Abdul El-Sayed wants to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate, but BlazeTV hosts Stu Burguiere and Dave Landau believe he’s one of the weaker Democrats running this November — and his latest controversy isn’t helping.

“El-Sayed’s a uniquely bad candidate for the Democrats,” Stu says, noting that the “Republicans have a chance there.”

“You feel like when you’re coming down [to] the closing days of a campaign, you’d rather not be answering questions about your family being on the terrorist watch list and being in the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s suboptimal,” he adds.

“Michigan Democrat confirms sister-in-law’s terror watchlist lawsuit days before Obama campaign appearance,” one headline from Fox News reads.

“He had to fight back against this because people are like, ‘Hey, we were thinking, like, what if U.S. senators didn’t have sisters that were on the terror watch list,’” Stu jokes.

And in a clip of El-Sayed on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” it’s clear that he didn’t make things much better.

The clip begins with an older clip where a reporter asked El-Sayed if he had any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, to which he responded “no.” The reporter then asked if his family did, and he responded “no” again.

However, resurfaced tweets from El-Sayed’s half sister are calling that answer into question.

“Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college #respect,” one X post from his half sister reads.

“My family has long been MB, but I’ve always felt that it has navigated the political sphere poorly/destructively,” she wrote in another.

And in another, she wrote, “Praying for all my family that supports the #MB in #Egypt. Lie low, stay safe.”

When another NBC reporter called him out for the contradiction, El-Sayed responded, “And you want to ask me about what was happening in Egypt in 1970? Are you serious?”

“I’m telling you, like, I have no ties,” he added.

“Your mother had no ties?” the reporter pressed.

“I have never had these conversations with my mother. … You’re using hearsay evidence from a tweet. … It’s just not serious,” El-Sayed said again.

“You’ve also gone after the president for truthfulness, so when people ask you a question, they all do expect the truth,” the reporter continued.

“Are you insinuating that somehow I was lying?” El-Sayed asked.

“Yes,” Stu answers for the reporter. “And you’re lying again there.”

“And your sister tweeted it. It’s not hearsay,” Dave agrees.

“It’s not hearsay,” Stu adds. “Your freaking sister has said it not just once but multiple times.”

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“Saturday Night Live” veteran Dana Carvey has a name for Shane Gillis’ crude, widely condemned remarks about women at the gym: a joke.

The comedian weighed in on the backlash to Gillis’ October 10 “Saturday Night Live” monologue, in which he declared, “I haven’t been to the gym in so long, I didn’t know women just dress like whores now.”

‘I just didn’t understand the kerfuffle.’

Schitt fit

Gillis went on to describe the revealing shorts women wear to work out, repeatedly portraying himself as a creep for noticing. The routine drew condemnation from fellow entertainers, including “Schitt’s Creek” star Dan Levy, who called the remarks misogynistic.

Carvey, who spent seven seasons on “SNL” from 1986 to 1993, couldn’t understand the fuss.

“I just didn’t understand the kerfuffle only because, to me, I just saw it as what we call — I’ll just say it — a joke,” he said on his “Fly on the Wall” podcast with fellow “SNL” alumnus David Spade.

“Like … when you say jokes, you’re not literally saying women are whores. You are literally joking. Isn’t that kind of the idea?”

Then, apparently reconsidering the wisdom of his defense, Carvey added: “No? Did I just get canceled?”

RELATED: John Doyle: Why women are committed to proving Shane Gillis’ point

Tough crowd

Carvey acknowledged that a joke that might have destroyed at the comedy clubs Gillis regularly plays could land differently in NBC’s Studio 8H.

He and Spade noted that the “SNL” audience tends to consist largely of dressed-up young women — not necessarily the crowd most receptive to Gillis’ observations about women’s gym attire.

Spade, who appeared on “SNL” from 1990 to 1996, was similarly unfazed.

“Listen, it got some laughs, but of course, I think he knows that one’s going to be a button-pusher, but he doesn’t care,” he said.

Spade also found something contradictory about the response to Gillis, particularly in a culture that demands respect for sex workers while condemning women such as actress Sydney Sweeney.

“I will say it’s almost comical that there’s people that say, ‘Oh, don’t make fun of OnlyFans. Don’t make fun of strippers. These are sex workers. They need to be respected.’ And then everyone hates Sydney Sweeney. And it’s like, what? Which one is it?”

Ultimately, Spade suggested that the difference between an acceptable “SNL” joke and an unacceptable one often comes down to the audience’s reaction.

