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News Eerie Prep Eerie Elementary Books Will Transform Into the Aged-Up Eerie Prep Series for Disney+ Jack Chabert’s book series is getting aged up for TV. By Molly Templeton | Published on September 9, 2025 Image: Gareth Gatrell/NETFLIX Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Gareth Gatrell/NETFLIX The Eerie Elementary books—written by Max Brallier under the pen name Jack Chabert—are getting an aged-up adaptation. Deadline has the news that Eerie Prep has a pilot order from Disney Branded Television. If it gets the green light, the series will land on Disney+ and the Disney Channel. But there will be some changes. The Eerie Elementary books are early chapter books for elementary school readers; they focus on a third-grade boy named Sam Graves, who discovers that his school is anything but ordinary. Eerie Prep, as the title suggests, is about an older kid—and for the series, Sam Graves is a girl. She’ll be played by Madalen Mills, of Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (pictured above) and The Tiger Rising. She’ll be joined in the pilot by Niko Ceci (I Woke Up a Vampire), Charlie Ellis, Madison Rojas (Chicago Med), Michaela Russell (WandaVision), and Alex Bar; Hanna Huffman (Heretic) and Felicia Day (The Magicians) guest star. The plot doesn’t seem to follow the story of the first Eerie Elementary book, but instead focuses on Sam’s investigation of her sister’s disappearance from school. She’ll put together “a team of uniquely skilled students to uncover the truth behind a series of strange, supernatural occurrences—and to confront whoever, or whatever, is behind the disappearance.” M. Raven Metzner (Iron Fist) is showrunner for the pilot, which is written by David H. Steinberg (Kindergarten Cop 2) and Keetgi Kogan (No Good Nick) and directed by Eric Dean Seaton (Batwoman, Legends of Tomorrow).[end-mark] The post Eerie Elementary Books Will Transform Into the Aged-Up <i>Eerie Prep</i> Series for Disney+ appeared first on Reactor.

Movies & TV Star Trek: Khan “Love never built an empire” — Star Trek: Khan Debuts With “Paradise” Remember Khan? He’s back, in podcast form! By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on September 9, 2025 Comment 1 Share New Share The character of Khan Noonien Singh debuted on the original Star Trek’s “Space Seed” in 1967, played with immense charisma by the late great Ricardo Montalban. The character created enough of an impression that Nicholas Meyer brought him back when he was hired to direct the second Trek feature film fifteen years later. The Wrath of Khan is still, forty-three years later, one of the most popular and beloved of the fourteen Trek movies. The character has endured in several ways throughout the franchise. His mendacity was the reason given for why the Federation banned genetic engineering, as established in Deep Space Nine’s “Dr. Bashir, I Presume?” We saw some Augments who didn’t join Khan in space-bound exile in Enterprise’s “Borderland”/“Cold Station 12”/“The Augments” three-parter, and Khan was further referenced in Picard’s “Farewell” via some paperwork we saw in the possession of Adam Soong in the early twenty-first century. We saw the Bad Robot timeline version of Khan in 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), and we saw him as a child in Strange New Worlds’ “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” (played by Desmond Sivan). Plus, of course, SNW’s La’an Noonien Singh is a descendant of Khan’s… One of the many projects that was announced as being developed following the debut of Discovery in 2017 was a Khan-focused miniseries that Meyer (a consulting producer on Discovery’s first season) would be heavily involved in. Over the years since, that project has finally come to fruition in a much different form, to wit, an audio drama being released as a podcast. While the story is Meyer’s, the script is by Kirsten Beyer (the co-creator of Picard and a co-executive producer on both Discovery and SNW, in addition to being a veteran Trek novelist) and David Mack (also a veteran Trek novelist, indeed one of the franchise’s most prolific prose stylists, who also was a consultant on the first seasons of both Lower Decks and Prodigy), with Fred Greenhalgh serving as director. (Full disclosure: Mack and Beyer are both good friends of your humble reviewer.) The first episode, “Paradise,” dropped on the 8th of September, also known as “Star Trek Day,” as it’s on this day in 1966 that Trek