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A panel about the assassination of Charlie Kirk descended into chaos over the extreme claims from a leftist streamer and influencer who said he had an obligation to mock the activist’s widow.

Liberal YouTube host Ana Kasparian and others berated streamer Destiny, whose real name is Steven Bonnell, for calling on Democrats to mock Erika Kirk after she encouraged Americans to join Turning Point USA in honor of her slain husband.

‘Because of the fact that you have a huge audience, you have a responsibility! … You represent the worst of us, Destiny! You’re embarrassing!’

“The idea of mocking a woman who is now a widow with two young children, who witnessed her husband get shot in the neck and bleed out to death, how can you mock that? What is wrong with you?” Kasparian said to Bonnell on Piers Morgan’s YouTube show.

“I don’t understand you, Destiny. You have so much hatred in your heart!” she added.

“It’s such a simple thing. If you’re gonna weaponize somebody’s grief against the other party, well, then of course people have a right to fight back against it,” he responded.

“I think that she has every right to grieve in whatever way she wants,” Bonnell added. “But when that grief is gonna be weaponized to do recruitment, political recruitment, and further radicalization of the other side, then of course you not only have the ability to mock, but I think you have the obligation to mock it. It’s insane!”

“Let me understand. Let me understand your argument. So since others are using her grief to politically recruit, you think that it’s OK to mock her specifically?” Kasparian asked. “How does that make any sense?”

“Since others are using her grief?” Bonnell replies. “She’s the one who gave a 17-minute speech on TV where she talked about good versus evil. She’s the one showing up in TPUSA ads one or two days after.”

Bonnell went on to attack Kasparian for criticizing the left and said that right-wing activists are planning on a civil war while liberals are attacking each other.

Elsewhere in the interview, Kasparian demanded that Bonnell condemn the attack on Kirk, but he said he would do so only after Trump condemned political violence.

“Why is your behavior contingent on Donald Trump?” Kasparian asked.

“Because he’s the president of the United States of America and the leader of the opposing political party!” Bonnell yelled.

“You have a huge audience of young men who listen to everything you have to say! … And because of the fact that you have a huge audience, you have a responsibility! … You represent the worst of us, Destiny! You’re embarrassing!” Kasparian yelled back.

Video of the entire exchange can be viewed on the show’s channel on YouTube.

RELATED: VIDEO: Erika Kirk makes first public remarks since the death of her husband, Charlie Kirk

Bonnell also mocked Kasparian for having a conversation with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck.

“You’re so embarrassing. You make the left look so bad, and you don’t even realize it. You are seriously so embarrassing,” Kasparian said to Bonnell.

“OK, yeah. You can talk to your best friend, Glenn Beck, about it later,” Bonnell mocked.

“Maybe I will!” she responded. “Maybe I will talk to Glenn Beck about it! Oh, is that naughty? Is it naughty to have conversations with people across the aisle?”

She went on to say that Bonnell should be shunned from the movement over cyber sexual harassment allegations against him in a lawsuit from another political influencer. Bonnell has said he did not violate any laws and was himself a victim of the leak.

Also on Thursday, Turning Point USA announced that Erika Kirk is taking over as CEO.

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The Republican Study Committee is taking aim at House Democrats for proposing a last-minute funding plan chock-full of “radical left-wing” policy proposals.

House Republicans are set to pass a clean continuing resolution Friday to keep the lights on through November 21 ahead of the September 30 funding deadline. The GOP proposal includes minimal anomalies with the exception of increased security funds in light of Charlie Kirk’s horrific assassination.

‘Democrats are recklessly threatening a shutdown unless we bend the knee.’

Despite this, Democrats have taken it upon themselves to propose their own funding bill, which RSC Chairman August Pfluger (R-Texas) called “stale leftovers” from former President Joe Biden’s administration.

“The Democrats’ continuing resolution proposal is nothing more than stale leftovers from the Biden-Harris administration that nobody wanted the first time around, and microwaving them won’t make them any more appetizing to the American people,” Pfluger told Blaze News.

RELATED: Why did Cory Mills come to Ilhan Omar’s rescue?

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In a memo obtained exclusively by Blaze News, the RSC contrasted the Democrats’ bloated spending plan that would help fund abortion and illegal aliens with the GOP’s straightforward, clean CR.

Democrats put forth a funding plan that would increase spending by nearly $1.5 trillion, including a continuation of $350 billion worth of Biden-era subsidies. The Democrats’ spending bill would also continue to funnel millions in benefits to illegal aliens and left-wing media companies like PBS and NPR and would reverse nearly $5 billion in spending cuts.

“While House Republicans offer a responsible plan to keep government open at current funding levels, Democrats are recklessly threatening a shutdown unless we bend the knee to their $1.5 trillion spending spree that provides illegal aliens with access to Medicaid and spends $350 billion on extending Biden COVID credits that subsidize abortion,” Pfluger told Blaze News.

RELATED: Exclusive: GOP lawmaker leads push to counter CCP influence in global telecommunications

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“The American people handed President Trump and congressional Republicans a decisive mandate to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse — not to capitulate to the same leftists who drove our country toward bankruptcy and were soundly rejected at the ballot box,” Pfluger said.

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At a recent city council meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, a local Christian man objected to naming a street after Osama Siblani — a Lebanese-born American who publishes the Arab American News and has made remarks supportive of terror groups.

“As a Christian, I would like to encourage peace. I’m not just being, like, you know, pro-Israel in this and, you know, fight back and that sort of thing, but I would like to encourage peace and not violence,” the local man explained.

The mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hammoud, responded that the man should close his eyes when he drives down the street to not see the street names.

“And I think it’s quite hypocritical to know that you’re approaching this podium, when you yourself have videos on YouTube standing in front of my mosque saying the cruelest of things about Muslims, about the religion of Islam, because you are a bigot, and you are a racist, and you are an Islamophobe,” Hammoud said.

