As New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday, incumbent Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat is fighting to retain his party’s nomination against a Mamdani-backed challenger.

The 71-year-old was first elected to Congress in the 2016 election, representing a district that encompasses northern Manhattan and a section of the west Bronx.

‘I forget to get napkins. So I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.’

“I’m the first undocumented, formerly undocumented member of Congress. I’m the first Dominican American member of Congress in a city that has a million Dominican Americans,” Espaillat said.

Despite his membership in the Congressional Progressive Caucus and classification as one of the most liberal House members, he doesn’t seem to have been adequately radical enough for Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his fellow democratic socialists.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer and the daughter of Dominican immigrants, is challenging Espaillat for the seat.

Avila Chevalier is positioning herself as a further-left alternative to Espaillat, claiming on her website that she has received endorsements from Mamdani, the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, and former House “Squad” member Jamaal Bowman.

Espaillat, by contrast, has the support of establishment New York Democrats such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Gov. Kathy Hochul.

“I am someone who has been organizing for over 14 years in our community, and I have to ask: Have things gotten better in our community under our current leadership?” Avila Chevalier said last week in a primary debate.

In a recent interview, the 32-year-old stood by her belief that “all deportations are wrong,” even for those convicted of violating American criminal law, calling it “double jeopardy.”

Avila Chevalier is also behind a plethora of tweets from a since-deleted X account that featured statements such as: “It means ending policing full stop. Period. No more police at all ever,” “I forget to get napkins. So I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me,” and one calling the Democratic National Committee a “big fraudulent white nasty status quo bitch.”

“I have grown considerably since in the years since these tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community’s future,” she said about the deleted social media account.

Avila Chevalier has narrowed the polls leading up to the election. According to the New York Times, recent polling shows Avila Chevalier with a lead as high as four points and Espaillat with a lead as high as eight points.

Bettors on Polymarket seem to have confidence in Espaillat, placing him at a 66% chance of winning, compared to Avila Chevalier’s 37%.

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This primary standoff represents just the latest battle between the Democratic “mainstream” and the rising socialist sect of the party. As of 2025, there were 250 democratic socialists in elected office, compared to just 35 in 2017.

These offices are not exclusively low-level either. Janeese Lewis George, who just secured the Democratic nomination for D.C. mayor, is a democratic socialist, both New York City Mayor Mamdani and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson are democratic socialists, and Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who just advanced to the general election for her city’s mayoral race, is a DSA member as well.

Espaillat, as a seasoned politician, has gone after Avila Chevalier for her lack of governmental experience: “This is not a PhD program. This is government. And you need experience.”

Avila Chevalier has focused much of the debate on Israel and American aid to the country. During a debate, she attacked Espaillat for receiving money from AIPAC and “voting to send our tax dollars to a country that is enacting a genocide.”

However, Espaillat has swung back, highlighting Avila Chevalier’s attendance at a controversial pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square on Oct. 8, 2023, one day after the Hamas-led attack on Israel.

“In Congress, she’ll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.’s broken political system,” Mamdani said in support of Avila Chevalier’s candidacy.

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Password management apps are trusted to keep and defend users’ most precious login information that leads to their email addresses, bank accounts, social media profiles, and more. These apps protects their entire digital life, so when a password manager fails, the consequences could be dire. Unfortunately, popular password app Dashlane suffered a brute-force attack last month that left some users open to information theft.

The attack

According to an announcement published by Dashlane, a targeted group of accounts were infiltrated by a hacker through a brute-force attack. A brute-force attack is a type of cybersecurity assault carried out through simple trial and error. It’s basically a digital version of guessing the code on a combination lock by turning it in random sequences until it clicks open. This type of attack can be extremely time-consuming but effective if luck is on the hacker’s side.

The goal was to exploit two-factor authentication — a feature that usually protects accounts by requesting verification from multiple devices before allowing the user to log in — by adding additional compromised devices to the accounts to gain access. The attacks were delivered at such a high volume that Dashlane’s systems flagged the attempts and temporarily locked the targeted accounts, but not before the hacker successfully downloaded the encrypted password vaults of those it breached.

