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Quantum computers, capable of breaking the public-key cryptography that underpins the modern internet, do not exist.

Yet.

But that is all about to change.

So “not yet” is not the right frame. The relevant adversary does not need a quantum computer today. He only needs to be patient: to collect encrypted traffic now, store it, and decrypt it later, once the technology cooperates. “Harvest now, decrypt later” is not a speculative threat model but a rational strategy and almost certainly already happening. Any communication that must remain confidential for a decade or more is therefore a present-tense vulnerability. The threat is future; the organizational work is now, and most organizations are moving slowly.

The migration to post-quantum cryptography is the kind of story that resists being told. Its central drama is administrative. Its heroes work in standards bodies. Its most celebrated outcome will be the absence of any dramatic outcome: browsers connecting, messages delivered, apps syncing, signatures verified, billions of small transactions occurring without incident in a world where the mathematics underneath them has been quietly replaced, the way a crew replaces the cables of a bridge while traffic flows underneath, while commuters listen to the radio and think about dinner.

The engineers who get it right will not be celebrated.

This is what infrastructure looks like from the inside. You do not see it unless it fails.

In August 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released the first principal post-quantum cryptography standards. NIST points toward a transition timeline that deprecates and ultimately removes quantum-vulnerable algorithms by 2035, with high-priority systems moving earlier. The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre gives milestone dates of 2028 for discovery and planning, 2031 for early migration of critical systems, and 2035 for completion. The NSA pushes national security systems harder, with 2027 expectations for new deployments and 2030 phase-out milestones. The bureaucratic infrastructure of transition is in place. The transition itself remains.

A comparison keeps surfacing in technical circles: Y2K. The comparison is usually made to suggest scale, urgency, or the difficulty of explaining a threat that has not yet materialized. The deeper resonance is structural. Y2K mobilized enormous institutional effort whose success could only be measured by the absence of disaster. If it worked, nothing happened. The public event was a non-event.

Post-quantum migration has the same shape. It is infrastructural prevention, not technological theater. The engineers who get it right will not be celebrated. They will simply not be blamed.

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Devil’s in the details

The new algorithms use more space than the old ones, and in cryptography, size is no minor concern. ML-KEM-768, used for key exchange, has a public key of 1,184 bytes and a ciphertext of 1,088 bytes. SLH-DSA, used for digital signatures, has a minimal signature of 7,856 bytes. For comparison, a classical elliptic-curve signature is typically under 100 bytes. These size increases change handshake packetization, certificate-chain behavior, hardware security module design, logging, and storage assumptions. Post-quantum cryptography is unlike earlier cryptographic updates because its properties force protocol redesign.

Meta’s internal TLS rollout provides what amounts to a field report from the transition. The company chose a hybrid design combining classical elliptic-curve exchange with post-quantum ML-KEM, preferred the higher-security 768-parameter version, but dropped to the smaller 512-parameter version in some internal cases because packet-size constraints and handshake latency were otherwise too costly. The company reported roughly a 40% increase in CPU cycles during early hybrid rollout and discovered a multi-threading bug in the underlying cryptographic library during deployment at scale. This is what migration looks like in practice: engineering trade-offs among latency, compatibility, and fault discovery, made under production conditions, with real consequences. The ML-KEM-768 client share was large enough to threaten the TLS packet budget, sometimes adding an extra network round trip. A major security transition can hinge on whether a cryptographic object still fits in one packet.

This migration rewards organizations that already know where their cryptography lives. Meta’s migration framework describes a maturity ladder moving from “PQ-Unaware” through “PQ-Aware,” “PQ-Ready,” and “PQ-Hardened” to “PQ-Enabled,” and the prerequisite for any rung above the first is a working cryptographic inventory. An organization that does not know which of its systems use RSA, where its certificates are stored, or what its hardware security modules support cannot migrate. The migration rewards institutions that already behave like maintainers of infrastructure rather than its consumers. NIST calls this broader capacity “crypto agility,” indicating institutional self-knowledge under conditions of future threat.

No comprehension, no consent

Cloudflare reports that well over 60% of human-generated TLS traffic to its network is already protected with hybrid ML-KEM. Apple has deployed iMessage PQ3 since iOS 17.4 and now enables quantum-secure TLS by default. Signal introduced the Sparse Post-Quantum Ratchet so that ongoing conversations, not just initial handshakes, gain post-quantum forward secrecy. Signal’s public explanation emphasizes that the user experience does not change.

This is the governing aesthetic of the entire transition. The strongest form of cryptography is the one whose complexity has been absorbed into protocol design so completely that ordinary users require neither comprehension nor consent. Security succeeds when it disappears into the ordinary path. The future of trust arrives as extra bytes, silently negotiated in a handshake no one watches.

The European Union agency for cybersecurity, ENISA, found in its 2025 survey that post-quantum adoption sits at roughly 2% in the space sector. The technical standards have outrun much of the institutional world that must absorb them. The destination is clear, but parts of the road are still being paved. Somewhere, in data centers that do not advertise their purposes, traffic is being stored against a future that the collectors cannot yet quite see.

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A 57-year-old Louisiana woman was convicted of manslaughter after her 4-year-old granddaughter died from acute alcohol poisoning.

Roxanne Record was arrested by Baton Rouge police after they responded to the residence before 11 a.m. on April 21, 2022, and found China Record unresponsive.

The grandmother told police ‘she messed up’ and ‘ruined everyone’s lives.’

The girl was treated by emergency medical personnel but was later declared dead.

Police said the grandmother admitted that she forced the girl to drink the rest of the whiskey in a bottle after discovering that she may have taken a sip. It was reportedly Canadian Mist, an 80 proof whiskey, which translates to 40% alcohol.

She made her drink the alcohol while on her knees in the kitchen hallway as the girl’s mother, Kadjha Record, allegedly watched on.

The grandmother told police “she messed up” and “ruined everyone’s lives.”

An autopsy found that she had a 0.68 blood alcohol level, which is more than eight times the legal limit for an adult driver.

Assistant District Attorney Dana Cummings said the grandmother did not have a good relationship with the child.

“China never had that because her grandmother never, ever took to her, never liked her, treated her differently than she treated the other children,” Cummings said during opening statements.

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Police reported that the mother gave conflicting accounts of her actions and accused her of failing to stand up to the grandmother or stop the drinking.

Kadjha Record was also arrested and faces trial. The grandmother faces up to 40 years in prison when she’s sentenced on Aug. 10.

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As this school year comes to an end, I hear parents talking about what university their children got into and how excited the family is about this next phase of life. As a university professor, I relate to this wholeheartedly. Raising your children to finish high school and go on to university is one of the biggest duties Christian parents will accomplish.

But there is a question Christian parents almost never ask: Why do we send our children into institutions that will work against the very faith we spent 18 years trying to instill?