“And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here, and the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city, because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence,” he continued.

“You’re somebody who tries to preach it, but in fact, you do everything but that,” he added.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is floored by the mayor’s response.

“An American Christian going to a meeting, addressing the city council respectfully, was told by the Muslim mayor, ‘You’re not welcome here in America,’” Gonzales says.

“We’re going down a dark path, my friends, especially considering Dearborn City Council and school boards are now dominated by Muslim officials,” she continues.

“All the rest of us who are here, who love our values, who love our culture, who love our country, who love our founding principles, we’re all expected to give up our traditions,” she says. “But if you criticize that man’s mosque, you are a xenophobe. You are a bigot.”

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The new U.S. House Jan. 6 select subcommittee is putting on a full-court press to recover the documents, videos, transcripts, and other information its predecessor Democrat-run Jan. 6 committee either discarded or otherwise failed to turn over for two successive GOP-led Jan. 6 investigations.

The new House Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021, sent out seven demand letters Thursday to the U.S. Department of Justice, the University of Virginia, and five other contract vendors that worked with the now-defunct Jan. 6 Select Committee appointed in 2022 by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

‘To date, Representative Thompson has failed to account for the missing footage and data.’

“The failure of the former January 6th Select Committee to properly archive more than a terabyte of data not only violated House Rules, it undermined the integrity of their entire investigation,” Subcommittee Chairman U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Georgia) told Blaze News in a statement. “My select subcommittee is determined to uncover the videos, digital data, transcripts, and summaries the former committee hid from the American people.”

The biggest request was made to Attorney General Pam Bondi for what could be a mountain of data from the DOJ.

RELATED: Bobby Powell gave his last breath working to expose Jan. 6 corruption

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“To assist in our oversight, we respectfully request that you produce to the Select Subcommittee all materials provided by the Justice Department to the January 6th Select Committee in the 117th Congress,” Loudermilk wrote to Bondi, “including all documents and communications between or among the January 6th Select Committee and the Justice Department.”

The work of the GOP-led House Jan. 6 investigation in the 118th Congress was stymied by more than 1 terabyte of missing digital data, including video footage of depositions and witness interviews. Loudermilk said former Select Committee Co-Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) conceded in a July 2023 letter that he withheld that information from materials put into the archive.

“To date, Representative Thompson has failed to account for the missing footage and data,” Loudermilk wrote.

A letter was sent to Design in DC LLC, which was paid more than $2 million by the select committee for consultant services. Loudermilk requested all video and audio received by the company pertaining to Jan. 6, “including but not limited to video recordings of witness interviews, transcribed interviews, and depositions,” the letter said. The “digital experiences” company provided website and application development, Loudermilk said.

Polar Solutions Inc. of Gaithersburg, Md., was also sent a letter requesting all materials from or to the Jan. 6 select committee. Polar was paid more than $2.7 million in contractor fees by the select committee. The company conducts financial investigations and provides management and training programs, Loudermilk said.

The same request was made of PATCtech of Plainfield, Indiana, which was paid more than $400,000 for providing “high-tech forensic services.”

RELATED: Restoration of military honors for Ashli Babbitt strikes back against a tide of Jan. 6 lies

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes appears on a video screen above members of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, July 12, 2022.Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

“According to Denver Riggleman, a former representative and a former senior technical adviser for the January 6th Select Committee, PATCtech was instrumental in synthesizing and processing the vast amounts of telecommunications data collected and provided to the January 6th Select Committee,” Loudermilk wrote.

The letter asked for documents, transcripts, and cell data provided to the company by the select committee and any audio files and video footage of witness interviews or depositions.

Demand letters also went to Broadcast Management Group Inc. in Washington, D.C., which helped stage public hearings for national broadcast; Country World Productions, now part of Verbit in New York City, which provided stenographic reporting, closed-captioning services, and advertising; and the University of Virginia, paid $60,000 to help the committee map out telephone call data.

The DOJ and contract vendors were asked to submit all data to the select subcommittee by Oct. 2.

The new select subcommittee was appointed Sept. 11 by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Republican members include Loudermilk, Rep. Morgan Griffith of Virginia, Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas, Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, and Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) appointed members including Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, and Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida. Swalwell served on the previous Jan. 6 select committee in the 117th Congress.

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A liberal arts college student is backtracking after she posted a video calling for more political assassinations and citing the influential thought of a murderous communist dictator.

Julia Xu said in the video posted on social media that not everyone is entitled to free speech and that some people should be afraid of speaking their opinions in public. She said she made the comments in class the day after the death of Kirk.

‘It just shows that white men will always empathize with the people who look like them.’

“We need to bring back political assassinations. I don’t feel bad, and I don’t think that everyone deserves the right to free speech,” Xu said in the video. “I think some people should be afraid to express their opinion in public.”

She went on to say that she had been studying about the 1949 communist takeover in China and how violent revolution liberated millions of people and millions of women. Xu quoted Chairman Mao for advocating that free speech should not be a right of the enemies of revolution like imperialists and capitalists.

“The worst thing that was said in that class was that it was a shame that Charlie Kirk died because he was such a huge figure in the right-wing movement, and now who will be left to debate?” she continued.

“Of course, everyone saying this, they were all male students. There were four or five male students,” Xu added.

“It just shows that white men will always empathize with the people who look like them,” she said.

The video was eventually deleted, but many versions were widely circulated on social media.

Xu is a supporter of Palestine, uses they/them pronouns, and is on the advisory board of a group that supports expanding queer, trans, and women’s studies at the school.

RELATED: ‘It’s the death of free speech!’ Jay Leno expresses his shock at killing of Charlie Kirk

Xu has since said she did not mean to support political violence when she called for more political assassinations.

