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Kimberly Guilfoyle faces potential Senate probe over bombshell $100K allegation

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:20:27 -0400

U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle may soon be the target of a Senate investigation following a bombshell report accusing her of influence peddling.

Guilfoyle is under fire following a Wall Street Journal report that alleged, before she was confirmed as ambassador to Greece, she pushed a top donor to President Donald Trump to clear $100,000 in personal credit card debt.

And a top Senate Republican believes that following that report, an investigation may soon follow. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said on CBS News’ "Face the Nation" that "what we’ve seen in the reports is very troubling, it’s concerning."

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"And I’m sure there’s gonna be an investigation," Barrasso said.

"I would assume the State Department would be conducting that," he continued. "I know the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will have oversight and look into that, as well. But I think the public has a right to know what was found, and it is quite a bit of concern."

Fox News Digital reached out for comment on a possible investigation to the State Department and Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Guilfoyle, who was recently engaged to Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. until the two publicly split in 2024, was confirmed by the Senate last year for the post in Athens.

Barrasso’s prediction comes as allegations surrounding Guilfoyle and her time in Athens mount, and as speculation that her time in the role may be coming to an end. The State Department’s Office of Inspector General, the watchdog for the agency, has already opened a probe into Guilfoyle for previous alleged misconduct.

The Daily Mail reported that an investigation was already underway into Guilfoyle’s luxury lifestyle in Greece that included allegations of mistreatment of staff, substance abuse, close ties to an energy and construction company and the improper acceptance of gifts.

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The latest claim against her is that she allegedly solicited Trump donor Eric Deters to pay off a $100,000 American Express bill directly to the credit card company, urged him not to leave a paper trail and offered to help him gain access to top administration officials in exchange. Deters said he never made the payment.

In the wake of that report, Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are said to be "extremely pissed off" by Guilfoyle’s alleged conduct and are weighing her removal, The Associated Press reported Sunday, citing a senior U.S. official.

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Rubio fired back shortly after the Wall Street Journal reported the allegations, saying, "You guys walk around thinking that because some source told you something, and you reported it, it’s the gospel."

"It’s not the gospel," Rubio said. "It’s not the gospel for me. That’s not the way we do things."

Scammers are stealing checks from the mail. Here’s how to protect yours

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:00:50 -0400

You try to use your credit card to make a purchase and are told it has been declined. In a panic, you call your credit card company, which informs you that they never received your last payment. "That’s impossible," you exclaim, knowing you sent the payment in weeks ago.

You go to check other recently paid bills to find out that several others, including your housing association fees and insurance payments, weren’t received. You head to your bank, only to find out that the checks have been "washed" — that is, fished out of the mail, ink lifted and re-made out to other people.

This exact scam happened to one of my family members, and per the US Postal Service, these scams are surging, with Postal Inspectors recovering "more than $1 billion in counterfeit checks and money orders every year." The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has said that check fraud doubled from 2021 to 2023!

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My family member thought she did everything right. She avoided online payments so she wouldn’t be subject to online payment scams. The checks were dropped off at the local post office in a box right outside the facility. But still, she ended up being scammed (which fortunately, with the help of her bank, she wasn’t liable for the clearly stolen funds).

So, if even the mail isn’t safe, how can you protect yourself?

First, use a special pen

Check washing uses a chemical process to remove the ink. Using a gel pen can make this process more difficult for criminals to do. Also, pressing hard when writing can make it more difficult to erase.

However, this is not a fool-proof plan either, as many authorities are noting that scammers are now using technology to scan the checks with your signature and reproduce fake copies using their computers. So, the pens can help as a deterrent, but aren’t 100% safe, either.

Consider paying in person

If you have the ability to do so, pay your bills in person. For example, pay your credit card at a local associated branch of the company. Pay your property taxes at the city’s offices. Of course, it’s less convenient, but a lot more secure.

You can also consider paying online, but this opens you up to online scams, so make sure you do so safely, using best practices.

If you choose to use the mail, drop off inside the post office, don’t use mailboxes

Yes, it’s less convenient, but even the boxes owned by the government are targeted by scammers, so physically go into the post office to drop off your mail.

As a bonus tip, guard your mail at home. Get your mail frequently so that scammers can’t pull information from your mailbox. If you plan to travel, put a free hold on your mail delivery with the post office while you are away.

Monitor your payment status regularly

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Acting quickly can help to make sure you recover any misappropriated funds. Designate a day a week to be "bill day" and make sure all your bills have been paid and the payments have gone through as expected. If any payment is taking too long to process, look into it immediately. Contact your financial institution to help you through this process.

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Scammers are rampant and looking for every edge to defraud hard working Americans. Be diligent, even when you are doing something as routine as mailing a check.

Booker ‘wowed’ by GOP challenger’s blunt message to Trump

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:00:47 -0400

Sen. Cory Booker’s Republican Senate challenger had a blunt message for President Donald Trump about the war in Iran during the pair’s recent debate: " Finish it."

The advice drew applause during Thursday's forum — and a " Wow" from Booker, who then blasted former Tabernacle Deputy Mayor Justin Murphy's remarks as the kind of " Yahoo" foreign policy that has dragged the United States into costly wars in the Middle East.

New Jersey is a blue state that has trended redder in recent years, with President Donald Trump flipping key areas in 2024. However, 1972 was the last time a Republican won a U.S. Senate election in the state, when Sen. Clifford Case was re-elected. Sens. Nick Brady in 1982 and Jeff Chiesa in 2013 later served brief, appointed terms.

Murphy, an attorney from the Pine Barrens, earned loud applause for his response to a question about Iran when asked what he would tell Trump if the president called him for advice on the conflict.

"Finish that war in a positive manner," Murphy replied firmly. "We can't wait halfway through and decide we don't want to do this anymore. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a radical terrorist organization that has deprived the Iranian people, the Persian people, of their history and of a decent life."

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The exchange highlighted the candidates' opposing approaches to the conflict, with Murphy defending Trump's military campaign and Booker warning against another prolonged American war in the Middle East.

As Murphy continued, the broadcast's split-screen showed Booker briefly looking down and shaking his head before pursing his lips for the rest of Murphy’s response and raising his eyebrows at one point.

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"Four decades is enough. The Iranian people have suffered enough," Murphy began to conclude.

"And I would say, ‘Mr. President, put your cowboy hat on and get out there and kick some a--, and get this done and done right’," Murphy said.

"Wow," Booker mouthed as moderator David Wildstein gestured toward the Democrat and said it appeared he wanted to respond.

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"Honestly," Booker began. "This is the kind of ‘Yahoo’ foreign policy that has mired us in Middle East war after Middle East war -- with false bravado leaders saying we're just going to go in there and kick ass. Well, you know what that's done to the treasury of our country?" Booker replied.

When asked the same question as Murphy, Booker joked that Wildstein was asking him about "a guy calling me for advice who has literally said ‘I know more than my generals’."

But the former Newark mayor entertained the hypothetical, saying he and the rest of New Jersey have known Trump for years because he "bankrupted our casinos" — referring to the president’s former Atlantic City casino businesses.

He accused Trump of frequently ignoring advice, claiming advisers had to "jangle keys" to keep him on topic during a meeting about the trans-Hudson rail tunnel project spearheaded by Booker and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

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Murphy also received attention for his comments during the debate on illegal immigration. He recounted leaving a campaign event in Washington, N.J., and looking across at a home where a child was allegedly abducted and raped by Guatemalan illegal immigrant Lester Noe Perez-Amador — whom the Biden administration previously released after a Texas county notified ICE that it had taken him into custody, according to WRNJ.

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Besides putting a Republican running for a long-held blue seat on the social media radar, the exchange over Iran underscored sharp divisions across party lines and within the Republican Party over Trump’s military campaign and how it should end.

Media narrative predicting blue wave in key battleground state not meshing with local Republicans: 'Fired up'

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:00:25 -0400

DAVENPORT, Iowa - As Iowa emerges as one of the most critical states in the midterm election in both House and Senate races, Fox News Digital spoke with local Republican candidates about what the media is getting right and wrong on the ground in the Hawkeye State.

As local conservatives gathered at a Scott County Republican Party event near downtown Davenport in early October to watch the first gubernatorial debate, a month out from the consequential midterm election, Fox News Digital was there asking if the media narrative was accurate that Iowa was primed for a "blue wave" amid concerns about President Donald Trump’s economy, gas prices, and the war in Iran.

Greg Guy, running as a Republican for treasurer in Scott County, acknowledged that Iowans are "concerned" about the price of gas, but believes they understand that the surge in cost is likely temporary after the war in Iran winds down.

"Surprisingly not," Guy said when asked if he thinks a blue wave is imminent in Iowa based on the reactions he gets when he knocks on doors in the county telling voters about his campaign, which he says is focused on doing "what’s right" and "taking care" of the community.

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"My neighbor is one of the big people in charge of the canvassing for the Democrat Party, I don't see where they're excited to vote," Guy said. "I mean, if I talk to a hundred doors and 30 to 40% will open up, I might get one out of 40 that's a hater and then I'll just tell them, hey, I know you're not going to vote for me but when I'm treasurer and you have a problem, you can still call me. They don't know what to do because they're wound up in the hate. But otherwise I don't think there's a whole lot of belief that the Democrat Party can do anything to fix our economy."

Davenport, a town of about 100,000 people in southeast Iowa along the banks of the Mississippi River, stands out as a Democratic-leaning urban pocket in an increasingly Republican Iowa. President Trump carried Scott County by roughly four points in 2024, 51% to 47%, but former Vice President Kamala Harris won Davenport’s congressional district precincts overall, reflecting the city’s more competitive and complex political profile.

