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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders get dialed in at training camp as Dolphins rivalry heats up, Haynes King & the NFL
There is something about a beautiful sunrise, and a fresh edition of Screencaps, the morning after a historic performance from Panthers QB Haynes King in the Hall of Fame Game. If you didn't receive a jolt of energy over what we all saw last night from Canton, Ohio, you're hopeless.
That might go down as the greatest Hall of Fame game of the 21st century, maybe ever. You had King completing 21-of-34 for 180 yards and rushing for the game-winning touchdown, but on the other side, you had Carson Beck slinging it 15-of-19 for 188 and a touchdown. It was a classic backup QB matchup that Cris Collinsworth will be talking about the rest of his life.
Some are even saying last night's game was more entertaining than the Super Bowl. Look at these poll numbers.
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Quickly...let's move along to what's going on out in California where the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders are hunkered down for one of the most important training camps in DCC history. As I've written extensively, the Miami Dolphins cheerleaders are charging fast in what is developing into a legitimate rivalry with the DCC.
Based on my research, the Cowboys cheerleaders have worked the past seven days. There have been stressful photoshoots. There have been on-field dance routines for the fans. There have been camps for kids that the ladies are required to run. That's right, no days off. If you thought these ladies just go to the beach and then show up Week 1 ready to roll, you're nuts.
This is a look of a squad that knows its dominance on pop culture is in danger.
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So is this Bucs fan.
Doesn't that maniac in Wisconsin want to end Thanksgiving? If they're willing to take away Thanksgiving, you know damn well they'll try to ban sororities. This cannot stand!
– John in Milford, MI emails: I’m sure you saw that Muslim communist Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for the US Senate here in Michigan. I wasn’t surprised based on the voters I saw at the polls - lots of blue hairs with nose rings and old cat ladies that look like they hate normies, and therein lies the problem.
The leftist kooks always turn out en masse for their candidates, even during the off-year elections. We have already seen similar situations with guys like Zohran Mamdani in New York who should never serve in higher office win major elections because their people showed up. If we want to keep kooks like El-Sayed out of office we need to show up too.
.– Noah is one of those people. He emails: I note you do not address why, if Tétart is such a "phenom," she is playing in France's second-tier league.
Kinsey: These morons think I'm some fly-by-night Internet writer who hasn't watched hours of dubbed French TV coverage of Tetart. Let me explain something to Noah. Julie Tetart is playing in the French second division because Julie just suddenly popped up on the scene a year ago. Remember how Lia Thomas just suddenly popped up on the Penn women's swimming team and then started breaking every short distance record in Penn women's swimming history?
This is how trans in sports works. The transG slides in and suddenly dominates. About 18 months ago, Tetart connected with an agent who shopped Tetart to Ligue 2. Nobody knew anything about Tetart, but there are indications that the Monaco owner knew the players is a transG. He is on record saying his ultimate goal is to make Ligue 1, the top division, and he doesn't care how that happens.
Relegation is part of the French league. As teams flounder in Ligue 1, Ligue 2 teams move up.
Enter the muscle that the owner needs.
Now, Monaco, with Tetart, is one of the top teams in Ligue 2 and on the verge of making it to Ligue 1. I specifically asked Tetart about signing with a higher-level team. Why hasn't it happened? We're talking about Ligue 2's leading scorer and rebounder. "Because I want to get promoted with Monaco, and keep developing my skills even more," Tetart told me.
Promoted means making Ligue 1. Trust me, I'm on high alert for French women's basketball this fall. The season starts at the end of the month.
– Dan from AZ fired off this message: Has this Ryan McGee guy ever driven a pickup truck? I find it way easier to back mine into a spot rather than pulling in just for turning radius reasons.What I don’t get about the people who complain about others backing into spots is this: don’t they realize that if you pull into a spot the conventional way, you then eventually have to BACK OUT of that spot when you leave?
I get stuck in parking lots waiting for people to back out of their spot far more often than waiting for someone to back into their spot. Plus, backing out of a spot has added inherent blindspots that you don’t have when backing into a spot, so more problems are created i.e. pedestrians or other cars that you just can’t see when trying to back out in a busy lot. Much safer to pull forward out of a spot when it’s time to leave even with all the cameras these vehicles have now.In the construction industry, we call this First Move Forward.
– Chris A. reacts: I find it is better to park front-in at Costco. Several reasons:
- Merchandise loading is much easier when the trunk is readily available
-Same with the doors
-The beware beep alerting one of oncoming traffic as one is trying to pull out of one's spot does not exist when one backs into a spot. Good luck seeing that pickup hauling ass in the parking lot over your long hood while you're stuck between two Navigators.
I'm all in on back-in parking at sporting events and everyday situations. Costco's parking lot is a different animal.
