President Donald Trump is usually making fun of his opponents, but during a midterm campaign rally on Wednesday, he took aim at Montana Republicans.

“Leave me alone,” Trump said to the crowd at Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell, Montana.

‘The 21st-century battlefield is being redefined by new weapons.’

Trump poked fun at Montana politicians to stop bothering him over plans for a new weapons testing facility in the state, which was dubbed a “super range” to test high-tech weaponry for the United States military.

“I’m pleased to inform you and announce that right here in Montana, the Department of War is going to establish a new super range for testing advanced weapons and technologies,” Trump told supporters.

The president said the range would test autonomous weapons, space weapons, and other forms of “electronic warfare technology,” including “supersonics and ⁠hypersonics.”

The announcement comes after the government finally confirmed in September that it had weapons in space, with Air Force Secretary Troy Meink saying that America has “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.”

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Trump made remarks in Montana about his fellow GOP members bothering him about wanting the range in their state.

“You’re getting it, everybody, will you please leave me alone?” Trump joked. “Leave me alone, Tim. Tim Sheehy would drive me crazy.”

At the same time, the president said that maybe the rest of the country “won’t be thrilled” because of how many other people wanted to house the range in their jurisdiction.

According to TWZ 10, Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mt.) said on Thursday that he has been a strong advocate for getting the range built in Montana and “securing $10 million for a feasibility study” through the National Defense Authorization Act that passed earlier this year.

“The 21st-century battlefield is being redefined by new weapons and evolving technical frontiers that require a novel approach to how America will resource its warfighting capabilities,” Sheehy said in a statement.

Sheehy went on to say that the advanced weaponry now available to the United States — electronic, hypersonic, and space — has a “new class of testing” and evaluation requirements that necessitate the development of such infrastructure.

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Although the senator said that the United States risks falling behind its adversaries, it is unclear exactly what capabilities the U.S. military currently possesses.

Until recently, much of the advancements in military technology promoted by the armed forces have been for on-the-ground use, like Palmer Luckey’s x-ray vision helmets and offline AI chatbots to assist soldiers in their missions.

“By combining our state’s vast landscapes, innovative spirit, and proud tradition of military service, we are the Last Best Place to ensure America’s fighting men and women have the technological edge they need to dominate the battlefield and win the wars of tomorrow,” Sheehy added.

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The Trump administration has closed a discrimination case against a well-known company — and the people who have had their eyes on this case for over a year are taking a victory lap.

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced a settlement of $5 million with Instacart for allegedly discriminating against U.S. and American workers.

‘We will not stop fighting for US workers until there is a fair playing field.’

In its investigation of the case, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that Instacart gave preference to holders of temporary employment visas over American workers.

Specifically, the DOJ explained, Instacart “created additional burdens on U.S. workers to apply for job opportunities by requiring that applications be physically mailed for positions advertised as part of PERM recruitment.”

PERM is the Permanent Labor Certification program used by companies to sponsor temporary visa holders for permanent resident status “after performing good-faith recruitment for U.S. workers.”

As a result of the additional burdens, U.S. workers who applied were “not timely considered,” the DOJ claimed.

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Maplebear Inc., doing business as Instacart, will be required to create and to pay $4 million into a settlement fund and will pay another $1 million in civil penalties to the United States.

According to a summary of the terms of the settlement, Instacart will also be required to revise its PERM policies, including allowing for electronic application submissions and to train personnel to give American workers proper consideration during the hiring process.

“This significant resolution marks the fifteenth settlement agreement the Civil Rights Division has reached under my leadership to protect U.S. workers,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in the DOJ’s press release. “Our record demonstrates that the Justice Department is holding companies who prefer workers with temporary employment visas accountable. We will not stop fighting for U.S. workers until there is a fair playing field.”

Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, reaffirmed the Trump administration’s commitment to holding companies accountable for discriminatory practices.

“The EEOC is committed to holding companies accountable when they deny equal work opportunities to U.S. workers by preferring temporary visa holders for jobs,” Lucas said. “Discrimination against workers based on their American national origin has no place in our economy.”

The news of this settlement was gladly welcomed by Jobs.Now, which first sounded the alarm on Instacart’s questionable hiring practices in April 2025.

