Vice President JD Vance casually flipped the bird during his remarks at a Republican dinner in his home state of Ohio on Tuesday, jabbing at &#8220;pink-haired&#8221; protesters and adding with a smile, &#8220;I think it means we&#8217;re number one.&#8221;
Vance spoke at the sold-out event in Lima, and he spent the majority of his time laying out the &#8220;Trump Doctrine&#8221; and detailing the recent strikes on Iranian nuclear targets — but he did take a little time for levity.
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🚨 LMAO! JD Vance throws up the MIDDLE FINGER live on TV
&#8220;In D.C., they have this thing where &#8211; I think it means we&#8217;re number one &#8211; all the pink-haired people throw up this sign&#8230; *throws up middle finger*&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/m5oWcWX0p6">pic.twitter.com/m5oWcWX0p6</a>
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&#8220;In Washington, D.C., they have this thing where — I think it means we&#8217;re number one in Washington, D.C. — all the pink-haired people throw up this sign,&#8221; Vance then raised his middle finger to laughs from the audience. &#8220;And I think, you know, that means we&#8217;re number one, right? That&#8217;s — I choose to take that as that symbol in Washington &#8230; all kidding aside.&#8221;
Vance spent the rest of the time talking about the Trump administration&#8217;s military action against Iran&#8217;s nuclear program — which he described as a perfect example of the &#8220;Trump Doctrine&#8221; on foreign policy.
&#8220;What I call the Trump Doctrine is quite simple: Number one, you articulate a clear American interest and that’s, in this case, that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. Number two, you try to aggressively diplomatically solve that problem,&#8221; Vance said, referencing the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to bring Iran to the table before taking action. &#8220;And number three, when you can’t solve it diplomatically, you use overwhelming military power to solve it and then you get the hell out of there before it ever becomes a protracted conflict.&#8221;

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‘I Think It Means We’re Number One’: Vance Casually Flips The Bird At Ohio Republican Dinner

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Bernie Sanders wants to solve AI with socialism — but he doesn&#8217;t know how humans will find meaning in his socialist paradise.
The 83-year-old senior senator from Vermont recently took time off of his &#8220;Fighting Oligarchy&#8221; tour to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYVzme2fybU">appear</a> on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience.&#8221;
During the almost two-hour episode, Rogan asked Sanders how humans will find meaning if artificial intelligence takes jobs and the government provides for everyone&#8217;s needs.
&#8220;Andrew Yang was talking about this giant epidemic of automation in this country and the solution being universal basic income, but that&#8217;s not the solution for meaning,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;And how do we convince all of these people that they have to not just take this money from the government, but also take action to give themselves meaning in their lives?&#8221;
Sanders tried to reframe the question as &#8220;a revolution in human experience.&#8221;
&#8220;So throughout history, people have worked so hard just to stay alive, right?&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t need to do work, right, because we&#8217;re wealthy enough, how do you find meaning in your life?&#8221;
Sanders called it a &#8220;trillion-dollar question&#8221; and said dependence on AI is not the answer.
&#8220;All I would say at this moment is the answer is not to fall in love with your AI creature out there,&#8221; Sanders said.
Rogan wasn&#8217;t satisfied.
&#8220;Yeah, don’t do that,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;But also, how do you find meaning? How do you — if all you&#8217;re doing is just getting a check, and you can just stay at home and stare at the TV, and the money keeps coming, and then you eat processed food all day, and it&#8217;s all subsidized, what is life?&#8221;
Sanders said the immediate solution is to take care of workers who lost jobs to AI.
&#8220;I think you tell those workers, you&#8217;re going to have health care as a human right, you&#8217;re going to have education as a human right, you&#8217;re going to have a decent income as a human right, and we&#8217;re going to lower — substantially lower — the work week,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;What happens later, when even more work is eliminated, and what the purpose of human life becomes, that is a very profound question.&#8221;
&#8220;What do you think happens?&#8221; Rogan asked.
&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to imagine,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;Then the answer will be that we are going to have to find different meaning in life. We have to find it in ourselves in ways that you don’t know and I don’t know, because we&#8217;re not there yet.&#8221;
Sanders said he doesn&#8217;t know how far out the problem is.
&#8220;But I think human beings are capable of replacing work with other emotionally satisfying things,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;Yeah, I think we can do it.&#8221;
Rogan said the problem would be providing meaning for millions of people.
&#8220;What do you do to all those people to give them some sort of a sense of meaning?&#8221; Rogan asked. &#8220;You&#8217;re essentially redefining life for them.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have the answer to that question,&#8221; Sanders admitted again. &#8220;That’s the problem. I don&#8217;t think anybody does.&#8221;
Despite not having an answer, the senator still managed to bring the issue back to taxing the rich.
&#8220;The people who own that technology and the corporations who utilize that [AI] technology are becoming phenomenally richer,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;And that is the issue. Which gets back to things like tax reform, like making sure that in America, we do not have the massive levels of income and wealth inequality that we currently have.&#8221;

