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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said he is a “hard yes” on impeaching Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Host Jonathan Karl said, “Let me ask you about Pete Hegseth, because Thomas Massie, of course, a
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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) said he and his fellow leftists plan to target former members of President Donald Trump’s administration partly because he is gay and “pettiness is a thing.”
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Saturday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said after they take control of Congress, Democrats should first impeach President Donald Trump’s cabinet members. Dean said, “I had the solemn responsibility of being a part of both impeachments of Donald
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Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senator-elect Adam Hamilton (D-KS) said Democrats should choose a Senate leader who can bring various factions of the party together instead of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), because he is a”decisive figure.” Partial transcript as
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One person was killed and three others wounded in shootings on Winston-Salem State University’s campus Saturday night shortly before 10 p.m.
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The leader of the so-called Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, said U.S. President Donald Trump deserved to lose in the mid-term elections.
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Eating two green kiwis a day could help people struggling with constipation, a new review suggests.The research, published in the journal Food, Nutrition and Health, looked at 33 previous studies and reports on kiwifruit and digestive health.Eating two fresh green kiwis a day for about four weeks was linked to more regular bowel movements, less straining and better digestive comfort in people with constipation or irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C).COMMON KITCHEN STAPLE MAY HELP RELIEVE MILD CONSTIPATION, NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTSIn one international trial included in the review, people with constipation had about 1.5 more complete bowel movements per week, while those with IBS-C had about 1.7 more per week. Both groups also reported improved digestive comfort.The new review suggests there may be several reasons kiwi helps with constipation.Its fiber can add bulk and hold water in stool, while the fruit’s natural water and sorbitol may help make stool easier to pass. Researchers said the benefit likely comes from several parts of the whole fruit working together rather than one component alone.Kiwi was not necessarily more effective than other constipation treatments.TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZOne U.S. trial included in the review found that green kiwi, psyllium fiber and prunes all helped improve chronic constipation. Kiwi was associated with fewer side effects and was well-tolerated by many participants.The evidence is strongest for fresh green kiwi, the researchers noted. There is less research on gold kiwi, powders and extracts, so those forms should not be assumed to have the same effect.Jason Heiselman, a New York-based certified nutritionist and professional chef at Hungryroot in New York City, previously told Fox News Digital that kiwi is an easy fruit to work into a person’s diet.”It feels like a no-brainer to include a few slices with any meal,” said Heiselman, who was not involved in the new review.CLICK HERE FOR MORE HEALTH STORIESKiwi contains fiber along with a natural enzyme called actinidin, which can help with digestion, the nutritionist noted.”Pairing kiwi with some good fat sources, like seeds, nuts or full-fat dairy, allows your body to absorb more nutrients,” he said.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTERFor people who do not want to eat kiwi on its own, the fruit can also work in savory meals, according to Heiselman. “Raw kiwi slices often make their way to my dinner table,” he said.Heiselman said he pairs the fruit with salty cheeses, toasted pistachios and shaved red onion, and has also used kiwi as the base for chutneys and relishes.There were some limitations to the findings.The paper reviewed previous research rather than conducting a new clinical trial, and the studies differed in the people involved, the types and amounts of kiwi consumed, and the results researchers measured.Most of the research also looked at relatively short periods of time, so more studies are needed to determine whether the benefits continue long-term.Fox News Digital reached out to the researchers for comment.Andrea Margolis of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.

