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PRESIDENT PAZ: Bolivia has rejected socialism and is open for business
Bolivia is beginning a new chapter.
For nearly two decades, my country was governed by the Movement Toward Socialism. That period reshaped Bolivia’s economy, institutions, and relationship with the United States. Today, my government is taking a different direction: rebuilding confidence, strengthening institutions, opening the economy to investment, and creating more room for private enterprise and entrepreneurship.
When I took office, Bolivia’s Central Bank had only $51 million in reserves. Ten months later, reserves had risen to close to $1.2 billion, and our objective is to continue rebuilding them. Inflation remains high, fuel shortages have tested our people, and the work ahead is difficult. But the direction is clear: Bolivia is putting its economic house in order.
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During my campaign, I described our approach as "capitalism for everyone." By that I mean access to capital, the ability to invest, the freedom to build businesses, and the opportunity to create jobs and prosperity. Ideology does not put food on the table. Employment does. Production does. Investment does. Economic growth does.
This new economic direction is also creating the basis for a new relationship with the United States. My discussions in New York with Secretary of State Marco Rubio reflected an important change in the relationship between our countries. Bolivia seeks cooperation with the United States based on mutual respect, economic opportunity, security, investment, and shared interests.
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The Trump administration has placed renewed attention on the Western Hemisphere, including economic strength, security, and cooperation among the nations of the Americas. Bolivia intends to engage constructively in that conversation while pursuing its own national interests and rebuilding relationships that can contribute to growth and stability.
Bolivia is open for business. But opening our economy does not mean selling our future.
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Our country possesses extraordinary natural wealth. We have natural gas, agricultural capacity, forests, and strategic minerals including lithium, copper, and tin that are increasingly important to the global economy. But we do not want to repeat the history of countries that exported their natural resources for decades while remaining poor.
Bolivia cannot simply remove minerals from the ground, ship them abroad, and watch other countries create the technology, manufacturing, jobs, and value from them. We want long-term partnerships built around employment, training, technology, infrastructure, productivity, and value added in Bolivia.
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Our message to American and international investors is straightforward: Bolivia welcomes investment, capital, technology, and expertise. We want companies that are prepared to build, produce, employ, train, and grow alongside Bolivian workers and businesses.
As I told the United Nations, Bolivia wants to be open to the world with dignity.
That means economic growth must also serve the Bolivian people. A stronger private sector does not mean abandoning social responsibility. Our objective is to create better jobs, stronger institutions, better education, greater security, and more opportunity. We must protect our forests and the Amazon, respect our Indigenous communities, and ensure that development creates tangible benefits for the people who live here.
The same principle applies to our young people. Bolivia’s future will depend on whether they can find purpose, work, and opportunity at home. Investment should help create that future.
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Bolivia’s economic direction is therefore based on a simple proposition: work with the United States, our neighbors, and the wider world; welcome productive investment; encourage entrepreneurship; expand private enterprise; and ensure that the wealth created in Bolivia also improves the lives of Bolivians.
Not everything has been resolved. We are only beginning.
But Bolivia will not remain on its knees. We will stand up, move forward, and build again.
Legendary agent Leigh Steinberg explains why fans should not be concerned about this 0-2 team
The Los Angeles Chargers are one of eight teams to begin the season 0-2 and are desperate for a spark.
Since the expansion of the playoff format in 2020, just 16% of 0-2 teams have reached the postseason. Even though the Chargers lost to the Arizona Cardinals and Las Vegas Raiders, two games in which they entered as heavy favorites, legendary agent Leigh Steinberg is not willing to write off the Chargers just yet.
Why? Because of head coach Jim Harbaugh.
"At the end of the day, I think, Jim Harbaugh is one of the most effective and unique coaches in the history of pro football," Steinberg told OutKick in a recent interview.
"And the fact that they’ve lost two games, there are 15 left, and they’ll make adjustments, they can see what’s happening on the film, they understand that if you’re fumbling the ball multiple times and (committing) turnovers, but, I’d be very surprised if they weren’t in the playoff hunt."
The Chargers entered the season with hopes of contending in the AFC, with plenty of excitement surrounding Mike McDaniel as their offensive coordinator. In McDaniel’s first two games, the Chargers have a minus-4 turnover differential and have averaged just 14 points per game.
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The Chargers have gone 11-6 in each of Harbaugh’s first two seasons at the helm, losing in the wild-card round each time. Right now, finishing 11-6 seems like a tall task for a Chargers team that has struggled, especially considering they have a difficult upcoming schedule.
In their next six games, the Chargers play the Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams and Houston Texans.
With the slow start and the grueling schedule, some are wondering if Harbaugh is already on the hot seat. Steinberg said any talk of Harbaugh, or any coach, being on the hot seat is premature.
