It&#8217;s been a whirlwind of a week for members of the Iranian Women&#8217;s soccer team. Many players sought asylum instead of returning to Iran. Now the same women are withdrawing their asylum bids as concerns for their families&#8217; safety under the despotic regime mount.
The latest to make this move is the captain of the soccer team, Zahra Ghanbari, who is &#8220;returning to the embrace of the homeland&#8221; Monday after withdrawing her asylum bid Sunday, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported.
Per the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/03/15/world-news/captain-of-iranian-womens-soccer-team-withdraws-asylum-bid/">New York Post</a>, the players fear their families are in danger if they don’t return home.
&#8220;Several of the players decided to go back because the threats against their families became unbearable and the intimidation was relentless,&#8221; Shiva Amini, an exiled Iranian former soccer player, wrote on <a href="https://x.com/Shiva_amini_11/status/2033179303177863410?s=20">X</a> on Sunday. &#8220;They have even targeted the family of Zahra Ghanbari. Despite the fact that she has just lost her father, authorities are putting pressure on her mother. This shows the level of cruelty and desperation they are willing to use to force these athletes to comply.&#8221;
Seven players made headlines last week for seeking asylum in Australia after being eliminated from the Women&#8217;s Asian Cup, where members of Iran&#8217;s team refused to sing the Iranian National Anthem. Now the only two players who intend to remain in Australia are Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh.
&#8220;The guilt, the pressure, the impossible choice between your freedom and your family,&#8221; Amini wrote on X. &#8220;Sometimes the psychological pressure is so strong that it feels like there is no real choice. Whether you stay or whether you go back, in both cases you are still suffering.&#8221;
The Iranian women had decided not to partake in their country&#8217;s anthem <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iranian-womens-soccer-team-stands-silent-during-national-anthem">earlier this month</a> after the United States and Israel launched their air strikes on Iran, killing the Islamic Republic&#8217;s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The women were called &#8220;traitors,&#8221; and their well-being was put in jeopardy.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-reveals-call-with-australia-pm-on-desperate-iran-womens-soccer-team-crisis">revealed</a> last week that he had spoken with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on behalf of the Iranian women’s soccer team, detailing the delicate situation for the young women. The Australian government immediately took action to protect them.
&#8220;The players were &#8216;given repeated chances to talk about their options&#8217; but ultimately faced &#8216;incredibly difficult decisions,'&#8221; Australia Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement Saturday.
An Australian councillor for the city of Ryde, Tina Kordrostami, alleged the players were being heavily intimidated by Tehran, claiming their families were being used as leverage to get them back to Iran.
&#8220;I know families have even been detained. I know family members are missing,&#8221; Kordrostami told Fox News. &#8220;We are very worried about them. We know for a fact that they will not be safe.&#8221;
The two players who chose to stay in Australia are receiving assistance from the government and the Iranian diaspora community, per a report by <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iranian-womens-soccer-team-leaves-malaysia-for-oman-after-asylum-reversal">PBS</a>.
On Monday, the soccer players who remain in Australia were invited to train with local club Brisbane Roar FC.
&#8220;Today, Brisbane Roar officially welcomed both Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh to the club’s training facilities to take part in training with our A-League Women squad and remain committed to providing a supportive environment for them whilst they navigate the next stages,&#8221; Brisbane Roar FC CEO, Kaz Patafta, said.
The club&#8217;s CEO said the team will not be providing any further comment on the two Iranian women at this time.

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Brooke Slusser took a stand for women in college sports. Now she&#8217;s the victim of vicious online attacks.
In a recent interview with <a href="https://x.com/JackThompsonFOX/status/2030652503356854736?s=20">Fox News</a>, the former San Jose State Volleyball player expressed shock at the hate and vitriol coming out now for simply saying she was not comfortable sharing a bed with a man as a college athlete. The attacks come years after Slusser joined the lawsuit against the NCAA, where she publicly spoke about her experience playing alongside Blaire Fleming, a biological male on the SJSU women&#8217;s volleyball team.
&#8220;I honestly think what struck the biggest nerve is this is really the first time I&#8217;ve like sat and talked about just kind of like a day to day point of view, like, yes, we were good friends, like we&#8217;d share very like intimate details about each of our lives, like that&#8217;s a normal roommate tendencies do in a girl&#8217;s apartment,&#8221; Slusser told The Daily Wire.
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Since the interview earlier this week, Slusser has been called a &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/Brocklesnitch/status/2030881342385537472?s=20">b*tch</a>&#8221; and a &#8220;transphobe right-wing <a href="https://x.com/druidDUDE/status/2031021289440178594?s=20">grifter</a>&#8221; among other attacks for simply speaking the truth.
&#8220;Someone texted me and was like, &#8216;I love you so much, I hope you&#8217;re doing ok,&#8217; and that usually means that&#8217;s usually how I find out something&#8217;s going on about me on the internet,&#8221; Slusser said of the attacks.