Major League Wrestling’s (MLW) first pay-per-view of the year embodied its tagline, “Choose Violence.”Saturday Night SuperFight featured major matches with well-known professional wrestlers giving it their all for one night. A few fresh faces also joined the fray with at least one putting the rest of the roster on notice.The main event of the night also changed the landscape for the company as MLW looks ahead toward 2027.Read below to see how Saturday Night SuperFight turned out at Cicero Stadium in Chicago.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGEJosh Bishop was confident when he told OutKick Dropkick he wasn’t going to fall into Killer Kross’ sleeperhold and he wasn’t going to stay down the necessary 10 seconds that would have lost him the Last Man Standing match and cost him the MLW World Heavyweight Championship.He came through on his promises.The hellish match ended with Bishop, who was already a bloody mess, baptizing a table with his blood and hitting Kross with Exit 187, sending him through the wood. Kross was trying to get back up and was using a chair to help himself get back on his two feet. Bishop made a heads-up play and kicked the chair from Kross’ grasp.The referee counted to 10 and Bishop was crowned the new MLW world heavyweight champion.Kross started the year as the champion when he won it at Battle Riot VIII. Bishop went through hell and back to get the belt around his waist and he has crowned himself the future of the company.Bishop’s win over Kross may be the most talked-about moment of the night, but it was Austin Aries and Matt Riddle who stole the show.Riddle challenged Aries for the MLW National Openweight Championship. From the jump, Aries and Riddle were locked in a bitter battle – almost literally. The first four minutes of the match the two were tied up and they danced all around the arena before breaking apart.From there, Riddle tried everything to keep Aries down. He hit a cutter on Aries on top of the title belt that Aries was poised to use as a weapon while the referee was down. But Aries, a veteran in the game, grabbed the rope before the three-count was made.Riddle was in disbelief as there were five minutes left in the 30-minute match. Aries tried to stall the best he could as the time ticked away. The two wrestlers exchanged punches and slaps before Riddle hit another cutter on Aries. But as Riddle made the cover, time expired.The Chicago crowd pleaded for overtime. Aries got on the mic and said if Riddle wanted more time, the crowd wanted more time and MLW wanted more time, then he wasn’t going to deliver it for them. Riddle knocked out Aries with a backfist and paraded around with the title.Aries won the match, but Riddle got his last lick in.Tessa Blanchard made her highly anticipated MLW debut at Saturday Night SuperFight and faced off against a formidable opponent in Keyra. While it was in MLW’s house, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) was fully on display.The bout featured fast-paced action. Keyra was rolling at one point. She didn’t want Blanchard to get any kind of momentum that was going to put her away.Blanchard caught Keyra with a thrust kick and hit a DDT to put Keyra away. Blanchard made clear she was putting the rest of the MLW women’s division on notice.Shotzi Blackheart is currently the MLW women’s world champion but there’s a whole host of women on the roster gunning for her. Blanchard is far from the only one but her momentum is building.The rest of the roster includes Scarlett Bordeaux, Zamaya and Masha. But you never know who else is going to “choose violence.”Trevor Lee knew what he was doing when he challenged IWGP heavyweight champion Yota Tsuji for a match at Saturday Night SuperFight. He wanted to prove he was one of the top wrestlers in the business and can go punch-for-punch with the best in the world.Lee put on a show, hitting multiple Collision Courses on Tsuji. But he would have needed to do a little bit more to keep one of the best Japanese pro wrestlers down. He went for a high-risk move from the top rope and got caught.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE. DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!Tsuji speared Lee, only securing a two count. He moved to the corner and stalked Lee. He sprinted toward his opponent and nailed the Gene Blaster. Tsuji picked up the win after that.Lee proved to the pro wrestling world he has what it takes to be in the ring with some of the best the sport has to offer. Saturday just wasn’t his night.Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows def. Mark Coffey and Joe Coffey in a Chicago Street Fight to retain the MLW Tag Team Championship.Masha def. Zamaya in a singles match.Ultimo Guerrero def. Templario and Titan in a triple-threat match.

