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Florida police said that a dog mauled a 5-month-old baby to death as the mother was out celebrating her birthday.

The young couple had left their baby in the care of his great-grandmother and great-aunt at their home on Carolina Avenue in Ormond Beach. The couple had gone to dinner for the evening, according to Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood.

‘On what started to be a great night, ends up when you return home, your child is dead.’

When they returned, the baby was gone.

Chitwood said that the two had placed the baby in a bedroom and locked the door. The great-aunt then released her three dogs out of a cage, and she and the great-grandmother went to prepare food.

When they noticed the door to the bedroom was open, they went in and found one of the dogs next to the bleeding body of the baby, who appeared to be lifeless.

The parents rushed home and brought the baby to a hospital, but the staff was unable to revive the boy.

The dog was described as a Great Dane and husky mix that weighed 130 pounds.

“This is tragic,” Chitwood said. “Tragic all the way around. You have a young mother who will remember on her birthday that her child is dead. And the grandparents. I mean, I just don’t know how anybody feels about this.”

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Volusia County Animal Services took possession of the dog, and it was humanely euthanized.

Chitwood said they would continue to investigate to make sure no neglect was involved.

“It is so, so, so tragic. On what started to be a great night, ends up when you return home, your child is dead,” he added.

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Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio late Wednesday shared on X grisly images of a woman’s face after she was beaten up and apparently knocked out cold during last weekend’s mob attack in Cincinnati.

“This is Holly,” Moreno wrote in his post, which has been viewed 3.7 million times as of Thursday afternoon. “She wanted to have a nice evening out with friends. Instead, she got this.”

‘Holly appreciates the kind words and prayers from patriots across the country.’

One image shows the woman’s badly blackened right eye; bruised, swollen, and gashed lips; and bruising throughout her face as well as around her left eye. Another image shows her right eye and lips looking slightly better but bruising looking worse on the right side of her face. A final image shows bruising on her neck and at the top of her chest.

Moreno said Holly gave him permission to release the photos “so that others will never suffer what she did. We need and deserve change.”

RELATED: 5 charged in Cincinnati mob attack — and new details emerge about woman punched in face, apparently knocked out cold by thug

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

Vivek Ramaswamy — who’s running for Ohio governor — shared a disturbing close-up image of the woman’s face after she hit the ground; her eyes are wide open, and her body is motionless. Video shows a few people soon trying to help her up.

Ramaswamy added in his X post that he spoke to Holly on Monday, noting that she’s a single working mom “who went to a friend’s birthday party” before she became a target in the mob attack. “Holly appreciates the kind words and prayers from patriots across the country,” Ramaswamy also shared.

Another image in Moreno’s X post shows a Facebook comment from Cincinnati council member Victoria Parks saying that “they begged for that beat down!“

As you might guess, Parks’ incendiary words drew intense, widespread backlash.

Included among Parks’ detractors is BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock, who on Thursday criticized Parks on “Jason Whitlock Harmony” and said she’s “on the wrong side” of this situation.

RELATED: 3 arrested in Cincinnati mob attack; 1 reportedly was out on bond for weapons charges at time of street beatdown

Apart from the aforementioned first video of the mob attack, a second clip shows three other men knocked to the surface of the same street. Then one attacker leaps and lands his body atop one of the male victims — pro-wrestling-style — while the victim is still lying on the street surface. Afterward, a laughing, smiling male pulls the attacker away.

A third video shows what appears to be the same victim from the previous clip getting pummeled from behind and knocked to the ground as a voice is heard saying, “Sleep him again!” The victim is then dragged by his foot into the middle of the street.

A fourth video, however, appears to show what preceded the beatdown as depicted in the first video. It shows the man dressed in the white shirt and black pants — who was beaten up in the first video — squaring off with a male in a red shirt and black shorts who would soon take part in the mob attack. It appears to show the man dressed in the white shirt and black pants making physical contact with the male in the red shirt and black shorts — and then it’s on.

An additional Facebook video appears to show even more of what occurred prior to the mob attack. It depicts what seems to be a verbal argument and minor scuffle that was on its way to calming down, and the man dressed in the white shirt and black pants seems to lightly slap the face of the male in the red shirt and black shorts, which — as noted above — leads to the beatdown.

However, Whitlock on Monday stated on “Jason Whitlock Harmony” that he’s heard the argument that the man dressed in the white shirt and black pants — a white man — “started it” by making physical contact with the male in the red shirt and black shorts — a black man — and that was justification for the mob attack.

But Whitlock wasn’t having it.

“That’s ridiculous to me,” Whitlock said. “The level of attack on this man? Completely unjustified.”

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In an attempt to paint the Florida ICE facility known as Alligator Alcatraz as a dystopian concentration camp run by a tyrant, CNN put together a dramatic piece on the facility — and instead proved the opposite.

Speaking to illegal alien criminals held at the facility, the news channel played a recording of one of them saying, “This is sad. Sad. Hopeless. It’s a type of torture.”

“These are the stories of migrants held at Alligator Alcatraz, a new detention facility deep in the Florida Everglades,” a voice-over said dramatically, before showing a 3D rendering of the exterior and interior of the facility.

“Why, when you have the photos?” BlazeTV host Pat Gray asks on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“What they’ve done here, as Pat points out, is take an actual photo of the inside of Alligator Alcatraz and then formed it into a 3D model of the same photo. So what you’re seeing are a couple of beds, and then there is a 3D model of a couple of beds. What is possibly the purpose of that?” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere agrees.

“I think it’s to make it more mysterious,” Gray says. “It’s like, ‘We can’t even get a camera in there.’ Well, you just showed us the actual photo, and now you’re doing the 3D mock-up.”

One of the inmates, Gonzalo Almanza Valdes, says in the segment that “because of the way that we have been treated, it has been a very terrible experience.”

Valdes was detained by ICE while in a meeting with his probation officer. Another inmate who was interviewed by CNN, Juan Palma Martinez, was also picked up by ICE while meeting with his probation officer.

“He has a probation officer, which leads you to believe he might be on probation, which also leads to he committed crimes,” Gray laughs, adding, “I love that.”

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi took action against one of the judges who has been blocking the agenda of President Donald Trump.

Bondi filed a complaint against U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg, the judge who is presiding over the administration’s deportation of illegal aliens to a notorious prison for terrorists in El Salvador.

‘These comments have undermined the integrity of the judiciary, and we will not stand for that.’

“Today at my direction, @TheJusticeDept filed a misconduct complaint against U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg for making improper public comments about President Trump and his Administration,” Bondi wrote on social media.

“These comments have undermined the integrity of the judiciary, and we will not stand for that,” she added.

Boasberg reportedly commented that the administration could cause a constitutional crisis if Trump defied court rulings. The comments were first reported by the Federalist, which obtained a memo summary of the Judicial Conference.

Bondi’s complaint called for an investigation and for the case to be reassigned to another judge. Depending on the results of the investigation, Boasberg could also be impeached.

Boasberg had found probable cause to hold the president in contempt for refusing to end deportation flights after a ruling from the judge.

“The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it,” the judge said in April.

RELATED: Federal judge says court’s ‘hands are tied’ and rejects Trump administration’s bid to release Epstein transcripts

The president has publicly called for the impeachment of Boasberg, which led to a rare public comment from Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts wrote in March.

“The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” he added.

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On the latest episode of BlazeTV’s “The Coverup,” host Matt Kibbe and investigative journalist Matt Taibbi discuss the recent collapse of the corporate media, attributing it to the industry’s shift in coverage strategies in response to Donald Trump’s first presidential election.

During this time, the press moved in lockstep to promote the Russian collusion allegations against Trump, while simultaneously suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story. Later, the corporate media also collaborated to stifle COVID-era lockdown skepticism and the lab leak theory.

‘You have people coming out of the National Security Council or the FBI, and they go right on air.’

Taibbi, one of the investigative journalists behind the Twitter Files, told Kibbe, “When Trump arrived, there was a belief that the old-school, objective form of journalism, where we tell you the stuff and you do what you want with it — that was the tradition for ages in America — that had to go out the window,” Taibbi told Kibbe. “Now, it was too important. Trump was too dangerous.”

