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By now, you’ve probably heard the sad news: CNN’s ratings are in the toilet. Despite a decent daytime bump from the ongoing Trump trials, the network’s prime time numbers last week dropped to a three-decade low of 83,000 viewers among the vaunted 25-54 year-old demographic. To illustrate just how low those ratings truly are, we put together a list of weird and esoteric things that are more numerous than CNN’s prime time key demo viewers. 1) Competitive Rubik’s Cube solvers registered with the World Cube Association. The World Cube Association is a volunteer-led 501(c)(3) organization at the heart of the “speedcubing” world. They host a surprising amount of tournaments every year, as well as a biennial world championship. In total, the WCA has over 200,000 registered competitors. 2) Professional psychics working in America. There are 96,000 of them. Please note that professional is not a synonym for competent. Incidentally, CNN employs hundreds of professional journalists. 3) People with heterochromia in the United States. There are more than 200,000 people in the U.S. whose left and right eyes are different colors. This means you’re more than twice as likely to know somebody with this rare condition as you are to have a friend or family member between 25 and 54 who watches CNN on weeknights. Now think about how many people you know with heterochromia. Yeah. 4) Participants in a 1988 conga line in Miami. This one didn’t sound real to us, but the source is none other than the Guinness Book of World Records. On the fateful day of March 13, 1988, a whopping 119,986 people gathered in Miami for some weird record-breaking fun. 5) Once-critically endangered wild Bighorn Sheep living in North America. The exact figure is the subject of debate, but according to the American Wild Sheep Foundation, the wild bighorn sheep population has climbed to a respectable 85,000 in recent years, from a low of just 25,000 in 1977. That’s a big W for the conservationists, and a pretty wild L for CNN. 6) Attendees of a women’s volleyball match in Nebraska last year. In August of last year, a regular season NCAA women’s volleyball match between Omaha and Nebraska attracted more than 92,000 spectators. The event broke the world record for highest attendance of any women’s sporting event. 7) Registered bicycle rickshaws in New Delhi. Less than 20 percent of rickshaw operators in India’s capital actually have legal government permits to operate. Nonetheless, that still leaves us with 99,000 licensed bicycle rickshaws. 8) Tennis balls thrown out per day in the U.S. To be fair, there are actually hundreds of thousands of tennis balls thrown away every day in America alone. But it’s still a pretty funny statistic. 9) Annual breast reduction patients in America. Mind you, this figure doesn’t include elective mastectomies. But apparently about 90,000 women every year choose to shrink (but keep) their breasts. 10) Female professional forklift operators. Just under eight percent of licensed forklift operators in the U.S. are women. But that fraction still represents approximately 127,000 hardhat-clad ladies operating heavy machinery. 11) Subscribers to a youtube channel called “Justin Y” which has never uploaded a single video. Justin Y currently boasts 784,000 subscribers. Even if only half of those subscribers are between 25 and 54, that still means that watching nothing is several times more appealing than watching CNN during primetime.

A New York Police Department officer was fired in February after a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe found that he was allegedly entangled in activities involving the Chinese Community Party, the New York Post reported.The NYPD terminated Lieutenant Steven Li after 20 years with the department for making false statements and failure to report, according to internal disciplinary records obtained by Documented.'The PRC's disdain for the rule of law and its efforts to coerce and intimidate.'The news outlet discovered that Li helped a Chinese foreign agent, Sun Hoi Ying, connect with a woman living in the United States who was accused in China of embezzling money from a state-owned company. The CCP claimed the woman, referred to only as "Huang," stole the money to purchase properties in China. The NYPD document noted that the Chinese government seized the woman's properties in China amid the ongoing dispute.Ying was assigned to "Operation Fox Hunt," a Chinese government program started in 2014 to forcibly repatriate alleged Chinese fugitives. As part of that mission, Ying was allegedly dispatched to the U.S. to pressure Huang to settle her dispute with the CCP."It is undisputed that upon his arrival to the United States in December 2019, Sun enlisted the assistance of [Li] in trying to resolve the dispute with [Huang]," the NYPD document read.According to the document, Li met with the woman on several occasions. He claimed he acted only as an "intermediary" between her and Ying to "help resolve their problems."The document stated, "The thought was that since (Li) was a police officer, a position held in high esteem in the Chinese community ... the woman would be more amenable to discussing her case with Sun as him as her intermediary," it added.The paperwork claimed that Li, Ying, and Huang met at a restaurant on December 1, 2019. Li allegedly introduced the two and left the room to allow them to discuss the dispute. According to the NYPD document, Li texted someone on WeChat during the meeting, stating that Huang appeared "a little bit emotional."Li claimed that he knew Huang from community events and had not been acting as an agent for the CCP. He was not criminally charged. Following an NYPD investigation, the department found that Li had not pressured Huang and had not acted as a CCP agent. However, Li was found guilty of making false statements and failure to report.Li did not respond to a request for comment from Documented.Sun was charged in 2022 with one count of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the Attorney General, according to the Department of Justice.Regarding the charges, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen stated at the time, "This case demonstrates, once again, the PRC's [People's Republic of China's] disdain for the rule of law and its efforts to coerce and intimidate those it targets on our shores as part of its Operation Fox Hunt.""The defendant allegedly traveled to the United States and enlisted others, including a sworn law enforcement officer, to spy on and blackmail his victims. Such conduct is both criminal and reprehensible," Olsen added.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

