Pro-life group ramps up NC ground game as report finds fed abortion message gives GOP candidate biggest boost
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A new study commissioned by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America found that messages highlighting
North Carolina
Democratic Senate candidate and former Gov. Roy Cooper's abortion record shifted support, according to the study, toward Republican candidate Michael Whatley among voters in the state, with a message focused on federal abortion legislation producing the largest movement.The group said it has reached more than 770,000 homes across North Carolina as it deploys a new voter-contact strategy targeting what is expected to be one of the nation's most competitive Senate races as Republicans attempt to hold onto their majority in the
Upper Chamber
and fill the seat currently held by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.Canvassers are targeting persuadable and low-turnout voters with messages focused on abortion and Cooper's record on the issue, including his support for federal abortion legislation that the group says could override state limits and his actions as governor to veto state-level restrictions.Cooper vetoed North Carolina's 2023 law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, arguing it would harm women and families. The Republican-controlled General Assembly later overrode his veto, allowing the law to take effect."When it comes to the life issue, the issue that works best in North Carolina for the Senate race is that Gov. Cooper vetoed the 12 week limit, which is wildly popular in North Carolina and across the country, to stop abortion at the first trimester. He vetoed it and then his veto was overridden. It was a very unpopular move that really moves voters," SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told Fox News Digital.
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"The other is that when he vetoed a bill that would give appropriate health care to a baby who was born alive after an attempted abortion. So those issues contrasted with Michael Whatley helped move voters in the direction of Whatley," she added.The study analyzed which messages were the most effective at shifting opinion and looked to predict the impacts for voters, allowing the group to identify the people most likely to switch their vote from Democrat to Republican when exposed to one of their
pro-life messages
.Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America commissioned Evolving Strategies to conduct a randomized-controlled trial and test the effectiveness of four different abortion messages about the positions Senate candidates in North Carolina hold on abortion. Evolving Strategies recruited an online panel of 2,607 confirmed registered voters in the state using a technique that allowed them to match respondents to their voter file and consumer data.The study measured respondents' stated candidate and policy support after they read the messages, while its estimates for the most persuadable voters were based on predictive modeling.
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"Our one goal when we are finding our targeted voters in any state is to find our best voters. They will end up being Democrats, they'll end up being Republicans, they'll end up being Independents. We don't start with party profile. We don't even start with where you live or what your religious affiliation is. Where we start is how your vote will be moved. So we use consumer data to create a profile of our best voter and we score those voters," Dannenfelser said."What we're looking for is our best voters, whether they're inclined to vote or not, and then making sure that we communicate them with them at their doors through digital communications and every other form of communication that they receive," she continued.Respondents were randomly assigned one of four messages - "Fed" message, "Record" message, "Soft Positive" message and "Hard Positive" message - or the control condition where they read a placebo message.The "Fed" messages criticized Cooper's support for federal legislation that the organization argued could override states' ability to make abortion laws, "Record" messages went after his abortion record during his time as governor in an effort to portray him as an extremist, and "Soft Positive" and "Hard Positive" messages each highlight Whatley's pro-life positions.All messages were at least somewhat effective, shifting the Republican vote margin a net +1.7 to nearly +5 points, according to the study.The two attack messages against Cooper performed best, with +4.9 points for the "Fed" message and +3.2 points for the "Record" message. The "Hard Positive" message performed substantially better at +3.9 points than the "Soft Positive" message at +1.7 points, the study found.Among the voters identified as the best persuasion targets, the study estimated the impact could be much larger, moving the Republican vote margin a net +12 points or more."We are finding that these messages really resonate. We're finding that voters really feel left behind by the Democratic Party, either ones that were leaning Democrat or were thinking about Cooper. We're finding that it really resonates and that it still is a top performing issue in North Carolina and makes a big difference," Dannenfelser said. |
Trump to zero-in on Iran nuclear threat, Gaza plan and UN overhaul in world stage speech
NEW YORK -
President Donald Trump
will take the world stage Tuesday facing a convergence of wars and geopolitical challenges that could define his second-term foreign policy, from the conflict with Iran and Russia's war in Ukraine to intensifying strategic competition with China.Trump is set to address the
United Nations General Assembly
as his administration pushes to end some of the world's most entrenched conflicts while simultaneously confronting adversaries that have deepened their economic and security ties in recent years.And he's expected to use the address to argue that this White House has confronted global problems that previous administrations allowed to fester, according to officials previewing the president's remarks.Trump will address
Iran's nuclear ambitions
, the administration's Gaza peace plan and developments in the Western Hemisphere, among other issues, the White House said ahead of the speech.But Iran is also expected to dominate diplomacy on the sidelines of the gathering.
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A senior U.S. official said Iran would be a "key topic of conversation and diplomacy" throughout the week as the administration continues its campaign to economically isolate Tehran. Trump is scheduled to meet with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council following his address Tuesday, with the war and security in the
Strait of Hormuz
expected to be a prominent topic of those discussions.Trump is also expected to renew his push to overhaul the United Nations itself, after using the same stage last year to sharply question the institution's effectiveness.
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"What is the purpose of the United Nations?" Trump asked during his 2025 address, arguing that the body had played little role in resolving conflicts around the world. He said the U.N. had "tremendous potential," while suggesting it remains unrealized.A senior U.S. official said ahead of Tuesday's speech that the administration has helped cut more than $1 billion from the U.N. budget, while roughly 3,000 headquarters positions are being trimmed and more than a quarter of U.N. peacekeepers are being sent home."We call it having the U.N. on a diet, getting it back focused, leaner, and back to basics, focused on peace and security," the official said, describing the administration's approach as doing "less things better."The push builds on a broader effort by Trump to scale back U.S. involvement in international organizations his administration argues do not serve American interests, while still using the U.N. as a venue for diplomacy.In his address last year, Trump offered "the hand of American leadership and friendship" to countries willing to work with the United States, even as he sharply criticized the institution's record.the General Assembly could also provide an opening for diplomacy with Tehran, whose president and foreign minister are expected to be in New York for the annual gathering.The president will leave New York Tuesday night and almost immediately turn to another major foreign policy challenge: China.Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington Wednesday ahead of meetings with Trump at the White House Thursday, putting Trump's U.N. appearance and the U.S.-China relationship in unusually close succession. |
LIZ PEEK: Can Trump Make the UN Great Again despite its globalist agenda?
Today, President Trump will address the
UN General Assembly
. As New Yorkers fume over traffic nightmares created by the president and by hordes of visiting diplomats, they may (again) question, as do many Americans, why U.S. taxpayers support this badly managed and scandal-scarred institution. Especially when the UN so frequently works against our interests and seems incapable of accomplishing its primary mission.A new Gallup poll shows that 73% of Americans think the UN does a poor job of "maintaining international peace and security" and 70% say the same about the UN "upholding international law" and "protecting human rights." That's a lousy report card for an organization that spends roughly $70 billion per year.Elsewhere in the world, the UN scores better, which is not surprising since poor countries, which constitute the majority of members, look to wealthier nations for handouts via the UN. The nations of Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, are especially keen on the sprawling organization.
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How does that wealth transfer happen? One way was described by President Trump's UN Ambassador Mike Waltz in recent testimony before Congress: "The UN let countries use peacekeeping missions as cash cows for their militaries. Peacekeepers could bring equipment, park it, never use it, take it home brand new, and get it paid for by the UN." Those operations can employ "10,000 to 18,000 soldiers"; the costs, Walz says, are "quite significant". He is ending that practice - just one step in reforming the bloated UN, whose budget has quadrupled over the past 25 years.Americans have reason for skepticism, given the frequent votes that go against the U.S. or our ally Israel. For thirty-three years in a row, the General Assembly has voted to end our embargo on Cuba, and for decades it has opposed Israel's attempts to protects its citizens from Palestinian terrorists. Waltz calls the body a "cesspool of antisemitism."
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Not only is the UN frequently hostile to the US; it is often ridiculous. Most recently, the UN voted overwhelmingly to
adopt a new map
which blows up Africa's presence on the globe; the US was the sole dissenter. In a memo explaining our outlier vote, Deputy U.S. Representative Yaryna Ferencevych called such resolutions "barnacles on our work here" and wrote: "Instead of focusing on genuine problems of international peace... this body is debating map projects from the 16th century, and their role in promoting reparations and "cognitive justice."The UN rarely has much real-world impact. Critics might question, for instance, what the UN has done to resolve the
Russia-Ukraine War
, or how it has helped keep the world's oil flowing through the Straits of Hormuz. The answer in both cases is zero.Instead, the UN is hyper-focused on climate change, gender equality and other issues that may scratch a globalist itch, but appear little related to the cause of peace.Meanwhile, the UN is going broke. Last year the Economist reported: "On May 5th the UN will brief members on a previously unreported $600m (17%) cut to its $3.7bn [administrative] budget aimed at avoiding default this year. It will include a hiring freeze... Yet it may not be enough. A combination of deadbeat members and mad budget rules have led to a liquidity crisis."