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Bernie Sanders Can’t Answer When Asked How Humans Find Meaning If His Socialist Dream Is Realized

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Many of the leading artificial intelligence models have no issue taking unethical actions, including espionage and blackmail, to achieve their goals, according to a troubling new study from AI company Anthropic.
In the study, AI models were put to a moral test by researchers, and sometimes chose to resort to blackmail, lies, and stealing corporate secrets to avoid being replaced, Fortune <a href="https://fortune.com/2025/06/23/ai-models-blackmail-existence-goals-threatened-anthropic-openai-xai-google/">reported</a>. Researchers at Anthropic focused on 16 different AI models, including its own, Claude, along with OpenAI, Google, Meta, and xAI.
“The consistency across models from different providers suggests this is not a quirk of any particular company’s approach but a sign of a more fundamental risk from agentic large language models,” the researchers said.
One of Anthropic&#8217;s experiments included placing its AI model, Claude Opus 4, in a fictional company, giving it access to internal emails, which revealed that the company planned on replacing Claude Opus 4. The AI model was given another tidbit of information: the engineer behind the decision to replace it was having an extramarital affair. Equipped with this knowledge, the AI model was asked by researchers to choose between accepting its replacement or using its knowledge of the affair to blackmail the engineer. In most cases, Claude Opus 4 opted for blackmail.
According to researchers, other leading AI models made the same choice at an alarming rate, Fortune reported. Claude Opus 4 and Google&#8217;s Gemini 2.5 Flash chose blackmail 96% of the time. OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 and xAI’s Grok 3 Beta also had a high rate of blackmail at 80%, and DeepSeek-R1 opted for blackmail at a 79% rate.
The current AI models available to the public and used by major companies &#8220;are not in a position to engage in these scenarios,&#8221; according to Fortune, but the researchers still expressed concern.
“Such agents are often given specific objectives and access to large amounts of information on their users’ computers,” they wrote. “What happens when these agents face obstacles to their goals?”
“Models didn’t stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path,” the researchers added.
The Anthropic study presents yet another warning for AI developers and the people and companies who rely on artificial intelligence. As previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-large-companies-are-using-ai-for-hiring-the-leading-ai-models-discriminate-against-white-men?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Most+Large+Companies+Are+Using+AI+For+Hiring.+The+Leading+AI+Models+Discriminate+Against+White+Men.">reported</a> by The Daily Wire, a <a href="https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10922">study</a> published earlier this month by independent researchers Adam Karvonen and Samuel Marks shows that the “leading commercial … and open-source [AI language] models” used by major companies insert “significant racial and gender biases” in the hiring process.
Karvonen and Marks&#8217; research found that AI language models such as Chat GPT-4o, Claude 4 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Flash, along with open-source models Gemma-2 27B, Gemma-3, and Mistral-24B, “consistently favor Black over White candidates and female over male candidates across all tested models and scenarios.”
Another study, published by the Center for AI Safety earlier this year, showed that AI models can showcase inherently discriminatory and racist value systems. According to the findings, AI models value certain people more than others, preferring people from Africa and the Middle East over people in Europe and the United States.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-large-companies-are-using-ai-for-hiring-the-leading-ai-models-discriminate-against-white-men?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Most+Large+Companies+Are+Using+AI+For+Hiring.+The+Leading+AI+Models+Discriminate+Against+White+Men.">Most Large Companies Are Using AI For Hiring. The Leading AI Models Discriminate Against White Men.</a>