Taibbi rejected this change, adding that “journalists should have distance from politics, even if we were opinionated.” Instead of working in competition with one another, journalists began operating “as a team,” he explained.

“It’s anathema to how journalism, I think, is supposed to work,” he continued. “I quickly found myself on the outs.”

Kibbe credited the Twitter Files for revealing that a nonprofit organization had been “groom[ing] reporters to sing from the same song sheet and suppress stories before they even happened.”

Taibbi stated that a group of the country’s most prominent national security reporters were invited in 2016 to “war game what would happen if a story about Hunter Biden and Burisma and a laptop came out.”

“This was months before the story came out,” Taibbi said, noting that the reporters agreed to participate in the event off the record.

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Kibbe described some reporters as “useful idiots.”

“Maybe that’s not fair,” Kibbe said.

“No, I think it’s worse than that,” Taibbi remarked. “I think they’re essentially proxies for the national security apparatus.”

Taibbi stated that there are entire news organizations that have relationships with federal government agents, allowing for “a superhighway of information.”

“One is broadcasting PR for the other, and beyond that, they’re hiring people,” he continued. “You have people coming out of the National Security Council or the FBI, and they go right on air.”

Taibbi called it “a complete corruption and a complete breakdown of the system.” He explained how the media suppresses stories.

RELATED: The media’s misinformation machine is built to last — here’s why

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“If you go to work in these big organizations, it’s not like anybody tells you, ‘Okay, don’t write this story, and do write that story,'” he said. “Over time, the values of the organization, they’re sort of suffused through the entire bureaucracy. And even at the very lowest level, as a cub reporter, you learn very quickly what your editors want and what they don’t want.”

“You just learn, ‘Well, this is what’s gonna get me promoted. This is what’s gonna get me a better gig.’ And you start writing those stories,” he added.

Taibbi noted that reporters with “difficult personalities wash out eventually.”

He concluded that the “corporate media is done now” because “they’ve now screwed up so many stories.”

“Even if they try to reorient themselves in the direction of journalism, they’re gonna have to start at square one. And they’re gonna be beaten out by all these independent sources that are already way ahead of them,” Taibbi said.

Blaze News asked Taibbi how he sees the evolution of America’s media landscape over the next decade, considering that corporate outlets are experiencing a significant credibility crisis.

“Obviously independent sources will benefit both from a trust standpoint and in terms of audience as the corporate press deals with fallout from mistakes and politicized coverage,” he responded.

“The U.S. has a long history of innovating new journalism forms, and I’m pretty confident something great will emerge. However, the new media landscape still hasn’t figured out how to monetize long-form investigative reporting, nor does it have the ability to fund full-time beat writers or foreign bureaus yet,” Taibbi stated. “So there are serious gaps.”

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CIA Director John Ratcliffe teased on Sunday the release of previously classified intelligence pertaining to a “Hillary Clinton plan to falsely accuse Donald Trump of Russian collusion.”

On Thursday, Ratcliffe delivered the goods, providing Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and the public by extension with the appendix to the 2023 Durham report concerning the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into bogus Trump-Russia collusion allegations.

At the time of publication, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NBC News, and other longtime purveyors of the Russian collusion hoax had apparently not yet touched the story, prompting journalist Glenn Greenwald to conclude, “The corporate media will not report on these new disclosures showing the CIA/FBI/Hillary Russiagate fraud because they were its leading perpetrators (they gave themselves Pulitzers for it).”

“They have no shame,” responded Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University.

The appendix, commonly referred to as the Durham annex, provides additional insights both into the FBI’s willful failure under former Director James Comey to investigate credible intelligence implicating the Clinton campaign in the creation of the Russian collusion hoax and into the bureau’s subsequent cover-up.

The annex also appears to reveal:

Intelligence indicating that “the Clinton staff, with support from special services, is preparing scandalous revelations of business relations between Trump and the ‘Russian Mafia'”;The expectation by Leonard Benardo of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations — who was apparently in touch with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head of the Democratic National Committee — that the FBI would play along and ultimately “put more oil into the fire”;Benardo’s suggestion that the bogus narrative could be laundered to the media absent “direct evidence” via the companies CrowdStrike and ThreatConnect;Intelligence indicating Hillary Clinton personally signed off on the collusion narrative;The FBI’s understanding that the intelligence concerning the Clinton plan was credible; andThe FBI’s decision to silo the information about the Clinton plan.

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

When pressed for comment about the Durham annex and its contents, the White House referred Blaze News to the FBI, which did not respond by deadline.

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

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Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos was among those whose lives were turned upside down by Crossfire Hurricane — an investigation that special counsel John Durham revealed was based on “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence” and reliant on the Clinton campaign-funded Steele dossier.

“The conclusion of the declassified Durham index today: George Soros’ team, along with Clinton, Obama and Brennan knew the whole Clinton plan for Russiagate four days before FBI opened up probe,” Papadopoulos noted on X. “The FBI happily did their dirty work for them. And this is still the beginning of declass.”

Grassley told Fox News shortly after publishing the annex that it’s “evidence of the great depth that the deep state will go to to cover up weaponization that was going on in the FBI and the executive branch of government generally under the Obama administration.”

“We know that … the Steele dossier, paid for by the Democrats and the Clinton campaign — that it was all an effort of total distraction and to make it look like Russia was playing a very major role in helping Trump to be elected, and now we know none of that was true,” Grassley added. “Now with this Durham report annex out, it finally proves that the FBI was covering up.”

“The smoking gun kind of dovetails with things that Tulsi Gabbard has put out in the recent two weeks and things we had with the Crossfire Hurricane annex that I released a couple weeks ago,” the senator added.

RELATED: Obama and Brennan set to reap the whirlwind: Gabbard refers evidence of ‘years-long coup’ to DOJ for criminal probe

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Ratcliffe said in a statement that the declassified annex shows “the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative for what it was — a coordinated plan to prevent and destroy Donald Trump’s presidency.”

“The American people deserve the full, unfiltered truth about the Russia collusion hoax and the political abuse of our justice system it exposed,” FBI Director Kash Patel said. “Today’s declassification and release of documents tied to the Durham report is another step toward that accountability. The FBI will continue working tirelessly with our federal partners at DOJ, CIA, and more to uncover the facts that should have been brought to light years ago.”

While some of the bureau’s baggage is now out in the open, former FBI special agent Steve Friend suggested to Blaze News that the FBI is still replete with bad actors.

When asked whether some of the same personalities who sat on the Russian collusion origins are still at the bureau, Friend said, “I know there are people that are still there and have not been flushed out — and have actually been promoted.”

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On June 5, 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel told Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that years ago, when he was serving in an intelligence role, he stumbled upon a secret room brimming with burn bags containing sensitive documents and hard drives in the FBI’s Hoover Building.

“When I first got to the bureau, [I] found a room that Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of, locked the key and hid access, and just said, ‘No one’s ever going to find this place,”’ Patel told Rogan. “So my guys are going through that right now.”

Yesterday, almost two months after Patel’s comments, a Fox News article broke the news about what was in that room: thousands of sensitive documents related to the Trump-Russia probe, including a 29-page appendix to John Durham’s 2023 report, which was just declassified today. The appendix claims that the FBI used flawed foreign intelligence to push false narratives of Trump-Russia collusion in 2016.

Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” reads from the Fox report: “The U.S. intelligence community had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the alleged Trump-Russia collusion narrative — before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe.”

“You’re looking at this, and you’re like, ‘They really didn’t think that we were going to win … [and] that these would ever come out, I guess,” she tells British actor Matthew Marsden and investigative journalist Steve Baker. “They never thought that there would be people in a position to go in and look for these documents and expose them for who they really are.”

“I can’t hate the people that were under the Obama administration enough because this is literally what they had back then … a banana republic,” says Marsden.

“One of the reasons why I fell in love with America was because it’s a free country — like it truly is a great country and for all the values that it was founded on – and they just trashed that,” he adds.

“They need to go to jail.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode below.

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Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California is facing an onslaught of mockery after first posting videos of himself bench pressing and then challenging Greg Gutfeld to a competition.

Swalwell was trying to criticize Republicans for ending a congressional session early before a vote could be taken to release information related to Jeffrey Epstein, when many ridiculed his bench press limit.

‘With a bench press like that, no one will mind if you use the women’s locker room.’

