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Kate Middleton proves she’s the ‘Sporty Spice Princess’ as her talents surprise even Prince William: experts
Kate Middleton is fully earning her "Sporty Spice Princess" nickname, bringing the same fire to the field as she does to the kitchen.
During a recent visit to the Wakefield Trinity Rugby Club, the Princess of Wales spoke about her own sporting history, noting she played "loads of netball" in school, but skipped rugby and football, People magazine reported.
The mother of three also revealed that her daughter, Princess Charlotte, isn’t officially involved in rugby but joins in when the family plays together at home. Her youngest son, Prince Louis, takes part in "Rugbytots" sessions, while her eldest, Prince George, is becoming a pro.
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"George, now, if we play at home, I do not want to get tackled by George!" the princess shared.
Royal experts told Fox News Digital that Kate’s passion for sports is well-known — and it’s no surprise she’s passing it on to her children.
"Princess Catherine has definitely earned her nickname ‘Sporty Spice Princess,’" British broadcaster and photographer Helena Chard told Fox News Digital.
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"She has famously thrown herself into various athletic activities during engagements, showing her great skill and competitive spirit," Chard shared. "From rugby drills at Twickenham to tennis with champions, high-speed sailing, field hockey in heels and, more recently, she tried curling in Scotland."
"We can’t forget Princess Kate goes deep-sea diving with her husband," Chard noted. "They are both accomplished divers with PADI Advanced qualifications. Now, Prince George joins them in shark spotting during private holidays in Mustique."
While Kate and her husband, Prince William, share a mutual love of sports, experts said they are fiercely competitive — but there's one activity Kate enjoys that William just can't get into.
"What’s unusual — and a surprise to many — is her penchant for wild, cold-water swimming and dipping in streams and pools, often at night," British royals expert Hilary Fordwich told Fox News Digital.
"Prince William has referred to it as her ‘craziest’ hobby and called her ‘slightly bonkers,’" Fordwich said. "But it’s been said she finds it both invigorating and mood-boosting."
"The hobby surprised both William and me!" quipped royal expert Ian Pelham Turner. "At first, William thought it was rather mad, but after much encouragement, he’s now tried it too."
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Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams described the 44-year-old princess as "extremely sporty" and eager to take on new activities. He noted that the Princess of Wales has spoken about her love of nature and how embracing the outdoors helped her heal during her cancer diagnosis. She announced she was in remission in January 2025.
Since then, the family has moved to the outskirts of London.
"Her keenness for tennis — as she’s the patron of Wimbledon — is well known," Fitzwilliams said. "She reportedly took private lessons at the Hurlingham Club and has an ‘incredible forehand.’"
"She loves skiing, a favorite sport among the royals. It’s been such fun to see how she and William incorporate sports such as archery and dragon boat racing into foreign tours. It gives these trips a special cachet — and she always looks so graceful while playing."
Although her connection to nature isn’t new, royal commentator Amanda Matta previously told Fox News Digital that it has become "more central" to the princess’s public image over the past year.
"Framing time outdoors as her ‘hobby’ works because it’s so accessible. Who can’t manage a walk in the woods?" Matta said.
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"It reinforces the idea of Kate as grounded and relatable, someone who genuinely enjoys the same simple pleasures as the rest of us," Matta added.
Turner revealed the princess has earned the nickname "Sporty Spice Princess" for more than one reason. And after breaking a sweat, this other hobby comes in handy.
"The princess has many unusual — some may say hidden — talents," Turner explained. "She’s a very proficient scuba diver, but perhaps her most unexpected talent is being a great sausage maker. It’s been said she makes delicious delicacies with meats and chutneys, which the late queen especially enjoyed."
Chard agreed.
"She’s been described as an avid cook and a real foodie," Chard said. "Princess Catherine loves preparing hearty comfort meals for her family. Roast chicken remains a firm favorite, but she’s also known for making delicious sausages with her trusty sausage maker."
"It’s been said her children love toad in the hole — a traditional dish — as well as sausage and mash. They’re also learning cooking techniques as they regularly lend a hand. Reportedly, Prince George is quite the dab hand at the ‘Sausage Catherine Wheel.’"
"Even a spicy curry makes the menu — although not too spicy for Prince William," Chard added.
Vanity Fair correspondent Katie Nicholl previously revealed to the outlet that in the evenings, Kate can be spotted cooking William’s favorite meal, roast chicken, while also making use of her sausage-maker.
"She has started making homemade pots of fruit jam," wrote Nicholl, adding that Kate once gifted friends strawberry jam and plum preserves.
