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Mets survive Carson Benge's brutal error against Yankees in Subway Series
New York Mets right fielder Carson Benge had a brutal error against the New York Yankees on Saturday night.
Yankees batter Cody Bellinger lofted a pitch off Mets reliever Brooks Raley. Bellinger knew he didn’t get all of it and put his head down as he jogged to first base. Benge came on to make a play when disaster struck.
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The ball careened off Benge’s glove and to his right. Aaron Judge scored from second base to cut the Yankees’ deficit to two runs. Raley was able to get two outs in the inning and Luke Weaver shut the Yankees’ door on any more potential scoring as he got out of a bases-loaded jam.
"That’s what great players do," Raley said of Weaver’s pitching prowess, via MLB.com. "Clutch stuff in a big spot. Obviously, we’re chasing some wins right now, and he’s built for that stage. He’s got a lot of poise and control and swag, I would say. So yeah, he was ready for that moment."
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The Mets won the game, 6-3.
Benge did help the Mets at the plate. He was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. Mark Vientos was 1-for-4 with a double and three RBI in the win.
Brett Baty was 1-for-4 with a double and an RBI.
The Yankees got nine hits off the Mets. Judge was 2-for-4 with a run scored. Paul Goldschmidt and Trent Grisham each had an RBI.
The Mets improved to 19-26 and the Yankees fell to 28-18.
Teen vanished from home decades ago – now feds hope new image and shifting loyalties reveal truth
Authorities are renewing their call for information in the decades-old disappearance of 14-year-old Laureen Rahn, who vanished from her New Hampshire home in April 1980.
Attorney General John M. Formella, New Hampshire State Police Col. Mark B. Hall and Manchester Police Chief Peter A. Marr said Monday that investigators are actively pursuing new leads in the case, which remains unsolved 46 years later.
An age-progressed image of Laureen, provided by the FBI’s Boston Division, was also released alongside the appeal showing what she may look like today.
Laureen was last seen April 27, 1980, at her home on Merrimack Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. Investigators say she left behind all of her belongings — including clothing and money — and there were no signs of a struggle inside the apartment.
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Authorities believe she may have left voluntarily, possibly with someone she knew, intending to return.
According to the New Hampshire State Police, on Sunday, April 27, 1980, at 3:45 a.m., the Manchester Police responded to reports of the missing teen.
Laureen's mother told authorities that she had gone out of town with her friend and that Laureen asked to remain home in Manchester. Her mother also said that when she arrived home at about 1:15 a.m., she noticed the back door of their apartment was open, and the front door was unsecured.
Upon checking the apartment, she found Laureen's friend sleeping in Laureen's bed, and that Laureen was not in the apartment.
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Laureen's friend told the police that she and Laureen had been drinking and that Laureen had been in bed but left the bedroom, taking a pillow and blanket to sleep on the couch. Laureen may have left the apartment willingly with the intent of returning momentarily, as she did not take any clothing, money or personal items with her, police said.
Laureen has not been seen or heard from since.
Officials say the New Hampshire Cold Case Unit and Manchester police are now leveraging modern forensic tools unavailable at the time, including advanced DNA testing and new evidence analysis techniques.
"Laureen was just 14 years old, and her family has endured 46 years of unanswered questions," said Senior Assistant Attorney General R. Christopher Knowles, who leads the state’s Cold Case Unit. "Our commitment to bringing Laureen home remains steadfast."
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Knowles said investigators believe someone still has critical information.
"We know that relationships and loyalties change over four decades," he said. "We urge anyone who has been holding onto information to come forward."
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Authorities are particularly seeking information from:
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Cold Case Unit tip line at (603) 271-2663, email coldcaseunit@dos.nh.gov, or submit a tip online.
'Extremely rare' 2,000-year-old bread loaf unearthed at Roman legionary camp
Officials recently uncovered a charred 2,000-year-old Roman bread loaf — the first of its kind ever found in Switzerland.
The bread was found during an excavation in the Swiss town of Windisch, according to a translated release from the Canton of Aargau.
The excavation, which took place ahead of a large residential development, began last August, though officials did not announce the bread discovery until April.
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The artifact was found on the grounds of Vindonissa, a major Roman legionary camp.
Officials described the bread as a "charred, round object that attracted the attention of the excavation team during the uncovering work."
"The object was recovered as a block together with the surrounding earth and immediately brought to the restoration laboratory of the Cantonal Archaeology," officials said, as the release noted.
