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Grocery-store switch could save Americans money while shaking up dinner routines
If you're at a loss for what to make for dinner, a trip to an international supermarket could be just what you need to spark some culinary inspiration — while potentially saving a little money on your grocery bill.
Whether you'll actually save, however, depends on what's in your cart.
"Savvy shoppers can compare and see whether or not they're getting good deals," Barbara E. Kahn, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, told Fox News Digital.
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"If the supermarket caters to a specialized segment, they may sell enough to reduce their costs of stocking those specialized items," she said.
"On the other hand, it's possible that some of these specialized international markets are stocking premium products that you can't get anywhere else, so there's an exclusivity aspect to it, and some of those prices might be higher."
Research shows that savings at international supermarkets tend to be category-specific.
International grocery stores, particularly Asian chains, have been growing their revenue in recent years.
The Associated Press reported in August 2025 on IBISWorld data showing that international supermarkets and small grocery stores took in $55.8 billion in 2024 and had grown roughly 3% a year since 2019, with revenue forecast to top $64 billion by 2029.
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Analysts have attributed rising demand to demographic shifts, such as growth in Asian and Hispanic populations, and consumers — especially younger shoppers — seeking new and different flavors.
In addition to being a place to shop for a deal, international supermarkets can get the creative juices flowing in the kitchen.
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Adding just one or two unfamiliar ingredients to your cooking can make a big difference, Palina Louangketh, director of the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora, told the AP.
"Coming here to an international market, you get both a dose of cultural experience but also healthy, fresh exotic ingredients," she said.
"It doesn't have to be so scary or unique. If you pair your protein with vegetables and with a starch and add savoriness to it — soy sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce — you're covered."
You also don't need to whip up an elaborate meal full of exotic ingredients right from the get-go.
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"Look at something you really like and see the iterations of it around the world," Beryl Shereshewsky, a New York-based video producer whose YouTube channel focuses on food and cultures from around the world, told the AP. "That way you add a couple of new ingredients and you're trying something new from something that's familiar."
International supermarkets can be confusing and intimidating. They may also be difficult to find.
Shereshewsky recommended venturing outside your usual neighborhood to find new shops.
"I think you would be surprised by how many international markets exist, even in small towns and cities," she said. "Everywhere you go in America, you’re going to find immigrants, and those immigrants are still cooking their foods from their countries and cultures."
Experts also suggest researching recipes and coming up with a shopping list before heading to the store.
15 shot, one dead — and Chicago’s leaders expect us to move on as if nothing happened
I never like being around my phone late at night. That’s bad news time. But I’m the pastor, and I always keep my phone by my side for better or worse.
It went off several nights ago, with a stream of texts coming in about a shooting at Washington Park. It’s not even a mile away from our community center on the South Side of Chicago. It was a Saturday night, and families were gathering there for a reunion of former Robert Taylor Homes residents. For those of you who don’t know, the Robert Taylor Homes were housing projects that had been torn down, and many of these former neighbors had to find their own way. But on this night, they had come back together and brought chairs, food and their children. It was going to be a fun night at the park at the end of a hot day.
News reports said the crowd had remained in the park past its 11 p.m. closing, and nearby police were helping clear it out. At 11:37 p.m., several masked men opened fire. Someone shot back. After all the chaos and screaming, 15 people were hit by bullets, and Rontonio Guterz, a father of three young girls, was dead. He had been shot six times. His family went from going to a party to planning a funeral.
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By the time the weekend ended, Chicago had seen more than 40 people shot and three people killed. Gov. JB Pritzker posted on X that the Washington Park shooting "left Chicago mourning" and that "gun violence has no place here."
Mayor Brandon Johnson put a statement out on X and highlighted the impact of gun violence. That was about it. Blood on the streets and clichés from our leaders.
What dismays me is not that the violence happened. Rather, it is the tolerance. I’ve seen communities elsewhere in America go into an uproar over one death and demand lasting change.
On the South Side, 15 people are shot at a picnic, and our leaders can’t even muster a sincere thought. We have been trained into dystopian numbness, and this numbness is surrender.
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The harder truth is that we know what the problems are in our neighborhoods, and we refuse to solve them.
What has bothered me over the years is that we don’t care when the shooter is Black. If it had been a White shooter, you can bet there would have been more action from our leaders. But when the shooter is Black, it’s, "Let’s bury this stink and move on." Why do we do this?
