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After many years of catering to mid-range phone customers and serving up nostalgia on the back of the Razr name, Motorola is back with a major flagship release. The Motorola Signature 27 debuted at the Qualcomm Tech Summit in September, and a must-have privacy feature is coming next year.

Motorola used to be one of the great phone brands of the age, introducing the world to the original Razr flip phone and captivating a generation of Android users with its Motorola Droid series of devices.

The mystery is finally over.

When Google acquired the company in 2012, the future looked brighter than ever, thanks to an ultra-customizable phone called the Moto X that was assembled in Fort Worth, Texas. Sadly, the phone flopped, the plant closed, and Google sold Motorola to Lenovo just two short years later.

By then, the Motorola brand had lost most of its industry appeal. Still, Lenovo found success by launching mid-range devices across international markets, earning it enough revenue to tread water until the foldable craze sparked an opportunity for the Razr to return. With a foldable display, Razr carved out a unique place in the smartphone market that has sustained itself for six years.

That brings us to the present day. Motorola just showed off a brand-new flagship dubbed the Signature 27. It will be one of the first phones on the market to include a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, Qualcomm’s newest chip and the second mainstream consumer SOC built on a 2nm architecture after the A20 Pro found in the iPhone 18 Pro series.

These 2nm chips prioritize extreme performance and power efficiency that surpass previous architectures. So far, the A20 Pro in the iPhone 18 Pro Max has proven to be a very capable device with fantastic power output and battery life. There’s no way to know how the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 will compare yet, but 2nm is the future for premium gadgets.

RELATED: Stronger security and privacy are coming to Android, but will they come in time?

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The Signature 27’s other big claim to fame is a unique triple camera system along the top edge arranged in a way that may just trigger the trypophobia — a fear of many holes — you didn’t know you had. It includes a 50MP Sony LYTIA L910 main sensor, a 200MP telephoto with 100x zoom enhanced with AI generation for clarity, and a 50MP ultrawide for wide shots. These are mated to a textured woven backplate unlike the usual aluminum or titanium found in most flagships today, giving it a distinct look and feel.

The most interesting part, though, is the software.

When the Motorola Signature 27 launches “in the coming months,” it will feature the typical Android OS you would expect from a Motorola device. Next year, though, Motorola will sell new Signature 27 models with another option — GrapheneOS.

This may not be a surprise if you have followed along on Blaze News. In early September, there were reports that Motorola was queuing up a new phone for GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused fork of Android that strips out all of Google’s spyware and replaces it with open-source software. Now we know for certain, though, that Signature 27 will be that phone.

In a reply to a user on X, the official GrapheneOS account said, “Yes, [the Motorola Signature 27] will be the initial supported phone. Wait for official news about it.”

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Clearly, there are more details to come, but at least the mystery is finally over. Motorola Signature 27 will be the first phone to launch with GrapheneOS from the start.

Up until this point, the only way to use GrapheneOS was to purchase a Google Pixel phone and overwrite the default software. With GrapheneOS out of the box, the Motorola Signature 27 will make the Android alternative more accessible than ever, finally letting users kick Google to the curb with the least amount of hassle possible. That’s great for users who want a more private option outside Android and iOS.

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European-style health care mandates are the latest fringe policies from the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America. Packaged as “Medicare for Ya’ll” and “universal care,” these extreme plans from politicians like James Talarico and Abdul El-Sayed push control of health care to the government and away from patients and their providers.

With Talarico recently walking back some of his more controversial statements, Texans should take a hard look at how he is missing the mark on health care policy and urge him and state politicians to keep radical, European-style health care out of the state House and out of Congress.

We don’t have to look far to know what happens when government takes control of our health care.

The dangers of European-style health care policies are currently playing out across the pond. The National Health Service in England reports that waiting lists for patients have ballooned to over 7 million cases, including patients with serious and life-threatening medical conditions like cancer and heart disease.

Nearly 80,000 patients were removed from the waitlist between 2024 and 2025, not because they received care but because they died.

The promise of improved care simply doesn’t bear out when European-style policies are put into practice, yet Democrats in America are doubling down on more government intervention rather than innovation and reform.

When government boards and committees control health care decisions, there is no free market competition and no incentive to innovate. It takes nearly 20 months in Europe before patients can access a new drug once it is approved.

Why would we import these failed policies to our country?

In 2020, Americans watched as presidential contenders proposed and then abandoned European-style proposals after failing to articulate a clear vision for how the system would be implemented.

Democrats are currently recycling those same bad ideas for the midterms, only this time they are fueled by the socialist craze to force government on every aspect of American life.

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Americans should send a message that a government-controlled health care monopoly is not the answer. Already, bloated government health care programs fuel waste and abuse in the American health care system. The runaway 340B program is the perfect example.

Launched more than 30 years ago as a way to help safety-net providers and hospitals serve low-income patients, the program has gradually ballooned into a revenue stream that allows hospitals to purchase drugs at steep discounts and then charge insurers full price.

The Government Accountability Office has warned about insufficient oversight and improper use among hospital participants. There’s no accountability mechanism to ensure that the savings are used for charity care or passed on to low-income patients. As the program has grown, so has the waste, fraud, and abuse.

The Trump administration has made efforts to tackle the rampant abuse in the system, but Congress needs to act in order to enact lasting change. The Democrat response is more government control and health care expansion, bringing us one step closer to Europe’s harmful health care policies and further away from meaningful reforms.

States must reject attempts to import failed European health policies and government control into our health care system. Texans and Michiganders should push back against the socialist agenda that glorifies waitlists, price controls, and drug rationing over patient care.

We don’t have to look far to know what happens when government takes control of our health care. Americans need to send a clear message during the midterms: Don’t Europe our health care.

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Texas Senate Democrat candidate James Talarico has long made wild and untrue statements regarding Christianity, and now it’s become clear why.

His own pastor, Dr. Jim Rigby, holds equally insane beliefs about the religion, and he was caught on camera proudly announcing them.

“James Talarico calls Jim Rigby his mentor,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments. “And so Jim Rigby, according to his biography on the St. Andrews website, has a love of world religions and a passion for social justice.”

“And of course, James Talarico has referred to him as the biggest influence on him as a Christian and a human being,” she adds, before playing undercover footage obtained by Blaze Media of Rigby discussing the “problem” with evangelical Christians.

“They are people who are just not that smart, and like abstract thinking, which is where a lot of the liberal stuff and the principles of human rights, all that stuff, comes up … it doesn’t show up on their radar,” Rigby told the undercover reporter unwittingly.