“I think at ‘SNL,’ if something kills, it gets a pass,” he said. “If something totally bombs, then they get in a lot of trouble.”

RELATED: ‘I say worse things than that every day’: Jimmy Carr issues hilarious defense of Shane Gillis

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Natural-born killer

Carvey and Spade aren’t the only comedians to defend Gillis.

British comic Jimmy Carr dismissed the controversy, saying he makes worse jokes every day.

Two other former “SNL” cast members also had kind words for Gillis. Victoria Jackson, who appeared on the show from 1986 to 1992, was considerably less diplomatic than Carvey.

“He’s right about gym girls dressing like ‘whores,’” Jackson told Entertainment Weekly. “When did ‘camel toe’ become acceptable gym fashion and grocery shopping attire?”

Former cast member Jeff Richards, meanwhile, called Gillis a “really funny guy” and an “obvious natural.”

Gillis’ monologue may have offended a sizeable contingent of entertainers. But among some of the comedians who once worked on the same “SNL” stage, the response has been considerably less scandalized.

Jeff Richards, a cast member from 2001 to 2004, called Gillis a “really funny guy” and an “obvious natural.”

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A man was arrested after he allegedly rammed his car into Australian Member of Parliament Helen Haines, an independent lawmaker.

Haines was getting something from her car outside her Wangaratta office in the state of Victoria when the man drove his Toyota Land Cruiser into her, pinning her against the car.

‘Motivation is one of ⁠these things that we absolutely need to explore. His motivation for this, what we allege is a deliberate attack, is very much a centerpiece of the investigation.’

Then he reversed and drove into Haines again, according to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.

Bystanders rushed to help Haines while a local barber detained the 43-year-old alleged attacker until police arrived. He was later identified as Brendan Nugent.

Doctors amputated Haines’ left leg at a Melbourne hospital on Monday, and two days later her right leg was amputated as well.

“The good news in all this is that Helen is alive and she’s stable. That is the most important thing for our family,” her husband said to reporters outside the hospital on Wednesday. “We are grateful and thankful that, at this stage, both her heart and her mind are in good shape.”

Prime Minister ⁠Anthony Albanese characterized the incident as a “deliberate attack.”

No link between the suspect and Haines was initially discovered by investigators, Victoria Police Chief Mike Bush said.

“Motivation is one of ⁠these things that we absolutely need to explore. His motivation for this, what we allege is a deliberate attack, is very much a centerpiece of the investigation,” Bush said.

Police are investigating whether he might have extremist anti-government views.

“Like everyone, we’re examining social media associations, talking to witnesses, friends, and colleagues,” Bush added.

Nugent was charged with one count each of dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury, and causing harm to a public official. He was also charged with cannabis possession and cultivation.

RELATED: ‘Complete lizard person’: Chuck Schumer gives stunningly tone-deaf remarks following Australia attack

“It’s a reminder that the world is a more dangerous and divided place than it was a generation ago,” Albanese said on Wednesday.

“I think that Australians do want to see their politicians be able to go about their business, to be able to get something from the back of their car, for goodness sake,” he added.

Wangaratta Mayor Irene Grant said the 30,000 residents of the town are stunned over the incident.

“What has happened to Helen has caused the community to step back in utter disbelief. We can’t believe it; people are horrified by what has happened,” she told the AFP.

Haines is 65 years old and has been married to her husband for 40 years.

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The mayor of the central Florida city of Kissimmee dodged an impeachment trial, only to end up in handcuffs.

Jackie Espinosa — who was born in New Jersey and elected mayor in 2024 with some Democrat support — was arrested on Wednesday morning. According to the Osceola County charging affidavit, she has been slapped with one count of first-degree felony organized scheme to defraud $50,000 or more and one second-degree felony count of grand theft of over $20,000 but less than $100,000.

‘It is about public service, not self-service.’

The mayor has been dogged for months by allegations that she personally benefited from Business Boost 2.0, a COVID-19 relief grant program that she championed and helped create in September 2025. The program reportedly relies in part on federal funding made available through the American Rescue Plan Act.

In a lengthy complaint filed in March, Kissimmee resident Alex Alemi alleged that after Espinosa successfully pushed for the program’s creation, three of her businesses — Adanse LLC, which is owned by the Espinosa Family Trust; Kissimmee Diner Inc.; and the Real Estate Gallery LLC, which is registered under her husband’s name — applied for and received grants from Business Boost 2.0, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

The mayor and her family allegedly received at least $50,000 in funding from the program.

