Turning Point USA’s alternate halftime show attracts 5M viewers as stars clash
Turning Point USA’s “All-American” Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday was met with praise.
The show, featuring Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett, streamed on YouTube at the same time as the Super Bowl halftime show with Bad Bunny took place.
Many praised the alternate show, with millions tuning in — with numbers soaring to as high as 5 million viewers tuning in to the livestream on YouTube.
However, some called it “underwhelming,” while others criticized Kid Rock’s vocal ability.
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Turning Point USA’s “All-American Halftime Show” also took a moment to pay tribute to founder Charlie Kirk.
The tribute took place as Kid Rock finished up a song, and read: “In remembrance of Charlie Kirk,” alongside photos of Charlie’s wife Erika and their children.
Kacey Musgraves slammed Kid Rock as she took to X to share her thoughts.
The country singer wrote about Bad Bunny’s Halftime show: “Well. That made me feel more proudly American than anything Kid Rock has ever done.”
However, Jake Paul took to X two hours prior the halftime show to slam Bad Bunny.
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Paul, who lives in Puerto Rico, denounced the Puerto Rican singer’s halftime show and told fans they “have power” to use their voices.
“Purposefully turning off the halftime show. Let’s rally together and show big corporations they can’t just do whatever they want without consequences (which equals viewership for them),” Paul wrote to X.
Adding: “You are their benefit. Realize you have power. Turn off this halftime.”
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Paul called Bad Bunny “a fake American citizen performing who publicly hates America.”
“I cannot support that,” Paul said.
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One person simply wrote on X: “TPUSA halftime show was much better. Thank you to all the artists who supported this great event.”
Another called the alternate show “awesome,” with another X user said that the artists “are killing it.”
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“Really good, patriotic and very moving,” a tweet about the show read.
They added: “I wasn’t sure if I’d like it but glad I tuned in, all the musicians were amazing.”
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Another wrote: “I heard the Bad Bunny show was garbage, Not surprising.”
However, some were critical of the Turning Point show, putting into question Kid Rock’s vocal skills.
“Anyone who thinks Kid Rock can still sing are just deaf. Both were cringe but to say the TPUSA halftime show was better is just nonsense,” a person wrote on X.
Someone else slammed Turning Point USA: “Bad bunny NFL halftime show will forever be better than the trashiest turning point halftime show.”
NFL rookie springs into action as spectator runs onto field during Super Bowl
New England Patriots wide receiver Kyle Williams helped corral a man who ran on the field during a brief pause at Super Bowl LX.
The ball was dead as NFL officials tried to break up an incident between Patriots star Stefon Diggs and Seattle Seahawks defensive back Josh Jobe. The two players were going at it and had to be pulled apart by NFL officials and their teammates in hopes of avoiding a penalty.
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The man who ran on the field probably wished the security guards had their attention elsewhere. He carved up through the middle of the field. As Seahawks players watched the man blow past them, Williams ran down and helped security guards corner the fan.
The man was missing a shirt but Williams’ help was enough to aid the guards and take the man off the field.
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Williams had been a solid rookie for the Patriots this season. He had 10 catches for 209 yards and three touchdowns in 2025. He also returned 11 kicks for 290 yards on special teams.
The Patriots were down 19-0 at that point and were in need of a big play to have a glimmer of hope in pulling out a massive comeback victory.
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Drake Maye then found Mack Hollins for a long touchdown pass, which helped to at least avoid the shutout.
Patriots star walks into stadium with mask and handcuffs before playing in Super Bowl LX
New England Patriots wide receiver Mack Hollins has made it clear that he tries to avoid wearing shoes when he’s away from the football field.
So it was no surprise that he arrived barefoot in Santa Clara, California, a few hours before Super Bowl LX kicked off. But what he was actually wearing may have been more of a surprise.
The 32-year-old walked toward the Patriots locker room wearing a facemask that appeared to be a nod to Hannibal Lecter, along with handcuffs around his wrists. Hollins’ feet were also shackled, and a red jumpsuit had the words “Range 13” on the back.
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Hollins, who won a Super Bowl during his rookie season with the Philadelphia Eagles, had Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel’s high school jersey in his hand as he walked through the Levi’s Stadium tunnel. Vrabel is aiming to be the first person to win a Super Bowl title as a player and later as a head coach for the same franchise.
Hollins went through some early warmups on the stadium turf on Sunday while wearing the No. 84 “Warriors” jersey — and, of course, without any cleats on.
While the jersey was a nod, it could have also hinted at the 1979 cult-favorite movie “The Warriors.”
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The Patriots went undefeated on the road this past regular season and won the AFC Championship game in Denver. In a nod to the film, the idea of persevering away from home developed as a rallying cry for the team this year.