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When someone is shooting in the park, nobody is looking at the race of the shooter. People are screaming, "That’s the shooter, that’s the shooter!" Mothers are grabbing children. Men are hitting the ground, and no one wants to be in the path of that bullet.
The shooters have not been caught. So we have 15 people shot and one person dead. No consequences. What I want to know is this: Why don’t these lives matter? Gov. Pritzker said that Black Lives Matter. Mayor Brandon Johnson brags about his Blacker-than-thou administration and demands diversity reports from city bidders. Yet where is he? Do these lives not matter? Why does Black matter only when they want it to?
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The evil in this is that these are human beings. Fathers. Mothers. Children. Neighbors. So many things before Black. I cannot verify whether these shooters are Black, but it is likely they are, given the context and facts at hand. But it matters nothing to me.
They’re not Black; they’re criminals. See how much simpler life is when you go beyond race to truth. They’re criminals, and they need to be brought to justice.
Accountability is not racial justice. It is justice. We need to open our eyes wide to the problems in these streets. We must see reality for what it is. And we must have the courage to deal with reality. If our leaders choose their politics over reality, then it must be the people among us who rise up and say enough.
We must be the ones who demand not racial justice, not social justice, but justice.
Third Burning Man festivalgoer dies during final days of annual Nevada desert gathering
A third Burning Man festivalgoer has died after being transported to a hospital, authorities said, marking the latest death connected to the Nevada desert gathering after two men died at the festival within roughly 48 hours.
Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen told Fox News Digital in an email that his office had received information about a third participant who died while being transported from the festival to a Reno-area hospital.
Allen said he did not have additional information about the circumstances of the death, because it occurred outside his jurisdiction. He referred questions to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office and Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office. Fox News Digital has reached out to both for comment.
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Authorities are also awaiting autopsy and toxicology results for the two men who died at Burning Man earlier in the festival.
Allen said his office typically sees about one death each year at the festival.
The first death was reported Thursday at Rampart, the temporary hospital at Burning Man, according to a Pershing County Sheriff’s Office news release. Festival organizers described the man as in his mid-50s.
Deputies found Sampson Tshombe dead at the hospital after he was found on a street at the festival, the sheriff’s office said. Emergency personnel performed CPR for several minutes before a doctor pronounced him dead.
Investigators found no external signs of foul play. Tshombe was taken to the Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy and toxicology screening because authorities did not have his medical history.
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On Saturday, deputies were again called to Black Rock City, the temporary city built each year for Burning Man, after festival organizers said a 60-year-old man died.
Craigh Mann was found dead in a trailer he shared with his significant other at about 3:17 p.m., according to the sheriff’s office. Investigators found no outward signs of foul play.
Mann was also taken to the Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy and toxicology screening. The sheriff’s office said investigators did not have his medical history or other information that could explain his death.
The autopsy and toxicology results for both men are expected in six to eight weeks. The sheriff’s office said it would not release further information until it receives the results.
Burning Man organizers previously said their "thoughts and deepest condolences" were with Mann’s family, friends, campmates and others affected by his death.
"The safety and well-being of our community and staff remain our highest priority," organizers said after the first death, adding that support resources were available around the clock in Black Rock City.
The annual Burning Man festival began Aug. 30 in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and concluded Monday. The gathering can draw as many as 80,000 people, known as "burners," and is best known for the burning of a large wooden effigy.
Lindsay Clancy attorney Kevin Reddington signals he's open to a deal, hopes DA will 'revisit' case
Lindsay Clancy's attorney signaled Tuesday he would be open to a plea deal, saying he hopes the district attorney will "revisit" the case now that her murder trial has ended in a mistrial.
Kevin Reddington's comments come after Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday in Clancy's murder case after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict, ending in an alleged 11-1 divide.
Reddington argued that the one holdout juror acknowledged doubt, but was refusing to properly apply the judge's instructions on reasonable doubt.
Clancy, 36, faced three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children — Cora, Dawson and Callan, all under age 6 — who were found strangled at the family's home in January 2023.
In an interview on "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, Reddington said he hopes the two sides can "work something out" when asked about a possible plea agreement.