Espinosa admitted to the Sentinel in May, “Three of my 13 businesses got a grant, yes, of our family-owned businesses.”

RELATED: Who wants to be a millionaire? Trump issues nationwide bounty on fraudsters

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She claimed, however, that the federal funds that floated the program “were available way before I was the mayor.”

The ethics complaint filed in March also alleged that the city’s former attorney, Olga Sanchez de Fuentes, was fired for raising concerns about the grants. The city commission voted 3-1 to fire her in February, though Espinosa supported the move.

The mayor claimed that terminating Fuentes “wasn’t a Jackie thing; this was a commission thing.”

Public outrage prompted a months-long impeachment effort against Espinosa. However, that was thwarted in August by a deadlocked city commission vote on whether to hold an impeachment trial.

The scandal did not, however, die with the deadlocked vote.

Last month, the Florida Commission on Ethics announced that it had found probable cause that Espinosa “had an employment or contractual relationship with an entity doing business with her agency when her business accepted grant money that was administered by her agency.”

Weeks later, WESH-TV reported that Espinosa agreed to a $2,000 fine as well as to a public censure and reprimand. The reprimand agreement is pending.

“After weighing the available options, I believe resolving it now is the appropriate path forward,” the mayor said after agreeing to the fine. “I am ready to put this chapter behind us and focus my attention on what matters most: serving the people of Kissimmee, as I have since day one, with professionalism, integrity, and dedication.”

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who made clear last week that “preventing fraud is a priority for [his] office,” said during a press conference on Wednesday, “We hold corrupt public officials accountable. If you are going to abuse your office, if you are going to abuse the public trust to enrich yourself or family members, we are going to find you, and we are going to hold you accountable.”

In Espinosa’s case, Uthmeier claimed, “The evidence makes very clear that there was intent to engage in this conflict of interest” and that she “ultimately abused her office to enrich herself.”

Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia alleged that:

seven businesses located in properties owned or managed by Jackie Espinosa’s family received a combined total of $90,000 in grant funds. $50,000 went to Espinosa’s businesses while $40,000 went to tenants in Espinosa’s businesses. So $50,000 directly, $40,000 indirectly. During the course of the [Florida Department of Financial Services] investigation, we found that Jackie Espinosa herself applied for the grant on behalf of her family’s businesses.

“Public service means that you work for the public,” said Ingoglia. “It is about public service, not self-service.”

If convicted, Ingoglia said that Espinosa could end up in prison for three decades.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Larry Keefe said to those wondering why this case is a big deal, “If you don’t hold public officials accountable in these public corruption cases then the whole system really unravels, and that’s not an exaggeration. There has to be accountability. When public officials betray the public trust, it’s not just limited to them in their discrete circumstances. It diminishes the trust and credibility that the public has in all of the other public officials who are honest, who are doing a great job, who are giving their life to a noble career.”

Espinosa’s office did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Atlanta, Georgia, is the latest to be attacked with an incendiary device, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The FBI said the alleged device was tossed at the ICE agency on Tuesday evening. An active scene on Ted Turner Drive in downtown Atlanta is being investigated.

An ‘unidentified male suspected of involvement in an attempted arson’ had been caught on camera.

“The FBI continues to investigate an incident involving a Molotov cocktail-style device thrown at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in downtown Atlanta at approximately 8:15 p.m. on October 20,” FBI Atlanta posted to X late Wednesday morning.

“The device caused minor damage. FBI agents are now reviewing evidence and following leads. No arrests have been made.”

A subsequent post a few hours later indicated that an “unidentified male suspected of involvement in an attempted arson” at the building had been caught on camera.

WSB-TV reported that Atlanta police first arrived at the scene and the FBI and Homeland Security arrived later. Some of the evidence reportedly found at the scene included a plastic lighter and a shopping bag with what appeared to be two bottles of lighter fluid.

A WSB news crew said they got a look at the scene and saw no sign anything caught fire nor any damage caused.

The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

RELATED: DHS: Deadly Dallas ICE shooting came a month after bomb threat at same office

Liberal activists and agitators have protested ongoing ICE operations to detain and deport illegal aliens. Some have led to heinous attacks against ICE officers, and two detainees were killed and a third injured in an attack just over a year ago in Dallas.

In July, one anti-ICE activist was captured on video allegedly spraying an incendiary liquid at a federal office in New York City and lighting it with a lighter.

