News In the Lost Lands First Look at George R.R. Martin’s In the Lost Lands Is a Blurry Milla Jovovich & Dave Bautista By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on November 20, 2024 Credit: Vertical Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Vertical Remember back in February 2021 when we reported that Paul W.S. Anderson was directing an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s short story, “In the Lost Lands”? I didn’t either, but it seems we have proof that the production actually happened, and that it stars Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista. Today, Vertical released a first look image from the film. In it, we see a blurry Jovovich unleashing what looks like some cosmic power with a blurry Bautista standing dumbfounded behind her. Jovovich’s powers make sense given she’s playing Gray Alys, a sorceress who, hired by a queen, heads into the so-called lost lands with Bautista as her guide. The script for the adaptation comes from Anderson and Constantin Werner. According to a LiveJournal post Martin made way back in 2015, Werner bought the rights to three of Martin’s stories—1982’s “In the Lost Lands”, 1976’s “The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr”, and 1977’s “Bitterblooms”—and integrated them into one screenplay with the “Lost Lands” title. How much of those other stories made it into this film, however, is unclear, much like this first look image.   Beyond being dark and blurry, the photo doesn’t tell us much about what the film will be like, though we do get a glimpse of Jovovich’s makeup as the magic-wielding sorceress. One thing we do know, however, is that we’ll be able to see the film in all its glory when In the Lost Lands premieres in theaters on February 28, 2025. [end-mark] The post First Look at George R.R. Martin’s <i>In the Lost Lands</i> Is a Blurry Milla Jovovich & Dave Bautista appeared first on Reactor.

Excerpts Young Adult Read an Excerpt From Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee’s Breath of the Dragon A young warrior dreams of proving his worth in the elite Guardian Tournament, fighting for himself—and the fate of everything he loves. By Fonda Lee, Shannon Lee | Published on November 20, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Breath of the Dragon, a new young adult fantasy novel by Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee, out from Wednesday Books on January 7th. Sixteen-year-old Jun dreams of proving his worth as a warrior in the elite Guardian’s Tournament, held every six years to entrust the magical Scroll of Heaven to a new protector. Eager to prove his skills, Jun hopes that a win will restore his father’s pride—righting a horrible mistake that caused their banishment from his home, mother, and twin brother.But Jun’s father strictly forbids him from participating. He believes there is no future in Jun honing his skills as a warrior, especially considering Jun is not breathmarked, born with a patch of dragon scales and blessed with special abilities like his twin. Determined to be the next Guardian, Jun stows away in the wagon of Chang and his daughter, Ren, performers on their way to the capital where the tournament will take place.As Jun competes, he quickly realizes he may be fighting for not just a better life, but the fate of the country itself and the very survival of everyone he cares about. PROLOGUETEN YEARS AGO Two strangers arrived on a midautumn morning, as if swept in by the cold wind rustling the drooping branches of the elm trees. Peering through a crack in the folding screen, Jun couldn’t see his mother’s face as she opened the door, but he noticed how her back and shoulders stiffened. She stepped aside and bowed low, speaking in a soft and respectful voice. “Venerable Aspects, I … wasn’t expecting your visit today. I’m afraid I haven’t prepared any meal to welcome you…” “No need to trouble yourself.” The man who entered first was tall and stern of face, with a high forehead accentuated by his tidy topknot. The woman who followed after him was younger, with her long black hair in a single plait down her back. Both of them wore the black tunic with yellow sleeve cuffs that unmistakably identified them as Aspects. Even six-year-old Jun knew that the Aspects of Virtue were the most elite of government servants, but what were they doing in his house and why was his mother acting so nervous? Why had she told Jun and Sai to stay in the family’s sleeping room? The visitors took off their shoes but remained standing near the entryway. “You may call me Compass,” said the man. “This is my sister Aspect, Water.” Jun’s mother bowed again and hurried to bring over clay cups and a teapot, still warm from the hearth after breakfast, but Compass waved aside the hospitality. “Where is your husband, Mrs. Li?” “He’s … out getting firewood,” Jun’s mother said with a casualness Jun could tell was forced. “He should be back soon.” Jun pressed his eye to the crack in the screen, trying to get a better look. Sai motioned urgently for him to move aside so he could see, too, but Jun wouldn’t