A trove of evidence — including a number of gruesome photos and videos and audio from 911 calls — from the Karmelo Anthony murder trial was released on Friday.
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The Collin County court released photos from the autopsy of football player Austin Metcalf, 17 — who was stabbed to death by Anthony at a track meet in Texas — showing the knife wound in his chest with a forensic ruler beside it. Other photos showed the murder weapon, Anthony&#8217;s backpack, and a blood-soaked jacket that had been used as a coach attempted to stop the bleeding.  <iframe style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; max-width: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/ss3DQJnwQqSQoV9czPzZ801QF1v002daT2?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=46618119-b4c7-4f8d-a7de-2c9bf93ee754&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-6-19%20Karmelo%20Anthony%20Austin%20Metcalf%20evidence%20photos%20&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2F5db6f84f-dd7a-4b40-bc06-265e85e5a7c1.jpg&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
Also included was a screenshot of a text message from the coach to Metcalf prior to the track meet: &#8220;You and Rhett are on early bus. Get tent, and whatever else we need. Set examples of how to conduct yourself today. Be a leader. I need you and Rhett to hold us down. I will be helping with hosting the meet, so I&#8217;m going to lean on my older guys.&#8221;
Metcalf&#8217;s quick reply: &#8220;for sure coach gotchu.&#8221;
The coach&#8217;s next text came the day after the murder, sent to Metcalf&#8217;s phone despite the fact that he would never see it. &#8220;Love you man. Sorry I didn&#8217;t say enough,&#8221; he said.
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The tranche of evidence also included video of the activity around the tent in the moments leading up to the murder as well as body cam footage from police officers as they went to arrest Anthony — including one in which Anthony could be heard declaring, &#8220;I&#8217;m not alleged. I did it.&#8221;
Video also showed Anthony, wearing a hoodie emblazoned with the words &#8220;fear of God,&#8221; crying as he was taken into custody by police and searched.
&#8220;He put his hands on me,&#8221; Anthony cried, apparently referring to Metcalf. &#8220;I told him not to, he put his hands on me.&#8221;
Police searched him again before putting him in a vehicle, asking him first whether or not he was carrying anything that could hurt them while they searched his pockets.  <iframe style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; max-width: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/cFupKy202f8L18rwMe89GQ12pVVamCrO3?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=3a179ad0-bacb-400f-b0ea-8a9b236e023a&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-6-19%20Karmelo%20Anthony%20cries%20during%20arrest%20&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2F624d16df-32cd-4f10-96b5-56fc6f9f5d71.jpg&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
Audio from multiple 911 calls were also released on Friday. On one, someone could be heard saying, &#8220;My friend’s bleeding everywhere&#8221; as another voice in the background said, &#8220;Fight through, fight through!&#8221; Another caller, identified as &#8220;Mason,&#8221; told dispatchers, &#8220;You need to send an ambulance right now,&#8221; and said, &#8220;My friend just got stabbed.&#8221; Callers informed the dispatcher that, at the time, Metcalf was unconscious but still breathing.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-latest-move-in-karmelo-anthonys-case">Anthony</a> was convicted and sentenced to serve 35 years in prison for the murder — and his attorneys almost immediately filed his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karmelo-anthony-whines-from-prison-about-something-he-no-longer-has-to-worry-about">intent to appeal</a> the conviction. In preparation for that appeal, Anthony&#8217;s family retained a new attorney.
Since the trial, Anthony&#8217;s family members and others have falsely claimed that the jury was &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-race-card-karmelo-anthonys-father-is-playing-gets-scorched-by-facts">all white</a>&#8221; and thus not truly the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-flaw-in-a-professors-race-based-defense-of-karmelo-anthony">jury of his peers</a>&#8221; the justice system is supposed to provide.

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Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) funded a trip to the Super Bowl with cash from a joint campaign account he shared with disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).
According to a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/21/gallego-campaign-donors-travel-00969326">report</a> from POLITICO, Gallego used campaign donations to fund a number of private excursions — including child care expenses and family trips to Disney World in addition to Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, in 2023.
Gallego <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swalwells-bff-brings-back-infamous-biden-lackey-to-manage-crisis-response">recently hired</a> Andrew Bates, who served as deputy press secretary for former President Joe Biden, to manage crisis communications related to his long friendship with Swalwell as well as any interactions with the Senate Ethics Committee — interactions that may be coming sooner rather than later.