Luckily, there are some things you can do to shore up security on your account.

Dashlane notes that fewer than 20 user accounts were infiltrated, and all affected users received an email to let them know that their accounts were affected and temporarily locked. That means, if you’re a Dashlane customer and you didn’t receive an email, your account is safe and unaffected.

Although some accounts were breached, the stolen encrypted vaults cannot be opened unless the hacker has access to each master password, once again proving why end-to-end encryption is important for all facets of today’s digital world, whether it’s messaging apps, password managers, or cloud providers.

All suspended accounts have been restored, Dashlane confirms that its internal system wasn’t impacted, and its team is investigating ways to prevent future brute-force hack attempts.

How to protect your Dashlane account from future hackers

Dashlane claims that it has “deployed additional protections at the network level and within the product to further detect and filter out malicious traffic,” seemingly stomping out the pathway that the hacker or hackers used to access the sub-20 accounts in question. However, if you’re a Dashlane user, that probably isn’t enough to make you feel like your passwords are thoroughly protected. Luckily, there are some things you can do to shore up security on your account.

Change your password: Although the hackers didn’t access Dashlane’s internal systems, it’s still a good idea to change your password every six months to a year, just to ensure no new breaches have leaked your information on the web.Make your password complex: Brute-force attacks, like the one suffered by Dashlane, are easier to carry out if your account password is simple or short. To lessen your chances of a breach, make it as long and obscure as possible. Just don’t forget to write it down and keep it somewhere safe.Enable 2FA: Two-factor authentication provides an extra layer of protection between hackers and your account. With this enabled, only you, with your verified device, are able to log in.

How to export your passwords out of Dashlane

If all else fails, you may wish to remove your passwords from your Dashlane account and save them in an alternative password service. The easiest way to get your passwords out of Dashlane’s system is to export them into a CSV file.

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To export your Dashlane passwords, go to Dashlane on the web, open your Vault menu, and select “Settings.” Several lines down, click on “Export data,” followed by “Export to CSV.”

Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw/Dashlane

Once you export your passwords, don’t forget to delete your Dashlane account; otherwise your login information is still accessible on its servers.

WARNING: Before you do anything, open the CSV file and confirm that your passwords are all present and accounted for. Once you delete your Dashlane account, this file is the only record of your passwords.

Screenshot by Zach Laidlaw/Dashlane

To delete your Dashlane vault, navigate to the account deletion page on your computer, enter the email address attached to your Dashlane account, and follow the steps to confirm.

Now that you have your CSV file and your Dashlane account is gone, you’ll need to save your file in a password-protected location or upload it to an alternative password manager. A few good candidates include Proton Pass, 1Password, NordPass, and LastPass. Whichever one you pick is up to you (I recommend Proton Pass for privacy or 1Password for superb security), but whatever you do, do not store them in an unprotected text file on your computer. That’s probably worse than just keeping them in Dashlane in the first place.

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Dallas police charged a man with murder after finding the remains of his girlfriend in a freezer at an abandoned house where neighbors said drug addicts were often seen.

A neighbor of the house on Georgia Avenue in East Oak Cliff tipped off police on May 10 after hearing from the drug users that there was a body inside, according to an affidavit.

The man claimed that they threatened each other with knives and that three days before the woman’s body was found, he saw her lying on the floor of the closet.

Police found the freezer and the human remains in the master bedroom of the house.

The body had to be thawed out before the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the victim died from multiple stab wounds, including an injury above her eye that penetrated her brain.

Detectives documented the presence of blood on the walls and carpet of the bedroom. They also found a large military-style knife that was wrapped in a cloth and towel and dropped into a hole in the drywall of the room.

The victim was identified as 27-year-old Maria Murray, and after an investigation, police arrested 51-year-old Kendrick Brown for her alleged murder.

Brown told police he had no knowledge about the room or the freezer, but police were able to find videos on his cell phone indicating he had been in the room many times, according to the affidavit.

