Eric Obrokta pumped millions of dollars into The First Academy in Orlando, Florida, to turn it into a high school football powerhouse to benefit his son, but the scheme fell apart soon after it created a juggernaut.
Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/high-school-football-father-bankroll-54575983?st=dgh9oU&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">reported</a> on the bizarre situation, which began two years ago in Orlando, Florida. The Journal interviewed numerous people connected to Obrokta&#8217;s academy for a story that depicts what went into the expensive operation, how it stood, and why it failed.
In 2024, Obrokta began funding “Central Florida’s #1 Private Christian School’s” football team to reach the likes of their other sports programs. This led to an influx of elite-athletes transferring into the high school, new uniforms, upper-echelon football technology, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts for coaches. Despite this, all of the entrepreneur&#8217;s charity to the school blew up in his face.
To improve the team, Obrokta put up the funding for $300,000 that would go to coaches, nearly $100,000 in tuition for the athletes, $135,000 in travel expenses, and $50,000 worth of upgrades to technology. The total costs eventually reached millions of dollars.
TFA hired a new coach, Jeff Conaway, to a contract worth $230,000, all donated by Obrokta. After going 6-4, Obrokta was not satisfied, telling Conaway he wanted to “flip the script.&#8221;
TFA then hired Steven Moffett, a former quarterback for the University of Central Florida, worked with a non-contact 7-on-7 football team that high-tier high school football players would participate in during the offseason, giving him a leg-up in recruiting for the private school. Moffett was given a $70,000 contract.
TFA also convinced at least 25 high school students to transfer to the private school, set up a $75,000 trip to Nashville for TFA to play and beat Nashville’s prestigious football high school, Lipscomb Academy, purchased a $50,000 technology system for the program, and a went on a $60,000 summer road trip for the players to meet college coaches.
Obrokta also paid for many of the athletes’ tuition. The teenagers were struggling in classes, so TFA began admitting the players into the “hybrid-homeschool program” that was much cheaper for Obrokta to fund everyone.
With the improvements, The First Academy (TFA) began recruiting high school athletes from across the country to build a super team in Central Florida.
None of this went unnoticed, however. The Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) received complaints about how the school was operating. After investigating the situation, they discovered at least ten students were participating in summer football activities without being properly registered at the school and one who did not submit the correct paper work.
The FHSAA suspended every regular season win of its 2024 season, eliminating the team from playoff contention. TFA was also suspended for the 2025 playoffs.
Obrokta was not born with money. He explained that at 40, he was only earning $45,000 as a supervisor for a janitorial service company. From 2012-2022, he co-founded NPSG Global which was bringing in “hundreds of millions in annual revenue” according to the Journal. After spending over 300 days a year away from his family, he returned home and wanted his son to have whatever he wanted. 
“I wanted to feed whatever passion he had,” Obrotka told the paper.
That passion happened to be football, a sport that Florida specifically thrives in breeding athletes, but not TFA. Instead of being away from his son once more, he settled on turning the private Christian school his son attended into a juggernaut to help him play at a high level of college football.
But even before the FHSAA came knocking, Obrokta saw his scheme negatively affecting the main reason behind why he started it in the first place — his own son. TFA players told the Journal that Obrokta’s son was often teased that he would only play due to his father’s bank account. As the scheme continued, most of the athletes on the team became too talented for Obrokta&#8217;s son to compete for serious playing time.
“He loved him as a father, but hated being his son when it came to football,” the Journal wrote of the father-son relationship.
This was the moment it ended for Obrokta. He stopped giving money to the school, leading to a 5-5 season. His son transferred out of state to play for another team. What Obrokta thought would be a life-changing and perfect father-son moment ended in flames.
“Me being so close to the program created challenges for my son and we thought it would be best to start fresh,&#8221; he said.

