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“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg finally broke her silence about her emails found in the Jeffrey Epstein file drop, but her explanation did not pass muster with many.

Goldberg requested to borrow Epstein’s private jet in order to fly to a charity event in Monaco for the White Feather Foundation in 2013, according to the email.

‘People actually believe that I was with him. It’s like, honey, come on.’

Goldberg appeared to confirm the request and was annoyed by critics who used the revelation to bash her and the show.

“In the name of transparency … my name is in the files,” Goldberg said. “Yes. And what does it say? It says, ‘Whoopi needs a plane to get to Monaco. John Lennon’s charity’ — it should say ‘Julian Lennon’s charity’ — ‘is paying for it. They don’t want to charter, so they’re looking for private owners. Here’s the info.’ And they give all the information.”

“It looks like they said, ‘No, thanks,'” co-host Sunny Hostin said.

NewsBusters pointed out that the show displayed the email but did not zoom in because that would have shown the date it was sent — years after Epstein agreed to a plea deal to admit guilt to a charge for procuring a prostitute as well as a charge for procuring a child for prostitution.

“In other words, anybody can be on this list!” co-host Joy Behar said.

“Well, this is my point. Because I’m telling you, when I tell you people are trying to turn me into — I wasn’t his girlfriend. I wasn’t his friend,” Goldberg replied.

“You were too old for him,” co-host Sara Haines said.

“I was not only too old, but it was at a time, you know, where this is just not — you used to have to have facts before you said stuff,” Goldberg said.

“But Trump is on the list 38,000 times. Come on!” Behar protested.

“Well, I can’t speak to him, but I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged. People actually believe that I was with him. It’s like, honey, come on,” Goldberg added.

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Video of her non-response was posted to social media, where it was widely circulated.

Others pointed out that the gals of “The View” previously excoriated President Donald Trump for being present in the Epstein files, and now they’re excusing Goldberg’s presence.

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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales warns that a long-standing boundary in American politics has collapsed — and that is leaving the kids out of it.

“Looking at how the left manipulates children, like the depths of their evil and ghoulish behavior, just there’s no floor,” Gonzales comments.

“There used to be this understanding that whatever your political differences, it was like, leave the kids out of it, right? If you’re an adult, you’re fair game. Leave the kids out of it. Don’t bring them into this nonsense. Don’t use them as political pawns,” she continues.

The left stopped listening to that long ago, and it’s only getting worse. Specifically, the left is now trying to get children to protest ICE.

“For some reason, children should be very upset that the Trump administration is trying to remove illegal criminals from our cities. Now, don’t waste your time or your brain power trying to make out why that is,” Gonzales says.

And in a recent article from Fox News, it’s reported that an Antifa-linked organization was even passing out material to K-12 students.

“It’s a 25-page document, and it focuses on mobilizing youth against what it describes as a regime. ‘It’s a regime and a system captured by billionaires,’” Gonzales mocks the group.

“Now, far be it from me to point out the hypocrisy of this being funded by George Soros of all people, but, like, when it’s billionaires that we don’t agree with, it’s bad. And when it’s billionaires that we do agree with, it’s good. And when it’s billionaires we don’t agree with, it’s dark money. And when it’s billionaires we do agree with, it’s just a generous political donation,” she continues.

Gonzales explains that the material “urges students to walk out of classrooms and boycott businesses to try to prove that the country cannot function without their cooperation.”

And it’s not an isolated incident.

In a video shared by Beth Bourne on X, a principal is seen chaperoning students as they chant, “Brown and proud,” and hold anti-ICE protest signs.

“Now, first of all, as a parent, it’s like, OK, this doesn’t need to be school-sponsored. This doesn’t need to be on taxpayer time, right? The school principal is there. It’s clearly school-sponsored. That’s not a thing that you need to be doing,” Gonzales says.

“Secondly, I just very much worry about that generation, that we’re still pretending like the color of your skin has anything to do with this. Like, ‘Brown and proud, brown and proud.’ … These people are here illegally. That is the problem. The problem has nothing to do with the color of your skin,” she adds.

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A 54-year-old man was arrested for child abuse after he allegedly got into a fight with high school students who walked out of school to protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

About 150 students walked out of the Grand Island Senior High School in Nebraska at about 1:30 on Monday and marched down College Street, where they encountered Michael Brown.

Several other students attacked him by kicking him and punching him as he was on the ground.

Brown drove by the crowd shouting pro-ICE comments before one of the students allegedly threw a water bottle at him, striking him in the face, according to Grand Island Police Division Chief Dean Elliott.

Elliott said Brown got out of his vehicle and chased after the female student he believed threw the water bottle. At that point, several other students attacked him by kicking him and punching him as he was on the ground.

Videos on social media show some of the brawl, with Brown bloodied afterward. At least three male students trade blows with the man in the videos.

Elliott said a teacher from West Lawn Elementary School intervened in the fight to help break it up.

The school emphasized that the protest was not sponsored by administrators, teachers, or district officials and was completely student-led. The students who participated in the walkout were not allowed back to school and were marked absent for the day.

Elliott indicated that Brown was charged with child abuse rather than assault because of the difference in ages between him and the juveniles. One of the juveniles was also cited for assault.

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A felony report on the Grand Island Police website indicates that Brown caused injury to one of the two victims, who were listed as a 16-year-old male and a 17-year-old male.

