On April 28, 2025, Shiloh Hendrix was at the park with her child when she got into a confrontation with a man after she allegedly called his child a racial slur.

The man began videotaping her, which he later posted to social media where it went viral.

Over a year later, Hendrix has been found guilty of disorderly conduct against the man operating the camera, and BlazeTV host Steve Deace — alongside millions of freedom-loving Americans — isn’t happy with the outcome.

“What does this case tell us about the current state of the culture we’re in?” Deace asks Auron MacIntyre on the “Steve Deace Show.”

“That it is illegal to be white,” he answers, pointing out that the man in the video “was accused of sexual assault against a 16-year-old.”

“So, we have a Somali criminal, sexual assaulter, doing this, creeping on this woman with a child in the park, but she says the same word he does,” he explains. “They both say exactly the same word, but one of them was convicted of a crime for doing that.”

“And the only explanation — there’s literally only one — is that she was convicted for being white. And, of course, we see this conviction alongside Anthony Fauci and his testimony this week. And as nice as it was to see Anthony Fauci embarrassed, we all know that pretty much no penalty is coming for Anthony Fauci,” he says.

“So, we now live in a country where Shiloh Hendrix can be convicted of a crime, but Anthony Fauci can kill millions of people, destroy the economy and the lives of millions of children, and receive no penalty,” he adds.

MacIntyre tells Deace that the justice system is “entirely eroding before our eyes.”

“What she’s being judged for, therefore, is her whiteness, because if two black people were saying this to one another in any context, we wouldn’t be here with any kind of a trial in Minnesota or anywhere else,” Deace comments.

“We would just call it a rap video,” MacIntyre adds. “And that’s obviously the case. This man was harassing a woman with a child in the park. He has a history of [alleged] sexual violence against minors, but she is the violator here.”

“And let’s be clear … she was found innocent of directing the slur at the child. It was only the slur directed at the man who was harassing her, the [alleged] sexual offender … who she was ultimately convicted of harassing,” he continues.

“Again, this is just a hate speech law,” he adds.

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Action star Jon Bernthal came out in defense of the most widely criticized breed of dog and said their behavior depends on the owner, not the animal.

Star of “The Punisher” and “The Walking Dead,” Bernthal appeared on “The Howard Stern Show” on Saturday and briefly referenced pit bulls when asked about his own dogs.

‘It’s like being afraid of somebody for their race or their sexual orientation.’

Doggie DEI

Bernthal has advocated for pit bulls on numerous occasions and has three of his own: Lil Bam Bam, Boss, and Venice.

On Saturday, host Howard Stern asked whether Bernthal’s dogs were present when he got into a fight, a story he told earlier in the interview.

“Did they attack?” Stern asked.

“No. … My dogs are the greatest, and they’re unbelievably well-trained,” Bernthal replied, immediately defending the breed against those who see them as aggressive. “People have got to stop that.”

The 49-year-old then chalked up any bias toward the dogs as a form of racism.

“It’s just racism. It’s just dog racism. I think to be afraid of a breed of dog is completely ridiculous. It’s like being afraid of somebody for their race or their sexual orientation; it’s completely ridiculous.”

At that point, Bernthal made his most distinct claim, saying that “if a pit bull bites you, it’s going to suck, but they’re no more likely to bite you than a chihuahua or any other breed of dog.”

RELATED: Sheriff unloads on dog owner accused of letting ‘vicious’ animals maul neighbor to death, faking heart attack to avoid jail

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Killer stats

A study published in the Journal of Surgical Research in May stated that out of 276 patients who sustained dog bite injuries between 2016 and 2024, “pit bulls were implicated in nearly one-third of all injuries and were significantly more likely to require surgical intervention” in comparison to other breeds.

A 2023 study by DogsBite.org stated that “attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death than are attacks by other breeds of dogs.”