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A man was fatally shot outside of a Walmart Supercenter during a dispute over a parking spot on Tuesday afternoon in North Lauderdale, Florida.
The victim, Bart Diguglielmo, was a 62-year-old New Jersey native and a retired US Army combat nurse, combat medic, and tactical communications expert, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/02/us-news/florida-woman-fatally-shoots-army-veteran-bart-diguglielmo-during-dispute-over-walmart-parking-spot/">New York Post</a>. 
A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h6zr9iFnEA">video</a> of the confrontation, which occurred around 12:30 p.m. on June 30, shows Diguglielmo and the shooter, an unidentified adult female, engaging in a heated “verbal altercation” outside of the store. Diguglielmo approaches the woman in the video, and the two are seen circling a car while arguing before Diguglielmo is shot and collapses to the ground.
Diguglielmo was rushed to Broward Health Medical Center, but he was later pronounced deceased, <a href="https://www.sheriff.org/pio/breaking-news/altercation-over-a-parking-space-escalates-to-fatal-shooting/">according</a> to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
“I was walking up and heard a lady screaming,” David Anderson, one of the witnesses, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-walmart-parking-space-shooting-north-lauderdale/">said</a> to CBS News Miami. “She was screaming and she was saying a lot of things.”
The shooter told officials it was in self-defense and has been cooperative with the ongoing investigation. 
When the investigation concludes, the Broward County State Attorney’s Office will decide if there will be any criminal charges against the shooter, per BSO homicide detectives.
Diguglielmo’s sister gave a statement to CBS News Miami over the phone, but did not provide her name. She said she was devastated by the loss of her brother and described him as a decorated military veteran who served in Desert Storm.
“He was a Christian man and a very good person and would not hurt anyone,” Diguglielmo’s sister said.

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Dispute Over A Walmart Parking Spot Turns Deadly

Man Fatally Shot During Dispute Over A Walmart Parking Spot

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Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic Socialist who just beat moderate leftist Adriano Espaillat in the New York primaries, has run on a platform of resistance to New York’s profit-seeking landlords. However, a recent investigation just exposed her father as one of them.
Public records show that her father Frank Avila, whom Chevalier claimed was a humble truck driver, had enough money to purchase a condominium in Miami in 1998 for $92,900, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/real-estate/darializa-avila-chevaliers-father-is-a-landlord-in-miami/">reports</a>. This is about $193,000 in today’s dollars. 
Similar units in the complex now average around $375,000, which means that her father has had a fourfold return on his apartment investment. This does not include the revenue her father receives from the apartment’s tenant.
July 2025 records also show him taking a loan off the apartment complex, a traditional tactic New York landlords perform.
Avila Chevalier ran a populist campaign centered on limiting market-rate housing and fighting &#8220;corporate greed,&#8221; and once reposted a proposal on social media calling the government to “seize all properties from landlords.” 

Chevalier has also argued that New York has given real estate too much to the free market, which erodes the identity of long-established, working-class neighborhoods.
“In Congress, she’ll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.’s broken political system. At a time when power is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, Darializa will fight in Congress for New York City’s working families,” her platform read. “She’s the champion we need for a city New Yorkers can actually afford.”
Chevalier has argued that houses that are owned are kept in land trusts that limit how much landlords can own, though her father’s property is in no such land trust. 

“[We should be] making sure that we are pushing back on bad landlords, making sure that we are also creating pathways to homeownership, investing in community land trusts and HDFCs, and making it so that people can actually stay in the city that they helped build,” she <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/01/politics/kfile-ny-13-darializa-avila-chevalier-deleted-tweets-defund-abolish-police-prisons-deportations">told</a> CNN.
Chevalier has not publicly spoken about her father’s property or mentioned his status as a landlord.

