Called the Indian Greta Thunberg, this 12-year-old is on a mission to green India’s skies and minds. Armed with determination, a charming personality, and a great marketing concept, she’s planting a grassroots movement towards environmentalism that’s staggering to see in one so young. At age 8, she won the Dal Puraskar, an Indian order of […] The post 12-Year-old Girl Plants 150,000 Trees in India, Becoming a Reforestation Leader appeared first on Good News Network.

News Superman Nathan Fillion Was Always Team Bowl Cut for Green Lantern/Guy Gardner By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 10, 2025 Credit: Warner Bros. Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner Bros. With James Gunn’s Superman inching ever closer to its theatrical premiere, we’re getting more tidbits on what we’ll see on the big screen. One of those tidbits is Nathan Fillion playing Green Lantern/Guy Gardner, who we saw in the trailer sports an… let’s say impressive hairdo. As you can see in the image above, that hairstyle is a classic bowl cut, something that Fillion said he pushed for. “There was talk about a different hairstyle, equally as goofy, but not a bowl cut,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I was Team Bowl Cut the whole time. We did a screen test earlier on with some other actors, and they gave me a test bowl cut wig, like a little mockup wig. I thought it was great. There’s just something about Guy Gardner where the bowl cut says it all for him. The question was, Will people buy the bowl cut? Will people believe it? I said, ‘They already do! It’s already established. It’s canon. I think if we don’t do the bowl cut, then you’re going to hear about it.’ But the argument here is that’s the character. If you want to know something about Guy Gardner, know this: He has a bowl cut and he’s into it. What does that tell you about this guy?” The hair makes the man, I guess? The article also confirms that when we first meet Guy in Superman, he’s a member of the Justice Gang, a trio that also includes Hawkgirl/Kendra Saunders (Isabela Merced) and Mister Terrific (Edi Gathegi). We’ll also see Fillion as Guy once again in season two of Peacemaker this fall. Superman premieres in theaters on July 11, 2025.[end-mark] The post Nathan Fillion Was Always Team Bowl Cut for Green Lantern/Guy Gardner appeared first on Reactor.

Harvard University remains embroiled in controversy more than a year after violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations began on its campus in April 2024. Recently, the Trump administration asked Harvard to disclose information about foreign students seeking to enroll, after the administration alleged that the university was guilty of civil rights abuses and antisemitism from its failure to appropriately respond to the violent demonstrations. The Trump administration has also frozen $2.2 billion of Harvard’s federal grants and contracts. A court hearing on the university’s funding freeze is set for July 21. The Daily Signal asked Jay Greene, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, to explain the Harvard controversy and what’s at stake for higher education in America. Greene was previously a distinguished professor and department chairman at the University of Arkansas. His answers are below. Philip Roberts: What’s the underlying dispute between Harvard and the Trump administration? Jay Greene: The underlying dispute is that the Trump administration believes that Harvard has failed to fulfill its obligations to protect the civil rights of students at Harvard by failing to uniformly enforce its rules and by continuing to engage in racial preferences. The Trump administration also believes that Harvard is shielding foreign students who have broken rules or the law, again by failing to enforce those rules and reporting violations to the government. Roberts: Why won’t Harvard comply with the Trump administration’s requests? Greene: Harvard believes that it has made good faith efforts to fulfill its obligations and is taking steps to improve things. It objects that Trump has failed to follow the appropriate procedures for punishing Harvard and has thus deprived Harvard of the opportunity to improve on its own. Harvard claims that it is being unfairly targeted for violations because of the viewpoints of their students and faculty in violation of the first amendment. It also believes that as a private institution that they have autonomy to operate as they believe best. Roberts: How do you respond to protesters who say their First Amendment rights are being violated? Greene: There is no First Amendment exemption from Harvard’s obligations to comply with the Civil Rights Act and to enforce foreign visa rules. The only possible First Amendment claim is that they are being wrongly targeted because of the dominant politics at Harvard. While Trump clearly has viewpoint differences with Harvard, that is not the only or even primary reason that they are being targeted for punishment. They are being targeted because they have gross and ongoing violations. In addition, it is standard procedure for prosecutors to go after high-profile wrongdoers given the