"I‘m willing to listen to Tim. I‘ve known Tim for 30 years. He‘s a very hard charging prosecutor," Reddington said, referring to Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz. "I hope, however, after sitting through this trial and seeing the evidence that was presented from the government as well as from the defense, that he would revisit that issue and hopefully would be able to work something out that would be acceptable to both sides."
Reddington previously said that prosecutors weren't open to a plea deal while talking to reporters on Sept. 2. He later said "bring it" when asked about the possibility of a retrial.
"There's no plea bargaining, there's nothing Cruz wants, his triple homicide convictions, consecutive life sentences," Reddington said.
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Reddington also appealed to President Donald Trump for a potential pardon. However, Trump has no authority to issue a pardon since Clancy's murder trial is being handled in state court, not federal.
"Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady, the type of person she is, what she‘s been through, and consider a pardon," Reddington said.
Reddington also softened his criticism of the lone holdout juror, whom he had previously accused of having an "agenda" and of having "robbed" the other jurors of their time.
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"I at the end of the case made statements to the effect that I was upset," he said. "I would defend that individual‘s right to be a holdout for forever. That‘s part of our judicial system. And I respect that. And I would certainly defend his right to do that."
"What I was upset about was, after that lengthy trial and the work that everyone put into this case, including these jurors that spent literally almost two months away from their home, their job, their family, where a gentleman had an opinion, not that he was sticking like the movie '12 Angry Men,' but in fact he had agreed, according to the note from the forelady, that he had doubt, but he would not apply the law of reasonable doubt as presented by the judge. That's not right. And that's why I was upset," Reddington explained.
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WATCH: Patrick Clancy declines to answer questions after mistrial
In a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, Patrick Clancy's attorney, Howard Cooper, said his client and his family have been the target of a "relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign" and warned that those behind it could face legal consequences.
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"Over the past months, Patrick Clancy and his family have been subjected to a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign. This campaign of misinformation has been launched and promoted by minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists who appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles and potential profit by publishing what they know to be outright falsehoods that Patrick was somehow involved in the death of his young children and other vile claims," Cooper said.
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"Enough is enough — this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop. Those responsible should understand that there will be consequences, and every appropriate measure will be pursued to hold them accountable, including legally. Law enforcement has been notified," Patrick Clancy's attorney added.
While Cruz hasn't indicated what he will do with Lindsay Clancy's case after the mistrial, Sullivan set a status hearing for Sept. 29.
Taylor Sheridan's attention to weapons handling sets 'Lioness' apart from other military dramas
Taylor Sheridan doesn't miss a beat when it comes to "Lioness."
Sheridan's epic CIA/military drama is currently airing season 3 on Paramount+, and there are just two episodes remaining in the current season.
It's been an absolutely outstanding run. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. The action scenes and complex storylines are among Sheridan's best work.
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It's also clear that an absurd amount of training and preparation go into making sure it feels as realistic as possible.
"Lioness" star Jill Wagner spoke with "People" about the finer points of the technical aspects, and revealed Sheridan had her make a fairly significant change for an action scene moments before the cameras started recording.
"I won’t say that anything was so physically draining for me this season because I do think this season is a bit more cerebral. But I will say there was one day that Laysla [De Oliveira] and I were trying to get this entrance into the house. Cruz and Bobby have to come in and clear the room, and we were having difficulties with some of the angles. Ten minutes before we roll, he comes in and says, ‘No, I think you should switch arms. Transition your weapon to your left arm.'"
She continued, "And I was just like, ‘Hmm … okay. Help me.’...Ultimately, we worked it out, and it’s probably going to be one of my favorite moments."
The revelation from Wagner that Sheridan is so specific about things such as weapons, angles and tactics is very on-brand.
Episode six of season 3 featured a scene with Delta Force operators melting some Iranian bad guys, and the weapons handling and speed was incredible. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Whoever is advising Sheridan is doing an excellent job.
The "Yellowstone" creator gets things correct that most productions don't even take time to consider when it comes to action scenes.
Now, "Lioness" fans wait to see what comes in the final two episodes. Have a fun theory on what will happen? Let me know at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
Giants QB & internet star girlfriend are relaxed heading into crucial year, FSU disaster & more LSU fan fights
As I sit down to pump out this post-Labor Day edition of Tuesday Screencaps, there's a chill in the air that is like a bat signal to suburban moms that we're two weeks away from fall. Do not be shocked if your wife declares, tonight after dinner, that it's a comfy blanket night.
