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After longtime friend President-elect Donald Trump won his second presidency, UFC President Dana White is officially calling it quits, saying in a recent interview he wants "nothing to do with politics."......                    ...                        ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login is among President-elect Donald Trump's most vocal supporters and was undoubtedly an instrumental part in his bid to win a second presidency, but Trump's longtime friend is done with politics after this last election cycle. ......In an interview with the New Yorker following You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login last weekend, White told the magazine that he has likely endorsed his last politician. ......"I'm never f---ing doing this again," You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"I want nothing to do with this s---. It's gross. It's disgusting. I want nothing to do with politics." ......According to the report, White and Trump's relationship dates back to the early days of UFC, when Trump allowed the sport, which at the time had a bad reputation for simply being violent, to hold events at his casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. ......Since then, the sport has spiked in popularity, and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login a fan favorite. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"Every time, when he was getting hammered at his worst, we'd walk into that arena and the place erupts and goes crazy," White told the magazine. "It shows other people, Oh, wait. Everybody doesn't hate Donald Trump like the media is telling us."......Trump received a thunderous applause as he made his way toward the Octagon on Saturday flanked by many of his Cabinet nominees, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy and Tulsi Gabbard.......White said before the fight that Trump and UFC fighter Conor McGregor receive the biggest applause he has ever seen when they show up at a fight. ......Trump's campaign saw him appear on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login including "The Joe Rogan Experience," which has been viewed a staggering 47 million times on YouTube alone, "This Past Weekend with Theo Von," Andrew Schulz's "Flagrant," Barstool Sports' podcast "Bussin with the Boys," "Nelk Boys" and "Impaulsive" with Logan Paul. ......White told the magazine that he believed these appearances worked in Trump's favor, especially with the young male demographic. ......"You're getting conversations in these podcasts, and you yourself, as a young kid, get to really see who Donald Trump is," he said. "Not the bulls--- you hear from the far-left media."......Follow Fox News Digital'sYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, and subscribe toYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login....

Retired Gen. Mark Milley assured Americans that institutions will endure under President-elect Trump's leadership, but it's an open question about how the Pentagon will fare.......                    ...                        ...Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired Gen. Mark Milley went from reportedly warning that President-elect Trump is "fascist to the core" to saying that the U.S. will be fine under his leadership.......Many of Trump's harshest critics have gone from cautioning that he You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to speaking positively about how America will fare under him, now that he won the presidential election. ......Milley's purported claims about Trump being "fascist" and "the most dangerous person to this country" in a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward appear to have gone by the wayside as he spoke about America's future at a recent event. ......"Bottom line is breathe deep, America's going to be okay," he told MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle at a Pallas Foundation event shown on the network. "There is a lot of waves out there, but this is a big, strong country. 380 million people. Great institutions, great people, great workforce, and a great younger cohort of people that are gonna protect America."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......MSNBC also showed him speaking to their host at the same event and saying that the Pentagon has a long history of reforms from incoming Secretaries of Defense......."Every single Secretary of Defense has come in with the idea of 'reforming' the Pentagon. It is extraordinarily difficult and it takes, in my view — first of all, it takes mature leadership and it takes an alliance, or an alignment, I should say, between the Hill, the senators and congressmen up on the Hill who pass the laws," he said.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Milley went on to argue that incoming Trump allies have the potential to bring "helpful" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login or reduce it to "rubble."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"If all you're going to do is come in with a wrecking ball and just blow things apart, then what you're going to get is rubble. And if that's what you want, that's awesome if you want rubble, but that's not going to defend the United States," he said. ......Milley added, "So we absolutely have to transform the Pentagon and it's going to take an effort. And industry-outside guys like Elon, Vivek and whoever — sure, they can be very helpful but they — it has to be done correctly."...

