The president has announced a concert and rally for the Fourth of July concert at the Lincoln Memorial.

The concert is a part of the 250th anniversary celebration of the Declaration of Independence and will now be followed by a massive Trump rally.

‘We will have none of those people that put you to sleep and constantly complain!’

President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday morning that the rally would be held to “honor our Country’s People, Spirit, Strength, Resolve, and Triumphs.”

He said it would be the largest formation of military music and ceremonial performances in history.

“With the backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial and surrounding the beautifully new Reflecting Pool,” he wrote, “more than 300 Members of our strong and talented Military Bands, Orchestras, and Ceremonial Units, will perform Patriotic Melodies and American Classics, and my Playlist (We will have none of those people that put you to sleep and constantly complain!), as we celebrate our Country, and Rally into the next 250 years.”

The 250th celebration has already been kicked off at the White House after the president had UFC fights in front of the White House on Sunday.

The president went on to say the “spectacular” July 4th show would include flyovers and airshows as well as the largest fireworks show in history.

The plans for the celebration were disrupted after several singers backed out of their agreements to perform at the Great American State Fair, organized by Freedom 250. Martina McBride, Young MC, Flo Rida, and Morris Day and the Time all backed out, leaving rapper Vanilla Ice as the only one still willing to perform.

McBride claimed that she had been “presented with an opportunity to perform at a nonpartisan event” but that she was misled about the show.

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“I asked lots of questions and was assured this was a nonpartisan event that was meant to celebrate ALL 50 states,” she added.

Trump concluded his post saying, “Do not miss it. See you on JULY 4th in Washington, D.C.”

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There is today perhaps no greater thorn in the side of the British liberal establishment than counter-jihad activist Tommy Robinson.

The 43-year-old son of an Irishwoman and an Englishman has proven time and again that he is able not only to draw crowds numbered in the tens of thousands but to focus British working-class fury over the fallout of mass immigration, the failure of multiculturalism, the threats posed by radical Islam, and the efforts by the powers that be to cover up and/or contain various related scandals.

‘This is an attack on free speech.’

In the wake of his criticism over the horrific death of 18-year-old Englishman Henry Nowak at the hand of a Sikh in England and the near-beheading of Scotsman Stephen Ogilvie by a Sudanese suspect in Belfast, Robinson found himself once again in police custody under the British equivalent of the Patriot Act.

Robinson noted in a Saturday post on X, “I’M A TERRORIST AGAIN. I have been detained at Heathrow Airport today for the best part of 3 hours. I was detained under section 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019.”

Under schedule 3 of the counter-terrorism law, an examining officer “may question a person for the purpose of determining whether the person appears to be a person who is, or has been, engaged in hostile activity” if that person is at a port or in a border area and appears to be entering or leaving the country, or if that person is on a ship or aircraft that has touched down in the United Kingdom.

RELATED: African suspected of trying to cut white Briton’s head off identified — while police fret about online critics

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“Hostile activity” is defined as acts threatening national security, acts threatening the economic well-being of the U.K., or serious crimes carried out for or on behalf of a foreign power.

Per the legislation, it is “immaterial” whether the detainee is “aware that activity in which they are or have been engaged is hostile activity.”

Robinson claimed that his phone had been seized by police — just as it had when he was detained by Kent police under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act while attempting to travel in July 2024 to Spain, where he now lives.

The Westminster Magistrates’ Court determined in November that Robinson’s previous detention under the Terrorism Act was unlawful and cleared the activist of the corresponding charge.

According to paperwork dated Saturday that Robinson was provided with and later shared online, an examining officer at the airport seized the Englishman’s iPhone and Samsung Galaxy A16 on suspicion that the devices “could be used in connection with the carrying out of a hostile act.”

“Absolute f**king madness,” Robinson wrote.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told the BBC that a man in his 40s was stopped under the counter-terrorism law at Heathrow Airport after returning to the U.K. from Russia via Turkey.