“They panic when that stuff is laid out in front of them. They know there’s something they’re not seeing. It’s like they have black-and-white vision and somebody’s showing them a color photograph or something like that,” he added.

But that’s not the worst of it. When Rigby was asked by the reporter if he needed to profess the belief that “God became a baby and that a virgin had a baby” in order to become a member of his church, Rigby answered that “we all got in by lying.”

“That’s the least you can do,” he added.

“It’s just a social club that we have,” Gonzales mocks, “We call ourselves Christians, but we don’t actually intend to live by any of the principles set forth in the actual document, the Bible.”

Matthew Marsden is shocked by the footage but unsurprised that he’s linked to Talarico.

“I don’t get this Talarico thing,” he says. “It’s almost as if they went, ‘Let’s get the worst possible candidate, especially for Texans, and let’s roll him out and let him just express what he thinks.’”

“And he’s still in the running. It is completely mind-boggling to me,” he adds.

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Scientists using a vast array of antennas have made a unique discovery coming from out this world.

What makes the discovery groundbreaking is that for the first time, the signal Earth is receiving is clear.

‘No radio detection has previously been unambiguously localized.’

Using the 64-dish array called MeerKAT, scientists have been able to capture radio signals coming all the way from a distant gas giant planet called Beta Pictoris b, more than 63 light years away.

However, while this marks the first time clear signals have been identified directly from a distant planet rather than its star, it is not a sign of alien life sending signals to Earthly compatriots.

What the dishes are actually picking up are the signals of a strong magnetic field around the planet, which the Daily Mail reports is more than 1,000 times more powerful than Earth’s.

The signals allegedly come from the planet’s aurora, which is similar to that of Earth’s northern and southern lights.

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“Here, we report the first direct detection of auroral radio emission from an exoplanet, the giant planet β Pictoris b,” researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics wrote, per the Independent.

The researchers explained in their paper that “although auroral radio bursts are observed in Solar System planets and in some ultracool dwarfs, no radio detection has previously been unambiguously localized to an extrasolar planet rather than its host star.”

This discovery comes from the same region scientists have looked at on four separate occasions, where they have previously discovered that the region’s star has four orbiting planets, plainly named Beta Pictoris a, Beta Pictoris b, Beta Pictoris c, and Beta Pictoris d.

Beta Pictoris b’s size is also something to marvel at: It is 12 times the mass of Jupiter. Also, its distance from the star it orbits is about the distance between Saturn and our sun — 886 million miles.

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As for the MeerKAT system, it was built between 2014 and 2018 and is considered to be one of the biggest scientific undertakings in South Africa’s history.

It gets its name from being located at the Meerkat National Park, spans approximately 97,000 square feet, and was previously called the Karoo Array Telescope.

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America’s most prominent libertarian think tank released a report on Monday concern-mongering over the drastic drop in legal immigration from third-world Muslim nations under President Donald Trump.

The Cato Institute — admittedly a big supporter of immigration and longtime opponent of the president’s border wall — is fretting over an apparent 96% drop in immigrant visa issuances and refugee admissions from majority-Muslim countries such as Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, and Somalia.

‘We’ve come so far on these issues.’

Meanwhile, prominent voices in the MAGA movement are celebrating the news from Cato.

The White House’s rapid response account even shared a Cato Institute graph showing the decline in migration from Muslim countries.

In response to the graph, Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet wrote, “I couldn’t love this stat and this graphic any more. This is actually exactly what I voted for.”

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said, “Coming to America means committing to America: our Constitution, our laws, our freedoms. Tougher vetting under POTUS Trump has cut admissions from high-risk countries by 96%. We owe Americans nothing less than knowing exactly who we let in.”

Texas Rep. Brandon Gill (R) noted, “Absolutely incredible victory for the American people, thanks to POTUS.”

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The libertarian think tank underscored that Trump and his administration are directly responsible for the drop in admissions of refugees and migrants from nations, highlighting:

Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, proclamation that the U.S. “admit only those refugees who can fully and appropriately assimilate into the United States,” “ensure that the United States preserves taxpayer resources for its citizens,” and suspend the entry of refugees into the U.S. under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program;Trump’s Sept. 30, 2025, determination allocating refugee admissions for fiscal year 2026 primarily to Afrikaners from South Africa;Trump’s Dec. 16, 2025, proclamation restricting the entry of foreign nationals into the U.S. from scores of third-world countries including Afghanistan, Mali, South Sudan, and Yemen;the State Department’s pause on immigrant visa processing from 75 countries “whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates”;U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Jan. 1, 2026, memo applying Trump’s 40-country entry ban; and the State Department’s recent immigrant visa interview freeze.

Many of the administration’s actions have been challenged and in some cases blocked in the courts. The State Department’s pause on visa processing from 75 countries, for instance, is no longer in effect as of Aug. 21, owing to a court order.

Nevertheless, these actions have proven impactful.

The libertarian think tank’s analysis of State Department data shows incredible drops in migration from various Muslim terrorist hot spots.

Whereas, for example, 5,563 immigrants and refugees from Afghanistan were admitted by the U.S. in former President Joe Biden’s final month in office, there were only nine in February 2026 — a decline of 99.8%. Whereas 3,026 Pakistani refugees and migrants were admitted in December 2024, only 63 were admitted in February 2026. Similarly dramatic declines were observed among admissions from various other Muslim nations.

“If the current pace continues, the fiscal year 2026 (which started in October) would see the fewest immigrants and refugees from majority-Muslim countries in at least 30 years,” said the Cato Institute report.

‘Of course, there are immigrants who don’t work and commit crimes.’

The report noted further that if these levels continue for the rest of this fiscal year, “then only about 40,000 immigrants and refugees from these countries will have immigrated that year. This would be down nearly 80 percent from 2024 and even about 30 percent lower than 2020, when the first Trump administration used the pandemic as an excuse to cut off legal immigration.”

The libertarian outfit also questioned the administration’s justification for the 40-country entry ban on the basis of security, claiming that “only two of the ten majority Muslim countries on that list have ever carried out a deadly terrorist attack in the United States.”

The Cato Institute further characterized immigrants from Muslim nations as hard workers who have a positive effect on government budgets and as “much more highly educated than the US-born.”

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Minnesota is among the states that has had a different experience on the ground with some of these supposed scholarly and industrious imports.

The Center for Immigration Studies reported in December that approximately 54% of Somali-headed households in Minnesota received food stamps and 73% of Somali households had at least one member on Medicaid. By way of comparison, the figures for native households were 7% and 18%, respectively. The CIS also noted that 58.2% of working-age Somalis do not speak English very well and 39% have no high school diploma.

