Another turn in the bizarre case that is dividing America came out of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

An Alaska woman serving as a surrogate fled to Texas in order to allow the baby she was carrying to be delivered after the biological parents asked her to abort the child over a rare and serious heart defect.

‘Those efforts have been rejected by every single court.’

Justice Elena Kagan rejected a request for an emergency appeal from McKenna West, the woman who is trying to wrest custody from the boy’s biological parents, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar. Kagan presides over emergency appeals from California and nearby states.

West was asking the Supreme Court to block an order from a California court that found the couple to be the child’s legal parents.

Court filings say that the surrogacy contract allowed Ahmed and Gilkar to request an abortion if the child carried by West was diagnosed with a fetal abnormality, CBS News reported.

The couple requested that option after an anatomy scan after 20 weeks found the baby to have hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a life-threatening condition.

West refused and fled to Texas, where the baby was born in August. She has named him Gabriel, while the couple has named him Rumi.

The California court found the couple to be the child’s legal parents before he was born. A Texas court found that the couple is responsible for the child’s health decision, not the surrogate.

West wants to be declared the baby’s mother and argued that recognizing the couple as the boy’s legal parents may jeopardize his health and safety. In her filing, she claimed the couple may interfere with his ongoing treatment.

Attorneys for the couple said in a Supreme Court filing that they will provide lifesaving care to the child and are “committed to doing so for the rest of his life.”

“Respondents have been with their child around the clock in a hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit,” the attorneys wrote. “The child has been receiving critical medical care by his team of doctors at the consent and direction of Respondents.”

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Adam Wolf, an attorney for the couple, released a statement after Kagan refused West’s appeal.

“We are truly grateful that Rumi can continue receiving the treatment he needs to survive and that he will not be stripped away from what has been described by doctors as the excellent care of his parents,” he wrote, according to CBS News.

“Ms. West’s legal filings across three jurisdictions, state courts of appeals, and now the U.S. Supreme Court have sought to undermine Rumi’s parents’ right to provide him with the care he needs. Those efforts have been rejected by every single court.”

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While many on the left have campaigned in the past on abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois says she’s putting forward legislation to do that and more.

Ramirez said Wednesday that the legislation would abolish ICE and send its funding to a left-wing community safety program.

The new department would focus on humanity rather than ‘surveillance’ and ‘terrorizing people,’ Ramirez said.

She introduced the Reimagining Safety Act at a news conference in Chicago, where she said funding for ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security should be rerouted to programs that “working families rely on.”

Ramirez was joined by various politicians, immigration rights activists, and community organizers at the conference.

The bill would create a “new human- and community-centered federal department” that would promote “collective safety.” The new department would also focus on humanity rather than “surveillance” and “terrorizing people,” Ramirez said in an interview with WFLD-TV.

Calls against ICE and the DHS have increased from Democrats after the latest ICE-involved shooting in Austin, Texas, on Sunday.

During congressional hearings, Ramirez has previously compared ICE agents to the Ku Klux Klan and to slave patrols. She has also sponsored other bills intended to restrict ICE from its mission.

“ICE is shooting people who are going to work, taking their children to school, and even visiting as tourists,” she said in July. “The death toll of ICE victims keeps rising. The actions of ICE’s masked death squads reflect the shameless cruelty of [President Donald] Trump and [Trump aide Stephen] Miller’s policies, paid for by our tax dollars. It’s time to stop the ICE age.”

ICE and the DHS did not respond to requests for comment from Blaze News in time for publication.

RELATED: California Democrat calls for ICE to be abolished after Homan announces ‘record’ arrests

Ramirez had previously made headlines and caused outrage after declaring that she is a “proud Guatemalan” first and an American second.

She is also reportedly married to an illegal alien who received DACA amnesty from the Obama administration.

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Nearly a year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination on the campus of Utah Valley University, newly released emails are revealing the despicable way some faculty members viewed and spoke about Charlie in the aftermath of his death.

The records, obtained by Judicial Watch through Utah’s public records law, include messages from individuals identified as university instructors and faculty members.

