Fox News Latest Headlines
DAVID MARCUS: Transportation Secretary Duffy is right, Harvard just ain’t what it used to be
It was Woody Allen, in his 1977 gem of a movie ‘Annie Hall,’ who quipped that "Everything our parents said was good is bad, sunlight, red meat … college," and in the case of the once world-class Harvard University, truer words have rarely been uttered.
The transformation, in our lifetimes, of Harvard from a tower of intellectual excellence to a barnyard of progressive slop is why Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is right to urge his daughter away from this bastion of absurd wokeness.
Let’s face it, 30 years ago when you heard the term "Harvard degree," you thought, "Oh, this must be a very smart person who has done all the reading." Today, sadly, when we hear Harvard degree, most of us think, "Oh, this is likely a wealthy, snot-nosed Marxist who can’t even be bothered to read Marx."
SEAN DUFFY FACES FAMILY DILEMMA OVER EMBATTLED IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL AND CHRISTIAN VALUES
And it isn’t just Harvard, the entire Ivy League has become synonymous with liberal lunacy. For example, is Columbia a university or a staging ground for jihadi sympathizers, or have the lackluster leaders there decided those are the same thing?
Meanwhile, back at Harvard, which settled an antisemitism lawsuit last year, The New York Times reported on students not doing work but graduating anyway due to grade inflation.
HARVARD STUDENTS REVOLT OVER NEW GRADING POLICY THEY CALL ‘RACIST’
From the article: " ... Once they get in, many of its students skip class and fail to do the reading… When they do show up for class, they are focused on their devices, and are reluctant to speak out. Sometimes it is because they are afraid of sharing ideas that others will disagree with. But often, they have not read enough of the homework to make a meaningful contribution."
Reading the classics? Not so much. But, Jew-hating? Absolutely!
HARVARD PRESIDENT CALLS STUDENTS ‘IGNORANT’ ON ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
This is supposed to be the learning ground of presidents and statesmen and now the students are refusing to read? They should change the motto from "Veritas" to "No Regrats."
Much of this crisis in our top schools has been caused by diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), as rich kids of color are snuck in through the side door in order to maintain the appearance of a Benetton ad.
Everyone’s new favorite pencil-mustached communist, Gustavo Gordillo is a great example of this. Prior to his parents buying him a $1.5 million home in Brooklyn, Gustavo got a sculpture degree from Yale, but after that, somehow he couldn’t even make his way through a union electrician apprenticeship.
Mind you, this hasn’t stopped him from calling himself a union electrician. Maybe I’ll just tell people I play second base for the Phillies.
SOCIALISM’S CAMPUS APPEAL MEETS GEN Z RESISTANCE AS STUDENTS KEEP SCORE ON COMMUNISM
Is it any wonder that Duffy and his wife don’t want to send their daughter to this commie summer camp we call Harvard where she can hang out with gaggles of America-hating Gustavos?
The Ivies just don’t carry the weight they once did because they threw it away in the name of progressivism. Today, in the real world, nobody actually expects that a Harvard grad is smarter or more able than an alum of West Virginia University or Penn State, and they are probably much more annoying.
CONFIDENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION SLIPS AFTER BRIEF RECOVERY, GALLUP POLL FINDS
It really is a problem for our society that our top institutions of higher education have all but turned their backs on educating, preferring to pump out activists instead of scholars.
Conservative complaints over the Ivy League are nothing new, after all. It was his book, "God and Man at Yale," that made William F. Buckley Jr. a founding father of the conservative movement, but as much as he disagreed with his liberal professors and fellow students, he didn’t doubt their ability or willingness to read books.
LIBERAL FACULTY STILL HUGELY OUTNUMBER CONSERVATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: REPORT
It seems unlikely that the Ivies will stage a comeback. Already schools like Hillsdale College are running circles around them, and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ programs to overhaul the Florida state college system are yielding solid results.
The people we should feel bad for here are the honest, hard-working students who still fought hard to get into Harvard only to find that their skin color or religion is more important than their intellectual abilities.
ELITE COLLEGES ARE LOSING AMERICA’S TRUST. COMMUNITY COLLEGES CAN WIN IT BACK
Ultimately, this is why so many parents, even those of us who are not in the Cabinet, would make the same decision as Duffy. We want to send our kids to colleges that will educate, not indoctrinate them.