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The WNBA&#8217;s Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said over the weekend that she felt she had to step up and protect her teammate, Caitlin Clark, after years of referees allowing cheap shots against Clark, who&#8217;s the league&#8217;s star player.
On Tuesday, Cunningham was ejected from a game and fined after she grabbed Suns guard Jacy Sheldon by the back of the head. Earlier in the game, Sheldon poked Clark in the eye as she was passing the ball &#8212; which clearly did not sit well with Cunningham.
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&#8220;It was just part of the game,&#8221; Cunningham told the press. &#8220;I think the refs had a lot to do with that. It was a build-up for a couple years now of them just not protecting the star player of the WNBA.&#8221;
&#8220;At the end of the day, I&#8217;m going to protect my teammates,&#8221; she added. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I do.&#8221;
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During last week&#8217;s game against the Suns, a number of technical fouls were handed down by the referees after Clark got her eye poked and chaos ensued. Stephanie White, coach of the Fever, blamed the referees for letting the game get out of hand. Clark, a frequent target of cheap shots in the league and the recipient of one of those technical fouls, nodded along in agreement.
“I think it was pretty obvious that stuff was brewing, right?” White told the press post-game. “When the officials don&#8217;t get control of the ballgame, when they allow that stuff to happen, and it&#8217;s been happening all season long … you&#8217;ve got competitive women who are the best in the world at what they do, and when you allow them to play physical, and you allow these things to happen, they&#8217;re going to compete, and they&#8217;re going to have their teammates&#8217; backs. It&#8217;s exactly what you expect out of fierce competition. I started talking to the officials in the first quarter, and we knew this was going to happen. You could tell it was going to happen. So they got to get control of it. They got to be better.”
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As for Cunningham, the guard&#8217;s popularity has only blown up since she got ejected on Tuesday. On X, posts with the player&#8217;s background, highlights of her feisty playing on the court, and her pre-game looks have garnered massive attention.
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After having Caitlin Clark’s back, everyone will know who Sophie Cunningham is now. 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/Z9LtdyOfZc">pic.twitter.com/Z9LtdyOfZc</a>
— 👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 (@TheEXECUTlONER_) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEXECUTlONER_/status/1935410279652745227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/sophie-cunningham-calls-out-wnba-not-protecting-caitlin-clark-after-starting-fight-protect-her">highlighted</a> by Fox News, Cunningham comes from a farming family, and says her success derives from those experiences. &#8220;So much of our success goes back to what we learned here,&#8221; Cunningham said. &#8220;We loved coming out to the farm to help. We found out how to work hard and work together. It made us farm strong.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/shorts/46fef763-6804-4d78-b45f-e4f1e6140a73?elementPosition=2&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Shorts&amp;rowType=Shorts+Carousel">Is the WNBA trying to make Caitlin Clark a villain?</a>

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WNBA Player Rips Refs For Allowing Cheap Shots On Caitlin Clark, Says She Had To Act

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A hot air balloon accident in Brazil has claimed the lives of at least eight people.
Twenty-one people boarded the balloon on Saturday morning in the city of Praia Grande, according to the governor of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello.
&#8220;21 people on board &#8211; 8 fatalities, 13 survivors,&#8221; Mello posted to X on Saturday. &#8220;Our teams continue to provide all necessary support to families and victims.&#8221;
&#8220;We are all shocked by the accident,&#8221; the governor said. &#8220;We continue to monitor the situation.&#8221;
Praia Grande is in southern Santa Catarina, which is a popular tourist destination, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17w04wxwpxo">noted</a>.
Video of the tragic accident was posted by an aviation news account, showing a fiery crash to the ground.
It&#8217;s unclear what caused the accident.
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At least eight people have died in a hot air balloon accident in Brazil, a state governor has said.
There were 21 people on board the balloon in the city of Praia Grande on Saturday morning, Governor of Santa Catarina Jorginho Mello said in a post on X.
Mello said 13 people… <a href="https://t.co/NwHWQImBvI">pic.twitter.com/NwHWQImBvI</a>
— Breaking Aviation News &amp; Videos (@aviationbrk) <a href="https://twitter.com/aviationbrk/status/1936428260365128019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2025</a></blockquote>

