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Jack Osbourne made it clear that he has no desire to chat about politics with the paparazzi.

Osbourne was spotted at the Capitol with his mother, Sharon, on Friday as they honored his late father, Ozzy, who passed away in 2025. As he was about to leave, the 40-year old was approached by a reporter eager to get his take on current events.

‘Then be a politician, don’t be an entertainer.’

Osbourne immediately shut down the conversation

“You know what, I think celebrities just need to keep their mouth shut,” the Brit-American said.

‘Entertain the people’

In case it wasn’t clear, Osbourne put it more succinctly into an order of operations for celebrities: “Make entertainment, entertain the people, shut the f**k up.”

The Aussie reporter persisted, asking why Osbourne didn’t think he should use his platform to get across a “big opinion” that could “change hearts and minds.”

Osbourne’s simple response? If that’s what you want, “Be a politician, don’t be an entertainer.”

RELATED: Gene Simmons’ advice for celeb activists Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo: ‘Shut the f**k up’

Osbourne famiily, 2003. SGranitz/WireImage/Getty Images

Trump ‘Train’

Osbourne clearly takes after his cantankerous old man. While the elder Osbourne criticized the war in Iraq under the George W. Bush administration and spoke out against his native UK’s decision to leave the European Union, for the most part he focused on his showbiz career.

Even after the former Black Sabbath frontman asked the Trump campaign to stop using his song “Crazy Train” at rallies, the two remained on good terms, with the president leaving the family a condolence voicemail after the singer’s death last July.

The Osbournes told TMZ they were on Capitol Hill because Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz (R) had entered Ozzy Osbourne’s biography into the Congressional Record.

Spartz shared her “deepest sympathies” with the family last year, calling Ozzy a “true pioneer of heavy metal and an enduring symbol of the rebellious, freedom-loving spirit that resonates across our nation and throughout the world.”

RELATED: ‘Shut the f**k up!’ Actor Jamie Kennedy slams Hollywood’s hypocrisy over ICE

Osbourne family, 2002. Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty Images

Fed up

Along with ruling out a future in politics, Osbourne noted that he and his mother had a “beautiful day” in D.C.

He added, “It made us miss [my father]. He would have loved it. He would have been truly honored to be a part of this today.”

Osbourne is part of a growing trend of celebrities who want very little to do with politics. This includes rocker Gene Simmons, who had nearly exactly the same message as Osbourne in March when he told liberal celebrities to “‘shut the f**k up.”

In fact, actor Jamie Kennedy shared similar sentiments when speaking with Osbourne on his podcast in February, when he criticized woke celebrities for calling the United States fascist.

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A bitter debate has erupted online after a food stamp beneficiary posted a video appreciative of a California aquarium’s policy allowing recipients in for free.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium on the central coast says on its website that it participates in the Museums for All program, which allows Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries free or reduced-fee access.

‘As someone who has been to the aquarium numerous times and seen the price go from $20 to $40 to now $65, this pisses me the f**k off.’

Many online were outraged about the program after finding out about it through the recipient’s video on social media.

“This welfare s**t is legalized theft f**king bulls**t. Been working my ass off on roofs and doing electrical work my money gets eaten up by groceries, housing, and vehicle cost and these people live free on our dimes. F**k this,” read one popular response.

“We make it WAY too attractive to be on welfare. You’d have to make at least 80K per year to be able to compete with everything people on welfare get for free for sitting on their asses,” said another user.

“We went last year. my family payed. I don’t think anyone else did. It was super crowded. I feel like the price is really $10 but I payed $400 for my family of 3 and about 37 other people,” read another reply.

“Why should they get more than those of us who pay taxes? What makes them deserve it more than us. I work 5 days a week and have to sit home most of the time because I can’t afford this stuff,” said another critic.

Others supported the program.

“I have zero issue with making Museums and Aquariums accessible to the poor,” read one popular post. “Being able to enrich the mind should not just be available to the wealthy this is why we also have Public Schools and Libraries.”

“It is offered so that children are able to share in educational experiences that their parents would be otherwise unable to afford. Are only children from middle, upper middle and wealth families entitled to educational opportunities?” asked another user.

And others attacked the critics of the program as being heartless.

“Do you realize how s***ty of a person you have to be, that you’re angry folks are going to the aquarium for free? You probably don’t, because you’re s***ty,” said one user.

“Poor people deserve fun and education, too, you f**king ghoul,” read another response.

RELATED: Able-bodied 38-year-old’s response to Trump SNAP restrictions goes viral: ‘Some bulls**t!’

About 1,600 museums participate in the Museums for All program across the entire nation, according to the program’s website.

“As someone who has been to the aquarium numerous times and seen the price go from $20 to $40 to now $65, this pisses me the f**k off,” responded one riled-up user. “I go to the aquarium and spend $65 so that ebt Maria and her bastard children can have unlimited free access.”

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On May 1, 2026, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to temporarily reinstate in-person dispensing requirements for the abortion pill mifepristone — blocking its delivery by mail or telemedicine nationwide.

The ruling paused 2023 FDA regulations to allow remote prescribing and was immediately appealed to the Supreme Court.

Dr. Christina Francis tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey that one of the co-plaintiffs in the case was coerced into a chemical abortion by her boyfriend, who threatened her if she didn’t take the drugs.

“Thankfully, the Fifth Circuit recognized that this is a real, active danger to state pro-life laws, but also to individual women who are being harmed and, of course, pre-born children who are being harmed by these drugs,” Francis explains.

“And so, the Fifth Circuit said, ‘While this case is making its way through the court, we need that in-person dispensing requirement back immediately,’” she adds.

“But then what happened at the Supreme Court?” Stuckey asks.

“That Fifth Circuit decision was immediately appealed to the Supreme Court by the abortion drug manufacturers,” Francis explains, while Stuckey points out that there are several reasons why it’s so important that the decision to require in-person dispensing of the abortion pill stands.

“Obviously, we don’t want any babies to be killed with the abortion pill at all, but this in-person visit requirement is a really important, not only deterrent possibly, but also just to preserve the safety of the women who are seeking to use this abortion pill,” she says.

“Absolutely,” Francis agrees. “So, we know at its baseline, this abortion drug, mifepristone, is inherently dangerous. It’s four times more dangerous than surgical abortions. But that’s when it’s being dispensed in person.”