Trump won Iowa by about 13 points in 2024, and Republicans control the governor’s office and both chambers of the state legislature. But Scott County’s mix of urban Democrats, suburban swing voters and conservative rural communities makes it a key test of whether the GOP’s statewide strength can overcome Democratic resilience in eastern Iowa.

One of the critical questions is whether conservative Iowans are frustrated enough with Republicans to vote Democrats back into power.

"No, not at all," Cynthia Mensendick, a registered nurse running for election to the Iowa State Senate to represent District 49, said when asked if voters think handing Democrats control of Congress is the "right answer."

"The concern is that there will be a Democrat governor because if you look at any state where a Democrat takes over, they immediately increase spending," Mensendick said, adding, "I’m not seeing that", when asked if a "blue wave" was set to occur in Iowa this November.

Mensendick, who is running a campaign focused on healthcare and the high cancer rate in Iowa, says one of the top concerns with Republican voters is Iowa turning into Illinois if Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand is elected.

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Republicans are facing an uphill battle in Iowa, where polling shows Democrats have gained momentum in the gubernatorial, Senate, and congressional races. Additionally, Republicans are going up against historical headwinds as the party in power heading into the midterms.

However, Iowa has shifted more red in recent years, and the Republicans in the room in Scott County remained optimistic.

Dillon Fillion, the youngest candidate in Scott County history at 22 years old, told Fox News Digital that Republicans in Iowa and nationwide have a choice between two very different parties at the end of the day.

"I think people have got to weigh the options here, they either have an option of voting for socialist candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, who is a pronounced communist and supports all the things that Lenin supports, which led the Soviet Union into the downfall that it went to, or they have the support of supporting Republicans who were actually serious about cutting their taxes, which cut their taxes in 2025 with the One Big Beautiful Bill," Fillion, running for the Iowa House of Representatives in District 81, said.

"And Democrats will continue to lie about that, but again, the Democrats also voted to raise their taxes 60% in 2025, voting against the Big Beautiful Bill."

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Kurt Whalen isn’t running for office, but rather serves as the Scott County Iowa GOP Vice Chair, and he told Fox News Digital that while there are many frustrations with the state of affairs from Republicans in the state, he doesn’t think GOP voters will sit on the sidelines with so much at stake.

"I think people are still fired up for the Republican cause. I mean, we are a big tent party, there's people that absolutely love Trump, there’s people that don’t care for him. But the reality is, Trump's been an overwhelming force for good in our country," Whalen said.

"So, we can haggle about specifics, but I really think the Republican Party will ultimately come home and certainly support the president, and I would certainly encourage them to do that because what other choice do we have? I mean, the other choice is straight up, communist, Marxist, DSA, mask mandates. The Democratic Party in general, if you look at it historically, it has always been for big government against the little guy."

LIZ PEEK: Two troubled Senate races could spoil Democrats' blue-wave fantasy

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:00:11 -0400

The midterm elections are three weeks away. In some states, voting has already begun. Betting site Kalshi shows odds of 61% that Democrats will win control of the senate.

Recent developments in the Texas and Michigan races suggest keeping your money in your pocket.

As voters find out more about front-runner Democrats James Talarico in Texas and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, the polls are tightening. They say intimacy breeds contempt; nowhere is this truer than in politics.

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Talarico is the 2026 version of 2018 senate wannabe Beto O’Rourke, who memorably live-streamed his teeth-cleaning as a campaign stunt, but ultimately lost to Republican Ted Cruz despite his laudable dental hygiene. Talarico, a photogenic 37-year-old state representative, recently vanished from public view for nearly two weeks, an extraordinary absence so close to Election Day. He says he had the flu; does he not know about Theraflu? Has he heard of Zoom?

His disappearance gave rise to a whirlwind of apparently erroneous rumors. Because Talarico has voiced some wacky ideas in the past, like believing there are six genders or that God is non-binary — which he has been forced to walk back — some voters are primed to believe such rumors.

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Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, is an unpopular candidate and carries considerable baggage, but his well-funded campaign is running ads showing Talarico making incendiary comments like, "I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity." Talarico has also been outed as having previously voted as a state representative against bans on biological men playing in women’s sports. Oops.

Beto O’Rourke lost in part because he embraced aggressive gun control in a state where most people have a gun. In 2022, Talarico appeared with the Texas Humane Legislation Network, warning of the "existential" need to "reduce our meat consumption", in a state that prides itself on its cattle.

Undoubtedly, Talarico’s progressive young base will not be deterred by his peculiar walk-about, but his lengthy absence from the campaign trail casts a cloud over his run. Some polls show him barely leading Ken Paxton; a recent UMass Lowell/YouGov poll shows the candidates tied, with 7% undecided.

As Trump rallies to energize his still-faithful base, it’s hard to imagine Talarico pulling out the win.

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Abdul El-Sayed, who calls himself doctor, but is not legally authorized to practice medicine, has been changing positions as frequently as people change their underwear.

One of the central planks in his platform has been his enthusiastic endorsement of Medicare-for-all. In a podcast from 2020, he says Medicare-for-All "does away with the private insurance market." Nowadays, his campaign website says: "Medicare for All does not have to ban additional private insurance through unions or employers, although Medicare for All should make those choices redundant and unnecessary."

Moreover, during his primary race in January, El-Sayed explained, "If you like your insurance from your employer or from your union, that can still be there for you."

That sounds a lot like President Obama telling gullible voters: "If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period." After millions of Americans saw their plans cancelled, Politifact dubbed that whopper the 2013 Lie of the Year.

Why the reversal from El-Sayed on his signature issue? First, unions. Organized labor has done a bang-up job of demanding expensive healthcare benefits for workers — benefits that are undoubtedly more generous than any that would be provided by Uncle Sam. There are half a million union members in the Wolverine State; he needs their vote, ideals be damned.

Second, those pesky taxes. El-Sayed has had to explain how he intends to pay for government-run healthcare. A writer at The Bridge, a nonpartisan news organization in Michigan, notes that, "In 2020, the nonpartisan Urban Institute estimated that US Sen. Bernie Sanders’ version of Medicare for All would cost the federal government $34 trillion over a 10-year period."

Experts say that money to fund such a program would rope in not just the wealthy, but middle-class families as well. In short, Medicare-for-all would mean higher taxes for all. El-Sayed has admitted as much in the past.

El-Sayed positions himself as a healthcare expert, given his role in local county offices, but those stints were arguably brief and inconsequential.

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Also troubling is El-Sayed’s association with anti-American Muslim organizations and personalities whom he has refused to denounce, like supporter Hasan Piker. On Meet the Press recently, El-Sayed claimed that neither he nor any family members have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group deemed a terror outfit by the UAE, Saudi Arabia and by Egypt. But, the candidate’s half-sister, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, stated the opposite, claiming on social media years ago that her family "has long been" members of the Muslim Brotherhood and that some relatives had been "jailed" because of their association with the group.

El-Sayed is also facing scrutiny for claiming dual citizenship with Egypt and the U.S. in the past, an assertion he now denies. El-Sayed told a Detroit GlobeMed conference in 2016, "I carry dual citizenship, and I grew up spending most of my summers in another country…." He made the same claim on his academic resume. Was he lying then, or is he lying now?

Also, recently, asked during a debate whether El-Sayed considers Iran, the world’s biggest sponsor of terror, or Israel a bigger threat to the United States, the progressive anti-Israel candidate refused to answer. For many, his equivocation is disqualifying.

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Michigan polls have tightened in the past couple of weeks, with several now showing El-Sayed up by only one or two points, well within the margin of error. My guess, Rogers prevails.

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ELI STEELE: NYC ICE shooting exposes how White guilt erases personal responsibility

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:55:27 -0400

School had just let out in Marble Hill, a small enclave of Manhattan bordering the Bronx. It was a little after 4 p.m. on Oct. 8 when Oscar Belgal, 28, picked up his five-year-old son and began backing his Honda CR-V into a parking spot on a crowded street.

A police camera caught what happened next. Two men dressed in plain clothes approached Belgal’s SUV with their guns drawn – one to the driver’s side, the other to the front. They were ICE officers. More agents were part of the operation, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani later noted that officers surrounding the vehicle wore construction vests and masks.

Belgal responded by pulling the SUV forward out of the space. As he did, one officer punched and broke the driver’s window, but Belgal managed to drive off and out of the camera’s view.

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The ICE officers caught up with Belgal about a block away. According to ICE officials, Belgal refused orders to exit the vehicle, turned his SUV into a weapon, and rammed two government cars. Belgal's defense attorney disputes this account, maintaining that Belgal fled out of panic to protect his child from unidentified, armed men. Initial NYPD street camera footage did not capture the moment of the shooting, but investigators later determined that a bullet went through Belgal's windshield. At least one officer fired seven rounds, striking Belgal in the neck below his left ear. His son, sitting in the back seat, was not physically hurt.

The FBI, Homeland Security investigators, and the Bronx District Attorney’s office have all launched inquiries into the shooting.

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But there is a second story here, one that reveals where we are as a nation.

Within hours of the shooting, Oscar Belgal was no longer a man, an individual. He became a symbol. And the people who made him into a symbol did so by taking away the very thing that makes a man a man: responsibility for what he does.

First, Belgal was not a stranger to the justice system. In 2023, according to a criminal complaint, he was driving with two passengers in his back seat when he turned, pointed a gun at them, and demanded their jewelry. They complied. Belgal pled guilty and received five years of probation. In December 2025, he was indicted on ten counts related to narcotics distribution; he pled not guilty and was released on supervised conditions. Federal officials state that he is in the country illegally and allege that he has ties to the Trinitarios gang. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has stated that when ICE previously attempted to arrest him in September, Belgal fled.

When New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch laid out that record, the reaction from the left was not to weigh it. Instead, its leading figures declared all of Belgal’s criminal history irrelevant.