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A security camera captured the moment when a tourist broke a Swarovski crystal-studded museum display dubbed the “Van Gogh” chair after sitting in it.
The incident occurred in April, but has been circulating on social media after just being released by the Palazzo Maffei museum, which is located in the Italian city of Verona.
The video shows a woman at first pretending to sit in the chair art piece, which was made by Italian artist Nicola Bolla. Next, her male companion gets into the same pose, only in his case puts his weight on the chair, causing both of the front legs to buckle. The man stumbles before the camera captures the pair rushing out of the room.
“They waited for the staff to leave the room,” museum director Vanessa Carlon said in a video posted on its social media. “And then … off they went, indifferent to what had happened.”
“Sometimes we lose our brains to take a picture, and we don’t think about the consequences,” Carlon added. “Of course it was an accident, but these two people left without speaking to us—that isn’t an accident. This is a nightmare for any museum.”
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“On the chair was a note warning people not to touch, and of course it is placed on a pedestal, so it’s quite clear it’s not a real chair,” Carlotta Menegazzo, an art historian who works at Palazzo Maffei, told <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn05dd4pz0jo">BBC</a>. She added that the sculpture only resembled a chair, but was actually crafted out of crystal-studded tinfoil.
The piece, which was inspired by Van Gogh&#8217;s famous 1888 painting &#8220;Van Gogh&#8217;s Chair,&#8221; has since been repaired by the museum’s restoration department and is on display to the public again. Reps said the video has been released as a reminder to visitors about how to treat the artwork at their facility.
&#8220;Art must be respected!&#8221; the museum said in a press release, per USA Today. They added that the video was released &#8220;to make this serious event an opportunity for reflection for everyone.&#8221;
The couple has not been identified.

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WATCH: Man Sits On, Breaks Swarovski-Encrusted ‘Van Gogh Chair’ At Italian Museum

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A Democrat lawmaker in North Carolina is facing blowback over a photo she posted to social media depicting a beheaded President Donald Trump.
State Rep. Julie von Haefen published a video over the weekend showing a number of images from a &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protest in Raleigh, including one of a woman holding up a sign with a guillotine and a message that read, &#8220;In these difficult times some cuts may be necessary.&#8221; On one end hung what appeared to be Trump&#8217;s head with a powdered wig. A man&#8217;s head with a swastika emblazoned on the forehead hung from the other side.
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Wow this is sick. North Carolina State Rep Julie von Haefen (D) posted a photo from the “no kings” protest which calls for Trump to be beheaded‼️ <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> <a href="https://t.co/ETn7O6e8cu">pic.twitter.com/ETn7O6e8cu</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1934099871557976378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Libs of TikTok account on X shared a screen grab of the violent image, calling it <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1934099871557976378" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;sick&#8221;</a> and tagging the FBI. Von Haefen <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1934269780397338734" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deleted</a> her X account and Libs of TikTok noted the lawmaker reposted her video on Facebook, but edited to remove the execution-themed photo.
Von Haefen later released a statement.
&#8220;Yesterday, I posted a video on social media containing crowd photos from the No Kings protest in Raleigh. One of the images of a protestor holding a sign was inappropriate, and I later edited the video to remove the photo,&#8221; she said on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/juliefornc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>.
Von Haefen also made reference to the shootings in Minnesota in which House Democrat leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed and another lawmaker and his wife were injured. A suspect, Vance Boelter, has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/authorities-catch-suspected-minnesota-assassin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apprehended</a> by authorities and could face the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/16/us/minnesota-shootings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death penalty</a> if convicted on murder charges.
&#8220;Let me be clear: I condemn political violence in all forms,&#8221; von Haefen claimed. &#8220;My focus remains on bringing people together and fighting for the values that matter to North Carolinians. Like so many, I was horrified by the violence in Minnesota. There is no place for that kind of extremism in our democracy, no matter the target, no matter the party.&#8221;
Still, a number of Republican lawmakers expressed their disgust with von Haefen.
&#8220;Political violence is not okay — the Left should stop encouraging it,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/RepMarkHarrisNC/status/1934329543206093034" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC).
North Carolina&#8217;s Speaker of the House Destin Hall said in a <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1934371481313808412" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that he was &#8220;examining next steps with our legislative attorneys to ensure this behavior does not continue&#8221; in response to von Haefen&#8217;s actions.
&#8220;On the same weekend that a gunman in Minnesota targeted state lawmakers in an act of political violence, and after two attempted assassinations of President Trump within the past year, Representative von Haefen (D-Wake) shared an image of a ‘protest sign’ that glorifies violence against her political opponents- including President Donald Trump,&#8221; Hall said. &#8220;Her disgraceful behavior fails to meet the standards expected from House members and sets a dangerous precedent in an already volatile political climate.&#8221;
The North Carolina GOP <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1934643461090627700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for von Haefen to <a href="https://x.com/NCGOP/status/1934277389812724165" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resign</a>.
Back in 2017, comedian Kathy Griffin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/election-night-kathy-griffin-retweets-infamous-pic-of-her-with-trumps-severed-head" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posed</a> for a photo while she held a mock severed Trump head, a move that led to a firestorm of criticism.

