California officials got a boost from a Washington, D.C., judge in their fight against the Trump administration over 20,000 “likely noncitizen” voters.

The administration has tried to use the power of the courts to compel California to segregate ballots of people on a list it compiled of possible noncitizen voters.

‘If I’m hearing that the list is flawed and it’s overinclusive and includes individuals who are eligible to vote, that’s a problem.’

Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., James Boasberg said Monday that California should determine how to run its own elections.

“The Executive Branch has likely violated the Constitution’s Elections Clause, which commits authority over election rules to the states and Congress alone,” Boasberg wrote in the ruling Monday. “California may decide for itself what procedures to use for verifying the citizenship of registered voters and for deciding whether to count their mail-in ballots.”

Boasberg challenged the administration on the accuracy of the list and opined that it would risk disenfranchising legal voters.

“Defendants’ flawed lists risk chilling or preventing lawful votes from being cast and counted,” he wrote.

An attorney for the government admitted in a court hearing in San Francisco that there was a “high error rate” in the list while being questioned by U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson.

“If I’m hearing that the list is flawed and it’s overinclusive and includes individuals who are eligible to vote, that’s a problem,” Thompson said.

The administration has also requested an emergency intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court to force California to segregate the ballots.

Boasberg has been accused of being politically biased against the Trump administration. In one case from March, the judge blocked subpoenas against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from the Justice Department.

RELATED: Newsom is OUTRAGED over Justice Department lawsuit to block votes from 20,000 ‘likely noncitizens’

California officials have accused the administration of using the “noncitizens” list to influence the election unfairly. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom was especially acidic in his response.

“This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day,” he responded to a DOJ lawsuit.

“Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections,” he added. “We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy.”

Boasberg was nominated by former President Barack Obama.

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Actor Mandy Patinkin may have once commanded the screen as Inigo Montoya in “The Princess Bride,” but these days, his delivery seems considerably less commanding — and a whole lot more like a hostage reading a script.

Patinkin posted a video on social media that reads like a “hostage” situation, according to BlazeTV host Pat Gray. In the video, Patinkin urges Jewish voters to support Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

“We really love Abdul El-Sayed. And we love what he’s doing. We love what he’s saying,” Pantikin said.

“Jewish safety depends on a real multiracial democracy, and Abdul is the one fighting to protect it,” he continued. “We know how much it matters to live in a country where our rights are protected, where the law applies equally to everyone, and where the majority can’t just decide that some people don’t deserve the same freedoms.”

“At least get a teleprompter,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says, pointing out that Patinkin seems to be reading off a very long script sitting in front of him.

“It’s like they have his wife,” co-host Jeff Fisher agrees. “They’ve got his wife. You know, this is the blackmail.”

“Read this like you mean it,” he adds, mocking Patinkin’s imagined handlers.

“It’s like a hostage video,” Gray agrees, before playing more of Patinkin’s video.

“They exist because of democracy. And protecting democracy means protecting Jewish safety as well,” the actor continued.

“We’re not a democracy,” Gray interjects, annoyed. “So, this Muslim Brotherhood-supporting moron is going to protect Jews. Is that what you’re saying?”

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NBC chief data analyst Steve Kornacki outlined the latest polling ahead of the pivotal midterm elections.

On Sunday, Kornacki documented some of the negative polling for Republicans and President Donald Trump before identifying one massive problem for Democrats.

‘Are they willing to take the next step and vote for Democrats given how unpopular Democrats are as a party?’

Kornacki highlighted the results from an NBC News poll taken last week. One question asked respondents how they feel about the Democratic and Republican Parties in general.

“Republicans are not popular, but this is about where they were back in 2018 in Trump’s first midterm,” said Kornacki.

“Look at the Democrats: 29% favorable, 52% unfavorable. This is different from 2018. In 2018, the Democrats as a party had much better numbers than this,” he added.

“And that does raise a question: Voters out there who disapprove of Trump, aren’t happy about where the economy is, inflation, are they willing to take the next step and vote for Democrats given how unpopular Democrats are as a party?” Kornacki asked rhetorically.

“Or does that keep the Democrats from fully capitalizing on what otherwise for them is a very promising political climate?” he concluded.

