Bryan Kohberger will return to court next summer as he tries to undo the guilty plea that sent him to prison for life for murdering four University of Idaho students.
Judge Steven Hippler, who accepted Kohberger&#8217;s guilty plea and later sentenced him, scheduled a status conference for June 3, 2027, as the court considers Kohberger&#8217;s petition for post-conviction relief. The court also reserved June 17 for an evidentiary hearing.
Kohberger, 31, is currently serving four life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 2022 murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, in addition to 10 years for breaking into the home.
But one year after admitting in court that he killed the four students, Kohberger reversed course and claimed he was innocent, arguing in a handwritten petition that ineffective assistance from his attorneys led him to falsely confess.
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<a href="https://people.com/bryan-kohbeger-signed-confession-revealed-following-guilty-plea-idaho-murders-11768607">Kohberger</a> claimed that he&#8217;d had &#8220;ineffective assistance of counsel” from court-appointed attorney Anne Taylor — who is one of only a few Idaho litigators approved to represent defendants in death penalty cases.
Kohberger claimed that he had not entered his guilty plea &#8220;knowingly or voluntarily because [it] was induced by unkept promises&#8221; and &#8220;because of threats asserted by [his] legal counsel.&#8221; It is unclear what those &#8220;threats&#8221; might have been. In addition, ABC News reported that Kohberger said there was some information withheld prior to his plea agreement that could have helped him.
The prosecution has filed a response to Kohberger&#8217;s petition as well as a motion to dismiss it in its entirety, but Kohberger&#8217;s attorneys have not yet responded.
Kohberger entered his guilty plea on July 2, 2025, just weeks before his trial was supposed to begin — and signed a written factual basis document one day prior in which he took full responsibility for the murders and said that the crimes he&#8217;d committed were &#8220;willful, unlawful, deliberate, with premeditation, and with malice aforethought.&#8221;

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More than 50 Americans are among the missing after deadly flash floods swept through several areas along the border between Nepal and China.
The flood was <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/26/world-news/flood-hits-china-nepal-border-leaving-many-dead-and-missing/">reportedly triggered</a> when a wall of rock and mud collapsed into a river near the border between Nepal and China-controlled Tibet. Police in Nepal have already reported at least 157 dead on the Himalayan side — according to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-flash-floods-7262dac22e31258955efa5c28c8fe917">report</a> from the Associated Press — and over 300 are still missing, including 54 American tourists.
Nepal’s foreign minister Shisir Khanal said on Wednesday that the landslide and subsequent flooding had been triggered by an earthquake — one the United States Geological Survey had identified in the region around the time the flooding began — but the USGS later confirmed that the rock wall collapsing had actually been what instruments had recorded as a 5.2 magnitude earthquake.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for an extensive search to find the 265 people that state media has confirmed are still missing.
So far, more than 391 foreign nationals have been reported missing since the flooding began — the majority of them tourists. According to Nepal&#8217;s tourism board, 54 hail from the United States; 142 are from India on pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet; 34 are from Australia; 33 traveled from the United Kingdom; and 24 are Canadian.
The U.S. Embassy has instructed all remaining American tourists in the region to seek out higher ground and listen for alerts and instructions from local officials: &#8220;We extend our sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives, and our thoughts are with all those affected by this disaster.&#8221;
Flash floods in Trishuli Bazar, in Nepal’s Nuwakot district, destroyed dozens of homes and left more either partially or fully submerged beneath the mud and debris.
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बाढीकाे बितण्डा पछि त्रिशुली बजारकाे अवस्था !!! <a href="https://t.co/AblVV11e4Y">pic.twitter.com/AblVV11e4Y</a>
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Videos circulated across social media showing the devastation in a number of small villages.
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सीसीटीभीमा देखिएको चीनतर्फको टिमुरेमा बाढी आउँदाको अवस्था <a href="https://t.co/qu6nuyGvqt">pic.twitter.com/qu6nuyGvqt</a>
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More and more moms are getting diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) alongside their children, saying that when they saw what their kids were going through, something just clicked.
