Turning Point USA vowed to put on a show to rival the Super Bowl halftime show headlined by Bad Bunny, and they delivered in red, white, and blue. The lineup for “The All-American Halftime Show” was announced Monday. Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett will take the stage in a show TPUSA says will celebrate faith, family, and freedom. “We’re approaching this show like David and Goliath,” Kid Rock said in a statement, per Fox News. “Competing with the pro football machine and a global pop superstar is almost impossible, or is it? He said he’s having a dance party, wearing a dress, and singing in Spanish? Cool. We plan to play great songs for folks who love America.” Kid Rock said on The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday that half of the United States is “underserved” entertainment-wise. This show will air during Super Bowl LX’s official halftime show featuring Latin music star Bad Bunny, who won “Album of the Year” at the Grammys on Sunday. The singer’s selection has sparked significant backlash from many conservatives, including President Donald Trump. Bad Bunny has been critical of the Trump administration’s illegal immigrant crackdown and refused to tour in the United States last year because he said he didn’t want ICE raiding his concerts. At the Grammys this past Sunday, Bad Bunny again criticized ICE. “Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say, ‘ICE out,'” Bad Bunny said. Last fall, Trump took a jab at Bad Bunny, saying he didn’t know who the singer was after the NFL announced he would be performing at the Super Bowl LX halftime show. “I don’t know who he is,” Trump told Newsmax. “I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s crazy. And then they blame it on some promoter they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it’s absolutely ridiculous.” Trump definitely knows who Kid Rock is. The “Bawitdaba” singer is a close pal and golfing buddy of the president. Kid Rock also performed at the last Republican National Convention. “The All-American Halftime Show” will allow viewers to be up close and personal with the performance, Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet told Fox News Digital. “‘The All-American Halftime Show’ is an opportunity for all Americans to enjoy a halftime show with no agenda other than to celebrate faith, family, and freedom,” Kolvet said. “We can’t wait to watch the incredible show they’re about to put on. We know millions around the country will be watching too.” Barrett, who placed third on Season 16 of American Idol, recently sang at the White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony. The star-studded show is expected to start around 8 p.m. ET on February 8. Super Bowl LX is being held in Santa Clara, California, at Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers. The battle between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots kicks off Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET.

A former glamorous TV news anchor, who was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial for the brutal stabbing death of her 80-year-old mother, has sparked outrage as justice is delayed indefinitely while she undergoes psychiatric treatment instead of facing accountability in court. Halloween Morning Turns Deadly in Wichita Wichita Police responded to a 911 call at approximately 7:51 a.m., where Angelynn “Angie” Mock reported a stabbing in the 1500 block of East Crowley. Officers arrived within minutes to find Mock outside the residence, waving for help with visible cuts on her hands and blood covering her clothing. Inside the home, they discovered her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, unresponsive with multiple stab wounds to her upper body. Avers was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 8:26 a.m. Mock received treatment for minor hand cuts and was released the same day before being arrested that afternoon. Self-Defense Claims Collapse Under Scrutiny Mock told responding officers and a neighbor that she stabbed her mother in self-defense, claiming Avers had tried to kill her first. She later made bizarre statements about needing to “save herself from the devil.” Crime analyst Nancy Grace questioned the plausibility of these claims, asking how anyone could credibly claim self-defense against an 80-year-old woman. The forensic evidence painted a starkly different picture: Mock sustained only minor cuts on her hands while her elderly mother suffered multiple fatal stab wounds. Investigators discovered bloodied kitchen knives and even a cheese grater at the scene, suggesting a prolonged and brutal attack rather than a defensive struggle. Evidence Points to Premeditation The $1 million bond set by Sedgwick County Court indicated prosecutors viewed this as a premeditated crime rather than a spontaneous act of violence. Reporter Briana Whitney noted that the high bond reflected the severity and calculated nature of the alleged offense. Mock’s ability to exit the