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VIDEO — Kansas: Democrat U.S. Senate Candidate Adam Hamilton Admits Failing to Report Church Camp Pedophile

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Kansas's U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hamilton (D) admitted he failed to call police to report a pedophile that targeted children at his church camp years ago, challenger Sen. Dr. Roger Marshall (R-KS) said Sunday.

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Amy Furr

Elon Musk makes huge promise to the children of America

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Elon Musk has just made a big promise to the children of America — and they can expect it as soon as next year.

On Monday, Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, announced that he will be giving away shares of his company to kids in the United States.

'You are an American treasure.'

"Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America," Musk wrote on X.

Musk also hinted that this was only the beginning of his generosity, though he did not provide many more details. "This will be the first of many," he added in the same post.

CNBC reported that Elon Musk currently owns 4.8 billion SpaceX shares, citing August SEC filings.

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There are approximately 72 million children in the United States, according to July 2025 census data.

If he holds to his promise, Musk would be giving away an estimated $10.7 billion, accounting for SpaceX's opening stock price of $149.25 on Monday.

At the time of writing, Musk's post reached 11.2 million views on X, with thousands of positive comments flooding in.

"You are an American treasure," wrote Kari Lake of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

Others urged Musk to extend this offer only to American children, rather than those of illegal aliens and "anchor babies."

Blaze News reached out to SpaceX for more information but did not immediately receive a response.

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Cooper Williamson

Iran Mocks France After Macron Blames Middle East War for Riots

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused French President Emmanuel Macron of "welcom[ing] atrocities against Iranians" and mockingly called for the French government to "listen" to hordes of violent rioters in a social media post on Sunday, responding to Macron blaming the war between Iran and America for the riots.

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Frances Martel

Exclusive — Bureaucratic Nightmare: L.A. Landfill Losing Millions Each Week Due to a Dozen Green Agencies and Dubious Cancer Claims

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A national refuse company has lost nearly a billion dollars in income and spent a billion more trying to satisfy a dozen “green” agencies in California with conflicting demands and regulations that have kept Los Angeles’s second largest landfill shut down for nearly two years.

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Lowell Cauffiel

Mom kills 3-year-old son, husband at popular family resort, cops say. Then she makes chilling 911 call.

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A Pennsylvania woman killed her 3-year-old son and husband at a popular family-friendly resort in the Pocono Mountains, according to authorities. Afterward the mother reportedly called 911 to help her commit suicide.

Around 3:13 p.m. last Monday, law enforcement responded to the Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun for a report of a "distressed female," according to a statement the Pocono Township Police Department released.

'Every day, I work so hard to be the best person, the best mother, the best wife.'

"The female, identified as Metallica Rose Harrison of Towanda, Pennsylvania, advised the dispatcher that she needed help committing suicide," the police statement read.

NBC News obtained the criminal complaint, in which Detective Earl Ackerman of the Pocono Township Police Department wrote that Harrison asked the dispatcher for help "to find the vein in her neck to stab" because she was attempting to commit suicide.

Police said officers discovered a deceased adult male and a 3-year-old male child in a room at the resort; they were later identified as the suspect's husband, Charles Harrison, and the couple's son, whose name has not been released.

According to the affidavit People magazine obtained, Metallica Harrison told the dispatcher she had knives and that "my husband and son are already gone in the bed in the living room."

"They’re already gone, I’m sorry," the 27-year-old told the dispatcher, police said.

The affidavit said Charles Harrison appeared to have suffered multiple stab wounds to his chest while the boy had a single stab wound to the chest.

Police said Metallica Harrison had injuries to her wrist and neck and was taken to a hospital for treatment.

The affidavit indicates that during the ambulance ride to the hospital, she told first responders: "I f**ked up. I f**ked up. I just needed energy and strength."

Police said she repeatedly made "statements that she wasn't supposed to be here."

"Every day, I work so hard to be the best person, the best mother, the best wife," she said in the ambulance, according to the affidavit. "It wasn’t supposed to end like this. I was supposed to have my happy family. That’s what I envisioned since I was a child."

Police said Metallica Harrison told officers while at the hospital that she was "suicidal, not stupid."

WGAL-TV reported that investigators recovered two teal-handled knives, medication bottles, and containers of what law enforcement believes was blood.

Resort employees confirmed to police that the recovered knives were not the type kept at the Great Wolf Lodge.

Police executed a search warrant at the family's home where they seized 10 teal knives, teal-colored scissors, nine sealed envelopes addressed to Metallica Harrison, four sealed envelopes addressed to Charles Harrison, two journals, a book, financial records, a laptop, a safe, and an envelope, according to WGAL.

Police said of the seized records, "It is common for individuals in these scenarios to document their homicidal and suicidal ideations via hand writings or electronics prior to, during, and after the act has taken place."

Investigators found an electric utility shutoff notice posted on the front door of the home, the warrant stated.

Police said the Harrison family checked into Great Wolf Lodge on Sept. 21 and were scheduled to leave on Tuesday.

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Police records show investigators spoke with the slain father's mother and sister, who told them Metallica Harrison was "dominant" and "controlling" and had isolated Charles Harrison and the boy from Charles' family during the last three years.

WGAL reported, "The women also told investigators that Metallica appeared resentful toward her son and had said she never wanted to become pregnant, the documents stated."

Charles Harrison's mother, April Thetga, said money had been drawn from her son's retirement account to pay for the three-week trip.

"It was definitely odd, but they’d taken their 401(k) out. ... There was nothing we could do about that," Thetga told the New York Post.

Metallica Harrison was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal homicide.

On Tuesday, Magisterial District Judge Daniel Kresge ordered Harrison held without bail, according to police.

Harrison is being detained at the Monroe County Correctional Facility.