The New York Post shared the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/25/health/moms-are-being-diagnosed-with-adhd-because-of-their-kids/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter">story</a> of one woman, Cassie Blakely, who was diagnosed at 37 — all because she recognized things from her own childhood as her daughters went through the process of getting answers for themselves: &#8220;I realized through them &#8230; watching both of my daughters struggle kind of felt like my own childhood was being repeated in front of me.&#8221;
Blakely is one of many adults living with ADHD — which is officially classified as a <a href="https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd">neurodevelopmental condition</a> that can change how the brain is able to regulate things like focus, attention, impulse control, and physical activity — and the number of adult diagnoses has grown dramatically in recent years, nearly doubling between 2018 and 2023 to over 15 million.
So why the explosion in diagnoses? Many of the adults being diagnosed in recent years grew up in the 1980s and 1990s — when such diagnoses were relatively scarce, particularly among women. In the 1980s, approximately one child in 20 was diagnosed with the condition — but current numbers are closer to one in nine.
The major factors driving increased diagnoses among children include greater awareness of the condition itself, better diagnostic tools, and a broader range of indicators that can trigger further examination.
For example, in the 1980s, the typical ADHD case was most likely a boy who routinely displayed behavior that was disruptive enough to land him in the principal&#8217;s office at school.
But because girls with ADHD typically present with different symptoms — they&#8217;re often inattentive rather than disruptive — they were simply labeled as &#8220;lazy.&#8221; Teachers and parents would lament that the girls were smart, but still somehow failing to live up to their obvious potential. Girls who were dismissed as daydreamers or space cadets were struggling internally with other ADHD symptoms like executive dysfunction — meaning that they could fully understand how to execute a task but feel paralyzed when it came to either starting the task or seeing it through to completion.
<a href="https://www.calgaryadhd.com/post/why-your-adhd-was-missed-in-the-80s-it-wasn-t-just-neglect">Diagnoses were also missed</a> in part because the parenting landscape was very different in the 1980s and 1990s. The Baby Boomers were raising children during those decades, and most of them had been raised by World War II veterans and survivors of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, meaning that they had all been taught to tough things out — and expected the same from their own children.
Inattentiveness or daydreaming — which today might be flagged as a sign of executive dysfunction — was written off as laziness. Physically acting out was often, at least at first, attributed to a lack of discipline or respect.
Children were different in those decades as well — raised primarily without technology, they were often expected to entertain themselves and encouraged to solve their own problems. Many found ways to mask their ADHD symptoms, either by becoming perfectionists or by procrastinating and relying on adrenaline surges to help them get things done at the last minute.
So what is the <a href="https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/03/adult-adhd-diagnosis">benefit</a> of getting a diagnosis years later? Many of the children who slipped through the diagnostic cracks in the 1980s and 1990s grew up feeling like they had done something wrong. After years of being called &#8220;lazy&#8221; or being told that they just needed to work harder, they can finally get some answers that explain why their brains did not function the same way other kids&#8217; brains did.

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Legendary actor Tim Curry died late Tuesday night after suffering from several health issues over the last decade. He was 80 years old.
Entertainment site TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/">reported</a> that Curry passed away at his Los Angeles home. Police arrived on the scene just before midnight. The outlet also reported that foul play is not suspected in the actor&#8217;s death. The British-born actor had been dealing with a series of health complications since suffering a stroke in 2012.
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“Tim Curry, the iconic actor and entertainer globally beloved for his dynamic contributions to the stage and screen, passed away peacefully at his home in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, on Aug. 25, 2026, confirmed by his longtime manager and friend Marcia Hurwitz,” a rep for the actor <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead-rocky-horror-picture-show/91474037007/">confirmed</a> to USA Today.