scarcity of government resources, because making an example of a prominent wrongdoer gets faster compliance from all other wrongdoers. Harvard is being punished because it has repeatedly and continues to break the law and because it is a high-profile institution. Roberts: What implications does the Harvard dispute have for other higher education institutions? Greene: This is not a crisis for higher education. This is a crisis for Harvard and a few other bad-acting universities. Every other university is a potential beneficiary. Other institutions can relocate promising research and talented scholars from Harvard. So important research and talented people will continue to make contributions in higher ed, they just may do it from some place other than Harvard or Columbia. What is Harvard’s misfortune is good fortune for Vanderbilt, Wash University, the University of Florida, University of Texas, etc. In addition, establishing that there are consequences for rule-breaking institutions will strengthen incentives for good behavior elsewhere. Lastly, even at Harvard and Columbia, senior leadership knows that they have to regain control over their own universities from pockets of faculty and students determined to make trouble. Ironically, Trump is helping them regain control and improve the operations at Harvard and Columbia. Roberts: Could international students transfer to other colleges and universities if they are not allowed at Harvard? Greene: Under Trump’s plan to make Harvard ineligible for enrolling foreign students, he is not taking away the visas of those students already enrolled at Harvard. They can transfer to other universities and complete their studies. If you would like to learn more on this topic, read Jay Greene’s recent Daily Signal commentary, “Harvard, Please Enforce Rules for Foreign Students.” The post The Trump-Harvard Dispute, Explained appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Three high-ranking House Democrats from New York on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump for his deployment of the military to restore law and order in riot-torn Los Angeles. At a House press conference, Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y.; Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chairwoman Grace Meng, D-N.Y., made remarks about the protests of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in L.A. Clarke said the Democrats gathered for the press conference were outraged and characterized Trump’s decision to send the National Guard onto the streets of L.A. as illegal.  “President Trump’s unlawful decision to deploy the National Guard onto the streets of Los Angeles is a reckless and inflammatory escalation, one designed not to restore calm, but to provoke chaos,” the New York congresswoman declared.  “Don’t fall for the lie. This is not about protecting public safety. It’s about stoking fear and silencing peaceful dissent,” she contended.  Clarke argued that the Marines did not have the legal authority to engage in domestic law enforcement.  “But let me be clear, congressional Democrats stand in full solidarity with the residents of Los Angeles, with our immigrant sisters and brothers, and with the peaceful protesters who dare to speak out and who will support every effort to oppose this president’s abuse of power,” she said.  The New York congresswoman did caution demonstrators against resorting to violence at the anti-ICE protests in L.A. “Trump wants violence, not to stop it, but to justify his own. Do not give him what he wants,” Clarke said. The New York congresswoman said she thinks that Trump’s actions rose to the level of impeachable offenses. The Daily Signal asked Clarke if she was worried that the American people want border enforcement and are not with her on the issue of illegal immigration.  “Well, first of all, the border has the lowest crossing in over the past 10 years right now. So, it’s not about border crossings,” Clarke said. Border crossings are down in large part due to the Trump administration’s enforcement of federal immigration laws.  “What we’re talking about are core constitutional values, due process, and this president has violated that, and so, notwithstanding winning an election, I don’t believe that any person of goodwill would see what is taking place across this nation and not be concerned about the way that this is being conducted,” she said.  “The violation of human rights, the lack of due process, and we’re beginning to see a shift in people who thought one thing about how Donald Trump was going to conduct his immigration policy, which was to go after violent criminals, and are now seeing their neighbors, their congregants, people they work with, being harassed, being disappeared, and being treated as subhuman,” Clarke told The Daily Signal.  When asked about criticism of the Democratic Party from one of its own, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., over its response to the L.A. riots, Clarke said the Pennsylvania senator had a First Amendment right to his statement. One reporter raised the question of foreign political interference, claiming that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had described some of the protesters as heroes. Espaillat said that Sheinbaum also was entitled to her opinion. The post House Democrats Brand Trump’s LA Riot Response ‘Unlawful,’ ‘Reckless’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Trump: If LA Riots Become An Insurrection, I'll Put It Down