“I do not actually advocate for political assassinations. … I did not receive agreement from my professor or other students with the opinions I expressed in class, and it was wrong to imply this in my post,” she said in a statement to the New York Post.

“I do not condone political violence, and my comments were tactless,” she added.

Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar also gave the Post a statement rejecting Xu’s comments.

“Last week, in an open letter, I wrote ‘there is no place for political violence in the America that I love.’ It threatens our sense of safety and well-being and it violates the sanctity of the nation’s civil discourse,” Ambar wrote.

“I want to emphasize that the views expressed in the student’s post do not reflect those of the faculty member who teaches the class referenced,” she added. “Nor does the student’s post reflect the views of Oberlin College.”

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Republicans in the U.S. Senate have confirmed 48 nominations from President Donald Trump that were being stalled by Democrats.

The motion to confirm the nominees passed in the U.S. Senate by a vote of 51 to 47.

‘We have tried to work with Democrats in good faith to batch bipartisan, noncontroversial nominees and clear them expeditiously, according to past precedent. Democrats have stood in the way at every turn.’

Republicans have been criticizing Democrats for slow-walking the nominations in order to slow down Trump’s political agenda.

“If the Senate had continued at the pace that we’ve been proceeding at through the month of July, there would still be hundreds of empty desks in the executive branch on President Trump’s last day in office in 2029,” said Republican Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota on Thursday.

Among those nominations are Kimberly Guilfoyle, to become the ambassador to Greece, and Callista Gingrich, to become the ambassador to Switzerland. Guilfoyle is a former Fox News personality, and Gingrich is the wife of former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

A Republican aide told Blaze News that the motion was one that was originally proposed by Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Angus King of Maine in 2023. Without the rule change, the Senate would be forced to hold 600 roll-call votes rather than confirm them in one large batch.

“Republicans aren’t going to tolerate this obstruction any longer,” Thune said in an op-ed at Breitbart News. “We have tried to work with Democrats in good faith to batch bipartisan, noncontroversial nominees and clear them expeditiously, according to past precedent. Democrats have stood in the way at every turn.”

RELATED: John Thune to use Democrats’ own ‘nuclear option’ to defeat Senate confirmation blockade

Republicans issued praise for the decision.

“[Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer and Dems have delayed every single Trump nominee and have even forced our committee to vote on a number of nominees for a second time. The political games end here,” said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho).

“Today, the Senate voted to confirm 48 of President Trump’s nominees. We aren’t going to stop until he has his entire team in place to serve the will of the American people,” said Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) previously criticized the move in a speech from the floor of Congress.

“One of the most important checks on executive power, given to the Senate in the Constitution, is the power of consent for nominees to high executive office. It prevents a president from installing in power unqualified or corrupt people,” he said.

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Portland, Oregon, Mayor Keith Wilson (D) announced his administration will be issuing a “land use violation” to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in the southern portion of the city for alleged violations surrounding Antifa constantly protesting the building.

According to Wilson’s office, an overview of federal records “from a 10-month period show more than two dozen detention policy violations of the facility’s land use conditions of approval with the city, which does not allow detainees to be kept overnight or held for more than 12 hours.”

The crowds often stand in front of the driveway in an attempt to prevent federal vehicles from entering or leaving.

The city is also taking issue with a “second violation related to boarded windows, which is not associated with the land use approval.”

Wooden boards have had to be placed over the building’s windows and doors to prevent damage to the glass and walls due to the ongoing protests, riots, and vandalism from Antifa and far-left activists.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made clear detention limitation commitments to our community, and we believe they broke those policies more than two dozen times,” said Wilson. “I am proud of our team for conducting a thorough, thoughtful investigation, and referring the matter to the next steps in the land use violation process.”

RELATED: ICE facility in Portland under daily siege by Antifa militants as riots spread

ICE facility in Portland under daily siege by Antifa militants as riots spread. (Julio Rosas/Blaze Media)

The Department of Homeland Security will be given 30 days after receiving the notice of violation “to correct the issue. If there is substantial evidence of violation, a fine can be issued.”

A request for comment from DHS on the alleged violations was not returned in time for publication.

The ICE facility in the Rose City has long been a target for local far-left and communist radicals. The location was targeted during the 2020 BLM and Antifa riots, continuing until Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021. With the Trump administration’s renewed crackdown on illegal aliens, Antifa activists have doubled their efforts to attack the building and federal agents.

The crowds often stand in front of the driveway in an attempt to prevent federal vehicles from entering or leaving, forcing agents to remove them physically or with crowd-control munitions.

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The Senate unanimously voted to pass a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk following his horrific assassination.

The resolution, which was spearheaded by Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, will make Kirk’s birthday a national day of remembrance, commemorating the beloved conservative activist. Scott’s resolution passed the Senate unanimously on Thursday, making October 14 a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie.

‘This is just a flag, planted on a hill. What matters is where we carry it next.’

“Charlie was taken from us in a disgusting act of political violence on September 10, 2025, but his legacy lives on,” Scott said on the Senate floor. “Charlie will long be remembered for his love of God, his family, and this great nation, and the impact he had on each and every one of us.”

“We have the opportunity to carry on his memory by believing in the power of ideas, discussion, and the value of our nation,” Scott added.

“Let us honor Charlie by believing in the power of our ideas to win the day and leave this nation a better place,” he continued.

RELATED: ‘Exactly what he wanted’: Charlie Kirk’s widow is taking over as CEO of Turning Point USA

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The resolution also commends Kirk as a “champion of free speech, dialogue, and faith,” recognizing the countless contributions he made in just 31 years.

Other lawmakers have made similar efforts to memorialize Kirk. Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah led a resolution to condemn Kirk’s assassination and praise his “outstanding legacy.” Like Scott’s resolution, Lee’s passed the Senate unanimously.