The study went on to say that between 2011 and 2017, pit bulls “inflicted the highest prevalence of injuries” where the breed of the dog was known. This totaled 245 out of 511 cases, or 47.9%. The breed was known just 36% of the time, or 511 of 1,422.

Data from the same organization claimed that pit bulls were responsible for 71% of fatal dog bites in 2017, 72% in 2018, and 68% in 2019.

RELATED: Rabid defenders of pit bulls are spiritually blind — and ignoring the tragic stats

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The same literature review concluded that “strict regulation of pit bulls may substantially reduce the U.S. mortality rates related to dog bites.”

National legislation surrounding pit bulls exists in countries like the U.K., where they are banned, and New Zealand, where they cannot be imported.

Additionally, animal care retailer Hepper stated in a 2025 article that at least six municipalities in the U.S. restrict pit bull ownership. This includes Council Bluffs, Iowa; Prince George’s County, Maryland; Melvindale, Michigan; Kearny, Missouri; Sparta, Tennessee; and Miami, Florida.

As for Bernthal, he attributed the pit bull rep to “a lot of knuckleheads” who “unfortunately are attracted to that breed of dog.”

“To me, when I see some wannabe gangster getting pulled down Venice Beach by his pit bull, and I’m like, ‘You feed that f**ker, and he’s pulling you?'” Bernthal exclaimed. “To me that’s not manly or strong at all. I think you gotta train your dogs.”

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People have been building animal-shaped machines for centuries, winding clockwork birds and gilded lions for the amusement of courts. The robot dog belongs to that genealogy more than its manufacturers tend to acknowledge. The desire to produce an artifact that appears, even in some limited sense, to move of its own will is old.

What has changed is the capacity. Servo-motors, reinforcement learning, whole-body control, lidar, thermal cameras, and four-dimensional sensing have replaced the balance spring and the escapement wheel. The modern robot dog’s gait is careful and deliberate, the way a living dog picks across a tile floor it does not trust. The machine lifts each foot with a kind of exaggerated prudence, sets it down, adjusts, proceeds.

The tension is political as well as commercial.

The robot dog is a sophisticated tool. In 2026, the most commercially mature robot dogs are inspection platforms. Boston Dynamics’ Spot walks choreographed routes through factories and substations, reading gauges, capturing thermal data, listening for acoustic anomalies. ANYbotics’ ANYmal does the same on offshore oil platforms in the North Sea, navigating multiple floors and docking itself to recharge when the battery runs low. Unitree’s B2 can carry more than 40 kilograms at a continuous walk and sustain five hours of operation. These machines keep humans out of dangerous spaces and convert the disorder of a physical facility into structured, repeatable, auditable information. The robot dog, at its most mature, is a mobile node in a maintenance stack.

Yet the form will not stay neutral. A wheeled robot carrying the same sensors through the same substation would register as equipment. Put those sensors on four legs, give the machine a head that swivels, let it pick its way over a cable tray the way a terrier negotiates a creek bed, and the machine becomes a presence. People talk to it, name it, and step aside for it in hallways because the shape suggests a creature for whom stepping aside would be courteous. Zoomorphism is an interface strategy, a way of converting surveillance and automation into something socially legible, even likeable.

Whose best friend?

This trick works in both directions. In 1999, Sony released AIBO, a small plastic quadruped sold as entertainment, personality, and a new kind of domestic presence. AIBO could learn, express simulated emotions, and develop what Sony’s marketing called a distinct character through interaction with its owner. Sony revived the line in 2018, still framing its robot dog as something that inspires an urge to pick it up and hold it. The promised effect was a feeling.

Boston Dynamics’ Spot occupies the opposite end of the spectrum with an almost polemical clarity. Its lease terms prohibit unstructured use in the home. It is an industrial product, full stop. Both machines are called robot dogs. One sells synthetic companionship. The other sells synthetic labor. The distance between them is the distance between a stuffed animal and a forklift, except that both have four legs, a head, and the silhouette of something you might once have loved.