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"A first visual inspection by an archaeobotanist of the Integrative and Scientific Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Basel showed that it is, with great probability, a charred Roman bread."
The piece of bread measures 10 centimeters in diameter and about three centimeters thick. Further tests are planned at a laboratory in Vienna to determine what the bread was made of.
The release noted that Roman bread discoveries are "extremely rare," and described it as Switzerland's "first Roman bread."
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"They are only preserved if they are burned, as for example, breads in the bakery of Roman Pompeii," said the Canton of Aargau's statement.
"The discovery of the first Roman bread in Switzerland once again underlines how significant the Vindonissa site is for archaeological science."
Archaeologists also found evidence of an early fortification system — along with buildings, tools and metalworking evidence that could help determine when the site evolved into a permanent legionary base.
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"Elsewhere, there are indications of craft activity from the time of the younger legionary camp: a striking number of metal tools together with blacksmithing waste, but also spearheads and projectile points," the release stated.
"A large, carefully constructed clay oven lies directly within the walls of the older camp and shows that the zone directly behind the camp wall was probably already used for commercial activities in the early period of Vindonissa."
Though the find is extraordinary, it's not unheard of, prior research has indicated.
Last year, Turkish officials announced the discovery of a 5,000-year-old bread loaf, baked during Turkey's Bronze Age.
Some of the 5-inch-wide loaf appears to have been torn away before it was buried around 3,300 B.C.
Turkish archaeologists also found a 1,200-year-old loaf of burned bread bearing the image of Jesus Christ last year.
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The ancient loaf was found at the Topraktepe archaeological site, once the ancient city of Eirenopolis.
Chill coming from Trump’s summit with Xi is proof of a new Cold War with China
Before President Donald Trump departed for Beijing, I warned in these pages that his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping would not simply be another diplomatic meeting about tariffs and trade. I argued it would instead expose the deeper reality now reshaping global affairs: America and China are increasingly operating within conditions resembling a new Cold War — driven by military power, economic leverage, competing technological ambitions and irreconcilable visions for world order.
The summit confirmed that assessment in ways even I did not fully anticipate.
The headlines following the two-day meeting at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People focused on symbolism, modest trade discussions, and elaborate pageantry. Yet beneath the surface, three realities stood out. Taiwan overshadowed everything. Iran exposed the limits of Chinese cooperation. And Xi himself chose language drawn from ancient Greek warfare to remind Washington of what this rivalry ultimately means.
The summit managed tensions. It did not resolve them.
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The clearest signal came when Xi warned Trump directly that mishandling Taiwan could lead to "clashes and even conflicts" between the two nations. According to the Chinese foreign ministry readout, Xi declared Taiwan "the most important issue in China-U.S. relations," adding that if it is "handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy."
That language was extraordinary — and deliberate.
Few Americans fully grasp what is actually at stake. Taiwan anchors the first island chain — the geographic barrier stretching from Japan through the Philippines that limits China’s naval reach into the broader Pacific. Taiwan’s manufacturers produce the vast majority of the world’s most advanced semiconductors, powering everything from smartphones to military systems. Under the Taiwan Relations Act, Washington is committed to providing Taiwan the means to defend itself. A Chinese seizure would shatter American credibility with every ally from Tokyo to Manila.
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Chinese officials choose their words with precision, especially during state summits. Xi’s warning was not diplomatic filler — it was a direct reminder that Beijing views Taiwan as the central test of Communist Party legitimacy. Notably, Trump did not respond to a reporter’s question about Taiwan while standing beside Xi, and the White House readout of the bilateral meeting never mentioned Taiwan at all.
Even more revealing was Xi’s invocation of the Thucydides Trap — the concept popularized by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison suggesting that war often erupts when a rising power threatens to displace an established one. Xi asked publicly whether the United States and China could "overcome the Thucydides Trap and establish a new paradigm for relations between great powers."
Even as Trump emphasized friendship, trade and "fantastic deals" on the return flight to Washington, Xi was framing the relationship in terms of historic rivalry and potential conflict. That asymmetry is now one of the defining takeaways from Beijing.
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That contrast tells us much about how Beijing sees the future.
The summit also demonstrated that Washington and Beijing remain deeply divided over Iran, despite public statements suggesting alignment. Both sides announced that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open and that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon. According to the White House readout, Xi also expressed interest in purchasing more American oil to reduce China’s dependence on that critical waterway.
The substance told a different story.