Robinson — who met with Elon Musk’s father, Errol, while in Moscow — told the Guardian last week that he had traveled to Russia “to see how this country got itself so well on to the straight and narrow and see the beauty of a civilized society.”

The Metropolitan Police spokesperson stated that the man stopped on Saturday “was interviewed by officers and his communication devices were seized. He was subsequently released.”

A spokesperson for Robinson speculated that police confiscated the activist’s communication devices because “they likely want to see who he is talking to, and maybe find out who his sources are, sources who will expose politicians for their part in the rape of a generation of British girls.”

“This is an attack on free speech, this is an attack on investigative journalism, nothing more nothing less,” the spokesperson added.

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Anthropic helped build the AI race. Now, it’s warning the finish line may be coming faster than anyone expected.

The company, recently valued at a staggering $965 billion, says its latest AI systems are approaching dangerous capabilities that could fundamentally change the future of technology, prompting calls for a worldwide slowdown in frontier AI development.

“They did this because it’s getting close to improving itself without human help,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray explains on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“In April, Claude ran a full AI research project completely on its own. Humans picked the topic and then it just did it. Claude came up with every experiment, ran every test, and delivered the results. Two human researchers spent a full week on the same problem,” he continues.

While the researchers only made it 23% of the way there, Claude made it 97% of the way there.

“Claude Mythos preview is now 52 times faster than a skilled human at improving AI training code. So it can fix its own training code. The same task takes a human four to eight hours. Claude does it better. Claude already writes 80% of Anthropic’s own code,” Gray says.

While in March 2024, Claude could reportedly handle a four-minute task on its own; now it handles 12-hour tasks.

“That number doubles every four months,” Gray explains, adding that “week-long tasks are expected by 2027.”

“So when they call for a development pause, I mean we’re caught between a rock and a hard place, right, on this technology. No one wants to pause or slow down on this because there’s so much at stake,” he continues.

“There’s money, there’s advancement, there’s so much going on here … and they can’t risk falling behind others. Worse than companies not being willing to do this, China certainly isn’t going to pause,” he adds.

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Japan managed to sneak out a tie against the Netherlands after falling behind twice in a World Cup match on Sunday, but it was the Japanese fans who went viral after the game.

Making the trip to watch their team at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, fans saw a late goal in the 89th minute earn Japan a 2-2 draw against its Dutch opponents. After the game, though, Japanese fans truly went to work.

‘Return it the way you found it.’

Viral videos from all over the stadium quickly hit the internet, showing the Asian visitors whipping out blue garbage bags and methodically cleaning up their sections of the stadium.

The fans first used the bags as a way to celebrate their team, raising them in the air and letting them ripple like a wave until impressing the world by using the same bags to gather garbage later on.

“There’s a Japanese culture … which means we should be cleaner [than when] we came here,” a fan told Singapore outlet CNA. “So this is our mindset and this is very obvious that we are to clean up the stadium and that will [showcase] our good Japanese culture.”

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KDFW reported on comments from a Japanese teacher who further explained why the fans were all acting in unison.

“Japanese sports fans at world events who clean up the stadium are behaving much the same way they did when they learned how to enjoy sports as school boys and girls,” said Koichi Nakano, a politics and history teacher at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.

A popular Japanese phrase apparently embodies the idea: “Tatsu tori ato wo nigosazu,” which reportedly means “return it the way you found it.”

RELATED: Brazil sends off its World Cup team in the most Catholic way possible

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Beloved NFL quarterback Jameis Winston was also among the Japanese crowd cleaning up the garbage. At 6’4″, Winston stuck out like a sore thumb in the crowd of fans, but seeking no attention, he grabbed a blue bag and helped the Japanese supporters with their mission.

The New York Giants quarterback happened to be in that section of the stadium while reporting on the game for Fox Sports and decided to join in.