Jobs.Now claims it documented several “hidden jobs” from Instacart before being “forced to take their ads down” after being threatened with a lawsuit. It then alerted The Hill to continue the investigation, culminating in a September 2025 report on the situation.

“So happy to finally see justice for Americans job seekers Instacart unfairly discouraged from applying!” Jobs.Now wrote. “Another win for Harmeet!”

In a statement to Blaze News, Jobs.Now explained the legal threat it received:

“We were shocked when Instacart threatened legal action against us simply for publicizing their job ads to the world, under the pretense that we were violating their copyright for the name ‘Instacart,’ and maintain that it is our First Amendment right to republish job ads so Americans can finally have the chance to apply.”

The company said it was “extremely happy” to see the settlement announcement from the DOJ but added that more work needs to be done regarding the PERM process:

“We call for all PERM advertising to require:

Job postings listed on companies’ main career website[s]Allowing electronic applications directly through the career websiteMandatory advertising on online job boards like Linkedin or IndeedIncreased DOL enforcement to ensure PERM recruitment processes do not discriminate against American workers.”

An Instacart spokesperson told Blaze News, “We encourage qualified U.S. job seekers to apply to join our team. Hiring and investing in American workers across our U.S. business is our priority, and we actively promote every role across many channels to ensure qualified U.S. candidates are always first in line for opportunities.”

“While we maintain that our practices complied with all applicable laws and regulations, we’re pleased to have resolved this matter so we can keep our full focus on delivering on our mission for customers, shoppers, retailers, and brands.”

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A 24-year-old Kansas man is in federal custody after allegedly threatening on Facebook to kill President Donald Trump.

Jaden J. Read was arrested after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas charged him with making threats against the president, according to a Monday Justice Department press release.

‘Let’s shoot Trump honestly, where’s our shooter?’

Read allegedly claimed to know exactly where President Donald Trump would speak during his visit to the Wichita area on Monday.

“IK where your speech will be. Already mapped out roofs around. Finna get kirked since yall couldn’t help him,” Read allegedly wrote.

“Kirked” is a reference to the assassination of Charlie Kirk and has become popular among left-wingers wishing death on conservatives.

A Crime Stoppers tip made on Thursday pointed authorities to Read’s comments under a KAKE News Facebook post about the president’s upcoming trip, according to the DOJ.

“Let’s shoot Trump honestly, where’s our shooter? I’m tired of living this money life,” the one comment allegedly read.

“I just got a 308 and 305 round and I’m killing this pedo,” Read also allegedly posted.

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Under a separate post from KWCH 12 News, Read allegedly wrote, “Can we shoot him in Kansas please I will myself.”

The rooftop comment came about a minute later, according to prosecutors.

It follows the July 2024 attempt on Trump’s life. Thomas Crooks shot and wounded the then-candidate from a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Charlie Kirk was shot from a rooftop at Utah Valley University in September 2025.

The complaint was filed Saturday, and Read was arrested in Clearwater the same day. He will remain in custody until a detention hearing, according to the DOJ. No hearing date has been made public.

If found guilty, Read faces up to five years in prison under the federal law barring threats against the president.

The Secret Service, U.S. Marshals Service, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Highway Patrol, and Wichita Police Department were all involved in the investigation, according to the release.

Trump went ahead with his Monday event at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, just north of Wichita.

U.S. Attorney Ryan Kriegshauser issued a stern statement for would-be assassins and those threatening the president online or offline.

“Political violence and threats of political violence will not be tolerated,” he said in the release.

“The First Amendment allows for robust disagreement, but there are constraints,” Kriegshauser said, cautioning people “to stay within the bounds of constitutionally protected speech.”

The Secret Service, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Highway Patrol, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The attorney listed for Read did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Tax-paying voters who don’t want to pay for transgender surgeries for illegal aliens are not likely to support Abdul El-Sayed after a new revelation.

The Democratic candidate for one of Michigan’s seats in the U.S. Senate made the comments on podcasts back in 2021 and 2022, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.

‘That’s going to be the example that they’re going to push forward because it captures a group of multiple marginalized people whom they want to cast as being undeserving.’

In one of the clips, El-Sayed complains that “conservatives” are using the issue of transgender surgeries for illegal aliens to oppose “Medicare for All.”

“A lot of the most difficult conversations break on the question of who deserves what care, right?” he said on his “America Dissected” podcast from Feb. 2022, according to the Free Beacon.

