The U.S. Army's about to get a massive fit check — and not the kind where you show off the latest fashions in camouflage.
Effective this month, soldiers will be expected to pass a new, more rigorous Combat Field Test, one Secretary of the Army Hon. Dan Driscoll says will make sure those in the most physically demanding roles to "have the specific fitness required to dominate on the modern battlefield."
'We're asking more of our combat arms Soldiers.'
The new requirements directly affect those designated under combat military occupational specialties, such as infantrymen or combat engineers.
Boot and rallyThe annual test must be completed in 30 minutes while wearing the Army Combat Uniform, combat boots, and a brown T-shirt. It consists of the following:
The test concludes with another 1-mile run.
If a soldier can complete this test, they are fit for a combat role in the U.S. Army. However, that is not the only fitness test they'll have to go through.
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Planks for the memoriesThose enlisted in combat arms will also have to complete the current annual Army Fitness Test, which is a requirement of all active duty and reserve soldiers.
That test consists of the following:"This isn't just about passing a test; it's a direct measure of our commitment to readiness and ensuring our warfighters can dominate in any environment," Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Weimer said. "We're asking more of our combat arms soldiers, and this test validates their ability to meet that high standard."
For Pete's sakeSince assuming the office last year, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has made raising military fitness standards a priority.
"It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular, hard PT, so can every member of our joint force," Hegseth said in a speech last October.
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The Army notes that if it is determined that a soldier cannot meet the physical standards, they may request a voluntary reclassification to a non-combat role, in order for the Army to retain personnel.
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Breitbart News social media director and author Wynton Hall discussed the revelations in his instant bestseller, Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI, and warned it is crucial for conservatives to understand that AI is not just "a tool," but "political power," and the MAGA movement has the opportunity to use it "to prevail on the battlefield of ideas."
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South Africa's communications minister says that human oversight is sorely needed in the age of artificial intelligence.
The reason stems from a draft of the country's new AI policy, which leaders hoped would address concerns about ethics and regulations related to the technology.
'There will be consequence management for those responsible.'
The country's Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Mmoba Solomon Malatsi, made a shocking admission that he would be withdrawing the national AI framework after its integrity had been "compromised."
Malatsi took to his X page on Sunday to explain that an internal review confirmed the policy included fake citations, likely generated by AI.
"The Draft ... contains various fictitious sources in its reference list," the minister wrote.
The draft had been made available to allow for public comment, but scrutiny over the fake sources sparked a review after just three weeks.
"This failure is not a mere technical issue but has compromised the integrity and credibility of the draft policy," the politician continued. "The most plausible explanation is that AI-generated citations were included without proper verification. This should not have happened."
The 40-year-old said the incident proves why "vigilant human oversight over the use of artificial intelligence is critical."
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The policy draft outlined a new National AI Commission, ethics board, and regulatory authority around AI that would coordinate to enforce new policies and ethical standards, Reuters reported.
It also set out framework for compensation related to any harm caused by the use of artificial intelligence.
The South Africans added emphasis on building their digital infrastructure in terms of cloud computing and computer farms, while calling for a reduction in reliance on hardware from China and the United States .
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Malatsi seemingly took his lumps in his post, calling the ordeal "a lesson we take with humility."
"I want to reassure the country that we are treating this matter with the gravity it deserves. There will be consequence management for those responsible for drafting and quality assurance," he added.
Malatsi is a member of South Africa's Democrat Alliance party, which holds the second-most seats in the National Assembly. His position as minister is in South Africa's Government of National Unity, which occurs when there is no party that wins an outright majority.
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Co-writer and director Andy Serkis took Animal Farm, one of the totems of classic literature, and woke-raped it into something unrecognizable.
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Maine's Democrat Gov. Janet Mills, 78, has suspended her Senate campaign, which she hoped would unseat 5-term incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).
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On April 23, just two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel released a skit parodying the event, during which he joked that Melania Trump had "a glow like an expectant widow.”
Of course, at the actual WHCD, President Trump and others in the administration were victims of yet another assassination attempt.
But instead of apologizing for his comment, which Melania called “hateful and violent rhetoric” and cause for his firing, Kimmel doubled down.
“[It] obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they're together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am,” the late-night host said. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that.”
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t buying Kimmel’s excuses. This time, she argues, he may have pushed his luck too far.