On Tuesday night, the American people triggered a political earthquake by thrusting Democrats into power in both the House and Senate by overwhelming margins. The defeat has already left the GOP in a circular firing squad of recrimination, but Democrats, too, must now face their own party’s new divisions.That’s where Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., comes in front and center.Fetterman in recent years has replaced former Sens. Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona, as the most vocal and pugnacious moderate on issues such as immigration enforcement, support for Israel and a refusal to shut down the government to achieve liberal policy wins.MAVERICK DEMOCRAT SURGES WITH REPUBLICANS AS HIS OWN PARTY TURNS ON HIM, STOKING TALK OF GOP SWITCHFetterman’s penchant for criticizing progressive shibboleths was one thing when Democrats toiled in the minority, but how will incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his leadership team deal with the Pennsylvania maverick now that they control the upper chamber?It is possible that Schumer just waits Fetterman out. The latter is up for re-election in 2028 and currently, according to surveys, is more popular with Keystone State Republicans than with Democratic voters there, making his chances of retaining the seat, at least as a Democrat, rather remote.CHUCK SCHUMER AFTER SWEEPING DEMOCRATIC MIDTERM VICTORIES: ‘I’LL BE RE-ELECTED AS MAJORITY LEADER’Fetterman, it should be noted, is not the only nominally moderate Democrat facing voters in a purple state in two years. There are also Patty Murray of Washington, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada. But one must ask: Will they be more afraid of a general election defeat from the right or a primary ouster from the left?A year ago, Democrats had dreams of a Senate majority, but it wasn’t quite the Senate majority they have wound up with. In Michigan, they expected a Haley Stevens or Mallory McMorrow, not an Abdul El-Sayed. In Maine, an Angie Craig, not a Troy Jackson. These avatars of the progressive wing of the party will be the celebrities of the next Congress.MAJORITY OF AMERICANS BROADLY REJECT SOCIALIST IDEOLOGY EVEN AS FAR LEFT SURGES TO POWERIt is difficult to imagine this firebrand faction working hand in hand with a White House they flat-out accuse of fascism to pass bipartisan legislation. But just as hard-line MAGA senators have been frustrated by Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s temperance on issues such as killing the filibuster, incoming leader Chuck Schumer may well wish to resist the resistance, so to speak.In fact, establishment Democrats and media pundits have been quick to remind us all that the vast majority of Democrats serving at the Capitol are not of the socialist variety, even though the party’s zeitgeist and primary wins such as those in Michigan and Maine are with them.JOE MANCHIN WARNS DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS ARE GAINING GROUND AS DEMOCRATS REMAIN SILENTThe good news for Democratic leadership is that the scale of the victories Tuesday gives them big enough margins — 80 or so seats in the House and four to six in the Senate — that the socialists should not be able to hold legislation hostage. But that doesn’t mean they have to be quiet about it.There are several issues where we can expect the ascendant far left of the Democratic Party to draw lines in the marble of the Capitol, chief among them support for Israel and funding for immigration enforcement. Schumer will likely have to bend the knee to these demands, but not John Fetterman.As Republicans delve deep into their postmortems, assigning blame for defeat, Democrats are celebrating a kind of Easter. But the question is: What exactly is this resurrected political party? Are the socialists a flying buttress to the establishment Democrats, or are they, in fact, the body of the cathedral now?Fetterman raised eyebrows at this year’s GOP midterm convention in Dallas when he appeared via video to celebrate the other Pennsylvania senator, Republican Dave McCormick, leading some to believe that the sweatshirt-wearing contrarian could switch parties — something he has consistently told the media, including this columnist, that he will never do.Democrats in leadership have insisted for months that there has not been a far-left takeover of the party of Jefferson and Jackson, but rather that there is simply a big tent. Well, we know the tent is big enough for the likes of California streamer and anti-Israel firebrand Hasan Piker, but is there room in it for John Fetterman?There was a scenario in play on Tuesday in which Fetterman could have become the 51st Democratic senator and close to the most powerful man in Washington. That did not happen, but he remains the most distinctive voice in D.C.Has the Democratic Party outgrown the likes of old-school John Fetterman? And if so, can Republicans use that fact to woo law-and-order, Israel-hawk Democratic voters over to their side? Or is Fetterman now just a man out of time, out of step and without a solid constituency of voters?

