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Revivalist Philip Anthony Mitchell joins Josh Howerton for an unfiltered talk on persecution, Islam, and the call to contend
Philip Anthony Mitchell is quickly becoming a household name in the evangelical world. Covered by the Associated Press, CNN, Fortune, and CBN, among several other prominent outlets, the Atlanta pastor and founder of 2819 Church has built a platform of fiery, no-nonsense, revivalist preaching that now reaches millions.
Once a Queens drug dealer who nearly took his own life, Mitchell came to Christ in his mid-20s and has spent the years since calling the church back to repentance and the Great Commission.
Tomorrow, Mitchell is joining BlazeTV’s Josh Howerton on “Live Free” for a conversation that is as inspiring as it is gut-wrenchingly raw.
The duo dig into it all — from Mitchell’s near-suicide and the weight of being one of the most viral pastors in the country to a growing political threat Mitchell says “would inadvertently muzzle the Scriptures” and the looming horrors of radical Islam.
“Somebody got to stand up and lift up their voice even if it comes at the expense of persecution. Man, I just want to be one of those somebodies, bro,” Mitchell tells Howerton.
This episode has it all: stunning testimonies, unpolished insecurity, honest tears, and warnings the church would rather dodge.
Check out the trailer below. Then come back tomorrow for a conversation that will captivate you — even when it makes you squirm.
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Boy, 3, drowns in pool while his mom, 41, allegedly found passed out in patio chair after drinking about 5 25-ounce beers
A 3-year-old boy drowned in a residential pool in Evansville, Indiana, over the weekend while his 41-year-old mother allegedly was found passed out in a patio chair after drinking about five 25-ounce beers.
Police told WFIE-TV that a 911 call came in around 4:30 p.m. Saturday saying the boy had drowned in a pool at a home on North Second Avenue.
‘This is all my fault.’
Emergency crews arrived at the home and attempted lifesaving measures on the child, the station said, adding that the boy was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The homeowner said the mother, Amie Jo Farber, showed up with the boy around 2:30 p.m. and asked if they could swim in the backyard pool, WFIE reported, citing police.
The homeowner said they could but told Farber she needed to be sure to watch the boy, the station added.
Farber reportedly was sitting outside at a patio table while the boy was in a pool float, WFIE noted. The homeowner came outside to find Farber “passed out” in a patio chair and the boy floating face-down in the water, the station said, citing police.
One witness pulled the boy out and began administering CPR while another witness called 911, WFIE reported.
Police said during the 911 call one witness could be heard repeatedly yelling “Amie” in an attempt to get Farber to wake up, and another woman could be heard saying, “She’s passed out drunk!” the station reported.
The homeowner later told officers that Farber drank about five 25-ounce beers over the two hours she was in the back yard, WFIE noted.
The first officer to arrive on scene reportedly saw Farber next to trash cans apparently throwing away empty beer cans, the station said, adding that several empty beer cans were on the ground next to her — and she showed signs of impairment.
Police added to WFIE that Farber told officers at the hospital that she “must have fallen asleep” but didn’t know for how long. Officers added to the station that Farber also told them, “This is all my fault,” but didn’t elaborate.
Police obtained a search warrant for Farber’s blood to get it tested for drugs and alcohol, the station said.
Farber was booked into the Vanderburgh County Jail Saturday night and charged with neglect resulting in death, WFIE reported, adding that she’s being held on a $25,000 cash bond; her initial hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
The station also reported that Farber in 2023 was arrested after police said she got drunk while caring for her infant. Police told WFIE that Farber fought and spit at officers during her arrest. She faced numerous charges, including neglect of a dependent, domestic battery, and intimidation and battery against a public safety officer, the station said.
It’s not clear if the victim in the 2023 case is Farber’s boy who drowned Saturday.
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Google’s data-devouring AI wants everyone’s personal information
Google’s new Daily Brief for Gemini is both cool and creepy, but up until recently, it was locked behind a paid subscription, away from the masses. Months later, the data-devouring feature is now available for everybody. Here’s how to make sure it isn’t already gobbling up your private data.
Daily Brief is a relatively new feature built into the Google Gemini app. Every morning, it scours through the information saved in your Google apps to surface a daily agenda of tasks, reminders, and events custom-tailored for you.
Once Daily Brief is enabled, Gemini can dig through everyone’s Google apps in search of relevant information.
When I tested Daily Brief earlier this year, I found it paradoxical. For those in the Google ecosystem, it can be a handy tool to remember things you otherwise forgot — a birthday for a loved one, to follow up on an email you sent the other day, to dig deeper into a topic you searched on Google. If you’re not an avid Google user, though, it’s mostly useless.