This may all be for the best, we really don’t need a handful of elite colleges to produce all of our leaders. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has degrees from the University of Florida and the University of Miami, but nobody thinks this makes him an intellectual lightweight, because it doesn’t.
Wherever Secretary Duffy’s daughter goes, I hope it is somewhere that will make her read and think, that will not teach her to hate Jews, and maybe — not to get too crazy — will instill a bit of patriotism.
That is not too much to ask for Ms. Duffy or for any of our kids.
'Halo' composer, GOP candidate says venue canceled his event for political reasons, he will host it elsewhere
Republican congressional candidate and composer for the "Halo" video game series, Marty O’Donnell, said his video game event was canceled by a venue in Las Vegas for vague political reasons, but he's resolved to host it somewhere else instead.
O'Donnnell is running for Congress as a Republican in Nevada's 3rd Congressional District. The longtime video game composer entered politics after a decades-long career that also included writing music for television commercials and jingles.
O’Donnell spoke to Fox News Digital about how he planned to host a gaming event, specifically a "Halo" tournament where players gather to compete head-to-head in the same room rather than from their own homes. This event would have been used to celebrate nostalgia for the iconic alien-fighting series and to boost civic engagement among young people as both a part of his campaign and a celebration of the franchise’s 25th anniversary.
"We were planning a Halo LAN (Local Area Network) party and tournament here in Las Vegas at HyperX Arena," he said. "We spoke to them for over a month and all of a sudden, out of the blue, they came back to us, and they said, because of your political affiliations, we're going to have to cancel, which of course meant now it's up to us to figure out a way to still do what we want to do, but we just can't depend on HyperX Arena."
GAMING-WORLD VETERAN WHO RIPPED ‘WOKE’ CULTURE SCORES TRUMP-BACKED BATTLEGROUND PRIMARY WIN
The HyperX Arena is a business on the grounds of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. O’Donnell’s campaign provided Fox News Digital an email from HyperX Arena’s representatives denying that O’Donnell’s event there was canceled due to him being a Republican, but rather due to "the political affiliations and election-related nature of the proposed program."
The Luxor Hotel itself, from which the HyperX Arena rents its venue space as a vendor, has hosted numerous political events over the years, including a Bernie Sanders press event, a Democratic Party caucus, and a California College Republican event as recently as 2024. Fox News Digital contacted the HyperX Arena’s representatives and received no immediate reply.
O’Donnell said he was uninvited from the Halo 25th anniversary reunion at the SacAnime pop culture convention in California after he said his comments about the alliance of the far-left and Islamism were taken out of context. Fox News Digital also reached out to the SacAnime team and received no reply.
While O’Donnell lamented that "it seems like I'm being canceled because I'm a Republican running for Congress," he declared he is resolute about hosting the "Halo" tournament.
"Once we were rejected a couple of times now, we decided to take matters into our own hands," he said, revealing he is searching for another event venue. "I want all the fans out there to know that we are going ahead with this plan anyway. We are going to do this, it's going to be a lot of fun."
O'Donnell said there would be a link on his congressional website to sign up, and it would happen around Oct. 9 or 10.
This, he said, would be a nostalgic event for gamers, likely with some Doritos and Mountain Dew, and that he would play a few games himself.
DAN GAINOR: WE GOT TWITTER/X AS A PLATFORM 20 YEARS AGO AND GLOBAL CENSORS STILL HATE AND FEAR IT
O’Donnell had a clear message for his fellow Republicans that they should not underestimate gamers as a political force. He traced their growing political engagement back to GamerGate in 2014, when previously apolitical gamers revolted online against what they saw as left-wing politics seeping into video games and gaming journalism. This movement roared back to life in 2024 amid controversies about consultancy firms pushing DEI into video games.
"There's a very interesting phenomenon going on, and I saw it starting back a little over ten years ago with GamerGate," he said. "That is that gamers are tired of being taken advantage of by these corporations, and especially once what I would call the woke mind virus got into the corporations, and they started changing the games from being based on having fun with your friends, having heroes to play as your characters, and suddenly... All the things you loved are being changed, and you're being preached at, and there's an agenda to video games, there's an agenda to TV shows, there is a woke agenda to the movies that are out."
Christina Hoff Sommers, senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, described the Gamergate movement as having been sparked in the early 2010s when "the gamer journalists, many of the leading websites for gamers were imposing this social justice agenda on their games and telling them they were 'sexist' and 'racist' and 'homophobic,' and it was so unfair. Games are so diverse, and the gamers, they know their world, and they knew this was a caricature. So they fought back. I was very impressed because I have never seen anyone sort of successfully push back."
