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The NFL is pushing hard for male cheerleaders, with 12 of the teams featuring a DEI cheer lineup this season.

The Baltimore Ravens will have 19 male cheerleaders on their squad.

While fans are not happy, some claim that there have always been male cheerleaders — but there is a major difference between the male cheerleaders of the past and present.

“There are certain teams I saw this with the Rams when I had season tickets in the early ’90s. They were at Anaheim Stadium. There were the regular Ram cheerleaders that wore the regular, skimpy suits, kind of looked like they were doing gymnastics,” BlazeTV contributor Steve Kim says on “Fearless with Jason Whitlock.”

“And there’s also a cheer squad, which they had, they were much more innocent, right? And those groups had big muscular guys because someone had to lift the girls and catch them as they’re doing the flips,” he continues.

“They were not acting or dressed like they were feminine. Like, you could tell those guys were in good shape. … When you’re acting very feminine and sexualizing it, I think that’s the issue that certain people are having,” he adds.

BlazeTV contributor and former NFL wide receiver TJ Moe jokes that he is “one of those people.”

“Look, this is very flamboyant. It’s very gay. It’s openly, obviously, both of those things. There’s no argument against that. Anybody who has a pair of eyes would tell you that. It’s the logical extension of, you know, the first openly trans cheerleader with Carolina that happened a few years ago,” Moe says.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock agrees with both Kim and Moe and isn’t surprised by the NFL’s move to force male cheerleaders down fans’ throats.

“The NFL, I have low expectations for it. It bothers me that they’re going along with this. All this is a softer, more effective, child-friendly drag show. That’s all this is. It’s more effective,” Whitlock says.

“Your 8-year-old son says, ‘Daddy who’s this gym guy, and why is he dressed like a girl, what’s going on here?’ … it just sparks conversations and puts thoughts in kids’ heads,” he adds.

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A Louisiana police officer who was dragged for 500 feet from a truck died of his injuries, and the man accused of intentionally striking him is now charged with murder.

Gad Black, 41, bragged on social media about hitting Sgt. Caleb Eisworth with his Ford F-150 truck in June, according to prosecutors. Eisworth was hospitalized with very serious injuries, as previously reported by Blaze Media, but he died on Sunday.

‘Check Him Out on Joor Rd. Stretched One.’

Black appeared in court Monday and was relatively calm when officials upgraded his charges to include murder. He is also facing hate-crime charges.

Eisworth was driving home on his police motorcycle when he was struck by Black near Greenwell Springs Road and Joor Road at about 11 a.m., according to prosecutors.

“Check Him Out on Joor Rd. Stretched One,” Black allegedly wrote on Facebook.

He appeared in court virtually before Commissioner Nicole Robinson.

Black’s family released a statement offering condolences to the family of the officer, who was a 23-year veteran of the force.

“On behalf of the Black family, we extend our deepest condolences to the family of Sergeant Caleb Eisworth. We are heartbroken to learn of his passing, and our prayers are with his loved ones during this difficult time.”

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Black’s sanity hearing is scheduled for Sept. 3 before Judge Donald Johnson.

“The sanity issue has been raised, not sure if the commission has been selected or picked, but I anticipate that one will be,” District Attorney Hillar Moore said. “That will determine his mental condition at the time of the offense and currently to assist counsel.”

East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux condemned the suspect after his arrest in June.

“This was a deliberate and cowardly attack on an officer — one of our community’s protectors — and it strikes at the very heart of public safety,” Gautreaux said in part.

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President Donald Trump blasted India with 50% tariffs, which are set to take effect August 27. These tariffs reflect Trump’s instinct that India is becoming the next China — and he’s spot-on.

Unfortunately, the tariffs will do little to stop this. Why? Because India isn’t coming for our manufacturing. They’re coming for our technology sector — and they’ve been remarkably successful both at scooping up jobs and flying under the radar.

Bangalore is booming. Boston is becoming a bust. What’s going on?

Since 2001, America has lost roughly 5 million jobs to China. During the same period, America lost up to 4 million technology jobs to India. Moreover, India now has access to sensitive American technology and information.

This is beyond an economic issue; it’s a silent national emergency.

If we are serious about reshoring American industry, then tariffs on Indian products won’t cut it. We should also tariff Indian services.

Made in Mumbai

India’s technology industry is bustling. In 2024, technology made up approximately 7% of India’s GDP. The industry employs 5.4 million people and added 126,000 new jobs last year alone. Revenue was up 5.1% year over year.

Technology is transforming India. Cities like Bangalore boast newly minted billionaires and skyscrapers. Meanwhile, technology employment in many major American cities, like Boston, is stagnating.

Bangalore is booming. Boston is becoming a bust. What’s going on?

One word: offshoring.

Increasingly, American companies are moving their production of digital services to India. Why? Because Indian labor is cheap. Consider that the average American technology worker earns $110,000 per year. Meanwhile, their Indian counterparts earn about $32,000 — Indians work for one-third the price.

Why hire an American when you can hire an Indian to do the same job for a fraction of the price?

Offshoring explains the rapid growth of India’s technology sector, 80% of which comes from exports alone — far more than China at the same stage of its rise in 2001.

Interestingly, America’s trade deficit in services with India was just $3.2 billion — fairly small when compared with other countries. This has given the false impression that offshoring is not a problem.

The reality is much more grim. The scale of offshoring is obscured by the fact that Indian services — which are largely “branch plants” of American technology companies — also service non-American markets.

RELATED: Why tariffs beat treaties in a world that cheats

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America’s tech giants rake in large profits by offshoring production to India. In turn, India’s government collects the tax revenue, and Indian people benefit from new jobs. But as usual, the American people don’t factor into this equation — yet another example of Wall Street screwing over ordinary Americans.

The price of a rupee

In my book “Reshore: How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home and Revive the American Dream,” I explain how offshoring hurts American workers in three main ways.

First, it relocates American jobs abroad, causing unemployment. Second, it suppresses wages by flooding the labor market with laid-off workers and by putting Americans in direct wage competition with cheaper foreign workers. Third, it redirects investment — especially in education — from the United States to India.

How many technology jobs have been lost to India? Although the exact number is impossible to calculate, we can estimate. A good starting point is to look at the number of Indian jobs supported by U.S. dollars. Remember, 5.4 million Indians work in the technology sector, and 80% of the revenue comes from exports — mostly purchased by the United States.

Why hire an American when you can hire an Indian to do the same job, for a fraction of the price?

If we assume a one-to-one corollary between an Indian job and an American job, then we can guess that 4.3 million jobs have been displaced. In reality, this is probably too generous — Americans are more productive than their Indian counterparts. Either way, the number of lost jobs are in the millions.

And those job losses ripple through the labor market.

Displaced workers compete for fewer domestic jobs, driving down wages. At the same time, employers can offshore tech services to India with ease, which drags wages down further.

It’s a global race to the bottom — and American workers have the farthest to fall.

Offshoring more than jobs

But an even more nefarious cost of offshoring hits directly at our kids’ futures. Offshoring reduces the demand for skilled labor in America and increases it in India, incentivizing investment ineducation abroad while neglecting our own schools. It’s not only cheaper to hire Indians, it’s also cheaper to train them.

The proof is in the pudding. In 2004, 51,000 Americans graduated with computer science degrees and 4,000 in software engineering. By 2024, these numbers had doubled to approximately 100,000 and 8,000 respectively — not bad.