“Though widely known for his inimitable, flamboyant characters and colorful stage performances, his greatest legacies to those who knew him were his curious, expansive mind and generous, gentle heart, both of which remained open and filled with anticipation until his final breath.”
<a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/26/us-news/tim-curry-dead-at-80-after-legendary-film-career/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social">Curry</a>, whose last appearance was in the 2024 slasher film &#8220;Stream,&#8221; got his first acting credit in 1968 but became a household name after his turns in cult classics like &#8220;The Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8221; (1975) and &#8220;Clue&#8221; (1985). He went on to terrify a whole generation of children with his performance as Pennywise the clown in the adaptation of Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;It.&#8221;
His acting career spanned almost 60 years, including voice roles in two projects that had not yet been released at the time of his death.
The character actor <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/?ref_=tt_cst_t_9">worked consistently</a> over the years, taking numerous guest roles in popular serial shows like &#8220;Criminal Minds,&#8221; &#8220;Monk,&#8221; &#8220;Roseanne,&#8221; &#8220;Will &amp; Grace,&#8221; and &#8220;Psych&#8221; — and dozens of movies, from the &#8220;Scary Movie&#8221; franchise to &#8220;Muppet Treasure Island.&#8221; His voice was heard across generations in dozens of animated series like Disney Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Phineas and Ferb&#8221; and Nickelodeon&#8217;s &#8220;The Wild Thornberrys.&#8221;
On Broadway, Curry was nominated for three Tony Awards: &#8220;Amadeus” in 1981, “My Favorite Year” in 1993, and “Spamalot” in 2005.

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Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom has been banned from future Chicago Sky home games after a confrontation with guard Natasha Cloud led to his ejection from Sunday&#8217;s game.
Sky owner Michael Alter told local reporters on Tuesday that Freedom would not be allowed to attend the team&#8217;s games at Chicago&#8217;s Wintrust Arena unless he was first &#8220;able to prove to our satisfaction that he is able to abide by our rules without being a potential threat.&#8221;
&#8220;He has demonstrated to us, unequivocally, that he has the potential to be a threat,&#8221; Alter said.
&#8220;The fact that we&#8217;re having this conversation to me is just really sad,&#8221; Alter continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s a shame that we&#8217;re spending as much time as we are on this and not the wonderful things that are happening in our league — or even some of the not-so-wonderful things, like the Sky not making the playoffs for the third year in a row. I&#8217;m sure those are the things we should be talking about.&#8221;
Alter accused Freedom of attending the game to provoke a reaction and attract attention.
&#8220;It was pretty clear to us that his purpose of coming here was trying to be provocative, to see how much attention he could get and stir up,&#8221; Alter said.
Alter <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky/2026/08/25/sky-ban-enes-kanter-freedom-from-games-according-to-principal-owner-michael-alter">added</a> that he interviewed people seated near Freedom who told him that Freedom initiated the exchange by directing basketball-related trash talk at Cloud.
Freedom, who attended the game wearing a shirt reading &#8220;WOMAN. Noun. Adult human female,&#8221; claimed that he&#8217;d attended the game to support Indiana Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham, who&#8217;s been the target of protests since she declared her stance on defending biological females and girls in athletics. Sunday&#8217;s confrontation came after he raised both arms in celebration of a Cunningham three-pointer.
He said that during the next possession, Cloud approached the baseline where he was seated and shouted at him, saying that Cunningham was never going to sleep with him. Freedom, who said that Cunningham is just a friend, stood up and stepped toward the court — but a number of players and officials stepped between him and Cloud, and he was escorted from the arena before things could escalate further.
After a brief conversation with security, Freedom left the venue.

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Legendary country star Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, but she made a prediction more than four decades earlier about which one of her famous &#8220;Dolly-isms&#8221; might show up on her tombstone.