“The prime example that conservatives will impose on a conversation about Medicare for All will be ‘well, what do we do with the undocumented person who comes to this country and wants to get gender reassignment surgery on Medicare for All?'” he adds.

He goes on to accuse those opposing transgender treatments for illegal aliens of being guilty of “the original sin of racism,” a common anti-American trope among far-left extremists.

“That’s going to be the example that they’re going to push forward because it captures a group of multiple marginalized people whom they want to cast as being undeserving,” he adds.

In the second clip from a Boston University health policy podcast in 2021, he makes it clear he wants the taxpayer to pay for the trans surgeries for illegal aliens.

“When you talk about care for transgender people, when you talk about care for immigrants, like, all of these things are going to be deeply politicized,” said El-Sayed.

“My hope, right, is that we would pass a Medicare for All that is truly inclusive and offers the full gamut of health care that any and everyone would need,” he added.

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El-Sayed Called for Universal Health Care for Trans ‘Undocumented Persons’

Cole Wozniak, a campaign spokesman for El-Sayed, released a brief statement that implied El-Sayed still supports transgender surgeries for illegal aliens.

“Abdul wants to guarantee health care for every single American taxpayer and believes that medical decisions should be between a patient, their family, and their doctor,” said Wozniak.

Ironically, support for transgender surgeries for illegal aliens was one of the many issues that doomed the presidential campaign of Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024. In a brutally effective campaign ad, Harris is seen promoting trans-related surgery for prison inmates. The ad closes with the memorable line “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”

An April 2025 poll by the American Principles Project found that 66% of American adults oppose the federal government paying for any transgender surgeries or gender reassignment treatments.

Here’s the latest polling in the contest between El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers, according to the Blaze News Poll Watch:

Michigan Senate polls 2026: El-Sayed vs. Rogers

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The WNBA just got one step closer to admitting what a woman is.

However, the league isn’t quite there yet, and its latest response to a congressional inquiry still leaves the water more muddy than clear.

‘This is their clear acknowledgment …’

Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) sent the WNBA a letter in September asking the league to answer some key questions about how the league is being governed.

Stutzman didn’t exactly present the WNBA with any difficult questions, but the league still had trouble providing a clear answer.

In addition to queries about player safety, the letter asked how the league defines a “woman” and, if it doesn’t have a definition, why it was preventing former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White from entering the WNBA draft.

More than a month later, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has finally responded to the congressman and the House Republican Study Committee.

Stutzman posted the response on his X page, showing that while Engelbert provided the most clear answer from the league to date, she still won’t provide a definition of what a woman is.

“With respect to your questions regarding eligibility, only women are eligible to play the WNBA,” Engelbert wrote.

She added, “The individuals you cite in your letter are both men.”

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Rep. Stutzman declared victory over the response, writing, “This is their clear acknowledgment that simply identifying as a woman does not change basic human biology!”

However, the commissioner’s statement that “only women are eligible” is in line with pre-existing WNBA rules set out by the league’s latest collective bargaining agreement.

Article XIII, Section 1 of the WNBA’s 2026 agreement says that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA,” but does not provide a definition of the term. The league has not responded to multiple inquiries from Blaze News about what it considers a woman to be.

League officials even met in August to discuss the topic, but made no determination by the end of their meeting:

“There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others,” the WNBA declared.

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The two former NBA players declared themselves eligible for the 2027 WNBA Draft on the simple basis that the league has not defined what a woman is.

While Freedom, a 6’10” former NBA center, did not declare himself to be transgender, White, a former NBA guard, outright declared himself to be a woman.

“I’m a woman. I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for the purpose of basketball, professional basketball, so I’ll be declaring for the WNBA Draft in 2027 as well,” he said in August.

Thrown into the mix was Julie Tétart, a man who seemingly believes he is a woman and plays professional women’s basketball in France. The athlete dominated France’s Ligue 2 for the 2025-2026 season, blowing competitors out of the water with over 20 points and 20 rebounds per game.

Tétart said if the WNBA contacted him, he wouldn’t turn the league down.

“If they contact me, I won’t say no.”

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Duke’s loss to North Carolina took a back seat to a sideline confrontation that went viral. When Duke quarterback Kimari Robinson stood over injured teammate DaShawn Stone, a female staffer pushed him out of the way.

