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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“That is the topic,” the reporter pressed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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