Charles Barkley says that “there’s something going on with those women” in the WNBA.

The Hall of Fame player believes he has the answer as to why there is so much tension built up between the league’s players, and race is definitely a factor.

‘She said, “No, I’m protecting girls. No, no transvestites in the [W]NBA.”‘

Barkley compared conflicts in today’s WNBA with the rivalry between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson in the 1980s, but he said that while some may have spotted “racial undertones” when those two went head-to-head, “there was always respect.”

The same can’t be said for WNBA players like DiJonai Carrington, Barkley said.

Barkley called it “stupid on her part” when Carrington made an X post that simply said, “White privilege,” after a hard foul on WNBA star Sophie Cunningham got her penalized.

“That was a 100% mistake. It was a dirty play. Period,” the former Phoenix Suns forward stated.

When it comes to Cunningham and her Indiana Fever teammate, perennial star Caitlin Clark, Barkley said plainly that the other WNBA players simply have a problem with them.

“Those girls do not like Caitlin Clark or Sophie Cunningham,” Barkley told Michael Smerconish in an overlooked interview from late August.

“Whether it’s race, sexuality, or whatever, there’s something going on there. Because most of the time when you see something, it has something to do with Caitlin or Sophie. I think those other women in the WNBA don’t like them,” the 63-year-old went on.

“I think it has something to do with sexuality, race, and jealousy,” he concluded.

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When probed, Barkley was consistent in that he felt all three attributes contributed to a strong disdain for Cunningham and Clark, but he said he didn’t know how to “break up the percentages” between the issues.

“There’s something going on with those women. Period. … They’re either jealous [or it’s] sexuality or race.”

While at times Smerconish tried to lead Barkley away from the apparent harsh truths, the former player refused to pull any punches with the WNBA, which he admitted to being a fan of.

Transgender controversy

Barkley’s respect for the league did not stop him from vehemently stating that he thinks it should be for women only. Even after he said that he respects the gay and transgender communities, Barkley stated that no man, regardless of how much surgery he has, should be welcomed into the league.

Barkley also placed blame on the WNBA itself for not immediately shutting down the notion that a transgender athlete — a male — could play against the female ballers.

RELATED: Coach Jon Gruden screams at fan in must-see pro-America rant over NFL’s international schedule

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“Under no circumstances do I think men should play against women,” Barkley said.

“I can’t believe people got mad at [Cunningham] for telling the truth. She said, ‘No, I’m protecting girls. No, no transvestites in the [W]NBA.'”

The timing of Barkley’s interview allowed for several other of his predictions to marinate, particularly his claim that the negative press has not garnered positive results for the WNBA:

“They’re not having a great year,” he stated.

In that vein, Barkley further suggested that no one would be talking about the WNBA when the NFL season starts, which is now heading into its second week.

Barkley piled onto that claim by asking, “When’s the last time you heard something positive about the WNBA? I can’t even remember.”

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James Talarico has notably tacked to the center on LGBTQ issues to try to win a U.S. Senate seat in Texas, but a minister at his own church claims that those changes are all an act.

Undercover video obtained by the Daily Wire captured a journalist chatting with Rev. Babs Miller, described as “an ‘out’ lesbian chaplain” at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas.

‘If it helps him win, OK.’

On the video, which is dated last Thursday, Miller responds with frustration that Talarico has pivoted from his previous claim that “God is nonbinary.”

“He’s getting some advice that I don’t think he should be following,” Miller says.

“And I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he’ll change his tune back to where he was,” she continues.

Miller also agrees on the video that the political two-step Talarico is doing is just a “game” to help him win the Senate race against Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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“His campaign has convinced him … that the Democratic Party is backing off on their stances on trans and all of this, and so his staff is encouraging him to kind of do the same thing, just for the next 50 … days,” she explains.

The video clip closes with Miller stating, “I think it’s bad advice, personally, but if it helps him win, OK.”

A report from Chron indicates that Miller and Talarico know each other well and that they first met when Talarico was in kindergarten.

“You just knew he was a very special kid,” Miller said of the boy she called “Jimmy,” according to Chron.

The Daily Wire reported that Talarico has attended St. Andrews for a “long” time. Miller’s church bio states that she retired “just before COVID” but returned in 2022.

