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Livvy Dunne making it look easy in Baywatch one-piece, Eleonora Incardona tears up France & Aaron Rodgers wife
Yesterday was a long day. I did manage to get outside a couple of times and show my respect for summer as the temperature here crept up into the 90s, but I was worn out by the time dinner rolled around.
I don't know if I didn’t properly prepare for my relief appearance or what. But today's a new day, hump day, and I'm going to give today's edition of Screencaps all I have on this summer day at the end of July.
We're going to take a page from Livvy Dunne's playbook by making difficult things look easy, or something like that.
The former athlete turned model did some Baywatch promotion on Tuesday on social media with an announcement in the iconic red one-piece. She wrote, "It’s a tough job @baywatch."
Now, because I'm down with the younger generation, I know tough has more than one meaning, and I'm sure that's what Livvy meant. But I'm choosing to turn the viral post into a bit of inspiration here.
That shouldn’t be too hard to do. We're talking about a three-time MLB All-Star who has four Sports Illustrated Swimsuit editions to her name. That all came from viral TikToks and a collegiate gymnastics career.
Livvy's now in the reboot of an iconic show and she's making all of these difficult things look very easy.
Let's get to the emails. There's a victory lap that a few of you out there in Screencaps Nation would like to get to.
- Marty H in Idaho writes:
SeanJo,
I've never sent meat before so here's our latest spun up chicken. Biggest of the summer at almost six pounds. We've found it's a fairly hassle-free way to have a great meal and it doesn't heat up our non-AC house.
I had a great one-day summer outing in my Bronco with my neighbor who drove his Jeep. Did 100 miles on gravel and sometimes barely there roads over three Idaho mountain passes. The photos are Antelope Pass (9,000 feet) looking east, heading into Copper Basin, and a side trip up Wildhorse Creek. We had a great reminder to be prepared as we ran into a 12 inch aspen tree that fell across the track at about 50 miles in. This isn't the kind of landscape where you can just drive around it so we took out our chainsaw and cut her up. It's remote too as we didn't pass or meet another truck until hitting Copper Basin at about 60 miles in. Super day; even caught four cutthroat on a dry fly.
Lastly, the video link that Joe used Monday for mountain lions feeding behind our house didn't work for me. Here's the correct link if anybody wants to check it out.
Thanks for filling in for Joe. Anybody else notice SeanJo's extra helping of eye candy?
SeanJo
Thanks Marty for sending in your meat. I'm glad you've joined the growing number who aren't afraid to do so.
We don't judge around here.
The views of Idaho are great. Keep those coming as well. Thanks for the support. There's a lot of work that goes into these posts.
- Jim T. in San Diego writes:
Okay, as a forty-year veteran of the news business - reporter, editor, columnist - and someone who taught an upper-division journalism course at a prestigious university, here's what I don't get about this whole ESPN v Outkick v The Athletic situation regarding former on-air talent Ryan Clark:
When Outkick called for comment, reportedly ESPN reached out to a reporter at The Athletic as the ESPN brass apparently dislikes Outkick and preferred The Athletic get the scoop.
And here's where I'm lost.
Isn't ESPN a sports news outlet? And isn't The Athletic are least somewhat competition to ESPN?
Why not have your OWN staff report on it?
I survived numerous rounds of layoffs at the newspaper I worked at longest and, to be fair, our company almost never covered them all that well (although we surely never fed the announcement to a favored competitor!). We'd have a short article the next day announcing the total number of layoffs, and a canned response from the publisher about how valued these employees were. (And his sentiments weren't faked - I knew the publisher, and it tore him up having to let people go. But the advertising model was in free fall and he couldn't spend money he didn't have.)
But I don't believe we ever named those who were let go. That was left to the local alternative outlets, who'd start bombarding everyone at our paper to find out who was let go.
Other papers across the country have done the same: announce the layoffs, not the names.
I get the desire to protect your laid off folks from public embarrassment - getting laid off sucks. Been there, trust me.
But when it is patently obvious that the details ARE going to become public, isn't it better to make that announcement yourself? Take away some of the breathless drama which I'm guessing is even more embarrassing?
If there are actual privacy laws surrounding this so that the company doing the layoffs is legally prohibited from naming names, that I can understand. But I've yet to see anyone ever say that on the record. "We had to eliminate 10 jobs today, but privacy laws prevent us from telling you who they are."
Instead, the competition begins poring over future editions to see which bylines have disappeared. Or, in broadcast, whose shows or slots are gone.
The fact is, under defamation law, anyway (which obviously differs from privacy law), most journalists can be considered limited public figures. They carry influence in their market, and their work can be fairly criticized to a level other professions cannot because journalists are considered to have willingly entered into the public arena in a way, say, a sales executive or mechanic has not.
So Ford not naming the factory workers being laid off makes more sense to me than ESPN not naming the on-air talent whose jobs were eliminated.
Screencaps Nation is large and well-connected - perhaps the 90 percent or more of your readers who are smarter than me can explain this. (For the handful who are NOT smarter than me: Good lord, people, who gets you dressed in the morning?)
SeanJo
Hey Jim, thanks for reaching out. I can't tell you what ESPN is thinking. Perhaps, there's someone out there who can.