O'Donnell went on to suggest that since Gamergate, many disaffected but social media-savvy gamers ranging from ages 25–45 have gone on to become influential streamers and cultural commentators online today, having changed how online political debates are waged. This group, he suggested, is willing to vote for Republicans who can actually push back against the tide of far-left politics, "because they are tired of being taken advantage of and preached at by the lefties and the woke people out there."
CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE
One key development in this demographic, he said, is that they are politically aware and tapped into culture and politics in an entirely new way, to the point they, like him, have chosen to get involved.
"The interesting thing that I've seen now talking to a lot of these folks, either on their podcasts or their streaming sites, is that they are now politically aware. They realize, as my friend Dean Cain likes to say, ‘You might not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you,’" he said. "These guys are starting to realize that if they want to make the changes, if they don't like the changes that have been forced down their throats, they're going to have to start to get involved."
Heidi Klum leaves little to the imagination in latest Instagram photo
Heidi Klum left little to the imagination with her recent social media post.
The 53-year-old German supermodel took to Instagram on Thursday to wish her followers a good morning with a risqué photo she captioned, "M☀️RNING 🥰🌴🐠❤️."
In the photo, Klum stands outside with her hand covering one of her eyes with the sun shining behind her, posing in semi-sheer white underwear and a multicolored shawl with nothing on underneath.
The shawl left much of Klum's torso exposed, showing off her toned abs and slim figure.
HEIDI KLUM DITCHES BIKINI TOP, COVERS UP WITH POTATO CHIP BAG ON BEACH VACATION
"Spectacular morning to you ❤️ 🌹🌹🌹🌹" one fan wrote in the comments section, while another added, "For 53 she is Rocking 👏 !! 50 is the new 20 !!"
"When you get that old an look that good expressing your body more power to her❤️🙌," a third fan wrote.
Never one to shy away from showing off her body, Klum recently shared a photo of herself lying topless on the beach while napping on a Gucci towel next to her husband, Tom Kaulitz, with only a hat and a black thong bikini bottom to cover herself.
"No caption needed," she captioned the post, which featured many other snaps of her with her husband as they vacationed in St. Barts to celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary.
GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE
LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Klum and Kaulitz got married in a lavish yacht ceremony Aug. 3, 2019, in Capri, Italy, after secretly marrying in February of that year.
"For the first time, I have a partner who I can discuss everything with," Klum, who turned 53 in June, told People in 2020. "Someone who shares duties that we all have in our life. I used to be on my own with everything. For the first time, I get to experience what it is actually like to have a partner."
The "Germany's Next Top Model" host was previously married to Australian hairstylist, Ric Pipino, and later singer Seal.
She and Seal share three children together; sons Henry and Johan and daughter Lou. Seal also adopted Klum's daughter, Leni, from her previous relationship with Flavio Briatore.
PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE
She and Kaulitz first met in February 2018, and made their red carpet debut in May 2018 when they attended the amfAR Gala during the Cannes Film Festival together.
Fox News Campus Radicals Newsletter: DOJ opens probe into prestigious college over alleged discrimination favo
TRUE COLORS: DOJ opens probe into prestigious college over alleged discrimination favoring minority students
NUMBERS GAME: Berkeley math professor sounds alarm on liberal 'test-blind' policies, warns many students badly behind
SIGN UP TO GET THE CAMPUS RADICALS NEWSLETTER
SCHOOL OF HARD LEFT: Bernie-backed California House candidate called DEI a ‘social justice-driven duty,’ embraced activist role
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Harvard, NYU among 30 universities hit with Pentagon foreign-tie audit deadline
WATCH: Deputies hunt wanted man through cornfield after high-speed chase caught on camera
A wanted Wisconsin man led deputies on a 12-mile high-speed chase before bailing from a moving car and vanishing into a cornfield, sparking a five-hour manhunt that ended with a K9 and drone-assisted takedown.
According to the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office in Wisconsin, the high-speed case began at 2:26 p.m. on Aug. 17 when authorities were told that the 40-year-old suspect had fled from the City of Fond du Lac Police Department.
A deputy spotted the vehicle traveling south on Highway 175 near Highway 151 and attempted to stop it using lights and sirens, the sheriff’s office said. The driver refused to stop and accelerated at a high rate of speed.
