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In a nearly unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has issued a ruling on one state’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, resulting in an important First Amendment win and setting a possible precedent for many states with similar laws on the books.

In an 8-1 decision released Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled in Chiles v. Salazar that, when applied to talk therapy, Colorado’s ban on minor-directed conversion therapy — or any therapy that attempts to “change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity” — “regulates speech based on viewpoint” in violation of the First Amendment.

‘The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.’

The Colorado law, passed in 2019, was adopted “in response to a growing mental health crisis among Colorado teenagers and mounting evidence that conversion therapy is associated with increased depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts.” The law thus prohibited licensed counselors from engaging in “conversion therapy” with minors, according to the opinion.

Kaley Chiles, a mental health counselor in Colorado, brought the suit against Patty Salazar, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.

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The ruling overturns a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, which ruled in favor of the law, not finding any violation of Chiles’ First Amendment rights.

However, the majority opinion, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, concluded:

In cases like this, it censors speech based on viewpoint. Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety. Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the same. But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth.

Gorsuch added that the law in question not only regulates the content of Chiles’ speech, but “goes a step further, prescribing what views she may and may not express.”

Justice Elena Kagan, together with fellow liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined the majority opinion, but wrote a concurring opinion “only to note that if Colorado had instead enacted a content-based but viewpoint-neutral law, it would raise a different and more difficult question.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson alone dissented from the majority: “Stated simply, the majority has failed to appreciate the crucial context in which Chiles’s constitutional claims have arisen. Chiles is not speaking in the ether; she is providing therapy to minors as a licensed healthcare professional.”

While these facts were clearly established in the syllabus and the body of the majority’s opinion, Jackson’s primary contention, stated at the end of her dissent, was that “the majority’s holding means, in effect, that just because Chiles is a talk therapist — and not, say, a surgeon — a State can be prevented from incidentally imposing reasonable restrictions on the treatments she provides.”

“To do anything else opens a dangerous can of worms,” Jackson concluded. “It threatens to impair States’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect.”

Matt Walsh, noted for his documentary “What is a Woman?,” weighed in on the decision, attacking Jackson’s attempt to uphold the ban:

To be clear, this was a law that attempted to ban therapists from telling gender confused boys that they’re actually boys, and girls that they’re actually girls. It was literally a law prohibiting anyone in the therapy profession from verbally acknowledging biological reality to their clients. Easily one of the most psychotic pieces of legislation ever passed anywhere in the world at any time in history. The fact that Ketanji Jackson tried to uphold this law — even as her fellow liberals broke ranks with her — just proves again that she is the most unfit, unqualified, unhinged lunatic to ever hold a seat on the Supreme Court.

Colorado is one of more than 20 states with laws prohibiting conversion therapy.

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No Kings protests have been popping up all over the country in protest of President Trump and the United States’ involvement in the Iran war, and of course, the mainstream media has covered these protesters as if they’re a real force to be reckoned with.

However, BlazeTV host John Doyle attended one of the protests in Dallas and explains that the reality on the ground tells a much different story.

“If you Google it, ‘No Kings 2026,’ there are all of these leftist outlets — be those local, national, even on CNN, MSNBC, all the usual suspects — trying to just put all of this out there, put the imagery out there, to let people know that this is definitely a thing that is very real and very threatening and certainly happening,” Doyle says on “The John Doyle Show.”

“The people who actually mobilize and show up to these Democrat quote-unquote ‘protests,’ these are the revolutionary class. This is an inherently sort of kinetic group of people, which is to say a people who are motivated almost chiefly by resentment against just normal American patriots,” he continues.

Doyle explains that these protesters also “always need to be out on the streets causing problems, feeling as though they are pushing back against some force.”

“It is this kind of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ LARP for them. They really do enjoy the interaction with law enforcement, feeling as though they’re being freaking persecuted,” he says.

And the visuals Doyle caught at the protest in Dallas only prove his point.

“It’s extremely, extremely bleak for them,” he says, before showing a picture of one of the protesters.

“It was this extremely obese creature, and it was occupying a mobility scooter, like how you see at Walmart. And there was a sign mounted on the mobility scooter … that said ‘#FreakingNoKings,’” Doyle recalls.

“And then you have old people and then foreign people and then foreign old people, and everybody’s dying. It’s like, what? I’m not intimidated. I’m not even having fun. I just feel bad. I used to go in there and felt like I was in a lion’s den, you know? Do a little sparring with the people who want me killed,” he continues.

“I had a smile on my face, a pep in my step. You’ve all seen it. I just felt bad,” he says.

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Las Vegas police bodycam and helicopter video shows what led to a motorist taking down a domestic violence strangulation suspect earlier this month.

Police said officers on March 10 responded to a domestic violence incident involving a reported strangulation.

‘This video highlights how coordination from the air, rapid response on the ground, and the courage of community members can make all the difference.’

As officers were working to locate the suspect, he fled — leading to a “dangerous series of events” near West Desert Inn Road and South Decatur Boulevard, police said.

Police said the department’s Air Unit tracked the suspect as he drove erratically through the area — and then moments later the suspect crashed, which led to a foot chase.

Police said two citizens, witnessing the chaos unfold, took action and used their vehicles to help block in and stop the suspect.

Video shows one of the assisting motorists exiting his vehicle, grabbing the suspect from behind, and taking him down to the ground.

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Image source: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department helicopter video screenshot

The motorist then sat on the suspect’s back, restraining him, until an arresting officer arrived on the scene and placed the suspect in handcuffs.

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Image source: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department bodycam video screenshot

Check out the video compilation below from police showing the suspect speeding through the area, crashing into traffic, running away, and then being taken to the ground by the assisting motorist.

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Police said the suspect fled from a domestic dispute involving strangulation, and approximately five vehicles were involved in the crash.

Police said that “this video highlights how coordination from the air, rapid response on the ground, and the courage of community members can make all the difference.”