He then set off some fireworks and tried to flee before he was “tackled and detained” by a security officer, according to a DHS statement.

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A convicted serial rapist in California who was originally sentenced to 124 years in prison has been released after serving approximately 20 years behind bars. Many are outraged that the serial rapist, who also is the great-grandson of legendary cosmetics mogul Max Factor, was released from prison after being convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting multiple women.

NBC News reported that 62-year-old Andrew Luster was released from prison on parole on Oct. 11 “after serving his full sentence as required by law,” according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

‘By drugging his victims into a coma-like state, Andrew Luster played Russian roulette with the lives of his victims so he could abuse their comatose bodies.’

The Ventura County Star reported that Luster is registered as a sex offender on California’s Megan’s Law website, with a Glendora address — and he will have to register as a sex offender for life and will be on supervised parole for the next three years.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement released on Sunday that “this is not an early release.”

“According to voter-approved propositions, determinate-sentenced incarcerated individuals may reduce their carceral time due to the earning of worktime and good conduct credits,” the CDCR continued. “In this case, Andrew Luster received 977 days of pre-sentence credit and was eligible for credit-earning opportunities while incarcerated.”

Luster was first arrested in July 2000 after a college student accused him of raping her at his home, according to court documents obtained by People magazine.

People magazine said investigators discovered a video of Luster drugging and raping the victim as well as two other women while executing a search warrant at his home.

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His trial began in late 2002, and two weeks in, he was able to convince the judge to lift the conditions of his parole so that he could visit his lawyer in Los Angeles over the holidays. Luster — who claims he knew little about this plan and that it was orchestrated by one of his lawyers — soon found himself hiding out in Mexico after paying someone to sneak him over the border.

In June 2003, Luster was heading out for a taco when he was apprehended by popular bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the Guardian reported, adding that that witnesses told police that Chapman’s crew “had used an aerosol spray and handcuffs to subdue the rapist, bundled him into one of their two vans, and drove off.”

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The Los Angeles Times previously reported that Luster was convicted on 86 counts of rape and drug charges after a jury viewed videotapes he made of himself engaging in sexual acts with three women rendered unconscious by GHB — or gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a “date-rape” drug.

Fox News reported that Luster’s 124-year prison sentence was thrown out in March 2013, and he was resentenced to 50 years behind bars because the original judge reportedly made a legal error.

J. David Nick, who represented Luster during his efforts to overturn the sentence, said in an interview that the original judge improperly stacked prison terms without making the findings required under California law, according to Fox News.

Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said in 2024 that releasing Luster would be a “grave injustice to the survivors and a threat to public safety,” KCAL-TV reported.

According to Nasarenko, Luster “preyed upon young women, primarily in college bars” between 1996 and 2000 while he was in his early 30s, drugging his victims with GHB.

“Luster engaged in sadistic sexual abuse of their comatose bodies,” Nasarenko stated in 2024. “In two of the attacks, Luster recorded his rape and sexual abuse of the victims.”

Ventura County Senior Deputy District Attorney Anthony Wold condemned the possibility of Luster’s release in a 2025 statement:

By drugging his victims into a coma-like state, Andrew Luster played Russian roulette with the lives of his victims so he could abuse their comatose bodies. Even now, he attempts to rewrite the history of his heinous crimes to falsely mitigate his culpability to gain early release. He remains a highly dangerous sexual predator. We continue to maintain he should serve his full sentence. He’s earned it.

However, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said Luster was scheduled to be released from prison no later than Oct. 31, 2026.

KCAL reported that Luster is living in Glendora, which has drawn outrage from city leaders.

“The city of Glendora is beyond disappointed,” Mayor David Fredendall stated. “We are outraged.”

Fredendall blamed Luster’s early release on Proposition 57, a California ballot measure voters approved in 2016 that expanded parole eligibility and sentence-reduction credits for eligible offenders.

“When California voters approved Proposition 57 in 2016, they were assured by Governor Jerry Brown and his administration that dangerous offenders would remain behind bars,” Fredendall continued. “His campaign went so far as to promise that sex offenders would be ‘absolutely ineligible for parole under Prop 57.'”

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stated that Proposition 57 was “overwhelmingly approved by voters in the November 2016 election to enhance public safety, to stop the revolving door of crime by emphasizing rehabilitation, and to prevent federal courts from releasing prisoners.”

The CDCR said Prop 57 also “establishes a parole consideration process for determinately sentenced and indeterminately sentenced people convicted of nonviolent crimes, as defined by California Penal Code, who have served the full term for their primary criminal offense and who demonstrate they no longer pose a current, unreasonable risk to the public.”