Polling expert Frank Luntz fleshed out some of the other problems with polling accuracy that may further deflate Democrats’ hopes.

“I got 2016 wrong. I believed in the exit polls. Trump voters walked away, refused to participate, because they thought that it was against them,” he told CNN in October.

“They thought that the polls were all biased,” Luntz added. “And that’s what Republicans are being told right now: ‘Don’t believe the polls. They’re not accurate.’ Well they may be, we’re about to find out.”

RELATED: Pollster Frank Luntz CRUSHES Democrats’ hopes over favorable polling

Kornacki did lay out some of the bad news for the president, who has a 40% approval rating and 60% disapproval in the latest polling.

When asked who should control Congress, 52% of respondents said Democrats should while only 45% said Republicans should control Congress.

Also challenging for Republicans is that slightly more people say they are dissatisfied with their current financial situation, 51%, than the 49% who said they are satisfied financially.

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What if one of the biggest obstacles to economic development isn’t politics, natural resources, or government institutions, but something much more fundamental? Franck Zanu of Zanu Project Rethink joins Nick Freitas to examine an unusual observation about African languages: the apparent absence of a word for “maintenance.”

Zanu argues that the continent’s relatively predictable tropical environment may have influenced how generations approach problem-solving, innovation, and long-term planning.

“One of those things that you never typically think about, this idea of maintenance,” BlazeTV host Nick Freitas tells Zanu.

“They could come up with a word for repair, but not maintenance,” he continues, asking, “So why does this not exist within, well, any of the languages that you inquired about with respect to African tribal languages?”

“Yes, why doesn’t the word maintenance, the concept, exist?” Zanu says, before explaining that a human being’s “physical environment” during evolution is what allows a group of people to begin to problem solve.

“It just forces the human mind to say, ‘I need a solution to this problem because it’s repeating itself,’ and so when that happens in any environment where a certain condition just keeps repeating itself or when it happens it’s severe, the mind is forced to begin to look for solutions,” he tells Freitas.

However, in Africa, there is one environment and therefore reason to innovate.

“Africa,” Zanu says, “which is the only tropical continent in the world, you know, I mean, we have slightly, here and there, it gets a little chilly and then the rainfall.”

“Well, every place has rainfall, but we are tropical, which means you don’t have to think about the wardrobe and change it from wool to silk to cotton. No, it’s all cotton,” he continues, calling the continent of Africa “predictable.”

“Such an environment would never cultivate what we call proactive long-term planning maintenance,” he adds.

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The president has blasted a liberal political action committee in Kansas for allegedly handing out “monetary incentives” to voters just ahead of Election Day.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) said in a press release Saturday that he sent a cease and desist letter to BlueStem Kansas for allegedly “offering gift cards to voters for voting.”

‘We have photographic evidence. This is a Criminal Offense!’

Kobach said a voter claimed that a person identifying as a canvasser for BlueStem offered the voter a $5 gift card.

“Under K.S.A. 25-2409, election bribery includes giving, offering, or agreeing to give a benefit in exchange for voting at a public election,” he wrote. “It is a severity level 7, nonperson felony. Federal law, 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c), separately makes it a crime to pay or offer to pay anyone for voting in an election that includes federal candidates.”

Trump blasted the group in a post on Truth Social.

“I have just been informed by the Great Attorney General of Kansas, Kris Kobach, that a Radical Left PAC operative was caught on camera going door to door in Wichita offering gift cards to people for votes,” he wrote Sunday.

“We have photographic evidence. This is a Criminal Offense!” he added.

Kobach said he requested that the group preserve communications related to the alleged election incentives, which is a step taken in anticipation of possible legal action.

“As attorney general and before that as secretary of state, I have prosecuted many cases of voter fraud in Kansas, including voting by noncitizens and double voting,” said Kobach in a statement.

“But I never thought that a group in Kansas would be so brazen as to go door-to-door three days before a general election offering voters monetary incentives,” he added. “This sounds like Chicago in the 1950s, not Kansas in the 2020s. As long as I am attorney general, those who violate our election laws will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

RELATED: Trump offers massive reward for tips on voter fraud

Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas accused Democrats of direct involvement in the scheme.

“Chuck Schumer’s Democrats tried to buy out Kansas through ads, but when that wasn’t working they have resorted to pure bribery,” wrote Marshall on social media. “Please report any illegal election activity to the Attorney General‘s office!”