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The article goes on to warn that a "leaked memo" suggesting that the Trump administration might
cut off funding to the UN
threatened "a financial crash in the citadel of peace and security."The Trump White House has not bankrupted the UN by withholding payments. Instead, it appointed Waltz to drive much-needed reforms and who is, according to Politico, "generally well-regarded, including among many Democrats on Capitol Hill". That's rare praise for a Trump appointee.
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Walz is working to downsize the bloated UN, focusing on its staff of 100,000 - individuals who are paid roughly 17% more than equivalent U.S. civil servants, according to Walz. According to testimony he gave to Congress a few months ago, Walz' team pushed through a "historic 15% cut. $570 million out of the UN's regular budget. That will eliminate nearly 3000 headquarters positions." That change alone provided a savings for U.S. taxpayers of $126 million. Walz recently told Fox Digital that
budget cuts now total $1 billion
.Walz is also overhauling UN peacekeeping operations, some of which, as he has said, have been around for "30, 50 or even 80 years." Walz argues such forces are important to provide breathing room for political settlement of a conflict, but it "can't then become an excuse to not have a political resolution. When you have a peacekeeping force, for example, in DRC and Congo, at the cost of a billion dollars a year, that's been there for 30 years", it should end.Walz is just getting started; reforming an institution so large and complex takes time, which he may not have. Soon the UN will elect a new secretary-general to succeed Portugal's António Guterres, who has served since 2017. Currently, most of the candidates who have stepped forward appear eager to embrace the reforms advocated by the White House, alarmed that President Trump is ready to eviscerate the UN's funding if changes are not made and a U.S.-friendly official not elected.
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Finances are not Trump's only weapon. As Politico reported, when the White House announced the creation of the Board of Peace last year to oversee the Israel-Gaza conflict, "U.N. officials and diplomats were really, really unnerved", seeing that Board as some sort of "rival peacemaking institute"...
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However, permanent members of the
Security Council
, which include Russia, China, France, the UK and the U.S., can veto candidates. That is making the race unpredictable. If the members cannot agree, they could extend Gutterres' term by another year, which would likely mean that President Trump would have less say in the outcome.That could trash the White House's push to Make the UN Great Again and would be disastrous for the UN.
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MORNING GLORY: The best case for AI? Let it decide who gets into college
There is a debate about whether the widespread adoption and application of artificial intelligence models will cost jobs, and if so, in which industries.If some obvious employment categories can be identified as ripe for replacement by AI, patterns should emerge about which sorts of jobs are in immediate peril.One obvious candidate for replacement by AI is the staff of admissions offices at the nation's colleges and universities. There are not enormous numbers of these positions, but there are excellent reasons to put AI to work in those offices, and not just to save money in the budgets of increasingly beleaguered schools.
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The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources released a study in April 2023 of 12,042 admissions employees at 940 institutions. On average, there were more than a dozen admissions staff members at every institution. There are more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions in the U.S., so a workforce of at least 40,000 is a reasonable estimate of the size of one group AI is coming for. (Even at the institutions where cost-cutting pressure is highest, there will still be a need for a couple of admissions officers, so don't project a 100% loss of jobs here.)Why the focus on the staffs of admissions offices?Because the college and graduate application process is driven by paper and numbers: test scores, GPAs, essays, resumes, and recommendations from tens of thousands of young people all aiming for a prized result. Almost all of the applicants share a hope for a fair process.The sorting and scaling of numbers-GPAs and test scores-are exactly what AI can compile and assess in hours, if not minutes. If AI is even a tenth as powerful as advertised, it should be able to sort resumes and recommendations by truthfulness, quality, and sincerity. Essays can be combed through for originality as well as for evidence of outside assistance.
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AI can also be given weights for factors that are legitimate indicators of merit beyond academic achievement, such as in-state/out-of-state status, gender, family income, the difficulty of life circumstances, and the need for broad geographic and class diversity. AI models can also be trained to evaluate grades and performance based on the nature of the secondary school or college attended.AI models can be instructed not to give any weight to applicants' race, ethnicity, or religion-characteristics whose use in admissions is restricted by federal law and Supreme Court precedent.
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Athletic ability and legacy status are legitimate factors, as are musical and theater talent, forensics, foreign-language fluency, and many more characteristics. Indeed, AI is going to be a far better agent for modeling an incoming class and targeting the long-term success of that applicant pool on that campus and in later lives than the work of young admissions officers.AI could also be used to assure many constituencies-donors, evaluators of colleges, and, yes, courts-that the admission process is not tainted by the use of prohibited screens. Indeed, a school that wants a pretty airtight defense against suits challenging its admissions process for relying on prohibited-by-law factors such as race should be greatly assisted by laying out its own AI model's weights, even if the model's results aren't the final word on admissions.Schools have to worry about many factors beyond academic chops, including the ability to pay tuition, the likelihood of employment after graduation, and the likelihood of any particular applicant becoming a financial supporter over the years.Reputation matters greatly, too, as the benefit of network effects for a student body is a real thing. AI can, of course, be coached to weight markers for all these things, including how much an applicant has worked and whether he or she is a first-generation college student-two indicators generally thought to be predictive of life success.
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The application process has become clouded in recent decades by suspicion of politicization and the use by admissions officers of
controversial factors such as race
, a practice the Supreme Court has significantly restricted. The collective process across the country could use a large dose of objectivity and a consequent rise in
trust in the results
. An AI-driven admissions process that is transparent to outside evaluators would be a welcome evolution in the increasingly controversial question of choosing elites.What about those 40,000 employees for whom AI is like a great white shark just offshore?
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What these folks do now is
sort, sift, and make recommendations
to higher-ups in the chain. They deploy judgment and make conclusions that allow their own biases to play out across a vast ocean of applicants.Everyone, including them, would be better served doing work that can be objectively evaluated and that does not encourage the exercise of subjective judgment.AI should be welcomed in any job category where a mass of data must be objectively analyzed. At a minimum, colleges and universities should want to deploy a parallel admissions process run by AI alongside their existing structure. How interesting and illuminating would a side-by-side comparison of accepted applicants be?
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Presley Gerber's death sparks questions about overdose, withdrawal and rehab safety
Presley Gerber's death at age 27 has renewed questions about overdose risk, withdrawal complications and the challenges of addiction recovery.The son of model
Cindy Crawford
and businessman Rande Gerber died Sunday at a California rehabilitation facility, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office records.Presley's death was confirmed by his mother's representative to Fox News Digital, who shared a statement from the family: "The family is asking for privacy during this very difficult and painful time."
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While an official cause of death has not yet been confirmed, audio recordings obtained by People suggest that police received a 911 call Sunday morning reporting a
cardiac arrest
at a facility in the 1000 block of Berkeley Street. A separate dispatch identified the response as a potential overdose.The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office later confirmed that an autopsy had been completed, but the cause of death remained undetermined pending further testing.Gerber had spoken publicly over the years about his struggles with substance use and
mental health
.Nicholas Kardaris, Ph.D., CEO and chief clinical officer of the New York Center for Living in Manhattan and a clinical professor at Stony Brook Medicine's School of Social Welfare, spoke with Fox News Digital about what
families
should know about relapse, overdose risk and seeking help for a loved one.As Gerber's official
cause of death
has not yet been released, Kardaris - who has not treated Presley Gerber and is not connected to the case - cautioned against drawing conclusions from the fact that he died at a rehabilitation facility.Possible explanations could include an acute medical or cardiac event, an undiagnosed condition or a medication-related complication, he said.
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People in residential treatment facilities may have complex
medical histories
, and some conditions may not be immediately apparent when someone enters a program."Younger people can sometimes die suddenly, and we don't know whether they had an underlying medical issue," Kardaris said."It's not impossible to have a medication-related event, particularly if someone has an underlying
heart disorder,
" he continued. "Certain medications can trigger a cardiac episode."Entering treatment does not necessarily mean that a person's issues have been resolved or that no danger exists, Kardaris emphasized."People are in rehab because they're struggling with addiction. It doesn't mean they're cured of their addiction," he said.While treatment facilities work to create a controlled environment, they cannot eliminate every risk associated with
addiction
, withdrawal, relapse or medical complications, according to Kardaris."Facilities take great pains to make sure substances don't come in, but it's not a perfect system."He stressed that this is a general observation about treatment settings and not an indication of what occurred in Gerber's case.Another potential risk during rehab is withdrawal itself, which can range from uncomfortable to life-threatening depending on the
substance involved
and the person's level of physical dependence, according to Kardaris."People can die from withdrawal, but the substances that are most dangerous to withdraw [from] without proper medical supervision are benzodiazepines, such as Valium or Xanax,
and alcohol
," he told Fox News Digital.While opioid withdrawal can be extremely uncomfortable, it is generally not fatal by itself, the expert said.
Benzodiazepine withdrawal
can trigger seizures, delirium and other life-threatening complications. The FDA warns that abruptly stopping or reducing drugs such as Xanax or Valium too quickly can cause serious withdrawal reactions, including seizures."Someone might disclose heroin use but not mention that they're also withdrawing from a benzodiazepine, such as Valium," Kardaris noted. "If they don't receive medication to treat that withdrawal, they can have a seizure that can lead to fatal complications."
