Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has taken a dramatic step after Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was hospitalized last month.

On Wednesday, Beshear issued a letter requesting that McConnell answer questions about his health after weeks of silence.

‘Allowing speculation to continue in the media is not fair to the Senator or to Kentuckians.’

McConnell has been dealing with health issues and was admitted to a hospital on June 14. His office has released almost no substantive updates, leading to some speculation that his condition may be very grave.

After several of McConnell’s colleagues and acquaintances reported talking to him since Monday, Beshear made a formal request of the Republican leader.

“Over the last several weeks, Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the health and well-being of Sen. McConnell. As Governor — and a fellow public official who understands the commitment we’ve made to the people we serve — I am requesting the Senator provide an update on his current health status,” the governor said in the letter.

“Allowing speculation to continue in the media is not fair to the Senator or to Kentuckians,” he added, “and my hope is that this provides him the opportunity to share the information in a transparent manner, direct from the source. I wish him a safe and speedy recovery.”

Among those who said they had spoken with McConnell were CNN contributor Scott Jennings, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.).

The reports led to some seemingly mocking posts.

“I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning. He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he’s really sorry about how my primary turned out,” Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky wrote.

“I spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes yesterday. He said America needs an assault weapons ban, ICE should take their masks off, and that Gavin Newsom is very presidential. Then he said he was 20 minutes late for pickleball and hung up,” wrote Saddam Azlan Salim, a Democratic Virginia state senator.

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Other voices are calling for McConnell’s office to be more transparent.

“We need the truth about Mitch McConnell NOW. It is unacceptable that the party who spent four years criticizing Joe Biden’s health is now silent on McConnell’s,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck said on social media.

“What’s the difference between that and what Iran’s leaders are doing with the new Ayatollah?” he added. “Is McConnell braindead? Or is he chatting about Graham Platner and Iran? It is OUR RIGHT to know. That seat isn’t McConnell’s. It belongs to the people of Kentucky.”

McConnell announced in Feb. 2025 that he would retire at the end of his current term in office.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is facing serious backlash after suggesting in an interview with Jesse Watters on Fox News that many young people have been raised with “silver spoons in their mouths” and have had “everything handed to them.”

“Essentially she was saying that Gen Z was born with a silver spoon in their mouths, and that’s why they want socialism. And so then, because of the backlash, she’s now saying that she’s been taken out of context,” BlazeTV host John Doyle explains, before playing the clip of Watters and Leavitt.

“Some of these kids — and I call them kids because they’re in their 20s, and they’ve never had real jobs, and they’re complaining things are expensive. Yes, things are expensive when you don’t have a real job,” Watters told Leavitt.

“Do you think that’s getting traction — complaining?” Watters asked.

“Unfortunately, I do, because this generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them,” Leavitt responded.

“That’s not the values this country was built on. It was built on meritocracy and hard work, pulling up your sleeves, pulling yourself up from your bootstraps, and achieving the American dream,” she added.

“Not to go full Gen Z-tard, but we were raised in the aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis,” Doyle responds. “We were raised in the aftermath of the COVID lockdowns. I mean, we were literally, from every moment in our lives, being spoonfed all of this crap about, yes, communism, but not being fed stuff about free markets don’t actually work.”

“More like, ‘Hey, everybody who’s not a straight white male, you’re awesome and beautiful and capable, and straight white males, you are basically like defective. You are something to be managed, something to be held to a completely separate standard,’” he explains.

Doyle also points out that the audience of Fox News is largely boomers, who are constantly fed Fox News clips of young leftists regurgitating statements like, “I want free health care.”

“That is not at all the same thing as the guy who kept his nose clean and went to school and got his four-year degree and is now applying and can’t get even a … second-round interview,” he continues.

“It is specifically the plight of the heterosexual white male that is experiencing this,” he adds.

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The European Union says it wants to keep drivers safe by mandating new safety protocols surrounding emergency detection and distracted drivers.