SEE IT: DASHCAM SHOWS FLORIDA TROOPER CHASING ALLEGED STREET TAKEOVER SUSPECT AT 140 MPH
Dash camera video captured the high-speed pursuit which continued along several county roads before another deputy deployed a tire-deflation device successfully striking the suspect vehicle’s tires, authorities said.
In the released dash camera video, the suspect is seen jumping out of the vehicle and making a beeline toward a subdivision. A Fond du Lac police officer is seen pursuing him on foot before the suspect was seen entering a nearby cornfield.
Authorities said that the suspect entered a cornfield, where officers quickly lost sight of him due to the dense vegetation, authorities said.
Officers ended the foot pursuit because of safety concerns and established a perimeter around County Highway V, Reinhardt Road, County Highway K and Valley Creek Road.
CALIFORNIA DEPUTIES USE MAGNET-EQUIPPED DRONE TO DISARM KNIFE-WIELDING SEX OFFENDER HIDDEN IN GARAGE
Drones operated by the Fond du Lac Police Department and Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office were deployed but initially could not locate the man because of the thick foliage. Multiple K-9 teams also searched the area.
At about 6:30 p.m., sheriff’s office personnel spotted the man attempting to leave the cornfield near Reinhardt Road, authorities said. He ran back into the field when officers approached.
Authorities made multiple announcements over a loudspeaker but received no response, according to the sheriff’s office.
A K-9 was then deployed near the man’s last known location, while a drone operator located him from above and directed an arrest team toward him.
The man continued running from officers and the K-9, authorities said. After an approximately 300-yard track through the cornfield, he was driven out of the field toward officers waiting near Paradise Lane.
He was taken into custody without incident at about 7:45 p.m. and turned over to Fond du Lac police. The vehicle pursuit covered about 12.6 miles, and the entire incident lasted more than five hours.
The 40-year-old Fond du Lac man was taken to a local hospital for medical clearance before being booked into the Fond du Lac County Jail on multiple counts of fleeing and eluding, second-degree recklessly endangering safety and felony bail jumping, according to the sheriff’s office.
Authorities said the man was on probation for cocaine possession and possession of a firearm by a felon and had an active Wisconsin Department of Corrections warrant for an alleged probation violation.
He also has two pending felony cases in Fond du Lac County, according to the sheriff’s office. One includes charges of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm by a felon, maintaining a drug trafficking place, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of drug paraphernalia. The second includes charges of felony bail jumping and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Two Fond du Lac County patrol vehicles were damaged during the pursuit. A sheriff’s deputy and a Fond du Lac police officer suffered minor injuries. Authorities said no private property was damaged. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office for additional details.
Philadelphia Chucky-style mask suspect has ties to Los Angeles area, could be in area, police warn
The man accused of terrorizing and threatening people in downtown Philadelphia last week while wearing a creepy Chucky-style mask could be in the Los Angeles area, law enforcement officials said.
Zymire Hughes, 22, has deep work and personal ties to LA and may already be present in the local area, FOX Los Angeles reported.
Surveillance video captured Hughes packing his bags and exiting his apartment complex this week, the news outlet reported. Authorities said he frequently travels back and forth to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, leading investigators to believe he could be in the region.
However, investigators have not determined his whereabouts. He is being sought by the Philadelphia Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service.
Law enforcement agencies in Southern California and Nevada were monitoring transportation facilities and following up on any reported sightings of Hughes.
Hughes was identified Thursday as the masked suspect who allegedly approached, chased, and threatened several people in the early morning hours of Aug. 12 in Philadelphia, while filming the strange encounters on a cell phone.
He was on probation and now faces felony and misdemeanor assault charges from last week's incident.
ALLEGED 'MIME' STALKER STRIPPED TO UNDERWEAR, COVERED HIMSELF IN COOKING OIL: OFFICIALS
In one incident, Hughes allegedly asked a 40-year-old female jogger: "Are you ready to die?" while holding his hand behind his back, causing her to flee. She sustained a leg injury that will require extensive treatment, police said.
"Zymire Hughes was trying to scare people, make them run. Who's scared now? Who's running now?" Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said during a news conference Thursday. "He’s a punk. I mean, that’s the bottom line. He’s a punk who scared a lot of people for no good reason, and we’re not going to tolerate it."
TIMELINE REVEALS HOW MAN IN 'CHUCKY' MASK TERRORIZED PHILADELPHIA STREETS, EVADED POLICE
Investigators said they believe Hughes may have been trying to create social media content in an effort to monetize it.