Brooke Burke was raised in Tucson, Arizona, and she has opted to raise her children in the Grand Canyon State. Burke, her fiancé, Scott Rigsby, and their six children love rodeos.......                    ...                        ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, her fiancé, Scott Rigsby and the couple's blended family will never turn down a trip to the rodeo.......During an interview with Fox News Digital, Burke explained that growing up in Tucson, Arizona, and opting to raise her family in the Grand Canyon State, one of her "favorite experiences" is going to the rodeo......."For those people that have never been to a rodeo, it's definitely a must-have bucket list; fun, great music, live bands, bull riding. Everybody is in denim and cutoffs. It's casual. There's like a cowboy barbecue. It's so much fun and I love country music and I love to dance."......"So I love line dancing. I love country swinging. It's just a blast. I take the kids, so much fun," she said.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Burke and her You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, share daughter Rain and son Shaya. She also has two daughters, Neriah and Sierra, with her first husband, Garth Fisher. Rigsby has two kids of his own.......WATCH: Brooke Burke loves living in a 'secluded' area in Arizona......Since living in Arizona, Burke and Rigsby are very content living a "simple" life. ......"There's something about the desert that's just so calming and so peaceful for me. I love the desert sunsets. It really represents family time for Scott and I and the kids. Our parents are there and my mom, his mom and dad. It's a lot of R&R, and I need that," she said. ......Since Burke's family lives in a "secluded" area in Arizona, she gets to enjoy the perks of living in a small town. ......"It is secluded. We're in the mountains. I absolutely love it. It's got this very small downtown that's sort of a small-town feel," Burke began. "There's a rodeo there. I mean, it really brings me back to my roots. It's very simple. I mean, Scott and I get there. We hardly ever leave the house unless for the rodeo. We cook, we make pizzas."......"For me, I've really created sort of a blue-zone concept there. So I've brought only good things that are really inspirational and designed around wellness into that space. So we work out, we sauna, we cook, I juice, I do my smoothies, I create content like crazy when I'm there because the lighting in the house is gorgeous; the architecture lends to that. And it's just we hike, our dogs go with us. It's amazing, I love it," she concluded.......Rigsby and Burke are in the middle of wedding planning. They were originally You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in May 2024, but the wedding planning process has taken more time than Burke thought......."We're always wedding planning, and we have ideas, and they change so often. And I know last time we spoke, I was like, 'It's going to be May this year.' Well, here comes May. We just might surprise everyone. We're always wedding planning," she said.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login ......The couple got engaged in 2021, shortly after Burke's 50th birthday. In June, Burke told You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login that 2024 proved to be a busy year for her family.......WATCH: Brooke Burke says Arizona's desert is 'so peaceful'......"School, two of our children turning 16, getting their driver's license, Sierra graduating from USC. Neriah was supposed to be on tour. We finished building our home in Arizona. We didn't have a minute to breathe, let alone plan the greatest party of our life. So back to the drawing board, and now we need to get really busy," she said at the time.......Rigsby hopes the future ceremony will be very special for their family......."I think for us, it's having the experience. I mean, the whole reason to do it, too, is for the kids and for us and the family. So we want to do it right. We just don't want to rush into it," he told People before Burke added, "Yeah, I'm not rushing."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Rigsby continued, "I said we could always go get married on a weekend or plan something quick, but we want to just do it right."...... In 2023, the fitness guru spoke to the outlet about her plans for her future wedding. ......WATCH: Brooke Burke says the rodeo in Arizona is one of her 'favorite experiences' ......"We really want to design a wedding that we can enjoy, that's not just a big party for show," Burke said at the time. "For me, it has to be meaningful or not at all, which is the challenge. To do something fabulous and grand and keep that intimacy and keep it special."...