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Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Democratic Socialists of America candidate for Congress in New York's 13th District, went on Hasan Piker's stream to talk about the shooting. When Piker asked about Belgal's criminal history, she said, "To me, it doesn't even matter." She then turned her wrath on Tisch and accused her trying to "villainize Oscar." She demanded her resignation. Then she asked the audience to "put yourself in Oscar's shoes." Masked men were coming at his car and "You're running," she said. "I'm sorry, you're protecting your child." She ended with "F--- ICE and abolish it."

What struck me was her moral outrage. She was outraged that stating a man’s record in a matter of fact way was now the equivalent of "villainizing" him. All that mattered to Chevalier was that he was a immigrant, a Dominican like her, a member of an oppressed group, and that he was being chased by men with guns who were ICE.

In my new film, "White Guilt," my father, Shelby Steele, the author, columnist and Hoover Institution Fellow, shows how the left created a world where responsibility can never be demanded of the oppressed. He describes going to a Black Power rally on the South Side of Chicago to hear the comedian and activist Dick Gregory:

"Gregory argued that a racist America had given us responsibility, but had denied us the freedom to do much with it," my father says in the film. "Gregory held a Marxian vision of racism as a systemic force that made responsibility irrelevant in the struggle against oppression. Thus, it was bad manners to ask a black to lift themselves up."

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Then Lyndon Johnson stood up at Howard University and said, you do not take a man hobbled by chains, bring him to the starting line and tell him he is free to compete. "By implication, Johnson agreed with Gregory," my father says. "Suddenly, if you were black living in this new age of white guilt, you could not be expected to carry the same responsibilities as others."

The belief Gregory preached and Johnson blessed, that oppression made responsibility irrelevant, became one of the core tenets of the white guilt racial order we live under today. White guilt is not the guilt a person feels for something he did. It is not personal, which is why I tire of hearing people declare, "I have no white guilt."

White guilt is the collective guilt that the left assigns to all Whites for America's past racial sins. What it produces is not remorse but terror, the terror of being called a racist and losing your moral authority. To escape that terror, the "oppressor" buys back his innocence by asking nothing of the "oppressed," and the "oppressed" are handed power so long as they remain victims. That is how responsibility became "bad manners," in the words of my father, and demanding accountability became racism.

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Today the "oppressor system" is America itself, and ICE is its face. And what the formula needs most is a symbol.

Activists like Avila Chevalier dehumanize the oppressed by stripping away their responsibility and accountability, then wield what is left as a cudgel against the oppressor system. Once Belgal's record was erased, all that remained was an immigrant father shot by ICE with his little boy in the car. Between them, Avila Chevalier and Mayor Zohran Mamdani demanded that ICE be abolished, the police commissioner resign, Belgal be released and immigration enforcement halt across the city. They did not demand anything of Oscar Belgal.

The DSA often calls itself the party of the people, but listen to how it talks about the people it claims to defend. Its words for them are almost always the oppressed, the victims, and the impoverished. Their value to the movement is not their individual humanity but what they collectively symbolize. If the DSA draws its power from these symbols of oppression to milk White guilt, why would it ever surrender this power?

There is one innocent in all of this: the five-year-old boy in the back seat. His mother says he has nightmares and won’t speak despite his talkative nature.

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The young boy will grow up with two stories of that fateful afternoon. In one version, his father will be seen as a victim, nothing more, and the world owes him. In the other story, his father is an individual who made choices, some of them bad, and yet has the chance to improve his life somehow. It is the second story that gives the young boy a real chance at life.

Belgal’s lawyer said the first thing that his client asked was whether his son was OK. This detail reveals to us that Oscar Belgal is a man with a conscience, and a man with a conscience can bear responsibility for his choices.

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The same lawyer said that "regardless of whether or not someone has a criminal history, it is not lawful and it's not okay to shoot a father." The investigations will decide whether the shooting was lawful. And due process which protects all individuals within this country, including those who are not citizens.

So let the courts judge the officer who fired, and let them judge Oscar Belgal too. Avila Chevalier would cry that this is villainizing him. Those who believe in American principles would call it treating him like a man who is responsible for his own life.

The activists will never allow it. Their power in White guilt America depends on keeping Oscar Belgal a permanent symbol of oppression.

But what good has ever come out of dehumanization?

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US military archbishop urges Catholic soldiers to refuse involvement in Army firing squad execution

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:55:47 -0400

Catholics serving in the Army should request to be excused from participating in the planned firing squad execution of a convicted Fort Hood mass shooter, which the Pentagon has proposed livestreaming, a prominent U.S. archbishop who oversees Catholic pastoral services for the military said on Monday.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio raised several objections to the Pentagon's unprecedented plan to broadcast the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist who was convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in a 2009 shooting at the Fort Hood military base. Hasan, now 56, uses a wheelchair, after being shot by responding officers during the attack.

Hasan is set to be executed at Fort Hood on Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. CST, according to the U.S. Army, which would make him the first person to be executed by firing squad by the U.S. military since 1945. It would also mark the first U.S. military execution by any method since 1961. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said he wanted soldiers to execute Hasan at the time, day of the week and location of the shooting and has argued that making the execution public would help serve as a deterrent.

Broglio recalled presiding over the funeral of one of Hasan's victims, Michael Grant Cahill, the only civilian killed in that attack, and expressed sorrow over the deadly shooting. But the archbishop questioned whether the U.S. government wanted to "imitate the terrorists of this world and make a public spectacle of barbarically killing our adversaries."

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Hasan's crime "was heinous, but does exposing the public to his execution serve any purpose?" Broglio asked in a statement.

"I oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church," he continued.

Army regulations permit soldiers to seek religious exemptions or accommodations.

It is unclear how the military intends to select members for the firing squad.

"The U.S. military generally enjoys a good reputation in the world," Broglio said. "Is there really a value to throwing them in the same boat with terrorists by broadcasting the image of the execution of a man in a wheelchair to the whole world?"

A U.S. government execution has never been broadcast to the public, making it an unprecedented plan that has drawn backlash from political and religious leaders.

Broglio joins other Catholic leaders in criticizing the Pentagon's plans to livestream the execution.

The head of the U.S. bishops conference, Archbishop Paul Coakley, expressed "shock" and "great sorrow" about the public execution plan and urged the U.S. to reconsider.

"In no way can Hasan’s actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered," he said in a statement on Friday. "The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people."

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, called the proposed broadcast "truly incomprehensible" and warned that it was "unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle."

"The Church’s position is one of total opposition to the death penalty; it is incompatible with human dignity and serves as no deterrent," Parolin told reporters on Friday.

According to the English translation published by Vatican News, Parolin said, "It is truly incomprehensible that anyone would want to use this method in this day and age. I do not know for what purpose. It is certainly unacceptable to turn death into a spectacle. However guilty the person may be, there are other ways."

Parolin added that the death penalty "is incompatible with human dignity and does not serve as a deterrent."

Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty as "inadmissible" in a social media post on Saturday marking World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Citing Catholic doctrine revised under his predecessor, Pope Francis, Leo emphasized that the death penalty violates human dignity.

"The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption," Leo, the first American pope, wrote on X without specifically mentioning the Pentagon's execution plan for Hasan.

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President Donald Trump said Saturday he had not yet decided whether to allow the livestream plan to move forward, although he has reportedly expressed doubts in private about broadcasting the execution.

Vice President JD Vance, who is a Catholic, expressed skepticism about whether the Pentagon would proceed with a public execution. He said he would not watch the livestream if it were carried out.

Several lawmakers, including Republicans, have spoken out against plans to broadcast the execution.

"Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do," Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said on Thursday. "It should not be happening in America."

Reuters contributed to this report.

Protester punched in face by Trump supporter, mocked by president at Ohio rally: 'Gotta go on a diet'

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:57:26 -0400

A heckler wearing a "Release the Epstein Files" shirt was punched in the face by an apparent supporter of President Donald Trump during a rally Monday in Youngstown, Ohio, before the president mocked the protester's weight.

Trump was criticizing Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, who is challenging Republican Sen. Jon Husted after losing his Senate seat in 2024, when rally attendees shifted their attention toward a confrontation in the crowd.

Video of the confrontation showed a rallygoer who appeared to support Trump shoving the heckler and striking her in the face as the crowd chanted "USA!"

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The man also grabbed the woman by the hair and attempted to slam her face toward the ground.

Police eventually intervened and broke up the fight before escorting the woman out of the venue. Video showed the man who struck her remaining in the arena and exchanging high-fives with other attendees.

Trump appeared to notice the disruption and accused the protester of being paid to interrupt the rally, although he offered no evidence to support the allegation. He also mocked the protester's weight.

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"He's a paid protester," Trump said, appearing to be unaware that the heckler was a woman. "They’re all paid. They get paid by the lefties in order to destroy our country. They’re scum. But he’s going back home to Mom. He’s going back home to Mom. Look at him. Look at him. Terrible. Don’t we love law enforcement? Oh, he’s gotta go on a diet! He’s a fat guy. Wow. Wow. Gotta go on a diet fast. We all do."

"No, they’re paid protesters. That’s a very low-class protester," the president added.

The woman's "Release the Epstein Files" shirt comes as Trump and his Justice Department face bipartisan scrutiny over the delay in the release of additional documents related to the investigations into deceased sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

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Just days before the fight on Monday, there was a fight at another Trump rally in San Antonio, Texas, where a man wearing a MAGA hat grabbed a heckler by the hair and pulled him to the ground.

Bills-Rams delivered every ounce of Super Bowl LXI preview talk as overtime thriller deserves a rematch

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:10:13 -0400

All week, the talk surrounding "Monday Night Football" between the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams was the potential that this would be a preview for Super Bowl LXI.

If this does indeed come to fruition, football fans will be mighty happy because this game was cinema in Inglewood on Monday night.