The method of achieving these safety measures is likely to anger some drivers, if not many.

‘This requirement does not forbid the ADDW system to use data from the camera.’

In an article titled “Safer cars, safer roads: New rules take effect,” the EU announced that its new “life-saving systems” are required for all newly registered cars and vans starting on July 7.

This includes requirements for expanded safety glass, new tests for worn tires, emergency brake detections, and most notably, an “advanced driver distraction warning system to keep drivers focused.”

According to official EU documents, these ADDW systems are required to monitor where the driver is looking at all times.

“The presence of the driver’s gaze shall be monitored by the ADDW system in the areas of interest,” the documents state.

Although the amount of cameras (and their placement) is not described, the set of rules does define what is considered a “distraction” area for the driver. This includes the driver’s lap, the center console, and behind the driver’s seat.

RELATED: Swedish government wants tracking devices on children — and it’s already watching them

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Allowable areas include the entire view of the windshield and the passenger window area.

The allottable time a driver is allowed to “gaze” into the distracted areas depends on the driver’s speed. At speeds between 20 kph and 50 kph (between 12 mph and 31 mph), “if the driver’s gaze remains within the defined ‘distracted’ vision area for more than 6 seconds,” the car will issue a warning, InterRegs writes.

Above 50 kph, the time of allowed drifting gaze is just 3.5 seconds. Any violation of the allotted times will trigger a “visual warning … to inform the driver, and an acoustic and/or a haptic warning shall be used” as well.

The warnings may “cascade and intensify” until the trigger conditions are met, the rules state. At the same time, there does not exist any verbiage that describes vehicle intervention or any kill switch to cut off the car’s engine if the driver fails to comply.

RELATED: Republicans speak out against ‘kill switch’ mandate for all new cars: ‘The technology is unworkable’

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In April, Republicans argued against similar technology being implemented in the United States, which included both passive and active monitoring tools, some of which can be powered by artificial intelligence.

Not only were infrared cameras that track a driver’s eye movements and pupil dilation a possibility, but so were “cockpit-embedded sensors” capable of estimating blood alcohol levels through a driver’s breath.

Other proposed methods have included touch-based sensors that detect alcohol through the skin of a finger or palm.

The EU says the new systems must function “without relying on biometric personal data of any vehicle occupants.”

This data refers to any “physical, physiological, or behavioural characteristics” that identify the person, including “facial images.”

“This requirement does not forbid the ADDW system to use data from the camera(s) equipped in the vehicle, it forbids the identification of the person by the ADDW system.”

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American support for Israel has taken a nosedive in recent years, even among young Republicans. The Pew Research Center found that whereas 53% of Americans held an unfavorable view of Israel in 2025, that number rose to 60% by March 2026.

A new survey found that much like their countrymen, Jewish Americans are increasingly critical of Israel, its military actions, and its prime minister.

59% of American Jews hold a negative opinion and 32% hold a favorable view of the man.

According to the results of an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey published on Tuesday, 40% of American adults think the U.S. is too supportive of Israel, 37% think the support level is about right, and 18% think the U.S. isn’t supportive enough.

This particular survey singled out the responses by over 1,000 Jewish adults, a cohort that overwhelmingly identifies as Democrat, revealing that a plurality — 38% — think the U.S. is too supportive of Israel. Thirty-two percent of Jewish respondents said the U.S. was not being supportive enough, and 28% said the current level of support is about right.

When broken down further by party affiliation, the pollsters found that 51% of Jewish Democrats figured the U.S. was too supportive and that 45% of Jewish Republicans figured it wasn’t supportive enough.

The poll, which was conducted June 11-17, also found that 31% of American adults say Israel’s military actions in Gaza have constituted a genocide, 20% say the actions do not qualify as genocide, and 49% say they don’t know enough to say one way or the other.

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Thirty percent of Jewish respondents said that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians during the conflict, 49% say Israel’s actions in Gaza do not amount to genocide, and 21% said they didn’t know enough to opine. Whereas 45% of Jewish Democrats say that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, only 3% of Jewish Republicans agree.

