CNN staffers are reportedly fearful of what may happen after Paramount Skydance merges with Warner Bros., the parent company of the cable news network.

A Variety report detailed how CNN appeared to be on the upswing in profit and viewership in recent years, but all that progress may end after the takeover.

‘What an enormous loss and disruption it would be to shuffle leadership for the umpteenth time in the midst — finally — of reshaping the business.’

One staffer told the outlet that the mood is “like a funeral” at CNN offices.

CNN CEO and Chairman Mark Thompson offered few details to staffers on Monday about the consequences of the takeover.

“Over the coming days you’ll hear much more about what this means for CNN, including the date of the close,” he said.

The fear comes from changes at CBS News after Paramount Skydance hired Bari Weiss to lead the news outlet. Weiss was the founder of the Free Press, and many on the left accuse her of toeing the line for the Trump administration.

Many believe Paramount will order the same rightward lurch at CNN.

“What an enormous loss and disruption it would be to shuffle leadership for the umpteenth time in the midst — finally — of reshaping the business,” said a CNN staffer to Variety.

Former CNN host Jim Acosta also saw the acquisition as a threat.

“This merger is terrible news for America. Paramount should not own both CBS News and CNN,” he wrote on social media. “If [Larry and David Ellison] do little more than pinky swear they won’t bother CNN, don’t believe it. Once they acquire the network, they’ll do Trump’s bidding.”

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Others predicted that layoffs were coming for the CNN staffers.

“A much bigger threat to CNN is not Donald Trump. It’s Paramount, which just bought CNN,” wrote Steve Gruber, a conservative show host. “Very conservative, Larry Ellison. I think that’s a bigger concern for CNN because the layoffs, my friends, are coming.”

In response to a July lawsuit, a Paramount spokesperson said in part: “As we’ve said consistently: no commitments from either David or Larry Ellison have been made to any government body, state AG, or federal agency regarding the future of CNN or any other news property, other than the goal to deliver truth-based journalism.”

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For months, America waited to hear directly from Patrick Clancy.

The father at the center of one of the nation’s most heartbreaking and controversial criminal cases sat down with “60 Minutes” to discuss the deaths of his three children at the hands of his wife.

However, while the interview offered intimate details about Clancy’s grief and recovery, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock doesn’t believe Ross Douthat pressed him hard enough — and thinks the answers seemed scripted.

“What we got was soft light and soft questions,” Whitlock says.

“Patrick said baby Callan died in his arms. He said he begged God for one kid to live. He said Lindsay told him the killings felt like a dream. He said he forgave her without being asked. He said he had a panic attack on the stand, refused the medications, and finished the testimony,” he continues.

“He said the TikTok mob is trash. He said he married a fertility doctor and they are starting a family. Every line carried weight on paper. Almost none of it hit like a man who had just buried three children and then watched a courtroom turn their deaths into a national argument,” he adds.

Whitlock points out that in the 14-minute interview that aired, Douthat never “pressed the hard scenes,” like Patrick leaving Lindsay alone after she told him she had thoughts of harming the kids.

“He never forced a straight answer on the mistrial, the holdout juror, or whether Patrick Clancy still wants a retrial,” he says.

“He treated forgiveness like a virtue signal and left the public with a quiet man reading from a prepared grief script,” he continues.

“Patrick came across careful, managed, and strangely flat for a father whose name is now welded to the biggest postpartum psychosis fight in the country. ’60 Minutes’ sold revelation,” he adds. “What aired felt like damage control with better lighting.”

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Widespread child exploitation has been going on for years in the U.K., and British activist Tommy Robinson has been at the forefront of sounding the alarm — though authorities still turned a blind eye.

Robinson points to notorious cases in cities like Rotherham, arguing that fears of being labeled racist or Islamophobic prevented officials from confronting abuse committed by grooming gangs.

“My hometown, Luton, is a labor stronghold,” Robinson tells Freitas. “Always has been. But let me tell you in 2013 in my town, because I’ve got three children, so I was trying to work out the future for my town, future for my country,” Robinson tells BlazeTV’s Nick Freitas.

And when Robinson looked at the “projected growth forecast” for “demographical change in Luton by 2030” on the government’s own website, he found that the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities are projected to increase by 70% to 77%.