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One of the most dangerous periods for someone with
opioid use disorder
may come after detox because a person's tolerance may have decreased - increasing the risk of overdose if they return to a previously used amount, he added."If someone relapses after rehab, they may use the same amount they were using before treatment - but their tolerance has gone down, and that amount can now be fatal."Gerber had previously posted on social media about undergoing an
ibogaine treatment
in Mexico. Kardaris cautioned that ibogaine is not FDA-approved for any medical use in the U.S. Although it has been studied experimentally as a possible treatment for opioid use disorder, its safety and effectiveness remain uncertain. Kardaris grouped ibogaine with other psychedelic or psychoactive substances that have drawn public interest."Ketamine, ayahuasca and ibogaine are
psychoactive or psychedelic treatments
that have become increasingly popular," he said. "There is some research indicating potential benefits, but they remain largely unregulated."Ketamine is FDA-approved as an anesthetic but is not approved to treat psychiatric disorders, although some clinicians use it off-label in mental health settings.
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Ibogaine and ayahuasca are not FDA-approved treatments in the U.S., and the evidence and
regulatory oversight
vary considerably among these substances.Overall, Kardaris described the field as unsettled. "It's a bit of the Wild West right now."He emphasized, however, that Gerber's prior ibogaine treatment does not establish which substances he may have used and should not be interpreted as evidence of what caused his death.Families should investigate a treatment center and make sure it is licensed before enrolling a loved one, Kardaris advised.
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That includes confirming that qualified medical professionals are involved in patient care and that the facility has appropriate protocols for withdrawal, medication management and emergencies."Families should make sure
licensed professionals
are working there and that the program has a strong reputation," he said."There are bad actors in every profession - so families should look for a well-regarded treatment program with qualified people who know what they're doing." |
DR. MARC SIEGEL: 'THE ANGELS AMONG US' -- A dying woman, the shofar and the miracle that followed
A shofar is made from the horn of a ram and is hollowed out and crafted to be blown like a trumpet. It symbolizes God's majesty and also serves as a call to repentance. During the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, it is blown as a spiritual wake-up call for us to return to being who God wants us to be. On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which ended on Monday night, the shofar is blown at the end of the service to break the day-long fast, with the hope that our prayers have been accepted by God and that we are sealed in the Book of Life for another healthy, prosperous year.The shofar also stands for healing, wholeness, and spiritual redemption.In my new book, "
THE ANGELS AMONG US
," the shofar is used by one of God's special messengers to bring a miracle recovery to the widely celebrated journalist Nikki Goldstein, in Sydney, Australia. Nikki (57 years old at the time) has had chronic lung disease and an autoimmune disease for many years and has been in and out of the hospital frequently. But in early September 2022, it looks like the end is near.
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The CT scan of her chest shows extensive consolidation and scarring, plus a severe acute lung infection. She is put on a ventilator. She is not expected to survive. She says she is giving herself over to God. Her doctor puts her on the emergency lung transplant list. She is put into a coma.Her husband Rowan (who is not Jewish) and her daughter are with her. All at once, Nikki's daughter looks up and says, "Is that a rabbi?" Nikki's husband, Rowan, approaches him and says, "My wife would love it if you could say some prayers. This is going to be her last day on earth."The rabbi stands at her bedside and recites prayers for her health.
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His name, Rowan finds out later, is Rabbi Eli Schlanger, the longtime assistant rabbi at the Chabad synagogue in Bondi Beach. He is portly, with thick spectacles, a bushy beard, and thinning hair.Rabbi Eli is about to leave when he stops and reaches into his jacket and pulls out something shiny. It is his shofar, and he asks if it's okay to blow it over Nikki. Rowan says, "I cannot think of a single thing she would want more."The rabbi blows the shofar loudly.Twenty-four hours after this, Goldstein's lungs start to respond. The "whiteout" is improving on her chest X-ray. They wake her up and bring her out of the coma. The whiteout is retreating very rapidly. A medical miracle has occurred. Goldstein goes on to write a book with Rabbi Schlanger, "Conversations With My Rabbi."
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It is December 14, 2025, a warm summer's day in Sydney. Near the center of Archer Park, Bondi Beach, in the middle of a celebration (with over 1,000 people attending) for the first night of Hanukkah (the Festival of Lights), right before the menorah lighting, two gunmen open fire in an
antisemitic terrorist attack
. Rabbi Schlanger sees one of the gunmen pause to reload.Schlanger-the father of five, including a two-month-old baby-raises his hands above his head and walks toward the terrorists."Please stop!" he yells. "No more! There has to be another way."One of the gunmen raises his rifle and fires. Schlanger falls to the ground dead. His wife, Chyale, is grazed by a bullet in her back. Their two-month-old baby takes shrapnel to his leg. They survive.
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This year my daughter, a medical student, meets a rabbi who is admitted to the hospital after a very small stroke. He was blowing the shofar when his lips became numb, and he had to stop blowing. "It is a very good thing this happened," he says to her. "Blowing the shofar caused the stroke, but it also caused the doctors to discover that I have diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Blowing the shofar led to the miracle of this life-saving discovery."The shofar was first blown in the Old Testament at Mount Sinai when God gave the
Ten Commandments
to the Israelites (Exodus 19:16). It continues to inspire us and bring us healing miracles.
Editor's note: Dr. Marc Siegel's new book, "THE ANGELS AMONG US" will be published on Nov. 18, 2026. It is available for preorder through
Fox Books
, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
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Giants' season-opening high comes crashing down as Jaxson Dart's knee injury overshadows Rams' blowout win
The
New York Giants
were riding high coming into Los Angeles to face a frustrated Rams team that returned home from a beatdown in Australia.After defeating the Dallas Cowboys on their own home turf, the talk around the league after just one week was that the Giants could be a problem for the rest of the NFL in this John Harbaugh era.But those giant expectations took a massive hit on "Monday Night Football" after quarterback
Jaxson Dart
was ruled out after a brutal hit led to a knee injury that now has the organization and fan base collectively waiting for MRI results with bated breath.
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Once Dart left the game, and
Jameis Winston
took over for the Giants, the offense that surprised the Cowboys last week with its ground-and-pound nature struggled to find its footing against a revitalized Rams defense-one that lacked Myles Garrett, but featured the return of future Hall of Fame defensive tackle Aaron Donald at SoFi Stadium.Meanwhile, Matthew Stafford looked more like the reigning MVP in this game compared to Week 1, and with tons of time in the pocket, he dissected the Giants' defense as the Rams cruised to a 28-6 victory to get its first of the new season.
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Now, things hang in the balance as the Giants await Dart's MRI results, which should come on Tuesday. Dart was clutching at his knee after getting sandwiched between two Rams defenders that beat the Giants' tackles off the edge, and while airborne, video replay showed his leg shift in an awkward way.Dart was able to walk off on his own power, and
ESPN's Jordan Raanan
even reported during the game that he tried to let the coaching staff put him back in the game. They refused to let him.It's a good sign to see Dart's fight to get back in the game, which could also showcase that his injury isn't as severe as initially thought.
OutKick's Armando Salguero
reported a possible MCL could be what Dart and the Giants are looking at, but in a Week 2 filled with key quarterback injuries, every party is just hoping the 2026 season isn't awash for the second-year signal caller out of Ole Miss.If Dart is to miss time, this new Giants regime will be tested to keep their lofty expectations afloat because, after watching what occurred on both sides of the ball, there's certainly work to do.On offense, while it's a tough task for any backup quarterback to take over on a moment's notice, the run game that worked so well in Week 1 was non-existent this time around. It certainly helped that Donald was back in a Rams uniform, but the rest of their defenders were solid at the line of scrimmage, limiting New York to just 44 rushing yards as a team compared to 165 in Week 1. Donald finished his first game back in two years with three total tackles, one for loss.It also didn't help the Giants that star receiver Malik Nabers gave the team a scare when he left after getting a target from Winston, gripping at his right shoulder. He would eventually return to the game, but occurring just a few snaps between Dart's injury, Giants fans were thinking the worst yet again.
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Then, on defense, Stafford didn't have Puka Nacua, who was sidelined due to injury, but he did have future Hall of Fame receiver Davante Adams. With the Giants finding no amount of pressure on most of Stafford's dropbacks, he couldn't stop finding Adams for chunk plays.It was a 31-yard touchdown pass to Adams for his first score of the game, a 64-yard catch-and-run set up a touchdown pass to running back Kyren Williams, and a signature fade route where Giants rookie cornerback Colton Hood had no chance after Adams' release off the line. Adams finished the game with eight catches for 195 yards and two scores.The Giants' pass rush, which was expected to be a potentially fearsome group this season, will be a talking point throughout the week as Abdul Carter, Brian Burns, Kayvon Thibodeaux and more couldn't get through the Rams' offensive line, which held up nicely for their 38-year-old quarterback to operate. And the injury bug continued toward the end of the game for the Giants, as Burns rolled his ankle. The cart came out to take him to the locker room, but he turned it down to walk on his own.It was a tail of two sidelines where the Rams got back on the right path, while the Giants, in the midst of hoping for the best for their quarterback, need to go back to the drawing board with crucial home games ahead.