The videos also allegedly showed that he had been in a romantic relationship with Murray.

Police were able to find a person who lived at the home, and he told them, through the assistance of an American Sign Language interpreter, that Brown and Murray had numerous physical altercations at the home.

The man claimed that they threatened each other with knives and that three days before the woman’s body was found, he saw her lying on the floor of the closet of the bedroom.

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He added that Brown yelled at him and shut the door, and the witness never saw Murray again.

The house was also reported to be on fire just hours after her body was found, according to a CBS News report.

Brown is being held at the Dallas County jail on a bond of $250,000.

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After her decisive loss to President Donald Trump in 2024, Kamala Harris has continued making efforts to remain relevant. Whether she’s speaking at Democratic Party events, making appearances on talk shows, or promoting her new book, Harris’ theme has consistently been “I told you so.”

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales calls it “making the rounds trying to trash the Trump administration.”

She plays numerous clips of Harris bragging that she accurately predicted what is currently happening under President Trump, explicitly using the phrase “I told you so.”

For example, at the Leading Women Defined Summit in 2025, Harris said, “There were many things that we knew would happen. … I’m not here to say, ‘I told you so.’”

In March 2026 at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Celebration of Life service, Harris told the crowd, “So let me just say, I predicted a lot about what’s happening right now. I’m not here to say ‘I told you so,’ but we did see it coming.”

In fact, Harris has invoked the “I told you so” theme so frequently that several media outlets jokingly dubbed her book tour the ‘I Told You So Tour.’”

However, now that she’s being made fun of for this catchphrase, Harris is attempting to backtrack. Last week at the Austrian World Summit, Harris was asked during a moderated conversation about her use of the phrase “I told you so.”

She responded, “I don’t say, ‘I told you so.’ That’s kind of obnoxious.”

But Sara laughs at Harris’ blatant hypocrisy.

“I’m just wondering, guys, what she has to say ‘I told you so’ about,” she tells guests Davey Jackson and Adam Johnson.

“What actually happened here was, Kamala was using that catchphrase to try to drum up, is this popular or not? They polled it, and they said, ‘This is not polling well.’ So they told her, ‘Stop saying that,”’ Johnson says.

“That’s how politics works. She is bought. She is sold. Just like Biden,” he adds.

Jackson thinks the funniest part about Harris’ public appearances isn’t her hypocrisy but her “code-switching.”

“Listen to her voice at the Jesse Jackson funeral and then how dramatically it changes as soon as she’s in front of Stephen Colbert,” he laughs, highlighting how Harris has repeatedly adjusted her speech, accent, and vocabulary to fit her audience.

“She blows me away. Like, just listening to her cackle and babble is insane,” Jackson says.

To see the clips of Kamala caught in blatant hypocrisy and to hear more of the panel’s conversation, watch the video above.

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from using expanded government databases in its effort to purge voter rolls of foreigners.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the government “trampled” on the privacy rights of Americans and risked wrongfully purging voter rolls of Americans legally allowed to vote.

‘It’s amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist.’

“All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” Sooknanan said. “This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”

The administration added government data, including Social Security data, to the SAVE federal database, which stands for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. SAVE is used to detect ineligible voters.

However, Sooknanan ruled that the expansion of the database violated privacy protections passed by Congress. She said the administration ignored the rules in order to “comply with an executive order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification.”

James Percival, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, criticized the ruling on social media.

“It’s amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist,” he wrote. “Judge Sparkle Soknanan’s [sic] latest ruling preventing DHS from addressing alien voting is just the latest example!”

Democracy Forward represented the group that challenged the expanded database.

“As the Trump-Vance administration continues its attack on the right to vote, this is an important victory for the American people and our democracy,” said Skye Perryman, the group’s CEO and president. “The data at the heart of this lawsuit was unlawfully consolidated in violation of privacy laws intended to protect sensitive personal information.”

The group added in a statement on social media: “This protects millions from baseless investigations and unlawful voter roll purges — a critical win for voting rights.”