“Judicial Watch just pulled 133 pages out of their university under the open records law in Utah. And this is why I wanted to write an open letter to them. So here it is. Twelve days after Charlie Kirk was shot to death on your campus, an instructor wrote to your president that Charlie ‘appealed to the worst in people,’” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says.

“That he spoke his prejudices openly, not to test free speech, but to shape minds,” he continues, noting that as a professor, he likely attempts to shape minds himself.

The professor also claimed that Charlie “preyed on the fears of impressionable kids” and spread the message “that hate is natural.”

“So the instructor concluded the university must resist any effort to memorialize him,” Glenn says.

Another faculty member wrote that he “could not understand how anyone could mourn a man who spewed such vituperation.”

He went on to say that he “regretted that Charlie had ever been invited and wished the school had reconsidered letting him speak there at all,” before warning that if the memorial for Charlie went up, “the university would lose faculty, starting with him.”

“So I got a couple of questions,” Glenn comments.

“What are the facts on any of your charges?” he asks. “Not the feeling, the facts. Can any of you show me one sentence where Charlie spewed hate? Give me the quote, the date, the clip, the whole context. Not the 11 seconds.”

“After all, you are scholars. You know the standard. You’d fail a sophomore if he came in and turned a paper in built the way you just built that letter,” he continues.

“But here’s what I think you’re going to find. When you go looking, you’re going to find he had a different opinion than you,” he adds. “Maybe, probably, but most of what you’re calling hate is opinion. And so is yours.”

Glenn points out that those who disagreed to the point of hatred with Charlie often believe that “men can be women, that there are a hundred different genders, that putting males in girls’ sports empowers everybody, that it’s healthy to have men in the locker room with your daughter.”

“I could say you spew a lot of hate. I could build that case exactly the way you built yours: take your worst sentence, cut the context away, and name you,” he says. “Instead, I’ll say this. I strongly disagree with your opinion.”

And Charlie, Glenn says, “never hated anyone.”

“He believed in something and he said so, and he asked other people to do the same rationally, openly, calmly, with their names on it,” he continues. “Gosh, isn’t that what a university is for?”

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BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales’ investigation into H-1B fraud in Texas has apparently left one alleged Indian fraudster so shaken that he announced that he was shutting down his company, according to a former employee.

Great America Technologies Inc. claims on its website that it “is a Global Management Consulting, Technology Services and Business Process Outsourcing Company. Our headquarter is at Plano, Texas, USA.”

‘If he has not done any wrong, why should he do that decision?’

State records show that the company, which has an active right to transact business in Texas, was formed in April 2017. It also received two Paycheck Protection Program loans during the pandemic that were later forgiven

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ H-1B Employer Datahub shows that the company has had 33 H-1B beneficiaries approved, including three so far in 2026.

Earlier this year, Gonzales attempted to visit the company’s headquarters but discovered that the address listed on the website actually belonged to a different business.

Gonzales claimed at the time that the company was initially formed “with officers from Andhra Pradesh, India. They moved to Razor Boulevard allegedly in 2019, and in 2024, the previous owners … removed themselves as the directors and listed Nagarjuna Reddy Sakam as shareholder and director.”

When the BlazeTV host paid Sakam a visit, he denied employing the number of H-1B workers suggested in the H-1B employer database and lashed out, saying, “Who the f**k are you come ask all these things?” He also accused Gonzales of “creating nonsense.”

No doubt to Sakam’s chagrin, Gonzales kept digging and found that Sakam had allegedly failed to pay at least one of his H-1B workers his salary.

Blaze News did not immediately receive a response from Great America Technologies.

RELATED: DOL takes action after Sara Gonzales’ latest exposé of alleged H-1B fraud: ‘Walls are closing in, Mohammad’

A former Great America Technologies employee who came to the U.S. on an H-1B visa claimed to Gonzales that in addition to allegedly failing to pay him on time and sometimes at all, the company told him he had to pay USCIS fees and attorney’s fees and collected thousands of dollars to that end.

