As Europe’s record-breaking heat wave continues and excess deaths in France climb past 1,300, a Paris official says Americans bear responsibility for the crisis because of emissions and air conditioning.

Audrey Pulvar, Paris’ deputy mayor for international relations, lashed out at American tourists and influencers who had mocked the city for its lack of widespread air conditioning as temperatures soared past 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

‘OMG, this is so rich.’

“Dear American journalists and social media ‘influencers’: for days, some of you have been criticising and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room. … OMG, this is so rich!” she wrote on Instagram.

She argued the U.S., which she claims is the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, bears a “significant amount of responsibility responsibility” for the warming driving the crisis, noting American cities are roughly 90% air-conditioned. “So please, enough with the lecture. Just start doing your part.”

France has recorded at least 1,300 excess deaths since June 21, according to Sante Publique France, with officials warning the count could climb higher.

About 15,000 elderly people died in France’s 2003 heat wave, though air conditioning still hasn’t caught on nationwide. As of June 25, officials had confirmed at least 55 drowning deaths — a toll likely to keep climbing — after many have sought relief in unsupervised waterways.

Paris went so far as to ban public alcohol consumption on streets and in parks to “preserve emergency services and allow medics to concentrate on taking care of the most vulnerable.”

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Only about a quarter of French households have air conditioning, versus roughly half in Spain and Italy and 90% in the U.S. and Japan. The French have long associated air conditioning with illness, attributing colds to “thermal shock” from sudden temperature changes, according to GB News.

With Parisians sleeping in parks and booking hotel rooms to escape the heat, even traditionally AC-skeptical politicians — including France’s Green Party — have conceded wider adoption may now be unavoidable.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright drew fire days earlier, telling a London conference that “cold is a vastly larger killer than heat is,” citing deaths tied to high energy prices after Russia’s 2022 Ukraine invasion.

On Europe’s air conditioning scarcity specifically, Wright said a “shale gas revolution” in the U.K. could have cut electricity bills and avoided the shortage altogether.

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Three females have been charged with murdering a mother of five on a south Texas street in broad daylight — and at least one suspect appeared to smile on video after her arrest.

Officers with the Del Rio Police Department just after 2 p.m. Thursday responded to Val Verde Regional Medical Center after receiving a report of a female suffering from multiple stab wounds, police said.

‘The severity of this crime is indeed a stark reminder of the consequences of violent actions. We need God in our lives.’

Upon arrival, officers determined the assault had occurred in the 800 block of East 10th Street, police said.

Due to the severity of her injuries, the victim was taken to a medical facility in San Antonio for emergency treatment, police said.

During the investigation, detectives identified the victim as a 32-year-old female and developed three suspects: Kitty Mia Diaz, 21; Amaya Cookie Diaz, 19; and Kyandra Renee Faz, 21.

Investigators gathered surveillance video, processed evidence, and conducted numerous witness interviews, police said, adding that officers located and arrested Kitty Mia Diaz and Amaya Cookie Diaz without incident around 4 p.m. Soon after officers located and arrested Kyandra Renee Faz, police said. All three suspects were taken to the Del Rio Police Department for booking and processing, police said.

USA Today reported that video capturing the arrests of Kitty Mia Diaz and Amaya Cookie Diaz show both females grinning as they’re placed into police vehicles. The below news video — at the 2:38 mark — shows at least one handcuffed female appearing to smile following her arrest:

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Around 9 p.m. investigators were told that the victim — identified as Caroline Peña, KENS-TV reported — was pronounced dead, police said.

Following the victim’s death, all three suspects were charged with murder and were taken to the GEO Correctional Facility, police said.

Authorities said the investigation remains active and ongoing and that additional charges may be filed as investigators continue to gather evidence and determine the full circumstances surrounding this incident.

A number of those commenting underneath the police department’s Facebook post about the killing were taken aback by it:

“The severity of this crime is indeed a stark reminder of the consequences of violent actions,” one commenter wrote. “We need God in our lives.””It’s heartbreaking to see women (or any person) involved in such a violent incident,” another user said before adding, “Stay strong Del Rio, my thoughts are with the victim’s family and the community during this difficult time.””None of this had to happen,” another commenter stated. “The saddest part is that all of them had children and families who now have to live with the aftermath. Choices don’t just affect yourself; they affect everyone connected to you.””Prayers for the victim’s family,” another user wrote.