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“Jimmy Kimmel: His time might finally be up,” says Sara, pointing to Kimmel’s history of making deliberately inflammatory comments.
In September 2025, immediately following the murder of Charlie Kirk, Kimmel made a comment many viewed as insensitive or politicizing the killing, sparking massive backlash, threats from the FCC chairman, affiliate stations pulling his show, and ABC temporarily suspending “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
“After everything had happened and after all of the blowback that he had had, has he learned anything?” asks Sara. “The answer is no. They never do.”
She highlights the left’s glaring double standard when it comes to humor.
“They are outraged any time President Trump ever tells [a joke]. ... In fact, nobody on the right can ever tell a joke without them being just horrified, without them clutching their pearls,” she rails.
Sara also makes fun of the left’s obsession with cancel culture, only to turn around and whine about it when it affects one of their own.
“The left has never engaged in cancel culture and called for people to be fired. They only created the damn game,” she scoffs, pointing to recent headlines from CBS News, People, and Poynter defending Kimmel against calls from President Trump and Melania for his firing.
But despite mainstream media coming to his rescue, Sara is hopeful that Kimmel will actually be canned this time.
“There is a new sheriff in town at Disney,” she says, referring to Josh D’Amaro, who replaced Bob Iger as CEO of Disney in March this year.
D’Amaro, she says, may do things differently to avoid the scandals that pushed Iger out the door.
“This is going to be his first test of going head-to-head with President Trump, and the same sort of drama took down a former Disney CEO, so … you would imagine he’s going to want to stay on President Trump’s good side,” she speculates.
But on top of playing nice with Trump, there’s also the issue of Kimmel’s unpopularity.
“I mean, when you look at his ratings, he doesn't seem to be worth saving,” says Sara, displaying a chart of Kimmel’s cataclysmic fall from peak popularity in 2015 to all-time lows in 2026.
“I'm just trying to will [Kimmel’s firing] into existence. … Can you blame me?” she asks. “I just want these people to … have a taste of their own medicine.”
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"Dances with Wolves" actor Nathan Chasing Horse — once hailed as a spiritual healer — learned his fate after he was found guilty of sexually abusing girls and women for years.
Nevada 8th Judicial District Court Judge Jessica Peterson on Monday sentenced Chasing Horse to life in prison, the Associated Press reported, adding that he'll be eligible for parole after 37 years.
'He took away my sense of safety, even within my own mind.'
Chasing Horse's defense attorney argued for the statutory minimum of 25 years to life, according to USA Today.
Craig A. Mueller, Chasing Horse's lawyer, told TMZ he plans to appeal.
The 49-year-old actor maintained his innocence during the sentencing hearing: "I did not do these things. This is a miscarriage of justice."
But Judge Peterson told Chasing Horse, "You preyed on these women's trusts and their spirituality, and you manipulated them for your own personal gratification," the AP reported.
As Blaze News previously reported, a Nevada grand jury indicted Chasing Horse in February 2023.
The actor — best known for playing the "Smiles a Lot" character in the Oscar-winning Kevin Costner film "Dances with Wolves" — pleaded not guilty to all of the 21 charges against him.
However, a jury in January 2026 convicted him of 13 charges related to sexual assaults.
KTNV-TV reported that Chasing Horse was found guilty of 10 counts of sexual assault of a minor under 16, one count of open/gross lewdness, one count of sexual assault, and one count of possession of visual presentation depicting sexual conduct of a child.
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Deputy District Attorney Bianca Pucci told the jury that Chasing Horse "spun a web of abuse" for nearly 20 years, according to PBS.
Pucci told the courtroom that Chasing Horse previously manipulated a 14-year-old girl named Corena Leone-LaCroix by weaponizing his status as a purported Lakota medicine man with spiritual influence.
Pucci alleged that Chasing Horse told the girl the spirits wanted her to give up her virginity to him in order to save her mother who had been diagnosed with cancer.
Pucci said Chasing Horse sexually assaulted her and told her that if she told anyone, her mother would die, according to PBS.
The Las Vegas Sun reported that Leone-LaCroix recalled Chasing Horse telling her, "A life for a life."
"That is the promise he made me make all those years ago when I didn't understand the extent of what he was asking me. I think it's only fitting that you ask the same of him here today," Leone-LaCroix told the judge.
