Braelon Allen returns to Jets bigger, stronger after lost season
Braelon Allen is back for the Jets, and he hopes to be better than ever.

Israel is continuing to carry out attacks on Lebanon amid ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran to end the war. Iran is maintaining its demand that Lebanon be included in a ceasefire deal. Lylla Younes, an investigative journalist based in Beirut, says President Trump’s claims that he wants peace with Iran are “absurd” because the United States continues to support “Israel’s aggression in southern Lebanon.” She argues that “an angry phone call between Netanyahu and Donald Trump is ultimately meaningless” as long as Israel is granted “impunity and arms.” Younes also talks about reporting she did for Drop Site News on the ethnic cleansing in Ain Arab, a village in southern Lebanon.
Braelon Allen is back for the Jets, and he hopes to be better than ever.
Rep. Nancy Mace's (R-SC) political career ended decisively Tuesday as the South Carolina congresswoman finished a distant fifth in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary. Former allies and staffers immediately criticized her tumultuous tenure marked by combustible ambition and self-inflicted wounds, reports The Washington Post. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy stated, "I helped her win. But I just watched her change along the way." Mace failed to carry her home county, received no prominent Republican endorsements, and lost President Donald Trump's backing to a rival despite months of courting. Former communications director Will Hampson said Mace had burned down every bridge. Her former adviser also noted she was her own best weapon — and own worst enemy.Mace's erratic public behavior included profanity-laced airport tirades, hour-long House floor speeches accusing men of sex crimes, and offensive comments about a Republican opponent. Former GOP operative Justin Evans concluded, "She had all the ingredients a successful candidate should have. It's just her moral compass was completely missing."Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
President Donald Trump and his conservative Supreme Court, which recently gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, has in theory disempowered Black voters — but he may actually have stirred them to action.“Democrats may have been rightly apoplectic with the Supreme Court’s ruling gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act—and the rush to carve up the electoral power of black voters in the South that followed,” wrote The Bulwark’s Lauren Egan on Wednesday. “But in the short term, they have begun to see political opportunity.”Egan observed that operatives in gubernatorial and congressional elections say Black voters seem to be galvanized by the decision, perceiving it as part of a systematic attempt to disenfranchise them and wanting to reclaim their political agency.“The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee provided me with a list of eighteen districts they’re eyeing in which black residents make up between 12 and 33 percent of the voting-age population,” Egan wrote. “Some districts on that list, like North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, are swing seats that Democrats are defending. But others—like Virginia’s 2nd district, Ohio’s 10th, Michigan’s 10th, and North Carolina’s 3rd—are critical pickup opportunities. The DCCC believes that historical turnout among black voters could be the difference in flipping those seats.”Former Rep. Elaine Luria, who is currently running to reclaim her old congressional seat in Virginia’s second district, told Egan that “People are very upset. This is a district where one in five or four voters are African American. . . . All of this was just a very emotionally charged combination of things, and we’ve certainly been hearing about it everywhere we go.”In addition to gutting the Voting Rights Act in their ruling for the case Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court has reaffirmed the ruling in cases like Allen v. Milligan. On the latter occasion, as Slate legal analysts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern argued last week, they further entrenched the precedent that states cannot try to fight racism when drawing up congressional districts."Although the supermajority described its handiwork as a straightforward application of April's decision in Louisiana v. Callais," Lithwick and Stern wrote, "Tuesday's decision dramatically expands the scope of that ruling. It is not a mere aftershock from Callais, but a separate earthquake of the same or perhaps even greater magnitude. Following years of twists and turns in the legal system, this case has become the vehicle by which the Court's conservative supermajority not only applies its own brand-new 'updates' to Section 2 of the storied Voting Rights Act of 1965, but also, sweeps what remains of constitutional protections against discriminatory voting practices out the back door."The legal analysts added, "It commits these crimes in an unsigned, blithely dismissive order that lacks any substantive reasoning, as it pretends to be honoring some jurisprudential lodestar it celebrates as 'our colorblind Constitution.'"
Charlie Kirk was increasingly at odds with the president in the final months of his life.Donald Trump had strong words for the GOP’s youth connection last July, two months before Kirk was shockingly assassinated at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University. At the time, Trump reportedly berated Kirk for allowing one of his college rallies to turn into a grieving session over the Epstein files, according to details of an upcoming book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan published in The New York Times magazine Wednesday.“Trump had called Kirk and scolded him” for providing a venue for young people to slam former Attorney General Pam Bondi and the larger Trump administration for failing to release the files, reported the Times.Kirk, by virtue of his position leading the youth Republican movement, could see that the Epstein files had become a divisive issue for young voters. He urged the White House to change course on the matter, but they would not relent.Trump was not shy in expressing his frustration with his aides. He reportedly told them that he was “very unhappy” with his famed supporters, raging against the likes of Kirk as well as former Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, all of whom had demanded the admin “come clean” about Jeffrey Epstein.Eventually Donald Trump Jr. and Vice President JD Vance joined the choir, urging the White House to change its position and pressure the Justice Department to release more files, reported the Times.The Epstein Files Transparency Act was signed into law on November 19, legally requiring the unmitigated release of all documentation related to the child sex trafficking investigation. It has been nearly seven months since then, and the federal government still has not released everything it has on Epstein. No one has been arrested in connection to the crimes, either—beyond Epstein’s longtime criminal associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was arrested in 2020.
President Donald Trump is the best leader of the United States that Israel has ever had. He vastly outstrips Former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who smiled while they worked a knife into the back of the Jewish state. Dwight D. Eisenhower was even worse, far worse. He bullied the Israeli military into returning […]
When Iran struck Israel on Sunday, President Donald Trump demanded that the Jewish nation stop firing back. But when Tehran struck a U.S. military helicopter the next day, it was “bombs away” against the Islamic Republic. You can call it strategic, but I call it hypocrisy. First of all, those who claim Trump is Israel’s […]
Anthony L. Fisher: The South Carolina congresswoman and failed gubernatorial candidate briefly stood up to Trump after he incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But that was then.
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. US forces carried out strikes against Iran hours after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for shooting down an American military helicopter off the coast of Oman. Iran’s joint military command said it had targeted “several US bases in the region.” Stocks resumed their slide as technology shares remained under pressure and investors trimmed positions ahead of a key inflation reading in the US. Gold dropped. And Anthropic is widely releasing a version of Mythos that will be blocked from carrying out cybersecurity tasks, months after warning that the powerful artificial intelligence model could spot and exploit vulnerabilities in critical software. Today's guests: Pilar Gomez-Bravo, MFS Investment Management, Co-CIO of Fixed Income; Julian Salisbury, Co-CIO, Sixth Street. (Source: Bloomberg)