The Texas State Board of Education voted on new curriculum that requires public schools to teach the historical context of the Bible, impacting more than 5 million public school students. 
Building on America&#8217;s foundation in Judeo-Christian values, Texas wants to include Bible passages along with other classic literature in the K-12 education curriculum. This comes just after Texas won the fight to mandate posting the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
Multiple titles will be mandated at each grade level, including a “picture-book adaptation of the David and Goliath story for elementary students,” and the story of Adam and Eve for older students. Other biblical stories include the Book of Jonah, the Book of Psalms, and excerpts from the Book of Genesis and Lamentations, according to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-bible-required-reading-public-school">Guardian</a>. There will also be an increased emphasis on classic literature and culturally significant readings such as Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.”
The board of education gave its final <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-bible-required-reading-public-school">approval</a> to the curriculum during Friday’s vote. 
This new curriculum is based on “a 2023 Texas law requiring state education officials to designate at least one literary work for every grade level, with the state board expanding on that mandate by recommending multiple texts for each grade,” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-bible-required-reading-public-school">The Guardian</a> reported.
The decision has led to both praise and criticism.
Parents in favor of the new curriculum believe that it will help students better understand the Judeo-Christian values that founded the nation and Western history. 
Those opposed claim it will be a violation of the separation of church and state. Saying the curriculum lacks diversity and favors Christianity over other faiths, they complain it will “infringe on parents’ ability to lead their children’s religious education &#8230; particularly in non-Christian households.”
However, many public schools already teach stories tied to the Hindu and Islamic faiths despite the fact that there is a “church and state separation.” 
Policymakers have assured parents that the curriculum is not teaching a religion, but providing historical context within the state education code already requiring K-12 to teach “religious literature, including the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its impact on history and literature.” 
Susan Perez, founder of a Christian parent advocacy group, Citizens for Education Reform, argued in Monday’s school board meeting that not every religious belief needs to be incorporated into public school education because “our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian values.”

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<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/politics/fema-official-gregg-phillips-ousted-agency">Gregg Phillips</a>, the third-highest ranking FEMA official, has reportedly been forced from the agency due to wild past claims of teleporting to a Waffle House.
Phillips was the leader of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, appointed in December by the White House. He held one of the most “consequential roles” in the agency. However, Phillips has raised eyebrows in the past with outlandish claims, such as one stating he&#8217;d &#8220;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DWG876sDaX_/">teleported</a>&#8221; to a Waffle House.
The Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday that Phillips was leaving the agency, citing “personal reasons,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/politics/fema-official-gregg-phillips-ousted-agency">according to CNN</a>. However, sources told CNN that Phillips did not leave of his own accord. Instead, they said he&#8217;d been forced out because his image had created a lot of embarrassment and exhausted the new DHS leadership.
Phillips made the claims about teleportation in January of 2025 on a conservative podcast called “Onward,” informing the host that “teleporting is no fun,” according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/climate/gregg-phillips-fema-waffle-house.html">New York Times</a>. There were multiple incidents when Phillips said he physically teleported to a Waffle House 50 miles from his previous location. 
The New York Times investigated the claims, asking roughly two dozen Waffle House employees at three different locations about the alleged incident. None of them remembered anything like that happening.
Phillips later clarified on social media that he had been “heavily medicated” when the episode took place due to his cancer treatment, and argued the experiences mirrored biblical examples of supernatural transportation. In a post on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@greggphillips/posts/116329963429212640">Truth Social</a>, Phillips said that he&#8217;d turned to alternative routes after conventional cancer treatments failed him, and the incident in question had occurred during the first week of this new treatment. 
“I was in the opening days of intensive treatment, heavily medicated, not thinking about future headlines,” Phillips said. “That context was nowhere in the reporting.”
Phillips also pointed out that he did not use the word “teleportation.” Instead, it was “used by someone else in the conversation reaching for language to describe something with no easy name.”

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People are joining dating apps to find partners who share not only interests, but health priorities.
“<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unjected.app&amp;hl=en_US">Unjected</a>” is a dating app for unvaccinated individuals that describes its platform as a place for “like-minded individuals seeking authentic connections with awakened voices …” It features smart matching, speed dating, date requests, live video calls, and social feeds. It was originally launched as a safe place for “unvaccinated to come together uncensored through business, friendship or love,” according to the app’s founders, Shelby Thomson and Heather Pyle.