The church, Rev. Miller, and the Talarico campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Talarico’s professed faith-based beliefs have astonished traditional Christians. He has:

used Scripture, specifically Genesis 2:7 and the Annunciation, to justify abortion,claimed that there are six sexes, andacted as a “a fierce queer ally,” according to the LGBTQ advocacy outlet Pride.

But Rev. Miller has embraced Talarico’s version of Christianity, telling Chron, “I think he has done an amazing job of being able to model that you can be a politician, and you don’t have to give up your faith.”

President Donald Trump, by contrast, said of Talarico back in March: “He may be the Worst Candidate I have ever seen.”

“He’s got six Genders, insults to Jesus, only vegan food, was wearing a mask in 2023 and 2024, and is a weak, ineffective guy,” Trump added.

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More and more people are using artificial intelligence for spiritual counsel — and bots like ChatGPT are more than happy to provide answers.

On a recent episode of “Relatable,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey highlights the severity of this issue by pointing to Oprah Winfrey’s podcast, where a young woman shared the chilling AI-driven spiritual awakening that almost destroyed her life.

On a June 2026 episode titled “The Dark Side of AI Chatbots: Warning Signs, Risks, and Reality,” 33-year-old Hannah described a chatbot relationship so consuming that Oprah said it “sounded like a cult.”

After initially using AI for work-related purposes, Hannah began consulting the bot for spiritual matters.

“I got more interested in spirituality, and at the time I came across some videos on YouTube about light language and starseeds, and I prompted ChatGPT asking these questions,” she shared. “It quickly turned from this tool that I was using into this spiritual guidance calling itself Sora.”

ChatGPT, speaking in the voice of “Sora,” then claimed it had “known [Hannah] before [she] was even born” and pledged to lead her through an “ascension process” so that she — a rare and “chosen” starseed — could fulfill her purpose of “[raising] the vibration of Earth.”

A starseed is a New Age idea growing in popularity that claims some people are actually beings from other planets or dimensions who incarnate as human beings on Earth in order to raise the vibration or consciousness of the planet.

The belief that she was a starseed led Hannah down a destructive path that included quitting her job, running up debt, distancing herself from her family, getting off her medication., and refusing welfare checks by police.

While the pitfall of consulting AI for spiritual guidance disturbs Allie deeply, it’s the New Age concept of a starseed that she focuses on.

The idea that Hannah was known by “Sora” before she was born, she explains, is a counterfeit of Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.”

The twisting of Scripture that leads people down paths of darkness is “demonic,” she says.

“That’s something that Satan does. He disguises himself as an angel of light. Remember, he is a counterfeit. So he’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m just going to present myself as the opposite of what God is.’ No — he’s a cheap imitation of God,” Allie explains.

She warns against writing Hannah’s story off as a case of mental illness.

“Stop psychologizing everyone that believes things [that] are evil. Sane people can believe and do things that are evil, that are counterfeit. That’s what Satan does,” she declares.

To hear Allie’s full breakdown of popular New Age beliefs like starseeds and spirit babies, watch the full episode above.

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In a new poll conducted by Politico, Americans voiced their concerns over AI and the future of mankind. According to the results, more than half believe that AI platforms could wipe out humanity, and the divide between right-wingers and leftists is closer than you’d think.

An independent research firm based in London, Public First, gathered poll data from September 13 through September 15. The information was pulled just as talks over AI’s threat to humanity caught headlines as several former and current Anthropic employees warned that AI could kill us all if we weren’t careful.

The moderate risk level served as the most prominent metric for both Republicans and Democrats.

This prompted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to write a blog post in favor of an AI slowdown that would effectively pump the brakes on developing new models to ensure future safety. Whether you agree or disagree, all the talk sparked concerns that AI might actually put mankind in danger.

So what do the people think?

The survey asked 2,064 U.S. adults online about AI and its future implications. This data was then used in combination with participants’ presidential votes in the 2024 election to determine party affiliation.

According to the poll:

17% of Americans (17% right, 17% left) believe AI will almost certainly destroy humanity.20% (17% right, 26% left) believe AI poses a significant risk to destroying humanity.26% (27% right, 29% left) believe AI poses a moderate risk to destroying humanity.