One news video report from the Grand Island Independent described the protest as “peaceful” and did not include information about the brawl. The video did show two Mexican flags being waved at the protest.

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America’s largest automakers are retreating from their electric vehicle ambitions after taking staggering financial hits — a shift highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal report revealing more than $50 billion in combined charges.

“Ford announced in December that it expected to take $19.5 billion in charges to retrench amid sinking EV demand. Together, Ford, General Motors and Jeep-maker Stellantis have now announced more than $50 billion in charges as they pull back on their EV ambitions,” the article in the Wall Street Journal reads.

“EV tax credit expiring, which was, of course, part of the Big Beautiful Bill, goes into effect late 2025,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere explains while looking at a chart from the Wall Street Journal.

“And you see monthly sales have dropped off by well over 50%, which is remarkable,” Stu says.

“Net profit, you see, everything going fine for these companies — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis — until this EV credit goes away. Things drop through the floor. Again, when you’re building your business based on some government credit — if the only way it can succeed is if the government is giving you money, then you haven’t built a business,” he explains.

“What you’ve built is a rent-seeking operation. What you’ve built is an opportunity to bilk other taxpayers to pay for your crappy business. That’s what we’ve built here with the EV bubble,” he continues.

And while other companies’ EV sales are doing better than GM, Ford, and Stellantis, they are still dropping.

“The sales are dropping, and yes, they are dropping by more in the United States,” Stu says.

“Remember, if you have built a company, basically, that is completely dependent on the government giving you free money every time you sell something, you haven’t really built a business at all,” he adds.

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Late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert lashed out at the Trump administration about equal time demands over an interview with a Democratic candidate trying to flip a U.S. Senate seat for Texas.

Colbert said the interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico was axed after the Federal Communications Commission issued new guidance declaring that late-night shows needed to provide equal time to competing candidates in political races.

‘Because my network clearly does not want us to talk about this … let’s talk about this.’

“[Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” said Colbert, who added that he was told by showrunners not to mention the issue.

“And because my network clearly does not want us to talk about this … let’s talk about this,” said Colbert.

He went on to post the interview with Talarico on social media rather than broadcast it. Colbert addressed FCC Chair Brendan Carr directly in his monologue.

“I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself,” said Colbert. “Let’s just call this what it is. Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. OK?”

In the interview posted online, Talarico praised Colbert and said he was an exemplar of Christianity.

“I just want to thank you, Stephen, because I know you’re not a politician, but you have really shown people in this country what Christianity should be and what it means to actually live out the teachings of Jesus, even in a talk show,” he said.

Colbert’s show will end in May, CBS announced in July after citing financial considerations. Many on the left have accused the Trump administration of using its influence to shut down the show over the host’s anti-Trump tirades.

Late-night and daytime talk shows had been previously exempted from the equal time rules before the new FCC guidance.

RELATED: Trump says Colbert is to blame for his show’s cancellation — but adds Kimmel and Fallon are next

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression also criticized the policy change at the FCC.

“By putting pressure on late-night talk shows critical of the Trump administration while openly admitting that conservative talk radio is immune from the FCC’s ire, he’s making himself the poster boy for big government putting its thumb on the scale of political debate,” said FIRE chief counsel Robert Corn-Revere in part.

“Carr used to say that the FCC cannot act as the nation’s speech police, but now that he is chairman, he has worn the badge proudly,” he added.

The president denied being solely responsible for the decision to end Colbert’s show.

“Everybody is saying that I was solely responsible for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, Late Night. That is not true! The reason he was fired was a pure lack of TALENT, and the fact that this deficiency was costing CBS $50 Million Dollars a year in losses — And it was only going to get WORSE!” Trump wrote in July.

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China’s latest autonomous robots display has some viewers worried while others can’t even believe it is real.

China held its annual CCTV Spring Festival gala, which is an annual performance that shows off the latest the country has to offer in tech.

‘Some “imperfection” movement of the robots is really scary.’

The event saw a reported 677 million viewers across platforms, according to China Daily, and an alleged 13.5 billion views on clips after the fact.

What caught the most eyes in the West though, was the performance of humanoid robots from tech company Unitree Robotics. Unitree was one of four robot companies to put on displays, but it seemingly caught the most eyes with its robots’ drunken boxing routine, performed alongside acrobatic children.

The performance included sword and staff work, gymnastics, and even breakdancing. According to NBC News, new innovations in multi-robot coordination and fault recovery were a focus in the display, with the latter referring to a robot’s ability to get up after falling down.

Reactions online were a mix of shock and awe, along with worry.

“This is getting scary and creepy,” one user commented on YouTube.

“Some ‘imperfection’ movement of the robots is really scary,” another viewer added.

However, there exist claims that the robots are not actually this advanced, and some sort of postproduction was involved.

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On X, one viewer pointed out the drastic difference between the robotic capabilities on display at the festival in 2025 versus 2026. Last year, robots were stumbling around waving handkerchiefs, while this year they are in choreographed gymnastics and martial arts displays.

“In just one year, they have evolved from robots to ‘humans,'” AI entrepreneur Tansu Yegen wrote.

Another user disputed the video, saying he saw the same robots at a live demo “a month ago in Shenzhen.”

“They’re slow, shaky, & can barely shuffle let alone do any of this. This isn’t the first time unitree has used cgi to fake capability,” he claimed.

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Last year, Unitree put on a Humanoid Robot Boxing event that showed robots sloppily competing in martial arts with one another. The capabilities this February would likely be considered a vast jump from what was seen in May 2025 by the fighter bots.