Unjected hosted a &#8220;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DXNbwhJAaJS/?hl=en&amp;img_index=5">Summer Love</a>” tour, traveling across the U.S. and holding mixers for unvaccinated singles. 
“We’ve been banned, hacked, betrayed, and written off, and we’re still here,” the post said. “So this summer, we’re going on tour. 🌎Denver. Nashville. Boise. Portland.”
The app has had success with users finding spouses who value their health as much as they do. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/06/26/dating-apps-unvaccinated-people-are-successfully-matching-anti-vaxxers/">Genna Betros</a>, 27, discovered the app and related to its mission, distrustful of how quickly the vaccine was developed and undertested, according to The Washington Post. She said that the app attracts others who stay strong for their family and not submit to whatever the TV says.”   
Betros matched with Corey Deemer, who was also skeptical about the “aggressive” push toward vaccinations. Only an hour&#8217;s drive apart at the outset, they met, fell in love, and eventually married. 
Launched in 2021, the app initially endured setbacks: <a href="https://freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/tracker-entries/dating-app-for-the-unvaccinated-removed-from-apple-and-google-stores-instagram-platform/">Apple removed</a> Unjected from its App Store because its social feed allowed for “buzz phrases” like “experimental mRNA gene modifiers,” “bioweapons,” and “nano-technology microchips.” Thomson and Pyle pushed back, saying that Apple had violated their First Amendment rights. 
“Obviously, these tech giants do what they want,” Thomson said in an Inside Edition interview. “But, it doesn’t make it any less a violation of the 1st amendment.” 
The app was eventually returned to Apple’s App Store in 2024. 
There is still pushback from a number of sources when questions are raised regarding the overall safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines in particular. Pharmaceutical companies often tout the life-saving capabilities of traditional vaccines, lumping the COVID-19 vaccine in with the others as they argue it saved “<a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00320-6/fulltext">millions of lives</a>.” 
There are a growing number of studies, however, showing that the questions are worth raising. A Senate subcommittee hearing in 2025 titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/how-the-corruption-of-science-has-impacted-public-perception-and-policies-regarding-vaccines/">How the Corruption of Science has Impacted Public Perception and Policies Regarding Vaccines</a>,” presented the results of a study that was supposed to prove vaccines were safe. It did the opposite. 
Toby Rogers, a Brownstone Institute fellow with a doctorate in political economy, testified that he watched every meeting of the Advisory Committee on immunization practices, and the vaccines and related biological products advisory committee, and he found that from 2021 to 2023 “after a while the CDC’s own research showed that protection from the vaccine, if any, was between months two and six, and by six months it showed negative efficacy” — meaning that data suggested the vaccine actually increased the risk of conditions it was supposed to prevent or did nothing at all. It also had the “worst side-effect profile of any vaccine in human history,” according to Rogers. 
At the hearing, attorney Aaron Siri <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DOZ2DFQDjnr/">cited</a> an unpublished Henry Ford Health study that drew on medical records of 18,468 children enrolled in the system from 2000 to 2016, comparing those who received one or more vaccines with those who received none. Siri said the study found that vaccinated children had “4.29 times the rate of asthma, 3.03 times the rate of atopic disease, 5.96 times the rate of autoimmune disease, and 5.53 times the rate of neuro-developmental disorders.” 
The study was never published or peer-reviewed, and Henry Ford Health disputes that it was &#8220;suppressed&#8221; — arguing that it went unpublished because it was poorly designed. Stanford infectious-disease physician Jake Scott, who also testified, said the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups differed too much at the outset to support the study&#8217;s conclusions.
Siri said the findings were “statistically significant” even after adjusting cohorts for factors like gender, race, and birthweight, and noted that researchers who set out to &#8216;reduce vaccine hesitancy&#8217; had instead produced findings that cut against their own premise.
While the COVID-19 vaccines have garnered a lot of suspicion, more traditional vaccines have been more broadly accepted by both the medical community and the general public. <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/24-04-2024-global-immunization-efforts-have-saved-at-least-154-million-lives-over-the-past-50-years">Measles vaccinations</a> are recorded to have the &#8220;most significant impact on reducing infant mortality, accounting for 60% of the lives saved due to immunization,&#8221; and are considered likely to prevent future deaths as well. The report also says that over the past 50 years, vaccination against 14 different diseases has contributed to &#8220;reducing infant deaths by 40% globally, and by more than 50% in the African Region.&#8221;

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2026 FIFA World Cup travelers are holding up TSA lines as agents are forced to dispose of ranch dressing bottles smuggled into carry-on bags.