“When a woman has an in-person evaluation by a medical professional,” she explains, it makes sure “they know how far along she is in her pregnancy, ensures that she does not have an ectopic pregnancy, which is life-threatening to her, and ensures that she is actually the one who wants the abortion, that it’s not someone forcing her into that.”

And without in-person dispensing, Francis tells Stuckey that “abortion is essentially legal in all 50 states right now.“

“This is a federal mandate that is overriding all state pro-life laws right now,” she adds.

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Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, who traveled to London this week to speak at the upcoming Unite the Kingdom Rally on Saturday, warned “The Glenn Beck Program” listeners that it may be his last time in the country.

Beck spoke with U.K. activist Tommy Robinson on Friday to discuss the upcoming march, which is expected to draw a crowd of up to 50,000 people, and the new government threats against those who attend.

‘The future of our country is at stake.’

“I was told by Parliament today that if I speak, most likely, I will not be allowed to come back to England ever again,” Beck stated at the start of the program, vowing to speak at the rally even if he is permanently banned from returning.

“I am going to be speaking there, even if it is — sadly, because I love this country — even if this means I’m barred from visiting this country for the rest of my life. So be it,” Beck declared.

He noted that Saturday’s rally would include a tribute to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last year while speaking on a Utah college campus. He emphasized that the march would be “very peaceful” and “family-driven.”

A day ahead of the rally, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer released a video condemning the UTK movement, accusing its organizers of “peddling hatred and division.”

“My government will not stand in the way of peaceful protest, but we will act decisively against hatred. We will use the full force of the law when that hatred manifests as violence,” Starmer stated. “And we will ban those coming into the U.K. who seek to stir it up, as we have done already.”

Beck stated that Starmer’s video “just screams setup to me,” noting that he had a similar “bad feeling” a couple of days before the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol.

RELATED: Glenn Beck in SHOCK over UK’s dystopian ‘blasphemy laws’

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Robinson joined Beck to talk about the breakdown of leadership in Great Britain, particularly regarding mass immigration and failures to address violent criminals and terrorists. He noted that the government banned numerous individuals, including journalists Ezra Levant and Avi Yemini, from entering the U.K. to attend Saturday’s rally.

“None of them have got criminal convictions, are racists, or any hatred like that,” Robinson told Beck.

“We’re not talking about him banning football hooligans and extremists here. We’re talking about mainstream political opinions that [Starmer] doesn’t agree with. … They just banned these 11 people as far-right, racist extremist agitators who are intent on violence. They just make it up.”

RELATED: ‘Frankly disgraceful’: British politicians implode after Trump official meets with Tommy Robinson

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Robinson stated that the UTK rally will include gospel bands, Christian pastors, speeches, and other performances.

The Metropolitan Police will deploy 4,000 officers to the UTK event. The department is planning to use live facial recognition technology at the UTK rally, according to MP Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman. However, the department does not plan to use the technology at a nearby pro-Palestine protest the same day, which is expected to draw 30,000 participants, GB News reported.

Beck stated that this is the first time the government has publicly admitted to using facial recognition.

“That’s to send a message … [that] you’re an enemy of the state,” Beck said, adding that government officials aim to “make the crowd frightened.”

“The future of our country is at stake,” Robinson remarked.

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The parents of teens creating chaos on Washington, D.C., streets may face prosecution themselves, according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

Dozens of videos on social media have captured acts of violence and robbery committed by large groups of teenagers at popular areas, including the Navy Yard waterfront. Law enforcement authorities say organizers use social media to alert willing participants.

‘Parents: Do your job. Or we will do ours.’

On Friday, Pirro said that the parents of the teenage terrors will face the wrath of the Justice Dept. unless they take control of their children.

“There is one area that hasn’t been discussed. Parental involvement has been a noted gap in any discussion,” said Pirro at a media briefing.

“And I am here to say, as the United States attorney in the District of Columbia, that ends today,” she added. “Starting today, my office will aggressively prosecute parents under D.C.’s curfew law.”

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, has issued numerous orders establishing curfews based on age in order to combat the takeovers. Pirro said that violations of curfew cannot be prosecuted at the federal level and must be left to local law enforcement.

“That does not preclude me from bringing charges against the parents,” Pirro added. “Parents: Do your job. Or we will do ours.”

She said that the parents would face charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor if they were found to have abetted the takeovers, failed to prevent them, or permitted their children to participate in any way.

RELATED: Democratic mayor declares public emergency and reinstitutes juvenile curfew in DC

Those parents could face fines, court-ordered classes, and even jail time — up to six months.

“To parents, you must supervise your kids or face criminal consequences,” wrote Pirro on social media. “Law abiding taxpayers should no longer have to pay for the chaos caused by parental neglect.”

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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its affiliates routinely throw around tens of millions of dollars in American elections to ensure that hardline supporters of Israel are elected to the U.S. Congress on both sides of the aisle.

Rep. Thomas Massie — a Republican lawmaker with an 86.79% lifetime Turning Point Action score whom AIPAC has once again spent a fortune trying to unseat in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District — introduced legislation on Thursday that would make AIPAC subject to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938.

‘It simply ensures transparency.’

FARA — a law originally advanced to curb Nazi Germany’s influence in America — requires certain agents acting on behalf of foreign governments, organizations, or individuals to register with the Justice Department and to make “periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts, and disbursements in support of those activities.”

There have long been calls for AIPAC to have to register under FARA. Some opponents of such transparency have argued that the organization isn’t foreign, that it’s “‘America’s pro-Israel lobby’ and not the ‘Israel lobby.'”

“For some reason they’re immune right now,” Massie said when announcing the Americans Insist on Political Agent Clarity Act, or AIPAC Act for short. “I think, not just the money that’s spent in politics but the lobbying that happens on Capitol Hill should be reported if it’s a foreign country — whether it’s Great Britain, Australia, Turkey, Qatar or Israel, it needs to be reported.”

“The Americans Insist on Political Agent Clarity Act does not ban speech, restrict advocacy, or prohibit Americans from supporting foreign allies,” Massie said in a statement. “It simply ensures transparency. If an organization is heavily engaged in influencing U.S. policy in ways that principally benefit a foreign country, it should be required to register under FARA.”