"There’s not a ton of storylines at this point in the season, so people have a tendency to overreact to 2 weeks. It's only been two weeks, it's just too early to consign someone," Steinberg said.
While it’s still early in the season, if the offense doesn’t turn things around over the next six games and the Chargers find themselves a few games under .500 at the midpoint of the season, falling behind in a strong AFC West, it could get late early for Harbaugh and Los Angeles.
Steinberg, who was inducted into the California Sports Hall of Fame in 2017, has had many high-profile clients throughout his impressive career. Across football and baseball, Steinberg’s clients include Steve Bartkowski, Steve Young, Troy Aikman, Warren Moon, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, Kordell Stewart, Jeff George, Ben Roethlisberger, Myron Rolle, Matt Leinart, Mark Brunell, Ricky Williams, Howie Long, Eric Karros and Dusty Baker, among others.
NFL legend Brian Urlacher rips Colin Kaepernick, says protests wouldn't have flown in his locker room
Colin Kaepernick's infamous protests during the 2016 NFL season are still talked about to this day, but Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher made it clear something like that wouldn't have flown if he was in the same locker room.
The legendary Chicago Bears linebacker talked about Kaepernick's knee-taking and locker room dynamics in general during an appearance on OutKick's "The Craig Carton Show."
Carton asked Urlacher if politics were a big thing in the Bears' locker room while he was playing in the league.
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"No," Urlacher said. "Politics — I didn't even know what I was (politically) back then. I didn't care, man... You can't have the racial divide in the locker room. It's just not going to work. If you do, your team is going to be s---."
Urlacher pointed out that everyone in the room is coming together to work toward the same goal, but Kaepernick's anthem protests? That wouldn't have flown with him.
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"The thing with him taking a knee would have been really, really f---king hard for me to put up with in the locker room," he said. "That would have been something that would have probably been a line in the sand for me when it comes to stuff like that."
He and Carton both agreed that in the locker room, all that matters is that you're there, not how you got there; an idea that Carton said should probably be applied to society at large.
Urlacher agreed.
"We have to get along (in the locker room)," he said. "There are going to be spats, don't get me wrong. There are some times where you get into it with your teammates, but then literally 30 minutes later it's squashed. You're over it. You're moving on."
But again, that whole thing with Kaepernick was different. In fact, it turned him off from the league for years.
"I'd retired, so I was watching all this happen on TV, and we quit watching. There were probably two, two and a half, three years where we didn't watch football. I was like, as long as this s---'s taking place, I'm not watching. My wife was fully on board. She's all about that as well. So we just didn't watch pro football for a few years there because of all the s--- that was going on."
Put down those textbooks and turn off the screens. Here is a great way for kids to learn
It’s late September. Kids are firmly back in school; routines are established and reading lists set. But what exactly is on the menu? The usual textbooks, which, if they’re in a government school, are often written by committee (with an agenda), range from uninspiring to outright woke.
Or maybe most of your child’s school curriculum is delivered via lifeless and impersonal computer screens.
But there is an alternative, a source whose advocacy first transformed the task of educating children over one hundred years ago. Virtually unknown to public school parents, the British 19th-century reformer Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) has long been the hero of modern homeschooling in America, and the movement’s best-kept secret weapon.
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But her ideas and theories are not just applicable to the home-schooling community. Parents and educators can greatly benefit from Mason’s ideas about children and reading, which are even more relevant today.
Creating a thirst for knowledge, and lifelong love of learning was Mason’s goal. If children developed an early hunger for ideas, she reasoned, it would sustain them through their lives. Mason believed that in addition to the proper vitamins and nutrients needed to thrive, children require ideas to chew on, to properly grow. And the source of these ideas, she reasoned, was not typical textbooks.
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That’s a perspective as true today as it was in Mason’s time. Most if not all textbooks which children encounter in public schools are either bland by design, so as not to arouse controversy, or the opposite: brazenly geared to advance a woke agenda.
Mason believed that the best resource for the ideas that will benefit children most came from a regular exposure to great art, great music, and, above all, books of "literary quality" or great books. "For the best thought the world possesses is stored in books," she wrote in "Parents and Children." "Children must have books, living books ... the best is not too good for them; anything less than the best is not good enough."
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Her idea of "living books" was about books written by a single author (not a committee), ones that actively engage the mind, imagination and spirit, rather than simply presenting factual material.
For example, a list of "living books" for early learners (grades 1-4) might include: "The Trumpet of the Swan," "Black Beauty," and "A Little Princess." Titles for middle schoolers include: "My Side of the Mountain," "Around the World in 80 Days," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and C.S. Lewis’s classic "Narnia" series.
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High school students can gain most from reading "Pride and Prejudice," "David Copperfield," and, "Through Gates of Splendor," as well as the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Living books like these can spark kids’ curiosity, thanks to their authors’ genuine passion for their subject.
