<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles gave an update on Wednesday in her fight against breast cancer.</p>
<p>Wiles, who has continued to work despite receiving treatment for the disease, said that her medical team had given her a clean bill of health earlier this week.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some personal news I’m grateful to share. After a medical appointment at the Mayo Clinic this week, my pathology results came back clear. I am cancer free,&#8221; she announced in an X post.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Some personal news I’m grateful to share. After a medical appointment at the Mayo Clinic this week, my pathology results came back clear.</p>
<p>I am cancer free.</p>
<p>Thank you to my family, friends, doctors, and everyone who prayed for me, checked in, and supported me along the way.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Thank you to my family, friends, doctors, and everyone who prayed for me, checked in, and supported me along the way,&#8221; she added. &#8220;A special thank you to President Trump for his unwavering support. I am deeply grateful and will continue to work to advance his America First Agenda.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wiles first announced her diagnosis in March, noting at the time that approximately one in eight women will face the same situation and declaring her plan to return to work as quickly and as often as possible as she went through her treatment.</p>
<p>&#8220;Every day, these women continue to raise their families, go to work, and serve their communities with strength and determination,&#8221; Wiles said of other women fighting the same disease. &#8220;I now join their ranks.&#8221;</p>
<p>Prior to taking on her current role in the White House, Wiles served as campaign manager for President Trump&#8217;s successful 2024 bid and worked as a political consultant in Florida.</p>


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<p>American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten has launched a war against the Department of Transportation — specifically over the department&#8217;s efforts to root out illegal aliens who hold commercial drivers&#8217; licenses (CDLs).</p>
<p>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy released an ad on Tuesday calling out Weingarten&#8217;s move, accusing her and the AFT of protecting illegal aliens with CDLs — some of whom could be driving school buses all across the United States.</p>
<p>Indeed, Weingarten&#8217;s union released a statement joining a lawsuit against the Transportation Department almost immediately after Secretary Duffy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admins-war-on-illegal-immigrant-truckers-intensifies">announced the closure</a> of more than 100 commercial trucking schools.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admins-war-on-illegal-immigrant-truckers-intensifies">main reason</a> for the closures, Duffy said in a statement, was the lack of English proficiency in graduates of those schools — a violation of federal law.</p>
<p>&#8220;You have to speak English to operate a commercial vehicle. I didn’t create that rule; President Trump didn’t create that rule. That rule has been in place for a decade,” Duffy said during a press conference in late August. &#8220;We have schools that know the rule, and still pass people through their school who can’t speak the language.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our investigators went into 400 driver training schools, and we found that 40% of these that we investigated did not meet the rules and the requirements of our regulations,” Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Derek Barrs said, &#8220;When schools certify underqualified drivers, these drivers get behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound truck, and they kill people. That should make you all upset.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Many of these certified state testers actually aren’t adequately testing the potential drivers that they’re gonna license. In one state, there’s ten skills testers … who have given over 2,000 driver’s licenses to people who can’t speak English,&#8221; Duffy added.</p>
<p>Within days, Weingarten moved to fight Duffy&#8217;s order.</p>
<p>&#8220;Today, the AFT moved to join an ongoing <a href="https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2026/92-memo_in_support_of_motion.pdf">lawsuit</a> against the U.S. Department of Transportation, seeking to stop the agency from seizing the personal records of 17 million commercial driver’s license (CDL) holders from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the nonprofit that maintains the national database of driver records.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Many AFT members require a CDL to work as school bus drivers or Department of Transportation employees — and we must protect them and their privacy against the vindictive nature of this president and his cronies,&#8221; said Weingarten. &#8220;Just like we sued the Department of Government Efficiency for trying to mine personal information from millions of working-class Americans, today we intervene against the U.S. government’s attempt to strong-arm the AAMVA to turn over CDL holders’ private information. This illegal demand puts millions of people’s personal data up for grabs without their consent, people who had no choice but to provide their personal information to the states so they could simply work, and who have no way to remove it from the database.&#8221;</p>
