News Tommy & Tuppence A Contemporary Adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence Is in the Works Tommy and Tuppence are a detective duo for the ages. They fall in love, fall out of it, and tumble back in, all while solving some thrilling, entertaining mysteries along… By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 16, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share BritBox is all-in on Agatha Christie adaptations. The platform already has several available for your viewing pleasure, including Agatha Christie’s Towards Zero, Agatha Christie’s Murder is Easy, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, Poirot, Marple, and The Pale Horse. Today, BritBox announced it’s adding another Christie series to their roster: a six-part contemporary adaptation of the novels and short stories centered on the romantically on-again, off-again detective duo, Tommy and Tuppence. Its produced by Lookout Point (Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack), in association with Agatha Christie Limited.   The show, descriptively called Tommy & Tuppence, is written by Phoebe Eclair-Powell (The Road Trip, Harm). “As an Agatha Christie superfan, this job is a dream come true,” she said in a statement. “I am eternally grateful to [Christie’s grandson] James Prichard and Agatha Christie Limited for having me on board…. Christie’s detective duo are witty, sharp and raring to solve lots and lots of murders whilst asking if they should really be more than just Partners in Crime…. To bring Tommy and Tuppence into the twenty-first century is truly an honor.” So what tone will the show go for? BritBox North America president Robert Schildhouse described it as “a fun blend of romance and mystery,” while Lookout Point executive director Katie Draper said it’s a “screwball comedy, playful romance, and thrilling murder.” The announcement suggests that the project is still in its early days, so no news yet on who will be playing the titular characters or when we’ll be able to watch it in the U.S.[end-mark] The post A Contemporary Adaptation of Agatha Christie’s <i>Tommy & Tuppence</i> Is in the Works appeared first on Reactor.

Ahead of the Senate Finance Committee’s release of its reworking of the House’s “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill, one Republican House member reacted angrily to rumors of a major tax-deduction increase being stripped from the bill. His opposition could ultimately sink the bill. Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman previewed the Senate Finance Committee’s release of draft text for its version of the big, beautiful bill—the main legislative vehicle for President Donald Trump’s campaign promises. “SENATE FINANCE puts $10K SALT cap in their bill. They see it as negotiating mark,” he wrote ahead of the text’s official release. ??MIDDAY: SENATE FINANCE puts $10K SALT cap in their bill. They see it as negotiating mark.PLUS: JOHNSON has postponed his trip to Jerusalem amid war between ISRAEL and IRAN. He was slated to speak to Knesset Sundayhttps://t.co/2IEhXNtjRf— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 16, 2025 A state and local tax (SALT) deduction allows residents in high-tax states to deduct their state and local taxes on their federal tax returns. This is a major priority for Republican lawmakers from high-tax states such as New York. Under Trump’s first-term 2017 tax cuts—which are set to expire at the end of the year—taxpayers currently can deduct up to $10,000 on their returns under SALT.  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., successfully won over a number of holdout Republican SALT advocates from blue states to vote for the bill in the House by offering a quadrupling to $40,000 of the cap on SALT deductions for households that earn under $500,000 a year.  This last-minute concession ensured the bill’s passage through the House of Representatives in May. Shortly after Sherman’s report of the drop in the SALT cap, Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., reacted with ire. Consider this the response to the Senate’s “negotiating mark”: DEAD ON ARRIVAL. https://t.co/EWLcadLVgu pic.twitter.com/6xCu0zV4V6— Mike Lawler (@lawler4ny) June 16, 2025 “Consider this the response to the Senate’s ‘negotiating mark,’ he wrote on X. “DEAD ON ARRIVAL.” The budget reconciliation bill, which would fulfill many of Trump’s campaign promises such as funding border security and extending his 2017 tax cuts, was passed by a one-vote margin of 215-214, with one “present” vote.  This means that Lawler could theoretically sink the entire bill singehandedly if he is dissatisfied with the Senate’s ultimate SALT cap. Warning for Trump billSenate GOP moving to gut deal cut between NY Rs and Johnson.