A back-and-forth battle that saw 35 total fourth-quarter points, an overtime period filled with clutch plays, and more led the Bills to beat the Rams, 37-34, to improve to 4-1. The Rams fell to 2-3, a record nobody predicted through their first five games, but they are still a top NFC contender.

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In a game filled with offensive fireworks from both Josh Allen and Matthew Stafford, it was Rams defensive captain Nate Landman who came through with the most important play of the game in overtime.

Allen and the Bills got right into Rams territory on the opening drive thanks to Khalil Shakir’s 57-yard catch-and-run on second-and-long. On the very next play, James Cook, who had two touchdowns but a fumble earlier in the game, wasn’t cautious with the football when he got the handoff from Allen. Landman punched at the ball, knocked it clean out of Cook’s arms, and his teammate landed on it.

Instead of the Bills getting the potential game-winning score, Stafford and the Rams had a chance to go downfield and win it all thanks to Landman’s efforts.

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Stafford did just that, using his star receiver Puka Nacua, who exploded for 17 catches on 25 targets for 138 yards and a touchdown, to get into field goal range for kicker Harrison Mevis to try a 48-yard field goal for the win.

But just when it seemed one team would finally come away with the win and get the final word, the other team stepped up.

The Rams have dealt with special teams woes in recent seasons, and Mevis, who had missed a 50-yarder earlier in the game, had his game-winning field goal blocked. The game remained tied, and the Bills’ offense breathed a sigh of relief knowing they could rectify Cook’s mistake.

Allen took matters into his own hands, rushing for 32 yards on the drive and getting well within field goal range for Tyler Bass to get his shot at glory. The snap was clean, the kick was true, and the Bills celebrated a hard-fought victory that had football fans thinking about the Martin Scorsese "ABSOLUTE CINEMA" meme (if you don’t know that one, look it up).

This game truly had it all, especially in the fourth quarter where, just to get to overtime, Stafford had to lead his third straight touchdown drive with 1:39 left on the clock and one timeout. He didn’t even need the timeout, as he found Davante Adams for his second touchdown of the game on a perfect route that left him wide open.

Rams head coach Sean McVay elected to go for the tie with an extra point instead of going for a two-point conversion. He had tried earlier at that, but the Rams failed to convert after Stafford was sacked.

In the box score, Allen threw for 210 yards with one touchdown and one interception, while rushing for a game-high 121 yards on just 10 carries with his score. Cook finished with 111 yards on the ground with his two touchdowns, while both Kyren Williams and Blake Corum scored for the Rams.

From the stars showing up under the bright L.A. lights to the beautiful scoring dance between these two high-octane offenses, to key plays flipping momentum left and right, this game deserves another meeting for the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

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Rays bullpen suffers embarrassing late meltdown as Cleveland bullies Tampa Bay in Game 1

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:40:38 -0400

The Tampa Bay bullpen ran out of gas late Monday night. After seven innings of grind-it-out baseball in St. Petersburg, the Cleveland Guardians broke loose with five runs over the final two frames to take Game 1 of the ALCS, 7-3.

The Rays drew first blood.

With two outs in the opening frame, Junior Caminero and Jonny DeLuca ripped consecutive RBI knocks to put Tampa Bay up 2-0. Rays starter Drew Rasmussen kept that lead strong through five innings, punching out seven.

Cleveland finally cracked Rasmussen in the sixth when Chase DeLauter jumped on a heater and launched an opposite-field solo shot over the right-center wall.

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Patrick Bailey pulled Cleveland even leading off the seventh, hooking a solo blast down the right-field line to end Rasmussen's night at 2-2.

The Guardians kept the heat on in the eighth against Tyler Wells and Ian Seymour. Ramirez started the fire with a hustle infield single, DeLauter ripped a double down the line, and Nathaniel Lowe laced a go-ahead, two-run single to make it 4-2.

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Tampa Bay answered in the bottom of the eighth when pinch-hitter Cedric Mullins ambushed Erik Sabrowski with a solo shot to right, trimming the deficit to 4-3.

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Then Jose Ramirez delivered the knockout blow.

Capping a 3-for-5 night with two runs scored, Cleveland's veteran third baseman stepped in with two outs in the ninth and lined an RBI single into right off Cole Sulser to make it 5-3. After Sulser walked DeLauter, Kevin Kelly entered to face Jo Adell. The mid-season acquisition stepped up to the big moment, ripping a two-run double down the third-base line to put the contest on ice at 7-3.

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Cleveland pounded out 14 hits against six Tampa Bay arms, with Ramirez and DeLauter combining for six knocks before Cade Smith slammed the door on six pitches.

The Rays entered Monday riding high after sweeping the Yankees, but they left the yard with all the pressure.

Game 2 is Tuesday night at Tropicana Field.

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Former Eagles CB Asante Samuel calls out coach Nick Sirianni after brutal London loss: 'You lost the game'

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:35:44 -0400

The Philadelphia Eagles flew all the way across the Atlantic Ocean just to hand a victory to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Unsurprisingly, former All-Pro cornerback Asante Samuel has seen enough.

Eight seconds left, a one-point lead, and a squib kick sealed it. Instead, Nick Sirianni gifted Jacksonville a live return, setting up an improbable walk-off win.

Speaking on the "Say What Needs To Be Said" show, Samuel put Sunday's 19-17 collapse squarely on Philadelphia's head coach.

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"You lost the game for your team," Samuel said. "Of course, the team was going to have his back and say, 'No, coach, it's not on you. It's on us.' But all the coach had to do was call a squib kick. A squib kick at the end of the game is normal and done all the freaking time."

Samuel torched Sirianni for his lack of awareness in crunch time.

"Nick Sirianni must have had a lapse in his brain or something and wasn't paying attention for him to miss out on that situation," Samuel said. "There's no way your team fights that hard for that long, and you let your team down by not making sure the right call is being made."

The blunder erased what should have been a gritty road win. Down Saquon Barkley and DeVonta Smith to hamstring injuries, Philadelphia took a 17-16 lead with eight seconds left on Jake Elliott's 48-yard field goal.

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Jacksonville's Ameer Abdullah responded by fielding a clean kickoff, ripping off a 53-yard return, and setting up Cam Little's walk-off 57-yarder as time expired.

The loss dropped Philadelphia to 2-3 while pushing the Jags to their third-straight victory.

Sirianni fell on his sword Sunday right after the final whistle.

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"I didn't make the right decision and I lost us that game," Sirianni told reporters. "And that's what I said to our guys. What hurts there is that the guys fought so hard, and then I don't make the decision that I should make at the end of the game and I cost us that game and I put that fully on me."

When asked why Philadelphia left eight seconds on the board before Elliott's kick, Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts made it clear game management was outside his control.

"It’s not my place, and we’re prepared, I’m prepared as a quarterback to not worry about those things," Hurts told reporters Monday. "So I’m honoring a play call, honoring the things that are coming in the game. When I’m up at night, yeah, I think about, 'Man, should I have said something, or should I have took a step back and said, "Wait"?' But ultimately, there’s a commitment to that and going out there and executing. And so this was one where it did not work in our favor."

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Sirianni doubled down Monday, shutting down any idea that Hurts should have overruled the sideline.

"Jalen’s playing," Sirianni told reporters. "We’re coaching and calling the plays, and Jalen’s got to go execute what we call in that moment, 100 percent. We’re not asking him to make play calls in that scenario. He’s already got enough to worry about to go out and execute. That’s where we were there in that situation."

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Sirianni can preach staying in your lane all day, but Hurts is losing sleep over brain-dead strategy, and Samuel wants the head coach held to the fire.

Good luck fixing that mess.

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Man admits to dismembering ex-girlfriend, keeping severed head in suitcase after she played him 'like a fool'

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:30:34 -0400

A New York man pleaded guilty to murdering and dismembering his ex-girlfriend and putting her severed head in a suitcase with a flower after she ended their relationship, later telling investigators she had "played me like a sucker," according to authorities.

Damon Foy, 50, of Kerhonkson, pleaded guilty last week to second-degree murder in the 2024 death of Alberta Dale, 44, of Pennsylvania, according to the Ulster County District Attorney's Office.

Between March 31 and April 1, 2024, Foy killed and dismembered Dale and was in the process of disposing of her body when law enforcement intervened, according to the district attorney's office.

The Ulster County Sheriff's Office began investigating on April 1, 2024, after Dale's family members in Pennsylvania contacted law enforcement because they were concerned about her well-being, the district attorney's office said. Deputies first conducted a welfare check before launching a missing person investigation.

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Deputies first went to Foy’s apartment on April 1, 2024, and found Dale’s car, according to the New York Post. The next day, deputies returned to question Foy after a member of the public found Dale’s phone on the side of the road and turned it in to authorities, leading investigators to suspect potential foul play.

"She’s in there," Foy whispered to investigators, when they arrived at his home during the missing person investigation. "I killed her," he added, according to court documents cited by the New York Post.

Investigators obtained a search warrant for Foy's home and found a suitcase in a closet that contained the victim's remains. Foy was then arrested and charged in connection with Dale's death.

After shining a flashlight on the suitcase, investigators "immediately noticed what appeared to be dried blood," according to the documents.

"Officers opened the defendant’s suitcase and found Alberta Dale’s partial dismembered remains, including her severed head," the court documents read, according to the New York Post.

"The remaining portions of her dismembered body were not located during the execution of the search warrant," the documents add.

When he was later interviewed, Foy told investigators he "loved her," according to the documents.

"The only thing she kept doing after the time throughout the whole relationship was just play me, play me like a fool, play me like a sucker, and just took advantage of the whole f–king system," he said.

"That’s it. I was told to leave my own home. I was told to leave my own f–king home, not a bill in her name, and I was told to leave my own f–king home. Get out. Then it all started coming clearer to me," he added.