“I should be working right now. I should be at the Capitol. I should be in a suit. Instead, Republicans sent us home because they would rather stand up for Donald Trump than release the Epstein files and stand up for victims,” he said in a video posted to social media showing him on the bench press.

“I should be working right now. But Republicans shut down Congress. So instead, I’m pumping iron at the gym,” he wrote on the post.

The video was widely mocked by his critics.

“You need to slap two more 45s on each side of that bar if you’re going to post a video bench pressing. Embarrassing. My wife does more than you, Swalwell,” writer Jack Windsor responded.

“Apparently @ericswalwell thinks that benching less than my 14 year old son is a flex,” attorney Haytham Kenway replied.

“You might not get shredded at the gym, Eric, but you are definitely getting shredded in the replies,” another critic said.

Gutfeld covered the post on his late-night show, where he also mocked Swalwell.

“With a bench press like that, no one will mind if you use the women’s locker room,” he joked.

Swalwell then fired off his challenge to Gutfeld.

“Here’s a deal for @Gutfeldfox. (Never heard of him til he spent 8 mins criticizing what I bench press),” he wrote on social media. “*The deal: if tough guy benches more than me for 10 reps I’ll leave Congress. If not, he leaves Fox News. I’ll give Greg 48 hrs to accept, then I’m calling him GUTLESSfeld.”

That challenge was similarly ridiculed.

“So thirsty …,” actor Dean Cain replied.

“This is such a cringe move, congressman. Very weird. He was joking, obviously, so challenging him to a weightlifting competition seems … unnecessary. Also, it’s psychotic,” Blaze News contributor Justin Haskins responded.

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“Don’t act tough when you get winded benching half your body weight,” another response reads.

Some pointed out that the challenge was tilted in Swalwell’s favor because he is 44 years old, while Gutfeld is 60 years old.

The Hill reported reaching out to Fox News for comment.

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Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach could not help himself when answering a fan question at a recent press junket.

The cast of yet another movie rendition of “The Fantastic Four” sat down for an interview with IMDB, where he was asked a series of fan questions ranging from silly to thought-provoking.

While fans are likely familiar with wildly progressive public comments from star Pedro Pascal, who plays Mister Fantastic, Moss-Bachrach, who plays The Thing, may have surprised fans with the way he chose to answer one of their questions.

‘There’s a handful of fascists that I would just throw into outer space.’

The cast were prompted with the question: “If you could borrow your character’s powers for one day, what’s the first thing you would do?”

First, Pascal said that he would love to borrow the Invisible Woman’s powers so that he could go swimming and not have sharks attack him. Joseph Quinn, who plays the Human Torch, said he would go on holiday and cook his co-stars a barbecued meal “with my own fire.”

Moss-Bachrach, meanwhile, did not hesitate to give a political answer when it was his turn to respond.

“I would — there’s a handful of fascists that I would just throw into outer space. That’s what I would do.”

Pascal chuckled, then reached out his hand, and the two high-fived.

“F**king A,” Pascal immediately replied.

RELATED: All in the family: Hollywood golden boy Pedro Pascal’s loony leftist pedigree

Before “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” Moss-Bachrach starred alongside Jon Bernthal in the obviously right-wing series “The Punisher,” so the actor’s remark may come as a surprise given he rarely makes public political comments. However, he was part of a group that called for a ceasefire between Palestine and Israel in 2024, specifically stating that it stands with Palestinians.

Pascal, on the other hand, has consistently gone above and beyond to include political messaging in public interviews, and he has also provided unprovoked public commentary on cultural issues.

For example, Pascal slammed President Donald Trump over his immigration policy while in Cannes, France, in May.

The Chilean actor also lashed out at author J.K. Rowling when she celebrated the U.K. Supreme Court’s decision that the definition of a woman should only include actual women.

Pascal called her celebration “awful disgusting s**t” indicative of “heinous loser behavior.”

RELATED: What Pedro Pascal’s stardom reveals about Hollywood — and its war on real men

Cast of ‘Fantastic Four’ July 24, 2025. Photo by Jeff Neira/American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. via Getty Images

Pascal, whose brother who began presenting himself as a woman at age 29 in 2021, comes from a family of devout communists who were forced to flee Chile in the 1970s after harboring the leader of the Revolutionary Left Movement, a Marxist-Leninist group.

His real name is José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal. The Balmaceda family is deeply rooted in Chilean political history, with about a dozen politicians in the family, including former Chilean President José Manuel Balmaceda (1886-1891).

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A Democratic Rhode Island state representative appeared to threaten to confront federal immigration agents after he referred to them as the “Nazi Gestapo.”

State Rep. Enrique Sanchez made the comments on his social media account after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents completed an operation in Providence on July 13.

‘It will be soon the day that I confront these Nazi ICE thugs in person for terrorizing our communities.’

“The Nazi Gestapo ICE thugs kidnapped another of our neighbor in Providence this morning,” Sanchez wrote on social media. “This time on Alverson st. The ICE thugs damaged a couple cars that belonged to residents as well. They think they are above the law. I strongly condemn this act of terror and will be demanding answers and seeking action tomorrow. I am tired of this s**t. Providence doesn’t want ICE thugs in our city.”

However, the “neighbor” that ICE was supposedly terrorizing was an admitted member of the violent MS-13 gang, according to ICE sources who spoke to Fox News. They also said that the cars were damaged because the gang member attempted to flee and struck several ICE vehicles.

When confronted by WJAR-TV about the man’s alleged criminal past, Sanchez said that he was willing to admit his mistake about that case but continued to defend his comparison to Nazi Germany.

On Wednesday, Sanchez doubled down on this rhetoric against ICE.

“It will be soon the day that I confront these Nazi ICE thugs in person for terrorizing our communities. It will be a day of reckoning and no going back,” he wrote in a second post.

“I hope the people of Providence and Rhode Island have our back. They will try to end our work and put down our struggle,” he added.

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Blaze News reached out to Sanchez for clarification about his comments, and he did not respond via email but posted a response on social media.

“Clarify what comments?” he posted, with laughing emojis. “Also, can this administration condemn the actions and violence that ICE thugs impose on individuals seeking a better life?”

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A married NYPD police officer and three civilians were shot and killed by a gunman who stormed the NFL headquarters in NYC early Monday evening, before he turned the gun on himself.

Video footage captured Las Vegas resident Shane Tamura carrying a rifle on the NYC street. The footage also happened to capture the color of his skin, which revealed that he was likely black. Now, Tamura is confirmed to be black, but Democrats and the mainstream media had initially been having a really hard time admitting it.

“If you are one of like five people who are still watching CNN, I mean, it’s getting to be very dangerous out there, the type of information they are giving you in real time as these sort of tragic events are happening,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments.

On a CNN segment covering the attack, their chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, John Miller, claimed that the attacker was “possibly white.”

“This guy actually had a really impressive law enforcement career. In the early 2000s, he was deputy assistant director of national intelligence for analysis. He led the team that produced the president’s daily intelligence briefing,” Gonzales explains.

“2003 to 2005, he was the LAPD bureau chief for counterterrorism and criminal intelligence. 2013 to 2022, he was the NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism,” she says, “So, this guy admittedly boasts like a very impressive record on paper and went out and was like, ‘So, here’s what we know: He has a mustache, he is armed, he is possibly white.’”

“And after he said that, he went on to explain with absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever why it’s so important for law enforcement to have the correct description with suspects,” she adds.

Miller went on to explain that the photo of the suspect had been distributed to all NYPD officers and that this is important so that if the suspect was hiding among civilians, they’d be better able to find him.

“Well, thank God. … You would want to make sure that you don’t let anyone who is ‘possibly white’ leave the scene because they, too, could be a suspect, and you can never be too careful,” Gonzales says.

Miller wasn’t alone in his wildly wrong assessment, as CNN anchor Erin Burnett also called the shooter “possibly white.”

Gonzales is shocked that so many Democrats came to the same conclusion.

“That, in fact, does not look at all ‘possibly white,’” she says, looking at the initial photo of the killer.

“I mean,” she adds, “he could be ‘possibly white’ if you weren’t looking at his skin color, or his mustache, or the texture of his hair.”

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Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris has resurfaced from the shadows to announce that she has written a new book likely to hit the bargain bins very soon after release.

