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Illegal immigrant bites ICE officer in 'gross attack' while resisting arrest: DHS
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Louisiana was bitten in the hand by an illegal immigrant who was resisting arrest, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
DHS said the "gross attack" involving Maximiliano Perez-Perez happened in Tullos, a town in the central part of Louisiana. Officials released an image purportedly showing the ICE officer's bloodied hand following the alleged attack.
"During the arrest, Perez-Perez attempted to flee by pushing officers. He used his teeth as a weapon and clamped down on an ICE officers’ hand, breaking the skin and drawing blood," Homeland Security said.
"This criminal illegal alien is being charged with assault after he savagely bit a law enforcement officer in an attempt to evade arrest. DHS law enforcement is facing a 1,150% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats," added DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a statement.
"This is the reality of what our ICE officers are facing every day as they go to work to simply do their job and enforce the law," McLaughlin also said. "Many of these assaults, including biting and vehicle rammings, are happening as a direct result of sanctuary politicians encouraging illegal aliens to evade arrest."
DHS said Perez-Perez entered the United States at an unknown date and time and was not inspected or paroled by an immigration officer.
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News of the arrest came on the same day ICE released an image showing a suspect accused of threatening federal agents being taken into custody by an officer from Homeland Security Investigations.
The agency said, "Threatening to assault, murder or interfere with a federal agent is a FELONY."
"Logan Murfin of Tulsa, OK, has been charged with ten counts after posting on social media that federal agents need to be gunned down, shot & executed," ICE wrote on X.
"Welcome to the find out stage, Logan," it added.
Actress Amanda Seyfried calls socialism a 'gorgeous idea' during podcast
Actress Amanda Seyfried called socialism a "gorgeous idea" during a podcast on Friday and said the word meant "taking care of each other."
During a conversation on Variety's "Award Circuit" podcast, Seyfried described what the word socialism meant to her as she and host Michael Schneider lamented the state of the country. The pair agreed they didn't want to leave the U.S., following a discussion about her role in "The Testament of Ann Lee," a musical about the founder of the Shakers religious movement, Ann Lee.
"We're kicking our own out, and then, I keep thinking, thank God we’re talking about Ann Lee so much, because there’s a direct relationship to what she created and what we’re lacking," Seyfried said during the podcast. "How about we all don’t have any kind of agendas? How about our agenda is take care of each other? Socialism is a gorgeous idea, and I know it doesn’t work perfectly."
Schneider said people also don't know what the word actually means.
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"For me, it’s taking care of each other. If I have more money, I can spend more money on other people. Isn't that right?" Seyfried said.
Schneider then brought up 9/11 during the discussion and said there was a sense of unity afterward where everyone had each other's backs.
Seyfried agreed and added, "Everybody dropped everything for each other. People sacrificed their lives without a thought in the world."
"And we shouldn’t have to have a meteor or a house-on-fire situation in order to drop everything for each other. That’s just what we are as human beings," she added.
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The actress said in another recent interview that she would not apologize for calling Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk "hateful" in an Instagram post shortly after his assassination in September.
Speaking with "Who What Wear" in an interview published on Dec. 10, the "Mean Girls" actress spoke about the backlash she faced but refused to back down from her original comments.
"I'm not f---ing apologizing for that," Seyfried said. "I mean, for f---'s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course. Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualized — which is what people do, of course."
She added how she has to remember to "keep [her] head on" regarding politics.
Fox News' Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
China races ahead on AI —Trump warns America can't regulate itself into defeat
President Trump’s new executive order on artificial intelligence reflects an old American instinct: don’t choke the next great technology before it has a chance to grow. We’ve been here before. In the 1990s, Washington — under President Bill Clinton — largely resisted heavy state or local regulation of the early internet. That decision helped America dominate the digital age while the rest of the world played catch-up.
Trump is clearly drawing from that playbook.