– Scott in Florida tells me: I was recently talking to a friend of mine who has a 5 year old and a 12 year old. She informed me that they are not teaching history in public schools. That they have replaced that with arts and language. I cant believe thats true. Why the hell would they not teach history in public schools? I was curious if any other screencappers have heard about this?
Now, Joe, you normally to a good job of putting good looking ladies on Screencaps, usually. But WTF was today with Martha Stewart? I almost threw up in my mouth. Was that some sort of joke? Were you temporarily insane? Were you sipping on Grandmas cough syrup this morning? Martha Stewart should never, I repeat NEVER be part of the ladies of Screencaps!
Kinsey: I use Martha Stewart to test who's scrolling down the post. I thought more you would comment on Christie Brinkley trying to be an IG model at 72.
– Alex got in on this school subject: My kids are now grown and moved out but I feel for you on all the school asks. Those lists have been there for the last 20 years and they are annoying. The other thing that is annoying is all the fundraisers. I always wished they had an opt-out plan where I give them $100 per kid at the start of school and then they don't ask me about supplies, fundraisers, fun runs or book fairs. I dont want to sell candy or discount cards or shop for supplies just take my $100 and let me know when teacher conferences are.
Kinsey: I hear you, Alex. My favorite is where the school asks the student to give them 10 emails of friends and family so they can win a special recess day. I should run for school board just to ban these practices.
– Travel Ball Hardo Chris B. in Houston says he's paid cleaners: No maid service for my kids away at college. My daughter & her roommates keep their house squeaky clean - and its decorated nicely. Looks like a model home. My son moved out of the dorm in May - definitely not a model dorm. He & his 3 roomies did not have any sort of maid service, and it was gnarly. We did hire a cleaning crew when they moved out. I think we paid them a few hundred bucks - split 4 ways - and it was worth every penny. Those guys would never have done anything close to what the cleaners did, and we got all of our deposit back.
Kinsey: Hold up, YOU PAID THE CLEANING SERVICE after your son and his boys destroyed the dorm? I need clarification. Did the boys get on their knees to clean any of the mess they created?
.Don't worry, they're on the road. The Ts never stop. This week, they stopped by Allenspark, Colorado to see the Chapel on the Rocks:
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And that's it for this Friday morning. I have a video to work on. I spent Thursday talking to a body language expert who has a very interesting career training the Secret Service and FBI. More from Abbie hopefully later today.
Let's get after it. Go work a half-day and then go golfing. So live life.
Iran is moving its tanks. Decades as a military planner taught me what that means
During nearly five decades in uniform and as a Pentagon strategist, I served alongside armored and mechanized forces in South Korea, at Fort Riley and in divided Cold War Germany. While stationed along the Iron Curtain, I helped plan the defense against a Soviet armor-heavy assault through the Fulda Gap and across NATO's central front. Later, during the Iraq War, I observed firsthand how American armored formations were employed in combat.
One lesson stayed with me.
Military professionals rarely begin by asking what politicians are saying. They begin by asking what armies are doing.
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Professional soldiers are trained to see what others overlook. Not necessarily because they possess better information, but because they ask different questions.
Politicians communicate through speeches. Diplomats communicate through negotiations. Armies reveal themselves through force posture. A brigade quietly changes location. Engineers strengthen defensive positions. Fuel and ammunition move forward. Reserve formations reposition. None of those actions guarantee war, but together they often reveal something more valuable than public statements: what commanders believe may happen next.
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Throughout my career, I learned that tanks rarely tell you who is about to attack. They tell you what commanders think is coming.
That is why recent reports deserve careful attention. Elements reportedly associated with Iran's 92nd Armored Division moved T-72 tanks toward the southern approaches near Abadan on August 1. If confirmed, the movement matters, not because it proves an American ground campaign is imminent, but because it may reveal what Iranian planners are preparing to confront.
Professional militaries do not reposition conventional formations casually. Armor consumes enormous amounts of fuel and logistical support. Commanders accept those costs only when the movement serves a real operational purpose.
Whether Tehran ultimately employs those forces is almost beside the point.
The more important question is this: What does Iran believe may come next?
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This distinction reflects the difference between military intelligence and operational planning. Intelligence assesses capabilities and intentions. Planners then translate that into a harder question: What mission does the adversary appear to be preparing to execute?
Force posture often reveals expectations more clearly than official statements, because governments can disguise intentions more easily than they can disguise preparations.
Armies rarely announce what they expect. They quietly organize for it.
The reported movement deserves attention precisely because it involves the Artesh rather than the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Americans understandably focus on the IRGC. It oversees Iran's missiles, drones, proxy forces and the security of the Islamic regime. The Artesh serves another purpose entirely. It is Iran's conventional army, organized principally to defend Iranian territory against external attack.
Military organizations reposition forces for many reasons: dispersing vulnerable assets, conducting an exercise, strengthening deterrence, signaling political resolve, or preparing for a changing mission. The planner's task is to determine which explanation best fits the broader pattern of events.