You will routinely find professors lambasting Christianity in their classes as an oppressive colonizer religion that must be deconstructed.

No one says it that way, of course. Instead, the conversation sounds something like this: “We’ve found a good campus. There’s even a strong Christian student group.”

Now, let me say plainly: Those groups can be wonderful. I thank God for them. But pause for a moment and consider what that assumption reveals. You are already expecting that Christian community will exist outside the mission of the university. You are hoping your child will find a refuge within an otherwise hostile environment.

In other words, you are not sending your child into a place that reinforces truth, but into a storm, and praying they find a bunker. And you are probably paying tens of thousands of dollars to do it.

That should trouble us more than it does, because it wasn’t always this way. Institutions like Princeton, Harvard, and Yale were not founded as neutral arenas of inquiry. They were explicitly Christian. Their purpose was to cultivate piety, train ministers, and teach the knowledge of God to all students.

Universities have always had a vision of truth. The only difference now is that the vision has changed.

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Today’s university is not neutral. It is structured around a set of ideas that systematically undermine Christianity while presenting themselves as morally superior. Take the influence of Michel Foucault. Students are taught, often implicitly, that truth is not something discovered but constructed. Knowledge is tied to power. What earlier generations called “truth,” we are told, is really just the perspective of those who happened to win.

Then there is Paulo Freire, whose approach to education has become foundational in teacher training and pedagogy. Education, in this view, is not about learning what is true but about liberating the oppressed. The world is divided into oppressors and oppressed, and students are trained to dismantle the oppressors.

Guess which category Christianity lands in?

Add to this the ever-present language of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” along with intersectionality. These frameworks redefine truth itself as something tied to identity. Moral authority is assigned based on lived experience, and disagreement is often recast as harm.

The Bible, under this lens, is no longer read as the word of God. It is treated as a cultural artifact, one that has historically supported systems of oppression.

None of this is presented as an attack on Christianity. That would be too obvious. Or at least, you would have thought so even 10 years ago. But now you will routinely find professors lambasting Christianity in their classes as an oppressive colonizer religion that must be deconstructed.

And all of this is framed to the students as compassion and empathy. It is justice. It is only fair. And “that’s not fair!” is a very powerful argument for university students.

Young people have a strong instinct for fairness. When they hear, “That’s not fair,” they lean in. But what they are rarely told is that the definition of fairness itself has been quietly replaced.

Disagreement is recast as harm, hierarchy becomes injustice, and truth becomes a tool of whoever is in power. The Bible is a social construct invented by the patriarchy to retain power.

First comes disorientation: “Everything I learned growing up is being questioned.”

Then pressure: “If you don’t agree, you’re part of the problem.”

Then isolation: fewer Christian friends, fewer edifying conversations. More immoral filth where “love is love” is used to justify the basest forms of lust.

Then internal shift: Doubt feels like intellectual maturity.

And finally, exit or compromise. Some abandon the faith outright. Others keep the label but redefine it until it fits comfortably within the system that once challenged it.

Parents are often blindsided by this. They assume education is neutral. Sure, they had atheist professors and the standard left-wing nut, but those professors were just that: nuts.

Now, the crazy is normalized and the sane, holy, and faithful are institutionalized. Don’t assume that if your child finds a good group, everything will be fine.

This is not a neutral environment occasionally disrupted by bad ideas. It is an environment structured in a particular direction, with occasional pockets of resistance. Those Christian groups we celebrate are the bastions, not the foundation.

So what should parents do?

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First, don’t just ask whether your children will succeed academically or professionally. Ask whether they will remain faithful to Christ. Help them equip themselves with the armor of God described in Ephesians chapter 6.

Second, prepare them intellectually. They need to understand not only what they believe, but why, and how it contrasts with the frameworks they will encounter. Teach them the Bible and the historic Christian faith.

Third, help your children make faith in Christ their own. This is not merely an intellectual enterprise. Teach your children to love Christ and put their trust in salvation by Christ alone. When they know Him as their savior and trust His promises, they will stand firmly in that day of spiritual battle.

Third, expose hostile frameworks early. Teach them about Foucault, Freire, and the assumptions behind DEI before they hear those ideas in a classroom. If they have already heard the anti-Christian, anti-Bible arguments because you covered them together as preparation, they will be ready to dismantle them.

Fourth, stay engaged. Ask what their professors are teaching. You can look up their professors on the university webpages. Their bios probably won’t say “DEI anti-Christian radical,” but you will get a good sense of what they think by looking at their published works and conference presentations.

Above all, stop assuming neutrality where none exists. This is a spiritual battle of good vs. evil.

The real question is not whether universities shape your children’s beliefs. They will. The question is whether you will prepare your child to recognize that shaping and to stand firm in the truth.

Because if Christ is Lord of all truth, then no institution gets to undermine Him under the guise of “social justice advocacy.”

All parents should prepare their children for this spiritual reality. These university professors want your child’s soul.

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In its coverage of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s recent cast vote record decision, Democracy Docket framed the ruling as a dangerous victory for “election deniers” and claimed it gave a “DHS conspiracy theorist access to 2020 election data.”

That framing misses the central point of the case: The court did not authorize the exposure of anyone’s private vote. It allowed access to election records that help the public verify whether reported vote totals match recorded vote data.

In a republic, ballot secrecy protects the voter. Transparency protects the result. Both principles can coexist, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court understood that.

Americans across the political spectrum have lost faith in election systems at different moments and for different reasons.

The court’s actual holding was straightforward: Cast vote records, or CVRs, are not the “contents of ballot boxes or voting machines” under Pennsylvania’s Election Code and therefore are not categorically exempt from public disclosure.

A CVR is not a physical ballot. It does not contain information about voters. It contains information about ballots — and ballots do not contain personally identifying information.

A properly configured CVR cannot link a ballot to a voter in a way that compromises ballot secrecy. In the Lycoming County system at issue, the data was randomized and did not contain personally identifying voter information.

The court explained that the CVR numbers do not correspond to the order in which voters checked in or cast ballots and that those randomization features “significantly decrease the likelihood” of identifying an individual vote. The court concluded that disclosure would allow the public to check the math without violating ballot secrecy.

There is a line of thinking that says a CVR can be kept from the public if there is some edge case where the voter behind a ballot could be reasonably guessed. What that argument misses is that ballot secrecy exists to protect voters from the state — not to protect the state from public scrutiny.

If a government builds or certifies a voting system that allows officials, vendors, or anyone else to identify which voter cast which ballot, the problem is not the citizen asking for public records and the remedy is not secrecy for the government. The remedy is fixing, randomizing, or decertifying the system.

If a county claims that it cannot disclose a CVR because the public could determine how individual voters voted by matching multiple records together, that should trigger an immediate and serious response from state election authorities.