RELATED: How Jewish summer camp made me distrust Israeli propaganda

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The AIPAC Act would: clarify that U.S.-based organizations may qualify as foreign principals under FARA when their lobbying activities primarily advance the interests of a foreign power; establish “objective indicators” to determine foreign political alignment; and create a private right of action for American citizens to file complaints with the DOJ requesting probes into possible FARA violations by a foreign principal.

Massie has in recent months complained about the support his Republican challenger Ed Gallrein has enjoyed from “Israel-first billionaires Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson, who himself appears in Epstein’s black book,” via a PAC called MAGA KY.

The Daily Caller reported that AIPAC and the Republican Jewish Coalition have spent upwards of $9.8 million on efforts to boost Gallrein.

Massie appears to have drawn the ire of AIPAC and leading pro-Israel activists in part due to his past criticism of aid to Israel and his criticism of American military interventions in Iran.

Blaze News has reached out to AIPAC for comment.

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The Department of Homeland Security highlighted several criminal illegal aliens who were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday during National Police Week, according to a press release obtained exclusively by Blaze News.

Federal agents arrested sexual predators, child abusers, and those previously convicted of other violent crimes.

‘Every single day, our officers put their lives on the line to remove criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods.’

“Yesterday, the men and women of ICE risked their lives to arrest child pornographers, sexual predators, and burglars,” DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated.

“Every single day, our officers put their lives on the line to remove criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods,” Bis continued. “On Police Week and every day, our pride in and support for these brave men and women keeping America safe will remain unwavering.”

DHS highlighted that ICE arrested Henry Paul Noriega-Perez, an illegal alien from Guatemala whose rap sheet includes a conviction for aggravated criminal sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor in Cook County, Illinois.

RELATED: ‘Disgusting criminal’ illegal alien tortured dogs at animal training center in Las Vegas, DHS says

Henry Paul Noriega-Perez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Ueliton Aparecido Deborba, an illegal alien from Brazil, was also captured by ICE agents on Thursday. He was previously convicted of first-degree sexual assault of a victim under 13 years old and risk to injure a child in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Ueliton Aparecido Deborba. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Federal immigration agents nabbed Raul Sanchez-Garduno, an illegal alien from Mexico who was convicted of aggravated sexual battery and forcible sodomy in Prince William County, Virginia.

Raul Sanchez-Garduno. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

Jason Daniel Mendoza-Canales, an illegal alien from Honduras, was also captured by ICE. His criminal history includes a conviction for sexual battery by restraint in Santa Monica, California.

Jason Daniel Mendoza-Canales. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

ICE arrested Juan Jose Godoy-Nunez, an illegal alien from Honduras. He was previously convicted of assault and burglary in Sumner County, Tennessee.

RELATED: Democratic mayor installs ‘anti-ICE’ signs all over Los Angeles — Trump administration issues MOCKING response

Juan Jose Godoy-Nunez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security

“This Police Week, DHS honors law enforcement men and women protecting American communities from barbaric criminals,” the press release reads.

Bis noted that DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was “on the ground with ICE law enforcement officers in Virginia” on Friday.

Mullin stated that ICE arrested an illegal alien who had previously been removed multiple times from the U.S. and had a criminal history of drug possession and driving under the influence. He blamed Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger and her sanctuary policies for making “Virginia a magnet for criminal illegal aliens.”

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Republicans in Minnesota are demanding accountability for a top Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party official who allegedly told a Republican to shoot himself.

Video on social media captures state Rep. Aisha Gomez (DFL) in an intense argument with Republican state Rep. Elliott Engen, and at one point she screams in his face. The exchange happened Thursday during a sit-in by Democrats angry over proposed gun restrictions that were rejected.

‘Any suggestion that I would encourage violence is absurd and completely contrary to how I have conducted myself throughout my legislative career.’

Engen indicated on social media that Gomez yelled at him to “go f’ing shoot” himself and reposted video on social media making the claim.

Not only did he claim Gomez told him to shoot himself, but Engen added that “multiple” Democrat colleagues told him the same.

Republican leaders are now demanding that Gomez be punished by losing her committee assignment.

“This kind of behavior is unacceptable and it makes every person in this place less safe,” said Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R). “Someone willing to spew hate and accost colleagues is unfit to serve as a leader in Minnesota.”

Others are calling on Gomez to resign, which would tip over control of the House, currently tied at 67 members each, to Republicans.

However, in comments to KSTP-TV, Gomez denied using the violent rhetoric and provided video of the exchange from closer up that captures her apparently screaming, “Think of them, not yourself! How about that?!” instead.

“Total fabrication of my actual words,” she said to KSTP.

Engen accused KSTP of shilling for Democrats, and when a KSTP reporter challenged him to post video of Gomez saying what he claimed, he responded defiantly.

“It was ten seconds into me being accosted on the house floor that it was said. Typically, you don’t think to have a live body cam on your colleagues, Tom. What you’re doing isn’t ‘reporting.’ It’s called carrying water,” Engen responded.

A Blaze News request for comment to Engen’s office was not immediately answered.

RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel fires back at Melania Trump over backlash to ‘widow’ joke

The exchange comes at a time of heightened awareness about political violence after at least two more alleged assassination attempts against President Donald Trump since a bullet grazed his ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024.

“At no point did I say what the right wing media would have you believe was said,” Gomez continued in her statement.

“I was responding to shameless floor comments from Rep. Engen where he called out Annunciation parents who lost a child to gun violence after voting against the measure they were supporting,” she added. “Any suggestion that I would encourage violence is absurd and completely contrary to how I have conducted myself throughout my legislative career.”

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From her college days through her professional career with the Indiana Fever, superstar point guard Caitlin Clark has been selling out stadiums.

But the Clark mania is beginning to fizzle.

“They’re selling tickets right now for Indiana Fever games in Indianapolis for just $28. The Caitlin Clark star is dying. There’s no question about that,” says BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock.

Meanwhile, longtime Clark rival and Atlanta Dream power forward Angel Reese is “ascending,” he says, highlighting the Dream’s 2-0 start to the season and Reese’s undeniable role in the team’s success.

Clark’s star power fading as Reese’s swells is a nightmare scenario for him as a die-hard Clark supporter.