home, call 911, and flag down neighbors undermined her self-defense narrative. The injuries were “diametrically opposed,” as forensic psychologist Karen Stark observed—minor defensive wounds on the accused versus catastrophic fatal injuries on the victim. Mock was formally charged with first-degree murder on November 4-5, 2025, with an initial hearing scheduled for November 14. Mental Incompetence Ruling Delays Justice Following a psychiatric evaluation, a Sedgwick County judge ruled Mock mentally incompetent to stand trial, effectively pausing criminal proceedings indefinitely. This determination means Mock cannot be prosecuted while she is deemed unable to understand the charges against her or to assist in her own defense. She was committed for psychiatric treatment with the possibility of future restoration to competency. This outcome raises concerns about accountability and justice for Avers’ family, as there is no guarantee Mock will ever be restored to face trial. If she remains unprosecuted, she could face civil commitment rather than criminal punishment, allowing a brutal killing to go unprosecuted despite overwhelming evidence. The case highlights troubling questions about mental health defenses in clear-cut homicide cases where evidence overwhelmingly contradicts the defendant’s narrative. While genuine mental illness deserves compassionate treatment, the system must also ensure justice for victims and their families. Mock’s former career as a well-known St. Louis television anchor adds another layer to this tragedy, demonstrating that professional success offers no immunity from personal demons or accountability for criminal acts. The Wichita community and Avers’ surviving family members are left waiting for a resolution while Mock receives treatment that may or may not restore her to competency. Sources: Former TV news anchor charged for allegedly stabbing mother to death: Court records TV news anchor charged with killing mother deemed mentally unfit to stand trial Former news anchor accused of killing mother incompetent for trial, judge rules

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Movies & TV A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Prophecy and Revelations in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: “The Squire” As always, the Targaryens are basically Westeros’ messiest telenovela. By Tyler Dean | Published on February 2, 2026 Credit: Steffan Hill/HBO Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Steffan Hill/HBO The midway point of the season has arrived, and it comes with major revelations and a set-up for what the rest of the season will look like. Also, as a heads up, there is a clearly marked section in today’s explainer that gets into some very, very big spoilers that go beyond the scope of this week’s episode. (It’s only that specific section, though, so please take that in mind when you read ahead.) Let’s get into it.  The Title Tonight’s title, “The Squire,” feels pretty self-explanatory insofar as it centers on the ultimate reveal of Egg’s identity. It’s a bit of a misdirect as well, seeing as Egg is, of course, not a squire at all.  Cracking the Egg This show’s big spoiler was always going to be Egg’s true identity. There are plenty of other major plot points and bits of intrigue that will unfold this season, but the main thing that a book reader might be able to ruin for someone who’s going into the show cold is now out of the bag, and we can speak about Egg plainly. It is interesting, however, that the show did not take great pains to hide this fact. Some of my non-book reading friends guessed his identity after the first episode based on the fact that he shaved his head. After all, on House of the Dragon, Alyn of Hull (Abubakar Salim) shaves his head to hide his telltale Valyrian hair. Ironically, that is a plot point that was invented for HotD that was likely taken from Egg in the original Hedge Knight novella.  But the Egg as Prince Aegon reveal is great: The show underscores it with some truly bonkers choral music to try and lend it a telenovela-level of seriousness and, as in the book, it comes in the moment when Dunk’s life must be saved and the fantasy of playing a squire needs to end. This little twist has always felt the most like a fairytale of Martin’s plot lines—the Prince in disguise revealing himself to save the life of the chivalrous peasant. I’ll talk a little bit more about it in my more spoiler-y section, but for those of you who wish to remain unaware, all the tropes here speak to this Golden Age of Westeros—a time when the sorts of things that happen in fairy tales (or less grim fantasy novels) are possible.  