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Unlike textbooks, they use a compelling, even spellbinding style that draws the student into the plot and characters, triggering their imagination and emotions.
Living books like "My Side of the Mountain" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" weave sometimes complex concepts and subjects into an approachable narrative, in ways that allow children to more easily connect and identify with the material. Like those of us who grew up with favorite books, children are bound to remember details and themes, long after the work has been returned to the shelf.
Living books often feature unfamiliar words and language that challenge young readers to expand their vocabulary. Contrary to what lazy teachers may think, old-fashioned forms of communicating in English, like Charles Dickens’s novels or even the King James Bible, don’t turn off young minds. They broaden and deepen a reader’s grasp of the English language, which is crucial for their intellectual, even moral, growth.
For instance, E. B. White, author of classics like "Charlotte’s Web," and "The Trumpet of the Swan," never hesitated to challenge his young readers with new words like "radiant" and "humble," because he believed, like Charlotte Mason, that children were smart, capable readers.
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White once said, "Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net."
Finally, unlike typical textbooks, living books help students move from a passive learning mode to an active learning mode. Instead of simply memorizing what they need to know to pass a test, having students retell a story like "The Little Princess" in their own words, builds lasting communication and analytical skills.
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Try some living books out on your children if you haven’t already. Books like Louisa May Alcott’s "Little Women" will teach them lessons about the importance of family, sacrifice, and generosity. Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" teaches about friendship, loyalty, and moral courage.
Charlotte Mason used to say, "Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life." If our current educators have abandoned that hopeful vision, turning to living books can restore it, not just for children, but for all of us.
Beth Herman is a visiting fellow at Independent Women's Education Freedom Center. She is completing her master's degree in Classical Education at the University of Dallas.
Wave of overlooked 'left-wing' lawsuits could come with an unexpected price tag for Americans
FIRST ON FOX: American households could end up paying $1,465 more per year on average in energy costs if "anti-energy" climate lawsuits against oil and gas companies are successful, according to a new report first obtained by Fox News Digital.
Americans will "pay a lot more" if the far-left "get their way," warned Heritage Foundation chief economist E.J Antoni, who co-authored the report with Power The Future founder Daniel Turner.
Hundreds of lawsuits and other state-level "climate superfund" laws could increase the cost of gasoline, electricity and other everyday necessities Americans rely on, the report estimates.
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The new analysis, obtained by Fox News Digital, comes as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a closely-watched lawsuit next month out of Boulder, Colorado, which could drastically shape the future of climate litigation.
"If those folks on the radical left wing who are anti-energy, if they get their way, your costs are going to go up," Antoni told Fox News Digital. "Your household is going to pay a lot more. The energy is going to get much more expensive."
"You may think it's bad now, but it will get significantly worse," he added.
The report estimates energy companies could face an additional $194 billion in annual costs, which the authors argue would ultimately be passed on to consumers through higher prices rather than absorbed entirely by companies or their shareholders.
Those costs could add roughly 41 cents to a gallon of gasoline and increase residential electricity rates by about 8.6%, according to the analysis.
"Every single time a company is sued, yes, they pay some damages, but ultimately they will just charge people more for their product to recoup those losses," Turner told Fox News Digital.
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The report examined more than 300 pending lawsuits, three state "climate superfund" laws, 12 state legislative proposals and one federal bill. Its estimate reflects a "full-success scenario" in which all of those measures prevail; it does not predict that they will.
The analysis counted each lawsuit only once and excluded duplicate filings. In fact, Antoni said the estimate may be conservative because some lawsuits do not specify the damages they are seeking, leaving potential court awards open-ended.
The legal efforts include New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, which was blocked by a federal judge in August, and the Supreme Court’s pending Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County case.
That case could determine whether state and local governments can pursue climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies in state court.
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Turner argued the lawsuits could also shift responsibility away from state and local leaders.
"The concern about these superfund lawsuits is that they absolve elected leaders from doing the bad, boring part of governing, which is infrastructure and mitigation strategies," he said.
Despite the rise in climate lawsuits and state "superfund" laws, Antoni said the issue has largely flown under the radar.
"It really is important that we start ringing the alarm bells now before these things actually come to pass and American families have to foot the bill for it," he said.
Mistress may have handed prosecutors missing ‘why’ in ‘American Idol’ alum’s wife murder case: expert
The explosive testimony of Caleb Flynn's former mistress may have handed Ohio prosecutors a critical piece of their murder case against the former "American Idol" contestant – a potential answer to why he would allegedly kill his wife, a former prosecutor told Fox News Digital.
"Motive. She provides a motive," Josh Ritter, a former prosecutor, criminal defense attorney and Fox News contributor, said of Alleigha Botner's testimony. "She gives jurors a reason for why would this man murder his wife."