“If Angel Reese wins a WNBA title this year or before Caitlin Clark or at the same time that Caitlin Clark’s star is diminishing, what a horrible, horrible movie that will be for me,” he confesses.

Even though Clark has given him “a million reasons to jump ship,” Whitlock vows he’s “not going to do it.”

“I’m going down with the ship. I’m going to stay loyal to Caitlin Clark, the Indiana Fever, but holy cow is this start to the season hard on me,” he sighs, alluding to the Fever’s rocky 1-1 record and Clark’s ongoing back injury.

Whitlock accuses the WNBA of lying “about her health” last season, insisting that she was fine when she was actually taking significant beatings on the court that hurt her health.

“I think they’re lying again this year,” he says, “and I am legitimately concerned that Caitlin Clark physically will never be what she was when she entered the WNBA and she may be a declining star.”

Fellow sports commentator Ben Daniel says that if Whitlock is right and Clark is indeed on the decline, it’s “doom and gloom for the WNBA,” as Clark is the league’s biggest economic engine.

As for Clark’s back injury, Daniel admits that it’s suspicious. “There was no running to the trainers’ table to get my back realigned when we were playing FIBA ball, but now that we’re back in Indiana with this great staff, now suddenly we gotta break out the cushion,” he scoffs.

While Whitlock hopes that Clark’s injuries aren’t serious, there are several “clues” that suggest they might be.

“You have the Michael Jordan of women’s basketball, and you’re drafting a player at her position?” he remarks, referring to the Fever’s recent draft pick Raven Johnson, who plays point guard like Clark.

On top of that, the Fever are playing in a way that “[takes] the ball out of [Clark’s] hands,” Whitlock adds.

All things considered, it seems to him like Clark is legitimately declining.

“I’m just looking at the clues that the Indiana Fever seem to be operating like Caitlin Clark is damaged goods,” he says.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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A new online encyclopedia is garnering attention for its complete disregard for the truth.

Previously, in response to obvious left-wing bias on Wikipedia, X owner Elon Musk built Grokipedia, his own version that generates detailed articles based on generations from Grok AI.

‘Comprehensive coverage of topics mainstream encyclopedias overlooked.’

With millions of visits per month, Grokipedia is growing, but it does not address the issue of AI hallucination, which most chatbot users have likely become familiar with since their popularization.

IBM describes the phenomenon as a language model producing outputs that are nonsensical or altogether inaccurate. This problem exists within all chatbots, but one new online encyclopedia is leaning into it.

Halupedia is the latest invention that is seemingly peak Web 2.0, and it not only allows AI hallucinations; it consists entirely of them.

The website describes itself as “comprehensive coverage of topics mainstream encyclopedias overlooked,” with the tagline, “an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it.”

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Popular faux historical pages include the Great Pigeon Census of 1887, a failed count of every bird of its kind in Great Britain and Ireland.

There also exist pages for the Ministry of Slightly Wrong Maps, which is not to be confused with the Ministry of Terribly Wrong Maps.

The explanations for real-life topics or people are completely made up on the website, including Charlie Kirk. While Grokipedia says Kirk was an American conservative political activist, author, and media host, Halupedia describes Kirk as a “prominent figure in the late medieval textile trade, particularly renowned for his contributions to the standardization of textile fasteners.”

In order to understand how the website generates its pages, Return asked ChatGPT. Poetically, ChatGPT hallucinated part of its answer and said Halupedia is “a fan-made wiki dedicated to the Halo video game series.”

When Grok was asked, it gave a clearer explanation: Users can type in any URL they want, and the website will automatically generate nonsensical answers.

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“Nothing exists on the site until someone visits a page,” Grok explained.

Therefore, as of this writing, the page for Joe Biden is now live, which describes the former president as “a species of deep-dwelling subterranean lichen, primarily found in the geologically unstable regions of the West Anglia Subterranean Preserve.”

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Republicans can claim their first major scalp in the fight to redraw congressional maps now that a longtime Tennessee Democrat has announced he will no longer run for re-election in November.

On Friday, Rep. Steve Cohen declared that he would not run to represent “any of the three gerrymandered congressional districts carved out of the 9th District” of Tennessee, which he has represented since January 2007.

‘It has been the honor of my life serving you.’

Republicans state lawmakers in Tennessee immediately responded to the Callais Supreme Court decision, which determined that racially gerrymandered congressional districts are unconstitutional. They reconvened and passed a new map that broke the 9th Congressional District up into three separate districts that will likely turn red after the November midterms.

Tennessee state Democrats did not take the news well, engaging in over-the-top and in some cases potentially dangerous theatrics in the state Capitol, blaring bullhorns and dancing atop their desks in childish protest.

RELATED: Trump-hating Democrat will soon be out of a district — here are some of his worst meltdowns

State Rep. Justin Jones. Madison Thorn/Bloomberg/Getty Images

All for naught. Cohen is the only Democrat member of Congress from Tennessee, so unless the courts intervene, Tennessee will likely have an all-Republican congressional delegation come January.

“Last week, Tennessee Republicans silenced the Black vote here in Memphis to make Republican victories likely,” he wrote in his statement posted Friday. “We are still fighting, and if we prevail in the courts and the 9th District remains intact, I will remain a candidate.”

“If not, it has been the honor of my life serving you,” he concluded.

Moreover, Republican Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton notified Democrat House Minority Leader Karen Camper on Tuesday that because of their shameful antics, members of the Democratic Caucus should expect to receive individual letters removing them from all standing committees and subcommittees in the statehouse, “except where membership is required pursuant to Rule 65 of the House Rules.”

This is a breaking story.

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Last month, BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales exposed the Allen Infant Care Center in Allen, Texas, through a viral video confrontation with owner Yuan Yao, a Chinese national.

After receiving a whistleblower tip alleging that the apparently shuttered facility — with an empty building, overgrown playground, and no children in sight — had sponsored at least 37 H-1B visas and filed over 50 labor condition applications for unrelated high-skill jobs (like market research analyst and supply chain expert) in an alleged “pay-to-play” scam where workers reportedly paid up to $20,000 for sponsorship while being underpaid, Sara and her camera crew confronted Yao and vowed that justice would be served.

And she was right.

