A survivor of the Pakistani grooming gangs says she was asked to remain silent about her rapist&#8217;s race for an interview on the news.
Sammy Woodhouse, a mother who bore a son out of rape at age 15 and an advocate for children of child sexual abuse, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chm-hAALS1k">was ordered</a> by a producer on &#8220;Good Morning Britain&#8221; not to mention that her assaulter was a Muslim man of Pakistani heritage. Woodhouse refused to comply — and she says the news program has since apologized to her.
In an exclusive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/michael-knowles-show-ep-1996?elementPosition=1&amp;row=6&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">interview</a> on Wednesday with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, Woodhouse shared her key takeaways from the “Rape Gang Inquiry Report,” a 219-page document released this week exposing crimes carried out in the United Kingdom by Muslim men with “predominantly Pakistani heritage.”
“A minimum of 250,000 children that have been trafficked around the United Kingdom from as early as the 1950s,” Woodhouse said. “Usually from the age of eleven, they’ve been groomed, abused, raped, tortured, trafficked, murdered, criminalized, impregnated, blamed, the authorities turned a blind eye due to race …”
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Woodhouse noted that the majority of the perpetrators were Pakistani and Muslim. Children as young as four years old were sold by their mothers, while professionals and officers looked the other way, and some were even directly involved, raping the girls themselves. 
Dogs were also used to rape the young girls, and the children were locked in cages, receiving the “most horrific of torture,” according to Woodhouse.
“I think every single person — not just in the UK, but around the world — needs to read this report because I promise you right now, this is not just a problem for the United Kingdom,” Woodhouse said. 
When asked why Pakistanis and Muslims do this, since it was not a problem before like it is today, Woodhouse said it was because they have “pure hate for non-believers.”
“There is a hate towards non-believers, especially white women or white females. As I said earlier, I think that Islam is a very violent and sexist religion, and when you read the report, you will see some of the things that they were saying to the children, you know, about their race, about the fact that they [weren’t] Muslim; and about their religion because some of the children were Christians.”
Woodhouse said Muslim men read scriptures from the Quran while a girl was raped orally, vaginally, and anally at the same time. The Muslim men would also reportedly say, “Where is your God now,” to victims who wore crosses. Children were also forced to marry these men, and then trafficked outside of the UK, according to Woodhouse. 
“There were even social workers that came and acted as witnesses at these weddings,” Woodhouse added.
Some police officers, she said, were not only involved in covering up these activities, but were willing participants — raping young girls and giving them back to their attackers. 
“There’s never been a professional held to account for the mass rape and torture of children in our country — not one,” Woodhouse noted.
She went on to explain that people remain unaware of these horrors and the victims&#8217; trauma, in part, because they just can’t believe people would commit these atrocities.
“I always say that the biggest challenge of this country is to change the mindsets of people, but you’re not gonna be able to change all those mindsets,” Woodhouse said. “We have damning amounts of evidence now in the public domain … and it&#8217;s still not enough for some people.”

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Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro said in a court hearing on Wednesday that Luigi Mangione will argue a “psychiatric defense” for his upcoming state trial over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. 
The man who is painted by many on the Left as an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/luigi-mangione">antihero</a> will now seek to present evidence that he experienced “extreme emotional disturbance” at the time of Thompson’s killing, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-reveals-luigi-mangione-pursue-psychiatric-defense-unitedhealthcare-ceo-assassination-case">Fox News</a> reported.
Mangione&#8217;s psychiatric defense could downgrade a murder conviction to a manslaughter conviction if the jury buys his argument. Mangione’s exact psychiatric issues are not clear, but the defense will have to inform the prosecutors of what malady the defendant suffers from and what caused his “extreme emotional disturbance&#8221; ahead of the state trial, which is set to begin on September 8.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspect-in-unitedhealthcare-ceo-assassination-charged-with-murder?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Suspect+In+UnitedHealthcare+CEO+Assassination+Charged+With+Murder">On December 4, 2024</a>, Mangione allegedly gunned down Thompson outside of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. He was arrested five days later in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Evidence of premeditation was found in a notebook he had on him during the arrest, detailing how to carry out the murder and why. He also carried a manifesto against insurance companies, specifically mentioning “United.”  
The judge ordered the defense to give further details to the DA&#8217;s office by Thursday.
