https://meenews.co/post/6ab63ccb75342cf4db89529b China is taking the fight to the stars. America must reclaim space supremacy te 2026-09-25T09:20:11.998Z China is taking the fight to the stars. America must reclaim space supremacy As one who has had the honor to consult for NASA and the Space Shuttle team in the past; work space-defense related issues in the Pentagon; speak with all twelve men who walked on the Moon; and author tens of columns on the subject, I have been "Johnny One-Note" over the last decade or so warning that the People’s Republic of China is seeking to establish itself as the dominant military power in space for decades to come. Did anyone in authority care? Not so much. That may now be changing. Two recent stories in the news have certainly elevated not only interest, but apprehension. The first being when Air Force Secretary Troy Meink recently confirmed that the U.S. has weapons stationed in Earth orbit. Said Meink, in part, presumably as a warning to China and, to a lesser extent, Russia at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference: "Today, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist. This is why the United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action…" PENTAGON REVEALS SECRET SPACE WEAPONS ARE ALREADY IN ORBIT — BUT WON'T SAY WHAT THEY DO The second — and potentially much more intriguing — was highlighted in the site "Defense One" via the headline: "The Pentagon must prepare for battles around the moon: Joint Chiefs chair." During the same Air, Space, and Cyber conference in which he delivered the Keynote address, it was reported that General Dan Caine — who is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — said in part: "Our task, my friends, is to adapt right now, so the Joint Force is prepared to fight, endure, and win, in global contested environments, from the seabed to cislunar space…" NASA ANNOUNCES THREE NEW MOON MISSIONS AS AGENCY RACES TO BUILD PERMANENT LUNAR BASE BY END OF 2026 "Cislunar" in this case means not just in lunar orbit, but on the surface of the Moon. The stuff of fiction? In the past, yes. Today, it must all be about the national and economic security of our nation. On that fiction front, several years ago I authored a novel — based on some real-world information from a Soviet General — titled "The Dawn of a Nazi Moon." While hopefully an entertaining and historically accurate story, the major premise of the book was to outline how an adversary could use the Moon as the ultimate "High Ground" against an enemy on Earth. The belief by some that once humans cut through Earth’s atmosphere into the vacuum of space, our flaws, greed, prejudices and military ambitions will be left behind is not only naïve, but quite dangerous. No one understood that better at the time than President John F. Kennedy. During his now iconic speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962, on the need for the U.S. to become the "preeminent spacefaring nation," President John F. Kennedy rightfully stressed in part: TRUMP TO HONOR ARTEMIS II ASTRONAUTS WHO TRAVELED FARTHER FROM EARTH THAN ANY HUMANS IN HISTORY "We mean to be a part of it — we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the Moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace… Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war." Thanks to Kennedy, the United States did once occupy "a position of preeminence" in space. But no more. China now holds that title. TRUMP SIGNS ORDER CREATING NEW SPACE ACADEMY AKIN TO WEST POINT; ITS LOCATION WILL BE DETERMINED A China — with its entirely military-controlled space program — which is targeting all our satellites in low and geosynchronous orbit. Satellites that control the fate of our military, our economy and our nation. But much more alarmingly, it is also a China which is taking dead aim at the Moon. Both for its own military ambitions as well as for the future energy and economic security of its nation. One way it is doing so is by targeting the helium-3 that litters the surface of the Moon. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Helium-3 is an isotope which could provide a potentially limitless supply of safe, clean, green energy. Some experts estimate the Moon’s surface holds millions of metric tons of helium-3, and that just 25 metric tons could fuel America’s energy needs for a year. China is not waiting to find out. Via its lunar landers, it has already returned samples of Helium-3 to its laboratories to be studied. China has every intention of conquering near-space for its military and economic needs. It appears the United States is now waking up to that power-shifting reality. And not a moment too soon. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM DOUGLAS MACKINNON Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab63ccb75342cf4db895292 WATCH: Mike Lee explodes on voting error that 'keeps happening' as huge number of noncitizens found on rolls te 2026-09-25T09:20:11.384Z WATCH: Mike Lee explodes on voting error that 'keeps happening' as huge number of noncitizens found on rolls Firebrand conservative Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, slammed both Democrats and Republicans who have resisted passage of the SAVE America Act after a report found that 30,000 noncitizens were "mistakenly" registered to vote in states across the country since 2000. Reuters reported on Wednesday that more than 30,000 self-declared noncitizens were added to U.S. voter rolls since 2000. The outlet attributed the erroneous registrations to "software glitches and clerical errors" and said that its review suggested "inadvertent bureaucratic failures, ‌rather than organized efforts to register immigrants illegally." The outlet said that this raised "questions about whether legislative efforts to require proof of citizenship for voter registration would eliminate the issue." However, while speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Lee, who introduced the SAVE America Act earlier this year, said that "even though we have laws that prohibit things like noncitizen voting, those laws have been rendered difficult and essentially impossible to enforce." "That thing that they claim never happens, voter fraud or noncitizen voting, just keeps happening over and over and over again," he railed. ‘RAW MATERIAL FOR ELECTION FRAUD’: EXPERT FLAGS VOTER-ROLL PROBLEMS FAR BEYOND ONE STATE Reuters reported that the errors occurred in California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Virginia. The outlet said it was unable to determine how many noncitizens actually cast ballots and further noted that the numbers are not precise because " state data is often tentative and subject to revision." This follows New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill's disclosure that 6,600 self-identified noncitizens were registered to vote and fewer than 400 of those individuals cast ballots. Lee attributed problems with ineligible voter registration and voting to reliance on the "honor system" for self-attestation of voter eligibility. MORE THAN A QUARTER-MILLION NONCITIZENS MAY BE REGISTERED TO VOTE IN 4 KEY STATES, DHS ALLEGES Referencing an all-you-can-eat deal at a popular chain restaurant that requires customers to show I.D., Lee said that "it should not be any easier for someone to get away with voter fraud at a polling location on voting day than it is to cheat Olive Garden through its never-ending pasta pass." "And yet, that's exactly where we are today," he said. Lee presented his SAVE America Act as a solution. President Donald Trump supports the bill, which passed the House but has stalled in the Senate. RNC SUES NEW JERSEY ELECTION OFFICIALS OVER ALLEGED WITHHELD VOTER ROLL RECORDS Lee argued that the bill would address both ineligible voter registration and fraudulent voting by requiring registrants to verify citizenship and eligibility at the time of registration and requiring voter I.D. and photo identification at the polls. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Don Palmer, senior legal fellow for election integrity at the Heritage Foundation, said that "this story really provides proof that one way forward is to simply upgrade and sort of help the driver's license agencies across the country improve their verification of citizenship while they're providing those services to voters." SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER "All joking aside with the Olive Garden scenario, I love their food and I'm more than happy to show the I.D., I think the issue is I wish that the driver's license agencies and state agencies would take voter registration as serious as Italian food," he quipped. "I think that that would be a bipartisan way of improving that verification of citizenship with databases, and I think there's some bipartisan support for that. And so that might be a way forward, not necessarily, showing documentation of citizenship, but let's improve the driver's license agencies to verify citizenship, and let's improved real ID," he said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab63cca75342cf4db895289 Donalds rips opponent’s ‘complete 180’ as Dem’s own 2016 words come back to haunt him in tightening gov race te 2026-09-25T09:20:10.797Z Donalds rips opponent’s ‘complete 180’ as Dem’s own 2016 words come back to haunt him in tightening gov race Republican congressman and Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds is taking aim at his Democratic opponent David Jolly over his shifting political positions and party affiliation, in a contest that is resurfacing themes from the 2016 congressional race between Jolly and Charlie Crist. "You were pro-choice, then you were pro-life, then you were pro-choice. It was only after you switched parties that you switched your position. This was not a matter of conviction for you; it was for political convenience," Jolly said about Charlie Crist when Jolly was a Republican running against Crist, a Democrat, for Congress in 2016. Ten years later, Jolly is now a Democrat running for Florida governor and facing the same criticism for allegedly changing his positions for political gain, this time, in his race for governor against Donalds. "The shift in positions by David Jolly is not because of personal conviction, it is purely because of political convenience," Donalds told Fox News Digital, referencing that 2016 exchange. DESANTIS ENDORSES FLORIDA GOP SLATE INCLUDING BYRON DONALDS IN GOVERNOR'S RACE Some of the shifts in Jolly’s positions include issues like abortion, immigration, and drilling off the coast of Florida. As a Republican, Jolly said he believed "life begins at conception," authored legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and co-sponsored fetal-personhood legislation. He also voted for a federal 20-week abortion ban. Now running as a Democrat, Jolly calls himself "pro-choice," supports codifying the Roe v. Wade framework and says he would veto legislation restricting abortion access as governor. Jolly’s immigration views have also shifted sharply as he attempts to run for governor in a state that voted for Trump each of the last three presidential cycles by wide margins, with many voters motivated by Trump’s immigration policies. As a Republican, he campaigned on securing the border, supported tighter screening for Syrian and Iraqi refugees and voted for the American SAFE Act. Today, he says the country should have "wide gates" for people coming to work or seek asylum, argues that crossing the border without legal status should not necessarily be treated as a crime in those circumstances and has called the Republican link between immigration and crime "gross," "immoral" and "wrong." As voters consistently say that affordability is a top-of-mind concern, Donalds is also hitting Jolly’s record on healthcare as an example of inconsistency that shows a lack of credibility on the issue. NEVER-TRUMP REPUBLICAN IS TOP DEM CHOICE IN CRUCIAL FLORIDA PRIMARY "When David Jolly was in Congress, he opposed Obamacare," Donalds said. "Now trying to run for governor he wants to expand Obamacare in Florida. I mean, these are just some of the complete shifts that we've seen in what he stands for." Another issue Donalds is taking issue with involves the period after the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which sent oil and tar balls washing ashore along roughly 178 miles of Florida coastline, contributed to an estimated loss of 1.88 million planned recreational visits in northwest Florida and cost the region $1.3 billion in visitor spending, $2.04 billion in economic output and more than 20,000 job-years. Within a year of the spill, Jolly’s lobbying firm represented a client that publicly advocated for legislation that could have expanded offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Three Bridges Advisors listed H.R. 909, the Roadmap for America’s Energy Future, among the subjects of its 2011 lobbying activity for the Free Enterprise Nation, which supported the bill. Jolly also wrote a post on the group’s website stating that Free Enterprise Nation was "advocating for" the legislation. BYRON DONALDS SHUTS DOWN BILL MAHER’S CLAIM ON GOP PRIMARY RACISM, SAYS 'FLORIDA IS A MERITOCRACY' Jolly said he had "never lobbied for offshore drilling," but PolitiFact rated that claim "Mostly False" after finding that Jolly acknowledged attending a meeting where the bill was discussed, which lobbying experts said technically counted as lobbying. Donalds cited the controversy to Fox News Digital saying, "Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of America, David Jolly went and became a lobbyist for more oil drilling off the coast of Florida, that is a fact and so what we're seeing is a history of somebody who does everything possible, will say whatever, will be paid by whomever that are only in the interest of David Jolly." With polls showing a tightening race, the RealClearPolitics average gives Donalds a roughly 4-point lead. The candidates are also sparring over debate scheduling: Donalds has agreed to three proposed debates, while Jolly, who previously accepted two other debate invitations, has now ruled out participating in debates this cycle. "Now he's ducking debates," Donalds told Fox News Digital. "He won't debate me because he knows that on a debate stage, I will hold him accountable for these things." Jolly has hit Donalds on the campaign trail on a variety of issues as he tries to become the first Democrat to win a governor’s race in Florida since Lawton Chiles won reelection in 1994. Primarily, Jolly has focused on data centers and labeling Donalds as a candidate more interested in partisan culture-war battles than addressing Florida’s rising housing, insurance and health care costs. Fox News Digital reached out to the Jolly campaign for comment. Donalds told Fox News Digital that Jolly’s flips on both party registration and the issues is something his campaign will continue to focus on. "What you find with David Jolly is somebody who's done a complete 180 simply to run for office again and to gain relevance again and the people of Florida simply cannot trust David Jolly because we cannot afford David Jolly’s flip-flopping when it comes to the great state of Florida," Donalds said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab63cca75342cf4db895280 Cut the bull: The real reason beef costs so much — and what Trump is trying to do te 2026-09-25T09:20:10.110Z Cut the bull: The real reason beef costs so much — and what Trump is trying to do Ground beef just hit a record $6.92 a pound, nearly 60% more than Americans were paying just five years ago. For millions of families, beef isn't a ribeye at a steakhouse; it's the largest source of protein in their diet. It's hamburgers on the grill, taco night, meatloaf, a roast in the crockpot. America didn't forget how to raise cattle. We made it harder to do it, and American families are paying the price for a country that won't let its own ranchers feed it. ‘WHY WOULD HE DO THIS TO US?’: TRUMP'S FOREIGN BEEF PUSH IS HURTING HIS BASE, REPUBLICANS WARN The Trump administration is attempting to bring relief quickly. A temporary order took effect Sept. 1, expanding lower-tariff access for 300,000 metric tons of imported lean beef trimmings, putting more beef in the market while the herd rebuilds. It did not go over well in ranching country. Producers argue that flooding the market with cheaper foreign beef pushes cattle prices down at the very moment American ranchers need stronger prices to justify rebuilding the herd. But the question has never been how much beef we should import. The real question is why it can be cheaper to raise and process beef on the other side of the world, ship it thousands of miles to America, and sell it here than to simply produce it at home. Yes, American wages are higher, American beef is also the best in the world, and Americans have shown they'll pay for that. But none of that fully answers the question. Here's what does: foreign beef can cross an ocean and land on a shelf in New York City more easily than a Nebraska rancher's beef can cross the state line into Iowa. A rancher who has his cattle processed under his own state's inspection program, one the USDA has certified as equal to the federal standard, still can't sell that meat one mile over the border. The bureaucracy has built a system where importing is simpler than selling to a neighboring state. And that is only part of the problem. Just look at beef processing. Four companies, two of them Brazilian-owned, control roughly 85% of American beef processing capacity, up from 36% in 1980. This isn't the free market. Crushing regulations, excessive permitting, and the capital cost of running a federally compliant plant are so steep that only a handful of operations can absorb them. This is a government-enabled monopoly. A small processor can't open a competing plant, so the giants stay giants, and cattle producers finishing and selling fed cattle across enormous stretches of the country are left with one or two buyers. A producer without competition for offtake doesn't set the price. He takes the only one he's handed. The same scenario shows up again when a rancher tries to tap the free market and sell straight to locals who actually want his beef. A neighbor who wants to buy a quarter of beef directly from the rancher down the road can't just buy it. The animal has to go through an inspected facility, and if the nearest one is hours away and booked out for months, that transaction simply doesn't happen. Ranchers who could be selling directly to consumers at a fair price, cutting out the distant packer entirely, are blocked not by a lack of demand but by a lack of anywhere nearby to legally get the job done. BROOKE ROLLINS, MONICA CROWLEY: AMERICA’S FAMILY FARMS HAVE KEPT US STRONG FOR 250 YEARS The American cattle herd is at a 75-year low, and U.S. beef production is falling while Brazil has overtaken us as the world's largest beef producer. And ranchers themselves are disappearing. From 2017 to 2022 alone, the number of U.S. farms with beef cows fell by nearly 107,000. American ranchers cannot compete until the barriers putting them at a disadvantage are torn down. That is exactly what President Trump is now trying to do. TRUMP WILL WELCOME FARMERS AND RANCHERS TO WHITE HOUSE DINNER TO CELEBRATE TRADE, TAX WINS On September 4, he signed two executive orders aimed at strengthening American ranching and expanding competition in the beef market. The orders direct federal agencies to reduce regulatory barriers, expand opportunities for state-inspected meat to move across state lines, support smaller and regional processors, modernize inspections, and give ranchers more options for processing and selling their own beef. And just last week, USDA took another step, announcing plans to help states start or expand their own meat-inspection programs, opening the door for more local processors to compete and giving ranchers more options for getting their beef to market. These reforms go straight at the problem by creating more processing capacity, giving ranchers more ways to sell, and cutting the red tape standing between American beef and American consumers. None of this is unique to beef. Federal timber harvests are down roughly 75% from their 1960-1990 average, even as national forests sit full of standing timber. It now takes seven to ten years on average to permit a new mine in the United States, compared to two to three years in Canada. We bury American industry under bureaucracy until it's cheaper to buy the finished product from somewhere else. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION We will never rebuild our herds or reclaim our title as the world's beef superpower under a system run by bureaucrats instead of ranchers. Decades of regulation have put one of America's oldest industries at a systemic disadvantage. Ranchers don't need a handout. They need the freedom to do what they do best: feed America. That's exactly what Trump is trying to give them. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab63cc975342cf4db895277 The worst bet in America isn't Kalshi or Polymarket. It's hiding in plain sight te 2026-09-25T09:20:09.424Z The worst bet in America isn't Kalshi or Polymarket. It's hiding in plain sight America suddenly has a gambling problem. Sports betting is everywhere. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket let people wager on everything from football games to elections. Politicians and regulators are asking whether we've gone too far. Fair question. SEN DAVE MCCORMICK: PREDICTION MARKETS ARE BOOMING. WASHINGTON MUST CATCH UP But there's another gambling operation that's been sitting on street corners for decades, quietly pickpocketing people. The government lottery. And it may offer some of the worst bets in America. Americans bought more than $113 billion in lottery products in fiscal 2024, according to the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries. That's more than $300 million every single day. GREED MEETS GREED: DRAFTKINGS TO CLOSE ITS WRIGLEY FIELD SPORTSBOOK AT THE END OF MAY OVER ILLINOIS TAX And business is booming. Census Bureau data show state lottery ticket sales nearly doubled from $52.8 billion in 2008 to $104.7 billion in 2024. Apparently inflation hasn't killed America's appetite for becoming an instant millionaire. Let's start with Powerball. Your odds of winning the jackpot are approximately: 1 in 292.2 million. Mega Millions? 1 in 290.5 million. You could buy one Mega Millions ticket every week for 100 years and purchase only about 5,200 tickets. Those aren't just bad odds. LUCKY TRAVELER WINS $3.3M JACKPOT ON 'WHEEL OF FORTUNE' SLOT MACHINE AT HARRY REID INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT They're astronomical odds. Yet lotteries have gotten increasingly creative at selling the dream. Mega Millions increased its ticket price from $2 to $5, promising bigger starting jackpots and built-in prize multipliers. Now Powerball is getting into football with a $5 NFL-themed game across nearly two dozen states. FANATICS SPORTSBOOK LAUNCHES PROGRAM TO IDENTIFY, PUNISH SPORTS BETTORS WHO THREATEN ATHLETES ON SOCIAL MEDIA Then there are scratch-offs. Walk into almost any convenience store and you'll see an entire wall of them. $5. $10. $20. Even $50 scratch-off tickets. We're not selling a little $1 fantasy anymore. We're selling some expensive dreams. BRYCE HARPER VIDEO TO FANDUEL USER WITH GAMBLING ADDICTION UNDER REVIEW BY PENNSYLVANIA OFFICIALS Here's where the lottery bothers me most. A wealthy person spending $20 on lottery tickets generally doesn't matter financially. But someone living paycheck to paycheck or making $50,000 a year spending $20 every week is blowing more than $1,000 a year. For a lower-income household, that's real money. That's an emergency fund. That's credit-card debt. That's a Roth IRA contribution. Invest $1,000 annually for 30 years earning a hypothetical 8%, and you could accumulate more than $113,000. Instead, that money may be disappearing one scratch-off at a time. STEVE MOORE, ED POZZUOLI: STOP FUNDING SCHOOL SYSTEMS. LET THE MONEY FOLLOW THE CHILD That's why economists have long raised concerns about lotteries being effectively regressive. The issue isn't necessarily who spends the most dollars. It's how large that spending is as a percentage of someone's income. Here's my favorite part. When somebody trades on Kalshi or Polymarket, suddenly we're worried they're gambling. When somebody repeatedly hands money to a state lottery? We're funding education! That's some pretty good marketing. To be fair, lotteries do fund legitimate government programs. U.S. lotteries transferred nearly $30.6 billion to government beneficiaries in fiscal 2024, supporting education, veterans, senior programs and other public purposes. Great. But let's call the transaction what it is. Government is raising revenue by selling its citizens extremely long odds of becoming rich. And unlike prediction markets, there's no research that's going to help you pick six random numbers. No earnings report. No polling data. No economic forecast. Just luck. Prediction markets deserve scrutiny. Sports betting deserves scrutiny. And people absolutely need to understand the risks of gambling. But government lotteries shouldn't get some moral exemption simply because the proceeds fund popular programs. Buy a Powerball ticket for entertainment. Grab a scratch-off for your birthday. Dream about the mansion and Ferrari. Just don't confuse any of it with building wealth. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Because in almost every form of gambling, there's an old saying we’ve heard for decades: The house always wins. With America's lottery system, there's just one interesting twist. The house is your government. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM TED JENKIN Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab63cc775342cf4db89525b Our View: Putting park spending under the microscope te 2026-09-25T09:20:07.876Z Our View: Putting park spending under the microscope What is worth $3.5 million at Lake Mead? What about $68,000 to keep desert weather stations running, or $100,000 to photograph museum collections at Zion? 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The five-year grant will support the expansion of the Arizona Teacher Registered Apprenticeship Program and create additional paid, job-embedded pathways for aspiring special education teachers to earn certification while working in Arizona schools. “The grant will expand a program that currently serves more than 90 apprentices statewide, has doubled enrollment in the past year, and maintains a 97 percent apprentice retention rate,” stated Horne. “Nearly half of current apprentices are pursuing special education certification, demonstrating the strong demand for these pathways.” ADE Secures $5 Million Grant to Support Teacher Development. Federal funds to fuel special education apprenticeship programs. For more info:https://t.co/7dnM84Y5qq pic.twitter.com/Ceovr6F98v — Arizona Department of Education (@azedschools) September 24, 2026 The existing Arizona Teacher Registered Apprenticeship Program combines paid classroom experience with coursework through an approved educator preparation program. Apprentices work for a participating school district or charter school under the mentorship of an experienced educator while completing requirements toward teacher certification. The federal funding was awarded through the U.S. Department of Education’s Expanding Career Pathways and Workforce Readiness of Special Education Teachers and Early Intervention Personnel Through Registered Apprenticeships program. The federal program supports registered apprenticeships aimed at attracting, preparing, and retaining special eduction teachers and early intervention personnel. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the initiative is intended to help address workforce shortages by expanding work-based pathways into those professions. As part of the expansion, ADE will support the Arizona Special Eduction Teacher Registered Apprenticeship Program, providing aspiring educators with paid, school-based experience as they complete the requirements necessary to earn special education teacher certification. The initiative will involve partnerships among local education agencies, educator preparation providers, and workforce organizations. The Arizona Department of Education sponsors the apprenticeship program in partnership with the Arizona Apprenticeship Office and the National Center for Grow Your Own. Ethan Faverino is a reporter for AZ Free News. You can send him news tips using this link. The post Arizona Secures $5 Million Grant To Expand Special Education Teacher Apprenticeships first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab6022b75342cf4db893701 Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI te 2026-09-25T05:10:03.151Z Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI The Silicon Valley firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5f67975342cf4db8934aa UMass Dartmouth football murder suspect overstayed tourist visa, received deferred action: federal sources te 2026-09-25T04:20:09.769Z UMass Dartmouth football murder suspect overstayed tourist visa, received deferred action: federal sources A Nigerian national accused of killing a UMass Dartmouth football player entered the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed it before receiving deferred action under both the Biden and Trump administrations, multiple federal law enforcement sources told Fox News. Chukwunonso Uzoma David Uzoma Eze is charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of UMass Dartmouth football player Marvins Antoine, 19, during an altercation in Providence, Rhode Island, over the weekend. A second player, Kensley Macean, 19, suffered stab wounds to his head and neck and was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, according to the Providence Police Department. Sources told Fox News that Eze first entered the U.S. on a B-2 tourist visa in 2015. INDIAN NATIONAL ACCUSED OF ARIZONA GIRLFRIEND'S MURDER ENTERED US ON STUDENT VISA: FEDERAL SOURCES Eze received two extensions on his visa under the Obama administration before remaining in the country after his authorized stay expired, according to the sources. Sources said the Biden administration approved Eze's request for deferred action in September 2022. He applied for deferred action again in February 2025 and October 2025, with the latter request approved under the Trump administration on Oct. 8, 2025, according to the sources. Deferred action is a discretionary decision by the federal government to temporarily delay an individual's removal from the United States. It does not provide lawful immigration status. DHS said Eze applied for employment authorization in August 2023, but the request was rejected the following month. ‘CRIMINAL ALIEN’ DUO CHARGED IN DEADLY CONNECTICUT HOME INVASION AS DHS MOVES TO YANK GREEN CARDS He applied again for employment authorization in February 2025 based on deferred action, and DHS said that application remains pending. If convicted of murder, Eze will lose his deferred action, according to DHS. According to Providence police, the stabbing took place at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot outside Mezzo Lounge. Police said the incident stemmed from an altercation involving people who had been inside the lounge before the stabbing. Antoine was killed after a stab to the chest, while Macean suffered stab wounds to his head and neck. Eze was later located and taken into custody by the UMass Dartmouth Police Department, police said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5f67875342cf4db893494 Clean Elections fraud fight goes to court as Green Party candidates seek to block repayment te 2026-09-25T04:20:08.169Z Clean Elections fraud fight goes to court as Green Party candidates seek to block repayment Risa Lombardo, a Green Party candidate for governor, is being accused of fraudulently qualifying for public campaign financing. On Aug. 27, 2026, the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission is expected to consider asking her to repay the $2.8 million her campaign was given. (Screenshot via Google Ads Transparency Center) The attorney for two Green Party candidates accused of fraudulently obtaining public campaign funding and lawyers for the commission that regulates that funding sparred in Maricopa County Superior Court Thursday over whether the commission has the power to make candidates repay ill-gotten funding.  Tim La Sota, the attorney for Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier, the Green Party nominees for governor and secretary of state, argued that the Citizens Clean Elections Commission had overstepped its legal authority for political reasons, in an attempt to derail their campaigns. Although he said his clients had done nothing wrong and were being unfairly targeted, La Sotat later admitted that the candidates had violated Clean Elections regulations that they agreed to in exchange for the public campaign funding.  If Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Melissa Iyer Julian fails to block the Clean Elections Commission from attempting to claw back the funding, La Sota said that their campaigns would remain frozen through the general election.  “The Commission has made them afraid, which is the Commission’s purpose,” he said. “It’s Tom Collins’ purpose to intimidate these candidates into silence.”  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE La Sota said that both candidates had stopped spending their public campaign funds last month, after Collins, the commission’s executive director, sent them letters informing them of an investigation into their campaigns. In the letter, Collins “strongly encouraged” Lombardo to stop spending public campaign funds and to seek legal representation, but made clear that the commission hadn’t made any final decisions and was still in the midst of its investigation.  Attorneys Craig Morgan and Bill Richards, representing Collins and the five-person bipartisan commission, respectively, said there was no evidence that their clients had any political axe to grind against the candidates — but there was evidence suggesting the candidates may have committed fraud.  Lombardo, Collier and Republican Scott Neely, who lost his primary for governor to Andy Biggs, are all being investigated by the Clean Elections Commission and the Arizona attorney general for allegations that they falsified documentation for enough $5 contributions from voters to qualify for a collective $4.7 million in public campaign funds.  Like other Clean Elections candidates, Lombardo, Collier and Neely agreed to forgo large contributions and money from PACs in exchange for a fixed amount of public funding, based on the office they seek.  Last month, the Arizona Mirror exclusively reported that six people who were listed in campaign finance records as having made $5 contributions to all three candidates were adamant they didn’t give any money to the candidates.  “I can tell you right now, with 1,000% certainty, that I did not make a single contribution, let alone three of them,” Christopher Scott of Peoria told the Mirror when asked about forms filed by the candidates showing he had donated $5 to each in order to help them qualify for Arizona’s public campaign finance program. La Sota mentioned the article numerous times during Thursday’s hearing, and dismissed what voters told the Mirror, suggesting instead to the judge that they forgot they made the contributions. While La Sota said that the Clean Elections Commission’s investigation is “largely based” on the Mirror’s reporting, Collins told the commission during its Aug. 27 meeting that he had already been conducting his own investigation. The Mirror’s reporting, he said, confirmed what he’d already found.  Both the Mirror and Collins separately found that thousands of donors were listed as contributing $5 to all three campaigns on the same days. Many of them had never made a contribution to any other candidate, according to campaign finance reports.  Voters rarely donate qualifying contributions to more than one Clean Elections candidate, but the Mirror’s analysis found that the three long-shot candidates reported collecting contributions from nearly 4,000 of the same voters — including more than 2,600 who were listed as giving to all three La Sota tried to convince Julian that, because the Maricopa County recorder and the Arizona secretary of state approved the Green Party candidates for public funding after determining that the candidates’ qualifying contributions came from registered voters and contained what looked like those voters’ signatures, the Commission couldn’t take back that funding months later.  He argued that only the secretary of state had the power to approve or deny that funding.  La Sota failed to note that all six of the people who spoke with the Mirror said they had signed unrelated petitions in grocery store or marijuana dispensary parking lots within the past year, and believed their information and signatures had been taken without their knowledge from the petitions to be used instead to qualify the candidates for public funding.  The attorneys for Collins and the commission countered that the Clean Elections Act not only gave the commission the power to investigate possible fraud, but required it to do so.  Morgan argued that the court couldn’t block the Commission from taking action, because whatever action it might take hasn’t been determined. The investigation is still underway with an Oct. 29 deadline for completion. After that, he said, the candidates could contest the commission’s decision.  La Sota said that at that point, days before the Nov. 3 election, the candidates’ campaigns would be effectively over, even if the investigation found no wrongdoing.  “They haven’t actually issued an order, and they never will, because once Nov. 3 comes along, they don’t have to issue an order,” La Sota said. “It’s done with and they don’t have to do anything.”  Morgan reminded the judge that the Clean Elections program is voluntary and that the commission hadn’t ordered Lombardo or Collier to stop spending campaign money. The decision to do so, he noted, was a choice they voluntarily made after Collins sent them the letters informing them of his preliminary findings, advising them that a formal investigation was likely and warning them that they could be on the hook to repay the money.  “Nobody has told them they can’t do anything,” he said. “They’re making a choice. And maybe it’s because they’re being cautious, maybe it’s because they’re guilty as hell and they know it, I don’t know.”  But La Sota said that Collins and the Commission had violated the candidates’ First Amendment rights by telling them how they could spend their public campaign funds and attempting to bully them into halting their campaigns.  Morgan called La Sota’s allegations of First Amendment violations “absurd.”  La Sota said that because Collins mentioned in his letter to Collier and Lombardo that the Green Party had disavowed them and called them “sham” candidates, it was proof that the investigation was political.  “Collins admitted in his letter he doesn’t like these candidates, that the Green Party called them a sham, and he put that right in his letter,” he said. “There’s a political element here… There’s obviously a political axe to grind because he said it himself in his letter.  In the letters, Collins questioned how the candidates had the infrastructure to collect thousands of $5 contributions, without spending any money, and without the support of their party.  The Arizona Green Party accused Collier and Lombardo of being Republicans in disguise, aimed at pulling progressive votes from Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs to help Republican candidates Andy Biggs and Alex Kolodin.  Lombardo was a local Republican Party official until days before she filed her intent to run for office last year and has extensive ties to the Republican Party. Both candidates hired multiple businesses and people closely tied to the AZGOP to work for their campaigns.  While La Sota correctly argued that candidates aren’t allowed to pay people to collect $5 contributions, Collins told the Commission on Aug. 27 that it didn’t make sense that the candidates reported spending nothing on coordination of those volunteers or supplies for them.  La Sota dismissed as minor other campaign finance violations that the commission was investigating, saying that the candidates had no knowledge of any wrongdoing.  “I mean, you collect 4,300 signatures, candidates can’t know every single person who gives them a $5 contribution when they run for governor,” he said.  Lombardo signed each $5 contribution slip, attesting under penalty of perjury that she had personally received the $5 contribution from the voter who signed the form. La Sota admitted during an Aug. 27 Clean Elections meeting that Lombardo had not collected all of the $5 donations herself but signed all of the forms anyway because she was confused about the rules.  And he downplayed additional concerns highlighted in Collins’ letter that the candidates failed to disclose subcontractors they hired to do work for their campaigns, as is required by state law and Clean Elections rules. Lombardo and Collier both made large lump sum payments to Bootstrap Campaigns, a shadowy Nevada business created by California GOP political operatives weeks before Lombardo made her first payment to it.  Neither candidate disclosed payments to Uncle Sam Petitions or O’Neil Printing on their campaign finance reports, despite evidence that both businesses did work for their campaigns. La Sota said that didn’t matter, because Collins figured out who their subcontractors were on his own.  “He’s basically sort of filling in the gaps about how, precisely, the money was spent, in the same letter where he’s saying, ‘You’re going to have to repay misspent monies,’” La Sota said of Collins. “It doesn’t make any sense.” Lombardo and Collier paid more than $1 million in public campaign funds to Bootstrap for a wide variety of services that even major, established firms would typically delegate to subcontractors. That makes it likely that the campaigns used other subcontractors that weren’t disclosed.  Richards asked Julian to imagine that the candidates did receive the public campaign funds fraudulently, and what it would mean if she ruled that the commission had no authority to claw back those funds.  “It may well be that that fraud was so good that it fooled the Secretary of State’s Office,” he said. “But Mr. La Sota is saying, ‘Great, that’s a win to the candidate who’s committed the fraud. If they pull the wool over the eyes of the secretary of state, that’s it. The Clean Elections Commission can do nothing about it. The money can be spent. The public dollars could be expended, even though they were not lawfully obtained.’”  Julian said she would take the arguments under advisement and hoped to issue a decision early next week. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5f42175342cf4db893421 Packers' shocking blowout loss to Falcons should put coach Matt LaFleur on the hot seat te 2026-09-25T04:10:09.044Z Packers' shocking blowout loss to Falcons should put coach Matt LaFleur on the hot seat The Green Bay Packers finally opened Lambeau Field for the first time this regular season, where they hoped to make it 14 straight home openers where they’ve come away with a victory on Thursday night against a struggling Atlanta Falcons team. Instead, the Packers were blown out by an 0-2 team on their home turf, and now a big question arises. Should head coach Matt LaFleur be on the hot seat? CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE LaFleur signed a multi-year contract extension at the beginning of this year, which wasn’t considered a "prove-it deal," per ESPN. But what happened in this 35-14 loss certainly warms his seat as the Packers fall to 1-2 to start the year. It wasn’t just this performance, either. In Week 1, a second-half collapse resulted in a Vikings victory to open the season. Then, the Packers were close to falling to the New York Jets on the road in a game they were heavily favored. It took overtime in rainy conditions to escape New Jersey with a 20-17 win. As for Thursday night’s performance, it was more of the same that was seen in the first two weeks: a lack of diversity between the run and pass games, poor offensive line play and quarterback Jordan Love not being able to handle the pressure in his pocket. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The sold-out Lambeau Field crowd was raining down boos and jeers from the stands throughout this contest, as Love and his receivers couldn’t get on the same page, drives stalled and the Falcons started to find their offensive spark now that Michael Penix Jr. was finally healthy enough to play. Oh, and Bijan Robinson once again proved why he is one of those rare NFL talents with his ability to totally take over a game when he has the ball in his hands. Before we get to the Falcons’ positives in this game, back to LaFleur’s situation in Green Bay. Since last year, including the Wild Card Round, the Packers are just 1-7 in their last eight contests. As the fan base collectively shakes their heads at the start of this season, and audibly shows their frustration at the first home game of the season, could the thought of keeping sustainability at the head coach position change in Green Bay? LaFleur entered his eighth season with the Packers this year, and he is the only active head coach that has been with his team that long and not reached the Super Bowl. Yes, it’s still early in the season, but just food for thought. On the other sideline, there were tons of smiles, and none more infectious than that of Robinson, who finished the game with 194 rushing yards and two touchdowns. All week long, the Packers preached stopping Robinson, understanding that’s exactly what happened in Weeks 1 and 2, when the Falcons struggled to get anything going on offense. Well, Robinson torched this Packers defense with chunk runs, including a 55-yarder, and that also made life easier for Penix’s return under center. The Falcons’ signal caller, whom they wished could’ve been healthy to start the year but hadn’t been fully recovered from his torn ACL in 2025, found his rhythm after opening the game with an interception on Atlanta’s first drive. The Falcons drew up quick passing plays for Penix to get going, and once the Packers had to respect Robinson’s running ability, play-action passes were Penix’s bread and butter. Most of them went to Drake London, who also had his breakout game of the season. Like Robinson, he also had 194 yards, though through nine receptions, including a 68-yard catch-and-run that sealed the deal in the fourth quarter for the Falcons. He may not have had a touchdown, but this was the performance Penix needed after not finding anything with Cooper Rush in the first two games of the year. For the Falcons, perhaps they simply needed competent quarterback play all along, and new head coach Kevin Stefanski can put together wins now that he has one in place, especially if the defense continues to play the way they did in an incredible performance. But for the Packers, tough questions need to be asked already this year because it seems to be picking up where it left off in the worst ways possible. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5ed1475342cf4db893237 Pandas and Eagles and A.I., Oh My! Trump Throws a State Dinner for Xi te 2026-09-25T03:40:04.130Z Pandas and Eagles and A.I., Oh My! Trump Throws a State Dinner for Xi Altman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5e60c75342cf4db893082 Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases te 2026-09-25T03:10:04.953Z Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5e15e75342cf4db892fa9 Indiana Fever routed by Lynx in regular season finale as Caitlin Clark posts career-worst performance te 2026-09-25T02:50:06.817Z Indiana Fever routed by Lynx in regular season finale as Caitlin Clark posts career-worst performance Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever flamed out in their regular-season finale. Indy stood no chance Thursday night as the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx cruised to an 86-66 beatdown. Fever fans were also watching the Lynx matchup for playoff seeding purposes. With the loss, the Fever fall into a matchup against the defending champion Las Vegas Aces, led by MVP frontrunner A'ja Wilson. With a win, Indiana could have faced the Atlanta Dream. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! On Tuesday, Indy faced the Lynx at home and pulled off a statement win, at one point handing Minnesota its biggest deficit of the season. Minnesota extinguished all of Indiana's momentum in the rematch, locking down Caitlin Clark to a career-worst two points on 1-of-12 shooting (1-for-8 at halftime) in 18 minutes of action. The Fever went into the half down 62-32. Minnesota was shorthanded for a second consecutive game with rookie sensation Olivia Miles out again with a calf injury. CAITLIN CLARK RETURNS AFTER FIBA TITLE AS KELSEY MITCHELL SETS WNBA SCORING MARK IN FEVER VICTORY OVER TEMPO The Lynx rested their starters for the bulk of Tuesday's second half. Indiana seemingly followed suit on Thursday after falling behind by 30 in the third quarter, limiting Clark's floor time and seeing Sophie Cunningham held scoreless across 16 minutes. Clark had the opportunity to become the WNBA's first player to reach 900 points and 300 assists in a single season. She entered Thursday's game just 11 points shy of the 900-point mark, but fell short, finishing with two points, three assists, and four rebounds. Indiana's loss was made worse when starting center Aliyah Boston was ruled out with a right lower leg injury. The Fever also lost guard Ty Harris, who was carried off the court. On the bright side for Indy, Kelsey Mitchell broke the single-season three-pointer record, hitting her 135th of the season to pass Rhyne Howard (134). Mitchell led the team with 10 points on the night, though she snapped her streak of consecutive games with 20-plus points, ending her run at 27 games as Indiana finishes the regular season at 28-15. The WNBA postseason starts Sunday. Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5dcb175342cf4db892e9c Pittsburgh doctor stabbed to death after intruder allegedly attacks him, wife as they slept: police te 2026-09-25T02:30:09.624Z Pittsburgh doctor stabbed to death after intruder allegedly attacks him, wife as they slept: police A Pittsburgh children's hospital doctor was stabbed to death and his wife critically injured after a man allegedly entered their home and attacked the couple as they slept early Thursday, police said. Dr. Idris Evans, 46, was killed in the attack at his home in Edgewood, Pennsylvania, according to the Allegheny County Police Department. His wife remained in critical but stable condition Thursday, police told Fox News Digital. County 9-1-1 received a report of a stabbing in the 100 block of Linden Avenue at 12:31 a.m. First responders found Evans and his wife suffering from multiple stab wounds, police said. ACTIVIST TIED TO OPRAH, BIDEN STABBED, AND TEACHER MOM SLAIN IN AMBUSH IN QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD Evans was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His wife was also transported to a hospital. Police identified 32-year-old Elijah Hemingway of Pittsburgh as the suspect. Detectives determined through witness interviews that Hemingway allegedly entered the home and attacked Evans and his wife while they were sleeping, according to police. Evans' wife told investigators that they awoke to a man attacking them in bed with a kitchen knife, according to court documents obtained by KDKA reported. She said the attacker was wearing only underwear and uttered about "being God," the outlet reported. MACHETE-WIELDING SUSPECT CLAIMING TO BE 'LUCIFER' SHOT BY POLICE AFTER ALLEGEDLY STABBING 3 AT TRANSIT HUB During the attack, Evans' wife yelled for the couple's children, ages 8 and 12, to get out of the house and go to a neighbor's home, according to KDKA. She also told investigators that Evans called the attacker "Elijah," as though he knew him, according to the outlet. "We do not know if there was any pre-existing relationship," Allegheny County Assistant Superintendent Victor Joseph said, according to KDKA. "The woman did not know this male. We are trying to determine if the two males knew each other." A K-9 unit from the Monroeville Police Department searching the area found Hemingway behind a nearby home with cuts to his hand, according to county police. Hemingway remained hospitalized Thursday pending transfer to the Allegheny County Jail, police told Fox News Digital. Hemingway faces charges including criminal homicide, aggravated assault, burglary and criminal trespass, police said. Police told Fox News Digital there were no updates to the charges Thursday. NORTH CAROLINA MAN BROKE INTO EX'S HOME, FATALLY STABBED HIS 5-YEAR-OLD SON BEFORE GOING TO TACO BELL: POLICE Investigators have not announced a motive. Police told Fox News Digital that both a possible motive and whether Hemingway and Evans knew each other remained part of the ongoing investigation. Evans was medical director of the Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, according to his university profile. "The UPMC and University of Pittsburgh community is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Dr. Idris Evans, a pediatric critical care physician at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh," a UPMC spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Dr. Evans was a dedicated caregiver and valued member of our hospital and university communities. Our thoughts are with his family, loved ones, and colleagues during this difficult time. We ask that their privacy be respected." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5da5475342cf4db892dd6 Trump and Xi Exchange Symbolic Gifts Ahead of State Dinner te 2026-09-25T02:20:04.189Z Trump and Xi Exchange Symbolic Gifts Ahead of State Dinner President Trump gave a statue of a bald eagle to President Xi Jinping before a state dinner at the White House. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5d35775342cf4db892caa 2 deaths in Maricopa house fire were accidental: Medical examiner te 2026-09-25T01:50:15.361Z 2 deaths in Maricopa house fire were accidental: Medical examiner The deaths of two men in a Glennwilde house fire last month have been ruled accidental, according to Pinal County Medical Examiner’s Office records. Shannon Cogburn, 50, and Jason Liddle, 51, died from smoke and soot inhalation, as well as toxic effects of methamphetamine, according to public records obtained by InMaricopa. The men died after a fire erupted around 11:36 a.m. Aug. 1 in a home near Portarosa Drive and Corvalis Lane.   Liddle’s cause of death also included burns to his upper body, with fractured ribs and fentanyl, meth and alcohol in his system. He was found on a bathroom floor under fire debris. First responders found Cogburn unresponsive in the home before rushing him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. A toxicology report showed he tested positive for meth, ecstasy and alcohol. The report also stated the fire is “thought to have started in the attic … near the HVAC system, and there were no indications of accelerant use.” A spokesperson for Maricopa Police Department Maricopa Fire/Medical Department said the case is still under investigation, but they expect to release additional information “in the coming weeks, if not sooner.” “Our local investigators have been awaiting key pieces of information that are now starting to come together … We will release a statement once we are able to do so,” they told InMaricopa today. The post 2 deaths in Maricopa house fire were accidental: Medical examiner appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5d35175342cf4db892c89 New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill calls on lieutenant governor to resign after sexual harassment investigation te 2026-09-25T01:50:09.715Z New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill calls on lieutenant governor to resign after sexual harassment investigation New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill called on handpicked Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell to resign by Friday after an independent investigation substantiated sexual harassment and two ethics violations. The investigation found Caldwell told a female staffer that "you young women are looking for young sperm" after she told him her younger friend was not interested in a romantic relationship with him. Investigators concluded the sexually charged remark constituted sexual harassment and said Caldwell's denial that he made the comment was not credible. The staffer said she subsequently attempted to distance herself from Caldwell at work and avoid traveling with him when possible. REPUBLICANS TIGHTEN SCREWS ON SHERRILL AS NONCITIZEN VOTER PROBE ENTERS NEW PHASE "I’m calling for his resignation and giving him until tomorrow to do so," Sherrill said Thursday, calling the substantiated sexual harassment finding "extremely troubling." The report also substantiated two ethics violations, finding Caldwell brought personal guests to ticketed events without advance ethics clearance or payment and repeatedly attempted to secure a promotion for a state employee with whom he had a romantic relationship. Investigators found Caldwell continued bringing unpaid guests to events despite repeated training and warnings, including on May 23, one day after he was formally notified of the investigation. SHERRILL ESCALATES TRUMP FIGHT OVER VOTER FIASCO DAY AFTER MULLIN PRAISES NJ COOPERATION Four days after receiving notice of the investigation, Caldwell also used his state email account to recommend his romantic partner for a leadership position in another executive branch department, referring to her as "my friend" and forwarding her resume and letter of interest. Investigators said Caldwell did not disclose their romantic relationship while advocating for her promotion. Caldwell denied wrongdoing in a May response to investigators, calling the allegations false and misleading and saying he believed the facts would exonerate him. He denied hitting on or asking women out while conducting official business. Fox News Digital reached out to Caldwell for comment on the report and Sherrill's resignation demand. Sherrill said the violations reflected "a pattern of behavior" that persisted despite warnings and training. "The lieutenant governor’s resignation is necessary and in the best interest of New Jersey residents," the Democrat said. Sherrill also took aim at President Donald Trump in announcing her decision, saying the president "continues to undermine confidence in public service at the federal level" and that she would not accept "a culture that sweeps misconduct under the rug" in New Jersey. The investigation began after the state's chief ethics officer received an anonymous complaint in May alleging inappropriate behavior toward women and ethics violations. Caldwell was formally notified of the investigation May 22. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5d34b75342cf4db892c3a Justice Jackson Calls Emergency Docket ‘Potentially Corrosive’ te 2026-09-25T01:50:03.632Z Justice Jackson Calls Emergency Docket ‘Potentially Corrosive’ Hours after fielding the Trump administration’s latest emergency application, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a speech urging the Supreme Court to rethink such requests. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5ca1175342cf4db892a1d Mamdani-backed socialist arrested at anti-Netanyahu protest outside UN te 2026-09-25T01:10:41.321Z Mamdani-backed socialist arrested at anti-Netanyahu protest outside UN Darializa Avila Chevalier, a socialist House candidate in New York, was arrested Thursday while protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to New York City amid the United Nation's General Assembly, according to photos shared on social media by her campaign and public media reports. Avila Chevalier, the Democratic nominee for New York's 13th Congressional District, was among dozens of demonstrators taken into custody after protesters blocked a roadway near the United Nations General Assembly meeting Thursday, ahead of Netanyahu's address at the event. "Darializa was just arrested while peacefully protesting Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations," read a Thursday afternoon post from the candidate's social media account. "Our government has unlimited funds to arm a genocide against Palestinians but tells us there's nothing left to feed and house our own people. Stop arming Israel!" ISRAEL'S AMBASSADOR SAYS NYC’S MAMDANI IS ‘SOWING CHAOS’ AHEAD OF NETANYAHU’S UN APPEARANCE The demonstration Avila Chevalier was reportedly arrested at, drew around 250 protesters to the corner of 1st Avenue and 39th Street in Manhattan, according to City & State New York. Police began making arrests after protesters sitting in the roadway refused to move. Avila Chevalier defended her participation following the arrest. "Netanyahu belongs at the Hague: not in the streets of New York City, and certainly not addressing the United Nations General Assembly," she said in a statement reported by Bloomberg. Avila Chevalier was not the only New York political figure taken into custody. City Council members Chi Ossé and Alexa Avilés were also arrested during the demonstration, according to City & State, while The Daily Mail reported actress Susan Sarandon was among those detained at the protest. Outlets reported that roughly 80 to 100 protesters who refused orders and remained at the demonstration were ultimately arrested. RISING SOCIALIST STARS ON TRACK TO CONGRESS: WHO ARE DARIALIZA AVILA CHEVALIER, BRAD LANDER AND CLAIRE VALDEZ? Avila Chevalier, 32, pulled off a major Democratic primary upset in June when she defeated five-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the heavily Democratic 13th District, which covers Upper Manhattan and parts of the Bronx. Fox News Digital previously reported that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed Avila Chevalier in late May during an appearance on MS NOW, praising her commitment to working-class New Yorkers and saying he looked forward to fighting alongside her for their shared affordability agenda. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and received backing from the group's New York City chapter amid her congressional campaign. Avila Chevalier has been a prominent pro-Palestinian activist as well, with Fox News Digital previously reporting on how she led anti-Israel protests at Columbia University and said she helped launch Columbia University Apartheid Divest's (CUAD) boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign. CUAD later drew scrutiny for social media posts including "Death to America" and a call for the "eradication of Western civilization." Fox News Digital reached out to Avila Chevalier's campaign for additional information about the arrest but did not immediately receive a response. The NYPD directed Fox News Digital to its public-information phone line but declined to provide additional information when reached by phone. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5ca1075342cf4db892a14 FBI says source of its jobs portal breach still unknown as hackers allege employee data compromised te 2026-09-25T01:10:40.552Z FBI says source of its jobs portal breach still unknown as hackers allege employee data compromised The FBI is working to determine whether a breach involving its jobs website originated within the bureau or through a third-party provider after a criminal hacking group claimed it obtained FBI employees’ personal information. "The FBI is aware of a cyber-criminal enterprise group claiming a compromise of the FBIJobs.gov portal and alleged impact to FBI employee personally identifiable information (PII)," the organization wrote in an X post Thursday.  "While the point of breach is still undetermined — whether a third-party or the FBI’s enterprise — we are actively and aggressively investigating this matter and working closely with those third-party providers that support FBIJobs.gov to mitigate any and all risk." Jason Pack, CEO of Media Rep Global Strategies and a retired FBI supervisory special agent, said the distinction between a personnel-data breach and access to the FBI’s classified systems is critical as investigators determine the scope of the incident. FBI INVESTIGATES AFTER SHINYHUNTERS HACKERS CLAIM THEFT OF AGENTS' PERSONAL DATA "There is a meaningful difference between somebody obtaining personnel information and somebody gaining access to classified investigative systems," he told Fox News Digital. "Based on what we know right now, there is no indication they have the keys to the kingdom." ShinyHunters, a criminal hacking and extortion group, has taken responsibility for the breach and said it stole information belonging to nearly all FBI agents and people who applied to work for the bureau, Reuters previously reported. A sample of data shared with Reuters contained agents’ names, home addresses, Social Security numbers, assignments and, in some cases, names of family members, according to the outlet. DMV BREACH CONFIRMED AS HACKERS CLAIM 200,000 RECORDS STOLEN Pack said combining personal information with information about an FBI employee’s work could create additional security risks. "If an adversary knows who somebody is, where they work and what they do, they can build a much more believable scam around that person," he said. Pack said assignment information could also carry counterintelligence implications if it fell into the hands of a foreign intelligence service. "There is also a counterintelligence concern. If a foreign intelligence service can associate particular people with certain assignments, it can help them identify individuals they may want to learn more about, approach or potentially assess for recruitment," he added. "That does not mean that is happening here. It simply explains why assignment information can have value to an adversary." CHINA-LINKED HACKERS INFILTRATED US GOVERNMENT NETWORKS BEFORE FBI TAKEDOWN Pack stressed that the hackers’ claims remain separate from what the FBI has confirmed, and said the bureau still needs to determine what information was accessed, how the breach occurred and who may have been affected. "The danger from stolen personal information does not necessarily end when the computer vulnerability is fixed," he said. "Criminals may hold onto that information and use it weeks or months later." The FBI said it is working with third-party providers supporting FBIJobs.gov as investigators seek to determine the source of the breach and mitigate potential risks. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c79b75342cf4db892996 JJ Redick takes shot at LeBron James, promises starters will not be all 'white guys' in odd presser te 2026-09-25T01:00:11.967Z JJ Redick takes shot at LeBron James, promises starters will not be all 'white guys' in odd presser You can put a podcaster in the head coach's chair, but you still end up with a podcaster. Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick proved as much during his annual news conference Thursday, giving answers better suited for the Twitter timeline than a head coach's seat. First, Redick offered a shady response about the team gelling after superstar LeBron James departed. LEBRON JAMES TELLS LOS ANGELES LAKERS HE WILL LEAVE IN FREE AGENCY AFTER EIGHT SEASONS: REPORT He pointedly noted that this roster has a clearer identity than past squads led by James, his former podcast co-host. "I think we’ve always tried to give our players clearly defined roles, and I think with this group, [it’s] probably the first time in my three years here that I feel like the pieces actually fit together," Redick said. "And so those roles probably get even more crystallized." Since LeBron’s departure, a running joke has taken over Lakers fandom. "Snowtime" has trended across social media as the tongue-in-cheek nickname for the Lakers' projected core of Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and Walker Kessler — with nods to depth pieces like Dalton Knecht and Maxi Kleber. STEPHEN A SMITH SHOWS HIS PRIVILEGE BY MOCKING LAKERS' ROSTER FOR HAVING TOO MANY 'WHITE DUDES' Because the team's projected top talent isn't Black, the online gag caught fire, and Redick awkwardly addressed it with a questionable remark about his starting unit. Without much context, Redick said he was confident two positions in his lineup would "not be white." "I'm pretty confident in three of the spots," Redick said. "The other two spots will not be two white guys." It was a sarcastic wink to the online crowd, and a cheap internet laugh at best. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Redick now enters his third season at the helm in Los Angeles. His squad was swept in the Western Conference Semifinals by OKC last spring, following a first-round exit against the Minnesota Timberwolves in his inaugural season. Before taking the bench, Redick spent 15 years as an NBA sharpshooter. In 2024, he teamed up with LeBron James to co-host "Mind the Game," a wine-drinking, X's-and-O's basketball podcast. PHILADELPHIA ATHLETES, INCLUDING NEW TEAMMATES, REACT TO LEBRON JAMES JOINING 76ERS: 'WELCOME TO THE CITY' By July 2026, after two seasons together in LA, the dynamic completely shifted when LeBron packed his bags for Philly, leaving Redick to run the show solo. Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveela Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c54275342cf4db892910 Final Sophie Cunningham rally of the 2026 regular season pits supporters against trans activists in Minnesota te 2026-09-25T00:50:10.010Z Final Sophie Cunningham rally of the 2026 regular season pits supporters against trans activists in Minnesota A pro-transgender counterprotester told supporters of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham that they "should have been aborted" outside the Fever’s game against the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday night. The man delivered the remark through a bullhorn while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word "abortion," as Cunningham supporters gathered outside Target Center for a rally in support of protecting women’s sports. Another counterprotester used a bullhorn to repeatedly call XX-XY Athletics — a women’s sports apparel company that opposes biological males competing in women’s sports — a "hate group." NCAA SOFTBALL PLAYER REVEALS ALLEGED ENCOUNTER WITH PRO-TRANS COUNTERPROTESTERS AT SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM RALLY NCAA softball player Kendall Kotzmacher, who attended Thursday’s rally, told OutKick the man was the same counterprotester who allegedly told her that she "should’ve been aborted" during the first Cunningham rally in Minneapolis on Aug. 2. "He had a megaphone and was just yelling everything about how awful people we are," Kotzmacher said after the first encounter. "At one point, I got told that I should’ve been aborted when I was younger." Kotzmacher, a Minnesota native who plays softball at Colorado Christian University, became an advocate for women’s sports after her high school team lost a state championship game to a team featuring a transgender pitcher. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Thursday’s demonstration marked the second Cunningham rally in Minnesota. The first drew supporters including Riley Gaines, former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya and XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey, as well as pro-transgender counterprotesters. The rallies began following Cunningham’s public support for keeping biological males out of women’s and girls’ sports. Similar demonstrations have taken place outside Fever games in Seattle, Portland and other WNBA cities. Cunningham has said she was not involved in organizing the rallies but praised attendees for exercising their right to free speech. "I’m here to play basketball, but I’m also here to be me," Cunningham said earlier this season. "I’m not gonna shadow that or hide or, you know, dim my light just because maybe people don’t agree with that." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c53c75342cf4db8928f2 Here’s the latest. te 2026-09-25T00:50:04.694Z Here’s the latest. President Xi Jinping’s first visit to the White House in a decade comes as President Trump continues his unexpected turn from a hard line on China. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c2ed75342cf4db892886 Iranian president blames US for Middle East conflict while denying nuclear ambitions, offers to dilute uranium te 2026-09-25T00:40:13.380Z Iranian president blames US for Middle East conflict while denying nuclear ambitions, offers to dilute uranium Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian flatly denied Thursday that Tehran wants a nuclear bomb while claiming Iran is willing to submit its nuclear program for international inspection, blaming Washington for the nearly seven-month war in the Middle East and accusing it of blocking diplomacy. Asked point-blank during an exclusive interview on Fox News’ "Special Report," "Do you want a nuclear bomb or not?" Pezeshkian firmly rejected the premise. "Not at all. Not at all. Our martyred, esteemed supreme leader had announced several times that from a religious decree, it is unholy. It is illegal," he told Brett Baier, referencing religious edicts issued against weapons of mass destruction. IRAN 'ALREADY AGREED' TO GIVING UP NUCLEAR WEAPON AMBITIONS, TRUMP REVEALS The Iranian leader's public denial came amid long-term international scrutiny of Iran’s nuclear program and its enrichment of uranium to levels well beyond those typically used for civilian nuclear power. This, in fact, became President Donald Trump's central rationale for launching Operation Epic Fury back in February. On Thursday, however, Pezeshkian went on to indicate that Tehran would be open to lowering its enrichment levels and allowing outside verification as part of an effort to ease nuclear tensions. "So that weapon's mass destruction. We said we’re willing to dilute them. It’s not a big deal. We are willing to submit ourselves to verification," he said. Pezeshkian also pointed to the failed memorandum of understanding, or MOU, signed by himself and President Donald Trump in June that was intended to halt hostilities and establish a framework for a broader U.S.-Iran agreement. The process was intended by Washington to lead to an end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions and included a 60-day process toward that final agreement. "We have no problems. We did reach an agreement with your president," Pezeshkian said of President Donald Trump, who signed the agreement. "That agreement was signed, and based on that, we are willing and still wish to move forward," he claimed. IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL HINGES ON IAEA ACCESS TO LONG-BLOCKED ATOMIC WEAPON SITES, EXPERTS SAY "And the framework was agreed upon. We had not closed the Strait of Hormuz; it was open, without any legal justification or framework," he said. "They attacked us. They assassinated and martyred our esteemed supreme leader, our scientists are military commanders and government." Pezeshkian went on to criticize Washington for the subsequent breakdown in diplomacy but insisted Tehran remains prepared to reach an agreement. "The problem is that America, instead of conducting dialog, they descend into the arena by bombing us first, by blocking every pathway. We are ready," he said. "This is not the way to conduct yourself on the world stage. They can have free access to see whatever we have, but not to put us under such pressure, under blockades, deny us access." Pezeshkian also placed broader blame on Washington for the war. "We do not seek to kill Americans, as shown by actions, demonstrable actions. America has sought to kill Iranians," Pezeshkian said before adding: "What we know is that if we’re attacked, we must defend ourselves." TRUMP BETS ECONOMIC PRESSURE CAN SQUEEZE IRAN AS REGIME’S OWN FAILURES DEEPEN THE PAIN Addressing U.S. military strikes — including Operation Outcast — and increasing secondary sanctions, Pezeshkian said Iran would continue resisting Washington’s campaign. "This is something that has been the doing of the United States," he said. "We will keep resisting. We will find ways, and the life of our country will continue. We will remain." "Yes, we do have economic issues, certainly. But in order to remain, we will go through any hardship and endure," he said of Iran. "If America thinks that they can keep sanctioning us, we have nothing to do, nor do we consider any type of American elections. If the current American government, within international legal frameworks, wishes to reach an agreement, fine. If not, before the elections or after the elections, what difference does it make for us?" Pezeshkian repeated that Iran does not want the war to continue, while blaming Israel for helping provoke the conflict and putting responsibility on Washington to bring it to an end. TRUMP GIVES EVERY NATION AN EASY CHOICE: DO BUSINESS WITH AMERICA OR TERRORIST IRAN "We will stand resolutely to defend ourselves. We never sought war. We do not seek war," he said. "I deeply believe that humans should not cause the death of another human. But with the instigations conducted by Israel, they have imposed this war on us. "But we do not wish to continue. It’s America that must choose whether it wants to end this or not." The Iranian president also addressed reports that Iranian forces used Chinese satellite imagery to carry out a deadly strike on a U.S. base in Jordan. The attack resulted in the deaths of three U.S. service members. When questioned about the reports, Pezeshkian denied direct knowledge. "I’m specifically unaware of these purported images that you talk about," Pezeshkian said.  "Now, what do militaries do with one another between two countries? It is their own business within their own guidelines," he insisted. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c2ec75342cf4db89287d Xi can’t escape protesters’ cries at deafening dinner demonstration te 2026-09-25T00:40:12.026Z Xi can’t escape protesters’ cries at deafening dinner demonstration Audible protests blared over President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump’s welcome to Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at the White House Thursday night, at times drowning out the State Dinner event. "Free Hong Kong," "Xi Jinping you’re not welcome" and "freedom for political prisoners" were among the chants shouted. Protestors gathered across the Northern portico in Lafeyette Park to stand against the communist leader’s visit, where the two leaders are expected to discuss artificial intelligence and intellectual property theft, trade practices and rare-earth minerals. TRUMP-XI REUNION COMES WITH UNFINISHED BUSINESS — AND A BIGGER BATTLE LOOMING The chants could be heard clearly before the Marine Corps band began playing and remained audible, though less prominently, throughout the performance. Tibetan, Uyghur, Hong Kong democracy, Chinese pro-democracy and Falun Gong groups gathered in Washington this week to call attention to the Chinese government’s alleged human rights abuses. President Trump has previously referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as "Pooh Bear," a nickname rooted in an online meme comparing Xi to Winnie the Pooh. Protesters leaned into the comparison Thursday, dressing as the cartoon bear during a demonstration outside the White House. The dinner had 134 guests, including the two leaders and prominent tech CEOs such as Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Lisa Su of AMD, Tim Cook of Apple, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Sundar Pichai of Google and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. TRUMP SHOULD PRESS XI ON CHINA’S PERSECUTION OF BELIEVERS AT HOME AND ABROAD Many demonstrators have called for the release of political prisoners, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has called for the release of Dr. Gulshan Abbas. Abbas is a retired Uyghur doctor, who disappeared from her home in China on Sept. 10, 2018. Chinese officials later sentenced her to 20 years in prison on terrorism-related charges that her family calls fabricated. XI PREPARES CHINA ‘FOR BATTLE’ AS EXPERT WARNS OF GRAVE DANGER FACING US AHEAD OF DC SUMMIT Fox News Digital reached out to the White House to see if her release, or others, are on the negotiating table during this visit. Famous American tenor Christopher Macchio, who was featured at the Republican National Convention in Dallas a few weeks ago, will entertain for the evening, along with military musicians from the Army and the Marine Corps. After the dinner, both presidents are expected to retire for the evening ahead of their visit to the National Archives Friday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c2eb75342cf4db892874 Michigan nurse accused of breaking bones and bruising premature infant at children's hospital te 2026-09-25T00:40:11.092Z Michigan nurse accused of breaking bones and bruising premature infant at children's hospital A nurse is accused of beating a prematurely born 4-month-old baby girl at a Michigan hospital, leaving the infant with broken bones and bruises, including injuries to her tongue, according to reports. Kieran Ansley, 43, who was fired from Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, is charged with multiple counts of child abuse. The child was born four months premature but was making progress after spending months in the ICU and was expected to go home in April, WOOD-TV reported. TEXAS DENTIST ACCUSED OF FATAL MISTAKES AFTER 4-YEAR-OLD DIES DURING DENTAL PROCEDURE "She was born at 23 weeks: 1 pound, 1 ounce," her grandfather, Robert Steavens, told WOOD-TV. "And she made it through her due date, ready to go home. And then two days before she was ready to go home, this happened." The girl's mother visited her on April 2. As she approached the room, Ansley "‘jogged’ to cut them off before getting to the room, telling them that the infant had ‘slept through the night,’" court records show. MARYLAND DAD BLAMED 'SATAN' AFTER 2-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER DIED FROM HORRIFIC HEAD TRAUMA The mother also noticed that the infant's tongue was "blue and black" and that several bruises were on the child that weren't there the night before. Court records show Ansley claimed to have "seen this in the past and it was not a big deal," court records show. During an investigation, one hospital staffer said Ansley "seemed flustered" and "a little bit frustrated" that night. Ansley was also described as being "scatterbrained." OHIO DAYCARE WORKER CONVICTED OF HORRIFIC PHYSICAL ABUSE OF TODDLERS SENTENCED TO YEARS IN PRISON Others recalled Ansley being "heated" and "overwhelmed," court records show. A staff log from the night the infant was allegedly abused showed 32 instances in which someone entered the baby’s room. Ansley accounted for 27 of those visits, the records show, the news station reported. Fox News Digital reached out to Ansley's attorney and the hospital for comment. Defense attorney Damian Nunzio told the news outlet that Ansley has been cooperative during the investigation, spent "many years" working with ICU patients, and is a "very good person." "And we are confident that our investigation will let the truth come to light," Nunzio added. Ansley, who was released on bond and is expected to appear in court on Nov. 10, was fired after the allegations came to light. The child, now 10 months old, is at home and "doing wonderful," Steavens said. "We’ve been blessed, and we’ve watched the baby grow," he continued. "We’re trusting in God and healing as a family and trusting the process will move forward." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c2ea75342cf4db89286b Kyle Juszczyk responds to beer fine by explaining in detail his celebration is about his nickname – Juice te 2026-09-25T00:40:10.317Z Kyle Juszczyk responds to beer fine by explaining in detail his celebration is about his nickname – Juice The NFL unwittingly waded into a silly back-and-forth with Kyle Juszczyk on Thursday by fining him over a touchdown celebration that it says imitates "chugging a beer" which the league finds offensive while but San Francisco 49ers fullback has a pretty convincing explanation for: "Man, I feel like there's already been so much put out there," Juszczyk said while facing a scrum of reporters around his locker stall. "I don't know how else to say it. I wasn't drinking beer in my celebration. "I think you guys all know my nickname is 'Juice.' I have juice [inscribed] on my pads, and the stadium yells, 'Juice' when I catch the ball. NFL FINES PLAYER NICKNAMED 'JUICE' $14,926 FOR USING A DRINKING CELEBRATION, CALLING IT OFFENSIVE "When I celebrate, I celebrate by drinking juice and it's been that way for years." That wasn't the NFL's interpretation when it sent Juszczyk an email telling him he's being fined $14,926 for what it described as, "an offensive demonstration" that could "reasonably be construed as being in poor taste." NEW NFL FINE SCHEDULE IS GOING TO A POINT SYSTEM THAT COULD LEAD TO SUSPENSIONS BUT ALSO REFUNDS The celebration in question includes Juszczyk raising his hand to his mouth and acting as if he's drinking something. The league immediately decided Juszczyk was imitating drinking beer. "That's the other side of it, is I don't even drink beer," Juszczyk said. "I may be drinking like five times a year and always in the offseason, and it's usually with [teammate] George [Kittle] because he peer pressures me." Kittle, by the way, found this whole episode quite funny. Maybe because it's ridiculous. Anyway, the tight end has called Juszczyk by his nickname for years. But know he's going to change that. "I think we're going to sign a petition," Kittle said. "Juice's new nickname is Beer now." Niners quarterback quarterback Brock Purdy doesn't understand the fine because Juszczyk has been doing his drinking celebration for years and never been fined for it before. "Yeah, I've seen Juice do his celebration for like five years," Purdy said. "So I'm a little confused about that punishment he's dealing with." Purdy said head coach Kyle Shanahan has warned the players about violent acts in their celebrations or jumping on the goal post — looking at you, Stefon Diggs – but never has the Juszczyk celebration been mentioned. "Juice, that's his name, he drinks a juice box after scoring a touchdown," Purdy said. "We're all confused and it [stinks] to be honest for him." This also kind of [stinks]: Juszczyk said he didn't find out from the league first. Shanahan found out first and told him early Thursday morning. "When Kyle told me that during breakfast, I thought maybe he was just messing with me," Juszczyk said. "But it's real." ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Look, the NFL has rules and some apply to improper celebrations. But to jump to conclusions that the intent of this celebration was to drink alcohol and specifically beer was a leap. (Maybe not a leap from a league that is awash in beer sponsorships). Juszczyk confirmed he is appealing, as OutKick reported earlier. The appeal hearing is scheduled for Tuesday via Zoom. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c2e375342cf4db892823 In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So. te 2026-09-25T00:40:03.391Z In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So. The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c09675342cf4db8927ef Another week of SR 347 lane restrictions begins tonight te 2026-09-25T00:30:14.012Z Another week of SR 347 lane restrictions begins tonight If you were hoping State Route 347 might give Maricopa commuters a break this week, well, about that. Lane restrictions continue through next week as crews work on paving and materials testing, including another round of 24/7 restrictions this weekend. Here’s what drivers need to know: Tonight Northbound: One lane from Casa Blanca Road to Riggs Road from 8 p.m. Thursday to 4 a.m. Friday for paving. Southbound: One lane from Riggs Road to Casa Blanca Road from 8 p.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday for paving. Friday, Sept. 25, through Monday, Sept. 28 Northbound: One lane from Casa Blanca Road to Riggs Road around the clock beginning at 8 p.m. Friday through 4 a.m. Monday for paving. Southbound: One lane from Riggs Road to Casa Blanca Road around the clock beginning at 8 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Monday for paving. So yes, if SR 347 is part of your weekend plans, you may want to build in some extra time. Monday, Sept. 28, through Wednesday, Sept. 30 Northbound: One lane from Casa Blanca Road to Riggs Road nightly from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. for materials testing. Southbound: One lane from Riggs Road to Casa Blanca Road nightly from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. for materials testing. Thursday, Oct. 1 Northbound: One lane from Casa Blanca Road to Mammoth Way from 8 p.m. Thursday to 4 a.m. Friday for paving. Southbound: One lane from Mammoth Way to Casa Blanca Road from 8 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday for paving. ADOT advises drivers to slow down, follow posted speed limits, merge safely and watch for construction crews and equipment. Drivers should also allow extra time when traveling through the work zone. The post Another week of SR 347 lane restrictions begins tonight appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5c09375342cf4db8927ce Meet 'the devil': Actor who plays Satan, Judas Iscariot shares power of comedy in uncertain political times te 2026-09-25T00:30:11.117Z Meet 'the devil': Actor who plays Satan, Judas Iscariot shares power of comedy in uncertain political times Jarret LeMaster has played some sinister roles as Satan, Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot — but now he's stepping into one of pop culture's most beloved franchises as Bumblebee. The Christian actor, writer and former worship leader voices the Autobots in "Optimus Prime: Awakening," the new animated short accompanying the 40th anniversary theatrical re-release of "The Transformers: The Movie." But LeMaster told Fox News Digital there is one thing he would rather not do on camera: kiss another woman. "I don't wanna kiss anybody, and so playing bad guys makes a lot of sense for me," LeMaster said. "They never kiss anybody, you know, they just murder them." BILLY BALDWIN ADMITS HE REFUSED TO KISS CO-STAR AFTER WEEKS OF TENSION ON SET "When you're murdering somebody, you're always pretending," he continued. "When you're kissing someone, you are always actually kissing them. And so, you know, that's my line. I don't wanna cross that line. "Playing bad guys really works for my family," he joked. "And then my kids can look up to me as a great villain." It's an unusual résumé for someone who spent years working in church ministry. LeMaster said he still volunteers and leads worship at his local church, although he tends to keep some of his acting work "on the DL." SKILLET’S JOHN COOPER SAYS CHRISTIANS WHO CALL ROCK MUSIC ‘DEMONIC’ ARE ‘GETTING THE GOSPEL WRONG’ "Sometimes people are upset that I play 'Woke Jesus.' Sometimes people think that it's weird that I played the devil. Sometimes people were offended that I would, you know, play Adolf Hitler," he said. "The one that is not offensive is Bumblebee. People are very excited about that for some reason." LeMaster's path from church ministry to professional villain began when he got a call one day asking him to play a Russian murderer in a sketch for Christian satire outlet The Babylon Bee. "We need a Russian murderer. You kind of look like that," LeMaster recalled being told. At the time, he was working full time at his church and with the Bee. He initially assumed the company must be based somewhere like "Idaho or Narnia," only to discover it was in California. 'THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST' RETURNS TO THEATERS IN 4K WITH A 'RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST' SNEAK PEEK One villain eventually led to another. "I don't know why I always get cast as bad characters," LeMaster said. "I think it's probably just because I'm bald... I blame the media. I blame [actor] Jason Statham." His latest role puts LeMaster firmly on the other side of the good-versus-evil divide. "Optimus Prime: Awakening" features LeMaster as Bumblebee alongside Frank Welker as Megatron and Soundwave and the late Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime. The short accompanies a 40th anniversary rerelease that exceeded initial box-office projections, prompting additional theatrical dates through Oct. 7. LeMaster said he initially underestimated the significance of the project because director Josh Wassung was a friend. FROM DISNEY MAGIC TO ANCIENT FAITH: DAVID HENRIE ON WHY GEN Z IS FLOCKING TO CHURCH "I thought this was my friend's little movie, this little Transformers movie that he was making for Hasbro," he said. Then he learned Cullen was involved. LeMaster praised the longtime Optimus Prime actor for embodying "strength and gentleness and kindness" and "protecting the weak." "Who am I? Why do I get to play Bumblebee?" LeMaster recalled wondering. For LeMaster, even the Transformers role connects back to his faith. "It's an opportunity to sort of spread good news in the kingdom through, you know, robots," he said. And despite joining the Autobots, LeMaster admitted Satan remains particularly fun to play. "I love playing the devil because he is so much like me," he said. "I know that sounds really weird." His Babylon Bee version of Satan is less fire-and-brimstone than frustrated corporate middle management. "What if the devil was an HR director?" LeMaster said. "You know, guys, it's been a rough quarter," he said in character. "Make sure that you put cover letters on all the things you turn in, please." Beneath the joke is a serious approach to portraying villains. LeMaster said he looks for something good in a character's motivations and then considers how it became distorted. "There's nothing that the devil can create in and of himself. He can only take what's good and he can twist it," he said. "You always start with a good guy and then you can twist it to something evil," LeMaster added. "That's kind of what I think the best villains end up being like." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5be3a75342cf4db892742 Pinal County sheriff accuses Flock of ‘dishonesty’ about its cameras te 2026-09-25T00:20:10.623Z Pinal County sheriff accuses Flock of ‘dishonesty’ about its cameras WASHINGTON – Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple accused surveillance technology company Flock Safety of “disinformation … and dishonesty” about its cameras in Senate testimony on Wednesday. “It’s not Flock Safety, it’s Flock surveillance,” Teeple told Cronkite News. Flock, which makes automated license plate readers used by law enforcement, is the subject of a nationwide backlash that erupted in recent months amid concerns that its vast AI-powered camera network tracks the movements of tens of millions of drivers. Teeple announced Aug. 5 that he would end the contract with Flock, making Pinal the first Arizona county to cut ties with the company.  In a YouTube video, he cited “serious Fourth Amendment concerns with the technology contained within those cameras,” referring to the constitutional right to protection against unreasonable search and seizure.  According to a group called DeFlock that tracks automated license plate readers, there are more than 1,700 in the Valley, nearly all of them from Flock. Nationwide, more than 150 jurisdictions have cancelled contracts with Flock and its competitors or halted plans to install the cameras, according to DeFlock open-source data. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, said he called Wednesday’s hearing “to get to the bottom of what is going on with the expanding surveillance networks that appear to be going coast to coast in this country.” In his testimony, Teeple expressed frustration with the company’s communication with him in the weeks prior to the contract termination. “I started getting questions from my constituents, and they were asking very specific questions, and I started asking Flock, the company, questions, and they were not getting answers to me,” Teeple told senators. Hawley invited the CEOs of Flock and three other AI-powered camera companies – Axon, Motorola Solutions and Verkada – to testify. None of the companies sent anyone.  Flock responded to inquiries about the sheriff’s testimony by referring Cronkite News to a letter the company’s director of public trust and technology, Max Weinstein, sent to him Aug. 6, the day after he announced the cancellation. The Pinal County Board of Supervisors ratified the termination on Aug. 12. In the letter, Weinstein told Teeple it is “a common misconception” that automated cameras violate the Fourth Amendment. “A fixed LPR camera, which captures an image of a vehicle in plain view at a specific moment, does not violate the 4th Amendment,” he wrote.  The letter did not address concerns about the AI technology or resolution of images captured by the cameras. Lawmakers agreed that individual photos of vehicles on public roads generally don’t violate constitutional privacy rights. The concern about Flock’s system, though, is that it can piece together any driver’s movements for hours, over hundreds of miles – and that the data can be retrieved later. There have also been instances in which people with access to the data have misused it, for instance to stalk a romantic partner.  “We have got to find a way to balance, in America, privacy and security,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.  Some cities in Pinal County still use Flock cameras, including Casa Grande.  In an interview, Teeple said the county itself continues to use non-Flock license plate readers on anti-smuggling unit vehicles and on trailers. He called those an especially important tool in rural parts of the county.  He pointed to a joint statement from the National Sheriffs’ Association and other law enforcement groups defending the use of automated license plate readers to help find fugitives, criminal suspects and missing persons, while also supporting “meaningful safeguards and accountability.” “Let’s move forward with that so we don’t lose a valuable tool that law enforcement desperately needs,” Teeple said.  Pinal County’s contract with Flock was in place when Teeple, a Republican, became sheriff in January 2025. He initially praised the license plate readers for helping in cases like Silver Alerts, when an older person goes missing.  As he recounted to lawmakers, and afterward in an interview, Teeple contacted Flock for clarification after residents saw older cameras being replaced with newer and bigger ones and started expressing concerns. A company representative told him the newer cameras don’t take photos at high enough resolution to identify individuals, he said, but once he saw images from the newer cameras, he could recognize faces.  Teeple said that when he asked if the newer cameras used AI, the company said no.  After learning later that Flock’s system does use AI to connect images from its camera network and “create a digital fingerprint of your vehicle,” he reached out again. This time, a representative told him he had not asked about the right kind of AI. “There was just too much disinformation from them and dishonesty,” Teeple testified. “I was trying to get answers … and there were too many concerns.” A spokesman for the sheriff’s office said Teeple’s conversations happened both in person and by phone, involved multiple Flock representatives, and took place in the weeks leading up to his decision to end the contract. “For them not to show up, I thought that was pretty cowardly,” Teeple told Cronkite News after the hearing. Hawley called the absence “unfortunate.” Flock did not respond to a question about those comments. Other witnesses at the hearing included a Florida woman who was arrested for a crash that killed three people. Investigators said Flock camera images put her Dodge Durango near the crash site but the identification turned out to be wrong. A lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union, senior policy counsel Chad Marlow, urged Congress to “ban any law enforcement entity who receives federal funding from using ALPRs.” In the House, at least four bills have been introduced this year to regulate automatic license plate readers.  Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced in August that her office will review the use of Flock and similar technology in the state. In March, the state Senate killed a bill that would have put restrictions on who can access the data and how law enforcement can use it. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5be3575342cf4db892726 2026 LHUSD School Board Candidates share viewpoints at candidate forum te 2026-09-25T00:20:05.861Z 2026 LHUSD School Board Candidates share viewpoints at candidate forum On Wednesday evening, candidates for the Lake Havasu Unified School District Governing Board gathered in Lake Havasu High School's Performing Arts Center to answer questions about issues affecting the school district. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5be3375342cf4db8926ee Full Guest List for Trump’s State Dinner With Xi te 2026-09-25T00:20:03.064Z Full Guest List for Trump’s State Dinner With Xi Tech titans including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Tim Cook made appearances at the event, hosted by President Trump and Melania Trump. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5bbe875342cf4db892385 Turning Point USA fires back at ICE shooting lawyer over deleted Charlie Kirk post te 2026-09-25T00:10:16.196Z Turning Point USA fires back at ICE shooting lawyer over deleted Charlie Kirk post Turning Point USA (TPUSA) spokesman Andrew Kolvet fired back Thursday at the attorney representing a Venezuelan man shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Austin, Texas, calling the two a "perfect match" after the lawyer drew criticism over a deleted social media post referencing the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kolvet, a spokesman for TPUSA and executive producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show," told Fox News Digital that the organization backed the federal immigration officers involved while criticizing attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch and her client, 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. "We stand with our brave men and women of ICE who are defending American sovereignty and keeping American citizens safe," Kolvet said. "While everyone is entitled to their defense, it's not surprising the quality of lawyer an illegal alien from Venezuela attracts who had a final notice of deportation before leading law enforcement on a dangerous high speed chase." "They seem a perfect match," he said. REMEMBERING CHARLIE KIRK: TURNING POINT USA'S ANDREW KOLVET REFLECTS ON CONSERVATIVE GROUP'S CHALLENGING YEAR Lincoln-Goldfinch drew criticism this week after a since-deleted social media post referencing Kirk resurfaced. In the post, she questioned how someone could resist being shot while invoking Kirk. "How do you resist getting shot in the neck? Does Charlie Kirk have any advice on that?" Lincoln-Goldfinch said in the post. She previously addressed the controversy in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying her office determined the post could be interpreted differently than intended and removed it. "A post referencing the death of Charlie Kirk was removed from our account. We recognized the post could be misconstrued and that's why it came down. We have also addressed this issue internally," Lincoln-Goldfinch said. HOW CHARLIE KIRK’S ASSASSINATION CHANGED THE WAY CONSERVATIVES APPROACH HOSTILE OPPONENTS The dispute came as new evidence emerged about the ICE operation that ended with Graces Perez being shot. Surveillance footage published Wednesday showed at least two federal law enforcement vehicles pursuing Graces Perez's vehicle with emergency lights flashing and sirens sounding before the shooting. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed the video's authenticity to Fox News Digital. Lincoln-Goldfinch has disputed the federal government’s account, saying Garces Perez was working as a DoorDash driver when an unmarked vehicle struck his car and that he did not initially know federal agents were pursuing him. She has also challenged DHS’s characterization of his immigration status. DHS said Garces Perez is a Venezuelan national who had a final order of removal and was the subject of a targeted vehicle stop. The department also said his work authorization had expired in 2025 and disputed claims about his treatment following the shooting. "No amount of smears and false narratives will slow down ICE from doing its job to arrest illegal aliens from our communities," DHS said. AUSTIN ICE SHOOTING SPARKS FIGHT OVER VENEZUELAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT'S DEPORTATION Austin police released body-camera footage Tuesday showing officers arriving immediately after the shooting and helping Graces Perez from his vehicle. The video contradicted an earlier claim that federal agents pulled him from the car, although the videos did not capture the shooting itself. The shooting has also moved into federal court. Lincoln-Goldfinch’s firm filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent Garces Perez’s immediate removal, and a federal judge ordered that he remain in the country so he can appear at a Sept. 30 hearing. The circumstances surrounding the shooting remain under investigation. Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the FBI, is leading the federal investigation, while Austin authorities have also reviewed evidence surrounding the encounter. Fox News' Louis Casiano and Brooke Taylor contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5bbe175342cf4db892348 Republicans in Red-State Races Are Starting to Break From Trump te 2026-09-25T00:10:09.629Z Republicans in Red-State Races Are Starting to Break From Trump Our national political correspondent, Shane Goldmacher, explains how a growing number of Republican candidates in key battleground states are making calculated decisions to distance themselves from President Trump and his policies. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5bbdf75342cf4db89233a Unused Tents and Uneaten Food: Watchdog Finds ‘Waste’ in Immigration Crackdown te 2026-09-25T00:10:07.700Z Unused Tents and Uneaten Food: Watchdog Finds ‘Waste’ in Immigration Crackdown In a report Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said the Trump administration squandered millions of dollars to expand detention. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5bbde75342cf4db892331 Kyrsten Sinema’s Home Is Ransacked by an Ex-Bodyguard, Officials Say te 2026-09-25T00:10:06.891Z Kyrsten Sinema’s Home Is Ransacked by an Ex-Bodyguard, Officials Say The man, Matthew Ammel, dated Ms. Sinema while he was part of her Senate campaign security detail and was married, according to court filings. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5bbdd75342cf4db892328 ‘America’s Bishop’ Was Beatified. 50,000 Catholics Showed Up. te 2026-09-25T00:10:05.310Z ‘America’s Bishop’ Was Beatified. 50,000 Catholics Showed Up. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, who was the country’s most visible Roman Catholic clergyman of the 20th century, is one step closer to sainthood after a ceremony in St. Louis. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5bbdb75342cf4db89231f Fifth-Grade Teacher and Boy Die in Iowa Lake on Field Trip te 2026-09-25T00:10:03.960Z Fifth-Grade Teacher and Boy Die in Iowa Lake on Field Trip The teacher, Hannah Jorgensen, 24, jumped into the water to save the boy, according to his family. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5b73175342cf4db892271 Sydney Sweeney gives subtle nod to boyfriend Scooter Braun in new lingerie campaign te 2026-09-24T23:50:09.575Z Sydney Sweeney gives subtle nod to boyfriend Scooter Braun in new lingerie campaign Sydney Sweeney appears to be keeping boyfriend Scooter Braun close, even while she's working. The "Euphoria" star seemingly gave the music executive a subtle nod in a new campaign for her lingerie brand, SYRN, wearing a delicate necklace bearing the initials "SB." In photos shared by the company, Sweeney modeled a pale pink bra from the brand while wearing the gold necklace, with the two small letters visible around her neck. SYDNEY SWEENEY SHARES BIKINI AND UNDERWEAR PHOTOS IN INSTAGRAM DUMP FROM AUSTRALIA TRIP Another image in the carousel showed the 29-year-old actress taking a mirror selfie in the same look. "Send Nudes, now yours. Syd wears the Smooth Cup Demi in Babe," SYRN captioned the Instagram post. The company explained that the new design uses the same fit as its Romantic Demi bra but features a smooth cup intended to be worn under T-shirts. While neither Sweeney nor the brand identified the meaning behind the necklace, the "SB" initials match those of her boyfriend, Scooter Braun. SYDNEY SWEENEY SIZZLES IN WONDER WOMAN CORSET COSTUME AS SHE SOAKS UP SUMMER ROMANCE WITH SCOOTER BRAUN The understated accessory comes as Sweeney and Braun have become increasingly public about their relationship after initially keeping their romance relatively quiet. Sweeney and Braun's romance traces back to summer 2025, when the two connected in Venice around the time of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding, according to People. The outlet first reported in September 2025 that Sweeney and Braun were casually seeing each other. SYDNEY SWEENEY GOES INSTAGRAM OFFICIAL WITH SCOOTER BRAUN IN COZY STAGECOACH SNAPS Their relationship has since grown more serious. A source told People earlier this month that Sweeney hadn't been searching for another relationship when she met Braun after ending her engagement to Jonathan Davino. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "When Sydney met Scooter, she wasn't looking for another relationship. And she truly meant this," the source told the outlet. "She had ended her engagement. She really wanted to simplify her life, not complicate it." Another source told People the two initially became friends before their relationship developed naturally. "They started as friends, and it kind of just happened," the source said. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE According to the outlet, Sweeney and Braun were both "surprised" by the relationship but have since "become really happy." The couple's relationship has become considerably less private over the past year. Braun accompanied Sweeney to the "Euphoria" Season 3 premiere in April, and the two later shared glimpses of trips together throughout the summer. Earlier this month, they returned to Venice, where they first connected in 2025, and were photographed holding hands and kissing during the trip. SYDNEY SWEENEY FIRES BACK AT TROLLS AFTER FACING CRITICISM ONLINE FOR PROVOCATIVE SPORTS AD The getaway came shortly before Sweeney celebrated her 29th birthday on Sept. 12. Braun marked the occasion with a public Instagram tribute to his girlfriend, describing their relationship as a "true partnership." "You make me smile harder, laugh louder, adventure more, and dream bigger," Braun wrote. "You've made the ordinary feel exciting and the future feel like something I can't wait to get to." He concluded the tribute by writing, "Happy birthday Syd. Many more celebrations ahead. I love you." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE   Sweeney has publicly celebrated Braun as well. In an Instagram Story for his 45th birthday in June, the actress shared a photo kissing him on the cheek and called him "the man with the biggest heart I know." In another Story, Sweeney thanked Braun for "all the living room dances and making me smile again," adding, "A good man is rare. A man like you is once in a lifetime." Their relationship has also reached another milestone away from social media. A source told People this month that Sweeney has been spending time with Braun's three children, whom he shares with ex-wife Yael Cohen. "They're very serious. Sydney's spending time with his kids and that's a big deal. Scooter's very careful about who he brings around them," the source told the outlet. Braun and Cohen finalized their divorce in 2022. Sweeney, meanwhile, ended her longtime relationship and engagement to Davino before becoming involved with Braun. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5b27b75342cf4db892177 Waymo is scaling fast. Here’s what the fleet data shows. te 2026-09-24T23:30:03.650Z Waymo is scaling fast. Here’s what the fleet data shows. In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hotspots as well. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5add375342cf4db8920f0 Corie Walsh’s husband faces alleged killer mom accused of plotting to poison him as attorney lays blame te 2026-09-24T23:10:11.138Z Corie Walsh’s husband faces alleged killer mom accused of plotting to poison him as attorney lays blame Corie Walsh, 40, the Illinois mother accused of killing her 2-year-old son Barrett, entered a not guilty plea under the watchful eye of her husband, whom she is accused of plotting to poison. She appeared in court on Thursday during a preliminary hearing where her husband, Michael Walsh, was also present. Walsh is accused of strangling Barrett, leaving him hanging from a rafter before trying to kill herself on Sept. 1 during an alleged "psychotic episode." Her attorney, Andrea Lyon, said after the court hearing Thursday that Walsh's family was there to support her. "They love her and this is not — she’s never been violent… she was psychotic," Lyon said, the New York Post reported. "They all know that and want her to get better. This is not who she is." ILLINOIS MOTHER CHARGED WITH MURDER IN DEATH OF 2-YEAR-OLD SON IN CASE DRAWING COMPARISONS TO LINDSAY CLANCY FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Lyon previously told Fox News Digital that Walsh's husband is standing by her throughout the case. CLANCY-FIXATED ILLINOIS MOM SANG 'WIZARD OF OZ' TUNE AFTER ALLEGEDLY KILLING 2-YEAR-OLD SON: REPORT Prosecutors argue in addition to killing the couple's child, Walsh also plotted to poison her husband "amid a fixation with the Lindsay Clancy trial." LINDSAY CLANCY FIXATION AND ALLEGED PLOT TO POISON HUSBAND EMERGE AS ACCUSED MOM CLAIMS PSYCHOSIS SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE FOX TRUE CRIME HUB Lyon, who previously represented Casey Anthony, announced during a news conference after the hearing that her team subpoenaed treatment information from the jail that is currently housing Walsh, according to the Post. SEND US A TIP GOT A TIP? Walsh's defense is trying to get her pretrial release to the hospital. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST Fox News Digital previously reported a judge denied Walsh's release earlier this month because it would be considered "too dangerous" after prosecutors said she posed a threat to her husband and three surviving children. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL On Thursday, Lyon said, "Her whole family is here today — her husband, mother, mother’s best friend." "At today’s hearing, Ms. Walsh entered a plea of not guilty. The defense continues to seek her release so she can receive appropriate psychiatric treatment. We have no additional comment at this time," Lyon told Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital reached out to Michael Walsh. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5add275342cf4db8920df One-page ballot may not ease voting for Maricopa County voters with disabilities te 2026-09-24T23:10:10.144Z One-page ballot may not ease voting for Maricopa County voters with disabilities PHOENIX – Maricopa County will reduce its general election ballot from two sheets to one in November, potentially improving efficiency for Maricopa County elections officials but not necessarily making the ballot easier for voters with disabilities.  Sey In, an attorney with Disability Rights Arizona who works on voting rights, said in a statement the effect depends on each voter’s individual needs, the ballot design and how the person votes. “Generally, we can’t say whether a one-page ballot is more or less accessible than a two-page ballot,” In wrote in response to email questions. Fewer statewide measures made the reduction to one page possible, though the average Maricopa County voter will still see more than 80 contests on the ballot, 57 of which are judges seeking to remain in office, the Maricopa County Elections office said. Adrian Borunda, a communications officer for Maricopa County Elections, said moving from two sheets to one is “easier logistically” as the county will have half as many sheets to prepare, mail and tabulate. The ballot in Maricopa County for the 2024 general election was two pages. In that election, Borunda said the county handled about 4.1 million ballot sheets. When designing the ballot, he said the county considers readability and the number of contests a single sheet can hold. Arizona’s Election Procedures Manual says ballot text should be no smaller than 8-point type and must have enough spacing to be clearly understood. Bill Gates, an Arizona State University professor who leads its Mechanics of Democracy Laboratory and served on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors through 2024, stated the shorter ballot has clear administrative benefits, but whether it makes voting easier, particularly for those with disabilities, remains to be seen. “You can make the ballot physically shorter without making the voting task easier,” Gates wrote in response to questions. “Cognitive burden comes from the number and complexity of decisions, the amount of information voters have to process and how easy it is to find and understand each contest.” An election staff worker analyzes a voting ballot in the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center on Nov. 5, 2024. (File photo by Dylan Wickman/Cronkite News) For Robert Murphy, a 19-year-old college student with autism, the one-sheet format is less important than its readability and his ability to vote by mail. He said polling places can be stressful and transportation is difficult because he does not yet have a driver’s license. Murphy said the new format would not pose a personal problem “unless the font’s really small or hard to read.” Under federal law, voting systems must give voters with disabilities the same opportunity for access, privacy and independence as other voters. Maricopa County says each vote center offers curbside voting and an accessible voting device. Voters using the device make selections through a touch screen, audio or tactile controls. The machine then prints their selections for tabulation. The county also offers braille and large-print ballots. County records show those services are used. During the 2022 general election, 1,503 voters used accessible devices in person and 27 braille ballots and 362 large-print ballots were distributed. David Carey, who has limited hand movement because of a spinal cord injury from a gunshot wound, votes from home. Although one sheet means less paper to handle, Carey said the key issue for him is whether he can vote without relying on another person. “The main goal should be privacy, independence and equal access,” said Carey, who is chairperson of the AZ Disability Advocacy Coalition. Maricopa County has expanded its accessible voting options after a 2018 federal civil rights advisory report said long lines may have prevented some voters with disabilities from casting ballots during that year’s election. The county adopted a vote-center model in 2020, expanding accessibility and allowing voters to use significantly more locations rather than relying on one assigned precinct. While the one-page ballot will make things easier for the county, Gates warned election officials against trading fewer sheets for a more crowded design. “The danger is solving the paper problem by creating a readability problem,” he stated. Borunda maintained reducing the ballot from two sheets to one would not affect readability. He said the ballot-design team considered all voters, including those with disabilities. Officials considered “everything from readability to how many contests we can get on the page,” Borunda said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5adcc75342cf4db8920c3 Trump Is Hosting Xi for a State Dinner. It’s a Rarity for the U.S. President. te 2026-09-24T23:10:04.471Z Trump Is Hosting Xi for a State Dinner. It’s a Rarity for the U.S. President. The state dinner for President Xi on Thursday will be only the fourth hosted by President Trump, far fewer than past U.S. presidents. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5adcb75342cf4db8920ba Man Wounded in Trump Assassination Attempt Dies 2 Years Later te 2026-09-24T23:10:03.255Z Man Wounded in Trump Assassination Attempt Dies 2 Years Later James Copenhaver, 76, was struck in the arm and abdomen in the shooting in Butler, Pa. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5ab8175342cf4db89205f AOC's 'Tax the Rich' designer accused of leaving small business with massive charity gala bill te 2026-09-24T23:00:17.549Z AOC's 'Tax the Rich' designer accused of leaving small business with massive charity gala bill The fashion designer behind Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's, D-N.Y., "Tax the Rich" Met Gala dress is facing a seven-figure lawsuit accusing her of stiffing the small business she hired to throw her own star-studded charity gala. According to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital, designer Aurora James, 42, is being sued by event organizer The Gathery Inc. over allegations stemming from unpaid bills after it produced the "15 Percent Pledge Gala 2026″ at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles earlier this year. The February bash boasted an attendee list that included Meghan Markle and Kimora Lee Simmons, and was held with the intention of raising money for Black business owners. ANNA WINTOUR REPORTEDLY FACES CALLS TO RETIRE AFTER JOHN GALLIANO MET GALA FIRESTORM: ‘LOST HER TOUCH’ However, a civil lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court by The Gathery alleges James, her nonprofit 15 Percent Pledge, and its fiscal sponsor, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation (PVF) left the planners with the bill. The plaintiffs are seeking at least $1,082,965.28 in damages from the three parties, along with contractually owed interest and additional financial damages. According to court documents, James’s nonprofit allegedly made two initial deposits toward the $1.5 million bill to The Gathery — which produced the annual fundraiser in both 2024 and 2025 without issue — before ceasing all payments in November 2025. James "personally directed the project and repeatedly induced TGI to continue performing even after payment defaults had begun," the suit reads. PRINCE HARRY SUED BY CHARITY HE FOUNDED IN HONOR OF PRINCESS DIANA "James approved change orders expanding the scope and cost of the event, signed the Feb. 4, 2026, amendment admitting breach, and assured TGI that payment would be forthcoming — all while knowing, or recklessly disregarding, that 15PP lacked the ability to pay," it continued. James founded the nonprofit organization in 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd, with a goal of encouraging retailers to dedicate 15% of their storefront’s shelf space to products created by Black-owned businesses. According to its website, 15 Percent Pledge is a self-described "racial equity and economic justice non-profit organization working towards a more equitable economic future." "Launched in 2020 by Aurora James, the initiative was born from seeing multiple acts of injustice and police brutality in the United States with a lack of accountability for the systemic issues at play," the website states. DEFEATED PROGRESSIVE ‘SQUAD’ LAWMAKER IN HOT SEAT FOR NON-PROFIT’S MISSING PAPER TRAIL The ongoing civil lawsuit is not James’ first time allegedly missing payments. James, who shares a son with Benjamin Bronfman — son of music executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. and actress Sherry Brewer — was reported in 2021 to have run up tax debts through Cultural Brokerage Agency, the parent company of her Brother Vellies fashion brand, including three open state tax warrants from 2018-19 totaling $14,798 in unpaid employee withholding and 15 warrants since 2015, according to The New York Post. The company has also reportedly faced multiple legal claims alleging it repeatedly failed to pay worker benefits. The alleged financial hypocrisy by James — an outspoken activist with deep ties to the fashion world — was noted by both legal and political experts. "These are still allegations that have to be proven in court, but there’s an undeniable irony in an organization dedicated to supporting small businesses being accused of stiffing one for more than $1 million," former Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg told Fox News Digital. "If you preach economic fairness, you have to practice it too." AOC DOUBLES DOWN ON ‘MYTH’ OF EARNING A BILLION DOLLARS, CLAIMS FORTUNES ARE BUILT ON ‘ABUSE’ Kaivon Shroff, a former digital organizer for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, also noted the apparent irony in the allegations against James. "AOC made Aurora James’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress one of the defining political images of the Met Gala and excess wealth at a time of great economic inequality, so the irony here is impossible to miss," Shroff told Fox News Digital.  "James built her public brand around economic justice and supporting Black-owned businesses," he added, while noting that now she is being sued by a small business. "That is exactly the kind of contradiction opponents seize on to argue that the politics are performative," Shroff said. "Movements built around economic fairness and supporting marginalized businesses are so important, and they depend heavily on credibility and goodwill," he added. "When the people most visibly associated with those causes are accused of behaving in ways that seem completely at odds with the message, the damage does not stop with the individual. It gives critics an easy way to discredit the cause itself." Fox News Digital reached out to James’ attorney for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5ab7d75342cf4db892041 Hobbs asks court to halt Tohono border wall work te 2026-09-24T23:00:13.080Z Hobbs asks court to halt Tohono border wall work Gov. Katie Hobbs is siding with the Tohono O’odham Nation in its bid to delay work on a border wall the federal government wants to build along the Mexican border. At the center of the dispute is the Department of Homeland Security’s proposal to build that 62-mile barrier. Tribal officials filed suit claiming that it amounted to an illegal trespass on their land. “Arizona’s own record demonstrates that vigorous border security does not require disregarding tribal sovereignty,” Justin Cox, a private attorney representing Hobbs, told the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He said the state has achieved “major enforcement results” through cooperation with the tribe. Hobbs is not asking that the 62-mile double-layered, 30-foot-high steel and concrete barrier be canceled entirely — at least for now. Nor is the governor taking a position on the underlying legal question of whether the land where the twin walls are being proposed belongs to the tribe or the federal government. Instead, Hobbs wants the court to halt the work while these issues are worked out. “Prior border wall construction conducted without meaningful tribal consultation resulted in irreparable damage to sacred sites and cultural artifacts,” Cox told the court. He cited a 2020 incident where federal contractors building a section of border wall inside the Organ Pipe National Monument engaged in blasting a sacred site that held cultural artifacts and human remains. And earlier this year, a contractor damaged a 1,000-year-old, 200-foot fish-shaped geoglyph — essentially a design drawn directly on open ground — by bulldozing through the site to build a border barrier. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon tossed the case last month. He specifically rejected arguments that this was tribal land, citing a 1907 proclamation by then-President Theodore Roosevelt declaring the first 60 feet of land north of the border with Mexico belongs to the United States. He also noted that Congress did not actually establish a reservation for the tribe until 1917. And even if that were not the case, Leon said the United States’ need to secure the border trumps the tribe’s concerns. “Given the national security and foreign policy considerations related to the border wall, deference to the government is warranted,” he wrote. Tribal attorneys appealed, contending that the ruling was incorrect. The tribe erected “no trespassing” signs and tried to remove contractors from the reservation. But that only made the contractors return, this time accompanied by armed federal agents. Cox, in his filing on behalf of the governor, said a stay is appropriate. He pointed out that Leon, in refusing to stop the work, wrote that he believes that many of the harms the tribe fears “could be mitigated through consultation with the Nation and accommodations.” And the judge also said he expects that the federal government and the Department of Homeland Security would “follow through on its guarantees of consultation.” “Events have since tested that expectation,” Cox wrote. “Within hours of the ruling, DHS’s general counsel posted, ‘We respect tribal sovereignty but not to the detriment of border security. The wall is getting built. Our authority is beyond dispute,”’ Cox told the appellate court. And that, he said, led to the contractors being escorted onto the reservation by armed agents to start work. “Consultation that follows the destruction of a sacred site is not consultation; it is notification,” Cox said. “The value of consultation lies entirely in its capacity to shape a decision before that decision is made — particularly where, as here, the decision is irreversible.” Anyway, Cox said, halting construction while the case proceeds would impose “minimal harm” on the government. In siding with the tribe, Hobbs also finds herself at odds with Senate President Warren Petersen and House Speaker Steve Montenegro. In their own legal brief, the Republicans said Homeland Security interests outweigh the concerns of the Tohono O’odham, both in terms of erecting a fence on what it says is reservation land and dividing the tribe, which has existed for centuries on both sides of the border. Lee Whitesell, a private attorney retained by the pair, cited Arizona’s history of dealing with border crime and incidents, including “millions of dollars that the state has spent to assist with border-related security.” And they blame pretty much all of it on the Biden administration. The pair acknowledged that the tribe’s police chief has said that “border crossings on the reservation are at historic lows.” But they said even if that is true, it’s because the Trump administration has “made border security a top priority.” More to the point, they said that situation isn’t guaranteed to continue. “A future administration may return to the lax practices of prior administration and choose to pull personnel from the border; to retract border security policies; and to again send an implied message to the world that the integrity of our border will not be enforced,” their legal filing states. The appellate court has not set a date to hear arguments. The post Hobbs asks court to halt Tohono border wall work first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5ab7b75342cf4db892031 Woman accused of removing political signs plans to stand trial te 2026-09-24T23:00:11.931Z Woman accused of removing political signs plans to stand trial A Lake Havasu City woman accused of unlawfully removing campaign signs prior to the 2026 Primary Election is scheduled to stand trial later this year in Lake Havasu Municipal Court. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a92075342cf4db891fed Roseanne Barr calls former co-star a 'brainwashed bigot' after he said reboot was 'rightfully canceled' te 2026-09-24T22:50:08.222Z Roseanne Barr calls former co-star a 'brainwashed bigot' after he said reboot was 'rightfully canceled' Roseanne Barr is firing back at her former co-star, calling him a "brainwashed bigot." During a recent appearance on the "Can't Be Censored" podcast, the 73-year-old actress and comedian hit back at her former "Roseanne" co-star, Michael Fishman, after he said the 2018 reboot was "rightfully canceled." "He f- - -ing doesn’t even f- - -ing know what I said, even though I’ve explained it 10,000 times for nine years on the Internet," Barr said. "He hasn’t even taken the time to listen to what I say because he’s a bigot. And he’s a brainwashed bigot." The reboot of the hit 90s show was a huge success when it premiered in March 2018, but was canceled just two months later in May after Barr tweeted a racist remark about Valerie Jarrett, a former advisor to former President Obama.  ROSEANNE BARR REVEALS ‘DAMAGED’ HEART, FEARS SHE WILL ‘DIE ON THE SURGERY TABLE’ Barr apologized for the remark multiple times. However, ABC decided to fire her and cancel the show. A month later, the network announced a new spin-off called "The Connors," bringing back a majority of the "Roseanne" cast, but without any involvement from Barr. The comedian went on to say that Fishman asked her about her comments "9,000" times before she told him to "go and f- - - yourself and stay f- - -ed ‘till the day you die." "Don’t put my name in your f---ng mouth; shut the f--- up," she recalled telling him. "You are an ignoramus and a bigot, and you have no idea what I said because it contradicts the Democratic Party platform that you’ve had shoved down your throat and up your a--. So just f--- you. You have no geopolitical context whatsoever to discuss what I said." In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Laurie Metcalf, who played Barr's sister Jackie Harris on the show, said the two "haven’t spoken since we said goodbye at the end of the reboot." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Barr herself confirmed she has not kept in touch with any of her former co-stars during an interview with Fox News Digital in June 2025. "No, I'm not friends with none of them. They're all in the past," she said. "I have pleasant memories of what fun we had – wish them all the best. And no, we don't talk. I've moved on from that horrendous ending and chapter of my life, but you know, I don't hold any bitterness or nothing to them, but my God, what fun we had on that show." She added: "And I was sorry they f---ed it all up with their greed and ridiculous stupidity to f--- all that up. F--- them, but I wish them well." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS When the show returned as "The Connors," Barr's absence was explained as being due to her character's off-screen death. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE In her documentary, "Roseanne Barr is America," the comedian revealed she turned down an opportunity to appear on an episode of the show after they asked her to guest star. "They called me and asked me if I would like to come back as a guest star. You're coming back as a ghost," Barr said. "You're asking me to come back to the show that you f---ing stole from me and killed my a--, and now you want me to show up because you got s--- f---ing ratings and play a ghost?" Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a91f75342cf4db891fe4 Country music star Ella Langley faces her fears following record-breaking week te 2026-09-24T22:50:07.479Z Country music star Ella Langley faces her fears following record-breaking week Ella Langley is choosin' to face her fears this week. On Wednesday, the country music star shared a TikTok video of herself meeting and holding several exotic animals. Langley had a parrot on her shoulder and sat next to a baby kangaroo on a couch before she decided to take it to the next level. "This is facing my fears a little bit," the singer said when she was presented with an Argentine boa. ELLA LANGLEY SAYS 'CHOOSIN' TEXAS' SUCCESS IS 'CHANGING MY LIFE' AFTER HER SONG BREAKS MARIAH CAREY'S RECORD Langley appeared to be a little nervous when she first held the snake, but eventually warmed up to it. She allowed the boa constrictor to wrap around her shoulders and rest on her body. The TikTok video ended with Langley hugging and holding a lemur. "I love today," she said. The comment section was filled with fans weighing in on Langley's exotic animal experience. "So fun!" one user wrote. Another added, "omg the snakes I would have ran." "You're amazing. Please don't ever change," another wrote. "You're the cutest thing in life tho," one fan wrote. Langley's fun experience came just days after "Choosin' Texas" logged its 23rd week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" to become the longest-running No. 1 song in the chart's history. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE On Tuesday night, Langley celebrated the milestone on Instagram. "I'm genuinely trying to find the words to explain what's going on in my brain today," Langley began her video. "What? I don't know. Thank you so much. Thank you for loving this song, for listening to it. I feel like… I just don't even know what to say at this point. I'm running out of hyperboles to describe how I feel, so I will just let my dog in the background show you his excitement," she continued as her dog barked.  LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "Just thank you. Thank you so much. It's changing my life. It's changing the lives of the writers of this song. It's changing the lives of my family, and it is truly growing an atmosphere for something I'm gonna be able to do the rest of my life and I just… today doesn't feel like a real thing," Langley said. "It feels fake and somebody's going to come in and be like 'haha we're kidding the whole time just kidding.'" "I'm really excited to just experience a moment like this in my life," she said. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE The country music star told her fans that she was going to celebrate that night before ending the video by saying, "Choosin' T… that's the one huh?" "Choosin' Texas" first entered the Hot 100 in November 2025, became Langley's first top-10 hit in January and reached No. 1 for the first time in February. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a6ce75342cf4db891f8a Reporter's Notebook: Call for for a free Iran echoes at the United Nations te 2026-09-24T22:40:14.284Z Reporter's Notebook: Call for for a free Iran echoes at the United Nations UNITED NATIONS, New York: When Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the United Nations General Assembly, he portrayed his nation as the victim of American and Israeli terrorism. But outside the hall, a thousand protestors chanted that he should be arrested for being a terrorist. "They are terrorists, they must go!" the crowd repeatedly shouted, waving green, white and red flags of the resistance. THE TOP MOMENTS FROM IRAN PRESIDENT’S TENSE VISIT TO US SOIL AS WAR RAGES "The president of Iran speaks and lies over and over again. He is a murderer. He is a terrorist," former New York City Mayor Rudy Guillani told the gathering. "It is useless to negotiate with them because they are terrorists, murderers, possibly in some ways insane religious maniacs. This would be like trying to reach an agreement with Hitler." Various former high-level government officials struck the same tone, slamming the radical Islamic regime that they say has savagely oppressed and butchered the Iranian people for decades. Estimates say upwards of 20,000 protestors who took to the streets of Iran earlier this year demanding freedom have been murdered by the government. Reports of executions of political prisoners continue each week. "It is time now to free Iran from the Mullahs," Ret. Lt. General Keith Kellogg, who has served in both Trump administrations, told the gathering, "You have a road map to a secular, non-nuclear Republic of Iran, one that rejoins the free world as a friend." TRUMP TO ZERO-IN ON IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, GAZA PLAN AND UN OVERHAUL IN WORLD STAGE SPEECH Former US Ambassador Marc Ginsberg urged Congress to pass the "Maximum Support Act," legislation that would crack down on Iran's resources, confiscate assets of the government and support internet freedom, so the Iranian people could organize and have a voice. "All you have to do, President Trump, is to provide the funding and the support that we need, the tools the Iranian people need. That is the type of help you promised. That is the type of help you can still provide and bring the United States closer to this exit ramp from this war and to accelerate our speed as Iran's arsenal of democracy," he said. "The people of Iran have rejected every form of dictatorship, whether religious or monarchical," said Maryam Rajavi in a video message to the rally. She is president-elect of the group that sponsored the protest, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. "The voice of protest from Iran's oppressed people is being heard. The voice rejects the continued occupation of Iran's seat by religious fanatics," she said, referring to the regime's membership in the world body.  US-BACKED ISRAEL-MOROCCO DEAL DEEPENS ABRAHAM ACCORDS AMID GROWING REGIONAL THREATS The rally was held over a two-day period and the message to the United Nations diplomats remained consistent. "The regime only responds to firmness and decisiveness. And that's why sanctions and putting pressure on Iran has been the only solution in terms of external pressure," Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the NCRI Washington, D.C. office told Fox News.                                                                 "The regime is incapable of reform and change. If they were able, they would have done it a long time ago. The real solution for Iran is change by the people of Iran. They can have any talks, any concessions, none of that is going to change the behavior of the regime," he said.    "The real Iran is represented by the people of Iran," he added. "The real change has to come from within." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a6cc75342cf4db891f6c Can fish survive West's megadrought? te 2026-09-24T22:40:12.763Z Can fish survive West's megadrought? A fly fisherman from New Mexico sought solitude and a chance at catching Arizona’s state fish last fall when he steered his pickup into a gravel parking strip overlooking a stream that winds through a meadow in the White Mountains. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a6cb75342cf4db891f61 New players, same standard: ASU volleyball maintains culture despite roster turnover te 2026-09-24T22:40:11.733Z New players, same standard: ASU volleyball maintains culture despite roster turnover TEMPE – Arizona State junior middle blocker Antonina “Tosia” Serafinowska had plenty of options after she entered the transfer portal from Wisconsin. But Serafinowska wasn’t simply looking for another place to play volleyball. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a6ca75342cf4db891f58 Commentary: We spend too much on K–12 education te 2026-09-24T22:40:10.747Z Commentary: We spend too much on K–12 education The United States spends too much on K–12 education. That does not mean every expenditure is unnecessary, every state should spend the same amount or schools could operate without administrators, transportation and support services. It means the price of public… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a47475342cf4db891f09 Unearthed clip exposes clash between El-Sayed and ex-GOP rival: 'Muslims definitely hate you' te 2026-09-24T22:30:12.635Z Unearthed clip exposes clash between El-Sayed and ex-GOP rival: 'Muslims definitely hate you' Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, once fired back at accusations that he might have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that advocates for implementing Muslim code, known as Sharia law, as a legal framework. "Now, you may not hate Muslims," El-Sayed said. "But I’ll tell you, Muslims definitely hate you," El-Sayed said at a 2018 Michigan gubernatorial forum. The statement, made as a response to probing from Michigan lawmaker Patrick Colbeck about his religious affiliations, demonstrates El-Sayed’s resentment towards efforts to use his Muslim faith as a link to Islamic groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. It also shows efforts to address fears that, as a Muslim, he would try to implement Sharia law as the law of the land. VANCE UNLOADS ON EL-SAYED OVER SHARIA REMARKS: ‘THAT’S NOT MY GRANDPA’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY’ Colbeck was also running for governor at the time. During the panel, Colbeck focused his criticisms on the Muslim Brotherhood, claiming that El-Sayed had ties to the Muslim Students Association (MSA), a group listed as part of a strategy memorandum for North America written by one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s members, Mohamad Akram. El-Sayed served as the vice president of the MSA chapter at the University of Michigan during his time there as a senior in 2007, according to College Fix. "This is very serious stuff, guys. This is about civilization jihad," Colbeck said. Fox News Digital has not discovered any tie between El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood. Notably, the memorandum lists a wide range of organizations, stretching from the Islamic Book Service to the Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers – groups that, for their own part, don’t maintain a formal relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. Colbeck’s comments prompted the moderator at the 2018 panel to direct a question to El-Sayed directly. "Is Sharia Law instituted here in the state of Michigan a real concern?" the moderator asked. El-Sayed took the moment to rebuff Colbeck, stating that he would, if elected, swear an oath to uphold the law of the land and not look to subvert it. EL-SAYED'S DEFENSE OF SHARIA LAW STANCE SPARKS ONLINE ERUPTION FROM CHRISTIANS, CONSERVATIVES: 'HE'S DONE' "I solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this state — that’s the oath that if any one of us is elected, we will swear. I take that oath particularly seriously because it guarantees me the right to pray as I choose to pray," El-Sayed said at the time. "Sharia law is not in question in this state," he added. While the United States doesn’t list the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, other countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Russia all have, citing the group’s history of armed activity. The Muslim Brotherhood renounced violence in the 1970s but has continued to advocate for ways to codify Muslim religious beliefs in countries around the world since then. In a 2012 document, the group issued a statement on Islamic law and national identity. "That is an integral part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s concept of Islamic law or Sharia, which is the most important issue that preoccupies us and which we seek to establish in society, and for which we have offered our dear brothers for martyrdom, imprisonment and persecution over long decades," the group wrote. The idea of Muslims using the American election process to implement the Muslim code as the law of the land has raised concerns from lawmakers like Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and others who believe Sharia’s many tenets are incompatible with American culture. "America is facing a threat that directly attacks our Constitution and our Western values: the spread of Sharia law," Roy said in a 2025 press release. "From Texas to every state in this constitutional republic, instances of Sharia adherents masquerading as ‘refugees’—and in many cases, sleeper cells connected to terrorist organizations—are threatening the American way of life. Those who succumb to this political ideology seek to replace our legal system and Constitution. Under Sharia law, there is no freedom of speech, religion, or women’s rights." Elsewhere, an increasing number of Muslim representatives and populations in places like Dearborn, Michigan have led some critics to argue that a kind of preference or leniency towards Muslim individuals is its own version of implementation. "America, we have lost this city. This is a city that is no longer up under American laws; we are up under Sharia law. We will not have it anymore," Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor of 180 Church, said during a town council meeting in Dearborn, calling for the town’s councilmembers to denounce the Muslim code. According to the 2020 U.S. census, a majority of Dearborn residents reported Middle Eastern or North African ancestry at roughly 54.5%. EL-SAYED'S AGENDA PUTS ‘PERMANENTLY’ CHANGED AMERICA ON THE LINE IN MICHIGAN SENATE RACE, GOP FIREBRAND WARNS Fox News Digital is not aware of any proposals from El-Sayed to implement facets of Sharia law. When asked about Sharia law and its implementation in the U.S., a spokesperson for El-Sayed said that would not be his mission as a lawmaker. "Abdul believes in the separation of church and state. While he personally lives by the rules of his faith, as many Americans of various faiths do, Abdul opposes any effort by any religious community to write their faith laws into the laws of our country," the El-Sayed campaign told the Washington Free Beacon earlier this year. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a47375342cf4db891ef7 London calling: Did ASU’s Union Jack Classic foray bolster college football’s hopes in the UK? te 2026-09-24T22:30:11.533Z London calling: Did ASU’s Union Jack Classic foray bolster college football’s hopes in the UK? LONDON – The reverberating blare of trumpets and tubas called to them like sirens to nearby sailors. These sirens had landed ashore, along the banks of the River Thames, next to London’s iconic Tower Bridge. Arizona State’s marching band served as a vessel to draw a crowd for the announcement: College football had arrived in England.  Locals emerged from adjacent hotels and restaurants to join the horde of tourists, many of whom had trekked across the pond from Arizona. For those seeing a college marching band for the first time, their eyes bulged at the spectacle.  Toby Hofer and his co-workers at a nearby consulting firm heard the echo of the brass instruments outside and went to investigate. He was one of the few in his group who had watched the sport before, jumping into a college football craze for a few years when the Trevor Lawrence-led Clemson Tigers hoisted trophies on a yearly basis.  Since then, Hofer had fallen out of touch with the sport – it’s easy when it’s not as accessible as local football (soccer) or rugby. Like most Brits, he got another introduction to college football when ASU and Kansas descended on London to play in the Union Jack Classic. Still, like many of his British peers, he didn’t know the American football circus was coming to the United Kingdom, unaware of the game that Saturday at Wembley Stadium.  Empty seats overlook the field at Wembley Stadium hours before Arizona State and Kansas kicked off the Union Jack Classic on Sept. 19, 2026. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) Would Brits be interested in the product? “I think they would be,” Hofer said. “No one knows about it really at all, to be honest. For some reason, I saw it a few times and got into it. But yeah, it would be a cool thing. It’s all pro sports here. College and university sports are not a big thing at all.”  Given the locals’ curious but skeptical nature, how feasible would it be to play college football in the U.K. on an annual basis? What would it look like?  ASU’s test run at the Union Jack Classic provided some answers.  Union Jack Classic’s historic inaugural event Arizona State coach Hines Ward smiles while answering questions from reporters following practice at The Lensbury in London on Sept. 16, 2026. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) The Union Jack Classic made history, becoming the first-ever college football game to feature two FBS teams. Arizona State defeated Kansas 24-17 in front of 46,523 patrons. According to Nielsen data, the game garnered roughly 600,000 viewers.  Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark hopes the inaugural game will be the first of many for the conference in London, and the rest of Europe for that matter. The conference will play in the event next year, and has shown interest in continuing to do so.  “I hope this is not a one-time affair,” Yormark said. “We’re very ambitious as a conference. We’re a different type of conference and we do want to globalize who we are.” Attendance fell well short of the game’s goal of 60,000 fans, causing the game’s organizers to close off the upper deck and confine fans to the lower bowl, which was mostly filled.  Additionally, the game was somewhat of an eyesore, as many other international college football games have looked. It’s clear that it’s going to take time to build it out and pique interest in the sport. Nonetheless, in a week filled with fanfare and Americana across the pond, one thing proved evident: There is interest from both sides, fans and promoters alike, to make college football games in the U.K. a permanent fixture.  Brits flock to college football’s pageantry Arizona State fans play cornhole outside Wembley Stadium during pregame festivities on Sept. 19, 2026, hours before the Union Jack Classic against Kansas. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) The same hypnotic effect on display at Tower Bridge appeared a day later at the Adidas Flagship store on Oxford Street. Behind a sea of fans wearing maroon and gold, one of London’s signature cherry-red, double-decker buses pulled into its stop in front of the shop.  The city of London provides a general recommendation of a two-minute maximum wait time at a stop. This bus stopped for double or triple that amount of time.  The reason?  It was the same as for those at Tower Bridge – Arizona State’s band. Spectators on the bus, including its driver, instantly became glued to the scene. A bus pulled up at the start of the ASU pep rally and stayed for a few minutes to watch. For many of them, this is probably their first time seeing a college marching band play. @sportscronkite pic.twitter.com/yOhRtD7ZDF — Adam Kunin (@adamkuninsports) September 18, 2026 In addition to the pep rally, the schools and Union Jack Classic organized many events during the week to celebrate the historic event. Their elements emphasized the pageantry that captivated Brits throughout the week.  “It is the pageantry, the marching bands, it’s everything that we think of that is so ubiquitous with college football that is not normal for people over here,” said Taylor Umland, a play-by-play broadcaster for the British American Football Association. “They don’t have marching bands and stuff here, so I think all of that helps to just make it its own entity that people can be interested in.” Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff was even on site, producing its morning show from across the pond. Fans from both teams swarmed the set to create a scene reminiscent of one on a college campus on a typical Saturday.  Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham drew comparisons between the pageantry of soccer, a more native version of football for people living in England, and football. After attending a World Cup match last summer, he believes that a soccer-crazed nation like England can enjoy a sport that shares the same passion, but with different nuances.  “I think that’s one of the things that makes soccer special is the pageantry and the passion,” Dillingham said. “I think college football has a little bit of pageantry with the band and the cheerleaders and the fans that went to school there and the passion of 18- to 22-year-olds. So I hope they walk away saying, ‘Man, the pageantry of college football, I can connect to.’” Nick Cosgrove found love for the sport within this pageantry. What started as an interest in watching the next generation of players before they entered the NFL Draft has evolved into him becoming a self-proclaimed “college nut.” He even contributes to the “College Football U.K.” podcast.  “I’m all over college football,” Cosgrove said. “I watch more college football than I do NFL. I hardly watch the NFL anymore. I just don’t have the time because I’m watching three games on a Saturday from five in the evening through to like four in the morning. So it’s a dedication. It’s a love.” Arizona State’s Kyson Brown poses for a photo near Tower Bridge in London on Sept. 17, 2026, during an Arizona State marching band event ahead of the Union Jack Classic. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) His first college football game was in 2023, when Notre Dame played Navy at the Aer Lingus Classic in Dublin, Ireland. He’s been to every Aer Lingus game since then, and follows the Fighting Irish on TV every weekend. When Cosgrove visited Atlanta on vacation with his family, he insisted on one thing – attending a college football game. Only one game was nearby and accessible. He didn’t care that it didn’t feature two titans, not even a team from a Power Four conference. He just wanted to watch college football. “I went to watch a G6 game between Georgia State and Old Dominion while I was on holiday in Atlanta because there was college football locally, and I wanted to watch,” Cosgrove said. “My family was saying, ‘Let’s go to the Georgia Aquarium.’ I said, ‘Excuse me, Georgia State is playing today. I’m going to watch football.’”  For him, it boils down to the atmosphere and Americana that makes college football special. The passion and grandiose environments surpass anything he’s ever seen before.  “I love the passion, the student aspect of it,” Cosgrove said. “You’re talking about 100,000 people at some places. The English Premier League doesn’t have a 100,000-seat stadium, and that blows my mind.” He’s hoping some of that fandom and passion is translatable to a stage like Wembley. But like many die-hard fans in the U.K., the simple presence of any college football is a reason to show up.   “When you watch an international game in London, and you see the crowd, there are shirts from every team,” Cosgrove said. “You will get so many fans from so many different teams. There are fans like me who enjoy the sport. We see it as it doesn’t matter who’s playing. We’re here to enjoy the game and just see more football.” Fanbases lean into London experience Arizona State fans gather outside Wembley Stadium for Big Noon Kickoff on Sept. 19, 2026, hours before ASU faced Kansas in the Union Jack Classic in London. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) The most important aspect of college football’s pageantry is its fans. After all, it’s the fan bases who pass on the traditions, the passion and loyalty to future generations.  You’ll never be able to recreate the environment of 100,000-plus at the Big House. You can’t duplicate the wave of grill smoke and humidity that hits on a muggy day at a tailgate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. And you definitely won’t be able to replicate the cotton-candy pink sunset that hangs above Mountain America Stadium on a warm fall Saturday evening.  But you can transport people. And as long as the people come, that’s half the battle toward creating some resemblance of a college football atmosphere in England.  Traveling to road games isn’t out of the ordinary for Arizona State football fan Brad Skenderian and his group of friends. Like many other ASU fans, they turned the trip into a full European tour. The Sun Devil alums embarked on a 10-day journey from the Netherlands to France to Switzerland to, finally, England.  “We usually travel to a couple of road games a year. This one, when we found it was going to be on the schedule, we made the decision to come out pretty quickly,” Skenderian said. “I’d love to explore new cities and see our team play, if that’s something we’re going to do in the future.” They’ve enjoyed soaking up the cultures of the countries they visited. But on a college football Saturday in Amsterdam, with ASU playing then-No. 8 Texas A&M on Sept. 12, they spread part of their culture: American football. “When we were in Amsterdam, we found the one bar that was going to play the game and we got all the soccer fans in there to start rooting for the Sun Devils,” Skenderian said. “We were excited to teach them a little bit about it.” That might be what it takes to grow the sport internationally. College football fans from the U.S. dispersing into pubs, along city streets and into restaurants, dressed in their school’s gear, preaching college football almost like it’s the gospel, which it is to some die-hards who watch the sport every Saturday.  Skenderian was one of many Sun Devil fans who helped paint the London streets maroon and gold in the week leading up to the game. It was a noteworthy turnout for ASU, which didn’t have a recent similar experience to provide an estimate for how many fans would show up.  ASU athletic director Graham Rossini thought it was a smashing success. “It’s just an unbelievable turnout from the Sun Devil nation,” Rossini said. “We got in Sunday right off the game at College Station, (there were) yellow shirts at the airport in London, and it’s only grown ever since. I’m really proud of the turnout here. It feels great to see so many fans supporting our football team.” So much so that ASU is looking into going global with other sports, and maybe even football again.  Is it sustainable? Arizona State’s Jason Brown Jr. makes a heart with his hands toward the crowd before kickoff against Kansas at Wembley Stadium on Sept. 19, 2026. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) Although the game provided a memorable experience for fans and players alike, the schools also had extra incentive to be in London. For Arizona State, it was a new school. The same week of the Union Jack Classic, Arizona State opened ASU London, a project that’s been a long time in the making and was marketed adjacent to the football game at Wembley. “This has taken years to get this project in motion,” ASU President Michael Crow said. “So when somebody said, ‘Who wants to play in London?’ We’re like, ‘We do.’”  Meanwhile, Kansas is currently undergoing major renovations to its home stadium. It won’t be completed until the fall of 2027, leaving the Jayhawks with a stadium that seats just over 30,000 – not exactly an ideal home-field advantage.  So, without those factors, would those schools, or any other programs for that matter, willingly choose to sacrifice a home game to go overseas? Dillingham thinks so.  “I think they should all want to give their players the experience that we got to give our players,” Dillingham said. “And yeah, it’s hard. Yeah, there are some negatives. “If somebody asks, ‘Is that the best for a football season?’ The answer is no, and to say anything otherwise would be asinine. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it.” Dillingham, a father of two young boys, used an interesting analogy to visualise weighing the good and bad of playing in an international game.  “You can have a baby and love your child and not be happy that he wakes you up at 12:30 at the same time,” Dillingham said. “You’re like, ‘Dang, why am I up again?’ But you still want your child.” ASU’s head man mirrored the look of a drained father at the end of the week, while waiting to give his postgame press conference. An exhausted Dillingham dropped to the floor and leaned against the wall, feeling the effects of a roughly week-and-a-half trip from Tempe to College Station to London.  And yet, still, he believed it was worth it – maybe more so because his team won.  Other than influence from university leaders asking his team to play in the game, he saw value in the experience for his athletes. While it might have an effect on competition, he believed the positives proved far too valuable for his players.  “A lot of things we do in our programs are not just to win football games. They’re not just about what is best for a football team or the moment,” Dillingham said. “It’s about what is best for the student-athlete and the student-athlete experience. There’s no doubt taking a kid overseas and giving him that experience is a positive impact on his life.” The logistics present their own set of challenges. Flying thousands of miles from home to play a football game is hard enough, but with rosters double the size of the NFL’s, college football is harder to transport across the pond. ASU brought all 105 players and spent nearly two years planning for the game.  “It’s a huge undertaking,” Kansas coach Lance Leipold told reporters before the game. “A lot of different people have made this happen. … Our rosters are a lot bigger than the NFL rosters so there are just more things that are happening.”  Not to mention the other factors that must be taken into consideration with college athletes. Arizona State’s Grayson Curtis (43) stands on the field during practice at The Lensbury in London on Sept. 16, 2026, as the Sun Devils prepared for the Union Jack Classic. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) How does the travel and time difference impact their ability to complete their coursework? Can young men and women be trusted to stay out of trouble in a foreign country?  Even something as simple as: Will they eat the food?  A college football player needs to eat multiple times a day to properly fuel up after strenuous activity. Will teams and facilities be able to accommodate this need internationally?  And given that many of these athletes are 18 to 22-year-olds, will they be too picky to indulge in global cuisine? Following a practice at a field near ASU’s hotel in London, The Lensbury, a caravan of food delivery motorbikes parked along the curb of a roundabout next to the front door.  Drivers arrived with food from familiar establishments: Chipotle, Wendy’s, Wingstop. One by one, players, coaches and personnel staff arrived to claim orders, laughing at the fact that the whole team followed suit in ordering delivery.  Scheduling international games will also change in the future. While the Sun Devils’ Week 3 matchup against the Jayhawks was an outlier compared to the typical Week 0 slot for international games, it might have been a precursor for similar contests.  The FBS oversight committee recently voted to abandon Week 0 in favor of a uniform 14-week scheduling window, complete with two bye weeks. Given the new circumstances, international games may not have to be slotted as a team’s first game, instead being placed in the middle of its schedule. Dillingham believes it’s a feasible idea, given that the circumstances will be even for both programs – Kansas played a home game the Friday before its trip to London, while ASU played a road game at Texas A&M.  “I just think both teams should play a home game before on the same day, and if they can make it a Friday game, that would be a home run for both teams,” Dillingham said. “If they can’t, then both teams just try to play a Saturday game.” However, does it make sense for promoters and conferences to continue the endeavor?  Growing fandom around a team is a more difficult, almost impossible, task. For some, they might only need to see a team play one time to fall in love. Others will need a second or third date. A team will never opt to play an international game in back-to-back years. Maybe once every few years. Dillingham did mention he’s interested in potentially returning. But could a conference, like the Big 12, making repeated trips help grow the fandom of its institutional members in the U.K.? Yormark and the Big 12 are committed to it, at least for the next few years.  “I think it would probably take a conference or a program specifically to do something like that repeatedly, which is hard when you’re giving up the home date to do that kind of thing,” Umland said. “But I think that’s what it would take is just sort of that repetitive nature of coming over here.” Where college football can find a niche in the UK An inflatable Arizona State banner hangs above the field at Wembley Stadium following ASU’s victory over Kansas in the Union Jack Classic on Sept. 19, 2026. (Photo by Richie Meno/Cronkite News) Margo Hicks is part of the contingent of Brits who will likely never watch an American football game. On a chilly night in West London, she sips on coffee and seeks warmth through a red-and-white striped scarf wrapped around her neck. Spelled across it is “Brentford,” the name of her English Premier League Soccer club.  She embraced soccer fandom when she married her husband 61 years ago. Her 83-year-old husband, Adrian Hicks, has been a fan for 78 years.  Yet in some ways, she and her husband have already experienced much of what makes college football so appealing: the passion, the amateurism, the undying loyalty to your small town team.   It’s what separates college football from a product like the NFL.  They’ve seen their team move from the bottom of English football, the fourth division, up the ranks to the Premier League in 2021. Adrian went to the promotion match at Wembley. He came home crying in joy after they won. They didn’t care that they weren’t watching the best players all those years. In fact, the amateurism of it all added charm.  “We supported them through thick and thin,” Margo said. “It’s what you do when you’re a football fan.” She thinks regardless of the quality of the players college football sends over, if Brits can spot passion in the product, the sport will generate interest.  “They just appreciate the game,” Margo said of Brits. “Just the way they try, and if somebody will stand out to be a really good player.”  Arizona State kick returner Jaren Hamilton proved to be a standout for the Sun Devils in their win against Kansas. His 100-yard kick return touchdown provided a much-needed jolt to the crowd out of the halftime break. Hamilton, a native of Gainesville, Florida, grew up in America’s south, the heart of college football. He’s hoping his signature moment helped grow the game in the U.K. and will be one of many highlights to come in the annual event.  “College football is (where) you can get some of the most authentic, real, just passion,” Hamilton said. “I want the world to really hone in on us and please pay attention. It’s fun. It’s exciting. The passion that everybody brings, it’s just a part of the year that’s unlike any other.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a21a75342cf4db891e9b Sheridan Gorman’s mom scorches Dem lawmakers she says refused to hear families of slain Americans te 2026-09-24T22:20:10.533Z Sheridan Gorman’s mom scorches Dem lawmakers she says refused to hear families of slain Americans The mother of Sheridan Gorman sharply criticized Democratic lawmakers who support sanctuary city policies Thursday, calling out several members for their behavior during a recent congressional hearing where she testified about her daughter's tragic death. Jessica Anne Gorman recounted the March 2026 death of her 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student during a gathering in Washington, D.C. Top Justice Department and administration officials, including Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, border czar Tom Homan and drug czar Sara Carter, were on hand to honor the victims of violent crime. Sheridan Gorman was shot and killed while visiting friends near a pier and lighthouse in Chicago. Jose Medina, a Venezuelan national who entered the U.S. illegally and was previously released after a shoplifting arrest in Chicago, has been charged with her murder. SHERIDAN GORMAN'S PARENTS SAY PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM FAILED IMMIGRATION POLICIES ISN'T A ONE-PARTY FIGHT During her remarks, Jessica Gorman criticized Democratic lawmakers who advocate for shielding immigrants in the country illegally from federal immigration enforcement. She recalled testifying at a House hearing on sanctuary policies, saying she could hear laughter from lawmakers as she spoke about losing her daughter. "And I thought to myself, ‘Boy, the hits just keep on coming,’" Jessica Gorman said Thursday. DAD OF GIRL LEFT PERMANENTLY DISABLED IN CRASH WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RIPS DEMS: ‘I REJECT YOUR SYMPATHY’ She specifically called out Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who had remarked during the hearing that it was the fourth of its kind and that there were "many other things we could be doing." "We were all insulted by Democrat Representative Jayapal telling me — literally telling me — and all the other angel families in the room ... with disdain on her face, that there's other things they could be doing except listening to four sessions," Jessica Gorman said. ANGEL FAMILIES PLEAD WITH LEADERS TO 'CHOOSE' AMERICAN CHILDREN OVER PROTECTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS "They give us five minutes to tell our daughter's story," Jessica Gorman added. "Our dead children's story. She listened to four before mine. She didn't want to listen to another. And, honestly, I think she should listen to everyone in this room." Gorman also accused Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., of napping during the proceedings. Also speaking at the event was Stephen Federico, the father of Logan Federico, who was killed while visiting friends at the University of South Carolina. Stephen voiced intense frustration with the broader criminal justice system. Alexander Dickey, 30, a career criminal with dozens of prior arrests, is accused of shooting and killing Logan Federico during a home break-in. "My daughter wasn't killed by an illegal alien," Stephen Federico said. "She was killed by a home-grown American career criminal that we arrested 39 damn times. And he was on the street. Tell me that makes sense. "Can anyone tell me, please, how a felon like that is left on the street," he added. "It's from fingerprint problems. It's from process problems. It's from weak judges. It's from weak prosecutors." Fox News Digital has reached out to Jayapal's office for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a21975342cf4db891e92 Florida Gators, Ole Miss Rebels find themselves in good old fashioned 'respect off' ahead of Saturday's game te 2026-09-24T22:20:09.738Z Florida Gators, Ole Miss Rebels find themselves in good old fashioned 'respect off' ahead of Saturday's game You've probably heard the saying "it just means more in the SEC" at least once or twice in the past several years of watching football. This means, among other things, that the fanbases for each school are hellbent on talking as much trash as humanly possible. It doesn't matter if it's at the stadium, in the parking lot, or online, all of these schools hate each other and if they don't have a natural animus towards one another, they'll manufacture one. FLORIDA GATORS COACH JON SUMRALL SAYS HE WOULDN'T HAVE LEFT TULANE IF HE WASN'T ALLOWED TO COACH PLAYOFF TEAM That doesn't seem to be the case for one of the more marquee matchups coming down the pike this weekend, though. The top-five Ole Miss Rebels will travel to Gainesville, Florida, to take on the 21st-ranked Gators, and with so much at stake at such an early point in the season, you would expect both teams and fanbases to be at each other's throats, but it's been anything but toxic. That's right, folks, we have ourselves a good old-fashioned "respect off" brewing between the Gators and Rebels. It all started on Monday, when Florida head coach Jon Sumrall was informed at his press conference that the Gators were favored by 3.5 points on Saturday. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! His response: "There's a lot of good drugs out there." A coach being respectful toward his opponent is nothing out of the ordinary, but Sumrall's goodwill must have trickled down to the fans of both school, because social media turned into a Kumbaya session this whole week. Look at all that love being spread! They even have a hashtag for it all, #RespectOff! This is in stark contrast to the vibes from the previous week for both teams. Ole Miss clearly had an axe to grind against LSU, what with them stealing their old coach and all, and Florida and Auburn, as I documented last week, had a century-old rivalry they needed to revive on social media. I guess the Gators and Rebels really don't have a lot to be mad at each other about. Sure, Florida also took a run at Lane Kiffin last fall, and Ole Miss is the team who sparked the now-famous Tim Tebow "promise" after winning in The Swamp back in 2008, but that's in the past. Clearly we are letting bygones be bygones, and I'm here for it. It could always be worse. You could be Missouri getting accused by Kansas for being a bunch of evil slave owners. Then again, whoever loses this game is probably going to be pretty pissed when their SEC Championship and College Football Playoff hopes take a hit, so we will wait and see if the #RespectOff carries over on Sunday. For now, let's just enjoy this armistice while we can. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5a21375342cf4db891e71 Florida Charges 20 People with Voter Fraud te 2026-09-24T22:20:03.720Z Florida Charges 20 People with Voter Fraud Most cases involved noncitizens who registered to vote, attesting that they were U.S. citizens, state officials said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59fbf75342cf4db891e1a Kitty Lunn, Who Expanded the Boundaries of Dance, Dies at 76 te 2026-09-24T22:10:07.008Z Kitty Lunn, Who Expanded the Boundaries of Dance, Dies at 76 After breaking her back in a fall, she helped start Infinity Dance Theater, and found that her wheelchair was a tool, not a hindrance. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59fbd75342cf4db891e11 Ex-F.B.I. Agents Crucial to ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Suggest Testimony Won’t Help te 2026-09-24T22:10:05.947Z Ex-F.B.I. Agents Crucial to ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Suggest Testimony Won’t Help Lawyers for the agents said that their clients would testify about “a properly predicated allegation that then-citizen Trump had unlawfully retained hundreds of highly classified documents.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59fbc75342cf4db891e02 NPA girls soccer rallies to draw St. Johns in state championship rematch te 2026-09-24T22:10:04.960Z NPA girls soccer rallies to draw St. Johns in state championship rematch The Spartans came back from trailing 3-1 at halftime to draw St. Johns in a match the resembled last year's state title game. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59fba75342cf4db891df7 Watch: Attorney general candidates Kris Mayes and Warren Petersen meet in testy debate te 2026-09-24T22:10:02.585Z Watch: Attorney general candidates Kris Mayes and Warren Petersen meet in testy debate The candidates for Arizona attorney general — Democratic incumbent Kris Mayes and Republican Warren Petersen — met Wednesday in a debate so contentious a moderator threatened to cut off their microphones. Petersen and Mayes addressed utility rate hikes, ICE and immigration, data centers, water, Trump lawsuits, election security and more. Watch it below: The post Watch: Attorney general candidates Kris Mayes and Warren Petersen meet in testy debate appeared first on AZ Luminaria. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59d7075342cf4db891d9a Pennsylvania Sports Betting — Best Sportsbooks and Apps | Outkick te 2026-09-24T22:00:16.524Z Pennsylvania Sports Betting — Best Sportsbooks and Apps | Outkick Pennsylvania sports betting has boomed since its launch on Oct. 30, 2017. Since the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board granted licenses to its first operators, options have expanded to 11 legal sportsbooks that you can enjoy.  Yes, sports betting is legal in Pennsylvania. It has been legal since Oct. 30, 2017. You must have your account verified, be within the state of Pennsylvania, and be over the age of 21 to participate.  Determining which sportsbook is best for you can be difficult. No matter if you are new or experienced with Pennsylvania Sportsbooks, we have compiled a list for you to evaluate options. Below is a list of the operators of Pennsylvania sportsbooks, including benefits, welcome offers, and any drawbacks to consider.  Pennsylvania Sportsbooks offer Welcome Offers to new users in an effort to help them get acclimated to an app and sports betting in general. Welcome offers can change regularly, but the common types are bonus bets, first-bet-match, and deposit matches. Bonus bets are not the same as cash, but allow you to wager and collect the winnings. If you lose, it isn’t real money that you’ve lost.  A first-bet-match offer is provided, so users can place wagers over a day or set period of time and receive the same amount (usually up to $100 per day) back. For example, if you place a $20 wager on day one, you’ll receive a $20 bonus in return.  Deposit matches provide you with bonus value in the same amount as your initial deposit. Some Pennsylvania sportsbooks offer up to $1,000 in a deposit match. The match is playable but cannot be withdrawn.  Sports betting became legal in Pennsylvania in October 2017 under Act 42 of 2017. Retail sportsbooks started launching in late 2018. Apps launched shortly thereafter in May 2019. Anyone over 21 and within the state lines can wager on professional and collegiate events.  There is no shortage of top teams to bet on in Pennsylvania. Having two big cities in the state helps with the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers being prominent teams. Football always tends to be popular among bettors and the recent success of both teams has brought in extra interest. There are also two hockey teams and two baseball teams in the state. For baseball, they have the Phillies and the Pirates, both with plenty of stars. The Penguins and Flyers drive the NHL market in the state. If basketball is your sport, the 76ers can provide you with betting options from October until potentially June. College sports betting in Pennsylvania is legal. However, you can only bet on sides, totals, and spreads. You can do some props like team totals, and parlays. There are a lot of options but one thing that is prohibited is betting on collegiate player props. You can bet on in-state teams and futures for teams like Penn State or Pittsburgh. This is not legal in every state, but is legal in Pennsylvania.  There are 12 different retail sportsbooks in Pennsylvania. All of these retail sportsbook locations are found inside of casinos across the state. There are multiple options for placing a wager once you are there. Some provide self-service kiosks, while others also have people taking wagers from bettors. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59d6f75342cf4db891d8e AZFEC: Arizona Cities Are Fleeing Flock te 2026-09-24T22:00:15.561Z AZFEC: Arizona Cities Are Fleeing Flock By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | One by one, cities and towns across Arizona are abandoning their contracts with Flock Safety, the manufacturer of the controversial Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) you see around town. The black pole with a little solar panel on it? That is the infamous surveillance tool that has been taking over American communities in the name of safety at the small price of freedom.   These systems were not directly approved by voters or even the elected representatives. Many of these ALPRs likely would never have been approved by voters had they been given the choice. Privacy and government surveillance are across-the-board concerns. Whether on the right or left, Americans do not want their every move tracked.  Beyond privacy concerns, cases of law enforcement officers using Flock in inappropriate ways, such as stalking ex-wives or checking on family members, are not new. Across the country, Flock’s expansion has been accompanied by numerous cases of misuse.   Let’s take a look at where Arizona municipalities currently stand with Flock… >>> CONTINUE READING >>> The post AZFEC: Arizona Cities Are Fleeing Flock first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59b1b75342cf4db891d54 Seeds of Change Gala nearly sold out as event enters 21st year te 2026-09-24T21:50:19.673Z Seeds of Change Gala nearly sold out as event enters 21st year It might be fair to say that growth is the theme this year for The Seeds of Change Gala.   The 21st Annual Royal Christmas edition is nearly sold out, with 500 tickets already purchased.  The gala, named in homage to the agricultural community it serves, will take place Saturday, Oct. 10 from 6-10 p.m. at Harrah’s Ak–Chin Casino.  “We wanted to plant seeds to grow healthy families in our city,” said Torri Anderson, board member of Against Abuse and chairperson for the Seeds of Change Gala. “And this year, we also have a next stage of growth we’re going to share.”  Proceeds from the event benefit Against Abuse, a non-profit that has provided social services in Pinal County since 1981.  Their crisis shelter has been running since 2005, providing housing for hundreds of victims of domestic and sexual violence.   The inspiration behind the shelter came from a conversation between Anderson and her husband.   When teaching at an elementary school, Anderson kept seeing a pattern of families that were in crisis. When her husband told her she couldn’t bring them all home with her, something clicked.  “You’re right,” she said. “But I can build a home for them.”  She approached the agency and the city about building a domestic violence center that would allow women and children to have a space place to go to that felt like a home.  The annual fundraising gala takes care of operating expenses for the shelter and it’s a philanthropic way to knock out some early Christmas shopping.  This includes a live auction of 20 dressed and donated Christmas trees. The event will also feature a silent auction and a raffle.   “It gets better every year, and it’s driven out of passion for our community to be taken care of and have a bright future,” Anderson said.   Tickets can be purchased on the gala’s website.   The post Seeds of Change Gala nearly sold out as event enters 21st year appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59b1475342cf4db891d35 Dolly Parton’s sisters push back on feud rumors after nephew’s legal battle with star's estate erupts te 2026-09-24T21:50:12.267Z Dolly Parton’s sisters push back on feud rumors after nephew’s legal battle with star's estate erupts Dolly Parton’s sisters are shutting down claims of a family feud as tensions surrounding the late country legend’s legacy have spilled into court. Nearly one month after Parton’s death, her sisters pushed back against reports of infighting within the family, insisting they remain united as a separate legal dispute involving the singer’s longtime manager and nephew resulted in a temporary restraining order. "I’ll say this and this only: there is no feud within our family," Freida Parton shared Wednesday on Instagram. "No one among the Parton/Owens family is fighting over Dolly’s estate. We all love Bryan, just as we all love each other. I love you all!!" DOLLY PARTON’S SISTER REVEALS ‘LAST THING’ COUNTRY LEGEND ASKED OF HER BEFORE DEATH Parton's sister Stella echoed Freida's message, emphasizing that the family remains united as it continues to navigate its grief. "It has been a comfort to experience such an outpouring of love on [Dolly's] behalf as we grieve her passing," Stella posted Thursday on Instagram.  "We are also grieving the loss of our brother Denver who passed less than a month before her. All families have the same struggles since we are all living in this world having a human experience! "We are still intact and moving forward because our children and grandchildren look to us for strength and guidance during this difficult time of loss and confusion for them as well," she added.  "Regardless of what you may have seen on different news outlets, we are all doing what you would be doing under the same circumstances, we are living our lives one day at a time and being grateful for every blessing." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Parton’s legacy took a dramatic turn this week when her longtime manager sought a restraining order against the country icon’s nephew. Danny Nozell, who runs She's Alive, LLC, an entity Parton created to oversee her business interests, filed for the restraining order on behalf of She's Alive against Bryan Seaver and Seaver's private security company, Squadron Augmented Protection Services, in Nashville, according to The Associated Press. A Tennessee judge granted the temporary restraining order Wednesday, citing a pattern of alleged threats and demands for payment, along with Seaver’s "claimed access to weapons, experience with violence, and intention to retaliate." The order called the communications "concerning" and specifically pointed to an alleged threat to use force. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Nozell and She's Alive accused Seaver of sending increasingly threatening messages in the weeks leading up to their request for a temporary restraining order. The filing came after She’s Alive fired Seaver over his alleged "terrorizing conduct." Court documents obtained by The Associated Press show text messages and emails allegedly sent by Seaver. In one message written Sept. 1 and included in the court documents, Seaver said, "I’m going to set up a podcast dedicated to ruining Dolly’s brand partnerships and telling the violations these people have done on us. It’s going to be great. Or f---ing pay me." WATCH: DOLLY PARTON'S BRAND MAY FUEL HIGH-STAKES ESTATE FIGHT INVOLVING HER NEPHEW, LAWYER SAYS PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Seaver pushed back against the allegations in a statement shared with TMZ. He said the messages had been taken out of context to make them appear threatening. Seaver's company, Squadron Augmented Protection Services, had provided Parton’s security detail throughout her career. Parton chose Seaver to publicly announce her death. The singer-songwriter died Aug. 25. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59b1375342cf4db891d2c Ms Rachel doubles down on Gaza advocacy, targets ‘uncancellable’ celebrities for staying silent te 2026-09-24T21:50:11.351Z Ms Rachel doubles down on Gaza advocacy, targets ‘uncancellable’ celebrities for staying silent Children's YouTube star Ms. Rachel doubled down on her Gaza advocacy Thursday, criticizing "uncancellable" celebrities who have stayed silent about Palestinian children and questioning why stars with secure careers would not "risk something" to help save lives. Accurso, whose full name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, appeared on comedian Ilana Glazer's "It's Open" podcast to directly challenge major celebrities who have avoided taking public positions on the war. "If you are so famous, and you’re uncancellable, and you’re so famous, and you won’t even say like, ‘Kids in Gaza should have schools, people in Gaza should have hospitals.’ Like you won't say something so basic and like why can't you risk something to help save lives," Accurso said. MS RACHEL DEFENDS HER ACTIVISM BY POINTING TO MISTER ROGERS' POLITICAL LEGACY ON CHILDREN'S TV Accurso’s latest remarks came after Rabbi Yaakov Menken, executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, recently told Fox News Digital that he believed the amount of attention she devotes to Palestinian children compared to children suffering elsewhere was disproportionate.  "When 0.09% of starving children receive 90% of her attention, something is wrong," Menken said. Elizabeth Barcohana, the California Republican Party’s Jewish engagement chair, also criticized Accurso in a statement to Fox News Digital last week after the children’s entertainer accused celebrities and leaders who had remained silent about Gaza of applying a racial double standard. "Ms. Rachel is essentially sanitizing terrorism with false and misleading information to emotionally manipulate her very impressionable following," Barcohana said. MS RACHEL CLAIMS 'NO ONE NEEDS A BILLION DOLLARS,' ENDORSES DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVES ABDUL EL-SAYED, CORI BUSH Accurso broadened her criticism beyond Gaza during the podcast to other humanitarian issues, saying she was frustrated with prominent figures who did not publicly address them. "I am really upset that people aren't speaking out about kids in detention and aren't speaking out about Gaza and Sudan and everything," Accurso said. The conversation began with Glazer raising rapper Mackelmore's removal from Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour following his onstage "Free Palestine" remarks. Accurso dismissed Sheeran by name before broadening her criticism. Tour promoter Messina Touring Group said multiple venues refused to allow Macklemore to perform, while Sheeran later said the decision to remove the rapper was made by the promoter, not him. Sheeran subsequently addressed the controversy at a Philadelphia concert, condemning the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while describing the situation in Gaza as catastrophic and unjustifiable. FORMULA ONE DRIVER LEWIS HAMILTON TELLS MACKLEMORE HE IS ‘STANDING’ IN SOLIDARITY WITH HIM ON PALESTINE Macklemore later pledged $1 million in tour proceeds to Palestinian aid organizations, a donation Accurso pledged to match as she urged other wealthy celebrities to do the same. Accurso also repeatedly characterized Israel’s conduct in Gaza as "genocide" during the Glazer interview, saying she believed using the term could help pressure the international community to act. A U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded in June that Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children and said their conduct amounted to genocide and other international crimes. Israel rejected the commission’s conclusions and formally challenged what it called flaws in its composition, mandate and methodology. A separate genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel remains before the International Court of Justice. The court has issued provisional measures in the case but has not issued a final judgment on whether Israel committed genocide. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab59b1275342cf4db891d23 Best DFS Apps and Promos 2026: Top Daily Fantasy Sites Reviewed te 2026-09-24T21:50:10.174Z Best DFS Apps and Promos 2026: Top Daily Fantasy Sites Reviewed With the legalization of sports betting across multiple states over the past few years, daily fantasy hasn’t been at the forefront quite as much. However, it hasn’t gone away by any means, and there are still plenty of great options if you love daily fantasy. Daily fantasy sports apps are abundant, and their promotions are often enough to convince new users to give them a chance. Below, we’ll break down the best DFS apps and help you decide which DFS promos are right for you. Every site is competing for you and your money, so naturally, they all offer incentives to use their DFS app. This gives you the chance to pick and choose which app works best for you and which DFS promo makes the most sense. These offers change regularly, so check back often to see if a different DFS app or site is offering something better. If there is money to be made, you’d better believe that any level of celebrity will try and create an avenue for themselves. Betr Picks—co-founded by Joey Levy and Jake Paul—is a fast-growing, mobile-exclusive DFS app designed around extreme simplicity and high-multiplier payout potential. Betr Picks focuses entirely on straightforward More/Less player stat entries with a vertical-swipe interface built specifically for modern sports fans. Two No Sweat Entries, up to $200 back in bonus, plus a free pick Betr operates exclusively through its mobile application, with no desktop web platform for placing entries. Using the app is a bit swipe-heavy, but it’s easy to navigate once you get the hang of it. It is intentionally designed without cluttered analytics, making it fast and simple for casual fans using mobile DFS apps. Like many daily fantasy apps, Betr focuses on individual player performances and your ability to combine them successfully, such as passing yards, points scored or strikeout totals. You can group two to 10 player selections into a single card. Betr offers both flexible payouts, which can provide a partial return even if one leg misses, and max-multiplier entries, along with daily "Discounted Picks" and "Mystery Multiplier" spin features. Users consistently highlight the app’s clean aesthetic, smooth entry creation, high potential payout multipliers and unique promo offers. Negative feedback generally stems from occasional location verification issues and withdrawal processing delays during high-volume sports weekends. Betr Picks supports deposit options including major debit cards (Visa/Mastercard), PayPal, Venmo and direct online banking. Payout requests are generally straightforward, with standard e-wallet and bank transfers clearing in 24 to 48 hours. Betr Picks operates legally in 33 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. Most participating jurisdictions require players to be at least 18 years old, though select states require players to be 19 or 21. Betr Picks feels like a little bit of a stripped-down DFS app, but there really isn’t anything missing from it. If you’re looking for major tournaments, this probably is not the app to use. This is mostly a player prop parlay builder app.  Final take: As far as pick’em options go, this is one of the better ones for you to go with. It is straightforward, easy to navigate and fun.  Underdog is one of the more popular DFS apps available. Most of its games are centered around Pick’em and Best Ball events. It is available in more than 40 states and is open to players 18 and older in most of them. Deposit match up to $1,000. Also, play $5 in Fantasy Entries, get $50 in Fantasy Bonus Entries Most users utilize the app, and that isn’t just due to convenience. The desktop site works, but the app is sleek, easy to use, and in just a few taps, you’ll be locked in for your first bet.  Pick’em lets you choose more or less on player stat lines and combine up to eight picks, with higher payouts based on how many picks you combine. Best Ball drafts and daily drafts are more traditional daily fantasy tournaments where you pick players and score fantasy points. Coverage spans the major sports, including the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and college football, making Underdog one of the more versatile daily fantasy sports apps available. Users who provide positive feedback about the Underdog DFS app say how easy it is to draft their teams, the great promotional offers and the ability to combine sports for a bet. It isn’t all roses, though. Some users report constant crashing, bugs (such as auto-drafting players despite not being on auto-draft) and slow loading times in critical situations.  Underdog supports common payment methods such as debit cards, PayPal and online banking. Withdrawing money is generally easy, but payouts can sometimes be delayed. Typically, withdrawals are processed quickly and reach your bank within 24 hours. Underdog is available in more than 40 states and is open to players 18 and older in most states. You can verify availability and any exceptions when registering.  Underdog is one of the easier-to-use DFS apps in the industry. It tends to set the bar for its competitors and generally offers everything you could be looking for. Final take: If you’re interested in trying a DFS app, Underdog is one of the best DFS apps for beginners and a great place to start. Dabble is a social-first DFS app that combines More/Less real-money pick'em entries with a social media-style activity feed. Originating in Australia before expanding rapidly across the U.S., its platform lets users follow top entry creators, share slips, and join community chat channels directly within the app. Play $5, Get $50 on sign up. Dabble is mobile-only. The user experience feels similar to using Pinterest or Instagram and other DFS apps. Between its "Banter" channels, live chat rooms, and a customizable feed of trending community slips, you can track game stats and jump into social discussions on the same screen. Dabble keeps things focused with its More/Less Pick'em format. You pick higher or lower on two to eight player stat projections. Multipliers scale aggressively—starting at 3x for two picks up to an industry-leading 1,000x for eight-pick entries. If you’re not sure how to, or really like following people’s bets, its Copy Play capability allows you to browse public feeds and replicate another user's entire multi-leg slip with a single click. Users love the community aspect, the ability to copy picks from top-performing players, generous multipliers and instant free bonus offers upon registration. Constructive feedback focuses on occasional app lag during high-volume sports hours, longer identity verification checks and withdrawal processing times taking up to 48–72 hours. Dabble provides payment options like major debit/credit cards (Visa/Mastercard) and Apple Pay. Withdrawals are handled directly via direct bank transfer or online banking, with funds typically reaching your bank account within 1 to 3 business days. Dabble is legal for real-money Pick’em contests in 27 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. Players must be at least 18 years old in most states, 19 or older in Nebraska, and 21 or older in Massachusetts and Arizona. Most people use help in the form of statistical sites or finding someone on X who is good at Daily Fantasy Sports. Dabble takes that idea and allows you to instantly copy their bets to your own portfolio. It is a cool and simple feature that helps all users.  Final take: If you enjoy social media interaction, sharing your picks or easily copying research from other daily fantasy players, Dabble is a must-try app. It is always interesting to see how a company and website evolves. Amazon used to sell only books. Sleeper originally was a social-first platform for season-long and dynasty fantasy leagues. Now, its daily fantasy experience focuses heavily on Pick'em formats, live group chat integration, and custom multiplier payouts. It is legal in over 25 states for daily fantasy picks and over 40 states for traditional drafts. Free $20 plus 100% first-deposit match up to $100 Sleeper was built for those on the go, offering one of the sleekest dark-mode interfaces in fantasy sports. Coupling live stat updates with integrated social feeds, it is easy to swap between your Pick'em tickets, group chats, and real-time game tracking without needing to leave the app.  The main draw for DFS players is Sleeper Picks, where you predict whether players will go higher or lower on dynamic stat projections. You can combine up to eight selections into a single entry with multipliers reaching as high as 100x. These, like other sites, are essentially legal parlays. Sleeper also features dynamic payout scaling based on individual player probabilities, as well as classic Daily Drafts for real-time snake drafting. Users seem to enjoy Sleeper’s modern design, seamless social features, real-time news alerts and promotions. Critical feedback bashes the push notification delays during heavy traffic windows, withdrawal verification times for new accounts and sudden line shifts.  Sleeper accepts deposit methods such as major debit cards, PayPal and direct online banking through Plaid. Withdrawals are straightforward and typically processed into your linked bank account or PayPal within one to three business days. Keep in mind that some banks may block transactions with gaming or daily fantasy apps. Sleeper’s traditional fantasy features and Daily Drafts are legal in more than 40 states. Paid Pick’em contests are available in more than 25 states, including California, Texas, Florida and Illinois. Players must be at least 18 years old in most participating states, 19 or older in Alabama and Nebraska, and 21 or older in Massachusetts. This makes Sleeper a widely available daily fantasy sports app. Sleeper has found a way to combine the social aspect of sports with fantasy games. Most people start fantasy leagues with friends. Sleeper allows you to make new connections and do Daily Fantasy all in one place. Final take: This is the app for trash-talkers, sports lovers and chronically online people. Sleeper is not one to be slept on.  ParlayPlay is a bit less known than others on the market, but shouldn’t be underestimated. Focusing on player-vs-house prop picks with unique twist formats, dynamic payouts and built-in entry protection, ParlayPlay is trying to make you rethink the options available to you. $5 free entry plus 100% deposit match up to $100 The app sports a distinctive black-and-yellow theme that is intuitive to navigate. Browsing through player prop lines and building a multi-leg entry takes just a few seconds, with clear visuals indicating payout multipliers before you confirm your submission. The cornerstone format is More/Less Pick'em, where you pick whether two to seven players will go over or under their projected stat lines. This is fewer inputs than you can do with other apps, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. You can opt for "All-In" entries for maximum multiplier payouts, or use "Insured" entries, which still pay out if one or two selections miss. ParlayPlay also features HitPicks (predicting exact stat ranges) and weekly Free2Play contests offering real cash prizes. Users love the platform's user-friendly layout, deposit match and insurance options on multi-leg entries. Criticism usually mentions a higher withdrawal minimum threshold ($30) compared to competitors and limited traditional draft/salary cap contest availability. ParlayPlay accepts standard deposit methods including major debit/credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, Discover) and online bank transfers. Withdrawals are handled primarily via direct ACH bank transfer or e-Check, usually completing within 1 to 5 business days. ParlayPlay is currently legal and available in 26 U.S. states, including California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Georgia and North Carolina, plus Washington, D.C. Players must be at least 18 years old in most states, 19 or older in Alabama and Nebraska, and 21 or older in Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Vermont. ParlayPlay allows users to place entries with a bit of insurance. This is a great option for new users because it gives them a little more protection if a pick misses. The DFS app is easy to use and keeps the games from becoming too complicated. Final take: If you enjoy prop-style fantasy entries and want the safety net of payout insurance on your picks, ParlayPlay is definitely worth adding to your phone. Boom Fantasy is a prop-based daily fantasy app known for its ultra-straightforward question formats and clean, quick-entry user experience. Rather than managing complex salary caps or drafting rosters, players make quick, higher/lower or match-up choices on individual athletes' performances. $20 minimum deposit. Play $5, Get $40 in Free entires Boom Fantasy wants you to make your mark quickly, so their interface is very easy to use and avoids clutter. You can swipe through slates to pick what you need and make picks in seconds.  Boom Fantasy breaks its pick'em games into three primary formats: Positive reviews praise Boom Fantasy's intuitive question-style picks, unique Head-to-Head Toss-up format and reliable promotional offers. On the flip side, some users note slower withdrawal processing times during peak sports seasons and occasional app lag when submitting last-minute picks before games kickoff.   Boom Fantasy supports standard deposit options, including Visa, Mastercard and direct online banking options. Withdrawals are typically processed via ACH bank transfer or PayPal, taking between 2 to 5 business days to clear, depending on your financial institution. Boom Fantasy is legal for real-money entries in more than 25 states plus Washington, D.C. Players must be at least 18 years old in most eligible jurisdictions, 19 or older in Alabama and Nebraska, and 21 or older in Massachusetts. If you’re into sports betting at all, Boom Fantasy options will feel very similar. You’re essentially making player prop bets into a parlay. The toss-ups are nice because you can do either or options. The long shots are also like creating a same-game parlay on an individual player. Final take: If you prefer question-based pick'em games over salary-cap drafts, Boom Fantasy is an engaging, easy-to-use option for your daily fantasy lineup. With so many different options available, how do you know which is the best app for you? Strength in numbers can help, and with thousands of reviews left for each DFS app, it is worth it to consider how they are rated in the App and Google Play Store. Below, they are listed in order of current iOS Rating. Choosing the Best DFS App and promo is no easy task. They all have various offers that make them worthwhile to use. We’ve compiled a list of the best for various situations to give you some extra consideration.  If you aren’t familiar with the steps to claim a promo, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. For the most part, all DFS Apps make it simple to claim their offers. They want you to use them and their app.  Claiming a promo is often as simple as a tap on your phone screen or inputting a small promo code to get the promotion.  If you are a sports bettor, a lot of this will feel very familiar. However, DFS companies operate under a different legal framework because their contests are considered games of skill. The most common question is if DFS is legal in your state. It is available and legal in almost every state, but age and requirements can change, so be sure to check prior to signing up.  Daily fantasy should stay fun. If play starts to affect your finances, relationships or wellbeing, these free and confidential resources can help. This depends on specifically what you are looking for in a DFS app, but DraftKing Fantasy and Underdog are the two best from our analysis.  DFS games are considered skill games. There are some very strong similarities, but in almost everything, you need multiple things to go correctly in order to win. With sports betting, you can bet on one individual event to happen to claim a victory.  This varies from state to state, but there are significantly more legal DFS apps across the United States than sportsbetting apps.  A pick’em contest is typically choosing two to eight players performing better or worse than a listed line. For example, Steph Curry will score more than 26.5 points, and Luka Doncic will have under 7.5 assists.  There are some DFS apps that will offer incentives and bonuses without having to make a minimum deposit. Check sites regularly to see the offers.  A bonus entry is typically paid out without including the bonus stake. With a cash entry, if you risked $20 at 2x, you’d take home $60 with a win ($40 plus your original $20 bet). Bonus entries would just pay you $40.  Of course. You can use multiple DFS apps and compare their contests, lines and payouts. You can also build the same play on more than one app to see if the available options or potential returns differ. The best DFS app for beginners depends on what you’re looking to get out of it. Betr is quick to learn and use while Dabble lets you follow other players and make the same picks they do. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab598c075342cf4db891caf Dale Earnhardt once broke his hand punching a man who killed a deer on his North Carolina farm te 2026-09-24T21:40:16.627Z Dale Earnhardt once broke his hand punching a man who killed a deer on his North Carolina farm Dale Earnhardt wasn't called "The Intimidator" for nothing. But as it turns out, the seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion didn't reserve all that intimidation for the racetrack. Just ask the guy who decided to sneak onto his property and shoot one of his deer. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE FROM OUTKICK OUTDOORS During Wednesday's episode of "The Dale Jr. Download," Dale Earnhardt Jr. recalled the time his dad broke his hand punching a man who killed a deer on his North Carolina farm. And while Earnhardt Sr. certainly wasn't afraid of a confrontation on the track, his son said he couldn't recall his dad ever getting into an actual fight with another driver. The deer incident, though… that was a different story. According to Dale Jr., the whole thing started back in 1993 when a man working on a tractor on Earnhardt's property spotted some deer. Later that afternoon, the man went to a bar with a buddy and started telling him about the animals he'd seen. And, as tends to happen when alcohol enters the equation, the two came up with a brilliant idea. They'd sneak back onto Earnhardt's property and shoot themselves a deer. "The more they drank, the braver they got," Earnhardt Jr. recalled. So, around dark, the two men hopped the fence and made their way onto the property. What they didn't know was that Earnhardt and his farm manager happened to be walking along a power line nearby. The two heard a gunshot and watched as a wounded deer ran down the clearing before collapsing. Rather than immediately confronting the trespassers, Earnhardt and his farm manager hid in the tree line and waited for the men to come retrieve the animal. CHASE BRISCOE SAYS DEER HUNTING GIVES HIM A BIGGER RUSH THAN DRIVING 200MPH IN NASCAR And when they showed up, The Intimidator lived up to his nickname. According to Dale Jr., his dad charged the man carrying the gun, tackled him and began punching him in the face. He hit the guy so hard that he broke his own hand. Earnhardt eventually recognized the man's voice and realized he was the same guy who had been working on his tractor earlier that day. He then held the man until police arrived. Talk about a bad day at work. Earnhardt wasn't upset because someone had stolen a deer he was planning to hunt himself. He just liked having the animals around. According to his son, Earnhardt had some impressive bucks roaming his property, but he wasn't interested in shooting them. He enjoyed watching them and wanted to keep them around. And he certainly didn't want word getting out that his farm was home to some big deer. So when Earnhardt showed up to the 1993 NASCAR awards banquet sporting a cast on his broken hand, he made up a different explanation for the injury. "He didn't want people to know about his deer," Dale Jr. explained. "He didn't want more people showin' up, trying to sneak into his property." Earnhardt even had a black-and-white cast to match his tuxedo as he accepted his sixth Cup Series championship trophy. But the broken hand created another problem when the 1994 racing season rolled around. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER According to Junior, his dad was told he wouldn't be allowed to compete in the Daytona 500 while wearing the cast. So Earnhardt cut it off himself. Problem solved. Anyway, let that be a lesson to you. Don't go hunting on private land without permission. It just doesn't turn out well — not for you, not for the deer, and not even for the landowner who has to knock your lights out. Love all things hunting, wildlife and outdoors? Follow OutKick OutDoors on Instagram and TikTok! Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab598bf75342cf4db891ca6 What's on the menu for Trump's state dinner with China's Xi? One American staple is notably missing te 2026-09-24T21:40:15.706Z What's on the menu for Trump's state dinner with China's Xi? One American staple is notably missing President Donald Trump, despite his wealth, isn't exactly known for his refined palette. But Thursday's state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping will be an elegant affair, and a far cry from the 47th president's notorious McDonald's order of two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches and a large chocolate shake. The swanky event will be quite the opposite. Conspicuously missing from the menu, however, is an American dining staple — red meat.  In fact, no meat will be served at all. Instead, the dinner is exclusively a pescatarian affair. TRUMP-XI SUMMIT COULD HOLD KEY TO LOWER GAS PRICES, GOP CHAIRMAN SAYS The menu for the event, provided to Fox News Digital by First Lady Melania Trump's office, says the first course consists of yellow squash velouté, wild mushroom fricassée, crispy pancetta and scallion oil. "The first course offers a refined and silky-smooth velouté made of sweet yellow squash," the menu states. "This course is gently blended to highlight its delicate seasonal flavors of earthy wild mushrooms, sautéed with fresh herbs. Together, these ingredients create a rich fricassee, complemented by crispy pancetta for a savory and smoky contrast. A finishing drizzle of scallion oil adds vibrance and a subtle allium brightness to the dish." TRUMP HOSTS KING CHARLES, QUEEN CAMILLA AT WHITE HOUSE STATE DINNER: FASHION, FOOD AND A STANDOUT GIFT Served next is a sesame crusted sea bass with braised bok choi, roasted garden eggplant and a French green herb sauce. "The second course is prepared delicately with fresh seabass and coated in toasted sesame seeds," according to the menu. "This combination creates a fragrant nutty crust while keeping the fish tender. The fish is served with crisp baby bok choy and roasted garden eggplant, creating lightly caramelized flavors. The dish is finished with a vibrant sauce verte of fresh herbs, which add brightness, acidity, and a garden character." The two heads of state and their guests will enjoy vanilla crémeux and White House honey iced cream, walnut frangipane and sour cherry confit for their final course. DAUGHTER OF CHINESE UYGHUR PRISONER MAKES EMOTIONAL PLEA TO TRUMP DURING SPOTLIGHT XI SUMMIT "The dessert course is a smooth vanilla crémeux with a vibrant sour cherry confit center, set a top a rich walnut frangipane," the menu says. "The dessert’s fruit shaped form is complimented by a delicate ice cream made with harvested White House honey." The First Lady unveiled a beehive on the White House South Lawn earlier this year. Famous American tenor Christopher Macchio, who was featured at the Republican National Convention in Dallas a few weeks ago, will entertain for the evening, along with military musicians from the Army and the Marine Corps. "The décor for the evening is an expression of warmth and celebration and draws on the color red’s longstanding cultural significance throughout Chinese history," the First Lady's memo says, and will feature "urns overflowing with red blossoms and tables covered by red linen with dahlias and ranunculus." After the dinner, both presidents are expected to retire for the evening. Friday, Trump will take Xi on an expedition to the National Archives before the communist leader departs the United States mid-afternoon. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5966775342cf4db8919f3 Dak Prescott's ex stiff arms pregnancy rumors by accusing him of cheating & announcing she's 'just very thick' te 2026-09-24T21:30:15.164Z Dak Prescott's ex stiff arms pregnancy rumors by accusing him of cheating & announcing she's 'just very thick' There's never a dull moment when you're the quarterback of America's Team. Just ask Dak Prescott. The Dallas Cowboys signal caller was minding his own business when his ex-fiancée mentioned him in a comment on social media. To be fair to Sarah Jane Ramos, she was minding her own business as well. The two had called it quits during their joint bachelor party weeks before their planned wedding, and it appeared as if they had both moved on. Following the split, her reps said, "There wasn't any rockiness in the lead up, and there was no big argument or blow up. It was a mutual decision." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! That was that, end of story. Ramos is still the mother of their two children and Dak is still the quarterback of the Cowboys. Their personal drama had died down, that was until Wednesday. A gossip Instagram account wondered if Ramos was "hiding a bun in the oven." She replied with a statement that denied the rumor and accused her ex of cheating on her repeatedly. "Hi everyone. Not pregnant!! Just very thick, eating again, and happier than I’ve been in a long time!," she started off her reply. A strong start that only gets better. NOTHING TO SEE HERE: COWBOYS QUARTERBACK DAK PRESCOTT AND HIS EX'S BRIDESMAID ARE JUST FRIENDS "That’s usually what happens when you aren’t getting cheated on repeatedly and finally leave a situation that makes you unhappy. Hard for most of you money obsessed people to believe, I know," she continued. "I suggest all of you find something else to do with your free time because being this concerned with what I’m up to and if I’m pregnant is high key very weird and I’m pretty sure most of you need therapy." What did I tell you? She went from saying she's thick straight into cheating accusations then took on the gossipers directly. She had one more line to deliver to wrap her response up in a neat package. Ramos added, "PS money doesn’t buy happiness and y’all should stop obsessing over it. God bless!" If you're going to respond to the chatter, this is how you do it. There's nothing wrong with breaking out the stiff arm every now and again to set the record straight. There's nothing wrong with getting thick for football season either. It's too bad that they didn’t work out. In my opinion, Sarah Jane Ramos is an NFL level talent. Not everyone has what it takes, she does. This step by step response to these rumors highlights that. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5965f75342cf4db8919d5 The Villas nears completion after eight years in Havasu Foothills te 2026-09-24T21:30:07.952Z The Villas nears completion after eight years in Havasu Foothills The Villas in Havasu Foothills Estates is nearing completion eight years after construction began. The subdivision has 125 homes, with one final phase still to be built, according to Eric Gedalje of The Gedalje Group. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5965e75342cf4db8919cb Governor candidates Andy Biggs, Teri Ann Hourihan visit Lake Havasu City for candidate forum te 2026-09-24T21:30:06.662Z Governor candidates Andy Biggs, Teri Ann Hourihan visit Lake Havasu City for candidate forum Two candidates vying for Arizona governor took the stage at Lake Havasu High School's Performing Arts Center Wednesday night to share their thoughts with voters at a candidate forum. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5965b75342cf4db89199e Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Deportations to Third Countries te 2026-09-24T21:30:03.300Z Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Deportations to Third Countries A lower federal court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on deporting migrants to countries other than their own. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5940a75342cf4db891935 Angel mom says blue state DAs are putting illegal immigrant criminals before public safety te 2026-09-24T21:20:10.882Z Angel mom says blue state DAs are putting illegal immigrant criminals before public safety A Virginia mother whose daughter was stabbed to death at a bus stop is fighting to oust the county's top prosecutor after learning the accused killer had been arrested more than 30 times before the attack. "Stephanie should be alive today," Cheryl Minter wrote in a petition calling for Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano to be removed. "I had to do what no parent should ever have to. I had to bury my daughter." Stephanie Minter, 41, was found with multiple stab wounds inside a bus stop shelter in Hybla Valley on Feb. 23, Fairfax County police said. Abdul Jalloh, 32, is charged with second-degree murder. He has not been convicted in her death. "She was an amazingly strong woman, amazingly strong, and happy, and brought brightness and joy to so many people," Cheryl Minter told Fox News Digital. SOROS-BACKED DA'S LAX ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICIES LED TO 'PREVENTABLE' BUS STOP STABBING MURDER: COMPLAINT The Department of Homeland Security says Jalloh, a Sierra Leone national who entered the U.S. illegally in 2012, had been arrested more than 30 times. His previous charges included rape, malicious wounding, assault and theft, DHS said. SANCTUARY COUNTY REFUSED 615 ICE TRANSFER REQUESTS, TURNED OVER JUST 11 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, RECORDS SHOW "I was shocked. I mean, literally in shock," Cheryl Minter said when asked about his record. "And then this man who's killed her, just is let off like it's nothing. Like it's nothing." In her petition, Cheryl Minter blamed Descano's decisions for what she called a preventable death. "Thirty times the system had a chance to stop him. Thirty times," she wrote. "I think about that every single day." JORDAN GRILLS SOROS-BACKED DA DESCANO IN HEATED SPAT OVER SOFT-ON-CRIME POLICY: 'THIS IS ALMOST LAUGHABLE' Cheryl questioned why Jalloh was released after an arrest she recalled from the winter before Stephanie's death. The details of that case and who made the release decision have not been independently confirmed. "When you let these people back out on the streets, they're not gonna stop. Why would they stop?" she said. Cheryl Minter also pointed to Descano's 2020 plea bargaining policy. It told prosecutors to "consider immigration consequences where possible" and weigh how the charges could affect a defendant's immigration status, WTOP reported. The outlet reported in May that the webpage detailing the policy was no longer publicly available on Descano's office website. Cheryl Minter argues that prosecutors should put public safety first. That policy is under federal scrutiny. The Justice Department announced in May that it was investigating whether Descano's office gave defendants who are in the country illegally preferential treatment over U.S. citizens in charging decisions and plea deals. The department said it had reached no conclusions. The investigation does not establish how Jalloh's earlier cases were handled. SOROS-BACKED PROSECUTOR SET FOR CAPITOL HILL GRILLING AS SANCTUARY POLICIES FACE RECKONING Descano defended the policy after receiving notice of the investigation. "My policies are fair, legal, and reflect the values of my community," he wrote in a post on X. Asked what she wants from her petition, Cheryl Minter said her priority is changing those practices in Fairfax County and beyond. She also wants Descano out of office. SOROS-BACKED DA ACCUSED OF GOING EASY ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS GETS SQUEEZED BY HOUSE GOP "I think first and foremost is the change," she said. "Second would be, I would love to see Descano out." Jennifer Harrison, executive director of the Victims' Rights Reform Council, helped Cheryl Minter start the Change.org petition. Cheryl Minter said she knows an online petition cannot itself remove Descano, but hopes it will drive scrutiny of his office. Congress is also pressing Descano for answers. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, subpoenaed him on Sept. 16 as part of an investigation into whether prosecutors give preferential treatment to criminal suspects because of their immigration status. Jordan set a Sept. 25 deadline after accusing Descano's office of failing to fully comply with earlier requests. In a previous statement to Fox News Digital, Descano's office called the subpoena a "needless escalation" and accused the committee of waging a "partisan siege" against Fairfax County. It said the office had turned over more than 1,100 pages of documents, that Descano had voluntarily testified, and that it would continue to respond to legitimate inquiries while working to keep the county safe. The office has separately said it is prosecuting Jalloh for Stephanie's murder, with a trial scheduled for January 2027, and cannot comment further on the pending case. WATCH: SOROS PROSECUTOR’S HEARING DEVOLVES INTO ANGRY CHAOS OVER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RAPE CASE: 'BE QUIET!' Fairfax County police said Jalloh was arrested after an employee at a local business recognized him and called authorities the day after Stephanie Minter was killed. He was held without bond. ICE lodged a detainer on Feb. 25, after Jalloh was in custody, asking to be notified before his release, according to DHS. The agency said it had also lodged a detainer against him in 2020 and that an immigration judge later ordered him removed to a country other than Sierra Leone. Cheryl Minter said employees of Descano's office working on her daughter's murder case have been "wonderful with me." She said her criticism is aimed at the decisions she believes left a repeat offender free. "I want people never to stop talking about it," she said. "I just don't want the talk to stop, and I'll do whatever to keep it going." "Stephanie cannot speak for herself anymore. So I am," she wrote in the petition. Fox News Digital reached out to Descano's office for comment on Cheryl Minter's allegations and petition. Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab591b675342cf4db8918c6 Saudi foreign minister warns Houthi threat goes global as Trump holds fire te 2026-09-24T21:10:14.379Z Saudi foreign minister warns Houthi threat goes global as Trump holds fire UNITED NATIONS — Saudi Arabia's foreign minister warned Thursday that the growing threat from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis extends far beyond his country's borders, calling for international cooperation to protect critical shipping routes after Saudi forces intercepted six ballistic missiles launched toward the kingdom. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud told Fox News Digital that Riyadh was coordinating with Washington and other international partners as Houthi attacks threatened Saudi territory and commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The Saudi-led coalition said Thursday that its air defenses had intercepted six ballistic missiles allegedly launched by the Houthis toward the Saudi cities of Taif and Yanbu, according to Reuters. It was not immediately clear whether the attacks caused casualties or damage. AMERICANS WARNED AGAIN TO RETHINK TRAVEL AS MISSILE ATTACK RATTLES HISTORIC REGION Saudi authorities also issued emergency warnings across several areas, including Jeddah and Mecca, before announcing that the immediate danger had passed. Yanbu, a major Red Sea oil export hub, has become particularly important as the war with Iran disrupts shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Asked by Fox News Digital whether Saudi Arabia was receiving the support it needed from the US following reports that President Donald Trump had declined Saudi requests for direct military intervention against the Houthis, Prince Faisal emphasized the kingdom's ability to defend itself while calling for a broader international response. "So we are, of course, defending ourselves. And we are responding as necessary to the attacks by the Houthis. But we are also, of course, coordinating with all of our international allies, because this is not just about Saudi Arabia," he said. IRAN’S PROXY MONEY MACHINE: HOW THE HOUTHIS BUILT A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR NETWORK DESPITE US SANCTIONS "The fact that the Houthis are threatening the Bab el-Mandeb, threatening international shipping, is a risk to international security stability. That means that the responsibility to dealing with this threat is not just on Saudi Arabia, it is also on the whole international community." The foreign minister thanked countries already working with Riyadh and confirmed that discussions with Washington were continuing. "And we are obviously continuing to work with our partners in the U.S., to address the issue of this conflict as well," he said. HOUTHIS ENTER US 'KILL BOX' AFTER SEIZING RED SEA 'CORK,' FORMER PENTAGON OFFICIAL WARNS His remarks came as the Trump administration faced renewed requests from Saudi Arabia to take military action against the Houthis. According to a Sept. 21 Axios report, Trump considered ordering strikes against the group over the weekend but ultimately decided against them. The report said Saudi officials had again sought American military assistance as Houthi forces advanced in Yemen, while the U.S. continued providing intelligence and targeting support without directly entering the fighting. The Houthis' territorial advances have intensified concerns over control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic passage connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and a crucial route for international trade and Saudi oil exports. The group has expanded its control along Yemen's western coastline in recent weeks, reaching the shores of the strategic waterway as fighting with Saudi-backed government forces escalated. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab591b575342cf4db8918bd Strokes nearly double among adults under a certain age in disturbing trend te 2026-09-24T21:10:13.316Z Strokes nearly double among adults under a certain age in disturbing trend Stroke incidence more than doubled among young adults in a recent study. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati analyzed data from 2,076 first-ever strokes among adults ages 20–54 in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region from 1993-1994 to 2020. Over those three decades, the incidence increased from about 34 to 62 strokes per 100,000 people per year. HEART ATTACKS AND STROKES RISING WITH EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS, RESEARCH SUGGESTS The increase was primarily driven by ischemic stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel supplying the brain becomes blocked. Among the younger adults who experienced strokes, there was an increase in hypertension, diabetes, atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat) and substance use. "This has major implications, since young people who develop disability from a stroke may no longer be able to work or provide for their families," study co-author David J. Robinson, M.D., an assistant professor of clinical neurology and rehabilitation medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, told Fox News Digital. "We don't know for sure why strokes are becoming more common, and we really need to study this in more depth if we are going to reverse this trend." 8 COMMON FOOD PRESERVATIVES LINKED TO HIGHER RISK OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART DISEASE There was also a sharp increase in documented substance use, which rose from 4.6% to 40.2% in the study period, primarily marijuana. "It's hard to say whether this is responsible for any of the rise in stroke; there is a relationship between marijuana use and stroke, but most of the evidence is with heavier use," Robinson said. "The relationship between marijuana use and cardiovascular disease needs more study so that we can properly advise our patients." In contrast to younger adults, stroke rates declined among older adults, falling from about 619 to 453 strokes per 100,000 people per year. Short-term survival after stroke also improved, the researchers found. The share of younger adults who died within 30 days of a stroke declined from 11.7% to 9.4% – primarily for bleeding-related strokes, including intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhages. WHAT TO DO IF SOMEONE IS HAVING A STROKE, AFTER JILL BIDEN REVEALED DEBATE-NIGHT FEARS "Our study might provide evidence that we have gotten better at treating people who have hemorrhagic strokes and helping them survive, which is encouraging," said Robinson. "Still, prevention is the most important thing to focus on, because just surviving a stroke doesn't mean you aren't left without disability." The findings were published in the journal Neurology on Sept. 23. Dr. Jason A. Gluck, vice chair of the Heart & Vascular Institute and system chief of cardiology at AtlantiCare in New Jersey, noted that while stroke is still uncommon in young adults, that doesn’t mean they have zero risk. "The concerning findings in this particular trial is that stroke rates are moving in the wrong direction for the younger population," Gluck, who was not involved in the research, told Fox News Digital. "While many of the risk factors are things that we can identify and treat before a stroke occurs, when you're young, sometimes you don't know about it – so awareness is key." Risk factors are pervasive across all age groups, the doctor noted. POPULAR ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER LINKED TO POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS HEART RISK "The same things that happen to 70-year-olds can happen at 40 – if you have high blood pressure, if you have diabetes, if you’re smoking, if there's obesity, abnormal cholesterol and activity, all those things can lead to [stroke]," he warned. "Vascular disease doesn't suddenly begin when you're 65; it develops over time." The main limitation of the study is that it did not include comparable risk factors for people without stroke. "We can't say for sure how many of the stroke risk factors are changing in people without stroke in our region," Robinson noted. "This makes it really hard to determine what is causing this rising incidence. We will need to look in other studies to really understand the ‘why’ of this trend." Also, the findings may have been affected by changes in medical documentation and diagnostic methods over the nearly three decades. One example provided was an increase in MRI use, which could potentially improve the detection of stroke. It was also possible that the rise in substance use was due to increased documentation or disclosure. The study was also geographically limited, including just five counties in one U.S. state. "While stroke is still relatively uncommon in younger individuals, it can happen and be really devastating," Robinson said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES The doctor emphasized that hypertension is the risk factor most tightly associated with stroke. "Younger people may not have a lot of opportunities to get their blood pressure and other risk factors screened, and we need to come up with solutions that can meet them where they are," he said. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Robinson recommended using the American Heart Association’s "Life’s Essential 8," which is a checklist for optimizing your cardiovascular health. "It includes blood pressure control along with eating better, being less sedentary, quitting any tobacco products, sleeping well, managing your weight, controlling cholesterol and managing blood sugar." Gluck recommends using the "BE FAST" guide to determine whether someone may be having a stroke, as follows. "If you're having these symptoms or your loved one is having these symptoms, don't drive yourself to the hospital," he advised. "Call 911. Be fast." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab591b475342cf4db8918b4 Save 15% on your first order with this limited-time DoorDash deal te 2026-09-24T21:10:12.192Z Save 15% on your first order with this limited-time DoorDash deal New to DoorDash? Now through Sept. 30, new users can save 15% on their first order, up to $10 off, when they spend at least $15 before fees and taxes by using promo code USEG15OFF3Q26 at checkout. READ MORE: October Prime Day starts soon — here are the dates, tips to shop and what's on sale now DoorDash thrives on providing convenience. It's an on-demand delivery platform that seamlessly connects customers with local restaurants, grocery stores and other retailers for quick and easy deliveries to their doorstep. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58f5775342cf4db891820 Man Killed in Michigan Car Crash Was Not the Target of ICE Search te 2026-09-24T21:00:07.815Z Man Killed in Michigan Car Crash Was Not the Target of ICE Search A Guatemalan immigrant who died after fleeing an attempted arrest was driving a car registered to the suspect who was sought by agents, officials said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58f5575342cf4db89180a In Alaska, Rowdy Members of Congress Are a Tradition te 2026-09-24T21:00:05.893Z In Alaska, Rowdy Members of Congress Are a Tradition Revelations about the conduct of former Representative Mary Peltola may not faze voters who have long elected abrasive and sometimes violent figures to represent them. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58d0375342cf4db8917b4 NHL sets its most confusing team history straight, and it's still pretty confusing te 2026-09-24T20:50:11.390Z NHL sets its most confusing team history straight, and it's still pretty confusing The NHL has officially worked out one of its most confusing team histories by consolidating the histories of both incarnations of the Winnipeg Jets. While it clears some things up, it kind of makes it all a little bit more confusing. The Jets and the league announced on Wednesday that the statistical histories of both incarnations of the team have been merged. That sounds nice and simple... but it isn't. What's confusing is that the original Jets, which started in the World Hockey Association in the 1970s, were a different franchise than the one that plays in Manitoba today. The original team was one of four that merged into the NHL, but split for Arizona in 1996. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Thrashers debuted in 1999 and relocated to Winnipeg to become the current Jets. So, the OG Jets history actually belonged to the Coyotes, while the new Jets were the zombified remains of the Thrashers. Things got even more confusing when the Coyotes hockey assets were sold to what became the Utah Mammoth. However, Utah was treated as a new franchise, with the Coyotes and Jets history staying behind. If you need to take a break to splash some water on your face, go ahead because now it gets worse... With the OG Jets history merging with the current Jets/Thrashers record books, that leaves the Coyotes as their own franchise. This leads to some weird quirks. One is that Teemu Selanne's legendary rookie campaign during the 1992–93 season is now, statistically at least, tied to the Thrashers' history in a way. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Meanwhile, Shane Doan was drafted by the Jets, played his rookie season in Winnipeg, and then played over 1,400 games for the Coyotes. Until now, in the record books, he only ever played for one franchise. Now, that fact is not totally accurate when you look through the record books. It also means that the late Dale Hawerchuk has become the current (and former) Jets' franchise leader in goals and points. Current Jet Mark Scheifele took those titles in 2025, and will need to do it again. However, he'll start the year seven goals and twenty-two points back from regaining the top spot. There really is no way to make this situation completely confusion-free. But the new way seems to be the best option... even if it's pretty head-scratching in its own right. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58cfa75342cf4db891770 Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting te 2026-09-24T20:50:02.587Z Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting The startup's robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58ab575342cf4db8916d5 California superintendent candidate ejected from sports league meeting for boisterous Title IX defense te 2026-09-24T20:40:21.699Z California superintendent candidate ejected from sports league meeting for boisterous Title IX defense California state superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw was removed from a California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Council meeting Thursday after delivering an unscheduled speech demanding officials address transgender athlete participation in girls’ sports. Shaw, the president of the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education, told OutKick she was forced to leave the meeting in Long Beach after officials deemed her to be trespassing. Police were called, according to Shaw, but she said the responding officers were "very nice" and did not have to intervene. Video provided to OutKick showed Shaw standing before the council and challenging its members over the issue. CALIFORNIA GIRLS’ SPORTS ADVOCATES VOW FIGHT AFTER JUDGE TOSSES TRANS ATHLETE CASE: 'FAR FROM OVER' "I’m here on the front lines to protect our girls and their sports," Shaw said, interrupting the meeting. "I’ve never been able to address you guys as a body." The meeting’s published agenda included a public hearing session allowing speakers three minutes each. Shaw said during the confrontation that she arrived at 9:07 a.m. and had repeatedly asked CIF officials to place the participation of transgender athletes on a meeting agenda. "If you think it’s okay for a boy to play against our girls in sports, which is happening, you’re Southern Section. You are the representatives to stand up and do something," Shaw said. "You can fight back and stop using the state law. Federal supersedes state law." An official then called for a brief recess, but Shaw continued speaking. "How about any of you that are okay with this sit down? Any of you that want to fight the good fight and protect our girls, stand up," she said. "Are any of you okay? You guys are all okay with this?" As officials approached Shaw and repeatedly told her that she had to leave, she called on police to escort her from the room. "Call the cops, Mike. Let them escort me out," Shaw said. "No, you know it’s not right to let me get three minutes." Shaw continued challenging council members as she was ushered toward the exit and asked those who supported her position to stand. "So we have one guy in the room that’s willing to fight for our girls," Shaw said after one attendee apparently rose. She also accused the organization of ignoring pleas from female athletes who have contacted her for help. "We begged you to put it on the agenda. Why don’t you tell them the truth? How many times I asked you to put it on the agenda? You have the emails," Shaw said. "You guys are [a] CIF organization. You refuse to put it on the agenda and talk about it. … We have girls right now reaching out to me asking for help, and you’re sitting here acting like I’m some crazy lunatic because I’m interrupting a meeting. "I’m recording because I want people to see that you’re the representatives doing nothing," Shaw said before leaving. "I don’t care about losing votes. I don’t care about a seat. The point is, none of you are willing to do anything." INSIDE THE TRANS ATHLETE PODIUM CONTROVERSY SENDING POLITICAL SHOCKWAVES IN CALIFORNIA AHEAD OF ELECTIONS The incident unfolded amid an ongoing clash between California and the federal government over the state’s transgender athlete policies. California law says students must be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, consistent with their gender identity. CIF’s gender-identity participation policy follows that requirement. The Trump administration has argued that the policy violates Title IX’s protections against sex discrimination. The Justice Department sued the California Department of Education and CIF in July 2025, alleging their rules deny female athletes equal opportunities by allowing biological males to compete in girls’ sports. California officials have defended their policies as consistent with state law. A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit against the California Department of Education and CIF on Aug. 31. The court did not decide whether allowing transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports violates Title IX, instead ruling that California lacked clear notice that excluding transgender athletes was a condition of receiving federal education funding. The Justice Department said following the decision that it was evaluating a potential appeal. The issue received national attention when transgender athlete AB Hernandez competed in the girls’ division at the CIF state track and field championships. CIF introduced a pilot process allowing an additional biological female athlete to advance and receive a medal in events involving a transgender competitor, but critics, including Shaw, argued the accommodation did not resolve the underlying fairness issue. Shaw has made parental rights and protections for female athletes central parts of her political platform. She advanced from California’s June primary and is facing San Diego Unified School District board member Richard Barrera in November’s election for state superintendent of public instruction. The CIF has not responded to request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58aad75342cf4db8916b5 Candidates for Congress, ACC and state mine inspector speak to Havasu voters te 2026-09-24T20:40:13.681Z Candidates for Congress, ACC and state mine inspector speak to Havasu voters Three races saw one candidate each speaking to voters at Wednesday's candidate forum at Lake Havasu High School's Performing Arts Center. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58aac75342cf4db8916ab Mike Gannuscio speaks to voters as lone LD30 candidate at Lake Havasu City forum te 2026-09-24T20:40:12.367Z Mike Gannuscio speaks to voters as lone LD30 candidate at Lake Havasu City forum Mike Gannuscio was the lone Legislative District 30 candidate in attendance at a Wednesday evening candidate forum, held at Lake Havasu High School's Performing Arts Center. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58aab75342cf4db8916a2 War-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border towns te 2026-09-24T20:40:11.087Z War-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border towns An Army drone like those frequently flown in overseas warzones has been flying along Arizona’s southern border, doing loops around border towns, as part of a collaboration between the military and U.S. Department of Homeland Security that has privacy advocates… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58aa975342cf4db891699 Lake Havasu City man gets one year cut from prison term after appeal te 2026-09-24T20:40:09.749Z Lake Havasu City man gets one year cut from prison term after appeal A Lake Havasu City man serving a 14-year prison term made a desperate bid for less punishment when his case came back for re-sentencing in Mohave County Superior Court. An Appellate Court sent the matter back to Mohave County Superior… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58aa875342cf4db891690 Second defendant in Lake Havasu City fentanyl case sentenced to prison te 2026-09-24T20:40:08.354Z Second defendant in Lake Havasu City fentanyl case sentenced to prison A second defendant in a Lake Havasu City drug case will also be going to the Arizona Department of Corrections. Defense attorney Jaimye Ashley asked that Leslie Talbert be placed on probation so that she could help care for her… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab58aa475342cf4db891678 Flagstaff Event Almanac for September 24 te 2026-09-24T20:40:04.986Z Flagstaff Event Almanac for September 24 Sept 24 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5885375342cf4db891607 Planning for the future of Coconino County's courts at 'Justice 2045' te 2026-09-24T20:30:11.729Z Planning for the future of Coconino County's courts at 'Justice 2045' Every five years, the courts convene a strategic planning event to reevaluate the "long-range vision for justice in Coconino County." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5885275342cf4db8915fe Flagstaff Pulliam Airport awarded federal grant to expand air service te 2026-09-24T20:30:10.085Z Flagstaff Pulliam Airport awarded federal grant to expand air service Flagstaff is one of 14 airports across the United States to receive the federal grant, which will be used to incentivize an air carrier to provide a new nonstop service to Denver or Salt Lake City. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5885075342cf4db8915f4 Gardening Etcetera: 'Fallscape' plants for your garden te 2026-09-24T20:30:08.302Z Gardening Etcetera: 'Fallscape' plants for your garden This week's edition of the Gardening Etcetera column, written for the community by certified Master Gardeners of the University of Arizona's Coconino County Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5884e75342cf4db8915eb NAU football heads to Bozeman to face top-ranked defending national champions te 2026-09-24T20:30:06.680Z NAU football heads to Bozeman to face top-ranked defending national champions The Lumberjacks last defeated a No. 1-ranked team in 2003. They will get their shot at another one on Saturday night at Montana State in front of the whole nation on ESPN2. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab585fe75342cf4db8915a3 WATCH: Mass walkout before Netanyahu speech prompts fiery response from Israeli prime minister te 2026-09-24T20:20:14.271Z WATCH: Mass walkout before Netanyahu speech prompts fiery response from Israeli prime minister A mass walkout of delegates before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations General Assembly prompted a fiery response from the Israeli leader. As Netanyahu took the stage, dozens of delegates from across the globe could be seen streaming out of the chamber in New York City. Chants of protest could also be heard in the hall as the U.N. president called the assembly to order. After taking the stage, Netanyahu said, "Before I begin, just a quick announcement, if there are any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall, please do so now," as cheers erupted from the remaining delegates in the chamber. THE TOP MOMENTS FROM IRAN PRESIDENT’S TENSE VISIT TO US SOIL AS WAR RAGES The Israeli leader did not let up for the rest of his address. He began by laying out what he described as the stakes of the conflict in Iran. He proclaimed that "devastating Iran's nuclear facilities was hard, it was very hard to do, but for me, it was one of the easiest decisions I've ever had to make as prime minister. Because if we hadn't done it, we'd all be dead." "Now, you want to hear the ultimate irony?" he continued. "In defending itself, Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates just left this hall. In fact, I want you to know that many of the leaders even thanked us privately for taking out Iran's nukes." "It's hard to imagine more mind blowing hypocrisy, but that's exactly what it is," said Netanyahu. MELANIA TRUMP’S HOME-COUNTRY LEADER RIPS UN ‘DOUBLE STANDARDS’ AS TRUMP PROMISE IS REVEALED The protests came as conflict in the Middle East continued and Israel faced criticism over its actions in the region. Netanyahu's address drew protests from delegates inside the U.N. chamber and demonstrators outside the building, including Hollywood celebrities Elliot Page and Susan Sarandon. Despite the protests, the prime minister delivered a defiant message, telling critics, "You don't know what you're talking about." He cast Israel's fight as one for its own survival and the survival of all the world's nations against "barbarians." "For the past three years, our heroic soldiers have fought day in an day out in a seven front war. Do you know any other country the size of New Jersey capable of fighting a seven front war? And for three years, seven fronts Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran, militias in Iraq, militias in Syria, Palestinian terrorists in Judea, Samaria, they all ganged up on us to wipe us off the face of the earth, they failed. Because instead of collapsing, we delivered crippling blows to all of them, with our great American friends." "To the protesters outside, to the hypocritical delegates who left this hall. I ask, 'Where were you when the Iranian tyrants butchered and maimed tens of thousands of unarmed Iranian civilians? When they butchered and maimed thousands of their own people? Where were you? Did you organize mass rallies, hunger strikes? Did you protest outside the Iranian mission to the UN? Did you speak out for that matter, for Christians persecuted in Iran and throughout the Middle East?' No, no, you didn't, because you're phony human rights protesters," he said. He also thanked President Donald Trump for ordering U.S. action against Iran. "In this battle against the barbarians, we've had no greater partner than President Trump," said Netanyahu. "I thank him. I thank him for his bold leadership. He boldly confronted an enormous danger to America, Israel and the world." "He understood that if left unchallenged, the fanatic ayatollahs who chant, 'Death to America, death to Israel,' would eventually carry out their mad fantasies. So, Israel and America acted together not only to protect ourselves, but to save civilization," he said. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Netanyahu also criticized detractors in what he called "the eigth front in this war," which he said is "the war for truth." He said that this "war" is "waged in the world's media and most perniciously, in social media." Turning to criticism from U.S. figures, Netanyahu called out New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a socialist, whom he called "anti-semitic," as well as influencer Hasan Piker. Addressing Mamdani directly, Netanyahu said, "Mr. Mamdani, you try to stop me from coming here. You tried to silence me. Well, you can't silence me. You can't silence the truth." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab583a875342cf4db89152d Breaking up Troy Aikman and Joe Buck would be a big mistake for ESPN | Bobby Burack te 2026-09-24T20:10:16.717Z Breaking up Troy Aikman and Joe Buck would be a big mistake for ESPN | Bobby Burack ESPN will broadcast its first Super Bowl this February, with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman on the call. It will mark the duo’s seventh Super Bowl broadcast together — and perhaps its last. Buck recently agreed to a new six-year, $108 million contract extension with ESPN. However, sources confirm to OutKick that Aikman and the network remain far apart in contract negotiations. Aikman’s current deal expires after the Super Bowl. Aikman, who turns 60 in November, has not received a long-term offer from ESPN. It remains unclear why the network is hesitant to make such a commitment. ESPN finally found an NFL analyst who meets the standard required for its most prominent broadcast booth. For years, the network cycled through analysts such as Jason Witten, Booger McFarland, Brian Griese and Louis Riddick. They each struggled. Meanwhile, Aikman is widely regarded as the best color commentator in sports. He has worked with Buck since 2002, when the two began calling games together at Fox. This season marks their 25th year as a broadcast team. They joined ESPN together in 2022. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! ESPN could view Greg Olsen, whose contract with Fox also expires after this season, as a younger and cheaper alternative. Olsen is good in the booth. Still, he may not have the same chemistry with Buck as Aikman does — at least not initially. Chemistry is difficult to project. It is even harder to manufacture. Unless Aikman is seeking Tom Brady money — reportedly $37.5 million annually — it would be difficult to view losing him as anything other than a mistake. The two sides should be able to reach a financial agreement if they want to. ESPN has demonstrated that it will spend more than $100 million on talent it considers to be in the upper echelon, including Buck, Stephen A. Smith, and Pat McAfee. Aikman is in that tier. AS EXPECTED, MEDIA MOCKS JAXSON DART INJURY BECAUSE HE DARED TO INTRODUCE TRUMP ON STAGE The small details separate Aikman from his peers. He criticizes coaches, players, and officials when warranted. He explains the game with great clarity and precision. However, ESPN may have reasons beyond quality to move on. For one, ESPN is back in the diversity business following unfounded accusations of racism from former employees Ryan Clark and Dan Le Batard. Despite the baseless nature of those accusations, management appears determined to prove, yet again, that it is "not racist." What better way to prove that than by breaking up one of the most accomplished white broadcast teams in sports and replacing Aikman with an analyst of color? The network could return to a three-person booth featuring Buck, a white analyst, and a black analyst. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE In that scenario, Jason McCourty would be a name to watch. McCourty is part of ESPN’s NFL coverage and has joined the network’s Monday Night Countdown team. ESPN is high on the former NFL cornerback, sources say. If ESPN doesn't re-sign Aikman, he should have options elsewhere. Kirk Herbstreit’s contracts with ESPN and Amazon also expire after this season, potentially creating an opening on Amazon’s Thursday Night Football team. CBS is high on JJ Watt as a full-time replacement for Tony Romo. But with CBS set to broadcast its first Super Bowl under Paramount Skydance ownership in 2028, the Ellison-backed conglomerate may view Aikman as an upgrade. Netflix is another possibility as it continues expanding its NFL portfolio. Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria suggested last week that the streamer would be interested in acquiring more of the league’s international schedule. Netflix has not established a permanent game booth. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER YouTube is also a wild card and could factor into NFL rights negotiations in 2029. Aikman could be an option there, too. Aikman is one of the few talents ESPN could not easily replace. It would be a mistake to break Buck and Aikman up. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab583a775342cf4db891524 Iowa teacher, 10-year-old student die during fifth grade school field trip at Lake MacBride State Park te 2026-09-24T20:10:15.181Z Iowa teacher, 10-year-old student die during fifth grade school field trip at Lake MacBride State Park An Iowa teacher and 10-year-old student died after an incident at Lake MacBride State Park during a fifth-grade school trip, authorities and school officials said. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office identified the victims Wednesday as Hannah Jorgensen, 24, of Tiffin, and Ahmed Osman, 10, of Iowa City. The sheriff’s office said deputies responded shortly after noon Tuesday to a report of people in the water at Lake MacBride State Park near the Coralville Reservoir spillway. GEORGIA TEACHER, FATHER HAILED AS HERO AFTER DYING TO SAVE GIRL FROM MYRTLE BEACH RIP CURRENT At 12:43 p.m., first responders recovered an adult from the Coralville Reservoir. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities searched throughout the evening for a missing juvenile before suspending recovery efforts overnight. The sheriff's office said the search resumed Wednesday, and first responders recovered the juvenile from the water at 1:24 p.m. The Iowa City Community School District said Jorgensen was a fifth-grade teacher at Borlaug Elementary and Ahmed was a fifth-grade student at the school. 2 CUSTODIANS DEAD IN POSSIBLE MURDER-SUICIDE AT CHICAGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL The district said the deaths occurred during a School of the Wild field trip at the MacBride Nature Recreation Area. The district said in a statement that it was "heartbroken" by the deaths. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X "Hannah and Ahmed were deeply valued members of our school district community, and their loss is being felt throughout Borlaug and across our district," the district wrote. "Our hearts are with their families and loved ones, as well as Hannah’s colleagues and students, Ahmed’s classmates and friends, and everyone who knew and cared for them." The district said counselors and additional support personnel would remain available at Borlaug Elementary. "This is an extraordinarily painful time for the Borlaug community and our entire school district," the district added. "We will continue to come together, care for one another, and keep Hannah, Ahmed, and their families at the center of our hearts in the difficult days ahead." SEND US A TIP More than a dozen agencies assisted in the search and recovery operation, including the Johnson County Metro Dive Team, local fire departments, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Iowa State Patrol, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and medical personnel. GOT A TIP? Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds also offered her condolences following the deaths. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST "This unimaginable loss touches the entire Borlaug Elementary community and Iowa City School District," Reynolds wrote. "Please know that Iowans across our state are standing with you in the difficult days ahead." Jorgensen also appeared to have experience working at Garner Elementary. In a post on social media the school said: "Garner Elementary is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Ahmed Osman, a fifth-grade student at Borlaug Elementary, and Hannah Jorgensen, his fifth-grade teacher. "Prior to her time at Borlaug, Hannah was a beloved member of the Garner staff, serving as a paraeducator for multiple school years, as well as completing both her practicum and student teaching experiences. Hannah’s calm presence, willingness to go above and beyond, and love for all students made Hannah an amazing person and educator. "Please continue to keep Ahmed and Hannah’s family, and the Borlaug community in your thoughts during this terribly difficult time." GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL The sheriff's office said the incident remains under investigation. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Iowa City Community School District for additional comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab583a575342cf4db89151b Rogan warns of youth support for communism as comic Yakov Smirnoff recalls escape from USSR te 2026-09-24T20:10:13.701Z Rogan warns of youth support for communism as comic Yakov Smirnoff recalls escape from USSR Podcaster Joe Rogan blasted what he described as a "push towards communism" among young Americans as he spoke to legendary comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who grew up in the USSR. Smirnoff, a Soviet-born comedian who became popular in the U.S. in the 1980s, described to Rogan how he and his father would secretly listen to Voice of America, a U.S. government-funded international news broadcaster, late at night, knowing that they would get in trouble if anybody knew. He also described how his mother was greatly concerned over what might happen if others found out that they were yearning for America. Later in life, after working aboard cruise ships, he proposed that he and his family leave the USSR and apply for a visa to the U.S., and he recalled his mother warned that they might face repercussions if they did so, warning that it would be like "You're going to go through hell." Smirnoff then recalled, "And my dad said, ‘Yeah, we will.’ And she said, ‘Well, if you're willing to do it, so am I.’" Smirnoff said the process of getting a visa to America was only possible because of a deal involving the Carter administration, Soviet emigration and U.S. grain. VANCE WARNS THERE WILL BE A 'SOCIALIST PRESIDENT IN THIS COUNTRY' IF GOP DOESN'T FIX ECONOMY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE "[Carter] wanted to see some human rights in the Soviet Union. And the Soviet leadership was — they were starving. They didn't have food. So they needed food from America. So Jimmy Carter made a deal that we're going to give you grain, and you allow people to get out, and that's how we were kind of exchanged for some wheat, you know," he said. "That's how we got out." "Wow. Holy s---, man … you sometimes need to be reminded how fortunate you are," Rogan said of Americans like himself. "You know, Americans in particular, we're very, you know, it's not our fault. You know, people become accustomed to where they live … And they think this is normal, which is one of the reasons why this push towards communism amongst young people is so infuriating to me." Rogan said he understood why some people might be drawn to socialism out of a sense of "empathy" and the contrast between "people that are so rich and people that are so poor." Nonetheless, he warned, "But the solution is not to make the government decide who gets what, because they never decide the right way." "They do what people do," Rogan warned of communist officials. "What people do when they have power is they enact total control over the population so that they can maintain power, and then they live in luxury, and then you wait in line for bread, and that's how it is all over the f---ing world. And if you step out of line, they shoot you. That's where communism goes. So what we need is like a more, a more moral and ethical version of capitalism." SOCIALISM’S RISE INSIDE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOW THREATENS THE AMERICAN DREAM Elizabeth Pipko, a former RNC national spokesperson and the daughter of immigrants from the Soviet Union, spoke to Fox News Digital about the exchange and her family having escaped from the USSR themselves. "I’m especially moved by his story because it is so incredibly similar to my own family’s," she said. "My grandfather told me many times about the secret radio he kept hidden inside a pillowcase, where he and my young mother would listen to Voice of America. Living in the Soviet Union, they would listen and dream of a better life, never knowing that one day America would deliver on those dreams and more." "I hope people understand that stories like this are incredibly special, but they are not unique," Pipko continued. "For generations, America has been a beacon of freedom and hope to people around the world, including millions who suffered under the horrors of communism. America has defeated communism before — both in reality and in spirit — and will continue to do so until the bitter end." CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE "I have the privilege of being the daughter of two immigrants, which means I learned very early on just how blessed I am to have been born in the greatest country on the face of the earth, no matter how many misinformed college students tell you otherwise," she said.  "We have a duty to protect what so many came here searching for and to keep our country free from the ideology that they escaped," Pipko added. "Not only for those who fought and died for this nation, but for the millions around the world who still look to America and know that, as long as she shines, anything is possible." Daniel Di Martino, a Manhattan Institute fellow and economist who fled Venezuela, told Fox News Digital, "Yakov recounts what all of us who have lived under socialism go through in suffering and censorship. And Rogan perfectly describes how socialism is bad for us because it is tyrannical and impoverishing."  "What's most interesting to me, though, is that Rogan himself fell in the past for the allure of socialism that he criticizes by supporting Bernie Sanders in 2020, who himself praised and vacationed in the Soviet Union," he added. "Any nation can fall for the lies of socialists and self-destroy, and we must do everything we can to prevent it." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5814f75342cf4db8914b5 Madison Beer gets new skin while Justin Herbert sinks to 0-2, Aaron Rodgers' ex lashes out & NFL or college? te 2026-09-24T20:00:15.598Z Madison Beer gets new skin while Justin Herbert sinks to 0-2, Aaron Rodgers' ex lashes out & NFL or college? 'Nightcaps' is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk. It runs Monday-Friday on OutKick.com. Over the hump and safely onto the other side of the week. Our long, 72-hour nightmare without football is over. Thank goodness. Thursday night football tonight. College games tonight, tomorrow and Saturday. NFL back at it on Sunday. We've also got the Presidents Cup starting today, although nobody really cares about this one, and the final weekend of MLB regular season baseball. That's right. TEAM USA GOLFERS WELCOME TRUMP’S EXPECTED PRESIDENTS CUP VISIT, SHARE PRIDE IN REPRESENTING AMERICA The MLB playoffs start in less than a week. Red Sox-Yankees in the Bronx for a 3-game Wild Card series? How lucky are we? Best time of year, folks. Let's dig in. Welcome to a Thursday Nightcaps — the one where Justin Herbert's fiancee, Madison Beer, gets some new skin while Justin tries to figure out how to beat the Bills in Buffalo on Sunday. You'll see. AARON RODGERS’ FAMOUS EXES FROM SHAILENE WOODLEY TO THE ROMANCE THAT SENT HIM INTO A 'TAILSPIN' What else? I've got another one of Aaron Rodgers' ex-girlfriends stuffing him in a locker, some old reader mail from last weekend that I need to clear out, and I fear the new John Madden movie may just be the worst movie of all time. The trailer dropped today, and folks — it's a humdinger. I thought it was fake. It was not. OK, grab you a controller and some pizza rolls, and settle in for a Thursday 'Cap! Look, it's slow out there today. It's weird, given the time of year we're in, but it's just a slow news day. So, we're gonna keep this class short and to the point, because A) there's football on in a few hours, and B) I have a new water pump to install so I can use the toilet without dumping a gallon of water in the back each time. Yep. I woke up this morning to the absolute worst noise of all time ... silence. I went to take my morning pee, flushed, started to walk away, and then stopped. I didn't hear anything. No refilling. No noise from the back. No slow leak that's been annoying me for a year now. Just silence. I went to fill up the coffee maker ... and nothing came out. The worst feeling in the world. I went outside, checked on the water tanks, and the silence was equally deafening. The pump, which started to fade back in May, had finally breathed its last breathe. So, our house has been water-less all day. I've got a new one en route as we speak. Until then, if it's yellow, let it mellow! OK, let's use some virtual water and cleanse ourselves with Madison Beer becoming a new video game character while Justin Herbert tries to simply get a win: Just a tough scene here for Justin Herbert. The Chargers have been horrendous through two games this season, and that's coming from a miserable Dolphins fan. Herbert has been awful. Mike McDaniel's offense has been awful. And now, they get to go to Buffalo and face the best team in the NFL. Meanwhile, Herbert's new fiancee is out there modeling her tail off, and getting featured in a video game. Yes, for those who don't know (all of you, I assume), a Fortnite "skin" is basically just what your character can look like in the game. So, essentially, gamers can shoot people as a bikini-clad Madison Beer for the next few weeks ... if you're into that sort of thing. Different worlds. OK, let's keep this train rolling and check in on this new John Madden movie. The final trailer dropped today ahead of the release in a few weeks, and I've gotta say ... I think this one is in big trouble: It's just bad, right? This has nothing to do with Nicholas Cage, by the way. I love Nick. I think he's great. The two National Treasure movies are my childhood. PEAK cinema. But the Madden voice is horrible. Truly horrible. And what is Shane Gillis doing here? Why is he in this? Is it supposed to be a comedy? I was so confused. Maybe it'll be good. It won't be, but maybe! OK, let's rapid-fire this Thursday class into a big night of football (and hopefully water!). First up? Remember earlier this month when Aaron Rodgers called out most of his exes, including Danica Patrick? Well, another former lover — Milwaukee Bucks Heiress Mallory Edens — has decided to clap back: "My ex is currently on a press tour talking about how he never loved anyone he dated after 2017. Unfortunately for him, I am also on a press tour, for a movie inspired by how down bad I was. Really exciting time for competing narratives!!" Get him, Mal! Rodgers and Eden dated, briefly, back in 2022. It never really evolved into anything serious, but apparently, it left enough of a mark for Mallory to clap back at Aaron four years later. For those who missed it, here's what Rodgers said earlier this month: "No one cares what they have to say until they say my name. I dated two women who nobody gives a f--- about unless they drop my name — and they like to say their version of the history of what actually happened." Rodgers never mentioned Mallory Edens, but he surely name-dropped Danica, calling her "depressed" and saying she had no interest in having sex. Seems like Mallory got off easy, if you ask me! Next? Let's empty the mailbox on the way out. On Monday, I asked a simple question: Which do you prefer? NFL or college? It all stemmed from last weekend's Saturday-Sunday slate, which I thought was clearly dominated by college football. From Jim A: "I speak from experience. College over NFL any day, any time. We had Browns season tickets from 1980-2024, and Buckeyes season tickets from 1987-2009. Over those years, I missed maybe six Ohio State home games and probably 20 Browns games. Both teams had ups and downs (mostly downs for the Browns) but Ohio State was always a much better, and much more fun atmosphere. I can say the same after having been to games at Ann Arbor, South Bend, and East Lansing. College offers more excitement, more pageantry, more history, more fun, and fewer bitter people (granted, Browns fans have every right to be bitter). I could easily sit on my couch starting at 9A for GameDay, and not leave the house until the west coast games were over after midnight. Sunday? I’d rather blow leaves or go to the grocery store." And, from Gary B: "College football is better then the NFL mainly because of the rabid fan base and loud stadiums. It doesn't matter if the game means nothing. Ohio State/ Michigan, Alabama/Auburn the stadium is packed and loud. There are states that don't have an NFL team but they all have college teams. It's football on a more personal level." Yeah, I think I have to agree with both Jim and Gary here. I don't imagine this weekend's slate of games is gonna change my mind much, either. Have you SEEN Saturday's slate of SEC football games? Lordy. What a wonderful time of year. OK, that's it for today. Good work, everyone. Good class. I have a water pump to go install. On the way out, here's another reason the NFL is inferior to college football ... Absolutely pathetic. What are we doing here? See you tomorrow. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab57ef775342cf4db89144f Trump FDA pick repeatedly sidesteps Sanders' universal healthcare demands in heated clash te 2026-09-24T19:50:15.434Z Trump FDA pick repeatedly sidesteps Sanders' universal healthcare demands in heated clash Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., repeatedly pressed President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to endorse universal healthcare as a "human right" Thursday, growing frustrated as the nominee declined to give him the yes-or-no answer he sought. Dr. Heidi Overton, a physician who completed her residency at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore before joining the America First Policy Institute, faced off with the Vermont independent as she seeks to replace Dr. Marty Makary, who resigned earlier this year amid disagreement with the Trump administration over flavored vapes. "Do you happen to believe that healthcare is a human right that should be available to every man, woman and child in our country?" Sanders pressed, arguing that the U.S. is the only major country not to guarantee healthcare and that thousands die because of a lack of access and affordability. TRUMP TO NOMINATE DR HEIDI OVERTON AS NEXT FDA COMMISSIONER Overton replied that access to healthcare is very important and said she looks forward to carrying out policies and responsibilities "vested from Congress" to the FDA. Sanders said Overton was not answering his question and tried again. "I live 50 miles away from the Canadian border," said Sanders, who hails from Burlington. "Somehow everybody in that country can go to a doctor." Overton said she understands the importance of access to care and believes in getting patients the "best care possible." Sanders then moved on, saying he was running out of time. He then pressed Overton on whether President Donald Trump was truthful when he said the U.S. had gone from paying the world's highest prescription drug prices to the lowest. IF TRUMP WANTS TO LOWER DRUG PRICES, HIS OBVIOUS FREE-RIDING TARGETS ARE OUTSIDE THE US The nominee replied that 89% of branded drugs are covered by agreements to lower prices for U.S. consumers. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER "The most-favored nation-policies have dropped prices and right now CPI says that for the first time in 60 years prescription drug prices have gone down by 3%," Overton said, citing a framework championed by Trump. Sanders disputed what caused the decline. "Yeah, which may have something to do with the legislation that we passed several years ago," he said. The broader debate over Medicare for all and other government-run healthcare proposals is also playing out ahead of November’s midterm elections. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab57ef575342cf4db891436 Trump’s FDA nominee draws bipartisan skepticism over abortion pill and vaccines te 2026-09-24T19:50:13.423Z Trump’s FDA nominee draws bipartisan skepticism over abortion pill and vaccines Dr. Heidi Overton speaks at her Senate confirmation hearing on Sept. 24, 2026 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Overton, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Food and Drug Administration, worked as deputy assistant for domestic policy, where she oversaw health initiatives for the White House. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration appeared to disappoint senators from both political parties Thursday with how she answered questions about medication abortion access during her confirmation hearing.  Dr. Heidi Overton also faced skepticism from committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, about her work on vaccine policy during the current administration, indicating she may not have the support needed to secure the job.  “You’re a medical doctor. Of course, that resonates with me. You’ve seen patients. You have a deep understanding of the healthcare system and health policy, but I have concerns,” he said. “You were behind the president in the Oval Office when he signed an executive order to break up the vaccine schedule into more doses, completely ignoring the reality of families today struggling to make life affordable.” Cassidy said that executive order was “based on zero scientific evidence” and would require parents to spend more time and more money taking their children to medical appointments to receive vaccine shots.  Overton, he said, needed to convince him and others on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that if confirmed by the full Senate, she would be “radically honest.”  “You’ll also need to ensure that uninformed ideologies do not influence FDA’s decisions on whether to approve individual products, even if the president is pressuring you,” Casidy said.  In response to a question from Cassidy about the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, Overton said she believed it as well as “every vaccine on the U.S. market right now” is safe and effective.  She added the MMR vaccine remains “our best tool right now in the public health response to the measles outbreak” and that it is “97% effective in stopping transmission of the virus after two doses.”  Questions on medication abortion In addition to several questions about vaccine and food safety, senators pressed Overton about her personal views on mifepristone, one of two prescription pharmaceuticals used in medication abortion.  Senate confirmation would place Overton as the head of the agency conducting a safety review of the drug, though she declined to say how she would handle that process. “Mifepristone was approved by the FDA as having met its safety and efficacy standard,” she said in response to a question from Washington state Democratic Sen. Patty Murray. The senator then referenced a policy brief that Overton wrote with Matias Perttula for the America First Policy Institute that was published in February 2023.  The co-authors began by writing that “Abortion is corrosive to children, women, and society broadly because it devalues and extinguishes innocent human life.” They later added that medication abortion, which is approved for up to 10 weeks gestation, had become “the most common method of terminating a pregnancy” and that it “deserve(d) greater medical scrutiny.” Overton declined to answer a question from Murray about whether an IUD counts as an abortifacient, saying that if confirmed she would be “fully briefed on all their prior decisions and make determinations according to the standards of safety and efficacy.” Hawley presses on FDA position Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley also questioned Overton on her statements during the hearing about mifepristone, saying they didn’t match what the Trump administration was arguing in ongoing legal cases.  “I want to get to the bottom of this. I want to be sure that the FDA is not changing its position. I think this could be news to the court,” Hawley said. “So, are you saying that the FDA’s position is now that the drug is safe and effective and appropriately labeled?” Overton replied that the current Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy for mifepristone, which changed during the Biden administration to allow for it to be prescribed via telehealth appointments and shipped to patients, is under FDA review.  “That safety study is ongoing and very important. Women’s health and women’s safety is a critical piece of this. So there is no change in position,” she said. “The FDA does need to do that safety study to look at the internal data that has not been looked at since a REMS change was made.” The FDA wrote in a statement to States Newsroom that “Due to active litigation, the FDA and HHS cannot comment” on the safety review. Murkwoski sees ‘political pressure’ Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski didn’t ask Overton any questions about mifepristone, but said she believes there was “political pressure” on FDA officials to “revisit the approval status of certain products.” “We’re going to be in a very challenging position in a very rural state like Alaska if in fact the move to require in-person dispensing of the medication as opposed to telehealth appointments is the direction,” Murkowski said. “You have effectively taken about … 80% of the communities in the state, and put them in a very challenging position in terms of access to providers, access to this FDA-approved drug.” Murkowski added that she didn’t ask Overton a specific question on the issue since it appeared she would “go down this same rabbit trail and probably get the exact same very specific technical responses that you have provided the committee.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab57eee75342cf4db891426 Families, advocates call for more help to solve Arizona cold cases te 2026-09-24T19:50:06.520Z Families, advocates call for more help to solve Arizona cold cases Key Points: Five families highlighted the murders of their loved ones and called for increased resources to solve the cases There are currently 6,787 unresolved homicide cases in Arizona Victims’ advocates said cold cases need more time, personnel, communication and accountability  Five families stood before the state Capitol this week to tell stories of their loved ones whose killings remain unsolved and to call on law enforcement to provide them with more support. Their cases span decades. Some have waited five years for answers; others have waited nearly 40. Arizona has 6,787 unsolved homicide cases, according to the Murder Accountability Project, which tracks unsolved homicides nationwide going back to 1965. The state currently has a homicide clearance rate of nearly 64%, but victims’ advocates say that figure does not tell the full story for families still waiting to learn who killed their loved ones and whether anyone will ever be held accountable.  The families, joined by the nonprofit group Arizonans for Effective Public Safety, were at the Capitol on Monday to raise awareness of the issue. They want more dedicated cold-case detectives, fully staffed investigative units, improved communication with families and faster action on cases that can otherwise languish for years. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, who briefly served as acting governor this week, issued a proclamation recognizing September as National Cold Case Month. “Every unsolved case represents a real Arizonan — a son, a daughter, a parent, a friend — and a family still waiting for answers,” Mayes said. “This week, we honor those victims and recommit to making sure no case in Arizona is ever abandoned simply for lack of resources.” Kat Glenn, executive director of Arizonans for Effective Public Safety, said many Arizona counties either lack dedicated cold-case units or do not have enough investigators to handle the caseloads.  Glenn said the organization plans to lobby lawmakers in the coming months to talk about ways the state can improve investigations and communication with families.  “It’s a multi-layered answer, right?” she said. “Some of the families we’ve been working with, their cases have been cold for five years. Some of them have been cold for almost 40 [years].”  The longer a case remains unsolved, the more people it can affect, Glenn said. And it’s not only the families of victims but potentially the broader public if the killer remains at large. “Best case scenario, we always hope that person is no longer in the general public, but we don’t know that unless the case is solved,” Glenn said.  Glenn also noted that case “clearances” do not always mean someone has been prosecuted. She said Arizona receives a D rating for its ability to solve cases. She also questioned whether the state’s current spending on law enforcement is producing results families need. Kat Glenn is the executive director of Arizonans for Effective Public Safety. (Jordan Gerard/Arizona Capitol Times) Brenda Miller knows what it means to wait. Her daughter, Destiny McClain, was killed on July 18, 2021, in a drive-by shooting in Phoenix while waiting to order from a food truck. Miller said she has woken up every day knowing someone out there knows what happened to her daughter and wondering when she’ll know the answer.  “It means learning how to continue living your life while a part of you is still waiting,” she said. She remembers Destiny as having a heart of gold, funny, loving, compassionate and deeply loved.  Miller said she’s fortunate to have a detective who communicates well with her, but notes that not every family has had the same experience. Through her own case and conversations with other families, she said she’s seen how easily victims can feel disconnected from the process.  “This is why better communication between law enforcement, prosecuting agencies and families matters,” Miller said. “Even when there is no new development, communication matters.” Families shouldn’t have to worry whether their loved one’s case has been forgotten, she said. “I will continue to say Destiny’s name,” Miller said. “I will continue advocating for her, and I will continue standing beside other families who are waiting for answers, because no family should have to fight alone just to keep their loved one’s story alive.” Glenn said state and local governments could direct more money toward cold cases in multiple ways, including shifting existing agency budgets or making funding for unresolved cases part of state and/or county budgets.  She added that better record-keeping and transparency are needed to know what is and isn’t working.  “I think the two that we’ve looked at as far as efficiency and whether or not it works and where we’ve spent the most money, kind of tells you that we can reinvest dollars,” Glenn said. “We have the money. It’s just our willingness to put it where it’s going to make the most difference.” Brenda Miller spoke about her daughter’s murder and the need for better communication from detectives assigned to unresolved cases. (Jordan Gerard/Arizona Capitol Times) The post Families, advocates call for more help to solve Arizona cold cases first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab57c9475342cf4db8913a4 Senate Defeats Bid to Direct Trump to End Iran War or Seek Approval te 2026-09-24T19:40:04.825Z Senate Defeats Bid to Direct Trump to End Iran War or Seek Approval The vote came as a growing number of Republicans has broken from President Trump on the conflict, reflecting voters’ concerns ahead of midterm elections. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab57a4975342cf4db891366 Donald Trump adds political stakes, anticipation and potential sideline chaos to Texas-Tennessee showdown te 2026-09-24T19:30:17.874Z Donald Trump adds political stakes, anticipation and potential sideline chaos to Texas-Tennessee showdown KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — There was already enough anticipation surrounding the upcoming showdown between No. 1 Texas and No. 14 Tennessee at Neyland Stadium this weekend. Now, with President Donald Trump planning to attend Saturday’s high-stakes SEC matchup, both teams will have to prepare for circumstances beyond their control. This will be Trump’s third college football game in the past two years. He attended the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship between Miami and Indiana, as well as the 2024 matchup between Georgia and Alabama in Tuscaloosa while campaigning for re-election. TRUMP TO ATTEND TEXAS VS TENNESSEE IN HIGH-STAKES COLLEGE FOOTBALL SHOWDOWN On Saturday, the president will most likely come down a popular highway after landing at Tyson McGhee Airport in Knoxville, then make his way to Neyland Stadium, creating a chaotic experience for fans trying to enter the game for this premier matchup. Yes, there will be a lot of traffic, with the University of Tennessee police department already issuing a warning to fans that they should expect heavy delays while getting onto campus. Also, in an effort to speed up the process of getting into the actual stadium, the school has announced that gates will open an hour early in hopes of getting everyone to their seats in time for kickoff. On Friday afternoon, the Secret Service will take control of Neyland Stadium in preparation for Trump's arrival. SECRET SERVICE, TSA AND NYPD TRANSFORM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN INTO FORTRESS FOR TRUMP'S NBA FINALS VISIT What I will say, for those that are curious about the whole process, is just enjoy the madness that is coming. I don't care which side of the aisle you are on, it's not everyday that the President of the United States is attending the same football game as you. There will also surely be an Air Force One flyover around Neyland Stadium at some point. And sure, there will be folks at home who laugh about the pictures coming from Tennessee's campus that show a large bottleneck of traffic outside the stadium. But, once again, having been a part of three college football games with the president in attendance, it's not as bad as some want to make it out to be from a congestion standpoint. As for the teams involved, there is one minor detail that could cause a few problems during the game. When asked on Thursday about any type of effects that will be presented when Donald Trump is inside Neyland Stadium on Saturday afternoon, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian pointed out one minor inconvenience. "Anytime the president changes locations within the stadium, they cut all communication. They cut your headsets in terms of coach to player communication. So you have to plan for that," Sarkisian noted. Yes, this is actually a thing. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! During the 2026 CFP title game between Indiana and Miami, there were a few instances where communication was scrambled, with more of a white noise coming through the headsets along both sidelines. No, this wasn’t a major ordeal during the game, with both teams adapting during the moments in which communication ceased for a few seconds, but the concern is still valid. Either way, both Tennessee and Texas will adapt, and it shouldn’t be an issue that forces a coach to call a timeout. Well, if he arrives after kickoff like was the case during the 2024 Alabama versus Georgia game, that won't be the case. But, ESPN is moving its show to the field of Neyland Stadium during their final hour on Saturday. Now, with the 'Protect College Sports Act' passing all procedural votes on Thursday, it's looking as though the bill will be voted on by Monday. There is still a small chance it is taken up for a vote on Friday, but it's looking more like this will take place after the weekend. Seeing that the President has played a big part in getting this off the ground, with Senators Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell leading the bipartisan bill, I would have to imagine there will be some sort of conversation had with the network. If not, potentially an interview that takes place during the game itself is not out of the question. The President isn’t showing up for this highly-anticipated game just to enjoy college football, even though he does love the sport. This is the perfect time for those pushing this legislation to pass through the Senate and onto the House to get the final endorsement from the President. It was already going to be a rowdy afternoon in Tennessee, but Donald Trump appearing at Neyland Stadium has obviously upped the stakes a bit from a political standpoint. But, no offense, the most popular person in the stadium on Saturday afternoon will be the Sheriff himself, Peyton Manning, who will be in attendance to watch his nephew Arch Manning square off against his beloved Tennessee Vols. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab57a4875342cf4db89135d Lindsey Vonn hard launches new relationship in her bikini, Tinder date ghosted abroad & dating after marriage te 2026-09-24T19:30:16.361Z Lindsey Vonn hard launches new relationship in her bikini, Tinder date ghosted abroad & dating after marriage It's the final Thursday of September, somehow, and there's love in the air everywhere you turn. Is it the dip in temperature that the arrival of fall has brought to some and promises to bring to others? That could account for some of it, but not all. We're getting this week's True Romance started with the hard launch of Lindsey Vonn's new relationship. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! The Olympic gold medalist didn’t do so bundled up in a sweater. Like the professional that she is, the 41-year-old used a summer recap complete with her in a bikini to reveal that she has a special someone. Ladies and gentlemen, this is how it's done. So who is this special someone? He's fellow skier Matthieu Bailet, reports People. The 30-year-old is a French World Cup alpine ski racer who was rumored to be getting to know Vonn back in May. I'd say, by the looks of things and the ever important Instagram official label that can now be handed out, that they've gotten to know one another. That's getting fall off on the right foot if you ask me. Go follow True Romance on Twitter and Facebook and keep sending your emails here: sean.joseph@outkick.com (anonymously if you prefer). Now it can't all be skimpy bikinis, hands on waists, and posing for the important kissing picture that's going to let everyone know you're an item. That's not how real life works. Sometimes you're a content creator who moves to a party island with your boyfriend hoping to find romance, and it doesn’t quite work out according to the plan. Sometimes you swing and keep missing. That's the case for Jade Vow, 27, who showed up with her open relationship to Ayia Napa, Cyprus. The move has been a disappointment for her and her 40-year-old boyfriend. "When we first moved here, we had quite high hopes because it’s a party area with lots of tourists coming and going. We thought it would be perfect for our style of dating but it’s such a small island, and news travels fast so it’s not been quite what we expected," she said, reports The Sun. "The holidaymakers who come to this part of the island are not the kind of people I want to talk to. We get a certain type of Brit – the freshly turned 18-year-olds who are messy, drunk and disrespectful." Could Jade get some action from those messy drunks? Of course. But that's not why she came to the island. She wants to be swept off her feet by someone random at a club. That's what she's after. MAN IN TROUBLE FOR USING ROBOT VACUUM TO RECORD WIFE'S AFFAIR, FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS LEASE UP & HALL PASS WINS "Ideally, the hottest outcome would be going out, finding a random person in a club and bringing them home. That’s what we’re aiming for," she said. "There still has to be attraction. Being in an open relationship doesn’t mean I’m fair game or that I’ll sleep with anyone." That doesn't seem to be what the locals are all about. They're out on boring quests looking for marriage material. I say never give up. There has to be that special random person out there at the club looking for someone to take them home. That person is out there for everyone. You have to keep searching. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK CULTURE COVERAGE Follow True Romance on Twitter and Facebook. We came in extremely hot with that Lindsey Vonn news. I don't want to go back-to-back with stories of romance that hasn’t worked out yet, but this isn't about me. I have to do my best to level this out. So that takes us to a passionate woman who the NY Post says is "haunted by the ghost of her romantic past." That ghost is in the form of a guy she met on a dating app. She thought after a few days in bed with him that she might have met the one. He, it turns out, didn’t see the same in her. The British man she met on Tinder and then in person in San Francisco, where she fell for him, ended up ghosting her after she flew out to London hoping to spend several weeks in Europe with him. "I was crying, gutted. I planned this six-week European trip, and he was certainly the inspiration for it, but it was such a waste of money," the 37-year-old professional personal assistant told The Post. "I booked all these honeymoon-style, non-refundable Airbnbs—one on a hillside in Florence, Italy, another on a beach in Greece. I booked flights. I bought train tickets This was the last sliver of hope I had left from being a little girl. I thought I was finally getting my big, magical romance." That's not what ended up taking place. Her "Tinder Romeo" welcomed her to his apartment in London, then left her there. He apparently had other plans that didn’t involve spending time with her. That left her, as it would have anyone, wondering if she'd ever find love. If this guy on Tinder who lives in another country isn't who she was supposed to be with, how is anyone the person she's supposed to be with? She's still on dating apps, good for her, but has a new outlook. An outlook one would hope didn’t turn a few days spent with a Tinder date into a magical European vacation of romance. Honestly, that could have been anyone of us. We could have just as easily been swept up in the moment. I don't fault her for that part of it. The planning out the rest of their lives together was perhaps a bit much. She's in a good spot if you ask me. She's full of doubt about finding love. She was ghosted by a Tinder date abroad. Now's the time in those terrible made-for-TV movies that she's going to find Mr. Right. She's not interested. She'll initially resist before realizing he's not going to do what this guy on a dating app once did to her. So, he's not from London and it isn't as magical as she expected. It will work. He'll make it work. You're married. You're not planning to ever have to date again, but what if you do find yourself on the free agent market? What's an immediate dealbreaker? It's fascinating to me to see some of these dealbreakers. Are not being enthusiastically affectionate and lying by omission really dealbreakers? Come on. I suppose you also want someone who is financially responsible too? And pulls their own weight in the household. These are the dealbreakers of those who would prefer to die alone. Sean, Terri Gibbs - Somebody's knockin' Thanks! Brad S ------------- That's it. A solid way to end September. We lifted up right at the last minute and avoided catastrophe. That's how we roll each and every week. Keep those song of the week suggestions coming and anything else you want to send my way. As always, you can reach me, anonymously if you prefer, at sean.joseph@outkick.com. Go follow along on Twitter and Facebook. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab57a3e75342cf4db891331 Who Is the Trump-Appointed Judge Who Blocked the White House Media Ban? te 2026-09-24T19:30:06.280Z Who Is the Trump-Appointed Judge Who Blocked the White House Media Ban? Judge Timothy J. Kelly had worked as counsel for Senator Charles E. Grassley, who called him a “very talented attorney” in 2017. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab57a3c75342cf4db891328 ‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms te 2026-09-24T19:30:04.642Z ‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab577f175342cf4db8912e4 Backlash erupts over Hasan Piker’s upcoming speaking engagement at Cornell te 2026-09-24T19:20:17.401Z Backlash erupts over Hasan Piker’s upcoming speaking engagement at Cornell Controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has yet to take the podium at Cornell University, but he's already facing sharp backlash from critics who say his presence reflects deeper issues at the core of campus culture. The event, which is part of the "Students Not Bombs" campaign, is being hosted on Sept. 24 by the university's chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). Piker has a history of making controversial remarks, and famously said that America "deserved" 9/11, a statement that he later walked back and apologized for. He is also a vocal critic of Israel and U.S. foreign policy. WHO IS HASAN PIKER? MEET THE FAR-LEFT STREAMER WHO IS STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY AND DIVIDING DEMOCRATS Critics have already spoken out against the event, with the university's Hillel calling Piker's commentary "repulsive" in a statement posted to social media. "The university is a place to learn, to argue, to explore, and to debate. Mr. Piker's views, however, go against our values as Americans and Jews, and his hateful, antisemitic rhetoric is repulsive," Grinspoon Hillel at Cornell said in a statement. For William Jacobson, a clinical professor and director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School, Piker's appearance on campus is not a one-off event, rather it represents what he calls a "campaign of intimidation." "It's not really surprising to me that the anti-Israel groups on campus have invited as incendiary a speaker as Hasan Piker. In fact, it's very much in keeping with the tactics of intimidation that they've been doing really as long as I've been at Cornell — which is approaching 19 years — but which has ramped up dramatically after October 7," Jacobson told Fox News Digital. JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE AT A ‘CROSSING POINT’ AS STUDENTS WEIGH ANTISEMITISM RISKS, NEW REPORT SHOWS Jacobson cited past incidents in which conservative speakers faced disruptions, such as former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Tea Party movement co-founder Michael Johns and Ann Coulter, who is a Cornell alumna. In 2016, Santorum was heckled during an event at the university. He said that the protests at the Cornell event were demonstrating "liberal intolerance," The Cornell Daily Sun reported. The event with Johns in 2017 was made private on the advice of the Cornell University Police Department, according to The Cornell Daily Sun. Jacobson recalled that, despite the event being private, protesters found out where Johns was speaking and "banged on the doors." In 2022, Coulter was forced to end her event early after several attendees protested, eight of whom were removed from the room, the outlet also reported. The student newspaper noted that when Coulter returned to the university in 2024, she did not face the same amount of disruption, but one faculty member was arrested for disorderly behavior. Cornell University did not respond to inquiries addressing Jacobson's specific comments. But in a statement to Fox News Digital regarding the controversy surrounding Piker's event, a university spokesperson emphasized that student-hosted speakers do not carry the institution's official endorsement. "Guest speakers invited by student groups undergo a thorough review to ensure an event can be hosted safely. They are not subject to an approval process around content," the university spokesperson said. "The use of spaces by student groups does not represent an endorsement or approval of, or agreement with the theme of the event or the speech of its participants. As with any event, Cornell will respond appropriately to any reports of discrimination, incitement, or disruption." CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM EXTENDS BEYOND STUDENT PROTESTS AND INTO CLASSROOMS, ADL WARNS While Cornell University maintains that all student groups have the ability to host speakers, Jacobson argues that even the coverage surrounding the events creates a distorted narrative on campus. Jacobson criticized The Cornell Daily Sun's framing of Piker's event, saying the student newspaper's characterization of the controversial Twitch streamer as a "left-wing political commentator" was overly generous. "'The Cornell Sun' has depicted Hasan Piker as just merely a left-wing activist, and we all know that that's not what he is. He's beyond left-wing. He's incendiary," Jacobson said. "To describe him in that superficial way like The Cornell Sun [sic] did, really, I think, does a disservice to its readers, because somebody just reading that wouldn't understand why is this even controversial. And unfortunately, that's something I've seen The Cornell Sun [sic] do repeatedly with regard to the anti-Israel movement on campus — they always tone it down." When reached for comment on Jacobson's characterization of their coverage, The Cornell Daily Sun told Fox News Digital, "We appreciate the concern, and we understand that this visit matters deeply to many people in our community. A headline can only say so much, which is why we hope readers will look to our full coverage." "Our initial article discusses the controversy surrounding Mr. Piker, including his statement that 'America deserved 9/11' and his recent comments regarding Israel and American Jews. We have since published a second article sharing statements from Jewish student organizations on campus, along with further remarks by Mr. Piker and reactions from students ahead of his visit," the statement read. The student newspaper said it would "continue to report on" Piker's event and the response on campus, adding, "We truly care about getting this story right, and about making sure the students most affected by it are heard in our coverage." HASAN PIKER ADMITS HE HAS 'DIALED DOWN' HIS OPINIONS AFTER PUBLIC AND DEMOCRATIC BACKLASH Jacobson emphasized that he was not calling for the event with Piker to be canceled, rather he was hoping it would start a dialogue about escalating political polarization on campus. "In some sense, I am glad they invited him, because maybe now we can have an honest conversation on campus about how poisonous the movement is that is bringing him to campus. That's the conversation we need to have, not 'should we kick them off, should we block them,'" Jacobson told Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital reached out to Piker and the "Students Not Bombs" Cornell campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab577e875342cf4db8912b9 Hiker Is Found Dead on Washington Trail After Fall te 2026-09-24T19:20:08.067Z Hiker Is Found Dead on Washington Trail After Fall The death came two days after another hiker died on the same mountain trail in northwestern Washington, officials said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab577e575342cf4db891299 Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass te 2026-09-24T19:20:05.651Z Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass Buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. Register before event starts on October 13 at 8 a.m. PT. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab575a075342cf4db891273 Foreign leader on Putin’s doorstep sounds alarm over Iran fueling Moscow’s war machine te 2026-09-24T19:10:24.939Z Foreign leader on Putin’s doorstep sounds alarm over Iran fueling Moscow’s war machine UNITED NATIONS — Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs warned Wednesday that military cooperation between Russia and Iran poses a growing security concern, telling Fox News Digital in an on-camera interview that Iranian drone technology has helped Moscow wage war in Ukraine as Latvia prepares to contribute to a US-led effort in the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Rinkēvičs said Latvia, a country of approximately 1.84 million and yet a core member of NATO's eastern flank, has already made the political decision to send military specialists to support international operations in the Middle East in response to President Donald Trump's request for European assistance. "Yes, I am concerned. Actually, we have already seen Iran helping Russia a lot, especially at the very beginning of Russia's aggression against Ukraine," Rinkēvičs said when asked about the growing cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. PUTIN AND IRAN 'NEED EACH OTHER DESPERATELY,' EXPERT SAYS, AS RUSSIA VOICES SUPPORT FOR REGIME "The first drones Iranian made or Iranian designed drones were used by Russia. Now Russians are actually modernizing them, making completely new technologies. But actually, the design is still Iranian." Earlier this week, Fox News Digital revealed documents obtained from the Russian Foreign Ministry detailing a roadmap between Russia and Iran for cooperation between 2024-2026 in multiple fields, including nuclear, finance and aviation, as well as infrastructure. Asked whether Europe should take a more active role in countering Iran's military activities and respond to Trump's call for support, Rinkēvičs confirmed that Latvia has already taken steps toward joining an international effort in the Strait of Hormuz. BATTLE-TESTED ZELENSKYY SOUNDS CHILLING ALARM ON WHERE PUTIN’S WAR COULD HEAD NEXT "From our side, we have already made a parliamentary decision. That our EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) diver specialists could be sent to the Strait of Hormuz or to the Middle East to help out the United States, the coalition that is being formed," he said. Rinkēvičs said Latvia hopes military activities will give way to a political solution and the restoration of global energy supplies, while expressing skepticism about the prospects for negotiations with Tehran and Moscow. "It's very, very difficult to have diplomacy with Iran. It's very difficult with Russia," he said. Turning to the security situation in Europe, Rinkēvičs said Latvia does not currently see evidence of an imminent Russian military invasion, despite growing concerns about Moscow's intentions toward NATO's eastern flank. "If Russia were able to attack us... That would have happened already," he said, adding "The Russian military is not the same as it used to be back in 2022. Remember they tried to take Kyiv in three days. They are still trying to take some certain small pieces of Ukrainian territory 4.5 years after the full fledged." IRAN’S DRONE HUNT ESCALATES AS TEHRAN TARGETS US SPY TECH TO EXPOSE BATTLEFIELD SECRETS Explaining the immediate threat to Latvia comes instead from sabotage, cyberattacks and information campaigns, which he described as intensifying adding that European leaders face the difficult task of preparing their populations for potential threats without creating unnecessary panic. Rinkēvičs also warned that NATO must accelerate its adaptation to the rapidly changing nature of warfare, particularly the growing role of drones and missile technology. While traditional military equipment, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, remains essential, the president said the war in Ukraine has demonstrated how quickly new technologies are transforming the battlefield. The president welcomed increased NATO defense spending, crediting Trump's push for greater investment, but cautioned that additional funding alone would not resolve the alliance's military readiness challenges. "You have money, but not always you can buy the stuff immediately, or at least you can order things, and they are delivered soon enough," he said. Rinkēvičs said he plans to meet with US defense companies during his visit to the U.S., saying that, "When it comes to the US support. Let me just say that the United States does an amazing job already. We do have U.S. troops, not big numbers, but I think sufficient numbers are now stationed in our airbase in Lielvārde… U.S. presence in the Baltics is very important, and we are working with our U.S. partners about further rotations." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5759e75342cf4db89126a Is everyone bricking their phone to stop doomscrolling? te 2026-09-24T19:10:22.864Z Is everyone bricking their phone to stop doomscrolling? There is a funny twist to the anti-FOMO craze. Now people are worried they may be missing out on the latest way to spend less time on their phones. You may have heard people talking about "bricking" their phones. Thankfully, they are not destroying them. A $59 product called Brick is getting attention because it lets you temporarily block distracting apps and websites, creating a physical barrier between you and whatever keeps sucking you back into your screen. I understand the appeal. If you have ever picked up your phone to check one text and resurfaced 40 minutes later wondering why you were watching a stranger remodel a bathroom, you know how quickly a quick check can turn into a scroll. Still, my first reaction is this: before you buy another piece of technology to keep you away from technology, use the controls already sitting inside the phone you paid for. Apple has expanded Screen Time in iOS 27. Android already has some useful Digital Wellbeing controls. A few simple changes can also make distracting apps a little harder to reach and help break that automatic urge to grab your phone. NEW! 🩺 Free CyberGuy LIVE class: Get Better Healthcare With AI, Saturday, September 26 at 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson will show you five practical ways AI can help you organize your health history, remember important appointment details, understand complicated medical information, research prescriptions and prepare smarter questions for your doctor. No technical experience is needed. Save your free spot at CyberGuyLive.com. Register and receive the replay and step-by-step guide afterward. CAN TECH REALLY GET YOU OFF YOUR PHONE AND INTO REAL LIFE? This trend is tapping into something much bigger than one gadget. Pew Research Center surveyed 9,750 U.S. adults from May 26 through June 1, 2026. It found 53% say they spend too much time on their smartphone. Among adults ages 18 to 29, that jumps to 70%. It stands at 64% among adults ages 30 to 49, then drops to 49% among people 50 to 64 and 25% among those 65 and older. Here is another number that grabbed me: 26% of U.S. adults say they use their smartphone almost constantly. Among adults under 30, that rises to 42%. A third of adults ages 30 to 49 say the same. Think about that phrase for a second. Almost constantly. Phones help us navigate, communicate and get an incredible amount done. I certainly would not want to give mine up. The problem begins when useful turns into automatic and you find yourself opening the same app without even remembering why you picked up the phone. Awareness is already turning into action. Pew found 45% of U.S. adults tried to cut back on smartphone use during the previous 12 months. Among adults under 50, the figure reaches 58%. Yet among people who tried cutting back, only a quarter said they were extremely or very successful. That gap tells you a lot. Knowing you want to use your phone less and actually putting it down are two different things. The problem with willpower is that your phone is always right there, and the apps fighting for your attention are only a tap away. Teens are noticing the pull too. Pew found 45% of teens say they spend too much time on social media. Forty-four percent say they have cut back on social media use, and an identical share say they have cut back on smartphone use. The effects can follow you right into bed. Pew found 62% of adults under 30 say their smartphone hurts the amount of sleep they get. Across U.S. adults overall, 41% say their phone hurts their sleep while only 5% say it helps. I suspect plenty of us know how that happens. The phone goes on the nightstand. You check one last thing, then another notification arrives. Before long, your bedtime has moved. That is why I think the bigger lesson in this trend is making distracting apps a little harder to reach. If opening an app takes more effort, you get a moment to decide whether you really want to go there. TOO MUCH SCREEN TIME MAY TRIGGER LASTING BRAIN DELAYS, TOP HEALTH OFFICIAL WARNS Brick takes that idea and turns it into something physical. First, you choose which apps or websites you want to block and create different modes inside the Brick app. To start a session, tap your phone against the physical Brick. Another option lets you begin remotely by pressing and holding the virtual Brick in the app for five seconds. Getting back into those blocked apps usually requires another tap against the physical Brick. That is the part I find interesting. Leave the Brick downstairs while you work upstairs, and your easy way back into those distracting apps is suddenly in another room. The device currently costs $59 and supports iPhones running iOS 17 or later and Android devices running Android 12 or later. Head to CyberGuy.com to get 10% off the Brick with our link. One Brick can also work with multiple phones. Meanwhile, Strict Mode makes common workarounds harder, including deleting the Brick app or changing certain settings during a session. If you lose the device or cannot reach it, you get five Emergency Unbricks. I like the thinking behind it. Sometimes a physical barrier can work better than another warning on the same screen you are trying to stop staring at. Still, I would try the free controls already built into your phone before spending $59. PHONE-FREE RESTAURANTS ARE TRENDING ACROSS THE US Apple documents new Time Allowances and Screen Time Schedules in iOS 27. Apple also says all of your Apple devices need version 27 or later to use the latest Screen Time features across devices. If you do not see those newer options on your iPhone, App Limits and Downtime still give you useful ways to cut down on distracting apps. Go to: Settings → Screen Time → App Limits → Add Limit Choose the app category you want to control. You can also tap a category to select a specific app instead. Tap Next , choose how much time you want to allow each day, then tap Done . For example, you could give yourself 30 minutes of Instagram or put a daily limit on your entire Social Networking category. It is a simple way to decide how much time you want to give an app before you are already deep into the scroll. If certain times of day are your weak spot, Downtime can help. Go to: Settings → Screen Time → Downtime → Scheduled Choose Every Day or Customize Days , then set when you want Downtime to start and end. During Downtime, most apps and notifications are restricted while phone calls and apps you choose to allow remain available. You can also turn on Block at Downtime if you want the limit to be harder to ignore. OPINION: WE GREW UP BEFORE SCREENS TOOK OVER. OUR KIDS DESERVE THAT CHANCE TOO You can decide which apps stay available by going to: Settings → Screen Time → Always Allowed That way, you can keep apps you genuinely need available without leaving every distracting app within easy reach. Before setting any limits, spend a minute looking at where your time actually goes. Go to: Settings → Screen Time → Daily Average Tap Day or Week to see your usage. Scroll down to see Pickups and Notifications too. That pickup number may tell you even more than your total screen time. Maybe you spend only a few minutes at a time in an app but reach for your phone 80 times throughout the day. That tells me your challenge may be the habit of grabbing the device rather than one particular app. Start with whatever surprises you most. Notifications can undo all your good intentions, and you do not need Apple Intelligence to quiet them. Go to: Settings → Focus Choose a Focus such as Do Not Disturb, Personal, Sleep or Work . From there, you can decide which people and apps are allowed to interrupt you. You can also add a schedule, so Focus turns on automatically during the parts of your day when you want fewer distractions. This gets at something Screen Time alone cannot fix. Sometimes you did not decide to pick up the phone. The phone asked you to. Cutting down those invitations may be one of the easiest ways to stop checking it so often. Android phones include Digital Wellbeing tools that can show you how much time you spend in apps, how often you open them and how many notifications they send. Exact menu names can vary between Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones. Go to: Settings → Digital Wellbeing Tap the chart to see your screen time, how often you open apps and how many notifications you receive. Set app timers Go to: Settings → Digital Wellbeing → App timers Next to the app you want to limit, tap Set timer , choose how much time you want to allow and tap OK . When your time runs out, the app closes and its icon dims. The timer resets at midnight. Use Focus mode Go to: Settings → Digital Wellbeing → Focus mode Choose the apps you want to pause. While Focus mode is on, you cannot use those apps and their notifications stop. Tap Turn on now to start it immediately or Set a schedule to have it turn on automatically. Set app timers Go to: Settings → Digital Wellbeing → App timers Tap Apps and app categories , then choose the apps or categories you want to control. Tap Add schedule , choose the days and amount of time you want to allow, then tap Save . Menu wording can vary slightly by Galaxy model and software version. On current Pixel phones, you can also protect app limits with a separate PIN. Go to: Settings → Digital Wellbeing → App limits → App limits PIN Turn on PIN for app time limits , unlock your phone, then create and confirm a four-digit PIN. This adds another step before you can change a limit on impulse. On Google Pixel Go to: Settings → Digital Wellbeing → Bedtime mode → Bedtime routine Choose when Bedtime mode should turn on. You can use a schedule or have it activate while your phone is charging during certain hours. You can also customize options including Grayscale, Keep the screen dark, Dim the wallpaper and Dark theme . On Samsung Galaxy Samsung handles this through Sleep mode . Go to: Settings → Modes and Routines → Sleep Tap When to start this mode, choose Sleep schedule , then set your usual sleep and wake times. Tap Save and then Done . You can also turn on options including Do not disturb, Grayscale and Dark mode while Sleep mode is active. You do not need to overhaul your habits overnight. Start with your biggest distractions and make them a little harder to reach. Check Screen Time on iPhone or Digital Wellbeing on Android. Look for the apps taking the biggest bite out of your day and how often you pick up or unlock your phone. Do not try to fix everything at once. Start with the biggest problem. Every alert is another invitation to look at your screen. Keep the notifications that deserve immediate attention. Silence the ones that are simply trying to bring you back into an app. Create your limits while you are thinking clearly instead of after you have already disappeared down a feed. Use App Limits and Downtime on iPhone or App timers and Focus mode on Android. Move your worst offenders off the Home Screen. Log out when you finish. If you have to search for an app and sign back in, that gives you a little time to ask yourself whether you actually wanted to open it. You are creating your own speed bump. Leave it somewhere else during dinner. Put it out of reach while you work. Charge it away from the bed. This may sound almost too simple, but sometimes distance works better than another setting buried inside a menu. Try the free tools first. If you continually override every limit, delete every timer or find yourself reaching for the same apps anyway, then consider something stricter. That might be a stronger software blocker or a physical device such as Brick. By then, you will know exactly what problem you are paying to solve. Here is what gets me about this whole trend. We have reached a point where people are buying a piece of technology whose job is to keep them away from another piece of technology. That says something. I love what my phone can do. I do not want a dumb phone, and I certainly do not want to throw my smartphone in a drawer. What I want is to be the one deciding when I use it instead of reacting every time an app decides it wants me back. That is why I would start with what you already have. iPhone gives you App Limits, Downtime and Focus. Android gives you app timers and Focus mode. Your phone can also tell you exactly where your time went. Use that information. If those free controls work, you saved yourself $59. If you blow through every limit you create, Brick or another stronger blocker suddenly has a purpose beyond joining a wellness craze. For me, the real test is pretty simple: when you pick up your phone, did you decide to do it or did your phone decide for you? If you could get back one hour of the time you spend on your phone every day, what would you do with it instead? 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/6ab5759075342cf4db891240 An Idaho Cold Case Revisits the Unsolved Tylenol Killings in 1982 te 2026-09-24T19:10:08.854Z An Idaho Cold Case Revisits the Unsolved Tylenol Killings in 1982 A man who killed himself that year in a church in Boise was known as the “Unknown Wanderer.” Investigators said he might have a connection to the famous case of tainted Tylenol. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5758c75342cf4db891220 PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses te 2026-09-24T19:10:04.773Z PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses Prism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5734375342cf4db8911fa Dems shamed as DHS brings ICE shooting receipts after politician called ICE officers ‘liars with masks’ te 2026-09-24T19:00:19.631Z Dems shamed as DHS brings ICE shooting receipts after politician called ICE officers ‘liars with masks’ The Department of Homeland Security called out dozens of Democrats and members of the media for "spreading lies" about a recent ICE officer-involved shooting in Austin, while a former agency director suggested the political response may be by design. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan national whom DHS says is an illegal immigrant in the U.S., was shot by an ICE agent during a chase Sunday. Perez was arrested and taken to a nearby hospital, where he was treated and listed in stable condition. The shooting has prompted protests in Austin and criticism from Democrats. On Tuesday, more than 100 Democratic members of Congress signed a joint letter demanding Perez’s release and saying he "is not receiving the care he needs in detention" and "still has the bullet lodged in his body." In a separate statement, Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, said "despite losing movement on his left side and having a bullet lodged next to his spine, ICE has forced Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez out of the hospital and back to the South Texas ICE Processing Center." Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, called ICE "liars with masks" and demanded the agency leave Austin. DEM REACTIONS WITHIN MOMENTS OF AUSTIN ICE SHOOTING SPARK VIRAL OUTRAGE LOCALLY, ONLINE: 'DISQUALIFYING' In response, DHS posted on X that "sanctuary politicians and the media wasted no time in spreading lies" and that "no amount of smears and false narratives will slow down ICE from doing its job to arrest illegal aliens from our communities." DHS called the claim that ICE refused to remove the bullet from Perez’s body "false." The agency said ICE "does not and would not advise, nor be the authority on, a medical procedure for an illegal alien at a hospital." Addressing reports that Perez was denied pain medication and made to sleep on the floor, DHS said Perez is "receiving medical care around the clock, including pain medication," and that after being released from the hospital, he slept on a bed a few hours after arriving at ICE’s detention facility. The agency also disputed statements from Perez’s lawyer that Perez entered the country legally and has a work permit. DHS said he "entered the country illegally under the Biden Administration" and "had no valid work permit, had no protective status, and had a final order of removal from a Department of Justice (DOJ) Immigration Judge." FEDERAL JUDGE TEMPORARILY BLOCKS DEPORTATION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SHOT BY ICE OFFICER IN AUSTIN, ATTORNEY SAYS DHS said ICE "will not be slowing down nor leaving Austin." "DHS is tasked with enforcing the laws passed by Congress. We do not pick and choose which laws to enforce or where to enforce them. We will continue to enforce our nation’s laws," the agency said. Former acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey, who served toward the end of President Donald Trump’s first term, suggested some of the political pushback was by design. "The irony of it all is, with these ICE incidents, it's not just coincidental that the Democrats are against ICE performing their function of enforcing immigration laws… they don't want them actually doing their jobs," Fahey said in an interview with Fox News Digital. "They try to build these situations up to try to get negative attention towards ICE and more political pressure on them and advance their political agenda." Fahey suggested the Democratic Party’s "whole goal" is an open Mexican border and mass amnesty. He argued that Democrats’ response to the Austin incident shows they do not want what he considers responsible enforcement, but no enforcement. "They seem to have doubled down on [the "mass amnesty" agenda] after the 2024 election, which in some respects is surprising," he said. "My opinion is their motive is …for the people here open the border because they think that will help them electorally currently and in the future -- and all the other stuff is just noise to help achieve that." BRANDON GILL UNLOADS ON DEMOCRATS OVER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH RAPING TEEN: 'COLLATERAL DAMAGE' Asked about Casar’s demands that DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin "preserve every piece of evidence," suspend the agent in question and brief Congress, Fahey said it would be irresponsible for DHS to brief Congress before the investigation is complete. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER "That's mostly going to be a distraction," he said. "Congress wants to exercise oversight over this particular instance. I think the more appropriate thing would be after DHS has concluded their investigation [for] all of that [to be] done. I don't think the secretary would have any issue preserving evidence. I think they'll be doing that anyway." "I don't think that's a concern. But turning stuff over for hearing this early seems premature at the at the least," he said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5734275342cf4db8911f1 EXCLUSIVE: DHS Secretary Mullin slams sanctuary politicians as attacks on ICE officers skyrocket te 2026-09-24T19:00:18.281Z EXCLUSIVE: DHS Secretary Mullin slams sanctuary politicians as attacks on ICE officers skyrocket FIRST ON FOX: Assaults against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have steadily increased in recent months, marking a surge of 1,649%, with many incidents fueled by opposition to the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. There were 647 assaults against ICE personnel from Jan. 20, 2025, through Sept. 20, 2026, compared to just 37 under the Biden administration from Jan. 20, 2021, to Sept. 20, 2022, according to the Department of Homeland Security. "The brave men and women of ICE, who are simply enforcing the laws mandated by Congress and protecting the American people, are under attack every single day. Since President Trump unleashed ICE to do their jobs, assaults against them have risen by more than 1,600% in the first year and a half of the administration," said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. HEROIC ICE OFFICERS, STAFF MEMBER OPEN UP ON GROWING DANGERS: ‘AM I GOING TO DIE?' Mullin blamed the backlash against ICE on "vicious lies" being spread by "sanctuary politicians and their foot soldiers who are involved in anti-ICE riots and other acts of violence." "DHS is calling on these sanctuary politicians to stop attacking federal law enforcement, stop putting the needs of illegal aliens ahead of the safety of American citizens, and to start working with us to make America safe again," he added. DEMOCRAT COMPARES ICE TO 'DOMESTIC TERRORISTS' AS 111 HOUSE DEMS DEMAND TEXAS DETENTION CENTER CLOSE DHS cited examples of mainly Democratic elected officials accusing ICE of terrorizing communities and threatening public safety, despite the agency arresting many individuals with criminal records that include convictions for murder, child sex crimes, terrorism, and drug trafficking, among others. Some congressional lawmakers have called for the abolition of the agency, while others have compared ICE to "the SS" and "the Gestapo" — the two primary and most feared instruments of terror, surveillance, and control in Nazi Germany. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, likened the agency to "slave patrols" who were "disappearing people based on their skin color." In addition, some anti-ICE protesters have brandished weapons at officers, made threats, thrown objects, and impeded law enforcement operations, DHS said. In October 2025, Eduardo Aguilar, an illegal immigrant from Mexico living in Dallas, Texas, was arrested after allegedly posting a video on TikTok in Spanish soliciting the murder of ICE personnel. DEM RHODE ISLAND LAWMAKER THREATENS ICE: 'YOUR DAY OF RECKONING WILL COME M----- F------' In July 2025, a group of anti-ICE protesters opened fire on ICE officers at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, wounding a law enforcement officer. Eight suspects tied to that case were sentenced in June to prison terms ranging from 30 to 100 years. In June 2025, Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco, a member of the Tren de Aragua gang in Bellevue, Nebraska, was accused of throwing an ICE agent to the ground, slamming her head into the pavement, ripping off her body armor, and making repeated physical violent contact during an attempted arrest, authorities said. The agent sustained serious injuries to her head and arm and was taken to the University of Nebraska Medical Center for treatment. Hurtado-Cariaco is charged with attempted murder. PORTLAND MAN SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR THROWING ROCK AT ICE OFFICER DURING PROTEST Others have allegedly attacked ICE officers with rocks, Molotov cocktails, and various other objects, officials said. The backlash against ICE has intensified amid the Trump administration's targeting of illegal immigrants with criminal records and those with final removal orders. DHS BOSS REVEALS OVAL OFFICE PLAN TO 'WITHHOLD FUNDING' FROM SANCTUARY CITIES AFTER AGGRESSIVE NEW YORK BUST Many Democratic-run jurisdictions have beefed up their sanctuary policies to prevent cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5733875342cf4db8911c8 Texas Court Rejects Innocence Finding for Death Row Inmate Melissa Lucio te 2026-09-24T19:00:08.244Z Texas Court Rejects Innocence Finding for Death Row Inmate Melissa Lucio Melissa Lucio’s execution was halted in 2022, but Thursday’s ruling dealt a setback in her effort to prove that she did not kill her 2-year-old daughter. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5733575342cf4db8911a8 Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers te 2026-09-24T19:00:05.370Z Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers Feather is betting on a customizable, $30,000 platform built for software developers. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab570e675342cf4db89116c The deals we’re shopping before October Prime Day te 2026-09-24T18:50:14.815Z The deals we’re shopping before October Prime Day FOX News deals may be compensated for or earn a commission if you buy through our links. Fall travel is in full swing, from wedding weekends to longer getaways. Pack for your next trip with this Samsonite luggage set, currently 42% off. The $275 set includes a carry-on and a large checked suitcase, giving you options for quick trips and extended stays. READ MORE: October Amazon Prime Day starts soon — here are the dates, shopping tips and early deals Amazon’s October Prime Day kicks off Oct. 6, but you can shop early deals now — including major savings on luggage, tech and more. — Caitlyn Martyn, Commerce Editor Update your bedding for less with these sheets, currently 40% off. Refresh your toolbox with this power drill, now $20. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab570e575342cf4db891163 4 GOP senators rebel against Trump on Iran war, vote with Dems to rein in authority te 2026-09-24T18:50:13.405Z 4 GOP senators rebel against Trump on Iran war, vote with Dems to rein in authority Despite voter fury and rising fuel prices, most Republican senators stayed the course with President Donald Trump and his war on Iran in a vote Thursday. Though vulnerable Republicans on the campaign trail broke with Trump earlier this week, calling for an "immediate end" to the war, lawmakers on the Hill stuck with him and defeated another attempt by Democrats to rein in his war authorities as the conflict nears the eight-month mark. Still, there was a group of rebellious Republicans who had consistently voted with Democrats, including Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Rand Paul, R-Ky. New blood was added this time with Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. REPUBLICANS BREAK WITH TRUMP TO REBUKE IRAN WAR — BUT IT WON'T CHANGE POLICY Tillis, who is retiring at the end of the year, argued his decision to vote for the latest war powers resolution came after the administration again blew past a 60-day deadline to involve Congress. "We know the resolution's not gonna pass, but it is important to start saying, ‘We deserve an update. You better start treating — Congress can be an assistance with this war effort, if you inform us,’" Tillis said. To Tillis’ point, the resolution that failed in the Senate, which passed in the House with seven Republican defectors, would have headed to the president’s desk, where it likely would have been vetoed. And without a veto-proof majority, the effort wouldn't have teeth legally. However, it will hurt on the airwaves in the ads to come. GOP CRACKS WIDEN OVER IRAN WAR AS VULNERABLE CANDIDATES BREAK WITH TRUMP, DEMAND ITS END Thursday’s vote comes as Republicans are getting an earful about the war, particularly over skyrocketing gas and diesel prices, on the campaign trail. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., acknowledged that fuel prices are a growing issue for Americans. "Well, I think people are, there's voter fatigue with high gas prices and high diesel prices in my part of the world," Thune said. "So, that's a frustration, it's an economic frustration, and that's why, again, I hope the administration is laser-focused on trying to get the [Strait of Hormuz] open, get the shipping lights opened up, and help out with that global energy supply, because that ultimately will get prices down," he continued. Three vulnerable Republicans running for toss-up seats this week, Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, former Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan, and Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, all requested that the fighting come to an "immediate end" as the war grows in unpopularity with their voters. TRUMP DEFENDS US INTERVENTIONS ABROAD AHEAD OF 'BIG DECISION' ON IRAN: 'SETTLING YEARS OF UNFINISHED BUSINESS' Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who has acted as the self-anointed traffic cop for the deluge of Democratic war powers resolutions over the last several months, diagnosed the defections as a by-product of reports that U.S. bombs had fallen on an Iranian school and that diesel costs are "going up and up and up." "They are listening to their constituents. They should [have] listened to them before now, because their constituents were saying, ‘Don't get into this thing,’" Kaine said. "But they're finally listening to them. And nothing makes you listen as much as an election staring you in the face." But Trump isn’t swayed by the effects that the conflict could have on the midterm elections as the GOP fights to keep power in Congress. "The Republican Party is running, and I'll be helping them, but I am not running," Trump told reporters this week. "I gave absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election when it comes to Iran. It doesn't even enter my mind. The only thing that does is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab570dc75342cf4db89113b As Trump Hosts State Dinner Honoring Xi, See the Menu te 2026-09-24T18:50:04.261Z As Trump Hosts State Dinner Honoring Xi, See the Menu The White House said that the three-course menu, including sea bass and bok choy, featured American ingredients with a “subtle Chinese influence.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab56e9175342cf4db890eb5 NFL fines player nicknamed 'Juice' $14,926 for using a drinking celebration, calling it offensive te 2026-09-24T18:40:17.945Z NFL fines player nicknamed 'Juice' $14,926 for using a drinking celebration, calling it offensive The NFL, which has an official beer sponsor, an official drink sponsor, and allows clubs to sell and serve alcoholic beverages in its stadiums during games, has fined San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk for using a play celebration that imitates him "chugging a beer." Let this marinate for a moment. It gets crazier. TEXANS' AZEEZ AL-SHAAIR TO BE FINED ONCE AGAIN BY NFL FOR WEARING PRO-PALESTINIAN PERSONAL MESSAGE ON EYEBLACK Juszczyk received a letter from the league this week informing him he is being fined $14,926 for celebrating a touchdown by giving the universal symbol of taking a drink. The league told Juszczyk he violated Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1, when he did an "imitation of chugging a beer" after scoring a touchdown at the 5:46 mark of the third quarter against the Miami Dolphins. NFL RESTARTS SOCIAL JUSTICE MESSAGING WHILE BATTLING DOMESTIC ABUSE, DRUNK DRIVING AND PROSTITUTION ARRESTS "Your imitation of chugging a beer constituted an offensive demonstration and could reasonably be construed as being in poor taste," the league's fine letter to Juszczyk reads in part. The letter also said, "players are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that reflects positively on the game and is consistent with NFL standards of sportsmanship." NFL FINES SAINTS AND COWBOYS $500K FOR PRACTICE BRAWL, BUT FIGHTS WON'T STOP UNLESS PLAYERS GET FINED Further offenses, Juszczyk was warned, would result in an escalation of disciplinary action, up to and including suspension. Juszcyzk is appealing the fine, per a source. Juszczyk scored his touchdown against the Dolphins, celebrated, and soon afterward the television broadcast cut to a Michelob Ultra beer commercial. Not. Making. This. Up. The NFL has an official beer. Anheuser-Busch and its major brand, Bud Light, serve as the official beer and hard seltzer sponsor of the NFL under an agreement running through the 2026-27 season. And as part of that deal, the beer has promotional agreements with more than two dozen current NFL players. The ads featuring the players are utilized across national content and campaigns. So, yes, the fine that the NFL is trying to levy is thick with irony. But there is more because this could be perhaps the craziest NFL story of the year: Juszczyk's nickname is "Juice." When he makes a play for the 49ers at home, the crowd chants, "juuuuuuuuice." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! So, maybe, the guy wasn't pretending to chug a beer. Maybe the NFL, awash in beer sponsorships, assumed every time someone drinks, they are imbibing beer. Juszczyk told ESPN, "I don't even drink beer," and added on his social media, "Can't make this stuff up." The NFL also has an official juice agreement through Pepsico with Tropicana. But the league drink police didn't assume the guy nicknamed Juice was imitating taking a drink of juice. FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab56e9075342cf4db890eac Alaska has a voting system like no other state. Republicans worry it could cost them in November te 2026-09-24T18:40:16.577Z Alaska has a voting system like no other state. Republicans worry it could cost them in November Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan is in the middle of an extremely competitive race as he seeks re-election this year in red-leaning Alaska in a midterm showdown that's one of roughly a dozen that will determine if the GOP keeps control of the Senate. Working against Sullivan as he runs for a third six-year term in the Senate is not only a rough political climate facing Republicans but also Alaska's unique electoral system, which includes four candidates from an open primary advancing to the general election, as well as ranked-choice voting. Alaska is the only state in the nation to have a "top four" primary system, where candidates advance regardless of party affiliation. And it's one of only two states, along with Maine, to use ranked choice voting for statewide and federal races. Defenders of the system say it gives independent voters more choices, weakens party control, and encourages candidates to appeal beyond their base. SEEING DOUBLE: THE SECOND DAN SULLIVAN ADVANCES IN ALASKA'S CRUCIAL SENATE SHOWDOWN Alaska GOP chair Carmela Warfield, in social media posts, has repeatedly referred to the state's electoral system as a "MESS." Veteran GOP strategist Mary Marslender told Fox News Digital, "It's hurting the Republican Party." Sullivan is battling former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola. The two candidates combined received over 90% of the primary vote. But also on the general election ballot is Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher and registered Republican that Marslender and supporters of the senator call "Decoy Dan." A GOP-aligned group Americans for Public Trust claimed that the other Sullivan, who is not related to the senator, was working with Democrats to confuse voters. The Peltola campaign and Daniel J. Sullivan both denied the allegation. The Alaska Division of Elections disqualified him from the ballot but the decision was overturned first by an Alaska Superior Court judge and later by the state Supreme Court. SIX FORCES THAT COULD HELP REPUBLICANS DEFY HISTORY IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS There is also a third Republican on the Senate ballot: Gerald Heikes. He advanced to the general election when fourth-place primary finisher Democrat David Leslie withdrew from the race. Marslender claimed that the current system has "become an easy way for the Democrats to game the system." Pointing to Daniel J. Sullivan's inclusion on the general election ballot, she said "that never would have been allowed in the previous old system… but because there's an open primary, he was allowed to be on the ballot." "Republican primary voters under the old system wouldn't have voted for him, and he wouldn't have been in there." Marslender added that because of ranked choice voting - where voters rank candidates by preference and if nobody receives a majority of first-choice votes, additional counting rounds occur until someone reaches a majority - there's a perception that Republicans would unite around the incumbent senator in the general election. DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB But she said in Alaska, which is the nation's largest and most remote state, "it's really hard to get a statewide message out" due to "the geographical challenges." Alaskans for Better Elections, which supports the system, has been holding events to help voters better understand how it works. "Alaska’s election system celebrates our independence, giving us the freedom to vote for the person who is best for the job," the group highlights on its website. The Senate race wasn't the only contest impacted by the current system. There were also 11th-hour withdrawals that rocked the races for governor and the U.S. House, which also cast a shadow on the state's unique voting process. Alaska voters get to weigh in when they cast general election ballots to either keep or scrap the current system. Matt Schultz, a Democrat who suspended his congressional bid before the primary, supports keeping the system. But he told the AP, "We need to make things much more transparent and predictable and understandable by the general public so that we can truly have trust in our democracy again." Republican Lesil McGuire and Democrat Tom Begich, former state lawmakers who were both eliminated in the primary for governor, defended the system. "Let’s be clear: We would have faced challenges and might not have advanced in a traditional closed or semi-closed primary. Our election system was not designed to guarantee anyone a win. It was designed to solve a problem: elections in which a narrow, more partisan slice of voters decided the November ballot, resulting in hyperpartisanship that limited progress," they wrote in an opinion piece in the Anchorage Daily News. They emphasized, "We don’t support our current system because it was good for us as candidates; we support it because it’s good for us as Alaskans." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab56e8f75342cf4db890ea3 James Copenhaver, man shot at Trump Butler rally, dies of complications from injuries: report te 2026-09-24T18:40:15.403Z James Copenhaver, man shot at Trump Butler rally, dies of complications from injuries: report James Copenhaver, of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, who was wounded in a failed assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in 2024, has died, according to several reports. Copenhaver, in his mid-70s, was one of several people who attempted assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at the Butler Farm Show complex outside Butler, Pennsylvania, after Crooks scaled the roof of a nearby glass manufacturing building and took aim at the then-presidential candidate. GOP LAWMAKERS BLINDSIDED BY NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT TRUMP BUTLER SHOOTER: ‘AWFULLY STRANGE’ A person who answered a phone number connected to Copenhaver's family directed Fox News Digital to a Pittsburgh law firm for confirmation and further comment.  The House Republican Conference also posted an obituary for Copenhaver on social media, saying he had died Thursday. Ken Silva, a journalist who wrote a book about the assassination attempt, wrote on his website that a person close to Copenhaver's family also confirmed Copenhaver had died and had been dealing with permanent injuries, including bullet fragments still lodged in his body. A lawsuit Copenhaver filed against the United States earlier this year alleged he was also required to undergo multiple surgeries. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab56e8c75342cf4db890e93 Foundation supports financial literacy te 2026-09-24T18:40:12.984Z Foundation supports financial literacy With a new school year underway, thousands of Arizona students will sharpen their reading, writing and math skills, but many still won’t receive the financial education needed to thrive in adulthood and navigate today’s economy, says Junior Achievement of Arizona (JA). A new $500,000, two-year grant from The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation will help change that by enabling JA to expand financial literacy, entrepreneurship and career readiness programs for K-12 students throughout Maricopa County, with a focus on reaching underserved communities. “We are seeing an increase in financial pressure on families as inflation surpasses wage growth,” said Katherine Cecala, president of JA. “Programs like ours are more important than ever as Arizona’s next generation prepares for the opportunities and challenges ahead. We have a responsibility to help young people build the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to achieve economic mobility, make informed decisions and create brighter futures for themselves and their communities.” Nearly one in four households struggles to make ends meet while living paycheck to paycheck, underscoring the growing need for financial education and career readiness programs for young people, the organization said. JA is helping bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world success, particularly when it comes to personal finance, career exploration and workforce readiness. The organization does this by using a volunteer-led model executed through partnerships with 400 schools, nearly 3,200 educators and more than 9,000 volunteers throughout Arizona. Visit www.jaaz.org/resources for more information or to find free online educational tools. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab56e8475342cf4db890e6a Iranian American Group Files Suit Alleging Iran War Is Unconstitutional te 2026-09-24T18:40:04.149Z Iranian American Group Files Suit Alleging Iran War Is Unconstitutional In a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday, an advocacy group asked a federal judge to declare that the seven-month war in Iran was never declared or authorized by Congress. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab56c3875342cf4db890e23 Hayden Panettiere's overdose shows fentanyl crisis 'doesn't discriminate,' Stanford psychiatrist says te 2026-09-24T18:30:16.578Z Hayden Panettiere's overdose shows fentanyl crisis 'doesn't discriminate,' Stanford psychiatrist says Hayden Panettiere's fatal overdose is a stark reminder that the fentanyl crisis has not gone away, even as the United States makes genuine progress in reducing overdose deaths since peaking in 2022. This week, the Greenville County Coroner's Office ruled that Panettiere died from the toxic effects of five drugs found in her system: fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam, Methocarbamol and Quetiapine. Dr. Anna Lembke, a Stanford psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist, told Fox News Digital that while the circumstances surrounding the actress' death remain unclear, the combination of drugs in her system likely increased the risk of a fatal overdose. "We don't know if she sought out fentanyl. We don't know if she had a counterfeit pill that had fentanyl in it. She might have been prescribed fentanyl for pain," Lembke said. "She was also on a benzo. We know combining benzos and opioids increases the risk of overdose of each of those medications separately. It looks like she was also on Quetiapine, a mood stabilizer, but also highly sedating in the mix." HAYDEN PANETTIERE DEATH: DEA JOINS PROBE INTO WHAT HAPPENED TO LATE STAR Lembke continued: "We don't know where she sourced it, but it does look like it was a lethal polypharmacy, including fentanyl, which on its own is an incredibly lethal drug." The Cleveland Clinic defines polypharmacy as taking several medicines regularly, usually four or more. While Lembke cautioned against drawing firm conclusions about what exactly led up to Panettiere's death, she said the tragedy underscores a broader reality: fentanyl remains a deadly threat that can affect anyone. "This is still a very serious risk, and it's a risk that doesn't discriminate. Old and young, rich and poor, famous, not famous. Because of the increased access to these highly potent and potentially lethal drugs in the modern age, we're really all at risk for this problem," Lembke said. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times more potent than heroin, has transformed the nation's illicit drug supply over the past decade. PRESLEY GERBER’S DEATH SPARKS QUESTIONS ABOUT OVERDOSE, WITHDRAWAL AND REHAB SAFETY Deaths involving synthetic opioids, primarily illicitly manufactured fentanyl, began climbing sharply in 2014 and reached a record 73,838 in 2022, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Fentanyl's potency is only part of what makes it so dangerous, Lembke said. Just as concerning is how trace amounts are concealed in counterfeit pills designed to look like legitimate prescription medications. Lembke said a "very real risk" for young people, even those who aren't struggling with addiction, is that they're given a pill at a party that looks just like Xanax or Oxycontin, when it is in fact a counterfeit pill that contains a small amount of fentanyl. "A single dose to an opioid-naive person could kill, which is why it's so important that we have data-informed discussions with young people in particular," she said. "The kind of experimentation with drugs in their youth that their parents might've engaged in relatively risk-free...it's not risk-free anymore" for young adults, she added. Lembke encouraged parents to get ahead of the issue by talking openly about drugs before their children encounter inaccurate or misleading information on social media. If a parent or guardian recognizes their child has a substance-use disorder, Lembke said they should resist the impulse to brush it off as "normal teenage experimentation." "These drugs are far too accessible and far too lethal to just leave it to hoping that it will be a passing phase the kid will outgrow," she said. "We know that the earlier we intervene with addiction-related problems, the more likely we are to reroute that person on a new path of life." Lembke also offered a message to doctors, who she said should prescribe potentially addictive medications cautiously and closely monitor patients for signs of misuse. As a practicing psychiatrist, Lembke routinely prescribes stimulants for ADHD, opioids for pain and benzodiazepines for insomnia and anxiety. But she said physicians have a responsibility to prescribe them in the lowest effective amounts for the shortest possible duration. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab56c3775342cf4db890e1a Women's college soccer team makes disturbing discovery in locker room ceiling te 2026-09-24T18:30:15.145Z Women's college soccer team makes disturbing discovery in locker room ceiling An Ohio man was arrested after allegedly taking photos of members of a college women's soccer team while hiding in the ceiling above their locker room, according to local reports. Jayson Barker, of Jeffersonville, faces nearly a dozen counts of voyeurism after being discovered inside the ceiling of the women's locker room at Wilmington College, WLWT-TV reported. Officers with the Wilmington Police Department responded to the Scheve Athletic Center on the school's campus just before 9:40 p.m. local time Tuesday following reports that someone was photographing team members as they changed. CALIFORNIA FOOTBALL COACH ARRESTED AFTER STUDENTS MAKE DISTURBING DISCOVERY AT SCHOOL When officers arrived, they found Barker already being detained by Wilmington College Campus Safety personnel. Investigators determined that Barker, who was working at the school as a contract custodial employee, had hidden himself in the locker room's ceiling area before being discovered by a member of the team. SCHOOL EMPLOYEE ACCUSED OF SECRETLY FILMING 12 GIRLS IN CHANGING ROOM FACES NEW CHARGES "The college's paramount concern is the safety and well-being of its students," the institution said in a statement to the news outlet. "We have been providing counseling and other support services for the affected students since Tuesday night and are taking measures to ensure that no student's safety or well-being is compromised. Also, the college continues to assist with law enforcement's investigation." Barker is charged with 11 counts of voyeurism and is being held at the Clinton County Jail on a $22,000 cash surety bond. He is scheduled to make his next court appearance on Oct. 5. Fox News Digital has reached out to Wilmington College, the Wilmington Police Department, and the Clinton County Sheriff's Office for further comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab56c3475342cf4db890dfa More than 160,000 pounds of meat bearing false USDA inspection labels recalled te 2026-09-24T18:30:12.970Z More than 160,000 pounds of meat bearing false USDA inspection labels recalled More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the country because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with false inspection stickers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that the nationwide… Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab569e175342cf4db890d9b Nikole Hannah-Jones' friend sends Black son to private school after NYT writer has education regrets te 2026-09-24T18:20:17.968Z Nikole Hannah-Jones' friend sends Black son to private school after NYT writer has education regrets The Atlantic staff writer Jenisha Watts said Wednesday she plans to send her young Black son to private school, citing her own experience with struggling schools while choosing a different path from friend and 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, who recently confronted regrets about her daughter’s public-school education. Watts said in her Atlantic essay that Hannah-Jones’ experience helped convince her she could not make the same decision for her son. "I could never make the choice she made," Watts said. "I know too well what can go wrong. I’m sending him to a private preschool, and I plan to apply for private kindergarten too." Hannah-Jones, who previously said that scrutiny of her decision should also focus on Black children whose families cannot afford better options, responded directly to Watts in a new statement to Fox News Digital. 'THE VIEW' HOST SUNNY HOSTIN CLAIMS HER CHILDREN EXPERIENCED RACISM AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS "I have a deep respect for Jenisha and all she has overcome," she said. "Our concerns and values as parents are always shaped, to some degree, by our own experiences as children. Unlike Jenisha, I got a parachute out of my segregated school and that changed my life, and as a result I have always thought about the equal worth of children who didn't get that parachute and how that shaped their lives as well." "I still believe, as I always have, in public schools as necessary and common good, that education should be the great equalizer, and that parents should not have to choose between doing what's right for their children and what's right for community," she continued. Hannah-Jones said the problems raised by both families ultimately required broader policy changes. "In the end, the inequality I write about and that Jenisha experienced is systemic and will only be fixed if we acquire the political will to make different policy choices that value the inherent worth of all of our children, even if those children happen to be born Black and poor," she said. MORE THAN 400K NEW YORK CITY CHILDREN ENROLLED IN FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOLS: REPORT School-choice advocate Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, offered a sharply different assessment in a statement to Fox News Digital, arguing Watts was right to prioritize her son rather than wait for improvements to the public-school system. "Jenisha Watts is doing what a parent is supposed to do. She is putting her son first," he said. "Watts has options most families do not. The scandal is not that she is using them. The scandal is that politicians and teachers unions fight to keep those options out of reach for everyone else. School choice is the equalizer. Trapping kids in failure factories by zip code only makes inequality worse." "It is time to fund students, not systems, so all families can have a shot at the American dream. If Hannah-Jones and her friends actually want to help other children, they should fight for the funding to follow the student. You do not fix public schools by locking kids in them. You fix them by giving families a way out — and giving those schools a reason to change." GOV HOCHUL'S PLAN TO OPT NEW YORK INTO FEDERAL SCHOOL CHOICE PROGRAM DRAWS UNION OPPOSITION Watts described Hannah-Jones as a "confidant and friend" and defended her against critics who accused her of sacrificing her daughter’s education for her ideals. But Watts said her own childhood in Lexington, Kentucky, where she described receiving an "abysmal education," shaped the choice she is now making for her son. Watts said those academic deficiencies followed her into adulthood. "I’m a staff writer for The Atlantic, and I’m writing a memoir, and I still can’t shake off my poor education," she wrote. KETANJI BROWN JACKSON AGREES WITH MICHELLE OBAMA’S CRITICISM OF ‘PLUCKING’ KIDS OF COLOR INTO ELITE SCHOOLS The debate followed Hannah-Jones’ recent New York Times Magazine essay revisiting a choice she first detailed in a 2016 Times Magazine cover story. Hannah-Jones said she eventually apologized to her daughter Najya after reviewing academic problems that followed her through elementary and middle school. Najya told her mother that she wished her own education had received more consideration alongside Hannah-Jones’ concerns about educational inequality. "Sometimes I wish, instead of always thinking about other kids, you would have thought about me. I never really got the education I wanted," Najya said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE New York City Public Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels defended the public-school system’s mission, in a statement to Fox News Digital. "From day one, I have made it clear: every student, regardless of background or ability, should feel affirmed, valued, and held to high expectations," Samuels said. "At New York City Public Schools, we know that our students benefit from inclusive environments where every child has access to rigorous academics, student supports, and diverse learning opportunities. "This is the crux of my vision of a truly integrated public school system and I am committed to doing the work to make that a reality," he continued. Watts said her decision was not meant as a condemnation of Hannah-Jones or parents who choose differently, but reflected what she sees as a broader failure that forces families to weigh their children’s immediate interests against struggling schools. "America should not force parents to make that kind of choice," she said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab569e075342cf4db890d92 'Unmasking a Monster': Golden State Killer series challenges timeline of Joseph DeAngelo's crimes te 2026-09-24T18:20:16.555Z 'Unmasking a Monster': Golden State Killer series challenges timeline of Joseph DeAngelo's crimes For four decades, Joseph DeAngelo hid in plain sight as the man authorities would eventually identify as the Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist and, most famously, the Golden State Killer. But a new Fox Nation series is investigating whether his known crimes tell the whole story. "Golden State Killer: Unmasking a Monster" re-examines DeAngelo’s violent past through exclusive testimony and never-before-seen evidence, asking whether his crimes began earlier than previously believed and, if so, what additional victims he left behind. "There’s a possibility, and probably a high likelihood, that he committed way more crimes than we ever will know about," said Anne Marie Schubert, who served as the Sacramento County district attorney from 2015 to 2023. NEW CALIFORNIA LAW EXPANDS DNA TOOLS FOR MISSING PERSONS INVESTIGATIONS DeAngelo was arrested in 2018 at 72 years old following a search of genealogy websites, bringing an end to a decades-long hunt. In 2020, he pleaded guilty to 50 rapes and 13 murders. The four-part series challenges the established timeline of DeAngelo’s crimes, beginning with accounts of earlier assaults and controlling behavior. It goes on to re-examine evidence surrounding the murders of two teenage girls and explores whether DeAngelo framed others to evade capture. FOX HOLLOW CORONER REVEALS WHY HE DOUBTS SUSPECTED SERIAL KILLER ACTED ALONE IN HUNT FOR ANSWERS Later episodes examine his more than 50 attacks as the East Area Rapist and his transformation from serial rapist to serial killer. The series also raises questions about crimes that remain unsolved, including the cases of Donna Richmond and Bess Snelling, featuring new statements from alleged victims and their relatives. One survivor featured in the series recounts being violently raped when she was 12 years old. Another person of interest believes his mother was a victim of DeAngelo. The final chapter examines perhaps the largest lingering question surrounding DeAngelo’s crimes — whether they actually ended in 1986, or whether he continued prowling, raping and killing before his arrest more than three decades later. To learn more, subscribe to Fox Nation and stream "Golden State Killer: Unmasking a Monster." CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO FOX NATION Fox Nation programs are viewable on demand and from your mobile device app but only for FOX Nation subscribers. Go to Fox Nation to start a free trial and watch the extensive library of your favorite FOX Nation personalities. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab569de75342cf4db890d7b ICE wasted millions expanding detention without a plan in Trump push for mass deportation te 2026-09-24T18:20:14.374Z ICE wasted millions expanding detention without a plan in Trump push for mass deportation The watchtower of CoreCivic’s former Prairie Correctional Facility, in Appleton, Minn., which will now be used as an ICE detention center, on Aug. 20, 2026. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer) WASHINGTON — Government investigators Thursday released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opposed in numerous U.S. communities. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found that millions were wasted because DHS began expanding detention operations without putting a plan in place to meet U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s goal of detaining up to 100,000 immigrants.  As the second Trump administration aims to deport 1 million immigrants a year, DHS has rapidly increased the numbers of people in immigration detention after congressional Republicans last year approved roughly $175 billion for immigration enforcement. “As ICE spends the unprecedented multi-year detention funding provided by (the One Big Beautiful Act) and the Secure America Act, it is critical that the agency uses these taxpayer dollars efficiently and effectively,” according to the report by the watchdog agency. “In the absence of a comprehensive strategic plan to guide detention expansion, ICE has wasted funds on unsuccessful detention initiatives and lacks important information about the long-term affordability of its investments.”  Tents assembled, never used In the report, GAO found those detention expansion efforts wasted millions by using facilities that were high in cost or impractical, such as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, which is so remote that water needs to be imported to the base, making it a costly operation.  Inspectors with the Department of Defense and Department of State estimated that DOD spent $2.85 million to assemble tents that were never used and that ICE obligated $43 million from the start of fiscal year 2025 to June 30, 2026 for a small population at the base. GAO found that 16 noncitizens were held on average daily at Guantanamo in fiscal year 2026.  Other efforts that lacked proper planning also included domestic military operations, such as the soft-sided facility, Camp East Montana, built on a military base in El Paso, Texas. GAO previously reported that ICE wasted more than $11 million in taxpayer funds in operating Camp East Montana, such as paying for meals when detainees had not yet arrived at the facility. Investigators noted that ICE had awarded another contract in March for Camp East Montana and “as of August 2026 had not yet incorporated these cost saving measures into the contract and continued to pay for services that it did not need.” Warehouses cost more than $1B Investigators also examined the purchase of 11 warehouses at $1.07 billion for the purpose of immigration detention.  The initiative was initially undertaken by former Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem, but she stepped down following the deaths of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis who were shot by immigration officials. Her replacement, former Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin, paused the warehouse effort.  DHS now plans to sell seven of the sites that were purchased. Investigators said the department’s change of course has led to nonrecoverable costs, such as $7.7 million spent in zoning assessments and title insurance.  Additionally, ICE is still paying for utilities, security and other services at the warehouses it intends to sell, costing approximately $12.8 million as of last month. Investigators also warned that ICE’s separate move to purchase $1.5 billion in existing detention facilities has the potential to waste money because the agency has not assessed any long-term costs of operating the facilities.  And GAO notes that while ICE did not have an agreement with the state of Florida to reimburse funds for its soft-sided facility, the now shuttered “Alligator Alcatraz,” DHS used funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to award $608.4 million to the state.  No idea of long-term cost Investigators also raised concerns that ICE has not made an assessment for the long-term cost of operating the expanded detention facilities.  “ICE has not projected the costs of these facilities beyond the first 3 years of operation, after which ICE will no longer have OBBBA and Secure America Act funds available for obligation because these funds are only available through fiscal year 2029,” according to the report.  Investigators made a recommendation that the Director of ICE “should develop a comprehensive strategic plan to guide its detention expansion efforts that includes goals, activities, and resource needs.” GAO reported that the department agreed and that ICE would develop a strategic plan for its detention expansion, but that plan will not be completed until Aug. 31, 2027.  “Given ICE’s unprecedented multi-year detention funding and the potential for continued waste of taxpayer dollars, more timely completion may be warranted,” according to the report.  Congressional Democrats requested that GAO do the study.  Those lawmakers include Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, ranking member on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Dick Durbin of Illinois, ranking member on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, ranking member on the House Committee on Homeland Security. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab569d675342cf4db890d65 El-Sayed Holds a Narrow Lead Over Rogers in New Michigan Senate Polls: 7 Takeaways te 2026-09-24T18:20:06.367Z El-Sayed Holds a Narrow Lead Over Rogers in New Michigan Senate Polls: 7 Takeaways Dr. Abdul El-Sayed holds a modest lead over Mike Rogers in part because of a strong advantage with younger voters, according to a New York Times/Siena poll. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab569d375342cf4db890d45 Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center te 2026-09-24T18:20:03.441Z Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5678675342cf4db890d1e Canadian PM Carney says he was prepared for Trump ordering invasion te 2026-09-24T18:10:14.370Z Canadian PM Carney says he was prepared for Trump ordering invasion Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he prepared for the "extreme tail risk" that the U.S. would invade Canada amid recent trade tensions. Carney made the statement in an interview with The New York Times published Wednesday, saying he weighed the possibility after President Donald Trump began referring to Canada as the 51st state. "I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk. That’s just risk management. That’s not a base case," Carney told the Times, arguing that "it would be irresponsible not to." CANADIAN PM TELLS TRUMP TO 'STOP TRYING TO BE TOUGH' IN TRADE FIGHT Trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada have continued to escalate over the past year, with Trump levying increased tariffs and Canada responding in kind. Carney admitted in a video statement earlier this month that Canada had come to overly rely on its economic relationship with the U.S. in recent decades. FORMER BIDEN AMBASSADOR BLAMES TRUMP FOR CANADA PLAYING 'FOOTSIE' WITH CHINA "The past 40 years has been a period of deeper economic integration with the United States. Truth is, it was easy business, but it meant we relied too much on one economic partner. It’s clear that time is over," Carney said. "This is why our plan, since I came into office, has been development and diversification, not denial, waiting to go back to some good old days and not continued dependence." FEARS OF A CANADIAN TRADE WAR ARE OVERBLOWN; SO FAR, IT’S MORE OF A SKIRMISH Trump last week dismissed reports that Canada may be joining the European Union as an associate member, saying the U.S. could impose heavy tariffs on Europe if he believed such a "laughable" move was made with "bad intention." "I think it's laughable," Trump responded. "If they do that, if I think it's at all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things. "If Europe does that with a bad intention — if it's a good intention, that's fine — if it's a bad intention, we'll put very heavy tariffs on Europe." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5653475342cf4db890cdd Woman faces shoplifting charges, assault warrant after Walmart arrest te 2026-09-24T18:00:20.037Z Woman faces shoplifting charges, assault warrant after Walmart arrest A 41-year-old woman is facing shoplifting charges on top of a warrant for assault after she attempted to steal more than $52 in merchandise from Walmart. Maricopa police responded to a call of attempted shoplifting at Walmart on Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway around 3:45 p.m. Sept. 6. Store security said as Ana Carrasco purchased a pint of ice cream, she placed sunglasses and shorts in a bag at the self-checkout without scanning them. The items totaled $31.64, according to a probable cause statement. Officers arrested Carrasco and as they walked her out of the store, a security alarm alerted officers of another item. Carrasco told police she had a Zippo lighter, valued at $21.84, in her bra. During a background check, police saw Carrasco had two previous theft charges in August and a warrant for assault with domestic violence charges in Casa Grande. She was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting and booked into Pinal County Jail. The post Woman faces shoplifting charges, assault warrant after Walmart arrest appeared first on InMaricopa.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5652f75342cf4db890cbc Mayday call captures pilot's urgent warning before aircraft goes down off coast te 2026-09-24T18:00:15.851Z Mayday call captures pilot's urgent warning before aircraft goes down off coast A pilot's dramatic escape from a plane that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off California has prompted an investigation.  The plane, an MK-58 Hawker Hunter, plunged into the water after the pilot reported trouble while flying off California's Central Coast on Tuesday evening, ABC News reported. The crash triggered an emergency response near Morro Bay, where the pilot was rescued after ejecting from the aircraft. DEADLY HELICOPTER CRASH KILLS 2 PILOTS BATTLING RAGING WILDFIRE IN YOSEMITE The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed to Fox News Digital on Thursday that the plane crashed near San Luis Obispo around 6:50 p.m. after the pilot reported an engine issue. "Only the pilot was on board," the spokesperson said. "The FAA will investigate." The Navy has since grounded Hawker Hunters operated by Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) while the incident is under investigation, according to ABC News. The aircraft was being flown in support of a Navy and Marine Corps contract when it went down, according to ABC, citing ATAC. 'WE THOUGHT WE WOULD DIE': PASSENGERS THROWN INTO CEILING DURING TERRIFYING FLIGHT Four ATAC aircraft, including the one that crashed, were involved in the mission. Before the crash, the pilot issued a mayday call and reported losing engine thrust, according to air traffic control audio obtained by ABC from LiveATC.net. "Mayday, mayday, mayday. I have lost thrust in my engine," the pilot told controllers, according to the ABC report. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER ATAC operates the aircraft as part of its work supporting training for the U.S. armed forces. The company has 22 Hawker Hunters in its fleet, according to a Navy public information officer cited by ABC. The FAA is actively investigating the incident.  No additional details are known at this time. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Fox News Digital reached out to the NTSB and the U.S. Navy for additional information. The Hawker Hunter crash comes amid several recent aviation incidents that have prompted emergency responses. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ In late August, a 24-year-old man allegedly stole a Cessna 172 from an airport in Hungary while intoxicated and flew toward the area of the country’s only nuclear power plant. The unauthorized flight prompted fighter jets to respond before the plane came down in a sunflower field, where rescue crews were dispatched. In addition, a Delta Air Lines flight recently returned to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport shortly after takeoff due to a pilot medical emergency. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab562dd75342cf4db890c35 Soros-linked prosecutor faces primary challenge as fellow Democrat targets his record te 2026-09-24T17:50:21.873Z Soros-linked prosecutor faces primary challenge as fellow Democrat targets his record Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephen Descano is facing a forceful rebuke from a former federal prosecutor who extensively criticized his record after announcing her bid to unseat him. Descano, a Democrat, has faced criticism over what opponents describe as lenient prosecutorial decisions, particularly in serious cases involving illegal immigrant suspects. Former federal prosecutor Brittany Dunn-Pirio said that if there weren’t systemic problems in his office, she would want to work there. "If this office were doing its job, I wouldn’t be running against it. I’d be applying to work for it. But it isn’t," Dunn-Pirio said on her new campaign website after Washington, D.C.-area media reported her bid late Wednesday. VIRGINIA DEMS SPLIT ON DOJ PROBE OF SOROS-BACKED DA ACCUSED OF GIVING 'SWEETHEART DEALS' TO ILLEGAL ALIENS "I’m a Democrat. This race isn’t about whether reform was right. It’s about whether the office can tell the difference between a first-time nonviolent offender who deserves a second chance and a violent or sexual offender who doesn’t," Dunn-Pirio said on her website. "It’s about whether deadlines are met, evidence is given to the defendant and victims are spoken to." VIRGINIA DEM DEFENDS SOROS-BACKED PROSECUTOR FROM DOJ PROBE AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGING ALLEGATIONS Fox News Digital reached out to Descano and Dunn-Pirio for further comment. Descano campaign spokesman Nathan Kiker defended the incumbent's record, telling Fox News Digital that "Steve Descano has spent his tenure proving that you can reform the justice system and keep our community safe at the same time." "Today, Fairfax County is recognized as the safest large county in the nation because Steve focused on accountability and the root causes of crime rather than failed policies of the past. We are proud to put that record before the voters," Kiker said. Dunn-Pirio also pointed to "botched sexual assault cases" and prosecutors declining to meet with victims, along with her contention that the justice system too often favors the "well-connected." One case that has drawn the scrutiny of Descano’s office involves Abdul Jalloh, an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone charged with murdering Stephanie Minter. Minter was stabbed and killed at a Hybla Valley bus stop in February after Jalloh had cycled through the criminal justice system following numerous previous arrests. Descano has pushed back on claims that his office simply allowed Jalloh to walk free, telling Congress his prosecutors obtained convictions against him "wherever possible." SOROS-BACKED DA'S LAX ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICIES LED TO 'PREVENTABLE' BUS STOP STABBING MURDER: COMPLAINT Dunn-Pirio previously served as a prosecutor in Frederick County, Virginia, and as a federal prosecutor in the district covering Lexington, Kentucky. She said she resigned from the DOJ in 2025 after working on COVID-related fraud and similar cases. "I couldn’t stomach propping up a system that gave pardons to the well-connected while prosecuting average Americans for the same conduct," she said, according to a release obtained by FairfaxNow. She also said Descano’s office has spent too much time "failing the people I care about." A carousel on her new campaign website highlights cases that have drawn public scrutiny of Descano, including: REPEAT OFFENDER WITH DOZENS OF PRIOR CHARGES ARRESTED FOR BURGLARIZING CHURCH IN SOROS-BACKED DA'S COUNTY "We need a Commonwealth’s Attorney who can make this office work," Dunn-Pirio said. "Every person in Fairfax should feel safe, and every person in Fairfax should be able to trust the office that’s supposed to protect them." Descano’s campaign did not immediately respond to an additional request for comment on Dunn-Pirio’s criticism. Dunn-Pirio, most recently an associate at the civil litigation firm Harman, Claytor, Corrigan & Wellman, served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Kentucky for two years before resigning in November 2025. At the Justice Department, she specialized in COVID relief fraud and public corruption cases, according to her LinkedIn profile. "Most recently I was a federal prosecutor, and I resigned from the Justice Department because I couldn’t stomach propping up a system that gave pardons to the well-connected while prosecuting average Americans for the same conduct," Dunn-Pirio said. Before becoming a federal prosecutor in 2023, Dunn-Pirio served as an assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Frederick County, an assistant attorney general in the state criminal appeals courts and a law clerk to Judge Randy Bellows in Fairfax County Circuit Court. Dunn-Pirio emphasized that she is a "cradle Democrat," distinguishing her candidacy from a challenge to Descano from the political right. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER She said she volunteered for former Vice President Al Gore at age 9, helped lead the College Democrats at the University of Notre Dame, remains active in local Democratic groups and previously managed a campaign for Virginia Del. Marcus Simon, D-Falls Church. Republicans hold only one seat on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, while Democrats hold the remaining seats. Dunn-Pirio’s challenge to Descano will be decided first in the Democratic nomination contest ahead of the 2027 election. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab562db75342cf4db890c1c Mike Gannuscio speaks to voters as lone LD30 candidate at forum te 2026-09-24T17:50:19.197Z Mike Gannuscio speaks to voters as lone LD30 candidate at forum Mike Gannuscio was the lone Legislative District 30 candidate in attendance at a Wednesday evening candidate forum, held at Lake Havasu High School's Performing Arts Center. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab562d375342cf4db890c08 Republican Sheriff Illegally Seized California Ballots, Court Rules te 2026-09-24T17:50:11.955Z Republican Sheriff Illegally Seized California Ballots, Court Rules The California Supreme Court ordered Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County to return ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab562d275342cf4db890bff For His Ballroom, Trump Has Pointed to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing te 2026-09-24T17:50:10.846Z For His Ballroom, Trump Has Pointed to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing President Trump has repeatedly cited the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as inspiration and competition with his own design. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab562d175342cf4db890bf6 Enrollment at U of A sees major gains in academic quality, preparedness, access for Arizonans te 2026-09-24T17:50:09.534Z Enrollment at U of A sees major gains in academic quality, preparedness, access for Arizonans Enrollment at U of A sees major gains in academic quality, preparedness, access for Arizonans nprevenas Thu, 24 Sep 2026 - 08:40 Enrollment at U of A sees major gains in academic quality, preparedness, access for Arizonans Today The Univ Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5607d75342cf4db890bb8 Why Yankees ace Cam Schlittler is in the AL MVP conversation and could join an exclusive club te 2026-09-24T17:40:13.942Z Why Yankees ace Cam Schlittler is in the AL MVP conversation and could join an exclusive club If you shoot for the moon, you will land among the stars. In Cam Schlittler’s case, however, he and his blazing fastball may take him past the stars and straight to the moon. The New York Yankees ace has been nothing short of dominant this season. The swashbuckling 25-year-old is all but a lock to win the American League Cy Young Award. But why stop there? He should win the American League MVP too. Schlittler should become just the 12th player in MLB history to win the Cy Young and MVP in the same season. Heading into his final start of the year against the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday, Schlittler leads all American League pitchers in ERA (1.94) and is tied for first in WHIP with Drew Rasmussen (0.91). He has been durable, making all his starts, and is second in the AL in innings pitched (190 2/3). With a devastating combination of cutters, sinkers and fastballs, the young right-hander has racked up 234 strikeouts, third in the AL behind Cleveland Guardians ace Gavin Williams (244) and likely Cy Young runner-up Dylan Cease (239). Schlittler has set a Yankees franchise record by allowing one or no runs in 21 starts this year. He became just the third pitcher age 25 or younger in the live-ball era, which began in 1920, to achieve the feat, joining Dean Chance (1964) and Blake Snell (2018). Schlittler also leads the AL in bWAR with 7.0, ahead of other MVP contenders such as Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez (6.6), Kansas City Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. (6.5) and Rays phenom Junior Caminero (5.6). The numbers for Schlittler are outstanding, but they don’t tell the full story. Schlittler has been the pillar of the Yankees' pitching staff, which leads all of baseball with a 3.21 team ERA. While the pitching staff has been fantastic, it has have dealt with plenty of injuries to the starting rotation. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Gerrit Cole didn’t make his season debut until May 22, as he was recovering from Tommy John surgery. Carlos Rodón began the season on the IL after undergoing surgery to remove a bone spur and loose bodies and didn’t debut until May 10. That was just his first stint on the IL. He returned to the IL on July 3 and didn’t come back until Aug. 18. Rodón was not the only Yankees ace to land on the IL twice, as Max Fried did as well. Fried first went on the IL with a left elbow bone bruise on May 13, right after Cole returned, and was activated on July 22. He went on the IL for a second time on Aug. 17 with the same injury and returned Aug. 29. Ryan Weathers, who had been key in stepping up during the absences of Cole, Fried and Rodón, went on the IL on Aug. 23 with a left forearm flexor strain. For the Yankees, not only was it paramount that Schlittler make every start, but it was also essential that he remain dominant to help keep the rotation afloat. Adding to the pressure on Schlittler and the pitching staff as a whole, the Yankees’ offense cratered after Aaron Judge was placed on the IL at the beginning of June. Since June 1, the Yankees have hit a paltry .229 with a putrid .297 on-base percentage. The Yankees’ offensive ineptitude put further pressure on Schlittler and Co. to win games without Judge. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! In 2023, the Yankees’ season went off the rails when Judge suffered a torn ligament in his toe. They went 25-31 without the captain and missed the postseason. The Yankees’ pitching staff in 2023, led by Cole, who won the AL Cy Young Award that season, had a 3.97 ERA, which was not enough to save the Yankees from finishing 82-80. In 2026, the Yankees went 48-41 without Judge in the lineup, buoyed by the pitching staff’s excellence. Carried by the Schlittler-led pitching staff, the Yankees made the postseason and secured home-field advantage in the American League Wild Card Series. While the Yankees didn’t catch the Tampa Bay Rays and win the American League East, they might have missed the postseason entirely if it weren’t for Schlittler. By the award’s definition, Schlittler has been the most valuable player on his team. Alvarez has been dominant in his own right. The hulking left-handed hitter, with a .316 batting average, 41 home runs and 102 RBI made a bid for the Triple Crown, but that seems out of reach. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Alvarez has been primarily a designated hitter, filling that role in 131 of the 154 games he played this season. Shohei Ohtani is the only player to win an MVP as a primary designated hitter, and he did so after becoming the first player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season. Unless Alvarez surges to win the Triple Crown, nothing he is doing this season is unprecedented or historic. Alvarez’s Astros, who are 78-80, might miss the postseason despite playing in the American League West, a division that has been historically bad. Bobby Witt Jr. has been his usual superstar self but missed 11 games due to injury and has also taken a slight step back from last season while playing for the AL Central-worst Kansas City Royals.Caminero, the linchpin of the AL-leading Rays’ lineup, trails Schlittler in bWAR by more than a full win. Still, his .274 average and 41 home runs leave him in the thick of the AL MVP race. Despite the excellence of Alvarez, Witt and Caminero, Schlittler should become the first pitcher since Justin Verlander in 2011 to win the American League MVP. Verlander, like Schlittler this year, led the American League in bWAR with 8.6. Without Schlittler, the Yankees do not survive Judge’s absence. When the Yankees could hardly scrape together three runs a game in the dead of summer, Schlittler made sure it was enough to hold on. Without Schlittler’s dominance and durability, the Yankees do not have the second-best record in the American League (91-67). Without Schlittler, Yankees fans are in a complete state of panic because they might still be trying to secure a Wild Card berth in a weak American League. At the sportsbooks, Schlittler is a long shot to win the American League MVP. But odds be damned, the award should be his. He has landed on the moon. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5607675342cf4db890b97 China to Send Pandas to Zoo Atlanta, Xi Says te 2026-09-24T17:40:06.356Z China to Send Pandas to Zoo Atlanta, Xi Says Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said two pandas would arrive soon at Zoo Atlanta. Panda diplomacy has been a cornerstone of U.S.-China relations. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5607475342cf4db890b78 Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend te 2026-09-24T17:40:04.473Z Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab55e2575342cf4db890b45 Missouri's redistricting mess created an election problem Supreme Court has days to untangle te 2026-09-24T17:30:13.436Z Missouri's redistricting mess created an election problem Supreme Court has days to untangle Missouri’s congressional map fight is hurtling toward another potential Supreme Court showdown, with courts at odds over which districts should govern the November election after more than 1.2 million Missourians voted in the August primary under a different map. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that Missouri must use its 2025 congressional map in November, finding that switching to the state’s 2022 districts after the primary would violate the U.S. Constitution. But the appeals court paused its order until Sept. 28, 2026, opening a narrow window for another visit to the U.S. Supreme Court. Abhishek Kambli, a partner at Holtzman Vogel and former deputy associate attorney general at the Justice Department, told Fox News Digital the Supreme Court’s previous intervention does not necessarily signal how the justices will handle the latest ruling. "It’s unpredictable how they’ll rule, mostly because we didn’t get their reasoning in the last order," Kambli said. "So, we don’t know the precise reason why they decided to stay at that time." ELECTION CHAOS IN THIS RED STATE JUST GOT EVEN STRANGER FOR REPUBLICANS AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING The Supreme Court previously stayed a federal district court's temporary restraining order requiring Missouri to use the 2025 map. The Eighth Circuit has now directed the lower court to enter a permanent injunction requiring the newer districts, putting the dispute in a different procedural posture. "So unless the Supreme Court steps in again, the state will be required to use the seven-one map for this election," Kambli said. Missouri held its Aug. 4, 2026, primary under the 2025 map. Roughly a month later, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that voters could challenge the map through a referendum, leaving the 2022 districts in place for the November election. Kambli said switching congressional maps between the primary and general election raises serious constitutional concerns. "You would have had a large number of Missourians who would have been disenfranchised because they voted for one set of candidates in the primary and will be voting for another set in the general," Kambli said. MISSOURI AG FILES PETITION ASKING SUPREME COURT TO REVIVE TRUMP-BACKED REDISTRICTING MAP "And what's even more concerning is sometimes those candidates are unopposed so that they miss their only chance to vote as a result of what the Missouri Supreme Court did here," Kambli continued. "So that's what's really at issue — is whether everyone gets an equal voice in a situation where the primary election is integral to the electoral system of the state." But Yale law professor Akhil Amar and University of California, Davis, law professor Vikram Amar have argued the opposite. After the Supreme Court’s earlier stay, Vikram wrote on SCOTUSblog that using the 2025 map in November would not protect anyone’s right to vote if those lines were never legally in effect. Akhil agreed with his analysis. "HB1’s district lines lack the force of law, full stop," Vikram wrote. "These lines cannot be used wrongly in November just because they were previously used wrongly in the primary. Two wrongs do not make (or vindicate) a right (to vote)." Meanwhile, Kambli placed much of the blame for the eleventh-hour legal scramble over which map to use on the Missouri Supreme Court, arguing the turmoil was "entirely preventable." VIRGINIA GOP, DEMS BATTLE IT OUT OVER REDISTRICTING BEFORE STATE SUPREME COURT Kambli argued that the Missouri Supreme Court could have resolved the map dispute earlier, noting that the issue remained unsettled even after the candidate filing deadline passed. Alicia Bannon, senior director of the Judiciary Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, pointed instead to delays by Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins as a key reason the dispute dragged on. Opponents of the 2025 map submitted more than 300,000 signatures in December 2025, but Hoskins did not formally reject the referendum petition until Aug. 4, the day of the primary. "Time passed. And passed further," Bannon wrote for State Court Report. "As early as December 2025, Hoskins asserted in separate federal litigation that a referendum on redistricting was not authorized by the state constitution. But he held off on issuing a certificate on that basis — which would have triggered judicial review — instead going through a lengthy process of verifying petition signatures." Bannon wrote that the Missouri Supreme Court’s criticism of Hoskins’ delays stood out, particularly the court’s rejection of his argument that it had waited too long to intervene. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER The Missouri Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the referendum could proceed and faulted Hoskins for the delay, saying he had "created the confusion, expense, and practical difficulties of which he complains." Kambli argued the Purcell principle, under which federal courts generally avoid changing election rules close to Election Day because of the potential for disruption, weighs in favor of keeping the 2025 map because Missouri already used it for the primary. "The Eighth Circuit said that the Purcell principles support the injunction, not go against it," Kambli said. Bannon also warned that courts being too cautious can create its own problems. "It’s an approach that’s understandable in some circumstances but can also incentivize shenanigans to evade judicial review while harming voters’ rights," Bannon wrote. Bannon suggested earlier court action in Missouri could have helped avoid the last-minute dispute, including by moving the primary or setting a firm deadline for the referendum petition. But regardless of whether the Supreme Court decides to weigh in, the referendum will still be on the ballot. "If the Supreme Court does not stay the Eighth Circuit injunction, there's no doubt that the 7-1 map is what will be in effect for this election. There's still going to be a referendum on the ballot deciding that issue for future elections, but for this one, that's how it'll be decided," Kambli said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab55e2475342cf4db890b3b Devils' new concession contraption lets you play hockey with a popcorn puck while watching actual hockey te 2026-09-24T17:30:12.413Z Devils' new concession contraption lets you play hockey with a popcorn puck while watching actual hockey Have you ever been at a hockey game and thought, "Man, I wish I could be playing some sort of hockey-like game right now with a piece of popcorn as a puck?" Me neither, but on the off chance that you have, the New Jersey Devils have gone into the lab and made your dream a reality. Behold! The official Devils-branded popcorn bucket with some kind of pinball hockey game on top! It's the work of the mad scientists at Levy Restaurants, and it could be the biggest salvo in the ongoing war for novelty stadium concession vessel supremacy. There's no denying that we live in the golden age of stadium food novelties. From beer sticks, skates, sabres, and horns to small-plastic Zamboni-brand ice resurfacers stuffed full of chicken tenders, it's one of those things that makes you proud to live in the present. NEW YORK ISLANDERS SET TO UNLEASH CULINARY 'DISASTERPIECE' ON UNSUSPECTING FANS THIS SEASON I'll take beer skates over rampant tuberculosis and no air conditioning any day. But this one troubles me a little. It's groundbreaking, but when the goal is to get people watching hockey, why would they need something to entertain them in the stands? I thought that was the game's job. Now, I don't have kids — just a dog and a little bit of disposable income — but I would be so annoyed if I bought my youngsters NHL tickets, popcorn at stadium prices in a souvenir bucket, and what do they do? Ignore the world-class athletes on the ice before them in favor of flippering a piece of Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet popping corn back and forth. It's like if you needed your kid to stop playing video games to power wash the deck, and when you went to unplug their PlayStation, you realized they were playing "PowerWash Simulator." Having said that, I feel pretty confident that I would be a very good popcorn hockey player. I just have shockingly quick reflexes and am good enough at geometry to track the bounces when the irregularly shaped popcorn piece hits the boards. So would I buy one? No, but I'd school anyone who bought one and then sat next to me. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab55bca75342cf4db890ad0 War-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border towns te 2026-09-24T17:20:10.774Z War-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border towns U.S. Army Spc. Alexander Scheets, left, and Spc. Kylie Chislow, right, assigned to Foxtrot Company, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, part of Joint Task Force - Southern Border, guides a MQ-1 Gray Eagle onto the airstrip at Fort Huachuca on May 14, 2025. The drone is part of the Trump administration's effort to seal the southern border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Chase Murray) An Army drone like those frequently flown in overseas warzones has been flying along Arizona’s southern border, doing loops around border towns, as part of a collaboration between the military and U.S. Department of Homeland Security that has privacy advocates concerned.  Under Operation Ardent Vanguard, the military operation overseen by the U.S. Northern Command to assist DHS in “obtaining full operational control of the Southern border,” American soldiers have been deployed to the country’s southern border. The operation is the implementation of President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order declaring a national emergency at the country’s southern border and granting the military a larger role in border enforcement.  The Arizona Mirror found an aircraft using a deregistered aircraft registration flying along the state’s southern border, occasionally doing loops around border towns like San Luis and Nogales. A Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Aviation Administration for records related to the deregistered aircraft registration number resulted in “no records found.”  The aircraft is most likely an MQ-1, often referred to as a Predator drone, the same kind recently shot down by Iran. While NORTHCOM would not confirm or provide details about the aircraft, citing “operational security,” the military touted the use of the aircraft along the southern border in May 2025 and included it in materials about the operation itself.  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE The drone is operated by the members of the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade and 1st Aviation Regiment based out of Fort Huachuca. The units have been deployed to major wars and conflicts, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The aircraft comes with a litany of high-tech sensors and capabilities that privacy advocates worry could be used on American citizens. “It raises very serious concerns that technology like that is going to be turned inward on the United States,” Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union Speech, Privacy and Technology Project told the Mirror. “Even if it is on the border, there are many people who live in our border communities who deserve not to live under the government microscope just because their community happens to be near the border.”  Neither NORTHCOM nor DHS responded to questions about which agency has ownership over any data, photos or video that is collected as part of the flights or what is being done to prevent incidental collection on U.S. persons. DHS itself owns and operates a fleet of the same unmanned aircraft. That fleet sparked controversy last year when one was deployed over Los Angeles and in 2020, when one was flying over Minneapolis, in response to protests in those cities.   DHS did not respond to questions about why it is relying on the Army’s Predator drones over their own fleet to conduct surveillance at the border.  Operation Ardent Vanguard has been assisting the agency with a number of projects along Arizona and the country’s southern border. In posts on social media, Joint Task Force Southern Border has posted images of soldiers installing concertina wire, deploying smaller drones and finding illegal border crossers.   Military support at the border is not a new phenomenon, with the military providing support at the border in some shape or form going back to President George W. Bush. However, Stanley said that the use of high-end military surveillance equipment is new and given the rapid advances in technology adopted by the military, it raises questions of how it is being deployed.  “Indiciations that that may be being brought home is disturbing, and there needs to be transparency about what may or may not be going on,” Stanley said, adding that transparency by government officials is the key first step.  Since Trump retook office in 2025, he has rapidly expanded border enforcement and turned large swaths of the southern border into military zones. An internal audit found that the change in mission has cost the military $2.64 billion, of which only 12% qualifies for reimbursement from DHS.  Military contractors have also been spotted conducting surveillance flights along the state’s southern border that, according to records obtained by the Mirror, are equipped with high-end military surveillance equipment that can mimic cell phone towers in order to track mobile devices.  It is unclear what technology is being used on the Predator drones or if they are armed.  “The only limit to what the aircraft can carry is the weight and the current state of technology and the constitution,” Stanley said, noting that the technology of things like wide area airborne surveillance have taken great strides over the past ten years. “What we need, first of all, is transparency. What type of surveillance is it carrying out over American communities and is it proper? Does it comport with the Constitution? Does it comport with what the public wants the government to be doing?”  The use of wide area airborne surveillance, or WAAS, is something that has been challenged and debated by the courts for years.  In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, when the Santa Clara Police Department flew in a private plane over Dante Carlo Ciraolo’s house and spotted marijuana plants in the backyard, it didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment prohibition of unlawful searches and did not require a search warrant.  That same year, the court also ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had not violated the Fourth Amendment when flying over a Dow Chemical facility to photograph it after the company had denied the agency access for an inspection.  Both those cases established that certain “open areas” that are easily viewable from the air do not require a search warrant, but they date back to a time when high-tech surveillance like WAAS didn’t exist. Other court rulings have deemed its use unconstitutional in different circumstances.  The Fourth Circuit ruled that use of a WAAS program by the Baltimore Police was unconstitutional because the vast amount of data collected constituted a search that violated the Fourth Amendment.  But Stanley pointed out that all those cases stem from versions of the technology that is now likely outdated — and didn’t contemplate the military conducting the surveillance.  “These aircraft can carry wide area surveillance and scoop up many dozens of square miles at once. They can also have what is called soda straw cameras that can focus very narrowly on a small area,” Stanley said. “It is possible that aerial surveillance is being done in cases where there is individualized suspicion of wrongdoing, but we have little reason for faith that the current government, which has been undisciplined and lawless in its approach to immigration enforcement, is actually following the rules of the constitution around the aerial surveillance of Americans.” While the drone belongs to the Army, the U.S. Air Force is reported to have conducted more than 50 intelligence gathering missions along the border with high-tech aircraft like the U-2 spy plane and other high-tech spy planes.   Stanley stressed that a number of guardrails should be in place when using high-end surveillance technology.  “Other safeguards would include limits on the purpose of this surveillance,” Stanley said. “Limits on its scope and duration and persistence over time. Limits on how long data is retained that is not legally evidentiary. Limits on the sharing and repurposing of the data for other uses.” The operation at the southern border has also touted the use of other new technologies.  A post on social media by the task force touted that it had destroyed “11 cartel drones” using a high energy laser weapon and another 300 drones using “kinetic and non-kinetic systems” this year. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5597975342cf4db890849 While Millennials cheer Toys R Us comeback, key piece of data reveals dystopian reason for its return te 2026-09-24T17:10:17.993Z While Millennials cheer Toys R Us comeback, key piece of data reveals dystopian reason for its return If you came of age in the 80s or 90s, chances are you remember Toys R Us, the international toy retailer with the anthropomorphic giraffe for a mascot and the catchiest jingle in the business. "I don't wanna grow up, I wanna be a Toys R Us kid." Well, the truth of the matter is we did grow up, and about a decade ago, millennials aging out of the toy-buying demographic spelled doom for the once-titanic toy store, as Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and closed all of their stores the following year. 'TOY STORY 5' REVIEW: TOM HANKS, TIM ALLEN RETURN FOR TIMELY INSTALLMENT AS PIXAR GANG BATTLES RISE OF TECH But then, just recently, something unexpected happened. Toys R Us started to make a comeback, first as a part of larger retail stores like Macy's, and then, little by little, as standalone shops in malls and airports. THE NINTENDO 64 IS TURNING 30 YEARS OLD, HERE ARE SOME OF ITS MOST IMPACTFUL GAMES OF ALL TIME Now, Toys R Us is set to open 120 stores across the country this holiday season, bringing its total number of standalone U.S. stores to 160. Hang on just a second, though. Did you read the last part of that post? "As toy sales surge among adult shoppers," reads like there are a bunch of losers in their 30s and 40s pacing up and down the aisles of their local toy stores while shoving kids out of the way for the last Funko Pop. But surely that's not the case here, right? This is just a bunch of older Millennials with kids of their own passing on their love of toys and games to the next generation. Right? Yep, I knew it. It looks like the only reason Toys R Us is making a comeback is because a bunch of 90s kids who are now old enough to have kids of their own took that aforementioned jingle a little too literally. I know you "wanna be a Toys R Us kid," but you're 36 years old. It's time to let someone a little younger have a crack at the LEGO Star Wars set. I don't know what it is with my generation and having a serious case of arrested development, but they're almost allergic to acting their age. Listen, I'm not saying you're not allowed to have some of the same hobbies you had when you were 13. WE GREW UP BEFORE SCREENS TOOK OVER. OUR KIDS DESERVE THAT CHANCE TOO Hell, I will still hop on the Xbox to blow off a little steam or watch movies and TV shows from my youth. But I also haven't been spending chunks of my salary on toys and video games for most of my adult life, and I donated all my Pokemon cards to kids at the summer camp I used to work at back in college. If I have bought a toy in the past two years, it was for my son, and that's the disheartening thing about these numbers. Instead of passing the "kid hobbies" torch, Millennials are just hoarding it to themselves. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Nostalgia is a powerful agent, one that I have been known to write about frequently, but there's a fine line between showing reverence for "the good old days" and outright refusing to live in the present. It's a ton of fun to see my son's eyes light up whenever he opens the package to a Spider-Man figure or a Bluey plushy, but I couldn't imagine someone with a beard and a car payment getting the same satisfaction from that. It all feels weird and a little dystopian. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER I'll be excited to take my son to Toys R Us when one opens near me, just as my dad did when I was a kid, but the joy will be vicarious. Anything more than that just wouldn't feel right. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5597875342cf4db890840 Missouri election map fight races back toward Supreme Court after 1.2M voters cast primary ballots te 2026-09-24T17:10:16.819Z Missouri election map fight races back toward Supreme Court after 1.2M voters cast primary ballots Missouri’s congressional map fight is hurtling toward another potential Supreme Court showdown, with courts at odds over which districts should govern the November election after more than 1.2 million Missourians voted in the August primary under a different map. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that Missouri must use its 2025 congressional map in November, finding that switching to the state’s 2022 districts after the primary would violate the U.S. Constitution. But the appeals court paused its order until Sept. 28, 2026, opening a narrow window for another visit to the U.S. Supreme Court. Abhishek Kambli, a partner at Holtzman Vogel and former deputy associate attorney general at the Justice Department, told Fox News Digital the Supreme Court’s previous intervention does not necessarily signal how the justices will handle the latest ruling. "It’s unpredictable how they’ll rule, mostly because we didn’t get their reasoning in the last order," Kambli said. "So, we don’t know the precise reason why they decided to stay at that time." ELECTION CHAOS IN THIS RED STATE JUST GOT EVEN STRANGER FOR REPUBLICANS AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING The Supreme Court previously stayed a federal district court's temporary restraining order requiring Missouri to use the 2025 map. The Eighth Circuit has now directed the lower court to enter a permanent injunction requiring the newer districts, putting the dispute in a different procedural posture. "So unless the Supreme Court steps in again, the state will be required to use the seven-one map for this election," Kambli said. Missouri held its Aug. 4, 2026, primary under the 2025 map. Roughly a month later, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that voters could challenge the map through a referendum, leaving the 2022 districts in place for the November election. Kambli said switching congressional maps between the primary and general election raises serious constitutional concerns. "You would have had a large number of Missourians who would have been disenfranchised because they voted for one set of candidates in the primary and will be voting for another set in the general," Kambli said. MISSOURI AG FILES PETITION ASKING SUPREME COURT TO REVIVE TRUMP-BACKED REDISTRICTING MAP "And what's even more concerning is sometimes those candidates are unopposed so that they miss their only chance to vote as a result of what the Missouri Supreme Court did here," Kambli continued. "So that's what's really at issue — is whether everyone gets an equal voice in a situation where the primary election is integral to the electoral system of the state." But Yale law professor Akhil Amar and University of California, Davis, law professor Vikram Amar have argued the opposite. After the Supreme Court’s earlier stay, Vikram wrote on SCOTUSblog that using the 2025 map in November would not protect anyone’s right to vote if those lines were never legally in effect. Akhil agreed with his analysis. "HB1’s district lines lack the force of law, full stop," Vikram wrote. "These lines cannot be used wrongly in November just because they were previously used wrongly in the primary. Two wrongs do not make (or vindicate) a right (to vote)." Meanwhile, Kambli placed much of the blame for the eleventh-hour legal scramble over which map to use on the Missouri Supreme Court, arguing the turmoil was "entirely preventable." VIRGINIA GOP, DEMS BATTLE IT OUT OVER REDISTRICTING BEFORE STATE SUPREME COURT Kambli argued that the Missouri Supreme Court could have resolved the map dispute earlier, noting that the issue remained unsettled even after the candidate filing deadline passed. Alicia Bannon, senior director of the Judiciary Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, pointed instead to delays by Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins as a key reason the dispute dragged on. Opponents of the 2025 map submitted more than 300,000 signatures in December 2025, but Hoskins did not formally reject the referendum petition until Aug. 4, the day of the primary. "Time passed. And passed further," Bannon wrote for State Court Report. "As early as December 2025, Hoskins asserted in separate federal litigation that a referendum on redistricting was not authorized by the state constitution. But he held off on issuing a certificate on that basis — which would have triggered judicial review — instead going through a lengthy process of verifying petition signatures." Bannon wrote that the Missouri Supreme Court’s criticism of Hoskins’ delays stood out, particularly the court’s rejection of his argument that it had waited too long to intervene. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER The Missouri Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the referendum could proceed and faulted Hoskins for the delay, saying he had "created the confusion, expense, and practical difficulties of which he complains." Kambli argued the Purcell principle, under which federal courts generally avoid changing election rules close to Election Day because of the potential for disruption, weighs in favor of keeping the 2025 map because Missouri already used it for the primary. "The Eighth Circuit said that the Purcell principles support the injunction, not go against it," Kambli said. Bannon also warned that courts being too cautious can create its own problems. "It’s an approach that’s understandable in some circumstances but can also incentivize shenanigans to evade judicial review while harming voters’ rights," Bannon wrote. Bannon suggested earlier court action in Missouri could have helped avoid the last-minute dispute, including by moving the primary or setting a firm deadline for the referendum petition. But regardless of whether the Supreme Court decides to weigh in, the referendum will still be on the ballot. "If the Supreme Court does not stay the Eighth Circuit injunction, there's no doubt that the 7-1 map is what will be in effect for this election. There's still going to be a referendum on the ballot deciding that issue for future elections, but for this one, that's how it'll be decided," Kambli said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5597775342cf4db890837 Macklemore slammed as 'performative' after announcing 'Free Palestine Tour' te 2026-09-24T17:10:15.759Z Macklemore slammed as 'performative' after announcing 'Free Palestine Tour' Macklemore is taking his views on Palestine on the road. The rapper, who was dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour earlier this month after stirring controversy with his politically charged performances, announced Thursday that he's going on a new tour he's calling the "Free Palestine Tour." "If these last couple of weeks have shown us anything, it’s that something has shifted over the last three years. There has been a collective awakening around Palestinian liberation, the power of billionaires that try to censor that call, and what we expect from artists right now," he wrote on Instagram. JAVIER BARDEM SLAMMED FOR TARGETING PINK OVER MACKLEMORE COMMENTS: ‘THE LEFT IS EATING ITSELF’ He continued, "It’s 2026. Being apolitical during a genocide doesn’t work anymore. People are asking artists to show up, educate themselves and be in community. To use the stage for more than entertainment. To push back when the call for a Free Palestine is met with attempts to silence it." Macklemore wrote that "what happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage," and that "when the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention." He added, "So, as you all know, my schedule freed up a bit." He wrote that for the past week, he's been in touch with artists who have also been vocal about their support for Palestinians, "regardless of the consequences" — artists who he says "understand that our platforms mean very little if we’re only willing to use them when it’s safe." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS The "Thrift Shop" rapper also noted that because things are moving so quickly, schedules and details are still being worked out. As of now, he has three shows scheduled: one in Dublin on Oct. 26, another in Paris on Oct. 29 and a third in London on Oct. 30. None of the other performers have been named, but he did state that "All proceeds will benefit organizations supporting the Palestinian people and movement." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE The announcement has already made waves, with some critics wondering why he's not performing in the Palestinian territories. One person wrote on social media, "So f---in performative, let's see these 'brave' artists actually go to the countries they're so supportive of." "If virtual signaling was in the olympics hed get a gold medal," another said. Others took issue with Macklemore making his music so political, with one X user writing, "I'm pretty sure people just want artists to stfu & do the art....." Another agreed, saying, "When will celebs learn to stay out of politics? Most of them are vacuous morons who don't know what they're talking about. Sing your little songs and f--- off home. It's not difficult." READ IT: ED SHEERAN'S PRE-CONCERT SPEECH TO PHILLY CROWD ABOUT THE GAZA CONTROVERSY "So why he didn’t do it before?" another person asked. "Was it so necessary to involve Ed Sheeran and damage his career? Something fake and sleezy about this guy." Many people praised Macklemore for his decision to do a tour based on his beliefs. "Macklemore is nothing but a hero and a role model for all of humanity. so damn proud of him," one fan shared. "Seriously, mad respect to you for standing up for what you believe. I truly believe we are on the precipice of change and you may have been the bright spark that we needed to set this off," another posted. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Several fans requested that he add more shows, especially in the U.S. cities where he was scheduled to perform in before he was dropped from Sheeran's tour. On Sept. 4, Macklemore opened for Sheeran at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and he used part of his time onstage to perform his anti-Israel song, "Hind's Hall." He repeatedly chanted "Free Palestine" while a slideshow played on the screen behind him, showing video from the war in Gaza. WATCH: WHY MACKLEMORE GOT KICKED OFF ED SHEERAN'S TOUR The controversy surrounding Macklemore's stage appearance continued after the MetLife Stadium performance. He later posted a video on Instagram addressing the crowd and said performing on Sheeran's tour gave him the opportunity to deliver his "Free Palestine" message to a massive audience. He doubled down in the caption writing, "Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial." He was later dropped from the tour altogether after venues told the tour's promoters that they would "not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup." Fox News Digital's Stephanie Giang-Paunon contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5597075342cf4db890817 Trump and Xi Are Expected to Discuss Accusations of Copying American A.I. Tech te 2026-09-24T17:10:08.381Z Trump and Xi Are Expected to Discuss Accusations of Copying American A.I. Tech American artificial intelligence companies have accused their Chinese counterparts of using a technique called distillation to enhance their own systems. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5596e75342cf4db89080b Tucson couple blends barbershop, art and coffee downtown te 2026-09-24T17:10:06.679Z Tucson couple blends barbershop, art and coffee downtown In downtown Tucson, a husband and wife have turned one shared space into three businesses, a barbershop, an art gallery and a coffee cart, built around family, flexibility and community. Daniel and Adriana Valenzuela have been together for 10 years and have three children. They run their businesses, Jireh Collective Barber Shop and Rosita Coffee Co., in the same building at 143 N. Stone Ave. Daniel Valenzuela has been cutting hair for 15 years and opened the Jireh Collective last June. Adriana Valenzuela launched her mobile coffee cart business last year, starting with pop-ups and curbside pickups before eventually moving into the space they now share. Having both businesses under the same roof has benefited the Valenzuelas and their customers alike. Clients can come in for a haircut and check out the work of local artists lining the walls before heading to their chair for a fresh fade or taper. Daniel Valenzuela prioritizes diverse artists, letting them use the wall space to tell unheard stories. With pieces ranging from abstract paintings to tufted rugs, Daniel Valenzuela has given up-and-coming artists in the community an outlet to showcase their work. “If they've ever felt like maybe their art didn't belong in a gallery, I wanted to give them the opportunity and kind of support them, motivate them to know that their art did belong and had a place,” Daniel Valenzuela said. Your membership pays emerging journalists to cover Southern Arizona the way it deserves. Daniel Valenzuela gives a client a fresh cut at Jireh Collective, the barbershop he opened last June. Kenia Licea / Tucson Spotlight. Daniel Valenzuela got his start working as a barber in other shops before opening his own space, where he's learned the responsibility that comes with tracking his employees' duties and becoming "the boss." “When I put my clippers down and then I go home, I think about everything I need to be doing to help my barbers accomplish or be successful in the business,” Daniel Valenzuela said. “I feel like I fail as a business owner if I can't help them, so I take that home with me, too.” Rosita Coffee Co. became a permanent part of the Jireh Collective over the summer. Every Thursday, Adriana Valenzuela can be found in the lobby behind her pink coffee cart making her signature drinks. Customer favorites include the "Golden Girl," the first recipe she ever made, with flavors of caramel, vanilla and cinnamon. Regulars of both businesses can often be seen sipping coffee in the waiting area before their appointments. The husband and wife's shared space lets them work together while independently running their own businesses. “It's cool for her to come into the world that I've been a part of for so long,” Daniel Valenzuela said. “When I would get home, she'd ask, ‘How was work?' And now she gets to experience it firsthand.” Adriana Valenzuela decided to open her own coffee business after realizing her corporate job felt draining and was causing her to miss too much of her children's lives. With the barbershop's loyal following and the coffee company gaining traction, the couple's careers have given them the flexibility to balance work with family time. “(If) the kids have an event at school, I can easily say, ‘I'm not available at that time can we move things,'” Adriana Valenzuela said. “Whereas in any other job I don't really have that flexibility, or if I do, it's sacrificing something else. I want to be present, so being able to do that with what I've chosen for my business, that's what means the most to me.” Local artists' work lines the walls of Jireh Collective, giving up-and-coming creators a space to showcase their pieces. Kenia Licea / Tucson Spotlight. Working in the same space also allows the Valenzuelas to support one another in ways they previously couldn't, and the two have developed a system for attending to clients when the coffee cart gets busy. “Knowing each other for so long, we figured out the barista dance, how to make it work without bumping into each other,” Adriana Valenzuela said. Being an entrepreneur comes with both perks and added responsibilities. Describing herself as a "type B" person, Adriana Valenzuela has worked on her organizational and management skills to become a leader and bring her vision to life. That mindset has helped her learn to pivot when things don't go as planned. For community members thinking about launching their own small businesses, the Valenzuelas recommend using whatever they have at their disposal and starting from there. Adriana Valenzuela said she knew success would mean starting small and focusing on making today work, rather than getting caught up in the future. “Give yourself grace in the process because it starts to add up once you start looking at all the requirements, and you start thinking about the small things and getting into details it can be really overwhelming,” Adriana Valenzuela said. “A lot of people will see that and be scared, but being patient and just trusting each step that you take will help.” Last year, the couple served as a donation site for a Thanksgiving food drive called Harvest of Hope, benefiting Visionary House Collective, and helped organize the effort. They provided 50 families with full Thanksgiving meals, including turkeys, sides and desserts, and saw firsthand the impact on families who received a meal for the holiday. The couple plans to make the food drive an annual event. In the meantime, they'll continue hosting public events at the space, including markets, fundraisers, girls' nights and Bible studies. Kenia Licea is a University of Arizona journalism student and Tucson Spotlight intern. Contact her at klicea2004@arizona.edu. Tucson Spotlight is a community-based newsroom that provides paid opportunities for students and rising journalists in Southern Arizona. Please consider supporting our work with a tax-deductible donation. Donate to Tucson Spotlight Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5596c75342cf4db8907f0 Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS te 2026-09-24T17:10:04.940Z Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS The AI-powered feature builds a virtual wardrobe from your photos, and is now broadly available after first rolling out to Android users in June. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5596a75342cf4db8907e7 Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire te 2026-09-24T17:10:02.826Z Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire Databricks has brought cloud spreadsheet startup Row Zero adding yet another acquisition to its 2026 shopping spree. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5572275342cf4db8907c1 Lane Kiffin caught lying about LSU-Ole Miss series while complaining about nine-game SEC schedule te 2026-09-24T17:00:18.973Z Lane Kiffin caught lying about LSU-Ole Miss series while complaining about nine-game SEC schedule LSU welcomes a Top 25 Texas A&M team to Baton Rouge on Saturday in what is being viewed as a make-or-break game between the two one-loss teams, but Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin can't seem to stop talking about his team's loss at Ole Miss. During Wednesday's SEC coaches' teleconference call, Kiffin spoke about the challenges of his team taking on another dual-threat quarterback this week in Texas A&M's Marcel Reed after struggling to slow down Ole Miss star Trinidad Chambliss. Or at least that's what his comments were initially focused on before complaining about his team's schedule. LANE KIFFIN SUGGESTS OLE MISS BROKE RULES WITH IN-STADIUM MUSIC DURING LSU'S LOSS TO REBELS "Obviously we just played the best one in the country last week thinking he can hurt you even when you have the right call on and everybody covered and a guy comes free," Kiffin explained. "Obviously he (Chambliss) played great a year ago here in the stadium, so this is one of those scheduling quirks just like last week where never in that LSU-Ole Miss series had it ever been played two times in a row." While it is both odd and rare that Ole Miss got the benefit of playing LSU – a historic rival – in Oxford back-to-back seasons, Kiffin's claim that the series had never been played at the same venue in consecutive seasons is false. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! LSU played host to the game in 2001 and 2002, and if you go back to the 1960s, Baton Rouge hosted the contest for four straight seasons from 1961 to 1964. This season and the last marked the first time in the 112-game series that the rivalry game took place in Oxford in back-to-back years. Kiffin led Ole Miss to a win over LSU in 2025 before leaving for the Tigers' head coaching gig in November. It just so happens that Kiffin's complaint comes the same week his new LSU team gets the benefit of hosting Texas A&M for the second straight season instead of going on the road and playing in front of 100,000-plus fans in College Station. Kiffin recognized that the schedule quirks are a part of the new nine-game conference schedule the SEC has implemented this season, but he alluded to it in a sarcastic manner. LANE KIFFIN COULDN'T HELP HIMSELF, TAKES PETTY SHOT AT OLE MISS FANS AFTER LSU LOSS IN HIS RETURN TO OXFORD "That (Ole Miss) game was supposed to be here, and this one was supposed to be (at Texas A&M)," Kiffin said. " So these are the scheduling quirks that come with our awesome move to nine games that has sure looked so great here lately." Kiffin making a tongue-in-cheek comment about the nine-game SEC schedule just one conference game into the 2026 campaign – his first in Baton Rouge – is certainly bold. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5572175342cf4db8907b8 Ms Rachel defends her activism by pointing to Mister Rogers' political legacy on children's TV te 2026-09-24T17:00:17.676Z Ms Rachel defends her activism by pointing to Mister Rogers' political legacy on children's TV Children's YouTube personality Ms. Rachel hit back at critics of her political activism during an interview Tuesday, pointing to Mister Rogers, who she said was very political. Ms. Rachel, whose full name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, spoke to Kareem Rahma, host of "SubwayTakes," and broke down her hottest takes. "Mr. Rogers was political," she said. Mister Rogers, whose full name was Fred Rogers, is known for "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," a children's program that ran from 1968-2001. MS RACHEL CLAIMS CELEBRITIES SILENT ON GAZA WOULD ‘PROBABLY’ SPEAK IF CHILDREN ‘WERE WHITE’ Ms. Rachel pointed to an example in the children's show in which Rogers invited Officer Clemmons, a Black character, to cool off in a small wading pool during the civil rights movement. The episode aired in 1969, at a time when some public pools still prohibited Black swimmers. Rahma called the episode "revolutionary." YOUTUBE STAR MS RACHEL DECLARES 'I AM POLITICAL' IN NEW MISSION TO SHUT DOWN ICE FACILITY "I've read that some people saw it and in their family it wasn't okay to share a pool, and they were like, 'Oh Mr. Rogers is doing it. It's okay for our family now.' And so it did make a difference and actually people sometimes say to me or you know, in the media, they'll be like, ‘Ms. Rachel should be like Mister Rogers and not be political.' And actually he was political so much on the show. I think maybe they didn't watch it or maybe weren't paying attention because he did so many things," Ms. Rachel said. Ms. Rachel also pointed to a series of episodes from 1983, telling Rahma that Rogers was against the nuclear arms race. "He was against the nuclear arms race, and he had in his neighborhood make-believe he had King Friday building bombs because he thought the other neighborhood Southwood was building bombs, so he wanted to have 100 million and one bomb parts for his bombs and in the show. And then he was like, 'Now we don't have money for the music program because you spent it all on bombs. Queen Sarah, the wife, was like, ‘Why did you spend the tax money on bombs? We should have spent it on these other awesome things,’" Ms. Rachel said. She noted that Mister Rogers also testified before the Senate in support of funding for public broadcasting. "Nixon wanted to cut $10 million from the PBS budget and he testified in front of the Senate and he just shared from his heart how much care goes into his show and how he helps children manage, and feelings are manageable and mentionable, and it was huge and the very like-grrrrrr Senate guy was like, ‘You got your $20 million.’ And it was so touching. It's like the coolest video," Ms. Rachel said. She added, "And so he went to Senate and was like, 'No, government, don't cut funding to PBS.' Like, how political is that?" MS RACHEL CLAIMS 'NO ONE NEEDS A BILLION DOLLARS,' ENDORSES DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVES ABDUL EL-SAYED, CORI BUSH Author and psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert told Fox News Digital in a statement, "Fred Rogers addressed serious social issues. His 1969 pool scene with Officer Clemmons was a powerful statement about racial equality. But there’s a difference between quietly modeling human dignity and turning your enormous platform with children and parents into a vehicle for your positions on today's political controversies." Alpert continued, "Rogers didn't need to tell his audience, 'Here is the correct political position.' He showed a Black neighbor that he was welcome in his pool. The lesson was contained in the act itself. Ms. Rachel is far more explicit about telling the public what she believes about Gaza, immigration and other politically charged issues. I think invoking Mister Rogers gives her a convenient defense: If Mister Rogers was political, then criticism of her activism can be dismissed as hypocrisy. But that's a false equivalence. You can admire what Rogers did in 1969 without concluding that every children's entertainer therefore has a mandate to become a political activist." YOUTUBE STAR MS RACHEL GIVES FUNDS TO DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MICHIGAN SENATE HOPEFUL ABDUL EL-SAYED ROSIE O’DONNELL RANTS THAT TRUMP-ERA ICE FACILITIES ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS WHERE INMATES ARE RAPED Alpert said Rogers was "influential precisely because he didn't beat people over the head with his politics." "He trusted the audience to understand the lesson. The pool scene didn't come with a lecture or a list of political demands. He showed people how to behave," Alpert said of Mister Rogers. Fred Rogers Productions did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Ms. Rachel's other takes included one about children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. "No child should be in immigration detention center ever," she said. "I've talked with some children, and the harm is so obvious." CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE "And we don't want to be people who abuse children. It's the medical neglect is abuse. So, they're actually abusing children. And some pediatricians I've talked to have even said torture. Some autistic children in there, like keeping the lights on 24 hours, just that they've been unable to go to the bathroom, to poop for nine days. And as parents, it's like, that's so wrong. Like you can't, and there was a girl they neglected that she had this respiratory stuff, and when they took her to the ICU, she had COVID, RSV. Her oxygen was like 52. So the medical neglect is abuse in there," Ms. Rachel said. ICE did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5571675342cf4db890796 Coconino County Superintendent seeking public input on appointment to Williams Unified District Governing Board te 2026-09-24T17:00:06.746Z Coconino County Superintendent seeking public input on appointment to Williams Unified District Governing Board A vacancy occurred on the Williams Unified School District Governing Board on Sept. 9. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab554bb75342cf4db890716 TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know  te 2026-09-24T16:50:03.110Z TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know  TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5526f75342cf4db8906eb US allies need to shoot down Russian aircraft testing NATO boundaries, Czech president warns te 2026-09-24T16:40:15.375Z US allies need to shoot down Russian aircraft testing NATO boundaries, Czech president warns NEW YORK — Czech President Petr Pavel insists that NATO needs to outright demonstrate its willingness to respond to Russian aggression or else Moscow will continue to push the alliance and its European boundaries. "There might be the time when we will have to shoot down some of these planes or unmanned vehicles that are testing our readiness," Pavel, a retired general and former chair of MATO's Military Committee, predicted in a conversation with Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City this week. Pavel said alliance members understandably want to avoid escalation, but risk sending the wrong signal as he warned Moscow views restraint as weakness and is testing allied defenses with its continued aggression. "What I am afraid of is that they see a lack of will on our side to take decisive action," Pavel said. "Within Russian perceptions it demonstrates weakness. And they respect power." The warning followed fresh incidents along NATO’s eastern flank where a Russian Mi-8 military helicopter crossed from Kaliningrad into Polish airspace Wednesday, prompting Poland to scramble fighter jets. Romania scrambled F-16s Thursday after another unidentified aerial target crossed its border from Ukraine. Denmark’s military intelligence service also warned Thursday that Russia is likely to intensify hybrid attacks against NATO in the coming months and assessed a "low but growing" risk of a limited Russian military attack against one or more NATO countries bordering Russia. ROMANIAN F-16 SHOOTS DOWN DRONE AFTER AIRSPACE BREACH, MARKING FIRST FOR NATO ALLY Pavel's said in a speech before the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday that Russia's "aggressive posture poses a direct threat to European security" and warned that the risk is growing. He told Fox News Digital that the pattern of recent escalation was familiar from his years at NATO, recalling Russian aircraft testing U.S. pilots over Syria and repeatedly violating Turkish airspace before Turkey shot down a Russian warplane in 2015. "They are, on one hand, provoking. On the other, testing what will our reaction be," Pavel detailed. NATO already has procedures for accidental airspace violations, Pavel said, including warning aircraft and attempting to establish contact. But he drew a distinction between mistakes and aircraft that deliberately enter allied airspace and refuse to respond. "If it is deliberate and the violator doesn’t respond to our measures, then we will have to act, because otherwise Russia simply would push further on," the Czech president added. RUSSIA'S NEIGHBOR REVEALS PERSONAL APPEALS TO TRUMP AS US WEIGHS NATO TROOP PULLBACK IN EUROPE The comments come amid recent drone incursions involving NATO members along the alliance’s eastern flank, including incidents in Poland, Romania and Lithuania. Pavel was similarly skeptical that President Vladimir Putin is serious about talks to end the war in Ukraine, saying he has seen no significant Russian effort to negotiate. He argued that while Moscow publicly expresses willingness to hold talks, the conditions it has attached would effectively strip Ukraine of sovereignty. He said a genuine negotiating process would require Russia to agree to a ceasefire first and then enter talks without preconditions. RUSSIA PREPARING HYBRID ATTACKS ON NATO'S EASTERN FLANK, INTELLIGENCE WARNS The Czech president also warned that the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have exposed another vulnerability across the NATO alliance: depleted weapons stockpiles and defense-production systems struggling to keep pace with demand. "With the amount of ammunition, especially intelligent ammunition, consumed over a short period of time, we all understand on both sides of the Atlantic how short we are when it comes to stocks of these kinds of equipment," Pavel said. He said the lesson for both Europe and the United States is to accelerate weapons production and overhaul procurement systems he described as "extremely long and rigid." Pavel’s warning underscores a broader challenge facing NATO as it weighs how forcefully to respond to Russian activity without triggering a wider confrontation, while simultaneously replenishing the military stockpiles needed to sustain deterrence over the longer term. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5526e75342cf4db8906e2 Ole Miss victim identified as narcotics task force probes two student deaths te 2026-09-24T16:40:14.097Z Ole Miss victim identified as narcotics task force probes two student deaths OXFORD, Miss. — One of the two University of Mississippi students found dead under suspicious circumstances in recent days have been identified by his family's attorney. Robert Strang, a 20-year-old from Atlanta, is the older of the two victims, his family's attorney told Fox News Digital Thursday. "We are heartbroken by the loss of our dear son and are trying to process this unimaginable loss," Strang's family told Fox News Digital Thursday through their attorney. "We are deeply grateful for the incredible outpouring of love, prayers and support by so many beloved friends and family. Their kindness has meant more to our family than we can ever express." TWO OLE MISS STUDENTS FOUND DEAD AS PACKAGED KRATOM IS RECOVERED AT TWO SITES: OFFICIALS The attorney said the Strang family is asking for privacy and compassion as they deal with their son's loss. Social media posts from the Ole Miss chapter for the Phi Delta Theta fraternity identify Strang as one of seven co-chairman of the 2026 Rush, when new members are recruited. Attempts to reach the other student's parents went unanswered Thursday. Authorities also told Fox News Digital Thursday that foul play had not been ruled out. Strang was discovered at an off-campus home, according to the Lafayette County Coroner's Office. The other victim, age 18, is believed to have been found at Stewart Hall, a male dorm on the Ole Miss campus. OLE MISS DEATHS, DRUGGINGS HAVE 'EPOPLE SCARED TO LEAVE' DORMS AS BARS, GREEK LIFE CLAMP DOWN The Lafayette County Coroner's Office previously told Fox News that an 18-year-old had been found in a dorm room and the 20-year-old victim was recovered at an off-campus home. Both deaths are being investigated by the county's narcotics task force, and it's unclear whether they were connected. SEND US A TIP Authorities found packages of kratom, a commercially available drug that has been derided as "gas station heroin," at both scenes, however its role in either death was not immediately clear. Campus Greek life leaders have previously circulated a warning about a synthetic opioid called cychlorphine. MANHATTAN PROSTITUTE PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING 3 MEN WITH FENTANYL-LACED DRUGS IN ROBBERY SCHEME Cychlorphine can be treated with Narcan but sometimes requires multiple doses, students were told. It also may not show up on common drug-detecting strips used to find fentanyl contamination. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST Students are being urged to avoid all drugs. CHINESE NATIONALS ACCUSED OF SMUGGLING SYNTHETIC DRUGS INTO US PRISONS ON DRUG-SOAKED PAPER Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday that state investigators were assisting local authorities, and that they would try and expedite the toxicology reports on both victims. Such reports typically take weeks to complete. No official cause and manner of death have been given for either victim as of Thursday morning. This is a breaking news story. Stick with Fox News Digital for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5526475342cf4db8906aa Twenty minutes with the CEO of ElevenLabs, now reportedly valued at $22 billion te 2026-09-24T16:40:04.192Z Twenty minutes with the CEO of ElevenLabs, now reportedly valued at $22 billion ElevenLabs powers the AI voice on the other end of a lot of customer service calls, and its CEO told me this week that businesses should probably tell you that — at least until getting a machine is what everyone expects anyway. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5500e75342cf4db890642 Democrats Show Strength in Michigan Senate Race but Trail in Maine, Polls Find te 2026-09-24T16:30:06.195Z Democrats Show Strength in Michigan Senate Race but Trail in Maine, Polls Find The party’s nominees lead in Michigan and New Hampshire but the Republican incumbent is ahead in Maine, according to New York Times/Siena polls of the three battlegrounds. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5500c75342cf4db890630 Trump Administration Scrambles to Stop Third-Country Deportations After Court Ruling te 2026-09-24T16:30:04.664Z Trump Administration Scrambles to Stop Third-Country Deportations After Court Ruling The decision adds a new burden for the government as it attempts to rapidly remove migrants from the United States without interference from their lawyers. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab54db675342cf4db8905c5 5 Takeaways From a New Poll on the New Hampshire Senate Race te 2026-09-24T16:20:06.897Z 5 Takeaways From a New Poll on the New Hampshire Senate Race Representative Chris Pappas, a Democrat, leads by five percentage points, according to a New York Times/Siena poll. Voters say they are more interested in a check on President Trump than in a candidate who supports him. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab54db575342cf4db8905bc Weeks Before the Election, Collins’s Ties to a Fund-Raiser Are Under Scrutiny te 2026-09-24T16:20:05.364Z Weeks Before the Election, Collins’s Ties to a Fund-Raiser Are Under Scrutiny Scott Reed, a longtime Washington lobbyist who has a close relationship with Senator Susan Collins of Maine, leads a super PAC backing her campaign. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab54b6c75342cf4db890572 Dem Senate hopeful rocked by explosive ex-aide claims as campaign cites ‘hardest period of her life’ te 2026-09-24T16:10:20.556Z Dem Senate hopeful rocked by explosive ex-aide claims as campaign cites ‘hardest period of her life’ Former Rep. Mary Peltola, the Democratic Senate candidate in Alaska, is facing allegations from former aides that she erupted in anger, used offensive slurs, sent profane text messages and once shoved a staffer — claims her campaign disputes while denying that they reflect a broader pattern of abusive behavior. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that former Peltola aides alleged she was quick to anger, used anti-gay slurs and a slur targeting the mentally handicapped, sent edgy text messages and, in one case, shoved an employee. Though Peltola’s campaign disputed several of the allegations, her spokesman said some of her behavior came during a period of extreme grief after the deaths of her mother and husband in 2023. "Mary suddenly and tragically lost both her mother and her husband in the span of a few months in 2023. At the time of their passing, Mary was parenting kids through their own grief, serving full-time in the U.S. House of Representatives thousands of miles from home, and running a competitive re-election campaign – all while shouldering the enormous burden of grief," a spokesman for her campaign told the media in response to the report.  FETTERMAN LEANS ON UNLIKELY GOP ALLY AS DEMS SHARPEN THEIR KNIVES OVER EXPLOSIVE REPORT "Like any person who has gone through multiple personal tragedies in the span of a few months, Mary sometimes struggled to deal with her grief. But she treats her staff with respect and care, and she maintains close positive relationships with her staff spanning her nearly 30 years in public service," the spokesman continued. "Exaggerating and outright lying about moments from the hardest period of her life, and falsely presenting them as a pattern of behavior, is wrong." Peltola avoided reporters’ questions about the allegations after a Wednesday town hall, leaving without responding, Alaska News Source reported. While much of the behavior described in the New York Times article, such as Peltola’s alleged use of slurs and the shove, occurred during the aftermath of her personal tragedies, other incidents purportedly happened more recently. The atmosphere in Peltola’s congressional office allegedly drove aides to tears and prompted discussions about quitting, with some saying the stress caused them to lose weight or seek therapy, according to the New York Times. The outlet separately described anxiety and exhaustion among staff on her 2026 Senate campaign. BAD BOSSES ON CAPITOL HILL COULD FACE RECKONING UNDER NEW ANONYMOUS STAFFER REVIEW PLATFORM Some commentators from across the political spectrum defended Peltola or questioned the significance of some of the allegations. "I think most reasonably well-adjusted people would read this and feel pretty sympathetic toward Peltola rather than her annoying staffers," left-of-center pollster Nate Silver said of the reporting. A Democratic communications staffer noted that getting yelled at by your boss is relatively normal on the Hill. "Call me crazy, but I do not think it's very objectionable for Mary Peltola, who commutes from Alaska to Washington DC, to ask a staffer to feed her pet," Robby Soave, who writes for a libertarian magazine, said. Not everyone took the Senate hopeful’s side, however. "Mary Peltola has a problem with violence and aggression, and she doesn't deserve to be dog-catcher let alone a U.S. Senator. Mary should apologize for her unhinged behavior," Republican National Committee spokesman Nick Poche said of the reporting. "I thought Peltola was boring and useless until I read this," former Rep. Matt Gaetz wrote on X. "Was this leaked to help Peltola with Alaskan men?" Staffers complained to the New York Times about having to feed live crickets to Peltola's pet chameleon, Meatball. Some of the staffers who complained about the working conditions in Peltola’s congressional office returned to work for her Senate campaign. DEM SENATE HOPEFUL VOWS TO UNLEASH ALASKA OIL — BUT HER RECORD TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY Peltola and incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan are the leading contenders in Alaska’s four-candidate general election for U.S. Senate, which will likely be one of the closest Senate elections of this cycle. Though traditionally a red state, shifting voter preferences combined with Peltola’s unique crossover appeal have put Alaska in play for the Democrats. Peltola’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Thursday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab54b6375342cf4db890549 Trump’s Retribution Campaign May Face Supreme Court Test te 2026-09-24T16:10:11.361Z Trump’s Retribution Campaign May Face Supreme Court Test The justices have been asked to rule on whether the president can appoint allies as top prosecutors. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab54b6175342cf4db89053b Adolescente de Tucson crea curso gratis sobre la Constitución te 2026-09-24T16:10:09.337Z Adolescente de Tucson crea curso gratis sobre la Constitución Una adolescente de Tucson ha creado un programa gratuito para ayudar a los jóvenes a comprender la Constitución de los U.S., sus derechos y las leyes de Arizona. Leah Blackman, estudiante de secundaria y residente de Tucson, lanzó Constitución 101 para Adolescentes el 28 de agosto en colaboración con tres organizaciones locales. Esta iniciativa, liderada por jóvenes, está dirigida a estudiantes de secundaria y preparatoria, aunque las lecciones pueden adaptarse también para alumnos de primaria. Blackman, de 17 años, se inspiró para crear el programa tras notar lo que ella describió como un vacío en la comunidad. "Yo era una de esas jóvenes que no entendía la ley ni sabía cuáles eran mis derechos. Cuando tenía 12 años, sentí curiosidad y quise aprender qué podía y qué no podía hacer," dijo Blackman a El Foco de Tucson. "Simplemente quiero que todos los jóvenes tengan la misma oportunidad de aprender y comprender sus derechos, y de ser más conscientes de las leyes que les afectan.” Blackman dedicó dos años a desarrollar el plan de estudios, conectando en el proceso con numerosos miembros de la comunidad interesados ​​en el proyecto. "Contacté por correo electrónico a más de 100 personas e hice 60 llamadas telefónicas buscando orientación, voluntarios, colaboraciones y apoyo. A medida que avanzaba, encontré a dos mentores muy importantes que desempeñan un papel fundamental, Azucena Bravo... y Linus Kafka, profesor de derecho de la Universidad de Arizona," comentó Blackman. "Ellos me animaron y me ayudaron a seguir adelante con mi visión." Bravo es la fundadora de Mini Poderosas, una organización sin fines de lucro que guía a niñas y jóvenes de entre 8 y 18 años, y donde Blackman colabora como mentora adolescente. Tras hablar con Blackman sobre su idea para Constitución 101, Bravo aceptó apoyar el desarrollo del programa. Mini Poderosas consideró la iniciativa como una extensión natural de su misión, ofreciendo a los jóvenes un espacio gratuito para conocer sus derechos, hacer preguntas y ganar confianza en su propia voz. Leah Blackman dirige la primera sesión de Constitución 101 para Adolescentes el 29 de agosto en la tienda de la Universidad de Arizona, donde un grupo de entre 15 y 17 estudiantes aprendió los fundamentos de la Constitución. Cortesía de Leah Blackman. Bravo señaló que el grupo considera que los jóvenes no solo son los líderes del mañana, sino que ya son líderes en el presente. "Programas como este brindan a nuestros jóvenes la oportunidad de conocer sus derechos, formular preguntas significativas, desarrollar el pensamiento crítico y encontrar su propia voz," afirmó Bravo. "Leah representa el tipo de mentora que demuestra, no solo a nuestras chicas sino a otros jóvenes, que el conocimiento es poder, que sus voces importan y que pueden generar un cambio positivo en nuestra comunidad." Bravo comentó que Blackman comenzó a destacar durante el evento de recaudación de fondos por el quinto aniversario de la organización; allí participó como modelo en el desfile de moda y posteriormente asumió un papel más relevante, asesorando a otras chicas y coordinando el desfile. "Cuando me presentó esta idea, no tuve dudas de que sería un éxito. Me impresionó mucho su propuesta y la apoyé de inmediato, porque esa es nuestra razón de ser, esperamos inspirar a muchas de nuestras chicas y jóvenes, y apoyar sus iniciativas," dijo Bravo. "Me enorgullece decir que Leah pasó de ser una mentora junior a convertirse en colaboradora, y espero con interés las próximas sesiones de este proyecto." Ese mismo impulso por lograr el apoyo de la comunidad llevó a Blackman a contactar al Colegio de Abogados del Condado de Pima, tras haber participado en un simulacro de juicio frente a su sede. "Me pareció la opción perfecta, especialmente porque ostento el título de Miss Pima County Teen Volunteer," comentó. La colaboración se completa con la participación de la tienda de la Universidad de Arizona, sede del lanzamiento y de la sesión inaugural del programa, que contó con la presencia del abogado Barry Bellovin, fundador del bufete Bellovin Law Firm, como primer ponente invitado. Blackman explicó que su vínculo personal con Bellovin lo convertía en la persona ideal para inaugurar la serie. "Él ayudó con el caso de lesiones personales de mi hermano cuando este era niño. Lo conozco desde hace más de 15 años," señaló. "Dado que cuenta con más de 40 años de experiencia y ha sido de gran ayuda para nosotros, sabía que era la persona indicada para nuestra primera sesión." La sesión del 29 de agosto, titulada "La Constitución: Nuestro fundamento," abordó las razones por las que se redactó la Constitución y cómo esta determina la estructura del gobierno y la vida cotidiana. "La asistencia fue excelente. Contamos con entre 15 y 17 estudiantes en el aula y todos participaron," comentó. "Están entusiasmados y a sus padres sin duda les encantó. Dijeron que definitivamente volverían, ya que es una actividad muy interactiva y apta para todas las edades. Eso es precisamente lo que más me gusta: sin importar la edad que tengas, puedes aprender sobre este tema." Las sedes de las sesiones mensuales variarán, pero cada una incluirá una combinación de actividades interactivas y presentaciones sobre la Constitución, la Carta de Derechos, la responsabilidad cívica y el funcionamiento del sistema judicial. "En cada sesión contaremos con un abogado invitado... que compartirá sus conocimientos jurídicos y responderá a las preguntas de los estudiantes," señaló Blackman. "Habrá una oportunidad (para los participantes) de obtener una certificación durante la Conferencia de Navidad sobre la Constitución, que organizaré en diciembre en la Universidad de Arizona, allí recibirán el certificado junto a sus familias y a los abogados voluntarios. Tenemos preparadas muchas cosas muy interesantes para los estudiantes." Leah Blackman muestra la tarjeta de estudiante de Constitución 101 para Adolescentes la cual registra la asistencia a las cinco sesiones y permite obtener un certificado. Cortesía de Leah Blackman. La sesión del 19 de septiembre, una repetición de la sesión del 29 de agosto para quienes no pudieron asistir, se llevará a cabo en la Asociación de Abogados del Condado de Pima. "Se trata de la Declaración de Derechos y de profundizar en las primeras 10 enmiendas, así como en las razones por las que estas son las más importantes de toda la Constitución," dijo Blackman. Para este otoño se han programado dos sesiones adicionales, cada una con un horario de 1 p.m. a 2:15 p.m. El Sábado 26 de septiembre: "Crecer bajo la ley," que aborda cómo se aplican las leyes de Arizona a los menores y cómo funciona el sistema de justicia juvenil. Sábado 17 de octubre: "Derechos en la escuela, en línea y en la comunidad." Las escuelas, bibliotecas y organizaciones juveniles interesadas en ofrecer una sesión a sus estudiantes pueden ponerse en contacto a través del sitio web del programa, constitution101forteens.org.  Tras terminar la preparatoria, Blackman espera estudiar Derecho en la Universidad de Arizona y dedicarse al derecho penal. Desea que Constitución 101 siga formando parte de su vida a medida que avanza en sus estudios y su carrera profesional. "Quiero seguir enseñando a los estudiantes sobre la Constitución. Quiero continuar con las sesiones, ya sea con otras personas involucradas, ya que, a medida que nos expandimos, esperamos contar con gente nueva que nos ayude," afirmó. "Definitivamente quiero darle continuidad a esto." A corto plazo, ha recibido una beca para viajar a Chicago, donde se capacitará junto a un grupo de abogados para traer conocimientos y experiencia de vuelta a la comunidad. Blackman también espera conseguir donaciones o patrocinadores en la comunidad, ya que hasta ahora ha financiado Constitución 101 para Adolescentes con sus propios ahorros. "A medida que el programa crezca, espero recibir donaciones para cubrir los costos de materiales y otros gastos operativos," comentó. Confía en que el interés por el programa aumente y se amplíe para incluir a adolescentes de todas las edades, destacando el papel de los jóvenes en la sociedad y su capacidad para generar cambios.  "Me gustaría ayudar a los adolescentes a entender y aprender realmente lo que hacen en la comunidad," dijo. "No hace falta esperar a tener edad para votar o para conducir un automóvil para conocer tus derechos. Puedes empezar ahora mismo, incluso si tienes unos 8 años, puedes marcar la diferencia." 💡 Introducción a la Constitución para adolescentes Para registrarse, escriba a constitutionforteens@gmail.com. Se pueden realizar donaciones visitando constitution101forteens.org/donate. Caitlin Schmidt es editora y directora de Tucson Spotlight. Esta nota fue traducida por Priscilla Daniel. El Foco de Tucson es una sala de prensa comunitaria que ofrece oportunidades remuneradas a estudiantes y periodistas emergentes del sur de Arizona. Por favor, considera apoyar nuestro trabajo con una donación deducible de impuestos. Donar a El Foco Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab54b5f75342cf4db890520 Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you te 2026-09-24T16:10:07.264Z Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you Google says the AI-calling feature will first be available to Pixel 11 owners in the U.S. who pay for a Gemini subscription. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab54b5d75342cf4db890517 Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 te 2026-09-24T16:10:05.182Z Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Meet the next wave of VCs judging the Startup Battlefield 200 contenders on the main stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register by September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, to save up to $200 and to get a front-row seat to one of the most intense startup pitch competitions. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab546b575342cf4db89048d Pro wrestling star Rohan Raja looking to 'steal the show' with Andrade in title match at Maple Leaf Pro PPV te 2026-09-24T15:50:13.048Z Pro wrestling star Rohan Raja looking to 'steal the show' with Andrade in title match at Maple Leaf Pro PPV Rohan Raja has the opportunity of a lifetime on Oct. 3. The "Ravenous" pro wrestling star will take on All Elite Wrestling’s (AEW) Andrade at Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling’s (MLP) Northern Rising pay-per-view in Toronto with the AEW National Championship on the line. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGE Raja suggested in an interview with OutKick Dropkick that a fire was lit under him after he was left off the first Northern Rising card. But being back at Maple Leaf Gardens – a historic venue in pro wrestling – has gotten Raja locked in to do some damage. "I'm super excited for this. This is our second show in Maple Leaf Gardens and the first one I was left off the main card, so I had this like real chip on my shoulder since that day and then now coming back again and I'm one of the marquee matches on it, just goes to show all the hard work I’ve been putting in," he said. Raja, who lost the PWA Champions Grail earlier this year, has been on a tear since June. He has no plans of letting Andrade get in his way. He wants to steal the show with the Mexican grappler. "To go against someone like an Andrade who is like pound-for-pound one of the best wrestlers in the world right now and he's AEW national champion and I believe, wholeheartedly believe, that me and him are going to have the best match and we're going to steal the show," he said. "I'm training really, really hard for this. I'm trying to up my game even more. I'm looking at this match and I want to have the best match of my career at this point. "So, taking that into account, I'm super confident that I'm going to walk away with it with the win. Everything I've been putting in, everything that everyone's been watching on MLP ‘Mayhem’ week to week to week and still to come because we still got a couple more weeks before the pay-per-view. … There's still going to be a couple things before the pay-per-view that's going to get people really, really hyped for this match and I'm super excited, man, and I couldn't be more thrilled about it." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Raja has earned significant praise for his rise in the ring, including from MLP owner Scott D’Amore. He told OutKick Dropkick he believed he raised his level to that of a main-eventer. "It's like when I come to the back after all of my segments, matches, promos and everything like that, hearing feedback like that, whether it's directly to me or I've heard it somewhere else, is just very humbling and it reassures everything that I'm doing," Raja said. "And then hearing everyone backstage say all these nice things about me and putting me over and I think everyone has seen … I hold myself as like a top talent, but I think everyone, especially since we've been doing Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling, but especially since we've been doing MLP ‘Mayhem,’ is like they've seen this next level I've added to like a main event status where I can hold main event ground and all my peers telling me that and all the respected people in this business, all the people backstage telling me that it is just a really nice thing because I am really working really hard and a lot of people don't see what I put in behind the scenes, everything like that. So, it's just a very nice thing just to be reassured that I'm doing the right thing. But everything I've known to this point now, the world and everyone else is seeing it now." Here’s what the Northern Rising card looks like. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab546ae75342cf4db89046d Can fish survive West's megadrought? te 2026-09-24T15:50:06.315Z Can fish survive West's megadrought? A fly fisherman from New Mexico sought solitude and a chance at catching Arizona’s state fish last fall when he steered his pickup into a gravel parking strip overlooking a stream that winds through a meadow in the White Mountains. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5445b75342cf4db89039d Susan Collins defies blue-state headwinds in crucial Senate battle as new poll reveals striking split te 2026-09-24T15:40:11.675Z Susan Collins defies blue-state headwinds in crucial Senate battle as new poll reveals striking split A new poll indicates longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins ahead of her Democratic challenger in a crucial Senate showdown in blue-leaning Maine. Collins, who is running for a sixth six-year term in the Senate, stands at 49% support among likely voters, with former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee, at 46%, with 5% undecided in the New York Times/Siena poll. Collins' three-point edge is within the survey's margin of error. Democrats are heavily targeting Collins as they work to flip the seat, which is key to their efforts to win back the Senate majority from the Republicans in the midterm elections. The survey, which was conducted Sept. 15-22, is one of the first to indicate Collins ahead of Jackson since he replaced former Senate nominee Graham Platner in late July. SIX FORCES THAT COULD HELP REPUBLICANS DEFY HISTORY IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS Platner, a combat veteran and oyster farmer, won the June Democratic Senate primary in a landslide. But a month later he dropped out following an explosive report containing an allegation of rape from a woman he previously dated. Platner denied the report but stepped aside. Collins slightly trailed Platner in most polling at the time he ended his campaign. Jackson, who campaigned alongside Platner earlier this year as he unsuccessfully ran for governor, won a special nominating convention to fill the party's vacant Senate nomination. The poll release came as Collins pushed back against a report by ProPublica that the FBI sought to launch a pay-to-play investigation examining Collins and others. The investigation was later dropped and no one working for Collins was charged. Collins ripped the report as "offensive" and a "partisan hit job" orchestrated by Democrats. Jackson took to social media to claim that "Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt." Collins' advantage over Jackson in the new survey comes even as 55% of those questioned said they prefer Democrats to control the Senate next year, with 43% saying they'd like the GOP to retain the majority. COLLINS TEARS INTO NEW REPORT ALLEDGING PAY-TO PLAY SCHEME Likely boosting Collins are her favorable ratings, which are in positive territory, at 51%-48%. Meanwhile Jackson, a fifth-generation logger and a one-time conservative Republican who became a Democrat over two decades ago and who is now running on a progressive platform, is underwater with a 41% of those questioned viewing him favorably and 49% holding an unfavorable view. As he quickly became the frontrunner in the abbreviated race to replace Platner, Jackson faced a slew of media reports over his alleged temper and workplace conduct, as well as reported claims of mortgage improprieties and other potential liabilities, including his past strict anti-abortion stance. In August, a resurfaced 1988 police record which detailed accusations that Jackson assaulted a man and pushed his longtime partner during a late-night confrontation in Fort Kent, Maine, grabbed headlines. Jackson, in a statement, said, "I took responsibility for it then, and I take responsibility for it now. But let me be clear: I have never been violent with my partner Lana, or any other woman." WHO'S UP AND WHO'S DOWN IN THE LATEST FOX NEWS MIDTERM ELECTION POLLING Lana Pelletier, who, according to records is Jackson's second cousin, shares two adult children with him. Collins, the only GOP senator seeking re-election in a state President Donald Trump lost in the 2024 election, is facing a rough political climate, amid Trump's underwater approval ratings, persistent inflation, soaring fuel prices, and what polls indicate is an unpopular war with Iran. The senator, known as a moderate Republican who at times has voted against Trump, this summer received bipartisan praise after reaching a milestone by casting her 10,000th consecutive Senate vote. But Democrats are taking aim at Collins over her comments that she didn't regret her 2018 vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, despite his crucial vote four years later to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. And following the fatal shooting in Maine this summer involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Democrats heavily criticized the Senate Appropriations Committee chair for her support for ICE funding. But Collins has broken with Trump numerous times in recent months, criticizing his tariff war with neighboring Canada and voting against Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation. The senator has a history of surviving Democratic efforts to unseat her. Six years ago, she trailed Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, the then-Maine House speaker, but the senator ended up winning re-election by nearly 9 points while former President Joe Biden carried the state by a similar margin. DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB The New York Times/Siena poll, in collaboration with The Portland Press Herald and sponsored in part by the Maine Trust for Local News, questioned 619 likely voters. Fox News Digital reached out to both the Collins and Jackson campaigns for comment on the new survey, but didn't receive a response at the time this story was published. The New York Times and Siena on Thursday also released polls in two other crucial Senate showdowns that are must-holds for the Democrats. In neighboring New Hampshire, the survey indicates Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas with a 50%-45% advantage over former Republican Sen. John E. Sununu, in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Meanwhile, in Michigan, the poll indicates Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed ahead of former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers 49%-44% in the showdown to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5420a75342cf4db890332 American businesses aren’t allowed to build. It’s time Congress helped them te 2026-09-24T15:30:18.948Z American businesses aren’t allowed to build. It’s time Congress helped them America’s share of global manufacturing output has fallen from 25% in 1997 to 15% today. Absent intervention, it could reach 11% by 2030. Those numbers get thrown around a lot. What is said less is what they mean for Americans: The United States is losing its ability to produce the things it needs to defend itself, to power its economy and to care for its people. This failure is not because we lack talent, capital or technology. It is because we have made it nearly impossible to build anything here. This inability to build harms every American industry and every American job. Whether it is semiconductor fabricators, munitions or battery factories, rare earth production facilities, natural gas pipelines, oil refineries or medical manufacturing centers, all hit the same regulatory barrier: federal permitting law. INNOVATION IS KEY TO AMERICA STAYING A SUPERPOWER. BUT IT IS MISSING AN ESSENTIAL PIECE Among the various federal permitting barriers, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) stands as the most egregious. Unlike substantive environmental protections found in statutes like the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, NEPA’s central function is procedural, requiring analysis and disclosure of environmental impacts before major federal actions. Over time, regulatory layering and aggressive legal interpretation transformed this reasonable "look before you leap" statute into a roadblock for projects with any sort of federal connection. SENATE REPUBLICAN PUSHES OVERHAUL TO CUT RED TAPE AND SPEED UP AMERICAN ENERGY PROJECTS This regulatory accretion has turned NEPA into a tool to stop nearly any meaningful project — across every state and political spectrum. It is not every day renewable energy advocates and oil and gas executives work together to reform a statute. Yet these and many other strange bedfellows have come together this year to fix a profoundly broken statute and allow America to build again. The numbers explain why. The median NEPA review in 2024 ran 26 months. The statute’s more demanding environmental impact statements averaged 3.8 years. Environmental assessments, the so-called fast track, routinely average a year or more. None of those timelines are legally required. They are what happens when bureaucratic caution and unlimited litigation combine in the absence of any countervailing pressure. TRUMP-APPROVED ENERGY PROJECTS AT RISK OF SUDDEN DEATH BY NEXT HOSTILE PRESIDENT And then there is the cost. DOE data showed mean environmental assessment preparation costs were over $300,000 while environmental impact statement costs averaged $6.6 million. Those figures exclude legal fees, staff time and the cost of litigation. These millions add to the bottom line of every potential domestic manufacturing project. For a major company, these delays and costs are annoying. For a small business seeking to open a factory or a startup raising its first manufacturing round, they are often a company-ending event. AMERICA FACES A CRISIS IN OUR MILITARY ARSENAL THAT TRUMP IS RACING TO FIX These are the types of businesses America most needs right now–the 50-person drone manufacturer, the battery startup and the defense tech company that won a Pentagon contract and needs to be in production before its runway expires are exactly the companies the current NEPA regime destroys. These are also the jobs Americans need. This regulatory Sisyphean task doesn’t improve outcomes, it materially delays or even kills meritorious projects. Investors cannot deploy capital if regulatory uncertainty clouds a project. SEN KEVIN CRAMER: CHINA BUILDS FOR WAR WHILE AMERICA WAITS ON PERMITS While the Supreme Court’s "Seven County" decision and recent executive actions have helped, only Congress can enact durable statutory reforms needed to restore NEPA to its intended procedural role. Here are some basic fixes. Enforce the deadlines and limit endless litigation TRUMP ADMIN MOVES TO GUT BIDEN'S SIGNATURE ENVIRONMENTAL RULES Agencies need to enforce permitting deadlines. Aspirational goals do not motivate federal bureaucrats, but neither does the prospect of getting dragged into court. Both extremes perpetuate analysis paralysis. Get the permits done and when they’re complete, there should be finality, providing certainty for manufacturers, the capital backing them and the federal agency granting the permit. Revocations should be permitted only when there is an imminent, irreparable and specifically documented harm. Cut the red tape for companies which can least afford it THE MACHINES THAT KEEP AMERICA ALIVE ARE FAILING. WE FORGOT HOW TO REPLACE THEM Agencies which finance or permit manufacturing already have categorical exclusions, pre-cleared categories of routine actions normally not requiring a full Environmental Assessment or Environmental Impact Statement. Most have never shared those categories with each other, despite a 2023 law explicitly allowing them to do so. Congress should require agencies that finance or permit manufacturing to adopt a curated list of relevant categorical exclusions from other agencies. This one reform alone would dramatically increase regulatory speed and certainty. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION None of this dismantles environmental protection. Clean air, clean water and endangered species protections all remain fully intact. What these reforms remove is the accumulated procedural weight which has nothing to do with those protections and everything to do with a system no one has been accountable for fixing. The opportunity to build in America is now. Nobody left, right or center wants this to be an era of managed decline. We want growth, security and innovation. That is why political polar opposites are making great strides to reach a deal, like Chairmen Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., Environment and Public Works, and Mike Lee, R-Ut., Energy and Natural Resources, and Ranking Members Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Environment and Public Works, and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Energy and Natural Resources . The American people will benefit from the good jobs and the supply security these reforms create. It’s time to meet the moment and get America building again. Katherine Boyle is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and co-lead of its American Dynamism practice. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM SEN. KEVIN CRAMER Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab541fe75342cf4db89030a From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle te 2026-09-24T15:30:06.192Z From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab53fac75342cf4db8902b5 Federal judge orders Trump to restore press passes to 3 banned news outlets te 2026-09-24T15:20:12.264Z Federal judge orders Trump to restore press passes to 3 banned news outlets The White House, south facing, on the early morning of June 11, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly early Thursday issued an order that temporarily blocks President Donald Trump’s ban of three news organizations from the White House. Kelly, in the eight-page order, said that the White House must “immediately return, reinstate, and restore the White House ‘hard pass’ press credentials held by employees of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO that were revoked” Friday and over the weekend. The White House, however, didn’t appear to be following the ruling as of 10 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, when attorneys representing the news organizations filed a brief asking the court to hold a videoconference meeting as soon as possible.  “This morning journalists from each of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO attempted to enter the White House and were turned away. A Secret Service agent confiscated the hard pass of journalists from all three organizations,” they wrote.  Kelly’s order will continue for 14 days while the case continues to be fought in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Trump is scheduled to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping to the White House Thursday. Although Trump has indicated he will appeal any court ruling on the matter, Kelly noted that temporary restraining orders are “generally unappealable.” He said he would schedule a hearing for motions for a preliminary injunction, which would last until the final outcome of the suit and could be appealed. The case began Monday when the three news outlets sued the Trump administration for barring their reporters from entering the White House grounds.  The news organizations asked the district court to grant them either a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction that would require the White House to return the press passes, allowing the journalists to work from the complex once again.  Kelly, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, had heard arguments in the case on Wednesday and appeared skeptical at the time of Department of Justice arguments. In his ruling, he said it appeared likely that the news outlets would succeed with their claim that journalists were denied their due process rights before their passes were confiscated. While the Department of Justice argued that earlier cases dealing with press access to the White House were wrongly decided in journalists’ favor, Kelly said that he was “bound by D.C. Circuit precedent, full stop,” referring to earlier rulings by the appeals court. Kelly in his order also expressed doubt about Department of Justice arguments that the ban was in response to concerns about articles that dealt with national security or classified information, saying DOJ “offered little” to back up that contention.  Some news articles cited by the administration as endangering national security were written by reporters who didn’t even have White House passes, he noted. Trump did not mention national security in announcing the ban and “instead, he focused on the alleged lack of truthfulness and negativity of Plaintiffs’ reporting,” Kelly said.  “For another—and simply put—the record lacks factual support for Defendants’ contention that the revocation of Plaintiffs’ hard passes will in fact protect national security or that national security will be endangered if the Court orders their passes reinstated while this litigation proceeds,” Kelly said.  The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from States Newsroom.  Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., the lawyer for the news outlets, praised the decision. “This is a strong ruling vindicating freedom of the press, due process and the rule of law,” he said in a statement. “We greatly appreciate the court’s swift action.” Jennifer Shutt contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab53fa375342cf4db89029c Collins Leads Jackson in Maine Senate Race: 7 Takeaways From a New Poll te 2026-09-24T15:20:03.893Z Collins Leads Jackson in Maine Senate Race: 7 Takeaways From a New Poll Voters in the battleground state favored Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent, over Troy Jackson, a Democrat, in several important areas, according to a New York Times/Siena poll. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab53d5e75342cf4db890253 David Charvet admits he walked away from Hollywood after 'Baywatch' to focus on fatherhood te 2026-09-24T15:10:22.396Z David Charvet admits he walked away from Hollywood after 'Baywatch' to focus on fatherhood David Charvet is opening up about why he left Hollywood. In a new interview with Fox News Digital, the 54-year-old actor discussed his experience on Fox's hit series, "Special Forces: World's Toughest Test," and why he stepped away from Hollywood in 2013. "I left Hollywood because I wanted to be a good dad, and for me, today my children are my legacy," he said. "It's not the career you built or the money you have or all that. It's really what you leave behind. And what I'm leaving one day behind is really my children. And if I did it right in that way, then I think I've successfully done my job as a man on this planet. So, for me, there's no regrets." Having left Hollywood over a decade ago, Charvet expressed how "honored" he is "to be amongst all these people and just to be a part of it." ‘SPECIAL FORCES’ STARS JESSIE JAMES DECKER, HUSBAND ERIC SHARE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL 12-YEAR MARRIAGE The actor became famous playing lifeguard Matt Brody on "Baywatch," saying no one told him that he "was going to be a 'Baywatch' guy forever," but he doesn't mind. "That's where I got my start. The show was incredible, it reached everywhere around the world," he said. "I've had a lot of incredible opportunities from it. Incredible life lessons, incredible friendships and relationships, so for me I'm just grateful, you know, I'm super happy with whatever the outcome has been." WATCH: David Charvet admits he left Hollywood in order to be a good dad to his two kids The original "Baywatch" helped launch not only Charvet's career, but also put Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra and many of its other stars on the map. It was announced in September 2025 that a reboot of the series, starring a whole new batch of lifeguards was in the works. In addition to seasoned actors, including Stephen Amel and Shay Mitchell, the show is also a launching pad for acting newcomers, Brooks Nader, Livvy Dunne and Noah Beck. "I got to say that what we created 25 years ago was very special. At the same time, there was only 14 channels at the time. So people got a chance to see that show more probably today than what people are going to see in the next season that's about to come," he said about the new series. "Our executive producers, which are, I believe, executive producers today, were real lifeguards, live the life as lifeguards, so there were real stories." WATCH: David Charvet calls the original 'Baywatch' 'special' 'BAYWATCH' STAR BROOKS NADER'S CONSERVATIVE PARENTS BANNED BIKINIS GROWING UP AS SHE SLIPS INTO RED SWIMSUIT Charvet is excited to see what the new generation brings to the show, but admits, "getting people to really watch something today is more of a challenge," and says the writers have to be "more creative" now than before, adding, "They got their work cut out for them." While he was considered a big star in his heyday, Charvet has "been out of the game" for over 20 years, and admits his "kids have never seen me on television or in movies or anything live." He explained to Fox News Digital that that was part of the reason he agreed to compete on the show, noting it "was really important for me to maybe show them that aspect of what I kind of gave up for them." He shares two children with his ex-wife, Brook Burke; a daughter, Heaven and a son, Shaya. "And also the idea of pushing myself to the limit," he said. "It's not every day that you get thrown out of a helicopter, or you jump out of 25 stories and things like that, and then also the mind games. Do I really have what it takes? To take on what we took on was a real thing that I wanted to see if I could do. So for me, it was a huge challenge, an incredible opportunity, and hopefully my kids will be proud." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE This season, 15 celebrities, led by Directing Staff (DS) Rudy Reyes, Billy Billingham, Jason "Foxy" Fox, and Jovon "Q" Quarles, an elite team of ex-special forces operatives were taken to Malaysia to compete on the show in the hostile jungle. WATCH: David Charvet touched on the challenges he experienced while filming 'Special Forces' In addition to adapting to uncomfortable conditions and unpredictable terrain, they completed challenges including a search for an underground bunker, a supply load retrieval while suspended 300 feet above ground, chemical gassing, and so much more in order to learn the meaning of "no guts, no glory." As there are no elimination votes in the show, the only way to be kicked off is to fail a challenge, be asked to leave due to injury or choose to leave on your own accord. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "I think that the mind is an incredible thing," he said. "There was days where I didn't think I was gonna be able to wake up the next morning and be able to walk or get out of the cot that was so-called a bed. Eat the food that we had or even go on the events that we have to do every day. I realize now that still today at age 54, if you put your mind to something, you can do anything." He added: "And that was a real message that I learned on this and that I was super proud of when I got home. I can now speak from experience and say to my kids and say to other people out there that if you really put your mind to anything, it can happen." The fifth season of "Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test" premieres Thursday, Sept. 24 on Fox and will stream the next day on Hulu. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab53d5d75342cf4db89024a Female athletes, women's sports advocates speak on Capitol Hill as trans athlete issue hovers over midterms te 2026-09-24T15:10:21.109Z Female athletes, women's sports advocates speak on Capitol Hill as trans athlete issue hovers over midterms Female athletes and women’s sports advocates descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday to tell lawmakers how policies allowing biological males to compete in female athletics have affected their safety, privacy and athletic opportunities, while warning that the issue could follow candidates into the midterm elections. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled, "Standing Up for Women in Sports: Ensuring Opportunity, Fairness and Safety for Female Athletes." The committee heard testimony from three witnesses: Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) co-founder Kim Jones; Carly Smolak, a former professional soccer player and Australian rules football player; and attorney William Bock III, who previously served as general counsel for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Democrats did not invite a witness of their own. Ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., were the only Democrats who attended, and both left within the first hour. Durbin declined to question the witnesses. Jones, whose daughter competed against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, told OutKick in an exclusive interview that the Democrats’ absence made the athletes and advocates feel dismissed. AMERICANS CLASH OVER TRANSGENDER ATHLETES AS DEBATE HEATS UP: ‘JUST GETTING OUTRAGEOUS' "It felt dismissive of women, of our concerns, of the right for young girls to expect to be treated fairly in the United States," Jones said. "For Democrats to say that we’re — I believe, you know, are my neighbors and friends — to actively say we’re not going to concern ourselves about what young girls and even all the way up through older women have been put through. "I mean, it’s misogynistic, and it is incredibly disappointing. I really hope that they change course and decide that the voices of women who have been hurt and shamed are important enough to listen to." Durbin used his opening remarks to argue that the hearing was ignoring other issues facing children and female athletes, including affordability, artificial intelligence, children’s cellphone use and declining trust in government. He also raised concerns that efforts to enforce sex-based sports categories could result in female athletes undergoing invasive inspections. Jones rejected both arguments. "It was incensing," she said of Durbin’s remarks. "One of the worst comments you can give to women who are trying to share the stories of what they’ve been put through by the denial of their sex and the denial of their rights is to suggest that this is not an important issue and that it’s dismissible. "It’s akin to saying, ‘I cannot care about brain cancer until you solve stomach cancer.’ It’s whataboutism in the most obvious form and telling women that we are not going to address the problems that you’re facing, including sexual abuse and harassment by the inclusion of male athletes in women’s sports and women’s locker rooms, until we solve every other problem in the world." OLYMPIC SWIMMER RÉKA GYÖRGY CALLS OUT VIRGINIA GOVERNOR SPANBERGER FOR WITHDRAWING FEMALE SPORTS REGULATION Jones said sex eligibility could be determined without invasive examinations, pointing to cheek-swab testing for the SRY gene. "There is no need for any kind of invasive inspections. There’s no need for any kind of traumatic experience," Jones said. Asked whether she expects the issue to influence the midterms, Jones said the protection of female sports should be "non-negotiable." "Of course," Jones said. "I think truth is always an important issue for anyone voting in the general public. I think that standing up for the rights and fair treatment of women in the United States is a ground-zero, non-negotiable issue. And this is a blatant public display of stripping that from women and girls." Smolak testified about discovering that a registered sex offender had joined an adult women’s Australian rules football team with which she remained closely connected after retiring. She said the individual was quietly removed after she raised the issue, but alleged that team members were not informed and the sport’s national governing body did not take sufficient action to prevent a similar situation. "So it felt like at every single level, the national level and largely the media level, it feels like nobody was doing anything about this issue," Smolak told OutKick exclusively. "And I didn’t want to see this happen again. If it happened once, it’ll happen again if we don’t put policies in place. And the obvious policy is that women’s sports are for biological females, are for women." SPANBERGER SPARKS OUTRAGE AFTER SNEAKILY ENDING YOUNGKIN-ERA WOMEN'S SPORTS PROTECTIONS Smolak said the response she encountered after raising concerns was "incredibly disheartening." "I’ve had people be more concerned about using his preferred pronouns than trying to prevent this from happening again or being even upset that it happened in the first place," she said. Smolak said she was not surprised Democratic senators did not remain to hear the full testimony. "I think they either know they have a losing issue or cannot make their argument based on the merits of their position," Smolak said. "And so they would rather distract about other issues that are unrelated or just not show up at all. But it’s infuriating." Following the hearing, additional female athletes spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference. Briley Lechner, a 17-year-old varsity volleyball and soccer player at Monroe High School in New York, said she and her teammates learned only after a volleyball match that a biological male had competed against them and entered their locker room. "All of us girls do our normal things. We get undressed, unconsciously trusting our friends next to us. We have girl conversations. We take girl pictures, videos and everything like that," Lechner said. "So to be told days after that there was a boy in the locker room where we get undressed, and there was a boy on the other side of the court, just is very hurtful. And it feels as if our protection was just stripped away from us and they don’t care." Lechner said the backlash she and her father received after speaking publicly would not silence her. "I’m not going to sit down until there is a change," she said. "And I’m going to continue to speak my word and share my story until us girls don’t have to feel uncomfortable and we don’t have to be fearful — not only in the locker room, but in the bathroom, on the court, on the field and any other sport." Former West Virginia State University soccer player Lainey Armistead discussed her involvement in litigation over West Virginia’s law restricting girls’ and women’s sports to biological females. The Supreme Court upheld West Virginia’s law earlier this year. "There are still girls in 23 other states, girls in New York, girls in California, who do not have the same opportunities that I did," Armistead said. "And we will not quit fighting for those girls. Women’s sports is not men’s for the taking." NCAA softball player Kendall Kotzmacher said her high school team lost in a state semifinal to a team with a transgender pitcher during her senior year. "Showing up to the field that day knowing that we were playing a man is a feeling that you can’t explain to another person," Kotzmacher said. "Showing up, seeing a male on the field for something you’ve worked your whole life for, and knowing there’s nothing you can do about it is unimaginable." Kotzmacher directly addressed Democrats who have minimized the prevalence of such cases. "To the Democrats that said this is a non-issue, they’re the reason that I’m going to keep speaking out and everyone else is going to keep speaking out," she said. "We have multiple women here that have suffered the same things that I have. And there are so many more that have stayed silent because people out there have told them not to speak up, who have scared them into not speaking up." U.S. Masters swimmer Angie Griffin said she lost a national title to a transgender competitor at the 2025 U.S. Masters Swimming Spring National Championship. Griffin said a grievance alleging unsportsmanlike conduct was filed against her after she and other swimmers protested the results, exposing her to a potential lifetime ban before she was cleared. "The process itself was the punishment," Griffin said. "The message to other women was clear: Speak up and you will pay a price." CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE "Women should not have to lose a championship, risk a ban, hire a lawyer or face public pressure simply to ask for a fair race," she added. "The path forward is clear: Prioritize women in women’s sports." Marshi Smith, a former NCAA champion swimmer and fellow ICONS co-founder, said the athletes’ accounts showed why adults in leadership positions needed to intervene. "It was a historic moment to see this issue come to such a huge platform, but it was also incredibly distressing to see that the Democrat senators were so dismissive of young women who are suffering across the country today," Smith said. "There are huge threats to women’s sports today, and adults really need to stand up in leadership positions and do something about it." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! OutKick contacted all 10 Democratic committee members about their absences. Only Durbin’s office responded, pointing to his opening statement. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., later told OutKick that he missed the hearing because of a classified briefing on the Iran war, but declined to discuss his position on women’s sports. Smolak told OutKick that the lack of participation was "not a surprise." "I think they either know they have a losing issue or cannot make their argument based on the merits of their position," Smolak said. "And so they would rather distract about other issues that are unrelated or just not show up at all. But it’s infuriating." Kotzmacher said the absence and dismissal of the issue only strengthened her resolve. "To the Democrats that said this is a non-issue, they’re the reason that I’m going to keep speaking out and everyone else is going to keep speaking out," she said. "So to the Democrats, we’re going to keep speaking up. We’re going to keep fighting for women, and we’re not going to stop." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab53d5b75342cf4db890241 Riley Green thought he'd 'frame houses for the rest of my life' before becoming a country music star te 2026-09-24T15:10:19.856Z Riley Green thought he'd 'frame houses for the rest of my life' before becoming a country music star Riley Green didn't leave school with the sole intent of trying to launch a music career. As our loyal readers know, Green is one of the most famous country singers on the planet, and it's been that way for a couple years. Before Green was a monster country music sensation, he was actually a college athlete. He played quarterback at Jacksonville State University. However, he eventually left school, but he didn't do it to become one of the most successful entertainers in America. Billboard released an interview with the "Jesus Saves" singer on Tuesday, and he broke down how it all went. Was it planned or did it just kind of happen? The answer is clearly the latter. "You make it sound really, like, poetic like I'm, like, busted out of school and went and made a music career. It was nothing like that. I was playing football, and my dad framed houses and he had back surgery, and him and his brother worked together. So, I took a semester off to go help do construction work, and I started making a little music on the weekends and I just didn't go back," Green responded when asked if he quit school to "bet on" himself. He continued, "So, I assumed I was going to frame houses for the rest of my life and play a little music on the side. And, grow a long great ponytail, which I still might do that." You can watch his comments in the video below starting at around 15:00, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Whether Green's intent was to bet on himself by giving up his educational pursuits, it worked out either way. He's become an unstoppable force in the industry, and just released his latest album "That's Just Me" last week. You can read about it here. RILEY GREEN DROPS ACOUSTIC 'MY WAY' VIDEO AS FANS AWAIT 'THAT'S JUST ME' ALBUM RELEASE SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER It's always fascinating how life works out. Decisions that don't seem big in the moment can set off a chain of events that turn into life-changing moments. Riley Green thought he'd be working construction. He turned into a country music star. Life sure can come at you quickly. Let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab53d4c75342cf4db890202 Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 te 2026-09-24T15:10:04.666Z Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors on building AI when failure is not an option at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Leaders from Waabi, Shield AI, and General Motors join the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk building AI. Save up to $200 by Sept. 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. Get a second pass at 50% off. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab53b0575342cf4db8901d6 Penguins forward Andrei Kuzmenko's father killed in bear attack on remote Russia fishing trip te 2026-09-24T15:00:21.154Z Penguins forward Andrei Kuzmenko's father killed in bear attack on remote Russia fishing trip The father of Pittsburgh Penguins forward Andrei Kuzmenko has died after being attacked by a bear during a fishing trip in a remote region of Siberia, according to multiple Russian media reports. Alexander Kuzmenko, 62, was fishing with a group of people along the Bolshoy Yenisey River in Russia's Republic of Tuva when the bear attacked him, inflicting severe injuries to his head and face. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE According to Russian sports outlet Sport24, Kuzmenko was part of a seven-person group that traveled by boat up the river before establishing a camp along the shoreline in the remote Todzhinsky district, approximately 112 miles from the nearest village. The bear reportedly emerged from the forest and attacked Kuzmenko. His companions managed to drive the animal away and provide first aid before transporting him by boat to the village of Toora-Khem. From there, Kuzmenko was airlifted to a hospital in Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva, where he was admitted to intensive care. He later died from his injuries. Russian media reported his death on Thursday. The attack occurred in an area where authorities had already restricted outdoor activities due to increased bear activity. ALASKA MOOSE HUNTER MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVES AMBUSH BROWN BEAR ATTACK, SAYS HE 'BLACKED OUT' According to Russian news outlet RBC, regional officials had prohibited fishing and campfires beginning Sept. 10, with additional restrictions introduced Sept. 17. The Republic of Tuva's State Committee for Hunting Supervision said the group entered the remote wilderness despite those restrictions. It is unclear whether Kuzmenko and his companions were aware of the warnings. Alexander Kuzmenko was a longtime hockey coach who played an important role in his son's development as a professional player. According to Sport24, Andrei began his hockey career at the White Bears hockey school in Moscow, where his father coached. Alexander also coached several other professional hockey players, including Nikita Korostelev, Daniil Grigoryev and Alexander Pelevin. Andrei Kuzmenko made his NHL debut with the Vancouver Canucks during the 2022-23 season, recording 39 goals and 74 points in his rookie campaign. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER He subsequently played for the Calgary Flames, Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings before signing a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins this summer. As of Thursday morning, neither Andrei Kuzmenko nor the Penguins had publicly commented on Alexander's death. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab538a675342cf4db890167 Florida deputies taser sword-wielding burglary suspect, video shows te 2026-09-24T14:50:14.160Z Florida deputies taser sword-wielding burglary suspect, video shows Police in Florida released tense body camera video showing the moment a sword-wielding burglary suspect was tased by deputies after allegedly refusing to drop the weapon. The Alachua County Sheriff's Office said they responded early Tuesday in Gainesville after a "caller stated a man forced his way into their home with a sword, and they were forced outside against their will by the intruder." "Hey, brother, do me a favor, drop the sword. Drop the sword on the ground, my man. Let me talk to you, OK? It's the sheriff's office," a deputy could be heard telling 26-year-old Josiah Smith as police arrived at the scene. "Hey, we got him at gunpoint, he's not compliant, he keeps approaching," the deputy is then heard telling other officers. WATCH: TERRIFYING MOMENT SPEAR-WIELDING MAN LUNGES AT CALIFORNIA COPS BEFORE SHOTS RING OUT "Josiah, throw the sword away, OK? Hey, stop, stop! Don't move, stop. Stop, stop!" the deputy eventually yells. The bodycam footage then shows Smith falling backwards as he is tased by police. WATCH: MAN ACCUSED OF AIMING FLAMETHROWER AT OFFICERS SERVING EVICTION NOTICE IN WILD BODYCAM VIDEO "Smith was non-compliant with deputies’ lawful commands, refusing to drop the sword or get on the ground. Deputies used a less lethal launcher, shooting a foam round at Smith in order to get him to drop the sword," the Alachua County Sheriff's Office said. "Unsuccessful, deputies deployed a taser, and Smith was detained." An investigation into the incident revealed that Smith and the alleged victim did not know each other, according to the sheriff’s office. Smith was taken into custody and is now facing charges of armed burglary of an occupied dwelling, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed kidnapping and resisting without violence. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab538a575342cf4db89015e Biden-appointed judge hands Letitia James setback in latest Trump legal clash te 2026-09-24T14:50:13.221Z Biden-appointed judge hands Letitia James setback in latest Trump legal clash New York Attorney General Letitia James’ legal battle against President Donald Trump over DOGE-linked access to sensitive Treasury systems ended Wednesday with a federal judge dismissing the lawsuit she spearheaded with 18 other states. The case stems from Trump’s January 2025 executive order establishing DOGE, which directed executive agencies to create DOGE teams and set July 4, 2026 as the termination date for the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization. James led a coalition – which included New York and 18 other states – that sued the following month after Treasury gave DOGE-affiliated employees access to Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems, which process federal payments and contain sensitive financial information. JUDGE SAYS ISSUES IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ANTI-WEAPONIZATION CASE 'ALIVE AND KICKING' DESPITE DOJ PUSH Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas ruled that the "plaintiffs’ claims related to access by DOGE-affiliated employees to sensitive Treasury information are dismissed as moot," according to Wednesday’s order. Vargas said the Treasury DOGE team had been disbanded and no DOGE employees remained at Treasury, leaving no access practice for the court to enjoin. She separately dismissed the states’ claims over an automated payment-review system, finding they had not alleged that the process froze or canceled any specific federal payment due to them. The states argued the Trump administration unlawfully opened sensitive Treasury systems to DOGE, putting state financial information and federal payments at risk and exceeding the administration’s legal authority. EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE THE SECRETIVE MINE DOGE HELPED DRAG OUT OF A DECADES-OLD BUREAUCRATIC BLACK HOLE In February 2025, Vargas granted the states a preliminary injunction barring Treasury’s DOGE team from the covered payment systems, then modified the order over the following months to permit access for personnel who complied with specified vetting, training, hiring, reporting and mitigation procedures. The Executive Order established DOGE and called for each department to assemble its own DOGE team to find fraud, waste and abuse before their termination date of July 4. TRUMP'S LAWYERS PUT DEM AG ON NOTICE FOR TARGETING HIS FAMILY IN NY FRAUD FIGHT: 'CANNOT STAND' James has been a longtime critic and legal adversary of Trump, launching a civil fraud lawsuit against him and the Trump Organization in 2022 after campaigning on investigating his business practices. The case initially resulted in more than $450 million in penalties, though an appeals court later upheld Trump’s liability while voiding the financial penalty. Fox News Digital reached out to White House and the office of the New York Attorney General for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5389b75342cf4db89011c Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off te 2026-09-24T14:50:03.576Z Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off Lovable co-foudner Fabian Hedin said that apps created on the platform are getting nearly a billion monthly views each month. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5365e75342cf4db890111 Slide Rock reopens for fall te 2026-09-24T14:40:30.341Z Slide Rock reopens for fall Waters open for swimming, but not recommended by state park officials “Slide Rock State Park is completely open,” Arizona State Parks & Trails spokeswoman Michelle Thompson said Friday, Sept. 18. “There’s no closures at all.” Swimming in Oak Creek at Slide Rock State Park reopened on Thursday, Sept. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5364d75342cf4db8900ed UAP whistleblower makes stunning claim about secrets behind government’s recovered craft te 2026-09-24T14:40:13.248Z UAP whistleblower makes stunning claim about secrets behind government’s recovered craft A UAP whistleblower is making an extraordinary claim about what the U.S. government is keeping behind closed doors, saying the government is in possession of recovered craft. "Does the government have craft that have been recovered? Yes they do," Dylan Borland said on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. Borland made the assertion in the latest episode of the show, where he joined television host Ben Hansen to discuss what whistleblowers say they know about the government's handling of UAP and allegedly recovered craft. UFO WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIMS BILLIONS IN SECRET SPENDING HIDDEN FROM CONGRESS Hannity pressed Borland directly on whether he knew "for a fact" that the government possessed such craft, and whether restrictions surrounding his work would allow him to answer the question publicly. He responded: "Yes." His claim comes after a group of UAP whistleblowers called on President Donald Trump to waive nondisclosure agreements they say prevent them from fully disclosing what they know to the American public. MARCO RUBIO ADDRESSES UAP GOVERNMENT COVER-UP ALLEGATIONS, SAYS TRUMP WOULD GIVE A SPEECH IF ADMIN KNEW MORE During the conversation, Hannity also pointed to individuals he had spoken with previously who said they had knowledge of recovered craft. He asked Borland whether he knew people who had made similar assertions. "Probably, yes," Borland responded. Hannity also discussed claims from individuals who say they faced intimidation, workplace harassment and threats after coming forward with UAP-related information. Borland appeared to affirm those accounts during the interview. Hannity has held previous podcast discussions about UAPs, including one conversation with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., and Luis Elizondo about alleged Pentagon UAP cover-ups, exotic materials, destroyed pilot data and more. "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" fans can watch or listen to Hannity's full conversation with Borland and Hansen on iHeartRadio, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever they get their podcasts. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5364575342cf4db8900ac TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari on how to create viral growth and capitalize on it te 2026-09-24T14:40:05.421Z TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari on how to create viral growth and capitalize on it Zach Yadegari joins the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to share how he capitalized on viral growth. Save up to $200 before September 25. Save 50% on a second pass. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5364375342cf4db8900a3 Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together te 2026-09-24T14:40:03.850Z Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together Ando has raised $20 million in pre-seed and seed funding from investors including Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab533fa75342cf4db89007f Top public university’s ‘LGBTQ+ lab’ hit with race-bias complaint amid $700K in Trump-era federal funding te 2026-09-24T14:30:18.072Z Top public university’s ‘LGBTQ+ lab’ hit with race-bias complaint amid $700K in Trump-era federal funding FIRST ON FOX: A University of Maryland research lab that received nearly $700,000 in additional federal funding from the Trump administration this year is facing a civil rights complaint alleging that it uses race and ethnicity to determine access to some research-related opportunities. The Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed the complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights against UMD's Lavender Lab, a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded lab that studies suicide, substance use and other health outcomes among LGBTQ+ people and Black, Indigenous and People of Color. EPP is asking HHS to investigate whether the lab's LGBTQ+ Teens of Color Advisory Board and its research assistant selection practices give priority to non-White applicants. "Some people may ask what is wrong with prioritizing non-whites in a program which is designed to study non-whites," EPP founder William Jacobson told Fox News Digital. "When you receive federal funding, you cannot discriminate in the administration of your programs." JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES TITLE VI INVESTIGATION INTO DEI PROGRAMS AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY "You do not need to have an advisory board, you do not need to hire research assistants based on race to fulfill the purposes of this grant," Jacobson continued. The complaint comes as the Lavender Lab continues receiving millions of dollars through the NIH for research examining alcohol and drug use among "sexual minority adolescents of color." One of the lab's principal projects, titled "Long-Term and Daily Associations Among Intersectional Minority Stress, Structural Oppression, and Alcohol Use and Misuse Among Sexual Minority Adolescents of Color," began in May 2022 and is scheduled to run through April 2027. The complaint cites approximately $3.6 million in total federal obligations and roughly $2.2 million in outlays at the time of its filing. NIH records cited in the complaint show the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism provided another $695,192 for the project for fiscal year 2026. The complaint points first to the lab's LGBTQ+ Teens of Color Advisory Board, which said it was "specifically looking for teens in the US who identify as both LGBTQ+ and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to join our board" in an Instagram post. A NEW YORK UNIVERSITY FACES JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATION OVER 'BLACK MALE INITIATIVE' According to the complaint, board members are paid to help review research, provide feedback and participate in professional-development activities, with some also receiving leadership opportunities. EPP also targeted the Lavender Lab's research-assistant program, which offers positions to undergraduate and master's-level students. Although the positions are generally unpaid, the complaint stated that undergraduate research assistants may receive academic course credit, and some students may be able to participate through federal work-study. Research assistants generally commit to at least two semesters and a minimum of eight hours per week. The lab stated it "especially encourage[s] and invite[s] candidates from traditionally marginalized backgrounds" to apply and that applicants with experience conducting research involving "LGBTQ and BIPOC communities" through "cultural humility, intersectionality, and social justice approaches" will receive the "strongest consideration." "Discrimination based on race or ethnicity at institutions receiving federal funding is unlawful regardless of which group is targeted or benefits," Jacobson said. "Treating individuals as avatars of their demographic identity rather than as individuals with unique merits and circumstances undermines fairness, merit, social cohesion, and the rule of law." TRUMP ADMIN'S PUSH TO SCRAP DEI IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKES LANDMARK STEP WITH NEW HIRING RULE EPP alleges that the language indicates race or ethnicity may play a role in the selection process. The complaint asks HHS to investigate whether the practices violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin in federally funded programs, as well as the Affordable Care Act. "Because the Lavender Lab is operating under an HHS health care related grant, the non-discrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act must be adhered to, and HHS has authority to enforce those provisions," Jacobson said. EPP's complaint also questions federal funding for research focused on intersectionality, which the Lavender Lab says guides its work. The lab studies how sexual-minority status, race, ethnicity and what it calls "structural oppression" affect health outcomes. "The conduct at the Lavender Lab calls into question whether HHS should be funding intersectionality-focused research at all," Jacobson said. "Intersectionality is a race- and ethnicity-focused group-identity approach. It is no surprise that where the focus is racial identity that programming could cross the line into civil rights violations." Jacobson said EPP has found federal dollars going to programs that use intersectionality and is calling for tighter rules on that funding. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER "We have identified hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding for programs that incorporate intersectionality," Jacobson said. "Given the civil rights danger from an 'intersectional' approach, we call on the administration to issue a new executive order and agency guidance closing the 'intersectionality loophole' by including intersectionality in the ban on unlawful discriminatory DEI practices in federal grantmaking." Fox News Digital reached out to the University of Maryland, HHS and the White House for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab533f975342cf4db890076 Falcons and Packers both searching for answers heading into 'Thursday Night Football' in NFL Week 3 te 2026-09-24T14:30:17.025Z Falcons and Packers both searching for answers heading into 'Thursday Night Football' in NFL Week 3 Week 3 is here in the NFL, and I really hope it is nothing like Week 2. Let’s toss aside the sports betting aspect for a moment, but we saw three young quarterbacks- Caleb Williams, Jaxon Dart, and Jayden Daniels- get injured. Timetables are uncertain for some returns, but either way, football is better with primary quarterbacks available. We have two in tonight's game between the Falcons and Packers. The Atlanta Falcons are getting back a starting quarterback of their own. Well… kind of. They are getting Michael Penix Jr. back, but he is returning and taking over for Cooper Rush. The original starter was supposed to be Tua Tagovailoa, but he’s been unavailable all season. Penix Jr. will have his hands full trying to figure out what to do with this offense. They don’t lack playmakers - Bijan Robinson is solid, Drake London is a really good receiver, and Kyle Pitts (although drafted too high) is still a solid option. In the first two games, the Falcons were essentially outmatched. Is that because Rush was under center? In game one, they scored 13 points, but last week they could only get 3 points against a team that almost allowed 60 points in Week 1. The offense wasn’t terrible by some measures - they had 17 first downs, one fewer than the Panthers. However, they had three turnovers; if they shore those up, maybe it’s a more competitive game. MICHAEL PENIX JR. OFFICIALLY NAMED FALCONS STARTER FOR A SHORT-WEEK TRIAL BY FIRE AGAINST PACKERS On the other side of the field is a team with more than enough questions of their own. The Packers are 1-1, but it wasn’t easy to get that victory. They had to go into New Jersey to face the Jets, and they were forced into an overtime game with them. They came out on top 20-17. I don’t want to act like we should be impressed or pleased with that performance, but perhaps it is something to build on, and now they get their first home game. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! In Week 1 it wasn’t much better for the Packers. Green Bay was fine against the Vikings, at least for the first half of the game. They struggled to get much going against the Minnesota defense and gave up their lead in the second half. It wasn’t just that; they barely could score and couldn’t keep Carson Wentz from marching down the field. I do blame the front office. I’m not exactly sure that Jordan Love is an elite quarterback, but his receiving options certainly don’t help make him much better. Couple that with Josh Jacobs being out, and this offense should be expected to struggle. JETS COLLAPSE LATE AGAINST PACKERS, MISS CHANCE AT FIRST 2-0 START SINCE 2015 IN OVERTIME LOSS The Falcons haven’t done much on defense to give you reason to believe this, but there should be adjustments here. On a short week, facing 0-3, you’re trying everything out of desperation. I think they will put pressure on the Packers, and Love hasn’t looked all that comfortable yet this season. Maybe being at home will help, but I think that’s where we see a boost to their defense as well. Give me the under 45.5 for this "Thursday Night Football" game. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab533f775342cf4db89006d Indiana Fever vs Minnesota Lynx season finale carries playoff seeding stakes for Caitlin Clark's team te 2026-09-24T14:30:15.957Z Indiana Fever vs Minnesota Lynx season finale carries playoff seeding stakes for Caitlin Clark's team We have reached the final day of the WNBA season. Regardless of if you follow it or not, the season has come and gone, and if you consume sports, you've probably heard about many of the main stories from the season. We've had Enes Kanter talk about wanting to declare himself eligible for the draft, more Caitlin Clark drama, injury storylines, and of course, the league seemingly shooting themselves in the foot. However, I want to focus on the good for this final day as the Fever take on the Lynx. The good for the Indiana Fever: Kelsey Mitchell. This has been a decent season for the Fever, but this team isn't trying to win the regular season; they are trying to win in the playoffs. We routinely see the Fever getting the best effort from their opponent because of the attention that comes when playing against Indiana. Part of the reason the Fever are so dangerous is that they have elite scorers at three positions. We all know how good Clark is, and the attention she commands. Even Aliyah Boston is recognized as a great talent as a former No. 1 pick. However, Kelsey Mitchell is the player who stands out the most to me with her scoring. She has increased her scoring each year for the past four seasons and is over 1,000 points for the year. As of tonight's game, she is at 1,076 points, setting the single-season record for most points in a season. This is just the third 1,000-point season in league history, and the first by someone other than A'ja Wilson. Mitchell doesn't even need to do most of the damage shooting from deep; she can score from all three levels. To her credit, she can shoot from three and has increased her made threes each year since 2020. CAITLIN CLARK RETURNS AFTER FIBA TITLE AS KELSEY MITCHELL SETS WNBA SCORING MARK IN FEVER VICTORY OVER TEMPO Over on the other side of the court, they have the Minnesota Lynx, with their good being Olivia Miles. The Lynx are already locked up with the #1 seed in the postseason, and normally you'd attribute that to Napheesa Collier. Last year, Collier was the MVP of the league and dominated for the Lynx. She got injured in the playoffs and only came back 15 games ago. Collier has been up to her old tricks, scoring in bunches and contributing a ton of rebounds. In 15 games this season, she is averaging 17.5 points and 6.9 rebounds. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE The real story of this team is not Collier. Everyone expected the Lynx to step back because of Collier's injury. Instead, they drafted Olivia Miles, and, as the saying goes, the rich got richer. Miles has been simply fantastic for the Lynx. She is averaging almost 20 points per game for Minnesota in her first season and broke Clark's rookie points record. She is also averaging 4.7 rebounds and six assists. She is very efficient, too, shooting almost 50-40-90 from the key areas. CAITLIN CLARK, INDIANA FEVER DROP STATEMENT WIN ON TOP-SEEDED LYNX IN FINAL HOME GAME The only issue with this game is that we are not going to see Miles, and I'd doubt we'll see much of Collier either. The Fever are listing Caitlin Clark as probably to play. A win can give the Fever the 5th seed in the postseason, but a loss might put them at the sixth seed. Indiana can face the Dream or the Aces depending on where they land with their seeding, and I personally would rather face the Dream if I were them. I expect the Fever to go all out for this win and cover the -3.5 spread. There just isn't anything to gain for Minnesota. For more sports betting information and plays, follow David on X/Twitter: @futureprez2024 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab52f4475342cf4db88ffa0 Country music star Sam Barber bags a monster caribou on his recent Alaska hunting trip te 2026-09-24T14:10:12.485Z Country music star Sam Barber bags a monster caribou on his recent Alaska hunting trip Country music star Sam Barber bagged an incredible caribou on a recent hunting trip. Barber is one of the fastest rising talents in the country music world. The Missouri-born singer has released a pair of studio albums, and has several popular tracks. His collaboration with Avery Anna – "Indigo" – currently has more than 445 million streams on Spotify, but he's far from just a singer. MORGAN WALLEN PULLS OFF INCREDIBLE CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENT AS ANOTHER SONG HITS A BILLION STREAMS ON SPOTIFY He's also an impressive outdoorsman. The country music world and the hunting world have a lot of crossover. Now, Barber is adding to the mix. He recently posted several photos on Instagram from a hunting trip in Alaska that resulted in him harvesting a very impressive caribou. The "Dancing in the Sky" singer simply captioned the post, "Alaska 2026." You can check out the awesome photos below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. People were quick to offer reactions in the comments to the very successful hunting trip. One fan wrote, "Congrats dude!" Another wrote, "Oh yes look at that thing!" A third added, "Keep it up Sam! Congrats." SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER There's no question that Barber took down a great caribou, and hopefully, enjoys the meat and a possible mount. It's always great to see country music stars enter the hunting world. It's a natural combination. Do you have a great hunting story or photos to share? Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab52f3d75342cf4db88ff60 2 days left to save up to $200 on a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass — reason 4 of 5 to attend te 2026-09-24T14:10:05.035Z 2 days left to save up to $200 on a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass — reason 4 of 5 to attend Reason 4 of 5 to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Practical answers. Two days left to save up to $200 on your pass. Savings disappear after September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Bring a second guest at 50% off. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab52a9275342cf4db88fedf Reporter's Notebook: A guide to the college sports vote and Senate’s Ohio showdown te 2026-09-24T13:50:10.371Z Reporter's Notebook: A guide to the college sports vote and Senate’s Ohio showdown The Senate is poised to possibly pass by the end of this week a bill fundamentally altering money and eligibility rules in college sports. The Senate will take a test vote on the measure on Thursday. More than 70 senators support the bill that establishes a ceiling for how much money schools can allocate to pay students for their name, image and likeness. The legislation also limits transfers and sets eligibility standards. The Senate could pass the bill later on Thursday if there’s a time agreement. But does the Senate really want to make college sports the punctuation point before it leaves for the midterms? It’s possible that senators have no other choice. REPUBLICANS JUST GOT A POWERFUL NEW PLAYBOOK FOR THE BATTLE FOR CONGRESS. HERE'S WHAT'S INSIDE Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., wants to do a bipartisan permitting reform bill. The legislation would deal with data centers, drilling and environmental concerns — but that bill is aspirational and not yet ready for a vote. Thune said last night that the odds favored the Senate staying in session next week, which they were scheduled to do anyway. What has emerged is a dispute over the Ratepayer Protection Act. That bill passed the House last week 417-3. It would defray the cost of utilities consumers must pay if they reside near data centers. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, is one of the most vulnerable Republicans on the ballot this fall. He’s faced criticism back home for his support for data centers. So Husted asked the Senate last week to pass the House bill on the spot. FOX NEWS POLL: ECONOMIC ANXIETY AND CANDIDATE CONCERNS DEFINE OHIO SENATE RACE Reluctant to give Husted a win, Democrats blocked him. Now Republicans may want to stay in session and run all of the parliamentary traps to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act. For Republicans, that’s a better exclamation point before the recess. But look at this exchange yesterday between yours truly and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.: Pergram: Was this blocked in the Senate last week by Democrats as an effort to prevent Senator Husted from having a win in his competitive race? Schumer: Sen. Husted's bill is a fraud. It's voluntary. No company has to do it. The bill we have is mandatory. It is much stronger and is what is needed. WHO PAYS FOR US POWER BOOM? BLUE, RED STATES OFFER STARKLY DIFFERENT WAYS TO LOWER UTILITY BILLS AMID AI SURGE Republicans are sure to capitalize on the "fraud" part. You may even hear that in ads back in Ohio. Republicans will emphasize that Schumer is calling a bill which commanded 417 yeas in the House a "fraud." Therefore, Republicans want to get Democrats on the record about this bill. That could help lift the GOP before the midterms. And certainly Husted. So, it’s possible that once the Senate is done with this bill, it remains in session and tackles this measure next week — finally emphasizing an affordability issue. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5283e75342cf4db88fe6e Country music star Sam Barber bags a monster elk on his recent Alaska hunting trip te 2026-09-24T13:40:14.726Z Country music star Sam Barber bags a monster elk on his recent Alaska hunting trip Country music star Sam Barber bagged an incredible elk on a recent hunting trip. Barber is one of the fastest rising talents in the country music world. The Missouri-born singer has released a pair of studio albums, and has several popular tracks. His collaboration with Avery Anna – "Indigo" – currently has more than 445 million streams on Spotify, but he's far from just a singer. MORGAN WALLEN PULLS OFF INCREDIBLE CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENT AS ANOTHER SONG HITS A BILLION STREAMS ON SPOTIFY He's also an impressive outdoorsman. The country music world and the hunting world have a lot of crossover. Now, Barber is adding to the mix. He recently posted several photos on Instagram from a hunting trip in Alaska that resulted in him harvesting a very impressive elk. The "Dancing in the Sky" singer simply captioned the post, "Alaska 2026." You can check out the awesome photos below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. People were quick to offer reactions in the comments to the very successful hunting trip. One fan wrote, "Congrats dude!" Another wrote, "Oh yes look at that thing!" A third added, "Keep it up Sam! Congrats." SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER There's no question that Barber took down a great elk, and hopefully, enjoys the meat and a possible mount. It's always great to see country music stars enter the hunting world. It's a natural combination. Do you have a great hunting story or photos to share? Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab525e575342cf4db88fe0d Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders announce they're 'ready' for historic Rio trip, Sapp update & Mr T sighting te 2026-09-24T13:30:13.181Z Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders announce they're 'ready' for historic Rio trip, Sapp update & Mr T sighting Welcome to the final Thursday Screencaps of September and an edition where we visit with my old friend Warren Sapp who threatened to have me fired a few years back. Warren moved on from that confrontation. What's he up to now? He's been getting into confrontations at city halls and at police stations. More on that later. Let's start with the Dallas Cowboys' cheerleaders preparing for one of the most important moments in DCC team history. The Cowboys face the Ravens Sunday in what will be the first game to ever be played in Rio. Yes, the world-famous cheerleaders will be there. "Rio ready," the team announced Wednesday in a post featuring Australian cheerleader Faith Ward, who wore Carnival costumes while appearing in cruise ship shows. According to DCC insiders, the entire team will make the trip. "See ya in RIO COWBOYS NATION!!" cheerleader Marissa Leschber announced on Instagram. ROGER GOODELL DETAILS NFL EXPANSION POSSIBILITIES AND A TIMETABLE FOR A FULL SEASON OF INTERNATIONAL GAMES Any worries about weather can be put to rest. It's supposed to be 76 and sunny for Sunday's game. 📩 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 Screencaps readers who have been around for a few years will remember when I wrote about Sapp having a confrontation with an airline passenger that ended up on video. I eventually ended up on the phone with Warren, who was mad over the report. While on the phone, Warren threatened to have me fired and badgered me for 45 minutes, I believe. MINNESOTA CITY SUED FOR DEMANDING CHRISTIAN PREACHER PAY VENDOR FEE TO HOLD PRO-LIFE SIGN There was a sweet moment during our conversation where I told Warren that I had to cut him off because I had to get my kids from school. He immediately understood and agreed to continue badgering me until after I got my kids. Fast-forward to this month in Tampa. Warren is now in a confrontation with Tampa City Council that has turned into a First Amendment lawsuit. This follows a spring showdown with the Hollywood, Florida police department where he has been badgering cops since at least May of 2025. GOP LAWMAKERS URGE SUPREME COURT TO STRENGTHEN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS FOR STREET PREACHERS Warren fashions himself as a justice warrior. Here he is a year ago getting kicked out of a 2025 county meeting. The South Florida Kaepernick who has now moved his operation to Tampa. If you go back to 2023, Sapp couldn't stay out of confrontations on airplanes. It's weird how this just keeps happening to Sapp. SCATHING HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPORT ACCUSES NFL OF STRETCHING LAW'S LIMITED ANTITRUST EXEMPTION – Dave in NE Ohio goes all Sapp on me with some legal jargon: Ignore if an FCC social media flunkie answered your X post plea. Satellite and cable content, billing, pricing, format, etc., fall largely outside FCC purview.  Broadcasters use a part of the public transmission spectrum, which gives the FCC large regulatory sway.  Satellite and cable do not, so the FCC’s ability to regulate there is far less:  https://www.justia.com/communications-internet/cable-carriage-of-broadcast-stations/. Streaming platforms like YTT have glommed on to the satellite/cable advantages. Just because Google puts "TV" in the name doesn’t mean its product is subject to the same regulatory framework as offerings delivered directly from CBS or Fox. Paying for NFL Sunday Ticket package gets you a license that is governed by the Google T&C almost everyone skips over during the initial login process. Google assuredly spelled out its reservation of rights to advertise, at a minimum, its own and its affiliates products or services. If you're a Gen Z reading this column in Dayton, OH, I'm begging you to watch this case very closely and realize that Alleigha Botner could end up on a singles site looking for a relationship. RUN! Her testimony on Wednesday in the case of the American Idol contestant accused of murdering his wife was absolutely unreal. Botner is the mistress. Based on the text messages she read in court, she was pretty much begging the husband to shoot his wife. It turns out Botner and the husband were banging in a Vandalia, OH Chipotle parking lot. They were song leaders at a church along I-70 that I've passed thousands of times in my life. This case might end up being one of the highest profile in Dayton history by the time Botner finishes reading the text messages she and Caleb Flynn shared with each other. Buckle up. There are 34 books of text messages. 100,700 in total. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE – Brandon in NW Houston responds to Carmen Electra signing an NIL deal with BWW: Man...that little part about Carmen Electra, sports bars, and Buffalo Wild Wings really smacked me upside the head with some nostalgia.  It took me back to the late 90's/early 2000's when the future Mrs. and I would go to BW-3 in the Rice Village in Houston.  I believe it was the only one in Houston at the time, though I could be wrong, and it was before the place became "Buffalo Wild Wings," and it was 1000% better than any BWW today.  Waiting in line to order wings, finding a table, and watching college football was peak living.   The only negative about that place was, assuming because BW-3 started in Columbus, it was the meeting place for Houston Buckeye fans to meet up and watch OSU..I kid, I kid. I really miss those days. It turns to fall and Diesel is asking questions that your wife might find interesting. How many blankets should someone have in their house? Diesel says he and Mrs. Diesel have 10 blankets in their living room for just two people. To be fair, Diesel is a massive human. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Right now, I count four blankets in our living room for four people. However, that will go up during winter. Ladies, is there such a thing as too many blankets? ################# And with that, let's close up shop for this Thursday. Now I wait for Sapp to start blowing up my phone. As for the rest of you, go have a great day. If you don't see or hear from me again, Warren had me fired. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5213b75342cf4db88fd65 Bet365 Bonus Code: Bet $10 on Packers vs Falcons, Get $200 Win or Lose te 2026-09-24T13:10:19.704Z Bet365 Bonus Code: Bet $10 on Packers vs Falcons, Get $200 Win or Lose Thursday night in September means we have Thursday Night Football for all pigskin lovers. Tonight’s matchup between the Falcons and Packers should be a good one, and new users can earn $200 in bonus bets from bet365 when placing a $10 wager on the game. There are plenty of reasons to be excited about Week 3, but this game in particular features some fun battles. The biggest storyline of the game is about Michael Penix Jr. returning to action after starting the season with an injury. The Falcons actually were stuck with their third-string quarterback for the first two weeks.  