On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit against Golden Qi Holdings LLC (the entity behind Allen Infant Care Center) and Yao under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, accusing them of running sham businesses to fraudulently obtain H-1B visas, misusing federal/state subsidies, and advertising nonexistent services, prompting an ongoing criminal investigation into H-1B program abuse.

On this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara reacts to the news that her H-1B investigations and reporting have once again sparked a legal response from the state.

In his official press release, Paxton explicitly highlighted Sara’s reporting: “Blaze Media reporter Sara Gonzales recently visited the location listed for the Allen Infant Care Center. She did not find any child care at all. Instead, she found an empty building and a playground overgrown with vegetation. Gonzales spoke with an individual familiar with the property who claimed that the facility has not operated for an extended period of time and alleged that Yao ‘sells visas.’”

“I’m not one to pat myself on the back. Actually, I probably am,” Sara laughs, “but we all know who got this bus done. … It sure is nice to hear it directly from the attorney general’s press release.”

Sara praises Paxton for being “a great attorney general,” who she “[hopes] to God will be our next senator here in the state of Texas.”

“When the feds are not stepping in, Ken Paxton is like, ‘You know what? Buckle up, boys, because if you’re committing fraud, we’re going to find you,”’ she says.

The lawsuit, Sara explains, aims not only to stop Yao’s alleged illegal activity but also to recover “up to $10,000 for each violation of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act among other civil penalties.”

“Looks like Mr. Yao will be paying quite the chunk of change,” she smirks, joking that she’s already eyeing his metallic rose-gold BMW.

“I so badly want to send a message to Paxton’s office and be like, ‘Listen, listen — I did all of this, and I did it for the good of the state and the country, but I’m just saying if he gets deported, can I just have the car?”’ she quips.

But in all seriousness, Sara says that this lawsuit is “yet another example of why we need to shut the H-1B program down.”

“Halt it immediately. Blow the entire thing up. Blow it all up,” she implores.

To see footage from Sara’s original reporting and hear more of her commentary on the lawsuit, watch the episode above.

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A 39-year-old mother is accused of pulling a gun on children outside a Chicago elementary school and making threats because she thought one of the students had hit her son, who also attends the school, CWB Chicago reported, citing prosecutors.

The outlet said Kenosha Willis allegedly confronted kids outside O’Keeffe School of Excellence in the 6900 block of South Merrill Avenue on the afternoon of May 6.

‘They don’t know who they messing with.’

Prosecutors said Willis pulled a black handgun from her purse and pointed it at two children while making threats, the outlet said.

Willis is accused of pointing the gun at a 9-year-old boy’s head, the outlet added, citing a Chicago Police Department report.

Prosecutors said one of the children called 911 as Willis walked away, the outlet noted, adding that a school security guard encountered a group of children running from the area who reported that a woman had a gun.

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Willis allegedly approached the security guard and began making additional threats about shooting the school and students, the outlet said: “They don’t know who they messing with. I’ll shoot this b**** up.”

As Willis left the scene, the guard flagged down a Chicago police officer who stopped Willis in her vehicle and found a firearm in her purse, the outlet said, citing prosecutors.

Judge Luciano Panici Jr. ordered Willis detained, CWB Chicago noted.

Willis is charged with making a threat to a person at a school, four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated unlawful possession of a firearm, and violating the Illinois concealed carry act.

She remains in Cook County Jail with no bond as of Friday morning; her next hearing also is scheduled for Friday.

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A 23-year-old Sikh man is on trial in the United Kingdom for the December murder of an 18-year-old Englishman.

Vickrum Digwa is accused of fatally slashing and stabbing first-year Southampton University student Henry Nowak of Essex. Digwa’s mother, Kiran Kaur, is also on trial for conspiring with her son after the fact by allegedly removing the murder weapon from the scene of the attack.

Already in the trial, prosecutors have furnished members of the jury with plenty of insights into Nowak’s death — alleging, for example, that:

Nowak encountered Digwa on his way home from a night out with his soccer team, during which he consumed less than the drink-drive limit;Nowak captured footage on his phone of Digwa openly carrying around an 8-inch Sikh blade, extra to the smaller kirpan blade he was also carrying around his neck;Nowak’s phone containing the damning footage was ultimately found in the suspected killer’s pocket; the victim, spouting blood, desperately attempted to climb a fence to escape his attacker, only to have the alleged Sikh killer “aggressively pursue him”; Digwa’s mother was captured on video taking the murder weapon back to the family home;Digwa told his brother while in police custody that he stabbed the victim multiple times; andanalysis found DNA from the mother, hairs from Digwa, and blood from Nowak on the knife.

One of the more troubling allegations actually concerns the conduct of the British police who first arrived on the scene.

Around 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, 2025, police were called to the scene of an altercation taking place on Portswood’s Belmont Road.

Digwa presented himself to the first officers on the scene as the victim, telling them that he was “racially abused and attacked by a drunken man,” prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg told jurors Thursday.

“He didn’t seek help for the man he had injured with his sizeable knife; instead he accused him of being a racist and being drunk,” added Lobbenberg, reported the Daily Mail.

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According to the prosecutor, police handcuffed Nowak while he was dying from four stab wounds including two wounds to the back of his legs and one in the lung. Only when the pierced and bleeding Briton collapsed did police reportedly start administering first aid.

Digwa’s lawyer, Jeremy Wainwright, claimed that the alleged murderer was carrying a dagger “for religious purposes” and had acted in the “heat of the moment” in self-defense — a statement that jurors might have difficulty believing on account of the wounds on the back of the victim’s legs.

‘His story will not be buried.’

Wainwright also strongly insinuated that his client was responding to a “racially motivated attack” by the dead and unarmed Englishman.

“You will be shocked and upset when you see the state of Henry Nowak and when you hear what’s shouted at what is tragically a dying man,” said Wainwright. “But did Digwa and his brother at the time realize they were dealing with a dying man, or was their anger generated by someone who was drunk, who had racially attacked them, and they weren’t aware of the extent of those injuries?”

In light of the revelations about the dying victim’s treatment by Hampshire Police, Turning Point UK and other critics have called for the termination of the officers responsible and for the department to “apologize for their disgraceful behavior believing false allegations of racism, over a man who had been violently stabbed.”

Hampshire Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

The victim posthumously maligned by the suspect and his attorney was, according to the Villarrealgorithm CF and Southampton University Football Club, “the kind of lad who, when he walked into a room, instantly lifted the mood. Henry had a big heart and an even bigger personality, and he will be incredibly missed by everyone.”