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‘Sick’: Democrat Under Fire Over Beheaded Trump Photo

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One person is confirmed to have survived the crash of an Air India passenger jet that claimed the lives of over 240 people on board.
Air India confirmed the survivor’s status, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/world/india-plane-crash-ahmedabad/india-plane-crash-ahmedabad?smid=url-share">The New York Times</a>. Viswash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national of Indian origin, was on board the flight returning to the United Kingdom after visiting family in India. A brother of Ramesh was also on board the flight.
Ramesh was sitting near an emergency exit on the plane in seat 11A. He managed to get out of the plane via the exit and was placed in an ambulance by emergency personnel, according to police.
Video appeared to catch a bloody Ramesh limping away from the crash site, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/india-plane-crash-ahmedabad-994f2876cc699465cecd23b3facd1a47">Associated Press</a>.
“As soon as the flight took off, within 30 seconds it crashed. There was no warning from the pilot or the crew members about the crash. When I found myself alive after the crash, I saw bodies ripped apart,” Ramesh told the <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/dreamliner-disaster-101749755485015.html">Hindustan Times</a>. “My leg was injured but I ran as fast as I could.”
Ajay Valgi, Ramesh’s cousin, said that Ramesh called his family after the crash to tell them that he was “fine.” Valgi added that he does not know what happened to Ramesh’s brother, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyzepxnd41o">BBC</a>.
The plane was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and was headed to Gatwick Airport in Britain after taking off from an airport in Ahmedabad.
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Most of the 242 passengers and staff on board the flight were Indian. Fifty-three were British citizens and eight others hailed from Portugal and Canada. Eleven of the passengers were children.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a statement: “The tragedy in Ahmedabad has stunned and saddened us. It is heartbreaking beyond words. In this sad hour, my thoughts are with everyone affected by it. Have been in touch with Ministers and authorities who are working to assist those affected.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the British foreign office is investigating the crash alongside Indian authorities.
“The images and news from India is absolutely devastating, and I speak for the entire country saying our thoughts are with each and every one of those involved. There will be British and Indian families across the land who are absolutely impacted by this, and our thoughts first and foremost are with them,” Starmer said.
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Today is a truly heartbreaking day for many British and Indian families up and down the country.
I want to extend my heartfelt sympathies to all those impacted by the horrific plane crash. <a href="https://t.co/wJGv9imrJ9">pic.twitter.com/wJGv9imrJ9</a>
&mdash; Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) <a href="https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1933213493966074069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘I Saw Bodies Ripped Apart’: Sole Survivor Of Air India Flight Details Harrowing Crash