"She seems like she was, by all accounts, a very nice woman," Ritter said about Ashley Flynn. "She's the mother of his children. Yes, he wanted out of the marriage."
"Perhaps there was some financial gain in the idea of life insurance, but, you know, jurors oftentimes struggle with that question," he added.
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Flynn is accused of fatally shooting his wife in the back of the head inside their Ohio home on Feb. 16 and staging the scene to look like an intruder had broken in. He has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and other charges.
Botner, who testified she carried on an affair with Flynn for roughly a year and a half, spent two days walking jurors through many of the 107,000-plus messages exchanged during their relationship.
Some contained explicit discussions about Ashley's death.
In one May 2025 message, Flynn allegedly wrote, "If I could literally kill her and not go to hell, I would do it in a heartbeat."
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Days later, he allegedly wrote, "I hate her, loathe her. I want her dead."
In June, Flynn allegedly told Botner, "Please hire someone to take [her] out. I need you in my life, I need you."
Botner responded, "So tempting. I can't live without you. And I've had this thought so often lately. How do we figure this out?"
Botner also became emotional while reading one of her own messages to Flynn, expressing regrets that she wished she never wrote it.
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"I want to kill her, Caleb," she had written.
"That makes two of us," Flynn allegedly responded.
Ritter said it is the substance of those exchanges – rather than simply the existence of the affair or sheer volume of messages – that could prove significant for prosecutors.
"It's the idea that he's even discussing her being dead," Ritter said. "He went as far as to saying I literally would kill her. That's far beyond someone voicing their frustrations and venting to a lover that I wish my wife wasn't around, I wish she would leave, I wish we could get a divorce."
"This is saying you want that person dead, that, in your view, that is your solution to the problem that you have," he added.
The messages grew particularly significant as prosecutors moved jurors closer to the night Ashley was killed.
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Botner testified that Flynn told her in an August message he had stayed up until 4 a.m. "literally thinking of ways to kill her and not go to jail."
Months later, Botner gave Flynn a Jan. 11 ultimatum to leave Ashley or she would end their relationship. When he failed to do so, Botner cut off communication until Feb. 14 – just two days before Ashley's death.
By the night of Feb. 15, the two were communicating again.
Botner testified that Flynn discussed his plans for the following day, including telling family members about the divorce and obtaining a burner phone.
Shortly after midnight, Flynn allegedly wrote to Botner, "It's happening."
He then wrote, "February 16th – day I'll never forget."
"You're about to be free," Botner responded.
"I choose you," Flynn replied.
Those were some of the final messages Flynn sent Botner before she learned Ashley had been killed, she testified.
Ritter pointed to that timing as among the most significant evidence Botner brought to the prosecution's case.
He noted that Flynn had spent months allegedly talking about wanting Ashley dead before the messages reached the eve of her killing.
"The day before the murder takes place, he tells his mistress that tomorrow is going to be a big day, that he chooses her," Ritter explained. "He's made a decision and that tomorrow, meaning February 16th, the date his wife was murdered, will be a day that he will never forget."
But Ritter said the same enormous volume of messages prosecutors are using against Flynn also gives his attorneys an argument.
The defense can contend prosecutors have cherry-picked the most damaging statements from more than 100,000 messages exchanged during an intense affair and stripped them of the broader context of two people using exaggerated and sometimes ugly language.
Flynn's attorneys can also argue that when he talked about what would happen Feb. 16, he was referring to finally leaving Ashley – not killing her.
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"That could be true," Ritter said. "It could be that he is just the unluckiest man on earth, that the day he tells his mistress he's going to announce to his wife that he's leaving her after months of saying that he wants her dead, that some random home burglar happens to break in with no signs of forced entry, goes to his vehicle, knows exactly where to find his handgun, marches upstairs, puts two bullets in the back of his wife's head while she's sleeping, and leaves the rest of the house undisturbed."
During cross-examination Thursday, Flynn's attorneys began putting Botner's own language before the jury.
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"I'm so done with you. You have murdered my heart," Botner acknowledged writing Flynn during one argument. "I hope you're glad you took my virginity and also my heart and stomped all over it. Enjoy your marriage. I'm done."
The defense also has another potentially important distinction to emphasize, Ritter said. Despite Flynn's repeated statements about wanting Ashley dead, he never explicitly told Botner he intended to carry out her killing.
"There was never an explicit mention of, 'I'm going to do it, I'm gonna follow through on it,'" Ritter said.
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"I think they are also going to concentrate on the idea, as they have since opening statements, that this might have been a rush to judgment, that once police uncovered the affair, they stopped their investigation," Ritter said. "And once they knew that he was planning on leaving his wife, they thought, 'Well, that's enough for us. We're not going to pursue other leads.'"
