A Florida female carjacked a Good Samaritan who tried to help her after she crashed a stolen vehicle last week, but the victim fought back, officials said.

Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies around 2:47 p.m. Friday received reports of a hit-and-run crash near Northeast 54th Street and Federal Highway in Deerfield Beach, deputies told WTVJ-TV.

‘We thought something would happen to her, like she’s in shock or something.’

Deputies said 44-year-old Roszetta Benjamin was in a stolen vehicle when she was involved in a crash with three other cars, the station said, adding that the people in those cars sustained minor injuries.

But after the crash, Benjamin kept driving and was soon involved in another crash at the intersection of North Federal Highway and Hillsboro Boulevard, WTVJ said.

Officials said the stolen car Benjamin was driving was then disabled, and the other driver had non-life-threatening injuries, the station said.

Investigators told WPLG-TV that a Good Samaritan stopped to help Benjamin, but she allegedly tried to carjack him.

WPLG said the two struggled over the vehicle, and deputies said Benjamin put the car in drive during the struggle.

She then crashed into a gas station’s convenience store, WTVJ reported.

Wade Anby Beau, who works at the Mobile gas station, told WTVJ he heard a loud crash and ran to the store to help. Beau added to WTVJ that a driver who also witnessed the crash made a U-turn to also try to help.

“We thought something would happen to her, like she’s in shock or something,” Beau told the station.

Beau said the woman was acting erratically, WTVJ reported, adding that photos from the scene showed the woman standing on the hood of the car after she crashed into the store.

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Beau noted to WTVJ that he spent two days cleaning in the store after the carjacked vehicle crashed through one of its windows; drink coolers were knocked own, and shards of glass were everywhere.

“It could be, like, something major, because people are always walking through here,” he noted to the station.

Benjamin was charged with carjacking, kidnapping, grand theft, and hit-and-run, WTVJ said, adding that a judge set Benjamin’s bond at more than $104,000.

Benjamin remained behind bars Tuesday, jail records show.

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Some smart TVs won’t take no for an answer.

When these same machines don’t get what they’re looking for, they may implement work-arounds in order to pry into a user’s private life.

‘… a company that truly listens to its customers.’

One researcher decided to reverse-engineer a Samsung smart TV and allegedly found numerous disturbing features buried in its programming.

Some of the most damning allegations include facial recognition code that placed “bounded boxes” around faces, as seen when using a smartphone, for example.

The researcher — going by Log4j — also revealed what he deemed to be sinister listening habits of the televisions.

While many Samsung smart TVs have a built-in microphone, if it doesn’t, “it will look for connected devices with one, such as a soundbar or a connected bluetooth device,” the researcher claimed.

Moreover, the audio is allegedly broken down into categories before it is reported to its masters. Code purportedly showed “dog-barking” and “baby-crying” events, with the code even noting the TV’s camera.

“Finally found a company that truly listens to its customers,” the researcher joked.

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The self-described “reverse engineer” said he uncovered dozens of pages of functions that he hoped to discuss, all by simply running his personal TV’s code through an AI agent.

For his Samsung, the researcher said it loads a “region specific convolutional neural network” that tracks usage in apps on the TV. This includes what type of YouTube videos a user watches, which ads are skipped, and video retention time.

“So glad they’re interested in me,” he wrote.

Another researcher from the Bitcoin world, Marty Bent, claimed that Samsung TVs also have an “always-on hot mic functionality” and “automatic content recognition.”

Bent likened the purchase of a new TV to signing up for an agreement with 400 of the company’s partners.

RELATED: Apple wants you using this new product to run your household

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The microphones on Samsung TVs have already become a rather public and contentious point for users, and Samsung even provides instructions for how to manually turn the microphone off for many of its TVs.

While some models purport to not have microphones at all and do not have the switch, internal settings show microphone access. Those consumers can still set up voice recognition with Samsung’s Bixby, a virtual assistant developed by the company. This can be accomplished with a microphone through a remote or other remote devices.

Samsung did not immediately reply to a request for comment about these allegedly hidden features and has not provided public comment on them, either.

As this is an ongoing story, information will be updated as it is received.