“We are grateful for a community that steps up to help keep one another safe,” police added.

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President Donald Trump told America’s allies to fend for themselves as the Strait of Hormuz continues to constrain the world’s oil supply.

Trump called on countries like the United Kingdom to either buy American oil or to “build up some delayed courage” and go into the strait themselves. Trump also said that he had already done all the dirty work, telling other countries they need to start relying on themselves rather than the United States.

‘The upcoming days will be decisive.’

“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you,” Trump said in the Truth Social post Tuesday. “Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT.”

“You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us,” Trump said. “Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!”

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Trump later called out another European ally for its lack of cooperation with the Iran strikes, warning that the United States will remember.

“The Country of France wouldn’t let planes headed to Israel, loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “France has been VERY UNHELPFUL with respect to the ‘Butcher of Iran,’ who has been successfully eliminated! The U.S.A. will REMEMBER!!!”

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The United States is officially on day 31 of the conflict with Iran, which is still within the four- to six-week timeline floated by Trump and members of the administration.

“Just one month in, only one month, we set the terms,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said during a Tuesday press conference. “The upcoming days will be decisive. Iran knows that, and there’s almost nothing they can military do about it.”

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Second lady Usha Vance announced the launch of her new children’s podcast on Monday.

The podcast, “Storytime with the Second Lady,” features Vance and special guests, including celebrities, children’s authors, athletes, veterans, and musicians as they read books to children.

“Very proud of my wife, Usha, for launching her podcast today!” Vice President JD Vance wrote in a post on social media.

‘The second lady is passionate about childhood education and hopes to inspire a lifelong love of learning in children across the country.’

The show’s first three episodes were released on Spotify and YouTube on Monday.

In episode one, Vance read one of her favorite childhood stories, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter.

“Story time with my kids is the highlight of my day,” Vance stated. “Books have taken our family on so many adventures. Through books, we’ve learned so many new things about science and nature, faraway countries, ancient civilizations, America’s history, and more. Most of all, we’ve had lots of fun reading together. I thought it would be even more fun to share story time with all of you. So every few weeks, we’ll gather here in my office to read together.”

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Special guests joined Vance in the second and third episodes of her podcast. Race car driver Danica Patrick joined the show to read Disney’s “Cars,” and Paralympic bronze medalist Brent Poppen read his book, “Playground Lessons.”

Vance’s podcast is part of her ongoing initiative to increase childhood literacy rates and inspire a love of reading in children, according to a press release from the Second Lady’s office.

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Vance launched a Summer Reading Challenge in June 2025 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Participants were asked to read 12 books of their choice over the summer and track their progress. Those who completed the challenge received a personalized certificate and a small prize. Vance’s office reported receiving tens of thousands of submissions from across the country.

“The second lady is passionate about childhood education and hopes to inspire a lifelong love of learning in children across the country,” a spokesperson for the second lady told Blaze News. “Last year, the second lady’s Summer Reading Challenge received overwhelming support, and Ms. Vance hopes to continue sharing passion for literature with children across the country in an age-appropriate and accessible format through her podcast.”

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For decades, users suspected that Google was listening in on conversations through their smartphones, oftentimes serving ads for products that users spoke about in casual conversation but didn’t actually search for online. While no wrongdoing has been admitted or found, the suspicions are gaining new attention as Google has agreed — citing the “uncertainty, risk, expense, inconvenience, and distraction” involved — to settle a years-long illicit eavesdropping case for a cool $68 million.

The lawsuit

The class action lawsuit, which was filed all the way back in July 2019, alleged that any Google and/or Android devices with Google Assistant hotword detection enabled both recorded and transmitted anything it heard — including conversations — back to Google’s servers without users’ knowledge.

If you just want to kick Google out of your conversations, it’s easy to pull the plug.

A hotword is a phrase you can use to invoke the assistant on your smart devices without touching or otherwise interacting with them. To see if hotword detection is active on your phone, try this quick trick: Android users can say “OK, Google” or “Hey, Google” to bring up the virtual assistant, while iPhone users can say, “Hey, Siri” to invoke the Apple assistant. If your phone immediately lights up and starts to listen to your commands, then your phone could be spying on you.

Before jumping to conclusions, it’s important to note that hotword detection is only supposed to listen for those specific “Hey” or “OK” commands before actively capturing data to answer your query. The lawsuit, however, claims that Google and Android devices recorded data without invoking a hotword.

While the lawsuit specifically alleges Google Assistant is the big offender, Google has since abandoned that service for Gemini, its in-house AI. But Gemini works exactly like Google Assistant, letting users summon the service on an Android device with the same “Hey, Google” or “OK, Google” command. In other words, it has the capability to enable listening of the same kind.

Google has a whole eavesdropping ecosystem

The tricky part about Google Assistant — and now Google Gemini — is that it’s embedded in a wide range of devices. Hotword detection can be enabled on most Android handsets, including Samsung Galaxy phones and Google Pixel phones. For Android fans, that means you carry Google’s listening software in your pocket every day, waiting to hear those magic words that give it permission to record what you say.

But, of course, Google isn’t limited to working through your phone. The same service works on Google’s family of smart home products, including those with the Google Home and Google Nest badge. You’ll find it on Android tablets too, as well as Wear OS smartwatches, such as the Google Pixel Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watches.

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It’s everywhere throughout Google’s broad first-party and third-party ecosystem, covering an install base of approximately four billion devices worldwide, giving it access to a massive expanse of data.

How to disable hotword detection on Android devices

Google’s hotword detection is helpful if you like to get information from your device completely hands-free, such as asking for directions to a location, playing a song from your favorite app, or sending a quick text message to your spouse on your way home from work. If you don’t care about these things though, or if you just want to kick Google out of your conversations, it’s easy to pull the plug on hotword detection entirely:

Open the Google app on your Android phone.Tap your profile picture in the top right corner.Then tap “Settings.”In the Settings menu, tap “Gemini.”Then “Talk to Gemini hands-free.”Finally, uncheck the toggles beside “Hey, Google” and “While driving.”