What I can say is that what OutKick reported on the topic is accurate.
ESPN was contacted and given time to respond. ESPN evidently wanted another outlet to report it first. Why? I couldn’t tell you.
- Jim T. in San Diego also sent the article announcing the Cracker Barrel CEO news:
Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino steps down after ‘woke’ rebrand sparked backlash from customers — and even Trump
https://nypost.com/2026/07/27/business/cracker-barrel-ceo-julie-felss-masino-steps-down-after-woke-rebrand-sparked-backlash-from-customers-and-even-trump/
- Mike sent the article my way too and got the party started:
I forgot Joe wasn't around and that you're at the helm, but I think we can all appreciate the fact that this woman can no longer cause harm to the storied brand of Cracker Barrel.
- John C. in Bowling Green, KY writes:
Hey Sean! You can read the thread, but I fired a reply off to Joe regarding the update on my Thursday email which he posted in the Friday Screencaps column. I didn't realize he was out this week. Outkick gets results!
Here's that thread:
I'm crediting Screencaps with this scalp! 🤝 Now, gimme my grits and no upcharge hash browns back!
Also, I would like to add that I have been going to Cracker Barrel since the original restaurant opened just off I-40 in Lebanon, TN. It was a routine stopping spot with the family on the way to and back from UT football games in the 70s. It's personal! ;)
SeanJo
The CEO might be out, but are the "grits and no upcharge hash browns" going to return? Time will tell on how all that ends up playing out.
I do know that you don't mess with a man's grits and hash browns.
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That's all I have for hump day. There's sunshine in the forecast, and we're expecting to get back up into the 90s again today. I'm going to make sure I get back out there again today.
Send me your meat, your scenic views, and join in on the Cracker Barrel victory lap if you'd like. Whatever you do, keep the emails and DMs coming.
I have a couple more days of relief work to put in sean.joseph@outkick.com. Find me here on Twitter and here on Instagram.
Trump's evolving China rhetoric raises eyebrows over TikTok strategy amid scorching election meddling warning
President Donald Trump is striking a noticeably softer tone toward China just days after delivering a public address to the nation accusing Beijing of "sinister election meddling."
The fresh set of accusations levied on July 16 raised new questions about the Trump administration's posture towards China, especially as it moves to keep TikTok operating in the U.S. while warning against the hostility of the world power against America.
"President Trump just told the nation that China tried to influence the 2020 election and weaken his presidency. During that same year, the intelligence community identified TikTok as a primary vector of CCP influence in the United States," Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Michael Sobolik, who specializes in U.S.–China relations, told Fox News Digital.
"Beijing still controls the algorithm, which means that the very dangers Trump raised persist today," Sobolik added.
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Trump has long taken a hard line on China, using tariffs, trade pressure and national security warnings to frame Beijing as one of America's chief adversaries.
In his recent address to the nation, the president accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of running a "sinister" campaign to interfere in U.S. elections and influence Americans and undermine his presidency.
Yet just five days later, on July 21, Trump suggested "China is maybe a little bit different today." It struck a softer tone that falls more in line with the president's backing of a deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S., despite seeking during his first term and at the start of his second to force the app out over national security concerns.
"The CCP hasn’t changed. Xi Jinping hasn’t changed. But President Trump has," Soblik detailed.
"He’s much more conciliatory toward China in his second term than he was in his first. He risks telegraphing significant weakness to Xi by letting China off the hook."
Trump downplayed Beijing's past election interference, suggesting both countries engage in similar tactics and indicating he was more focused on future negotiations than revisiting China's actions.
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"It took place a long time ago. I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then," Trump conceded.
"But look there, they do things and we do things to them. I'll be honest — do we do things to them too? It's not a one-way street, but we'll be talking to them," said Trump when speaking about Chinese election meddling days after his "free and fair elections" televised remarks.
Sobolik argued the softened rhetoric could embolden Beijing to continue attempts to influence U.S. politics in the future.
In his first term, Trump sought to ban TikTok, saying it posed a national security risk. Then, during his second term, Trump joined the app, and in recent weeks so have his top cabinet members.
"President Trump has saved TikTok for its millions of American users -- yet another promise made, promise kept," White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told Fox News Digital. "With the new TikTok under the control of U.S. investors, Americans can continue to enjoy TikTok with their data fully protected."
TikTok’s ownership deal was reconstructed at the beginning of this year to have majority U.S.-ownership while still giving Chinese technology company ByteDance a 19.9% stake – 0.01% below the threshold required under U.S. law.
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While the app is based in the U.S., Sobolik said that TikTok's algorithm remains under ByteDance’s control via a licensing regime.
"The fact that it’s training on U.S. data stored on servers in America doesn’t change the fundamental reality that a Chinese Communist Party-controlled company still controls the algorithm itself," said Sobolik. "The administration hasn’t directly addressed the possibility that Beijing could calibrate the app’s algorithm in concerning ways."
Trump visited China in May for a high-stakes summit with President Xi Jinping on several of the biggest pressure points in the U.S.-China relationship — from trade and Taiwan to AI and human rights. Those meetings appeared to end without firm public breakthroughs.