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Clips of the 1980s professional wrestling duo, the Road Warriors, became a common theme for Vrabel to show the Patriots this season. Once Vrabel ran out of unseen clips to show the team, he pivoted to the videos from “The Warriors.”
Vrabel, 50, told reporters last week that he was initially surprised the clips resonated with the players. “It’s amazing what sticks. I didn’t think at the time that it would have stuck, but here we are at the end of January, and it’s still sticking,” the former New England linebacker said.
While the Patriots were granted the home team designation for the neutral-site game, the team elected to wear their white road jerseys for Super Bowl LX — keeping in line with their “road warriors” mentality.
Sunday isn’t the first time Hollins’ pregame attire has raised some eyebrows.
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Ahead of a January 2025 NFL playoff game between the Bills and the Ravens, the then-Buffalo receiver arrived at the Orchard Park, New York, stadium wearing sunglasses, a straw hat, swimming shorts and a floral shirt. He was also seen holding a beach towel, along with a Bills mini-football.
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What Usha Vance’s pregnancy news tells us about men and women in America
Second lady Usha Vance’s announcement of baby number four was delightful and refreshing news. Having four children in the U.S. is not the norm these days. Across the U.S., women are having fewer children, or none at all. As a parent myself, I hope Vance’s news will encourage more women to do the same.
A woman’s decision to have children is often seen as a personal lifestyle choice. However, this decision also affects the nation: without enough births to maintain its population, a country struggles to sustain its economy, communities and culture.
We do not have to look far to see where this leads. The Free Press recently reported that Britain is facing a full-blown demographic crisis. Deaths are now poised to outnumber births. Many educated, prosperous and financially stable women say their decision not to have children is deliberate. One woman in The Free Press story noted, “It’s not that I don’t have reasons. It’s that I have too many. If you knocked one down, I’d just give you 10 more.”
The United States is experiencing a sustained decline in birth rate, which has lasted for over a decade and now puts the rate well below replacement level. This trend mirrors challenges seen elsewhere.
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The reasons women give for avoiding motherhood are real: children and childcare are expensive; many careers demand total availability during a woman’s prime fertility years. Often, the culture treats motherhood as a professional liability rather than a benefit to society.
But there is another factor few are willing to say out loud — one that affects women long before they ever consider having children. Increasingly, women are not delaying motherhood because they do not want families: they are having trouble finding men who are ready to build one.
Modern dating is broken, and pornography has played a devastating role. Millions of men now habitually consume pornography. Barna Group data from 2024 found that 78% of U.S. men (ages 13–65) consume pornography “to some extent.” But this is not harmless entertainment. Many studies have shown that heavy pornography consumption distorts expectations, damages emotional intimacy, reduces motivation and undermines real-world relationships.
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Pornography can lead men to have distorted views of sex and women. A culture that normalizes constant sexual consumption trains men to expect gratification without sacrifice. Pornography promises connection but delivers isolation.
A lonely society, cut off from marriage, family, and genuine intimacy, does not reproduce itself. A culture that floods men with pornography should not be surprised when fewer of them step up as husbands and fathers. When men are trained to consume rather than commit, women ultimately pay the price, but so does the larger society.
Marriage does not collapse because women suddenly lose interest in family. It collapses when men stop pursuing commitment. Growing numbers of men are living disconnected lives, often alone, often online. Indeed, men are also being sold a lie that they have to have an enormous amount of money saved before they can commit to marriage and children.
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Women are not often rejecting motherhood out of selfishness or ambition. They are responding rationally to a dating culture where emotional maturity, fidelity and long-term responsibility are increasingly rare.
America needs strong men who are willing to reject pornography and focus on leaving a legacy by building families. At the same time, women should resist the message that motherhood must be delayed until everything is “perfect.” That day will never arrive. And the reality is that fertility does not wait.
Often, the culture treats motherhood as a professional liability rather than a benefit to society.
Yes, economics matter. But economics alone cannot explain what is happening. Even countries with generous family benefits, paid leave, and subsidized childcare remain well below replacement fertility rates. When marriage weakens and meaning erodes, no amount of government spending can persuade people to build families.
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Career success matters — education matters. But neither was ever meant to replace family, meaning, or legacy. A culture that treats children as optional accessories eventually runs out of people. That decline shows up in labor shortages, strained entitlement systems, and a shrinking pool of future caregivers, workers and citizens.
What is missing is a shared belief that marriage, motherhood and fatherhood are still good and worth protecting.
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Each generation before us faced uncertainty, whether in the form of war, depression, or upheaval, and yet still chose to build families. They believed the future was worth the investment. A society that stops believing stops having children.
America now stands at a crossroads: we can rebuild a culture that honors marriage, supports motherhood, and calls men to responsibility, or we can manage decline and pretend it is progress. Children are not the problem: they are the point. Second Lady Vance models that well.