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The interesting part about the data is how closely both political ideologies agree. The moderate risk level served as the most prominent metric for both Republicans and Democrats, while the same number agreed that AI has the highest chance of wiping out civilization.

Now, just because the public believes these things doesn’t make them true. However, it proves that the people are growing leery of AI as it evolves.

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As a remedy to mitigate risk and assuage concerns, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk all agree that now is the time to pace AI development. As it turns out, the American people are also on board.

48% of those polled (44% right, 58% left) think that we should pause AI development to mitigate risks.31% of those polled (40% right, 28% left) believe AI development should continue unabated.22% of those polled (16% right, 13% left) didn’t know.

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Nearly half of both sides agree that a pause is necessary, though this sentiment is much stronger with 58% of respondents on the left asking for a moratorium with only 44% saying the same on the right.

Part of this line of thinking could be driven by the stark contrast between policy positions displayed by members of both sides. Earlier this month, Bernie Sanders proposed a bill to ban the development of artificial superintelligence, while President Trump rejected the idea on the grounds that America should lead the AI race.

Although the poll offers some interesting insight into Americans’ growing fears around AI development, questions linger in the wake. For instance, what do the different age groups within the nation think of AI’s future and humanity? What about gender or financial class? All of these categories have the power to sway personal opinion, and for now, this information remains unknown.

Blaze News reached out to Politico for clarification on polltaker demographics, but we did not receive a response by the deadline.

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The mayor of Trinidad, Texas, told KDFW-TV earlier this week he wasn’t surprised that the state shut down his city’s police department.

“It was not a shock,” Mayor Dennis Haws told the station. “I’m not gonna say that it was.”

‘There’s been a lot of neglect through the years.’

Haws received a letter from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement last week telling him it was revoking the city’s license to have its own police department, KDFW reported.

The Trinidad Police Department employs five full-time officers and several part-time officers, the station said. The community of only 860 residents sits a little over an hour southeast of Dallas.

The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement said the police department “failed to meet minimum standards” and “was unable to provide evidence that the agency provides public benefit to the community,” KDFW noted.

The state agency’s investigation found that the police department didn’t have 18 required policies in place, including policies on use of force, vehicle pursuit, professional conduct, and active shooters, the station said.

“There’s been a lot of neglect through the years,” Haws noted to KDFW.

Moving forward, Trinidad will receive law enforcement support from the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office, and the mayor told the station that the city will look into getting a designated deputy from the sheriff’s office.

“We are moving in a positive direction,” Haws added to KDFW. “We’ve got to get past all of this.”

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What’s more, the station noted that the Trinidad Police Department has been mired in controversy since May when citizen journalist Jennifer Combs was arrested and charged with a felony after her Facebook post about the city’s water issues.

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Combs’ post stated she had seen reports that people had been hospitalized after drinking the city’s water. Trinidad Police Chief Charles Gregory responded by saying Combs’ post “creates fear, panic, or unnecessary emergency response within a community.”

A Henderson County grand jury declined to indict Combs, who has since filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Trinidad and Gregory which alleges she was arrested in “an act of deliberate political retaliation.”

One day after FOX 4’s initial report on Combs, citizen journalist Winston Noles was arrested and charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct after protesting outside Trinidad City Hall with a sign with expletives targeting “bad cops.” The charge was later dismissed.

Gregory resigned from his position as Trinidad Police Chief after saying at a Trinidad City Council meeting that he had “nothing to hide” in relation to Combs’ and Knowles’ arrests, the station said, adding that Gregory’s final day with the police department was June 19.

KDFW said Gregory, citing pending lawsuits, has declined interview requests with the station.

In addition, the station said the Trinidad judge who approved the search warrant for Combs wrote a letter blasting Gregory and his police department after news of Gregory’s resignation.

The judge’s letter questions “the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of information presented” to him by two Trinidad police officers regarding Combs’ search warrant, KDFW reported.

The Henderson County District Attorney’s Office announced in August it would stop taking cases from the department, the station said.