debuted on television with the airing on NBC of “The Man Trap.” The episodes are free (albeit with commercials), and are available on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, and most anywhere else one might download a podcast. The main plot focuses on the time between “Space Seed” and The Wrath of Khan. At the end of the former episode, Captain Kirk exiled Khan and his Augments (as well as ship’s historian Marla McGivers, who had fallen for Khan and also betrayed the crew, and chose exile over a court-martial) to the verdant paradise of Ceti Alpha V. A decade-and-a-half later, the U.S.S. Reliant is exploring what they think is Ceti Alpha VI, but it turns out to be the fifth planet, CA6 having exploded and turned CA5 into a brutal desert wasteland. This audio drama is not the first time this period has been explored. Greg Cox did it in prose in his 2005 novel To Reign in Hell (the followup to his The Eugenics Wars duology, which chronicled Khan’s life leading up to “Space Seed”). In addition, Scott & David Tipton and Fabio Mantovani did a four-issue comic book miniseries for IDW in 2010, Khan: Ruling in Hell that provided another interpretation of those events. And now we have a third. Montalban, who died in 2009, is obviously not available to reprise the role of Khan, and one suspects that Cumberbatch would be too expensive, or perhaps the producers didn’t want to cross the streams with the Bad Robot timeline. (Cumberbatch has plenty of audio voiceover credits, most notably his excellent work on the comedy series Cabin Pressure.) Instead, Naveen Andrews, probably best known for his excellent work as Sayid Jarrah on Lost, takes on the title role. Perhaps to give the production a bit more Trek cred, there’s a framing sequence that takes place in the early twenty-fourth century, after Kirk was lost in the Nexus in the prelude to Star Trek Generations, involving Captain Sulu and his command, the U.S.S. Excelsior (established in The Undiscovered Country), along with one of Sulu’s crew, Ensign Tuvok of Vulcan (as established in Voyager’s “Flashback”). George Takei and Tim Russ, respectively, reprise those roles. However, the main character of that framing sequence is Dr. Rosalind Lear (Sonya Cassidy), who has gotten her hands on some accounts of Khan’s life on CA5 that were recorded by McGivers, and she is petitioning Starfleet to allow her to go to CA5 to see if the rest of them are there. Lear, like McGivers, is a historian, and she wants to know more about Khan beyond the legend, and the heavily redacted log entries from the Enterprise. She even mentions the possibility of Kirk having known ahead of time about CA6’s imminent destruction, which gets Sulu’s back up. However, Sulu also wants to get at the truth, and so agrees to ferry Lear to CA5. Sure enough, she and Tuvok find a treasure trove of tapes, and the main part of the audio drama is her listening to them. First of all, the casting in this is superb. Andrews absolutely nails Khan’s bearing as we saw him in “Space Seed”: regal, arrogant, confident, in control of everything around him. And if he’s in danger of losing control, he is expert at regaining it. Cassidy does excellent work as the passionate Lear, and Takei and Russ are their usual fine selves in roles they’ve both inhabited a whole heckuva lot over the years. (Takei’s vocal tremors betray his age, but it’s not a deal-breaker for his performance.) All the various Augments living on CA5 with Khan are well played, particularly the two women who have been attempting to reverse the enforced sterilization of the Augment women, done in order to keep them from breeding without control. (The men were not sterilized, which is just typical.) But the standout here is Wrenn Schmidt as McGivers, both in her performance and particularly in how she’s written. McGivers was very much not well-served by Carey Wilbur and Gene L. Coon in 1967, as she at no point behaves in any way like a professional historian or a professional officer. Neither Wilbur nor Coon really understood the importance, or even the actual job, of a ship’s historian, either. Meyer, Beyer, and Mack (which really does sound like the name of a law firm in a farce…) rectify this oversight in spades. Schmidt’s McGivers is much more forceful a personality than the timid one played by Madeline Rhue, insisting she bunk down in the cargo pod rather than in Khan’s cabin, which surprises everyone—especially Khan himself, though he respects her decision. In addition, she makes it clear that