An MSNBC contributor warned that while Matt Gaetz may be more controversial, Trump's new pick to replace him could ultimately be far better at carrying out his agenda.......                    ...                        ...College professor and MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson warned that President-Elect Donald Trump's new pick to lead the Justice Department should spark "fear" among the left because she could actually execute his agenda.......Trump announced Thursday evening that he's nominating former attorney general of Florida You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login as the next attorney general of the United States. The latest cabinet pick replaces former Florida representative Matt Gaetz, who withdrew as nominee for attorney general on Thursday after the "distraction" his nomination had caused due to a swirl of allegations about paying underage women for sex.......Johnson told MSNBC host Ari Melber that this is bad news for those concerned about Trump......."Occasionally, attorneys general try to behave like they are not the personal lawyer of the President of the United States. That is completely out the window. Pam Bondi is exactly what I was saying in the last segment that we should all fear, because she's competent," he said.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"We may not agree with her ideologically, but she actually knows how to do this job," Johnson told Melber, adding, "So if anyone on the Democratic side or anyone who cared about liberty or justice was thinking 'Well maybe Matt Gaetz will screw this up and that will give us time,' no. Pam Bondi knows what she is doing."......He went on to tell the news host that her association with Florida's government indicates she knows how to use state power to accomplish conservative agendas.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"She knows what she's doing about immigration. Remember, Florida is one of those states that has been very aggressive about migrants and deportation and moving people to different states and everything else like that. Florida has enacted all sorts of rules and laws to curtail students and what they can do on campuses and finding legal justifications for manipulating education money," Johnson said. ......He continued, "She is a dangerous and effective pick, and that's frankly worse than what we would have got with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login even with the deplorable moral background that he has."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......As Johnson mentioned, he had warned about the concept of a more experienced pick in a previous segment, arguing it would be a far more frightening choice for those wary of Trump's agenda......."It is, but I guess I'm from the perspective of, I never necessarily thought that Matt Gaetz was a sincere pick. Trump can call all he wants, but I suspect there were many, many people lined up to come after him who won't be as offensive, who might actually be more effective," he said. ......"So while it might be a loss in the battle, I don't necessarily think it's a victory in the war against what may be an AG that ushers in an authoritarian type of presidency that affects the fundamental rights of American citizens," Johnson added....

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., met with 10 senators in two days this week while on the road to confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump's U.N. ambassador.......                    ...                        ...Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., met with 10 senators in the first two days of meetings while courting approval as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. ......Stefanik, the current House GOP chair, communicated her record supporting Israel and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to Republican senators as the upper chamber must approve her appointment to Trump's Cabinet. ......Kicking off the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, Stefanik met with Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., MarkWayne Mullin, R-Okla., Jim Banks, R-Ind., Tim Scott, R-S.C., Shelley Capito, R-W.Va., on Wednesday.......Then, on Thursday, Stefanik, the fourth-highest ranking House member, met with Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mt., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and John Barasso, R-Wyo. ......Stefanik posted photos of her meeting with each senator on X, saying their discussions centered around standing with Israel, combating antisemitism and supporting Trump's "America First peace through strength national security policies." ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......McConnell, the outgoing Senate majority leader, said in a statement that "the world's largest international organization is in dire need of a wake-up call, and Representative Stefanik is uniquely well-suited to deliver it." ......"In a forum corrupted by authoritarians where cowardly majorities hector the embattled Jewish state of Israel, the next U.S. Ambassador must speak with uncompromising moral clarity," McConnell said. "I am particularly encouraged that the President-elect's nominee shares my commitment to holding UNRWA accountable for its role in the horrors of October 7th and keeping U.S. taxpayer dollars clear of such vile complicity." ......"I look forward to the Senate's timely consideration of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. I hope and expect she will be a proud proponent of an American foreign policy based on peace through strength," McConnell added. ......The meetings came at the same time the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for "crimes against humanity and war crimes," including the use of starvation as a method of warfare and targeting civilians. President Biden condemned the move as "outrageous," and the Pentagon said it "fundamentally rejects" the decision by the ICC, which "does not have jurisdiction over this matter." ......"Whatever the ICC might imply, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas," Biden said. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Stefanik has been a staunch supporter of Israel as it continues its offensive against Hamas terrorists in Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 attacks, as well as other Iran-backed terrorist groups in the region. ......Last month, Stefanik demanded a "complete reassessment" of U.S. funding for the United Nations and called to stop financial backing for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). ......Biden had suspended funding to UNRWA after the agency fired several staffers in Gaza who Israeli authorities accused of participating in the Oct. 7 attacks. ......However, the congresswoman derided how the Biden-Harris administration "has sent over $1 billion to UNRWA since 2021, filling the coffers of this terrorist front." ......"This must end," Stefanik said in a statement on Nov. 4. "Just as President Trump did, and I have consistently advocated for, we must permanently cut off funding to UNRWA which instills antisemitic hate in Palestinians, houses weapons for terrorists, and steals the aid they are supposed to be distributing."......The United States contributes 22% of the United Nations budget, and therefore is the world body's largest single donor. ......Through her position on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, Stefanik also has fought against surging antisemitism on American college campuses in the wake of Oct. 7 and held the presidents of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to account for failing to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews by anti-Israel protesters. ...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says "the Trump-Vance transition team has not yet entered into the agreements with the White House and the General Service Administration."......                    ...                        ...The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login has still not signed documents required to formally begin the transition of power, the White House says. ......Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Thursday, "Our teams continue to stay in touch" and "as of now... the Trump-Vance transition team has not yet entered into the agreements with the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and the General Service Administration (GSA)." ......Not signing the documents means the government can't provide security clearances and briefings to incoming administration officials and the FBI can't screen Trump's picks for the Cabinet and other key posts. The agreements also provide "office space, IT equipment, office supplies, fleet vehicles, mail management, and payment of compensation and other expenses," according to the GSA. ......"President Biden met with the president-elect to show that transition of power and obviously offering any assistance needed to make sure that happens in a way that is peaceful, obviously, and efficient," according to Jean-Pierre. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login ......"So were going to continue to engage with the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, to ensure that we do have that efficient, effective, transition of power," she added. "And in those conversations, we certainly are stressing that the White House and the administration stand ready to provide assistance and that access to services and information certainly outlined in the GSA, and the White House memorandum of agreement. So, those conversations continue. And we want this to go smoothly, and that's what we're trying to get to." ......The continued delay on agreeing to start the formal transition process may eventually force senators to vote on Trump's Cabinet picks without the benefit of the usual background checks, The Associated Press reported. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login ......That process is designed to uncover personal problems, criminal histories and other potential red flags that would raise questions about a nominee's suitability for key jobs. ......It's unclear why the documents haven't been signed yet.  ......Transition spokesman Brian Hughes said earlier this month that the team's "lawyers continue to constructively engage with" lawyers and officials from President Biden's outgoing administration and promised updates "once a decision is made." ......The Associated Press contributed to this report. ...

Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks has called a Democrat-backed recount of her 2024 House race a waste of taxpayer money while she leads Christina Bohannan by fewer than 1,000 votes.......                    ...                        ...An incumbent You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login seeking re-election to the House has accused her Democratic opponent of "wasting taxpayer money" by pursuing a recount of their close contest.......The Associated Press has not yet called the race in Iowa's 1st Congressional District, where Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, leads Democratic challenger Christina Bohannan by just 801 votes. Bohannan requested a recount last week......."Four counties in IA-01 have completed their recounts and I've gained 2 votes. Once again Christina Bohannan and the Dems are wasting taxpayer money," Miller-Meeks posted on X Thursday. She has previously declared victory and her campaign is confident in her lead. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Congressional election observers from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login were deployed to Iowa to monitor the uncalled race this week.......Bohannan's campaign said in a statement last week that they want to ensure "every voter is heard" and pledged to "accept the results regardless of outcome." ......Republicans have already clinched a razor-thin House majority, but a GOP victory in Iowa would allow the factious conference some room for dissent without log jamming President-elect Trump's agenda in the next Congress.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Republican incumbents held onto Iowa's three other congressional seats, including the competitive 3rd District where Zach Nunn fended off a challenge from Democrat Lanon Baccam.......Republican incumbents Ashley Hinson in the 2nd District and Randy Feenstra in the 4th District won decisively. Hinson defeated Democrat Sarah Corkery. Feenstra defeated Democrat Ryan Melton.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......So far, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in the House of Representatives while Democrats have held on to 213. ......There are still two uncalled races in California's 13th and 45th Congressional Districts, where Republican incumbents are defending their seats by extremely close margins. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The race in Iowa's 1st Congressional District is a rematch. Miller-Meeks previously defeated Bohannan by a much larger margin of 7 percentage points in 2022. ......Miller-Meeks earned a first term in Congress representing Iowa's 2nd District when she defeated Democrat Rita Hart by just six votes in 2020.......Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace and the Associated Press contributed to this report....