Kate later told Mary Berry that William tried to pull out all the stops in the kitchen to impress her early on in their relationship.
"He’s very good at breakfast," said Kate. "In our university days, he used to cook all sorts of meals. I think that’s when he was trying to impress me, Mary. Things like Bolognese sauce and things like that."
Turner also told Fox News Digital that beekeeping is one of the princess’s hobbies — and it helped her bond with the late Queen Elizabeth II.
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"Queen Elizabeth II reportedly loved receiving honey as a small gift," Turner said. "Prince Philip was also known as the family’s barbecue master at Balmoral Castle, so the princess’s sausages would have been a treat."
Fordwich said the princess’s beloved activities have made her appear more relatable as a royal — something the British public appreciates about their future queen consort.
"All of her talents and hobbies are endearing," Fordwich said. "She also remains dignified and authentic. I believe her many talents come from her middle-class upbringing, where she learned — like so many of us — from parents who had to be self-reliant and resilient."
In September, the couple visited the National Federation of Women’s Institutes in London. William, who quickly noticed the baked goods at the royal engagement, said, "I know my brownies," People magazine reported.
"William is very fussy about it," the Princess of Wales remarked — and he agreed.
"Never put nuts in a brownie," William said.
"I had to learn the hard way!" Kate quipped.
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Chard previously told Fox News Digital that Kate’s "down-to-earth personality," along with her friendly and caring approach to life, has earned her a strong rapport with the public.
"Catherine’s positive attitude as she carries out royal duties — her early-years work with passion, duty, commitment and hard work, all with a bright smile — is commendable," Chard said.
"The future of the monarchy is bright with Princess Catherine and her husband at the helm, and this is the news we should be shouting from the rooftops."
What Tyler Robinson's defense wants hidden and why prosecutors and media say no in court
Utah prosecutors and a broad coalition of media organizations are pushing back against attempts by alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s defense to shield court filings from public view, arguing there's no justification for the secrecy.
Prosecutors argued that Robinson's defense has failed to both justify secretive filings and to explain how their public release would violate his right to a fair trial in the assassination of the Turning Point USA founder. They wrote that the remedy for the defense's concerns should be part of jury selection, not secret pre-trial filings.
"Given Defendant's inadequate justification for restricting access to his motion, and the existence of these 'reasonable ways to ensure a fair trial' despite pre-trial publicity, Defendant has not rebutted the presumption that the public should have access to his motion," Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard wrote to the judge last week.
For the media group, which includes Fox News along with other national and local outlets, the constitutional arguments largely weigh the First Amendment rights of the public as a whole against Robinson's right to a fair trial.
Lawyers for the media coalition have argued they are being forced to guess what evidence the defense wants excluded, because the underlying motion was filed under seal on Jan. 9. This creates confusion for the public, they warned.
According to defense filings, the public’s right of access is not absolute, while Robinson's right to a fair trial is. They want their 200-page motion to block news cameras to the courtroom classified, arguing that its undisclosed contents could unfairly prejudice the jury pool against their client.
"My take is that the defendant’s efforts to keep things under wraps is doomed," said Royal Oakes, a media attorney and legal analyst who successfully convinced a California judge to televise the OJ Simpson murder trial in the 1990s. "Not every document, snippet of testimony, or fact is automatically open to the public and press simply because it relates to a legal proceeding — but nearly everything is."
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The Supreme Court has found "pretrial publicity, even if pervasive and concentrated, cannot be regarded as leading automatically and in every kind of criminal case to an unfair trial," according to a filing from the prosecution.
"Any paperwork submitted by one of the parties supporting or opposing the sealing of documents, or the closing of court proceedings, or the approval or disapproval of cameras should absolutely be public documents," Oakes told Fox News Digital. "Transparency not only encourages people to do the right thing, it lets the public and the press push back if secrecy is unwarranted."
Robinson's defense has also taken issue with closeup video of his face, which they claimed was abused by "lip readers" to distort courtroom conversations, and is accusing the media of trying to "turn a profit at the expense of allowing this case to proceed as the Constitution requires—both public and fair."
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"The News Media uses their platforms to, for example, call for Mr. Robinson's death, to have 'body language experts' make irrelevant and entirely unscientific claims about Mr. Robinson's character, and to transmit video worldwide that is in clear violation of the Court's orders," the defense argued.
The media coalition pushed back hard against those claims, arguing the defense is misapplying outdated law. At least one of their arguments relies on a precedent that was effectively overruled, decades ago, by the Supreme Court, according to a filing from media lawyers.