I also love that the show has preserved the distinction between “my lord” versus the commoner’s version, “m’lord,” which was introduced all the way back in season 2 of Game of Thrones when Tywin Lannister immediately recognizes Arya as a noble for getting it wrong. Egg consistently says “my lord.” Greatness and Madness Credit: Steffan Hill/HBO This episode also reveals Prince Aerion Brightflame (Finn Bennett) as one of the Targaryens who has teetered over the edge into incest-born madness. Martin uses all sorts of ways to describe and discuss this aspect of the family, but the original show coined the most succinct description: “every time a Targaryen is born, the gods flip a coin.” Aerion is, according to Raymun Fossoway (Shaun Thomas) “vain and cruel,” but the show also hints more thoroughly at his madness when he breaks Tanselle’s fingers for the crime of portraying a knight who slays a puppet dragon. In the books, they take this a step farther, with Aerion believing (as some Targaryens do throughout history) that he is actually a dragon in human form.  It’s also worth noting how tenuous the peace is here. In the book (told in close third person through Dunk’s eyes) we never really clock the reaction of the smallfolk to Aerion intentionally killing Ser Humphrey Hardyng’s horse, but the show makes it clear that this makes him deeply unpopular with the crowd. Baelor is doing his best PR spin by letting Aerion dangle right up until the point when the Kingsguard needs to intervene. While the Blackfyres are dead or imprisoned or exiled, lots of Westerosi houses had fought for them, wanting to see them ascend and replace the main branch of the family. Raymun Fossoway also illustrates these looming tensions when he excoriates the Targaryens as “incestuous aliens” who destroyed Westerosi culture.  Down the Royal Line Credit: Steffan Hill/HBO (Spoilers!) This section is going to be an interesting one, seeing as it might spoil things from future seasons of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms or even for House of the Dragon or other shows in the Westeros TV universe. If you don’t want to be spoiled for major events—seriously—skip ahead to the Odds and Ends section below. So: Egg grows up to be Aegon V (Aegon the Unlikely), King of Westeros and the great-grandfather of Daenerys Targaryen (though Game of Thrones implies that there is a missing generation and Egg is Dany’s grandfather). Dunk does indeed achieve lasting fame as Ser Duncan the Tall, who becomes something of a legendary figure as the head of Egg’s Kingsguard and one of his closest confidantes.  The reason I feel compelled to write about this here is twofold. First of all, the story of Aegon V and Ser Duncan as older men ruling over the very last era of Targaryen peace and prosperity before the end of the dynasty is deeply important in Song of Ice and Firelore. Aegon’s attempts to hatch dragon eggs at the Targaryen winter palace, Summerhall, led to a conflagration that killed him, Ser Duncan, and many other Targaryens, placing his younger son Jaehaerys II on the throne and paving the way for Aerys II (the Mad King) and eventually Daenerys herself. We know something magical happened that night. It was, incidentally, the same night that Rhaegar, Dany’s potentially prophesied brother (and Jon Snow’s father), was conceived and it may have played a key role in why Dany’s dragon eggs were able to hatch in the first place.  This is a story that the TV version in GoT largely eschewed but that HotD, with its focus on prophecy and “the Prince That Was Promised,” remains deeply interested in. Martin hasn’t fully revealed what happened at Summerhall in the books, and when and if he finishes The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring it will likely play an important role in understanding ASoIaF as a whole. But weirdly, in the TV universe, there isn’t really a place to tell this story. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms follows the Dunk and Egg novellas which, as of this time, finish decades before the tragedy of Summerhall and at least a decade before Egg becomes King. I doubt this show will depict those events. Maybe a future series, not yet announced, will delve into that era of Westerosi history, but it seems unlikely. As a result, I’m not sure how these revelations will ever come to light in the HBO version. Showrunner Ira Parker has said he’d like to cover the entirety of Aegon’s life, but that was in a statement that said it would take 15 seasons (30 years at the current rate) so let’s call that a slightly facetious plan.  The second reason Egg’s ultimate fate is worth discussing is because this episode does literally foretell it. The fortune teller they encounter tells Egg that he “shall be king” and “die in hot fire, and worms shall feed upon your ashes. And all who know you shall rejoice in your dying.” It’s hard to tell if this is meant as an Easter egg for book readers or if it’s something they plan to follow up on. If it’s the latter, it would have to come to extreme flash forwards or prophetic visions that don’t seem like they are part of this show’s general ethos. Though, it’s worth noting that the show did include Daeron’s dragon dream in the first episode, when he tells Dunk that he saw a dragon fall upon him.  