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Trump was a 'caged lion' roaring to return to WHCA Dinner ballroom after shooting, Leavitt says
Former White House press secretary
Karoline Leavitt
revealed new details on President Donald Trump's behind-the-scenes response after shots were fired at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in April.Leavitt said in a new episode of "
Hang Out with Sean Hannity
" that Trump was behaving like a caged animal and was adamant about returning to the ballroom, despite having just narrowly escaped from an alleged assassination attempt."He was like a caged lion backstage, like just roaring to get out, like, 'We gotta go back out there,'" she said. "And I'm sitting there like, 'I don't know if I want to go back out there.'"
TRUMP ADMITS HE 'WASN'T MAKING IT THAT EASY' FOR SECRET SERVICE DURING WHCD SHOOTING
Minutes after the WHCA Dinner began at the Washington Hilton, a gunman, later identified as Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif., allegedly stormed the hotel while armed with weapons. Trump and
Vice President JD Vance
were quickly escorted out of the ballroom by
members of the Secret Service
.Allen, who was quickly apprehended by Secret Service agents, allegedly wrote in a manifesto that
his targets were Trump administration officials
except for FBI Director
Kash Patel
.
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Guests dived under tables as the gala, meant to celebrate White House correspondents, descended into chaos.Yet, Leavitt said, the president was eager to return to the ballroom and willing to wait hours for the event to resume."[Trump] really was asking hard questions of his detail, like, 'Why can't I go? I will wait all night. I don't care if it's 3 in the morning, get it started,'" Leavitt shared.The former White House spokeswoman said officials even began making preparations to resume the dinner as she described Trump's impatience to make a public statement immediately after the incident.
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"[Trump] wanted to say something and the best way to say it was in the briefing room. And we did," Leavitt said.Trump held a news conference at the White House later that night alongside top administration members, recounting how the shooting unfolded.After the shooting, the president
reignited calls to build
a ballroom at the White House to create a space for safe and secure official events. Trump attended the
rescheduled WHCA Dinner
that took place in July.Leavitt's full interview on the latest "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" will be available Tuesday on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. |
Sylvester Stallone reveals what he said to Trump after surprise Hollywood ambassador appointment
Sylvester Stallone
revealed that he was blindsided when President Donald Trump announced his appointment as a special ambassador to Hollywood.Days before his second inauguration in January 2025, Trump shared a post on his platform Truth Social in which he named Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as "Special Envoys," describing the role as a way for the three actors to serve as his "eyes and ears" in Hollywood and advise him on efforts to bring film and television production back to the U.S.During a recent interview with
The Sunday Times
, the 80-year-old "Rocky" star recalled that he found out about the appointment while watching television.
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"I was watching TV one night, and they go, 'So Stallone and Mel Gibson and Jon Voight will be ...' And I went, 'What?' I said, 'Excuse me? Really?' Because if they had asked me in the beginning, I would have said, 'This is not possible,'" Stallone said.Stallone told the outlet that he was hesitant about taking on the role because he didn't believe it was feasible. When asked if he had reservations after Trump's announcement, Stallone said, "Yes. Yes, because Hollywood, I guess it's like feudal states."
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"They have their little kingdoms," he continued. "You don't go in and tell six studios how to do things. And Mel Gibson and Jon Voight, we're kind of do-our-own-thing people. No, it won't work."The "Tulsa King" star recalled that he later explained his reasoning to Trump."I said thank you and ciao, because it's impossible," Stallone said. "Hollywood works, and it will evolve.""It's corporate, and corporate people won't want to hear me tell them about finance," he added.
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In his original post on Jan. 16, 2025, Trump wrote, "It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.""They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK-BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!" he continued. "These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will get done what they suggest. It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!"
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At the time, Gibson, 70, shared that he was caught off-guard by Trump's announcement and did not have previous knowledge about his presidential appointment."I got the tweet at the same time as all of you and was just as surprised," he told
Variety
in January 2025. "Nevertheless, I heed the call. My duty as a citizen is to give any help and insight I can.""Any chance the position comes with an Ambassador's residence?" Gibson joked.Though Stallone may not have been onboard with his role as a special Hollywood ambassador, the action star appears to have a friendly relationship with Trump and heaped praise on the president during a speech following his victory in the November 2024 election.Days after the election, Stallone introduced Trump at the America First Policy Institute Gala held at the president-elect's Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida."We're in the presence of a really mythical character," Stallone said of Trump. "I love mythology. And this individual does not exist on this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off what he pulled off, so I'm in awe.""When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was gonna change the world," he added. "Because without him, you could imagine what the world would look like. Guess what? We got the second George Washington."Stallone was later selected as a 2025 Kennedy Center honoree, with Trump personally naming him among that year's recipients alongside George Strait, KISS, Gloria Gaynor and Michael Crawford.The actor has backed Republicans, including John McCain and Trump, but his political history has not been strictly partisan. Over the years, Stallone has made financial contributions to both political parties, donating to various Democratic candidates and committees, including former President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee, as well as Republican campaigns.Meanwhile, Voight, who is a staunch supporter of Trump, appears to have embraced his role as a special ambassador. He has met with the White House and advocated for policies aimed at bringing film and TV production back to the U.S., especially a federal film tax incentive. Voight has been working with his manager Steven Paul and Paul's associate Scott Karol as part of his push.
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After meeting with the trio at the end of last month, Trump threw his support behind a
federal film and television production incentive
, urging Congress to pass bipartisan legislation to "save" the American entertainment business.In a Truth Social post on Aug. 31, Trump wrote that "Hollywood is a Complete and Total Disaster" and said there was "no incentive" for productions to stay there. He said meetings were being set up with leaders of both parties and urged Republicans and Democrats to "immediately craft Legislation to save the Movie, Television, and Entertainment Business in America."Senator
Adam Schiff
(D-Calif.) and U.S. Representative Laura Friedman (D-CA) later issued statements in which they voiced their support for Trump's proposal.
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While speaking with the
Hollywood Reporter
earlier this month, Voight was asked whether Stallone and Gibson were involved with his efforts.
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They've been very busy, both of those guys actually have been extremely busy," Voight said.However, Paul, who joined Voight for the interview, said, "Sly's been doing his TV show, but Sly's been very involved and he signed our letter." |
Mamdani tells Trump banned White House outlets are welcome at NYC meeting
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani
on Monday said NYC welcomed all members of the media for a joint meeting with President Donald Trump, who recently banned certain media outlets from the White House.The remarks came during a press conference at Gracie Mansion, where a reporter asked Mamdani whether he had challenged Trump on his decision to bar CNN, MS NOW, and Politico."I told the president that we're going to have all of the members of the press here on the lawn. And that is something that I believe in, as everyone, no matter the opinion or the critique that we engage in," Mamdani said.Trump then took the stage, defending his decision and addressing the subsequent
suspension of presidential pool coverage
by the remaining television networks, which included FOX News Media, ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News.
TRUMP, MAMDANI SET TO MEET AGAIN ON MAYOR'S HOME TURF AFTER MONTHS OF POLITICAL WHIPLASH
"It's interesting because they said they were going to boycott me, but they never boycott me. So I wasn't very worried about that. Look at all that press," Trump said.He then explained why he chose to engage with the outlets at Gracie Mansion despite what he described as their failure to fairly cover his accomplishments, including winning the election, settling wars and improving economic numbers."I'm only doing it because I think the press also has an obligation," he said."We have the best economic numbers for the country in the history of our country. We have $21 trillion pouring in, the biggest number ever... Nobody's ever done what we've done," he added.
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Trump then argued that allowing certain media outlets into the White House would be
harmful to national security
, accusing them of reporting what he called "fake news.""I never get anything positive. It's always negative, even having to do with the war. We've done so well," he said, referring to Iran."You would think that an outlet would write at least reasonably well, but never. If you look at CNN, it's fake news," he added."They're very bad for the country, very bad for national security. So I have that obligation. So we'll see how it works out," he said. |
Maryland hunter's alleged mistake leaves Delaware mother dead
A Maryland hunter is accused of fatally shooting a woman after mistaking her for a deer while she walked through
a Delaware field
with her children, according to state police.Walter Moorhead, 74, was
arrested for manslaughter
and other charges after he shot Santos Maria Chilel Soto, 39, on Friday evening in Ellendale, Delaware, State Police said in a press release.Soto was walking through an open field with a man and two children at around 7:40 p.m. as Moorhead was hunting deer from a ground blind, which is a camouflaged structure used by hunters to hide from the sight of game animals.
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According to police, Moorhead believed he saw a deer and fired his rifle, striking Soto.State troopers responded to the scene and provided life-saving medical care before Soto was rushed to a local hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.Moorhead was was slapped with multiple felony charges - manslaughter recklessly causing the death of another person, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and three counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.
