went out to dinner following the film's wrap. "We went out to dinner after we wrapped the movie and, yeah, she was one of the top five, top 10 favorite people that I've ever worked with," he recalled. "She was super sweet." However, Chatwin said he could also sense that Panettiere was carrying significant pain. "I could sense a lot of pain that she had dealt with, from her family to her daughter," he said. "I could sense the heaviness and the weight that the toll of 20 years in Hollywood and … trauma and the fight to figure out the trauma and addiction can have on you." Panettiere had previously spoken publicly about her struggles with addiction and other personal challenges. She detailed many of those experiences in her 2026 memoir, "This Is Me: A Reckoning." GOLDIE HAWN SOUNDS THE ALARM ON CHILDHOOD CELEBRITY CULTURE: 'ALL I CAN SAY IS IT'S A NIGHTMARE' Chatwin first met Panettiere years earlier when she was in her 20s and starring on "Heroes." The two later reunited to work together on "Sleepwalker," a psychological thriller released in January. Panettiere starred as Sarah Pangborn, a grieving mother, and also served as an executive producer on the film. "She's just got one of the biggest hearts of anyone that I've worked with," Chatwin said. "And she's super sweet." But Chatwin said he noticed a difference in his co-star when they reunited. "Life had taken a toll on her, and she had a lot of unfortunate incidents," he said. The actor also opened up about the loneliness that can exist behind the glamour of Hollywood, describing the stark transition performers can experience when they leave a movie set. "Sometimes the pain is unbearable, and at the end of the day, you go home from a warm, fun movie set where everyone's telling you you're great, and you're alone in your house and you still got to order your coffee and eat your dinner," Chatwin said. "It's a really lonely career." On set, however, Chatwin remembered Panettiere as "super fun" and said he treasured their deeper conversations. "I really love having deep conversations with her," he said. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER Reflecting on Panettiere's experience while making "Sleepwalker," Chatwin also offered a warning to fellow performers about taking on roles that could force them to revisit unresolved experiences. "I think that actors need to consider what roles they play, especially if it's opening up a vulnerable trauma that isn't healed," he said. Panettiere rose to fame as a child actor before becoming widely known for playing cheerleader Claire Bennet on NBC's "Heroes." She later starred as country singer Juliette Barnes on "Nashville," earning two Golden Globe nominations, and appeared as Kirby Reed in the "Scream" franchise. WATCH: NEW DETAILS SURFACE SURROUNDING HAYDEN PANETTIERE'S DEATH Her death came a little more than three years after her younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, died in 2023 at age 28 from an enlarged heart coupled with aortic valve complications. Panettiere had spoken openly about the profound grief she experienced following his death. Despite the pain Chatwin said he witnessed, his description of how he hopes Panettiere will be remembered was simple. "She was a unicorn." And when asked what Panettiere had told him about returning to acting and what she wanted to do next, Chatwin said her focus wasn't on another role or career milestone. "I think the only focus was to be happy," he said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a06ca2c5335ae1049d962 Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs? te 2026-08-22T20:30:02.868Z Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs? On the latest episode of Equity, we wonder why the DOJ is investigating startup board seats. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a04782c5335ae1049d93e Yankees star Giancarlo Stanton sustains new calf injury, makes possible return this season 'challenging' te 2026-08-22T20:20:08.234Z Yankees star Giancarlo Stanton sustains new calf injury, makes possible return this season 'challenging' Giancarlo Stanton’s nightmare season continued with another injury setback earlier this week. The 36-year-old was rehabbing from a strained right calf, with hopes of returning at the beginning of September, when he fell down running the bases and strained his left calf. The setback leaves his 2026 season in doubt. "It’s a moderate grade," New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "What that means moving forward, we’re not ruling anything out. He’ll obviously continue to work to try and get it right and hopefully be available but obviously we’re at a point in the calendar where it gets challenging, but you also never know, obviously bummed for him. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM "Been working his tail off every single day here trying to get this right. I think you all know how bad he wants to be on that field and contributing to a championship. So obviously that’s disappointing but hopefully we just continue to work and get him healthy." Stanton tweaked his calf while running between second and third base during the Yankees’ 12-4 win over the Houston Astros on April 24. He was nearing a return in June, but sustained another calf strain on the same leg, just in a different spot. He resumed running two weeks ago, and had even taken at-bats against Carlos Rodón while he was on the injured list with an elbow injury. "Obviously it’s been a tough road where he kind of reinjured a different part of the calf muscle halfway through here and now this. So tough news. You feel for G because I know how bad he wants to be in there for us, but at the same time it is what it is too and we got to just keep moving and try and hopefully get him right and hopefully get him right to where he still can be in the mix by the end." ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! The Yankees' offense has been one of the worst in baseball since Aaron Judge left the lineup with an injury at the beginning of June, and Stanton was being counted on to come back and provide some much-needed thump in the middle of the order. In 24 games this season, he was hitting .256 with three home runs and 14 RBI. Injuries have been a significant part of Stanton’s tenure with the Yankees, as he has not played a full season in pinstripes since his first in 2018. Following his debut season with the Yankees, Stanton missed 266 of 708 games over the next five seasons because of a series of strains of right biceps, right knee, left hamstring (twice) and left quadriceps, along with right ankle inflammation and left Achilles tendinitis. In 2024, Stanton missed 28 games with a strained left hamstring but helped the Yankees reach their first World Series since 2009 by hitting 27 homers and 72 RBIs in 114 games, adding seven homers in 14 postseason games, including four in the ALCS against the Cleveland Guardians. Stanton missed the first 70 games last year because of inflammation in the tendons of both elbows. After returning, Stanton hit .273 with 24 homers, 66 RBIs and a .944 OPS in 77 games. The Yankees, who entered Saturday three games back of the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East, will look to narrow the gap without their star slugger. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! The Associated Press contributed to this report. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8a04772c5335ae1049d935 Nashville hospital medication error leaves at least 1 patient paralyzed after routine surgery, 3 others hurt te 2026-08-22T20:20:07.583Z Nashville hospital medication error leaves at least 1 patient paralyzed after routine surgery, 3 others hurt Four people who went in for routine joint replacement surgeries at a hospital in Nashville allegedly had the wrong drug injected into their spine, leaving at least one woman paralyzed, according to her family. Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville on Friday acknowledged an alleged "medication error" in their pharmacy that led to the patients being injected with potassium phosphate instead of a regular anesthetic and experiencing "adverse health reactions," according to multiple reports. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed to Fox News Digital on Saturday that it is investigating the incident after receiving information Friday from the Tennessee Healthcare Facilities Commission. FLORIDA DOCTOR CHARGED AFTER ALLEGEDLY REMOVING WRONG ORGAN DURING SURGERY "The joint replacement went wonderful. Her knee is great. The rest of her is not," Kristina Dorton told WKRN-TV, saying that her mother-in-law was left paralyzed. "It was supposed to be the anesthetic. It was supposed to be Bupivacaine, and it was potassium, and we don’t know what quantity," Dorton said. Dorton said her mother-in-law currently has no feeling from her breastbone down. IOWA WOMAN DIED FOLLOWING HERNIA REPAIR AFTER NURSES DISMISSED PAINFUL POST-SURGERY SYMPTOMS: LAWSUIT "We don’t know what recovery looks like or if there is recovery," she said. The other three patients allegedly suffered serious complications from the mix-up, with CBS News reporting that a second patient is also saying they were left paralyzed. ORGAN HARVESTING BEGAN WHILE PATIENTS STILL SHOWED ‘SIGNS OF LIFE,’ FEDERAL INVESTIGATION FINDS Dr. Shubhada Jagasia, president & CEO of the hospital, said in a statement earlier this week, per WSMV, "Our hearts are with the four patients and their families impacted by this event. On behalf of our leadership and care teams, I am deeply sorry for the harm caused to our patients. We have met directly with each of the families to express our deep support, connected them with spiritual care teams, and ensured they have access to all appropriate resources and ongoing care needed." Jagasia continued, "Providing safe, high-quality care is at the core of everything we do, and any gap in meeting that standard receives our immediate, uncompromising attention. The day of the event, we self-reported to state regulators and launched a thorough investigation. We identified the cause and have implemented corrective safeguards." She added that the hospital’s clinical teams are actively using enhanced safety protocols to "ensure the highest level of safety at Midtown." But Dorton told WKRN that the treatment to help her mother-in-law recover isn’t working. TEXAS DENTIST ACCUSED OF FATAL MISTAKES AFTER 4-YEAR-OLD DIES DURING DENTAL PROCEDURE "This is life-changing. You don’t come out of this without some type of life-altering, catastrophic deficit," she said, adding that their family is hoping someone, somewhere will know how to help her mother-in-law. "Time is of the essence here for recovery," she added. Fox News Digital has reached out to the hospital for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89ffc92c5335ae1049d8b5 Alex Palou tops final Freedom 250 Grand Prix practice session that had multiple red flags te 2026-08-22T20:00:09.067Z Alex Palou tops final Freedom 250 Grand Prix practice session that had multiple red flags While the first practice session gave teams a chance to try out the wet tires, the second practice session started with a nice dry track, just hours before qualifying. And while more than a few drivers had moments earlier in the day, the first major moment of the weekend came when Graham Rahal's No. 15 Honda brought out a red flag. As the veteran approached a braking zone, the rear of his car stepped out and hit the wall, which ultimately left him stranded in the run-off area just ten minutes into the session. START YOUR ENGINES: HERE IS YOUR CRASH COURSE ON THE INDYCAR FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX WEEKEND That unfortunately cost Rahal some valuable track time before qualifying gets underway. The lap times really ramped up in the second practice session thanks to the dry track, but also drivers getting more familiar with the deceptively tricky seven-turn street circuit. HERE ARE 5 DRIVERS TO KEEP AN EYE ON AS INDYCAR HITS THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON FOR FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX The same part of the track — the braking zone into Turn 6 — also caught out Rahal's RLL teammate Louis Foster. He lost control of his car after hitting a bump on the track surface that sent him into the inside wall, damaging his front wing, and bringing out the second red flag of the session. However, unlike Rahal, Foster managed to get his car to the pits after the entire nose had been removed, allowing the team to take a look at his car and get him back on track. That bump into Turn 6 is going to be something that drivers will really be paying attention to in both qualifying and the race on Sunday. Team Penske saved their best for last, sending Scott McLaughlin in the No. 3 Chevrolet late in the "all-skate" session to drop the fastest lap of the day to that point, a 56.895 on the primary tire. DRIVERS JOSEF NEWGARDEN AND KYLE KIRKWOOD TALK INDYCAR'S 'ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME' FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX In the next part of practice, it was time for some drivers to start throwing on the faster, alternate tires, giving us a taste of their single-lap qualifying pace. After both groups took to the track, it was Alex Palou leading the way with a 56.615 on brand new red alternate tires, while right behind him was Kyle Kirkwood, whose fastest lap of the session was a 56.691 on the primary. It looks like Kirkwood, known to be one of the series' street aces, might have a little pace left in that car, but how qualifying shakes out will be anyone's guess. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89fb1a2c5335ae1049d831 Alabama Crimson Tide names starter for week one: Get to know Bama quarterback Keelon Russell te 2026-08-22T19:40:10.079Z Alabama Crimson Tide names starter for week one: Get to know Bama quarterback Keelon Russell With the college football regular season rapidly approaching, many position battles are starting to reach their logical conclusions. One position battle in particular that has garnered a ton of press is the quarterback competition between Alabama Crimson Tide signal callers Austin Mack and Keelon Russell. In an article I wrote about the battle last month, I said I wouldn't be shocked if the talented but inexperienced Russell seized the job from the elder statesman in Mack, and that is apparently precisely what happened. This is a pivotal year for head coach Kalen DeBoer, as he needs to show Bama fans and boosters that he can get the program back to the heights they achieved under the great Nick Saban, so it's interesting he decided to go with the younger of the two quarterbacks. However, I love the idea of picking the signal caller with the higher upside and more long-term potential for the program, and no quarterback in the country has higher upside than Russell. IDENTIFYING THREE BREAKOUT SEC PLAYERS WHO WILL BE HOUSEHOLD NAMES BY SEASON'S END IN 2026 The redshirt-freshman hails from the Dallas-Fort Worth area where he played for high school powerhouse Duncanville. The Panthers have produced an insane amount of Power 4 talent over the past several years, and I expect Russell to continue that trend. FIVE IMPACT FRESHMEN FROM THE SEC WHO ARE SURE TO TURN HEADS ON THE FIELD THIS COMING SEASON A former five-star recruit, Russell was the number one player coming out of the state of Texas, which if you know anything about high school ball, is an accomplishment in and of itself. He had an uncanny mix of arm talent and accuracy, punctuated by his 67% completion percentage with only four interceptions his senior year, as well as the elite athleticism head coaches drool over. Duncanville even captured a 6A state title with Russell at the helm, proving he's a winner even in a stacked league such as the highest classification of high school football in the Lone Star State. Russell will get plenty of runway too, and I believe this is the hidden genius in the decision by DeBoer to ride with the youngster. The Crimson Tide will open with East Carolina before traveling to Kentucky, and while you never want a redshirt freshman making his first SEC start on the road, getting to do so against a first-year head coach trying to rebuild a stagnant Kentucky program is about as good as it gets. By the time Alabama welcomes Florida State to Bryant Denny Stadium, Russell will have an SEC road start under his belt, and he can help the Tide get their revenge for last season's debacle in Tallahassee. Bama doesn't play a Playoff-caliber opponent until October 10 against Georgia, and by then, Russell will have half a season of experience to draw from. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! I believe Russell has the talent and pedigree to have the Crimson Tide firing on all cylinders by the end of the season, which is exactly when you want a championship contender to peak. And, if he does elevate the Tide to the promised land, he will still be young enough to stick around for a few more seasons to try and repeat his success, meaning DeBoer won't have to spend another offseason breaking in a new quarterback as he's done the previous three years in Tuscaloosa. This might be the spark DeBoer needs to reach the heights everyone thought he would when he accepted the Alabama job nearly three years ago. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89fb192c5335ae1049d828 Todd Blanche vows to 'come after' bad actors following 400M TikTok settlement te 2026-08-22T19:40:09.422Z Todd Blanche vows to 'come after' bad actors following 400M TikTok settlement Attorney General Todd Blanche praised the Justice Department's $400 million settlement with TikTok over allegations of children's privacy violations, saying the deal is a "fair, just and right result." Speaking on "Saturday in America," Blanche said the deal addresses TikTok's past actions while helping protect children online. "If companies and entities are not doing what they're supposed to do to make sure that happens, we're [going to] come after them," Blanche told host Kayleigh McEnany. TRUMP SAYS HE WILL NOMINATE ACTING AG TODD BLANCHE TO PERMANENTLY LEAD JUSTICE DEPARTMENT The DOJ announced the agreement Friday, saying TikTok, ByteDance and affiliated entities agreed to pay $400 million to resolve litigation concerning compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The DOJ filed the lawsuit under the Biden administration in 2024, and Blanche noted that TikTok has undergone major changes since the initial filing. He said the settlement underscores the U.S. government’s commitment to protecting young people. FRANCE BECOMES FIRST EU NATION TO BAN SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CHILDREN UNDER 15 "Since that lawsuit was filed, as folks know, TikTok has undergone a meaningful change in ownership, leadership, management and their practices. And so, this lawsuit and the settlement of it takes into account the changes the company has made since the lawsuit was filed, which is exactly what we should be doing," Blanche said. "It's a stark reminder and a real important note to anybody out there that we are [going to] protect children, and the internet has got to be a safe place for children," he added. PARENTS PUSH CONGRESS TO ACT ON KIDS' ONLINE SAFETY AFTER JURIES FIND META AND YOUTUBE LIABLE FOR HARM Fox News Digital reached out to TikTok and ByteDance for comment but did not immediately hear back. The DOJ said that TikTok has put in place several measures to protect young users, including age-related controls and enhanced parental oversight. "Those developments have materially advanced the public interests underlying the Department's litigation and have strengthened protections for millions of American families," DOJ officials wrote in a statement. NEW MEXICO SEEKS MASSIVE PENALTY FROM META AFTER JURY FOUND TECH GIANT LIABLE FOR ENDANGERING CHILDREN The attorney general said he was "happy" with the settlement. "It's a big number. It's a lot of money that they agreed to pay to kind of address what happened in the past to make sure it doesn't happen in the future," Blanche said. Under the terms of the settlement, TikTok and ByteDance will pay $300 million immediately and an additional $100 million "upon entry of an order vacating a prior consent decree entered against TikTok’s predecessor, Musical.ly." Fox News’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89fb182c5335ae1049d81f Wendy Williams delivers blunt 3-word plea in rare sighting amid guardianship battle te 2026-08-22T19:40:08.722Z Wendy Williams delivers blunt 3-word plea in rare sighting amid guardianship battle Wendy Williams had three words for the cameras during a rare New York City appearance. On Wednesday, the former talk show host, 62, was spotted walking through the city, marking her first known public outing since February. In a video, Williams was asked what she wanted to tell fans about "what she is going through." She fired back with three blunt words: "I want out!" WENDY WILLIAMS CALLS HER $25K-A-MONTH ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY A ‘DUMP’ AMID GUARDIANSHIP Williams stepped out in a casual ensemble, pairing a black T-shirt with high-rise denim shorts and black boots. She carried a red handbag and walked alongside a male companion, chatting with him as they made their way through the city. The terse response comes amid years of questions surrounding Williams’ health, personal life and court-appointed guardianship. Williams was placed under the guardianship in 2022. Her daytime talk show was canceled that same year after 13 seasons, and she has largely stayed out of the public eye ever since. WENDY WILLIAMS SAYS SHE PASSED COMPETENCY TEST WITH ‘FLYING COLORS’ AFTER BEING RUSHED TO HOSPITAL In February 2024, Williams' team announced that she had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 2023, after years of speculation about changes in her behavior and speech. WATCH: WENDY WILLIAMS DEMANDS FREEDOM WITH BLUNT GUARDIANSHIP PLEA: ‘I WANT OUT!’ "Over the past few years, questions have been raised at times about Wendy's ability to process information and many have speculated about Wendy's condition, particularly when she began to lose words, act erratically at times, and have difficulty understanding financial transactions," her team said at the time. "In 2023, after undergoing a battery of medical tests, Wendy was officially diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Aphasia, a condition affecting language and communication abilities, and frontotemporal dementia, a progressive disorder impacting behavior and cognitive functions, have already presented significant hurdles in Wendy's life." Williams has disputed that she has dementia. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Her attorney, Joe Tacopina, took that denial further in December 2025, saying Williams had undergone an evaluation by New York City neurologist Dr. Samuel E. Gandy, who determined she "does not have frontotemporal dementia." Tacopina has also raised the possibility that alcohol addiction played a role in Williams’ health struggles. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE "There’s something called alcohol-induced dementia. That may have been something Wendy was suffering from back in [2023], 24. She was an alcoholic, no question about it," Tacopina said during a "Nightline" segment. "Wendy was drunk almost 24 hours a day. She looked like she needed help. She did need help. She needed alcohol rehabilitation." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Williams' struggles with alcohol addiction were previously documented in the Lifetime documentary series "Where Is Wendy Williams?," which examined the former star's life away from television. After her diagnosis was announced in 2024, Williams thanked supporters who rallied around her. "I have immense gratitude for the love and kind words I have received after sharing my diagnosis of Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD). Let me say, wow! Your response has been overwhelming. The messages shared with me have touched me, reminding me of the power of unity and the need for compassion. I hope that others with FTD may benefit from my story," she said in a statement to Fox News Digital at the time. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89f6662c5335ae1049d78a Parker at Needles 8-21 (2).JPG te 2026-08-22T19:20:06.554Z Parker at Needles 8-21 (2).JPG Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89f4102c5335ae1049d23a Red Lobster brings back Endless Shrimp after promotion helped push chain toward bankruptcy te 2026-08-22T19:10:08.655Z Red Lobster brings back Endless Shrimp after promotion helped push chain toward bankruptcy Red Lobster is once again offering its Endless Shrimp promotion, which contributed to millions of dollars in losses before the seafood chain filed for bankruptcy two years ago. The company told Fox News Digital it decided to bring back Endless Shrimp because the promotion still matters enormously to its customers, who "never stopped asking for it." "They continued telling us they missed it, showed up when we brought it back this spring and kept asking for more after that run ended," Red Lobster said. AMERICA'S CHEAPEST POPCORN SHRIMP BASKET AT A CHAIN RESTAURANT COSTS UNDER $9 "We weren’t going to walk away from something they love simply because the previous operating model did not work," the company added. "The better answer was to fix what didn’t work and bring it back in a way that is right for our guests, our restaurant teams and the company." According to Red Lobster, the spring run also proved the company could bring Endless Shrimp back in a way "that delights our guests and works for our restaurant teams and our business." Participating locations began offering the current Endless Shrimp deal for a limited time on Aug. 17. "Guests can mix and match five flavors endlessly throughout the meal for as much shrimp as they like, any way they like it," Red Lobster announced in a press release. The lineup includes new garlic-bread-crusted shrimp, shrimp linguini Alfredo, garlic shrimp scampi, Parrot Isle coconut shrimp and Walt’s Favorite Shrimp — hand-breaded, butterflied shrimp lightly fried and served with cocktail sauce. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Red Lobster closed dozens of locations nationwide in May 2024 before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Fox News previously reported. Many analysts and media reports have cited the company’s decision to make Endless Shrimp a permanent offering as one factor behind its financial troubles. Endless Shrimp returned to select Red Lobster locations in the spring of 2026, but the chain’s 37-year-old CEO, Damola Adamolekun, made it clear in a statement to affiliate FOX 13 Tampa Bay that the promotion would be available for a limited time only. "The previous model did not work, so we did not repeat it," Red Lobster told Fox News Digital. "We rebuilt Endless Shrimp around much stronger operational and financial discipline, including better forecasting, kitchen flow, menu structure and restaurant support. We also designed the current offer to work as a dine-in experience, with pricing that can vary by market. The new standard is simple: Endless Shrimp has to work for the guest, the restaurant team and the business." CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS The spring run of Endless Shrimp "met and exceeded our expectations in several important ways," Red Lobster told Fox News Digital. "Guest satisfaction significantly outperformed the average for Red Lobster promotions, restaurant-team support was stronger than it had been in years, and our internal team Proud to Serve and Recommend scores both came in above historical levels," the company said. "Just as importantly, guests continued asking for Endless Shrimp after the promotion ended." In June 2026, Adamolekun said he was planning "the greatest comeback in the history of the restaurant industry." His plan includes streamlining operations, closing underperforming restaurants, increasing engagement with customers and tapping into their nostalgia. One of the biggest lessons Red Lobster said it learned from the previous Endless Shrimp promotion was that "guest demand alone is not enough." TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The changes to Endless Shrimp are one example of how Red Lobster operates differently today, the company said. "We are focused first on the guest, but that guest focus is backed by greater operational discipline and financial rigor. With Endless Shrimp, we took an experience guests love, addressed what wasn’t working and proved we could deliver it successfully under a stronger model. That same approach is guiding the broader business," Red Lobster said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89f40a2c5335ae1049d20d Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research te 2026-08-22T19:10:02.766Z Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89f1bb2c5335ae1049d1e8 MLW's Doc Gallows 'proud' of winning tag team championship with teammate Karl Anderson te 2026-08-22T19:00:11.027Z MLW's Doc Gallows 'proud' of winning tag team championship with teammate Karl Anderson Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson, the tag team duo collectively known as the Good Brothers, were finally able to dispatch The Skyscrapers and win the Major League Wrestling (MLW) Tag Team Championship on "Fusion." Gallows and Anderson defeated Donovan Dijak and Bishop Dyer (The Skyscrapers), ending their reign as champions after 317 days. COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON OUTKICK The Good Brothers have now held the tag team championship in almost every promotion they have appeared in, including WWE and New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Gallows told OutKick in a recent interview that it was "another badge" on their vest. "It's a proud feeling," he said. "This makes 10 times as world tag team champions and there are very few sets of titles that have eluded Karl Anderson and myself and those MLW titles were on that list. And after almost a year of battling back and forth with The Skyscrapers, what a great tag team – dynamic, big, rough athletic dudes – getting that victory at the signal at Chattanooga on MLW ‘Fusion’ was great and it's the 10th time. Ten times’ the charm." Gallows has been in the pro wrestling industry for quite some time – as has Anderson. He made his WWE main roster debut in 2006 and has made a decorated career for himself. The 42-year-old said he and Anderson have felt as good as they have ever felt. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! "… ‘Machine Gun’ and I, you know, we say it all the time, we feel better than we've ever felt," he said. "We feel more motivated than we've ever been. This past year has been great. Being able to go out and travel the world and go to Mexico, go to Japan, go to Australia, go to New Zealand, travel around the United States, Canada, and it was easy for us to kind of look at MLW as a home. I'm a fan of the show. I'm a fan of what they're doing on MLW ‘Fusion.’ So, the motivation is strong with us still." The MLW tag team division now gets to step up to the challenge. Gallows said whoever does want to become the first ones to challenge them for the titles, they’re in for some vintage trouble. "It’s the same old recipe, man. It's a Magic Killer one, two, three. It's just too sweet," he told OutKick. "The recipe proven time and time again. Every time they want us fall and every time you hear the clattering and you hear the chatter that the boys might be ready to hang it up, we pop right back up and we do something huge. "I mean, we came off of a massive Japan tour. We won tag team titles in Australia, feuded with The Skyscrapers relentlessly. Spilled a lot of blood with those guys and ended up coming out victorious. So, you know, it's a badge of honor. It's a pride thing and it's like I said, very exciting time to be a fan and to be one of the wrestlers in the business as well." What’s next in the immediate future? Gallows said "Talkin’ Shop Live" will return on Sept. 11 at The Windjammer in Charleston, South Carolina. The podcast is hosted by Gallows and Anderson and it will be held before MLW’s next round of tapings. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89f1b42c5335ae1049d1cf Nancy Kassebaum, First Woman to Chair a Major Senate Panel, Dies at 94 te 2026-08-22T19:00:04.396Z Nancy Kassebaum, First Woman to Chair a Major Senate Panel, Dies at 94 A moderate Republican from Kansas, she served three terms before tiring of political strife. “I couldn’t get elected today,” she said in 2013. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89ed042c5335ae1049cf8b NAU linebackers coach Max Silver adds to new-look Lumberjack defense te 2026-08-22T18:40:04.550Z NAU linebackers coach Max Silver adds to new-look Lumberjack defense ASU assistant linebackers coach Max Silver was NAU’s first pick to replace an outgoing coach heading to the SEC. He reunites with new defensive coordinator Trenton Greene in Flagstaff. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89eab02c5335ae1049cf4e Bill Maher blasts Democratic Party, says it is fine with religion 'as long as that faith isn’t Jewish' te 2026-08-22T18:30:08.109Z Bill Maher blasts Democratic Party, says it is fine with religion 'as long as that faith isn’t Jewish' Comedian Bill Maher took aim at what he portrayed as the Democratic Party’s double standard on religion Friday, quipping that a candidate’s public faith is welcome "as long as that faith isn’t Jewish." The segment came as CNN anchor Dana Bash discussed Texas Democrat James Talarico’s outspoken Christianity during a segment on "Real Time," saying he "wears his faith on his sleeve" in a way Talarico believes could help him. "Well, in the Democratic Party, as long as that faith isn’t Jewish, you’re good," Maher retorted. TEXAS DEM NOMINEE JAMES TALARICO INVOKES FAITH TO DEFEND ABORTION RIGHTS, ‘THE BIBLE IS SILENT ON ABORTION' "Well, you said it." Bash replied. Maher then interjected: "Yeah, I said it because it's true!" BILL MAHER OFFERS A STARK WARNING FOR DEMOCRATS CODDLING ANTISEMITES, CALLS OUT ‘WOKE IDIOTS’ IN THE PARTY The left-wing comedian's jab comes as Pew Research Center polling suggests a substantial percentage of shows 80% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (80%) hold an unfavorable view of Israel, up sharply from 53% in 2022. At the same time, 41% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents surveyed hold a negative view of the Jewish state. 58% of those right-leaning voters have a positive view.  BATYA UNGAR-SARGON EXPLAINS WHY SO MANY AMERICAN JEWS BECAME DEMS — AND WHY SOME NOW FEEL POLITICALLY HOMELESS The Democratic Party has also put forth a series of candidates, personalities and elected officials who espouse anti-Israel beliefs, including Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has repeatedly attacked Israel. When reached for comment on Saturday, Sam Markstein, Republican Jewish Coalition national political director and spokesman, agreed with Maher and spoke of the GOP as the only party still willing to accommodate Jewish people who are proud of their identity and support of Israel. "It’s a rare occasion when we agree with Bill Maher, but he’s right: there is only one party where American Jews can be proudly Jewish and loudly pro-Israel, and it’s the Republican Party," he told Fox News Digital. "Democrats prove it again and again: from Kamala Harris passing over Josh Shapiro in 2024 to the rise of communist elected officials who traffic in antisemitism in halls of power across the country," he continued. Markstein concluded by saying, "The Democratic Party is being remade by its radicalized base, and party leadership continues to fecklessly whistle past the political graveyard as American Jews flee." Fox News Digital reached out to the Democratic National Committee for comment, but did not immediately hear back. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89e8582c5335ae1049cf1b Wastewater rates could rise te 2026-08-22T18:20:08.997Z Wastewater rates could rise City conducted last rate study in 2018; goal is self-supporting funds Sedona wastewater users could soon be paying higher rates.  During its Aug. 11 meeting, the Sedona City Council received an update on the city’s wastewater rate study it authorized as a part of the 2026-27 budget sessions.  Since Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89e8572c5335ae1049cefa Israeli October 7 survivors conquer trauma alongside legendary rock icons in powerful new documentary te 2026-08-22T18:20:07.530Z Israeli October 7 survivors conquer trauma alongside legendary rock icons in powerful new documentary When Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, ten Israeli musicians lost loved ones, friends and homes. But they refused to let the music die. The new documentary "The Bridge," produced by "Friends" veteran Kevin Bright, follows these survivors as they team up with legendary rock icons in Los Angeles to turn their personal tragedy into a story of resilience and musical healing. Bright told Fox News Digital that one moment during filming made him realize the documentary was special. "[I] think for me, one of the campers talking about how he lost everything in the conflict that day and all that was left was the volume control of his guitar," he said. "And so, to hear him say, 'the music wasn't gone, I could still control the volume' was something that really hit me hard." ACTRESS SWELL ARIEL OR TAKES ADVOCACY FOR ISRAELI WOMEN FURTHER IN NEW FILM ‘TANKISTAS’ The group attended Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles, where amateur musicians jammed alongside some of the most influential artists in rock history. Founder and CEO David Fishof has run the program for nearly 30 years. The Israeli musicians attended the camp only months after the October 7 terror attacks, which killed more than 1,200 people and saw more than 240 taken hostage. Their trip to the U.S. also came as anti-Israel protests spread across college campuses. During the program, they worked with members of bands including Guns N’ Roses, Van Halen and Black Sabbath. The experience culminated in a final performance at the Viper Room in Los Angeles. "That final performance at the Viper Room, they kind of tee it off by saying, this is the first time that Hebrew has ever been spoken on the stage of the Viper Room," Bright said. "While they enjoyed playing a song in English after that, I think that moment allowed them to really carry their country, their personal pride in that country and present it through music to the audience that was there," he added. HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER BEHIND 'APOLLO 13' REJECTS POLITICS IN HIS MOVIES, SEEKS TO UNITE AUDIENCES Brad Allgood, director and editor of the film, explained that during the final performance, many of the survivors were playing for loved ones lost in the conflict. "Tuval [Haim] was playing drums, and he was playing 'My Hero' for his brother. Bar was playing with everything he had in honor of his father. Raz and Dov were singing in honor of their friends who died that day," Allgood told Fox News Digital. "Everybody was playing for somebody else, and you could feel it in the music." Raz Shifer was one of the Israeli campers who participated in the program. She was at the Nova Music Festival when Hamas attacked on Oct. 7. More than 300 people were killed at the festival, and dozens were taken hostage. According to her biography on the documentary’s website, she escaped to a nearby kibbutz, but two of her friends were taken hostage, including Inbar Hayman, who died in captivity. MOTHER OF OCTOBER 7 HOSTAGE WHO WAS EXECUTED UNPACKS HER GRIEF IN NEW MEMOIR Allgood said Shifer’s connection to music was "affected in a really deep way" after the attack. He said she had an emotional breakthrough during a welcome event for the program, where she shared her story publicly and got up to play. "It was her first time really sharing her story in public," Allgood said. "After they shared their stories, they played ‘With a Little Help from My Friends’ and some other songs. And it was the first time that she was able to get on stage and just sort of let everything out. And she says that in the film was ‘the time I was able to just let everything all out.’" He explained that the experience helped the survivors reconnect with music after the massacre. "They couldn't sleep, they couldn't eat, they just sat on their couch trying to figure out what was going on. And this, whatever it is about music, it allows you to connect emotionally both with yourself and with others. It's a universal language and just there's something special about it that, you know, just jump-starts that process," Allgood said. AFTER 1,000 DAYS OF WAR: MANY ISRAELI CHILDREN CARRY TRAUMA INTO SUMMER BREAK Bright said the documentary avoids the political debate surrounding the Oct. 7 attack and instead focuses on the survivors’ experiences. "This was a human story, a human situation. People were traumatized and hurt. And it was about giving them a path forward to reach out and give something of yourself to give a path forward," he said. "I think the music took all of the politics and religious judgmental aspects of it out and just made it about the music. Made it about having a good time. Made it about getting back on your feet and playing again," Bright continued. "And you'll also hear in the film that many of these survivors were not able to even think about playing music for several months after the attack happened. So, it just provided a conduit for them to get back into the world and to deal with the unfortunate trauma they had suffered," he added. I HAVE JUST 90 SECONDS TO GET TO SAFETY FROM ANOTHER DEADLY ATTACK. THIS IS OUR NORMAL As for the title, Bright explained that it symbolizes the difficult transition from grief back to life. "The bridge is between trauma and healing, and music being the conduit or the suspension of that bridge that people walk through to come to the other side," Bright said. "The Bridge" will roll out across select venues in North America starting Oct. 5, ahead of a wider theatrical release in November. The documentary premiered in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Aug. 19, with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and his wife in attendance, along with former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89e6002c5335ae1049ceb8 FBI asked 'Sammy the Bull' if ex-Gambino mob prosecutor Comey knew meaning of '86': court filing te 2026-08-22T18:10:08.468Z FBI asked 'Sammy the Bull' if ex-Gambino mob prosecutor Comey knew meaning of '86': court filing The FBI interviewed Salvatore Gravano, the former underboss of the Gambino crime family known as "Sammy the Bull," to ask if ex-FBI Director James Comey likely knew what the term "86" means, according to court documents. Gravano, who had familiarity with Comey due to Comey's role as the lead prosecutor in United States v. John Gambino et al. in the 1990s, told an FBI case agent during a May 2026 phone call that Comey "had to know" what 86 meant, according to a sworn affidavit from his lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald supporting Comey’s motions to dismiss the case. Comey is facing a case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Eastern Division, accusing him of threatening President Donald Trump through his May 2025 "8647" seashell Instagram post. "On May 8, 2026, the case agent had a telephone conversation with Salvatore 'Sammy the Bull' Gravano, the former Gambino crime family underboss who was one of the cooperating witnesses at the United States v. John Gambino trial," the affidavit, filed last month, reads. "During the telephone conversation to discuss the logistics of his forthcoming interview, Mr. Gravano stated his belief that Mr. Comey had to know what the term '86' meant 'as it related to killing someone,'" the court documents say. JAMES COMEY '86 47' SEASHELL CASE PROSECUTOR SUDDENLY STEPS DOWN, ASSISTANT US ATTORNEY STEPS IN The U.S. Department of Justice brought two federal charges against Comey – threatening the president and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce – in April for a social media post Comey made displaying a photo of seashells arranged on a beach to say "8647." BLANCHE TURNS THE TABLES ON COMEY INDICTMENT CRITICS: ‘REST ASSURED’ CASE GOES BEYOND INSTAGRAM POST Prosecutors alleged the photo was a reference to killing Trump, with "86" referring to a slang term for killing and "47" referring to Trump as the 47th U.S. president. Comey’s defense lawyer cited the FBI’s interview with Gravano to challenge the claim that Comey’s Gambino prosecution meant he understood "86" as a reference to killing. Though Gravano told agents Comey "had to know" the term’s mob meaning, he said he did not recall ever discussing it with Comey. The filing also says FBI searches of the Gambino case materials found no references to "86." "During the recorded interview, which lasted 25 minutes, Gravano said that '86' generally means to 'get rid of' and to him, as a 'gangster,' it means 'to kill,'" the affidavit said. SAMMY GRAVANO REVEALS THE MOMENT HE DECIDED TO COOPERATE WITH THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST JOHN GOTTI Gravano added that he believed Comey's post was a call for violence, but not an admission that Comey himself would be carrying out said violence. "While Gravano claimed that the post was a call for violence against President Trump ('let’s kill Trump'), Gravano did not claim Mr. Comey’s seashell post to be a statement threatening that Mr. Comey would personally kill President Trump," the affidavit read. Comey has claimed that he found — and did not arrange — the seashell display and did not realize some people interpreted "86 47" as a violent message. FORMER FBI AGENT SAYS COMEY CHARGES HINGE ON INTENT EVIDENCE AND JURY INTERPRETATION "I don't see it the way some people are still saying it is, but again, I don't want any part of any violence. I've never been associated with violence, and so that's why I took it down," Comey told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace in May 2025, alluding to the fact that he removed the post shortly after putting it up on Instagram. Comey said he didn't think it had any dark intentions. "I actually didn't think of it as political speech by me, but I thought, ‘What a clever way to express a political view.' The shells were the same color for each of the letters… It took a lot of work. Somebody with artistic flair did that, and I have a hard time believing it was anybody with a dark intention, and it certainly was no dark intention on my part or my spouse's part," he said. Fox News Digital contacted the FBI and a legal representative for James Comey for further comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89e1512c5335ae1049ce18 Baker Mayfield's contract frustration and Mike Evans departure cloud Buccaneers' 2026 outlook te 2026-08-22T17:50:09.007Z Baker Mayfield's contract frustration and Mike Evans departure cloud Buccaneers' 2026 outlook When a franchise successfully transitions out of a legendary era without collapsing into a total rebuild, maintaining momentum becomes the ultimate goal. Few teams in the NFL have managed that post-superstar transition quite like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. With head coach Todd Bowles entering another year at the helm and quarterback Baker Mayfield firmly entrenched as the franchise leader, Tampa Bay is aiming to prove that its reign atop the NFC South is far from over and that its postseason pedigree is here to stay. The Buccaneers once again found themselves locked in a tight divisional battle, ultimately losing out on the NFC South crown. At their best, Mayfield was playing with confidence, pushing the ball downfield and making big plays in high-leverage situations while the offense operated with real rhythm. At their worst, defensive secondary lapses and occasional offensive lulls kept opponents in games longer than necessary. Mayfield looked like an MVP for the first half of the season when the team went 6-2. After their bye week, the wheels fell off as they lost seven of their final nine games. Injuries were an issue all year, but they still needed to be better than what they showed. PRO BOWL PLAYER REQUESTS TRADE FROM TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS ON EVE OF TRAINING CAMP AMID CONTRACT DISPUTE The biggest issue in my opinion with this offseason is that Mayfield has kind of expressed frustration, or disappointment, with the franchise. They were apparently far apart on a contract, and that could make Mayfield a little less motivated for the team. They also lost one of the best players in franchise history in Mike Evans as he went to San Francisco. They have plenty of receivers, but Evans was still dominant and had a good connection with Mayfield. They also lost a cornerback who was a solid contributor to the defense, Jamel Dean. They did some solid additions to the defense with Alex Anzalone and A’Shawn Robinson. Cade Otton, their tight end, is back, so Mayfield will have another weapon. There is a solid reason for optimism when looking at Tampa Bay’s roster makeup. The offense operates smoothly with Mayfield, supported by a proven receiving corps capable of winning at all three levels of the field. The run game has shown steady improvement, providing much-needed balance to keep defenses from dropping seven into coverage on every third down. On defense, Todd Bowles’ unit remains aggressive and physical up front, anchored by strong interior line play that shuts down opposing ground games. However, depth in the secondary and consistency against high-octane passing attacks remain areas that could be tested if injuries accumulate during the autumn stretch. Adding Zac Robinson as the new offensive coordinator should also prove a good addition. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! BETTING PREVIEW FOR PATRIOTS AFTER FALLING SHORT IN THE SUPER BOWL AND CONTROVERSIAL OFFSEASON In case you forgot, last year the Buccaneers were luckier than good. I saw Mayfield make some spectacular plays and save the day for them in the majority of their wins. Looking at their schedule for this year, they have a tough time. Their win total is at 8.5, and I just don’t see them getting over the total. I think the Falcons will likely be better, and the Panthers have a bit of momentum. I’m not taking anything on them, but I would lean to the under 8.5 if I had to play anything. I think my favorite bet for them is that they will be 1-4 after five games. That pays out at +500. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89e1502c5335ae1049ce0f Buffalo Bills lineman Ed Oliver suffers devastating drowning death of 2-year-old son and team is in mourning te 2026-08-22T17:50:08.344Z Buffalo Bills lineman Ed Oliver suffers devastating drowning death of 2-year-old son and team is in mourning Buffalo Bills defensive lineman Ed Oliver has been carrying a heavy burden over the past two months as it became public on Saturday that he has been mourning the loss of his 2-year-old son, who died in a drowning accident in June. And now all of Western New York, which has adopted the Bills as family, is mourning. JOSH ALLEN RECALLS HIS ROLE IN BILLS' COACHING SEARCH, DETAILS JOE BRADY’S APPROACH TO NEW ROLE The Bills on Saturday released a statement when Oliver's tragic situation became public through social media speculation. "On behalf of the entire Buffalo Bills organization, we want to publicly express our condolences to Ed Oliver and his family on the devastating loss of his son," a statement from Bill general manager Brandon Beane reads. "It's an unthinkable tragedy for any parent. We will continue to support Ed and his family as we all grieve this tragic loss." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Oliver's son died at the family ranch near Houston. No other details are known at this time. Oliver did not make the trip with the team to Cleveland for Saturday's preseason game against the Browns. He has, per the team, also been dealing with an unspecified injury that has caused him to miss practice the past few days but that has not prevented him from being around the team. Oliver has been with the Bills since 2019, when he was drafted in the first round to upgrade the interior of the team's defensive line. He has become a staple of the unit with is run defense and has even contributed 30 sacks. That seems less important now. Oliver and his family are asking for privacy and prayers during this difficult time, a source said. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89e14f2c5335ae1049ce06 Trump trade chief warns Canada walked away from 'the best deal' to trigger 50% U.S. tariffs te 2026-08-22T17:50:07.696Z Trump trade chief warns Canada walked away from 'the best deal' to trigger 50% U.S. tariffs U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Canada walked away from "the best deal" to preserve its trade barriers against American goods after negotiations collapsed. Speaking on "Fox & Friends Weekend," Greer said no further trade talks are scheduled as new 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian imports have taken effect. "Our interest is in protecting American workers and protecting American supply chains. We've been offering to bring the Canadians along on that path, really to cut the tariffs on them on steel, on autos, even lumber, things that are sensitive for them," Greer said Saturday. CANADA REPORTEDLY SCRAPS JOINT BRIDGE CELEBRATION WITH US AFTER TRUMP RENEWS TARIFF THREAT "And they've always had the best deal, and they still would have an even better deal, but they didn't want that," he added. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended trade negotiations with the United States late Friday, saying Washington made "unfair" last-minute changes to its proposed terms. He then announced Canada would impose retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. YOUR FAVORITE COCKTAIL COULD BE AN UNEXPECTED CASUALTY OF TRUMP'S LOOMING TRADE FIGHT In a statement released Friday, Carney said Canada will match U.S. tariffs "dollar for dollar to protect our workers and businesses." "We have recognised from the beginning that America has changed, and that we will not return to our old relationship," Carney said. "Our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade relationships. Putting tariffs on its closest allies and charging for access to its vast market." TRUMP MUST CLOSE THE BACK DOOR CHINA USES TO EXPLOIT NORTH AMERICAN TRADE "Canada has what the world wants. And we will not allow any nation to determine our future. We will set our own course to keep building Canada strong for all," he added. Greer said it's "hard to say" whether trade talks will resume in the near future. TRUMP ALLIES PUSH TO ARM PRESIDENT WITH NEW TARIFF WEAPON TO PUNISH COUNTRIES 'RIPPING OFF' AMERICA "We don't have new talks planned with the Canadians. We're moving forward with measures that respond to Canadian retaliation," Greer said. "Remember, as President Trump has introduced a trade policy to reshore American production and protect American jobs, two countries have retaliated against the United States, the People's Republic of China and Canada," he added. Fox News’ Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89def62c5335ae1049cdba Why the Rays' Shane McClanahan vs. Orioles pitching matchup looks like a betting gift te 2026-08-22T17:40:06.630Z Why the Rays' Shane McClanahan vs. Orioles pitching matchup looks like a betting gift I've talked about this before, but there are some games where the line just stands out to you. Normally, it is because you feel like the book is really off about something. In my experience, I've either been a huge winner because of this, or I temper my expectations because I feel like there is something I have to be missing that the books know. That's how I feel about today's game between the Rays and Orioles. The line is off, but maybe I'm missing something. The only way to find out is to throw some cash on it. The Tampa Bay Rays are among the best teams in baseball, and they were a team that was predicted to be essentially a .500 team. As of right now, they own the American League East and the best record in the American League. They only need to hold up for another few weeks in order to get to the finish line. The Yankees are still chasing them, despite all the injuries, and the Red Sox are within a reasonable striking distance. They aren't playing great baseball at the moment, having lost three of the last five, but they are still in a good spot. What is surprising to me about today's game is that Shane McClanahan is on the bump for the Rays, and they are only moderate favorites to beat the Orioles. For the season, McClanahan is 9-6 with a 3.25 ERA and a 1.12 WHIP. Perhaps the reason is that he hasn't been great on the road this season, throwing to a 4.31 ERA in away games. It really isn't the result of home runs or hits. It seems that his control just isn't quite as good. He has 21 walks in 48 innings on the road, compared to 14 in 54 innings at home. The other reason is that he has allowed seven earned runs in 13.2 innings over three starts against the Orioles. However, his best start against them came on the road, when he allowed just three hits in 5.1 scoreless innings. The Baltimore Orioles are a team we've spoken about frequently in these articles. They didn't get the season they were hoping for, but there is some reason for positivity. Their signing of Pete Alonso was great. Gunnar Henderson has shown good pop, even if he has struck out far too much. But I suppose the best thing to keep in mind is they got some decent returns for the players they traded away midseason. It isn't going to help them this year, but when you're already looking forward to next season, some positivity helps. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! Another bright spot in the dark year has been today's hurler, Brandon Young. For the season, Young is 9-3 with a 3.52 ERA and a 1.35 WHIP. He has been solid at home this year with a 3.39 ERA. Young is a guy the Orioles probably will lean on next season as well. With his numbers, he can reasonably fit into the middle of their rotation and not have any real issues. He has faced Tampa once this season, it was his most recent start, and he allowed four earned runs (three homers) over four innings of work. When I looked at the pitching matchup I just kind of scratched my head on why this wasn't a -165 or higher game. McClanahan doesn't go overly deep, but the Rays have one of the better bullpens in baseball. Sure, Young should make some adjustments and improve on his performance. However, McClanahan should as well. I just don't see why the Orioles are getting love. I'll temper my expectations a bit in case I'm missing something, but I'm taking the Rays because I think this line is a gift from the books. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89da4b2c5335ae1049cd28 Healthy athlete had no symptoms before mandatory heart screening revealed hidden defect te 2026-08-22T17:20:11.689Z Healthy athlete had no symptoms before mandatory heart screening revealed hidden defect A high-school student-athlete with a potentially life-threatening heart defect had no symptoms and only learned of his condition through a screening required by Florida law. The state’s Second Chance Act went into effect July 1 ahead of the 2026-2027 school year and requires students in grades 9 through 12 to undergo at least one electrocardiogram (ECG) screening the first time they participate in or try out for interscholastic athletics, with certain exceptions, affiliate FOX 13 Tampa Bay reported. An ECG, also called an EKG, is a simple, noninvasive test that measures the heart’s electrical signals and can help identify irregular rhythms or other signs of heart trouble. DIABETES DRUG COULD SLASH RISK OF FATAL HEART CONDITION IN ONE GROUP, SCIENTISTS REVEAL For Cameron Crider, a sophomore football and basketball player at Calvary Christian High School in Clearwater — which requires ECGs for all student athletes, the screening led doctors to discover an atrial septal defect (ASD), a congenital heart defect involving an opening in the wall between the heart’s two upper chambers. If a significant ASD is left untreated, the extra blood flow can strain the heart and lungs over time and may lead to complications such as pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure), heart failure, and, in some cases, stroke. "I’ve been playing [sports] my whole life and didn’t notice anything, so I was surprised because I haven’t felt anything," Cameron told FOX 13. "[Cam was] going to a three-hour football practice and then a two-hour basketball practice back-to-back, and never having fatigue or shortness of breath, or, you know, anything that you would think would be a warning sign," his mother, Laura Crider, told the station. "So, we were completely shocked." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Crider is scheduled for surgery to fix the ASD in October and is expected to be able to play sports again next season. The mandatory ECG is "a gift from God that has been given to us, truly," Laura Crider said. "We were able to find this out in a doctor’s office with an explanation and a clear plan that says we can help you, and so many of these other parents who are advocating for these screenings, they had to find out through a tragedy," she continued. Up to 80% of young athletes who suffer sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) — the leading cause of death during exercise — don’t have any warning symptoms prior to their arrest, Dr. Jonathan Drezner, MD, director of the University of Washington Medicine Center for Sports Cardiology, told Fox News Digital. Because intense physical activity places additional stress on the heart, undetected heart conditions can become dangerous during sports, the American Heart Association (AHA) told Fox News Digital. "Sudden cardiac arrest is not the only concern," the AHA said. "These conditions can also lead to other serious heart-related complications and may require monitoring, treatment, or restrictions on athletic participation to keep students safe." The AHA does not currently recommend mandatory EKG screenings for every student athlete. "A heart assessment that includes a review of a student's personal and family history along with a physical examination is the best way to identify serious heart conditions that can lead to cardiac events in student athletes," the AHA said. "If the comprehensive heart assessment raises concerns, health care professionals can order appropriate follow-up testing, such as an ECG, echocardiogram, heart monitor or other advanced imaging based on the suspected diagnosis." The AHA and American College of Cardiology support what they say is an "evidence-based, layered approach to identify heart issues so they can be diagnosed, monitored and treated as early as possible." According to Drezner, an ECG screening, when interpreted properly, is one of the best screening tools in medicine. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS "An ECG greatly increases our ability to detect conditions associated with SCA in the young," he said. "A standard sports physical by history and physical alone will miss 80-90% of kids with at-risk heart conditions. An ECG can suggest or detect about 80 percent of the conditions that put young persons at risk. It is not perfect, but it is far better than the standard sports physical." Though healthy athletes and young people can have a potentially lethal heart condition and not know it, Drezner said chest pain, passing out and a racing heart are symptoms that should not be ignored. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "Make sure your child feels well when they exercise," he advised. "If you have a family history of genetic heart conditions or SCA, you should bring this up with your child’s doctor. And get your child a proper heart screen with an ECG." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89da4b2c5335ae1049cd1f Diamondbacks star spotted at casino during team's game after no-showing to stadium earlier in the week te 2026-08-22T17:20:11.006Z Diamondbacks star spotted at casino during team's game after no-showing to stadium earlier in the week Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte’s strange week took another turn on Friday. Marte began his week by failing to show up to Fenway Park for the team’s game against the Boston Red Sox on Monday and was scratched from the lineup minutes before first pitch. He was then placed on the restricted list and seemingly had no contact with the team until Thursday. On Thursday, Marte and team officials reportedly had a lengthy meeting, after which the Diamondbacks placed the 32-year-old on the injured list with left knee inflammation. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM On Friday, while the Diamondbacks were playing the Cincinnati Reds at Chase Field, Marte was spotted by fans gambling at Talking Stick Resort, a casino. In one video, Marte is shown at the tables while the Reds-Diamondbacks game was on a TV nearby. Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo was asked about Marte’s casino run after the team’s 9-0 win. "He’s free to do whatever he wants," Lovullo told reporters postgame. "That’s how I look at it. As long as he wakes up tomorrow morning and posts, and gets his work done at Salt River, which I am certain he will, that’s all that matters to me right now." ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! The reason for Marte’s absence is not yet known publicly. The Diamondbacks are one game back of the San Diego Padres for the final Wild Card spot in the National League and will be forced to battle without Marte for the foreseeable future. Diamondbacks reliever Kevin Ginkel said there is no explanation for what is going on with Marte. "For us to go where we want to go, we’ve got to have him here," Ginkel said before the game, according to The Athletic. "It’s disappointing how the things that happened happened. There’s really no explanation for it." Marte, who has spent the last 10 seasons with the Diamondbacks and is one of the best players in franchise history, is a key cog in the team’s lineup. In 118 games this year, he has a .249 batting average with 21 home runs and 67 RBIs. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! The Diamondbacks (68-61) will look to continue their postseason push when they play the Reds (61-68) in the second game of their three-game series on Saturday at 8:10 p.m. ET. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89da472c5335ae1049ccfa E-bike battery sparks garage fire in Lake Havasu City te 2026-08-22T17:20:07.251Z E-bike battery sparks garage fire in Lake Havasu City A residential sprinkler system extinguished a garage fire early Friday after an e-bike battery ignited at a Lake Havasu City home. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89da462c5335ae1049ccf1 Bratley to resign from Mohave College Governing Board te 2026-08-22T17:20:06.012Z Bratley to resign from Mohave College Governing Board MOHAVE COUNTY — Mohave College Governing Board member Nicole Bratley will resign before completing her four-year term, creating a vacancy that will be filled by appointment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89d7ef2c5335ae1049ccba Detroit schools offer students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance as program expands te 2026-08-22T17:10:07.901Z Detroit schools offer students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance as program expands Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) paid students up to $1,000 for perfect attendance and is expanding the incentive program to middle schoolers after district officials say it successfully reduced chronic absenteeism. Now in its second year, the "Perfect Attendance Pays" initiative targets the winter months—running from Jan. 5 to March 20 —when attendance historically dips across the district. "DPSCD is continuing the Perfect Attendance Pays initiative for the 2026–27 school year for high school students and expanding it to include middle school students. At the middle school level, parents of eligible students with perfect attendance during each five-day cycle will receive a $50 gift card," a district spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Friday. NUMBER OF K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS HAS DECLINED IN MORE THAN HALF OF STATES, REPORT INDICATES District officials clarified that the financial incentives are not funded by taxpayers or standard state educational aid. "The incentive is funded through interest generated through District funds awaiting to be used for facility projects. Federal and state revenue is not used to fund the incentive, nor is the incentive offered on fall or spring count days," the spokesperson added. TEXAS’ LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT SEES TEST SCORES SOAR AFTER STATE TAKEOVER DESPITE RACISM CLAIMS Detroit Public Schools has been hit hard by a national chronic absenteeism epidemic, recording a 60.9% chronic absentee rate for the 2024–25 school year. According to Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, director of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity and Research at Wayne State University, more than half of Detroit students regularly miss class. Lenhoff defines chronic absenteeism as missing 10% or more of the school year—equivalent to 18 or more days in a standard 180-day calendar. District officials told Fox News Digital that attendance metrics in high schools have improved since launching the incentive program.  GUARANTEED INCOME PROGRAM TARGETS LOW-INCOME HOMES LED BY BLACK MOMS AS CASH HANDOUTS SURGE NATIONWIDE "This initiative has already been proven with our students and families to reduce chronic absenteeism," the district spokesperson said.  "Specifically, high school chronic absenteeism declined by 7 percentage points two years ago when the incentive was first offered and another 2 percentage points last year. We also believe that the incentive has contributed to the District being named as being in the 90th percentile with reducing chronic absenteeism since the pandemic as compared to districts nationally, based on the Education Recovery Scorecard recently released by Harvard/Stanford." District promotional materials and social media flyers detail how payouts work, noting that eligibility is calculated weekly across five-day cycles, with eligible high schoolers earning up to $100 per week in gift cards or cash equivalents toward the $1,000 season cap. "Strong attendance matters: Students are three to five times more likely to be at and above grade level if they miss 18 or fewer days of school per year. Families, your support is essential. Help your student take advantage of District resources and remove barriers to consistent attendance," the district posted on Facebook. School districts nationwide continue to grapple with severe post-pandemic attendance drops, prompting several urban systems to experiment with direct financial incentives, rideshare vouchers, and community outreach to bring students back to the classroom. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89d0e52c5335ae1049cbc7 City of Flagstaff opens applications for sustainability grants te 2026-08-22T16:40:05.505Z City of Flagstaff opens applications for sustainability grants The annual funding opportunity began accepting applications on Aug. 15 and will do so through Sept. 30. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89d0e22c5335ae1049cbad OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill te 2026-08-22T16:40:02.567Z OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89cc372c5335ae1049cb48 Crystal Hefner felt 'absolutely brainwashed' during Hugh Hefner marriage, reveals strict Playboy mansion rules te 2026-08-22T16:20:07.811Z Crystal Hefner felt 'absolutely brainwashed' during Hugh Hefner marriage, reveals strict Playboy mansion rules Crystal Hefner is reflecting on her complicated relationship with the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. The former Playboy Playmate, who was married to Hefner at the time of his death, shared details about her life behind the gates of the Playboy Mansion during an appearance on the "No One Asked Her" podcast with Billy Ray Cyrus' ex-wife, Firerose. "I think I was absolutely brainwashed, but there was nothing out there that validated me," Crystal said. PLAYBOY'S CELEBRITY-DRIVEN RELAUNCH FACES CREDIBILITY TEST IN ONLYFANS ERA, EXPERT SAYS "So I just thought I was the crazy one because all of the media put Hef on such a pedestal that I'm like, 'OK, if they all see him as this larger-than-life amazing human, there must be something wrong with me." "I would watch interviews of his from the past and there was this one where he was arguing with feminists and a woman said, 'Uh, let's see you parade out here with a bunny tail on and stuff.' And then she said, 'Calling women animals,' ... and he said, 'Women are animals; what else would they be?'" HOLLY MADISON SAYS PLAYBOY MANSION FELT LIKE A 'SAFE HARBOR' AFTER SHE ENCOUNTERED HOLLYWOOD'S DARK SIDE She noted, "At that time, I was like siding with him and ... like, I'm going against myself while he keeps me in this dilapidated, gross home and I can't see my family." Crystal, 40, recalled being under the watch of 70 employees during her time at the Playboy Mansion. WATCH: HOLLY MADISON RECALLS PLAYBOY FOUNDER HUGH HEFNER'S ‘JEALOUS STREAK’ "I remember when I left, I mean, it took him dying for me to leave, but when I finally left, I didn't even know how to turn the headlights on in my car because I was always home before dark." She added, "Movie night was at six, and that's an early time and I had to be there ... so it was kind of disguised — the coercive control, like, 'Oh, that's the time for movie night.' OK, that's the time for my curfew and my control." Crystal began dating Hefner when she was 21 years old. The couple got engaged in 2010 when she was 24 and the Playboy founder was 84. They called off their wedding just days before the ceremony in 2011 but later reconciled. Crystal and Hefner married in 2012 and remained together until his death in 2017. He was 91. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE She told Firerose that she struggled to leave the house after he died. "I was so confused," she said. "In the media, he was old for so long, so you just, you see him as kind of immortal." Crystal added, "I couldn't stay in the bedroom we stayed in, but I stayed in one bedroom of the house for like six weeks. I didn't leave." Shortly after Hefner's death, Crystal told Fox News Digital she was thankful for her marriage to the late business mogul.  LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "He taught me love. He taught me kindness. He gave me life. He really did," she explained. "He opened my mind, my world, to all of these opportunities and experiences I would have never in my lifetime been able to have." In her 2024 memoir, "Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself," Crystal detailed more about her life post Playboy. Playboy didn’t respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment about Crystal's book at the time. "I think after leaving the [Playboy] mansion and being away for five years, I was in a lot of therapy," Crystal told Fox News Digital. "I realized that the mansion affected me more than I thought. I just wanted to tell the truth about my time there and hopefully help others." She claimed their nearly five-year union was "emotionally abusive," and wrote that Hefner "could be charming" but also "cruel." "Over a little bit of time, I gained a bit of weight, and he told me that I needed to tone up," Crystal said. "Then he started telling me what color nails I could have and couldn’t have. [I had to] wear more colorful shirts, wear ‘the flag,’ which means the Playboy logo on my body, somewhere on my shirt. I had to dye my roots, bleach my roots. If that was growing out, he would tap it and tell me to go fix it." Looking back at their marriage, she said that her late husband, a leader in America’s sexual revolution, was a complicated figure. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "When I was told what to wear, what to do and to lose weight, I thought, ‘I’m going to be better. I can do better,’" she said. "I don’t know why my mind went there at that time instead of ‘How dare you treat me this way?’ But I’m not sure what compelled me to protect him. "Maybe, in a way, I felt sorry for him. Maybe, in a way, it was Stockholm syndrome, which I truly believe happened there because it was such a bubble. But I did feel compelled to protect him for some reason." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89c9e02c5335ae1049cae1 River Valley volleyball takes part in scrimmages at Lake Havasu High School te 2026-08-22T16:10:08.756Z River Valley volleyball takes part in scrimmages at Lake Havasu High School The River Valley volleyball team traveled to Lake Havasu City on Thursday to participate in preseason scrimmages. The Dust Devils were joined by the host Knights, Kingman, Kingman Academy, Lee Williams and Parker. Each team played five 20 minute matches… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89c9d92c5335ae1049caba Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model te 2026-08-22T16:10:01.920Z Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89c7892c5335ae1049ca44 There's a difference between coaches who 'can't' win a national championship and coaches who 'haven't' te 2026-08-22T16:00:10.009Z There's a difference between coaches who 'can't' win a national championship and coaches who 'haven't' Ladies and gentlemen, college football is nearly upon us. In just seven days' time, week zero will be gracing our television with all sorts of pigskin perfection, and one of the byproducts of having college football back in our lives is the myriad "offseason arguments" that plague our timelines on a near daily basis will be a thing of the past. Unfortunately, one argument that is borderline evergreen and exists as both an offseason and in-season debate is whether certain coaches will ever win a national championship, and it has reared its ugly head on social media once again. COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS FINALLY BACK AFTER MONTHS OF NCAA LAWSUITS, NIL DRAMA AND CONGRESSIONAL FIGHTS I've seen fans from across the country making their claims that coaches like Dan Lanning and Steve Sarkisian "will never" or "can't" win a national title, and, as usual, a topic that requires a ton of nuance and context has been boiled down to a singular phrase. "This coach will never win a natty because he hasn't won one yet." It's insane, especially when you consider just the pure math that goes into this argument. There were 138 FBS teams in 2025, and there was only one national champion. ONE OF THESE EIGHT COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS WILL BE HOISTING THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY IN 2026 Now take into account that there are only four active coaches in FBS that have won a national title (Dabo Swinney, Kirby Smart, Ryan Day, and Curt Cignetti), and you realize how hard it is to actually win one. I don't think it's fair to say guys like Sark and Lanning can't win a title, especially considering how young they are, relatively speaking. PAUL FINEBAUM’S PROCLAMATION ABOUT ALABAMA COACH KALEN DEBOER REIGNITES COLLEGE FOOTBALL ‘CULTURE FIT’ DEBATE They "can" win one, they just haven't done it yet. As long as they keep going to the College Football Playoff and taking swings (and given the talent they have on their respective teams), they are bound to win one eventually. There is a good chance they don't, that's just the nature of college football, but they are more than capable of doing so. I mentioned Georgia's Kirby Smart as one of the few active national champions, but that obviously wasn't always the case. Kirby was one of the former "can't win the big one" coaches, and for a while, plenty of rivals, and even Bulldog fans, thought that would end up being the case. "He can't get over the hump." "He chokes in big games." "Nick Saban is his daddy." And then he won it all. Twice. Then all the fans and pundits who crowned Kirby as the coach who couldn't get it done moved onto the next target: Ohio State's Ryan Day. The same arguments they made about Kirby they just shifted to Day, until he won it all two seasons ago. The detractors didn't apologize, they just moved their sights to a different victim. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! Those victims are now Lanning and Sark, and they'll continue to be until either of them win the big one. That's how this thing goes. So enjoy college football season, and remember the difference between a coach who "can't" win a national championship and one who "hasn't" yet. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89c5322c5335ae1049c9f0 Seattle Seahawks lose wide receiver Jake Bobo to 'serious' knee injury during joint practice te 2026-08-22T15:50:10.041Z Seattle Seahawks lose wide receiver Jake Bobo to 'serious' knee injury during joint practice The reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks were dealt a big blow on Friday. Wide receiver Jake Bobo was carted off the field during the team’s joint practice with the Tennessee Titans, and head coach Mike Macdonald called it a "serious" injury. "Our heart goes out to Jake Bobo," Macdonald told reporters. "It seems like it's going to be a serious knee (injury). We're going to get it imaged, but early returns are (that) it looks like it's a long-term injury. That's unfortunate." The 28-year-old wide receiver got hurt along the sideline and needed help to get onto the cart. Players from both teams took a knee, while Macdonald said the team prayed for Bobo. His right leg was outstretched on the cart. "It hurts, man," Sam Darnold said of Bobo’s injury. "He's one of those guys that he works, he talks a lot of stuff and he's kind of like (Devon Witherspoon) in a way, offensively. He brings the juice every single day, and he just does his job. So it sucks to lose Bobo but I know he's going to attack it and be better whenever he comes back." ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Bobo was entering his fourth season with the team after making the roster in 2023 as an undrafted rookie. In 45 career games, Bobo has 34 catches for 323 yards and three touchdowns. While also serving as a solid depth receiving option, Bobo is an integral part of the Seahawks’ special teams. The Jacksonville Jaguars tried to pry Bobo away with a two-year, $5.5 million deal, but Bobo was a restricted free agent and the Seahawks matched the offer, keeping him in Seattle. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! "He's a beast, man," Macdonald said. "Just a great football player, a great Seahawk. Hopefully we reflected that in our investment in him. But we love him, we'll be there beside him as he recovers and we pray it's a speedy recovery. But we love him." Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89c2d92c5335ae1049c99e Test your pop culture: From Hollywood to the Heartland te 2026-08-22T15:40:09.785Z 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 Hollywood getaways and surprising new beginnings. 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/6a89c2d92c5335ae1049c995 Paramount accuses Mark Ruffalo of invoking 'antisemitic tropes' in Warner Bros. Discovery merger dispute te 2026-08-22T15:40:09.154Z Paramount accuses Mark Ruffalo of invoking 'antisemitic tropes' in Warner Bros. Discovery merger dispute Paramount pushed back Saturday after actor Mark Ruffalo invoked the Israel-Gaza conflict while attacking the Ellison family’s proposed Warner Bros. Discovery merger, accusing the Marvel star of injecting "antisemitic tropes" into what it described as a corporate dispute. "[The company is] troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute," a spokesperson for the company said, according to Variety. "Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe." CALIFORNIA AG ROB BONTA FACES ‘POLITICAL FAVOR’ CLAIMS OVER NETFLIX-LINKED $1M TRAIL IN PARAMOUNT SUIT The spokesperson added that the company does not "tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone." Curtis Houck, managing editor at the Media Research Center's NewsBusters, told Fox News Digital: "Paramount Skydance was absolutely right to respond to this actual, serious anti-Semitic smear," Houck said. "The left lazily cries anti-Semitism when the right criticizes George Soros, but here it's absolutely warranted in the level of detail about Oracle seeming having mythical powers to team up with the world's only Jewish state to supposedly commit genocide. Because Paramount Skydance is the currently one of the bad guys in the eyes of the left, there's little chance Ruffalo will face sustained pushback from the liberal elitist press." Paramount's comments came after Ruffalo took to Instagram to sound off on the potential merger that has caused a stir in some circles, including among several state attorneys general. Ruffalo wrote of Oracle, "This is the company that Larry Ellison is using to fund his son David's Warner Bros acquisition." Referencing reposted video remarks of Paramount board member Safra Catz appearing to tout the "really profoundly scary technologies" Oracle used to assist the Israeli military following the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Ruffalo continued: HASAN PIKER STANDS BY 'INTENTIONALLY PROVOCATIVE' CLAIMS THAT HAMAS IS 'A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER' THAN ISRAEL "These 'really profoundly scary technologies' will most likely be merged into one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and one day used on you. Look how she revels in what we now have come to see as a genocide, which was built on an apartheid system of oppression powered by Oracle," he added. Ruffalo's post continued, accusing Larry Ellison of wielding outsized power through the proposed deal, branding the Oracle founder a "classic Oligarch" and alleging the merger would further consolidate wealth and influence among a small group of elites. He also said the transaction would harm workers and the film industry, pointing to an ongoing lawsuit brought by 12 state attorneys general seeking to block it. Ruffalo alleged the merger could eliminate 4,500 filmmaking jobs and another 10,000 related positions, arguing such consolidations are typically bad for workers, consumers and the industries they come to dominate. "Really profoundly Scary people," he said in closing. NEWSOM SAYS FILM TAX INCENTIVES ARE BRINGING HOLLYWOOD HOME BUT INDUSTRY EXPERTS WARN IT MAY BE 'TOO LATE' Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Ruffalo regarding Paramount's response, but did not immediately receive a reply. Fox News Digital also reached out to Paramount for additional comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89c2d82c5335ae1049c98c MLW star Austin Aries offers blunt take on winning ahead of massive title defense: 'I'll do whatever it takes' te 2026-08-22T15:40:08.468Z MLW star Austin Aries offers blunt take on winning ahead of massive title defense: 'I'll do whatever it takes' Austin Aries returned gold around his waist when he dethroned Blue Panther to capture the Major League Wrestling Openweight Championship at the company’s Lucha Apocalypto event, which was co-hosted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) earlier this year. Aries told OutKick in a recent interview that he believes he’s still performing at a high level and the title reign has helped him come to a realization that, yes, taking a shortcut can lead to success. COMPLETE PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE ON OUTKICK "Even at this stage in my career, I still think that I'm performing at a level that very few men can reach," Aries said. "But I think the one thing that works in my advantage is I've proven over my career I'll do whatever it takes to win. And if that means taking a little shortcut or a little misdirection or a thumb in the eye, so be it, because that's what I've realized. "One of the biggest lies that was sold to me as a kid is that is that bad guys never win. Cheaters never win. What a load of crap that was. If you look around the world, most of the people in positions of wealth and power got there by cheating. Got there by taking advantage of somebody. Got there by being dishonest, right? And so, we tell kids like, ‘Oh, honesty is the best policy and cheaters never win.’ And then you grow up and you realize, ‘Wait a minute, that's a lie. It's actually the opposite.’ Right? If you look around the real world, everyone who's winning is doing it by taking a shortcut." With the Openweight Championship, Aries wants to set the bar high. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! He’s done that already with a successful defense against Diego Hill. He’s also continued to showcase his talents in CMLL multiple times. Saturday night, Aries walks into MLW "Fusion" with another goal – dispatching Místico and Averno in a three-way match with his title on the line. Místico called his shot last week and made a one-on-one match between Aries and Averno into the multi-man extravaganza. Aries and Místico have some history as does the Lucha grappler with Averno. "It's interesting. When you get three men in the mix, right, one-on-one, usually the strategy is pretty straightforward," he told OutKick. "You can't have a straightforward strategy when you're in a three-way. And so, the one thing I do know is that Místico and Averno, there's no love lost between those two. They've got some history with each other. "So maybe I can leverage that and I can maybe get Averno to work with me a little bit as opposed to against me. But again, I've been saying Místico has been ducking me. He wanted to put the challenge out there and, put himself in this match. Let's do it." MLW fans will get to see whether Aries retains his title on "Fusion," which can be seen on YouTube, beIN Sports and Veeps. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89c0842c5335ae1049c93d Cars hit the Freedom 250 Grand Prix circuit for the first time in a damp practice session te 2026-08-22T15:30:12.454Z Cars hit the Freedom 250 Grand Prix circuit for the first time in a damp practice session After months of anticipation, we finally got to see IndyCars turning laps around the streets of Washington, DC, ahead of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, and while it was a sight to behold, it may not have been ideal for teams to get a firm grasp on this brand-new circuit. A rainy, misty morning meant that the entire circuit was wet at the start of the session, and that meant that the cars had to start off on wet tires. However, after a brief delay to do some work on an issue with the marshals' communication system, the sun came out, and parts of the track started to dry. Then it was time for cars to hit the track. START YOUR ENGINES: HERE IS YOUR CRASH COURSE ON THE INDYCAR FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX WEEKEND Those conditions meant that the opening laps were at a snail's pace compared to what could be done on dry tires with a dry track. Of course, given the new track and the tricky conditions, several drivers had to use the various run-off areas after overshooting corners. The closest call of the early part of practice came for Arrow McLaren's Christian Lundgaard as he spun and clipped part of the outside wall. With the track drying out, the fastest time of the first "all-skate" session belonged to Alexander Rossi, who put in a 59.606. Interestingly, he stayed in the pits longer than any other driver. RACER STING RAY ROBB GEARS UP FOR FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX: 'THIS IS MORE THAN JUST AN INDYCAR EVENT' With the field split into two groups for the next part of practice, several drivers opted for the red-walled alternate Firestone tires. It's faster than the primary black tires, but not as robust. Drivers have to use both during the race, so getting a feel for both is huge. One of these drivers was Will Power, and he had a big moment exiting Turn 5 and found the wall with both of his right-side tires. Kyle Kirkwood led the first group with a 57.374 on the alternate tire. Several drivers had some issues, including Christian Rasmussen, who needed to take to the run-off and then just a couple of laps later clipped a tire barrier. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! INDYCAR DRIVER GRAHAM RAHAL REFLECTS ON OPPORTUNITY TO COMPETE AT FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX: 'ICONIC MOMENT' Championship leader Alex Palou led the second group with a 57.612 on the primary tire. The next session is slated to start at 1 p.m. ET, and you can catch it on FS2. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89c0832c5335ae1049c934 Rogan says Dems 'full of sh--' if they won't specify which 'Woke 1.0' stances went too far, strategists agree te 2026-08-22T15:30:11.762Z Rogan says Dems 'full of sh--' if they won't specify which 'Woke 1.0' stances went too far, strategists agree Podcaster Joe Rogan warned Democrats that the only way to escape their "woke" reputation is to give specifics on where their policies went wrong and why they were wrong to support them. "If you really thought ‘Defund the Police’ and then you just ascribed it to ‘Woke One was crazy,’ well, how did it get you? Because it didn't get me. How did it get you? How did ‘Defund the Police’ get you?" Rogan said, rhetorically asking liberals how far they actually thought about the consequences of defunding police. "There's a way out of it for them, but they have to be honest," he continued. "If you want us to take you seriously, you have to say how you f---ed up," Rogan said as he spoke about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Woke 1.0 comments. "You have to say how you f---ed up, and you have to say what you really think about how you f---ed up. You have to be honest, and you have to be authentic. We have to know that you are embarrassed by your choices and that you kind of went with the hive." SLOTKIN SAYS DEMOCRATIC PARTY NEEDS 'NEW LEADERSHIP': 'OLD MODELS ARE NO LONGER WORKING' He continued, "If you don’t say that, then you’re full of s---. And if you’re full of s---, you’re going to get more and more full of s--- over time. And that’s how politicians get soured."   Later in the same podcast, Rogan's guest, YouTuber Chris Williamson, voiced skepticism that Democrats would have ever distanced themselves from Woke 1.0 in the first place if former Vice President Kamala Harris had won the election. "Think about what would have happened if Kamala had won," he said. "Would AOC have been talking about Woke 1.0 was crazy or would that have been a continuation of, ‘Well, look, we put the policies out, people like the policies.’ How much of this is a reversal of the position because it wasn't effective?" Fox News Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez's office for comment.  Commentators across the political spectrum voiced doubts about whether the modern Democratic Party actually plans to pivot away from far-left cultural issues. "I don't believe the Democrats want to be seen backing away from wokeness, especially now that they're sharing a ‘big tent’ from people who want to empty the prisons," Media Research Center's NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham told Fox News Digital. "They're just less confident than they were in 2020 when they could proclaim that race riots are ‘rebellions’ and violence was an acceptable method to create the social change they wanted. It was like political Drano." AOC TRIES TO LAUGH OFF 'CRAZY' WOKE ERA AS THING OF THE PAST, BUT CONSERVATIVES AREN'T AMUSED Democratic consultant and former House Judiciary Committee minority chief counsel Julian Epstein offered a stern warning to his party. "There is not much difference between Woke 1 and Woke 2, they both involve the commodification of grievance and rage, and then the packaging of lunatic ideas that do little to help voters and seek to make them permanent wards of the state," he said. "This is completely different from Democrats of the 90s who would proclaim the US as the best opportunity-machine ever invented and then try to give people agency." Mary Marslender, a Republican consultant and the President and Founder of Leverage PR, suggested that talk of ditching "Woke 1.0" in vague terms is a cynical strategy. "The vague talk of ditching 'Woke 1.0' is a temporary political strategy; it’s not genuine course correction," she said. "Democrats refuse to specifically call out the craziness; they have yet to stand up for women by preventing biological males in women’s sports, stop the DEI agenda in our schools and institutions, or advocate for safe communities by stopping their support of soft-on-crime progressive prosecutors. Additionally, their lack of concrete policy reversals is revealing." "Democrats wanting to distance themselves from Woke 1 have claimed they want to 'fix our broken immigration system,' but such rhetoric rings hollow when they oppose interior enforcement, call to abolish ICE, defend violent illegals who have crossed our borders, and unequivocally support sanctuary cities," Marslender continued.  "Had Harris prevailed, the same coalition that championed the 1619 Project, policing reforms adjacent to defunding, and gender ideology in schools would have viewed any moderation as betrayal," she added. "It’s power, not principle, that drives the Democrat Party. Until Democrats can explicitly admit fault and demonstrate a serious reversal of Woke 1, American voters are right to treat the so-called 'post-woke' shift as a temporary political strategy rather than a genuine course correction." CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE Former Republican National Committee spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko said that recent events indicate Democrats are simply responding to which way the wind blows. "Democrats of today tend to turn with the wind," she said. "Depending on what is most popular with their base, that’s what you’ll hear from candidates during the primaries. And then, during the presidential election, you’ll notice the Democrat nominee pretending they never supported abolishing police, men in women’s sports, or abolishing [ICE]."  "Watching Democrats in 2026 pretending they never called for defunding the police has been incredibly entertaining considering almost all of them still have old posts up clearly advocating for that very policy," Pipko continued. "Considering how much damage some of these views have caused, it is extremely pompous to simply dismiss this time in our politics as 'Woke 1.' This shows how little democrats actually believe in the what they say or do." Former White House deputy assistant for domestic policy under Trump and former Assistant Attorney General Theo Wold suggested that even Rogan was not showing enough skepticism toward the Democrats. "AOC’s sarcastic dismissal of Woke 1.0 isn’t a sign that Democrats are abandoning a leftist agenda — it’s a sign that they’re moving on to phase 2 of their project," he said.  "She now casually laughs at the radical ideas she actively promoted just a few years ago. And Joe Rogan, unfortunately, is too gullible to see the truth: this is who Democrats are," Wold added. "They won’t abandon these ideas or apologize for them because they believe them, and when in power, they will ruthlessly advance them." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89c07b2c5335ae1049c906 US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense te 2026-08-22T15:30:03.358Z US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense U.S. battery startups pulled in $500 million in grants from the Department of Energy, throwing a lifeline to an industry that was on the ropes after EV incentives were slashed. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89bbd02c5335ae1049c88e Anna Faris admits drinking fueled depression and 'self-sabotage' before she decided to quit te 2026-08-22T15:10:08.039Z Anna Faris admits drinking fueled depression and 'self-sabotage' before she decided to quit Anna Faris is now sober after personally discovering a correlation between "drinking and depression." During an appearance on the "Dear Chelsea" podcast, Faris told host Chelsea Handler that in the past year, she began to feel "ungracious" about her comedy career and movie roles. "I really started to notice and appreciate if and when people recognize me, they would usually smile … thinking about something f---ing stupid I did onscreen," Faris said, which prompted Handler to bring up her sobriety. 'EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND' STAR PATRICIA HEATON REVEALS THE MORTIFYING MOMENT THAT MADE HER QUIT DRINKING "Do you think that has to do with not drinking? Because I know you stopped drinking. Maybe that lit that a little bit," Handler said. Faris confirmed that she "stopped drinking" and said "one of the many gifts" she's gained since becoming sober is shifting her perspective. "Turns out there’s a correlation between drinking and depression for me for sure. I had to take a step back to not self-sabotage," Faris said. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Along with quitting alcohol, Faris said hormone patches were a game changer for her mental health. She did not share additional details on her sobriety journey. Elsewhere on the podcast, Faris shared that her 14-year-old son Jack asked her to "accept Jesus Christ" as her savior. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "He is religious. I didn’t grow up with religion. He’s asked me to accept Jesus Christ [as my savior]. And I told him I would do anything for him, including this, but it’s going to take a whole lot of long conversations," Faris said. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Faris shares Jack with her ex-husband, Chris Pratt. The former couple welcomed Jack in August 2012, and he was born nine weeks premature. The "Scary Movie" actress explained that her son is strong, which allows them to have deeper conversations. "He’s impressive, actually. Because I try to challenge him. I’m like, ‘Do you think it’s a luxury that you get to be pro-life? Do you think that’s kind of a luxury?’ And he’s like, ‘Maybe.’ Or I’ll say, ‘What do you think of this megapastor that’s kind of a grifter?’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, megapastors are the worst.’ So it’s like, ‘OK, he’s getting there,'" Faris said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89bbcf2c5335ae1049c885 The Will of 100: Trump’s SAVE America Act sidelined after Senate unanimously agreed to August exit te 2026-08-22T15:10:07.407Z The Will of 100: Trump’s SAVE America Act sidelined after Senate unanimously agreed to August exit The Senate has been out of session for about two weeks. It’s convened in brief "pro forma" sessions for just a couple of moments on four occasions since senators called it quits for more than a month at 4:57 a.m. ET on Saturday, Aug. 8. Pro forma sessions are where the Senate huddles for just a few seconds, gaveling in and gaveling out with a skeleton crew. It’s rare that more than one senator is even in the chamber. The Senate truly isn’t back for debate and votes until the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 15. REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: INSIDE THE SENATE SHOWDOWN OVER TRUMP'S PUSH TO SCRAP AUGUST RECESS But what about all of that sturm and drang about "cancelling the August recess?" Remember that President Donald Trump and conservatives – ranging from Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, to Rick Scott, R-Fla. – wanted the Senate to remain in session for the month to debate the SAVE America Act. That’s the chief legislative demand of Trump. It requires voter ID and proof of citizenship to vote. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., was on the floor when the Senate cut town a little more than two weeks ago. Did Thune hornswoggle his fellow Republicans into recessing the Senate for five weeks in the dead of night? Hardly. In fact even those Republicans who would have liked senators to remain in Washington to debate the SAVE America Act were in on Thune’s plan, allowing the Senate to abandon town for most of August and nearly half of September. Huh? Believe it or not, Thune and all other 99 senators agreed to leave Washington. In fact, that’s the only way it could have happened. The Senate was meeting at 2:07 a.m. that Saturday, on the verge of commencing a vote series to confirm Attorney General Todd Blanche and approve the Russia sanctions bill. That’s when Thune asked the following on the Senate floor: "When the Senate completes its business on Aug. 8, to meet for pro forma sessions only at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. 8 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026," requested Thune. The majority leader then continued, rattling off a host of dates on Mondays and Thursdays for the Senate to convene in those pro forma sessions. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, was presiding over the Senate at the time. "Without objection?" asked Moreno of the body when Thune concluded. There was none. INSIDE THE SENATE'S CHAOTIC ALL-NIGHTER THAT LEFT TRUMP'S SAVE AMERICA ACT ON THE SHELF In other words, the Senate would soon depart Washington. There would be no August debate about the SAVE America Act. The Senate would simply meet for abbreviated sessions over the next few weeks. And shortly before 5 a.m., Thune requested the following from the floor: "Madam President, I ask unanimous consent when the Senate adjourns on Thursday, Sept. 10, it stand adjourned until 3 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 14. And following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved and the Morning Hour be deemed expired," asked Thune. The South Dakota Republican then threw in some more boilerplate, parliamentary language, to tee up a test vote on an unresolved cryptocurrency regulation bill for the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 15. "Without objection," said Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wy., who was presiding over the Senate at that ungodly hour. Thune paused briefly. But no one said boo from the floor. That’s because the chamber was bereft of senators — except for Thune and Lummis. Everyone bailed and was heading for the airport. "Madam President, if there’s no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order," Thune asked. "The Senate stands adjourned until 10 a.m. ET on Monday," declared Lummis, rapping the Senate’s unique hourglass shaped gavel on the dais. No objection. No roll call vote. The Senate was done. So let me filet this for you. The Senate conducts much of its business via "unanimous consent." The Senate is a body of equals. All 100 senators wield nearly the same power. The Senate relies on "unanimous consent," the blessing of all 100 members, to conduct quotidian tasks, like going in and out of session or what time to meet. The Senate occasionally approves bills — sometimes even big ones — by unanimous consent if all senators agree. But unanimous consent is just that. All 100 members must be on the same page. And if you have 99 senators in agreement and one holdout, well, that’s not unanimous consent. All it takes is the objection of a solitary member to sidetrack a "unanimous consent" request on the floor. And note that despite the advocacy by some Republican senators for the body to remain in session during August, no one lodged an objection. That’s because Thune pre-baked a series of unanimous consent requests offstage before he came to the floor. Late in the evening of Friday, Aug. 7, Thune ran what’s called a "hotline" in the Senate. He proposed a series of votes to confirm Blanche, OK Russia sanctions and consider a few other items. If any senator had a problem with Thune’s hotline, they should let leadership know before 11:30 p.m. that night. Otherwise, Thune would go to the floor and "propound" the unanimous consent request for the upcoming vote sequence. Thune would also propound a unanimous consent request for what the Senate would address when members returned in September, This package included a plan for those aforementioned pro forma sessions. And, for the Senate to hold off on any votes until Monday, night, Sept. 14. Thune also locked in the procedural vote on the cryptocurrency measure for Sept. 15. Anyone could have objected offstage. They didn’t. That would have scuttled the entire enterprise. Anyone could have objected on the Senate floor when Thune made the unanimous consent requests in real time. That didn’t happen either. That’s why both Moreno and Lummis asked the body if there was "an objection." Or, they declared "without objection, so ordered." However, those pushing for the Senate to remain in session to debate the SAVE America Act did manage a minor victory. Part of Thune’s unanimous consent request at 2:07 a.m. that Saturday included a test vote on a voter ID bill pushed by Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio. This package addressed some of the provisions desired by Trump. It was also helpful to Husted, who faces a tough election this fall against former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. And, the test vote would get senators on the record voting for or against voter ID. All Republican senators voted yes. All Democratic senators voted no. Republicans will likely deploy this roll call vote against their Democratic colleagues this fall. The vote secured more than a simple majority in the Senate. But here’s the catch: part of Thune’s unanimous consent request — pre-agreed to by all 100 senators — dictated that the test vote on the Husted measure was subject to a 60 vote threshold. Republicans only command 53 votes in the Senate. So without Democratic assistance, the Husted plan was doomed from the start. So the Senate is long gone. And will continue to be gone for a few weeks. This wasn’t because of some backroom plan cooked up by Thune. This wasn’t just Thune going against the wishes of conservative senators who suggested the Senate remain in session. This wasn’t just Thune working against the president. Those unanimous consent requests reflected the will of all 100 senators. Anyone on either side could have blocked the proposals. But they didn’t. And when someone asks why the Senate didn’t remain in session this month to address the SAVE America Act, you can tell them that all 100 senators agreed to call it quits and go home at 4:57 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89b97c2c5335ae1049c83b Little League team gets absolutely screwed on final pitch of no-hitter, fans stunned by call te 2026-08-22T15:00:12.296Z Little League team gets absolutely screwed on final pitch of no-hitter, fans stunned by call Last year I said that Little League umpires should be held more accountable, and I've never felt more vindicated in my life. For those who haven't followed every pitch of the ongoing Little League World Series (all of you), a California team was absolutely robbed this week on the final pitch of what turned out to be a no-hitter. Iowa won the game, 1-0, despite the boys from out west loading the bases with two outs in the sixth inning. Iowa starter Cooper Thissen struck out 15 and didn't allow a hit in 5 ⅓ innings, but had to be lifted due to his pitch count. BARRED LITTLE LEAGUE TEAM FROM TULSA GETS REINSTATED FOR CHANCE TO PLAY IN WORLD SERIES That's when California worked a couple walks and loaded the bases, only to have a 3-2 pitch with two outs be called strike three in one of the most ridiculous fashions I've ever seen. Take a look: Lordy. I know Little League umps ain't exactly Doug Harvey behind the plate (gold star if you get that reference), but come on. What are we doing here? That's clearly — very clearly — a ball. Should've been ball four, and the game should've, at the very least, gone to extras. It's a mile outside. It doesn't even sniff the plate. There's having a "wide zone," and then there's calling a pitch a strike that's six inches off the plate. Maybe more. Actually, definitely more. "Pretty bad, even for a little league strike zone," one fan commented. "That batter should’ve been tapping his helmet," another said. Added a third: "Got him on the corner? Corner of what? The other batter’s box?" Yeah, hard to argue with that. The ball literally is in the other box! STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! I know Little League strike zones are different, I get it, but come on. This is Williamsport. The Little League World Series! This ain't a 10 a.m. Saturday game in April where we're all just trying to get home. Let's have a little pride. A little self-respect. God forbid we have a semblance of a standard. Be better. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89b97b2c5335ae1049c832 California sociology professor cited 'irony' in removing ACT/SAT not fixing racial disparities as intended te 2026-08-22T15:00:11.505Z California sociology professor cited 'irony' in removing ACT/SAT not fixing racial disparities as intended A University of California, Los Angeles, professor told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the university system’s "test-blind" admissions policy failed to eliminate racial disparities in standardized testing as intended. "That was obviously the motive. The UC Regents were very clear," said Gabriel Rossman, a sociology professor at UCLA. "They did get rid of the SAT because they thought it had a disparate impact by race." More than 3,000 faculty members across the University of California system have backed open letters urging the system to reinstate the SAT and ACT in undergraduate admissions. Former UC President Janet Napolitano led the effort in 2020 to phase out the standardized tests, citing equity concerns. CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM EXTENDS BEYOND STUDENT PROTESTS AND INTO CLASSROOMS, ADL WARNS In response to growing faculty feedback, the University of California’s Academic Council directed the Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS) on July 22 to oversee a faculty-led, evidence-based review of standardized testing in undergraduate admissions. Rossman’s comments came after he co-authored an open letter with non-STEM colleagues, following a similar effort led by math and science faculty demanding that state officials restore the exams. "We are University of California faculty from the social sciences, humanities, arts, business, law, education, and other non-STEM fields," the non-STEM letter reads. "We are writing to endorse our STEM colleagues’ earlier open letter regarding the math component of SAT/ACT and argue for also using the verbal reasoning component of SAT/ACT in undergraduate admissions." The non-STEM faculty noted that while they supported the STEM letter's conclusions, they did not initially sign it because it was specifically framed around math preparation. EX-CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR FOUND DEAD AFTER PLAGIARISM SCANDAL LED TO ABRUPT RESIGNATION Rossman told Fox News Digital that the test-blind policy has proven counterproductive to its original mission. "One of the ironies of this is they got rid of the SAT in order to promote equity in enrollment," Rossman said. "The UC freshman class had been diversifying for the previous 20 years, and then it leveled off in 2020. In particular, the big change was the ratio of Latino students versus Anglo students. The numbers of Black and Asian students didn't change by nearly as much." An analysis by The Oakland Report, a regional media outlet covering Bay Area policy, similarly noted that eliminating test scores stripped admissions officers of a key metric for identifying high-achieving applicants from under-resourced schools. "Removing test scores from the admissions process weakened UC’s ability to evaluate academic readiness while ignoring the real causes of racial disparity," the analysis argued. The push from non-STEM faculty follows a recent op-ed in The San Francisco Standard by UC Berkeley mathematics professor Zvezdelina Stankova, who warned of a sharp decline in incoming student preparation under test-blind policies. Neetu Arnold, a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute, told Fox News Digital she is concerned about losing an objective metric and the "misallocation of talent." "I actually think standardized tests are a lot more accessible for working-class students," she said. "It's much easier to go to the library to pick up some prep books and to really put in the work than investing in really expensive extracurricular activities." Stankova cited university diagnostic data showing a significant drop in foundational math readiness after UC stopped considering standardized tests. From 2018 to 2020, 71% of roughly 2,200 tested Calculus I students were deemed ready or nearly ready, while just 0.14% placed below basic algebra. By contrast, among roughly 2,800 students tested from 2021 to 2023 under a revised diagnostic, only 51% were deemed ready or nearly ready. That figure dropped to 44% in 2023, with 17% failing to answer a single question correctly across eight basic topics. CONSERVATIVES SHRED AOC AS SHE ATTEMPTS TO BRUSH OFF RADICAL 'WOKE 1' WAVE AMID 2028 SPECULATION In a statement to Fox News Digital, Stankova praised her colleagues across the UC system for raising awareness about academic preparation. "On behalf of the authors of the open letters, I would like to thank the thousands of UC faculty and people from around the world who have written to us in support of this initiative," Stankova said, emphasizing that student preparation in math and English is critical to the future of the university. "We urge all UC faculty across the 10 campuses to work with their own campus admissions committees and Senate bodies this year to help pass the incoming recommendation from BOARS, which we hope will be to reinstate the SAT/ACT, and to further work toward faculty oversight of admissions procedures," Stankova added. "Without that, any admissions criteria can be ignored or even counted against the applicant. Let us all make sure that UC admissions works to select based on a holistic approach that incorporates academic merit as a significant part of that process." The Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89b7202c5335ae1049c7b4 AOC's 'Woke 1' comment conceals a dangerous pivot to socialist class war, media chief warns te 2026-08-22T14:50:08.479Z AOC's 'Woke 1' comment conceals a dangerous pivot to socialist class war, media chief warns When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently dismissed past left-wing platforms by noting that "Woke 1 was crazy," some media reports framed the comments as a shift toward the political center. But Pirate Wires Editor-in-Chief Mike Solana argues her comment points to a more aggressive direction for the party. As Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates win races across the country, centrist Democrats are confronting the group’s growing influence as DSA-backed candidates support policies like abolishing the Senate and expanding public ownership of major companies. Speaking with Fox News Digital, Solana criticized Ocasio-Cortez’s response to her party’s progressive past after the congresswoman appeared on ABC’s "This Week." When host Jonathan Karl pressed her on Wisconsin state Rep. Francesca Hong’s past calls to defund police and abolish prisons, Ocasio-Cortez dismissed concerns about Hong’s previous positions. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ SHRUGS OFF PAST 'DEFUND THE POLICE' COMMENTS, JOKING 'WOKE 1 WAS CRAZY' "I have a local city councilman that has this saying, 'Woke 1 was crazy,'" Ocasio-Cortez said. "And I think that what’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now." Hong failed to capture the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial nomination, losing on Aug 11.  Solana argued the congresswoman’s comment allowed her to avoid accountability for past positions. "She said something more interesting, which she had from another Democrat, a phrase, ‘Woke one was crazy,’" he said. "Now, it was an incredible obfuscation, you know, there's no real admission of guilt there, but there is an admission that there was an era of crazy left-wing views that was not really palatable or correct." Solana said Ocasio-Cortez has not renounced several of her previous "woke" positions. He pointed to her past support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defunding the police and granting mass amnesty to illegal immigrants. "I mean, it's crazy, right? It's like, 'Sure, we lorded over a loosely decentralized global censorship apparatus in service of burning the world down in the era of BLM, but that was like so long ago. Oops, my bad, girls will be girls,'" Solana said sarcastically. While Solana acknowledged that politicians can change their views over time, he argued voters deserve clear answers on which positions progressives are actually abandoning. AOC'S ATTEMPT TO DISMISS 'WOKE 1' AS 'CRAZY' DRAWS CRITICISM FROM LEFT-LEANING OUTLETS "There are all of these things in the era of woke that she's been a part of that she hasn't actually said she no longer believes. We kind of wrap it all in a neat little bow which is ‘woke one was crazy,’ and we move on and maybe she's not going to talk about those things anymore," Solana said. "Maybe there are some things there that she no longer believes. It's possible that people, politicians, can evolve on some other topic. In fact, it's great. But we need to know exactly what position she's evolved on and why," he added. According to Solana, the shift from "Woke 1" to "Woke 2" is less about identity politics and more about class conflict. "Things are a little bit less racist and a lot more classist. We're doing a class war now; the race war is kind of over. There's room for everyone of every color to eat the rich," Solana said. Solana's comments echoed statements he made in a recent column, where he suggested that Democrats are now less focused on "destroying White people" and instead have shifted their platform to center around destroying the wealthy.  The DSA is the largest socialist political organization in the United States, with more than 100,000 members. The group has gained more attention as DSA-backed candidates have defeated more moderate Democrats in states including New York and Colorado. Prominent democratic socialists holding public office include Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. SHOCKING PERCENTAGE OF DEMOCRATS IDENTIFY AS 'DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS' ACCORDING TO NEW POLL: 'TOXIC POLICIES' According to the DSA website, the group opposes capitalism, which it calls a "system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit." Its platform also calls for abolishing the Senate, expanding the House and establishing public ownership of the largest private companies. Solana said moderate Democrats are allowing far-left members to remain influential in the party rather than pushing back against them. "They've won everywhere from obviously New York and [Los Angeles] to Louisville, Kentucky. They're winning everywhere. Everywhere there is a city, the DSA is ascendant," Solana said. JAMES CARVILLE PREDICTS 2028 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY WILL TEST TRUE STRENGTH OF PARTY'S SOCIALIST WING "As the DSA becomes more ascendant, the centrist Democrats have a choice. It's like, ‘Do we cut them out of our party completely, or do we ourselves moderate, not in the context of America, but in the context of the New Democratic Party?" Solana said. Fox News Digital reached out to the DSA and representatives for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89b4c32c5335ae1049c738 Plaintiffs push back against former North Country CEO’s denials te 2026-08-22T14:40:03.680Z Plaintiffs push back against former North Country CEO’s denials Attorney Aaron Martin, representing the ex-employees, filed a response to to ex-CEO Anne Newland's motion for dismissal arguing that Newland had never previously objected to being named as a fiduciary of the plan, including in a prior motion to dismiss… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89b2712c5335ae1049c71c Recorder finds 30 registered voters were not US citizens te 2026-08-22T14:30:09.521Z Recorder finds 30 registered voters were not US citizens Burchill audited county’s 193,506 registrations to confirm status Yavapai County Recorder Michelle Burchill [R] submitted the county’s active and inactive registrations with and last four digits of their Social Security numbers to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verificat Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89adc22c5335ae1049c231 USPS publishes rule to block mail-in ballots from states that don't provide voter lists te 2026-08-22T14:10:10.196Z USPS publishes rule to block mail-in ballots from states that don't provide voter lists The United States Postal Service (USPS) published a rule Friday that would require states to provide lists of voters who received mail-in ballots to the agency. The USPS rule, first proposed on June 2, moves to align the agency with President Donald Trump's March 31 executive order, which, among other things, ordered the agency to mandate that all states that plan to use USPS to send mail-in ballots notify the agency at least 90 days before an election and to send USPS a list of eligible voters the state plans on providing a mail-in ballot to at least 60 days before the election. "Any state that intends to receive mail-in or absentee ballots from individual voters through the Postal Service must ensure that such individuals have been enrolled with the Postal Service for inclusion on the state's Mail-In and Absentee Participation List," the new rule reads. In order for an individual to be included on the list, their state must submit to the USPS the individual's name and address and include a "uniquely serialized Intelligent Mail barcode (IMb)" on both the outbound federal ballot and the return ballot sent to the individual. DHS PLANS COSTLY CRACKDOWN ON STATES THAT DON’T COOPERATE ON ELECTION SECURITY The finalized rule, however, cannot go into effect under an outstanding federal injunction against Trump's March executive order. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, who was nominated by former President Barack Obama, issued an initial preliminary injunction against the executive order in June, ruling that two sections – including the section pertaining to USPS and mail-in ballots – were unconstitutional. In July, siding with the plaintiffs in League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, Talwani renewed the injunction, barring the USPS from enacting the rule. DHS APPROVES PLAN TO VERIFY VOTER CITIZENSHIP, MONITOR MAIL BALLOTS AS TRUMP PUSH INTENSIFIES The rule, which USPS will officially publish on Aug. 26, would only take effect for the upcoming midterm elections if a federal court lifted its injunction on Trump's executive order. In a filed opposition to the renewal of the injunction, the Trump administration argued that the judicial review was premature under the ripeness doctrine, claiming that the plaintiffs cannot demonstrate any harm from the proposed law until it takes effect. "Plaintiffs cannot demonstrate they suffer any particularized injury from ongoing policymaking deliberations within the Executive Branch. Instead, their concern is with possible 'action that the [government] might take in the future,' the objection, filed by the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division, read. USPS Postmaster General ​David Steiner defended the ⁠rule when it was first proposed in June, arguing that the USPS is making sure "we match the ballots that a state believes they're sending out to what actually ​gets sent out." USPS WOULDN'T DELIVER BALLOTS IN STATES THAT REFUSE TO FORK OVER MAIL-IN VOTER INFO UNDER PROPOSED RULE After the most recent injunction was issued, White House spokesperson Lauren Bis said, "The entire Trump Administration will continue lawfully enacting the agenda President Trump was elected to enact – which includes the safety and security of American elections." Fox News Digital contacted the White House, the DOJ, USPS and the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts for further comment. Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89adc12c5335ae1049c228 Skillet’s John Cooper says Christians who call rock music ‘demonic’ are ‘getting the gospel wrong’ te 2026-08-22T14:10:09.566Z Skillet’s John Cooper says Christians who call rock music ‘demonic’ are ‘getting the gospel wrong’ Christian rock artist John Cooper believes that people who think hard rock is inherently "demonic" are "getting the gospel wrong." "I would say, I just think that you're misunderstanding something very basic, which is that music does not belong to the devil. Music belongs to God and it's the intentionality," he told Fox News Digital. "It's the lyrics. It's what you do with it. It's not in a sound. It's in a heart posture. And I would just say to those Christians, you're not just getting the issue of music wrong, I would say you're getting the gospel wrong." He added that he doesn’t believe any style of music "in itself carries some inherent evil." "I just don't think that that's right," he admitted. "And I think that God gave us creative expression." GRAMMY WINNER LAUREN DAIGLE SAYS A LABEL EXEC ASKED WHY SHE HAD 'TO BE CHRISTIAN' DESPITE 'SUPERSTAR' STATUS Skillet, the group he co-founded in the ‘90s, recently saw its 2009 hit "Monster" become the first song by a Christian rock band to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify, which Cooper said "shocked" everyone. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE The band has sold more than 23 million albums, and they average 12 million monthly Spotify listeners, which includes "Monster," which has surpassed 4 billion global streams. Cooper noted that Christians believe God "created us in his image, and that part of what that means is that God gave all of us humans, every single one of us, the ability to do something kind of like what he does, which is to create something beautiful." WATCH: JOHN COOPER SAYS EVERYONE WAS SHOCKED WHEN SKILLET BECAME FIRST CHRISTIAN BAND TO REACH 1 B SPOTIFY STREAMS The ability to write a song, he said, is an "amazing gift of freedom God has given all of humanity." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "Talk about a God that says, I'm going to give you a very powerful gift and it's up to you how you choose to use it," he said. "Man, that is powerful." GRANGER SMITH SAYS FAME BECAME 'POISON' AFTER LEAVING COUNTRY MUSIC FOR MINISTRY He said he doesn’t like the idea that "Because [rock music] sounds a certain way, it is pagan or something like that. I just can't be down with that." "So, I would just say to critics, I would say, ‘Hey, You can have something that sounds incredibly beautiful that is actually offending God in its intentionality, in its lyrics." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT NEWS TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE If Cooper were "the devil, I probably would want to fool somebody and make it sound really, really nice and pretty, and then insert something subversive underneath that begins to poison the well just a little bit like a siren song. You know? You think you're hearing something beautiful, but it's drawing you to your death. That's probably how I would do it." Cooper admitted that he grew up in a household where his parents believed rock music was demonic. WATCH: JOHN COOPER SAYS EVERYONE WAS ‘SHOCKED’ WHEN SKILLET BECAME FIRST CHRISTIAN BAND TO REACH 1 B SPOTIFY STREAMS  "My mom very much, very much believed that like the loud guitars, anything with a drum beat really was Satanic, was from hell," he explained. "She believed that Christian rock music was the devil's tool." He called his mom, who died when he was 15, "wonderful," adding, "I never speak ill of my mom ever. That's just what she believed. And so I grew up with that mentality. It was always a wrestle, and it's the reason I think I talk so freely and so, I hope, graciously towards people that believe that. I don't hate them. I'm not mad at them, but I definitely grew up in a household like that. So I'm very familiar with it." When demonstrators show up outside of his concerts to protest the band as "servants of the devil," he said he doesn’t speak to them because he knows there isn’t anything he could say to them to make them believe differently. "And I also know that they believe that they are loving me, and they believe they're loving people to warn them of Satan's tools, and I just got to go, ‘I don't know, there's something about that I strangely appreciate, and I know I can't change their minds and so I don't try," he added. Regarding the success of "Monster," Cooper said he can’t pinpoint exactly if it’s the lyrics or the music that people like, but "I always meet kids that love the song," he said. "I think that they like the idea of feeling like a monster. I think it kind of gets their attention and then I think that probably most teenage — especially teenage males, who are getting all that testosterone dump, you know, at 14, 15 are probably finding themselves angry and don't know why, and then you have kids and you don't sleep and you really feel like a monster." The song is something people "can relate to and it rocks. It's a very, it's a simple song. There's not much reason not to like it." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89adc02c5335ae1049c21f Travelers rage as budget airline plans overhead bag fee: 'Highway robbery' te 2026-08-22T14:10:08.972Z Travelers rage as budget airline plans overhead bag fee: 'Highway robbery' Jetstar is facing some pushback after announcing its passengers will soon have to pay extra to put their carry-on bags in the overhead bin.  The Australian budget airline, owned by Qantas, will require passengers to pay fees from $25 AUD (about $18) per overhead bag per flight starting in Feb. 2027. The "priority carry-on" purchase will include priority boarding. Passengers will not be charged for a smaller bag, such as a backpack, handbag or laptop bag, that can fit under the seat in front of them. UNRULY PASSENGERS COULD BE BANNED FOR LIFE FROM MULTIPLE AIRLINES UNDER NEW PROPOSAL The updated policy replaces Jetstar’s previous carry-on rules, which allowed passengers to bring carry-on luggage up to a total of 7kg (about 15.4 pounds) aboard. Fox News Digital reached out to Jetstar for comment. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Steven Arroyo, an aviation expert based in Florida and a retired captain for United Airlines, said the new policy can "certainly expedite the boarding process." He also said other airlines may follow suit. "Oil prices have doubled. It's a third of an airline's expense," he said. MAJOR AIRLINE ROASTS PASSENGERS WHO JUMP UP RIGHT AFTER LANDING, IGNITING FIERCE BACKLASH Arroyo said the cost will have an impact on larger families. "If you're traveling with a big family, it's going to [have] impact," he said. "That's going to be the main focus. Will the consumer accept these new fees that airlines are proposing?" Some travelers have not reacted well to the news. MYSTERY WI-FI NETWORK ABOARD FLIGHT RAISES 'UNUSUAL' ALARM ABOUT TRAVELERS' INFORMATION A number of Instagram users responded with pleas to boycott.  "Highway robbery, Jetstar! You think it will be less frustrating being charged for locker space than getting your stuff weighed?" commented an Instagram follower. A second person quipped, "Soon they will also charge to use [the] toilet." The company sees it differently. Stephanie Tully, CEO of Jetstar, positioned the fees as a way to "streamline boarding and help more flights depart on time" while allowing customers to "only pay for what you need," according to a company press release. Some travelers agreed with the new policy. "Fair enough because it’s annoying when you have a small carry-on, and it has to be put several seats away from you because someone has a larger case," an Instagram user said. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "Maybe if people stopped taking multiple bags or oversized cases to save a few bucks, this wouldn't be needed?" replied another. On Reddit, a user said the new policy was better "than people trying to sneak in multiple 10kg bags."  CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES "If we are really lucky, the current carry-on addicts will reconsider," another Reddit user said. Airline insiders said they aren’t surprised by the new charges.  "Jetstar is catching up to a market that got there years ago," Koen Karsbergen, an aviation strategy consultant and educator, told Fox News Digital. Karsbergen said Frontier and Allegiant haven't included overhead bin space in their ticket prices for several years. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Still, Karsbergen isn’t surprised by the backlash.  "Nobody likes to pay for something we have had before for free," he said. Arroyo pointed to the now-defunct airline PEOPLExpress.  When PEOPLExpress began selling tickets in the 1980s, the carrier adopted an à la carte pricing model, charging separately for carry-on bags in overhead bins, coffee, tea and bottled water. "It has happened in the past in the United States, and it could happen again," he said. Kelly McGreal of Fox News Digital contributed reporting. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89adb92c5335ae1049c1ef Pixel 11 Pro XL review: Snappier cameras can’t hide an iterative upgrade te 2026-08-22T14:10:02.001Z Pixel 11 Pro XL review: Snappier cameras can’t hide an iterative upgrade Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras and genuinely useful AI features like Rambler, but its iterative upgrades may not be enough to tempt recent Pixel owners. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89ab6c2c5335ae1049c1cb Golfer Paige Spiranac leaves playing partner speechless with awkward question, LLWS mud & WNBA wiki pages te 2026-08-22T14:00:12.587Z Golfer Paige Spiranac leaves playing partner speechless with awkward question, LLWS mud & WNBA wiki pages I've officially made it to the end of 13 editions of Screencaps in 13 days. SeanJo is back tomorrow and I can actually sleep in without an alarm clock, which means I'll probably wake up at 5 a.m., but at least I won't hear that damn alarm clock. I digress. Let's get this Saturday morning cranked up with Paige Spiranac on the links with lesbian LPGA veteran Mel Reid. Relax, the lesbian thing was part of Paige's content play here. Mel's not all up tight. She's fun. She's a golfer you want in your foursome to crank up the innuendo. PAIGE SPIRANAC HAS HER GOLF CONTENT DIALED IN AHEAD OF THE FOURTH OF JULY, MEGAN MORONEY'S AT THE BEACH & MEAT But...she was left speechless when Paige took things to the next level with an "F, Marry, Kill" game with three legendary options for Mel to choose from: PAIGE SPIRANAC'S SWING IS SO HOT IT GETS FLAGGED AS SHE HITS THE COURSE IN COUNTRY CLUB APPROVED ATTIRE • Juli Inkster • Karrie Webb • Laura Davies STAR GOLFER CHARLEY HULL HAS BLUNT MESSAGE FOR CRITICS WHO ARE UPSET WITH HER SAVAGE PRANK ON CADDIE "Oh my god," Reid says with her hand in her face, trying not to bust out laughing. "That is awful." After all these years, I think Paige has finally found a content series that works for her. She's been trying to find a lane where she doesn't have to be posting Instagram photos and doing instructional videos on YouTube. It's nice to see women being just as big of degenerates as men on the course. SMOKIN' CHARLEY HULL REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE FOR PULLING PRANK ON HER CADDIE, SKENES HITS A WALL & GOLDEN GIRLS That's the key here. We all know women can be degenerates in their own way, but they have better ways of concealing it. Now we just need to see these women doing Fireball shots after birdies, pranking each other with rubber snakes and hitting on cart girls. 📩 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 Do we have any bar owners who are reading? I want to know just how much it would cost you to show the NFL Ticket this fall. In late July, the NFL announced that DirecTV will carry games that bar owners can show over streaming or satellite. I'm just wondering what all of this costs. Let's do a cost analysis on how much it would cost to break even on the Ticket. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/sunday-ticket-will-be-available-in-commercial-establishments-via-directv-after-all Ben is 54. – Dawgs fan Sam L. asks: Are the international teams using their version of travel ball players? Kinsey: That's a great question, Sam. Does travel ball even exist in the Dominican? Do you think there are mama bears in the D.R. packing up the Suburban with Ryobi fans and tents for six games in three days eight hours across the island? STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! – Matt in Florida emails: I am not sure if it is you or another screen caps writer whom I have seen ask Wendy’s to bring back the all you can eat salad bar and the atrium like rooms they used to have. Here in Jupiter, Florida….while we have no food/salad bar, we still have that old school atrium look….and with carpeting no less. 1 out of 2 ain’t bad. I am off to spend time with my family and do something other than look at a computer. As always, thank you for making this column a dream job. I'm beyond fortunate to do this for a living and you'll never catch me taking that for granted. Have a great weekend. Take it away, ladies. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89a6b42c5335ae1049c113 These 5 People Spent Decades Behind Bars. Here Are Their Stories. te 2026-08-22T13:40:04.586Z These 5 People Spent Decades Behind Bars. Here Are Their Stories. Francis Clifford Smith, who died at 101, was among the longest-incarcerated people in the U.S. Here are some others who lived much of their lives in prison. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89a2092c5335ae1049c041 Identity restoration: What to do after identity theft te 2026-08-22T13:20:09.755Z Identity restoration: What to do after identity theft You get an alert saying your Social Security number, email address or other personal information showed up in a breach. Your first thought may be, What did someone do with it? I get why that can be unnerving. An alert can sound serious without telling you whether a criminal actually opened an account, took over something you already use or did nothing at all. The first thing I want you to know is that exposure and identity theft are not the same thing. Exposure gives you a reason to pay attention. Identity theft means someone has actually misused your information. And if that happens, getting your identity back in order can turn into a lot of work. Here's how identity restoration actually works and what I recommend doing if you suspect someone has misused your information. New! Free live CyberGuy class: Protect Your Money From Today’s Biggest Threats Join us on Saturday, Aug. 29, at 10 a.m. ET for a free CyberGuy LIVE class covering five simple steps to help defend yourself against AI scams, fraud, identity theft and financial hacks. Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson will explain how to set up bank alerts, strengthen your account logins, protect your phone number, freeze your credit and help secure your retirement savings against unauthorized transfers. No technical experience is needed. You’ll also receive our financial protection checklist, and every registrant will get a link to the class recording afterward. Reserve your free spot today at CyberGuyLive.com. IS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ON THE DARK WEB? Identity monitoring is the early-warning side of identity protection. Depending on the service, monitoring may watch for suspicious activity involving your credit files, financial accounts and places online where personal information could surface. The FTC explains that credit monitoring typically watches your credit report for changes such as new accounts or inquiries. Identity monitoring may look beyond your credit report for other signs that someone is using your information. An alert could point you toward a new credit inquiry, an unfamiliar account or personal information found in a breach. However, an alert cannot tell the whole story. You still need to determine whether the activity is legitimate and decide what action to take. I would not panic over every notification. Read the alert carefully. Look at exactly what information was involved and save the notice in case you need it later. Restoration is the hands-on work of recovering after identity theft. That may mean contacting a bank or credit bureau, disputing fraudulent activity, replacing compromised documents or securing an account. Identity theft can also reach beyond your credit report. Someone could use stolen information to open a new account or take over one you already have. A thief may even use your identity for tax or government benefit fraud. The recovery process depends on what the criminal actually did. Documentation helps too. Save breach notices, account alerts and correspondence. Keep case numbers and notes from conversations together so you are not hunting for them later. IDENTITY THEFT RARELY ANNOUNCES ITSELF: 6 SIGNS YOU MISSED If something looks suspicious, focus first on what you can verify. Review your credit reports for accounts or activity you do not recognize. USA.gov says the three nationwide credit reporting agencies are Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. AnnualCreditReport.com is the federally authorized site for requesting your free credit reports. Also review your bank and credit card accounts. Check payment apps and any other financial services you regularly use. Pay attention to government notices as well. A tax filing or benefit notice that does not match your activity could signal a problem. A sudden wave of convincing scam messages may raise concern. However, scam messages alone do not prove someone has stolen your identity. A credit freeze restricts access to your credit file. Because lenders generally need to review that file before approving new credit, a freeze can make it harder for an identity thief to open a new account in your name. You need to place the freeze separately with Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. It is free, and you can lift it when you legitimately need someone to access your credit. A fraud alert works differently. It tells businesses to take additional steps to verify your identity before extending new credit. For an initial fraud alert, you only need to contact one of the three bureaus. That bureau must notify the other two. An initial fraud alert is free and lasts one year. I would start with your primary email account. If someone controls your email, they may be able to use password-reset links to get into other services. Use a strong, unique password for every important account. A password manager can create and store those passwords for you. Turn on multifactor authentication wherever you can. It gives a criminal another barrier to get past even if your password has already been compromised. Also check the recovery phone numbers and email addresses attached to important accounts. Remove anything you do not recognize. If you find suspicious activity, contact the bank, card issuer or company directly. Use the phone number from the company's official website, your statement or the back of your card. Do not use a number supplied in a suspicious text or email. Ask what you need to do to secure the account and dispute unauthorized activity. Keep the case number or confirmation information you receive. You may need it later. If someone actually used your identity, report it through IdentityTheft.gov. The FTC says IdentityTheft.gov can create a recovery plan based on what happened and help identity-theft victims work through the next steps. Do not feel like you have to understand every part of the fraud before protecting yourself. You can start securing your accounts while you continue figuring out what happened. This is where professional restoration help can become useful. A restoration specialist can help you understand what needs attention and guide you through the recovery process. Depending on the service and incident, that could include helping organize paperwork or explaining how to handle disputes. Some services may also assist with communications involving affected institutions. Still, a specialist cannot necessarily handle everything for you. You may need to verify your identity or provide documents. Your bank or a government agency may require you to communicate with them directly. The amount of help you receive depends on the service and what happened. I look at restoration assistance as having someone help you navigate a complicated process. It isn’t a promise that identity theft disappears overnight. Older identity-protection products were often centered mainly on credit monitoring. Today, many services are expanding to cover more of the ways personal information can be exposed or misused. Depending on the service, that may include monitoring for suspicious financial activity, checking and savings accounts, investment accounts, phone takeovers, home title changes, dark-web exposure, data breaches and social media risks. Some services are also adding tools designed to help you act when something goes wrong. These can include alerts for suspicious charges, data-broker removal, scam support and access to specialists who can help guide you through identity restoration. Certain plans may also include reimbursement for eligible losses tied to identity theft or scams. Coverage limits, eligibility requirements and exclusions can vary widely, so it is important to read the terms before signing up. 6 IN 10 IDENTITY CRIMES NOW BEGIN WITH A NEW ACCOUNT For me, the bigger change is that identity protection is becoming more focused on both detection and recovery. The question is whether the monitoring, support and coverage offered by a service match the risks you are most concerned about and are worth the cost to you. See my tips and best picks on Best Identity Theft Protection at Cyberguy.com If you are considering a paid identity-protection service, here are the questions I would ask before signing up. Look at what the service actually monitors. Does it cover one credit bureau or multiple bureaus? Does it monitor financial accounts or other places where your identity could be misused? Compare those features with the risks you are most concerned about. An alert only helps if you know what to do with it. Find out what information the service gives you when suspicious activity appears and whether it helps you determine what happened. Some alerts may simply tell you to investigate. Others may connect you with additional support. This is one of the areas I would pay close attention to. Find out whether you get access to a restoration specialist and what that person can actually do. Will the specialist guide you through the process? Can they help with paperwork or communications? What steps will still fall on you? Those answers can tell you much more than a feature list. Do not stop at the biggest dollar figure on the page. Look at the individual coverage limits, what types of losses qualify and what expenses may be excluded. Some identity-protection plans offer different reimbursement amounts depending on the level of coverage, so read the terms carefully before signing up. You can take many important identity-protection steps yourself for free. Credit freezes are free. You can review your credit reports and report identity theft without paying for an identity-protection subscription. A paid service may still make sense if you value ongoing monitoring or want someone to help you navigate recovery. For me, that is the more useful way to judge these services. Look at what you get and decide whether that support is worth the price for you. The biggest thing to understand is what happens after you get an identity alert. Seeing your Social Security number or other personal information in a breach can immediately make you wonder what a criminal has already done. But an exposure notice alone does not answer that question. So I would start there. Find out whether anyone has actually used your information. Check your accounts and credit reports. If something looks wrong, protect the affected accounts and document what you find. A credit freeze can also help shut down one of the easiest paths criminals use to open new credit in your name. If you discover real identity theft, you have another decision to make. You can work through the recovery process yourself or use a restoration service to help guide you. I can see real value in having someone help when you are dealing with fraudulent accounts, paperwork and calls you never asked to make. Just know what you are paying for and understand where the service's job ends, and yours begins. No identity-protection service can guarantee that a criminal will never get your information. What you can control is how quickly you recognize trouble and how prepared you are to respond. If your identity were stolen tomorrow, would you feel confident handling the recovery yourself or would you want an expert helping you through it? 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/6a89a2092c5335ae1049c038 Tupac Shakur murder trial's first week sees heated testimony from reluctant witnesses with old gangland ties te 2026-08-22T13:20:09.154Z Tupac Shakur murder trial's first week sees heated testimony from reluctant witnesses with old gangland ties The first week of Tupac Shakur’s long-awaited murder trial exposed the challenge prosecutors face nearly 30 years after his death — most of the key players are dead, others refuse to cooperate and their case rests heavily on the defendant's own words. Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, is accused of providing the murder weapon used in a 1996 Las Vegas drive-by shooting that killed Shakur and wounded Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight. He is not accused of pulling the trigger. The trial began Monday and is expected to run four to five weeks. Three other men believed to have been in the suspect vehicle with Davis are all dead, including Davis' nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, who was jumped earlier that night by Knight's entourage, according to prosecutors. TUPAC MURDER TRIAL FACES 'SNITCHES GET STITCHES' PROBLEM BUT DEFENDANT'S GHOSTWRITER COULD BE KEY The defense denies he was involved, and his attorney, Michael Sanft, has suggested that he fabricated the version of events now being used by the prosecution. Former FBI Special Agent Wade Lee testified that Davis sat down with investigators in 1998 after a drug-trafficking bust and began cooperating with authorities. MEXICAN MAFIA TURNED AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOODS INTO ‘GANGSTA’S PARADISE’ WITH MURDERS, KIDNAPPINGS, DRUGS: FEDS Davis sat down for multiple interviews with investigators, then spoke out on a BET documentary and detailed the night of the slaying in his memoir, prosecutors said. Davis is a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, which was a rival of the Mob Piru Bloods, a gang affiliated with Knight, who is serving a 28-year prison sentence for another Compton dispute that turned deadly. DIDDY SENT TO SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AFTER PRISON FIGHT WITH ANOTHER INMATE: MULTIPLE REPORTS The two groups had a bloody rivalry, highlighted by a brawl in the summer of 1996 that preceded Anderson's beating at the MGM Grand casino on Sept. 7, 1996, shortly before Shakur was gunned down in what prosecutors allege was retaliation. Knight, who is on the witness list, has said in prior interviews he does not intend to cooperate with prosecutors. James "Mob James" McDonald, a former Mob Piru associate, told the court to "treat me as a hostile witness" when he took the stand and later told Davis directly, "I don't want to send you to prison." "At the time, again, the gang culture, they had that same culture as the La Cosa Nostra, which was, you know, ‘we don’t talk to the cops,’" said Chris Swecker, a former assistant director of the FBI. He also has a background in gang investigations and helped implement the National Gang Intelligence Center. "You would think a victim would say, ‘Hey, that’s who shot me.’ Not the case in that culture," Swecker added. "And so that’s partly why … nobody was charged originally with the crime." Davis' own words are now central to the state's case against him. "The need to brag and the need to get street cred sort of overrode caution," Swecker said. "And now he sits in that defendant’s chair." Prosecutors opened Monday by describing Shakur's killing as revenge for the beating of Anderson, Davis' nephew, inside the MGM Grand after a Mike Tyson fight on Sept. 7, 1996. They argue Davis obtained a gun, helped hunt down Shakur and handed the weapon into the back seat before someone opened fire. TUPAC SHAKUR MURDER TRIAL KICKS OFF AS DUANE 'KEFFE D' DAVIS FACES JURY NEARLY THREE DECADES AFTER SHOOTING "Remarkably, you will learn that from Duane Davis himself," Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal told jurors. Defense attorney Michael Sanft countered that Davis exaggerated and made up stories for attention and book sales. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X "What they are telling you, they're representing it to be a fact when it really is fiction," he told jurors in his own opening statement. "And it's up to you to determine what the facts are in this case." He also said that police never tried corroborating Davis' claims when other suspected parties were still alive and attacked the investigation as incomplete. Former LAPD Detective Daryn Dupree testified Wednesday that Davis once denied involvement in the murder of Christopher Wallace, better known as the rapper Notorious B.I.G., by saying, "we did the other one," which Dupree testified he understood as a reference to Shakur. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS Dupree also described Davis' claim that Sean "Diddy" Combs was supposed to provide money for Shakur's murder. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Combs is currently in prison after being convicted of federal prostitution charges. He has not been charged in the deaths of Shakur or Wallace. He was a close associate of Wallace, who was killed in Los Angeles six months after Shakur, and whose Bad Boy Records was a rival of Knight's Death Row Records. SEND US A TIP Then on Thursday, prosecutors played hours of Davis' 2008 police interview. On the recording, Davis said he was inside the Cadillac, initially had the gun and passed it toward the back seat. He identified Anderson as the man who ultimately opened fire on Shakur and Knight. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST On Monday, jurors were shown surveillance video from MGM showing the initial fistfight involving Knight's entourage and Davis' nephew, Anderson. Thomas Kern, a former Las Vegas crime scene analyst who now works for Customs and Border Protection, testified Tuesday that he was present at Shakur's autopsy. The forensic pathologist determined his death to be a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds to his chest and abodmen. By Friday more than a dozen witnesses had testified, including photographer Leonard Jefferson, who took one of the last known photographs of Shakur alive. Also on the witness list is Yusef Jah, a ghostwriter who worked with Davis on his book, "Compton Street Legend: Notorious Keffe D's Street-Level Accounts of Tupac and Biggie Murders, Death Row Origins, Suge Knight, Puffy Combs, and Crooked Cops." Fox News' Melissa Chrise contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89a2082c5335ae1049c02f Teacher who battled union fears she’s being targeted after shirt complaint: 'I'm afraid' te 2026-08-22T13:20:08.526Z Teacher who battled union fears she’s being targeted after shirt complaint: 'I'm afraid' Stacey Adair, an award-winning teacher from Colorado, is facing scrutiny after a complaint that accused her of spreading anti-transgender messaging by wearing an "XX ≠ XY" chromosome t-shirt to a professional development training event earlier this month. "They get an anonymous complaint — nobody said anything that day," Adair, who was named teacher of the year at the 2025 Teacher Freedom Summit, said. "I would say people don't even know what it means, honestly." "I told one of my friends that yesterday about getting in trouble and she goes, ‘that's math.’ I said, ‘well, no, it’s actually genetics.’" A week after the meeting, Adair was called in, given a questionnaire about why she had worn the shirt and was instructed not to wear clothing with controversial messaging going forward. The reprimand has made Adair fearful for her job and worried that she might receive heightened scrutiny down the road. But beyond her individual case, onlookers like Ryan Walters, the CEO of the Teachers Freedom Alliance (TFA), an organization advocating for alternatives to teacher unions, believe her situation is emblematic of larger power struggles in schools over ideology. EXCLUSIVE: INDIANA SCHOOL COUNSELOR FIRED FOR SPEAKING OUT ON GENDER IDENTITY POLICY SETTLES LAWSUIT FOR $200K "It’s not an isolated incident," Walters said. "These are the types of teachers that when you talk to parents around the country, they go, ‘I want my kids in a teacher's class like that.’ And yet you see the way that they're treated by the districts." Adair’s case began when she selected one of her many "word" shirts to the professional development event — a routine training for teachers during the back-to-school season. She noted that her shirts aren’t out of the ordinary for her. In fact, she threw on a "Math facts" t-shirt to meet a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet — Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. She noted that the school district has a policy against apparel that is political or "disruptive to the educational environment." But Adair said she didn’t see her shirt as overtly political or disruptive — especially as there were no students present at the training event. "I mean I just grab a shirt I feel like wearing that day," Adair said. "I just wear these shirts because they’re facts. I just feel like someone has to be stating the truth," she added. Asked why she thinks she might face future repercussions for the XX ≠ XY shirt, Adair said she’s been expecting this for some time. Long before the write-up, she helped strip the teacher union’s grip on her district. JONATHAN TURLEY: ARKANSAS SCHOOLS TEACHERS UNIONS AND PROVES EDUCATION CAN BE IMPROVED In 2021, she helped topple two members of her school board who were backed by the union. Without them, the board allowed the district’s contract with the teachers union to lapse by not voting to renew it. "It basically dictated how the administration could run the school district," Adair said of the contract. "So, if the superintendent wanted to pay teachers extra money for having better scores or outcomes, he had to ask the union first. The union basically controlled the school district rather than the elected board." Since helping flip the seats and speaking out against the union’s influence, Adair said she has felt like there was a target on her back — sometimes literally. "One time a local plumber wrote me a veiled, threatening email to my district email right after I went against the union during a school speech on a Wednesday night," Adair said. "And I got to school, and district security had to have me file a police report." "You don’t mess around with the union. So, am I surprised? No. Yes, I'm afraid. I know this is the beginning of them coming after me," she added. Adair noted that she doesn’t have evidence that the teachers unions are behind the anonymous tip that sparked the review. NEWLY ELECTED SEATTLE TEACHERS UNION PRESIDENT UNDER INVESTIGATION OVER ALLEGED ABUSE OF AUTISTIC CHILD Even so, Walters, the CEO of the Teachers Freedom Alliance, said it is emblematic of some of the pressure he’s seen firsthand in other cases across the country applied to teachers who question their authority. He believes cases like Adair’s are a key reason he says schools have become proxies for political control. "It’s like, well, you tally up these types of incidents across the country over two decades and guess what you’ve got? You’ve got a lack of other viewpoints in the staff and the employees," Walters said. "And so that’s where we’ve seen this ideology being pushed in schools, even in red states where people go, ‘how did this happen?’ Well, take this incident, multiply it by a thousand and apply it on a daily basis." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89a2072c5335ae1049c026 Navy veterans reunite after 30 years for 'grueling' cross-country bike challenge honoring 9/11 te 2026-08-22T13:20:07.920Z Navy veterans reunite after 30 years for 'grueling' cross-country bike challenge honoring 9/11 Two Navy veterans recently reunited to complete a great expedition across America. Jim Serger, 55, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Cory Hardy, 51, of Ennis, Montana, hadn’t seen each other in 30 years since serving together overseas. On July 14, the two friends embarked on a bike ride across the country – from California to New York City – in honor of the upcoming 25th anniversary of Sept. 11. NEW JERSEY MAN WALKS ACROSS US TO RAISE NEARLY $100K FOR HOMELESS VETERANS: 'RESPECT AND REVERENCE' After writing three books for the nonprofit Tunnel to Towers, Serger said he felt he needed to challenge himself "with something bigger." "And why not wrangle in my old Navy buddy, who I hadn’t seen for 30 years, that I knew was a tremendous bicyclist," he told Fox News Digital. "Back in January, I said, ‘Would you like to go on this trip?’ And he said, ‘Absolutely, Jimmy, count me in.’" Hardy said he’s always viewed himself as "incredibly patriotic," as he’s been granted "so many opportunities" through the military to see the world and get an education. "When Jim approached me about the idea of doing this, I was like, ‘Wow, this is awesome. This is something that I can do,’" he shared. "It's the 250th anniversary of our country and the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and I don't want to forget, and I want people to keep it at the forefront of their minds." TUNNEL TO TOWERS 5K DRAWS 40,000 PEOPLE TO HONOR 9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS IN NYC Serger trained for 10 months, logging 5,000 miles on an indoor trainer. When spring came, he hit the trails around Cincinnati. A few months later, the duo began their journey in San Diego and headed east. They were met with 20 road closures, a fire and flooding in Colorado, two flat tires, three bike shop visits and lots of backroad maneuvering. Serger and Hardy focused on staying hydrated, especially in the California and Arizona heat, with a collective three gallons of water each day, sometimes including electrolytes. They snacked on energy waffles, protein bars and "salt gummy bears," and ate lots of carbs at meals. Hardy said he took 10-minute ice baths "every single day." Serger reported losing six pounds by the end of the mission, which he gained back by eating "good food" in New York. AMERICA'S FIREFIGHTER SHORTAGE HITS CRISIS LEVEL AS EMERGENCY CALLS TRIPLE, PUTTING LIVES AT RISK While Hardy was already accustomed to the elevation after living in mountainous Montana, Serger said the altitude posed a physical challenge. "It was grueling ... so hard," he told Fox News Digital. "Cory had to take the mountains in Colorado, I stayed on flat ground — that was our game plan." Serger and Hardy were met by some of their old Navy buddies along the way. One fellow veteran, an Arizona state trooper, drove from Phoenix to Flagstaff to meet them on the route. Others opened their homes for the pair to stay the night. The friends stopped at about 25 firehouses to hand out Tunnel to Towers books and to introduce themselves. "Sometimes we were there for an hour, sometimes we were there for four hours," Serger said. "Talking about Tunnel to Towers, where they were on 9/11 … how much they train … it was just very heartwarming." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER Serger said he and Hardy both foster the "patriotic mentality" of "what we can do for others," as Hardy serves on the city council and Serger's wife cooks for the fire department every month. These types of efforts were reciprocated on their journey. "Every fire station, EMS, police station, they're all involved in the communities. We got patches, we got hats, we got pins, we got T-shirts," Serger said. Hardy added that at every firehouse, everybody was there to help, "regardless of their state’s political affiliation." "They're just another American out there willing to put their life on the line to save people," he said. "I thought it was super awesome to get to meet firefighters from East Coast to West Coast." "The closer we got to Shanksville and the Pentagon and New York, it became very emotional, because then people said, ‘My mom was there’ or ‘My aunt was there' ... and then a firefighter said, ‘Three of our brothers went up there.’" "The closer we got, we knew we had hit the epicenter of how people responded to those terrorist attacks – and it really hit home." At the Pentagon, Serger and Hardy got a police escort from the Pentagon Police and Pentagon Fire Department before receiving a five-hour tour, including the 9/11 memorial. Clocking about 170 miles a day, the pair made it to Lower Manhattan in 20 days. They were welcomed by the FDNY, Port Authority and NYPD Honor Guard at FDNY Ten House, across from Ground Zero and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "I started crying," Serger said. "My wife was there. She flew in. We had Sal Cassano, the [former] FDNY Fire Commissioner, there. Fire Station 10 had firemen, civilians were there. It was very, very moving." Serger and Hardy’s cause has so far raised more than $17,000 for Tunnel to Towers. In addition to raising funds for the organization, Serger said the expedition aims to generate continued awareness for those who sacrificed and risked their lives on 9/11 as the 25th anniversary approaches. "We never forget 9/11," Serger said. "We never forget the sacrifice of our heroes, of our military, our first responders and gold star families," he said. "We never want 9/11 to fade away." CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES Serger described the bike ride as a "surreal" and emotional experience. "It started off with, we're going to raise money for Tunnel to Towers, and I think our final [takeaway] was there's a lot of love and pride and patriotism in this country, from far west all the way to the east," he shared. "Everybody welcomed us with open arms. That's all we talked about." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a899fb12c5335ae1049bfbf WNBA player goes on profanity-laced rant about 'gay' men throwing sex toys on the court te 2026-08-22T13:10:09.992Z WNBA player goes on profanity-laced rant about 'gay' men throwing sex toys on the court As we theorized yesterday, the WNBA's sex toy problem has officially come back with a vengeance. Three more sex toys were launched onto the court Friday during the third quarter of the Chicago Sky-Golden State Valkyrie game. Three! It's a pandemic. It's official, folks. Mask up! Stop the spread! This comes on the heels of the famous neon green toy making a stunning appearance during Thursday's Dream-Sparks game in Los Angeles. For those who missed that one, Angel Reese saw the perp right away and viciously pointed him out in the crowd. He was later seen fleeing the scene. What a league. Anyway, back to Golden State ... Three sex toys interrupted play in the third quarter, and Sky guard Natasha Cloud was asked about it after the game. What followed was one of the wildest two-minute rants I've heard come from a professional athlete. Enjoy: "Y’all lame as f–k," Cloud started before diving into a world of name-calling, slurs, and sex toy talk. "And I just, man, and like, in most of these occasions, it’s men. And I want you to know that is the gayest thing that you can do is to go to a store, a sex shop, buy a dildo, come to a women’s game to throw the dildo on the court. That is the gayest s–t that I’ve ever heard." Here's where things really go off the rails: WNBA SUDDENLY WANTS TO STICK TO BASKETBALL AFTER YEARS OF MAKING POLITICS PART OF THE PRODUCT "So I’m a firm believer in anyone that has so much problem with a certain marginalized group, just come out and say that you’re a part of our marginalized group because that hate is unwarranted. It’s not factual," she continued. "And it says more about the internal struggles of that individual than it ever will say about the collective group. The men that are throwing it, shows that you are weak. Like, extremely weak. And it says a lot about how you feel about women. Y’all lame to us. Y’all gay to us. "We see it. Keep throwing them if you want to keep telling us you’re gay. You can come out. You’ll be happier. You’ll be nicer to people. You’ll be happier in your everyday life. You don’t need to go to therapy or none of that s–t. Just be yourself. Y’all weird. Like it says dildo on their credit card. Like they have to go through their financial advisor and be like, ‘What’s this green dildo? You good, Chad? You good, Richard? Are you good, Paul?’ Because it also is a certain demographic." Goodness gracious. Like I said, it's an all-timer. It's a rollercoaster. Natasha hit all the notes here. She used the word gay 400 times, and also used it as an insult, which I'm not sure the WNBA will love. She also attacks guys, which is fair, and makes sure to throw in some racial undertones at the end. Again, I'd say that's fair, but also, one of the guys arrested for doing this last year had the name "Lopez," so I'm not 100% sure that math checks out. BROADCAST BIAS: SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM TAKES A HIT, BUT ABC, NBC DODGE WNBA’S TRANSGENDER SPORTS FIGHT Anyway, I don't care about any of it. I think Cloud is right in saying that going to a sex store and buying a toy, just to pay for a ticket to a WNBA game, just so you can then throw said toy onto the court and stop a game, is silly. That seems like a ton of work for very little payoff. Also seems like a waste of money. I could never afford that lifestyle. What a luxury. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! That being said, I'm not sure lashing out like this is going to help. If anything, it's probably going to make this sex toy pandemic worse. If I know anything about how the human male brain operates, name-calling usually doesn't solve problems. Just a hunch. Stay tuned! Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a899d5b2c5335ae1049bf4e Nick Chubb retires after NFL career that began on a Hall of Fame trajectory but was derailed by injuries te 2026-08-22T13:00:11.326Z Nick Chubb retires after NFL career that began on a Hall of Fame trajectory but was derailed by injuries A stellar career seemingly ended for Nick Chubb after that catastrophic injury in 2023, but one of the NFL's most dominant running backs refused to go out like that at age 28. He is instead going out healthy and on his own terms at age 30. Chubb on Friday night announced what he himself knew was inevitable years ago: He is done. He is now retired from the NFL. "Today's the day I've been avoiding for a while," Chubb wrote in a farewell missive on Instagram. "Twelve-year-old me could never imagine this day, and 30-year-old me is wondering where all the time has gone. "I've known for some time now, but I'm finally ready to share that I'm done playing football. I wanted to end my career on a healthy note, along with a winning season, and I was able to do that." RUSSELL WILSON ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM NFL AFTER 14 SEASONS This is a true story: In the spring of 2018, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick went to the University of Georgia campus and watched both Chubb and Sony Michel work out for scouts. He selected Michel with the 31st pick of the first round to be his running back. Chubb was selected four slots later by the Cleveland Browns and over the next five seasons made Belichick's choice look like a mistake. Chubb rushed for 996 yards as a rookie in '18 despite starting only nine games. Then, starting in 2019, Chubb established himself as one of the NFL's premier running backs, producing four consecutive 1,000-yard-plus seasons, averaging over 5 yards per carry in each of those seasons, and being selected to four consecutive Pro Bowls. Chubb never won a rushing title, but came closest in 2019, finishing second to Derrick Henry, who won the crown on the last day of the season by gaining 211 yards. Through his first five seasons, Chubb gained 6,341 rushing yards, scored 48 rushing touchdowns and boasted a remarkable 5.2 yards per carry. The guy was on a Hall of Fame career trajectory. HOUSTON TEXANS STAR PRACTICES IN PADS FOR FIRST TIME IN NEARLY TWO YEARS AFTER 2024 CAREER-THREATENING INJURY But that changed dramatically in September of 2023 when he suffered a devastating injury to his left knee against the Steelers that required two surgeries and cost him the remainder of that season and part of the next. Chubb had previously torn multiple ligaments while at Georgia so he knew what a comeback entailed. But when he returned in 2024, he wasn't the same. And even that diminished player had another injury when he broke his foot, prematurely ending his season once again. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM "The only thing I could control after hurting my knee twice was getting back up, getting back to work, and getting back on the field," Chubb wrote in his farewell post. "And I was able to do that both times." The Nick Chubb story includes physical and emotional pain in large swaths. It seems like he had a career filled with setbacks. That's not how he sees it. "I say this to all my brothers still on the field, still in the heat of it," Chubb wrote. "There's a life waiting for you after football, too. And health is the real wealth. "I end my career in a great place. Even though there are some things I wish had happened differently, I can say that I have no regrets." FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8998a92c5335ae1049be81 Jets say Geno Smith delivers 'exactly what we were looking for' in 2026 debut, so here comes the overreaction te 2026-08-22T12:40:09.155Z Jets say Geno Smith delivers 'exactly what we were looking for' in 2026 debut, so here comes the overreaction Geno Smith played well in his New York Jets debut on Friday night and in any other town, that's going to be notable but somewhat mundane news because the starting quarterback performing at a high level in the preseason is not a promise of championships. But because we're talking about New York, and the starving-for-glad-tidings Jets, this space warns you to prepare for what's next. Because Smith's one drive against the Pittsburgh Steelers might lead to some massive overreaction. And a lot of excitement. And high expectations. JETS FANS BREATHE SIGH OF RELIEF AFTER PRACTICE SCARE FOR $43M STAR RUNNING BACK So, the Geno 2.0 public relations uproar is on. That's how it is in the Big Apple's thrill ride through the NFL season for quarterbacks who struggle in preseason practices, as Smith has done at times this summer, and then deliver a near-perfect performance in their first preseason action. "Very, very efficient," Jets coach Aaron Glenn described it to reporters afterward. "I mean, I think he had two third-down completions within that, threw to five different receivers within that drive. He looked very comfortable. "It was exactly what we were looking for ..." Smith is thus going to get a good dose of New York pundit love for the next few days because he had that drive in which he completed all seven of his pass attempts, including one that was tipped and caught by one of his offensive linemen. He's going to get applauded for converting a couple of third-down situations. And, of course, the 13-yard touchdown pass to Jelani Woods will be replayed as if on a loop on channels 2, 4, 5, 7 and WPIX. It's the New York way. So, how ya feelin' Geno? "It felt good to be out there with the guys," Smith told reporters gathered at his locker stall. "You know, obviously we got one drive in, but we scored a touchdown. You always want to start fast. so that was a good thing. "But definitely a lot of room for improvement. So just looking forward to getting back to practice, getting to work." This is a perfect reaction from Smith. He shows modesty while giving his performance proper context. But the fans? The media? They're going to go as close to wild as is allowed by NFL preseason bylaws. And it won't be just the fans and media getting all pumped. Some Jets teammates will, too. IT'S WISE NOT TO TRUST THE NFL PRESEASON BUT, HOLY MOLY, RAMS QB TY SIMPSON LOOKS LIKE A STUD "We were all fired up for him," backup quarterback Cade Klubnik said. "He's going to have a heck of a year and that's just a glimpse of it." There it is, a prediction for the entire regular season based on one preseason drive. And, again, it was a good drive. But that Steelers defense that retreated did not include T.J. Watt, or Jalen Ramsey, or Joey Porter, or Cam Heyward. Just sayin'. Look, the Smith we saw on Friday was more comfortable, more proficient, and just better than the one who left this same franchise a decade ago as a draft bust. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM You'll recall Smith's first stint with the Jets, from 2013 to 2016, was a mess. It ended, for all intents and purposes, when teammate IK Enemkpali sucker punched Smith and broke his jaw in 2015. That, unfortunately, turned Smith's stint with the team into something of a punchline — literally. So, this return has a wonderful opportunity to be something else. Something better. But Friday's lone drive should be understood to be one humble hint of that possibility rather than a bold vision of the next few months. Smith, thankfully, gets that. "I just feel like," he said, "we can be a lot better." FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8991a32c5335ae1049bd44 Here are five tunes to blast this weekend in honor of late ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard te 2026-08-22T12:10:11.914Z Here are five tunes to blast this weekend in honor of late ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard Like a great many rock and blues fans around the globe, I was really sorry to hear the news that Frank Beard, the ironically beardless drummer of the legendarily bearded ZZ Top, had died at the age of 77. The band is in the midst of a tour, plans to continue, but will do so with only one original member, vocalist and axeman Billy Gibbons, following the 2021 death of bassist Dusty Hill. I was admittedly late to the ZZ Top part in my music listening journey, but over the last few years they’ve become one of my go-to bands. Just good old-fashioned blues-rock tunes about cheap sunglasses, women with legs who know how to use them, and men who are sharply dressed. So, let’s pay homage to Mr. Beard and run through a few songs we should all be blasting this weekend in his honor. It’s kind of wild that a song about waiting for a bus has one of the most infectious grooves in the band’s body of work, but it does. "Waitin’ for the Bus" kicks off ZZ Top’s 1973 album "Tres Hombres," and it lets you know that you’re in for some serious, down-and-dirty blues rock. The main riff is one of my favorites and is just one of those that makes you involuntarily nod your head with a "stinkface." You know the look. Beard’s playing is stellar, especially during the harmonica and guitar solos, and then they segue seamlessly into a straight-ahead blues tune in "Jesus Just Left Chicago." Now that’s how you start a record. FOUR CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED GUITARISTS FROM THE 1980S THAT ARE GUARANTEED TO MELT YOUR FACE OFF One of the last things you’d think you’d ever hear out of a blues band from Texas is them throwing some synthesizers into the mix, but ZZ Top did it, and it’s brilliant. "Eliminator" is an all-time album from top to bottom, and is really the sound I think of when I think of ZZ Top. "Gimme All Your Lovin’" is a classic in its own right, and I love the opening drum part from Beard that gets the song going. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK CULTURE COVERAGE In fact, I think almost everyone can tell what song is about to start with those first two snare hits. That’s practically the definition of an iconic song in my book. And the chorus? Good luck not singing along to it. This list may make it obvious, but I’d say my two favorite ZZ Top albums are "Tres Hombres" and "Eliminator." Kind of strange because the first is a classic, down-and-dirty blues-rock record, while the other has deliciously ‘80s synthesizers thrown into the mix on top of it. That doesn’t seem like it should work, but it obviously does. I love that they didn’t go overboard with synths and drum machines; they used them to accent what they were already doing. "TV Dinners" is a prime example of it. The rhythmic synth part just adds to what Beard is playing and completes a song with an undeniable groove to it. There aren't many records that have tried to mesh a traditional style of music like blues with what was cutting-edge technology at the time. Believe me, I've looked for them, and I think the closest modern album to those ZZ Top gems from the 1980s is Sturgill Simpson's 2019 album "Sound & Fury." I had never heard of this gem off of "Deguelo" until I was watching the documentary "ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas," and it blew my mind. It has this big, ugly riff — a description I offer in the most complimentary way imaginable — that makes little to no musical sense, and I'm pretty sure that's because it’s supposed to sound like an engine. You’d think it would be almost impossible to come up with a drum part to go with that bizarre riff, but Frank Beard pulled it off. He somehow managed to play a part that adds to the machine-like sound of the riff, but is still musical with a cool backbeat to it. It’s so, so good, and while that opening riff is the one that stands out because it is so unusual, the one that comes later in the song (it kind of reminds me of the closing riff from the Black Sabbath song "War Pigs") is a winner as well. I was introduced to this tune after hearing one of my favorite bands, Clutch, do a cover of it. So, I went back to "Tres Hombres" and checked it out. It’s another song that starts with a cool little fill from Frank and another that has a bit of an off-kilter feel to it. STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW! As we touched on with "Manic Mechanic," Beard’s playing feels so thoughtful and serves the song so well. The best part, in my opinion, is when they veer away from the money riff and into a quick, flowing, almost epic-sounding bridge section where the drums really shine. What a tune. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8991a32c5335ae1049bd3b Dem Senate hopeful racked up hundreds of missed votes during stops at multiple taxpayer serving jobs te 2026-08-22T12:10:11.353Z Dem Senate hopeful racked up hundreds of missed votes during stops at multiple taxpayer serving jobs FIRST ON FOX: Democratic Senate nominee and former Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, missed nearly one in five votes in the Alaska House of Representatives and more than a third of Bethel City Council meetings during her time in office, records show. Peltola missed 794 of 4,265 state House votes, or 18.6%, during her five terms from 1999 to 2009, according to legislative records, and 22 of 60 city council meetings, or 36.67% from 2011 to 2013, according to city records. Her attendance record is now raising questions about her commitment to public service as she advances to Alaska’s four-candidate general election, a closely watched race that could affect control of the U.S. Senate. "Alaskans deserve an all-the-time workhorse like Dan Sullivan, not someone like Peltola who knifes Alaskans in the back when she even bothers to show up," Republican National Committee spokesperson Nick Poche said in a statement sent to Fox News Digital. MORNING GLORY: ALASKA’S 'REAL' SENATOR DAN SULLIVAN STOOD UP OVER CHALLENGER Records show Peltola’s highest number of absences came during the 23rd Legislature from 2003 to 2004, when she missed 334 of 1,019 Alaska House votes. She also missed nine of 22 council meetings in 2013 and 11 of 32 council meetings in 2012, according to city records. Peltola has also faced criticism from conservatives for missing votes while serving in the United States Congress from 2022-2024 where she missed 235 of 1,370 roll-call votes, or 17.2%, according to GovTrack data. In addition to missed votes, Peltola's critics have also pointed to her time in Congress not resulting in any bills or resolutions for which she was the primary sponsor becoming law, compared to Sullivan who has had several bills signed into law. "She couldn't even get a single bill signed into law," the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) posted on X in January. "Now, she wants a promotion." In a statement to Fox News Digital, a Peltola campaign spokesperson defended the absences, saying Peltola, a mother of seven, took maternity leave after giving birth to three of her children while serving in the state House. The spokesperson added that, excluding excused absences, Peltola missed only about 6% of votes and continued to advance bipartisan measures throughout her tenure. "Three of Mary’s children were born during her time in the state legislature and she took maternity leave. That didn’t stop her from working hard for Alaskans, from passing bills to improve public safety in rural Alaska to increasing Alaska energy production," the Peltola campaign said. The campaign also said Peltola spent summers at fish camp and that some city council absences occurred during fishing months or because of other council priorities. GOP SENATOR, EX-HOUSE DEM EMERGE FROM ALASKA’S ‘JUNGLE PRIMARY’ DESPITE FAR-LEFT MEDDLING Turning to Sullivan’s attendance record, the spokesperson said he has missed a significant number of votes and committee hearings, calling his absences "an insult to Alaskans" and saying that Sullivan has been "slacking off" missing fisheries subcommittee hearings. Peltola announced her Senate bid in January to represent Alaska and unseat two-term Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, who is backed by President Donald Trump and also advanced to the general election in November. She finished ahead of Sullivan in Tuesday’s primary. FOUR MONTHS TO MIDTERMS: 12 RACES THAT WILL DETERMINE THE SENATE MAJORITY Peltola announced her Senate bid in January to represent Alaska and unseat two-term Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, who is backed by President Donald Trump and also advanced to the general election in November. She finished ahead of Sullivan in Tuesday’s primary. Alaska’s unique election system uses a nonpartisan top-four primary, in which candidates from all parties appear on the same ballot, followed by ranked-choice voting in the general election. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8991a22c5335ae1049bd32 ‘Reagan’ film set to release director’s cut amid alleged online censorship te 2026-08-22T12:10:10.762Z ‘Reagan’ film set to release director’s cut amid alleged online censorship As the team behind the 2024 biopic "Reagan" promotes and prepares for the film’s re-release next month, it once again finds itself battling what its producer calls digital gatekeeping. This time, producer Mark Joseph is taking issue with Google’s YouTube after ads promoting interviews with stars and others associated with the film were flagged under the platform's advertising policies. The interviews are part of Joseph's podcast special series, "Making REAGAN." Since the film — which starred Dennis Quaid as the 40th president — was first released in theaters in August 2024, its creators have faced numerous obstacles, including restrictions imposed by Facebook early on related to efforts to boost posts and advertisements for the film. Production on "Reagan" began in 2020. NEW FOX NATION DOCUMENTARY CHRONICLES 20-YEAR JOURNEY BEHIND ‘REAGAN’ FILM In what Joseph describes as the latest censorship activity by YouTube, an ad promoting the first episode of the series, featuring rock legend Gene Simmons discussing family, his producing endeavors and his appreciation for America, was flagged by the platform for "advertisement for elections" and "shocking content," despite the noticeably tame conversation. Simmons’ cover of "Stormy Weather" was his contribution to the "Reagan" movie. "For 30 years, Simmons has been branded for outrageous content, and now he’s been deemed outrageous for talking?" Joseph told Fox News Digital. Simmons, the co-founder, co-lead singer and bassist of the legendary rock band KISS, has long been famous for his black-and-white face paint, inordinately long tongue, fire-breathing and blood-spitting stunts and overall stage persona. "The notion that a simple conversation with a rock legend like Gene Simmons is labeled ‘shocking content’ and ‘election advertising’ is ridiculous, as anyone who watches the episode can attest," Joseph added. "These are normal conversations." Other episodes whose promotions were flagged for "election advertising" feature Kathie Lee Gifford, who co-wrote the tribute song "I Knew It Would Be You" for the film; actresses Amanda Righetti and Lesley-Anne Down; actors Dan Lauria, Elya Baskin and Trevor Donovan; author Arthur Laffer; singer Tanya Tucker; and screenwriter and filmmaker Howard Klausner. REAGAN SHOOTER CALLS LINK TO WASHINGTON HOTEL ‘SPOOKY’ AFTER ALLEGED TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AT SAME SITE An Aug. 12 episode in which Joseph sits down with John Hinckley Jr. for an exclusive interview and extensive discussion about his 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan also had its promotion blocked for "election advertising." "The idea that an information and news-oriented interview with the man who shot Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley, is labeled ‘election advertising’ and blocked from being boosted is equally crazy," Joseph said. According to Joseph’s team, when this happens, YouTube does not provide an option to appeal the ruling, but only allows them to boost a different episode. RONALD REAGAN TOOK AWAY HIS OWN SON'S FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP, 'REAGAN' PRODUCER REVEALS Joseph has called on the video-streaming platform to reverse its decision and stop blocking the team's attempts to promote the episodes, as well as the release of the "Reagan" director’s cut in theaters Sept. 25. The extended version includes 10 additional minutes of footage and returns to roughly 600 theaters on Sept. 25, after limited Independence Day screenings tied to the nation’s 250th anniversary. YouTube responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment with a statement citing that "ads related to the podcast were removed for including profanity," referring specifically to the episode featuring Simmons. A YouTube representative did note, however, that after review, the ad does not violate their U.S. Election Ads policy, but since it still contains profanity, it can’t be approved to run as an advertisement. Beyond that, it was noted that the creator’s videos are compliant with YouTube’s community guidelines, which apply to organic content. It also said that the platform had reached out to the creator to "help them understand our policies moving forward, and they are welcome to adjust the content in order to promote the video in the future." NEW ‘REAGAN’ MOVIE MUSEUM PLANNED FOR PRESIDENT’S HOMETOWN Yet numerous other episodes were flagged for "election advertising." YouTube noted its U.S. Election Ads policy, which requires advertisers to have an elections certification to run ads that feature a reference to a current candidate or officeholder for an elected office. Joseph reiterated that many of the episodes weren’t geared towards politics and were just discussions with those who contributed to the "Reagan" film. YouTube then responded, "Following a careful review, we determined that a few of these advertised episodes were out of scope of the Election Ads policy, but others are in scope." Directed by Sean McNamara and produced by Rawhide Pictures, "Reagan" follows his childhood in Illinois, Hollywood acting career, California governorship and rise to the presidency. Besides the overall challenge the filmmakers say they faced while telling the story of a conservative icon in left-leaning Hollywood, the film’s production encountered many stops and starts. While filming in Guthrie, Okla., the production had to shut down for a month due to COVID. Then, while promoting the film and ahead of its release, Facebook restricted efforts to boost posts and advertisements for the movie. Material featuring Quaid and a Reagan quotation about America’s best days still lying ahead was affected. The film’s official Facebook page also faced temporary suspensions. For its part, Facebook cited automated systems and policies governing content involving politicians before a presidential election as the problem. Although Trump was the Republican on the ballot, not Reagan, Facebook later said that automated systems had mistakenly flagged content about "Reagan" as requiring special authorization under its social-issues and elections rules. "The similarities to Facebook are that both use a nebulous reasoning that the content somehow constitutes electioneering, but with the ‘Making Reagan’ series on YouTube, these are just ordinary conversations with people who were involved with the film or the topic of the film and have nothing to do with advocating for an election," Joseph said. Other obstacles related to the movie involved the Guinness World Records declining to certify a milestone asserted by the filmmakers: that the movie achieved the widest gap between audience and critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes for any American-made movie. In terms of the YouTube kerfuffle, producer, director and CEO of boutique marketing agency Ribbow Media Group CEO Ash Greyson said he, too, has had ongoing issues when using YouTube’s platform to promote conservative films. But it’s the faith-based films he’s marketed that have faced the greatest hurdles. Greyson helped market and promote the 2023 Christian drama "Jesus Revolution," among other Christian-based films, including "God’s Not Dead" and "I Still Believe." "It’s been a frustrating and ongoing issue for years, particularly on YouTube, where they will flag anything ‘faith,’" Greyson said, noting that he’s had very few issues regarding films outside those genres. "And it seems to be worse on the Christian stuff." For Joseph, it’s simply about getting these important stories seen after all the sweat equity involved in making them. "It’s unfortunate because it severely limits the reach," he said regarding what he sees as obstacles needlessly put up by YouTube. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8991a22c5335ae1049bd29 Charles Manson's granddaughter reveals moment she discovered dark family secret: 'It was devastating' te 2026-08-22T12:10:10.138Z Charles Manson's granddaughter reveals moment she discovered dark family secret: 'It was devastating' In 2022, Sophia Maddox received a phone call that upended everything she thought she knew about her family — and sent her searching for answers about one of America's most notorious criminals. At the time, the 22-year-old aspiring filmmaker and actress was living in Los Angeles, juggling odd jobs to make rent, while her father, Daniel Arguelles, was searching for answers about his own past. Raised by his mother and stepfather, Arguelles had been trying to identify his biological father when he called Maddox with a startling discovery. "He told me he thinks he found out who his father is, and if it's true, it's really dark," Maddox told Fox News Digital. "He wasn't sure if I was ready to know. And my dad is not a dark person. He never taught me any dark things. So if he says it's dark, my first thought is it must be famously dark. So I asked him to just get it out of the way." WOMAN BRANDED ‘FEMALE CHARLES MANSON’ ESCAPED PRISON; PROSECUTOR NOW DOUBTS HER CONVICTION "'Is it Ted Bundy?'" she recalled. "He said, 'Bigger. Think of the biggest movie you know and the biggest director you know.' And I thought of the movie 'Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.' I was trying to remember the name mentioned in the film. And then I realized who it was: Charles Manson." Maddox immediately Googled Manson's name. The resemblance, she said, was uncanny. "I thought to myself, 'That's my dad,'" Maddox said. "It was a really devastating day." Maddox's journey after learning that Manson was her grandfather is chronicled in the Hulu documentary "My Grandfather Charles Manson." In it, she meets people who had direct connections to Manson, including some of his former followers, to better understand her family history. "It was cathartic," Maddox said. "I'm a filmmaker before I found out who my grandfather is. And my life got uprooted from this. I had something to say at that moment, and I couldn't bottle it up." Arguelles submitted his DNA to Ancestry in 2015, hoping to identify his father and finally answer a question that had followed him for decades. He had long suspected the man who raised him was not his biological father and confronted his mother about his paternity when he was 21. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Years passed, and Arguelles had nearly given up when he matched with Michael Brunner. DNA testing confirmed they were half-brothers. Brunner is Manson's son with Mary Brunner, one of Manson's earliest followers, People magazine reported. Maddox described herself and her father as "normal, working-class citizens." "We have no prior records or anything criminal," Maddox said. "We grew up as artists. My dad showed me the movies he made and his modeling photos of him photographed by Richard Avedon. So of course, when you learn that someone like Manson is your grandfather, it's normal to wonder, 'Am I that too?' People have asked me, 'Were you afraid that you inherited evil, that you were evil?' But my dad and I are very normal, hardworking people." Manson, who was convicted of orchestrating the 1969 murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles, died in 2017. He was 83 and serving a life sentence. A petty criminal who had been in and out of jail since childhood, the charismatic, guru-like Manson surrounded himself in the 1960s with runaways and other lost souls, The Associated Press reported. According to the outlet, he then sent his disciples to butcher some of the rich and famous in what prosecutors said was a bid to trigger a race war — an idea he got from a twisted reading of the Beatles song "Helter Skelter." Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Manson maintained that he was innocent and that society itself was guilty. SIGN UP TO GET THE TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER A horrified Arguelles resisted learning more about his biological father. Maddox wanted to dig deeper into her grandfather's past. She said she was less interested in the mythology surrounding Manson and more interested in how he became the man America came to fear. Manson was born in 1934 to teenage Kathleen Maddox. His biological father was absent, and his mother married William Manson, whose surname Charles took. After that marriage ended, his mother was sent to prison for her role in a robbery, and Manson went to live with relatives. By his teens, he was stealing, running away and bouncing through juvenile institutions. He eventually was sent to the Indiana Boys School. Manson later said he was beaten and sexually assaulted while locked up as a juvenile. His troubles continued into adulthood, with repeated prison sentences for crimes including theft and forgery. By the time Manson was released from federal prison in 1967 at age 32, he had spent roughly half his life behind bars or in juvenile institutions. In the film, Maddox examined previously unreleased records that shed light on Manson's troubled childhood. "I heard about my dad's abuse as a child from a reform school and from his own parents," she explained. "My dad's was really bad, but that was the '70s. Imagine what it was like back in the '40s or '50s. It was shocking how bad they treated boys in these reform schools. the juvenile justice expert we spoke to said that Manson's experience at Indiana was not singular. Manson's story was not exceptional. That's how they learned their lessons in survival." GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE TRUE CRIME HUB "I think the biggest shock for me was how Manson's decision-making as an adult in his 30s can really stem from the survival mechanisms he learned from his childhood in these prisons," she added. Maddox said she was disturbed to learn that Manson, who had been institutionalized for offenses including running away and theft, was housed alongside older juveniles with violent records. "I was shocked to read that he was imprisoned with kids who had murdered people," Maddox said. "And he was there for running away from home, stealing a bike or stealing a car. But so many boys, older kids with violent records, were placed there. And what does a kid have to do to survive a place like that? It breaks my heart." Arguelles, born in 1959, learned that he was the result of a brief relationship between his mother, Darlene Arguelles, and Manson, who was using the alias "Charlie Dear" at the time, People magazine reported. But as Maddox dug deeper into the family's past, the search that initially brought father and daughter together began pulling them apart. Maddox said she and her father had a falling out one week before production on the documentary began. Arguelles had previously sat for an interview and encouraged his daughter to make the film, but she said confronting his biological father's past ultimately became too painful. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS "I have a little more distance from Manson because I am the grandchild, but that's his father," Maddox said. "And he's shared similar experiences in childhood as him. And my dad is a very sensitive person. [But] he was curious. He wanted answers. He wanted me to make this film. But then at the same time, it was all too much." "I don't know if he's seen the film," Maddox said. "He hasn't reached out. So I'm just sitting back and respecting his wishes until he reaches back out." "I still support Sophia and I'm very proud of her," Arguelles told Fox News Digital. "I believe the falling out between us came from a difference of opinion on the overall narrative. That's really all I can say at this point." The Manson Family slaughtered five of its victims on Aug. 9, 1969, at Tate’s home: the actress, who was 8½ months pregnant, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, Polish screenwriter Wojciech (Voityck) Frykowski and Steven Parent, a friend of the estate’s caretaker. Tate’s husband, "Rosemary’s Baby" director Roman Polanski, was out of the country at the time. The next night, a wealthy grocer and his wife, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were stabbed to death in their home across town. After a trial that lasted nearly a year, Manson and three followers — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten — were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Another defendant, Charles "Tex" Watson, was convicted and sentenced to death later. Their sentences were commuted to life in prison after the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty in 1972. Atkins died of cancer in prison in 2009 at age 61. Van Houten was released on parole in 2023. Krenwinkel and Watson are still behind bars. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE Maddox said she reached out to the victims' loved ones during filming. "I'm in talks with two relatives at the moment," Maddox said. "And I'll just say every experience I've had with them has been very lovely. They were very kind to me. They understood why I am telling this story. ... I'm not the only person looking for answers." Maddox said examining the forces that shaped Manson was never about absolving him of his crimes. "My intention is never to apologize or justify for anybody's actions," she said. "I know what my grandfather did." Maddox said understanding Manson's past wasn't about excusing his crimes but about understanding what shaped him — and potentially preventing future violence. In the film, Maddox also explained her decision to change her surname. SEND US A TIP "My dad and I were always trying to find a last name that resonated with us," she said. "I spent a year or two investigating my family and re-looked the name 'Maddox.' And when I Googled it, it meant 'goodness.' My blood name means goodness. I'm going to own it. That's mine. I'm giving it new life." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8991a12c5335ae1049bd20 WATCH: Father of three outraged over advice his family received amid trans teacher fight te 2026-08-22T12:10:09.470Z WATCH: Father of three outraged over advice his family received amid trans teacher fight Parents at a North Carolina elementary school are fighting for the ability to keep their children in public school while opting them out of a music class taught by a transgender teacher, as one father says critics have responded by telling families to homeschool instead. The dispute at Middle Creek Elementary School in Wake County has centered on parents who say they were not given advance notice about the teacher and want an alternative for children whose families object on religious or personal grounds. Parents speaking before the school board this week said children have come home "upset, confused and uncomfortable," while others said requests for alternatives have been ignored or dismissed and called on the district to provide an opt-out. The controversy spilled into a heated Wake County Board of Education meeting Tuesday, where speakers were sharply divided over whether accommodating those families amounts to protecting parental rights or discriminating against a teacher because of gender identity. One speaker argued that religious and conscientious exemptions effectively amount to parents demanding that their children not encounter people they dislike, while others said families should not have to leave the public-school system to avoid a class they object to. PORTLAND PARENT BANNED FROM SCHOOL EVENTS AFTER OPPOSING GENDER IDENTITY ASSIGNMENT FILES LAWSUIT Aaron Driver, a father of three children at Middle Creek Elementary and member of Middle Creek Parental Rights, told the board that parents "shouldn’t have to pass an ideological test to participate in public education." "Here’s what our detractors are telling us," Driver said. "You don’t support school hiring a trans teacher. Maybe public school isn’t for you or your family. Maybe homeschool. Maybe private school." BRAZIL PARENTS FACE PRISON SENTENCE FOR HOMESCHOOLING AFTER COURT ACCUSES THEM OF 'INTELLECTUAL NEGLECT' "That's right," he continued. "Maybe pay taxes into the school system and then pay again to escape from it." Later in the meeting, another public commenter, Katrina Day, offered a striking response from the other side of the fight, proposing a free homeschooling curriculum because it would "keep the bigots away from my grandchildren." She also suggested the district "relocate the children of bigots if needed" or "expel the children of bigots if needed." The fight at Middle Creek has been building prior to Tuesday's contentious board meeting. State Rep. Erin Paré, R-Wake, publicly raised concerns in late July after hearing from parents about the possibility of a transgender teacher at their southern Wake County elementary school, floating the possibility of a state law requiring sex-based professional attire for public-school employees, according to WRAL. Parents opposed to the arrangement have framed their objections as a request for advance notice and alternatives rather than a personal attack on the teacher. During Tuesday’s meeting, one speaker said parents should receive "advanced notice and the option to opt out" when a teacher’s presentation conflicts with their religious or personal beliefs, while another said families had requested alternatives and called on the board to "provide reasonable alternatives to families who object." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8991a02c5335ae1049bd17 Trump’s welfare reforms are a major victory. Bureaucrats could still wreck them te 2026-08-22T12:10:08.845Z Trump’s welfare reforms are a major victory. Bureaucrats could still wreck them Is America doomed to repeat its welfare mistakes? That’s the question on the 30th anniversary of the 1996 welfare reforms, which President Clinton signed on August 22. The law empowered millions of families to move from welfare to work, but it has since been replaced by an even more costly and harmful welfare state. Over $18 trillion in welfare spending later, President Trump championed an even bigger reform in the law he signed last summer. It represents historic progress, yet its success depends on tireless enforcement against states and bureaucrats that want to undermine it. The next welfare reform is already needed — sooner rather than later. Even now, the 1996 welfare reform stands out as one of the most transformative policies in recent history. The law famously targeted the country’s main cash welfare program, which had trapped families in poverty and dependency for decades. It created a new program — Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — that connected mostly single mothers to work. By 2005, TANF caseloads had dropped by nearly 60%, saving taxpayers billions of dollars while improving millions of lives. DR. OZ UNVEILS MEDICAID OVERHAUL, CLAMPS DOWN ON $2B FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND MANDATES WORK FOR ABLE-BODIED Yet the progress with cash welfare was overshadowed by a backward slide in food stamps. While the 1996 law created much-needed work requirements for able-bodied adults, it had Swiss cheese levels of loopholes. State officials and federal bureaucrats conspired to the point that, in 2023, about 95% of able-bodied adults on food stamps were not covered by work requirements. Meanwhile, other welfare programs not touched in 1996 have exploded. ObamaCare and pandemic-era policies expanded Medicaid to previously inconceivable levels of more than 100 million recipients, a huge percentage of them able-bodied men with no disabilities. The painful result: As of last year, federal welfare spending was 2.7 times higher than it was in 1996, even adjusting for inflation. Welfare is more expensive, expansive, and extreme than ever. TRUMP TRIES TO CUT BLUE-STATE MEDICAID FRAUD AND SAVE MORE GREEN Enter President Trump. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act enacted unprecedented reforms to both food stamps and Medicaid. The loopholes that states use to avoid food-stamp work requirements have almost all been closed, and Medicaid now has its first-ever work requirements. Most importantly, states are now on the hook for high misspending in both programs. If they tolerate waste, fraud, and abuse, they have to pay a portion of the programs’ costs — a powerful incentive to apply work requirements and shrink welfare rolls. My organization estimates that at least 10 million people could move from welfare to work under the law, far more than under the 1996 reform. Separately, President Trump is allowing local authorities to enact a work requirement in public housing — a major and much-needed move. Yet just like after 1996, states are looking to avoid responsibility and worsen the welfare crisis. The worst loopholes are in Medicaid, where states can let recipients self-attest to their medically frail status. If recipients don’t provide documentation within six months, they’re supposed to be removed from the program. At least 30 states have admitted they plan to use self-attestation, and, based on a court filing, at least 25 states and D.C. have acknowledged they could simply remove these people at the six-month mark, then let them re-enroll for another six months. This never-ending cycle is a recipe for more, not less, abuse of programs meant for truly needy Americans. COALITION OF 25 STATES SUES TRUMP ADMIN OVER MEDICAID WORK RULE DESIGNED TO PREVENT FRAUD There’s also a food-stamp carve-out that lets states delay financial penalties if their misspending is high enough. The measure was supposed to give the worst offenders more time to design solutions, but bad actors are misspending more so they can delay penalties. Four states and D.C. have cleared that threshold. Several others, like New York, appear set to follow suit. Illinois and Delaware saw massive increases in waste, fraud, and abuse over the last year, and New Mexico openly admitted it’s using this strategy. Ultimately, states want to kill the reform or at least delay penalties, which the current Senate Farm Bill draft unfortunately does. Accountability should be tightened, not loosened, delayed, or eliminated. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The Trump administration has just over two years to crack down on gimmicks. It must also police the overwhelmingly liberal federal bureaucracy so the law isn’t gutted from within. Other loopholes and tortured legal interpretations may take years to manifest. Democratic administrations have a history of taking a mile when statutory text only gives them an inch. While the new welfare reforms will help millions of people achieve financial independence and save huge sums of taxpayer money, constant vigilance is required to prevent President Trump’s achievements from being undermined or ignored long-term. Most of all, Congress should already be thinking about the next welfare reform, and it can’t take another 30 years. The welfare state is still growing larger by the year, sapping the American spirit of hard work and personal agency. The next stage is to shrink programs more dramatically, eliminate unnecessary and harmful handouts altogether, and eliminate all loopholes and waivers, period. The 1996 reform was good. President Trump’s reforms are great. The next welfare reform must be exceptional — and imminent. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8991a02c5335ae1049bd0e From fondue to casseroles: Classic 1960s foods that defined a generation te 2026-08-22T12:10:08.168Z From fondue to casseroles: Classic 1960s foods that defined a generation The 1960s marked a shift in American cuisine as international dishes gained popularity while the processed and convenience foods of the 1950s remained staples on dinner tables. C. A. Swanson & Sons introduced the frozen TV dinner in 1954, "marketing it as an easy-to-prepare, fun-to-eat meal, with a disposable tray that reduced cleanup time," the Smithsonian National Museum of American History reported. "The portable TV dinner tapped into middle-class Americans' excitement over television, allowing families to eat in front of their new sets." VINTAGE PHOTOS REVEAL WHAT GROCERY SHOPPING LOOKED LIKE IN THE 1960s Julia Child's first television cooking show, "The French Chef," debuted in 1963, and with it came a new approach to preparing foreign fare for middle-class home cooks. Do you remember eating the following classic dishes during the midcentury? The Swiss tradition of fondue took America by storm in the 1960s and ‘70s, thanks in part to the Swiss Pavilion serving Swiss cheese fondue at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Fondue is derived from the French word fondre, which means "to melt."  The dish involves melting cheese, wine and seasonings together in a pot and eating it communally with bread, meat and other items. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Fondue sets became a fashionable centerpiece of entertaining during the '60s and '70s. As convenience cooking grew in popularity during the mid-century, casseroles incorporating canned and processed products fit the bill. The green bean casserole was created by Campbell's test kitchen employee Dorcas Reilly in 1955 and was originally called "Green Bean Bake," according to the company's website. "To this day, the recipe calls for only six ingredients: canned or fresh green beans, Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, soy sauce, black pepper, milk and French-fried onions," the website says. A recipe for tuna, noodle and mushroom soup casserole was included in the 1951 version of "The Joy of Cooking." CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Chicken divan, a casserole combining chicken and broccoli in a creamy sauce and often topped with cheese and breadcrumbs, was another popular dish of the era. The exact origins of Chicken Kiev are disputed, but it has connections to French culinary techniques and Eastern European cuisine, reported Tasting Table.  It is made by stuffing a chicken breast with cold, garlic-and-herb butter, breading the chicken and frying it. Frozen versions of this item are available in grocery stores today. Lipton's introduced its dehydrated onion soup in the early 1950s.  By the middle of the decade, home cooks were combining it with sour cream to make what became known as California dip, later called French onion dip, a go-to snack item and party food, according to the website Quaint Cooking. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ The dip has evolved from the original, two-ingredient recipe.  Modern iterations of it involve using Greek yogurt, whipped cottage cheese or cream cheese. Other retro food favorites that baby boomers may remember fondly include Swedish meatballs, Chicken à la king and grasshopper pie. Swedish meatballs are typically made with a meat mixture, breadcrumbs and egg and topped with gravy. Chicken à la king uses chicken, vegetables and a cream sauce and is typically served over toast, rice or noodles. Grasshopper pie is a no-bake dessert that incorporates crème de menthe and crème de cacao in a cookie crust. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a898f452c5335ae1049baa7 Flagstaff Event Almanac for August 22 te 2026-08-22T12:00:05.930Z Flagstaff Event Almanac for August 22 Aug 22 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a898cf02c5335ae1049ba51 Start your engines: Here is your crash course on the IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix weekend te 2026-08-22T11:50:08.471Z Start your engines: Here is your crash course on the IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix weekend The NTT IndyCar Series is about to hold one of its biggest, most ambitious spectacles ever with the Freedom 250 Grand Prix. If you're an IndyCar fan, then you know how we got to the point where Pennsylvania Avenue has a pit lane and start-finish straight with a picturesque view of the U.S. Capitol. But if you're not, here's a quick rundown. TRUMP TOUTS INDYCAR DRIVERS' 'SPECIAL' ABILITY AT FREEDOM 250 GRAND PRIX SHOWCASE, SEEMINGLY ENDING HOT DEBATE Back in January, President Trump signed an executive order that directed multiple federal agencies to work with the Washington, D.C., mayor's office to put together a circuit for an IndyCar race. This idea was to make it part of the America 250 celebrations, although oddly enough, the 250-mile race distance wasn't part of the event until just a few weeks before. Also, when the executive order was signed and the event announcement was made, the IndyCar schedule had been out for quite some time and was only about a month from starting. Of course, for a once-in-a-lifetime event like this, you make it work. INDYCAR STAR ALEX PALOU REFLECTS ON WHITE HOUSE, OVAL OFFICE VISIT WITH TRUMP: 'INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE' The circuit for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix uses streets around the National Mall and in front of the Capitol building, as well as a section of Pennsylvania Avenue. That portion of Pennsylvania Avenue is also where the pit lane is located. The layout is fairly simple with just seven corners, but don't equate "simple" with easy. It's mostly 90-degree or almost-90-degree corners, but take a look at Turn 6. It doesn't really come through on that map, but it's a chicane and a pretty narrow one at that. Take a look at an onboard from a Corvette hot lap. The track also has what looks to be a tricky pit lane entrance that sneaks up on drivers immediately after Turn 1. One of the things about an IndyCar race, or really any motorsport event, is that you need a lot of space for teams to park their haulers and prepare their cars. So... where do you do that in the middle of Washington, DC? The answer is pretty simple: teams are stationed along Constitution Ave. NW and 7th Street. That means they can give their cars a quick tow and be on pit lane for all on-track sessions. While IndyCar's direct feeder series, Indy NXT, did not make the trip to the Nation's Capital, we will get two International Race of Champions, or IROC, races on Saturday. The series ran from 1973 to 2006, and is now being revived for select events. It pits drivers from different disciplines, all competing in the same machinery, which, in this case, are Pontiac Firebirds used in the original series from 1996 to 2006. The field will include NASCAR greats Jeff Gordon, Bill Elliott, Bobby Labonte, Rusty Wallace and Kurt Busch, as well as IndyCar legends Tony Kanaan, Helio Castroneves and Dario Franchitti. While some premium tickets (and I mean premium) are still available, general tickets were free and were gone in minutes. Race organizers are anticipating as many as 140,000 people on each day of the two-day event. Saturday's IndyCar practice and qualifying sessions will be on FS1 and FS2, as will Sunday morning's warm-up session. Pre-race coverage begins at 11:30 a.m. ET on FOX, with the race slated to begin at 1 p.m. ET. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8988412c5335ae1049b944 Woman claims NY Liberty tried to change her 'XX-XY' paid scoreboard message for halftime of Fever game te 2026-08-22T11:30:09.327Z Woman claims NY Liberty tried to change her 'XX-XY' paid scoreboard message for halftime of Fever game EXCLUSIVE: The New York Liberty refunded a lesbian hip-hop artist after the team attempted to change her paid scoreboard message thanking Jennifer Sey and XX-XY Athletics. Julie Potter claims she purchased 25 tickets for a group attending the Liberty vs Fever game at Barclays Center to support Sophie Cunningham, saying the tickets cost more than $2,000. Potter also paid $100 to display a message on the arena scoreboard during halftime. A receipt shows the payment was processed Aug. 17 for the Liberty’s Aug. 22 game against Indiana. Potter says she submitted the message: "Thank you Jennifer Sey! XX-XY Athletics will Save the Day!!" Potter added that the Liberty initially approved the message and accepted her payment. But the team’s sales department contacted her Friday, one day before the game, and said it had changed the wording. WNBA ADMITS SECURITY IN ATLANTA WAS WRONG TO MAKE FANS COVER SHIRTS AT DREAM-FEVER GAME "Your scoreboard message for 8/[22] has been modified to: ‘Thank you Jennifer Sey, thank you for all you do for XX-XY Athletics,’" an email to Potter from the Liberty's sales team said. "This will run during halftime." Potter’s receipt identifies the game of her purchased "scoreboard message" as "August 22 vs. Indiana." The receipt shows the Liberty charged Potter $100 on Aug. 17 and refunded the payment on Aug. 21. But the Liberty email to Potter referred to Aug. 29. The Liberty have not responded to a request for clarification on the date of Potter's scoreboard message, but Potter said she believes it was a typo by the Liberty employee. Potter also explained why she objected to the changing of her message and asked the Liberty either to display her original message or return her money, in email exchanges reviewed by Fox News Digital. The team refunded her, and then gave a brief explanation for the attempted change of her message. "Our scoreboard messages are limited to positive, celebratory content, and submissions that may intentionally or unintentionally violate that spirit are not eligible for display," the Liberty sales team wrote in one email. Potter accused the team of "censorship." "Unfortunately, this is censorship. My message was approved and payment was accepted. You then changed it without giving me any opportunity to revise or respond, and you did so inside your own 48-hour window," Potter wrote. "Why would I pay to let you speak for me?" The Liberty’s publicly available scoreboard-message form says requests must be submitted at least 48 hours before tipoff. It also says proceeds support the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty Foundation. The form does not publicly list additional content restrictions. Potter acknowledged that her original wording carried a broader message about protecting female sports. She said she intentionally avoided explicitly referencing Cunningham or the "Save Women’s Sports" movement. "I wanna say I purposely didn't put Sophie's name in it, 'cause I thought that would trigger, trigger them," Potter told Fox News Digital. XX-XY Athletics is an apparel company founded by Sey, a former national champion gymnast and former Levi Strauss & Co. brand president. The company advocates for keeping transgender athletes out of female sports categories. WNBA WON'T NAME PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR SECURITY INCIDENT OVER FANS' SHIRTS, AS DREAM BLAME LEAGUE Potter said the Liberty never identified which words in her message violated the team’s standards. "I don't know what that means. What did I do wrong? I want a code. I want a violation. I read everything. I read their website. I made sure to follow the rules," Potter said. "I said nothing derogatory. I didn't even say, ‘Save women's sports.’ I just said, ‘Shout out to the CEO of a dope company who's changing the world from my perspective.’ That's obviously not their perspective, but is this America? Can we have different perspectives?" Potter and her guests plan to attend a rally supporting Cunningham before Saturday’s game. Similar rallies have followed the Fever during recent road games after Cunningham publicly opposed transgender athletes competing in women’s sports. The controversy has also produced counterprotests and confrontations involving fans wearing XX-XY Athletics clothing. The WNBA recently acknowledged that security personnel should not have asked a mother and daughter to cover their XX-XY shirts during a Fever game in Atlanta. Potter said she still planned to attend Saturday’s game but would no longer purchase tickets from the Liberty. She said she would instead consider attending future Fever games. The Liberty have not provided a response to Potter's statements. Potter’s connection to the WNBA dates back to its beginning. She said she attended the first two league games played in Los Angeles as an 18-year-old California native. The first was the inaugural WNBA game on June 21, 1997. The New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57 before 14,284 fans at the Great Western Forum. Penny Toler scored the first basket in league history, while Lisa Leslie recorded 16 points and 14 rebounds for the Sparks. Four days later, Potter watched the Sparks earn the first victory in franchise history. Los Angeles defeated the Charlotte Sting 74-54 at the Forum. Leslie led the Sparks with 19 points. "I saw Lisa Leslie. I am a Californian, and I grew up on the Sparks," Potter told Fox News Digital. Before the scoreboard controversy, she had considered purchasing more tickets if Indiana returned to New York for the playoffs. She said she no longer plans to buy Liberty tickets, but emphasized that she does not dislike the team or its players. "I love the Liberty, though. I got no hate. I think they're an incredible team. You know, shout out Stewie," Potter said. Potter also remains willing to spend money on the WNBA. However, she said she will direct that support toward the Fever and organizations that welcome her position on women’s sports. "I'd love to go to a Fever game. They gonna make the playoffs, you know? Yeah, I'm already planning on it. I know they've got some great games in September, so yeah, my money shall be directed to where it is welcomed. And if they have a scoreboard, and I can put it up, and Jen gets to roll, I will," Potter said. Potter said her support follows Cunningham rather than any particular franchise. She credited the Fever guard with giving women like her a reason to attend games and publicly support the league. "I'm a woman loyalist, okay? So I'm there for Sophie. Where Sophie's going, I'm going where the Fever's going," Potter said. Despite her frustration with the Liberty, Potter said the attention surrounding Cunningham and the accompanying rallies can benefit the WNBA by bringing new customers into arenas. "Of course it's good for the league. We're women supporting women playing a woman's sport. How is this not good? Every Fever game is selling out," Potter said. Potter said she would consider giving the Liberty another opportunity if the team respected her original message. For now, however, she plans to support Cunningham, the Fever and other women’s sports organizations that she believes share her principles. Potter’s experience adds to growing censorship concerns surrounding the WNBA and fans who support Cunningham’s position on women’s sports. Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter to WNBA leadership Friday addressing recent incidents involving Cunningham supporters in Seattle and Atlanta. "The WNBA claims to stand for female athletes, but we've seen recent current events undermine that claim. We have seen just in the past few weeks that there have been two separate incidents where fans have been silenced or berated when they tried to peacefully express their viewpoint," ADF legal counsel Suzanne Beecher told Fox News Digital. The letter cited the teenage girls who were confronted by Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton while holding signs supporting Cunningham, along with the mother and daughter who were instructed to cover their XX-XY Athletics shirts in Atlanta. The WNBA suspended Keaton from five Storm home games and later said the Atlanta incident "should not have happened." Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also recently told Fox News Digital that he admired Cunningham for speaking publicly despite the criticism she faced. Paxton said the WNBA should protect the ability of fans to peacefully express differing opinions. Paxton expressed a willingness to engage with the league and continue supporting its games. However, he said he would not retreat from his principles regarding women’s sports or the treatment of Cunningham’s supporters. Potter’s rejected scoreboard message now gives critics another incident to cite as they question whether the league treats opposing viewpoints equally. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8983912c5335ae1049b875 One year after Iryna Zarutska murder, violent crimes fuel North Carolina public safety debate te 2026-08-22T11:10:09.390Z One year after Iryna Zarutska murder, violent crimes fuel North Carolina public safety debate A year after Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death on a Charlotte light-rail train, a string of violent attacks involving people with extensive arrest records has kept North Carolina’s public-safety debate in the spotlight. The one year milestone falls as the North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police (NCFOP) endorsed Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley, citing concerns about repeat offenders, bail policies and support for law enforcement. Zarutska, 23, was sitting aboard Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line on Aug. 22, 2025, when authorities said Decarlos Brown Jr. pulled a knife and stabbed her three times from behind before leaving the train. PROSECUTORS SAY CHARLOTTE TRAIN STABBING CASE WON'T BE DISMISSED REGARDLESS OF COMPETENCY RULING Brown, 34, has been found incompetent to stand trial in both his state and federal cases. Zarutska’s killing helped prompt North Carolina’s Iryna’s Law, which tightened bail rules and increased oversight of defendants considered a risk to public safety. NCFOP President Chet Effler told Fox News Digital the union’s roughly 6,000 members backed Whatley over concerns about repeat offenders, bail policies and support for law enforcement. "We have lost accountability in this country," Effler said. "There’s no reason to be soft on crime whenever you have victims who are going to be victims of those crimes for years to come." Effler also pointed to the arrest of Charlotte man Di-Quan Schafar Hunt as an example of what he described as a recurring failure to hold repeat offenders accountable. CHARLOTTE CAREER CRIMINAL RECORDS HIMSELF PUNCHING WOMAN IN UNPROVOKED ATTACK, POSTING TO SOCIAL MEDIA: POLICE Hunt, 32, had been arrested on charges at least nine times since 2023, records show. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said they arrested him after officers responding to an attempt-to-locate call were shown a social-media account containing videos detectives had already been investigating. Police said one video was tied to a July 30 assault in which Hunt allegedly punched a woman on a Charlotte sidewalk before fleeing. The woman suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. Hunt’s record includes a December 2025 case involving charges of assault with a deadly weapon, communicating threats, second-degree trespass and two counts of carrying a concealed weapon. The booking record does not describe the underlying allegations or identify an alleged victim. Records also list a September 2025 simple assault charge and a March 2025 charge of assault on a female. In 2024, Hunt was arrested in cases involving alleged violations of a domestic-violence protective order, breaking or entering and injury to personal property. He is a felon with at least six additional misdemeanor convictions in Mecklenburg County. EXCLUSIVE: DHS BLASTS SANCTUARY LEADERS AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF BAT ATTACK FREED FROM JAIL "You can’t hug your way out of crime," Effler said. "You have to hold people accountable." Brown’s case and Hunt’s arrest are among several recent North Carolina crimes that have sharpened the debate over repeat offenders, bail and law enforcement resources. In Jacksonville, DoorDash driver and mother of three Christen Phillips suffered skull fractures, brain bleeds and a fractured cheekbone after authorities said a man followed her and attacked her with a bat during an Aug. 1 delivery. The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said Phillips had honked at another driver while stopped at an intersection. Authorities said the driver, identified as 44-year-old Stanley Shockley, followed Phillips to a delivery stop and allegedly attacked her as she returned to her car. MOUNTAIN GETAWAY ROCKED BY ‘LATEST CHAPTER’ OF DEADLY VIOLENCE AS OFFICIALS AVOID GANG LABEL IN TOURIST TOWN Phillips was able to drive herself to a hospital after the attack. Shockley was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. The public-safety concerns have also reached western North Carolina, where Asheville officials have described a series of deadly incidents involving young people as retaliatory violence but have resisted calling the activity gang-related. Effler criticized that approach, arguing that officials must be candid about the nature of violent crime before they can address it. "A criminal gang is a gang, I don’t care how old they are," Effler said. "You have to address it." 2 KILLED IN NORTH CAROLINA WHEN 'PLANNED' FIGHT ESCALATES INTO SHOOTING NEAR MIDDLE SCHOOL In Charlotte, another repeat offender, 29-year-old David Simpson, was charged with killing a man hours after his release on bond, renewing scrutiny of pretrial-release decisions. Effler said people with repeated arrests for violent or assault-related offenses should not be allowed to cycle through the justice system without meaningful consequences. North Carolina has also faced deadly shootings recently, outside its larger cities. In Winston-Salem, two people were killed and several others were wounded after what police said was a planned fight between juveniles that escalated into a shooting near a middle school. CHARLOTTE TRAIN STABBING SUSPECT DODGES POTENTIAL DEATH PENALTY FOR NOW AFTER HE'S RULED INCOMPETENT Authorities said multiple people exchanged gunfire at Leinbach Park, near Jefferson Middle School. Some of those involved were juveniles, police said. The shooting was not at the school, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said, but it underscored concerns over violent disputes that law-enforcement groups say have spread into communities across the state. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Effler said the cases involve different defendants and circumstances but reflect the same broader failure to hold dangerous offenders accountable before more people are harmed. Effler also accused former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, Whatley’s opponent in the U.S. Senate race, of supporting cashless bail as governor. NORTH CAROLINA TEACHER'S KILLING REIGNITES SCRUTINY OF ROY COOPER'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE RECORD IN SENATE RACE "Cashless bail puts people on the streets that will arbitrarily walk up, like this Charlotte case and women getting assaulted and getting a video done," Effler said. "You cannot allow a criminal to not be held accountable." SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS A Cooper campaign spokesperson disputed Effler’s claim, telling Fox News Digital the former governor "oppos[ed] cashless bail while signing stricter bail laws and putting rapists and violent criminals behind bars." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE The campaign cited Cooper’s signing of the Pretrial Integrity Act, which tightened bail requirements for certain violent offenses and repeat defendants. It also said it returned the NCFOP’s endorsement questionnaire on Aug. 10, disputing Effler’s statement that the union had not received a response. SEND US A TIP In a news release announcing the endorsement, Whatley said he was "honored" to receive the NCFOP’s backing and pledged to support law enforcement if elected. Fox News Digital has reached out to Whatley’s campaign for additional comment. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL Effler said Whatley has committed to back the Protect and Serve Act, the HALO Act and other measures the union believes would provide officers with greater protection and resources. "Michael Whatley has committed to the things that we believe in," Effler said. "He’ll support actions that doesn’t defund law enforcement from doing the professional job that we need to do." Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Kelsie Cairns contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8983902c5335ae1049b86c Democrats face ‘do-or-die’ split with key voting bloc in razor-close Senate race te 2026-08-22T11:10:08.789Z Democrats face ‘do-or-die’ split with key voting bloc in razor-close Senate race DETROIT — After falling just 20,000 votes shy of winning the U.S. Senate election in battleground Michigan two years ago, Republican Mike Rogers is urging Democrats, including Jewish voters, to cross party lines and vote for him as he makes a second straight Senate bid. After a combustible and divisive Democratic Senate primary in which Abdul El-Sayed narrowly edged more moderate Rep. Haley Stevens for the nomination, Rogers is heavily courting Democrats disaffected with their left-wing nominee as he works to flip a must-hold seat for the Democrats in the midterm elections. A key part of Rogers' pitch is directed toward Jewish Democrats, who are uneasy with El–Sayed's vocal criticism of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and who are outraged by El-Sayed's association with controversial online streamer Hasan Piker, who has repeatedly railed against Israel to his massive online audience. "I usually vote Democrat, but I'm going to be voting for Mike Rogers," Rabbi Asher Lopatin said as he stood next to Rogers this week as the former congressman and former FBI agent unveiled his Democrats for Mike coalition at a campaign event on Detroit's west side. DEMOCRATS 'WHO NEVER VOTED REPUBLICAN' BACKING THIS GOP SENATE NOMINEE A former Wayne County Health Department director, El-Sayed, if elected in November, would make history as the nation's first Muslim senator. The epidemiologist who unsuccessfully ran for governor as an insurgent candidate in 2018 has made support for Medicare-for-all a major component of his campaign and has also called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But it's El-Sayed's stance and comments on Israel that have offended some Jewish people in Michigan, a state that also has a large Arab and Muslim population. El-Sayed used the word "bloodthirsty" to characterize Israel's military moves in Gaza in an MS NOW interview this month and accused Israeli leadership of genocide against Palestinians. He has argued against unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel, as have other progressive politicians. And El-Sayed has repeatedly declined to directly answer whether Israel has the right to exist. But El-Sayed has also stated that he stands "in solidarity with my Jewish sisters and brothers" to "condemn antisemitism." Lopatin, a rabbi in suburban Detroit who has made trips to the Middle East in search of peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, argued that El-Sayed "has shown contempt for the Jewish community and, frankly, for American values by making Hasan Piker, a vicious antisemite and racist, his campaign surrogate and somebody he buddies up with." Piker, who endorsed El-Sayed in the nomination battle, appeared at some of the candidate's campaign events, including the primary night party in Detroit. Piker, who has repeatedly stood by his comments critical of Israel, was also with El-Sayed at a party in Detroit on the eve of the primary. DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB "I do have a lot of issues with a lot of policies of the Trump administration," Lopatin told Fox News Digital. "But it's more important to make a statement that we cannot let someone like Abdul El-Sayed get into the Senate." Lopatin said Jewish voters who "normally vote Democrat are going to vote for Mike Rogers, and I'm hearing that. And there's a growing movement like that. And I think the more they meet him ... the more they're going to feel comfortable voting for a Republican, sometimes for the first time in their lives." Stacy, a Jewish voter from suburban Detroit who asked that only her first name be used, told Fox News Digital she's also going to vote for Rogers. "The Democratic Party is going way too far to the left for us moderates," Stacy, who backed Stevens in the Senate primary, emphasized. Asked specifically about her party's nominee, Stacy said, "Abdul El-Sayed has been campaigning by putting a target on all Jews' backs." CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLL IN MICHIGAN'S BLOCKBUSTER SENATE RACE Some Jewish leaders in Michigan are circulating an open letter urging Jewish Democrats and independents in the Great Lakes battleground state to sign their names in support of Rogers. The news was first reported this week by the Jewish Insider and confirmed by Fox News Digital. "This is sort of a do-or-die moment," a person involved with the letter who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely told Fox News Digital. "There are many lifelong Democrats who are feeling homeless. ... It’s not just a leftward drift but has turned into an anti-Jewish drift as well." But Joan Lowenstein, endorsement chair of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus, doesn't condone the letter and told Fox News Digital her group is keeping its distance. "We are a part of the Michigan Democratic Party, and are not going to advocate that anyone vote for a Republican," she said. But Lowenstein, who also sits on the Michigan Democratic Party Central Committee, said those behind the letter "are passionate about this and feel it’s an existential issue, and I think that represents a lot of people. And, so, they have to do what they have to do. "It’s sort of 50/50. Half the people I talk to say, ‘I could never vote for Abdul El-Sayed because of things he’s said about Israel and, consequentially, the Jewish community. And the other 50% say ‘it is so important for Jews as Americans to have an Democratic Senate that I could never vote for Mike Rogers.'" Rogers and El-Sayed are running to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. The race is among a dozen that will determine if the Democrats win back the Senate majority from the GOP. Rogers, in an interview with Fox News Digital, reiterated that he's not asking Democratic voters to become Republicans. And he highlighted concerns he's heard from Democratic Jewish voters in Michigan. WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS IN THE MIDTERM RACES SHOW "I've talked to two young women who were at University of Michigan who were afraid to walk to class. They couldn't display their Star of David. To say that they're afraid is probably an understatement," he said. Rogers said "the violent rhetoric ... is going to make a difference" in the general election. Republicans see an opportunity. "There are a significant number of Jewish voters who are staunch Democrats that cannot support El Sayed and who may cross over and vote for Rogers. There are about 70,000 Jewish voters. If a majority flip to Rogers, that has the potential to cause a roughly 100,000 vote swing. Rogers lost to Slotkin by under 20,000 votes," Michael Schostak, the Bloomfield Township treasurer who is running for University of Michigan Regent, told Fox News Digital. Schostak, a longtime Republican and donor, said "the pitch to these voters is not to abandon their Democrat leanings, but that, in this race at this time, voting for Rogers is a vote for self-preservation. Allowing El-Sayed to have a voice on the national level would only give more volume to the voices of antisemitism and the far-left progressives." SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER El-Sayed, after winning the Senate nomination, emphasized, "I stand in solidarity with my Jewish sisters and brothers, and we can condemn antisemitism. And, at the same time, we can be talking about how we bring people together, and we can be talking about everybody's pain. "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own kids. We have a responsibility to take on antisemitism in all of its forms, wherever we see it." El-Sayed Communications Director Roxie Richner told Fox News Digital, "Abdul has always stressed the importance of differentiating between criticizing the state of Israel and antisemitism." She said El-Sayed "remains in regular dialogue with Jewish leaders across the state while building the broadest possible coalition to defeat Rogers, restore Democratic control of the U.S. Senate and throw sand in the gears of Trump’s agenda." Roslyn Schindler, an 80-year-old retired college professor who has called the Detroit area home for more than five decades, said she is a strong supporter of El-Sayed and pushed back on the sentiment that his rhetoric and beliefs hold antisemitic undertones. "I've talked to him at length, you know. I've met him personally. He attended — he attend — he has attended a service at my synagogue. He attended the Seder on April 2 as well. And there is no doubt in my mind that he is not antisemitic," Schindler, whose parents were both Holocaust survivors, told Fox News Digital. Schindler noted "that many people in the community, in the Jewish community, think he is." "I don't believe that's true," she reiterated. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8983902c5335ae1049b863 BROADCAST BIAS: Sophie Cunningham takes a hit, but ABC, NBC dodge WNBA’s transgender sports fight te 2026-08-22T11:10:08.135Z BROADCAST BIAS: Sophie Cunningham takes a hit, but ABC, NBC dodge WNBA’s transgender sports fight On the morning of Aug. 8, ABC’s "Good Morning America" was celebrating the Women’s National Basketball Association. ABC is one of several networks that air WNBA games nationwide. ABC’s Rachel Scott asked: "What's the biggest WNBA story right now that fans should be paying attention to?" ESPN’s Holly Rowe replied, "It’s going to be really hard to make the playoffs." Within hours, a bigger story erupted: Indiana Fever basketball player Sophie Cunningham was brutally whacked in the face going up for a layup after the press decided she was controversial for wanting to keep women's basketball limited to women. Chicago Sky player DiJonai Carrington was ejected from the game. She then rushed into the locker room and blamed "White privilege" for the ejection. The broadcast networks didn’t want to cover this development, either as a sportsmanship or culture-war issue. There was one network willing to report a few times on the WNBA facing the issue of men in women’s sports: CBS, which might explain why liberals cast aspersions on its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. WNBA MEDIA PREDICTABLY EMBARRASSES ITSELF AGAIN BY IGNORING SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM STORY OVER ALL-STAR WEEKEND On July 29, "CBS Evening News" fill-in anchor Matt Gutman reported on how the WNBA suspended Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton for yelling at two girls supporting Cunningham’s position when the Fever came to town. The girls said Keaton called them "f---ing insane." Reporter Jan Crawford explained: "Cunningham, known for fearlessly defending teammate Caitlin Clark on the court, is the first active professional female athlete to speak out against transgender females in women's sports. In an ESPN profile earlier this month, Cunningham says girls in sports shouldn't have to go against biological men." SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM ADDRESSES THE FALLOUT OVER HER STANCE ON TRANS ATHLETES NOT BELONGING IN WOMEN'S SPORTS Then came a sound-bite of Cunningham: "I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense. And I think I'll always believe in that." Crawford added that when Cunningham was asked if her words could sound "anti-transgender," she replied, "I have never once said I hated the trans community. Like I said, I think there's space for everyone." Men always have the space of men’s sports. The "CBS Evening News" and Crawford returned to the story on Aug. 10, two days after Cunningham was whacked on the court. Crawford relayed: "Fans on both sides of that debate have been vocal. And trying to prove a point, two former NBA players said they would identify as women and declare for the WNBA draft." After a soundbite of Enes Kanter Freedom saying he declared for the WNBA draft, Crawford added: "The firestorm has put a harsh spotlight on the WNBA with critics saying the league wasn’t ready for its explosion of popularity." FORMER NBA FIRST ROUND PICK ENES KANTER FREEDOM DECLARES FOR 2027 WNBA DRAFT NPR sounded annoyed when they raised the issue briefly in a sports roundup on their morning news program "Weekend Edition Saturday" on Aug. 15. Co-host Eyder Peralta noted the Cunningham controversy and that WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced that a task force of team executives would meet to discuss "transgender participation" (men) in women’s sports. But he made it sound unnecessary: "Now, we should point out that the WNBA has never had any known transgender athletes. Michele, the WNBA has seen explosive growth in recent years, but it seems like the league is also struggling to keep the spotlight on the court, doesn't it?" CLUELESS WNBA ATTACKS 'BAD-FAITH' FANS WHO DON'T WANT BIOLOGICAL MEN RUINING WOMEN'S SPORTS Ex-ESPN reporter Michele Steele replied: "Yeah. The league's on-the-court story is genuinely great, but the off-the-court noise keeps competing for that headline." Disagreeing with leftist orthodoxy is "noise." Steele continued: "And you said it yourself, the WNBA has never had a known transgender player. Now, the task force just cannot unilaterally announce they're going to change eligibility because this is collectively bargained with the players' union, so they can study the question on transgender players, but they can't hand down a new rule. Their statement was very pointed this week, denouncing bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean and marginalize others. They're very clearly frustrated, Eyder, at being pulled into this." CATHY ENGELBERT SURE SEEMED TO KNOW WHAT A WOMAN WAS AT HER FIRST WNBA PRESS CONFERENCE WNBA games are now becoming a forum for people supporting Cunningham’s position to advocate against the woke position, and league officials can only call it a "bad-faith" effort to "marginalize" biological men claiming to be women. It’s somehow not in "bad faith" to pretend to be a woman when you’re not. Kanter is engaged in a "stunt," but men who sincerely "identify" as women are not. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The WNBA met to discuss "transgender participation," but somehow couldn’t agree on a policy. On Aug. 20, AP reported Engelbert complained, "We're being the center of political football for people who have never watched the WNBA, never have written about the WNBA or reported on the WNBA. … There's always going to be haters out there, and we denounce it." So, the league has a position on what a "hater" is, but not on what a woman is. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM TIM GRAHAM Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89813a2c5335ae1049b7d7 25 Years Later, The Conspiracy Podcast Asks What the 9/11 Commission Got Wrong te 2026-08-22T11:00:10.996Z 25 Years Later, The Conspiracy Podcast Asks What the 9/11 Commission Got Wrong Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8981392c5335ae1049b7ce Gripping New Novel “Memory’s Compass” by Sharyn Talbert Explores Family Secrets and Redemption te 2026-08-22T11:00:09.969Z Gripping New Novel “Memory’s Compass” by Sharyn Talbert Explores Family Secrets and Redemption Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a897edc2c5335ae1049b73d As Colorado River reservoirs shrink, Arizona warns of a legal fight te 2026-08-22T10:50:04.979Z As Colorado River reservoirs shrink, Arizona warns of a legal fight A legal fight could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court and further complicate efforts by seven Western states to agree on how to share water from the shrinking river and its reservoirs, which have fallen to record low levels. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8975822c5335ae1049b5a2 Woman’s alleged ISIS radicalization unfolded online before Capitol bomb plot: court docs te 2026-08-22T10:10:10.139Z Woman’s alleged ISIS radicalization unfolded online before Capitol bomb plot: court docs Jessica Bowie, a 35-year-old woman from upstate New York, is now facing terrorism charges after authorities allege she converted to Islam, swore allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotted to bomb the State Capitol building — just weeks before the U.S. will mark 25 years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks. According to the FBI, she became a Muslim five years ago and took on a new name, Aisha Saif. The FBI arrested Bowie after she allegedly enlisted a group of confidential informants in her plot, thinking they were ISIS handlers, under the impression she was arranging for them to turn bomb-making materials she'd purchased into an explosive device and to provide her a handgun. FBI ARRESTS WOMAN WHO ALLEGEDLY PLOTTED ISIS-LINKED ATTACK ON NEW YORK STATE CAPITOL BUILDING Bowie allegedly praised the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks that killed 2,977 people on Sept. 11, 2001, according to court documents. The federal criminal complaint has few details about her alleged embrace of terrorism from before May 2026, but authorities say she was radicalized at some point online. MISSOURI MAN’S EXPLOSIVES TUTORIAL HELPED NEW ORLEANS TERRORIST PLAN NYE ATTACK, FEDS SAY She had also allegedly lost multiple social media accounts for violating their terms of service with her posts, according to the criminal complaint — in separate posts in May, she allegedly wrote about poisoning "infidels" and "praise be to Allah for September 11th." By the end of the month, she'd allegedly sworn allegiance to ISIS. "The key with these sorts of cases is the initial lead," said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector and Fox News contributor with experience working counter-terrorism cases. "This can come in a number of ways. We criticize social media plenty, but the fact that she was repeatedly banned on these platforms could have been a crucial pointer." By July, according to the complaint, she was allegedly using encrypted apps to post support for radical Islamic terror and anti-American rhetoric. TRUMP ADMIN INVOKES 30-YEAR DORMANT TERROR COURT AS IT SEEKS TO DEPORT AFGHAN WOMAN TIED TO ELECTION DAY PLOT On July 16, she allegedly told an FBI informant that she had begun thinking about "Jehad" more seriously over the past several months. She was also allegedly posting online about how she was sharing ISIS propaganda and attempting to recruit. In July and August, Bowie allegedly made five visits to scout the State Capitol. 8 INDICTED IN PLANNED SNIPER ATTACK AT WHITE HOUSE UFC 250 EVENT, DOJ SAYS On Aug. 5, photos released by the Justice Department allegedly show her buying bomb-making materials at a Rensselaer Home Depot store, including a large bucket of nails that was allegedly meant for shrapnel. "We definitely want to make sure the senators get killed for sure," she allegedly told an informant. On Aug. 13, she allegedly asked an FBI informant whom she thought was an ISIS operative for help obtaining a handgun, according to the complaint. On Aug. 19, the FBI arrested her after she allegedly gave $350 to a pair of FBI informants and got out of their vehicle carrying an inert handgun and dummy explosive that they'd given her, according to the complaint. "There's no helping me," she allegedly told the FBI after being read her Miranda rights. "You guys know enough...I'm going to prison for the rest of my life." She added that she'd already looked up potential sentences online. "Material support is up to 20 years in prison," she said, according to the complaint. "I already googled it before. I know I'm going to jail." SEND US A TIP Earlier that day, she allegedly told an FBI informant that she had grown from "a little girl waving an American flag after 9/11 to now having stickers of the falling towers." She was 10 years old on Sept. 11, 2001. Bowie, who also has addresses listed in Schenectady, allegedly planned to hide a bomb in a DoorDash delivery bag at the New York State Capitol, according to the complaint. I LOST MY WIFE ON 9/11. PLEASE LET THIS 25TH ANNIVERSARY BELONG TO THE FAMILIES LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST "I want to destroy as much of the building as possible and kill the senators while they are meeting," she allegedly told an informant. "I want them to lose a lot of important documents as well" Then she allegedly wanted to escape to Syria before returning to the U.S. in the future for more attacks. A woman who picked up a call to the number listed for Bowie's mother hung up when contacted by Fox News Digital Friday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8975812c5335ae1049b599 King Charles' deadly avalanche escape heightened his awareness of life's 'fragility': expert te 2026-08-22T10:10:09.567Z King Charles' deadly avalanche escape heightened his awareness of life's 'fragility': expert King Charles narrowly escaped death — and Britain's royal future almost changed forever. The monarch recently opened up about escaping a 1988 avalanche that killed his close friend, Major Hugh Lindsay, an equerry to Queen Elizabeth II, and seriously injured Patti Palmer-Tomkinson. The 77-year-old held a special event at the Castle of Mey for members of the Assynt Mountain Rescue Team to mark the group's 50th anniversary, The Times of London reported. KING CHARLES CONSIDERED QUEEN CAMILLA 'NON-NEGOTIABLE' AFTER PRINCESS DIANA, AUTHOR CLAIMS "Those close to the king have always shared that the event increased his sense of mortality and awareness, overall, of the fragility of life," British royals expert Hilary Fordwich told Fox News Digital. "... The avalanche and its outcomes were confirmations that even with his position in the royal family, he was not immune from tragedy." "[The king] spoke of the near miss he had in that avalanche in the context of the dangers mountains contain," team leader Ben Dyson told The Times. "He said 'it was a close thing.' Obviously, after all these years, it is still much in his memory, but it had given him an insight into the valuable work we do and the dangers we face." Dyson noted that Charles was "very appreciative" of the work that mountain rescue teams carry out. WATCH: WHY KING CHARLES ALWAYS CAME BACK TO QUEEN CAMILLA: AUTHOR "Charles has lived his entire life knowing that one day he would become king," Kinsey Schofield, host of YouTube’s "Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered" told Fox News Digital. "The avalanche presented him with the opposite possibility, that he might never become king at all. He survived by seconds. ... I think an experience like that inevitably changes your understanding of how fragile even the most carefully predetermined life can be. ... There is something very poignant about hearing a 77-year-old king reflect on a moment at 39 when he very nearly lost his life." The BBC reported that the incident occurred on March 10, 1988, while Charles and his companions were skiing off-piste above his favorite Swiss resort of Klosters. Lindsay was sent 1,312 feet down the mountainside when the avalanche hit the royal party. Palmer-Tomkinson suffered serious leg injuries. The then-prince and several other members of the group, including their guide, were able to ski to safety. Once the avalanche passed, Charles and the others rushed to help. Charles later recalled that their guide, Bruno Sprecher, located Palmer-Tomkinson, revived her with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and then handed Charles a shovel to help dig her out; Charles also used his hands. Sprecher then went to find Lindsay, who had been killed. At the time, Marie Griffiths told the BBC she saw Charles being airlifted off the mountain. "As far as I know, he hadn't been injured," she said. "He looked very distressed; somebody said he was crying, but he did walk to the helicopter, so he looked uninjured." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Christopher Andersen, author of "Kate!," told Fox News Digital that Charles later reflected, "I've never forgotten the sound of it. The whole mountain exploding outwards — vast clouds of snow. A whirling maelstrom. I thought to myself, 'My God, the horror.'" "Charles and his friends ignored the danger and went off to tackle an infamous slope that was off the beaten path," Andersen explained. "... The resulting avalanche slammed into Patti Palmer-Tomkinson and Hugh Lindsay. Lindsay was killed instantly, but the king helped dig Palmer-Tomkinson out of the snow and kept her conscious by telling her that a rescue helicopter was on its way. ... People forget King Charles had a career in the Navy, was a military pilot, and was extremely athletic his entire life. Obviously, his reflexes kicked in." Swiss officials had warned of avalanche danger that day. A later Swiss investigation found that the group was skiing outside the marked area but concluded that the skiers were not culpable for Lindsay's death. Charles said in an account released after the accident that he and several others managed to ski out of the avalanche's path, while Lindsay and Palmer-Tomkinson were swept away. He said Lindsay had been "killed outright during the fall." Charles also described helping dig Palmer-Tomkinson from the snow and staying with her during the rescue effort. "The constitutional what-if is staggering," said Schofield. "Had Charles died in that avalanche, five-year-old Prince William would immediately have become heir to the throne. Princess Diana would have been a 26-year-old widow raising the future king, and Queen Elizabeth would have spent the remainder of her reign preparing her grandson rather than her son to succeed her." "That is what makes Charles saying, 'It was a close thing' so chilling in retrospect," Schofield said. "It was a close thing personally, but constitutionally it was enormous. The U.K. and Commonwealth came frighteningly close to having a five-year-old second in line suddenly become heir apparent and the entire trajectory of the modern monarchy being rewritten." LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Lindsay's wife, Sarah, who worked in the Buckingham Palace press office, was six months pregnant when she learned of her husband's death. "Within hours, Charles called Sarah and described what had happened," said Andersen. "Diana later said her 'blood ran cold' at Charles' lack of emotion.  "After Lindsay's daughter Alice was born, Charles became her godfather and kept his promise to pay for her education. ... But it was Diana who came to Sarah Lindsay's emotional rescue, calling her every Sunday to cheer her up." Charles later returned to ski at Klosters, including with his sons. Contemporary reports said he returned to the avalanche site at least twice to reflect alone. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE "Charles may have been shaken up by the catastrophe that took his close friend's life, but in true British stiff upper lip tradition he didn't really show it at the time," Andersen said. "Charles has always been, to some extent, emotionally strangled. I think it has taken years for him to come to terms with his friend's death and his own narrow escape." Diana and Sarah Ferguson, then the Duchess of York, were at their chalet when the avalanche hit. While Diana later questioned Charles' response to the tragedy, Schofield said Charles privately grappled with remorse. "I suspect there was an element of survivor's guilt that was difficult for Charles to process," she said. "He escaped, his friend died, and another friend was seriously injured. He reportedly felt a sense of responsibility afterward. Those are enormously complicated emotions for anyone, regardless of whether you happen to be the future king." "We often see the king through the formality of monarchy, but there was nothing formal about what happened on that mountain. Charles narrowly escaped being swept away himself and then participated in the desperate effort to rescue the people who hadn't." In February 2025, the king, who continues to receive treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer, said his skiing days were behind him during a visit to Teesside. "I think my skiing days are behind me," he told a Swiss engineer he met, according to Hello! magazine. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8975802c5335ae1049b590 AMB GORDON SONDLAND: Our allies enjoyed a free ride trading with Iran. Trump is shutting that down te 2026-08-22T10:10:08.966Z AMB GORDON SONDLAND: Our allies enjoyed a free ride trading with Iran. Trump is shutting that down President Donald Trump is finally proposing the Iran policy that our allies have spent decades avoiding: If you want the benefits of doing business with the United States, you cannot also help finance the regime in Tehran. It really is that simple. Trump’s "Economic D-Day" is not merely another sanctions package filled with the names of Iranian officials who do not have American bank accounts and never planned to visit Disneyland. The important idea is to punish the foreign countries, banks, refiners, shipping companies and middlemen that keep Iran in business. TRUMP THREATENS 'UNPRECEDENTED' ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES FOR ANY NATION AIDING IRAN They must choose between Iran and America. They should no longer be allowed to choose both. When I served as U.S. ambassador to the European Union, I watched European governments twist themselves into diplomatic, legal and moral contortions to avoid seriously sanctioning Iran. There was always a deal that took precedence over principle. AMB. GORDON SONDLAND: EUROPE CAN’T CONDEMN IRAN, THEN COMPLAIN WHEN TRUMP FINALLY ACTS TO STOP IT One country had an energy contract to protect. Another had companies pursuing Iranian business. Someone else wanted to preserve a diplomatic channel. Brussels was perpetually waiting for another negotiation that would supposedly moderate the regime if only we remained patient, constructive and commercially engaged. Europe claimed that commerce created leverage. Iran got the commerce and Europe rarely exercised the leverage. IRAN IS NOT A NORMAL NATION YOU CAN MAKE DEALS WITH; IT’S A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT Tehran took the money, funded its proxies, expanded its missile program, brutalized its own population and continued advancing its nuclear capabilities. Then, whenever Iran created another crisis, the Europeans looked to Washington to solve it. That has been the international bargain for far too long: Our allies make money, Iran makes trouble and America gets its hands dirty. IRAN LOSES KEY ECONOMIC LIFELINE IN MIDDLE EAST THAT TRUMP'S SANCTIONS COULDN'T REACH AS DEADLOCK PERSISTS Trump is turning that arrangement on its head. The United Arab Emirates’ decision to suspend trade and financial transactions with Iran is a major development. Dubai has been much more than another Iranian trading partner. It has served as a gateway to the world — providing access to re-exports, currency conversion, trade finance, shell companies and goods that sanctions were supposed to keep beyond Tehran’s reach. IRAN’S $800M OIL SMUGGLING SCHEME USES TANKERS POSING AS IRAQI SHIPS TO DODGE BLOCKADE Closing that door will hurt. But the UAE cannot be a heroic exception. It must become the model. Trump should look every allied leader in the eye and ask: Are you prepared to close your country’s Iranian commercial and financial channels, or do you intend to continue financing the threat you expect America to contain? TRUMP ‘RIGHT TO BE OUTRAGED’ BY EUROPE’S BETRAYAL ON IRAN, SAYS FORMER THATCHER ADVISOR This time, we are not asking our allies to fight a kinetic war. We are not asking them to send troops, drop bombs or put their citizens in harm’s way. We are asking them to help choke off the economic lifelines of the axis of evil. That is not too much to ask. It is the minimum. Countries enjoying American security guarantees, favorable trade arrangements and access to the world’s most valuable economy have obligations. Access to America is not a birthright. It is a privilege, and privileges come with conditions. Those refusing to cooperate should face inferior trade terms, tighter visa rights and greater scrutiny of their financial institutions. Companies knowingly facilitating Iranian trade should lose access to American government contracts, capital markets and banking relationships. Trump’s message should be unmistakable: If you help keep Iran open for business, America will become less open for business to you. This effort also needs sunlight. Congress should create a bipartisan "Naughty and Nice List" identifying the countries, banks, refiners, shippers, insurers and intermediaries either helping isolate Iran or helping it evade pressure. The "nice" list should recognize those that shut down Iranian accounts, stop buying its oil, expose front companies and enforce sanctions honestly. The "naughty" list should name those moving Iranian money, disguising cargo, processing oil sales or supplying dual-use technology. Update it every month. Read the names publicly. Make the executives, ministers and heads of government explain their conduct. That may sound theatrical. Good. Theater gets attention — and attention creates accountability. Governments and companies depend upon complexity, deniability and public boredom to maintain relationships they would rather not defend. Drag those relationships into the daylight. There must be a reputational cost in addition to an economic one. Leaders continuing to trade with Iran should have to explain why their commercial interests take precedence over stopping nuclear proliferation, terrorism and attacks on international shipping. Europe, in particular, needs to stop pretending that continued engagement with Tehran is a neutral act. Money is fungible. Every commercial relationship that provides Iran with hard currency strengthens the regime’s ability to finance the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, missiles and proxy warfare. The same applies to Asian energy buyers, flag registries, ports, insurers and banks. If they facilitate Iranian trade, they are part of Iran’s economic infrastructure and should be treated accordingly. China is the ultimate test. Beijing cannot receive the full benefits of access to American consumers and capital while providing the economic oxygen that keeps Tehran alive. Chinese refineries, banks, trading houses and shipping companies handling Iranian commerce should face direct restrictions in the United States. If Trump backs away when the first major Chinese institution is implicated, this becomes another slogan. If he follows through, the effect will be immediate and global. Critics will call this escalation. They call almost any exercise of American leverage escalation. In fact, this is the opposite of what a warmonger would do. A warmonger would send hundreds of thousands of American troops into Iran, occupy the country and spend another generation trying to rebuild it. Trump is instead using America’s economic power to avoid the continuation of a major American war. Israel should not be prevented from taking covert gloves off. Israel has the intelligence, operational capability and motivation to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program, missile systems, procurement networks and proxy infrastructure. The United States should provide intelligence, logistics, missile defense and strategic support while allowing Israel to do much of the difficult covert and kinetic work. If Tehran continues its aggression, further highly selective action against the commanders, nuclear architects and operational leaders responsible must remain available. This is not a call for indiscriminate warfare or American occupation. It is a strategy of making the people directing Iran’s aggression personally accountable while steadily dismantling their capabilities. In blunt terms, let Israel handle much of the wet work. America should set the strategy, organize the allies, enforce the economic quarantine and prevent China, Russia or anyone else from rescuing Tehran. This is burden-sharing with teeth. The endgame must also be clear. Iran must abandon any path to a nuclear weapon, dismantle its dangerous enrichment capabilities, stop attacking international shipping and end its financing of proxy warfare. Any relief must be conditional, reversible and tied to verified conduct — not Iranian promises or another vague agreement Tehran can manipulate. For years, the foreign-policy establishment has told us that the Iran problem is terribly complicated. Some parts are. The central choice is not. Why should America protect countries that help finance the threat? Why should access to our market be treated as an entitlement? Why should the United States bear the military risk while others preserve their profitable relationships with the adversary? Trump is asking the right questions. If he constructs a genuine economic quarantine, forces our allies to choose, empowers Israel to eliminate the most dangerous threats and keeps American military involvement selective and decisive, this could become his finest hour. It would also expose the hypocrisy of those who routinely call Trump a warmonger. He is not leading with an invasion. He is leading with American economic power and demanding that our allies finally participate. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION The world has spent long enough hedging — trading with Iran during the good times and calling Washington when Tehran becomes belligerent. The talking is over. Now comes the choosing. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM GORDON SONDLAND Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8975802c5335ae1049b587 Klobuchar's fraud fight claim takes hit after GOP opponent combs through receipts: 'Where were you?' te 2026-08-22T10:10:08.317Z Klobuchar's fraud fight claim takes hit after GOP opponent combs through receipts: 'Where were you?' Minnesota Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar is facing heat from her Republican opponent and critics on social media for campaigning on addressing the massive fraud scandal in her state despite not mentioning it a single time in any press release since the crisis emerged. A Fox News Digital review found that Klobuchar's Senate office repeatedly issued press releases addressing other forms of fraud between 2022 and 2025, but a review of 1,000 of her official press-release archive found no release directly addressing or offering solutions to fix Minnesota's sprawling social-services fraud scandal or Feeding Our Future. The $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal, that has ballooned into an overall social services scandal that prosecutors say could total over $9 billion, broke in late January of 2022. In more than 1,000 press releases from Klobuchar’s office from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2025, the Feeding our Future scandal was not mentioned in Klobuchar’s releases, nor were the terms "Minnesota fraud," "social services fraud," "Medicaid fraud," "autism fraud," "Housing Stabilization Services," "child nutrition fraud," "DHS fraud," or "nonprofit fraud." "As Feeding Our Future was breaking and all of the fraud that was being talked about, the absent voice that I was noticing was Senator Klobuchar," Minnesota Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth told Fox News Digital in an interview on Friday. FINAL WALZ FRAUD REPORT RIPS ‘CULTURE OF TOLERANCE’ AS MINNESOTA TAXPAYERS FACE BILLIONS IN ALLEGED LOSSES "She with her extended time, twenty years as a senator, could have held hearings but not only did she not hold hearings, the hearing that took place a few months ago about fraud here in the state of Minnesota she didn't even attend and so i think that speaks very loudly to the people of Minnesota that we have a twenty-year senator, the most explosive fraud that has taken place a theft of our tax dollars here and yet, there was no mention." Demuth drew attention to the Klobuchar press releases not mentioning the scandal earlier this week during a speech where she released her plan to fight fraud and criticized Klobuchar for not doing enough. "Billions of our tax dollars stolen," Demuth posted on X. "It’s time for change." Since announcing her run for governor, Klobuchar has focused on fraud, including in a campaign ad released earlier this month promising a state audit on her first day in office that will "root out waste fraud and abuse." "It’s time for results, not excuses," Klobuchar posted on X. MINNESOTA AG ELLISON LASHES OUT WHEN GRILLED ON FRAUD SCANDAL: 'I’M DONE TALKING TO YOU' Klobuchar breezed through the primary election and heads to November as the favorite to replace Gov. Tim Walz, who dropped his re-election bid amid the fraud scandal, but Demuth says that voters will have a hard time ignoring Klobuchar's record on combatting fraud as well as her ties to Walz. "My question is, where were you for the last 10 years, but absolutely the last eight years?" Demuth said. "She could have done press conferences, she could have partnered with Governor Walz. She has called Governor Walz an exceptional governor, 'he's a great governor.' Back when he was running for vice president, she was giving all of his accolades. Where was she to help him where our state was falling apart? I think it's a little bit too late for her to say that this was really a priority." Republican candidates in Minnesota have been making the case that voters of all political parties are motivated and upset by the fraud scandal, including Senate hopeful Michele Tafoya who told Fox News Digital earlier this month that voters are "ready for a change." Demuth touted her fraud efforts in the legislature and said that as soon as she became Minnesota House Speaker in 2025 she immediately took steps to make sure cracking down on fraud was front and center, including setting up the Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee. "Who are Minnesotans gonna trust for their next governor?" Demuth said. "Somebody that has just decided to talk about fraud now that they're running for office or someone that has been fighting fraud this entire time? And I think I am the most trustworthy when it comes to ending fraud and respecting taxpayer dollars as your next governor." Fox News Digital reached out to Klobuchar's campaign for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8967762c5335ae1049b2e9 Sammy Gravano reveals the moment he decided to cooperate with the government against John Gotti te 2026-08-22T09:10:14.564Z Sammy Gravano reveals the moment he decided to cooperate with the government against John Gotti Sammy "The Bull" Gravano lived by the Mafia's code of loyalty for years, but secretly recorded footage of John Gotti — and what Gravano says came next ultimately convinced him the oath was dead and it was time to switch sides. "I said, 'Okay.' And I walked away," Gravano recalled on the "Hang Out With Sean Hannity" podcast. "Well, as I walked away, I said, 'F--- the Mafia, f--- the oath and f--- John Gotti — I'm switching sides. He wants to play chess with me. Let's play chess.'" JOHN GOTTI PAL: I STASHED $10M IN MY KID'S TOYCHEST At the center of that decision were secretly recorded conversations in which Gotti discussed the Castellano hit and other mob activity, recordings Gravano said initially left him frustrated with the boss. Gravano said Gotti's loose talk initially angered him, but the final straw came later. "At first, I was annoyed in a way, like, man, you don't know when to shut your f---ing mouth," he said. "But it went beyond that." Gravano said the situation escalated after their arrests, when Gotti sought to control the lawyers and Gravano learned how the defense planned to address the tapes before a jury. EX-MOB CAPO ALLEGES FURIOUS RFK WEAPONIZED THE FBI AGAINST HIS FATHER OVER MARILYN MONROE "They're going to turn around, including your lawyer, and say to the jurors, 'You heard the tapes. Sammy's a monster. Killed all these people, took over the businesses and everything. Poor John Gotti. You hear him complaining on the tape. It's not him. It's him,'" Gravano recalled. The strategy, as Gravano described it, reflected a deeply ingrained Mafia mentality: "The boss must go free" — even if that meant casting him as the fall guy. After that exchange, Gravano said, he walked away and resolved to cooperate with the government. He would later learn that Gotti's intentions toward him were much more sinister. "I find this out way later, so it's not the reason I cooperated – but I find out later he's going to take me out," Gravano recalled. DEA AGENTS WHO HUNTED PABLO ESCOBAR REVEAL CHILLING CALL WHERE HE ORDERED TORTURE WHILE ON PHONE WITH WIFE "But he wants Frankie [LoCascio] to go around to the captains and explain Sammy has lost his mind. He's really killing all kinds of f---ing people. It's crazy," Gravano added. In his wide-ranging interview with Sean Hannity, Gravano also pulled back the curtain on a life spent inside one of America's most notorious crime families — from taking the Mafia's blood oath and participating in 19 murders to helping orchestrate the infamous hit on Gambino boss Paul Castellano. Watch the full "Hang Out With Sean Hannity" interview with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano on iHeartRadio, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8967752c5335ae1049b2e0 EXCLUSIVE: 5-time illegal entrant admits ‘mistake’ that finally got him busted by ICE te 2026-08-22T09:10:13.953Z EXCLUSIVE: 5-time illegal entrant admits ‘mistake’ that finally got him busted by ICE EXCLUSIVE: An illegal immigrant who re-entered the U.S. five times said his drinking is the "mistake" that finally led to his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement early Thursday morning. Ernesto Alejandro Perez-Garcia, a Mexican national, was arrested by ICE in Redondo Beach, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Perez-Garcia has a history of arrests dating to 2003 for alcohol-, controlled substance- and driving-related offenses, as well as making terroristic threats and illegally re-entering the U.S. ICE said he illegally entered the country five times and made four additional attempts to enter. Fox News Digital witnessed ICE arrest Perez-Garcia on Thursday. When agents first encountered him on the Redondo Beach esplanade, he denied his identity. However, when confronted with a previous mugshot, Perez-Garcia acknowledged that he was the man they were seeking. After ICE booked and processed him, Perez-Garcia told Fox News Digital that he lied to agents "to see if I could get away with it." He said that after he was confronted with his mugshot, he realized, "I’m busted, you know, in other words, I’m f---ed." ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RELEASED UNDER BIDEN ACCUSED OF STABBING VIRGINIA MOTHER, DOUSING HER IN GASOLINE Perez-Garcia said that despite national headlines about ICE operations, he did not expect to be arrested Thursday morning. He said he was on his usual morning walk when agents encountered him. "Once I saw the officer … with the picture of me, there was no way I was going to run," he said. "At the end of the day," he continued, "it’s the alcohol that got me back in this mess." While he said a friend’s recent death "got me caught up [in alcoholism]," he said, "It shouldn’t have, so it’s my mistake, and I’ve got to be responsible for that." Perez-Garcia first entered the U.S. at an unknown date and location. The Torrance Police Department in California initially arrested him on April 3, 2003, for driving without a license. He was convicted and sentenced to 30 days. Over the next few years, he was also convicted of driving with a suspended license and possessing controlled substance paraphernalia. According to ICE, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, convicted Perez-Garcia on April 10, 2006, of threatening crime with intent to terrorize. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail and three years of probation. ICE removed him to Mexico for the first time the next month. FATHER OF SLAIN MARINE SPEAKS OUT AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WHO KILLED SON FACES THIRD DEPORTATION However, he re-entered the U.S. at an unknown date and location. On June 27, 2006, he was arrested again for threatening crime with intent to terrorize. Over the next two decades, Perez-Garcia was arrested for various offenses, including repeated attempts to cross the southern border in Tecate, California. Since 2020, Perez-Garcia has been arrested five times for disorderly conduct, including four arrests by the Redondo Beach Police Department. He was arrested twice this year for disorderly conduct, on April 17 and May 8. ICE said the department declined to honor its detainer requests twice, in 2020 and again in 2026. Perez-Garcia claimed that the Redondo Beach Police Department "let me know a couple years ago" that ICE was looking for him. "Redondo PD had told me about it, you know, Redondo PD was cool with it. They let me go with it, you know what I mean, but they also told me I had a warrant for my arrest," he said. Fox News Digital reached out to the Redondo Beach Police Department for comment on Perez-Garcia’s assertion. NEWSOM-APPOINTED JUDGE WHO FREED MIGRANT BEFORE FATAL STABBING SAID JUSTICE 'SOMETIMES MEANS A DISMISSAL' Los Angeles Field Office Director Tom Giles spoke with Fox News Digital shortly before ICE arrested Perez-Garcia. Giles emphasized that "when these detainers aren't honored, what it does for us is it sends our officers out into the community, putting our officers at risk and other community members at risk to go out and try to apprehend this individual." "So, for sanctuary policies, what we ask these jurisdictions is to cooperate with us," he said, adding, "It will make our communities safer." Perez-Garcia said he believes his arrest by ICE is "fair." SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER "I was trying to lie about it because I actually don’t got nothing there in Mexico right now, you know what I mean? I grew up right here, and this is what I know," he said. Perez-Garcia also said his children live in the U.S. and that he has heard stories about how "so hard" it is to return to the U.S. "I don’t know what’s going to happen, to tell you the truth," he said. "I already knew it was going to catch up to me; I just didn’t know when." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8967752c5335ae1049b2d7 Senator launches assault on illegal immigration gaps as GOP races midterm clock to lock in key wins te 2026-08-22T09:10:13.397Z Senator launches assault on illegal immigration gaps as GOP races midterm clock to lock in key wins EXCLUSIVE: Republicans risk seeing some of President Donald Trump’s signature immigration priorities erased by a future Democratic administration unless Congress acts now to lock them into law, Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital as he presses the Senate to take up a package of seven immigration bills. Banks said his immigration package is needed as Republicans approach the midterms with control of Congress at stake and a shrinking window to deliver legislative wins to voters. The bills target birthright citizenship, visas, commercial driver’s licenses and other immigration policies Banks wants Congress to codify. "I don't just fear a Democrat majority. I fear a Democrat-Socialist majority because the [DSA] who control today's Democrat Party support wide open borders, they support eliminating ICE, they are anti law enforcement, they want to defund the police," Banks said. While current Senate Democratic leaders are not aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, Banks argued a future Democratic-led Senate would be "owned by the socialist wing of their party." TRUMP ADMIN INVESTIGATING 75 TRUCK DRIVER SCHOOLS FOR FRAUD, HELPING NON-CITIZENS GET LICENSES "I cannot believe that the Democrats are so radical and extreme today that they're OK with what's happened to our country [with] illegals taking jobs for Americans or allowing illegals to be behind the wheel of semi-trucks," Banks said, pointing to his "Dalilah Law." The bill honors Dalilah Coleman, a first-grader who was critically injured when an illegal immigrant driving a big rig caused a multi-car pileup on an Indiana highway. Partap Singh, an Indian national licensed in California, was driving the truck. Coleman suffered catastrophic injuries, spent months in the hospital and had a craniectomy. The Dalilah Law, described by supporters as the CDL equivalent of the Laken Riley Act, would require states to stop providing commercial driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and certain foreign nationals. It would also require states to revoke certain existing licenses and administer commercial driving tests only in English. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRUCKERS ACCUSED OF MOWING DOWN AMERICANS IGNITE FURY OVER LOOPHOLES UNLEASHING DEADLY ROADS Banks compared the CDL measure to Congress’ Reagan-era push to raise the drinking age by threatening federal transportation funds. He argued that several Hoosiers have been injured or killed in crashes involving foreign drivers licensed by "states that hand CDLs out like candy," including California, Pennsylvania and New York. He also wants Congress to take greater control over Temporary Protected Status authority, which he said previous Democratic administrations abused. "If we legislate it and give Congress power to determine when TPS is appropriate when it's not, then we'll be able to address these issues long after President Trump leaves the White House," Banks said. ILLEGAL TRUCKER CASES FUEL GOP PUSH TO CRACK DOWN ON CDL MILLS AS DEMS LARGELY SILENT The American Tech Workforce Act would raise the minimum salary threshold for many H-1B visa positions from $60,000 to $150,000. Experts have said the change would significantly alter incentives for companies seeking to hire young foreign workers. Immigration attorneys argued Banks’ bill would make the U.S. "far less attractive as a study destination" and encourage foreign talent to look to Canada instead. "Many employers would be unable or unwilling to meet this threshold, effectively limiting H-1B hiring to top tech companies or highly specialized roles," Texas firm Reddy Neumann & Brown said on its website. AMERICA’S BROKEN LEGAL IMMIGRATION SYSTEM IS REPLACING US WORKERS BY DESIGN Proponents have argued such changes would give American graduates a better chance of entering the job market after college. Other bills in the package would provide additional border security funding to the War Department, restrict chain migration and target grants to colleges employing illegal immigrants. "These seven bills are common sense, everything from stopping illegals from driving semi-trucks to banning birthright citizenship, to stopping chain migration, to cracking down on those who misuse the H-1B visas for cheap labor," Banks said. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Fox News Digital reached out to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., for comment on the package and to ask whether any of the bills will be expedited ahead of the midterms. Fox News Digital's Hannah Brennan contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8967702c5335ae1049b2a0 Why the Lindsay Clancy Case Is Dividing Americans te 2026-08-22T09:10:08.005Z Why the Lindsay Clancy Case Is Dividing Americans She is being tried on murder charges for killing her three young children. The tragedy has resurrected debates over whether such women are criminals or victims. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89676f2c5335ae1049b297 How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy te 2026-08-22T09:10:07.467Z How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89676e2c5335ae1049b28e Why Polling Chaos Could Create Big Problems for American Politics te 2026-08-22T09:10:06.827Z Why Polling Chaos Could Create Big Problems for American Politics Bad polls. Misleading betting odds. Surveys meant to shape narratives. Ahead of the midterms and 2028, there is suddenly serious confusion about candidate strength and voter sentiment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89676e2c5335ae1049b285 In Ohio, Haitians Feel Shaken by Ankle Monitors and Increased ICE Presence te 2026-08-22T09:10:06.128Z In Ohio, Haitians Feel Shaken by Ankle Monitors and Increased ICE Presence The devices, which will make it easier for authorities to locate immigrants in Springfield if large-scale deportations begin, have intensified a sense of dread. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89676d2c5335ae1049b27c Harry and Meghan See Their California Dreams — and Riches — Fade Away te 2026-08-22T09:10:05.346Z Harry and Meghan See Their California Dreams — and Riches — Fade Away Like so many others before them, Prince Harry and Meghan arrived in Hollywood with big plans. They are leaving with their star power fading. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89676c2c5335ae1049b273 How a Progressive Democrat in Florida Gave Her Party New Hope — and New Fears te 2026-08-22T09:10:04.487Z How a Progressive Democrat in Florida Gave Her Party New Hope — and New Fears Angie Nixon, a state lawmaker from Jacksonville, shocked Democrats in red Florida by soundly defeating her centrist primary opponent. Now comes the hard part. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89676b2c5335ae1049b26a Police Chief in Mississippi Regularly Used Racist Slurs, Private Text Messages Reveal te 2026-08-22T09:10:03.547Z Police Chief in Mississippi Regularly Used Racist Slurs, Private Text Messages Reveal Text exchanges obtained by reporters show troubling messages sent by the chief of a Mississippi police department facing an uproar over the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy in June. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89676a2c5335ae1049b261 For Some in a Disrupted D.C., Grand Prix Is More Irritation Than Celebration te 2026-08-22T09:10:02.747Z For Some in a Disrupted D.C., Grand Prix Is More Irritation Than Celebration Race preparations have snarled traffic, rerouted flights and forced the National Gallery of Art to conduct vibration tests. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8954b62c5335ae1049af60 Amish Shah’s Veganism Draws Criticism After Remarks Linking Meat To Cancer te 2026-08-22T07:50:14.139Z Amish Shah’s Veganism Draws Criticism After Remarks Linking Meat To Cancer By Matthew Holloway | The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) criticized Democratic congressional nominee Amish Shah over his veganism and decade-old remarks linking meat consumption to cancer. The NRCC questioned whether Shah’s support for universal health care extends to government restrictions on meat. The committee issued its challenge after Politico reported on Republican efforts to make veganism a campaign issue in several battleground races. The report identified Shah among the Democratic candidates whose dietary views and animal-welfare advocacy have drawn Republican scrutiny. Politico reported that Shah identifies as vegan and founded the Arizona Vegetarian Food Festival. His official biography with the Arizona Legislature described the festival as a philanthropic effort intended to promote healthy eating and eliminate preventable disease. The NRCC published a video that it identified as footage from a 2015 speech by Shah at the festival. The committee said the recording showed Shah linking meat consumption with “DNA damage” and cancer. Shah later discussed meat and cheese while referring to coronary bypass surgery. POLITICO reports that Arizona Democrat Amish Shah, a Vegan Socialist, argued in 2015: 🥩Eating meat causes "DNA damage" & cancer Shah on doctors doing surgery:🧀 "They’re not pulling broccoli out of there, okay? Yeah, they’re pulling cheese and they’re pulling meat out of that"… pic.twitter.com/JgtnIeZxGX — Ben Petersen (@bennpetersen) August 14, 2026 “When they do bypass surgeries, they’re not pulling broccoli out of there, okay?” Shah said. “Yeah, they’re pulling cheese, and they’re pulling meat out of that.” The committee subsequently asked whether Shah believes a government-run health system “should monitor, ban, tax or limit meat consumption.” “The more Arizonans learn about socialist Amish Shah, the more clear it gets how out of touch he is with their priorities,” NRCC spokesman Ben Petersen said. “Socialist Shah’s wacky liberal agenda pushing Vegan policies, the Green New Scam, and a socialist government takeover of health care place him squarely out of the mainstream.” Shah’s current campaign platform calls him a “proven champion for Universal healthcare” and says he would expand coverage, protect Medicare, and lower prescription-drug prices. The published platform also calls for honoring state and local authority to combat factory farming and for ending horse slaughter for human consumption. As of Friday, the campaign’s published issues page contained no proposal to tax, ban, monitor, or limit individual meat consumption. Shah is running against Republican nominee Thomas “Jay” Feely for the open First Congressional District seat. Shah won the Democratic nomination in July after defeating the candidate backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Feely won the Republican nomination after receiving President Donald Trump’s endorsement. Arizona cattle and calves generated approximately $727.2 million in sales during 2022, accounting for 14 percent of the state’s $5.2 billion in agricultural-product sales, according to the USDA Census of Agriculture. Cattle ranked as Arizona’s third-largest agricultural sales category behind vegetables, melons, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, at 27.5 percent, and milk from cows, at 22.4 percent. The USDA counted 997,842 cattle and calves across 5,864 Arizona farms and ranches. Within the First Congressional District, cattle and calf sales totaled approximately $3.8 million and represented about 2 percent of the district’s $189 million in agricultural sales. The district contained 2,407 cattle and calves at the end of 2022. Republican Rep. David Schweikert defeated Shah with 51.9% of the vote in 2024. Schweikert subsequently declined to seek reelection and ran unsuccessfully for governor, leaving the congressional seat open. 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 Amish Shah’s Veganism Draws Criticism After Remarks Linking Meat To Cancer first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8954b42c5335ae1049af57 Andy Biggs Joins Bipartisan Push For Investigation Into Federal Surveillance Of Americans’ Bank Accounts te 2026-08-22T07:50:12.526Z Andy Biggs Joins Bipartisan Push For Investigation Into Federal Surveillance Of Americans’ Bank Accounts By Matthew Holloway | Arizona Republican Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05) has joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers seeking a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation into federal law enforcement surveillance of Americans’ bank accounts and financial records. Biggs’ office announced Tuesday that he joined U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Reps. Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) in asking the congressional watchdog to examine several methods used by federal agencies to obtain or monitor financial information. The lawmakers sent their five-page request to Acting Comptroller General Orice W. Brown on Aug. 10. The letter calls for a comprehensive review of surveillance practices involving the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). “Americans’ financial records can reveal deeply sensitive information including their religion; the political causes and non-profit organizations they support, including through membership; the doctors’ offices and clinics where they are treated; where they travel and with whom; and countless other private personal details,” the lawmakers wrote. They added that existing authorities allowing government access to financial records have, in some instances, been “abused or stretched beyond their intended purpose.” The lawmakers asked the GAO to examine four areas, beginning with federal compliance with notification requirements under the Right to Financial Privacy Act. The letter states that federal law enforcement agencies can obtain existing records from specific bank accounts through subpoenas, including subpoenas that do not require prior judicial approval. Under the Right to Financial Privacy Act, customers generally must receive notice when the federal government obtains their financial records, subject to statutory exceptions and delayed-notice procedures. The lawmakers cited an October 2024 Justice Department response included with their letter. The DOJ said its Justice Manual directs prosecutors to follow Right to Financial Privacy Act procedures when seeking customer financial records without alerting an investigative target and said notice requirements are addressed through department training. The department also acknowledged that it does not compile statistics on notices provided under the Right to Financial Privacy Act and Wiretap Act, leaving it unable to tell lawmakers how many individuals had received such notices during the preceding three years. Biggs and the other lawmakers asked the GAO to determine how consistently federal agencies comply with the notice requirements and how many Americans may remain unaware that their records were obtained. The second area involves the FBI’s use of National Security Letters (NSLs), to obtain historical financial information without prior judicial review. The FBI has long had authority under the Right to Financial Privacy Act to issue National Security Letters for certain financial records. The lawmakers asked the GAO to determine whether the bureau is following procedures governing nondisclosure orders attached to those requests. Under FBI procedures adopted following the USA Freedom Act, a nondisclosure requirement must be supported by an individualized written determination rather than automatically accompanying every National Security Letter. The FBI also established procedures for reviewing and terminating those restrictions when circumstances no longer justify them. The lawmakers asked the GAO to calculate the percentage of financial-record NSLs issued with nondisclosure requirements, determine how many remain secret after a three-year review point, and examine whether financial institutions receive required notices when those restrictions end. Their third concern involves real-time monitoring orders known as financial “hotwatches.” According to the congressional letter, federal agencies have used the All Writs Act to obtain court orders requiring financial institutions to notify the government when new transactions occur in targeted accounts. The lawmakers wrote that Congress has not enacted a statute explicitly authorizing real-time financial surveillance and asked the GAO to determine how frequently the Justice Department seeks the orders, what legal justifications it uses, and what types of financial institutions have been required to comply. The group also asked the GAO to investigate how the FBI and FinCEN use the Bank Secrecy Act and Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) to conduct searches of financial-institution records. Banks and other covered financial institutions use SARs to report transactions suspected of being connected to criminal or otherwise suspicious activity. FinCEN describes the SAR system as a mechanism for providing financial intelligence to law enforcement, regulators, and other authorized government agencies. Federal rules also make SARs confidential. FinCEN guidance states that a financial institution generally may not tell a person involved in a reported transaction that a SAR was filed. The lawmakers said those authorities serve legitimate law enforcement purposes when banks independently identify suspicious transactions, including potential money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion, and human trafficking. They asked the GAO to examine allegations that the FBI and FinCEN have also directed financial institutions to conduct broader searches across customer databases using criteria supplied by the government. They specifically asked investigators to determine whether informal search directives have circumvented the particularized identifier requirements contained in Section 314(a) of the USA Patriot Act and to quantify how many otherwise-unsuspected customers may have had their records included in such searches. “Given the potential for systemic overreach and the erosion of Americans’ privacy, it is critical that Congress and the public obtain a transparent accounting of these programs,” the four lawmakers wrote. They requested that the GAO issue a formal report examining the practices and recommend potential legislative or executive changes involving judicial oversight, financial privacy, and notice requirements. The request continues Biggs’ broader push to limit federal surveillance authorities. In March, the Arizona congressman introduced the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act of 2026, legislation aimed separately at reforming surveillance conducted under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 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 Andy Biggs Joins Bipartisan Push For Investigation Into Federal Surveillance Of Americans’ Bank Accounts first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8954b22c5335ae1049af4e Arizona AG Kris Mayes Declines To Prosecute Gov. Hobbs In Sunshine Pay-To-Play Investigation te 2026-08-22T07:50:10.790Z Arizona AG Kris Mayes Declines To Prosecute Gov. Hobbs In Sunshine Pay-To-Play Investigation By Matthew Holloway | Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes declined to prosecute Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday over allegations of a pay-to-play arrangement involving Sunshine Residential Homes. The decision prompted Senate President Warren Petersen (R-LD14), Mayes’ Republican opponent in the November election, to accuse the attorney general of protecting a political ally. Mayes announced that her office found no evidence establishing that political contributions from Sunshine were exchanged for rate increases granted by the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS). “The investigation has not uncovered any evidence of the necessary quid pro quo to support a bribery charge,” Mayes said. The decision followed a two-year criminal investigation that included 12 interviews and reviews of campaign-finance records, procurement records, bank documents, and state communications comprising more than one terabyte of data and more than 100,000 documents. The investigation began in June 2024 after Republican Sen. T.J. Shope (R-LD16) requested