A voting system that allows ballots to be connected back to voters is not merely inconvenient for public-records compliance. It is a direct threat to ballot secrecy.

Public access to CVRs is not about exposing voters. It is about allowing citizens to confirm that election totals add up. Bloomberg Law captured the ruling more accurately: Pennsylvanians may review raw voting records to ensure elections are accurate; the court said disclosure promotes trust, confidence, and legitimacy without violating voter secrecy law.

Americans across the political spectrum have lost faith in election systems at different moments and for different reasons. In September 2024, Gallup found that only 57% of Americans were confident that presidential votes would be accurately cast and counted nationwide, with a massive partisan gap: 84% of Democrats expressed confidence, compared with only 28% of Republicans.

After the 2024 election, AP-NORC found that about six in 10 Americans believed the presidential vote was counted accurately nationwide, while independents remained notably less confident.

In April 2026, Reuters/Ipsos found sharp partisan divides on election fraud beliefs, while also finding that majorities of both Democrats and Republicans remained confident their own ballots would be counted.

This is not a one-party problem. Republicans have raised concerns about mail ballots, voter rolls, citizenship verification, ballot harvesting, and machine tabulation. Democrats, too, have raised serious concerns about election technology when the perceived threat came from foreign interference or insecure electronic systems.

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After the 2016 election, the Clinton campaign joined recount efforts in key states, with Marc Elias writing that the campaign had examined allegations involving hacking, outside interference, and voting technology.

In the years that followed, prominent Democrats pushed aggressively for paper ballots, audits, and replacement of insecure voting machines. Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden’s PAVE Act, backed by Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Cory Booker (N.J.), Kamala Harris (Calif.), Tammy Baldwin (Wisc.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), and others, would have mandated hand-marked paper ballots and risk-limiting audits in federal elections.

Let’s be honest: Concern about election technology was not invented in 2020. Democrats were warning about electronic voting systems, paperless machines, hacking, and public confidence long before the current fight over CVRs.

In the case of Pennsylvania, election researcher Heather Honey asked a basic question: Can the public inspect the data necessary to verify the count? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court answered yes, subject to the election code and subject to the protection of ballot secrecy. That should be an easy win for anyone who claims to care about democracy.

Instead, Democracy Docket labeled Honey a “conspiracy theorist” and portrayed the ruling as a victory for sinister forces. But the court did not adopt a conspiracy theory. It adopted a transparency principle. In fact, the court said disclosure promotes “fair, honest, and transparent elections.”

I know Heather Honey as a hard-working, dedicated patriot, a wonderful person, and a loving parent. Her biggest personal failing, as far as I can tell, is that she is a Philadelphia Eagles fan — a burden no court can remedy.

The attack on Heather Honey is totally misplaced. If Democracy Docket disagrees with the legal reasoning, it should argue the law. If it believes certain CVR formats in certain counties could threaten secrecy, then the correct response is not to smear citizens who request public records.

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The correct response is to demand voting systems that protect ballot secrecy by design: randomized ballot records, standardized public CVR formats, and certification standards that make it impossible to connect a ballot back to a voter.

Marc Elias, the founder of Democracy Docket, has built a platform devoted to voting rights and election litigation. He knows better than most that election legitimacy depends not only on access to the ballot, but on public confidence that lawful votes are accurately counted.

CVR transparency is one way to earn it. It does not reveal who someone voted for or publish private voter choices. Properly handled, it lets citizens, researchers, journalists, campaigns, and watchdogs compare reported totals against underlying tabulation records. It is a public audit trail.

And if any county says its CVRs cannot be disclosed because the records would allow ballots to be matched back to voters, then the public-records request is not the scandal. The voting system is.

Democracy does not become weaker when citizens can verify government math. It becomes stronger.

So Democracy Docket should correct its framing, and Marc Elias should leave Heather Honey alone. She is simply defending one of democracy’s oldest and most important rules:

Trust the voters. Protect the secret ballot. And let the people check the math.

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Emma Morris was only 27 years old and six months into her employment at the New York Post when she got a call in late September 2020 from former Trump adviser Steve Bannon saying he had a story that would “change her life.”

“He says, ‘I have Hunter Biden’s computer,”’ Morris recounts on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

Initially, Emma was “skeptical of the source,” given that both Bannon and Rudy Giuliani (who was in possession of a copy of the hard drive) were campaigning for President Trump. Despite being a dedicated conservative who likes Trump and “wanted the story to be true,” Emma was committed to true journalism and thus determined not to be blinded by her political views.

“My capacity as an editor is to relay the truth as closely as I can, not to campaign for Trump,” she tells Glenn.

When the New York Post gave her the greenlight to pursue the story, Emma was immediately overwhelmed by the sheer volume of documents she had to sort through just to pinpoint the angle the story would take.

“I called my boss, my editor in chief, Michelle Gotthelf, … and I was like, ‘I don’t know how to make sense of all of this. It’s too much,’” she recounts.

Gotthelf’s advice was brilliant: “Find me where Joe Biden comes into this.”

“And that was when it clicked,” Emma says.

Her search narrowed in on roughly “10 documents” that involved Joe Biden, which then had to be verified for authenticity given the laptop had been through “a chain of custody.”

“The way that we were able to do that was very simple. … We had the contact lists in his phone book, which was also on the laptop. … And we just called them and said, ‘Hey, it’s the New York Post. I’m going to read you something. Can you tell me if it sounds familiar?’” Emma says.

As she began making these calls, one thing became clear: “It wasn’t Hunter, you know, scurrying around the world himself.”

“There was business partners, and some of those partners had either been burned, some of them had gone to jail, some of them had realized that this is too much. Everyone was receptive,” Emma says.

The response to the story the New York Post broke was shocking.

“I expected conservative media to pick it up. … And that wasn’t what happened at all. As it turned out, the CIA was upset,” Emma says.

“We published at 5 a.m. By like 7 a.m. latest, it was completely blacklisted on Twitter. … Within two hours, it was classified as child porn internally,” she explains.

It later came out that the FBI had been in possession of the physical laptop since December of 2019 and was actively preparing Twitter executives to treat any breaking story about Hunter Biden as Russian disinformation.

To hear more of Emma’s insider scoop, watch the video above.

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A lockdown at the White House was caused by a U.S. Secret Service officer shooting a “suspicious” armed individual who shot a juvenile, according to the Secret Service deputy director.

Reporters said they were ushered from the north lawn of the White House into the press briefing room after the lockdown was called at about 3:30 p.m. Monday.

‘Whether or not it was directed to the president or not, I don’t know, but we will find out.’

Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn held a media briefing later near the site of the shooting at the intersection of 15th and Independence Ave.