“White and black by 1.2[%] to 1.4[%],” he tells Freitas.

“So what do the Labour Party, your Democrat Party, know?” he asks. “They know that white and black are irrelevant. The future lays with these Pakistani and Bangladeshes.”

“We don’t want to upset them, right?” he asks.

And in another city, Rotherham, Robinson explains there’s only a 3.7% Muslim population.

“There’s none there. Now in that 3.7[%] Muslim population, we had 1,400 children raped,” he says.

“Now the police officer in charge during all these rapes who covered it up, what’s his job now? Well, he’s in charge of counterterrorism,” he continues.

“Now Muslim men make up 3% of the British population. They’re responsible for 90% of the convictions of groups of men who rape kids. Thirty percent of the men convicted of raping children in gangs are called Muhammad,” he adds.

And as the Muslim population in America grows, Robinson warns, “You’ve got to talk about this, and you have to understand this. You have a choice with immigration, America.”

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The left has demonstrated time and again its willingness to use violence to suppress opposition and secure power, and a damning new poll of Democratic voters seems to indicate that leftist bloodlust continues.

According to the poll conducted by the Center for Strategic Politics in partnership with Liberal Currents, 56% of respondents said that they would feel positive about learning that President Donald Trump had died overnight in his sleep.

‘They want Trump dead, and they want everyone who supported him or worked for him in prison.’

Only 16% said they’d feel somewhat or very bad about it.

When asked how they would feel if they woke up to a news headline that read, “President Donald Trump was assassinated while speaking at a rally,” 31% of respondents said that they would feel positive, and 25% said they’d feel neither positive nor negative. Forty-three percent said they would feel negative.

Of the 683 Democratic voters surveyed earlier this month, 59% of whom identified as “woke,”

86% said they would feel positive if informed that Trump had been impeached and convicted by Congress, and removed from office;84% said they would feel positive if informed that Trump had been declared unfit by a majority of his Cabinet and removed from office; and59% said that they would feel positive if they woke up to the news that a group of American military leaders had orchestrated a coup, ousting Trump from power and assuming control of the country.

In addition to revealing just how many Democrats have warmed to the idea of assassination and insurrection after years of elected officials in their party demonizing the opposition, the poll highlighted Democrats’ appetite for lawfare against their political opponents.

When asked whether the next Democratic administration should pursue criminal prosecution of members of the Trump administration

for the efforts to enforce American immigration law, 77% said yes;for lethal strikes on boats in South America, 72% said yes; andfor actions taken with regards to the conflict in Iran, 66% said yes.

New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R) was among the many who recognized the survey results as evidence that such people need to be denied power.

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“People have absolutely no idea the reign of terror we’re headed for if Democrats gain total power,” wrote Paladino. “They want Trump dead, and they want everyone who supported him or worked for him in prison. They want our constitutional rights dissolved, and they want the courts packed to facilitate it all. This is an EXTREMELY dark place and I don’t know that there’s any good way out.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis highlighted that “Democrats claim to support ‘our democracy,’ yet by a massive margin they support a military coup.”

Andrew Kolvet, the spokesman of Turning Point USA whose founder was assassinated last year, tweeted, “Gas prices are high so sure, let’s give these psychos power.”

“This is not about politics anymore,” wrote Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R). “It’s about SANITY vs INSANITY.”

While the results are disturbing, they’re par for the course. After all, numerous polls in recent years have captured the left’s intolerance of differing views and affinity for violence.

Just months after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, a Young America’s Foundation survey found that 42% of liberal young people said that “he brought this violence upon himself to an extent” by his “viewpoints.” A majority of liberal young people, 53%, said conservative viewpoints should be “shut down or kept out of the public square.”

A Marist Poll conducted in September 2025 found that 28% of Democrats strongly agreed or agreed with the statement that “Americans may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track.”

An April 2025 survey conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab found that 55% of left-leaning respondents said that assassinating Trump would be at least somewhat justified.

RMG Research asked American adults in the wake of the September 2024 assassination attempt on Trump whether the country would “be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend.” While 69% of respondents said no, 28% of Democrats answered “yes.”

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What’s enabling Travis Kelce to perform so well early this season?

Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid has a couple of theories, and they are both providing results.