Still there is yet to be any concrete evidence that Unitree or China was faking the event.

At the same time though, Shenzhen EngineAI Robotics Technology Co. Ltd. launched the Ultimate Robot Knock-Out Legend event a week earlier.

The company plans to have “Chinese Robot Kung Fu” robots battle it out for a 10-kilogram pure gold belt worth about $1.4 million.

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An illegal alien being chased by federal immigration officers crashed into the car of a beloved grade-school teacher and killed her, according to Georgia police.

38-year-old Oscar Vasquez Lopez allegedly drove through a red light and crashed into Linda Davis as Immigration and Customs Enforcement chased him in Savannah.

‘This tragic loss of life at the hands of someone who shouldn’t be here could have been prevented.’

The Chatham County Police Dept. said officers were called to the scene of the car crash Monday at about 7:45 a.m. at the intersection of Whitefield Avenue and Truman Parkway. Police said federal officers were trying to initiate a traffic stop on Lopez when he fled in his vehicle.

Davis was reportedly transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, while Lopez was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

The Savannah-Chatham County Public School System confirmed that Davis worked at Hesse K-8 school.

The Department of Homeland Security said a judge issued a final order of removal against Lopez in 2024.

Police said in a Facebook statement that Lopez was charged at the state level with homicide by vehicle in the first degree, reckless driving, driving without valid license, and failure to obey traffic control device. They also clarified that they did not play a role in the ICE operation but responded to the report of a car crash.

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Some on social media tried to place the blame for the fatal incident on ICE, which was immediately denied by the ICE official account.

“This is an utterly disgusting lie. A Guatemalan criminal illegal alien fled from law enforcement and crashed into another vehicle, killing Linda Davis — an American citizen and beloved teacher at Hesse K-8,” the agency said.

“This tragic loss of life at the hands of someone who shouldn’t be here could have been prevented,” the agency added. “Our prayers are with the Savannah, GA, community and the family of Linda Davis.”

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While the Miss America pageant has long been known for featuring the most beautiful women in the country, organizers are now opening the competition up to biological men and removing the crowns of those who disagree.

When Miss North Florida Kayleigh Bush refused to sign a contract that featured the pageant’s updated policies because it changed the language to claim that men can be considered women and eligible to compete, she was stripped of her title.

And BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is seriously disturbed, saying, “Miss America is now allowing trans people to compete.”

“Now they’ve got updated rules. Contestants have to be women aged 18 to 28, unmarried, no children, and U.S. citizens. However, ‘women,’ air quotes, includes those born female or an individual who has fully completed sex reassignment surgery via vaginoplasty,” she explains.

BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden is as shocked as Gonzales.

“The mental gymnastics that they have to go through — which is, by the way, going to tank the organization. It’s going to be over,” he says, before pointing out that it’s a “communist play.”

“They want to say that ugly is beautiful. They want to say, ‘Look at that beautiful building.’ And you go, ‘Uh, it’s a concrete building.’ … But isn’t it funny? That’s what they’re doing,” he says.

“What they’re trying to do is mess with your head. I mean, really, they’re trying to tell you, ‘Hang on a second. Beauty is ugly. Ugly is beauty. Don’t look at this. Don’t look at that. A man’s a woman. A woman’s a man,’” he continues.

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It didn’t take long for a Chinese-owned AI company to get slapped with reality from American companies.

ByteDance, known for its short-form video app TikTok, released Seedance 2.0 on February 12, allowing users to create realistic AI videos from simple text prompts.

‘Stealing human creators’ work in an attempt to replace them with AI generated slop is destructive to our culture.’

Quickly, users were recreating lifelike scenes that included everything from influencer videos to Hollywood action sequences. However, it only took Hollywood about 24 hours to make the call to its legal teams about what was being posted online that featured its copyright-protected material.

Disney was seemingly the first to let ByteDance know it needed to stop what it was doing, and the company sent a letter to ByteDance that accused it of pre-packaging its product with “a pirated library of Disney’s copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney’s coveted intellectual property were free public domain clip art.”

According to Axios, Disney attorney David Singer also accused ByteDance of “hijacking Disney’s characters by reproducing, distributing, and creating derivative works.”

“ByteDance’s virtual smash-and-grab of Disney’s IP is willful, pervasive, and totally unacceptable,” the lawyer added.

In response, ByteDance assured the concerned parties that it would be acting to prevent the use of unauthorized materials.

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“We are taking steps to strengthen current safeguards as we work to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property and likeness by users,” a spokesperson claimed.

It wasn’t long before huge groups like the Motion Picture Association jumped in to back Disney up; the MPA represents not only the Mickey Mouse company, but Netflix, Paramount Skydance, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros., and Discovery.

“In a single day, the Chinese AI service Seedance 2.0 has engaged in unauthorized use of U.S. copyrighted works on a massive scale,” MPA chairman Charles Rivkin said in the statement.

Rivkin said the “infringement” affects “millions of American jobs” by disregarding the well-established copyright laws that are already on the books.

The Human Artistry Campaign — which represents groups like SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America — also chimed in and said that Seedance 2.0 was attacking every creator around the world.

“Stealing human creators’ work in an attempt to replace them with AI generated slop is destructive to our culture: stealing isn’t innovation,” the group said in a statement.