The tension is political as well as commercial. When the NYPD deployed its Digidog unit, the public reaction was fast and hostile. The machine was described as creepy. Critics raised the historical associations of police dogs with intimidation. The objection was never really about the technology, but instead what the technology suggested when it walked through certain neighborhoods with a badge on it. Boston Dynamics has since published ethical guidelines, pledging not to weaponize its robots and requiring law enforcement customers to adopt use policies addressing privacy and civil rights.

RELATED: Robot teacher program tied to sex doll company

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Ghost Robotics, which sells a competing quadruped called Vision 60, makes no such restrictions. Its marketing spans defense, homeland security, law enforcement, and public safety with a modularity that is, by design, indifferent to the distinction between protecting and threatening. The robot dog has become a site of contestation over how much force, sensing, and autonomy the public wants walking through public space.

An uninvited guest

A robot dog is a computer with legs, and computers are vulnerable. A command-injection flaw catalogued in NIST’s National Vulnerability Database affected several Unitree quadrupeds, including models sold to consumers and industry, with the potential for an attacker to execute root commands through Wi-Fi configuration over Bluetooth. When the machine in question can walk, see, and listen, a cybersecurity vulnerability becomes a physical-access problem, a pair of eyes you did not invite into the building.

Robot dogs in 2026 are an argument in the shape of an animal. They argue that legs are better than wheels on rough terrain, that autonomy reduces risk, that data captured continuously is worth more than data captured occasionally, that the familiar silhouette of a dog can make a sensor suite feel like a colleague rather than an intrusion. Some of these arguments are sound. Some are self-serving. All of them depend on the remarkable fact that a machine borrowing the contours of an animal that humans domesticated 15,000 years ago can still make us feel something. The robot dog does not need to achieve consciousness or love you. It only needs to walk into a room with a gait you almost recognize, and you will do the rest.

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In her interview on Sunday with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., CNN talking head Dana Bash launched a defense of the COVID-19 vaccine and CNN host Jake Tapper’s infamous buddy Anthony Fauci, who is now the subject of an investigation in Florida.

Bash’s efforts to downplay both Fauci’s involvement in ruinous decisions made during the pandemic and her network’s fearmongering did not go over well as Kennedy — neither a stranger to gaslighting from the legacy media nor a shrinking violet — hit back, accusing the CNN host of pushing “nonsense.”

‘The biggest killer of kids in this country today came from these kind of experiments.’

At the outset of the interview, Bash challenged Kennedy’s long-standing criticism of Fauci, downplaying the influence that Fauci had with regard to America’s devastating lockdowns and suggesting that President Donald Trump deserves “some of the blame.”

Kennedy immediately rejected Bash’s defense of Fauci, underscoring that governors had executed lockdowns around the country “because Anthony Fauci was telling them from the top, ‘You need to lock down.'”

Fauci boasted ad nauseam in his diary about his pandemic-era influence, noting in one instance that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) decided to shut down schools, bars, and restaurants on the basis of his fear-peddling.

Unable to mount a successful defense of Fauci and proving unable to elicit a condemnation of the president from Kennedy, Bash rushed to step on another rake.

RELATED: Two Americas, under Fauci, with liberty and justice for none

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Citing unnamed scientists, the CNN talking head suggested that radical gain-of-function experimentation — which Fauci helped fund with taxpayer money at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the likely origin of the COVID-19 pandemic — is “necessary to prepare for the next pandemic, to get ahead of it, to figure out what these viruses can do,” albeit now with “better guardrails.”

Once again, Kennedy gave Bash a reality check, emphasizing that historic efforts to put guardrails around gain-of-function experimentation haven’t worked.

“And clearly, the COVID-19 pandemic and many other global pandemics that we have, have come from gain-of-function research,” continued Kennedy. “The RSV epidemic that we have that is the biggest killer of kids in this country today came from these kind of experiments. The Lyme disease almost certainly came from this kind of research. So — and the scientists who you say are experts are making the argument that this is necessary for pandemic response cannot point to one instance in history where research that came out of this kind of experimentation has actually provided us something beneficial.”

