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An unruly flight passenger erupted after a lengthy tarmac delay last week, according to a video that went viral — and he even yanked open the plane’s emergency door.The poster of the video on a Reddit forum at the end of April wrote that the incident took place on a Chicago-bound flight leaving Atlanta (the audio can be heard at the top of this article). Storms in the Southeast “caused the plane to sit on the tarmac for some time,” according to the Reddit poster.SEAT SQUATTING ON FLIGHT IN NEW YEAR RILES UP PASSENGERS: ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE’ ITWhen reached for comment, a Delta spokesperson told Fox News Digital the incident took place on a 168-passenger plane waiting on the tarmac due to thunderstorms. Law enforcement removed the unruly passenger from the scene.”The safety of our customers and crew comes before all else, and Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior,” the official also said. “We apologize to our customers on this flight for the delay in their travels.”In the video, the man can be seen arguing with flight attendants about how the flight had been delayed for three or four hours, with even more delays in sight.’GET OFF THE PLANE,’ DELTA PASSENGERS CHANT AT FLYER WHO REFUSES TO HANG UP PHONE”Get me to the gate, I want off,!” he said. “Or I’ll take myself off.”The man can be seen yanking open the airplane door, prompting an attendant to exclaim, “Oh my God.””‘Oh my God!’ Who are you?” he shot back.”It doesn’t matter, exactly,” he added. “You know who matters? Me. I told you idiots.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERThe pilot then chimed in via intercom and informed the man and others that the aircraft would return to the gate.”Good idea!” the man said, before the video then cut off.The Reddit poster said that the man was arrested when the plane arrived at the gate.”When they returned to the gate, he was met [by] airport police/air marshals,” the user wrote.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES”There was a scuffle, he threw his luggage at a flight attendant — and was arrested.”Commenters widely criticized the man’s behavior.”Yeah, this dude is a delusional narcissist,” one person said.”You can keep him, Atlanta,” another wrote. “Sincerely, [a] guy from Chicago.”TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZSome commenters said they understood the individual’s frustration.”I don’t agree with what he did, but I can understand it,” a commenter said. “The airline should not be allowed to keep you locked up on the plane that long on the tarmac.””As someone who has spent time trapped on an un-airconditioned plane sitting on the tarmac, I have to say that I understand the overwhelming desire to get off,” another user wrote. “Nobody on that flight did what this guy did, but I am sure we all thought about it.”A third user said, “Obviously, this isn’t how people should behave … but there also needs to be a limit on how long an airline can hold a plane full of people hostage on a runway.”Fox News Digital reached out to the Atlanta Police Department for additional information.