Nowak’s mother noted in the wake of his death, “Our lives are irreparably changed. Our hearts are broken beyond repair. But his name will not fade. His story will not be buried.”

On July 11, Nowak’s family and friends will join others at Aveley Football Club for a celebrity charity soccer match in honor of the young man and his memory.

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A recent clip from finance guru Dave Ramsey’s podcast is blowing up all over social media, racking up millions of views in just days.

In the video, Ramsey advises a 26-year-old nurse to break up with her boyfriend for making her debt a contingency for marriage. According to the girl, her boyfriend of six years makes $250K+ per year and pays most of their bills. However, he refuses to help with her large sum of school debt and refuses to propose before she pays it off herself.

“Dump him,” was Dave’s blunt advice.

“You’re having to buy your way into this relationship. Nope. You’re a princess, and you deserve more than this,” he added.

Calling the couple’s issue a “money fight,” he went on to warn that financial disputes are the top cause of divorce in the country and suggested that their living together meant that they were “already married,” giving the boyfriend “no real incentive to propose.”

Ramsey’s advice has ignited intense debate online, with many viewing it as contradictory of his “debt-free” messaging and unfair to a fiscally responsible man, and others defending Dave for calling out a transactional, controlling relationship dynamic.

On this episode of “The John Doyle Show,” Doyle weighs in on the controversy.

Doyle agrees with the critics calling Ramsey’s advice hypocritical considering his decades-long anti-debt crusade.

“To see this man fold immediately when a 26-year-old woman in $90,000 of debt just bats her eyelashes a little bit was a little disheartening and frankly a little pathetic,” he says.

Doyle speculates that this 26-year-old woman is “not as much of a princess as maybe Mr. Ramsey would like to believe.”

“There was data, I think, from Ashley Madison, which is the affair website, literally like cheatonmyspouse.com. … They surveyed something like 1,000 people. The number one job field for cheating women, like 23% of all those surveyed, was in health care,” he says.

“And even beyond that, the type of women she’s around are not exactly going to be women who are stellar influences on her. You know, they’re not going to really cultivate or encourage princess-like behavior,” he adds.

Doyle does, however, call Ramsey’s claim that the couple is essentially already married because they live together a “truth nuke.”

“They are effectively married, but Dave is still going to advocate that, what, she breaks up with this guy?” he says. “Which is more or less like advocating that she gets a divorce. Because look, she’s already 26, starting to get past her sell-by date, right? … At a minimum, you know, she should be treated as a clearance sale perhaps.”

A breakup after six years, he argues, wouldn’t be as simple as Ramsey seems to insinuate.

“You can’t rip off a six-year band-aid cleanly. She’s going to have rebounds. She’s going to be doing whatever. She’s not exactly going to land on her feet right away,” he comments. “But girl-dad Dave is so lost in the words of this hapless little princess, he can’t even imagine why a guy might not want to marry a girl with $90,000 in debt.”

“His entire show is about how you should be debt-free, but only if you’re a guy. If you’re a girl, you’re just a princess, and it’s not your fault. If you’re a guy, ‘Yeah, bucko, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.’”

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It was 1990, and I was in my final year of middle school. The Ultimate Warrior had just defeated Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania VI, Bon Jovi was poisoning the airwaves, and bubblegum still held its flavor.

The law of the jungle was merciless. The concrete schoolyard was just a warm-up for the clique wars to come — if you weren’t smoking Marlboro Reds or rocking Nike Air Max 90s, you didn’t stand a chance. If your parents picked you up in the “wrong” car, it was reputational suicide.

Back then, footballers looked like real blokes — sweaty, scruffy, and rough. Take Peter Beardsley: magic on the pitch, but no one was swapping stickers for his smile.

Summer break was just a few weeks away. While everyone else seemed ready to spend six weeks climbing trees, aimlessly riding their bikes from dawn till dusk, staring awkwardly at girls they liked, or searching for dead bodies in the woods, I had other plans.

Fever pitch

That summer, my true obsession was the Italia 90 World Cup sticker album — a glossy shrine to footballing glory, celebrating a tournament set in Italy and far more engrossing than my favorite comics. To top it off, England had an all-star lineup and, for once, stood a good chance of reliving the glory days of ’66, when we routed the Germans. I set myself a a mission worthy of Pelé himself: to fill every page with those adhesive, elusive footballers. Forget superheroes and cliff-hangers — completing that album was the only epic saga that mattered to this 11-year-old boy.

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Everyone wanted Maradona or one of the coveted shiny stickers. We devised what I can only describe as a unique system of exchange. Forget Wall Street; this was playground economics at its rawest. We would huddle around while each of us cycled through our spares, chanting “got, got, got,” until someone finally shouted, “NEED!”

The true value of a sticker seemed to rise in direct proportion to the volume of that shout — sometimes it seemed like it could be heard in the next city. The whole system was rooted in supply and demand, but deals were sweetened with chocolate, soda, or the promise of a date with someone’s older sister.

Mullet over

The Soviet Union was in its death throes. This was the era before German reunification. Although the Berlin Wall had technically fallen — famously serenaded by “Knight Rider’s” very own power balladeer, David Hasselhoff — Germany still played as West Germany in the World Cup.

For all the horror associated with the communist regime, the most haunting images in my young mind were those notorious mullets — that and the East German female athletes, so heavily doped on steroids that they looked more like men than women.

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Flicking through my album, the West German squad looked less like a football team and more like a group of metalheads heading to a Mötley Crüe concert. Still, some of our own lads were sporting that same achy-breaky hair — most famously Chris Waddle, who blasted the ball over the bar in England’s semifinal defeat against West Germany. Proof, if ever it was needed, that mullets make you miss penalties.

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The Fat Cat pub

Blokes at work

This tournament’s sticker book hit the shelves at the end of April, ahead of the World Cup kicking off in North America — a whopping 980 stickers for obsessives to collect. The game has changed since those halcyon days — both financially and, perhaps most bizarrely, aesthetically.

