Lara Trump announced that she will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee amid a speculated Senate run in the state of Florida. Lara was first elected to serve as RNC co-chair alongside Michael Whatley in March of this year, replacing former chair Ronna McDaniel. Lara is now reportedly eyeing the Florida Senate seat following President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to serve as secretary of state in the incoming administration. Lara is among the potential candidates to replace Rubio, confirming to the Associated Press on Sunday that she would 'seriously consider' the Senate bid. Since stepping into her role at the RNC, Lara set her sights on surpassing fundraising records, ramping up election integrity measures, and increasing turnout of low-propensity voters."We accomplished all three," Lara said in a Sunday post on X. "The job I came to do is now complete and I intend to formally step down from the RNC at our next meeting."This announcement came less than a month after Rubio's appointment sparked rumors about potential successors. Given Rubio's likely confirmation, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will have to appoint a successor who will serve in the Senate through 2026 before holding a special election to fill the seat through 2028. Lara is among the potential candidates to replace Rubio, confirming to the Associated Press on Sunday that she would "seriously consider" the Senate bid. “If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t know exactly what that would look like," Lara said of the potential Senate appointment. "And I certainly want to get all of the information possible if that is something that’s real for me. But yeah, I would 100% consider it."Florida is now facing a total of three congressional vacancies. In addition to Rubio, Florida Republican Rep. Mike Waltz and former Rep. Matt Gaetz were both tapped to serve in the upcoming administration. Gaetz, who was recruited for attorney general, resigned from the House after his nomination and later withdrew his bid altogether. Waltz was nominated to serve as national security adviser and has stated that he will resign on January 20, the day of Trump's inauguration. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Three-time Masters Tournament champion Phil Mickelson gave a surprise endorsement of Daniel Penny, a man on trial in New York City for subduing a man on the subway who later died.Mickelson is a longtime professional golfer who has been a mainstay on the PGA Tour (and then LIV Tour) since the early 1990s. Now 54 years old, "Lefty" has increasingly found his voice, sharing political stories while still generally remaining quiet publicly.On Friday, Mickelson made a statement about Penny just hours before a manslaughter charge against him was dropped, with the jury unable to come to a decision.'Thank you Daniel for serving your country ...'The golfer was responding to a post on X that called Penny "a model citizen who should be praised by the city of New York." The post also said Penny "is the person you hope is around if your loved ones' lives are being threatened" and finished by calling him a "hero."Mickelson said he agreed with the sentiment and thanked Penny for his actions."Thank you Daniel for serving your country and for protecting the many passengers whose lives were threatened by this violent and deranged individual."Then late Sunday night, Mickelson shared some "random thoughts," which included sentiments about football commentators, a TV show, and another statement regarding Penny."Random thoughts[.] Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth are great in the booth. Day of the Jackal is an incredible show. If a deranged individual threatens to kill you let’s hope there's a Daniel Penny around." — (@) Mickelson has also shared posts about mass immigration and even commented on the presidential debate in late June."After watching the debate last night, I feel it never got personal until they started talking golf handicaps and who hits the longest drives. As a golfer, I get it," he joked. — (@) As for Penny, the 26-year-old former Marine was arrested after he got into an altercation with a man named Jordan Neely on an NYC subway. Videos showed Penny subduing the man with a chokehold. Neely later died.According to Fox News, Neely had an active arrest warrant at the time of the altercation, and he was high on K2, a synthetic marijuana drug. The man also had a lengthy criminal record that included an assault on a 67-year-old woman at a subway station in 2021.Witnesses also reported the man was making death threats against passengers.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