give up his spot. Aspects were trained to be the best fighters in the world, that was what Jun had heard. Compass and Water didn’t look frightening, but they were carrying swords at their waists. Real swords! Compass looked past Jun’s mother, straight toward the folding screen behind which Jun and his brother were concealed. “Have your children come out, Mrs. Li. There’s nothing to fear. We should all strive to make this process joyful and easy, not sorrowful.” Jun saw his mother’s face sag with a resignation she tried unsuccessfully to conceal. “Jun. Sai,” she called to them. “Come greet our respected guests.” Jun scampered out from behind the screen; he was already bursting with a thousand questions and wondered if the strangers might let him touch or hold their weapons. Sai hesitated for a moment, then followed right behind Jun as he always did. Their mother brought them to stand in front of the Aspects. She gripped each of their shoulders with a trembling hand. “Identical twins.” Surprise lifted Water’s melodious voice. She smiled down at the children. “Which one of you is older?” Sai straightened importantly, his confidence restored by the question that people always seemed to ask them. “I’m older by eight whole minutes!” Jun scowled down at his feet. He didn’t see why that was anything for his brother to be proud of. Sai had been the first one born, but Jun had been first to crawl, to walk, to talk. That seemed like a much bigger deal, in his opinion. He opened his mouth to tell this to the strangers but didn’t get the chance; Compass turned to Jun’s mother and remarked with sharp disapproval, “It is law that a breathmarked child must be presented to the Council by the time they reach six years of age.” Jun’s mother lowered her eyes and muttered, “Venerable Aspect, forgive me. My sons only turned six last month. I was sick at the time, so we put off the journey to Yujing. I … I thought we might have a little more time. More time for the boys to be together.” Her hand tightened on Jun’s shoulder, and he squirmed, trying to shrug her off. “The delay was a dereliction of your duty as a citizen and a mother.” Water touched her colleague on the arm. “Fortunately, Brother Aspect, we’re here now and the child is still well within the age to begin proper training.” She gestured to the boys. “Which one is it?” Compass brought his attention back to Jun and his brother. “Strange,” he said slowly. “It was easy enough for me to sense the child’s location, but with the two of them standing together, I can’t tell which one we came for. Could it be that both of them are breathmarked?” Buy the Book Breath of the Dragon Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee Buy Book Breath of the Dragon Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget “No,” Jun’s mother said quickly. “Only one of them has the mark. Sai, show the venerable Aspect.” She helped the twin on her left shrug out of his plain linen shirt. The boy stood bare-chested, shivering a little under the gaze of all the adults in the room. Jun frowned and fidgeted. He crossed his arms and huffed. He and Sai were the same height; they had the same face, the same voice. They were indistinguishable in every way except one. In the center of Sai’s chest rested a spearhead-shaped patch of green scales, each one smaller than a pinkie fingernail, bright and iridescent. Jun, on the other hand, had smooth, ordinary skin all over his body. Jun had asked his parents many times why he and his twin possessed this one glaring difference. “No one knows why Dragon’s blood shows up in some and not in others,” they answered him. When he pouted at the nonanswer, his mother always looked inexplicably sad. “Don’t envy your brother,” she told him. “His path is laid out, while yours is open. Just because you don’t have a breathmark doesn’t mean you’re not gifted in your own way.” The reassurance had always felt hollow to Jun, now more so than ever, as Compass gazed down at Sai with intense interest in his steady gaze. “Sai, was it?” When Sai nodded shyly, the Aspect said, “Do you know what it means to be breathmarked?” Sai said quietly, “It means that Dragon gave me a special ability that I’m meant to use.” “That’s right.” Compass’s smile did not entirely reach his eyes, but it did soften his features, and he spoke to the boy in a soothing manner that suggested he was practiced at meeting and explaining things to children. “I was born with a breathmark as well.” He pulled back the sleeve of his tunic to reveal a line of silver scales running along the underside of his right arm. “I have the ability to find other breathmarked people. My gift from Dragon has led me to many children like you. Those of us with Dragon’s blood have a responsibility to use our gifts for the greater good. We must train to become Aspects, to serve and protect East Longhan.” Sai wrapped his thin arms anxiously around his mother’s waist. “Will I have to leave Mama, and Baba, and Jun?” Water crouched down to the boy’s eye level and spoke kindly. “As an Aspect initiate, you’ll live and train in the Sun Pagoda in