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China depends on Gulf oil for the bulk of its energy imports, making regional stability a genuine interest for Beijing. Yet intelligence reporting has established that Chinese-linked entities provided Iran with dual-use technologies, missile component, and sodium perchlorate — a key solid-rocket fuel precursor — even as Washington objected.
Xi told Trump privately that China would not provide Iran military equipment and wanted the strait reopened, but offered no concrete plan and no public commitment. As Foreign Policy noted, the summit produced "few wins" on Iran.
Beijing may selectively cooperate where Chinese interests overlap with America’s — particularly on energy flows and regional stability. But Washington should not confuse tactical alignment with strategic partnership. Iran remains useful to Beijing precisely because it distracts Washington, strains American military resources and complicates our posture across the Indo-Pacific.
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To his credit, Trump achieved one immediate objective: preventing the summit from deteriorating into open hostility. His personal diplomacy reduced short-term tensions and preserved direct communication between nuclear powers managing simultaneous crises over Iran, Taiwan and the global economy. Washington and Beijing are now practicing what might be called managed rivalry — competing intensely while working to prevent direct conflict.
The real struggle extends far beyond trade. It encompasses semiconductor dominance, rare earth minerals, cyber operations and control of the computing infrastructure that will define the next generation of military power. That is why Nvidia’s Jensen Huang joined the delegation as a last-minute addition.
According to CNN, his presence symbolized the contest for computing dominance. Both governments understand — as I detail in my new book, "The New AI Cold War" — that whoever leads in advanced machine-learning systems and computing infrastructure will hold military and geopolitical advantages for decades to come.
Xi understands that fully. China is rapidly integrating automated decision systems into military command networks, predictive surveillance platforms and cyber operations — not for economic competitiveness alone, but for strategic dominance that renders American power secondary before a shot is ever fired.
That is why Americans should resist interpreting the summit’s warm optics as evidence the rivalry is fading. The state banquets, the Temple of Heaven tour, Trump’s September White House invitation to Xi — these created an image of stability. The substance of what Xi said points elsewhere.
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Xi effectively told the United States: we prefer cooperation, but on Taiwan we will not bend. And the historical concept he chose to frame that message, the Thucydides Trap, is a pattern that ends in war 12 times out of 16. It was not accidental.
That leaves Washington with a strategy that is difficult but unavoidable. America must strengthen deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, accelerate semiconductor independence and maintain open communication channels between nuclear powers. Deterrence only works when an adversary believes America possesses both the capability and the will to act.
Proverbs warns that a prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, while the simple pass on and suffer for it. The Trump-Xi summit did not create the danger now approaching from Beijing. It simply made visible what serious analysts have understood for years — and what those who prefer comfortable illusions continue to refuse to see.
The new Cold War is already here. The summit proved it.
Maldives military diver dies searching for four Italian divers missing inside underwater cave system
A perilous search for the bodies of four Italian divers missing deep inside a Maldivian cave was halted Saturday after a military diver died during the mission.
Mohamed Mahdi, a member of the Maldivian National Defense Force, died from decompression sickness during the dangerous mission, Maldives presidential spokesman Mohamed Hussain Shareef said.
A group of five Italian divers vanished Thursday during what investigators say was an unauthorized deep dive that far exceeded the Maldives’ recreational diving limit.
The victims included marine researchers and experienced divers, among them Monica Montefalcone, an ecology professor at the University of Genoa; her daughter, Giorgia Sommacal; marine biologist Federico Gualtieri; researcher Muriel Oddenino; and diving instructor Gianluca Benedetti, according to the Maldivian government.
Gianluca Benedetti was found dead near the cave entrance shortly after the group disappeared. Authorities believe the bodies of the four remaining divers are trapped deep inside a cave system about 160 feet underwater near Vaavu Atoll.
The cause of the deaths remains under investigation.
Carlo Sommacal, Montefalcone’s husband and Giorgia’s father, expressed doubts over the accident, saying that "something must have happened down there" given his wife and daughter's extensive experience.
Speaking to Italian TV, he described Montefalcone as a careful and highly disciplined diver who would never put her daughter or other colleagues at risk.
Search crews say brutal underwater conditions, limited oxygen and the complexity of the cave system have made recovery efforts extremely dangerous.
"The death goes to show the difficulty of the mission," a government spokesman said after Mahdi’s death.
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The Italian Foreign Ministry said the cave system consists of three large chambers connected by narrow passages. Rescue teams explored two chambers Friday but were forced to stop because of decompression risks.