The more data Gemini can gather from your Google apps, the better the brief. At the same time, the more data it has, the more Google learns about you to feed into its AI machine.
Since Daily Brief is part of the Gemini core experience, it isn’t exclusive to Google’s Pixel phone series or even Android. It’s available on iOS and the web too, expanding its reach to cover practically any user with a Google account. The goal, of course, is to get you to rely on Gemini so that Google can pull you into its broader AI platform and away from the likes of ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.
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Like many Gemini features, Daily Brief started as a paid perk back in May, and now it’s available to the masses for free. That means, once Daily Brief is enabled, Gemini can dig through everyone’s Google apps in search of relevant – i.e., private and personal – information, free of charge.
So it is already digging through your data right now?
In a word, no. Google made the right choice when it locked Daily Brief behind a manual setup process, so unless something went terribly wrong, the feature should be disabled on your account by default. However, if you’re curious about the feature, or if you want to ensure it’s actually turned off so it can’t gobble up your data, you might still want to confirm if it’s on or off.
To check how Daily Brief is configured, open the Gemini app on Android, iOS, or the web. Using the mobile version as a reference, tap on your profile picture in the top right corner. On the next page, choose “Personal Intelligence.” At the bottom, find “Daily brief.”
Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw/Android 17 on Google Pixel 10 Pro XL
To make sure Gemini can’t scan through your Google app data for future briefs, uncheck the toggle switch so that it’s grayed out. On the flip side, if you want to try Daily Brief and see what it’s all about, check the toggle so that it lights up blue.
Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw/Android 17 on Google Pixel 10 Pro XL
For those who don’t want to use Daily Brief, that’s all you need to do. It’s officially turned off, and it won’t dig through your data going forward.
For those who turned it on, go back to the first screen in the Gemini app. Next, tap the hamburger menu in the top left and select “Daily Brief” from the slide-out section. Here is where your Daily Briefs will live on your device.
Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw/Android 17 on Google Pixel 10 Pro XL
Every morning, you will receive a notification with a new brief for tasks you need to accomplish today and throughout the rest of the week. If you don’t want to receive notifications, tap on the three dots in the top right corner, and uncheck the notifications switch. This way, your Daily Brief is still ready and accessible every morning, but your phone won’t nag you to open it.
Whether you wish to keep Daily Brief enabled for its useful features or disabled for the sake of privacy, the choice is ultimately up to you. It’s easy enough to adjust the setting if you change your mind.
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Someone else’s Apple Watch might start spying on your conversations
Apple Watch is good for many things — wrist-based notifications, health and fitness tracking, quick access to Siri. Now users might soon add “covert spy device” to the list, thanks to new AI-powered listening features that can eavesdrop on conversations like yours, even if you don’t own an Apple Watch.
Apple made a surprising announcement during its hardware event in early September. The company is bringing a controversial listening feature to Apple Watch Series 12 called Siri Recap.
If you think that sounds like a walking privacy violation, you’re right.
When enabled, Siri Recap monitors your ambient environment for conversations through the Apple Watch on your wrist and translates it into “high-level notes” that you can read on your wrist or through a connected iPhone.
There are plenty of places where this feature could be useful. Apple specifically mentioned that Siri Recap is good for taking notes during team meetings at work or parent/teacher conferences at school. However, it can technically be used anywhere — the sermon at church, chats with friends, a disagreement with your spouse. There are no limits, because Siri Recap can hear and summarize everything.
If you think that sounds like a walking privacy violation, you’re right. Luckily, Apple took some precautions to mitigate the dangers, if you choose to believe them.
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For starters, Siri Recap isn’t activated by default. The user has to enable it through a new icon in Control Center on Apple Watch before it searches for live speech. Alternatively, it can be set to run on a schedule, like when you go into the office every day or sit down for a specific weekly meeting. But again, both of these actions are intentional to prevent accidental recaps.Apple claims that conversations are never actually recorded or stored, either on-device or in a server farm somewhere far away. However, there is a contradiction in its own documents, which reveal that audio is briefly captured within the Secure Enclave on Apple Watch and iPhone, transcribed into condensed text, and then processed through Private Cloud Compute before the final product is delivered to your device, fully encrypted along the way. Ultimately, you never receive the recording or the word-for-word transcript. You only get detailed notes in the form of a final summary.Saved notes are deleted on a seven-day rolling period, unless the user deliberately saves them for later. In this case, most saved data will simply disappear without a trace, as if the conversation never happened at all.Siri Recap will seemingly understand when it hears personal information — such as banking details or a social security number — and omit this from final summaries.Everything is supposedly end-to-end encrypted and synced to iCloud so that no one but you can access your recaps, not even Apple.