Now that Penix Jr. returns to action, he will be asked to elevate an offense that has been inconsistent in two weeks. 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Ker'Sean Ramey, 41, died by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. CDT, The Associated Press reported. In the execution chamber, a prison chaplain rested his hand on Ramey's shoulder before leading him in a brief prayer. The warden then asked Ramey if he had any last words, the AP reported. Ramey praised God and thanked his friends, family and fellow death row inmates, whom he called his brothers. ARIZONA EXECUTES MAN WHO KILLED VICTIM BY DOUSING HIM IN GASOLINE AND SETTING HIM ON FIRE IN 2002 ATTACK "To the brothers on Texas death row that grew up with me, that poured into me and showed what it means to be a man, because I came in young, and didn’t understand what manhood was... to you brothers... I greatly appreciate you," Ramey said moments before the injection was prepared. As the pentobarbital took effect, Ramey took a deep breath, sputtered and began snoring. After 10 loud snores and two that were barely audible, he went still. He was pronounced dead 14 minutes after the injection was first administered. Ramey became the sixth inmate executed in Texas this year, with the state set to carry out three more lethal injections over the next two months. In January 2007, Ramey was convicted and sentenced to death for the August 2005 shootings of Samuel Roberts, 24, Tiffani Peacock, 18, and Celso Lopez, 38, at a home they shared in Edna, a small rural city about 100 miles southwest of Houston. 74-YEAR-OLD BECOMES FLORIDA'S OLDEST INMATE EXECUTED AFTER 1982 KILLING OF TEEN LeJames Norman, Ramey's accomplice, lived across the street from the house and the two came to believe there was cocaine there, according to court records. On Aug. 24, 2005, the men walked over to the home while wearing masks and knocked on the door. After Lopez answered the door, they forced their way inside, records show. After finding no drugs, the two men fatally shot Lopez, then killed Peacock and Roberts when they arrived at the home. Before fleeing for good, Ramey returned and shot the victims again to ensure they were dead, according to court documents. Norman was executed on Sept. 16 at the Huntsville prison, where all executions are carried out in Texas. MANHATTAN PROSTITUTE PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING 3 MEN WITH FENTANYL-LACED DRUGS IN ROBBERY SCHEME Hours before Ramey was put to death, the Supreme Court rejected his final appeal. Ramey's attorneys argued jurors never heard mitigating evidence about his upbringing, including that he endured physical abuse as a child and grew up in poverty. State prosecutors urged the Supreme Court to reject the appeal, calling it "meritless" and arguing the record showed Ramey had exhibited an escalating pattern of criminal behavior. Norman was arrested about five months after the killings while attempting to re-enter the United States from Mexico, where he had fled. During Ramey's January 2007 trial, Norman testified that both men took part in the shootings, while Ramey's attorneys argued Norman was solely responsible. Ramey's former girlfriend testified that she was with him when he threw two handguns into a lake after the killings and that he later gave her a detailed account of his role in the crime. Norman pleaded guilty to capital murder and was sentenced to death in December 2008. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5213975342cf4db88fd46 Americans lost over $20 billion to one type of crime. Here’s how we can fight it te 2026-09-24T13:10:17.602Z Americans lost over $20 billion to one type of crime. Here’s how we can fight it Almost all kinds of crime, from homicide to car theft, are down, according to the latest FBI data. That’s great news, but one type of less-reported crime is up — way up. Americans reported losing $20.9 billion to internet-enabled crime in 2025, 26% higher than the year before and the highest figure ever recorded by the FBI. Folks over 60 reported $7.7 billion of it, averaging $38,500 apiece. The real toll is even higher, since the Federal Trade Commission notes that most victims never make a report. It’s clear more needs to be done to protect Americans from these crimes. But many of the losses aren’t hacks where a firewall was breached or a password stolen. They’re scams where victims are persuaded to voluntarily send money to overseas bad actors. That’s an important distinction because a transfer that the customer has been convinced to make looks to every automated system in the chain like a legitimate one. CYBERCRIME LOSSES NEAR $21B: 5 WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR MONEY The fact that the money leaves the country should also inform government’s response. Treasury estimates Americans lost at least $10 billion in 2024 to scam operations in Southeast Asia, a 66% increase. These are sophisticated operations in Burma, Cambodia and Laos, many staffed by trafficked workers held in debt bondage or via violence. Social media has shifted these scams into overdrive. The FTC reports scams originating on social platforms cost Americans $2.1 billion last year, eight times the 2020 figure, and more than any other contact method. Sadly, artificial intelligence (AI) is being utilized by these thieves so that they no longer need to have English proficiency or a real photograph. AI VOICE SCAMS CAN CLONE YOUR FAMILY’S VOICE Washington’s reflex for years was to try to force domestic institutions to cover the costs. In December 2024, the outgoing Biden Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the operator of the Zelle payment network and three of its largest participating banks over scam losses. The suit was dismissed with prejudice three months later, which was the right outcome. American banks are already the most active force in the fight against both fraud and scams. Those institutions run real-time risk scoring on outbound payments, warn customers mid-transaction when money is headed to a new recipient and block transfers that trip their models — often while a customer insists the nice man from "the fraud department" is legitimate. NEW BANK SCAM LAWS COULD STOP SUSPICIOUS PAYMENTS Banks have, at great expense, already proven to be key partners with law enforcement. Juniper Research estimates financial institutions spent roughly $21 billion on fraud prevention in 2025. Because of banks’ coordinated efforts with law enforcement, the FBI’s Financial Fraud Kill Chain froze $679 million of $1.16 billion in attempted theft last year. Further crackdowns on thieves cannot come from banks alone. Scams today begin long before the money transfer. Sophisticated scammers engage via social media, calls, texts and emails to establish rapport and manipulate victims. These criminals trick consumers, sometimes for an extended time and while impersonating a loved one, then banks only see the last step. A defense that begins at the payment screen is insufficient. Meanwhile, reimbursement mandates would raise the cost of banking and payment services on which tens of millions of households depend while leaving foreign criminals with their stolen funds to carry out more illicit activities against Americans. The thieves only care if their online wallets are frozen and bosses are indicted, not if banks get stuck with the tab. Fortunately, the source-focused approach has shown progress. In October, the U.S. and U.K. jointly sanctioned 146 individuals and entities tied to Cambodia’s Prince Group, DOJ indicted its chairman, and prosecutors moved to seize 127,271 Bitcoin — billions of dollars’ worth, the largest forfeiture in Justice Department history. The Scam Center Strike Force has seized over $401 million for return to victims, and the FBI’s Operation Level Up has warned more than 8,000 Americans mid-scam. FBI SEIZES RECORD-SETTING $8 BILLION IN CRYPTOCURRENCY AMID INTERCONTINENTAL 'SCAM COMPOUND' CRACKDOWN But today’s temporary measures enacted by executive orders need to be made permanent via statute, and private-sector partnerships expanded. Collaboration requires intelligence sharing while protecting customer privacy. Joint analytics between telecommunications, social media, technology and banking firms with Treasury and FBI data would provide a network map no institution can see alone. Additionally, safe harbor clarifications would mean flagging suspicious activity isn’t itself a legal risk. WHITE HOUSE PUSHES 'WATERSHED' FRAUD-FIGHTING REFORM IN CONGRESS AS VANCE CONVENES TASK FORCE Scam syndicates should also be designated as terrorist organizations where they qualify, exposing their financiers to material-support charges and any foreign bank touching the money to secondary sanctions. Meanwhile, the State Department should attach diplomatic costs to hosting scam compounds. On the home front, telecom, tech and social media firms have a civic responsibility to American citizens to work more with Treasury, FTC and FCC in stopping criminals from preying on consumers. A basic first step for these companies is taking down fraudulent ads, instead of earning revenue from them at the expense of innocent consumers. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Congress, which has been conspicuously absent from this fight and derelict in duty, should raise penalties for cross-border scams, streamline extradition and give the statutory footing to current executive orders so that the crackdown on scammers survives beyond one administration. The best results will come from stopping criminals before they’re able to communicate with innocent Americans, alongside a source-focused strategy that attacks where the money goes. The thief is not in Charlotte or San Francisco but in a compound on another continent. Until that thief is punished, there’s no incentive for the scams to stop, and Americans will keep paying, one grandmother’s savings at a time. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM E.J. ANTONI Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5213875342cf4db88fd3d Trump administration uncovers $1.2B in suspected COVID contract fraud tied to Biden-era spending te 2026-09-24T13:10:16.528Z Trump administration uncovers $1.2B in suspected COVID contract fraud tied to Biden-era spending FIRST ON FOX: The Vance-led anti-fraud task force and the General Services Administration uncovered more than $1.2 billion in suspected COVID-era contract fraud as the White House anti-fraud task force continues its crackdown across the country. The General Services Administration, along with the Department of Health and Human Services, found that COVID emergency contracting continued after the pandemic emergency officially ended. The agencies also revealed that millions of vaccine contracts were awarded even after the pandemic ended under the Biden administration. "The COVID emergency ended over three years ago, yet fraudsters continue to weaponize outdated emergency contracts to abuse taxpayer dollars," GSA Administrator Edward C. Forst told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and Vice President Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, GSA uncovered $1.22 billion in suspected fraud across five HHS COVID-era contracts." AG BLANCHE UNVEILS FEDERAL CHARGES AGAINST 160 DEFENDANTS IN PANDEMIC RELIEF SWEEP "GSA will continue to work with the Vice President’s task force to stop improper payments, refer suspected fraud to law enforcement, and fight to recover every dollar," he added. While the funding uncovered is not currently tied to criminal charges for contractors, the agencies have pinpointed a significant amount of taxpayer dollars that may have otherwise been distributed for COVID vaccines and other pandemic-related services long after the national emergency ended. GSA estimates that an estimated 93% of the funding for the contracts has not yet been distributed to vendors, while roughly 6.78% has already been expended. The agency has since suspended payments to contractors as part of the initiative. "The COVID emergency ended in 2023. The emergency contract advantage didn't — until now." WHITE HOUSE PUSHES 'WATERSHED' FRAUD-FIGHTING REFORM IN CONGRESS AS VANCE CONVENES TASK FORCE White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Executive Director Scott Brady told Fox News Digital in a statement. "GSA's review uncovered $1.22 billion in suspected fraud and stopped $41 million more across five HHS COVID-era contracts that kept the emergency label alive long after the emergency was gone." Brady said that allocated emergency funding "is a privilege, not a blank check," while describing contractors who received funding to combat the pandemic at the time as "honest." He characterized any funding that was distributed beyond the emergency as a "free pass." WHITE HOUSE LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE MAP TRACKING BILLIONS IN SUSPECTED FRAUD The announcement comes after the General Services Administration found more than $13 billion in suspected contractor fraud in late August, and the Trump administration has declared a total of more than $245.7 billion has been uncovered since the president took office and that it has prevented an annualized $62.9 billion in fraudulent payments. The White House anti-fraud task force also says that more than $59.1 billion in indictments and settlements are being enforced. WHITE HOUSE TO YANK 750,000 FRAUDSTERS OFF OBAMACARE, SAVE TAXPAYERS $2.2 BILLION, VANCE SAYS The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid, has uncovered the most significant amount of fraud at $96.4 billion. As for the beneficiaries of fraudulent activity, the Trump administration has identified some foreign nationals who have infiltrated the federal contracting system and acquired funds while still residing in their home countries. EXCLUSIVE: FBI'S FIFTH MOST WANTED FRAUDSTER CAPTURED AFTER ALLEGED SNAP SCAM SUSPECT ARRESTED IN INDIA Earlier this month the FBI released a "Most Wanted" list highlighting alleged fraud suspects as the administration continues its broader crackdown on fraud. Officials say the involvement of foreign nationals in multiple schemes has heightened concerns about overseas actors exploiting U.S. government programs. Among those named is Onur Simsek, a Turkish national whom the FBI believes is living in Turkey. Prosecutors accuse Simsek of leading a defense procurement fraud scheme that secured U.S. military contracts by falsely certifying Turkish-made parts as tested and qualified, potentially rendering critical military equipment inoperable. FRAUD EXPERT EXPOSES HOW HIDDEN NETWORKS DROVE MINNESOTA FRAUD, OTHER MAJOR SCAMS: 'CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE' Federal authorities allege Simsek is one of a number of foreign nationals who have infiltrated and exploited U.S. federal funds to obtain taxpayer funds. In an interview with Fox News Digital last month, Vice President JD Vance said authorities have observed what he described as a "clear pattern" in some fraud cases involving immigrant communities. "You definitely see patterns in certain communities," Vance said. "It'll start as maybe one Somali person takes advantage of the system, or realizes you don't even have to have children to get money from these programs. You could just claim that you have children, there's no verification. Then, word spreads like wildfire, and that program gets tapped into by the same members of that community." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5213775342cf4db88fd34 ‘Rocky IV’ star Dolph Lundgren says he planned his own funeral during brutal cancer battle te 2026-09-24T13:10:15.522Z ‘Rocky IV’ star Dolph Lundgren says he planned his own funeral during brutal cancer battle This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Dolph Lundgren was preparing to die. The Swedish actor, who famously played Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in "Rocky IV," has written a new memoir, "Fights Worth Fighting: Finding Strength in Struggle." In it, the 68-year-old details his grueling journey with cancer. ‘ROCKY’ STAR DOLPH LUNDGREN SWEARS BY THIS SECRET FOR STRONG MARRIAGE Fox News may be compensated for or earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. The star was diagnosed in 2015 after doctors found a cancerous tumor in his kidney. Lundgren had surgery to remove the tumor and continued appearing in movies like "Creed II" and "Aquaman." After remaining cancer-free for five years, doctors discovered more tumors in 2020. He later learned the cancer had spread to his liver, both lungs, spine and in and around his left kidney. "I had a lot of difficult conversations with myself," Lundgren told Fox News Digital. "I definitely had a few tough ones. Of course, as most older men do, you do estate planning. You plan your will and who's going to get what. But in this case, it was around the corner. It was something I had to plan a little more in detail, like funerals and trying to figure out where I would be, what would be better for my family. Planning your own funeral is kind of a saying, but I literally was doing that. That was tough." WATCH: DOLPH LUNDGREN OPENS UP ABOUT CANCER BATTLE, BECOMING US CITIZEN IN ‘FIGHTS WORTH FIGHTING’ During that time, Lundgren said he considered ending his life. "At some point, which was even harder, I started thinking, 'Do I really want to be in bed weighing 60 pounds and having people come and see me like that? Or should I just end it myself?'" Lundgren said. "I started considering that. I spoke to my brother. We made a deal, and he would help me out if it came to that, if I made that decision. But it was a tough conversation." In the book, Lundgren wrote, "When I was deep into the cancer treatments and thinking about the possibility of killing myself, my brother, Johan, was going to help me, because I didn’t know what kind of condition I might be in once I made that decision. I could be in really bad shape by then and not capable of completing the suicide on my own." "There are countries in Europe, like Switzerland, that permit legal suicide for people who are terminally ill, but I still might have needed someone there to help me," he continued. "Johan and I talked about it, but once I met Dr. Drakaki and began feeling a little better, it never went any further than that." Lundgren’s longtime friend Johan Pramell also said in the memoir that the star "wanted to go out in glory like a Viking because he didn't want people to have to watch him suffer or fade away." Medical aid in dying is not synonymous with euthanasia, according to the Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. The journal states that laws allowing medical aid in dying permit eligible adults with terminal illnesses to self-administer medication when certain criteria are met. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Euthanasia, which is not legal in the United States, occurs when someone other than the patient administers medication with the intent of hastening the patient’s death, the journal states. According to Dignity in Dying, a U.K.-based advocacy organization, 10 countries in Europe have laws that allow people experiencing "unbearable suffering" to access assisted dying. But one thing was certain — Lundgren wasn't ready to die. "I have a certain discipline, a fighter's heart, since I was a kid," he told Fox News Digital. "I think that was helpful. I may have had these thoughts, but the other side of me wants to go another round to see what happens. Maybe the other guy will drop. You never know. I think that's a part of it." "But also, I believe being in good physical shape helped me, and continuing to work out through the whole thing," he said. "As much as I could, I would stay physically active. And then I was lucky to have my wife, who was very supportive, and my daughters." "They're the ones that kept me going by just their sheer presence," he added. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS At one point, a doctor in the U.K. told Lundgren he likely had two or three years left to live. Lundgren wrote in his memoir that he believed, based on the doctor's tone, his prognosis could have been closer to one or two years. After returning to Los Angeles, Lundgren sought a second opinion from Dr. Alexandra Drakaki, an oncologist at UCLA Health, whom he credited with saving his life. "At this point, I was depressed and had almost given up all hope," he wrote. According to the memoir, Drakaki determined that his cancer had been misdiagnosed, leading to a different treatment approach.  "What she found was that my 'kidney cancer' cells had a mutation that is fairly common in lung cancer," he wrote. "That's why the medications I had been given for the past two years weren't working." After Lundgren went public with his cancer battle, one heavyweight stood in his corner: Sylvester Stallone. "Stallone and I have a long history, a good, long relationship together," he said. "We've known each other for 40 years. We've made six films together over that period. He went from being a mentor, a boss on set, director, producer. I was just a new kid on the block. And then slowly, we moved together and became more equals, I would say, two older guys who've been in the business a long time. And he has three daughters, I have two, and we share that as well." "When I got sick, he reached out to me," Lundgren said. "It was unexpected because he was the first one, actually, who reached out of everybody, even before some of my family, when it came out. And he was very emotional about it. It touched me. And that was another side of him that I'd never seen. Since then, we've been very close friends, even closer than before." PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE In November 2024, Lundgren announced he was cancer-free. In his memoir, he reflects on whether performance-enhancing drugs may have played a role in his cancer battle. Lundgren wrote that he used anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs on and off from 1986 to 1996 while preparing for physically demanding movie roles. While he stressed that there is "no conclusive evidence" the drugs caused his cancer, he acknowledged they "might have helped cause" it, adding that he could not say for certain. "I wanted to be candid about my past and what I've been through," Lundgren explained. "And I think nobody knows what steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs do to us. The data is not conclusive. And I always thought it could not help me in my medical situation. I wanted to express a caution to people, to other young men, who may decide to try it, that it's not without risk." "I try to forgive and let go of everything from my past," he said. "That's very important to me. So, I don't blame myself. I was younger. I wasn't as smart as I am now. And I had pressures from the business. Is it really good for you? I doubt it. I really do." Now, Lundgren said he still has plenty of fight in him. "I've obviously touched a lot of people as an actor in my business, and that's good," he said. "I've brightened up people's lives. I think that's great. That makes me feel good. I now hope to offer a little inspiration to others. I know I have so much more I want to do." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5213675342cf4db88fd2b 'She-Hulk' star slams Tom Selleck, Michael Jordan as 'cowardly' for avoiding political talk te 2026-09-24T13:10:14.558Z 'She-Hulk' star slams Tom Selleck, Michael Jordan as 'cowardly' for avoiding political talk "She-Hulk" star Tatiana Maslany accused celebrities like Tom Selleck and Michael Jordan on Monday of behaving "cowardly" for not using their fame to push politics. Joining Mehdi Hasan on his podcast "We're Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends," the Marvel TV actress was praised for her past support for the "Free Palestine" movement and accusing Israel of committing a "genocide" in Gaza. Maslany said that she believed it was her job as an artist to address political issues. "To me, artists are like mirrors to the world, to society," Maslany said. "We have to name things, whether it's emotional mirroring to people the human experience or it's speaking out or it's naming something. It's like such an important, intrinsic part of our job." MS RACHEL SAYS BACKLASH OVER HER GAZA POSTS 'DOESN'T FAZE' HER AS SHE CALLS OUT CELEBRITY SILENCE Hasan then asked what she thought about other celebrities staying silent on political issues, referencing a recent CNN interview with "Blue Bloods" and "Magnum P.I." actor Tom Selleck where he declined to discuss politics, or NBA star Michael Jordan's famous "Republicans buy sneakers too" statement. "But all of it is political. Everything is political," Maslany responded. "All entertainment is political because it has a viewpoint and it has a perspective. It has visual representation of the world we live in or the kinds of things that are funny or acceptable or the ways that people relate to each other. It's all about inter-person, like there's no disconnect in my mind and to me, those are two very rich men who stand to lose a lot if they stand up for something."  Hasan agreed with Maslany that celebrities were more concerned about "fewer opportunities to make money" by dabbling in political discussion, a sentiment Maslany called "bizarre" and "cowardly." DOLLY PARTON REFUSED TO PICK POLITICAL SIDES FOR DECADES: ‘I’M NOT IN POLITICS, I’M AN ENTERTAINER’ "Art should destabilize people, too. I'm not thinking, like Tom Selleck's going like 'Magnum P.I. should really disturb people on a core level.' But like, art moves people, whether that's in like a shock way, a laughter way, all of it. It's a communication with the world ... It's such a bizarre mentality. It's so cowardly," Maslany said. In a comment to Fox News Digital, Media Research Center Video senior director Eric Scheiner called out Maslany for having the "typical leftist viewpoint that permeates Hollywood" and "the need to bully people into spouting forth a political opinion even when they choose not to." "Maslany and her irate ilk could learn from entertainment figures like Dolly Parton, whose recent passing was marked by loving tributes from everyone across the political and media spectrum," Scheiner said. "Parton quietly supported causes she believed in through private, personal actions. She never aired her politics on the public stage, because she wanted to entertain as many people as possible, not alienate a portion of her audience or encourage the ‘cancellation’ of those who disagreed with her."  DWAYNE 'THE ROCK' JOHNSON BRANDED A COWARD BY HOLLYWOOD STARS AFTER REFUSING TO SPEAK OUT ON POLITICS "Maslany should just leave Selleck and Jordan alone, but much like any neighborhood Karen, she just can’t mind her own business," he added. Maslany has been one of several celebrities who have been outspoken about political issues like Gaza, going so far as to condemn the Berlin Film Festival for its "silence" on the matter earlier this year. Fox News Digital reached out to Jordan and Selleck's representatives for comment but did not immediately hear back. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab51edf75342cf4db88fcce Gregg Popovich shocks NBA world with marriage to former assistant Mike Budenholzer's ex-wife te 2026-09-24T13:00:15.349Z Gregg Popovich shocks NBA world with marriage to former assistant Mike Budenholzer's ex-wife Love is in the air for Pop. Former San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, 77, is officially a married man again, tying the knot with Mary Barth Budenholzer, according to marriage records filed in Bexar County, Texas, on Sept. 16, 2026. Mary was previously married to former Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer for two decades, raising four kids together while he served as Popovich's top assistant during the Spurs dynasty. Bud spent 17 seasons on Pop’s staff in San Antonio (1996-2013), working his way up from video coordinator to lead assistant before departing. Along the way, he helped Popovich secure four NBA titles. Mike and Mary quietly divorced in 2016, and Popovich suffered his own tragedy two years later when his wife of 42 years, Erin, passed away following a long illness. Popovich's unexpected wedding also comes a little over a year after he officially stepped away from the NBA sidelines. In November 2024, Popovich suffered a mild stroke at the arena right before a home game. Further medical complications ultimately forced him to step off the bench, handing the reins to Mitch Johnson as he shifted into a front-office advisory role as the Spurs' president of basketball operations. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Popovich walked away as the NBA's all-time winningest coach with 1,391 regular-season victories, five championship rings, three Coach of the Year awards and an Olympic gold medal. In the final stretch of his coaching run, Pop became almost as famous for his preachy political lectures at the press podium. Popovich already has a vault stacked with NBA championship hardware from his legendary run in San Antonio. This newest ring might just be the sweetest one of all. Send us your thoughts: alejandro.avila@outkick.com / Follow along on X: @alejandroaveel Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab51ede75342cf4db88fcc5 Lane Kiffin suggests Ole Miss broke rules with in-stadium music during LSU's loss to Rebels te 2026-09-24T13:00:14.465Z Lane Kiffin suggests Ole Miss broke rules with in-stadium music during LSU's loss to Rebels Lane Kiffin seems to believe that his LSU team was put in an unfair situation during the Tigers' loss at Ole Miss, and it had nothing to do with anything taking place inside the white lines, but instead, it involved someone pressing a button at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. During Wednesday's SEC coaches' teleconference call, Kiffin made a subtle yet pointed remark accusing Ole Miss' game operations of playing music for too long of a time when LSU's offense was on the field. "Those games happen, and a lot of factors go into that," Kiffin said, referring to the atmosphere at Ole Miss on Saturday night. "We didn't protect really well around him [quarterback Sam Leavitt]; the crowd noise and music being played all the way through the snap when the center's hand is on the ball. Again and again." SEC rules require stadium music to stop once the center touches the ball. While Kiffin may have a case to be made that Ole Miss played music over its stadium speakers a bit too long, it's hard not to interpret his comments as an excuse. LANE KIFFIN COULDN'T HELP HIMSELF, TAKES PETTY SHOT AT OLE MISS FANS AFTER LSU LOSS IN HIS RETURN TO OXFORD Kiffin laid out the accusation when asked about Leavitt's struggles during the contest, and making a comment about music being played inside the stadium three days after the game ended seems unnecessary. By no means did he pin his team's loss on the fact that music was being played when his team possessed the football, but Kiffin bringing the topic up opens himself up to criticism. Kiffin's return to Ole Miss in Week 3 made for one of the most emotionally charged atmospheres college football has ever seen after the head coach left Oxford for LSU just days before the Rebels played in their first-ever College Football Playoff game. Ole Miss announced during the contest that it set a new all-time attendance record at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium with 70,033 fans in the stands. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER The Rebels fed off the energy early and jumped out to a commanding 17-0 lead early in the second quarter before taking a 24-7 lead into halftime. Kiffin's Tigers clawed their way back into the contest, scoring 17 unanswered points, but Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss stepped into his all-too-familiar role of game-changer late in the game and led the Rebels to a 32-24 victory. Chambliss threw for 363 yards in the game, while Leavitt threw for 158 yards and picked up another 63 yards on the ground. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab51ed475342cf4db88fc83 Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law te 2026-09-24T13:00:04.554Z Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab51c8175342cf4db88fc39 NASCAR Hall of Famer diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration, possible CTE from racing te 2026-09-24T12:50:09.828Z NASCAR Hall of Famer diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration, possible CTE from racing NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip has been diagnosed with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), complicated by possible chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to a statement his family put out Wednesday. Waltrip, now 79, won 84 races over a nearly 30-year NASCAR Cup Series career, including three championships. His family said the possible CTE stems from "injuries incurred during his racing career." NASCAR HALL OF FAMER NED JARRETT, LEGENDARY DRIVER AND BROADCASTER, DIES AT 93 "While this disease will inevitably progress, thankfully it is currently limited to some minor noticeable symptoms," the statement, put out by Darrell and his wife, Stevie, said. "As a result, he will be stepping further away from the public limelight. Be assured, Darrell is happy and otherwise healthy — spending his time with his wife, Stevie, two daughters and his three young grandchildren. We are all grateful for your continued prayer, love and support! "Boogity! Boogity! Boogity!" Stunning news out of the NASCAR world. You won't find a more universally loved racer in the series than Darrell Waltrip. He's a three-time champ, a Daytona 500 winner, and his 84 wins are fifth-most in NASCAR Cup Series history. Of course, to a large portion of the fanbase, he's better known as the NASCAR on FOX analyst who coined the term "Boogity Boogity Boogity" at the start of every race. Waltrip spent 19 years in the FOX booth before retiring in 2019. His first race was the infamous 2001 Daytona 500, where Dale Earnhardt died on the final lap, and Waltrip's brother, Michael, won his first race. "I sure hope Dale's OK," Waltrip famously said from the booth while Michael was doing his victory lap. NASCAR fans haven't seen nearly as much of Waltrip since he retired in 2019, but he has occasionally rejoined the broadcast booth for brief cameos. His most recent surprise visit came earlier this year, when he gave another "Boogity Boogity Boogity" from the booth at Darlington in March. 7 NEW DEMENTIA RISK FACTORS REVEALED — INCLUDING ONE MILLIONS STRUGGLE WITH According to the American Brain Foundation, frontotemporal degeneration (also known as frontotemporal dementia), is a group of neurodegenerative disorders associated with changes in the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes. These areas of the brain control functions related to personality, behavior, and language. The Mayo Clinic says this could impact the way one acts and could make someone impulsive or show less response to other people's feelings. Others lose the ability to use or understand language. As for the possible CTE ... THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Waltrip obviously got into hundreds of wrecks over his nearly 30-year racing career. That's just the nature of the beast. He also raced during a much different era in NASCAR. KYLE SHANAHAN, RETURNING AFTER SERIOUS CAR CRASH, HAS NEW PERSPECTIVE ON TESLA AUTOPILOT AND CONCUSSIONS The cars were not nearly as safe back then as they are now. Frankly, it's not even close. Drivers got seriously injured during Waltrip's racing career. Some died. Earnhardt's crash in 2001 changed things for good, but even his son, Dale Earnhardt Jr., famously dealt with concussions toward the end of his racing career. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Earlier this year, Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman missed several races because of vertigo. He missed five races in 2022 due to a concussion. Bowman said last month he plans to retire after next season. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5158075342cf4db88facd Online college for working adults: What to look for te 2026-09-24T12:20:16.045Z Online college for working adults: What to look for (BPT) - Sponsored by University of Phoenix Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5157f75342cf4db88fac4 Online college for working adults: What to look for te 2026-09-24T12:20:15.102Z Online college for working adults: What to look for Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5132875342cf4db88fa5b NEW FanDuel Promo Code Unlocks $250 in Bonuses for Packers-Falcons Ahead of Thursday Night Football te 2026-09-24T12:10:16.502Z NEW FanDuel Promo Code Unlocks $250 in Bonuses for Packers-Falcons Ahead of Thursday Night Football Tired legs can be the story of Thursday Night Football, but does that have the same impact early in the season as it does late in the year? It is something to consider if you’re taking advantage of FanDuel’s offer of $250 in bonuses when betting on the Packers vs. Falcons on Thursday Night Football. Looking at a team’s backfield is just one portion of the offense, but it is a really important part. If you can’t run the ball, it makes it harder to pass. If you can run the ball, short-yardage plays have virtually the entire playbook open, opposing defensive lines struggle, and you can control the clock.  The Atlanta Falcons used a very high draft pick to take Bijan Robinson a few years back, and he has been solid, but not quite the difference-maker you’d expect in every game. Maybe that’s due to his offensive line; maybe it is due to his defense giving up too many points and making Atlanta abandon the run. Through two games, the team has certainly looked to Robinson to lead the way. He has 37 carries for 155 yards (4.2 yards per carry), but no touchdown. Through the air, he has caught 11 of 14 passes for 99 yards, and his only score of the season.  The Green Bay Packers are without their primary running back, Josh Jacobs, who is dealing with some legal trouble. So far, it has been a bit of a backfield-by-committee approach from the Packers. The main leader is MarShawn Lloyd with 19 carries for the season, but he has just 57 yards, resulting in three yards per carry. Chris Brooks has gotten another 11 carries, but for just 40 yards. Kaleb Johnson has gotten the call eight times and averages four yards per carry.  Betting on a backfield is just one of many options that would be available to you from FanDuel tonight. FanDuel Sportsbook is offering you a chance to earn a $50 reward token each day for five days if you place at least one $5 wager per day starting with tonight’s Falcons vs. Packers game. Player Comparisons Quarterback Running Back Wide Receiver Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5132775342cf4db88fa52 George Clooney rushes to Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford's side after son Presley's death te 2026-09-24T12:10:15.777Z George Clooney rushes to Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford's side after son Presley's death George Clooney rushed to Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford's side days after their only son, Presley Gerber, died of a "suspected overdose." The "Ocean's Eleven" actor and wife Amal Clooney were spotted arriving Tuesday at Kaia Gerber's home in Los Angeles, Calif. Clooney, 65, a long-time friend of the family, who also launched multiple businesses with Rande, was reportedly referred to as "Uncle George" by the Gerber kids. PRESLEY GERBER'S FINAL HOURS AT REHAB IN FOCUS AMID CAUSE OF DEATH QUESTIONS "George would spend hours talking to Presley," a source told the DailyMail. "George is the nicest guy in the world and would do anything to help Rande's family." "Especially after Presley got a DUI (in 2018), George would advise, 'Don't do that, it's not smart. Be careful.' More recently, George shared loving notes like, 'I am here for you,' that kind of stuff." PRESLEY GERBER DEAD AT 27: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT CINDY CRAWFORD, RANDE GERBER'S FAMILY The source noted that Clooney was "close" with Presley, who he considered "more than just a friend's kid; they had a bond." The "Good Night, and Good Luck" actor will now reportedly focus on how he can best support his friend's family. "He feels absolutely awful for Rande and the entire family, and he wants them to know that he is there for them in any way, shape or form," the insider said. "George has always been the person people turn to when they're going through something, and with something of this magnitude, that isn't going to change." KID ROCK CALLS PRESLEY GERBER’S DEATH A ‘TRAGEDY’ AS EX-GIRLFRIEND SAYS HE ‘DESERVED MORE TIME’ They added, "It doesn't matter how busy he is or what he has going on in his own life — if Rande or anyone in the family needs him, everything else stops. It's really that simple. That's what family does." Rande became a prominent figure in the hospitality industry years ago through his Gerber Group, which operated bars, lounges and restaurants in hotels and entertainment venues around the world. Rande later joined forces with actor George Clooney and real estate developer Mike Meldman to create Casamigos tequila. The brand began as a private venture among friends before becoming a major spirits company. Rande’s friendship and business partnership with Clooney also connected the two families. Cindy and Rande built a home next door to Clooney’s property in Los Cabos, Mexico, with the two residences designed as neighboring villas. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE Years ago, Rande confirmed a longtime rumor that Clooney once gifted 14 friends $1 million each, and also paid their taxes for a year. "There's a group of guys that we call ‘The Boys.' George had called me and ‘The Boys' and said, ‘Hey, mark September 27, 2013 on your calendar. Everyone's going to come to my house for dinner," Gerber recalled. Gerber said he and "The Boys" arrived at Clooney’s home to find black designer luggage bags at each place setting on the table. When they opened the bags, they found "a million dollars in 20 dollar bills," E! News reported. "George begins to say, 'Listen, I want you guys to know how much you’ve meant to me and how much you mean to me in my life," Rande recalled. "'I came to L.A., I slept on your couch. I’m so fortunate in my life to have all of you and I couldn’t be where I am today without all of you. So, it was really important to me that while we’re still all here together, that I give back. So I want you all to open your suitcases.'" PRESLEY GERBER'S DEATH BEING INVESTIGATED AS 'A SUSPECTED OVERDOSE': POLICE Gerber added, "Every one of us – 14 of us – got a million dollars. Every single one of us. We’re in shock." "He goes, 'I know we’ve all been through some hard times, some of you are still going through it. You don’t have to worry about your kids, you don’t have to worry about, you know, school, you don’t have to worry about paying your mortgage,'" he added. Gerber said some of their friends were going through a difficult time, including one who was working at a Texas airport's bar trying to make ends meet for his family. Gerber recalled pulling Clooney aside and refusing to take the generous gift, but Clooney then replied: "I’m just going to make one announcement. If Rande doesn’t take the million dollars, nobody gets it." PRESLEY GERBER, SON OF CINDY CRAWFORD AND RANDE GERBER, DEAD AT 27 Gerber took the money and donated it to charity. "This is who George is. That was September 27th, 2013. Now September 27th, 2014, he marries Amal. Now that’s good karma right there," Gerber said. Shortly after The Clooneys welcomed their twins in 2017, George and Rande sold their Casamigos tequila brand for $1 billion to British beverage giant Diageo. The pair, along with partner Mike Meldman, created the brand in 2013. Diageo said it will pay $700 million for Casamigos at first, and then pay another $300 million over 10 years if the brand reaches certain performance milestones. "If you asked us four years ago if we had a billion dollar company, I don’t think we would have said yes," Clooney said in a statement to Fox News. "This reflects Diageo's belief in our company and our belief in Diageo. We'll still be very much a part of Casamigos. Starting with a shot tonight. Maybe two." GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE During a recent appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," Kaia Gerber reflected on her bond with the "One Fine Day" actor. "It's so annoying, but I do call him Uncle George," the supermodel admitted before revealing she used to be on the receiving end of his world-famous gags. "Yes, they're infamous pranks, but yes I was," Kaia said. "There was a rubber snake that sort of circulated, that was getting passed back and forth, and it got me every single time." She confessed that it was "impossible" to retaliate against Clooney as he is always dedicated to his craft. "You can't," she said. "His pranks will last years. He'll spent years just so that he can get you. And I just don't have the patience for that ... He's the busiest man ever, and yet he finds years to spend conducting these very elaborate pranks." Clooney was once on hand to watch Kaia during a community theater performance of "Beauty and the Beast," to which she said he could be heard "laughing the whole time" in a video recording. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "All you can hear in this recording is George's specific and very identifiable laugh," she said, before adding, "I'm choosing that he was being supportive." Presley died Sunday, Sept. 20 at a rehabilitation facility in Santa Monica, according to records from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Gerber reportedly checked into the facility on Saturday night and died Sunday morning. Representatives for Resolutions Living did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. The deputy medical examiner (DME) told Fox News Digital that "the investigation is still ongoing and there is limited information available," and his cause of death has not yet been released. Santa Monica Police Department officials are investigating the death as "a suspected overdose," according to a release from the department. A representative for the family told Fox News Digital, "The family is asking for privacy during this very difficult and painful time." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5132775342cf4db88fa49 DNA from Thomas Jefferson's hair delivers compelling new evidence in centuries-old paternity mystery te 2026-09-24T12:10:15.011Z DNA from Thomas Jefferson's hair delivers compelling new evidence in centuries-old paternity mystery A centuries-old question over Thomas Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved, is back in the spotlight — and new DNA evidence reinforces what historians have long concluded. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and operates Monticello, addressed the new findings in a recent statement ahead of the publication of anthropologist Richard Kurin's book, "History by a Hair." The book details an effort to analyze strands of hair linked to Jefferson, including hair discovered between the pages of an unpublished manuscript associated with him. DISCOVERY AT MONTICELLO REVEALS CONSTRUCTION SECRETS THOMAS JEFFERSON LEFT OUT OF MAPS AND LETTERS Using those genetic comparisons, researchers modeled competing paternity scenarios involving Jefferson, plus his brother Randolph and Randolph's sons.  The analysis found the odds that Jefferson fathered neither Madison Hemings nor Eston Hemings were less than one in 1,000. In a statement, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation said the findings reinforce, rather than rewrite, the historical record. "The study doesn't change what we know about Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, their children or their world," the foundation said. "But it offers occasion to reflect on how we came to know it, and why we share that knowledge." DNA CRACKS CENTURIES-OLD MURDER MYSTERY INVOLVING ONE OF HISTORY'S MOST FAMOUS FAMILIES "Together, these histories give us a fuller picture of Monticello, of Jefferson and his world, and of the generations of Americans who have worked to realize the Declaration's promise," the foundation added. Fox News Digital reached out to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation for further comment. Leigh Fought, professor emerita of history at Le Moyne College in DeWitt, New York, and author of the book "Sally Hemings: Given Her Time," also said the new evidence reinforces what historians had already known. "This should close the case with a lock," Fought, who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital. REVOLUTIONARY WAR ARTIFACTS UNEARTHED AT SITE OF INFAMOUS COLONIAL AMERICAN HEIST: 'VERY SURPRISED' "I was already positive that the case should have been closed. No other historical event, especially of that time, has had to amass this much evidence to say it happened." Rumors that Jefferson fathered children with Hemings circulated during his lifetime and persisted for generations, Fought said, while a 1998 DNA study largely settled the question for historians. The 1998 study found a genetic link between a male-line descendant of Hemings' son Eston and the Jefferson male line. Fought said skeptics continued to advance alternative theories, including that Jefferson's brother, Randolph, could have been the father of Hemings' children — an explanation she said the new evidence rules out. SECRETS OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR BATTLEFIELDS EMERGE 250 YEARS AFTER AMERICA'S FOUNDING "This evidence says that’s not true either. It was definitely [Thomas] Jefferson," Fought said. Beyond resolving questions about the paternity of Hemings' children, the expert said the story offers an opportunity to focus on Hemings herself and the choices she faced while she was enslaved at Monticello. "She's an unbelievably fascinating woman, partly because of the mystery of her as a person," the historian said, noting that not many records of her survive. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Despite her circumstances, Fought said Hemings did what she could to secure a better future for her children. "Here’s probably one of the most powerful men in the country and certainly one of the most recognizable men in American history," she said. "And here she was giving birth to his children, and she was one of the most powerless types of people in the country." CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS "She took what little agency she had and made sure that her children were going to have a better life," Fought said. "They were going to be free." TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ Fought said Jefferson's legacy should be viewed in all of its complexity. "When you study history, you study humanity," she said. "If you think Jefferson was awesome, you can still keep thinking he’s awesome, but he also did this thing," added Fought. "And you can think what you want to think about that. And that’s life." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5132675342cf4db88fa40 Trump-Xi summit could hold key to lower gas prices, GOP chairman says te 2026-09-24T12:10:14.247Z Trump-Xi summit could hold key to lower gas prices, GOP chairman says President Donald Trump has a prime opportunity to help lower costs for Americans in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the top GOP lawmaker overseeing U.S. diplomacy told Fox News Digital. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., argued that China is one of the biggest culprits in Americans' current struggle with high cost of living — particularly at the gas pump. He blamed China's willingness to arm Iran in its ongoing conflict with the U.S., which has wreaked havoc on global trade by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz. "If President Trump can secure that China will stop arming Iran, who is trying to destabilize this key oil route through the globe, then the president will have done something very important for affordability, especially in terms of global crude prices, which equal prices at the pump here in the United States of America," Mast said. TRUMP-XI SUMMIT SHOULD MAKE SURE AMERICAN STRENGTH DELIVERS AMERICAN RESULTS Cost of living and affordability are fast becoming top issues in the coming November midterm elections, with both parties accusing the other of pushing policies that will make life more expensive for everyday Americans. Gas prices are a particular flashpoint, with the ongoing U.S. war with Iran being blamed for the rising cost of oil. TRUMP-BACKED IOWA US SENATE HOPEFUL SAYS IRAN WAR MUST 'BE BROUGHT TO A SUCCESSFUL AND IMMEDIATE END' The current national average cost of a gallon of gas is $4.47, up more than 30 cents since Sept. 3. Mast said China "probably is the number one actor that is working to raise those prices," with its support of both Iran and Russia's wars. BESSENT PREDICTS OIL PRICES COULD DROP AS LOW AS $40 AFTER IRAN CONFLICT ENDS AND SUPPLY FLOODS MARKET He said Trump has a prime opportunity on Thursday to press Xi on easing up on that support for Tehran, in particular. "China is arming Iran so that Iran can indiscriminately attack civilians moving through the strait. That is the fundamental difference about what China is doing ... the United States, looking to protect all of those resources going through there, the civilians going on the ships through there and the civilians across all of the countries throughout the Gulf," Mast said. Over the last two months, Mast said, Trump "moved over a billion barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz." "He's moved over 2,000 ships through the Strait of Hormuz, civilian merchant ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has moved nothing. But that doesn't mean that the global oil markets don't see instability," Mast said. WHO CONTROLS THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ RIGHT NOW? HERE'S WHAT THE SHIP TRAFFIC ACTUALLY SHOWS Thursday's summit will mark Trump's third meeting with Xi of this term, and Xi's first visit to the U.S. since the commander-in-chief returned to the White House last year. Asked what leverage Trump has to press Xi on Iran, Mast pointed to the Russia-Iran sanctions bill the president recently signed into law. That legislation was named after the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of the most vocal critics of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "China is the number one target for that sanctions bill. It would affect, has the potential to affect, a great deal of trade if President Trump chooses not to waive some of his sanction authorities that he's given in that bill," Mast said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5132575342cf4db88fa37 Caesars Sportsbook Promo Code FOXNEWSDYW: Double Your Winnings When You Bet $1 on Packers-Falcons te 2026-09-24T12:10:13.407Z Caesars Sportsbook Promo Code FOXNEWSDYW: Double Your Winnings When You Bet $1 on Packers-Falcons The Falcons fly into Green Bay to take in the Packers tonight on Thursday Night Football. Caesars Sportsbook is offering new users promo code FOXNEWSDYW to earn double your winnings on your next ten bets if you wager $1 or more on tonight’s game.  Most of the credit and blame goes to the quarterbacks for teams. They are in charge of running the plays, organizing the team, and getting everyone where they need to be. Additionally, they are in charge of actually handing the ball to the running backs, or throwing to the receivers. In tonight’s contest, Michael Penix Jr. and Jordan Love battle to get their receivers in the right position.  Penix Jr. is taking the ball, and he will look for a wide variety of options. The Falcons are led in receptions, targets, and yards by their running back Bijan Robinson, instead of a wide receiver. For more traditional receivers, Drake London is looking for his first touchdown of the season, but he has hauled in six of his 10 targets for a total of 80 yards. Kyle Pitts only has one reception this season, and just four targets. He needs to be more involved in the offense. Perhaps that will happen now that Penix Jr. is playing instead of Cooper Rush.   Love has done a nice job of spreading the ball around as he really doesn’t have a traditional primary receiving option. Christian Watson and Matthew Golden have both caught 10 receptions this season. 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Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab510d075342cf4db88f9b1 Fanatics Sportsbook Promo Code FOXNEWS350: Bet $20, Get $350 on Green Bay Packers vs Atlanta Falcons te 2026-09-24T12:00:16.593Z Fanatics Sportsbook Promo Code FOXNEWS350: Bet $20, Get $350 on Green Bay Packers vs Atlanta Falcons Falcons. Packers. Thursday Night Football. It really doesn’t get much better than spending the evening watching what should be a great football game. Fanatics Sportsbook has found a way to make it better, though, by offering new users an opportunity to bet $20 and earn $350 in FanCash when using promo code FOXNEWS350. You might know that Brett Farve is the most common tie between these two teams, but let’s take a look back at the history between these two squads. The Falcons and Packers have combined to face each other 36 times in their histories. To this point, the Packers have the advantage, winning 19 of the 36 games.  The most recent game between these two clubs happened in 2023, and the Falcons won when they hosted the Packers. The teams are significantly different from that point. Jordan Love is still under center for Green Bay, and he threw for three touchdowns in that game. However, the backfield and wide receiving options are completely different for him.  Over on the Falcons side, the turnover is just as significant. Desmond Ridder was the starting quarterback for Atlanta in that one. However, they did have Bijon Robinson and Drake London. Robinson ran the ball 19 times for 124 yards, and hauled in four receptions for another 48. London did get a touchdown reception in the game. The Falcons were able to win the game by one point after a big fourth quarter. Can they do that again tonight in Green Bay? 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The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a ruling last week that endorsed a lower court order that Immigration and Customs Enforcement must allow migrants a meaningful chance to claim they would be endangered if deported to a third-party country. This week, however, ICE officials attempted to move forward with deporting at least one migrant, who originally hails from Peru, to Ghana. LIBERIA AGREES TO ACCEPT 1,200 THIRD-COUNTRY DEPORTEES FROM US WITHIN A YEAR The Trump administration has repeatedly used third-party countries for deportations to execute removal orders on migrants who claim they would be tortured if returned to their country of origin. ICE argued the Peruvian migrant, identified as John Doe, could still be removed because the First Circuit had not formally issued a mandate striking down the policy, according to The American Prospect. TRUMP PLANS TO DEPORT IRANIANS TO VIOLENCE-PLAGUED CENTRAL AFRICAN NATION IN NEW DEAL When asked for a clarification this week, the First Circuit formally issued that mandate, striking down a stay that had allowed third-party deportations to continue while the case was being litigated in higher courts. "Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved," the appeals court wrote in a brief order on Wednesday. FEDERAL APPEALS COURT COMPARES TRUMP MIGRANT DETENTION POLICY TO JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT The First Circuit's ruling upheld a February 2026 decision from Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, who contended that the third-party deportations violated migrants' due process rights because it could send them to unfamiliar or dangerous countries without their knowledge. 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Earlier in the week, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy mocked Williams, calling him a "thespian" after he was carted off the field for what was revealed to be a hamstring strain. Portnoy said the emotion Williams displayed was akin to what you'd see for a season-ending injury such as an ACL tear, not a tweak that's put him on a week-to-week basis. CALEB WILLIAMS AVOIDS MAJOR HAMSTRING INJURY AS MRI REVEALS A STRAIN BUT NO TEAR AFTER VIKINGS GAME SCARE Williams didn't take too kindly to the call-out, and went after Dave on X — using not his own words but those of a poster named Daemar.  ''The guy that had a kid arrested and expelled from school for throwing pennies at him is calling someone else soft LMFAOOOOOO," Daemar said of Portnoy. Williams reposted the comment — which garnered 1.3 million views and 35K likes — to little media or fan criticism. Except ... Daemar was running cover for a clear antisemite. Here's a more thorough explanation. In the fall of 2025, Mississippi State student Patrick McClintock was caught on camera yelling "F—k the Jews!" before tossing coins at Portnoy, who's Jewish. This wasn't a random gesture. The American Jewish Committee made note that such coin-tossing is an "age-old antisemitic trope about Jews and greed." Portnoy posted a video of the affair and condemned the act — calling the student a "loser" while decrying an uptick in his personal antisemitic experiences. As Outkick's Armando Salguero pointed out, McClintock was later arrested independently for disturbing the peace.  In other words, Portnoy blasted an antisemite in a time when antisemitism is on the clear rise. Sorry, but that does not disqualify you from ridiculing a quarterback for being melodramatic. REPORTER FOR THE ATHLETIC FUMES OVER ARCH MANNING, SILENT ON JOSH JACOBS' ALLEGED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMAN Portnoy has since responded to Williams' repost by accusing him of spreading misinformation about him. And though he seemed to make a peace offering by saying "I will not hold this against Caleb...I'm rooting for him and all of Chicago," one has to wonder what the response would have been like if the repost had been in a different context. For instance, if there had been a highly publicized anti-Black incident on a college campus, I doubt reposting an X user dismissing the affair would be treated so warmly by social media users. If there had been a homophobic or anti-woman gesture, there likely would have been a media uproar if a prominent athlete condoned it. Look what happened to Texas quarterback Arch Manning when he laughed at an AI meme involving ESPN's Holly Rowe getting slapped by Steve Sarkisian. He was shamed into apologizing for something that was fake. Portnoy being blatantly discriminated against for being Jewish was very real.  THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Emails attempting to reach the Bears and NFL for comment were not returned, and that's understandable. Williams probably didn't know exactly what he was reposting, and giving this matter any extra attention doesn't help the team or the league. It's also predictable that much of the public seems to side with Williams on this issue. They probably don't know the full extent of what Portnoy — a highly polarizing figure — endured in Starkville that day. But it is noteworthy how different types of discrimination are treated. Some are condemned swiftly and harshly, others are shrugged off almost entirely. Portnoy has been a strong critic of cancel culture and clearly doesn't want to see Williams suffer anymore than he has. He took the path of forgiveness and will be better off for it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who don't think Williams needs forgiveness. They simply don't think he did anything wrong. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab509c475342cf4db88f826 The secret list that tells scammers you're an easy target te 2026-09-24T11:30:13.000Z The secret list that tells scammers you're an easy target Somewhere in a marketing database, something you did years ago could still be helping a company decide what you might respond to next. Maybe you entered a sweepstakes or signed up for a business seminar. That kind of response can become valuable data. Federal court records show just how far that can go. In a case involving data broker Epsilon Data Management, employees had a name for people targeted by certain solicitations: "opportunity seekers." Those opportunity seeker lists became especially valuable when they reached people running fraud schemes. And as you'll see, the idea of sorting people based on what they are likely to respond to has not disappeared. NEW! 🩺 Free CyberGuy LIVE class: Get Better Healthcare With AI, Saturday, September 26 at 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson will show you five practical ways AI can help you organize your health history, remember important appointment details, understand complicated medical information, research prescriptions and prepare smarter questions for your doctor. No technical experience is needed. Save your free spot at CyberGuyLive.com. Register and receive the replay and step-by-step guide afterward. HOW SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY DATA CAN REACH SCAMMERS "Opportunity seeker" sounds like harmless marketing jargon. But in the Epsilon case, the Department of Justice (DOJ) showed how that label was being used inside a business unit that worked with fraudulent clients. According to Epsilon's deferred prosecution agreement, the company's clients included businesses sending deceptive solicitations involving sweepstakes, astrology, auto warranties, dietary supplements and government grants. Epsilon employees called the people targeted by those offers "opportunity seekers" and referred to the clients sending them as "opportunistic." The court filing also says those opportunity seekers frequently came from the same group: older and vulnerable Americans. Then there was the data behind the label. DOJ says Epsilon used transactional data and algorithms to identify "responsive buyers," or people most likely to respond to certain offers. Its database covered about 100 million U.S. households. Think about what that means. If you responded to one offer, that response could become a signal that you might respond to another. In the hands of a fraudster, that kind of information can make it much easier to decide who to target first. Epsilon eventually agreed to pay $150 million, including $22.5 million in criminal penalties and $127.5 million for victim compensation. Two former Epsilon employees, Robert Reger and David Lytle, were later convicted. A federal judge sentenced Reger to 10 years in prison and Lytle to four years. According to the DOJ, they sold nearly 100 lists of names and addresses to one fraudulent client. That client used the information in a scheme that defrauded more than 218,000 people out of more than $23.7 million. Even more alarming, DOJ says more than 12,000 people were defrauded by that single scheme more than 20 times each. Other cases followed. KBM Group entered a deferred prosecution agreement requiring a $33.5 million victim compensation payment and an $8.5 million criminal fine. DOJ says employees sold data tied to millions of Americans to more than a dozen clients they knew were engaged in fraudulent mass-mailing schemes. Macromark, a Connecticut direct-mail services company, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. The company admitted that lists it provided to fraudulent clients resulted in at least $9.5 million in losses. Wiland Inc. later entered a non-prosecution agreement with DOJ that included $4.4 million in victim compensation over data sold to operators of fraudulent schemes. By June 2025, DOJ said its Consumer Data Victim Compensation Fund had returned more than $129 million to more than 100,000 victims across the country. It would be easy to look at the earlier cases and think this was an old direct-mail problem. It wasn't. In May 2026, a federal judge sentenced Troy Murray of North Carolina to 121 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. DOJ says Murray collected and sold lists containing names, phone numbers, home addresses and, in some cases, ages and email addresses of older Americans. His customers included people in Jamaica running lottery fraud schemes. And the scale was huge. From 2016 through 2023, DOJ says Murray sent scammers at least 22,000 lead lists containing information on more than 7 million older Americans. Those lists typically sold for $500 for 100 to 300 names. DOJ says Murray made more than $5.2 million while victims lost more than $9.5 million. That is what makes these lists so valuable to scammers. They do not have to spend time figuring out who might pick up the phone or respond to an offer. Someone has already handed them a list of people to try first. WHY IDENTITY THEFT COMES BACK FOR THE SAME PEOPLE These kinds of marketing lists are legal and can be used for legitimate advertising. Just because a list is for sale does not mean the company selling it or the company buying it is doing anything wrong. But the way some of these lists are described today sounds very familiar. As of September 2026, Geon Media advertises a list called "Prime Opportunity Seekers - Buyers Only!" It includes 397,532 names and focuses on people who purchased business opportunities after responding to marketing campaigns. Marketers can narrow that list even further using details such as age, income, net worth and location. Geon also requires buyers to provide a sample mail piece. NextMark advertises a list called "Sweeps Winners Only" made up of people who recently responded to sweepstakes offers. Its listing describes that audience as "highly impulsive" and promotes the list for sweepstakes, lotteries, credit cards and other offers. Exact Data also advertises categories with names including "Sweepstakes Opportunity Purchasers" and "Gambling, Lottery, and Sweepstakes Enthusiasts." Its listings were updated in September 2026. None of that proves fraud. What it does show is how valuable your past behavior can be. Respond to the right kind of offer, and that response can become a data point that helps someone decide what to put in front of you next. For a scammer, finding someone willing to respond can be half the battle. Calling or emailing random people takes time. A list of people who have already responded to certain offers gives them a much better place to start. That is what made Epsilon's data so valuable. DOJ says the company's algorithms could predict which people were most likely to respond to certain mailings. If you had responded before, that behavior could become another clue about what might get your attention next. And there is a lot of money on the line. The FBI says people over 60 filed more than 201,000 complaints in 2025 and reported more than $7.7 billion in losses. The FBI does not say how many of those people were targeted through marketing or lead lists, so we cannot say those lists caused those losses. But the DOJ cases show something important: scammers have used targeted lists to help find people they believe are more likely to respond. That is why something as simple as entering a sweepstakes or responding to an offer can be more valuable than you might think. The response itself can become another piece of data about you. You probably cannot find every private marketing database that contains your name. However, you can reduce the information available about you and become much more selective about what you hand over going forward. Start with your full name. Then search your phone number and home address. Pay attention to people-search sites displaying your address, age, relatives, phone numbers or email addresses. If you find a profile, look for the site's opt-out or removal process. The FTC says you can request removal from people-search sites yourself for free, although you may need to repeat the process if your information appears again later. A legitimate contest can still collect information for marketing. Before entering, read the privacy policy and official rules. Look for language explaining whether your information can be shared with advertisers or marketing partners. The FTC specifically warns that contest promoters may sell information to advertisers, which can lead to more targeted advertising, promotional mail, calls and spam. If an entry form asks for information that seems unrelated to the promotion, stop and ask why it needs it. Avoid handing over extra details simply because a box appears on a form. Also watch for prechecked boxes giving permission for additional marketing. Every unnecessary piece of information you share gives a company one more data point that can potentially be added to your profile. Consider creating an email address or alias used only for contests, loyalty programs and promotional offers. That keeps your primary email address out of some marketing databases and makes unexpected prize messages easier to spot. If someone contacts your main email account claiming you won a contest you entered with a different address, that alone should raise questions. This one is simple. Real prizes are free. The FTC says anyone demanding taxes, processing fees, shipping charges or other payments before releasing a prize is running a scam. Also, never provide your bank account, credit card or Social Security number to claim a prize. If you are unsure whether an offer is real, find the company's official contact information yourself rather than calling a number in the letter, text or email. If you sent money or personal information to a scammer, act quickly. Contact your bank or payment provider first if money changed hands. Report the scam to the Federal Trade Commission at ReportFraud.ftc.gov . If the scam came through the mail, you can also report it to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. If someone used your personal information, IdentityTheft.gov can walk you through recovery steps. For anyone age 60 or older, the DOJ's National Elder Fraud Hotline at 1-833-FRAUD-11 (1-833-372-8311) offers free help Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern. DOJ says reporting certain financial losses quickly can improve the chances of recovering money, although recovery cannot be guaranteed. There is no public search box that will show you every private marketing category attached to your name. A people-search or data-broker scan also cannot tell you whether your name appears on one of the specific "opportunity seeker" or criminal lead lists described above. And no data removal service can pull information back once criminals already have it. What a scan can do is show you where personal details such as your name, address or phone number appear across covered people-search and data-broker sites. From there, you can start reducing that exposure. If the scan finds your information, you have two options. You can contact sites yourself and submit opt-out requests, or you can use a service that handles much of that work for you. A data removal service can automatically send removal requests to hundreds of covered data brokers and people-search sites. Some plans also let you request removals from additional websites that fall outside the standard automated coverage. It is worth knowing the limits too. Some private data-broker databases cannot be scanned directly. Instead, removal requests are sent to brokers that may hold your information. These services also cannot remove certain government records, court records or information already circulating in criminal databases. Check out my top picks for data removal services and get a free scan to find out if your personal information is already out on the web by visiting CyberGuy.com. For me, the biggest takeaway here is that scammers do not always have to figure out who might respond. Sometimes, someone else has already done that work for them. The Epsilon case showed how marketing data and algorithms could identify people likely to respond to certain offers. DOJ says those "opportunity seekers" frequently included older and vulnerable Americans. And this problem has not been confined to old direct-mail cases. In 2026, a federal judge sentenced a man who DOJ says sold more than 22,000 lead lists containing information on over 7 million older Americans to lottery scammers. At the same time, legitimate marketers still sell highly specific lists based on things like sweepstakes responses and interest in business opportunities. That does not make those lists fraudulent. It does show just how much our past behavior can say about what we may respond to next. You may never know every list that has your name on it. But you can stop handing out unnecessary information, remove exposed personal data where possible and slow down whenever an unexpected offer lands in front of you. Should companies be able to sell lists built around how likely someone is to respond to money-making or sweepstakes offers, especially when age and financial information can also be used for targeting? 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/6ab5076d75342cf4db88f7ae Team USA golfers welcome Trump’s expected Presidents Cup visit, share pride in representing America te 2026-09-24T11:20:13.259Z Team USA golfers welcome Trump’s expected Presidents Cup visit, share pride in representing America Wyndham Clark is preparing to represent the United States at the 2026 Presidents Cup, with President Donald Trump expected to watch Sunday’s final round in person. "Being an American, having the President of the United States come and watch you play golf is something, as a kid, you don’t ever imagine or fathom happening," Clark told OutKick on Wednesday. "I just think it’s pretty amazing." The PGA Tour, which organizes the Presidents Cup, invited Trump to serve as honorary chairman, and he accepted. Sources familiar with the president’s plans told OutKick that Trump is expected to attend Sunday’s final round at Medinah Country Club. Like the Ryder Cup, the Presidents Cup is a team match-play competition. It pits 12 U.S. golfers against 12 players from countries outside the U.S. and Europe, while the Ryder Cup matches the Americans against Europe. CANADIANS NICK TAYLOR AND COREY CONNERS LAUGH OFF LAKE ONTARIO RENAMING AHEAD OF PRESIDENTS CUP The competition begins Thursday and runs through Sunday. OutKick spoke with several U.S. players Tuesday and Wednesday about representing their country and Trump’s expected visit. For Sam Burns, the conversation also provided an opportunity to talk about something he would like to see more of at home: Americans pulling for each other. "Being an American, I think it’s very important that we do support our president, regardless of your political views," Burns said. "I think if you look at our country now, it seems more divided than ever, and hopefully we can get back to the point where all Americans come together, and we’re all trying to kind of reach the same goal." Burns said he has played golf with Trump a few times, but emphasized that his respect for the presidency extends beyond whoever happens to hold the job. "Anyone who’s the president of this country, I respect that position, obviously," he said. SAM BURNS IS ONE OF AMERICA'S BEST GOLFERS, BUT FAITH, FAMILY AND THE USA MATTER MORE TO HIM THAN GOLF Chris Gotterup had a similar reaction when asked about the visit. "Whoever the president is, if they care enough to come watch us play golf, that’s pretty cool," Gotterup said. "I know we’re excited, and we’re going to go try to put on a good performance for everyone." For Clark, there is already a memorable Trump interaction to look back on. After winning the 2023 U.S. Open, Clark received a congratulatory call from Trump, who was out of office at the time. Clark described it Wednesday as "one of the coolest calls of my life." His first major victory came at Los Angeles Country Club, where he beat Rory McIlroy by one shot. Apparently, Trump had been paying close attention. "He was so complimentary, just saying how good I played. And honestly, it was amazing. He knew every shot," Clark said. "He was like, ‘This up-and-down on this hole, this up-and-down on this hole was amazing.’ And he really said a bunch of nice things." THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Patrick Cantlay’s first meeting with Trump goes back even further. He said they met at the 2011 Walker Cup at Royal Aberdeen and have crossed paths several times since. This week, Cantlay hopes the president’s appearance gives the home crowd something else to get excited about. "I think it’d be great to have the president out, and hopefully it gets the crowd going," Cantlay said. "I’m expecting the crowd to be loud and behind us this week, and that’s what makes playing home team events so fun." Xander Schauffele found a slightly different angle. "I’m sure Secret Service wasn’t pumped that he made an early announcement on where he’s going to be, but they’ll do a nice job to keep him safe," Schauffele joked. "It’s awesome that our president loves golf and supports USA." For Jacob Bridgeman, representing the United States at this level is something he has wanted for a long time. "This is the highest honor that you can get in all of golf," Bridgeman said. "Playing for the United States is the best thing that any of us can ever ask for, and it’s an honor." Bridgeman said he hoped to see multiple presidents attend and described the prospect of having them rooting for the Americans as making the experience feel "even more patriotic." US PRESIDENTS CUP PLAYERS EXPLAIN HOW CHRISTIAN FAITH BUILDS FRIENDSHIPS AND PUTS GOLF IN PERSPECTIVE Jackson Koivun, meanwhile, welcomed the chance to have teammates again. "I just love playing for Team USA," he said. "It’s always fun when you’re able to put on the red, white and blue and play on a team with guys who are fighting for the same cause." Love of country is even strong enough to get an Alabama guy and an Auburn guy working together. For a few days, anyway. Justin Thomas, who played college golf at Alabama, offered his practice rounds with former Auburn star Koivun as an example when OutKick asked about sports bringing people together. "I’ve been playing a lot of practice rounds with an Auburn kid this week," Thomas said. "I love him to death, but I hope he has a terrible Saturday," Thomas joked, clarifying that he meant the Saturday after Thanksgiving when Auburn and Alabama face each other in the 2026 Iron Bowl. For now, though, they’re wearing the same colors. "We have everybody here pulling for the USA," Thomas said. Schauffele made a similar point about the opportunity international competition gives Americans to cheer together. "If players and people can kind of gather under one flag in a sport, it is pretty awesome," he said. "Luckily, we’re able to do that in golf." Burns said representing his country, his teammates, the captains and their families is something he doesn’t take lightly. These weeks can fly by during a career, he said, and he expects to appreciate them even more when he looks back. Right now, there is a tournament to win. "All of us guys that are on this squad, there’s nothing more we want to do than to go out and win and represent our country well," Burns said. "And that’s the plan this week." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5076c75342cf4db88f7a5 Commanders push back on 'bulls—' viral narrative that they didn't care about Jayden Daniels' elbow injury te 2026-09-24T11:20:12.669Z Commanders push back on 'bulls—' viral narrative that they didn't care about Jayden Daniels' elbow injury You think you saw what happened after Jayden Daniels dislocated his elbow last Sunday, and it was troubling. The Washington Commanders quarterback was on the turf, writhing in pain, and his teammates seemed to simply ignore him. Most simply walked off the field. And it seemed to send the message that they didn't care. COMMANDERS FACE CRITICAL DECISION ON JAYDEN DANIELS' ELBOW AS SPECIALISTS REVIEW MRI RESULTS The Commanders have gotten crushed on social media for the video of players walking away – because it was jarring compared to New York Giants or Green Bay Packers players huddling around teammates when they went down. It suggested Daniels isn't beloved or even respected by teammates. "I'm glad you brought that up because it's just the opposite in fact," coach Dan Quinn said Wednesday. "These guys were absolutely gutted." Quinn said the timing of the injury happening on the final play of the first half and signaling the start of halftime played a major role in the walk-off. "When the half was over, the referees even came and said they can't delay the half and we can't stay on the field," Quinn said. "And they were like, ‘No, I'm staying.’ So it's just the opposite in fact. "They were gutted, they love this guy, and so halftime was hard. It was emotional in that space." The perception of the Washington walk-off may have come from television. The live broadcast went to a commercial at halftime. And ESPN's highlights showed Daniels collapsing to the ground as players walked by him, then cut to him leaving on the cart. But all that missed what happened in the stadium. Multiple players, led by backup quarterback Marcus Mariota, indeed came onto the field as trainers attended to Daniels and eventually called for the cart to take him away. Some of them even returned from the locker room to do it. "It’s bull—- what people are saying," left tackle Brandon Coleman told reporters. "Jay’s our guy and he’s been our guy. There’s no malice behind it." The narrative that the Commanders abandoned their quarterback is actually an excellent study on how social media wields the power to shape opinion, that opinion reaches legacy media, and then can reach into an NFL team's facility. Even when the narrative is basically fake news. JAXSON DART TORE HIS MCL AND MENISCUS REQUIRING SURGERY "We all care for our quarterback," offensive lineman Josh Conerly said. "You can’t go off a simple 10-second clip." Mariota takes over for Daniels at quarterback now while the starter and the team continue to figure out what to do about his injury, with options including season-ending surgery. There's nothing positive about the situation for the team. But Quinn made it clear ahead of time that Mariota is respected and he is confident in the new quarterback. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "I think the nice part with Marcus, man, he does have a real command on things that we need," Quinn said. "There's a specific way, like in each game, that you have to go about it and what it takes to win. We hit that with the team today. "But with Marcus, he's one that's really in control, has good vision of it, what it is, where to go. You can hear that type of communication with him. So I think, number one, him running the system gives everybody a calmness about them knowing that he’ll take care of it." FOLLOW ARMANDO SALGUERO ON X: @ARMANDOSALGUERO Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5076b75342cf4db88f79c Mistress says she gave ‘American Idol’ contestant ultimatum before wife’s killing blew up affair te 2026-09-24T11:20:11.943Z Mistress says she gave ‘American Idol’ contestant ultimatum before wife’s killing blew up affair Former "American Idol" contestant Caleb Flynn repeatedly talked about wanting his wife dead and once told his mistress he was "thinking about ways to kill her," the woman testified Wednesday in his Ohio murder trial. Alleigha Botner, who testified she had an affair with Flynn for roughly a year and a half and had given him an ultimatum about their relationship just weeks before the killing, told jurors his comments about Ashley Flynn grew increasingly disturbing in the months before she was fatally shot inside the couple’s Tipp City home. "At first it was, ‘I want her dead. I wish she was gone,’" Botner testified. TEACHER FOUND DEAD WITH THROAT SLIT; DETECTIVES SCRUTINIZE HUSBAND’S SHIFTING STORY She recalled Flynn later telling her, "If I could kill her and not go to jail, I would." Then, she told jurors, his comments escalated further. TEEN PLANNED MIDDLE SCHOOL MASSACRE BEFORE MAKING DEADLY ‘LAST-MINUTE CHOICE’ TO KILL MOM: OFFICIAL "One night he was up really late thinking about — told me that he was thinking about ways to kill her," Botner said. The comments about wanting Ashley to die came at least once a month, Botner testified. Prosecutors later walked Botner through thousands of messages recovered from the relationship, including one attributed to Flynn from February 2025 that read, "I need her to die, to cheat again, to leave." Other messages attributed to Flynn included, "I want her dead and gone" and, after Botner asked what she could do for him, "kill her." CALIFORNIA MOM BEGGED FOR HELP BEFORE EX GUNNED HER DOWN IN FRONT OF THEIR 4-YEAR-OLD SON: DA Flynn is accused of fatally shooting Ashley in the back of the head inside their home Feb. 16 before staging the scene to look like an intruder had broken in. He has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and other charges. Botner also placed a gun in Flynn’s possession before the killing, telling jurors he once showed her a firearm he kept inside the center console of his truck. OHIO MAN CONVICTED AFTER TRYING TO SHOOT EX-WIFE AT POINT-BLANK RANGE INSIDE RESTAURANT IN CHILLING VIDEO "He showed me a gun," she testified. Flynn told her he kept the firearm in the console, though Botner could not remember what it looked like because she only saw it once. SUSPECT IN MICROSOFT EXECUTIVE JARED BRIDEGAN'S MURDER CONVICTED IN ROADSIDE AMBUSH Investigators have never recovered the gun prosecutors allege Flynn used to kill Ashley despite extensive searches of the family home, nearby woods, storm drains and other areas. Jurors also heard that Flynn and Botner routinely deleted messages throughout their relationship. MICROSOFT EXEC'S GRIEVING WIDOW FACES MAN ACCUSED OF PLOTTING HIS MURDER AS SHE REVEALS EERIE FINAL CALL Asked when she advised Flynn how to delete data from his devices, Botner responded, "Multiple times." "One of them being the night before Ashley was murdered," she testified. Botner later testified that she used ChatGPT that night to research whether messages documenting the affair could be permanently deleted and sent Flynn screenshots of the results. She told jurors she feared the affair could surface during a divorce and cost her her job. Prosecutors established that Botner sent the screenshots about 5:47 p.m. Feb. 15, hours before Ashley was killed. FLORIDA PLASTIC SURGEON ACCUSED OF KILLING ATTORNEY IN HIS OFFICE DEFENDS HIMSELF IN MURDER TRIAL Their relationship began turning personal in March 2024 and became sexual roughly two months later, Botner told jurors. She recalled Flynn telling her he hated Ashley, viewed his wife as little more than a "roommate" and remained in the marriage because of their two daughters. Botner acknowledged knowing Flynn was married when the relationship became sexual and admitted she knew what they were doing was wrong. SPURNED SPOUSES CASH IN AS NORTH CAROLINA’S 'HOMEWRECKER' LAW TURNS CHEATING INTO A COURTROOM JACKPOT "I never morally justified it," she testified. "I just did it. Even while I knew it was wrong." The two exchanged roughly 107,000 messages over about a year — nearly 300 per day on average — while routinely deleting their conversations. By January, Botner testified, she had grown tired of waiting and gave Flynn a final deadline: leave Ashley by Jan. 11 or she would move on with her life and end their relationship. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X He did not leave. Botner stopped communicating with Flynn until Feb. 14 — Valentine’s Day and two days before Ashley was killed. That day, she testified, Flynn told her he was "filing [for divorce] from Ashley" and was "actually leaving her this time." SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS The two later met at Christian Life Center, where they had initially met through the church’s worship ministry. During that conversation, Botner recalled Flynn telling her he had already spoken with Ashley and told his wife he was divorcing her. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE By the following night, Botner testified, Flynn was still telling her he planned to end the marriage Feb. 16. "He said it'll be a day I never forget," she recalled. Their communications continued past midnight, with Flynn allegedly telling her, "Tomorrow is a big day," "I choose you" and that he was "about to be free." Hours later, Ashley was dead. Botner told jurors she understood those comments at the time to mean Flynn was finally going through with the divorce. Botner expected to hear from Flynn first thing that morning but instead received an Instagram message from a fellow church congregant asking whether she had heard about Ashley. SEND US A TIP The congregant sent her a news story about Ashley's death. "My heart started pounding," Botner testified. "It just seemed like too much of a coincidence that the day he's divorcing her, she's just dead all of a sudden." Botner testified that she immediately messaged Flynn. GOT A TIP? "I said something like to Caleb, ‘What's going on? Were you involved? Is this real?’" she recalled. Flynn did not respond, Botner testified. She acknowledged deleting the message because she believed investigators would search his phone and feared they would discover the affair. Botner admitted Wednesday that she initially lied to the FBI about her relationship with Flynn when investigators interviewed her days after the killing. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST "I was selfishly afraid that my reputation was going to be ruined and that I was going to lose my job," she testified. "And now that there was a murder attached, I didn't want to be attached to that in any way." She began revealing more about the relationship after investigators told her they had found text messages on Ashley’s phone, Botner testified. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL Prosecutors asked Botner how she feels about Flynn today, and she said, "I hate him." When asked why, Botner responded, "Because I believe that he murdered his wife." Fox News Digital reached out to Flynn's attorney. Botner is expected to return to the stand on Thursday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5076b75342cf4db88f793 The unlikely South American ally helping lead Trump's drug cartel crackdown te 2026-09-24T11:20:11.307Z The unlikely South American ally helping lead Trump's drug cartel crackdown NEW YORK — Ecuador has emerged as a key regional ally in President Donald Trump’s expanding crackdown on drug cartels and narcoterrorism, with U.S. and Ecuadorian forces working side by side to intercept narcotics shipments and dismantle transnational criminal networks, the country’s foreign minister told Fox News Digital. Foreign Minister Roberto Kury said the increasingly close cooperation with Washington has delivered "a lot of positive results" in recent months, pointing specifically to drug shipments uncovered through U.S. intelligence and joint work on the ground. "There is an intelligence and cooperation from the United States, but there is also always the presence of Ecuadorian military or police. They work together," Kury told Fox News Digital in an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly this week. For Ecuador, the stakes are enormous. Roughly 70% of the world’s cocaine passes through Ecuadorian ports, an FBI official told lawmakers earlier this year, according to the Congressional Research Service, as criminal groups battle for control of trafficking routes carrying cocaine produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru to markets abroad. Meanwhile, Kury noted: "Most of the drugs go to the United States. So that’s why the United States shares the problem." US MILITARY BOARDS, SEARCHES AND SINKS VESSEL ALLEGEDLY SUPPORTING LOS CHONEROS NARCO-TERRORISTS For the U.S., Ecuador has become a proving ground for an early priority laid out in Trump’s foreign policy: using American military power against threats closer to home as Washington turns its attention back toward the Western Hemisphere. The explosion in the drug trade has transformed the small South American country. Once considered one of Latin America’s safer countries, Ecuador is now at the frontline of the region’s cartel fight, fueling a surge in violence that prompted President Daniel Noboa to declare an "internal armed conflict" against criminal groups and deploy the military against them. "We have found many drugs and shipments through this cooperation, so it’s very positive for Ecuador," Kury said of the partnership with the U.S. Asked whether U.S. forces were participating directly in operations against cartels rather than limiting their role to intelligence and training, Kury was unequivocal about the joint nature of the effort, noting, "They work together with our local authorities." But Kury stopped short of giving Washington carte blanche to use military force inside Ecuador when asked whether his government would permit the U.S. to strike a cartel target on Ecuadorian soil. WHITE HOUSE HIGHLIGHTS 'STEEPEST' EVER DECLINE IN US CASUALTIES FROM CARTELS AMID BOAT STRIKES "Ecuador has our sovereignty, and they respect that sovereignty," Kury said, adding that Quito welcomes U.S. involvement "as long as we work together, aligned with our local military and our local police." Kury's comments come as Ecuador has emerged as a testing ground for the Trump administration's effort to take the fight against Latin American drug cartels beyond maritime interdictions and into partnered military operations on land. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has praised Ecuador as the U.S.’s most "aggressive" partner in its Western Hemisphere crackdown. He told reporters during a recent trip to Quito that U.S. and Ecuadorian "elite forces" from both countries "are working jointly on a day-to-day basis in a way that has no precedent in order to try to dismantle these terrorist organizations." The expanding partnership comes as Ecuador battles a cocaine trade that President Noboa has estimated at roughly $30 billion a year. The country is looking to Washington for additional help taking on the criminal organizations behind the explosion. Noboa said this week that his government asks the U.S. for help "every day" as Ecuador seeks to choke off a drug trade that has fueled years of violence and transformed the once relatively peaceful South American nation into a key front in the regional fight against organized crime. Kury said Ecuador and other countries in the region need more than funding from Washington as criminal groups increasingly operate across national borders. "Our countries in Latin America have the problem that we need support," Kury said. "We need not only monetary support but also intelligence, technical cooperation." "That’s why we have the Shield of the Americas," he added, pointing to the U.S.-led regional initiative against cartels. "I think that the whole Latin American continent should work together." The growing relationship extends beyond the cartel fight: Ecuador has also agreed to accept some third-country nationals deported from the U.S., part of the Trump administration’s effort to enlist regional partners in carrying out its immigration agenda. Kury told Fox News Digital there are limits and "explicit rules" governing the arrangement, describing Ecuador as a temporary stop rather than the final destination for those sent there. "The deported people come to Ecuador for a few hours, one day, two days, and they are then deported back to their country of origin," Kury said. "So it’s the way to cooperate, and that’s how we support each other, each country." Kury emphasized that Quito wants the expanding relationship with Washington to translate into greater U.S. investment and trade in Ecuador. "The United States is the main trade partner of Ecuador," he said, pointing to opportunities for American investment in mining, oil and gas, energy, tourism and agriculture. "We look not only [for] cooperation in the security side, but we also look to build more jobs in our country, to bring investment from the United States." The U.S. is Ecuador’s largest trading partner, with U.S. exports to the country totaling $7.7 billion in 2024 and accounting for 28% of Ecuador’s imports, according to the Commerce Department. Ecuador uses the U.S. dollar as its currency but does not have a free trade agreement with Washington. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5076a75342cf4db88f78a People are ditching their vapes only to pick up another surprising habit te 2026-09-24T11:20:10.637Z People are ditching their vapes only to pick up another surprising habit E-cigarettes have long been used as an alternative to traditional smoking, but public health data suggests some adults trying to quit vaping are turning back to cigarettes. Recent data from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) shows that some smokers and dual users who stop vaping opt for traditional tobacco products instead, a shift that addiction specialists say may be driven by nicotine dependence and the challenges of withdrawal. Trent Carter, a board-certified nurse practitioner and CEO of Renew Health — a behavioral and mental health practice based in New Mexico — said that while the shift from vapes back to cigarettes might seem counterintuitive, there are behavioral reasons some users make the switch. SINGLE WORKOUT CUTS CRAVINGS, OFFERING NEW HOPE FOR SMOKERS TRYING TO QUIT "Vaping can become constant throughout the day, whereas a cigarette is more of a defined episode," Carter told Fox News Digital. "Subconsciously, you may not even realize that you’re constantly vaping throughout the day, whereas cigarettes you feel like you're more in control because you have to think about it. You [have] to go outside, you [have] to light it up." Unlike cigarettes, vaping can be done throughout the day and often indoors. That easy access can lead to more nicotine use and reinforce the hand-to-mouth habit, according to the expert. E-cigarettes can be highly addictive because of the way they deliver nicotine. Many vaping devices use highly concentrated nicotine salts, allowing users to inhale large doses with each puff compared to traditional cigarettes. "If you're consuming a large amount with every single puff ... it's going to be harder to stop when compared to a lower dose," Carter said. SHARON STONE'S TERRIFYING WEED WITHDRAWAL SPARKS WARNING ABOUT TODAY'S POTENT MARIJUANA Nicotine dependence alters brain chemistry by stimulating neurotransmitters like dopamine that govern mood and pleasure, according to Cleveland Clinic. When someone abruptly cuts off high-volume intake, it can trigger rapid withdrawal symptoms, ranging from intense cravings and irritability to severe sleep disturbances and brain fog. Because high-potency vapes drive up physical tolerance, standard quitting aids — like over-the-counter patches or nicotine gum — can sometimes feel inadequate to a user seeking immediate relief. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER "While a patch or gum could definitely help with the nicotine cravings, if you're not addressing the behavioral aspect of it, then you're really falling short," Carter said. "You're leaving a huge component of why they may be smoking — whether it's because of anxiety or even insomnia during the day." When e-cigarettes first hit the market, early public messaging framed them as a healthier, doctor-approved alternative to smoking, which gave many consumers a false sense of security about how difficult it would be to drop the habit, according to Carter. "If you're being told something is safe or doctor-approved, we tend to feel we're making the right choice," Carter said. "While traditional cigarettes have toxins that e-cigarettes do not, if your daily consumption of nicotine becomes much higher, we find ourselves in a nasty cycle. You got rid of the toxins, but now you're consuming much more nicotine." CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIES The elevated chemical intake carries a physical and mental toll, Carter cautioned. Heavy, uninterrupted nicotine ingestion can trigger blood pressure spikes, elevated heart rates, sleep disruption and heightened anxiety. For people trying to quit vaping, health providers warn that switching to cigarettes reintroduces harmful toxins, tar and carbon monoxide. Instead of switching between vaping and cigarettes, addiction specialists recommend medically supervised strategies that combine behavioral therapy with gradual nicotine reduction. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "The goal shouldn't be to find another way to consume nicotine," Carter said. "The goal should be to treat the dependence itself." "It's not trading one for the other, but finding the underlying cause and addressing that head-on — that's how someone truly takes steps in the right direction." For those struggling to exit the cycle, Carter advises building self-awareness and immediately consulting a licensed addiction or mental health professional who can recommend a personalized recovery plan. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5076975342cf4db88f781 President Trump to hold high-stakes summit with China's Xi and more top headlines te 2026-09-24T11:20:09.936Z President Trump to hold high-stakes summit with China's Xi and more top headlines 1. Trump-Xi reunion comes with unfinished business  2. Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs warn AI could threaten humanity 3. Fear grips SEC college town after deaths, student makes new claim   TENSE TEHRAN — Bessent calls Iran regime 'cornered animal,' touts US 'sequencing' strategy. 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Jonathan Schanzer, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, made the remark after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly told Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during talks in Beijing last week that China was prepared to play a "constructive role" in resolving international disputes. The U.S. war against Iran is nearing the 7-month mark. "The president needs to tell Xi Jinping that this is a dangerous alliance. The Chinese assistance to the Iranian regime has actually spanned a number of fronts," Schanzer told Fox News Digital. "The first is, of course, the provision of drone parts and motors. This has actually helped the Islamic Republic attack all of its neighbors. "On top of that, they've been providing some dual-use chemicals that have been helping the Iranians with their missile program. On top of that, we've watched a lot of targeting that looks a little bit too precise for the Iranian regime. So that looks like it may be helped from the Chinese as well," Schanzer continued. CHINA'S XI JINPING SET TO ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON FOR HIGH-STAKES TRUMP SUMMIT AS AI SUPREMACY BATTLE LOOMS LARGE "On top of that, there's an economic relationship that I think is keeping the Islamic Republic afloat while it continues to hammer away at the oil economy worldwide. These are all things that need to stop. And the hope here is, of course, that Donald Trump is going to make a demand here that Xi Jinping stop all of this," he said. When asked to respond to the Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers meeting in Beijing, Schanzer said, "When you look at what's happening here, it's pretty clear that the Chinese government is just not ashamed of this at all." TRUMP TO ASK XI TO FREE WRONGFULLY DETAINED US CITIZEN AS WIFE SPEAKS OUT "In other words, there's a war going on. The Iranians have spiked the price of oil. They have clogged the Strait of Hormuz. They're looking to do the same in the Bab al-Mandab, and they are completely unashamed by this. It's important for Donald Trump to bare his teeth here and to make it clear that the Iranians cannot get this kind of support and that the Chinese government is at risk of escalating with the United States," he added. A senior administration official told Fox News Digital that when Trump last visited China in mid-May, he and Xi agreed that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon and that the Strait of Hormuz should be reopened without any tolls. "I think the big thing in the background here is that we're obviously watching great power competition between two of the world's largest economies and largest militaries," Schanzer also said ahead of Thursday’s meeting. "The thing that I watch right now is that Taiwan is clearly the main target for the Chinese Communist Party. They want to reunite with the island, as they would call it, and they're putting enormous pressure on Taiwan with that in mind. The United States needs to stand pat here. We have an enormous amount invested in chips in Taiwan, the Taiwan Semiconductor Company. This is the big one here. And if we're going to win the AI race, we need to maintain control of that company. More importantly, we need to make sure that that island remains secure." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab5076875342cf4db88f76f As expected, media mocks Jaxson Dart injury because he dared to introduce Trump on stage te 2026-09-24T11:20:08.476Z As expected, media mocks Jaxson Dart injury because he dared to introduce Trump on stage When New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart suffered a season-ending knee injury this week, we knew there'd be two reactions from the overwhelmingly liberal sports media. First, they'd call for the Giants to sign Colin Kaepernick. They do it whenever an NFL team loses a quarterback, even though Kaepernick has not played professional football in a decade. Second, they'd mock Dart’s injury because he made headlines in May by introducing President Donald Trump at a New York City event. Both reactions materialized almost immediately. DAN LE BATARD DEMANDS THE MEDIA MAKE JAXSON DART 'UNCOMFORTABLE' FOR INTRODUCING TRUMP Sports blogger Mike Florio was the first to urge the Giants to sign Kaepernick. Elsewhere, the usual suspects framed Dart's injury as political karma. "Media types say 'Trump Curse' has struck again," wrote HuffPost in an article referring to Dart as a "Trump admirer." "The f—–g Trump curse strikes again," wrote Tara Setmayer, a former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill and CNN commentator, about Dart’s injury on X. Film and TV critic John Rocha shared a photo of Trump and Dart’s interaction, writing, "Everything he touches, y'all. Everything he touches..." Ron Filipkowski, the partisan editor of the anti-Trump outlet MeidasTouch, claimed he had predicted Dart’s injury after the quarterback appeared with Trump. "This was the moment I decided not to draft Dart in fantasy football. He had no chance this season after the Trump Curse," he wrote above a clip of Dart and Trump. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! Other outlets adopted a similar tone. "Jaxson Dart's injury reignites Trump sports curse possibility," joked USA Today. The people making these jokes will insist they are harmless. Perhaps some of them believe that. But they know exactly what they are doing and how their majority anti-Trump audiences will respond. Look at the comments under The Athletic’s report about Dart’s season-ending injury. The comment section resembles a fringe political message board, with readers celebrating the injury, asking whether Dart is "vaxxed" and claiming that he deserves this because he supported Trump. Interestingly, we do not know whether Dart is a Trump supporter. Yes, he introduced Trump at an event. But introducing the sitting president is not, on its face, a political statement. The event also took place in the city where Dart plays quarterback. For all we know, Dart would have accepted the same opportunity if a Democrat were in the White House. Despite what the legacy media tells you, some Americans would welcome the chance to associate with the president regardless of their political views. In fact, we suspect most Americans fall into that category. That said, we can probably deduce that Dart doesn't consider Trump a Nazi. And that is enough for some in the media to call him "MAGA" and poke fun at his injury. There's a trend. In 2020, then-ESPN commentator Mark Jones shared posts mocking 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa after Bosa suffered a serious knee injury. The posts referred to Bosa as "MAGA Bosa" and said he deserved to suffer the injury because he stood during the national anthem. Three years later, former ESPN host Keith Olbermann celebrated when Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles in the opening minutes of the Jets’ season. "Another #SuddenLisfranc due to failure to vaccinate," Olbermann posted on X. When the Jets wrote that Rodgers’ injury was "Not the way any of us wanted it to go," Olbermann responded: "Define 'any.'" This type of behavior reflects how many Americans suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) react when something awful happens to a Trump voter or someone who does not express open disdain for the president. They genuinely believe that anyone who does not hate Trump as deeply as they do is unworthy and deserves to be punished. Sticking to sports commentators, Jemele Hill immediately denounced Charlie Kirk as a racist days after his murder. Of course, sports injuries are not as serious as death. But they matter. Professional athletes have short careers. Major injuries can derail them, and the consequences are not merely physical. Serious injuries can also take a mental toll. And yet liberal sports fans and media figures abandon common decency whenever an injury allows them to score cheap political points. Notice that no such mockery or celebration follows when one of the many athletes who openly promote left-wing politics suffers an injury. Only one side openly celebrates injuries in sports. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4fbb275342cf4db88f546 Senators press President Trump to release home heating oil reserves amid soaring prices te 2026-09-24T10:30:10.838Z Senators press President Trump to release home heating oil reserves amid soaring prices Maine's two U.S. senators, Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Independent Sen. Angus King, Jr., have urged President Donald Trump to unleash home heating oil reserves in a bid to help alleviate elevated prices. "We write to request that you release home heating oil from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to protect Mainers from the very high prices that are imposing a difficult financial burden," the lawmakers pressed the president in a Tuesday letter. The statewide average heating oil price was $5.77 as of Sept. 14, according to the Maine Department of Energy Resources. That figure is about 74% higher than back when the statewide heating oil average price was $3.32 as of September 15, 2025. COLLINS LIGHTS UP INTERNET WITH RESPONSE TO DEM CHALLENGER FATHERING CHILDREN WITH RELATIVE: 'STONE COLD' The lawmakers asserted in their letter that "the conflict in the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine War have prevented additional heating oil from reaching the global market. Maine is particularly vulnerable to global supply shocks because our state imports much of our home heating oil." Collins, a moderate Republican who has served in the U.S. Senate for nearly three decades, is running for re-election again this year. King, while an independent, is listed as a member of the Senate Democratic caucus. TRUMP TELLS ZELENSKYY TO STOP DOING 'ONE THING' DURING ATTACKS ON RUSSIA Americans have been facing elevated fuel prices, with the AAA national average for diesel hitting its highest recorded average price of $6.5276 as of Tuesday, before barely creeping down to $6.5217 as of Wednesday, then $6.5141 as of Thursday. The AAA national average price for regular gas is $4.4825 as of Thursday, still below the record of $5.0165 that was set in June 2022. TRUMP MEETS WITH IRANIAN OFFICIALS SHORTLY AFTER THREATENING ANNIHILATION Fox News Digital reached out to the White House on Wednesday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95f75342cf4db88f4d5 Ole Miss deaths, druggings have ‘people scared to leave’ dorms as bars, Greek life clamp down: students te 2026-09-24T10:20:15.797Z Ole Miss deaths, druggings have ‘people scared to leave’ dorms as bars, Greek life clamp down: students OXFORD, Miss. – An Ole Miss student says she was drugged at a bar over the weekend, days before two students were found dead, as bars around Oxford tighten security with fears running rampant through the college town. Lafayette County Metro Narcotics said in a news release that investigators are looking into the deaths of two college-aged individuals whose bodies were discovered at separate locations. Authorities have not established a connection between the deaths, though packaged kratom purchased from a retail store was recovered in each investigation. "We do not have confirmed information indicating that kratom or any other substance was a contributing factor in either death," the agency said. WHAT IS KRATOM? RISKS OF POPULAR SUBSTANCE REVEALED AFTER COLLEGE STUDENTS' DEATHS Ole Miss student Mary Harvey told Fox News Digital that she went out to the bars on Saturday night to watch the Rebels' football game against Louisiana State University, where she says she was drugged and couldn't recall much of what happened that night. "Later into that night, around the time when the game ended, I do not remember a single thing. And I was told by a boy that was there that I fell down," Harvey said. TWO OLE MISS STUDENTS FOUND DEAD AS PACKAGED KRATOM IS RECOVERED AT TWO SITES: OFFICIALS Harvey said police put her in an Uber where she was taken to her dorm, where other students needed to help her get to her room. "Later after that, my roommate got in the shower and she said while she was in the shower, I went missing. And she left the dorm to find me and was searching everywhere, searched every floor. But on her way back from searching, she found me passed out in the hall of my dorm," Harvey said. STUDENTS AT TOP PARTY COLLEGE ON EDGE AFTER RAPE, STRANGULATION REPORTED IN CAMPUS HOUSING Harvey says she no longer feels "safe in my dorm building." She said on Facebook that "people are scared to leave their dorm rooms." "I feel like everything is just kind of getting swept under the rug and covered up when it should be addressed like immediately," she said. Ole Miss student Kenneth Tonos, who works security for several fraternities and sororities on campus, told Fox News Digital that at least three Greek life events have been canceled following the two students' deaths. Tonos said bars are also taking more precautions, with some tightening their screening to track exactly what people bring in. POLICE AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY INVESTIGATE 2 DEAD MEN FOUND ON CAMPUS A spokesman for the University of Mississippi told Fox News Digital that both of the deceased were students there. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Law enforcement is treating the deaths as two separate investigations, and officials have not confirmed whether any substance contributed to either death. Both of the students were males, the county's coroner's office told Fox News on Wednesday. The younger victim died in a dorm room and was 18, while the other died in an off-campus home and was 20. The coroner's office said their names aren't being released yet, and noted that toxicology reports are pending and could take weeks. SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWS Officials asked the public "to avoid speculation regarding the circumstances or cause of either death while these investigations remain ongoing." LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE "Local, state and federal partners are working collaboratively to gather the facts and provide answers as quickly and responsibly as possible. We are also working closely with the families involved and ask that their privacy be respected during an incredibly difficult time," Lafayette County Metro Narcotics said. SEND US A TIP A University of Mississippi spokesman told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that several viral claims about drugs on campus are false, including that additional students were unaccounted for. POLICE ANNOUNCE ARREST AFTER 5 WOUNDED IN VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY SHOOTING: REPORT WATCH: Ole Miss student newspaper editor voices frustration after student deaths GOT A TIP? Daily Mississippian Editor-in-Chief Raegan Settle told Fox News Digital that she wants more transparency from campus officials after the deaths of two students and subsequent drug investigation, urging leadership to issue safety warnings as national media attention mounts. LISTEN TO THE NEW 'CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO' PODCAST "The one main thing that I've heard repeatedly today is students being frustrated with the university that they haven't said more," Settle told Fox News Digital. "I think people are just waiting for more warnings and communication from the university and not just local law enforcement." PENN STATE FRAT COCAINE BUST BLOWS LID OFF WIDER STIMULANT SCOURGE HITTING COLLEGE CAMPUSES — AND BEYOND Settle urged her peers to carry life-saving harm reduction tools like naloxone (Narcan). "Getting a high or getting a nicotine feel is really not worth your life and risking your safety," Settle warned. "And also... be the one who keeps Narcan in your purse. I know that I keep it in mine just in case." Fox News Digital reached out to the Oxford Police Department and Ole Miss for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95f75342cf4db88f4cc Bishop Barron warns communism ‘making a comeback’ in America ahead of Fulton Sheen beatification te 2026-09-24T10:20:15.059Z Bishop Barron warns communism ‘making a comeback’ in America ahead of Fulton Sheen beatification FIRST ON FOX: As tens of thousands are expected to gather in St. Louis on Thursday for Archbishop Fulton Sheen's beatification, one church leader is sounding the alarm on the rise of communism in America and urging Catholics to embrace the late archbishop's fierce opposition to the ideology. In an exclusive video obtained by Fox News Digital, Bishop Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota and founder of Word on Fire Ministries, hails Sheen as "one of the great voices against communism in mid-20th century America," a message he says remains relevant today. "Now, you don't need me to tell you that communism is making a comeback right now in our country," Barron said in front of the Gateway Arch on Tuesday. "And I think especially churchmen need, like Sheen, to raise their voices against it and, furthermore, as American churchmen, to speak out strongly on both American and Catholic principles against the re-emergence of this still very dangerous ideology." BISHOP BARRON SLAMS 'BORDERLINE COMMUNISTS' SANDERS, MAMDANI AHEAD OF TRUMP PRAYER EVENT: 'ECONOMY THAT KILLS' Sheen, an author and television personality who became one of the Catholic Church's most prominent voices in the 20th century, will be beatified at The Dome at America's Center. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle will preside on behalf of Pope Leo XIV, when Sheen will officially receive the title of "Blessed," a major step toward sainthood. The Vatican approved Sheen's beatification in 2019 after recognizing a miracle involving the unexplained recovery of James Fulton Engstrom, a baby born without a pulse in 2010, according to The Associated Press. In February, Pope Leo XIV approved moving forward with Sheen's beatification after years of delays. Barron's comments come ahead of the November midterms, with communism and democratic socialism emerging as flashpoints in American politics. Republicans have pointed to recent Democratic primary victories by progressive and democratic socialist candidates as evidence the party is shifting further to the left. HOW THE 'LONG MARCH' THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS LED TO SOCIALIST TAKEOVER OF DEM PARTY: 'NEED TO WAKE UP' According to Barron, Sheen believed communism could never coexist with religion, saying Sheen viewed it as "this hostility to religion." "Fulton Sheen knew that atheism was not incidental to communism, it was essential to it," Barron said. "So on those grounds he opposed it." In his 1948 book, Communism and the Conscience of the West, Sheen described communism as a "complete philosophy of life" that attempts "to control man's inner life as well." "Communism has a theory and a practice; it wishes to be not only a state but a church, judging the consciences of men; it is a doctrine of salvation and as such claims the whole man, body and soul, and in this sense is totalitarian," Sheen wrote. In addition to serving as a Catholic bishop, Barron said Sheen was also "a very proud American." "Those two identities came together in a very powerful way, I'd say, and especially in the '40s and '50s, in Sheen's fierce anti-communism," he said. BISHOP ROBERT BARRON: MY YEAR WITH DOJ'S RELIGIOUS LIBERTY COMMISSION: WHY I SAID YES Turning to the Declaration of Independence, Barron said Sheen argued communism, rooted in Karl Marx's teachings, also threatened the foundations of equality, freedom and individual rights. "Sheen knew if you take God out of the picture, you take equality, rights, freedom out of the picture," he said. "Our integrity as a democratic society is dependent ultimately on our belief in God." Barron urged church leaders to follow Sheen's lead and speak out against communism. "So another way we can claim Fulton Sheen is Fulton Sheen, anti-communist," he said. "We need that voice again today." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95e75342cf4db88f4c3 Melania Trump’s home-country leader rips UN ‘double standards’ as Trump promise is revealed te 2026-09-24T10:20:14.452Z Melania Trump’s home-country leader rips UN ‘double standards’ as Trump promise is revealed UNITED NATIONS - Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša accused the United Nations of applying double standards to global conflicts, arguing that the international community's focus on Gaza has overshadowed Russia's war in Ukraine and other humanitarian crises, while revealing that President Donald Trump has promised to visit Slovenia, the homeland of First Lady Melania Trump. Speaking exclusively to Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, Janša said the international body must give greater attention to conflicts beyond the Middle East rather than concentrating its diplomatic efforts on a single crisis. "We have to get rid of double standards," Janša said, calling for the UN to apply its available diplomatic and security tools equally instead of putting its attention, money and energy into one conflict while neglecting others. MIDDLE EAST TAKES CENTER STAGE AT UN AS REGIONAL LEADERS CONFRONT IRAN WAR, GAZA AND HOUTHI THREAT The Slovenian leader said he was struck by how extensively Gaza dominated speeches during the opening of the General Assembly, while Ukraine, a war much closer to his country's borders, received comparatively less attention. For Slovenia and other European countries, he said, Russia's invasion represents an immediate security threat, with no clear indication that Moscow is prepared to negotiate an end to the fighting. Janša argued that the UN was established to prevent such conflicts and should not allow its attention to be consumed by one region. He also pointed to the persecution of Christians in Nigeria and other humanitarian crises, arguing that the international body must recognize that different countries face different security and humanitarian challenges. TRUMP TO ZERO-IN ON IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, GAZA PLAN AND UN OVERHAUL IN WORLD STAGE SPEECH Janša said he intends to raise the issue during his own address to the General Assembly, scheduled for Thursday. His criticism comes as Slovenia undergoes a significant shift in its foreign policy, particularly toward Israel. Under the previous government of Prime Minister Robert Golob, Slovenia recognized Palestinian statehood in June 2024 and imposed an arms embargo on Israel in July 2025. The government defended those measures as necessary to protect Palestinian civilians and uphold international law. Since returning to power, Janša has sought to strengthen Slovenia's relationship with Israel, marking a shift from the previous government's more critical approach toward the Jewish state. Earlier this month, Israel opened its first resident embassy in Slovenia, while Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar visited the country for talks aimed at expanding political and economic cooperation. The two governments also signed a cooperation program covering education, science, culture, youth and sports through 2030. Janša described his government's approach as a return to the traditionally good relations between the two countries rather than a dramatic diplomatic realignment. US-BACKED ISRAEL-MOROCCO DEAL DEEPENS ABRAHAM ACCORDS AMID GROWING REGIONAL THREATS He also criticized European governments that, in his view, have failed to recognize the broader strategic connections between Iran, Russia and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Janša said he has supported the Iranian opposition for decades and argued that lasting peace in the Middle East would remain elusive without political change in Tehran. He accused some European governments of applying inconsistent standards by supporting Ukraine while taking positions toward Iran that he believes fail to account for Tehran’s relationship with Moscow, citing Ireland and Spain as well as Slovenia under the previous government before this year’s change in leadership. Janša also suggested that some European leaders have used the Palestinian issue to divert public attention from domestic economic and political problems, particularly ahead of elections. The prime minister's visit to New York also provided an opportunity to strengthen Slovenia's relationship with Washington, a relationship that carries a personal dimension because of the country's most prominent American connection: First Lady Melania Trump. Born in Slovenia in 1970, Melania Trump grew up in the town of Sevnica before moving to the United States and becoming the nation's second foreign-born first lady. The prime minister praised Melania Trump’s work on initiatives for children, describing her role in the White House as a source of pride for many Slovenians. He said his wife met the first lady for the first time on Tuesday and that he also spoke briefly with President Trump. According to Janša, he invited Trump to visit Slovenia and received a positive response. "He promised he'll come," Janša told Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital's Tyler Speicher contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95d75342cf4db88f4ba Daughter of Chinese Uyghur prisoner makes emotional plea to Trump during spotlight Xi summit te 2026-09-24T10:20:13.794Z Daughter of Chinese Uyghur prisoner makes emotional plea to Trump during spotlight Xi summit An American woman whose mother has been wrongfully imprisoned in China for eight years is hoping that President Donald Trump will ask Chinese leader Xi Jinping for clemency during the high-profile ongoing summit between the pair of world leaders Thursday. "We are doing everything we can to bring this in front of President Trump, and I know that if he knows about this case, he will care about this case," Ziba Murat told Fox News Digital in an emotional interview on her mother's continued imprisonment. "I hope we are pulling the right levers and President Trump can bring her home." Dr. Gulshar Abbas is Murat's mother. She was 56 when she disappeared from her home on Sept. 10, 2018. In December of that year, according to Murat, Chinese government officials confirmed in a press conference that Abbas was convicted on charges of taking part in organized terrorism, aiding terrorist activities and seriously disrupting social order — charges Murat describes as "made up" — and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. CHINA’S XI SET TO ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON FOR HIGH-STAKES TRUMP SUMMIT AS AI SUPREMACY BATTLE LOOMS LARGE "Her disappearance came six days after her sister, my aunt Rushan Abbas, spoke ... about what's happening to the Uyghur people back home, and then the Chinese government picked her up six days after," said Abbas. "We didn't see it coming, honestly, because she is a retired doctor. She's not a political person. She's not an activist. She's just a grandma and, you know — it took us almost two years to find out what happened to her [and] where she's being held." Rushan Abbas runs Campaign for Uyghurs, a large nonprofit advocacy group for the Muslim minority population in China, which has been subject to brutal oppression at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). MOTHER RECOUNTS HORRORS OF BRUTAL CHINESE DETENTION CAMP WHERE INFANT SON DIED Abbas' case is a prominent one. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has used his position and official office to advocate on her behalf. Murat was the Republican leader's guest at the 2026 State of the Union speech. But progress in freeing her mother has been an uphill battle, considering the secretive nature of the Chinese government and tensions with the United States over issues like trade and intellectual property theft, among many others. Abbas is hoping that some of that tension will abate after Thursday's bilateral summit, and that by the end of the day, she'll be one step closer to seeing her mother again. TRUMP-XI SUMMIT SHOULD MAKE SURE AMERICAN STRENGTH DELIVERS AMERICAN RESULTS Through tears, Abbas described life without her mother, noting that she's missing out on precious memories with her family, 24 of whom are United States citizens. Murat's daughter was only three months old when Abbas disappeared. "It's been hard because, like I said, I was a new mom myself when all this started happening," she said. "And my sister had her second baby four weeks after ... my mom's disappearance." Her daughter, now eight, is starting to ask questions about her grandmother. "Just a couple of months ago, we were reading a book ... [the] encyclopedia for kids, and they have the pages of [the] family tree," Abbas said. "So we're going over, you know, talking about my husband's parents and then my parents, and she just sat there and looked at me. She's like, 'I saw aunt Rushan has grandma Gulshar's picture ... [and] it says my sister is gone.' Where is grandma?" Murat is trying hard to withhold the real answer to that question, and tells her daughter that Abbas is far away, and the family is hoping that she can come meet her soon. But with all the meetings Murat attends and people with whom she discusses the case, her young daughter is starting to catch on. "She just lets out this big sigh, and she's like, 'Oh, okay.' I thought she was in jail,'" Murat explained. "Even without me telling her, she started to pick up things and It just breaks my heart to see her, and I don't have answer to provide her. on when her grandma will be home. So it's very frustrating." A senior White House official confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday that Trump is expected to ask Xi to release at least one prisoner, U.S. citizen Dr. Youlin Chen, who was arrested outside of a Beijing airport by Chinese officials in 2024. Editor's Note: The interview with Abbas was lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95d75342cf4db88f4b1 Trump-Xi reunion comes with unfinished business — and a bigger battle looming te 2026-09-24T10:20:13.111Z Trump-Xi reunion comes with unfinished business — and a bigger battle looming Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington Wednesday evening for a summit with President Donald Trump, four months after the two leaders reached a sweeping agreement that included Chinese commitments on rare earths, agricultural purchases, trade and investment. Trump hailed that agreement as a breakthrough for American farmers, manufacturers and workers. But the latest talks come amid uneven progress on commitments involving rare-earth minerals, agricultural and commercial purchases, trade and investment, while key disputes over tariffs, advanced technology, artificial intelligence, intellectual property and Taiwan remain unresolved. Under the May agreement, China committed to address U.S. concerns over rare-earth supplies and purchase at least $17 billion a year in U.S. agricultural products, while also approving an initial purchase of 200 Boeing aircraft, restoring market access for American beef and resuming poultry imports. The two countries also chartered new boards on trade and investment. CHINA’S XI SET TO ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON FOR HIGH-STAKES TRUMP SUMMIT AS AI SUPREMACY BATTLE LOOMS LARGE Four months later, implementation has been uneven. Reuters reported that China is making progress toward finalizing its commitment to purchase 200 Boeing jets, while agricultural imports are projected to fall short of the agreed level and the new trade and investment boards are still being put into operation. AI is expected to be a major focus of the two-day summit, along with possible tariff reductions on non-strategic goods and discussions over China’s rare-earth exports, according to a senior administration official. The May agreement, when Trump and Xi last met, also chartered new U.S.-China boards on trade and investment, though it did not resolve the broader economic and national security tensions between the two countries. REalloys CEO Lipi Sternheim told Fox News Digital China’s dominance of the rare-earth supply chain gives Beijing leverage over U.S. defense and technology industries, warning that the Trump-Xi meeting must preserve supplies while American production ramps up. "The fact that Trump and Xi are meeting and the main topic of the day is rare earths probably tells you and the American people all they need to know about the importance," said Sternheim. Sternheim said the immediate goal of the Trump-Xi meeting should be to keep rare earths flowing to U.S. defense manufacturers for the next two to three years, giving American companies time to build domestic mining, processing and magnet-making capacity and reduce their dependence on China. THE WEST STILL DOESN’T GRASP THE DANGER OF CHINA’S RARE EARTH ENDGAME He said that rare earth minerals are used to make the powerful magnets found in cellphones, electric vehicles, drones, robots and defense systems, including missiles, F-35 fighter jets, submarines and missile-defense systems. Heavy rare earths are especially important for high-temperature applications such as missiles and space systems, but China controls most of the mining, processing and magnet-making capacity. Sternheim cautioned that shifting production to the U.S. will not happen quickly. "You can’t build 40 years in two days," Sternheim said, adding that it will take years. Trump touted the U.S. lead over China in artificial intelligence during an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York Tuesday, while declaring that U.S. government documents would begin referring to the technology as "superintelligence." AMERICA AND CHINA ARE FIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE OF AI — CHIPS ARE THE BATTLEFIELD "Every major new technology brings challenges, and superintelligence is no exception," said Trump. "Whoever wins superintelligence wins. That's the group that wins. And we're leading now over China by a lot and everyone else. And we're going to keep it that way." While Trump and Xi will be in meetings, first lady Melania Trump is expected to accompany Xi’s wife Peng to the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. The two will "explore works spanning centuries of artistic achievement and Sino-American cultural exchange." Thursday will begin with a prestigious State Arrival Ceremony, including 479 military personnel from all branches on the South Lawn, State Floor and Rose Garden of the White House. The day will end with a state dinner with high-profile guests, including many from the tech world. Those guests will include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, SpaceX founder and former senior White House adviser Elon Musk, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser and Apple Board of Directors Chairman Tim Cook. House Speaker Mike Johnson will also be in attendance, a source familiar told Fox News Digital. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95c75342cf4db88f4a8 Dem Senate hopeful dished out thousands to radical staffer who glorified Hamas: 'Freedom fighters' te 2026-09-24T10:20:12.442Z Dem Senate hopeful dished out thousands to radical staffer who glorified Hamas: 'Freedom fighters' FIRST ON FOX: Sara Mahmoud, who served as a social media manager for the far-left Senate nominee in Florida, has a digital footprint spanning multiple accounts with different aliases that include wishing that Zionists, supporters of the state of Israel, would "die." "Can Zionists die already?" Mahmoud said in one post to X from an account that was recently deleted. She also made posts that expressed support for Hamas, the terror organization that launched the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that left roughly 1,200 people dead. "Glory and honor to our freedom fighters. Praying for their safety and success," Mahmoud posted on Nov. 18, 2018 — the same day Hamas fired as many as 400 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel.  PROGRESSIVE FLORIDA LAWMAKER ANGIE NIXON TOPPLES TRUMP IMPEACHMENT WITNESS IN DEM SENATE PRIMARY UPSET Later that same year, she also re-posted a celebration of the organization's 31st anniversary since its founding in 1987. "Palestine is the land of the Arab Palestinian people, from it they originate, to it they adhere and belong, and about it they reach out and communicate. #Hamas31 #WhatsHamas," the post read.  Those comments, and dozens of others like them were cataloged by antisemitism watchdog Canary Mission, outlined Mahmoud’s thinking as she worked with Angie Nixon, a candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in pursuit of a U.S. Senate seat. The posts also further illustrate the overlap between support for DSA and opposition to Israel. In addition to posting about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, many of Mahmoud’s posts are directed at White Jews, especially those supporting the Israeli state. "Wow, white Jews are so entitled lmfaoooo please die," Mahmoud said in a 2016 post. "Zionism is a form of white nationalism, period. I’m really sick of seeing folks contesting this fact. Folks who try arguing either a.) conflate Zionism and Judaism or b.) employ race science to define ‘white’ and ‘whiteness,’" she wrote in a separate post. "Zionism = white supremacy. PLZ get this! Zionism wasn’t made for all Jewish people and doesn’t represent all Jewish people!" "Twitter banned me for saying zios [sic] should ch*ke but here’s my cute a-- nails," Mahmoud wrote in 2017. Despite the comments, some dating back to 2015, Mahmoud was brought on as a social media manager for the Nixon campaign as recently as June. According to the latest FEC filing, Mahmoud has received at least $8,400 for her services between June and July. Fox News Digital could not confirm if there were additional payments in the 3rd quarter filings that will be released next month. Mahmoud is no longer employed by the Nixon campaign. A campaign spokesperson did not say whether it was aware of the posts when it hired Mahmoud and declined to comment on whether the campaign thought they were appropriate. They also noted that Mahmoud is no longer working for Nixon, stating that she had found another employment opportunity. ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE REACHES DEADLIEST LEVEL SINCE 1994, NEW GLOBAL REPORT FINDS Like Mahmoud, Nixon has also expressed alarm at the U.S. partnership with Israel but has couched her criticisms as strictly limited to the Israeli government. "Caring about thousands of innocent lives lost does not make anyone antisemitic. You can turn your backs on me because I am on the right side of history because I don’t’ want the babies to die," Nixon said in a speech before the Florida Legislature. Nixon has supported reducing U.S. aid to Israel and reevaluating the partnership between the two countries, citing humanitarian concerns over its war with Gaza — views that align with the DSA. But on its website, the DSA goes further. Among its other party platforms, like abolishing the U.S. Senate and government-subsidized housing, it states that it supports autonomy for the Palestinian people. "[We] recognize the rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return, the right to resist military occupation and the right to self-determination in a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital," the DSA website states. Mahmoud, for her part, agreed in a post to X in 2018. "Any means used by Palestinians to liberate ourselves from white supremacist Israeli colonizers is just. We will return. Wait on it," Mahmoud wrote. Even before the 2023 conflict with Gaza, which prompted international debate about its protections for civilian casualties, Mahmoud had asserted that Israel was carrying out a systematic elimination of Palestinians. "You’re doing exactly what Hitler did. It’s a mass genocide and ethnic cleansing that Israel is conducting," Mahmoud wrote of Israel in 2015. "’I’m embracing my Israeli side.’ B--ch, so you embracing imperialism and racism? OK," she posted in 2016. FAR-LEFT STREAMER HASAN PIKER EQUATES ISRAEL'S 'RIGHT TO EXIST' TO NAZI GERMANY "Defend, as defined by Israeli forces: use Palestinians as target practice, sexual assault 75% of children in custody, apartheid," she wrote in 2017. Mahmoud did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95b75342cf4db88f49f Rand Paul: Politicians should stay out of college sports and let athletes compete freely te 2026-09-24T10:20:11.749Z Rand Paul: Politicians should stay out of college sports and let athletes compete freely The people who oversee the Post Office now want to run college sports ... what could go wrong? The United States Congress has been called upon during the most important moments in American history to make difficult decisions about the future of our country. We have navigated wars, economic downturns and national disasters. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! These are the kinds of nationwide issues that a federal government should address. The Founders never intended for the federal government to usurp the authority of your local school board or your homeowners’ association. I don’t think it ever occurred to them that Congress would one day be charged with dictating the rules for college sports. And yet, with gas at over $4 a gallon, a persistent war with Iran and $40 trillion in debt, the Senate decided the most urgent thing it should do is dictate how college sports are run from Washington. It came to this decision, of course, after acknowledging that government caused the very problems this bill purports to fix. This is the exact scenario the great Harry Browne described when he said government "knows how to break your legs, then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See, if it weren’t for government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’" I come to the floor today to offer an amendment that would avoid the federal takeover of college sports. Unlike the underlying bill, my amendment rejects the idea that politicians should run college sports. My amendment would put the trust in the schools, students, coaches and conferences to run their own sports. My amendment accomplishes this goal simply by granting an antitrust exemption so that college athletes and schools can make their own deals, without unelected judges or politicians micromanaging every detail of compensation and eligibility. Jason Russell, a journalist with Reason magazine perhaps summed up this bill’s federal takeover of college sports best when he wrote: "The backers of the bill believe politicians, not the NCAA, should decide how many transfers are allowed. They think politicians, not conferences, should set a compensation cap on how much schools can pay athletes. They think politicians, not athletes and businesses, should get to decide what is a legitimate private contract. They think politicians, not the colleges, should decide how many schools are in the Big Ten and SEC. They think politicians, not coaches, should decide when a coach is allowed to leave a job. "They think politicians, not athletes or agents, should get to decide what agent fees are. They think politicians should empower medical personnel, not athletes or coaches, to have "autonomous, unchallengeable" power to decide if an athlete plays or sits. "They even think politicians, not the NFL or broadcasters, should get to decide when professional football games are on TV. They think politicians should have a say in the length of the college football season." CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE This bill is the culmination of a slow march towards federal control of college sports that began almost one-hundred and forty years ago in the courts. In 1890, Congress enacted the Sherman Act. The Sherman Act is a piece of antitrust legislation. But, quite quickly, antitrust became a weapon against businesses of all sizes. One of the most ridiculous examples of antitrust as a weapon of government control came in 1967. In Utah Pie Company v. Continental Baking Company, the courts determined that a bakery violated antitrust law by selling its pies too cheaply. Not long after, in 1969, the government sued IBM for dominating the computer market by innovating too quickly. That case ultimately ran on for thirteen years before the government finally dropped it, saying that it was "without merit." The logic of antitrust became so contorted that the Federal Trade commission accused cereal makers of maintaining a shared monopoly on the theory that the brands blocked competition by being so popular that they flooded store shelves with their products. After 10 years of litigation, the FTC dismissed the case, ruling that staff failed to prove the shared monopoly charges. Antitrust laws granted the courts the ability to intrude on private contracts and dictate how people should run their businesses. And courts have grown increasingly comfortable using that power, increasing the scope of antitrust law with each case. For over one-hundred years this country has left regulation of college sports where it belongs: with the institutions and individuals that participate in college athletics. Until 1984, college athletics were excluded from antitrust law because antitrust didn’t deal with noncommercial, amateur pursuits. But in 1984 the Supreme Court decided that the NCAA couldn’t impose television broadcasting restrictions on college football games. Rather than recognizing that there may have been an underlying reason for the restrictions, the courts threw out the restrictions and began the slippery path we are on today. That case established college athletics as a commercial enterprise, but it wasn’t until 2015 that the courts really sank their fangs into college athletics. In 2015, the courts finally decided that the NCAA could not require students to maintain their amateur status by refusing payment for use of their name, image and likeness. The court decided that eligibility rules for a private association are best decided by the government, not the members of the association. Since 2015, a flurry of cases has decided issues as parochial as how much individual athletes are paid out of broadcast revenues and how long student athletes are eligible to play. Government has shirked its real duties — deciding issues of national importance — to focus on something it knows nothing about. As important as college sports are to students and institutions, they aren’t something Congress should micromanage. Athletes and institutions should be free to make choices about who they want to work and play for, and what rules they should be subject to. This bill manages to interfere with college athletics at nearly every level. It limits the ability of certain employees to freely leave one school and accept a job at another. It decides how students may go about licensing their name, image, and likeness. It even decides when transfer students are eligible to play. The bill actually forbids a return to the historic model of amateur sports where athletes are not paid. The bill would also set up a Commission on the Future of College Athletics, a legislative commission that would recommend new rule changes to Congress in the future. It seems that we already have an institution dedicated to preserving the future of college sports: the NCAA. Congress should not mire itself in another endless cycle of solving problems it caused. It especially shouldn’t become the chief rulemaking body for something like collegiate athletics. That is why I am offering an amendment that would actually solve the problems faced by college sports. My amendment would reverse previous interference and prevent future interference by exempting collegiate sports from antitrust laws. This would ensure conferences, colleges and athletes are free to negotiate and enter into agreements that benefit everyone, without the heavy hand of government dictating what parties can offer or accept. It would also prevent Congress from imposing rules governing such minutiae as eligibility for transfer students and the thresholds for reporting name, image and likeness income. I love college sports as much as anyone, which is why I think the best way we can protect college sports is to stop sticking our nose where it doesn’t belong. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95b75342cf4db88f496 Our son’s miracle is a testament to prayer and Fulton Sheen’s intercession te 2026-09-24T10:20:11.133Z Our son’s miracle is a testament to prayer and Fulton Sheen’s intercession Sixteen years ago, in the middle of the night, in the heart of Illinois, a miracle happened. It didn’t begin as a miracle, of course. The chain of events that would end with a miracle of biblical proportions started with me, laboring at home in the arms of my husband. Unbeknownst to us, our healthy baby boy had a knot in his umbilical cord. That knot tightened during his delivery, cutting off his oxygen supply. When the midwife caught him and placed him in my arms, he was stillborn. For the brief moments I held him, he didn’t cry. He didn’t breathe. He had no pulse. Our son, James Fulton, was taken from my arms and placed on the floor. My midwife and her assistant began CPR. My husband performed an emergency baptism, invoking the saints James was named after. Sitting on the floor, I felt like I was falling out of control. COLTON BURPO DESCRIBES MEETING JESUS AND HEARING ANGELS SING DURING NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE In my head, I repeated the name of my baby’s namesake, the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen — a Catholic televangelist who converted over 50,000 people during his lifetime, and who boasted over 30 million weekly viewers for his Emmy-winning show, Life is Worth Living, which aired in the 1950s. In my moment of desperation, my heart and voice continuously called on Sheen to pray for me. I had no idea how profoundly this prayer would change my life — and the lives of millions of Catholics across America, if not the world. After 20 minutes, an ambulance arrived and took James and my husband to the hospital about 20 minutes away. My husband watched in shock as our tiny son — his cold, blue body hooked up to a heart monitor — lay lifeless and pulseless while every method to restart his heart failed. In a separate ambulance, headed to labor and delivery monitoring, I desperately prayed for the son I just wanted to love and hold. After 20 more minutes, the doctors and nurses finally stopped trying to resuscitate him and were seconds from calling the time of death. 'BLIND SIDE' STAR QUINTON AARON SAYS HE 'SAW JESUS' WHILE IN A COMA AFTER NEAR-FATAL STROKE At that moment, when all attempts had ended, James’ heart started to beat. He had been without a pulse for sixty-one minutes. Even then, everyone feared massive organ failure. The doctors stabilized James and transferred him to the NICU. We were warned that if James lived, his life would be filled with limitations and hardships. We prepared our hearts to love James no matter what. We also prayed for Sheen’s intercession for a miracle. During my pregnancy we had decided to name James after Sheen and asked for his prayer over the life of our son. It was natural, therefore, to continue to call on him, to ask him to pray without ceasing for our sweet baby James. NEW STUDY REVEALS THE SINGLE MOST CRITICAL FACTOR IN WHETHER CHILDREN KEEP THEIR FAITH INTO ADULTHOOD It took years for the extent of James’ miracle to reveal itself. An MRI at three months showed zero brain damage. As he hit milestone after milestone, it was clear that God had truly restored our son. Independent medical professionals additionally confirmed that there was no medical explanation for James’ survival — let alone the fact that he doesn’t have any complications to this day. I knew in that moment that Sheen had interceded for me and my baby boy. I had no idea then, however, that our little miracle could help Sheen too. Years before, in 2002, Bishop Daniel Jenky opened the cause for canonization for Sheen in his hometown of Peoria. For those who don’t know, Catholic canonizations are multi-year processes the Church undergoes to determine whether an individual is officially a Catholic saint. It involves three stages, the data collection stage before someone is declared venerable, an investigation and miracle to declare someone blessed, and a second miracle to declare them a saint. For the past 24 years, Catholics involved in Sheen’s canonization efforts have heavily scrutinized his life and works to ensure he merits the titles of "Venerable," "Blessed," and "Saint." In 2012, the Catholic Church declared Sheen "Venerable" after those responsible for investigating his life concluded that he had demonstrated "heroic virtue." LOST SERMONS FROM ONE OF CHRISTIANITY'S GREATEST SAINTS DISCOVERED AFTER 1,600 YEARS And in 2019, the Catholic Church declared that what happened to my son James was a miracle attributed to Sheen. My son’s first moments of life are the reason that Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be declared "Blessed" in Saint Louis on September 24th. Today, James is a handsome teenager, if I do say so myself. He is funny, thoughtful, and hardworking. He enjoys music, meteorology, and working alongside his dad with the high school football team. He takes his faith seriously and has a personal devotion to Sheen. When Sheen is beatified on September 24th, James, accompanied by my husband, me, and our other seven children, will carry and present the first-class relic at the ceremony. This honor couldn’t be bestowed on a more grateful family. We hope that sharing James’ story and promoting Sheen’s cause for canonization will inspire more Americans to recognize the glory of God and the beauty of the Catholic faith. Sixteen years ago, in the Heart of Illinois, a miracle happened. People who do not know our family refer to that day as the anniversary of the miracle. We call it James’ birthday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95a75342cf4db88f48d Major pro-life group threatens to sue Trump FDA over abortion pill's alleged environmental risks te 2026-09-24T10:20:10.464Z Major pro-life group threatens to sue Trump FDA over abortion pill's alleged environmental risks A leading pro-life organization has formally threatened to sue the Food and Drug Administration, accusing the agency of failing to conduct required environmental testing of the abortion drug mifepristone despite potential risks to the waterways and wildlife. Students for Life of America (SFLA), an anti-abortion advocacy group, filed a notice of intent to sue the FDA on Thursday, hours before Dr. Heidi Overton is scheduled to appear before the Senate for her confirmation hearing to lead the agency. The notice says that after the FDA approved mifepristone in 2000, it never consulted two wildlife protection agencies about the drug's possible harmful effects on federally protected species, which the group argues violated the Endangered Species Act. "We expect these environmental concerns to be taken seriously. I know Dr. Overton is aware of these concerns. Or we expect to see the Trump FDA in court. That's where this will end," SFLA President Kristan Hawkins told Fox News Digital in an interview on Wednesday. PRO-LIFE LEADER SOUNDS ALARM AFTER DOCTOR GETS 6 MONTHS FOR FORCING ABORTION PILLS ON GIRLFRIEND Hawkins said the FDA now has 60 days to respond to SFLA's notice before a lawsuit is filed. Prior to the notice, the group had filed 11 citizen petitions to the agency urging action. In response to one of those petitions on Jan. 15, 2025 — five days before President Donald Trump began his second term — the FDA rejected SFLA's legal argument, saying it was not required to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service before approving mifepristone. The SFLA notice cites six studies, four of which did not examine whether mifepristone was present in environmental water samples, to argue the drug may pose environmental risks warranting further federal review. Among the studies cited is a recent paper published in Issues in Law & Medicine, which reported anti-progesterone activity in water samples from three U.S. cities. HAWLEY URGES DOJ PROBE INTO ABORTION PILL MAKER OVER SAFETY CONCERNS Because mifepristone blocks progesterone receptors — preventing the hormone needed to sustain a pregnancy from doing its job — SFLA argues the findings show the drug has made it into the U.S. water supply. "Where do all the babies go in chemical abortions?" Hawkins said. "If we're talking 600,000 to 700,000 abortions a year being induced with chemical abortion pills, where are they happening? She doesn't go to a facility to complete the abortion. The abortion often takes weeks at home. She is told to go and sit on a toilet to flush." The study, however, did not directly detect mifepristone in the water. Instead, it looked for signs of substances that block progesterone, and the researchers said another compound could have produced the same result. Directly confirming the presence of mifepristone would generally require an analytical chemistry technique capable of identifying the substance itself. FIRST ON FOX: TOP REPUBLICANS TAKE ABORTION PILL FIGHT TO SUPREME COURT, CITING COERCION AND SAFETY RISKS Hawkins told Fox News Digital that the legal notice against the FDA is not reliant on one study but rather "rests on the failure of the FDA in 2000 to literally follow the law." "This should be something that unites all Americans, regardless of how you feel about the violence of abortion. I certainly am pro-life, I wanna see abortion ended. But we all want clean drinking water," she said. Hawkins said that message has resonated even with students who disagree with her organization's stance on abortion. SFLA has a strong presence on college campuses, with 1,575 active student groups across nearly half of America's traditional four-year universities. With new leadership at the FDA on the horizon, Hawkins said her organization is reminding the agency of its responsibilities. "Today, Dr. Heidi Overton will be at the U.S. Senate," Hawkins said. "And we want to be very clear that when she gets to her desk, when she get confirmed and she sits down, the first thing she sees on her desk is our notice to intent to sue." "It is high time to hold the abortion industry accountable and to hold our government accountable for upholding our own laws that have been enacted to protect all of us as well as the animals within our country," she added. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f95975342cf4db88f484 America's beef supply shrinks as cattle farmer warns 'the numbers are just not here anymore' te 2026-09-24T10:20:09.728Z America's beef supply shrinks as cattle farmer warns 'the numbers are just not here anymore' Americans are seeing less beef produced domestically as cattle numbers decline, adding pressure to a market already facing high prices. U.S. commercial beef production totaled about 14.4 billion pounds from January through July 2026, down from roughly 15.2 billion pounds during the same period last year, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. The number of cattle commercially slaughtered also declined, falling from about 17.5 million during the first seven months of 2025 to 16.2 million during the same period this year, USDA data shows. NFL LEGEND REVEALS WHY EATING 'REAL FOOD' AFTER RETIREMENT LED HIM TO RAISE HIS OWN BEEF Will Harris, a fourth-generation cattle farmer and owner of White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, told Fox News Digital that years of financial pressure have contributed to farmers reducing their herds. "Cattle farmers have for so long not made a profit that they have liquidated their herds, and the numbers are just not here anymore," Harris said. Harris said higher cattle prices have not yet led to the kind of expansion among producers that he has seen during previous cycles. "What's different is the higher prices the farmers are getting is not causing them to go back into business," he said. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER Starting or expanding a cattle operation can require significant investments in land, equipment and livestock, which Harris said can make it difficult for new producers to enter the industry. "There's so much money involved in owning land and equipment and livestock that it's just very hard for a person who is not producing to say, 'I think I'll start a farm,'" he said. Harris also expressed concern about the amount of beef the U.S. imports and what he sees as increasing dependence on foreign supplies. "What is happening is that the United States is becoming a larger and larger net importer of beef," Harris said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES The U.S. both imports and exports beef, with trade patterns influenced by domestic production, consumer demand and global markets, according to USDA data. Harris has experienced a major shift in the way cattle are raised over his decades in the industry. After graduating from the University of Georgia with a degree in animal science in 1976, Harris returned to his family's farm and initially followed conventional farming practices, including the use of chemical fertilizers, antibiotics and growth-promoting technologies. Over time, he said, concerns about the long-term effects of those practices led him to change the way he operated the farm. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "They offered a performance boost in the short run," Harris said. "In the long run, they were literally damaging my land, my farm, my community." The farm now follows what Harris describes as regenerative agriculture, an approach he said is intended to work more closely with natural cycles rather than relying on conventional monoculture practices. For consumers trying to understand how their beef was raised, Harris said labels alone may not always provide all the information. "It's increasingly important that that consumer knows something about the farm that the food is raised on," he said. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Harris encouraged consumers who are interested in how their food is produced to research farms and producers and, when possible, buy closer to home. "I wish that consumers would find a more local producer that they could do business with, they could support to help that guy stay in business," he said. Fox News Digital reached out to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f4b175342cf4db88f38d Biggs Joins Supreme Court Brief Supporting Home Prayer Group In Religious Liberty Case te 2026-09-24T10:00:17.793Z Biggs Joins Supreme Court Brief Supporting Home Prayer Group In Religious Liberty Case By Ethan Faverino | Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05) joined dozens of members of Congress in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving an Orthodox Jewish man who was ordered by local officials to stop hosting prayer gatherings in his Ohio home without zoning approval. The brief, filed in Grand v. City of University Heights, supports Daniel Grand in his legal challenge against University Heights, Ohio, and argues that protections under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) allow individuals to seek relief in federal court once government action substantially burdens their religious exercise. The dispute dates back to 2021, when Grand sought to host an informal Jewish prayer group at his home. City officials sent Grand a cease-and-desist letter after learning about the gatherings, maintaining that the use required approval under the city’s zoning rules. Grand applied for a special-use permit but later withdrew the application. According to Biggs’ office, Grand learned during the process that obtaining approval as a house of worship would require his family to move out of the residence. Grand subsequently sued the city and several officials, raising claims under RLUIPA and the First and Fourteenth Amendments, among other federal and state claims. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of several of Grand’s claims as unripe, concluding that he had withdrawn his permit application before the city reached a final decision. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, with oral arguments scheduled for December 9, 2026. Biggs said the case raises broader questions about constitutional protections for religious exercise and the ability of local governments to regulate religious activity through zoning laws. “Religious liberty was one of the foundational principles our Founders sought to protect when establishing our constitutional system of government,” stated Biggs. “The First Amendment and subsequent federal laws have protected generations of Americans in the free exercise of their faith without government intrusion or interference.” “No local government should be permitted to undermine or eliminate that fundamental right,” added Biggs. “I am honored to stand with Daniel Grand in his fight to freely exercise his religion within his own home, just as our Founders intended.” At the center of the case is RLUIPA, a federal law unanimously passed by Congress in 2000 that provides protections for religious exercise in certain land use and institutional settings. Among other provisions, the law prohibits governments from imposing or implementing land-use regulations that substantially burden religious exercise unless the government can satisfy the statute’s requirements. RLUIPA also directs courts to construe the law broadly in favor of protecting religious exercise. The congressional amicus brief argues that the lower courts imposed an additional requirement not contained in the statute by requiring Grand to obtain a final zoning decision before pursuing his RLUIPA claim. According to lawmakers, Congress designed RLUIPA to make it easier for individuals and religious organizations to challenge government actions burdening religious exercise, particularly in disputes involving local land-use decisions. “Congress designed RLUIPA to enhance—not restrict—religious freedom,” the lawmakers wrote. “Courts that impose an atextual finality requirement turn that design on its head.” The brief traces RLUIPA’s origins to earlier Supreme Court decisions concerning the Free Exercise Clause and Congress’ subsequent attempts to establish stronger statutory protections for religious exercise. The lawmakers argue that Congress specifically intended the law to address problems involving local zoning decisions affecting churches, synagogues, home prayer meetings, and other forms of religious exercise. They also contend that requiring individuals to complete potentially lengthy local zoning proceedings before going to federal court can leave them subject to the disputed restrictions for months or years. The brief cites previous cases involving religious organizations in Michigan and California in which courts required additional local zoning proceedings before federal religious liberty claims could move forward. The lawmakers maintain that RLUIPA instead permits a claim once a government imposes a substantial burden on religious exercise and the ordinary requirements for federal court jurisdiction are satisfied. The Supreme Court’s eventual ruling could clarify when a RLUIPA land use dispute is sufficiently developed for a federal court to hear it and whether a claimant must first obtain a final decision from local zoning authorities. Ethan Faverino is a reporter for AZ Free News. You can send him news tips using this link. The post Biggs Joins Supreme Court Brief Supporting Home Prayer Group In Religious Liberty Case first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f4af75342cf4db88f384 Amish Shah Skips Second Candidate Forum In Less Than A Month te 2026-09-24T10:00:15.813Z Amish Shah Skips Second Candidate Forum In Less Than A Month By Matthew Holloway | Democratic congressional nominee Amish Shah did not participate in a second candidate appearance in less than a month, leaving Republican nominee Jay Feely to address voters at AMAC Action’s September 22 forum. The host said Shah did not respond to the AMAC invitation. His absence followed his decision to decline an August 26 Arizona PBS appearance. “Please note that Democrat candidate Amish Shah was invited to participate but did not respond to our request,” the host said in the forum introduction, before introducing Feely. Feely addressed Shah’s absence in a statement posted to X Tuesday. “Arizonans deserve to hear from the candidates running to represent them. I’m disappointed that my opponent continues to hide from the public. But when you align yourself with Democratic Socialists, dodging questions is easier than answering for your policies,” Feely wrote. Arizonans deserve to hear from the candidates running to represent them. I’m disappointed that my opponent continues to hide from the public. But when you align yourself with Democratic Socialists, dodging questions is easier than answering for your policies. https://t.co/oDv6gWLu8n — Jay Feely (@jayfeely) September 22, 2026 AMAC Action’s announcement listed both First Congressional District candidates as invitees to the virtual event. The organization described the forum as a nonpartisan educational program offering participating candidates equal opportunities to discuss their priorities and answer questions. The appearance followed Arizona PBS’ August 26 “Candidates in Conversation” program, during which Feely answered questions without Shah participating. Arizona PBS confirmed that Shah declined its invitation. At the AMAC forum, Feely discussed immigration enforcement, economic policy, and congressional stock trading. “This election comes down to two choices. On one side you have myself who believes in free market principles, that believes in capitalism…on the other side, the Democrat party has embraced this big government, socialist belief,” Feely said. .@JayFeely: “This election comes down to two choices. On one side you have myself who believes in free market principles, that believes in capitalism…on the other side, the Democrat party has embraced this big government, socialist belief.” pic.twitter.com/SEVjoqxfHg — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 22, 2026 On immigration, Feely added, “If you come into this country illegally, you should not participate in any of our welfare programs.” .@jayfeely is for LAW AND ORDER. “I believe the border should be completely secure, that no one should come across those borders illegally…If you come into this country illegally, you should not participate in any of our welfare programs.” 💪💪💪 pic.twitter.com/91PBIDwviY — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 22, 2026 Feely also advocated for people who entered illegally to leave the country and pursue legal entry. And he endorsed restrictions on lawmakers’ financial activities. “We should have a congressional ban on stock trading,” he said. .@JayFeely calls to ban insider trading – something which 198 Democrats voted against: “We should have a congressional ban on stock trading. Like Jeff, you and I shouldn't get arrested for the very things that if I'm in office I can do legally. That's not right.” pic.twitter.com/YFPioxXJ34 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 22, 2026 The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) said Feely also addressed lowering costs for seniors, protecting Social Security and Medicare, and combating fraud. The committee criticized Shah’s absence and his health care positions. “For seniors wanting answers about his socialist healthcare record, socialist Amish Shah was nowhere to be found. Socialist Shah would rather hide than defend the Bernie Sanders-AOC policies he praised,” NRCC spokesman Ben Petersen said. Republican National Committee spokesman Nick Poche also criticized Shah in a statement provided to AZ Free News. “Shah won’t debate because the second he opens his mouth, everyone in Arizona will know he’s an extremely far-left socialist who supports transgender surgeries for minors, soft-on-crime policies, and opening the border,” Poche said. The Republican statements attributed Shah’s absence to his policy positions. The AMAC host’s introduction said Shah had not responded to the invitation but provided no explanation for his nonparticipation. Health care has been a recurring subject in Republican criticism of Shah. Shah spoke in support of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and a universal, single-payer Medicare for All system during an April 2019 Arizona for Bernie town hall. Shah’s current campaign platform describes him as a supporter of universal health care and calls for expanding coverage, protecting Medicare, reducing premiums, and lowering prescription drug prices. His public safety platform calls for fully funding police and stopping fentanyl trafficking across the border. Both candidates are listed for a separate First Congressional District debate scheduled for October 7 at 6 p.m. That event is part of the debate series organized by the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission and the Arizona Media Association. Feely, a former NFL kicker and broadcaster, and Shah, an emergency physician and former state lawmaker, are competing for the seat being vacated by Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ-01). The district includes northeast Phoenix, Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, and Paradise Valley. 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 Skips Second Candidate Forum In Less Than A Month first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4f4ad75342cf4db88f37b NAU Charges Student Leaders Of Progressive Activist Group Over Anti-ICE Protest te 2026-09-24T10:00:13.989Z NAU Charges Student Leaders Of Progressive Activist Group Over Anti-ICE Protest By Staff Reporter | Progressive activist group leaders were charged and one was trespassed from Northern Arizona University (NAU) in connection with an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protest.  The penalties resulted from the conduct of members from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Flagstaff during their ICE OUT protest earlier this month. SDS Flagstaff is not a registered club on campus, and NAU does not recognize it as an official club on campus. The organization was founded in January 2026 and immediately began holding protests against ICE.  Kimberly Ott, associate vice president of University Strategic Communications, told The Lumberjack that SDS Flagstaff may register as an official club but has declined to take the necessary steps to fulfill registration requirements.  SDS Flagstaff Vice President Sarah Rogala and member Judah “Jay” Francabandera face allegations of code of conduct violations. Student Gio Alvarez also faces allegations. The students reportedly face penalties that may include suspension or expulsion. The allegations include failure to comply with university officials and disrupting campus. Rogala and Francabandera are scheduled to have their hearings on the charges later this month.  The organization held another protest opposing the charges against Rogala and Francabandera. SDS is also accused of posting flyers and tabling on campus property, and using sound amplification without NAU permission.  Rogala was charged with code of conduct violations last semester and received probation set to expire Nov. 1, 2026.  NAU also trespassed Claire Wagoner, who is the SDS Flagstaff president, a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization in Flagstaff, and a former NAU student.  Wagoner was also charged with code of conduct violations last semester as well. Those violations resulted in her receiving a deferred suspension set to expire May 1, 2028.  SDS Flagstaff is also demanding that NAU turn itself into a “sanctuary campus,” meaning that law enforcement could not detain illegal aliens on the property. SDS Flagstaff renewed their demands to the university in a statement following an ICE enforcement action that occurred on September 16.  “On Wednesday, September 16th, ICE agents kidnapped someone from Flagstaff, and these terrorists threatened to raid his home and kidnap his wife and children if they did not ‘self deport,’” stated SDS Flagstaff. “[ICE] is terrorizing anyone and everyone these fascist agents deem not white enough to be ‘legal.’”  In February, the organization held a sit-in protest and submitted more than 400 petition signatures as part of demands that NAU implement sanctuary campus policies. Justin Mallett, NAU’s vice president of Inclusive Excellence, and Bernadine Lewis, program director of Inclusive Excellence, met with Wagoner and Rogala but ultimately denied their demands. That month, SDS Flagstaff also successfully protested against campus visits by the CIA, Border Patrol, and ICE. The CIA was scheduled to answer student questions, and all three agencies were anticipated to appear for the university’s Career Fair programming.  In March, SDS Flagstaff members demanded the Flagstaff City Council approve an ordinance from Keep Flagstaff Together banning ICE from operating on city property. The council rejected the proposed ordinance. AZ Free News is your #1 source for Arizona news and politics. You can send us news tips using this link. The post NAU Charges Student Leaders Of Progressive Activist Group Over Anti-ICE Protest first appeared on AZ FREE NEWS. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4eff875342cf4db88f2a6 Florida couple recounts 'miraculous' rescue after surviving harrowing lightning strike during evening stroll te 2026-09-24T09:40:08.576Z Florida couple recounts 'miraculous' rescue after surviving harrowing lightning strike during evening stroll A Florida couple said they experienced nothing short of a miracle earlier this month when a bolt of lightning suddenly struck them during an evening stroll and sparked a frantic rescue by several good Samaritans whose heroism was caught on camera. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Aaron Walenga, 48, and his wife, Clare, 43, recounted the harrowing moment in Winter Haven that left Aaron disoriented and paralyzed on the ground, police bodycam video shows, as bystanders rushed in to perform lifesaving measures on his unconscious wife. "I couldn't move the way I wanted to," Aaron said. "I'm trying to get up. I am trying to get to Clare … I'm trying to talk, and I'm not really able to." Aaron and Clare said the incident happened Sept. 2, after the couple dropped off their three children at a weekly church youth group gathering. DASHCAM CAPTURES TERRIFYING MOMENT LIGHTNING NEARLY STRIKES UTAH TRUCK DRIVER "We dropped our kids off at church, and we use that as our date night, and we looked forward to it," he said. "So we went out and had dinner and then, we love to go for a walk." As they walked hand in hand along the popular West Orange Trail, a nearby storm quickly rolled in and a bolt of lightning struck the couple without warning. The next thing Aaron remembers was waking up in severe pain and confused. "My first thought was that we got hit by a car," he said. "I thought maybe a car just ran us over from behind because getting struck by lightning is nothing that would even enter our minds," Aaron said. MONTANA TEEN THROWS LASSO TO MAN IN YELLOWSTONE RIVER IN SPLIT-SECOND RESCUE While still disoriented, Aaron said he saw bystanders and first responders tending to his unresponsive wife. Four good Samaritans had apparently rushed to the scene, immediately calling 911 and performing CPR on Clare before responders arrived roughly 10 minutes later, the couple said. Witnesses told Clare that she had turned blue and stopped breathing for three to four minutes. "I like to talk about the amount of bravery that they showed . . . they could see the fence beside them that lit up," Aaron said. "It was a big moment to turn around and then go, 'Hey, I think we need to go that direction.' And they did." A hospital visit revealed that Aaron suffered fractured eye sockets, a broken nose, damaged teeth, facial cuts and burns on his hand and wrists, where he was holding an umbrella and wearing an Apple Watch. Despite undergoing a traumatic event, Aaron and Clare described their recovery as "miraculous," noting that they suffered serious conditions, including brain bleeds and heart damage, that they said completely healed within two days. "We're just seeing miracle after miracle and just too many divine things in this unfortunate circumstance to not be noted," Clare said. "We both had brain bleeds, and then I also suffered heart damage. And then when they followed up again two days later, it was healed. Neither of us had any brain bleed damage and my heart situation completely healed," she added. Clare, who suffered intermittent memory loss, regained her full memory roughly two days later. "God's not done with me yet," Clare said, adding that she feels immense gratitude to be alive. DR. MARC SIEGEL: 'THE ANGELS AMONG US' -- A DYING WOMAN, THE SHOFAR AND THE MIRACLE THAT FOLLOWED Since the incident, the family said they have built a strong relationship with the good Samaritans who stepped in that day, adding that they are even planning to return to the trail in a few weeks. The couple said they are overwhelmed by the support they have received from their local church, neighborhood and school communities. Their pastor also helped bring their children safely home on the night of the lightning strike. "Our neighbors are taking care of our yard and our pool for us, so it's just so many things happening without us even asking," Aaron said. "It's very humbling to know that people out there really care for you, and to see the church the way it's supposed to be, where it's not just in a building. It's really the people that are around you, and it's been amazing to watch." Throughout the ordeal, the couple said they never felt hopeless, crediting their faith for helping them through the shocking experience. "We've never asked ‘Why me?’" Aaron said. "We never got upset, we never felt hopeless. We really felt like even though it was a hard situation . . . God's been with us and there's a purpose behind it." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8f875342cf4db88f159 Republicans face brutal midterm headwinds. Six forces could help them defy history. te 2026-09-24T09:10:16.156Z Republicans face brutal midterm headwinds. Six forces could help them defy history. With six weeks to go until Election Day, and early voting already underway in a handful of states, the conventional wisdom is that Republicans may be in for some setbacks in the midterms. As it defends its fragile House and Senate majorities, the GOP is fighting political history, which has traditionally seen the president's party lose congressional seats during the midterms. It's also battling high costs at the grocery stores and gas pumps tied to what polls show is an unpopular war with Iran, as well as President Donald Trump's underwater approval ratings. But Democrats are saddled with their own issues, from an ideological civil war between the party's left wing and the establishment that has handed Republicans plenty of political ammunition, to a brand image that's nothing to brag about. Add to that the Democrats' major disadvantage as the GOP floods the airwaves with attack ads. Here are six forces that will likely determine whether Republicans can turn back a possible blue wave and hold power in Congress. WHO'S UP AND WHO'S DOWN IN THE LATEST FOX NEWS MIDTERM ELECTION POLLING Six weeks until Election Day, and just as the voting begins, fuel prices keep rising, with the national average for gas nearly $4.50 per gallon and diesel topping $6.50 per gallon, according to AAA. Public opinion polls point to the economy, including the cost of living, as the top issue for voters in this year's midterms. That means that the issue that boosted Trump and Republicans to sweeping victories in 2024 is a major liability in 2026. And the rising prices in recent weeks, fueled by renewed fighting in the war with Iran and Ukraine and attacks on Russia's diesel industry, are doing the GOP no favors. "Gas prices were much higher under Biden than under "TRUMP." So were almost all other prices," the president argued Monday in a social media post, as he referred to former President Joe Biden. While Trump and Republican leaders point fingers at Biden, polls indicate voters increasingly place the blame for ongoing economic and inflation pressures on the current administration. DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB Democrats last week heavily criticized Trump and Republicans after the president argued that fuel costs were "a very inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done," as he pointed to the attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities. Meanwhile, the latest Fox News poll indicated that by a wide margin, the Democrats are considered the party that would better handle inflation. But when asked about the overall economy, recent national surveys from Reuters/Ipsos and NBC News had the GOP and Democrats all knotted up on which party would better handle the issue. "My listeners are looking for prices to come down across the board," New Hampshire-based center-right talk radio host Jack Heath told Fox News Digital. "People elected President Trump to lower prices and improve their situation and people are looking for that improvement," Heath, host of "Good Morning NH," emphasized. "They're looking for Trump to deliver on his promises." "I'm asking you to just pretend I'm on the ballot just one more time," the president said last week during a campaign stop in battleground North Carolina. It's a line Trump repeatedly used earlier this month, at the GOP's first-ever midterm convention. Facing what polls indicate is an enthusiasm gap with Democrats, the president and Republican leaders are hoping to energize the MAGA base, which doesn't always vote when Trump isn't on the ballot. While the president's approval rating in the Fox News poll stands at 39% among all voters, it remains at a sky-high 98% among self-described MAGA Republicans. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER But some longtime Trump allies are starting to break with the president as they face challenging re-elections. GOP Rep. Maria Salazar won re-election two years ago by 20 points in South Florida's 27th Congressional District. But with Trump's negative poll numbers a potential anchor around her, Salazar last week released a TV ad criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement as having "gone too far," and that "Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today." Meanwhile, on Monday two Trump allies who are in heated Senate battles - Rep. Ashley Hinson of Iowa and former Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan, broke with the president as they a swift end to the war with Iran. Watch whether vulnerable Republicans create more distance from the president, or move toward Trump to juice Republican turnout. Republicans are aiming to turn what's normally a referendum on the party in power into a choice election, as they spotlight major Democratic primary victories this year by far-left and socialist candidates over more mainstream Democrats. "In state after state, the Democrat establishment has been overthrown and replaced by crazed lunatics and radicals. They call themselves Democrat socialists, but actually, they’re communists," Trump charged at the midterm convention. The messaging is pronounced in Michigan's crucial Senate race, where GOP nominee former Rep. Mike Rogers, as he referred to Democratic rival Abdul El-Sayed, told Fox Business this week, "We don’t want this socialism nonsense in our state, and this guy is too extreme." 12 SENATE RACES THAT WILL DETERMINE WHO CONTROLS THE CHAMBER Polling gives a boost to the GOP's "commonsense vs. crazy" messaging. Fifty-five percent of registered voters surveyed in the latest Fox News national poll held an unfavorable view of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), while only three in 10 saw the DSA in a positive light. The Fox News poll was the latest national survey to show that while the DSA has gained traction among Democrats, the group and the broader socialist movement in America face significant national skepticism. While the GOP full court press continues, in hopes of swaying undecided voters, Democrats are divided on its effectiveness. Ty Strong, founder and president of the Moderate PAC, warned that the GOP playbook "absolutely could be effective." But Shannon Jackson, a key consultant and advisor to progressive leader Rep. Ro Khanna of California, argued that Republicans are "reaching for things. I think the DSA issue is something they’re trying to make something, but it is not." Meanwhile, this year's primary surge by socialist and left-wing candidates isn't helping Democrats boost their brand. The party's favorable ratings hit historic lows in the months following the 2024 election, and the latest Fox News poll indicates Democrats are still well underwater, with 55% of voters viewing the party in an unfavorable light. Republicans enjoy a formidable cash advantage over the Democrats, and they're using it in the final stretch leading up to Election Day. While Democratic candidates in many key races have outraised their GOP opponents, the Republican National Committee remains far ahead of the rival Democratic National Committee when it comes to cash-on-hand. And GOP-aligned outside groups, including the Trump-allied MAGA Inc., are opening the floodgates when it comes to ad spending, in order to try and level the playing field by overcoming the difficult political environment. Republican groups have outspent their Democratic counterparts by more than $83 million to run spots in ten crucial Senate races since the start of September, according to figures from AdImpact, a nationally known firm that tracks ad spending. While a financial advantage is not always decisive, strategists say it can often move the needle in a close contest. And in the 10 Senate races spotlighted by AdImpact, a onetime Democratic ad spending advantage over the summer turned into a major GOP deluge. While much of the ad dollars dished out by Republicans are to protect vulnerable seats, the money may help as the GOP works to flip open-Democrat-held Senate seats in Michigan and New Hampshire. Thirteen months ago, Texas passed a new congressional redistricting map, giving Trump his first major victory in his push to give Republicans a big boost heading into the midterm elections by drawing more right-leaning districts. Fast-forward to present day, and as they fight to hold their razor-thin House majority, Republicans were the big winners, with partisan redistricting netting them potentially 10 additional right-leaning congressional seats in time for the midterms. But redrawing the maps and winning the seats are two different things, and some election analysts caution that the fierce headwinds facing the GOP could lead to Republicans falling far short of their original expectations heading into the redistricting wars. There are 435 seats in the House of Representatives, but the Cook Report suggests the battle for the chamber's majority could come down to just 21 districts it rates as toss-up. The Fox News Power Rankings list 17 seats as true toss-ups. Decades of gerrymander, including this cycle's mid-decade redistricting, has made a major impact by narrowing the House battlefield, which may limit the number of pickups by the Democrats even if a blue wave forms. While the number of competitive House seats stays historically small, the Senate map is widening, which is a positive sign for Democrats. Democrats are feeling the heat in open-seat contests in Michigan and New Hampshire, two must holds for them as they try to win back a Senate currently controlled 53-47 by the GOP. But Senate showdowns in red states, including Alaska, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, are now considered very competitive. Need proof: Vice President JD Vance campaigned in Iowa and Kansas last week. But recent polling is also giving Republicans hope they can flip the Democrat-controlled open Senate seat in blue-leaning Minnesota. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8f775342cf4db88f150 Lawsuits cost every American household thousands of dollars. Supreme Court can help te 2026-09-24T09:10:15.499Z Lawsuits cost every American household thousands of dollars. Supreme Court can help When the Supreme Court returns in October, several cases on its docket will offer a timely look at a growing problem in America’s legal system: the mounting cost of lawsuit abuse. The cases involve different industries and legal questions, but each reflects a broader fight over how far liability can extend and who ultimately bears the cost. Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, for example, could determine whether federal law precludes local climate lawsuits seeking relief for harms tied to interstate and international greenhouse-gas emissions, opening or closing a path to potentially sweeping liability for energy producers. Other cases involving digital privacy and retirement-plan claims may affect the reach of statutory liability and large-scale business exposure. SUPREME COURT CAN RESTORE SANITY AND STOP THE LEFT’S RADICAL CLIMATE AGENDA Those questions matter well beyond the parties before the court. When liability expands, businesses must account for greater legal exposure through higher insurance premiums and compliance costs as well as reduced investment. Those expenses can ultimately become a "tort tax" that increases consumer prices and the cost of goods and services purchased by taxpayers. Recent evidence suggests that burden is growing. A new Marathon Strategies report found nearly 200 "nuclear verdicts" of $10 million or more against corporate defendants in 2025, totaling more than $25.6 billion — a 40.7% increase from the year before. More broadly, U.S. tort costs reached $529 billion in 2022, or about 2.1% of GDP, and are projected to approach $1 trillion by 2030 if recent trends continue. Economic analyses go as high as $6,000 to the average household’s annual expenses. That makes lawsuit abuse an affordability issue as well as a legal one. And the cases already before the Supreme Court tell only part of the story. While they show where some of today’s biggest liability fights have ended up, cases moving through lower courts offer a preview of the new theories that trial lawyers are testing next and that the justices may eventually be asked to adjudicate themselves. Antitrust litigation against fire-truck manufacturers offers one example. Cities, counties and fire departments allege that major manufacturers conspired to restrict competition, driving up prices and stretching delivery times. Those are serious allegations, and proven collusion should carry consequences. But manufacturers point instead to pandemic-driven demand and disrupted supply chains as explanations for the price increases and delays. Fire trucks are also highly specialized vehicles requiring custom engineering, skilled labor and rigorous safety standards. Courts should demand strong evidence before allowing those market realities to be converted into sweeping antitrust liability and localities should think twice before supporting such lawsuits. Even unsuccessful litigation imposes defense and insurance costs that the very municipalities suing for damages may ultimately have to absorb in future purchases — meaning a lawsuit intended to recover higher fire-truck costs could end up making the next truck more expensive. A similar dynamic is emerging in the grocery aisle. Lawsuits targeting ultra-processed foods are multiplying despite early setbacks, generally alleging that major food companies marketed addictive or unhealthy products without adequately warning consumers about associated health risks. Manufacturers of specialized formula for premature infants, meanwhile, face nearly 1,700 claims alleging their products cause a serious intestinal disease. JONATHAN TURLEY: SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION WILL EASILY OUTLAST META'S MASSIVE MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR SETTLEMENT Both areas involve genuine health concerns, but both also show how mass litigation can gain momentum while causation remains contested. An early ultra-processed-food case was dismissed after a federal judge found correlation was not enough to establish causation, yet plaintiffs’ lawyers say they plan to appeal, continue filing similar cases and seek consolidation into multidistrict litigation. The formula litigation raises similar stakes. Juries have reached conflicting conclusions as the litigation has continued to expand, showing that fundamental questions about causation can remain unsettled even after a litigation campaign has grown to encompass hundreds or thousands of cases. FLORIDA SUES NETFLIX, ALLEGES STREAMER TRACKED CHILDREN AFTER PROMISING FAMILIES PRIVACY That is why these emerging legal fights deserve attention. Early setbacks do not necessarily end a new mass-tort theory. Claims can be revised and tested across jurisdictions until one gains enough traction to open broad discovery, encourage copycat filings and create pressure for industry-wide settlements. Legitimately injured consumers deserve recourse, but causation cannot become an afterthought simply because the potential pool of plaintiffs is large. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION Taken together, the Supreme Court docket and these lower-court fights show the tort system at two different stages. The justices will confront liability questions that have already worked their way to the high court, while lower courts are testing theories that could become tomorrow’s major mass-tort battles. That should strengthen the case for reform before those costs become more deeply embedded in the economy. Greater transparency around litigation funding and government contingency-fee arrangements, along with stronger screening of weak causation theories, can preserve legitimate claims while making abuse harder to sustain. Tort reform is not about protecting wrongdoers. It is about preventing an aggressive lawsuit economy from becoming another hidden cost American families are forced to absorb. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM HORACE COOPER Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8f675342cf4db88f147 MN Dem Sen candidate in hot seat over upcoming event hosted by man enveloped in fraud scandal: 'Red flags' te 2026-09-24T09:10:14.876Z MN Dem Sen candidate in hot seat over upcoming event hosted by man enveloped in fraud scandal: 'Red flags' Minnesota Lt. Gov. and Democratic Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan is set to attend a fundraiser hosted by an individual who has served as the state’s Medicaid medical director during a time period where Medicaid fraud exploded onto the national scene. Dr. Nathan Chomilo has served as Minnesota’s Medicaid medical director since January 2020 and is listed as one of the hosts of an October 1 fundraiser supporting Flanagan, first reported by Townhall’s Dustin Grage. Much of Minnesota’s broader fraud scandal has centered on Medicaid-funded programs, including autism services and Housing Stabilization Services, and although Chomilo was not the official responsible for processing payments, investigating fraud or overseeing the department’s program-integrity operations, the optics of Flanagan associating with him is sparking skepticism about Flanagan's commitment to tackling the fraud issue. "Apparently, the people who were supposed to be watching the money are too busy raising it for Peggy Flanagan," Grage posted on X. "This should raise some serious red flags." 'WE HAVE NOT SLOWED DOWN': MINNESOTA NOT OUT OF THE WOODS ON MASSIVE FRAUD SCANDAL, EXPERT WARNS "Things that make you go hmm… ," Chuck Darrell, former communications director at Minnesota Family Council posted on X. "The number one thing going on with Minnesota's Medicaid program has been fraud over the last eight years of the Walz Flanagan administration," Minnesota Republican State Rep. Kristin Robbins told Fox News Digital. "So he must have been aware. He must have known and clearly he had oversight responsibilities. He probably should have been held accountable for what was going on in the program and instead he's raising money for Penny Peggy Flanigan." "It just shows her disdain for the taxpayers," Robbins, the chair of the last legislative session’s Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee, continued, adding that Flanagan has "shown time and again disdain for Minnesotans who aren't on board with her radical agenda and this is just another example of that." MN DEM SENATE CANDIDATE'S VIRAL HIJAB VIDEO TAKES NEW TURN AS WOMAN BESIDE HER FACES MAJOR STATE INVESTIGATION Chomilo was highlighted in an online profile in 2023, as warning signs were surfacing about potential Medicaid fraud in the state, as a healthcare professional who was focused on " incorporating community collaboration and racial equity into Minnesota’s Medicaid policy development." "Communities experiencing inequities in health and opportunity due to structural racism know what they need but often policymakers fail to incorporate their lived experience," Chomilo said. "By prioritizing policy development through a racial equity lens and implementing it through a community co-created process, Minnesota Medicaid is building racial equity into the core of the health care system. " On his LinkedIn page, Chomilo has called for ICE to be defunded, promoted a boycott of Target for ending DEI, and lamented " Zionism in medicine today" in a recent Instagram post. Robbins told Fox News Digital that "clearly" Flanagan is "aligning herself with the most radical wing of the Democratic party on health care and that is what she will bring to the US Senate." Nick Puglia, National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Regional Press Secretary told Fox News Digital in a statement, "Peggy Flanagan let fraudsters steal at least $9 billion from Minnesotans. Fundraising with those who perpetuated it is like handing lighter fluid to the arsonist who burned the house down." Fox News Digital reached out to the Flanagan campaign and Chomilo's office for comment. Polling shows that fraud is one of the top issues on the minds of voters heading into the November election, where Flanagan will face off against Republican Michele Tafoya. Tafoya has consistently hit Flanagan on fraud, citing the Democrat serving alongside Walz as his top lieutenant since 2019 as the fraud scandal unfolded. "I am appalled by the fraud that has occurred," Flanagan told Fox 9 Minneapolis in August. "Minnesotans are upset about it. They’re angry and I am too. I can tell you that this administration has taken steps. There’s a new office of inspector general that was passed this last legislative session. We’ve added staff to the attorney general’s office to root out Medicaid fraud. And, there was an aggressive action of shutting down a program that was being utilized by criminals. I think more absolutely needs to be done." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8f675342cf4db88f13e MORNING GLORY: El-Sayed might have a problem with the Black vote in Michigan te 2026-09-24T09:10:14.219Z MORNING GLORY: El-Sayed might have a problem with the Black vote in Michigan Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has a problem with a large slice of the state’s Black electorate. It doesn’t like him. That matters in a state where the voting population is 14% Black. (About 2% of Michigan voters are of Arab descent. 1.4% are Jewish.) BLACK VOTERS RIP DEMS OVER TAKING THEM FOR GRANTED IN EL-SAYED'S BACKYARD: ‘HUSH US UP’ In the most recent Washington Post–Schar School poll, Sept. 10–14, only 67% of likely Black Michigan voters supported El-Sayed. A Fox News poll from a month earlier, taken Aug. 6–10, found that 75% of Black Michigan voters said they would vote for El-Sayed. That is a trend in the wrong direction for El-Sayed. Two years ago, then Vice President Kamala Harris carried the Black vote in Michigan with 87%. So El-Sayed is significantly underperforming the most recent Democratic nominee for president. SOCIALIST POLITICIANS ARE 'MORE RACIST THAN THE KKK,' SAYS BLACK DEM OFFICIAL URGING VOTERS TO DITCH EL-SAYED The question is why is El-Sayed so weak with this particular demographic? El-Sayed has addressed this question very directly, including acknowledging that there is mistrust between parts of Detroit’s Black and Arab communities. El-Sayed may already have given up on Michigan’s significant Jewish vote coming around, but on Tuesday he campaigned with former Vice President Kamala Harris at an event aimed directly at Black women. It was an awkward "roundtable" that seemed to have been so narrowcasted at Black women as to have returned right out of peak Woke 1.0, which Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio Cortez assured us recently is an era behind us. Harris did not get that memo as her remarks Tuesday indicated. "The attack on DEI is an attack on maternal care," Harris opined as an uncomfortable-looking El-Sayed looked on, "including the need to protect Black women in connection with their pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care." The word salad chef of 2024 was back.  HARRIS JOINS FORCES WITH RADICAL SENATE NOMINEE IN KEY SWING STATE AS 2028 WHISPERS SWIRL Whether or not the day’s appearance by the former VP helped El-Sayed at all with Black voters won’t be known for some time, but given the numbers in the public polling, El-Sayed had to try something to get Michigan’s crucial voting block at least start thinking about going to the polls in November even if that something was Harris who has been notably absent from the critical Senate races until this week. There is little reason to believe that Harris is the answer to El-Sayed’s core problem. MICHIGAN SENATE CANDIDATE ABDUL EL-SAYED SAYS LEADERS MUST ADDRESS ‘UNPAID DEBTS’ TO BLACK COMMUNITIES In an August 2026 interview with The Grio, El-Sayed was blunt about the Black-Arab-American divide in and around Detroit:  "I think a lot of the mistrust among Black folk in Metro Detroit is well-founded, based on a kind of double standard that too often business owners, particularly in the Arab and, yes, Muslim communities have had when it comes to the way they do business in local communities," El-Sayed said. "You see money go in and then money leaves these communities rather than be reinvested in the community," El-Sayed continued. "It’s a conversation I’ve been having with the Arab and Muslim community for a very long time. We can’t sit here and talk about racism against Arabs and Muslims unless we’re willing to actually look inward and ask how is it that we’re engaging with the Black community in a way that is responsible?" So El-Sayed knows he has a problem with a key demographic. He has tried other approaches before bringing Harris into the state. El-Sayed declared he was open to "reparations" when he appeared with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, saying that an "incredible debt that was put upon black folks as a function of slavery, that we have yet to pay."  El-Sayed also told Watters the whole country should be discussing "how do we make people whole." The following month, El-Sayed was talking to leaders of the Black church, saying "unpaid debts" are owed to Black communities, debts that have "long since come due." BLACK CONSERVATIVE REVEALS HOW GOP CAN LOCK DOWN MINORITY VOTERS WITHOUT TRUMP ON BALLOT While the topic of "reparations" polls at 77% approval among Black Americans, only 18% of white voters support the concept. So the more El-Sayed pushes "reparations," the more likely he is to drive off the moderate independents already leery of his radical positions and friendship with Hasan Piker. Then there is the "Trump effect." President Trump collected 13% of the Black vote overall two years ago, and close to 20% of Black men. Does talk of DEI and maternal care at the El-Sayed-Harris roundtable Tuesday bring home votes among Black men? Does chatter about unspecified reparations even drive off the near quarter of the Black population that aren’t signed on to the concept? The long-standing tensions between the Black and Arab-American communities in and around Detroit cannot be resolved in an election cycle that has focused on El-Sayed’s radical break with traditional Democratic campaign themes and profiles. El-Sayed’s primary opponent, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, took more than two-thirds of black voters in the primary. Republican nominee Mike Rogers knows this traditional Democratic stronghold is at least partially in play. We can’t see Team Roger’s buy on "urban radio" or in other media serving the Black community, but we have seen Rogers making appearances throughout Wayne County and making many appearances with "Democrats for Rogers" groups featuring Black voters. Everyone knows that El-Sayed and his association with Hasan Piker has driven off the votes of a large number of Jewish Democrats. That the campaign is not connecting with Black voters as it must to give him a shot is the double nightmare for his campaign strategists. What can he do between now and November 3? It is hard to see a path to keep the moderate independent vote even as El-Sayed trots out traditional panders to the Black vote that don’t even resonate as credible or detailed. Even as El-Sayed struggles with basic messaging to core constituencies, Republican groups have poured more than $60 million into the Wolverine state. There are some polls showing El-Sayed with a lead over Rogers outside the margin of error. There were also lots of polls showing him winning the primary against Stevens by double digits, with one memorable miss putting him 18% up in a race he won by one point. The polling doesn’t add up given his problems with the Democratic base. So stay focused on El-Sayed’s increasingly frenetic campaign and its sudden lurches here and there. There’s a reason radicals aren’t often nominated by major parties. Both Republican and Democratic Parties are built out of coalitions of interest groups. El-Sayed’s primary campaign fractured the traditional Democratic coalition. There is scant hard evidence that he has found a way to glue it back together again and then motivate it to vote between now and November 3. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8f575342cf4db88f135 KAROL MARKOWICZ: 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones learned the hard truth about schools te 2026-09-24T09:10:13.501Z KAROL MARKOWICZ: 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones learned the hard truth about schools Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the 1619 Project and winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, has written a blockbuster piece, "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?" on the reality of sending her daughter Najya to failing schools in New York City.  Hannah-Jones, a domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine covering racial injustice and civil rights, had tried to live out her progressive values and sent her child to the local, deficient public school. Writing in 2016 for the magazine, she noted that her neighbors in the quickly gentrifying neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant were opting out of the local school. "I didn’t know any of our middle-class neighbors, black or white, who sent their children to one of these schools," Hannah-Jones shared. Hannah-Jones did. Now, ten years later, Hannah-Jones’s latest piece shows that her project had been a failure, at the cost of her child’s education. It’s a difficult read. Hannah-Jones wanted to live out her values, especially the belief that children should go to their local school and that school choice is unacceptable. But those ideas failed when they hit reality, and Hannah-Jones spent nearly a decade coming to accept that. 1619 PROJECT FOUNDER REGRETS SCHOOL CHOICE FOR HER DAUGHTER, ADMITS PUTTING IDEALS AHEAD OF HER EDUCATION The column illustrates the struggles her daughter had at her elementary school, where teachers were disinterested and bad behavior went unpunished, and then in middle school, where homework went unchecked and standards were low. Hannah-Jones believed that through her force of will, and her prominent position, which she mentions several times in the piece, she and her husband could improve these schools. What she’s missing is that it was her own misconceptions and bad ideas that got these schools into a bad position in the first place. STEVE MOORE, ED POZZUOLI: STOP FUNDING SCHOOL SYSTEMS. LET THE MONEY FOLLOW THE CHILD In 2018, Hannah-Jones gave a keynote address at the Color of Education event, an annual summit in North Carolina "dedicated to achieving racial equity and eliminating racial disparities in the education system." She spoke about how terrible it was that White kids in North Carolina were choosing charter schools instead of public schools in places "like Wake County that for years was a model of integration."  So integration is good? But when a Black student in the audience asked Hannah-Jones for guidance on "navigating the predominantly white colleges and universities to which she has applied," Hannah-Jones was quick to respond that she should go to Howard University, a historically Black college or university (HBCU) because, well, integration is bad. Hannah-Jones ended that talk with this line: "The future of our children and the nation depends on progressives winning the fight to reclaim public schools." GOV HOCHUL'S PLAN TO OPT NEW YORK INTO FEDERAL SCHOOL CHOICE PROGRAM DRAWS UNION OPPOSITION Well, progressives reclaimed public schools in New York City. There’s no way to look at New York City schools as anything but the testing ground for the exact policies Hannah-Jones would want. Progressive Mayor Bill de Blasio removed "screens" — competitive benchmarks such as attendance, grades and test scores for middle school admissions — during COVID-19, and the practice was maintained by the next mayor, Eric Adams. The schools are heavily influenced by teachers’ unions. Hannah-Jones opposes gifted and talented programs, and they have been severely reduced, no longer using entrance tests. New York City public schools also follow the practices that Hannah-Jones would want regarding kids with behavioral issues. And, with New York’s longtime cap on charter schools, most kids are trapped there with no other options. AMERICAN SCHOOLS COST MORE THAN EVER BUT OUR STUDENTS STILL KEEP FAILING But Hannah-Jones never accounts for her own bad ideas and how they fail in real life. When her daughter fails the state algebra test, it’s because standardized tests are unfair. She never once mentions teachers’ unions as the culprits behind why atrocious teachers and administrators remain at these schools, unable to be fired. When school choice is mentioned at all, it’s presented as the reason the middle school that was unsuccessful in teaching her very capable daughter was failing.  When Hannah-Jones confronts her daughter’s middle school principal with the reality that her daughter didn’t get enough from her education, the principal, in tears, responded, "None of this surprises me. This is the reality of a segregated system, and it’s not just segregation by race and class, it’s by ability. This is the reality of school-choice systems." CHICAGO'S HALF-EMPTY SCHOOLS REVEAL A CRISIS CITY LEADERS REFUSE TO CONFRONT Yes, that’s the reality of school-choice systems, or it should be: Children who are capable and want to learn, and whose families make education a top priority, should be able to escape the kids who don’t want to be there and want to slow education down for everyone.  In her article for the New York Times, Hannah-Jones spends a lot of time on demographics and household income, but there is an entire network of charter schools in New York, called Success Academy, that produces far better results than public schools while serving student bodies of similar means. At one point, Hannah-Jones visted her child’s elementary school lunchroom and found it to be pandemonium. She writes, "It was not the children that horrified me — kids of all incomes are rambunctious at lunchtime. It was the callous disregard of the adults. Students respond to the high or low expectations of institutions and the grown-ups who operate them, and it was clear that these children were getting the message." CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION But somehow these expectations are not acceptable to have in the classroom. Hannah-Jones described unruly kids being constantly "redirected" as "good educational practice. … Schools like hers tend to rely on a zero-tolerance disciplinary playbook and often simply remove misbehaving students from classrooms, depriving them of precious educational time they cannot afford to miss. But at Unison, teachers constantly worked to refocus students and mitigate conflict. This is good educational practice, but kids like Najya, who were just trying to do their work, saw this treatment as deeply unfair." It’s not just unfair; it is actually bad educational practice to let a misbehaving child distract the teacher again and again. It’s bad educational practice to allow one child to set an example that bad behavior will be met with no discipline. It’s bad educational practice to allow the good students to compete for the teacher’s attention with a student who shouldn’t be in the classroom. Most of all, ineffective or disinterested teachers have to be fired, something that the teachers’ unions, which ultimately run New York City schools with the support of people like Hannah-Jones, would never permit. But none of this is allowed to be said in Hannah-Jones’ far-left world. If the school is failing, it’s because of racism, not because its leaders have embraced bad educational practices and allowed them to continue indefinitely. The question has become why Hannah-Jones would air these grievances about New York City public schools when she knew what the response might be. The answer, we have to imagine, is that her daughter ultimately attends one of the very few New York City schools that have "screens."  