Japan’s next game is Sunday at 12:00 a.m. ET against Tunisia, taking place at Estadio BBVA in Guadalupe, Mexico, where the Japanese fans will most likely show up their Tunisian counterparts.

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After years of accusations and abuse, those who have warned about previously concealed biolabs performing potentially dangerous work have seemingly been vindicated.

On Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard broke “new ground” with the release of new information regarding the existence and United States’ funding of “more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.”

These four labs alone … cost the American taxpayer over $9.25 million.

Blaze News previously reported that Gabbard has been calling for the investigation and increased oversight of the alleged foreign labs for at least four years, during which time she has been called a traitor for “parroting false Russian propaganda” by failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney, for example.

Now in a position to take action on this issue, Gabbard has begun the release of never-before-seen evidence of United States-funded biolabs, many of which are in Ukraine and which she said “could be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.”

RELATED: Vindicated? Gabbard probes the biolabs Romney called her a ‘traitor’ for mentioning.

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“Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens and in some cases included dangerous gain-of-function research, with very little visibility or oversight,” Gabbard said in the announcement.

Gabbard called out some of the biggest offenders in what she characterized as a “cover-up,” adding that the administration is committed to uncovering the information about these labs that has, until now, been concealed.

“Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact that research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci as well as entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs,” she said. “Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.”

This first release, found here, shows the location of “over 40 labs built and supported” in Ukraine, including a biosafety level 3-designated lab for human research and an “unknown” lab at the same level that is also marked as a location for biological weapons storage. Microbes at a lab with biosafety level 3 designation “can cause serious or potentially lethal disease through respiratory transmission,” according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention training page.

The ODNI document notes that a biological weapons repository may contain dangerous pathogens, including but not limited to: “anthrax, tularemia, tuberculosis, swine fever, Newcastle disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, the plague, rickettsia, etc.”

Most importantly, perhaps, is the third page of the document released by ODNI, which shows four examples of biolabs built and funded by the U.S. government.

The examples — together with the total cost in U.S. dollars, including design and construction, lab equipment, and furniture — are listed as follows: Kherson Diagnostic Laboratory, Kherson Oblast Laboratory Center, $1,728,822; Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, $2,109,375.23; Central Reference Laboratory, Ukrainian Research Antiplague Institute, $3,492,551; Zakarpartska Diagnostic Laboratory, Zakarpartska Oblast Laboratory Center, $1,920,432.

These four labs alone, according to this information, cost the American taxpayer over $9.25 million.

The press announcement noted that this information release was published in cooperation with Executive Order 14292, signed by President Trump.

In this executive order, titled “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” Trump ordered the ending of federally funded biological research in foreign countries that lack adequate oversight and in “countries of concern.”

Gabbard has directed the intelligence community to learn more about these labs, and she claims they are already “learning new details … on clinical trials that are under way at these facilities and that are raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns regarding the supposed public health initiatives and U.S. national security.”

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Spencer Pratt has announced that he is “teaming up” with Kenneth Bass, the brother of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D).

Kenneth Bass and his wife, Cindy, joined a lawsuit last month filed by Palisades fire victims against the mayor that blamed the city for the deadly disaster in 2025. The couple claimed that their Malibu home was a “total burn down” and that they suffered smoke inhalation and emotional distress.

‘I hope their Thanksgiving dinner isn’t too awks.’

The master complaint, filed last year, alleges “a series of cascading failures,” including that the city failed to maintain an adequate water supply. It further accuses the city of engaging “in a campaign of misinformation and misrepresentations” in an attempt to conceal its responsibility for the destruction.

The attorney representing Kenneth and Cindy Bass told the New York Post that their family connections to the mayor are “irrelevant,” adding, “As non-public citizens they are entitled to respectful privacy as they pursue their legal rights along with all represented victims.”

Bass’ office responded that there was “nothing new” about her brother joining the lawsuit.

“Thousands of people are plaintiffs in this action, which names 18 public and private-sector defendants,” a Bass spokesperson told The Hill.