In 1982, while filming &#8220;The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,&#8221; Parton coined a phrase that she would repeat on numerous occasions — so often, in fact, that she told <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/05/michael-hogan-d?srsltid=AfmBOorbIpVOaVLPIik29oUfXvLs2UDQaGIuGpzDWRvgO4xNcGwIi5GL">Vanity Fair</a> 26 years later that she expected to see it on her headstone one day.
The phrase in question? &#8220;It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.&#8221;
Parton made no secret over the years that she&#8217;d modeled her signature look after the town tramp — declaring during a number of interviews that she&#8217;d grown up in awe of this confident woman with &#8220;peroxide-blonde hair&#8221; who wore tight clothes and red lipstick. Her mother had told her at the time that the woman was &#8220;trash,&#8221; a &#8220;tramp&#8221; — but Parton said she&#8217;d known immediately that was what she wanted to be when she grew up.
&#8220;I kind of patterned myself after what they called the town tramp in my hometown, when I was little,&#8221; Parton explained to CBS anchor Julie Chen on &#8220;The Early Show&#8221; in 2006. &#8220;She left a big impression on me, and I would talk about how beautiful she was and different ones would say, ‘Oh, she’s just trash.’ And I thought, ‘That’s what I want to be when I grow up. I’m gonna be trash!’ And that is how I look.&#8221;
Parton also said her flashy outward look was an attempt to match her flashy personality.
But as flashy as she was, Parton never took herself too seriously — and routinely delivered self-deprecating quips about her flamboyant style and multiple cosmetic procedures.
&#8220;It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world,&#8221; she said more than once — and she told The Guardian in 2011, &#8220;If something is bagging, sagging or dragging, I’ll tuck it, suck it or pluck it &#8230; It’s like what I always say: I may look fake but I’m real where it counts.&#8221;
When asked how she still looked so young, she quipped, &#8220;Well, good lighting, good doctors and good makeup.&#8221;
The country music icon was 80 years old.

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TikTok has banned a video — citing a &#8220;violation of Community Guidelines&#8221; — that challenges the narrative suggesting that Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three young children.
Very few people appear to have mixed feelings about the murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy: most either believe that she&#8217;s guilty and knew exactly what she was doing, or that she was out of her mind due to postpartum psychosis and did not fully comprehend her own actions. But it&#8217;s the ones who have declared their support for Clancy — even taking to social media to claim that her husband was the guilty one — who were the target of the video in question.
Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt laid out the case in a video posted across multiple platforms on Sunday, arguing that the wave of people defending Clancy were suffering from &#8220;mass psychosis&#8221; — and he traced its origins to well before the Clancy trial, tracing the origins instead to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rules that must be obeyed but never questioned.
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&#8220;Our institutions completely eviscerated their own reputation and dignity,&#8221; Pratt said, adding, &#8220;If you went paddleboarding, alone in the middle of the ocean, you needed to be arrested for killing Grandma. But of course, if you riot with 500,000 people, that&#8217;s totally fine, because viruses take a timeout when it comes to social justice.&#8221;
The constant bombardment of narratives that objectively did not make sense, Pratt said, did more than breed mistrust: they rewired the way people processed information — and even reality. Every tragedy started to look like a conspiracy — and people who fed on conspiracy quickly capitalized on that for profit.
He pointed to the &#8220;fans&#8221; who&#8217;d emerged when Luigi Mangione gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood — and then pivoted to address Clancy. In her case, he said, it was a mass hijacking of maternal instinct and unconditional love &#8220;reallocated towards whatever group the algorithm has designated as the vulnerable class.&#8221;
Instead of feeling empathy for the three small children who were strangled to death by their own mother — or for the father who came home with takeout for dinner and discovered his babies unresponsive and near death — the empathy was being directed solely toward the woman whose actions had been the source of that pain.
Popular movies and television shows had primed the population for the redirection of empathy, taking objectively awful characters — like a chemistry teacher who became a drug kingpin and destroyed his own family — and making them sympathetic.