Harris’ “107 Days” is the story about the events between her elevation to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket and her historical failure at the hands of President Donald Trump.

‘You lost because you have the gravitas of a distracted toddler.’

“What the world saw on the campaign trail was only part of the story,” she wrote on social media. “My new book is a behind-the-scenes look at my experience leading the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.”

Not surprisingly, the jokesters on social media had a lot to say about Harris authoring a book about her role in the Democratic Party losing on Election Day.

“I can’t wait to hear the inside story about how you burned $1.5B in 107 days and accomplished absolutely nothing,” author Jim Hanson replied.

“How are you not embarrassed to have run one of the worst presidential campaigns in history? You literally had rappers twerking at your events,” responded Savanah Hernandez of Turning Point USA.

“I can’t wait for you to read your book, either. Bet it’ll be full of surprises!” replied Roxanne Hoge, the chair of the GOP for Los Angeles County.

“We don’t need to read your book to know why you lost to Trump,” another response reads. “You lost because you have the gravitas of a distracted toddler, the charisma of an actuary and the laugh of a madwoman. (And the ability of a DEI hire.) You are a ridiculous person.”

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“I love when people like Kamala Harris grandstand on pretending to write a book (that her staffers wrote) about her sad experience of wasting $1.5 billion dollars (most ever) on the shortest presidential campaign ever,” another critic said. “And they’re seriously considering running her again in 2028.”

Harris just recently announced that she is not running for governor of California, which boosted suspicion that she may run again for president in 2028.

The Harris book will be released on September 23 before beginning a likely brief trip to the 99-cent bin.

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While the Senate worked through several key resolutions to block arms sales to Israel, Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan apparently skipped out to tape her appearance on Stephen Colbert’s show.

The Senate voted on two resolutions to block additional military aid to Israel Thursday night, both of which failed. Although Democrats had unprecedented support to bar Israel from receiving additional aid, Slotkin spent her afternoon alongside a talk show host.

‘I’m not going to cut off a blanket next sale on a defensive weapon that comes through.’

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The resolutions, which were spearheaded by independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, both failed in the Senate in 70-27 and 72-24 votes. Both votes were dead on arrival with or without Slotkin’s support, but this is not the first time the freshman senator has been scrutinized for her position on Israel.

In an interview on “Breaking Points” on Tuesday, co-hosts Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball grilled Slotkin, who said she was open to blocking arms sales for “offensive” weapons to Israel.

“There is a difference between a weapon to protect a country from incoming missiles versus other types,” Slotkin said. “Offensive and defensive weapons are different.”

Enjeti pressed Slotkin, asking if she would be in favor of banning “offensive” weapons to Israel, which she seemed open to.

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“That certainly, to me, would be a place to look,” Slotkin said. “But I’m not going to cut off a blanket next sale on a defensive weapon that comes through.”

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Every day, roughly 30 Americans die awaiting organ transplants, while an estimated 28,000 available organs annually are never transplanted due to inefficiencies in the donor system. Compounding this tragedy, some reports indicate that grieving families, expecting to save lives, can be misled into donating their loved ones’ tissues for use in research and cosmetic surgeries — a multibillion-dollar industry.

With over 100,000 patients on the organ waiting list, the nation’s 55 organ procurement organizations are tasked with contacting the families of the dying and recently deceased to inquire about lifesaving organ donations. Yet behind this noble mission lies a shadowy process that raises serious questions about transparency and consent practices.

‘Families believe their consent allows for transplant of their loved [ones’] organs, which, if the death has occurred, cannot happen.’

Persistent lack of transparency

Issues within the organ procurement and transplantation industry have persisted for decades, according to studies and reports.

In 2001, the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General advised tissue banks to provide families with written material detailing how donated tissue may be used.

However, several surveys from 2010 to 2015 consistently found that most families were unaware that tissue could be sold for profit or used for cosmetic purposes. One study found that out of 1,000 families surveyed, only three received written materials explaining the donation process. Another study reported that 70% of families polled stated they would object to their loved ones’ tissues going to for-profit businesses, yet fewer than 20% knew this could happen.

Dr. Laura Siminoff, a professor at Temple University’s College of Public Health, has conducted several studies over the years concerning organ and tissue donation, including the two previously mentioned.

Siminoff told Blaze News, “The complexity emerges from the highly emotional and stressful environment in which these conversations take place. Patients are in an intensive care setting, which is often noisy and confusing. OPO staff who are charged with having complex donation discussions with families need to bring a high level of emotional sensitivity and the ability to convey complicated information so that families can make informed and authentic decisions.”

A Department of Health and Human Services report noted that “families are asked to give their consent at a point in time when they are extremely vulnerable,” adding that they are often asked to provide consent over the phone instead of in person.

RELATED: Hospital responds to claim Vance’s young relative was denied heart transplant over vaccination status

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After-death process

When an individual passes away in a health care institution that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding, the care facility is required to notify its local OPO.

Each OPO acts as a federal contractor responsible for procuring organs in its designated area. OPOs operate effectively as monopolies because they do not face competition from other organizations.

Even if the patient was not registered as an organ donor, the patient’s next of kin can still authorize donation on his or her behalf.

In addition to organs, the OPO may also pursue consent for tissue donation, which includes cornea, skin, bone, veins, connective tissue, and other materials.

If approved, the OPO will harvest the tissue and give it to a tissue bank. Tissue banks, which can be for-profit businesses, may then sell that material back to biomedical researchers, pharmaceutical companies, research centers, and even plastic surgeons.

While organ transplants are nearly always lifesaving, tissue transplants can be used for elective life-enhancing, research, or cosmetic purposes.

Ethical concerns in donation practices

While OPOs are intended to facilitate lifesaving organ donations, their practices have raised ethical concerns about transparency and profiteering.

The Indiana Funeral Directors Association provided a document to Congress to inform lawmakers about oversight and regulation gaps within OPO processes.

The association, which is openly supportive of organ and tissue donations, explained that “families are often caught off guard or surprised by the barrage of phone calls from donor networks just moments after their loved ones die seeking approval for tissue donation.”

‘It’s misleading. OPOs hide the realities of what is really happening — and who is making money — off the backs of vulnerable donor patients.’

Most disturbingly, the IFDA stated that families are misled to believe the donation will save lives because OPOs neglect to distinguish between organ transplants and tissue donations.

“In order for organs to be transplanted, the person dying must be kept alive. Tissue donation is done after the death occurs,” the IFDA explained. “Families believe their consent allows for transplant of their loved [ones’] organs, which, if the death has occurred, cannot happen.”

The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations confirmed that for organ donation viability, a donor “patient must die in a hospital while on a ventilator” and meet other “specific medical criteria.”

Andy Clayton, the executive director of the IFDA, told Blaze News that “families have articulated to us they don’t understand it.”

“They’re thinking [they donated] organs, when in fact, all it was was tissue. And that tissue was harvested, then sold,” Clayton said. “The ones that have talked to me, and I share with them the facts, are very alarmed that that wasn’t disclosed to them.”

“We are not against donation,” Clayton continued. “We would certainly applaud a family that decides to donate organs or tissue, as long as they’re informed and they know the truth.”

Further, the IFDA’s one-pager to lawmakers emphasized the “lucrative business” of tissue procurement, highlighting the 2023 revenue for several locally operating OPOs, with one exceeding $100 million.

Some assessments indicate that tissue can be priced up to $500 per gram. With an estimated 2.5 million tissue grafts performed each year, the global tissue banking market is projected to reach $5.17 billion by 2030.

The AOPO argued that there are circumstances in which tissue donation can be lifesaving or life-transforming, including “skin grafts to treat burn victims, heart valves to save infants born with heart defects, and musculoskeletal tissues to restore mobility for injured patients.”

“A single tissue donor has the potential to heal or improve the lives of up to 75 people,” the association noted.

“Dealing with the passing of a loved one is tragic,” Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) told Blaze News. “While organ procurement organizations are well-intentioned, fielding calls from them about relinquishing parts of your loved one’s body within days after death can feel off-putting or even predatory. Despite the difficulty in subject matter, more transparency is needed for families going through a loss when it comes to tissues and organs being removed from a loved one at the end of life.”