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In a decisive ruling Tuesday, the Supreme Court has settled the most consequential legal question for women’s sports in a generation — affirming what biology and fairness have always made clear: Women’s sports must remain protected spaces for female athletes.

The court ruled 9-0 that Title IX — the federal law that ensures equal opportunities for women in education and sports — and 6-3 that the Equal Protection Clause allow states to protect female athletes with sex-based categories in sports.

Changing the culture means rejecting the lie that biology is bigotry.

The decisions in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. mark a watershed. The court recognized that sex is a biological fact, not a feeling, and that it shapes athletic performance in ways no paperwork or policy can undo.

Writing for the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh held that Title IX “cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex.”

By upholding the constitutionality of state laws safeguarding sex-based categories in athletics, the court has reinforced the rights of girls and women in the 27 states that have already passed protective legislation. This is a win worth celebrating.

No longer will biological males like B.P.J. dominate girls’ shot-put competitions in West Virginia next season. The ruling draws a firm line: Sex is not a feeling, and paperwork and lip gloss cannot rewrite reality.

Female athletes deserve fair competition, safe locker rooms, and equal opportunity — the principles Title IX was built to protect and that reflect simple scientific truth. The majority opinion emphasizes immutable biological differences in strength, speed, and physiology and rejects the claim that gender identity can override sex in the context of physical athletics.

Yet this victory, meaningful as it is, remains incomplete.

In the remaining 23 states — California chief among them — business as usual persists. Biological males can still claim girls’ and women’s titles, taking podium spots from female athletes they outperform.

The patchwork nature of this decision means fairness remains geographically contingent. But a girl’s right to compete on a level playing field should not depend on her zip code.

We have made progress. President Trump’s 2025 executive order provided critical momentum, functioning with the force of law and prompting the NCAA to reaffirm that women’s categories are for women. The International Olympic Committee has committed to protecting the female category starting with the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Ballot initiatives in blue states like Colorado and Washington this November will let voters decide directly whether girls deserve their own sports. In Maine, fathers have mobilized to put the Protect Girls’ Sports in Maine initiative on the ballot so their daughters can have the same opportunities their mothers did.

These developments are encouraging. But the challenges remain formidable.

The NWSL and the WNBA still operate without meaningful sex verification. Professional leagues, private events such as the Boston Marathon, and college athletics remain fractured. Birth certificates — the only proof of sex required by the NCAA — can be changed in 44 states. Given the fungible nature of paperwork and other IDs, documents cannot substitute for actual biological testing at the highest levels of sport.

Blue states continue to defy federal guidance, treating fairness as optional. Interstate competition creates impossible inconsistencies. A female athlete protected in Tennessee could still face unfair qualification scenarios against out-of-state males if she advances to national competition.

How is that fair?

The deeper truth is that a Supreme Court ruling can set a legal boundary, but it cannot change the culture by itself. That work falls to all of us — parents, athletes, coaches, journalists, and everyday citizens who refuse to stay silent.

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For too long, institutions have prioritized feelings, optics, and activist pressure over the safety, dignity, and opportunity of girls and women. We saw a version of the same pattern in the gymnastics sex abuse scandals I helped expose decades ago: Adults in power looked the other way while vulnerable athletes paid the price.

The Safe Sport Act now exists to protect young athletes from abuse, but the coaching culture has not changed enough, and abuse still occurs. SafeSport faces a four-year backlog of abuse reports.

Changing the culture means rejecting the lie that biology is bigotry.

It means parents showing up at school board meetings, statehouses, and ballot initiatives with unrelenting clarity. It means athletes — female and male — finding the courage to speak the truth even when it costs them. It means sponsors, leagues, and media outlets facing real consequences for enabling unfairness.

And it means raising a generation that understands sex is real, fairness is not optional, and protecting female spaces is not hate. It is basic decency.

Legal wins are essential guardrails, but they are not the finish line. We must build a culture where courage defeats compliance, evidence defeats ideology, and the protection of girls takes precedence over performative virtue.

Only then will the promise of Title IX — and the promise of fair sports — be fully realized for every daughter, in every state.

The fight continues. But today, with the Supreme Court’s backing, we have firmer ground beneath our feet.

Now let’s use it to shift the culture for good.

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The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day back in office making it U.S. policy not to issue citizenship documents to a person whose mother was unlawfully in the country and whose father was neither an American citizen nor a permanent resident at the time of the person’s birth.

‘The Court has made a mistake that will seriously affect the country’s future.’