Now, let's get down to business about what your wife is facing this week. She's facing the fact that the NFL has games on Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday and Monday. Yes, I said Wednesday. Then, Thursday night, Netflix will carry the 49ers-Rams game from Australia. When that game kicks off, it will be 10:35 a.m. Friday morning in Melbourne. Gamble accordingly.
The best news for the NFL's opening weekend is that we don't get that dumb Monday Night Football doubleheader with the 10:30 ET kickoff that always featured the Raiders.
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How's this Australia thing going for the 49ers?
Let's keep it simple this week. Just figure there's football to watch in primetime from Wednesday all the way until next Monday night.
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– Jake C. asks: The NFL recently extended Roger Goodell as commissioner for another 4 years. How do you feel about the job he has done? I think he's the worst commissioner of the 4 major sports. The NFL is still doing those stupid, woke virtue signaling phrases in the end zones and on players' helmets and "black national anthem" despite almost all of the fanbase being sick of them. Then there is the overdone international games. I'll be glad when he is no longer on the job.
Kinsey: I'm not really sure how to rate a commissioner because the commish doesn't work for the fans. His job is to make owners a bunch of money, so I'd say in that aspect, he's doing a great job or they'd fire him.
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The woke nonsense has been used to keep the BLMs of the world happy. It's Roger and his team's way of making the BLMs think he cares. It's all performative. The black anthem is the same thing. Same goes with the Super Bowl halftime performance.
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MICHIGAN-WESTERN MICHIGAN CLOCK CONTROVERSY LEAVES PLAYERS, FANS AND A RULES ANALYST PUZZLED
– Jim M. emails: Strange how NO ONE in the hidden Big Ten Officials' hidden bunker noticed the stadium clock in Ann Arbor was 1 minute faster than Big 10's secret, 'official', 'Atomic Clock' BEFORE THE HAIL MARY PASS PLAY.
W. MICHIGAN AND MAC needed to have their own double secret game clock.
Biggest scandal in modern college football history? SEC officials and their schools' FB programs can't believe they hadn't thought of this scam earlier. Was LSU watching??? Even Bill Belicheck was impressed!
Kinsey: I think Jim means one second faster than the B1G's clock.
Speaking of the NFL, this one caught me off-guard. Are ticket sales a problem this year across the NFL? Why would the Colts be running a "no fees" promotion just days before the organization hosts the Ravens?
Yesterday, while golfing with my buddy Diesel (I went 41-45; lowered my hands and suddenly I'm smashing my irons) and his wife, Mrs. Diesel, we noticed how empty the course was, minus the golf bros. It was a beautiful day and the course was empty. Sunday, I was out and about with Mrs. Screencaps and the kids and the streets seemed quieter than normal.
I'm starting to wonder if people are maxed out by endless fees, high food prices and bills that are piling up. Let's go find some stats to prove I'm not just going insane here.
"24% of respondents had to charge groceries to a credit card in the past 12 months because they couldn’t afford to pay for them any other way. 14% say they’ve had to do the same to cover utilities," The Penny Hoarder reported last week in its "State of Debt in America" report.
If that's not sobering enough, "Nearly a third (32%) use Buy Now, Pay Later at least a few times a year to purchase essentials like groceries. For Gen Z (18-29), that number jumps to almost half (46%)," The Hoarder added.
That $240 deal for the NFL Ticket, if you're a Verizon customer, is looking like a better deal by the day. The message in my brain keeps telling me to buy quality meat for the Weber, invest in the man cave and maybe take my boys to one game per year. Outside of that, modern professional sports feels like I'm being taken advantage of financially.
– Lee D. in Tampa reminds us: Shovels aren’t in the dirt yet and there is still bureaucratic red tape to wade through and already the Rays are trying to grab people’s wallets all under the umbrella of a new park.
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While we're on the topic of the NFL, I keep watching these two living it up and all I keep thinking is that this is how the NFL evolves as we enter the final year of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. I keep telling myself that the Giants are going to win 9 games and get into the playoffs. Remember, Vegas has the Giants' win total at 7.5.
If you believe in NFL scripts, you should be buying stock in Ayers-Dart. "Me and my bf together everyday bc we are obsessed (with) each other," Ayers wrote over the weekend on TikTok.