‘He was lying, and you were punishing people for not trusting the experts.’

Bash, once again finding herself on the back foot, pressed Kennedy on how America might alternatively prepare for the next pandemic.

Casting indirect shade on Fauci, Kennedy suggested that COVID made clear what should be done in the future and what should never be done again.

In addition to listening to doctors on the ground rather than censoring them, Kennedy said it’s essential when faced with another pandemic that the Constitution is strenuously protected.

Not getting the responses she apparently wanted, Bash tried changing the topic — but this time Kennedy hit the brakes, blasting the legacy media for “malpractice” during the pandemic and identifying Bash individually as “part of the problem.”

RELATED: Damning study of over a million kids finds myocarditis only in the vaccinated

“Your job is a fierce skepticism toward authority,” said Kennedy. “And you weren’t doing that. You were beating up on people who were dissenting.”

Bash, feathers clearly ruffled, launched into her latest defense of the experimental COVID-19 jabs that were nowhere close to being as safe or effective as advertised and were responsible for the deaths of numerous children by the Food and Drug Administration’s own admission.

After Bash claimed that “the COVID vaccine prevented deaths” and alluded to data suggesting as much, Kennedy asked the host, “You think the COVID vaccine protected children?”

“Can you show me one study that shows that children were protected by the COVID vaccine?” Kennedy said between interruptions from the defensive host. “That the vaccine did more good than harm to children? Can you show me one study that shows that?”

“I can tell you that when it comes to the vaccine, there have been studies that show that because of vaccine disinformation, there could have been 100,000 to 200,000 lives in the U.S. saved,” said Bash. “But because people didn’t get the vaccine, that’s why.”

“You are saying nonsense,” responded Kennedy.

The secretary wouldn’t let the talking head off the hook, saying, “You say you have seen studies. Cite me the study.”

Bash then tried changing the subject again, this time to talk about measles, but Kennedy claimed that the job of CNN during the pandemic was to scare people — “to put the chyrons up about ‘how many people are dying’ to get people to comply.”

Later in the interview — after Bash attempted to blame Kennedy for the recent measles outbreaks only to unwittingly spotlight another consequence of Fauci’s ruinous pandemic-era recommendations — the HHS secretary accused the host of repeating narratives “like a parrot.”

“All you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and say, ‘Trust the experts,'” said Kennedy.

“That’s what you did during COVID. Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was the ‘expert,’ was lying about everything — about masks, about the social distancing, about natural immunity, about the transmission from the vaccine, about the source of COVID,” continued Kennedy. “He was lying, and you were punishing people for not trusting the experts. And now you’re rolling out the experts again.”

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Women seem to have had enough of battling over whether their sports can include athletes who were born male.

Amid the WNBA’s controversy stemming from star player Sophie Cunningham, who simply said girls “shouldn’t have to go against biological men” in sports, there have been growing calls for the league to cement through policy that the WNBA is for women only.

‘The WNBA needs to look in the mirror and do some soul-searching about what it stands for.’

According to the WNBA’s 2026 collective-bargaining agreement with its players’ association, Article XIII, Section 1 declares that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.”

While the definition of what a woman is should go without saying — the WNBA does not provide one — several prominent role-players in the league have suggested that biological reality is not the basis for their opinion on this matter.

On Sunday, Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve wore a T-shirt that read, “Trans kids belong” and featured a transgender-themed rainbow.

That same night, Golden State Valkyries coach Natalie Nakese compared the issue to being “criticized for my height, for my ethnicity.”

She added that sports is about “belonging” and “inclusivity.”

When asked if men should be able to play in the WNBA, Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White said last week that she is not “educated enough from a scientific standpoint” to make such a determination.

She added, “I don’t ever believe that exclusion is an answer.”

