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When Catherine Herring found out she was pregnant with her third child, her husband began behaving in strange ways — including obsessing over her hydration.

After an emergency left her and her unborn child on death’s doorstep, Catherine hired a private investigator to look into her husband. What she discovered led to their divorce and his arrest.

On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey sits down to hear Catherine’s harrowing story.

In 2022, Catherine found out she was pregnant a week after she and her husband decided to separate. The news resulted in him choosing to stick around, but his behavior was markedly changed.

“[One] morning, he brought me a plastic cup of water and a biscuit and said that he had noticed I wasn’t drinking enough water, and for the sake of my pregnancy, he wanted me to stay hydrated, and then he added that he was not going to leave until I had finished the entire glass of water,” Catherine recalls.

“As time progressed and I drank more of the water and ate more of the biscuit, he started urging me to drink faster, and he ultimately was standing over me urging me to chug the water. And when he did that, that was the first time I actually looked down into the cup, and I realized that the water was not clear. It was kind of creamy, almost milky,” she adds.

When she questioned him about the drink, he shrugged it off and acted like he had mistakenly used a dirty cup. But when “violent cramping” and complete loss of bodily control began 30 minutes later, Catherine knew something was terribly wrong.

“Something had been in that cup,” she tells Allie.

Amid the chaos, Catherine recalled an article she had recently read about Google blocking a pro-life group’s advertisement for abortion pill reversals.

“I thought about that article, and I ended up googling abortion pill reversals, and a pregnancy hotline number came up … and I said, ‘This is going to be the craziest thing you’ve ever heard, but I think my husband put something in my drink this morning,’” Catherine recounts.

“[The nurse] frantically was trying to get me a prescription for progesterone, which I always find so ironic now. You don’t have to have a prescription to obtain chemical abortion pills at this moment in the United States of America, but you do need a prescription for progesterone to counteract the abortion pills to do the reversal,” she explains.

Miraculously, Catherine already had progesterone pills from a previous pregnancy and was able to get a dosage in her system shortly after drinking the water her husband brought her.

But her symptoms didn’t stop.

“I kept getting sick throughout the day, and then I started bleeding heavily, and I was still in touch with the hotline nurse, and she urged me to go to the emergency room,” says Catherine.

When she got to the ER, a “solid black” urine sample alerted doctors and nurses that her kidneys were failing.

“They started an IV, started me on antibiotics, and then they also conducted an ultrasound, and that was the first time that I saw my daughter’s heartbeat,” Catherine recalls.

But because hospitals “cannot test for prescription drug poisonings,” Catherine couldn’t get a clear answer about what her husband had put in her water that morning, so she partnered with a private investigator, who instructed her to go back home and “pretend” to take the drinks her husband gave her in order to collect evidence.

In the end, they discovered he attempted to poison her and the baby “six more times.”

“We ended up finding two sets of abortion pill packaging in my trash, and one of the poisoning attempts he did in front of two eyewitnesses. And then the seventh and final drink, we caught him making it on a hidden camera that we had placed into my kitchen air vents,” says Catherine.

“It was so terrifying because he was still to my face saying that he loved me, that he cared about me, that we were going to work this out,” she adds.

Forty days after the first of seven total poisoning attempts, Catherine finally had enough evidence to go to the police. A month later, her husband was arrested and charged with felony assault to induce abortion, felony assault of a pregnant person, and then felony assault injury to a child.

“Ultimately he took a plea deal,” says Catherine. “The felony assault to induce abortion was dropped, and his plea deal was for 180 days in jail plus probation for the attempted murder of our daughter seven separate times.”

“I think these plea deals and weak sentences, they only embolden abusers, and so it’s been really scary,” she says, calling his sentence “a slap on the wrist.”

In the divorce proceedings, it came out that Catherine’s husband had long been “living a double life,” including engaging in an extramarital affair. Today, he is serving an eight-year prison sentence after repeatedly violating a protective order that barred him from contacting her.

But life is looking up for Catherine and her children — including her youngest daughter, Josephine Grace. Despite being born prematurely with multiple developmental issues, Josephine is thriving today.

“If she walked in the room, you would have no idea that she had overcome so much in four short years. She is a true inspiration, and I’m so grateful to be her mom,” says Catherine.

To hear more of Catherine’s story and the advocacy she’s doing today around domestic violence and the weaponization of abortion pills, check out the episode above.

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A stretch of roadway near the South Chicago Chapel on East 95th Street was shut down as investigators continued to process the dozens of bodies found improperly stored at the funeral home.

Multiple law enforcement sources told WGN-TV that at least 50 decomposing bodies were found on Thursday stuffed into closets and the garage at the business in Chicago, Illinois.

She was cited for leaving bodies in an unrefrigerated area that had a ‘rodent infestation, causing decomposition and maggot infestation.’

The Chicago Police Department said the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation called officers to the business on a “license investigation.”

WLS-TV reported that the owner of the funeral home was recorded as Clark Morgan, whose name matches that of the person who ran Chicago Heights crematory. That business was shut down after more than 100 bodies were found improperly stored on trailers last year.

Morgan’s wife, Johanna, was listed as the funeral director at South Chicago Chapel, but her license was suspended on Wednesday after a history of disciplinary action.

In one incident, she was cited for leaving bodies in an unrefrigerated area that had a “rodent infestation, causing decomposition and maggot infestation.”

Residents near the funeral home said they smelled a very foul odor for about a year.

“Every time I come through here, I smell a foul smell in the air, and I was wondering what that smell was, and I kept thinking maybe it was the sewer,” Frank Dower said. “That is so awful, but I hope they get it resolved. I hope they get it resolved and put the bodies away properly like they’re supposed to be, and justice for the families.”

“Oh man, it’s awful,” Valkiery Velez said. “I’ve lived here for about a year, and I could smell it this entire year. It’s like dead rodents, dead animals. You can smell it, yeah.”

Officials said that forensic pathologists found bodies in different states of decomposition.

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The families of the people at the funeral home have been left in limbo as the investigation continues.

“We don’t know if Melody is in there or not,” Patrice Halliburton said, referring to her sister, who had been cremated at the funeral home. “So right now, we’re more fearful that she is than we are angry.”

Local Alderman Peter Chico released a statement about the incident Friday.

“I was horrified when I found out about the bodies at the South Chicago Chapel Funeral Home,” he said. “My thoughts and prayers go out to the families who may have had loved ones there.”

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President Donald Trump lit into the far-left victor of the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in Michigan after the highly anticipated contest.

Abdul El-Sayed, 41, was able to defeat establishment candidate Haley Stevens despite polling showing that she had the advantage over the Republican candidate.

‘He doesn’t love Israel; he doesn’t love Jewish people. He hates them. He hates them with a passion that burns in his heart.’

“The polls were wrong again last night when they thought it would be a landslide victory for a hater of Jews and a hater of Israel,” the president said during an event in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

“This guy hates Jews,” he continued. “Somebody said, ‘Oh, that’s a little strong.’ No, he hates Jews, and hates Israel.”