RELATED: Read it and weep: Tariffs work, and the numbers prove it

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However, when compared to India, 80,000 Indian students graduated with computer science degrees in 2004 and 5,000 in software engineering. By 2024, these numbers had tripled to over 250,000 and 15,000 respectively. Despite having a much smaller technology industry that is entirely dependent on American investment, India now trains more people for the technology industry than the country that hires them — and the number of graduates is increasing faster.

American technology companies demand educated Indians rather than educated Americans. As such, major American technology companies pour money into Indian universities.

Bring services back home

The United States has been pillaged for decades. The inability to manufacture basic goods poses a stark threat to the nation. The same is increasingly true of technology services: Americans are taking the back seat in education, employment, and innovation.

President Trump’s instincts on tariffs are correct, but regarding India, the reality is that tariffs are akin to fighting last year’s war. We need to either tariff offshored services or tax the wages paid to foreigners so that there is no cost advantage to hiring Indians (or anyone else). If not, America will depend on foreigners for goods and services — and there will be nothing left at home.

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The Department of Homeland Security is taking a victory lap after a steady winning streak on immigration enforcement, according to a memo obtained exclusively by Blaze News.

The memo, which was circulated to Republican lawmakers on Thursday, details all of the major accomplishments that have taken place under President Donald Trump and Secretary Kristi Noem’s leadership. Within Noem’s first 200 days in office, the United States experienced an “unprecedented” decline in the foreign born population, a surge in enforcement, and accelerated deportations.

‘A historic start to the largest deportation operation in American history.’

“This incredible achievement is the direct result of President Donald J. Trump’s decisive, unapologetic immigration policies and Secretary Noem’s aggressive, disciplined implementation – both of which have put Americans first,” the memo reads. “Together, they have delivered the strongest immigration enforcement outcome in American history.”

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DHS Memo to Congressional Republicans

The United States experienced a 2.2 million drop in foreign born population since January, which is the largest ever recorded drop according to the memo. There has also been a 1.6 million drop in illegal aliens within the same time frame, which the memo said is “a historic start to the largest deportation operation in American history.”

While there was a decline concentrated among non-citizens, there was simultaneously an increase in naturalized citizens. The memo also said that 2.5 million more U.S. born Americans were employed since January, which is a gain “supported by a tighter, fairer labor market.”

RELATED: Exclusive: Congress pushes bipartisan bill preventing Mexico’s ‘illegal seizure’ of American assets

DHS Memo to Congressional Republicans

These “record-shattering” figures are supported by the policies pushed by the White House and implemented by DHS. The Trump administration has restarted and accelerated the construction of the border wall, reinstated the “Remain in Mexico” policy, expedited deportations, reinforced cooperation with state and local law enforcement, and even cracked down on visa overstays with biometric exit tracking.

“The United States is sending a clear message – it matters who enters our nation, and how they enter our nation,” the memo reads. “The American people have given President Trump this mandate.”

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Two females who’ve been in jail over their alleged roles in last month’s Cincinnati mob attack got big breaks Thursday on their respective bonds.

Dekyra Vernon, 24, has been behind bars since July 29 — three days after the beatdown caught on video in which several men were pummeled in the street, and a woman known as Holly was punched in the face by a male and knocked flat on her back, seemingly out cold.

‘This is Holly. She wanted to have a nice evening out with friends. Instead, she got this.’

It appears Vernon allegedly is the individual seen on video punching Holly from behind prior to the male punching Holly in the face. WXIX-TV, citing criminal complaints, reported that Vernon “struck [the] victim in the face with a closed fist prior to the victim becoming unconscious from the attack.”

Cellphone video (1:34 mark) shows Holly, who’s wearing a blue dress, apparently trying to intervene on behalf of a beaten-up man, but instead another female punches her from behind — and seconds later, a male punches her in the face, knocking her flat on her back on the street.

Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio shared on X grisly images of Holly’s face after the beatdown.

RELATED: Cincinnati official who said mob attack victims ‘begged’ for beating doubles down; woman punched in face records tearful clip

“This is Holly,” Moreno wrote in his post, which has been viewed nearly 4 million times as of Thursday afternoon. “She wanted to have a nice evening out with friends. Instead, she got this.”

Aisha Devaughn, 25, has been in jail since last Wednesday. WXIX in a separate story indicated that sources said Devaughn is the “woman seen in the viral video wearing a white bodysuit, stomping and kicking a victim on the ground.”

WXIX embedded two screenshots from that video — which you can view here — in its story, and the clip allegedly shows Devaughn in action.

Around the 9-second mark, a woman dressed in a short, white bodysuit comes into frame and delivers at least three stomps upon a male victim lying in the street. But around the 17-second mark, someone pulls the woman away — and what appears to be a wig is ripped from the top of her head.

At the 1:27 mark, the woman in the white bodysuit reappears — with the wig back on — and she’s seen apparently making physical contact with Holly just after another female punches Holly from behind — and just before a male punches Holly in the face, knocking her flat on her back.

Vernon and Devaughn — along with four male suspects — were indicted on eight charges each last week in connection with the mob attack: three counts of felonious assault, three counts of assault, and two counts of aggravated riot. They all face nearly 30 years in jail if convicted on all charges.

But on Thursday morning, the bonds for Vernon and Devaughn were significantly lowered after they went before Judge Alan Triggs, WCPO-TV reported.

Vernon had been held on a $200,000 secure bond, but the station said Triggs lowered it to $25,000 — and she only needs to cough up 10% of that, or $2,500. Fox News said cheers were heard in the gallery after Vernon’s bond was lowered. Hamilton County court records show Vernon has no prior criminal convictions in the county, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Devaughn had been held on a $300,000 secure bond, but WCPO said Triggs also lowered it to $25,000, of which — as in Vernon’s case — she only needs to pay 10%, or $2,500. Fox News added that Devaughn’s attorney cited her lack of prior felonies.

Blaze News on Thursday reached out to Prosecutor Kip Guinan for comment regarding the lowered bonds for Vernon and Devaughn; the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office replied to Blaze News that it’s not commenting on the case outside the courtroom as it “remains under investigation by the Cincinnati Police Department.”

Mob-attack suspect Patrick Rosemond — who was arrested Aug. 4 in Fulton County, Georgia, and is “accused of hitting the victim named Holly,” WLWT-TV reported — was not in court Thursday as prosecutors said the 38-year-old was being extradited from Georgia and wasn’t ready to appear on the day’s docket, WCPO said.

RELATED: Cincinnati councilwoman suggests mob attack on white victims was justified: ‘They begged for that beatdown!’

Patrick Rosemond. Image source: Fulton County (Ga.) Sheriff’s Office

Mob-attack suspects Dominique Kittle, 37, Jermaine Matthews, 39, and Montianez Merriweather, 34, did appear in court Thursday morning, but WCPO said the judge didn’t lower their bonds.

RELATED: Mother of Cincinnati mob attack suspect defends ‘honor roll’ son, 34, charged with felonious assault, aggravated riot

(L to R) Dominique Kittle, Jermaine Matthews, Montianez Merriweather. Image source: Hamilton County (Ohio) Sheriff

WLWT-TV reported that the prosecutor’s office said Kittle “approached the victim … struck him from behind, [and] attempted to take a wallet from him. When he was unable to do that, he started to walk away, and then turned around and knocked the prosecuting witness out.” Kittle’s bond was set at $150,000, the station said.