“If the Senate changes the SALT deduction in any way, I will be a NO, and I'm not going to buckle on that. And I know in speaking to my other colleagues, they will be a no as well,” Lawler warns pic.twitter.com/Wsac0wZsCr— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 8, 2025 Lawler has already warned that the $40,000 SALT cap is nonnegotiable for him and some other members. “If the Senate changes the SALT deduction in any way, I will be a no, and I’m not going to buckle on that. And I know in speaking to my other colleagues, they will be a no as well,” he warned in a recent CNN interview. The post SALT Spat Could Derail ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended his record and positioned himself as the working-class candidate in this year’s mayoral race during a Fox News interview Monday.  Adams, a former Democrat-turned-independent candidate, called out his former party of ahead of the Democrats’ June 24 primary. Republican Curtis Sliwa and independent Jim Walden are also challenging the incumbent mayor. The general election is Nov. 4.  NYC Mayor Eric Adams tells Fox News that the Democratic Party became too extreme not only for him, but for working-class people everywhere.”I didn't leave the party, the party left me. The party left working class people when they were starting to call The President 'Hitler'… pic.twitter.com/Bs662oiWvy— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) June 16, 2025 The top contenders in the Democrat primary are former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who has the endorsement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Adams discussed the mayoral race with “Fox & Friends,” casting himself as a champion of blue-collar New Yorkers. The interview transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Brian Kilmeade: [Mayoral candidate Zahrin] Mamdani is who [Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez, D-New York] supports. What’s your reaction? Eric Adams: I equate this to basketball. This is the season, and the playoff is going to happen after the primary. …  The New York Times came out today and said, “Don’t do Mamdani, don’t do Cuomo.”  I turned this city around. If they don’t want to admit it, that’s fine, but the voters are going to acknowledge that.  You can’t defund police, you can’t be anti-business, you can’t just start raising taxes when you don’t have the authority to do so. Having a clear message is going to be an interesting campaign season.  Lawrence Jones: The Democratic Party tried to crush you. Are you going to expose what they tried to do to you? Adams: What they tried to do is very clear. Then to hold up the dismissal until the day before the submission of my petition. I had 25,000 petitions. [District Judge Dale] Ho held up dismissal that his independent person stated until the day before.  That is why we had to run on independent line and raise more petitions in the street. It cost us a lot of money.   It’s about sharing what happened, why I fought for New Yorkers. I’ll say it over and over again: They weren’t coming for me, they were coming for the people of the city, and I was in the way.?  Kilmeade: It was your party that turned on you? Adams: Yes. In all of our parties, you find that there are diverse levels of opinion.  The overwhelming number of Democrats in this city believe with me: 79% stated that if you commit a crime and are undocumented, after you serve your time, you should be deported.   They believe in me supporting our police. They believe in pro-business. They believe in not having a revolving door criminal justice system. The numerical minority, like [Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez] and others allow this, but they are not majority.  These are working-class people in this city who want a working-class mayor.  Ainsley Earhardt: What separates you from Curtis [Sliwa, the Republican candidate in the mayoral race]? Adams: A lot.   First of all, the ability to manage a city this complex. I navigated this city through COVID, through 237,000 migrants and asylum seekers.  We have more businesses in our city. Broadway had the best 12 months in the recorded history of the city.  More housing in individual years in the history of the city. Our children are outpacing the state in reading and math.  In the last five months, we had the lowest number of homicides and shooters in recorded history. [We got] 20,000 illegal guns off the street.  Kilmeade: You said Cuomo is really the nexus of all bad decisions—defunding the police, nursing homes, no cash bail—that was him. Adams: I fixed his mess. 15,000 people died in nursing homes. Cuomo closed psychiatric beds, and that’s how we have many people on our streets right now.   Cuomo put in place cannabis legislation, where I had to close 1,400 illegal cannabis shops that he opened.  Cuomo did a cash bail, revolving-door criminal justice system.  I can go down the list, and then he comes now and says, “I made a mistake and would have done it differently.”  That’s not how this is done. [Cuomo’s] error almost hurt this city.?  