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"I'm not saying that's a convincing argument, but I'm saying that that is at least something for them to stand on and mount a defense on his behalf," he added.
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The defense can also point to the absence of the alleged murder weapon, an eyewitness to the shooting and gunshot residue on Flynn.
Botner testified, however, that Flynn had previously shown her a gun he kept inside the center console of his truck, though she could not remember what it looked like.
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"In an ideal world, would the prosecution want the murder weapon? Sure," Ritter said. "But ... it's something that the defense is obviously going to lean into."
But for Ritter, Botner's testimony ultimately comes back to the question prosecutors hope jurors will ask when they consider the killing – why?
"Motive," Ritter said. "She provides motive."
Delivery drones could be waiting before you even order
Your next food delivery could start moving before you even place the order. Flytrex is rolling out a system in Dallas-Fort Worth that sends drones to restaurant rooftops ahead of expected demand. AI predicts which locations are likely to get busy, then positions an aircraft nearby. If the prediction is right, the drone is already waiting when your food is ready. Flytrex says its new Rooftop Dock and predictive fleet positioning can cut its own delivery costs by 60%. The company also says customer delivery times can drop by half. The idea makes a lot of sense. Stop wasting time sending a drone to the restaurant after the food is ready. So how does Flytrex know where to put a drone before anyone orders, and how could this expand beyond Texas?
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Flytrex uses machine-learning models to study past demand, location and the time of day. The software also looks at other activity across its delivery network. It then predicts which restaurants are most likely to receive upcoming orders. Instead of leaving every available drone at a central location, Flytrex can send aircraft closer to restaurants before customers order anything. That could make a big difference during busy meal periods. A pizza restaurant that usually sees a rush around dinner time could already have a drone waiting nearby. Once an order comes through and the kitchen finishes the food, the aircraft can get moving quickly. The current process can take longer. An operator may have to send a drone from another location after the restaurant has the order. The aircraft then flies to the restaurant before it can start the customer delivery. Flytrex wants to cut out that extra trip.
Once Flytrex decides where a drone should wait, the aircraft lands on its Rooftop Dock. The company says the system can go on an existing rooftop or another elevated area near the restaurant. According to Flytrex, the setup does not require additional real estate or structural changes. The company also says it can operate without placing a Flytrex employee at each restaurant. After the drone lands, it shuts down its motors and waits. When the food is ready, the aircraft lowers a hook into position. A restaurant employee clips the packaged order onto it without handling the drone. Then the aircraft takes off and heads directly toward the customer. That also removes the need for someone to carry the food to a separate drone launch site. Flytrex co-founder and CEO Amit Regev says those last few hundred feet between the restaurant kitchen and the aircraft have been one of the harder parts of drone delivery. "The truly challenging part has never been the flight; it's the last few hundred feet between the kitchen and the aircraft," Regev said.
Sending a drone to a restaurant before an order arrives could save more than time. Flytrex says its new setup cuts its cost per delivery by 60%. The company also says it can reduce customer delivery times by half. The drone no longer has to make a separate pickup flight from a central location. Meanwhile, restaurant workers can load the order without a dedicated Flytrex employee standing there. That could let each aircraft handle more deliveries over the course of a day. There is one big variable, though. The AI needs to put the drone in the right place. Customer demand can change quickly. Weather can shift ordering patterns. A local event could suddenly make one restaurant much busier than expected. If a drone ends up waiting at the wrong location, Flytrex may have to move it again.
Flytrex is launching the technology at active merchant locations across Dallas-Fort Worth. The company says it is also installing the system at more than 100 additional sites. That makes North Texas an important test for something Flytrex wants to expand much further. The company says it has completed more than 250,000 U.S. deliveries. It has also been building relationships with some of the biggest names in food delivery. In 2025, Uber invested in Flytrex through a partnership focused on Uber Eats orders. We covered that move when Uber Eats began preparing for drone deliveries.
Flytrex also partnered with DoorDash in Dallas-Fort Worth. DoorDash has since expanded its own drone ambitions. We recently covered how DoorDash received FAA approval for its commercial drone delivery operation.
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Flytrex has another important piece in place as it looks beyond Texas. The company received Federal Aviation Administration approval for beyond visual line of sight operations, also known as BVLOS. That allows Flytrex to conduct approved flights without requiring a visual observer to keep each aircraft in direct sight throughout the trip. Instead, Flytrex can monitor multiple drones remotely from an operations center under the conditions of its authorization. Flytrex says the approval gives it a path toward expanding into the 37 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. That does not mean rooftop drone delivery will appear across all 37 markets at once. Flytrex still has to build out its network as it expands. The new rooftop system gives the company a setup it hopes to repeat from one market to the next.