Police said Matthews is seen on video “punching and stomping on [a] victim with his hands and feet attempting to cause serious physical harm,” WXIX-TV reported, citing a criminal complaint. Matthews also is accused of dragging an unconscious person into the middle of the street and punching and assaulting a victim, the station said. Matthews’ bond was set at $270,000, after which he bonded out of jail, WXIX said.

Matthews’ attorney said during Thursday’s hearing that his client was “slapped” by a white male, Fox News reported.

Matthews apparently is no stranger to law enforcement. Here’s what WXIX said about him in a separate story:

Matthews is a convicted felon who pleaded guilty in 2009 to two counts of cocaine possession and a single count of cocaine trafficking, court records show.

He was sentenced to three years in prison.

During each of his two separate arrests in those cases — in December 2008 and February 2009 — police said Matthews tried to swallow a bag of crack cocaine but spit it out after being shocked with a Taser stun gun.

Merriweather was “identified on video punching [the] victim while co-defendants are stomping the victim in the head,” WXIX reported, citing criminal complaints.

Merriweather also has been in trouble with the law before.

In fact, Merriweather was indicted July 10 on four felony charges after investigators said he was found in possession of a stolen firearm, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Court records indicate he was charged with carrying concealed weapons, receiving stolen property, improper handling of firearms in a vehicle, and weapons under disability, the paper noted. The weapons under disability charge stems from a 2009 felony conviction for aggravated robbery, the Enquirer added, citing documents.

But after his July 10 indictment, Merriweather was released upon posting 10% of a $4,000 bond, the paper said.

“He never should have been out,” Ken Kober, Cincinnati police union president, told the Enquirer.

Merriweather’s bond in connection with his mob attack charges was set at $500,000, the Enquirer reported.

What’s more, a federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted Merriweather for illegally possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon.

A seventh mob-attack suspect — 32-year-old Gregory Wright — didn’t appear in court Thursday, WCPO reported, adding that Wright is accused of stealing a necklace off the neck of an alleged assault victim.

RELATED: 8 mainstream news outlets that REFUSED to cover Cincinnati mob attack

Gregory Wright. Image source: Hamilton County (Ohio) Sheriff

Unlike the other six suspects, Wright was charged with aggravated riot and aggravated robbery, WXIX-TV reported. Jail records indicate his bond is $100,000.

All seven of the suspects have pleaded not guilty, Fox News said.

Guinan said in court Thursday there are more videos from city cameras that show new angles of the mob attack that haven’t yet been made public, Fox News added. Guinan also said alleged racial slurs spoken toward perpetrators were said nearly two minutes after the attack began, the cable network added.

Cincinnati black leaders want charges brought against a white male who was seen on video slapping the face of a black male just before the July 26 beatdown began.

Fox News said police chief Teresa Theetge last week noted that the white male in question is “represented by counsel” and that his counsel said “they did not want the police talking to his client. So therefore, we have not had a conversation with him yet.”

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According to emails obtained via FOIA request by Protect the Public’s Trust, Joe Biden canceled a visit to a United States shipyard while president for a very interesting reason — one which was withheld from the public at the time.

Records show that Biden was set to visit a National Security Multi-Mission Vessel while touring a Philadelphia shipyard in July 2023. However, according to the emails, the vessel visit was scrapped because of “how many steps were involved to get on the ship.”

Biden had been planning to visit to tout offshore wind and clean energy jobs.

In the emails, a U.S. Maritime Administration official emailed members of the Office of Secure Transportation and said, “No visit to the NSMV vessel is planned after the WH realized how many steps were involved to get on the ship. (True — lots of steps on grating).”

The decision to skip visiting the vessel in the shipyard came just over a month after Biden stumbled over a sandbag and fell on stage at an Air Force Academy graduation ceremony in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on June 1, 2023.

“Everyone was like, ‘What is the reason why he canceled the visit to the shipyard?’” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says. “But the White House apparently realized how many steps were involved to get on the ship and, see, steps are a problem for Joe Biden.”

“But everything was totally fine, and he definitely signed all of those autopen pardons,” she adds.

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A pressure campaign from pro-life activists has led to a major warehouse club announcing that it will not sell a controversial abortion drug at its pharmacies.

The drug mifepristone has been approved for use as an abortion alternative without in-person doctor approval and has led to a massive increase in chemical abortions as opposed to those available at clinics. Some estimates place the use of the drug to be involved in two-thirds of the abortions in the U.S.

‘Instead of worrying that they are contributing to the killing of countless innocent unborn children, families can continue to shop at Costco.’

Opponents of the drug allege that its approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2000 was rushed and motivated by political considerations rather than assuring its medical safety.

Those forces have been trying to persuade companies against carrying the drug, and on Thursday they scored a victory from Costco.

“Our position at this time not to sell mifepristone, which has not changed, is based on the lack of demand from our members and other patients, who we understand generally have the drug dispensed by their medical providers,” reads a statement from the company.

Costco runs about 500 pharmacies at its stores.

The Family Research Council praised the company for the announcement.

“We are so grateful that Costco — a company that serves families, especially large ones — has decided to remain a wholesale store, not become an abortion facility,” Mary Szoch of the FRC said.

“Instead of worrying that they are contributing to the killing of countless innocent unborn children, families can continue to shop at Costco knowing that the great deals they’re getting are helping other families believe that adding another child to the mix is possible,” she added.

Pro-life groups intended to extend the campaign to stop sales of the drug at Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens, according to a Bloomberg report.

“The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on mifepristone access allows Walgreens to continue to dispense mifepristone under the FDA guidelines,” reads a statement on the Walgreens website.

RELATED: The abortion pill’s body count — and the progressive cover-up behind it

One study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center on 300 million U.S. insurance claims found that the adverse effects of taking mifepristone were far more common than were reported by the FDA.

“Simply stated,” the report said, “mifepristone, as used in real-world conditions, is not ‘safe and effective.'”

The analysis found that more than 1 in 10 women who used the drug suffered serious medical side effects, including sepsis, hemorrhaging, blood transfusion, surgeries, and infections.

In 2023, the Supreme Court refused to block the sale of mifepristone as a lawsuit progressed through the court system.

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A top secret email allegedly sent by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper just two months after President Donald Trump was first elected is “absolute proof of guilt,” according to the president.

The president addressed the latest declassified documents while speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Thursday. He said that Clapper and other officials, including former FBI Director James Comey, were criminals and suggested they should be prosecuted.

‘That is a criminal group of people. They’re sick people, and they’re criminals, and they should be taken care of.’

A reporter asked for Trump’s reaction to the document release from current DNI Tulsi Gabbard and what “real accountability” would look like for the Obama administration officials allegedly involved.

“It’s incredible what we’re finding. Absolute proof of guilt! And we’ll see what happens,” the president replied.

The email appeared to show Clapper responding to concerns that the intelligence community did not have enough access to underlying intelligence or enough time to fully weigh the allegations in a report about Russian collusion. Clapper had apparently replied that they needed a “team” effort to push the report out and override their “normal” modalities.

“But Clapper and Comey and that whole group are criminals. They’re criminals, and they made it very tough. You know, they did the fake ‘Russia! Russia! Russia!’ witch hunt that lasted for two years. And I got totally exonerated. There was no doubt about it. They should have done it in one day, not two years,” he continued.

“But it was a whole scheme to try and demean Trump so that I couldn’t win an election,” Trump added. “That is a criminal group of people. They’re sick people, and they’re criminals, and they should be taken care of.”