‘Would he be out of shape and honeymooning the whole time and all that?’

Kelce has started the 2026 season on fire, and although it has only been two games, he’s averaging the most receiving yards per game (86) since his 2020 season (94.4), which was his career high.

He’s also put up the most yards per reception he ever has (14.3), so far.

The reasons for that, according to Reid, are equal parts Taylor Swift and Kelce’s “rear end” — literally.

“Trav worked his tail off. That’s the bottom line,” he told reporters in a remote press conference on Monday.

Reid praised “the amount of work” Kelce has put in, as well as his “surrounding cast.” Reid was seemingly referring to the people Kelce is surrounding himself with on a personal level, and that includes his new wife, Swift.

The coach said that everyone wondered whether Kelce would be exhausted at the start of the season following his recent wedding and subsequent honeymoon, asking, “Would he be out of shape and honeymooning the whole time and all that?”

Then Reid answered his own question, saying that Kelce is trying to keep up with his wife’s energy levels.

“He works his rear end off, and I think Taylor [Swift], you’re putting on four-hour shows, you’ve got to work hard, too. So I’m sure she kicks him in the butt a little bit there, too.”

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Again referring to Kelce working his tail off, Reid said the tight end has “really focused in on his body strength and his glutes and everything, you know, where you develop all the power and speed and maintain it.”

The 68-year-old added, “I think he’s done a good job in those areas, you know, where he’s been able to maintain good explosiveness.”

Players’ tails seem to be top of mind for the Chiefs, with Kelce telling reporters after an overtime win against the Indianapolis Colts, “Guys were playing their tails off for the guys next to them, and that’s why I love this team right now.”

“We’re in a zone right now where everybody’s feeding off each other,” Kelce continued, per KMBC News. “There was never a doubt that we were going to get that win.”

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Swift keeps herself in the news every time she shows up at a Chiefs game to support Kelce, and Sunday’s game was no different.

The singer was recorded in the luxury suites at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, as she cheered on Kelce when he scored a touchdown in the first quarter.

“That’s my husband!” she appeared to yell, pointing at her ring finger.

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A young black mother was brutally murdered in Mississippi last month, but the Associated Press seems more interested in browbeating Americans about racism than in finding justice.

On Monday, the AP published a video on YouTube that uses the horrific murder of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old mother of four, as a pretext to revisit the history of racially motivated lynching.

‘I don’t think this was racist. I think this was something very personal.’

“The death of Tasia Fortune, a black Mississippi woman who was found hanging from a tree, has brought up distressing memories of the grim history of lynchings in the United States South,” Sarah Jones-Smith of the AP says to open the video.

“For many black people, the imagery of a rope and noose evokes the legacy of lynching and vigilante violence against black people in the U.S. and brings deep pain and trauma,” Jones-Smith continues.

The fact that Fortune was found hanging from a tree in the back yard of a vacant Jackson home on August 3 appears to be the only tie between her murder and previous racial lynchings.

In fact, a black man has already been identified as the suspected murderer. On September 11, police arrested 51-year-old Jarques “Jock” Ratliff and charged him with murder in connection with Fortune’s death.

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Additionally, no motive for the murder has yet been determined. Ratliff and Fortune did have an “association” with one another, Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney confirmed, according to the Clarion Ledger, though the exact nature of that “association” is unclear.

Brackney noted that the investigation into the murder is ongoing and that other arrests may be coming.

Finally, while the Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled Fortune’s death a homicide, no official cause of death has yet been announced. An affidavit claimed only that the suspect used a “black cable cord” to tie Fortune to the tree, the Ledger reported.

The AP was fully aware of most of these details regarding Fortune’s case since it reported them in an article dated September 11. The AP also released a video on Wednesday admitting that a “black man was charged with murder in this case.”

Fortune’s mother, Christy Spivey, told the AP she does not believe that racial malice was the motive behind the murder. Spivey claimed she and Fortune’s father endured racial attacks in Kentucky during their mixed-race romantic relationship.

“I don’t think this was racist,” Spivey said. “I think this was something very personal, very personal.”

Spivey said she does not know Ratliff but has asked Fortune’s friends whether they recognize him.