When asked about the flower in the suitcase, Foy only said he was thinking about "what still happened last night to take s— over the top."

Foy had a history of domestic violence against Dale, according to court documents cited by the New York Post.

A previous domestic incident involved a gun, and investigators had also observed an axe at Foy’s property when they were searching for Dale.

Dale had previously warned authorities that "if she went missing it was because [Foy] killed her," according to the court documents.

Under a plea agreement, Foy is expected to receive 23 years to life behind bars, with a minimum term two years shorter than the maximum of 25 years to life, according to the Daily Freeman.

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Chief Assistant District Attorney Liz Culmone-Mills told the outlet that the agreement was backed by Dale’s family.

"The District Attorney’s Office would not be making this recommendation were it not for Alberta Dale’s family," Culmone-Mills told the outlet.

Foy is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 16.

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"The total selfish disregard for the life and dignity of another person is at the heart of domestic violence; Damon Foy has shown that to us," District Attorney Emmanuel C. Nneji said in a statement. "We must recognize in our laws the rights of victims of domestic violence to be physically, psychologically, and emotionally safe from their tormentors and the dangers specifically targeted for them, and demand procedures that actually protect victims for real, not just on paper."

Bears kicker goes viral after trying to trip Packers receiver who decked Chicago coach on sideline

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:18:58 -0400

The Green Bay Packers-Chicago Bears rivalry is one of the best in football, and one viral moment added to it during the Packers’ 31-7 beatdown at Lambeau Field over their NFC North foe in Week 5.

Packers receiver Matthew Golden fielded a punt by the Bears toward the end of the first half, and after returning it 17 yards, he ran out of bounds on the Chicago sideline.

Still running at full speed, Golden crashed into an unsuspecting Bears coach, who went tumbling to the ground after the blindside hit.

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Bears kicker Cairo Santos seemed to witness the act by Golden, and his reaction was one some fans on social media called dirty.

As Golden ran back onto the field, Santos clearly tried to trip the second-year receiver before he got between the white lines. Santos was unsuccessful, but as the broadcast caught the entire act from Golden hitting the Bears coach to the attempted trip, it quickly went viral on social media.

Fans started a discourse over which action was more dirty, and you can suspect where Packers and Bears fans aligned their views.

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In the end, no flags were thrown for either player and the half came to an end.

After the game, Golden admitted to Santos trying to trip him, but took the high road when asked about the incident.

"Yeah, he did. He did. But it’s all good. I ain’t got nothing to say to him," Golden said.

The 23-year-old Texas product, whom the Packers took in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, caught six passes from quarterback Jordan Love for a career-high 123 yards, including a 50-yard snag to help Green Bay humble the Bears.

And while Golden took the high road, his teammates weren’t as humble. Linebacker Zaire Franklin took aim at Bears receiver Luther Burden III, suggesting that he "ain’t wanna play anymore" and that he "quit today."

This was a response to Burden saying that Chicago wanted to "beat them real bad and make them quit" prior to their latest meeting.

As divisional foes, they will meet once more this season, with a Christmas Day tilt scheduled in Chicago. By then, playoff implications could be at stake, which would heighten the tension even more between these bitter rivals.

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As things stand after Week 5, the Minnesota Vikings lead the NFC North at 5-0, while the Packers, Bears and Lions are all 3-2 on the year.

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ABC accuses FCC of trying to 'inflict maximal coercive pressure' with probe against network

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:00:23 -0400

Disney and ABC accused the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday of using the license renewal process to circumvent "judicial review" and inflict "maximal coercive pressure" against the network and company.

Disney originally sued the FCC in August over what it claimed was a "retaliatory campaign against ABC" regarding the agency's early broadcast license renewal proceedings for eight ABC-owned stations earlier this year. The stations, according to the FCC, must demonstrate they are operating in the public interest as the agency investigates diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices.

However, in Disney's latest filing, the company asserted that the FCC could have used "a number of different tools" to investigate Disney and ABC's DEI practices that did not involve forcing stations to renew their licenses years ahead of schedule, suggesting it was done to avoid legal scrutiny.

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"These are not merely 'theoretical' tools ... they have been used by the agency for decades," the filing read. "Yet the agency tried none of those less intrusive tools here, instead taking the unprecedented step of calling for early license renewal of all eight ABC-owned stations at once. Defendants’ own admissions leave no doubt as to why — Defendants sought to inflict maximal coercive pressure on the media company whose speech the Administration sought to curb, while deliberately evading judicial review."

Disney cited a court hearing last week in which the FCC was instructed to provide a supplemental filing on alternative methods the agency could have used. During the hearing, the FCC suggested that additional procedures would have required federal court enforcement.

"That Defendants openly describe judicial review as an obstacle demonstrates what Plaintiffs have been saying all along: shielding their unconstitutional campaign against ABC from judicial review is part of Defendants’ retaliatory strategy," the filing read.

In a comment to Fox News Digital, FCC spokesperson Adam Jackman dismissed the latest filing as an effort to block the FCC in court procedures.

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"Disney’s latest filing only confirms that they’ve filed a meritless case in the wrong court at the wrong time," Jackman said. "They want a district court to prevent the FCC from even considering whether Disney has complied with its longstanding obligations as a broadcaster. The law does not allow that. The FCC will continue to hold broadcasters accountable to their regulatory obligations."

Fox News Digital also reached out to ABC and Disney for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Disney and ABC have repeatedly attacked the FCC's probes and investigations into the company as a form of retaliation over programs and hosts that are critical of President Donald Trump, such as late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

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In addition to the license renewal proceedings, the FCC has launched a probe into the ABC daytime talk show "The View" based on the agency's demand that broadcast stations adhere to the equal opportunity requirement stating opposing political candidates receive equal time. Disney has maintained that "The View" is a "bona fide news" program exempted from the rule.

Dodgers dynasty on the brink after the Milwaukee BABIP machine dials up another win for Brewers

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:48:40 -0400

Game 2 of the National League Championship Series on Monday afternoon was a must-win for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Despite widespread perception that the Dodgers are the unbeatable superteam, it was Milwaukee, the team that finished with the best record in the league, that played essentially flawless baseball in a Game 1 win. While Jacob Misiorowski wasn't his typically dominant self, every time Los Angeles had an opportunity to break the game open, "The Miz" and his team's defense clamped down.

Already up a run in the second inning, the Dodgers had the bases loaded with postseason star Kike Hernandez at the plate. Once again, the Brewers defense was perfectly positioned to turn the inning-ending double play. After Milwaukee's offense scratched across two runs against Tarik Skubal, their bullpen continued its remarkable run of success, going 4.2 scoreless innings to secure the win.

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Still, the Dodgers felt good about their chances with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, postseason hero from 2025, starting in Game 2 against Logan Henderson. Yet for all the hype about LA's remarkable rotation, the Milwaukee BABIP (batting average on balls in play) machine once again kicked into high gear to secure a massive 2-0 series lead and put the Dodgers' three-peat hopes on life support with a 7-4 win.

LA jumped out to an early lead thanks to some uncharacteristic sloppiness from the Brewers. Mookie Betts walked, Freddie Freeman moved him to second, and he took third on a wild pitch from starter Logan Henderson. Teoscar Hernandez knocked him in with a sacrifice fly, and the Dodgers had a 1-0 lead without a hit. Sure enough though, Milwaukee immediately tied it in the bottom of the first.

The Dodgers missed an opportunity to challenge an obvious missed strike three call on Brice Turang, who then doubled and scored on a patented Brewers bloop single. William Contreras stuck his bat out with one hand, somehow making contact with Yamamoto's pitch to dump it into left field. It wouldn't be the last time.

The third inning was a near-repeat. LA mounted a quick rally on back-to-back singles from Tommy Edman and Mookie Betts. Sal Frelick robbed Freddie Freeman of a double with a nice running catch in the right center field gap, but an error on a pickoff attempt at first base brought Edman in to score. But the Brewers, knowing that the Dodgers' greatest weakness is having an opportunity to score runs, had them right where they wanted them. Easy outs from Teoscar Hernandez and Shohei Ohtani ended the "threat," and Milwaukee answered right back in the bottom of the inning.

David Hamilton poked another bloop single, stole second, and yet again, Brice Turang reached base on a missed strike three that went unchallenged by catcher Will Smith. Jake Bauers, one of the worst hitters in baseball before putting on a Milwaukee uniform, worked a walk after a lengthy at bat against Yamamoto, and Christian Yelich made him pay for it with a single to center.

After all this playoff heroics in 2025, Yamamoto went just 2.2 innings, allowing four hits and three runs. Missed challenges, bloop singles, exceptionally well-timed line drives from below average hitters, the ideal Milwaukee offensive outing.

Now trailing 3-2, the Dodgers "fought" back in the fifth. Kyle Tucker led off with a double, before a throwing error from Henderson on a Tommy Edman bunt let him score and sent Edman to second. A grounder and sac fly gave LA a 4-3 lead, once again without getting a hit with runners in scoring position.

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Sure enough, William Contreras immediately tied it in the bottom of the inning with a mammoth homer to left-center.

The Brewers bullpen, which is apparently unhittable, put up another scoreless inning, before the Milwaukee superteam once again kicked into high gear in the bottom of the sixth. Hamilton reached on a hit by pitch, advanced to second after a poor pickoff attempt, went to third on a Jackson Chourio grounder, and scored on yet another end of the bat blooper from Contreras.

Again, the Brewers' relief pitchers proved to be the single greatest pitching unit ever assembled, extending their streak to nearly 29 innings with just one run allowed. Monday was the first time in playoff history that a team's bullpen went over five innings in a postseason game without giving up a baserunner. JoJo Romero, Abner Uribe, Trevor Megill, Aaron Ashby, DL Hall...that's the real superteam, and it cost about $17 to build it.

