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McDonald's brings back popular item for short time as one state gets a treat
McDonald's is turning up the heat at participating locations nationwide with the return of Spicy Chicken McNuggets and Mighty Hot Sauce for a limited time.
McDonald's is also reportedly rolling out a limited-time Texas Meal that includes a 10-piece order of Chicken McNuggets (spicy or regular), medium fries and a medium drink. Customers can also choose from one of seven collectible cups featuring Texas-inspired art by artist and muralist Avery Orendorf. This deal is available exclusively in the Lone Star State.
The returning menu items are already stirring up debate on social media, with fans calling for Spicy Chicken McNuggets to become permanent and weighing in on how they stack up against Wendy's spicy nuggets.
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McDonald's announced Spicy Chicken McNuggets would be returning on Sept. 1.
"Fans ready to bring the heat can sink their teeth into spicy Chicken McNuggets, a hot take on our classic Chicken McNuggets," the fast-food giant said on its website.
"Breaded in a spicy tempura coating made with a blend of aged cayenne and chili peppers, they deliver the perfect kick in every bite."
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McDonald's Mighty Hot Sauce is a "flavorful blend of heat," according to the company, featuring "crushed red pepper, spicy chilis, savory garlic and a hint of sweetness."
Spicy Chicken McNuggets first appeared nationally in 2020 and have periodically returned for limited runs, most recently in select U.S. markets in 2024. The Mighty Hot Sauce hasn't been sold since 2021, according to Allrecipes.
Fans seemed eager for the menu item's return.
Instagram user @Snackolator posted a video of himself trying the spicy offerings with the caption, "I love this menu and I will continue to call for spicy McNuggets to be permanent because they're so much better than the original!"
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"I don’t know why they don't keep the spicy nuggets permanent!" said someone else.
"They don't even need sauce, I love 'em," commented one user.
The post also ignited a debate about whether McDonald's spicy nuggets were better than Wendy's, which offers its spicy version as a regular menu item. The Instagram commenters tended to favor McDonald's, but reviews were more or less mixed.
A post by Instagram user @Markie_devo teasing the Texas Meal drew more than 19,000 likes and more than 300 comments.
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"They should do every state!" one commenter wrote.
"Do Florida next!" wrote another person.
Fox News Digital reached out to McDonald's for comment.
Caitlin Clark shows the WNBA how to respect America, Belichick's tricks & NFL host Colleen Wolfe loves summer!
'Nightcaps' is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk. It runs Monday–Friday on OutKick.com.
First Hump Day of September. I'd say this is our biggest Hump Day of the year so far.
We've got college football for the next five days, starting tomorrow night. That's right. We have Week 1 games tomorrow night. It's here. We've done it.
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I begged everyone to get the chores done the past five weeks, because this day was coming. I hope everyone got that yard in order, because free weekends are officially OVER.
How about this for a sign: I mowed yesterday after being gone all weekend in Daytona. Yard was a MESS. Right at the end, my mower gave out. She just stopped. I tried cranking her back up, and it immediately smelled like it was overheating.
Her watch has now ended. Football season has begun. Rest easy.
Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where Caitlin Clark shows proper respect to this great country.
Patriot.
What else? I've got NFL reporter Colleen Wolfe ending summer on a high note before the season starts (in one week!), a new conspiracy involving Bill Belichick and the Patriots, and the influencers are wreaking HAVOC at the U.S. Open.
Is this the most infuriating video of the day? The week? Has to be up there, right? You'll see.
OK, grab you something patriotic and settle in for a first-Hump-Day-of-September 'Cap!
Yes, I know it's football season. I know the WNBA is off for a few weeks. I get it. There should be other things to talk about today, but, to be honest, it's slow out there.
It's the week before a holiday weekend, after all. The news cycle tends to slow down just a bit this week before ramping up for good until we ring in the new year.
So, yes — we're gonna go back to the well and start with Caitlin Clark.
For those who don't know, she's playing in Berlin this month with the rest of Team USA in the FIBA Women's World Cup. It's her first time on the team after being passed over two years ago.
Remember how dumb that was? Amazing.
BUT, Caitlin got the nod this year, and she made it clear today that she plans to honor this great country.