It is illegal for an employer to take payment from people to sponsor them for visas or to offset USCIS filing fees and attorney’s fees by withholding an employee’s salary or demanding reimbursement.

The former employee alleged that the company told him they would reimburse him after he had worked there for a set period of time.

“These people are taking the advantage and they are sucking the blood from their employees,” he told Gonzales.

According to the former employee, Gonzales’ previous line of questioning about Great America Technologies so rattled Sakam that “he got afraid. … He started to exit from this company.”

He “invited [a] couple of his employees to his home,” the former employee claimed to Gonzales, and told them “you have to [leave] our company within the next couple of days. I am going to shut down my company.”

“If he has not done any wrong, why should he do that decision?” said the employee.

The former employee further alleged that Sakam revoked his H-1B visa and threatened to call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on him.

Gonzales and her team later learned that the five-bedroom house that Sakam apparently occupied is now listed for sale on Zillow.

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Just in case it wasn’t clear, the cabin of a self-driving car is technically a public space, and any crimes committed inside can lead to a trip straight to jail. Two juveniles learned this lesson the hard way when a Waymo discovered they had a ghost gun with them inside the car, thereby violating one of Waymo’s terms of service.

The incident occurred in San Francisco, where two minors — one boy and one girl — hailed a ride from Waymo, the self-driving car company that belongs to Alphabet, parent company of Google. While they were inside the car, Waymo seemingly detected the weapon and pulled the vehicle over for a terms-of-service violation.

Most people aren’t aware of Waymo’s full list of rules that could end a ride on the spot.

At this point, officers arrived on the scene, found an AR-style rifle, and arrested the passengers. While it is illegal for a minor to possess a gun in California, details are scant on how Waymo actually identified the firearm to initiate the stop.

The story serves as a reminder that, just like buses, subways, and even conventional taxicabs, the inside of a self-driving car is also a public space. Whether it’s Waymo by Alphabet, Zoox by Amazon, or the upcoming Robotaxi and CyberCab by Tesla, all of these “autonomous vehicle” brands are monitored by real people with remote access. They can provide support as needed, respond to alerts that occur inside or outside the cabin, and, in some cases, even take control of the vehicle.

This capability is meant to assess potential problems with the car and keep riders safe. It’s also a mechanism to spy on riders and pass down judgment if something violates the company’s rules or breaks the law.

RELATED: Who makes the Waymos flooding American streets? China.

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Although the minors in this story should have known that it was illegal to carry a weapon in their state, most regular people probably aren’t aware of Waymo’s full list of rules that could end a ride on the spot. Granted, that doesn’t mean all of these will land you in jail per se, but they could certainly keep you from getting to your destination one way or another.

Weapon possession is a big no-no with Waymo. The rules don’t specify which weapons are covered, but you can expect that guns, knives, and other items that could be deemed dangerous will alert the overseer of the vehicle.Minors aren’t allowed in the vehicle unsupervised by an adult 18 years old or older in most cities and states. This raises the question why the two minors were even able to book the Waymo and hop inside in the first place. According to Waymo’s own terms, this should not have been possible.If you want to bring a pet with you on the ride, don’t even bother. Unless it’s a service dog, leave your furry friend at home, because people have allergies. Yes, that’s literally the reason.If you smoke or vape, lighting up in the car results in compounding cleaning fees for every incident, with possible account bans. Don’t even bother.The last warning on the list is a catch-all that says Waymo doesn’t even need a reason to end your ride. The rules state, “We reserve the right, without notice and in our sole discretion, to suspend or terminate your right to use the Services at any time, temporarily or permanently, including if we believe you have violated these Terms.”

And these are just Waymo. Every self-driving car service has its own quirks. For instance, Zoox won’t drive an inch down the road unless your seatbelt is buckled, confirmed both by sensors in the belts and in-vehicle cameras that watch your every move. As for Tesla, unaccompanied minors and non-service pets are also banned.