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The BABIP continued into the eighth, as David Hamilton crushed a 73mph single to right field, stole second, and scored on yet another obliterated 71mph single from Brice Turang. That hit pushed the Brewers to 5-12 with RISP.

Jake Bauers added on with yet another 73mph bloop single to make Milwaukee 6-13 with RISP.

Somehow, Milwaukee has perfected the art of running into singles on poorly hit balls in play. Some might say it's a skill, but decades of data and information have told us it isn't. Players and teams with poor exit velocities don't outperform with batting average on balls in play, in fact, it's the opposite.

The league leaders in hard hit percentage this season were, in order:

James Wood
Elly De La Cruz
Pete Alonso
Yordan Alvarez
Shohei Ohtani

All five had BABIPs at or above league average, Wood and De La Cruz were .344 and .359, respectively. Jac Caglianone was eighth in hard hit percentage and second in baseball in BABIP. Hitting the ball hard is a skill, soft contact isn't. Yet the Brewers have three hitters in the top seven in BABIP anyway.

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Does it matter that Milwaukee has likely been lucky this season? No, not at all. A playoff series is the epitome of a small sample size, and reversion to the mean doesn't have to happen over five-to-seven games. Contreras could hit 17 straight bloopers off the end of the bat, because that's baseball. Which is why predictions of a guaranteed Dodgers' World Series win because of their talent were always so laughable.

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Milwaukee had more hits with runners in scoring position in this game, not one hit hard, than the Dodgers have all postseason. And they're going back to LA with a 2-0 series lead and overwhelming likelihood of advancing to the World Series. The gaps between teams in baseball are so small that a bounce here or there, a team's ability to magically ensure that 71mph bloopers are placed perfectly, despite there being no ability to do that, can change a playoff series. David Hamilton, who is objectively an awful baseball player, reached base four times and scored two runs. Shohei Ohtani, the best player in the history of baseball, was useless. That's not unusual or unexpected, it's part of the sport. Which is why it's impossible for one team to guarantee themselves anything.

Will this matter to the "ruining baseball" crowd? Of course not, reality never does.

WNBA gives Cheryl Reeve another award after playoff collapse and years of outspoken left-wing politics

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:42:37 -0400

The WNBA has another award for Cheryl Reeve. This one comes from the people who run the teams, and that makes it worth examining what, exactly, they are celebrating.

The league announced Monday that the Minnesota Lynx head coach and president of basketball operations won Basketball Executive of the Year for the third time, tying the Atlanta Dream's Dan Padover for the most selections in the award's history.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after the top-seeded Lynx were swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the eighth-seeded New York Liberty, who were subsequently swept in the semifinals by the Dream.

Reeve appeared on 13 ballots, ahead of Padover's 11 and Golden State's Ohemaa Nyanin's eight. Each of the WNBA's 15 teams had an executive on the voting panel, and voters couldn't select themselves.

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That's a substantial endorsement of Reeve from her peers and it also amounts to tacit approval of the way one of the league's most outspoken left-wing figures represents her franchise.

An executive helps establish what an organization stands for, and Reeve has made her politics a major part of that job. She consistently uses her WNBA platform to attack the motives of people who believe women's sports should be reserved for females.

Her colleagues have now chosen to celebrate her leadership. That deserves scrutiny beyond a list of successful transactions.

Dallas made Reeve's Olivia Miles decision awfully easy

The league's announcement highlighted Reeve's selection of Olivia Miles with the No. 2 pick in the 2026 WNBA Draft. Miles went on to become the unanimous Rookie of the Year and set the league's rookie scoring record with 790 points.

An excellent addition, obviously. But let's remember how Miles became available.

The Dallas Wings could have (and should have) taken Miles, but elected to draft Paige Bueckers' girlfriend, Azzi Fudd, with the No. 1 pick instead.

The Wings publicly praised Fudd's shooting. But pretending that their selection of Fudd was based entirely on her basketball skills is foolish.

Miles averaged 19.8 points, 6.0 assists and 4.7 rebounds as a rookie. Fudd averaged 13.1 points, 1.8 assists and 1.7 rebounds. Miles produced those numbers while playing slightly fewer minutes per game, shot better from the field and finished second in MVP voting.

Reeve should probably send the Wings a thank-you note.

In April 2024, the Chicago Sky moved from No. 8 to No. 7 and acquired the rights to Nikolina Milić. Minnesota received Sika Koné, a 2025 second-round pick and the right to swap first-round picks with Chicago in 2026, along with the No. 8 selection.

Chicago used No. 7 on Angel Reese. At the time of the deal, Minnesota was coming off a 19-21 season and Chicago an 18-22 season.

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In April 2025, Minnesota sent Chicago the No. 11 pick, which the Sky used on Hailey Van Lith, for Chicago's 2026 first-rounder outright. That deal canceled the earlier swap and allowed Minnesota to keep its own 2026 first-round pick, too.

Reeve deserves credit for those trades. Once Dallas passed on Miles, though, the choice at No. 2 was awfully easy.

Reeve also signed Natasha Howard, who started all 44 games and earned an All-Star starting spot. Minnesota finished 33-11 and earned the No. 1 playoff seed.

Dallas did Reeve an enormous favor, and the Lynx benefited.

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For all those advantages, what did the Lynx do in the playoffs?

Minnesota became the first No. 1 seed in WNBA history to be eliminated by a No. 8 seed, and New York did it in a sweep.

The Lynx had the unanimous Rookie of the Year (who also finished second in MVP voting). And while Napheesa Collier, one of the league’s best players, missed time during the regular season, she played in both playoff games.

Minnesota lost both of those games by 16 points, including a 91-75 defeat at home in Game 1.

Reeve's four championships are part of her record. So is the fact that the most recent one came in 2017. In the nine seasons since, Minnesota has reached the Finals once, losing to New York in 2024.

During that same stretch, Reeve has collected three Coach of the Year awards and all three of her Executive of the Year awards.

Six individual awards. Zero championships.

If Reeve gets the credit for both building the roster and coaching it, she can answer for what that team did in the playoffs, too.

An executive sets the tone for the franchise

Reeve already won her fifth Coach of the Year award two weeks ago. With Monday's announcement, she became the first person to win Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year in the same season twice.

For me, evaluating an executive means evaluating leadership. If an executive repeatedly uses the team's platform to make political statements, those statements belong in the discussion of how she represents the organization.

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Reeve wore a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt on the sideline against the Indiana Fever shortly after Sophie Cunningham's comments about wanting to protect women's sports went public.

But she wasn't done.

After Minnesota's Sept. 24 regular-season finale, Reeve characterized the controversy involving male participation in women's sports as an attack on what she called the "transgender community."

"They don't want transgender people to exist," Reeve said.

That's an ugly accusation to make about people whose position is that girls and women deserve their own athletic category.

And it came from the person who both coaches the Lynx and oversees their basketball operations. Her public conduct carries the authority of both positions.

By honoring Reeve as the year's outstanding basketball executive, her peers are publicly holding up her leadership as an example. Her political conduct is part of that leadership.

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The same people entrusted with running women's basketball teams are applauding a leader who talks openly about allowing males to compete in women's sports and share their locker rooms.

That says a lot about what the WNBA's decision-makers will celebrate.

Online marketplace jewelry listing tied to armed robbery in affluent Tennessee city

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:39:36 -0400

A Facebook Marketplace jewelry listing was linked to a late-night armed robbery at a home in affluent Franklin, Tennessee, where police pursued three fleeing suspects, authorities said.

Officers responded to a home in northeast Franklin just after 11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, and determined the robbery was connected to jewelry advertised for sale on the platform, according to the Franklin Police Department.

The suspects fled the area but were spotted by responding officers a short time later. A vehicle pursuit followed, ending with all three men in custody, police said.

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Authorities identified the suspects as Ivan Lagos-Espinoza, 22, and Jose Paiz-Godoy, 23, both of Nashville, and Rubel Rodriguez-Lisa, 19, of Lebanon.

All three face multiple charges, including aggravated robbery, felony evading and tampering with evidence.

The robbery unfolded in a community known for its wealth and high-end homes. Franklin’s city website describes it as "one of the wealthiest cities in one of the wealthiest counties in the United States."

Franklin's median home sale price reached $903,410 in September 2026, while the median listing price stood at $1.1 million, according to Realtor.com.

Across Williamson County, where Franklin is located, the median home sale price was $929,990, the real estate website reported.

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Police credited the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office with helping investigate the robbery and apprehend the suspects.

The case also prompted a warning to online sellers about the risks of bringing strangers to their homes, particularly when expensive merchandise is involved.

Police urged buyers and sellers to arrange exchanges in public, well-lit locations with other people nearby and surveillance cameras whenever possible. For valuable items, authorities recommended meeting at a police department or another law enforcement facility.

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Sellers should also bring someone along, avoid carrying large amounts of cash and limit the personal information they share, including details about their homes, schedules and other valuables, police said.

Authorities warned that jewelry, electronics and other expensive items can make sellers attractive targets for criminals.

"If something about the buyer, seller or proposed meeting location does not feel right, cancel the transaction," the department advised.

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NATO warns Russia: 'We will break' forces, destroy 'anything and everything' if you attack

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:22:08 -0400

NATO's top military commander warned Monday that what he called the "lethal alliance" would destroy "anything and everything" supporting an attack on allied territory and "break" enemy warfighting systems to thwart any potential future Russian assault.

"Should the adversary choose to press the attack or commit his reserves, we will break the warfighting system engaged against us," U.S. Air Force Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said at the Warsaw Security Forum in Poland, in an apparent warning to Moscow.

"This includes not just the attacking force itself, but anything and everything that supports, sustains, and controls that force," he said during a panel titled "Theory of Victory: How Do We Achieve Military Success Against Russia in Deterrence and Defence?" on the first day of the forum.