SUSPECT IN DEATHS OF 5 FOUND DEAD AFTER COPS UNCOVER GRIM SCENE AT RURAL PROPERTY OUTSIDE PORTLAND
He was released from custody after posting a $43,000 cash bond.The incident remains
under investigation
.Soto was described as a mother of five children and a "beloved" aunt, according to a GoFundMe page."Maria's family is now facing the overwhelming pain of this sudden loss while also trying to make sure she is laid to rest with dignity," the fundraiser reads. "This heartbreaking situation has placed a heavy financial burden on the family at a time when they are grieving deeply."The fundraiser was launched to help the family cover funeral services and the cost of sending her body to Guatemala. Roughly $12,000 has been raised as of Monday evening. |
Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart suffers knee injury against Rams, possible MCL issue feared
The optimism and good tidings the New York Giants enjoyed through the first week of the NFL season are suddenly on hold as the team is busy evaluating the status of injured quarterback
Jaxson Dart.
Dart, in his second NFL season, injured his left knee during the first series of the Monday Night Football game between the Giants and Los Angeles Rams.The injury happened on a first-quarter hit when Dart was hit by Rams defenders both high and low. And the low hit seemed to cause his left knee to bend in a manner it is not meant to bend.That's not all. The team also had a bit of a scare when receiver Malik Nabers left the game after a pass thrown his way fell incomplete. He was seen clutching his right shoulder.
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Nabers returned after missing a couple of series nursing his shoulder on the bench.The hit on Dart left the quarterback on the ground clutching at the knee of his forward leg when he throws. That is never a good sign.The saving grace: Dart's leg was not planted on the turf when he was hit.
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That allowed the entire part of the lower leg to bend with the knee.So, this is not a season-ending ACL tear.
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But Dart suffered some sort of MCL issue, according to an NFL source. If that is confirmed by an MRI scheduled for Tuesday."Yeah, we'll know more tomorrow," coach John Harbaugh said after the game. "That's in the neighborhood of it, I would say. We'll get an MRI tomorrow and have a really good feel for it, and it'll give you more information then." Dart won't need surgery, but will miss some time. This is not, however, a season-ending injury."The fact that it's not that outcome that you're talking about, the devastating outcome, is really good news," Harbaugh said.
Dart limped off the field
and was initially treated in the team's medical tent. Several teammates huddled outside the medical tent while Dart was inside, no doubt worried about the status of their starting quarterback.
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Dart was eventually escorted to the locker room, limping there under his own power.Backup quarterback
Jameis Winston
came on in his absence and was largely ineffective, throwing one interception without a touchdown and posting a passer rating of 37.7, which is bad.
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Socialist, communist groups coordinate, promote 'spontaneous' anti-ICE protests in Austin
Media accounts reported that protesters
"quickly organized"
a spontaneous anti-ICE protest at an Austin, Texas, intersection following the shooting of a Venezuelan man by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.But a
Fox News Digital investigation
shows that the protests are being promoted and organized by a coordinated network of far-left socialist and communist groups, including the Democratic Socialists of America, the
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which works closely with nonprofits funded by Neville Roy Singham, a communist American-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai.Congressional lawmakers are investigating the Singham network for allegedly fomenting the image of "chaos" in the U.S., including anti-ICE protests from Minneapolis to the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, N.J. Sure enough, Sunday evening, BreakThrough News, a pro-communist media platform operated by BreakThrough BT Media, a nonprofit funded by Singham,
published
a "BREAKING NEWS" report from Texas with the headline: "Austin erupts in protest..."
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The shooting occurred Sunday afternoon at about 12:56 p.m. Central Time near Anderson Square and Research Boulevard in Austin. Authorities said an ICE officer shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan national, during a traffic stop. Perez was hospitalized in serious but stable condition and later placed in federal custody. Local officials said Austin police weren't involved in the shooting, which is being investigated by federal authorities with assistance from the FBI.About four hours after the shooting, local socialist and communist activists were already at the scene, waving flags of Mexico, pushing the incident through their national and Texas social-media networks and broadcasting footage of the growing crowd and confrontations with Austin police.The headlines and descriptions of the demonstration have focused on the protest's anti-ICE message without identifying the political or ideological infrastructure that helped organize and promote the event. Local media headlines included KVUE reporting that
"North Austin ICE shooting draws large protest as tensions escalate,"
describing a spontaneous outburst: "What began with a handful of people gathered across the street from the scene grew into a much larger crowd over the course of several hours."But the details of the Austin protest are important because they reveal that the demonstrations represent more than an unplanned gathering of residents responding to a breaking-news event, much like the protests in Minnesota and New Jersey and Minnesota.
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The shooting provided the immediate trigger, but the mobilization was amplified by organizations with explicit revolutionary socialist and communist ideologies, established propaganda outlets and long-standing ties to international movements aligned with the
communist governments of Cuba and Venezuela
. They each have pre-existing activist networks and online audiences that organized and promoted the protests.The event also illustrates how rapidly established activist networks can convert a law-enforcement incident into a larger political action. Within hours, the groups distributed nearly identical claims, promoted the same location and used dramatic language describing the shooting as "ICE terror," "police violence" and part of a pattern of killings.At about 4:19 p.m. local time, the
Party for Socialism and Liberation's national account, @PSLNational, posted an explosive message on
X
, announcing the shooting and shouting in capital letters, "BREAKING. MAN SHOT BY ICE AGENTS IN AUSTIN. It called on residents to protest ICE, declaring, "ICE OUT OF AUSTIN NOW!"Right about then, the group's
Austin chapter
shared
the dramatic "BREAKING" graphic on Instagram, collaborating with its national headquarters and four Texas chapters in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth and Waco. By early Monday evening, about 24 hours later, the post had 5,402 likes, 2,016 reposts and 2,391 shares/sends.
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Soon after on Sunday, at about 4:30 p.m. local time, the Austin chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America posted a graphic labeled "Emergency Demonstration/Vigil" calling on supporters to gather at 8121 Research Boulevard from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday for a "spontaneous" protest."Join us at 8121 Research Blvd from 5-8 p.m. for a spontaneous protest and vigil against yet another instance of ICE and police violence," the post said.The group later reposted the notice with an updated location and said the demonstration would continue until 7 p.m.Right about then, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, an openly Marxist-Leninist group that has sent delegations to support communist regimes in Cuba and Venezuela, and its Austin chapter
published
its own hyperbolic material about the shooting. One graphic said, "ICE SHOOTS AN UNARMED CIVILIAN," while another described the incident as part of a broader pattern of "ICE violence and killings." Within 24 hours, the post garnered 620 likes, 214 reposts and 156 shares/sends.The Freedom Road Socialist Organization openly says it is working to build "a new, revolutionary, communist party." In its own program, the group says it wants to replace capitalism through a socialist revolution. The group's
program
describes the organization as part of the communist movement. In July, the group
said
it "salutes the Communist Party of China" on the 105th anniversary of its founding.For years, it's also supported the
Communist Party of Cuba
,
declaring
, "Stand with socialist Cuba," as it praised the Cuban Revolution and called for an end to U.S. sanctions against Cuba.Videos posted by the group showed demonstrators chanting, holding signs, blocking the roadway near the shooting scene and lighting fireworks.
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation official manifesto
describes
itself as a "revolutionary socialist" movement that "will open the way to communism and the end of class society." The program describes the police and state institutions as tools of capitalist rule and calls for a workers' government to replace the current system.The Party for Socialism and Liberation functions as a key boots-on-the-ground mobilizer within the broader activist ecosystem, working alongside
Singham-funded organizations
such as the People's Forum, BreakThrough News, CodePink and the ANSWER Coalition on protests, media campaigns and international solidarity efforts.The Party for Socialism and Liberation also overlaps with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization through shared "anti-imperialist" pro-communist coalitions, while the Democratic Socialists of America often provides a broader layer of street-level organizing and political amplification.The Party for Socialism and Liberation has participated in international "solidarity" efforts involving Cuba and Venezuela, along with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, according to
a communist publication, Fight Back! News
. A self-described communist co-founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Brian Becker, has said the delegation traveled "as comrades in solidarity."The facts surrounding the shooting remain under investigation. Austin officials have called for transparency and an independent review, while federal authorities have said the ICE agent's use of force is being investigated. But the protest organizers' social media posts leave little ambiguity about the political and ideological objective of the protest.
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At 5:44 p.m., @PSLNational posted
a video from the scene
, announcing, "LIVE: A crowd has gathered...", and moving from initial messaging to real-time amplification of the street protest. Its national and Austin accounts
shared
the video on Instagram synchronized with the band Rage Against the Machine's song, "We've Got to Take the Power Back." It added the message, "Austinites flooding the streets where man shot by ICE: 'ICE out of our neighborhoods,'" giving the illusion of a spontaneous "flooding" of "the streets."That evening, at 8:27 p.m., @PSLNational
published
an expanded statement on X, headlined "Justice for Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez," demanding the detainee's release and the agent's arrest and telling supporters to "follow the example of Minneapolis earlier this year until ICE terror is defeated!"An identical "Justice for Wilber..." collaborative
post on Instagram
spread through the
Party for Socialism and Liberation'sTexas and national accounts. By early Monday evening, it had 10,600 likes, 3,616 reposts and 2,343 shares/sends.By about 5 p.m. on Monday, a new
call to action
moved activists to Pearsal Detention Center, where local groups claimed ICE agents allegedly held the detainee in custody: "WE NEED YOU BOOTS ON THE GROUND...!!!" |
Chris Murphy calls for 'regulating the internet' so people won't fall for a 'demagogue like Donald Trump'
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., suggested on Sunday that the government get involved in regulating the internet to make people less likely "to fall for a bulls--- demagogue like
Donald Trump
" in the future.While appearing on the "
I've Had It
" podcast, Murphy discussed his book "Crisis of the Common Good," where he warned that America will be "stuck" with leaders like Trump unless more government action is taken to tackle loneliness and powerlessness among voters."Those are the two things I think Americans are going through right now," Murphy said. "They don't feel powerful at all, and they feel lonely. And so, government should build a set of rules in which people feel more powerful - that's why the minimum wage is so important - and people feel so more connected. That's why, you know, rebuilding healthy institutions in your town should be a project that government is involved in."