“This is just a flag, planted on a hill,” Lee said in a post on X. “What matters is where we carry it next.”

RELATED: FBI unveils damning new evidence against accused Charlie Kirk assassin

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The House is also expected to hold a vote Friday on a resolution condemning the political violence that resulted in Kirk’s assassination. Democratic leaders have conveyed behind closed doors that they will support the resolution, but they are not pressuring the rest of their party to vote in favor of it.

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An Eastern European country has appointed a new minister, and it is not a real person.

For the last few years there have been discussions about implementing artificial intelligence in Ukraine to help with its judicial system due to its lack of available judges. The country even introduced an AI spokesperson for its foreign ministry in 2024.

However, another European nation has beaten Ukraine to the punch and officially appointed an AI entity to a government position.

‘One day, we might even have a ministry run entirely by AI.’

Public tenders, which refers to bids made by companies to supply goods or services to the government, will now be handled by artificial intelligence in Albania.

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama stated on Friday that the AI “minister” will be trusted to stamp out corruption in the government.

The minister will be a “member of the Cabinet who is not present physically but has been created virtually from artificial intelligence.”

The AI minister, named Diella — which translates to “Sun” according to the Associated Press — will be “100% free of corruption” and will help government efficiency while providing full transparency, the prime minister said.

Diella has already been implemented as a virtual assistant on Albania’s online public services, helping users navigate government websites and deal with digital documents.

RELATED: Therapists are getting caught using AI on their patients

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Rama has been calling for AI to be in use for his government for many months. As reported by RBC-Ukraine, he suggested in August that AI could fight corruption at the highest levels.

“One day, we might even have a ministry run entirely by AI. That way, there would be no nepotism or conflicts of interest,” he reportedly said.

He also expressed interest in having AI govern the country from the top down, the outlet stated.

Rama has been attending World Economic Forum meetings since at least 2014 and is noted on the organization’s website.

RELATED: Trump’s new AI Action Plan reveals our digital manifest destiny

“Diella” appears as an AI assistant on an Albania government website. Photo by ADNAN BECI/AFP via Getty Images

“The world is moving towards digital infusion, and that will likely, in my view, backfire in the long run,” said Lewis Brackpool, director of investigations for Restore Britain.

“Albania’s AI appointment may in turn show an oxymoronic, two-tiered approach by implementing it. The concern is not whether AI can be used for good sometimes, but the emphasis is on whether it is, in fact, corruption-proof,” Brackpool told Blaze News.

Brackpool asked, “Who programmed the algorithm? What are his or her views? Have these views been included within its database? As Albania’s primary ideological governmental structure is based on socialism, will this coincide with the inherent bias of the machine?”

The Albanian government is run by Rama’s Socialist Party, which won its fourth consecutive term in May. The party controls 83 of the 140 seats. Other parties in the country include the Democratic Party of Albania, which is the opposition party, described as center-right and opposed to communism.

Other parties with seats include the progressive Freedom Party (formerly labeling themselves socialists), and the Social Democratic Party.

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President Donald Trump revealed during a joint press conference on Thursday with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the U.S. is working on regaining control of Bagram Air Base in the Parwan Province of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

“We’re trying to get it back,” said Trump. “We’re trying to get it back because [the Taliban] need[s] things from us.”

The Soviets built the airfield 27 miles north of Kabul and 400 miles west of China in the 1950s and controlled it until their withdrawal from the country in the late 1980s. After overthrowing the previous Taliban regime in 2001, the United States took control of the base and made massive improvements.

‘It’s exactly one hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles.’

During the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan two decades later — during which the ISIS-Khorasan suicide bombing outside Hamid Karzai International Airport claimed the lives of 11 Marines, a soldier, and a sailor and wounded 45 other service members — the 30 square mile airfield was given to the Afghan National Army, which promptly surrendered the base to Taliban forces.

RELATED: The Department of War would remind America what’s really at stake

Bagram Airfield after its abandonment by the Biden administration. Photo by Rahmatullah ALizadah/Xinhua via Getty Images

In his first Cabinet meeting after retaking office, Trump hinted that he might condition continued American aid to Afghanistan on the U.S. retaking control of the airfield.

Trump also criticized Biden’s botched withdrawal, noting that “we were going to keep Bagram — not because of Afghanistan but because of China.”

“It’s exactly one hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles,” said Trump. “We were going to keep a small force on Bagram. We were going to have Bagram Air Base, one of the biggest air bases in the world, one of the biggest runways.”

When pressed for comment, the State Department referred Blaze News to the White House, which did not immediately respond.

The Federation of American Scientists revealed in 2021 that satellite imagery indicated that China was constructing a nuclear missile silo field in eastern Xinjiang, the Chinese province that shares a border with Afghanistan.

The distance between Bagram and the airfield is over 1,414 miles as the crow flies. The communist nuclear missile silos in Yumen, Gansu Province, are approximately 930 to 1,000 miles away from Bagram by air.

The Washington, D.C.-based Orion Policy Institute noted in a March policy brief that:

since relinquishing control of Bagram Air Base in July 2021, the U.S. lacks a military presence in or near Central Asia. If the U.S. regained control of Bagram Airbase, it could reassert U.S. influence in the region, counter China’s growing influence, combat China’s growing nuclear capabilities, and better protect the U.S. from the growing terrorist threats.

Trump reiterated on Thursday, “We want that base back, but one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons. So a lot of things are happening.”

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Liberals are up in arms about Jimmy Kimmel’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” getting suspended by broadcaster ABC, claiming conservatives have been hypocritical over the ordeal.

Kimmel found himself in hot water after claiming that Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was of the same political tribe as Kirk, saying, “The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

‘Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?’