“Abdul El-Sayed, can you believe this? This could only happen to me. Abdul El-Sayed, lovely gentleman. He’s a man of hate, and now he’s going around saying, ‘Oh, I love everybody.’ He doesn’t love everybody. Put him in office, and you’re going to find out what he loves!” Trump said.

El-Sayed has been criticized widely for his far-left progressive values, and his narrow victory is seen as another defeat for the establishment wing of the party trying to keep control away from the extremist fringe.

“He doesn’t love Israel; he doesn’t love Jewish people. He hates them. He hates them with a passion that burns in his heart, and there’s not a frickin’ thing he can do about it,” the president continued.

“When I watch Abdul, he’s full of s**t!” he added to laughter and applause.

El-Sayed will face 63-year-old Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan, who ran unopposed for the Republican nomination.

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Speaking to his supporters on Wednesday, El-Sayed invoked his Muslim religion when asked how he would beat Rogers.

“I want you to remind them that if we come through this, when we come through this — inshallah — that we’ll have taken $70 million on the chin and kept fighting back,” he said.

Inshallah means “God willing” in Arabic.

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For three decades, William Allen lived as “Maggie,” believing that transitioning was the answer to feelings that had followed him since childhood. He also believed that while he was pretending to be a woman, he was a Christian.

Today, however, the author of “Not Man Enough to Be a Woman” tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey that he began to change his mind when he realized how dramatically the transgender movement was changing.

“Back in the day, it was called gender identity disorder. There were transvestites and transsexuals. Transvestites just were men who dressed up as women for sexual gratification. They didn’t want to be a woman,” Allen tells Stuckey.

“Transsexuals actually either felt they were a woman or wanted to be a woman,” he continues, noting that all transsexuals wanted to do “was transition and blend into society and get on with our lives.”

“The last thing we wanted was attention, very unlike what we see today,” he says. “I mean, we took care in our presentation. I mean, I had my beard removed with electrolysis. I went to a voice coach. I was able to retrain my voice.”

“And my gosh, today it’s just so in your face. The movement, they’re militant. They’re demanding. They’re coercive. It’s just gotten so out of hand,” he says.

And years ago, when Allen was still living as “Maggie,” he heard about drag queen story hours and looked into it.

“I saw a news report or something, and it talked about drag queens reading books to children. I thought, ‘Oh, that can’t be right. That’s not happening.’ But I kept hearing about it. Sure enough, it was happening. Of course, people would deny it,” he tells Stuckey.

“And that same thing keeps happening. It went from drag queen story hour to bringing these books into the classrooms and into school libraries, elementary school kids, and then indoctrination and now a whole bunch of teachers. Teachers who are trans and gay now are influencing children,” he adds.

And when Allen went to a support group meeting for transsexuals, what he saw was “horrifying.”

“I went on in, and everybody in there — probably 20, 30 people — they’re all dressed just like the people you see in all the Antifa riots and the BLM riots. They’re all tatted and pierced and multicolored hair and stuff,” he explains.

“I walked in there as Miss Maggie, and … it came around to me. And I just said, ‘My name’s Maggie,’ and I started talking, and they all screamed at me, ‘Pronouns!’ And this was my first exposure to this pronoun hysteria,” he says.

“It had taken such a turn,” he adds.

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A former National Basketball Association center has announced his eligibility to play in the Women’s National Basketball Association.

Enes Kanter Freedom posted a video of himself Friday dressed in a WNBA hoodie and saying he was not intending to mock anyone’s personal choices with his announcement.

‘I’m simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone — the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for.’

“After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect,” wrote Freedom in a statement on social media.

“If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA,” he added. “My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA’s eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in April 2027.”

Freedom is a human rights activist and has spoken out against the regime in Turkey, his home country, as well as the communist government of China. In 2021, he changed his name to add “Freedom” after gaining his U.S. citizenship in order to cement his commitment against despotism.

“I know my presence on the court will stir up strong opinions. I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices,” he continued. “I’m simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone — the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for.”

Freedom did not mention transgender-identifying athletes in his statement and did not declare himself transgender. The 34-year-old former NBA center stands 6’10”, according to Basketball Reference.

Freedom’s announcement follows statements from players such as Gabby Williams, who has worn a shirt reading “Black Trans Lives Matter,” according to a Thursday X post.

Williams in May said she would welcome a transgender-identifying person on her team.

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Freedom previously stated his opposition to men pretending to be women and playing in the WNBA. He called out feminists and women’s rights activists on their silence about the issue.

He finished his statement by calling on the WNBA to live up to its stated principles of inclusion.

“See you at training camp,” he concluded.

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An underwater videographer may have a new job as a pirate after he discovered a sunken treasure off the coast of England.

While exploring a shipwreck near Dover, England, a Belgian named Stefan Panis found what appeared to be a piece of cargo that has been overlooked for more than 160 years.

‘There might be more cases.’

Beer goggles

In the depths of the wreck of an English ship called the Mindora, Panis found a treasure that is likely to please historians and beer drinkers alike: bottles of Guinness from 1864.

The Irish Times reported that Panis found up to 20 bottles of the stout in 2025, but only recently connected the bottles to the ship wreckage via a cargo report.

Panis told the BBC that the beer is now with scientists who are studying to see if it is still drinkable, with the photographer citing that the same team previously tested a bottle of champagne that is just as old and was still OK to consume.

It depends on whether or not “sea water has come into the bottle through the corks,” Panis said.

At the same time though, the 162-year-old beer is also the focus of a different project for Panis and his Polish cohort Paweł Truszynski, which they are calling “Project Jurassic Beer.”

The duo is having the contents of the Guinness bottles analyzed to see if they can recreate the original recipe.

RELATED: God save the English pub

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Bottoms up

With the help of a microbiologist from Brussels, the group wants to recreate exactly how the beer would have tasted in 1864.

Professor Kevin Verstrepen said this comes down to the yeast cells in the bottle; the group will try to retrieve living cells, but if they can’t, they will take a “modern sibling” to get as close to the original as possible.

Diageo, parent company of Guinness, told the Irish Times that the Guinness Archive team “has been in communication with the divers to gather more information and evaluate the find.”

“Discoveries like this provide a fascinating window into our past and help build a deeper understanding of our heritage,” the spokesperson added.

As for the case of beer, Panis believes the bottles “definitely” came from a case of 24.

“But there might be more cases,” he claimed.

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Secret stash

The diver said that the Mindora has been searched throughout the last decade, but the beer somehow went undetected. He theorized this was likely due to sand covering his discoveries, which also reportedly included items like pickled vegetables.

The Mindora set sail from London to Vancouver, Canada, in November 1864, and traveled for approximately a week before it allegedly collided with another vessel off the coast of Dover on November 27.

Not much of the recent discovery is verified, as Panis’ team did not make their dive in cooperation with official authorities.

“The story of the shipwreck is never-ending,” Panis said, adding that pieces of history “appear one year and disappear the next year.”

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An appeals court ruled against the Trump administration and blocked the construction of the White House ballroom on the basis that it was not properly approved.