RELATED: Scammers are now using AI chatbots for financial extortion

For reasons unknown, the AI video generator became popular very quickly with those looking to recreate Hollywood-tier fight scenes with some of their favorite comic book characters, like Superman and the Incredible Hulk.

However, other fight scenes included bringing cartoons like “Dragon Ball Z” to life, while others featured rooftop fisticuffs between celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

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Hundreds of teens rampaged a Bronx shopping mall and tangled with police Monday on their day off from school — Presidents’ Day.

News 12 reported that the planned “takeover” at the Mall at Bay Plaza commenced around 2 p.m.

‘This is embarrassing. Bored? Read a book, invent something.’

Officers responded to reports of up to 200 teenagers being disorderly, WABC-TV reported.

“This is insane. I mean, I haven’t seen it this bad ever,” one neighbor, Keshana, told News 12.

The takeover spread throughout several businesses, including a McDonald’s just outside the mall, News 12 said, adding that a window at the fast-food restaurant was shattered.

“A bunch of kids just came in here they were breaking everything,” employee William Norman told News 12. “I was scared for my life, man. I got kids at home.”

WABC reported that the teens appeared to challenge officers; the New York Post said some of them were “appearing to resist and fight the cops.”

RELATED: Massive mall brawl: 300 teens descend upon shopping mall, run amok, fight — even with cops. TikTok influencer set ‘meetup.’

Indeed, one clip posted to X shows officers trying to bring a fleeing male under control, but he escapes after his comrades appear to join his tangle with police. One officer appears to take a swing at one of the mob members.

A News 12 reporter asked a group of teens on camera for the reason behind their behavior, and several replied with laughter, “We was bored!”

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Authorities told News 12 that officers issued multiple warnings and ordered the large, disorderly group to disperse.

News 12 added that the takeover plan was shared on social media and that it was supposed to end after the teens were “kicked out.”

A mall spokesperson told News 12 that the mall didn’t close despite the chaotic event, which was “resolved quickly.”

Eighteen were taken into custody, News 12 said. WABC reported that the exact charges are pending.

Commenters responding to News 12’s video report didn’t take kindly to the teens’ actions — particularly their stated reason:

“They were bored???” one commenter reacted. “God forbid they stay home and pick up a book to read or maybe study or do some chores.””This is embarrassing. Bored? Read a book, invent something,” another commenter suggested.Bored? They have free wifi all over the place where you can be online for hours and yet still bored,” another commenter argued.”They’re not bored, they’re bums because their parents are bums too,” another commenter declared.”Bored? If they are bored, do something positive like [clean] up the neighborhood,” another commenter offered.

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The Department of Justice belatedly released a massive trove of documents related to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein last month. The documents provide damning insights into the dead pedophile as well as his network of former business associates and friends.

One of the affluent individuals whose name comes up repeatedly in the Epstein files is Thomas Pritzker — cousin of Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker — who has served as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation since August 2004.

‘Good stewardship also means protecting Hyatt.’

The 75-year-old billionaire revealed to the board of the hotel chain on Monday that he was retiring, effective immediately, to protect Hyatt from the fallout of his relationship with the dead pedophile.

In his letter to the board, which was reviewed by the New York Times, Pritzker said that “good stewardship also means protecting Hyatt, particularly in the context of my association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, which I deeply regret.”

Pritzker noted further that he “exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with them, and there is no excuse for failing to distance myself sooner.”

The retiring Hyatt executive chairman appears to have maintained a friendship and remained in frequent contact with Epstein long after the sex offender pleaded guilty to procuring a child for prostitution.

In the newly released Epstein files, the email address accompanying Pritzker’s name is frequently redacted. However in some cases, it is crossed out but still visible.

RELATED: ‘Smoking Gun’: Yale prof nearly blown up by Unabomber defends his Epstein emails

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Richard Tuttle, chair of the Hyatt board’s nominating and corporate governance committee, said in a statement, “Tom’s leadership has been instrumental in shaping Hyatt’s strategy and long-term growth, and we thank him for his service and dedication to Hyatt.”

Mark Hoplamazian, Hyatt’s president and CEO, has stepped into the role left open by the Epstein associate.

Pritzker is among a growing list of individuals whose relationships with Epstein have earned them heightened scrutiny and professional consequences.

After new details about their relationships and/or communications with Epstein came to light:

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem resigned as chairman and chief executive of the global ports operator DP World;David Gelernter, a Yale University computer science professor who lost a few fingers opening a package sent by the Unabomber, defended a controversial correspondence he had with Epstein and was barred from teaching classes at the university;Peter Mandelson, a prominent Labour Party figure who was appointed Britain’s ambassador to the U.S. in 2024 by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, resigned in disgrace from the House of Lords while his protege stepped down as Starmer’s right-hand man;Kathy Ruemmler said she was resigning as Goldman Sach’s chief legal officer;Brad Karp resigned as chairman of the top U.S. law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP;U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was grilled in a Senate hearing about his 2012 meeting with Epstein at the pedophile’s island;New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, who NFL commissioner Roger Goodell indicated might ultimately face an internal investigation, admitted to a “brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy, and investments”;Letty Moss-Salentijn was stripped of her administrative duties at Columbia University’s College of Dental Medicine;Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and former wife of ex-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, saw her charity, Sarah’s Trust, shuttered; andThorbjørn Jagland, Norway’s former prime minister, was charged with aggravated corruption.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has pledged to intervene in Maryland’s redistricting stalemate after the state’s Senate president, also a Democrat, broke ranks with his party to block the effort.