This order has been at the center of a legal battle that culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s determination on Tuesday in Trump v. Barbara that “children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.”

Unwilling to suffer the fallout of the high court’s ruling, some conservatives are looking for legal ways to prevent America from cheapening citizenship and becoming a spawning ground for opportunistic foreigners.

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt (R) noted in the wake of the consequential ruling that “the majority tried to constitutionalize unlimited birthright citizenship. But Justice Kavanaugh MAY have left Congress a door.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a partially dissenting opinion:

The Executive Order does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. But the Order does contravene a federal statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a). Congress could — consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment — amend § 1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. But Congress has not yet done so.

RELATED: SCOTUS rules on Trump’s birthright citizenship order

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Recognizing that the high court’s decision “will destroy the republic” but is unfixable with ordinary legislation, Schmitt advocated that “we must do what the Constitution commands in moments of national crisis: We must amend the Constitution and restore American citizenship. We must again put ‘We the People’ first.”

“When the Court entrenches its mistake as a constitutional command, the remedy must match the injury,” the Missouri senator wrote. “Congress can propose an amendment under Article V, and the states can ratify it. That process is purposefully difficult. It requires two-thirds of each chamber of Congress and ratification by three-quarters of the states.”

The senator announced that he is filing legislation to amend Section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Schmitt’s proposed “American Citizenship Act” would clarify the meaning of the Citizenship Clause such that a person born in the United States would be “deemed subject to a foreign power if neither parent of such person is a United States citizen or has been lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of such person’s birth.”

The act would not apply retroactively to persons already born.

“That amendment will restore the original American understanding of citizenship. It will restore the right of the American people to define their own political community,” Schmitt said. “And it will ensure that citizenship once again reflects allegiance, permanence, and membership in the American nation.”

The clarification proposed by Schmitt appears to be in keeping with the longstanding American understanding of the clause referenced by Justice Samuel Alito in his dissent in Barbara.

Alito, like Justice Clarence Thomas, railed against the majority’s apparent revisionist history and suggested that the court broke from tradition in its interpretation of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” taking it to mean “subject to the laws that apply to everyone who is present within the country’s borders.”

The conservative justice stressed that this interpretation presents at least three “fatal problems” on textual grounds:

“It gives the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship test a meaning that plainly differs from that in the Civil Rights Act, even though it is beyond any reasonable dispute that Congress did no such thing”;”The Court cannot explain why the Fourteenth Amendment did not confer citizenship on children born in the United States to tribal Indians”; and”The Court cannot explain why the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States applies to naturalized citizens.”

Alito said in conclusion that “the Court has made a mistake that will seriously affect the country’s future.”

President Donald Trump suggested that the Supreme Court’s mess could be cleaned up “in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President.”

He stressed that “no long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!”

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Three illegal alien members of a vicious gang based in El Salvador have been convicted of a long list of heinous crimes including murder, according to a Justice Department press release.

30-year-old Jose Luis Reynaldo “Molesto” Reyes-Castillo, 27-year-old David Arturo “Herbi” Perez-Manchame, and Joel “Momia” Vargas-Escobar were involved in at least nine murders.

‘These defendants carried out a campaign of terror marked by murders, kidnappings, and brutality.’

The three illegal aliens are from Honduras and El Salvador.

They were convicted of charges that include conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise involving murders and attempted murder, murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping in aid of racketeering, and attempted murder in aid of racketeering, as well as various gun crimes.

The three participated in the murders of rival gang members in Nevada and California and in some cases kidnapped and tortured their victims.

In one case from Dec. 2017, Reyes-Castillo and another gang member kidnapped a victim from Mendota, California, and brutally murdered him with a machete and knives, leaving the victim’s remains unrecognizable.

In another from Jan. 2018, Reyes-Castillo and Vargas-Escobar kidnapped a victim and shot and stabbed him to death after driving him into the desert. They believed the victim had defected to a rival gang, the DOJ said.

In Feb. 2018, Reyes-Castillo and Perez-Manchame kidnapped a victim who they believed was a rival gang member based on a tattoo and the clothing he wore. They stabbed him over 200 times, and his body was found decomposing in the mountains about three weeks later.

The three illegal aliens all face life in prison when they are sentenced in November.

“These defendants carried out a campaign of terror marked by murders, kidnappings, and brutality,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah in the press release.