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"The seven-to-one reversal of the closure order in Richmond Newspapers, relying entirely upon the First Amendment, represented an extraordinary reevaluation by, and realignment of, the Court on the issue of access," media attorneys wrote. "As a result, 'Gannett was effectively overruled within a year of its release.'"
Robinson is accused of fatally shooting Kirk from a rooftop during a public speaking event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, back in September. According to previously released court filings from the prosecution, Robinson is believed to have spent about a week planning the murder and allegedly confessed to his lover, friends and his family.
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A text message exchange that prosecutors allege took place between Robinson and Lance Twiggs, the lover and roommate who is cooperating with investigators contains what appears to be an explicit confession:
"You weren’t the one who did it right????" Twiggs wrote.
"I am, I’m sorry," Robinson allegedly replied.
Defense attorneys have not addressed the alleged exchange or responded to a number of Fox News Digital's requests for comment.
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He has not yet entered a plea, and prosecutors have not yet convinced the court of probable cause due to repeated postponements of his preliminary hearing and arraignment.
Robinson could face the death penalty if convicted of the top charge against him, aggravated murder.
Separately, the defense is vying to have prosecutors kicked off the case over a purported conflict of interest. One of the deputy Utah County attorneys on the case had an adult child who was in the crowd at UVU during Kirk's murder.
Prosecutors have denied a conflict. Robinson is due back in court Tuesday afternoon for a continuation of a hearing on the matter. Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray will return to the witness stand.
Distillery owner shocked by loaded Al Capone-era gun hidden in wall: 'Relieved we found it'
An Illinois distillery owner was astonished recently when he came across a hidden gun from the era of Al Capone — still fully loaded with historic ammo.
The gun — a Colt 1908 manufactured in 1921 — was found at the Thornton Distilling Company, housed in the oldest standing brewery in Illinois.
The building was under the control of the Capone and Torrio families, as well as the Chicago Outfit, during the Prohibition era, according to historical accounts. It was established in 1857.
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Andrew Howell, the founder of the Thornton Distilling Company, told Fox News Digital that he spotted the pistol inside the wall of an underground limestone well.
The weapon was "sealed inside what appears to be an old, abandoned exhaust vent from a potbelly stove," said Howell.
"I was checking the pathway to see if we could run a conduit through it when I noticed some loose mortar on the side," he recalled.
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"Upon pulling back two large pieces, I found the gun. It seems it was sealed in there long before the mortar began to deteriorate, but it's hard for us to say when."
The distillery owner said the gun was holstered and loaded with a full magazine.
Officers from the Thornton Police Department ran the gun's serial numbers and confirmed that the gun "is free of any criminal associations," Howell said.
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"They noted that the ammunition appears to date back to the 1920s," he added.
"Initially, we weren’t sure of its age, so we wanted to ensure it wasn't reported as missing."
It's likely that it was hidden in the 1920s, Howell said. As for how he was feeling when he found the gun, he said it was a mix of excitement and anxiety.
"I'm relieved we found it before any guests did, as we host tour groups down there often," he said.
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"The vent is quite offputting, so we feel fortunate that a guest didn't reach in there and explore."
Howell mentioned the gun adds to a long line of interesting artifacts found at the brewery, including beer order postcards from the mid-1800s.
"These items are on display at our bar and restaurant, along with full bottles of beer that were found and pre-Prohibition signage that we discovered buried outside the building," he said.
"We plan to showcase the pistol alongside these artifacts," Howell added.
"We look forward to learning more about its history."
Celebs decry ICE agents, Trump government as 'monsters' and the 'worst of the worst' in scathing critiques
Celebrities have adopted scathing rhetoric against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and raids over the past few weeks.
Since the Golden Globe Awards earlier this month, many actors and performers have used their platforms to criticize the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics. Several actors began wearing "ICE OUT" or "BE GOOD" pins to the awards show and have explicitly called out the agency during the event.
"Of course, this is for [Renee Good], who was murdered by an ICE agent, and it's really sad. I know people are out marching and all today, and we need to speak up," comedian Wanda Sykes told Variety on the red carpet prior to the show. "We need to be out there and shut this rogue government down, because it's just awful what they're doing to people."
More recently, at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, actress Natalie Portman suggested that ICE was part of the "worst of the worst of humanity" while criticizing the deaths caused by immigration enforcement raids.
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"What’s going on in our country right now is absolutely horrific with what the federal government, Trump’s government, Kristi Noem, ICE, what they are doing is really the worst of the worst of humanity," Portman said.