In his final meeting with Xi at the summit, Trump touted what he called "fantastic trade deals."
Sobolik said Trump "wants what he’s always wanted with China," which is a trade deal.
"He needs to think broader and bigger. Economic competition is one part of the larger new cold war that’s playing out between Washington and Beijing," he said.
Sobolik said Trump is placing too much emphasis on trade while overlooking other important areas of competition with China.
"Xi will have the advantage," he added.
Trump said Xi will be visiting the U.S. on Sept. 24, with artificial intelligence expected to be a key topic during their talks.
Fauci repeatedly pleads Fifth in fiery showdown with Rand Paul
Former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci repeatedly refused to answer substantive questions from Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul, leaving the Kentucky Republican frustrated but unfazed.
Fauci and Paul previously engaged in heated exchanges during an earlier hearing, when the lawmaker warned the immunologist against lying to Congress about his role in the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic and his support for gain-of-function research.
"I served at the NIH for over 54 years, 38 of those as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Over that period, I proved that I believe in and respect the value of legitimate congressional oversight," Fauci began his opening statement.
"In fact, I testified before and or briefed Senate and House congressional oversight, Senate and House committees well over 200 times over those 38 years during and after the COVID-19 pandemic," said Fauci, who was appointed to his NIAID role by President Ronald Reagan.
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Fauci said that because Paul has an "obsession" with demanding his prosecution and allegedly "slander[ed]" him, he felt he was going to be put in a trap to "vindicate [Paul’s] public pledges" that he "end up behind bars."
When Paul began a series of in-depth questions, Fauci began repeatedly pleading his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Paul argued that Fauci did not have that ability during a congressional investigation conducted under a lawful subpoena, noting that it is a crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 to knowingly make false statements to Congress.
When Fauci finished, Paul reiterated that point before Fauci's lawyer began speaking out of turn and was eventually ejected by the chairman.
Storm player wears trans rights shirt ahead of Fever game in stark contrast to Sophie Cunningham’s stance
Just days after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham found herself under fire for defending women's sports, Seattle Storm center Stefanie Dolson appeared to offer a statement of her own, arriving for Tuesday night's game wearing a shirt reading "Trans Rights are Human Rights."
On its own, the shirt might have been dismissed as routine WNBA activism. But the timing made it impossible to ignore.
The official Seattle Storm X account quickly endorsed the message, featuring Dolson wearing the shirt across its official social media channels.
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Tuesday's pregame scene made the league's broader embrace of transgender inclusion impossible to miss while putting Cunningham, one of its few dissenting voices, in the spotlight.
The WNBA has long viewed itself as the vanguard of progressive sports leagues, consistently embracing social activism while leaving little room for dissenting views.
The controversy began after ESPN published a profile on Cunningham in which the Fever guard addressed the backlash she has received for defending women's sports.
Cunningham pushed back on critics who have accused her of being anti-trans.
"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" Cunningham said. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."
When reporters later asked whether she still stood by those comments, Cunningham didn't waver.
"I said what I said," Cunningham told reporters ahead of a recent matchup against the Connecticut Sun. "I think it's kind of common sense." She pointed to Title IX as protecting female athletes.
"It's really important to protect children. And that's little girls who are also involved in that category."
Addressing accusations of bigotry, she added: "I extend love, and I don't dislike anyone... but I'm also there to love biological women. And I think that there are rights that need to be protected."
Within the WNBA, defending biological women has become an increasingly lonely stance.
The WNBA Players Association has publicly supported trans inclusion, while former Fever teammate Brianna Turner has argued that restrictions on biological males distract from broader structural inequities.
Against that backdrop, Cunningham has become one of the league's few prominent players willing to publicly challenge the prevailing view on transgender participation in women's sports.
She has given voice to athletes who argue protecting women's sports is about fairness, not hatred.
Whether intentional or not, Dolson's shirt sharply contrasted with Cunningham's recent comments and reflected the league's broader embrace of transgender inclusion.
"Trans Rights are Human Rights" has become a common rallying cry for pro-trans advocates.
By celebrating Dolson while treating Cunningham's defense of Title IX as controversial, the Storm's official channels highlighted what critics see as a glaring double standard.
The Fever organization attempted to strike a middle ground, issuing a statement noting that its players are "thoughtful adults with their own perspectives and voices."
The contrast couldn't have been clearer. Dolson's message reflected the prevailing stance embraced by many within the WNBA. Cunningham has emerged as one of the league's few active players willing to publicly challenge it.
Cunningham isn't backing down. Neither is the debate over women's sports.
Indiana handily beat Seattle, 105-95.
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New York wants to govern Iowa and Missouri — we're suing to stop it cold
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously called the states "laboratories of democracy." In those laboratories, Iowans shape Iowa’s laws, Missourians make Missouri’s laws, and New Yorkers establish New York’s laws. That is a core tenet of federalism — a structural part of our nation’s Constitution that allows for great variation and competition between the states. What a state can’t do, however, is lay claim to the entire country as its laboratory.