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The Jan. 2025 Palisades Fire caused 12 deaths and destroyed thousands of structures.

The city and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which was also named as a defendant in the lawsuit, deny wrongdoing. The city attorney’s office stated that it “remains confident” that the city “is not liable for these disastrous wildfires.”

RELATED: Los Angeles mayor race called for far-left challenger after Pratt loses 40,000-vote lead

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On Sunday, Pratt announced that by filing a lawsuit against the city, he was effectively joining forces with Kenneth Bass.

“I am proud to be teaming up with Karen Bass’ brother in suing his sister for her reckless negligence that led to the destruction of our homes,” Pratt wrote in a social media post. “I hope their Thanksgiving dinner isn’t too awks. I know ours hasn’t been the same since last year…”

Pratt and his wife, Heidi Montag, filed a separate lawsuit against the LADWP last year after their home was destroyed in the fire. Their complaint similarly alleges that the city failed to maintain an adequate water supply.

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After Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murdering Austin Metcalf, his parents are making their interview rounds — and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes what they’re saying is completely “delusional.”

“My son is no murderer. My son didn’t intend to hurt anyone. My son was defending himself, and that’s what hurts so bad,” Anthony’s mother said in an interview on CBS News Texas.

Anthony told the interviewer that she asked the jury to “have mercy” on her son but that she knew “they had their minds made up already.”

“We were delusional. We thought we were going to get a fair shake,” Anthony’s father said.

The two also claimed that “everyone” lied on the stand, with his mother saying, “All of the witnesses’ statements were inconsistent. All of them.”

“So Karmelo Anthony’s father said, ‘We were delusional.’ And I think what he should have said is, ‘We are delusional,’” Whitlock says.

“And I say that not trying to be mean-spirited, but they are delusional. They live in a delusional space where their delusions are confirmed. … I just want you to look at the shirt,” he says, pointing out that in the interview, the father was wearing a shirt that reads “#BelieveKarmelo.”

“Why would we believe someone who’s not talking, who didn’t take the stand? What are we to believe? Does Karmelo believe what he’s saying? Because if he did, he would have taken the stand. It was the only chance they had — him taking the stand and convincing a jury that he acted in self-defense,” he continues.

“He didn’t tell his own story,” he adds.

Whitlock also points out that while the mother claimed the witness statements were “inconsistent,” the statements were actually “very consistent.”

“You have to explain to me what’s their motive for lying. Why lie? What’s the motive? The black witnesses, the black kids that all went on the stand and told a pretty consistent story amongst the group, what’s their motive?” he says.

“There’s an echo chamber of delusion that many black people live in, and it’s controlled by social media. And this is the danger of social media. They create these echo chambers where you can have all of your delusional thoughts confirmed,” he continues.

“‘He didn’t want to kill Austin Metcalf,’” he says, mimicking Anthony’s mother. “Your son brought a knife to a high school track meet and then told a kid, in front of other people, if you touch me, you’ll find out, or something to that degree.”

“This is a state of delusion that these people are existing in,” he adds.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was hospitalized Sunday morning, his spokesman has confirmed.

“Senator McConnell was admitted to the hospital this morning. He is receiving excellent care,” David Popp said Sunday, according to NBC News. Popp did not disclose the reason for the admission.

‘He is receiving excellent care.’

Two of McConnell’s neighbors reported witnessing the senator being placed into an ambulance outside his D.C. house, Reuters reported.

Alarm bells have been rung over McConnell’s health in recent years. In February, he spent a week in the hospital over “flu-like symptoms.” He also displayed multiple freeze-up incidents while speaking on camera in 2023.

McConnell, a childhood polio survivor, has been seen using a wheelchair to get around the Capitol on multiple occasions. It was described as a “precautionary” measure last year after falling down a small flight of stairs. An earlier fall left the senator out of work for several weeks with a concussion and rib fracture while a separate incident resulted in a sprained wrist.