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I know the future of the NFL when I see it. These two are either going to run this league the next 10 years, or Dart's going to flame out in 1-2 years. There's no middle ground here. The guy completed 63% of his passes last year. I'm leaning over 7.5 wins and Dart lasting a decade in New York.
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Mamdani to release documents on 9/11 health impacts before 25th anniversary
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that his administration will release more than 170,000 pages of documents shedding new light on the air quality around Ground Zero in the months following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In a press conference at the City Hall Rotunda, Mamdani said these documents would only be the first release of information that will reveal new details about "what the city knew about the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it and how they acted to limit liability."
Over the next year, hundreds of thousands of more documents will be released onto a public portal that will be freely accessible to every New Yorker, Mamdani said.
The creation of the portal came about after the city settled a lawsuit from 9/11 Health Watch, an advocacy organization that sued to obtain the documents now being released.
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The first tranche of documents being released Tuesday on the portal will involve the 68 boxes of Department of Environmental Protection files that were found "a few years ago," Mamdani said.
Also included in the release will be the Harding memo, a letter that was sent to Bob Harding, a deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani. It was sent to him after the attacks on the World Trade Center, and it outlined that there could be tens of thousands of legal claims filed against the city.
Jon Stewart, who has spent years advocating for 9/11 first responders, said at the press conference that the memo showed the city buried the truth about the toxic nature of the air for nearly 25 years.
"There was poison in the air and on the ground and in the window sills and in your air conditioners and covering your pets and your clothes. And it stayed there for months," Stewart said.
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"Everyone knew. And now it's very clear that the city knew as well. And rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage that that would cause to its citizens and to the people that were down there, they instead covered it up to get back to business as usual," Stewart added.
The document release comes days before the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. The majority of people died at the World Trade Center after two planes were flown into the Twin Towers by al-Qaeda terrorists.
In addition to the World Trade Center, hijackers struck the Pentagon, and a fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to retake control of the aircraft.
Officials repeatedly noted that 25 years later, more people have died from illnesses linked to the attacks than were killed on Sept. 11 itself.
The documents, officials said, show that asbestos remained present in parts of Lower Manhattan for months after the attacks and that benzene levels continued to spike near Ground Zero.
"Now, we in the public know that City Hall, led by former Mayor Giuliani, predicted that thousands of responders and community members would face devastating long-term health consequences from these toxins," U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. said at the Tuesday press conference.
The next release of documents that will be released to the portal will concern correspondence in Mayor Rudy Giulani's office, who was leading the city at the time of the attacks, according to Steven Banks, the city's top lawyer.
Banks said a third tranche will involve documents related to 7 World Trade Center, a skyscraper that was destroyed along with the Twin Towers and was subsequently rebuilt.
Congress spends $7 trillion. Here’s how that math works out if you think of just $100
You work. You get paid. Washington takes its cut. But have you ever stopped to ask one simple question: Where does the money actually go?
Forget trillion-dollar numbers for a minute. Most Americans can't comprehend the difference between $1 trillion and $7 trillion anyway. Let's shrink Washington down to something we all understand: a $100 bill.
In fiscal year 2025, the federal government spent roughly $7 trillion. Social Security alone consumed about $1.6 trillion. Major federal health programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, were another enormous piece. Defense approached $900 billion.
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And then there's the number that should make every taxpayer spit out their morning coffee: interest.
The federal government spent about $970 billion just on net interest on the national debt. Not roads. Not teachers. Not soldiers. Not Social Security checks.
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Interest.
That means roughly $14 out of every $100 Washington spent went toward interest on money we've already borrowed.
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Think about your own household budget. Imagine earning $100 and immediately throwing $14 in the fireplace because of credit-card balances you accumulated years ago.
You'd probably say you have a spending problem. Washington calls it a budget.
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So where did the rest go?
Roughly speaking, out of every $100 the federal government spent in 2025, about $23 went to Social Security, approximately $26 went toward major health programs, around $13 went toward national defense, and about $14 serviced the interest on our debt. The remaining dollars funded everything from veterans' benefits and income-security programs to transportation, education, federal agencies and thousands of other government programs.
You can argue all day about which of those programs are worthwhile. But here's the part Washington doesn't put on your receipt.
We didn't have the $100.