According to the CDCR, Proposition 57 “gives incarcerated people the opportunity to earn additional credits for good behavior and participation in rehabilitative, educational, and career training programs so they are better prepared to succeed and less likely to commit new crimes on the outside.”

Meanwhile, Fredendall added, “The State may argue that this was not technically an early release. It can point to sentencing credits, legal calculations, and administrative requirements. However, those technical explanations do not address the larger concern: how an individual originally sentenced to 124 years in prison for heinous crimes is able to walk out of a secured facility after only 20 years.”

Fredendall continued, “The people of Glendora should not have to worry about their safety because of a decision by the State that allows an individual with a history of rape and violence to now live in close proximity to schools, parks, playgrounds, churches, and community centers.”

“The victims deserve better. The people of Glendora deserve better. California must do better,” the mayor demanded.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did not immediately provide more details to Fox News regarding Luster’s release date, an explanation of the sentencing calculations, and details about his parole supervision.

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The internet isn’t safe. That’s the warning going around the world today, as two newly discovered vulnerabilities instantaneously made the majority of websites susceptible to targeted attacks. This isn’t a problem that impacts one site or service. It’s a global phenomenon, and you should be prepared for what happens next.

On October 20, the discovery was leaked online of two PHP vulnerabilities, dubbed CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Together, they’re called php2shell. Although the original source is unknown, security experts at Huntress and watchTowr confirmed the leak’s authenticity.

Hackers could commandeer a PHP-powered website, steal sensitive user data, and deploy ransomware to extort money from the owners of the targeted site.

PHP, which stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, is an openly available scripting language that developers use to build websites and apps. It drives the server side of online experiences, so while you never see PHP firsthand, it is the reason you can access many different websites and use online services.

Given its open-source nature, PHP is a hugely popular tool that powers approximately 69%–79% of sites on the web. These include tech giants like Microsoft, financial services like American Express, telecom companies like Verizon, and many more.

Needless to say, a vulnerability of this scale has the power to completely take down the internet and serve users’ personal data to hackers on a platter.

Both CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are remote code execution vulnerabilities, which means a hacker anywhere in the world can send malicious commands to a targeted server to gain control without needing a password or login information, essentially taking over with no security to get in the way. With that level of access, hackers could commandeer a PHP-powered website, steal sensitive user data, and deploy ransomware to extort money from the owners of the targeted site.

To be safe, the NSA Cybersecurity team issued a warning today for any sites that rely on PHP. The NSA wrote on X:

Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server’s file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommended that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.

What you should do as a user

Now that you know these vulnerabilities exist, you might wonder how you can keep yourself and your data safe.

The good and bad news is that there’s nothing you should or can do. This issue directly involves websites and web developers. You — and the rest of us — are mere bystanders.

More good news: You can continue to log in to the same websites and access your data as you would before php2shell was discovered, assuming the web developer hasn’t taken its servers offline as a safety precaution. Just make sure you go directly to the website on your device or open the service through the official app on your phone. Do not click on any secondary links in messages or emails to access these platforms.

Now the bad news: php2shell is a server-side vulnerability, so if a hacker targets a website that contains your personal data, he can potentially steal your information without ever needing your username or password. Now, that doesn’t mean this will happen. Many website owners are taking precautions to protect user data, including limiting features and temporarily taking their servers offline. That means some websites you visit may be down until the security patch is implemented.

RELATED: The latest cybercrime turns security systems against you — and there’s no good defense

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The fix is in

According to the National Cyber Security Centre in the U.K., the vulnerabilities affect PHP version 5 and up — that covers websites built or maintained from 2004 to 2026. The only fix is a security patch that was released early on October 21. Web developers are urged to update their websites immediately to PHP version 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, or 8.2.35, depending on their sites’ current PHP iteration. Other versions of PHP are considered outdated and potentially dangerous, with no alternative work-arounds for php2shell.

As a user, there’s nothing you need to do to prepare for the PHP patch rollout. Just keep in mind that many of your favorite websites will undergo a serious system update over the next several days to several weeks. That means that some of the features on your favorite websites — or even the sites themselves — could temporarily go down, even if they weren’t previously taken offline after php2shell was found. Please be patient while the developers resolve this critical issue.

That’s it. Now it’s a waiting game until the patches are officially live.