President Donald Trump has urged the speedy construction of the ballroom after the alleged attempt on his life at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April.

‘The bold assertion that the Executive can act with utter lawlessness, destroying treasured national landmarks and harming the interests of individuals, and that no court can stop it flouts our constitutional order.’

On Friday, an appeals court ruled in a 2-1 decision that the president had acted “lawlessly” by demolishing the East Wing of the White House in order to build the ballroom without congressional approval.

“Executive actions that take control of that property out of the hands of the people’s representatives while irreparably harming the historical and visual architecture of perhaps the most prominent public building in the United States seriously intrude on the public interest,” two judges wrote in the joint majority opinion.

However, the administration has two weeks to seek relief from the U.S. Supreme Court.

If the court does not intervene, above-ground construction at the White House would need to stop.

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The president has argued that security concerns necessitated the construction of the ballroom with increased law enforcement features. The appeals court found that these concerns could have been addressed without ignoring federal statutes on project funding.

“The bold assertion that the Executive can act with utter lawlessness, destroying treasured national landmarks and harming the interests of individuals, and that no court can stop it flouts our constitutional order,” the two judges said.

“While this court accords great weight and deference to invocations of national security and the safety of the President, such arguments are not an automatic get-out-of-law-free card,” they continued.

In her dissenting opinion, Judge Neomi Rao agreed with the administration and said the security concerns outweighed the legal concerns brought up by the plaintiff, the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The group praised the decision in a statement, citing the 250th anniversary of the country.

“This is a great day for our country and for the American people’s right to voice their opinions about the historic places they cherish, including the White House,” the trust said. “From the beginning, our position has been clear and consistent: The law states that only Congress can authorize the construction of a ballroom at the White House.”

While the president has touted the private money being used to construct the ballroom, the contractor has since said the budget has surged to $600 million, according to a Washington Post report. The gap will reportedly be filled in by taxpayer funding.

The two judges who ruled against the ballroom were Patricia Millett, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, and Bradley Garcia, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden.

Judge Neomi Rao is a Trump appointee.

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“The new socialist star” on the far left has emerged, but her reign may be short-lived.

Francesca Hong, a self-described democratic socialist, is running for governor in Wisconsin. However, the people of Wisconsin don’t seem that impressed with her belief system.

“Now, I don’t think people in Wisconsin love socialism,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells co-host Dave Landau. “The polling doesn’t say that.”

Pointing to a Marquette Law School poll, Stu reveals that 31% of Wisconsin voters view DSA candidates favorably, while 54% view them unfavorably.

But even worse than Wisconsin voters’ views of socialism, Hong doesn’t even view her own son favorably.

She made this clear in an interview on Listen MKE. In the interview, Hong explained that as a child of immigrants who married a white man, her child has a negative proximity to whiteness.

“I wasn’t always aware of the struggles of other communities of color because for me assimilation always kind of took over. And so I did marry — and proximity to whiteness continues, right? My son is biracial. He’s half white and half Korean,” Hong said in an interview.

“And I think navigating, you know, what his identity is and how people perceive him is always at the back of my mind as well,” she added.

“Can you imagine saying that about your own kid?” Stu asks.

“What I don’t get about these people is they’re always like, ‘We must dismantle this racist system of, you know, white supremacy that disempowers the LGBTQ plus.’ Also, this is my husband, Chad,” Dave says.

“We see that a lot,” Stu agrees.

“The truth of the matter,” Stu continues, “is the way to solve racism is to stop making decisions based on race. That’s the way to solve it … it’s not to say, ‘Well, that group is evil, and we should kill all of them.’ That’s not the way to solve this.”

“That is what the Ibram Kendi’s of the world, and our good friend Hong seem to believe. If we just turn the discrimination and turn the racism and turn the hate toward the right color, everything will be solved,” he adds.

“Exactly,” Dave agrees. “That’s the problem. And do you want to be talking about your own kids’ ethnicity like they have lupus? It’s not a good thing.”

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Owing to their nation’s Temporary Protected Status, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants have avoided deportation despite greatly adding to the strain on American resources in places such as the blue-collar city of Springfield, Ohio, where they were accused by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump of “eating the pets of the people that live there.”

After a protracted legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the activist judge who initially held up the process has finally conceded that the Trump administration can start giving Haitian migrants the boot.

How it started

The Trump administration announced last summer that Haiti’s TPS was, after 16 years, finally coming to an end, having determined that the Caribbean nation no longer meets the conditions for special status, owing largely to significant improvements in domestic safety and stability.

‘You don’t have status inside this country any more.’

The revocation was, however, held up in the courts.

In Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes — a foreign-born, Biden-appointed, lesbian judge who previously worked as a lawyer to fight the first Trump administration’s immigration policy and helped the U.N. secure asylum for so-called refugees — gave her fellow immigration activists cause to hope on Feb. 2, blocking the revocation of Haiti’s TPS.

Reyes, originally from Uruguay, claimed that former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem not only violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause when terminating the TPS designation for Haiti but had likely done so “because of hostility to non-white immigrants.”

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After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia declined in March to block Reyes’ ruling and kept Haiti’s special status in place, the government kicked the matter up to the nation’s highest court.

In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the Trump administration a huge victory, overturning the lower court’s ruling.

In the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito rejected the suggestion that race was a motivating factor behind the TPS revocation and emphasized that the “TPS statute plainly bars consideration of respondents’ non-constitutional claims.”

How it’s going

In the wake of the Supreme Court making mincemeat out of her ruling, Reyes issued an order on Wednesday acknowledging the reversal of her judgment and what it necessarily entails.

The foreign-born judge, who previously had a great deal to say about the matter, kept her admission of defeat brief, noting that her stay of termination “is no longer in effect.”

Despite Reyes’ insinuation that the government was waiting on her say-so, James Percival, general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, noted, “Haiti TPS ended when the Supreme Court mandate issued on July 27. I will give Judge Reyes kudos though for taking the L with grace and not doing something bonkers like many of her colleagues.”

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin issued a message to Haitians with suspended special statuses: “We’re going after them right now. We are giving them an opportunity to either leave on their own, and we’ll help you, or we’ll arrest you and send you back.”

“Either way, you don’t have status inside this country any more,” continued Mullin. “That has been litigated. The courts spoke very clearly. We knew that we were going to win this because in its name itself it says, ‘Temporary Protected Status.'”

Steve Foster, the immigration policy coordinator for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, told ABC News, “Haitians with TPS, regardless of whether they have a pending asylum claim, have gotten a ‘DHS Call-In Letter’ to appear at ICE offices in person.”

Foster said that some Haitians have reportedly been assigned future court dates and given ankle monitors.

These efforts are reportedly under way in Springfield — an Ohio city that has in recent years heard allegations of Haitians eating pets and wildlife and seen a significant spike in Haitian-caused traffic accidents.

In 2024, Springfield Mayor Rob Rue admitted that the tens of thousands of Haitians who had recently poured into his city — a city that had a population of just over 58,000 in 2020 — “taxed” the “infrastructure of the city, our safety forces, our hospitals, our schools.” According to the city, there were more than 15,000 migrants presently residing in Clark County alone.