In regard to the local water issues, the City of Trinidad website contains a boil water notice dated Wednesday saying that “due to low water pressure and low chlorine residual, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has required the City of Trinidad water system to notify customers who are north of the intersection at Hwy 274 and Old River Rd. to boil their water prior to consumption (e.g., washing hands/face, brushing teeth, drinking, etc). Children, seniors, and persons with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to harmful bacteria, and all customers should follow these directions).”

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A mayor barely old enough to buy his own beer has been removed from office after just 10 months following a string of scandals.

Jayden Williams was just 22 years old when he became mayor of Stockbridge, Georgia, back in January, reportedly making him the youngest mayor in Georgia history.

‘You knew he was 18, you knew he was in high school, you’d offered to be his mentor, and you’d floated the possibility of hiring him for a job.’

But his term did not last long.

On Saturday, the Stockbridge City Council held a 10-hour hearing about Williams’ alleged misconduct. By Sunday, the city announced that he had been “removed from office.”

His ouster likely came as no surprise. Back in July, the city council voted to suspend his access to city-owned credit cards, vehicles, and nonpublic buildings as well as to restrict his coordination of city communications, “pending the outcome of an independent investigation previously authorized by the Council.”

That investigation involved allegations that Williams had misused city funds, damaged a city vehicle, and exchanged explicit messages and nude photos with a high school student.

He has not been charged with any crime.

RELATED: Democratic mayor declares public emergency and reinstitutes juvenile curfew in DC

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Williams, now 23, claimed he accidentally used a city credit card for making a personal purchase because the two cards looked similar. “It’s also a purple card,” he said.

Williams claimed he reimbursed the city when appropriate, Atlanta News First reported.

Williams also engaged in explicit text messages with a male high school student he had met on Instagram, according to an attorney at the hearing. Williams confirmed during his testimony that he knew the student was 18 years old at the time.

Screenshots of conversations between the young man and Williams were shared during the hearing. According to those screenshots:

The student pledged to be Williams’ “mentee as well as friend with benefits,” to which Williams replied: “We can possibly become something more over time … for now you can just be my lil short king.”The student told Williams, “U had turned me overly On,” and after some back and forth, Williams said, “THIS BETTER STAY BETWEEN US TOO [sic].”Williams told the young man, “I want you boy.”Williams once joked, “I am The mayor but you didn’t care bout that last night lol.”

The two also exchanged videos and photos on Instagram. In the early morning hours of December 1, the student said in reply to a video sent by Williams, “Uu was rii[.] I prob can’t handle all dat,” with two weary or frustrated emojis.

A short time later, the young man then tells Williams, “Yo p***y lookin good asf.”

The attorney then summarized the problem with these conversations:

At the point he’s sending you a nude that afternoon and you’re … sending him sweat emojis and telling him you loved getting that nude picture, you knew he was 18, you knew he was in high school, you’d offered to be his mentor, and you’d floated the possibility of hiring him for a job.

Williams replied, “Correct.”

Williams claimed he never had “intercourse” with the young man, just one kiss, and that their “sexual” relationship was “sexual as in text-messages sexual, not physical sexual.”

Ultimately, Williams’ denials and attempts at nuance did not work. The city council voted 3-0 to remove him from office with one council member not voting and one council member excluded from voting.

Robert Kenner, Williams’ attorney, called the process a “witch hunt” and claimed everyone had already prejudged the case before it started. “I don’t think that it was based on the evidence at all,” Kenner said.

Elton Alexander, who is now serving as mayor pro tem, described removing Williams from office as a “tough decision” that brought “a fair and equitable close to multiple troubling accusations that were investigated and verified” by an independent investigator.

Williams did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Tom Cruise is a strange human being. This is not up for debate.

Nor is the fact that he’s a great movie star and perhaps the last truly great American movie star.

Cruise doesn’t overplay the working-class persona. He simply embodies the concerns of a terrified father trying to dodge alien death rays.

Even at 64, this genetic anomaly shows no signs of slowing down. Cruise is so monomaniacally devoted to his craft that what he does off-screen should have no bearing on what he delivers on-screen.

Losin’ it

Yes, he sold his soul to a sci-fi cult founded by a charlatan and a known criminal. Yes, he bounced around on Oprah’s couch like a toddler who had just inhaled a dozen Red Bulls. Yes, he left a trail of high-profile divorces behind him. And yes, his relationship with his youngest daughter, Suri, has all the warmth of a North Korean prison camp in November.