The world’s largest and most famous nudist resort is now being overrun by swinging tourists who are regularly seen banging on the beach, according to the locals. The clothing-optional vacation spot is unrecognizable to those who call it home.The naturist village at Cap d’Agde, located in the south of France, attracts tens of thousands of guests during its peak season. Those visiting these days are increasingly a different version of naked guests than those who laid the groundwork for letting it all hang out there.The Sun reports that it has taken on a much more hedonistic vibe over the years. The newer “lifestyle visitors” aren’t just interested in walking around with everything out without a care in the world. They’re “engaging in sex acts along a stretch of beach where anything goes.”ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!A British woman named Barbara who used to live in the village with her husband, but now only visits during the summer months, told the outlet, “Since we first started coming to the village around 30 years ago, the clientele has changed massively.”It all started when “international swingers” found out about their little slice of clothing-free heaven. Now there’s a split between the nudists and the swingers. Barbara puts the naturist to swinger ratio at about 60 to 40 percent.She added, “It’s made the place far more exclusive, creating a clear separation between the original naturist crowd and the new generation of lifestyle visitors.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK CULTURE COVERAGEShe’s not alone in noticing the trend toward swingers. Reporter William J. Furney described the sex that can be witnessed regularly at the local beach as “a woman with long, grey hair lay flat on her back, a portly man on top of her.”He added, “The sight of the two copulating triggered an immediate, almost frenzied reaction among equally naked men nearby who appeared to be on the constant lookout for such action.”Not the sort of scene your grandparents would have witnessed had they visited the nudist resort back in the day. Those days are long gone, as are the days when the two sides were once at war, around 2008.Swingers’ clubs are no longer being burned down and, according to Barbara, the two sides now “live in harmony.” Although she admits both sides do their own thing most of the time.The nudists let it all hang away from where the swingers are risking jail time and fines by having sex out in the open. They may not be happy with the swinging tourists, but it sounds like the locals are doing their best to get along.That is, all things considered, as close to a happy ending as can be expected here. It’s not perfect, but you don’t want the nudists and the swingers in a heated battle. They have so much in common.The last thing the world needs is a clothing-optional battle raging on the beaches in the south of France, not with everything else we’ve got going on.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday sharply criticized President Donald Trump, arguing the commander in chief should be “condemned” for his response to the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner last month.In an interview with progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, Newsom accused the president of using the aftermath of the April 25 shooting to target political enemies and chill free speech rather than attempting to unify the country.”Well, hell of a way to bring the country together as his press secretary was condemning Democrats for their rhetoric,” Newsom said.DEM AND GOP LAWMAKERS TRADE BLAME OVER RHETORIC AFTER WHCD SHOOTING: ‘IT IS DISGUSTING’The governor argued that while political violence must be rejected across the board, the president carries a “unique duty” to lower the national temperature — a duty Newsom claimed Trump has abandoned in favor of political gain.”Violence and rhetoric should be condemned on all sides,” Newsom said. “I’m not going to ‘both sides’ it, but you know what? It goes in both directions. He’s the President of the United States and used it to not only exploit the ballroom but to direct [FCC Chairman] Brendan Carr to continue to suppress free speech.”Newsom’s comments come as the White House and first lady Melania Trump lead a public campaign for the firing of ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Days before the shooting, Kimmel aired a skit featuring a joke that the first lady had a “glow like an expectant widow.” Following the assassination attempt, the Trump administration labeled the joke “corrosive” and a “call to violence.”EX-OBAMA AIDE CALLS ON KIMMEL TO APOLOGIZE FOR ‘TASTELESS’ TRUMP JOKE AHEAD OF ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT”They’re going after comedians because comedians are trusted,” Newsom told Cohen. “They’re attacking free speech.”Newsom also took aim at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, accusing the agency of “total corruption” and “weaponization” after it recently moved to fast-track license reviews for ABC-owned stations. While Carr has maintained the move is related to a long-standing DEI investigation into Disney, Newsom framed it as a direct retaliation for Kimmel’s monologue.”This is about structurally and institutionally reducing the fabric of truth, trust, and transparency in the United States,” Newsom said.The Department of Justice has charged Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif., with the attempted assassination of the president. According to federal investigators, Allen traveled by train to Washington, D.C., and rushed a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton with a 12-gauge shotgun. A Secret Service officer was struck in the chest during the encounter but was protected by a ballistic vest.HOW TRUMP SURVIVES: BATTLING THE MEDIA, FORMER ALLIES AND ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTSWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt characterized the incident as the third major assassination attempt against Trump, calling for an end to what she described as “hateful and violent rhetoric” from the left.Federal authorities say Allen remains in custody as they continue to investigate his background and motives.In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s remarks.”Gavin Newscum is the worst governor in America, and he also may be the dumbest,” Ingle said. “Anyone who thinks President Trump staged his own assassination attempt is a complete moron.”

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High-Intensity Beams, Not Whispers: Study Suggests Aliens Would Send Strong Signals

Authored by Rupendra Brahambhatt via Interesting Engineering,

For more than half a century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been built on the assumption that if aliens exist and try to communicate, their signals will be faint, scattered, and easy to miss. 
An alien doll.James Bat Barrera/Pexels

So astronomers have spent decades scanning narrow slices of the radio spectrum, hoping to catch a weak signal buried in cosmic noise. However, a new study suggests something totally different-if an advanced civilization actually wanted to be noticed, it would not broadcast weak, unfocused emissions. 

It would do the opposite – concentrate its power into tightly aimed, high-intensity beams directed at specific targets. 

“Our principal assumption is that a purposely communicative technological civilization will do its technological best to establish communication with other extraterrestrial technological intelligences (ETIs),” Benjamin Zuckerman, study author and an astrophysicist from the University of California, Los Angeles, said.