More cyber threats in the news

The php2shell vulnerability is just one of three cybersecurity threats that have emerged in the last several days.

eMudhra, a cybersecurity company based in India, generated cryptographic keys in April 2025 with reduced security, making them easy for anyone to guess. Because eMudhra is a trusted certificate authority by Big Tech, the flaw left internet traffic vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. This made it possible for bad actors to create fake trusted security certificates, impersonate real website domains, and intercept sensitive data. Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla have since blocked the certificates from their web browsers, and eMudhra’s stock price took a 20% dive following the discovery.

PingCAP, a California company that builds enterprise database software, was hacked. The attacker reportedly used stolen login credentials to access PingCAP’s systems to steal data and source code. PingCAP has since revoked access to the affected accounts and is continuing to investigate the issue to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.

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Vice President JD Vance was unequivocal in his condemnation of the Republicans who have criticized fellow Republican Vivek Ramaswamy for a controversial ad against his Democrat opponent in the Ohio governor’s race.

The ad features the mother of Democrat Amy Acton calling Acton a liar and telling Ohioans not to vote for her. Ramaswamy later acknowledged that his campaign was behind it.

‘Politics is a tough business, and my message to my fellow elected Republicans is if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in, stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race.’

Acton’s campaign called the ad “repulsive” and characterized Acton’s mother as “abusive” and Ramaswamy as “a scam artist.” Acton has made her rise from an allegedly dysfunctional and abusive childhood a signature part of her campaign.

While some Republicans have also criticized Ramaswamy for the ad, the vice president set the ad itself aside and went after the Republican critics instead.

“Well, I’ll be honest with you; whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern. What is my concern is who is going to govern the next generation of American government; who is going to win the Senate race in the state of Ohio; who is going win the governor’s race in the state of Ohio,” said Vance at the Cincinnati FBI field office in Sycamore Township on Wednesday.

“And I gotta be honest that when I see Republicans, people in my party, reacting so strongly, especially elected officials, look, have the opinion you want to have on that ad. If you think it was too tough, say it was too tough. If you think it wasn’t tough enough, say that,” he added.

“But I have to admit that I’m a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that advertisement than they are about what the congressional Democrats and other Democrats want to do to the United States of America,” Vance said.

He then noted that Democrats have also attacked Republicans viciously and used ads featuring members of their families without compunction.

“People have called Vivek Ramaswamy a murderer in some of the advertisements ran against him,” Vance said.

“How many times have we seen advertisements using his family members, estranged family members, to go after the president of the United States?”

RELATED: ‘Shut the f*** up’: Vivek tells off Van Jones for saying he’s ‘dangerous’ and a ‘demagogue’

“Politics is a tough business, and my message to my fellow elected Republicans is if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in, stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race in 13 days,” he concluded.

Vance went on to campaign with Ramaswamy in Cincinnati.

Acton is ahead of Ramaswamy in the average of polling compiled at the Blaze Poll Watch below:

Ohio governor polls 2026: Acton vs. Ramaswamy

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France opened its doors to immigrants who initially rejected their culture but now have quite literally set fire to it.

“It turns out that if you mass import a culture that refuses to assimilate and actually hates Western civilization instead of embracing it, eventually once they’ve outnumbered you, they turn on you,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says.

These immigrants, she says, are “simply coming to leech off the empathetic Westerner” while “targeting the things that represent your rich history and your architecture and your culture.”

“The way in which these acts are carried out is done just to humiliate you, the native born,” she continues. “That is what liberal immigration does.”

And a post shared by Alice Cordier only drives home Gonzales’ point.

“I went to witness the riots in Paris. I’m going to tell you the truth: It was only young people from African immigrant backgrounds who came to attack our police officers and firefighters, loot our shops, and destroy everything,” she wrote.

“An elderly French couple in their 80s was robbed and left in their underwear on the street. The steeple of a 150-year-old church was completely burned down. This is not a social revolt for better education. It’s a taste of an ethnic war that took place today,” she added.

“African-Muslim immigrants to be clear,” Gonzales says, pointing out that “this is what the left wants for us here.”

“It’s what they were working toward before Donald Trump was elected to fix it. Elected the second time,” she continues.

“But the question is, when it comes to this liberal immigration policy and the end result of that, can we put the genie back in the bottle?” she asks. “Because you have places like Michigan and Minnesota, are they too far gone? We have way too many Muslims in positions of power in this country.”

“We have 18 Muslim judges, 11 Muslim mayors, 98 Muslim city council members, 63 Muslim board members, 46 Muslim state House and assembly members and 4 Muslims in the House of Representatives,” she explains.

