Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) released another health update, which said he has been released from a rehabilitation facility after being hospitalized for weeks.

McConnell was hospitalized on June 14 after his latest fall and had been moved to a rehabilitation facility, but many skeptics have been demanding that his office provide evidence of his condition.

‘It is unacceptable that the party who spent four years criticizing Joe Biden’s health is now silent on McConnell’s.’

“On the advice of my doctors, I’ll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period, and I’ll continue to engage with my staff and colleagues on important Senate business,” McConnell said in a statement Thursday.

The 84-year-old has been absent from Congress for nearly two months.

After the Democratic governor of Kentucky demanded that McConnell provide evidence of his condition, the senator released a photo with his wife and a second photo weeks later.

The lack of video fueled conspiracy theorists who speculated a spectrum of possibilities, from McConnell passing away to his being surreptitiously arrested.

His absence from Congress has also hamstrung some Republican efforts that depended on his vote to break the slim margin. Among those is the upcoming vote on whether to confirm Todd Blanche for U.S. attorney general.

McConnell had already announced that he was not going to run for re-election after becoming the longest-serving Senate leader in U.S. history and the longest-serving senator for Kentucky as well.

RELATED: Kentucky governor makes unusual request as mystery deepens over Mitch McConnell’s health

Some critics continued to demand video of McConnell’s health condition.

“We need the truth about Mitch McConnell NOW. It is unacceptable that the party who spent four years criticizing Joe Biden’s health is now silent on McConnell’s,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck said on social media.

“It is OUR RIGHT to know. That seat isn’t McConnell’s. It belongs to the people of Kentucky,” he added.

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Once again, the Democratic Socialists of America have proven that the Democrat establishment can’t outspend its grassroots army.

On August 4, progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate over Rep. Haley Stevens, after many DSA members, local chapters, activists, and progressive figures closely tied to the DSA — including Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Rashida Tlaib — mobilized heavily on his behalf.

BlazeTV host Nick Freitas says El-Sayed’s victory reveals something deeply unsettling about the direction the Democratic Party is headed.

“The establishment probably could not have picked a better candidate for what we would call establishment-style Democrat politics in Michigan than Haley Stevens,” says Freitas, highlighting her “long history with Michigan” and her work on both Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s 2008 campaigns.

“She really appealed to the things that you would expect from kind of working-class voters in Michigan … and yet she still lost,” he adds.

According to Freitas, there are “two things going on here.”

“One, you see the machine Democrat Party recognizing that it’s probably going to be a lot harder to win with [El-Sayed] in a swing state, and then I think what you also see is this resurgence of far-left politics … within the Democratic Party that is absolutely dedicated and willing to walk in lockstep,” he explains.

Even though Stevens was by no means the “moderate” she was portrayed to be — exemplified by her progressive positions on ICE, abortion, and gun control — Freitas says her classic establishment résumé and deep-pocketed donors made her an easier candidate for the Democrat establishment to get behind.

But in the end, it didn’t matter how much money the Democrat machine spent on her. El-Sayed still came out on top because the DSA is where the momentum and energy is right now.

“What this confirms is that the DSA is every bit as strong as we anticipated it to be, and I think what this demonstrates is that at least going into the midterms, DSA is going to be riding this wave of victories that they’ve had within primaries,” says Freitas.

“The fact that Abdul Sayed thought this is going to be great for me, and theoretically was, should tell us everything we need to know about where the energy is within the Democratic Party right now,” he continues.

The Democrat establishment, Freitas explains, is failing to beat the DSA not because D candidates are actually true moderates — on the contrary, they’re usually still far-left on core issues — but because the DSA is “very, very honest” about its objectives, which appeals to voters.

“And then to the extent that [the DSA is] losing, they’re only losing in places where they don’t have sufficient groundwork or they haven’t had the sufficient time to work in order to build up a new generation of voters that hate America every bit as much as they do. So what do they settle for?” he asks.

“Well, they settle for candidates who still want to fundamentally change and alter the United States, who still want to allow for mass immigration, who still want to abolish ICE, who still want to abolish prisons or defund the police, but are simply smart enough to not say so out loud,” he answers.

Add it all up and the conclusion regarding the current Democratic Party is bleak: “You have the DSA … you have progressive candidates who pretty much want the same things, but are smart enough to know that you can’t say everything that you want out loud … and then you have this ever-dwindling portion of ‘moderate’ Democrats.”