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is moving to impeach a judge for acquitting a mother who drowned her baby daughter. 
Judge Miguel de la O found 43-year-old Precious Bland not guilty on grounds of insanity, ruling that she was suffering from a “psychotic episode” caused by COVID-19. Bland reportedly drowned her 15-month-old daughter Emii in a bathtub after screaming, &#8220;Jesus Christ is coming, and COVID is going to kill us all,&#8221; and insisting that the children needed to be baptized. 
When Bland’s husband tried to intervene, she stabbed him several times with a knife. He escaped the scene with four of the couple’s children, but not before Bland stabbed their 16-year-old daughter in the forearm. 
Bland waived her right to a jury trial and was instead given a bench trial, which gives the judge absolute authority in handing down the verdict.
The defense argued that Bland was suffering from temporary insanity caused by COVID-19 and was unaware of what she was doing. The prosecution vigorously rejected this claim.
&#8220;She was verbalizing that the baby needed to stop breathing. So she was holding her down to make sure she stopped breathing,&#8221; a prosecutor said during opening statements. 
Despite using an insanity argument, Bland&#8217;s attorney Larry Handfield did not seek to have Bland institutionalized. He <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/bench-trial-begins-for-south-florida-mother-accused-of-drowning-toddler-defense-cites-covid-induced-psychosis/">argued</a> that her bout of insanity was entirely temporary and that institutionalization was unnecessary.
Uthmeier posted on social media that his office would be drafting articles of impeachment for the judge. &#8220;This was a bench trial. It’s time to impeach this judge,&#8221; Uthmeier wrote. &#8220;My office will be drafting articles of impeachment, and we look forward to working with all legislators who will support.&#8221;
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This was a bench trial. It’s time to impeach this judge.
My office will be drafting articles of impeachment, and we look forward to working with all legislators who will support. <a href="https://t.co/Pxj9P3fUzS">https://t.co/Pxj9P3fUzS</a>
— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) <a href="https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/2070117331276112067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Republican Governor DeSantis <a href="https://x.com/RonDeSantis/status/2070132417482920332?s=20">expressed</a> his support for impeaching the judge and called on the Florida House &#8220;to do its duty.&#8221; 
Handfield argued that COVID-19 can cause paranoia and suicidal thoughts in some people. He <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/woman-found-not-guilty-after-claiming-covid-made-her-kill-daughter-and-stab-loved-ones/3825334/?amp=1">said</a> he believes this to be the first successful COVID-related insanity defense in the country. 
Judge de la O has yet to decide whether Bland will be institutionalized or require any further treatment.

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When five illegal immigrants arrived at a hotel in Homestead, Florida, on June 9, they thought they&#8217;d be greeted by underage girls they could sexually abuse. Instead, they were met by law enforcement officers who quickly placed them in handcuffs.
Authorities lured the accused illegal immigrant predators via an online advertisement that offered sexual services at a hotel in Homestead, Florida. In the advertisement, officials posed as a mother who was prostituting her two daughters, who were between the ages of 13 and 15. 
Some of the illegal immigrants who were caught had rap sheets and had been deported before, The Daily Wire has learned. In total, law enforcement arrested a dozen men between the ages of 22 and 51 for child sex trafficking, including the five who were in the United States illegally, authorities said.
The suspects allegedly paid between $300 and $800 to engage in various sex acts with the girls, <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/pair-arrested-in-undercover-world-cup-human-trafficking-sting-authorities-say/3819098/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NBC Miami.
 Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtRZvqVtiwg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characterized</a> the operation as &#8220;the best evidence of how we know these predators exist, we know that they’re seeking out our young — our minors.&#8221;
&#8220;These predators were intending to buy minors, and we were able to intervene before there was any victim to really rescue,&#8221; she said.
One of the accused illegal immigrants was Armando Martinez-Cerron, a Mexican national who is a repeat criminal with prior arrests for cocaine possession and DUI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told The Daily Wire. Martinez-Cerron first crossed the border illegally in 1999 and was subsequently deported on two occasions.
His last deportation occurred in January 2023 before he snuck back into the United States without getting caught, according to DHS.
Mexican illegal immigrant Daniel Guadalupe Rubio Pelcastre is also an alleged repeat offender who was previously arrested for domestic violence and battery, according to DHS. Rubio Pelcastre was also deported twice, first in November 2012 and then in December 2012.
Pantaleon Mendez Ortega, a Guatemalan national, has been living in the United States illegally for over two decades, entering the United States in May 2000, DHS said. His criminal record includes prior arrests for drunk driving.
Guatemalan illegal immigrant Alex Gilberto Pastor-Perez has been living illegally in the United States since March 2015, having an outstanding deportation order since July 2017, according to DHS.
Nicolas Diego Roselin is a Guatemalan who crossed the border illegally in May 2019, according to DHS. An immigration judge ordered his deportation in April 2025.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents assisted local authorities with the sting, a DHS spokesperson told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
The suspects face felony charges that include human trafficking of a person under 18.