Today, pampered millionaire footballers seem to look perma-tanned and Botoxed, more suited to the red carpet than the muddy touchline. Back then, footballers looked like real blokes — sweaty, scruffy, and rough. Take Peter Beardsley: magic on the pitch, but no one was swapping stickers for his smile. For Americans, imagine pulling a Don Mossi Topps card — bags of talent, but not much glamor.

L-R: Peter Beardsley, Don Mossi. Shaun Botterill/Betmann/Getty Images

Patience and hope

Of course, my mission failed spectacularly. I didn’t complete the album in a month. In fact, I never completed it. But maybe that was the point. I belonged to the last generation to grow up without the internet, when patience and hope were virtues and instant gratification had yet to rear its head. Now we’re kept constantly distracted, our attention fought over by algorithms, notifications, and endless scrolling.

Our sticker quests were slow-burn adventures, each new pack a lesson in anticipation, disappointment, and the long game. Trading and collecting weren’t just a playground pastime; they were a rite of passage, a physical reminder of a slower world where you couldn’t always have it all, all at once.

I am giving some serious thought to picking up the 2026 album. But this time round, the sticking point isn’t patience; it’s money. With 48 teams and nearly 1,000 stickers to collect, completing the book is now estimated to cost at least £1,000, ($1,400) to complete. As tempting as it is to rekindle my childhood love affair, I may have to sit this one out. Still, I did get the Maradona sticker — maybe not a complete album, but a complete memory.

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) provided state Democrats with a big win on Thursday in their ongoing war on the Second Amendment. Despite polls showing earlier this year that Virginians were overwhelmingly opposed, the former CIA officer ratified a ban on so-called “assault firearms.”

As of July 1, law-abiding Americans in the Old Dominion will be barred from importing, buying, selling, transferring, or manufacturing:

semiautomatic center-fire rifle or pistols with fixed magazine capacities in excess of 15 rounds;semiautomatic center-fire rifles chambered in calibers larger than .22 that have folding, telescoping, or collapsible stocks; thumb-hold stocks or pistol grips that protrude “conspicuously beneath the action of the rifle”; second hand grips that can be held by the non-trigger hand; grenade launchers; and/or threaded barrels capable of accepting a muzzle brake, muzzle compensator, sound suppressor, or a flash suppressor;semiautomatic shotguns that can accept detachable magazines, have a fixed magazine capacity of over 15 rounds, or have collapsible stocks; shotguns with revolving cylinders; andfirearms with the capacity to accept a belt ammunition feeding device.

A violation of the ban will be a Class 1 misdemeanor, the most serious misdemeanor level, and someone convicted of such a violation could face up to a year in jail, a $2,500 fine, and be barred from possessing or transporting such firearms for a period of three years.

‘Virginia has now joined the minority of radical states to ban these constitutionally protected firearms.’

Democrat state Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim, a Bangladeshi native who came to America in 2000 and served as the gun ban’s chief patron, said that “Spanberger’s signing of SB749 marks a monumental victory for public safety in the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

Salim added that “this law saves lives, and together, we prove that people-powered progress prevails.”

The National Rifle Association took legal action just moments after Spanberger ratified the gun ban.

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John Commerford, executive director of the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action, announced on Thursday the filing of “two critical lawsuits in Virginia — one in federal court, with our friends at the Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition along with two NRA members, and one in state court, in Washington County, Virginia, along with our state association of Virginia Shooting Sports Association and Middleton Firearms and Training and two NRA members.”

“The NRA will not sit idly by while progressive politicians strip the rights of law-abiding citizens, and our world-class legal team is locked, loaded, and ready to shoot down this outrageous gun-control law,” said Commerford.

Second Amendment Foundation Executive Director Adam Kraut stated, “It’s wild that lawmakers who each take an oath to uphold the Constitution insist on passing bills purposefully designed to gut it.”

“The firearms and magazines banned in this law aren’t bizarre and unusual outliers; they’re among the most commonly owned guns and magazines in the country. They’re owned in the tens of millions by peaceable Americans who use them overwhelmingly lawfully,” continued Kraut. “Virginia has now joined the minority of radical states to ban these constitutionally protected firearms and, in so doing, joined the club of states we’re suing over it.”

The federal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia by the SAF, FPC, and NRA asserts that the gun ban will infringe upon the Second and 14th Amendment rights of NRA members and other plaintiffs and asks the court to declare that the ban and all related laws, regulations, policies, and procedures violate the right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed under the Constitution.

The Justice Department has also signaled that it will be challenging the gun ban in court.

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When a new technology is developed, we initially try to adapt it to existing patterns. The programmer writes code. The installer runs scripts. The researcher indexes documents in a database to later retrieve them. These habits feel natural; then something shifts, and the habits turn out to have been contingent and temporary. They were, like many arrangements we mistake as permanent, just what we happened to be doing at the time.

Coding agents with large language models have arrived, and they are replacing some patterns with something that looks, on first encounter, suspiciously simple. You describe what you want in English, and the thing gets built.

The history of technology is in part one of faith placed, too quickly, in systems that did not warrant it.

Andrej Karpathy, who has thought about neural nets longer than most, built an application called MenuGen: You photograph a restaurant menu, and the system generates images to illustrate every dish. The application is functional, culturally fluent, and genuinely useful. More notable is the process. Karpathy did not write the code. He described the application, and an LLM wrote both front-end and back-end. He has said, with the equanimity of someone who has made peace with a strange fact, that he does not really know how MenuGen works in the conventional sense.

The AI is his programmer now.

A cyborg language

There is a temptation to read this as novelty, as spectacle, as one more iteration in the long carnival of Silicon Valley announcements. The change here is structural: The barrier between having an idea and building a thing has collapsed to something quite small. Karpathy suggests the barrier may soon be low enough for anyone to publish an AI-driven application as easily as one can now post a video on a social media site.

The installation script is another interesting case because it is modest enough to be revealing. Mintlify, the documentation company, proposed in early 2026 that software should ship with English files instead of shell scripts: install.md, a human-readable checklist that a coding agent can read and execute. The agent detects your operating system, detects your environment, proceeds through each step, and pauses for your approval before running commands. The process is more auditable than a Bash script because anyone can read it. More generally, software can support skill.md files, describing both installation and usage, served at well-known URLs so that any coding agent can load them. Developers are now writing documentation for machines, rather than humans, although humans can easily read and edit it.