"Breaking Bad" actor Giancarlo Esposito went even further and called for a "revolution" over ICE in an interview with Variety on Tuesday.
"This is time for a revolution — and they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting," the actor said. "We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world]."
"Some very rich old White men are exerting their power to suppress our own people, thus creating a feeling of civil war in the streets, preparing the haters to hate, teaching them how to shoot," he added.
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Other stars directly called out ICE from their own platforms, such as "The Breakfast Club" star Molly Ringwald.
"They are monsters," Ringwald said about ICE agents in a four-minute Instagram video on Tuesday. "They are human beings as well, but they have forgotten that they're human beings, and they have become monsters."
Actress Eva Longoria posted a video to her Facebook account on Wednesday suggesting that publicized victims such as Renee Good or Alex Pretti were only the tip of the iceberg.
"They're blatantly murdering U.S. citizens, detaining five-year-olds like Liam Ramos, patrolling schools and churches. So imagine what they're doing behind closed doors at detention centers with no cameras around," Longoria said.
Pop star Olivia Rodrigo took to Instagram to condemn federal immigration operations in Minnesota.
"ICE’s actions are unconscionable but we are not powerless. Our actions matter. I stand with Minnesota," she wrote.
A vocal Trump critic, actor Mark Ruffalo, strongly condemned the killing of Pretti in a post to Bluesky.
"Cold blooded murder in the streets of the USA by an occupying military gang, creating havoc. We have fought wars in other countries for less than this," he wrote.
"Fatal Attraction" star Glen Close expressed her distaste with the Trump administration for ordering the aggressive immigration operations.
"I am outraged and sickened by what is happening under the Trump regime: the cruelty, inhumanity, and arrogance, the voracious corruption, the cowardice, the sickening hypocrisy, the blatant manipulation of facts, and now the cold-blooded murder of American citizens," she said.
Famed actress Jamie Lee Curtis condemned the deaths of Pretti and Good, expressing pride with people protesting ICE in Minnesota.
"THESE WERE AMERICANS! SHOT BY OUR GOVERNMENT," Curtis wrote. "Let the ICE STORM of RESISTANCE RING LOUDLY."
In a lengthy Instagram post, supermodel Bella Hadid called for the abolition of ICE strongly criticizing their hostile tactics.
"Abolish ICE. How much more can America take? There are so many changes that need to happen within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement& morals that the American administration needs to uphold. This is outrageous, dangerous, horror movie-like- behavior," Hadid wrote.
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Singer Bruce Springsteen wrote and released a song earlier this week about Minneapolis, calling officers "King Trump's private army."
"Neath an occupier’s boots / King Trump’s private army from the DHS/ Guns belted to their coats / Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law / Or so their story goes," lyrics state. "And there were bloody footprints / Where mercy should have stood / And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets / Alex Pretti and Renee Good."
He added, "Trump’s federal thugs beat up on / His face and his chest / Then we heard the gunshots / And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead."
Pop singer Billie Eilish has been one of the more outspoken celebrities against the agency, claiming that ICE agents have been kidnapping, assaulting and murdering "peaceful protesters" during a recent award speech.
She also called out other celebrities for not speaking out more against ICE and the Trump administration.
"Hey my fellow celebrities u gonna speak up?" Eilish wrote.
Late night hosts have also leveled stronger attacks against ICE agents after months of mocking immigration enforcement raids.
"Just one atrocity after another being committed by this gang of poorly-trained, shamefully led mask-wearing goons," Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday. "And that is what they are. They're goons committing vile, heartless and even criminal acts. And it's sickening to watch and it's frustrating to watch."
"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert faced backlash after claiming that ICE agents were worse than Nazi soldiers on his show Wednesday.
"Yes, do not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That's an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces," Colbert said.
House panel moves to consider criminal referrals for the Clintons
The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on whether to refer former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal charges.
The House Rules Committee, the final gatekeeper before most legislation gets a chamber-wide vote, is slated to consider a pair of contempt of Congress resolutions targeting the Clintons at 4 p.m. ET on Monday.
Those resolutions are expected to pass through the committee along party lines, teeing them up for final passage as early as Tuesday or Wednesday.
Both Clintons were subpoenaed to appear before the House Oversight Committee to testify for Congress' probe into Jeffrey Epstein.
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Despite months of back-and-forth between the former first couple's lawyers and Oversight staff, they never appeared on terms dictated by Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., pushing him to initiate contempt proceedings.