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New York City’s democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, announced a free child care program for city workers after previously claiming the city faces a $12 billion budget deficit. His goal is to provide universal child care to all New York City residents, and the program is being implemented in phases.

Mamdani held a press conference on Monday to unveil NYC’s first free, on-site child care pilot program, which will serve year-round approximately 40 children ages 6 weeks to 3 years.

‘When we took office, we inherited a historic budget gap.’

The program will begin in the fall after the city completes its $10 million renovation at the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building to create a 4,000-square-foot child care facility. The building currently houses over 2,000 employees.

The mayor’s office claims the program will put “upwards of $20,000 a year back in the pockets of working families.”

“Change begins at home. As we deliver universal child care to New Yorkers, that work must include the public servants who keep this city running,” Mamdani stated. “We are bringing year-round, no-cost child care right here to Lower Manhattan — not just saving families money, but giving them back hours of their time. No parent should have to spend hours commuting just to ensure their child is safe and cared for.”

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Mamdani’s campaign has estimated that the mayor’s universal child care program will cost $6 billion annually.

Shortly after being inaugurated early this year, Mamdani claimed that New York City was “facing a serious fiscal crisis.”

“There is a massive fiscal deficit in our city’s budget to the tune of at least $12 billion,” he stated in January.

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Mamdani blamed former New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) for the city’s alleged budget crisis. Adams has consistently denied leaving a deficit in the city’s budget, insisting instead that he left over $8 billion in reserves.

Mamdani provided an update on the city’s budget in February, stating, “When we took office, we inherited a historic budget gap. Our aggressive savings plan, daily incorporation of updated revenue and bonus estimates, and our deployment of in-year reserves in tandem with more than a billion dollars in additional aid from Governor [Kathy] Hochul, have lowered that deficit from an initial $12 billion to $5.4 billion. While considerably less, it is still a significant chasm.”

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President Donald Trump’s administration has recruited Scott Brady, a lead prosecutor from the Hunter Biden investigation, to aid Vice President JD Vance’s task force to eliminate fraud.

Brady served as the lead prosecutor against Hunter Biden as well as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania during Trump’s first term, where he focused on prosecuting health care and COVID-era fraud schemes. Brady currently serves as special counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services aiding the crackdown on grant fraud and will now serve as the executive director of the task force.

‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.’

Brady was also handpicked to investigate Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” where prosecutors looked into corruption charges against former President Joe Biden’s son.

“In my investigation of Hunter, despite not having a grand jury, we were the only investigation which found an actual smoking gun detailing bribes to Hunter and then-VP Biden, in the Smirnov FD-1023, which detailed Burisma Chairman Zlochevsky’s $10M bribe to Hunter and Joe Biden,” a online biography of Brady reviewed by the Daily Wire reads.

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“I am proud to have served under President Trump in his first term, and I am excited to see an unapologetically muscular strategy being executed in the second term,” the bio continues. ”As President Reagan presciently said, ‘Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It has to be fought for and defended by each generation.’”

The task force was first convened last week with Vice President JD Vance at the helm. During the meeting, Vance commended Trump’s numerous “anti-fraud protections” implemented during his second term, pointing the finger at the Biden administration.

“This is not just theft of the American people’s money,” Vance said of the uptick in fraud under Biden. “This is also the theft of critical services that American people rely on.”

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Brady’s appointment to the role was made official on Thursday, according to the Daily Wire, and he attended the task force’s first meeting on Friday.

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The Chicago Bulls have dumped 24-year-old guard Jaden Ivey after he made comments in support of God and against Pride Month.

Ivey’s stint with the Bulls is over after just four games, following a trade from the Detroit Pistons in early February.

‘God did not make a man to be with a man.’

The Bulls waived Ivey on Monday — which means his contract can be picked up by another team — after the guard criticized gay pride and the NBA on his Instagram page.

“The world can proclaim LGBTQ, they proclaim Pride Month, and the NBA, they proclaim it,” Ivey said from inside a vehicle.

“God did not make a man to be with a man. God did not make a girl to be with a girl. God made a man for the purpose of procreation to have another child,” Ivey added.

It did not take long for the Bulls to catch wind of the young player’s comments, and the organization announced at 6 p.m. that he was being let go.

“The Chicago Bulls announced today that the team has waived guard Jaden Ivey due to conduct detrimental to the team,” the Bulls said in a statement shared to social media.

Before their game on Monday evening, Bulls head coach Billy Donovan told the media that the organization expects certain standards to be upheld.

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“We’ve got people from all different backgrounds, you know, inside the organization,” Donovan said after a reporter claimed Ivey was spiraling.

“We’re all going to basically take care of each other. We’re going to accept each other. And I think we’re going to be hardworking, we’re going to be accountable, and we’re going to be respectful, and we’re going to be professional,” the coach continued.

Donovan concluded, “I think, organizationally, there’s certain standards I think we want to have as an organization and try to live up to those each and every day.”

Ivey was quick to jump back on social media on Monday night and call the Bulls’ reasoning into question.

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“Why didn’t they just say, ‘We don’t agree with his stance on LGBTQ?'” Ivey asked.

“How? Because I believe in the truth because I know Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life?”

He added, “This is not about me. This is about the kingdom of God. This is about the truth, the truth of the Bible, because I spoke what the truth is. I called these things out because that’s what it is. The word of God will be preached to all nations, and then the end will come.”

Ivey is on the final year of his rookie contract, a four-year deal worth almost $33 million.

If he is not signed by another team within the league’s 48-hour window, the Bulls will have to pay the remainder of his contract, and he will become a free agent.

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Ten years ago on his radio show, Glenn Beck gave “three possibilities” of what America’s future would look like in a decade’s time.

Possibility #1: “Slow Decay” — “Corruption would become routine. Violence will become background noise. Currency … buys less and less year after year until you just have to adjust your expectations downward. The border will blur. Drugs will flood in. Institutions will continue to weaken, but they won’t break. They just stop working the way they once did.”