That ain't always a guarantee with the WNBA folks, you know? Don't know if you've heard, but they can be a bit ... volatile ... when it comes to the US of A.
Not Clark:
"It's crazy, and I think you know, you get used to it," she told FIBA's official website before Friday's opening tip against China. "I think at the same time, I almost think about it another way. Like, how lucky am I? This is pretty special and pretty cool, and there's so many people that would kill to be in this spot and have this type of opportunity."
"Especially to play for the USA team, let alone play in the WNBA and live out your dream every single day. So I try to look at, look at it the other way and think about how lucky I am and how grateful I am."
Yep. She gets it. Isn't it amazing how low the bar is right now when it comes to patting athletes on the back? Especially WNBA athletes?
Caitlin Clark simply said, "How lucky am I?" when talking about playing for the USA, and it went mega-viral on the internet. That's all it takes. It's all we ask at this point.
There does seem to have been a shift in American pride since the women's soccer team embarrassed us a few years back. You saw it earlier this year with the men's and women's hockey teams in the Olympics.
And then with the baseball team in the World Baseball Classic.
Obviously, we saw it all summer with the men's soccer team.
This will be a huge test, though — both for the players and the fans back here in America. How do they represent us? And, how do we respond? The WNBA is a lightning rod right now.
This was a good first test, and Caitlin Clark passed. Well done!
OK, let's keep this class flowing and gear up for some NFL football with the wildest conspiracy theory on the internet today, courtesy of former NFL analytics man, Ryan Paganetti:
"I went through more than a decade of TV broadcasts and uncovered a diabolically clever piece of Patriots gamesmanship," Paganetti said in a now-viral social media post.
"When opposing kickers lined up at Gillette Stadium, the video board displayed a reverse view of the kick, placing a second, offset set of yellow uprights directly behind the real ones.
"I found dozens of examples. In the same games, I reviewed 52 Patriots field goal attempts. The illusion appeared on Patriots kicks exactly zero times."
Whoaaaaaaa Nellie! No idea if this was intentional or not, but given the history of the 2001-2019 Patriots ... it's certainly in the playbook.
Putting the goal posts on the scoreboard, directly behind the actual goal posts, to try and confuse opposing kickers is so perfectly Bill Belichick, it hurts. No stone left unturned!
And for those who want to see it in action ...
I remember watching Billy Cundiff miss that field goal and just being numb for hours. I was sitting in the dining hall my first year at college, watching with a bunch of Pats fans, and I couldn't believe it. Even as a long-suffering Dolphins fan, that one hurt.
Makes more sense now!
OK, let's rapid-fire this Hump Day class into a big Hump Day night. First up? The insufferable TikTok influencers are at it AGAIN:
Good Lord. Look at them. Just listen to that nonsense. Intolerable.
Danny continued on in a separate tweet:
"It was at 11:44pm on Monday right in the middle of the Osaka match," he said. "The chair umpire turned around and told the specific suite to be quiet."
We used to be such a proper country. We had it so good, and we just pissed it all away. What a fall from grace.
Sad.
OK, that's it for today. Let's not end Hump Day on a sour note, though. NFL starts in ONE WEEK.
NFL Network host Colleen Wolfe is excited, and we are, too!
See you tomorrow.
Will the rest of the WNBA athletes follow Caitlin's lead? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.
Spanberger's ICE restrictions dealt major setback as judge warns other blue states
A judge paused a key part of Virginia’s new restrictions on local cooperation with federal immigration authorities, handing Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s administration a major legal setback as a similar fight plays out in neighboring Maryland.
George H.W. Bush-appointed Judge Robert Payne on Monday blocked a key piece of a law signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger that heavily restricts interagency cooperation and would have required local sheriffs to modify or dissolve their individual policies, known as 287(g) agreements, by a Tuesday deadline.
Payne ruled the federal government is likely to prevail on several claims in its lawsuit against Virginia, finding "the Virginia 287(g) Law violates the Contracts Clause [of the] U.S. Constitution because it is a ‘substantial impairment’ of the existing contracts between the federal government and Virginia localities."
Payne did not strike down the law, but paused its implementation as the feds’ case against Richmond proceeds.