“Obviously, we will have at least one more in the Senate if Abdul El-Sayed actually gets elected in Michigan,” she adds, pointing out that gaining institutional power is part of the “long game for them.”

“They’ve not been bashful about the fact that they are trying to get a stronghold in all of the institutions in our country,” she says, before playing a clip of one Muslim speaking at the MAS annual convention last year.

“Once we have internal unity, we now need institutional strength. Not just cheap protests, but actual strength. Think tanks, lobbying groups, every mechanism available to us, social media, legal advocacy, political literacy. We cannot outsource our narrative to journalists that don’t care about us,” he said to the crowd.

“We need our own outlets, our own media, our own lobbying. That has to come from within institutional strength,” he added.

“It makes you wonder,” Gonzales comments, “are they here to uphold the American way of life or not?”

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Playing an apostle on “The Chosen” apparently comes with important opinions about who best represents Jesus in American politics.

Actor Jordan Walker Ross, who portrays Little James on the hit series, is throwing his support behind Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, arguing that the Democrat’s policies better reflect Christ’s teachings.

But BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t even close to being convinced.

“As a lifelong Texan, I’ve seen my state’s elected officials claim to be followers of Jesus’ teachings. However, their policies and actions have rarely aligned with those beliefs. Jesus taught his followers to take care of children, the sick, the homeless, and the immigrants,” Ross said in a post on Instagram.

“Right, His followers,” Gray comments. “He didn’t tell the government to do that. How is it that you don’t get that? If in fact you are a follower of Jesus, how is it that you think that the government is supposed to take care of that?”

“James Talarico has given me more hope for my state’s future than I’ve ever felt. Having played an apostle on TV for the last eight years, I have gotten to re-enact and hear many of Jesus’ sermons and teachings, up close and personal,” the post continued.

“And James Talarico’s policy proposals are far more in line with those teachings than his opponent or predecessors,” he added.

Ross went on to claim that Talarico’s “track record shows that he is capable of seeing things through.”

“What track record?” Gray asks. “Are you serious? This is really disappointing.”

“So this guy, who says that God is nonbinary, Jesus is a radical feminist, and he’s a Christian who hates Christianity. That guy is your guy for the U.S. Senate in Texas,” he adds.

However, one recent campaign ad might be enough to fight off Little James’ vocal support.

“As a mom of five, there is nothing more important than my children. Every mom in Texas should be worried about James Talarico. James Talarico supports parents being charged with child abuse if they do not support transitioning their children,” Texas mom Miriam said in an ad.

“Let that sink in for a minute. Putting parents in jail if they do not support surgically transitioning their children. If you care about your children, do not vote for James Talarico,” she added.

“Good,” Gray comments.

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Earlier this year, Google teased a new universal shopping cart that leveraged the power of Gemini to track deals on products you find on the internet and assemble them into one easy place to buy online. After months of waiting, the feature is finally rolling out to users in the United States. Here’s why you may or may not want to use it.

Approximately 87% of Americans buy products online, according to Statista. If you shop at multiple stores, though, it can be hard to juggle different accounts or keep track of price changes on the items you want. To help, Google has a new shopping tool that can watch out for price changes for you.

Google openly admits to collecting user data throughout many of its apps, including Google Shopping.

Universal Cart combines the shopping experience found in Google Shopping, Google Search, AI Mode, and Gemini into one unified system. That means any product you add from one of these disparate Google services will now show up in the same cart for checkout.

According to Google, Universal Cart tracks more than 60 billion products across the web, scanning for price changes so that it can send you notifications when items go on sale. This will be especially useful for tracking deals as we head into Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas.

Universal Cart can even analyze your credit cards saved in Google Wallet and determine if they include perks that can be used to get even better discounts on the items on your list.

While tracking deals and simplifying purchases across the Google Shopping ecosystem is the main appeal, what Google really wants you to do is to choose Universal Cart instead of navigating to each individual site to buy products. So far, it has partnered with Nike, Sephora, Target, Ulta Beauty, Walmart, Wayfair, and some undisclosed merchants on Shopify.

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This next part won’t come as a surprise, but Google openly admits to collecting user data throughout many of its apps, including Google Shopping. Sure, the Universal Cart seems like an easy solution to buying products from multiple supported stores at the same time, but it also feeds your buying habits directly to Google.