RELATED: Trump says ‘irrefutable proof’ shows Obama is guilty of ‘treason’ — and names other Dems in ‘biggest scandal’ in US history

Gabbard had said in a statement accompanying the release that it substantiated the accusation that Obama officials had illegally tried to accuse Trump of collusion.

“The leading figures in the Russia hoax have spent years deceiving the American public by presenting their manufactured and politicized assessments as credible intelligence,” she wrote.

“The email released today reinforces what we already exposed,” Gabbard added. “The decision to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of the 2017 manufactured intelligence assessment was deliberate and came from the very top.”

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Yesterday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) told Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that aliens are real and she’s seen the proof.

As chair of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, Luna claimed she’d seen classified photos of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, and heard testimonies from “credible people” who’ve personally encountered otherworldly beings.

When Rogan pressed her on the possibility that what she’d seen in the photos was actually “U.S. vehicles that are top secret,” Luna responded by saying, “This might sound crazy, but based on our investigations and stuff that we’ve seen, there is definitely something that I think would rival what we know currently with physics and a tech that potentially is out there that we don’t have the ability to reproduce.”

Luna expressed her belief in “interdimensional beings” that exist “outside of time and space” and operate aircraft “not created by mankind,” while acknowledging that she’s never seen portals, aliens, or UAPs in person.

The Florida representative’s remarks have sparked mixed feelings, with some amplifying her belief in the extraterrestrial and others expressing skepticism.

Pat Gray, BlazeTV host of “Pat Gray Unleashed,” along with co-hosts Keith Malinak and Jeff Fisher and producer Kris Cruz, all fall into the camp of people who believe there’s something true behind the notion of aliens.

Are they demonic entities? Are they human beings from the future traveling back in time to visit us? Are they fellow image-bearers of God?

“I think it’s impossible that there are not other people in the universe — probably in the galaxy,” Pat says, noting that scientists have estimated that there are “3 trillion galaxies” in the universe.

Join the “Unleashed” team as they dive into Luna’s controversial statements and explore the possibility of alien life.

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The Democratic Party of South Carolina is asking its gubernatorial candidate to reconsider his campaign after the release of video of his embarrassing arrest from May.

Mullins McLeod, 53, was recorded yelling and screaming at police while wearing only his shoes and underwear in the video that was released Tuesday through a Freedom of Information Act request.

‘It is clear that Mr. McLeod is navigating profound challenges and should focus on his mental and emotional well-being.’

McLeod was allegedly “yelling at the top of his lungs” when officers from the Charleston Police Department arrested him in downtown Charleston on May 15, according to WCBD-TV.

The politician refused to identify himself to police and told them that he was god and Superman several times. He also made references to his gubernatorial campaign.

“It doesn’t matter, my friend, trust me. I’m one of the most just humans to ever walk this soil,” said McLeod when asked his name.

He also appears to threaten Republicans, including Attorney General Alan Wilson, who has announced a campaign for the governor’s office as well.

“I’m gonna kick your [expletive] teeth in,” McLeod says.

The hour-long video showed his arrest and transportation to Al Cannon Detention Center, where he refuses to leave the police cruiser and tells the officer he’ll sleep in the car instead.

“No, I’m not doing it, no,” McLeod yells to police. “I’m not getting out of this car. It’s time to go to bed.”

Police refused his polite request and forced him out of the vehicle. He was booked at about 1 a.m.

An officer wrote in the preliminary report of the incident that McLeod’s eyes appeared “extremely bloodshot and highly dilated,” which the officer identified as symptoms “typical of an individual under the influence of a stimulant narcotic.”

A City of Charleston spokesperson told WCBD that McLeod was facing one charge of misdemeanor disorderly conduct as of Monday.

RELATED: Female cop may lose job over suggestive TikTok video that went viral

McLeod did not return requests for comment from WCBD, but he had told the Post and Courier that the arrest was “unlawful” and vowed that the voters would “know exactly what happened” before the election.

A statement from South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Christale Spain suggested that McLeod should step down from the campaign.

“After reviewing the transcript of the dash cam footage from his recent arrest, it is clear that Mr. McLeod is navigating profound challenges and should focus on his mental and emotional well-being instead of a campaign for governor,” Spain said in part. “We offer him compassion and pray he finds the support he needs.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel found a damning memo written in October 2017 that details the timeline of the probes into twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s alleged pay-to-play scheme.

It is clear from the heavily redacted memo, which was first obtained by Just the News, that the investigations into Clinton’s alleged scheme — set in motion following the publication of Governmental Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer’s bestselling book “Clinton Cash” — appear to have been brought to a screeching halt by then-Obama Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates with the help of other Justice Department and FBI officials.

Background

Hillary Clinton dealt with two particularly big scandals in 2016 before her humiliating electoral defeat.

One of the scandals concerned her use of a personal email system for official communications during her time as Obama’s first secretary of state.

Authorities reportedly found hundreds of emails on her private system — which was vulnerable to hacking and enabled her to go off-the-books with her official engagements — containing classified information. Eight email chains were allegedly found to contain Top Secret information; 36 chains allegedly contained Secret information; and eight allegedly contained Confidential information.

The second scandal, which was brought to the nation’s attention thanks to Schweizer’s book, concerned the Clintons’ alleged pay-to-play and bribery scheme, where big-time donors to the Clinton Foundation reportedly frequently found themselves materially benefiting from actions taken by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state.

The 2017 FBI memo

The memo recently secured by Patel indicates that on Feb. 1, 2016 — just days after FBI agents at field offices in New York, Arkansas, and the District of Columbia launched investigations into the Clinton Foundation regarding the allegations in Schweizer’s book — the Obama Justice Department indicated that “they would not be supportive of a FBI investigation.”

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The FBI timeline indicates that 16 days later, then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe “directed that no overt investigative steps were to be taken on the CF investigation without his approval.”

The Durham report previously revealed that in February, McCabe — who had a possible conflict of interest and was described by one former FBI official as being “annoyed” and “angry” at the time — apparently leaned on the field agents to close their cases and that those restrictions on overt investigative activities remained in place for several months.

When speaking on Thursday to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck about the significance of the revelations, Schweizer, who confirmed he worked with the FBI as a confidential informant, expressed his admiration for the FBI field agents who tried to hold Clinton accountable.

“I can’t speak highly enough of them,” said Schweizer. “They doggedly continued those investigations because they saw how much smoke and fire was actually there.”

Despite agents being well-positioned to continue digging — particularly those at the Little Rock field office — FBI leaders continued to set up roadblocks, prohibiting agents from taking additional “investigative steps” or from reaching out to new confidential human sources.

RELATED: Ratcliffe releases damning Durham annex. Here’s what it reveals about Obama-Clinton Russia collusion hoax.

Sally Yates. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The FBI memo indicated that sometime around March 2016, Sally Yates apparently ordered the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Arkansas to “shut it down.”

‘The deep state is really becoming clear right now.’

Schweizer told Beck that Yates’ purported order was “highly, highly, highly unusual because field offices are supposed to organically follow leads and investigate, and to have the headquarters shut down an investigation on somebody as important as the Clintons … speaks of course of the problems of the deep state that you highlighted for so many years.”

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Months after Yates allegedly spiked the Arkansas investigation into the Clinton Foundation, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York made clear they “would not support the investigation” and apparently provided no explanation as to why.

“The deep state is really becoming clear right now,” said Glenn Beck.

