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For 600 years, the waters off Copenhagen have hidden an exceptional secret. Now, maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark reveal the discovery of the world’s largest “cog,” a medieval cargo ship whose size and previously unknown construction details offer new insight into the maritime technology and trade networks of the Middle Ages. […] The post Sunken Medieval Cargo Ship Found–The Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever Found appeared first on Good News Network.

News This Is Not a Test This Is Not a Test Trailer Nails “The Breakfast Club Meets 28 Days Later” Vibe The movie is an adaptation of Courtney Summers’ novel of the same name By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on January 14, 2026 Credit: IFC Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: IFC When we first heard the news a year ago that Courtney Summers’ 2012 young adult novel was getting an adaptation, the film was introduced as “The Breakfast Club meets 28 Weeks Later.” Today, we have a trailer for the movie, and for this trailer at least, that description stands true. The clip starts with a bunch of teenagers drinking in a high school gym and playing “Never Have I Ever.” It’s the standard stuff at first: Who has cheated on a test? Who had sex in the boys’ bathroom? And then… needle scratch (just in my brain, not in the trailer); one kid says, “Never have I ever survived a zombie invasion.” Here’s the official synopsis, which gives those who haven’t read Summers’ novel some more context: Sloane and a small group of her classmates take cover in their high school to escape their suddenly apocalyptic hometown. As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, Sloane begins to see the world through the eyes of people who actually want to live and takes matters into her own hands. We only have today’s trailer to go on, but the film adapted by writer-director Adam MacDonald (Pyewacket, Out Come the Wolves) looks like a decent addition to the zombie movie genre. For book fans, there will also be a special edition of Summers’ This Is Not a Test hitting bookshelves for your reading enjoyment. The movie premieres in theaters on February 20, 2026, and stars Olivia Holt (Heart Eyes), Froy Gutierrez (I Love LA), Luke MacFarlane (Bros), Corteon Moore (From), Chloe Avakian (Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy), and Carson MacCormac (Clown in a Cornfield). Check out the trailer below. [end-mark] The post <i>This Is Not a Test</i> Trailer Nails “<i>The Breakfast Club</i> Meets <i>28 Days Later</i>” Vibe appeared first on Reactor.

Excerpts post-apocalyptic science fiction Read an Excerpt From Pedro the Vast by Simón Lopez Trujillo Humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world, and a deadly fungus mounts its own resistance… By Simón López Trujillo | Published on January 14, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Pedro the Vast, a literary post-apocalyptic SF novel by Simón Lopez Trujillo (translated by Robin Myers), available now from Algonquin Books. In the disorienting, devastatingly tense world of López Trujillo, a eucalyptus farm worker named Pedro starts coughing. Several of his coworkers die of a strange fungal disease, which has jumped to humans for the first time, but Pedro, miraculously, awakes. His survival fascinates a foreign mycologist, as well as a local priest, who dubs his mysterious mutterings to be the words of a prophet. Meanwhile Pedro’s kids are left to fend for themselves: the young Cata, whose creepy art projects are getting harder and harder to decipher, and Patricio, who wasn’t ready to be thrust into the role of father. Their competing efforts to reckon with Pedro’s condition eventually meet in a horrifying climax that readers will never forget. “The mushroom Ganoderma lucidum is a naturally wood-degrading saprotrophic basidiomycete, but it demonstrates a series of highly useful pharmacological effects. This, given the scarcity of the species in natural environments, has fostered the artificial cultivation of its fruiting bodies in specialized greenhouses by means of trunks or sawdust in bags and plastic bottles. The mushroom is characterized by its reddish, generally kidney-shaped cap, supported by a svelte foot in a slightly tortuous position. Its mycelium feeds on the dead wood of broad-leafed trees and contains a high concentration of triterpenes and polysaccharides, both prized pharmacological components. Useful properties against hepatitis and hypertension in triterpenes have been documented; so have anti-tumoral effects in polysaccharides. The latter have sparked considerable research interest in the Ganoderma genus among contemporary medical mycologists, as well as in the commercialization of its derivations in the alternative oncological therapy market.” Giovanna spoke with the steady cadence of an experienced lecturer. The fifty-seat auditorium was full, and the slide sequence marked the pulse of her presentation. This was one of the keynote addresses Giovanna would deliver throughout the year at universities across the country, a means of compensating the state for the fellowship she’d received to study abroad. She hated these activities: They reactivated her fear of standing at the blackboard in elementary