As POLITICO reported, Gallego&#8217;s campaign finance records reveal that he used money from his leadership PAC to pay for personal travel — trips to Disneyland and Disney World as well as to Chicago and Miami — and other personal and family expenses. At least once, the report claims, Gallego used campaign cash or money from his PAC to pay his mother-in-law $400 for child care — and since 2019, withdrew more than $18,000 for child care-related expenses.
Gallego, according to the outlet, appeared to concede that he had spent campaign funds on child care, saying in a statement, &#8220;This is not breaking news. With the rising costs of child care and the burden it has on the budgets of American families, Democrats and Republicans in Congress and the White House alike regularly travel with their wives and children, as is permitted by the FEC.&#8221;
The FEC does allow payments designated for child care, travel, and food — provided the events are campaign-related. Any expenses that would exist regardless of the campaign are not covered by those exemptions.
In addition to managing the questions likely to come from the Senate Ethics Committee regarding his spending habits, Gallego has worked to distance himself from Swalwell — his friend and former roommate — as he prepares for a potential presidential run in 2028.
Since the report also details the Super Bowl trip with Swalwell and his wife — paid for with funds from a joint campaign account that he and Swalwell shared — maintaining that distance may prove more difficult in the future.

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The percentage of students claiming to have disabilities — and thus qualifying for accommodations such as extra time for assignments and tests — is higher than the percentage of male students at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
As reported by The New York Post, more than one-third of students enrolled in the law school — 37% — are also in UC Berkeley&#8217;s <a href="https://dsp.berkeley.edu/about/annual-report-and-data?">Disabled Students Program</a>. By comparison, male students make up approximately 30-33% of enrollees. The most common disabilities listed were emotional and psychological — primarily attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anxiety, but occasionally depression as well. According to data from the Disabled Students Program office, 98% of the disabilities claimed by law students fell into those categories.
The change is staggering: in 2021, just 3% of UC Berkeley law school graduates were part of the Disabled Students Program. Among undergraduates, the number was slightly higher at 10%.
The dramatic swing has some critics wondering whether some of the claims are less about real disabilities and more about the fact that enrollment in the program allows students to have 150% or even 200% of the time allotted to students outside the program for the grueling legal exams they must pass in order to graduate.
Campus exam proctoring services have reported a dramatic increase in requests for accommodations that reflects the jump as well, more than tripling from under 4,000 in the 2021-2022 academic year to over 14,000 in 2024-2025.
Andrew Testerman, a graduate who dug into the program&#8217;s use and laid out his findings in a <a href="https://jamesgmartin.center/2026/06/the-law-school-accommodations-racket/">report</a> for the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, commented, &#8220;We are asked to believe that students at elite law schools are significantly more likely to be disabled than our nation’s senior citizens.&#8221;
But the statistical anomalies did not stop there.
&#8220;At U.C. Berkeley, proportionally more women than men seek accommodations for ADHD — even though in the population at large, men are several times more likely to have this disorder,&#8221; Testerman wrote. &#8220;Thus, either many students are falsely claiming to be disabled, or the number of disabled students is truly staggering — to the point where disability status would in fact be the norm, and the exception would swallow the rule.&#8221;
Testerman also proposed a solution to the problem, arguing that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration could easily take action: &#8220;President Trump could go a long way toward solving this problem. A single executive order, together with revised administrative guidance and a notice of proposed rulemaking, could change the incentive structure.&#8221;

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Critics have been saying almost since the beginning that the transgender movement is erasing women — but The New York Times celebrated Father&#8217;s Day by proving they&#8217;re erasing men too.
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/opinion/trans-dad-parenting-fathers-day.html?smid=url-share">article</a> in question, a guest essay titled &#8220;To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated,&#8221; was published on Sunday morning — just in time for Father&#8217;s Day — and used a comic strip style to explore the trials and travails of a trans-identifying woman&#8217;s foray into &#8220;fatherhood.&#8221;
The frames reveal that the author, Zach Ellams, had been identifying as male for years, but had not officially announced to everyone that she was trans — but once she had a daughter, she had to learn to talk about things, in part because her daughter asked questions in public that made it necessary.