Dr. Marc Siegel, a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, pointed out on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6398666923112">Fox News</a> that Mangione said himself in 2025 that “he doesn’t have mental illness, that he doesn’t suffer from drug abuse of any kind. … They’re gonna hang this on the fact that he had spinal fusion surgery in 2023, and he had been suffering in pain, and isolation, and anxiety.” 
Siegel doesn’t believe any of Mangione&#8217;s claims would “meet the bar of extreme emotional disturbance if it hadn’t been diagnosed previously, where he had some kind of delusional or psychotic disorder as a result.” 
Legal analyst Kerri Urbahn sees the defense linking the “emotional disturbance” to Mangione’s spinal fusion surgery back in 2023, arguing that excessive angst and anger built up over time, and then he eventually “exploded — reacted and gunned down the CEO.”
Mangione has already received a favorable ruling in his federal case, when a judge dismissed charges in the case that made him eligible for the death penalty. Mangione pleaded not guilty to all state and federal charges.

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Why eat out when you can DoorDash? In an <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/elon-musk-vlad-tenev-on-the-good-time-show/id1551570777?i=1000507355879">interview</a> from 2021, Elon Musk <a href="https://x.com/astro_greek/status/2053097906920714746">discusses</a> how his son, Saxon, who is &#8220;sort of autistic,&#8221; was always confused about why the family would go out to dinner once a week. Finally, Musk said, Saxon realized the reason people go out to restaurants is to meet new people. 
“You can get the same restaurant food delivered,” Musk said. “You can call your friends over, but you know what you can’t get unless you go to a restaurant is hanging out with strangers. So we actually like hanging out with strangers.” 
But not everyone likes hanging out with strangers. Ghost kitchens, which are professional, delivery-only food preparation infrastructures, are becoming increasingly popular in the U.S. Removing the &#8220;inconvenient&#8221; and &#8220;inefficient&#8221; dine-in space, these kitchens are expected to make up &#8220;half of the market share in both drive-thru and takeaway foodservice sectors&#8221; by 2030, <a href="https://oysterlink.com/spotlight/ghost-kitchens-statistics-facts/">according</a> to OysterLink. There are roughly 7,600 ghost kitchens in the U.S. Even <a href="https://www.thestreet.com/restaurants/chick-fil-a-opens-ghost-kitchen-delivery">Chick-fil-A</a>, known for its southern hospitality and values, has opened its own. 
Americans are opting for quick, easy, stay-at-home meals. Millions of us <a href="https://backlinko.com/doordash-users">use</a> DoorDash every month instead of visiting local restaurants. Sixty-four percent of Gen Z get takeout or delivery weekly or more often, <a href="https://foodinstitute.com/focus/gen-z-eats-differently-what-this-means-for-restaurants/">according</a> to TouchBistro. This generation <a href="https://www.fmi.org/blog/view/fmi-blog/2023/04/25/how-gen-z-is-grocery-shopping">spends 20%</a> of their grocery budget online compared to baby boomers, who only spend 10% online. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic only further normalized this behavior. 
Whether we know it or not, our habits of ordering food and sitting in front of the TV alone contribute to isolation and disconnection. I am not innocent in this. Often, I go for take-out because it&#8217;s more &#8220;convenient&#8221; or I&#8217;m just &#8220;too busy.&#8221; But these statements are less of an uncontrollable reality and more of a priority issue.
We have all heard that America is suffering a loneliness epidemic. In an age when there are more ways to connect than ever, we have never been more disconnected. As of last year, 54% of adults felt isolated, 50% felt left out, and another 50% felt they lacked companionship often or sometimes, <a href="https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2025/11/nation-suffering-division-loneliness">according</a> to an American Psychological Association poll.
The solution might be easier than you think. You need to go outside and talk to strangers.
Micro-interactions with people we don&#8217;t know seem rarer than ever. At the grocery store, self-service machines have been on the rise as people expect to make their next visit to the supermarket swift, controlled, and without the annoyance of an exhausted employee. <a href="https://www.wevend.com/the-rise-of-self-service/">According to WeVend</a>, a payment processing platform specializing in self-service businesses, self-service kiosks are in high demand, with 66% of U.S. customers saying they prefer automated interaction over a human one. I remember seeing my first <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DY4j6SWMh3L/">completely automated</a> coffee shop in an airport: Robo Cafe. The adoption of, investment in, and demand for these automated machines is <a href="https://kioskindustry.org/self-service-statistics/">increasing</a>; a lack of human interaction is in high demand. 
