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As part of ongoing efforts to improve things in both countries, the United States reportedly made an official diplomatic offer to trade all of its liberal women for Iranian women. According to highly placed sources, representatives of the State Department, including Secretary Marco Rubio, had engaged in high-level talks with officials from the Iranian government to lay out parameters for a trade that would send every liberal American woman to Iran in exchange for Persian women. "It's a deal that makes too much sense not to happen," Rubio said in a brief statement to reporters. "In the United States, we're...

FIRST ON FOX: A Trump-aligned legal group is urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to scrap its demographic reporting mandate, arguing that the rule allows lenders to consider the race and sex of mortgage applicants as part of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. America First Legal said in a petition, first reviewed by Fox News Digital, that the CFPB should encourage mortgage lenders to focus strictly on the creditworthiness of homebuyers. The CFPB’s Regulation C, which requires the lenders to track and report race and sex, is unconstitutional, the group argued. "The disclosure of this information leaves applicants vulnerable to...

<p>Stephen King and music. How much of a musical maverick can we consider someone whose wife nearly left him because of his obsession with ‘Mambo No. 5’?</p><p>So, I repeat, how much of a musical maverick can we consider someone whose wife nearly left him because of his obsession with ‘Mambo No. 5’? Well, it turns out, a lot of people value the opinion of this horror author when it comes to music. As someone pretty intrinsically linked with the world of rock ‘n’ roll, many consider King a go-to when it comes to head-banging recommendations, and as such, when he was doing interviews for the recent film adaptation of The Long Walk, people asked for his take on some music.</p>

Finally, some good news for people who love protein powder.Key Points: -Consumer Reports released new findings after testing five reader-requested chocolate protein powders for lead and other heavy metals. -The nonprofit organization previously revealed in late 2025 that it had found surprisingly high levels of lead in the majority of 23 protein powders that it tested. -This time, Consumer Reports revealed that the protein powders it analyzed most recently contained acceptable levels of lead per serving, pointing to inconsistency across the industry. Consumer Reports made major waves in October when it revealed the results of its investigation into 23 protein...

Take a trip back in time with this unexpected creation.The study of history isn’t limited to politics, industry, and widespread cultural movements. It can get as granular as you’d like, and the documentation of details ranging from the history of menus to hairstyles can reveal a surprising amount about how human tastes have changed. To help commit the evolution of our palates to memory, one man has embarked on an unexpectedly vast undertaking to explore a specific part of our food history: the realm of sandwiches. Across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, Barry Enderwick — better known online by the moniker...

"Sadly, the Great Influencer, Scott Adams, has passed away... He will be truly missed. God bless you Scott!" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

➡️ Hezbollah established a presence in Colombia by leveraging the large Lebanese diaspora and the country's civil conflict, initially for recruitment and fundraising before expanding into a vast transnational criminal network. ➡️ The group's operations are primarily financed by cocaine trafficking, forging a key transactional alliance with FARC and FARC dissident groups in exchange for arms, training, and money laundering facilities. ➡️ Hezbollah's deep criminal nexus in Colombia, bolstered by Iranian ties and a weak security apparatus, increases its capacity to conduct hybrid warfare and carry out asymmetric attacks against U.S. and Israeli interests. Lebanon’s brutal civil war triggered waves...

The Daily Wire’s newest host Matt Fradd is launching the “new era” of his show “Pints With Aquinas” on The Daily Wire on Monday. The first episode of Fradd’s long-form interview show features Dr. Brant Pitre for a conversation about the historical evidence that supports the Bible. Fradd invited his followers to share the episode with “everybody who is not yet convinced of the reliability of the Bible and the divinity of the Lord Jesus,” and predicted it “will be life-changing for many.” Fradd’s show has been running since 2016 and his catalogue features more than 500 episodes, many of...

VIDEOIt was the well-deserved knockout punch (and punches) destined to launch a Million Memes. A commie anti-ICE mental case kept blasting loud megaphone noise directly into the ear of a MAGA patriot in a sick effort to cause deafness. As you can see, the anti-ICE cretin had plenty of time and opportunity to stand down and relent. However, he chose to pursue his megaphone madness. Big Mistake. As you can see, when the guy who has come to be known as MAGA Tyson had enough, he delivered a severe beating upon the Megaphone Commie. And when the Commie's comrades came...

A bill in Congress confuses device clearance with medical judgmentPicture an older patient already juggling a box of daily pills: a blood thinner, a blood pressure combo, metformin, a proton pump inhibitor, and something for sleep. A new cough leads to an online symptom check. An automated artificial intelligence (AI) system flags likely bronchitis and, with a few clicks, prescribes an antibiotic. No clinician looks at the medication list. No one notices the new drug interacts with the blood thinner. The patient's next stop is the emergency department. That scenario would come a step closer if Congress redefines who --...