school. Her adult academic work had forced her to get used to it, but it still felt clumsy and tedious, and she operated on autopilot, just fulfilling her duty. At least academia allowed her to visit Concepción once in a while. She could see family, friends. Mechanically answer colleagues’ questions about her research for the book she was writing. Insist to her parents that she was fine on her own. That she’d gone on some dates, but nothing serious. English guys are boring, Mom. All they do is drink and talk about their work. “Therapeutic uses of this mushroom can be traced back thousands of years in classical Chinese medicine, which called it Lingzhi and employed it primarily to alleviate fatigue, asthma, and liver disorders.” She observed the audience’s faces as she spoke. Somewhere along the way, she’d learned to separate speech from thought, like someone who begins to disassociate the actions of their hands in learning to juggle. She quickly scanned some of the professors sitting in the first row. Middle-aged men with similar signs of degradation: baldness, paunches, facial creases, pinched expressions, shabby dress, poor hygiene, bad breath. One of their ilk had recently published a review that ridiculed her dissertation. She also focused on a student in the third row. Her blond side-shaved hair was drawn back with a bow, and she studied Giovanna intently, legs crossed, taking notes. Giovanna’s presentation concluded with an emphasis on how science, confronting an uncertain future, finds fertile ground in researching the fungus kingdom and its prodigious properties. She showed a sequence of slides on the use of mushrooms as fuel, plastic-degrading products, selective pest control, antidepressants, anticarcinogens, and producers of the most powerful antibacterial enzymes on record. Buy the Book Pedro the Vast Simón Lopez Trujillo Buy Book Pedro the Vast Simón Lopez Trujillo Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget Half an hour later, Giovanna found herself in conversation by the refreshment table with a group of biology students. As if trying to mask her reticence, the note-taking girl now looked her right in the eye as Giovanna spoke. “The truth is, we know very little about fungi. Their life cycles are strange, and although they don’t look it, they’re more like us than like bacteria or the plant kingdom. Invasive, authoritarian creatures. Extremely intelligent. Let’s take Entomophthora muscae, for example, a parasitic fungus that infects the housefly. Contagion occurs when the fungal spores land and germinate on top of it, penetrating its exoskeleton. According to the research, the first thing the fungus does is advance into the fly’s brain and seize control of its movements. It settles in the neural area in charge of the feet and wings, forcing it to alight on some nearby surface and climb to its highest point. Eventually, the fungus drops the fly. Its wings don’t react. The insect hits the ground, paralyzed. Then the hyphae of the fungus start to digest its innards, and the fly dies. Tiny cracks open in its body and sporangia sprout: countless tiny spore-sacs ready to embark in search of new flies.” * * * They nestled toward the left. Rain streamed silently outside. If you paid attention, it was there, present. If you talked, you couldn’t hear it anymore. Giovanna curled her body closer to Andrea’s, pressed a hand to her chest, and asked her, innocent: “Is it possible to put a person under a microscope?” “How?” “Like a whole person. Can you imagine seeing all their cells moving around at the same time?” For a few seconds, neither said a word. Giovanna closed her eyes. Heard the rain. On a different night, she’d once confessed to someone that she felt, in moments like these, her thoughts slipping right out of her. She loved that. It was one of her favorite things. “I don’t know. Maybe a big enough lens could do it,” Andrea said. “Really?” “I don’t get it. What’s your point?” They spoke slowly, skin warm under their T-shirts. Giovanna brushed a hand across Andrea’s forehead. She opened and closed her eyes with every sound. Talking meant being awake. Soon, they’d sleep. There was no rush. They could say everything more easily, unguarded. She focused on her own pulse and the rain eased the weight of thinking. “There’s something I want to know,” Giovanna said. “What?” “What can you feel?” “Now?” “Yeah.” “The rain. Your voice behind me.” “What else?” “Heat in my stomach. Your hand on my chest. The edge of your knee against my thigh. Your nose at my neck. Your breathing.” “What else?” Giovanna said, unfolding her body above her. “Why do you ask?” “There’s something I want to know.” Their words spread like moss between them. “What?” Giovanna turned toward her and pulled her close. “If you can feel your own skin.” * * * “Yes?” “Giovanna Oddó?” “Speaking.” “I’m sorry to be calling so late, but it’s urgent. This is Dr. Martín Moreno.” The voice on the other end sounded as if it were underwater. Giovanna rubbed her eyes to hear better. “Could you come first thing to the Provincial Hospital of Curanilahue?” Giovanna set three alarms on her cell phone and went back to sleep. She drove to Curanilahue in the pre-dawn blue. The deserted highway helped her conjure hypotheses for the case. She remembered visiting another hospital to examine a baby girl