Possibility #2: “Control” — “A moment will come when the system decides dissent is a real threat, when the people who warned, protested, resisted are no longer just wrong but dangerous. And the label will change from opponent to enemy.”

Possibility #3: “Wake up” — “Citizens would wake up, that grassroots movements (imperfect but loud) … would remind the country who it was supposed to be. And people will look back and say, ‘Wow, that was the moment that it really turned around.”’

“I think a little bit of all of those things happened,” says Glenn.

The first predication, he says, was spot on — “Corruption is routine? Absolutely. Violence, a background noise? Absolutely. Currency hasn’t died, just buys less year after year. We have to adjust our expectations downward. The border has absolutely blurred. The drugs are flooding in (still are). The institutions haven’t broken but they weakened, and things aren’t working the way they used to,” he says, confirming his old hypothesis.

The second prediction about mitigating chaos via control, he argues, also came true, specifically “during the Biden administration, where the system decided dissent was a real threat, and they started to silence people.”

The third and most hopeful possibility — a nationwide grassroots movement to restore order and morality — has also partially come to fruition.

“I think all three paths happened at the same time — bits and pieces. Here’s what hasn’t happened: We haven’t decided which one,” says Glenn.

But we have to choose, he urges, because the next ten years won’t afford us the same wiggle room.

“In ten years from now, what does the world look like? Well, it’s not going to be a combination of all three,” he says bluntly.

“We’re out of runway,” Glenn warns. “You have to choose: Do we slam on the brakes with this plane right now, or do we pull on the yoke and start to fly?”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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On any given Tuesday afternoon, there are thousands of parents rushing out the door in a panic, corralling their kids into the car, frantically battling their way through traffic, picking up something cheap to eat because there’s no time for anything else, nearly crashing as they try to shave a few minutes off because you can’t be late, for God’s sake, and then finally dropping their kid off at the sports center for travel soccer practice.

On the weekends, they are driving four hours for tournaments, staying in hotels every Saturday night, and spending thousands of dollars every year devoting their lives to the wide and ever-expanding world of travel sports.

What does it do to your family if you aren’t ever eating dinner together?

Have you noticed any of this? Have you heard of any of this? Well, I hope you haven’t, but you probably have. Travel sports are a big thing these days, and they seem to get bigger every year. Soccer, baseball, hockey, volleyball: Whatever the game, the phenomenon is the same.

Soccer monster

When I was young, travel sports weren’t such a big thing. I know they existed somewhere, but I don’t think I knew anyone personally who did them. My wife knew someone who did travel hockey, but that was it. Back in those days, travel sports were rare, and it seemed that the only people who did them were people who were extraordinarily “into” sports. Now travel sports are everywhere, more kids are in them, and they are more consuming than ever before.

I know a woman who admits that the only reason she works is to fund her son’s travel soccer habit. She’s joking a little, but only a little. Every week she is buying new gear, shopping for more accoutrements, booking hotels for the whole weekend, exploring other travel leagues that might be better, and generally devoting a large portion of her life to travel sports.

The travel soccer her son is in runs all year and costs around $10,000. That doesn’t include any of the travel expenses or hotels. At the end of any given year, their travel soccer bill could easily be a tidy $25,000. She says they almost never eat at home, which makes sense. On the weekdays she is carting her son to travel soccer; on the weekends they are staying in hotels.

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Fare play

Sure, it’s not for everybody, but what’s the big deal about spending a couple of hours on the freeway every weekend? That’s what I used to think. Then I learned that it’s not uncommon for parents to fly with their kids to various tournaments around the country. That’s how deep the travel sports addiction can get. I was shocked.

It would be one thing, I suppose, if only the truly exceptional young athletes were caught up in this — the 0.000000001% destined to become pros or compete in the Olympics. But these are average kids we’re talking about, kids who will most likely never play their chosen sport beyond high school.

I’m not a sports hater. Sports are good for kids. I grew up doing sports in the summer and after school in the spring and fall. My kids do baseball, soccer, and tennis. But they aren’t traveling anywhere to play these sports, nor will they be. And we have more important things to spend money on than a $25,000 travel soccer bill.

The problem with travel sports isn’t the sports. It’s the travel. And it’s the travel that’s such a problem because it’s that which results in life being completely subsumed by practices, tournaments, and all things travel sports. And the problem with all things being subsumed by travel sports is that you don’t have time for anything else, and you lose track of what actually matters.

Time out

What does it do to your family if you aren’t ever eating dinner together? What does it do to your kid — their sense of purpose and their perception of their role as a child — if all you do is cart them around like a dutiful chauffeur? And what about their spiritual development? If you are traveling every weekend for travel sports, you certainly won’t be attending synagogue on Saturday or church on Sunday. How do you teach your kids about values or faith if you never make time for them? Well, you can’t.

Lastly, what about culture? What do travel sports say about the state of our society and what we value? Sure, without question, travel sports are a lot better than smoking weed, being a general menace, or sitting on your butt all day doing nothing. But are those really the only options?

They can’t be.

How do families remain families — close families — in an era of over-scheduled kids, over-worked parents, and in a world that seems intent on drawing us apart and off into things that don’t really matter? It’s a big question, and each family has their own answer. But whatever the answer is for whoever you are, travel sports are probably not it.

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America is entering an era when the threats to our nation are evolving faster than our public conversation about them. Yet one of the most important national security initiatives of this decade — Golden Dome — remains largely unknown to the very people whose support will determine whether it succeeds.

Most citizens have no idea what Golden Dome is, what threats it addresses, or why it is stabilizing rather than escalatory.

Congress is asking pointed questions, industry is unsure what to build, and the public has barely heard the name. If we don’t close this information gap now, we risk letting confusion, speculation, and adversarial narratives define a program designed to protect the nation.