These vague sentiments have seemingly pushed prominent women’s activists to a boiling point, with many calling for the WNBA to adopt a policy that specifically states only biological women can play in the league.

“The WNBA needs to look in the mirror and do some soul-searching about what it stands for — fairness in women’s sports or not?” said Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America.

The CEO said in a press release that the WNBA has “poisoned” itself with activism for years and that it’s time for the league to defend young women, not “biological males stealing their opportunities.”

RELATED: WNBA coach counter-protests Sophie Cunningham with ‘trans kids’ shirt — Caitlin Clark responds

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Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) has advocated for prohibiting women’s sports franchises from receiving tax benefits if they do not prohibit biological men from their teams.

Tenney said in June that franchises may claim tax advantages tied to acquisitions, but if she has her way, they would not receive such luxuries if they “undermine” women.

“Taxpayers should not be subsidizing the erosion of women’s sports. … Women’s sports are for women,” Tenney declared.

Jennifer Sey, founder of pro-women apparel company XX-XY, told Blaze News that there is a broader cultural shift currently on display, but there is still “justice” to be served.

Sey pointed to “the growing number of people who will no longer pretend biology is mutable,” while adding that protecting young girls from adults “who treat basic reality as a moral offense” should not be controversial.

RELATED: WNBA star Sophie Cunningham comes out against men in women’s sports: ‘I want to protect young girls’

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Many women’s sports leagues have already made “female at birth” policies or outright banned men from competing in their events.

The LPGA announced its policy in early December 2024, while British tennis barred men from women’s competitive tournaments just days later.

About a month after that, English women’s field hockey banned trans-identifying males from the sport.

This all came before President Trump’s executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” dropped in February 2025. Almost immediately after the order was issued, the NCAA updated its transgender student-athlete participation policy to keep men out of the women’s category.

The WNBA did not respond to a request from Blaze News regarding the league’s definition of a woman.

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Google wants users to manifest a community garden, not a bombed-out hospital in Gaza.

The latter became all too possible as Google Earth’s naive new update was accidentally primed for manipulation.

‘We take misinformation seriously.’

On Thursday, Google announced the ability to “transform any place” on the map using Google Earth and generative AI called Nano Banana 2.

“Have you ever looked at an empty lot in your neighborhood and imagined a community garden, or wondered what your city looked like a century ago?” Google asked in a blog post.

The tech giant revealed that any of the satellite, aerial, or 3D imagery available on Google Earth can now be manipulated with AI to create custom images.

“Type whatever you want to see,” the blog reads.

One researcher, Henk van Ess, decided to take that seriously and see what the app was willing to do.

“Nothing was refused, nothing was softened, and nothing suggested I try a different prompt,” van Ess wrote in an article titled “How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran.”

“Refugees at a border, a nuclear plant in Iran, a fatal crash on an Amsterdam street, a hospital with a bomb crater in Gaza,” nothing was off limits to the user. Van Ess even showed a video of him generating an image where “refugees swarm the streets” in Mexico.

Soon, users had portrayed a plane hitting Freedom Tower, a crater caving in Iceland, and a collapsed Eiffel Tower, among other catastrophes.

RELATED: Don’t be fooled: This Apple privacy feature won’t protect your identity

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Google responded to the researcher, saying, “We take misinformation seriously — every image created with Nano Banana in Google Earth includes the SynthID digital watermark, so if someone is unsure about an image, they can ask the Gemini app or use Lens in Search to see if the image was Al-generated.”

Van Ess ran one of the videos he created through Hive, AI detection software not run by Google. It came back with a 1% chance of being an AI-generated video and a 0% chance of being a deepfake.

The writer said this wasn’t necessarily Hive’s fault, given that it was scanning a real video that he had taken, but therein lies the issue with such content. It is very unlikely that an AI-generated video would be scanned right from its source and therefore be easily detectable.