Additional insights

The Durham annex that was declassified by CIA Director John Ratcliffe last month provided insights into the alleged effort by former President Barack Obama to simultaneously protect his legacy and spare Clinton from accountability.

Russian intelligence services apparently hacked and gained access to the emails of a number of American government entities, nonprofit organizations, and think tanks ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Among the organizations allegedly hacked by Russian actors was Democratic mega-donor George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

A source shared with the FBI some of the intelligence gathered in these hacks — including purported emails between then-Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and two individuals at George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Jeffrey Goldstein and Leonard Benardo — the latter of whom just hid his tweets on X.

The source conveyed this information to the feds in two memos, one in January 2016 and the second in March 2016.

The first memo indicated on the basis of alleged communications between Schultz and Benardo that former President Barack Obama apparently sought to torpedo the FBI’s investigation into the pay-to-play scheme that Hillary Clinton allegedly ran while secretary of state for fear of the scandal staining his legacy.

According to the second memo, Schultz confided in Benardo that Obama “sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from the FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department.”

Blaze News reached out to Schultz and to Obama’s office for comment.

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If government-funded grocery stores didn’t tip you off that something was off about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, some recent findings about his past should do the trick.

Mamdani is currently in a very comfortable lead and according to the polls will likely win NYC’s mayoral race, but a recent report claimed that the beloved socialist is tied to the man who funded and staged the anti-ICE riots.

“The anti-ICE riots that weren’t organic. They weren’t grassroots. They weren’t by accident. They weren’t a coalition of outraged individuals who all gathered together to voice their grievances against the government. No, no. They were paid. They were staged. They were orchestrated,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler explains.

The man in question behind these anti-ICE riots is Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

“Now remember, American citizens don’t get to just live in China the way that we in America allow foreigners to live in our country. In order to live more than a visit to China, that requires special permission from the Chinese Communist Party, which evidently was obtained by Roy Singham, who lives there with his wife,” Wheeler says.

His wife, Jodie Evans, is the founder of the anti-war organization Code Pink.

“You know those angry naked feminists that march around? That’s Jodie Evans’ organization,” she says. “Roy Singham is the man behind the violent riots that we have seen in recent years in the United States of America. Roy Singham funds pro-Hamas groups on college campuses.”

When Zohran Mamdani was in college, he started a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which Wheeler says “in and of itself is association with Roy Singham,” but it “just touches the surface.”

On July 12, 2025, the New York Post published an exclusive report on a woman associated with Mamdani’s campaign.

“This report received a fraction of the attention it deserved given what a bombshell revelation it includes,” Wheeler says.

The report claims that the niece of Roy Singham spearheaded the Jews for Zohran Mamdani campaign in order to give the “Israel-bashing candidate” cover from anti-Semitism accusations and win Jewish voters.

Jews for Zohran Mamdani is also working with city comptroller Brad Lander and Rep. Jerry Nadler to persuade more Jews, such as Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Dan Goldman, to back Mamdani for mayor.

“Zohran Mamdani is not just the front-runner, he’s the presumptive winner,” Wheeler says. “He might soon be mayor of the biggest city in the United States, but his rise to prominence was not organic, wasn’t grassroots.”

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President Trump announced Monday that he will federalize control of law enforcement in Washington, D.C. The move follows his threat to act after a brutal attack on a DOGE staffer who tried to defend a woman during a carjacking. National Guard troops will supplement D.C. Metro Police in an effort to quell violent crime. Americans are tired of excuses for why their cities feel dirty and unsafe when we already know how to fix them. Crime is a policy choice, and Trump has taken decisive action with a promise to restore law and order to the nation’s capital.

The United States is the most powerful nation on earth, and Washington is its imperial capital. History shows the state of the capital often mirrors the health of the civilization. The comparison is not flattering. In Japan or Singapore, a woman can walk alone at night without fear. In Washington, ordinary people are routinely harassed, assaulted, and robbed. Everyone knows why this disparity exists and how to solve it, but political correctness has made the truth unspeakable.

To succeed, Trump must ignore the inevitable accusations of racism and authoritarianism and focus on results.

Ideally, crime declines when a virtuous population maintains strong cultural norms and self-control. When virtue isn’t enough, the state must deliver swift and certain justice. If laws go unenforced, honest people quickly learn they are fools for obeying them, while marginal characters drift toward crime. Arrests must be followed by real penalties. As Rudy Giuliani proved in New York with broken-windows policing, consistent enforcement of even minor laws dismantles a culture of permissibility and encourages respect for the rules.

If we know regular enforcement and strong penalties work, why do Democrats choose the opposite in the cities they run?

Their answer always returns to racism. Crime data shows black Americans commit a disproportionate share of crime. Enforcing the law honestly will result in more black arrests and incarcerations. Neither Democrats nor most Republicans will discuss this fact or ask the black community to confront it. Instead, they declare the system racist by design.

Once the system is branded racist, “criminal justice reform” becomes the only solution. Because the underlying causes go unaddressed, disparities persist. To make the system look less racist, enforcement is scaled back. Heather Mac Donald calls this the “Ferguson effect”: Police who fear becoming national pariahs simply stop policing black neighborhoods. Law enforcement retreats from the areas where crime is highest. Officers are told to overlook minor crimes to lower minority arrest rates. Prosecutors cut deals, and early release programs proliferate to improve incarceration statistics. This is exactly the formula for more crime and less safety.

As a former crime reporter, I’ve had candid conversations with officers about this. Police know where most crime happens and who commits it, but politics make addressing it a nightmare. Officers say they sometimes ignore domestic violence or burglary calls in certain neighborhoods. They want to go home to their families, not become nationally infamous for answering the “wrong” call. The number of incarcerated black Americans may fall, but deaths from traffic accidents to homicides rise. Policies enacted “for” the black community make life more dangerous for them — and for everyone else.

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When asked about the chain of command under Trump’s initiative, D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith, a black woman, replied, “What does that mean?” Not reassuring. It suggests that in many cities, police chiefs are chosen less for competence than for their DEI value to activists. If the officials charged with maintaining public order under the dictates of gay race communism cannot grasp basic law enforcement concepts, they will fail.

Trump has taken on a complicated challenge. Restoring order may be straightforward in theory, but the politics are treacherous. To succeed, he must ignore the inevitable accusations of racism and authoritarianism and focus on results. In an era when most politicians flee responsibility, Trump is embracing it. If he succeeds, he will restore safety and dignity to the capital and create a model that could shame other cities into action.

Some compare Trump’s move to Nayib Bukele’s crackdown in El Salvador. The most important lesson from that comparison is that success speaks for itself. If Trump’s takeover produces a radically safer capital, Americans will demand the same in their own cities.

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While Democrats continue to accuse President Donald Trump of acting like a dictator in his federalization of law enforcement in the District of Columbia, polling shows it’s one of his best issues.

CNN analyst Harry Enten showed how Americans trust Trump on crime even after the anti-ICE rioting in Los Angeles and other clashes with anti-police protesters that Democrats have tried to blame on the president.

‘Crime is one of Trump’s best issues. It’s one of the reasons why he wants to talk about crime — because it favors him.’

Enten explained the polling in a segment with anchor Kate Bolduan on Thursday.

“Americans view Trump far more favorably now on crime than they did a year ago,” he said. “And while this polling doesn’t take into account what’s exactly happening in D.C. right now, it does take into account what happened in Los Angeles, what’s happened earlier this year, and Americans, for the most part, actually view Trump favorably.”