When you make purchases through Universal Cart, Google analyzes the data and monetizes it. The company may use your purchases to improve its products and to customize the ads you see online to your specific interests. So don’t be surprised if you start to see more advertisements for the products in your cart or from the online stores you visit.

For some, the trade-off for more ads may be worth the convenience of a centralized shopping cart where you throw everything into the same place and buy with a click. For others, Google’s watchful eye may be intrusive enough to drive you away. Regardless, it’s important to know exactly what Universal Cart will do with your data if you choose to trust it.

That said, if you’re a Google user and you want more personalized ads and results, you can set your shopping preferences manually. To adjust these settings, go to your Personalized Recommendations settings and select “Likes & Preferences,” followed by “Shopping preferences.” On this page, you can choose whom you like to shop for (a man, a woman, a child, or pets) and set your shopping interests to include apparel, skin care, tech gadgets, and more.

I tried to test Universal Cart myself, but it wasn’t available on my account yet. If you don’t have Universal Cart either, it will be rolling out to you before the holiday shopping season. For those who do have Universal Cart already, you can start to track and add items now. However, based on what we know about Google’s data collection habits, you may wish to just go to your favorite merchants’ websites — or even walk into a good old-fashioned brick-and-mortar store — instead.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) resurfaced with a tearful fundraising plea after days out of the public eye.

Though she posted messages to social media, the Somali refugee had not been seen in public since federal agents raided her D.C. home on Oct. 12. With questions about her location swirling, Omar cut a campaign promo on TikTok while riding around what appears to be Minneapolis.

‘It’s going to be a very expensive and challenging time.’

In the one-minute video posted Tuesday, Omar thanks “everyone who sent $5, $10, $20,” and accuses the Trump administration of “trying to intimidate me and so many people.”

“We know that they’re running scared,” Omar says with tears in her eyes. “We’re not going to be intimidated. We’re not going to be silenced. We’re not going to be scared.”

As the video ends, Omar reiterates her appeal for financial support.

“Thank you so much again, and please continue to support us,” Omar says. “It is going to be a very expensive and challenging time.”

The clip ends with an “Ilhan for Congress” logo.

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Eleven on the River, a condominium tower on the Minneapolis riverfront, appears to stand in the background as Omar cruises around what may be Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside area.

That district hosts both the Somali Community Outreach and Consultancy as well as the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota. Omar served as the confederation’s director from at least 2013 to 2017.

Omar is scheduled to appear in Minneapolis with Hasan Piker on Monday.

Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Omar’s D.C.-area residence under a warrant signed by a federal judge, according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. Officers seized her phone, the AP reported, and potentially also confiscated her personal passport.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed in September that Omar married her brother to help him secure legal status in the U.S. Days later, border czar Tom Homan confirmed that Omar was the subject of an HSI criminal probe and said she could be denaturalized and deported if fraud is proven.

President Donald Trump went further.

“She could also go to jail,” he said Tuesday.

Omar has not yet been charged. Her office called the raid an abuse of power aimed at the president’s political enemies and said she has done nothing wrong.

Her attorneys claim there is no legitimate basis to suggest she violated any citizenship law. Investigators, however, may be reviewing Omar’s naturalization paperwork.

In response to Omar’s attorneys’ letter accusing HSI of violating the terms of the search warrant, the DOJ told Blaze News: “That letter is riddled with false allegations and inaccuracies. Our attorneys and law enforcement partners complied with all court orders and legal obligations, as they always do.”

Critics have alleged for years that Omar married her brother to game the immigration system. She has denied it, but investigators are reportedly in possession of DNA evidence that may verify the claim.

Pirro said her office is also investigating allegations of financial misconduct. Omar amended a 2024 financial disclosure form in April, citing an accounting error.

The allegations against Omar and her brother may have previously driven her to violate state campaign finance laws.

The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board found in 2019 that Omar violated state rules by routing $1,500 through her lawyer to an accounting firm to pull tax returns rebutting claims she wed her brother. She was ordered to repay $3,469.23 and pay a $500 civil penalty.

Afterward, Omar promised to comply with the findings of the board and stated: “I’m glad this process is complete and that the Campaign Finance Board has come to a resolution on this matter.”

It’s far from Omar’s only suspect financial maneuver.

Her campaign previously paid about $2.92 million to E Street Group, a consulting firm co-owned by her husband Tim Mynett. The FEC voted 6-0 in 2021 to find no reason to believe the payments converted campaign funds to personal use.

Omar’s office and the HSI did not respond to requests for comment.

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