As the riots in Los Angeles lessened in intensity at the start of the week, President Trump has begun to change his tone toward the protests that shook the city streets over the weekend. With the worst lawlessness hopefully over, the rhetoric has likewise cooled down.On Saturday and Sunday, Trump and other senior White House officials called the protesters “insurrectionists.” Vice President JD Vance called out the rioters on Saturday: “Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America's political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil.”Fortunately, President Trump’s decisive action in sending the National Guard and Marines to reinforce the local police largely quelled the violence in Los Angeles. It remains to be seen what Mayor Karen Bass, Gov. Gavin Newsom, and other Democrat leaders will do in response to the Trump administration sending federalized troops against their wishes, although there is some indication that Trump is willing to find a diplomatic solution in the wake of the violence. RELATED: Republicans clash with Democratic lawmakers defending violent anti-ICE rioters During what appears to be the height of violence over the weekend, it was uncertain how far the riots would escalate. Republican leaders were pre-emptively considering their options, should the violence get worse. Among these options was invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, which gives the president the ability to “call forth the militia for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed.” The protesters’ interference with ICE operations, which began on Friday, was one of the main justifications for sending reinforcements, though this particular act was not invoked. Former Representative Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) speculated that the repetition of the word “insurrection” by Republican leadership was a primer to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, if needed. Some, including a New York Times article, noted that Trump would be on "firm legal footing" if he invoked the act, largely because courts would be "unwilling" to rule on what exactly constitutes an insurrection or rebellion. This legal ambiguity gives him the power to act at his own "discretion."Due to the effective response of the National Guard and Marines, this option was no longer necessary. With the worst of the chaos potentially in the rearview mirror, Trump partially walked back his rhetoric from earlier in the weekend. “I wouldn’t call it quite an insurrection, but it could have led to an insurrection,” Trump said on Monday. “That was a lot of harm that was going on last night.”On Monday morning, Trump took full credit for the quelling of the violence in L.A.: "If I didn’t 'SEND IN THE TROOPS' to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now." He also bashed "incompetent" Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom for their "disastrous" and "bungled" response. This post appears to have been removed and is no longer available on Trump's Truth Social page. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

One hundred and forty-one days after he was pardoned on Jan. 6 criminal charges by President Donald J. Trump, Elias Nick Costianes Jr. has finally been ordered to be released from prison on bond by Senior U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar.Costianes was originally denied post-pardon freedom because Judge Bredar — a 2010 appointee of President Barack Obama — ruled that some of the charges stemming from a Jan. 6-related FBI search of Costianes’ Maryland home were not covered by Trump’s Jan. 20 pardon declaration.Judge Bredar ruled that the pardon declaration did not apply to the 2022 federal charges that were lodged against Costianes in the District of Maryland. In a June 6, 2025, memorandum and order, Judge Bredar granted a Rule 48 motion from the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss the Maryland indictment against Costianes. He stayed that order for 45 days.“As the Court previously explained, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) provides that "[t]he government may, with leave of court, dismiss an indictment, information, or complaint,” Bredar wrote. “… The Court’s discretion in the Rule 48 context is very limited, and it 'must grant the [Rule 48(a)] motion absent a finding of bad faith or disservice to the public interest.'"Emergency motion filedCostianes’ defense attorney, Carolyn Stewart, filed an emergency motion for reconsideration, seeking her client’s immediate release on his own recognizance. That motion was granted on June 10, and Judge Bredar set conditions of release.Stewart walked out of the Edward A. Garmatz Federal Building and United States Courthouse with her freed client just before 3 p.m. on June 10."The hearing was fair and run professionally by