Officials are now awaiting the arrival of three Finnish cave-diving specialists to reassess the operation.
Albatros Top Boat, an Italian tour operator that managed the diving trip, denied authorizing the descent and said the divers appeared to be using standard recreational equipment instead of specialized gear required for technical cave diving, its lawyer told Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Saturday.
The Maldives Tourism Ministry has suspended the operating license of the expedition vessel involved in the trip as the investigation continues.
Experts warn cave diving is among the world’s most dangerous underwater activities, especially at extreme depths where visibility can disappear instantly and escape routes become limited.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Therapy culture is turning politics into a national nervous breakdown
Not long ago, a patient tried to explain to me why fantasies about President Donald Trump being killed didn’t really bother her. She wasn’t threatening violence herself, nor was she someone with a history of aggression. In many areas of life, she considered herself compassionate and morally thoughtful. But as she spoke, what struck me was how easily she justified sentiments that, directed toward almost any other public figure, would have seemed obviously disturbing.
"He’s dangerous," she told me. "He destroys people’s lives."
What she was really describing was moral permission, not politics.
As a psychotherapist, I increasingly see people interpreting political disagreement through a framework usually reserved for emotional threat and psychological harm. Opponents are no longer simply viewed as wrong. They’re experienced as toxic, dangerous, unsafe, narcissistic or morally beyond redemption. Once that shift happens, the emotional intensity rises quickly. People stop feeling like fellow citizens with different ideas and start feeling like threats.
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This is one of the central concerns I explore in my book, "Therapy Nation." Over the past decade, therapeutic language has escaped the therapist’s office and reshaped how Americans interpret politics, relationships, workplaces, parenting and everyday conflict.
Concepts like "trauma," "safety," "validation," "triggering" and "boundaries" can be useful in the right context. But when applied too broadly, they begin subtly transforming disagreement itself into something psychologically destabilizing. That shift has enormous consequences.
Americans once tended to view political disagreement as evidence that people saw the world differently. Now disagreement itself gets interpreted as evidence that something is psychologically or morally wrong with the other person. Politics stops being about persuasion and starts becoming about emotional protection from perceived psychological threats.
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Once someone is viewed as a villain, the normal constraints that govern behavior begin weakening. Curiosity drops off. Fairness becomes conditional. Reactions that might otherwise feel excessive start to feel justified, even righteous. From the inside, it feels like clarity. In therapy, when someone moves into that kind of rigid, all-or-nothing thinking, it usually signals a loss of psychological flexibility. Complexity collapses into emotionally satisfying certainty. The cost is perspective.
More and more, I see this in patients who describe cutting off friends or family members over politics, not because of mistreatment or abuse, but because the relationship itself has become emotionally intolerable. When you slow those conversations down, the justification often rests almost entirely on what their beliefs are assumed to represent.
That mindset is no longer confined to private conversations. Licensed clinicians now appear on national TV and social media encouraging people to distance themselves from family members over political differences, reframing disagreement itself as a form of emotional harm rather than something mature adults should learn to navigate.
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What people casually call "Trump Derangement Syndrome" reflects part of this broader dynamic. It isn’t a formal clinical diagnosis, but the underlying psychology is very real: the tendency for political disagreement to become emotionally consuming, morally absolute and psychologically destabilizing. And this dynamic isn’t limited to critics of Donald Trump. Similar patterns emerge anytime people become convinced that opposing views are not simply mistaken, but illegitimate.
The more emotionally reinforcing narratives people consume through social media, political media and online communities, the more psychologically convincing those narratives become. Certainty begins replacing reflection.
That certainty feels moral rather than political. People believe they are standing up for something essential and righteous. And from a clinical standpoint, that resembles a cognitive distortion: a way of interpreting reality that simplifies complexity while narrowing judgment and reducing people’s ability to tolerate ambiguity, discomfort or opposing views without feeling psychologically threatened.
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In "Therapy Nation," I argue that therapy culture has taught Americans to reinterpret ordinary discomfort through the language of psychological harm. Discomfort gets treated as something to eliminate rather than something people can work through. Over time, that lowers people’s threshold for what feels threatening.
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The consequences extend far beyond politics. Social circles shrink. Relationships fracture more easily. Exposure to disagreement decreases. Opponents become psychologically threatening rather than simply philosophically opposed. A culture organized around emotional safety gradually becomes less capable of tolerating ordinary human friction.