Earhardt: What is your biggest challenge as mayor? Why do you want to have this job again?  Adams: I have to continue with the success.   There’s a reason [that] bond raisers—who are the outside, independent observers—looked at this city and said, “We’re going to raise the bond for Eric Adams, and we’re going to keep that raised bond in place.”  They know I turned this city around. What I inherited in 2021 was unbelievable where we are now.   This city is in a much better place, and we are going to continue the success that we are doing.  Jones: Do you regret being a part of your former party? Did the [Democrat] party go too far Left, and do you think it’s repairable? Adams: The extreme arm of the party did go too far.   I say it all the time, “I didn’t leave the party; the party left me.”  The party left working-class people when [the party] started calling President [Trump] “Hitler” and “fascist.”   I said, “That’s not what working class people are concerned about.” We need to talk about affordability, housing, public safety, these bread-and-butter issues.   It has gone too far Left—an arm of the party—and far too many working-class people are saying, “Start talking about my issues.”  Kilmeade: Is Cuomo going to win the primary?  Adams: I’m not concerned with which one of them will win it. I’m ready for whoever comes.  He is on the independent line also, so he would be in the general election no matter what.  Mamdani will also be in the general election no matter what. He’s in the Working Families Party.  They are following what I did. People say, “Eric, you can’t win [as an] independent,” so why is everyone following what I did?  I’m a sitting mayor running on the independent line. That’s a different scenario.  Historically, independents are individuals who are unknown. This is a different race.  The post Eric Adams Blasts ‘Too Far Left’ Democrats in NYC Mayoral Race appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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As NewsBusters has documented for years, ABC’s The View has a serious problem with incendiary rhetoric designed to inflame political tensions, incite violence, and generally disregard the lives of conservatives. So, their toxic hypocrisy was fairly potent during Monday’s episode when the cast were demanding the rhetoric be toned down following the assassination of Democratic state representatives in Minnesota, something the openly refused to do after the attempts on President Trump. Pretend independent Sara Haines whined about what described as “a slow dehumanization of the ‘other.’ Whatever that ‘other’ is to someone. In this instance it's a political division.” She demanded that the government fire Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) because of some tweets she didn’t like. Seemingly ignorant to how elections worked she decried: In any other job you would be fired instantly! I don't know what is wrong with our government that someone is not immediately removed or punished. And what I would say is right now, if the HR of our government does not solve this problem the people better be watching. Haines was hypocrite because she once demanded that pro-lifers let themselves die of cancer. She called it “God’s will” for them to die in a horrible and agonizing fashion. And speaking of dehumanization, The View clamored to have an anti-Trump comedian on the show who called Trump and his supporters “sub-human.” Her co-host Ana Navarro once claimed Trump wasn’t human and was “an existential threat to humanity.” “There is this normalization of political violence and it's been happening since about 2016,” griped co-host Sunny Hostin, as a follow up to Haines. “And so, when that is starting to happen, it's not only just a slide to fascism, it’s not just a slide to authoritarianism, it's an end of democracy and how we do things.”     Hostin was one of the first in the group to openly refuse to tone down her rhetoric after the attempts on Trump’s life. “I just think that calling out the truth is not turning up the heat, right, and I think it's really important,” she declared in July of 2024. She also gave credence to the healthcare CEO shooter and demanded Democrats be ready to “fight and die” against Trump. While not calling out the rest of her friends for how they refuse to tone down the rhetoric, faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin opined about how “deep political polarization in this country is dangerous” and how “we all have a duty” to some down things down. She got no support from the rest of the table (Click “expand”): And I’ll say this: we – deep political polarization in this country is dangerous. I never thought I would live through this level of political violence that he have. And we all have a duty. How we talk about people –If we talk about people we politically disagree with like they are our enemy, like