Enten pointed out that more Americans approved of Trump on crime in current polling than in similar polling about his first term from March 2024. His net approval was one percentage point, while it had been negative by 13 percentage points more than a year ago, meaning a positive swing of 14%.

“Crime is one of Trump’s best issues. It’s one of the reasons why he wants to talk about crime — because it favors him,” Enten added.

He went on to compare support for Trump’s policies on crime to the support of former President Joe Biden and showed just how bad the issue is for Democrats.

“I think this sort of gives the game away here, because Donald Trump is like Air Jordan towering over Joe Biden when it comes to their handling of crime. Look, in 2024, look at where Biden’s net approval was on crime: way under water there, at minus 26 points,” said Enten.

“It was one of Biden’s worst issues — granted, pretty much every issue was one of Biden’s worst issues. And again, look at where Donald Trump is: way, way, way above Joe Biden. What is that? That’s 27 points. So Americans vastly prefer Donald Trump’s approach to crime than they did to Joe Biden’s,” he added. “And again, I think it gets back to the point that Americans are far more hawkish on crime than a lot of Democrats want to admit.”

Enten posted video of the entire segment on his social media account on Thursday.

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The president has opined that he wants to continue the federalization of law enforcement in D.C. beyond the 30-day limit as set in the Home Rule Act, but he would need authorization from Congress in order to do that.

Some D.C. residents have opposed the federalization by confronting the officers on the streets. In one case, a man yelled at an officer before apparently throwing his Subway sandwich at him and running off. He was caught, arrested, and charged with a felony.

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AOL and parent company Yahoo announced that users have just about six weeks to say goodbye to a near-forgotten relic of internet history.

The company offered users assistance with its AOL plan and a phone number to call should they have questions, or perhaps need therapy, about the discontinued service.

For about 32 years, AOL has offered users email addresses and internet access, and ultimately its own browser and messenger service, but now it is asking customers to unplug for the final time.

‘This service will no longer be available in AOL plans.’

Waving goodbye to the beloved phone jack, AOL has announced that its dial-up internet services will end on September 30, after an internal review.

“AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue dial-up internet,” the company wrote. “This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025, this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued.”

The iconic AOL Dialer software is imprinted in the minds of millions who used the service in the 1990s and 2000s, just as the AOL browser and instant-messenger services are likely to be.

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Victoria Beckham at AOL in New York in 1997. Photo by David Corio/Redferns

According to Time, AOL began providing internet access under the name Quantum Computer Services in 1985, focused on an online bulletin board for Commodore 64 computer users.

The company was renamed to America Online in 1991, and by 1993, it started providing email addresses and a Windows browser.

In 1998, America Online’s iconic new-email notification, “You’ve got mail,” was turned into a movie of the same name starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

By 2000, the tech company had acquired 23.2 million dial-up subscribers and changed its name to simply AOL in 2006. According to Allconnect, the number of dial-up users shrunk to just 4.6 million by 2010 and 2.2 million by 2015.

In 2021, CNBC said the number of dial-up subscribers was in “the low thousands.”

Many will remember AOL for its perpetual free disc campaigns that appeared in cereal boxes and were paired with video games. Commercials boasted about 56K internet speeds while culturally the service was likely the most recognizable internet provider of the time.

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“AOL was my first internet service in 1996. I was 13 years old, and we lived in rural Tennessee,” recalled Josh Centers, tech writer and managing editor at Chapter House publishing. “My username was TOMBRAYDER like the game ‘Tomb Raider,’ but everyone called me ‘Tom’ because they thought my name was Tom Brayder.”

Centers told Blaze News that it was not long into his AOL experience that it began causing problems at home.

“I was only on AOL for a month, because every time I logged on, it was a long-distance call to Nashville. At the end of the month, my parents got a phone bill for over $200, freaked out, and that was the end of AOL for me.”

Centers said he missed the integrated experience of the AOL platform at the time: “It felt like a neighborhood.”

Investigative reporter Oren Levy probably could not operate his New York City reporting network off of dial-up, but still remembers the feeling it gave him.

“I remember that sound before dialing up on AOL — it was like rockets blasting off into space. But instead of traveling to the stars, that sound was my gateway to the web.” In the late ’90s, the service’s 56K dial-up speed was considered lightning-fast.

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Celebrated fitness expert Jillian Michaels appeared on a CNN panel and mocked several Smithsonian museum exhibits for displaying blatant progressive bias.

On CNN’s “NewsNight with Abby Phillip,” Michaels fired back at Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and former Democrat strategist Julie Roginsky for taking issue with the Trump administration’s official review of exhibits and materials at the Smithsonian.

Roginsky claimed that Trump has “some random person” deciding what is appropriate for the museum and that the exhibits now must align with topics that do not offend the president or his supporters. Michaels asked the panelist to address some of the exhibits, to which the Russian Roginsky replied that slavery was something the Trump administration did not want to talk about.

‘Do you know that when you walk in the door, the first thing you see is the gay flag?’

“He’s not whitewashing slavery,” Michaels said. The trainer continued, despite Roginsky’s objection: “And you cannot tie imperialism and racism and slavery to just one race, which is pretty much what every single exhibit does.”

Michaels argued that it was worth noting just 2% of white Americans owned slaves, and the horrible practice has been around for “thousands of years” and therefore predates America.

“Do you know who was the first race to try to end slavery?” Michaels asked Roginsky.

At that point, host Phillip chimed in, “I’m surprised you’re trying to litigate who is the beneficiary of slavery.”

Michaels immediately rejected the assertion and later remarked that Phillip was trying to straw man her argument and connect everything to race, just as the museum was.

“Every single thing is like, ‘Oh, no, no, no, this is all because “white people bad.”‘ That’s just not the truth,” Michaels said about the exhibits.

She was not done.

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Phillip asked for other examples from Michaels, who was able to cite several from documents she brought with her.

“Every single exhibit, I have a list of every single one. Like, people migrated from Cuba because ‘white people bad,'” Michaels explained. “Do you know that when you walk in the door, the first thing you see is the gay flag?” she told the panelists.

Still Phillip was not convinced, so Michaels continued.

“There’s one [exhibit] called ‘Change Your Game,'” she detailed. “‘Is gender testing fair in sports?’ Then it goes on to say how it’s complex to do gender testing in sports. It’s not complex. It’s basic science.”

The panel, often interrupting, seemingly could not answer Michaels’ questions as to “why is this in the Smithsonian?”

“It’s been completely captured, and it’s totally partisan,” the 51-year-old claimed.

As Michaels rattled off her examples, the CNN host declared, “We don’t have time to litigate all of this,” but Michaels fired back again.

“Of course we don’t because then you’re gonna lose the argument. Everything [in the museum] is racialized.”

RELATED: Brian Stelter melts down as Trump makes the Smithsonian great again

Jillian Michaels at the Wellness Your Way Festival at the Colorado Convention Center on August 16, 2019, in Denver, Colorado. Photo by Tom Cooper/Getty Images for Wellness Your Way Festival

Michaels took to her X page following the segment to share an image of a Smithsonian exhibit about Cuban and Caribbean migration to the United States.

The exhibit blamed the migration on U.S. support for “foreign governments that favored U.S. businesses and fought communism,” along with “U.S. policy” that contributed to “violence and corruption.”

It also noted “wealthy white Cubans” as the first to leave the island but did not openly note communist policies as a reason for poverty or corruption.

“When you make every single exhibit about white imperialism when it isn’t relevant at all, that is a problem,” Michaels told the CNN commentators.

