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News Avengers: Doomsday Steve Rogers Will Be Daddy in Avengers: Doomsday You can see him yourself in the Avengers: Doomsday trailer if you get to your screening of Avatar: Fire and Ash a bit early… By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on December 18, 2025 Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures He’s baaaack. No, I’m not talking about James Cameron and his latest film, Avatar: Fire and Ash. I’m talking about the teaser before that film for Avengers: Doomsday, which reveals that a certain someone will be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That someone is none other than the first Captain America, Steve Rogers, played once again by Chris Evans. When we last saw Steve, he abandoned all those he knew and loved in our present day to live in the past with Peggy Carter. The teaser, according to Variety, shows Steve riding a motorcycle up to his home on a farm (because of course he lives on a farm). He stops, admires his helmet, which looks not unlike Cap’s helmet, and also admires a baby that, we assume, is his and Peggy’s. The Avengers theme is played on a piano over all of this, and the clip ends with a countdown timer to the premiere date of Avengers: Doomsday, which is just under a year away. The teaser is reportedly just one of several that Marvel will be releasing in the upcoming weeks, with each one focused on a different character. For this one with Steve Rogers, the questions are many: Where and when is this farm, including what timeline in the multiverse? Where is Peggy? Where is this baby in our present time, assuming this teaser is a flashback? Is this the Steve Rogers we know from previous films, or is this another Steve Rogers from the aforementioned multiverse? And what is time, really? The answers to these are still elusive, but we have 364 days to mull over them: Avengers: Doomsday premieres in theaters on December 18, 2026. [end-mark] The post Steve Rogers Will Be Daddy in <i>Avengers: Doomsday</i> appeared first on Reactor.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday classifying marijuana as a less dangerous substance, despite concerns from GOP lawmakers that the move will “send the wrong message to America’s children.” Trump signed an order changing the classification of marijuana from a Schedule I drug, which includes the most dangerous substances such as heroin, LSD and ecstasy, to a Schedule II drug, which the DEA describes as having “a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.” “This reclassification order will make it far easier to conduct marijuana-related medical research, allowing us to study benefits, potential dangers, and future treatments,” Trump said. “It’s going to have a tremendously positive impact.” The order also asks Congress to reconsider its classification of hemp-derived CBD to help seniors access CBD products. “Some people are literally dying in there, dying with tremendous pain and this, in many cases, literally stops it,” he said, “and they have their senses about them, as opposed to painkillers, which don’t allow that, don’t allow them to die with dignity.” Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., led 24 other members in writing a letter to Trump urging him to oppose the rescheduling of marijuana. Led by Sen. Ted Budd of North Carolina, 22 Republican senators did the same. When The Daily Signal asked Trump how he’d respond to Republicans saying the order will normalize drug usage for youth, he said he’d “let one of the doctors respond to it, because they can do it a lot better than me.” “But I can only tell you that when you see polls, 82% of the people want this,” he told The Daily Signal. “When I have friends that are really, really sick and they’ve gone through … I guess you could say … unfortunately, I don’t want to become too involved in it, because I don’t want it happening. But these are people that really know what’s going to [happen], very smart people.” “This is one of the most successful people in the country and a very brilliant guy,” he continued, pointing to cancer victim and philanthropist Howard Kessler. “And when they go through this horrible ordeal of cancer or other things, and they realize that this is something that makes them feel better without all of the side effects of some of the drugs, where you’re just totally knocked out and out of it. But I’d like to have one of the doctors maybe respond, because you people do it better than anybody.” Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse under Health and Human Services, took over to respond. “We have had cannabis scheduled for how long, and it hasn’t protected neither the adolescents nor the adults,” she said. “We have 20 million people in the United States with cannabis use disorder.” “This is not legalizing it,” she continued. “It’s making easier to do research so that we can use it when it is indicated and optimal.” This is an opportunity to do more research on cannabis to see “if it’s as good as many people say,” she said. The House members told Trump that “Reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug will send the wrong message to America’s children, enable drug cartels, and make our roads more dangerous.” The senators said rescheduling marijuana endangers “America’s workplace and America’s roads,” and gives “a massive tax break to marijuana companies.” Trump repeatedly said he doesn’t condone recreational drug usage, and that he will not use medical marijuana. “I don’t want it,” he said. “I’m not going to be taking it, but a lot of people do want it, a lot of people need it.” Heritage Foundation scholar Paul Larkin said the order increases the likelihood that more people will use marijuana. “The real beneficiaries of today’s rescheduling decision are not Americans or patients suffering from pain, but the Chinese transnational criminal