reviews by both Mayes’ office and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office following reporting about Sunshine’s political contributions and subsequent rate increases. Sunshine gave $200,000 to the Arizona Democratic Party before Hobbs’ 2022 election, $100,000 to her inaugural fund, and another $100,000 to the party in August 2023. Sunshine founder Simon Kottoor and his wife, Elizabeth, also contributed to Hobbs’ gubernatorial campaigns. Arizona campaign-finance records showed Hobbs was the only Arizona candidate to receive contributions from either Kottoor during the 2022 and 2024 election cycles. Sunshine received a mid-contract increase in May 2023 that raised its rate to $195 per bed, followed by an increase to $234 per bed during its April 2024 contract renewal. The Attorney General’s memorandum said the company’s rate increased 56% from 2019 to 2024, although two other providers received larger percentage increases over that period while maintaining lower daily rates. Investigators found that DCS officials were aware of Sunshine’s political contributions while considering its request. According to the memorandum, then-DCS official Robert Navarro told agency officials during a February 2023 meeting that Sunshine was likely to request an increase and added that the company was a donor to the governor. Internal teams messages also included discussions of Sunshine’s contributions. Navarro told investigators that the donations created perceived pressure, but the Attorney General’s Office concluded that the pressure resulted from his knowledge of the contributions and found no evidence that Hobbs or her office directed DCS to raise Sunshine’s rate. The investigation instead concluded that Sunshine’s rate increases “appear as the result of its outsized leverage” over the state’s congregate-care system. The company has been one of Arizona’s largest group-home providers and accounted for approximately 20% to 25% of the state’s non-Division of Developmental Disabilities congregate-care beds, according to the AG memorandum. DCS officials told investigators that Sunshine had indicated it could shift beds to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, which was paying substantially higher rates to house unaccompanied migrant children. Officials expressed concern that losing Sunshine’s capacity would make it more difficult to keep siblings in foster care together. Two other providers had already left state contracts in favor of federal work. Mayes would not say whether Hobbs would ultimately sit for questioning, while saying the investigation was nearing completion. The memorandum released Friday says Hobbs declined to sit for an in-person interview with investigators but submitted two written statements through her attorneys on Aug. 17, one in her capacity as governor and another as a candidate. Hobbs wrote that she “has never discussed DCS contract rates, Sunshine’s rates, or any DCS procurement decision” with Kottoor or anyone affiliated with Sunshine. She also denied directing anyone else to have such discussions and said neither Sunshine’s contributions nor other financial support influenced state decisions concerning the company. Petersen criticized Mayes’ decision in a statement released through Arizona Senate Republicans Friday. Press release on Mayes refusal to prosecute Hobbs over pay-to-play. pic.twitter.com/Z6eW2DuxjL — Warren Petersen (@votewarren) August 21, 2026 “Mayes’ decision was predictable in an election season,” Petersen said. He accused Mayes of having “shamefully shifted accountability and protected her political ally, turning a blind eye to Hobbs’ misconduct” and said she had placed politics ahead of law enforcement. Petersen’s office said Sunshine made three $100,000 contributions to the Arizona Democratic Party during Mayes’ investigation. However, AZ Free News previously reported that Sunshine gave the party $200,000 in September and October 2022 and another $100,000 in August 2023, before Mayes opened her investigation in June 2024. The Attorney General’s findings released Friday do not identify any additional Sunshine contributions made during the investigation. Petersen won the Republican nomination for attorney general in July and will face Mayes in the general election. Mayes called for new state contracting transparency laws while announcing the decision, saying the absence of evidence sufficient for prosecution did not eliminate concerns about disclosure requirements surrounding state contractors and political donations. The Legislature has previously sent Hobbs two bills sponsored by Shope addressing those issues. SB 1612 in 2025 would have required companies responding to state requests for proposals or seeking grants to disclose items of value provided during the previous five years to the governor, gubernatorial political committees, inaugural funds, and related entities. It also included procurement-record retention requirements and removed an Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) exemption from state procurement laws. Hobbs vetoed the measure. Shope returned this year with SB 1186, which retained the political-contribution disclosures and record-retention provisions without the AHCCCS provision. Hobbs vetoed the bill in June after lawmakers sent it to her amid the continuing Sunshine investigation. Hobbs separately proposed her own procurement and campaign-finance changes earlier this year, including limits on political giving while companies were bidding for state contracts and a searchable database of state contractors. The competing proposals did not produce legislation acceptable to both the governor and Legislature before lawmakers adjourned. Mayes’ criminal division recommended closing its investigation into the alleged pay-to-play arrangement involving Hobbs and Sunshine. The memorandum said the office would keep its investigation open for the limited purpose of assisting the Arizona Auditor General if requested. A separate investigation involving Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell and the Arizona Auditor General also remains ongoing. Matthew Holloway is a senior reporter for AZ Free News. Follow him on X for his latest stories, or email tips to Matthew@azfreenews.com. The post Arizona AG Kris Mayes Declines To Prosecute Gov. Hobbs In Sunshine Pay-To-Play Investigation first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a894b4d2c5335ae1049a812 Interior Department sets deep Arizona water cuts under new Colorado River plan te 2026-08-22T07:10:05.768Z Interior Department sets deep Arizona water cuts under new Colorado River plan Interior Department sets deep Arizona water cuts as Colorado River dispute persists Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89363a2c5335ae1049a459 Pennington sees plenty of reasons to stay at NAU ahead of final year te 2026-08-22T05:40:10.754Z Pennington sees plenty of reasons to stay at NAU ahead of final year NAU quarterback Ty Pennington could have very easily left NAU after an impressive 2025. He saw more reasons to stay for one last ride with his longtime college head coach. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8936392c5335ae1049a450 Ty Pennington spring practice te 2026-08-22T05:40:09.954Z Ty Pennington spring practice Northern Arizona quarterback Ty Pennington (6) throws the ball during a spring football practice in the Walkup Skydome on April 4. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8936392c5335ae1049a447 Ty Pennington spring practice te 2026-08-22T05:40:09.282Z Ty Pennington spring practice Northern Arizona quarterback Ty Pennington (6) runs onto Findlay Toyota Field with his teammates before a spring football scrimmage inside the Walkup Skydome on April 11. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8936382c5335ae1049a43e Ty Pennington spring practice te 2026-08-22T05:40:08.318Z Ty Pennington spring practice Northern Arizona quarterback Ty Pennington (6) hands the ball off during a spring football practice outside the Student-Athlete High Performance Center on April 9. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8921212c5335ae1049a0ea Missing New York grandmother found dead near Las Vegas airport after mysterious Bitcoin texts te 2026-08-22T04:10:09.735Z Missing New York grandmother found dead near Las Vegas airport after mysterious Bitcoin texts A New York grandmother who vanished without a trace while visiting Las Vegas earlier this month has been found dead, her family announced Friday. Alisa Goods, a 63-year-old grandmother of five, was reported missing Aug. 10, two days after she was last seen leaving a friend's apartment near Maryland Parkway and Tropicana Avenue, according to her family and a missing person report obtained by KLAS-TV. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police responded early Thursday after a caller reported a "deceased woman in a drainage ditch area near Wayne Newton Boulevard and the Terminal 1 parking garage at Harry Reid International Airport," according to KTNV. NEW YORK GRANDMOTHER VANISHES IN LAS VEGAS AS FAMILY GETS MYSTERIOUS TEXTS FROM HER PHONE ASKING FOR BITCOIN Officers located a woman who was later identified as Goods and pronounced dead, the outlet reported. "Our hearts are broken. We were notified that my aunt was found—unfortunately, not the way we wanted her to be," Goods' niece, Alana Calloway, said in a statement provided to the station. FAMILY CHECKS LAS VEGAS MORGUES IN DESPERATE SEARCH FOR MISSING NEW YORK GRANDMOTHER "This is an unimaginable time," the statement continued. "Words cannot describe the pain our family is experiencing right now. We just want to thank the public for the outpouring of love, support, and prayers. We also want to thank the media for helping bring attention to this situation. This hurts so deeply. We are still trying to learn the details surrounding her death. We ask for continued prayers and privacy as we grieve." Police reviewed surveillance footage that appeared to show Goods "falling down an embankment, getting back up and then collapsing" on Aug. 8, the day she disappeared, with "no further movement observed after that," according to KTNV. SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR AUSTRALIAN WOMAN WHO VANISHED AFTER SENDING MESSAGE ABOUT GOING FOR A HIKE NEAR LAS VEGAS Additional surveillance video from that day showed a woman believed to be Goods near the airport that afternoon, the station reported. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for additional information. Goods had been staying with her longtime friend Roger John, who told KLAS-TV that she left his apartment around 12:45 p.m. Aug. 8 to take a bus to a nearby CVS to buy iron pills but never returned. "Last I saw her, she was going down the stairs. And I said, 'OK, see you later,' And that's the last time I saw her," John told the station. John said he was not immediately alarmed because Goods sometimes spent hours shopping. When she failed to return, however, he began calling and texting her before contacting her family. "This is not like her to just go missing," Calloway previously told the outlet. "She has a family that loves her, cares about her. We want her home and want her home safe and alive." SCAMMERS EXPLOIT NANCY GUTHRIE CASE WITH QR CODE MONEY REQUESTS, PIMA COUNTY SHERIFF WARNS The mystery surrounding Goods' disappearance deepened when her family said they began receiving unusual text messages from her phone on Aug. 12, four days after she was last seen. The sender allegedly asked for gas money and Bitcoin , requests that raised suspicions because Goods did not drive and did not have a car in Las Vegas, according to her family. "I said, 'What do you need gas for? The car?' My aunt does not drive. There is no car," Calloway told CBS News. The family previously said the messages raised concerns that Goods may have been kidnapped. It was not immediately clear Friday who sent the messages. Fox News Digital's Stephen Sorace contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8910bc2c5335ae10499e1f Surprise traveler trapped beneath car for hundreds of miles gets new chance at life te 2026-08-22T03:00:12.561Z Surprise traveler trapped beneath car for hundreds of miles gets new chance at life An animal discovered wedged beneath a car after the vehicle traveled hundreds of miles from New Jersey to Georgia is recovering after an unusual rescue on a college campus. The roughly 10-week-old kitten, now named Jersey, was discovered Aug. 10 after University of Georgia student Jadyn Sawyer arrived on campus from New Jersey and spotted one of the cat's legs dangling from beneath her vehicle, Kelly Bettinger of Cat Zip Alliance - Campus Cats told Fox News Digital. Bettinger, founder of the nonprofit, said Sawyer called UGA Police, who then contacted the organization for help. TRAVELERS CLASH OVER WHETHER CRUISE LINES SHOULD ALLOW DOGS AND CATS ON BOARD OR NOT Bettinger and fellow volunteer Lisa Donovan arrived to find Jersey wedged into a small space beneath the car. "I'll admit my heart dropped at first as I thought the kitten wasn't alive, but thankfully he cried and moved when I touched his leg," Bettinger said. After officers were unable to reach him, the car was taken to a nearby Tires Plus, where mechanics placed it on a lift and removed the front driver's side tire before Jersey could finally be pulled free. The young cat was hot and panting but quickly settled down in air conditioning and showed no visible injuries, according to Bettinger. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER A veterinary exam the following day found him healthy aside from a minor upper respiratory infection and coccidia, an intestinal parasite commonly found in kittens that are born outdoors. The small animal initially appeared frightened of people but quickly began warming up to his rescuers, Bettinger said. "He's now talkative, playful, likes to be held and really sweet," she said. Rita Reimers, a North Carolina-based certified cat behaviorist, told Fox News Digital that kittens can crawl into vehicles while looking for shelter or protection. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES "Cats can hide in the smallest little places," Reimers said. "If their head fits, their body will fit." Drivers should be particularly cautious in areas where outdoor cats are common, said Reimers. "I always tell people, especially in the winter, but all year long, if you park your car outside before you start it, bang on the hood," she said. Jersey is now staying in a foster home and is expected to be neutered, microchipped and vaccinated against rabies on Sept. 1. Sawyer's sister and her fiancé in New Jersey plan to adopt Jersey, Bettinger said — so the kitten will eventually make its way back to the state where his unexpected journey apparently began. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "Now we have to figure out the logistics to get him back to New Jersey the first week of September, in a much safer and more comfortable way than as a stowaway." Bettinger said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8910b42c5335ae10499df2 With Midterms Approaching, Trump Implores Republicans: Pretend I’m on the Ballot! te 2026-08-22T03:00:04.568Z With Midterms Approaching, Trump Implores Republicans: Pretend I’m on the Ballot! President Trump was in South Carolina to stump for Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey. But his own political future was on his mind, too. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a890c022c5335ae10499d20 Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots te 2026-08-22T02:40:02.934Z Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots The plan complies with President Trump’s executive order to restrict mail voting, which was blocked by federal courts and is under review at the Supreme Court. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a89075b2c5335ae10499c8f Trump to honor Artemis II astronauts who traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history te 2026-08-22T02:20:11.560Z Trump to honor Artemis II astronauts who traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history President Donald Trump is set to honor four astronauts who traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history during a record-breaking journey around the moon earlier this year. Trump will award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen during an Aug. 28 ceremony at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the agency announced. The four made history in April aboard Artemis II, the first crewed flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft and the first mission to take astronauts around the moon in more than half a century. PETER NAVARRO: TRUMP'S ARTEMIS VISION IS NOW FLYING — AND CHINA IS PAYING ATTENTION At their farthest point, the crew traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, surpassing the human spaceflight distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970, according to NASA. The astronauts covered 695,081 miles during their nearly 10-day mission. Their voyage began April 1, when NASA's Space Launch System rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida with 8.8 million pounds of thrust. After testing Orion's systems in space, the crew headed toward the moon and passed within 4,067 miles of the lunar surface during an April 6 flyby, NASA said. NEW ARTEMIS II VIDEO SHOWS MOMENT NAVY MEDICAL TEAM OPENED HATCH, WELCOMED ASTRONAUTS The astronauts captured more than 7,000 images along the way, including views of earthrise and earthset, lunar craters, ancient lava flows and a solar eclipse seen from Orion. NASA said the crew also reported meteoroid impact flashes on the moon's night side. Orion returned to Earth on April 10, entering the atmosphere at roughly 25,000 mph before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off California. NASA CHIEF DECLARES AMERICA 'ABSOLUTELY BACK' IN SPACE RACE, SAYS US WILL BEAT CHINA TO THE MOON NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said after the crew's return that the astronauts had accepted "significant risk" while testing the spacecraft and systems intended to carry future crews deeper into space. The medal they will receive has roots in the Apollo era. Congress authorized the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1969, declaring that America's space program relied on the "intelligence, the dedication, the bravery, and the self-sacrifice" of astronauts who flew missions into the "hostile environment of space." Under the law, the president may award the medal in the name of Congress to astronauts who distinguish themselves through exceptionally meritorious efforts and contributions to the welfare of the nation and mankind. NASA says the medal has been awarded to only a "very select group" of astronauts. Its official list includes 30 recipients, among them Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell. Armstrong was among six astronauts who received the medal from President Jimmy Carter on Oct. 1, 1978, according to NASA. TRUMP SWINGS FOR MOON WITH NUCLEAR REACTOR PLANS AS CHINA, RUSSIA TEAM UP IN SPACE RACE The four Artemis II astronauts would bring the number of recipients to 34. Artemis II also served as a stepping stone toward returning astronauts to the lunar surface. NASA said the crew tested Orion's life-support systems, manually piloted the spacecraft and gathered data intended to prepare for future missions. NASA plans to test commercial lunar lander operations during Artemis III in low Earth orbit in 2027 and is targeting Artemis IV for the program's first lunar landing in 2028. The agency says Artemis ultimately aims to establish an enduring human presence on the moon and lay the groundwork for sending astronauts to Mars. "The NASA leadership team was in Mission Control, alongside the flight control team, watching as the Artemis II crew crossed that historic threshold and became the explorers that ventured farthest from Earth," NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said to Fox News Digital in a statement. "Certainly, the astronauts were aware and monitoring their spacecraft systems. Under President Trump’s leadership, Artemis II captivated the world, inspired a generation, and gave us the confidence to press on as America returns to the Moon to build a base and to stay. Artemis III is the next mission up in that campaign, but it will be in 2028 during Artemis IV, when NASA astronauts will once again walk on the Moon." The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8907542c5335ae10499c5b Alfalfa Sprouts Linked to Illnesses in 15 States, F.D.A. Says te 2026-08-22T02:20:04.848Z Alfalfa Sprouts Linked to Illnesses in 15 States, F.D.A. Says Officials are investigating after multiple strains of E. coli and a type of salmonella sickened dozens of people across the United States. Two people were infected with both salmonella and E. coli. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a8907532c5335ae10499c52 Judge Strikes Down Trump’s 75-Country Visa Ban te 2026-08-22T02:20:03.667Z Judge Strikes Down Trump’s 75-Country Visa Ban The ruling from the Southern District of New York found that the policy went beyond Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88fdfa2c5335ae1049992a Florida Democrat Senate nominee Angie Nixon insists ‘I’m not a socialist’ after joining DSA te 2026-08-22T01:40:10.850Z Florida Democrat Senate nominee Angie Nixon insists ‘I’m not a socialist’ after joining DSA Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon distanced herself from several major planks in the Democratic Socialists of America's (DSA) national program Thursday on "Meet the Press NOW," after host Kristen Welker pressed her to explain why she joined an organization that called for abolishing the office she is seeking. Nixon said she joined the DSA because it supported public housing, healthcare, helping homeless veterans and removing big money from politics, but rejected incumbent Republican Sen. Ashley Moody's characterization of her political identity. "Ashley Moody knows that I’m not a socialist," Nixon said. "I joined the DSA because I believe in them in regards to fighting for adequate public housing, as well as fighting for quality healthcare, as well as making sure that we are getting our veterans off the street, taking big money out of politics, right?" FLORIDA SOCIALIST ANGIE NIXON SAYS SHE DOESN’T ‘REALLY KNOW’ HASAN PIKER The DSA's program called for a new Constitution, abolishing the Senate, defunding the Department of War, ending sanctions on countries including Iran and establishing public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries. Nixon explicitly rejected abolishing the Senate and drafting a new constitution. She also said she did not support defunding the military, although she called for greater scrutiny of defense spending. Nixon did not directly answer Welker’s question about lifting sanctions on Iran. "I don’t believe in defunding anything. I think we need to make sure that we are scrutinizing them, and we need to make sure we’re spending money the right way," Nixon said. The Republican National Committee sought to use Nixon’s defense of her DSA membership against Democrats nationally, accusing the Senate nominee of embracing far-left positions on crime, immigration and taxes. "Socialist lunatic Angie Nixon wants to empty our prisons, open our borders, and raise your taxes to bankroll their far-left agenda," RNC spokeswoman Emma Hall said in a statement to Fox News Digital Friday. "Every word out of Nixon’s mouth is an in-kind contribution to Republicans in Florida and across the country." HAKEEM JEFFRIES REJECTS MEDICARE FOR ALL, DSA AGENDA AS RO KHANNA CALLS HEALTH PLAN 'MOST IMPORTANT PRIORITY' Welker asked Nixon whether she considered herself a capitalist after Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Jolly described himself that way. "I live in a capitalistic society. I’m a small business owner. I like to make money. I don’t see what the problem is," she said. "I’m a capitalist who believes that we need some strong regulation." Nixon campaigned on Medicare for All, free child care, a national rent freeze, an eviction moratorium, a universal jobs program and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  She dismissed scrutiny of her DSA membership as a distraction from the issues facing Florida voters. Welker played video of Moody describing the general election as a fight against Nixon and her fellow socialists. Moody also discussed the race Wednesday during an appearance on Fox News’ "Hannity." "Angie Nixon, who will be my opponent in November, and her comrades want to destroy this country and everything that it is built on," Moody said. RUBIO’S GOP SUCCESSOR CLEARS KEY HURDLE TO FINISH HIS SIX-YEAR SENATE TERM Nixon advanced to face Moody after defeating former National Security Council official Alexander Vindman by nearly 12 percentage points despite being outspent roughly 16-to-1. Moody was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to replace Marco Rubio after he became Secretary of State. The winner in November will serve the final two years of Rubio’s term. Fox News Digital reached out to Nixon, Moody and the DSA for comment, but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88fdfa2c5335ae10499921 Trump fires back after protester interrupts Myrtle Beach rally for Graham: 'Mom is voting for us' te 2026-08-22T01:40:10.208Z Trump fires back after protester interrupts Myrtle Beach rally for Graham: 'Mom is voting for us' President Donald Trump had a striking message for a protester who interrupted his South Carolina rally Friday night: Mom isn't going to be happy. A protester stood up and interrupted Trump at approximately 7:28 p.m., before being escorted from the Myrtle Beach Convention Center by police and convention center staff, according to the White House pool report. As the protester was still being escorted out, Trump briefly stopped his remarks and turned to the commotion. RUSSELL FRY ENDORSES EX-RIVAL DARLINE GRAHAM AFTER FAILING TO ADVANCE TO SPECIAL GOP US SENATE PRIMARY RUNOFF "That's all right. That person's going home to mom. Gonna get scolded because mom is voting for us. You know, mom is voting for us," Trump said before quickly continuing his speech. Trump was in Myrtle Beach to campaign for Darline Graham ahead of Tuesday's South Carolina Senate runoff, urging his supporters to turn out even though his own name won't be on the ballot. "If Trump isn't actually on the ballot," Trump said while discussing Republican turnout, before asking supporters to "pretend, please, that I'm on the ballot." "Just come and vote. It's so important," Trump said. "So just say that I'm on the ballot one more time. You got to say it, and you got to come out and vote." TRUMP NOTCHES ANOTHER ENDORSEMENT WIN AS BARRY MOORE CAPTURES ALABAMA GOP SENATE NOMINATION IN RUNOFF Trump said he personally encouraged Graham to run and laid out the case for sending her to Washington. "With your support, Darline will defend common sense in our nation's capital," Trump said. "She'll fight for lower taxes, bigger paychecks, no amnesty for illegal aliens. And she'll always protect your Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms." TRUMP PUSHES LINDSEY GRAHAM'S SISTER TO RUN FOR US SENATE AFTER SHE GETS APPOINTMENT TO FINISH OUT TERM Trump also said Graham would be a strong advocate for the armed forces. "But as much as anybody in this Senate and maybe more, Darline will support our military," Trump said. Graham later joined Trump onstage, thanking him for his endorsement and his friendship with her late senator brother, Lindsey. "Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you for your endorsement. It has meant the world to me," Graham said. "Thank you for your support. Thank you for coming to South Carolina. This is MAGA country, right?" The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88fdf22c5335ae104998e2 Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive te 2026-08-22T01:40:02.685Z Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about i Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88f94b2c5335ae10499388 'Mutiny' Review: Jason Statham takes no prisoners in mindless but amusing brawler flick on the high seas te 2026-08-22T01:20:11.574Z 'Mutiny' Review: Jason Statham takes no prisoners in mindless but amusing brawler flick on the high seas When you see one Jason Statham movie, you've seen them all.  That's the case with "Mutiny," his latest shoot-em-up flick where he, once again, stars as a one-man army. Swap his job, swap the backstory, swap the location, swap the villain and keep everything else. It's a winning formula for him and for anyone who appreciates mindless entertainment.  Here, Statham is Cole Reed, a former British police officer who now serves as the head of security for Tibu Campallo (Ramon Tikaram), the owner of a large cargo shipping company in Bangkok and a surrogate father figure to Cole. On the cusp of selling his company, Tibu is assassinated, and Cole is framed for the murder.   ‘THE END OF OAK STREET’ REVIEW: ANNE HATHAWAY, EWAN MCGREGOR FIGHT DINOSAURS IN SURPRISINGLY FUN MOVIE Cole's search to find who's responsible leads him aboard one of those cargo ships, where he uncovers a human smuggling operation that's embarking on the high seas to do a tradeoff led by the villainous captain Markos Madsen (Danish actor Roland Møller). Seek vengeance. Save lives. Kick butt. Sounds like a plan.  'TONY' REVIEW: ANTHONY BOURDAIN'S COMING-OF-AGE STORY UNFOLDS IN CHARMING DRAMEDY Statham, 59, seems ageless because he appears to do most of his own stunts. And just like every Statham movie, there are well-choreographed fight scenes and brutal deaths of his various foes that often result in chuckles from viewers.  On a ship with a menacing European captain and his 20-plus henchmen, the only help on Cole's side is Angie Ellis (Annabelle Wallis), the third mate who was just as shocked as him to be on the same boat as a bunch of helpless migrants.  ‘ONE NIGHT ONLY’ REVIEW: MONICA BARBARO AND CALLUM TURNER CHARM IN HIGH-CONCEPT ROM-COM To that end, Statham succeeds. But at this point, he can do these kinds of movies in his sleep. He's only challenged as an actor when he's forced to step out of his own element, like in the 2015 underrated Melissa McCarthy comedy "Spy," where Statham essentially plays a hilarious version of one of his characters. "Mutiny" was directed by French filmmaker Jean-François Richet, who previously directed the 2023 Gerard Butler action flick "Plane," which, if you haven't seen, also falls in the same category of absurd but amusing.  ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ REVIEW: TOM HOLLAND, ZENDAYA RETURN FOR ACTION-PACKED, EMOTIONAL SEQUEL CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE At the end of the day, "Mutiny" doesn't pretend to be anything than it actually is: a mindless, entertaining Jason Statham action movie. If you're bored and looking to kill time, this flick at least doesn't wear out its welcome. Nothing worth jumping for joy nor jumping overboard with this one. "Mutiny" is rated R for strong/bloody violence and language. Running time: 1 hour, 35 minutes. In theaters now. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88f94a2c5335ae10499376 Mavericks buy out Klay Thompson’s contract, NBA champion set to join Giannis Antetokounmpo in Miami: report te 2026-08-22T01:20:10.694Z Mavericks buy out Klay Thompson’s contract, NBA champion set to join Giannis Antetokounmpo in Miami: report The next chapter of likely future Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Klay Thompson’s career appears set to unfold in Miami, where he is expected to suit up for the Heat during the 2026-27 NBA season. The five-time NBA All-Star will reportedly sign with the Heat after clearing waivers following a contract buyout with the Dallas Mavericks, according to ESPN. Thompson, a four-time NBA champion, could ink a two-year contract worth nearly $13 million, sources told ESPN on Friday. The 36-year-old was scheduled to make $17.5 million in the final season of his contract with Dallas before the two sides agreed to part ways. The Mavs confirmed the roster move Friday. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! After a 13-season run with the Golden State Warriors, Thompson joined the Mavericks following the 2023-24 season via a sign-and-trade deal. He spent the next two seasons in Dallas, averaging 12.9 points across 141 regular-season appearances. Thompson has long been regarded as one of the NBA’s premier 3-point shooters. DUSTY MAY SHARES HIS EXCITEMENT FOR MAVERICKS JOB AFTER JUMPING FROM COLLEGE TO PROS His expected arrival in South Florida would give Miami another proven perimeter threat as the Heat continue building around Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo. Antetokounmpo, the 2019 and 2020 NBA MVP, was sent to the Heat as part of a blockbuster trade in June. Mavericks president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri praised Thompson’s impact during his time with the Mavericks. "Klay is one of the great players and competitors of his generation, and we are grateful for everything he brought to the Mavericks organization," Ujiri said in a statement. "We have tremendous respect for Klay and all that he has accomplished throughout his career, and we wish him nothing but the best moving forward," Ujiri added. Thompson was sidelined for back-to-back seasons earlier in his career while recovering from an Achilles injury. The Mavs struggled to a 26-56 record in 2025-26. Jason Kidd exited after five seasons, with the franchise describing the move as a mutual decision. The Mavericks hired Dusty May in June after he guided Michigan to the NCAA Division I men’s national championship in April. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88f6ea2c5335ae10498aa9 Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M te 2026-08-22T01:10:02.252Z Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.6 billion ($16 million). Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88efe82c5335ae10498984 Log Cabin Republicans removes 'T' from LGBT advocacy, says 'radical' trans activists are eroding gay support te 2026-08-22T00:40:08.985Z Log Cabin Republicans removes 'T' from LGBT advocacy, says 'radical' trans activists are eroding gay support The country's most prominent gay conservative advocacy group is distancing itself from what it calls the "radical" transgender movement that has been at the center of a cultural firestorm in recent years. Ross Hemminger, the president of the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), announced in an op-ed published Thursday by Townhall.com that his organization is renewing its focus on prioritizing the representation of gay, lesbian and bisexual GOP voters. "Fifty years ago next year, Log Cabin Republicans was founded on a simple conviction: that gay Americans who believe in limited government, individual liberty, and equality deserve equal protection under the law and a voice inside the Republican Party," Hemminger began the op-ed.  "From the start, Log Cabin Republicans grounded its advocacy in constitutional principles — equal protection, limited government, and individual freedom." POWERFUL LGBTQ+ GROUP'S ENDORSEMENTS COULD TANK VULNERABLE DEMS OVER RADICAL YOUTH TRANS AGENDA Hemminger noted that in 2015, the group's board of directors voted to "add the 'T' under the umbrella of our mission," which is now being reversed. "At the time, we did not believe that we would find ourselves where we are today," Hemminger wrote. "The transgender movement has ceased focusing on adults at all — nearly all of their efforts and those of their aligned special interest groups focus on minors." "They push schools to teach radical gender ideology; they want biological men in women’s sports regardless of the consequences; perhaps most offensively, they support gender reassignment treatments for minors, often without the knowledge or consent of the parents, knowing full well these treatments are mostly irreversible," the op-ed added.  GAY TRUMP VOTERS SHATTER DEM 'LIE' LGBT AMERICANS VOTE BLUE, SAYS LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS CHIEF The LCR chief lamented that "gay men and women are losing public support across the country, and support for gay marriage and other once-widely accepted rights is eroding," alluding to polls showing such declines.  He suspected the root cause is that voters "weren't alive or cognizant" to the decades-long fight for gay marriage and in the court of public opinion and that "their view of the gay community is based on today’s radical transgender activists." "That is why, after significant discussion with our membership, our Board of Directors voted to refine Log Cabin Republicans’ national advocacy focus to concentrate specifically on issues of sexual orientation and conservative values — in other words, we are an LGB advocacy organization, as our founders envisioned and as our moral center calls us to be," Hemminger said. GALLUP POLL FINDS AMERICANS' SUPPORT FOR LGBTQ+ ISSUES SLIDING BACKWARD AMID CULTURAL SHIFT Hemminger stressed that membership of Log Cabin Republicans remains "open to all conservatives" and it welcomes all allies aligned with its mission. "Issues of sexual orientation — marriage, adoption, military service, nondiscrimination rooted in equal treatment, and religious liberty protections applied fairly — are grounded in constitutional clarity," Hemminger wrote. "They align directly with the Republican commitment to limited government and equal protection under the law." "When we remain focused on those principles, we win," he added. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88eb392c5335ae104988d3 Ravens' Rashod Bateman faces domestic charges for alleged attack on car carrying ex-girlfriend and their baby te 2026-08-22T00:20:09.106Z Ravens' Rashod Bateman faces domestic charges for alleged attack on car carrying ex-girlfriend and their baby Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Rashod Bateman turned himself in to police and faces three domestic violence charges in connection to a June incident in which he allegedly attacked his ex-girlfriend's car while she had their newborn on board. The details of the incident, first reported by TMZ, remain sketchy, but documents say the player entering his sixth NFL season allegedly smashed the glass of his girlfriend's car while their three-month-old child was inside. The victim, whose name was not immediately available, told police that Bateman used a blunt object to break the windshield and driver's side windows of her 2021 Mercedes-Benz. NFL PUTS 'INSPIRE CHANGE' AND 'CHOOSE LOVE' ON FIELDS BUT NOT SO AGGRESSIVE ABOUT ITS DOMESTIC ABUSE ISSUES When the glass shattered, it allegedly caused multiple small lacerations and contusions to the alleged victim’s face. The couple’s child was sitting in a baby seat in the back row. Bateman, 26, was charged with battery-family violence, reckless conduct and first-degree criminal damage to property. He turned himself in to police immediately following the incident. The incident was not public until TMZ's report on Friday. The Ravens then released a statement about their starting wide receiver. "We are aware of the situation involving Rashod and have been in direct communication with him," the statement reads. "We notified the league office and have been cooperating throughout the process. "As this is a pending legal matter, we will not have further comment." It is unclear at what point the Ravens became aware of this incident. It happened on June 3. The Ravens opened their 2026 training camp the last week of July, with the first day of practice coming on July 29. Bateman was present and has remained so since then. BRONCOS STAR SPEAKS OUT FOLLOWING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ARREST, FIRES OFF AN APOLOGY Indeed, Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson told reporters he was happy to have one of the team's top receivers "back on the field." So the question is: Did Bateman keep the arrest secret as he was with the team at the opening of camp last month, or did the club know and simply let him practice as if no legal matter was pending? Bateman in June 2025 signed a three-year, $36.75 million with Baltimore that includes $20 million in guaranteed money. Bateman originally was told to have no contact with his baby's mother. But later he asked the court to remove the no-contact order when the mother agreed. The court signed off on the request, per TMZ, though Bateman was ordered to complete a training class aimed at preventing violent contact. The NFL, by the way, has had a considerable number of domestic violence incidents, arrests and court hearings during the 2026 offseason. Bateman's legal team released a statement that reads in part, "We will let the process play out and the fact will come out at that time." FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88e8da2c5335ae10498843 Trump Accounts Get an Unlikely Endorser: Gavin Newsom te 2026-08-22T00:10:02.776Z Trump Accounts Get an Unlikely Endorser: Gavin Newsom Mr. Newsom, the governor of California, normally has harsh words for President Trump. But he called the new children’s savings accounts “one of the best things” the president has done. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6a88e68e2c5335ae10498808 Fauci's lawyers launch legal defense fund as federal, state investigations mount against him te 2026-08-22T00:00:14.613Z Fauci's lawyers launch legal defense fund as federal, state investigations mount against him Lawyers representing Dr. Anthony Fauci have created a legal defense fund for the infectious disease expert as investigations against him continue to mount. Fauci, who helped lead the country through the pandemic, has been accused by Republicans of misleading the public about the origins of COVID-19 and faces multiple federal and state investigations. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has called on the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute Fauci after he invoked the Fifth Amendment numerous times during a high-profile July Congressional hearing. CAN FAUCI HIDE BEHIND THE FIFTH? GAME-CHANGING BIDEN PARDON MAY NOT PROVIDE COMPLETE COVER, EXPERTS SAY The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Paul, held him in contempt of Congress after the hearing. Fauci has denied all the accusations made against him. FAUCI IN THE CONGRESSIONAL WRINGER: A TEST FOR TRUMP'S NEWLY-MINTED ATTORNEY GENERAL "The Anthony S. Fauci M.D. Legal Defense Fund was established to help cover the legal representation and associated administrative costs for Dr. Fauci," the defense fund’s website says. "Your contributions directly support these defense efforts and ensure comprehensive legal support during ongoing inquiries and proceedings." Fauci retired in 2022 after leading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for nearly 40 years. He also advised seven presidents, including President Donald Trump during his first term as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. During his time navigating the country through the pandemic, he was a proponent of wearing masks, social distancing, vaccines and lockdown measures. Former President Joe Biden issued Fauci a pre-emptive pardon before he left office. FAUCI REFUSES SENATE APPEARANCE AFTER INVOKING FIFTH AMENDMENT MORE THAN 100 TIMES IN COVID PROBE "Fauci is facing an unprecedented legal ​barrage for a retired civil servant, and he deserves a robust defense against these unfounded and frivolous actions," David Schertler, a lawyer for Fauci, told Reuters. "Dr. Fauci has not ​done anything wrong, and we are prepared to fight back against this shameful harassment of an honorable man who dedicated his career to saving lives." His lawyers added that any funds remaining after all of his investigations conclude will be donated to charity. Prior to his retirement, Fauci was the highest-paid federal employee, making nearly $500,000 each year, Fox News Digital previously reported. In retirement, OpenTheBooks CEO Adam Andrzejewski estimated Fauci collects a federal pension that rivals a presidential salary. Fauci and his wife reported a combined $12.6 million net worth in 2021. FAUCI'S HHS IPHONE TURNED OVER TO SENATE INVESTIGATORS AS CONTEMPT VOTE LOOMS Fox News Digital has reached out to the legal defense fund and Paul's office for comment. On Tuesday, David Morens, a former Fauci adviser, pleaded guilty to attempting to conceal pandemic-related documents by evading public records laws. FLORIDA AG THREATENS FAUCI INVESTIGATION AFTER SENATE HEARING Florida Attorney General James ⁠Uthmeier has said he will investigate whether Fauci "personally profited off the COVID 'guidance' he issued" during the pandemic and has issued a subpoena to the 85-year-old. Louisiana and West Virginia are backing up Florida’s effort. Fox News Digital's Joe Schoffstall and Reuters contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/home