It goes without saying that there are some clear pros and cons to letting an Apple Watch listen in on your conversations every day.
On the pro side, Siri Recap could be a genuinely helpful tool for anyone who needs to remember anything. The busy entrepreneur takes notes at a meeting without lifting a finger. The old friends who get together once a month receive memorable summaries of their time spent together. An elderly person with dementia gets back a semblance of their memory with a recap that tells them exactly what they forgot during a doctor’s appointment or visit from a loved one. All of these things are good and useful to the people who need them.
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On the con side, Siri Recap makes the Apple Watch Series 12 — and maybe all Apple Watches in general — problematic for privacy-conscious people. Essentially, Siri Recap turns everyone else’s Apple Watch into a continuous recording device that could be analyzing conversations at any given time without your knowledge or consent.
Granted, only Series 12 can use Siri Recap for now, but normal people don’t know that. Not to mention, most people can’t tell a Series 12 from a Series 8 or any other on someone’s wrist. That means, in the eyes of people like you and me, any Apple Watch you come across throughout the day could record what you say, and you’d never know it.
So what happens next? Will you assume that all Apple Watches are recording you when you speak to someone in public? Or will you try to forget how surveillance is quickly becoming part of our AI-enhanced reality? Leave a comment with your thoughts.
Siri Recap is just one of the new Audio Intelligence features coming to Apple Watch Series 12. Users will also get to check out Live Rewind, which stores a transcript of the last 15 seconds of a live conversation that you can read on Apple Watch with a double-press of the Digital Crown. Next, there’s Sound Recognition, which helps deaf people decipher alarms and sirens in their vicinity. Finally, Music Recognition, powered by Shazam, continuously scans and identifies songs playing nearby.
Siri Recap is expected to launch in beta later this year. With my Series 12 already on my wrist, I will definitely test this feature and report back on how the feature actually works and whether or not anyone has a reason to worry about privacy going forward.
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Nike can’t stop making woke campaigns — but this might finally wake it up
After years of woke ads and progressive positioning, the fun may be over for Nike.
An announcement on Monday morning is not only likely to hurt the company’s image, but it also serves as an indicator of massive financial woes.
Nike’s market cap has fallen from $264 billion in November 2021 to $52.7 billion.
Nearly two decades after being recognized as one of the premier blue-chip companies in the United States, Nike will have to say goodbye to the higher echelons of the financial market.
After 18 years, Nike has officially been dropped by the S&P 100, the index that typically represents the most established, investible, and financially reliable businesses there are.
The swoosh checkmark just isn’t cutting it anymore, it seems. Nike’s market cap has fallen from $264 billion in November 2021 to $52.7 billion in September, according to Fox News, its weakest valuation in 12 years.
Shares in Nike are also down 43% this year, but that’s not to say the S&P 100 has struggled. In fact, S&P Global notes the S&P 100 is up nearly 13% year-to-date and 16.55% in the last year. While Nike has tanked massively in the last five years, the S&P 100 has increased 14.15% over the same time period.
Signs that Nike would be dropped from the index led to severe backlash from many who believe that the company’s woke advertising in recent years is to blame, as Blaze News recently reported.
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The brand recently saw the exodus of two worldwide soccer stars to competitors, including Kylian Mbappe to On and Lamine Yamal to Adidas.
A series of controversial ad campaigns may also have turned off its audience.
Perhaps the most infamous Nike campaign featured former NFL quarterback and national anthem kneeler Colin Kaepernick in 2018.
In 2023, actor Dylan Mulvaney — known for pretending to be a young girl — made social media posts marketing women’s sports bras and leggings as a paid promotion for Nike.
In 2025, the brand tapped female athletes like Caitlin Clark for a campaign about how women have been silenced and oppressed simply for being women.
“You can’t take credit. You can’t speak up. You can’t be so ambitious. You can’t break records. You can’t have any fun. You can’t make demands. You can’t keep score. You can’t stand out,” the copy read.
This was followed by a blunder at the Boston Marathon in April, where Nike was rightly or wrongly raked over the coals for an ad that read, “Runners Welcome. Walkers Tolerated.”
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Some attempts to right the ship have been made — see its family-friendly golf spot — but overall there has been an obvious problem at the company.
Jim Osman, a financial expert at Forbes, stated that Nike did not become weaker because the S&P decided to remove it, but rather the S&P was late to the party in noticing the company’s financial issues.
“Customers moved first. Competitors gained ground. Nike relied too heavily on familiar franchises, pushed too far toward direct-to-consumer, weakened some wholesale relationships, and then had to spend time repairing them,” Osman wrote.