Golden Dome is not a mystery. It is a modernization effort aimed at defending the United States against advanced 21st‑century threats — those that move faster, fly farther, and strike with greater precision than anything we faced in the past.

Its architecture integrates sensing, tracking, command and control, and layered defensive capabilities across multiple domains. In plain terms, it is a shield: a system designed to strengthen deterrence, reduce vulnerability, and give national leaders more time and options in a crisis.

But even the strongest shield is only as durable as the public trust behind it. And right now, that trust is at risk.

A strategic initiative without a public narrative

Golden Dome fits squarely within the nation’s core strategic frameworks. It supports the National Security Strategy’s mandate to protect the homeland and strengthen deterrence. It advances the National Defense Strategy’s focus on countering advanced adversary capabilities. And it complements U.S. nuclear policy by reinforcing the stability and resilience of the strategic environment — without altering nuclear doctrine.

Yet alignment with strategy is not enough. Congress, industry, allies, and the American people all need to understand what Golden Dome is and why it matters. Without that clarity, the initiative risks becoming a target for political friction, budgetary skepticism, and misinterpretation abroad.

Congress has already begun signaling frustration. Members in both chambers want clearer information about Golden Dome’s architecture, cost, schedule, and oversight mechanisms.

Industry, meanwhile, is being asked to innovate at speed without knowing the full scope of what the government needs.

Golden Dome requires rapid prototyping, open architectures, and competition. But companies cannot position themselves effectively without clear guidance. The result is hesitation at a moment when urgency is essential.

And then there is the American public.

Most citizens have no idea what Golden Dome is, what threats it addresses, or why it is stabilizing rather than escalatory. In an age of disinformation, that vacuum is dangerous. If the people do not understand the purpose of a major national security initiative, adversaries will happily define it for them.

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Golden Dome is not just a domestic issue. Allies and partners want reassurance that the United States is strengthening — not retreating from — collective defense commitments. They need to know that Golden Dome complements existing security architectures rather than replacing them or shifting burdens. Adversaries, too, are watching closely. Clear, consistent messaging is essential to avoid misinterpretation and to reinforce deterrence. Ambiguity invites miscalculations.

Private speeches aren’t enough

To date, Golden Dome has been discussed primarily at defense and military conferences. Those speeches were necessary and well received — but they only reached specialized audiences. They do not shape public understanding. They do not provide Congress with a bipartisan narrative. They do not give industry the clarity it needs. And they do not reassure allies or counter adversarial messaging. A national initiative requires a national conversation.

The solution is straightforward: a deliberate, public‑facing communications campaign anchored by a major national speech. Armed Forces Day — May 16, 2026 — offers the ideal moment. A speech delivered at the American Legion Mall in Indianapolis would reach veterans, military families, policymakers, and civic leaders. It would also signal that Golden Dome is not a niche technical program but a national commitment to America’s protection.

A full rollout should include:

a clear, plain‑language narrative explaining what Golden Dome is and what it is not.pre‑briefings for Congress and industry to ensure alignment and reduce uncertainty.coordinated messaging with allies and partners to reinforce collective security.calibrated communication to adversaries to strengthen deterrence without escalating tensions.

This approach builds bipartisan confidence, provides industry with direction, reassures the American people, and strengthens allied cohesion. Most importantly, it ensures that Golden Dome is defined by its strategic purpose — not by speculation or misinformation.

A moment we cannot miss

Golden Dome is a prudent, stabilizing investment in America’s security. But even the best ideas can falter without public understanding. The United States has reached a point where silence is no longer strategic. The stakes are too high, the threats too real, and the consequences of miscommunication too severe.

A national security initiative of this scale deserves a national conversation. Golden Dome must be explained, not whispered about. It must be understood, not assumed. And it must be introduced to the American people with the clarity, confidence, and transparency that the moment demands.

Armed Forces Day is approaching. The country is ready to listen. Now is the time to speak, General Guetlein, Secretary Hegseth, and President Trump.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.

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Video footage captured a bizarre attack by a woman who ended up naked while pushing a dog in a baby stroller at a Pennsylvania grocery store, according to a criminal complaint.

The White Oak Police Department said it responded to a call about an “irate woman” tossing items at a Giant Eagle supermarket in White Oak, a suburb of Pittsburgh.

‘Officers also observed numerous children in the store whose parents were trying to shield their eyes from Canut, who was nude.’

Police said the store surveillance video showed shoppers trying to get out of the way of 53-year-old Tammy Canut of North Huntingdon after she started angrily throwing items in the store.

They reported seeing her with blood coming from her face.

At one point in the video, a store employee tries to calm Canut down, but she kicks him in the groin, leading to gasps from the onlookers. She also allegedly performed sexually explicit acts before grabbing the worker’s face.

“You better knock it off!” one shopper yells to the woman.

When a customer intervenes, Canut ends up stripping naked. She then allegedly attacked a female customer on her way out and bit her hand hard enough to leave a puncture wound.

“Officers could observe a store display in disarray and damaged and items scattered about the store,” police wrote in the criminal complaint. “Officers also observed numerous children in the store whose parents were trying to shield their eyes from Canut, who was nude.”

No other victims came forward, but police believe she may have hit others.

KDKA-TV obtained the videos and published them in its YouTube report.

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The dog in Canut’s stroller was identified as a Westie breed and is said to be in good condition at the Sable Kennel, a dog rescue. The rescue is seeking a relative of Canut to take possession of the dog.

Canut was booked into the Allegheny County Jail and faces charges of assault, indecent exposure, open lewdness, harassment, and disorderly conduct.

Customers of the grocery store said they were shocked by the incident.

“I hope she gets the help that she needs. You just can’t get involved when those things happen,” Mary Sutton said.

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HBO’s new “Harry Potter” series has released an official trailer — and one character in particular has fans in an uproar.

That character is Snape, who is remembered by fans as a deathly pale older white man played by the late Alan Rickman — whose long, jet-black hair and dark, broody eyes only accentuated his spooky skin tone.