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Texas has successfully transformed one of the main operating bases of the “trans” regime into a refuge for the regime’s victims.

Quick background

Despite chatter in 2022 about ending the practice, physicians at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston continued performing sex-rejection interventions on minors.

‘A clinic cannot give me back what I lost, but it can help patients rebuild their lives.’

In 2023, following whistleblower revelations about the ongoing sex-rejection interventions at Texas Children’s Hospital, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into it.

A lengthy investigation by his office’s Healthcare Program Enforcement Division then ensued, and Paxton secured a settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital earlier this year.

The hospital was required, among other things, to:

permanently cease “providing, directly or indirectly, any sex-rejecting procedures” and referring patients to third parties for such medical procedures;revoke the privileges of and fire physicians who were involved in the hospital’s sex-rejection operations; andpay nearly $10 million in civil penalties to “resolve claims brought under the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act and the federal False Claims Act for billing Texas Medicaid for unallowable and illegal ‘gender-transition’ interventions.”

RELATED: ‘Not medicine — it’s malpractice’: Trump HHS buries child sex-change regime with damning report

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Per the terms of the settlement, Texas Children’s Hospital was also required to establish a detransition clinic to “help patients reverse the damage caused by ideologically motivated physicians who harmed patients by performing dangerous medical interventions for the purpose of ‘transitioning’ them.”

First in the nation

Paxton announced on Tuesday that Texas Children’s has opened the detransition clinic.

Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who has raised awareness about the horrors of sex-rejection medical interventions, told Blaze News, “Texas Children’s accepting appointment requests for detransition care is significant because people living with the consequences of transition deserve to be taken seriously.”

“A clinic cannot give me back what I lost, but it can help patients rebuild their lives,” continued Cole. “The medical system has a responsibility to care for the people who trusted it, including when those patients regret what was done to them.”

According to Texas Children’s, the clinic offers a team of multi-disciplinary experts with specialties including endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, psychiatry, and speech pathology.

The hospital is obligated to provide all care at no cost to patients for the next five years. To fund services beyond the initial five-year window, the hospital must include the detransition clinic as a specific gift designation on its “Giving” webpage.

Paxton vowed that he will “ensure that this clinic provides the care and support that victims of the radical left’s gender ideology deserve.”

“This is an important step toward caring for a group of patients who have long been overlooked,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, said in a statement to Blaze News. “Detransitioners have suffered because of the lies sold to them by transgender activists. Their struggles were often dismissed or ignored by the medical establishment. Yet they deserve as much support and care as we can give.”

Miceli added, “The Detransition Clinic at Texas Children’s is a step in the right direction. We hope to see more hospitals open similar clinics, without the Department of Justice having to step in.”

Cole suggested that the establishment of a detransition clinic presents a great opportunity “for research into improving life after transition.”

“There are serious unanswered questions about how best to care for detransitioners,” Cole told Blaze News. “If Texas Children’s is going to serve these patients properly, it needs to confront those questions: Which treatments actually help? What can realistically be restored? How do patients’ physical and psychological needs change over time?”

The clinic should be judged on whether it materially helps victims and whether it advances that knowledge, said Cole.

Paxton, who faces off with a supporter of the sex-rejection regime in the race for a seat in the U.S. Senate next week, said on Tuesday, “We will protect our children and defeat the dangerous ideology that has inflicted irreversible harm on innocent kids.”

Texas Children’s did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

Just a week away from Election Day, Democrat James Talarico still holds a slight edge over Paxton in the Texas U.S. Senate race, according to Blaze News’ Poll Watch.

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Vice President JD Vance is hinting that he may sit out the 2028 presidential race — but BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t convinced.

“You mentioned a couple minutes ago that in a couple years you might be out of a job,” a Michigan reporter said to Vance. “That, even in the structure of the sentence, suggests that you’d be running for a continued job.”

“Not necessarily,” Vance replied.

The reporter then asked: “Is there a chance you don’t run for president in 2028?”

“Of course there’s a chance,” Vance said. “Man, we’ve got four little kids. My wife has never loved politics. She loves public service. I think, you know, you can do a lot of good in this job, and I’ve tried to do as much good as possible.”