<p>The only &#8220;private information&#8221; Weingarten appears to be trying to protect is the number of drivers who have obtained CDLs while in the United States illegally or who have done so despite a lack of proficiency in the English language.</p>


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<p>Former &#8220;Walker, Texas Ranger&#8221; star Judson Mills jabbed at the Emmys decision to leave longtime co-star Chuck Norris out of the awards show&#8217;s &#8220;In Memoriam&#8221; segment designed to honor those who have passed away in the last year.</p>
<p>Mills played the role of Francis Gage, opposite Norris, in the final two seasons of &#8220;Walker, Texas Ranger&#8221; — which spanned nine seasons and 203 episodes total — as well as the 2005 follow-up movie &#8220;Trial by Fire.&#8221; He told entertainment site TMZ that after realizing Norris had been passed over for the segment, he had to &#8220;assume it was just a terrible mistake.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My first thought was Gena and the family. And his fans,&#8221; Mills said, but said that he believed Norris would not have wanted anyone to be angry about the apparent snub: &#8220;I&#8217;m confident Chuck would encourage forgiveness. He was an &#8216;it&#8217;s not all about me&#8217; kind of guy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Still, Mills said that the omission hurt.</p>
<p>&#8220;But for an icon of his stature who impacted not only Hollywood, but the entire world, to see him not receive recognition at all and to see the family not receive that recognition was disappointing … It hurt my feelings for sure. He was a legend for God’s sake,&#8221; Mills added.</p>
<p>Norris was not the only name left out of the segment. &#8220;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8221; star Nicholas Brendon was not mentioned — despite the fact that his co-star Anthony Stewart Head was included. Also missing from the segment were &#8220;Lilo &amp; Stitch&#8221; voice actress Daveigh Chase and &#8220;Starship Troopers&#8221; actor Patrick Muldoon.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/action-star-chuck-norris-dies-at-86">Norris</a> died in March at the age of 86.</p>
<p>&#8220;To the world, he was a martial artist, actor, and a symbol of strength. To us, he was a devoted husband, a loving father and grandfather, an incredible brother, and the heart of our family. He lived his life with faith, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to the people he loved,&#8221; his family said in a statement after his death. &#8220;Through his work, discipline, and kindness, he inspired millions around the world and left a lasting impact on so many lives.&#8221;</p>


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<p>Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed refused to consider returning campaign donations from groups linked to Islamic terrorism — and claimed that it was racist to suggest that he should.</p>
<p>During an interview that aired on FOX 2 Detroit on Tuesday, El-Sayed addressed recent comments from his opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI). Rogers had suggested that El-Sayed should return donations that came from organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that have been linked to terrorist organizations like Hamas.</p>
<p>&#8220;Rogers has said that it&#8217;s time for you to return money that you may have gotten from organizations like CAIR, citing what he calls a &#8216;dubious cloud&#8217; over that. Is that something that you&#8217;re thinking about doing, would be willing to do? And what do you have to say about that?&#8221; FOX 2 anchor Roop Raj asked El-Sayed.</p>
<p>According to several recent <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/el-sayed-campaign-backed-100000-dozens-members-group-alleged-terror-ties">reports</a>, El-Sayed has taken more than $115,000 in donations from at least 40 individuals linked to CAIR — which has been designated as a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates and is also acknowledged as such by the states of Florida and Texas. FOX News reported that some those donors were &#8220;CAIR&#8217;s highest-ranking officials, including national Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, national Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, national Vice Chair Emad Sabbah, and CAIR-Michigan board member Jukaku Tayeb, El-Sayed&#8217;s father-in-law.&#8221;</p>
<p>El-Sayed responded to the question by suggesting that Rogers was inventing the idea that CAIR was linked to Islamic terrorism out of whole cloth in an effort to smear Muslims across the board and then use that as a political attack against him.</p>