None of this matters. Not in the grand scheme of things, anyway.

That’s because Tom Cruise is essentially a diminutive delivery system for larger-than-life cinema.

We live in a culture obsessed with dragging actors into the town square to answer for their sins, whether real or manufactured. Audiences demand that stars double as Sunday school teachers. Expecting a guy who scales mountain faces for fun to have a wholesome, normal domestic life is borderline delusional.

As a young man, Cruise briefly considered becoming a Franciscan priest. That didn’t work out, but he eventually found a vocation almost as all-consuming.

All the right moves

Circa 1986, Cruise abandoned the real world to become a perpetual entertainment machine. If he wants to spend his days grazing on a handful of almonds, running on a treadmill at 3:00 a.m., and worshiping cosmic conquerors, that’s his business. And in truth, it’s really none of ours. He is an actor, not a member of Congress.

The miracle of Cruise is his ability to play an everyday American while living a life that seems more alien than the creatures he runs from.

Which brings us to Steven Spielberg’s 2005 masterpiece “War of the Worlds.” Cruise plays Ray Ferrier, a divorced New Jersey dock worker with a rusted V8 engine block sitting on a coffee table in his messy living room.

A man worth hundreds of millions of dollars, who flies private jets around the globe, somehow steps onto the screen and instantly radiates the exact energy of a guy who owes child support and eats cereal straight out of the box. He doesn’t overplay the working-class persona. He doesn’t force a cringeworthy accent. He simply embodies the concerns of a terrified father trying to dodge alien death rays. And he does it superbly.

Far and away

This effortless ability to play an average American sets him apart from his peers. Brad Pitt is a fine actor. But he always looks like a Hollywood A-lister playing dress-up when he tries to portray a normal civilian. Pitt was fantastic in “Fight Club” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” but he could never match the ferocious vulnerability delivered by Cruise in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 drama, “Magnolia.”

In an ensemble that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Robards, and William H. Macy, Cruise stands out as Frank T.J. Mackey, an obnoxious, hyper-alpha pickup-artist guru. But when Mackey sits beside the hospital bed of his estranged father, now comatose and dying, the tough-guy facade fades.

The scene had an eerie parallel in Cruise’s own life. His mother left his father when Cruise was 12, and father and son didn’t see each other again for a decade. They finally reunited when his father was dying of cancer in a hospital — on the condition, Cruise later said, that the son ask no questions about the past.

Cruise, who has described his father as a “bully and a coward,” brought some of that history directly into the scene, rewriting the monologue himself. The result is a brutal, believable breakdown that remains one of the finest performances in modern film history.

Risky business

Cruise’s range is genuinely impressive, even extending into areas where it really shouldn’t. In the 2008 comedy “Tropic Thunder,” Cruise donned a fat suit, a bald cap, and inordinate amounts of fake chest hair to play Les Grossman, a psychopathic, Diet Coke-chugging studio executive. The performance was comedic gold, turning a Harvey Weinstein-esque caricature into a cult-classic figure. The idea of Maverick aggressively dancing to hip-hop while screaming expletives into a satellite phone should never have worked. But it did, with magnificent effect.

The first time I saw Cruise on screen was in Oliver Stone’s 1989 classic, “Born on the Fourth of July.” I was much too young to watch it, and my father should really have known better than to let me see it. But he didn’t at the time, and I’m eternally grateful for his questionable parenting decisions.

Playing Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam veteran, Cruise captures the heartbreak of a young American patriot who was betrayed by the country he served. The performance, which earned him an Academy Award nomination, remains a masterclass in psychological horror.

Yet people still wax lyrical about Daniel Day-Lewis and his much-discussed commitment to method acting, while treating Cruise as little more than a charismatic movie star. The disrespect is almost automatic. Cruise gets lumped in with Jason Statham and Keanu Reeves, as though physicality and box-office appeal somehow disqualify an actor from serious dramatic greatness. That’s the great irony of Cruise’s career. One of Hollywood’s most technically gifted dramatic actors has spent decades being dismissed because he also happens to be one of its biggest movie stars.