Slusser believed her coaches, support staff, and San Jose State admin when they told her Blaire was a girl. Slusser shared beds with the biological man on team trips and lived together for two seasons. Slusser said she was blindsided by the news that she had been living with a man, even though, in hindsight, she said things seemed off.
&#8220;His doors were always locked, that&#8217;s what I remember, because like I said, we were all very good friends, and so it&#8217;s very normal for girls just to like barge into each other&#8217;s rooms unannounced,&#8221; Slusser said. &#8220;We always had to knock, and I just thought that was weird, but I was like, if a person likes their privacy, I&#8217;m not gonna be the one to push a button.&#8221;
Slusser refuses to focus on the hate. Instead, she&#8217;s driven to ensure other girls don&#8217;t live through the experience of playing and living with a man disguised as a woman, which Slusser described as &#8220;hell.&#8221; Slusser said her coach, Todd Kress, never told Slusser her roommate was a man, and once news broke about Fleming&#8217;s biology, Kress encouraged his team to stay quiet.
&#8220;They gaslit us so much, and the fact that like, if we spoke on this at all, even with like close family and friends, our scholarship would be in jeopardy,&#8221; Slusser said.
In January, the Office of Civil Rights found San Jose State violated Title IX because of its handling of the trans-identifying volleyball player. The Trump admin said that if the university complied with a list of conditions, the university wouldn&#8217;t be punished. Instead of complying, like Penn did last year, SJSU and the California State University system decided to sue the federal government.
SJSU President Dr.Cynthia Teniente-Matson released this <a href="https://blogs.sjsu.edu/newsroom/2026/ocr-titleix-lawsuit/">statement</a> on March 6 regarding the lawsuit:
&#8220;This is not a step we take lightly. However, we have a responsibility to defend the integrity of our institution and the rule of law, while ensuring that every member of our community is treated fairly and in accordance with the law. Our position is simple: We have followed the law and cannot be punished for doing so. OCR has faulted us for following decisions from federal courts that bound SJSU; OCR has no authority to do that. We are asking the court to set aside OCR’s Letter of Findings and Proposed Resolution Agreement and prevent the Department of Education from terminating, freezing, or refusing to grant SJSU’s federal funding.&#8221;
Slusser called her institution&#8217;s decision &#8220;blood-boiling.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s mostly SJSU that needs to be held accountable,&#8221; Slusser said. &#8220;I achieved the dream of playing collegiate sports, and the last year I had was completely ruined. You can&#8217;t get that back.&#8221;
During Slusser&#8217;s senior season in 2024, eight of San Jose State&#8217;s wins came from forfeits because other collegiate programs refused to play against a male. In the Mountain West Conference alone, Boise State, Wyoming, Utah State, and Nevada forfeited seven matches against SJSU. Slusser thought the nationwide pushback would address the issue, but she was proved wrong.
&#8220;I was still trusting of Todd, my head coach, and I asked what happens if we just removed this one person and played as women, and he just cussed me out. I was like, oh, ok, that&#8217;s how we feel about this.&#8221;
The 23-year-old is fighting alongside Riley Gaines as the two are part of a lawsuit against the NCAA. Slusser said it&#8217;s progressing well despite both the NCAA and Mountain West conference attempts to appeal.
The slurs thrown Slusser&#8217;s way for speaking up thankfully don&#8217;t get her down. Even if they did, she said she would never stop standing up for women.
&#8220;If I passed this up and had kids in sports later on and saw them going through what I did when I knew I could change it and didn&#8217;t, I would literally kick myself.&#8221;
&#8220;I just think people need to know you can stand up and nothing is gonna happen to you.&#8221;
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A Washington, D.C. watchdog group accused former Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) on Tuesday of spending nearly $2 million in campaign cash after leaving office, $1.3 million more than was reported last month.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) filed a formal complaint Tuesday, and is asking the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate the nearly $2 million in campaign funds reportedly spent on staffing, travel, events, and other miscellaneous costs. The group says there&#8217;s a reasonable chance Sinema violated federal law by using the money for personal benefits. 
Sinema’s Senate term ended in 2024, but FACT says her campaign committee continued spending into 2025. The complaint includes a table summarizing the expenditures. According to FACT’s analysis, staff and payroll expenses totaled $653,555. Other listed expenditures include credit card payments and bank fees, air travel, security, office and administrative expenses, lodging, meals, and events. 
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The watchdog acknowledges that federal law allows former senators to use campaign funds for a limited period to close down office operations, but the complaint argues that “the amount alone is significant and suggests it is not related to official duties.” It further states that “many of the expenses do not appear to have any relation to winding down an office, but rather they appear quite clearly to be for personal purposes, namely makeup services, alcohol, catering and lodging. Thus, there is reason to believe that Kyrsten Sinema and Sinema for Arizona have violated federal law.”
FACT highlights approximately $9,000 spent at resorts in Beverly Hills, Montauk, Wyoming ski country, and the Grand Canyon. The complaint also raises concerns about staff payments made to a security guard with whom Sinema allegedly had a personal relationship.