"There wasn't an attempt by himself to lay hands on anyone," Philadelphia Police Capt. Jason Smith said Thursday. "He didn't brandish any weapon, although in the case of the jogger, he did have his right arm behind his back, implying that he had a weapon, but at no point in time did he furnish a weapon."
Brittany Mahomes hits the gym and stuns fans, more WNBA drama & 16-year-old girl pummels middle school player
'Nightcaps' is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk. It runs Monday–Friday on OutKick.com.
What's that? Today is our first Football Friday of 2026?
Buddy, say no more! Who has it better than us? Nobody. Imagine not living in America today. It must be just miserable.
Sure, it's only high school football, but I don't care. Give me the bands and the pageantry. The cheers. The obnoxious horn that goes off in the middle of a play because some sophomore is working the scoreboard and doesn't know what he's doing.
I want it all. I've missed it. We've got high school football tonight. We've got college football next weekend. Then it's Labor Day weekend — otherwise known as the most underrated holiday weekend on the calendar.
I can feel it in my bones. We're about to kick it up a notch, boys and girls. Let's lock it in and then have ourselves a big weekend.
Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — the one where Brittany Mahomes works in a lift during a dominant day at the gym before the second week of the NFL preseason.
What else? I've got an absolute specimen toting the rock for Peyton Manning's kid, another WNBA sex toy scandal, and let's check in on the middle school football scene in Tennessee.
Wait till you see this hit. Better yet, wait till you see who delivered it!
OK, I've got a big two-year-old birthday party on deck tomorrow that I have to get this house ready for, so let's get this class going. I've got a big day ahead.
Grab you whatever you need to get you though the final few hours of the week, and settle in for a Friday 'Cap!
We're hosting about 30 people tomorrow for my kid's birthday party, which seems just absurd but that's not an argument I will ever win.
It's happening, and my yard is in shambles. It's rained here all week. I've had no window to mow it. We've got 30 folks coming over in the morning and it looks like we live in the Everglades right now.
So, it's gonna be a quick class. No hemming and hawing. Let's get to it.
First up? As I said, football is BACK across this great country. We had high school football last night (which we'll get to in a minute). We have more tonight.
So, let's spin the football wheel and head out to Tennessee, where one middle school player got absolutely demolished earlier this week ...
... by a 16-year-old girl ...
... who wasn't even a player!
Goodness gracious! What a hit. The kid obviously didn't see it coming. Nobody did, except 16-year-old Addison Hunnicutt, who told News Channel 5 in Nashville that she is the sister of a player who she claimed was being bullied all night long on the field.
"That's when I started to be like, no, I'm done watching this," Addison said. "I wasn't going after this kid just to go after him. That wasn't my intention at all."
What a twist.
Addison, by the way, has since been charged with assault and disorderly conduct, according to the Sheriff's Office. She's also been permanently barred from ever setting foot on any Franklin County School System properties again.
Seems a bit harsh to me, given the context. Perhaps some community service will do the trick? Don't know that we need to ruin a kid's life over this. Where were the parents? Maybe start there.
Regardless, I'm thinking some crosstown high school football team with a hole at linebacker may be making a call today. Just a hunch.
Next? You know who that team ain't gonna be? Baylor School in Chattanooga. They don't need any extra help.
Don't believe me? They have a Manning under center, and, apparently, the next Derrick Henry behind him to carry the rock.
And I mean CARRYING THE ROCK:
Lordy. They didn't make 'em like that when I played high school football. What a specimen! I hadn't heard of five-star Tennessee commit David Gabriel Georges until last night, but this kid is very much on my radar now.
He just won't go down. I remember watching old Derrick Henry highlights from his time at Yulee, and this reminded me of him.
I don't say that lightly, by the way.
Incredible. I could watch old Henry-Yulee highlights all day long. They are mesmerizing.
PS: Did anyone catch who caught Marshall Manning's first pass? A young lad who goes by Cornbread Adams.
God, I love this country. We are the best.
OK, let's rapid-fire this Friday class into a big weekend. First up? Football is back, Part III:
Brittany Mahomes has officially clocked in for the NFL season. She's back. One final tuneup in the gym, and then it's off to the races. I think we're all sleeping on the Chiefs this season, by the way. As hard as that is to believe.