Many travelers, like German fútbol fan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/foreign-soccer-fans-are-discovering-something-many-americans-forgot">Freddy</a>, who find themselves fawning over all things American, are stowing ranch dressing bottles and Cheez Whiz in their carry-on luggage. Last week, TSA reportedly threw out at least <a href="https://x.com/AryanBundles/status/2067789502848934240">500</a> bottles of condiments. 
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZp4r77DruG/?img_index=2">TSA</a> even made a humorous post on Instagram about the ongoing issue: “If you’re visiting for a large sporting event &amp; you happen to discover RANCH while you’re here… pls pack it in your CHECKED BAG on the way home. Thank you.” They also asked that travelers avoid “chugging your ranch outside security.&#8221;
Some companies are taking advantage of this trend, advertising ways to bring ranch onto carry-ons. 
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZvRQNpRKzd/">Kraft</a> introduced “Kraft TSA Compliant Ranch, a travel-friendly way to bring the taste of America home&#8221; on Friday. Confirming this product is not a gag, Kraft said they were working on the “real thing.” 
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“It’s about time,&#8221; TSA responded to the post, adding a teary-eyed emoji.
Foreign travelers continue to gush over what most Americans consider “small things.&#8221;  
“What’s happening?” one traveler remarked as he walked past the parts and accessories aisle. “I can get bread, milk, and an air rifle.&#8221; 
Another traveler said Costco was probably the “best store I’ve ever been to.” 
A <a href="https://x.com/lilianVinicius/status/2068696948308054522">post</a> on X said that World Cup Europeans’ love for America is a “Nightmare for liberals who hate America. Decade of hard work gone down the toilet.” 
The United States is one of three countries hosting the World Cup alongside Canada and Mexico. Over <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DallasTexasTV/posts/the-2026-fifa-world-cup-is-expected-to-bring-over-5-million-foreign-travelers-to/1706235951505521/">5 million</a> visitors from around the world are expected to visit during the global event.

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Summer has dropped and with it has come the new <a href="https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/striped-mini-canvas-tote-bag-084312">Trader Joe’s</a> tote bag — the new hot item causing some customers to arrive at 3 a.m. to camp out at the stores.
The bags are simple in design and measure 13 inches x 11 inches tall x 6 inches, and debuted on Wednesday, causing lines to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3aVSsMyYa4w">stretch for blocks</a> as customers hoped to snag the famed bag before it&#8217;s gone. The Striped Mini Canvas Tote Bags — sold for $2.99 — come in four colors: pale pink, sky blue, seafoam green, or desert sand Stripe. They are described as perfect for small shopping trips or a quick grab-and-go meal.
Customers arrive earlier and earlier, hoping to grab a bag before the store runs out. Luckily for them, the bags are restocked daily and some <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/grocery/2026/06/17/trader-joes-summer-tote-bag-shoppers-long-lines/90588899007/">stores limit</a> the customers to four bags per person. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZswzIMBwcr/">One influencer</a> arrived an hour and a half early and the line was still wrapped around for blocks. 
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These bag drops unfortunately do get out of hand on occasion. A <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@maddielyeverafter/video/7652359434269773087?q=trader%20joe%27s%20tote%20bag&amp;t=1781709384736">TikTok influencer</a> said that the line to get into the store wrapped around the entire perimeter of the parking lot. The store initially had the bags in a corner as a free grab instead of handing them out until they “realized chaos would ensue.” 
At one location, a customer claimed the bags were sold out — which the manager denied. In an attempt to keep things from getting out of control, the employees tried to have customers arrange in a single file line —  but the customers refused to cooperate. The line was rerouted to the back door instead. This store was only allowing customers to take six bags a person. 
Trader Joe’s tote bag hype has developed a cult-like following, reaching back to March of 2024. The bags are so coveted that they can sell for up to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kianbakhtiari/2026/01/20/how-trader-joes-tote-bag-became-a-global-status-symbol/">$50,000 </a>on eBay. But why?
The bags are viewed by many as a status symbol, according to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kianbakhtiari/2026/01/20/how-trader-joes-tote-bag-became-a-global-status-symbol/">Forbes</a>. They are merchandise that can only be found in U.S. stores — across some 600 locations — and they can’t be ordered online. The bag speaks to culture and wealth, and since the bag can only be found in the United States, having it in an outside country shows the ability to afford an international flight. It can also make owners seem well-traveled with an “international outlook.”