In one frame, while at a public pool, the daughter drew stares by asking, &#8220;How did you grow a mustache if you were a lady?&#8221;
In another, the daughter announced after school, &#8220;I told my friends at school that Mom made you a cake when you got your surgery.&#8221;
The moral of the story, as the article played out, was that the daughter was ultimately so accepting of her gender that she realized it was adults who made things complicated — and that helped her to &#8220;embrace&#8221; her male identity.
Critics were not impressed by the paper&#8217;s editorial choices for Father&#8217;s Day, however, and said so.
&#8220;This is what the @nytimes went with for Fathers Day. A cartoon &#8216;essay&#8217; by a trans &#8216;dad,'&#8221; XX/XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey <a href="https://x.com/JenniferSey/status/2068719772670505013">commented</a>.
Matt Taibbi added, &#8220;Today’s NYT editorial on Father’s Day is an all-timer. Again, don’t know where to put it on the funny-vs-horrifying axis.&#8221;
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Today’s NYT editorial on Father’s Day is an all-timer. Again, don’t know where to put it on the funny-vs-horrifying axis: <a href="https://t.co/oCQhSr2nJB">https://t.co/oCQhSr2nJB</a> <a href="https://t.co/Y6jl0unK8c">pic.twitter.com/Y6jl0unK8c</a>
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&#8220;I want to congratulate @nytimes for perfectly catching how the cultural elite view men and fatherhood this Father’s Day — yes, to the Times, being a dad is something you do to feel better about having your t*ts cut off. Cannot make it up,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/AlexBerenson/status/2068706596893450383">Alex Berenson said</a>.

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Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) delivered a Bible-based — and very personal — Father&#8217;s Day message specifically aimed at children who were growing up without fathers.
Scott joined CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where he talked about the fact that he&#8217;d grown up from the age of seven without his own father present — and then, when he married, he&#8217;d become a stepfather to his new wife&#8217;s adult children.
He spoke about <a href="https://x.com/CNNSOTU/status/2068700521251119222">advice</a> from a pastor, who&#8217;d reminded him that he had to &#8220;earn the right to influence&#8221; the lives of the adult children in his newly-blended family — and he said that advice had so far served him well. But then Tapper asked what advice he had for fathers — or for those who might be living without a father.
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Senator Tim Scott&#8217;s powerful Father&#8217;s Day message: &#8220;If you are without a father, do not think that his absence somehow makes you less qualified to do anything. You are fearfully and wonderfully made&#8230; Do not let your dad&#8217;s absence be an excuse for doing something that you will… <a href="https://t.co/QUZErFshMg">pic.twitter.com/QUZErFshMg</a>
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&#8220;On this Father&#8217;s Day, what&#8217;s your message to all the people out there, either the dads or the people who don&#8217;t have dads?&#8221; Tapper asked.
&#8220;If you are without a father, do not think that his absence somehow makes you less qualified to do anything. You are fearfully and wonderfully made,&#8221; Scott said, quoting Psalm 139:14. &#8220;But it is your responsibility at a certain age to take responsibility of your life and to make the most out of it.&#8221;
&#8220;Do not let your dad&#8217;s absence be an excuse for doing something that you will later regret,&#8221; he added.
Scott told Tapper that even though his own father had left when he was young, he&#8217;d always felt motivated to go out and make him proud.
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Senator Tim Scott&#8217;s dad left when he was 7 years old, but he still saw him through rose-colored glasses: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know very many kids who don&#8217;t want to make their dads proud.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/t1eGwVO028">pic.twitter.com/t1eGwVO028</a>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t know very many kids who don&#8217;t want to make their dads proud,&#8221; he said.

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Podcast host Joe Rogan revealed the fear he voiced to President Donald Trump ahead of the UFC Freedom 250 fight night at the White House — and what the president said to him in return.
Rogan, speaking with UFC fighter Justin Gaethje and MMA trainer Trevor Wittman, discussed his concerns ahead of fight night about how vulnerable they could be to an attack — particularly because Trump had been targeted so many times in the past.
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HILARIOUS: Justin Gaethje: “I was like, f*ck it. If I get taken out in the middle of the case, how f*cking legendary would that be?”