“Their reign of violence ends today,” he added. “The Las Vegas Homeland Security Task Force is unyielding in its mission — we will hunt down violent gang members, dismantle their networks, and drive transnational criminal organizations out of our communities. Southern Nevada will not be a refuge for predators or the terror they attempt to unleash.”

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The DOJ released a photo of Reyes-Castillo that showed him posing with two firearms.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel said that stamping out criminal gangs is a special focus of the FBI and claimed gang arrests were up 322%.

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The New Jersey congressman who missed more than 140 votes has finally revealed the mystery “medical issue” that kept him from his congressional duties.

Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (N.J.) last voted in Congress on March 5 and then went missing for three months without a full explanation of his absence.

‘There is no timeline for recovery, only the work of getting better one day at a time.’

On Tuesday, Kean said in a speech on the floor of Congress that he had been diagnosed with depression and told to stay in the hospital for treatment.

“Several months ago, due to health concerns, I entered the hospital for some testing. I did not believe that this would result in a long-term stay,” he said. “I was given the diagnosis of depression.”

Kean said his doctors recommended that he stay in the hospital to treat his depression.

“They explained to me that this would be the fastest way to recovery, and to be honest, I was hesitant. I didn’t think that I had time for it. … Like many people, I believed that I could simply push through,” Kean continued. “But I agreed to follow my doctor’s recommendations again, not believing that it would result in a long-term stay.”

Kean was pressed for details about his absence from Congress in April and said only that he had been dealing with a “personal medical issue.”

He said Tuesday that he had hoped to seek release earlier but his treatment dragged on.

“As the over 48 million of my fellow Americans being treated for this illness have come to discover, there is no timeline for healing. There is no timeline for recovery,” he added, “only the work of getting better one day at a time.”

Kean won the primary for his re-election campaign during the time he was gone.

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Kean reiterated his message on social media.

“I’m a private person by nature, so sharing my story wasn’t easy. But if speaking openly about what I’ve been through helps even one person know they’re not alone, then it was worth it,” he wrote.

“I’m deeply grateful for the prayers, kindness, and support I’ve received,” Kean concluded.

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After 40 years in Congress, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has revealed what comes next.

Pelosi has announced the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at University of California, Berkeley, which the school described as a “nonpartisan” academic center set to open in January 2027.

During her speakership in 2009, House Democrats achieved an all-time congressional record for party-line voting.

“I viewed this as a liberation for me from the political, not politics, but partisanship,” Pelosi, 86, told CNN in an article published Monday. “Because you’re going to an academic institution. It’s about what our founders had in mind with our Constitution, and it’s a beautiful story to tell.”

The institute will sit inside Berkeley’s political science department, focusing on research, civic engagement, and training future leaders, according to UC Berkeley. Pelosi is slated to co-teach a course on Congress beginning in spring 2027, while the institute will also run a visiting fellows program and an annual forum for prominent leaders.

Pelosi agreed to personally raise $25 million toward the school’s broader $50 million campaign — a target she said she hit “quite easily.”

Pelosi said the idea of a bipartisan academic center particularly intrigued her. “I loved it because they talked about human rights in the U.S. and in the world, addressing the challenges to our democracy, the climate, and economic income inequity,” she said of Berkeley’s pitch.

Pelosi, who was first elected to Congress in 1987 and became speaker 20 years later, has been no stranger to squeezing out members of her own party who stepped out of line. In 2019, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused Pelosi of “singling out newly elected women of color,” calling her treatment of the progressive “Squad” “outright disrespectful.”

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On one of the rare issues with real bipartisan momentum in recent years — banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks — Pelosi first opposed the idea and was later only lukewarm toward it, even as scrutiny mounted over her husband’s frequent stock trades during her tenure as speaker.

Her most notable legislative achievement, the 2010 Affordable Care Act, passed the House without a single Republican vote. Pelosi reportedly dismissed a more bipartisan version of the bill as “Kiddie Care,” pushing for the more sweeping, partisan version that ultimately passed 219-212.

Pelosi’s clash with Trump produced one of the most viral partisan moments of his presidency when she tore up her copy of his 2020 State of the Union address on camera, calling it “a manifesto of mistruths.”

During her speakership in 2009, House Democrats achieved an all-time congressional record for party-line voting — sticking together 94.2% of the time, a hallmark not of compromise but of caucus control.

GovTrack’s most recent report card found she introduced fewer bills than anyone in the California delegation, and in 2016, joined bipartisan legislation less frequently than any other House Democrat. GovTrack notes, however, that party leaders often post unusual scores given the nature of their role.

