On the inaugural episode of "Blaze News Tonight," co-hosts Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson chatted with Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts about Project 2025 and the left's gross mischaracterization of it in a tired attempt to frighten Americans out of voting for Republicans.As questions continue to swirl about Joe Biden's cognitive abilities and his overall fitness for office, Democrats have seemingly attempted to distract voters from the chaos in their own house by frequently casting the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 as a threat to democracy. As part of that effort, they have also attempted to tie Project 2025 to former President Donald Trump, who has no official association with it. 'The American people want to return to normal. They want to return to commonsense policies.'Biden claimed that Project 2025 would "terminate[] the Constitution" by handing "limitless power" to his potential successor."Project 2025 should scare every single American," Biden posted to X on Thursday. "It would give Trump limitless power over our daily lives.""Donald Trump and Project 2025 are connected at the hip," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) likewise insisted.Though the left has attempted to turn Project 2025 into a political bogeyman, Roberts and Peterson noted that Project 2025 basically lists the same ideas and principles that "unabashedly conservative" organizations have been espousing for decades."Only in a leftist America would you have the situation where something the conservative movement has done since 1980 — starting for Ronald Reagan and this year, obviously, for our standard-bearer, Donald Trump — be such a story," Roberts said."It's the most normal thing in the world," Peterson added.Roberts also suggested that the reason Democrats have distorted Project 2025 so much is because they know it is a very attractive policy agenda for average voters."The American people want to return to normal," he claimed. "They want to return to commonsense policies, and when they look at Project 2025 ... most Americans ... realize, 'Gosh, we agree with that.'""You know it's good when people are actually out there and attacking it," Savage quipped.Savage further claimed that Democrats and leftist media outlets like Rolling Stone have issued a "very long list of lies" about Project 2025, including that Trump and other Republicans want to "monitor[] women's pregnancies" and "gut the separation of powers." While Roberts agreed that leftists have frequently lied about Project 2025, he noted that they have accurately portrayed one Project 2025 agenda item."We call for the utter elimination of the U.S. Department of Education," Roberts stated proudly.Roberts went on to explain that leftists cleave to the Department of Education because it is the means by which they "indoctrinate our kids, generation after generation." That's why they are "scared" of eliminating it, he said.They are apparently so "scared" of ending the DOE and other Project 2025 ideas that some activists even managed to hack "a very old third-party vendor website" affiliated with the Heritage Foundation to try to extract personal information about its personnel. Roberts told Savage and Peterson that he and his group takes this and other threats from Democrats seriously and that they are prepared to take legal action if necessary."It's going to be lawful, but you have picked the wrong fight," he said.Finally, Roberts claimed that he understands why the Trump campaign has distanced itself from some aspects of Project 2025. "The presidential campaign runs in its lane, the Republican Party runs in its lane, and those of us who are offering personnel and policy from the outside are offering or doing what we do," he explained."Project 2025 exists to be of service to ... decision-makers, starting with the president."The full first episode of "Blaze News Tonight," featuring Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), can be seen below: Project 2025: Heritage President DEBUNKS Lies | Guests: Kevin Roberts & Sen. Mike Lee | 7/11/24 www.youtube.com You can catch "Blaze News Tonight" here Monday through Friday at 8 p.m. ET, and for more original content like it, click here to become a BlazeTV subscriber.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Actor Michael Douglas answered questions about the president being fit for office, saying that the "tide is turning" while admitting that claims Biden should be replaced have validity.Douglas appeared on "The View" and spoke about why he thinks there has been civil unrest and disappointment with the current regime. The 79-year-old pointed to the economy and cited figures an economist told him led to the degradation of the middle class.Douglas said that while the stock market has gone up "3,800%" since 1980, "living wages" have gone up only "16%.""We've lost our middle class," he said, stating that the demographic historically found life much more affordable. "Now, you're struggling."'I think President Trump has been very smart and has been quiet and watching the self-destruction.'Host Joy Behar asked the "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction" star about supporting Biden and brought up the fact that he held a fundraiser for the president at his home in April 2024."Do you agree for calls for him to step aside?" she asked. "Even Nancy Pelosi seems on the fence about him stepping aside.""This is such a tough one. I adore the guy. Fifty years of public service, such a wonderful guy, and this just happens to be one of these elections that is just so crucial, and it's really hard," Douglas replied. "I don't worry necessarily today or tomorrow, but a year down the line I worry. I am concerned."Douglas added that he has noticed politicians who are calling Biden to drop out are now "hedging their bets."The actor found himself in a similar boat as George Clooney, having raised money for the president while praising his sharpness just a few months ago, only to now share concerns about his cognitive ability.In late April 2024, Douglas said that everyone he had spoken to about Biden had said he is "as sharp as a tack.""He's fine," he reiterated. "We all have an issue of memories as we get older, we forget names. ... He's overcome a stutter in his life and sometimes he might.""Let's just say that his entire cabinet, including his vice president, everybody in his cabinet would be more than happy to work with him again in the next term," he claimed.When asked directly about Clooney's New York Times op-ed that called for Biden to be replaced, Douglas told "The View" that he thought it was "a valid point.""I'm deeply, deeply concerned. I mean, especially, it's difficult because the Democrats have a big bench. They've got a lot of heavy hitters," Douglas claimed.In a separate interview, posted to X by the New York Post, Douglas said it was "very hard to speak badly" about the president."It's been an incredible three and a half years he's had as president. But I think the tide is turning."He finished by praising President Trump's ability to sit back and allow the DNC to implode."I think President Trump has been very smart and has been quiet and watching the self-destruction [and the] cannibalism going on. Democrats got to get their act together."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The world of military simulations continues to confound and disappoint me. It’s not that the games are bad - Escape From Tarkov, Gray Zone Warfare, and Arma all have their unique qualities - but I never feel as much like a Tier-One operator as I might like. Spawn. Die. Spawn. Die. Spawn. Die. Before I can get to grips with the world and the mechanics, I’ve lost patience and tapped out. Available to play for free this weekend, Exfil is a tactical FPS game with a difference. If you want the aesthetic of EFT but the faster, funner pace of Counter-Strike 2, this is for you. Continue reading Exfil is a realistic FPS with a difference, and you can try it free MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best FPS games, Best multiplayer games, Best co-op games