His order pushes back on a growing maze of state-level AI rules that threaten to slow innovation just as the global AI race is heating up. That matters because this is not a friendly competition. Communist China is racing full throttle to dominate artificial intelligence, pouring state money into AI systems tied directly to surveillance, censorship and military power. Beijing doesn’t have 50 states arguing over rules. It has one plan — and it’s executing it.
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On that front, Trump is right: America cannot afford to regulate itself into second place.
But speed alone won’t save us.
As I warn in my 2025 book "AI for Mankind’s Future," artificial intelligence is not just the internet all over again. AI doesn’t just connect people, it evaluates them. It decides who gets a loan, who gets hired, who gets flagged, who gets silenced and, increasingly, who gets targeted on the battlefield. It scales power faster than any technology in history, and when it goes wrong, it goes wrong at machine speed.
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We already know how this story can end. The internet grew fast — and only later did Americans realize the cost: lost privacy, online manipulation, monopolies, digital surveillance and nonstop disinformation. Washington waited too long to act, and now we’re stuck trying to bolt guardrails onto systems that are already embedded in daily life.
AI compresses that danger into years, not decades.
Trump’s executive order aptly calls out the danger of a state-by-state regulatory patchwork. But there’s a flip side Americans should worry about just as much. An executive order can block the states — but it doesn’t automatically protect the people. If state authority is chilled and Congress fails to act, we don’t get "smart regulation." We get a regulatory vacuum.
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And in that vacuum, regular Americans lose.
Children are exposed to predatory AI systems. Workers are displaced without warning or retraining. Deepfakes flood elections and financial scams explode. Algorithms quietly make life-altering decisions, and no one can explain — or challenge — how they were made.
China understands exactly what it’s doing. AI there is already fused with state surveillance, social credit scoring and military planning. U.S. intelligence officials have warned that the AI race is existential. If America loses, we don’t just lose tech jobs — we lose strategic freedom.
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But winning doesn’t mean copying China’s model or turning AI loose with no rules.
The real challenge is proving that a free society can lead in AI without surrendering human judgment, liberty and dignity to machines. That requires national leadership — not 50 state rulebooks, but also not blind faith in technology.
Trump is right to demand speed and unity. Now Washington must deliver substance: clear federal guardrails that protect innovation while defending citizens.
If we repeat the internet era’s mistakes — moving fast and thinking later— we may win the race and still lose the country we’re trying to defend.
Notre Dame star 'already over' playoff snub, defends bowl opt-out as he hopes for Heisman Trophy win
Jeremiah Love has already moved on from Notre Dame's College Football Playoff snub.
The Fighting Irish running back, a finalist to win the Heisman Trophy, got tough news Sunday afternoon when Notre Dame found out it would not be competing for a national championship.
The Miami Hurricanes skipped over Notre Dame to get into the playoffs, while the James Madison Dukes and Tulane Green Wave were also deemed more worthy of a spot ahead of the Fighting Irish. And despite its loss in the SEC championship game, Alabama also made the playoffs.
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But the pain for Love, and perhaps many others on the team, was short-lived.
"I'm already over it, to be honest. Like, I'm on the next steps. I'm on to whatever's next. I'm preparing myself for the next opportunity I have to play football," Love said in an interview with Fox News Digital ahead of the Heisman Trophy ceremony. "So, I'm not going to dwell on the past because it's the past. Already happened, can't change it. No reason to dwell on it. That's just how I live my life. A lot of other guys, I feel like they are similar in that regard."
In the aftermath, Notre Dame decided it would not play in a bowl game, much to the dismay of old-school college football fans, as bowl games continue to lose their luster.
The decision, though, was inevitable, Love said.
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"It was a whole team decision. And the reason we made that decision was because, I mean, we felt like as a team, that we wouldn't do this 2025 football team justice by going out there and playing in that bowl game because it wouldn't be a good representation of how special our team really was, because a lot of players going to opt out, a lot of players are leaving," Love said. "So if we were going to that bowl game, it wouldn't be that 2025 team that was so special. So it was a full team decision. Everybody agreed."