It turns out that Benjamin Netanyahu — the Israeli prime minister whom President Donald Trump recently called “f**king crazy”; who faces charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust across three separate cases; and is unpopular at home — is more disliked by Jews in the U.S. than by the broader American public.

Whereas 38% of U.S. adults hold a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion and 20% hold a favorable view of Netanyahu, 59% of American Jews hold a negative opinion and 32% hold a favorable view of the man.

By way of contrast, 44% of Jewish respondents said they viewed Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a favorable light. Another 39% said they had a negative view of Mamdani — a socialist with a substantial record of anti-Israeli remarks and actions who has vowed to have Netanyahu arrested if present in New York — and 17% said they didn’t know enough to opine.

Mamdani reportedly netted 26% of the Jewish vote in his 2025 election.

While a plurality of American Jews hold a favorable view of Mamdani, only 27% of U.S. adults hold a positive view of the 34-year-old radical.

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Over the course of this week, Utah prosecutors have methodically been laying out the evidence they believe sufficient for state District Judge Tony Graf to try Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, for aggravated murder, a death penalty offense.

Ahead of Wednesday’s proceedings — the third day of preliminary hearings where a video statement from Robinson’s homosexual lover Lance Twiggs might be submitted as evidence — prosecutors presented Graf with plenty to work with as well as a horrific glimpse of the shooting itself, which prompted the judge to reel back and wince.

On Monday, the court heard about Robinson’s alleged “sniper pad” on the roof of the Losee Center building, which overlooks the site at Utah Valley University where Kirk was fatally shot, and the discovery of a red-and-black screwdriver at the “crime scene” that FBI Director Kash Patel previously alleged had Robinson’s DNA on it.

On Tuesday, the court saw surveillance videos allegedly showing Robinson skulking around Utah Valley University campus — where he was not a student — ahead of the Sept. 10 shooting and ascending onto the roof of the Losee Center building. The court also heard from an FBI analyst about the alleged discovery of Robinson’s DNA on the screwdriver as well as on the towel found wrapped around the alleged murder weapon.

On Wednesday, the prosecution will contend with continued efforts by the defense to poke holes in the DNA evidence and in their timeline, while likely also keeping them on the back foot with more damning evidence.

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Border czar Tom Homan said the efforts by Democrats in New York to protect illegal aliens from deportation are going to backfire very soon.

During an interview with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, Homan argued that the sanctuary city policies made everything worse for the public as well as the immigrant community.

‘It results in more agents in the streets, it results in more collateral arrests, and it’s a community safety issue, when you release a public safety threat back into the public.’

He said the Justice Department was filing lawsuits to combat the sanctuary city policies and then held up Minnesota as a successful example of local authorities cooperating with federal law enforcement.

“The way we fixed Minnesota, we gained support from the local sheriffs so we can arrest the bad guy in the safety and security of a jail, which is safer for the agent, safer for the alien, and safer for the community,” Homan said.

He said this led to “unprecedented support” from Minnesota officials and safer detentions and removals. Homan said he tried to explain the same to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat.

“I explained this to Governor Hochul. And I said, ‘When you force us into the street, we gotta send teams out there to do that.’ And when we find the bad guy, which we will, many times they’re with others, others that are in the country illegally. May not be a public safety threat, but they’re coming too.”

“It results in more agents in the streets, it results in more collateral arrests, and it’s a community safety issue when you release a public safety threat back into the public,” he added.

When Beck asked how Hochul responded, Homan laughed and said she signed the sanctuary policies despite his warning.

“And that’s why I told her, ‘OK, now you’ve forced us to send more agents to New York to enforce immigration law, when it would have taken less because you took the efficiencies of the jail away,'” he continued.

“And what she’s ignoring is the fact, now we can’t rent a bed from the sheriff,” Homan said. “So every illegal alien we arrest in New York will be immediately put on an airplane and sent out of the state. How does that benefit the immigrant community?”