RELATED: Organ donation overhaul promises to save lives

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Regulatory gaps and informed consent

HHS’ Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Health Resources and Services Administration provide broad oversight of OPOs, including the safety and quality of tissue used in transplantation, as well as the performance standards to qualify for taxpayer reimbursement funding.

While federal law, § 486.342, requires OPOs to have a written protocol to inform donor families about the donation process, including a list of the organs and tissues that will be recovered and the “most likely uses” for those donations, some argue that families still lack informed consent.

‘It’s just a corrupt industry overseeing itself, which is to say, covering up patient harms and backroom deals.’

Greg Segal, the founder and CEO of Organize, told Blaze News that donor families are unaware of how often tissue donations are used for cosmetic testing by for-profit businesses or other purposes that are not explicitly disclosed to them.

“It’s misleading. OPOs hide the realities of what is really happening — and who is making money — off the backs of vulnerable donor patients,” he stated.

Organ transplant information must be reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which is operated under contract with HHS, and the United Network for Organ Sharing, a nonprofit organization, has historically managed this contract. Yet there is no similar mandatory universal tracking system for tissue, only a voluntary accreditation through the American Association of Tissue Banks.

Segal explained that the AATB has been allowed to act as a “quasi-regulator” for the tissue industry.

“It’s just a corrupt industry overseeing itself, which is to say, covering up patient harms and backroom deals,” he explained. “Why would the American Association of Tissue Banks, populated and funded by tissue banks and taxpayer-funded organ contractors, be doing real investigations into who is misleading families and then hold themselves accountable?”

Furthermore, UNOS provides OPOs with a framework that determines who on the donation list will be provided with the next available organ, based on need and other factors. Yet no similar framework exists for tissue operations, allowing OPOs to use their discretion to determine who receives donations.

“If I’m running an OPO and I’m recovering $25 million worth of tissue this year, and there is no transparency, there’s no accountability, and there’s no algorithmic framework for where I’m supposed to give it, I can decide where I want to give it. OPO executives basically just ask themselves, ‘Who’s going to offer me a really nice consulting deal? Which tissue bank is going to put me on the board and then pay me for my board service?'” Segal explained.

The lack of mandatory oversight has led to concerns about conflicts of interest within the tissue industry. For instance, some OPO executives sit on the boards of the AATB and the OPTN, as well as the boards of tissue processing companies.

Segal stated that some OPOs have “massive investments in the tissue banks.”

“Executives don’t have to disclose to the government or to the public if they have personal financial interests, whether that be equity or stock or so-called ‘consulting agreements,'” Segal continued. “There’s a lot of money that changes hands, which is why both the Senate Finance Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee are investigating self-dealing.”

Even the AATB admits that while it follows “U.S. antitrust laws closely,” its role “focuses exclusively on quality and safety rather than business practices.”

“AATB works to promote the safety, quality, and availability of donated human tissue, not to oversee business operations or financial models,” the nonprofit told Blaze News.

Though it is a lucrative industry, the AOPO insisted that OPOs do not sell tissue. However, it noted that they can receive “reimbursements” for procuring tissues.

The AOPO told Blaze News, “It is important to understand that OPOs do not sell tissues. Instead, specialized organizations that prepare donated tissues into grafts for clinical use may reimburse OPOs for the recovery services provided, similar to how hospitals are reimbursed for providing care. These reimbursements support donation-related operations.”

When asked how OPOs profit from tissue harvesting, Segal explained, “OPOs harvest tissue from dead people — many of whom had no idea what they were really consenting to — and then the OPOs give that tissue to a processor, which, in return, gives them money. You can decide what you want to call it, but I’d say it’s a sale.”

Financial incentives and profiteering

The profitability of tissue sales has reportedly exacerbated issues within the lifesaving organ donation system, prompting some OPOs to run their own tissue bank businesses.

Some critics claim that the current system effectively incentivizes OPOs to prioritize staffing their tissue recovery operations over their organ transplant teams. A 2020 report from the Bridgespan Group found that “OPOs have greater financial incentives to focus more on tissue recovery compared to their incentives to recover lifesaving organs.”

To improve the metrics of organs procured per donor, some OPOs may opt not to obtain organs from single-organ donors. This decision further worsens the shortage of available organs, according to a 2020 letter from the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy.

‘There’s never been any accountability for OPOs. More than 95% of Americans support organ donation; that actually polls higher than puppies and ice cream.’

In 2013, even the AOPO admitted that the “current system has created a disincentive for OPOs to pursue organ recovery when there may be a lower yield of organs transplanted per donor.”

The AOPO told the White House Office of Management and Budget, “If an OPO is in jeopardy of decertification … the OPO is incentivized (for fear of being decertified) to not pursue or even evaluate the potential for donation of these types of donors,” referring to “marginal organ donors that generally yield fewer organs (or no organs).”

“This practice results in fewer organs being transplanted and more lives lost,” the AOPO wrote at the time.

in 2019, HHS proposed a rule it believed would result in an additional 5,000 to 10,000 lifesaving transplants each year by pushing all OPOs to reach compliance with the minimum performance standards

During a September congressional hearing, Segal contended that there should be enough available organs — with the exception of kidneys — for every individual in need of a transplant but that inefficiencies in procurement have prevented this.

OPOs are not required to meet donation and transplantation target rates to remain on hospitals’ mandatory notification lists. Remaining on those lists also helps an OPO fuel its potential tissue procurement business, since it is already the hospital’s first point of contact for organ recovery.

RELATED: HHS surmounts obstacles set by Democrat-appointed judges, gives thousands of bureaucrats the boot

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Pushing for systemic overhaul

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing in September in which several witnesses — Dr. Seth Karp, surgeon in chief of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Dr. Robert Cannon, associate professor of surgery and surgical director for liver transplant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; Dr. Jesse Roach, senior vice president of government relations for the National Kidney Foundation; and Segal — testified that OPOs lack enforceable regulations.

Segal exposed “widespread abuse” allegations within the organ donation industry, which he argued have hindered the exposure of corruption and inefficiencies.

Segal stated, “There’s never been any accountability for OPOs. More than 95% of Americans support organ donation; that actually polls higher than puppies and ice cream. And yet the OPTN’s own research has found that OPOs only recover organs from one out of five potential donors. They are monopolies, and they’ve never had any enforceable regulations, and their performance has greatly suffered.”

Some of Segal’s concerns were far more troubling than donor family consent issues. Segal stated that he was aware of allegations of “harvesting of organs from patients who whistleblowers believe would otherwise have survived” and “unsafe patient care, including the hastening of death with fentanyl and the falsification of medical records.”

Cannon corroborated many of Segal’s assertions.

Cannon told lawmakers, “OPOs also lack sufficient oversight and accountability with regard to organ allocation, sometimes resulting in actions that are abusive and harmful to patients.”

“I have had an OPO administrator recommend I proceed with organ procurement in the face of concerns a donor may still be alive,” he continued. “I have seen a 21-year-old patient dying from liver failure have an ideal donor organ taken away from her by an OPO that was unwilling to provide one additional hour for a plane to be mobilized. Our complaint in this instance went unanswered. Unfortunately, stories such as these are not isolated instances.”

To fix the broken organ procurement and donation system, Cannon told lawmakers to “tear it down to the studs and rebuild it.”

‘At least 28 patients may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated — raising serious ethical and legal questions.’

The witnesses advocated for terminating the current cost-reimbursement structure of OPOs, which allow the organizations to be fully reimbursed for all expenses related to organ donations. The federal government largely moved away from this model within the health care system because it has been proven to produce poor outcomes and is vulnerable to potential abuses.

The Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance’s website warns that cost-based reimbursement comes with a “financial risk” of “over-reporting as well as under-reporting organ acquisition costs claimed for Medicare reimbursement.”

“Prior Office of Inspector General (OIG) audits noted that transplant centers stated they lacked awareness and understanding of Medicare requirements or had inadvertently claimed non-allowable costs on the Medicare Cost Report,” the alliance noted.

Segal claimed that OPOs are not just combining organ and tissue donation when seeking consent from donor families, but they also label various expenses as “organ and tissue”-related items to receive CMS reimbursements, which should cover only organ operations. This allows OPOs to “subsidize all the costs related to tissue,” he said.

