The vast majority of Americans are no longer willing to pay a $1 monthly fee to supposedly help combat climate change, signaling a major shift in attitude from just years ago. A poll released on Thursday from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) found that only 38% of Americans are on board with paying a $1 monthly carbon fee. Back in 2021, 52% of Americans were willing to pay the supposed climate-fighting fee. Unsurprisingly, as the hypothetical fee goes up from $1 monthly to $10 or $20, only 3 in 10 Americans are okay with paying up. And only 2 in 10 said they would pay $75 or $100 monthly. Climate activism has become a key issue for Democrats in recent years. High-profile politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NYC), for example, famously said back in 2019 that the world would end in 12 years if we don’t drastically address climate change. “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'” AOC said. “Millennials, and Gen z, and all these folks that come after us, are looking up and we’re like ‘the world will end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'” @AOC #MLKNow #MLK2019 pic.twitter.com/fbUxr2C0tJ — People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) January 21, 2019 Failed 2024 Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris was also a climate alarmist, calling climate change an existential threat and releasing a $10 trillion climate plan during her 2019 presidential run. While an increasing number of young Americans now believe that climate change is mostly man-made, Americans in general are just not okay with personally paying any tax or fee to help combat the apparent threat. They are, however, willing to shift payment to energy companies, according to the AP-NORC/EPIC poll. Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. “While less than half of Americans support paying a monthly carbon fee on their energy use, 56% support taxing companies for the carbon they emit,” a press release outlined. “About six in 10 Americans say oil and gas companies (62%), the federal government (60%), and large businesses and corporations (58%) bear a great deal or a lot of responsibility. By contrast, 31% say the same about individuals, a drop of 19 percentage points from 50% in 2019,” the poll found. Old-school environmental activism, like protecting conservation lands and wildlife, was, however, supported by a vast majority of Americans, at 70%.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared additional sanctions it could use to target key areas of Russia’s economy if President Vladimir Putin continues to delay ending Moscow’s war in Ukraine, according to a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter. U.S. officials have also told European counterparts that they support the EU using frozen Russian assets to buy U.S. weapons for Kyiv, and Washington has held nascent internal conversations about leveraging Russian assets held in the U.S. to support Ukraine’s war effort, two U.S. officials said. While it is not clear whether Washington will actually carry out any of those moves in the immediate term, it shows there is a well-developed toolkit within the administration to up the ante further after Trump imposed sanctions on Russia on Wednesday for the first time since returning to office in January. Trump has positioned himself as a global peacemaker, but has admitted that trying to end Russia’s more-than-three-year war in neighboring Ukraine has proven harder than he had anticipated. European allies – buffeted by Trump’s swings between accommodation and anger toward Putin – hope he keeps upping the pressure on Moscow, and are also mulling major actions of their own. One senior U.S. official told Reuters that he would like to see European allies make the next big Russia move, which could be additional sanctions or tariffs. A separate source with knowledge of internal administration dynamics said Trump was likely to hit pause for a few weeks and gauge Russia’s reaction to Wednesday’s sanctions announcement. Those sanctions took aim at oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft. The moves spiked oil prices by more than $2 and sent major Chinese and Indian buyers of Russian crude looking for alternatives. Some of the additional sanctions the U.S. has prepared are geared toward Russia’s banking sector and the infrastructure used to get oil to market, said a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter. Last week, Ukrainian officials pitched the U.S. with new sanctions activity, said one source with knowledge of those conversations. Among the specific ideas put forward were measures to cut off all Russian banks from the dollar-based system with U.S. counterparts, two sources said. It is not clear, however, how seriously Ukraine’s specific requests are under consideration. The U.S. Senate is also making moves, with some lawmakers renewing a push to get a long-stalled bipartisan sanctions bill over the line. The person with knowledge of internal administration dynamics said Trump is open to endorsing the package. The source warned, though, that such an endorsement is unlikely this month. The Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment. Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for investment and economic cooperation, said on Friday he believes his country, the United States and Ukraine are close to a diplomatic solution to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. Halyna Yusypiuk, Ukrainian Embassy spokesperson in Washington, said the recent sanctions decision was appreciated, but did not otherwise comment. “Dismantling Russia’s war machine is the most humane way to bring this war to an end,” Yusypiuk wrote in an email. Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Trump’s decision to hit Russia with sanctions capped a tumultuous week with respect to the administration’s Ukraine policy. Trump spoke with Putin last week and then announced the pair planned to meet in Budapest, catching Ukraine off guard. A day later Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington, where U.S. officials pressed Zelenskiy to give up territory in the Donbas region as part of a lopsided land swap to end the war. Zelenskiy pushed back, and Trump left the meeting with the position that the conflict should be frozen at its frontlines. Then last weekend Russia sent a diplomatic note to Washington reiterating previous peace terms. A few days later Trump told reporters the planned meeting with Putin was off because “it just didn’t feel right to me.” Speaking to CNN on Friday after arriving in Washington for talks with U.S. officials, Dmitriev said a meeting between Trump and Putin had not been cancelled, as the U.S. president described it, and that the two leaders will likely meet at a later date. Trump ultimately decided to slap Russia with sanctions during a Wednesday meeting with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a senior White House official said. Behind the scenes, Ukraine got an apparent U.S. boost after the U.S. approval process for providing targeting data for long-range Ukrainian strikes in Russia was moved to U.S. European Command in Germany – viewed by U.S. and European officials as more hawkish on Russia – from the Pentagon in Washington, according to a U.S. and a European official. However, Trump has said he was still not ready to provide Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles, which Kyiv has requested. The U.S. is also putting pressure on Europe to further tighten the financial screws on Moscow. In announcing the U.S. sanctions, Bessent pushed the EU to follow. Broadly speaking, U.S. officials have criticized EU and NATO countries for not taking more decisive steps to stand up to Russia. It will be more difficult, though, for the EU to unleash full-blocking sanctions on Lukoil than it is for the U.S., one senior EU official argued, given how heavily entangled Lukoil is with Europe’s economy. The oil company owns refineries in Bulgaria and Romania and has a robust retail gas station network throughout the continent. “I think we need to find a way to disengage…before we can fully sanction,” the EU official said. (Reporting by Gram Slattery and Steve Holland in Washington and Max Hunder in Kyiv; Additional reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Jonathan Landay and Daphne Psaledakis in Washington and Julia Payne in Brussels; Editing by Michelle Nichols and Diane Craft)

Blue Bloods had a very successful run on CBS from 2010 to 2024. For 14 seasons, fans fell in love with the Reagan family, led by patriarch Frank Reagan. Tom Selleck developed his character so well that it was sometimes difficult to remember he wasn’t actually a real-life New York City Police Commissioner. When the show went off the air, it disappointed both fans and the cast, many of whom didn’t want to say goodbye. Boston native Donnie Wahlberg was tapped to reprise his role of Danny Reagan in the spin-off Boston Blue. Donnie recently revealed what his pal Tom thinks about the new show. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @bostonbluecbs Donnie Walberg Would Love To Have Tom Selleck On “Boston Blue” Blue Bloods ended with Danny Reagan moving to Boston to care for his son, Sean Reagan, who was injured in a fire. Danny and his partner, Maria Baez, played by Marisa Ramirez, are now a couple in the new show. His sister, Erin Reagan, played by Bridget Moynihan, has also popped up in Boston. But what about Tom Selleck and Frank Reagan appearing on Boston Blue? In an interview with Parade, Donnie spoke about Tom and his continued support of his career. “Of course, I spoke to Tom the minute I was deciding if this was something I was going to do. And I can’t really get into the details of those conversations, but he’s been very supportive,” Donnie told Parade. “I can say, would I love for Tom to come up to Boston? Sure. Or would I love Danny to go to New York and visit Frank? Absolutely, yes. Tom’s always going to base his decisions on the work and material, and so yes, of course, I’d love to work with him on the show, and when the time comes, we will hopefully craft an idea that moves his heart and makes him want to do it.” So maybe we will see Frank again. Tom Selleck is an amazing actor, and if he wants to be part of Boston Blue, we’re sure they’ll make that happen. This story’s featured image is by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images. The post Here’s How Tom Selleck Really Feels About The “Blue Bloods” Spinoff appeared first on InspireMore.