Material status symbols are nothing new. Tyrian purple was only permitted for the elites in Rome, and anyone who wore it illegally was killed. Pineapples were the “ultimate cost signal” in Victorian Britain. Now it&#8217;s little striped totes bags — but what they all have in common is their ability to inspire child-like behavior from adults.

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Shark sightings are on the rise as the “Super” El Niño brings in warmer water, as scientists warn Americans about their next trip to the beach. 
Scientists are predicting a 63% chance of a “<a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/super-el-nino-high-temperatures-disease">Super El Niño</a>” this year, a nickname for very strong weather events, which can result in temperatures in the Pacific Ocean increasing by at least 2℃ above average. This year could bring in the strongest El Niño on record.
With these weather shifts driving warmer water “deeper and faster” than before, sharks will move closer to shore. 
“Scientists are issuing a warning that California will see an exponential increase in sharks with intensely warming waters fueled by El Niño,”<a href="https://abcnews.com/video/133929304/"> ABC News</a> said.  
Dr. Chris Lowe, director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach, said that Southern California in particular will see a drastic uptick, having “double the sharks” than in a normal year, according to ABC News. 
Sharks can also appear in areas where they wouldn&#8217;t typically go, according to Lowe. 
“During strong El Niños, like the one that&#8217;s being predicted, we get tiger sharks, bull sharks, whale sharks, manta rays and even hammerheads,” Lowe said. “We have all these species that we don&#8217;t normally get.”
The <a href="https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/el-nino-forms-expected-to-strengthen-say-noaa-forecasters">El Niño</a> is a weather phenomenon occurring when the temperature in the equatorial Pacific is 0.5℃ above average for several consecutive months, coupled with a disruption of an atmospheric pattern called the Walker Circulation. 
These weather changes have global impacts, altering clouds, jet streams, air pressure, and storms. It also makes dry places wetter, and wet places drier, intensifying in the fall and culminating in the winter. <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/what-is-el-nino-and-how-could-it-affect-weather-this-year">The most recent El Niño</a>, one of the five strongest on record, caused high global temperatures, severe droughts, and intense cyclones.
During the last El Niño ending in May 2024, Southern California saw 20 to 25 juvenile great white sharks, which can reach up to nine feet long. Scientists predict Southern California could see just as many great whites again this year. These sharks can also be as close to the shore as waist-deep water.
The <a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/2015-state-climate-el-ni%C3%B1o-came-saw-and-conquered">2015 El Niño</a>, equivalent to the “record-strong events of 1982 and 1997-98,” resulted in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/09/shark-attacks-record-high-2015-global-tally">98 unprovoked</a> shark attacks globally, a record high event. 
Australia has already seen four fatal shark attacks this year, and a great white shark was spotted in the Mediterranean, which is unusual. 
On June 8, a Navy base employee was injured in a shark attack in Panama City, Florida. 
With the anticipated increase in shark sightings, Lowe said people should be vigilant, not fearful.
“We know there’s safety in numbers,” Lowe said. “Statistically, it is very rare for somebody to be bitten if they’re in a group, but they’re more likely to be bitten if they’re by themselves.&#8221; 
Being aware of your surroundings, where you are swimming, and not swimming near a shark’s prey are further ways to ensure safety. 
Since it is more likely to be <a href="https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/sharks/most-dangerous-shark.htm">killed by a cow</a>, <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/sharks-vending-machines-death.html">vending machine</a>, or <a href="https://www.ifaw.org/journal/faq-about-sharks">champagne cork</a>, swimmers should be aware in the water and not do anything foolish like the infamous <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissacristinamarquez/2025/05/17/influencers-are-getting-too-close-to-sharksand-its-getting-people-hurt/">shark riders</a>. Sharks kill fewer than 10 people a year, while people kill on average 100 million sharks annually. 
Sharks are also just not that <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/el-nino-could-bring-sharks-to-beaches-that-have-never-seen-them-12049558">interested in humans</a>. Lowe said that the most recent data in California shows great white sharks are “around people all the time, people just don’t know they’re there.” 
​​&#8221;Using drone footage, we see sharks swimming right by people and not even changing their path,” Lowe said. “They&#8217;re completely ignoring people.”

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s practice of eating sauerkraut to lose weight is now influencing other members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to do the same.