Yujing. It’s a very special place where the Scroll of Earth is kept. If you work very hard, one day you might even become a Keeper, one of the esteemed warriors who guard the pagoda’s floors. Your instructors will help you identify and hone your natural ability. You’ll receive the best scholastic and martial education the nation can provide. And although you’ll have to give up living with your family in order to devote yourself to the country, you’ll gain many new brother and sister Aspects.” Sai kept his eyes fixed on the floor. “But I don’t want other brothers and sisters. I have Jun.” Jun’s mother swiped at her eyes with the back of her hands. She enfolded Sai in a tight embrace before holding him out at arm’s length. “Do you remember the times I talked to you about how this day would come? And how you would make our family very proud?” Her voice was quavering, and she was smiling through her tears. Sai’s lips trembled and he looked at Compass and Water. “Will my family still get to visit me?” “Yes. On special occasions,” Compass promised. “The families of Aspects are honored. They’re given a place of residence in the inner quarter of Yujing, where government officials and the families of the Virtuous live.” “What about me?” Jun broke in, bewildered that none of the adults were including him in the conversation, or paying attention to him at all for that matter. Surely, if Sai was going to go to a special place to be trained as an Aspect, Jun would go as well. No one ever singled one of the twins out from the other. He and Sai were always together. They’d never spent a day apart. “Do you know what your breathmark ability is?” Water was still speaking to Sai in a friendly and gentle voice. “Don’t worry if it hasn’t manifested yet, but at your age, some children already know.” Sai hesitated and shuffled his feet. He glanced guiltily at Jun. “Sometimes, after I see someone do something, I can do it, too. I don’t have to practice or have someone tell me how to do it. I just know how.” Compass and Water exchanged an impressed glance. Water said, “A gift of perfect mimicry is a rare and powerful breathmark ability.” Jun couldn’t take it anymore. “It’s not that special, all he does is copy me!” he blurted, stamping his foot. “You can’t take him and not me! We’re twins! If Sai gets to live in a pagoda and train in martial arts, then I should, too. I’m just as good as he is. Actually, I’m better! Look at what I can do!” “Jun, stop it,” his mother ordered, anger and panic flying into her voice. “Go back into the other room right now and—” With a shout, Jun dropped into his lowest horse stance and unleashed a flurry of punches, snapping them out straight and strong, showing off his very best form. From a standstill, he leapt straight up into a double front jump kick, then followed it with a spinning double smash kick. Grabbing his mother’s broom from the corner, he spun it around his head and body like a staff, then lunged and punched the end of it through the folding paper screen like a spear, demolishing the piece of furniture with all his boyish strength. Turning back around with the broom held high, he flashed the watching adults a look of triumph. His mother’s hands were clapped to her mouth in horror. The two Aspects were glaring at Jun with very different expressions than they’d been using with Sai mere seconds ago. The grin slid off Jun’s face. Compass strode over and snatched the broom from Jun’s hand, tossing it aside and towering over him. “Who taught you to do that, boy?” he demanded. Jun’s mother went very pale. “Please,” she whispered, “I can explain—” The door opened. Jun’s father came in with a bundle on his back, accompanied by a blast of chilly air that buffeted the room before he shut it out. “Dragon’s piss, it’s getting cold out—” Abruptly noticing the two Aspects standing in the house, his wife’s frightened expression, and Jun posed defiantly in front of the damaged paper screen, the rest of the words died on his tongue. The knob of his throat bobbed in an apprehensive swallow. “What … is happening here?” At last, someone who would listen to him! Jun rushed to his father and pointed at the two strangers. “Baba, these people say they’re taking Sai away to be trained as an Aspect. It’s not fair! Either he should stay with us, or I should get to go with him.” Jun’s father placed a hand on Jun’s head but didn’t answer. His eyes were on Compass as the man approached with slow steps. “Li Hon, one of your sons is breathmarked by Dragon and destined to serve East Longhan. Ordinarily, your family would deserve a place of honor.” The Aspect’s voice and expression turned very grave. “But it appears you’ve been practicing and teaching forbidden knowledge. You’ve been instructing your sons in the ways of violence.” From Breath of the Dragon by Shannon Lee and Fonda Lee. Copyright © 2025 by the authors, and reprinted with permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group. The post Read an Excerpt From Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee’s <i>Breath of the Dragon</i> appeared first on Reactor.

