Liv Warfield was one of the first acts on AGT’s season 19 live episode, and she wowed the judges with a song Prince personally wrote for her. The soul singer first showed her talents in June when she and her band performed her original song titled Stare. While it was only night two of the auditions, Simon wasted no time handing her his Golden Buzzer. After she finished her song that night, the former music executive took the microphone and sealed her fate. “Liv, I have a problem,” he said. “That wasn’t long enough… It was like being, in a good way, punched in the face by your energy, the band, all these years of frustration. And I’m sorry, I can’t give you a “yes.” With that, he slammed his fist on the buzzer, which gave Liv a ticket straight to the live rounds. “AGT” Judges Taken Aback By Liv Warfield’s Stage Presence During Quarterfinals When she sang The Unexpected on the August 13 episode, she earned even higher praise from Simon and his fellow judges Howie Mandel, Sofia Vergara, and Heidi Klum. “I am speechless. I mean, seriously— I thought you were great the first time. This was unbelievable…It was like all those years, you’ve been climbing up the ladder to get to where you wanna be. It all came out in these three minutes.” And Liv Warfield has been climbing to fame for decades. The 45-year-old has sung backup for iconic musicians like Nancy Wilson and Prince, who penned The Unexpected as a gift for her. “The best thing is to see how much this means to you,” said Sofia. “It’s amazing to have an artist like you here with us.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “AGT”: Golden Buzzer Singer Performs Song Prince Personally Wrote For Her appeared first on InspireMore.

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A stray cat came to a property, wanting to be let in. Days later, she had kittens and went on to adopt five more. Ruby and her kittenstheStrayCatClubAbout three months ago, a beautiful tortoiseshell cat appeared outside a house, ready to leave the street life behind.She came from a small cat colony in a neighborhood. Though still a young cat, she was heavily pregnant. Gazing at her finder with a plan in mind, she plopped down on the ground, rolling back and forth for attention.The tortie needed safe shelter and a trusted food source and seemed to know exactly where to seek help. Ruby was found as a stray, heavily pregnanttheStrayCatClubA cat rescue, the Stray Cat Club, was notified about the expectant mother cat and didn't hesitate to open their doors to her.A foster family took the cat, Ruby, into their care and prepared a comfortable room for her to settle in. After exploring her new space, Ruby seemed pleased, lying in her new bed with a full belly and contented eyes. theStrayCatClubA few days later, Ruby began rearranging her bedding as it was go time. She gave birth to her kittens in the comfort of a loving home, away from the streets and the elements.Ruby stayed with her kittens the whole time, tending to their needs and ensuring they were fed, clean, and loved. She gave birth to her kittens in her foster hometheStrayCatClubAbout a week later, a fellow rescue, Foal Farm Animal Rescue Centre, asked the Stray Cat Club if they had a nursing mom who could lend a helping paw. They had been hand-rearing five newborn kittens in need of motherly love.They immediately thought of Ruby and her kittens who were close in age. She took in five kittens who needed motherly lovetheStrayCatClubWith a proper introduction, Ruby quickly took to the newcomers and started caring for them as her own. She cleaned them, allowed them to nurse alongside her kittens, and smothered them all with love and purrs.It was incredibly demanding to feed seven hungry mouths, but Ruby didn't do this alone. theStrayCatClubRuby worked closely with her foster carer who provided supplemental feedings for the new babies. Once the younger ones finished bottle-feeding, Ruby took over, washing their faces and bathing them from head to toe."It's a team effort, and we couldn't be happier to see them thriving together," the Stray Cat Club shared. To help Ruby with the feedings, the foster carer supplemented the little onestheStrayCatClubNamed after precious gems, Topaz, Opal, Onyx, Emerald, Jade, Pearl, and Diamond grew in leaps and bounds. Their adventurous side emerged when they felt strength in their legs and became curious about their surroundings, ready to take their first steps outside the nest.Ruby kept a watchful eye on her littles, making sure they didn't wander off too far. theStrayCatClubAs the kittens learned to eat independently, Mama Ruby began to spend more time doing what she loved, playing with toys and letting her inner kitten come out.Though the kittens came from two separate litters, they formed a beautiful blended family. They zoomed around the room with unbridled energy and piled on each other, often in their human's lap, when they needed to recharge. The kittens have blossomed into cuddle bugstheStrayCatClubWith a foster home, a doting mother cat, and kind humans, these kittens have blossomed into happy and boisterous young cats.They enjoy cuddling with their people and siblings, blasting their purr motors like tiny rockets preparing for takeoff. "These little loves certainly have a way of melting hearts." theStrayCatClubRuby wandered to the property on that fateful day, hoping for a fresh start. She's raised her last litter and helped five more since.She's back to being the happy, playful kitty she ought to be, pouncing and chasing after toys, living the life she always dreamed of. theStrayCatClubShare this story with your friends. More on the Stray Cat Club on Instagram and Facebook.Related story: Cat Comes Home with Kind Person, Within 24 Hours, They Find Kittens Under Their Bed