The big takeaway here is that self-driving cars are highly public, highly visible, and highly monitored vessels provided by tech giants that will do anything they can to protect the billions of dollars invested in their services. If you sit inside, you will be monitored, and if you do something wrong, there will be consequences.

For some, this intense scrutiny is enough to drive them away from self-driving services. Would you ever get into one of these cars, or would you steer clear?

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Star quarterback for the University of Texas Longhorns, Arch Manning, describing a video as “hilarious” was enough to change his public perception in the liberal media forever.

For his reaction, Manning seemingly became public enemy No. 1 and was immediately accused of supporting violence against women.

‘Obviously f**k Arch Manning.’

The outrage came after Manning laughed at an AI video that showed his coach, Steve Sarkisian, slapping ESPN reporter Holly Rowe after a game.

The video was just six seconds. Manning’s reaction lasted slightly longer when he asked media members if they had seen it.

“Him slapping Holly Rowe. Yeah, it’s hilarious,” Manning said. The entire room laughed along, but the laughter was short-lived.

From that point on, the air around Manning completely changed as the sports world seemed to turn on him.

“Obviously f**k Arch Manning,” wrote Katy Duffy, senior producer at the Athletic. Duffy also called it “disgusting” that another reporter had asked Manning the question and shared his answer.

ESPN host Shae Cornette said Manning was “insensitive” and “immature” before adding, “Quite frankly, how dare he say that?”

MS NOW sports columnist Jason Page claimed Manning was showing people “who he really is.”

Manning followed protocol and ignored the insults, apologized, and called his own comments “insensitive.”

He even contacted Rowe, who accepted his apology. But the next time Manning spoke to the media, fans immediately noticed he was different.

Manning took less than a minute to answer almost 20 questions, barely smiled, and deadpanned most of his answers with the typical non-responses fans are used to hearing from athletes.

The 22-year-old’s spark was gone.

Comparing press conferences before and after the ordeal, one college football page said the media fiasco had “just nuked Arch Manning’s personality.”

Others made similar observations.

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“This is what bogus media criticism creates, what incentive do athletes have to be honest? Zero,” Clay Travis remarked.

Popular page ML Football screamed in all caps, “THIS IS AWFUL,” in reaction to Manning’s new, subdued nature.

Eli Manning, Arch’s uncle, spoke with Front Office Sports and, perhaps shockingly, summarized what most seemed to be thinking: Treating the media as friends will come back to haunt you.

“You feel like they’re your pal. You relax with them a little bit. You try to be funny, and then they can take it and run,” Uncle Eli told host Baker Machado.

The former New York Giant advised his nephew to be careful and find moments where “you can be funny.”

Eli’s wisdom concluded with saying his nephew will figure things out and eventually “learn and deal with it.”

RELATED: Chiefs head coach credits Taylor Swift for keeping Travis Kelce’s energy levels up — in an unexpected way

Redemption for Manning — which his uncle said will include “growing pains” — may be in lessons learned, but the backlash to some of his detractors may fill in the gaps of his newfound silence.

For example, the Post Millennial reported that Minnesota TV anchor Jana Shortal said that the entire room needed to apologize, along with Manning, for laughing at what she described as a violent depiction. After calling the whole situation a “huge issue,” Shortal was taken off the air a few days later.

“Karma came fast,” commentator Brandon Tatum wrote on X.

As well, former NFL wide receiver T.J. Moe replied to Rowe and told her that Manning had no reason to apologize to her and did nothing wrong.

“The proper response here would’ve been ‘No need to apologize, Arch. You did nothing wrong.'”

At the same time, fans noted that the Atlantic’s Katy Duffy, a harsh critic of Manning, had herself joked that an NFL player should be slapped “again,” but in real life. Interestingly, Duffy replied by saying the post reminded her “how funny” she is.

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Many people on the right seem determined to convince everyone that defeat is inevitable, and BlazeTV host John Doyle isn’t having it.

The worldview, which he calls “black-pilled,” is deeply pessimistic, nihilistic, and ultimately destructive. It also is a play on the red-pill/blue-pill dilemma from the film “The Matrix,” where the main character, Neo, was offered a red pill or a blue pill.