When Sinema left office on January 3, 2025, her campaign account had a balance of <a href="https://azmirror.com/briefs/kyrsten-sinema-fec-complaint-illegally-spending-700000-in-campaign-funds-on-personal-expenses/">$4.2 million</a>, but that money was gone when she filed the termination report for her campaign committee.
This isn&#8217;t the first formal complaint about Sinema&#8217;s spending habits. In 2024, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) filed a complaint alleging Sinema spent more than <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-12-17-Sinema-for-Arizona-complaint-signed.pdf">$100,000</a> on travel expenses between March and September 2024. CREW said the reported trips to Italy and Boston were not connected to Sinema&#8217;s campaign or work in the Senate.
The FEC has not yet formally addressed the 2024 complaint.
Typically, after the FEC reviews a complaint, it determines whether there is “reason to believe” a violation occurred. If the agency finds merit, it may impose civil penalties, including monetary fines or the repayment of improperly used funds. In cases where violations are found to be knowing and willful, the matter can be referred to the Department of Justice, which could pursue criminal charges.
FACT filed the complaint just after news broke of Sinema joining the Washington Reporter as a columnist. Sinema did not immediately respond to comment regarding the post office expenditure spending.

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The nation&#8217;s capital will celebrate fast cars and freedom this summer as IndyCar hosts the first-ever street race on the National Mall as part of America&#8217;s 250th anniversary celebrations.
The <a href="https://www.freedom250gp.com/">Freedom 250 Grand Prix</a> will host the best NTT INDYCAR drivers who will take on the 1.7-mile-long course that cuts through the nation&#8217;s historic landmarks in Washington, D.C.
The INDYCAR race celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and was made possible through an Executive Order signed earlier this year by President Donald Trump entitled &#8220;Celebrating American Greatness with American Motor Racing.&#8221;
The race course features a .4-mile front stretch along Pennsylvania Avenue, where INDYCAR fans can see the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol. Pit row will run adjacent to the track, on Pennsylvania Avenue. Other landmarks along the race course include the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Archives. INDYCAR officials describe the course as &#8220;challenging&#8221; and &#8220;picturesque.&#8221;
&#8220;This circuit is unlike any other street race we’ve seen,&#8221; said two‑time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion and back‑to‑back Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden.
The Nashville native toured the circuit Monday morning in Washington, D.C.
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&#8220;You’ve got a high‑speed section down Pennsylvania Avenue that will reward commitment and precision, mixed with technical corners around 9th Street that will demand respect,&#8221; Newgarden said. &#8220;Racing through the heart of American history, with those amazing landmarks lining the course, is going to be incredibly powerful. I can’t wait to be back here to race and celebrate America’s birthday at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.&#8221;
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks were alongside Newgarden and other race organizers Monday to kick off the countdown to race day.
&#8220;Freedom doesn’t ring, it revs! The Freedom 250 Grand Prix will showcase American ingenuity in engineering and technology along the backdrop of our historic capital in a spectacle that will leave the world in awe,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “President Trump and our partners at INDYCAR are preparing a historic celebration worthy of America’s 250th anniversary. The design of this unique and competitive track will deliver an exhilarating and safe experience for millions of Americans to enjoy and celebrate.&#8221;
Race course construction for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix circuit starts later this year, with the roads near the U.S. Capitol and around the National Mall expected to remain open and accessible throughout the majority of the course creation.
This race will take place after another historical sporting event planned in Washington, D.C., as part of the year-long America 250 celebrations. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix will take place in August, following the UFC Freedom 250 scheduled for June 14, live from The White House lawn.
It&#8217;s a summer full of firsts. Unlike the UFC fight, the INDYCAR race is free and open to the public.
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<a href="https://anniebosko.com/">Annie Bosko</a> is a California-native country singer whose latest hit is a plea to save her home state.
The song is called &#8220;<a href="https://anniebosko.com/">Goodbye California</a>,&#8221; which she describes as the most &#8220;beautiful state in the world.&#8221; And while its title sounds like the closing of a chapter, she hopes her song brings about a welcome change to a place she says has rapidly declined since the pandemic.
Bosko hails from Thousand Oaks, California, and has fond memories growing up on a farm, surrounded by her four siblings. Fresh air, hard work, and endless miles of beauty are what she remembers most about where she was born and raised.
Living in Nashville, the country music capital, she still associates the real cowboys of the world with the West, especially California, known for cattle farms and growing a large portion of the country&#8217;s produce. Unfortunately, her home state is now associated with tremendous negativity, and she is addressing that through her lyrics.
&#8220;Now you&#8217;re just a wasteland of dust and broken dreams,&#8221; Bosko says in the song.
Her lyrics address the billions of dollars California spent trying to combat the homeless crisis. Instead, according to the <a href="https://www.ppic.org/blog/californians-concern-about-homelessness-has-softened/">Public Policy Institute of California</a>, the homeless population grew by more than 20% between 2019 and 2024.
Bosko also laments the devastating Palisades wildfires in her song, including how California fire hydrants ran dry. The song&#8217;s bridge highlights California&#8217;s critical issues during the fires that destroyed 23,000 acres.