The AP shared the lynching history lesson video on X Monday and was soon slapped with a community note that “a black man with an association to Tasia Fortune” had been arrested. An AP news report was included as one of the sources for the community note.

Folks at the AP are not the only ones fretting about the circumstances of Fortune’s death and the emotionally charged topic of lynchings. Police Chief Brackney even alluded to the issue during her press conference about Ratliff’s arrest.

“We understand the questions and the desire for answers, given Mississippi’s history,” Brackney said on September 11. “We understand that this case is being viewed through a broader lens, a global lens, and we do not dismiss those concerns. We are taking them seriously.”

Attorney Toney Baldwin, who is representing Ratliff, described his client as “innocent” and asked the public and the media not to “prejudge” the case until all the evidence comes out, according to the Ledger.

The AP did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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Apple’s new iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 in the United States. For two grand, I want a phone I can carry for several years without worrying about what its screen will look like next spring. Unfolding a phone into something closer to a small tablet has obvious appeal. So does showing it off to your friends. I’m happy to let those friends buy theirs first.

I spent nearly a decade as managing editor of TidBITS and have written several Take Control books about the Apple ecosystem. I enjoy this stuff. But when someone asks whether to spend that much on a phone he needs to last, my enthusiasm has to survive a little scrutiny. Unless you have money to burn and enjoy owning the newest toy, I’d wait until at least the second generation.

Ternus called the Duo ‘the most transformational change to iPhone since the original.’

Apple announced the Duo on September 9, 2026, with preorders beginning October 16 and availability scheduled for October 23. It hasn’t reached ordinary buyers yet. We have plenty of time to admire the engineering before anyone can tell us how it holds up through a year of use.

What $2,000 buys

The specifications give you plenty to admire: a 5.4-inch outer display, a 7.6-inch inner display, and an A20 Pro chip, with 48-megapixel main and ultrawide cameras. Storage starts at 256 gigabytes. The phone measures 5.2 millimeters thick when open and 11.3 millimeters when closed. At 254 grams, it weighs about 9 ounces.

Apple claims up to 31 hours of video playback on the inner screen or 44 hours on the outer one. Those are playback-test figures, so don’t plan your charging routine around getting 44 hours of everyday use.

Apple CEO John Ternus called the Duo “the most transformational change to iPhone since the original.” I’m more interested in the ability to run two apps side by side. Referring to a document while writing an email would give me a reason to unfold the thing, and it’s more appealing than another small bump in processor speed. How often I’d actually use it is the question that would determine whether it’s worth the money.

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Look at a used foldable

Before ordering, I’d spend some time looking at what happened to older Samsung foldables after their owners had lived with them for a while. PhoneArena documented the screen protector peeling on its Galaxy Z Fold 3. Small bubbles near the fold spread over several weeks until the film had peeled away across the crease. Engadget’s Sam Rutherford reported similar screen-protector bubbling on his Galaxy Z Fold 3 in 2022.

The protective film was peeling; the display panel wasn’t coming apart. That makes it a repairable nuisance, but still a nuisance. Samsung recommends having an authorized specialist replace the protector and warns against removing it yourself. I’d resent having to arrange a service visit because the surface of my expensive phone had started looking lousy. A fix can be straightforward and still eat up an afternoon I had other plans for.

A visible crease is a separate issue. Samsung describes the normal fold on the Galaxy Z Flip as a characteristic of its flexible display. You might find it irritating to look at, but its presence alone doesn’t mean the screen is failing.

Samsung has also improved its displays. In his July 23, 2026, hands-on report, Tom’s Guide’s Tom Pritchard found the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra’s crease much harder to see than the Fold 7’s, although he could still feel it. The Fold 3 reports don’t establish how common these problems are in current phones, much less predict what will happen to Apple’s. They do give prospective buyers something more useful to investigate than how a new phone looks under showroom lights.

Apple’s design

Apple has put considerable thought into the Duo’s folding display. A custom polymer cover layer and scratch-resistant coating protect the inner surface. Glass sits above and below the folding display panel, and adhesives let the layers slide past one another to relieve bending stress. I’m hopeful that approach will hold up. I’d be more comfortable spending $2,000 after owners have had time to find out.

