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President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday to give a “high civilian honor” to a lifeguard seen saving the life of a young boy in a viral video — after his son, Eric Trump, requested he do so.

Video of the pulse-pounding rescue showed the 16-year-old lifeguard never losing his grip on the child as he battled the relentless surf at Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz, California, over the weekend.

Beachgoer Scott Vander Dussen shot footage of the save and posted it to his SantaCruzNow Instagram page on Sunday.

The video spread like wildfire on social media, quickly garnering millions of views.

One of those viewers was Eric Trump, who shared the video on Monday.

“Give this 16-year-old lifeguard the highest civilian honor,” Eric Trump posted on X along with the video. “This is truly the best of America! Well done!”

On Tuesday, President Trump posted a screengrab of Eric’s tweet on his Truth Social account, and appeared to concur with his son’s wish.

“We’re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he saved, to give him a High Civilian Honor. Very brave, he deserves it!”

The lifeguard has not been identified, but a woman claiming to be his mother posted on social media that his name is Ryder, according to Fox News.

Trump’s post came after a pair of closed-press meetings, first with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who are both in town for the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

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Actor James Woods said he is worried the recent “Muslim invasion” of the USA will be the point where historians look back and say the country took a nosedive into hell.

He shared his concern about the rise of Islam during a Monday interview on right-wing pundit Benny Johnson’s show.

Woods — one of the few outspoken conservatives in Hollywood — said he believed the election of democratic socialist and Muslim Zohran Mamdani (D) as New York City’s mayor was “the most dangerous event” in modern American history. He said it signaled the downfall of the nation.

“Look, I think America is the greatest human endeavor in the history of humankind. I think it’s in terrible trouble. I mean, the city where the World Trade Center and the people in it were slaughtered and destroyed, how you could ever allow this Muslim invasion and cancer?” Woods asked.

“And they say, ‘What are you, prejudiced?’ Well, yes. I’m sorry to say it,” he continued.

Woods then told reporters watching the show,  “don’t keep [my last comment] if you quote it just that; I’m prejudiced against a religion — that’s really a political jihad — that actually has in its revered text that you will kill every non-believer.”

He continued:

You know, I’m a Catholic. I believe certain things. I don’t think certain other religions share my view, but they have a right to do it, this is America. And I’d say you have a right to do it anyway.

But you don’t have a right to practice something — I’m not going to sign up for “Team Muslim” or “Team Islam,” when Team Islam says “Oh, and by the way, we want to kill every one of you who’s not us.” Now you got a problem.

Johnson let Woods speak for a minute. He then pointed out some 9/11 families want Mamdani barred from the tribute later this year, honoring 25 years since nearly 3,000 people were murdered in the terrorist attack.

The Specialist star’s remarks on Islam come as the religion has quickly expanded in recent years. There were 2.6 million Muslims in America in 2010, which then jumped 32% over the next decade to 3.85 million.

Woods gave an ominous prediction for what will happen sooner or later in the States.

“They’re gonna kill us. They’re gonna outbreed us and kill us and it’s gonna be done,” he said. “Because they’re doing it in other places — Christians in Sudan and other places, they’re being slaughtered. They’re being eradicated.”

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Ultrahuman rings, including the new Ring Pro, come with an extensive app. Even before you activate any PowerPlugs (add-on features), there are plenty of graphs and numbers to get lost in. Here are a few hacks you should know to navigate the data deluge and make sure you're getting the most out of its clever hidden features.

I've used two of Ultrahuman's rings: the Ring Air, which I reviewed here (and which is no longer available in the U.S.), and the Ring Pro, which I wrote about a little here. Ultrahuman just came out with a new version of its app, so if anything here looks different from what you're used to (like the Longevity tab), make sure you have the latest version.

Use the Ultrahuman ring's longevity tab, but not for longevity

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Ultrahuman gives you an estimate of your biological age, which you may (correctly) think of as kind of a silly gimmick—but don't ignore the longevity tab altogether. It's actually a great summary of your long-term trends. If you think of the Ring tab as giving your day-to-day data and suggestions for what to do today, then the Longevity tab tells you what all those days have added up to.