Love was a part of that "special" team with a special season of his own. He rushed for 1,372 yards on 199 carries, 18 of which resulted in touchdowns. Throughout the season, Love wore Samsung Galaxy wearables to track his workouts, recovery, sleep and anything else necessary to be a star on the field.
"It helped me out a lot. It's been great. Samsung has helped me tremendously to just better my life and then also just making sure that I'm keeping track of things that are important for my performance. So, it's been great."
Love has yet to officially declare for the NFL Draft, though he is likely to do so soon. If, and when, he does, he hopes Samsung will still be around to help him at the next level.
"They've helped me tremendously throughout this season. So I'm hoping that in the future we can continue with this partnership. I love my ring, my watch, all these things that have become special to my daily life. So, it's part of me now."
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Jimmy Kimmel tears into Time's AI-focused Person of the Year cover featuring Musk, Altman and other tech CEOs
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel tore into Time magazine's 2025 Person of the Year cover featuring the "Architects of AI," referring to the eight-person line-up of tech CEOs as "the eight dorks of the apocalypse."
Kimmel kicked off Thursday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" with a dramatic reveal of Time's Person of the Year, slamming the outlet for not only its choice of winners, but also the cover's overall design — which he said looked like "Photoshop from 2007." The cover featured Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, xAI's Elon Musk, OpenAI's Sam Altman, AMD's Lisa Su, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Fei-Fei Li of Stanford and World Labs.
"Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and five other off-kilter tech sisters and bros, the architects of AI, are the Person of the Year," Kimmel revealed to his audience, who booed in response.
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The late-night host quipped that he was "expecting more enthusiasm" from the crowd before continuing to blast the "Architects of AI."
"They call them architects. And I wonder, is it customary for an architect to have no idea how a building they’ve designed works or whether or not it will one day rise up to try to kill them?" he questioned.
A common concern among critics of artificial intelligence (AI) is that the technology will eventually take over jobs that are currently performed by humans. Kimmel leaned into that idea, noting the irony of "the people who replaced people" winning this year's Person of the Year award.
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Shifting his focus to the cover art, Kimmel told the show's producers to "put that cover back up for a second" so he could get back to roasting it.
"I want to say, ironically, with as much as you can do with AI graphically, it looks like Photoshop from 2007," he snarked.
According to Time, the work by digital painter Jason Seiler is "an homage to the famous 1932 photograph of construction workers on a steel beam 800 feet above the RCA building in New York City."
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AI and its various applications have been taking the world by storm, with many predicting significant changes on the horizon as the technology progresses and permeates society.
"Thanks to Huang, [SoftBank's Masayoshi] Son, Altman, and other AI titans, humanity is now flying down the highway, all gas no brakes, toward a highly automated and highly uncertain future," Time wrote.
Last year, the outlet named then-President-elect Donald Trump as 2024 person of the year.
Fox News' Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.
Cowboy chef says Americans are turning to one of the 'healthiest meats,' and it's at most grocery stores
For Kent Rollins, the American West isn't just a backdrop — it's an ingredient.
The star of the Outdoor Channel's "Cast Iron Cowboy" has spent decades preserving cowboy cooking, but his rich and fiery bison chili recipe taps into something even older: a protein-packed staple once prized on the trail.
As Rollins noted while cooking the dish in an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital, bison is one of the leanest, "healthiest meats" a modern cook can put in a pot.
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"When [the weather] begins to cool off, I begin to have a hankering for chili," Rollins said. "But this is not just your ordinary chili. This is bison chili."
The meal was featured in a recent episode of "Cast Iron Cowboy," which has been renewed for a second season.
"There's not a lot of fat in the meat that's in here," he said.
Rollins begins by browning two pounds of ground bison with diced yellow onion.
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He then adds Ro-Tel tomatoes with green chilies, tomato sauce, jalapeños, adobo sauce and his own chili seasoning. He also adds beans.