The Duo carries an IP68 dust- and water-resistance rating, with Apple specifying a water test of up to 30 minutes at a maximum depth of 6 meters. That’s welcome protection, although a water test tells us little about how the folding surface will age.

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The early impressions are encouraging. Tom’s Guide’s Mark Spoonauer reported that the crease was barely visible and wrote, “I also couldn’t feel the crease when using the Duo.” I hope it stays that way. A follow-up after months of opening and closing the phone would carry more weight in my buying decision.

Give it a generation

Waiting would also help answer a less dramatic question: How much would I use the larger screen? I can imagine opening the Duo throughout the day to read and work on documents. I can just as easily imagine getting accustomed to checking messages on the outside screen and rarely bothering to unfold it. Owners who’ve had time to settle into a routine will have a better answer than anyone enjoying a few minutes with a demonstration unit.

AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss adds $199.99 a year to the Duo’s cost, compared with $129.99 for an iPhone 17 and $149.99 for an iPhone 18 Pro. Even with coverage, accidental damage to the Duo’s inner display carries a $99 service fee, compared with $29 for a conventional iPhone screen. That doesn’t tell us how often the folding screen will break, but it gives us something concrete to budget for. Apple’s Express Replacement service could also spare you a wait for repairs, subject to availability. I’d still want to see the repair bill without coverage before buying.

A second generation won’t automatically be a safe purchase. I’d still read the reviews. By then, though, we should know more about how the original held up and whether owners kept using that big screen after the novelty wore off. Apple would have had time to respond to the problems customers encountered, if any. That’s enough reason for me to wait.

If you can comfortably afford the first Duo and want to wow your friends, enjoy it. Expensive toys are fun, provided you can live with the expense and uncertainty. For everyone else, I’d keep the phone that still does its job and let somebody else report back on Apple’s first foldable.

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A candidate for Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District has been arrested for allegedly threatening an attorney, a judge, and their children.

Forty-five-year-old David Redkey allegedly sent threatening messages involving guns via email against a Superior Court judge and an attorney’s office, according to prosecutors.

‘We have the defendant making direct threats to the victims — sending emails, threatening emails, talking about guns.’

Detectives from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Threat Management Unit arrested Redkey on Saturday. He was booked into jail and given a $150,000 bond.

Officials said Redkey admitted during questioning that he sent the threats.

Court records indicate Redkey was charged with multiple counts of threatening or intimidating and one count of computer tampering.

“We have some victims being threatened. One of the victims [is] a judge, another an attorney, and, by extension, their children. And frankly, your honor, by extension, those in public service,” said a prosecutor in court.

“We have the defendant making direct threats to the victims — sending emails, threatening emails, talking about guns,” the prosecutor added. “A gun which was never recovered, your honor. That’s a great concern for the state.”

The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office asked for Redkey’s arrest records to be sealed in order to protect the information of the victims.

Redkey was a public school teacher.

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Redkey is a candidate on the ballot for the Green Party, but the Arizona Green Party rejects his candidacy.

A spokesperson for the party said the party opposed Redkey “due to a consistent pattern of abusive behavior that had him banned from the Arizona Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of Phoenix.”

The candidate’s website says he’s running to put “people over profits” and restore “integrity to government.”

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Philip Anthony Mitchell is quickly becoming a household name in the evangelical world. Covered by the Associated Press, CNN, Fortune, and CBN, among several other prominent outlets, the Atlanta pastor and founder of 2819 Church has built a platform of fiery, no-nonsense, revivalist preaching that now reaches millions.

Once a Queens drug dealer who nearly took his own life, Mitchell came to Christ in his mid-20s and has spent the years since calling the church back to repentance and the Great Commission.

Tomorrow, Mitchell is joining BlazeTV’s Josh Howerton on “Live Free” for a conversation that is as inspiring as it is gut-wrenchingly raw.

The duo dig into it all — from Mitchell’s near-suicide and the weight of being one of the most viral pastors in the country to a growing political threat Mitchell says “would inadvertently muzzle the Scriptures” and the looming horrors of radical Islam.

“Somebody got to stand up and lift up their voice even if it comes at the expense of persecution. Man, I just want to be one of those somebodies, bro,” Mitchell tells Howerton.

This episode has it all: stunning testimonies, unpolished insecurity, honest tears, and warnings the church would rather dodge.