This is where you'll find an estimate of your VO2max, which gauges your cardio fitness. You'll also see a card describing your sleep debt; mine tells me I'm one hour in debt, due to bedtimes creeping later over the past week, but it also tells me a few on-time bedtimes should wipe out the debt.

Get better heart rate accuracy in Ultrahuman ring workouts by using a different device

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Smart rings don't make great workout trackers, as I've told you before. You have to take the ring off for comfort or safety for many workout types, and the heart rate readings aren't particularly reliable, even when you may want to keep the ring on.

Ultrahuman can track workouts with the ring, of course, but the app also has a setting that accounts for exactly my complaints. If you have another device, like a Garmin or even a basic chest strap heart rate monitor, you can have Ultrahuman use that more reliable device for your heart rate during workouts. Just start a workout from the app (under the plus sign menu), and you can choose another device. It actually works with anything that can broadcast heart rate and gives you instructions for connecting your Airpods Pro 3, Apple Watch, Polar sensor, Whoop, or Garmin.

"Train" your Ultrahuman ring for better accuracy

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A new feature in the Emerald update is the ability to "train" your ring's heart rate detection algorithm. To use it, you'll wear a secondary device at the same time as your ring, and Ultrahuman will compare the signals it gets from the two devices. This is supposed to allow Ultrahuman to detect your heart rate more accurately.

So far, the feature is only available for a few specific Polar heart rate monitors, none of which I have on hand, so I haven't been able to test this yet. But Ultrahuman says that support for other devices, like Garmin, is coming soon. Training for step counting is also coming soon.

Keep an eye on sunlight with the vitamin D plugin (even if you don't care about your vitamin D)

One of Ultrahuman's strengths is that it keeps track of the best time to do certain things. By default, you'll get recommendations about when you should stop looking at screens for the night, and you'll also get a recommendation to get a certain number of steps during the early morning and "golden hour" (around sunset) timeframes. There's a similar timeline for what Ultrahuman thinks are your best times to have caffeine during the day.

But there's another handy timeline you can add: one that shows you the timing for sunlight. To see it, go to Powerplugs and activate the Vitamin D plugin. You can use this for its original function, of course: taking note of when you are outdoors and getting sunlight. The ring detects some sunlight on its own, and you can tell it when you've been outside if you're trying to rack up a certain amount of time in the sun.

Now, you'll get a line on your timeline showing when the sun rises and when you'll get "partial sunlight" in the evening, customized to your location. You can infer some of this timing from the circadian windows plugin, but I like having it in its own little column on the timeline. I find this handy for planning outdoor activities toward the end of the day—if I go out near the "partial sunlight" time, I should probably bring a flashlight if I'll be on the trail. To see all your timelines in parallel, tap on the Active Windows card on the main screen.

Save battery on your Ultrahuman ring with Chill Mode

One of Ultrahuman's most useful features is a simple battery-life setting that you won't find unless you go looking for it. When you first buy your ring, it will operate in Turbo Mode, which the app describes as running "all sensors at full intensity for continuous, all-day tracking." And sure, when the ring is new to you, maybe you'd like to use Turbo Mode and turn on live heart rate on the home screen so you can get the most data to look at.

But for everyday use, Chill Mode makes a lot more sense than turbo. This mode still tracks your sleep and restful periods, and it will still sample plenty of data during workouts, but it skips detailed tracking during other times. Your battery will last longer in Chill Mode, and honestly, I don't feel like I'm missing anything important.

President Donald Trump said he wished the U.S. had a more beefed-up weapons stockpile than it does — which he said is a problem because ex-President Joe Biden “gave away” a grip of weapons to Ukraine.

The president was asked aboard Air Force One on Monday whether he was “concerned” about the stockpile as the Iran war goes on; ABC reporter Rachel Scott sounded like she asked the question.

Trump said he wasn’t worried, but he would have preferred Biden and Ukraine left him with more to work with.

“We have a lot of ammunition, different types. You know, Biden gave a lot to Ukraine, so we’re building that up. But we have a lot,” he said. “We have a lot of the mid-level stuff, too, I mean more than we could ever use no matter what. But we have a lot. I’d like to have more, to be honest, but so much was given to Ukraine by Biden.”

