Rising tensions with Iran sent oil markets into panic. What happens if the conflict escalates?

“So we get these times in the markets, in periods of great uncertainty, where you have real information that is uncertain, right? You don’t know, with 20% to 30% of the world’s oil going through the strait of Hormuz, if that is going to be cut off entirely,” financial expert Carol Roth tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck.

“Then that is exacerbated by financial markets, and there are two pieces to that. One is just when there are these periods of uncertainty, sometimes you get, from hedge funds that have large positions and sometimes levered positions in the market, something called de-grossing, where they just get rid of everything and they go to cash, and they go, ‘We’re just going to sit and wait out and see what happens,’” she explains.

“And then you get the algorithms, and the algorithms are jumping on headlines, which are rapidly changing and uncertain, and other algorithms are following those first algorithms. So you get this exacerbation of volatility, something where … uncertainty and fear drives an outcome in the market, and then it becomes exacerbated by the dynamics of the financial market,” she adds.

Roth notes that the “good news” is that these tend to be “short-lived.”

“Because once there becomes a price mismatch between what certain people think is reality and the prices that are reflected,” she tells Glenn, “then greed drives in, they buy things up, and the prices kind of stabilize.”

But Glenn wants to unpack the “worst-case scenario.”

“Worst-case scenario: This drags on, this gets ugly. They find a way to mine the strait of Hormuz or whatever, and they shut it down. What will that do to the price of oil?” Glenn asks Roth.

“I mean, that’s a blowout. Minimum $120 to $150 a barrel. And if it really, you know, gets bad, I’ve seen a few analysts call that up to $250,” Roth answers.

“But let me give you some good news. The likelihood of that is sort of priced right now at like a 20% chance. So 80% chance that doesn’t happen,” she adds.

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Are youth sports quietly replacing church in American life?

Sports analyst Danny Kanell recently shined a light on this question when he suggested that youth games shouldn’t start before 9 a.m. on Sundays — and maybe shouldn’t be occurring on Sundays at all.

“He’s got two young daughters that are potential volleyball stars. And Sunday morning, Danny put out a video over X that complained about, ‘Man, what am I doing at 7:30 in the morning?’” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock comments, before playing the clip.

“We need to save youth sports. We need to save parents from youth sports, because I’m here at a volleyball tournament and it is 7:40 on a Sunday. We need to enforce some laws that you cannot start youth sports games on the weekends before 9:00 a.m.,” Kanell began.

“And how about no sports on Sundays? How about that one? Let’s put those laws into effect,” he added.

“I’m in full agreement with Danny,” Anthony Walker tells Whitlock. “I have seen, over my lifetime, sports just invade family life. And when I look at the scriptures … the scriptures tell us in Acts chapter 2 that they all who believe were together. They had all things in common. They fellowshipped together. They broke bread from house to house together. They were real community together.”

“And that was what was primary, you know, their families and the church community was primary, and everything else is secondary. We now live in a situation where we’re trying to squeeze in the family time. We’re trying to squeeze in the fellowship and worship time,” he continues.

“I actually think that’s the attitude we should all take,” T.J. Moe agrees.

“In fact, America used to take this as a whole. You know, going back … from the beginning of our founding till about 1960, we had something called blue laws, where you couldn’t go in and go shopping for anything that was nonessential because we believed in the Lord’s day,” Moe explains.

And when it comes to sports, it’s not just parents and their kids whose Sundays are being hijacked.

“Sunday is now NFL day. It is not the Lord’s day in America, and I think that is destructive and awful,” Moe adds.

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Hollywood actress Katherine Heigl has lashed out at online trolls who lambasted her for merely attending a charity event at the president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.

Heigl went to her first red carpet event in two years to attend the Wine, Women & Shoes annual fundraiser on Sunday but was immediately criticized by many on the left.

‘F**k her and anyone attending maga-lago for any reason.’

Many accused Heigl of supporting President Donald Trump since his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, was a co-chair of the event.