Viles Dorsainvil, the head of a Haitian support group in Springfield, confirmed the government’s efforts to get the ball rolling on Haitian migrants’ ouster.

“We are just helping these folks to go to this appointment, and when they get there, they interview them and eventually put [an] ankle monitor on them,” said Dorsainvil.

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Some rockets go up. Some come back down. And some, well, blow up.

At a glance, it’s business as usual for SpaceX, and it comes at a cost: a net loss of $541 million in the second quarter of this year. Market jitters about the company’s enormous AI spend, in a crowded field with deep-pocketed competitors, pushed its stock down around 10%, enough to fuel jeers from Elon Musk’s sizable audience of haters and skeptics.

‘They desperately want to blow themselves into tiny pieces.’

On SpaceX’s Q2 earnings call, however, Musk himself couldn’t hold back a laugh or two.

After all, despite his participation in the ultra-high-spend AI industry, SpaceX is, first and foremost, about space.

“Rocket science is literally our daily business,” he said on the call. “And rocket science is an idiomatic expression for extreme technological difficulty, and there’s a reason for it. Because let me tell you what rockets desperately want to do every flight. They desperately want to blow themselves into tiny pieces. And then the engineering struggle is to convince the rocket not to blow itself into tiny pieces and actually deliver payload to orbit.”

In the chat with investors, Musk went on to accentuate the positive: massive revenues that surpassed expectations. All told, the earnings report noted, revenues were up 92%.

In fact, following its initial public offering in June, SpaceX managed to blast by revenue expectations by nearly one billion dollars. CNBC reported that Q2 2026 revenue expectations were set around $6.93 billion, but SpaceX outpaced estimates and brought in $7.81 billion.

SpaceX is still not yet profitable, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. That $541 million loss is a near half-billion improvement from the $1 billion in the red notched the same quarter last year.

Much of the company’s losses came from research and development in the space sector, where as Grok/xAI and Starlink sectors proved to be far more positive.

None of this prevented Musk from verbalizing everything from bold predictions to astronomical promises.

In discussions about SpaceX’s Starship and its impact “on the future of civilization,” Musk detailed a goal of delivering one million tons of payload to orbit per year, including satellite, hardware, and cargo, eventually increasing that figure to 10 million tons per year.

To put that into perspective, SpaceX’s current annualized run-rate of payload into space is roughly 2,500 metric tons.

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Musk urged and encouraged his competitors to copy what his company is doing, an easy stunt to pull given none of them have come close to SpaceX’s achievements. Referring to an internal graph comparing launch volume of similar companies, Musk said that his “next competitor was one pixel high” on the screen.

“I think our competitors are very smart people, but despite being very smart, the rockets still blow up,” Musk laughed.

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SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell, also on the call, focused on the growth coming from an increase in subscribers to xAI’s internet company Starlink, which added more than 1.7 million customers in Q2. This represented the company’s biggest increase to date, which now totals 12 million subscribers.

With more than 10,000 satellites in orbit, Musk detailed the sheer computing power being used by the company would be more than two gigawatts by the end of the year and between five and 10 gigawatts by the end of 2027.

By comparison, a single data center used by Meta takes about 2.2 gigawatts of power.

It should come as a surprise to no one that Musk continues to nurse his goals on the grandest scale. He even admitted, “I know this sounds totally nuts,” before later declaring, “We are going to land a lot of tonnage on the moon. We’re going to build the factories on the moon. The robots will be helpful with that.”

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The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the sentence against Gerald Pitts was intended to show that law enforcement officials take racially motivated violence seriously.

Santos Tejas Gonzalez was trying to get around Pitts on a Los Angeles Metro Bus in March 2023 when Pitts yelled racial slurs at Gonzalez.

‘Gerald Pitts attacked a complete stranger because of his race or perceived race, repeatedly stabbed him, and kept attacking him even after the victim fell from the bus.’

When Gonzalez tried to get off the bus at the next stop to avoid further confrontation, Pitts stabbed him in the face and kicked him in the head after the victim fell off the bus.

At one point before Gonzalez fell to the ground outside the bus, the knife can be seen protruding from his face in a graphic bus surveillance video the district attorney’s office released.

The victim also was stabbed numerous times in the abdomen, arm, and hand.

Pitts was arrested and charged with attempted murder along with additional crimes, including a hate crime designation. In June, a jury found the 67-year-old guilty, and on Thursday Pitts was sentenced to life in state prison plus another seven years.

“A hate crime is more than just a criminal act against one person; it tears at the fibers that hold our community together,” L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement.

“These crimes are meant to intimidate entire communities and weaken the trust that holds us together. Gerald Pitts attacked a complete stranger because of his race or perceived race, repeatedly stabbed him, and kept attacking him even after the victim fell from the bus,” Hochman added. “We’re grateful the victim survived and relieved that he is continuing to recover. This kind of violence is exactly what hate crime laws are meant to address.”

The district attorney did not mention Pitts’ race in his press release, and news outlets also neglected to mention it. However, Pitts’ booking record listed him as a black man.

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Hochman tied the attack on Gonzalez to other hate crimes committed in L.A. County, including one on a transgender shopkeeper.

“This office will not tolerate hate incidents and crimes in our communities and will respond with the full force of the law,” Hochman added.

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There are plenty of reasons for an electric car company to fail.

Maybe the car is badly engineered. Maybe the range disappoints. Maybe the software is a mess. Maybe buyers simply don’t like the product.

There are only so many Americans willing and able to spend close to six figures on an electric vehicle.

Lucid has a more troubling problem: It makes an excellent car.

Driver’s ‘Dream’

I’ve driven Lucids, including the spectacular Air Dream Edition, and there is very little to complain about from behind the wheel. The Air is fast, beautifully finished, extraordinarily efficient, and capable of the kind of range that makes most other electric vehicles look dated.

Yet the company behind it is once again confronting the brutal economics of building cars.

Lucid announced this week that it is embarking on what management calls an “operational reset,” with plans to cut costs by roughly $1.4 billion this year. The company is reducing spending and inventory while delaying the launch of its more affordable midsize vehicles until the second half of 2027.

That delay may be the most important part of the story.

Lucid desperately needs a vehicle ordinary luxury-car buyers can afford. Instead, it remains heavily dependent on expensive models at precisely the moment the upper end of the EV market is getting harder to crack.

Pulling a Tesla?

Lucid’s problem isn’t really its product. That’s unusual among struggling EV start-ups.

Fisker had serious product and execution problems. Other newcomers have arrived with cars that felt unfinished, badly priced, or both.

The Lucid Air is different. It demonstrated from the beginning that a start-up could challenge Tesla on efficiency, range, performance, and luxury.

But engineering a great car and building a sustainable car company are very different skills.

Lucid entered the market primarily with expensive sedans, then followed with the Gravity SUV. That gives the company impressive halo vehicles, but it limits the pool of potential customers.

There are only so many Americans willing and able to spend close to six figures on an electric vehicle.