The AOPO, which represents 47 federally designated nonprofit OPOs, insisted that organ and tissue donation are “entirely separate clinical processes” that “never compete with each other,” adding that “accusations that they do contradict yearly government data, which demonstrates a 14-year increase in organ donation and transplantation rates. OPOs strive to save lives by recovering every viable organ, irrespective of financial models.”

Recent investigations and HHS reforms

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce held another hearing on July 22 regarding the organ procurement and transplant system, during which lawmakers questioned witnesses from HRSA, UNOS, and the OPTN. Lawmakers also heard from Barry Massa, the chief executive officer of the Network of Hope, an OPO.

The hearing mainly focused on a disturbing incident that took place in 2021 involving a Kentucky man named Anthony Thomas Hoover. He was set to undergo surgery for organ retrieval when the surgeon discovered that he was still alive, despite having been previously declared dead. The OPO assigned to the case, which later merged with the Network of Hope, faced accusations of attempting to proceed with the organ procurement process despite clear signs of life.

The surgery to remove Hoover’s organs was terminated, and he survived. NPR reported in 2024 that he was still alive three years after the incident.

Massa maintained that the correct process was followed in the Hoover case, though he admitted that there were “a lot of unique things that could have been done better.”

Trump’s HHS has signaled that it plans to hold OPOs responsible. On July 21, the agency stated HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has threatened to shut down “deficient” OPOs.

HHS reported that HRSA examined 351 cases in which organ donation was authorized but not performed, noting that nearly 30% “showed concerning features, including 73 patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.”

“At least 28 patients may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated — raising serious ethical and legal questions,” HHS wrote.

HRSA also instructed the OPTN to reopen the Hoover case, which was closed without any action under the former Biden administration.

‘I’m kind of thinking, “Well, we need to publicize it, but we kind of don’t want to publicize it because then we’d hurt the number of people that are actually going to donate their organs.” So this is a problem.’

During July’s committee hearing, Raymond Lynch with HRSA, who noted no OPO has ever previously lost its certification, confirmed that the agency has additional open investigations into the industry.

Blaze News asked HHS how it will ensure that OPOs provide clear information to donor families.

An HHS spokesperson stated that the department “is committed to ensuring that organ procurement organizations provide grieving families with clear, compassionate information while prioritizing lifesaving organ donation.”

“Through HRSA-led reforms, including standardized communication training, outcome-based performance metrics, transparent public reporting, and stronger oversight, HHS is holding OPOs accountable to uphold the highest standards of ethics, transparency, and patient-centered care,” HHS stated. “Through the Organ Transplantation Affinity Group, HHS supports standardized communication training — emphasizing trauma-informed care, cultural sensitivity, and family experience — backed by national experts.”

The agency also stated that recent CMS and HRSA reforms will evaluate OPOs “based on actual organ donation and transplant rates (not organizational activity or self-reported data), with benchmarks and underperformance triggering reevaluation or decertification.”

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Industry’s response

When asked for comment, the AOPO and AATB expressed concerns that reporting these allegations, which they insisted were false, could have life-and-death consequences by deterring people from donating organs.

The AOPO claimed that the IFDA’s letter to Congress contained “demonstrably false statements” and dismissed the cited studies as “over a decade old.” The AATB similarly claimed that the studies were “not only outdated but also inaccurate.”

“Today, thousands of people are removing themselves from U.S. organ donation registries, and that is directly tied to the spread of myths and accusations like the ones in the IFDA letter. This has a human cost: Less donors means that more patients who need lifesaving transplants must continue to wait and possibly die in the interim,” the AOPO told Blaze News.

Both the AOPO and the AATB insisted that donor families are encouraged to ask questions about the donation process and place limits on their loved ones’ donations.

During September’s congressional hearing, then-Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) summed it up this way after listening to the witnesses’ troubling concerns about the organ and tissue procurement industry: “I’m kind of thinking, ‘Well, we need to publicize it, but we kind of don’t want to publicize it because then we’d hurt the number of people that are actually going to donate their organs.’ So this is a problem.”

Critics of the existing organ donation framework make it clear that they endorse donation and are not aiming to discourage Americans from registering as donors. However, they argue that the fear among the industry that negative publicity might shrink the donor pool does not excuse organizations from necessary oversight. Instead, heightened scrutiny and transparency could optimize procurement processes, ultimately fostering greater efficiency and saving more lives by breaking free from the inefficiencies of the current monopolistic, self-policing structure.

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Allegations that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak were strongly and swiftly denied by the former Biden administration and some prominent health officials, despite dissenting opinions within the medical field, including from Jay Bhattacharya, who now serves as President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director.

‘I’m convinced that research agenda led to this pandemic through a lab leak in China, in Wuhan.’

A page on the NIH’s website, last reviewed by the agency on March 16, 2022, has not yet been updated by the new administration, still claiming that the leak theory is “misleading and false.”

The NIH webpage reads:

Unfortunately, because the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 have not yet been identified, misleading and false allegations have been made about NIAID-supported research on naturally occurring bat coronaviruses. Specifically, these allegations have targeted research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, funded through a subaward from NIAID grantee EcoHealth Alliance. The naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied through this subaward were significantly, genetically different from SARS-CoV-2 and, therefore, could not have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bhattacharya was one of the voices amid the COVID-era insisting that there was a cover-up of the virus’ origins.

In a May interview with Politico, Bhattacharya stated that he believes the U.S. should do more to reveal the origins of the virus, but noted that China has not been cooperating with those investigations.

“There’s enough evidence that I’ve seen from the outside that suggests that there was at the very least a cover-up of dangerous experiments that were done in China with — by the way — the help of the U.S. and also Germany and the U.K.,” Bhattacharya told the news outlet.

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He referred to the experiments as “a very, very dangerous kind of utopian research agenda.”

“I’m convinced that research agenda led to this pandemic through a lab leak in China, in Wuhan,” Bhattacharya continued. “But that was a global effort.”

RELATED: How a ‘lovers’ spat’ nearly sparked a second pandemic in Biden-era high-security virus lab

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He called it “absolutely striking” that then-Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci and other leaders would invest so much effort into suppressing the theory and “denigrating scientists who very legitimately raised this possibility.”

Blaze News contacted the NIH to determine whether it is aware of the webpage dismissing lab leak claims and if it plans to update its website. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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The Republican Party has enjoyed massive gains among young Americans over the span of about 21 months, according to recent polling conducted by Pew Research.

According to surveys of registered voters in August 2023, men and women in categories ranging from 18 years old all the way up to 49 years old favored Democrats.

In fact, the only two categories that leaned Republican at that time were 50-to-64-year-old males (57%) and over-65-year-old males (59%).

As of June 2025, however, young American adults have swung in the other direction en masse.

‘Interesting to see the “you get more conservative as you get older” trope dying.’

The 2025 polling by Pew Research of U.S. adults, which cited the 2023 data directly below it, showed massive gains for the Republican Party, specifically among younger demographics.

For example, males ages 18-29 went from 62% in favor of Democrats to 52% in favor of Republicans.

For women of that same age group, seven more percentage points went to the Republicans, whose support rose from 30% in 2023 to 37% in 2025.

Democrats did widen a gap when it comes to women ages 30-49, though, but not through their own doing. Support for Republicans in that category dropped from 42% in 2023 to 39% in 2025.

RELATED: Democrat offers bizarre spin on imploding support for his party — and he’s getting amazing backlash

An interesting figure included in the polling is the percentage of respondents who said they had no political leanings or refused to answer.

For the youngest demographic, that number was 13%. The other demographics averaged between 7% and 8%.

Looking at party affiliation categorized by the decade in which Americans were born, those born between 1940 and 1980 have remained in a near 50-50 split of support for Democrats and Republicans from 2021 to 2025.

For those born after 1980, the changes have been significant.

In 2021, while 57% of those born in the 1980s identified as Democrats, that number is now 47% in 2025.

For those born in the 1990s, 59% identified as Democrat in 2021, but that number is now down to 46%.

RELATED: No country for angry young men

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In response to the data, users on X shared interesting perspectives, like, “Interesting to see the ‘you get more conservative as you get older’ trope dying.”

Another account posted, “18-29 year old men are more right wing than male Boomers[.] Did NOT expect to see that.”