Quinn said a plainclothes officer who was patrolling the White House perimeter observed that the suspicious adult male had a “visual print” of a firearm not far from the White House complex.

Several uniformed Secret Service police officers then confronted the man, who tried to flee on foot and then fired in the direction of the officers. They fired back and struck the man.

The man was transported to a hospital, but Quinn had no comment on his condition. A juvenile was also struck by the gunfire from the individual. Quinn said the juvenile did not sustain life-threatening injuries.

A weapon was recovered by police.

He also noted that the motorcade for Vice President JD Vance had just driven by before the incident.

“Whether or not it was directed to the president or not, I don’t know, but we will find out,” Quinn said.

Quinn said there’s an active investigation into the use of force.

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He also would not say if the adult suspect said anything to the officers during the confrontation.

The shooting came only a week after an armed man allegedly tried to assassinate the president at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and was arrested.

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The president of Cornell University is defending his actions after he was accused of recklessly driving his vehicle through a group of protesters angry about an Israel-Palestine debate hosted by the college.

The incident unfolded on Thursday when a group of people, including students, followed university president Michael Kotlikoff to his car after the debate.

‘I don’t even have the words for it. I was pretty shocked and offended.’

Kotlikoff got into his car and drove off as the people crowded around his car.

One student said the car hit him and ran over his foot, and others said they were peacefully trying to talk to the president.

“As we were still trying to talk to him, he just immediately started reversing into us,” said Aiden Vallecillo, a member of the Students for a Democratic Cornell.

Kotlikoff accused the protesters of trying to harass and intimidate him.

“These individuals are known to Cornell for their past conduct, including a long history of ongoing verbal and online abuse toward numerous members of Cornell’s administration and staff, as well as disruptive protest resulting, in the case of two individuals, in bans from campus,” the president wrote in the statement.

He said the students banged on his car windows, refused to stop yelling questions at him, and blocked the car.

“I waited until I saw space behind the car and then, using my car’s rear pedestrian alert and automatic braking system, was able to slowly maneuver my car from the parking space and exit the parking lot,” Kotlikoff added.

Another student expressed her outrage at the president’s actions.

“I don’t even have the words for it. I was pretty shocked and offended,” said Sophia Arnold, president of the Students for a Democratic Cornell. “A random pedestrian pulling out of a supermarket parking lot would probably have shown more care.”

She went on to claim the students were not intending to block his car.

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Surveillance video of the incident was published in the news video report from WSYR-TV.

“The behavior I experienced last night is not protest,” Kotlikoff concluded in his statement. “It is harassment and intimidation, with the direct motive of silencing speech. It has no place in an academic community, no place in a democracy, and can have no place at Cornell.”

It’s unclear if there’s an investigation under way or if charges will be filed over the incident.

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While a growing number of Christians on the right believe Islam is compatible with the West, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is not among them — and is looking for a solution to what others view as an Islamic takeover across the country.

Ex-Muslim Shahriq Khan, who now heads the Christ Underground ministry, agrees with Stuckey — and he has that solution.

“It’s not compatible with the West. I mean, under Quranic standards, we would be under Sharia law, which directly conflicts with the Constitution. And the Muslims know this,” Khan tells Stuckey on “Relatable.”

“What’s the solution?” he asks.

“Like, we can’t deport all of them. We can’t put them all in one area and have a genocide. That’s not very biblical. We can’t become Amish and … you know, the Christians, we’re going to have our side of the world and then let the Muslims come in like crazy, and you guys have California.”

Khan believes the actual solution is to “make them Christian.”

“Like, I was a liberal Muslim. I was a very liberal Muslim. I voted blue all the time … because we were very anti-evangelical Christian,” he explains.

“For us in Islam, that’s like the spawn of Satan is what’s happening with that,” he adds.

“And would you say there’s an aspect of being anti-Israel and perceiving Republicans as being pro-Israel as part of it?” Stuckey asks.

“Totally,” he answers, pointing out that many Americanized Muslims are sending money to places like Pakistan.

“They’re still funding Islam. They still send thousands of dollars to mosques, to overseas initiatives … Nigeria or Ethiopia or Afghanistan or Pakistan, they’re all getting discipled by the same people,” he explains.

This is why Khan believes that the only solution is to convert Muslims to Christianity, but Stuckey has her reservations.

“I think that a lot of people are afraid that going into a Muslim community and sharing the gospel, that you’re going to get hurt, that you’re going to get threatened or killed or whatever,” Stuckey points out.

“Should they have that fear?” she asks.

“I purposely go to Dearborn and the mosques, and I go right to them. They all know my face. I get recognized immediately in all these places, and I still have fruitful conversations with them because I’m not doing what a lot of the big Christian apologists are doing,” he explains.

“The truth is, it’s Hebrews 2. It says the fear of death is from Satan and that Christ became one of us to break that fear of death over us,” he says. “And so, we need to get really radical.”

“If we are Christian, and we really believe that Islam is a stronghold, a demonic stronghold on two billion people, there’s going to be a very muddy and bloody consequence to a lot of things. But the thing that I cling to personally is He did it first,” he continues, adding, “Christ did it first.”

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The latest man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump received an apology from the judge in his court appearance Monday.

Attorneys for Cole Allen claimed in filings revealed during the hearing that the suspect had been wrongfully placed on suicide watch and denied access to a Bible.

‘Mr. Allen is forced to be escorted to the shower, strip searched when entering and exiting his cell, and wear a padded vest while inside.’

Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui gave the government until the next day to update the court on where Allen would be held at the Washington, D.C., jail.

“Whatever you’ve been through, I apologize for the prior week,” the judge said to Allen, according to USA Today.

“I’m sorry,” the judge said at another point.

Faruqui also compared Allen’s treatment in jail to that of the defendants in the Jan. 6 melee at the U.S. Capitol, saying he had been treated worse.

“This is not the jail’s first go-around with people engaged in alleged political violence,” the judge added.

Allen’s attorneys said in a filing to the court that Allen had been cleared of being a suicide risk but was assigned to the restrictions anyway. The prisoner was refused phone calls, non-legal visits, dimmed lights, tablets, and other personal items under the suicide risk designation, they claimed.

“Mr. Allen is forced to be escorted to the shower, strip searched when entering and exiting his cell, and wear a padded vest while inside,” according to Allen’s public defender and two court-appointed attorneys.

“These conditions are excessive restrictions on his liberty that serve no justifiable purpose and deprive Mr. Allen of dignity while incarcerated,” they added in the filing.

The lawyers said Sunday that Allen has since been taken off suicide watch.

Allen was charged with attempted assassination of the president and two other charges after he allegedly fired a shotgun at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner that President Donald Trump was attending. The suspect was captured on security video rushing through a security checkpoint with the gun before he was tackled to the ground and arrested.

