Paul George scored a record 38 points in his Celtics debut against the Detroit Pistons, reflecting on the injuries that plagued his 76ers tenure.

Tech trillionaire Elon Musk issued a warning to Democrats after hearing their plans to investigate him over his time in the Trump administration.

Musk was responding to an article with a bevy of comments from Democrats saying they will hound him and his many companies if they win power in the midterm elections.

'Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets.'

Democrats have long accused Musk of having various conflicts of interest with the actions he took when he headed up the Department of Government Efficiency.

"Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …" he wrote Wednesday on X, the social media platform he owns.

In another post, he responded to liberal talking head Kara Swisher claiming Musk could have been in jail if Kamala Harris had won the 2024 presidential election.

"And that's not because she's some avenging fury. It's because there's a lot of questions around different companies of his," she said.

"If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate ... I'd be worried if I were him! No matter how rich he is, there are all these agencies, some of which he put a knife in and killed in the DOGE, many of whom were investigating him," she claimed. "He stopped half a dozen investigations of his various companies."

Musk responded simply, "Message received."

Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington pointed to recent allegations that Musk had restricted Ukraine's use of Starlink internet ahead of a damaging Russian attack.

"What happens when one guy gets a giant contract from the government and then uses it to do something that shuts down communication in a war that has been extremely important to the United States to support Ukraine?” she said.

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"Congress must demand a full accounting of the damage Mr. Musk and DOGE caused, and we will not let anyone obstruct our oversight," said Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), who is also a ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Spokespeople for Musk did not respond to multiple requests from Politico for comment.

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Lucas Miles of Turning Point USA says he contacted the White House Faith Office urging Trump to pressure Australia over a church investigation.

Republican Study Committee members praised Trump's crackdown on nearly $42 million in SNAP fraud and emphasized the need to continue the initiative.

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Even naps under 30 minutes raised dementia risk 40% in a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study of nearly 1,000 older adults.

The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Wednesday condemned the arrest warrant issued by a judge in Florida against Cuba's nonagenarian communist dictator Raúl Castro — reiterating support for their ideological mentors in the Castro regime.

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A Minnesota murder suspect's notebook listed 11 people search websites, raising urgent questions about data broker opt-out and online privacy risks.

Thousands if not millions of families in Texas recently received a pamphlet in the mail titled "Texas Trans and LGBTQ+ Student Resource Guide," seemingly providing information to trans-identifying minors seeking emancipation from their parents and/or sex-rejection procedures.

There was widespread outrage but also skepticism over the mailers, especially after the radical organization named and promoted in the pamphlet — the Transgender Education Network of Texas — denied responsibility for it.

'I think that their own materials ... like their "Back to School Toolkit" — I think they deserve scrutiny as well.'

TENT says it was not responsible, and evidence points to a possible election-time "op" by an out-of-state actor. However, critics have observed that the controversial messaging in the flyer greatly resembles what has been pushed by TENT and other trans activist outfits in the state.

Disavowal

The pamphlet states, "You are not alone. There are people in Texas who will help you find support."

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After discussing emancipation, "what to do if your parents don't support you," and "what to know about hormones or gender affirming care," the pamphlet devotes two pages to promoting TENT and its "Trans Texas Takeover Fall Tour," which is an actual tour with upcoming events scheduled across the state.

Earlier in the month, multiple phone numbers sent provocative texts to Texans also linking to TENT's newly scrubbed website and its "Back to School Toolkit," reported the Tribune.

One text allegedly stated, "New school year? Here's your complete guide on bathrooms and beyond for trans kids at school," with a link to a TENT toolkit.

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These communications prompted outrage and an investigation request by Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach (R).

Leach has since supplemented his request, asking Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton to look into the "possibility that the communications and associated toolkit may not originate from the group whose name it was sent under."

Paxton's office did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

TENT has disavowed the pamphlet and the text messages.

TENT noted in a statement on its website, "We are aware of text messages and now physical mailers that have been circulated concerning TENT that appear to have been issued by or on behalf of the organization. These text messages and mailers were not authored, authorized, approved, or distributed by TENT and are not affiliated with our organization. The texts do not represent the official position or communications of the organization."