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President Donald Trump and McConnell have clashed over several key issues throughout the president’s second term, including McConnell voting against the confirmations of Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

McConnell has also been a strong supporter of Ukraine’s effort against Russia, criticizing Trump’s approach to the conflict and relationship with Vladimir Putin.

The 84-year-old was first elected to the Senate in 1984, serving as the GOP’s longest party leader from 2007 until he was succeeded by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) in 2025. Earlier that same year, McConnell announced he would not seek re-election in the midterms. He is set to leave office in January 2027.

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Three females were caught on video brutally beating and stealing from victims on a Philadelphia street, police said.

The Philadelphia Police Department’s Central Detective Division is seeking the public’s help in identifying the individuals responsible for the attacks, and police provided video and still images showing the suspects.

‘Conceal carry. A 9 mm would have resolved this issue.’

Police didn’t specify the number of victims in the brutal attacks, but WTXF-TV reported that there were two victims.

The beatdowns occurred around 2:15 a.m. April 18; police posted the notice describing the attacks earlier this month.

Police said the three culprits assaulted the victims along the 1300 block of Chestnut Street. Video shows one attack occurring on the sidewalk against the outside wall of a building; the other attack occurs on the street next to a parked car. The victims are repeatedly kicked and punched while on the ground.

Police said the victims’ bags were stolen, and their credit cards were later used fraudulently.

Video shows the street was crowded with pedestrians, but it appears only one person attempted to help the victims.

The victims were hospitalized with significant face and head injuries, police said.

Police offered the following descriptions of the suspects:

Suspect #1: Black female, 25 to 30 years old, 5’5″ to 5’7″, 150 pounds, medium buildSuspect #2: Black female, 25 to 30 years old, 5’2″ to 5’4″, 130 pounds, medium build, tattoo on right side chestSuspect #3: Black female, 25 to 30 years old, 5’5″, 175 pounds, heavy build

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Police said if you see the suspects, do not approach — instead call 911 immediately.

To submit a tip by telephone, dial 215-686-TIPS (8477), police said. Tipsters also can use this electronic form to submit a tip anonymously, police said. All tips will be confidential, officials added.

Those with any information about this crime or these suspects also can contact the Central Detective Division at 215-686-3093 or 3094, police said.

More than 600 comments hit WXTF’s Facebook post about the beatings, and commenters did not hold back. The following are but a few reactions:

“Caught on camera! It’s just a matter of time before they are caught! Good for them!” one commenter exclaimed.”When caught, make an example of them!!” another user declared.”They’re good girls,” another commenter wrote sarcastically.”Conceal carry,” another user suggested. “A 9 mm would have resolved this issue.”

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On June 2, 2026, the White House released an executive order on artificial intelligence called “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security.” The administration was at pains to explain what the order was not. It was not a burden or the Biden administration’s “top-down regulatory approach.” It was not, the official fact sheet insisted, mandatory licensing or pre-clearance or permitting of any kind. The document spent considerable energy describing its own absence.

This is a familiar American style of governance: The regulation that will not say its name.

How much technical judgment should a republic outsource to its security bureaucracy?

However, the order’s responsibility is actually rather specific. Within 30 days of signing, it directs federal agencies to prioritize the cyber defense of their information systems and requires the Department of Homeland Security to issue binding operational directives expanding AI-enabled defensive tools to federal agencies, state and local governments, rural hospitals, community banks, and local utilities. Within 60 days, it creates a classified benchmarking process, run by the Treasury Department and the NSA, to determine when an AI model’s capabilities have crossed a threshold and become what the order calls a “covered frontier model.” Developers may then voluntarily submit their model for government assessment. The government then gets 30 days to work with it before the developer shares it with anyone else.