“They have no access to their family because we moved them out of state,” Homan continued. “So, this wasn’t about protecting the immigrant community. This is about her supporting sanctuary policy.”

RELATED: California Democrat calls for ICE to be abolished after ‘record’ illegal alien arrests

He concluded that the administration is forced to respond with a surge into New York.

“What sanctuary cities are causing, because of their policies, is we’re going to flood the zone,” Homan said.

“All these new resources are going to be assigned to sanctuary cities because that’s where the problem is. We don’t have that problem in Florida. We don’t have that problem in Texas. The sheriffs and chiefs are working with us,” he added.

Homan also recently revealed that ICE had arrested a record 10,000 illegal aliens in a five-day period, and the agency was ramping up to increase those arrests even further.

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After months of calls for our leaders to investigate and put an end to legal immigration abuses, the Trump administration has begun to play offense.

On Wednesday, Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito appeared on Fox Business to announce a major development in the Department of Labor’s fraud investigations.

‘As the Inspector General, my top priorities are exposing fraud, protecting American workers, and putting criminals in cuffs.’

The focus, according to the inspector general, is on the H-1B visa program and PERM, otherwise known as the Program Electronic Review Management system. He said these investigations “without a doubt” have yielded evidence of fraud — and “human trafficking.”

In the interview, D’Esposito said the Department of Labor will take “what we believe is probably the most aggressive action against foreign labor fraud by an inspector general in this administration.”

He added that the agency has “already started to issue dozens of subpoenas. We are going to make sure that we track down every lead.” He mentioned that there are “whistleblowers talking about some of the biggest companies, like Cognizant, who have been … in chatter of issues with PERM and H-1B visas.”

While the investigation does not in itself indicate any form of wrongdoing, according to Department of Labor data from the second quarter of 2026, it is true that Cognizant draws heavily from the H-1B program.

RELATED: Trump DOJ charges 455 people allegedly tied to $6.5B in health care fraud

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In this three-month data set alone, Cognizant successfully certified approximately 3,440 H-1B visas, according to government data.

A similar review of PERM data from 2025 revealed that the top 10 companies that use this program are:

Microsoft Corporation;FPL Food LLC;Consolidated Catfish Producers LLC;South Georgia Pecan Company;JCG Foods of Georgia LLC;Akash Management LLC;Oracle America Inc.;Merit Logistics;Wal-Mart Associates Inc.; andSalesforce Inc.

The PERM program had roughly 80,700 certified applications in 2025. However, it is important to note that this program is not itself a visa issuance program. Rather, it is a preliminary step toward approval in certain visa categories.

“My team, in conjunction with President Trump and Vice President Vance’s Fraud Task Force, has worked relentlessly to uncover fraud, safeguard taxpayer dollars, and hold bad actors accountable. For far too long, fraudsters believed they could game the U.S. employment-based visa system and get away with it. They were wrong,” D’Esposito said in a Tuesday press release.

“This isn’t just paperwork fraud — it’s the exploitation of vulnerable workers, forced labor, the displacement of American workers, and abusive human trafficking. As the Inspector General, my top priorities are exposing fraud, protecting American workers, and putting criminals in cuffs.”

D’Esposito added that his team will be working closely with President Trump and Vice President Vance’s Fraud Task Force “to exhaust every lead.”

Blaze News reached out to Cognizant as well as the Office of the Inspector General but did not immediately receive a response.

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For most Americans, the Fourth of July is a time to celebrate the nation’s founding, honor those who fought for its freedom, and reflect on the ideals that shaped the freest country in the world.

However, many voices on the left used the holiday for something else entirely: another opportunity to attack President Trump.

“It’s a good day. It’s a fun day. How could you possibly be angry about this day?” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales asks, before revealing that journalist Chuck Todd and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) found a way to be angry about it anyway.

Todd began his Fourth of July spiel by claiming Trump “ruined the American brand and the American birthday celebration.”