Mimi Marziani, a lawyer at the law firm retained by TENT, told NBC News, "This was deliberately injected into public conversation right as early voting was taking place, and I do not think it was a coincidence."

While TENT has denied involvement, Jonathan Covey, the director of policy for Texas Values, told Blaze News, "I think that their own materials that they do have and that we have been able to see — like their 'Back to School Toolkit' — I think they deserve scrutiny as well. We think that some of the positions that they take undermine parents' roles in their children's lives."

Covey underscored the need to identify the individuals behind the mailer and how they "obtained all that mailing information."

"Families deserve answers about where that information came from," added Covey.

Origin

WFAA-TV, KHOU-TV, the Texas Tribune, and sleuths online have connected the pamphlet back to a limited liability company that was registered in Wyoming last month, reinforcing suspicions that this mailing campaign may have been an election-time "op" all along.

The return sender listed on the mailer is "Texas Transgender Student Union," an outfit that does not appear to be an organization with a presence in the state. The return address in Meadows Place, Texas, isn't a valid address, referring instead to the middle of a street. It also appears to be a look-alike address modeled on Transgender Education Network of Texas' address.

Snopes highlighted, however, that a similar address turns up a nearby mailbox at a UPS store.

The Texas Observer's Steven Monacelli discovered this week that the Texas Transgender Student Union "is a real organization — but it was only formed in September in Wyoming as an LLC and is entirely separate from TENT, the organization marketed in the fliers."

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The LLC's registered agent is the popular corporate filing service Northwest Registered Agent LLC; its organizer is listed as Taylor Newman; and it is tied to an address in Sheridan, Wyoming, which has been linked to various companies accused of scams.

Newman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Northwest Registered Agent told WFAA-TV:

One of our main jobs is receiving state and legal notices for our clients and forwarding them promptly. This gives agencies a way to serve legal notices on companies, even if they don’t have a physical office location, and it keeps businesses reachable by law enforcement and regulators. That is where our involvement ends. We have no way of knowing someone’s intent when they’re forming a new company, and Northwest Registered Agent has no knowledge of, or involvement in, our clients’ business operations.

TENT has reportedly sent a cease-and-desist notice to the Texas Transgender Student Union as well as to a pair of digital messaging companies that reportedly delivered the text messages on Oct. 12 and 13.

The Senate campaigns of state Rep. James Talarico (D) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News but told CBS News Texas that they had nothing to do with the LGBT mailer.

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Federal authorities have accused Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D) on Thursday of leading a criminal marijuana distribution enterprise.

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Well, this is … awkward

A pair of critical PHP security flaws discovered by researchers with the help of AI forced an emergency patch and set off scattered attacks across the web. PHP is a programming language used to build up to 70 percent of the websites online today.

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‘Higher prices, diminished quality and service’

Jacob Bridgeman spoke at Trump's Clemson University rally in South Carolina, recounting his Presidents Cup clinching putt for Team USA golf.

Federal raids across Southern California targeted 15 suspects, including a cardiothoracic surgeon, in nearly $2 billion in healthcare fraud schemes.

Hollywood’s commitment to diversity is hollow, according to rapper and television producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.

The “Power” producer says the industry’s investment in black programming fails to match its rhetoric.

'They're not screaming for diversity. Are you crazy?'

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“They’re not screaming for diversity. Are you crazy?” Jackson told Andrew Schulz on his podcast “Flagrant.”

“They don’t care to see you n*****s on the TV, bro,” he laughed.

Jackson appears alongside Schulz in the new “Street Fighter” adaptation, which opened October 16. Their conversation turned to the difficulty of building a television business and the kinds of projects Hollywood is willing to finance.

Jackson argued that “white Hollywood,” which he called “the original Hollywood,” remains the industry’s most commercially successful model.

Movies starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, he said, attracted audiences across racial and national lines because they were well made and properly financed. Viewers could see themselves in the characters regardless of their own backgrounds.

Jackson pointed to Tony Montana, the Cuban refugee played by Pacino in “Scarface,” as a character whose ambition resonated with audiences far beyond his own nationality.

But Jackson also sees a business opportunity in the industry’s funding priorities: He faces fewer well-financed competitors making programming for his audience.