at least part of the reason why she joined Khan on CA5 is for the unprecedented opportunity to witness a great moment in history as it happens. (She claims it’s the only reason, but not wanting to face a court-martial and probably imprisonment for her mutinous acts kinda had to be a motivating factor, too, even though one can’t blame her for not admitting it.) The best part comes toward the end of the episode. McGivers learns about the enforced sterilization of the Augment women, and she concludes that Khan brought her along to his exile because he needed breeding stock in case they prove unable to reverse the sterilization. This, by the way, also addresses another minor flaw in “Space Seed,” to wit, what Khan saw in McGivers, in two different directions: the fact that she has a functioning uterus makes her valuable to Khan, and also this version of McGivers is someone you can see an enhanced human actually being attracted to. I particularly love their exchange about Hernán Cortés. Khan tells the legendary story about how Cortés burned his ships to motivate his troops to fight and not desert during a long battle. McGivers throws it back in his face, saying that in truth Cortés left one ship intact so he could escape if necessary. The punchline, of course, is that they’re both wrong, but that plays perfectly into the theme throughout the episode—and presumably throughout the series—about the different ways in which history can be interpreted, depending on who’s writing the accounts and what their biases are. The other bit of retconning that every chronicle of this period has to address is to provide an explanation of why Khan tried to take over the Enterprise with an ethnically diverse group of contemporaries in the 1967 TV episode, but his followers in the 1982 movie were all blond-haired blue-eyed young people. “Paradise” at least sets this up by establishing that there were also children on the Botany Bay, whom Khan rescued as his last act before heading off into space on the latter ship. He didn’t revive them in “Space Seed” because he needed adults to take over the Enterprise. One assumes these children will be the ones who Khan brings aboard the Reliant in the 1982 movie… Star Trek: Khan will be nine episodes, each one released on a Monday. After the final episode airs on the 3rd of November, I’ll be back with a review of the whole schmear.[end-mark] The post “Love never built an empire” — <i>Star Trek: Khan</i> Debuts With “Paradise” appeared first on Reactor.

News The Conjuring The Conjuring TV Series Comes Back to Life With Marvel Writers on Board The show has been in development at HBO Max since 2023. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 9, 2025 Screenshot: Warner Bros. Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Warner Bros. The Conjuring: Last Rites is currently in theaters, and has been teased as potentially the last time we’ll see Ed and Lorraine Warren (played to perfection by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) on the big screen.  But that doesn’t mean that the Conjuring franchise is ending. In fact, we found out back in 2023 that Warner Bros. Discovery was working on a television series set in The Conjuring universe, though we’ve heard little about the project since then. Today, however, Variety broke the news that the HBO Max Conjuring series now has a showrunner, writer, and executive producer on board. That person is Nancy Won, whose previous credits include working on Netflix’s Jessica Jones series and writing episodes for Supernatural, Jericho, and the recent Apple TV+ series starring Rashida Jones, Sunny. Won will have two other writers with Marvel television experience joining her on the project: Peter Cameron (WandaVision, Moon Knight, Agatha All Along) and Cameron Squires (also WandaVision and Agatha All Along, as well as the Star Wars series, The Acolyte).  The project still seems to be in the early days of development—Warner Bros. Discovery hasn’t even officially confirmed these three writers are attached—and we still have no news on what the show will focus on, including if any established roles will be part of it or if it will be an installment in the franchise with all-new characters.  Whatever the show ends up being, the odds are still good that we’ll see it relatively soon on HBO Max: The Conjuring universe, after all, is too strong to end with Last Rites. [end-mark] The post <i>The Conjuring</i> TV Series Comes Back to Life With Marvel Writers on Board appeared first on Reactor.