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Federal revenues were only about $5.2 trillion while spending approached $7 trillion. The result was another roughly $1.8 trillion deficit in fiscal 2025. In other words, for every $100 Washington spent, it collected only about $74 and borrowed roughly $26 to make up the difference.
Try that financial plan at your house. Earn $74. Spend $100. Put the other $26 on the credit card. Then do it again next year. And the year after that.
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Eventually, your banker is going to have a conversation with you that nobody in Congress seems interested in having.
This isn't a Republican problem or a Democratic problem. It's an American math problem.
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Politicians love telling you about the benefits they're going to protect, the programs they're going to create and the taxes somebody else is supposedly going to pay. Nobody likes telling you the truth.
We have promised ourselves a government we aren't currently willing to pay for. And taxpayers should demand something that every restaurant, grocery store and hardware store already gives us.
A receipt.
Every year, Americans should be able to see exactly how Washington spent every $100 it collected and how much additional money it borrowed in our name.
Because here's the number that scares me most.
The Congressional Budget Office says net interest costs are projected to exceed $1 trillion in 2026 and could reach about $2.1 trillion annually by 2036 under current law.
That's not a rounding error.
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That's money future taxpayers will send to Washington before Congress buys them a single bridge, missile or Medicare benefit. Americans argue constantly about whether our taxes are too high or too low. Maybe we're asking the wrong question.
Before Washington asks Americans for another dollar, taxpayers should be asking: What did you do with the last $100?
Fox News Power Rankings: What’s in an economy?
Eight weeks from today, millions of Americans will choose their next congressperson. Poll after poll tells us that the state of the economy will shape their choice: it’s the top issue for voters by a wide margin and most Americans are in a sour mood about it.
That’s not the end of the story.
We’ve learned from previous elections that voters consider a wide range of issues when they vote. The "economy" has different meanings to voters. Optimism doesn’t win over voters on pocketbook issues. And this year, while voters aren’t happy with President Donald Trump’s economy, that hasn't yet made them enthusiastic about the Democratic alternative.
These are the four rules to think about as we inch closer to the midterms.
Meantime, Democrats inch closer to victory as the Power Rankings takes a fresh look at congressional races in Missouri and Ohio.
The importance of the economy to elections has been a golden rule since the early '90s, when Democratic strategist James Carville famously cited "the economy, stupid" as the most important focus for a campaign.
Did you know it was only one of three orders he gave to candidates that cycle?
The economy has been a top-three issue throughout the Trump era, including the last two midterm elections, where it was the most important issue for 47% of voters (2022) and 18% of voters (2018).
If that 2018 figure feels low, it’s because healthcare (26%) and immigration (23%) finished ahead. That year, Republicans lost 42 seats.
No wonder another of Carville’s three rules for candidates was "don’t forget health care." (The third was "change vs more of the same.")
The state of the economy bleeds into other major concerns, including healthcare. But even a strong economy wasn’t enough to get the GOP out of that election unscathed. And healthcare looms as another important issue this year: it’s ranked close behind the economy in most surveys this year.
When pollsters ask about voters’ views on the economy, they usually ask how important "the economy" or "the state of the economy" is, or whether they’re satisfied with Trump’s performance on that issue.
In some important ways, Trump has a strong economic record. Just last week, the U.S. added 162,000 jobs, about triple what economists had expected. The unemployment rate was steady at 4.1%. The stock market also continues to grow, even as Iran and tariffs drive volatility.
These have helped keep Trump’s overall economic approval rating in the low-to-mid 30s in multiple polls this summer.
When pollsters ask only about Americans’ personal economic situation, things look tougher.
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In a Reuters/Ipsos poll released last week, 32% of voters said they approved of Trump on the economy. But only a quarter approved of his performance on cost of living and 24% approved of him on inflation and prices.
The costs of gas, food and other basic goods are the major factors driving this discrepancy. If Democrats deliver a strong result in November, it will come down to a presidential approval rating in the mid-20s on these issues.
In 2022, President Joe Biden faced similar headwinds: the economy was rebounding, especially if you looked at unemployment, but inflation hovered around the 8% mark all year. Gas prices came in around $3.75.
The Biden administration kept selling the positives. First, inflation was "transitory." Then the president argued that "zero percent inflation" from one month to another was a win, despite the high annualized rate. Senior officials took victory laps on the unemployment rate.
Voters rejected this messaging at the ballot box, delivering the House to the GOP after a net loss of nine Democratic seats and handing Biden a net approval rating of -23 points on the economy.
Today, headline inflation is less than half that at 3.4%, while gas prices are a little higher at $4.15. Trump’s net approval on the economy currently sits at -33 points.
The Trump administration is running a familiar playbook. Vice President JD Vance said last week that gas prices could be worse if not for the Trump administration. As Fox’s Gillian Turner noted on "Special Report," there are similarities between a comment like that and the statements Biden officials made four years earlier.
These optimistic visions are likely to remain a tough sell to voters.
It’s easy to look at all this and think the Democrats are in for a big night in November. That’s certainly a possibility.
But polls keep showing that voters are just as discouraged by the left’s economic messaging.
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Right now, Democrats are offering voters competing economic visions. Some, like Abdul El-Sayed and Troy Jackson, want a revolution that starts with "Medicare-for-all" and higher taxes on the wealthy. Others say they want to undo Trump’s agenda while keeping the core of America’s economic system in place.
It’s not yet clear whether these visions are unappealing to voters or whether the contrast between them is the problem.
Either way, in the Reuters/Ipsos survey, 36% of voters say Republicans are the better party to handle the economy, while 37% prefer the Democrats. The poll has a ±3.3pt margin of error.
That’s not encouraging for Team Blue.
If the Republicans hold relatively steady in November – also a possibility in this forecast – those results will explain why.
Democrats are still the favorites to take the House this November, with 212 seats in their columns to the GOP’s 206. There are 17 seats that are so close they could go either way.
Those seats tend to swing in one direction as votes get counted. On a good night for Democrats, that means 229 seats, while a good night for the GOP would still see them hold onto their current House majority.
(A "great" night for either party would mean winning some of the seats that lean toward the opponent in this forecast. The Power Rankings puts seats in the "lean" category when they’re highly competitive, but one party has an edge.)
The changes in this forecast, which see two seats fall out of the GOP’s columns, all come from Missouri and Ohio.
Republicans picked up redistricting wins across the southeast after the Supreme Court’s ruling narrowing the scope of the Voting Rights Act this year.
That includes Missouri, where Republican lawmakers redrew the Kansas City-based 5th District, currently held by Democrat Emanuel Cleaver, who won re-election there by 24 points, to include more White, rural areas.
That put the district into the Solid R column in the initial Power Rankings this year.
Last Thursday, the Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocked the new districts from being used unless voters approve them in a referendum. The order restores the state’s existing map, flipping Cleaver’s district back to Solid D.
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(It also makes Missouri’s 2nd District more competitive. The rankings already had that district at Likely R; we’re keeping it there for now.)
Missouri has appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could rule on the state ruling quickly. For now, Cleaver holds on to the 5th District.
Three races in Ohio are heading leftward.
First, Ohio’s 7th District, held by Republican Max Miller. The congressman’s ex-wife, Emily Moreno, has accused Miller of physically abusing both her and their young daughter. Miller denies the allegations and has suggested Moreno has mental health issues.
Moreno is the daughter of Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who Miller says is trying to take down his political career.
The 7th District was already close for the ‘likely’ column, and after these headlines and some prodding from Republicans to drop out, it’s become highly competitive. It moves from Likely R to Toss Up.
Meanwhile, in the southwest of the state, watch the 10th and 15th Districts, held by Republicans Mike Turner and Mike Carey, respectively.
These shouldn’t be part of the Democratic playbook in a regular election year: they’re predominantly White and middle-class.
Turner’s 10th District contains Dayton and some suburban areas; Carey’s 15th includes some suburban and exurban parts around Columbus and stretches to the rural south.
As the Fox News Poll has shown twice now, Democrat Sherrod Brown is running a strong race for Senate; up eight points at 53% in May and August. That kind of performance could create a closer race than Republicans would like.
The "Mikes" have the clear advantage, but victory isn’t a sure thing. The 10th and 15th Districts move from Solid R to Likely R.
Trey McKinney says Bassmaster veterans made him earn their respect before historic AOY season
Trey McKinney has spent most of his professional fishing career being the youngest guy in the room.
And apparently, the Bassmaster Elite Series veterans weren't exactly waiting at the dock with open arms.
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McKinney arrived on the Elite Series as a teenager and immediately started making noise. Now, at just 21 years old, he's already a former Rookie of the Year, the youngest Elite Series winner in history and, as of last weekend, the youngest Bassmaster Angler of the Year ever.
But according to McKinney, earning all those accolades was one thing. Earning the respect of the other Elites took a little longer.
"They're not a very welcoming crew to begin with," McKinney told OutKick OutDoors. "If you're somebody that's coming on the Elite Series, don't expect a warm hand of, 'Come on, buddy. The water's warm. Come on in. It's a great time.'"
McKinney isn't complaining about it. In fact, he thinks that's probably how it should be.
"Rookies coming in, you get a hard time. You've got to learn how to prove yourself," he said. "And once you do that, it honestly makes it that much sweeter."
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For McKinney, proving himself happened quickly on paper. He finished second in the Angler of the Year standings in each of his first two Elite seasons, both times behind Chris Johnston.
But he said the first couple of years were still a "hard road" when it came to being accepted by the veterans around him.
"This year, it's kind of watching things turn around a little bit, gaining respect from certain people that I would never see it from," McKinney said. "Now that I see that they respect me, I respect them just as much. So it's very mutual."
He laughed while describing just how different those interactions are now.
"Now I can go out and have a normal conversation with somebody, and they don't just — I'm like, 'Hey,' and they just turn around and walk off," he said. "Now we can have a conversation like man to man, and it's pretty special to see where it was to where it is now."
In other words, he's not just the kid anymore.
"Exactly," McKinney said. "I feel more welcome. I feel like I'm out there having fun. We're doing our job. We're competing. We're competitors, and we realize that. But at the same time, we have the same respect as we do for everybody."
If there were any doubts left about whether McKinney belonged among the sport's best, he pretty well erased them on the St. Lawrence River.
McKinney entered the final Elite Series event of the season with the Angler of the Year title within reach. He then caught a 30-pound, 11-ounce five-fish smallmouth limit on Day 2 — the heaviest in Bassmaster history — and put himself in position not only to win AOY but also to win the tournament.
By Sunday morning, however, the normally cool 21-year-old was feeling every ounce of what was at stake.
"I'd never been so nervous that it affected my fishing, really," McKinney said. "But no, it really did that last day."
There was a tournament win, $200,000 and the title he'd spent three years chasing all hanging on one final eight-hour day.
"I'd be lying if I said it didn't affect me because it did," he said. "I just didn't fish very good. I got nervous. I got impatient. I wanted it to be over quickly, and it just wasn't."
The fish weren't cooperating early, either.
McKinney hit his first few spots and came away with little to show for it. That's when the thoughts started creeping in.
"There's no way I've got all the way here. I've got a good pound cushion. I'm leading the tournament. There's no way I'm letting it slip through my hands. Not this time," he recalled thinking. "I added a lot of pressure to myself, I feel like, more than I should have."
That pressure was especially understandable considering how close he'd already come twice.
Strangely enough, those two previous runner-up finishes had actually helped him stay loose for most of the week.
"I was like, 'You know what? It is what it is. We've been here twice. What's going to happen? Get second again?'" McKinney said. "It kind of took the pressure off of us."
That worked until Sunday.
"All the work we have done literally has come down to this last eight hours, and that's where it all hit me," he said.
Eventually, McKinney landed a 6-pounder, and everything changed.
"Everything was good. Everything was all right, and we fished like normal Trey," he said.
McKinney ultimately finished second in the tournament, but it was more than enough to secure the Angler of the Year title.
And there was some poetic justice in who handed him the trophy.
Johnston, the man who had finished ahead of McKinney in the AOY race in each of the previous two seasons, was there to present it.
McKinney has plenty of respect for Johnston, whom he called an "unbelievable angler." He also admitted he enjoyed finally getting the better of him.
"He beat me fair and square. It is what it was," McKinney said. "But it did feel good to finally get one on him. Like, 'Hey, yeah, you've had the last two years. This one's mine.'"
With the win, McKinney broke a record that had stood since 1992, when Kevin VanDam became Bassmaster Angler of the Year at 24 years old.
McKinney said he didn't even realize until recently that he was still young enough to take that record from the man he called "pretty much the greatest of all time."
"It's pretty special," he said.
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Safe to say, McKinney has earned his place.
At this point, nobody on the Elite Series should need much more convincing.
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