As for her claim that just 2% of white Americans owned slaves, progressives have argued the figure is unfair because it does not focus on the states in which slave-owning was most prominent, which Politifact called “the most reasonable way” to measure it.

Although the 2017 article sought to disprove a similar claim (the figure used was 1.4%), Politifact actually cited a historian who said the idea that black American slave owners had around 20,000 slaves of their own during the same time period was “not that far off.”

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Breeze Airways Flight MX704 took off from Norfolk, Virginia, and was bound for Los Angeles International Airport at 9:04 a.m. Wednesday, according to FlightAware.

However, an unruly passenger — later identified as 46-year-old David Leroy Carter of Los Angeles — allegedly had an altercation with other passengers and flight attendants.

‘He just got up and sat him down in the seat like a little kid.’

The Grand Junction Police Department said in a statement, “Officers learned that an intoxicated male passenger became agitated, yelling racist slurs at airline staff while waving a skateboard.”

“Just F-bombs and N-bombs,” a passenger told KNBC-TV.

Video shared on TikTok shows a flight attendant attempting to restrain the unruly passenger, but he resisted.

“That’s the last thing you’re going to do to me,” he’s heard telling the flight crew member.

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The flight attendant then asked other passengers to help her restrain Carter.

Seconds later, a large man easily picks up Carter and plants him in a seat.

“Sit your ass down,” the man orders Carter.

A passenger described the hulking good Samaritan as a “linebacker dude.”

Another passenger told KGO-TV, “He just got up and sat him down in the seat like a little kid.”

The good Samaritan – only identified as Ray – told the news outlet, “My son was on there, and there were other kids on there, and so I just had to sit him down.”

Ray added KNBC, “Instinct just took over. I didn’t know it was going to get all like this. It was just instinct.”

KNBC reported that Ray — who stands 6’6” — “played tight end and defensive end on the Jordan High School football team in Watts.”

Law enforcement stated, “Airline staff placed the man in restraints twice, but he was able to break free both times.”

Air traffic control audio revealed that a pilot said the man removed restraining belts and attempted to use them as weapons.

“Yeah, the unruly passenger is free, out of his restraints,” the pilot said. “He’s removed his belt, trying to hit people.”

Breeze Airways told Blaze News that the plane had to be diverted because “a male passenger became physically and verbally threatening to the crew and other guests.”

The plane had to make an emergency landing at the Grand Junction Airport in Colorado around 11:33 a.m.

“The plane was met promptly by local law enforcement officers, who restrained and removed the passenger from the aircraft,” Breeze Airways stated.

Officers with the Grand Junction Police Department responded to the Grand Junction Airport. Police boarded the plane, and one officer is heard on video saying, “Hey, drop the skateboard!”

Video shows passengers applauding as police haul Carter off the aircraft in handcuffs.

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Officers took Carter into custody at the direction of the FBI and transported him to the Mesa County Detention Facility.

The Grand Junction Police Department noted that the suspect did not physically assault anyone, and no major injuries were reported.

Breeze Airways told NBC News, “One flight attendant and one guest were evaluated for minor injuries.”

The plane’s passengers didn’t land at LAX until six hours after the flight was scheduled to arrive.

Police stated an investigation is ongoing. The FBI said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Colorado will provide charges, NBC News reported, although it’s unclear what those charges will be.

The FBI on Thursday afternoon didn’t immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

According to Federal Aviation Administration data, there have been 1,007 reports of unruly passengers so far this year.

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Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid may be the reason for the tabloid-topping relationship between Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce.

Reid is the coach of the 35-year-old tight end, leading him to three Super Bowls between 2020 and 2024.

Since their relationship began, the diamond-selling musician and her Pro Bowl boyfriend have been accused of faking it for the cameras, with even an alleged relationship contract leaking online in 2024 that purported to show the terms of their publicity deal.

While the pair are still together, Swift appeared on Kelce’s podcast, “New Heights,” and was asked if it was actually Coach Reid’s idea to get the pair in a relationship.

‘He’s been friends with my dad.’

Appearing from a different studio, Kelce’s brother and co-host Jason posed the question about the couple’s origins.

“Andy Reid has recently revealed that he was the one who set you guys up. How true is this revelation by Big Red?” Jason asked.

“Whatever Andy Reid says, we’re going to stand by,” Swift laughed. “He says it. That’s what happened.”

Even though Reid has joked for years that he put the wheels in motion for Swift and Kelce, the couple answered the question honestly and explained their situation was more straightforward than people might think.

RELATED: Megyn Kelly’s FIERY message for Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Julia Roberts: ‘You effed around and found out’

Swift revealed that Coach Reid actually got to her through her father, Scott, and put in a good word for his star player.

“He’s been friends with my dad,” she said of Reid. “My dad is the most social man who’s ever been born.”

Swift reminisced about how her father can meet someone at an airport and still be talking to the person twice a week based on a “five-minute conversation” 50 years ago. “He’s able to have very many very meaningful relationships, and it’s a skill,” she explained.

Swift told Jason Kelce that Coach Reid had actually been coming to her concerts for years after striking up a friendship with her dad, even though she was not sure what his role in the sports world was.

“I didn’t really know what the sports were that he was doing, but I knew that was my dad’s friend Andy Reid,” she recalled.

It was not until Kelce publicly presented the question, “Do you want to date me?” to Swift that Reid, along with others, allegedly sprung into action to make the relationship happen.

RELATED: Trump hails Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad after learning she’s a registered Republican, torches ‘woke’ brands as losers

Andy Reid talks with Travis Kelce, #87, during minicamp at the University of Kansas Health System Training Complex on June 17, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri. Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images

“Everybody heard it,” Swift said. “It was the shooting-your-shot heard ’round the world.”

Swift added that after his public decree, everyone in her orbit that knew Kelce began vouching for him, including Coach Reid.

“I think it was like, Andy was vouching for you. I think it was my relatives; my cousins were like, ‘Please, please, please. He’s amazing,'” Swift detailed.

With so many people telling her to go for it, Swift apparently could not resist how many people were willing to “go to bat” for Kelce.

Entertainment writer Natasha Biase told Blaze News that she believes Kelce’s ego is more than likely the driving force behind the relationship than anyone else’s influence.

“He went to her show and tried to get around all the proper procedures to meet her, made a stink about it, and for some reason she decided she’d give him a shot,” she stated.

While not everyone can agree on the power couple’s origins, the football lore that it is now attached to is certainly something that will be tied to the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victories in future documentaries and cultural time capsules.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed shocking new details about a deranged Washington, D.C., resident who was recently charged with felony assault after he allegedly threw a Subway sandwich at a federal officer.

Sean Charles Dunn, a 37-year-old D.C. resident, was identified in a police complaint as the suspect who shouted obscenities and allegedly threw the footlong at a federal officer Tuesday night after President Donald Trump’s D.C. federal takeover. Dunn has since been charged with a felony for assaulting the officer, according to the FBI.

‘This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against.’

After video of the altercation went viral, Bondi later revealed that Dunn had been working for the Department of Justice at the time of the confrontation but that he has since been fired.

“If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you,” Bondi said in a Thursday post on X.

“I just learned that this defendant worked at the Department of Justice — NO LONGER,” Bondi added. “Not only is he FIRED, he has been charged with a felony.”

According to the complaint, Dunn hurled obscenities at the federal officers, calling them “f**king fascists” and shouting that he doesn’t want them in D.C. After he apparently threw the sandwich, he was apprehended and processed by the Metropolitan Police Department, where he later reportedly admitted to throwing the sandwich.