RELATED: VIDEO: Trump berates interviewer over suspected WHCD shooter: ‘You are a disgrace!’

Allen left a large digital footprint full of left-wing criticism against the president, as well as other evidence that suggested the shooting may have been politically motivated.

He could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of the charges. He has not yet entered a plea to the court.

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Journalists were ushered from the White House North Lawn after the White House went into lockdown over a report of gunshots on Monday afternoon.

Initial reports said the shooting happened blocks away from the White House at the intersection of 15th and Independence Ave.

‘No confirmation as of now as to what the threat was. Agents are still out.’

Some reporters posted on social media about the alert.

“U.S. Secret Service just evacuated us from our camera position at the White House north lawn. We’re now gathering in the briefing room,” wrote CNBC correspondent Megan Cassela. “No indication as to what’s going on.”

“We’ve been cleared from the briefing room, back to our camera spot. No confirmation as of now as to what the threat was. Agents are still out,” she posted at about 3:53 p.m. local time.

RELATED: Judge APOLOGIZES to suspected would-be Trump assassin — and compares him to Jan. 6 defendants

The U.S. Secret Service posted a statement about the shooting that appeared to cause the lockdown.

“U.S. Secret Service personnel are on the scene of an officer-involved shooting at 15th Street and Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C.,” the agency wrote on social media. “One individual was shot by law enforcement; their condition is currently unknown. Please avoid the area as emergency crews are responding.”

This is a developing story.

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Scores of individuals were indicted during the first Trump administration for their involvement in a network of “pill mill” clinics — operations that diverted millions of oxycodone, hydrocodone, and carisoprodol pills with the help of health care professionals evidently eager to endanger public health to make a quick buck.

The current administration, which has significantly ramped up its fraud crackdown, has delivered one of the participants in this scheme to justice.

The Justice Department revealed in an exclusive to Blaze News on Monday that three days earlier, a federal jury in the Southern District of Texas convicted Barbara Marino — a 65-year-old resident of Tomball who served as the sole prescribing physician at Angels Clinica in Houston — of one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and four counts of distributing a controlled substance.

Marino faces more than 20 years in prison for each of the five counts.

“Medical physicians who exploit their prescribing authority for profit over patient care break an inherent trust with their patients, and we will hold them accountable,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald of the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division in a statement. “The Department of Justice remains committed to protecting the public from dangerous and unlawful distribution of controlled substances, especially when the drug dealer is a doctor.”

Marino, who was first licensed to practice medicine in the Lone Star State in 1990, was found to have unlawfully distributed over 1 million pills of opioids and other controlled substances through the strip-mall clinic in Houston where her practice was based.

Angels Clinica in Houston has since permanently closed. Angels Medical, which is linked to the now-defunct Houston clinic, did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

RELATED: James Comey indictment goes beyond infamous ’86 47′ seashell post, covers full ‘body of evidence,’ Blanche says

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The original indictment against Marino said that of the roughly 1.06 million controlled-substance pills for which she issued prescriptions between September 2018 and August 2019, 518,000 were hydrocodone pills, 65,000 were oxycodone pills, and approximately 416,000 were carisoprodol pills.

Many of the purported patients who obtained prescriptions from Marino’s cash-only clinic were effectively drug mules sent her way by traffickers who subsequently peddled the drugs on the street, according to court documents and evidence presented at trial.

This grift proved lucrative.

The Justice Department claimed that Marino — who is supposedly an addiction specialist — received over $400,000 from Angels Clinica’s owners both for writing prescriptions that lacked a legitimate medical purpose and for doing so outside the usual course of professional practice.

Evidence shown at trial suggested that Marino rarely if ever encountered a patient for whom she wouldn’t prescribe dangerous and addictive drugs.

In one instance, she reportedly prescribed what the DOJ characterized as a “dangerous cocktail of hydrocodone and carisoprodol” — apparently one ingredient short of the so-called “Houston Cocktail” — to a pregnant woman in her third trimester. The woman’s OB-GYN testified that the drugs had threatened the well-being of both the mother and her unborn child.

The DOJ highlighted another case exemplifying Marino’s willingness to give practically anyone hard drugs, specifically a mentally compromised patient — a diagnosed bipolar schizophrenic who suffered from the chronic delusion that he was President Richard Nixon — to whom she allegedly prescribed her dangerous cocktail on at least three occasions.

Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Administrator Cheri Oz, whose agency investigated this case, stated, “Patients put their trust and their lives into the hands of our medical and health care professionals.

“The highly addictive, dangerous misused drugs in this case — oxycodone and hydrocodone — are meant to treat pain, not cause it,” continued Oz. “DEA remains relentless in our pursuit of those who poison our communities and exploit our health care system, all to line their own pockets with the profit from others’ pain.”

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Pro-life advocates were handed a minor blow by the Supreme Court after access to an abortion drug was restored by a conservative justice.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals originally ordered a halt to the sale of mifepristone, but on Monday Justice Samuel Alito blocked the order and restored access.

‘This is NOT a reversal of Friday’s decision. Rather, it’s the run-of-the-mill pause that the Justices typically use to consider the issues.’

Pro-life activists have sought the restriction of the drug based on safety concerns and claim the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rushed its approval in 2000 and then proceeded to relax restrictions on it.

Alito halted the ban through May 11 so the court can consider the issue fully. Alito’s intervention restores access to the drug by mail after a telehealth appointment.

The Fifth Circuit panel had found that the drug “injures Louisiana by undermining its laws protecting unborn human life and also by causing it to spend Medicaid funds on emergency care for women harmed by mifepristone.”

“Mifepristone sends 1 in 10 women who use it to the emergency room with life threatening conditions. Now it’s time for Congress to ban it completely for use in abortion,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said in a post on social media on Monday.

Critics say the 1 in 10 figure comes from a conservative think tank and misrepresents the full data available on mifepristone.

“To be clear: This is NOT a reversal of Friday’s decision. Rather, it’s the run-of-the-mill pause that the Justices typically use to consider the issues raised in an emergency application,” reads a statement from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious freedom legal nonprofit.

“We respect the Court’s desire to have time to consider the issues and will continue our fight to uphold this victory that protects women and babies across the country from FDA’s unlawful and destructive mail-order abortion-drug scheme,” the nonprofit added.

RELATED: Pro-life activists celebrate victory after Costco announces policy on abortion drug

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in 2024 against a lawsuit intending to block mifepristone access on the basis that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue the FDA.

Alito had also previously dissented against the majority ruling in 2023 to allow access to mifepristone while the case continued.

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A Pennsylvania man has been arrested after allegedly leaving a series of voicemails calling for the murder of President Donald Trump and other officials.