BlueStem Kansas says on its website that it advocates for health care access and gun control and opposes school choice in the form of vouchers.

Marshall is losing by a narrow margin to his Democratic challenger, according to the Blaze News Poll Watch average of polls.

Kansas Senate polls 2026: Marshall vs. Hamilton

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Every public poll of the 2026 Kansas Senate race, Roger Marshall (R) vs. Adam Hamilton (D), and the Blaze polling average. From Blaze News.

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A trio of armed, masked males threatened a Maryland homeowner in his driveway on Halloween night, police said — but it turns out the victim had a deadly treat for them at the ready.

Baltimore County Police said the resident indicated he was sitting in the driveway of his residence in the 10000 block of Greenside Drive in Cockeysville when the suspects — armed with a handgun — approached him around 10:40 p.m.

‘We were sleeping, and I woke up and saw blue lights in the window. So I got up and saw and there were like eight or nine police cars.’

The resident told officers the three males threatened him, police said.

But the trio likely didn’t take into account that one never knows these days who is armed for self-defense at any given time.

Indeed, police said the resident “brandished his own weapon and fired at the suspects.”

Police said the suspects fled the location, and the resident called 911 to report the incident.

Officers began to check the area and found one of the suspects dead a short distance away, police said, adding that he was identified as 20-year-old Amon Walker.

The two other suspects, both adult males, also were found after seeking treatment for their injuries at local hospitals.

A loaded handgun was also recovered, police said, and it is believed to have belonged to the suspects.

Police said there is no active threat to the community, and the department’s Homicide Unit responded and is investigating the circumstances of this incident.

RELATED: Thug allegedly assaults woman, vandalizes cars, then breaks into home while holding knife. But homeowner has more firepower.

While police said in their news release that the three males were wearing masks, WBAL-TV reported that the males were “wearing Halloween-style masks.”

Neighbor Monish Gariwala told the station “on Halloween night, this is a very active neighborhood. There are, like, 300 kids.”

He added to WBAL that “we were sleeping, and I woke up and saw blue lights in the window. So I got up and saw and there were like eight or nine police cars.”

Gariwala also noted “thank God” that the incident “happened later. There were so many kids here [earlier],” according to the station.

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Editor’s note: This article was first published in November 2023.

Chandler Bing, like many of his Gen X cohort, was the product of divorce. His wealthy parents casually announced their split to him, their only child, at Thanksgiving dinner when he was 9 years old. Chandler’s resultant lifelong hatred of the holiday becomes a running joke in “Friends,” as do his defensive, acerbic humor and inability to commit.

The Bing divorce is portrayed as extravagantly messy, the better to wring laughs from Chandler’s discomfort. A flashback in the show’s first season takes us to the scene of the primal trauma, with mother Nora (Morgan Fairchild) half-heartedly spouting boilerplate therapeutic reassurance while blithely revealing that Chandler’s dad, Charles, has been having sex with the houseboy. (“More turkey, Mr. Chandler?” leers said houseboy in the scene’s tacky “button.”)

Chandler’s relationship with his parents as an adult is also a reliable source of comedy. Nora is a best-selling “erotic novelist” who embarrasses her son during a “Tonight Show” appearance and later attempts to seduce his friend Ross.

Charles (Kathleen Turner) is just as monstrously self-absorbed. Now a transgender cabaret performer in Las Vegas (Chandler ruefully recalls him showing up at high school swim meets dressed as different starlets), he attends Chandler’s wedding after years of estrangement. There, the spectacle of his horrible, freakish parents once again at each other’s throats dredges up enough unpleasant memories that Chandler nearly calls the whole thing off.

None of this is as funny as the show seems to think it is, but then the same could be said about much of the show’s cutesy, cloying humor. It’s not as if this “insensitive” portrayal of adult-children-of-divorce Americans merits some kind of apology. At any rate, “Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman has predictably focused her public self-flagellation on the show’s egregious “misgendering” of Charles, as well as its more general crimes against diversity. But the emphasis placed on Chandler Bing’s unhappy childhood takes on a certain poignancy as we collectively mourn the actor who played him. Matthew Perry, it turns out, also bore the scars of his parents’ divorce.