President Joe Biden met last week for the third time with Chinese President Xi Jinping—the leader of a regime Biden’s own administration has repeatedly declared is engaging in genocide. No White House statement about any of these three meetings has indicated that Biden specifically made this genocide an issue with Xi. The day before Biden was inaugurated, as this column has noted before, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that the People’s Republic of China was engaging in genocide against the Uyghur people in China’s Xinjiang region. “After careful examination of the available facts, I have determined that the PRC [People’s Republic of China], under the direction and control of the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], has committed genocide against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” Pompeo said. “I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.” “The United States has worked exhaustively to pull into the light what the Communist Party and General Secretary Xi Jinping wish to keep hidden through obfuscation, propaganda, and coercion,” he said. Two months later, Biden’s State Department issued its report on human rights in China in 2020. “Genocide and crimes against humanity occurred during the year against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” it said. “These crimes were continuing,” it said. In April 2022, Biden’s State Department released its report on human rights in China in 2021. It reiterated that “genocide and crimes against humanity” were occurring in Xinjiang. In November 2022, Biden held his first summit with Xi in Bali, Indonesia. “I’m really glad to be able to see you again in person,” Biden told Xi in public remarks at the opening of the summit. “We spent a lot of time together and—back in the days when we were both vice presidents, and it’s just great to see you.” Biden also expressed gratitude to this leader of a genocidal regime for having congratulated him on his election. “You were kind enough to call me to congratulate me, and I congratulate you as well,” Biden told Xi. “So, President Xi, I look forward to our continuing and ongoing open and honest dialogue we’ve always had,” said Biden. A “readout” on this meeting published by the White House after it was over did mention that Xinjiang had been an issue—but it did not specifically cite the genocide taking place there. “President Biden raised concerns about PRC [People’s Republic of China] practices in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, and human rights more broadly,” it said. Four months later, in March 2023, the State Department released its report on human rights in China in 2022. It once again cited the “genocide and crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang. In November 2023, Biden and Xi held their second summit in Woodside, California. “Well, Mr. President, it’s good to see you again,” Biden told Xi at the beginning of the summit. “And to host you in the United States is a great honor and a pleasure,” Biden said. The White House “readout” noted that Biden once again mentioned Xinjiang and “human rights abuses”—but it did not specifically cite the genocide. Biden “raised concerns regarding PRC [People’s Republic of China] human rights abuses, including in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong,” it said. Five months later, the State Department released its report on human rights in China in 2023. Its first sentence said: “Genocide and crimes against humanity occurred during the year in China against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.” This Nov. 16, Biden met with Xi in Lima, Peru. “It’s good to see you and see all of you again,” Biden told Xi in his opening public statement. “You know, one year ago, we met in the Woodside Summit in San Francisco. And I’m very proud of the progress we’ve both made together.” In the readout published by the White House after this summit, there was an unspecific reference to human rights—but not genocide. “The president noted the importance of human rights and the responsibility of all nations to respect their human rights commitments,” it said. From January 2021, the month Biden was inaugurated, through September 2024, the latest month for which the numbers are available from the Census Bureau, the United States imported approximately $1.79 trillion in goods from China—while running a bilateral trade deficit of approximately $1.23 trillion. Former President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News in February that if he were elected to another term, he would seek to impose tariffs on Chinese imports that may exceed 60%. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, whom President-elect Trump has now named to be his secretary of state, sent out a message on X in August: “Communist China has been able to get away with a campaign of widespread evil,” he said. “From committing acts of genocide against religious and ethnic groups, to spearheading forced sterilization and abortions, as well as dominating crucial minerals and technologies, and impeding the sovereignty of several regional partners, the U.S. will not tolerate these practices.” Now, Rubio has the opportunity to lead U.S. policy on China in the right direction. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Biden Met 3 Times With Leader of Genocidal Regime appeared first on The Daily Signal.