He continued, “When I left, the cupboards were full… as soon as I left, they gave a lot of it to Ukraine. I mean, numbers that nobody’s ever seen before.”

Trump said his administration is focused on building up the stockpile “very rapidly” and bragged defense contractors were each building four to five plants to produce weapons for the military.

“We’re in very good shape, but for some of the more sophisticated stuff, we’d certainly like to have more,” he added. “Biden gave a lot of it away.”

Trump’s answer comes a few weeks after he said the U.S. will show Ukraine how to build “elite” military weapons like the MM-104 Patriot missile defense system. He made the announcement while speaking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a NATO Summit in Turkey.

The president’s talk with reporters also came shortly after he told Axios he was ready for “strong military action” against Iran, if peace deal talks fizzle out once again.

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Not since Happy Days spun off into Mork and Mindy has there been a weirder TV franchise expansion than Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which takes the relatively straightforward sitcom antics of The Big Bang Theory and expands them into the multiverse. It seems that, at some point after the conclusion of their show, Howard, Sheldon, and Leonard built a quantum something-or-other machine that went haywire and triggered a multiversal apocalypse that only comic book guy Stuart (Kevin Sussman) can stop.

It's early days yet, but the HBO series is pretty fun, making the most of the parent show's geeky bona fides and affection for genre tropes. If you're looking for more entertainment in the same nerdy vein, here are other shows that inject varying degrees of comedy into serious sci-fi scenarios.

Sliders (1995 – 2000)

Though less overtly comedic, there's an appealing goofiness to this quintessentially '90s bit of sci-fi, a show that anticipates the multiversal mayhem of the modern Marvel era. Jerry O'Connell is Quinn Mallory, who accidentally opens a portal that sends him and a rotating group of companions (including, initially, John Rhys-Davies as Quinn's mentor) through the multiverse. The device that he invents to get them all home is, inconveniently, an unreliable timer that keeps them stuck wherever they land for...well, however much time the story demands. Over the course of their adventures, they visit worlds where the Soviet Union won the Cold War, where antibiotics were never invented, and where Hillary Clinton is president (I swear!). Increasing serialization involving a whole species of mostly evil sliders doesn't really improve things as the show goes on, but it's still a pretty good time. Stream Sliders on Peacock and Tubi.

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Future Man (2017 – 2020)

Josh Hutcherson plays Josh Futturman, a twenty-something janitor who lives with his parents and isn't good at much aside from video games. Though that's enough, as it turns out: He's the only person ever to finish the game Biotic Wars, a success that triggers the arrival of time-traveling soldiers from the future who recruit Josh for their war (yes, that's basically the plot of The Last Starfighter). The show succeeds by wearing its sci-fi influences on its sleeve, taking its world and backstory seriously before populating it with goofy, raunchy, and believably out-of-their-depth characters. Buy Future Man from Prime Video.

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Red Dwarf (1988 – 2020)

The subject here is outer-space sci-fi in the Star Trek mold, but it's still a beautifully irreverent sendup of the genre, with an amiable loser at its center. Craig Charles is Dave Lister, a well-meaning slob who holds the lowest job possible on the enormous mining ship Red Dwarf. When he sneaks a pregnant cat aboard, he's punished by being placed in suspension (without pay) for the rest of the trip. Which is a lot longer than anyone anticipated: When Dave wakes up, three million years have passed, and humanity is entirely extinct. The kittens survived and sired an inbred cat empire that's since risen and all but fallen, while the senile main computer has recreated Dave's hated roommate (Chris Barrie) as a hologram to keep him company. Soon joined by a prissy android, they spend the next 30+ years bumming about in space and stumbling into adventures. Stream Red Dwarf on Britbox.