“I did it. I threw a sandwich,” Dunn said, according to the complaint.

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“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus the DOJ,” Bondi said. “You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement.”

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“The door is ajar. The door is ajar. The door is ajar.”

That’s where it started in 1984, in the driver’s seat of a Chrysler. I was 10 years old when I saw my first “talking car” and thought it was wicked cool. Boys my age grew up pretending our banana-seat bikes were the jacked-up talking Trans Am called “KITT” on “Knight Rider.” Go on, click that link. You know you want to hear the theme song.

Our first Slant-6 lived in a 1969 Dodge Dart — white, four-door — that my mother bought for $200 in 1982.

That’s what we thought “smart” cars were. Had we known that by 2015 our automobiles would morph into steel mommies that made all our decisions for us, we might not have been so eager for “progress.”

Motor mouth

It started with the “helpful alerts” like Chrysler’s door-open warning. It’s reached its … zenith? … today with squawking digital touchscreens that beep, chime, blare, blink, cajole, and do just about everything except what you want a car to do.

Try finding a modern automobile that isn’t an iPad on wheels. Like the annoying, never-shuts-off “your food is ready” repeating chirp from the microwave, modern cars have been designed to irritate you to death instead of letting you perish naturally in a wreck like God intended.

My car is a 2012 Prius. Nope, I didn’t buy it for “environmental” reasons (pfft). I bought it because when it comes to cars, I prioritize value and reliability over the long term, and these things are tanks that go as many miles as the vaunted Toyota Camry. And as far as modern cars go — yes, 2012 is “modern” to me — it’s not that bad.

2012 Toyota Prius/Heritage Images/Getty Images

But still, a warning chime in middle C goes off 50 times in a row (yes, I counted) if I don’t buckle my seatbelt fast enough.

Even if I do, the same note dings for the first 10 seconds for no reason that I can discern, except to tell me the car is on. As if I couldn’t see the fireworks display of orange triangles and stupid pictograms that dance around on the projected dashboard every time it starts.

Nanny Camry

And like all contemporary cars, the Prius believes it knows better how to drive than I do, and the engineers at Toyota have decided that I don’t get to make decisions about the gear range, torque, or wheel spin.

Because the car is engineered for fuel efficiency, the transmission is continuously variable — it’s the sloppiest, softest gearbox I’ve ever driven, and it’s painfully slow to change ranges when needed.

Getting up my snow-covered driveway in Vermont is a challenge because the car “features” traction control. It cannot be turned off, even temporarily. Despite the best intentions of the designers, my Toyota simply cannot be parked on any incline in winter because it won’t ever grab the road the right way to get unstuck in snow.

You can’t rock it back and forth the way you could with a manual with a clutch, or even with an old-fashioned column-mounted automatic shift. The gear shift is literally an electronic joystick that gives zero physical-world feedback and operates on a digital timer, rather than in sync with the motion I apply to the stick.

Sunday drivers

More recent cars are even worse. My friend bought a 2022 BMW SUV. This friend loves high technology and automation to the degree that I loathe it. He couldn’t wait for me to drive this beast and experience it driving itself.

And it does. It keeps the lane, it brakes if something enters the road ahead. It’s impressive and uncanny, but I don’t like it. And while not even my age contemporaries will listen, this is going to contribute to further degradation of human driving skills.

It’s like what happens to commercial airline pilots. Modern passenger jets are so highly automated that most pilots spend only about 10% of total flying time actually flying the plane manually. “Stick skills,” as they’re called, get lost, leaving pilots unprepared for the weight and feel of the craft when they have to take over in an emergency.

Built tough

Now, it’s true that modern automobiles are far more reliable than they ever were. I have to admit how pleased I am with the fact that my Toyota has never failed to start and has never “run rough” or stalled.

Neither did my old Toyota. This is my second, and the only reason I don’t have the first one still is that a 17-year-old rear-ended me at 20 miles an hour.

Anyone old enough to remember standing over a carburetor spraying ether and praying the engine would catch in the dead of winter appreciates the reliability of modern internal combustion engines. Modern cars don’t rust like they used to either. My childhood in the ’80s featured cars that were less than 10 years old limping along, nothing but a lattice of rust held together with Bondo long enough to get to the junkyard.

Overall, modern-build quality is far superior to what we used to have.

No passing Caprice

But I don’t like modern cars, and I long for some of the simple, straightforward, and attractive autos I grew up with and had the pleasure of owning. The full-sized, V8, comfort-suspension American sedan, for example, desperately needs to make a comeback.

My 1986 Chevrolet Caprice Brougham was a Cadillac at a working man’s price. That silver beast with a black vinyl top and crushed velour bench seats was a hotel lobby on wheels. You could drive over a railroad crossing at 50 miles per hour and not even notice.

A custom 1988 Chevrolet Caprice LS Brougham/Julia Beverly/Getty Images

On my first night in Vermont, I brought the car down off a tow-dolly and made my way to my friend’s house on a dark country road, up a hill, in a place I’d never been. Naturally, I hit a doe at 35 miles an hour. She went flying into the ditch, but the Chevrolet didn’t even swerve off course. When I got to my friend’s house and checked out the front end, there was no damage.

Slanted and enchanted

The cars I miss the most, though, weren’t the biggest or plushest. But they were the best mechanical engines Americans could buy for decades: the fabled Chrysler Slant-Six. The Slant-Six engine is so called because the six-cylinder motor block is canted 30 degrees off true in order to fit under the lower, sleeker hoods introduced in the 1960s.

Some kind of sorcery went into the Slant-Six engine because these things would not die. Ever. Our first Slant-Six lived in a 1969 Dodge Dart — white, four-door — that my mother bought for $200 in 1982.

1974 Dodge Dart on the set of “Friday Night Lights”/NBC/Getty Images

We went all over Southern California in that car until the day it was too rusted to pass inspection. The junkyard tow driver showed up and started the engine out of curiosity. It fired right up and made that sound that you are hearing in your head right now if you’ve ever owned a Slant-Six. These engines ran with a soft and regular tick-tap-tick-tap like a well-oiled Singer sewing machine. There’s no sound in the world like it.

My mother cried when the Dart disappeared around the corner and so did I.

Eventually, I bought my own 1975 Dart, and it carried me around rural Virginia as a cub crime reporter for years, with air conditioning that would have chilled a penguin. All that for $500.

Ode to Francine

Years later, I bought the car I now miss the most: a 1966 Plymouth Belvedere II with a 225-cubic-inch Slant-Six, retrofitted with the Super Six double-barrel carburetor for extra oomph. In darkest navy blue and chrome, Francine was in near mint condition with only 46,000 miles when I bought her in 2010. She started with a mere half-second flick of the ignition switch and never faltered or stalled.

Francine was so perfectly preserved that guys stared on the street, and a couple of teenagers begged me to drive them to the prom so they could be seen in a car from the era when automobile romance was still alive.

As a bonus, Francine was virtually theft-proof. Not only was this large sedan a manual shift with a clutch, but it was a three-on-the-tree; a three-gear manual shifted by a stick on the steering column. Put this column in front of your Gen Z grandson and watch his puzzled expression.

I wish I’d better tagged the photos in my old phone, but here she is, a few days before I sold her:

Josh Slocum

Now that is a car.

Tell me about the cars you’ve loved and lost in the comments!

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