In the film, if you take the red pill you are awakened to the truth no matter how terrible it is. If you take the blue pill, you “go back to your normie life” and accept the lie.

While Neo takes the red pill and carries out a heroic battle to fight those enslaving humanity, Doyle points out that in real life, those who have taken the red pill simply end up “being pretty miserable.”

“You find out how bad things are. You think it’s always going to be bad. That kind of sucks,” he says.

“And so then it kind of creates this self-fulfilling prophecy where you’re upset about being alone. You go online, you find out some, I don’t know, interesting facts about say women’s behavior in aggregate. So maybe you start to hate all women,” he continues.

“You avoid them, women avoid you. The problem never gets solved, and then you actually do end up alone forever,” he adds.

Now some on the right who have taken the red pill have adopted the term “black-pilled,” which is essentially the end result of taking the red pill, seeing the truth, and having no hope for the future.

“I encourage all of you to recognize this behavior when you see it and respond the right way. You don’t have to play games with these people,” Doyle says. “In fact, you shouldn’t play games with these people because you wouldn’t tolerate this behavior in literally any other part of your life or in any other environment.”

“You would recognize it as stupid. You would recognize it as counterproductive and therefore harmful to your goals,” he continues.

“So there’s absolutely no reason to tolerate it then in the sphere that is upstream from your life and from your goals and those of your family and friends because our success here is going to affect all of our lives and all of our goals forever. That’s the point,” he adds.

And the conservative movement, Doyle explains, is “going to matter for the rest of our lives.”

“Our destiny is tied to this. If this succeeds, we have a shot at succeeding,” he says.

“If this fails … it’s not going to look good for patriots, but we won’t black-pill, but we’ll be in a little bit of a patriot predicament,” he continues, “So in the meantime, every small win is going to buy us some time, buy us some hope, you know, improvements, here and there. That’s very good.”

“If we keep that up for long enough, it’s going to start to look and feel like victory. Victory is not an event, it’s not a Marvel movie … victory is a state of existence,” he adds.

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A man who last year won a $167 million Kentucky Powerball lottery was just arrested for the fifth time since taking the massive jackpot, according to authorities.

Deputies with the Scott County Sheriff’s Office were alerted that a white Ford Mustang with a temporary tag was stopped in the middle of an intersection just before 3 a.m. Sunday, according to a police citation obtained by WLEX-TV.

‘I’m a millionaire! I’m a millionaire!’

A caller informed police that the vehicle had moved and then parked near the electric vehicle charging stations at the parking lot of a Walmart in Georgetown, according to the citation.

When deputies arrived, they said James Shannon Farthing was asleep alone inside the vehicle while the car was running.

The citation said Farthing did not initially respond and only woke up when deputies repeatedly knocked on the car.

USA Today reported that the arresting deputy noted several signs of Farthing’s possible impairment, including bloodshot and watery eyes, slurred speech, and difficulty maintaining his balance.

The arresting deputy also said Farthing smelled of alcohol and marijuana.

Police said Farthing told them a woman had driven him to the Walmart parking lot and left him there.

The citation stated that investigators reviewed surveillance footage that showed the Mustang driving into the parking lot and parking, but no individuals exited the vehicle before deputies arrived at the scene.

Police wrote in the report that Farthing was “manifestly under the influence of alcohol” and posed a danger to himself and/or others due to concerns of him driving the vehicle while impaired.

Farthing was arrested 4 a.m. Sunday, according to police.

He was charged with alcohol intoxication in a public place and booked at the Scott County Detention Center.

Farthing’s attorney offered no comment about his client’s arrest to WLEX.

It was Farthing’s fifth arrest since he won the massive lottery jackpot last year.

As Blaze News previously reported, Farthing and his mother won a $167.3 million Powerball lottery in the drawing on April 26, 2025, which was the largest prize ever awarded in Kentucky.