“It was being advertised as being wholly faithful to the original source material. You know, it was meant to show audiences that everything the movies were not able to communicate, now we are going to communicate that through the show,” BlazeTV host John Doyle comments.

“And then rumors began to kind of circulate around that one of the most essential characters to the story, Professor Snape, played by the late, great Alan Rickman — fantastic English actor in the original films — he would actually be getting race-swapped and portrayed by British actor named Paapa Essiedu,” he continues.

And after watching the trailer himself, Doyle calls it “disgusting.”

“It’s disgusting just because they used to recycle franchises like 50 years later. Like, they would make a movie called ‘The Smurfs’ 50 years after ‘The Smurfs’ stop being relevant. … You would see kind of like the resurgence of these old IPs, as they’re called, well after the franchise had expired,” he explains.

“I just think it’s disgusting because of what it says about what we are able to produce creatively as a society where nobody can do anything. And so, what we have to do is basically drag these old IPs out, put a new coat of paint on them, and present them to the public with a modern cast, which is to say a diverse cast,” he continues.

Doyle also notes that this isn’t only happening in movies.

“If you look at public opinion polling on how, like, diverse Americans believe their country is, the average American — this is a fact — the average American believes that the country is 50% black. The reason for that is because every time they turn on the television, all they see are black people,” Doyle explains.

“All they see in movies, commercials are black people. … And so, as a result, yeah, Professor Snape is a black guy,” he says, pointing out that Snape is described as “pale” with “stringy black hair, long black hair.”

“I don’t have an issue with it in the sense that, you know, the West has fallen because ‘Harry Potter’ is not the way I want it to be. ‘Harry Potter’ is not the way I want it to be because the West has fallen,” he adds.

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During a dinner at the annual gathering of the Ciceronian Society on March 19, a glance at my phone profoundly changed the rest of the evening. It had been an intellectually stimulating day with fellow Christian thinkers, for which my wife and I were grateful to be part of. Something familiar caught my eye: the photo of a man I instantly recognized, Brandon Shah.

We were part of the same staff group section within the larger U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 2019. Brandon never used X, so I was immediately curious why he was showing up so prominently on my feed. Immediately, the following words accosted me: “The victim of the terrorist attack at Old Dominion has been identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah.”

Our founders did not sacrifice their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to give safe harbor to Islamic crusaders.

My pulse raced, followed moments later by sudden rage. My anger over how the political class has betrayed veterans of the so-called Global War on Terrorism rekindled. My wife could tell something was bothering me. “Are you OK?” she asked. I wasn’t. My focus on the planned presentation I was to deliver later broke, my mind hijacked by a kind of mourning I had avoided throughout 20 years in the military due to learning that a man I served with died in combat on home soil.

For decades, I’ve observed our politicians signaling support for the troops, thanking us for keeping the nation secure. “I’m making the future safer for my descendants” is the bargain I believed and accepted in exchange for missing significant portions of my sons’ young lives. Then they imported the very threat they sent us to neutralize. We veterans of the war on terror did our part.

But the government failed to uphold its end of the agreement, an egregious betrayal for which no amount of hollow “thanks for your service” incantations can cover.

For decades, policymakers and commanders full of utopian dreams and desperate to cement their legacy engaged in open-ended missions to rebalance the scales of power overseas rather than defend our own homeland.

As my colleagues and I were sent to foreign fields under arms, we were denied the ability to carry arms on home soil for personal defense. Firearms are restricted on military installations, and in most civilian settings where service members labor. Due to military regulations and local laws, troops are denied many of the Second Amendment protections they fight to uphold.

America for Americans

Brandon died at the hands of the terrorist Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a man who immigrated to the U.S. from Sierra Leone. He was arrested in 2016 for attempting to offer material support to ISIS, gather weapons for a terrorist attack, and provide funds for people hoping to join ISIS. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and was released early in 2024 for completing a substance abuse training program.

Had his original sentence been carried out, Jalloh would have remained incarcerated through 2029. Details on his immigration or past life events are hard to come by, as they often are when the murderer isn’t a white man, or one classified as such by the mainstream press.

Brandon’s death is not the first instance of the U.S. homeland being turned into a combat zone. On November 26, 2025, an unvetted Afghan national, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, attacked a National Guard patrol in Washington, D.C., killing Army National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and severely wounding Air National Guard Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. President Trump rightly awarded the Purple Heart to both.

What they faced that day was engagement with an enemy combatant on U.S. soil. On September 8, 2021, Lakanwal was imported via the Operation Allies Welcome program, which allowed Afghans who wouldn’t fight for their own country to resettle here. Chaos and empathy prove a deadly combination.

We’re all aware of the deluge of illegal immigrants that flooded the nation because of the Biden administration, which welcomed them with all but celebratory parades. Ending illegal immigration is a righteous priority. But left largely ignored, even by conservatives, is the legal means of immigration that imports threat actors.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is well-known for his take that “legal, good; illegal, bad.” But that’s incorrect. Jalloh was in America legally. Both he and Lakanwal seem to pass the Cruz test. But neither belongs here.

Fighting them here

My generation of veterans served under the Bush Doctrine, which stated: “We will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America.” Yet, while we were sent overseas for the past two decades and counting, the U.S. political class accelerated immigration from Islamic countries, where the populace holds hostile views toward the Christian values upon which America was founded.

Worse yet, those who demonstrate open loyalty to groups that want to destroy us are allowed to remain. Even John Walker Lindh, dubbed the “American Taliban,” was released early from prison despite retaining his Islamist beliefs.

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The day of Brandon’s death, Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi blamed Shah’s death on a love of guns that constitutes a “national sickness.” In reality, the national sickness is a critical theory-infused brand of empathy that manipulates Americans toward disordered love, where a foreigner is given priority over familial and regional bonds.

Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin called this social doctrine the “Cultural Marxist Paideia” in their New York Times bestseller, “Battle for the American Mind.” The terms “Islamophobia,” “racism,” and “hatred” are used to intimidate and silence patriots by those who have rushed the Trojan horse through American streets.

Joe Rigney’s argument that the West has a deadly obsession with empathy, the practice of trying to immerse oneself in the suffering of another, proves increasingly sound. This contrasts with sympathy, the righteous feeling of sincere concern for a fellow human being experiencing pain or difficulty. The former attempts to spread suffering. The latter aids in healing it.

In our case, critical empathy makes magistrates subservient to malevolent actors. That framework presents predators as victims who must be yielded to, flipping social contract theory on its head. But our founders did not sacrifice their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to give safe harbor to Islamic crusaders.

I’m pleased to see Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduce the Naturalization Accountability Act, which would denaturalize immigrants convicted of felonies or who support terrorist groups. If you want to live here, don’t sympathize and cooperate with those who call for the murder of Americans and chant, “Death to America.”

Joining the Taliban or offering any support to terrorist groups such as ISIS, Hamas, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, etc., should be an immediate disqualifier for the benefits of American citizenship — and such people should be deported with haste. The stigma rightly belongs to those who endorse evil.

But in the wake of the tragedy involving Bradon Shah, ROTC and Junior ROTC students at schools around the nation have been directed not to wear their uniforms out of concerns for their safety. The shame is placed upon the virtuous instead. This should not be.

Two days after receiving the shocking news of Brandon’s death, I shared the reflections that grew into this essay instead of my planned presentation at the Ciceronian Society conference. Through a choked voice, I looked at the group picture of Staff Group 2D, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College class of 2019, and concluded by remembering a time when we could gather as military officers to study without fear that Islamic terrorists and battlefield combatants would transform our classroom into a zone of combat.

Brandon and I were not close and did not maintain contact after graduating. But he was a fellow veteran, a man I spent most days of a year with, through both good and frustrating times. He should still be alive, a husband to his wife, a father to his child, and a mentor to his students. His death is a betrayal.

Though the terrorist who killed him rightly faced immediate justice at the hands of bold cadets that day, there are many policymakers and enforcers whose hands are stained by their actions.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in The American Mind.

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Sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein kept a brazenly detailed and jam-packed Google Calendar, recording flight plans and visits with notable figures.

The database comes in the form of a new website, from the same web designers who created Jmail.world, a clone of Epstein’s Gmail inbox.

‘I suggest inviting Al Gore on Sept 23 to Nantucket.’

The detailed schedule, organized on a Gmail Calendar app, is suitably named JCal.

In a typical entry, Epstein listed a “meeting with Scott Stackman and Ghislaine Maxwell” for May 31, 2016. Stackman was Epstein’s alleged financial adviser, while Maxwell was his alleged confidante and procurer.

The calendar is full of meetings with elites from the entertainment industry and banking; Epstein even penciled in his attendance at movie screenings, along with a constant stream of flight details.

There are, for instance, several meetings and visits with Ariane de Rothschild, now CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Group in Switzerland, who married banker Benjamin de Rothschild in 1999. Benjamin died in 2021 at 57 years old of a heart attack.

“A production company in LA is doing a documentary film on Deepak Chopra’s new book. He will film part of it as a lecture,” Epstein reportedly wrote for September 23, 2016. “Al Gore ‘Inconvenient Truth’ style in Nantucket.” He went on: “I should wait to discuss until Sept 18th unless I suggest inviting Al Gore on Sept 23 to Nantucket.”

A screening of a Woody Allen movie is written in for December 16, 2016, with Allen himself listed as an attendee.

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Other noteworthy meetings included those with Noam and Valeria Chomsky, and an Arianna Huffington event at the Madison Square location of membership club NeueHouse, which abruptly shuttered last year following the death of founder Joshua Abram after a long fight against multiple myeloma.

The online world has taken particular interest in making a mockery of Epstein through quick-turnaround projects Five Nights at Epstein’s, a viral video game modeled after Five Nights at Freddy’s, the popular online game and media franchise.

Five Nights at Epstein’s has players monitor security cameras in Epstein’s compound with the hope of avoiding encounters with various characters. In this game, players are on the receiving end of jump scares of clip art of President Trump, Stephen Hawking, and Epstein himself.

RELATED: Epstein files were allegedly compromised by foreign hacker in 2023; FBI admits ‘cyber incident’

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While Jmail was created by web designer Riley Walz and programmer Luke Igel, Newsweek reported Swedish that software engineer Matheus Mendes is behind JCal. To build the stunt, Mendes reportedly used Reducto, described as an AI document parsing and extraction software.

Walz has a history of making obscure humorous websites and programs, including a fast-food price comparison index and a random video viewer that shuffles iPhone videos uploaded to YouTube between 2009 and 2012.

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Former New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa is getting lambasted by Republicans and other critics over a cutesy video he made with socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Sliwa hammered away at Mamdani during debates before the election, but since the socialist defeated him for the mayor’s office, Sliwa appears to have warmed up to the leftist.

‘You can tell when people are true to the party, and I thought it was reprehensible.’

In the video produced for the Inner Circle show, Sliwa pretends to be a doctor and gives the mayor an allergy shot so he can live with a cat in the official mayor’s residence. The event raises money for charity.

“I thought it was great because it was promoting rescuing animals,” Sliwa explained to the New York Post.

Others didn’t think it was so great.

“Betrayed his family. Betrayed the Republican Party. Betrayed everyone,” said a GOP operative to the Post under the condition of anonymity.

The Post reported that others said they wanted their political contributions to his campaign returned after seeing the video.

“When you don’t have a bed to sleep in, you have to find anyone who will take you,” replied former New York Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat. “You can tell when people are true to the party, and I thought it was reprehensible.”

Sliwa fired back at the Republicans criticizing him by pointing out they had not criticized President Donald Trump for cozying up to Mamdani several times.