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Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, also outlined a three-pronged strategy of "blocking, blunting and breaking" enemy forces, making clear that while NATO is a defensive alliance, it is prepared to respond decisively to an assault on any of its 32 members.

"If someone is foolish enough to attack us, we will fight," he said. "We will stop the attack and deny them the ability to achieve their objectives, whatever those might be. We will, in short, ensure any attack, against any ally, proves utterly futile."

The warning came amid heightened tensions between Russia and Western nations following a series of drone incursions and suspected sabotage operations that European countries have linked to Moscow.

"We stand here together in Poland today stronger than ever united in our common vision of a more balanced, more ready and more lethal alliance," Grynkewich also said.

European officials have accused Russia of waging a campaign of hybrid warfare involving sabotage, arson and cyberattacks, alongside increasingly provocative military activity near NATO territory.

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In 2025, multiple Russian drones entered Polish airspace during a large-scale attack on Ukraine, prompting a response from Polish and allied aircraft.

NATO launched Operation Eastern Sentry to strengthen defenses along its eastern flank.

Romania has also reported Russian drone incursions, while Estonia has accused Russian military aircraft of violating its airspace.

Grynkewich's remarks had followed a tense weekend between Russia and Ukraine, with Moscow launching fresh strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure despite diplomatic efforts to reduce hostilities.

President Donald Trump had announced that he had reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to increase Russian diesel supplies to the U.S. and global markets.

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The reported agreement included a waiver of certain U.S. sanctions on Russian energy exports.

Zelenskyy went on to accuse Russia of continuing attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities, casting doubt on prospects for a broader ceasefire.

The tensions have also been accompanied by recent nuclear warnings from Moscow.

On Sept. 30, Russia warned NATO that it could use nuclear weapons if the alliance attempted to isolate Kaliningrad, its heavily militarized Baltic Sea exclave between Poland and Lithuania.

In a diplomatic note obtained by Reuters, Moscow accused NATO of pursuing a "dangerous and reckless course" that carried "high risks of the outbreak of a direct armed conflict."

According to the note, Russia warned it could use its full military arsenal, including nuclear weapons, to defend Kaliningrad and raised the possibility of strikes against decision-making centers in NATO countries at the outset of a conflict.

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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte rejected the threats, emphasizing the alliance's defensive mission and calling on Moscow to end its war in Ukraine.

"Putin knows that he can never win from NATO," Rutte said during a Sept. 30 appearance at the Euronews Defence and Space Summit.

Putin has also maintained that Russia has no plans to attack European countries and wants peaceful coexistence with its neighbors.

Grynkewich did not mention Russia by name during his Warsaw address, but his warning appeared directed at Moscow and with NATO's 2022 Strategic Concept also identifying Russia as the most significant and direct threat to allied security.

"My theory of victory is simple: we will block the initial attack. If the attack persists, we will blunt it and prevent enemy advance," Grynkewich said on Monday.

"And if required, we will break the enemy's forces and the operational warfighting system that is arrayed against us."

Grynkewich said NATO was already putting the strategy into action through military exercises, enhanced military readiness and investments in new capabilities.

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"If attacked, we are ready to fight tonight, but we are not complacent," he said.

The general made clear that NATO's response would not necessarily be limited to enemy troops directly involved in an assault, but could extend to the broader military infrastructure enabling the attack.

Meanwhile, Trump has pressed European allies to increase defense spending and has questioned whether countries that fail to meet their obligations should expect U.S. protection.

Grynkewich sought to downplay concerns about Washington's commitment, recalling Trump's positive remarks about the alliance during the 2025 NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands.

"I was in the room and I felt the love," Grynkewich said of the 2025 event.

"What I want to do is assure the one billion citizens of our alliance that we've got this. We know what we need to do. We know how we would do it," he added.

He also indicated a willingness to discuss suspected hybrid attacks more openly if individual NATO governments wanted him to address their concerns.

"If a nation wants me to, I'm happy to talk about it," he said.

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The Warsaw Security Forum brought together European political and defense leaders as the continent grappled with Russia's continuing war in Ukraine and the growing threat of confrontation along NATO's eastern flank.

NPR CEO who previously called First Amendment a 'challenge' to receive 'First Amendment Award'

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:10:04 -0400

NPR CEO Katherine Maher will receive Harper's Magazine's "First Amendment Award" later this month despite her past criticism of the amendment.

"As president and CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher has guided one of America’s most important public media institutions through a period of extraordinary political, legal, and financial scrutiny, reaffirming journalism’s essential role in a democratic society," the magazine said in a press release earlier this year about Maher receiving the James C. Goodale First Amendment Award on Oct. 26.

Harper's Magazine also claimed that Maher led NPR "through a period of heightened scrutiny and challenge" along with "successfully battling" President Donald Trump's efforts to defund NPR, though Congress still rescinded $1.1 billion in federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in 2025.

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Although the magazine hailed Maher as an advocate for journalism, Maher has not always been supportive of the First Amendment as a whole.

In 2021, when Maher was the CEO of Wikimedia, which oversees Wikipedia, she discussed efforts to combat disinformation and considered the First Amendment a "challenge" in that goal.

"The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States. [It] is a fairly robust protection of rights and that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites," Maher said.

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She added, "But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from, and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it."

NPR has also had a history of questionable journalism. Most notably, NPR declined to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 ahead of the presidential election in what many critics saw as an effort to protect then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Maher, who was not appointed NPR CEO until 2024, later conceded that the publication "made a mistake."

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"I do want to say that NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner," Maher said during congressional testimony in 2025.

Fox News Digital reached out to Harper's Magazine for comment.

Tim Graham, executive editor of the media watchdog NewsBusters, told Fox News Digital, "Harper's Magazine is demonstrating the usual liberal impulse, that being fiercely critical of Trump and the Republicans is what the First Amendment is all about. But NPR didn't hold President Biden accountable. Instead, they insisted that covering corruption in Biden's family was a 'distraction.'"

"Their explanation for this pride is that Maher courageously fought off defunding NPR, which, of course, is not true. They are defunded. Liberals believe depriving NPR of taxpayer subsidies is some sort of First Amendment violation. But it's not a First Amendment violation for NPR to avoid having any Trump-supporting conservatives on their airwaves to push back on all their liberal bias," he continued.

"These people have no shame that Maher championed aggressive censorship of ‘bad information,’ just as European socialist countries have done. Maher said in a 2021 TED Talk that the First Amendment was a ‘challenge,’ a hurdle, something that makes censorship ‘a little bit trickier.’ How does that deserve a First Amendment award??" he asked.

NPR celebrated Maher receiving the award, pointing to its past statement when reached for a comment by Fox News Digital.

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"Public media exists to serve the public interest, and I can think of no greater service to the public than the defense of the First Amendment," Maher said in a comment. "The freedom, imagination, and initiative of all Americans flourish with its protections, so that we may better understand the world and one another. The compact of citizenship asks that we each step up to defend our constitutional rights if they are threatened. On behalf of NPR and the NPR Network, I am deeply honored to accept this award."

Abdul El-Sayed's alleged family ties to Muslim Brotherhood surface after denying any link during NBC interview

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:09:07 -0400

Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing new scrutiny after he denied that he or his family had any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

On Sunday's "Meet the Press," NBC's Kristen Welker pressed El-Sayed whether he could "set the record straight" on allegations that his family had connections to the controversial Islamist group.

"No," El-Sayed replied.

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"No, you don't have any ties, and your family doesn't?" Welker followed up.

"No," El-Sayed repeated before suggesting his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, was floating Islamophobic attacks against him and his family.

However, according to his half-sister Eman Abdelhadi, their mother was an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

"Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college #respect," Abdelhadi wrote in a 2012 X post, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

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Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, had attended Egypt's Alexandria University, which, according to a report from the Brookings Institution, had strong Muslim Brotherhood activity back in the 70s.

In another 2012 post, Abdelhadi, a professor at the University of Chicago, wrote: "My family has long been MB, but I've always felt that it has navigated the political sphere poorly/destructively."

In a third post from 2013, she wrote, "Praying for all my family that supports the #MB in #Egypt. Lie low, stay safe."

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An El-Sayed campaign spokesperson issued a statement to Fox News, saying, "Abdul is a dad and a doctor. He has spent his entire career working to keep Michiganders healthy and safe. Independent fact checkers have repeatedly debunked Mike’s lies, but their campaign continues to use bad faith attacks on Abdul's faith and family. Mike wants to distract from Trump’s agenda that is terrorizing Michigan families at the pump and at the grocery store."

The campaign has also said the Muslim Brotherhood accusations have been "debunked as racist and untrue."

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Pro wrestler's reference to deadly Saudi airport attack during match entrance costs him job at TNA Wrestling

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:36:26 -0400

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling’s (TNA) pay-per-view Bound for Glory was an exhilarating ride that saw multiple championships change hands, including the world championship in the main event.

One moment, however, left the company with a bitter taste in its mouth.

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Pro wrestler Max Caster made his TNA debut in a match against Moose. It was his first match after he had a run with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and it appeared he was going to be a mainstay on the roster. Caster, who is known for performing a rap song during his ring entrance, brought the rhymes with him.

In one lyric, Caster made mention of the attack at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia over the weekend that left more than a dozen dead. The Iran-backed Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack, raising tensions even further in the Middle East.

"… And it’s the firing squad. I drop bombs. You don’t even have to fly to Riyadh," he said.

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Caster got immediate backlash on social media for the mention.

On Monday, TNA said it deleted everything related to Caster from its social media and will no longer welcome Caster at its company.

"During Sunday’s Bound for Glory pay-per-view, insensitive comments were made by Max Caster referencing attacks in Riyadh that killed and injured many people," the company said in a statement. "Making light of violent attacks is wrong. This should never have made it into the show, and that responsibility is ours. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and everyone affected. We sincerely apologize.