“If you make diversity, I’m up against not so many fabulously financed projects,” he explained.

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American stream

Jackson executive produces the “Power” franchise, which grew out of the Starz crime drama that aired from 2014 to 2020.

He said the rise of streaming services has helped create an opening for his work, with competing platforms needing shows that bring in subscribers.

“So when I come in, I’m able to to create s**t that is beyond ‘up to standard’ because of the landscape of the business. I’m coming at a time that you got streamers and apps and all of these different things.”

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Where is the love?

Jackson also questioned why the “Power” franchise’s popularity with black and Latino audiences had failed to translate into Emmy recognition.

“They don’t care about diversity. Trust me,” he said. “I’ve been No. 1 in African-American and Latino households for, and this s**t is crazy, like for 13 years.”

While none of the dramas he produced have won Emmys, Jackson took home a trophy for his 2022 performance in the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Several Google DeepMind employees have resigned in recent weeks over the company's Pentagon contract signed earlier this year that allows its AI technology to be used in classified settings.

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Eric Lewis now faces federal charges including firearm offenses after allegedly ambushing two Philadelphia police officers and killing Shane Seiber.

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Android already has spam protection for phone calls and text messages. But while these features can help curb unwanted communications from shady characters, it is not always obvious when you’re getting scammed on the calls or messages you accept in real time. For this, Android has a new scam detection solution powered by Gemini.

The advent of AI has made it easier for scammers to target individuals and trick them into handing over personal data or money. Thanks to voice cloning technology and deepfake videos that can impersonate real humans you may know in real life, some of these scams are sophisticated enough to deceive even the more suspicious among us.

You are essentially inviting it to scan through your personal information and analyze it in search of scammy behavior.

But just as AI has made the call and texting scam landscape more hazardous to tread, AI might also be the thing to save us — or at least that is what Google believes. The company recently announced new scam protection features for Google Messages on Android that are powered by Google Gemini.

Once enabled, the new enhanced AI-powered scam features offer three points of additional protection over Google’s existing scam prevention capabilities. They:

1. Use Google’s powerful cloud servers to analyze long conversation threads within the Google Messages app, searching for signs of scammer intent based on the context of the conversations.
2. Search for malicious links — both existing and newly generated — within messages and flags them as unsafe to keep users from clicking on them.
3. Offer a redesigned warning system that gives users more time to stop and consider the safety of links embedded within messages to prevent accidental clicks.

The catch, of course, is that to use the new AI-powered scam protection features in Android, you have to trust Gemini to keep an eye on your text messages. You are essentially inviting it to scan through your personal information and analyze it in search of scammy behavior.

Google thought about this beforehand, which is why all conversations are routed through Private AI Compute, a system Google introduced in late 2025 that isolates your data on Google’s servers with additional privacy, security, and encryption in place. According to Google, “This ensures sensitive data processed by Private AI Compute remains accessible only to you and no one else, not even Google.”

To further ease concerns, the enhanced scam protection features in Google Messages are entirely opt-in, so you can choose to disregard, if you don’t want Gemini snooping through your texts.

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In addition to better scam prevention tools for Google Messages, Google also brought two meaningful upgrades to scam call protection:

1. Automatic screen-share privacy now hides private content, like passwords, credit card information, and banking details in Chrome and Android WebView while in screen-sharing mode with friends, family, or colleagues. These features are in addition to existing screen share protections available in native apps.
2. Proactive call-forwarding protection prevents incoming callers from forwarding your call to another number in an attempt to steal one-time passcodes that would give them access to one of your accounts.

Enhanced protection mode for Google Messages is rolling out to users now, first on Google Pixel and “hundreds of millions of additional users later this year.” As for added protections for phone calls, these will be implemented automatically.

If you haven’t already enabled Android’s existing spam text and call features, follow our detailed guides at the links. Both of these can help you reclaim a bit of peace from incessant scammers trying to trick you into turning over personal information.

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Muslim Democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed just one bill into law after 10 months in office, a measure allowing year-round outdoor dining on sidewalks. It's the only New York City Council-passed bill he's approved since he was sworn in in January, the New York Post reported.

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