That’s exactly what New York is trying to do. Its new greenhouse gas reporting rule requires "fuel suppliers" throughout the nation to register with New York and report information related to greenhouse gas emissions. But the rule doesn’t just concern companies doing business in the Empire State. New York has made clear that its new regulation applies to any ethanol and biodiesel producers whose product may, after being blended or sold by others, eventually end up in New York. In short, New York expects out-of-state producers and distributors to comply with its civil and criminal rules, even if the connection to the state is extremely remote or hypothetical.
This includes producers and distributors in our states — Iowa and Missouri. Together, we represent the nation’s leading producers of ethanol and biodiesel. Our states’ energy economies support millions of farmers, workers, families, and communities. New York’s rule would impose significant compliance costs, reporting obligations, inspections, civil penalties, and even criminal liabilities on businesses operating far from the Empire State.
The issue is not whether New York can create environmental rules for itself: of course it may. Rather, it is whether one state can force citizens, farmers, manufacturers, and businesses in other states to abide by its regulatory program.
Our states have made different policy choices for greenhouse gas regulation. Iowa has not chosen to impose New York-style radical reporting mandates on every fuel producer or supplier. Missouri has similarly refrained from adopting extreme greenhouse gas reporting requirements. Those choices belong to our citizens and their elected representatives. New York may disagree with them, but it cannot override them.
If every state had the right to regulate all others, the result would not be federalism: It would be chaos. Imagine if Iowa sought to regulate how financial institutions operate in New York to counter downstream effects in Iowa, and Missouri sought to regulate technology companies in California for similar reasons.
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This sounds crazy, but such regulatory chaos has already started to seep into our federal system. California and Massachusetts regulate how hog farmers around the country operate. California has a greenhouse gas disclosure law requiring large companies doing business there to report emissions and climate-related information, including out-of-state operations and even emissions in the entire supply chain. New York and Vermont have enacted "climate superfund" laws seeking to charge companies for past contributions to alleged climate-related harms. And Boulder, Colorado, claims international energy companies Exxon and Suncor are liable for alleged harms stemming from worldwide greenhouse gas emissions — which the Supreme Court will hear arguments on this fall.
Together, these scenarios reflect a troubling trend: If a policy goal seems big enough, some states think they can reach beyond their borders to solve it.
The Supreme Court has long recognized that one state cannot govern the citizens of another state. Each state is equal under the Constitution, and none has special privileges over any other. That limitation is one of the basic conditions that makes our federal system possible, and New York cannot ignore it.
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Federalism protects individual rights. Among other benefits, individuals can remove elected officials who don’t respect their rights by expressing their preferences in legislative and gubernatorial elections — and influencing national laws through their representatives in Congress. And at the state level, federalism provides another powerful mechanism to check government excess. Anyone who doesn’t like a state’s laws and isn’t satisfied with their electoral recourse can move out of that state.
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But if New York officials impose costly and unwanted policies on Iowans and Missourians, we cannot vote New Yorkers out of office. Our residents cannot even "vote with their feet" to another state to escape this terrible nationwide policy. In short, we cannot hold New York accountable for its extraterritorial regulation. Empire State politicians seek local benefits for their performative actions but export the burdens to people who have no voice in making them.
With support from the Center for Individual Rights, Iowa, Missouri, and a free-market business association, AmFree, have teamed up to protect our liberties and our federal system. We’re challenging New York’s greenhouse gas reporting rule in federal court in Missouri to enforce a basic constitutional boundary: One state’s authority ends where another state’s sovereignty begins.
Our lawsuit doesn’t turn on who cares the most about the environment. Iowans and Missourians care deeply. Our farmers, fuel producers, and agribusinesses have powerful incentives to use resources efficiently, innovate, and compete. Biofuels are an important part of America’s energy independence. New York can control its own policy, but not that of the rest of the nation.
This is federalism. It’s our American way and it is worth defending.
Catherine Hanaway is the Attorney General of Missouri.
Dispatch audio released in Michigan family murder-suicide as troubled family's secrets emerge
A Michigan mother of six had just returned from the trip of a lifetime when her recently unemployed husband killed the entire family and then himself, authorities say, and newly released 911 dispatch audio captures the inferno he left behind.
Six children and two adults were found dead inside a Grand Haven Township home Friday after crews responded to a house fire, the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office said. All eight had gunshot wounds, turning the case into a suspicious death investigation.
Officials on Monday identified the adults as Kristopher Karolkiewicz, 47, and Amanda Karolkiewicz, 39. Authorities did not name the children but said they were four boys ages 15, 12, 11 and 5 and two girls, both 11. Two of the children were adopted.
The sheriff's office identified the father and husband, Kristopher Karolkiewicz, as the suspect in the murder-suicide.
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Amanda Karolkiewicz, who went by Mandy, returned to Michigan from her trip of a lifetime to China with her two adopted girls just days before the murder-suicide.
In one image, Mandy and two of the girls pose in traditional Chinese hanfu, their hair styled and faces made up, each holding a decorative fan against a painted floral backdrop.
The mother called it one of the "funniest and coolest" experiences of her life.
Her final TikTok post was made on July 17, with Mandy writing, "We are so ready to be home sweet home!"