the judge — court proceedings as all should expect in the justice system," Stewart told Blaze News. "The U.S. Marshals here in Baltimore also have been extremely professional and helpful. The 2.5-hour holdup has been waiting on the Bureau of Prisons to do release paperwork. Many thanks to those who prayed."Costianes had been detained in the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown.Costianes, 46, of Nottingham, Md., was originally charged in the District of Columbia with Jan. 6 criminal counts: felony obstruction of Congress (later thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court); unlawful entry; and violent entry, disorderly conduct, and other offenses on Capitol grounds. On March 3, 2021, a grand jury added criminal counts for entering and remaining in a gallery of Congress and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.Based on President Trump’s Jan. 20 pardon declaration, those charges were dismissed Jan. 21 by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon.RELATED: Fact-check: President Trump authorized 20,000 National Guard troops for duty on Jan. 6, 2021 A Metropolitan Police Department officer deploys high-velocity pepper spray at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images When the FBI searched Costianes’ Maryland residence in February 2021 on the Jan. 6 charges, agents found four vials of testosterone, which is a controlled substance. They also found four firearms, two of which the FBI said were not registered to Costianes.On April 21, 2022, a federal grand jury indicted Costianes on nine criminal counts, including conspiracy to distribute and possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, use of any communication facility to facilitate a drug felony, three counts of distribution of a controlled substance, and possession of firearms and ammunition by an unlawful user of any controlled substance.'The President pardoned Mr. Costianes of the offenses in the indictment.'The controlled substances at issue in the indictment were testosterone and cocaine, court records showed.Costianes agreed in June 2023 to plead guilty to the firearms charge. Judge Bredar sentenced him to 366 days in prison. Costianes’ surrender date was weeks after President Trump took office, so Costianes asked the judge to delay his reporting date. The judge refused. Costianes reported to prison on Feb. 12, 2025.He filed an emergency appeal the same day with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.RELATED: Trump pardons 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, commutes the sentences of 14 Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe new Trump DOJ indicated its belief that the president’s pardon declaration covered both Costianes’ Jan. 6 Washington, D.C., charges and his subsequent Maryland drug charges.“After consulting with the Department of Justice’s leadership, the United States has concluded that the President pardoned Mr. Costianes of the offenses in the indictment,” wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney David Bornstein. “This determination by the Executive is ‘conclusive and preclusive.’”Judge Bredar’s ruling allows Costianes to travel within the continental United States, so he will be able to visit his gravely ill sister, who is in hospice care in Williamsburg, Va., Stewart said.Like Blaze News? 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Those who work in the service industry have always dealt with unruly or difficult guests, but with the advent of TikTok and other social media apps, those guests are only getting worse.One of them, a transgender woman who goes by the name Lilly Contino, has built a following of over 400,000 on TikTok by dressing up as a woman and filming servers who “misgender” him.However, Contino seems to have grown tired of terrorizing unsuspecting waitstaff just trying to pay their bills and has set his sights on a new target: women’s restrooms at Disney theme parks.One of his recent TikTok posts shows Contino taking a mirror selfie of himself dressed like a child in Minnie Mouse ears and a hair bow with the caption, “Ranking every women’s bathroom at Disney World.”In the selfies taken, there are women using the restroom in the background.BlazeTV host Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” calls “Tino” the “Temu Dylan Mulvaney.”“Imagine making minimum wage, you work at Disneyland, people are mean to you all the time, every day, evil even, and you’re just trying to make it,” Stein says. “You’re trying to be polite, and you’re trying, and then this person just wants to cancel you for making minimum wage as a food slave, handing them bread.”“This person takes it as if, even if the person misgendered them, as if they were doing this viciously or maliciously trying to misgender them, when it was just an accident because they look like a freak,” he adds.Now that “Tino” is infiltrating women’s bathrooms, he’s taken his shtick too far.