RELATED: Apple and Google told to take down these illegal — and exploitative — apps

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Google also provided its AI prohibited-use policy, which lists types of usage that would constitute crimes surrounding explicit content, abuse, or violation of intellectual property rights.

On its face, van Ess’ content did not seem to violate Google’s terms, but the company eventually acquiesced. On Friday, Google updated its blog to say that it was “rolling back” the feature while it works on “implementing stronger guardrails.”

Google directly stated that it saw people sharing screenshots of imagery “that appear to violate our policies,” while assuring readers that generated images didn’t appear in the “main Google Earth experience” and were also watermarked as being AI-generated.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his fellow Democratic Socialists of America have long opposed voter ID requirements, but his administration may have a surprise waiting for shoppers at his government-run grocery stores.

During a press conference last week, Mamdani announced that the city’s five government-run grocery stores would offer “a collection of essential staples” at prices “30% cheaper” than typical retail rates.

‘We are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers, whether it be at sort of a library card-esque thing …’

When a reporter pressed Mamdani on how the city would stop opportunists from buying up the taxpayer-subsidized groceries in bulk and flipping them for a profit, a top administration official suggested requiring shoppers to prove they are “everyday New Yorkers.”

“Our RFP makes very clear that this is a program for New Yorkers to be able to put food on the table, not a program for people to be able to make a quick buck through reselling,” Mamdani responded before turning the question over to New York City Economic Development Corporation Interim President and CEO Jeanny Pak.

“We are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers, whether it be at sort of a library card-esque thing, and also we manage who’s buying and that it’s focused on everyday New Yorkers,” Pak said.

“So we are mindful of that, and so we’re going to make sure that we have all the things in place to make — ensure that that does not happen.”

RELATED: Socialist Mamdani says city-run grocery stores will undercut supermarkets by 30%

Pak did not specify how shoppers would verify their eligibility, though her reference to a “library card-esque” system suggested some form of identification or residency verification may be required to access the discounted groceries.

Spencer Pratt, the former candidate for Los Angeles mayor, slammed Mamdani on X over his contradictory positions.

“Racist Commie Mamdani is going to make you show ID in his markets. You want your government-subsidized arugula? Show your papers! Ask for ID to vote? BIGOT!!!” Pratt wrote.

“Are you starting to realize what disingenuous lying buffoons these commies are?”

This is not the first time Mamdani has faced criticism over a perceived double standard on identification requirements.

Earlier this year, New York City’s emergency snow-shoveling program required paid shovelers to provide “two original forms of ID” and a Social Security number to register — a move that drew intense backlash from critics.

“Let’s get this straight: in Zohran Mamdani’s socialist utopia, it takes 2 forms of ID to SHOVEL SNOW, but no ID to vote. Make it make sense,” the House Republicans wrote on X at the time.

The first of five publicly owned grocery stores is anticipated to open in the Bronx by the end of 2027, with the remaining four storefronts slated to be operational by the end of Mamdani’s four-year term, including one in East Harlem.

Construction of the Harlem location alone is expected to carry a $30 million price tag.

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Leave it to Donald Trump to turn a passport into a national debate.

To commemorate America’s 250th birthday, the Trump administration unveiled a special-edition “Patriot Passport” featuring historical artwork, tributes to the nation’s founding, and a portrait of the president.

While the left has immediately seized on the fact that Trump appears inside the passport, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck doesn’t see it as controversial — and counts himself “fortunate” as he was one of the first to receive the new passport.

“I guess it’s controversial because it’s for the 250th anniversary and it has Donald Trump on the very front, not the front front, but on the first page. And I don’t find that controversial. He’s the president of the United States on the 250th anniversary,” Glenn says.

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott tells Glenn that the passports will only be made this year and simply follows a tradition of commemorative passports.

“There was one for the 200th anniversary as well,” he says.

“This initially started as a passport that was only going to be available in person at the Washington, D.C., passport office. But what we saw through phone calls, emails, we had a booth at the state fair for example, with tens of thousands of Americans stopping by,” he explains.