Mandy's TikTok told the story of a family that seemed to have it all. Disney in Shanghai. Cobblestone streets overseas. Lazy afternoons at the pool. A beach photo of her and her husband, arms wrapped around each other. And the kids, all six, turning up again and again in the everyday moments most parents live for.
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However, a Reddit account belonging to Mandy shows their marriage wasn't as picture-perfect as it appeared.
In a 2024 post, Mandy wrote that there was infidelity in the marriage.
"He was divorced and older than me … fast forward ten years and five kids, he was cheating with the intern again — the same age I was when I was the intern," she allegedly wrote.
"After about a year of self-loathing I remember crying and looking at myself in the mirror and realizing how f---ed up it was that I was the one who was living so miserably because of what he did," she allegedly wrote.
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Mandy made frequent posts on the "AsOneAfterInfidelity" Reddit, writing that she couldn't stomach the idea of leaving him.
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"We have six kids, so the idea of leaving is insanely terrifying," Mandy allegedly wrote. "He’s always had major red flags that I ignored due to my own trauma and anxious attachment."
The couple had been married 17 years when they were found dead, along with their children, in their Grand Haven home.
Kristopher Karolkiewicz worked at the American Heart Association until July 2026, when his employment ended, according to a spokesperson for the organization.
"The American Heart Association is aware that one of its former staff members was among those who perished under tragic circumstances last week in a western Michigan home. Kristopher Karolkiewicz was an employee of the American Heart Association from September of 2023 until earlier this month, July 2026, when his employment ended," the spokesman said. "During his time with our organization, he served as a national vice president of sales and marketing, supporting the division of the Heart Association responsible for CPR and first aid training and products."
"As an organization with professional staff who are dedicated to helping others, we are devastated by the news out of Michigan, and our thoughts are with the loved ones of those who lost their lives in this tragedy," he continued.
Authorities said Karolkiewicz started the fire in numerous places throughout the house after carrying out the murders.
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"The cause and origin of the residential fire remains under investigation by Michigan State Police arson investigators. However, preliminary indications are that the fire was intentionally set in numerous places throughout the interior of the residence. The family pets also perished due to the fire/smoke," the sheriff's office said in a press release.
The Grand Haven Fire Department initially responded to reports of people being able to smell smoke in that area between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Friday, but firefighters couldn't locate a fire.
Dispatch audio obtained by Fox News Digital indicated that the house was "full of smoke" that could be seen coming out the windows.
Just before 11:45 a.m., officials returned to the 14900 block of Riverside Trail after receiving reports of white smoke coming from a home there.
The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office said there are no additional suspects.
WATCH: Battleground Democrat called Iowa a 'backwater' over transgender athletes ban
A Democrat hoping to flip one of the country’s most competitive House seats called her state a "backwater" over Republican efforts to bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports, according to unearthed footage obtained by Fox News Digital.
House candidate Christina Bohannan made the comments during a 2021 legislative forum while opposing a GOP proposal barring biological males from competing on female sports teams.
Bohannan's comments could provide fresh ammunition for Republicans as the repeat candidate seeks a third bid against Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, in a swing district that President Donald Trump carried by more than eight points in 2024.
"They’re introducing these bills and making these comments to try to make a point," Bohannan, who previously served in the Iowa state legislature, said, referring to her GOP colleagues. "And I think even that is really damaging to people and sends a very bad message about our state that’s going to make the state look like a backwater."
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Iowa, under Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, enacted a transgender athletes ban in 2022. Bohannan voted against the measure.
The comments are the latest instance of Bohannan torching Iowa for rejecting left-wing policies.
Bohannan also said in 2021 the Hawkeye State would be seen as "backwards" if lawmakers approved a bill prohibiting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training at public schools and universities. Reynolds signed the legislation later that year.
"I think that it's going to send a very bad message about Iowa and that it is going to seem like…this backwards state that doesn't understand there are things like systemic racism," the Democrat hopeful said on the "Under the Dome" podcast in 2021.
Bohannan notably served as chairwoman of the University of Iowa College of Law's DEI committee, where she urged students to support the Black Lives Matter movement, Fox News Digital previously reported. In that role, she sent students a letter encouraging them to financially contribute to several activist funds, some of which supported defunding police.
Bohannan lost to Miller-Meeks by fewer than 800 votes in 2024, making it the closest House race in the nation. She also launched a failed run for the seat in 2022.
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report says the rematch contest is a "toss-up."
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which is aggressively working to re-elect Miller-Meeks to a third House term, sharply criticized Bohannan's remarks in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"Liberal Christina Bohannan didn't just vote against protecting girls' sports, she mocked Iowans for standing up for women and girls," NRCC spokeswoman Emily Tuttle said.
"Bohannan has made it clear she's for they/them, not Iowa families," Tuttle continued, invoking Trump's signature attack line against former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Fox News Digital reached out to Bohannan for comment.
Bohannan's remarks come as transgender issues continue to split Democrats, while public polling has shown broad support for limiting girls' and women's sports to biological females.
A New York Times/Ipsos poll released in 2025 found that nearly eight in 10 Americans opposed biological males participating in women’s sports. Roughly 70% of Democrats or Democrat-leaning respondents held the same position, according to the survey.