Check out the trailer below. Then come back tomorrow for a conversation that will captivate you — even when it makes you squirm.

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A 3-year-old boy drowned in a residential pool in Evansville, Indiana, over the weekend while his 41-year-old mother allegedly was found passed out in a patio chair after drinking about five 25-ounce beers.

Police told WFIE-TV that a 911 call came in around 4:30 p.m. Saturday saying the boy had drowned in a pool at a home on North Second Avenue.

‘This is all my fault.’

Emergency crews arrived at the home and attempted lifesaving measures on the child, the station said, adding that the boy was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

The homeowner said the mother, Amie Jo Farber, showed up with the boy around 2:30 p.m. and asked if they could swim in the backyard pool, WFIE reported, citing police.

The homeowner said they could but told Farber she needed to be sure to watch the boy, the station added.

Farber reportedly was sitting outside at a patio table while the boy was in a pool float, WFIE noted. The homeowner came outside to find Farber “passed out” in a patio chair and the boy floating face-down in the water, the station said, citing police.

One witness pulled the boy out and began administering CPR while another witness called 911, WFIE reported.

Police said during the 911 call one witness could be heard repeatedly yelling “Amie” in an attempt to get Farber to wake up, and another woman could be heard saying, “She’s passed out drunk!” the station reported.

The homeowner later told officers that Farber drank about five 25-ounce beers over the two hours she was in the back yard, WFIE noted.

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The first officer to arrive on scene reportedly saw Farber next to trash cans apparently throwing away empty beer cans, the station said, adding that several empty beer cans were on the ground next to her — and she showed signs of impairment.

Police added to WFIE that Farber told officers at the hospital that she “must have fallen asleep” but didn’t know for how long. Officers added to the station that Farber also told them, “This is all my fault,” but didn’t elaborate.

Police obtained a search warrant for Farber’s blood to get it tested for drugs and alcohol, the station said.

Farber was booked into the Vanderburgh County Jail Saturday night and charged with neglect resulting in death, WFIE reported, adding that she’s being held on a $25,000 cash bond; her initial hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.

The station also reported that Farber in 2023 was arrested after police said she got drunk while caring for her infant. Police told WFIE that Farber fought and spit at officers during her arrest. She faced numerous charges, including neglect of a dependent, domestic battery, and intimidation and battery against a public safety officer, the station said.

It’s not clear if the victim in the 2023 case is Farber’s boy who drowned Saturday.

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Google’s new Daily Brief for Gemini is both cool and creepy, but up until recently, it was locked behind a paid subscription, away from the masses. Months later, the data-devouring feature is now available for everybody. Here’s how to make sure it isn’t already gobbling up your private data.

Daily Brief is a relatively new feature built into the Google Gemini app. Every morning, it scours through the information saved in your Google apps to surface a daily agenda of tasks, reminders, and events custom-tailored for you.

Once Daily Brief is enabled, Gemini can dig through everyone’s Google apps in search of relevant information.

When I tested Daily Brief earlier this year, I found it paradoxical. For those in the Google ecosystem, it can be a handy tool to remember things you otherwise forgot — a birthday for a loved one, to follow up on an email you sent the other day, to dig deeper into a topic you searched on Google. If you’re not an avid Google user, though, it’s mostly useless.

The more data Gemini can gather from your Google apps, the better the brief. At the same time, the more data it has, the more Google learns about you to feed into its AI machine.

Since Daily Brief is part of the Gemini core experience, it isn’t exclusive to Google’s Pixel phone series or even Android. It’s available on iOS and the web too, expanding its reach to cover practically any user with a Google account. The goal, of course, is to get you to rely on Gemini so that Google can pull you into its broader AI platform and away from the likes of ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.

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Like many Gemini features, Daily Brief started as a paid perk back in May, and now it’s available to the masses for free. That means, once Daily Brief is enabled, Gemini can dig through everyone’s Google apps in search of relevant – i.e., private and personal – information, free of charge.

So it is already digging through your data right now?

In a word, no. Google made the right choice when it locked Daily Brief behind a manual setup process, so unless something went terribly wrong, the feature should be disabled on your account by default. However, if you’re curious about the feature, or if you want to ensure it’s actually turned off so it can’t gobble up your data, you might still want to confirm if it’s on or off.

