This past Father’s Day weekend, an article on fatherhood in the New York Times went viral.

However, it wasn’t about a great father. It was about a woman who transitioned and calls herself a father.

“You might be thinking, ‘Really? In the year of our Lord 2026, this is what the New York Times is talking about? I thought we were over this madness. I thought we realized and successfully stigmatized roping kids into being sources of affirmation for gender delusion,’” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says on “Relatable.”

The headline reads, “To my daughter, my gender was never complicated.”

The article contains cartoons to help describe the relationship between “father” and daughter, including one where the daughter asks, “How long did you have breasts for Dad?”

“What a tragic, tragic line for a child to utter. The daughter is later shown at school with friends where a friend says, ‘You can’t grow a beard. You’re a girl.’ And the daughter responds, ‘My dad did, and he was a girl,’” Stuckey explains.

“And this is supposed to prove that this is super simple. Or maybe it proves that it is so delusional that a child who still believes that there is a fat man that can circle the universe in one night, fit down their chimney, and put presents under the tree like that. They believe it because they believe all kinds of fantastical things,” she continues.

But the New York Times isn’t the only publication to do the opposite of celebrating fatherhood.

“There was also this piece in the Toronto Star: ‘A modest proposal: Why it’s time to abolish Father’s Day,’” Stuckey says, pointing out that the article is a bit of a “bait and switch.”

In the article, the author laments the pressure put on children to buy gifts, claiming that the real gift is quality time.

“If your problem is materialism, that’s one thing. Or you just think it’s, you know, a made-up reason to buy Hallmark cards, that’s fine,” she says, adding, “But the title, we need to abolish Father’s Day, or we need to abolish Mother’s Day, another thing that I’ve heard in the past due to some undue burden that’s just perpetuating this idea that celebrating fathers and positive fatherhood is not something that we need to do.”

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For the first time in more than 40 years, privately developed nuclear reactors are switching on in America.

On June 4, Antares Nuclear’s Mark-0 reactor went critical at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory. Valar Atomics followed on June 18, producing heat from a reactor core inside a tentlike structure in the Utah desert. The Department of Energy called it “the rebirth of America’s nuclear industry.”

‘Nuclear in America has been defined for too long by delays, by companies that said they would and then didn’t. … Today is the first of those commitments delivered.’

President Trump has long been skeptical of large traditional reactors, saying they tend to get “too big and too complex and too expensive.” But he bet big on small modular reactors, pledging to “approve new reactors” and “slash the red tape.”

In May 2025, Trump signed four executive orders and set a deadline: at least three new small reactors online by July 4, 2026 — the nation’s 250th birthday.

The Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program followed, fast-tracking 11 new designs and sidestepping the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s traditional licensing process, which previously took more than 20,000 hours to complete. Oversight was placed with the Energy Department instead.

Antares CEO Jordan Bramble put the stakes plainly: “Nuclear in America has been defined for too long by delays, by companies that said they would and then didn’t. We said criticality in 2026, electricity production in 2027, and power to the warfighter in 2028. Today is the first of those commitments delivered on the schedule we set.”

Chief nuclear officer at Ocean Atomics Nick Touran summed up the pace: “We haven’t done anything this fast, basically ever.”

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The reactors look nothing like today’s massive plants, which average 44 years old. Radiant’s design uses small nuclear fuel balls — its chief nuclear officer compared them to gobstoppers — built to be mass-produced and deployed anywhere from military bases to disaster zones. A third reactor still needs to go critical before July 4 to fulfill the president’s pledge.

This month, the Trump administration also announced $17.5 billion in loans to build 10 large-scale conventional nuclear plants using Westinghouse technology. Construction is targeted to begin by 2030.

Idaho National Laboratory Director John Wagner made the bigger ambition clear: “The goal was never just criticality. The goal is 400 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2050.”

Critics aren’t sold. Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists called the race “essentially an exercise in public relations,” warning that slashing regulations undoes decades of safety lessons. “This is taking us back to the 1950s, and that is not progress.”

The program skipped public comment periods and environmental reviews — which the DOE said were unnecessary.

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Two of the conservatives on the Supreme Court have sided with the three liberal justices to rule against the president’s decision to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook while a lawsuit continues.