Like progressive politicians such as Bill de Blasio or soon-to-be Congressman Brad Lander, Hannah-Jones had loudly opposed these kinds of schools except for her own child. Therein lies the rub: When progressive policies meet reality, they are almost always failures, and those at the top of the progressive hierarchy always manage to get their kids out.  If only the rest of us could escape those policies as deftly as those who push them. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM KAROL MARKOWICZ Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8f075342cf4db88f109 As Trump Hosts Xi at Summit, Pomp May Paper Over U.S.-China Tensions te 2026-09-24T09:10:08.099Z As Trump Hosts Xi at Summit, Pomp May Paper Over U.S.-China Tensions President Xi Jinping’s first visit to the White House in a decade comes as President Trump continues his unexpected turn from a hard line on China. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8ef75342cf4db88f100 Why Miami-Dade Is Eager to Promote ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ te 2026-09-24T09:10:07.438Z Why Miami-Dade Is Eager to Promote ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Some argue that the county can afford to embrace its fictional twin in the game, “Vice City,” because the real place has experienced a striking drop in violence over time. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8ee75342cf4db88f0f7 ‘Out in Public View’: Indian Americans Say Racism Is Front and Center te 2026-09-24T09:10:06.797Z ‘Out in Public View’: Indian Americans Say Racism Is Front and Center Social media posts, including from the Department of Homeland Security and a Texas Republican candidate, have helped stir fear among people of South Asian heritage. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8ed75342cf4db88f0ee Democrats Show Strength in Michigan Senate Race but Trail in Maine, Polls Find te 2026-09-24T09:10:05.931Z Democrats Show Strength in Michigan Senate Race but Trail in Maine, Polls Find The party’s nominees lead in Michigan and New Hampshire but the Republican incumbent is ahead in Maine, according to New York Times/Siena polls of the three battlegrounds. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8ed75342cf4db88f0e5 Abortion Pills, Vaccines and Food Safety: F.D.A. Nominee Heidi Overton Faces Senate Confirmation Hearing te 2026-09-24T09:10:05.015Z Abortion Pills, Vaccines and Food Safety: F.D.A. Nominee Heidi Overton Faces Senate Confirmation Hearing Dr. Heidi Overton has called mifepristone “dangerous to women.” As a White House aide, she worked to reduce the number of vaccines recommended for children. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8ec75342cf4db88f0dc ‘Survival Mode Time’: Republicans Accelerate Their Break With Trump te 2026-09-24T09:10:04.090Z ‘Survival Mode Time’: Republicans Accelerate Their Break With Trump The dissent reflects growing unease about the party’s prospects in November, as the G.O.P. struggles to overcome the president’s unpopularity. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4e8ea75342cf4db88f0d3 American Bar Association Fights to Keep Power to Vet Law Schools te 2026-09-24T09:10:02.958Z American Bar Association Fights to Keep Power to Vet Law Schools Losing its accreditation ability would be a blow to the nation’s largest association of lawyers and another example of how the Trump administration is reshaping higher education. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4ca7b75342cf4db88ebc2 Parents accuse Oregon hospital of making them drive dead baby home to Seattle: lawsuit te 2026-09-24T07:00:11.853Z Parents accuse Oregon hospital of making them drive dead baby home to Seattle: lawsuit A Seattle couple is suing after hospital staff in Oregon told them to drive the body of their nearly 9-month-old son four hours home in their private car following his sudden death in an emergency room. Aleksandr and Nataliya Yeremeyev filed a $10 million lawsuit against Salem Health and Dr. Stefani Sorensen. The parents had allegedly sought respectful and dignified care and transportation of the remains of their son, Michael, but the lawsuit alleges staff insisted they bring the body back home with them. Michael was born with Down syndrome and spent the first six months of his life at Seattle Children's Hospital. "His parents had made sure that he had received really excellent care. So, I think it was a really, really sad and just very tragic way for his life to end and for it to be so undignified right there at the end," Anna Bruckenhoefer, the family's attorney, said in a statement, according to Fox 13. TWO FAMILIES SUE NORTH DAKOTA HOSPITAL ON ALLEGATIONS BABIES WERE SWITCHED AT BIRTH On September 22, 2024, the family was visiting Salem, Oregon, for a religious retreat when Michael developed rapid, shallow breathing late at night and was rushed to the emergency room at Salem Health Hospital, where he died, according to the complaint. When the parents asked how to arrange respectful transport to send Michael’s body back home to Seattle, hospital staff allegedly pushed back on the suggestion to contact a local funeral home because it would be "too expensive" and instead pressured the family to bring their son’s body corpse with them in their own personal car, which they ended up doing due to feeling like they had no other option. "They have repeatedly asked the hospital for assistance in helping them with what are the next steps," Bruckenhoefer said. "This was all occurring overnight. They felt rushed that they had to make quick decisions and the hospital left them with no choice other than to take Michael's body with them and head back to Seattle." Aleksandr drove about four hours from Salem to Seattle with his son’s body laid across the backseat, while his wife and other children followed in a separate car. FAMILY OF TODDLER FOUND ALIVE IN MORGUE AFTER BEING DECLARED DEAD PLANS LEGAL ACTION He suffered severe emotional distress as he feared police stops, car crashes and the visible deterioration of his child's body, according to the lawsuit. When he arrived at a Seattle funeral home, the father had to clean bodily fluids that leaked onto the seat during the trip. "It is legal in the state of Oregon and in the state of Washington to transport a deceased with the proper permits. But that is not what our clients wanted to do here. They were looking for help. They were looking for guidance. They were looking for the hospital to tell them, "These are the next steps,'" Bruckenhoefer said. "This is a hospital. It's an emergency department. Unfortunately, death is something that they are accustomed to and that they deal with. They should have had procedures and protocols in place to assist the Yeremeyev’s while they were dealing with literally the worst moment of their lives. Instead, what they did is they just compounded their grief by essentially telling them that they were on their own in this." "No parents, no loved ones should ever be placed in the position that the Yeremeyev’s were placed in," Bruckenhoefer added. "Just completely surprised that something like this would happen in 2026." The lawsuit names Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics, Salem Health, Salem Emergency Physicians Service and Sorensen as defendants, alleging direct negligence, vicarious liability, and a breach of the heightened duty of care owed to bereaved parents for the respectful treatment and custody of a child's body. The family is seeking $10 million in non-economic damages for severe emotional distress and psychological trauma, although they plan to amend the complaint to include punitive damages. Salem Health Hospital said out of respect for privacy and because the matter is in litigation, it is unable to discuss the details of the child's care. "Salem Hospital responded in accordance with the family’s wishes and followed both hospital policy and Oregon state law in consultation with the appropriate local authorities, including the medical examiner," Salem Health told Fox 13 in a statement. "Care with respect is a guiding principle of clinical practice at Salem Hospital and remains central to how we support patients and families during some of life's most difficult moments. We recognize the profound grief families experience following the loss of a loved one and treat every patient and family with empathy, dignity, and respect," the statement continued. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4c11875342cf4db88e9da Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico te 2026-09-24T06:20:08.890Z Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico President Donald Trump's ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico suffered a setback Thursday after a federal judge ordered the administration to restore White House access to the outlets. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday blocking the ban on the outlets, ruling that their access to the White House must be reinstated while the outlets continue their legal battle, Reuters reported. The order will be in effect for 14 days.  MAMDANI TELLS TRUMP BANNED WHITE HOUSE OUTLETS ARE WELCOME AT NYC MEETING Trump announced the ban last week, writing on social media that the three outlets "shouldn't be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES." Reporters from all three organizations were subsequently denied entry to the White House, with their press credentials deactivated or confiscated. Lawyers for the Justice Department argued that White House press access is a privilege, not a right, and defended the president's authority to determine who receives access. Following Trump's ban, White House television pool members FOX News Media, ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News announced Monday that they had agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of the president. This is a developing story; check back for updates. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4b30775342cf4db88e74e Arizona AG rivals Mayes and Petersen trade attacks over experience, donors and deportation te 2026-09-24T05:20:07.993Z Arizona AG rivals Mayes and Petersen trade attacks over experience, donors and deportation Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes debates Senate President Warren Petersen, the Republican nominee, at the Clean Elections debate on Sept. 23, 2026. (Photo by Joe Rondone/The Arizona Republic/pool) Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Senate President Warren Petersen spent an hour talking over each other and making snide comments in a Wednesday night debate over which of the two candidates should be the state’s top law enforcement official for the next four years.  Mayes highlighted the lawsuits her office has been involved in under her leadership as proof that she’s fought for Arizonans and will continue to do so if reelected, including against the Saudi-owned company Fondomente, which was pumping groundwater to grow alfalfa for livestock in the Gulf country, and against software company RealPage and nine landlords for colluding to raise prices.  “Being a lawyer for all of the people of Arizona means taking on big fights, and that is what I have done,” she said.  Petersen touted his nearly 15-year career as a lawmaker and backing of bills that cut taxes as evidence that voting for him would reduce costs for Arizonans.  “For fourteen years, I’ve worked at the legislature to lower costs and keep Arizona safe, even in divided government, across the aisle and delivered tax cuts every year,” he said.  But Mayes sought to characterize Petersen as too inexperienced to head the state’s top prosecutorial office, twice pointing out his recent admission to the State Bar in sharp asides.  “I know you’ve only been a lawyer for about two and a half years, you’ve just graduated from law school — I can’t even believe that your party nominated you for this position,” she said, when refuting his claim that the rate increases she voted in favor against in her time on the Arizona Corporation Commission in the mid-2000s amounted to tariffs.  GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE And the Democrat blasted Petersen for receiving campaign support from a trailer park management company she sued for leaving its residents without air-conditioning, saying that it shows he wouldn’t represent the interests of everyday Arizonans.  “I wonder how the morale of this office would be if they had an attorney general come into office who was only there because he was supported by a dark money company called BoaVida who plunked $615,000 into your campaign — you wouldn’t even be standing on this stage with me, Warren, if this private equity funded mobile home company operator hadn’t plunked all that money into your campaign on the day that I filed in court against them,” she said.  BoaVida donated more than $600,000 to a political action committee that has spent money running ads supporting Petersen’s bid for attorney general. The committee has received donations from multiple special interest groups that have clashed with Mayes.  Petersen rebutted that the money went to an independent expenditure that he has no control over.  To convince voters to reject Mayes in November, Petersen lambasted her as a partisan candidate who has weaponized the office to attack her political opponents, though he offered no evidence to back up that claim, and said her behavior has reflected badly on the office through angry outbursts at meetings with federal and county officials.  Mayes acknowledged that she was involved in an argument with federal officials over an intent to withhold funding for a federal program addressing drug trafficking, but dismissed Petersen’s claims as nothing more than “personal attacks.”  Petersen also seized on Mayes’ investigation of the Sunshine Residential pay-to-play allegations against Gov. Katie Hobbs as proof that she values political allies over prosecuting crimes. Reporting from the Arizona Republic found that Sunshine Residential Homes, a foster care group that donated more than $400,000 to Hobbs’ 2022 political campaign, received a nearly 60% increase in the compensation rate it received for housing foster children.  But a two-year investigation headed by Mayes’ office absolved Hobbs of criminal guilt and concluded that there was no evidence to link the political donations to the rate increase. The scandal has been a political headache for both Hobbs and Mayes, as Republicans have repeatedly used it to accuse them of corruption.  “She didn’t even interview Katie Hobbs, she didn’t do a grand jury indictment, she didn’t do anything in court,” Petersen said. “Meanwhile, with her political opponents, she never stops.” Hobbs declined to be interviewed for the investigation, instead sending responses through her attorneys.   The Republican also criticized Mayes as unfit for office because she failed to defend what he called “common-sense” cases, like the 2023 lawsuit against a state law that forbids transgender girls from joining school sports teams consistent with their gender identity. Mayes declined to defend that state law in court and Petersen did so, instead.  On Wednesday, Petersen said his involvement in over 100 cases or legal briefs made him the “de facto AG.” Over the past four years, Petersen has joined multiple lawsuits to advocate for the preservation of state laws that Mayes has opposed, including several laws that restrict abortion care — even after voters agreed to make the procedure a right two years ago.  Senate President Warren Petersen, the Republican nominee for Arizona attorney general, at the Clean Elections debate on Sept. 23, 2026. (Photo by Joe Rondone/The Arizona Republic/pool) The next attorney general will determine the degree to which Arizona welcomes federal immigration enforcement efforts.  Mayes has been a vocal opponent of the construction of a detention facility in Surprise, launching a lawsuit accusing the federal government of failing to conduct proper environmental impact studies, and has supported local efforts to limit the reach of federal immigration agents. Petersen, by contrast, is a supporter of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign and has said he will work with the president to deport more Arizona residents.  In June, in response to a post on social media Mayes’ published vowing to continue defending the rights of Dreamers, immigrants who were brought to the country as minors, Petersen responded that, if elected, he would “work with the federal government to deport everyone who enters this country illegally.” On Wednesday, Mayes criticized that stance, saying that it doesn’t reflect what Arizonans want.  “These are babies who were brought to Arizona when they were little children, who are now firefighters and teachers and small business owners,” she said. “Arizonans don’t believe in mass deportation, they believe in immigration enforcement.”  Petersen rebutted that his statement was never directed at recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — a federal program that shields some, but not all, Dreamers from deportation — and said he supports immigrants with legal status.  “What I said was if you are here illegally in the country you should not be surprised if you are deported,” he said. “I never said that DACA would be deported.”  Another public concern that Mayes has weighed in on during her tenure is the pushback against data centers. In August, Mayes publicly called for a statewide pause on the construction of data centers, and on Wednesday, she reiterated that stance, saying that more time is needed to consider the drawbacks of building them.  “Can you imagine if one of these hyperscale data centers came into your neighborhood, with no notice, no vote by the community, with the noise pollution, the light pollution, the water pollution, the heat island effect — there’s a new study out of ASU showing that these things actually increase ambient temperature,” she said. “You bet I’m proud to try to pump the brakes here and do whatever I can as attorney general going forward to help Arizonans.”  Petersen said that data centers are critical for technology, like cellphones, that everyday Arizonans enjoy. Rather than stop their construction, he said that data centers should be built with community input and local control. And, he said, data centers should recycle their own water and produce their own power to minimize their impact on local resources.  With the midterms looming, Trump and Republicans have sought to cast doubt on the security of elections across the country, in an echo of the unfounded claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Petersen was among those who claimed, without evidence, that Trump won the 2020 election and he was a driving force behind launching a legislative audit of the election led by the Trump-supporting Cyber Ninjas in 2021.  On Wednesday, pressed on whether he would continue advancing the unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump if the president asked for an investigation, Petersen expressed skepticism that such a call would occur and stated that Biden won.  “Biden won,” he said twice, tersely.  But he did not say whether he would reject a request to look into the 2020 election — something Trump continues to focus on — and added that he feels voter concerns over election security should be taken seriously.  “Our voters deserve to feel like their elections are safe and secure, and it’s our job to make sure that they feel that way,” Petersen said. “My opponent has frustrated many of our citizens with her dismissive attitude towards election integrity. I think it’s important that we listen to everybody.” Mayes, meanwhile, has sought to prosecute the Republican officials who served as fake electors in 2020 in a bid to install Trump to a second term, even though he lost the election. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4b0b275342cf4db88e6f5 Tennessee cops raided man's home after he criticized officer for speeding: lawsuit te 2026-09-24T05:10:10.639Z Tennessee cops raided man's home after he criticized officer for speeding: lawsuit A Tennessee man who was arrested in a pre-dawn raid after he filmed and criticized a police officer sued the police department alleging it violated his First Amendment right to free expression. The civil lawsuit against the city of Kingsport, its police chief and its officers was filed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) in 2023 on behalf of Joshua Gibbons, but he is only now making the complaint public after he was successful in having his conviction overturned and the remaining charge dismissed by the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. "They tried to intimidate me, but I’m not backing down," Gibbons said in a statement. "I can’t let this injustice stand, because my family doesn’t feel safe anymore. There’s no coming back from that raid on our home. They sent eight heavily armed officers to arrest me because I embarrassed them." In October 2022, Gibbons filmed a Kingsport Police Department SUV speeding at night without lights or sirens, which the lawsuit alleges violated department policy and state law. He followed the vehicle and approached the officer at a fast food drive-thru, where he filmed his brief criticism of the officer’s conduct. POLICE FATALLY SHOOT SWORD WIELDING MAN AFTER WOMAN FOUND TRAPPED IN CAR, OFFICIALS SAY "When he caught up with the officer, the officer did the right thing. He ignored Joshua Gibbons, didn't arrest him, didn't view it as a crime, and went and got his hamburger," FIRE Senior Attorney Adam Steinbaugh told Fox News Digital. Gibbons, who uploads videos of police on duty as a way to hold them accountable, later published a second video of an officer giving him the middle finger. A fellow citizen later complained to the department about the officer’s conduct, and the department responded by searching Gibbons’ YouTube channel for something to use against him, according to FIRE. The department found the video of their own officer speeding. But instead of disciplining the officer, officers were sent to arrest Gibbons. "The First Amendment protects the right not only to criticize and film police, but also to post it online. The police department didn't treat this as a crime until Joshua posted this online and embarrassed the department," Steinbaugh said. Steinbaugh also said the case was "as lawless as it was hypocritical" and that the department’s actions "were all to make an example out of a critic." According to the lawsuit, within two hours of being "made aware" of Gibbons’ video of the speeding officer, an arrest warrant for Gibbons was obtained for speeding, using a cell phone while driving and disorderly conduct. The warrant was obtained from a court clerk rather than a judge, according to FIRE. Just before dawn the following morning, eight armed officers were captured on security and cell phone footage raiding Gibbons’ house and arresting him in front of his elderly mother and his daughter, just nine days after he filmed and criticized the speeding officer. Gibbons then faced two trials over nearly four years before a Tennessee appellate court recently dismissed the charges. "That's a long process that can take a mental toll on someone. I think that Joshua wants to send a message to this department. I think he wants to see some reforms to this department, and we're happy to support him," Steinbaugh said. TENNESSEE OFFICIAL SAYS FLOCK CEO SHOULD BE HANGED 'PUBLICLY FOR TREASON' AS CONTROVERSIAL CAMERAS FACE REVOLT In the first trial, a judge acquitted him of the speeding and cell phone charges but found Gibbons guilty of disorderly conduct, saying he was "offended by the way" Gibbons was "talking to that officer." Gibbons appealed to the county circuit court, and a jury found him guilty of disorderly conduct. But in June, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee unanimously overturned the verdict and dismissed the disorderly conduct charge, finding there was "no evidence" that Gibbons’ criticism of the officer "prevented any person from doing any lawful activity." The court said Gibbons "did not threaten anyone, did not engage in any violent behavior, and did not create a physically offensive or hazardous condition." The court noted that even "'profane and insulting' words alone will not rise to the level of a crime, particularly when uttered against the police, who 'are trained to exercise a higher degree of restraint than the average citizen.'" "If you are a law enforcement officer, you are required by your uniform and by the First Amendment to tolerate criticism. Some of that's going to be fair criticism, some of it's going to be unfair criticism. But you don't get to go and arrest people for it. That's the message we want to send to this department and to departments around the country," Steinbaugh said. Kingsport Police did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment in time for publication. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4a4f475342cf4db88dd81 Mayes, Petersen clash over Trump, ICE in attorney general’s debate te 2026-09-24T04:20:04.420Z Mayes, Petersen clash over Trump, ICE in attorney general’s debate Key points: Attorney General Mayes and Petersen, Arizona Senate president, met on the debate stage Wednesday night.  The candidates discussed the Trump administration, ICE and other issues. The hour-long debate also featured frequent personal attacks.  SCOTTSDALE – Attorney General Kris Mayes and her Republican challenger, Warren Petersen, clashed and traded personal attacks in a debate Wednesday night, arguing over issues including how they would interact with the Trump administration.  Mayes, a Democrat elected to the post in 2022, and Petersen, the current Arizona Senate president, differed on issues including the proliferation of data centers, how they would approach prosecuting members of their own parties and election integrity. But the candidates frequently interrupted each other with criticism and tried to talk over one another during the hour-long debate hosted by the Arizona Media Association and the Citizens Clean Elections Commission.  In one exchange, Petersen accused Mayes of pounding her fists on a table and using profanity in meetings.  “I’m going to restore professionalism,” Petersen said. “Kris Mayes is known for having meltdowns, yelling, screaming, pounding her fists on the table.”  “This is outrageous,” Mayes countered. “I can’t believe you’re allowing this to be aired. You’re flat out lying to the people of Arizona.”  As attorney general, Mayes has brought dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration — suits she said have saved the state $2.3 billion. But she said the president’s party doesn’t matter when she considers whether to bring a suit.  “Whether it’s a Republican president or a Democratic president, our criteria is the same,” Mayes said. “Has the Constitution been violated? Has the state been harmed? And that has happened all too often over the last two years.”  Attorney General Kris Mayes, left, and her GOP opponent, Senate President Warren Petersen, debate at the Sneaky Big Studios in Scottsdale on Wednesday. (Joe Rondone/The Arizona Republic) Petersen said he has a good relationship with the Trump administration but would also litigate unconstitutional actions by a president from either party.  “If it’s unconstitutional action made by –- I don’t care if it’s a Republican or Democrat –- we will litigate,” he said.  Responding to a question about how he would work with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement as attorney general, Petersen said he supports legal immigration, and that law enforcement can count on him to help secure the southern border.  Mayes, meanwhile, said ICE needs to refocus its efforts on controlling the flow of drugs over the border rather than sending agents “into the interior of the country to chase around hardworking landscapers and gardeners.”  Regarding data centers, Petersen said location, electricity and water need to be considered, but he doesn’t believe in “just shutting down” the idea of a data center.  Mayes has called for a temporary moratorium on new data centers and said the centers are driving rising utility costs. “The vast majority of Arizonans want to see us take a step back and think about a plan,” she said.  She said she is proud of efforts under her leadership to stand up to the federal government’s efforts to access Arizona voter data and attempt to “take over and destroy” mail-in voting, while Petersen called for improvements in speeding up the delivery of election results.  “My opponent has frustrated many of our citizens with her dismissive attitude towards election integrity,” Petersen said. “I think it’s important we listen to everybody and do everything we can to address their concerns.” Wednesday’s debate follows Mayes’ decision last month not to bring criminal charges against Gov. Katie Hobbs, also a Democrat, in connection with an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving a state contractor.  Mayes said she has no problem investigating or prosecuting a member of her own party.  “I don’t care whether you have an R or a D behind your name,” she said. “I am dead serious about prosecutorial ethics.”  She said the state needs legislation to prevent contractors from giving campaign contributions. “Pay-to-play is a serious issue,” she said.  Petersen, meanwhile, called Mayes’ review a “sham investigation.” He said he has supported legislation to prevent “pay-to-play,” but the governor did not approve it. The post Mayes, Petersen clash over Trump, ICE in attorney general’s debate first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4923b75342cf4db88d7f0 Aaron Judge says he intends to be ready for Yankees' Wild Card series despite calf injury te 2026-09-24T03:00:12.000Z Aaron Judge says he intends to be ready for Yankees' Wild Card series despite calf injury With fans wondering whether New York Yankees three-time MVP Aaron Judge will be playing in the AL Wild Card series next week as his calf injury looms over the franchise, the man himself isn’t so worried. "That’s what the plan is," Judge told ESPN. "Try to get my body ready so I’m ready to go." Judge intends to be ready for Game 1 of the Wild Card series, which begins at Yankee Stadium next Tuesday against a to-be-determined opponent from the American League. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE Judge was placed on the injured list this past Saturday after suffering a right calf strain, though he added more concern that he could be out awhile at the worst possible time given the postseason was right around the corner. He specified that he has a soleus muscle strain, which is what he said is essential for running and hitting – the things the Yankees desperately need him to do if they wish to reach the World Series again. Judge confirmed reports that he received a Platelet-Poor Plasma (PPP) injection on Monday in his calf, and he and the Yankees are now waiting for clearance to resume baseball activities involving his leg. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! However, while Judge is intending on playing, manager Aaron Boone had a different thought process on Tuesday. "We’re planning on him not being a part of that," he told reporters regarding the AL Wild Card series, though he hasn’t ruled him out officially. The Yankees still have time to figure out their roster. But, if Judge isn’t on the Wild Card roster, he won’t be allowed to play until the Yankees make it to the ALDS, which only occurs if they win the best-of-three series. Judge added that he’s had talks with those within the organization that make decisions, though he wasn’t going to divulge. "I can’t control what people say," he said. "So, you’ll have to talk to them about that." Judge’s injury came after he had just returned from a three-month stint on the injured list with a fractured rib . This ailment may not be as serious, but after getting an MRI this past Thursday to reveal the grade of the strain, it’s serious enough at a time when the Yankees would love for him to be 100%. CC SABATHIA SAYS YANKEES COULD DO A BETTER JOB HELPING YOUNG PLAYERS HANDLE THE PINSTRIPES: 'DIFFERENT BEAST' Since his return to the team, however, Judge hasn’t struggled to get back to his usual slugging self. He went 4-of-23 with one homer and 13 strikeouts over 24 plate appearances. And they came right after he was deemed healthy enough to play instead of going to the minor leagues for a rehab assignment. "We’ve got games to win," Judge said. "I’m getting paid to play games for the New York Yankees, so I’ll get back as soon as I can." There are multiple opponents the Yankees could play in the Wild Card series, but it is most likely to be a rematch from 2025 in the Bronx against the Boston Red Sox. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab488db75342cf4db88d632 Illegal alien allegedly grabs school police officer's gun, shoots him in femoral artery: DOJ te 2026-09-24T02:20:11.619Z Illegal alien allegedly grabs school police officer's gun, shoots him in femoral artery: DOJ A Mexican national accused of grabbing a Dallas school police officer’s gun and shooting him after the officer stopped to help him has been indicted on a federal firearms charge, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Jose Santiago Pantoja-Morales, 27, allegedly shot the uniformed Dallas Independent School District (DISD) police officer during an Aug. 6 struggle after the officer encountered him near the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, according to a federal complaint. Pantoja-Morales, who prosecutors say was in the U.S. illegally, had allegedly jumped out of a co-worker’s car and into the freeway’s center median.  The co-worker flagged down the DISD officer, who was on routine patrol and offered Pantoja-Morales a ride to a nearby safe location. ICE LODGES DETAINER FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF TRYING TO DISARM VIRGINIA POLICE OFFICER During the ride, prosecutors say Pantoja-Morales began rummaging through the officer’s bag in the back seat. The officer pulled over and tried to remove him from the car, but Pantoja-Morales allegedly resisted, leading to a physical struggle. During the fight, Pantoja-Morales allegedly grabbed the officer’s gun and fired once, striking the officer in the femoral artery of his right leg, according to the complaint. VIDEO SHOWS MOMENT CHICAGO MAN ALLEGEDLY USED SUV AS WEAPON AGAINST ICE AGENT, PROSECUTORS SAY Despite being wounded, the officer regained control of his gun. Pantoja-Morales ran from the scene and was quickly apprehended by law enforcement, prosecutors said. Another DISD officer provided medical treatment at the scene before the wounded officer was taken to Parkland Hospital for further treatment. A federal grand jury returned an indictment Sept. 16, charging Pantoja-Morales with possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. NEVADA MAN FUNNELED 140 GUNS TO VIOLENT MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS, INCLUDING POWERFUL 'MILITARY-STYLE' RIFLES: DOJ "The illegal alien’s alleged actions in this case represent an attack on the rule of law and a direct threat to public safety," U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould said in a news release. "Every day, we ask the men and women who wear the badge to stand between good and evil. It is my duty — and the duty of this office — to do all we can to protect those who protect us. "Violence against an officer will not be tolerated, and we will pursue this prosecution with the utmost rigor to ensure full accountability." Pantoja-Morales is awaiting transfer to federal custody under a writ of habeas corpus filed Wednesday. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in federal prison. The ATF Dallas Field Office and Dallas Police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nadin-Sarah Salkic is prosecuting it. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab488d675342cf4db88d60d Taste of Havasu Tickets go on sale Thursday te 2026-09-24T02:20:06.506Z Taste of Havasu Tickets go on sale Thursday Taste of Havasu, the K-12 Foundation for LHUSD's annual food truck fundraiser for the school district, will open ticket sales to the public starting Thursday. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab47f7a75342cf4db88d468 Norton, Mansour trade attacks over risk and partisanship in treasurer debate te 2026-09-24T01:40:10.415Z Norton, Mansour trade attacks over risk and partisanship in treasurer debate Republican Elijah Norton (left) and Democrat Nick Mansour (right) at the Clean Elections debate for Arizona treasurer on Sept. 23, 2026. (Screenshot via YouTube) The Republican and Democratic nominees for Arizona Treasurer attempted to woo voters Wednesday evening during a debate in which both men tried to paint the other as untrustworthy of being responsible for overseeing how the state’s money is invested. The candidates, the ballot measures, and the tools you need to cast your vote. Arizona Votes: 2026 Republican Elijah Norton and Democrat Nick Mansour each claimed that they intend to keep “partisan politics” out of the office and touted their own plans to secure the state’s economic future.  Norton, who won a contentious primary in July, is a former treasurer for the Arizona Republican Party and currently is the president of Veritas Global Protection Services, a vehicle insurance company he founded.  In recent years, the wealthy businessman has largely bankrolled the state GOP — he’s contributed more than $1 million to the party since 2023, including nearly $200,000 in the first half of 2026 — and he has poured $1.1 million into his treasurer campaign.  He has also been the single most prolific funder of other Republican candidates in Arizona in the 2026 election cycle: State campaign finance records show he has given more than $3 million to GOP campaign efforts, including his own campaign.   GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE Mansour, the former CEO of the Arizona College of Nursing, ran unopposed in his primary, a fact that Norton used to attack him for a lack of experience in elections.  In their opening statements, both men leaned on their business experience to persuade voters that they are the one most fiscally responsible to handle the state’s checkbook.  In his opening statement, Mansour cited endorsements that include former Republican lawmakers.  “We want to keep partisan politics out of this office as much as possible,” Mansour said.  Nick Mansour, the Democratic nominee for Arizona treasurer, at the Clean Elections debate on Sept. 23, 2026. (Screenshot via YouTube) A major point of contention during the debate was Mansour’s plan to change how the state maintains nearly 9 million acres of trust land in a $10 billion endowment fund.  Sales of that land are set to go to 13 beneficiaries, the majority of which are public schools. The land was granted by the federal government to multiple states; Arizona has the most left, and critics have argued that the state should be doing more with it.  That fund, the Permanent Land Endowment Trust Fund, has long held 60% of its holdings in the stock market and 40% in fixed income assets. Norton claimed that Mansour’s plan to shift that to 80% in stocks and 20% in bonds would endanger the state’s funds.  “We cannot take big bets or risky decisions with our state’s money,” Norton said, calling Mansour’s proposal “just crazy” and stating that a letter from multiple county treasurers opposing the plan and endorsing Norton was being released during the debate.  “We want to be both safe and fiscally responsible. We’re currently not fiscally responsible with the permanent land endowment fund,” Mansour said in response, adding that other states do not follow Arizona’s model. “We invest among the lowest of states, and this is a way for us to invest in the long term for our kids and keep our taxes low.”  Mansour accused Norton of “mischaracterizing” his plan, while Norton claimed it could cost the state money if the stock market fluctuates too wildly.  Both men also claimed that the other would bring partisan politics into the office.  “Elijah isn’t even trusted by his own party. Kimberly Yee doesn’t trust him,” Mansour said, saying that Yee, the current state treasurer who is running for superintendent of public instruction, has not endorsed him. Mansour also cited a letter released by 36 Republicans voicing concerns about Norton’s business practices and how it could impact the state.  Those concerns around his business practices also showed up in the 2022 election, when Norton challenged Republican U.S. Rep. David Schwiekert.  Norton called the allegations “ridiculous” and cited high-profile Republican endorsements like Barry Goldwater Jr. and county treasurers.  Elijah Norton, the Republican nominee for Arizona treasurer, at the Clean Elections debate on Sept. 23, 2026. (Screenshot via YouTube) While Norton said he intends to keep politics out of the office, he conceded that Republican culture-war politics would guide his investment strategy. For instance, he said that he would not allow Arizona to invest in companies that engage in “racial hiring quotas” and referred to an anti-DEI case against Starbucks. Opposing corporate efforts for diversity, equity and inclusion has been a major component of the GOP’s culture war.  He has also made similar comments online, including that he’d divest in companies that employ DEI strategies.  Norton claimed Mansour has campaigned on taking money invested in oil in the state and shifting it to green energy as proof that he will bring “partisan politics” into the office.  On Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, the state’s private school voucher system, Mansour said he would audit those expenses and communicate with the office of the superintendent to make sure no waste or fraud gets approved.  The $1 billion program has come under fire for a lack of oversight that has allowed families to spend money meant to pay for schooling on things like lingerie and trips.  While Norton acknowledged the treasurer’s role in the program’s implementation, he focused instead on telling voters about his plan to make sure the request for proposal process for the state’s ESA administration software is done publicly and in a bipartisan fashion.  “I don’t want to unilaterally make that decision,” Norton said, adding he has already met with the main vendors of the technology.  In their closing statements, each of the candidates attacked the other for legal battles they’ve faced in their professional careers. Norton mentioned allegations against the Arizona College of Nursing that it defrauded students, while Mansour mentioned the lawsuits and complaints lodged against Norton’s business.    Early voting begins on October 7 and you can check the status of your voter registration at my.arizona.vote. YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE. SUPPORT Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab47ac275342cf4db88d2f8 Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse te 2026-09-24T01:20:02.774Z Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4787275342cf4db88d2d1 Michigan student confronts El-Sayed over Iran stance in tense exchange: ‘Do you stand with us?’ te 2026-09-24T01:10:10.194Z Michigan student confronts El-Sayed over Iran stance in tense exchange: ‘Do you stand with us?’ A Michigan student confronted Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed over his position on Iran during a town hall Wednesday, invoking his family's stated persecution by the Iranian regime before repeatedly pressing the candidate to say whether he stood with Iranians opposing the government. Iman Dashti, who identified himself as Persian, told El-Sayed during a town hall at the University of Michigan that members of his family had suffered under Iran's government. "My cousin was hunted in the streets of Iran by the IRGC because her hijab wasn't on right," Dashti said. He also alleged that her uncle had been sentenced to death and received 50 lashes under the Iranian government. ABDUL EL-SAYED PROTESTED AGAINST 'EX-TERRORISTS' WHO CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY, UNEARTHED REPORT REVEALS Dashti then confronted El-Sayed over leaked audio from earlier this year in which he said he did not want to comment on the death of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because "there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today." "That silence had a gaping hole in our community," Dashti told El-Sayed Wednesday. He asked whether he regretted that silence, whether he would renounce people who held vigils supporting Khamenei and whether he stood "unequivocally against the IRGC" and the Islamic Republic of Iran. El-Sayed responded by arguing that the United States has too often acted as "the world's policeman" while saying he supported movements for democracy and freedom abroad. AFTER 6 MONTHS OF WAR, US MUST PREPARE FOR A FUTURE AFTER IRAN’S GOVERNMENT FALLS "One can disagree with the governance of a foreign country. One can stand in solidarity with freedom and democracy movements," El-Sayed said. He went on to reject U.S.-led regime change in Iran. "I will always stand for and with democratic movements always," El-Sayed said. "But I also don't believe that we were in the right to go to war to topple the government of Iran. It was not our responsibility to do. It is the responsibility of the people of Iran to decide what their leadership should look like." Dashti pressed him again. "You stand with us?" he asked. "I will always stand with movements for freedom and democracy," El-Sayed responded, before again warning against U.S. involvement in regime change. "We should not be in the business of regime change," he said. El-Sayed added moments later, "I want freedom and democracy for the people of Iran, no question. But I want that to be done by the people of Iran, coming together as a community to decide how to create democratic change in their society." Fox News Digital reached out to El-Sayed's campaign for additional comment on the exchange and attempted to reach Dashti through Instagram. El-Sayed, who won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary in August, is running against Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers for the seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. The contest has drawn substantial national attention and spending. The Iran confrontation was one of several notable exchanges during Wednesday's "Students vs. Billionaires" town hall at El-Sayed's alma mater. KAMALA HARRIS BACKS MAJOR CHANGES TO THE SUPREME COURT, ELECTORAL COLLEGE AHEAD OF POSSIBLE 2028 CAMPAIGN While discussing public health infrastructure, El-Sayed appeared to make a prediction about the party and the gender that will win the White House in 2028. "I'm looking forward to working with the next Democratic president when she takes office in 2029," El-Sayed said, adding that he hoped to work with that administration to modernize the nation's public health infrastructure. El-Sayed did not identify whom he had in mind. His remarks came as former Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee, returned to Michigan to campaign with El-Sayed. Harris has not announced a 2028 presidential campaign. El-Sayed also criticized President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance during the event. "Donald Trump and JD Vance can't seem to keep my name out their mouth," El-Sayed said. "They don't really know how to say it, though, which is fine, because I believe in teaching opportunities." Trump and other national Republicans have repeatedly targeted El-Sayed during the midterm campaign, while El-Sayed has responded by criticizing the president. "As he noted in his response, Abdul will always stand with movements for freedom and democracy and he condemns government anti-free speech violence," Roxie Richner, El-Sayed campaign spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital.  "Abdul has also been clear that the United States should not be in the business of spending our tax dollars abroad on regime change wars that take our servicemembers’ lives, waste our tax dollars, and raise our prices. He believes American taxpayer dollars are best spent here at home to invest in infrastructure, education, and healthcare." Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4762075342cf4db88d25b Kleinow.jpg te 2026-09-24T01:00:16.231Z Kleinow.jpg Daniel Christopher Kleinow Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4761c75342cf4db88d251 Scene pkg Sept. 23 te 2026-09-24T01:00:12.279Z Scene pkg Sept. 23 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab473bd75342cf4db88d1d8 Timothy Mellon, a G.O.P. Billionaire, Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans te 2026-09-24T00:50:05.732Z Timothy Mellon, a G.O.P. Billionaire, Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans Timothy Mellon, one of the party’s biggest donors in 2024, has so far withheld his midterm donations for Republican senators because he is unhappy about the failure to pass a key Trump priority. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab473bb75342cf4db88d1ad Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent te 2026-09-24T00:50:03.375Z Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4716d75342cf4db88d186 NYC kitten rescue defends ‘NO F---ING MAGA’ adoption policy as PETA calls for it to be abolished te 2026-09-24T00:40:13.721Z NYC kitten rescue defends ‘NO F---ING MAGA’ adoption policy as PETA calls for it to be abolished After posting an explicit warning that MAGA supporters, conservatives, and apolitical applicants need not apply, a New York City kitten rescue is defending its screening process against mounting criticism — including from PETA, which called on the group to scrap the ideological ban. "Homeless animals don’t care which side of abortion you are on or whether you believe in global warming or support Palestine or Israel, or if you don’t vote at all, ever: they care if you love them and will give them a good home," PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk told Fox News Digital. "We hope this policy, which is humancentric, is reconsidered and abolished," Newkirk said. The dispute centers on Itty Bitty City Kitties, a Rockaway Beach-based rescue that describes itself as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit specializing in orphaned and neonatal kittens, feral-cat welfare and adoptions. The organization is also listed among New York state’s registered pet rescues. ONE OF NATION'S LARGEST CHRISTIAN FOSTER AGENCIES WILL NOT ALLOW LGBTQ COUPLES TO ADOPT CHILDREN In a social media post reviewed by Fox News Digital, the rescue laid out a series of political positions it said could disqualify prospective adopters. "MAGA? Nope." "Conservative? Nope." "‘I’m not political’? Nice loophole. Still nope." An accompanying image of a kitten bore the message, "NO. F---ING. MAGA." The post drew wider attention after Libs of TikTok posted it on X, prompting questions about whether the language represented the rescue’s actual adoption practices. Fox News Digital contacted Itty Bitty City Kitties and asked whether an applicant could be rejected for identifying as MAGA, conservative or apolitical. Samantha Knox, who has publicly identified herself as the director of Itty Bitty City Kitties, defended the organization’s screening approach by saying its overriding responsibility is the welfare of the animals in its care. "As an animal welfare rescue, our primary responsibility is ensuring the animals in our care go to safe, compassionate homes," Knox told Fox News Digital. She said the organization considers "public conduct and demonstrated values" and argued that a record of "celebrat[ing] cruelty" can raise concerns about an applicant’s suitability to care for an animal. "A history of celebrating harm or abuse, be it toward people or animals, is one of the biggest red flags in animal rescue," Knox said. "We stand by our mission and will never place a vulnerable animal with anyone, ever, who we feel is a danger to the welfare of the animal." OREGON SETTLES WITH CHRISTIAN MOTHER DENIED FOSTER CARE ADOPTION OVER GENDER IDENTITY BELIEFS Fox News Digital followed up with a narrower question, asking whether a person who identifies as MAGA or conservative, but has no documented history of animal cruelty, threats, neglect or violence, would be eligible to adopt. "Itty Bitty City Kitties does not screen or reject applicants based on registered political party affiliation," Knox responded. "MAGA is a political movement and ideology, not a recognized political party." Knox said adoption evaluations instead concern "conduct, ethical alignment, and animal safety." "We reserve the right to reject any application where an applicant’s expressed values, public statements, or actions demonstrate a failure to meet our safety and welfare standards," she said. NEW JERSEY POLICE PULL OUT 3-FOOT PYTHON FROM WOMAN'S CAR GRILLE, BODYCAM VIDEO SHOWS Asked again whether a MAGA or conservative applicant without a history of cruelty, threats, neglect or violence could adopt from the organization, Knox did not provide a yes-or-no answer. "Media-driven requests to force complex animal welfare evaluations into a binary ‘yes or no’ premise fundamentally misrepresent how responsible adoption screenings operate," she said. Knox added that "active support for or alignment with social movements" the rescue believes normalizes or promotes cruelty can be treated as "actionable conduct," and said adoption decisions are made "holistically under these welfare and safety standards." Knox also provided Fox News Digital with screenshots she said showed explicit, hostile messages directed at the rescue following its political posts. Knox said messages of that nature illustrated the kind of conduct the rescue considers relevant when evaluating prospective homes. PETA, however, drew a different line. "Political affiliation is not a reliable measure of whether someone will be a good guardian," the organization told Fox News Digital, while adding that a person's actions, statements, along with demonstrated treatment of people and animals, can be relevant to an adoption decision. PETA said rescues should focus on "objective animal-welfare factors," including an applicant’s history of animal care, ability to meet an animal’s needs and evidence of cruelty, neglect or violence. "Shelters and rescues exist to protect animals, not to serve as political gatekeepers," PETA said. Itty Bitty City Kitties’ public adoption page describes what the organization calls a "Fully Supported Adoption Model," under which prospective owners submit an application, provide references, employment and living information, participate in a phone interview and complete a FaceTime or Zoom interview in lieu of a home visit. The rescue’s published "MUST LIST" says adopters must keep animals up to date on veterinary care, keep them indoors or leashed outside, never declaw them, maintain a plan for travel, illness or death, not simply give away an animal they can no longer care for, and be financially able to provide for its welfare. The public-facing requirements reviewed by Fox News Digital do not mention MAGA, conservatism, political affiliation or political ideology. The organization has also used its social media account for other political messaging. On Sept. 10, Itty Bitty City Kitties posted an image of a kitten carrying the words, "Kittens. Don’t. Mourn. Nazis." "For absolutely no reason at all on this day one year later..." text on the image stated. "Just a little kitten making sure we all know where we stand," the accompanying caption read, followed by hashtags including "#kitten," "#cat," "#politics" and "#iykyk." While the post did not name late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, it was published exactly one year after his assassination at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025. Knox also invoked the rescue’s nonprofit status in defending its ability to take positions on political and social issues, saying 501(c)(3) organizations are permitted to maintain issue-based standards aligned with their missions, as long as they do not engage in partisan political campaigning. PETA, while objecting to the use of political affiliation as a measure of adoption suitability, said an applicant’s actual behavior toward animals can, and should, matter regardless of ideology. "More broadly, anyone who condones, celebrates, or participates in harming animals demonstrates a troubling lack of empathy," PETA said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4716c75342cf4db88d178 ‘We will rue the day’: Controversial Protect College Sports Act gaining momentum in Senate te 2026-09-24T00:40:12.228Z ‘We will rue the day’: Controversial Protect College Sports Act gaining momentum in Senate WASHINGTON – A sweeping proposal moving through the U.S. Senate would establish a new federal rulebook for college sports. The Protect College Sports Act aims to cut lawsuits that pit college athletes against universities, reduce mid-season transfers of coaches and players and change how the NCAA enforces its rules.  It would also limit direct payments to athletes while writing into law their right to income from revenues they generate. “We’re saying that athletes deserve to have a percentage of the media, ticket sales and sponsorship. That’s a big, big win,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., in an interview with Cronkite News. College sports have changed rapidly since athletes gained name, image and likeness rights five years ago, followed by a 2025 settlement that allowed direct payments by colleges. Cantwell co-authored the pending bill with commerce committee Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas. They and other supporters of the bill argue that college athletics needs a national set of rules that only Congress can provide. Universities and major sports leagues support the proposal, as does the NCAA, which sets eligibility rules and otherwise oversees college athletics. Opponents of the Cruz-Cantwell bill – including labor unions, the NAACP and other civil rights organizations – argue that if colleges want the stability of a professional sports system, athletes deserve the same sort of bargaining power as pros. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., criticized the measure during a floor debate Wednesday as an attempt at “micromanaging the entire athlete-university relationship.” The Senate is expected to vote on the bill this week and the 3-1 support in procedural votes Tuesday and last week indicate broad support. The proposal faces an uncertain future in the House, which is in recess until after the Nov. 3 midterm elections.  From amateurism to revenue sharing The legislation comes after one of the most significant changes in college sports history. After a series of antitrust challenges, the NCAA lifted restrictions in July 2021 on payments to athletes, allowing income that stems from the use of their name, image and likeness.  A 2025 antitrust settlement created a system for NCAA Division I colleges to share revenue with athletes, initially capped at 22% of certain sports revenues. The Protect College Sports Act would codify that system – one of many reasons opponents call it a bad idea. “There’s no other statute that I know of that caps the wages of the most valuable workers in industry,” Murphy told Cronkite News. “We will rue the day that we got this intimately involved in regulating college sports.” The Cruz-Cantwell bill would also codify athletes’ right to make money from their name, image and likeness – a provision Cantwell called “historic” – while imposing national standards regarding disclosure, the role of universities and their donors, and eligibility for high school prospects.  Additionally, the legislation addresses state-level legal protections that have shielded schools from NCAA enforcement. The bill would allow colleges to spend up to $22.5 million to retain athletes. Sponsors, apparel companies, multimedia-rights holders and other businesses would face certification and disclosure requirements intended to distinguish legitimate name, image and likeness deals from payments used primarily for recruiting. That distinction matters because one of the sponsors’ goals is to limit bidding wars that have developed around recruiting and retaining players. The rising costs have prompted schools to cut back on less lucrative sports. “Transfers to and from colleges, particularly in football, are happening at an unbelievable pace,” Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said on the Senate floor Wednesday. “It doesn’t take a diehard sports fan to see that college sports is currently broken.” Coons cited Grand Canyon University, which announced it would eliminate its men’s volleyball team last year, as one of numerous schools that have terminated teams to shift resources to other sports.  “To find the money to chase athletes, coaches, and facilities, universities have begun cutting sports,” he said. Cantwell emphasized that issue as a key reason for the bill.  “Right now, 100 programs and a thousand athletes have been cut from U.S. women’s Olympic sports because of this arms race. We’re trying to make some sense out of it so that we can help preserve women in the Olympics,” she said. Transfers and eligibility The bill would also place federal guardrails around two issues that have repeatedly landed the NCAA in court: transfers and eligibility. Athletes generally would be eligible for one transfer without having to sit out a season, with exceptions when a sport is eliminated, a head coach leaves, or an athlete is pursuing a graduate degree or has experienced sexual assault or harassment.  The bill would generally provide five years of athletic eligibility.  Those national standards would be accompanied by limited antitrust protection that would make it harder to challenge NCAA eligibility, transfer, and compensation rules in court. That provision is one of the most consequential and contested parts of the legislation. For years, athletes have successfully sued over such restrictions. Critics see the provision as a major blow to athletes, depriving them of a major tool to win greater compensation and flexibility. The NAACP formally opposed the legislation in August.  In a letter to Senate leaders last month, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson noted that Black athletes play a disproportionate role in generating revenue for major college football and basketball programs. He lauded provisions that protect scholarships, cap agent fees at 5% and raise safety standards.  “College athletes deserve those protections. They should not, however, be used as political cover for provisions that insulate institutions and conferences from legal and economic accountability,” he wrote. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., pushed back on the idea of federal intervention. “The people who oversee the Post Office now want to run college sports. What could go wrong?” he said on the Senate floor Wednesday, arguing that instead, Congress should get out of the NCAA’s way by lifting all antitrust restrictions.  Athlete protections To build support, Cantwell and Cruz recently added a provision requiring the NCAA to take reasonable steps to ensure schools comply with health and safety requirements.  They also clarified that the bill won’t shut down existing lawsuits for past conduct. The updates also addressed concerns that, by providing a window to “cure” violations, the bill might let schools avoid legal responsibility in cases of serious harm, backers said. Among the provisions with broader support: Schools generally could not revoke or reduce scholarships because of poor performance on the field, injury or roster decisions.  Division I athletes would get five years of post-eligibility medical coverage for sports-related injuries. Schools would have to provide coverage for catastrophic injury, plus independent health-and-safety oversight, with doctors able to overrule coaches. The NCAA would be required to introduce an independent Office of the Student-Athlete Ombudsman to advise on athletes’ rights and help resolve disputes. Athletes would receive degree-completion assistance for up to 10 years. To protect women’s and Olympic sports, schools would be required to maintain the number of roster spots and outlays for non-revenue sports at 2024–2025 levels. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said those roster and scholarship requirements could cost regulated Division I schools and athletic conferences tens of millions of dollars annually.  The ombudsman offices alone could cost those schools and conferences about $50 million to establish in the first year, CBO said. The case for the bill The NCAA has campaigned for passage, arguing that a patchwork of state laws and repeated lawsuits have made it increasingly difficult to enforce its rules.  The Big Ten and SEC objected to earlier versions, citing concerns about state-law preemption, litigation and the revenue-sharing system. Negotiations produced a revised version in August that secured their backing.  Supporters listed by the Senate commerce committee include more than 267 schools and conferences, along with organizations such as the NFL, MLB, NBA and players’ associations connected to professional and Olympic sports.  “This is a serious bipartisan effort to bring order to a system that badly needs fixing,” former Alabama coach Nick Saban said in June. The Trump administration issued a statement of support in August, saying the bill would create uniform standards and reduce legal and financial uncertainty in college athletics. A House version of the bill was introduced June 4 by Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Wash. There has been no movement on it yet at the committee level.  The case against it Critics of the Protect College Sports Act call it a bailout that shields the NCAA and universities from legal accountability while undermining athletes’ ability to monetize their name, image and likeness.  Athletes.org, which describes itself as a players association for college athletes, argues that the proposed antitrust protection and compensation restrictions would strengthen the NCAA’s authority while limiting athletes’ collective bargaining power.  The AFL-CIO has raised similar objections. College athletes have appeared on both sides of the debate. The NCAA launched an advertising campaign this month featuring athletes urging Congress to pass the legislation. University of Maryland basketball player Oluchi Okananwa, the interim president of United College Athletes Association, argued that athletes need more direct power over the system governing them. “If everyone else gets a seat at the table when the future of college sports is decided, the athletes who make college sports possible cannot be the ones left standing outside the room,” she said in a statement Sept. 15. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4716675342cf4db88d158 U.S. and China Agree to Extend Trade Truce by 2 Months, Bessent Says te 2026-09-24T00:40:06.313Z U.S. and China Agree to Extend Trade Truce by 2 Months, Bessent Says The Treasury secretary, who is leading talks with China, said the countries had agreed to extend a trade truce until January. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4716575342cf4db88d14f Newly Public Documents Shed New Light on Trump Investigations te 2026-09-24T00:40:05.465Z Newly Public Documents Shed New Light on Trump Investigations Records unsealed on Wednesday include a 2023 appeals court opinion rejecting Donald J. Trump’s attempt to block Mike Pence’s grand jury testimony. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4716475342cf4db88d146 Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs te 2026-09-24T00:40:04.442Z Mary Peltola’s Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4716275342cf4db88d13b Tucson City Council tightens large water user rules slightly as residents push for stronger limits te 2026-09-24T00:40:02.722Z Tucson City Council tightens large water user rules slightly as residents push for stronger limits After residents asked Tucson City Council to make significant changes to its large water user ordinance, council members on Tuesday narrowly approved an ordinance with only minor changes proposed by city staff.  The city council reduced the threshold for water use that defines a “large water user” from 7.48 million gallons of water per month (10,000 centum cubic feet or ccf) to almost 6.36 million gallons of water per month (or 8,500 ccf). One ccf is 748 gallons of water. They also directed city staff to return in 120 days with proposals to require water conservation plans from customers using more than 5,000 ccf a month and to notify the council when a user exceeds its approved water use.    The ordinance requires that any large water user that wants to gain access to Tucson’s water has to apply to the city and show its water conservation efforts.  At a public hearing Tuesday night, residents urged the council to drastically reduce the threshold of water use to 2,500 ccf. They also asked council members to add a 2-to-1 offset, meaning new large water users would have to replenish or conserve two gallons of water for every gallon they consume, and to pause approvals of new large water users during periods of extreme drought.  Catlow Shipek, senior program director of Watershed Management Group, said the ordinance with the proposed revisions from Tucson Water allows new large water users to “continue with business as usual.”  “We must ask new large water users to also be desert dwellers,” Shipek said. “This includes how to care and respect all waters, give back more than one takes, and be aligned with and supporting our community values and stewardship of our water, our rivers, and our watershed.” Resident Margo Itule reiterated Shipek’s requests, and said the region is facing challenges to its groundwater supply not just because of population growth but also because of agriculture, industrial mining, data centers and other industries that are compounding groundwater depletion.   “Now is the time to plan for the future instead of reckless and short-sighted policies that naively hand over more of our precious shrinking resource,” Itule said. “It is imperative that the large quantity water user ordinance be strengthened to specifically protect our local water supplies, especially in light of the extreme drought and pending Colorado River water allocation cuts.” Nick Maya, program manager with the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, said new large water users should “meaningfully contribute to replenishing the water they consume,” and urged the council to “adopt stronger safeguards,” before the next large water user applies to be connected to Tucson Water.  Ward 3 council member Kevin Dahl suggested reducing the threshold to 5,000 ccf, and directing the city attorney to add to the ordinance that if a large water user violates the ordinance, the course of action recommended by the city’s water director would have to be approved by the council.  Ward 4 council member Nikki Lee replaced Dahl’s motion with one that would reduce the threshold to 8,500 ccf and ask that city staff bring back the ordinance in 120 days so that the mayor and council could consider requiring a water conservation plan of customers who use more than 5,000 ccf, and notify the council if a user exceeds the water use amount it was approved for.  The Tucson City Council meets on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. Credit: Stephanie Casanova Ward 2 council member Paul Cunningham pointed out that reducing the threshold to 2,500 could impact hospitals. He would like to see some flexibility in the ordinance for certain industries, Cunningham said. The enforcement piece also troubles him, because there is no cap on the amount of water a customer can use, and there are no automatic consequences.  Tucson Water Director John Kmiec told city council that a 2,500 ccf threshold could include some schools, hospitals and healthcare facilities and city parks.  Mayor Regina Romero said she has to find a balance between bringing jobs to Tucson and protecting its water and other limited resources.  “I want to make sure that we are not tying our own hands when it comes to creating long-term high-wage jobs in our city,” she said.  Romero said Tucson and Pima County both have a higher poverty rate than the national average. Tucson’s poverty rate is almost 19% according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and Pima County’s is almost 14%. The national poverty rate is about 10.2%, according to 2025 Census Bureau data. In addressing the poverty rate, mayor and council has to think about what kind of economic development projects they’re supporting, Romero said.  “We also have to think about, what is it that we want to say yes to?” she said. “We said no to data centers. We have been very good as a mayor and council to say no to mines and to other extractive industry in our community. But we need to be able to find industries that we say yes to.” Ward 6 council member Miranda Schubert, Dahl and Cunningham all opposed Lee’s motion. It passed 4-3 with Lee, Romero, Ward 1 council member Lane Santa Cruz and Ward 5 council member Selina Barajas voting for it.  “I support business, and I want more businesses to come to Tucson,” Schubert said. “But the businesses I want to see here are ones that are willing to make a conservation plan, stand behind it and aren’t afraid to show it to Tucson residents. All this ordinance is asking is for accountability and a transparent plan for conservation.” Residential water customers in the Tucson area use an average of 126 gallons of water per day, according to 2020 data from Making Action Possible for Southern Arizona. With that daily average, it would take a person 138 years to use nearly 6.36 million gallons of water, the new monthly threshold to be classified as a large water user. The city council moved quickly to approve a new ordinance in August 2025 to protect the city from large water users like data centers with the intention of consulting the community to revisit and strengthen the ordinance within a year.  The 2025 ordinance was a response to public outrage over Project Blue, a massive data center that could have used hundreds of millions of gallons of water a year. In order to access that water, the land where the data center is being built had to be annexed into Tucson. The city council rejected the annexation request. The post Tucson City Council tightens large water user rules slightly as residents push for stronger limits appeared first on AZ Luminaria. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab46f1475342cf4db88d0ee English soccer star Harry Kane wants to play in the MLS and kick in the NFL at the same time te 2026-09-24T00:30:12.275Z English soccer star Harry Kane wants to play in the MLS and kick in the NFL at the same time We don't see enough two-sport athletes these days. It's such a cool phenomenon that we haven't really seen in a while. However, English soccer star Harry Kane wouldn't mind taking a crack at it. Because if he winds up in the MLS, he wouldn't mind spending his free time on an NFL roster. ENGLISH SOCCER STAR HARRY KANE CALLS ROUND OF GOLF WITH TRUMP A ‘SURREAL EXPERIENCE’ According to The Athletic, Kane was recently quoted as saying that he was close to re-upping with the Bundesliga's Bayern Munich. That led to a question about his plans beyond this next deal. One of those plans was something he has reportedly talked about multiple times over the years, and that was switching sports. He's talked about golfing professionally, but this time he was focused on trading football for American football. "That is something I will try and look at a bit more seriously," he said. "It all depends on what happens in my career over the next five or six years, the motivation and what I want to do. The NFL is a lot more realistic than the golf one, let’s put it that way." But what had never come up before was the idea of Kane winding down his career stateside in the MLS while also moonlighting as a placekicker. SOMEONE NEEDS TO STEP IN AND DEFEND CODY RHODES' AWFUL, TERRIBLE PLACEKICKING PERFORMANCE "Maybe if I am in the MLS in the future or somewhere like that it might be a thing where you could connect the two, with the seasons," he said. "But it is in the back of my mind because right now, I am feeling that I want to play as long as I can here." Nice save at the end. The team about to re-sign you probably doesn't want to hear about your plans to play in the MLS and kick extra points on the side. But do you know who does want to hear that? The rest of us. That would just be a fun thing to watch, and Kane obviously has the leg to boot a pigskin quite a long way if he can nail down those pesky mechanics. Which it looks like he may have already done. At least a few teams are probably setting reminders to see what Kane is up to when his Bayern Munich deal is up. Maybe it's a pipe dream, but someone has to bring back two-sport professional athletes. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab46f0d75342cf4db88d0cb Trump Aides Seek to Jump Start Diplomacy With Iran as Crisis Widens te 2026-09-24T00:30:05.843Z Trump Aides Seek to Jump Start Diplomacy With Iran as Crisis Widens Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that U.S. negotiators had restarted conversations about Iran’s nuclear program, but that there were no breakthroughs. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab46f0c75342cf4db88d0c2 8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says te 2026-09-24T00:30:04.795Z 8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab46cbb75342cf4db88d083 Blue Jays' Vladimir Guerrero Jr. says his $500M contract was for past performance – not future results te 2026-09-24T00:20:11.853Z Blue Jays' Vladimir Guerrero Jr. says his $500M contract was for past performance – not future results Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has four games left before he can put his 2026 Toronto Blue Jays season behind him. Guerrero, the six-time All-Star who signed the third highest-paid extension in MLB history in April 2025 at $500 million, has hit just nine home runs and slugged .359 to date for a career-low .695 OPS to date. The Blue Jays, winners of the American League pennant this past season, where Guerrero was a major factor in reaching the World Series, were mathematically eliminated from this year’s postseason race as they hold a 77-81 record entering Wednesday. CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE For a player that is worth so much, especially financially, to an organization’s success, Guerrero’s down year has led to some vitriol from the Blue Jays’ fan base. And that’s likely to continue after hearing recent comments from the star infielder. Guerrero, 27, sat down with Telemicro News recently, where he discussed his struggles at the plate this season, and how it reflects on his contract extension. His comments were, well, interesting. THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW! "The contract I got was based on what I did, not necessarily for what I’m going to do," Guerrero said, as translated by MLB reporter Héctor Gómez. "I understand why the fans believe it’s the other way around. Sometimes, I think that way, too, like, ‘Oh, they give me this money, and I’m not doing enough,’ but you know I try my best, and I’m working hard. "The fans, I know how they are, when you are doing great they are 100% behind you. But when you are not at your best, not everybody is behind you, almost nobody supports you. Those are my real fans, the ones that are supporting me all the time." After catching heat from Blue Jays fans, Guerrero was approached about the viral quotes, which he responded to. "That was a quote from the interview when she asked me how I felt about this year," Guerrero said, via MLB.com. "I said that, obviously, I feel really bad about the year that I had, that I couldn’t help my team get to the postseason. I said I felt – that it’s my personal opinion – that every player gets paid for what they have done. With that said, you guys have got to remember that I signed my contract at the beginning of last year, then I did put up a good year. Then, the kind of playoffs that I had to help the team get into the World Series. "To the fans, I’ve never stopped working very hard. I am going to go into the offseason again to prepare myself the best I can. Physically, mentally, everything that I have like I always do for my team and my teammates." In Guerrero’s defense, that is technically what the Blue Jays did when they dished out his 14-year, $500 million extension, which is only behind Shohei Ohtani’s 10-year, $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Juan Soto’s 15-year, $765 million deal with the New York Mets. The franchise paid Guerrero for what he did from his debut in 2019 up to a fantastic 2025 campaign, where he belted eight homers and hit .397 across 18 postseason games. But these comments show that Guerrero mustn’t be aware of what putting pen to money-filled paper meant in April 2025. No longer is it time in any sport, let alone Major League Baseball, where contracts are dished out based solely on past performance. It’s looking ahead to the future, where those past performances are expected to continue through a much-more lucrative deal. MLB franchises sign players to contracts based on the market, and that market is justified by how the player will perform for them later on, while obviously looking at the track record in the past. With any investment, those dishing out the big bucks want a return. So, in a season where the home run total for a slugger is less than double digits – he still has time to at least get to 10 – and a career-low WAR (albeit the 2020 COVID-shortened campaign) has been accumulated, the Blue Jays and its fan base have every right to be disappointed. Yes, Guerrero was a major reason why Toronto reached the World Series in 2025, but the team and its fans are also allowed to voice displeasure with not just a down year – a career-worst performance in various metrics. Would the Mets have dished out the highest-paying contract in league history if they didn’t expect Soto to continue performing at his superstar pace? No. Would the Dodgers have agreed to give Ohtani $700 million, with heavy deferrals, might we add, to pay him for years without helping them reach their World Series goals? No. From Mike Trout, to Mookie Betts, to Aaron Judge and the list goes on, every franchise wants to see a player they sign, especially for nine figures, to pay dividends. That’s the reality of the situation, whether Guerrero wants to view his deal as what he’s done in the past. This is just one season, but Guerrero’s outlook needs to change just as much as his production moving forward on the remaining 13 years of his deal. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY OUTKICK NEWSLETTER Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab46cbb75342cf4db88d07a Tylenol murders mystery deepens after sheriff’s office solves decades-old ‘Unknown Wanderer’ cold case te 2026-09-24T00:20:11.084Z Tylenol murders mystery deepens after sheriff’s office solves decades-old ‘Unknown Wanderer’ cold case A mysterious man who died of cyanide poisoning inside an Idaho church more than four decades ago has finally been identified, and investigators say his past raises questions about a possible connection to the still-unsolved 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders. The man known for decades as the "Unknown Wanderer" was Dr. Mathew Francis Betkouski, an organic chemist with a history of discussing cyanide and poison, the Ada County Sheriff's Office in Boise announced Wednesday. Investigators said they couldn't place Betkouski in Chicago during the final week of September 1982, when seven people died after taking Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide, and they are not naming him as a suspect. TYLENOL MURDERS SUSPECT GAVE EERIE FINAL INTERVIEW BEFORE DEATH Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz, who consulted during the original Tylenol investigation and reviewed the evidence gathered on Betkouski, offered a stronger assessment. "It's an extraordinary thing to have been around at the beginning in 1982, and now today in 2026, to see very likely closure." Dietz said groups of forensic psychiatrists, psychologists and criminal profilers who were anonymously presented with information about Betkouski overwhelmingly considered him a viable suspect. Betkouski died on Dec. 4, 1982, after walking into Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Boise. Authorities determined he died from cyanide poisoning, but he carried no identification and his fingerprints produced no match. REMAINS FOUND IN UTAH DESERT 28 YEARS AGO WITH HELP OF A PSYCHIC FINALLY IDENTIFIED THROUGH DNA GENEALOGY The mystery endured for decades until investigators traced one of nearly 30 keys found on him to Jacksonville, Florida, where Betkouski had lived. DNA recovered from his wallet and later compared with a sample from his brother helped establish his identity. Investigators subsequently uncovered several details that drew their attention to the Tylenol case. A former colleague recalled Betkouski discussing the "perfect crime" and cyanide, while another scientist recalled him saying poison could be introduced into over-the-counter capsules, according to investigators. Authorities also found a map of Chicago and a bottle of sodium cyanide among belongings kept at his family's Los Angeles home. Investigators stressed that the poison was not the potassium cyanide used in the Tylenol murders. THE TYLENOL MURDERS: A LOOK BACK AT THE RASH OF 1982 DRUG STORE POISONINGS Photos showed Betkouski had visited Chicago, but investigators determined they were likely taken in December 1981 and said they cannot establish that he returned when the Tylenol poisonings occurred. Betkouski disappeared from his New Mexico home on Oct. 15, 1982, and surfaced dead in Boise seven weeks later after apparently changing his appearance. Authorities have turned their findings over to investigators in the Chicago area and are seeking information about Betkouski's movements and communications in 1982. "This isn't over," Ada County Sheriff Matt Clifford said. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab46cba75342cf4db88d071 Trump likely ‘smirked’ as 'crass' Iranian president lashed out at US in UN speech: expert te 2026-09-24T00:20:10.196Z Trump likely ‘smirked’ as 'crass' Iranian president lashed out at US in UN speech: expert Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s sharp rebuke of Washington at the United Nations would have drawn little more than a "smirk" from President Donald Trump, who knows he "holds the cards," a foreign policy expert told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. The assessment came after Pezeshkian and Trump addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York from the same podium within 24 hours of each other, trading sharp rhetoric as tensions between Washington and Tehran continue to mount. "Trump understands he holds the cards, and he may not even have paid much attention to what the Iranian president was saying," Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News Digital. Pezeshkian accused the United States and Israel of attacking Iran while portraying his country as the victim of aggression. THE TOP MOMENTS FROM IRAN PRESIDENT’S TENSE VISIT TO US SOIL AS WAR RAGES "We have only defended ourselves. We are not terrorists," Pezeshkian claimed. "Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed upon our country. America and Israel attacked us," he said. "I’m sure that would have drawn a smirk or a smile or a chuckle from the president’s face, seeing that crassness," Taleblu said, pointing to what he described as a sharp contrast between Pezeshkian’s rhetoric and the Iranian government’s track record. Pezeshkian’s address came after Trump used the same U.N. stage to defend the U.S. conflict with Iran and warn that Tehran faced a stark choice between reaching a deal and facing further destruction. "Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?" Trump said on Tuesday. While the rhetoric from both leaders was pointed, Taleblu said their broader diplomatic positions remain largely predictable. TRUMP TO ZERO-IN ON IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, GAZA PLAN AND UN OVERHAUL IN WORLD STAGE SPEECH "To a certain degree, both President Trump and President Pezeshkian’s speeches before the U.N. General Assembly’s 81st session were predictable," Taleblu said. "Predictable because the status of both countries and their foreign policy toward the other are in a fairly predictable pattern right now," he added, Despite the threats and recriminations, the two adversaries also appear to be still testing a diplomatic path behind the scenes. Trump said Tuesday that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spoke with Iranian officials for roughly three hours on the sidelines of the General Assembly and characterized the discussions as productive. Witkoff later said the talks were conducted through mediators who shuttled between the U.S. and Iranian delegations. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also represented Tehran in the discussions, according to reports. KUSHNER TOUTS UNPRECEDENTED IRAN CONTACTS AS TEHRAN DENIES TRUMP BACKCHANNEL Both sides, Taleblu said, are attempting "to make time a weapon on their side" and "to put the burden of choosing between escalation and engagement on the other." But Taleblu went on to characterize Pezeshkian’s broader message as an attempt to cast Iran as a victim through an anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-imperialist framework. "It seemed to be more of a global South, anti-American, anti-Israeli, kind of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist message that he was looking to kind of paint the Islamic Republic as the victim," Taleblu said. "In reality, the long-serving victim in this entire crisis is the Iranian people because of the policies of the Islamic Republic." The competing messages — confrontation from the U.N. podium and diplomacy behind the scenes — highlighted the unresolved tensions between Washington and Tehran as officials explore whether negotiations can produce an off-ramp from the conflict. TRUMP KEEPS FORECASTING AN IRAN DEAL — WHY THE WHITE HOUSE STILL THINKS IT CAN HAPPEN "Despite the tough talk at the podium, both sides still feel like they need to signal an interest in talks, even though they’re both trying to use talks to shape an outcome that is more conducive to their interests," Taleblu said. Pezeshkian also told the General Assembly that Tehran would not surrender to military pressure while signaling that Iran remained open to diplomacy. "I think the Iranians are trying to signal an interest in talks, but they may run into a brick wall quite soon if they foot-drag or delay or don’t meaningfully provide any kind of substantive change in their policy," Taleblu said, citing Iran’s positions on the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and its nuclear program. "Ultimately, if the positions remain the same, the fact that they’re oscillating between shooting and talking doesn’t mean much because the red lines haven’t actually moved," Taleblu said. "Of course, the Trump administration is looking for a political win here," he concluded. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab46a6b75342cf4db88d011 Greg Powers: ‘I believe that I am the right guy’ to lead ASU men’s hockey te 2026-09-24T00:10:19.653Z Greg Powers: ‘I believe that I am the right guy’ to lead ASU men’s hockey PHOENIX – Greg Powers still believes he is the man to lead the Arizona State men’s hockey team in the wake of an Aug. 20 incident that left defenseman Matthew Mayich incapacitated with, what his family’s attorney said, is no hope of recovery. “There’s obviously some things that have been said that you know about me, and I respect anything anybody has to say,” the Sun Devils coach said Wednesday. “But yeah, I believe that I am the right guy, and 20 years of a body of work and building a program almost 20 years now, I still believe that.” Powers’ remarks were his first public comments since Mayich collapsed during a team-sanctioned, early-morning workout with former Green Beret Tim Ziesel at Sun Angel Stadium. Powers read a prepared statement and then declined to further discuss the incident. “As you undoubtedly know, it’s a very difficult time for everybody in our program. Matthew Mayich has been hospitalized since Aug. 20,” Powers said during the National Collegiate Hockey Conference virtual preseason media day, a segment that was attended by 62 media members. Shortly after, David Carle, coach of defending national champion Denver, spoke to 19.  “Matthew and his family are very much in our thoughts, in our prayers and at the forefront of our minds as we prepare for a new season.”  Nine days before its season opener at Lindenwood, the Arizona State hockey program is still waiting for answers to multiple questions. Those questions include Mayich’s long-term prognosis, where the university’s initial review will lead, Powers’ future and the mental state of the players who watched a teammate collapse. Mayich remains incapacitated at a Valley hospital. Rob Carey, the family’s lead attorney, told ESPN that Mayich suffered an exertional heat stroke that reduced the flow of oxygen to his brain. “There were no other contributing conditions, only exertion-related heat,” Carey said earlier this month. Mayich, 21, is from Stoney Creek, Ontario. He played four seasons with the Ottawa 67’s of the Ontario Hockey League and one at Clarkson University before transferring to Arizona State. He had been in Arizona for eight days before the workout. Mayich collapsed shortly before 8:30 a.m. at Sun Angel Stadium on ASU’s Tempe campus, according to the university’s initial report. The workout was the first day of a planned three-day team-building event. Temperatures during the session ranged from 86 to 89 degrees.  “I don’t run workouts,” Powers said. “Our strength and conditioning coach does and our guys are here every day working hard and preparing their minds and bodies and each other for a season ahead.” Attorney Leonard Aragon, who is working closely with Carey, told Cronkite News that players described it as “the hardest workout that they’ve ever experienced.” “That this wasn’t a half-hour workout,” Aragon said. “This wasn’t some simple workout that any NCAA athlete could have done. That this was the most grueling workout that they’ve ever endured.” Arizona State’s initial review revealed that coaches asked permission for Ziesel to speak to the team, although the report does not specify whom they asked or if permission was granted. Ziesel had addressed the players the previous season about leadership and teamwork. “The ASU Hockey team coaching staff requested permission for Ziesel to speak to the team but did not submit a plan of training activities for review by ASU’s strength and conditioning coaches prior to the event,” the report stated. The report did not assign responsibility. Instead, the university said it will form a blue-ribbon advisory panel to recommend practices for outdoor athletic activities and the use of outside consultants. Carey criticized the findings in comments to The Athletic. “This report, it’s more advocacy than fact-finding,” Carey said. “It completely misses the point. I’m just blown away that they’re offering up a committee to come up with new policies. The problem is not that ASU lacked policies. The problem is, no one followed them. They literally violated every policy they have, and their conclusion is, ‘Let’s call for a blue-ribbon panel to tell us about policies?’ Mind-boggling. We’re a month later, and ASU’s report holds no one accountable.” The university has not announced any change in Powers’ employment status and all signs point to him coaching the team to start the 2026-27 season. But with the season imminent and every other NCHC coach taking part in the preseason media event, ASU junior alternate captain Ben Muthersbaugh and NCHC commissioner Heather Weems took time to focus on Mayich and his family. “I want to acknowledge the extraordinarily difficult circumstances surrounding Matthew Mayich and Arizona State University,” Weems said. “While the incident review continues, our foremost concern is for Matthew.  “His family has asked for prayers, and I offer mine very sincerely. My heart is also with his parents and siblings, friends, teammates, the Arizona State community and so many others on whom he has made an impact and been a light. Out of respect for Matthew and the ongoing process, I will not offer further comment today.” Muthersbaugh, a transfer from Union College, acknowledged that the incident has cast a pall over the program. “At the forefront of our mind is Matthew and his family,” Muthersbaugh said. “It’s been tough for a lot of guys that are 18 to 24 years old to go through something like this and especially with someone who is going to be one of our brothers and one of our best friends.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab46a5e75342cf4db88cff7 A Teacher and Activist Admits to Lying About Her Palestinian Background te 2026-09-24T00:10:06.031Z A Teacher and Activist Admits to Lying About Her Palestinian Background Hannah Gann, who teaches at a Philadelphia high school, said that she had misled people for years and that she is “a white woman of significant privilege.” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4681075342cf4db88cfb3 'Home Improvement' star Jonathan Taylor Thomas arrested for alleged public intoxication, resisting deputy te 2026-09-24T00:00:16.637Z 'Home Improvement' star Jonathan Taylor Thomas arrested for alleged public intoxication, resisting deputy "Home Improvement" star Jonathan Taylor Thomas was detained after reportedly resisting an officer in Westlake Village, CA on Monday. According to court records obtained by Fox News Digital, Thomas was detained at the Malibu/Lost Hills sheriff's station. After being booked, Thomas was released shortly after. Law enforcement sources told TMZ that the child actor was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped by police. The outlet reported that deputies told Thomas to stay inside the vehicle, but he allegedly exited anyway. Thomas was also reportedly drunk at the time of the incident. Law enforcement told People magazine: "The driver was being detained for DUI investigation. Sometime during the investigation, Mr. Taylor decided he would exit the vehicle. Deputies told him to sit back down in the vehicle. He was uncooperative with them, failed to follow orders, and obstructed the investigation, so he was arrested for obstruction, and he was arrested for drunk in public." Thomas's legal run in came shortly after he reunited with his "Home Improvement" co-stars Patricia Richardson and Taran Noah Smith. ‘HOME IMPROVEMENT’ STAR JONATHAN TAYLOR THOMAS MAKES RARE APPEARANCE IN REUNION PHOTO WITH CO-STARS In August, Richardson sparked a wave of nostalgia when she shared a rare reunion photo with her former "Home Improvement" sons Thomas and Smith, more than 25 years after the beloved sitcom ended. "My other boys," Richardson captioned the snapshot with a heart emoji. PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE For eight seasons of the hit comedy series, Richardson played Jill Taylor, the wife of Tim Allen's character, Tim "The Toolman" Taylor. Thomas and Smith became household names, playing sons Randy and Mark Taylor, respectively, while Zachery Ty Bryan portrayed oldest son Brad. GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE The reunion offered fans a rare glimpse of Thomas, who largely stepped away from Hollywood after becoming one of the biggest child stars of the 1990s. Thomas rose to fame as Randy Taylor on "Home Improvement" and became a major teen heartthrob, appearing in films including "Tom and Huck" and "Man of the House." He also voiced young Simba in Disney’s 1994 blockbuster "The Lion King." But at the height of his fame, Thomas made a surprising decision to walk away. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS "I'd been going nonstop since I was 8 years old," Thomas told People in 2013. "I wanted to go to school, to travel and have a bit of a break." Thomas left "Home Improvement" during its eighth and final season, with his character moving to Costa Rica. Although he largely stayed out of the spotlight, Thomas briefly returned to acting, reuniting with TV dad Tim Allen on "Last Man Standing" from 2013 to 2015. He appeared in four episodes and directed three. Fox News Digital's Stephanie Giang-Paunon contributed to this report. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4680f75342cf4db88cfaa Just one small serving of ultra-processed food a day linked to higher disease risk, major study finds te 2026-09-24T00:00:15.829Z Just one small serving of ultra-processed food a day linked to higher disease risk, major study finds Just an extra 3.5 ounces of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) a day was linked to a higher risk of chronic disease, according to a new large-scale analysis. The study, published Sept. 22 in the journal Family Medicine and Community Health, looked at nearly 8.8 million adults who participated in studies across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania, with follow-up periods ranging from two to 32 years. For every additional 100 grams of UPFs consumed daily, researchers found an association with a 14% higher risk of cardiovascular events, a 4% higher risk of cancer, a 3% higher risk of death from any cause and a 2% higher risk of metabolic syndrome or diabetes, according to a news release. 5 ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS THAT MAY BE WORSE FOR YOUR HEALTH THAN YOU THINK, EXPERT SAYS UPFs are typically packaged and convenient, made through extensive industrial processing and often packed with additives. They can include sugary drinks, processed meats, packaged snacks and candy. One hundred grams is about the size of a 3.5-ounce bag of corn chips, a small box of candy or a single-serve cup of mini cookies. People with the highest intake of UPFs also had higher risks of digestive diseases, depression or anxiety, obesity, cancer and cardiovascular events than those with the lowest intake of the foods. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER "Given that UPF-related chronic diseases often cluster as multimorbidity, reducing consumption of UPFs and replacing them with minimally processed alternatives may be relevant for chronic disease prevention and primary care management," the researchers, led by Xiao Liu, a cardiologist at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital in China and a research fellow at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, wrote. These types of foods tend to crowd out healthier, nutrient-dense options, according to Kelly Springer, a New York-based registered dietitian and founder of Kelly's Choice. TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZ "It's not that you can never eat them again," Springer, who was not involved in the research, told Fox News Digital. "It's the fact that we are not getting real foods — real foods like fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, whole grains." Rather than focusing on taking foods away, Springer recommended adding protein and fiber to meals and snacks. She suggested options such as an apple with peanut butter, nuts with cucumbers, or meals built around beans, chicken or tuna alongside fruits, vegetables and whole grains. "A diet built around whole, minimally processed foods is one of the best investments we can make in our long-term health," she added. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE NEWS Springer noted that the study was observational, so it cannot establish that UPFs directly caused the poor health outcomes.  It also relied on participants' self-reported diets and may not be able to account for other lifestyle factors. Nonetheless, the study can teach people about the link between ultra-processed foods and chronic disease, Springer said. Fox News Digital reached out to the researchers for comment. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/post/6ab4680875342cf4db88cf90 Prop. 141 could complicate Arizona’s highway funding conundrum te 2026-09-24T00:00:08.111Z Prop. 141 could complicate Arizona’s highway funding conundrum Key Points: Arizona’s gas-tax-dependent highway fund is falling behind as electric vehicles become more popular Proposition 141 would ban the state from taxing EVs based on miles traveled, citing privacy concerns Opponents of the measure say every option should remain on the table; others argue a more creative solution is needed With Arizona’s primary source of highway improvement funds stalling, voters will be asked to close the door on one potential solution in November.  For over a decade, Arizonans’ shift toward electric vehicles has raised alarms about declining fuel-tax revenues from gas-powered vehicles. But state policymakers have been reluctant to adopt new tax policies that account for inflation and changing consumer behavior. This funding issue isn’t unique to the state’s Highway User Revenue Fund, which relies on Arizona’s 18-cent-per-gallon fuel tax to invest in road improvement projects. But it is the only struggling state fund facing a fight at the ballot box. And, according to one estimate, the state is already $1 billion short of the funding it needs to keep up with highway and road maintenance. U.S. Department of Energy data shows that nearly 3,000 electric vehicles were registered in Arizona in 2020. By 2025, that number jumped to almost 150,000.  That growth curve could flatten, though, since the federal government has rolled back tax incentives to purchase EVs. Proposition 141 will ask voters to decide whether to prohibit government entities from imposing a tax or fee based on vehicle miles traveled, or to monitor and limit vehicle miles traveled. Advocates for Arizona infrastructure projects say the ballot measure will tie the state’s hands as it looks for ways to ensure electric and hybrid vehicle owners pay their fair share for road upkeep. “[Prop. 141] really is hurting our opportunities in the future to address what is becoming a very critical shortfall for state and local infrastructure funding,” said Ted Maxwell, the current chair of the State Board of Transportation. Maxwell, who was appointed to the board by former Gov. Doug Ducey in 2021, said stagnant HURF revenues have been a constant topic of conversation since he joined. He estimates that declining gas tax revenue leaves Arizona $600 million to $1 billion short of the funding needed for infrastructure projects in the near and long term. “The fact of the matter is our funding for infrastructure is not keeping anywhere up with the needs for our infrastructure,” Maxwell said. HURF improvements elusive He noted that state lawmakers want to change HURF collections, but motivation has been elusive. A 2025 bill from Sen. David Farnsworth, R-Mesa, that would have allowed the Arizona Department of Transportation to establish a gas tax equivalent for EVs never made it out of committee. “There’s desire, but anytime you say ‘tax’, you’re going to get folks that are going to be against it,” Maxwell said. Farnsworth’s bill did not contain the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) proposal that Prop. 141 seeks to ban. Four states currently have voluntary VMT programs for EVs or hybrids that track miles via annual vehicle inspections or odometer plug-ins, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.  Sen. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, sponsored the 2025 legislative referral that put Prop. 141 on the ballot this year and argued during a floor vote on the measure that it is meant to protect Arizonans from government surveillance. “Freedom of mobility is a fundamental freedom that is uniquely American,” Hoffman said in February 2025. “This, at its core, says that the government shall not tax or track you for the miles that you drive.” Maxwell said he understands privacy concerns, but argues the Legislature could have taken a more direct approach if lawmakers worried VMT programs could be weaponized to track citizens or limit their movements. “If your concern is security and your concern is privacy, the way to [address] that is to pass a law that prohibits the government from putting tracking devices on your vehicle,” Maxwell said. More taxes unlikely Revenue declines are also hitting other state funds. The Early Childhood Development and Health Fund is seeing a drop in tobacco tax revenue as e-cigarette use increases. And the Telecommunications Fund for the Deaf could reach a deficit in the next fiscal year as revenue from taxes on wired telephone services dries up. But, with Arizonans themselves struggling economically, tax increases or additional fees are a hard sell for lawmakers. “In a situation where affordability is an issue, there’s no desire to increase taxes or fees on Arizonans, and yet there are still all of these needs,” said Katie Ratlief, the executive director of the Common Sense Institute. “The solution is to really kind of roll up your sleeves and dig into the state budget and figure out where the state’s priorities ought to be.” Ratlief argued lawmakers should look at more creative ways to use the state’s general fund to invest in areas like highway improvements, rather than imposing a new tax or fee. She said the now-dormant battle over Proposition 123 is a prime example.  Without an agreement to extend the education funding measure, which withdrew 6.5% annually for 10 years from the state’s Permanent Land Endowment Trust Fund, the Legislature took $300 million from the general fund in the last two fiscal years to make up the difference. “That was $300 million that was coming from the trust that no longer is [and] just went onto the general fund with very little fanfare,” Ratlief said. “Is that the best use of $300 million while the trust is bigger than ever and continuing to grow?” Maxwell isn’t convinced that an increased gas tax or a new VMT program is the right way to go either. But he argues the Legislature needs every tool at its disposal to solve the infrastructure funding problem, a fix he only sees occurring in a non-election year. “The only time to address it is in those odd-numbered years,” Maxwell said. “So I’m hoping there will be a push in 2027, and I’m hoping vehicle miles traveled is still something that we can discuss with the Legislature to see if they want to go that way.” The post Prop. 141 could complicate Arizona’s highway funding conundrum first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana https://meenews.co/home