with candidiasis so severe that her body was covered in red blotches and her tongue had gone white. How did they find me? she wondered, trying to recall whether her number appeared on any of the articles she’d published online. Then she passed two trucks ablaze. They looked like pachyderm corpses on the shoulder of the highway. When she reached the modest hospital, she found Dr. Moreno waiting outside, smoking and fidgeting. He greeted her and asked her to accompany him into a lab room. The young doctor occasionally passed a hand over his head, as if to make sure his hair was still in place, using the other to click files on an old computer. They took ages to open. “Here it is. This is what I need to show you,” he said at last, resolute, as an image slipped down the screen like a curtain. Giovanna, not understanding why they’d made her drive an hour and a half just to look at a file they could have emailed, leaned closer to the screen and focused in utter silence for several minutes. “Is this person alive?” she asked. “He was in a coma for over a month. The other infected individuals all died last week. We’ll go up to see him shortly.” Unable to sleep that night, Giovanna opened her laptop. She propped a couple of cushions and straightened her back. She decided to analyze Dr. Moreno’s information using more advanced software, hoping she’d get drowsy as the data rendered. But once the visualization was ready, the nagging voice in her head only grew louder. Giovanna stared intently at the white markings, perplexed by how they could organize themselves in such a way. Thinking there must be a file error, she executed the operation again while making herself a cup of tea. The scene was identical when she returned. Nothing was in its right place. What was supposed to be one thing seemed to respond to another. For a moment, she thought of texting Andrea, but she deleted the message before sending it. Captivated, she spent a couple hours analyzing the data. When it was very late, she set her alarm, switched off the light, and swallowed a sleeping pill. Excerpted from Pedro the Vast, copyright © 2026 by Simón Lopez Trujillo. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>Pedro the Vast</i> by Simón Lopez Trujillo appeared first on Reactor.

The second phase of President Donald Trump’s peace plan in Gaza is about to begin. “Today, on behalf of President Trump, we are announcing the launch of Phase Two of the President’s 20-Point Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction,” Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, announced on X Wednesday.   In September, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire based on Trump’s 20-point plan aimed at ending the two-year. The conflict began after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people including more than 800 civilians, and taking more than 250 hostages. Phase one of the deal began in October, and included a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the release of all hostages still in Gaza. The remains of one hostage have yet to be returned to Israel.   “Importantly, Phase One delivered historic humanitarian aid, maintained the ceasefire, returned all living hostages and the remains of twenty-seven of the twenty-eight deceased hostages,” Witkoff said.  Phase Two of the deal will focus on governance, reconstruction, and demilitarization. The second phase “establishes a transitional technocratic Palestinian administration in Gaza, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), and begins the full demilitarization and reconstruction of Gaza, primarily the disarmament of all unauthorized personnel,” Witkoff said in the announcement shared on X.   Witkoff and Jared Kushner, former advisor to Trump and the president’s son-in-law, played a central role in the creation of the peace plan, and the peace deal negotiations between Israel and Hamas. Today, on behalf of President Trump, we are announcing the launch of Phase Two of the President’s 20-Point Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction.Phase Two establishes a transitional technocratic…— Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (@SEPeaceMissions) January 14, 2026 The U.S. “expects Hamas to comply fully with its obligations,” Witkoff added.   Even though Hamas said it would disarm, “there’s a lot of questions as to how it will be done and who will do it,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told The Daily Signal during an interview Tuesday.  Disarmament will happen, Huckabee added, “not because Hamas is going to finally come to their senses, but because President Trump has made it very clear this is going to happen.”   The Trump administration has stressed the necessity of the full disarmament of Hamas.  In October, Witkoff told “60 Minutes” there would be a weapons buyback program. So far, no such program has been executed.   “Hamas has made it clear that it has no intention to truly disarm,” Asher Fredman, a visiting fellow in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal.   Hamas remains the “dominant force on the ground in western Gaza,” Fredman added. “This means that there is a real danger that if large-scale reconstruction begins before disarmament, it will enable Hamas to reconstruct its terror infrastructure.”  