“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg finally broke her silence about her emails found in the Jeffrey Epstein file drop, but her explanation did not pass muster with many.

Goldberg requested to borrow Epstein’s private jet in order to fly to a charity event in Monaco for the White Feather Foundation in 2013, according to the email.

‘People actually believe that I was with him. It’s like, honey, come on.’

Goldberg appeared to confirm the request and was annoyed by critics who used the revelation to bash her and the show.

“In the name of transparency … my name is in the files,” Goldberg said. “Yes. And what does it say? It says, ‘Whoopi needs a plane to get to Monaco. John Lennon’s charity’ — it should say ‘Julian Lennon’s charity’ — ‘is paying for it. They don’t want to charter, so they’re looking for private owners. Here’s the info.’ And they give all the information.”

“It looks like they said, ‘No, thanks,'” co-host Sunny Hostin said.

NewsBusters pointed out that the show displayed the email but did not zoom in because that would have shown the date it was sent — years after Epstein agreed to a plea deal to admit guilt to a charge for procuring a prostitute as well as a charge for procuring a child for prostitution.

“In other words, anybody can be on this list!” co-host Joy Behar said.

“Well, this is my point. Because I’m telling you, when I tell you people are trying to turn me into — I wasn’t his girlfriend. I wasn’t his friend,” Goldberg replied.

“You were too old for him,” co-host Sara Haines said.

“I was not only too old, but it was at a time, you know, where this is just not — you used to have to have facts before you said stuff,” Goldberg said.

“But Trump is on the list 38,000 times. Come on!” Behar protested.

“Well, I can’t speak to him, but I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged. People actually believe that I was with him. It’s like, honey, come on,” Goldberg added.

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Video of her non-response was posted to social media, where it was widely circulated.

Others pointed out that the gals of “The View” previously excoriated President Donald Trump for being present in the Epstein files, and now they’re excusing Goldberg’s presence.

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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales warns that a long-standing boundary in American politics has collapsed — and that is leaving the kids out of it.

“Looking at how the left manipulates children, like the depths of their evil and ghoulish behavior, just there’s no floor,” Gonzales comments.

“There used to be this understanding that whatever your political differences, it was like, leave the kids out of it, right? If you’re an adult, you’re fair game. Leave the kids out of it. Don’t bring them into this nonsense. Don’t use them as political pawns,” she continues.

The left stopped listening to that long ago, and it’s only getting worse. Specifically, the left is now trying to get children to protest ICE.

“For some reason, children should be very upset that the Trump administration is trying to remove illegal criminals from our cities. Now, don’t waste your time or your brain power trying to make out why that is,” Gonzales says.

And in a recent article from Fox News, it’s reported that an Antifa-linked organization was even passing out material to K-12 students.

“It’s a 25-page document, and it focuses on mobilizing youth against what it describes as a regime. ‘It’s a regime and a system captured by billionaires,’” Gonzales mocks the group.

“Now, far be it from me to point out the hypocrisy of this being funded by George Soros of all people, but, like, when it’s billionaires that we don’t agree with, it’s bad. And when it’s billionaires that we do agree with, it’s good. And when it’s billionaires we don’t agree with, it’s dark money. And when it’s billionaires we do agree with, it’s just a generous political donation,” she continues.

Gonzales explains that the material “urges students to walk out of classrooms and boycott businesses to try to prove that the country cannot function without their cooperation.”

And it’s not an isolated incident.

In a video shared by Beth Bourne on X, a principal is seen chaperoning students as they chant, “Brown and proud,” and hold anti-ICE protest signs.

“Now, first of all, as a parent, it’s like, OK, this doesn’t need to be school-sponsored. This doesn’t need to be on taxpayer time, right? The school principal is there. It’s clearly school-sponsored. That’s not a thing that you need to be doing,” Gonzales says.

“Secondly, I just very much worry about that generation, that we’re still pretending like the color of your skin has anything to do with this. Like, ‘Brown and proud, brown and proud.’ … These people are here illegally. That is the problem. The problem has nothing to do with the color of your skin,” she adds.