Raymond Chandler of the Pittsburgh-area city of Wilkinsburg appeared in federal court on Friday on charges of influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal official by threatening a family member and by threatening a federal official and influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal official by threat, according to WTAE.

‘He’s a liar among all liars. He’s a great deceiver. He’s the antichrist.’

An FBI affidavit claimed that Chandler left several threatening voicemail messages with a member of Congress between April 2025 and April 2026.

Last Wednesday, just days after a third assassination attempt against Trump, Chandler allegedly told the congressperson regarding President Trump:

What I want you to do is I want you to take a firearm. I want you to put it in your hand. I want you to walk into the Oval Office. I want you to put that firearm to the president’s head, and I want you to pull the trigger and I want you to kill him. I am petitioning you, Senator, for redress of grievances. My redress of grievances is that this president is awful. … He’s a liar among all liars. He’s a great deceiver. He’s the antichrist. I want you to walk into the Oval Office with a gun in your hand. I want you to put it to his temple, and I want you to pull the trigger. That is what I want you to do as my agent. That’s what I want you to do as my elected official. That’s what I am petitioning you to do with my free speech. I want you to kill the president. I want you to assassinate the president. That’s what I want you to do. Now, Senator, are you gonna come after me? Are you going to try me because of my voice and what I said?

On April 18, Chandler also allegedly said of the congressperson and the congressperson’s daughter:

Imagine your house, your daughter’s house, everyone you know and love who is also rich. Imagine every single one of those homes being surrounded by a thousand people. Then imagine them all getting a text and then, then suddenly taking out their pocketknives, walking slowly towards your house with 10, you got your 10 guards or whatever against a thousand people, and then they come and they pull you out of your house and they slit your throat and they slit your daughter’s throat and they slit everyone’s throat. That you know, sir, that is the future.

The speaker allegedly added:

It’s not a future I want; it’s not a future I’m advocating for, but wealth concentration has gotten so bad in this country. The greed has gotten so bad. People are suffering so much, sir, that that is what is in our future. You will not escape their wrath. We must redistribute the wealth away from people like you.

In another alleged message, the suspect pledged to build gallows and hang the congressperson, who is not named in the FBI affidavit. Other alleged voicemails made threats against ICE and expressed a willingness to “personally kill.”

RELATED: Suspected WHCD shooter snapped damning photo moments before the attack, court docs reveal

The affidavit claimed the caller identified himself as Chandler and gave his address. The phone number associated with the calls was directly linked to Chandler via “publicly available information,” the affidavit further claimed.

Chandler is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing on Friday.

On Friday, WTAE reported the following FBI statement:

This morning, FBI Pittsburgh and the U.S. Secret Service arrested Raymond Chandler for threatening to kill federal officials, including President Trump and a member of Congress. The FBI will not tolerate threats of violence and will work tirelessly to protect public officials and all members of our communities. This arrest is a great example of our work with our law enforcement partners at the USSS, the U.S Capitol Police, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Chandler is running against incumbent U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) in 2028. On his campaign website, Chandler promises to tax billionaires, provide universal basic income, “abolish ICE,” and protect abortion.

In an open letter to Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) featured on his website, Chandler describes himself as “a Quaker” with “a commitment to non-violence.” He also chastises McCormick because his “voicemail is wayyy to [sic] short.”

Chandler’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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The Department of Justice has filed federal charges against three family members who allegedly assaulted Turning Point USA’s Frontlines reporter Savanah Hernandez while she was reporting on an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest in Minnesota — and she couldn’t be more thrilled.

“I never thought that I would say it in my life, but thank you to the FBI. I am very grateful for them. This is the same organization that we watched, you know, weaponized against innocent American citizens over the last four years with the prior administration,” Hernandez tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“So to see the FBI actually utilize to bring forward justice against violent criminals is very refreshing to see. The DOJ was very swift in handling this and bringing it before a grand jury so that these indictments could be brought forward,” she continues, adding, “And I’m very grateful for that.”

Gonzales is also grateful to the federal government for stepping in.

“If this had happened under the Biden administration, never in a million years, in my opinion, would they have gone to the lengths that this DOJ and FBI have gone to,” Gonzales says.

“Oh absolutely, Sara,” Hernandez agrees.

“This is not the first time I’ve been this violently mobbed, by the way, but it is the first time the FBI and the DOJ have actually cared about it and paid attention to it,” she says, pointing out that the old attitude of the federal government is what she believes “led to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.”

“Just the complete ignorance of how violent the left-wing is and also the fact that these left-wing jurisdictions have allowed it to happen again and again and again to the point where these protesters think that they can get away with this type of behavior,” she explains.

However, while there’s ample video evidence of the family allegedly assaulting Hernandez, they still went on a media tour to play the victim.

In one interview, the father, who was allegedly caught on video shoving Hernandez to the ground, told One America News that his family is “getting doxxed.”

“It’s not just us. It’s my sons, their wives, like people who had nothing to do with anything. It’s a little overwhelming and makes me second guess even living in this country to be honest with you,” he added.

“He’s like, ‘I just pushed a woman for literally no reason. A woman who was leaving, I just pushed to the ground and somehow I’m the victim,’” Gonzales mocks.

“I guess this is the fascist America that the left-wing is talking about,” Hernandez says, adding, “You can’t even brutally assault a woman who is not threatening you anymore without getting the feds involved.”

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Bill Maher has once again clashed with a liberal on his podcast — this time with comedian David Cross over transgender politics.

As the pair argued on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast about biological men competing in women’s sports, Cross seemed to believe that the existence of his young daughter’s transgender friends would be a winning argument.

However, Maher quickly responded with shock when Cross explained that his daughter’s transgender friends are 9 years old and 3 years old.

“I knew somebody who said to me … a woman, said, ‘I was what they called a tomboy. If I was alive now and acted the way I did then, that’s what they would have done to me,’” Maher explained.

“Well, nobody’s doing this to her,” Cross said.

“Somebody is doing something, because 8- or 9-year-olds can’t do anything on their own,” Maher responded.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere and co-host Dave Landau are not surprised that Cross has adopted the opinions of the left.

“He’s in L.A., though, where he lives, so he is at the eye of the storm. So, I mean, if any of us lived in Los Angeles, our kids would have a friend who identified as trans. It would be almost impossible not to,” Landau comments.

“But I would hope, Dave, we would be able to keep our connection to reality and be able to say, ‘Look, that’s not a thing,’” Stu says.

“Three years old. This is insanity,” he adds.

“It’s a conversation that I’m shocked we’re still having,” Landau agrees.

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A quarter of a century after their daughter’s death, the parents of a 24-year-old who went missing say she may have had knowledge about UFOs that she was not supposed to have.

The case dates back to 2001, when Chandra Levy, an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., mysteriously disappeared.

‘Could she have known something that she wasn’t supposed to know?’