The post Trump Envoy Announces Next Phase of Gaza Peace Plan  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Daily Signal President and Executive Editor Rob Bluey joined Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade Show to discuss his recent reporting on War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sweeping efforts to overhaul Pentagon operations and comment on the anti-ICE protests across America.. Appearing with guest host Tyrus, Bluey detailed his day-long experience Monday traveling with Hegseth during the secretary’s Arsenal of Freedom tour stops in Texas. “The one message that you heard consistently from Hegseth throughout the day was that he is fed up with the bureaucracy at the Pentagon,” Bluey said. “He’s tired of hearing excuses from defense contractors that they can’t get things done on time and under budget.” The tour included four stops across Texas: visiting wounded veterans in San Antonio, touring the Lockheed Martin F-35 plant in Fort Worth, conducting an enlistment ceremony, and concluding at SpaceX’s Starbase facility. Military Standards and Recruitment Surge Tyrus praised Hegseth’s straightforward approach to military readiness, questioning why legacy media outlets have pushed back against basic standards. “It just is amazing to me how much pushback you see coming from mainstream media,” Tyrus said. “We should 1,000% want our soldiers to be in great shape and be given the opportunity to do their job at the highest level and the best opportunities for them.” .@SECWAR “There is NO BETTER WAY to start a military day than PT—bright and early…” pic.twitter.com/PwLZXlcz9n— DOW Rapid Response (@DOWResponse) January 9, 2026 Bluey noted that Hegseth has reversed troubling trends at the Pentagon. “Pete Hegseth stepped into a job where … you had a devotion to climate change and the Pentagon focusing on issues other than warfighting,” Bluey explained. He pointed to recruitment improvements as evidence of the new approach working: “There are more and more Americans who want to join the military today. He calls them the real 1% because it’s still a small percentage overall of the people in our country, but they want to give everything they have to the U.S. military.” ICE Enforcement and Professional Protesters The conversation shifted to immigration enforcement and organized opposition to ICE operations. Bluey highlighted the personal costs facing law enforcement. “Those ICE officers are experiencing a surge of attacks on them, things like doxing, attacks on their family, not to mention real-life physical threats,” Bluey said. “There’s a lot to be said for those who give up a career in the private sector and go to work for the government these days.” Tyrus expressed skepticism about the spontaneity of protests happening in cities nationwide. “It’s about as manufactured as a movie, honestly,” he said. “But they’re not getting Academy Award winning actors because the actors, the celebrities, they’re not going to stand out in that cold. They’re going to sit from atop their safe little award shows and wear a little pin and say something and encourage people to put themselves in harm’s way.” Leftist Protesters Fail To ‘George Floyd’ ICE Minneapolis Shooting@breccastoll found protesters who quit their jobs (if they had any in the first place) to protest ICE’s ongoing immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis by going around and doxxing, harassing and… pic.twitter.com/917hiwqZr4— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) January 13, 2026 Tyrus said it’s important for Americans to distinguish between legitimate protest and criminal behavior. “Protesting, to me, is standing outside of a government building with your sign or your bullhorn or your song and letting, and bring awareness of your cause,” Tyrus said. “Once you cross those lines, you are no longer a protester. And when you’re attacking government officials, in my opinion, you’re a domestic terrorist.” He also noted the selective nature of progressive activism, pointing to the absence of protests over recent events in Iran while manufactured demonstrations appear for other causes. “Here is something going on in Iran where real people are in harm’s way. Where are they?” Tyrus asked. Obstructionist Leadership Bluey criticized Democrat mayors in sanctuary cities for undermining federal immigration enforcement. “I hope that the American people will recognize that they elected Donald Trump to carry out this mission in our country,” Bluey said. “Instead, you have these Democrat mayors who are just putting their foot down and saying, ‘No, we’re on the other side of you. We’re not going to relent and we’re just going to foment that division.'” The full interview covered additional topics including President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget and the administration’s directive empowering Hegseth to hold underperforming contractors accountable. The post Fox Host Tyrus Slams ‘Professional Protesters’ Targeting ICE: ‘It’s as Manufactured as a Movie’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