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The story of Lindsay Clancy and the alleged murder of her three children is undeniably heartbreaking. While the jury is still out on what her fate will be, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes it’s important to recognize that she was managing her postpartum depression with 13 different medications prescribed by six different doctors.

One of the drugs Clancy was on was an SSRI, which adjusts a person’s level of serotonin.

In an interview Stuckey conducted last year with board certified psychiatrist Josef Witt-Doerring, he argued that “one of the problems with all of these drugs, all of these so-called antidepressants, SSRIs, is that studies show that the premise they are based on is actually unsupported by evidence.”

“There was a major 2022 review in molecular psychiatry that found no solid evidence that people with depression have lower serotonin levels. And this doctor that I had on my show points out that there is still no blood test. There’s no brain scan that can objectively diagnose depression,” Stuckey explains, noting that it’s simply a “symptom checklist.”

“And so, if you are putting someone on something that is affecting their serotonin, which is an important hormone in mood regulation, but that was never the problem in the first place, you’re just giving them the side effects. You’re just giving them the cons and none of the pros from emotional regulation,” she continues.

While many people claim that SSRIs have changed their lives, Stuckey points out that it’s possible that having your “emotional response” blunted and your “spectrum of emotions” shortened could bring you back “from the brink of dark depression.”

“It doesn’t treat their depression. It doesn’t ever get to the underlying cause, but it is possible that an SSRI can have that effect, but it can also have all of these other effects, especially if the root cause is never addressed,” she explains.

And psychiatric medication is increasingly common, with 17% of Americans taking them.

“Millions unknowingly are at risk of drug-induced brain damage while being told that their drugs are safe. According to this doctor, Witt-Doerring, patients who stop psychiatric drugs even gradually can suffer protracted withdrawal that feels like permanent brain damage,” Stuckey says.

“It can cause neurotoxicity. It can also trigger a condition called tardive dysphoria that includes apathy, dissociation, chronic fatigue, agitation. He notes that multiple people have taken their life because the symptoms from this can be so extreme, it can drive people to suicide,” she continues.

Another doctor Stuckey interviewed, Dr. Adam Urato, “warned of the many dangers of being prescribed SSRIs, specifically during pregnancy, but it also applies to that postpartum period.”

Urato, chief of maternal fetal medicine at MetroWest Medical Center, “has called for stronger FDA warnings for SSRIs, especially for pregnant mothers.”

While women are told that SSRIs won’t affect the baby, cause complications, or affect the breast milk, Urato has claimed that is “not accurate.”

“He has highlighted how SSRIs are actually pushed on mothers both before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and after, even though they can alter things like your own brain function, but also fetal brain development,” Stuckey explains.

“And so, all of this plays into the defense’s argument that says that, ‘Look, this was beyond her control. Someone dropped the ball here. It wasn’t her. She was trying to get the help that she wanted,’” she says. “That’s what they’re arguing.”

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He’s only been a woman for five years, but he’s ready to bring his hard-nosed style of play to the WNBA.

Julie Tétart is not just one of the best players in a league in France; the center absolutely dominated the 2025-2026 season in every relevant category.

‘It’s a childhood dream just like for any female basketball player.’

The Monaco player, who stands at 6’2″-6’3″ depending on the source, ran through France’s Ligue 2 opponents last season and has since revealed the WNBA would be a welcomed next step.

Fox News’ OutKick caught up with the trans-identifying male athlete to ask if the U.S. women’s league was a possibility.

“If they contact me, I won’t say no. But you have to be realistic: I’m old, and there are far better players than me!” the humble player told the outlet on Monday.

Calls for a WNBA team to sign Tétart have come during the league’s ongoing debate over inclusion. After Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham said girls should not have to compete with boys, backlash quickly followed from WNBA fans, coaches, and even an owner.

RELATED: World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka gives blunt answer when asked about gender testing: ‘Men are way stronger’

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Multiple WNBA personnel have struggled to separate the idea of barring men from their sport from the rest of their progressive views.

Golden State Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase compared the issue to being criticized for her ethnicity, while Fever head coach Stephanie White said she is not “educated enough from a scientific standpoint” to determine whether the league should allow men.

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

Tétart crushing the competition

It would be hard to imagine a more dominant performance than the one the 34-year-old put on last season.

Tétart was the only player in the league to break the 20-points-per-game barrier, averaging 21.2, more than four points ahead of the second-highest scorer.