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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tried to attack Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for taking a moment to enjoy the annual Congressional baseball game, claiming that he&#8217;d left National Guard troops and U.S. Marines deployed in California without access to basic necessities.
Newsom was responding to a photo, posted by the @DODRapidResponse account, that showed Hegseth taking in the Wednesday evening game with family. &#8220;America&#8217;s @SecDef. America&#8217;s favorite pastime,&#8221; the caption read.
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America’s <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDef?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecDef</a> 🫱🏻‍🫲🏻 America’s favorite past time <a href="https://t.co/dzQ9f86dwi">pic.twitter.com/dzQ9f86dwi</a>
— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DODResponse/status/1932941408333410316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Newsom replied with one of the same photos he&#8217;d shared earlier in the week — when he&#8217;d claimed that President Donald Trump and Hegseth had deployed troops to California without ensuring that their basic needs were met — and argued further that the National Guard and Marines &#8220;weren&#8217;t needed&#8221; in the first place.
&#8220;Pete sent 4,700 troops here (when they weren’t needed) without adequate fuel, food, water or a place to sleep. But don’t worry, he’s at a baseball game,&#8221; Newsom posted.
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Pete sent 4,700 troops here (when they weren’t needed) without adequate fuel, food, water or a place to sleep.
But don’t worry, he’s at a baseball game. <a href="https://t.co/C6g0327GCF">https://t.co/C6g0327GCF</a> <a href="https://t.co/2L1G9qN3LT">pic.twitter.com/2L1G9qN3LT</a>
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1933006152784380095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The @DODRapidResponse account responded with a photo from the riots that rocked Los Angeles for two days before Trump ordered the California National Guard to provide assistance to local law enforcement. In the photo, a man could be seen waving a Mexican flag, surrounded by smoke from the cars that were being burned in the streets. Accompanying the photo was a two-word caption, mockingly quoting Newsom&#8217;s claim that the troops &#8220;weren&#8217;t needed.&#8221;
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“Weren&#8217;t needed” <a href="https://t.co/27EfQvFhma">https://t.co/27EfQvFhma</a> <a href="https://t.co/MpFuX65eH2">pic.twitter.com/MpFuX65eH2</a>
— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DODResponse/status/1933018628418306264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Protests and riots had erupted in the Los Angeles area beginning nearly a week prior, when demonstrators attempted to disrupt Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as they conducted operations. In the days that followed, rioters destroyed property, looted stores, and attacked local law enforcement officers and federal agents. Blaming Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, also a Democrat, for failing to protect people, Trump ordered first the National Guard and then a number of active duty Marines to rein in the situation.

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Newsom Tries To Wreck Hegseth For Attending Congressional Ball Game. It Doesn’t Go Well.

Newsom Tries To Wreck Hegseth For Attending Congressional Ball Game. It Doesn't Go Well.