Robinson appeared to angrily swat her arm away, before apologizing later.

“Kimari Robinson, he stood over DaShawn Stone. Stone is motionless on the turf. Kimari says that Stone is like a family member to him. Two trainers are kneeled over Stone. And then a third staffer, the red-headed woman, she runs in, steps into that scene and circle, and she pushes Robinson out of the way,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says.

“He swatted her arm away. The clip then goes viral. Everybody’s got an opinion, and oh, it’s a bad look for Kimari Robinson. Robinson apologized to her that night and then again Sunday on X,” he continues.

“I want to publicly apologize to a member of our training staff for how I acted toward her during Saturday’s game. I was completely wrong, and she did not deserve that. Immediately after the game, I apologized to her personally and checked to make sure she was okay,” Robinson said in a post on X.

“The injured player on the ground, DaShawn Stone, is like family to me, and I was scared he might be seriously hurt. But being worried about him does not excuse how I treated her. I should have controlled my emotions, and I didn’t,” he continued.

“I’m truly sorry for my actions and for letting her, myself, and our program down. I have to be better than that,” he added.

“So hats off to Kimari Robinson. He owned his reaction. A man controls his hands even in panic. He failed that test. No excuse. But the narrative sense is a lie by omission,” Whitlock says.

Whitlock notes that the trainer put her hands on Robinson first in an attempt to shove him out of the way.

“You do not walk into a pile around a hurt player and shove a 200-pound quarterback in full pads. That’s not a trainer offering care. That is a trainer doing way too much in escalating a situation,” he explains.

“And my question is, where is her apology?” Whitlock says, asking, “Why is correction only traveling one direction toward the man?”

He also points out that in the clip of the interaction, “she doesn’t do anything” to help Stone.

“There’s no brace. There’s no evaluation. There’s no comfort. Her sole contribution to the entire sequence is pushing Robinson. Yet the mob demands Robinson carry 100% of the blame. She carries zero. She is cast as the innocent victim. Fragile, helpless, beyond reproach,” he says.

“She’s not the picture of innocence. She’s a girlboss showing up to put men in their place,” he adds.

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Would you play a video game made entirely with AI? The CEO of Epic Games thinks you will, as he just forbade his employees to write code by hand on the company’s next big game, instead pivoting to AI-driven development. Naturally, this caused plenty of backlash online, and both players and the employees reportedly aren’t happy with the decision.

Artificial intelligence has proliferated in virtually every industry, claiming to boost productivity and output for better results. Some employees aren’t so sure, though, as fears mount over job loss and individual autonomy.

‘Much of the room wants it to be 2016 again, but it’s not.’

Not to be deterred, AI proponent and CEO of Epic Games Tim Sweeney is going all in on AI to develop the company’s next big project, an unnamed Star Wars-themed shooter. Disney officially backs the game as part of the company’s $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games in 2024. Epic Games, of course, is known as the maker of one of the biggest titles on the planet, Fortnite, and the developer of the wildly popular game creation platform Unreal Engine.

Sweeney boldly made the announcement on his X page, writing:

We have a huge pivot underway here at Epic, moving developers around to retool for maximum AI acceleration.

The aim isn’t to do the same stuff with fewer people, but to enable everyone here to build MORE and BETTER stuff, and to bring the benefits to all teams using Unreal.

Under the new guidance, Epic Games employees will reportedly use Claude to write the underlying code and to create the visual assets found in the unreleased game, in place of handwritten code.

The backlash was almost immediate, with players throwing rocks in Sweeney’s comment section. “Your inability to read the room is really really astounding, Tim,” wrote one user.

“Your employees are wondering how they’re going to survive in this nightmare and you can’t empathize because you’re too far removed from where you began,” said another.

Ever adamant to defend his position, Sweeney hit back with his own retort:

Much of the room wants it to be 2016 again, but it’s not. Our job, as the provider of tools and technology to much of the industry, is to design for the present that is and the future that will soon be. Personally I’m optimistic about it and see it as empowering for creators.

Sweeney’s stance is simple. AI is a new technology that, in his eyes, will enable the next generation of game development. He even said as much several days after his announcement:

The games we’ve long wanted, which didn’t exist because they’d cost several times more to make than they’d earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn’t with the resources available. It’ll be a new golden age of gaming.