President Donald Trump has been trying to fire Cook since 2025 after she was accused of committing mortgage fraud through evidence gathered from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

‘Today’s decision is an unprecedented incursion on the executive branch.’

On Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh ruled against the president being allowed to fire Cook while the litigation continued. Four other conservative justices dissented.

“Not only the fact of independence but also the appearance of independence is key to the Federal Reserve’s design,” wrote Roberts in the majority opinion.

He went on to assert that the president had not followed due process in firing Cook, which he indicated should have included offering an explanation for her removal, allowing her to respond, and setting up a deadline for the response. However, he also said in a footnote that the president could fire Cook if he tried again and followed due process.

The president responded in a post on Truth Social.

“The Cook Lawsuit, having to do with her suitability in sitting on the Board of the Federal Reserve, was sent back by the Supreme Court on a strictly procedural basis,” Trump wrote, “we will take appropriate action immediately to make sure that someone who has committed wrongdoing will not be making vital decisions concerning the Welfare of the United States of America!”

Roberts said the ruling was necessary to maintain the independence of the Federal Reserve and to assuage the public.

“Any change in that scheme must come from Congress, not the courts,” Roberts continued. “That is why we cannot accept the government’s contentions in this case. To do so would allow the president to remove a member of the Federal Reserve at any time, for any reason, without any notice before, and without any judicial check after.”

Justice Clarence Thomas called the arguments for the independence of the Federal Reserve unconstitutional.

“Today’s decision is an unprecedented incursion on the executive branch,” Thomas wrote in the dissent.

“Many do not share the court’s rosy appraisal of the past century. But if the court prefers an independent Federal Reserve Board, then its issue is not with the president but with the Constitution,” he added.

RELATED: Warsh approved to replace Powell as Federal Reserve head — and even 1 Democrat supports him

Cook responded in a statement Monday that accused the president of acting out of political motivation.

“It was an attempt to remove me on a manufactured pretext because I refused to bow to political pressure and continued to set interest rates based only on what would best serve the American people,” she wrote.

She has denied the allegations and has not been charged with any crime.

While the president has been demanding that the Federal Reserve lower interest rates, he has backed off on that campaign after some metrics showed inflation climbing to 4%.

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The alleged victim of a recent physical attack outside a Texas bar said her assailants yelled “free Karmelo” — and now three females face assault charges, the Dallas Express reported.

The alleged “free Karmelo” exclamation presumably was in reference to Karmelo Anthony, a black male who earlier this month was sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering Austin Metcalf, a white male, at a high school track meet in April 2025.

‘Any credible threat, any attempt to organize violence, and any effort to intimidate members of the community will be taken seriously and investigated appropriately.’

Ciarrianne Fuller, 21, and Alana Mumphrey, 25 — both of Longview — and Dejae Shalyn Brown, 26, of Pittsburg, were listed in Gregg County Jail records on warrants for assault causing bodily injury, the Express said.

Fuller was arrested Tuesday, the Longview News-Journal reported, adding that Brown and Mumphrey surrendered to law enforcement and were booked into jail Thursday afternoon; all three were released on $20,000 bonds.

The Express said a woman publicly identified on social media as Sammie Lee alleged that several females attacked her after leaving Whiskey J’s in Longview during the overnight hours of June 20 into June 21.

According to the Express, Lee alleged in her public post that the females shouted “free Karmelo” and said they planned to target “the smallest white girl they could find.”

Lee said she had not interacted with the three females prior to the assault, the News-Journal reported, adding that Lee posted photos on social media showing her injuries.

The Express said it asked the Longview Police Department for additional comment and clarification regarding if investigators have confirmed Lee’s allegation that the suspects yelled “free Karmelo” — or if they’ve uncovered any motive for the alleged assault — but the paper said it didn’t immediately receive a response from police.

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Longview Police Department spokesperson LaDarian Brown did say police are in communication with the FBI about the case because of online conversations “concerning retaliation, division, and attacks between members of our community,” the News-Journal reported.

“Any credible threat, any attempt to organize violence, and any effort to intimidate members of the community will be taken seriously and investigated appropriately,” Brown added, according to the News-Journal.