"You're getting an extra push of protein from the beans," Rollins said. "But that bison meat is going to give you a lot of protein, a lot of power."
It's a simple one-pot meal, but it carries the weight of cowboy history.
On cattle drives more than a century ago, cowboys almost never ate the longhorns they pushed to market, Rollins said. But if they spotted a bison, cowboys would shoot it and turn it into a hearty stew to fuel the men who worked from before sunrise to after sundown.
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"This is a frontier cowboy Western heritage meal classic," Rollins said. "It's always been around."
Bison has been making what he calls "a big surge" in recent years as a "really high protein meat that's also really good for you to eat."
It's naturally lean and low in cholesterol, Rollins said.
"Wild game is your best bet," he added.
Rollins said finding bison at a nearby store is easier than many people assume. "Nearly every grocery store of any size will have some bison meat," he said.
If not, online ranchers and suppliers can ship it directly to your door.
Bison meat tends to be more costly — mostly due to limited supply, higher production and processing costs, smaller-scale ranching and "the unique challenges of raising and delivering bison compared with conventional beef," according to the Institute for Environmental Research and Education, based in Washington state.
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Yet "continued strong consumer demand has kept wholesale prices stable for the past four years," said the National Bison Association in Colorado.
"Bison are making a comeback — at grocery stores, restaurants, and, slowly but surely, on America’s wide-open plains," Modern Farmer pointed out.
As always, Rollins cooks in cast iron — a tool he believes not only honors cowboy tradition but improves the final dish.
Cast iron "is always going to bring you a better flavor when you're cooking with it," he said, especially when simmering chili or searing meat.
"It holds heat well. So, really, you're saving money. You can turn that burner down. You're going to keep that simmer going most of the day, with a really low heat on cast iron."
Despite the frontier flair, Rollins insists cowboy cooking is for everyone.
"You can cook anything I ever cooked in my life — in the house, outside, on top of the house, in the barn," he said. It's "all simple" and "all easy."
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"That's what life is about for us and that's what cooking is," he said.
"Because you can't get full-on fancy."
Campus Radicals: Their childhoods disrupted by politics, courageous girls are fighting back
More K-12 and university extremism coast to coast was exposed this week in Fox News Digital's Campus Radicals investigative series, including the story of two courageous high school girls who are taking on a blue state's transgender athletics policy.
Sadie Sullivan, a swimmer at Wenatchee High School in Washington, has had enough.
"Girls should never have to feel uncomfortable in their own locker room," she said at a rally pushing for legislative changes that would protect girls from sharing private spaces with boys, and prevent boys from playing on girls' sports teams.
"Girls should never be told their feelings don’t matter," Sullivan added. "Girls should never be pressured by adults to undress around boys. And girls should never have to sacrifice their safety for somebody else’s comfort."
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Another student, Ahnaleigh Wilson, who runs track and field at Eastmont High School, called out both Democratic Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal.
"You have stood up for transgender athletes, but you have not stood up for us. We matter too," Wilson said of Ferguson. "We have voices. We have stories. And we deserve protection in our locker rooms, in our sports, and in the opportunities that we have worked so hard for."
She specifically called out Reykdal.
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"We are not 'thriving' with boys in our locker rooms or with boys in our sports. When you say 'all' students, it seems you have forgotten that 'all' includes biological girls as well."
Here are more of this week's highlights:
University of Oklahoma student Samantha Fulnecky was given a 0 on an essay assignment wherein she invoked the Bible in opposition to the idea that gender is non-binary.
Her teaching assistant, William "Mel" Curth, who graded the work, was placed on administrative leave after the scandal set off a viral firestorm.
Assistant professor Kelli Alvarez promoted a protest on behalf of Curth's reinstatement, but ended up on administrative leave herself after a discrimination complaint was filed against her.