However, research on the indispensable nature of interactions with strangers is eye-opening. Something as simple as a quick comment, small joke, or friendly smile can reduce loneliness. <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_loving_moments_with_strangers_carry_lasting_benefits">In one study</a>, participants reported a more positive commute to work when instructed to talk with a stranger compared to those who weren&#8217;t. Another study in Starbucks found that when asked to have a “warm, genuine interaction (compared to an &#8216;efficient&#8217; one)” with the barista, people had an elevated and positive mood partly because they felt “a greater sense of belonging.”
In fact, research typically finds that interactions with strangers are beneficial, contrary to many fears of rejection. And these fears of rejection are not really based on reality. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103122000750">Research shows</a> that a stranger rejecting or shutting you down does not occur very often. Also, the <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15298868.2020.1816568#abstract">fears of screwing up</a> an interaction — awkward silence, fumbling with your words — are not the norm. 
What we need is to stop fearing social interactions and give ourselves the opportunity to meet our neighbors.
Slaughterhouse-Five author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. knew what this meant. He used to argue with his wife about buying envelopes. &#8220;You’re not a poor man,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/god-bless-you-mr-vonnegut/">would say</a>. &#8220;You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?&#8221;
&#8220;And so I pretend not to hear her,&#8221; Vonnegut said. &#8220;And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals.” 
Many Americans are lonely, depressed, and anxious because we lack purpose and human connection. If we continue to replace everything with AI and automation for the sake of efficiency, we will become optimized, selfish, and aimless.
Now, self-service machines and AI are not evil and are not inevitably going to destroy us. They don’t have agency. We do. We can find new ways to interact with people and strangers. We can choose to make hard decisions. The issue is that this technology makes it incredibly easy to avoid doing the hard thing.
We need to be more intentional than ever about making space for human interaction in our everyday lives. That means embracing a little friction and remembering that, like Musk, &#8220;we actually like hanging out with strangers.&#8221;

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued TikTok on Monday, accusing the app of violating state law by allowing minors access to inappropriate content and deceiving parents.
<a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-attorney-general-sues-tiktok-violations-state-child-safety-law">The lawsuit</a> claims that TikTok illegally permits children to view dangerous content “while prioritizing user engagement and profits,” and that the app breaches Florida&#8217;s House Bill 3, which became effective January 1, 2025. The <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/3">bill</a> is meant to protect minors by requiring social media platforms to prohibit those under 14 from creating new accounts.
But according to the new lawsuit, TikTok is allowing 13-year-olds and younger to create accounts. Additionally, Uthmeier says the app violates the bill by permitting teenagers of age to create an account without parental consent. 
“The lawsuit is focused on two things — deceiving parents and the real harms that are out there for kids,”  <a href="https://fox17.com/news/nation-world/florida-news-attorney-general-james-uthmeier-time-is-up-florida-takes-legal-action-against-tiktok-over-child-safety-concerns-st-lucie-county-civil-lawsuit-ages-14-and-15-must-have-parental-consent-predators-targeting-minors-social-media-dangers">Uthmeier said</a>.
 <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/support/faq_detail?id=7543604784432093752&amp;category=web_account">TikTok</a> claims to be an app appropriate for children, saying its content will not contain any “focus on fear or suffering, profanity or vulgarity, serious violence, dangerous behavior, or threatening imagery, including blood, sexually suggestive content, explicit references to mature or complex themes.”
However, Florida’s lawsuit says that these themes appear regularly on the app and “often in graphic detail” — a violation of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and a deception to parents.
The lawsuit further claims that TikTok knew about these dangers posed to children and refused to address them.
“TikTok knowingly deceives parents and allows children to be exposed to harmful and inappropriate content in direct violation of Florida law,” Uthmeier said. “We have zero tolerance for companies that prioritize profit over children’s safety.&#8221;
According to Uthmeier, the app violated the law in order to keep the money flowing.
“TikTok’s success hinges on its ability to addict children and teenagers to the platform,&#8221; he added. 
The app functions on an “algorithm-driven feed” — a <a href="https://www.hivedigital.com/blog/how-social-media-algorithms-work/">ranking system</a> that places videos and posts in an order the user is most likely to enjoy. The design boosts time spent on the app, especially for younger users. 