Tesla confronted this problem years ago by moving down-market after establishing itself with expensive cars. Lucid has been trying to do something similar, but the cheaper model it needs keeps getting pushed further into the future.

Lucid now says those midsize vehicles won’t arrive until the latter half of 2027.

That’s a long time when you’re burning cash.

Changing market

Lucid isn’t dealing only with its own growing pains.

The entire electric vehicle industry has gone through a reset.

Automakers that once talked about replacing nearly their entire gasoline-powered lineups with EVs have pulled back investments, delayed factories, canceled models, and rediscovered hybrids.

The problem isn’t that Americans don’t buy electric cars. Millions do.

The problem is that demand never followed the straight upward line many executives and government planners assumed it would.

The affluent early adopters were relatively easy to reach. The next group of buyers is much more price-sensitive and much less willing to change how they drive simply because an automaker wants to sell them something electric.

That matters enormously for Lucid because the company remains concentrated near the expensive end of the market. At some point, you saturate the group of buyers who can afford a six-figure vehicle.

That’s precisely why a $40,000 or $50,000 Lucid could be transformative — if the company can survive long enough to build one.

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No second mover

Automotive executives love saying they want to “do what Tesla did.”

That is much harder than it sounds.

Tesla had something no new EV company can recreate: years in which it essentially owned the premium electric car category.

The Model S arrived before almost anybody else had a credible answer. Tesla built an enormous base of customers, developed a charging network, became a cultural phenomenon, and had Elon Musk turning every product announcement into news.

Whether you love Tesla or hate it, that position cannot simply be duplicated by making another good EV.

Today’s start-ups aren’t entering an empty market. They’re fighting Tesla, Hyundai, Kia, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, General Motors, Ford, Rivian, and an increasingly formidable group of Chinese companies around the world.

Lucid built a technically brilliant car. It didn’t build it in a vacuum.

Deep pockets

Lucid does have one enormous advantage over many failed start-ups: financial backing from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

That support has given the company a lifeline other manufacturers could only dream of.

But outside investment doesn’t repeal economics.

A manufacturer eventually has to produce cars at a sustainable cost and sell enough of them at a sustainable price. Constant infusions of capital can buy time, but time has to lead somewhere.

Lucid’s current plan involves cost reductions, the Gravity SUV, a future midsize platform, autonomous-vehicle partnerships, and increased manufacturing in Saudi Arabia. Reuters reported that the company still expects those initiatives to provide a path forward, despite continued losses and weaker-than-expected deliveries.

Holding the bag

Maybe they will.

I hope so, because the automotive industry is better when companies like Lucid force everybody else to improve.

But consumers should understand the risk when buying from a young automaker.

If the company disappears, the vehicle doesn’t disappear with it. You still own the car. You still need replacement parts, software support, warranty work, body panels, service technicians, and somebody maintaining all those cloud-connected features.

Fisker owners already learned what happens when the company behind a highly computerized automobile suddenly isn’t there anymore.

Grind behind the glamour

For years, Silicon Valley treated automobile manufacturing as though Detroit had simply failed to understand software.

Build a better battery. Hire good programmers. Raise enough venture capital. Disrupt the dinosaurs.

The reality has turned out to be far less glamorous.

Cars require factories, suppliers, repair networks, inventories, regulatory compliance, financing, parts distribution, warranty reserves, and enormous amounts of capital long before the manufacturer knows whether buyers will show up.

Lucid has already proved it can build a remarkable automobile.

Now it has to prove something harder: that it can build a viable company around it.

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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — a nominal Republican up for re-election in 2028 — appears desperate to undermine the MAGA agenda and prevent President Donald Trump from getting his ducks in a row.

Murkowski — who in recent months repeatedly voted against funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection; voted to reign in Trump’s war powers; voted to block Trump’s tariffs; voted unsuccessfully to keep taxpayers on the hook for USAID and other foreign funding; voted against multiple Trump nominees, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Under Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao; campaigned against the SAVE America Act; and complained with Democrats about ex-FBI Director James Comey’s indictment — revealed Friday she will vote against Todd Blanche’s confirmation for attorney general.

‘She’s not good.’

With the continued absence of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), this effectively means that the fate of Blanche’s confirmation could be decided by Bill Cassidy — a U.S. senator whose hopes of a third term Trump helped dash in Louisiana’s May Republican primary.

Murkowski, who started the year with an approval rating of 37%, noted in a lengthy X post that she has had numerous “constructive meetings” with Blanche and credited him not only as being “decent and capable” but also as having “made several noteworthy decisions that will benefit our state and the nation.”

The 69-year-old senator nevertheless vowed to “oppose his nomination.”

It appears Murkowski is less opposed to the man and more opposed to the administration. After all, some of her complaints have to do with actions taken at the Justice Department prior to Blanche’s April promotion to acting attorney general.

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“The politicization — even weaponization — of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it,” wrote Murkowski. “I take issue with the handling of the release of the Epstein files; the sweeping immunity protections granted to the president, his family, and their businesses; the statements that have been made to anti-abortion groups; and the repeated targeting of individuals ranging from former administration staff to sitting U.S. senators.”

Murkowski also expressed skepticism about the scrapping of the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that would have compensated MAGA victims of Democratic lawfare, noting that while it was taken off the table “because this nomination is pending and the Senate has leverage,” there “is no telling what the future holds.”

The senator said in conclusion that she does not have confidence that Blanche can “check the worst impulses of this administration.”

There is no love lost between Trump and Murkowski.

“I’m against Murkowski,” the president recently told Punchbowl News. “I do more for Alaska than any president in history. No president’s done for Alaska what I’ve done. She’s not good.”

In June, Trump called the Alaskan U.S. senator “Trump deranged.”

Murkowski is not, however, the only Republican lawmaker keen to torpedo Blanche’s confirmation.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins — the Maine Republican whose challenger in the midterms is a leftist reportedly married to his second cousin — complained that while Blanche is a “capable lawyer,” he “has taken several actions that have further eroded the Department’s independence.”

Cassidy, a vociferous Trump critic and the remaining undecided Republican, has declined to indicate whether he’ll support Blanche, reported The Hill.

The Senate is expected to vote Friday or sometime over the weekend to get the ball rolling on a final confirmation vote.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement, “Todd Blanche is exceptionally qualified and should be confirmed as the next attorney general of the United States so the administration can continue to keep America safe.”

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The Trump administration is taking steps to ensure that Americans aren’t being cannibalized for their organs while still alive and kicking.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decertified Network for Hope, or NFH, a federally designated “organ procurement organization,” on Wednesday following a damning independent investigation exposing allegedly “disturbing practices” associated with the organization.

‘Why did they want my organs?’

According to the decertification notice issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “No Medicare and Medicaid payments will be made with respect to organ procurement costs attributable to Network for Hope on or after November 3, 2026.”

“Americans who choose to become organ donors deserve a system that honors their gift and protects every patient,” said Kennedy. “Today’s action reflects the Trump administration’s commitment to protecting the sanctity of life. Organizations that repeatedly fail to meet federal standards and put patients at risk will be held accountable.”