Joe Rogan: “I said to Trump, ‘I hope we don’t die in a terrorist attack.’ He goes, ‘We gotta go somehow.’ I go, ‘What the f*ck, dude?’” <a href="https://t.co/6y32fDS1mL">pic.twitter.com/6y32fDS1mL</a>
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&#8220;I was honestly really nervous, Joe,&#8221; Wittman said. &#8220;I was like, dude, there&#8217;s like — just being around everybody and something could happen — the drones, that kid that you know they stopped, like &#8230; Again, I wasn&#8217;t knowing what to expect and then &#8217;til after the fight because again, we couldn&#8217;t take it in, it was a beautiful thing, and Justin —&#8221;
&#8220;I was like, f*ck it, if I get taken out in the middle of the cage, how f*cking legendary&#8217;d that be?&#8221; Gaethje chimed in.
Rogan said then that he&#8217;d actually brought concerns to President Trump before the event, saying, &#8220;I said to Trump, ‘I hope we don’t die in a terrorist attack.’ He goes, ‘We gotta go somehow.’ I go, ‘What the f*ck, dude?’&#8221;
Gaethje said he was right there with Trump, adding, &#8220;Everyone will remember it for the rest of eternity!&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ll pass,&#8221; Wittman interjected as Gaethje declared, &#8220;Sign me up!&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s better the way it went,&#8221; Rogan replied. &#8220;The way it went was way better, it was a way better outcome.&#8221;

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Comedian Bill Maher scorched Democrats — former Vice President Kamala Harris chief among them — for ignoring and even mocking the idea of patriotism until they needed to win elections.
Maher, during his Friday broadcast of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time,&#8221; scolded Democrats who were refusing to celebrate the United States as it passed it&#8217;s 250th anniversary, arguing that they were only making themselves look petty and small in their efforts to attack President Donald Trump.
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Bill Maher on America’s 250th Birthday: &#8220;I’m NOT DOWN with this attitude of ‘Well, we’re having a party, but if Trump’s going, I’m not.’ That’s so high school it should be in the Epstein files.” 
⁰“Go to the party; it’s a big celebration. You probably won’t run into him. This… <a href="https://t.co/u0rlUhmOsc">pic.twitter.com/u0rlUhmOsc</a>
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&#8220;This is about America. He isn’t America. He’s a temporary caretaker of America, America’s employee. And the message should be that America isn’t actually his and that no one’s side gets to own being psyched about the country,&#8221; Maher argued.
&#8220;So I’m not down with this attitude of ‘Well, we’re having a party, but if Trump’s going, I’m not.’ That’s so high school it should be in the Epstein files,&#8221; he added, drawing laughs from the audience. &#8220;Go to the party; it’s a big celebration. You probably won’t run into him. This country’s 3.8M square miles, and that’s without Greenland.&#8221;
Maher went on to argue that a lot of the dire events Democrats had predicted had failed to materialize — not the least of which being their fear that Trump would barricade himself in the White House and refuse to leave after losing in 2020 — before he turned on the former vice president.
Jabbing at Harris&#8217;s 2024 call for Democrats to &#8220;take back the flag,&#8221; he pointed out that eleventh-hour conversions would never be convincing.
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💥NEW: Bill Maher *ROASTS* Kamala Harris🤣🇺🇸
“Every election year, Democrats seem to remember patriotism for about an hour at their convention when they&#8217;re trying to win back swing voters. The whole message of Kamala&#8217;s speech in 2024 was: ‘Take Back the Flag.’”
“That&#8217;s why she… <a href="https://t.co/xYubuHowij">pic.twitter.com/xYubuHowij</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2068467326903861419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Harris, during her speech, claimed that the &#8220;pride of being an American&#8221; was truly the &#8220;greatest privilege&#8221; anyone could even experience — but Maher was not buying it.
&#8220;The message that most threatens authoritarians isn’t America sucks. It’s America is ours too. Every election year, Democrats seem to remember patriotism for about an hour at their convention when they’re trying to win back swing voters. The whole message of Kamala’s speech in 2024 was take back the flag. That’s why she talked about America like a pageant contestant,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;Hard to believe she lost, huh? Well, you can’t take back the flag in an hour if the rest of the time you treat patriotism as something vaguely embarrassing.&#8221;

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Actor Tom Hanks jabbed at liberal outlet MSNOW, mocking the far left outlet when a reporter caught up to him on Thursday at the opening of former President Barack Obama&#8217;s Presidential Library in Chicago.