The source of misery

Released just a year ago, Perry’s memoir begins in media res, as our protagonist’s loyal assistant wisely busts Perry, then 49, out of yet another sober living house (Perry counts a career total of 15 treatment facilities) and speeds him to the hospital, where he almost dies of a burst colon brought on by years of opioid abuse.

Perry dedicated “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” to “all of the sufferers out there,” and his stated purpose in writing it was to share all the gory details of his decades-long struggle with drugs and alcohol. In promotional interviews last year, Perry emphasized that he now valued his fame mainly as a tool for reaching other addicts and helping them achieve sobriety; since his death on October 28, many have testified to his generosity in this regard.

The divorce may not have caused Perry’s drinking and drugging, but perhaps it did lead him to seek refuge in his public identity as an addict.

And yet in telling the story of his life, Perry repeatedly returns to a source of misery predating his first drink at 14. Once he dispenses with his obligatory opening hook, Perry then reaches deep into the past to depict a far quieter but no less devastating memory: He is 5 years old and terrified, flying alone from Montreal, where he lives with his mother, to visit his father in Los Angeles. Almost 50 years later, Perry’s anger is still raw: “The other kids had parents with them. I had a sign and a magazine. … Why was that little kid on a plane on his own? Maybe fly to Canada and f***ing pick him up? That’s a question I often wonder about but would never dare to ask.”

Perry’s parents met in 1967 at an Ontario beauty pageant. His mother, Suzanne, was there in her official capacity as the reigning Miss Canadian University Snow Queen, while his father, John, was there performing with his band. Their only child, Matthew, was born in 1969. Nine months later, John abandoned them both to pursue an acting career in Hollywood.

A tension familiar to anyone who’s survived such garden-variety “trauma” as the late 20th-century American no-fault divorce runs through the book. While the pain Perry’s parents caused him is obvious, every time he dares to express it, he checks himself. Surely it wasn’t that bad. Nobody died or got hit, and there was enough money to go around.

Yes, his overwhelmed single mother took a doctor’s dubious advice to soothe her baby’s colic with barbiturates, and by the time Perry was in kindergarten, he had so thoroughly assumed a “caretaker” role that his first instinct after losing the tip of his middle finger to a slammed car door was to comfort a distraught Suzanne.

And yes, his mother’s eventual career as Pierre Trudeau’s press secretary meant that she was often almost as absent from her son’s life as John, who called every Sunday and only had Perry flown out for visits “when enough time had passed that it was unseemly.”

And yes, Suzanne’s many suitors meant that Perry relived his father’s abandonment over and over, and when she finally did remarry (enlisting Perry to — cringe — “give her away” at the wedding), he struggled to feel included in her growing new family.

And yes, Perry was exhibiting the whole array of “troubled” behaviors — smoking, fighting, neglecting school — by the time he was 10.

The damage carries into adulthood

But John and Suzanne aren’t to blame. They’re much better parents to Perry now that he’s a grown man, and maturity (not to mention sobriety) demands that he cut them some slack. “I needed to remember that my dad left because he was afraid, and my mom was a kid who was just doing her best,” he wrote. Perry, of course, was a literal kid, but maybe that was a blessing. We all know how resilient children are.

Or are they?

“Contrary to what we have long thought, the major impact of divorce does not occur during childhood or adolescence,” wrote Judith Wallerstein in her groundbreaking study “The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce”:

Rather it rises in adulthood, as serious romantic relationships move center stage. When it comes time to choose a life mate and build a new family, the effects of divorce crescendo. A central finding to my research is that children identify not only with their mother and father as separate individuals but with the relationship between them. They carry the template of this relationship into adulthood and use it to seek the image of their new family. The absence of a good image negatively influences their search for love, intimacy, and commitment. Anxiety leads many into making bad choices in relationships, giving up hastily when problems arise, or avoiding relationships altogether.

This passage might help explain why Perry never seemed to enjoy the substances that gave him so much trouble. From the start, his drinking seemed to be medicinal, a way to treat his persistent sense of discomfort, much like his Vicodin use, which he began to relieve the pain from an on-set jet ski accident. At his peak he was taking 55 pills a day to feel normal.