Good therapy moves in the opposite direction. It helps people reality-test distorted thinking, regulate emotion, tolerate discomfort and remain connected to others despite disagreement and uncertainty. It builds resilience rather than avoidance and curiosity rather than certainty.
A psychologically healthy society cannot function if disagreement itself gets interpreted as emotional injury. Democracies require people to coexist with others they dislike, distrust and fundamentally disagree with. Once politics becomes organized around emotional threat and moral contamination rather than persuasion and coexistence, democratic life itself becomes harder to sustain.
A culture that loses the ability to tolerate disagreement eventually loses the ability to govern itself. And a politics organized around emotional safety alone will produce fragility, suspicion, isolation and permanent conflict.
If this was Ronda Rousey’s final fight, fans witnessed a legendary farewell on Netflix’s MVP card
The atmosphere inside Inglewood’s Intuit Dome felt far more cinematic than the recent bore that was the NBA All-Star Weekend ... even long before Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano appeared to fight Saturday night.
Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions turned the arena into a full-blown Netflix spectacle packed with celebrities, influencers, former fighters and longtime fans who grew up watching MMA greats like Rousey, Carano, Nate Diaz and Francis Ngannou.
For the main event, as it turned out, Rousey needed only 17 seconds to end Carano's dream comeback.
The night itself was full of chaos before the main event ever arrived.
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Cuban heavyweight Robelis Despaigne flattened former UFC champion Junior dos Santos with a brutal first-round knockout.
Francis Ngannou sent the crowd into a frenzy after starching Philipe Lins with a terrifying counter left hand before circling the cage and screaming toward Jon Jones at cageside.
Then came Mike Perry and Nate Diaz, which was a bloody disaster that everybody expected.
Diaz’s face was split open by the end of the second round, the canvas looked like a crime scene and Perry stormed around the cage afterward, demanding a fight with Paul while fans stood on chairs trying to film the madness below them.
The entire night still revolved around nostalgia and the return of Ronda Rousey. And when the lights dimmed for the main event and "Bad Reputation" played above the fans, Intuit Dome erupted.
Across the cage stood MMA pioneer Gina Carano, the original mainstream face of women’s MMA and the opponent fans spent years fantasy-booking against Rousey during the peak of both careers.
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Saturday night, the fight between these two somehow became reality ... it was pretty surreal.
Then it was over almost instantly.
The second the fight began, Rousey exploded forward, secured a clinch, executed a textbook judo takedown, and immediately transitioned into her trademark armbar before Carano could settle into the fight.
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Tap ... just 17 seconds to secure the win. It was traditional Rousey on display.
For a split second, the crowd almost seemed stunned by how fast it happened.
From where we at OutKick stood cageside — by media members and LA mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt — everyone looked stunned while Rousey stood in the middle of the cage victorious.
It was like stepping into a time machine.
For one final moment, Ronda Rousey looked exactly like the unstoppable force who once carried the UFC into the mainstream and changed women’s MMA forever.
And maybe that was the perfect ending.
"I feel great," Carano said after losing to Rousey.
"I wanted to fight, and I didn’t get that. But she trained. She had her gameplan. I have so much love and respect for her, and this was a victory in my life. She changed it. I woke up at 3 a.m. every morning thinking about her. I took 100 pounds off my body, which is going to give me a longer life.
"I fell back in love with mixed martial arts. There’s so many things to think about here. It’s just (that) the fight didn’t go my way."
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After the fight, Rousey quickly shut down any talk about a permanent comeback. Smiling with a microphone in hand, she told the roaring crowd this was a one-time return before heading back into retirement and family life.
She doesn't want more fights ... she wants more babies!
"There’s no way I could’ve ended it better than this," Rousey said after the win. "I want to have some more babies and I’ve got to get cooking."
If this truly was Ronda Rousey’s final fight, it is hard to imagine a better way for her story to end.
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Trump calls out Rep Thomas Massie: 'Kentucky, get this LOSER out of politics' Tuesday
Fresh off his work to oust Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., in a Louisiana primary, President Donald Trump made a call to action against Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., urging his backers to vote out another one of his GOP critics and warning the rest of the party to align with him or risk Cassidy's fate.
"Tom Massie of Kentucky, the worst and most unreliable Republican Congressman in the history of our Country, is an even bigger insult to our Nation than Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who suffered an unprecedented loss tonight by not even being allowed to run in the Republican Primary," Trump wrote on Truth Social shortly after midnight.