He also found that Virginia’s law wrongly attempts to "regulate conduct of federal law enforcement in the enforcement of federal immigration laws."
"At this point, saying ‘I told you so’ seems almost pointless," Virginia House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City, told Fox News Digital when asked about the news.
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Kilgore said Republicans repeatedly warned Spanberger’s administration that its limits on cooperation with ICE would waste taxpayer money and run into these kinds of legal problems.
"States cannot tell the federal government how to do its job. But Democrats refused to listen," Kilgore said.
In that regard, Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., drafted a bill at the federal level aimed directly at Spanberger’s law.
Cline’s 287(g) Cooperation Act would require state and local law enforcement to enter into interagency agreements with ICE as a condition of receiving federal Community-Oriented Policing (COPS) grants.
Additionally, all five of Virginia’s Republican members of Congress wrote Spanberger earlier this year urging her not to undo former Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s statewide directive of Richmond-Washington cooperation on the immigration enforcement front.
The major setback to Democrats’ plans came as neighboring Maryland found itself in a similar legal fight, though a judge has not yet ruled in that case.
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Gov. Wes Moore allowed a similar bill to become law earlier this year that would prevent most cooperation between local sheriffs and ICE. Despite Maryland being one of the bluest states in the union, the majority of its counties are geographically red.
That dynamic revealed itself as 17 of its 24 sheriffs led by Harford County’s Jeffrey Gahler, Wicomico County’s Mike Lewis and Frederick County’s Charles Jenkins launched a lawsuit against the law.
"They want to do everything they can to handcuff law enforcement, handcuff sheriffs across the state," Jenkins said in March.
Bill sponsor Sen. Clarence Lam, D-Elkridge, argued the measure ensures local jails won’t be used as a "front door to the federal government’s oftentimes deportation pipeline," according to Maryland Matters.
Lam’s Community Trust Act requires a court order to provide immigration-related information and to transfer inmates based on immigration status, according to the outlet.
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Moore did not sign the legislation, but it became law after he notified Senate President Bill Ferguson IV, D-Baltimore, of his decision after the bill passed 32-15.
Gahler’s coalition later sued, setting up a potentially similar battle in Greenbelt federal court to the one making a splash across the Potomac.
Coast Guard plane with DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on board makes emergency landing after engine failure
A plane carrying Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin made an emergency landing Wednesday after the aircraft suffered an engine failure.
Mullion was traveling from Georgia to Washington, D.C., when the U.S. Coast Guard C101 was diverted to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia.
"The United States Coast Guard pilots made the single-engine landing feel routine," Mullin wrote on X about the ordeal. "No panic, just straight professionalism. After we landed, the pilots told me that was a first for them! We could not have been in better hands."
The aircraft is one of the Coast Guard planes that the Department of Homeland Security flagged last year because of its age.
This story is breaking. Please check back for updates.
'Entourage' creator Doug Ellin fires back at Debi Mazar's 'toxic' set claims
Days after "Entourage" star Debi Mazar referred to the show's set as "toxic," creator Doug Ellin is pushing back.
Over the weekend, Mazar — who portrayed straight-talking publicist Shauna Roberts across the HBO series' eight-season run — described the "testosterone-fueled environment" she encountered on set in an interview with The Sunday Times. Mazar also claimed that show executives "didn't like that [she] got fat" after the birth of her second child.
On Tuesday, Ellin called Mazar's claims "disgusting" in a social media post.
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"My thoughts are this is disgusting. Never, ever did myself or anyone that matters care or discuss Debi Mazar’s body," he wrote on X. "I would one million percent embrace any woman who got pregnant. The only bodies on the show I ever commented on were Adrian’s ( I wanted him more muscular) and @jerryferrara who I wanted fatter. I will forever feel bad about that because I didn’t realize the health implications at the time and now couldn't be happier for Jerry’s transformation."
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In response to one user's post that sarcastically dragged the show for being "toxic," Ellin wrote, "Fu. It wasn’t. And you can ask 99 percent of the women who were on it, who are still good friends to this day."
"There is no opinion. No one would have given a s--- about her weight. She was the publicist. She was not cast for her looks she was cast for her talent. Period," he wrote in response to another X user.