Seeking tighter waistlines and glowing skin, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy have all joined Kennedy in eating the fermented food, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fitness/trump-vance-lutnick-rfk-sauerkraut-diet-2f33bdf1?mod=e2tw">Wall Street Journal</a>. 
Kennedy has incorporated sauerkraut into his diet since 2025, lost 20 pounds in 30 days, and reportedly reduced aches and pains. Kennedy also said he sees a difference in his fellow Cabinet members.
“JD Vance is also on the diet and you can see how different he looks,” Kennedy said. 
Duffy was complimented on his “glowing” skin by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The full <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds7ESVf8jKE">diet</a>, consisting of meats, fermented vegetables, and microbe-rich foods, comes from <a href="https://www.dhaj7-cepo.com/node/25832/bio/114095/view">Dr. Sean O’Mara</a>. With an emphasis on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DMxy8CHxnfd/">microbes</a>, O’Mara is a huge proponent of fermented foods like sauerkraut.
The diet reduces visceral fat, a hidden body fat that wraps around vital organs, causing inflammation and chronic diseases, and produces a healthy microbiome, according to O’Mara.
Kennedy first inspired Lutnick, and Duffy soon followed. Vance initially joined the trend just for Lent, but has now fully committed to it. 
O’Mara said he enjoys working with older people since the ROI is “so much greater,” and it is “like taking over a sinking ship, a company that is headed to bankruptcy,” per the Wall Street Journal. 
O’Mara is familiar with high-profile patients, advising senior government officials, including President Bill Clinton and Vice President Dick Cheney, during his Army service. He was awarded a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation for “reversing chronic disease using innovative biomarkers such as visceral and pericardial fat.” O’Mara uses full-body MRIs to find the hidden fat around patients’ organs. 
Lutnick, who avoided red meat for years due to cancer concerns, discussed the diet with Kennedy when they traveled to Colorado in December 2025. Shifting from Diet Coke, Lutnick now drinks plain iced coffee.
Vance’s meals consist of beef or lamb with sauerkraut for dinner and eggs, sauerkraut, pickles, blackberries, and raspberries for lunch.
Despite travel and busy schedules, the Cabinet members manage to maintain their diets. Kennedy typically carries sauerkraut when traveling.  
O’Mara said his commitment to healing people is his life’s calling — helping them to communicate better and “have more energy for a stressful job.”
“Nothing will improve somebody’s appearance more and their performance,” O’Mara said.
The new dietary guidelines also now <a href="https://www.ajupress.com/view/20260110161553251">encourage</a> fermented foods.

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A survivor of the Pakistani grooming gangs says she was asked to remain silent about her rapist&#8217;s race for an interview on the news.
Sammy Woodhouse, a mother who bore a son out of rape at age 15 and an advocate for children of child sexual abuse, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chm-hAALS1k">was ordered</a> by a producer on &#8220;Good Morning Britain&#8221; not to mention that her assaulter was a Muslim man of Pakistani heritage. Woodhouse refused to comply — and she says the news program has since apologized to her.
In an exclusive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/michael-knowles-show-ep-1996?elementPosition=1&amp;row=6&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">interview</a> on Wednesday with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, Woodhouse shared her key takeaways from the “Rape Gang Inquiry Report,” a 219-page document released this week exposing crimes carried out in the United Kingdom by Muslim men with “predominantly Pakistani heritage.”
“A minimum of 250,000 children that have been trafficked around the United Kingdom from as early as the 1950s,” Woodhouse said. “Usually from the age of eleven, they’ve been groomed, abused, raped, tortured, trafficked, murdered, criminalized, impregnated, blamed, the authorities turned a blind eye due to race …”
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Woodhouse noted that the majority of the perpetrators were Pakistani and Muslim. Children as young as four years old were sold by their mothers, while professionals and officers looked the other way, and some were even directly involved, raping the girls themselves. 
Dogs were also used to rape the young girls, and the children were locked in cages, receiving the “most horrific of torture,” according to Woodhouse.
“I think every single person — not just in the UK, but around the world — needs to read this report because I promise you right now, this is not just a problem for the United Kingdom,” Woodhouse said. 
When asked why Pakistanis and Muslims do this, since it was not a problem before like it is today, Woodhouse said it was because they have “pure hate for non-believers.”
“There is a hate towards non-believers, especially white women or white females. As I said earlier, I think that Islam is a very violent and sexist religion, and when you read the report, you will see some of the things that they were saying to the children, you know, about their race, about the fact that they [weren’t] Muslim; and about their religion because some of the children were Christians.”