Even in the same CNN interview announcing her “liberation” from partisanship, Pelosi couldn’t resist a parting partisan shot, declaring unprompted that Democrats are “going to win the House” in November.

The institute is set to launch in January 2027, with a public exhibit on Pelosi’s career opening at the Bancroft Library that spring.

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A film that is triggering progressive critics is becoming a viral sensation after the director called it “an inconvenient truth.”

The movie stars actor Armie Hammer as a man who takes justice into his own hands after he feels the government and law enforcement have failed to protect their citizens.

‘Racist, xenophobic, ethnocentrist.’

‘X’ rated

“Citizen Vigilante” has been called “anti-migrant,” “racist, xenophobic,” and “incomprehensible,” yet audiences seem to love it.

With a fan score of 94% on popular review site Rotten Tomatoes, critics seem once again to be at odds with audiences while drawing a political line in the sand.

A huge social media push has seen the movie top the streaming charts, with multiple outlets reporting on Monday that “Citizen Vigilante” soared to No. 1 on Amazon Prime’s “Top 10 movies to rent or buy,” where it still stood at the time of this writing.

The film was reportedly No. 2 on Apple TV’s top movie list on Monday as well.

This all came after X owner Elon Musk posted “Citizen Vigilante” for free download on his platform last Thursday — with director Uwe Boll’s permission — garnering at least 8 million views by Musk’s own account.

Boll responded on X, “Dear Elon thank you. Donald Trump needs to see the film.”

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Banned abroad

By all accounts, the film draws on anti-immigration sentiments that are becoming popular around the world, and even references real-life migrant crimes for its story.

The movie has already been banned in Germany because it was found to be “inciting violence against migrants,” director Boll told Variety in June.

Boll called it “deliberate censorship” that was “on purpose.”

In an email to Newsweek, the director said his movie “shows an inconvenient truth what all other movies out there don’t want to show or try to sugarcoat in their productions.”

Boll added, “The audience wants real films again — bold and with impact and about reality.”

Bans and negative reviews have been overtaken by the film’s momentum, and the flick was just acquired by Quiver Distribution for a worldwide push, except for in the U.K., German-speaking territories, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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Many such (angry) cases

Many critics have not enjoyed the film, with some reviewers declining to even score it.

For example, Stefan Birgir Stefans called the film “brain dead” and gave no score, while Variety’s Todd Gilchrist similarly gave no rating and said the director was “deliberately sabotaging his star.”

Nicholas Bell said the film was “magnifying its xenophobia through the beacon of far-right agitprop,” while Joseph Robinson called it “a discriminatory parable.”

It was U.K. outlet the Guardian that dubbed “Citizen Vigilante” as “anti-migrant” on Tuesday, with Ready Steady Cut describing the film as “utterly incurious and incomprehensible, but politically barbed.”

Critic Jonathon Wilson argued the film was for people who believe “immigrants are to blame for all the violent crimes in the West to see as a rubric for defending their homeland.”

Tyler Thier of In Review Online summarized the movie as “racist, xenophobic, ethnocentrist, alt-right agitprop manufactured to piss off the ‘woke Left.'”

The consistent use of “agitprop” by reviewers is, interestingly enough, a reference to pro-communist propaganda used by the Soviet Union.

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Ahead of the United States’ 250th anniversary, a recent Gallup poll reveals that very few Democrats say they are “extremely proud” to be an American.

The poll, which measured levels of American pride among differing demographics and compared results to past years, demonstrated that pride levels have fallen to a 25-year low.

The Democratic Party is facing a patriotism problem that only seems to be worsening.

General pride levels peaked in 2002, largely caused by the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. At the time, 69% of adults said they were “extremely proud” to be an American, and 23% said they were “very proud.” In 2026, those numbers have fallen to 33% and 20%, respectively.

The last year that over 50% of respondents fell under the “extremely proud” category was 2017.

Between Republicans and Democrats, Republicans have consistently produced higher levels of patriotic feelings. Yet the divide seems to have grown even sharper since President Donald Trump came onto the political scene.

In 2016, 68% of Republicans responded as “extremely proud” compared to 45% of Democrats. Today, Republicans — despite dipping seven percentage points from last year — sit at 70%, while Democrats record an all-time low of 14%. Combining “extremely” and “very” proud responses, Republicans climb to 93% and Democrats to 27%.