Perry’s pursuit of success was similarly driven by the need for relief. His earliest “performances” were bids for attention from his distracted parents. “Acting came naturally to me,” he writes of his first big role, the lead in his high school production of “Our Town.” “Why wouldn’t I want to pretend to be another person?”

Although Perry reports that he “fell deeply in love with acting” while playing opposite River Phoenix in his first movie, 1988’s “A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon,” he mostly talks about his chosen profession in more mercenary terms. “Acting was like a drug for me,” he wrote, and he soon realized the exact high he was chasing: “By 1986 I was pretty sure fame would change everything. … It was the only thing that would fix me.”

Maybe this is just the more or less sensible single-minded focus of an ambitious, career-driven young man. But it’s worth noting that even after he had reached the top, Perry never managed to figure out love, intimacy, and commitment. Not for lack of trying, either. Although he seemed to live the life of a Hollywood playboy, dating one A-List beauty after another, he was tormented by his inability to settle down.

Consider Perry’s own testimony, from an October 2022 interview: “I break up with them because I’m deathly afraid that they will find out that I’m not enough, that I don’t matter, and that I’m too needy, and they’ll break up with me and that will annihilate me and I’ll have to take drugs and that will kill me.”

Hurt people hurt people, as the saying goes. And beneath the optimism of his recovery-speak, Perry hurt. For all his recent soul-baring, Perry’s most revealing moment happened unintentionally, while promoting his book on Canadian radio: “The thing that always makes me cry is that it’s not fair. It’s not. It’s not fair that I had to go through this disease while the other five didn’t. They got everything that I got. But I had to fight this thing, and still have to fight this thing.”

What can you say about Perry’s strangely tone-deaf ingratitude and lack of perspective here, other than to wonder how much suffering this self-obsession must still have caused him?

The legacy divorce leaves

One also wonders about Perry’s conception of himself as having a “disease.” The disease model of addiction is, of course, standard in recovery circles. As a metaphor, it’s quite efficient at communicating the implacable, life-or-death nature of the challenge, while training focus on the most pressing task: to stop using.

But evidence suggesting that compulsive, self-destructive indulgence is literally a chronic medical condition is scant. Journalist Peter Hitchens calmly raised this point during a televised debate with Perry on a 2013 episode of “BBC Newsnight,” denouncing the disease model as a “fashion for dismissing the ability of people to take control over their own lives and to make excuses for them [instead].” Perry quickly became defensive and angry.

Why? Maybe he thought Hitchens was trivializing the hell he’d been through — implying that Perry simply should have manned up and quit long ago. But to see addiction as a psychological rather than a physiological affliction is not to minimize its seriousness. The disease model Perry clung to reinforced his reluctance to look too closely at how his parents’ divorce affected him; to search for a “reason” for one’s substance abuse comes perilously close to justifying it.

The divorce may not have caused Perry’s drinking and drugging, but perhaps it did lead him to seek refuge in his public identity as an addict. What would true intimacy with another person look like for Perry? What kind of family could he envision for himself? Rather than confront the void left by his own upbringing, Perry could pre-emptively set himself apart and choose instead the carefully constrained vulnerability of an addict helping fellow addicts.

By all accounts, Perry had been sober for a year when he died. His death does not present the usual cautionary tale of a doomed celebrity finally undone by one party too many. And yet he died alone. Unlike the character he so memorably inhabited, Perry never quite managed to embrace adulthood. Maybe Perry, contra Hitchens, was right, and it had to be this way; such was the progress of his disease.

At any rate, it’s not for us to judge how well Perry played the cards he’d been dealt. But as long as we’re seeking a lesson from his sad, untimely demise, surely we can consider the entirely voluntary decisions of those who brought him into this world. Perry leaves behind him a foundation in his name to help those struggling with addiction; it’s what he would have wanted, as the cliché goes. But the injury of divorce compromises the very sense of self that enables us even to know what we want.

The opioid crisis is much discussed these days, with good reason. To honor Perry’s legacy, however, we should also remember him as a survivor of another all-too-common epidemic.

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In a historically bad month for cybersecurity, Black October ended with a grand finale of epic proportions. Friday brought the biggest cryptocurrency heist in history, with hackers stealing billions of dollars from a major crypto platform. Here’s what happened, what changed over the weekend, and what you need to do if you were affected.