I hear all this talk about the Patriots, Broncos and Chargers in the AFC. Everyone is obsessed with the Texans defense. The Bengals are a sexy pick right now. The Bills have a new stadium and the same stud QB.
And we just seem to have forgotten that the Chiefs exists. Yes, Patrick Mahomes is coming off the ACL. Travis Kelce is old. Rashee Rice is a ticking time bomb.
I don't care. I think they're about to remind everyone who runs the AFC. And believe me, I'm no Chiefs fan.
Next? Before we head off into the weekend sunset, let's all check in on the big Dream-Sparks game from last night:
YES! For those who thought the WNBA's serial sex toy thrower was dead and gone, think again! He's back, in some form.
Remember that month last summer when fans were just launching these things on the court during games? It got so bad, sports books started posting odds of what the next color would be. Two people were ultimately arrested! It was anarchy.
ANGEL REESE STUNNED BY SEX TOY THROWN ONTO COURT
And now, on a random Thursday night in late August, it rears it's ugly head again. Right on cue.
What a league.
OK, that's it for today — and this week. Good work, everyone. Happy first Football Friday of the season.
STAY "FEARLESS" ON THE GO! TAKE TOMI LAHREN WITH YOU. DOWNLOAD THE TLIF PODCAST NOW!
Many more to come.
See you Monday.
How was the girl's tackle? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert blames the wrong people for ‘sowing divisiveness’ in transgender debate
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert denounced those she claims are using the league to "sow divisiveness" over the topic of transgender athletes.
Engelbert commented on the matter in Dallas on Thursday, a week after the league issued a statement criticizing concerns about transgender participation in the WNBA.
"People are trying to use the league to sow divisiveness," Engelbert said Thursday while standing next to Wings CEO and managing partner Greg Bibb.
CLUELESS WNBA ATTACKS 'BAD-FAITH' FANS WHO DON'T WANT BIOLOGICAL MEN RUINING WOMEN'S SPORTS
"We're being the center of political football for people who have never watched the WNBA, never have written about the WNBA or reported on the WNBA," Engelbert added.
For background, various WNBA players and media members condemned Fever star Sophie Cunningham for stating in an ESPN profile last month that efforts should be made to protect little girls from competing against biological males.
The backlash within the WNBA to Cunningham's remarks prompted former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White to ask how women in the league would feel about having to compete against men. To find out, Freedom and White declared themselves eligible for the WNBA draft, saying they identify as women.
The league's collective bargaining agreement states that "only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA." The agreement does not include any more specific language about men who identify as women.
Clearly, Engelbert and co. see Freedom, White, and XX-XY Athletics as the ones "sowing divisiveness." We disagree.
The people who have turned the WNBA into a site of divisiveness are the players and media members openly hostile toward Caitlin Clark as a straight White woman and Cunningham as a proponent of keeping female athletes safe.
BILL MAHER CALLS OUT THE LUNACY OVER SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM'S TRANS COMMENTS BEING TWISTED
Let us not forget Cunningham's actual comments. In February, in an interview that was not published until July, she told ESPN:
"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that.' 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."
That's it.
She said she wanted to extend love while also protecting young girls from having to change next to and compete against biological males. According to polling data, around 78% of adults agree with her that males should not be allowed to compete against females in the name of transgenderism.
And yet, those benign, commonsense remarks stirred league-wide backlash, protests, hostility from players, coaches, and talk show hosts, plus the usual blue-haired weirdos outside Fever games.
Likewise, outsiders defend Clark because the mistreatment she receives from the league, players, officials, marketing campaigns, and media is too blatant to ignore. But because so few in the WNBA or sports media would dare stand up for a straight White woman experiencing racism from Black and queer players, it forced those who traditionally do not cover sports or the WNBA to weigh in.
To understand how WNBA insiders cover the league, consider that Cindy Brunson argued DiJonai Carrington should not have been ejected for clotheslining Cunningham. Instead, Brunson said Cunningham should have been ejected for confronting Carrington after Carrington left her bloodied in the mouth.
Defenders of Cunningham and Clark are not the villains in this story. The problem for Engelbert is that the true bad-faith actors in this saga are of a skin color and political bent that the WNBA is not comfortable identifying as villains.
Or, as Engelbert would say, "sowing divisiveness" for personal gain.
Black voters rip Dems over taking them for granted in El-Sayed's backyard: ‘Hush us up’
Black voters could play a decisive role in Michigan’s closely watched Senate race this November, raising the stakes for Democrats as signs of softer support among the historically reliable voting bloc threaten to complicate the party’s path to victory.