That remains to be seen. Gamers notoriously oppose AI, labeling it as “slop” for ripping off other artists’ character designs, art styles, and assets, before reassembling them into original projects that, in the end, aren’t all that original at all. From their perspective, AI is a thief that steals existing IP and regurgitates it into a cheap imitation of real art. They hate it.

To drive this point home, another critic wrote in response to Sweeney’s announcement: “[Billionaires are] used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can’t see the difference. They don’t understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games.”

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Sweeney may be optimistic about the future of AI in the gaming industry, but players — the same ones who adamantly oppose this technology today — are the ones he has to win over. Without gamer support, Epic Games doesn’t have a player base or a business.

So far, Sweeney’s combative takedown of AI critics isn’t winning their support, calling the opposition “bulls**t” and throwing insults like “Up yours!” To that, the critic replied, “Your employees are liking my post, they reach out to me all the time. We’re just sick of seeing ‘adapt or die’, we want to choose our own paths just like you did yourself.”

Gamers aren’t the only ones unhappy. Epic Games employees are also reportedly “stunned” by the decision while also confirming that the reports are true.

We reached out to Epic Games for comment on whether other games in its portfolio, like Fortnite, will be given the same AI mandate, or if these new rules are just for the upcoming Star Wars title. We did not receive a response by the deadline.

That said, it’s clear that the company is using AI on other projects. Just last week. Epic Games released a new vibe-coded version of its PC game launcher, boasting faster startup times than Steam. Unfortunately for Epic Games, Valve released a new version of the Steam launcher that beat the startup time of the new Epic Games Launcher just days later.

The new Star Wars title from Epic Games was supposed to be ready by March 2027, though it is now indefinitely delayed, presumably until Epic Games can use AI to fix whatever Sweeney believes was broken. After that, we’ll finally know if AI has any place in the gaming industry, or if this experiment goes up in smoke along with Disney’s $1.5 billion investment.

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Nearly half a year after the wild success of Fitbit Air, Google’s wearable division just released a second fitness tracker with even more features. Fitbit Edge slots directly between the sleek Air and Pixel Watch as a goldilocks option for many users, but its price could be a deterrent for some.

Fitbit has coasted along since Google acquired it in 2021, releasing iterative updates to its existing trackers but falling short of launching anything groundbreakingly new. That changed this year, when Google introduced the ultra-slim Fitbit Air. During my extensive trial period, I loved Air for its sleek, lightweight, and simple design, though the AI-powered Coach hallucinated too much to be reliable for anything other than a neat toy to play with.

At first glance, Fitbit Edge is poised as an upscaled version of Charge with a bit of design language borrowed from Pixel Watch.

One thing noticeably absent from Fitbit Air was a display. This was by design, of course. Fitbit Air was meant to be a no-muss-no-fuss tracker with as few distractions as possible. No bright lights. No notifications. Instead, it just sits on the wrist, silently collecting data and ushering it into the new Google Health app.

Some users aren’t happy with such a simple device. They want to be able to see their data without grabbing their phone, opening an app, and syncing their tracker. For those users, Fitbit Edge may be a better option.

Fitbit Edge is an entirely brand-new device from Fitbit. It slides directly between the simplified Fitbit Air and the more robust Pixel Watch in both price and features. It also replaces a long-time fan favorite device, the Fitbit Charge, that originally launched in 2014. Rest in peace.

At first glance, Fitbit Edge is poised as an upscaled version of Charge with a bit of design language borrowed from Pixel Watch. Unlike the plastic and fabric that makes up Air, Edge has an oblong aluminum frame that comes in four distinct colors — matte black, satin silver, satin pyrite, and champagne gold — paired with a silicone Active Band in obsidian (black), fog (light blue), olive, and canyon (coral pink). Continuing its partnership with Stephen Curry, Fitbit also offers a Stephen Curry special edition fabric band.

The user interface is extremely simple. There’s only one button on the side that can be used to wake the device, or start and stop workouts. As for the 1.3” AMOLED color display, it’s fully touch compatible, so you can use it to swipe through data as you would on a typical smartwatch.

Google claims Fitbit Edge gets a full seven days of battery life. This will need to be tested after the device launches, but if it’s true, that would put it on par with the Fitbit Air that also achieves approximately seven days per charge. This number is even more impressive with Edge, though, since it also needs more power to light the always-on AMOLED display.