The &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; actor, dressed for the outdoor occasion in a black blazer and round sunglasses, turned to the reporter and asked what information he should share with the &#8220;800&#8221; people who might be likely to be tuned in to the network.
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The reporter was naming off some of the famous people in attendance at the library&#8217;s opening, mentioning Doris Kearns Goodwin before turning to address Hanks.
&#8220;What can I do for the 800 people watching MSNOW?&#8221; the actor asked as the reporter turned toward him.
&#8220;Come on,&#8221; the reporter pushed back, telling Hanks that the shot was live.
&#8220;All right, add a zero to it if you need to,&#8221; Hanks laughed.
&#8220;I would say millions, now that you&#8217;re on our air,&#8221; the reporter replied.
&#8220;All right, all right,&#8221; Hanks laughed.
The library opening drew a massive crowd, including former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Joe Biden — along with their respective First Ladies – and former Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as a number of celebrities. The opening ceremony itself was largely mocked across conservative media because it began with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-presidential-library-officially-opens-with-land-acknowledgement">land acknowledgement</a> to the native tribes that had occupied the area previously.
The fifth film in Hanks&#8217; &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; franchise opened in theaters on Friday, June 19 — and had already set off alarm bells when it set the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toy-story-5-breaks-the-wrong-kind-of-record-for-pixar">wrong kind of record</a> for Pixar. The critics&#8217; rating for the latest installment ranked lower than any of the previous four on film site Rotten Tomatoes, coming in at 94%. The fourth ranked three points higher at 97%, and the first two had perfect scores of 100%. Critics have argued that the franchise lost its way as the final offering failed to provide a real &#8220;villain&#8221; in the story.

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Embattled former first son Hunter Biden published a lengthy critique of President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House celebrations ahead of America&#8217;s 250th birthday — particularly the UFC fight that took place on the South Lawn on Sunday.
Biden&#8217;s father, former President Joe Biden, hosted a White House LGBTQ Pride celebration during which a trans-identifying man flashed his fake breasts on the South Lawn — but Hunter Biden argued that it was the UFC fight that crossed the line, disgracing the people&#8217;s house.
Biden&#8217;s comments were a direct response to podcaster Joe Rogan, who had taken part in the White House events that night, after he welcomed anyone who had a problem with the UFC fight there to &#8220;shut the f*ck up.&#8221;
&#8220;Dear Joe, I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House,&#8221; Biden wrote in an <a href="https://x.com/HunterBiden/status/2067549698861277391">X post</a>.
He began by praising the UFC for building a great brand, saying that the organization itself had nothing to do with his distaste for the event.
&#8220;For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.&#8221;
&#8220;My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred,&#8221; he added without a trace of irony. &#8220;And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment. The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people.&#8221;
Biden went on to argue that Trump was treating the White House like his own personal and private &#8220;Colosseum&#8221; and complained that he had held the UFC fight at the White House specifically to show the American people that he believed he could do anything he wanted with the property.
&#8220;To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for. This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This &#8216;celebration&#8217; could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it. But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point,&#8221; Biden complained. &#8220;By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is: &#8216;This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.'&#8221;
&#8220;The fights,&#8221; Biden insisted, &#8220;were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker. The President is our servant. Not our Caesar,&#8221; Biden concluded, adding in his postscript that he was still down for a &#8220;cage match&#8221; with Donald Trump Jr., so long as it took place &#8220;anywhere but the South Lawn.&#8221;
Adding a twist of irony, former Secretary of State <a href="https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/2066171075495616809">Hillary Clinton</a> issued a similar statement as the UFC fights began, as she reminded everyone that the White House belonged to the people and should be respected by the presidents who had only a temporary residence there: &#8220;It&#8217;s not his house. It&#8217;s our house.&#8221;
Clinton was immediately <a href="https://x.com/BuzzPatterson/status/2066214469286727869">reminded</a> that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had shown his respect for the people&#8217;s house by carrying on an affair with an intern in the Oval Office.

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Actress Daveigh Chase, who broke into the film industry as the voice of Lilo in Disney&#8217;s animated feature &#8220;Lilo &amp; Stitch,&#8221; has died at the age of 35.