Racial tensions have surrounded the Karmelo Anthony case since its beginnings more than a year ago:

Shortly after Metcalf’s stabbing death, Anthony supporters went viral on social media, with one declaring that “Austin Metcalf got exactly what he deserved — point blank, period.”A high-profile Anthony spokesman reacted to Anthony’s indictment last year by calling for a fight against “white supremacy” and blasting “bigots” and “racists.”At the start of Anthony’s murder trial early this month, the prosecution dismissed all prospective black jurors — and one of the prospective black jurors acknowledged he’d have a “hard time putting a brother in jail.”After Anthony’s murder conviction, Democrat U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas threw shade at the Metcalf family, saying that “black women, especially black women who have black male children, live in fear and agony every single day — a fear and agony that, I promise you, the Metcalfs probably never spend a day living that way.”In addition, a white-hating agitator claiming Anthony was “legally lynched” is a criminal, disgraced ex-judge.

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In a recent demonstration, the Muslim community of Dearborn, Michigan, took to the streets, marching and chanting in a way that has renewed many Americans’ concerns about immigration in this country.

Videos of the scene in Dearborn, Michigan, a town which has found itself near the center of the national debate about immigration due to its high concentration of Muslims, began emerging Sunday morning.

‘There are no American flags, but there are flags of many other countries.’

The march was described as an “Ashura procession.”

In a video originally posted by Brendan Gutenschwager and later circulated by other accounts, hundreds of Shia Muslims can be seen marching down the street, making hand gestures and salutes, chanting, and waving a number of flags.

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None of the flags, as some people observed, were American flags. All appeared to be foreign flags, some of which have words written in a foreign script.

Many observers were distressed by this demonstration of apparently unassimilated Muslims who have gained a foothold in America.

Ned Ryun, the CEO of American Majority, wrote, “If you look at this and don’t immediately conclude that mass remigration must happen, and happen quickly, you are a moron guilty of suicidal empathy.”

Replying to Ned Ryun, Elon Musk voiced similar thoughts on the video and made a chilling observation: “There are no American flags, but there are flags of many other countries. Those whose loyalty is to another country over America are, by definition, traitors and must be expelled immediately.”

Gad Saad addressed President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, saying, “Does this concern you at all? If yes, what are the remedies?”

Eric Daugherty pointed out that this is not what assimilation looks like: “TERRIFYING: Dearborn Michigan just went maximum Islam, flooding the streets and making clear they’re here to conquer, not assimilate. This is why Islam needs to be repelled! Islamist flags waving, THEY WANT TO END THE WEST.”

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Republicans in Alaska were dealt a significant blow Friday after a court intervened to keep a Senate challenger on the ballot.

The Superior Court for the State of Alaska in the Third Judicial District has ruled that Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a challenger to Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, must be restored to the primary ballot for U.S. Senate.

‘The Division’s application of a “good-faith” test to Mr. Sullivan’s declaration of candidacy is not supported by the US Constitution, Alaska statutes, or the Division’s implementing regulations.’

Judge Thomas Matthews held that the Alaska Division of Elections unlawfully imposed a “good-faith” candidacy requirement on J. Sullivan — a requirement that does not appear in the U.S. Constitution, Alaskan statutes, or division regulations.

J. Sullivan, a 69-year-old retired teacher, reportedly registered as a Republican earlier this year and entered the race to oust Sen. S. Sullivan on May 29, just before the deadline for filing.

In response, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and Alaska Republican Party filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and the state’s division of elections, respectively.

After Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom (R) requested an investigation into J. Sullivan’s eligibility, Carol Beecher, the director of the Division of Elections, concluded that J. Sullivan had not filed a genuine “good-faith” candidacy and instead sought to confuse voters by placing two candidates with nearly identical names on the ballot — deeming him ineligible to seek the office of senator.

He has also been accused of coordinating with Democrat operatives. Sen. S. Sullivan told CNN earlier this month that J. Sullivan’s candidacy was effectively a Democratic effort to “cheat.”