As numerous far-left candidates with track records of anti-American rhetoric have been emerging victorious in Democratic primaries across the country, it is becoming increasingly evident that the Democratic Party is facing a patriotism problem that only seems to be worsening.

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Looking at changes over the past year, “extreme” pride has fallen in all categories covering age, gender, race/ethnicity, and education. Women represented the largest decline, dropping 13 points from 39% to 26%. Younger age groups fell as well, down 10 points to 14% among 18- to 34-year-olds and down 12 points to 30% among 35- to 54-year-olds.

Among 18- to 34-year-olds, 21% of respondents reported that they are “not at all” proud to be an American, with another 24% saying they are “only a little” proud. This data indicates that Generation Z in particular does not share the same sense of patriotism as older generations — a trend that has the potential to shape how Americans relate to their country in the coming decades.

“People of color” and non-college graduates also saw 10-point drops since 2025.

Meanwhile, men, those 55 and older, non-Hispanic white adults, and non-college graduates still top their respective categories.

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Fears over losing jobs to artificial intelligence bots have abounded in the last couple years during the AI boom — and in some cases have even been realized.

However, one top automaker has decided to try something new in the age of AI: reversing course and rehiring the “gray beards” who were originally let go.

‘Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers.’

And this novel experiment of bringing back experienced engineers might pay off.

Ford Motor Co. has decided to change course away from replacing senior engineers with artificial intelligence after an apparent realization that experience is nearly impossible to replace.

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Bloomberg reported this week that Ford has hired 350 veteran engineers over the last three years after the company’s push toward AI drove costs and, it seems, tanked the quality of the products.

Much of the incurred cost for the company related to repairs and warranty coverages, Ford’s CEO suggested to Bloomberg.

“We’re seeing our warranty coverages come down. We’re seeing our recall costs come down,” chief executive officer Jim Farley said after the engineers were rehired. “These are all contributing to literally hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of a tailwind for Ford on cost.”

The switch, Bloomberg noted, has already yielded some positive results, with Ford ranking first in mass-market brands in the new JD Power Initial Quality Survey.

The experienced engineers were hired to train younger staff and reprogram the artificial intelligence agents, officials indicated.

“Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told Bloomberg. “Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles.”

“Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product,” Poon continued. But “we recognized that for us to enhance some of our automation and machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, we needed to ensure that they were trained by the most experienced individuals.”

All told, the company hopes to cut $1 billion in costs this year.

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President Trump has initiated the end of a high-profile, bureaucratic nightmare related to your own car.

During the Monday signing of a memorandum on “the freedom to fix,” President Trump himself expressed his disbelief at the ridiculousness of the problems the government creates.

‘If you own it, you should have the freedom to fix it!’

“It came to my attention because I noticed they were arresting people for fixing their car. … That’s not even believable,” Trump said before he signed the memorandum.

After signing the memo, Trump added, “We rule by common sense, to a large extent.”

RELATED: Exclusive: Trump’s EPA takes major step to end animal testing after Fauci’s cruel beagle experiments

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The memo will begin the process of giving car owners greater flexibility to fix their own car. One of the primary limitations at the moment is the harsh restrictions on tampering with emissions controls: “To further ensure vehicle affordability, it is the policy of my Administration that consumers should be able to fix their vehicles with affordable parts without being deemed to have circumvented emissions controls.”

The presidential action will attempt to bring greater peace of mind to consumers and after-market parts manufacturers, which are in regulatory limbo as things stand.

It also takes back federal control from the de facto regulatory control taken by California by loosening restrictions and making the costs of repair more affordable. California’s system is apparently bloated and time-consuming for owners to receive the necessary certifications for their vehicles.

If it is any indication of the current regulatory environment around this issue, the California Air Resources Board “has the only certification process for after-market parts currently recognized as sufficient under the [Clean Air Act],” the memorandum states.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who is tasked with loosening the restrictions, touted this memorandum as a win for consumers.

“If you own it, you should have the freedom to fix it!” Zeldin wrote on X. “President Trump just signed a new Presidential Memo protecting Americans’ freedom to fix their own vehicle if they so desire. The President’s action also combats cheap foreign aftermarket vehicle parts while also breaking up the monopoly the California Air Resources Board has had over certifying aftermarket parts.”

“This is an idea from the top when President Trump called me one recent Saturday night saying he wants this Memo drafted, signed and implemented at Trump Speed instantly,” he added.