“If people are upset at that, why aren’t you mad at the president, Donald Trump, who has welcomed him into the White House twice?” he said.

He also claimed that the sketch was the first time he had spoken to Mamdani since the election.

Sliwa is planning to run for the Republican nomination for the mayor’s office again in 2029.

RELATED: Mamdani made big promises to cut the budget — here’s the embarrassing result so far

Paterson was still angry at Sliwa for staying in the election and possibly playing spoiler for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He went on to mock Sliwa’s performance in the mayoral election by comparing it to that of the New York Jets.

“[Curtis] was never going to win,” Paterson said. “He got 7 percentage points, seven — even the Jets get seven when they play.”

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A recent set of man-on-the-street-style interviews conducted by conservative Kaitlin Bennett in Tampa, Florida, yielded alarming results — as many of them shared that they would feel more comfortable standing next to someone shouting “Allahu Akbar” than someone in a MAGA hat.

“The good news is that we were actually filming for three hours, but we still managed to get 30 minutes of liberals saying Donald Trump and Trump supporters of MAGA were worse,” Bennett tells BlazeTV host Pat Gray on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“I have 30 minutes of this on my YouTube channel, Liberty Hangout. And a woman literally goes, ‘I’m a Democrat, so I definitely feel I, you know, can relate more to radical Islamists.’ … She said it out loud. That’s their entire thing right now,” she explains.

Bennett took to the streets of Tampa while the city was celebrating St. Patrick’s day, which worked in her favor.

“I’ve always found the best way to engage with people on a topic like this is to go up with them and say something completely unrelated,” she says, noting that asking everyone where St. Patrick was from helped to break the ice before the questions got more political.

“Then they answer, and I get them hooked,” she explains.

“Most people just walked away. Most people, actually, when they see a camera, they do have a little bit of awareness of, like, ‘Don’t open your mouth,’” she says, though she notes that the woman who related more to radical Islamists justified her position with the fact that “she’s gay.”

“For a lesbian to say that she has more in common with radical Islam than MAGA supporters, when they would literally kill her, it’s so ignorant. It’s just sheer, unadulterated ignorance,” Gray says, shocked.

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The CEO of Air Canada airlines announced his resignation after getting backlash over an English-only statement about the death of two pilots in a U.S. crash.

Michael Rousseau, 68, told the board of the company that he would leave by the end of the third quarter, according to the announcement Monday.

‘The Air Canada board of directors will have to ensure that the next CEO speaks French.’

Two pilots were killed when their Air Canada plane with 72 passengers collided with a fire truck on the runway at LaGuardia Airport. Dozens were also injured in the March 22 incident.

Rousseau released a statement offering his condolences about the accident but was immediately criticized because it was in English but not in French. Canada is officially a dual-language country, and Air Canada is based in a French-majority province.

The issue was so contentious that even Prime Minister Mark Carney weighed in to call the resignation “appropriate.”

He added, “It is essential that the next CEO of Air Canada is bilingual.”

Quebec Premier François Legault agreed.

“I salute the decision of Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau to step down from his position. The Air Canada board of directors will have to ensure that the next CEO speaks French,” Legault said.

Legault also pointed out that Rousseau had promised to learn French when he was elevated to the CEO position in 2021.

RELATED: Investigator of LaGuardia plane crash suggests ‘multiple failures’ caused the collision; survivors respond

The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages said it received hundreds of complaints about Rousseau’s statement.

On Tuesday, National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said on Fox News that the investigation into the crash was ongoing but that she believed there were “multiple failures” that led to the lethal accident.

“We have found in all of our investigations that it is not a single error that led to a terrible tragedy. … So we’re going to look very comprehensively,” she said.

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Actor, comedian, rapper, and TV host Nick Cannon can now add another title to his resume: unabashed Trump fan.

The “Masked Singer” host made his remarks on a recent episode of his podcast “Nick Cannon’s Big Drive,” which appears to have been removed from YouTube.

‘People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves.’

Speaking to Amber Rose, a model who spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2024, Cannon asked her if she supported the GOP as a result of her wealth and enterprise.

“Is that because the bag has got so intense and so heavy that you … up there with the elite now?”

“Not even close,” Rose replied. “Democrats don’t care about black people, and they don’t care about people of color, and the Republicans do. And that’s the misconception.”

Loose Cannon

Cannon’s response was blunt: “You know what? I agree with you 100%. People don’t know that the Democrats is the party of the KKK. People don’t know that the Republicans are the party that freed the slaves.”

While Cannon allowed that he wasn’t as “outspoken” about his conservative views as Rose, he did confess to admiring the current president.

“I f**k with Trump,” Cannon added after laughing about him “cleaning house” and “charging a $5 million bottle service fee to get in the country.”

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That’s Trumpist

Cannon was also quick to defend Trump from any charges of racism, noting that he never faced such accusations before he got involved in politics.

“He would be at all the events with like, Russell Simmons, all the black parties. … But when he got political, that’s when, you know, people start putting the racist jacket on.”

Cannon then came up with a word for what Trump actually is:

“I honestly don’t think he’s racist. I think he’s Trumpist.”

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Cali crisis

While the host shared a mutual admiration for California with Rose, he admitted the state has floundered in recent years. Rose pointed out “potholes everywhere” as the two drove through Los Angeles.

“Look at these roads. … It’s disgusting. We pay too much taxes in California to be living like this.”

Agreeing, Cannon commented on a “great exodus” of the state, but with both entertainers being parents, they said they did not want to uproot their kids or take them away from their respective spouses.

Hot seat

Cannon is not one to shy away from controversial statements. In 2020, he was fired by ViacomCBS for claiming that Jews have “the bloodlines that control everything, even outside of America” and that black people are the “true Hebrews.”

In 2017, Cannon had called Trump a “bully” and said he needed to be a better leader. He also criticized the president for wanting to send the National Guard into Chicago.

“Darkness does not get rid of darkness, you’ve got to bring some light to this community! Bring that to Chicago!”

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