Trump shared a graph on Jan. 4 titled “Immigrant Welfare Recipient Rates by Country of Origin,” which showed that the percentages of immigrant households on assistance from Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, South Sudan, and Yemen were all over 40% and went as high as 75%.

The Cato Institute’s report claimed, “Of course, there are immigrants who don’t work and commit crimes. But they are the minority. The vast majority of immigrants — including those from majority-Muslim countries — want to contribute to the United States, and they have contributed to it.”

The libertarian think tank implored Congress to “go further to protect Americans’ right to associate freely with people born in other countries, regardless of their countries of origin.”

William Wolfe, the executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership, tweeted, “To see an official White House account celebrating a decrease in 1) legal immigration and from 2) explicitly Muslim-Majority countries is truly amazing. We’ve come so far on these issues. Some of the young guys don’t know that, but it did not used to be like this.”

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Voters were not confused about what they were choosing in 2024. “Mass deportation” was not a line buried in a white paper. It was printed on signs, chanted at rallies, and repeated by the candidate himself. Americans who cast their ballots on that promise had every reason to believe it meant what it said.

Nearly two years into this administration, it is fair to ask whether that promise is being kept. By the government’s own numbers, it is falling short. Those numbers are not a failure of the men and women in the field. They are the result of decisions made well above them.

As long as the jobs are there and the penalties for employers are weak, no amount of border rhetoric will change the math.

I spent 24 years in federal immigration enforcement and retired as deputy field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in New York City, the largest field office in the country. I know what it takes to move removal numbers, and it is not rhetoric.

Removals are a pipeline: locating the person, arresting him, detaining him, getting a final order through an overwhelmed court system, and putting him on a plane. The pipeline moves only as fast as its narrowest point.

When an administration is serious, it widens every one of those points at once, through detention space, fugitive operations teams, cooperation from local jails, immigration judges, and flights.

When it is not serious, you see press releases instead.

Consider what happens after an arrest. Many people assume a deportation is nearly complete once an officer puts someone in handcuffs. In reality, the foreign government has to be notified, and it has to confirm the person’s identity and issue a travel document. Some countries turn those documents around quickly, while others slow-walk them or refuse outright.

Every day of delay is a day in a detention bed that could hold someone else, and if the wait runs long enough, the person may have to be released back into the community. Even when the document arrives, the flight still has to be coordinated, whether that is a seat on a commercial flight with escorting officers or a spot on a charter that has to be filled and scheduled.

So where is the pressure against mass deportation coming from? Look at who benefits from enforcement that stops at the factory door. Agriculture, hospitality, construction, and meatpacking interests have lobbied openly for exemptions and slower worksite enforcement.

Each carve-out is defended as practical. Taken together, they amount to a policy of enforcing the law against individuals while protecting the employers who hired them.

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Worksite enforcement is the one measure that shows whether an administration means business, precisely because it is the one measure that impacts the political donor class. As long as the jobs are there and the penalties for employers are weak, no amount of border rhetoric will change the math.

We should also call things by their proper names. Issuing work-authorization workarounds, or declining to pursue people with final orders of removal, are just amnesty by other names. Every one of these moves is a message to the world that American immigration law is negotiable if you wait long enough.

The people most insulted by this message are the immigrants who did it the right way. Every fraudulent case that clears is a slot, a court date, or a benefit taken from someone who waited in line and told the truth.

Critics say mass removals would disrupt the labor market and raise prices. The answer to that concern is simple: An economy built on a permanent pool of workers without legal status, who cannot report abuse and undercut wages for citizens and legal residents alike, is not a model worth defending.

Regardless of how it is covered, a substantial share of Americans support mass deportation. The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll surveyed 1,725 registered voters from May 29 to 30, 2026, with a margin of error of ±2.4 points. It found that 80% support deporting immigrants who are here illegally and have committed crimes, up five points from 75% in April. That includes 71% of Democrats, 90% of Republicans, and 79% of independents.

They are not asking for cruelty. They are asking for a system that works, one with no amnesty, no fraud, and no exemptions for the well-connected.

Here is what keeping the promise would look like: mandatory E-Verify for every employer, funding for detention capacity and fugitive operations that matches the stated goal, worksite enforcement without industry carve-outs, and immigration judges and attorneys to clear a backlog that currently stretches for years.

The president made a promise, and voters took him at his word. The officers in the field are ready to do the job. What is missing is the will to let them do it.

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X is the platform of free speech, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t times when it will limit the reach of a post to comply with platform policies or the government. Luckily, there’s a new reporting feature that will tell you if and when you’ve been shadowbanned, and you can use it right now.

Shadowbanning is the act of arbitrarily limiting the reach of a user’s post without his knowledge, warning, or consent. From the user’s perspective, his content will simply drop views and engagement with no explanation. Meanwhile, the social platform virtually removes the post from its algorithm so that the content isn’t served to as many users, if at all. The post is still visible on the user’s main profile page, but to the rest of the social network, it basically doesn’t exist.

X is giving users a new tool to see if their content is being limited for any reason.

Shadowbans, even on a free speech platform like X, are issued for a number of reasons: spam behavior, like mass following and unfollowing accounts or overusing hashtags, having a post reported by too many users, violating X’s safety policies, and requests from local law enforcement or the government, usually over “hate speech” or breaches of national security.

For what it’s worth, X’s official stance on shadowbanning is that it doesn’t do it, according to a blog post published in 2018, long before the Musk acquisition. This, however, has been proven false plenty of times in the past. For instance, conservative voices were silenced in 2018 and again in 2020 when the FBI met with Twitter to censor Charlie Kirk, Libs of TikTok, and Dan Bongino.

Needless to say, this has happened on and off for many years.

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Now X is giving users a new tool to see if their content is being limited for any reason. In an effort to improve platform transparency, Under the Hood gives users more insight into how their posts are labeled and served by X’s algorithm.

To access your shadowban report, simply log in to your X account and go to the official Under the Hood page. From here, there are several requirements you must meet before the system generates your report: Your account must be at least one year old, and you must have posted a minimum of 10 posts within the last month.

If you meet the criteria, tap or click the “View Report” button. This takes you to the next page that shows the number of posts you’ve sent within the last month as well as any labels attached to your content that could impact visibility. Labels are split into two categories: Post labels are attached to individual posts to limit their specific reach on X, while account labels are broader restrictions that can limit the visibility reach of an entire account. In most cases, both should be green.