We are left in a strange situation where I don’t know if any of the later history of Aegon V and Ser Duncan the Tall will matter for this show (or another) but, because the original GoT did not fold those particular bits of the lore into its mysteries (and remember that, especially in the last few seasons, showrunners Benioff and Weiss dropped tons of plot points in their desire to end it quickly) it seem likely that the end of the story won’t be told in a meaningful way. It’s also interesting insofar as The Hedge Knight was written in 1998, concurrent with the second main series novel, A Clash of Kings, and predates a lot of the series’ more mystical backstory. In later Dunk and Egg novellas, it becomes much more important that we are watching not only the story of how Egg becomes one of the best kings Westeros has ever seen, but also one of the most consequential to the entire mythos of the series.  Okay. Rant over. Resuming spoiler-free discussion now!  Odds and Ends Credit: Steffan Hill/HBO I really love the show’s weirdo comedy bits. Opening on that long take of Egg only to have him whicker like a horse before smash cutting to the title was fantastic.  Ser Robyn Rhysling (William Houston) makes his first appearance in this episode. In the novella, Egg simply tells Dunk that Ser Robyn lost his eye to a splinter from a broken lance in a previous tourney. Here, we get a cutaway to him riding down his opponent with his eye dangling from the socket. It’s a great bit of visual grotesquerie that drives home the point of the story: Robyn is driven and single-minded; the “maddest knight in the Seven Kingdoms.” It’s also good to hear his house name pronounced aloud. I’ve been pronouncing it “Riesling” (like the wine) for the last twenty-five years.  We get more backstory about the First Blackfyre Rebellion (which I went into detail about in last week’s explainer) in the form of a dirty schoolyard rhyme that Egg sings. This is not one of the songs from Martin’s source material (as a fair amount of the diegetic music in GoT, HotD, and AKot7K’s tends to be) but a delightful original creation that seems to take inspiration from “Miss Susie” or “Bang Away Lulu”— the playground rhyming songs that cheekily walk up to the line of swearing before swerving into the next verse and a more innocuous word. I’m here for it! We get a brief shot of a joust between Humfrey Hardyng and Humfrey Beesbury during this episode. It’s really just a backdrop for Dunk and Egg to have a fun back and forth, but in the novella, this is a grueling and lengthy match that gets memorialized as “the Battle of Humfrey” later in the tourney. Again, always great to see the show nod to things they had to cut for time. The subplot about Plummer asking Dunk to challenge Ser Androw Ashford as a way of easing Lord Ashford’s beleaguered coffers is new to the show. That said, it does follow some general themes in The Hedge Knight. First, that this is an era of uneasy peace when the shadow of war has everyone worrying about an imminent shift in the balance of power and scrambling to maintain the status quo. Second, it’s another great illustration of the effect that Dunk has on people—every good-hearted person that meets him wants, in their own way, to reward him for his honesty and bravery. I like expanding Plummer’s character to give him this bit of courtly intrigue.  Aerion’s armor and his horse’s barding are great and very book-accurate. I will never tire of how these shows’ costumers are given enthusiastic carte blanche when it comes to decking out Targaryens in improbable dragon armor. It’s worth noting that every scene of Ser Lyonel Baratheon up to this point has not been in the original novella. The show loves Lyonel Baratheon and is working as hard as it can to shove him into every episode. I think it’s better for it.  When Dunk talks to Egg about his father, he mentions a pot shop in Flea Bottom that made “brown.” In Martin’s books, “bowls of brown” is the euphemism for perpetual stews made with all sorts of unsavory meats. They also serve as convenient cover for disposing of dead bodies, with royal spies and assassins selling the corpses of those who need to disappear to the proprietors of those shops. Grim stuff.  Bennett’s performance as Aerion is great. The temptation to play him as unhinged and frothing is probably high, but he lends him an unnatural calm even after being kicked in the teeth by Dunk. He’s fascinated at the idea of someone standing up to him and curious about what comes next. That seems like an infinitely scarier depiction. In Conclusion What do you think? If you are new to this tale, did you see the reveal about Egg’s identity coming? Are you excited for what lies ahead? If you read my long spoiler section, do you think that the show will ever catch up to the events of the far future? Bloodraven, anyone? And how about those breakfast sandwiches? Tell me all about it in the comments![end-mark] The post Prophecy and Revelations in <i>A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms</i>: “The Squire” appeared first on Reactor.