The order is best understood as the third movement in a policy sequence that began with the first Trump administration. In 2019, the president signed an executive order framing American AI leadership as essential to both economic and national security but also emphasizing public trust, civil liberties, and privacy. In 2023, the Biden administration’s Executive Order 14110 described AI as holding both “promise and peril” and attempted something like a comprehensive social contract with the technology: safety and security, but also workers’ rights, civil rights, bias mitigation, and fraud prevention. On January 20, 2025, the new Trump administration rescinded that order. The declared rationale was ideological contamination. The Biden approach was “burdensome” and encoded “engineered social agendas.” The new policy would instead pursue American AI dominance, free from such considerations.

Government by bottleneck

What has been constructed is a security compact between the federal government and a small number of frontier-model developers. The developer will give the government access to a model, and the government will evaluate it. Together, they will decide who the “trusted partners” are who receive it next. The criteria for that evaluation are classified. The benchmarks are classified. The threshold for “covered” status is classified. Google and Sam Altman expressed support. The Business Software Alliance praised the order’s “voluntary and phased approach,” as though a process administered by the NSA with nondisclosure expectations was simply an industry working group.

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The order names its intended beneficiaries as “rural hospitals, community banks, and local utilities.” These institutions do not have cleared staff, government relationships, or the organizational bandwidth to absorb classified defensive intelligence. They are institutions named in the fact sheet because they are sympathetic. The institutions that will in fact operate inside the order’s core architecture are frontier developers and their vetted, trusted partners. Everyone else waits for whatever the clearinghouse sees fit to distribute, assuming they have the expertise to use it.

This is a recognizable form of 21st-century American governance: highly centralized technical judgment, thin public transparency, and broad downstream dependence. The polity is told that the infrastructure will be hardened. The decisive knowledge about how, by whom, and according to what criteria is held somewhere else.

The order speaks fluently about attack surfaces and remediation and covered models and patch distribution. In this language, every institution becomes a node. Hospitals, banks, utilities, and federal agencies are all nodes. They are surfaces of cyber vulnerability awaiting protection. The world is rendered as a network diagram, and the only question is whether the correct agencies have been directed to harden it.

What the order cannot conceal beneath its operational specificity is that this is a theory of governance as much as technology. The Atlantic Council, in criticizing the order, noted that classified criteria and delegated executive discretion create a serious accountability gap. That gap is the design.

Red tape on steroids

The order presents itself as the rejection of bureaucracy, yet is an elaborate bureaucratic instrument with deadlines and interagency consultations, directives, classifications, threshold determinations, and enforcement priorities. It relocates the machinery of governance away from NIST’s open and collaborative risk-management culture and toward the executive security apparatus: the NSA, the Treasury, the national cyber director. These institutions will now pass judgment about which AI systems are of concern.

One can stipulate that these institutions are serious, technically capable, and acting in good faith. One can stipulate that the cyber threats are real; the frontier labs’ own safety documentation already makes clear that the most capable models can automate sophisticated intrusions against hardened targets, discovering exploits and chaining vulnerabilities at a pace no human team can match. The question is how much technical judgment a republic should outsource to its security bureaucracy.

Administration officials’ bet is that urgency, expertise, and the specter of Chinese technological rivalry will supply sufficient legitimacy. They may be right. Urgency has carried American policy unquestioned a long way before. The order calls itself the enemy of regulation. It is instead regulation’s more exclusive cousin, with all the power, a fraction of the accountability, and a much shorter guest list.

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Justin Gaethje put on the performance of a lifetime at the landmark UFC 250 event outside the White House Sunday night, finally capturing the undisputed, lightweight UFC championship belt.

Before the fight, Gaethje and his undefeated opponent, Ilia Topuria, both walked out to the UFC Octagon in epic fashion, starting in the Oval Office before making their way to the cage on the White House lawn.

‘I’m from America. Two hundred fifty years ago, we were way bigger than six-to-one dogs.’

A dark and cloudy sky served as the backdrop for the main event — which did not start until well after 12:30 a.m. ET — but once it started, there were only fireworks.