Books Young Adult Spotlight Most Anticipated Young Adult SFF/H for September & October 2025 Fall is right around the corner, bringing a slew of dark and cryptic stories… By Alex Brown | Published on September 9, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share It may be Surface of the Sun degrees outside, but fall is right around the corner. With the change in seasons comes a slew of dark and cryptic stories. Interestingly, supernatural beasties seem to be making a comeback, as is eco-horror. Come for the murder, stay for the romance. My twenty most anticipated young adult fantasy, science fiction, and horror novels will make you shiver with both anticipation and revulsion. Anthologies This Is How We Roll edited by Rosiee Thor(Page Street YA; September 16, 2025) Love tabletop roll playing games? Then this is the anthology for you! Thor has lined up a great list of well-known queer YA authors to tell stories about the joys and community bonds of TTRPG. With topics like mental health, family, queerness, neurodivergence, and accepting people for who they are, there are a lot of entry points for readers. I’m not personally a TTRPG person, but this anthology sounds like a lot of fun. Authors include: Rosiee Thor, Akemi Dawn Bowman, DeAndra Davis, M.K. England, Jonny Garza Villa, Anna Meriano, Linsey Miller, Margaret Owen, Marieke Nijkamp, Jamie Pacton, Rebecca Podos, Tara Sim, Andrew Joseph White. These Bodies Ain’t Broken edited by Madeline Dyer(Page Street YA; October 7, 2025) It’s been a while since we’ve had a YA anthology centered on disability stories. If I’m not mistaken, the other big one is 2018’s Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens. This new collection explores disability through the lens of horror, not in the sense that disabled bodies are a problem or “broken” but telling horror stories with main characters whose disabilities impact the story in some way. Physical disabilities in particular are very underrepresented in YA fiction across the board, so this anthology is addressing a big need. Authors include: Dana Mele, Lillie Lainoff, Soumi Roy, Anandi, Fin Leary, S.E. Anderson, K. Ancrum, Pintip Dunn, Lily Meade, Mo Netz, P.H. Low, and Carly Nugent. Magic with a Twist Extraordinary Quests for Amateur Witches by Kayla Cottingham(Delacorte Press; September 23, 2025) Things seem to be going well for Kieran, until he accidentally curses his ex-boyfriend, rendering Kieran invisible to him. To stay on the Witches Council’s good side, he announces that he plans to discover a magical panacea that will break all curses. Now he actually has to do it. Kieran, his sister, and her girlfriend set off on an aeroship adventure alongside a handsome crewmate Sebanstian. But they aren’t alone on this quest; an evil capitalist will do whatever it takes to get his greedy little mitts on the cure first. Blood & Breath by Qurratulayn(Page Street YA; October 7, 2025) No one knows that Evan is Magi, but her secret is at risk when she’s attacked one night and left for dead. Her attacker is a Necro, basically the antithesis of Magi. With her final breath, she makes a deal with a devil, Jack, to trade her life for revenge. Jack helps Evan bluff her way into the Necros organization. At first her plan is to destroy them all, but when she unexpectedly catches feelings for one of them, things get complicated. Set in a 1920s New Orleans-style fantasy world. Hazelthorn by CG Drews(Feiwel & Friends; October 28, 2025) Evander, a sickly orphan, lives on the lavish estate of a reclusive billionaire, but he feels like a prisoner. He’s forbidden from leaving the property, banned from the estate garden, and not allowed to be alone with his guardian’s grandson Laurie, the boy who tried to kill him a few years before. After Byron’s death, Evander is shocked to learn he will inherit the property, not Laurie. The two teens form a tenuous alliance to protect each other from swarming relatives and figure out who killed their guardian. Whatever is going on, the garden is at the center of it. Into the Woods Hollow by Taylor Grothe(Peachtree Teen; September 30, 2025) When her family moved away from their small town in New York, Cassie lost touch with her friends. But after an incident at school leads to her finally getting diagnosed with autism, her parents split up and her mom drags her back to Deep Glen. In an attempt to rekindle her relationships with friends she’d lost touch with when she moved away, Cassie agrees to go camping with them. Cut to a big fight that ends with her alone and lost in the woods. She’s rescued by Kaleb, a member of an unsettling off-the-grid community called the Roost. At first it’s a relief to be around people who support her neurodiversity, but the Roost is not what it seems. A Feast for the Eyes by Alex Crespo(Peachtree Teen; October 7, 2025) Like many small towns, the coastal Oregon town of Pine Cove has a local legend: the Watcher. As the story goes, the Watcher hunts down people with big secrets. When girlfriends Lauren and Shay have a fight in the forest near town, the Watcher attacks and Lauren barely escapes with her life. Now Shay has to prove the legend is real. With the help of her friend Zoe, a photography student struggling to find her eye, and their friends, Shay goes on a monster hunt.  