they are less worthy of being here, like they’re stupider than us, like we hate them and we despise them, we are adding to that. We have a duty to try to see people's humanity. And by the way, I'm trying to hold myself accountable to this. Rather than go on Twitter and rage tweet to my echo chamber of people who agree with me. I’m going to try to talk to people who see the world a little different than me, try to see their humanity, try to change their heart and mind toward what I agree by actually engaging and talking to them like the human beings who are worthy of having a voice. Because when we treat people like they’re enemies this is what happens. Openly rejecting Farah Griffin’s call for them to better themselves, moderator Whoopi Goldberg proclaimed, “I'm not going to pull my punches here” as she proceeded to blame House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for the killings: GOLDBERG: Last week when that tar and feather, you know -- HOSTIN: That was Speaker Mike Johnson. Right? GOLDBERG: What are you doing? You always say, “oh, we have to come down on the rhetoric, stop doing it’ and then you don't! So I'm putting this -- yeah, I'm putting this in your hands! Goldberg once attacked Trump’s grandkids for committing the crime of humanizing their grandfather. “[T]hey're trying to humanize him and change your idea about who this guy is. Don't fall for that!” she sneered. The View has also been the home for calls to “murder” pro-lifers and fantasizes about assassinating U.S. Supreme Court justices. ABC needs to do something. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View June 16, 2025 11:06:12 a.m. Eastern (…) SARA HAINES: Whoopi, you say there's something happening here, it's like a slow dehumanization of the ‘other.’ Whatever that ‘other’ is to someone. In this instance it's a political division. And I think people need to check in with themselves. When they hear someone is attacked in their house, if their first response is not feeling gutted and heartbroken without any identifiers – I don't need to know anything – If that was not your first response, you are part of the problem. And elected officials, speaking of them, you've got Mike Lee out of Utah who is either mocking what happened here when he tweets things like, “this is what happens when Marxists don't get their way,” or “nightmare on Waltz street.” This was within hours of the loss of life and the brutal attack in these people's homes. In any other job you would be fired instantly! I don't know what is wrong with our government that someone is not immediately removed or punished. And what I would say is right now – [Applause] HAINES: - if the HR of our government does not solve this problem the people better be watching. This man is back up -- it's a minute, it's like 2028. But being on the ground and coordinate how you replace people like this, who can speak that way about other Americans. SUNNY HOSTIN: Well, you do it by voting. Right? You do it by voting. ANA NAVARRO: We are the HR of America. HOSTIN: We are the HR of America. But I will say this, Whoopi, to your question. There is this normalization of political violence and it's been happening since about 2016. In 2024 Chapman University there was a study that suggests that a possible cause for this rise in targeted violence against politicians is this declining level of confidence in our most important social institutions and the growing political divisions. And what was really disheartening to me, one in five adults believe Americans have to resort to violence to get their country back on track. A Washington Post poll found that one in three Americans say they believe violence against the government is justified. And so, when that is starting to happen, it's not only just a slide to fascism, it’s not just a slide to authoritarianism, it's an end of democracy and how we do things. And so, I don't know if it's time to wake up, because I think -- it's just happening. It’s happening. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The question we always have after an act of political violence, whether it's the attempts on Donald Trump's life, the attempts on Gavin – on Governor Shapiro's life, these lawmakers and their spouses in Minnesota. We say, ‘Well, is the rhetoric contributing to it?’ Of course, the rhetoric is but to Sara’s point, we have to get to the heart of it. Because there is this reaction when something happens that if your first thought is, “Oh, let me make sure he wasn't wearing my jersey whoever the perpetrator was. I want to make sure he wasn’t on my political side.’ Do you care more about that than the two children who were left behind who lost both of their parents in Minnesota this weekend, the Hortmans’ kids. There is something wrong at the heart. And I’ll say this: we – deep political polarization in this country is dangerous. I never thought I would live through this level of political violence that he have. And we all have a duty. How we talk about people –If we talk about people we politically disagree with like they are our enemy, like they are less worthy of being here, like they’re stupider than us, like we hate them and we despise them, we are adding to that. We have a duty to try to see people's humanity. And by the way, I'm trying to hold myself accountable to this. Rather than go on Twitter and rage tweet to my echo chamber of people who agree with me. I’m going to try to talk to people who see the world a little different than me, try to see their humanity, try to change their heart and mind toward what I agree by actually engaging and talking to them like the human beings who are worthy of having a voice. Because when we treat people like they’re enemies this is what happens. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, I'm not going to pull my punches here. Last week when that tar and feather, you know -- HOSTIN: That was Speaker Mike Johnson. Right? GOLDBERG: What are you doing? You always say, “oh, we have to come down on the rhetoric, stop doing it’ and then you don't! So I'm putting this -- yeah, I'm putting this in your hands! (…)

We’ve got a new, fun interactive series called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.   Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).   The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is… Jory Rand! The KABC anchor won with 59 percent of the vote! Rand took first place for playing down the L.A. rioters as he laughably observed they were “just a bunch of people having fun, watching cars burn.” MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell finished in second place with 33 percent of the vote. PBS special correspondent Marcia Biggs came in third with 8 percent.  The following is a montage of all the nominees:      WINNER (59 percent of the vote)   KABC Anchor On L.A. Riots: “Just a Bunch of People Having Fun, Watching Cars Burn”  “There’s a large group of people. It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun, watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators.”— KABC anchor Jory Rand during live coverage of Los Angeles riots, June 8.   SECOND PLACE (33 percent of the vote)   Lawrence O’Donnell: There is No “Violent Mob” In L.A. “There is no vicious and violent mob in Los Angeles. The National Guard troops are doing absolutely nothing. The Marines are invisible and obviously doing absolutely nothing. And peaceful protesters have been peacefully submitting to arrests in small numbers to make their point of protest against what Donald Trump is trying to do in their city.”— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s The Last Word, June 10.   THIRD PLACE (8 percent of the vote)   Marcia Biggs: L.A. is “Pretty Quiet, Festival-Like,” Except for Those Flashbangs! “So the scene here has been pretty quiet, almost festival-like, for the last hour or so. We just heard a flashbang. We just heard another one. This is kind of how it's been going. This is what we saw last night. Of course, we mentioned some looting, but, in general, last night was pretty non-violent standoff.”— Special correspondent Marcia Biggs on PBS’s News Hour, June 10.   Thanks again to all who participated!    Funded by James P. Jimirro

The New York Times is still force-feeding its readers agitprop that the long-awaited inflation Armageddon its been hawking for months is still nigh. That’s despite a bevy of welcome economic news in recent weeks that has defied the retrospectively stupid predictions of President Donald Trump’s most pompous critics still high on their bloated egos. “Where’s the Inflation From Tariffs? Just Wait, Economists Say,” doom-mongered Times reporter Colby Smith in a June 13 crystal ball item passed off as news. They always locate "Economists" to say what they want to impose as conventional "wisdom." “Tariffs raise consumer prices. It’s a view held by most economists since long before President Trump entered the White House,” Smith wrote. She expressed her shock that Trump’s tariffs on China “did not translate to” the “noticeably higher inflation overall” that forecasters were screeching about for months. Referring to data showing that inflation has been rather muted in recent months, Smith was compelled to address the burning question, “Are their predictions wrong?” But rather than admitting the obvious — which is “YES” in capital letters — Smith parroted the stubbornness of disgruntled economists assuring everybody that prices will inevitably increase later this summer … eventually. In other words: Just you wait, we’ll be proven right that Trump is killing the economy. Derp: Economists are undeterred — for now. It’s not that tariffs aren’t affecting prices, they say. It’s that this isn’t happening in a significant enough way just yet to show up in broad measures of inflation like the Consumer Price Index. They argue that the impact will be much more significant this summer. Newsflash Smith: Regurgitating the doom-and-gloom predictions of uppity economists an axe to grind against Trump’s economic policies who have about as much predictive value as a weather forecast with is not news.  