<p>&#8220;You know, that civil rights organization exists because people like Mike Rogers want to make this race about the color of my skin or how I pray,&#8221; El-Sayed replied. &#8220;So I&#8217;m focused on you and your gas prices and the price of your groceries. He&#8217;s focused on trying to turn this into some kind of culture war.&#8221;</p>
<p>He did not acknowledge the fact that CAIR was named as an <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/1029/fbi-explains-its-cair-cut-off">unindicted co-conspirator</a> in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror-financing prosecution in American history, prompting the FBI to sever all ties with the organization&#8217;s leadership.</p>
<p>He also did not acknowledge direct links between early leadership of CAIR to the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), the Muslim Brotherhood, and support for Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas.</p>
<p>El-Sayed has also struggled to separate himself from campaign surrogate and communist streamer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hasan-piker-touts-god-given-right-to-say-he-hates-america">Hasan Piker</a>, who has praised Islamic terror groups like Hezbollah and despotic leaders like China&#8217;s Mao Zedong and routinely trashes the United States. Piker also said that &#8220;America deserved 9/11&#8221; — and El-Sayed has had a difficult time outrunning his own previous social media posts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abdul-el-sayeds-9-11-problems-just-keep-getting-worse">downplaying the victims</a> of Islamic terror and blaming the United States for responding in kind.</p>
<p>Federal Election Commission (FEC) records also show a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/el-sayed-attracts-over-a-dozen-donors-who-also-gave-to-hitler-praising-congressional-hopeful">bizarre overlap</a> between donors supporting El-Sayed and donors supporting Instagram playboy Dan Bilzerian, who launched a losing Hitler-praising primary campaign for a Florida congressional seat.</p>
<p>El-Sayed&#8217;s FOX 2 Detroit appearance was initially set up as a <a href="https://newscord.org/article/mike-rogers-skips-michigan-senate-debate-citing-fox-2-moderator-roop-raj-favorit--Story_20260915_VancetellsHouseRepub5f14690a">potential debate</a> between him and Rogers — who has agreed to two debates in October — but Rogers declined the FOX 2 setup over the choice of moderator. The Rogers campaign said that Raj, who has previously praised El-Sayed and has received praise from Piker, could not be trusted to be unbiased in that situation.</p>
<p>&#8220;Michiganders deserve to see their candidates engage in a healthy, fair debate — not one compromised by media bias,&#8221; the campaign communications director Alyssa Brouillet said in a statement.</p>


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<p>Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;The Loop&#8221; North American tour is facing further shake-ups as all his remaining support acts have quit in solidarity with rapper Macklemore.</p>
<p>Irish singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe was the first to exit, sharing his decision in an Instagram post on Tuesday — in which he echoed Macklemore&#8217;s call to &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; and invoked his Irish heritage as the reason he could not ignore &#8220;genocide&#8221; and &#8220;violent occupation&#8221; happening elsewhere.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I have made the decision to withdraw as a support act for Ed Sheeran’s ‘The Loop’ North American Tour. I don’t take the decision lightly. Ed has been a friend to me and has changed my life, I could never thank him enough for this,&#8221; Rowe posted.</p>
<p>&#8220;But as Irish people, we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation. I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children. I would lose all respect for myself to carry on as normal. I need to be true to myself and my ancestors who resisted colonisation, and fought for a freedom that I enjoy today in Ireland. Free Palestine,&#8221; he concluded.</p>
<p>Rowe&#8217;s announcement came hours after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ed-sheeran-responds-to-the-macklemore-mess-i-am-not-complicit">Sheeran</a> issued a statement that tried to thread the needle by voicing respect for his friend Macklemore while reiterating his intent to stay out of politics.</p>
<p>The rapper was ousted from the tour after backlash over his anti-Israel rants during Sheeran&#8217;s September 5 concert at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Sheeran said promoters and venues made the decision after several venues threatened to cancel upcoming shows if Macklemore remained on the bill.</p>