Benchmark leaks for the new Intel Battlemage GPU found in the MSI Claw 2 have started to surface, and this latest one appears to show that it offers nearly double the performance of the Steam Deck GPU. The forthcoming MSI Claw 2 is set to use the new Intel Lunar Lake chip, which has just appeared in a listing on the Geekbench results browser in the Vulkan test. Vulkan is an open-source API that can be used as an alternative to DirectX, and it’s used in both games and professional applications. You can run Baldur’s Gate 3 and Doom Eternal in Vulkan rather than DirectX, for example. Geekbench might be a synthetic benchmark, but it does give an indication of GPU performance, and it looks as though the Steam Deck could soon have a rival from MSI on our guide to the best handheld gaming PC. Continue reading MSI’s Claw 2 GPU is nearly twice as fast as Steam Deck in this leak MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Core i5 14600K review, Best gaming CPU, Core i9 14900K review

A new Intel CPU has just leaked, and it's among the more intriguing new processors we've seen in some time. The Intel Processor 310 is a brand new product based on the company's latest Raptor Lake-S architecture, but it has just two cores. This tiny amount of processing cores stands in stark contrast to most of the rest of the company's Raptor Lake lineup, with its Intel Core i-branded chips bottoming out at four cores and rising to 24 cores for its flagship Core i9 14900K. As such, it's fair to say this new Intel chip won't be a best gaming CPU contender. However, there's enough here that makes us wonder just what it would be like to use such a lowly chip as a gaming CPU. Continue reading Intel’s newest CPU has just two cores, but we actually want to try it MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Core i5 14600K review, Best gaming CPU, Core i9 14900K review

The former presidential candidate eschews the bluster for a measured speech on the proper role of government in the economy and American life.

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Image: Tesla Tesla is bringing back its longest-range Model 3, which will also be the second cheapest version of the popular electric sedan available. The new trim will be available for $42,490, according to the website. The rear-wheel-drive (RWD) version of the Long Range Model 3 will get an EPA-estimated range of 363 miles. That could be a significant addition to Tesla’s lineup at a time when production and sales are both drooping. Tesla originally introduced the Long Range RWD Model 3 in 2017 but discontinued it two years later. Now, it’s back with a new sticker price and a new look, thanks to a refreshed design that launched in the US at the beginning of the year. Screenshot: Tesla The new trim is almost $5,000 cheaper... Continue reading…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images The AI Act is a sweeping set of rules for technology companies operating in the EU, which bans certain uses of AI tools and puts transparency requirements on developers. The law officially passed in March after two years of back and forth and includes several phases for compliance that will happen in waves. Now that the full text has been published, it officially starts the clock for compliance deadlines that companies must meet. The AI Act will come into law in 20 days, on August 1st, and future deadlines will be tied to that date. The new law prohibits certain uses for AI, and those bans are part of the first deadline. The AI Act bans application uses “that threaten citizens’ rights,” like biometric categorization to deduce... Continue reading…

There wasn’t a Factory Reset option, previously. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge Since the launch of the Rabbit R1, the AI assistant device has been storing users’ chat logs on-device with no way to erase them, according to a company security bulletin. Rabbit is now addressing the issue with a software update that includes a new Factory Reset option in settings to wipe the device. Previously, you could only unlink your account from an R1, which did not erase all user data. Along with the new ability to fully delete local user data, the software update also addresses another eyebrow-raising behavior of the R1. Prior to the update, stored pairing data that lets the R1 hardware add things to the Rabbithole journal also had permission to read the journal as well. That means a stolen and hacked R1 could potentially have... Continue reading…