A tech and financial account with over 40,000 followers added that he felt it was “sad” that a younger generation is being relied on to “clean things up” after the Boomer generation “completely destroyed their birthright.”

Popular conservative commentator John Doyle offered a unique explanation as to why young Americans have shifted away from Democratic politics.

Doyle told Blaze News, “We just wanted to play our video games. This is for raping the Joker and killing Hulk Hogan.”

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When American pastor and Christian musician Sean Feucht returned home this weekend after the start of a short Canadian tour, he did something he’s never done before: fell to the ground to kiss American soil.

That’s how shocked he was by hostility toward Christianity in Canada.

In today’s Canada, anything can be called ‘divisive’ or ‘hateful’ if it offends the regime.

Selected freedom

Freedom of religion and freedom of speech may be enshrined in Canada’s constitution, but in practice the government no longer indulges these liberties — especially when exercised by Christians and conservatives.

While President Donald Trump is laying out plans to protect the religious rights of federal employees, Canadian authorities are targeting Christian worship — and doing it with pride.

Feucht was denied access to public spaces in Quebec City, Moncton, Charlottetown, and Gatineau, a city just across the Quebec border from Ottawa.

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In Montreal, police actually occupied a Spanish Catholic church where Feucht was performing before finally backing off and telling the church that it would be fined for not having a permit. The next day the city fined the church $2,500 for hosting the American preacher. Is this the Canada of 2025, where churches have to seek the approval of the local Soviet council to invite a guest speaker?

The outrage did not go unnoticed.

What was the justification for these shutdowns? Politicians across Canada, from mayors to federal MPs, smeared Feucht as “MAGA-affiliated,” “controversial,” and “divisive.” Apparently, being a conservative Christian who opposes abortion, same-sex marriage, the LGBTQ agenda, and critical race theory is enough to get you canceled north of the border.

‘Pride’ exemption

Meanwhile, Pride parades across Canada — from Halifax to Vancouver — continue without restriction. Police stand by while fully nude men march in front of children. No arrests. No permits pulled. No fines. That’s “inclusion.”

In contrast, a preacher with a guitar singing worship music is treated like a national security threat.

Pastor Henry Hildebrandt — himself jailed during COVID for holding church services — highlighted the hypocrisy after a smoke bomb was thrown into the Montreal church where Feucht performed. Neither police nor protesters faced charges.

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The conditioning is clear: During COVID, churches learned to comply with illegal mandates, police intimidation, and government overreach. Now, even in a post-pandemic world, those tactics persist. And they’re aimed almost exclusively at Christians.

Ideological lawfare

Feucht’s ordeal unfolded the same week that crown prosecutors in Ontario pushed for eight- and seven-year prison sentences for Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, the leaders of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, for organizing a peaceful protest against vaccine mandates. The government even wants to seize Barber’s truck, “Big Red,” for good measure.

This isn’t just overreach — it’s ideological lawfare.

Because in today’s Canada, anything can be called “divisive” or “hateful” if it offends the regime. Meanwhile, genuinely obscene or radical events — like public nudity at Pride marches or anti-Israel protests that block roads — are tolerated, even celebrated.

So let’s ask the obvious: Is a Liberal Party convention not “divisive”? Is a gay Pride parade not both “divisive” and explicitly hedonistic? Are police going to start laying hate crimes charges against mayors who permit these events?

Of course not.

But host a Christian event? Preach Jesus? Support Trump? Suddenly your free speech evaporates — and your bank account might, too.

God’s not dead

Canadian Christians — especially evangelicals — have become third-class citizens. And not a word of protest from Prime Minister Mark Carney or Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. Why the silence? Are they afraid of being seen as supportive of Christians? Or secretly pleased to see MAGA-linked faith groups punished?

In spite of this atmosphere of repression, Feucht found enthusiastic audiences for his shows. He nailed it in a post: “God is not dead in Canada.”

Feucht plans to return to Canada in late August for dates in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Kelowna, and Abbotsford. The City of Winnipeg, however, just pulled Feucht’s permit to perform in its Central Park

When I spoke to my own church about what happened in Montreal, the congregation was divided. Some saw it as a moment to push back, to reclaim public faith. Others saw it as confirmation that we are living in the last days — that the Second Coming is near.

Either way, one thing is undeniable: The Canada many of us once knew is fading fast. And in its place is something colder, crueler, and far more hostile to anyone who dares speak the name of Jesus Christ in public.

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A Maine state representative made a confusing claim about transgender athletes and men competing in women’s sports.

The state has had a tumultuous 2025 during President Donald Trump’s second term, as state representatives have battled the president over his executive order to keep men out of women’s sports.

Although Maine’s university system eventually fell in line with the order to protect its federal funding, irreversible damage had already been done by letting boys compete in girls’ sports, particularly in February, when a boy won a girls’ pole vaulting competition.

‘It takes a lot of guts for someone to say, “I’m not going to accept male privilege.”‘

Democratic state Rep. Rafael Macias from Maine’s District 51 appeared on the “Muddy Waters Podcast” to discuss that very incident. Macias started by claiming that fellow state Rep. Laurel Libby (R) had “doxxed a young man” who simply “wanted to play sports” when she posted a picture of the transgender athlete competing against boys first, then girls.

It was soon after when Macias made a bizarre claim about how men competing in women’s sports actually makes women better.

“It’s an individual sport, so if you’re worried about who you’re competing [against], particularly if they’re stronger and they can jump higher, I think that makes everybody in the field better, you know, jumping higher, running faster,” he claimed.

Macias then cited the fact that while many men cannot complete a “four-minute mile,” there are female athletes who can come close.

“They can run faster than me. They can run faster than you and probably most men that I know who can’t run the four-minute mile,” Macias claimed. “There are women that are doing that. So, you know, you can compare men and female and say men are stronger, men can jump higher, run faster, longer, all that good stuff, and that women shouldn’t play in men’s sports.”

Confusingly, Macias then stated that women not being allowed in men’s sports is “the whole reason behind Title IX.”

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Host Chuck Ellis immediately retorted, “Let’s be clear about a couple things. Nobody on our side in any way is saying that we have any problem with women trying to compete in men’s sports. That’s not — nobody’s saying that at all,” he began. “The reason for Title IX wasn’t that people didn’t want to allow women to compete in male sports but that they couldn’t.”

Ellis noted the obvious truth that “men are stronger” and “faster” than women on average, and national stories of transgender athletes breaking women’s records have highlighted this.

Macias himself admitted in the interview that the pole vaulting athlete in question came in first when competing as a girl, but when the height he jumped against females is compared to the male athletes’ results, his height would have landed him in 10th place against boys, as Blaze News previously reported.

Still, Macias expressed that he had an issue with Rep. Libby posting a photo of the teen, who was in 10th grade at the time.

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Field hockey players run on the track at Greely High School in Cumberland, Maine. Photo by Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

“She posted a picture of him when he was competing with boys and then a picture of her when she was competing with girls. And I’m using the pronouns out of respect for this person,” Macias explained. “It takes a lot of guts for someone to say, ‘I’m not going to accept male privilege.’ And I’m using that term ‘male privilege.'”

Macias and the host briefly debated what male privilege is, and Macias cited the example of a woman feeling afraid while walking through a parking lot at night while a man may not feel afraid.

Ellis replied that this was simply more evidence that men are more likely to be stronger or larger and, as such, less likely to be afraid in a similar situation.

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A Cincinnati council member is drawing intense backlash over a comment she made about the victims of last weekend’s viral mob attack.

Victoria Parks — the city council’s president pro tem — said “they begged for that beat down!” the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

‘Disgusting comment! Victim shaming! NO ONE deserves that type of assault! You need to be removed from public office!’

Parks’ comment went up at 4:50 a.m. Sunday under another Facebook user’s post that includes video of the physical attack. Her comment — in which she added, “I am grateful for the whole story” — was still visible Thursday morning within the post.

Those reacting underneath her comment didn’t hold back:

“A city council member condoning violence in her city is not a good look,” one commenter wrote.”As someone who supports the majority of your positions, this comment is absolutely unbecoming of a city councilperson, disgraceful, and beyond the pale. You need to resign. Step aside and let someone with tact handle the job,” another user said.”Clown,” another commenter replied.”Racist,” another user declared.