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These efforts included regulating the internet, which Murphy said could sway people away from politicians like Trump."That's why regulating the internet so that you're spending less time alone on Instagram should be an important government project," he said. "And if people are feeling more powerful and less lonely, then they are going to be less likely to fall for a bulls--- demagogue like Donald Trump. And what I say in the book is that if you really think about the things that make you more connected and make you more powerful, they're not actually super partisan."Murphy, a frequent Trump critic, continued to urge efforts to affect change."The book basically says unless you fix what's broken with the culture, you're going to be stuck with people like Trump for a long time," he added.
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In a comment to
Fox News Digital
, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle called out Murphy, saying, "Chris Murphy is a lightweight, anti-American disgrace who lies for a living."Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for action to be taken against social media companies in an effort to protect young users. Many have suggested
scaling back Section 230
, which provides broad immunity to social media platforms for their content.However, in light of recent discussions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), some Republican lawmakers have
expressed skepticism at efforts
to regulate technology, suggesting experts outside of Congress should manage AI.
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"I think the warning is real, and I think that
AI is unbelievable
- look, AI is going to cure cancer. AI is going to find solutions to get rid of diseases that we never thought we could get rid of, but it does need to have some oversight. It needs a kill switch," Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital last week. "But again, I don't think Congress has the expertise to tell an emerging technology what's the best way to go." |
How much rest should flight attendants get? New proposal ignites fight in the skies
A federal proposal that could change meal and rest-break rules for
flight attendants
is drawing opposition from major airline unions even as aviation experts applaud the plan.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing a nationwide rule that would prevent state and local governments from setting their own meal and rest-break requirements for flight attendants and pilots. Instead, federal aviation rules would apply - according to the agency's proposed rule document.
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The proposal would affect existing state protections, including meal and rest requirements that have applied to some California-based flight attendants, the document states.
Under California law
, employees generally must receive a 30-minute meal break when working more than five hours, according to the California Department of Industrial Relations. Employees generally must be relieved of all duties during that period for it to qualify as an off-duty meal break.In its proposal, the FAA argues that different state requirements could interfere with airline operations and conflict with the safety responsibilities of flight attendants.Flight attendants are responsible for handling emergency situations, including fires, medical incidents, evacuations and
unruly passengers
, according to the FAA document. Requiring a flight attendant to be completely off duty during a break could create a safety risk.The
Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
(AFA), however, opposes the proposal - arguing that it could remove state protections without establishing a federal guarantee for meal and rest breaks.The union said some flight attendants already work for hours without adequate opportunities to eat, drink, use the restroom or take care of other basic needs."While we understand compliance with state laws is not without its challenges, we are far more concerned about the safety impacts of flight attendants working under onerous working conditions," the unions wrote in their joint comments to the FAA.The unions also argued that the proposed protections are "extremely vague" and do not provide enough assurance that airline policies will address both safety and flight attendants' needs."The proposed rule does little to ensure protections for flight attendants without specific contractual protections," the unions wrote.
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The FAA's proposal does not prevent flight attendants from
eating, drinking
or using the restroom. Instead, airlines would have to allow them to meet those needs while ensuring they remain available for safety responsibilities, according to the document.Michael J. Boyd, president of aviation consulting firm Boyd Group International based in Colorado, told Fox News Digital that, in his opinion, the FAA's approach makes sense given
the safety role of flight attendants
.Boyd is not connected to the rule developments and expressed his opinion based on his experience in the aviation industry."They're on duty," Boyd said. "You can't break like that in the middle of the sky."
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"They have to be on duty because they're a safety function, just like pilots are,
just like firefighters are
," he added.Boyd said he does not believe flight attendants would see major changes to their day-to-day work if the proposal is finalized."Nothing will change," he said. "All they're saying is that state rules do not supersede FAA rules."Boyd also expressed concern that state break requirements could require airlines to add more flight attendants to provide coverage, raising costs.
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Under the current federal system, meal and break arrangements can be addressed through airline policies and collective bargaining agreements, according to the FAA document.Federal rules also require flight attendants to receive
10 consecutive hours of rest
between duty periods, the agency noted.The proposed rule has not been approved or taken effect.Fox News Digital reached out to the FAA and AFA for comment. |
Paris Hilton heartbroken over Presley Gerber's death at 27 as she remembers his 'gentle heart'
Those who knew Presley Gerber best are sharing a personal glimpse at the man behind the famous family following his death.Friends and loved ones mourned Gerber - son of
Cindy Crawford
and Rande Gerber - after the 27-year-old model died Sunday at a rehabilitation facility, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.
Paris Hilton
was among those mourning Gerber's death, remembering him as a "beautiful soul" who "will be so deeply missed."
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"Presley, you were such a beautiful soul. So sweet, sensitive, kind and genuine," she added. "I cared about you so much, and I'm going to miss you more than words can say."I'll always cherish the memories we shared - the laughs, the conversations, and just being around you. You had such a gentle heart and there was something so special about you that anyone who was lucky enough to know you could feel.""I hope you knew how deeply loved you were and how many people cared about you," she wrote. "My heart is with your entire family during this unimaginable time. Rest in peace, my friend. Love you forever. You will be so deeply missed."
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Brooklyn Beckham
also paid tribute on his Instagram story."I am so heartbroken," he wrote. "Presley you were the kindest and we are going to miss you so much x we love you."Friends also flooded the comments of Gerber's final Instagram post."love you brother," Brody Jenner commented along with a dove emoji and a broken heart."Praying for your family," Khloé Kardashian added.
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Social media star Chase Keith commented, "Rest in peace man."While Gerber's family has yet to publicly pay tribute following his death, a representative for the family told Fox News Digital, "The family is asking for privacy during this very difficult and painful time."In August,
Kaia Gerber
spoke candidly about her brother in an interview with Vogue."My parents for most of our lives were very, very private and didn't share anything - and now we have this absolute teacher, my brother, who says, 'I'm gonna be very human for everyone,'" she
told the outlet
. "There's only so much you can hide from the world. And trying to put a lid on something just makes the person feel like you're ashamed of them."
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Gerber followed his famous mother into modeling as a teenager, signing with IMG Models at 15 and made his runway debut for Moschino in 2016. He quickly established his own fashion résumé, walking major runways and appearing in advertising campaigns.The model worked on campaigns with Dolce & Gabbana, Celine and Calvin Klein - including a Calvin Klein campaign with his sister.Gerber also worked with Pepsi, appearing alongside Crawford in a 2018 Super Bowl commercial that played off his mother's famous history with the brand.In recent years, Gerber also spoke publicly about his experiences with
mental health and addiction
, saying he hoped his openness could help other people facing similar struggles. |
Trumpeter Dr Jesse McGuire belts national anthem after instrument malfunctions in unforgettable MLB moment
After being the
Arizona Diamondbacks
' good-luck charm during their 2001 World Series run, trumpeter Dr. Jesse McGuire played the national anthem for the MLB franchise once more to commemorate 25 years since that last Fall Classic victory.McGuire was known to perform the national anthem during that postseason, which included a decisive World Series Game 7 walk-off victory over the
New York Yankees
, whom the Diamondbacks just so happened to schedule their 25-year World Series anniversary for during their weekend series.In fact, McGuire's lore in Arizona led to him getting his own World Series ring.
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But during his rendition on Saturday, with a sell-out crowd at Chase Field to celebrate and watch the D-Backs face off against the Yankees, McGuire's trumpet began to malfunction.It wasn't the smooth song that McGuire was known for, but it was the equipment that was giving him a hard time. McGuire tried to correct it, but after realizing in the beginning of The Star-Spangled Banner that it wouldn't cut it, he reacted in the best way possible.McGuire sang the rest of the way.
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The 68-year-old, who once served as the lead trumpeter for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in
New York City
, while also performing his trumpeted anthem for three U.S. presidents, took the microphone and started to belt the words right where he left off.The crowd gave him a quick cheer before going silent again to honor the Stars and Stripes, as McGuire continued to show his vocal range in front of the mass crowd.As McGuire reached the climax of the anthem, the large American flag began to wave in the outfield, bringing together a beautiful scene before first pitch that almost went totally awry.McGuire didn't seem too happy at the end of the anthem because his trumpet wouldn't work properly, but he can't be mad at all after showcasing his vocal range in front of a crowd that gave him a standing ovation at the end.Even Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo was quick to show his respect to McGuire as he was leaving the field, commending him on the quick and patriotic act.And if that wasn't enough, McGuire was back in the seventh inning to perform "God Bless America," and yes, he sang this one as well.Much like that Game 7 victory, where Luis Gonzalez famously hit a bloop single off Hall of Fame Yankees closer Mariano Rivera to win it all, the Diamondbacks walked off the Yankees thanks to a Pavin Smith two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to keep the team's postseason hopes alive.