Even President Barack Obama has spoken out about Kimmel, saying on X, “After years of complaining about cancel culture,” the Trump administration has “taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”

However, the liberal elites and their late-night mouthpieces have seemingly forgotten about the high-profile cancellations that have occurred in recent years, especially those involving people on the other side of the political spectrum.

For instance, Roseanne Barr had her iconic 2018 comeback stymied over what were considered by the media to be “racist tweets.”

Barr’s show “Roseanne” had a thunderous return to the very same airwaves as Kimmel on ABC, but even though she had the most-watched show of the year, she was still booted from her own creation.

Barr even responded to President Obama’s post on Thursday, saying, “Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?” referring to the CEO of the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC.

The comedian is just one of many personalities who lost their jobs as a result of their speech.

RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel’s show pulled off the air after Charlie Kirk comments

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Who can forget that Gina Carano, also employed by Disney, was fired in February 2021 after she made posts online that mocked the use of pronouns while also criticizing COVID-19 policies?

She was promptly kicked from Disney’s “The Mandalorian,” with studio Lucasfilm saying, “Her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”

Tucker Carlson was famously fired by Fox News in April 2023 for what some say was a result of his hammering of the January 6, 2021, investigations. However, Carlson claimed his firing was a requirement of the $787.5 million settlement Fox had agreed to with Dominion Voting Systems.

Another conveniently forgotten cancellation from the left was Alex Jones, who was simultaneously taken off of every major platform in 2018. YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and Facebook all took Jones’ Infowars off their sites for allegedly promoting violence and hate speech.

Jones’ take on Sandy Hook, Comet Pizza, and the Parkland, Florida, shootings were cited as reasons for removing Jones not from just radio stations, but from entire platforms that are meant to be public for all.

RELATED: ‘John Goodman wouldn’t do it’: Roseanne Barr says other ‘Roseanne’ actors refused to play Trump supporters

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Author J.K. Rowling was blacklisted from a reunion for her own project in 2021 over her unwillingness to accept males as females. She was also banned from certain “Harry Potter” projects for the same reason.

Almost every star of “Harry Potter” has condemned Rowling’s comments and views, which have amounted to, essentially, not wanting trans-identifying men to be allowed in women’s spaces.

Liberals certainly did not shed any tears for Megyn Kelly when she was fired by NBC in 2018. The morning show host dared to say that if a non-black person wanted to dress as a black character for Halloween, it should be allowed.

“Truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character,” she said, per the Associated Press.

Leftists did not defend Kelly then and treated the situation as if she had been advocating for the mockery of all black people.

Last but not least, BlazeTV’s own Glenn Beck departed from Fox News Channel in 2011 at the behest of Media Matters. In fact, not only did the activist group proudly claim the victory, but executives openly said they would monitor whoever replaced Beck.

“We monitor Beck’s 5 p.m. show on Fox. Whoever is in at 5 p.m., we’re still going to monitor,” said Media Matters executive vice president Ari Rabin-Havt.

Though Beck was drawing in more than 2 million viewers per show at the time, Media Matters targeted the show’s advertisers, which eventually caved.

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Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy has experienced what it’s like to be canceled.

It has been almost four years since Business Insider trampled on Portnoy’s image by seemingly reaching out to any, or all, women in his past in an attempt to paint him as “violent” toward them during sex; the word “sex” appeared 27 times in the the outlet’s story.

‘Jimmy Kimmel isn’t being successful enough … to keep him on the air.’

At the time, Portnoy slammed the outlet as his new mortal enemy and rejected every assertion up and down.

Now, Portnoy’s experience with cancellation have shined through in his take on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from ABC, following Kimmel’s disprovable claims about Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer.

Portnoy took to his social media on Thursday to say he did not think Kimmel was being “canceled.”

“To me Cancel culture is when people go out of their way to dig up old tweets, videos etc looking for dirt on somebody they don’t like in an effort to get them fired,” Portnoy wrote on X.

“Like if Kimmel got canceled for s**t he did on the Man Show that would be cancel culture,” he added. “But when a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, dumb in real time and then that person is punished for it that’s not cancel culture.”

Portnoy was likely referring to Kimmel doing blackface on his 19990-2003 show to impersonate former NBA player Karl Malone, which Kimmel apologized for in 2020.

“That is consequences for your actions,” Portnoy added.

Portnoy explained in a follow-up video that when sponsors, networks, and even bosses are involved, there will always be caveats on what one can say.

RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel claims Charlie Kirk shooter is ‘MAGA’ during wildly unfunny monologue

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Portnoy revealed that when Penn Entertainment bought Barstool Sports in 2023, part of the agreement was that he would not “make fun of politics and government employees.”

The entrepreneur explained that Penn, which runs gaming sites and casinos, did not want Portnoy or his staff poking fun at those who control gambling licenses.

“Whenever you work for a company, or work for somebody else, and you are … creating headaches for the people up top, you’re forced with a decision,” Portnoy continued. He stated that he did not think conservatives were engaging in cancel culture and being hypocritical in relation to Kimmel.

“What happened to Kimmel, I would say, is consequences for your actions in real time.”

RELATED: ‘It makes me want to puke’: Dave Portnoy reacts to political advice from AOC, Zohran Mamdani supporters

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Portnoy went on to claim that Kimmel’s situation was simply the broadcaster’s way of stating that viewers in its markets do not want to see that type of content. He stressed, “This is not a free-speech issue to me.”

“This is a capitalist market,” the 48 year old added.

Finally, Portnoy argued that if Kimmel is “creating more headaches than he is bringing in benefit,” he, like anyone else, could get the boot.

Nielsen ratings have shown a significant drop in viewership for Kimmel in recent years, down to about one-fourth of what they were in 2013. In 2025, his show has ratings around 0.16, which is considered extremely low and at risk of being taken off the air.

“This is, Jimmy Kimmel isn’t being successful enough … to keep him on the air.”