&#8220;When working hard hardly works, can&#8217;t keep up with the dollar. Even when it&#8217;s free, you can&#8217;t afford the water,&#8221; she sings.
Bosko wants the Golden State to return to its desirable roots. She wants affordability, safety, and an economy that attracts businesses, not one that forces them to relocate.
&#8220;When you lose the things about a place that made it special, it&#8217;s a really sad thing to watch,&#8221; Bosko told The Daily Wire. &#8220;When you lose the history, the culture of a city, and you lose its landmark and what made it so special &#8230; it&#8217;s just hard to come back from that.
In &#8220;Goodbye California,&#8221; she sings about longing for the better days, not just for her, who has finally left it behind, but for those who can&#8217;t leave and are stuck in the current climate.
&#8220;They don&#8217;t feel safe, they can&#8217;t afford a yard,&#8221; Bosko said.
While her goal is to bring change to the state, the song also doubles as a love ballad, with California representing an old flame.
&#8220;Goodbye, California, you still got my heart. This view of you in my rearview is tearing me apart,&#8221; Bosko sings.
Bosko said it was actually Kid Rock who had the idea to make the song have a double meaning.
&#8220;Whichever side you&#8217;re on, you can&#8217;t refute he’s a great artist,&#8221; Bosko said.
While California dreaming has turned into a nightmare for many, Bosko hopes to one day return home, and said she is hopeful California is close to making a comeback. She is honored to release &#8220;Goodbye California&#8221; to the world to help with that.
&#8220;I&#8217;m an artist, so I think our jobs are to look around at what we see, what we observe&#8230; and write about it,&#8221; Bosko said. &#8220;If it can just make a difference in saving California &#8230; because it needs to be saved.&#8221;

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The first victim in the Austin bar shooting over the weekend has been identified as 19-year-old Ryder Harrington, a student at Texas Tech.
&#8220;Ryder was the best mix of all the Harrington crew,” his brother, Reed Harrington, wrote on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Da2o6PHw2/">social media</a>, thanking supporters on behalf of the family.
Harrington was one of two people killed early Sunday morning after 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne opened fire outside Buford&#8217;s, a popular bar in downtown Austin. Police shot and killed Diagne after a brief gunfire exchange.
According to local Lubbock TV station <a href="https://www.kcbd.com/2026/03/02/texas-tech-student-killed-austin-bar-shooting/">KCBD</a>, Harrington was a member of the Fall 2024 pledge class of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
In a statement, the fraternity said:
<blockquote>His character and genuine spirit made our chapter stronger and our friendships deeper. The energy he carried, the joy he spread, and the way he made everyone feel welcome are things we will never forget. He made the world around him better simply by being in it.</blockquote>
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) said the loss hit close to home because Harrington was related to one of his team members.
&#8220;Ryder was the brother-in-law of one of our own, and our hearts are aching alongside his loved ones,&#8221; Burrows <a href="https://x.com/Burrows4TX/status/2028304728820514958?s=20">said</a>. &#8220;From all accounts, Ryder was exactly the kind of young man who made a difference without even trying—full of life, loyal to his friends, proud to be a Red Raider and a Texan, and someone who showed up for the people around him.&#8221;
Police say Diagne fired just before 2 a.m. Sunday. He <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-tech-student-identified-victim-austin-bar-shooting-rcna261317">reportedly</a> wore a sweatshirt that said &#8220;Property of Allah&#8221; and a t-shirt underneath with a design similar to the Iranian flag. According to law enforcement, Diagne drove around the block multiple times in a large SUV before stopping, turning on his flashers, rolling down a window, and firing at people sitting outside the establishment.
He then exited the vehicle and continued shooting in the crowded nightlife district.
Authorities said Diagne was armed with a handgun and rifle and acted alone.
Fourteen people were hospitalized, several in critical condition.
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-shooting-at-austin-texas-bar-leaves-at-least-3-dead-multiple-people-wounded/#">CBS News</a> reported that investigators found Iranian flags and pictures of Iranian leaders in the shooter&#8217;s home. A Quran was also found in the vehicle. Officials have not announced a motive, but the FBI is investigating whether the shooting could be related to terrorism. Other reports say the gunman had previous mental health issues.
The attack occurred hours after the United States and Israel launched strikes on targets in Iran.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Austin Police at 512-974-TIPS.

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Someone grab the Zamboni. There is a meltdown happening right now on social media over the United States Olympic men&#8217;s hockey team.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a fu*king scary time on hockey twitter right now,&#8221; a user <a href="https://x.com/admbeaumont/status/2026106336207856012">posted</a> to X after penning an entire article about their disgust with the men&#8217;s team.
The team that should be universally celebrated for winning the United States a gold medal in men&#8217;s hockey. Instead, they&#8217;re being torn apart by people on the Left who expected a group of jocks 10 bottles of booze deep in the locker room after making history to stand up to President Donald Trump for cracking a joke about the women&#8217;s hockey team.