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Unfortunately, if any of your posts or your account are flagged, there isn’t an easy way to tell exactly what you did wrong. X only allows users to download a JSON file of their report, which contains lines of code that may not tell the complete story. Preferably, X would build a proper user-friendly dashboard that clearly highlights the labeled posts, but so far, no such plans have been revealed.

At the very least, Under the Hood finally offers an official way to confirm your sneakiest suspicions that your posts or account are shadowbanned. Unless you’re an avid X user, you probably won’t need to run this report very often. This feature is mostly meant for those times when you see a sudden dip in your content engagement and you want to know why. That said, new reports can be generated every month, so if you’re so inclined, you can check your shadowban status regularly.

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Jack Smith, the Biden regime’s former special counsel, is back in the news with his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The Oversight Project has uncovered new records that don’t focus on the settled question of why Smith used federal power to target political enemies, but instead on how he was able to do it.

Understanding the “how” is more important at this stage. We all know why the weaponization of the Biden years happened. It happened because they wanted to extinguish a political movement so that people from around the country could never truly shake up Washington, D.C., again.

For those who believe Smith’s investigation crossed the line from legitimate law enforcement into political targeting, that broader reach is the central issue.

We also know why it can happen again if Democrats take back power.

In Democrats’ minds, they have unfinished business. They regard Donald Trump and his supporters as too great a threat to stop short the next time. That makes it essential to understand how the weaponization of government happened, how it could happen again, and what reforms are needed now to prevent a repeat.

Instead, systemic reform has largely fallen by the wayside, replaced by political declarations that government weaponization has been solved once and for all.

With few signs of meaningful accountability, the need for concrete action is urgent.

January 6 gave Democrats the justification they needed to discard restraint and use the powers of federal law enforcement against their political opponents. That effort did not stop with President Trump. It extended to his supporters, especially those who challenged the conduct of the 2020 election or became prominent figures in the broader America First movement.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith in November 2022 to investigate Trump’s handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and his actions surrounding January 6. Smith became the central figure in the federal effort to prosecute the former president.

Smith took over the FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation, a sweeping inquiry that gathered records involving Republican politicians, Trump allies, and organizations.

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The investigation grew out of an inspector general inquiry that was later folded into Arctic Frost. Smith has cited that earlier investigation in denying knowledge of actions taken before his involvement, including those associated with former FBI agent Timothy R. Thibault.

According to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Smith’s team issued hundreds of subpoenas involving more than 400 Republican individuals and organizations. It also obtained phone records connected to 20 current or former Republican members of Congress.

Newly released records provide more detail about how Smith’s office conducted the investigation.

The scale is worth considering. Investigators collected cellphone records, audio, video, and other digital data involving elected officials as well as private citizens engaged in political activity.

Understanding exactly what was collected, from whom, and under what authority is essential to judging whether the investigation stayed within legitimate law enforcement bounds.

Smith’s office then faced the tough task of sorting through a vast trove of information and building a case for trial.

The investigation also gave prosecutors an unusually detailed picture of Trump’s political network. If the argument is that this information could be used for purposes beyond prosecution, the piece should show that rather than assume it.

Venue mattered too. Washington, D.C., offered prosecutors a jury pool markedly less favorable to Trump than many other jurisdictions.

Through Freedom of Information Act litigation, the Oversight Project obtained 844 pages of records from Smith’s office.

Those documents show that in July 2023, just weeks before Trump was indicted over his actions surrounding January 6, Smith’s team said it was in “desperate need” of forensic video software from Axon, a major law enforcement vendor best known for Tasers and police body cameras.

Axon has since drawn attention as cities across the country consider the company’s expanding surveillance technology.

The urgency inside Smith’s office was enough to override normal purchasing procedures, despite initial objections from a member of his own staff.

On July 13, 2023, the office’s executive officer wrote that Smith “supports more strict requirements than DOJ’s standard policies.” Even so, she authorized the purchase “prior to creating the UFMS obligation” — before the expense had been entered into the Justice Department’s financial system — because “the purchase is urgent.”

The order was placed July 14. Axon shipped the software licenses the next day.

Eighteen days later, on August 1, Smith indicted Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and events surrounding January 6.

The records leave key questions unanswered.

The Justice Department withheld the purchase price. It also has not disclosed what video or audio Smith’s team needed to process so urgently. Given the timing, the material may have been related to the January 6 case, but the records do not establish that.

Axon’s proposal also included language allowing the government to share “de-identified segments of Agency Content with Axon to develop new products.”

The Justice Department released only an unsigned copy of the agreement. As a result, it remains unclear whether Smith’s office agreed to let a private vendor use investigative material in product development.

Smith’s investigation likely cost taxpayers more than $50 million, according to a Fox News analysis of Justice Department spending reports. How much of that money went to outside vendors such as Axon remains unclear. Some expenses may have been recorded through the Antitrust Division or U.S. attorneys’ offices, making the full cost difficult to trace.

But we do know that when Smith needed help targeting President Trump, he called Axon in a rush, and the company was more than happy to answer. The grand jury indictment over January 6 that quickly followed appears to be a natural consequence of Smith finally being able to dig through the results of his dragnet.

Smith’s office was far less careful with its own records. When it moved its files at the start of the investigation, Justice Department e-discovery staff warned the transfer “will change the metadata on those files (create and modify dates).”

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The office replied, “The team has no issue with the changes to metadata.” Its records officer decided the team’s Microsoft Teams chats were “not necessary to be moved.” Phones and an iPad used by Smith’s lawyers were returned to other Justice Department offices, with nothing in the records showing their contents were preserved first.

In the end, Smith did not secure a conviction.

The classified documents case was dismissed after a federal judge ruled that Smith’s appointment was unlawful. The election case was narrowed by the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, then dismissed after Trump won the 2024 election and Justice Department policy barred continued prosecution of an incoming president.

Smith resigned 10 days before Trump returned to office.

For many Americans, the arguments and passions of that period have faded. For those who were investigated, subpoenaed, or otherwise drawn into the government’s scrutiny, they have not.

Smith remains one of the central figures associated with that period. His return to the news is a reminder that the powers of federal prosecution remain in place regardless of which party controls the executive branch.

The damage was not limited to the final disposition of the cases.

Years of litigation brought legal bills, damaging headlines, invasive discovery, and scrutiny of people beyond Trump himself. The investigation placed an entire political network under examination by the federal government.

Trump was the central defendant. But the investigation reached far beyond him, touching elected officials, activists, and others associated with the America First movement.

For those who believe the investigation crossed the line from legitimate law enforcement into political targeting, that broader reach is the central issue.

