As soon as LeBron James informed the Los Angeles Lakers that he would be signing elsewhere in free agency this offseason, the Golden State Warriors were thought to be among the most likely teams to land him. However, it seems that one key hold-up in the Warriors’ pursuit of another star player could keep them...
A heat wave in Washington, D.C., is making attendance at President Trump’s July 4 festivities even worse.U.S. Capitol Police have already restricted Thursday night’s rehearsal for “A Capitol Fourth Concert” to essential personnel, posting on X that they came to the decision after consulting with the Capitol’s Office of the Attending Physician.“For safety reasons, the public will not be able to attend tonight’s rehearsal concert,” the post read. “Everyone is sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. The National Weather Service is forecasting an extreme heat watch with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees.”The post added that an update will come Friday by 10 a.m. on the status of the full concert, which is scheduled to take place from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday night.Similar warnings are hitting the Great American State Fair; organizers have already had to cancel a rodeo demonstration scheduled for Thursday night. Attendance at the fair overall has been depressed, and some visitors are complaining about the weather. U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer had an audience of maybe 25 people when he spoke about tariffs on the main stage Thursday afternoon.Many booths at the fair don’t have air conditioning, leading at least one visitor to overheat. She told a reporter she finally found relief at a baptism tent, where she took a dip to cool down.Great American State Fair goer tells our @JenDelgadoFOX many of the booths she went to today didn't have air conditioning, she overheated, said she saw stars and needed medical attention -- found the baptism tent and took a dip to cool down pic.twitter.com/Smufj0GN8g— Homa Bash (@HomaBashNews) July 2, 2026Even without the heat, the fair is coming across as tacky, with empty booths and a lack of energy. The food is expensive, reviews are abysmal, and people aren’t coming, enraging the president. When it hasn’t been hot, it’s been raining. America’s 250th anniversary was already going poorly thanks to Trump, and now the weather may cement the once-in-a-lifetime event’s status as a failure.
In a decisive ruling Tuesday, the Supreme Court has settled the most consequential legal question for women's sports in a generation — affirming what biology and fairness have always made clear: Women's sports must remain protected spaces for female athletes.The court ruled 9-0 that Title IX — the federal law that ensures equal opportunities for women in education and sports — and 6-3 that the Equal Protection Clause allow states to protect female athletes with sex-based categories in sports.Changing the culture means rejecting the lie that biology is bigotry.The decisions in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. mark a watershed. The court recognized that sex is a biological fact, not a feeling, and that it shapes athletic performance in ways no paperwork or policy can undo.Writing for the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh held that Title IX "cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex."By upholding the constitutionality of state laws safeguarding sex-based categories in athletics, the court has reinforced the rights of girls and women in the 27 states that have already passed protective legislation. This is a win worth celebrating.No longer will biological males like B.P.J. dominate girls’ shot-put competitions in West Virginia next season. The ruling draws a firm line: Sex is not a feeling, and paperwork and lip gloss cannot rewrite reality.Female athletes deserve fair competition, safe locker rooms, and equal opportunity — the principles Title IX was built to protect and that reflect simple scientific truth. The majority opinion emphasizes immutable biological differences in strength, speed, and physiology and rejects the claim that gender identity can override sex in the context of physical athletics.Yet this victory, meaningful as it is, remains incomplete.In the remaining 23 states — California chief among them — business as usual persists. Biological males can still claim girls’ and women’s titles, taking podium spots from female athletes they outperform.The patchwork nature of this decision means fairness remains geographically contingent. But a girl’s right to compete on a level playing field should not depend on her zip code.We have made progress. President Trump’s 2025 executive order provided critical momentum, functioning with the force of law and prompting the NCAA to reaffirm that women’s categories are for women. The International Olympic Committee has committed to protecting the female category starting with the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Ballot initiatives in blue states like Colorado and Washington this November will let voters decide directly whether girls deserve their own sports. In Maine, fathers have mobilized to put the Protect Girls’ Sports in Maine initiative on the ballot so their daughters can have the same opportunities their mothers did.These developments are encouraging. But the challenges remain formidable.The NWSL and the WNBA still operate without meaningful sex verification. Professional leagues, private events such as the Boston Marathon, and college athletics remain fractured. Birth certificates — the only proof of sex required by the NCAA — can be changed in 44 states. Given the fungible nature of paperwork and other IDs, documents cannot substitute for actual biological testing at the highest levels of sport.Blue states continue to defy federal guidance, treating fairness as optional. Interstate competition creates impossible inconsistencies. A female athlete protected in Tennessee could still face unfair qualification scenarios against out-of-state males if she advances to national competition.How is that fair?The deeper truth is that a Supreme Court ruling can set a legal boundary, but it cannot change the culture by itself. That work falls to all of us — parents, athletes, coaches, journalists, and everyday citizens who refuse to stay silent.RELATED: Democrats can’t escape their trans problem Kirby Lee/Getty ImagesFor too long, institutions have prioritized feelings, optics, and activist pressure over the safety, dignity, and opportunity of girls and women. We saw a version of the same pattern in the gymnastics sex abuse scandals I helped expose decades ago: Adults in power looked the other way while vulnerable athletes paid the price.The Safe Sport Act now exists to protect young athletes from abuse, but the coaching culture has not changed enough, and abuse still occurs. SafeSport faces a four-year backlog of abuse reports.Changing the culture means rejecting the lie that biology is bigotry.It means parents showing up at school board meetings, statehouses, and ballot initiatives with unrelenting clarity. It means athletes — female and male — finding the courage to speak the truth even when it costs them.
Acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security, Ken Cuccinelli, attacked a CNN host live on air after she fact-checked him before closing his laptop to the interview. "Boy! You're a left-wing hack!" Cuccinelli yelled at host Erica Hill when she nailed him on the myth of "birth tourism" by immigrants. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution upholds birthright citizenship, effectively striking down a key executive order issued by President Donald Trump in the first months of his second administration. Arguing before the court, the Justice Department used a similar talking point that people come from all over the world to the U.S. to have their children so that they will be American citizens. Cuccinelli claimed that it's "a full-blown industry in this country."A study by the Immigration Policy Institute using data from the U.S. Census showed that approximately 0.7 percent of births in the U.S. "could be attributed to birth tourism." They aren't certain whether or not they are, but that is the maximum amount it could be. Hill said as much as she spoke over Cuccinelli, attempting to interrupt her."There aren't concerns about it," Hill explained before also cutting in that a constitutional amendment would require a heavy lift and that the American people overwhelmingly support birthright citizenship. "We appreciate you taking the time to join us," she said with a smile. That's when Cuccinelli yelled, "Boy, you are a left-wing hack."Not missing a beat, Hill replied, "Wow, it's unfortunate that you felt the need to say that. I appreciate you coming on to answer fair questions." A previous conversation between former CNN host Jim Acosta and political commentator Wajahat Ali mentioned that far-right personalities who appear on the network often get angry when they're fact-checked or someone pushes back against them. His infamous example was Scott Jennings, who Ali recalled whining to the network, "because I was too mean." "It's an egregious double standard for right-wing conservatives and [Donald] Trump supporters. And it's always been this way with corporate media. They've (conservatives) always worked the refs," said Ali at the time. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, striking down Trump's executive order that would have denied citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants or those on temporary visas. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause, ratified in 1868, guarantees citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States." The Trump administration had argued the amendment was misunderstood for over a century and was intended only for freed slaves' children. However, the Court reaffirmed that birthright citizenship is a fundamental constitutional right. The narrow 5-4 margin alarmed legal experts, revealing how close the Court came to dismantling 156 years of established citizenship law. - YouTube youtu.be
Elon Musk challenged critics on X this Sunday. “They cannot cite a single name of someone who died out of the ‘millions’ they falsely claim have died,” Musk wrote on X. Tesla's CEO has faced intense criticism, as reports indicate his work with the Department of Government Efficiency has led to preventable deaths and might cause millions more by 2030. His social media post drew thousands of replies, including the names of children as young as three, whose deaths were linked to foreign aid cuts. Most notably, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof confronted Musk on X. “Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts,” he wrote, and listed the names of numerous victims. "I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts."Rather than engage with Kristof's response, Musk posted about immigration and other topics. Musk's own AI chatbot, Grok, contradicted his claim. Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan shared the chatbot's response, listing names of those whose deaths were connected to the aid disruptions.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