Police characterized the incident as an "isolated domestic tragedy."

"Our thoughts and deepest condolences go out to the family and loved ones affected by this tragedy," police stated.

Police have not revealed a possible motive and said the investigation is ongoing.

The Great Wolf Lodge said in a statement, "We are deeply saddened and heartbroken by a tragic domestic incident that occurred yesterday in a guest room at our resort in the Pocono Mountains."

"It was an isolated family incident, and we’re cooperating fully with local law enforcement as they conduct their investigation," the resort's statement continued. "Our thoughts are with the family and loved ones of those affected."

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Paul Sacca

This tech company is gambling billions on a bid to make consumer products cheaper — and better

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If you have recently bought a new vehicle, replaced a laptop, or purchased a new phone, you have likely noticed that almost everything costs more to buy and to repair. Most people chalk this up to general inflation or bad luck. Behind the scenes, however, a hidden culprit is driving up prices and slowing modern conveniences: the tiny microchip.

That’s why Applied Materials’ recent announcement of the EPIC Center, a massive research facility designed to shorten chip development timelines by at least 30%, is so important. On paper, it sounds like just another corporate ribbon-cutting. In reality, it might be the only thing standing between American economic dominance and total technological obsolescence and between extortion of American citizens and reasonably priced products.

Faster microchips help keep food prices stable and grocery shelves full.

Most people treat microchips like clean socks. They notice them only when they run out or when they suddenly cost far more than they did last week. Yet almost every single aspect of your daily routine depends on these microscopic pieces of silicon. Your morning coffee maker uses them. The anti-lock brakes in your car use them. The hospital machine that monitors your heart rate depends on them entirely. If those chips stop improving, or if the supply line powering them breaks, the entire system grinds to a sudden halt.

Consider what happened just a few years ago, when new-car lots sat empty across the country and used-car prices soared to absurd heights. That massive disruption didn’t happen because automakers ran out of steel, rubber, or glass, but because Asian factories couldn’t ship those tiny microchips. When chip designs stall or supply chains hit bottlenecks, companies aren’t the only ones to suffer. They pass extra costs straight on to consumers, adding to the price of everyday goods.

Creating a new generation of microchips used to be a relatively straightforward task. A few decade-defining breakthroughs could be sketched in a lab by a handful of brilliant, chain-smoking engineers. Today, advancing from a lab discovery to a mass-produced processor takes many years and requires enormous investment. Because chip design has become so slow and costly, technology upgrades have grown pricier; hardware improvements have begun to plateau.

The new $5 billion EPIC Center aims to break this bottleneck by bringing chipmakers, university researchers, and hardware engineers under one roof, letting them solve problems in parallel instead of waiting years to pass ideas back and forth. It’s a common-sense, America-first approach.

If the venture is successful, it means cheaper, more reliable consumer goods.

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To begin with, faster chip development translates directly into stronger supply lines and lower manufacturing costs. When tech moves seamlessly from research labs to factory floors, the cost of building everything from smart washing machines to high-definition TVs drops. That keeps everyday household goods from jumping dramatically in price every year.

Second, it means devices with real battery life that lasts for years rather than months. Everyone knows the blood-boiling frustration of a phone battery dying by midafternoon or a laptop running slower than a DMV queue after 18 months of light use. Making electronics run faster without burning through power requires fundamental breakthroughs in microchip energy efficiency. Accelerating those hardware breakthroughs means your personal devices will run cooler and last longer on a single charge, potentially saving you thousands of dollars in upgrade costs.

Third, it accelerates lifesaving health care and medical treatment. Modern AI is often portrayed as nothing more than a tool for lazy college students or Silicon Valley tech bros. This is utter nonsense. It is also a form of super-powered pattern recognition. In modern hospitals, AI systems powered by specialized chips can analyze thousands of medical scans, blood samples, and diagnostic records in seconds, catching dangerous illnesses like cancer long before human eyes could spot them. Faster, more accessible microchips make this diagnostic equipment far cheaper and easier for local hospitals to deploy. This results in shorter wait times, earlier disease detection, and, perhaps most importantly, more accurate treatment for you and your family.

Finally, faster microchips help keep food prices stable and grocery shelves full. The elaborate shipping networks that deliver fresh produce from farms to your neighborhood supermarket rely on routing software. When shipping routes or trucking schedules run inefficiently, food spoils in transit. Deliveries arrive late, and grocery prices spike. Smarter chips power logistics networks that can predict weather delays and reroute delivery fleets in real time.

It is easy to completely tune out news about corporate mega-facilities or abstract headlines about the global technology race between the United States and China. Ultimately, though, microchips are the invisible, indispensable force powering every aspect of modern life. When chip development accelerates, the everyday technology you rely on becomes cheaper, safer, and far more dependable. And that $5 billion investment in California is a practical step toward making the average American’s daily life run more smoothly and the nation more secure.

John Mac Ghlionn

Midterms: 'Russian Bots' Launch Army of Fake Videos of Celebrities, Like Taylor Swift, Attacking Democrats

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Bloomberg News is warning that "Russian bot farms" are pushing out fake videos of A-List Hollywood celebrities like Taylor Swift, Robert De Niro, Julia Roberts, and Cher attacking Democrats ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections.

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Warner Todd Huston

Meta Sorry for Suspending 'No Kings' Instagram Account

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Meta apologized for suspending the Instagram account of the "No Kings" protest movement over the weekend, attributing the shutdown to a sharp increase in activity that looked like automated bot traffic rather than human exchanges.

Dem Donors Fund 'Decoy Dan' in Alaska Senate Race

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A super PAC supporting a Republican candidate who shares a name with Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, has received millions of dollars from groups linked to progressive donors, according to newly disclosed campaign finance records.