Jeffries defends Democratic opposition to national voter ID bill
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., was pressed on CNN Sunday as to why he considered voter ID legislation to be “voter suppression” despite Democratic victories in states with enforced ID laws.
“State of the Union” host Dana Bash asked Jeffries about the Democratic Party’s opposition to the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require people to present photo identification before voting, despite mass support from members of both parties for voter ID laws.
Jeffries insisted that even states like New York already have voter identification requirements and claimed the SAVE Act was an attempt by the Republican Party to rig elections.
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“The question is that what Republicans are trying to do is to engage in clear and blatant voter suppression,” Jeffries said. “They know that if there‘s a free and fair election in November, they‘re going to lose. In fact, Republicans have been losing every single election since Donald Trump was sworn in January of last year, including most recently, decisively in Texas. And of course, losing all across the country up and down the ballot in the November off-year elections in places like New Jersey or Virginia [or] New York.”
“I mean, Virginia is a good example,” Bash said. “They have a requirement to show your ID, and Democrats won very, very handily across the way. So why not maybe even just take that off the table and say, okay, maybe not a passport or a birth certificate, but show ID?”
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“Well, first of all, every state is empowered to be able to make the decision on their own, and we completely and totally support that. What Donald Trump wants to do is try to nationalize the election. Translation: steal it, and we‘re not going to let it happen,” Jeffries said.
The congressional leader also accused President Donald Trump of trying to rig the midterm elections through Republican gerrymandering efforts and attempts to federalize the National Guard.
“This is going to be a free and fair election. It‘s going to be conducted like every other election, where states and localities have the ability to administer the laws,” Jeffries said.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Jeffries’ office for comment.
Several other Democratic politicians have accused the SAVE Act of being a form of voter suppression after House Republicans reintroduced the bill last week.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., went as far as to suggest that the SAVE Act was a “Jim Crow-era” law.
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“I have said it before and I’ll say it again, the SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow-type laws to the entire country and is dead on arrival in the Senate,” Schumer said last week. “It is a poison pill that will kill any legislation that it is attached to…The SAVE Act is reminiscent of Jim Crow-era laws and would expand them to the whole of America. Republicans want to restore Jim Crow and apply it from one end of this country to the other. It will not happen.”
The single crushing problem American cattle ranchers wish Trump would fix
President Donald Trump’s beef import plan aims to cut prices, but cattle ranchers say it misses what’s crushing them most — the power of meat packers.
“Meat packers have created a system where they win no matter what — at the cost of everyone else,” said Will Harris, a fourth-generation cattleman and owner of White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia.
Harris, who plans to hand off the operation to his children, said his farm handles every step of production, from raising cattle to processing and selling beef, giving him a clear view of how prices are set.
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At the center of that pricing power sit the “Big Four” — Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef — anchoring the U.S. beef supply chain from pasture to plate.
Together, the packing titans process about 85% of the grain-fattened cattle that become steaks, roasts and other supermarket cuts.
“The U.S. beef market is so highly concentrated that a small number of dominant packers control processing, distribution and pricing. This allows them to pay ranchers less for cattle while charging consumers more at the store. When cheap imported beef enters the system, it allows packers to increase their margins,” Harris told Fox News Digital.
It’s a concern echoed deep into cattle country.
Texas cattle rancher Cole Bolton said he sees the same problem in the Lone Star State.
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“What the real issue is, is the price differential between the big four packers and what they’re paying us for the product,” said Bolton, the owner of K&C Cattle Company.
Those margins, Bolton said, have been squeezed for decades. “Ranchers have dealt with such thin margins of profitability for the last 20 years.”
While ranchers like Bolton and Harris say Trump’s temporary expansion of U.S. beef imports from Argentina may help ease prices in the short term, both warn it is no substitute for rebuilding domestic production.
“Imports should be a bridge, not a long-term replacement,” Harris said. “We must rebuild the American cattle herd, protect American farmers and ensure transparency, so consumers understand where their beef comes from. Long-term affordability depends on a healthy, resilient domestic cattle industry — not permanent dependence on foreign beef.”
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Years of drought, high feed costs and an aging ranching population have thinned herds, leaving the U.S. cattle supply at its lowest level in more than 70 years.
“I think it’s going to take a while to fix this crisis that we’re in with the cattle shortage. My message to consumers is simple: Folks, be patient. We’ve got to build back our herds,” Bolton told Fox News Digital.
He noted that the cattle industry, over the last five years, has weathered one setback after another, from market turmoil to extreme weather conditions.
Obama admin ‘lied to us’ about Benghazi attack that killed 4 Americans, Pirro says
U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro said the U.S. would never stop seeking justice for Americans killed by terrorists after the arrest of Zubayr Al-Bakoush, who is alleged to be one of the leaders of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
“The American cavalry never came, to our disappointment, in 2012,” Pirro said Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
“We’re coming for you now. We’ve got him. We’ve got a lot more coming,” she added.