It was all-but a foregone conclusion that elite, liberal journalists on the “media” beat would be throwing a collective tizzy Tuesday over CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil scoring an interview with President Trump. Over nearly 13 minutes, the two discussed the death of Renee Good, grocery prices immigration operations, Iran, and even the role of automation in working-class jobs at the General Motors assembly line (where the interview took place). Because it was a respectfully but substantive conversation and not a shoutfest, liberal fiends turned into tween girls playing bully at lunch. Chief among them was Status’s Oliver Darcy, who spent over 1,200 words melting down over the “Dokoupil Dud” and expressed disappointment Dokoupil didn’t seize “a clear opportunity...to demonstrate that he is not a shill for the new MAGA-friendly owner of CBS News, David Ellison, or his new MAGA-friendly boss, Bari Weiss.” “But instead of holding Trump accountable in a meaningful way or really pressing for real answers to urgent questions, the interview resembled something more akin to a chummy exchange in which Trump was fully in control, allowed to ramble, deflect, and spout nonsense with little resistance,” Darcy screeched. In essence, Dokoupil failed to scream, shout, pout, and run down Trump in the same vein then-ABC correspondent Terry Moran did last year. After running through in all-too-short summaries of the topics covered, Darcy insisted the “interview...felt far more at home on Fox News than on the network once led by figures such as Walter Cronkite—whom Dokoupil vowed, in a now-infamous social media post, to best in the job in some respects.” Darcy gleefully said “the ratings for Dokoupil’s first week...have been, to put it gently, a dud” and leaned into the Nielsen ratings as having fallen “23% year-over-year in both total audiences and the 25-54 demographic” and put that on Dokoupil’s shoulders and not, say, the fact that CBS has been in third place for decades behind ABC and NBC and the last team of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois couldn’t even last a year. “Suffice to say, those numbers are awful. Even if Dokoupil hadn’t declined in the year-over-year numbers, staying flat would be somewhat of a failure given the extraordinary effort that has gone into promoting his first two weeks in the chair. CBS News has chartered a plane to shuttle him across the country, dropping him into a different city nearly every night,” he asserted. Darcy then turned to anonymous sources to shiv Dokoupil (click “expand”): “CBS isn’t losing the evening news race, they already lost it, and Bari and Tony are just pretending otherwise,” a veteran television executive told Status. “The total audience is soft, but the demo is a catastrophe. They’re pulling barely half of NBC and ABC in [the 25-54 demo], night after night. That’s not a rounding error, that’s a hospice situation.” “The audience is ancient, the erosion through the week is brutal, and there’s absolutely no upside,” the executive added. “No spikes, no momentum, nothing. It’s a legacy broadcast in a nutshell—cheap, aging eyeballs with no future. You can slap whatever spin you want on it, but the numbers say the new ‘CBS Evening News’ is dead on arrival.” A second veteran television executive offered similar analysis, saying they believed the initial numbers to be “very, very bad for CBS” and a “big whiff.” (....) Perhaps Weiss is learning that while controversy and “going viral” can generate attention online...bad headlines do not translate into higher ratings in broadcast television. And while the revamped “Evening News” has landed a string of high-profile interviews...it has largely failed to hold those potential newsmakers to proper account...likely alienating quadrants of the CBS News audience, which does not appear especially eager to tune in for gentle sit-downs with powerful figures who are abusing their authority[.] (....) CBS News staffers, for their part, don’t want to see it either. Since Dokoupil took over, I’ve repeatedly heard about sinking morale across the newsroom...The reality, however, is that Weiss is doing precisely what Ellison wants: overtly remaking the news division into an outlet friendlier to Trump and his MAGA movement. On the lack of reach, clips of Dokoupil’s interview were not shown Wednesday on ABC’s Good Morning America or NBC’s Today with both shows sticking to Trump’s social media posts or comments from his speech to the Detroit Economic Club. It was as if they made a collective decision to throttle the reach of a newsmaking interview! Meanwhile, the folks over at Zeteo — run by Qatar Boy Mehdi Hassan — were beside themselves as well, scoffing at Dokoupil as though he were Nelson from The Simpsons. Peter Rothpletz went as far as to lead the site’s morning newsletter with the headline “Toady Dokoupil” and dedicated part of the subhead to the interview, whining “Bari Weiss’s handpicked CBS puppet royally bungles an interview with Donald Trump.” Like with the others, the issue Rothpletz had was that Dokoupil chose not scream like a lunatic and conduct a citizen’s arrest. After huffing “CBS talking head Tony Dokoupil utterly fail[ed] to hold the president accountable for the chaos he’s unleashing,” Rothpletz continued with the insults: “Trump told the heir to the chair of Walter Cronkite, a man whose courage and candor turned the country against the Vietnam War, that he owns him.” Rothpletz whined about Dokoupil’s reaction to Trump’s closing remark about the economy and arguing “you probably wouldn’t have a