The rooftop system comes after several other moves from Flytrex. In April 2026, the company introduced its Sky2 delivery drone through a partnership with Little Caesars. The aircraft can carry up to 8.8 pounds, enough to handle two large pizzas. Flytrex also opened a manufacturing facility in Pilot Point, Texas. The company says the site can produce about 1,000 drones per year. Now Flytrex is tackling the next problem. Building more drones only gets you so far if those aircraft spend too much time traveling to pickup locations. Putting them closer to the restaurants before orders arrive could keep more of that fleet moving toward customers.
If Flytrex gets this right, you could spend less time staring at a delivery timer. The drone may already be waiting at the restaurant when your food is ready, so it can head toward your home almost immediately. That could also mean your meal spends less time sitting around before pickup. Then there is the cost. Flytrex says the system cuts its own delivery costs by 60%. The company has not said whether those savings will eventually lead to lower fees for customers, but a cheaper delivery model could make drone delivery easier to expand. Don't expect a drone hovering over your takeout spot tomorrow. Flytrex is starting in Dallas-Fort Worth, and expanding this kind of service will take time. The bigger takeaway is what happens before the drone ever takes off. If AI can put the aircraft where the next order is likely to happen, Flytrex could make the whole process faster without asking customers to do anything differently.
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What gets my attention here is how simple the problem sounds once Flytrex points it out. The drone may be fast in the air, but that does not help much if it has to spend part of the delivery flying to the restaurant first. Moving drones ahead of demand could change that. The AI looks for where orders are likely to come from, while the rooftop dock gives the aircraft somewhere to wait. If Flytrex can get those predictions right consistently, it could cut a lot of wasted time out of each delivery. Dallas-Fort Worth should give us a good sense of whether this works beyond a handful of restaurants. Flytrex says more than 100 additional installations are underway, which should give the company plenty of chances to prove whether those big claims about speed and cost hold up.
Would faster food delivery be worth having drones waiting on restaurant rooftops around your community, or would you rather keep all that buzzing out of your neighborhood? Let us know by writing to us at CyberGuy.com.
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The frat omertà: Whistleblower warns of ‘code of silence’ after Ole Miss deaths, alleged Penn State coke ring
"You need a code of omertà if you're trying to create an organization that's essentially like a criminal organization," Andrew Lohse said.
Lohse was talking about fraternities – the 36-year-old is a fraternity hazing survivor and the author of "Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy."
As a Dartmouth student, the whistleblower exposed the stomach-turning indoctrination rituals he said he endured inside Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
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When recent headlines came to light regarding the mysterious deaths of two students at Ole Miss – one of whom was in a fraternity – and the alleged frat cocaine distribution ring at Penn State, Lohse said he was immediately reminded of his time as a brother.
"For years and years [the last] 10 years, it's like whenever someone dies in a frat, like that's when my phone rings," Lohse told Fox News Digital.
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One of the Ole Miss students who was found dead this past week, Ryan Strang, was a Phi Delta Theta fraternity brother. He was found at an off-campus home. Authorities found packages of kratom, a commercially available drug that has been derided as "gas station heroin," at both scenes. However, its role in either death was not immediately clear.
Phi Delta Theta has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
"The loss of two young lives is a profound tragedy," the fraternity said in a statement, in part. "Phi Delta Theta joins the University of Mississippi and the broader Ole Miss community in mourning Robert and Aidan Hamilton and extending our deepest sympathies to their families, friends, chapter brothers, classmates, and all those who knew and loved them.
"These losses reinforce the importance of a collective commitment to health, safety, and well-being on college campuses today. We encourage the Phi Delta Theta community to keep the Strang family, the Mississippi Alpha Chapter, and everyone affected by these tragic losses in their thoughts."
Dangers like kratom did not exist when Lohse was in school, he said.
"There was no kratom, no tranq, no smoking bath salts, no fentanyl. Back then, the cocaine was more or less just cocaine. It wasn't like every time somebody did cocaine they could die."
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At Penn State, prosecutors allege in court documents that pledges were allegedly coerced into cutting and packaging cocaine as part of an alleged organized drug ring led by former Sigma Chi member Agostino Abbatiello.
Lohse said, "When I was reading that the pledges were in the background doing that, I thought that was sort of amazing – but in a bad way, but also extremely brazen."
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Fraternity culture made more news this past week in Madison, Wisconsin, where police said they found roughly 30 partially clothed young men packed inside a sweltering basement, covered in food, condiments and other liquids – with several pledges showing signs of being physically assaulted.
The Madison Police Department said officers were dispatched to the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) house on Wednesday night and are investigating the hazing incident, with two people arrested.
"AEPi Headquarters takes the allegations involving our Pi Chapter in Madison, Wisconsin, extremely seriously," Jonathan Pierce, the fraternity's chief communications officer, said in a statement. "We will cooperate fully with the authorities investigating this matter."