Just three days after winning the lottery, Farthing was arrested at the Tradewinds Resort in St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Police bodycam footage released by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and posted on Blaze News shows deputies attempting to apprehend Farthing following an alleged bar fight around 11 p.m. April 29, 2025.

Farthing is seen on police bodycam video attempting to flee the crime scene before a deputy deployed his taser three times on the lottery winner, after which another officer tackled him.

One of the deputies accused Farthing of kicking him.

Farthing was arrested and charged with one felony count of battery on a law enforcement officer, two misdemeanor counts of simple battery, and resisting an officer.

Before being arrested, Farthing allegedly bragged to other bar patrons, “I’m a millionaire! I’m a millionaire!”

WLEX previously reported that Farthing pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of battery and obstructing or resisting an officer without violence earlier on Feb. 27, 2026.

Farthing received a sentence of time served after spending nine days in jail, according to court documents.

Farthing was ordered to pay a total of $1,000 in fines, including $151 to the Rape Crisis Trust Fund and $201 to the Domestic Violence Trust Fund, according to WLEX.

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On Nov. 23, 2025, Farthing was accused of fleeing the scene of a high-speed crash in Lexington.

Farthing allegedly was involved in a hit-and-run after speeding his Corvette between 103 and 117 miles per hour approximately eight seconds before crashing into another vehicle and fleeing the scene on foot, according to WHAS-TV.

WLEX reported that a Fayette County grand jury indicted Farthing on a felony wanton endangerment charge and a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident on July 6, 2026.

On Feb. 11, 2026, Scott County District Court records said Farthing was arrested and charged with intimidation of a participant in a legal process. The charge was later amended down to disorderly conduct, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.

In March 2026, Farthing was hit with charges of second-degree burglary and marijuana possession.

Police accused Farthing of entering a Lexington home and taking approximately $12,000 in cash.

The burglary and marijuana possession charges later were dismissed after Farthing’s ex-girlfriend testified she misplaced the money she initially reported stolen, WKYT-TV reported in May 2026.

On July 27, 2026, the embattled lottery winner was arrested following an alleged domestic violence incident at his home in Scott County.

Farthing was charged with first-degree strangulation and fourth-degree assault arising from an alleged domestic-violence incident.

Farthing pleaded not guilty on July 28, 2026.

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Apple officially launched iOS 27, and an annoying security feature is already getting in the way. Paste permissions are riddled throughout the operating system, and although they’re designed to protect you, they’re also annoying. Luckily, there’s a way to make them disappear … but should you?

You copy and paste all kinds of data on your phone — passwords, banking details, text messages, and even photos. In case you didn’t know, everything you copy is temporarily stored on your device and iCloud in the “universal clipboard,” waiting patiently until you paste it into another app.

You should only disable paste permissions for apps you trust with your data.

Prior to 2022, the apps you open on your phone could secretly grab a copy of the most recent data in your clipboard and save it for themselves without telling you they took it. Now, that doesn’t mean every app was complicit in this rogue behavior, but there were several big-name offenders, including TikTok, the New York Times, and PUBG Mobile.

To combat the egregious data grab, Apple implemented copy-and-paste permissions in iOS 16.1. This initial version asked users to confirm detected paste commands when an app secretly tried to take data from the clipboard. Otherwise, these permissions ultimately stayed out of the way, serving as silent sentinels that popped up only when they needed to protect your data.

RELATED: New spyware targets iPhones. Are you at risk?

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Things are different today. In iOS 27, Apple took the copy-and-paste permission system and cranked it up into high gear. Now when you paste content into a supported app, you receive a permission alert to confirm your decision, whether the app was trying to steal data or not.

If you’re someone who pastes content often, these permissions get very old very fast. The good thing is that there’s a way to make them disappear, but that process is also annoying.

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Paste permissions exist on a per-app basis, which means that the only way to turn them off is to dive deep into your Settings app and wrestle them into submission one at a time. Here’s an example:

Google Docs is a paste permission fiend. It will incessantly raise a red flag when pulling content into a document from another app. Considering Google’s track record with data tracking, the extra protection is nice, but it’s also disruptive.