"This is the first time such a thing has ever happened to a sitting U.S. Senator!" the president continued. "That’s what you get by voting to Impeach an innocent man, especially one who made it possible for Cassidy’s Senate win."
Cassidy failed to advance in Louisiana’s Republican Senate primary Saturday night, finishing behind Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming. Letlow and Fleming will face each other in a June 27 runoff after no candidate cleared a majority.
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Trump used Cassidy’s defeat as a warning shot against Massie, who Trump has called a "grand-stander" for having voted against his agenda in the House since 2020.
"Very disloyal, but Tom Massie, a major Sleazebag, is even worse!" Trump's scathing post continued. "Kentucky, get this LOSER out of politics in Tuesday’s Election. He is nicknamed Rand Paul Jr., another real 'beauty,' because of his absolutely terrible voting habits.
"Vote for Ed Gallrein, a successful Kentucky farmer, and American War Hero, who only ran because he thought that Massie was so disloyal and disrespectful to your President, ME!
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"This is a great man, Central Casting, in fact, who truly deserves to represent the fantastic people of Kentucky, a Commonwealth that I am proud to have won all three times, in record fashion!
"ED WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Massie is facing Gallrein in the Republican primary for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District on Tuesday. The race has become one of the highest-profile GOP House primaries of the cycle, with Trump endorsing Gallrein in an effort to deny Massie another term.
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The president’s attack followed several posts celebrating Cassidy’s defeat in Louisiana.
"A BIG NIGHT IN POLITICS. THANK YOU TO ALL!" Trump wrote in a separate Truth Social post.
Cassidy was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump after the Jan. 6 election protest in Trump’s second impeachment trial. Trump called Cassidy "disloyal" and said his "political career is OVER!"
Trump also congratulated Letlow, saying she ran a "fantastic race" and would "make a brilliant Senator" after "taking care of some additional business." Letlow led Saturday’s primary, while Fleming placed second and Cassidy finished third.
The president’s focus quickly shifted back to Kentucky, where Massie has survived past pressure campaigns from Trump but is now facing a well-funded primary challenge in the final stretch.
Massie has represented Kentucky’s 4th District since 2012. The district stretches across northern Kentucky and is heavily Republican, making the GOP primary the decisive contest in most election cycles.
Trump’s feud with Massie has intensified over the past year. Trump called for Massie to be primaried after the congressman opposed a short-term government funding bill in March 2025, pushing for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and opposing his decision to go to war with Iran.
"Someone thinks they can control my voting card by threatening my reelection," Massie shot back at Trump last year.
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Trump also targeted Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., for supporting Massie, calling her "Weak Minded" and suggesting he would consider withdrawing his endorsement if a challenger entered the race against her in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.
"Boebert is campaigning for the Worst "Republican" Congressman in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, and anybody who can be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!" Trump wrote in an earlier Saturday night Truth Social post.
"Even though I long ago endorsed Boebert, if the right person came along, it would be my Honor to withdraw that Endorsement, and endorse a good and proper alternative. Just let me know, or announce your Candidacy, and I will be there for you!"
Massie noted Trump is too late to call for a Boebert primary.
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"I've seen people calling for primary challengers against Boebert online since she got here [Friday]," Massie told reporters after his Kentucky campaign rally Saturday. "Her primary is already closed. So they can call for that. It's too late.
"And Rand Paul's not on the ballot this year. You're going to have to wait two whole years. So I think he should be mending fences with these folks, not trying to burn bridges."
Trump began the night warning about Boebert and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., stumping for Massie.
"Word is that Rand Paul and Lauren Boebert, two very difficult, and highly unreasonable, Republican Votes, are right now in the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, which I won by 31 points, parading around like fools for the Worst "Republican" Congressman in the History of our Party!" Trump wrote on Truth Social hours before the Cassidy defeat, blasting Massie as "a disloyal, ungracious, and sanctimonious FOOL, who almost never votes for even the best of Republican Values."
"The man running against Massie, Ed Gallrein, is a true American Patriot, a Farmer from Kentucky, and a Military Hero. He is loyal, and MAGA all the way — VOTE FOR ED GALLREIN, AND WIPE AWAY THE STENCH OF ONE OF THE WORST CONGRESSMEN IN THE HISTORY OF OUR GREAT PARTY, THOMAS MASSIE. MAY WE NEVER HAVE TO DEAL WITH HIM AGAIN!"