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A 54-year-old man was arrested for child abuse after he allegedly got into a fight with high school students who walked out of school to protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

About 150 students walked out of the Grand Island Senior High School in Nebraska at about 1:30 on Monday and marched down College Street, where they encountered Michael Brown.

Several other students attacked him by kicking him and punching him as he was on the ground.

Brown drove by the crowd shouting pro-ICE comments before one of the students allegedly threw a water bottle at him, striking him in the face, according to Grand Island Police Division Chief Dean Elliott.

Elliott said Brown got out of his vehicle and chased after the female student he believed threw the water bottle. At that point, several other students attacked him by kicking him and punching him as he was on the ground.

Videos on social media show some of the brawl, with Brown bloodied afterward. At least three male students trade blows with the man in the videos.

Elliott said a teacher from West Lawn Elementary School intervened in the fight to help break it up.

The school emphasized that the protest was not sponsored by administrators, teachers, or district officials and was completely student-led. The students who participated in the walkout were not allowed back to school and were marked absent for the day.

Elliott indicated that Brown was charged with child abuse rather than assault because of the difference in ages between him and the juveniles. One of the juveniles was also cited for assault.

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A felony report on the Grand Island Police website indicates that Brown caused injury to one of the two victims, who were listed as a 16-year-old male and a 17-year-old male.

One news video report from the Grand Island Independent described the protest as “peaceful” and did not include information about the brawl. The video did show two Mexican flags being waved at the protest.

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America’s largest automakers are retreating from their electric vehicle ambitions after taking staggering financial hits — a shift highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal report revealing more than $50 billion in combined charges.

“Ford announced in December that it expected to take $19.5 billion in charges to retrench amid sinking EV demand. Together, Ford, General Motors and Jeep-maker Stellantis have now announced more than $50 billion in charges as they pull back on their EV ambitions,” the article in the Wall Street Journal reads.

“EV tax credit expiring, which was, of course, part of the Big Beautiful Bill, goes into effect late 2025,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere explains while looking at a chart from the Wall Street Journal.

“And you see monthly sales have dropped off by well over 50%, which is remarkable,” Stu says.

“Net profit, you see, everything going fine for these companies — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis — until this EV credit goes away. Things drop through the floor. Again, when you’re building your business based on some government credit — if the only way it can succeed is if the government is giving you money, then you haven’t built a business,” he explains.

“What you’ve built is a rent-seeking operation. What you’ve built is an opportunity to bilk other taxpayers to pay for your crappy business. That’s what we’ve built here with the EV bubble,” he continues.

And while other companies’ EV sales are doing better than GM, Ford, and Stellantis, they are still dropping.

“The sales are dropping, and yes, they are dropping by more in the United States,” Stu says.

“Remember, if you have built a company, basically, that is completely dependent on the government giving you free money every time you sell something, you haven’t really built a business at all,” he adds.

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Late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert lashed out at the Trump administration about equal time demands over an interview with a Democratic candidate trying to flip a U.S. Senate seat for Texas.

Colbert said the interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico was axed after the Federal Communications Commission issued new guidance declaring that late-night shows needed to provide equal time to competing candidates in political races.

‘Because my network clearly does not want us to talk about this … let’s talk about this.’

“[Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” said Colbert, who added that he was told by showrunners not to mention the issue.

“And because my network clearly does not want us to talk about this … let’s talk about this,” said Colbert.

He went on to post the interview with Talarico on social media rather than broadcast it. Colbert addressed FCC Chair Brendan Carr directly in his monologue.

“I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself,” said Colbert. “Let’s just call this what it is. Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. OK?”

In the interview posted online, Talarico praised Colbert and said he was an exemplar of Christianity.

“I just want to thank you, Stephen, because I know you’re not a politician, but you have really shown people in this country what Christianity should be and what it means to actually live out the teachings of Jesus, even in a talk show,” he said.

Colbert’s show will end in May, CBS announced in July after citing financial considerations. Many on the left have accused the Trump administration of using its influence to shut down the show over the host’s anti-Trump tirades.

Late-night and daytime talk shows had been previously exempted from the equal time rules before the new FCC guidance.