To turn off paste permissions, open the Settings app on iPhone, select “Apps” at the bottom of the screen, then choose “Docs” from the app list. At the bottom of this next page, you’ll find “Paste from Other Apps.” Select this to see three available options.

The default “Ask” option will send a paste alert every time you try to paste content from another app. This is the annoying setting we’ll change in a moment.As you would expect, “Deny” blocks all paste attempts, whether they were intentional or not.Lastly, “Allow” lets you paste content freely, no alerts or permissions necessary.

Switch the setting from “Ask” to “Allow,” and you’re all set. The annoying app — in this case Google Docs — will no longer ask for permission every time you share content from your clipboard.

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Here’s where things get a little tricky. Some apps naturally don’t have paste permissions while others do. Historically, this option only shows up after an app tries to copy your clipboard automatically.

By changing your settings from “Ask” to “Allow,” you’re essentially permitting an app to copy your clipboard anytime you open the app, both manually and automatically. Again, this doesn’t mean the apps in your phone will abuse this privilege, but they theoretically could.

For this reason, you should only disable paste permissions for apps you trust with your data. Otherwise, it’s best to keep the extra protection in place.

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Philip Anthony Mitchell has been faithfully preaching the gospel for years, but in the last few, his platform — known for urgent, fiery, no-nonsense exegesis — has gone viral. His sermons and podcasts now reach millions of people across the country.

On today’s episode of “Live Free,” Mitchell joins BlazeTV’s Josh Howerton for an unvarnished conversation about Mitchell’s gut-wrenching testimony, his rise to prominence, and a dire warning he has for the church in an age of casual Christianity.

Mitchell’s first book, “Contend,” which comes out next month, dives into the the warning. It unpacks Jude’s urgent letter to ancient Christians who were living in an age of false teachers, watering down the gospel, and treating the faith as a comfortable inheritance instead of the paramount mission it is — and draws parallels to the church in modern America.

In this episode, Mitchell takes that same warning to Howerton.

Howerton begins by reading an X post Mitchell wrote about “Contend”:

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. – Jude

Policies that could eventually muzzle the Scriptures. Satanic delusions running rampant on social media. A growing hostility towards Christianity, globally. And time that is running out. Now is the hour to contend.

“Tease this out for me. … Why did you say policies that could eventually muzzle the Scriptures, satanic delusions running rampant on social media, growing hostility towards Christianity?” Howerton asks.

Mitchell, acknowledging that his answer will likely “stir up a bit of trouble,” bluntly explains what he means by policies that could “muzzle the Scriptures”: “There are ideologies and certain political streams that, if left unchecked, they will pass legislation and laws, I think, that would inadvertently muzzle the Scriptures.”

“It will get to the point where those who are faithful in gospel proclamation will be considered preaching things that will be hailed as hate speech and illegal,” he continues, “and they will threaten us to say we’ll remove your 501(c)(3); we’ll shut down your church if you preach this way.”

If this happens, Mitchell warns preachers will be forced to make “a tough decision” — “be faithful to proclamation or capitulate to that kind of pressure.”

“I’m watching that happen right now in real time in other countries, and I feel like it’s encroaching on the West,” he warns.

Mitchell then turns to his warning about “satanic delusions running rampant on social media.”

“Right now as I’m talking to you, there are people on social media who claim the name of God, but they are heralding doctrines of demons — seducing spirits that are leading people astray in the name of God,” he tells Howerton.

He highlights the growing popularity of “spiritualism,” which he exposes as religious “syncretism” — a blending of distinct religious belief systems into a new and heretical practice.

He gives the example of “people merging crystals and mystics and psychic behavior … with the kingdom.”

“There is a syncretism I see on social media amongst people who don’t even know … they’re being used by the enemy to lead people astray, and then those who are direct pawns of the devil who are willingly leading people astray,” Mitchell explains.

“And these delusions are running rampant so bad, and I’m watching a generation being carried astray by these delusions, Josh. And the thing about it is that if we don’t know the Scriptures, we won’t be able to determine that this is heresy packaged eloquently.”