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An ICE officer saved a 6-year-old child from drowning by jumping into a Florida pool and performing emergency CPR.
The Department of Homeland Security said this week that Tampa ICE officer Gregory Simmonds saved a child last month who he found floating unconscious in a pool in Pasco County, Florida. After pulling the child from the pool, Simmonds gave the child CPR until he regained consciousness. 
“This officer swiftly sprung to action and delivered life-saving medical care to this 6-year-old who drowned,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “Our agents truly are the best of the best. They put their lives on the line to arrest the worst of the worst. Instead of demonizing ICE law enforcement, sanctuary politicians should be thanking them for removing criminals from their communities.&#8221;
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Local authorities praised Simmonds for saving the child’s life.
“Due to his quick thinking, decisive actions and willingness to place himself into action during a critical incident, the child survived and is expected to make a full recovery,” said Corporal J. Leathers of the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. “His actions directly contributed to saving the life of the child and reflect exceptional courage and selflessness.”
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The incident occurred on May 16. 
In a press release highlighting Simmonds’ actions, the Department of Homeland Security noted other examples of ICE officers taking heroic action. 
In March, an ICE officer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ice-agent-saves-baby-who-stopped-breathing-in-tsa-line">performed</a> the Heimlich maneuver on a 1-year-old child who experienced a medical emergency and stopped breathing while at JFK International Airport in New York. The child started breathing again after the actions of the ICE officer. 
Another incident occurred in February when two off-duty officers performed CPR on a 4-year-old child found unconscious in a pool in Minnesota. That child eventually regained consciousness. 
ICE has faced increasing public protests across the country from leftist activists attempting to disrupt the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Anti-ICE riots have broken out in California, Minnesota, and New York over detentions of illegal immigrants.

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

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Former Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who resigned from Congress after an embezzlement scandal, appears to be running for reelection. 
The Democrat, who stepped down after being accused of stealing $5 million in federal disaster relief funds and funneling some of the money into her political campaigns, has qualified to appear on the ballot once again, according to state election records.
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Well, <a href="https://x.com/CongresswomanSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CongresswomanSC</a> has officially qualified as a candidate in CD 20. <a href="https://t.co/BF4schEEQQ">pic.twitter.com/BF4schEEQQ</a>
— Jacob Ogles (@jacobogles) <a href="https://x.com/jacobogles/status/2065181214416236604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
The Florida Division of Elections’ Candidate Tracking System lists Cherfilus-McCormick as “qualified,” meaning she successfully completed the state’s qualification requirements and is officially on the ballot. “Active” status indicates that a candidate has filed to run but has not yet completed the ballot qualification process.
One of her opponents, Elijah Manley, questioned her ability to pay the $10,000 filing fee while carrying millions of dollars in campaign debt.
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Sheila has $4.4 million in campaign debt, but somehow found $10k to pay the filing fee. 🤔 What are her priorities? Staying out of federal prison or spoiling the race with her vanity run? <a href="https://t.co/KnkFMAkQlz">https://t.co/KnkFMAkQlz</a>
— Elijah Manley (@iElijahManley) <a href="https://x.com/iElijahManley/status/2065198355307770238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2026</a></blockquote>
Cherfilus-McCormick did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire. The most recent public statement from her congressional office was her resignation announcement in April. However, she reportedly <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/cherfilus-mccormick-intends-to-run-for-reelection-as-dems-challenge-new-redistricting-maps/3807873/">told</a> NBC 6 South Florida that she intends to seek reelection despite her legal troubles.
“I never shied away from a fight, and my team has always said, ‘We’re ready,’ and we are ready to fight and win,” Cherfilus-McCormick told NBC 6 South Florida.
Without directly denying the allegations, she added, “That’s exactly what they are, allegations.”
Federal prosecutors allege that Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother, Edwin Cherfilus, conspired to steal $5 million in FEMA disaster relief funds intended for recovery efforts following natural disasters. According to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Miami, the pair allegedly routed the money through multiple accounts to conceal its origin.
The indictment further alleges that they funneled money to friends and family members, who then made campaign contributions using those funds in their own names.
“Using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,” Former Attorney General Pam Bondi said following the indictment.
Just minutes before the House Ethics Committee was scheduled to vote on whether Cherfilus-McCormick should be expelled from Congress, she resigned her seat. Cherfilus-McCormick is currently facing criminal charges related to the allegations. Members of Congress are not immune from criminal prosecution, meaning that even if she is reelected, the charges against her would continue to proceed through the court system.
CBS <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-district-20-race-major-shakeup/">reported</a> four of the candidates for Florida’s District 20 had private meetings to discuss bowing out of the race to “consolidate the black vote” to defeat Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the primary election. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Elijah Manley, Dale Holness, and Luther Campbell were the candidates who discussed the efforts. 
&#8220;It makes it easier for her to win when the black vote is split, but I think that the strongest candidate can build a coalition to win this race,&#8221; said Manley. Holness added, &#8220;It&#8217;s a tough conversation, but the sense in the room that we should have someone with the lived experience of the majority of the people in that district was very, very strong.&#8221; 
Ultimately, none of the candidates ended up bowing out, sending all four to compete against Schultz in the Democratic primary election.