Gaethje overcame two significant near-defeat moments during the fight: first during the second round when devastating body shots from Topuria dropped him to the ground, and then a surprise takedown from the champion had Gaethje on the bottom and in trouble in the fourth round as well.

However, a mangled Topuria was unable to continue into the fifth, forcing the referee to stop the fight after he had already convinced ringside doctors to allow Topuria to keep fighting after the third round.

After the fight, announcer Joe Rogan asked Gaethje: “You have been waiting for this moment your entire career and to win it in such a spectacular fashion in a fight where you were at some points [a] six-to-one underdog. How good does this feel?”

“Hey, I’m from America. Two hundred fifty years ago, we were way bigger than six-to-one dogs, and look at us thriving now,” Gaethje patriotically replied.

The Safford, Arizona, native then immediately thanked all “current, former, and future military service members” for their service before revealing his true motivation for the fight.

“All glory to God. I prayed so much for this opportunity to do something legendary. And I know that was absolutely legendary ’cause I cannot even believe it,” Gaethje remarked.

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The 37-year-old then praised his mother’s “Mexican warrior spirit” and his father’s “German, hard-a** thick bones” for giving him the pedigree that saw him overcome abysmal odds. In fact, Gaethje was the only underdog to win a fight on the White House lawn on Sunday night.

Gaethje told Rogan that he used an unorthodox approach to get the best out of himself.

“I told myself I was going to get embarrassed so that I can go to my most primal place and dig deep. And I had to. That guy had me in trouble,” the fighter explained. “He rocked my chin, smoked my liver, and I stuck in it. And look at my face,” Gaethje laughed, suggesting the lack of damage showed that his skin needs to be studied by scientists.

Coming into the fight as only the interim lightweight champion, Gaethje is now undisputed, handing his Georgian opponent his first loss ever.

RELATED: Texas AG Ken Paxton threatens Big 12 over possible Texas Tech boycott

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As reported by MMA Fighting, Gaethje was given two fight bonuses for his performance, which were heavily inflated sums due to sponsorships for the unique event.

With a Fight of the Night bonus of $400,000 and a Performance of the Night bonus of $425,000, Gaethje took home $825,000 in extra cash.

Heavyweight Ciryl Gane won the other Performance of the Night bonus for his second-round knockout of Alex Pereira to earn $425,000.

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A decade after starring in “Inception,” lesbian actress Ellen Page committed to her most challenging role yet: living her real life as an effeminate, short-haired transvestite named “Elliot Page.”

Page had her healthy beasts surgically removed, then announced in a Dec. 1, 2020, social media post, “I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot.”

‘Sure sounds a lot like femininity.’

Having now played the role of Elliot for over five years, the biological female — who divorced her “wife” and leaned into her LGBT activism following the “transition” — now apparently feels sufficiently qualified to define what constitutes “healthy masculinity.”

As part of a broader media tour for her new LGBT propaganda film, “Second Nature,” Page recently sat down with the eponymous host of “It’s Open with Illana Glazer” for a heart-to-heart.

After claiming that the “gender binary … just doesn’t exist” and alluding to testosterone’s transformative impact on her baseline aggression, Page stated that healthy masculinity is “leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to, like, shut down or conform in a way that usually feels like this — like I am closing off.”

Page cited the reluctance among some men to smile in photos as typical of such emotional closure.

“To me, healthy masculinity would be, well, you know what — healthiness for anyone to just, you know, love themselves; be able to care for themselves; ideally get rest when they can, you know, like, just the practical basic — drink water, like, eat a banana. You know?” said Page.

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The actress formerly known as Ellen Page, 2017. Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic/Getty Images

Page, 39, added in her rambling definition that healthy masculinity is “also just, you know, doing what you can to be intentionally and mindfully not letting yourself get, like, swayed or twisted by the rules that I feel like end up, like, leading to so many of the problems that we see that are, you know, do get inflicted by toxic masculinity, violence and abuse, just general cruelty.”