Your 401(k) is the new identity theft target
An impostor phoned Alight Solutions, the recordkeeper for Colgate-Palmolive's 401(k) plan, and identified herself as a Colgate employee. She asked to update the contact information on an account. Months later, the entire $751,430 balance had been sent in a single lump sum to a Las Vegas address and bank account. The real account holder, Paula Disberry, was living in South Africa.
Disberry sued Alight, Colgate's benefits committee and BNY Mellon, the plan's custodian, to recover the money. The case was later settled on undisclosed terms. The court never ruled on whether Alight had to restore the funds.
In February 2026, the Government Accountability Office told the U.S. Department of Labor to issue new guidance on retirement plan participant data. The GAO cited eleven separate lawsuits filed between 2009 and 2024 under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the federal law governing private retirement plans.
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The Disberry case began when an impostor called Alight's Benefits Information Center. She gave Disberry's name, the last four digits of her Social Security number, her date of birth and the mailing address Alight had on file. That was enough to clear the call center's security check.
She then asked Alight to update the contact information on Disberry's account. Alight did not send an alert to Disberry's existing email address or phone number, both of which it had on file. Instead, the company issued a temporary password through the mail.
Disberry's plan had a 14-day waiting period between an address change and any distribution. Her lawsuit alleged that Alight skipped it. Within weeks, the impostor logged in, requested a full payout, and BNY Mellon mailed a check to a Las Vegas address.
Heide Bartnett, a former Abbott Laboratories employee, sued Alight over a $245,000 401(k) distribution. She alleged that a hacker used the plan portal's "forgot password" feature to reset her credentials and trigger the payout. Other retirement plan recordkeepers have faced similar cybertheft lawsuits.
The problem extends beyond 401(k) accounts. The FBI's April 2026 Internet Crime Report found that Americans 60 and older lost $7.7 billion to internet crime in 2025, a 59% jump from the year before. Investment fraud accounted for $3.5 billion of those losses, making retirement-age savers a major target for online criminals.
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Account takeovers begin with information someone already has. Names, dates of birth, partial SSNs and email addresses appear in dark web breach dumps, often combined with leaked passwords from unrelated services. When the account holder reuses a password across accounts, hackers can test that breach data directly against the recordkeeper's login portal.
Disberry's takeover bypassed the login portal entirely. The impostor never logged in to Disberry's account directly. She called Alight's call center, used what she already knew about Disberry to clear identity verification and had the contact information changed. After that, the temporary password Alight mailed went somewhere only the impostor could intercept.
Some thieves skip the recordkeeper and go straight for the account holder. The New York Times documented the case of Barry Heitin, a 76-year-old retired lawyer, who lost $740,000 in 2024 after receiving a call from someone claiming to be a federal fraud investigator. The caller convinced Heitin that his retirement accounts were under attack and walked him through transferring the money out himself. He believed he was helping a federal investigation.
Federal protections for retirement account theft are limited, but several account-level controls cost nothing and may make takeovers harder.
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Account-change alerts on the recordkeeper portal only work if the recordkeeper sends them. The Disberry case showed what can happen when those alerts go unsent.
A strong identity theft monitoring service can add another layer of protection by watching for suspicious activity beyond the retirement plan portal. Some services let you link bank, credit card and investment accounts so you can receive alerts when unfamiliar transactions appear. In a retirement account takeover, that could help flag suspicious money movement even if the recordkeeper misses the outgoing transfer.
Many identity theft monitoring services also watch for changes across your credit reports, scan the dark web for exposed personal information and search data broker or people-search sites for your details. Some plans also include fraud resolution support and identity theft insurance for eligible recovery costs.
If you are unsure whether criminals have already exposed your information, take action now. Start with a free identity breach scan to see whether your data appears in known leaks. Early detection gives you more control and helps you respond before fraud spreads. You can also check whether your personal information is already being used for identity theft, fraud or appearing on the dark web.
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Retirement accounts can feel separate from the everyday fraud risks we hear about with credit cards, email accounts and bank logins. But this case shows how quickly a 401(k) can become a target when someone has enough personal information to fool a call center or reset account access. The scary part is that a stolen retirement account may not come with the same consumer protections people expect from credit card fraud. That makes prevention and early warning signs even more important. Turn on multi-factor authentication, enable every account alert your plan offers and ask your employer or plan administrator what happens after an address, phone number or bank account change. No one should have to find out months later that their life savings disappeared. The earlier you spot suspicious activity, the better your chances of stopping the damage before it becomes a financial nightmare.