“But I really — people ask me this question all the time, and I think they assume because I’m a politician, of course, he’s going to run for president in 2028,” he continued.

Vance went on to explain that when it comes to “big life decisions,” even his wife will admit that he’s a “procrastinator.”

“I hate thinking about it. And what will happen is that first of all, after all these fine people elect Mike Rogers United States senator for the state of Michigan, what’s going to happen is then I’ll have to think about it,” he said.

“And then I will actually have to make a decision. But you know, anything could happen,” he adds.

“I don’t buy it. He’s running,” Gray comments.

“I can’t imagine a vice president not running,” he adds.

“It’s very difficult for him to run because he’s going to have to run on Trump’s agenda. And he’s going to have to try to separate himself from that,” Jeff Fisher says.

“He might not have to because the economy could get a lot better between now and then when the war goes away, and it should,” Gray says.

“I really believe that,” he adds.

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The investigation into disgraced Democrat Eric Swalwell continues, as federal agents raided a mansion in Southern California Tuesday morning.

Swalwell, who resigned from Congress and dropped his 2026 California gubernatorial bid in April, has been under intense scrutiny since five women have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. One woman even accused him of rape.

‘It might still be connected to sexual offenses, but …’

Early Tuesday morning, FBI agents raided a home in Beverly Hills, California, in connection with the Swalwell investigation, Fox News reported. The raid occurred at a home on Roxbury Drive near Benedict Canyon Drive around 7 a.m. Pacific Time, according to KABC.

The mansion belongs to billionaire Stephen Cloobeck, KABC reported. Cloobeck ran for governor of California last year and then endorsed Swalwell after dropping out. He publicly distanced himself from Swalwell following the sexual misconduct allegations.

The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment.

Former DOJ prosecutor Jim Trusty told Fox News that when it comes to federal search warrants, “digital is king.”

“What federal authorities love to find is not necessarily the evidence of the crime itself, like finding a gun or finding a knife or finding money, but finding communications, getting access to computers and iPhones and everything else,” Trusty explained.

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Trusty then noted that the raid involves federal agents, while sexual assault allegations are typically prosecuted at the state level. “You have to wonder, is there a slightly different angle? It might still be connected to sexual offenses, but does it have to do with obstruction? Does it have to do with false statements when he was being investigated by Congress?” Trusty wondered.

“When you go overt, it tends to mean it’s getting closer,” Trusty continued. “So we might end up seeing either charges or statements of some substance or even a charging document or a search warrant affidavit that starts to lay this stuff out.”

Swalwell’s digital devices were confiscated and his D.C.-area home raided by the FBI in August.

An attorney for Swalwell did not respond to a request for comment, and efforts to contact Swalwell were unsuccessful.

Swalwell spent more than a dozen years in Congress, representing the East Bay area of San Francisco from 2013 until his resignation in April.

Declassified FBI documents confirmed that Swalwell admitted to having “physical relations” with suspected Chinese spy Christine “Fang Fang” Fang:

Screenshot of FBI document

This is a developing story.

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The Democratic Party is undergoing a socialist takeover, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a leading prospective candidate for 2028, doesn’t appear at all bothered.

Townhall Investigations published undercover footage on Monday that appears to show the radical governor welcoming the Democratic Party’s transformation and the mainstreaming of radical policy proposals from the Democratic Socialists of America.

‘We have to completely reimagine it.’

In the video, which is dated Oct. 17, a person off-screen can be heard saying, “I was wondering ’cause I’m a younger voter and a lot of us, like, we want to see the Democratic Party move forward. You know, we don’t want more Kamala Harris. We want, you know, more, I guess, democratic socialist policies.”

The individual then asks, “Where do you see, I guess, the Democratic Party going?”

Newsom responds, “I think no one is arguing to manage the status quo and fail more efficiently. So I think that the DSA — the energy, and the desire and demand for bold change, not incremental change — is very much going to be the dominant — I mean, that’s going to be the mainstream Democratic [Party]. Absolutely,” according to the video.

“You can’t play in the margins any more,” Newsom continues, according to the video. “The system’s broken. It’s completely unbalanced, and we can’t — we can’t manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine it.”