“TikTok happens to be one of the most egregious social media applications when it comes to the dangers that are there at the fingertips of kids,” Uthmeier said.
The social media company has not responded to these allegations.

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A total of 12 screwworm cases have been confirmed across two states as of June 15.
<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/new-world-screwworm/about/index.html">The New World screwworm,</a> a parasitic fly that feeds on the tissue or flesh of warm-blooded animals in its larval stage, continues to spread in the United States. Ranchers have become increasingly concerned as the deadly pest has now been found in both Texas and New Mexico.
<a href="https://publicdashboards.dl.usda.gov/t/MRP_PUB/views/NewWorldScrewwormPublicReporting_17805168329840/SummaryDashboard?%3Aembed=y&amp;%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y">There are 11</a> confirmed cases in Texas involving cattle and other livestock, and one case involving a pet dog in New Mexico. As the possibility of the screwworm spreading north grows, ranchers say they are unsettled, particularly in the Dallas area.
<a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/animals/screwworm-cases-rise-12/">In efforts to inhibit</a> the spread, quarantine zones have been expanded and livestock are prohibited from leaving the infected areas without authorization. So far, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/world-screwworm-texas-cases-climb-160154692.html">15 counties</a> across West, South, and Central Texas have been placed under quarantine by the Texas Animal Health Commission in the hopes of hindering animal traffic.  
During Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins&#8217; visit to Texas on Thursday, she hosted a roundtable with ranchers. Afterward, she helped distribute sterile male flies, which were released in order to mate with females. This technique has proved effective in hindering the screwworm population, since the females can only mate once. 
Health officials from New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, California, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are on guard against the screwworm, urging farmers to report cases early in preparation for the possibility of the screwworm advancing north. 
Further cases could also make grocery shopping more expensive. Beef’s already high price could climb higher if the outbreak impacts a broader swath of the U.S. cattle population. 
As the Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flesh-eating-screwworm-reaches-u-s-livestock?author=Lynden+Blake&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Flesh-Eating+Screwworm+Reaches+U.S.+Livestock">reported</a>, the first U.S. case of the screwworm since the 1960s was confirmed on June 4 in a three-week-old calf in Zavala County, Texas. The case came after a growing outbreak in Mexico that prompted federal officials to warn that the pest could eventually cross into the United States.

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Popular kids content creator Ms. Rachel visited an anti-ICE protest this week, where she sang a song with children about bringing &#8220;down the walls everywhere &#8230; until everyone&#8217;s free&#8221; outside of a detention facility that holds illegal immigrants.
In a video posted on social media, Ms. Rachel was seen outside Delaney Hall in New Jersey, where she joined children in the apparent anti-ICE protest.
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Ms. Rachel&#8217;s anti-ICE protest is one of the furthest steps she has taken in explicitly expressing her political views as the character Ms. Rachel, but it&#8217;s not the first time she has been outspoken about her leftist views. Ms. Rachel has also pushed LGBT talking points and even told trans-identifying man Dylan Mulvaney in 2023 that she would like him to “be on our show, Songs For Littles!&#8221;
She has partnered with people like Jules Hoffman, an androgynous-looking character whose pronouns are “they/them/theirs” on her Instagram profile. Hoffman invited children to an event called “Queer Fam Pride Jam,” where a man dressed in a skin-tight leopard-print outfit danced provocatively in front of the kids as they handed him money. At the beginning of &#8220;Pride Month&#8221; in 2024, Ms. Rachel also released a video celebrating it and expressing her love for the LGBT community.
Ms. Rachel&#8217;s YouTube series &#8220;Songs For Littles&#8221; has grown rapidly in recent years, and her YouTube channel has reached 20.2 million subscribers. She receives over 400 million views each month, with her most popular video receiving over a billion views.
Ms. Rachel has gained massive popularity largely due to her uncanny ability to “entrance” and entertain babies and toddlers. She has even been called the “world’s babysitter.”
Ms. Rachel has also recently partnered with New York City Democratic-Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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Leftist civil rights leaders and race hustlers condemned the guilty verdict in Karmelo Anthony’s trial, claiming it was unjust and racist.
Anthony was convicted of murder on Tuesday after just two and a half hours of deliberations over the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. While Anthony&#8217;s family peddled claims that he was targeted for his race and that Metcalf provoked him, video evidence shows that Anthony refused requests that he leave the track team&#8217;s tent before he stabbed Metcalf.
