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James O’Keefe, Cam Higby Criminally Charged for Exposing Vulnerable Minnesota Election

Investigative journalists James O’Keefe and Cameron Higby have been hit with felony charges by left-wing Minneapolis prosecutors for their video exposing vulnerable loopholes in Minnesota’s elections.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty accused conservative media personalities O’Keefe, 42, and Higby, 26, of “try[ing] to sow doubt about Minnesota’s secure voting systems” on Wednesday:

The journalist duo recorded footage of Higby entering Minnesota polling locations during the state’s August primary while donning Muslim garb in an effort to show how the voting system could be abused by registered voters being able to “vouch” for another person from the same precinct’s eligibility. Click here to read more.

 

Washington Post Ends Election Season With Dumbest Investigation Of All Time

“Democracy dies in darkness,” The Washington Post informed readers in February of 2017 — but the newspaper’s last-ditch attempt to shade President Donald Trump ahead of the midterm elections is laughable at best.

The Post’s 11th-hour investigation dug into President Trump’s proposed new monument celebrating 250 years of American independence — dubbed “Independence Arch” — and determined through digital modeling that the structure would, at times, cast a shadow over parts of Arlington National Cemetery.

The outlet ran a digital simulation showing the shadows that would be cast by the monument over the course of a full year, and then published the findings on Tuesday — one week before Election Day. Click here to read more.

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Albany’s New Assisted Dying Law Follows Canada’s Deadly Cost-Cutting Playbook

New York State assisted dying was signed into law in February, and by the end of September, an estimated 20 patients had already received prescriptions for life-ending treatment.

New York is the 14th state, including Washington, D.C., to legalize some form of the controversial procedure, with advocates arguing on moral grounds to ease suffering. Yet the debate is not about compelling anyone to endure agony. The real concern is institutional, and Britain and Canada demonstrate how assisted dying incentivizes state-sponsored death.

In Britain, MPs voted 286 to 270 against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill last month, halting the legislation at its second reading. The proposal would have permitted mentally competent adults in England and Wales with less than six months to live to request assistance ending their lives. Click here to read more.

 

Camp Grayling’s drone testing leads to Michigan deer hunting closures

More than 20,000 acres within Camp Grayling’s boundaries in Northern Michigan will be closed to hunting as the U.S. Military conducts testing on its drone program.

The temporary shuttering of more than 10% of the area within the complex operated by the Michigan National Guard will take place during deer firearm season.

A notice from the U.S. Army and Air Force said the short-term closures are to keep the public safe from “active testing zones.”

Combat-ready drones

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According to an October release from the military, Camp Grayling is supporting a “vital federal defense program” that includes the evaluation of tens of thousands of combat-ready drones.

The work precedes the “testing and delivering” of drones that will eventually be wielded by the soldiers fighting abroad, the release said. Click here to read more.

 

How Florida took the lead in battling big tech

Florida’s attorney general asked a judge to restrict children’s access to Meta’s platforms, won a court ruling allowing a social-media ban for minors and sued messaging platform Discord for allegedly failing to protect children from predators. That was all in just one week earlier this month.

Florida has staked a position as one of the most aggressive states taking on artificial intelligence and Big Tech, bucking President Trump and channeling growing consumer anxieties about AI. Spearheaded by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier, both Republicans, the multi-front effort aims to rein in AI model development, guard consumer privacy and protect minors from social-media harms. Click here to read more.

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XX-XY Athletics activist speaks out on ejection from NWSL match after fans threw food and beer at them

Around 20 “Save Women’s Sports” activists wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts were forcibly escorted out of a Portland Thorns match on Friday night after members of the group were struck and verbally berated by other fans during a demonstration supporting female-only sports.

Women’s sports activist Amy Sousa told OutKick that she and other XX-XY Athletics attendees filed police reports after being escorted out of the stadium.

In a Tuesday appearance on “The Faulkner Focus,” Sousa said she and others were bombarded with food, beer, flags and poles.

"This is a bit of political theater. We went with a very clear message, and our message was 'Save women's sports.' And we were forcibly removed from a women's sporting event for expressing support for the very category that makes that event possible," Sousa said on Tuesday. "Those words are really our purpose, and our purpose is to draw attention to issues that go far beyond the NWSL and impact girls in real time - in their high schools, in their junior highs and in their elementary schools. It is about professional athletics, but it is also about the girls that are facing this on their level." Click here to read more.

 

The Online Gambling Industry Has Its Eyes On Your Teenage Son

Online gambling is about to ravage many young men’s futures.

An opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times recently compared celebrities promoting online gambling sites to spokespersons for cigarette companies in the past. It’s an apt comparison, considering the tension between online betting’s glamorous persona and its frequent reality of financial debt, addiction, suicide, and devastation to marriages and families.

The global sports betting market is worth over $120 billion. Prediction markets, which allow the average citizen to place bets on the outcome of everyday events, are on track to reach an astounding $1 trillion in volume by 2030.