The actress, whose memoir details her history of depression and self-mutilation, padded her tortured definition by adding, “Healthy masculinity could just mean a really good cry.”

Critics relentlessly have mocked Page’s definition, which went viral on social media over the weekend.

Chris Elston, the anti-gender-ideology activist better known as Billboard Chris, quipped, “This is the most female conversation ever.”

Not the Bee, the non-satirical news companion to the Babylon Bee, wrote, “Wow, the healthy masculinity she’s talking about sure sounds a lot like femininity.”

“It’s so interesting that she embodies every female stereotype while trying to do her best impression of a man,” tweeted author and homeschooling advocate Rachel Wilson.

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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday evening the finalization of an agreement that will tentatively bring an end to America’s 15-week war with Iran.

“The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!” Trump noted in a Truth Social post. “I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade. Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!”

‘I couldn’t believe it.’

In a subsequent post, the president said that this “Great Deal will bring Peace and Security to the whole Region.”

The memorandum of understanding was confirmed by Iranian officials as well as by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has been acting as a mediator.

“Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon,” Sharif posted to X a few minutes before Trump’s Truth Social announcement. “The official signing ceremony will be on Friday, 19 June in Switzerland. We would like to thank the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran for their commitment to finding a diplomatic solution to the conflict.”‘

The news was welcomed by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun — who expressed hope that “these understandings being transformed into practical steps” may “put a definitive end to the cycle of violence” — and by other leaders around the globe.

Iran hawks, particularly in Israel, are not similarly keen over the prospect of ending the conflict in this fashion.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, for instance, rushed to condemn the deal, claiming it was “bad for Israel and for the entire free world. Period.”

Smotrich noted further that Israel “will have to continue the campaign to topple the regime ourselves and in creative ways.”

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Destroyed building in Nabatieh, Lebanon. Abbas FAKIH/AFP/Getty Images

Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, also advocated for keeping the conflict alive, stating:

We are not partners to this agreement that does not ensure our security, and it does not bind us in any way. We must not compromise on anything less than the dismantling of Hezbollah, we must not withdraw from any territory that our fighters have captured and cleared of terror infrastructure, we must not return to a situation where thousands of terrorists sit on the fences of northern settlements, and certainly we must not remain silent for a moment in the face of fire directed at the State of Israel.

Alleged attacks on Hezbollah — such as those championed by Ben-Gvir — nearly blew up the peace deal over the weekend, just as escalations in Israel’s offensive in Lebanon critically strained negotiations earlier this month.

Trump told Axios that the deadly Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Sunday “shook it up. It delayed the signing by a few hours. It was supposed to be now. Now it is scheduled for a few hours from now.”

The American president — who reportedly raced to save the deal as Iranians were threatening retaliation — said that he had been shocked to learn of the attack from his advisers.

“It is so bad — I couldn’t believe it. An hour before we are supposed to sign the deal,” said Trump.

Trump figured the attack — which took place after Hezbollah launched a drone attack on Northern Israel that reportedly caused neither injuries nor damage — was disproportionate. Weeks after calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “f**king crazy,” Trump once again blasted the foreign leader.

“Why did Bibi have to do a f**king attack? I was so pissed off,” said Trump. “I let him know. He has no f**king judgment. I let him know that.”

Trump expressed frustration with Netanyahu in another interview on Sunday, telling the New York Times that the Israeli prime minister, whose criminal trial is ongoing, is “a very difficult guy.”

“And to be honest with you,” continued Trump, “he should be very thankful to us for doing this. Because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel wouldn’t be around for two hours.”

Netanyahu’s former communications adviser, Aviv Bushinsky, emphasized that the Israeli prime minister “needs Trump” and that “evangelicals and many members of the Republican Party” will prevent his relationship with Trump from falling apart.

While Netanyahu has yet to publicly address the deal, Israeli officials told Ynet News that Netanyahu made clear to Trump that Israel will not withdraw from Lebanon.

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