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National Park Service director calls Yellowstone's wild bison recovery an 'incredible conservation story'
A little more than a century ago,
Yellowstone's bison
were hanging on by a thread.Today, thousands of them roam the park. And the conservation challenge has shifted from simply saving the herd to figuring out how to manage a thriving one.
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During an interview with OutKick OutDoors, Jessica Bowron, acting director of the
National Park Service
, called the recovery an "incredible conservation story."After millions of bison once roamed the Great Plains, the animals were nearly wiped out across their historic range. Rebuilding those populations, Bowron said, has taken decades of careful scientific work and cooperation among the Park Service and its Tribal, state, local and federal partners."To show up at Yellowstone today and have the experience as a visitor of seeing a
wild bison
in a functioning ecosystem, I don't know that we could have predicted that 100 years ago," Bowron said.That's a pretty remarkable turnaround.And now, Yellowstone's bison are helping build conservation herds far beyond the park itself.Through the Bison Conservation Transfer Program, Yellowstone works with Tribal partners to relocate live bison that have completed the necessary quarantine process.Since 2019, more than 600 bison have been transferred to 29 tribes across 13 states, according to Bowron. More than 200 were transferred in 2026 alone."This is one of the coolest parts of this entire conservation effort," Bowron said.Once the animals are transferred, she explained, each tribe can manage its herd according to its own priorities and sovereignty."It's a great example of how we're able to
establish and expand conservation herds
through that kind of partnership," Bowron said.But conservation success doesn't mean the work is finished.In some places, rebuilding the population remains the goal. At Yellowstone, Bowron said the challenge now is largely about managing the healthy herd that's already there."I think at Yellowstone, we're in the latter - figuring out how to successfully manage the herd that we have with all of our partners," she said.At the same time, the Park Service continues to pursue live-transfer opportunities with tribes interested in establishing or expanding conservation herds.The Yellowstone story is also a reminder that conservation wins don't happen overnight.Bowron said rebuilding bison populations has taken decades of scientific monitoring and cooperation among Tribal, state, local and federal partners.
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And even after a species rebounds, the work changes rather than disappears.For generations, the question was whether wild bison could survive at all in places like Yellowstone.Now, wildlife managers are dealing with a very different question: What do you do when the comeback works?Bison don't care where Yellowstone's boundary lines are drawn. They move across a massive landscape, meaning managing a successful herd requires cooperation among the Park Service and the many communities and agencies surrounding it.But the fact that there is a healthy herd to manage - and enough animals to help establish conservation herds elsewhere - would have been difficult to imagine a century ago.For anyone who's ever sat in
Yellowstone traffic
because a bison decided the middle of the road belonged to him, it might be easy to forget just how close America came to losing that experience entirely.
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Today, seeing those animals wander through the park feels almost inevitable.It wasn't always.So yeah, you can definitely call it a comeback.
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Chiefs coach suggests Taylor Swift has sparked Travis Kelce's performance in first two weeks of season
Travis Kelce
had a vintage game in the Kansas City Chiefs' overtime win against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night.He had nine catches on 11 targets for 101 yards and a touchdown. It was the first time he had gone over 100 yards receiving in a regular-season game since Nov. 4, 2024, against the
Houston Texans
. He also had 117 yards against the Texans in the playoffs back on Jan. 18, 2025.
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Kelce might be the first one to tell you that at 36 he can't move the way he could at 26. However, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid suggested on Monday there may be a little added motivation given who he's married to."Trav worked his tail off," Reid told reporters. "That's the bottom line, and I think he probably said it after the game somewhere there that the amount of work he put in. He likes his surrounding cast, that's around him too, which sure helps as just an extra challenge there to make sure that you're up there and competing and doing your part with that other group."So, he takes a lot of pride in that, but I know ... everybody questioned with
the wedding
and all that. Would he be out of shape and honeymooning the whole time and all that? But 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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Swift has been at both Chiefs games so far this year. Against the Colts, she flashed her wedding ring to the crowd when Kelce scored a touchdown. She let out a jubilant, "That's my husband," when he scored.Reid said Kelce's focus on physical well-being was something that the tight end targeted in the offseason."He's really focused in on his body strength and his glutes and everything where you develop all the power and speed and maintain it and he's done a good job in those areas, where he's been able to maintain good explosiveness," Reid said.The Chiefs picked up the narrow 33-30 victory against the Colts to move to 2-0 to begin the season. |
Fury erupts over Mamdani parade invite as old Columbus insult resurfaces: 'Are you kidding me?'
A decision to invite New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to Manhattan's annual Columbus Day Parade has sparked backlash among some Italian-American leaders.The Columbus Citizens Foundation, which is responsible for holding the parade, invited Mamdani in the hopes of fostering a better relationship between City Hall and the Italian-American community,
the New York Post reported
. Mamdani's past criticism of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, however, has sparked backlash among Italians who feel inviting the mayor is in poor taste."Are you kidding me? This is a WEAK and FECKLESS move by the organizers," Italian American Civil Rights League president Mike Crispi
wrote
on X. "Zohran has showed contempt for our people and kissing a** won't change his true feelings. Italian Americans need to wake up and get tough. It's the only way to preserve our culture."Crispi's criticism was a reference to a 2020 social media post where Mamdani posted a photo of himself brandishing his middle finger at a statue of Columbus with the caption "take it down." Columbus holds a near-legendary status among Italian Americans, with the 15th-century explorer viewed by many as a historic link between their heritage and the United States.
'DIE HARD' ACTOR ROBERT DAVI BLASTS MAMDANI AFTER NYC MAP OMITS LITTLE ITALY
"We feel cooperating is always the better path . . . and we hope to create a good relationship with his office," Columbus Citizens Foundation president Christopher Loiacono told the New York Post when asked about his decision to invite Mamdani. "We hope he will be more open to [working] with the Italian community."It is unclear if Mamdani has accepted the invitation to the parade. Columbus Day falls on Monday, Oct. 12, with New York City's annual Columbus Day Parade set for Manhattan."This is a man who has made it clear that he doesn't respect Christopher Columbus, and he doesn't even think us enough of a group to put on his immigrant enclave map," New York City Councilwoman Joann Ariola, a Republican from Queens,
wrote
in response. "Why would he want to be there? To get pictures and pretend he's a paisan now? He should sit this one out."
MAMDANI WON'T ATTEND ISRAEL DAY PARADE, BREAKING DECADES-LONG MAYORAL TRADITION AMID ANTISEMITISM SURGE
Ariola's comment was an apparent reference to a map of ethnic enclaves published by the city earlier this year that excluded
Little Italy, which also sparked backlash
from Italians. The map was initially created by the previous administration in 2023, and Mamdani said his administration added several neighborhoods before releasing the 2026 version.Nonetheless, Mamdani has moved to update the map to include Little Italy.A Columbus Day parade wouldn't be the first public event Mamdani has attended this year to draw organized opposition to his presence. The mayor's presence at the
annual memorial service at Ground Zero
on Sept. 11 spurred some family members of victims to circulate a petition demanding that he stay home."Just as Mamdani's presence at the 9/11 Ceremony was inappropriate, we Italian/Americans don't want him on Columbus Day either," right-wing political operative Roger Stone
wrote
on X.Some non-Italians are offended on behalf of the community.
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"I'm not Italian but I've been an honorary dignitary for 5 years running at the Columbus Day Parade thanks to my friend Angelo Vivolo," Jewish radio host Sid Rosenberg
wrote
on X. "The organizers of the parade invited [Mamdani] to attend? What? This Radical Islam mother f*cker gave the finger to a Columbus statue and left Little Italy/Arthur Avenue OFF his bullsh*t immigrant map ... When did my Italian brothers and sisters become so soft! ... I will NOT attend this year if he is there.""The Italians need to step up and stop this!" he added.Crispi has threatened to hold a competing Columbus Day parade next year if the Columbus Citizens Foundation does not revoke its invitation to the mayor.The Mayor's office and the Columbus Citizens Foundation did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday. |
'The View' host Sunny Hostin claims her children experienced racism at private schools
"The View"
co-host Sunny Hostin
suggested Monday that her children faced racism while attending "predominantly White" private schools.Hostin brought up the topic while discussing 1619 Project founder and The New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, who
recently admitted she regretted
aspects of her decision to send her daughter to predominantly Black, high-poverty public schools in Brooklyn in an effort to challenge educational inequality.Hostin empathized with Hannah-Jones' situation but suggested there were additional problems with sending Black children to "predominantly White" private schools.