"This shows that no one is above the law," Comer told reporters after his panel advanced the resolutions last month. "I'm just real proud of the committee and look forward to hopefully getting the Epstein documents in very quickly and trying to get answers for the American people."
The committee voted along bipartisan lines to move forward with contempt resolutions against the Clintons. Nine Democrats joined the Republicans to advance the resolution against Bill Clinton, while three voted to advance Hillary Clinton's.
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The majority of Democrats, however, have accused Comer of partisan motivations behind his Clinton contempt efforts.
The Clintons were two of 10 people subpoenaed by Comer as part of the panel's investigation into Epstein. The subpoenas were issued following a bipartisan vote by an Oversight subcommittee panel during an unrelated hearing on illegal immigration.
Democrats on the committee have pointed out that Comer has not pushed to hold others who did not appear in contempt, nor has he made any threats against the DOJ for failing to produce all of its documents on Epstein by a deadline agreed to by Congress late last year. The department has produced a fraction of the documents expected so far.
Comer has said he is in contact with the DOJ about its document production.
If the vote this week is successful, the House will have recommended both the Clintons for prosecution by the DOJ.
A contempt of Congress charge is a felony misdemeanor that carries a maximum fine of $100,000 and up to a year in jail.
PALANTIR CTO SHYAM SANKAR: The American people are being lied to about AI
The American people are being lied to about artificial intelligence (AI). On one hand, we’re offered apocalyptic prophecies of job loss and oppression—even the extinction of the human race. On the other, we hear utopian fantasies of a future without toil, without sickness, perhaps even without death—a life without meaning or mission.
The utopians and the doomers commit the same error: they neglect human agency.
The future of AI is not an inevitability to be endured by the American people—it is for us, the American people, to shape.
AI is not a divinity. It cannot snap its fingers and eliminate jobs; people will use AI to cut jobs or create them. AI cannot decide to oppress us; people will build AI tools that either enforce privacy and civil liberties or erode them. AI did not choose to write poems or generate pornography; people chose to build cheap consumer goods rather than genuine tools of productivity.
These are choices you and I must make every day.
I’ve spent the past two decades alongside men and women who are building the future of American AI. They include some of the best software engineers in the world, but also college dropouts, veterans, blue-collar autodidacts, and nurses. They don’t treat AI as something that will happen to them—they recognize it as a tool for them to wield to make themselves more productive and our country safer and more prosperous. And so should you.
Below are some principles and themes I’ve seen informing the people and organizations wielding AI effectively and in service of worthy ends: reindustrialization, deterrence, improved healthcare, and more.
The job-loss narrative is a ploy to attract investors, drive media attention, and consolidate political power. The real promise of AI in the enterprise is to make the American worker 50x more productive—to unleash his taste and agency. This isn’t speculation; it’s reality.
I’ve seen maritime industrial base manufacturers use AI to open a third shift. I’ve spoken with the ICU nurse who learned to wield AI so she could spend more time at the bedside, where she’s needed most.
Doomerism is a luxury of the ivory tower; the future of AI is being built on frontlines and factory floors.
For a century, American prosperity was underwritten by a simple bargain: when the worker produces more, the worker earns more. That bargain was broken in the 1970s—not by technology, but by policy choices that stripped workers of power. We will not repeat that mistake.
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When AI doubles output, the worker who wields it should see that gain reflected in his paycheck, equity stake and share of the enterprise. This is not redistribution—it is recognition. The worker is not a cost center; he is a co-creator of value. Treat him accordingly.
The electrical engineer in Georgia who enlisted in the Navy out of high school deserves the same capabilities as the Stanford computer science grad in Silicon Valley. He deserves access to instruments of genuine productivity, not consumer toys.
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Before Gutenberg, a book cost as much as a house. Knowledge was locked in monasteries and chained to shelves. The printing press broke that monopoly on information. AI is the printing press of our age—the same technology that serves Fortune 500 companies should serve the worker in Tulsa, the nurse in Tampa and the farmer in North Dakota.
The benefits of AI belong to all Americans.
AI is the product of American grit, ingenuity, and culture. It is our birthright. No American worker should be left behind for lack of training. Workers should have access to meaningful AI education that helps them bend AI to their will—not the other way around. The ICU nurse doesn't need to learn to code; she needs AI to surface the right patient data at the right moment—so that her clinical judgment, honed over years at the bedside, can be applied faster and more accurately.
The American worker is not deficient; he is under-leveraged. AI is the lever.
The frontline worker understands what the C-suite cannot. Policy should be shaped by practitioners—the ICU nurse, the manufacturing technician, the logistics coordinator—not by academics, consultants, or lawyers.