State Democrats’ redistricting bill, House Bill 488, breezed through the House in early February by a vote of 99-37, mostly along party lines. If passed, the bill would redraw Maryland’s congressional districts to make the state’s sole Republican-held seat significantly more competitive for Democrats. However, the legislation remains stalled in the Senate.

‘At some point, I am going to have to have a conversation with him if he continues to stand in the way of an up or down vote.’

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson penned a letter to his colleagues detailing his refusal to bring a mid-cycle redistricting bill to the Senate floor for a vote.

“Despite deeply shared frustrations about the state of our country, mid-cycle redistricting for Maryland presents a reality where the legal risks are too high, the timeline for action is dangerous, the downside risk to Democrats is catastrophic, and the certainty of our existing map would be undermined,” Ferguson wrote.

He acknowledged that he and the Democratic Party are feeling pressure to “fight back” against Republicans’ redistricting efforts in Texas and North Carolina. However, he claimed that the risk to potentially “gain a seat not worth pursuing” was “too high.”

Ferguson explained that any attempt to redistrict would almost certainly prompt Republicans to challenge the map, potentially sending the case to the Maryland Supreme Court, which has never reviewed Maryland’s current congressional map.

“That means that any redrawing of the current map could reopen the ability for someone to challenge the current map and give the court the opportunity to strike it down, or even worse, redraw the map itself,” he wrote.

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Ferguson also speculated that if Maryland redraws its congressional map, other Republican states would likely follow suit.

“That means that Maryland’s potential gain of one seat is immediately eliminated, and, in fact, worsens the national outlook,” he concluded.

Ferguson argued that mid-cycle redistricting “twists rules for potential short-term advantage.” However, he claimed that was “not the reason we should not pursue it.”

“Simply put, it is too risky and jeopardizes Maryland’s ability to fight against the radical Trump Administration,” he told his fellow Democrats.

RELATED: Black Democrat governor vetoed slavery reparations bill — but other Dems in his state have now kept it alive

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) has urged Ferguson to allow the Senate to vote on the bill.

“My ask is simple: Do not let the democratic process die in the Free State. Debate it, discuss it, make adjustments if necessary, and put it to a vote,” Moore stated during a Wednesday press conference.

Ferguson’s resistance to bringing the bill to the floor has prompted Rep. Jeffries to intervene in the dispute.

“All we are asking Senate President Ferguson to do is allow democracy to prevail. What that means is an up or down vote,” Jeffries told CNN over the weekend. “At some point, I am going to have to have a conversation with him if he continues to stand in the way of an up or down vote. But, hopefully, over the next few days, he will change his mind.”

A spokesperson for Ferguson told WBAL-TV in response to Jeffries’ comments, “There is nothing more for us to say or do.”

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In an important development in the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, investigators have cleared several people from the suspect list — including one person who had been heavily scrutinized since Guthrie was first reported missing on February 1.

The New York Post reported on Monday that investigators have ruled out Nancy Guthrie’s family from any suspicion in connection with her disappearance.

‘The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case.’

“The Guthrie family — to include all siblings and spouses — has been cleared as possible suspects in this case,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Monday, according to Post.

“The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,” he added. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel. The Guthrie family are victims, plain and simple.”

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Investigators have thus ruled out Nancy’s children, Savannah, Annie, and Camron, as anything other than victims.

Also included on this list is Annie’s husband, Tommaso Cioni, who was reportedly the last person to see Nancy Guthrie alive on January 31.

Prior to this development, Nanos said that he “understands” that Cioni would be subject to suspicion but warned people not to jump to rash judgments without evidence.

“I understand the pundits are out there. They’re gonna say, ‘Well, he’s the last one to see her alive.’ We understand that stuff. But, my goodness, you’re putting a mark on somebody who could be completely innocent. And more important than that, he’s family,” Nanos said, according to the New York Post.

Cioni last saw Nancy around 9:45 p.m. on January 31 after he and Annie had dinner with her, according to reports.

Though a few people were detained by a SWAT team near Nancy’s house in Tucson, Arizona, in connection with the investigation late last week, no one has yet been a named as a suspect.

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The Margot Robbie-led film adaptation of Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” has been on the tip of every woman’s tongue as of late — because the marketing has been aimed at every woman — including BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey.

“I’ve seen all kinds of marketing for this that has been really effective because I thought, OK, I might want to go see this. It’s based on a classic novel,” Stuckey says on “Relatable,” adding that she also is a fan of Margot Robbie.

“So there is, like, this deep obsession in this storyline, and that is true of the book. It is just hyper-sexualized, it seems like in the movie,” she adds.

The story begins with young Catherine Earnshaw and the orphaned Heathcliff — who has no last name — forming an intense bond under her abusive father’s roof.

“Then as adults, their unspoken passion clashes with class barriers. Catherine marries the wealthy, refined Edgar Linton for social security and stability, driving the devastated Heathcliff away. And then years later, Heathcliff returns mysteriously rich and more attractive and transformed,” Stuckey explains.

“And that reignites their fiery, now completely forbidden connection. Not only forbidden because of the class disparity that once existed, but also because she is married. And then she also gets pregnant, and this leads to explicit torrid affairs, and Heathcliff enacts revenge,” she continues.

The story continues on with Heathcliff gaining ultimate control over his enemies’ freedom, estates, social standing, and their daily lives.