<p>Macklemore responded with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/macklemore-blames-jewish-nfl-owner-for-getting-him-booted-from-ed-sheeran-tour">lengthy statement</a> in which he played both hero and victim. He blamed Jewish New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft for starting the ball rolling on kicking him off the tour, Macklemore painted himself as a martyr for the cause, willing to sacrifice everything for what he believed.</p>
<p>Sheeran&#8217;s statement was not enough to prevent the mass exodus. Finneas, Billie Eilish&#8217;s brother, announced his departure in an Instagram post.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Artists must not be silenced when they stand up for the oppressed,&#8221; he wrote.</p>
<p>Irish folk group Beoga blamed &#8220;Zionist lobbies&#8221; for &#8220;silencing&#8221; Macklemore.</p>
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<p>Carnegie Mellon University has promised to take &#8220;swift action&#8221; against Dr. Uju Anya over social media posts that colleagues say left them concerned for their own safety.</p>
<p>&#8220;Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely,&#8221; the university said in a <a href="https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2026/september/carnegie-mellon-university-statement">statement</a> on Saturday. &#8220;To be clear: These posts incorrectly imply our university&#8217;s endorsement and are contrary to our community standards and values as well as our commitment to fostering a safe, respectful and welcoming campus community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The post that started the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/carnegie-mellon-promises-swift-action-professor-uju-anya-social-media-posts">exchange</a> was an old one, originally shared by Anya in February of 2021, after the death of conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh: &#8220;Rush Limbaugh finally did something positive in life by dropping dead. Good Riddance to bad rubbish.&#8221;</p>
<p>Someone found that post and responded to it on Friday, asking, &#8220;Weird how you only celebrate the deaths of white people. Why is that?&#8221;</p>
<p>Anya replied, &#8220;Die first, white man, then ask yourself why I’m dancing.&#8221;</p>
<p>That post then caught the attention of X owner Elon Musk, who replied, &#8220;This is a real professor at Carnegie Mellon University …&#8221;</p>
<p>When others responded as well, suggesting the university would likely be displeased with her comments, Anya said Carnegie Mellon fully supported her.</p>
<p>&#8220;Carnegie Mellon University knows exactly who they have. They poached me from my previous job, aggressively recruiting me with a massive salary and stellar benefits. So baby, run tell them they f*cked up, and see if they pick up your call,&#8221; she wrote in one post.</p>
<p>&#8220;Keep crying, loser,&#8221; she told another critic, again insinuating that she had the full support of the school. &#8220;My department chair just texted me saying they’re throwing all of your emails in the trash.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once Musk got involved, people started <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/14/us-news/carnegie-mellon-academic-on-leave-after-disturbing-x-posts-calling-for-white-man-to-die-while-she-dances/">looking more closely</a> at Anya&#8217;s account and found a number of troubling posts — including one that had previously sparked backlash against her.</p>
<p>In 2022, while Britain&#8217;s Queen Elizabeth II was dying, she posted, “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.&#8221;</p>
<p>She recognized the one-year anniversary of the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk&#8217;s assassination by saying, &#8220;May he rot in piss.&#8221; She also shared a video of students mocking him as they danced through an apparent reenactment of Kirk&#8217;s murder.</p>
<p>Anya responded to the flurry of activity around her posts by doubling down on her own hateful statements and suggesting that she was the victim: &#8220;During an entire day of incessant violent threats, racist abuse, and harassment on Twitter — incited by fascist white supremacist MAGA trolls — I was doxxed &#8230; I meant every word I said in my tweets responding to white men and all others insulting and maligning me. I do not retract or apologize. May they all eat sh*t.&#8221;</p>


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<p>The Drug Enforcement Administration is looking closely at a lengthy series of text messages that it believes were sent between the late actress Hayden Panettiere and her alleged drug dealer.</p>
<p>Entertainment news site TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/15/hayden-panettiere-drug-dealers-incriminating-texts-focus-drug-enforcement-administration-probe/#continued">reported</a> on Tuesday that the texts in question — which included &#8220;a slew of messages about drugs&#8221; — are &#8220;incriminating&#8221; and have become the focal point of the investigation into the &#8220;Nashville&#8221; star&#8217;s recent death.</p>
<p>According to the report, the conversations went back years and continued up until the week that Panettiere was found dead in a South Carolina Airbnb rental — and included numerous messages that made specific references to obtaining black-market pills.</p>