Alvarez offered excused absences for students to demonstrate on behalf of Curth, according to OU's Turning Point USA chapter. But when the Turning Point chapter president Kalib Magana asked for an excused absence to counter-protest, he was reportedly told that his absence would not be excused unless a "documented group [of counter-protesters] could be organized."
"On Wednesday, a lecturer allegedly demonstrated viewpoint discrimination by excusing students who intended to miss class to attend a protest on campus, but not extending the same benefit to students who intended to miss class to express a counter-viewpoint," the University of Oklahoma said in a statement posted on social media.
A school director immediately responded to the situation and "told students in class today and by email that the lecturer’s actions were inappropriate and wrong, and that the university classroom exists to teach students how to think, not what to think."
The Anchorage School District left Veterans Day off its official school calendar, sparking backlash from a Republican gubernatorial candidate.
Bernadette Wilson, running to be the state's top elected official, called the move "absolutely unacceptable."
Instead, Veterans Day was marked on the calendar as "student release professional development day."
"There is no doubt a huge effort right now to indoctrinate our kids," Wilson told Fox News Digital. "We see it with how low our kids are dropping in test scores, and then we see it with the forced, woke ideology that's coming from our school districts."
The same school district recently came under fire for putting disclaimers on the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, saying it "does not endorse" the viewpoints in the founding documents.
A chapter of Turning Point USA at Vanguard University, a small Christian school in California, is no longer officially affiliated with the school.
The chapter, founded in 2023, has become a victim of the school's policy forbidding "political advocacy initiatives," which bars all political groups from campus. Turning Point is known for promoting Christian values.
All political activities at the school are now funneled through the university administration.
"Christians have a place in politics, and not only a place, we have a profound voice, the most profound voice in politics. We have every right to assert ourselves, to make claims, and it's so disappointing to see a Christian university push this idea that Christians should not speak and that politics are taboo," Sadie Burnett, the president of the unsanctioned chapter, told Fox News Digital.
Rutgers professor Mark Bray, known as "Dr. Antifa," will teach a spring seminar simply called "Communism" to students at the New Jersey public university.
Bray fled with his wife to Spain after a campus flare-up involving the school's Turning Point USA chapter, which started a petition to have him fired. He is the author of "Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook," which calls for "militant anti-fascism."
Bray wrote in the book that "at the very least 50 percent of author proceeds will go to the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund which is administered by more than three hundred antifa from eighteen countries," sparking accusations that he helped fund Antifa, which is now designated by the United States government as a domestic terror organization.
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In Minneapolis, officials at Augsburg University tried to block ICE from arresting an illegal immigrant student — also a registered sex offender with a prior conviction for driving while intoxicated — on campus.
At least one administrator and a group of students enlisted campus police to block an ICE vehicle from leaving the scene after the suspect, Jesus Saucedo-Portillo, was arrested.
Uncooperative school officials told federal law enforcement that the arrest was against school policy. DHS said it reminded the school officials that federal law supersedes university rules.
"We’re proud of [students] for the fact that they did that, despite the kind of hectic and traumatic nature of the event itself," school president Paul Pribbenow told a local news outlet.
An internal review at Columbia University concluded that its Jewish students faced vicious harassment from pro-Palestinian counterparts during the war in Gaza.
A task force found that Israeli students were singled out or harassed in class, including one student who was allegedly told she should be considered "one of the murderers" because she had served in the Israel Defense Forces.
In another case, the report says a teacher told students that three major Jewish donors had given money with the aim of "laundering blood money" and referred to Israel as "so-called Israel."
Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller, Preston Mizell and Madison Colombo contributed to this report.
Jim Gaffigan stores his bourbon collection in a decommissioned Catholic confessional booth
Jim Gaffigan turned his new interest into a comedy special.
The 59-year-old comedian's latest comedy set, "Live from Old Forester: The Bourbon Set," features 40 minutes of jokes about whiskey culture and how he formed his own obsession with bourbon during the pandemic.