“There was a huge amount of demand of people wanting to get this passport. So that’s why based off the demand that we’ve seen, based off the fact that people were saying, ‘We’ll fly back to Washington, D.C., to get this passport if we can get an appointment,’ we’ve decided to expand this opportunity across the country,” he adds.

Because of this, the Trump administration is reportedly making an additional 250,000 passports.

And despite the critiques, the passport doesn’t just feature Trump’s mug. It also tells stories of American history.

“There are different images on each one of the pages that mark certain events in history. Of course, the founding … our founders signing our founding documents,” Pigott tells Glenn.

“It’s also part of a broader effort here to mark the 250,” he says, explaining that one of the things the State Department is attempting to accomplish is create a “new series” where Americans are taken through “the history of diplomacy.”

“I think one of the untold stories that so many Americans aren’t told is all of the great things that our country has accomplished through diplomacy and other means,” he continues.

“And what we’re doing through this passport, telling the story, but also through other initiatives worldwide actually, is tell the story of American diplomacy in a way that is has not been told,” he adds.

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The suspect in a deadly shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger over the weekend died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound — and two “heroic” bystanders fired at the suspect and diverted him from the scene, police said, according to the Associated Press.

Investigators said the gunman — identified as 24-year-old Chad Williams — acted alone during Saturday afternoon’s shooting at the Twin Falls fast-food restaurant, Police Chief Matthew Hicks said at a news conference, the AP reported.

‘People were running out crying and screaming. It was very scary.’

Hicks also said an off-duty state trooper and an armed citizen — whose identities weren’t immediately disclosed — both fired back and diverted the gunman from the In-N-Out, the outlet added.

“We believe their actions helped drive the suspect away from the scene, preventing further casualties,” the chief said, according to the AP. “We want to take a moment and commend the actions of the off-duty officer and the citizen, and their heroic action to stop this incident.”

Three victims died and seven others were injured in the shooting, the outlet noted, adding that authorities said Sunday two of the injured were treated at a hospital and released, three were listed as stable, and two were in critical condition.

Hicks said detectives are working to determine Williams’ motives and that the suspect’s family was cooperating fully with law enforcement, the AP reported. Hicks also warned of misinformation spreading online identifying a different male as the shooter, noting that the individual had “no involvement in this incident whatsoever,” the outlet reported.

Police who responded to the shooting found the body of the suspected gunman in an area near the restaurant, Twin Falls spokesperson Josh Palmer said, according to the AP.

Palmer added to the outlet that investigators were interviewing witnesses. The In-N-Out location — which had opened about a week earlier on July 24 as part of the California-based company’s recent expansion to Idaho — is in a busy shopping plaza, and hundreds of people were in the area when the shooting occurred around 2 p.m., the AP said.

Lane Koehn, 34, told the outlet he was at a stoplight near the In-N-Out when he saw a person with an AR-style rifle emerge from the drive-thru while a man with a pistol started firing at the shooter.

Koehn then saw someone in an In-N-Out uniform drag a person also wearing a uniform — who was bleeding from a gunshot wound to her chest — across the parking lot, the AP reported. The employee, Koehn, and the man with the pistol stayed until paramedics arrived for her, the outlet added.

“She was pretty bad off, but I don’t know,” Koehn told the AP. “I hope she made it.”

RELATED: New bodycam video shows sheriff’s deputies fatally shooting knife-wielding male who authorities say stabbed deputy

He said the shooter fired at least three or four rounds, but it was not clear if anyone in particular was targeted, the outlet said.

In-N-Out owner Lynsi Snyder said one of those killed was an employee, the AP reported.

“My heart is broken, my chest is heavy, my eyes burn from the tears I’ve shed. We lost one of our beautiful associates tonight,” Snyder said in a statement released early Sunday on social media, the outlet added. “In-N-Out will be mourning with the families and praying for them as they tread through a very painful season.”