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Becky Hill’s 'disgraceful' comments and book ambitions unraveled Alex Murdaugh's murder conviction: Docs
The South Carolina Supreme Court wiped away Alex Murdaugh’s double-murder conviction on May 13, ruling unanimously that the trial was irredeemably tainted by the conduct of Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca "Becky" Hill.
Last week, the South Carolina Supreme Court delivered an account of how Hill’s conduct during the 2023 double-murder trial crossed ethical and constitutional lines, ultimately unraveling the state’s conviction of Murdaugh.
"Both the State and Murdaugh's defense skillfully presented their cases to the jury as the trial court deftly presided over this complicated and high-profile matter," the court wrote. "However, their efforts were in vain because Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill placed her fingers on the scales of justice, thereby denying Murdaugh his right to a fair trial by an impartial jury."
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The opinion described Hill’s actions as a "breathtaking and disgraceful effort" to interfere with the jury process, conduct the justices called "unprecedented in South Carolina."
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At the center of the case were repeated allegations that Hill improperly commented on Murdaugh’s testimony and credibility to jurors during the six-week murder trial.
Jurors testified Hill told them not to be "fooled" by Murdaugh’s defense and instructed them to "watch him closely," "look at his actions," and "look at his movements" while he testified.
One alternate juror recalled Hill warning jurors: "They’re going to say things that will try to confuse you. Don’t let them confuse you or convince you or throw you off."
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The Supreme Court said the comments went beyond casual conversation between staff and jury members, writing that she "essentially implored the jurors to find him guilty."
"Hill became a character witness on behalf of the State, encouraging the jurors to question Murdaugh's credibility" the opinion said.
The opinion also painted a portrait of a public official consumed by the attention surrounding the nationally televised trial.
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Hill co-authored a book about the proceedings, "Behind the Doors of Justice: The Murdaugh Murders," while also granting favors to media members and cultivating celebrity around the case, according to testimony cited by the court.
According to the book’s synopsis, Hill had known the Murdaugh family for decades and was aware of "the rumors of corruption and crime surrounding the Murdaugh family."
"These accusations came and went, nothing sticking long enough to bring clarity or a clear conviction. Becky had also known of good deeds done by the Murdaughs," the synopsis stated. "She was there when Randolph Murdaugh received the Order of the Palmetto, the highest honor bestowed on a civilian by the Governor of South Carolina."
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A fellow court official testified Hill said she hoped the book would earn enough money to buy a lake house and believed a guilty verdict would improve sales.
The justices concluded Hill "was attracted by the siren call of celebrity" and "allowed her desire for the public attention of the moment to overcome her duty to her oath of office."
Although Hill denied many of the allegations during a 2024 evidentiary hearing, the Supreme Court wrote that "Hill’s denial of making any inappropriate comments lacked credibility."
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The opinion also referenced Hill’s later guilty plea to perjury related to her denial that she allowed members of the media to view sealed exhibits.
The unraveling began publicly in October 2023 when Murdaugh’s attorneys filed a motion for a new trial accusing Hill of jury tampering.
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By January 2024, jurors were testifying under oath about Hill’s comments and behavior.
The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that Hill’s actions triggered the legal presumption that the jury had been improperly influenced and that prosecutors failed to prove the verdict was unaffected.
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"As noted at the outset," the justices wrote, "Hill’s shocking jury interference" forced the court to reverse the conviction and order a new trial.
Prior to Wednesday's ruling, Hill had previously pleaded guilty to four charges -- obstruction of justice and perjury for showing a reporter photographs that were sealed court exhibits and then lying about it, plus two counts of misconduct in office for taking bonuses and promoting a book she wrote on the trial through her public office.
"There is no excuse for the mistakes I made. I’m ashamed of them and will carry that shame the rest of my life," Hill said in a statement read to the court.
She was sentenced to three years of probation.
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WATCH: Hill reads Murdaugh's 2023 guilty verdict
At the conclusion of Murdaugh's 2023 trial, Hill notably read the guilty verdict.
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Despite the legal win Wednesday, Murdaugh will not be walking free. He remains behind bars serving lengthy sentences for a string of financial crimes that cemented his fall from power.
For his financial crimes, Murdaugh was sentenced in state court to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to 22 counts including money laundering and breach of trust. In federal court, he received a 40-year sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, which he is serving concurrently with his state time.
Though his murder convictions and subsequent life sentences were overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday, he remains in prison to serve the financial sentences.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Hill, her attorneys and Colleton County for comment.