Despite the evidence and the quick verdict, some black leftists claimed the outcome was racially motivated. 
Dominique Alexander, a Dallas-based civil rights leader, political activist, and founder of the Next Generation Action Network, <a href="https://x.com/JayTC53/status/2064438950589354412">said</a>, “Black America should be very upset about what went on today.” He called the verdict “flawed” and &#8220;unjust.&#8221; 
The case’s result tells people that “black lives do not matter in the criminal justice system,” according to Alexander. It shows racism in law, Alexander said, demonstrating that black people will “be afforded the same laws as anybody else.” He added that he is not “playing the race card,” but presenting the fact that black people have suffered from these laws for 400 years.
A <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DZYM6qEBiZ6/?igsh=MTk3NTdtOXVyb2g1aA%3D%3D">post</a> shared on Instagram by Dr. Umar Johnson, a motivational speaker and author who has dubbed himself &#8220;prince of Pan-Africanism,&#8221; compared the Anthony case to the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857, claiming that Anthony was “lynched by an all-white jury.” The post shared by Johnson also claimed that &#8220;black people aren’t allowed to defend themselves” and that there is “no justice!” 
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<a href="https://x.com/AttorneyCrump/status/2064443533365264462">Ben Crump</a>, a prominent American civil rights attorney, said the case presents “hard questions about fairness, justice, and whose actions earn the benefit of understanding.”
&#8220;Those questions are not new, and we owe it to every family touched by this to keep asking them,&#8221; Crump added.
Civil rights attorney and CNN contributor Areva Martin also <a href="https://x.com/ArevaMartin/status/2064457541699178591">said</a> that Anthony’s verdict “raises questions.”
&#8220;This case is far from over. We should expect an appeal, including challenges related to the exclusion of Black jurors,&#8221; Martin added. &#8220;Faith in our courts requires more than a conviction or an acquittal. It requires confidence that every defendant was afforded a fair trial.&#8221;
Martin said that the reason this verdict will be difficult for the “African American community” to accept is due to the exclusion of “all of the black potential jurors.” Multiple black witnesses, however, said that Anthony was in the wrong and spoke highly of Metcalf. Martin also argued that Anthony pulled out the knife because he was “fearful of his life” and believed he would be injured, despite the fact that Metcalf said he would not fight Anthony.
Not everyone in the black community is upset by the verdict. Judge Glenda Hatchett, the prominent American attorney, author, and television personality, said in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZYXUqhTSSh/">video</a> on Instagram that she did not find a “basis for self-defense.” The testimony did not show &#8220;his life was in danger” or that it “justified the fatal stabbing,” according to Hatchett.
Coming from a “mother’s heart,” Hatchett said that parents must teach their children how to “think clearly” in these situations.
“He was not supposed to be in the tent,” Hatchett said. “He was asked to leave the tent. Why not just leave the tent?”

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On Tuesday, NASA announced the four men set to embark on a low-Earth orbit test flight in the next step toward America&#8217;s goal to once again set foot on the moon. 
NASA selected Andre Douglas, Frank Rubio, Luca Parmitano, and Randy Bresnik for Artemis III. The four men will train for a year and a half, a shorter time than the Artemis II crew’s training, which was three years. Bresnik was designated as the commander, and Douglass and Rubio are the mission specialists. Parmitano — an Italian from the European Space Agency — is the pilot.
As the crowd applauded the men, Douglas shouted “Mom, thank you so much for believing in me.&#8221; 
For the Artemis III mission, the crew will be traveling in an Orion capsule for about two weeks, which is roughly the size of two minivans. The four crew members will undergo training to establish relational-bonds and teamwork. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-iii/">According to NASA</a>, the mission&#8217;s goal is to &#8220;carry out a series of objectives designed to demonstrate critical systems needed for a future lunar landing.&#8221;
The Space Launch System rocket, carrying the Orion spacecraft, hopes to launch the crew members from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center by late 2027. The Orion spacecraft is a major step for NASA towards exploration on the Moon and, eventually, Mars.