A representative for Mazar did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
The actress reflected on her experience in the recent interview with The Sunday Times, calling the first season a "joy-fest" before saying the atmosphere shifted.
"In the third season, the set was a testosterone-fueled environment," Mazar told the outlet. "I’m tough, but it got toxic towards the end for me."
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Mazar, 62, said she returned to work after welcoming her second daughter and felt judged over her appearance.
"They didn’t like that I got fat, even though I got skinny again," she said.
The "Goodfellas" star said the situation was complicated in part because she has never been one to keep quiet about how she feels. Still, Mazar stressed that she remained professional and was grateful for her time on the series.
"It was a lot of fun, until it wasn’t," she said.
"Entourage," which followed the highs and lows of a rising actor navigating Hollywood with his childhood friends, ran on HBO from 2004 to 2011. Mazar reprised her role as Shauna in the 2015 movie based on the series.
Pizza delivery man deserves a raise after walking past a black bear to deliver customer's order
In a world where delivery drivers will show up to your door with your food and no clothes on or drop the food on the ground and scoop it back into the box as if nothing had happened, you want a delivery driver like this one.
He's not letting a black bear hanging out in your front yard keep him from delivering your pizza. He's got balls of steel and a job to do. He should have also at the very least casually strolled back to his car with a hefty tip.
That's at the very least. A nice raise from Fontana Pizza Company, who posted a video of their delivery driver dropping food off with a black bear feet away, would be appropriate if you ask me.
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The video includes the text overlay "Our pizza delivery man really went above and beyond" and the caption "If our Delivery Driver can handle a Bear...imagine what we'll do to satisfy your Pizza cravings." It serves as a solid advertisement for the business.
It’s also a solid advertisement for the delivery driver’s titanium cojones. The video shows the bear staring him down as he stands in the doorway and hands over the pizza order to the customers as if it's just another delivery.
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The bear eyeballs the driver as he casually walks back to his car parked at the end of the driveway, realizes he doesn’t have the pizza anymore and takes off away from the driver towards a tree in the front yard.
Disaster was avoided. The bear went without pizza, but there was no attack on the delivery driver, and the family got the dinner they weren't willing to hop in their car and go pickup.
They also got video of what could have very quickly turned into the mauling of a pizza delivery driver on their lawn. Another summer day in Fontana, California, evidently.
What is a Tuey-Rodriguez charge? Judge gives instruction to deadlocked Lindsay Clancy jury
A Massachusetts judge overseeing the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy gave jurors a Tuey-Rodriguez charge Wednesday after they reported for a second time that they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
The instruction is given to a deadlocked jury to encourage continued deliberations while reminding jurors they should not abandon honestly held beliefs simply to reach a verdict.
Judge William Sullivan sent jurors back to deliberate Tuesday after they first indicated they were struggling to agree. After the jury again reported that it was deadlocked, Sullivan delivered the formal charge.
A Tuey-Rodriguez charge is unique to Massachusetts and is sometimes called a "dynamite charge" because it is intended to help break a jury impasse without coercing a verdict.
The instruction takes its name from two Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decisions. In Commonwealth v. Tuey (1851), the court approved an instruction encouraging deadlocked jurors to re-examine their views with an open mind. More than a century later, in Commonwealth v. Rodriguez (1973), the state's highest court revised that language to remove pressure on minority or holdout jurors, creating a neutral instruction that asks all jurors to carefully consider one another's views while maintaining their own honestly held convictions.
Receiving a Tuey-Rodriguez charge does not mean a verdict is imminent. The instruction is generally considered a necessary step before a judge declares a mistrial because of a hung jury, although it often results in jurors reaching a unanimous verdict after further deliberations.
Retired Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Thomas Drechsler told Fox News Digital the instruction is typically given only after a judge determines jurors have fully deliberated but remain deadlocked.
"The charge encourages the jurors to rethink their own feelings in light of what other jurors feel" while reminding them that no one is in a better position to decide the case than the jurors who heard all the evidence, Drechsler said.
If jurors report they remain deadlocked after receiving the instruction, "there's a higher likelihood" the case could end in a mistrial, Drechsler said, though he noted he has seen juries return verdicts after receiving a Tuey-Rodriguez charge.
Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of her three children — Cora, Dawson and Callan — at the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts, home.