Woodhouse said Muslim men read scriptures from the Quran while a girl was raped orally, vaginally, and anally at the same time. The Muslim men would also reportedly say, “Where is your God now,” to victims who wore crosses. Children were also forced to marry these men, and then trafficked outside of the UK, according to Woodhouse. 
“There were even social workers that came and acted as witnesses at these weddings,” Woodhouse added.
Some police officers, she said, were not only involved in covering up these activities, but were willing participants — raping young girls and giving them back to their attackers. 
“There’s never been a professional held to account for the mass rape and torture of children in our country — not one,” Woodhouse noted.
She went on to explain that people remain unaware of these horrors and the victims&#8217; trauma, in part, because they just can’t believe people would commit these atrocities.
“I always say that the biggest challenge of this country is to change the mindsets of people, but you’re not gonna be able to change all those mindsets,” Woodhouse said. “We have damning amounts of evidence now in the public domain … and it&#8217;s still not enough for some people.”

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Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro said in a court hearing on Wednesday that Luigi Mangione will argue a “psychiatric defense” for his upcoming state trial over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 
The man who is painted by many on the Left as an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/luigi-mangione">antihero</a> will now seek to present evidence that he experienced “extreme emotional disturbance” at the time of Thompson’s killing, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-reveals-luigi-mangione-pursue-psychiatric-defense-unitedhealthcare-ceo-assassination-case">Fox News</a> reported.
Mangione&#8217;s psychiatric defense could downgrade a murder conviction to a manslaughter conviction if the jury buys his argument. Mangione’s exact psychiatric issues are not clear, but the defense will have to inform the prosecutors of what malady the defendant suffers from and what caused his “extreme emotional disturbance&#8221; ahead of the state trial, which is set to begin on September 8.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspect-in-unitedhealthcare-ceo-assassination-charged-with-murder?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Suspect+In+UnitedHealthcare+CEO+Assassination+Charged+With+Murder">On December 4, 2024</a>, Mangione allegedly gunned down Thompson outside of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. He was arrested five days later in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Evidence of premeditation was found in a notebook he had on him during the arrest, detailing how to carry out the murder and why. He also carried a manifesto against insurance companies, specifically mentioning “United.”  
The judge ordered the defense to give further details to the DA&#8217;s office by Thursday.
Dr. Marc Siegel, a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, pointed out on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6398666923112">Fox News</a> that Mangione said himself in 2025 that “he doesn’t have mental illness, that he doesn’t suffer from drug abuse of any kind. … They’re gonna hang this on the fact that he had spinal fusion surgery in 2023, and he had been suffering in pain, and isolation, and anxiety.” 
Siegel doesn’t believe any of Mangione&#8217;s claims would “meet the bar of extreme emotional disturbance if it hadn’t been diagnosed previously, where he had some kind of delusional or psychotic disorder as a result.” 
Legal analyst Kerri Urbahn sees the defense linking the “emotional disturbance” to Mangione’s spinal fusion surgery back in 2023, arguing that excessive angst and anger built up over time, and then he eventually “exploded — reacted and gunned down the CEO.”
Mangione has already received a favorable ruling in his federal case, when a judge dismissed charges in the case that made him eligible for the death penalty. Mangione pleaded not guilty to all state and federal charges.

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Why eat out when you can DoorDash? In an <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/elon-musk-vlad-tenev-on-the-good-time-show/id1551570777?i=1000507355879">interview</a> from 2021, Elon Musk <a href="https://x.com/astro_greek/status/2053097906920714746">discusses</a> how his son, Saxon, who is &#8220;sort of autistic,&#8221; was always confused about why the family would go out to dinner once a week. Finally, Musk said, Saxon realized the reason people go out to restaurants is to meet new people. 
“You can get the same restaurant food delivered,” Musk said. “You can call your friends over, but you know what you can’t get unless you go to a restaurant is hanging out with strangers. So we actually like hanging out with strangers.” 
But not everyone likes hanging out with strangers. Ghost kitchens, which are professional, delivery-only food preparation infrastructures, are becoming increasingly popular in the U.S. Removing the &#8220;inconvenient&#8221; and &#8220;inefficient&#8221; dine-in space, these kitchens are expected to make up &#8220;half of the market share in both drive-thru and takeaway foodservice sectors&#8221; by 2030, <a href="https://oysterlink.com/spotlight/ghost-kitchens-statistics-facts/">according</a> to OysterLink. There are roughly 7,600 ghost kitchens in the U.S. Even <a href="https://www.thestreet.com/restaurants/chick-fil-a-opens-ghost-kitchen-delivery">Chick-fil-A</a>, known for its southern hospitality and values, has opened its own. 