Late afternoon on Friday, October 30, the largest cryptocurrency platform in the world, Binance, was breached by hackers. In about 20 minutes, the attackers reportedly stole $6.34 billion directly from users’ accounts, marking the biggest crypto heist in history.

This story serves as a warning that anyone — even an employee at a leading cryptocurrency company — is subject to phishing scams.

TRM Labs, an AI and blockchain criminal investigation agency, quickly linked the attack to a North Korean hacking group called TraderTraitor. According to the FBI, this same group was responsible for the Bybit attack in 2025, in which the group stole $1.5 billion in Ethereum, and the Ronin Network heist, in which the group took $620 million in 2022.

Needless to say, this group has a long track record of cryptocurrency theft, and despite the specter of Black October looming over the internet, there’s no indication that TraderTraitor used a PHP exploit to gain access to Binance’s systems. In fact, according to the company, the attack may have started with a compromised laptop that belonged to one of its engineers. As a result, the attack appears to be the product of a good old-fashioned phishing scheme, where the employee was tricked into clicking a malicious link that installed malware on the device, giving hackers access to Binance’s trading systems.

Binance temporarily disabled cryptocurrency withdrawals to prevent further losses, as well as deposits for safe measure. The company worked quickly to mitigate the damage. By Saturday, Binance claimed that 90% of all lost assets were returned to users’ accounts, and by Sunday, withdrawals for specific crypto coins began to go back online, with a gradual rollout continuing into Monday.

RELATED: Time to declare independence from phishing scams — here’s how

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If you’re a Binance user, you’re advised to check your account for signs of losses. Even if you don’t believe you were affected — or if you’re unsure if you were affected — it’s a good idea to check anyway. The breach targeted Binance’s internal systems, so customer usernames, passwords, and seed phrases were rendered ineffective at securing user accounts from the hacking group. Your account may have been compromised without you even knowing it.

If you did lose money, don’t worry. Binance promised to restore all lost funds automatically. You don’t need to file a claim or submit a form to report the damages. However, it may be a good idea to watch your account over the coming weeks to ensure that every missing coin is returned as expected. If, after Binance has finished restoring the final 10% of lost assets to users, you believe that money is still missing, you can contact its support team for help.

This story serves as a warning that anyone — even an employee at a leading cryptocurrency company — is subject to phishing scams. That is why it is important to stay wary of any unsolicited communications you receive in your email inbox, messaging apps, and even phone calls, especially if they tell you to click on random links that could hide malicious intent. Even if the message comes from a trusted friend, family member, or colleague, it is a good idea to check with them personally before clicking on a link that appears suspicious.

Some web browsers now even have anti-phishing and malicious link protection built in. Enhanced protection mode in Google Chrome is free, and it uses AI to identify dangerous websites in real time. It will even stop you from visiting that site if the threat on the other side is a verified danger to you and your devices. Follow these steps to enable it now.

The Binance breach was just one of two major financial platform hacks that happened on Friday. Polymarket was also attacked, though on a much smaller scale. Just a little more than 700 users lost $2.7 million to bad actors, thanks to a vulnerability in a third-party system. The issue was quickly resolved, and trades are all back online.

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A leftist female University of Michigan student was caught on video physically attacking a conservative Jewish influencer Sunday during a reported free-speech event on campus.

The victim — Liz Benichou, who uses the handle “basedinmalibu” on X and Instagram — was apparently shoved to the ground in a violent outburst by the female student who soon was arrested and then hollered the following while in handcuffs: “I should have f**king killed you while I had the f**king chance.”

The female asked the arresting officer, ‘What the f**k are you going to do to me? Because I hit a f**king dumb-ass bitch in the face?’

Benichou told Fox News she was hosting an open debate when a female approached, began shouting, and allegedly struck another conservative influencer in the face with her phone before turning on her.

The other conservative influencer was online creator and commentator “The Older Millennial,” also known as Joseph Anthony Redden, who was sitting at a foldout table with signs that read “Is Islam evil?” and “Is Islam compatible with the West?” Newsweek said.

The female approached the table asking, “Where’s your permit?” saying the setup was “f**king stupid” and clapping in Redden’s face and shouting, the magazine noted. Redden told police in that moment and later claimed on X that the female struck him. You can view video of that interaction here, after which the female complains about “anti-Muslim people.”