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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression also criticized the policy change at the FCC.

“By putting pressure on late-night talk shows critical of the Trump administration while openly admitting that conservative talk radio is immune from the FCC’s ire, he’s making himself the poster boy for big government putting its thumb on the scale of political debate,” said FIRE chief counsel Robert Corn-Revere in part.

“Carr used to say that the FCC cannot act as the nation’s speech police, but now that he is chairman, he has worn the badge proudly,” he added.

The president denied being solely responsible for the decision to end Colbert’s show.

“Everybody is saying that I was solely responsible for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, Late Night. That is not true! The reason he was fired was a pure lack of TALENT, and the fact that this deficiency was costing CBS $50 Million Dollars a year in losses — And it was only going to get WORSE!” Trump wrote in July.

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An illegal alien being chased by federal immigration officers crashed into the car of a beloved grade-school teacher and killed her, according to Georgia police.

38-year-old Oscar Vasquez Lopez allegedly drove through a red light and crashed into Linda Davis as Immigration and Customs Enforcement chased him in Savannah.

‘This tragic loss of life at the hands of someone who shouldn’t be here could have been prevented.’

The Chatham County Police Dept. said officers were called to the scene of the car crash Monday at about 7:45 a.m. at the intersection of Whitefield Avenue and Truman Parkway. Police said federal officers were trying to initiate a traffic stop on Lopez when he fled in his vehicle.

Davis was reportedly transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, while Lopez was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

The Savannah-Chatham County Public School System confirmed that Davis worked at Hesse K-8 school.

The Department of Homeland Security said a judge issued a final order of removal against Lopez in 2024.

Police said in a Facebook statement that Lopez was charged at the state level with homicide by vehicle in the first degree, reckless driving, driving without valid license, and failure to obey traffic control device. They also clarified that they did not play a role in the ICE operation but responded to the report of a car crash.

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Some on social media tried to place the blame for the fatal incident on ICE, which was immediately denied by the ICE official account.

“This is an utterly disgusting lie. A Guatemalan criminal illegal alien fled from law enforcement and crashed into another vehicle, killing Linda Davis — an American citizen and beloved teacher at Hesse K-8,” the agency said.

“This tragic loss of life at the hands of someone who shouldn’t be here could have been prevented,” the agency added. “Our prayers are with the Savannah, GA, community and the family of Linda Davis.”

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China’s latest autonomous robots display has some viewers worried while others can’t even believe it is real.

China held its annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, which is an annual performance that shows off the latest the country has to offer in tech.

‘Some “imperfection” movement of the robots is really scary.’

The event saw a reported 677 million viewers across platforms, according to China Daily, and an alleged 13.5 billion views on clips after the fact.

What caught the most eyes in the West though, was the performance of humanoid robots from tech company Unitree Robotics. Unitree was one of four robot companies to put on displays, but it seemingly caught the most eyes with its robots’ drunken boxing routine, performed alongside acrobatic children.

The performance included sword and staff work, gymnastics, and even breakdancing. According to NBC News, new innovations in multi-robot coordination and fault recovery were a focus in the display, with the latter referring to a robot’s ability to get up after falling down.

Reactions online were a mix of shock and awe, along with worry.

“This is getting scary and creepy,” one user commented on YouTube.

“Some ‘imperfection’ movement of the robots is really scary,” another viewer added.

However, there exist claims that the robots are not actually this advanced, and some sort of postproduction was involved.

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On X, one viewer pointed out the drastic difference between the robotic capabilities on display at the festival in 2025 versus 2026. Last year, robots were stumbling around waving handkerchiefs, while this year they are in choreographed gymnastics and martial arts displays.

“In just one year, they have evolved from robots to ‘humans,'” AI entrepreneur Tansu Yegen wrote.

Another user disputed the video, saying he saw the same robots at a live demo “a month ago in Shenzhen.”

“They’re slow, shaky, & can barely shuffle let alone do any of this. This isn’t the first time unitree has used cgi to fake capability,” he claimed.