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In 2016, Donald Trump blasted President Obama for refusing to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.” Trump argued that any leader unwilling to name America’s enemy lacked the moral clarity to defend the nation and serve as president. He was right then — and he’s right now.

Today, America faces another threat that must be called by its name: transgender ideology-inspired violence and extremism. The Oversight Project is calling on the FBI to formally designate TIVE as domestic terrorism. We urge every American to demand the same. Political correctness cannot be allowed to obscure a growing danger.

Twenty-four years after 9/11, we should know better than to ignore clear warning signs.

The need has never been clearer. Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a man steeped in TIVE ideology, as indicated by the shell casings, text messages, his homosexual relationship with a man claiming to be transgender, and other obvious indicators. Online communities of TIVE adherents continue celebrating the murder. Federal investigators are now probing groups that appear to have had foreknowledge of the attack.

That assassination was not an isolated event. In August, Robert Westman fired through the windows of Annunciation Catholic Church, gunning down parishioners and killing two children. In May, Jared Ravizza stabbed six people, including children, in a Massachusetts movie theater. In 2023, Audrey Hale killed six at the Covenant School. And in 2022, Nicholas Roske, a man who identified as a transgender woman, attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

This list barely scratches the surface. The pattern is clear: TIVE adherents treat disagreement as violence. Anyone who refuses to affirm their delusions becomes an enemy whose mere existence justifies reprisal. From that warped premise, violent acts naturally follow.

Why a federal designation matters

A domestic terrorism designation would give the FBI the tools to map networks, deploy undercover operations, and share intelligence with state and local agencies. The federal definition of domestic terrorism already covers the tactics TIVE adherents employ — assassination, mass shootings, intimidation, and coercion.

Other categories already exist, from racially motivated extremism to animal rights terrorism. TIVE qualifies under the same standard, and its record of violence suggests it could soon eclipse those groups in lethality.

Anticipating the pushback

The left will accuse us of labeling all transgender people as terrorists. That is false. TIVE does not mean transgender identity itself — it means adopting an ideology that frames disagreement as violence and legitimizes retaliation. One need not be transgender to adopt TIVE, as the suspected assassin Tyler Robinson illustrates.

The politically correct right will take another route. Fearing criticism, they will prefer vague labels that blunt the truth. Just this week, FBI Director Kash Patel unveiled a catch-all category designed to offend no one: “nihilistic violent extremism.” But TIVE does not fit. These attackers do not believe life is meaningless. They believe in a utopia purged of ideological opponents. That is not nihilism. That is fanaticism.

RELATED: The right message: Justice. The wrong messenger: Pam Bondi.

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As Trump said: If you cannot define your enemy, you are not fit to lead.

Some may argue that Trump’s designation of Antifa as a terrorist group on Wednesday already addresses this threat. But Antifa represents a broader spectrum of anarchist and far-left ideologies. TIVE stands apart. It grows out of transgender ideology and channels rage into acts of targeted violence, often against Christians and conservatives.

America can, and does, face multiple domestic terror movements at once.

Time for political will

Twenty-four years after 9/11, we should know better than to ignore clear warning signs. If jihadists with Arabic last names had carried out the recent wave of attacks, Washington would be in crisis mode. Instead, we get euphemisms and excuses.

This problem can be solved. But only if leaders show the political will to act. Designating TIVE as domestic terrorism would allow law enforcement to disrupt networks before they strike again. It would send a clear message: America will not tolerate ideologies that sanctify violence.

Until that happens, every church service, every school day, and every public gathering risks becoming the next target. Naming the enemy is the first step to defeating it.

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Florida’s new lieutenant governor, Jay Collins, is no stranger to being on the front lines. Prior to entering politics, Collins served as a Green Beret in the Army Special Forces in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now, his battles are in Florida and are political in nature, but it’s a mission that he takes seriously in order to ensure the gains the state has made under Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are not squandered. Collins was a state senator when DeSantis appointed him in August to replace former Lieutenant Gov. Jeanette Nuñez (R), who stepped down from the position in February to become president of Florida International University.

‘People just crave leadership that just cares about them.’

Collins’ preferred leadership style was put on display when he flew to California to oversee the transfer of the illegal alien truck driver who was taken into custody in Stockton after allegedly causing a fatal car crash in Florida by attempting to do an illegal U-turn.

“Those are three lives cut short that ended early because [of] this guy who couldn’t read road signs, doesn’t speak English. … What are we going to do? Let Gavin Newsom play games? We had zero faith that he was going to follow through and do the right thing. So why would we not have leadership on the ground?” Collins told Blaze News regarding his reason for going to California.

“We believe in government that will not only hold people accountable, we will go to great measures to make sure that accountability happens,” he continued.

Collins said the flight back to Florida with the suspect, Harjinder Singh, was “odd” and that he did not talk much other than to say he liked Chick-fil-A.

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Collins said he has not been too surprised with anything relating to the duties of lieutenant governor. “I’m a fan of measuring twice, maybe thrice before you cut,” he said. However, he has noted how much people “want on-the-ground leadership.”

“Everywhere we go … people just crave leadership that just cares about them,” Collins continued. “It’s been exciting to see that.”

Reacting to Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk being assassinated by a far-left suspect last week, Collins said that “there’s so much at stake” for the direction of the country in the aftermath of such a tragic event.

RELATED: Charlie Kirk’s hometown gathers to honor beloved activist: ‘His death is his life beginning with the Lord’

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“[Kirk’s] approach to civil discourse and discussion and just confronting people with love, with curiosity, and curiosity, and conversation was amazing. To see somebody who believed in our American ideas … to that degree being taken is heartbreaking,” Collins explained, adding his concern with how the left has responded with violence to people like Kirk.

With DeSantis being term-limited, Collins could jump into the governor’s race and has not ruled it out. If he decides to run for the top position, he would have to go against Rep. Byron Donalds (R), who already has the endorsement of President Donald Trump.

