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A growing list of U.S. scientists and researchers — many tied to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, defense, nuclear, or advanced tech programs — have died or gone missing since 2023.
Nine names are dominating the headlines:
News coverage has ramped up significantly in the past couple of weeks over this story and continues to garner national attention, but Glenn Beck thinks the conspiracy theory that these cases are all somehow connected jumps the gun.
On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn pushes back on the hype by illustrating how easily one can ignite a conspiracy theory.
Glenn notes that these nine cases, while speculated to be connected, are really “a mixed data set.”
“If you go through all of these things, there are some confirmed crimes with explanations. ... Some of them are missing person cases. ... Some are isolated homicides,” he says.
The narrative that these nine scientists worked in closely related fields, Glenn argues, is a stretch.
“Pharma, fusion, space. ... That doesn't mean that there isn't a connection there, but nobody is showing the connection here. That's not a tight network,” he says. “That's anyone who is near defense-adjacent technology.”
He also rejects speculation of "institutional silence.”
“Universities and laboratories and government, they rarely disclose the details. Privacy, ongoing investigations, legal liability, phrases like ‘passed away suddenly’ — that's standard. ... That's not evidence of concealment,” he says.
“I'm not one to dismiss conspiracy theories, but it seems like we go out looking for some things,” he continues.
To illustrate how easily a conspiracy theory can gain traction, Glenn shares some recent data from his own industry.
“In the last 12 months, I've had eight people in my industry die,” he says, citing longtime radio syndication executive Gary Krantz, Pittsburgh radio icon and conservative talk host Jim Quinn, award-winning Texas radio journalist Matt Thomas, WMAL radio host John Lyon, and conservative talk radio pioneer David Gold, among others.
“Of course, Charlie Kirk, we know,” he adds.
“None of these are connected, but if I wanted to, I could do [it],” says Glenn.
“I have a list of maybe 25 names. They all died in the last year.”
Glenn issues a stark warning: “Be very, very careful about propaganda. ... There's a lot of information out there, but you can take information and make it into anything you want.”
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LOS ANGELES -- Singer D4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found seven months ago in his apparently abandoned Tesla, authorities said Thursday, while his lawyers declared his innocence.
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Starmer's spin doctors argue he is ignorant and not in command of his own government, rather than admit he has been "deliberately dishonest".
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Markwayne Mullin, who took over as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security following Kristi Noem's ouster in March, announced Thursday that there is going to be another senior personnel change at his agency.
Todd Lyons will leave the role of acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, effective May 31.
'A phenomenal patriot and dedicated leader.'
"Director Lyons has been a great leader of ICE and key player in helping the Trump administration remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities," said Mullin. "He jumpstarted an agency that had not been allowed to do its job for four years."
"We wish him luck on his next opportunity in the private sector," added Mullin.
Lyons is a veteran ICE official who has served with the agency since 2007.
Around the time he entered the role of acting director in March 2025 — following the demotion of his predecessor, Caleb Vitello — Noem characterized Lyons as a work horse who, with border czar Tom Homan, had done "incredible work cleaning up our communities and making them safer."
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In the months since, Lyons has been on the receiving end of relentless abuse by anti-ICE activists such as New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver (D), who subjected him to a 3.5-minute rant during a congressional hearing in February. After questioning Lyons' religiosity, McIver asked him, "How do you think Judgment Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"
The radical Democrat who allegedly assaulted ICE officers last year, asked further, "Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
When disgraced ex-California Rep. Eric Swalwell (D) demanded Lyons' resignation in February, he refused, later stating, "I will not resign, because I believe in the rule of law and will continue to uphold my oath."
A pair of unnamed U.S. officials told CBS News that Lyons was planning to leave the federal government to spend more time with family, including his sons, in Massachusetts.
Prioritizing family was also DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin's apparent reason for resigning earlier this year.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said in a statement that Lyons is "a phenomenal patriot and dedicated leader who has been at the center of President Trump's historic efforts to secure our homeland and reverse the Democrats' sinister border invasion."