For months, the national conversation around artificial intelligence has been dominated by fear existential risk, runaway systems, and predictions of societal collapse. It’s a familiar pattern. As a former United States Marine and a federal modernization leader, I’ve seen this cycle before. In fact, the current AI panic mirrors the atmosphere leading up to Y2K: loud predictions of catastrophe, sweeping claims of imminent failure, and a public narrative shaped more by anxiety than by disciplined technical assessment.
The truth is simpler. AI is not an extinction level threat. It is a powerful tool one that demands structured governance, rigorous engineering, and mission‑focused integration. What we are experiencing today is not a technological emergency. It is a modernization challenge, and modernization challenges are solved through disciplined execution, not fear.
This is especially clear when you consider the threats that rise to the level of existential risk. We face strategic adversaries accelerating nuclear modernization. We face biological threats capable of global disruption. We face cyber actors probing critical infrastructure every day. We face supply chain vulnerabilities that could cripple national readiness. These are real, tangible, and historically validated risks yet none of them generate the level of public panic that AI does.
So why is AI moving the doomsday clock? Because AI is unfamiliar, poorly understood, and easy to dramatize. It is far simpler to imagine a runaway algorithm than to confront the slow, grinding realities of nuclear proliferation, biothreat evolution, or critical‑infrastructure fragility. Fear fills the gaps where understanding is missing. But national security cannot be built on fear. It must be built on discipline remember that there is nothing to fear accept fear itself!
During Y2K, the problem was never that computers were going to destroy society. The problem was that systems had been built without long term lifecycle planning. The fix required methodical inventory, remediation, testing, and verification. The same is true now. AI systems are only as dangerous as the environments they are deployed into. Poorly governed systems fail. Well governed systems scale.
The defense community understands this better than most. We do not treat new technology as magic, nor do we treat it as a monster. We treat it as capability something that must be evaluated, hardened, integrated, and monitored. The Marine Corps taught me that discipline is an antidote to chaos. In modernization, discipline is the antidote to all the hype.
The real risk today is not AI itself. It is mismanaged modernization, rushed deployments, unclear authorities, fragmented governance, and the belief that AI can replace human judgment. No algorithm can substitute for accountability. No model can replace leadership. And no system, no matter how advanced, can operate safely without a clear chain of responsibility.
Federal agencies should approach AI the same way they approached Y2K remediation:

inventory systems
identify vulnerabilities
establish governance
test relentlessly
verify continuously
and integrate only when mission‑ready

This is not panic based thinking. It is disciplined in modernization.
The public conversation needs to be shifted. Instead of debating whether AI will take over, we should be asking whether our modernization pipelines are structured, whether our data governance is mature, and whether our acquisition strategies reflect the realities of integrating complex systems at scale. These are not existential questions. They are engineering questions that have answers if properly socialized.
AI is not the end of the world, complacency is. The Y2K scare taught us that fear is a poor substitute for preparation. The AI scare is teaching us the same lesson. If we apply disciplined modernization principles that kept critical systems stable during Y2K we will not only mitigate risk, but we will also strengthen national security.
As a Marine, I learned that readiness is not a slogan. It is a process. As a modernization leader, I’ve learned that technology is not dangerous when governed well. The danger comes when we allow hype to drive decisions instead of discipline.
AI will not destroy the world. But if we fail to modernize with rigor, we might break our systems ourselves.
The solution is clear: treat AI not as a crisis, but as a modernization mission. Missions are successful through structure, accountability, discipline, and execution. If you’re still not convinced, just remember that duct tape is for quick fixes. Modernization is not.
Kenneth Smith is a former United States Marine and CEO of Lykirk Technologies Consulting Group, an SDVOSB specializing in federal IT modernization, enterprise integration, and mission-critical systems support.
This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.