Parmitano represents the European agency, beginning his career as “a test pilot and then colonel with the Italian Air Force.” <a href="https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/ESA_astronaut_Luca_Parmitano_joins_NASA_s_Artemis_III_mission_as_pilot">In 2007</a>, he was selected by the Italian Air Force to be a test pilot, training as an &#8220;Experimental Test Pilot at EPNER, the French test pilot school in Istres.&#8221; Promoted to colonel in the Italian Air Force, he logged over 2,000 hours of flight time. He also qualified for over 20 types of military airplanes and helicopters, flying over 40 types of aircraft. He has previously spent 366 days in space across two missions to the International Space Station and Volare and Beyond.  
<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/people/randolph-komrade-bresnik/">Bresnik,</a> the oldest member of the crew, started working with NASA in 2004, and is the only crew member who flew on a space shuttle before the vehicles retired. Bresnik has a military career, commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1989. He also attended U.S. Naval Test Pilot&#8217;s School, becoming an F/A-18 Test Pilot and was deployed to Kuwait, flying combat missions. Along with being a veteran of the Space Shuttle mission STS-129, Bresnik served as &#8220;Commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 53 and flight engineer for Expedition 52&#8221; with over 32 hours of Spacewalk experience. Bresnik also has over 3,600 hours in spacecraft. 
<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-andre-douglas/">Douglas has a</a> bachelor&#8217;s degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a master&#8217;s degree in mechanical engineering from University of Michigan, along with a degree in electrical and computer engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and a doctorate in systems engineering from George Washington University. He also was a &#8220;naval architect, salvage engineer, damage control assistant, and officer of the deck&#8221; while serving the U.S. Coast Guard.
When Douglas was selected in 2021 to join NASA&#8217;s Astronaut Candidate Class, he was a &#8220;senior professional staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL) working on maritime robotics, planetary defense, and space exploration missions.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.nasa.gov/people/frank-rubio/">Rubio graduated</a> from the U.S. Military Academy in 1998, and received a Doctorate of Medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2010. He also served in the U.S. Army as an aviator and a physician for over 28 years. An Army Aviator, Rubio flew more than 1,100 hours, which includes over 600 hours of &#8220;combat and imminent danger time&#8221; as a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot. He is board-certified as a &#8220;family physician and flight surgeon.&#8221; When Rubio was selected by NASA in 2017, he was serving in the 3rd Battalion of the 10th Special Forces Group.
Rubio spent 371 days in space, the longest continuous stay in space by a NASA astronaut, due to traveling to the International Space Station where a coolant leak occurred. Rubio had travelled in a Russian Soyuz capsule, docked to the space station, and, instead of staying there six months, had to wait for a replacement Soyuz to come for over a year.

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The homeless man accused of attacking six men at Penn Station was a repeat offender who had committed a similar stabbing and was arrested for another crime just weeks earlier, according to a new report.
Hector Deleon, 51, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homeless-maniac-goes-on-stabbing-rampage-at-penn-station">stabbed six men</a> at Penn Station on Monday, the night before President Donald Trump arrived for the New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, which sits just above the station. The victims were hospitalized and all are expected to survive. 
According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-news/penn-station-slashing-suspect-was-free-despite-eerily-similar-2022-attack-records/">New York Post</a>, Deleon committed a similar crime in Newark on February 8, 2022. During an argument with another man who said Deleon wasn’t permitted on his property due to thieving tendencies, Deleon pulled out a six-inch knife and stabbed the man on the left side of his neck. 
The victim was placed in the trauma ward, receiving nine stitches. Deleon was arrested on February 14, 2022, and charged with aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and was held in jail before a court hearing. Deleon was released four days later on a cashless bail system under several conditions. 
In another incident on April 10, 2023, Deleon pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to two years of probation with conditions that he perform 100 hours of community service and undergo mental health treatments, per the Post. Deleon violated his probation in 2024 and was arrested at least two more times. One of the arrests included an alleged act of violence. 
Deleon still faces an active assault and criminal mischief case from 2025 over a domestic violence incident. Just six days after his scheduled appearance in court, Deleon was arrested on June 30, 2025, for possessing a crack pipe. 
His most recent arrest took place on May 22, 2026. Deleon was caught stealing and in possession of drug paraphernalia, after he stole $4 worth of coins from a tip jar and was holding a pipe with a &#8220;burnt brown color.&#8221;
The repeat offender was described as having “rage in his eyes” when he allegedly slashed six men at Penn Station, one of the victims, Henry Obadiah, said. 
Deleon was so crazed and “drugged-up” that he had to be sedated before he was “wrangled” into the ambulance, the Post reported. 