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The state of Florida is taking off the kid gloves and slapping artificial intelligence kingpin OpenAI with a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/florida-sues-openai-sam-altman-saying-put-profit-safety-rcna347602">monster lawsuit</a>.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an 83-page civil suit on Monday against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman. Florida charges OpenAI with building an unregulated &#8220;wealth machine&#8221; that pushes a highly addictive, dangerous product directly to children while ignoring a ticking time bomb of internal safety warnings.
&#8220;The rise of OpenAI is attributable to a web of deceit and the exploitation of users (including Floridians), leveraging their data and safety to boost OpenAI’s market value at unacceptable costs,&#8221; the lawsuit states.
The blockbuster lawsuit accuses OpenAI of everything from negligence to creating a massive public nuisance. It claims the chatbot acts as a digital accomplice, alleging it was used by unhinged killers to plan a horrific mass shooting at Florida State University and a double homicide at the University of South Florida.
A company spokesperson for OpenAI argued the bot only spat out public, factual internet data and touted &#8220;industry-leading&#8221; guardrails meant to protect teens and flag users in mental distress.
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Florida’s lawsuit is just the latest wound for the $850 billion company, which is currently fighting a war on multiple legal fronts.
Grieving families have already slapped the company with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/01/florida-lawsuit-openai-sam-altman#:~:text=Florida's%20legal%20action%20is%20part,as%20a%20%E2%80%9Csuicide%20coach%E2%80%9D.">seven</a> individual wrongful death lawsuits, claiming ChatGPT <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chatgpt-lawsuit-colordo-man-suicide-openai-sam-altman/">acted</a> as a virtual &#8220;suicide coach&#8221; that drove loved ones into deadly delusions.
Meanwhile, traditional media and famous creatives are out for blood over what they call the greatest heist in internet history. <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/does-chatgpt-violate-new-york-times-copyrights/#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20copyright%20infringement,knowledge%20base%20that%20drives%20ChatGPT.">The New York Times</a>, as well as literary heavyweights like George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, and David Baldacci, have <a href="https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-and-authors-file-class-action-suit-against-openai/#:~:text=The%20complaint%20draws%20attention%20to,expects%20to%20earn%20many%20billions.">sued</a> OpenAI for allegedly vacuuming up millions of copyrighted articles and books without paying a dime to train its AI models. OpenAI has defended itself by claiming fair use.
If that weren’t enough, a swarm of consumer class actions is pounding the company for allegedly scraping the private data and social media logs of millions of unsuspecting everyday users — including children.
There’s also the ongoing feud between Tesla titan Elon Musk and Altman. Musk recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-says-the-ai-shaping-your-life-pulled-a-800b-bait-and-switch?utm_source=chatgpt.com">dragged</a> Altman into a California court, accusing his former partner of &#8220;stealing a charity&#8221; by flipping OpenAI from a benevolent, open-source nonprofit into a greedy subsidiary of Microsoft. Musk even launched a $97.4 billion hostile takeover attempt, which Altman laughed off on social media by offering to buy X back for pennies.
While a jury tossed Musk&#8217;s suit last month on a ticking-clock technicality, he is already planning an appeal.
If Florida wins the lawsuit, it won&#8217;t just hinder OpenAI&#8217;s upcoming multi-billion-dollar IPO — it could pull the plug on Silicon Valley&#8217;s unregulated actions.