National surveys suggest that the proportion of Black Americans who believe Democrats represent their interests is slipping.
Additionally, the percentage of Black voters who identify with the Democratic Party fell by 10 percentage points between 2020 and 2025, according to the Pew Research Center.
Fox News Digital spoke with roughly a dozen Black voters on the ground in Detroit, most of whom said they believe the Democratic Party has either failed to prioritize their concerns or has taken their support for granted.
FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS: AS DEMOCRATS TURN LEFT, BLACK VOTERS TAP THE BRAKES
"I feel like some of the stuff that they do is just to hush us up and, like … there you go," Dalia, an African American from Detroit, told Fox News Digital.
"It's just the way that they don't address our issues, issues that concern actually Black people, especially working-class Black people," Vincent, a Black voter from the Detroit area, told Fox News Digital.
"It's always a ploy to get the Black vote, make all these promises, but once that vote is in and stuff like that, then it's operation as normal," another Black voter said.
Another snag for Democrats is their Senate nominee’s lack of support among African Americans in his primary election.
DSA BRAND ON TRIAL AS EL-SAYED STRUGGLES WHERE DEMS CAN LEAST AFFORD IT
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s razor-thin win over Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., earlier this month was closer than expected, and Black voters appeared to have a lot to do with it. In jurisdictions with the highest percentage of Black voters, El-Sayed consistently struggled against Stevens.
A collective analysis by The Hill found that, in counties where Black residents account for 15% or more of the population, Stevens outpaced El-Sayed by an average of eight points.
Fox News's Power Rankings have the Michigan Senate race rated as a toss-up while also showing a steady decline in Black support for the Democratic Party.
El-Sayed, however, performed strongly in the Arab-American enclaves of Dearborn and Hamtramck.
"I guess the Arabs resonate with who's running for Senate. So, he don't really have to prioritize us because he has enough people on his side already," Parisia, another Black Detroit resident, told Fox News Digital.
DEMOCRATS ARE IN BIG TROUBLE BECAUSE BLACK AND BROWN VOTERS DON’T WANT SOCIALISM
"It’s a fool’s errand to assume terrorist-sympathizing and socialist-aligned candidates like Abdul El-Sayed and William Lawrence can unite Democrats in a general election when they’ve spent their careers disparaging Black Americans," RNC spokesman Hunter Lovell told Fox News Digital.
Even some of the Black voters who told Fox News Digital they were skeptical of the Democratic Party reported favorable feelings toward El-Sayed, however.
Those views came despite criticism of El-Sayed’s relationship with socialist streamer Hasan Piker, whose comments about Black voters in a 2024 livestream have been cited by El-Sayed’s critics.
During a 2024 livestream about Democratic border policy, Piker reacted to the claim that "Black people care about the border" by saying, "I don’t give a f--- what Black people care about or what you think Black people care about," before accusing Democrats of using Black voters as a "shield" to defend a rightward shift on immigration.
"Like, shut the f--- up," Piker said.
HALEY STEVENS URGES EL-SAYED TO DITCH HASAN PIKER AFFILIATION AFTER MICHIGAN PRIMARY
One Black Detroit area resident told Fox News Digital she was "appalled" by the fact El-Sayed was campaigning with Piker.
"I guess clearly you don't care about Black voters then because you would never bring ... somebody to run with you who is against or not even against but who don't care about Black voters," she said.
Lawrence, whom Lovell referenced, is another DSA-aligned candidate running in the Great Lakes State.
Facing off with Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Mich., Lawrence previously said Black Democratic leaders wrongly "defang the White left" because they support the establishment.
"The extent to which the older generation of Black political leadership are such a pillar, frankly, for establishment, capitalist, imperialist American power through their role as this kind of traditionalist, establishmentist (sic) pillar of the Democratic Party, it’s a big problem," Lawrence said in 2024 on his "Hegemonicon" podcast as reported by the Huffington Post at the time.
"It really defangs the White left and puts us in impossible positions, really."
Those comments led the Congressional Black Caucus PAC to release a statement saying that people supporting Lawrence should "denounce his hateful remarks and withdraw their support."
Fox News Digital reached out to Lawrence for comment.
JASMINE CROCKETT WARNS DEMOCRATS ARE TOO FOCUSED ON WHITE VOTERS, IGNORING BLACK VOTERS
An African American pastor serving in the Detroit area told Fox News Digital that, while he strongly supports El-Sayed, whom he knows personally, Democrats can’t necessarily count on the Black vote as a given.