&#8220;I will actually never look at those men the same ever again,&#8221; another person on X <a href="https://x.com/hrts4celebrini/status/2026240198015590844">wrote</a>. &#8220;The USA women&#8217;s hockey team deserves an apology for so much more.&#8221;
The men&#8217;s team immediately celebrated the women&#8217;s accomplishment after their own overtime gold-medal match. Jack Hughes, the golden goal scorer, said the first thing he thought about moments after scoring the winning goal was Megan Keller, who had scored the winning goal for the women&#8217;s team.
During the locker room celebration, the men&#8217;s team can be heard yelling &#8220;two for two,&#8221; meaning the golden hockey sweep, which marked the first time ever the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams brought home the top Olympic prize.
Still, the hate is piling on because the men accepted the president&#8217;s invitation to the State of the Union on Tuesday in Washington, something most would call a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
However, Greg Cote, host of &#8220;The Dan Le Batard Show,&#8221; who couldn&#8217;t find the back of a mile-long net, called the men&#8217;s hockey team a &#8220;willing pawn&#8221; for attending Tuesday&#8217;s State of the Union.
&#8220;As long as the players realize that, this is an immensely unpopular president with half of the nation. Going to this, to serve as a willing pawn, is controversial,&#8221; Cote <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/usa-hockey-players-receive-warning-170103943.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE97FKmhLGLodzFNszdAgV8GlSjx98OoVINXLZVdK2ucQPtffIUafBLu-OnAoslhyA9_4Zy1CNBzZzimmzy3j6JZsAIcTzACAFQHJGKoqWR0WBghdcOy-E81e3n0m2bh4gxPloip3O64CdVzbfVGq2_8V_QL3YMDDOG4rIYmM5xT">said</a> Tuesday.
The women&#8217;s team declined, stating prior commitments.
&#8220;We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women&#8217;s Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement,&#8221; a USA Hockey spokesperson said to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/us-womens-hockey-team-declines-trumps-invitation-state-union-rcna260299">NBC News</a>.
There are people online comparing the men&#8217;s hockey team to January 6 rioters for not denouncing what most considered a joke in real time during a celebratory beer pong game.
&#8220;It&#8217;s so crazy to be so disrespectful of women&#8217;s sports when your mom is literally a pioneer for women&#8217;s hockey,&#8221; another person <a href="https://x.com/satosgs/status/2025797932029510011?s=20">said</a>.
Ellen Hughes, who worked with the Olympic women&#8217;s team and is a medal winner herself, was asked about the phone call with the men&#8217;s team on Tuesday morning and simply called for unity.
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&#8220;At the end of the day, it’s just about the country,&#8221; Hughes said. &#8220;I think the moment that these players, both the men and women, can bring so much unity to a group and to a country—people that cheered on that don’t watch hockey, people that have politics on one side or on the other side—that’s all both teams care about.&#8221;
Hockey on X for sure won&#8217;t like that completely sane response.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing backlash after attempting to “relate” to a black elected official by pointing to his low SAT score — a moment critics say exposes the casual, patronizing racism Democrats routinely accuse others of harboring.
During a Sunday night appearance promoting his forthcoming memoir, &#8220;Young Man in a Hurry,&#8221; Newsom told Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens that he wasn’t trying to appear superior.
“I’m like you. I’m not better than you,” Newsom said. “I’m a 960 SAT guy.”
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The remark immediately drew scrutiny for what critics described as an implicit assumption: that academic underperformance is a shared point of identity with black Americans. According to 2024 College Board data, the average SAT score for black test takers is 907, compared with 1083 for white students.
Newsom, seemingly aware of the sensitivity of his comments, added, “I’m not trying to offend anyone,” before continuing to emphasize his academic shortcomings. “You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech,” he said.
The episode has fueled accusations of what Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/tedcruz/status/2025802434036081116">labeled</a> the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” a phrase long used to describe leftist rhetoric that cloaks condescension in empathy. This comes after Cruz and Newsom got into an earlier <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/historically-illiterate-cruz-scorches-newsom-after-ca-governor-compares-federal-troops-to-nazis">spat</a> over Newsom’s illiteracy.
The irony is difficult to miss. Newsom has built his political brand on elite credentials and progressive moral posturing, yet his own biography is steeped in institutional advantage. He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989, having received a letter of recommendation from then-Gov. Jerry Brown, who had appointed Newsom’s father to a California appellate judgeship.
Newsom has insisted the recommendation played no role in his admission, telling The New York Times earlier this month that his acceptance came through a partial baseball scholarship. Still, critics argue the governor’s attempt to downplay privilege while leaning on racial signaling only underscores the contradiction.
As recently as a few weeks ago, Newsom framed himself as the moral referee of American discourse, condemning what he called racist imagery allegedly shared by Donald Trump and aimed at Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. 
Newsom insisted the offense should have ended careers, demanded public contrition, and warned that allowing such rhetoric to pass unpunished degraded the country. Now, just weeks later, Newsom himself is actively circulating racially charged tropes, of the President’s video, he said, “It’s disgraceful. It&#8217;s racist. It&#8217;s abhorrent, the President of the United States sending out a racist trope should disgust every human being in this room.”