job right now” if Kamala Harris had won. In essence, Rothpletz said Dokoupil lacks a manhood: Dokoupil did not immediately push back, did not immediately defend his honor, did not immediately prove his worth as a broadcast journalist and honest arbiter of truth by telling the most powerful man in the world to pound sand. No, he proceeded to ask a question about the Ford factory assembly line nearby. He further screeched that, because of this, “Dokoupil willingly allowed the commander in chief to reap from him, in one fell swoop, both his journalistic integrity and – arguably – his self-respect” and was thus “the single most disastrous, single most embarrassing (albeit entirely predictable) misfortune to yet befall Bari Weiss’s MAGA billionaire-installed reign at CBS News.” Someone get this guy a fainting couch or at least call his family to ask if he’s okay. Nevermind that Dokoupil didn’t ask him to sign a MAGA hat or ask him a softball about, say, why Democrats won’t let him make America great again or why the left hates cops. No, it was unforgivable an interview in which Dokoupil treated the President with respect and thus proof “beyond a shadow of a doubt that America’s ‘Tiffany Network’ is now state-controlled media” and not worth of using “the word ‘interview’ to describe the taping.” The Guardian’s Jeremy Barr made the Harris remark the focus of his article summarizing the interview, but was able to keep it together and not lose his noodle (because, as he said in a humorous X post ahead of the interview, he loves noodles and wouldn’t want to lose them). The puerile behavior continued over at The Daily Beast with at least five articles on the “MAGA-coded anchor” in the last 24 hours about the Trump interview. The pile-on began before it even aired and all the world had was a still shot and a small excerpt about Iran. Josh Fiallo surmised it was proof the two appeared “chummy with each other.” That went alongside a nearly simultaneous article mocking “MAGA-coded” Dokoupil’s first week ratings as a “bloodbath” ahead of his interview with “the ultimate MAGA figure” in Trump. In a story on the interview itself, Julia Ornedo also focused on the Harris jab (click “expand”): Tony Dokoupil’s primetime interview with President Donald Trump on Tuesday night went off the rails when his salary suddenly became the topic of conversation. (....) But it was Trump’s comment about Dokoupil’s job that stole the spotlight. The president claimed that the newly minted CBS Evening News anchor probably wouldn’t have a job if Kamala Harris had won the November 2024 election, because the economy would have suffered. “If she got in, you probably wouldn’t have a job right now. Your boss, who’s an amazing guy, might be bust,” he told Dokoupil, referring to Paramount CEO and Trump pal David Ellison. “You wouldn’t have this job—certainly whatever the hell they’re paying you.” (....) Dokoupil made an impassioned plea to viewers as he signed off on Tuesday night. “You may not agree with everything you hear on this broadcast, but we trust you to listen, and we trust you to decide for yourself,” he said. A third rolled in thanks to Leigh Kimmins: “MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor Takes the Bait on Height Trolling; Online records suggest that Tony Dokoupil is a mere 5 8, a rumor he is keen to dispel.” Again, we ask: How old are these people? But worst of all, Martha McHardy stooped to disgusting lows with the outlet continuing to try and break-up Dokoupil’s marriage to MS NOW host Katy Tur, boasting “Tur is now at the center of her husband’s growing fiasco” and mocked her for having “repeatedly proclaimed her support for him on social media, saying under one much-mocked post, ‘I love this man.’” McHardy had to bring up the fact that Tur used to date the psychologically unstable Keith Olbermann and suggested he’s an out-of-touch elitist (which is rich considering Dokoupil used to work for...The Daily Beast) (click “expand”): Tur, 42, married Dokoupil, 45, after meeting in a TV studio make-up room. But now another man she used to love has inserted himself into Dokoupil’s troubled debut: former MSNBC star Keith Olbermann, 66, who was in his late forties when he lived with Tur, then in her early twenties. “Honestly, @KatyTurNBC - your husband is drowning. Get him the eff out of there,” Olbermann wrote on X. The Daily Beast has contacted CBS and MS Now for comment. Tur has publicly supported her husband during his rocky start, commenting on one of his most ridiculed posts—where he was seen breaking and down weeping while talking about his childhood in Miami, where he attended school with Jeb Bush’s and Julio Igliseas’ children—“I love this man.” She also posted a clip from Dokoupil’s interview with White House Border Czar Tom Homan to her Instagram stories. Dokoupil, when not on his anti-elite private jet tour of the U.S., shares a three-story townhouse in one of Brooklyn’s most exclusive enclaves with Tur and their two children. He told People magazine he makes her eggs with za’atar and coffee with oat milk every morning. Olbermann made the intervention after Dokoupil’s 14-minute stand-up interview with President Donald Trump, which attracted criticism for his failure to push back, and after the ratings for his first week in the job showed a massive loss of viewers.