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She slammed then-President Barack Obama for not bringing consequences for Al-Bakoush and the others responsible for the attack that left four Americans dead.
“The president said we did everything we could. They didn’t do everything they could. Americans watched in horror as four Americans are being killed, not by peaceful protests that went awry,” she said.
On Sept. 11, 2012, a terror attack on the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, left four dead. A group of assailants armed with AK-47 rifles, grenades and other weapons, stormed the compound and began shooting, setting fires and breaking into buildings.
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Pirro claimed that the Obama administration at the time knew immediately that the attack was a coordinated assault and not a protest that spiraled out of control, as was widely reported at the time of the event.
She questioned why more was not done to protect the Americans on the ground, like flying F-16s overhead to disperse the crowd or sending a rapid response team that she claimed could have arrived in a few hours.
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“Benghazi was the most dangerous place on earth for Americans, and they put them there without protection. And they lied to us on the Sunday morning talk shows. They lied to us in Congress… It was only through President Trump that we’re now going to get some kind of justice,” Piroo said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Al-Bakoush was charged with murder, terror and arson, all related to the 2012 attack.
No, Rep Crockett, driving an 80,000-pound truck is not the same as driving a rental car
As someone who has spent decades training professional truck drivers, I take highway safety very seriously. America’s economy depends on a national freight network that moves goods through every state, across every major highway corridor, and into every community. When safety standards for commercial drivers are weakened anywhere, the consequences ripple across the entire country, putting motorists, supply chains and professional drivers at risk.
That’s why I was deeply troubled by recent remarks from Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, suggesting that English language proficiency is not necessary to safely operate a commercial motor vehicle. She equated it to the same practice as someone driving a rental car in a foreign country where they might not speak the language. Her assertion is misguided, dangerous and dismissive of the professionalism of America’s truck drivers.
Operating an 80,000-pound commercial vehicle is not remotely comparable to driving a passenger vehicle. A commercial driver is not simply following turn-by-turn directions from point A to point B. They are navigating complex highway systems, responding to emergency situations, complying with law enforcement instructions, interpreting roadside signage, understanding weather alerts, and coordinating with dispatchers, first responders and inspectors — often under intense pressure. English language proficiency is fundamental to every one of those responsibilities.
Across the United States, commercial trucks move agricultural products from rural communities, consumer goods through major interstate corridors and critical supplies to ports, factories, hospitals and distribution centers. From coast to coast, our economy relies on professional drivers to keep freight moving safely and efficiently. That makes strong, consistent safety standards not a regional concern, but a national imperative.
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Federal law has long required commercial drivers to demonstrate English language proficiency for good reason. A commercial driver’s license is not a checkmark on a piece of paper — it is a promise to the public. It tells every motorist sharing the road that the person behind the wheel of that truck has been properly trained, evaluated and held to consistent safety standards. Weakening or downplaying those requirements undermines trust in the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) itself.
This debate cannot be divorced from a broader reality confronting the trucking industry. Across the country, regulators are uncovering bad actors who cut corners on training, falsify records, or exploit loopholes to push unqualified drivers onto public roads. These so-called “CDL mills” don’t just endanger safety — they devalue the hard work of legitimate drivers and reputable training schools that do things the right way.
As a training professional and chairman of the Commercial Vehicle Training Association (CVTA), I see the difference every day between real, rigorous instruction and sham operations that promise “fast” or “guaranteed” licenses. True commercial driver training takes time. It involves classroom instruction, hands-on skills development, supervised behind-the-wheel training, and clear communication between instructors and students. None of that works without a shared language.
To be clear, this is not about exclusion. Trucking has always been a pathway to opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds. CVTA supports expanding the workforce — but growth must never come at the expense of safety. Lowering standards does not solve labor shortages; it creates more crashes, more fatalities, more scrutiny and, ultimately, fewer good jobs.
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Our drivers — professional men and women who earn their living the right way — deserve better than to have their work trivialized. Suggesting that language proficiency doesn’t matter insults the professionalism of drivers who take pride in mastering a demanding craft and meeting high expectations every single day.
The solution is not new laws or political talking points. The solution is consistent, nationwide enforcement of existing safety requirements. Regulators must fully enforce entry-level driver training rules, conduct meaningful audits and shut down fraudulent operators wherever they exist. Every state should continue partnering with federal agencies to ensure every CDL on the road represents real training, real accountability and real competence.
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When you see a truck in the next lane, you should be confident that the driver can read the signs, understand emergency instructions, and respond correctly in a crisis. That confidence begins with maintaining — and enforcing — standards that put safety first.
We owe that to our drivers and the traveling public.