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By Peter Pinedo The judge who recently threw out a confession by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, previously argued that the U.S. military had a growing domestic extremism problem fueled in part by "conservative tendencies" reinforced by "extreme right-wing groups." Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, an Air Force judge who specializes in military and environmental law, is presiding over the military commission in the 9/11 case . Last week, he tossed Mohammed’s 2007 confession on the grounds that it was not given voluntarily. The ruling could complicate what has already been a decades-long wait for the suspected plotter to stand trial. Just days before the 25th anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, Schrama rejected prosecutors’ request to begin the trial in January 2027 and instead set it for June 2028. The decision, which was not initially made public, has drawn criticism, including from journa...

By Michael Ruiz PROVO, Utah — Accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson returns to a Utah courtroom Tuesday for a hearing that could send his case to trial or dramatically reshape it, with a judge to weigh whether prosecutors have shown enough probable cause to support the aggravated murder charge that puts the death penalty on the table — and the suspect may finally be asked to enter a plea nearly a year after the slaying. Robinson, a 23-year-old from Washington, Utah, is accused of firing a single shot that killed the 31-year-old father of two during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025. While the defense has argued that prosecutors have not established enough probable cause to pursue aggravated murder, which carries the potential death penalty, experts tell Fox News Digital that they don't expect Judge Tony Graf Jr. to take it off the table just yet. "We’re at a preliminary hear...

Texas dad says he refused to eat his Burger King order after the incident By Teresa Mull A Houston DoorDash customer said he was shocked when he went to fetch his food from his doorstep and saw on his security camera that the delivery driver was naked. Kiante Matlock told FOX 26 Houston that he didn't expect the delivery driver to drop off his food while naked, "which is crazy." "And then to handle somebody's food … is ridiculous," he said. "[There] could have been an underage child coming to the door or a woman. … It's just sick." Matlock told FOX 26 he was playing video games inside his home when his daughter alerted him to a notification on his phone, which turned out to be a notice from DoorDash that his Burger King order had arrived. A Houston man said his DoorDash delivery took a bizarre turn when security camera footage showed the driver arriving at his home completely naked. (Kiante Matlock/FOX 26 Houston) When he ...

By Mike LaChance California has seen a mass exodus of companies from their state in recent years due to ridiculously high taxes, burdensome regulations, and the draconian lock down policies of Gavin Newsom during Covid-19. Are they trying to fix any of this in order to retain the businesses that haven’t fled? Nope. In fact, they are about to make things even worse. California is now planning to force companies to disclose any historic ties to slavery. Is Governor Newsom aware that California never even had slavery? California set to force big companies to disclose historic links to slavery https://t.co/mMJcYU4zzn pic.twitter.com/zYJhHndOPv — California Post (@californiapost) August 30, 2026 From the New York Post: The bill is facing pushback from insurance companies, which argue it largely repeats an earlier California law requiring insurers to disclose past policies issued to slaveholders that covered the death or injury of enslaved people. New York Life Insurance Company, Aet...

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By Ryan Hudgins Adult content creator Bonnie Blue has officially welcomed her first child. Blue’s rep confirmed to Us on Sunday, August 30, that she is “doing well” after giving birth to a baby. Blue (real name Tia Billinger) shared a black-and-white video via Instagram on Sunday that chronicled her pregnancy as well as labor and delivery. In the clip, Blue shared a video outside of the Lindo Wing at St. Mary’s Hospital in London — the same hospital where Princess Kate Middleton gave birth to all three of her children with husband Prince William . At the end of the video, Blue smiled as she seemingly held a baby — who was blurred out — in her arms. She also shared a photo of her holding up a blurred-out child in the hospital bed. “And then there were 1058 of us 💙,” Blue captioned the video. Blue made headlines in February when she claimed she was pregnant after having unprotected sex with 400 men as part of her “breeding mission.” The following month, Blue participated in ...

By Susie Moore On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for construction on the White House ballroom to proceed. The High Court granted the Trump administration's request to stay the injunction blocking above-ground construction of the new White House East Wing/ballroom project.  What this means is that construction can continue while the administration seeks Supreme Court review of the case. But the 5-4 ruling comes with a significant wrinkle: Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberal justices in dissent and declared that the construction itself is “likely unlawful.” In other words, SCOTUS isn't saying Trump can legally build the ballroom; it's saying that the group challenging it probably doesn't have standing to stop him. The whole kerfuffle began when the National Trust for Historic Preservation sued over the East Wing project. D.C. District Court Judge Richard Leon granted a preliminary injunction on March 31 that, as clarified, allowed work on th...

Syracuse University's first building, in background, opened in 1874. (AP) By Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez When he was the director of international student services at Syracuse University, Juan Tavares received a regular Saturday email from the dean of admissions reporting the tally of student applications, acceptances and enrollment deposits. During the pandemic the numbers began to slide, so Tavares offered the admissions team seven suggestions to improve recruiting, he said. The recommendations centered on the idea that Syracuse was failing to recruit aggressively enough. “The problem with Syracuse is that the school thinks of itself as like an Ivy, but it’s not,” Tavares said. Tavares, who no longer works at the school, said his recommendations went nowhere. In 2025, the weaknesses he had pointed out collided with President Trump’s high profile crackdown on student visas. Syracuse’s international enrollment numbers declined by half for undergraduate and gradu...

By Streiff The military heads of the Army, Air Force, and Navy as well as the four-star combatant commanders for U.S. European Command, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and U.S. Southern Command have all warned Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that continued military operations against Iran "is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland," according to an article appearing in the Washington Post . The objections to the administration's Iran operations appeared in a highly classified document called the Secretary of Defense Orders Book, or SDOB. The contents of the document were described to the Washington Post by one or more persons on the condition of anonymity because they didn't want to go to prison. Typically produced twice a month, the SDOB outlines the worldwide availability of U.S. warships, aircraft, personnel and weapons systems. It reflects the president’s priorities for the armed forces, as carried o...