Disney’s “Maleficent” held up a character who embodied evil for the sake of evil in the original “Sleeping Beauty” and portrayed her as the betrayed lover who only took the wrong path because she was in pain. “Wicked” turned the good-vs-evil narrative on its head. “Dexter” made a wide audience identify with a sociopathic serial killer. And those are just a few examples among thousands, all designed to qualify — and thus minimize — objective evil, making it more difficult to identify.
While that trend is certainly problematic, it’s also protected as free speech and free expression. The real problem arises when challenges to the narrative are censored — or, in the case of COVID, targeted as “misinformation.”
TikTok moved to do just that when the platform banned Pratt’s video — which also should have been protected as free speech and expression.
“Child-murderer supporters on TikTok are mass-reporting my video on the Clancy insanity. It&#8217;s wild to see the allergic reaction people have to truth. It&#8217;s like when a demon gets sprayed with holy water,” Pratt responded on Tuesday.

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Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud posted a message supporting transgender-identifying people after her viral confrontation with former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom during Sunday night&#8217;s game ended with Freedom being ejected from the arena.
&#8220;<span class="x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 xyejjpt x15dsfln xi7mnp6 x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xjohtrz xo1l8bm xw2npq5 x1yc453h" dir="auto">To every trans kid/person, <span class="x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 xyejjpt x15dsfln xi7mnp6 x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xjohtrz xo1l8bm xw2npq5 x1yc453h" dir="auto">You are apart [sic] of MY community &amp; tribe,&#8221; Cloud wrote in a <a href="https://www.threads.com/@t__cloud9/post/DcaByfOEQ3I?xmt=AQG0XWBinCGeIgt5PW0YPLuQ_rvf9e3PLVcGtZ948kU9zHgBF32l6eeZDjQR2dz8Tt8Fuug&amp;slof=1">post</a> on Threads. &#8220;You belong. You’re loved. You’re seen. You’re perfect as you are. &amp; you will always be protected by me.&#8221;
Her post came shortly after a mid-game confrontation in which she shouted at Freedom, who was seated by the baseline wearing a T-shirt defining a woman as an &#8220;adult human female.&#8221;
Cloud had just scored a basket with just over a minute left in the third quarter of Chicago&#8217;s game against the Indiana Fever when the Fever called a timeout. Cloud used the stoppage to approach Freedom and shout at him from the court. Freedom stood up and raised both arms while stepping toward the court before players and officials got between them.
Freedom was ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/enes-kanter-freedom-booted-from-wnba-game-after-confrontation">escorted from his courtside seat</a> and spoke briefly with police before leaving Chicago&#8217;s Wintrust Arena. He later told OutKick that he believed his shirt had provoked Cloud&#8217;s outburst.
&#8220;I was cheering for my friend Sophie [Cunningham] because when she shot that three, I put my hands in the air,&#8221; Freedom told the outlet. &#8220;A couple possessions later, [Cloud] came back and said, ‘She’s not gonna sleep with you.’ And I was shocked. I was like, ‘Listen, I’m not trying to sleep with her. I think she’s awesome. She’s a good friend.’ But I think it has a lot to do with my shirt. I was obviously wearing a shirt explaining what a woman is, and I think that had a lot to do with what she thinks about women. I think it triggered her a lot.&#8221;
Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham has been the target of protests since she stood up for protecting women and girls in sports, and a number of other WNBA players and coaches have taken the opposite position.
The issue has also sparked confrontations involving fans. A Seattle Storm co-owner was accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wnba-co-owner-accused-of-cursing-out-teen-girls-over-xx-xy-shirts">scolding teenage girls</a> who wore XX-XY Athletics gear to a game, while a mother and daughter attending an Atlanta Dream game recently said they were told to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-sophie-cunningham-fans-targeted-again">cover up</a> their XX-XY shirts or leave the arena.