He’s So Possessed With Me by Corey Liu(Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; October 14, 2025) Colin Ong is convinced his best friend Ren Hsu is possessed. The two best friends had just wrapped up an evening of clubbing when they followed a distressed boy into the woods. Something grabbed Ren, and when Colin finally tracked him down deep in the forest…well, Colin doesn’t exactly know. His memory ends there. What he does know is that Ren came out of the woods different than when he went in and the enigmatic boy now pursuing a relationship with Ren is wicked to his core. This sounds a little like The Summer Hikaru Died, and I’m into it. Thrills & Chills Who’s All Going (to Die)? by Lisa Springer(Delacorte Press; September 16, 2025) Freshman college student Ariana is still recovering from an injury that waylaid her volleyball career in high school. The parents of her new friend Oakley invite the two young women to stay at their teen-centered wellness program at a fancy resort on a private island near Barbados. At first, everything seems perfect, but red flags keep popping up…as do the dead bodies. The teen visitors are surveilled constantly, the contract they signed is unbreakable, and the white woman wellness “guru,” Juniper-Moon, might actually be a cult leader. Make Me a Monster by Kalynn Bayron(Bloomsbury YA; October 14, 2025) With a new mortician’s assistant license in hand, Meka starts working at her parents’ funeral home. But with the tragic death of someone she loves, she comes face to face with the dark secrets her parents have kept from her about their work. Strange things start happening around her like birds flocking to her house and creepy items left at her front door. Worse, the dead are roaming around. Loosely inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Showstopper by Lily Anderson(Henry Holt & Co BYR; September 30, 2025) Afro-Boricua teen Faye is so excited for her annual summer excursion to Ghostlight Youth Theater Camp with her besties. However, things get off to a rocky start when the camp director dies unexpectedly. Soon, more bodies turn up and Faye is the only one who realizes something is very, very wrong. Accusations start flying, and Faye has to not only clear her name but save the day. Vamps & Shifters Blood Moon by Britney S. Lewis(Page Street YA; September 9, 2025) A long time ago, the Kansas town of Timber Plains was saved from a vampire attack by werewolves. Or so the legend goes. Like any good normie who suddenly finds themself in a fantasy story, Mira doesn’t believe the legend. At the start of her freshman year of college at the local university, she meets Julian, a boy who is mad at her for reasons she can’t understand. After Julian saves her life through an impossible feat of strength, Mira realizes there might be some truth to the urban legend after all. Turns out her mother’s disappearance five years before was part of a much bigger war simmering under the surface of the town. A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal(Blood and Tea  #2 — Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR); September 23, 2025) There are several vampire books coming out this fall that are on my radar, but I just love the premise of this duology so much. By the end of the first book, Arthie and her brother Jin had succeeded in their mission to expose the identity and misdeeds of the Ram—the masked ruler of the colonizer country of Atenia—but not yet managed to knock the Ram out of power. Now Arthie and her ragtag band of human and vampire allies are off on another heist, this time to the country she immigrated from, Ceylan.  The Transition by Logan-Ashley Kisner(Delacorte Press; September 30, 2025) A trans horror werewolf story, OMG, inject it into my eyeballs! Hunter, a trans teen who has finally gotten top surgery but who is also still dealing with messy feelings about gender, is attacked by a werewolf one night. As his body starts to change beyond his control, he and his friends Mars and Gabe realize they have to find the creature that infected him with lycanthropy and kill it before the change becomes permanent. But does he actually want to be human? Being a bloodthirsty werewolf is awfully tempting. Not helping matters is the discovery that the werewolf can communicate telepathically with Hunter.  ‘Tis Almost Fairy Time Bad in the Blood by Matteo L. Cerilli(Tundra Books; September 2, 2025) The fey like you’ve never seen them before. In the 1920s-inspired city of Puck’s Port, siblings Gristle and Hawthorne are one of  hundreds with Faerie Disorder. The fey can do wild magic yet are treated like second class citizens compared to humans. Hawthorne spends most of her time masking and passing, while Gristle devotes himself to working as a private investigator like his father did before his tragic death. When another fey is blamed for a murder, the Stregoni siblings start a desperate search for the real killer before the city erupts into violence against the fey.  All the Stars in the Daylight Sky by Maya MacGregor(Astra Young Readers; October 28, 2025) Cam, who is both agender and autistic, splits their time between their homes in Texas and Scotland, never feeling settled in either place. During a visit to Scotland, they encounter the fae and are pulled into a strange, fantastical world of possibilities. The fae sees them for who they really are, but holding onto that acceptance means leaving their human family behind. This sounds like a unique take on romantasy. Waterworld The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala(The Dead of Summer #1 — PUSH; September 16, 2025) Now that Ollie’s mom is free of cancer, they’re headed to a tourist island off the coast of Maine, Anchor’s Mercy. What is supposed to be a summer of fun and celebration sours when a storm cuts off the island’s electricity. Soon, a terrible illness begins spreading around town, turning