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"I think that this is a decision broadly that all parents make when it comes to educating their kids, but ... this is a very difficult decision for Black parents, in particular, because I made a very different decision," Hostin said. "I sent my children to private schools, a predominantly White private school. So, while they didn't suffer academically, they excelled, but it was a well-funded school, a private school, well-resourced school, they suffered a different type of pain.""There was psychological trauma,
there was racism
that they experienced," she added. "They were bullied. There was, you know, trauma around their identity. My daughter wears a big afro, kids were trying to stick pencils in her hair. Boys were calling her butter face, meaning she looked good, but her face, and she is a beautiful girl."While Hostin conceded that her children "did not struggle academically" like Hannah-Jones' daughter reported, she expressed concerns about the "systemic problem" affecting predominantly non-White school districts.
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"So I think the real question here is, nationally, schools in predominantly non-White districts receive $23 billion less in annual funding than their White counterparts. Underfunded schools versus well-funded schools. So public schools are funded from property taxes. So we need to look at the systemic problem that's happening in this country around public education," Hostin said.Fox News Digital reached out to ABC and Ethical Culture Fieldston School, where Hostin
previously sent her children
, for comment but did not immediately receive a response. In a comment to
Fox News Digital
, Hannah-Jones said that the broader focus should remain on families who lack the resources to pursue better educational options for their children, rather than her decisions for her children.
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"I hope people concerned about the choice my husband and I made for our daughter will have equal or more outrage for the thousands of Black children whose parents don't have the resources to send them to better schools," she said. "As I write in the piece, there is no absolution to be had for any of us." |
Rep Eric Burlison: 'Most of my colleagues' are 'drunk on spending other people's money, even Republicans'
Facing a national debt that has exploded past $40 trillion,
Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison
isn't holding back on his own colleagues - accusing Washington lawmakers on both sides of the aisle of being "drunk on spending" while working-class families pay the price.Burlison recently sat down for an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital to discuss fiscal prudence, healthcare, inflation, and how Republicans can lift their fortunes ahead of midterm elections just six weeks away.
CONGRESSMAN ERIC BURLISON: IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, 'THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE PRISON'
"Most of my colleagues like to spend money...they like to spend other people's money. They're drunk on spending other people's money, even Republicans, unfortunately, and there's few people up here like myself who were willing to make significant spending reductions. "And so we had to fight tooth and nail to get any spending reductions in the
Big, Beautiful Bill
. And we were demonized by the left, obviously, but we had to fight members even on our own side of the aisle to make those spending reductions."But, look, at some point, the party is going to be over, and we are all gonna wake up in a drunken stupor with a hangover, and it's going to be painful, and we're going to have to figure out how to get our way out of that. "All of these sins of overspending are haunting us. And now we're seeing...inflation that we can't control. We're seeing the interest rates go through the roof. At some point, you can't keep borrowing money...Sadly, my colleagues that weren't willing to cut spending are going to be forced to cut spending."Despite seeking to portray themselves as the party of affordability, the GOP seems to have a major messaging problem as it heads into the tumultuous midterm elections.Burlison points to healthcare as the main problem:"I mean, again, it's really sad. This office has been broadcasting to the leadership every chance that we can that the American people are feeling the crunch, they're feeling the affordability crunch. We put together a solution that we call the Great American healthcare plan. We also have another bill that addresses the housing affordability issue. "This office has been doing everything we can to try to fix the affordability issue and have been putting these ideas and solutions in the faces of leadership for at least two years. It's just unfortunate that we can't get people to do the difficult things. And sadly that's because Washington DC doesn't like to do difficult things and fixing healthcare is the number one thing that we should be looking to do.
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"Healthcare cost is eating away everyone's discretionary dollars...In the year 2000, the average American family was paying $6,000 a year for insurance premiums for a family of four. Today, that's $27,000 a year. If that had followed normal inflation, that would only be $11,000 per year. "So if you ask the average family of four, would you like to be paying health insurance premiums at $11,000 a year, they would say, heck, yeah, that sounds like a great deal. That is not what they're paying today. They're paying $27,000. So if you think about that, just that alone, that is crowding out everything else that the average American family has to pay. You have to come up with another $16,000 that you didn't have to come up with before, in order to pay for a healthcare system that has exceeded inflation by three-fold. "So three times normal inflation for the healthcare premiums, health insurance premiums. It's not sustainable, and it's crowded out everything else, and it is the reason why young people cannot afford to buy a home. It's the reason why people have a hard time going out to eat. It's a reason why people aren't going on vacation as much. People are having to make very difficult choices, and it's not the same choices that people had to make 20 years ago."As
Elon Musk and DOGE-fervor
swept across the nation's capital at the beginning of 2025, Burlison's initial enthusiasm soon turned to disappointment as he saw colleagues avoid much-needed spending cuts:"DOGE was the most exciting thing I've ever seen in politics. And I was super excited about it. But I also was skeptical. I watched Elon come give speeches to my colleagues. And what was ironic is that some of the most swampy members of Congress were rushing to the microphones to embrace Elon to talk to him to tell him where he should go to look for spending reductions. "And yet those very people were the ones that were voting against every spending reduction that you would ever bring to the floor. We've had hundreds and hundreds of opportunities to cut spending... We submitted hundreds of amendments to the appropriations committees to cut spending and yet each and every time, anytime there's ever a vote to cut spending, they fail. "So, look. All we have to do as Republicans is look in the mirror and say where's the problem? It's me, it's us...I'm one of these almost going extinct members of the Republican Party that still believes in fiscal prudence, still believes and in cutting spendings this small government free market conservative. But unfortunately, that's not how all of my colleagues feel."Burlison argues that the GOP has a fundamental messaging problem and has urged his colleagues to zero in on their economic pitch to the American public, with a particular focus on the healthcare crisis:"So, in my opinion, it's not enough to run against a platform. If you have to provide a vision to the American people, and if you ask the American voter today, what will the Republican Party do if they're reelected...I don't think that they would know. And so to me, the vision that I would provide is to say, 'we're going to fix healthcare. We're going to make healthcare affordable. We're gonna to make it a free market. The prices are going to be transparent, and you're going to know exactly what you're buying'."Finally, Burlison has a quick prescription for bringing down pain at the pump tied to the engagement in Iran:"Well, conservatives, we love cutting taxes and I think that we should be cutting the fuel taxes during this period of time. I would love to eliminate the taxes altogether, but at least it would make sense that during this conflict that we should cut taxes on both gas and diesel until this war is resolved."I think that that would have a pretty good impact on people's pocketbooks. I mean you're talking for diesel that would be 40 cents a gallon. That's, that's pretty significant." |
Italian PM pushes foreign student cap in classrooms, burqa, niqab ban in schools
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced plans Sept. 20 to introduce legislation capping the number of foreign students in Italian classrooms and banning face-covering garments, including
burqas and niqabs
, in schools.The conservative leader said her proposed measures aim to foster integration, preserve Italian cultural identity and ensure that native children do not feel sidelined in the classroom."There's no way that in an Italian classroom, the ones who feel marginalized are Italian children because they have become a minority," Meloni said during a speech to Gioventù Nazionale, the youth wing of her conservative
Brothers of Italy
party, in Rome, according to
reports
.
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Under the proposal, individual classrooms would have limits on non-Italian students to prevent heavy concentrations in specific districts.Meloni did not specify the exact cap but said the government would also require mandatory Italian-language lessons for parents of foreign pupils who struggle to integrate."For us, anyone who comes to Italy and wants to build their future here must learn our language, understand our culture, and respect our rules," Meloni said,
The Associated Press
reported."It is the only serious way to welcome them."Students who don't hold Italian citizenship account for around 11.6% of school enrollment nationwide, according to Italy's Education Ministry cited by the
ISMU ETS Foundation
.Under Italian law, children born to foreign parents also do not automatically gain citizenship at birth and must wait until age 18 before they can apply.
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Meloni argued that high concentrations of non-native speakers impact the learning process for everyone involved."If in a classroom there is only one child who doesn't understand Italian, it is possible that that child will manage, with the help of his peers and teachers, to learn the language and integrate fast," she said."But if these children are many, or even the majority, that's not integration anymore, that's abandonment."The proposed package also targets religious face coverings, explicitly prohibiting burqas and niqabs in educational institutions while permitting other forms of Islamic dress, such as the hijab.In a series of posts on X on Monday, the
Brothers of Italy
party reinforced the prime minister's message:"Those who choose to build their future in Italy must learn our language, know our culture, and respect our rules."School is attended with one's face uncovered. No tradition can impose on a young woman the obligation to hide herself."
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A subsequent
post
added: "Limit on the number of foreign students in classrooms, obligation for parents of pupils with serious integration difficulties to learn Italian, and ban on burqas and niqabs in educational institutions."Integration comes through knowledge of our language, respect for our rules, and protection of our cultural identity."Several European neighbors, including
France
and Belgium, have previously imposed bans on face-coverings in public places, though enforcement and legal frameworks differ.The proposed Italian legislation is expected to be considered by Italy's Council of Ministers before being sent to Parliament for consideration.Meloni, who has led Brothers of Italy since 2014 and served as president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party from 2020 to 2025, has governed Italy since 2022.Her administration recently surpassed previous records set by Silvio Berlusconi to become the longest-serving uninterrupted government in modern Italian history. |
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