Understanding how Jack Smith almost pulled it off, and who he worked with, would go a long way toward understanding how lawfare works. The senators questioning Smith this week have a chance to start. Republicans would be wise to take the leads developed by the Oversight Project and get to the bottom of it.

​Democrats, Donald trump, Fbi, Federal judge, Grand jury indictment, Jack smith, January 6, Justice department, Lawfare, Oversight project, Senate judiciary committee, Supreme court, Washington dc, Opinion & analysis, Merrick garland 

A woman who claimed to be caring for a baby girl said she could not forgive her foster grandchild’s mother after her body was found discarded like garbage.

A bystander says she believed the girl was a doll when she found her body wrapped in a blanket inside a dumpster near the Holmes Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles, California.

‘I have no love for her. Why? Because she had no love for that innocent baby. I don’t feel nothing for her.’

The tragic discovery was reported to police after 10:30 p.m. on Monday.

“Someone was dumping trash and I guess saw the body in the dumpster and called 911,” said Los Angeles Police Department Juvenile Division Lt. Dave Hoskins.

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded and transported the child to a hospital, where she was declared dead.

Police later detained a woman but would not say whether she was the child’s mother, according to KTLA-TV.

The woman who found the child told KTLA that the baby was wearing gloves and shorts.

An anguished couple who spoke to KTLA said they were the foster parents of the mother and explained that the baby was wearing gloves to prevent scratching.

Herman Johnson and Laura Lacy said that their foster daughter had changed her story that day. Earlier she said she had the baby and later claimed that the father had her.

“She just seemed strange,” said Johnson. “Any time she called me and tell me to come over here and take the baby, you know, it was strange to me. She couldn’t control the baby. So that’s when me and Laura took the baby, and we had the baby ever since the baby was like two weeks old.”

Lacy was extremely upset at her foster daughter.

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“I have no love for her. Why? Because she had no love for that innocent baby. I don’t feel nothing for her,” said Lacy.

“I love her and I still want to know why. What was the problem?” she asked. “Why did you do that? You had no reason to do that. I was taking care of your child for you. Didn’t even go in the system. I was going to do it. I’m the grandma.”

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The Trump administration’s tariff policies have delivered a series of wins for the American people. Ford announced that it would be shifting more production of its Lincoln line from China to the United States. Sapporo, the beer brewer, recently said it would move brewing from Canada to south of the border.

The tariff agenda has been pursued using a wide array of tools. Many, including steel tariffs, have come by way of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. Steel and aluminum tariffs of some sort date back to Trump’s first presidency. Former President Joe Biden kept them going, and upon returning to office, President Trump increased them to 50% in some cases.

The loophole is pushing America’s retailers toward cheaper, foreign-filled canned food.

These tariffs helped to support a domestic steel industry that had fallen on tough times and whose weakness had turned the Steel Belt to the Rust Belt.

The strategy is clear: make foreign production more expensive, particularly in countries that regularly cheat, like China, in order to encourage companies to reshore in the United States. This will result in more jobs, weaker adversaries, more government revenue, and a stronger economy.

There is only one problem: There’s a loophole in the steel tariffs. The tariffs include tinplate steel, a type of thinner steel used to hold canned foods. Practically all of the cans of soup, fruit, vegetables, and fish that Americans purchase are made with tinplate steel. Tariffing tinplate steel in itself is no problem, as it fits in with broader goals of the administration. But in the current tariff landscape, cans manufactured in America and filled with foods grown by American farmers face much higher levies than cans produced overseas and filled with foreign-sourced foods.

It’s these imported canned foods that increasingly show up on American grocery store shelves, outcompeting against foods made in America.

The resulting issues this creates are obvious. The loophole is pushing America’s retailers toward cheaper, foreign-filled canned food. However, foreign food, especially in places like China, can be far less healthy or safe, since food safety regulations in those countries are far less stringent than in the United States.

This loophole weakens the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda. It also directly benefits foreign competitors over domestic producers, both in terms of the tinplate steel that goes into making canned goods and the food found within them. This tariff on tinplate also shifts production and jobs overseas, at a time when American farmers, food processors, and manufacturers are capable of supplying the same products domestically.

RELATED: How Trump got Washington to think about the national debt

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Fortunately, the loophole can be easily corrected: Apply the same Section 232 treatment to the steel in imported finished food cans that applies to imported tinplate steel, using the authority President Trump has already granted to the secretary of commerce and the U.S. trade representative. It will align with the administration’s broader tariff goals and support domestic steel producers.

This fix should not be difficult. Steel producers and manufacturers want to make their products in the United States. U.S. Steel, which was just saved by the Trump administration, is reopening a tinplate steel mill in Gary, Indiana, next year. But as long as this loophole persists, other companies will have trouble following U.S. Steel’s lead. And Americans will continue, in an effort to save money, to be directed toward foreign-filled food cans.

If the administration wants companies to invest, reshore, and produce in America, it’s time to stop giving foreign-filled food cans the advantage. The steel tariff should follow the steel, whether it arrives as an empty can or inside a finished food product.

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Mica Miller was a 30-year-old worship leader at Solid Rock Church when she was found dead from a gunshot wound just two days after serving her husband, JP Miller, lead pastor and founder of the church, with divorce papers.

Authorities ruled her death a suicide.

The death has led to the Netflix documentary series “Death of the Pastor’s Wife,” which dives into the prior allegations of abuse against her husband — and questions whether or not her death was truly a suicide.

However, while the series puts an emphasis on JP’s religion as a reason for his alleged crimes and potential part in his wife’s passing, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey explains that he and his church were not biblically aligned at all.

“The problem with John Paul Miller at Solid Rock was abuse of power, was deviation from Scripture, rejection of biblical truth, not the hierarchy that is actually outlined in Scripture,” Stuckey explains.

And Miller was refusing to submit to Scripture long before Mica’s passing.

“There had been affairs before that. There had been allegations of abuse. There had been allegations of infidelity. There had been all kinds of scandals with Susie, the woman that he had apparently had an affair with,” Stuckey explains.

“There were accusations of grooming of Mica when she was a teenager. There should have been church discipline long, long before Mica Miller committed suicide,” she continues.

“John Paul’s first wife, Allison,” she explains, “said in an affidavit that when John Paul admitted to the affair with Mica, he also admitted to soliciting prostitutes, being sexually inappropriate with several female underage church members.”

John Paul’s church even recognized his “sin problem” and asked him to “step away from the pulpit.”

“But according to the church bylaws, no one within the church had the authority to make him do that,” Stuckey says.