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Last year, Unitree put on a Humanoid Robot Boxing event that showed robots sloppily competing in martial arts with one another. The capabilities this February would likely be considered a vast jump from what was seen in May 2025 by the fighter bots.

Still there is yet to be any concrete evidence that Unitree or China was faking the event.

At the same time though, Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co. Ltd. launched the Ultimate Robot Knock-Out Legend event a week earlier.

The company plans to have “Chinese Robot Kung Fu” robots battle it out for a 10-kilogram pure gold belt worth about $1.4 million.

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While the Miss America pageant has long been known for featuring the most beautiful women in the country, organizers are now opening the competition up to biological men and removing the crowns of those who disagree.

When Miss North Florida Kayleigh Bush refused to sign a contract that featured the pageant’s updated policies because it changed the language to claim that men can be considered women and eligible to compete, she was stripped of her title.

And BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is seriously disturbed, saying, “Miss America is now allowing trans people to compete.”

“Now they’ve got updated rules. Contestants have to be women aged 18 to 28, unmarried, no children, and U.S. citizens. However, ‘women,’ air quotes, includes those born female or an individual who has fully completed sex reassignment surgery via vaginoplasty,” she explains.

BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden is as shocked as Gonzales.

“The mental gymnastics that they have to go through — which is, by the way, going to tank the organization. It’s going to be over,” he says, before pointing out that it’s a “communist play.”

“They want to say that ugly is beautiful. They want to say, ‘Look at that beautiful building.’ And you go, ‘Uh, it’s a concrete building.’ … But isn’t it funny? That’s what they’re doing,” he says.

“What they’re trying to do is mess with your head. I mean, really, they’re trying to tell you, ‘Hang on a second. Beauty is ugly. Ugly is beauty. Don’t look at this. Don’t look at that. A man’s a woman. A woman’s a man,’” he continues.

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It didn’t take long for a Chinese-owned AI company to get slapped with reality from American companies.

ByteDance, known for its short-form video app TikTok, released Seedance 2.0 on February 12, allowing users to create realistic AI videos from simple text prompts.

‘Stealing human creators’ work in an attempt to replace them with AI generated slop is destructive to our culture.’

Quickly, users were recreating lifelike scenes that included everything from influencer videos to Hollywood action sequences. However, it only took Hollywood about 24 hours to make the call to its legal teams about what was being posted online that featured its copyright-protected material.

Disney was seemingly the first to let ByteDance know it needed to stop what it was doing, and the company sent a letter to ByteDance that accused it of pre-packaging its product with “a pirated library of Disney’s copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney’s coveted intellectual property were free public domain clip art.”

According to Axios, Disney attorney David Singer also accused ByteDance of “hijacking Disney’s characters by reproducing, distributing, and creating derivative works.”

“ByteDance’s virtual smash-and-grab of Disney’s IP is willful, pervasive, and totally unacceptable,” the lawyer added.

In response, ByteDance assured the concerned parties that it would be acting to prevent the use of unauthorized materials.

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“We are taking steps to strengthen current safeguards as we work to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property and likeness by users,” a spokesperson claimed.

It wasn’t long before huge groups like the Motion Picture Association jumped in to back Disney up; the MPA represents not only the Mickey Mouse company, but Netflix, Paramount Skydance, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros., and Discovery.

“In a single day, the Chinese AI service Seedance 2.0 has engaged in unauthorized use of U.S. copyrighted works on a massive scale,” MPA chairman Charles Rivkin said in the statement.

Rivkin said the “infringement” affects “millions of American jobs” by disregarding the well-established copyright laws that are already on the books.

The Human Artistry Campaign — which represents groups like SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America — also chimed in and said that Seedance 2.0 was attacking every creator around the world.

“Stealing human creators’ work in an attempt to replace them with AI generated slop is destructive to our culture: stealing isn’t innovation,” the group said in a statement.

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For reasons unknown, the AI video generator became popular very quickly with those looking to recreate Hollywood-tier fight scenes with some of their favorite comic book characters, like Superman and the Incredible Hulk.

However, other fight scenes included bringing cartoons like “Dragon Ball Z” to life, while others featured rooftop fisticuffs between celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

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