He added that the numbers eventually caught up with the company, while full-price demand weakened at the same time.
The S&P 100 represents nearly 71% of the broader index of the S&P 500 and selects large companies across different industries to provide broad representation of the U.S. stock market. Nike remains in the S&P 500.
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Nick Vujicic: A living refutation of abortion’s culture of death
There are some people whose lives make you reconsider the way you’re living your own.
Nick Vujicic is one of them.
We live in a culture increasingly comfortable deciding which lives are worth living.
Born in Australia without arms or legs, Vujicic faced challenges few of us can imagine. Even with the love and support of his family, bullying, loneliness, and depression took a heavy toll. By the age of 10, he had sunk so deeply into despair that he contemplated taking his own life.
But Nick soon found something stronger than despair: hope in his Christian faith.
He came to understand that his life was not a mistake and that his disability didn’t rob him of meaning or purpose.
Vujicic went on to become an international best-selling author, husband, father, and one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the world. His 2013 appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s “Lifeclass” introduced his story to a global audience. To date, he’s spoken in person to 11 million people across 87 countries.
Now his journey comes to theaters Friday in the documentary “No Limbs, No Limits: The NickV Story.” The film traces Nick’s struggle with anger, depression, and hopelessness — and his discovery that life is worth living because every person has value and purpose.
That message could hardly come at a better time.
Search for meaning
Across the Western world, we are living through a crisis of loneliness and a search for meaning. Young people are more connected technologically than any generation in history, yet many feel profoundly isolated.
Who am I? Why am I here? What difference can one person make?
Nick has spent much of his adult life answering those questions.
His answer is simple: You matter. Your life has value. You were made for a purpose.
Our limitations, disappointments, and wounds do not determine our worth. The challenge is to recognize our value and decide what we will do with the life we have been given.
That’s one reason Nick’s story resonates so deeply with me.
Redefining perseverance
I first heard of him in 2009 when he co-starred in “The Butterfly Circus,” a short film starring and produced by my friend Eduardo Verastegui. I was intrigued by this young man with no arms or legs who could swim better and faster than I could.
And I say that as a marathoner.
Running marathons has taught me something about perseverance, but watching Nick navigate life without limbs quickly puts my own physical challenges into perspective.
I began following him on social media. Over the years, I watched Nick marry, become a dad, and continue showing millions of people that what we lack does not define who we are.
His life declares that no human being is a mistake. No life is disposable. No person should be judged by what they cannot do or whether that life meets somebody else’s definition of “quality.”
Every person is unique and unrepeatable.
And every person can make a difference.
That message desperately needs to be heard today.
Culture of death
We live in a culture increasingly comfortable deciding which lives are worth living. Nowhere is that more apparent than with abortion, particularly when an unborn child has been diagnosed with a disability or genetic condition.
A troubling prenatal diagnosis can be devastating, as it was for Nick’s parents. In that moment, fear can quickly take over: This child’s life will be difficult. The family will suffer. Perhaps it would be better if this life never began at all.
Nick Vujicic is a living refutation of that philosophy.
Imagine trying to measure the value of Nick’s future before he had even been born.
No arms. No legs. What could he possibly accomplish?
The answer: more than most of us could have imagined.
That question has particular urgency for me because I live in Virginia, where voters this fall will consider a constitutional amendment expanding the so-called right to abortion. The truth is that our broader abortion culture too often treats disability, dependency, and difficult circumstances as reasons to question whether a life should continue.
Against that backdrop comes Nick Vujicic.
Some ask whether a life will be too difficult, too dependent, or too burdensome.
Nick’s life asks a different question: What if we give that child a chance? A chance to surprise us. A chance to love and be loved. A chance to become a husband or wife, a father or mother — or someone whose words might one day save another person’s life.
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Finding purpose
That is why “No Limbs, No Limits” arrives at precisely the right moment.
The film doesn’t pretend Nick’s journey was easy. He knew rejection, anger, depression, and loneliness. He knew what it was to wonder whether his life was worth living.
Then he discovered that suffering did not have the final word.
Faith did.
Purpose did.
Love did.
Nick’s story makes me admire human life more deeply — disabled and able-bodied alike. It also makes me examine my own.
I run marathons. I have arms. I have legs. I have opportunities Nick could only have dreamed about as a boy.
Am I using them?
Am I loving enough? Serving enough? Am I grateful for another morning, another mile, another opportunity to make a difference?
In an age of loneliness, Nick Vujicic reminds us that no one is unnecessary.
In an age of despair, he reminds us that circumstances are not destiny.