"He does understand us," Keith said of El-Sayed, later noting that Democrats have "discovered that if you're not courted and not talked to or whatever, we don't necessarily turn out for you."
Trump-appointed judge blocks blue state's crackdown on ICE detention center
A Trump-appointed federal judge dealt a blow to Colorado’s effort to ramp up oversight of an ICE detention center by temporarily blocking key provisions in a state law after finding the state likely overstepped its authority.
Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico issued the preliminary injunction Thursday, ruling that Colorado likely crossed a constitutional line in a state law by imposing new requirements specifically targeting the GEO Group’s Aurora ICE Processing Center, which operates under a federal contract and is the state's lone ICE detention center.
"Here, GEO has shown that it is singled out for a special bill that applies to no other facility," Domenico wrote.
"That other facilities might have some similar regulatory burdens does not change the fact that none of them are required to comply with HB 1276. As GEO notes, the extent of the additional burden is irrelevant for purposes of this test."
BLUE STATE’S ANTI-ICE PLEDGE COLLAPSES AS GOP WARNS OF NEW SANCTUARY ‘CONFEDERACY’
Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 26-1276 into law June 4, expanding state and local oversight of immigration detention centers.
In his order, Domenico noted that GEO’s Aurora detention center was the only facility in Colorado subject to the law’s additional regulations as of May.
"And though Colorado argues that the law only brings GEO into compliance with existing state regulations applied to other detention facilities, that law singles out this one category of facility for a separately defined set of restrictions and rulemaking," Domenico wrote.
"And that is sufficient to establish that HB 1276 discriminates against GEO based on its status as a federal contractor."
FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS NEW YORK LAW BANNING ICE AGENTS FROM WEARING MASKS
The blocked provisions required unannounced inspections of the facility at least once every three months, and GEO was required to pay for the inspections. The law also authorized civil penalties of up to $50,000 for each refusal to permit an inspection.
"At least some of the burdens of this bill are unique," Domenico wrote. "The requirement of a certain number of unannounced visits, for example, does not appear elsewhere. And the state acknowledges that the penalty scheme is not imposed on other facilities."
Colorado argued that the law simply put GEO on the same footing as other private detention centers.
But Domenico said if the state had required immigration facilities to follow the same regulations governing facilities carrying out state policies, that argument "might be persuasive."
CITIZENS BANK CUTS TIES WITH ICE PRISON CONTRACTORS AFTER MONTHS OF ACTIVIST PRESSURE
The ruling relied heavily on the Constitution's supremacy clause. Domenico cited Supreme Court precedent stating that federal government activities generally must remain free from state regulation and that protections can extend to private contractors carrying out federal operations.
Colorado's new law also sought to give the state authority to impose additional reporting and staffing requirements. Those provisions include potential annual reports concerning people with chronic health conditions and disabilities, dietary restrictions, access to attorneys and access to spaces for worship.
The law also addresses the housing of minors and requires onsite medical and mental health professionals.
Domenico did not block those provisions because Colorado told the court they were not being enforced and would require a future rulemaking process, which the state said it had no immediate plans to begin.
The preliminary injunction will end Oct. 15, when GEO's existing federal contract to operate the Aurora site expires.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES COLORADO OVER IN-STATE TUITION AND FINANCIAL AID FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
Democratic Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said the ruling was only a minor victory for GEO.
"Today’s ruling granted the GEO Group a narrow, temporary injunction against one provision of a new 2026 law — not the broad relief it sought — and leaves Colorado’s existing public health and safety authority intact," Weiser said in a statement Thursday.
"Separately, our lawsuit filed yesterday seeks to enforce that existing authority and require GEO to cooperate with the state’s investigation into tuberculosis at the Aurora facility, and we will continue using every available tool to protect the health and safety of Coloradans."
Colorado sued GEO on Wednesday, seeking to force the company to comply with a public health order stemming from a tuberculosis investigation at the Aurora center. Health officials confirmed an active TB case there on June 22, but the state alleges GEO has failed to provide the records and cooperation needed to determine the extent of potential exposure.
The state argues its authority to investigate communicable diseases predates HB 26-1276 and remains intact despite Domenico’s decision temporarily blocking the law’s new inspection requirements.
Fox News Digital reached out to GEO and Polis' office for comment.