J. Sullivan appealed the division’s decision to the Superior Court, where Judge Matthews ruled in his favor.

RELATED: Will the real Dan Sullivan please stand up? Alaska GOP works to keep another Dan Sullivan off the open primary ballot

Matthews affirmed that J. Sullivan met all the qualifying criteria set out by the Constitution, and therefore Alaska could not impose an additional requirement on his candidacy. The court further concluded that Sullivan’s alleged motives or political affiliations did not bear on his constitutional eligibility to seek office.

“The Division’s application of a ‘good-faith’ test to Mr. Sullivan’s declaration of candidacy is not supported by the U.S. Constitution, Alaska statutes, or the Division’s implementing regulations. As such, the Division’s decision to exclude Mr. Sullivan from the primary ballot is without a legal basis,” Matthews determined.

Matthews argued that ballot design — not exclusion — is the proper remedy for concerns over voter confusion.

“The Division may also design the ballot to facilitate fairness, simplicity, and clarity. But those tools are different from the complete exclusion of a candidate.”

The state has appealed the decision to the Alaska Supreme Court, with oral arguments scheduled for Monday. Unless the state high court intervenes, J. Sullivan will appear on Alaska’s Aug. 18 nonpartisan primary ballot.

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The Supreme Court has given an answer to one of President Trump’s appeals in a case related to, in the words of his legal team, the E. Jean “Carroll hoaxes.”

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Trump’s appeal in the case Trump v. Carroll.

‘The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes.’

There were no noted dissents in the message declining to take up the case.

Trump appealed an earlier decision in which a jury in a civil case found that “Carroll was sexually abused by … Trump at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1996” and that he “defamed her in statements he made in 2022,” according to the Second Circuit.

RELATED: Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll faces criminal perjury probe involving Democrat mega-donor: Reports

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President Trump has denied the allegations related to the case.

At the end of 2024, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the jury’s decision to award E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages.

In a statement provided to the Associated Press, Trump’s legal team said, “The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes. President Trump will keep winning against Liberal Lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to Make America Great Again.”

The Supreme Court’s denial on Monday applies to only one of Trump’s appeals in cases concerning Carroll.

Trump is appealing a second decision to award Carroll $83.3 million in a second defamation trial, though this case has not yet made it before the Supreme Court.

At the beginning of the month, President Trump’s counsel informed a clerk at the Supreme Court that the present case would be appealed and requested that the two cases be considered together given that they are closely related. The two cases were not considered together.

Carroll herself, however, is not out of the woods yet.

Blaze News previously reported that Carroll is facing a criminal perjury probe after stating under oath that she received no outside funding for her legal fees. This claim, however, has been called into question after links to billionaire Democrat mega-donor Reid Hoffman were exposed.

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Samuel Bateman, the self-described “prophet” who led a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Arizona-Utah border town of Colorado City, was sentenced in December 2024 to 50 years in prison for horrific sexual crimes against children as young as 9 years old.

Bateman, who was originally convicted on federal charges along with 11 of his adult followers, was convicted again on Friday — this time on a triplet of state child abuse crimes.

‘I just trusted myself.’

Quick background

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints fragmented in the early 2010s after its polygamist leader, Warren Jeffs, was sentenced to life in prison for raping two little girls he claimed as “spiritual wives” — one of whom ultimately bore his child.

Bateman presented himself as Jeffs’ successor, formed a splinter sect, and began amassing followers in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Utah in 2019. According to the second superseding indictment filed against him in May 2023, Bateman told recruits that he had “impressions of Heavenly Father’s will” and was doing “Uncle Warren’s” will.

In addition to having sexual relationships with various adult female followers, several of whom he impregnated, Bateman convinced his followers to give their children to him as “brides” to sexually abuse. He victimized at least 10 children.

The Justice Department noted at the time of Bateman’s sentencing that the perverted cult leader would regularly force his victims to participate in individual and group sexual activities — both with other adults and children.

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In at least one instance, Bateman gave one victim to an adult male cultist to be sexually abused. In another instance, Bateman transmitted a live video stream of child sexual abuse to his followers.

Bateman and his cronies transported the victims over state lines to facilitate the nightmarish abuse, which continued until his arrest in September 2022.