"We have removed the segment from replays and our social channels and are taking steps to ensure something like this never happens again. Max Caster will no longer be wrestling in TNA."

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Eric Trump trashes ABC over 'bulls--- hit piece,' backs call for FCC probe into revised story

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:29:44 -0400

Eric Trump expressed support for a federal probe into a botched story from ABC News about his family's business dealings with defense contractor Anduril Industries.

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate what led to an erroneous report published on the Disney-owned network's website last week with the headline "Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election." The report was initially deleted without explanation and then republished with a correction.

"Thank you @berniemoreno — can’t wait to participate!" Eric Trump reacted Monday on X.

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"You can’t publish a bulls**t hit-piece, let it spread and go viral, then delete it 24 hours later, under the cover of darkness with no explanation or apology. Who approved it? Has the author been fired? @ABC owes us answers," he continued.

In a letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Moreno demanded accountability for the network's report and questioned whether ABC News violated its obligations as a broadcaster.

"Thus, I urge the Commission to open a formal investigation into ABC News's political hit job. We must know who signed off on the publication of this false story, who may have asked to profit from the attack, and whether ABC News's conduct violated its obligations as a licensee," Moreno said.

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The letter followed ABC News' decision to remove a report examining investments tied to both Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. The original Wednesday article claimed companies connected to the president's sons had secured billions in government contracts, including through venture capital firm 1789 Capital.

Moreno specifically challenged the original report's characterization of Anduril's financing, arguing that the network had misrepresented the company's investment activity and unfairly associated the Trump family with federal contracting decisions.

The controversy centered on ABC News' original claim that 1789 Capital, where Trump Jr. serves as a partner, acquired a major strike in Anduril through a $2.5 billion investment. The figure instead represented Anduril's broader fundraising round, while 1789 Capital's investment was approximately $50 million.

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ABC News republished a substantially revised article Friday, acknowledging errors involving investments, government contracts and the chronology of events. The updated version also clarified that Trump Jr. does not serve on the firm's investment decision-making committee. The new headline reads, "New shipyard announced amid earlier Democratic concerns about potential conflicts of interest," though the original reporter's byline was replaced with "ABC News."

A 1789 source told Fox News Digital that an ABC News journalist involved with the story defended it over the phone before the story itself was deleted. Semafor similarly reported Sunday that editors initially stood by the published story, according to emails between ABC News investigative reporter Nathan Lee, who authored the original story, and an Anduril spokesperson. That would contradict the network's notion to other media reporters that the story was published "prematurely."

ABC News did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Woman poisoned by coworker at Berkeley lab releases hidden-camera video as he seeks felony dismissal

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:30:52 -0400

A woman whose coworker was convicted of poisoning her is releasing the hidden-camera video that helped catch him, just as he asks a judge to dismiss his felony conviction.

According to prosecutors, David Xu, who previously worked as a senior materials engineer at Berkeley Engineering and Research in California, poisoned the food and water of colleague Rong Yuan with cadmium, a toxic heavy metal, for more than a year, spanning 2017 to 2019.

While Xu's charges included premeditated attempted murder and two felony counts of poisoning, he was offered a plea deal of one count of poisoning and one year of probation, to which he pleaded no contest, according to the San Francisco Standard. During Xu's sentencing hearing in 2024, the judge made his probation two years and called the deal "extremely generous, considering everything in this case."

Yuan released video that appears to show Xu pouring a substance into her water bottle as Xu was set to ask an Alameda County judge to dismiss the felony conviction on Monday.

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While the district attorney's office has objected to Xu's request for the dismissal of his felony, California law requires judges to grant the request as long as the defendant meets the conditions of his probation.

Yuan told the Standard that releasing the hidden-camera video was her "last resort" to a legal system she believes has failed her.

She was hired by Berkeley Engineering and Research in January 2017 and recalled her first encounter with Xu was tense, claiming he told her that she couldn't use the firm's material characterization lab.

"I just decided I will never overlap with him," she said after the interaction. "I’ll just simply do my work, and he can do whatever he wants."

Over a few weeks' time, according to Yuan, she began feeling symptoms such as dry heaving and hair loss. The symptoms escalated in July 2017 when she woke up and took a few sips from her water bottle, and she said, "I began to feel like I was dying."

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By late 2018, after going to the hospital repeatedly, she sent an email on Nov. 27, 2018, saying she was throwing up and wouldn't be coming to the office.

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"You should work from home until you feel better. No reason to rush in," Xu responded. "I think BEAR is moldy."

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Yuan had a similar feeling after drinking from her desk water bottle in January 2019, recalling "I’m going to die." Her mother drank from the water bottle and realized there was a sour taste, sparking suspicions her water was being tampered with. She then ordered a spy camera off Amazon.

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Yuan placed the camera on her desk on Feb. 11, 2019, and Xu could be seen at 11:04 a.m. reaching for the area where her water bottle was.

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Another video on March 4, 2019, shows Xu pouring something into Yuan's water bottle.

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"My blood was frozen," Yuan said after watching the video. "I almost died. I experienced death so, so close so many times. I cannot let him go."

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She turned over the video to the Berkeley Police Department shortly after.

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Xu finished his probation in March. While he is asking for the conviction to be expunged, it would still remain on his record.

Fox News Digital reached out to Xu's attorney for comment.

Cowboys hire longtime NFL coach out of retirement to address team's brutal defensive start

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:49:34 -0400

The Dallas Cowboys have yet to resolve their defensive struggles, which stretch back to the 2025 campaign, and an upset home loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on "Thursday Night Football" has prompted a new addition to the coaching staff.

Long-time NFL coach Mike Pettine has been hired by the Cowboys to serve as a senior defensive assistant who will be working alongside defensive coordinator Christian Parker, the 34-year-old who has seen struggles from his unit so far in his first year at his post.

"It’s something we’ve been talking about for a long time. I think as we looked at everything, we had a chance to convince Pett that it made sense for him," head coach Brian Schottenheimer told reporters about the hiring of Pettine.

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"I think he's excited about coming in and adding experience and value. The most important thing for us was making sure we got the right guy, and I feel very, very confident that we did."

It feels as though this was a long time coming for the Cowboys, as Parker himself approached Pettine about joining his defensive staff when he was hired for the job in January. Parker marked the youngest defensive coordinator hire in Cowboys history, and wanted someone he was familiar with on his staff.

Parker’s first NFL job was a quality control coach in 2019 with the Green Bay Packers. Pettine was the team's defensive coordinator at the time. Schottenheimer also knows Pettine well, as the two previously worked together on Rex Ryan's New York Jets staff.

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Pettine, though, had retired before the 2026 season when Parker was putting his staff together. But after the Cowboys' loss to undrafted rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels and the Bucs this past Thursday, which gave Tampa Bay its first win of the season, Dallas went back to Pettine, who came out of retirement to join the staff.

From 2022 up until last season, Pettine served as an assistant head coach for Kevin O’Connell on the Minnesota Vikings. He was also a senior defensive assistant with the Chicago Bears during the 2021 season.

The Cowboys do not plan on Pettine supplanting Parker as defensive coordinator, but rather allowing the both to work together again in hopes of changing the brutal results on the field over the first five weeks.

Dallas, which moved to 2-3 on the season after the loss, has allowed the second-most yards per game (395.4) in the NFL thus far, with only the Detroit Lions giving up more. The Cowboys also have the worst run defense, giving up 168.4 yards per game in that area, while being 26th in points allowed per game (27.2).

Just like last season, the team’s wins have been because Dak Prescott and the offense have been able to put up points, ranking seventh in the league per game in that respect (27.6).

Pettine has the notable experience to perhaps change what’s going wrong despite players and coaches alike saying Parker’s communication and scheme have been solid thus far. Owner Jerry Jones and the rest of those invested in the team’s success want the results on the field, though.

"When you bring someone into this role, you want it to be someone that the coordinator, the head coach trusts," Schottenheimer continued, "because otherwise I could put two people in a room and say, ‘OK, well he’s in charge, but I want you to give him feedback,’ if they don’t have any relationship, then how are they going to ever get anything done? That doesn’t help anybody.

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"So, that’s how it started, and Pett was excited about retirement. He’s been doing this a long time, and as we’ve been talking about this over the past couple weeks, it began to make more sense for him."

The Cowboys will see Pettine and Parker’s former Packers squad in a primetime matchup on "Sunday Night Football" in Week 6.

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Man dies after falling from Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:42:54 -0400

A person died after an incident involving the Goliath roller coaster at the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park on Monday, police confirmed to Fox News Digital.

The Cobb County Police Department said the incident happened Monday just before 4 p.m. The department confirmed one person was dead and several other people were reported injured. Police did not immediately provide further details about the circumstances surrounding the incident.

"We are deeply saddened by the guest incident at our park today," a Six Flags spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Our thoughts and heartfelt condolences are with the guest’s family, friends, and loved ones. We are also providing support to the guests and team members affected."

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Witnesses described a horrific scene, saying a man fell from the ride.

One witness told local station WXIA that the man appeared in their souvenir photo as he fell.

"He was in our pictures," the witness told WXIA. "He fell and hit the car three different times."

The 200-foot-tall hypercoaster stopped moving, leaving passengers stuck on the track until emergency crews evacuated them. Video from the scene showed people climbing out of the ride and making their way down a staircase high above the ground.

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"The park team and local authorities responded immediately, and we are cooperating fully with local authorities as they complete their investigation," the Six Flags statement continued. "Out of respect for the family’s privacy, we will not be sharing additional details at this time."

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The coaster reaches speeds of up to 70 mph with a peak elevation of 200 feet, according to the park's website. It features a 170-foot initial drop, a secondary 175-foot drop, a 540-degree spiral, and forces reaching up to 4 Gs.