Crying on the carving station

Anthony “TJ” Hoover II was admitted to Baptist Health Richmond’s emergency room on Oct. 25, 2021, suffering an overdose. Things looked bleak but were about to get much worse.

“We were told TJ had no reflexes, no responses, no brainwaves, no brain activity,” Hoover’s sister, Donna Rhorer, told WDKY-TV. “And we were told that on the 26, 27, 28, 29. … We made the decision as a family to remove him from life support because, you know, he was brain dead.”

When the process to harvest Hoover’s organs was initiated, his family members and multiple medical professionals claimed they noticed signs that he was not only alive but alert.

“His eyes started to open, and not just open, he was checking around, looking to see what was going on,” said Rhorer. “And we were told that was just reflexes, just normal instinct, and he’s not there.”

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Nyckoletta Martin, a surgical preservation coordinator who was working at the time with Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates — which merged with LifeCenter Organ Donor Network in 2024 to become NFH — witnessed the moments leading up to the scheduled organ harvesting.

Martin testified to Congress late last year that Hoover regained consciousness during his cardiac catheterization, but upon waking, he “was paralyzed and sedated.” The family was never informed that Hoover had regained consciousness, alleged Martin.

The former KODA employee told WDKY that while Hoover was allegedly thrashing around, knocking the would-be harvesters’ hands out of the way, and crying, “They were trying to prep and drape him for surgery.”

“This was no ordinary movement,” Natasha Miller, an organ perfusionist with KODA at the time and witness to Hoover’s case, told CNN. “He was very aware.”

Fortunately, the doctors refused ultimately to go through with the organ procurement.

“TJ knows what happened. TJ says, ‘Why me? Why did they want my organs?’ And TJ feels guilt still about he did not die so that people could get his organs to save their lives,” said Martin. “That’s horrific to me. Nobody should ever be put in that position. That’s not what his mission is about.”

Regarding the Hoover incident, Baptist Health Richmond told NPR, “The safety of our patients is always our highest priority. We work closely with our patients and their families to ensure our patients’ wishes for organ donation are followed.”

NFH said in response to outrage over the incident:

It is very important to understand that an organ procurement organization (OPO) is not involved in patient care, and we do not declare death. OPOs only have the authority to proceed with organ recovery after a patient’s independent health care provider has declared death. At any time, if a patient’s condition improves or a death declaration does not take place, the family is informed that the donation cannot take place, and the OPO team does not proceed with organ recovery.

State and federal officials looked into the matter and found that Hoover’s seemingly horrific dealings with the Kentucky-based OPO were not exceptional.

Hundreds of horrors

Following an independent investigation into Hoover’s case and other potential issues with NFH, the Health Resources and Services Administration alleged in July 2025 “clear negligence after the previous [Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network] Board of Directors claimed to find no major concerns in their internal review.”

The HRSA examined 351 cases where organ donation was authorized but not ultimately completed. According to the HHS press release,

103 of the cases “showed concerning features, including 73 patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation”;at least 28 of the patients whose cases were reviewed “may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated”; and”evidence pointed to poor neurologic assessments, lack of coordination with medical teams, questionable consent practices, and misclassification of causes of death, particularly in overdose cases.”

“This is horrifying,” Kennedy stated at the time. “The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable.”

The HRSA subsequently launched an assessment of whether NFH had adequately corrected the issues identified by the agency. The CMS separately assessed whether the NFH continued to meet federal requirements, including the minimum requirements for Medicare certification.

The organization was found wanting.

“HRSA, through its oversight of the OPTN, worked closely with Network of Hope [sic] over the past year through intensive monitoring and corrective action to address serious patient safety concerns,” HRSA Administrator Tom Engels said on Wednesday. “Despite those efforts, the organization did not demonstrate the improvements necessary to meet federal standards.”

“When organizations entrusted with the care of potential organ donors fail to meet those standards, we have a responsibility to act,” added Engels.

Barry Massa, the CEO of NFH, said in a statement that the organization “strongly disagrees” with Kennedy’s decision and will launch an appeal.

“NFH is compliant with all OPTN policies and has implemented a first-of-its-kind ‘pause in procedure’ process,” continued Massa. “This pause process is now Kentucky law and NFH proudly worked hand-in-hand with legislators and regulators by providing input in the drafting both of the new law and its implementing regulations. Despite this, and despite NFH’s demonstrated dedication to improving organ and tissue donation outcomes across its service area, Secretary Kennedy has acted to decertify our OPO that serves seven million people across four states.”

Massa further suggested that the decertification will negatively impact over 3,000 people waiting for an organ transplant.

Network for Hope, Baptist Health, and the HHS did not respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

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U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) recently asked the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into the abortion group Plan C.

According to Hawley’s complaint, Plan C teaches Americans how to obtain chemical abortion drugs in violation of state law and advises users to conceal their activity through privacy-focused browsers, virtual private networks, and encrypted email.

Lawmakers are rewarding an industry that treats the isolation of women as empowerment and the removal of medical oversight as progress.

The complaint raises a larger question: How much risk is the abortion industry willing to impose on women and girls in pursuit of unrestricted access?

Recent cases have shown how easily men can obtain mifepristone online and use it to coerce or drug women. Yet the industry continues pressing to remove safeguards, minimize medical supervision, and treat mail-order abortion as ordinary consumer health care.

Congress, meanwhile, recently allowed taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood to resume, despite sustained public opposition to federal support for the abortion provider.

That decision is especially troubling after the New York Times reported last year that Planned Parenthood was “in crisis.” The story described understaffed clinics, poor conditions, inadequate care, and botched procedures. Planned Parenthood has offered little public evidence that those problems have been corrected.

The pattern is difficult to ignore. Again and again, the abortion industry’s demand for fewer restrictions comes at the expense of basic standards of safety, medical care, and accountability.

Republican lawmakers should follow Hawley’s lead. Organizations that facilitate illegal access to abortion drugs or help users evade state safeguards should face scrutiny. Congress and the administration should also restore protections abandoned in recent years.

Chemical abortion offers the clearest example of what deregulation has produced.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden administration removed the long-standing in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone. Women and girls may now obtain the drug through online providers without first seeing a doctor.

That convenience carries serious risks.

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Mifepristone can produce dangerous complications when used later in pregnancy or by women with certain medical conditions. It cannot treat an ectopic pregnancy, which may become life-threatening without prompt diagnosis. An online questionnaire cannot perform an ultrasound, conduct a physical examination, or reliably detect coercion.

Many online providers do not require proof that a patient has received an ultrasound or an in-person medical evaluation.

My colleague Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, recently tested one such system. She told an online abortion provider that she was 13 years old and had a history of ectopic pregnancies, cesarean sections, an intrauterine device, and other serious complications.

Any one of those disclosures should have prompted further screening. Her stated age alone should have raised immediate concerns about abuse, consent, and parental involvement.

Instead, the provider accepted her payment and mailed the drugs.

Women and girls have a right to understand what can go wrong before they are left to experience the consequences alone.

The mail-order system has also enabled horrifying acts of coercion and abuse.