On Aug. 28, 2022, Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers spotted a GMC Denali dragging along a wooden trailer on Interstate 40. After someone alerted authorities to having seen children’s small fingers moving in the gap of the rear trailer door, troopers pulled over the vehicle in a Flagstaff parking lot and discovered three kids between the ages of 11 and 14 in the boiling-hot trailer.

The unventilated trailer contained a bucket for a toilet, a trash bag, and camping chairs to sit in.

After Bateman’s initial arrest, his followers bailed him out, enabling him to return to his home in Colorado City, where FBI subsequently re-arrested him two weeks later.

False prophet convicted again

Just days after telling an Arizona jury that he is “a kind and loving father” who doesn’t ever “willingly harm anybody,” Bateman was convicted Friday on three state counts of child abuse in connection to the trailer incident, the Associated Press reported.

During his trial concerning his endangerment of three minors — specifically his placement of kids in an enclosed cargo trailer, surrounded by unsecured objects, and without ventilation or seat belts — Bateman admitted that he knew the girls were in a sweltering-hot trailer for hours with virtually no ventilation but downplayed the severity of the conditions.

“I just trusted myself as a driver,” the convicted sex offender said. “I asked God to bless me every time we hopped in that vehicle.”

Bateman, who claimed ahead of the trial that the state had insufficient probable cause to search the trailer, claimed that the girls were free to get out of the trailer whenever they stopped and that he was “shocked as could possibly be” when he learned that they were still trapped in the trailer when troopers pulled him over.

Eric Ruchensky, deputy county attorney at the Coconino County Attorney’s Office, told jurors, “It’s common sense that you don’t carry people in a trailer designed for cargo on a hot day with no ventilation.”

Each of the child abuse counts comes with a mandatory prison sentence between four and eight years, further ensuring the cult leader will die behind bars.

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In Columbus, Ohio, a retailer allegedly traded food stamp benefits for a glass bong and wine. In Rochester, a salon owner exchanged benefits for manicures. A U.S. Department of Agriculture employee allegedly sold $36 million worth of EBT access codes to various shops.

Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program spending totaled $101.7 billion in fiscal year 2025 — roughly $279 million every single day.

‘SNAP dollars, federal tax dollars, used to buy drugs and guns.’

Throughout 2025, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. granted waiver requests by nearly two dozen states restricting soda, energy drinks, and candy — affecting roughly 13.5 million recipients.

RFK Jr. framed the case: “We cannot continue a system that forces taxpayers to fund programs that make people sick and then pay a second time to treat the illnesses those very programs help create.”

Last Monday, a federal judge blocked five of those bans. Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled only Congress can redefine what counts as food — with zero medical exemptions even for plaintiffs managing diabetes and kidney issues.

The remaining states’ restrictions stay in place during the appeal.

Rollins called it the work of “an activist judge.” “SNAP is for food — not sugar bombs fueling obesity, diabetes, and skyrocketing healthcare costs for low-income families,” she posted on X Tuesday.

RELATED: Trump DOJ charges illegal aliens in Boston with nearly $1.5 million in welfare fraud

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The full scale of what SNAP has become was on display at Thursday’s House fraud hearing. Chaired by Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee focused heavily on state-level loopholes and systemic gaps.

Burchett asked why 21 states refused to hand over SNAP data — even after the agency identified $3 billion in potential fraud, including benefits to 186,000 deceased individuals and 442,000 with fake Social Security numbers. “There’s no cohesive force between the two,” he said.

“The computers just don’t hook up.”

USDA Inspector General John Walk testified that in one California operation dubbed “Mic Drop,” over $2 million in SNAP benefits were used to buy crack cocaine from gang members. “SNAP dollars, federal tax dollars, used to buy drugs and guns.”

Dawn Royal of the United Council on Welfare Fraud testified: “One address — a one-bedroom efficiency — had 27 SNAP and 12 Medicaid beneficiaries. … This is the program we have fostered.”

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) pressed Democrat witness Gina Plata-Nino, SNAP policy director at the Food Research and Action Center, on whether taxpayers should fund soda:

Gill: “Are you that ideologically dug in that you want our tax dollars paying for sugary sodas that you will not, in a straightforward way, admit that sugary sodas are not healthful for the American people?”