Benichou told Fox News that soon the female “came up toward me, and I told her, ‘You would not be able to do this in Iran,'” referencing freedom of speech and pointing to the Iranian government’s treatment of protesters.

Then Benichou and fellow conservative influencer Cam Higby challenged the female over women’s freedoms in Iran, the cable news network added — particularly with respect to how she was dressed and showing “skin.”

Benichou can be heard on video — as the female stands directly in front of her — asking onlookers, “Am I wrong? If she walked around like this in Iran, what would happen to her?”

“And then she just lunged,” Benichou told Fox News.

The female used both hands to knock Benichou to the ground and then tried to stomp her before a male intervened and pulled the attacker away from Benichou, video appeared to show.

“Don’t f**king talk to me like that!” the female hollered at Benichou while trying to get back to her, according to video. “You wanna f**king get over here?! F**king get over here, bitch!”

The female momentarily escaped the grasp of a police officer, but the officer soon grabbed the female and got her on the ground and began handcuffing her and telling her “don’t resist.”

“Instant f**king karma, bitch,” one onlooker observed as the arrest took place.

Another onlooker commented, “She’s f**king rabid.”

The female asked the arresting officer, “What the f**k are you going to do to me? Because I hit a f**king dumb-ass bitch in the face?”

As the female was being escorted to a police vehicle, she continued shouting and cursing at Benichou, Newsweek said.

“I’d do it again every f**king time, you stupid f**king c**t!” video showed the female hollering before adding, “I should have f**king killed you while I had the f**king chance.”

Benichou on Monday told “Fox & Friends” she injured her lower back as a result of the attack — but that she won’t be silenced.

“It will definitely not dissuade me,” she added to the cable news network.

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Taylor Sharp — Benichou’s manager and the CEO of Liberty Under Fire USA, a conservative youth organization — told Mediaite that Benichou plans on pressing charges against the arrested student.

The University of Michigan Police Department told Fox News that a student was taken into custody, processed, and released — and that the case “will be forwarded to the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office for review.”

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The confrontation comes as Michigan’s closely watched Senate race brings political and cultural divisions into sharper focus ahead of the midterms.

Benichou said her visit to the campus was partly motivated by concerns about Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, whose political affiliations and campaign funding she wanted to discuss with students.

Police noted to Newsweek that the attack took place during an “unpermitted political event.”

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There will never be another Norm Macdonald, which is why Netflix’s new documentary, “Norm: The Tale of Norm Macdonald,” has been received so well — especially by BlazeTV hosts Dave Landau and Stu Burguiere.

Landau, who is a comedian himself, said the film was a reminder that Macdonald “really is my favorite comic.”

“I loved everything he did,” he says, reminiscing on his starring role on “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update.

“But this whole thing,” he continues, “this thing covers his entire life and kind of like the mystery that he was, including having cancer for a decade and not telling anyone.”

And when Norm did speak about a battle with cancer, he pretended he was talking about his uncle instead of himself. He also claimed that he dropped out of high school and didn’t go to college.

“He would say, look, I didn’t go to college. I dropped out of high school, and you look and you know, they found something that said he was a genius that actually got out of high school at 16 and went to college early,” Landau explains.

“I mean, he really was amazing,” Stu Burguiere comments.

“He’s one of those guys that … the comedy was so important to him,” he continues. “It just didn’t matter what else was going on. He was always able to push through it. I mean, you go back to, obviously, him getting fired from ‘SNL.’”

Macdonald appeared on David Letterman’s show after getting fired and openly discussed it.

“And it’s one of the greatest appearances of all time because the way he handled it. He has this giant, big smile, his goofy smile, on his face the entire time as he’s talking about his career dissolving,” Stu says.

“He was so funny about it, and he just was able to do that constantly,” he adds.

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He was just trying to finish his workday and get home to his kids. Instead, a Michigan father of four found himself the target of a viral Instagram prank in which a young content creator pretended to steal $10 from him — all while recording his increasingly frustrated reaction for clicks.

In the viral video, the Michigan father, frustrated, goes to report the young man to management. The content creator continues filming and keeps insisting that “it’s not that deep” and that “it’s just a joke.”