If this idea is even roughly right, then the silence in our data is not just a lack of evidence. It actually limits how many nearby civilizations could be sending signals we could detect.

From faint radio traces to laser-like beams

The traditional logic behind SETI comes from a simple constraint-interstellar communication is hard. If a civilization has limited power, the most efficient strategy is to broadcast in all directions. 

However, this makes any signal extremely weak by the time it reaches another star. This is why SETI searches have focused on extremely narrow frequency bands.

“Radio search programs have employed very narrow (few Hz) bandwidths (BWs)-because, if an ETI has a given (limited) amount of power to transmit, then the way to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio at the receiving antenna is to use very narrow transmission and reception BWs,” Zuckerman notes.

The difficulty is that no one knows which frequency to listen to, so even decades of work have covered only a tiny fraction of possibilities.

The study challenges this assumption directly. It suggests that aliens capable of interstellar technology would not necessarily choose inefficiency. So instead of broadcasting isotropically like a dim bulb, it could use highly directional transmission systems, more like a laser pointer than a lamp.

Power is not the constraint

Detectability depends less on total power and more on direction-whether Earth happens to lie inside the beam. So, power is no longer the limiting factor. Even a system drawing on the order of 60 megawatts could generate a signal that, if correctly aimed at Earth, would stand out dramatically above cosmic background noise.

For instance, at distances of roughly 200 parsecs, such a directed signal could appear with a strength of around 10¹⁰ Jansky. For comparison, modern radio telescopes can detect signals down to about 1 Jansky. 

In simple words, a well-aimed transmission would not be subtle – it would be obvious in routine astronomical data.

“The most uncertain factor in our communication with a nearby ETI will not be power starvation, but rather the wavelength of transmission; this may be radio, infrared, or optical,” Zuckerman said

This could also mean that we may already have observed such signals without recognizing them. Large-scale sky surveys, conducted over the past century for entirely different scientific purposes, have already scanned vast regions of the sky with sufficient sensitivity. Yet none have reported persistent, anomalous emissions from nearby Sun-like stars.

A quiet solar neighborhood, measured in missed encounters

To turn this idea into a constraint, Zuckerman builds a conservative model of where communicative civilizations might exist. The starting point is simple. Life as we know it requires liquid water, limiting potential habitats to planets in the habitable zones of their stars.

However, technological intelligence takes time to emerge-on Earth, roughly 4.5 billion years. This means only older, stable, Sun-like stars are realistic candidates. Within a sphere of about 200 parsecs, there are roughly 500,000 Sun-like stars. 

Of these, about 200,000 are old enough to potentially host advanced life. Statistical estimates suggest that around 60,000 of them could host habitable planets.

An advanced civilization would not need to search blindly. With sufficiently powerful telescopes, it could identify which of these planets show signs of life, then further narrow its focus to worlds with Earth-like conditions-oceans, continents, and long-term climate stability.

At that point, communication becomes targeted rather than universal. A civilization might direct signals toward only a few hundred carefully selected worlds. From our perspective, detecting such a signal would require monitoring many stars-but if even a single nearby civilization were actively communicating, its signal should stand out in existing data.

Even slow interstellar probes, traveling at just 1% of the speed of light, could reach us in about 10,000 years-an extremely short timescale in cosmic terms.

“The absence of evidence for alien probes in the solar system suggests that no alien civilization has passed within ∼100 lt-yr of Earth during the past few billion years,” Zuckerman notes.

The silence is no longer just silence

Taken together, the absence of both signals and physical visitation leads to a more quantitative conclusion than SETI has traditionally offered. Rather than implying ignorance, the silence becomes a constraint.

It suggests that technologically communicative civilizations are either extremely rare in our region of the galaxy or not actively attempting to communicate in ways we can detect.

According to Zuckerman’s study, the number of civilizations in the Milky Way that are both technologically advanced and actively transmitting may be fewer than 100,000-and possibly closer to 10,000.

However, these numbers come with important boundaries. “The limits to be derived apply only to ETIs that are doing their technological best to establish communication with other technological species in their vicinity,” the study notes.

So they apply only to civilizations using electromagnetic communication and deliberately attempting contact. A species that communicates differently-or chooses not to broadcast at all-would remain invisible to this approach.