However, the film is being promoted as “inspired by the greatest love story of all time.”

“It also carries this tagline, which I think is important to the theme that we’re talking about, ‘Drive me mad.’ This idea that the greatest love story of all time has to do with insanity and jealousy and bitterness and cruelty and torture and revenge and also these very, very hypersexual, and it seems even edging on violent, sexual affairs, that these two lovers are having even during pregnancy,” Stuckey says.

The marketing for the film itself has involved actress Margot Robbie and actor Jacob Elordi acting infatuated with each other in their personal lives — despite Robbie being a married mother.

“I think it’s strange how you can kind of push the boundaries of what is acceptable in a relationship between a man and a woman. Not just on screen. I still think there’s something morally wrong with that obviously,” Stuckey says.

“They probably feel this way about each other, which you could argue is troubling in itself. It is also part of marketing. But it is what draws women in … it builds this idea in women’s minds that this is the greatest love story ever told,” she adds.

Stuckey likens the storyline of “Wuthering Heights” to “The Notebook,” which she calls “totally immoral, totally unethical, not at all a healthy idea of what love and romance and marriage and pursuit should look like.”

“But it really does affect the mind of people, married or unmarried, and setting our standards for what romance and love should actually look like,” she adds.

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Capitol Police announced that they arrested an individual who “appears” to have been carrying a gun outside Congress.

Law enforcement issued a statement Tuesday that officers had arrested a person with “what appears to be a gun” near the United States Capitol, cautioning employees and bystanders to avoid the area.

‘One person is in custody.’

“Our officers just arrested a person with what appears to be a gun near the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building,” the statement reads. “Please avoid the area. We will provide more information when new information is confirmed.”

Capitol Police also announced that they temporarily closed Maryland Avenue between First and Third Streets Southwest while they continue their investigation.

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Moments after releasing their initial statement, law enforcement said that there does not appear to be any ongoing threat, but advised people to continue avoiding the area.

“At this time, there does not appear to be any other suspects or ongoing threat,” the statement reads. “Out of an abundance of caution, please continue to stay away from the area while we investigate and collect evidence. Again, at this time, one person is in custody.”

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A female worker at a Southern California jewelry store gave an armed robber all he could handle last week amid a scary altercation caught on surveillance video.

Police in Montclair — which is in San Bernardino County and about 35 miles east of Los Angeles — said the suspect entered Fast-Fix Jewelry and Watch Repairs around 7:45 p.m. Thursday holding a small bag, which he he put down before walking back out of the door, KCBS-TV reported.

‘I don’t want to have that kind of feeling where every customer comes in wearing a hoodie and … sunglasses, and I have to now tell them, ”Get your sunglasses off, get your hoodie off, get your cap off.”’

The suspect then “looked around outside the business” before going back inside the store and walking to the rear of a glass jewelry display case, where the female employee was standing, the station said.

KCBS said the suspect then allegedly pulled a handgun from his jacket and began demanding that the woman open the jewelry case.

“The suspect raised the gun toward the employee multiple times and used a flashlight in his other hand to push the employee,” police said, according to the station.

The employee — who wished to be identified only as Alin — told KCBS she was scared but also enraged, so she fought back.

“He said, ‘Don’t scream … just open the case,'” Alin recalled to the station, adding that she pushed him and told him to leave.

“The suspect shattered the glass case with the gun and attempted to grab items from the case, but was pushed out of the business by the employee,” police said, according to KCBS.

Alin added to the station that the crook shocked her lower body with a stun gun amid the fight, and he was able to grab some store items before running off.

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While Alin told KCBS that the encounter shook her up, she wasn’t injured.

What’s more, she told the station her work at the jewelry store is more than just a job: “It’s my brother’s store, you know.”

The store owner added to KCBS that the robber stole gold pieces, watches, diamond rings, gold chains, and bracelets — adding up to a loss in the thousands of dollars.

“When you have a jewelry store, you feel like you are targeted in these kind of places, to be honest,” the store owner, who wished to remain anonymous, noted to the station. “Especially with gold prices soaring so high …”

The store owner added to KCBS that the incident marks the second time his place of business has been hit by theft, but he’s hopeful that state laws can be changed to protect store employees and customers.

“I don’t want to have that kind of feeling where every customer comes in wearing a hoodie and … sunglasses, and I have to now tell them, ‘Get your sunglasses off, get your hoodie off, get your cap off.’ Is that the way that we should be working?” he told the station.

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Police say that as the suspect ran from the store, another person hit him with a chair to try and slow him down, but the suspect was able to continue running and was last seen heading west through the mall.

A gun recovered at the scene was found to be an unloaded and inoperable BB gun, according to police.

Police are asking those with more information about the incident to contact them at 909-621-4771, the station said.

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Jesse Jackson, a giant in the civil rights movement and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, died Tuesday morning at age 84.

President Trump took a moment to recall Jackson’s achievements and their surprisingly close working relationship.

‘He had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgment or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand.’

On Tuesday morning, Trump posted a message on Truth Social remembering the civil rights leader as a “good man” with “street smarts.”

“The Reverend Jesse Jackson is Dead at 84. I knew him well, long before becoming President. He was a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and ‘street smarts.’ He was very gregarious — Someone who truly loved people! Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a Racist by the Scoundrels and Lunatics on the Radical Left, Democrats ALL, it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way,” Trump said.

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Trump detailed the ways that he helped Jackson throughout the years, especially as president.