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough continued his network’s inglorious habit of portraying ICE as some sort of cartoon villain. In this case, Scarborough compared ICE to both the Soviet Union and today’s Russia under Vladimir Putin while talking beside footage of an operation at a gas station that he ignored the context of. Earlier in the segment, Morning Joe played a clip that showed part of the incident where an ICE agent clearly stated the man in the car was from Honduras and they were doing a status check. However, Scarborough didn’t seem to care. Talking with New York Times columnist David French, Scarborough declared, “And then finally, I’m just curious, as a constitutional lawyer. I mean, I see these people being dragged in the street. I see masked people coming up demanding papers. I see a guy sitting in a gas station parking lot, and ICE officers breaking the window and then dragging him out and putting their knee on his back. I just, again, this—we went to law school. We practiced law. This looks like Russia.”     Portraying the man as a simple protestor, Scarborough continued, “It really does. This looks like something that you would expect in Russia. That protesters—this is happening to protesters, not suspected murderers or rapists. This is what America looks like in 2025 for protesters.” Scarborough also claimed that “We always looked at what happened to the Soviet Union and looked at what happened in Putin's Russia and saw this happening to protesters there being taken off the streets, thinking, ‘My god, how could that ever happen in society?’ And I'd always ask, how could those Russian police officers do that? Well, we've got people lined up for this job to put masks on, to go in, to break people's windows, drag them out of their cars, beat up American citizens, shove them to the ground, and then cuff them.  In response to the video going viral on social media, Homeland Security claimed the man refused multiple orders to exit his car and had a removal order dating back to 2020, which seems like information a so-called news show should have included. Here is a transcript for the January 14 show: MS NOW Morning Joe 1/14/2026 6:13 AM ET JOE SCARBOROUGH: And then finally, I’m just curious, as a constitutional lawyer. I mean, I see these people being dragged in the street. I see masked people coming up demanding papers. I see a guy sitting in a gas station parking lot, and ICE officers breaking the window and then dragging him out and putting their knee on his back. I just, again, this—we went to law school. We practiced law. This looks like Russia. It really does. This looks like something that you would expect in Russia. That protesters—this is happening to protesters, not suspected murderers or rapists. This is what America looks like in 2025 for protesters. We always looked at what happened to the Soviet Union and looked at what happened in Putin's Russia and saw this happening to protesters there being taken off the streets, thinking, “My god, how could that ever happen in society?” And I'd always ask, how could those Russian police officers do that? Well, we've got people lined up for this job to put masks on, to go in, to break people's windows, drag them out of their cars, beat up American citizens, shove them to the ground, and then cuff them. 

A Chicago surgeon is accused of shooting and killing his ex-wife and her new husband at the couple's home in Ohio, according to police. The murder suspect was caught 400 miles away from the crime scene, after the alleged killer revealed damning evidence to authorities.Nearly nine years after his divorce, 39-year-old Michael David McKee now stands accused of executing his ex-wife and her husband of nearly five years.'We will continue to honor their lives and the light they brought into this world.'Spencer and Monique Tepe were found dead on Dec. 30 at their home in the Weinland Park neighborhood of Columbus.Citing court documents, WCMH-TV reported that the grisly discovery came after Columbus police received a 911 call at 9:03 a.m. Dec. 30 from a co-worker of Spencer Tepe, who was concerned that he had not shown up for work that morning."He's been reliable, and we cannot get in touch with him, his wife, his family, anybody that lives in that house," the co-worker stated. "He is always on time, and he would contact us if there's any issues. ... We're very, very concerned, and this is very out of character, and we can't get in touch with his wife, which is probably the more concerning thing."During a wellness check, police reportedly discovered the couple's bodies.Citing police records, WSYX-TV reported that Spencer Tepe was shot multiple times, and Monique Tepe had at least one gunshot wound to the chest.The affidavit said the couple's two children, ages 1 and 4, and the family dog were found in the house unharmed.Police records said there were no obvious signs of forced entry into the Tepes' home, and no firearm was found at the crime scene.McKee was arrested Saturday morning in Rockford, Illinois, according to jail records from the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office.Investigators zeroed in on a critical detail to locate the suspected killer.Surveillance video recorded near the crime scene showed a person of interest walking in an alley, WBNS-TV reported, adding that detectives believed the video linked McKee to a car that arrived shortly before the shooting and left moments afterward.Police later tracked the vehicle nearly 400 miles away in Rockford where Illinois officers confirmed the vehicle was registered to McKee, according to court documents.Citing the affidavit, the New York Times reported that police said evidence indicated McKee had been "in possession" of the vehicle before and after the deadly shootings.Records show McKee, a vascular surgeon, holds active medical licenses in Illinois and California, the Times added.RELATED: Father reveals chilling words mother spoke after allegedly killing her 1-year-old daughter on New Year's Day McKee initially was charged with two counts of murder in the couple's deaths.But on Monday, the charges against McKee were upgraded to premeditated, aggravated murder, records show.The Columbus Division of Police told CNN that "detectives believe they met the