House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled support for banning incoming Rep. Tim McBride, who identifies as a woman and wishes to be called Sarah, from women’s spaces in the Capitol, in comments Wednesday. “All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings—such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms—are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” Johnson said in a statement. Johnson, R-La., who had commented Tuesday that he wanted to “treat everybody with dignity” even as he believes that “a man cannot become a woman,” stressed in his remarks that McBride would have options besides using the men’s bathrooms. “It is important to note that each member office has its own private restroom, and unisex [single occupancy] restrooms are available throughout the Capitol,” the speaker added. “Women deserve women’s only spaces,” the Louisiana lawmaker concluded. Johnson’s remarks come after Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., had announced a resolution that would have limited House members and staffers to using restrooms matching their birth sex. McBride, D-Del., has previously posted a photograph of himself in a women’s bathroom in 2016 amid a North Carolina political fight over bathrooms and transgender people’s access to single-sex spaces of the opposite sex. Here I am in a NC women's restroom that I'm barred from being in. Stop this. We are good people. #ThisIsTransgender pic.twitter.com/7AEykwZfUW— Sarah McBride (@SarahEMcBride) August 31, 2016 “If someone with a penis is in a women’s locker room, that’s not OK,” Mace told reporters earlier this week. “I’m a victim of abuse myself. I’m a rape survivor. I have [post-traumatic stress disorder] from the abuse I’ve suffered at the hands of a man, and I know how vulnerable women and girls are in private spaces.” “I’m absolutely 100% going to stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women’s restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms. I will be there fighting you every step of the way,” the South Carolina congresswoman added. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has also spoken out against McBride’s access to women’s spaces. “He’s a man,” Greene said, according to The New York Times. “He’s a biological male. So, he is not allowed to use our women’s restrooms, our women’s gym, our locker rooms. He’s a biological male. He has plenty of places he can go.” A 2022 Pew Research Center survey found that 41% of Americans agreed that trans people should use the bathroom that matched their birth sex, while 31% opposed. Twenty-eight percent of Americans were undecided on the issue.  Democrats continue to advocate for McBride to have access to women’s restrooms in the Capitol. “The notion that this incoming small House Republican Conference majority is beginning to transition to the new Congress by bullying a member of Congress, this is what we’re doing? This is the lesson that you’ve drawn from the election in November?” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said according to CNN. The post ‘Women Deserve Women’s Only Spaces’: Johnson Says Capitol Bathroom Access Should Be Based on Biological Sex appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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If you didn’t think the Left could go any further down the tracks of the crazy train, they’re now “decolonizing” the very way we communicate as civil beings. Expecting everyone to behave like an adult human is now a construct of White Supremacy! Why practice decorum if you can pass off your manic diarrhea dance as some ancient protest from one of those various non-white cultures? That is what one member of New Zealand's parliament figured when she disrupted a vote to throw a cringey temper tantrum we’re supposed to lap up as some “powerful” form of resistance. Tune in to the latest episode of “Woke of the Weak” for some good ole second hand embarrassment!