“According to Allison’s affidavit, a council was formed and voted for John Paul to step down to get sexual addiction counseling. But instead of stepping down, John Paul held a meeting informing the council that according to the church’s bylaws, he had 100% decision-making authority,” she continues.

“That’s not the structure that’s outlined by Scripture,” she adds.

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A Washington, D.C., councilman is celebrating a mistrial over allegations that he was involved in a $156,000 bribery scheme.

U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday that her office will retry Trayon White after a jury said they could not reach a verdict despite deliberating for four days.

‘We want to accept the jury’s decision today, regroup, get back to work, because there’s a lot of work to do in the city to ensure equity and inclusion in the $20 billion budget.’

White was charged with bribery after prosecutors said they had recordings of his conversations with an informant of the Federal Bureau of Investigation about his receiving cash on four separate occasions.

“We have video showing piles of cash being given to a D.C. councilmember as part of a $156,000 bribe. Rest assured that we will retry this case and every corruption case to verdict,” said Pirro in a statement after the mistrial.

White would not answer when a reporter asked him to explain why he received the money.

“If the $35,000 wasn’t a bribe, what was the money for?” asked the WRC-TV reporter.

“Let’s stick to the topic, man. Come on. You’re smarter than that. I can’t speak to that,” White responded.

“That is the topic,” the reporter pressed.

“We want to accept the jury’s decision today, regroup, get back to work, because there’s a lot of work to do in the city to ensure equity and inclusion in the $20 billion budget,” he replied.

“The prosecutor didn’t submit sufficient enough evidence to convict me of a crime,” White added. “There was no crime in the first place. And so I’ll leave it at that.”

White won re-election despite the looming bribery charge in 2024, but the rest of the D.C. council voted in February 2025 to expel him. That prompted a special election to fill his seat, which he also ran in and won decisively in July.

He could face up to 15 years in prison if tried again and convicted.

White was previously criticized for claiming that the Jews control the weather in a bizarre post on Facebook from 2018.

“Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation,” he wrote. “And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”

RELATED: Hawaii Democrat INDICTED for alleged bribery scheme over COVID contract

The Rothschilds are a wealthy Jewish family often used by conspiracy theorists as a stand-in for all Jews.

He later apologized and said that he did not realize his comments could be considered anti-Semitic. The Jews United for Justice organization said they spoke with White and explained the history behind the use of the Rothschilds conspiracy theory.

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The White House announced the launch of a new website powered by artificial intelligence that streamlines access to services offered by the federal government.

The “America.gov” website includes a chatbot of which users can ask questions and get directed to government resources from hundreds of agencies.

‘We’re simplifying it. We’re glamorizing it. We’re making it what it should be.’

President Donald Trump signed an order directing government agencies to connect to the website on Friday.

“With America.gov, the federal government no longer stands in your way; it only stands at your service,” the president said before meeting with tech executives.

“We’re simplifying it. We’re glamorizing it,” he added. “We’re making it what it should be.”

Some of the examples included getting information about National Parks and changing one’s official name, which previously would take far longer and be more complicated.

“For the first time, there’s one place to get everything done across the entire government,” said U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia in a video post by the White House Rapid Response account.

“It’s trained specifically on one official source of truth: the United States government,” he added.

“So thank you to all the agencies government-wide, those 29,000 websites, 800 million pages, billions of pieces of information, that are now available in one easy-to-use website for every American.”

The website is immediately available, but some agencies are still working to connect their databases for access.

A Blaze News test of the website found that it quickly and accurately provided answers to queries about submitting a Freedom of Information Act request and whether emails of government officials were available for media inquiries.

RELATED: AI chatbot encouraged autistic boy to harm himself — and his parents, lawsuit says

“We’ve become used to a government so big it makes the citizens feel very, very small,” the president added. “But with America.gov, the entire U.S. government will fit in the plan.”

Gebbia was the co-founder of AirBnb before he quit his job and joined the Trump administration as the first chief design officer of the government.

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Former president Barack Obama is talking about more than Democrats winning the upcoming midterm elections — he’s talking about changing how government and public discussions work.

And BlazeTV host Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” is alarmed.

At the annual Salem State University Speaker Series showcase last week, Obama explained to students that “we have to redesign how the federal government, at least, works so that it can actually get stuff done.”

“And I’ll give you one example that plagued me during my presidency, and even during my presidency, I was convinced we needed to get rid of it,” he continued.

“The practice of the filibuster, which is not in the Constitution. It is a practice that was adopted almost by accident,” he added.

“How many times have we said this?” Gray interjects. “The second they’re in office, they’re going to do this. They’re going to get rid of the filibuster, something that John Thune refused to even consider. Would not do it. Wouldn’t even use the filibuster to his advantage.”

Obama went on to explain that “Dixie-crats,” or Southern Democrats, exploited this to “prevent civil rights legislation.”

“Southern Democrats were some of the worst practitioners of the filibuster, but it was rarely used,” he said.

“By the time I got to office, Mitch McConnell, who was the Senate leader on the Republican side when the Republicans took control of the Senate in 2010, essentially just rewrote the Constitution so that you had to have a supermajority to get anything through the Senate,” he explained.

“And what happens there is people start getting very cynical if they elect somebody who seems idealistic and has a great plan and then suddenly it just hits a wall, and that happens again and again and again,” he continued.

“After a certain point, people feel like, well, nobody’s listening to me,” he added.

“What’s going to change isn’t the change you want,” Jeff Fisher comments.

“Freedom of speech: You’re about to wave goodbye to it if the Democrats take office,” executive producer Keith Malinak says, before playing another clip of Obama explaining that “the reality of somebody who’s reading the New York Times is entirely foreign to somebody who’s watching Fox News.”

“We’re going to have to find ways to bridge that. And we’re going to have to create new town squares essentially where everybody is having a common dialogue with certain rules, and that becomes even more important as technology accelerates,” he went on.

“You’re about to get a fairness doctrine for social media,” Malinak comments.

“You’re talking about burning down the country,” Gray adds.

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Naomi Watts happily celebrated her offspring with Liev Schreiber becoming the first transgender-identifying person to win a prestigious modeling award.

The celebrity couple’s child was born in 2008 with the name Samuel but later identified as Kai Schreiber before signing with IMG as a model.

‘I’m also the first trans girl to win this award.’

Watts beamed with pride alongside the 17-year-old before the ceremony for the Daily Front Row’s Fashion Media Awards on Friday in Milan, Italy.

Schreiber said he was “beyond excited” about being accepted into the modeling industry.

“I’m also the first trans girl to win this award,” the teen added.