“I provided office space for him and his Rainbow Coalition, for years, in the Trump Building at 40 Wall Street; Responded to his request for help in getting CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM passed and signed, when no other President would even try; Single handedly pushed and passed long term funding for Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), which Jesse loved, but also, which other Presidents would not do; Responded to Jesse’s support for Opportunity Zones, the single most successful economic development package yet approved for Black business men/women, and much more,” he continued.

“Jesse was a force of nature like few others before him. He had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgment or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand. He loved his family greatly, and to them I send my deepest sympathies and condolences. Jesse will be missed!”

Jackson is widely regarded as Martin Luther King Jr.’s successor in the civil rights movement. He was also a presidential candidate in 1984 and 1988.

The announcement of his “peaceful” death was published Tuesday morning on the Rainbow Coalition’s website.

“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” said the Jackson family. “We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by.”

Reverend Jackson is survived by his wife, Jacqueline, their children — Santita, Jesse Jr., Jonathan, Yusef, and Jacqueline — daughter Ashley Jackson, and grandchildren, according to the announcement. Ashley Jackson was born out of wedlock in 1999 to Jackson and Karin Stanford as a result of a four-year affair, according to Primetimer.

Public observances will be held in Chicago; final arrangements for his celebration of life will be announced on the Rainbow PUSH Coalition website.

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Though the search is entering its 17th day for “Today” anchor Savannah Guthrie’s kidnapped mother, Nancy Guthrie, Spencer Coursen, founder and CEO of the Coursen Security Group and author of “The Safety Trap,” believes that officials are dealing with amateurs.

“What we do know is that she’s missing. What we do know is that there has been no proof of life. And after that, we really cannot verify much more because of the information flow,” Coursen tells Stu.

“But until there is proof of life, a lot of what we are seeing should be treated more as noise and less as signal,” he adds.

And in the recent door-camera video footage released of the alleged kidnappers, Coursen tells Stu that it looks like “amateur hour.”

“Professional kidnappers control communication. They control their environment. Amateurs engage in chaos. And what I am seeing looks more and more like that of chaos than that of control,” Coursen explains.

Stu points out that at one point in the recently released footage, it appears the kidnappers are “trying to block the ring cam with plants.”

“Exactly. If you’re a professional, you have done research and planning up until that point, and then you either know that there’s a Ring camera or a Nest camera or Google camera or some kind of security deterrent, and you either go in the back door where there isn’t one, or you walk up with a spray can,” he says.

“What you don’t do is walk up and go, ‘Oh, camera. Oh, what do I do?’” he continues.

“Professionals conduct an orchestra. Amateurs bang drums.”

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A former teacher found guilty of grooming and sexually abusing two students — including a teen who impregnated her — has learned her fate.

Julie Rizzitello — who had taught at Wall High School in New Jersey — was sentenced last week for her child sex crimes against two students.

‘This is the psychological impact. This is the devastation.’

Rizzitello, 37, was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for “separately engaging in numerous sexual acts with two of her students over the course of several years,” the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said in a Thursday statement.

In addition, Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Jill G. O’Malley said Rizzitello must be on parole supervision for life, must register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law, must permanently forfeit her teaching position, and is barred from contact with her victims.

“These crimes were not isolated incidents constituting moments of poor judgment; they were textbook cases of grooming, involving a defendant who repeatedly leveraged tactics of isolation, manipulation, and control for the sake of her own selfish purposes,” Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago said of Rizzitello.

Santiago continued, “The egregious nature of the conduct was further compounded by the plain fact that the emotional and psychological harm she inflicted came at the expense of two of the very same young minds she had been entrusted to develop and nurture.”

Wall Township Police Chief Sean O’Halloran added, “I want to commend the courage of those who came forward to report these crimes. It is never easy to speak up, especially when the offender is someone in a position of trust.”

As Blaze News reported in September, Rizzitello pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree sexual assault. She was was arrested at her Brick Township home on July 3, 2024.

Authorities noted that Rizzitello met one victim when he was a freshman, and the other victim was a junior. Prosecutors said Rizzitello initially spent time with the students alone and developed a “friendly relationship” before it escalated into “sexual activity” that lasted for several months.

The prosecutor’s office stated, “The sexual acts with both victims took place largely in three locations: in Rizzitello’s Brick home, in a vehicle at a Wall Township parking lot, and at the Belmar bagel shop owned by Rizzitello’s family, where each victim was employed, at her suggestion.”

Investigators revealed that Rizzitello urged both victims to “delete evidence of the crimes from their personal electronic devices.”

The Asbury Park Press reported that Rizzitello told one victim she was “unable to get pregnant when she had unprotected sex with him in his family’s home on his birthday in January 2018, when Rizzitello was 29,” according to a court report the judge read during the sentencing hearing.

Judge O’Malley told the courtroom, “Weeks passed, and she wanted him to come over her house, and she wanted to get a pregnancy test. Turns out she was pregnant. And she believed it was his baby.”

O’Malley stated, “She got an abortion. And he knew this because she told him the doctor told her she was eight weeks pregnant, which aligned with them having sex on his birthday.”

The judge said the victim had been Rizzitello’s student.

O’Malley told Rizzitello, “So now not only does he have to deal with the fact that he was groomed throughout his entire high school years, that he was preyed upon by his teacher, someone he believed he loved and trusted, that he was sexually abused by this teacher, and now he’s struggling to come to terms with the fact that this individual had an abortion he wasn’t comfortable with.”