Chase, who also gave a terrifying performance as the ghostly Samara Morgan in &#8220;The Ring,&#8221; had been struggling with addiction for years and had recently been hospitalized in Los Angeles due to malnutrition, according to entertainment news site <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/06/17/daveigh-chase-dead/">TMZ</a>. The outlet reported that Chase&#8217;s boyfriend Roy Hernandez said she had contracted meningitis and an infection in her blood that led to sepsis.
Chase had numerous credits to her name — and had <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/entertainment/lilo-stitch-actress-daveigh-chase-reportedly-had-millions-in-residuals-at-time-of-death/">millions</a> in uncollected residuals, according to her longtime manager John Ryan. Ryan told The California Post that the deal Chase had signed when she got the role of Lilo — at just eight years old — had included residuals and a cut of any future toys or theme park attractions that featured her voice. That money, which has continued to roll in, was apparently left uncollected as she was &#8220;too far gone&#8221; to accept her payments.
Ryan managed Chase&#8217;s career for more than ten years, and said that based on the number of residual checks he&#8217;d been notified about suggest that the actress likely left millions untouched. Believing that she was hooked on fentanyl and heroin, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/entertainment/video-allegedly-shows-lilo-stitch-actress-daveigh-chase-living-on-skid-row/?_gl=1*1hy794b*_ga*MzUzMDc0NzE0LjE3NzczOTczMjM.*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*czE3ODE3NDEzNTgkbzEyOCRnMSR0MTc4MTc0NDI2OCRqNjAkbDAkaDA.">Ryan</a> and Chase&#8217;s stepsister Gaia Brown attempted to find her — and even brought in a private investigator to help them.
When a 2025 video on social media purported to show her, emaciated and barely conscious on Skid Row, they went to get her in the hopes of putting her in treatment. Ryan said he even spoke to her briefly by phone, but when they got to Skid Row, she was already gone.
&#8220;We were so close to finding her. Daveigh was the sweetest and brightest light in Hollywood. I can’t believe this is real. Her legacy and work will live on forever,&#8221; Ryan said.
Chase&#8217;s final role was in 2016&#8217;s &#8220;American Romance.&#8221;

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If Vice President JD Vance decides to run for the nation&#8217;s top office in 2028, he already has one unlikely endorsement — albeit an unofficial one — from Joy Behar.
When Vance appeared on Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View,&#8221; no one expected him to get along with the decidedly liberal and vocally anti-Trump hosts of the ABC talk show — and certainly, no one expected him to walk away from the table with one of them encouraging him to run for president — but that is what happened.
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Joy Behar admits she&#8217;s smitten for JD Vance and asked him to run for President backstage &#8220;because he has a good vibe&#8221; and is &#8220;intelligent&#8221; after his appearance on The View:
&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that he&#8217;s a bad guy.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/MOvQM5eTZ6">pic.twitter.com/MOvQM5eTZ6</a>
— Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) <a href="https://x.com/dannydeurbina/status/2067276383374455162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Following Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast, Behar sat down with longtime executive producer Brian Teta for the &#8220;Behind the Table&#8221; podcast — and they jumped right into a conversation about Vance&#8217;s appearance and how he&#8217;d surprised them by being genuinely funny.
&#8220;Listen, he talked about his giant head for a while. I enjoyed that,&#8221; Teta smiled, referencing Vance&#8217;s claim that people often only saw his big head and didn&#8217;t notice he was tall. &#8220;He sat down with a joke, I thought that was pretty good, his press team told him that this was a table of MAGA Republicans —&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, that was funny,&#8221; Behar agreed.
&#8220;And apparently — oh, I&#8217;m getting a note here — you told him during the break that he should run for president because he has a good vibe,&#8221; Teta said then, turning to Behar for a response.
&#8220;I think that even though — for a Republican, mind you, I&#8217;m not a Republican,&#8221; Behar said. &#8220;I think possibly I voted for Michael Bloomberg once for mayor, who was supposedly — supposedly he was a Republican. I don&#8217;t mind a Republican on the city level because it needs a little discipline. But on the national level, I want somebody with a good heart, and those are more in the Democratic Party in my opinion.&#8221;
&#8220;They care about the poor, they help people,&#8221; Behar continued, adding, &#8220;The Republican Party is more about saving taxes for rich people, so I&#8217;m not a Republican.&#8221;
Teta interjected then to say that Vance had admitted backstage that appearing on &#8220;The View&#8221; had made him more nervous than preparing for his vice presidential debate against Governor Tim Walz (D-MN).