Toyota built the most successful manufacturing system in history on a simple premise: the worker knows best. Its Creative Idea Suggestion System has operated for more than 70 years. Ideas flow up from the factory floor, not down from corner offices. The result: billions in value created, and a culture where every worker is an owner of quality.
Push power to the tip of the spear and let the American worker do what he does best.
AI should eliminate bureaucracy, not add to it. No new compliance theater. No "AI governance" committees designed to slow things down and centralize power in "managers." AI should empower the American worker to move faster, not slow him down.
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Every layer of process that stands between the frontline worker and their ability to do their job is deadweight to be destroyed.
AI development and deployment should prioritize American workers and American industry. The goal is not efficiency in the abstract—it is American prosperity in the concrete.
China's manufacturing productivity grows at 6% per year. Ours grows at 0.4%. If we don't invest in AI and automation, we'll lose. The American worker with AI superpowers erodes China's competitive advantage.
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I see these principles embodied and practiced every day by men and women who are not invited to speak on panels or record podcasts and publish op-eds. They are quietly leading by example and proving what is possible when the most powerful technology ever created meets the most capable workforce ever assembled.
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Armed with AI, the American worker will rebuild our industrial base. He will outproduce any competitor. He will create prosperity not just for himself but for his children, who will inherit not a diminished nation, but an ascendant one.
Silicon Valley builds AI. Wall Street funds it. Washington regulates it.
But the American worker—on the factory floor, in the ICU, in the field—wields it.
And that will make all the difference.
SEN BERNIE SANDERS: We need to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, Trump is right
We live in a nation of unprecedented wealth and income inequality — where a handful of billionaires are getting much richer while the working class falls further and further behind.
Just since Election Day, while millions of Americans are struggling to afford housing, food, electricity and healthcare, the three wealthiest people in America have become over $625 billion richer and are now collectively worth $1.3 trillion. Meanwhile, as a result of a rigged political system, billionaires now pay a lower effective tax rate than the average truck driver, teacher or nurse.
At the same time, Wall Street has never been more consolidated and powerful than it is today. Incredibly, just four Wall Street firms now manage roughly $38 trillion in assets — more than 120% of our annual GDP — and are major shareholders in over 95% of S&P 500 companies. Further, just five massive financial institutions led by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, American Express, Citigroup and Capitol One now account for nearly 70% of all credit card transactions and just two giant credit card networks (Visa and Mastercard) process well over 80% of credit card transactions.
With that enormous concentration of ownership, Wall Street has incredible impact over the prices, interest rates and fees we pay and the well-being of workers.
Within that reality, President Donald Trump went to Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, to speak about his so-called "affordability agenda." Really? Is there anyone left in America who does not understand that Trump’s concern about "affordability" is nothing more than a flailing attempt to shore up his rapidly declining poll numbers?
Remember: This is a president who gave a front-row seat at his inauguration to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, and who filled his Cabinet with more billionaires than any administration in American history.
This is a president who gave a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the top 1%, while throwing 15 million people off of healthcare and did nothing to prevent healthcare premiums from doubling, on average, for 20 million Americans.
This is a president who is working with Elon Musk and the other Big Tech billionaires to push AI and robotics on the American people, which will result in the loss of tens of millions of decent-paying jobs.
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But, I have to admit, there is one issue that Trump has identified that does make sense. He is right when he says that big banks are ripping off the American people with outrageously high credit card interest rates.
In 2024, credit card companies raked in more than $190 billion from interest and fees charging obscenely high interest rates, while bombarding Americans with roughly 3 billion solicitations. Today, as a result of their efforts to addict Americans into purchasing their high-interest plastic, Americans are drowning in a record $1.23 trillion in credit card debt.
Despite the fact that big banks can borrow money at less than 4% interest from the Federal Reserve, the average interest rate consumers are forced to pay for credit cards is nearly 24%. Yes. 24%.
In other words, while working-class Americans pay unconscionably high interest rates, Wall Street banks and their executives make out like bandits.
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When big banks charge 24% or 30% interest on credit cards, they are not engaged in the business of "making credit available." They are involved in extortion and loan sharking — squeezing working families who are already stretched to the breaking point. And that should not be acceptable in the United States of America.
So, what do we do about it?
Trump has proposed to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. That is a good idea. The problem is that his proposal would only last for one year and, in many instances, would end up costing consumers even more than they are paying right now.
Today, many big banks already lure people into signing up for their credit cards with introductory rates of 0% only to jack those rates up — sometimes to 36% — once the teaser period expires. In other words, what Trump is proposing is nothing more than a bait and switch.