In rebounding, Tétart averaged a massive 20.2 boards per game, almost double the second-highest rebounder, who averaged 10.9 per game.

Tétart was also fifth in steals per game, while averaging the most successful free throws and free-throw attempts per game, by a mile.

This was all without even being in the top 10 for minutes played per game, for which Tétart was ranked 19th.

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

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Tétart, who according to the New York Post came out as transgender in October 2021, while telling OutKick that playing in the WNBA would be a dream, seemingly hinted at not wanting to go to the U.S. because of President Donald Trump.

“Obviously, it’s a childhood dream just like for any female basketball player, but unfortunately, it’s not possible,” Tétart said.

“The league, yes. The country, no, haha,” Tétart continued. However, when pressed further on the subject, the player simply replied, “I won’t say no.”

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A Florida pastor, who previously was a public school employee, is accused of sexually battering a 14-year-old boy. The pastor was hit with several charges, including being an HIV-infected person having sex without informing a partner.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that 42-year-old Timothy Chaneyfield was arrested on July 29.

‘We believe he’s a super-spreader.’

Chaneyfield was charged with four counts of an HIV-infected person having sex without informing a partner, three counts of lewd battery of a minor, three counts of traveling to meet a minor, three counts of interfering with custody of a minor, one count of unlawful use of a two-way communication device, one count of possession of marijuana, and five counts of possession of drug paraphernalia.

His bond is more than $350,000, the sheriff’s office said.

Police launched an investigation into Chaneyfield on July 28 after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding his engagement in inappropriate contact with a child.

Police said Chaneyfield is a pastor at St. James United American Free Will Baptist Church in Winter Haven and a chaplain for Compassionate Care Hospice.

Police stated they interviewed a 14-year-old alleged male victim who said he met Chaneyfield on a dating mobile app and continued to communicate with him on Instagram.

The statement reads, “Chaneyfield picked up the victim on three consecutive days at the entrance to the victim’s subdivision, then drove the victim to his house in Winter Haven, where he had sex with the victim each day.”

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Chaneyfield called the alleged victim to tell the minor he wanted to continue the sexual relationship.

Chaneyfield told the boy he was traveling to Baltimore for work. Detectives determined that Chaneyfield was flying to Baltimore to preside over a funeral.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office detectives and officers with the Orlando Police Department arrested Chaneyfield at the Orlando International Airport when he returned to Florida from Baltimore on July 29.

Chaneyfield was booked into the Orange County Jail and transferred to the Polk County Jail on Aug. 1.

Police said Chaneyfield admitted to Polk County Sheriff’s Office detectives to having illicit sex with the teen.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office added that “during a separate investigation, an adult male reported to the PCSO that he had sex with Chaneyfield and learned after the fact that Chaneyfield was HIV-positive.”

Police added, “Detectives confirmed that Chaneyfield is HIV-positive and is taking medication for the disease, and that Chaneyfield did not inform the adult victim, nor the child, about his HIV status.”

RELATED: Disney employee, corrections officer, deputy police chief, teachers, among 160 arrested in Florida during undercover operation targeting human trafficking

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said during a Tuesday news conference that Chaneyfield is “dangerous.”

Judd said Chaneyfield “used the power and the persuasion of a well-recognized minister in order to groom children and apparently at least one adult … in order to have sex.”

“He’s a dope-smoking pedophile preacher,” Judd said.

“Timothy is HIV-positive,” Judd said. “He failed to tell this 14-year-old child that [he is] HIV positive, and he had unprotected sex with a child and exposed our 14-year-old victim to HIV.”

“The 14-year-old had no clue that he was having unprotected sex with an adult that was HIV-positive,” Judd explained.

Sheriff Judd said the adult who had sex with Chaneyfield is now HIV-positive.

“We believe he’s a super-spreader,” the sheriff stated.

Police said the teen was provided with medication for treating HIV.

“This guy’s nasty. He’s a menace to society, and he’s proven that,” the sheriff said of Chaneyfield.

“Jesus don’t like that, and he’ll have to answer for that one day to a court much higher than ours,” Judd continued.

Judd also said Chaneyfield has “no remorse.”

“He’s an evil man,” Judd stated.

“We fear that there’s other victims out there because he was very aggressive and very adamant about having sex with apparently adults or children,” the sheriff stated.

“I would be shocked if there weren’t other children victims out there,” Judd said.

Sheriff Judd pointed out that “we actually tried to catch him while he was in Baltimore because we didn’t even want him wandering the streets of Baltimore.”