“This is the psychological impact,” the judge declared. “This is the devastation.”

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Citing criminal complaints, the Asbury Park Press reported that Rizzitello sexually assaulted a 17-year-old student multiple times between Nov. 23, 2017, and Jan. 21, 2018.

The second victim was over the age of 18 when sexually abused by Rizzitello. However, New Jersey law prohibits teachers from having sex with students who are younger than 22 years old and who haven’t received high school diplomas.

According to the Coast Star and the Ocean Star, one of the victims submitted a statement that was read during the hearing.

“I still think about how this woman was the one person I trusted with every detail in my life. … She is actually a sexual predator. At one point, I thought I was a special part of her life,” the victim wrote.

The victim said Rizzitello knew she “could control” him.

“I wish it had not happened this way. I wish it had not happened at all,” the victim said.

According to the Coast Star and the Ocean Star, Rizzitello told the judge, “What I’ve done is inexcusable; I know that.”

“I hurt my children, my family, and my friends, people who trusted me. I would do absolutely anything in the world to change my choices,” Rizzitello said in court.

According to the Asbury Park Press, Rizzitello is married with two children — ages 4 and 6.

Rizzitello’s attorney, Mitch Ansell, had asked the judge for a five-year sentence because she has no prior criminal record and because of how her prison stint would affect her children.

“We are left now with two children who are going to be without their mom, and it’s her own doing,” Ansell said, according to the Coast Star and the Ocean Star.

Ansell added, “These children didn’t ask for this, and they have to bear this incredible responsibility at a very, very young age.”

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A week after a trans-identifying man went on a rampage in Western Canada, killing six children and two adults, another man who masqueraded as a woman allegedly took aim at innocents — this time at a local skating rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Families, students, and supporters flocked to the Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Monday afternoon to watch a boys’ high school hockey game between the Blackstone Valley School and Coventry-Johnson co-op teams.

‘Do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.’

Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien noted that “what should have been a joyful occasion” was “instead marked by violence and fear.”

A man dressed as a woman and believed to have been in the possession of multiple weapons fatally shot two people and left another three victims in critical condition. At least two of the victims are reportedly children.

Coventry Public Schools revealed on Monday evening that all of its students present at the incident “have been accounted for and are safe.” Providence Country Day School and St. Raphael Academy also indicated their students were safe.

Arena footage shows players rushing off the ice and fans taking cover as roughly 13 gunshots ring out. The Providence Journal noted that 11 seconds after the first series of shots, a final shot can be heard.

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Police responding to a report of an active shooter around 2:30 p.m. were on the scene within a minute and a half; however, the blood-letting had apparently already come to an end. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves indicated that “a Good Samaritan stepped in and interjected in this scene, and that’s probably what led to a swift end of this tragic event.”

The “Good Samaritan” apparently tried to “subdue” the shooter, who police said died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) expressed gratitude for the first responders “who rushed to assist, as well as the good Samaritan who confronted and tried to disarm the shooter.”

Goncalves identified the shooter as Robert Dorgan, 56, and indicated that “he does go by the name of Roberta, also uses the last name of Esposito.” The chief noted further that while his motive is presently unclear, “this was a targeted event” and “looked like it was a family dispute.”

A distraught woman who did not provide her name told WCVB-TV while exiting the PPD station that her father was the shooter.

“He shot my family, and he’s dead now,” said the unidentified woman, adding that the shooter “has mental health issues.”

Court records reviewed by WPRI-TV reportedly show that Dorgan complained in 2020 to the North Providence Police Department that in the wake of his sex-rejection surgery, his father-in-law was trying to kick him out of the family house where Dorgan had lived for seven years.

While the father-in-law was initially charged with intimidation of witnesses and victims of crimes and obstruction of the judicial system, the charges were later dismissed.

The same year, Dorgan accused his mother of assaulting him and acting in a “violent, threatening, or tumultuous manner.” Although his mother was charged with simple assault and battery and disorderly conduct, the case was similarly dismissed.

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Around the time of Dorgan’s dispute with his father-in-law and mother, Dorgan’s then-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, filed for divorce.

While she initially cited “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits” as the grounds for the divorce, WPRI indicates his ex-wife replaced those reasons with “irreconcilable differences, which have caused the immediate breakdown of the marriage.”

An apparently Rhode Island-based user on X who went by “Roberta Dorgano” posted on May 9, 2019, “Transwoman, 6 kids: wife — not thrilled.”

In a recent post, the user who the New York Post suggested was Robert Dorgan, noted, “I have a beloved RHONDA.”

In response to a Feb. 14 assertion by actor Kevin Sorbo that trans-identifying Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) “is a man,” the X user wrote, “Keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.”

Dorgan appears to be the latest addition to a growing list of recent trans-identifying mass shooters and would-be mass shooters.

A trans-identifying man murdered six kids and two adults in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Feb. 10.A trans-identifying man shot up a Catholic church full of children in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025, killing two children and injuring 30.A male-identifying woman planned to shoot up an elementary school and a high school in Maryland in April 2024 but was stopped in time by police — then later convicted.A trans-identifying teen stalked the halls of a school in Perry, Iowa, on Jan. 4, 2024, ultimately murdering a child and an adult and wounding several others.A trans-identifying woman stormed into a Presbyterian school in Nashville on March 27, 2023, murdering three children and three adults.

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