Miller-Meeks cheered the Supreme Court in June upholding state-level bans on biological males participating on female sports teams.
"Today’s Supreme Court decision is a win for girls' sports," the Iowa lawmaker said in a statement following the ruling. "I have and will continue to fight to ensure every female athlete has a fair chance."
Bohannan, by contrast, did not appear to publicly comment on the ruling.
Fox News Digital's Elaine Mallon contributed to this report.
Lost sermons from one of Christianity's greatest saints discovered after 1,600 years
Two previously unknown sermons by St. Augustine — one of Christianity's most influential theologians — have been authenticated, revealing ideas scholars say have never before appeared in his surviving works.
The newly discovered sermons were found on a medieval manuscript by Christian Tornau, a Latin professor at the University of Würzburg in Germany.
The manuscript was copied at Bad Doberan Abbey in present-day Germany during the 12th century, likely from an earlier manuscript that has since been lost.
St. Augustine lived from 354 to 430 A.D. He served as the bishop of Hippo Regius in present-day Algeria and was a prolific theologian.
In a press release issued by the University of Würzburg, officials said the saint "is regarded as one of Christianity's most important Church Fathers."
"His extensive body of writings continues to occupy scholars today," the university also said.
Tornau is now working to publish the sermons for the first time in a scholarly edition after nearly two years of research.
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The discovery began in 2024, when a representative of the monastery's preservation association asked Tornau to decipher the manuscript.
Of the manuscript's six sermons, two were previously unknown.
The two sermons explore the Old Testament story of the Witch of Endor, in which King Saul consults a witch before a battle against the Philistines.
At Saul's request, the witch summons what appears to be the spirit of the deceased prophet Samuel, who foretells Saul's death in battle — raising the question of theodicy, or why an all-powerful God would allow an apparently diabolical act to occur.
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Augustine's sermons show him weighing the possibility that King Saul repented and was ultimately redeemed after hearing Samuel's prophecy.
"The first sermon was preached during a Sunday service and ends by presenting the theodicy question and the possible interpretations," Tornau told university officials.
"Only in the second sermon, delivered the following Wednesday, are the alternatives weighed ... the style, humor, and content also strongly indicate that the sermons preserved in the manuscript really are by Augustine."
The interpretation of Saul being saved is the "most remarkable element" of the new sermons, Tornau told Fox News Digital.
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"This is unparalleled in Augustine and in ancient Christianity in general, where we find a very negative image of Saul," said Tornau. "Augustine suggests it ... and clearly takes it seriously."
The professor noted that Augustine may have independently developed the idea that King Saul repented and was ultimately saved after hearing Samuel's prophecy, or he may have been influenced by Jewish rabbinic interpretations that viewed Saul more favorably.
"In any event, it is indicative of Augustine’s [independence] of mind and his willingness to think everyone, even those who appear most evil, [are] capable of salvation through the grace of God," he said.
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"This combines intellectual honesty and episcopal humility in a remarkable and very Augustinian way."
The texts can "confidently" be dated to Late Antiquity, Tornau added, because they reflect a style of Christian liturgy that would have been impossible in the Middle Ages.
"The background is North African, as is clear from the concluding prayer of the first sermon, which is only attested in late-antique Africa," he said.
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He also noted that the sermon's author "is familiar with Augustine’s thought and works but does not simply copy them, which would be a sign of inauthenticity."
"After this intense period of reading and interpreting, we came to the conclusion that there are no serious objections to Augustine’s authorship," he said.
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It does not seem possible to trace the manuscript further back than the 12th century, the professor said, adding that the texts themselves also initially gave researchers pause.
"We were fascinated, of course, by the idea of having found new sermons of Augustine, but soon turned skeptical because [in] some places the sermons did not seem to read like Augustine," Tornau said.
"Our final verdict is that they are indeed authentic."
Brandon Aiyuk's social media post mocking Kyle Shanahan's car crash draws backlash and could cost him a job
Brandon Aiyuk's increasingly routine cringe social media posts have already cost him the respect of some NFL coaches and general managers, and that is costing him money. But what he did on Tuesday might also cost him future job opportunities.
Aiyuk went on his Instagram account late Tuesday afternoon and made a not-so subtle reference to Kyle Shanahan and the head-on collision the San Francisco 49ers coach was involved in earlier this month.
"You can't win the race if you crash out," Aiyuk posted, without naming Shanahan.
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On the next slide, Aiyuk added, "Keep yo head up and stay in yo own lane. You gone win."
The IG story was added following the news that Shanahan had suffered significant injuries – including multiple broken ribs, a broken nose, a broken hand and concussion symptoms – in an auto accident he took responsibility for causing when he dropped his phone while driving.
His Tesla veered into an oncoming lane, hitting a car traveling in the opposite direction.
So, yes, multiple sources around the NFL have told Fox News Digital they're disappointed, worried, and even upset about Aiyuk's online activity. One said he was "disgusted" Aiyuk seemed to be at minimum mocking, and perhaps even celebrating his coach's misfortune.
And why would Aiyuk be doing that?