“The country had a bipartisan, congressionally created America 250 effort. It might have been a little messy. Might have even been a little bland at times, but that would have been fine because sometimes bland is the point,” Todd said on “The Chuck ToddCast.”

“Sometimes bland is how you make room for everybody. Maybe a little bit hokey and bland, right? But Trump couldn’t do it. He couldn’t leave it alone. He created his own version of the celebration,” he continued, denigrating Trump’s Freedom 250 task force.

“It’s not your moment, Donald Trump. You selfish guy, you. I’m so angry and feel betrayed. I do. I feel betrayed as an American by him on this. And this is why I’m so pissed off. Not because I love the country less. Because I love the idea of America enough to resent seeing it cheapened by this man,” he added.

“Imagine being this low-T, soy-boy loser,” Gonzales comments.

Todd wasn’t alone in his outrage, as Gov. Gavin Newsom also gave an anti-Trump speech in honor of Independence Day.

“Two hundred and fifty years ago, 56 men in Philadelphia signed their names to one of the most radical sentences ever written: that governments derive ‘their just powers from the consent of the governed,’” Newsom said.

“And today on this Independence Day, the radical idea behind that clause, it’s again under threat from one man who exhibits the very behaviors our founding fathers fought against, a corrupt and unstable president,” he added.

“What behaviors? Cite your sources, please,” Gonzales comments, pointing out that the clip she just played was less than 30 seconds of an eight-minute speech.

“It was eight minutes of Gavin Newsom trashing President Trump. And they want to say that Trump made the day about him. He didn’t have to. You guys did,” she adds.

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On Monday night, the U.S. men’s national team lost 4-1 to Belgium, concluding its run in the FIFA 2026 World Cup. The crushing defeat was a massive upset, as much of the nation had high hopes the team would make a serious run this time — maybe even win the whole tournament.

Those hopes, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock argues, largely stemmed from the fact that the team had more black players on its roster than ever before. Many U.S. fans, he says, mistakenly assumed that blacker equals better.

France was the proof. Its national team — Les Bleus — has long had one of the highest proportions of players with black or African heritage in international soccer, and for roughly the last 25-30 years, it has been one of the most consistently strong and dominant teams in World Cups.

But the blowout against Belgium — which even kept its best player, Kevin De Bruyne, on the bench — proved the same formula flopped in the U.S.

“They used this World Cup to sell you globalism, and you fell for it,” Whitlock comments, highlighting how the U.S.’ star forward, Folarin Balogun, was born in the U.S. but spent his entire life in London.

While Whitlock didn’t agree with the red card Balogun received in the game against Bosnia, he disliked Trump’s involvement and FIFA’s reversal of the suspension even more.

“If he were good enough to actually play for England, that’s where he would have played,” Whitlock says, “and watching a group of international, loosely connected, dark-skinned guys put their hands over their heart during the national anthem while this Balogun pretended like he was singing the national anthem … it didn’t move me.”

“This is the false, phony patriotism that they want you to have. It’s very soft. It’s meaningless,” he adds, calling the World Cup “a TV show” where it “[marketed] this myth” that the U.S. was a genuine contender this time.

But the loss to Belgium exposed our limits and the inauthenticity of our “globalist” roster.

Belgium, Whitlock says, was so nonchalant about the game that it sat its three best players — Kevin De Bruyne, Romelu Lukaku, and Jeremy Doku — for the majority of the game.

“Belgium, despite all this ‘fear’ and ‘discomfort,’ [said], ‘Larry Bird, Magic, Michael, you guys sit down. Mike, we’ll put you in at the end of the game when it’s over, let you get a goal,” he analogizes. “That’s how concerned Belgium was.”

If the U.S. really wants to be a top competitor in the soccer world, Whitlock argues it has to stop prioritizing women’s sports. “When you make a decision as a country to invest far more money in developing women than men, there are consequences for that, and no one wants to have that conversation.”