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In this case, if accurate, the more plausible explanation is not an offensive against neighboring states, but preparation for a fight that evolves beyond today's exchange of missiles, drones and airstrikes into one over Iranian territory itself.
That observation should not be misunderstood. It does not predict an American invasion of Iran.
Professional militaries prepare for possibilities long before political leaders decide whether those possibilities become policy. Military planning is an exercise in managing uncertainty. Good commanders prepare for futures they hope never occur, because hope has never been a planning assumption.
History repeatedly demonstrates why force posture deserves careful study. During the Cold War, NATO intelligence officers watched Warsaw Pact armored deployments almost continuously. Tanks alone never revealed Soviet intentions. Supporting engineers, logistics, artillery, bridging equipment and reserve movements often proved far more revealing.
Experienced planners learned to read military behavior the way physicians read symptoms: not as isolated facts, but as evidence of a larger condition. The task was spotting convergence, not isolated movement.
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The same lesson emerged when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in September 1980. Saddam mistook revolutionary turmoil and military disorganization for strategic weakness. He expected a rapid victory. Instead, Iran reorganized, mobilized and transformed what Baghdad expected would be a short campaign into an exhausting eight-year war. Saddam confused visible weakness with imminent collapse, a mistake strategists should not repeat when assessing Iran today.
Many observers now assume the war in Ukraine demonstrated that tanks are obsolete. It demonstrated something more nuanced. Tanks operating without infantry, engineers, electronic warfare, air defense and drones become exceptionally vulnerable.
Yet tanks remain indispensable because armies still require protected mobility, mobile firepower and the ability to seize and hold terrain. Technology has changed how tanks fight. It has not changed why armies still need them.
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Iranian doctrine reflects the same reality. Its armored formations are not meant to defeat American forces tank for tank. They can reinforce corridors, support infantry, protect critical sites and complicate any attempt to seize terrain or expand a ground presence. Integrated with difficult terrain, prepared positions, mines and air defense, even aging armor can delay, disrupt and raise the cost of escalation.
Ironically, these reported military preparations come as diplomacy appears to be gaining momentum. Oman-mediated contacts between the United States and Iran have reportedly made progress toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz while creating an opportunity for broader discussions over Iran's nuclear program.
To many civilians, those developments appear contradictory.
Professional soldiers see them differently.
Experienced planners expect governments to negotiate while armies continue preparing for the possibility that negotiations fail. That is not cynicism; it is prudence. Military organizations exist to preserve options for political leaders should diplomacy falter, not because they expect war, but because they cannot afford to be surprised by it.
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That reality now confronts President Donald Trump. Military pressure appears to have created genuine diplomatic leverage. His challenge is converting that pressure into verifiable results, freedom of navigation through Hormuz, enforceable constraints on Iran's nuclear program and greater regional stability, before demands expand into objectives airpower alone cannot deliver.
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History suggests the hardest strategic decision is not when to begin military operations, but when additional destruction stops producing proportionate political gain.
Throughout my Army career, I learned that armies tip their hand long before they fight, not through speeches or press conferences, but through logistics, doctrine, training and force posture. Tanks are simply one part of that larger language.
Iran's aging armored vehicles may never fire a shot in this conflict. In fact, the tanks themselves are almost incidental. What matters is what their reported movement suggests about how Tehran may be thinking.
A strategist's first responsibility is not merely to prepare for the next battle, but to recognize when an adversary's preparations create an opportunity to prevent it. Reading force posture correctly is not simply about predicting war. At its best, it gives statesmen the understanding necessary to preserve peace before military expectations harden into military necessity.
Russian hackers can steal emails without a click
Opening an unexpected email can feel relatively harmless when you avoid its links and attachments. However, a Russian hacking campaign has turned that familiar safety advice on its head.
CISA says the Russian state-sponsored group Laundry Bear can compromise certain email accounts when someone simply opens or previews a malicious message. The attack targets organizations running unpatched versions of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite.
Once the email appears, hidden code can collect passwords, authentication data and as much as 90 days of messages. You may never see a warning or realize that anything happened.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued the warning with the National Security Agency, FBI and cyber authorities from several allied countries. The agencies say the group has successfully targeted more than 10 Western organizations since July 2025.
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Laundry Bear, which Microsoft tracks as Void Blizzard, exploits a security flaw known as CVE-2025-66376. The cross-site scripting vulnerability affects the Classic user interface in certain versions of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite.
Zimbra is an email and collaboration platform used by some governments, schools, businesses and other organizations as an alternative to services such as Microsoft Exchange or Google Workspace. Attackers can place malicious JavaScript inside a specially crafted HTML email. That code runs automatically when a vulnerable Zimbra webmail client displays the message.