Homan said in a statement obtained by CNN, "I commend him for a distinguished law enforcement career and the countless contributions he has made to protect our country and advance its interests."
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons submitted a letter of resignation to the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday. The announcement followed his testimony before the House Appropriation Committee's Subcommittee on Homeland Security regarding the ICE budget, where he announced the bust of Chinese illegal aliens allegedly involved in the largest gift card fraud scheme in history.
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A Maine gubernatorial candidate's video began circulating this week claiming that Democrats in his state are trying to "ban" coffee makers with new legislation. The reality, as it turns out, is a bit more complicated.
Here's a breakdown of the situation as it stands.
'And in an attempt to remove harmful PFAS, they extend it with language like anything that stores or prepares food or beverages.'
Former state Senate GOP leader and current Maine gubernatorial candidate Garrett Mason posted a video of himself walking down the coffee maker aisle at a store, pointing at many of the machines, saying, "Banned, banned ... absolutely banned." All of the machines he singles out in the video appear to be built for Keurig-cup-style coffee.
"That's right, ladies and gentlemen," Mason says in the video. "Democrats are coming for your coffee maker. ... So while they were busy banning plastic bags and increasing your grocery bills and increasing your housing costs and increasing your energy bills, they had a secret plan to ban your morning cup of coffee."
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Mason continued, mentioning a crucial phrase without exploring the issue head-on: "I think it's important that you know that you have a governor who understands how legislation works and what unintended consequences can happen when you pass really bad leftist virtue-signaling legislation, which is what is happening in Augusta right now."
The key phrase, it appears, is "unintended consequences."
In 2021, an earlier version of the now-amended law was written, titled "An Act to Stop Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Pollution."
This early version targeted PFAS in carpets and rugs and was set to go into effect in several stages over the course of multiple years, starting in January 2023.
Then an amended law was signed in 2024. This new version of the law was more expansive, including categories like adult mattresses, artificial turf, cleaning products, cosmetic products, and, relevant to this story, cookware products.
The law defines cookware products as "a durable houseware product intended to be used to prepare, dispense or store food, foodstuffs or beverages, including, but not limited to, a pot, pan, skillet, baking sheet, baking mold, tray, bowl, and cooking utensil."
The provisions of this law went into effect on January 1, 2026.
Notably, the definition provided does not mention coffee makers in particular, making it seem unlikely that Democrats had a "secret plan to ban your morning cup of coffee," as Mason suggested in his video.
Mason is not entirely wrong about the consequences of the law, though. The Maine Wire reported that while the law itself does not apparently threaten consumers' ability to sell, buy, and use popular models of coffee makers, lawmakers have opted to apply a broad interpretation to include "a toaster and a coffee pot."
The Maine Wire went on to explain that manufacturers are alarmed by this interpretation, given the fact that many coffee makers "rely on PFAS-containing internal components such as tubing, gaskets, solenoid valves, and vibrating pumps," which "are functional parts used to handle heat, pressure, and durability inside the machines."
Manufacturers are reportedly concerned about making the required adjustments on a fast enough timeline to be in compliance with the law.
One manufacturing spokesperson voiced these concerns to WMTW.
"The legislation was drafted in a way that, unfortunately, other states around the country have done as well. And in an attempt to remove harmful PFAS, they extend it with language like anything that stores or prepares food or beverages," the Cookware Sustainability Alliance's Steve Burns said.
"Essentially, since it was enforced in January of this year, three months ago, technically, we believe that it might make almost every type of coffee maker that's on a shelf or in a restaurant in Maine right now unlawful," Burns added.
While these concerns have been raised, coffee makers are not expected to start disappearing from store shelves immediately, according to the Maine Wire. It can also be safely assumed that this does not necessarily apply only to Keurig products or those machines that offer the option to use K-cups.
Keurig and Mason did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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"This one is too stupid to warrant comment. I think everyone understands that impeachment is now a purely political act. Far from being guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, Secretary Hegseth has offended Democrats by disagreeing with them on policy and by scoring one brilliant success after another, thus making them look bad."