On an icy Friday morning, Mahad Omar watched armed federal agents run down the street and tackle one of his neighbors to the ground. They handcuffed the man and put him inside a black-tinted S.U.V. Mr. Omar, 28, an Uber driver, immigrated to Minneapolis from Somalia two decades ago. He had never imagined seeing something like that in his community. “Minneapolis is a great city,” Mr. Omar said after the agents had left and residents emerged from their homes to discuss in hushed voices what they had seen from their yards and windows. Several women wept. “It’s never been like...

It's time to celebrate the drug's greatest global winLast year, an inspiring milestone in global health went largely unnoticed in the U.S. How much do you want to bet it was even less on the radar of Americans who still think that ivermectin — a Nobel Prize-winning anti-parasitic drug — can vanquish COVID-19? Sadly, some of them are now embracing another baseless claim: namely, that ivermectin can help cure cancer. Aye yi yi. Will certain people's willing suspension of disbelief never end? But today, instead of angst-ing over dangers of modern "medical freedom," I'm focusing on something else. (Even though...

When my daughter turned 1, we gave her a stuffed-lamb toy to try to coax her away from her pacifier. Fortunately, it worked like a charm and Lambchop became a member of the family. Lambchop now joins us during family meals, family vacations, and even family photo shoots. As my daughter has grown, I’ve had to convince her that sometimes Lambchop has to stay in the car while she’s at school or on a playdate so it won’t go missing. While she’s gone and I’m running errands, Lambchop rides shotgun. And when my daughter gets back in the car, she...

SummaryChallengers say bans violate Constitution and Title IX law Arguments involve laws passed in West Virginia and Idaho Trump backs states in crackdown on transgender athletes

The doll was expected to be available at Mattel's online shop and at Target stores starting Monday for a suggested retail price of $11.87.Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of its line intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and a Ken with vitiligo, and other models the toymaker added to make its fashion dolls more inclusive. Mattel said it developed the autistic doll over more than 18 months in partnership with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a nonprofit organization that...

Iran is systematically crippling Starlink, the satellite internet service said to be almost impossible to jam. Military-grade GPS jammers deployed since January 8 have cut satellite internet performance by as much as 80% in parts of the country, according toAmir Rashidi, director of digital rights at the Miaan Group, a U.S.-based nonprofit focused on Iranian internet censorship and digital rights.

Former CNN host Don Lemon unloaded on Stephen A. Smith for being ignorant and “cozying up” to white people. While he claimed he is not one to criticize black people, Smith left him no choice after the radio host and sports analyst delivered his take on last week’s ICE agent shooting of a Minnesota activist. “I try not to criticize, especially black men, or just black people in general, you know, because we get so much sh*t. The rules are different for us,” Lemon said on his podcast show. “But Stephen A. Smith goes off and talks about sh*t that...

The Somali fraud scandal has captured Americans’ imaginations. The story is almost unbelievable: Somalis in Minnesota allegedly set up fraudulent housing services, meal programs, and autism-therapy offerings, which formed part of a “web” that stole “billions of dollars in taxpayer money.” Some fraudulently obtained funds, according to federal law enforcement sources, ended up in the hands of Al-Shabaab terrorists.Meantime, on the West Coast, another pattern of fraud has taken root: foreign criminals have developed sophisticated schemes to cheat and steal from unsuspecting Americans. I spoke with a veteran blue-city police detective, who has spent two decades investigating serious crimes, in...

WASHINGTON, DC – Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the collapse of the country’s currency and surging inflation, with many calling for an end to the Islamic Republic. Yet the government’s response has differed from earlier waves of unrest. Whereas Iran’s rulers were quick to suppress the 2009 Green Movement and the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, the security forces were slow to react as the current protests intensified. Rather than brutally cracking down, President Masoud Pezeshkian initially responded with belt-tightening reforms to free up funds for subsidies to the poor. But this stopgap didn’t hold. While the...

President Donald Trump has renewed his push for the United States to acquire Greenland from Denmark, again prompting gasps and outrage from elected Democrats and European elites. But the historical record and geopolitical reality suggest that acquiring the island territory would be not only fair compensation for American involvement in Europe since the start of World War II, but also a critical check against encroaching Chinese and Russian influence in the Arctic.Trump’s latest quip that Greenland’s defense is “two dog sleds” has the global liberal media tripping over itself to “fact-check” this obvious hyperbole and declare Trump an evil imperialist....