Karpathy has noted that digital services could become LLM-friendly: documentation in Markdown, command-line interfaces exposed for commands, APIs that take English. The user and the AI have effectively merged into a single audience. Design for one, and you design for both.

LLMs address the knowledge problem in ways that Vannevar Bush, in 1945, could not imagine. Bush dreamed of the Memex, a personal filing system for all one’s books and communications, a mechanized memory that would allow fast and flexible recall. He was describing, in the vocabulary available to him, what we would now call a knowledge base. The LLM makes this capacity available to everyone without clever indexing.

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Karpathy’s approach to personal knowledge management involves feeding raw sources to an LLM, which then writes a linked wiki of Markdown documents using summary pages, encyclopedia-style articles, connections between ideas. The AI performs a health check on its own wiki, looking for contradictions and gaps, refining the content. It is, as Karpathy has described it, a full-time research librarian. Any claim can be verified by a human who reads the file. The complexity of the database is bypassed through the simpler expedient of using words.

With great speed comes great care

This design is not infallible. An LLM can hallucinate, conflate, or extrapolate with confidence from insufficient evidence. The wiki it writes is plausible before it is accurate. Error-checking in these systems is not a solved problem. These are not small concerns. The history of technology is in part one of faith placed, too quickly, in systems that did not warrant it.

Yet the direction is clear. We are moving from an era in which computers required exact instruction to one in which they accept intention. Assembly language gave way to high-level languages; high-level languages gave way to graphical user interfaces; graphical user interfaces are giving way to conversation. Each transition lowered the barrier to software development. Each distributed power in its own way, with costs and distortions that took years to fully account for. This transition will be no different in that respect.

The medium, however, is different. Previous transitions expanded access to computation while keeping language in its ordinary role: a wrapper for technical instruction, a label on a button, a comment in a codebase. This transition makes language the primary interface. The program is the sentence. The installation script is the paragraph. The application is its description rendered executable by a model that has read more human text than any human could read in a thousand lifetimes. We have always known that words could build worlds. Such building used to route through human action in a way that is no longer true.

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A former chief of staff to Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has pled guilty in a corruption scandal that involves yet another top California Democrat who is now hoping to succeed Newsom in the governor’s mansion.

On Thursday, 53-year-old Dana Williamson, who worked as Newsom’s chief of staff from 2022 until 2024, pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, subscribing to a false tax return, and making false statements to a federal agent.

Becerra has had to answer tough questions about how he, the former top prosecutor in the state, did not know that hundreds of thousands of dollars were being stolen from him.

According to the plea agreement, Williamson participated in a money-laundering scheme involving two co-conspirators, Sean McCluskie and Greg Campbell. From February 2022 until November 2024, Williamson helped McCluskie steal money from the dormant campaign of McCluskie’s boss by billing the campaign for consulting services and then funneling that money to Campbell, who then passed it along to McCluskie under the guise of paying McCluskie’s spouse for “a no-show job.”

Once Williamson began working for Newsom, she managed to convince someone else to take over the scheme, though she remained involved in it, the agreement said.

McCluskie’s boss at that time was Xavier Becerra, the former California attorney general and Biden Health and Human Services secretary who is now running for governor. Becerra’s campaign account lost approximately $225,000 in the scheme, and Williamson has been ordered to pay that amount back in restitution as part of the agreement.

Becerra is not named in the plea agreement and has not been charged with any crime in connection with the case. However, he has had to answer tough questions about how he, the former top prosecutor in the state, did not know that hundreds of thousands of dollars were being stolen from him.

Becerra stated that he has cooperated fully with the investigation. He also described the betrayal of McCluskie, his former chief of staff, as a “gut punch.”

Newsom is also not mentioned by name in the plea agreement. When asked at a press conference Thursday about Williamson’s plea deal, Newsom expressed sympathy for her family but also claimed it was a matter of “accountability.”

A source linked to Newsom claimed that no one in the office ever witnessed any of Williamson’s criminal behavior but that the governor did place Williamson on administrative leave when the allegations first arose. Williamson left her government job shortly thereafter.

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In addition to stealing from Becerra on McCluskie’s behalf, Williamson submitted a false tax return that claimed over $1.7 million in business expenses that were actually luxury items, food delivery services, private jet travel, veterinary care, and other nondeductible personal expenses, the agreement said.

She also lied to federal investigators, the Department of Justice said.

Williamson now faces a total of nearly 40 years in prison and over $2 million in fines and restitution. She is scheduled to be sentenced on July 9.

McCluskie pled guilty back in November to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, while Campbell pled guilty the following month to one count of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit offenses against the United States. Both are scheduled to be sentenced June 4.

Becerra has surged in the California gubernatorial polls lately, especially after former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) dropped out of the race on account of his own scandals. The primary is scheduled for June 2, and the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, will advance to the general election in November.

RealClearPolitics polling average has Becerra running neck and neck with Republican candidate Steve Hilton.

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Florida law enforcement officials are seeking who is responsible for vandalizing a historic cemetery that has ties to the black community.

Seventeen graves were vandalized at the Old Memphis Cemetery in Palmetto, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s office.

‘It’s evil, messing with death. … This is crazy and heartbreaking.’

Concrete was broken at some graves and others were spray-painted with red paint at the 122-year-old burial grounds.

“I’m outraged and furious,” said Manatee County NAACP president Tracey Washington. “I’m very disturbed.”

One concrete grave was completely cracked open and collapsed inward. Investigators said the vandalism was done in the past few weeks, and they’re seeking help from the public in their investigation.

Washington said that many of her relatives are buried at the cemetery.

“I have my brother, grandfather, and grandmother here,” she added.

Bizarrely, one of the messages spray-painted on a grave read, “Trump,” and another read, “Ron DeSantis.”

“It’s evil, messing with death,” said Xtavia Bailey, who also has relatives buried at the cemetery. “These people aren’t bothering anybody. This is crazy and heartbreaking.”

“We need to find out who did this and get to the bottom of this,” Washington added. “This is totally unacceptable.”

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Officials announced a community cleanup event that included the offer from a Palmetto cement company to create new vault lids and install them at no charge.

“This place has a lot of history, and it should be protected just like any other history we’ve got,” said Christopher Mullinex, who volunteered to donate concrete work to the effort.

Palmetto is a town of about 13K residents in central Florida.

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