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The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday <a href="https://themissouritimes.com/breaking-missouri-supreme-court-upholds-states-new-congressional-map/#:~:text=The%20Missouri%20Supreme%20Court%20on,requirements%20under%20the%20Missouri%20Constitution">upheld</a> the state&#8217;s new congressional map, handing Republicans a significant legal victory ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Two groups of voters had sued to stop the map, arguing that the newly drawn voting districts were not properly shaped, did not make sense geographically, and did not have equal populations. However, the high court agreed with a lower court&#8217;s decision, ruling that the challengers failed to present sufficient evidence to overturn a map drawn by lawmakers.
The decision came the same day Florida Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-stops-the-lefts-effort-to-cause-redistricting-chaos-in-republican-state">won</a> a similar legal battle. In that state, a judge rejected a last-minute attempt by liberal groups to block Florida’s new congressional map before the 2026 elections.
The dispute in Missouri was over a 2025 law called House Bill 1, which replaced the state&#8217;s older voting map with a new one. The critics argued that the new map violated state constitutional rules, which require that voting districts be tightly packed and equal in population.
Most of the fighting was about Districts 4, 5, and 6 around Kansas City. Critics—including Kansas City Democratic Mayor Quinton Lucas—argued that the map unfairly split the city and cut neighborly communities apart.
The Missouri Supreme Court, however, made it clear that its role was limited to determining whether the map complied with constitutional requirements, not whether it was politically fair. The lawsuit did not allege partisan gerrymandering.
During a four-day trial, experts used math formulas to measure how tightly packed the districts were. The data showed that the new map was actually shaped just as well as, or better than, Missouri&#8217;s older maps from 2012 and 2022. In fact, the new map kept local areas together better by splitting up fewer counties and cities than the previous map.
Ultimately, the judges reviewed all the evidence—including population figures, local history, and expert opinions—and concluded that the map complied with the rules.
The Florida win could give the GOP four additional seats; the Missouri win could provide another one.

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A Florida judge shut down Planned Parenthood’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the abortion giant of false advertising over claims that the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol and Viagra. 
Florida First Circuit Court Judge J. Scott Duncan <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/1043974075/249006462-Order?_gl=1*hbrykr*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzQ0MzYwOTE2LjE3Nzk5MDkwNDk.*_ga_Z4ZC50DED6*czE3Nzk5MDkwNDgkbzEkZzEkdDE3Nzk5MDkwNTEkajU3JGwwJGgw*_ga_8KZ8BV0P5W*czE3Nzk5MDkwNDgkbzEkZzEkdDE3Nzk5MDkwNTEkajU3JGwwJGgw">ruled</a> Monday against Planned Parenthood&#8217;s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which Attorney General James Uthmeier filed in November 2025. The suit accuses Planned Parenthood of violating Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act by misleading consumers about the safety of the abortion drug mifepristone.
Uthmeier is seeking up to $350 million in penalties. 
“The Defendants did not simply claim the abortion-inducing medications were safe; rather, according to the Complaint, they claimed they were safer than other medications,” Judge Duncan wrote. 
“In making a comparison, the Defendants went beyond vague promotional language,&#8221; the judge added. &#8220;Now whether these statements are actionable or non-actionable may depend on the context in which they were made.”
The lawsuit centers on a <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/abortion/the-abortion-pill/how-safe-is-the-abortion-pill">statement</a> on Planned Parenthood’s website claiming abortion pills are “safer than many other medicines like penicillin, Tylenol, and Viagra.”
Planned Parenthood argued that the statements amounted to legally protected promotional language and could not be treated as false advertising. 
Uthmeier’s office praised the ruling. 
“We thank our team of litigators who argued against Planned Parenthood’s meritless attempt to dismiss our case against them,” Jeremy Redfern, Uthmeier’s deputy chief of staff, told The Daily Wire. “This decision brings us one step closer to holding Planned Parenthood accountable for profiting from abortions by lying to women about abortion pills being safer than Tylenol.”
Mifepristone cuts off the nutrients that an unborn child needs to survive in the womb. A second drug is then taken to expel the deceased baby from the mother. 
The <a href="https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/final-complaint-1106.pdf">lawsuit</a> seeks a $10,000 penalty for every chemical abortion performed in Florida under the alleged deceptive safety claims. Florida estimated that the total could be roughly $350 million based on approximately 35,000 abortions. 
“Tylenol is an over-the-counter pain medicine that everyone understands, intuitively and by experience, to be safe,” the lawsuit said. “Chemical abortion, by contrast, uses mifepristone and misoprostol and is far more dangerous. Use of chemical abortion drugs routinely lands women in the emergency room with hemorrhaging and other serious complications.”
The Food and Drug Administration says it is currently reviewing the safety of mifepristone. Pro-life advocates and several GOP attorneys general have urged the Trump administration to reverse Biden-era regulations allowing the drug to be prescribed without an in-person doctor’s visit.