To check how Daily Brief is configured, open the Gemini app on Android, iOS, or the web. Using the mobile version as a reference, tap on your profile picture in the top right corner. On the next page, choose “Personal Intelligence.” At the bottom, find “Daily brief.”

Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw/Android 17 on Google Pixel 10 Pro XL

To make sure Gemini can’t scan through your Google app data for future briefs, uncheck the toggle switch so that it’s grayed out. On the flip side, if you want to try Daily Brief and see what it’s all about, check the toggle so that it lights up blue.

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For those who don’t want to use Daily Brief, that’s all you need to do. It’s officially turned off, and it won’t dig through your data going forward.

For those who turned it on, go back to the first screen in the Gemini app. Next, tap the hamburger menu in the top left and select “Daily Brief” from the slide-out section. Here is where your Daily Briefs will live on your device.

Screenshots by Zach Laidlaw/Android 17 on Google Pixel 10 Pro XL

Every morning, you will receive a notification with a new brief for tasks you need to accomplish today and throughout the rest of the week. If you don’t want to receive notifications, tap on the three dots in the top right corner, and uncheck the notifications switch. This way, your Daily Brief is still ready and accessible every morning, but your phone won’t nag you to open it.

Whether you wish to keep Daily Brief enabled for its useful features or disabled for the sake of privacy, the choice is ultimately up to you. It’s easy enough to adjust the setting if you change your mind.

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Apple Watch is good for many things — wrist-based notifications, health and fitness tracking, quick access to Siri. Now users might soon add “covert spy device” to the list, thanks to new AI-powered listening features that can eavesdrop on conversations like yours, even if you don’t own an Apple Watch.

Apple made a surprising announcement during its hardware event in early September. The company is bringing a controversial listening feature to Apple Watch Series 12 called Siri Recap.

If you think that sounds like a walking privacy violation, you’re right.

When enabled, Siri Recap monitors your ambient environment for conversations through the Apple Watch on your wrist and translates it into “high-level notes” that you can read on your wrist or through a connected iPhone.

There are plenty of places where this feature could be useful. Apple specifically mentioned that Siri Recap is good for taking notes during team meetings at work or parent/teacher conferences at school. However, it can technically be used anywhere — the sermon at church, chats with friends, a disagreement with your spouse. There are no limits, because Siri Recap can hear and summarize everything.

If you think that sounds like a walking privacy violation, you’re right. Luckily, Apple took some precautions to mitigate the dangers, if you choose to believe them.

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For starters, Siri Recap isn’t activated by default. The user has to enable it through a new icon in Control Center on Apple Watch before it searches for live speech. Alternatively, it can be set to run on a schedule, like when you go into the office every day or sit down for a specific weekly meeting. But again, both of these actions are intentional to prevent accidental recaps.Apple claims that conversations are never actually recorded or stored, either on-device or in a server farm somewhere far away. However, there is a contradiction in its own documents, which reveal that audio is briefly captured within the Secure Enclave on Apple Watch and iPhone, transcribed into condensed text, and then processed through Private Cloud Compute before the final product is delivered to your device, fully encrypted along the way. Ultimately, you never receive the recording or the word-for-word transcript. You only get detailed notes in the form of a final summary.Saved notes are deleted on a seven-day rolling period, unless the user deliberately saves them for later. In this case, most saved data will simply disappear without a trace, as if the conversation never happened at all.Siri Recap will seemingly understand when it hears personal information — such as banking details or a social security number — and omit this from final summaries.Everything is supposedly end-to-end encrypted and synced to iCloud so that no one but you can access your recaps, not even Apple.

It goes without saying that there are some clear pros and cons to letting an Apple Watch listen in on your conversations every day.

On the pro side, Siri Recap could be a genuinely helpful tool for anyone who needs to remember anything. The busy entrepreneur takes notes at a meeting without lifting a finger. The old friends who get together once a month receive memorable summaries of their time spent together. An elderly person with dementia gets back a semblance of their memory with a recap that tells them exactly what they forgot during a doctor’s appointment or visit from a loved one. All of these things are good and useful to the people who need them.