Plata-Nino: “I think that focusing on soda, when people are going hungry is —”

Gill: “Do you need data to determine whether drinking soda is healthy? … Do you believe that perhaps drinking sodas every day is healthy?”

Plata-Nino: “The worst health outcome is hunger.”

After doubting that hunger could be satiated “with Coca-Cola,” Gill then asked if her organization is funded by companies that profit from SNAP. Plata-Nino said she could not comment.

Gill pressed further: “Yes. And they’re profiting off of your advocacy. Do you think that that’s a conflict of interest? I think most people think that’s a conflict of interest. I know you don’t want to answer.”

Plata-Nino did not answer.

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It’s been 20 years since Al Gore scared the world and dropped the climate film “An Inconvenient Truth,” which detailed all the catastrophes that would befall us.

And while he still claims he was right — the receipts tell a much different story.

“His predictions … none of them came true,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments.

“The Arctic sea ice, remember that? Supposed to be gone completely. … You might notice if you look, the polar ice caps in the Arctic are not gone. They have not disappeared. They are there,” he says.

“How about the melting glaciers and the snows of Kilimanjaro?” he asks, adding, “Still there.”

The film warned that there would be a “rapid retreat of the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro and that the Glacier National Park glaciers would be gone” by now.

“In fact, in Montana, where the park is, they used to have signs that read, ‘These are disappearing soon, so make sure you enjoy and take a picture.’ And they finally took the signs down in 2020 because it wasn’t happening,” Gray says.

Sea levels were also supposed to rise and cause catastrophic flooding, making the Westside Highway in New York disappear.

“The reality is the Westside Highway is still there. The sea levels have not risen 20 feet. In fact, global sea levels have risen nine inches since 1880,” Gray explains.

“But right now there’s gradual retreat occurring rather than rapid city sinking inundations of these places. In other words, what’s happening is the opposite of what he predicted. The opposite. The sea levels are actually receding now,” he continues.

Gore also claimed that carbon dioxide and emissions would see a rapid unchecked rise in atmospheric CO2 levels past the 500 parts per million mark and that hurricane activity would rapidly increase.

Neither of those happened either.

“He was hysterical about everything, and he won an Oscar for it, and he won a Nobel Prize for it in 2007, and he got virtually nothing right,” Gray says, emphasizing, “Nothing.”

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Three-time NFL Pro Bowl running back Chris Johnson revealed some horrific news in a TV segment that aired Monday morning.

The 40-year-old explained that what began as weakness in his right hand turned out to be a life-threatening illness.

‘I still think the same. I still dream. I still love my family.’

Johnson and his wife, Brittany, figured he had some sort of lingering ailments from his NFL career that were popping up, so the former Tennessee Titans star went in for tests.

“I first noticed weakness in my right hand,” Johnson said. “At first, it was little things like my grip didn’t feel right, and I wasn’t as strong as I’ve always been.”

Johnson told “Good Morning America” that after thorough testing, “They finally came down with a diagnosis of ALS,” or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The Orlando, Florida, native said he was told about a medication that might extend life by a few months, but that it was time to prepare for the worst.

“Then they told us to get our affairs in order. It was hard hearing that,” Johnson told host Michael Strahan, who is an NFL Hall of Fame player.

In fact, Johnson’s words to Strahan came through a voice program that he controls with his eyes. Johnson recorded his voice shortly after his diagnosis, and therefore the text-to-speech audio sounds like him.

However, losing his voice is just one of the physical results of his illness.

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“I can’t even hold a cup if I try, and that’s despite being diagnosed relatively early and doing everything we can, including participating in multiple experimental treatments,” Johnson said.

The former East Carolina athlete urged early detection, more research, and enhanced treatments to give people a better chance than what he has available to him.

As for his wife, she told the ABC program that she thought what Johnson was going through was the result of years of clashes on the football field. Johnson retired in 2017.

“I thought because of football and, you know, his career, that it had to be something with that,” she told Strahan. “Maybe a pinched nerve or something along those lines, but never ALS.”