"There is no way to get back the youth, the childhood loss, my first time, my first kiss, the graduation I never got to have," Leone-LaCroix said, according to PBS. "The life that little girl could have lived has been taken from me forever."
The survivor's mother, Melissa Leone, called Chasing Horse "the Epstein of Indian Country."
The mom told Judge Peterson, "The crimes he has been convicted of, like Epstein, are not even the tip of the iceberg."
Siera Begaye, another victim of Chasing Horse, told the jury she suffered from trauma caused by his "psychological control," according to USA Today.
"He took away my sense of safety, even within my own mind. I believe I didn't have privacy in my own thoughts," Begaye stated. "Living with that kind of psychological control has had lasting effects on my ability to trust others and to fully express myself."
Begaye added, "The trauma delayed important parts of my life."
Chief Deputy District Attorney William Rowles and Pucci told KSNV-TV:
We think it was very important to ensure that each victim was represented separate and distinct in the sentence. We are very happy the judge agreed with the assessment as each victim survived their own trauma. The defendant should be held accountable for each victim separately. We want to thank Judge Peterson for her professionalism throughout the trial, particularly in the way she conducted herself in balancing the rights of a defendant and the privacy rights of sexual assault survivors.The Press Democrat reported that Chasing Horse also has been charged in Canada, and prosecutors in British Columbia said once he has exhausted all of his appeals in the United States, they will move forward with assessing next steps for a 2018 sexual assault charge in Keremeos — a village about four hours east of Vancouver.
Chasing Horse has six acting credits to his name, and his last acting appearance was in the 2007 HBO film "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," which won six Emmys.
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President Donald Trump called on Senate Republicans to lift the filibuster on Thursday so they can pass the Save America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
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Elon Musk repeatedly clashed with OpenAI's attorney during a heated cross-examination on the second day of a landmark trial that could shape the future trajectory of AI development.
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The U.S. economy accelerated at the start of the year, lifted by a sharp increase in business investment in equipment and intellectual property. Gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, expanded at a 2.0 percent annual rate in the first quarter,
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Beloved '90s comedy "Friends" may have been one big lovefest on screen — but behind the scenes, it was a toxic stew of verbal abuse and sexual harassment.
At least, this is according to one of the stars of the blockbuster ensemble sitcom, which ran on NBC from 1994 to 2004.
'We know that back in the room the guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies.'
Gag ordersApparently, the same writers who came up with now-iconic lines like, "We were on a break" and "How you doin'?" had brutally high standards for how their work was performed — and weren't afraid to say so in profanity-laden tirades.
"Don't forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers' lines or it didn't get the perfect response, they could be like, 'Can't the b***h f**king read? She's not even trying. She f**ked up my line,'" actress Lisa Kudrow told the Times.
Kudrow also claimed that the male writers openly leered over her comely co-stars.
Central perks"We know that back in the room the guys would be up late discussing their sexual fantasies about Jennifer [Aniston] and Courteney [Cox]. It was intense," she stated.
Kudrow added that the dozen or so writers making up the staff were "mostly men."
"Oh, it could be brutal, but these guys — and it was mostly men in there — were sitting up until 3 a.m. trying to write the show, so my attitude was, 'Say what you like about me behind my back because then it doesn't matter.'"
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Don't call it a 'Comeback'Kudrow made the comments while promoting the third season of her HBO series "The Comeback," which depicts the humiliating misadventures of a washed-up sitcom actress trying to reignite her career.
Kudrow said that when it debuted in 2005, HBO worried that viewers would reject its unsparing depiction of its desperate protagonist — and the pathetic lengths to which she'd go for a shot at success.
"That was news to me, because I thought women could be just as ambitious as men. But a producer on another show said it's like making jokes about disabled people. Obviously you don't do it, and at that time, women were seen as victims."
"The Comeback" was canceled after one season but returned for another in 2014.
MeToo soon?The current season may surprise viewers with scenes mocking "gender-inclusive" language and a reference to making "illegal" jokes, but Kudrow explicitly denied that the show was hitting back at "woke" comedy or the MeToo movement.
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"No, because the MeToo movement was great," she said, although she did allow that "there came a point where you couldn't joke about anything. It felt like comedy was dying."
Kudrow may not always have enjoyed making "Friends," but the massive residuals she earns would put a smile on anyone's face.
The Times reported Kudrow and her castmates each still earn approximately $20 million per year.
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