However, Judd said his police department received “zero assistance” from authorities in Baltimore; a spokesperson for Judd identified the agency as the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, NBC News reported, adding that an MTAP representative could not be immediately reached for comment Wednesday.

A spokesperson for Polk County Public Schools told WTVT-TV that Chaneyfield worked as a substitute teacher for two years beginning in 2012, a paraeducator from 2014 to 2016, and a network manager from 2016 to 2024.

Chaneyfield previously worked at Crystal Lake Middle School, police said.

The school system stated, “We are thankful that the Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested this individual to protect the community from any further harm. As always, we cooperate fully with law enforcement to protect students and staff.”

The Ledger reported that Chaneyfield also was a pastor at New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Haines City in 2020.

Anyone with information regarding Chaneyfield is urged to contact the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at 863-298-6200.

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In light of Sophie Cunningham’s support for only women playing in women’s sports — not men dressed as women — Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase used a recent press conference to defend the inclusion of men in women’s athletics.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is tired of hearing it, mocking Nakase’s case for the inclusion of men on a women’s court.

“Sports is about belonging, inclusivity, authentic self, and that includes transformers,” Whitlock mocks Nakase, pointing out that “she equates her own story, her height, her ethnicity, door slam with a sex category invasion she never had to live.”

And that’s exactly what Nakase did, as she claimed that being criticized herself has led her to have empathy for transgenders.

“How I’m seeing it is if I could answer with like for me, sports, sports is about belonging. It’s about inclusivity. It’s about allowing everyone to be their authentic self. You know, I’m big on that just because I have been criticized for my height, for my ethnicity,” Nakase said.

“I’ve been in those, ‘you shouldn’t belong here,’ many times. And for me, I don’t want that space, especially Golden State, to ever feel like that. So I’m all about women, little girls, deserving to play, and that includes trans women. So I’m all about inclusivity,” she added.

“I’ve been called fat. … So that’s why I’m inclusive of pedophiles, because I’ve been called fat. Don’t you see? Once you’ve been called fat, you believe in pedophilia,” Whitlock mocks. “That’s the logic she’s unpacking.”

“This is just ridiculous. I can’t believe that we have reached a point in human civilization where this is a talking point and a topic. I don’t. I, for the life of me, can’t understand. I’m watching the footage right now. I would be dominating that league,” Jay Skapniac chimes in.

“I’m 6’3”. I’m in my 40s. I haven’t touched the ball in like seven or eight years. Like, give me two months. Get me out there. And I’m dropping triple-doubles nightly,” he adds.

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As AI sweeps through your favorite devices, services, and apps, there’s one category that hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention (yet): robots.

Artificial intelligence is being crammed into all kinds of robot forms that are destined for consumers, from robot vacuums to doglike pets and even humanoid servants meant to live in your home and help you do chores.

The worst part? Many of these bots come from Chinese companies, prompting enough concern over national security and personal privacy that the Trump administration just handed down a new Chinese robot ban that is effective immediately.

What the ban entails

In late July, the Trump administration announced that it would ban U.S. imports on new intelligent robot products that hail from China. This is significant, since the ban covers most of the smart robot market. According to the Associated Press, China owns about 85% of this product segment, dwarfing American companies like Boston Dynamics with its lethal dog robot, as well as Tesla, which has yet to ship its Optimus humanoid robot that debuted in 2022.

A Roomba vacuum took revealing photos of a woman in her bathroom.

It’s important to note that the ban only covers new products bound for the United States. Any existing Chinese-developed robots that currently reside within our borders are allowed to stay. President Trump’s FCC used a similar tactic when it banned foreign-made Wi-Fi routers earlier this year, so it’s not unprecedented for these existing products to remain active for months or years after restrictions are put in place.

The Chinese robot ban includes a wide range of products, such as humanoid robots made by Unitree and Agibot; robot vacuums made by Roomba, Roborock, Ecovacs, and Dreame Technology; quadruped (four-legged) robots made by Xiaomi; and power inverters by Huawei (a company that is no stranger to U.S. bans during Trump’s first term) and Sungrow Power Supply.

In the FCC’s announcement, the agency cited national security as the primary reason for the ban, stating that “relying on foreign-produced advanced robotic devices presents unacceptable supply chain and cybersecurity vulnerabilities” for the nation.

China has a shady history with US tech

This should come as a shock to absolutely nobody, and when you consider how many tech innovations China has stolen from the U.S. over the years, it’s surprising that something like this didn’t happen sooner.