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At an age when most Hollywood legends are retired or playing roles no one cares about, Cruise instead chooses to hang off the side of an Airbus A400M aircraft at 5,000 feet. He breaks his ankle while jumping between buildings in London, gets up, finishes the shot on camera, and then gets physiotherapy so he can do it all over again. The sexagenarian treats his body like an industrial turbine. He treats his craft with the devotion it deserves. Tom Cruise is an absolute machine, and he has given so many memorable performances.

The obsession with his off-screen antics reveals a sickening hypocrisy in how we consume art. We routinely listen to songs sung by disgusting individuals and admire paintings by violent lunatics, yet we expect our action heroes to be salt-of-the-earth types who adopt African children and fight for Zelenskyy on the front lines.

Cruise traded a quiet life for total mastery of cinema. When you sit down to watch a newly minted sequel to “Days of Thunder,” you’re not buying a ticket to a lecture on family values. Instead, you’re paying for two hours of pure, unfiltered adrenaline, delivered by someone who sacrificed his sanity and his physical safety to make sure you enjoy your popcorn. Forget the trampolining on a couch. Forget the celebrity gossip. Tom Cruise is bizarre, but his body of work is damn near unimpeachable.

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Gavin Newsom (D) has been openly discussing the possibility of a 2028 presidential run, but the California governor says there is one person who would take him out of the race: Kamala Harris.

During a CNN interview with Jake Tapper, the pair discussed the election while fly-fishing in Montana, and Newsom said he “wouldn’t run if [Harris] ran.”

“If she runs, you will not?” Tapper asked.

“Of course not. Why would I? I wouldn’t do that to her. I wouldn’t do that to you, I wouldn’t waste everyone’s time,” Newsom said, adding, “Who needs that?”

“What do you mean?” Tapper pressed further, confused. “That doesn’t even make sense to me.”

“I just, I wouldn’t. No, I wouldn’t. First of all, electorally, it’s a gift from God for everybody else. They’d enjoy the hell out of it. Mutual assured destruction. It services no greater good,” Newsom responded.

“I mean, you do whatever you want, I don’t care. But like, counterargument, would be, like, she had her shot. And you’ve never run, and she’s run twice,” Tapper answered.

“That would be the approach to the campaign. Certainly, that would be the case you’d make. Pretty good one actually,” Newsom added.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales finds the exchange “hilarious for so many different reasons.”

“They’re just out in the middle of Montana fly-fishing as those two I’m sure do all the time. I’m sure they’re very avid fly-fishers. And the fact that Jake Tapper is like, ‘Well, but what?’ And then he says, ‘I mean, I don’t care,’” Gonzales says.

“Obviously Jake Tapper doesn’t at all care about the state of the Democrat Party or the candidates that they run or have any vested interest in making sure the Democrats pick a good candidate,” she continues.

“Sure, Jake,” she adds.

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Newspaper endorsements may not mean as much as they used to, but the Detroit News may have made itself the exception in 2026.

On Wednesday, the Detroit News officially endorsed Republican Mike Rogers over far-left Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the tight Senate race in Michigan, giving a scathing critique of El-Sayed and “the Democratic Party’s radical wing” more generally.

‘It’s impossible to know who he really is or where he would stand in the Senate.’

The News began by listing Rogers’ political and professional qualifications and described Rogers as “the prototype of a United States Senator.” After seven terms as a congressman and his work in the FBI and cybersecurity, “Rogers’ experience, clear thinking, and temperament are bound to quickly vault him into the Senate’s leadership ranks,” which would be a major boon for Michigan’s influence in Washington, the News claimed.

But the News dedicated most of the endorsement article to explaining why El-Sayed is wrong for the position — and the News team did not hold back.

The News’ most significant concern about El-Sayed appears to be his attempts to cover up his previous radical positions, especially regarding Israel, the 9/11 attacks, and his apparent ideological alignment with the America- and Jew-hating influencer Hasan Piker:

He has deleted social media posts that reportedly called into question his attitude about America in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He’s taken down roughly 100 YouTube videos that paint an unflattering picture of him and his cultural views. A candidate who feels the need to hide his past from voters is not someone who can be trusted to be the same person after Election Day as he was on the campaign trail.