Trump administration officials committed to “protect unborn life at all stages” at the five-year anniversary event of a 40-nation coalition of countries that declare that there is no international right to abortion. The Geneva Consensus Declaration “seeks to expand health and thriving for women, and protect the sovereign right of nations to support health, life, and family through national policy and legislation.” The Institute of Women’s Health hosted members of Congress, Trump administration officials, and global leaders to celebrate the anniversary. President Donald Trump penned a letter, which was read at the celebration, promising to “never waiver in protecting the sanctity of every human life.” “My administration is steadfastly devoted to restoring a culture that values the inherent dignity of every child and to upholding the eternal truth that every person is created in the holy image and likeness of God, with infinite worth and boundless potential,” he wrote. NEW: @POTUS wrote a letter celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Geneva Consensus, which declares no international right to abortion.“I will never waiver in protecting the sanctity of every human life,” he wrote. @IWH4women pic.twitter.com/XRoluFWZpD— Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (@TheElizMitchell) October 22, 2025 Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of health and human services, said the Trump administration was “eager and proud” to rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration in January after the Biden administration left the coalition of pro-life countries. “The denial of fundamental truths can destroy nations from within,” he said. “At the root of the evils we face—murder in the womb, the blurring of lines between sexes, and radical social agendas—is a hatred of nature as it was designed for life, the way it was meant to be lived,” O’Neill said. “This ideology does not just denying biology. It declares war against it.” He said the administration is happy to put the Geneva Consensus Declaration’s principles in action to protect life at all stages. “President Trump reinstituted the Mexico City Policy. Taxpayers will not be forced to fund entities that provide or promote abortion as foreign family planning,” he said. “We’ve removed transgender flags from all federal buildings. Only one flag flies above our embassies, and that is the American flag.” “We’ve ended taxpayer funding for the mutilation of children and radical indoctrination,” he added. “Children should not be subjected to the life-altering, irreversible damage and sex-trait modification.” O’Neill promised the Trump administration will continue advancing the Geneva Consensus Declaration’s principles globally. “Taxpayer-funded organizations and bureaucrats have sadly long undermined sovereign nations by imposing radical social agendas around the world,” O’Neill said. “The era of taxpayer-funded neocolonialist promotion of leftist ideologies has come to an end, and our work is just beginning.” The top priority for the Trump State Department is recognizing the sovereignty of each nation, Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau said. “I think it’s so important for us all to recognize that the international community has no right to tell anyone of our country what our policy should be on these issues of family and women’s health,” Landau said. “Each nation state has the right to determine, within its own borders, the policy that it decides to pursue on social and cultural issues, like those affecting the family,” he continued. Landau expressed his “solidarity” with the Geneva Consensus Declaration’s “focus on women’s health and its commitment to families as the core of our communities and our countries.” “We’re created in the image of God. We have families. Families build out into communities, into nations, and ultimately the world. And so, the family is ultimately the manifestation of God’s grace,” he said. “And I think it’s so important that we are all recognizing the importance of the family. I think this is something, frankly, that declining birth rates in so many parts of the world are a huge problem facing humankind, and so I respect and welcome focus on these issues.” The Trump administration is committed to restoring the principle of national sovereignty as the key to international relations, Landau said. “Just as President Trump says he wants to make America great again, he expects the leaders of your countries to want to make your countries great again,” he told the gathering, “whether it be Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Cameroon, Egypt, or Paraguay.” Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said he thanks God the Trump administration has respect for life in the womb. “The Geneva Consensus Declaration, in my opinion, is an engraved invitation to each and every one of us to seriously recommit and rededicate ourselves to the best of our ability in our home countries, as well as in the international forum,” he said. Smith, a staunch pro-life advocate, said he is asking the Trump administration to do more to investigate the abortion pill and the negative side effects many women experience. “In the developing world, when a woman starts hemorrhaging, it’s often a death sentence, and she’ll die quietly and horribly in her town or in her hamlet, and nobody will know,” he said. “There’ll be no statistical gathering for these horrible effects and that woman will die. I’m very concerned about how everyone looks the other way on the international stage about the abortion pill.” Smith asked António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, if he is aware of the dangers of the abortion pill. “Do you know how the pill works?” he asked Guterres. “It starves the baby to death. You and I, Mr. Secretary-General, worked on global hunger … . I believe deeply in mitigating world hunger, and yet we have a situation where we’re causing hunger to the point of starvation.” The post Trump Officials Pledge to ‘Protect Unborn Life at All Stages’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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