Americans are opting for quick, easy, stay-at-home meals. Millions of us <a href="https://backlinko.com/doordash-users">use</a> DoorDash every month instead of visiting local restaurants. Sixty-four percent of Gen Z get takeout or delivery weekly or more often, <a href="https://foodinstitute.com/focus/gen-z-eats-differently-what-this-means-for-restaurants/">according</a> to TouchBistro. This generation <a href="https://www.fmi.org/blog/view/fmi-blog/2023/04/25/how-gen-z-is-grocery-shopping">spends 20%</a> of their grocery budget online compared to baby boomers, who only spend 10% online. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic only further normalized this behavior. 
Whether we know it or not, our habits of ordering food and sitting in front of the TV alone contribute to isolation and disconnection. I am not innocent in this. Often, I go for take-out because it&#8217;s more &#8220;convenient&#8221; or I&#8217;m just &#8220;too busy.&#8221; But these statements are less of an uncontrollable reality and more of a priority issue.
We have all heard that America is suffering a loneliness epidemic. In an age when there are more ways to connect than ever, we have never been more disconnected. As of last year, 54% of adults felt isolated, 50% felt left out, and another 50% felt they lacked companionship often or sometimes, <a href="https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2025/11/nation-suffering-division-loneliness">according</a> to an American Psychological Association poll.
The solution might be easier than you think. You need to go outside and talk to strangers.
Micro-interactions with people we don&#8217;t know seem rarer than ever. At the grocery store, self-service machines have been on the rise as people expect to make their next visit to the supermarket swift, controlled, and without the annoyance of an exhausted employee. <a href="https://www.wevend.com/the-rise-of-self-service/">According to WeVend</a>, a payment processing platform specializing in self-service businesses, self-service kiosks are in high demand, with 66% of U.S. customers saying they prefer automated interaction over a human one. I remember seeing my first <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DY4j6SWMh3L/">completely automated</a> coffee shop in an airport: Robo Cafe. The adoption of, investment in, and demand for these automated machines is <a href="https://kioskindustry.org/self-service-statistics/">increasing</a>; a lack of human interaction is in high demand. 
However, research on the indispensable nature of interactions with strangers is eye-opening. Something as simple as a quick comment, small joke, or friendly smile can reduce loneliness. <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_loving_moments_with_strangers_carry_lasting_benefits">In one study</a>, participants reported a more positive commute to work when instructed to talk with a stranger compared to those who weren&#8217;t. Another study in Starbucks found that when asked to have a “warm, genuine interaction (compared to an &#8216;efficient&#8217; one)” with the barista, people had an elevated and positive mood partly because they felt “a greater sense of belonging.”
In fact, research typically finds that interactions with strangers are beneficial, contrary to many fears of rejection. And these fears of rejection are not really based on reality. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103122000750">Research shows</a> that a stranger rejecting or shutting you down does not occur very often. Also, the <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15298868.2020.1816568#abstract">fears of screwing up</a> an interaction — awkward silence, fumbling with your words — are not the norm. 
What we need is to stop fearing social interactions and give ourselves the opportunity to meet our neighbors.
Slaughterhouse-Five author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. knew what this meant. He used to argue with his wife about buying envelopes. &#8220;You’re not a poor man,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/god-bless-you-mr-vonnegut/">would say</a>. &#8220;You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?&#8221;
&#8220;And so I pretend not to hear her,&#8221; Vonnegut said. &#8220;And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.” 
Many Americans are lonely, depressed, and anxious because we lack purpose and human connection. If we continue to replace everything with AI and automation for the sake of efficiency, we will become optimized, selfish, and aimless.
Now, self-service machines and AI are not evil and are not inevitably going to destroy us. They don’t have agency. We do. We can find new ways to interact with people and strangers. We can choose to make hard decisions. The issue is that this technology makes it incredibly easy to avoid doing the hard thing.
We need to be more intentional than ever about making space for human interaction in our everyday lives. That means embracing a little friction and remembering that, like Musk, &#8220;we actually like hanging out with strangers.&#8221;

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued TikTok on Monday, accusing the app of violating state law by allowing minors access to inappropriate content and deceiving parents.