He has not been officially charged yet due to hospitalization under heavy sedation.

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Hollywood celebrities&#8217; frozen faces are damaging their performances.
Fans are in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ancient-lesson-christopher-nolan-may-have-completely-stripped-out-of-the-odyssey">uproar</a> over Christopher Nolan’s new movie &#8220;The Odyssey,&#8221; but this time it&#8217;s not about the casting; it&#8217;s about a skilled actress’ inability to emote after what appears to be cosmetic surgery. After seeing the trailer, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DYAKVjtm1qI/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1">a critic compared</a> Anne Hathaway’s performance as Penelope in the movie to another role of hers years ago, concluding: “Having Botox is like a disability for actors.”
In &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221; trailer, Hathaway&#8217;s character is clearly meant to appear distressed. But her face is remarkably smooth; it lacks the creases and lines Hathaway showed while crying in the 2010 movie &#8220;Love &amp; Other Drugs.&#8221;
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Sixteen years ago, you couldn&#8217;t mistake her emotions. But if you take away the sound in &#8220;The Odyssey&#8221;<a href="https://youtu.be/f_bKjZeJBBI?t=120"> trailer</a>, it becomes difficult to understand what feeling Hathaway is trying to express. Instead of obvious hopelessness and grief, Hathaway&#8217;s character might be angry or accusing instead.
This is happening all the time now. New York dermatologist Dr David Colbert got <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/face-doesn-t-move-hollywood-110004318.html">chewed out</a> a few years ago by a director who was shooting a scene with a high-profile actor. The director scolded Colbert, who has treated famous actors such as Sienna Miller, for plumping the actor’s face “with so much filler it wouldn’t move.”
<a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/65946/1/is-botox-ruining-cinema-nicole-kidman-the-substance-babygirl">In a Dazed article</a>, culture editor Halima Jibril wonders, &#8220;Is Botox ruining cinema?&#8221; From Arianna Grande in &#8220;Wicked&#8221; to Kristen Bell in &#8220;Nobody Wants This,&#8221; actresses are failing to emote. &#8220;An actor’s main job is to convey to the audience the emotions, thoughts and feelings the character is experiencing and tweakments block the face from producing the expressions and micro-expressions which help portray these,&#8221; Jibril writes.
The article also calls out Lindsey Lohan in &#8220;Irish Wish,&#8221; sharing a TikTok that shows Lohan crying — or at least trying to — but her face is so stiff that it feels rather laughable instead of moving. 
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A viral clip from &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywoods-most-sinful-show-ends-with-a-moral">Euphoria</a>&#8221; illustrates how desensitized we have become to cosmetic surgeries’ influence on acting. Fans pointed to Sydney Sweeney, noticing the difference between her and another actress’s performance. The clip highlights how Sweeney, who has said under a lie detector test that she has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVYXM7qIM2s">never had</a> any work done, can actually convey emotion. One viewer <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-euphoria-botox-scene-season-three-11891747">commented</a>, “with sydney’s acting you can literally see that cassie doesn’t care in her facial expressions but the other lady’s face doesn’t move at all like if you watched without sound you wouldn’t know she was mad.”
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The difference between the two actresses is shocking: complete human emotion versus an expressionless face with only an angry tone to convey frustration. True, Sweeney’s face has lines and wrinkles, but the audience can actually feel her emotion.
Facial treatments to achieve Hollywood&#8217;s brand of beauty are destroying the actors’ skills. Even slight expressions in the forehead, eyes, lips, cheeks, and brows allow the audience to feel what the actor expresses. By stifling these abilities, Botox and other treatments make actors&#8217; performances less moving. Unfortunately, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristenharris1/celebs-pressured-to-get-cosmetic-surgery">not all of these actors want these cosmetic surgeries</a>; some are ironically forced into them for the sake of their careers.
Hollywood’s immovable faces reveal its fear of “ugly.” Actors and actresses seem to believe that if their faces make one exaggerated or unattractive expression, audiences will despise them. They fear failing to meet today&#8217;s unachievable standards by maintaining a face that makes expressions that require wrinkles and lines. Even characters who are meant to be ugly — or at least not show-stopping — are played by actors with “perfect” modern features, such as <a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240925-wuthering-heights-hollywoods-worst-casting-decisions">Margo Robbie</a> in &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-promised-a-love-story-what-it-delivered-was-something-else">Wuthering Heights</a>.&#8221;
These actors may have perfect aesthetics, with features designed based on what is most attractive by today’s standards. But there is something lost through the procedures. These cosmetic surgeries, through removing the full range of facial expressions, strip away movies’ essential ability to connect with audiences and characters&#8217; ability to move them. If actors continue to prioritize “perfect beauty” over real faces, they will sacrifice the rawness and realism necessary for a good story.