organizations, which control 75% of the illegal marijuana industry,” he said. “This means America’s enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, benefits as well.” “An unsafe drug like cannabis cannot be placed in any category but Schedule I,” Larkin continued. “It’s up to policymakers to classify this harmful drug correctly.” The post Trump Reclassifies Marijuana as Less Dangerous Drug appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The View’s anti-military bent from most of the year came to ahead on Thursday’s show as ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg asserted, without evidence, that President Trump’s announced “warrior dividends” (a $1,776 pay bonus) where about bribing service members to follow illegal orders. Additionally, co-host Joy Behar was outraged that Trump had the nerve to call President Obama a “divisive” figure. For which, she demanded the invocation of the 25th Amendment. Before Goldberg claimed the checks were a bride to get the military to back him, she first casted doubt on if they would be getting any money at all: ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The one thing I'll give him credit on is this bonuses to troops. He’s giving them basically $1700. GOLDBERG: Let's see if they get the check. I want to see them get it first. While faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin was scoffing at the notion of the “warrior dividends,” Goldberg pivoted to claiming the checks were a bribe to get service members to back whatever plots and illegal orders he was planning to issue: FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, and the delay of that they all had of that. They got back pay but, I mean, people need help but all Americans need help right now. And just a handout isn't the answer, smart policies are the answer. GOLDBERG: He’s  - What he’s doing is he's thinking if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need, they'll back me and what I want. See?   Whoopi doubts Trump is going to pay the troops his announced $1,776 bonus, but then claims it's a bribe for them to back his plots: "What he's doing is, he's thinking, 'if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need they'll back me and what I want, see?" pic.twitter.com/DBmKx6IfEN — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 18, 2025   Goldberg’s comments showed that she looked down on our men and women in uniform if she thought $1,776 was enough to buy off the military to back a coup, shoot civilians, steal an election, or whatever other harebrained scenario The View’s cracked brains had thought up over the course of 2025. Elsewhere in Thursday’s show, Behar was flapping her gums in outrage over Trump having a plaque hung in the White House that called out Obama as a “divisive” president. Her reasoning? “[Because we love Barack Obama and it's wrong of [Trump],” she whined. Behar showed off her lack of reading comprehension or perhaps the liberal Pavlovian response to see racism in everything: He writes and this he acts like this is real and true history. ‘A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American history.’ Why, because he was black?! Why is everything is about race with him?! Literally, nothing about what she read had anything to do with race.   Joy Behar says "we love Barack Obama" and "it's wrong of [Trump]" to speak ill of him and thinks he should be kicked out of office for it: "He writes and this he acts like this is real and true history, 'A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most… pic.twitter.com/VeulUxyDLC — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 18, 2025   Behar proceeded to shriek about how Trump speaking bad about Obama warranted the use of the 25th Amendment: “When are they going to invoke the 25th Amendment? Does he have to run naked into the White House or what?! What is that amendment for if not for this?!” Too bad, there wasn’t a 25th Amendment for The View because something seemed seriously wrong upstairs for Behar if that’s her reaction. With a total lack of self-awareness, co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in to assert, “Obama lives rent-free in his head” and hyped Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize as if he actually did something to earn it (which he didn’t). “[Trump]’s not going to win that Nobel Prize,” Hostin boasted. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View December 18, 2025 11:09:11 a.m. Eastern (…) ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The one thing I'll give him credit on is this bonuses to troops. He’s giving them basically $1700. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Let's see if they get the check. I want to see them get it first. SUNNY HOSTIN: Where is the money coming from? FARAH GRIFFIN: He says tariff revenue. That's what I'm most intrigued to see if that's the case. Listen, coming off the government shutdown -- HOSTIN: I don’t have my phone. I got to check that with ChatGPT, because I don’t believe that. FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, and the delay of that they all had of that. They got back pay but, I mean, people need help but all Americans need help right now. And just a handout isn't the answer, smart policies are the answer. GOLDBERG: He’s  - What he’s doing is he's thinking if I make sure that the soldiers have what they need, they'll back me and what I want. See? (…) 11:27:16 a.m. Eastern JOY BEHAR: This is what he says about him. I want to read what he says about Barack Obama because we love Barack Obama and it's wrong of him. [Cheers and applause] He writes and this he acts like this is real and true history. A community organizer, one-term senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American history. Why, because he was black?! GOLDBERG: No. BEHAR: Why is everything is about race with him?! SARA HAINES: It might also be the jealousy of how well he did for people. HOSTIN: Well, Obama lives rent-free in his head. For sure, for sure. He will never be the type of president President Obama was. He’s not going to win that Nobel Prize. BEHAR: When are they going to invoke the 25th Amendment? Does he have to run naked into the White House or what?! What is that amendment for if not for this?! FARAH GRIFFIN: He's doing this to trigger people. He wants people to get outraged and to troll. Because that's how he is. BEHAR: What is his motive?! HOSTIN: We are not outraged, we feel he is juvenile and unhinged. BEHAR: What is his motive, Alyssa?! HOSTIN: Distraction. FARAH GRIFFIN: It's to distract, it’s troll. (…)

MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera Reports melted down late Thursday morning after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the Trump administration will not provide Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement funding to hospitals that provide so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. According to medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta, “every medical society” would disagree with the administration’s rationale despite Gupta’s own employer having a research scandal just a few years ago on this very topic. Cabrera teed up a clip of Kennedy by declaring, “The plan would block hospitals from getting Medicare and Medicaid funding, which virtually every U.S. hospital receives if they provide gender-affirming care to trans youth.”     In the clip, Kennedy was shown telling an audience that “The Trump administration will not stand by. While ideology, misinformation, and propaganda push vulnerable young people into decisions they cannot fully understand and that they can never reverse. On my watch, HHS will stand for radical transparency and informed consent.” Cabrera then introduced Gupta and wondered, “What's your response to that and how vast is this impact of proposals?” Gupta began by lamenting “Well, Ana, just to begin with that, it's incredibly vast. If they are—they're saying that any services that are provided in hospitals for gender-affirming care will be—Medicare and Medicaid funding will be put at risk for any other unrelated service. That's 40 percent of revenues for hospitals across the country. So the scope and the impact here is huge.” Moving on to the substance of the Kennedy clip, Gupta continued, “I'll just take issue with his words, though, and his framing. This is there is no—one: there's no evidence, let's be clear that gender affirming care. The best research and there's limitations. But the best research has actually shown it actually improves overall mental health and well-being for those that undergo it.” Gupta teaches at the University of Washington, which in 2022 had a scandal where the PR campaign for a study on this very topic greatly oversold its actual data that contradicts what Gupta told Cabrera. Nevertheless, Gupta rolled right along, “And there's no evidence that it's been—is actually harmful. There are some risks, physiological, say, bone health and cardiovascular risks that we have to monitor, hence the importance of clinically driven care. That's critical. But this notion here that there isn't informed consent, this notion that this is somehow impinging on people's freedoms, that's wrong.” Despite UW’s own inglorious history and other countries that are not exactly run by Religious Right types are restricting the “care,” Gupta added, “This is something that every medical society has recommended. And again, there's no evidence that it's actually harmful. So, let's be clear on that.” “Let’s be clear,” there are actually several harmful repercussions to giving minors this kind of treatment. It is just that MS NOW would rather not talk about them. Here is a transcript for the December 18 show: MS NOW Ana Cabrera Reports 12/18/2025 11:47 AM ET ANA CABRERA: The plan would block hospitals from getting Medicare and Medicaid funding, which virtually every U.S. hospital receives if they provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. And here's how Kennedy described all this moments ago. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: The Trump administration will not stand by. While ideology, misinformation, and propaganda push vulnerable young people into decisions they cannot fully understand and that they can never reverse. On my watch, HHS will stand for radical transparency and informed consent. CABRERA: Let's bring in pulmonologist and global health expert, Dr. Vin Gupta, an MS NOW medical contributor. Dr. Gupta, he's calling this radical transparency and informed consent. What's your response to that and how vast is this impact of proposals? VIN GUPTA: Well, Ana, just to begin with that, it's incredibly vast. If they are—they're saying that any services that are provided in hospitals for gender-affirming care will be—Medicare and Medicaid funding will be put at risk for any other unrelated service. That's 40 percent of revenues for hospitals across the country. So the scope and the impact here is huge. I'll just take issue with his words, though, and his framing. This is there is no—one: there's no evidence, let's be clear that gender affirming care. The best research and there's limitations. But the best research has actually shown it actually improves overall mental health and well-being for those that undergo it. And there's no evidence that it's been—is actually harmful. There are some risks, physiological, say, bone health and cardiovascular risks that we have to monitor, hence the importance of clinically driven care. That's critical. But this notion here that there isn't informed consent, this notion that this is somehow impinging on people's freedoms, that's wrong. This is something that every medical society has recommended. And again, there's no evidence that it's actually harmful. So, let's be clear on that.