Others visited Parks’ own Facebook page and flooded one of her posts — unrelated to the mob attack — with angry words:

“A well-deserved beat down is waiting for you,” one commenter told Parks.”What a despicable human being!!” another user told her.”If that post is verified, and all signs suggest that it is, Victoria Parks was clearly condoning violence, specifically racially charged violence, with her public comment,” another commenter wrote. “If this wasn’t just a one-off but part of a broader pattern of bias that influenced her decisions as a public servant, it could open the door to civil lawsuits. If her prejudice affected anything related to public safety, city resources, or law enforcement, the City of Cincinnati could face serious legal consequences.””Try running your mouth in the state just to your west and see what comes your way,” another user said.”Mm-mm, the Lord is exposing folks left and right, and baby, He’s showing the world exactly who you are,” another commenter observed. “That mouth ain’t fit for public office, or the pulpit. Jesus don’t bless no mess like this.””You are so gross,” another user told Parks.”Disgusting comment! Victim shaming! NO ONE deserves that type of assault! You need to be removed from public office!” another commenter exclaimed.”I would sure like to know why in the world a city councilwoman would make remarks like this. These people that are hitting, kicking and stomping the head of one person as a mob are nothing more than thugs with animalistic behaviors. Prosecute, prosecute, prosecute them,” another user said before adding, “Kick Miss Stupidmouth off the city council!!!!!!”

Blaze News on Wednesday emailed Parks and asked her if she posted the comment and would care to explain it; Parks as of Thursday afternoon has not yet replied to Blaze News’ inquiry.

Same deal with the Enquirer. The paper said Parks “did not respond to multiple messages Wednesday seeking comment. Parks’ office in Cincinnati City Hall was dark and the door was locked on Wednesday afternoon when an Enquirer reporter knocked. There was no answer.”

However, WLWT-TV said Parks confirmed that she did post the comment and stands by it.

Fellow council member Meeka Owens noted to WLWT in reference to Parks’ words that “making comments that inflame a violent incident is never acceptable” and that “endorsing violence is neither effective nor responsible.” Owens added to the station that “it is not beneficial to the city nor the region when [Parks] advocates for violence as a means of retribution” and that “the comments of one lame-duck member of Cincinnati City Council do not represent the opinions or perspectives of the Council as a whole, and certainly not mine.”

Parks announced in January that she isn’t running for re-election.

‘The level of attack on this man? Completely unjustified.’

In one widely shared cellphone video of the early Saturday morning beatdown, a man dressed in a white shirt and black pants is chased into the street and knocked down before multiple attackers repeatedly punch and kick and stomp him over the course of nearly a minute amid hooting and hollering. Soon a woman in a blue dress is seen apparently trying to intervene on behalf of the beaten-up man, but she’s punched in the back of her head by another female — and seconds later, a male punches her in the face, knocking her flat on her back on the street. A disturbing close-up of the woman’s face shows her eyes wide open and body motionless before a few people try to help her up.

A second clip shows three other men knocked to the surface of the same street. Then one attacker leaps and lands his body atop one of the male victims — pro-wrestling-style — while the victim is still lying on the street surface. Afterward, a laughing, smiling male pulls the attacker away.

A third video shows what appears to be the same victim from the previous clip getting pummeled from behind and knocked to the ground as a voice is heard saying, “Sleep him again!” The victim is then dragged by his foot into the middle of the street.

A fourth video, however, appears to show what preceded the beatdown as depicted in the first video. It shows the man dressed in the white shirt and black pants — who was beaten up in the first video — squaring off with a male in a red shirt and black shorts who would soon take part in the mob attack. It appears to show the man dressed in the white shirt and black pants making physical contact with the male in the red shirt and black shorts — and then it’s on.

An additional Facebook video appears to show even more of what occurred prior to the mob attack. It depicts what seems to be a verbal argument and minor scuffle that was on its way to calming down, and the man dressed in the white shirt and black pants seems to lightly slap the face of the male in the red shirt and black shorts, which — as noted above — leads to the beatdown.

However, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on Monday stated on “Jason Whitlock Harmony” that he’s heard the argument that the man dressed in the white shirt and black pants — a white man — “started it” by making physical contact with the male in the red shirt and black shorts — a black man — and that was justification for the mob attack.

“That’s ridiculous to me,” Whitlock said. “The level of attack on this man? Completely unjustified.”

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Police have arrested three of the five charged suspects in connection with the mob attack — and one of the arrestees reportedly was out on bond for weapons charges when the street beatdown took place.

The arrestees so far are: 39-year-old Jermaine Matthews, 24-year-old Dekyra Vernon, and 34-year-old Montianez Merriweather, WXIX-TV reported. The two other charged suspects have not been named.

Merriweather and Vernon were booked Tuesday afternoon into the Hamilton County Justice Center on charges of felonious assault and aggravated riot, WXIX said, citing jail and court records. Matthews was booked into the county jail just after 1 a.m. Wednesday on charges of aggravated riot and assault, the station reported.

Merriweather was “identified on video punching [the] victim while co-defendants are stomping the victim in the head,” while Vernon “struck [the] victim in the face with a closed fist prior to the victim becoming unconscious from the attack,” WXIX reported, citing criminal complaints. Details on Matthews’ case had not yet been filed in the court record, the station said.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer said Vernon’s bond was set at $200,000. Hamilton County court records show she has no prior criminal convictions in the county, the paper reported in a separate story.

Merriweather’s situation is a bit more complicated, shall we say.

It turns out he was indicted July 10 on four felony charges after investigators said he was found in possession of a stolen firearm, the 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 said, citing documents.

But after his indictment just two weeks ago, 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 the mob attack charges against him was set at $500,000, the Enquirer reported.

As for Matthews, his bond was set at $100,000, the paper said — although he later was charged with felony assault, as well, and a bond for that charge will be discussed at a Thursday hearing.

Matthews apparently is no stranger to law enforcement, either. More from WXIX:

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.

The FBI on Monday opened an investigation into the mob attack, WXIX reported. Fox News said the incident is under investigation as a potential hate crime.

Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa A. Theetge told NewsNation Monday she anticipates more people will be charged over the mob attack and said, “Anyone who put their hands on another individual during this incident in an attempt to cause harm will face consequences.”

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A terrifying video from out of Cincinnati shows a mob of black people stomping on the head of a white man on a street downtown, before a white woman is cold-cocked and knocked out. The haunting footage shows her lying face up on the ground, staring up at the sky, unmoving.

When questioned about the incident, instead of condemning the perpetrators, Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge condemned social media users for taking it out of context.

“Another topic I want to cover real quick, social media and journalism and the role it plays in this incident. And yes, guys, that’s you. That is you. Social media, the post that we’ve seen does not depict the entire incident. That is one version of what occurred,” the Cincinnati police chief said.

She went on to claim that social media posts have “distorted the content of what actually happened.”

One reporter then asked “what exactly was distorted” by those posting about the incident on social media.

“So I think by the irresponsibility with social media, it just shows one side of the equation quite frequently without context, without factual context, and then people run with that and then it grows legs and it becomes something bigger that we have to try to manage was part of the investigation,” she responded.

“The woman had no answer,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock comments. “She was asked a follow-up question to clarify her comments, and she had no answer. She just repeated herself and tried to distract.”

“We’ve seen the shove that sparked this, and we’ve seen the overreaction to the shove by people that were uninvolved other than they’re black KKK members, and one of the KKK members got shoved, and so the rest of the KKK members used it as justification,” he continues.

“‘Hey, we get to wild out and beat up and stomp and curb stomp a white man and a white woman,’” he adds, mocking those involved. “This is the black KKK and everybody knows it.”

Whitlock blames the brainwashing of the black community by the mainstream media and the education system.

“We’re developing young black KKK members with this victimhood mentality, with what’s being taught in schools all the way from Harvard all the way down to grade school. It’s being taught. ‘You’re a victim, white people have mistreated you, white people owe you a debt, white people are the most evil thing on the planet,’” he says.

“You’re being programmed to be a KKK member, to blame everything on white people,” he continues, adding, “It’s no different than the white people from 100 years ago that were brainwashed and programmed into believing all of their problems were the result of black people.”

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