<p>In a separate <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/15/hayden-panettiere-home-searched-by-dea/#continued">report</a> also published Tuesday, TMZ revealed that DEA agents searched Panettiere&#8217;s West Hollywood home in the days after her death. They arrived at her condo on August 25, just over one week after she died on August 16, armed with a search warrant. Their target, according to the report, was any evidence of black-market drugs or anything that might link those drugs to a specific dealer. The search included any and all drug paraphernalia, and any drugs — whether prescription or recreational.</p>
<p>Neighbors told TMZ that they had seen three &#8220;shady&#8221; people — two women and one man — coming and going over the years that Panettiere lived there, delivering small bags the neighbors believed contained drugs. The man had made a visit to her home the week prior to her death.</p>
<p>The results of a full toxicology report are still pending, but early reports suggest that Panettiere died after taking an oxycodone pill that was laced with fentanyl. She was 36 years old.</p>
<p>Panettiere&#8217;s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, and his brother, Zach Hickerson, found the &#8220;Heroes&#8221; actress unresponsive on the afternoon of August 16 in a Greenville, South Carolina, Airbnb rental she and Brian were sharing. Zach said in a statement that he called 911 while his brother administered naloxone, the opioid overdose-reversal drug sold as Narcan, and that the two performed CPR until first responders arrived. They were unable to revive her.</p>
<p>Brian Hickerson reportedly turned over a bag of medication that had belonged to Panettiere.</p>
<p>The DEA has been involved in the case since the early days of the investigation in the hopes of bringing down her dealer in the same way that the dealers who provided deadly doses to &#8220;Friends&#8221; actor <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/north-hollywood-drug-dealer-who-sold-ketamine-killed-actor-matthew-perry-sentenced-15">Matthew Perry</a> and rapper <a href="https://www.dea.gov/es/node/203936">Mac Miller</a> were brought to justice.</p>


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<p>Former Democratic fundraiser Lindy Li says former Vice President Kamala Harris intentionally misled donors in the weeks before she took over the campaign — and the donors knew it.</p>
<p>Li, who switched her party affiliation after Democrats ignored the warning signs that made it clear former President Joe Biden was not capable of serving another term, gave an insider&#8217;s view of what transpired in the days before Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race — and what Harris did to crown herself his de facto successor.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was all charade. She was auditioning for Biden&#8217;s endorsement, and the way that she did it was by imposing a fake rule on her staff to not talk about her ascending to the nomination,&#8221; Li told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-dem-insider-accuses-harris-charade-major-donors-days-before-biden-dropped-out">Fox News Digital</a>.</p>
<p>Li worked closely with donors as a top fundraiser for the party, and she said that as the campaign stretched into the summer of 2024 it became painfully clear to those closest to Biden that he would not make it to November. Harris, she said, used that time to position herself favorably with the donors.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was on the call; she would host calls with donors and pretend to support Biden and say there&#8217;s no daylight between Biden and herself. All the while she was auditioning for those very donors,&#8221; Li explained, adding that Harris carried the charade all the way through to the day Biden left the race: &#8220;It was either on July 19th or July 20th. Actually, I think it was July 19, 2024; Kamala Harris held a call saying that there was no way that Biden would drop out and that she would stick with him until the end. And these were some of the biggest donors in the party.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A lot of us have group chats, and the immediate reaction is what an effing waste of time. What a charade, how fake. Like these are like the wealthiest people in the country saying that,&#8221; Li said of the general reaction to Harris&#8217; comments. &#8220;They were very aware they were being lied to, that Biden was clearly not okay and to be told that he was okay when he was clearly incapacitated. It was insulting.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, Li said that the president had been hesitant to endorse Harris. But because she had done such a thorough job of ingratiating herself with party donors — and she&#8217;d all but told them that she had Biden&#8217;s full confidence — Biden felt like he did not have a choice.</p>