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When it comes to data duty, Fitbit Edge collects the important metrics you’d expect from a Google fitness tracker — continuous heart rate, oxygen levels, and sleep quality, and it includes an entire array of heart health features, like AFib detection, irregular heart rate notifications, and high/low heart rate alerts.

Google unveiled several new features in August, collectively dubbed Health Guardian, that are built into Fitbit Edge. Insulin resistance trends use heart rate data to look for signs of early blood glucose complications, all without penetrating the skin or requiring a blood sample. Meanwhile, blood pressure trends also use heart rate data to search for potential signs of high blood pressure without requiring a dedicated blood pressure cuff. Health Guardian is coming to Fitbit Air soon, but it will launch on day one with Edge. To get the most out of Health Guardian, however, the entire feature set, with sleep breathing quality thrown in, is reserved for Pixel Watch.

Two things that Fitbit Edge has that Air doesn’t — a built-in GPS sensor and an altimeter. Both can be used during outdoor workouts to map runs and track elevation changes. To get this data with Fitbit Air, you’d need to bring your phone during a workout session, but Edge can gather these on its own.

All of this is meant to prop up Google’s AI-powered Coach that’s built into the Google Health app. After nearly half a year since it launched, Coach is still fundamentally flawed, in that it can occasionally misinterpret data or even hallucinate results, especially if there are gaps in the data. Presumably, Google will improve Coach over time, and while it remains an interesting tool to tinker with, I wouldn’t stake your health on it just yet. Take whatever it says with a grain of salt, at least for now.

If you love Fitbit hardware or software, and you like fitness trackers with built-in displays, Fitbit Edge might just be for you. If you walk or run outside often and you want to map your runs without bringing your phone, Fitbit Edge also might be for you. However, for the vast majority of people who just want a simple fitness tracker that gets the basics right, it’s hard to overlook Fitbit Air, especially at just $99.99.

If the latter sounds more like your speed, check out the latest entry in our long-term Fitbit Air review that covers the device as it ages, as well as any new features and bug fixes that roll out along the way.

As for Fitbit Edge, it’s currently available for preorder at $179.99 — almost double the price of Fitbit Air, just for the privilege of an added display and a couple extra sensors, and $20 more than the defunct Charge 6. Only you can decide if the price is worth it, but to me, it makes Fitbit Air all that much more appealing. Fitbit Edge is expected to ship later this month when devices hit store shelves on Tuesday, October 27.

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A Florida female with a blood alcohol content over three times the legal limit tried to pick up a child at an elementary school last week, police said.

A staff member at Wadsworth Elementary School in Palm Coast on Thursday notified a school resource deputy that a woman in the front lobby was trying to pick up a child and appeared impaired, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said.

‘Am I in trouble?’

School staff reported that the woman struggled getting in the door, had slurred speech and glassy eyes, and could not legibly write the name of the student she was trying to sign out, authorities said.

Deputies confronted the woman and identified her as Rebecca Beard, 28, of Palm Coast, officials said.

While speaking with Beard, deputies smelled alcohol on her breath and noticed she had slurred speech, was visibly unsteady, and appeared very tired, officials said, adding that Beard told deputies she had taken prescription medication the night before and was drowsy.

Deputies reviewed surveillance video showing her driving in an erratic manner while entering the school’s parking lot, officials said.

Despite her signs of impairment, Beard insisted she was able to drive, so deputies conducted a series of field sobriety exercises, officials said.

“Am I in trouble?” Beard is heard asking deputies on bodycam video prior to the exercise.

During the exercises, deputies observed that Beard repeatedly failed to follow instructions and struggled to maintain her balance — and as a result, deputies determined she couldn’t safely operate a vehicle, officials said.

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Deputies arrested Beard for DUI, officials said.

Beard was taken to the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility, where she provided breath tests, officials said, adding that the first test showed a blood alcohol content of 0.298, and the second showed a blood alcohol content of 0.294.

Deputies determined Beard had driven to the school with a blood alcohol content over three times the legal limit, officials said.

Deputies later searched Beard’s vehicle and found a large empty bottle of vodka under the back passenger seat, officials said.