If we are serious about helping working families, we need something real — not another scam.
That is why I introduced bipartisan legislation to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for at least five years. After that, I believe we should move toward a permanent cap of no more than 15% — similar to the long-standing statutory cap that credit unions have operated under since 1980.
Surprise, surprise. The billionaires on Wall Street and organizations representing the financial services industry like the American Bankers Association don’t like this idea (you can read their full statement here).
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who we all know stays up nights worrying about the needs of working families, has come out strongly against this bill. I wonder why? Could it have something to do with the fact that last year, Dimon made $770 million in compensation while the bank he runs made $57 billion in profits charging Americans interest rates as high as 30%?
Mr. Dimon claims my bipartisan bill would restrict access to credit for low-income consumers. He has it backwards. This bill would restrict JPMorgan Chase and other financial behemoths from charging working-class Americans predatory credit card interest rates that trap them into a vicious cycle of debt.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have estimated that my legislation would save the American people $100 billion a year in interest payments or about $899 a year.
How could this legislation benefit working families?
Let me give you one example.
A 28% interest rate on a credit card balance of $5,000 can cost a consumer as much as $11,000 in interest and take up to 24 years to pay off. With a 10% credit card interest rate cap, that consumer would save more than $7,200 in interest. The bank would still be able to make over $3,700 in profit off that consumer. It just wouldn’t be able to gouge them.
Let’s be clear: Charging outrageously high interest rates is not a financial service. It is usury — a practice condemned by every major religion on Earth.
In "The Divine Comedy," Dante reserved a special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for people who charged usurious interest rates. Today, we don’t need the hellfire and the pitchforks, we don’t need the rivers of boiling blood, but we do need a national usury law that caps interest rates on credit cards at 10%.
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This is not a radical idea. Polling suggests that it is enormously popular. The American people — Democrats, Republicans and Independents agree: Credit card companies are ripping us off. It has got to stop.
This is also a matter of economic justice.
When Wall Street’s greed and recklessness brought the economy to the verge of collapse in 2008, causing millions of Americans to lose their homes, jobs and life savings, the taxpayers came to the rescue. The Federal Reserve gave these huge banks trillions of dollars in emergency loans at virtually zero interest. We bailed out the banks.
Now it’s time for Congress to stand with working families, end Wall Street greed and pass legislation that caps credit card interest rates at 10%.
Mamdani’s class warfare against New York businesses is ‘economic vandalism’
Last fall, when New York’s business community warned that the election of a self-described democratic socialist as mayor would trigger an assault on the city’s economic engine, we were waved off as hysterical. The press assured us that Zohran Mamdani was "evolving," that his rhetoric would soften, that we should focus instead on his vague promises of "affordability."
That reassurance evaporated almost instantly.
Barely two weeks after his swearing-in — amid lofty rhetoric about the "warmth of collectivism" — the Mamdani administration unveiled its real agenda. Sam Levine, the newly installed commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and a veteran of Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission, released a sensational report accusing companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats of "diverting" more than $500 million from delivery workers.
The charge was dramatic. It was also profoundly misleading.
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The report was less an exercise in economic analysis than a political weapon — crafted to inflame public opinion against large, visible companies operating in New York City. What it obscured is far more important than what it alleged.
In 2021, New York imposed a delivery-worker pay mandate exceeding $21 an hour — one of the highest in the nation, rivaled only by Seattle, another city governed by ideological experimentation. Proponents promised higher earnings without consequences. Economics, as usual, was ignored.
Anyone who has taken Economics 101 knows that artificially inflating labor costs does not create free prosperity. It raises prices, reduces demand and forces businesses to restructure. Unsurprisingly, delivery platforms responded by shifting tipping to post-checkout — exactly how tipping works in restaurants, ride-sharing and countless other service industries.
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That was not exploitation. It was adaptation.
Yet City Hall was not finished. Lawmakers then mandated that apps prompt tipping before service is rendered, requiring preset options of at least 10%. At a time when consumers already suffer from widespread "tip fatigue," this was another blow to affordability — and to demand.
Levine’s report then claimed that these changes "cost" workers over $500 million. What the press conference omitted — though the report quietly admitted — was that delivery workers earned $1.2 billion more overall under the new system. That inconvenient fact did not fit the narrative, so it was buried.
Even more telling: Levine’s own department had previously acknowledged this very dynamic. In 2022, DCWP explicitly stated that apps could discourage or eliminate tipping to offset higher mandated wages — and that workers would still receive substantial pay increases. Today’s outrage directly contradicts yesterday’s regulatory guidance.