An Army captain was convicted after impregnating a subordinate and giving her mifepristone without her consent. A Texas attorney repeatedly slipped abortion drugs into his wife’s drinks. In Louisiana, a young man used his girlfriend’s information to order mifepristone and then isolated and pressured her into taking it. An Ohio doctor forced the drug down his girlfriend’s throat.

Those are just the cases that became public. How many other women have suffered in silence? How many have lost pregnancies without knowing that a partner drugged them? How many were pressured into abortions while isolated from family, doctors, or anyone positioned to recognize the abuse?

Mail-order abortion removes the very people most likely to detect coercion: physicians, nurses, clinic staff, parents, and trusted family members.

It also leaves women to manage bleeding, pain, fear, and possible medical emergencies without direct supervision.

Research cited by pro-life advocates indicates that many women report feeling pressured into abortions they did not want or that conflicted with their values. Whatever the precise scale, coercion is a real and documented danger. Policies should make it easier to detect, not easier to conceal.

RELATED: Takeaways from the latest Supreme Court abortion intervention

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Yet prioritizing access over safety increasingly appears to be a feature rather than a bug of the abortion industry’s model.

Plan C says it seeks to “transform access to abortion in the U.S. by normalizing the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail.” That mission statement emphasizes access and normalization. It says nothing about medical screening, coercion, abuse, or the risks of taking the drugs without an examination.

A website that teaches users to order abortion drugs secretly and evade state laws does not merely serve women seeking abortions. It may also serve abusers looking for a discreet way to obtain drugs they can use against women.

The beneficiaries are obvious: organizations that sell or distribute the pills and men willing to use them as instruments of coercion.

Lawmakers have tolerated this system for too long. They have permitted the weakening of medical safeguards, restored funding to Planned Parenthood, and resisted efforts to require in-person care for chemical abortion.

They are rewarding an industry that treats the isolation of women as empowerment and the removal of medical oversight as progress.

Hawley and a growing coalition of pro-life groups are right to demand accountability.

Congress and the Justice Department should investigate organizations that knowingly help users violate state law. Federal regulators should restore meaningful medical safeguards for mifepristone. Lawmakers should also ensure that minors, abuse victims, and women with dangerous medical conditions are not abandoned to an online form and a package in the mail.

Women and girls deserve better than an abortion system built around secrecy, isolation, and plausible deniability.

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President Trump’s approach to AI regulation has been mixed. First, he limited states from making their own laws in favor of a national framework. Then, despite proposed laws to protect consumers, no federal bills have passed yet.

Now, as advanced AI threatens the cybersecurity of government institutions and private corporations, Trump is moving forward with a government-sanctioned review process for frontier AI models, and employees at the major AI giants are all begging for it.

Trump chose not to share the details of his AI review framework with the public.

Here’s how the White House finalized its AI review framework.

Behind the curtain

The government review process was originally announced in June. At the time, each major AI company could willingly allow the government to review its latest AI models to check for potential cybersecurity risks before they were released broadly to the public. Fast-forward a couple of months later, and now a more official structure is in place.

For whatever reason, President Trump chose not to share the details of his AI review framework with the public.

Leakers will leak, however, so we’re not left completely in the dark. Axios spoke with three sources connected to the executive order and uncovered several key points.

Targeted AI models: The framework is aimed at reviewing closed-source frontier models with advanced capabilities that could pose a risk to national security. Open-source models are exempt from review.Limited access: New AI models set forth for review will be hosted in secure environments. While multiple administration officials will have access clearance, AI company employees are limited from using the new models for 30 days during the review cycle.Classified details: The process that the Trump administration will use to test AI models, as well as the AI review framework itself, will remain classified and kept from public knowledge.

As it stands, the review process is still voluntary. However, the exemption of open-source models makes it sound as if compliance for closed-source frontier models is strongly encouraged.

Arbitrary guardrails spell trouble for American AI dominance

Trump’s AI review framework comes at a time when employees at some of the largest AI companies in the U.S. have banded together to demand government regulation. In an open letter, workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta urged the government to “deliberately pace” the development and progression of AI due to the recent security implications spurred on by Anthropic’s Mythos and other emerging threats.

Of course, slowing the pace of AI development is a double-edged sword.

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On one hand, arbitrary pauses, like the 30-day review period enforced by Trump’s AI review framework, would give institutions more time to protect themselves against potential vulnerabilities from new AI models. With a heads-up from the government, they can learn about any problems identified during the review and shore up security to ensure bad actors who get ahold of the latest models can’t use them to hack and exploit our most precious agencies, institutions, and establishments.

A tough spot

On the other hand, the pause window gives competing nations like China more time to steal from American tech companies and potentially overtake America as the leader in the AI race. At this point, our nation would become a prime target for foreign cyberattacks capable of breaching our systems before we even know what happened, leaving us with inferior intelligence and little-to-no means to stop it.

The only way to combat threats posed by Chinese AI is to speed up development instead of slowing it down, ensuring that American technology is always ahead of the nations that would rather see us fall.

The choice isn’t easy, as there are stark pros and cons to both sides. However, President Trump clearly believes that cyber threats posed by America’s homegrown AI models are a bigger problem for the nation than China overtaking the United States in AI development. There may be some merit to this decision, too. Considering that most of China’s AI innovations came from copying American AI companies, the former may not be as advanced as they want us to believe. If American AI companies suddenly stopped progressing as quickly, China’s development would likely slow down, as well, in which case, 30-day pauses to review new frontier models are undoubtedly the right call.

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A hospital surveillance video shows a nurse taking on a violent patient and taking him down to the ground after getting attacked.

The harrowing incident unfolded at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Emergency Department in Queensland, Australia, according to WFLA-TV.

‘I don’t think he anticipated the nurse having an obsession with jiujitsu for over 10 years.’

The nurse, Daniel Nelson, described what led to the alleged attack.

“He’d been spitting on the floor, abusing staff, and generally behaving like an absolute grub,” Nelson said about the patient. “Was asked to leave; I opted to escort him out.”

The video shows Nelson escorting the patient through the lobby toward the doors when the patient turns around and throws various objects at the nurse.

Nelson confidently squares up against the man and swings him over his shoulder onto the ground.

“I don’t think he anticipated the nurse having an obsession with jiujitsu for over 10 years,” Nelson added.

The nurse grapples with the patient on the ground before finally being able to get him into a headlock. Four security officers eventually come to assist Nelson and take control of the patient.

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“Violence against health care workers isn’t ‘just part of the job.’ It’s unacceptable,” Nelson said. “Alcohol is no excuse. To all my colleagues who continue to show up despite this sort of behavior: I see you, and I appreciate what you do every day.”

Although the incident occurred in Oct. 2024, Nelson published video of the incident on July 29.

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Every great action story begins the same way. Someone is in trouble. The clock is running. The police cannot — or will not — solve the problem.

Then comes the name.

This is not simply another detective recounting old war stories. It is a portrait of a disappearing breed: the independent lawman who covets justice and is willing to deliver it.