“This woman endangered all the drivers on the roadway, children and cars on the campus, and had planned to pick up a student and try to drive home drunk, once again endangering everyone,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “I am thankful that school staff was vigilant and alerted the SRD and deputies so they could intervene. This is a great example of ‘See Something, Say Something’ in action and our school staff and deputies working together to keep our children safe.”

Flagler Schools Superintendent LaShakia Moore added that “we are proud to see our employees putting ‘See Something, Say Something’ to work to help keep our students and our campuses safe. It takes everyone working together to safeguard our amazing students.”

Beard was booked into the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility, where she was later released on a $1,000 bond, officials said.

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Chris D’Elia hates making his material political, and activists hate that.

That’s why when the comedian gave his latest take on the war between Israel and Palestine, he knew it was going to ruffle some feathers.

‘Guys, how can we report him?’

Choose or lose

For years, the New Jersey native has told fans he doesn’t want to use his act to take sides, a policy he reiterated during a recent appearance at the Improv.

“People will be like, ‘You have a following, are you going to say something about Gaza?'” the comedian began.

D’Elia’s reply was short and to the point: “Where’s that?”

When he gets asked, “Well, are you for Palestine or Israel?” D’Elia has a response for that too:

“I don’t watch soccer, I don’t know! I hope they have a good game.”

While the joke killed with the live audience, D’Elia knew what he was getting into when he posted it online:

“I’m sure the comment section below will make us all feel really good and happy,” he wrote.

The social media activists did not disappoint.

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Peanut gallery

“It’s ok to be spineless and stand for nothing,” a Lebanese man said.

“You can be funny and stand for justice at the same time, you do not have to compromise one for the other,” another man, with “FreePalestine” in his profile replied.

“Damn chris been bought out by [Israel],” said another.

“Guys, how can we report him?” asked an Indian man.

Many other comments took D’Elia’s non-stance as a stance in itself, saying they now understood him to be a supporter of Israel.

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Gun nuts

The joke police always come out in full force whenever the comic even broaches the subject of politics, which he does more often than he may be willing to admit.

In January, D’Elia went out on a limb and joked that he thinks all superheroes are secretly Republicans.

“Who’s Republican, dude? Wolverine! Cyclops! Professor X, hello?! You think he’s out there — in his mind, he’s like, ‘But secretly, f**k these woke, white, liberal women.’ Killing them left and right, dude, with his brain.”

Not that D’Elia spares the GOP. Last year, D’Elia caricatured conservatives as trigger-happy gun nuts while recounting being accosted by a liberal petitioner who wanted him to give a signature to support abortion rights.

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Americans always imagined the future would be filled with flying cars, and now Elon Musk is making that dream a reality.

Alongside designer leader Lars Moravy, Elon unveiled the new Tesla Roadster that can cling to a track upside down using powerful suction fans and pull off stunts with technology borrowed from SpaceX.

“Elon Musk, like a year ago, was talking about this new thing, and he wouldn’t say what it was, but he kind of did. He basically said, ‘Yeah, there’s a flying car coming.’ And so … we got a demonstration,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says, before playing the clip of the unveiling.

On what resembled a gravity-defying Hot Wheels track, the roadster drove up the track before flipping off and safely landing on the ground.

“We have … a fan suction system on the bottom of the car that can pull up to two G’s in order to make the car go upside down. And then we borrowed some technology from SpaceX to do the rest,” Moravy explained.

“Yeah, I mean, this car really sucks,” Elon joked.

“This car could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch,” he said. “It could suck a tennis ball through a hose pipe. And it could stick upside down. Now, you might say, like, how often do you want to stick upside down in a car, right?”

“Maybe not that often, but it actually has an actual benefit on the track or just driving, where the downforce of the car means you can corner incredibly well. Like you can corner it like it looks like you’re breaking physics because the car sticks to the ground so hard,” he continued.

“It’s going to crush every track record that has ever existed,” he added.

“What damage is that going to do to the roads?” Jeff Fisher asks.

Gray agrees, adding, “That’s what I was wondering, because that’s an issue.”

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The WNBA is not enforcing its own rules when it comes to “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Fans noticed on Monday that for the second straight game, both teams in the WNBA finals fled the court before the national anthem was played.

‘The anthem does not represent freedom, justice, and liberty for all Americans.’

The WNBA finals between the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream has the league getting widespread attention for all the wrong reasons — again.