National scandal

The disappearance drew intense national media attention at the time, much of it focused on Levy’s relationship with then-Rep. Gary Condit, a Democrat who represented California’s 18th Congressional District — including Levy’s hometown of Modesto.

Levy’s body was discovered three weeks after she went missing, in a park just a few miles from her apartment. Authorities only found her skeletal remains. While the coroner determined that there was enough evidence to declare a homicide, the location of the murder was unclear.

A few days after her death, Levy’s father, Robert, told police that his daughter was in a romantic relationship with Condit, which Condit denied. Condit was later cleared by investigators.

Years later, authorities charged Ingmar Guandique — an illegal immigrant who had attacked other women in Rock Creek Park around the same time — with Levy’s murder. His 2010 conviction was later vacated, leaving elements of the case unresolved.

Landmark conference

Now Levy’s parents, Susan and Robert Levy, maintain that their daughter’s connection to Condit is what may have resulted in her death.

In an interview with NewsNation, the couple pointed to a UFO conference held by Steven Greer in D.C. eight days after Chandra went missing. The conference was seen as a landmark event, as it featured 20 witnesses from military, government, and intelligence backgrounds.

“At that time, Chandra mentioned something that she knew about the UFOs and Congressman Condit was on the committee to learn about UFOs,” Mr. Levy told host Jesse Weber.

RELATED: Dead or vanishing scientists tied to NASA, JPL, and Los Alamos: Glenn Beck’s take may surprise you

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A broader pattern

Condit served on the House Intelligence Committee for about two years between 1999 and 2001.

Levy’s mother said her daughter told her that Condit “believes in UFOs like I do and that he deals with this stuff.”

“Could she have known something that she wasn’t supposed to know?” she asked. “And could she have been wiped out because she knew too much?”

The parents acknowledged that they have no direct evidence, describing their theory as speculation informed by their own research. Still, they pointed to what they see as a broader pattern — suggesting, without proof, that their daughter’s death could be connected to other recent cases involving government scientists who have died or gone missing.

RELATED: Speculation mounts over mysterious deaths and disappearances tied to US space and nuclear program

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“It all sort of fits together,” said Mr. Levy.

They also claimed they had been warned not to pursue that line of thinking, alleging that elements within the CIA have targeted individuals “too involved” in the subject.

The couple urged Donald Trump and lawmakers including Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) to exercise caution when discussing UFO disclosure publicly. Burchett has previously alluded to government secrets regarding UFOs while declaring that he is “not suicidal.”

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Most Americans today use modern, IP-based communications networks. However, 2% of Americans (about seven million people) still depend on legacy copper telephone systems. These networks are increasingly expensive to maintain, inefficient to operate, and vulnerable to both physical degradation and criminal exploitation.

Retiring these outdated systems and replacing them with fiber, wireless and satellite alternatives would be an easy win for consumers and providers alike, and it is something carriers have been trying to do for more than a decade. However, as is so often the case, progress was blocked by bureaucracy.

The copper-based 911 emergency system was built for an era of voice-only communication and fixed locations.

However, that era appears to be at an end thanks to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, who advanced a framework that gives carriers a clear path to retire copper networks responsibly while protecting consumers during the transition.

One of the most visible and frustrating failures of today’s legacy communications system is the explosion of robocalls. Scam and spam calls are the No. 1 consumer complaint to the FCC, with hundreds of thousands of reports filed annually and billions of illegal automated calls disrupting daily life.

These calls are not just minor annoyances, they are one of the major vectors for fraud, identity theft, and psychological manipulation — and they disproportionately target seniors and vulnerable populations.

Unlike legacy copper systems, modern IP-based networks can deploy authentication protocols such as AI-driven filters and network-level call verification. These defenses can stop robocalls and scammers before they reach consumers.

Public safety is another driving force behind modernization. The copper-based 911 emergency system was built for an era of voice-only communication and fixed locations. It is increasingly insufficient for how Americans communicate today.

Next Generation 911 replaces this outdated infrastructure with an IP-based system capable of receiving texts, photos, videos, and precise location data — including vertical “z-axis” positioning in multistory buildings.

NG911 enables faster emergency response, more accurate caller location, and better situational awareness for first responders. It also improves accessibility for hearing- and speech-impaired individuals, ensuring emergency services are truly universal.

The importance of upgrading is further heightened by a rising infrastructure security problem: copper theft. Criminals targeting underground and aerial lines have created a nationwide crisis, costing utilities and communications providers more than $1 billion annually.

Copper theft can knock out 911 service, disrupt broadband access, and leave entire communities without reliable communications. Every stolen segment must be replaced at significant cost to ratepayers and providers, perpetuating a cycle of damage that modern networks largely avoid.

For over a decade, providers have sought permission to retire copper infrastructure and transition fully to modern alternatives. Progress was slowed by a regulatory process that often required lengthy filings, public comment cycles, and unpredictable approval timelines stretching months or even years.

RELATED: One crash, one derailment — and Congress still can’t follow the data

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The FCC’s new modernization framework — advanced under Chairman Carr — changes that approach. Carriers may now proceed with copper retirement provided they give at least 90 days’ notice and ensure continuity of service throughout the transition.

Some critics have warned that retiring copper could disrepute service or lead to increased costs.

But these concerns overlook the fact that Americans already have alternatives at scale — fiber, cable broadband, mobile wireless, and satellite services capable of delivering both voice and data.

Even traditional landline-style handsets can be adapted to IP networks, preserving familiarity for users who prefer it. As for affordability, competition across wireless and broadband markets has expanded significantly, with multiple providers offering low-cost voice and data plans.

Prices are down roughly 6% since the Trump administration’s policy push on spectrum expansion and infrastructure investment during his first term helped unlock additional capacity and competition. At the same time, service quality and speeds have improved, making legacy copper increasingly unnecessary and economically inefficient to maintain.

There is also a major environmental and economic opportunity in retiring copper responsibly. Once decommissioned, copper is recovered through certified processes, such as stripping, granulation, and smelting. It is then reintroduced into manufacturing supply chains for wiring, construction, and industrial applications.

Over time, this recovery stream represents billions of dollars in reusable material value, while reducing illegal theft incentives and ensuring environmentally responsible disposal. The tech transition order positions America for generations to come, and there’s not a moment to lose.

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A Nebraska middle school teacher is accused of utilizing artificial intelligence to create more than a hundred child sexual abuse images — and the teacher allegedly masturbated to the disturbing child pornography while at a school, according to multiple reports.

The Nebraska State Patrol said in a statement that 47-year-old Matthew Lund was arrested at his Omaha home at approximately 6:15 a.m. April 22.

‘He made a lot of kids uncomfortable, including my son, but he couldn’t quite say why.’