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On the con side, Siri Recap makes the Apple Watch Series 12 — and maybe all Apple Watches in general — problematic for privacy-conscious people. Essentially, Siri Recap turns everyone else’s Apple Watch into a continuous recording device that could be analyzing conversations at any given time without your knowledge or consent.

Granted, only Series 12 can use Siri Recap for now, but normal people don’t know that. Not to mention, most people can’t tell a Series 12 from a Series 8 or any other on someone’s wrist. That means, in the eyes of people like you and me, any Apple Watch you come across throughout the day could record what you say, and you’d never know it.

So what happens next? Will you assume that all Apple Watches are recording you when you speak to someone in public? Or will you try to forget how surveillance is quickly becoming part of our AI-enhanced reality? Leave a comment with your thoughts.

Siri Recap is just one of the new Audio Intelligence features coming to Apple Watch Series 12. Users will also get to check out Live Rewind, which stores a transcript of the last 15 seconds of a live conversation that you can read on Apple Watch with a double-press of the Digital Crown. Next, there’s Sound Recognition, which helps deaf people decipher alarms and sirens in their vicinity. Finally, Music Recognition, powered by Shazam, continuously scans and identifies songs playing nearby.

Siri Recap is expected to launch in beta later this year. With my Series 12 already on my wrist, I will definitely test this feature and report back on how the feature actually works and whether or not anyone has a reason to worry about privacy going forward.

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After years of woke ads and progressive positioning, the fun may be over for Nike.

An announcement on Monday morning is not only likely to hurt the company’s image, but it also serves as an indicator of massive financial woes.

Nike’s market cap has fallen from $264 billion in November 2021 to $52.7 billion.

Nearly two decades after being recognized as one of the premier blue-chip companies in the United States, Nike will have to say goodbye to the higher echelons of the financial market.

After 18 years, Nike has officially been dropped by the S&P 100, the index that typically represents the most established, investible, and financially reliable businesses there are.

The swoosh checkmark just isn’t cutting it anymore, it seems. Nike’s market cap has fallen from $264 billion in November 2021 to $52.7 billion in September, according to Fox News, its weakest valuation in 12 years.

Shares in Nike are also down 43% this year, but that’s not to say the S&P 100 has struggled. In fact, S&P Global notes the S&P 100 is up nearly 13% year-to-date and 16.55% in the last year. While Nike has tanked massively in the last five years, the S&P 100 has increased 14.15% over the same time period.

Signs that Nike would be dropped from the index led to severe backlash from many who believe that the company’s woke advertising in recent years is to blame, as Blaze News recently reported.

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The brand recently saw the exodus of two worldwide soccer stars to competitors, including Kylian Mbappe to On and Lamine Yamal to Adidas.

A series of controversial ad campaigns may also have turned off its audience.

Perhaps the most infamous Nike campaign featured former NFL quarterback and national anthem kneeler Colin Kaepernick in 2018.

In 2023, actor Dylan Mulvaney — known for pretending to be a young girl — made social media posts marketing women’s sports bras and leggings as a paid promotion for Nike.

In 2025, the brand tapped female athletes like Caitlin Clark for a campaign about how women have been silenced and oppressed simply for being women.

“You can’t take credit. You can’t speak up. You can’t be so ambitious. You can’t break records. You can’t have any fun. You can’t make demands. You can’t keep score. You can’t stand out,” the copy read.

This was followed by a blunder at the Boston Marathon in April, where Nike was rightly or wrongly raked over the coals for an ad that read, “Runners Welcome. Walkers Tolerated.”

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Some attempts to right the ship have been made — see its family-friendly golf spot — but overall there has been an obvious problem at the company.

Jim Osman, a financial expert at Forbes, stated that Nike did not become weaker because the S&P decided to remove it, but rather the S&P was late to the party in noticing the company’s financial issues.

“Customers moved first. Competitors gained ground. Nike relied too heavily on familiar franchises, pushed too far toward direct-to-consumer, weakened some wholesale relationships, and then had to spend time repairing them,” Osman wrote.

He added that the numbers eventually caught up with the company, while full-price demand weakened at the same time.

The S&P 100 represents nearly 71% of the broader index of the S&P 500 and selects large companies across different industries to provide broad representation of the U.S. stock market. Nike remains in the S&P 500.

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