Fans and media noticed that the teams headed to their locker rooms before the anthem on Saturday night and were anticipating the same for Game 2 on Monday.

It seemed not even beloved singer Alanis Morissette could keep the teams’ attention, as the Dream were seen walking off the court before her performance, followed by the Valkyries jogging to the locker room as the anthem was starting.

A video from Fox News stated that “both teams” returned to the floor “moments after” the national anthem ended.

Despite zero comment or reprimand from the WNBA, both teams appear to be in direct violation of league rules, which state in the 2026 rule book that the national anthem is to be a “dignified” event:

“Players, coaches, and trainers are to stand and line up in a dignified posture along the sidelines or on the foul line during the playing of the National Anthem,” the rule book reads.

Unfortunately, however, WNBA teams have a storied history of skipping the anthem on a regular basis, with league officials previously signaling that they have no problem with it.

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As reported by the Associated Press, the league suspended its anthem protocol through a memo in 2017, originally in response to seemingly racist events in Charlottesville, Virginia.

It should be noted that in 2026, the Department of Justice charged the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly sending more than $270,000 to a person to help plan, and attend, the alleged white nationalist rally.

The Dream have been skipping the anthem frequently in the years since. A set of pregame notes from 2020 highlighted the players’ association’s stance that “the anthem does not represent freedom, justice, and liberty for all Americans” and that players would continue to protest it “in various forms.”

This continued through the 2026 season, even when other teams remained on the court.

The Valkyries, on the other hand, have never taken part in the national anthem since their inaugural 2025 season, the AP reported.

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The WNBA has stayed silent in the media over the matter, seemingly not responding to any media requests from other outlets.

Blaze News also reached out to the Atlanta Dream and the WNBA for comment and did not receive a response.

Game 3 of the WNBA Finals tips off at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday. The series is currently tied 1-1.

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SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino may be retired, but he remains laser-focused on the mass deportation of illegal immigrants.

At the Deportation Celebration on Saturday night in Macomb County, Michigan, a political bellwether, Bovino characterized illegal immigration as “the greatest threat” that America has ever faced.

‘If we can get this 100 million out, I want to be back in on it.’

“When somebody crosses the border illegally, they’re not crossing it just to stay right there at the border,” he explained to James Dickson of Michigan Enjoyer. “They’re coming in … to do something wrong: smuggle drugs, human trafficking. Some try to find work. Some use our social services.”

Bovino assured the crowd that President Donald Trump is the “best” president he has ever worked for and that transitioning from President Joe Biden to Trump in January 2025 was like flipping a “light switch” on border enforcement.

However, Bovino indicated that Trump has gone soft on the issue in recent months, due in part to “poor information” from people who are “not border security professionals.” Bovino even claimed that he has been accused of “letting Trump off the hook” regarding mass deportations, though he remains optimistic that Trump may soon make it a major priority again.

“I’m hearing rumblings, folks, that maybe he is starting to wake up a little,” Bovino added.

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In response to a request for comment on some of Bovino’s remarks, White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis told Blaze News:

President Trump stopped the invasion of our country. There has never been a president who has been stronger on border security and immigration enforcement. Thanks to President Trump’s strong immigration enforcement policies, approximately three million illegals have left the United States and zero illegals have been released at the border in 17 months.

Bovino, 56, retired from the Border Patrol after immigration agents fatally shot two agitators in Minnesota back in January. And though he is less than a year away from the mandatory age of retirement at the agency anyway, Bovino suggested he may yet stage a comeback.

“You can get a waiver, even a fossil like me can get a waiver. So I was planning on lobbying the big man hard for a waiver,” he claimed, presumably referring to Trump.

Bovino added that he wants to return to the scene so he can help show 100 million illegal aliens the door. “If we can get this 100 million out, I want to be back in on it,” he said.

When Dickson pressed him on whether returning is a realistic option, Bovino replied, “Oh, absolutely. … It just depends on how serious our politicians are going to go on immigration. If you really want to go serious, then it’s definitely possible.”

In the event a return to federal immigration enforcement does not work out, Bovino confirmed to Blaze News that he may take a different approach and run for political office instead.

“I will run for something if they don’t start mass deportations! That’s the single focus and should be the single focus!” Bovino wrote in a message Monday.

“POTUS or bust,” he added in a follow-up message. The “Senate isn’t quick enough for what [the] country needs.”

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