Public reaction was swift. Rapper Nicki Minaj weighed in, scorching Gavin Newsom in a lengthy post, accusing him of deliberately talking down to a black audience.
“His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is &amp; that he can’t read,” she wrote. “This means my first read on him was correct. He’s been handed so many things &amp; put in high positions he never earned or deserved.
“Do you wanna know the craziest part of this footage that will haunt him forever? He’s literally slowing his speech down &amp; talking in a sporadic cadence.
“He’s not just TELLING them that they’re all probably stupid &amp; probably can’t read, he’s LITERALLY SLOW-ING-DOWN-HIS-SPEECH to make them understand the words that are coming out of his mouth!!!! As if they’re children!!!! That means he REALLY BELIEVES they’re slow. He’s not just saying it—he didn’t misspeak!!!! He BELIEVES it!!!!
“Do ya love it?!?! Do ya just love it, black ppl?!?!?”
Representative Randy Fine (R-FL) wrote on <a href="https://x.com/RepFine/status/2025775394696097928">X</a> that Newsom “just said he is like a black person because he got a bad SAT score and can’t read,” calling the remark “disgusting.” 
Newsom offered a <a href="https://x.com/gavinnewsom/status/2025944365114290457?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q">tepid response</a> on Monday, attempting to deflect from the seeming racial implications of his statements by bringing up his dyslexia again.
&#8220;You didn’t give a sh*t about the President of the United States of America posting an ape video of President Obama or calling African nations sh*tholes,&#8221; Newsom wrote in response to Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity, &#8220;but you’re going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia? Spare me your fake f*cking outrage, Sean.&#8221;
For a party that relentlessly polices language and lectures Americans about implicit bias, Newsom’s remarks offer a revealing glimpse into how Democratic elites often talk when they think they’re being relatable, reducing minority voters to stereotypes, then congratulating themselves for empathy.

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The reward for information in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of &#8220;Today&#8221; show host Savannah Guthrie, has been significantly increased thanks to a Wisconsin attorney.
Michael Hupy, president of Milwaukee Crime Stoppers, sent a $100,000 check through Crime Stoppers to 88-Crime in Tucson in hopes of generating new leads in the case.
88-Crime is Tucson&#8217;s Crime Stoppers chapter. Crime Stoppers is a nonprofit organization that offers rewards for anonymous tips that lead to arrests. The 88-Crime reward now stands at $102,500 thanks to the boost from Hupy and Milwaukee Crime Stoppers. The FBI is also offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s whereabouts or an arrest in the case.
Though Tucson is nearly 2,000 miles from Milwaukee, where Hupy is based, he felt compelled to help.
&#8220;This case stuck out to me because of the age of the person and the need for medical treatment,&#8221; Hupy told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We have an 84-year-old woman who was left without taking her pills. That&#8217;s not a good situation. I said I better do something.&#8221;
Hupy said time is critical, and with the search entering its third week, more tips are needed.
&#8220;I think if we had motivated someone at the beginning, we might have a solution,&#8221; Hupy said.
Unlike many reward programs, Crime Stoppers guarantees tipsters complete anonymity, even through the payout process.
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&#8220;When you call, we don&#8217;t take your phone number,&#8221; Hupy said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t take your name. We don&#8217;t take any information about you. We just take the information you give us. If that results in an arrest, you get a reward. We still don&#8217;t take your name.&#8221;
&#8220;You go to an undisclosed location, give them your number and your code number, and you get the reward,&#8221; Hupy added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know of an instance where this has not worked, or anyone&#8217;s been betrayed by the system.&#8221;
Guthrie has been missing since February 1, when the grandmother was taken from her home. The FBI and the Pima County Sheriff&#8217;s Office are working to locate her and identify a person who was seen on her front stoop.
Hupy said tips submitted through Milwaukee Crime Stoppers have helped solve murder cases. As an organization, Crime Stoppers has helped solve more than 300,000 cases over its 50 years of operation.
Anyone with information about the Nancy Guthrie case can contact 88-Crime at 520-882-7463.
For live updates about the case, read the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-search-continues-for-nancy-guthrie-as-deadline-for-ransom-note-passes?author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Has+The+Nancy+Guthrie+Kidnapping+Gone+Cold%3F+Sheriff+Responds">blog</a> or listen to the latest episode of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-10x?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finding Nancy Guthrie</a>, a special Daily Wire true crime podcast.

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Imagine it’s Valentine’s Day at Silicon Valley Middle School. The cafeteria is covered in construction-paper hearts. Everyone pretends not to care — while caring very much. And the most popular kids — the ones who decide who’s cool, who eats lunch alone, and who gets stuffed into lockers — are quietly deciding who deserves a Valentine and who gets the dreaded, “Sorry, we’re just friends.”
Now swap out the middle schoolers for Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN, and Yahoo News, and you have a pretty good picture of today’s media ecosystem.