“I’ll give you this: All of you people who had weirdly intense, knee-jerk hatreds of Katherine Heigl 20 years ago were right,” progressive activist Jonathan Cohn responded.

“OMFG Katherine Heigl is a C**t. Who knew!!!” author Lorraine Evanoff replied.

“If you’re not appalled by pedo Trump, then you’re complicit. Don’t hide behind the dogs,” one user said on the X platform.

“Supporting Nazis. So many orgs that aren’t run by white supremacists. This is a choice,” another detractor said.

“F**k her and anyone attending maga-lago for any reason,” another response reads.

The actress fired back at her critics in a statement to Variety.

“Animals don’t vote,” she wrote. “The only room they don’t like is the euthanasia room at a shelter. They are completely at the mercy of us, and they have no voice of their own.”

She went on to say that animal advocacy is a deeply personal issue for her.

“Anyone who knows me knows that protecting animals is one of my greatest passions,” Heigl continued. “My mother, Nancy, and I have spent years advocating for animals through the Jason Heigl Foundation. As a society, we should all come together to protect the voiceless and the innocent. This should not be a polarizing issue.”

She also personally responded to many comments on social media.

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The organizers of the event said they raised $5.5 million for a no-kill animal shelter.

Heigl is best known for her role in the popular “Grey’s Anatomy” television series.

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Musician Gene Simmons minced no words when asked about Hollywood’s opinions on current political matters.

During a street interview in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, the KISS co-founder was asked about how other celebrities have commented on the recent American bombings in Iran.

‘Nobody’s interested in your opinions.’

Specifically, a reporter from TMZ asked Simmons about Ben Stiller and others criticizing President Trump “over this war thing.”

Tongue lashing

From the jump, Simmons was ready to let everyone know what he thinks.

“Yeah. Because everybody in the world should listen what actors and comedians say because they’re so qualified,” the rock star said sarcastically.

“Basically, shut the f**k up,” he firmly stated. “Do your art, and shut up. Nobody’s interested in your opinions. That includes me, who I vote for, [and] who I like.”

Simmons, now 76, then posed a simple question to celebrities:

“Who the f**k do you think you are?”

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Ruffalo rebuffed

The musician may have put some thought into the topic beforehand, showing that even after 50 years as a platinum-selling artist, he still seemingly has his feet on the ground.

“People in America work hard for their living, and they don’t want to be lectured to by people who live in mansions and drive Rolls-Royces. It’s time for everybody in the entertainment industry to shut their piehole and just do your art. Nobody cares what you think. I don’t,” he added.

Simmons, real name Chaim Witz, then targeted actor Mark Ruffalo — who is rather outspoken about his left-wing politics — and gave another sarcastic rebuff.

“What will Mark Ruffalo … what does Mark think about politics? I don’t care,” he confirmed, telling the reporter that celebrities should likely stay out of politics, or instead, one should “go to Kylie Jenner and ask her what she thinks of the war so far.”

RELATED: Fox News permanently bans Kiss frontman Gene Simmons for crude behavior, report says

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Pot, meet kettle?

Simmons has made public statements that could be considered political, however. For example, he chimed in during the COVID-19 era and said, “If you’re willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy,” telling listeners of the Rock N Roll Channel to “stay away from evil people who don’t care about your health.”

KISS released it’s first studio album in 1974, releasing an album near-annually until 1992. The band’s time wound down with albums in 1997, 1998, 2009, and 2012.

According to the RIAA, KISS has sold more than 25 million album copies and has the most gold-certified records (30) of any group ever.

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A former University of Kentucky cheerleader is facing a significantly more serious charge after a medical examiner made a gut-wrenching discovery in connection with the death of her newborn.

As Blaze News previously reported, Laken Snelling was arrested in August after her newborn baby was found dead.

‘[Snelling] said that she believed the baby to be dead and wrapped the baby up like a burrito and laid next to it [on] the floor because it gave her a little comfort in the moment.’

At the time of her arrest, Snelling was a senior at the University of Kentucky and a member of the STUNT team, which finished second at last year’s NCAA competition. Snelling has since withdrawn from the school.