And in an age searching for meaning, he offers an answer our culture badly needs to hear: Your life has value. Your life has purpose. Now go find it.
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Trump threatens to drive Iran ‘into HELL’ — and predicts when peace deal will be reached in UN speech
The president cast himself as a peacemaker while threatening that Iran faces annihilation during a speech to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump also predicted that the Iranian regime is waiting until the midterm elections before agreeing with a peace deal to end the conflict.
He called on all nations to join the US endeavor to economically isolate Iran so that a deal can be reached and gas prices can drop worldwide.
“But I have a big decision to make,” said Trump.
“Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?” he asked rhetorically.
“Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?” he added.
During his speech, one lone representative of the Iranian regime looked on in the audience.
Trump said that he would not accept any deal that allows the Iranian regime to obtain nuclear weapons, and he predicted the regime would agree to a deal after the midterm elections.
“They’re waiting to see how I do in the midterm election. What they don’t realize is that I’m not running. I did that already and won in a landslide,” Trump added.
He called on all nations to join the U.S. endeavor to economically isolate Iran so that a deal can be reached and gas prices can drop worldwide.
The president went on to say that the U.S. is doing “better than ever before.”
“The entire world is being lifted by the wealth, strength, spirit, and momentum of a newly energized and a very powerful United States of America,” he continued.
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“Our economy is the envy of the world,” Trump added. “Our military is the most powerful on earth. Our technology is second to none, and we are leading in virtually everything.”
Iran has sought to maintain some control over the Strait of Hormuz in the form of fees on oil tankers that would bring them billions of dollars in revenue every year.
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House Democrats get BAD NEWS about their foothold in Missouri
Liberals thinking that they may have won the congressional redistricting battle in Missouri might be headed for a major upset.
Missouri lawmakers repealed the Show-Me State’s 2022 congressional map last year and passed legislation, HB 1, enacting new congressional boundaries — effectively changing Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City-based district into a Republican-leaning seat.
‘Only use of the 2025 map complies with the Constitution.’
While Democrats melted down over their likely loss of an additional seat in the House, the liberal advocacy group People Not Politicians and its executive director, Richard von Glahn, organized a campaign aimed at forcing the state to hold a referendum on the bill and sued the state to prevent the 2025 map’s use in the midterm election.
The case was kicked up to the Missouri Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled on Sept. 3 that the map must be approved by voters in a November referendum before being used — despite Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins previously determining that “the Missouri Constitution does not authorize a referendum on congressional redistricting plans passed by the General Assembly.”
President Donald Trump said in response to the Sept. 3 ruling, “This is a Dark Day for ‘Justice’ in Missouri!”
However, an 8th Circuit Court of Appeals panel comprising three Republican-appointed judges delivered Republicans a win on Monday, ruling that “Missouri’s current plan to use the 2022 map in the November 2026 general election violates the Constitution. Only use of the 2025 map complies with the Constitution and federal law.”
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The appellate court’s ruling is in response to a lawsuit filed against the state earlier this month by Rep. Robert Onder (R), Republican congressional candidate Richard Brattin, and a pair of voters. The lawsuit argued that the use of the 2022 map in the November 2026 general election would transform their congressional districts from the August primary election, thereby violating the Elections Clause and the Equal Protection Clause.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark, a Trump appointee, found that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on their claims and blocked Missouri from using any congressional map other than the 2025 map advanced by HB 1; however, the U.S. Supreme Court paused Clark’s order.
To the liberal group’s chagrin, the 8th Circuit affirmed the district court on Monday, noting in its majority opinion that “if the 2022 map is used in the November 2026 general election, some Missouri voters will have more say than others on who represents them in Congress.”
The court noted, for example, that:
more than half of the Missourians living in the Fifth Congressional District under the 2025 map used in the August 2026 primary election — 57% — will find themselves in other districts if the 2022 map is used in the November 2026 general election. … As a result, a majority of residents in the Fifth Congressional District had no voice in who will appear on their November 2026 ballot; they will be forced to choose from nominees selected by a minority of residents in the district as well as voters who are no longer in the district.
The court noted further that using the 2025 map would “lead to the least amount of confusion for voters subjected to a string of changes this month.”
The 8th Circuit has given the U.S. Supreme Court until Monday at 5 p.m. to weigh in. Absent an intervention from the high court, Secretary Hoskins and local election authorities have been directed to begin implementing the 2025 map.
Richard von Glahn said in a statement obtained by the New York Times, “Officials should stop wasting taxpayers’ money on pointless legal action and instead focus on administering our elections.”
Von Glahn noted that he will file an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court.
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