Many bettors, however, fail to recognize that this isn’t a lucrative, skill-based path toward financial freedom; it is, instead, risky and dependent on chance. Click here to read more.

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Feds Raid Beverly Hills Mansion In Connection To Disgraced Dem Eric Swalwell

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided a mansion in Beverly Hills, California, Tuesday in connection with an investigation into former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, a law enforcement source told the Daily Caller.

The latest raid is part of the FBI’s ongoing criminal investigation into the disgraced congressman. The FBI previously stopped Swalwell at San Francisco International Airport and executed search warrants at his Washington, D.C., home, seizing several personal electronics. Click here to read more.

 

Arrests, Prosecutions and Deportations Fuel Record Drop in Crime

The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration’s embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped 31%. Property crime fell 19%. Except for rape, these are the largest one-year reductions recorded since data collection began 53 years ago.

The reductions followed substantial increases during the previous four years, when felony violent crime rose 59% and violent crime, including misdemeanor simple assault, increased 42%. Click here to read more.

 

The Hydrogen Economy Was Promised Billions. What Happened?

Washington promised billions trying to build a hydrogen economy, expecting new jobs, lower emissions and a major new source of American energy. But a new RealClearInvestigations report by James Varney finds that hydrogen remains expensive, low-emission production is still limited, and major federally backed projects have been paused.

On The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller speaks with Varney about what taxpayers have to show for the investment, whether Washington tried to scale hydrogen too quickly, and whether hydrogen has become a viable market without billions more in government support. Varney’s full investigation can be found here.

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Ann Arbor pours millions into 262-home neighborhood to go ‘carbon neutral’

The city of Ann Arbor has set a goal to have the first neighborhood in the country to be carbon neutral, meaning the neighborhood won’t produce in aggregate greenhouse gas emissions.

Ann Arbor is committing millions of dollars in federal, state and local tax funding to transform its Bryant neighborhood. City officials hope it will become one of the nation’s first carbon-neutral neighborhoods.

The Bryant neighborhood sits in a floodplain bordered by a landfill and I-94.

Public funding includes nearly $10.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for geothermal heating and cooling, a $3.1 million Michigan grant to improve 50 homes, and a separate $5 million state award supporting a solar power pilot and the city’s Sustainable Energy Utility. Local property taxes will fund neighborhood outreach. Click here to read more.

 

The Anti-Capitalist System Keeping Americans From Reading Books

“In 1939,” writes Ned Rust for Bhaskar Sunkara’s socialist magazine, “the 25¢ paperback made America a nation of readers, delivering thrillers, classics, and Pulitzer-winning books. So why did the Big Five publishers just kill the mass market paperback?”

Just last year, the Big Five publishing houses (Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster) collectively ended mass-market paperback distribution, a compact book format popularized in 1939 that dominated the literary market in the 20th century. At their peak, writes Rust, these books sold close to “one hundred thousand units each, with a population a little over a third the size of today’s United States.” Today, however, Rust continues, “corporate consolidation” has “enshittified the product to the point where it has abetted the decline in consumer demand.” Click here to read more.

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UC Berkeley Professor Abandons Grading Students’ Homework Due to Overuse of AI

A UC Berkeley professor has reportedly abandoned grading assignments after noticing that his students have been abusing AI to secure top scores.

“Student use of AI for homework is now widespread,” Richard Borcherds told the California Post. “Grading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework instead of doing it themselves, and penalizes students for honesty.”

Borcherds — a renowned mathematician who received the prestigious Fields Medal in 1998 — added that there is “no point” in paying to have students’ work evaluated for artificial intelligence, calling it a waste of time and money. Click here to read more.

 

Not even 19% of CTU spending in 2026 went to teacher representation

The Chicago Teachers Union’s recent federal filing shows it does not prioritize its members in its spending.

The union just filed its annual LM-2, which details its receipts and disbursements from its 2026 fiscal year. What it reveals:

• Less than 19% of CTU’s spending was on “representational activities.”

• CTU spent more running its internal operations than on representing teachers.

• CTU spent nearly $2.6 million on politics.

• Stacy Davis Gates gave herself a 7.5% raise, bringing her total compensation to more than $310,000. (That includes her pay from the Illinois Federation of Teachers, where she also is president.)

• More than 50 CTU employees made over $100,000.

With CTU members paying more than $1,500 a year in union dues, they may question whether they are getting a good return on their money. Click here to read more.

 

Armed Citizens Stopped 36.6 Percent of ‘Active Shooter Incidents’ From 2014 Through 2025

A report by Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) president John Lott shows armed citizens stopped a third of all “active shooter incidents” from 2014 through 2025.

Lott then presented the CPRC data as a correction to FBI reports which claim armed citizens only topped 3.9 percent of the incidents.

He noted that during his time in the Department of Justice during President Trump’s first term, his duties “included evaluating the FBI’s active-shooter reports.” In so doing, he “discovered that the reports omitted or misclassified numerous cases in which armed civilians stopped attacks.” Click here to read more.