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Judge Deals Planned Parenthood Major Loss

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In a massive victory for Florida Republicans, a Leon County circuit judge rejected a desperate, last-minute bid by Left-wing voting groups to block the state’s newly drawn congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes handed down the <a href="https://www.commoncause.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/248949428-Order.pdf">stinging defeat</a> on Tuesday, denying motions for a preliminary injunction filed by a coalition of liberal outfits — including Equal Ground, Common Cause Florida, the League of Women Voters of Florida, and LULAC. The activist groups had desperately clawed to sideline the map, complaining that the districts were &#8220;overtly partisan&#8221; and illegally engineered by Governor Ron DeSantis and the GOP-led Legislature to favor Republicans.
But Judge Hawkes wasn&#8217;t buying the partisan hysteria. In his ruling, Hawkes declared that the challengers utterly failed to meet the incredibly high legal bar required for the courts to intervene before a full trial. Despite the plaintiffs dumping mountains of paper onto the court — including a staggering 1,900 pages of evidence from Equal Ground alone — Hawkes concluded that they simply did not have the goods.
&#8220;The Court concludes that from this record, there is insufficient evidence of impermissible intent to show substantial likelihood of success on the merits,&#8221; Hawkes wrote.
The legal dogfight centered on Florida’s controversial &#8220;Fair Districts Amendments,&#8221; which ban drawing lines to favor a political party. Activists claimed the map&#8217;s sole architect, Jason Poreda, weaponized partisan data. However, the court found that those claims relied on weak inferences rather than direct proof. Furthermore, Hawkes noted that the map was drawn to fix unconstitutional, race-based lines in South Florida&#8217;s CD-20 — noting that federal equal protection guarantees override partisan complaints.
“Plaintiffs’ evidence focuses on challenging the constitutionality of the 2026 map, but does not sufficiently challenge the political branches’ finding that CD-20 in the 2022 map was drawn with impermissible racial intent,” Hawkes wrote.
Hawkes also threw real-world logistics on the activist groups, pointing out that the state’s election machinery is already revving its engines. With Florida&#8217;s primary less than three months away and the general election less than six months away, the judge ruled that changing the rules of the game now would inflict total chaos on voters.
Turning the state&#8217;s massive election apparatus around at this late hour, Hawkes argued, would be like trying to turn a battleship on a dime. He wrote:
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The election machinery of the state is already underway. Similar to the town election in Walker v. Best, it is more difficult for the much larger ship of statewide elections to change directions at this juncture. The primary is less than three months away, and the general less than six months. The public interest weighs more in favor of certainty than a haphazard judicial mandate of discarded maps.
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Defiant liberal groups vowed to drag out the fight, <a href="https://www.wptv.com/news/politics/leon-county-circuit-judge-lets-floridas-new-congressional-map-stand-for-2026-elections">threatening</a> to take their grievances as far as they can. But with the clock ticking and the 2026 election cycle locked in, the ruling ensures that DeSantis’ map stands — giving Sunshine State Republicans a major structural advantage as they look to dominate the upcoming midterms.
Florida&#8217;s congressional redistricting map could give the GOP an additional four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Judge Stops The Left’s Effort To Cause Redistricting Chaos In Republican State

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