those infected into zombie-like beings who appear to drown even when not in water. With the island locked down, Ollie and his friends have the fight of their lives to survive the plague. The Others by Cheryl Isaacs (The Unfinished #2 — Heartdrum; September 16, 2025) The sequel opens just two weeks after the end of the first book. Avery and Key are now a couple, and the beings from Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) stories are finally at rest. Or are they? The black lake in the dark woods is placid now, but locals are still dealing with the ripple effects of grief and trauma. Something weird is going on with the fountain in the town square, and strange shapes haunt Avery in reflective surfaces. To sort out what’s really going on, she’ll have to go back to the lake where all the horrors began. And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun(Knopf Books for Young Readers; October 7, 2025) Soojin’s family has the inexplicable magical ability to resurrect the dead. Before her sudden death in a car accident when they were kids, Soojin’s mother warned her daughters to never revive anything bigger than a small animal. But when, years later, her sister Mirae is found dead in the river that runs through their small Northern California coastal town, Soojin breaks the rules. She’s thrilled that Mirae is back from the dead, but something isn’t quite right with her undead sister. As locals in their predominately white town start dying horrible deaths, Mirae’s thirst for revenge becomes uncontrollable. An Ocean Apart by Jill Tew(Joy Revolution; October 14, 2025) It’s 2190 and Miami has been destroyed by climate change induced flooding. The wealthiest families, known as Cruisers, live on gigantic ships where they have the privilege of ignoring all the damage they’ve done to the world. Eden survives on the marshes left behind by the floodwaters and plots revenge. She gets her opening when a Cruiser family announces a dating competition for their son, Theo. She sneaks in undercover to seduce Theo and steal his money, but things get complicated when they fall for each other. [end-mark] The post Most Anticipated Young Adult SFF/H for September & October 2025 appeared first on Reactor.

The American dream is in crisis. A study published by Pew Research last year found that only 42% of adults under 50 say the American dream is still attainable. The belief is bipartisan: Only 38% of Democrats under 50 and 48% of Republicans under 50 believe it is possible to achieve the American dream. President Donald Trump felt the storm gathering. He turned heads when he descended down the golden escalator of Trump Tower in 2015 and thundered that “sadly, the American dream is dead.” He captured that lightning in a bottle not once but twice, observing that under former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, “you don’t hear about the American dream anymore—it’s dead.” And what’s the American dream without the white picket fence? Generations of Americans have grown up believing that owning a home has been a key tenet of living the American dream, but homes are increasingly unaffordable. For this monumental task, Trump has tapped Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner. Turner joined “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss a housing crisis that isn’t just about houses—it’s about the soul of our homeland. One reason why young Americans and their families feel the American dream slipping away is the increasing unaffordability of a home for the average American. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the average house cost about three times the yearly median wage in America. Today, the average house costs seven times the yearly median wage. Turner told The Daily Signal that “there’s several factors” behind this trend.  “The regulatory environment is crippling building,” Turner said. “Developers find it more difficult to develop, more difficult to build. And so, at [the Department of Housing and Urban Development], we’ve been very intentional from day one of taking inventory of our regulatory environment and the regulations that we have.” Cuts to those regulations have already started, with the Trump administration working to undo the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, a Biden-era regulation that placed federal restrictions on using local land to build housing. Illegal immigration has been another factor. “When you look at our country and how between 10 and 20 million people came into our country illegally,” Turner continued, “this has hindered our housing industry and caused housing prices to go up.” To no surprise, the average rent has nearly doubled over the same time period housing has more than doubled, even when adjusted for inflation. It’s a double blow for young Americans and their families hoping to buy a home. Higher housing costs force young Americans into renting, and high rents means less savings to someday afford a house. The result? Many Americans have been forced to delay buying a home. In 2008, the average age of a first-time homebuyer was about 30, and it had been that way for three decades. Less than two decades later, and the average age of a first-time homebuyer is 38—an all-time high. Turner understands that having a country of renters is much different than a country of owners.  “The American people, not only are they the one priority, they’re the only priority when it comes to HUD-funded housing,” Turner said.  “We have to continue to work hard to make sure that those costs come down. When we came into this administration, our fiscal house was not in order,” Turner claimed. “The president and this administration under his leadership is getting our fiscal house in order.” Putting the nation’s fiscal house in order is necessary “to help people live lives of self-sustainability, to help people to achieve their American dream and home ownership, and to help people, really, to live out their God-given potential,” the HUD secretary added. “The American home is the American dream,” Turner said, “and at HUD we have the heart to help every American achieve the American dream.” The post The American Dream Is Dying. HUD Secretary Scott Turner Aims to Revive It. appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released the largest downward jobs revision in its history Tuesday, raising further questions about the embattled federal agency. The downward revision for the 12-month period ending March 2025 suggests the economy added about half as many jobs per month as previously thought. The move comes amid already hefty criticism from the White House, where President Donald Trump has nominated Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni to head the bureau. The bureau’s report estimated that the U.S. economy actually gained 911,000 fewer jobs over the 12 months ending March 2025 than previously reported. “This staggering 911,000 downward revision in jobs data marks the largest such correction in history, underscoring the urgent need for change and new leadership at the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” Richard Stern, acting director at Heritage’s Institute for Economic Policy Studies, told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. “BLS must refine its data collection methods to produce more accurate numbers.” “Notably, 10 of the 12 months encompassed by massive errors in this report fall under the Biden administration, casting a stark spotlight on the economic challenges and persistent headwinds inherited from the previous administration’s policies, which have profoundly impacted hardworking Americans,” Stern added. The largest downward revisions came in leisure and hospitality (176,000 jobs), professional and business services (158,000 jobs), and retail trade (126,200 jobs). Here's the breakdown. 911,000 fewer jobs than previously estimated in the year from April 2024 to March 2025?How does the BLS get it that wrong?!?2/5 pic.twitter.com/LCC4DtnecA— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) September 9, 2025 According to The Wall Street Journal, the estimated job gains during those 12 months averaged 147,000 jobs per month. This revised number of almost 76,000 fewer jobs per month takes away more than half of the monthly gains that were originally reported. The revision comes as the White House is said to be preparing a report laying out alleged shortcomings of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the Journal reported. Trump fired former bureau Commissioner Erika McEntarfer last month, following a weak jobs report. He nominated Antoni to replace her. The president has repeatedly criticized the BLS. “The Economy is BOOMING under ‘TRUMP,’ but the Bureau of Labor Statistics has RIGGED the numbers to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad,” he posted on Truth Social last month. Cody Sargent, Heritage’s director of media and public relations, noted that this downward revision is “the largest error in BLS history.” “Sure seems like firing the commissioner was warranted,” he quipped. BLS had to admit today that its jobs data is not remotely accurate.The numbers used repeatedly by the Biden administration last year were off by a whopping 911,000 jobs—the largest error in BLS history.Sure seems like firing the commissioner was warranted. https://t.co/NIh5zlGlqE— Cody Sargent (@codydsargent) September 9, 2025 The post Largest Downward Jobs Revision Mostly Came on Biden’s Watch, Raises More Questions About Embattled Federal Agency appeared first on The Daily Signal.

CNN: Crime in DC is Down But...

The corporate media have finally been shamed into covering the brutal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zaruska by a mentally ill black man in Charlotte, and predictably, they’ve turned it into a “Republicans pounce!” story. In between gasps of horror that the Trump administration has “seized on” the story, print outlets and TV talking heads have been hard at work identifying the real culprit of the gruesome murder: insufficient public health funding. First, let’s address this idiotic comment by CNN’s Abby Phillip on Monday: “People are murdered every single day… but this particular one, I’m trying to understand why this has become such a flashpoint on the right.”  This story matters because it exists at an intersection between two major political topics that have long dominated policy discourse in the America. Iryna Zaruska, a Ukrainian refugee, came to this country seeking safety from the death and destruction wrought by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — only to be done in by a violent felon who was released onto America’s streets by a social justice ideologue. Zaruska’s killer, Decarlos Brown, was released onto the streets after a January, 2025 incident with police, despite his extensive criminal record and diagnosed mental illness. The question being asked is, why was he not already behind bars?  Of course, that question is rather inconvenient for a corporate media who are currently hard at work trying to label the Trump administration’s crime crackdown as unnecessary and authoritarian. So here’s how they’ve chosen to cover the incident instead: