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News The Wheel of Time The Wheel of Time IP Owners Are Creating an AI-Enabled Platform for the Franchise Yes, you read that right, and I’m sorry By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on February 11, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share Iwot Studios, the company that owns the intellectual property rights to The Wheel of Time is entering into the AI realm and I’m sure folks will be thrilled about it. The company is reportedly working on three projects: an AAA RPG video game, an animated film, and a live-action movie. Doing all three at the same time is hard, you guys. And so iwot Studios turned to the VFX company Framestore to create an AI-enabled venture that they call “a groundbreaking platform for premium entertainment franchises that will enable studios to unify their production environments across film, television, video games, animation, advertising, immersive experiences, social platforms, and user-generated content.” Mmmkay. “It used to be you could do a TV show and then you’d have a year off and do it again,” iwot COO Larry Mondragón told Variety. “Now the standards of a premium quality TV show are so high, the cost of a motion picture, the costs of a triple-A video game, or of a very high-quality animation work, are amazingly expensive, and they create real friction with what a company is trying to do: save costs while trying to get product out there in the market. But in doing so, it creates fragmentation. It sometimes loses its customer while it takes a couple of seasons to get a new series out and a new turn of the show. And we recognize this as an IP owner, that the problem that the market has is the very same problems we’re having ourselves.” Iwot CEO Rick Savage had this to add: “Fans shouldn’t have to wait to experience the worlds they love in the formats they want. The Wheel of Time will be the first IP to benefit from the platform being developed by the JV, so The Wheel of Time can be everywhere our fans are—film, television, video games, immersive, social platforms, and beyond. We will be able to maintain canon control, creative consistency, and security, while meeting our fans wherever they are.” [end-mark] The post The Wheel of Time IP Owners Are Creating an AI-Enabled Platform for the Franchise appeared first on Reactor.

Excerpts fantasy Read an Excerpt From The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White An obsession with an immortal serial killer entangles a vampire hunter’s daughter… By Kiersten White | Published on February 11, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Fox and the Devil, a sapphic gothic fantasy by Kiersten White, out from Del Rey on March 10. Anneke has a complicated relationship with her father, Abraham Van Helsing—doctor, scientist, and madman devoted to the study of vampires—until the night she comes home to find him murdered, with a surreally beautiful woman looming over his body. A woman who leaves no trace behind, other than the dreams and nightmares that now plague Anneke every night.Spurred by her desire for vengeance and armed with the latest forensic and investigatory techniques, Anneke puts together a team of detectives to catch this mysterious serial killer. Because her father isn’t the only inexplicable dead body. There’s a trail of victims across Europe, and Anneke is certain they’re all connected.But during the years spent relentlessly hunting the killer, Anneke keeps crucial evidence to herself: infuriatingly coy letters, addressed only to her, occasionally soaked in blood, and always signed Diavola.The closer Anneke gets to her devil, though, the less sense the world makes. Maybe her father wasn’t a madman after all. Diavola might be something much worse than a serial killer… and much harder to destroy. Yet as Anneke unearths more of Diavola’s tragic past, she suspects there’s still a heart somewhere in that undead body.A heart that beats for Anneke alone. The Paris Exposition Universelle, April 29, 1900 As the crowd screams, all Henri thinks is that he’s going to be in so much trouble when his parents find out. He closes his eyes, trying his best to undo what happened. Unwind his day. End up anywhere but here. The Paris Exposition Universelle— the fair— open at last. Henri had skipped school and walked across the new bridge, with its flying golden horses and naked nymph ladies and delicate glass cattails he wants desperately to steal and secrete away to his own room. He’d gone right by the Grand and Petit Palaces, no interest in waiting just to see some fussy art. The international houses along the river intrigued him, though. They’d only been up for a month and looked so permanent. It makes him sad that they’ll be gone at the end of the year. He had skipped along them, picking which one he would live in so they couldn’t take it away. The Swedish pavilion, with its towers and wooden bridges and bold yellow paint, seemed the best choice. Everyone says there’s nothing this year quite so impressive as the Eiffel Tower from the last fair, but Henri was only a baby then. He’s grown up with that jumble of metal bars and doesn’t think it’s anywhere as fancy as the moving sidewalk encircling the grounds. He’d ridden it around and around, proud of himself for being clever enough to sneak on. It was almost as good as the Ferris wheel. If Henri had enough money, that’s where he’d be now. Not here. He can’t be here, he doesn’t want to be here. He wants the fair to be glorious and fun and exciting. Paris, bursting at the seams with visitors, the world flocking to see his city strutting like a peacock. Maybe he’s still on the sidewalk. Maybe none of this is really happening. Henri squeezes his eyes shut even tighter, feeling the swaying movement, hearing the clatter of the wood slats as they pass over the track. But the screams keep cutting in. He should have stayed on the moving sidewalk. He should have gone to school this morning instead of skipping it. He should never have been so desperate to see the giant painted globe. It’s all the globe’s fault. A spherical building looming near the Eiffel Tower, so bafflingly large, so beautifully painted. His mother had declared none of them would go near it because of the zodiac symbols decorating the exterior. Fortune telling is the devil’s work, she always says. It’s how he lures you in. Maybe she’s right. Because Henri had been lured. He’d walked all around the globe, neck craned up to stare at the paintings. As he walked beneath the floating concrete entrance ramp, there was a rumbling and a cracking and then— Henri tries to move. He opens his eyes. They’re gritty and blurred, but above him he can make out the bars of the Eiffel Tower, painted orange at the base fading to yellow at the top. That’s where he’ll go next. Climb up and spit on the people milling about beneath. Then sneak into the House of Optics to watch the dancers parading in the dark with their glowing costumes. Boast to all his friends that he’d seen them. Lie about what he’d seen, too. He’s always been good at taking a story and making it seem more thrilling or dangerous or interesting. He’s halfway into dreaming about what he’ll do next when a dragging, rattling sound distracts him. It’s coming from his chest. He needs to cough but he can’t. It smells like dirt and dust and blood and he can’t feel his legs anymore. Henri can’t imagine his way out of this. He’s on the ground, the floating concrete ramp is in pieces on top of him, and he can’t feel his body. Buy the Book The Fox and the Devil Kiersten White Buy Book The Fox and the Devil Kiersten White Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget There’s a dust-covered hand next to his shoulder, more gray than pink, like a statue had wandered free of a building and dropped a piece of itself here to keep him company. He wants someone to move the hand, because that’s the only way he can be sure that it isn’t actually his own. He keeps staring at it, willing it to twitch, but nothing happens. Does that mean it is his, or it isn’t? “Whose hand is that?” he tries to shout, but he can’t draw enough breath to form the words. All that comes out is a low, creaking groan, like a door in the darkness swinging slowly open. He doesn’t want to know what’s behind the door. As he tips his head back and searches the crowd, trying to find someone to help him, one face stands out. One face in the dozens, looking on not with horror or fear or panic, but a simple, pleased smile. That face leans closer until it’s all Henri can see. A new smell cuts through the dust and the blood. A sweet scent, almost like his mother and her rosewater perfume. Henri wants his mother. He wants to say he’s sorry, he should have listened, he’ll listen from now on. But he knows he won’t be able to. Henri’s certain now what’s behind that creaking door opening in his body. At last, he feels fear. His mother was right. The devil is here. And Henri is trapped by the icy claws of death, that cloying rose scent, and those bottomless eyes staring down at him. Two nostrils flare as a deep breath is drawn. “Yes,” a voice says, caressing Henri’s clammy skin with pleased tones. “Yes, I’m going to like it here.” Excerpted from The Fox and the Devil, copyright © 2026 by Kiersten White. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>The Fox and the Devil</i> by Kiersten White appeared first on Reactor.

Public health and public policy experts convened at The Heritage Foundation on Monday to celebrate “One Year of MAHA.” The leaders discussed how President Donald Trump has enacted policies to improve the health and well-being of Americans and what the administration could do over the next three years. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined The Heritage Foundation event to share the accomplishments of the Make America Healthy Again movement about a year into his tenure. Introducing the secretary, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts praised the administration because “they’ve begun the process of reversing childhood chronic disease, releasing new dietary guidelines that are going to get Americans eating real food again.” The event explained how Kennedy and Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins collaborated with the top nutritionists in the nation and initiated research to uncover the root causes of America’s health epidemic. Kennedy is proud that the administration’s findings are “written in plain English, and you can summarize it with three words: ‘eat real food.’” “The primary culprits is ultra-processed foods, refined carbohydrates,” Kennedy said of their findings. “Seventy percent of the foods that our kids eat are ultra-processed foods, and it’s killing them, and it’s a spiritual warfare.” Children’s Health Defense General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg also spoke at the Monday event. Though America is wealthy, Mack Rosenberg claimed, “We have the sickest kids with the poorest health outcomes in well-developed countries.” The MAHA movement is not only focused on physical health but mental health. Artificial ingredients and processed foods have a negative impact on our well-being “because we’re mass poisoning [ourselves] and we now have the worst health outcomes.” The result is not only physical illness but mental illness, Kennedy argued. MAHA Action President Tony Lyons said that children are “going to school and eating donuts, eating sugary cereals, eating sodas or drinking sodas,” which is why mental illnesses have disproportionately affected America’s youth. “We should have the healthiest babies, the healthiest children, and we need to put aside the broken system, figure out what’s wrong and fix it,” Mack Rosenberg added. The post One Year After RFK Jr’s Confirmation, MAHA Looks to the Future of the Health Movement appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—In a letter shared with The Daily Signal, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, unveiled their plans to uncover fraud, waste, and abuse in federal education funding and the Biden-era student loan “bailout agenda.” The senators’ announcement follows their appointment by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, to lead the Education Fraud Task Force. The task force was created to prevent instances of rampant federal fraud, as reported in Minnesota in December, Tuberville’s office confirmed with The Daily Signal. In the letter, the senators vowed to “rectify the damage caused by the Biden Administration’s illegal student loan bailout agenda” and to establish “clarity, accountability and trust in federally funded education and childcare programs.” The Biden administration’s student loan debt relief program reportedly cost taxpayers upward of $183 billion. “Taxpayers demand that federal investments in our nation’s education are efficient, effective, and transparent. Education is key to opportunity, and our funding priorities should reflect this,” the letter states. In their letter, the senators then asked Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon to assist them in their efforts “uncovering fraud, waste, and abuse in federal education funding.“ “[The department] has tackled fraud head-on by prioritizing the identification and verification of every student who receives federal aid to ensure they are a real person, not a fraudulent entity,” the letter reads. “The Education Fraud Taskforce asks for the Department of Education’s support to develop strong collaborative efforts and continue the good works of the department in uncovering, identifying, and preventing fraud,” the letter continues. The Department of Education did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The post EXCLUSIVE: Senators Ask Education Department to Collaborate on Student Loan Fraud Probe appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Attorney General Pam Bondi had choice words for Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., after the congressman accused Bondi of perjury and lying under oath while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.   “Don’t you ever accuse me of a crime!” Bondi snapped at Lieu after he accused her of lying under oath.   ? HOLY CRAP. AG Pam Bondi FIRES BACK at Dem Rep. Ted Lieu for accusing her of a crime, stepping WAY out of line"I believe you just lied under oath!"BONDI: "Don't you EVER accuse ME of a CRIME!"LIEU: "…SHAME ON YOU! If you had decency YOU'D RESIGN!"BONDI: "May I… pic.twitter.com/ayfnHbpTmn— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 11, 2026 The congressman began his time by questioning Bondi about an explicit photo picturing former Prince Andrew and an unknown woman. Lieu then attempted to link President Donald Trump to Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein attending parties with underage girls.   “Like former Prince Andrew, Donald Trump attended various parties with Jeffrey Epstein, I want to know, were there any underage girls at that party, or at any party that Trump attended with Jeffrey Epstein?” Lieu asked. “This is so ridiculous and that they are trying to deflect from all the great things Donald Trump has done. There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime,” claimed Bondi. “Everyone knows that this has been the most transparent presidency,” she continued.   “I believe you’ve just lied under oath. There is ample evidence in the Epstein files,” Lieu responded. ? HOLY CRAP! Rep. Ted Lieu DESPERATELY tried to silence Pam Bondi when she started naming crime stats in his state — so Bondi BOMBED him“He didn’t want to talk about all the crime that’s happening in California! Their REFUSAL to honor ICE detainers means they’ve released… pic.twitter.com/jS3f60jPnY— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 11, 2026 Lieu then referenced claims made against Trump leading up to the 2020 election that the DOJ has determined to be false. The file Lieu referenced claimed that a limousine driver who had driven Trump in 1995 allegedly overheard him on the phone talking about “abusing some girl.” The driver then claimed to have driven an unnamed woman who told him that Trump and Epstein raped her between 1995-2000. The driver claimed that the woman turned up dead after telling the police.   The DOJ addressed this, and many other claims, in December when they released 30,000 new pages of the Epstein files from Data Set 8.  “Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,” read an X post from the DOJ.   The Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be…— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) December 23, 2025 “Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims,” the statement added.  The post ‘Don’t You Ever Accuse Me of a Crime!’: Bondi Snaps at Democrat for Claiming She Lied Under Oath appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government held a hearing on Tuesday to probe whether sharia law would lead to constitutional violations. “Tenants of sharia are incompatible with the United States and our constitution,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal before the hearing. “Sharia is central to [Islam], and it is incompatible with the constitution, our way of life, and Western civilization.” Led by Roy, lawmakers heard testimonies from Stephen Gelé of the Pelican Institute for Public Policy, Robert Spencer of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Krista Schild of the Rise Align Ignite Reclaim Foundation, and George Mason University Professor Ilya Somin. Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., introduced a bill in September to ban sharia law from the U.S. Court System. Fine was emboldened to introduce the bill because of reporting that claimed defendants charged with crimes like domestic violence have used the Quran in their defense. Some Islamism watchdogs point to part of the Quran that states a man can “beat” a “disobedient woman,” as a legitimate defense to avoid criminal punishment. “In hundreds of reported cases throughout the U.S., litigants have attempted to apply sharia, often succeeding,” Gelé said during his testimony. “The law applied by such tribunals discriminates based on gender and religion, and in the case of custody disputes, does not apply the best interests of the child standard. Those arbitration tribunals also lack traditional American legal formalities, lessening due process.” The hearing also focused on compounds that GOP lawmakers claim to embrace sharia law, such as the East Plano Islamic Center outside of Houston. During her testimony, Schild claimed that EPIC’s imam, Yasir Qadhi, who oversees the compound, pushes Muslim extremist ideology. “Qadhi has publicly described Jews and Christians as “the most evil of all evils.” And “has hosted events advocating for the release of Aafia Siddiqui, an al-Qaeda operative convicted of attempting to murder U.S. troops.” FIX THE QUOTE MARKS HERE Schild’s claimed that Qadhi is a “member” of a Hamas-tied “notorious Muslim Brotherhood front group.” ‘These Imams defend stoning adulterers, chopping off hands, killing homosexuals, wife-beating, child marriage, and call Jews filth,” Schild added. “These enclaves run internal Sharia tribunals governing disputes, family, and compliance – outside American law.” Some of the witnesses, however, claimed the GOP’s attempt to push back on Sharia law is “unconstitutional” and discriminatory. “Mass expulsion and deportation is not the answer,” Somin said. “This law is unconstitutional.” She added that deporting those suspected of embracing Sharia law in the United States would give a win to “radical Islamic terrorists” who forced their expulsion from their home countries in the first place. Democrat lawmakers in attendance at the hearing echoed Somin’s remarks, claiming that the GOP’s push to outlaw sharia is a distraction and compared Islamic compounds to those of the Amish communities. “We live in a country so great we don’t need these anti-sharia and anti-Muslim legislation,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said during his opening remarks. Raskin added that Congress is shifting focus to this to avoid talking about “inflation” and the “administration cover-up of the Epstein files.” The Constitution, according to Raskin, prevents the government from endorsing a certain religion, which he implied that by going against sharia, lawmakers are endorsing other religions, like Christianity or Judaism. Raskin claimed that members of Congress who advocate for the removal of other members, such as Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., over accusations of embracing sharia law, violate the Constitution.   Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., accused anti-sharia lawmakers of “furthering Islamophobia” and “anti-Muslim remarks to score political points.” She then added that the efforts to ban sharia are a “blatant violation of the First Amendment.” Nevertheless, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., stated that the Supreme Court has previously banned polygamy, which is tied to Mormonism, and therefore banning anti-constitutional customs in sharia would not be illegal.   The post Congress Asks if Sharia Law Is Unconstitutional appeared first on The Daily Signal.