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The former Columbia University grad student who is accused of supporting terrorism through his pro-Palestinian protesting has been ordered by an immigration judge to be deported.

Mahmoud Khalil’s cause has been taken up by many on the left who accuse the Trump administration of unlawfully supporting Israel and discriminating against supporters of the Palestinian cause. The administration has argued that Khalil’s actions violated the provisions of his immigration status by terrorizing Jewish students.

‘This Court cannot and will not condone such an action by granting a discretionary waiver.’

Immigration Judge Jamee Comans found that Khalil had “willfully misrepresented” material facts on an immigration application “for the sole purpose of circumventing the immigration process and reducing the likelihood his applications could be denied.”

“This Court cannot and will not condone such an action by granting a discretionary waiver,” the Louisiana-based judge added.

Comans denied Khalil’s request for a waiver preventing his removal from the U.S., but Khalil’s attorneys said they have 30 days to file an appeal with the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Khalil is a citizen of Algeria who came to the U.S. from Syria on a student visa in 2022. The administration accused him of withholding information about his membership to several groups, including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency of Palestine Refugees as well as the Columbia University Apartheid Divest organization.

RELATED: DHS fires out scorching response to $20 million lawsuit from Mahmoud Khalil against Trump admin

“It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech. Their latest attempt, through a kangaroo immigration court, exposes their true colors once again,” a statement from Khalil reads.

“When their first effort to deport me was set to fail, they resorted to fabricating baseless and ridiculous allegations in a bid to silence me for speaking out and standing firmly with Palestine, demanding an end to the ongoing genocide,” he continued. “Such fascist tactics will never deter me from continuing to advocate for my people’s liberation.”

Comans’ order was made on Friday but was filed on Wednesday.

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A former Florida nurse learned her fate after she pleaded “no contest” to a child sex crime, in which she sexually assaulted her stepson.

As Blaze News previously reported, 35-year-old Alexis Von Yates was accused of engaging in sexual activities with a minor.

‘Ms. Yates told victim that she was ‘horny.”

Von Yates originally was charged with sexual battery on a person 12 to 18 years of age by a person in familial custody, a first-degree felony that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $10,000 fine.

However, Von Yates agreed last month to a plea deal on a lesser charge of lewd and lascivious battery on a child between the ages of 12 and 16.

On Tuesday, Von Yates was sentenced to serve two years in state prison, followed by two years of community control and 10 years of sex offender probation, according to the New York Post. Von Yates also is required to complete 200 hours of community service and pay fines and court costs. The judge ordered her to have no contact with the victim.

Florida Fifth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Timothy McCourt noted that the victim and his mother said they were “one hundred percent in agreement with the sentencing,” according to the New York Post.

However, the mother of the boy blasted Von Yates as an “incestuous pedophile” who groomed her son.

During the sentencing hearing, the victim’s mom claimed Von Yates showed no remorse for her “despicable actions” and slammed her a “coward,” Fox News reported.

RELATED: She once was school ‘counselor of the year.’ Now she’s accused of sexually assaulting student 100+ times, court docs say.

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Von Yates is accused of sexually abusing the boy on July 26, 2024.

“His father worked late hours as a lineman,” the arrest affidavit reads. “The child victim was hanging out with his stepmother while she was taking care of his younger siblings. … Around 11 p.m., the two of them began relaxing on the couch, ‘hitting’ a THC cartridge together while playing a video game. Several hours later … they decided to watch a movie.”

Von Yates and her stepson both agreed that the movie was “boring,” the affidavit from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office states.

“Ms. Yates told victim that she was ‘horny,'” the affidavit notes. “Victim laid on top of Ms. Yates. Ms. Yates allowed victim to kiss Ms. Yates’ neck, pull down Ms. Yates’ shorts and underwear to her ankles.”

Von Yates and the victim engaged in sexual acts, including sexual intercourse, according the affidavit, which also noted that Von Yates’ husband “walked in” on his wife sexually abusing his 15-year-old son.

Once the father witnessed his son running to the bathroom and noticed that his wife was unclothed, he called Von Yates a “child predator,” removed his son from the house, and dropped him off at the boy’s grandparents’ home, the affidavit states.

The Florida Department of Health suspended Von Yates’ nursing license shortly after her arrest on Nov. 6, 2024.

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Under the Biden administration, the FBI launched a covert operation code-named “Arctic Frost” in 2022 — a sweeping probe that has now been exposed as a blatant weaponization of federal power against conservatives.

Thanks to whistleblower disclosures and new Senate releases from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), we now have leaked documents revealing that this partisan witch hunt targeted a staggering 92 Republican-linked individuals and groups, including the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, in a clear effort to silence Trump allies and dismantle the conservative movement.

Arctic Frost “was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and Department of Justice prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus,” Grassley said on September 16, 2025, during his opening remarks at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the FBI.

Blaze News editor in chief and co-host of “Blaze News: The Mandate” Matthew Peterson is appalled by this latest development. “This is a broad investigation, in other words, of political opponents,” he says.

The inclusion of Turning Point USA alongside “J6$” — a term tied to the January 6, 2021, Capitol events, where hundreds of peaceful protesters faced unjust imprisonment and severe fines — reveals the deep state’s view of Charlie Kirk’s organization.

“This means that, you know, these organizations and people are being investigated and can be surveilled by the federal government. This is the kind of widespread activity that was common under the last administration,” says Peterson.

Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford says these new Arctic Frost revelations aren’t surprising at all when put into context. “This operation was launched in the spring of 2022, which is basically geared up around the time that President Trump was getting ready to come back and win. And President Biden wasn’t doing so hot in the polls, and Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t doing so hot in the polls,” he recalls.