He then said it wouldn’t have been possible for him to be a model “if it weren’t for all my sisters who paved the way for me in this industry.”

He added, “I carry that with me into every room.”

Liev Schreiber has expressed support for his son identifying as a girl.

“I don’t know what it’s like for you to be a trans dad,” he said when asked about giving advice to other parents of transgender-identifying children. “I don’t know how you were brought up. I don’t know what religion you encountered or what your spirituality is. And for me to tell you what I think about my kid feels like an overstep.”

He went on to say that raising teens is difficult whether or not they’re transgender-identifying.

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“They’re hard,” he said. “It doesn’t matter whether they’re trans or not because you’ll come out of this. But a trans teen is going to be a teen. They’re such a pain so much of the time, and Kai is as feisty and outspoken as they come.”

The couple have another male child named Alexander “Sasha” Schreiber who is an environmental activist.

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Last week, Utah Valley University — the campus where Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September 2025 — released an independent 158-page after-action report concluding that university staff did not act in bad faith.

While Glenn Beck is not surprised at the report’s conclusions, he is surprised by the reactions to it.

“It’s all released, and within an hour, everybody had a verdict. … The family’s lawyer blamed the university. Parts of the left blamed Turning Point. Podcasters said, ‘The silence is the real story,’” he says.

These one-sided hot takes, he says, are proof that we have left the information age behind and entered an era that riles us up but costs us the truth.

“We were in the information age. Now we’re in the opinion and outrage age,” says Glenn. “Opinion is the currency of the day, and it is so cheap to print. Nobody ever runs out of opinions. … Facts are what’s scarce in today’s world.”

The “silence” from Turning Point and Charlie’s security that certain podcasters are interpreting as evidence of a cover-up has a very practical explanation, Glenn argues: “The family has filed notice of a lawsuit. Lawsuits make people stop talking.”

“Everybody’s going to court, and they’ve all got an attorney. That’s not silent; it’s just a blank space. And in the opinion age, somebody has to rush to fill in that silence,” he says.

But this reflex isn’t new. Glenn points to the sinking of the Titanic as the best example of how a series of ordinary gaps can turn into massive conspiracy theories.

He explains that before the ship departed, a last-minute officer change sent David Blair off the ship carrying the key to the locker that held the lookouts’ binoculars, which later forced lookouts to watch with the naked eye. Radio operators then brushed off ice warnings to send passenger telegrams, and although the ship carried enough lifeboats to meet an outdated law, it didn’t have enough seats for everyone on board.

But instead of seeing the string of small failures that led to a catastrophic one, many “tried to make it into a conspiracy,” says Glenn.

Even though the “dots” substantiating a conspiracy theory are often “real,” “the line between them is not.”

That’s how he interprets the buzz around UVU’s report. And while hyperfixation on conspiracy theories is understandable to Glenn — because “a plot means somebody is in charge; catch him and it can’t happen again” — he knows they rarely lead to the truth.

“The truth is harder. Nobody’s driving sometimes. … It’s just ordinary people doing ordinary jobs, leaving a small hole, and that’s how Charlie Kirk gets killed,” he says.

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Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer made a stunning argument Tuesday in the first hearing since her mistrial earlier this month.

At Clancy’s murder trial that took place over the summer and ended in a mistrial Sept. 4 with a deadlocked jury, her attorney Kevin Reddington did not dispute that his client strangled her three young children to death in 2023.

‘Where is the admission? Where does she say that she did this?’

In fact, the Associated Press reported at the time that “both sides agree she killed her children,” but Clancy’s defense argued that she wasn’t criminally responsible for their deaths because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

However, Reddington argued Tuesday that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that Clancy, now 36, killed her three children, the AP said.

“This entire case is based on speculation,” Reddington said Tuesday, according to the outlet, which added that the lawyer tried to persuade Judge William Sullivan — the same judge who presided over the first trial — to acquit Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse.

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There is, Reddington contended, not enough evidence “that this woman killed those children.” He pointed to matters ranging from her condition when she was found, badly injured and bleeding in the yard outside her home, to her lack of memory of what happened when she woke up in a hospital. At the first trial, her now ex-husband and first responders testified that they arrived at the house and discovered she had tried to kill herself right after killing the children.

“Where is the admission? Where does she say that she did this?” Reddington asked, going on to recap his arguments that she also was psychotic and delusional at the time of the children’s deaths. He didn’t offer any alternative theories or evidence about who might be responsible.

Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called Reddington’s argument “laughable,” the AP reported, as she pointed out evidence presented during the original trial. In court papers filed Monday, prosecutors recapped their arguments that there was enough evidence to convict Clancy, the outlet noted.

The prosecution stated that Clancy knew her actions were wrong when she used exercise bands to strangle 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy, the AP said. The prosecution also maintained that Clancy schemed to get her husband out of the house that evening by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family, the outlet added.

Judge William Sullivan didn’t immediately decide, the AP said, and no trial date was set.

However, Sullivan concluded Tuesday’s hearing by saying attorneys should be prepared on Nov. 2 for picking a new trial date.

RELATED: Lindsay Clancy murder trial hits huge speed bump (UPDATE)

Prosecutors haven’t yet decided if they will retry Clancy, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said after the hearing, the outlet said.

They could choose to retry her on first-degree murder charges or seek to try her only on lesser charges, including second-degree murder or manslaughter — or drop the case entirely, the AP reported.

“We are going to do what we can for the children,” Cruz told reporters outside court, the outlet said. “That is what this case is about.”

Clancy’s attorneys also have asked the judge to dismiss the criminal case, the AP said, adding that they have argued that the judge should have dismissed one juror who favored a murder conviction after the jury foreperson complained that he refused to listen to the law on reasonable doubt. The jury was split 11 to 1 in Clancy’s favor, the outlet said.

The holdout juror, Michael Desronvil, has said through his lawyer that he had no doubts about his stance, the AP said.

Desronvil told Fox News’ “Hannity” in a brief video statement Monday that “the whole focus has been on me, but we want to reel everything back and put the focus on the three angels,” meaning the children, the outlet noted.

About a dozen Clancy supporters, most dressed in pink, stood outside court Tuesday waiting for her to arrive, the AP said.

Clancy remains charged with murder and is expected to stay at a psychiatric hospital until her case is resolved, the outlet said, adding that she could have been sentenced to life in prison if convicted of murder — but if acquitted, the judge could have ordered her confined to a mental health facility.

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Crude oil exports in the Middle East rebounded in September as the Iranian regime continued to lose its control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Nineteen very large crude oil carriers carrying about 38 million barrels exited the strait just last week, according to data from a Kpler report on Monday.