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At first glance, genetically mutated rats in New York, Iran’s missile program, Britain’s grooming gang scandal, attacks on ICE facilities, and the rise of democratic socialism in America’s largest cities appear to have nothing in common.

But according to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, they’re all examples of the same fundamental principle at work.

“Researchers now at Rutgers University found the vast majority of house mice and brown rats across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., have now genetically mutated to shrug off all of the poison that we have thrown at them for decades,” Glenn reports.

“Every rat that survived a less-than-lethal dose handed that resistance to the next litter. And generation by generation, we bred a more poison-resistant rat,” he adds.

Another story, Glenn says, is that the Trump administration is “asking Congress for $88 billion in supplemental funding tied to the Iran war, with most of it going to the Pentagon and replacing strained missile stockpiles.”

“Yet Tehran is boasting that the deal leaves its missile program untouched while it negotiates with Oman to charge costs for passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” he continues.

“This is a lesson that we refuse to learn, and the world has already learned it about us. We’re never, ever fighting a war enough to kill it. We never fight them hard enough to end it because we get bored, distracted,” he adds.

Glenn also points to the Rape Gang Inquiry Report, which dropped a bombshell: Muslim grooming gangs targeted and trafficked young white girls throughout the U.K.

“For 20 years, British authorities saw this, looked away, terrified of exactly the accusation now being aimed at the report. A half-confronted evil doesn’t shrink from embarrassment. It learns which words will make you flinch,” he explains.

And there is another story Glenn believes is related to the prior three: “More than a dozen defendants got prison for the 2025 attack on an ICE facility, and Rashida Tlaib called the sentencing bull crap.”

One of those arrested shot an ICE officer in the neck.

“The guy who pulled the trigger got 100 years, and Rashida Tlaib is saying this is crazy,” Glenn says.

“We’re jailing bodies, but we’re not touching the belief that told them that violence was righteous. So the belief goes on looking for more recruits,” he continues.

And now, socialists are “about to run four of America’s biggest cities.”

“Mamdani’s machine swept New York,” Glenn says.

“So, line up all of these stories, and the same law runs underneath all five. It is the oldest law in biology, and it does not care about your politics,” he continues. “A poison that doesn’t kill teaches.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court delivered on Tuesday its highly anticipated ruling in Trump v. Barbara — the contentious case concerning whether President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens is constitutional.

The court held that “children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.”

‘Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship.’

In the majority opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Chief Justice John Roberts began with a history lesson and concluded by writing that “citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ … We keep that promise today.”

The court found that the arguments for limiting birthright citizenship to those legally living in the United States erred “in their definition of ‘allegiance,’ contending that natural allegiance was no longer sufficient for citizenship and that some greater quantum of allegiance (based on domicile) was required.”

According to the high court, there was “scant evidence for this dramatically revisionist view.”

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In the opinion for the court, Roberts wrote that “if Congress intended to limit American citizenship to the children of those domiciled in the United States, nothing in the succinct language of the Citizenship Clause conveyed that design.”

Roberts noted further that words that appeared in Trump’s executive order — including “mother,” “father,” “lawful,” and “temporary” — were also absent from the language of the clause.

“And while the Clause does ensure state citizenship attaches for U.S. citizens in ‘the State wherein they reside,’ … the explicit invocation of residence for state citizenship only highlights its absence from the criteria for U.S. citizenship,” Roberts added.

Justice Clarence Thomas suggested in a 91-page dissent joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch that the majority diverged from historic American interpretations of the citizenship clause and that its account of how American citizenship came to be understood is “not historically accurate.”

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens,” Thomas wrote. “In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support.”

In addition to stating that Trump’s order had many potential applications which were “consistent with the original public meaning of the Citizenship Clause,” Thomas expressed uncertainty that “today’s opinion will stand the test of time.”

In closing, he wrote, “The Citizenship Clause ‘added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship.’ … Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship.”

Justice Samuel Alito echoed Thomas’ sense of gravity and disappointment in his dissent, writing, “This is one of the most important decisions in the history of the Court, and in my judgment, the Court has made a serious mistake.”

“As interpreted by the Court today, the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on virtually everyone who happens to be born in this country, including the children of ‘birth tourists,’ women who come here solely for the purpose of giving birth to a child and then promptly return home,” Alito wrote. “Careful analysis of the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and the process that led to its adoption shows that it does not degrade the concept of United States citizenship in this way.”

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