Smith relied on the analysis of Barclays chief economist Marc Giannoni, who was adamant that “‘Inflation is very likely going to increase … It is a question of time, not so much of if.’” Of course, Smith didn’t mention that Giannoni was the same guy who prophesied wrongly to her own newspaper in March that Trump’s tariffs would discourage businesses from hiring. As recent data would show, the American job market would instead remain “resilient,” with tariff-related disruptions not being “serious enough to drag the job market into distress,” according to Investopedia June 6.  Smith would go on to say the quiet part out loud, which was buried in the 20th paragraph and undercut her whole argument: “The milder data could mean that the forthcoming inflation spike may be more contained than once feared, however.” But Smith would take the findings of the latest University of Michigan survey on rising consumer sentiment and twist it to make it seem inconsequential: The latest survey conducted by the University of Michigan, released on Friday, showed consumers slightly less downbeat and expecting less inflation than earlier in the year, although they are bracing for higher prices.  What a spin-job. That survey was a much bigger deal than what Smith let on. It found that consumer sentiment rebounded to a “much higher level than expected” with a whopping 15.9 percent increase to 60.5 against an estimate of 54, according to CNBC. This also represented the first increase in consumer sentiment on the economy for the year 2025, as Americans’ “views of the economy have improved as inflation has stayed tame and the Trump administration has reached a truce in its trade fight with China,” PBS noted.  Perhaps all the end-of-times bellyaching by the anti-Trump talking heads in the media and the think tanks was just possibly way overblown? After all, as Giannoni admitted in a caveat to his inflation doom prophecy which Smith conveniently buried at the bottom of her story: “‘I would be very, very surprised if we don’t see some stronger inflation prints in the next several months … If inflation continues to be very muted, we’ll have to go back to the drawing board.’” The Times staff would certainly lose their minds if their long-hoped-for Trump economic crisis doesn’t come to fruition.

President Donald Trump has led a multifaceted plan to address the former Biden administration's immigration crisis. In addition to increasing Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detainment efforts, Trump's Department of Homeland Security implemented a self-deportation program that has reportedly already experienced considerable success.The Center for Immigration Studies has conservatively approximated that there are roughly 15.4 million illegal aliens in the country. Andrew Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy with the CIS, claimed that nearly 1 million of those illegal aliens have opted to self-deport due to the Trump administration's strict immigration enforcement measures. 'Even with the cost of the stipend, it is projected that the use of CBP Home will decrease the costs of a deportation by around 70 percent.'Arthur reached the 1 million figure based partly on employment numbers.He cited a June op-ed from the Wall Street Journal, which assessed that the immigrant population had decreased by 773,000 over the first four months of Trump's presidency. RELATED: 'Self-deport' flights begin as some illegal migrants take advantage of Trump's tempting offer: Report Photo by Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFurther supporting Arthur's estimate, a Washington Post report read, "More than a million foreign-born workers have exited the workforce since March." While the Post framed the findings as "a sign of the weakening labor supply," it also claimed that average wages had increased."Average hourly wages accelerated, rising by 0.4 percent over the month, to $36.24 in May, as earnings continue to beat inflation in a boost to workers' spending power," the Post stated.Arthur concluded, "In other words, with fewer illegal immigrants, businesses have had to raise wages to attract workers."He noted that the administration's self-deportation program is a significantly cheaper route for taxpayers compared to ICE raids.The DHS launched "a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign" to promote the self-deportation program, warning illegal aliens that if they refuse to leave on their own, they may become ineligible to return to the United States.RELATED: Trump’s self-deportation plan: Genius or waste of money? Mark Levin weighs in Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ImagesThe DHS repurposed the former CBP One application, now CBP Home, to facilitate and track the self-deportations.The department has also offered financial and travel assistance to illegal aliens to incentivize them to leave the country voluntarily."Any illegal alien who uses the CBP Home App to self-deport will also receive a stipend of $1,000 dollars, paid after their return to their home country has been confirmed through the app," stated a DHS press release. "Even with the cost of the stipend, it is projected that the use of CBP Home will decrease the costs of a deportation by around 70 percent. Currently the average cost to arrest, detain, and remove an illegal alien is $17,121."ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

California police say they are looking for the driver of a car that barreled through No Kings protesters during an altercation at a Riverside protest on Saturday. Video on social media showed protesters surrounding the black SUV, and one protester began to damage the rear brake lamp when the driver stepped on the gas and drove through a group of people. She was in a medically induced coma awaiting a second surgery, her friends said.Seconds later, a woman can be heard yelling, "They just ran over my sister!" Riverside police said the incident unfolded at about 9:40 p.m. on University Avenue near Orange Street. They are investigating the incident as a felony hit-and-run. One woman was hospitalized with what police said were significant injuries. She is said to be in stable condition. Police are searching for the driver and have asked the public for any information about the suspect. They have not said what happened before the video recording began. Video of the incident went viral on social media, where it garnered millions of views. RELATED: The HIDDEN motive behind the anti-Trump 'No Kings' protests Photo by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images Friends of the victim identified her as 21-year-old Alexa Carrasco and said that she had a cracked rib, a punctured lung, numerous severe skull injuries, and a broken leg. She was in a medically induced coma awaiting a second surgery, her friends told KTLA-TV. "It was just a 21-year-old girl protesting for their family, for human, basic rights," said Minor Garcia, a friend of Carrasco. Some estimates put the total number of participants in the protests at about 2% of the total population. More protests are being planned as part of a campaign to oppose the polices of President Donald Trump. Riverside is a suburb of Los Angeles with about 315,000 residents. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Former swimmer Riley Gaines has proven herself to be a fierce advocate for women in sports, and her reaction to a Minnesota high school softball team’s championship win sparked a massive debate on social media.Gaines alleged the transgender pitcher, Marissa Rothenberger, gave the team an unfair advantage.Olympic gymnast Simone Biles doesn’t share Gaines’ concern.“@Riley_Gaines_ You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight-up sore loser,” Biles wrote in a post on X. “You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!!”“But instead ... You bully them ... One thing’s for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around,” she added.“This is actually so disappointing. It's not my job or the job of any woman to figure out how to include men in our spaces. You can uplift men stealing championships in women's sports with YOUR platform. Men don't belong in women's sports and I say that with my full chest,” Gaines responded.USA Today appears to be taking Biles' side in the debate, with one of its columnists Nancy Armour defending Biles, claiming in an opinion piece that there’s “no scientific evidence that transgender women athletes have a physical advantage over cisgender women athletes.”And while the statement appears silly to anyone who understands the very real difference of strength between men and women, very few important voices are willing to die on that hill in the midst of cancel culture.Which is why it was over a decade ago that Serena Williams publicly admitted to the difference.“Men’s tennis and women’s tennis are completely almost two separate sports. So like if I were to play Andy Murray, I would lose 6-0, 6-0, in five to six minutes, maybe 10 minutes,” Williams said on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in 2013. “The men are a lot faster, and they serve hotter, they hit harder. It’s just a different game.”BlazeTV host Pat Gray is shocked to hear it from Williams.“That is from the number one women’s player in the world,” Gray says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.” “And she knows all of that because she got beat by the 203rd ranked man in the world when she was at the top of her game.”Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.