The person reading the email does not need to open an attachment. The attack also avoids the usual request to enter a password on an obvious phishing page. However, the email still needs to appear on the screen. CISA describes the technique as a zero-click exploit. Proofpoint calls it a "half-click" attack because someone must open the email or allow it to appear in a preview pane. Either description leads to the same concern. A message can look harmless while code hidden inside it quietly attacks the email account.
Laundry Bear reportedly used the flaw as a zero-day before Zimbra released a patch in November 2025. A zero-day attack exploits a security weakness before the software maker provides a fix. CISA later added the vulnerability to its list of flaws that hackers actively exploit.
The available patch closes the known security hole. Yet Laundry Bear continues to target organizations that have not installed the update. That makes delayed patching especially dangerous. An organization may have strong passwords and trained employees, but an exposed email server can still give attackers another way inside.
The campaign has reached organizations connected to the defense industrial base and government. Attackers have also targeted education, energy, law enforcement, media, nonprofit groups and technology companies.
According to CISA, the malicious code attempts to collect the target's last 90 days of email. That could include private conversations with coworkers, contract discussions or information about upcoming meetings. An inbox may also contain password reset notices, invoices and documents that reveal how an organization operates.
Laundry Bear also collects the person's email address and password. The attack can copy the organization's Global Address List, which acts as a directory of employees and contacts. The hackers may then gain enough information to impersonate a trusted coworker or identify more valuable accounts.
CISA says the exploit also targets two-factor authentication tokens. Those tokens help prove that someone has already completed an authentication step. A stolen token or session cookie can let an attacker enter an account without completing the normal login process again.
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Stealing information provides immediate value, but Laundry Bear also tries to preserve its access. The attack creates a new Zimbra application passcode and sends it back to the hackers. Legacy email programs use these passcodes when they connect through services such as IMAP or ActiveSync and cannot support modern time-based authentication.
An unauthorized passcode can give the hackers another entrance to the mailbox. That access may continue even after someone changes the main account password. CISA has urged administrators to look for suspicious application passcodes, particularly passcodes labeled "ZimbraWeb."
Organizations should treat an unknown passcode as a sign that someone may have entered the account. Simply installing the patch after a compromise may leave the attacker's access in place.
Laundry Bear sends the stolen information to servers controlled by the group. CISA says the attackers use a collection framework called Flowerbed. The system moves smaller pieces of data through Domain Name System requests. DNS normally helps computers find websites and online services.
Attackers can hide encoded information inside those requests. Because organizations generate large amounts of legitimate DNS traffic, the malicious activity may blend into the background. Laundry Bear sends larger collections through encrypted HTTPS connections. That can include compressed archives containing mailbox data. Security teams may need to inspect network logs, authentication records and mailbox activity to understand what left the organization.
Laundry Bear also uses adversary-in-the-middle phishing kits. These tools create login pages that closely resemble legitimate email portals. When someone enters a username and password, the phishing system captures those credentials. It can also intercept session cookies created during the login process. That means an attacker may gain access even when the account uses conventional multifactor authentication.
CISA's indicators of compromise include domains that impersonated Zimbra infrastructure. Examples include mailnalysis.com, zimbrastat.com, zimbra-metadata.com and zmailanalytics.com. The presence of one of these domains in network logs could point to phishing or unauthorized account activity. However, organizations should review CISA's complete list because attackers can change their infrastructure.
Proofpoint found that Laundry Bear sent messages from attacker-controlled Proton Mail accounts and email addresses the group had already compromised. In one example, the sender claimed to represent a Belgian media-verification organization. The email proposed cooperation between European institutions fighting disinformation. It included a legitimate-looking link to a European Union events calendar. However, the malicious code sat inside the email rather than the linked website.
Dutch intelligence agencies publicly identified Laundry Bear in May 2025. Their investigation linked the group to a 2024 breach of the Dutch National Police. That incident exposed personal information belonging to police personnel. Investigators said the attack helped them identify a previously unknown Russian cyberespionage group.
Since at least 2024, Laundry Bear has focused on organizations connected to Russian strategic interests. Its targets have included NATO member states and groups supporting Ukraine.
Microsoft has documented compromises involving defense organizations as well as entities in transportation and aviation.A separate campaign targeted members of Ukraine's military with charity-themed phishing emails. Those messages disguised malware as requests for donations.
These campaigns suggest the group cares more about long-term intelligence collection than a quick financial payout. Access to email can reveal relationships, future plans and internal decisions.
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The strongest protection starts with the organization running the email server because employees cannot personally patch a vulnerable installation. However, you can still take steps to spot suspicious activity and protect your other accounts.
Administrators should update Zimbra Collaboration Suite to a currently supported version and install all available security fixes. Organizations should confirm that the patch reached every server. An overlooked system may remain exposed even when the primary mail server has received the update.
Installing the patch blocks the known flaw, but it cannot undo a previous intrusion. Security teams should review CISA's published indicators of compromise. They should also search network records for connections to the listed domains and IP addresses. Authentication logs may reveal unusual locations, unexpected devices or activity outside normal working hours.
Review every Zimbra application passcode connected to an account. Pay close attention to unfamiliar entries and anything labeled "ZimbraWeb." Revoke any passcode that the account owner or IT department cannot verify. Because application passcodes can survive a regular password change, this review plays an important role in removing persistent access.
Administrators should examine mailbox access records and forwarding settings. They should also look for unfamiliar filters, deleted messages or sent emails that the account owner does not recognize. A compromised account may send convincing phishing messages to coworkers because the email comes from a trusted internal address.
Contact your IT or security team if you notice unfamiliar sent messages, unexpected password resets or login alerts you cannot explain. Do not rely only on changing your password. Laundry Bear can create an application passcode that may continue providing mailbox access after the main password changes. Your IT team should revoke unauthorized passcodes, end active sessions and check the account for suspicious activity.
Wait until your IT department has patched the server and removed unauthorized access. Then change your email password and any other password you reused. Create a unique password for every account. A password manager can generate strong credentials and store them securely. Hackers may test stolen email credentials on banking, shopping or social media accounts. Reused passwords can turn one compromised inbox into several compromised accounts.
CISA recommends phishing-resistant multifactor authentication where organizations can support it. Security keys and passkeys provide stronger protection than methods that rely on temporary codes. However, organizations still need to patch the underlying email software. Authentication controls cannot fully protect an account when malicious code runs inside a vulnerable webmail interface.
Strong antivirus software can help detect malicious downloads, fake login pages and follow-up malware connected to a broader phishing campaign. However, antivirus software may not stop this email exploit because the malicious code runs inside a vulnerable webmail session. Your organization still needs to update Zimbra and investigate the account for unauthorized access. Get my picks for the best 2026 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices at CyberGuy.com.
An email login page can look convincing and still belong to an attacker. Instead of following a link inside an email, open your organization's known webmail address directly. Report unfamiliar authentication requests or repeated sign-in prompts to your security team. A sudden request to log in again could signal a phishing attempt or unauthorized account activity.
For years, we have warned you to avoid suspicious links and unexpected attachments. That advice still helps, but Laundry Bear shows why your organization also needs to keep the software behind your inbox updated. In this campaign, viewing an email can trigger malicious code on an unpatched server. The attackers can then reach into the mailbox, collect months of messages and steal authentication data. The hidden application passcode adds another concern. Changing a password may provide a false sense of security when an attacker has already created a separate route back into the account. Organizations using Zimbra should patch immediately and then investigate for signs of earlier access. Employees should remain cautious around unexpected login pages, even when the page carries familiar company branding.
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WNBA star says she would welcome a trans player to her team, and then says something even dumber
I've got another humdinger for everyone on this first Friday of August. Shockingly, it involves more lunacy out of the WNBA.
Weird. That league is always so sane!
Let's dive in.
In a recently resurfaced clip from May, Golden State Valkyries star Gabby Williams said the current "battle" right now for WNBA players is to make sure all trans athletes are allowed to play on the team of their choosing.
And for Williams, if that includes a WNBA team — Golden State or otherwise — then so be it.
"I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team," she said in the now-viral clip. "I don't think it's a problem in the world."
Goodness gracious. What a time to be alive. For starters, Williams is half-right. Fair is fair, and I have to be fair here.
Of course she would love to have a trans player on her team! Duh. Golden State would be undefeated and would win every game by 50 points. As it stands right now, the Valkyries are doing just fine without one.
They sit at 21-9, good for third-best record in the WNBA. Doesn't mean they won't need some help come playoff time, though.
Anyway, back to Williams ...
I love the argument that transgenders in women's sports "isn't a problem" in the world. The left uses this all the time, and it's hilarious.
Nothing is a problem ... until it becomes a problem.
That's how problems are created, folks. People don't just make up problems. Problems are the result of certain things transpiring, and, in this case, those things happen to be biological men pummeling women in sports.
If you meet someone from the "it never happens" crowd, you will know right away that you have a fraud on your hands. It's the easiest way to weed one out.
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AB Hernandez has been dominating high school athletes all year long. Becky Pepper-Jackson won a girls' state championship in West Virginia in May.
You had volleyball player Blaire Fleming at SJSU. You had the Imane Khelif situation two summers ago in the Olympics. There was the high school trans pitcher in Minnesota who had a fastball that would make Nolan Ryan do a double-take.
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Just this week, it came out that the brother of Olympian Alysa Liu is a transgender athlete in California, competing in track and field and girls’ varsity basketball.
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So, yes, it's an issue. Clearly. I think we've pretty much established that, right? I just laid it all out, and that's only a snippet.
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The good news? The social justice warriors in the WNBA are ON the case! They've made it their "battle," according to Gabby Williams.
Thank goodness.
‘Criminal alien’ duo charged in deadly Connecticut home invasion as DHS moves to yank green cards
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to revoke the green cards of two Dominican nationals charged in a deadly Connecticut home invasion, Fox News Digital has learned.
On Thursday, DHS said suspects Ivan Antonio Barias-Florimon, 24, and Stuar Jose Lopez-Reyes, 25, are from the Dominican Republic and referred to each man as a "criminal alien."
Investigators say the Dominican duo broke into a Milford, Connecticut beach house and gunned down a couple. Fredrick Werner, 69, died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his wife is still in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to the head.
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The two suspects were arrested days apart after law enforcement secured warrants for their arrests on July 28. U.S. Marshals, along with Milford and New Haven police, arrested Lopez-Reyes two days later.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force (NYNJRFTF) announced they had arrested Barias-Florimon, 24, in the Bronx.
According to DHS, Barias-Florimon entered the United States in 2007 as the son of a lawful permanent resident.
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Lopez-Reyes entered the country on a visa in November 2016 during the Obama administration. DHS said he was arrested in 2021 on charges of criminal mischief and criminal obstruction of breathing and was ultimately convicted of disorderly conduct.
DHS said Lopez-Reyes was granted lawful permanent resident status in October 2022 during the Biden administration.
"Possessing a green card is a privilege, not a right," DHS said. "Under our nation's laws, our government has the authority to revoke a green card if our laws are broken and abused."
GOP senator deals crushing blow to Trump's AG nominee after Alaska lobbying blitz
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche just lost the last little bit of cushion he had left to survive confirmation.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, announced that she would not support Blanche’s nomination to be the nation’s top prosecutor and law enforcement official, dealing another blow to his rocky confirmation process.
Her defection, despite a heavy lobbying effort by Blanche that saw him make the trek to Alaska, means that Senate Republican leadership can’t afford to lose anymore votes to get him across the finish line, given that Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., though now back home, has still not returned to the Senate.
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Murkowski acknowledged Blanche’s visit to Alaska and heavy lobbying effort throughout the last few weeks, but it’s his connection to President Donald Trump’s nearly $2 billion anti-weaponization fund, and broader concerns of a weaponized Justice Department, that proved the nail in the coffin for her.
"The politicization — even weaponization — of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it," Murkowski said in a statement. "I take issue with the handling of the release of the Epstein files; the sweeping immunity protections granted to the President, his family, and their businesses; the statements that have been made to anti-abortion groups; and the repeated targeting of individuals ranging from former administration staff to sitting U.S. Senators."
"I am also keenly aware that the Department’s nearly $2-billion dollar slush fund—which likely would have rewarded January 6 protesters—is only off the table because this nomination is pending and the Senate has leverage," she continued. "Once we vote, that will end, and there is no telling what the future holds."
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To Murkowski’s latter issue, several lawmakers in both sides of the aisle acknowledge that though Blanche and the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to permanently rescind the fund in writing to Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, there’s nothing stopping Trump from reviving it.
And he’s on several occasions made clear he wants to see it come back.
Before making her decision, Trump already took a snipe at her during an interview with Punch Bowl News published Friday morning.
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"I’m against Murkowski," Trump said. "I do more for Alaska than any president in history. No president’s done for Alaska what I’ve done. She’s not good."
Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether the Senate will actually vote on Blanche on Friday, which could be the upper chamber’s grand finale of the summer before it exits Washington, D.C., for the remainder of August.
And there’s still one more Republican that hasn’t weighed in on how they’ll vote: Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La.
If he defects, and McConnell is still gone, it will be a 50-50 vote. That means Vice President JD Vance would need to break the tie. But for now, only Murkowski and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, are publicly opposing Blanche’s confirmation.
"The country needs an Attorney General who will check the worst impulses of this administration," Murkowski said. "I hope Mr. Blanche is able to achieve that, if confirmed, but I simply do not have confidence that will be the case."
Ghostly outline of long-lost garden at Winston Churchill's birthplace revealed in aerial photos
Sweltering heat in the United Kingdom has revealed the remains of a long-lost 18th-century garden at a major tourist attraction.
Aerial photos show the outline of the 300-year-old formal garden at Blenheim Palace, an estate about eight miles northwest of Oxford, England, news agency SWNS reported.
Blenheim Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built between 1705 and 1722, is famously the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, as well as the ancestral home of the Dukes of Marlborough.
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The outline was revealed during the latest heat wave this summer after prolonged dry weather created parch marks, or dry patches in the grass, across the grounds.
A spokesperson from Blenheim Palace told Fox News Digital the marks will be visible "until cooler temperatures arrive and sufficient rain falls to green up the shallow-rooted grass."
"There isn't currently any rain in the forecast for the next few weeks, so it will be visible for a while yet," the representative added.
The patches, officials say, reveal the outline of the original garden, giving a glimpse of what it looked like 300 years ago.
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It was originally created in 1705 by royal gardener Henry Wise and was once protected by a high stone wall with bastions.
The garden was dismantled in 1760s, SWNS said, when Blenheim Palace's gardener Lancelot "Capability" Brown redesigned the palace grounds.
The technical term for the garden is a "parterre," from the French term par terre, meaning "on the ground."
Pictures show that the parterre consisted of symmetrical flower beds and paths.
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In a statement, Blenheim Palace head gardener Andy Mills said the parch marks "allow us to trace the intricate design and scale of the original parterre."
"The excessively dry weather has given us a fascinating bird's-eye view into Blenheim’s past," said Mills, as SWNS noted.
Mills added, "It’s a brilliant reminder of the formal gardens that came before and the layers of history that continue to shape the palace’s landscape."
The palace is popular among tourists for its opulent State Rooms and extensive gardens, as well as the room where Churchill was born.
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Blenheim Palace welcomed 980,678 visitors in 2025, according to visitor data compiled by Historic Houses.
Fox News Digital reached out to Blenheim Palace for further comment.
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The discovery follows other recent historical finds shedding light on life in 18th-century Britain.
Last summer, archaeologists unveiled the remarkably well-preserved wreck of the British warship The Northumberland, which sank off the coast of Kent, England in 1703.
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Earlier this year, construction workers in England unearthed a 300-year-old cannon during routine work in the city of Kingston upon Hull.
Knockout at Maui beach caps turbulent stretch for Democratic candidate facing felony allegations
A Democratic congressional candidate knocked unconscious in a Maui beach fight now faces felony charges in three separate cases, including allegations he threatened a county employee with what appeared to be a gun and assaulted a hospital nurse.
Kirill Basin, 40, was charged with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening after the Aug. 1 confrontation at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei.
Video captured an argument over music that escalated when Basin shoved Kama Homan and swung a beach chair at him. Homan pushed the chair away and knocked Basin unconscious.
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A criminal complaint alleges Basin later threatened Homan with a knife. At Tuesday’s court hearing, a judge maintained Basin’s $1 million bail, ordered him not to contact Homan or four others and barred him from Keawakapu Beach and its parking lot.
But the beach confrontation was not Basin’s first trip through the criminal justice system this year.
Four days later, prosecutors used the beach arrest to seek revocation of Basin’s bail in a separate case accusing him of assaulting a Maui Memorial Medical Center nurse.
Prosecutors said Basin threatened beachgoers, telling them, "I’ll put you in the ground" and "I’ll kill you."
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He then allegedly reached into a small black bag and said, "Do I have a gun? I’ll kill you," before producing and brandishing a knife as a beachgoer tried to de-escalate the confrontation, the Aug. 5 court filing says.
In the new beach case, Judge Christopher Dunn found probable cause to support a first-degree terroristic-threatening charge, the filing says. In the separate hospital-assault case, a judge issued a $400,000 bench warrant.
That filing connected the beach confrontation to a criminal case that had been pending since June, extending a court record that began months before Basin was knocked unconscious on the sand.
Basin’s first court case this year began May 2, when police arrested him on a disorderly-conduct charge. Prosecutors say he fought or threatened people, made too much noise or used offensive language, even after he was told to stop.
Later that month, a Maui grand jury indicted Basin on two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening over a May 29 encounter with a County of Maui employee.
Prosecutors alleged in a July court filing that Basin pulled a tan-and-green handgun from a backpack and made threats involving the weapon while two other county employees watched.
"On May 29, 2026, [Basin] approached a County of Maui employee … pulled out a tan and green colored handgun from his backpack, and made verbal threats about using the handgun," prosecutors wrote.
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"Further, two other County of Maui employees were also present and both felt threatened for their lives due to [Basin’s] actions," the filing said.
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Basin’s lawyers sharply disputed that version. In a later filing, they said police reports and surveillance footage showed Basin briefly displayed a muzzle-down pellet gun, did not point it at anyone and told witnesses to call police.
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Within two weeks, Basin was facing a second felony case, this one over an alleged encounter at Maui Memorial Medical Center.
Basin was charged with second-degree assault and two counts of harassment after the hospital incident.
Prosecutors wrote that Basin had been admitted to Maui Memorial’s behavioral-health unit for evaluation, became aggressive and attempted to leave the emergency room before discharge. When nurses tried to restrain him, prosecutors alleged, Basin kicked one of them in the thigh.
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Basin pleaded not guilty. On July 20, the court granted his request to leave Hawaii for inpatient treatment in Arizona, subject to conditions that included surrendering his passport, following a court-approved itinerary and appearing remotely for hearings.
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By July 27, the court was told Basin was in the Maui Recovery program in Lahaina. But after the Aug. 1 beach arrest, the court issued a $400,000 bench warrant in the hospital-assault case as prosecutors sought to revoke his bail.
Fox News Digital has requested Maui Police Department reports, body-camera footage, dispatch audio, witness statements and evidence logs tied to the four criminal incidents. Fox News Digital also reached out to Basin’s attorney, Brandon Segal, for comment.
Which teams are overrated or underrated in new preseason college football Coaches Poll?
The release of the preseason Coaches Poll means one thing: college football season is almost here. And it's time to start the arguing.
That arguing this offseason has mostly centered on the fight for supremacy between the SEC and Big Ten Conferences, thanks to the Indiana Hoosiers winning the National Championship and closing out an undefeated 16-0 season. That was just a few months after Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian said undefeated teams were a thing of the past in the NIL era.
But 2026 is a new season, and thanks to the transfer portal and NIL, it's harder than ever to gauge the strength of a team or roster from year to year. This upcoming season might be even harder than most, considering the turnover among coaches at top-tier programs.
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The Florida Gators have a new head coach in Jon Sumrall. Lane Kiffin fled Ole Miss for the LSU Tigers, while Pete Golding took over in Oxford. Auburn hired Alex Golesh from USF. Penn State replaced James Franklin with Matt Campbell. Kyle Whittingham left his longtime home at Utah to run a Michigan Wolverines program beset by turmoil after the departure of Sherrone Moore. Morgan Scalley is the new head coach in Salt Lake, while UCLA brought in Bob Chesney to try and revitalize the program.
So how did the coaches, or more accurately, the staffers who actually do the voting in the poll, do in evaluating all of these changes heading into 2026?
The short answer? Not too bad, actually.
To evaluate it, we can compare it against a potentially less biased source: analytics-driven ranking systems. These polls, which rely on efficiency numbers on offense, defense, and special teams, adjusted for opponent, are often a better indication of a team's underlying quality. Though it's up to human voters to weigh the importance of wins and losses, relative to how a team played.
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For example, if say, LSU racks up 700 yards on offense, allows 75 yards on defense, but fumbles at the 1-yard line every drive, the Tigers would get credit for the efficiency they demonstrated on offense and defense, even if they lose 3-0. Evaluating the importance of how a team played to wins and losses is one of the most important things poll voters, and now the selection committee, can do. And they often do it poorly.
But to test these preseason rankings, we can compare it to SP+, created by Bill Connelly and housed at ESPN. One of the best of this type of metric-driven ranking systems, SP+ released its preseason "poll" ahead of the 2026 season, evaluating last year's performances, returning production, and recruiting rankings.
Impressively, the top three are almost identical. Ohio State and Oregon are the top two teams in SP+, and the top two teams in the Coaches Poll. Georgia sits third in the poll, and fourth in SP+. They're followed by Texas and Notre Dame in the poll, though the Irish are third in SP+ and Texas is just sixth.
So the top five or six teams are fairly close, implying that the poll does a good job of reflecting which teams are expected to be the strongest in 2026. Though some of the divergence towards the middle part of the poll does reflect a common, and often predictable, bias.
Oklahoma and Ole Miss, both playoff teams in 2025, sit ninth and 10th in the poll, but just 12th and 16th in SP+. And that's where the "human element" comes into play. Analytics systems weren't as high on either team as humans were in 2025. But both play in the SEC, which frequently means they're ranked higher than they should be in preseason polls. See Florida and LSU in 2025, which were 15th and ninth in the preseason AP Poll in 2025, only to finish 4-8 and 7-6 respectively. Big program names and passionate fan bases may "mean more," but they don't always translate to on-field success.
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On the other hand, a few SEC teams might feel a bit undervalued by the coaches, including, oddly enough, LSU. The Tigers are 13th in the poll, but 10th in SP+. The numbers expect big things from their big transfer portal class, especially with the quarterback quality and depth they'll have in Kiffin's first season. Tennessee, too, is a bit underrated, coming in 18th in the poll, but 15th in SP+. The Volunteers had some impressive performances last year, though weren't able to get the job done in big games. While that'll have to change to return to the playoff, they're on the bubble, quality-wise.
Another underrated team? The Texas Tech Red Raiders. Perhaps no team has utilized NIL and the portal as well as Texas Tech to rebuild its program overnight, and it worked swimmingly in 2025. Yes, the Red Raiders were shut out by Oregon in the playoff, but they are expected to have a top-10 offense, and top-11 defense. That's a pretty good combination, which is why they're seventh in SP+, but just 12th in the poll.
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The biggest miss? Houston, of all teams. The Cougars sit at No. 24 in the poll, but just 36th in SP+. That Houston-Texas Tech game in Week 3 will likely be a matchup of two "ranked" teams, but one is very different than the other.
Still, all in all, the Coaches Poll isn't as bad as it could be. Yes, there are some misses, but for the most part, teams are within a few spots of where they'd be with a more advanced form of ranking than just guessing based on 2025. And hey, for fans of those teams in the 10-20 range, remember Indiana started last season at No. 19, before going 16-0 and winning a title. That's the best part of college football, you just never know.
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