RELATED: Trump order leads to investigation of 33 potential incidents of noncitizen voting, AG Paxton says

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York also praised the ruling.

“We got a big win in court today for free and fair elections, blocking Donald Trump’s efforts to set up a massive voter purge database,” he wrote on social media.

“I called this out months ago as one of Trump’s most sinister strategies for subverting our elections this November,” he added. “That’s why Democrats blocked the wretched SAVE Act in the Senate — and we’ll do so again, and again, and again. Democrats won’t stop fighting until all of Trump’s plans to rig the system are defeated.”

Sooknanan was nominated to the bench by former President Joe Biden in Jan. 2025 just ahead of Trump entering his second term.

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Right now, our youth are virtually ignorant of the American story. According to the most recent data from the Nation’s Report Card (NAEP), students know almost nothing about the nation’s founding.

On the last National History exam in 2022, only 13% of eighth graders scored proficient. Roughly 40% scored below the NAEP basic level in U.S. history — the lowest performance category.

Glenn Beck is deeply concerned about these numbers.

“We are raising a generation that cannot explain the country they’re standing in,” he laments.

But that’s not even close to the biggest threat facing our young people.

“It’s not just the [American] story that is thinning out,” sighs Glenn. “It is everything that used to hold a person in place.”

Stories, family, friendship, and church, he argues, are all vital to the human spirit. But these cornerstones have been slowly crumbling with each generation. Today, much of the country struggles with “loneliness” — a condition that has become so rampant, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy declared it an “epidemic” in 2023.

“Try to hold all of that in your head at once and then say, ‘What do you think’s happening to our kids?’” says Glenn. “No shared story, emptied out churches, emptied out clubs, a friendship drought, a loneliness the doctors are calling a health emergency. Now picture being born into that.”

“You don’t even know where you are. You have no map. You have no name for who your people are. There’s no seat saved at any table for you. You just have a screen in your hand and a thousand strangers glad to tell you who you ought to be. That’s the ground our kids are standing on,” he continues.

Kids, he argues, come into the world not knowing who they are. Slowly, over time, they develop an identity “piece by piece” based on “whatever is reflected back at them.”

But what’s reflected back at them today is largely determined by screens controlled by algorithms designed to mold and condition.

“Some of the voices reaching your kids, they are not random, OK? You’ve got people who know exactly what they’re doing. They have a vision for who your kid should become,” Glenn warns.

These visions are often incredibly alluring to the floundering youngster.

Glenn imagines a young child still in his most formative years “swimming … in an ocean of a thousand voices,” desperately trying to nail down his identity.

“And then one of those voices steps forward and offers the whole package: Finished identity. Here’s who you are; here’s your people; here’s your club; here’s what you stand for,” he visualizes.

This promise of “finally becoming someone” is “the hook” that so many children fall prey to today.

“When a kid feels invisible, a ready-made identity stops becoming attractive and becomes irresistible because they’re looking for a shore,” says Glenn.

It’s the job of parents to provide them with a different shore.

Glenn has two pieces of advice.

“Give them a place where they belong … where they can sit and disagree, and it’s allowed,” he says, highlighting how so many of the poisonous movements kids get swept up in today demand absolute conformity as a prerequisite for admission.

“If the only place you’re offering your kid belonging is a place that demands their silence, they will pay that price,” Glenn cautions, “and when they’re hurting, when they’ve gone quiet and pulled away … that’s the moment to move towards them because somebody’s going to fill that void in your kid.”

His second encouragement is to “tell them about the trap.”

“[Tell them] if anyone ever tells you that you have to stop doubting in order to belong, run — run from them. If they promise that they will transform you, and all that you have to do for payment is be compliant, that’s the tell,” Glenn urges.

The key, he says, isn’t creating the perfect bubble to shield them from the world’s dangers. The key is “[making] sure that when they walk out your door, their eyes are wide open, and they have a home worth coming back to.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Google believes there is a place for artificial intelligence in filmmaking, and it is willing to put its money where its mouth is.