She does not dispute killing the children but argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible at the time. Prosecutors contend Clancy was legally sane and intentionally planned the killings.
Jurors will continue deliberating after receiving the Tuey-Rodriguez charge. If they remain unable to reach a unanimous verdict, Sullivan could declare a mistrial, leaving prosecutors to decide whether to seek a new trial.
Women who start common hormone therapy in their 50s may have 23% lower dementia risk
Women who start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) at a certain age may have a lower dementia risk, a new study suggests.
The study, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, analyzed UK Biobank data of 183,450 postmenopausal women averaging 60 years of age.
The U.K. researchers determined that HRT use was associated with about a 10% lower risk of all-cause dementia and a 16% lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease over a 13-year follow-up period.
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The association was strongest among women who started the therapy between the ages of 46 and 56. It was also high among those who had undergone surgical menopause.
Starting HRT after age 56 was not associated with reduced dementia risk.
Dr. Alexa Fiffick, a board-certified family medicine physician and founder of Concierge Medicine of Westlake in Cleveland, Ohio, noted that this was an observational study that can’t show cause and effect.
"So, it kind of stays where the data has been for a while — that in certain patients, we have no evidence that it really makes a difference," she told Fox News Digital.
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"And, for some patients, such as [those] who go through menopause a little bit younger, whether that's surgically or naturally, or if they have that APOE ε4 genotype that predisposes them to dementia, there may be some benefit."
The researchers also stated that since this was an observational study, it could not establish that HRT prevents dementia but only showed an association.
The study also did not assess any safety outcomes or adverse events related to HRT.
Women who use HRT may differ from non-users in other ways that affect dementia risk, such as their overall health, lifestyle or access to healthcare, the researchers noted.
Although researchers adjusted for many of these factors, some unmeasured differences could still factor into the lower dementia risk seen among HRT users.
The study also did not have detailed information on the types of hormone therapy, the way they were administered or the specific dosages women took.
Most of the people in the study were of European ancestry and tended to be better off financially, so the findings may not apply equally to people from other populations.
This study alone likely doesn't warrant seeking out HRT just for dementia prevention, Fiffick said.
"However, if you're having symptoms, if you feel not yourself, come in, talk to your doctor, have that conversation," she advised.
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There is some data linking menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes and night sweats, with vascular changes in the brain, the doctor noted.
"So, we are very hopeful to see that treating those symptoms may prevent the vascular changes that lead to vascular dementia, but we just don't have that data right now," she said.
"So, it's worth the conversation, it's worth bringing up, but I wouldn't go out of your way for just this purpose."
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HRT does carry some known risks and side effects, Fiffick noted.
For oral versions of estrogen, there may be an increased risk of blood clots. That risk does not appear to exist for transdermal options, such as patches, gels and creams.
Other types of HRT may impact breast activity, overall inflammation, cardiovascular markers and cardiometabolic markers, according to the doctor.
"So, it's not one size fits all, and it's really worth an extensive conversation."
The U.K. researchers plan to conduct randomized controlled trials to confirm that HRT reduces dementia risk. Future studies will include factors such as estrogen-only versus combined therapy, dosage amounts, administration route, treatment duration, age at the start of therapy, menopause type and potentially APOE genotype.
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"I think the more we have studies like this, the more we're going to propel forward the randomized controlled trials to really give women the data they deserve," Fiffick concluded.
"Women deserve to have information to use to make decisions about their bodies. So I'm excited to see the trends heading in that direction."
Abdul El-Sayed dubbed ‘veteran’ by Soros-linked propaganda newspaper distributed in Michigan
DETROIT — A propaganda newspaper that once accepted a massive grant from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation falsely described beleaguered leftist Michigan U.S. Senate candidate as a veteran, according to a copy of that paper obtained by Fox News Digital.
"El-Sayed — veteran, doctor, and former health official — is Democratic Senate pick," reads a headline in the August 2026 edition of The Michigan Independent.
The papers were distributed in Michigan, and photos of the headline made the rounds on social media last week. The breadth of the paper's circulation is unclear, but Fox News Digital obtained a physical copy in Michigan.