Botox, fillers, and other cosmetic surgeries have had a dramatic effect on cinema. It&#8217;s as if Hollywood wanted to distance itself further from its viewers by making its characters not only stiff-faced but disconnected from the average audience. Movies are supposed to present stories designed to inspire and stir the viewer; the best films call people to a higher standard and morality. But how can a film be expected to move an audience if its characters can&#8217;t connect with people on a basic human level?
Julie Andrews&#8217;s Oscar-nominated role in the 1965 film &#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; exemplifies how true emotions should look on screen. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9v85Bc1fR0">When Andrews&#8217; character</a>, Maria, argues with Captain von Trapp, you can see the creases between her brows. Mute the sound, and the subtle differentiations in her expressions become pronounced: concern becomes frustration, which then turns into exasperation and pleading, and finally into hurt.
The best actors&#8217; emotions are etched into every wrinkle and line on their faces; that is how emotion touches us. Good performances show us how Hollywood is terrified of the truth: people are imperfect. We do not possess flawless, un-aging faces; we grow old, wrinkle, and decay. And that makes great cinema.

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<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/">A WIRED analysis</a> found that Meta has incorporated facial recognition technology into apps that connect to the company’s smart glasses.
The feature, called “NameTag,” was integrated into the app through several updates in 2026. It identifies people through the glasses’ camera and alerts the wearer when it recognizes someone, according to WIRED. Although the feature has not yet been enabled, NameTag relies on three AI models implemented through Meta’s servers and stored on users&#8217; phones.
“One model detects faces, one crops them, and a third encodes them into biometric data,” WIRED reported. 
This discovery, identified by independent experts cited by WIRED, suggests that Meta has already distributed facial-recognition code to customers&#8217; devices while publicly claiming it is still “thinking through” whether to deploy the technology. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html">According to the New York Times</a>, Meta said in February that it would not “roll anything out” before taking a “thoughtful approach.” 
“While we frequently hear about the interest in this type of feature — and some products already exist in the market — we’re still thinking through options,” a Meta executive told the Times. 
At the time, Meta’s smart glasses only activated their cameras when users took photos, recorded videos, or interacted with the AI assistant. The company, however, was also developing a feature known as “super sensing,” which would allow the cameras to operate continuously throughout the day. According to reports, facial recognition was a key component of that effort. 
WIRED shared its findings with Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Threat Lab. Although NameTag is not available to consumers, Quintin said the feature appears &#8220;nearly ready to go,” with the core facial-recognition components “already in Meta’s companion app.” 
“Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine,” Quintin said.
While a feature like this could benefit the blind, which is one of the reasons Mark Zuckerberg supported research into this field, it also poses significant dangers — especially when the company begins embedding this technology without altering its original statement. In April, more than 70 advocacy groups called on Meta to abandon Nametag, arguing it could allow stalkers and abusers to covertly identify strangers in public.
Meta has denied that it is preparing to launch the feature.
Spokesman Ryan Daniels said that despite what he described as “sensational reporting,” the company is merely “exploring” the technology.
“Nothing has shipped to consumers and no final decision has been made on what to do here, if anything,” Daniels said. “If we do decide to roll something out, we will take a thoughtful approach and do so with full transparency. One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database.&#8221; 
However, WIRED reported that NameTag is capable of pulling faceprints from Meta&#8217;s servers and storing them on a consumer&#8217;s phone.  
Meta previously faced scutiny over facial recognition technology used on Facebook. Beginning in 2010, the company deployed software that analyzed photographs and suggested tags for users who appeared in images. According to WIRED, the system became “one of the largest consumer face-recognition systems ever deployed.” 
European regulators and U.S. privacy advocates raised concerns about the technology&#8217;s legality in 2011. In 2019, Facebook agreed to pay a record $5 billion settlement to the Federal Trade Commission as part of a broader privacy case that included scrutiny of the company&#8217;s handling of user data and facial-recognition practices.

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