With the New York trial against former President Donald Trump coming to an end, the prosecution and the defense are set to give their closing arguments this week.Acting Justice Juan Merchan said he anticipates providing jury instructions on Wednesday, according to live updates from the courthouse. The attorneys were provided with the judge's jury instructions on Thursday afternoon, and neither party flagged any errors, Merchan noted.'The district attorney has not met their burden of proof.'Ahead of closing arguments, Merchan reminded jurors that nothing said by the attorneys constitutes "evidence.""You are the finders of fact, and it is for you and for you alone to determine the facts from the evidence," Merchan stated.Trump attorney Todd Blanche presented the defense's closing argument first on Tuesday. He estimated that it would take approximately two and a half hours."I started out by saying something that I'm going to repeat to you right now. It's as true right now as it was on April 22. And that is President Trump is innocent. He did not commit any crimes, and the district attorney has not met their burden of proof — period. The evidence is all in," Blanche told the 12-person jury. Blanche focused the majority of his time on discrediting the prosecution's key witness, Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney, who claimed that he paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep silent about an alleged affair she had with the former president. During his testimony, Cohen, a convicted felon and admitted liar, stated that he made the settlement payment to Daniels at Trump's request and that the Trump Organization reimbursed him. Last year, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied Daniels' affair allegations. Bragg's entire case hinged on the testimony of Cohen, who claimed that Trump falsified business records by marking payments to his then-personal attorney as legal expenses. Blanche argued that the government failed to corroborate Cohen's testimony."The evidence should leave you wanting more. You should want and expect more than the testimony of Michael Cohen," Blanche told jurors. "This case is about documents. It's a paper case. This case is not about an encounter with Stormy Daniels 18 years ago."He argued that the business records were "not false" and that there was "not intent to defraud."Trump's defense team noted that Cohen's testimony mentioned many critical conversations with individuals who were not called as witnesses in the case, including former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, Trump's former bodyguard Keith Schiller, and former National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard."Cohen lied to you," Blanche told jurors.In 2017, Trump paid Cohen $35,000 monthly, a total of $420,000. Cohen claimed that the payments were partly a reimbursement for the $130,000 settlement he paid to Daniels. He also stated that Trump reimbursed him for a $50,000 payment he made to RedFinch for technology services. While on the stand, Cohen admitted to only paying RedFinch a portion of what he reported to Trump. He claimed that Trump shortchanged him on his yearly bonus and argued that "it was almost like self-help" to steal $60,000.Blanche told the jury, "The idea that President Trump would agree to pay Cohen $420,000" when the Daniels settlement agreement was only $130,000 "is absurd."Blanche also attempted to discredit Daniels' testimony."Why did prosecutors call Stormy Daniels, when there was no dispute that there was an NDA settlement and she knew nothing about Trump's internal business practices?" Blanche asked. "I'll tell you why. They did it to try to inflame your emotions; they did it to try to embarrass President Trump."Prosecutors attempted to object to Blanche's comment, but Merchan overruled the objection.Blanche returned to Cohen's lack of credibility."He's repeatedly lied under oath. He's lied to his family. He lied to his wife about the home equity line of credit ... he lied to his banker," Trump's attorney told jurors. "He's literally like an MVP of liars."Blanche provided the jury with a list of 10 reasons they should have reasonable doubt. He argued that Cohen had created the invoices and there was no evidence that Trump knew the invoices had been sent. The defense argued that there was no evidence of any intent to defraud, attempt to commit, or conceal another crime. Additionally, he contended that there was no agreement to influence the 2016 election, as the prosecution alleged. Blanche further claimed that the National Enquirer would have run the story it purchased from the former Trump Tower doorman if it had been true, but it was not. Karen McDougal wanted to keep her story private, he noted. Blanche added that Daniels' story was already public years before the settlement agreement. The defense also argued that there was manipulation of evidence. For Blanche's final reason, he told the jurors that Cohen is "the human embodiment of reasonable doubt."Like Blaze News? 