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Because he's been feuding with Shanahan and the 49ers dating back to 2024 and certainly last November when the club voided his 2026 guaranteed salary for failing to fulfill obligations related to his rehabilitation from an October 2024 ACL injury.
To be clear: Aiyuk is still under contract with the 49ers. But he's never going to play for them again. Both Shanahan and general manager John Lynch have said as much. Aiyuk is currently on the "reserve/left squad" list and not at training camp with the team.
During his time away from the squad, dating back to last winter, Aiyuk has seemingly crashed out on social media.
He filmed himself driving at ludicrous speed (perhaps as high as 104 MPH) on the street adjacent to the 49ers training facility, leading prosecutors to charge him with the California misdemeanor offense of exhibition of speed, alleging he intentionally accelerated at excessive speed on a public roadway.
The case was based largely on the video Aiyuk himself posted online.
There was also a post in which Aiyuk sits a backpack full of cash on a shelf. He opens the backpack, pulls out wads of bills and repeatedly throws the money into the air and onto the floor. He then closes the backpack, puts it on, and walks away.
Aiyuk, clearly sending the message he doesn't need anyone's money, deleted the video.
All this while he was trying to get traded or set himself up to get signed by another team if the 49ers release him.
Yes, bizarre.
One of the teams that has been most closely connected to having an interest in Aiyuk has been the Washington Commanders. They have an admitted need for wide receiver help and quarterback Jayden Daniels played with Aiyuk when both were in school at Arizona State.
The connection has been so obvious that a reporter on Tuesday asked Washington general manager Adam Peters about the weight of a player's social media activity when evaluating him.
"That's a good roundabout question, right there," Peters said with a laugh.
"Bada-- you are," head coach Dan Quinn told the reporter from his seat next to Peters. "Straight bada-- right there."
Everyone understood the point of the question: Would the Commanders, needing talent at the position Aiyuk plays, consider adding Aiyuk despite his sometimes unhinged ride through social media?
Or would the team see the behavior for what it is: rebellious, anger-filled, and often just strange?
"I mean, we look at everything," Peters said. "I mean, it's a great question, but we do look at everything and, you know, we want to make sure it's the right player to be in our locker room, in our bloodstream, and in our culture.
"And we often, we look at that stuff. It's not always the first thing we look at. Obviously, you're looking at the tape and you talk to the teams that the players have been on and how they were in the locker room – the players that have played with them and so on and so forth to make those decisions.
"But, you know, that's not usually a huge part of it."
Peters paused.
"Usually," he added.
Chick-fil-A data breach exposes customer accounts
Your Chick-fil-A One account makes it easy to order food, collect points and keep payment information ready for your next visit. That convenience can also make the account valuable to criminals.
Chick-fil-A is now warning customers after attackers gained access to certain loyalty accounts. The incident exposed personal information and account details, while also raising new concerns about password reuse.
Even if Chick-fil-A never contacted you, this breach gives you a good reason to review your password, stored payment methods and recent rewards activity.
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Chick-fil-A says it first spotted suspicious login activity involving certain Chick-fil-A One accounts. The company then investigated and found an automated attack against its website and mobile app. The attack ran from June 17 through June 19, 2026. Chick-fil-A determined on July 13 that unauthorized parties may have accessed information stored inside affected accounts.
The attackers used email addresses and passwords obtained from a third-party source. They then tested those login combinations against Chick-fil-A One accounts. When a customer had reused the same password, the attackers had a chance of getting inside.
Chick-fil-A has not disclosed the total number of affected customers. However, public filings show that the breach affected 2,182 Texas residents and 39 Massachusetts residents. The company also submitted notices involving residents of Iowa, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont and Rhode Island.
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The information available to the attackers varied by account. According to Chick-fil-A's notification, the exposed data may have included:
The notification lists only the last four digits of payment cards. It does not list full card numbers, Social Security numbers or bank account details among the exposed information. Still, the other details could help criminals create convincing scams. A message that includes your name, loyalty membership information or partial card digits may feel legitimate. The QR code exposure also raises questions because customers use account QR codes to earn points and access rewards. Chick-fil-A has not publicly explained whether attackers used any exposed QR codes. We reached out to Chick-fil-A for comment, but did not hear back by our deadline.
Credential stuffing sounds technical, but the attack follows a simple pattern. Criminals collect email addresses and passwords from older data leaks. Then automated tools try those combinations across other websites and apps.
The attack works because many people reuse passwords. One old password breach can therefore lead to account takeovers at companies that had no connection to the original leak. Chick-fil-A says the login details used in this attack came from a third-party source. The company's notification describes attackers arriving with stolen credentials and testing them against its services.
That distinction may explain how the attack started. However, it offers little comfort when someone gains access to your rewards, contact details and stored payment information. Relying on a username and password alone creates more opportunities for account takeovers. Multifactor authentication can provide another barrier when a password has already been stolen.
A Chick-fil-A, Inc. spokesperson provided CyberGuy with the following statement:
"We recently identified a security incident that may have affected a limited number of Chick-fil-A One Loyalty accounts. Upon discovering the issue, we took steps to immediately address, secure and restore accounts, and we are communicating directly with all customers who may have been impacted. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or concern this situation may have caused and remain committed to maintaining the trust our guests place in us every day."