‘You are preventing them from getting access to money that they will use to try and kill Americans and others around the world and their own people.’

The report said crude oil exports from the Middle East had recovered to about 80% of pre-military operation levels in February.

About 20% of the global oil supply is transported through the Strait of Hormuz, which was nearly completely closed off by the Iranian regime after U.S.-Israeli strikes began in late February.

In August, U.S. officials told Axios that military operations had successfully targeted and eliminated Iranian assets in their effort to keep the Strait of Hormuz shut down.

“That sucker is open. The Iranian response is very mild,” said President Donald Trump in a phone call to the news outlet at the time. “They don’t want us to go back at them. That’s the whole ball game. The rest doesn’t matter.”

The Iranian regime has apparently tried to use spiking gas prices to pressure the Trump administration into caving to its demands to end the military conflict.

Iran is facing its own financial pressure after the Rial, the country’s currency, crashed even farther on Tuesday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi indicated that leaders were speaking with mediators from Qatar in order to resume talks with the U.S. about a possible peace deal.

Trump has predicted that Iran is waiting to see the results of the midterm elections before approving a peace deal, but he also threatened to drive Iran “into hell.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised the U.S. economic embargo against Iran in comments Monday on Fox News.

“When you’re denying them money through oil sales and sanctions, you’re not just punishing them,” Rubio said. “You are preventing them from getting access to money that they will use to try and kill Americans and others around the world and their own people and build weapons and threaten the world and ultimately break out to a nuclear weapon program.”

RELATED: Trump threatens to drive Iran ‘into HELL’ — and predicts when peace deal will be reached

Economic expert and Blaze Media contributor Carol Roth said in comments to Blaze News that the oil transport work-around was a welcome relief but still a fragile solution.

“If this work-around is sustainable in the short-run, we could [see] some relief pop up at the gas pumps within weeks,” she said. “If it is sustainable for longer, that could lead to even more relief, which impacts not only consumers directly via gas and other energy prices, but also flows through the broader economy.”

Roth added that American consumer sentiment has plunged downward as a result of the effects of the conflict with Iran.

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The left has made its favorite formula clear: Stop talking about the wrongdoing and start questioning the people who confront it.

And BlazeTV host John Doyle points out that this couldn’t be more accurate than in the leftist portrayal of Chris Hansen and his famous investigations into online child predators in the new Hollywood film “Primetime.”

Rather than focus on the heroism of his exposes and the lives he saved, the film “deconstruct[s] his motives and make[s] the story really about how he was just driven by ego or fame.”

One motive for making a film like this, Doyle believes, is that the “left wants to take men who are successful and deconstruct them and tear them down.”

“I mean, Chris Hansen is a hero. He catches the predators,” he says.

“They want to make the conversation really about your response or your reaction to the bad behavior rather than the conversation being about the bad behavior itself,” he continues, “You see this with literally everything.”

Doyle points out that when murder or crime statistics regarding different races are brought up, the left ignores the crime and focuses on “racism.” When terrorism is brought up, the left focuses on “Islamophobia.”

“Literally any issue, this is what these people do. The real problem is always how you are responding or reacting to the bad behavior,” he says.

In the film, the attention is diverted away from the man who was trying to meet a child to engage in a sex crime.

“We are now made to feel like Chris Hansen is the weird person here for having this kind of fixation,” Doyle explains.

“So, again, never about the bad behavior itself, always about the reaction to the bad behavior,” he says.

“We see these shots of Chris Hansen literally lurking in the shadows as if he is a predator hunting his prey. That is what it is doing,” he continues. “So it’s implying that, you know, he is preying on the predator the same way that the predators are preying on the kids.”

“It’s this kind of moral relativism where it’s like, ‘Oh dude, yo, who’s the real predator?’ This kind of thing,” he adds.

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The NCAA got one step closer to achieving its President Trump-aligned rule changes this week.

For months, the president has been pushing sweeping adjustments to college athletics that would limit transfers, payments, and eligibility for athletes.

‘It will not only save college sports, it will save the colleges themselves.’

On Monday, the Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act of 2026 in a 77-22 vote, with the bill sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

The vote came months after Trump’s executive order that urged national action on the issue in April and received support from legendary college coaches.

While the legislation does favor the historic college institutions in some regards, it also benefits student-athletes.

The bill prohibits schools, conferences, and the like from restricting student-athletes from entering into name, image, and likeness agreements; students must report any NIL compensation to their school that is greater than $600.

Other big changes come in the form of limiting player and personnel movement. Student-athletes are allowed only one transfer during their eligibility, or they otherwise face having to sit out for a year.

The five-year eligibility window would also change, effectively upending the redshirt system and replacing it with a fixed eligibility window. Under the bill, five calendar years of eligibility would be initiated at the start of the academic year after the athlete has turned 19 or the day the athlete first enrolls full-time in college, whichever comes first.

For coaches, football personnel cannot become the head football coach at a different institution during the same season.

The bill still faces a battle in the House in order to become law and will likely have to wait until after the midterm elections. However, the president still called the Senate vote “a really big deal.”

“It will not only save college sports, it will save the colleges themselves,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Congratulations to Randy Levine, President of the New York Yankees, and all of those who worked with him, on a job well done!”

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Other changes in the bill would prohibit Division 1 conferences from “reducing the number of varsity or Olympic sports teams that a member institution must sponsor,” with schools that make $80 million in athletics revenue prevented from reducing the number of roster spots for sports that they provided in 2024-2025.

Student-athletes also get a 10-year window after eligibility to come back and finish their degree, and schools must provide the same grant-in-aid amount as when they were student-athletes.

As well, agent endorsement contract fees are capped at 5% under the bill, and school spending on athletes is capped at $50 million annually.

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The NCAA has boasted about the Protect College Sports Act on its website, insisting it will “level the playing field” nationwide.

The NCAA says it supports “sustainable, fair revenue sharing,” protecting women’s and Olympic sports, and “reasonable” transfer limitations.

The Big Ten Conference also issued a statement Monday: “We look forward to the next steps to passage as we continue to support the act as passed by the Senate.”

The Hill reported the bill as granting the NCAA sweeping federal antitrust protection that would shield it from lawsuits, with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) claiming it will only perpetuate exploitation.

“What this bill does, at its core, is protect a system of exploitation,” Murphy said, per CNN. “This bill protects the billions of dollars that coaches and executives are making by suppressing compensation for some of the most highly valued athletes in the world.”

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said the bill seeks to serve “the large, wealthy interests that have been controlling college sports for a long time.”

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