Snyder did not identify the worker in question, the AP said. Officials were still trying to notify relatives of victims and therefore were not yet releasing the victims’ names, ages or other details about them, Palmer said, according to the outlet.

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Video taken by a driver from across the street captured a shooter, who appeared to be dressed in black, walking up to a white car carrying a long rifle, opening the driver-side door and popping the trunk. The person then walked to the trunk and reached inside. At that point the driver who shot the video left quickly, fearing that the man might be getting more weapons.

Twin Falls resident Haley Dodaro, 43, and her mother went to In-N-Out for lunch Saturday afternoon. While waiting in the drive-thru line, they saw people running across the road and workers bolting out of the restaurant. At first, Dodaro thought there might have been a fire, but then a man directing traffic in a reflective vest said there was a shooter.

“So that’s when we knew there was a shooting. People were running out crying and screaming,” Dodaro said in a text message to the outlet, the AP said. “It was very scary.”

Nayeli Rodriguez, 40, of Burley, was inside waiting for food with her daughters when she heard shots from the kitchen, the outlet noted, adding that an employee said it was a shooting and told people to get down.

Rodriguez told the AP an older man tried to protect her and her daughters, and they were among the last to run outside.

“We were trying to get as far as we could and some angels let us in their car,” Rodriguez added to the outlet, also via text message. “I left my car there in the parking lot.”

Twin Falls is in southern Idaho and about two hours southeast of Boise.

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Becoming a social media star may only cost in the neighborhood of $15,000 a year, according to Arizona State University.

With majorities of Gen Z and Gen Alpha hoping to make their way in the world as influencers or content creators, that might sound like a steal.

But the cultural blowback is immediate, with reportage in the Atlantic calling the ubiquitous figures “openly reviled.”

ASU now offers a bachelor of arts in content creation, under its journalism program.

‘It is absolutely incredibly important to learn how to use social media and brand yourself.’

The BA promises to teach students how to become an influencer and mass market themselves, all while earning a degree.

The new program was approved this year and says it will help students develop into “versatile storytellers” who operate “entrepreneurially as influencers as content creators.”

The program seemingly prepares students for a life of freelance work/unemployment with courses like “developing media content,” “information gathering,” and “on-camera presence,” with the promise of garnering a significant online following.

Jessica Pucci, senior associate dean at ASU’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said that any content creator would benefit from the program.

“They will have demonstrable audience growth. They will have a platform of their choice with real content and real followers and a real audience behind them,” Pucci told outlet Arizona’s Family.

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The outlet spoke to other women who praised the program, including ASU student Caroline Rowland, who described the major as an essential part of branding.

“It is absolutely incredibly important to learn how to use social media and brand yourself,” Rowland said.

Anna Elizabeth, who was characterized as an Arizona-based influencer and medical assistant, said the program would certainly have helped her when she started out.

“I feel like if I had that opportunity in this time that I started doing content, I feel like it would have benefited me a whole lot.”

With Elizabeth as an example of a person who isn’t a full-time influencer, ASU listed other possible careers associated with the degree, such as communications specialist, marketing associate, marketing manager, and public relations manager. All of these are typical outcomes of marketing, public relations, and communications degrees.

In its mission statement, Content Creation lists “global perspectives” and “personal branding” as priorities alongside the ability to create content, preparing students for “brand content projects, media internships, and content creation trips abroad.”

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Courses that focus on content creation skills include topics like “how to become an influencer,” podcasting, and “interpersonal influence.”

According to ASU’s admissions site, the degree can be earned for as little as $14,814 per year, the average tuition rate for in-state residents. For out-of-state students, that cost could rise to approximately $39,000 per year.

Other schools offer similar programs, like Graceland University’s digital content creation major, as reported by the College Fix.

Another example is Grand Canyon University, a private Christian school in Arizona that offers a bachelor’s in social media.

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