Lest anyone think that Spanish-language TV news is not part and parcel of the Regime Media, consider Telemundo’s recent firefighting for Vice President Kamala Harris’s record on immigration. The network closed their initial report on the X Space hosted by former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk by affirming that Harris was never in charge of the border. Watch as anchor Vanessa Hauc closes out her brief report on Telemundo’s late night newscast by spinning for Harris. Below is the report in its entirety: NOTICIAS TELEMUNDO EN LA NOCHE 8/12/24 11:39 PM VANESSA HAUC: In other issues, tonight former President Trump returned to what used to be Twitter, on the social network now called X. He had a conversation with Elon Musk, the owner of that platform. The interview was delayed 40 minutes due to technical problems that Musk attributed to a cyber attack. The businessman affirmed his support for Trump's presidential candidacy and shared with the former president his criticism of undocumented immigration. Tonight, again, Trump attacked the Biden administration's work on border issues, without presenting evidence. DONALD TRUMP: But she was the border czar and you- the people can't allow them to get away with their disinformation campaign. Now she's trying to say that she wasn't- she wasn't really involved and…the whole thing is horrible. She was totally in charge. She could have shut the border down without him. He didn't know what he was doing anyways. He wouldn't have even known what happened. You could shut the border down. He wouldn't even know the difference. But the fact is that she was border czar. But if- -you don't have to call her that. The fact is you could just call her. She was in charge of the border and the border was the worst ever. HAUC: Well, we know that Kamala Harris was never in charge of the border.  We often call members of the Regime Media activists, but in Hauc’s case, she is a literal activist. One, apparently, who is upset with Kamala Harris being saddled with the Biden Administration’s border failures and millions of migrants released into the interior of the country and criming across our major cities. Immigration is a sore subject within Spanish-language media, because as we’ve documented for pretty much the existence of MRC Latino, Spanish-language media depend on a steady influx of immigrants, legal or not, which renders them a Democrat client. Holding this administration, of which Harris is still a member, accountable over immigration (or anything else) is simply bad for business. This is how Vanessa Hauc ends up affirming, without evidence, that Kamala Harris “was never in charge of the border”.   

New York Times reporter Matt Flegenheimer unloaded an almost 5,000-word attempt at a hit piece on journalist Bari Weiss, who founded The Free Press after resigning from the Times in 2020. The snarky tone paired with the story’s vaguely threatening cover art and the endless series of feeble jabs that don’t land suggest a failed attempt at a hit piece -- with perhaps a scoop of professional jealousy in the mix? The online headline deck carried the same vibe: “Bari Weiss Knows Exactly What She’s Doing -- The founder of The Free Press has built a new media empire by persuading audiences that she is a teller of dangerous truths.” The whispered subtext: “But we know better, don't we?” Bari Weiss has long been blessed with two superpowers, those close to her say: She knows how to make useful enemies, and she knows how to make useful friends. As the founder, public face and heat-seeking curator of The Free Press, a new media company with ambitions to overtake the old media, Ms. Weiss, 40, has identified a mélange of reliable foils: the illiberal left; diversity, equity and inclusion programs; opponents of Israel; The New York Times, where Ms. Weiss worked until 2020. …. She has created, or at least created space at, a cool kids’ table all her own, positioning herself as a teller of dangerous truths while becoming a kind of brand ambassador for the views and passions of her audience, which often seem to track neatly with her own: that elite universities have lost the plot; that legacy outlets have lost their minds; that Ms. Weiss knows the way forward. Jennifer Sey on X listed “Some of the digs or “gotchas” disguised as journalism,” including “she’s nice to people” and “She has a following of loyal readers who question the bias of mainstream sources.” The horror! The reporter did note the journalistic start-up’s subscription success. But the criticisms could apply to every outlet in the world -- especially the Times. While subjects of The Free Press’s work have sometimes complained about being misrepresented or caricatured, dozens of news outlets, including