RELATED: Trump fumes as China pilfers top US tech — and goes unpunished

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Here is a brief rundown of China’s illicit activities around U.S. tech and intelligence.

Chinese AI companies were recently caught distilling data from American AI giants, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and more.A Chinese spy received a life sentence for swiping AI trade secrets from Google.Several Chinese websites are stealing users’ faces, hidden under the guise of putting people’s likenesses into movies, shows, and video games for fun.Chinese-made TikTok once posed a huge threat to the United States, ultimately leading to the sale of U.S. operations to a domestic joint venture to avoid an outright ban.Chinese hackers were caught stealing tens of thousands of State Department emails that were managed by Microsoft.And for the coup de grace, China led an election interference campaign and walked away with 220 million U.S. voter files, the largest compromise of election data in history, according to President Trump.

What makes Chinese robots so dangerous?

Unlike foreign-made Wi-Fi routers that only had the power to monitor your web traffic (which is bad enough), Chinese-made robots are even more invasive. Many of these devices come equipped with high-tech sensors like LIDAR that map every corner of your house and save the data to the cloud. Newer premium robot vacuums also have high-definition camera systems capable of snapping photos and recording video. Manufacturers claim that these are intended to help the vacuum “see” where it’s going and to steer around potential obstacles, like toys, shoes, and pets. Regardless of the reason, these cameras let the vacuum view your home and everyone in it, with real consequences.

In 2022, MIT Technology Review revealed that a Roomba vacuum took revealing photos of a woman in her bathroom. These images were sent to an AI startup company tasked with using captured data to train AI models, and somehow, several of them appeared in a private group on social media. When pressed about the incident, Roomba’s parent company claimed that the images came from modified devices given to company employees who agreed to share their data. Furthermore, consumer devices were never at risk of data exposures.

Whether employees willingly signed up to be filmed in intimate spaces or not, one glaring concern still stands for the rest of us. Robot vacuums are effectively surveillance systems that users invite into their homes for the simple convenience of never having to touch a manual vacuum cleaner again. Is this simple trade-off with Chinese spyware really worth it? You can judge for yourself.

If you do have a robot in your home

Although existing Chinese-made robots are still allowed to operate in the United States, you may think twice before letting one roam your home. If you want to get rid of your robot vacuums or other applicable products, you can always sell them on a third-party marketplace or dispose of them through an electronics recycling company.

And if you wish to keep your robot, just know that there are valid reasons they were banned from the United States.

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The group behind the Miss North Carolina USA contest says the decision to strip the title from 27-year-old Brittany Boltinhouse was a “difficult” one.

The Mexican-Honduran model from Beulaville posted messages years ago that the organization said went against its values.

She had warned that voting for Kamala Harris would risk turning America into a ‘third world country.’

Boltinhouse is also a supporter of President Donald Trump, though that wasn’t included in the organization’s statement.

“This decision was not made lightly,” the organizers said on Instagram. “It followed a thorough review of recently surfaced information and was based on the totality of the circumstances and our responsibility to preserve the integrity of the Miss North Carolina USA title and the values of our organization.”

The posts were not included, but the NC Beat documented that Boltinhouse used the N-word numerous times between 2017 and 2018, and referred to herself as “toxic.”

She had warned that voting for Kamala Harris would risk turning America into a “third world country” in another post and also shared a photograph of herself at a Trump rally, according to the Beat.

The discovery led to backlash from some who objected to her posts and called her a “self-hating, Trump-supporting, racist, ignorant women [sic] who does not speak for me or for any of the other ACTUAL PROUD HISPANAS.”

Miss USA Chairman and CEO Thom Brodeur said that “racism, homophobia, transphobia, [and] language that strips any person of their dignity” are against the organization’s values, but it’s unclear if he was referring to her posts or her support of the president.

“As an organization entrusted with selecting and preparing women to represent our states on the national stage,” the organization continued, “we must uphold the standards and values that our titleholders agree to embrace when accepting the honor of wearing the crown.”

The incident is even more bizarre considering that Trump once owned the Miss USA pageant before he became president.

RELATED: Former Miss North Dakota pleads guilty to day care fraud in Minnesota

Myla Hadley, the runner-up in the pageant contest, will take up the mantle of Miss North Carolina USA 2026.

Boltinhouse was the first Honduran model to win the Miss North Carolina USA title.

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