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When New Jersey gym owners Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti defied the Garden State’s COVID-19 regulations by keeping their gym open, the pair were ordered to pay around $165,000 in fines for violating public health emergency rules. After an almost four-year legal battle, Smith has been cleared of more than 80 charges. These charges were “thrown at us really to scare us into shutting down,” Smith tells Sara Gonzales. “When that didn’t work, Governor Murphy took those municipal charges as well as a health department shutdown order and went before a judge in New Jersey.” Murphy asked for a court order to close Smith’s business, which Smith explains is “where a lot of the really tangible, very scary punishments came in.” “We were being fined $15,497.76 per day for every day that we were in operation. The state took upwards of $200,000 from our bank account,” he explains. “We had one member arrested, my former co-partner and I were arrested, we had our doors forcibly locked by the sheriff’s department.” When Smith refused to comply and opened the doors, the sheriff’s department came to lock them again. So they took the doors off the hinges and stayed inside to protest for over a month. “They arrested us, they held us in criminal and civil contempt at court, so there was a five-year prison sentence hanging over our head at one point from this court order,” he tells Gonzales, who says “it’s making my blood boil all over again just listening to you.” While it’s been a rough journey for Smith, he’s finally free of those looming charges. “They were just writing these, they were firing off the hip. They didn’t expect people to push back, and they just panicked. And you know, these people are not used to people wagging a finger in their face and saying no, so they never wanted to touch these cases because nobody wants to put their name on it, because they know it’s unconstitutional,” Smith explains. “The judge finally had enough, she said, ‘I can’t put these gentlemen through this any longer,’ and you know, she was very clear that this was going to be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the state can’t revisit these charges.”Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

One of the most vocal members of the group of Democrat congresswomen known as the Squad has once again publicly slammed Joe Biden for his handling of the war in Gaza initiated by an ambush on innocent Israelis on October 7.On Saturday, Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who represents a district in southeast Michigan, made what the New York Post described as "a surprise appearance" at the People’s Conference for Palestine. Held at Huntington Place in Detroit — a city that Tlaib described as "the most beautiful, blackest city in the country" — the conference allegedly included speakers affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which the U.S. and other foreign governments have designated a terrorist organization.'It is disgraceful that the Biden administration and my colleagues in Congress continue to smear them for protesting to save lives ... . It is cowardly. But we’re not gonna forget in November, are we?'In her remarks, clips of which can be heard here, Tlaib repeatedly called out the Biden administration for failed leadership. She claimed that America's continued support for Israel has left American schools underfunded."Every single bullet, every single gun, every single weapon, bombs that we send is the sacrifice of our own schools here at home," she railed. "Many of which when I go into the schools have garbage bags over their drinking fountains because they don't have clean water."President Biden, I hope you hear us loud and clear."She also took aim at Biden for insisting last week that Israel's retaliatory aggression into Rafah, where many Palestinian refugees were reportedly taking shelter, did not amount to genocide. "The International Court of Justice just ruled that the Israeli government must stop its invasion of Rafah," she continued. "But President Biden says what's happening in [inaudible] is not a genocide."Where's your red line, President Biden?"Tlaib even claimed that Biden's criticism of the International Criminal Court for indicting Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant — as well as several leaders of Hamas — made Biden an "enabler" of genocide."Attacking the authority of the International Criminal Court and interfering in the legal process is nothing more than an attempt to prevent the genocidal maniac Netanyahu and senior Israeli officials from being held accountable for their crimes against humanity," she claimed."You are an enabler, President Biden."Though Biden recently flirted with restricting weapons shipments to Israel, he ultimately reiterated that the U.S. and Israel remain firmly allied. "We'll always stand with Israel and its — in the threats against its security," he said.Finally, Tlaib castigated Biden and other Democrats, whom she referred to as her "colleagues," for focusing on the violent protests that have sprung up on college campuses across the country in recent weeks rather than on the plight of Palestinians."They're more outraged [about] that than the atrocities happening right now on the ground and full of steam, the war crimes," she stated as the audience applauded and cheered.She even claimed that Democrats may soon lose significant political power because of their continued support for Israel: "It is disgraceful that the Biden administration and my colleagues in Congress continue to smear them for protesting to save lives no matter faith or ethnicity. It is cowardly. But we’re not gonna forget in November, are we?"Earlier this year, Tlaib encouraged Michigan Democrats to vote "uncommitted" in the state's primary. Whether she will ultimately back Biden during what promises to be a contentious battle for a second term remains to be seen.The Biden-Harris campaign did not respond to the Post's request for comment.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!