<p>&#8220;She was flattering people left and right. The first 24 hours were a very intensive charm offensive on her part. And that&#8217;s how she was able to consolidate it so quickly. She flattered people up the wazoo. It made it abundantly clear that Biden had endorsed her. And Biden initially — I don&#8217;t know if people know this, but he didn&#8217;t want to endorse her right away. It took him a while,&#8221; Li said.</p>
<p>The former Democratic fundraiser has written a book — &#8220;<a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/unburdened-lindy-li?variant=44717895680034">Unburdened</a>&#8221; — detailing the months that led up to the end of Biden&#8217;s campaign and her subsequent exit from the party. It will be available September 22.</p>


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<p>Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman will not seek the death penalty when his office tries Nick Reiner for the 2025 murders of his parents, actor and director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Reiner.</p>
<p>Entertainment outlet TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/15/nick-reiner-prosecutors-not-seeing-death-penalty-in-parents-murder/">reported</a> that Hochman made the decision in part out of respect for the Reiners&#8217; views on capital punishment — they had vocally opposed it on a number of occasions — and in part because Nick&#8217;s siblings, Romy and Jake Reiner, might find it difficult to participate in a trial that could end with their brother being put to death.</p>
<p>Rob Reiner, an outspoken liberal, had nothing but kind words for Erika Kirk after she publicly forgave Tyler Robinson — the man charged with the assassination of her late husband, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.</p>
<p>Nick Reiner&#8217;s siblings have opted not to be involved in their brother&#8217;s defense, and he has struggled to mount a consistent defense in part because he has been <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/15/us-news/nick-reiner-wont-get-death-penalty-if-hes-convicted-of-killing-parents-rob-and-michele/">unable to access</a> money from his trust. Reiner and his attorneys have claimed he was entitled to half of the $1.5 million trust when he turned 30 in 2023, but it did not happen.</p>
<p>The death penalty was on the table in the immediate aftermath of the killings because, as Hochman stated at an early <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/nick-reiner-death-penalty-murder.html">press conference</a>, the initial charges of first-degree murder had added special circumstance enhancements — lying in wait and multiple murders — which elevated the crime to make it eligible for either the death penalty or life without the possibility of parole.</p>
<p>According to the indictment, the crimes “involved great violence, great bodily harm, threat of great bodily harm, or other acts disclosing a high degree of cruelty, viciousness, or callousness.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Reiners were found stabbed to death at their Los Angeles home on December 14, 2025. Their daughter Romy was the first to discover the bodies.</p>
<p>“This was a profound betrayal by someone who was loved and trusted by the very people he is accused of killing,” Hochman said.</p>
<p>Nick Reiner, who had a long history of drug addiction and mental illness, was apprehended a short time later and charged with the murders.</p>
<p>California state law also lists killing for financial gain, killing a police officer or public official, or a killing that involved torture as additional special circumstance designations that could also invoke the death penalty as a consideration.</p>
<p>Although a number of death penalty cases have been tried in California in the last two decades, the state has not executed a death-row inmate since 2006.</p>
<p>Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom&#8217;s 2019 executive order also currently halts executions statewide, meaning even a death sentence would not have resulted in Reiner&#8217;s execution unless a future governor reversed the moratorium.</p>


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<p>Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) posted a photo of herself wearing Vikings purple to celebrate the beginning of the NFL season over the weekend, but critics quickly noticed something familiar.</p>
<p>Klobuchar — who is currently running for governor — acknowledged that she brought out the pictured shirt regularly, captioning the photo, &#8220;Game Day against the Packers. Time to get out the shirt.&#8221;</p>
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Time to get out the shirt. <a href="https://t.co/gjzj8Z1IMK">pic.twitter.com/gjzj8Z1IMK</a></p>
<p>— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) <a href="https://x.com/amyklobuchar/status/2099150529372791090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>But Townhall columnist Dustin Grage dug a little deeper and discovered that Klobuchar hadn&#8217;t gotten out the shirt so much as she&#8217;d just reposted the exact same photograph.</p>