<a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-attorney-general-sues-tiktok-violations-state-child-safety-law">The lawsuit</a> claims that TikTok illegally permits children to view dangerous content “while prioritizing user engagement and profits,” and that the app breaches Florida&#8217;s House Bill 3, which became effective January 1, 2025. The <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/3">bill</a> is meant to protect minors by requiring social media platforms to prohibit those under 14 from creating new accounts.
But according to the new lawsuit, TikTok is allowing 13-year-olds and younger to create accounts. Additionally, Uthmeier says the app violates the bill by permitting teenagers of age to create an account without parental consent. 
“The lawsuit is focused on two things — deceiving parents and the real harms that are out there for kids,”  <a href="https://fox17.com/news/nation-world/florida-news-attorney-general-james-uthmeier-time-is-up-florida-takes-legal-action-against-tiktok-over-child-safety-concerns-st-lucie-county-civil-lawsuit-ages-14-and-15-must-have-parental-consent-predators-targeting-minors-social-media-dangers">Uthmeier said</a>.
 <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/support/faq_detail?id=7543604784432093752&amp;category=web_account">TikTok</a> claims to be an app appropriate for children, saying its content will not contain any “focus on fear or suffering, profanity or vulgarity, serious violence, dangerous behavior, or threatening imagery, including blood, sexually suggestive content, explicit references to mature or complex themes.”
However, Florida’s lawsuit says that these themes appear regularly on the app and “often in graphic detail” — a violation of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and a deception to parents.
The lawsuit further claims that TikTok knew about these dangers posed to children and refused to address them.
“TikTok knowingly deceives parents and allows children to be exposed to harmful and inappropriate content in direct violation of Florida law,” Uthmeier said. “We have zero tolerance for companies that prioritize profit over children’s safety.&#8221;
According to Uthmeier, the app violated the law in order to keep the money flowing.
“TikTok’s success hinges on its ability to addict children and teenagers to the platform,&#8221; he added. 
The app functions on an “algorithm-driven feed” — a <a href="https://www.hivedigital.com/blog/how-social-media-algorithms-work/">ranking system</a> that places videos and posts in an order the user is most likely to enjoy. The design boosts time spent on the app, especially for younger users. 
“TikTok happens to be one of the most egregious social media applications when it comes to the dangers that are there at the fingertips of kids,” Uthmeier said.
The social media company has not responded to these allegations.

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A total of 12 screwworm cases have been confirmed across two states as of June 15.
<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/new-world-screwworm/about/index.html">The New World screwworm,</a> a parasitic fly that feeds on the tissue or flesh of warm-blooded animals in its larval stage, continues to spread in the United States. Ranchers have become increasingly concerned as the deadly pest has now been found in both Texas and New Mexico.
<a href="https://publicdashboards.dl.usda.gov/t/MRP_PUB/views/NewWorldScrewwormPublicReporting_17805168329840/SummaryDashboard?%3Aembed=y&amp;%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y">There are 11</a> confirmed cases in Texas involving cattle and other livestock, and one case involving a pet dog in New Mexico. As the possibility of the screwworm spreading north grows, ranchers say they are unsettled, particularly in the Dallas area.
<a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/animals/screwworm-cases-rise-12/">In efforts to inhibit</a> the spread, quarantine zones have been expanded and livestock are prohibited from leaving the infected areas without authorization. So far, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/world-screwworm-texas-cases-climb-160154692.html">15 counties</a> across West, South, and Central Texas have been placed under quarantine by the Texas Animal Health Commission in the hopes of hindering animal traffic.  
During Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins&#8217; visit to Texas on Thursday, she hosted a roundtable with ranchers. Afterward, she helped distribute sterile male flies, which were released in order to mate with females. This technique has proved effective in hindering the screwworm population, since the females can only mate once. 
Health officials from New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, California, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are on guard against the screwworm, urging farmers to report cases early in preparation for the possibility of the screwworm advancing north. 
Further cases could also make grocery shopping more expensive. Beef’s already high price could climb higher if the outbreak impacts a broader swath of the U.S. cattle population. 
As the Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flesh-eating-screwworm-reaches-u-s-livestock?author=Lynden+Blake&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Flesh-Eating+Screwworm+Reaches+U.S.+Livestock">reported</a>, the first U.S. case of the screwworm since the 1960s was confirmed on June 4 in a three-week-old calf in Zavala County, Texas. The case came after a growing outbreak in Mexico that prompted federal officials to warn that the pest could eventually cross into the United States.

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