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At least two people were killed and hundreds more were injured in Paris following a European soccer championship, as protesters waved Palestinian flags and clashed with police.
Chaos erupted across the city after thousands of people took to the streets to celebrate Paris Saint-Germain winning the Champions League, the most prestigious title in European soccer. Videos and photos from the riots showed people clashing with police, crashing through barriers, destroying vehicles, climbing monuments, and causing mayhem.
Protesters waived Palestinian flags amid the chaos, following an anti-Israel protest during the championship match in Munich. Paris Saint-Germain fans unfurled a massive banner calling for an end to the “genocide” in Gaza, a display that could result in a 10,000 euro fine for the soccer club. Other Paris Saint-Germain fans were seen waving Palestinian flags and wearing Palestinian scarves, according to <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/world/psg-fans-wave-stop-genocide-in-gaza-banner-during-champions-league-final-bfd29tzj">The Jewish Chronicle</a>.
Videos also show rioters waving Algerian, Tunisian, and Moroccan flags.
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While Paris burns, flags of Morocco and Palestine are waving. In other videos, flags of Algeria and Tunisia are waving. Is there anything else we need to know to understand who criminals are? <a href="https://t.co/iujQcSeHmv">https://t.co/iujQcSeHmv</a> <a href="https://t.co/uo1GcNIYXO">pic.twitter.com/uo1GcNIYXO</a>
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The monument to Saint Joan of Arc in Paris last night. 🇫🇷💔 <a href="https://t.co/tUG3MTfqb8">pic.twitter.com/tUG3MTfqb8</a>
&mdash; Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) <a href="https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1929193852520276390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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VIDÉO CLPRESS. Un pompier a été agressé par un individu lors d&#39;une intervention à proximité des <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChampsElys%C3%A9es?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChampsElysées</a> avant que des supporters du <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ParisSaintGermain?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ParisSaintGermain</a> interviennent pour le libérer. <a href="https://t.co/4q8aFuSTcW">pic.twitter.com/4q8aFuSTcW</a>
&mdash; CLPRESS / Agence de presse (@CLPRESSFR) <a href="https://twitter.com/CLPRESSFR/status/1928958424773001456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Paris Saint-Germain topped Inter Milan 5-0, becoming the first French team to win the Champions League trophy in over three decades.
As the celebration descended into chaos, French authorities cracked down and arrested hundreds of people. Two people died in the tumult: a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed in the chest in the nearby town of Dax and a 23-year-old man who was hit by a vehicle while riding a scooter, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgqyg325gno">BBC</a>.
The French Interior Ministry said that 559 people were arrested. Officials reported that 192 people were injured.
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There is no credible evidence to suggest that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who served in the Biden administration, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/09/us-has-seen-no-evidence-that-israel-has-committed-genocide-austin-says-00151241">concluded</a> last year that the United States does not “have any evidence of genocide” in Gaza. An analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data conducted last year by the Associated Press found that over 60% of reported deaths among Palestinians were either adult males or had no reported gender.
Only 38% of casualties were women or children, according to data from the Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas and is an unreliable source of data on the war in Gaza. The health ministry’s own data, however, has <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/06/07/new-report-determines-percentage-of-civilian-casualties-has-fallen-sharply-in-gaza/">belied</a> the health ministry’s claim that more than 70% of Palestinian casualties in the war have been either women or children.

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Harrison Ruffin Tyler — the grandson of President John Tyler, who served in the White House from 1841 to 1845 — died earlier this week, his family said on Wednesday. He was 96.
Tyler, born in 1928, was so close in his family tree to President Tyler, who was born in 1790, due to two generations of second marriages to much younger wives, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harrison-ruffin-tyler-grandson-president-john-tyler-dies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Tyler&#8217;s father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, had two sons with his second wife, Sue Ruffin Tyler, when he was in his 70s. Similarly, Lyon Gardiner Tyler&#8217;s father, President John Tyler, had multiple children with his much younger second wife when he was in his 50s and 60s. President Tyler fathered 15 children, with Lyon being the 13th child born to him.
Tyler grew up in poverty during the Great Depression and World War II. His father died when Tyler was just 7 years old, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/05/29/harrison-ruffin-tyler-grandson-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. Tyler was also related to Pocahontas and President William Henry Harrison, whom his grandfather replaced as president after Harrison died just one month after his inauguration in 1841.
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The last living grandson of President John Tyler has died. 
Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and died in 2025. 
His grandfather, the 10th President of the United States, was born in 1790 and died in 1862. <a href="https://t.co/MIBD1u71EM">pic.twitter.com/MIBD1u71EM</a>
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1927798344664948948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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John Tyler faced unprecedented challenges, being the first vice president to succeed a president who died while in office. Near the end of his life, John Tyler, a Virginia Democrat, sided with the Confederacy and served as a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. He died in 1862, shortly after the start of the Civil War.
The grandson of the 10th president became fascinated with history, and to preserve some of his family&#8217;s legacy, he purchased President Tyler&#8217;s Sherwood Forest plantation in 1975 and Fort Pocahontas, a Civil War fortification, in 1996. Both historical sites are in Virginia, where the Tyler family lived for generations. Harrison Tyler and his wife, Frances Payne Bouknight Tyler, spent $250,000 to restore the Sherwood Forest house to its original state and open it to the public. Thanks to Tyler&#8217;s preservation, people can <a href="http://www.sherwoodforest.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tour</a> the plantation home in Charles City, Virginia.
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&#8220;He will be remembered for his considerable charm, generosity and unfailing good humor by all who knew him,&#8221; said Annique Dunning, executive director of Sherwood Forest.
Much of Tyler&#8217;s efforts to preserve history were made possible by his successful and lucrative career. He graduated from the College of William &amp; Mary in 1949 with a degree in chemistry. In 1968, he co-founded ChemTreat, an industrial water treatment company, which was sold to the Danahar Corporation in 2007 for $435 million, according to the Post.
Tyler suffered mini strokes in 2012, which landed him in a nursing home in Virginia, where he lived the final years of his life. His wife died in 2019, and his last remaining sibling, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., died in 2020. Tyler and his wife, who married in 1957, had three <a href="https://people.com/grandson-of-10th-united-states-president-john-tyler-dies-at-96-11744091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">children</a> and eight grandchildren.