The Times, have dedicated their own resources to chasing the site’s most attention-soaking coverage. This has included a first-person essay of a senior NPR editor who accused the organization of incorrigible liberal bias, and a whistle-blower account about transgender health care at a St. Louis children’s hospital, where a former case manager claimed that doctors had hastily prescribed hormones to adolescents. Then came more vague sniping, as if the reporter had been tasked to do a hit piece but didn’t have the ammo or the heart for it. Didn’t anyone think it was a dubious idea, to profile a former colleague who was hassled by the woke left of the newsroom? Pledging to fuse throwback journalistic principles of agenda-free fact-finding with a nonconformity better suited to independent media, Ms. Weiss conjures a world where everyone seems terrified of everything -- defying the online mob, stating the obvious, being canceled -- with Bari Weiss as the blazing exception. The paper’s rundown of Weiss’s supposed “contradictions” was lame: In dozens of interviews with friends, associates and colleagues, a consensus emerged among Ms. Weiss’s many fans and non-fans: She is doing exactly what she meant to, unbothered by -- and often powered by -- a series of nominal contradictions. She is a reformed print editor who insists she did not get into this industry for money or stature but took care to acquire both anyway, musing openly in recent years about how much The Free Press might be worth someday, according to people who have heard her do so. She speaks persuasively about the need for a more civil discourse while sometimes evincing a casual disdain for subjects of her site’s reporting, with slashing generalizations about “hip, young people with pronouns in their bios” and other ostensible ideological foes. (The Free Press has at times declined to use the preferred pronouns of people it has written about.) …. Ms. Weiss has said, accurately, that messages from Times employees in group Slack channels often flamed her in blistering terms. But former colleagues have attributed some of the criticism, within The Times and externally, to instances of simple sloppiness or reductive reasoning, cutting against the explanation that Ms. Weiss prefers: that wide swaths of the company were too blindingly progressive to abide her politics. Flegenheimer dealt with the end of Weiss’s Times career, after she wrote an open letter to the paper’s publisher, citing “bullying by colleagues” and an “illiberal environment” in the wake of the fallout from an opinion piece by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) calling for the National Guard to be deployed to quell violent protests during the George Floyd riots. In his words, Weiss tweeted “about a 'civil war' at the paper between 'the (mostly young) wokes' and 'the (mostly 40+) liberals.'" The reporter sniffed: "Many colleagues called this a maddening oversimplification." Really? Weiss isn't the first former Times journalist to be forced out by the paper's resident wokesters -- former opinion editor James Bennet wrote of the paper's "culture of intolerance and conformity" for The Economist. In July 2021, Flegenheimer tried a similar long and snarky takedown on another political iconoclast, podcaster Joe Rogan. Even the headlines echoes the headline of the Weiss story: “Joe Rogan Is Too Big To Cancel – His success lies in making audiences feel as if they’re in on something subversive.”

A Michigan man was arrested on murder and gun charges after he allegedly shot and killed a father over an argument about mulch. Investigators said 47-year-old Devereaux Christopher Johnson got into an argument with 35-year-old Nathan Morris outside of Johnson's home in Canton Township on Saturday just before noon. 'Everybody has been telling their wives and kids be careful.' Johnson reportedly began threatening Morris and his family after his daughter touched mulch or wood chips at Johnson's home. Canton Township police found Morris lying in the street with a gunshot wound and transported him to a hospital, where he later died. Johnson barricaded himself in his home after police arrived and later walked out and was taken into police custody. The suspect has a history of assaulting his neighbors and assaulting police officers as well as criminal sexual conduct charges from the 1990s, according to law enforcement. “This was a senseless act of violence toward the victim,” read a statement from Canton Police Chief Chad Baugh. “The Canton Police Department sends our deepest condolences to the victim’s family, and to the neighbors who may have witnessed this tragic event.” Neighbors told WXYZ-TV that Johnson had gotten more violent and erratic in recent weeks. "Everybody has been telling their wives and kids be careful, don’t (make) eye to eye contact. Don’t walk across alone," said Vish Vadari. A GiveSendGo donation campaign has been set up for Morris' family. He was married and had two daughters aged 2 and 5 years old. Johnson's booking photo can be seen at WXYZ-TV's news video report. Canton Township is a suburb of Detroit with a population of about 99k residents. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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