The political battle is not between partisans but between those defending democracy's principles and those seeking to redefine them.......                    ...                        ...They're still You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and California – or, more accurately, they're still finding ballots. ......In Pennsylvania, three Democratic counties defy their liberal state Supreme Court by counting ineligible ballots. The pool of bad ballots isn't enough to overturn the election for either You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login or Sen.-elect Dave McCormick, so why the push by the left to include ineligible ballots? ......The reason is simple and sinister: to set bad precedent for future elections.......In California, a similar effort is underway. There, a couple of U.S. House elections remain to be decided. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, a state with no effective voter ID requirement, runs its elections almost entirely by mail. State law allows mail-in ballots with no postmark to be counted up to a week after Election Day if the person completing the ballot affixes a date on or before Election Day. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Thus, if there is a close race that requires "fortification" – the left's 2020 euphemism for election theft – Democratic operatives need only find a few voters who haven't voted, "help" them fill out a ballot, and back date the signature – and voila! The late-breaking votes magically skew Democratic. ......To the average voter, about 85% of whom support presenting an ID to vote, these mail-in ballot manipulations are shocking. They degrade faith in our election processes. ......That the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login past the breaking point is understandable on a pure will-to-power basis. But for many on the left, especially the ideological vanguard that has pushed the Democratic Party to the far left, there is another, deeper and more disturbing reason: they don't view voting as an individual task of a citizen acting on their enlightened self-interest, rather, they see voting as a collective right. ......Democrats, particularly their critical race theory (CRT)-driven factions, view voting as a collective right rather than an individual one. This ideology prioritizes group identity over individual agency, arguing that elections must deliver racially and socially "just" outcomes, regardless of procedural fairness. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......This view aligns disturbingly with the concept of concurrent majority espoused by John C. Calhoun, the early 19th-century political theorist who served as a congressman, senator and vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. The bitter historical irony here is that Calhoun was an ardent supporter of slavery. He would heartily agree with the idea of race determining political outcomes.......A stark example is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, which allows paid operatives to pressure voters at their homes, destroying the secrecy and sanctity of the ballot. This system, institutionalized over the past decade, has yielded dramatic gains for Democrats, with union-aligned operatives ensuring ballots are "completed correctly."......This was brought home to me a week before the election when I participated in a forum on voting rights at a local college. My sparring partner was an officer with the League of Women Voters. Just after declaring the sanctity of the secret ballot, she described, without a hint of irony, helping senior citizens in nursing homes vote by mail. The idea that all those ballots were completed in secret by voters who have lost their mental acuity strains credulity. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......But the CRT lens justifies such measures, framing elections not as neutral mechanisms of choice but as tools to rectify historic wrongs and redistribute power.......The left's assault on election safeguards predates COVID-19 but gained momentum during the pandemic. Emergency rules, initially billed as temporary, have hardened into fixtures of the electoral landscape. Pennsylvania's and California's current ballot-handling controversies are emblematic of this shift.......In Pennsylvania, the deliberate You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, despite court rulings, exemplifies contempt for the rule of law. California's lax standards for mail-in ballots – combined with partisan Postal Service unions – invite abuse. These practices are less about counting every vote than about creating systems vulnerable to manipulation.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Election integrity measures, such as requiring voter ID and restricting ballot trafficking, are derided as voter suppression by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. However, these measures aim to preserve the individual's free and secret vote—a core pillar of democracy. ......The battle is not between partisans but between those defending democracy's principles and those seeking to redefine them.......Left unchecked, these developments risk eroding public confidence in elections. States like Florida and Texas, which have resisted California-style systems, provide a counterpoint, but the trend is clear: Unless systemic safeguards are reinforced, elections will increasingly be determined by paid operatives or left-wing activists, not voters.......As the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, the stakes are higher than ever. The Left's collectivist voting philosophy justifies election manipulation under the guise of social justice, jeopardizing the integrity of democratic processes. ......To safeguard our republic, Americans must confront these dangerous trends and demand reforms that prioritize the individual's right to a free, fair and secret ballot.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login...

Kavin's black comedy Bloody Beggar, directed by Sivabalan Muthukumar, follows a beggar's absurd and chaotic misadventures, blending humour with darker themes. Initially released in theatres during the Diwali season, the movie received positive reviews for its unique storyline and engaging performances. Starting November 29, 2024, it will be available to stream on ...

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