Bedford explains that Arctic Frost was the latest in a six-year FBI-Democrat campaign — starting with former FBI Director James Comey’s anti-Trump conspiracies and raids, followed by relentless January 6 interrogations targeting GOP operatives’ finances — to dismantle the Republican Party through baseless investigations.

The FBI and Democrats behind Arctic Frost were desperate to keep their actions hidden, Bedford says, because they knew that Trump, if re-elected, would uncover the “receipts” of their misconduct. Stupidly, they banked on him going to prison or never returning to power, but now they’re facing the music. “They are guilty as sin,” says Bedford.

Peterson stresses the need to “clean house.”

“You have tens of thousands of people who have been trained now for a long time such that they think this is a-okay. They were perfectly willing to go along with investigating 92 Republican linked groups…two years after the election to surveil and investigate political opponents of the sitting president,” he says.

“This is not something that’s acceptable; it’s not something that we can allow to be normalized; and it’s something that’s going to require deep structural reform and getting tens of thousands people out of there.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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A customer planned to use an Office Depot in Michigan to print a poster of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk for a prayer vigil — but one employee refused to fulfill the customer’s order, dismissing it as “political propaganda.”

In a video of the altercation, the customer can be heard asking store employees about the order. “Yeah, so we don’t print propaganda,” the woman who identified herself as the store manager explains.

“It’s propaganda. I’m sorry. We don’t print that here,” she continued.

Confused, the customer asked what makes the posters propaganda, to which the employee replied, “Because he’s a political figure.”

The posters boasted a black-and-white image of Kirk and featured the phrase, “The Legendary Charlie Kirk 1993–2025.”

Office Depot responded to the incident by firing the employee and releasing a statement explaining that it was “deeply concerned by the incident that occurred at Store 3382 in Portage, Michigan.”

“The behavior displayed by our associate is completely unacceptable and insensitive, violates our company policies, and does not reflect the values we uphold at Office Depot.”

“On behalf of the company, we sincerely apologize for this regrettable situation,” it added.

“A little smarty pants there got fired,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

Gray calls the Office Depot response, which was amended to explain that multiple employees were terminated, “swift” and “satisfying.”

“If you believe people deserve to be shot for their opinions,” executive producer Keith Malinak says, “Don’t cry when you get fired for yours.”

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to Make America Healthy Again have consistently been paying off in the steep uphill battle against Big Pharma and Big Food. This week, a large food manufacturer joined the ranks of corporations making big changes to their ingredients in the furtherance of the MAHA agenda.

On Monday, Tyson Foods announced that it will be removing some junk ingredients from several of its brands.

‘Our decision to remove high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients reflects our ongoing commitment to feeding the world like family.’

The press release states that it plans to remove high fructose corn syrup, sucralose, butylated hydroxyanisole/butylated hydroxytoluene, and titanium oxide by the end of 2025.

“We continuously review and assess our product portfolio to ensure the highest quality products that meet the needs of consumers,” said Donnie King, president and CEO of Tyson Foods. “Our decision to remove high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients reflects our ongoing commitment to feeding the world like family, while preserving the taste, value, and integrity that define our iconic brands.”

RELATED: It’s been a year since Kennedy and Trump joined forces. Here are MAHA’s top 3 wins.

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While the press release insists that all of these ingredients are FDA-approved and safe to use, critics have raised concerns over their safety in higher doses and extended periods of time. In particular, scientists have questioned the toxicity levels of BHA and BHT.

Titanium dioxide, according to the Industrial Plating Company’s website, “is a hard and dense ceramic coating. It is used for a variety of coating applications, including wear resistance and electrically conductive coatings.” When it is not being used for industrial-grade ceramic coatings, food companies have used it as an additive to increase the whiteness or opacity of food.

Among the brands that will see changes to their ingredients are Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Wright, State Fair, Aidells, and ibp, according to the press release.

Earlier this year, Tyson Foods announced that it would remove “petroleum-based synthetic dyes from its domestic-branded products.”

Tyson Foods did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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On the last day of his state visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump joined Prime Minister Keir Starmer for a meeting and to sign a new U.S.-U.K. agreement on tech and AI. Starmer called the deal “a blueprint to win this new era together.”

The day began at Windsor Castle with a military band performance and an impressive flyover from the RAF’s Red Arrows. Trump then traveled to Chequers — the country residence of the U.K. prime minister — to meet with Starmer.

Trump called the agreement ‘the next logical step’ in what he called ‘the Anglo-American alliance.’

After the closed-doors meeting, Trump and Starmer spoke briefly at a reception with U.S. leaders in tech and AI and then officially signed the Technology Prosperity Deal. In addressing the deal, Starmer emphasized the “incredible relationship” between the two countries, saying, “It comes down to leaders, of course, leaders who respect one another.”

Both Trump and Starmer focused on the strength of their personal relationship and the strength of U.S.-U.K. relations. Trump characterized these ties as “priceless” and pointed to the new deal as “making those ties closer than ever before.”

RELATED: Trump’s new AI Action Plan reveals our digital manifest destiny

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The deal focuses on AI, quantum computing, and nuclear energy through joint funding, resource sharing, and cooperation between the governments and top tech companies of both nations. Highlights include the creation of a U.S.-U.K. task force on quantum computing, cutting back regulations, and investing in the U.K.’s nuclear energy sector.

Starmer characterized the deal as “U.S. capital and entrepreneurial spirit combined with British ideas and ingenuity.” He praised the economic effects of the deal, saying, “It means life-changing investments across the U.K.”

Trump called the agreement “the next logical step” in what he called “the Anglo-American alliance.” He praised the strength of U.S.-U.K. relations and went on to say that “together we are building up the industrial capacity of both our countries.” He characterized the new deal as opening up “new government, academic, and private sector cooperation.”

President Trump and the first lady departed for the U.S. in the late afternoon.

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