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Blaze News reached out to Newsom’s office but did not immediately receive a response.

Last month, Newsom emphasized in an interview with “PBS NewsHour” that there is no daylight between the radicalism of the Democratic Party and the DSA. Responding to the suggestion that “there seems to be some distance between [Democrat] leadership and those DSA candidates,” Newsom said, “But not the ideas.”

The DSA’s ideas, if put into effect, would leave the republic unrecognizable. The DSA’s 2026 program advocates for:

abolishing the presidency, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Senate, and the Electoral College;expanding the House of Representatives;defunding police, taking steps “towards fully abolishing the police and prison system,” and ending qualified immunity;abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, halting all deportations, granting amnesty for all illegal aliens, and ending visa caps;ranked-choice voting in all elections;nationalizing large corporations;extending voting rights to noncitizens;eliminating fossil fuels;establishing Washington, D.C., as a state;universal health care, including “complete access to reproductive and gender-affirming care”;reparations for slavery;eliminating restrictions on abortion and sex-rejection mutilations;universal rent control and recognizing housing as a human right; anddefunding the Pentagon and closing overseas U.S. military bases.

According to a New York Times/Siena University poll released on Saturday, twice-failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris is the top choice for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination with 12%. Newsom placed second in the poll with 9%.

Among possible 2028 Republican presidential nominees, Vice President JD Vance was first with 33%; Secretary of State Marco Rubio was second with 23%; and President Donald Trump was third with 3% despite the 22nd Amendment, which says, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”

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More young conservatives are starting to believe the system is rigged, the American dream is dead, and there’s no point in fighting for a better future.

While BlazeTV host Nick Freitas understands the frustrations driving that “black-pill” mindset — he also knows that doesn’t make it right.

“I’m watching more and more of the young right check out and black-pill,” Freitas says, “And I’m asking myself, how does that help?”

“I don’t understand how, again, we get to this point where it’s like, ‘Well, it’s just not worth fighting for,’” he adds.

“It’s a complex thing,” co-host Christian Hines chimes in. “But you know, you can go through the list … like the economy is not doing great, you have, you know, what, a generation of asset price inflation without any accompanying increase in wages to match it to the point now that homes are unaffordable for most people under the age of 30.”

“Good luck building wealth because the wealth has already been built,” he adds.

Hines points out that the “runaway asset price inflation” is “generational.”

“So those who already own the assets, which tend to be older people … they have benefited greatly from the current system,” he says.

“Whereas younger people that, you know, because they weren’t alive in the 1980s or 1990s, they haven’t had the opportunity to build that type of wealth, and it’s already been built,” he adds.

However, it’s not just the financial doomerism that has Freitas concerned, pointing out that many young men and women no longer believe they’ll find a partner to build a family with.

And he believes this has a lot to do with how they’re raised.

“If you are raising daughters and you are only teaching them what they should expect from their husbands, you’re failing them and you’re failing their future husbands. You need to also teach them what their husbands should be able to expect from them,” Freitas says.

“Happy marriages are ones where people embrace their duties and responsibilities in marriage. And both sides have some,” he continues.

“Now, the pool of people that were raised that way has dwindled significantly. I don’t disagree with that at all. But it’s not erased,” he adds.

And while the attitude of the youth looks bleak, Freitas wants them to realize “that we can turn this around.”

“Like if you black-pill, right, they will win. If our young men on the conservative side, on the right, if our young men black-pill, they will win,” he adds.

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Thirteen years have passed since the last Grand Theft Auto launched to critical acclaim. Now, at long last, GTA VI is almost here, but thanks to the AI boom, prices on current consoles are skyrocketing, and next-gen hardware is expected to be even worse. Here’s why you might have to pay more to play this November.

If you already own a compatible game console, you’re among the lucky ones who aren’t affected by the ever-increasing gadget prices that hit gamers particularly hard starting early this year. If you don’t have a console though, or if you own the wrong game console, it’s going to cost you a pretty penny for the privilege to play GTA VI on launch day.

Most of these consoles are six years old, and instead of dropping in price, they’ve gone up.

GTA VI is a new-generation game packed to the brim with the latest graphical technology powered by Rockstar Games’ Rockstar Advanced Game Engine. A quick glance at the extended teaser from August shows stunningly realistic lighting and textures, extreme precision on fine details like strands of hair, and a dense world ready to be explored. In short, you will need a powerful console to play GTA VI, which is probably why your options are so limited.

The game will only be compatible with four consoles at launch — PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S. Anything else is obsolete. That means GTA VI won’t run on the Nintendo Switch 2, nor is it playable on an old PlayStation 4 or Xbox One.

You can’t even play GTA VI on PC or handhelds, like Steam Deck. This isn’t due to a technical limitation though. Rockstar intentionally made GTA VI a console exclusive for the first several months, leaving PC players out to dry until Q1 2027, when it is rumored to release more broadly.

Naturally, the PlayStation 5 Pro and Xbox Series X are the preferred consoles that deliver the best graphical experience. Unfortunately, both of these consoles, and their lower-powered siblings, are more expensive today than they were when they launched in 2020 and 2024.

Everything is more expensive

In August, Xbox raised the cost of Series X and Series S by $100 for the 512GB options and $150 for the 1TB versions. This is on top of the $20-$70 price hike from October of last year. If you want to buy one of these consoles today, you’ll pay:

Xbox Series S (512GB) – $499.99Xbox Series S (1TB) – $599.99Xbox Series X (1TB Digital Edition) – $749.99Xbox Series X (1TB) – $799.99Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition – $899.99

PlayStation isn’t any better. Sony raised prices in August as well, adding another $100-$150 to its product lineup. If you want a new PlayStation today, you’ll pay:

PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (825GB) – $599PlayStation 5 (1TB) – $649PlayStation 5 Pro (2TB) – $899

The irony here is that most of these consoles — with the exception of PlayStation 5 Pro that came out in 2024 — are six years old. Instead of dropping in price — which is what usually happens to aging technology before the next big thing comes to replace it — they’ve gone up, thanks to supply chain shortages spurred on by AI.

Lastly, the game — GTA VI itself — is also more expensive. GTA V launched at $60 for the standard version. Yes, the last game came out in 2013, so you’d expect prices to shift over more than a decade. However, the $60 base price tag for games in general stuck around for a long time before jumping up to $70 in 2020. To play GTA VI though, that one will set you back $79.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition, which gives you special vehicles, weapons, and clothing items for the main characters.

RELATED: This top video game company is betting its future on something gamers hate

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No hope for the next generation

For those who need a gaming console to play GTA VI, you might just write this generation off for what’s coming next. The next-gen consoles are rumored to roll out in several more years, but if you think you’ll get one for a decent price, think again. With supply chain shortages refusing to go away, the prices for the next consoles are expected to be even worse.

The new Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, could reportedly cost up to $1,800, making it Microsoft’s most expensive console ever. That’s a big ask for gamers who are used to paying a fraction of that on new hardware. That said, Project Helix is more than just a console. It will supposedly be closer to a hybrid console/PC with support for Xbox games and PC games. Whether the added capability is worth the higher price is up to you.

The next-generation PlayStation will also be more expensive. Rumors suggest it could cost up to $1,000 MSRP, largely due to RAM and NAND costs taking up $680 of that price tag. Unlike Xbox, the next PlayStation likely won’t have PC game support, and it may not have a disc drive since Sony is officially ending disc game releases in 2028.

Brace yourself for more

Gaming is just one industry affected by the supply chain shortages. Prices for all electronics, including phones, laptops, tablets, and more, have all gone up by 17%-42%, depending on the device. There’s real volatility in the market, and it’s impossible to predict how these prices will fluctuate throughout the holidays and into 2027.

At the same time, data shows that the AI bubble may be primed to burst. If that happens, the supply chains would get a much needed break from the AI onslaught, potentially freeing up resources to lower prices for consumers. Unfortunately, we would have bigger problems as AI investors would have billions of dollars in debt with no way to recoup, and AI would no longer be the economic engine that some said it would be.

But hey, until then, at least we have the hottest game of the year coming out soon. Grand Theft Auto VI is available now for preorder, and it will launch on PlayStation and Xbox on Thursday, November 19, 2026.

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