<p>&#8220;You never got out the shirt, or you would have taken a new photo. This is from 2023, 2024, 2025, and now… 2026,&#8221; he commented, sharing all four photos together to prove that they were identical.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">You never got out the shirt, or you would have taken a new photo.</p>
<p>This is from 2023, 2024, 2025, and now… 2026. <a href="https://t.co/qZjlbJxAtx">pic.twitter.com/qZjlbJxAtx</a></p>
<p>— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) <a href="https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/2099529776079798491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Her <a href="https://x.com/amyklobuchar/status/1985094159913418761">2025 photo</a> is still easy to find on X and includes the caption, &#8220;Yes, Vikings! Odds were against the Vikings this week but JJ McCarthy is back! And we’ve been optimistic since 1961.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Amy Klobuchar has been a fraud for a lot longer than she has been reusing this photograph,&#8221; Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle <a href="https://x.com/mboyle1/status/2099588570101019105">posted</a>.</p>
<p>Klobuchar has sparked scrutiny over unforced errors in the past — the most obvious incident being a New York Times report that dug into her apparent short temper and the way she allegedly treated her staffers. One example of such behavior referenced a flight during which Klobuchar had been brought a salad to eat. The staffer who brought it to her dropped the fork, so the Minnesota senator reached into her bag and pulled out a comb. After using the comb to eat her salad, Klobuchar handed it off to the staffer with an order to &#8220;clean it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Brent Scher brought up the comb story in response to Klobuchar&#8217;s latest blunder, <a href="https://x.com/BrentScher/status/2099556181488398351">writing</a>, &#8220;Incredible. Who is eating salad with a comb to pay for this laziness?&#8221;</p>
<p>In a 2019 interview, as Klobuchar was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, she admitted that she&#8217;d once killed a duck while attempting to play a round of golf.</p>
<p>&#8220;Actually, I did one time try to play golf and I kind of misfired,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I do — I have played mini golf a lot with my family — but I misfired on the first try and the ball hit a duck in the head and yeah, it appeared to perish.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">AMY KLOBUCHAR ADMITS SHE KILLED A DUCK WHILE GOLFING <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/UFCWForum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UFCWForum</a> <a href="https://t.co/IpWGjWc2PJ">pic.twitter.com/IpWGjWc2PJ</a></p>
<p>— Brett &#8220;Solidarity 2025&#8221; Banditelli (@banditelli) <a href="https://x.com/banditelli/status/1178393738843840513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The crowd groaned and Klobuchar continued, &#8220;So anyway — so I don&#8217;t think it is a good idea for the bird population of America if I would play golf.&#8221;</p>


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<p>Drivers who typically opt for the driveway oil change to save a few bucks may soon find that the savings aren&#8217;t adding up the way they used to.</p>
<p>Club retailer Costco recently <a href="https://theautowire.com/2026/09/10/costco-synthetic-oil-price-jump-purchase-limit/">increased the price</a> of its generic synthetic motor oil blend — Kirkland Signature full-synthetic blend. The price jumped in recent months, from a little over $30 for a ten-quart case (enough for an oil change on a standard V6 or V8 engine) to $57.99 for the same two five-quart bottles. In addition, Costco is limiting members to one case per transaction and no more than two cases per week.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not just the store brand feeling the pinch: a six-quart case of Mobil 1 runs $44, and the retailer has introduced a five-per-member limit on that item as well.</p>
<p>The reasons for the price jump — and the limited stock — stem from a number of factors, not the least of which is the ongoing war between the United States and Iran and the dramatically slowed movement of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. In July, the price per barrel of Brent crude was around $72. Since then, the price has jumped to $109 as of Monday morning.</p>
<p>In addition to the increased prices, stock has also been <a href="https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/costco-raises-price-kirkland-motor-oil-sets-purchase-136426075">severely limited</a> as a result of the continued conflict in the region. Synthetic motor oil like the Kirkland blend and Mobil 1 rely on Group III base oils — and the United States typically relies on Middle Eastern sources for about 40% of those oils. Slower movement along that supply chain, caused by the ongoing war, has forced retailers like Costco to limit what customers can buy.</p>
<p>Limited stock has also been impacted by oil companies that have shifted production focus to diesel and gasoline in order to make the most of much higher profit margins and meet the much higher daily demands.</p>