In his set, Gaffigan explains how during the pandemic he "got really into gardening and bourbon," and that while he isn't an expert on bourbon, he's "annoying in other ways." His love of the all-American drink led him to write a comedy set specifically for other lovers of bourbon.
"I had the romantic notion, what if I just did a whole show on bourbon?" Gaffigan told The Wall Street Journal. "My agent and manager were like, ‘That’s interesting. You’re probably drunk. And we don’t want you to destroy your career.’"
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He joked in his set that he isn't necessarily "concerned about the amount of bourbon" he drinks and more so concerned about how many bottles he owns.
The pandemic also led him to collect bourbon, telling The Wall Street Journal he collects bottles from every state. When it comes to where he keeps his bourbon collection, Gaffigan admitted it's stored in a decommissioned Catholic confessional, defending the choice by saying, "To be fair, it was my wife’s idea."
"Stand up is all self-assignment," Gaffigan told Deadline. "With 'Live from Old Forester: The Bourbon Set' I let my love of bourbon lead the way. At this point I’m not sure if bourbon is a passion or a mid-life crisis but I love it. Since this was such a niche endeavor, I didn’t even go to a big streamer. I just wanted to get this material out there for the other bourbon geeks."
Gaffigan released the set on YouTube, and it quickly found its audience. The video received more than 3.6 million views on the platform in just two weeks. Known for being a clean comedian, having been dubbed the "King of Clean" by the Wall Street Journal in 2013, Gaffigan's comedy often doesn't include much profanity, and therefore is accessible to a wide range of audiences.
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In addition to releasing a comedy set all about bourbon, Gaffigan created his own brand of alcohol, called Fathertime Bourbon, in 2024.
"Genius. Don’t have to pay $15 for a streaming service to watch. Just spent $150 on Jim’s new bourbon. He got me. Cheers! I’m not an alcoholic," one fan wrote in the comments section of the video.
Another added, "Gaffigan is back in top form. That was a gem," and a third wrote "An excuse to drink bourbon AND Laugh! Sign me up mr Gaffigan.'
He discussed his obsession with bourbon and the creation of Fathertime in an appearance on the "Today Show" in November, joking he chose that name because he thinks "fathers are underappreciated."
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Gaffigan said his love of bourbon also has to do with the community he has found through his new passion, explaining, "it allows men to get together, and men need that."
"It allows men to get together and talk about a shared passion where it covers – you never discuss your occupation or your socioeconomic — anything going on in your life," he said. "There's no family stuff. It's just, you can nerd out on it, and I just love the whole thing about it."
This is why you make six figures and still live paycheck to paycheck
I’ve been practicing financial planning for more than 30 years and am now seeing a new financial phenomenon spread through America like a quiet cancer. It’s a rapidly growing population of Americans ages 30 to 50 who earn more than $100,000 per year, and yet they are living squarely paycheck to paycheck. I call them "lifestyle loopers" because even if they make $250,000, they’ve become irresistibly susceptible to perpetual lifestyle inflation.
Are these people undereducated? No.
No access to ChatGPT or the internet? No.
Having massive garnishments taken from their paychecks? No.
So how does a six-figure household fall so far behind while making so much money today in America?
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According to long-running national surveys, roughly one in four Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and that figure has climbed from earlier decades. Combine that with other reports showing that a large share of households don’t have enough savings to weather even a modest financial emergency, and you begin to understand why so many Americans, including higher earners, are one mishap away from financial distress. In a country with social media FOMO, sticky inflation, and constant lifestyle pressure, the six-figure paycheck doesn’t stretch the way it used to years ago.
But, the biggest reasons come down to financial behavior and, after working with thousands of families, here’s what’s really crushing the six-figure income earners.
1. No Spending Plan. Just Spending
Many high-income households work like crazy to climb into the six-figure range. And when they finally get there, the internal monologue sounds like:
"I’ve earned this. I deserve this. I can buy what I want."
"My neighbors just went to Italy, and I saw on Instagram my college roommate just bought a BMW. Why shouldn’t I get one?"