RELATED: Caitlin Clark gets fist to the throat as WNBA primed to explode: ‘She’s a straight white basketball player’

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Strahan asked several questions pertaining to how much their life has changed, and Johnson explained that he wants to continue his fight simply to “make more memories” with his kids and “just be their dad.”

“At first, you’re in shock. Then you realize you have two choices: You can give up, or you can fight. I chose to fight,” the father stated.

Despite losing his voice, Johnson said he wanted viewers to know that the illness hasn’t changed how his mind works.

“People sometimes look at the physical disability and assume you’re not still the same person inside. I still think the same. I still dream. I still love my family. My body just doesn’t cooperate.”

Johnson had a total of 9,651 rushing yards and 55 rushing touchdowns in 10 years in the NFL. He still holds one of the fastest 40-yard dash times in NFL Combine history.

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“Drill, baby, drill” are the words Donald Trump chanted to a cheering crowd in Pennsylvania just two years ago. For many people in the Keystone State, that was music to their ears as the state is second largest in America for fracking.

Fast-forward two years, and the issue has become a focal point of the 2026 gubernatorial race, and it absolutely should be, because what is happening in Pennsylvania right now is nothing short of a policy abomination.

‘Drill, baby, drill’ isn’t just a slogan. For Pennsylvania, it’s a lifeline, and Harrisburg keeps cutting it.

I’m a Pennsylvania girl. I know this is what’s going on in my community, I’ve seen decisions in Harrisburg impact people throughout the commonwealth in real time, and right now, working families are hurting.

For one, electricity bills have surged across Pennsylvanian homes in recent years, with the average household getting double-digit rate hikes and higher summer costs impacting family budgets. Utility shut-offs climbed toward four million households nationwide in 2025. Pennsylvanians alone are being squeezed dry every time they flip a light switch.

Here’s the kicker: Pennsylvania is sitting on a gold mine. The Marcellus Shale formation underlies roughly two-thirds of the state and holds an estimated 250 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. We are an energy exporter. We produce more natural gas than almost any state in the nation. We should be flush with affordable, reliable power.

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Instead, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) is writing strongly worded letters.

The crisis in Pennsylvania isn’t a political messaging problem that a few stern letters to utility executives can fix; it’s a supply crisis.

Demand is exploding, with PJM, the operator managing the grid for 65 million people across 13 states, is projecting a razor-thin energy surplus of just .2 gigawatts for the coming delivery year. This is despite a recommended safety buffer of nearly 20%.

And what has Shapiro done to actually address supply? He’s strangled it.

His so-called “Lightning Plan,” which was touted as a bold, all-of-the-above energy strategy, is anything but. Critics have correctly identified it as a disguised carbon tax through his Pennsylvania Climate Emissions Reduction Act. His administration has maintained a moratorium on new drilling in state parks and state forests. His regulatory environment has made permitting a slow, grinding nightmare for the very energy producers who could relieve the pressure Pennsylvanians are feeling every time they open their utility bill.

The situation regarding the natural gas sector also paints a clear picture of the situation. The industry employs roughly 120,000 workers in Pennsylvania today, less than half of what it employed a decade ago. The important thing to note is that we still have the resources and the workforce, yet we don’t have a governor willing to get out of the way and let Pennsylvania be the energy powerhouse it’s supposed to be.

While Shapiro holds press conferences and plays whack-a-mole with rate hike requests, the fundamental problem compounds. Threatening grid operators and appointing “watchdogs” doesn’t put one dollar back in Pennsylvanian families’ pockets. It’s a press release masquerading as a plan, engineered for headlines not results. That’s because we have a governor with one eye on Harrisburg and the other on a future presidential run.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Stacy Garrity gets it. On day one, she pledges to lift the moratorium on new drilling sites, call a special session to fast-track energy permits, and in her words, “drill and frack our way out” of Pennsylvania’s fiscal hole. That’s not recklessness. That’s leadership. It’s the kind of no-nonsense energy policy that built this state and can ultimately save it.

Pennsylvania doesn’t have an energy crisis because it lacks resources. We have an energy crisis because we’ve had leadership that talks affordability while making production harder, slower, and more expensive at every turn. Sounds counterintuitive right?

“Drill, baby, drill” isn’t just a slogan. For Pennsylvania, it’s a lifeline, and Harrisburg keeps cutting it.