SETI programs should change

The implication of this study is not that the search should stop, but that it should change. Instead of focusing narrowly on tiny frequency bands, future surveys may need to examine broader wavelength ranges across large populations of nearby, Sun-like stars. 

The goal would not just be to listen more carefully-but to search more completely. Such efforts could either tighten the limits further or finally reveal a signal that has been sitting in existing data all along.

“Thus, search programs should aim to cover as much of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum as possible-this is very difficult to do with currently designed radio SETI programs.”

The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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FIRST ON FOX: Two men were sentenced Monday for charges related to orchestrating a sprawling $522 million fraud scheme that targeted Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers — using kickbacks, fake medical orders and DNA samples collected from patients across the country.Reyad Salahaldeen, 57, of Buford, Georgia, was sentenced to 12 years and 7 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud. Mohamad Mustafa, 28, of Duluth, Georgia, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to paying illegal health care kickbacks, according to the Justice Department.”Under the guise of health care, these two fraudsters attempted to steal more than half a billion dollars from taxpayers,” the Justice Department said.Federal prosecutors said the scheme led to roughly $84 million in payouts from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers, highlighting the scale of fraud authorities say is draining taxpayer-funded health programs and driving a broader federal crackdown.JURY CONVICTS FORMER NFL PLAYER KEITH J GRAY IN $328 MILLION MEDICARE FRAUD SCHEME INVOLVING KICKBACKSThe scheme relied on a network of marketers who targeted individuals — many covered by Medicare — and persuaded them to take genetic tests by promoting them as free or medically important screenings, including for cancer risk.Prosecutors said the tests were often not medically necessary and were ordered by medical providers who had not treated the patients and did not use the results in their care.That allowed the laboratories to bill government health programs for costly tests that would not otherwise have been approved, officials said.Both men were also ordered to pay substantial restitution. Salahaldeen was ordered to repay more than $84.5 million, while Mustafa must pay more than $64.3 million.Salahaldeen was also ordered to forfeit more than $3 million from bank accounts, along with a 2019 GMC Yukon and properties in Texas and Georgia.Mustafa was born in the United States, while Salahaldeen is a Palestinian national who became a lawful permanent resident in 2004, according to officials.The scheme ran from 2018 through August 2020 and used a network of marketers making telemarketing calls, door-to-door outreach and health fairs to collect DNA samples and insurance information from patients.Court documents say Salahaldeen controlled multiple laboratories across New Jersey, Georgia and Texas, including Express Diagnostics and BioConfirm Laboratories.Prosecutors said marketers were paid illegal kickbacks to obtain genetic testing orders from medical providers who had not treated the patients and did not use the results in care.Authorities said Salahaldeen falsified requisition forms, letters of medical necessity and other records to make the tests appear legitimate.MAN CHARGED IN $90M MEDICARE FRAUD SCHEME; DOJ SAYS SUSPECT MAY HAVE ENTERED US ILLEGALLYMustafa, who co-controlled some of the laboratories, helped carry out the scheme by paying kickbacks and creating sham contracts and invoices to disguise illegal payments as legitimate marketing services.In total, the labs billed roughly $522 million in fraudulent claims. Government health programs and private insurers paid out approximately $84 million, officials said.Authorities said Salahaldeen attempted to evade arrest after learning of the charges, traveling from North Carolina to Texas and attempting to cross into Mexico using another person’s identification before being apprehended at the border.A TIMELINE OF THE ‘LARGEST COVID-19 FRAUD SCHEME’ IN THE UNITED STATEFederal officials say many of the largest schemes are no longer isolated — but driven by organized networks coordinating across multiple states.Authorities have pointed to major cases in recent years, including a COVID-19 pandemic-era fraud scheme in Minnesota that prosecutors allege siphoned more than $240 million in federal funds meant to feed children.That case, known as Feeding Our Future, has led to dozens of charges and sentences of up to 28 years in prison.Prosecutors say the scheme relied on shell nonprofits, fake meal counts and falsified records — tactics similar to those used in the genetic testing fraud case.The case is part of a broader federal crackdown on health care fraud. Eleven additional co-conspirators — including marketers, nurse practitioners and doctors — already have been sentenced, receiving penalties ranging from probation to nearly four years in prison.Justice Department officials said the case reflects an intensified push to combat fraud under Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President JD Vance.Since 2007, the DOJ’s Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program has charged more than 6,200 defendants responsible for over $45 billion in fraudulent billing, according to the department.Attorney information for Salahaldeen and Mustafa was not immediately available.