Dinner out four times a week? Sure.
Holiday trip to Europe in peak season? Why not?
Designer clothes on sale? Grab them before they disappear.
The problem: there’s no measurement system and nobody on the internet shares their net worth.
No tracking.
No responsibility.
Most six-figure earners who feel broke simply cannot tell you where the money goes. Because, the truth is almost all of it goes out the door.
2. The Pay Yourself Last Rule
High earners often have the most dangerous financial mindset:
"I’ll always make this kind of money."
That false sense of security leads to the worst habit in personal finance, which is saving only what’s left over if they save at all outside of their 401K. Spoiler alert: nothing is ever left over.
Six-figure earners often pre-spend their bonuses before they arrive. Instead, they should be living off base pay and treating bonuses as forced savings. Without a "pay yourself first" system, the money disappears instantly.
3. Social Media Shame: The Silent Killer of Financial Progress
One of the most surprising barriers is purely emotional, which is high earners are embarrassed to ask for help.
They tell themselves, "If I’m smart enough to earn $200,000 or $300,000, I should be smart enough to manage my own money."
But, family financial planning is a skill set of budgeting, balance sheets, cash flow analysis, insurance strategy and tax planning. It’s no different than medicine or law. High income doesn’t equal high financial literacy and doesn’t mean you’ll be a good financial decision maker. Pride keeps many from getting the help they need until the problem becomes unmanageable.
4. Poor Decisions on the Big Three: Home, Car, School
Six-figure households often make the same three crippling decisions:
One big decision can sink a budget. Three big decisions can sink a household.
These choices lock families into high monthly obligations, forcing them to earn more just to survive rather than comfortably living off their current income.
5. The Planning Gap Is Real
In a major CFP Board survey, households with a written financial plan, whether earning the national median or more than $100,000, were more than twice as likely to report financial comfort and stability compared to households without one.
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That’s not a coincidence.
Clarity produces discipline.
Discipline produces wealth.
The Bottom Line
In today’s America, you can make $100,000, $200,000, even $300,000 a year and still be one bad week away from financial disaster.
That’s not inflation.
That’s not politics.
That’s a warning.
The six-figure paycheck is no longer a safety net and no longer guarantees financial success.
The only people lifestyle loopers impress are the ones that keep getting them to spend money.
Multiple US service members injured in Syria ambush attack, official says
A senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News there have been multiple injuries after American service members were ambushed in Syria on Saturday.
The official added that some of the injuries were serious.
Two local Syrian officials earlier told Reuters that a convoy of U.S. and Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State terrorist group was targeted while on patrol in the central town of Palmyra.
The Department of War had told Fox News Digital that "we are aware of reports," but added that it had "nothing additional to provide at this time."
"The United States, CIA and military forces are reportedly deeply involved in securing and stabilizing the situation in Syria," Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, recently told Fox News Digital.
SYRIANS MARK FIRST YEAR SINCE ASSAD'S FALL AS US SIGNALS NEW ERA IN RELATIONS
As of June, the U.S. had about 1,500 troops left in Syria following withdrawals and consolidations ordered by the Pentagon, and that number was expected to drop to just several hundred by the end of this year, according to Fox News Chief National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin.
ISRAELI OFFICIAL ISSUES STARK WARNING AFTER CHILLING SYRIAN MILITARY CHANTS RESURFACE
Griffin reported that the U.S. had eight bases in Syria to keep an eye on ISIS since the U.S. military went in to prevent the terrorist group from setting up a caliphate in 2014, although three of those bases have since been closed down or turned over to the Syrian Democratic Forces.
On Monday, tens of thousands of Syrians flooded the streets of Damascus to mark the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse.
Those celebrations came a year after former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled the capital as rebel forces swept through the country in a lightning offensive that ended five decades of Assad family rule and opened a new chapter in Syrian history.
Fox News' Benjamin Weinthal and Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.