Lund was booked into Douglas County Corrections and charged with possession of child sexual abuse material and distribution of child sexual abuse material.

A judge set Lund’s bond at $1 million during an April 23 court appearance, KETV-TV reported. Lund was ordered not to have contact with anyone under 19 years old and to wear a GPS monitor.

Lund had been a Millard Public Schools teacher.

Lund is currently not listed on the staff directory on the Andersen Middle School website. However, an archived version of the staff directory shows Matthew Lund as a “science and STEM teacher.”

Police stated that “at this point, there is no indication that any students are victims in this case.”

WOWT-TV obtained court documents showing that authorities launched an investigation on Feb. 23 after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children provided a tip.

“On February 23, 2026, Nebraska State Patrol received a cyber tip regarding sexual abuse of children material being uploaded to a Google account associated with the defendant from the Millard Public Schools,” a prosecutor said, according to WOWT.

According to court documents, investigators discovered 423 images that were generated through artificial intelligence on the Google account.

Court documents say the images depicted children younger than 12 years old, including an infant.

One of the files apparently depicts a nude child around the age of 3 to 5 facing an adult.

Court records state another image shows a child of a similar age performing oral sex on a man.

There was also an image of two nude children, around the ages of 8 to 10.

“A search warrant was done on the defendant’s Google account,” the prosecutor said in court. “104 files consistent with child sexual assault material were located, ranging from infant to approximately 12 years old.”

Lund allegedly masturbated to the images while at the school.

“The defendant then admitted to generating the child sexual assault material of prepubescent children and masturbating to them while at work at which he is a middle school science teacher,” the prosecutor said.

RELATED: Ex-teacher and boyfriend indicted on 39 child sex charges; she confessed to abusing 5-year-old at his direction, cops say

Brenda Beadle, deputy Douglas County attorney, stated that this case may be the first her office has charged under a law addressing AI-generated child pornography.

Beadle noted, “It is illegal even though it’s AI-generated.”

The bill to prohibit conduct involving computer-generated child pornography was signed into law in May 2025.

KETV reported that Millard Public Schools said Lund has been “removed, and we are proceeding with termination and cancellation of his contract.”

Millard Public Schools told KETV:

All staff go through a thorough background check during the hiring process. Millard maintains open communication with law enforcement and regulatory agencies that alert us to any ongoing concern. Additionally, Millard is diligent about investigating all concerns brought to us.

A parent told KETV, “He was hiding in plain sight.”

The parent said her son “can’t believe that someone he trusted to keep him safe would do something like this.”

“He made a lot of kids uncomfortable, including my son, but he couldn’t quite say why,” the parent added. “It, just, something was off.”

The parent also said, “You think you’re dropping your kids off, and those teachers are going to protect your kids.”

Millard Public Schools did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

Those with information about this case are urged to contact the Nebraska State Patrol at 402-479-4049.

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A game-show contestant who won “Jeopardy!” dozens of times cited race and immigration in a string of divisive comments after leaving the show.

The remark come after 31 consecutive victories and almost $900,000 in winnings across March and April.

‘I was able to become part of the history of an American institution.’

Jamie Ding’s winning streak is the fifth longest in “Jeopardy!” history, and the $882,605 he netted stands as the fifth-highest regular play winnings in the show’s history. First in both those categories goes to host Ken Jennings, who won more than $2.5 million across the span of 74 straight wins, 34 more than second-place record-holder Amy Schneider.

Foreign asset

Unlike Jennings, Ding did it all without being a native-born American of European origin, something he was eager to point out to People magazine following his final episode.

“As an immigrant and a person of color, I was able to become part of the history of an American institution,” Ding stated.

The Princeton grad went on to condemn the Trump administration’s policy of deporting illegal immigrants.

“‘Jeopardy!’ really is an institution, and America’s turning 250 years old, and the federal government is going after immigrants in a way unlike anything that we’ve seen in the recent past,” he said. “So I hope that immigrants can be seen in a positive light too.”

RELATED: The homicidal empathy of the left’s immigration policies

Shame game

Ding has used his newfound fame to champion other causes, recently appearing with New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) in support of a new state housing initiative.

According to Wheel of Fortune Tonight, he works for the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency as a tax credit program administrator.

“The agency I work for, we manage the low-income housing credits for New Jersey. We fund a huge chunk of the affordable housing that’s built in the state,” Ding said, per NorthJersey.com. “We’re ahead of New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. If you’re from one of those states, then shame on you. Build more housing.”

RELATED: Illegal alien with a badge impersonates Border Patrol agent to disrupt mission — even calls in ‘reinforcements’

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Bus buff

According to Huffington Post, Ding was born in Australia and is a naturalized U.S. citizen; his parents emigrated from Beijing.

“I kept hearing how it was bringing people together,” he said about his appearances on “Jeopardy!”

“I love that very much. I’ve heard people say, ‘It’s nice to have something positive on TV!'” he added.

Ding has said that he hopes to use his winnings to move closer to public transit.

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People have been speculating about the power balance in the Senate after the midterms — and all eyes have repeatedly fallen on one Democrat senator in particular.

Politico published an article on Monday morning detailing a behind-the-scenes snapshot of Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, who was portrayed in the article as increasingly politically homeless.

‘If we flip four seats in the Senate, who is the number 51 for the new majority?’

Fetterman, a first-term senator, is being courted by Republican leadership as midterms approach, and their majority hangs in the balance by a narrow margin, Politico said.

President Trump has been interested in flipping Fetterman for months, according to Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

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In his interview with Fetterman in March, Hannity shared that he spoke with President Trump with him in mind. Hannity said Trump tasked him with making the pitch to Fetterman.

“Your job is to tell him he’s gonna run as a Republican, he’s gonna have our full support, more money than he ever dreamed of, and he’s gonna win big,” Hannity told Fetterman, recalling Trump’s alleged instructions.

While Fetterman told Politico in an interview that he has no plans to become a Republican, he has become friends with a pair of senators and their spouses: Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.). He also “gets along well” with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, with whom he texts regularly, the outlet said.

However, he has still championed many liberal issues that put him at odds with becoming a true Republican, including his stances on legalizing marijuana, abortion, and gay rights.

Likewise, he has seen and is wary of how Republicans who have stood up to Trump, including Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.) and Thom Tillis (N.C.), have been treated.

Having reached across the aisle and spent more time with Republicans, Fetterman is well aware that he is becoming increasingly alienated from his own party at the same time.

However, he is equally aware of his political leverage if the Senate’s margins narrow as they are expected to in the midterms: “If we flip four seats in the Senate, who is the number 51 for the new majority?” he asked during his interview with Politico.

Republicans currently effectively hold a 53-seat majority in the Senate, while Democrats hold 45 seats. There are two independents who caucus with Democrats.

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