elements" for McKee to face the more serious offense but did not specify what those elements are.Premeditated, aggravated murder is a more serious offense and carries a possible life sentence without parole or the death penalty. That’s compared to 15 years to life in prison for murder.Murder charges require prosecutors to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant "purposely cause[d] the death of another," according to the Ohio Revised Code.For aggravated murder, the state must prove the defendant committed the killing with "prior calculation and design," according to the Ohio Revised Code.Aggravated murder also can apply if the death occurred during the course of committing a separate serious crime, such as rape or burglary.McKee waived his right to an extradition hearing, according to CNN, which noted: "A public defender representing McKee requested a speedy return to Ohio to plead not guilty in the case."RELATED: Pregnant woman found dead; now sordid family-affair accusations and mystery of her baby's grisly fate emerge: Court docs The Tepe family said McKee's arrest represents an important step toward justice for Monique and Spencer.The family said in a statement to WLS-TV, "Monique and Spencer remain at the center of our hearts, and we carry forward their love as we surround and protect the two children they leave behind. We will continue to honor their lives and the light they brought into this world."The family also stressed, "Nothing can undo the devastating loss of two lives taken far too soon, but we are grateful to the city of Columbus Police Department, its investigators, and assisting law enforcement community whose tireless efforts helped to capture the person involved."McKee married Monique Tepe — who was using her maiden name of Sabaturski at the time — on Aug. 22, 2015, according to court documents reviewed by USA Today. The couple divorced in May 2017, the documents note.The pair had no children together, records show.Monique and Spencer Tepe married in December 2020, according to their obituary, which reads, "Spencer and Monique met online and quickly grew their relationship into a solid foundation of love and respect with a side of goofiness."The Winnebago County Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment. Like Blaze News? 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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott highlighted in his conversation on Wednesday with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck the efforts underway in Texas to combat radical Islam and indicated that a "total ban" on Sharia may be imminent.Abbott designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations on Nov. 18 — a designation CAIR claimed was defamatory and had "no basis in law or fact."'They deleted that they were not a threat to national security.'The Dallas Fort Worth and Austin CAIR chapters promptly sued the state, claiming that Abbott's proclamation violated their First Amendment rights. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a response making mince meat out of the radical groups' claims and stating, "Radical Islamist terrorist groups are anti-American, and the infiltration of these dangerous individuals into Texas must be stopped."Abbott told Beck that "because of the strength of our response, they were required to file an amended pleading in court" in which the plaintiffs dropped multiple assertions from their original complaint, including the claim that they were in full compliance with federal and state law."They deleted that they were fully in compliance with federal state law," said Abbott. "They deleted what they previously said, that they were not affiliated with any foreign organization. They deleted that they would not engage in terrorism. ... They deleted that they were not a threat to national security."RELATED: Broken Arrow says no: Residents thwart massive mosque complex proposed in Oklahoma Mosque in Plano, Texas. Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images.The governor suggested these deletions amounted to concessions "on their part that actually they are not in compliance with the federal and state law; that they are engaged in terrorism; that they are a threat to national security."Blaze News has reached out to the Dallas Fort Worth and Austin CAIR chapters for comment. — (@) This is hardly the only battle that Islamists are poised to lose in Texas.When asked by Beck about the "rising threat of Sharia law" in Texas, Abbott indicated a crackdown is underway and a Republican ban is in the works.Abbott ratified legislation in September banning residential property developments like the East Plano Islamic Center community from "creating Sharia compounds and defrauding and discriminating against Texans." The following month, he directed Paxton, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the district attorneys and sheriffs of Collin and Dallas Counties to "investigate efforts by entities purporting to illegally enforce Sharia law in Texas."Abbott acknowledged in his directive that the First Amendment's protection of religious freedom "provides wide berth for religious institutions to order their own affairs under the 'church autonomy' doctrine," allowing for houses of worship to adjudicate questions regarding religious doctrine, ecclesial governance, selection of clergy, or internal discipline of members.The governor, who underscored in February that "Sharia law is not allowed in Texas," noted that "it is different entirely, however, for religious groups to set up courts purporting to replace actual courts of law to evade neutral and generally applicable laws."Abbott told Beck that while state agencies have taken action against Sharia and there are already laws on the books addressing the Islamic legal system, Texas Republican voters have an opportunity to go a step further in the upcoming state GOP primary elections on March 3."Texas should prohibit Sharia Law" will appear as proposition 10 on the Texas GOP primary ballot."That will pass overwhelmingly," said Abbott. "It will lead to a new law with a total ban on Sharia law in the state of Texas and then it will impose a duty on the attorney general to fully enforce that ban on Sharia law." — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!