"Hazing is a betrayal of everything our fraternity stands for. There is no place for it in AEPi," he added. "No exceptions. No excuses. We educate our members about their responsibility to ‘Be Your Brothers’ Keeper.’ This is not an optional value."
"It's a sad moment, for society, civilization," Lohse said about some of the recent headlines involving fraternity behavior. "These organizations should be forces of good. Young men need it more than ever. Young men are more adrift than ever, there's no moral leadership."
"There's a vacuum in the center of higher education and American society that used to be filled by God, by religion, by the church," he said, adding that it's "totally vacant now."
During his time as a brother at Sigma Alpha Epsilon, he said he was forced to "swim in a kiddie pool full of vomit while being urinated on," and "chug" vinegar or milk to the point that he and his fellow pledge brothers "would vomit" in a room covered with tarps.
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He also said he was forced into a small basement crawl space for a period of time. This was all in addition to constant coerced binge drinking, he said.
"We're talking like 10, 15 plus drinks," he said.
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He said the unwritten "code of silence" or "omertà" contributes to these repeated hazing or drug-related issues within frats.
"The original 19th-century concept of the American fraternity is not what exists today," Lohse said.
"Essentially, you can look at a modern fraternity like a criminal organization. In most states, the unique behavioral attributes of a fraternity cross into criminal statutes—whether misdemeanor hazing or serious felony drug trafficking. You need a code of silence to protect that."
He went on to say, "the organization forces the individual to compromise their own identity for the collective, taking something from its members to ensure the system perpetuates itself over time."
Following the hazing incidents during Lohse's time as a student, SAE was suspended from Dartmouth for the last 10 years and re-recognized in August, The Darmouth student-run paper reported.
When asked what advice he would offer students considering Greek life at major universities, Lohse stopped short of telling students flatly to avoid fraternities. Instead, Lohse urges young men to calculate the "opportunity cost" before pledging.
"Consider that the upside benefit, while maybe not zero, pales in comparison to the downside risk," Lohse said, advising incoming students to reflect on what they truly want out of higher education.
"Think about what you actually want out of college. Who do you really want to be around, and who is actually going to be there to help you? I think you'll find that a fraternity isn't going to provide that."
Judson Horras, president and CEO of the North American Interfraternity Conference, told Fox News Digital that "student safety is our members' highest priority. The NIC has adopted enhanced health and safety guidelines and co-led advocacy to pass tougher anti-hazing laws in more than a dozen states, as well as the federal Stop Campus Hazing Act."
Regarding the Ole Miss students' deaths, Horras said: "We are heartbroken by the loss of two University of Mississippi students, one of whom was a fraternity member. Our sympathies are with both families and the Ole Miss community. We will continue working with universities and families to keep every student safe."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta and Abbatiello's attorney for comment.
Mount Shasta climber recounts harrowing 500-foot slide, overnight crawl to safety: report
A California climber who survived a roughly 500-foot slide down Mount Shasta is recounting how he crawled through the night after losing his supplies and suffering serious injuries.
Zubayir Kazi, 24, of San Jose, told NBC Bay Area that he reached the summit Sept. 10, during his first icy summit attempt before things went wrong on his descent.
"Everything I had with me just goes out of my hand and I find myself flying down the mountain," Kazi said.
Kazi said he lost his food, water, cellphone and light, leaving him alone without a way to call for help.
"My mentality became very one dimensional. I don’t know what’s the optimal thing to do, but I just know that I have to go lower because if I stay here and fall asleep, I’m going to die," he said.
The U.S. Forest Service previously told Fox News Digital that Kazi lost control while attempting to glissade, or slide, down the snow and ice-covered Avalanche Gulch after reaching the summit. He suffered significant lacerations and injuries to his feet.
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Swelling forced Kazi to remove his boots, and he crawled through the night until reaching Horse Camp Cabin. His friends reported him missing after losing contact with him, prompting a multi-agency search.
A hiker found Kazi inside the cabin the following day and provided him with food and water before rescuers arrived.
"When the officers came in, it was the first time I really realized how badly I was injured. They said 'You have no skin behind your leg'," Kazi said.
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Kazi told NBC Bay Area that he suffered significant skin and nerve damage and serious internal complications. He said doctors told him he could have died within hours.
The Forest Service previously praised Kazi for knowing his route and telling friends about his climbing plans, while urging climbers to carry backup electronics, allow enough daylight and prepare to self-rescue.
Kazi said the ordeal changed his approach to climbing.
"It is very important to fully and properly account for all of the requirements and safety considerations necessary to complete a hike like this and not miss a single one — and I'd say to definitely not go alone," Kazi said.