“Lilly Tino is absolutely mentally ill,” Stein says, adding, "That's a crime in Texas to take a picture in a bathroom of somebody else.""That is weird to be in the bathroom taking photos," BlazeTV guest Shayne Smith agrees. "It's already uncomfortable that you're taking apart your bathroom experience. I don't think about the other dudes in the bathroom. Do you?" Want more from Alex Stein?To enjoy more of Alex's culture jamming, comedic monologues, skits, and street segments, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Violence and vandalism from the protests against deportation operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have now spread from Los Angeles, California, to other cities and locales. On Tuesday, large-scale protesting and rioting were reported in two cities in Texas as well as numerous other major cities. President Donald Trump had vowed to implement mass deportations, but those efforts have been stymied by legal challenges and violent protests against ICE officers and operations. When the crowd became unruly and ignored commands from police, officers pepper-sprayed some of the participants and later deployed tear gas. While some Democrat politicians have made statements against violence and vandalism during the protests, they have also accused the president of intentionally escalating the confrontation for political advantage. DallasRioters attacked police during a protest in downtown Dallas, prompting authorities to declare the protest an unlawful assembly and shut it down. Some fires can be seen in images from social media. Hundreds joined the protest that began at Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and lasted for hours. WFAA-TV documented the arrest of two people, but the Dallas Police Department said only one had charges pending. The outlet reported that protesters had been throwing water bottles and a firework at police. The police deployed pepper spray and smoke against the unruly crowd. AustinSocialists organized a protest at the Texas State Capitol on Tuesday and marched to the J.J. Pickle Federal Building, which was used to hold ICE detainees, according to KXAN-TV.Protesters chanted, “We will not put up with ICE. Say it once, say it twice," and, “Whose streets? Our streets.”When the crowd became unruly and ignored commands from police, officers pepper-sprayed some of the participants and later deployed tear gas. Austin Police then arrested some protesters. RELATED: Stunning videos from inside CBP vehicles capture the moment vicious rioters attacked in Los Angeles Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images The J.J. Pickle Federal Building was vandalized with messages that included, “ICE NEEDS 2 SURRENDER & RELEASE THE HOSTAGES," and, “MODERN DAY SLAVERY DISGUISED AS CRIMINAL REFORM.”Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said about a dozen protesters were arrested. "Between the Austin Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety, more than a dozen protesters were arrested in Austin," he wrote on social media. "Peaceful protesting is legal. But once you cross the line, you will be arrested. FAFO."Los AngelesIn Los Angeles, swarms of rioters were zip-tied and loaded onto buses Tuesday evening. Trump has ordered 4,000 National Guard troops into the fray, while Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth ordered a battalion of U.S. Marines to deploy into the area as well. Police reported that 50 protesters were arrested over the weekend rioting in Los Angeles, with charges including attempted murder with a Molotov cocktail as well as assault with a deadly weapon on an officer. RELATED: Hegseth orders battalion of US Marines to quell anti-ICE rioting in Los Angeles Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Arrests were reported in other cities in California, including San Francisco, Santa Ana, San Jose, and San Diego. New York and the East Coast At least nine people were arrested in New York City protests, including an unruly mob at Trump Tower in Midtown. Protests were also reported in Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. RELATED: Union president reportedly detained and injured in ICE raids in Los Angeles Photo by LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty ImagesThe South and the MidwestOther rallies were reported in Atlanta, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Charlotte, and Louisville, according to NBC News. Even more protests are being planned in other cities for the rest of the week. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Dune Awakening only officially launched earlier today, and it already seems to be a hit. A combination of survival games like Valheim or Enshrouded with an MMO on the scale of World of Warcraft or Fallout 76, the new take on Frank Herbert's sci-fi universe seems to be finding a large audience interested in exploring the setting recently re-popularized by a pair of blockbuster films. After a solid start with an 'Advanced Access' version available to players who purchased its Deluxe or Ultimate Edition last week, the game has now come out for every buyer and is already attracting a huge audience and warm reviews. Continue reading Dune Awakening smashes on Steam with more than 140,000 players, great reviews MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best survival games, Best MMOs, Dune Awakening release date