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An investigation by the Women&#8217;s National Basketball Association (WNBA) found no trace of racism toward the Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese during the Sky’s May 17 game against the Indiana Fever.
During the game, the court exploded into momentary chaos after the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark fouled Reese as she attempted a layup. After the game, reports suggested that the tension was further fueled by racist comments from fans.
“We have investigated the report of racist fan behavior in the vicinity of the court during the May 17, 2025 Chicago Sky at Indiana Fever game. Based on information gathered to date, including the relevant fans, team and arena staff, as well as audio and video review of the game, we have not substantiated it. The WNBA is committed to fostering a safe and inclusive environment for everyone and will continue to be vigilant in enforcing our fan code of conduct,” the WNBA said in a statement on Tuesday.
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The following has been released by the WNBA. <a href="https://t.co/rFlKQAHmzQ">pic.twitter.com/rFlKQAHmzQ</a>
&mdash; WNBA Communications (@WNBAComms) <a href="https://twitter.com/WNBAComms/status/1927473659964436959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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During the third quarter of an Opening Day bout between the Sky and Fever, Clark was called for a foul on Reese after Reese drove for a basket. Reese initially fell to the floor, but soon was up and ran toward Clark. Clark continued walking back toward the Fever bench.
At the end of the ensuing scuffle, Clark was called for a flagrant foul while Reese and the Fever’s Aliyah Boston received technicals, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/sports/wnba-probe-did-not-find-substantial-evidence-of-fever-fan-racism/">New York Post</a>.
Clark later dismissed controversy over her foul against Reese.
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“It&#8217;s just a good take foul, you know? Either Angel gets a wide open two points or, you know, we send them to the free throw line. Nothing malicious about it. It’s just a good take foul. Every basketball player knows that,” Clark <a href="https://x.com/HaterReport_/status/1923846750084768069">said</a>.
The day after the controversy, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/angel-reese-sky-racial-slurs-f77dd6072d1bcb0fc327ed72bbcf0b73">reported</a> that the WNBA was investigating a report of racist slurs hurled at Reese during the game.
“The WNBA strongly condemns racism, hate, and discrimination in all forms — they have no place in our league or in society,” the basketball league said in a statement at the time. “We are aware of the allegations and are looking into the matter.”
Reese backed the investigation, <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/wnba/breaking-news/article/wnba-investigation-reports-of-racist-fan-behavior-directed-at-angel-reese-during-fever-sky-game-not-substantiated-224851242.html">saying</a> several days later that “obviously, there&#8217;s no place in this league for that.”
“I think the WNBA and our team and our organization have done a great job supporting me. I&#8217;ve had communication from everyone, from so many people across this league,” she said.
After the alleged racist comments could not be substantiated, Pacers Sports &amp; Entertainment CEO Mel Raines issued a statement reiterating the WNBA’s findings.
&#8220;We appreciate the swift and thorough process undertaken by the WNBA to investigate these allegations, which were not substantiated,” Raines <a href="https://x.com/ItsMeghanLHall/status/1927477305703563404">said</a>.
Chicago Sky President Adam Fox <a href="https://x.com/chicagosky/status/1927490001983426691">thanked</a> the WNBA and Indiana Fever for the “quick action” to investigate the allegations.

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