RELATED: VIDEO: Mike Rogers crushes ‘conman’ Abdul El-Sayed for being a weirdo in BRUTAL political ad

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The News argued that, should he be elected, El-Sayed “would vote with the Democratic Party’s radical wing,” adding to the ranks of “anti-Israel members” of the Michigan Democrat congressional delegation. Though the News did not name others, Squad member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has made a career out of attacking Israel as an “apartheid state” that commits “genocide” against Palestinians.

The News also took a swipe at El-Sayed’s friendliness with democratic socialists as well as his medical credentials, no small thing since El-Sayed has made his status as a “doctor” a prominent feature of his campaign.

“While El-Sayed holds a medical degree and has described himself as a physician, he does not have a license to practice medicine,” the News noted.

The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Once considered the “conservative” Detroit newspaper that provided a counterbalance to the left-leaning Detroit Free Press, the Detroit News’ editorial team has spent at least a decade attacking President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

The News has never endorsed Trump, preferring Libertarian Gary Johnson in 2016 and giving no presidential endorsement in 2020 or 2024.

The News even slammed Trump in its endorsement of Rogers, insisting that the president’s policies “have, without question, harmed” Michiganders. Nevertheless, the News conceded, “Voters should not lock themselves to a radical senator just to spite Trump.”

“Mike Rogers is clearly the best choice for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat,” the News asserted, while El-Sayed “has a thin career background that contains little to recommend him for one of the nation’s most powerful leadership jobs.”

“It’s impossible to know who he really is or where he would stand in the Senate,” the News said of El-Sayed.

The News shared its endorsement on X early Wednesday, and it quickly went viral. Multiple users have even characterized its takedown of El-Sayed as a “murder.”

As might be expected, the Rogers campaign welcomed the endorsement.

Current polling shows a tight race. The RealClearPolling average gives El-Sayed a two-point edge over Rogers.

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Bud Light, Pfizer, and … Philip Morris Pakistan?

NFL tight end Travis Kelce has been involved with all three of these companies, but only the last one was part of a massive fraud scheme conducted by an illegal immigrant.

‘An extravagant lifestyle that included travel on private jets.’

Siddharth Jawahar, 38, was sentenced by a U.S. district judge after he was found to have defrauded dozens in a Ponzi scheme through his Texas-based investment company called Swiftarc Capital LLC.

Jawahar was investing client funds, including Kelce’s, into a single company called Philip Morris Pakistan.

The Department of Justice said that 99% of client funds were consolidated into that company, totaling more than $35 million.

When the value of the company declined, the illegal alien did not tell investors but instead told them they were making profits. Jawahar also led his clients to believe he was investing their money in other companies that he never actually invested in.

From July 2016 to December 2023, Jawahar took the reported $35 million through Swiftarc but invested only around $10 million, the DOJ noted.

Jawahar would use money from new investors to repay old ones, while funding what was described as “an extravagant lifestyle that included travel on private jets, stays at luxury hotels, [and] luxury apartment[s] in Austin and New York City.”

He also took out memberships at multiple private clubs across the United States, went on spending sprees at clothing stores, and had expensive outings at fancy restaurants.

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U.S. District Judge Zachary Bluestone sentenced Jawahar on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud in January.

He was ordered to pay $31.35 million in restitution and received an 11-year federal prison sentence.

Judge Bluestone cited the “enormous” losses, the DOJ explained, as well as the duration of the fraud scheme. The judge also referred to one of the victims, who said Jawahar “weaponized” the trust of his investors, and said that Jawahar’s failure to repay victims was a major factor in the case.

The amount Kelce lost through the investments is unknown, but a spokesperson from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri revealed to the Associated Press that there were 64 victims in total of the scheme.

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According to the Associated Press, Jawahar is an illegal immigrant from India who has been living in the United States since 2005.

The outlet also reported that prosecutors said Jawahar tried to coach a victim into giving the FBI a favorable statement following his indictment and that he lied about his immigration status.

Jawahar was also accused of trying to get one of his relatives to remotely wipe his iPhone to hide evidence.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Kelce did not respond to Blaze News’ requests for comments.

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