Citing the arrest record, WLEX-TV reported that Snelling “admitted to giving birth” to the baby during an interview with police.

Court records USA Today obtained reveal that Snelling told police she gave birth to a baby around 4 a.m. Aug. 27, and the newborn “fell into the floor of her bedroom.”

The affidavit said Snelling informed investigators that she did not believe the newborn baby boy was breathing or alive, and she passed out approximately 30 minutes later.

When Snelling woke up, she “quickly got up” and saw “the baby turning blue and purple,” according to the affidavit.

“[Snelling] said that she believed the baby to be dead and wrapped the baby up like a burrito and laid next to it [on] the floor because it gave her a little comfort in the moment,” court docs said.

Snelling “admitted to concealing the birth by cleaning any evidence, placing all cleaning items used inside of a black trash bag, including the infant, who was wrapped in a towel,” the arrest record stated.

Snelling was initially charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant.

WLEX cited court documents that stated Snelling was on “home incarceration with no ankle monitor” at her parents’ residence in Tennessee since September.

Snelling entered a not guilty plea to the original charges.

However, she’s now facing a new charge in light of the medical examiner’s recent report.

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WLKY-TV reported that the Kentucky Medical Examiner’s office determined the baby was born alive and his cause of death was asphyxia by undetermined means.

Fayette Commonwealth’s Attorney Kimberly Baird noted, “Baby Snelling was born alive and then died from asphyxia through unknown means. So that’s what we needed to make sure about.”

On Tuesday, a Fayette County grand jury indicted Snelling on a new charge of first-degree manslaughter as well as the previous charges of abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, and concealing the birth of an infant.

Baird told WKYT-TV that the grand jury was “given the information about homicide, the four levels of homicide, and then deliberated and decided that manslaughter first degree was the charge that should come out of the grand jury.”

According to the University Herald, Snelling faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of first-degree manslaughter. If convicted on the other three charges, Snelling faces up to an additional 11 years in prison.

Kentucky law defines first-degree manslaughter as when a person intends to cause serious physical injury to another person and causes death; intends to cause death but does so under extreme emotional disturbance; or intentionally abuses a person under age 12 and causes death.

Her previous charge of abuse of a corpse is a class D felony that carries a prison sentence of between one and five years.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Snelling, and she’s scheduled for arraignment in Fayette County at 8:30 a.m. April 10, according to WKYT.

The Lexington Police Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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A Florida woman who tried to get a trend going to encourage shooting MAGA supporters was found guilty by a federal jury and now faces up to five years in prison.

Desiree Doreen Segari, 41, of Sarasota posted a video to TikTok calling on people to shoot at supporters of the Make America Great Again movement, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

‘Put them back in their basements, make them scared again to be racist, homophobic, and terrible just awful [expletive].’

“So if we all get our guns and use our Second Amendment right … and you see somebody with a MAGA hat, ‘pew pew,’ that’s what we do. That’s the way; it’s the only way,” Segari said on the video, according to the statement.

While saying “pew pew,” the woman made shooting gun gestures with her hands.

“Put them back in their basements; make them scared again to be racist, homophobic, and terrible just awful f**king pieces of s**t,” she added.

“MAGA people deserve to be terrified and scared to walk in the streets because they should know that real Americans are gonna f**king kill them,” Segari said.

She added the hashtag “see MAGA pew pew MAGA” on the post and wrote, “Starting a new trend, hope it catches on. Please spread the word. Share this video. Repost it. Use the hashtag all over the internet. Let’s go guys. It’s time to fight back in a potentially effective manner.”

In case there wasn’t enough evidence against her, Segari posted a second photo reiterating her intention.

“See MAGA pew pew MAGA, see MAGA pew pew MAGA, see MAGA pew pew MAGA so these [expletive] know we ain’t here to play,” she added.

Segari’s video was posted to social media, where it was widely condemned.

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She was indicted in Sept. 2025 and later found guilty by a federal jury of interstate communication of a threat to injure.

Segari is scheduled to be sentenced on May 5.

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