Instead of candy grams, these platforms hand out something far more valuable: visibility, traffic, and perceived legitimacy. Algorithms play matchmaker. Editorial choices determine who gets asked to the dance, who goes stag, and who doesn’t even get through the door.
The pattern is hard to ignore.
Research from the Media Research Center examining the “<a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/heather-moon/2026/02/13/it-took-apple-news-100-days-publish-right-leaning-article">Big 4 News Apps</a>” found that left-leaning outlets dominate coverage, while right-leaning outlets are routinely sidelined or completely buried.
Start with Google News, the alpha dog at the lunch table. Google appears especially fond of The New York Times — not a casual acquaintance, but the kind of devotion that fills a notebook margin with hearts. Between Halloween and Valentine’s Day, Google featured about twice as many New York Times stories (215) as its next most-featured outlets, CNN (122) and the BBC (105). Because Google’s news feed appears by default on millions of Android and Samsung devices, that preference carries enormous national reach.
Looking at 106 days of data since Halloween, Google News promoted 1,757 stories. Almost 70% came from left-leaning outlets, 29% from centrist sources, but just 2% from right-leaning media.
Like Google, Apple News also has a bestie from the print world. The Washington Post receives frequent top placement and prominent visibility. Since Halloween, Apple has featured the Post 109 times. Other regulars in Apple’s rotation include NBC News (89), Reuters (86), and the Associated Press (85).
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Overall, of AllSides-rated outlets, Apple News featured 75% left-leaning outlets, 25% centrist outlets — and zero right-leaning outlets in the period studied. Zero is on purpose. Zero means being locked out of the dance. Zero is indefensible. 
Next comes Microsoft’s MSN, whose reach comes from its enormous footprint on desktop computers. While its distribution is not quite as disturbing as Apple’s or Google’s, its preferences are still clear. MSN is more than smitten with Newsweek, publishing 316 Newsweek stories between Halloween and Valentine&#8217;s Day. That level of attention would make any publisher blush.
MSN’s mix included about 10% right-leaning outlets and 37% centrist outlets — higher shares than its competitors, but still leaving Left-leaning sources with the largest slice of attention at 53%.
And then there’s Yahoo News. It’s easy to joke about Yahoo, but the platform draws more than 200 million monthly views, something achieved by only three other outlets. Think of Yahoo as the bad boy who got held back a grade but has a date at every party. And Yahoo certainly plays the field.
Yahoo occasionally features right-leaning outlets, but it has a serious thing for smaller, radical outlets — Buzzfeed, Salon, the New Republic, Rolling Stone, Huffington Post and Mediaite.
Yahoo is also unique among the Big 4 in relying heavily on its own in-house reporting. Those stories leaned left and accounted for a large share of featured content (269 stories). Of the 1,715 stories Yahoo promoted in the study period, 88% came from left-leaning outlets (by far the most of any of the news apps), 6% from centrist organizations, and 6% from right-leaning sources.
Defenders of these platforms argue they are simply promoting “mainstream” outlets with proven “reliability.” But Americans aren’t buying that claim. Gallup polling shows trust in national media has never been lower.
There are reasons for that collapse in confidence. Many Americans remember years of breathless coverage of the Russia collusion narrative, the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, the dismissal of the Wuhan lab-leak evidence, and persistent shielding of President Biden’s cognitive deficiencies. They’ve also watched elitist media advocate aggressively for DEI, ESG and anti-ICE movements — while insisting they are neutral observers.
Distribution is power. A newsroom can produce solid reporting, but Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo are clearly trying to control the narrative. The political Left has long understood that institutions shape culture and public opinion. Today, the Big 4 news apps are the institutions: enormously powerful, largely opaque, and virtually unaccountable to the public.
So yes, it’s Valentine’s Day. And in the digital cafeteria, Google, Apple, MSN, and Yahoo are still handing out cards to the favored few and pushing others into lockers.
But another holiday is coming. The Fourth of July is only months away, and federal regulators are examining whether dominant tech platforms have unfairly restricted competition in parts of the media ecosystem. Congress should also continue to investigate the role Big Tech plays in shaping what Americans see and don’t see.
In a free country, the biggest companies should not determine who is allowed into the dance and who is not, who gets a voice and who gets left out in the cold. Freedom must be available to all.
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Dan Schneider is Vice President for Free Speech at the Media Research Center.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Claiming a free $1,000 from the federal government for your child is now even easier. The Trump Administration on Monday launched a redesigned online intake form for opening a Trump Account. 
The new IRS Form 4547 at <a href="http://trumpaccounts.gov">TrumpAccounts.gov</a> replaces the clunky downloadable PDF parents previously had to navigate. The updated form, designed by the new government National Design Studio led by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, streamlines the process into a few simple steps. Parents are asked to provide their personal information, contact details, and their child’s information, along with consent for the Treasury Department and IRS to open a Trump Account on the child’s behalf. Families may also add additional qualifying children in the same submission. 
Once the form is submitted, the Treasury Department, in partnership with the IRS, will create and maintain the Trump Account. The account will be held in a partner institution, which will then contact parents with further instructions to complete the setup. 