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The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a big defeat on Monday to conservatives seeking to prevent Election Day from becoming little more than an “abstraction.”

The high court ruled 5-4 that the “federal election-day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days thereafter,” adding that “nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots received by election day.”

‘Today’s decision compounds these vulnerabilities.’

The case in question, Watson v. Republican National Committee, was the result of a years-long battle over a COVID-era Mississippi law passed by the Magnolia State’s Republican trifecta that permits the counting of mail-in absentee ballots postmarked by the date of the election but received up to five business days after Election Day.

Republicans were wary, in part, because mail-in voting is starkly polarized by party and “the late-arriving mail-in ballots that are counted for five additional days disproportionately break for Democrats.”

While it has narrowed since 2020, the partisan divide in mail-in voting remained substantial in the 2024 election — which helps explain why so many Democrat-aligned groups have defended the practice and the Mississippi law.

In 2024, the RNC, the Mississippi GOP, and several individuals sued Mississippi’s secretary of state and other state election officials, arguing that federal law bars Mississippi from counting absentee ballots received after Election Day.

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In October 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor. Last year, however, the state asked SCOTUS to get involved and reinstate its post-Election Day grace period.

Mississippi maintained that late counts are acceptable as “federal election-day statutes require only that the voters cast their ballots by election day” — that “an election requires ballot casting — not ballot receipt.”

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who delivered the majority opinion, wrote that “this is not a case about the Constitution. We do not consider the scope of Congress’ authority to regulate federal elections. The sole question before us is whether counting ballots postmarked by election day, but received up to five days later, violates the federal election-day statutes.”

Barrett answered that the existing statutes “do not preempt Mississippi’s law.”

“As we have said before, the federal election-day statutes ‘simply regulate the time of the election,'” wrote Barrett.

While the relevant federal statutes determine when the electorate must make its choice, Barrett noted that “choice is made when voting is complete, not when ballots are received.”

“The framers recognized the difficulty of crafting election laws ‘applicable to every probable change in the situation of the country,'” Barrett wrote in her conclusion, citing the Federalist No. 59. “So instead of constitutionalizing election law, they decided that ‘a discretionary power over elections’ needed to be lodged ‘somewhere.’ … Suffice it to say, that power was not lodged in this court. The election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt, and we cannot add to the words Congress chose.”

Justice Samuel Alito — who dissented along with Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh — torched his liberal and nominally conservative colleagues’ arguments in a lengthy takedown, emphasizing at the outset that “if ballots received after election day are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election’s outcome, the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated.”

“The acceptance of these late-arriving ballots effectively postpones the date on which the electorate’s choice is made, and federal law precludes that postponement,” added Alito.

He further emphasized that for most of America’s history, the expectation was that votes were received and American elections were decided on Election Day.

“Two centuries of historical practice reinforce the proposition that holding an ‘election’ on a particular day means that poll workers had to receive the ballots by that date,” wrote the conservative justice. “From this country’s founding until the late 20th century, election-day ballot collection was the near-uniform practice, with only a few, late-arriving exceptions.”

Alito noted this was the case “even when the Civil War took soldiers hundreds of miles from their usual polling places.”

In his scathing critique of the majority’s opinion, Alito also accused his colleagues of attempting “to fend off two centuries of American election practice” and noted that “when Congress enacted the three election-day statutes, having the ‘election’ on a particular date meant that ballots would be collected by that date.”

Alito stressed that the ruling not only “threatens to produce lamentable consequences” and a “slurry of troubling election-law questions,” but “leaves open opportunities for voter fraud that may further undermine Americans’ faith in the integrity of this country’s elections.”

“When someone votes by mail, it is harder for officials to verify the identity of the person requesting and completing the ballot. Mail voting also presents a greater opportunity for voter manipulation, a more vulnerable chain of ballot custody, and a diminished ability to detect improprieties in real time,” wrote Alito. “Today’s decision compounds these vulnerabilities. Allowing absentee ballots to pour in over the days and weeks after election day, by which point preliminary election returns are being publicly reported, creates greater opportunity for fraud and risks further undermining the public’s confidence in election integrity.”

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