Freedom entered the debate after reviewing the WNBA&#8217;s eligibility rules, claiming that he met the qualifications to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-former-nba-player-says-hes-entering-wnba-draft-threatens-discrimination-suit">declare</a> for the 2027 WNBA draft. Fellow former NBA player Royce White followed with a nearly identical announcement, adding that he &#8220;sometimes&#8221; identified as a transgender woman and planned to sue for discrimination if he went undrafted.

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A drone that killed three Ukrainian civilians, including a 19-year-old student, was flying with an experimental navigation system that uses artificial intelligence to hone in on targets.
The Russian drone in question was reportedly attempting to target a gas station in an attack in Zaporizhzhia when it struck a wall. It exploded on contact, killing 19-year-old student Tetiana Bubynets and two others.
The drone&#8217;s navigation system was programmed by human operators who key in on a generalized target — a particular building, a military base, or a gas station — and the AI is supposed to fine-tune the target once it&#8217;s in range of the drone, according to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/russia-drones-autonomous-ai-kill-ukraine-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.xQCF.v4_4GUKwBhBg&amp;smid=url-share">report</a> published Sunday by The New York Times. A drone sent by human programming to a specific military base, for example, might then use AI to hone in on propane tanks that it was programmed to &#8220;recognize&#8221; as a target.
Forensic investigators first determined the drone was using AI after they evaluated debris from the deadly Zaporizhzhia strike and several other drone attacks. What they found were onboard minicomputers, made by tech giant Nvidia, which had the capability to use AI to make targeting decisions in real time. That, coupled with the fact that they lacked the antennas necessary for receiving external commands, led them to believe that the final targeting decisions were made using AI.
As the report noted, both Russia and Ukraine have been using AI in drones for some time — but only in a &#8220;last mile&#8221; capacity in which a remote human operator has selected the final target. Rumors had been circulating that Russia was using fully autonomous AI, and according to Kateryna Bondar — senior fellow at the Wadhwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington — the presence of the Nvidia module in recent drone attacks is clear evidence of that. The deadly strike in Zaporizhzhia marks the first time that a drone using fully autonomous AI targeting resulted in civilian deaths.
The benefits of such a system are obvious: an AI targeting system can be trained to recognize specific things like railroad tracks, tanks, or people — and can track them with greater precision than a human. But the risks are also obvious: AI is far less likely to be able to distinguish between civilians and soldiers — meaning that the use of fully autonomous AI could put a nation on the wrong side of the laws of war — and the inability for a remote human operator to communicate with the drone means that there is no way to override the AI system&#8217;s decisions in real time.
Col. Serhiy Minaiev, the commander of air defenses in Zaporizhzhia, sounded the alarm, arguing that taking such decisions out of the hands of human operators heralded the kind of dystopian scenarios usually only seen in movies: &#8220;This is a risk for the whole world. In a few years, we will be living in a ‘Terminator’ movie. It’s no joke. Machines are making decisions to strike.”

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Indiana Fever played New York Liberty on Saturday night — and although Liberty walked away with the on-court win, 109-102, it was a battle between two groups of fans that made headlines.
Pro-trans activists and a number of pro-woman fans — including XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey — surrounded the Barclays Center ahead of the game, brought there by Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham.
Sey, there to support Cunningham and defend biological women in sports, told OutKick that the WNBA was consistently taking the wrong side on the issue of trans-identifying men in women&#8217;s spaces.
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“The WNBA is just one fail after the next.”<a href="https://x.com/JenniferSey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JenniferSey</a> rips the league for preaching inclusion while censoring its fans. <a href="https://t.co/Wj6OO270XM">pic.twitter.com/Wj6OO270XM</a>
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&#8220;The WNBA is just one fail after the next,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They just keep stepping in it. They keep trying to censor us and our message, whether it&#8217;s yelling at a young girl at the game in Seattle or telling Riley [Gaines] and I we couldn&#8217;t have a sign or telling a woman in Atlanta she couldn&#8217;t have the shirt.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s just censorship after censorship, they&#8217;re trying to manage this message, but people aren&#8217;t having it anymore. No one&#8217;s afraid. People are emboldened. 75% of Americans agree that women&#8217;s sports are for women,&#8221; she said, adding that the WNBA needed to step up and get on the right side of the issue.