In yet another major victory for election integrity warriors and government transparency, the Michigan Court of Claims just slammed the brakes on the Michigan Bureau of Elections’ blatant attempt to hide how voters actually cast their ballots.
In an Opinion and Order Granting Summary Disposition to Plaintiff, Court of Claims Judge Christopher P. Yates ruled in favor of longtime election integrity advocate Phani Mantravadi, Founder of Check My Vote,  in his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Michigan Bureau of Elections.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer Appointed- Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Christopher Yates
The fight was over the Bureau’s sudden decision in March 2024 to begin redacting the all-important “Voting Type” column from the Qualified Voter File (QVF). This column shows whether each voter cast their ballot on Election Day (ED), Early In-Person (EV), or by Absentee ballot (A).
For years, this critical information was publicly available. Then, under Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the Bureau quietly started stripping it out — claiming it was necessary to protect the “secret ballot.”
The campaign of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a former Southern Poverty Law Center board member, was funded by George Soros.
Judge Christopher Yates, whom Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer appointed to the Michigan Court of Appeals, wasn’t buying Benson’s story about why they need to hide the truth about the type of voting used by each voter in Michigan elections.
The Court ruled that the vast majority of voting-type information must be released to the public under FOIA. The judge made it crystal clear that the Bureau failed to prove any valid FOIA exemption or constitutional reason to blanket-redact this data for every voter in the entire state. He noted that limited redaction might be justified only in extremely rare cases involving very small precincts.
From the ruling:

“The Court agrees with plaintiff that the vast majority of voting-type information should be publicly available because such disclosure will not compromise the constitutional right of electors to cast a secret ballot.”

Judge Yates also rejected the Bureau’s attempt to use the FOIA privacy exemption, pointing out that voting-type information has long been considered public in Michigan and is not “information of a personal nature.”
In 2024, Judge Yates ruled against Jocelyn Benson in another case that was a huge win for election integrity in Michigan.

BREAKING: A Michigan judge just ruled that the Democrat Secretary of State’s election manual issued to local election officials is unconstitutional & against state law. He is also mandating strict signature verification for mail in votes in the upcoming 2024 election
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On October 6, 2020, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson told local clerks to ignore signature matching on ballot envelopes and presume all absentee ballot signatures were valid unless they differed in “multiple, significant and obvious respects” from the signature on file.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson – Michigan Public
In the lawsuit Republican Party of Michigan v. Benson, Judge Christopher Murray ruled on March 9, 2021, AFTER THE MOST CONTESTED ELECTION IN HISTORY, that Benson’s directive was invalid.
The ruling today, in favor of election integrity hero, Phani Mantravadi, is just one more in a long string of election cases in recent years that courts have ruled against Jocelyn Benson and her office in their aggressive efforts to make Michigan elections less transparent and more secretive at the highest levels — while simultaneously handing over Michigan voters’ confidential information to outside leftist groups and nonprofits.
Check My Vote Founder Phani Mantravadi
The Gateway Pundit has been reporting for years on the Michigan Bureau of Elections’ and Jocelyn Benson’s repeated attempts to obscure and control election data. Today, a courageous judge said enough—and we applaud his decision. 
This ruling is yet another major blow to the radical left’s efforts to keep voters in the dark.
We salute Phani Mantravadi for his relentless fight for transparency and Judge Christopher P. Yates for standing up for the rule of law and the public’s right to know.
The fight for free, fair, and transparent elections continues — but today was a very, very good day in Michigan.
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A special counsel team said it has identified signs that S. Korea’s military counterintelligence unit may have begun preparing for the martial law.

Hanwha Aerospace will acquire additional shares in Korea Aerospace Industries to strengthen cooperation in aviation, space and defense.

Rift among Samsung unions is widening after union representing workers in the company’s device business withdrew from a joint wage negotiation front.