The redesign radically simplifies the previous system, which required parents to download, fill out, and mail back the PDF form. The new online submission allows parents to complete the entire process digitally, eliminating paperwork and delays.
President Trump established the National Design Studio through executive authority as part of a broader effort to modernize outdated government systems. “There is a high financial cost to maintaining legacy systems, to say nothing of the cost in time lost by the American public trying to navigate them,” the President’s executive order states. 
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joined the government as an unpaid special government employee (SGE) to bring the President’s vision to life by redesigning the Trump Stock Account intake form. 
Trump Accounts have the potential to be financially transformative for American families. According to White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Trump-Accounts-Give-the-Next-Generation-a-Jump-Start-on-Saving.pdf">projections,</a> a child born in 2026 would have an account worth approximately $5,800 by age 18 with no additional contributions. With maximum contributions from parents and employers, that number could reach $303,800. By age 28, the account is projected to grow to $18,100 without additional contributions and as much as $1,091,000 with maximum contributions, highlighting the power of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-secret-weapon-that-will-supercharge-the-trump-accounts-for-newborns">reinvesting earnings</a> over time. Families, friends, and employers can contribute up to $5,000 per year per child. 
The account, managed by a professional firm, will invest the funds in a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds aiming to maximize long-term growth while minimizing risk so that when the child turns 18, they have money to be able to fund their college education, buy their first home, or start a business.  
All children under the age of 18 with a valid Social Security Number are eligible to establish a Trump Account, but only children who were born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, are eligible for the $1,000 seed investment from the United States Treasury. The funding for Trump Accounts came from the Beautiful Bill and will have the opportunity to be extended in a later reconciliation bill for children born in 2029 and beyond.  
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hopes that as children watch money in their Trump Account grow, they learn valuable lessons about investing and personal finance. At the Trump Account launch day, Bessent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-says-trump-accounts-are-antidote-to-socialism">shared</a> a sobering statistic showing that two-thirds of Generation Z cannot answer more than half of the basic financial literacy questions on the Nation’s Personal Finance Index. He said that watching their own money grow in real time through Trump Accounts will give Americans the opportunity to course-correct their financial literacy.

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Turning Point USA vowed to put on a show to rival the Super Bowl halftime show headlined by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unlike-bad-bunny-the-super-bowl-is-going-all-in-to-celebrate-america">Bad Bunny</a>, and they delivered in red, white, and blue.
The lineup for &#8220;The All-American Halftime Show&#8221; was announced Monday. Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett will take the stage in a show TPUSA says will celebrate faith, family, and freedom.
&#8220;We&#8217;re approaching this show like David and Goliath,&#8221; Kid Rock said in a statement, per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/turning-point-usa-launches-rival-halftime-show-star-studded-lineup-nfl-faces-super-bowl-backlash">Fox News</a>. &#8220;Competing with the pro football machine and a global pop superstar is almost impossible, or is it? He said he’s having a dance party, wearing a dress, and singing in Spanish? Cool. We plan to play great songs for folks who love America.&#8221;
Kid Rock said on The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday that half of the United States is &#8220;underserved&#8221; entertainment-wise.
This show will air during Super Bowl LX&#8217;s official halftime show featuring Latin music star Bad Bunny, who won &#8220;Album of the Year&#8221; at the Grammys on Sunday. The singer&#8217;s selection has sparked significant backlash from many conservatives, including President Donald Trump. Bad Bunny has been critical of the Trump administration&#8217;s illegal immigrant crackdown and refused to tour in the United States last year because he said he didn&#8217;t want ICE raiding his concerts.
At the Grammys this past Sunday, Bad Bunny again criticized ICE.
&#8220;Before I say thanks to God, I&#8217;m going to say, &#8216;ICE out,'&#8221; Bad Bunny said.
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Last fall, Trump took a jab at Bad Bunny, saying he didn&#8217;t know who the singer was after the NFL announced he would be performing at the Super Bowl LX halftime show.
&#8220;I don’t know who he is,&#8221; Trump told Newsmax. &#8220;I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.&#8221;
Trump definitely knows who Kid Rock is. The &#8220;Bawitdaba&#8221; singer is a close pal and golfing buddy of the president. Kid Rock also performed at the last Republican National Convention.
&#8220;The All-American Halftime Show&#8221; will allow viewers to be up close and personal with the performance, Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet told Fox News Digital.
&#8220;&#8216;The All-American Halftime Show&#8217; is an opportunity for all Americans to enjoy a halftime show with no agenda other than to celebrate faith, family, and freedom,&#8221; Kolvet said. &#8220;We can’t wait to watch the incredible show they’re about to put on. We know millions around the country will be watching too.&#8221;
Barrett, who placed third on Season 16 of American Idol, recently sang at the White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
The star-studded show is expected to start around 8 p.m. ET on February 8. The Daily Wire will air the show on its platform. TPUSA will also stream the concert on its YouTube channel and X account.
Super Bowl LX is being held in Santa Clara, California, at Levi&#8217;s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers.
The battle between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots kicks off Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET.

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