The company's customer notice provides several additional details. Chick-fil-A logged affected customers out, removed saved payment methods and added rewards to their accounts.
This isn’t Chick-fil-A's first major credential stuffing incident. In March 2023, the company confirmed that attackers had accessed more than 71,000 customer accounts. That earlier campaign ran from December 2022 through February 2023.
The attackers accessed personal information and used stored rewards balances in some accounts. The repeat attack shows how long stolen login information can remain useful to criminals. They can keep old credential lists, combine them with newer leaks and test them across popular services.
A restaurant loyalty account may seem less important than your bank or email. Yet it can still contain personal information, stored funds and payment details. It can also give an intruder clues about other accounts you use, especially when your email address and password appear together in several places.
You can take these steps even if Chick-fil-A never contacted you about the breach.
Open the official Chick-fil-A app or type the company's website into your browser. Then create a new password that you have never used on another account. Avoid changing one character in an older password. Criminals often test common variations after a stolen password stops working. Chick-fil-A recommends using a unique password that has no connection to your other online accounts.
Changing only your Chick-fil-A password leaves other accounts exposed. Update the password on every account where you used the same login combination. Give priority to your email because an attacker can use it to request password resets elsewhere. Then review accounts that store payment methods or sensitive personal information. A password manager can help you find reused passwords and replace them with unique ones. It also removes the need to remember every login yourself.
Open the Chick-fil-A app and look for orders or balance changes you do not recognize. In the app, tap For You , then open Account > Transactions > Transaction History . Chick-fil-A says customers can review up to one year of account activity. Check your rewards activity separately. Someone may have redeemed or gifted rewards without placing an obvious food order. Also review your phone number and saved addresses. Correct any account details that someone changed.
Chick-fil-A says it removed saved payment methods from affected accounts. However, you should confirm that your cards no longer appear if you received a breach notice. To check, open the app and tap For You . Then go to Account > Payments > Manage payment methods . Chick-fil-A advises customers to resolve unauthorized activity and change their passwords before adding a payment method again. Leaving a card out of a restaurant app may create an extra step at checkout. It also gives an account thief one less thing to misuse.
The notification lists the last four digits of payment cards among the information attackers may have accessed. Those digits alone usually cannot authorize a purchase. However, criminals could combine them with other personal details during a phishing attempt. Review recent charges and turn on transaction alerts through your bank or card issuer. Contact the financial institution immediately if you find anything unfamiliar.
A breach can lead to a second round of trouble when criminals send fake security alerts. Be cautious with emails or texts claiming your Chick-fil-A account requires immediate action. The message may offer a refund, replacement rewards or help restoring your balance. Avoid clicking the link. Open the official Chick-fil-A app yourself or type the company's website address into your browser. Also check the sender's full email address. A familiar logo and a polished message provide no guarantee that Chick-fil-A sent it.
Credential stuffing does not require malware on your phone or computer. However, criminals may follow a breach with fake security alerts designed to steal more information. Strong antivirus software can help warn you about malicious links, fake websites and suspicious downloads. Keep the protection active on every device you use to check email or access your Chick-fil-A account. The best way to protect yourself from malicious links that install malware is to have strong antivirus software installed on all your devices. This protection can also alert you to phishing emails and ransomware scams, helping protect your personal information and digital assets. Get my picks for the best 2026 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android & iOS devices at Cyberguy.com
The Chick-fil-A breach may have exposed names, phone numbers and saved addresses for some customers. Criminals can combine those details with information found on data broker and people-search sites to create more believable scams. A data removal service can send removal requests to these companies and continue checking whether your information returns. However, it cannot remove data already taken from your Chick-fil-A account or guarantee that every public record disappears. Check out my top picks for data removal services and get a free scan to find out if your personal information is already out on the web by visiting Cyberguy.com.
Chick-fil-A does not currently advertise a customer-facing multifactor authentication option for Chick-fil-A One accounts. However, you should enable it on your email account, financial services and any account that stores sensitive information. Use an authenticator app or passkey when available. These options provide stronger protection than text message codes in many situations. Multifactor authentication can block an intruder who has already obtained your password.
Credential stuffing does not require malware on your phone or computer. However, follow-up phishing messages may try to install harmful software. Keep your phone, computer and browser updated. Use strong antivirus protection that can warn you about malicious links and downloads. Never install an app through a link in an unexpected breach notification. Use the Apple App Store or Google Play Store to find the official version.
The Chick-fil-A data breach shows how a password stolen from one company can create problems somewhere else. Attackers reportedly used credentials obtained from a third party. They then tried those logins against Chick-fil-A's website and mobile app. Chick-fil-A secured the affected accounts, removed stored payment methods and restored balances. However, the total number of affected customers remains undisclosed. The most important move now involves changing any reused password. Your Chick-fil-A login should have a password that appears nowhere else. You should also review your rewards activity, account information and financial statements. Be ready for convincing phishing messages that use details taken from the breach.
Have you ever had a loyalty account hacked, lost rewards or spotted account changes you never made? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com.
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