“We wanted World Cups for women, and that’s what we’ve got. We won four World Cups. We’re the most dominant team in the Women’s World Cup. We’ve prioritized what’s important to us,” he says.

But the price we pay is that our men’s team is perpetually subpar, and no amount of “[buying] some of this extra African talent” trying to become “baby France” is going to fix it, he chides.

“We’re not going to beat France at the game of buying and renting Africans to play soccer. … They’ve been doing it for longer than us. They have stronger connections. They got more African migrants in their country.”

“This whole little phony passion that we have for the World Cup … it’s falling for the television show,” Whitlock says.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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A 17-year-old Alabama male is accused of stabbing his mother to death and seriously wounding his father reportedly after an argument over discipline Sunday night, WALA-TV reported.

The suspect faces murder and attempted murder charges, the station said.

‘Please help me, I don’t want to die.’

Investigators with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office identified the teen’s mother as 37-year-old Samantha Baker, who died outside the family’s home on Augustine Drive in Daphne, WALA reported.

Her husband, 46-year-old Lance Baker, suffered multiple stab wounds, the station said, adding that deputies found him outside a neighboring home, after which he was flown to a hospital. He remained in critical condition Monday, WALA noted.

“Our male who is still in critical condition but is hopefully going to survive — he was running to houses trying to get some help,” Capt. Justin Correa of the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office told the station.

Investigators told WALA that the suspect and his parents were in an argument over discipline when the teen stabbed his parents inside and outside the home. The station said the crime scene extended across half the block and into several neighboring yards.

Next-door neighbor Shawn Scurry told WALA she reviewed her security camera video after the incident.

“That was probably the hardest part, was pulling up my camera and listening to it and listening to the father yelling for help: ‘Please help me, I don’t want to die,'” Scurry recounted to the station. “And it just carried on down, and it looks like he was trying to find an open door, and I didn’t know where he was or where anybody was.”

RELATED: Male, 25, accused of shooting to death his mother, father, brother, and brother’s girlfriend

Prosecutors said the juvenile locked himself inside the family home and called 911 after the attack, WALA reported, adding that he was arrested at the scene.

Police described the incident as a domestic situation that escalated, the station noted.

“It is really sad. It’s very sad for this family, having to deal with it,” Correa told WALA. “From everything we can see at this point, this was an isolated domestic incident that really just got out of control.”

The suspect appeared in court for a bond hearing Monday morning, the station said, adding that prosecutors requested a high bond. Baldwin County Assistant District Attorney Patrick Doggett argued for the high amount.

WALA’s video report indicated that the teen suspect — whose bond was set at $1 million — is being charged as an adult.

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This just in from ABC: “The View” is a news program.

Yes, that’s the same “View” that traffics in more conspiracy theories than a tinfoil salesman at an Alex Jones convention.

In 2022, Goldberg claimed without evidence that the GOP planned to take select Americans’ voting rights away as well as a woman’s right to vote.

Ridiculous? Of course it is.

The surprising part isn’t that ABC is saying it. It’s that, for decades, the FCC has effectively treated it that way by exempting programs like “The View” from the agency’s equal-time rules.

Now that long-standing interpretation is under attack — and while it’s hard to argue with mocking the gynocentric gabfest’s journalistic standards, the government shouldn’t be deciding which shows qualify as “real” journalism.

News flush

The dispute traces back to January, when FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced that late-night and daytime talk shows could no longer rely on a decades-old interpretation of the “bona fide news interview” exemption to the equal-time rule. Carr argued that broadcasters had stretched the exemption beyond recognition, saying legacy networks had treated their talk shows as news programs “even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes.”

Congress created that exemption in 1959 after broadcasters warned that forcing equal time for every candidate interview would discourage political coverage altogether. Lawmakers ultimately concluded that preserving editorial discretion better served the public than having regulators second-guess programming decisions.