If Hollywood were casting the role, it might once have chosen Tom Selleck. Today, maybe Chris Pratt. The man walking through the door is not chasing glory. He is there because everyone else has run out of options.

In real life, that man was Nils Grevillius.

“The Last Lawman” does not read like a memoir. It reads like the first season of a television series you cannot stop watching.

Imagine “The A-Team” without the wisecracks. Imagine “Bosch” without the bureaucracy. Imagine film noir stripped of romance and dropped into the unforgiving streets of Los Angeles, where every decision carries consequences and nobody gets to yell, “Cut.”

Before most memoirs have finished introducing the author, Grevillius is chasing an armed robbery suspect through Watts with eight rounds in his pistol and no backup coming.

The danger is not manufactured to hook the reader. It was simply another day on the job.

That authenticity separates “The Last Lawman” from nearly every private-investigator memoir on the shelf.

Josiah Thompson’s “Gumshoe” remains a respected classic, offering an intelligent account of investigative work and the detective’s craft. Grevillius takes the genre somewhere darker and more visceral.

His stories are not puzzles reconstructed from a safe distance. They are unfolding crises in which one mistake can cost a client everything — or cost the investigator his life.

For decades, Grevillius worked in places most people wisely avoid: organized crime, fugitive recovery, surveillance, missing-person cases, violent offenders, and the criminal world just beyond the edge of ordinary life.

His résumé includes military intelligence, Pinkerton investigations, and some of the toughest assignments Southern California could offer. The result is a memoir with an authority no novelist can manufacture.

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Yet the greatest surprise is not the danger. It’s the humanity.

Beneath the stakeouts, foot chases, interrogations, and close calls lies a thoughtful examination of what decades spent confronting evil do to a man.

Grevillius writes candidly about discipline, loyalty, courage, and the emotional cost of making a career out of walking toward situations everyone else is trying to escape. His reflections never seem imposed because he earned every one of them.

The early chapters reveal a man shaped by formidable influences: a father, decorated for service in the Korean War, who remained haunted by combat; a mother, a demanding attorney with an uncompromising sense of justice; Cold War military service; and years spent learning the patience required for surveillance before applying those skills as a private investigator in Los Angeles.

The path is not linear. That is precisely why it rings true. Life rarely follows a screenplay.

Grevillius also possesses what many memoirists lack: the ability to tell a story.

He introduces colorful characters without reducing them to caricatures, explains complex investigations without killing the pace, and adds dry humor at exactly the moment the reader needs relief.

His prose has the cadence of a man who has spent decades telling impossible stories to skeptical audiences — and winning them over.

Advance praise calls “The Last Lawman” “a blast of a book” and compares its pace to the great detective stories. It also describes Grevillius as the sort of lawman you want beside you when everything goes sideways.

All of that is true. It still does not quite capture what makes the book distinctive.

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This is not simply another detective recounting old war stories. It is a portrait of a disappearing breed: the independent lawman who covets justice and is willing to deliver it.

Modern policing and investigation are increasingly constrained by bureaucracy, technology, institutional caution, and politics. The investigator who relies on instinct, observation, experience, and personal courage has become an endangered species.

Grevillius represents that tradition at its highest level. Reading his memoir feels like spending time with one of the last practitioners of a craft that once defined American crime-fighting.

Hollywood has spent decades trying to create believable action heroes. Most are invincible. Most are predictable. Most survive because the script requires it.

Nils Grevillius survived because he had to.

That is why “The Last Lawman” is so compelling. The stories are cinematic not because they were embellished, but because reality occasionally produces men no screenwriter would dare invent.

Truth can be more powerful than fiction.

When the credits finally roll, readers will not simply close the book. They will wonder why nobody has turned it into a television series — and they may find themselves longing for a time when Americans still believed men like Grevillius could bring bad actors to justice.

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President Donald Trump issued two executive orders on Thursday intended to end birth tourism to the U.S. and narrow birthright citizenship.

The president signed the orders with his top aide, Stephen Miller, at his side at the White House in front of reporters.

‘What that means is that no one in the world is anymore allowed to obtain a visa for this fraudulent purpose.’

Miller explained that the first order would “expand the definitions of people who were ineligible for birthright citizenship” in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that kept the policy active.

Those who are newly excluded from birthright citizenship include “alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations, and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments.”

He went on to explain the second order.

“The second action that he’s taking, which is especially historic, is for the first time ever in American history to ban birth tourism,” Miller said.

“The idea that people come here pretending to be a tourist, pretending to be a visitor, saying they want to go to Disneyland, they want to go visit a monument or go to a national park,” he added.

“But the real reason they’re here is to have a child, to make that child an automatic citizen,” Miller said, “to leave our country, and then have a U.S. citizen child that gives them access under this broken system to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth, and all the other rights and privileges that belong solely to Americans.”

Miller touted all of the president’s actions to safeguard American citizenship and listed this order as one of the top three decisions.

“So that practice of birth tourism is, as of the signing of this order, hereby banned,” he continued. “And what that means is that no one in the world is anymore allowed to obtain a visa for this fraudulent purpose.”

Trump also criticized the Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship.

“I thought we were going to win it at the Supreme Court,” he said. “Unfortunately we had a bad decision, very unfair decision. Our country suffers because of it. And we’re ending it a different way.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council immediately criticized the orders.

“This new order is far less sweeping than the original, but like the first order, seemingly violates the Constitution,” he said on social media.

“As an initial matter, the new EO aims to deny citizenship to children born to two noncitizen parents where ONE parent (not both) falls within one of the EO’s new categories,” he added. “This alone may well be a violation of the 14th Amendment, which cares about the status of both parents.”

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A resurfaced video of a female Marine drill instructor is making the rounds online, and BlazeTV host John Doyle doesn’t just find the clip awkward — he believes it’s a “humiliation ritual.”

And one user on X agrees.

A special operations veteran who goes by Woden the Wanderer reacted to the video, writing: “This is nothing more than a mockery of the warrior class. A humiliation ritual for the masculine warrior spirit that modernity needs to destroy.”

In the video, the drill instructor yells at the top of her lungs, instructing new recruits on what to do if they are being abused by other recruits or Marines.

“I’m definitely not the cloth of a Marine, and so, seeing this happen, I can’t perceive it as anything other than humiliating, especially because they’re not even allowed to laugh about it ’cause they’ll get in trouble,” Doyle says.

Doyle also points out that historically, men have always been the ones to go to war.

“It makes no difference what you think of war or if you think women should even be a part of it. War simply is. It’s been around for longer than civilization has. It will be around long after civilization has existed,” he says.

“Modern thinking cannot be transposed onto war. War has to be taken and understood at its base level. And something you’ll find across human history, across basically all of civilization, women rarely, if ever, are found in militaries directly serving,” he explains.

“It’s pretty much always been male,” he adds.

And the clip of the female drill instructor, Doyle says, appears to be more like payback for historically excluding women from masculine roles like the Marines.

“It’s done basically to shame the history of the military for not allowing women to participate. Really just like shove your face in it,” he says.

“And these kinds of humiliation rituals are plentiful,” he adds.

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