<p>Further complicating matters, a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/13/oil-price-iran-war-strait-hormuz-saudi-pipeline.html">major pipeline</a> in Saudi Arabia was shut down on Friday after a drone attack. Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates, said a pump station had sustained damage in the attack.</p>
<p>&#8220;The longer the shutdown, the higher the price. Judging from the online pictures, it will take months to repair,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The pipeline was being used as an alternate route to avoid shipping oil through the Strait of Hormuz, and it remains to be seen whether the pipeline will be able to reopen with a bypass around the damaged pump station.</p>


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<p>Rapper Macklemore&#8217;s anti-Israel rant onstage at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey got him booted from singer Ed Sheeran&#8217;s tour — and he responded by blaming a Jewish man.</p>
<p>Macklemore released a lengthy statement on Monday via Instagram, doubling down on his anti-Israel stance and then claiming that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft — who is Jewish — was behind a concerted effort to get him removed from the tour.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour,&#8221; he wrote, adding, &#8220;I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Macklemore alleged that Kraft, whose company owns Gillette Stadium, refused to let him perform during Sheeran&#8217;s upcoming shows at the Massachusetts venue and &#8220;rallied&#8221; other stadium owners to take the same position.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group,&#8221; Macklemore wrote. &#8220;Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.&#8221;</p>
<p>Messina Touring Group, which is promoting the tour, <a href="https://pitchfork.com/story/macklemore-kicked-off-ed-sheeran-tour-for-pro-palestine-comments">confirmed</a> earlier Monday that multiple venues had said they would &#8220;not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup.&#8221; The company said Macklemore was dropped following &#8220;discussions with stakeholders.&#8221;</p>
<p>Painting himself as a noble martyr for the cause, willing to risk losing everything for what he believed in, Macklemore proceeded to suggest that Sheeran was a coward for refusing to choose a side.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ed was in a f*cked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before,&#8221; Macklemore wrote. &#8220;But there is no neutral position between the oppressor and the oppressed. When one side has the bombs and bottomless financial and military support from America, refusing to take a side doesn’t leave you in the middle.&#8221;</p>
<p>He went on to claim that he&#8217;d been shut down because if he had been allowed to keep making such statements from the stage — and he most certainly would have continued to do so — he might have inspired other artists to speak up.</p>
<p>&#8220;If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance,&#8221; Macklemore said. &#8220;Maybe that&#8217;s why this time it became so important to silence me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kraft confirmed that Gillette Stadium had refused to host Macklemore but said the decision was based on what he described as a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric.</p>
<p>&#8220;Gillette Stadium has a longstanding commitment to providing a welcoming environment for all guests and ensuring that events held at our venue do not provide a platform for hate speech,&#8221; Kraft said in a <a href="https://whdh.com/news/macklemore-taken-off-ed-sheerans-tour-over-pro-palestinian-comments-robert-kraft-responds">statement</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;This decision is not about diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone the right to advocate on their behalf,&#8221; Kraft continued. &#8220;Their pain and loss are real. But that advocacy should not come at the expense of the Jewish community or obscure the responsibility of Hamas.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kraft said Macklemore had presented selective information and ignored Hamas&#8217; role in causing suffering among Israelis and Palestinians. He also offered to meet with the rapper to discuss the situation.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would welcome the opportunity to sit down with Macklemore and discuss the facts, because ultimately our goal is the same — peace for all people, an end to suffering, and an end to all hate.&#8221;</p>
<p>Macklemore said he hoped the disagreement would not end his 13-year friendship with Sheeran.</p>
<p>&#8220;I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this,&#8221; he wrote.</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2,&#8221; Macklemore concluded. &#8220;Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say. Free Palestine. But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I&#8217;ve ever been on.&#8221;</p>


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