Fox News Digital could not locate contact information for Kazi to seek additional comment.
Fox News Digital's Bonny Chu contributed to this report.
Princess Diana considered becoming first lady after American politician courted her, brother claims
Princess Diana’s younger brother, Charles Spencer, released his memoir "Swan Song," about the beloved royal this week revealing new details about the late royal’s life behind palace walls.
From claims about then-Prince Charles’ treatment of Diana to an American politician who reportedly courted her after her divorce, here are some of the memoir’s biggest revelations.
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Spencer wrote that on the morning Diana died, then-Prince Charles sounded "giddily elated – like a lottery winner," he remembered thinking at the time.
He wrote that Charles was "strangely matter-of-fact, given the enormity of the disaster."
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In hindsight, Spencer wrote, he believed that Charles’ first reaction to her death was that it likely freed him up to "marry the woman he loved, rather than appreciating the loss of one he did not."
He also wrote that while they were arguing over funeral arrangements, Charles told him, "Rest assured … we'll forget her soon enough!"
Spencer said he was stunned for a few seconds before responding, "I can’t believe you just said that," before hanging up.
Earlier in their conversation, Spencer wrote that Charles accused the Spencer family of having no sense of duty because Spener had objected to Princes Harry and William walking behind their mother’s coffin.
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Spencer wrote that he believed the diatribe was the result of Charles’ "pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death."
After the excerpt from the book was released last week, Buckingham Palace issued a rare statement.
"While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss," the statement said.
Spencer wrote that after falling in love with heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan following her divorce, Diana had the "naïve yet impossible" dream of moving to South Africa — where Spencer lived at the time — with her boyfriend because England had become "intolerable" to her.
"Might they, she dared hope, move there together, and carve out a life?" he wrote.
He said she dreamed that Khan could work at a hospital in Cape Town, and they could live "happily — normally — nearby" her brother.
"The other side of the world seemed to offer the possibility of asylum," he wrote.
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Spencer said that Diana once asked him if he thought she’d make a good American first lady, explaining that one of her "many powerful aging American suitors, keen to secure her as the ultimate trophy wife, had told her he was sure to win the presidency if she married him."
He said that Diana was more "titillated" by the idea of living in the White House than by the prospect of marrying the "would-be elderly husband."
Diana, he said, had a "mischievous attraction to reinventing herself in a role that would make her enemies in the British Royal Family sick with jealousy, while ushering in an era of glamour in the White House that would surely have surpassed even that of the Jackie Kennedy years."
Despite "Panorama" reporter Martin Bashir allegedly telling Diana a series of falsehoods, including that she was being surveilled by MI6, that Prince William was unwittingly bugging her through a device on his watch and that her children’s nanny had aborted Prince Charles' child after an affair, Diana almost canceled the interview, Spencer said.
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He wrote that the princess pulled out a few days before the interview was scheduled to take place.
But Bashir and the show’s executive producer persisted, Spencer wrote. He said they arranged a clandestine meeting in a parking garage, where Spencer believes they persuaded Diana that her life was in "imminent" danger and that doing the interview was the best way to protect herself.
Spencer said he had a conversation with Charles after his own father’s funeral, during which Charles told him he was "lucky" his father had died because he got to inherit when he was "so young."
Charles allegedly said that while Spencer was inheriting his ancestral home of Althorp in his 20s, the prince complained that he was 43 and employed 50 people, "but my parents insist on treating me like — like a child!"
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He also wrote that when a senior courtier told Queen Elizabeth that Charles resented a reprimand she had delivered through the courtier, the queen dismissed the concern, telling him: "He even resented it when I taught him the alphabet."
Spencer also wrote that Diana told him early in her relationship with the prince that the queen had once considered having Charles’ ears pinned back because their "protrusion" had caused him to be teased at school and mocked by the media. Prince Philip put a stop to it, however, according to Spencer.
Spencer added that he didn’t know whether the story was true, but said Diana believed it.
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Later in the book, Spencer wrote that when Diana first told him she planned to divorce Charles, she claimed that the prince was "in love with his valet."
Spencer said he found the claim improbable, but didn't press her for more information because he was focused on the realization that she was ending her marriage and her "dreams."
Spencer wrote that his sister had "traditionally feminine" interests, which included collecting numerous stuffed animals as a child. She loved flowers, especially forget-me-nots, listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, and liked the soap opera "Crossroads."
As she got older, Spencer wrote that she "devoured" romance novels by Barbara Cartland, whom he said mainly wrote about aristocratic men pursuing virginal women and eventually living happily ever after.
She also once told Spencer that she had watched the equally romantic "The Sound of Music" 16 times.
Spencer's book was released nearly a year before the 30th anniversary of Diana's death. Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997.
Buckingham Palace told Fox News Digital, "We won’t be offering any further comment."