&#8220;He should be,&#8221; Behar shot back, arguing that the ladies with whom she shared the table brought &#8220;many receipts&#8221; when they presented their questions. &#8220;Truthfully, as I said to you in the beginning of this conversation, I don&#8217;t think that he&#8217;s a bad guy. So if he runs against, say, [Governor] Gavin Newsom (D-CA), that will be an interesting debate to see those two because they&#8217;re both intelligent.&#8221;
During the podcast, Behar and Teta also revealed that Vance had set no ground rules for the interview — meaning that they could ask him absolutely anything and he had no advance knowledge of what they might want to talk about — and that he&#8217;d agreed to those terms without contest.
Teta then said the most important thing about the interview was the &#8220;bar&#8221; it set — meaning that any future presidential or vice presidential candidate would be unwise to refuse an appearance on &#8220;The View.&#8221;
&#8220;They all will. They have to stop here. They want the female vote,&#8221; Behar declared, suggesting that candidates could only access American female voters through their show.
Teta said he&#8217;d like to invite Secretary of State Marco Rubio to appear, and Behar shot back, &#8220;We&#8217;ll put him on with Ana Navarro, that will be interesting to watch. Talk about a cage match.&#8221;
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On their podcast, The View proclaims that &#8220;the bar is set&#8221; and presidential candidates NEED to come on the show like VP Vance. 
Joy Behar Suggests The View is the gatekeepers to &#8220;the female vote.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/7oIlQK0Uzc">pic.twitter.com/7oIlQK0Uzc</a>
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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley laid into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying that her recent comments on voter identification belied her &#8220;contempt&#8221; for everyday Americans.
&#8220;Having Hillary Clinton talk about the lives of &#8216;real people&#8217; is about as authentic as a Chuck Schumer lesson on backyard grilling,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/2066129927250804868">Turley began</a>, adding a jab at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for good measure. &#8220;Despite 83% of Americans favoring voter ID, Hillary declared, &#8216;most real people don’t have, and most older people, and most rural people don’t have&#8217; such IDs.&#8221;
Turley went on to argue that Clinton&#8217;s comments didn&#8217;t reveal anything other than her apparent belief that those &#8220;rural people&#8221; and real Americans would be lost without the political class acting — and making decisions — on their behalf.
&#8220;The only value of these interviews is the insight of how the establishment and elite view the rest of the United States as knuckle-dragging, childlike creatures who are helpless without their guidance. It is not the inherent conceit but the contempt that is so striking,&#8221; Turley explained.
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&#8230;Last week, I spoke with a former California poll worker who said that most people still automatically produce their IDs. They were trained to tell people not to show any identification and told to refuse to look at the IDs when they were offered.
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&#8220;Last week, I spoke with a former California poll worker who said that most people still automatically produce their IDs. They were trained to tell people not to show any identification and told to refuse to look at the IDs when they were offered,&#8221; Turley added.
During the interview Turley referenced, Clinton claimed that Republicans were trying to &#8220;undermine voting&#8221; and to &#8220;kick people off voting rolls.&#8221; She then went on to argue that rural and older Americans did not have the kind of identification that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration wanted to require — and insinuated that they would struggle to obtain it.
&#8220;They&#8217;re trying to demand forms of identification that most real people don&#8217;t have, and most older people, and most rural people don&#8217;t have,&#8221; she said.
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HILLARY CLINTON INSULTS RURAL &amp; OLDER VOTERS AGAIN
&#8220;They&#8217;re trying to demand forms of identification that most real people don&#8217;t have, and most older people, and most rural people don&#8217;t have.&#8221;
Deplorables 2.0? Hillary still hates everyday Americans. <a href="https://t.co/cOtL7C9Dkg">pic.twitter.com/cOtL7C9Dkg</a>
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&#8220;They&#8217;re certainly redistricting to make it difficult to elect black representatives or Latino representatives or Democrats,&#8221; she continued, making no mention of the gerrymandering being done in blue states like Illinois, where Republicans have been shut out of congressional seats almost entirely despite Trump winning just over 43% of the vote in 2024. &#8220;So that means we have to be even more intentional in showing up and voting.&#8221;

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