“No, it’s not a joke to me, OK?” the man said. “I don’t have time for this crap in my life. My life is hard enough as it is, OK? I don’t need this crap. I’ve got kids at home that went to bed without me right now, and I was supposed to be at home an hour ago, and I’m still out here working, and I got to get up at 5 in the morning and do 10 more stores. So this is not a joke to me.”

“No, I get you,” the kid responded.

“No, you don’t. You’re probably making money off this. I can’t even pay my goddamn mortgage, and I’ve got four kids at home. So not funny,” the man yelled.

BlazeTV host John Doyle calls it a “little bit of a patriot go-off moment.”

“What he’s upset about is he can tell that he’s being recorded,” Doyle explains. “He knows that he’s going to be uploaded onto the internet and made fun of. And so it’s like this is just weighing on him alongside everything else he’s dealing with in the meantime.”

“And he can tell, obviously, they’re not sincere about the apology. They don’t care. And then all he can do is just scold them,” he continues, noting that the man is the one who would be facing real repercussions.

“He’s in trouble because he’s in uniform,” Doyle says.

“He knows that not only is he going to be humiliated on the internet, but it’s probably going to come back to maybe compromise his employment, which again, the guy’s behind on his mortgage,” he continues.

“He has four kids at home. It’s just a really bad situation overall. And so, that’s what I think it was, is he knows that he’s the butt end of the joke. He’s being exploited. And the person who’s exploiting him is treating him as though he’s not a human being. It literally is dehumanizing them,” he adds.

And Doyle points out that in the beginning of the video, the man responds to the kid’s initial question about the time with a smile.

“He’s obviously walking up to this guy who’s just there trying to get, you know, his job done, go home. And the thing that really gets me, too, is you see in the beginning of the video, the second he’s asked, ‘Hey, what time is it?’ He immediately is helpful,” he explains.

“He is happy to help, happy to engage in high-trust activities like this,” he adds.

However, people like the kid are “actively preying on people’s trust and support so they can make a few dollars rather than work an actual job.”

“This is exploiting a high-trust society. This is exploiting the behavior of good Americans,” Doyle says, which he calls a “third-world mindset.”

“The third-world mindset cannot innovate,” he explains. “It cannot create companies. It cannot be productive.”

“People who come from countries who literally are responsible for zero innovations, curiously, the only way they can innovate is not actually with contributing something, which people want to purchase and partake in,” he continues.

“It always with finding the cracks, finding some way to scan the system, cut corners, take advantage of people. That’s all they do,” he adds.

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A federal judge has tossed out the cases against two former Federal Bureau of Investigation officials, accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing the power of government in order to prosecute them.

The Dept. of Justice had sought criminal charges against 46-year-old Nikki Floris and 56-year-old Bradley Benavides on the basis that they had allegedly lied to Congress about the Hunter Biden laptop case.

‘What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization.’

Both Floris and Benavides had testified in 2023 that they had no part in the investigation into Biden’s laptop, but prosecutors cited evidence that both may have discussed the case with other FBI officials.

On Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui dismissed the charges against both defendants.

“What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization,” said Faruqui.

He said the government could have brought the charges at any time but chose to do so two weeks before the election. He also cited a prime time speech where President Donald Trump aired his grievances about the 2020 election.

“I will not bury my head in the sand and pretend that I cannot read a calendar,” Faruqui added.

He accused the government of rushing the prosecution and including “critical mistakes” in their charges.

Floris’ attorney had argued in court that his client had been prosecuted in order to influence public opinion for the sake of the election.

Critics of Floris pointed to an unearthed alleged text where she claimed to be “basically running a shadow government” in the FBI.

Both Floris and Benavides had been a part of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, which no longer exists but had spearheaded the agency’s efforts to oppose foreign influence in the 2020 election.

The Justice Dept. has the option to pursue indictments of both Floris and Benavides through a grand jury.

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Faruqui was heavily criticized when he apologized in court to Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of trying to assassinate Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April. Cole had been placed on suicide watch and been denied access to a Bible, according to his attorneys.

As a magistrate federal judge, Faruqui was not nominated by a president or approved by the U.S. Senate but selected by the court in Washington, D.C.

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