Rather than correct course, the Mamdani administration doubled down. The mayor appeared at a press conference alongside activists demanding a $35-an-hour minimum wage for delivery workers — nearly double what many first responders earn. During his campaign, Mamdani promised $30 an hour by 2030. Now the demand is $35 immediately. Reality is optional; slogans are mandatory.
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What New York truly needs is not performative class warfare, but policies that expand take-home pay without destroying jobs. One obvious reform? End the tax on tips. Tips are not corporate profits; they are direct compensation from customer to worker. Taxing them penalizes service workers while discouraging generosity and transparency. Eliminating that tax would raise incomes instantly — without raising prices or killing jobs.
The broader issue is not delivery apps. It is a governing philosophy that treats profit as sin and enterprise as something to be punished. Using distorted reports to publicly shame companies is not leadership — it is economic vandalism.
For New York to remain the world’s capital of commerce, it needs cooperation among workers, businesses and consumers — not ideological warfare. Affordability does not come from mandates and misinformation. It comes from growth, competition and policies that reward work.
Socialism has been tested countless times. It always fails. Let us hope New York’s new mayor learns that lesson quickly. If not, delivery companies won’t be the only casualties. Every entrepreneur, employer and investor in the city will soon find themselves in the crosshairs — and, as always, it will be ordinary New Yorkers who pay the price.
Mom of NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reported missing in Arizona: ‘Very concerning’
Authorities in Arizona confirmed late Sunday that they are searching for the mother of NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen Saturday evening at her residence near East Skyline Drive and North Campbell Avenue, north of Tucson, around 9:30 p.m., according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
A relative of Guthrie’s contacted authorities around noon Sunday to report her missing, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said.
"We’re pretty much just throwing everything at this that we can. Guthrie is 84 years old and is not of good physical health, and so naturally that’s a great concern," Nanos told reporters later Sunday, adding that the scene at the house raised "some concerns for us as well."
"This is very concerning to us. We don’t typically get the sheriff out at a scene like this. But it’s very concerning what we’re learning from the house," Nanos said. "And so we’ll just continue. The detective’s homicide team is out right now looking at the scene as well."
Nanos confirmed the woman is Savannah Guthrie’s mother. He said she is of "good sound mind" but has physical ailments that limit her mobility.
The sheriff said investigators are not ruling out foul play and noted that the circumstances were serious enough to involve the department’s criminal investigation unit.
Shooting in Georgia hotel room leaves 1 officer killed, another seriously wounded: 'Unprovoked attack'
A Georgia man shot a pair of police officers who were questioning him at a hotel after he invited them into his room on Sunday, killing one and seriously wounding the other, according to officials.
The shooting suspect, identified as 35-year-old Kevin Andrews of Decatur, was also shot by one of the officers during the incident, Gwinnett County Police Chief J.D. McClure said during a news conference.
Andrews was transported to a hospital for medical treatment and is expected to survive. He will be transferred to the county jail once he is released from the hospital.
The shootout happened on Sunday morning near Stone Mountain, located about 25 miles northeast of Atlanta.
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The two officers responded to a Holiday Inn Express after a person in South Carolina reported that someone had fraudulently used their credit card at the hotel, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. The agency said the officers spoke with the front desk clerk, who informed them that the room was being rented by Andrews.
After learning that Andrews had an active warrant out of DeKalb County for failure to appear, the officers went to the hotel room to arrest him, according to the agency.
McClure said the suspect greeted the officers at the door to his room and invited them inside.
"They began discussing the scenario of the incident with him," McClure said. "And at some point, the suspect produced a handgun and, in an unprovoked attack, fired at our Gwinnett County police officers."
The chief identified the officers as Pradeep Tamang and David Reed.
Tamang, 25, died from his injuries at a hospital. He joined the police department in 2024.
Reed was hospitalized in serious but stable condition on Sunday afternoon. He joined the department in 2015.
Gov. Brian Kemp said he was "mourning the loss of a brave officer" and "praying for the swift recovery of another."
"This is the latest reminder of the dangers law enforcement face on a daily basis, and we are grateful for every one that puts themselves in harm’s way to protect their fellow Georgians," Kemp said on X.
Andrews has been charged with one count of malice murder, one count of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault upon a public safety officer and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which customarily handles shootings involving officers in the Peach State, is handling the investigation, which remains ongoing.
The agency said the case will be handed over to the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office for review once the probe is complete.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.