He then turns to his final warning in the X post: the “growing hostility towards Christianity.”

“There is another monotheism that is almost an antichrist monotheism. It is one of the fastest-growing ideologies in the world, and there are fringes of that ideology that is radical and hostile towards Christianity,” says Mitchell, noting that he’s “talking about radical Islam.”

“There are people who for the sake of inclusion think that we are doing people good by allowing that ideology to … infiltrate and invade our political sphere and our social sphere,” he says.

But this “inclusivity” comes at an enormous cost.

Mitchell fears “we will keep giving away seats in office and we will keep giving away seats in various legislatures across the country until the day comes where that ideology has enough political power … to introduce Sharia law in America.”

“Oftentimes, the past is a good predictor of what’s going to happen in the future. We’re talking about an ideology that has conquered the East, has conquered most of North Africa,” he warns.

“Now it’s encroaching on our shores. To talk like this — they will say we are closed-minded and we are hateful and we are bigoted — at the expense of not contending and not taking a stand, not praying. Our children and our grandchildren will suffer.”

“They will suffer the consequence of our complicit nature right now if the church in America, in the West, does not wake up and realize the infiltration of what the enemy is doing through politics, through social media, right under our nose to hijack from our country what I think an ideology that is incompatible with Western fundamentals and incompatible with Christianity,” he warns.

Mitchell acknowledges people will hate both him and Howerton for speaking about the dangers of radical Islam, but he knows a day could come when those same naysayers seek out the very warnings they’re issuing today.

“Ten years from now, 15 years from now, they will be underneath … the tyranny of that ideology, and then they will go on YouTube and search for my messages and they will search for yours, but by that time it would be too late,” he says.

“Now is the hour to vote right, pray right, stand right, contend right — all the things to hold back that invasion as long as we could, and if we don’t do that right now, I feel like we are going to just invite the devil in.”

To hear the full interview, watch the video above.

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The team excavating the site of the suspected final location of Noah’s ark says in a fundraising letter that core drilling has begun.

The Noah’s Ark Scan team is investigating a boat-shaped mound called the Durupinar formation at a remote location in Eastern Turkey south of Mount Ararat.

‘When we are done, university curriculums will need to be re-written, and Darwinism will be dismantled. This is the place where creation began anew.’

Skeptics have dismissed the suspected site of Noah’s ark for decades, but the team says that high-tech BakhtarRadar scanning has already challenged the notion that the mound is simply rock.

On Tuesday, Lauren Witzke, the team’s director of fundraising and marketing, posted from the site saying that the next steps had begun.

“Core drilling has begun and the Big Bang Evolutionists are already on damage control mode,” wrote Witzke.

“When we are done, university curriculums will need to be re-written, and Darwinism will be dismantled,” she added. “This is the place where creation began anew.”

Witzke said in the fundraising call that the drilling would allow the team to investigate what appear to be corridors, chambers, and a 250-foot hallway at the site.

After drilling, the team will send an underground “Gopher” robot to document and investigate the spaces found in the scanning.

Witzke claimed that the team is the first to be able to obtain official permits and operate with oversight from Turkish universities.

“Some of the most brilliant minds in the world are a part of this 2026 Expedition. This is the only study that matters,” she continued.

“Proof of the global catastrophic flood is everywhere,” Witzke added. “Ocean fossils found on Mount Everest. Sand dollars scattered across the mountains of Eastern Turkey. And the seashells of the Mountains of Ararat haven’t even fossilized yet.”

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Andrew Jones, the founder of the Noah’s Ark Scans team, explained to the “Today” show last November why they believe it could be the famed Ark of the Bible.

“In chapter six of Genesis, it talks about a 300-cubit-long boat. If you use the Egyptian cubit, it’s 515 feet long or about 157 meters, and that’s exactly the length of this boat-shaped object,” he explained.

“Other researchers have also found evidence that there are three layers below the ground, and in the biblical account, you have three individual decks, according to Genesis,” Jones added.

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