The first major test came a few weeks later. Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico appeared on “The View” months before his expected primary against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). Under Carr’s new interpretation, ABC could no longer simply assume the interview qualified for the exemption, prompting the FCC to investigate whether the appearance should have triggered equal-time obligations.

The effects were almost immediate. Citing the same regulatory uncertainty, CBS lawyers advised Stephen Colbert not to air a scheduled interview with Talarico on “The Late Show.” Rather than risk an FCC dispute, Colbert released the interview on YouTube instead, where the agency has no jurisdiction. Whether you sympathize with Colbert or not, the episode demonstrated how quickly regulatory uncertainty can begin shaping editorial decisions.

Narrow ‘View’

Carr’s criticism wasn’t pulled from thin air. The show’s guest lineup is notoriously one-sided. According to the Media Research Center, last year “The View” hosted 128 liberal-leaning guests compared with just two conservatives. One of those two, actress Cheryl Hines, is generally considered “conservative” only because her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., serves in the Trump administration.

The guest tally merely scratches the surface. The Media Research Center has also cataloged nearly 2,500 examples of bias, misinformation and one-sided commentary on “The View.” If Carr wanted evidence that the show resembles partisan advocacy more than journalism, he hardly had to look far.

The latest examples don’t require a fact-checking degree to decipher — just functioning eyes and ears (a sense of humor doesn’t hurt, either).

Whoopi world

Let’s start with Whoopi Goldberg. The Oscar winner has used her “View” pulpit to suggest President Donald Trump planned to separate interracial couples. Her proof? Zip … zero … nada. Nobody tell Usha Vance, an Indian-American woman and the second lady.

That kind of commentary is disqualifying on the surface. It’s doubly damning for a verifiable “news” outlet.

More recently, Goldberg and co-host Joy Behar railed against the GOP’s SAVE Act legislation, saying it’s deeply unpopular. Or as both Goldberg and Behar said into their live mics, “nobody wants it.”

Multiple recent polls show that more than 80% of the public want voters to show ID before voting, the thrust of the legislation.

Good luck finding more than 80% of Americans to agree on, well, anything (beyond a white-hot hatred for robocalls).

That’s not just a little bit off. It’s a major embarrassment, particularly for a “news” program.

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Fact-chuckers

“The View” hosts also sit silently as guests utter the most unhinged comments without a fact-check or pushback. Earlier this year, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) claimed the modern GOP was hell-bent on bringing back slavery.

The four “View” hosts couldn’t raise a single objection, nor ask the veteran Democrat to back up his outlandish claim. Would Walter Cronkite sit still while a guest uttered something so outrageous?

“And that’s the way it isn’t.”

The show’s coverage of Austin Metcalf’s shocking 2025 murder proved how dangerous — yes, dangerous — “The View’s” misinformation can be. Co-host Sunny Hostin lied about the weight disparity between Metcalf and his killer, Karmelo Anthony.

She also lied that Anthony was the only black person in the team’s tent area where the fatal stabbing occurred. Multiple black students were there at the time. Some even testified on behalf of the prosecution.

Some news program. Is it any wonder TikTok accounts repeat misinformation tied to the case?

Fake news fever

And this isn’t a recent problem. “The View” has been twisting the truth like a Bavarian pretzel for years. In 2022, Goldberg claimed without evidence that the GOP planned to take select Americans’ voting rights away as well as a woman’s right to vote.

Evidence? Proof? Hey, Goldberg starred in that adorable “Sister Act” series. That’s enough, apparently.

Two years ago, the same Goldberg said President Trump would throw Americans into camps, including gay Americans, and “disappear” them. Any update on that claim?

In other words, Carr has identified a real problem. His solution is the dangerous part.

Butt out

Treating “The View” as the equivalent of a bona fide news interview program stretches the term beyond recognition. But the government has no business deciding otherwise.

Those slopes can be mighty slippery.

The Twitter Files offered a preview of how quickly government officials can move from combatting misinformation to shaping public debate itself. The power to decide which outlets qualify as “real” journalism won’t remain in the hands of today’s regulators forever. Eventually it will belong to another administration with very different political priorities.