I've always been skeptical of "fitness." Health, I understand. When I was single, I never ate out and generally avoided processed foods. And now that I am married, I make our meals from scratch with wholesome ingredients. We walk a lot. I have friends who believed they were intolerant to gluten until they stopped wearing polyester. Now they can enjoy bread without issues. In other words, we try to maintain our health — the fundamental well-being of our bodies, minds, and souls. But to me the word "fitness" often points to just another way to objectify the human body — to see it as a tool. Fit for what? For being a model? For being more attractive as a wife and more efficient as a mother? We should eat less and exercise more, the books and videos tell us. Doing so will regulate our hormones and make everybody love us more. We'll get a slimmer waistline and stronger arms. We'll be "sexier" and "healthier," and we'll feel good about it. We'll eat more protein. We'll invest in gym equipment. We'll start taking supplements and maybe selling them — as long as we're achieving peak health, we might as well make a little money off our friends! And we'll go through diet after diet. The average woman will try around 126 over the course of her life. Why? Because many women just can't make diets work for them. They find that those last few pounds are impossible to lose, or they realize that their obsession with what they can't eat makes them anything but sexy or attentive. Their bodies are stressed, and their hormones suffer for it. But all this focus on what we put in our bodies leads us to ignore something just as important — what we put on our bodies. Diet culture is too neurotic to figure out that it needs a simpler, more holistic approach. After the chapter on "The Waist-Friendly Pantry" should come the chapter on "The Hormone Stabilizer Wardrobe." How you dress affects how you feel perhaps just as much as what you eat. I have friends who believed they were intolerant to gluten until they stopped wearing polyester. Now they can enjoy bread without issues. Unpleasant, sour body odor is also often the result of wearing synthetic fabrics, which keep your pores from breathing and trap moisture against your skin. Dressing in natural fibers can be a big improvement. How you dress affects how you feel about yourself -- but it goes well beyond taking pride in your appearance. Wearing synthetic clothes is like eating McDonald's, packaging and all — it's just that it enters your body via your skin instead of your stomach. The quality of your clothing will influence your hormones, emotions, and overall health. Not only can changing your wardrobe eliminate gluten intolerance and body odor, you might also find yourself having fewer migraines, rashes, and food sensitivities, as well as less bloating. A wardrobe overhaul doesn't have to be expensive. With a little planning, it can end up costing you less than any prospective diet. Even if you can't sew your own garments, you can find plenty of wool, linen, and cotton clothing at thrift stores and on Facebook marketplace. And you don't have to do it all at once. You can start with one or two linen dresses — try them for a week and just see how much better you feel. Once you understand the impact a few inexpensive, natural-fiber garments can have on your health and happiness, you'll never look back.

At times like this, I cast my mind back to Counter-Strike Global Offensive. For months, alongside the rest of the fanbase for Valve’s FPS, I was keeping a close eye on the backend of Steam, tracking every single update, tweak, and new data depot. The cynical part of me said it was all just nothing. The (admittedly much smaller) hopeful part of me wanted to believe. And lo and behold, after all that tinfoil-hat speculation, eventually, Counter-Strike 2 was confirmed - sometimes, the most optimistic theories are true. Days Gone 2 might never happen. The open-world survival game may be doomed to the annals of overlooked, underloved cult hits. But with The Game Awards about to start, some mysterious updates on Steam could - just could - point to a Days Gone remaster. Continue reading Days Gone remaster maybe hinted as strange Steam updates land just before TGAs

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Image: Epic Games Lego is building something new in Fortnite. A year after Lego Fortnite launched a new era inside of the game — one based on the idea that Fortnite is a collection of many game experiences, rather than just a battle royale — Lego is expanding its presence with a new title that sounds reminiscent of Grand Theft Auto V roleplaying as well as a rebrand of its core survival game. First up is a game called Brick Life, which is billed as “an all-new social roleplay experience.” Players explore a Lego-ified city location with 31 other people and can take on specific jobs like courier, security guard, or sushi chef. Players can design their own homes and explore locations like a magical school and rooftop club, and there are missions to take on as well. From the sounds of it, Brick Life is a more family-friendly take on the enduring popularity of roleplaying servers in GTA V, and Epic isn’t being all that subtle about the connection: Ah bricks here we go again... pic.twitter.com/1HiNMIbUKX— LEGO Fortnite (@LEGOFortnite) December 8, 2024 Brick Life is launching inside of Fortnite on December 12th, though it won’t be available for players in South Korea. As part of the announcement, Lego Fortnite — the Minecraft-style survival experience that launched last December — is being renamed Lego Fortnite Odyssey. From now on, “Lego Fortnite” will be the name of the hub inside of Fortnite that houses all of the Lego experiences. Epic and Lego have been steadily expanding their partnership over the last year, launching new games and also letting Fortnite players build their own Lego games. The ongoing collaboration between Lego and Fortnite could provide a hint at what to expect from the upcoming “persistent universe” that Epic and Disney are making together, following a $1.5 billion investment from Disney in February. Since then, we’ve heard very little specifics about what the virtual world might look like. Meanwhile, Epic has also announced that Fortnite is getting support for a revamped version of text chat, which will be available as an option across all of its experiences starting on December 10th. There will be three kinds of text chat available: party channel for talking with your squad; game channel for a public conversation with people on the same island; and DMs with people on your friends list. Epic says there will be two kinds of chat filters — one that removes personal information, and another that filters out “various kinds of mature language and toxicity” — which will be always on for players under the age of 13 in all forms of text chat. They will also be always on for all players in the channel chats. The feature will also include a reporting system similar to the voice reporting tool Epic launched last year. Here’s an example of what text chats look like in the game: Image: Epic Games All of these announcements come at a particularly busy time for Fortnite. The battle royale game is currently in the midst of a brand-new chapter that kicked off following an ambitious music-themed season, and Epic also recently brought back the nostalgia-filled Fortnite OG as a permanent mode. Meanwhile, Epic just announced “Ballistic,” a multiplayer first-person shooter mode that launches inside of Fortnite on December 11th.

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