While some conservatives believe we’ve won the battle against DEI, BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere thinks that couldn’t be further from the truth. And a new piece in Compact by Jacob Savage called “The Lost Generation” only echoes Burguiere’s sentiment — revealing that what has been done in the name of diversity has stolen livelihoods and ruined professional lives.“In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48% of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9%. The Atlantic’s editorial staff went from 53% male and 89% white in 2013 to 36% male and 66% white in 2024,” Savage writes.“White men fell from 39% of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18% in 2023. In retrospect, 2014 was the hinge, the year DEI became institutionalized across American life,” he continues.“I had not really ever honestly thought about it this way, is why it’s such an interesting piece,” Burguiere comments.“As the Trump administration takes a chainsaw to the diversity, equity, and inclusion apparatus, there’s a tendency to portray DEI as a series of well-meaning but ineffectual HR modules. ... This may be how Boomer and Gen X white men experienced DEI. But for white male Millennials, DEI wasn’t a gentle rebalancing — it was a profound shift in how power and prestige were distributed,” Savage writes.“This isn’t a story about all white men. It’s a story about white male Millennials in professional America, about those who stayed, and who (mostly) stayed quiet. The same identity, a decade apart, meant entirely different professional fates,” he continues.“If you were 40 in 2014 — born in 1974, beginning your career in the late '90s — you were already established. If you were 30 in 2014, you hit the wall. Because the mandates to diversify didn’t fall on older white men, who in many cases still wield enormous power: They landed on us,” he adds.When institutions who heralded diversity lost a person of color, they would only fill that position with another person of color — white men or women need not apply.“That’s just racism,” Burguiere comments. “OK? If you’re taking someone who is one race and replacing them with a person of the same race, you are making a decision based on skin color, that’s racism. That’s what that is.”After George Floyd’s death in 2020, several news outlets promised to make a massive change to the color of their workforce, with NPR declaring that “diversity was nothing less than its ‘North Star.’”“Shouldn’t the truth be your North Star if you’re a journalistic organization?” Burguiere asks. “If you’re NPR and your taxpayers are paying for your entire organization or at least a giant chunk of it, maybe your North Star should be America, right?”Want more from Stu?To enjoy more of Stu's lethal wit, wisdom, and mockery, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

During President Trump’s first term, he signed the First Step Act — the most comprehensive criminal justice reform bill in decades — into law. He now has a chance to take a “second step” by rightsizing federal supervision of people on probation — an often overlooked public safety gap — with the introduction of the Safer Supervision Act.I worked with the president and many bipartisan leaders to pass the First Step Act. I have also been on supervision and spend time with law enforcement leaders across the country. The Safe Supervision Act will empower our federal probation officers and judges to devote previous supervision resources to the people most likely to commit more crimes.The Safer Supervision Act is the smart, responsible way to make our communities safer — and it is a great 'second step' for President Trump.Currently the federal system for supervised release — the period of monitoring that follows incarceration — is structured in a way that actively undermines this goal. By overwhelming federal probation officers with low-risk individuals, the current system diverts attention and resources away from the true threats.Due to the sprawling, largely automatic application of supervised release, our federal system currently monitors more than 110,000 individuals. This policy forces federal probation officers to spread their time dangerously thin. When officers must dedicate precious time and limited resources to tracking individuals who have already demonstrated a low risk of re-offending, they are left with insufficient bandwidth to provide the oversight and intervention required by high-risk, violent offenders. The bipartisan Safer Supervision Act is a targeted piece of legislation that corrects this dangerous imbalance. It is a genuine public safety bill that has earned the strong endorsement of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, Major Cities Chiefs Association, and the National District Attorneys Association, among others. This bill’s promise is simple: More efficient use of law enforcement resources will reduce repeat crimes.The core mechanism of the act is the restoration of individualized assessment. Under the current system, supervision is imposed in virtually every case. The Safer Supervision Act requires courts to conduct an individualized risk assessment before imposing supervision.By reserving supervised release for cases that genuinely warrant it, this change moves toward a gold standard of effective supervision endorsed by professional associations such as the American Probation and Parole Association. The strongest supervision model ensures that intensive supervision and rehabilitation efforts are directed to the highest-risk areas. The bill would allow federal law enforcement to operate as true risk managers, directing resources where they can have the most effect on those who pose the greatest public threat.RELATED: Mexico has cartel armies. Blue America has cartel politics. Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty ImagesThe bill helps break the cycle of recidivism by providing a strong incentive for successful rehabilitation. For low-risk individuals who have served their time and demonstrated good conduct, unnecessarily prolonged supervision terms become a counterproductive barrier. They inhibit successful re-entry by making it difficult to find stable employment and housing, which paradoxically increases the likelihood that the individual will re-offend.The Safer Supervision Act establishes a process for early termination of supervision for individuals who have served half their term (or two-thirds for violent offenses) and have maintained good behavior. By giving people a clear finish line and rewarding sustained compliance, it dramatically increases the incentive for positive life changes. A successfully terminated supervision term means one less individual returning to crime, thereby enhancing the overall safety of their neighborhood.Finally the act shows intelligence in addressing substance-use violations, treating them as opportunities for intervention rather than instant triggers for renewed incarceration. The bill creates an extremely narrow carve-out, giving judges discretion for minor offenses. Under current law, mandatory re-imprisonment is required for these minor violations, often derailing successful rehabilitation and costing taxpayers significantly. The Safer Supervision Act empowers judges to prioritize treatment, counseling, and swift rehabilitation over immediate, expensive, and ineffective re-incarceration. The support for the Safer Supervision Act is the most bipartisan coalition we have seen since the First Step Act. It is endorsed by police chiefs and prosecutors who understand the operational realities of crime and by fiscal conservatives demanding accountability for federal spending. By adopting this bill, Congress can deliver a modern, evidence-based supervision system that ensures limited resources go to our highest-risk individuals, minimizes government waste, and delivers lasting public safety improvements.The Safer Supervision Act is the smart, responsible way to make our communities safer — and it is a great “second step” for President Trump.

The DNA of the Brown University suspected shooter has been gathered, and images and video of the person of interest in Saturday's deadly shooting at the Rhode Island Ivy League college match eyewitness descriptions, police told the Providence Journal.Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said law enforcement has DNA of the suspected shooter "from inside" that could be used to confirm his presence at the scene once officials have someone to compare it to, the Journal reported.'All video imagery has been turned over to law enforcement.'The shooting took place in a first-floor classroom in the school's Barus and Holley building, which houses the School of Engineering and the physics department. Two students were fatally shot; nine others were wounded.Attorney General Peter Neronha added to the Journal that DNA is "powerful" evidence because it can confirm the identity of a subject or rule people in or out after it's entered into a nationwide system.RELATED: At least 2 killed, more wounded in shooting at Brown University Perez also told the paper that witnesses and surviving students gave a description of the shooter that matches the person of interest as seen on video and in still images that law enforcement has distributed.Neronha told the Journal that investigators are being protective of what witnesses have said about the shooter or the shooting so they can protect witnesses from being swayed by outside information."As we interview witnesses, we don't want them to learn facts from these press conferences. We want them to relay the facts that they have in their heads, including a person of interest," Neronha said during a news conference, according to the paper. "We don't want a person of interest to shape what they're telling us. ... So we're being careful about the facts that we're sharing for that reason, so that when we talk to witnesses, what we're getting is their factual recitation."More from the Journal:Authorities have struggled to convince members of the public that, despite Brown University's vast resources, there was no camera working in the Barus & Holley Building that captured the shooter entering the building before opening fire.Brown Provost Francis Doyle III said the school has 1,200 cameras on campus, including some in the old section of the building where the shooting occurred. But that does not mean the cameras captured an image of the shooter."All video imagery has been turned over to law enforcement," Doyle added, according to the paper.A person of interest was initially detained over the weekend before law enforcement determined they had the wrong guy.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!