Google’s DeepMind AI unit will partner with an emerging movie studio that will be risking its reputation by inviting such a tech monster into its halls.

‘We think there are better uses.’

A24, the studio behind “Backrooms” — a 2026 horror film that fueled grassroots excitement — has accepted a gigantic $75 million injection from Google’s AI sector.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the partnership is not to make AI films or generate likeness of actors (as of right now); rather it will make use of AI in a way that is less intrusive on the viewer.

“We think there are better uses that preserve creative control and support risk-taking,” said Scott Belsky, a partner in A24.

Belsky revealed that the studio will lean into AI tools instead, because filmmakers have not been fond of the attempts by developers to push AI use to make movies faster and cheaper.

The new tools “won’t look anything like the prompted generation type of AI that people feel uncomfortable with,” Belsky added.

However, a certain element of artists will likely be on the chopping block as A24 Labs is developing an application for AI-generated storyboards.

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A24 Labs, a team of about 20, is tasked with replacing the roughly-drawn movie scenes that directors use to map out sets and different shoots.

Moreover, Reuters reported that the studio and Google will collaborate on research and development projects that will make new workflows. However, filmmakers are to retain full creative control, and the deal does not include intellectual property or data training.

The terms make sense given the growing disdain for AI animation and film that has been seen when big companies put out projects using the technology.

Coca-Cola and McDonald’s both saw huge blowback from AI-generated Christmas commercials in 2025, and unique artistic perspectives are what have made A24 an emerging favorite for so many.

RELATED: Microsoft says business must pay to use its AI — and eyes cheap Chinese model for lowly consumers

“Backrooms” opened to an astounding $81 million opening in late May, which led to a total of $175 million domestically at the time of this writing.

This came off of just a $10 million budget. Movie lovers created a lot of buzz before the film’s release for its unique take stemming from a simple concept first developed on the anonymous message board 4chan.

Non-recycled, anti-industry films are what people like most about A24, and integrating big AI into its studio is an obvious big risk.

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Federal prosecutors released new details in the child porn arrest of a drag queen founder of a Pride group in central New York, and they are very disturbing.

Travis J. Longo, 46, of Cazenovia had been arrested over an alleged “pattern” of sexually explicit communications to a child under 12 years old, as previously reported by Blaze News.

‘Drag is all about tearing down social norms. None of it is real.’

Police initially released few details in the case, but a federal criminal complaint reveals the disgusting content allegedly found on Longo’s iPhone 17 Pro Max.

One photo of child sex abuse material was found that involved a child between 5 and 7 years, and three videos were found that involved infants, according to WSTM-TV.

Investigators also found chat messages on his phone where Longo admitted to others that he was sexually interested in children, including a male child he knew personally.

Longo was elected to the Cazenovia School District Board of Education in 2024 and was praised by LGBTQ+ supporters for being one of the first open drag queens to be elected into office.

He was initially charged with four misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child and was later charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. He faces 20 years in prison if convicted for those charges and would also have to register as a sex offender.

Longo founded the Cazenovia Pride group to advocate the LGBTQ+ agenda, but the group has since disbanded and canceled a Pride parade event scheduled for June 27 over the heinous allegations.

The board unanimously voted for Longo to resign and gave him a deadline to do so before it took additional action.

He performed at drag shows under the persona “Anita Buffem” and has an Instagram account under that name with dozens of posts.

RELATED: California city mayor pro tem calls for end of Pride Month observation, and outrage ensues

In Nov. 2025, Longo was invited to speak about his drag queen and school board experiences at Colgate University’s Center for Women’s Studies in Hamilton, New York.

“Drag is all about tearing down social norms. None of it is real. We are subscribing to these things, and I find such joy in doing that,” he said at the time.

“I’ve realized these things, being LGBTQ, being ADHD, these things about me my whole life that have been something that makes me feel like I don’t have value, are what make me so valuable,” he is quoted as saying. “I implore younger people to lean into who [they] are.”

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