Conservatives, of all people, should understand that lesson. The power you give your friends today will eventually belong to your opponents.

More voices, not fewer. Even if some of those voices would make Cronkite spin like a top in his grave.

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Fed up with the federal government denigrating American exceptionalism, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on March 27, 2025, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”

“Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth,” Trump wrote.

‘The Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of American History in particular, under its current leadership and current interpretive ideology, cannot be trusted.’

Trump said his administration would, as a matter of policy, “restore Federal sites dedicated to history, including parks and museums, to solemn and uplifting public monuments that remind Americans of our extraordinary heritage, consistent progress toward becoming a more perfect Union, and unmatched record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing.”

Any curative initiative worth its salt depends upon a robust understanding of the illness at hand and its symptoms. To this end, the White House’s Domestic Policy Council has diagnosed in a lengthy report released on Independence Day the disease afflicting the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and its various manifestations.

At the outset, the report notes that the NMAH should tell the American people — in an honest, proud, and serious manner — where their nation came from, what makes it distinctive, and why it is worth preserving.

Instead, ideologues behind the scenes at the NMAH have in recent years alternatively told revisionist histories in a contemptuous manner and pushed agitprop in an apparent effort to simultaneously advance leftist agendas and to disenchant and disorient visitors.

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The NMAH’s ideological capture goes to the top.

The report highlights the radicalism of Anthea Hartig, the current NMAH director, who apparently:

Regards history as a “prime tool of social justice”;Figures that one of her roles is to connect “research and scholarship to activism and advocacy”;Seeks to “get out of the ‘America First’ mentality” when telling history;Wanted to “problematize the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026”; and Wanted to shift attention in the museum away from an “Anglo-centric” focus on the American founding.

Beyond raising concern about Hartig’s apparent radicalism, the report presents a mountain of evidence showing that the NMAH “purposely presents America as a problematic country irredeemably conceived, founded by deeply flawed men, and still operating today as an instrument of systemic racism and oppression.”

“In the Museum’s current telling,” the report continues, “the country is, above all, defined by white supremacy, slavery, conquest, exclusion, hierarchy, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and systemic injustice.”

The report states, for instance, that the museum:

Failed to hold any special Independence Day events celebrating America’s 250th anniversary on July 4;No longer holds patriotic Star-Spangled Banner flag-folding ceremonies or any other special programming to celebrate Flag Day;Characterized Christopher Columbus as a “murderer,” “slaver,” “killer,” and “thief”;”Slander[s]” America’s founders;Has “consistently denigrated and displaced whites, males, Christians, and Americans in educational materials and programming, failing to highlight how Christians and Christian principles also have contributed to America’s Founding and flourishing”;Teaches visitors that “[ukuleles] are … a product of U.S. imperialism,” Mickey Mouse represents “vestiges of longstanding traditions of blackface minstrelsy,” and “Wild West shows turned the subjugation of Indigenous people into theater”;Devoted 20% of the “Electric Dr. Franklin” exhibit to “Enslaved People,” including baseless speculation about whether his electrical experimentation involved “an indentured servant or an enslaved person”;Endeavors to link every exhibit to race and identity, gender and sexuality, environmental change, immigration and migrations, economic inequality, technological change, and/or nationalism and globalism;Pushes gender ideology in numerous exhibits, one of which features a trans-identifying woman’s chest binder;Targets kids with gender propaganda and claims in its glossary that “a child may feel they are a girl some days and a boy on others, or possibly feel that neither term describes them accurately”; andHeld a recurring meeting for staff members to discuss and read a radical tool kit that identified perfectionism, a sense of urgency, the prioritization of quantity over quality, paternalism, “worship of the written word,” either/or thinking, individualism, and objectivity as “characteristics of white culture which show up in our organizations.”

The Domestic Policy Council concluded that “the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of American History in particular, under its current leadership and current interpretive ideology, cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.”

The museum did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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