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana announced a ban on biological males in congressional bathrooms for women after a heated debate over a transgender congressperson's demands. The controversy erupted after Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride from Delaware was elected to the House as the first openly transgender member. Republicans authored a bill to restrict biological males from using bathrooms designated for women. 'I'm not gonna allow a man in any female private spaces. Period. End of story.' "All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings - such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms - are reserved for individuals of that biological sex," read a statement from Johnson Wednesday. "It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol," Johnson continued. "Women deserve women's only spaces." McBride had accused Republicans of "manufacturing culture wars" with the bathroom legislation. "Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness," the transgender member said on social media. Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina proposed the legislation and has been vocal about her opposition to allowing biological males into women's bathrooms. "I'm not going to allow biological men into women's private spaces. I will stand in the brink and in the way of anyone on the radical left who thinks it's OK for a penis to be in a woman's locker room or a bathroom or a changing room," said Mace to a reporter. "Hell no! I'm not gonna stand for it," she continued. "This is not OK. I'm a survivor of rape, I'm a survivor of sexual abuse, and I'm not gonna allow a man in any female private spaces. Period. End of story." The controversy also led to an apparent death threat against Mace on social media by a person identifying as a transgender person. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The latest teacher sex scandal involves a newly hired substitute teacher from New Mexico who has since been fired. The 30-year-old married woman was charged with criminal sexual penetration and sexual contact with a minor, according to authorities. Michaela Ford of Estancia was arrested Friday and hit with seven charges, including criminal sexual penetration and sexual contact with a minor. Ford is being held at the Torrance County Detention Facility.Surveillance video showed the encounter between Ford and the child, according to court documents.Ford had been working at Estancia High School. Citing court records, KOAT-TV reported that a witness came forward after allegedly seeing Ford kissing an underage student near the middle and high schools on Nov. 6. The station reported that Ford asked the principal not to tell her husband about the alleged interaction.The school launched an investigation into the allegations. Surveillance video showed the encounter between Ford and the child, according to court documents. The Estancia Municipal School District issued a statement Monday saying it's "disturbed to learn of the allegations made against a former substitute teacher in the district, who was arrested.""The district is working closely in cooperation with law enforcement to ensure that a full investigation is conducted," the district stated. "The safety of our students is our highest priority. The district follows all laws and policies with regards to the hiring of employees, including a comprehensive background check."The district said Ford had been employed at the high school for less than a month. Ford was "separated from students immediately" after the accusations of sexual misconduct surfaced. "The district is now concentrating our efforts and resources to assist students requiring support and guidance," the school district said."As this matter has just come to light, full details are not known," the district added. "All information related to this matter will remain confidential in order to protect our students. This district takes pride in being a tight-knit and caring community of learners. We will continue to take all necessary steps to protect student safety."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here.

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona and Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah reintroduced the Knife Owners Protection Act, which protects knife owners traveling from one state to another against vague and restrictive state and local laws.The legislation details that so long as possession of the knife is legal in the states an individual travels to and from, and so long as the knife is secured based on the KOPA requirements, a knife owner can't be arrested for simply traveling across state lines. "The government must not discourage interstate travel and commerce by subjecting law-abiding knife owners to the fear of prosecution under the myriad patchwork of state and local knife laws," Biggs said in a statement obtained exclusively by Blaze News. 'Enforcement is not uniform even with jurisdictions and is too often subject to the vagaries of political expediency.'"Americans are guaranteed the right to protect themselves, their families, and their businesses by the Second Amendment, and we must ensure that those rights are protected," Biggs continued. "I'm thankful for Senator Lee's leadership on the issue in the Senate and for the support of my colleagues as we work to move this bill through Congress."The bill was originally drafted in 2010 by an organization known as Knife Rights and was officially introduced in 2013, making KOPA the first proactive federal legislation protecting knife owners in our nation's history. Congress enacted a similar law in 1986 known as the Firearm Owner Protection Act, which protected law-abiding gun owners from the patchwork of local and state laws. Although FOPA was already passed, knife owners have not yet experienced the same protections. "Those who travel across the country with knives for work, recreation and self-defense are presently subject to arrest and prosecution under a confusing patchwork of inconsistent state and local laws," Doug Ritter, chairman of Knife Rights, said in the statement. "What is perfectly legal in one place may be a serious crime in another, resulting in forfeiture of the knife and carrying significant penalties including jail time," Ritter continued. "Enforcement is not uniform even with jurisdictions and is too often subject to the vagaries of political expediency." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

In previous years, the wait for Ranked Play to hit the latest Call of Duty title has been far too long, often arriving two or sometimes three months after launch. For a game with a typical shelf life of 12 months, it’s been pretty frustrating to deal with. Black Ops 6, however, is bucking that trend and has committed to launching its ranked experience within a month of the FPS game’s release date. Wanting to hammer home just how on the ball it is, Treyarch has just revealed that Black Ops 6 Ranked Play will actually be going live later today - that’s 24 hours earlier than first advertised. Continue reading Black Ops 6 jumps the gun and drops Ranked Play early MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Black Ops 6 guns, Black Ops 6 missions, Black Ops 6 loadouts