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The purportedly independent paper circulating in Michigan has a Washington, D.C. non-profit's name and address — The American Independent Foundation at 800 Maine Ave SW — emblazoned in the bottom left corner of the front cover.
As it turns out, the papers aren't independent at all.
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In 2024, The American Independent Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, received a $500,000 grant from George Soros' Foundation to Promote Open Society, according to that organization's IRS 990 disclosure form.
Soros, a billionaire businessman, investor and philanthropist, is a renowned leftist mega donor known for his support of progressive and Democratic causes. The Washington Free Beacon first reported the Soros connection.
The content of the Michigan Independent story mentions nothing of El-Sayed being a veteran, nor does it clarify that while El-Sayed holds an M.D., he has never been a physician.
El-Sayed's campaign forcefully condemned the publication's classification of the candidate.
"Abdul has never claimed to be a veteran, he never would out of his respect for those who served, and any outlet or group writing about our campaign should do their homework and not allow this to happen again," spokesman Cole Wozniak told Fox News Digital.
The American Independent did not return Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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Twelve other state-based newspapers are part of the network Soros helped fund, including papers in key swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Virginia and others that have become increasingly important in the 2026 midterms due to competitive U.S. Senate races, including Maine and Alaska.
Some of the outlets share the same featured stories. At the time of this writing, both The Ohio Independent and The Pennsylvania Independent feature a story titled "Report: Trump and Big Oil see financial windfall as Americans pay more at pump".
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An associated 501(c)(4) political activism organization, American Independent Media, is also affiliated with the network of news outlets. Each state-based website says it is a project of American Independent Media whose mission is "to use journalism to educate the public, giving them the information they need about local and federal issues."
David Brock, founder of the far-left media watchdog Media Matters and a high-profile Democratic operative, is also connected to the shadowy network of papers.
He is the founder of the 501(c)(3) American Bridge, also a titan in left-wing politics. American Bridge's 501(c)(4) arm, the AB Foundation, donated $23.5 million to American Independent Media in 2024.
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The story about El-Sayed was penned by Alyssa Burr, whose LinkedIn page says she's the Michigan Politics Reporter at The American Independent.
She previously worked at MLive Media Group, which publishes prominent state newspaper Michigan Live, and before that, the New York Times.
Where Tunnel to Towers' Steel Across America tour will stop ahead of 9/11
A 21-foot steel beam recovered from the South Tower of the World Trade Center will make its way up the East Coast this week as part of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation’s Steel Across America tour.
The tour kicked off earlier this year as a way to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and celebrate American service members and first responders. The steel will stop in Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and New York City through Sept. 11.
Wednesday night's stop will be at the Boston Red Sox vs. Seattle Mariners game at Fenway Park in Boston, before heading to the Massachusetts Fallen Heroes Memorial on Thursday.
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The 16,900-pound beam will then head to the nation's capital, where it will be featured at a private event on Friday. It will then head to New York City for another private event in Brooklyn on Sept. 11, before a final appearance at the New York Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys game at MetLife Stadium on Sept. 13.
The beam visited the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Monday, where the superintendent, Lt. Gen. James B. Bartholomees III, said the piece of steel connects the courage shown by first responders on 9/11 with the Americans who answered the call to serve in the years that followed.
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"As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, this piece of steel reminds us of the courage of first responders like Stephen Siller and the countless Americans who answered the call in the years that followed, including generations of West Point graduates," Bartholomees said. "Today, young men and women continue that legacy of service, guided by duty, honor country."
The ceremony brought together cadets, faculty, staff and guests and opened with a color guard and pipe and drum procession by members of the NYPD, FDNY and Port Authority Police Department. The program also included the national anthem, an invocation and blessing of the steel, and a moment of reflection accompanied by "Amazing Grace."
Frank Siller, chairman and CEO of Tunnel to Towers and the brother of fallen FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller, recalled his brother’s final actions on Sept. 11.
"Twenty-five years ago, my brother Stephen strapped on 60 pounds of gear and ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel toward danger, duty and the people who needed him inside those towers," Siller said.
"Duty, honor, country: Those values connect West Point cadets, Stephen and first responders all across this country," he continued. "We are grateful to West Point for welcoming us, and we leave more committed than ever to making sure the sacrifice of Sept. 11 is never forgotten."