During the game, things were no different. After a message paid for by a fan of XX-XY Athletics was reportedly changed by the venue, three pro-trans messages appeared on the Jumbotron throughout the game.
&#8220;Hey trans fans! Glad you&#8217;re here! Go Liberty!&#8221; one read, and the others: &#8220;Welcome trans Liberty fans! You are loved and you belong!&#8221;; &#8220;Big welcome to the NY Liberty transgender fan community! So excited to be here with you all!&#8221;
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A Sophie Cunningham fan told Fox News reporter Jack Thompson that her Jumbotron message to the XX-XY founder — who was present at the game — was changed after she paid for it because Liberty only allowed &#8220;positive submissions.&#8221;
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A Sophie Cunningham fan paid to have a message supporting <a href="https://x.com/xx_xyathletics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@xx_xyathletics</a> displayed at a New York Liberty game only for the team to alter and censor her original submission.
She tells <a href="https://x.com/JackThompsonFOX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JackThompsonFOX</a> the Liberty said they only allow “positive submissions” to be displayed. <a href="https://t.co/msDUuzvxGG">pic.twitter.com/msDUuzvxGG</a>
— OutKick (@Outkick) <a href="https://x.com/Outkick/status/2091133294800732254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The clash comes after weeks of similar confrontations, as Sey mentioned, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sophie-cunningham-rips-wnba-team-co-owner-for-harassing-teens-girls-with-xx-xy-shirts">two teen girls</a> being berated by a WNBA team co-owner in Seattle for wearing XX-XY Athletics clothing and a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/see-it-sophie-cunningham-fans-targeted-again">mother and daughter</a> in Atlanta being told that they needed to cover up their shirts or leave the game. In contrast, pro-trans messaging has been consistently allowed and even favored.
The protests ramped up after Cunningham defended women&#8217;s sports as a space for biological women, saying repeatedly that it was not about politics — and that she believed there was room for everyone in sports, trans-identifying or otherwise — but that women and girls deserved to be protected in sex-specific spaces.

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Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom got booted from Sunday night&#8217;s WNBA game (Indiana Fever at Chicago Sky) at Chicago&#8217;s Wintrust Arena after a brief confrontation with a player on the court.
Freedom, wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the definition of the word &#8220;woman,&#8221; was ejected just before the end of the third quarter after a brief confrontation with Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud. With 1:22 left in the quarter, Cloud scored – and the Fever called for a timeout.
Cloud approached the baseline where Freedom was seated, pointing and shouting at him — and he raised both arms and stepped toward the court. Several other players and officials jumped between them, preventing the confrontation from escalating.
Freedom spoke briefly with police before leaving the arena.
He had attended the game, as well as a pregame rally, to show his support for Indiana Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham — who has become a popular target for pro-trans activists since she declared her support for biological women in sports and sex-specific spaces for women and girls.
Protests and rallies have followed the Fever to several recent games, and on several occasions, women and girls who have shown their support — either for biological women in sports or for Cunningham — have been harassed or told that if they didn&#8217;t cover up their XX-XY Athletics shirts, they would be forced to leave.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-former-nba-player-says-hes-entering-wnba-draft-threatens-discrimination-suit">WNBA&#8217;s</a> unwillingness to draw a hard line between male and female prompted Freedom and fellow former NBA player Royce White to declare for the 2027 WNBA draft.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Freedom had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nba-player-declares-for-wnba-draft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared himself a 2027 prospect</a>, saying that he had reviewed the league’s self-identification framework and met its requirements.
White said the same, adding that he was &#8220;a sometimes identifying transgender woman&#8221; and said that if he was not drafted, he would &#8220;have to file a discrimination lawsuit, right?&#8221;

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