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Legends of Tomorrow (2016 – 2022)

In a depressingly straight and self-serious superhero-media landscape, Legends of Tomorrow soared past its rocky origins as a dumping ground for supporting characters from other DC shows to become something altogether weirder (and queerer). Initially recruited by a time traveller for a mission specifically because of their insignificance (their absences from the timeline won't affect a thing), the Legends go from screwups to reluctant heroes under the leadership of Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), putting things right in time and space. Blending solid character work with brilliant goofiness, the show saw plotlines involving a giant animatronic bear threatening the Old West, a season-ending fight scene set to "The Thong Song," and a character's nipple getting bitten off by a unicorn. Stream Legends of Tomorrow on Netflix.

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Resident Alien (2021 – 2025)

I feel like Resident Alien flew a bit under the radar during its run, though it still managed a solid four-season run. Alan Tudyk (Serenity, Rogue One, Superman) stars as Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle, sort of: He's actually an alien with an unpronounceable name who crashed on Earth before killing the real Harry and assuming his identity. He's meant to scout the planet for a planned destruction, but, by assuming human form and integrating with the community in the tiny town of Patience, Colorado, he slowly begins to have second thoughts, even as he continues to be entirely repulsed by human culture. Tudyk is genuinely funny while managing to hit some moving emotional beats along his journey to not-wanting-to-kill-us-all-quite-as-much, and the supporting cast is similarly game. The fictional setting is set near the real Southern Ute Reservation, and offers up some impressive Indigenous representation, including Sara Tomko as Harry's bestie and occasional foil, Asta Twelvetrees. Stream Resident Alien on Peacock and Netflix.

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The Librarians (2014 – 2018)

The Librarians began life as a charming, Indiana Jones-light TV movie led by Noah Wylie way back in 2004, which spawned two sequels, the series in question, as well as a sequel show now entering its second season. While largely a standalone take on the mildly comedic premise (a secret annex of the New York Public Library that catalogs magical and occult objects), The Librarians finds Rebecca Romjin, John Larroquette, and Christian Kane leading a group of action-scholars who use their brains to save the world. They're not lovable losers in the Stuart mode, but are, nonetheless, a bunch of true nerds who become reluctant heroes. Stream The Librarians on Prime Video.

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The Last Man on Earth (2015 – 2018)

Creator Will Forte stars as Phil Miller, a former banker who believes, for about a year, that he’s the only survivor of a plague that wiped out humanity...until he meets Kristen Schaal, a notary from Delaware. The two don’t have much in common, but decide they’re responsible for repopulating the earth. Frequently genuinely funny, the show winds up striving for a larger purpose than parodying end-of-the-world narratives, exploring our obsession with the end times and what it means to live in a world where apocalyptic thinking winds up becoming self-fulfilling. Stream The Last Man on Earth on Hulu.

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Pluribus (2025 – )

The tone of this sensational series is wildly different than that of Stuart, and yet it would feel like a disservice to not mention this weird sci-fi apocalypse from Breaking Bad's Vince Gilligan, which displays a very dark, very dry sense of humor. Rhea Seehorn plays Carol Sturka, a fantasy romance author and general grouch who becomes one of only 13 people on the planet immune to the "Joining"—the result of an alien virus that transforms the rest of humanity into a peaceful, perky, and perpetually content hive mind. Carol refuses to surrender her miserableness in the face of a loss of identity, fighting instead to restore humanity to its admittedly cruddy ways. Saving the world means saving the world for snobby misanthropes like herself. Thrilling, heartbreaking, and genuinely funny, the show manages to address some big questions about what it means to be human, and what we'd be willing to give up to change. Stream Pluribus on Apple TV.

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Twisted Metal (2023 – )

Based on the ‘90s-era vehicular combat games that your parents probably hated (involving, as they do, a lot of wild, demolition-derby style action in which you smash and/or blow up your opponents), Twisted Metal stars Anthony Mackie as John Doe, a driver tasked with carrying a package across the entirely lawless Wasteland while dodging challenges that include a murderous clown in an ice cream truck. Alternately brutal and goofy, the show mostly does what it says on the tin, providing plenty of frenetic car-on-car action (and car-on-semi, car-on-hearse, -ice cream truck, etc.). If the over-the-top comedic violence of Stuart is your bag, you'll get plenty of that here. Stream Twisted Metal on Peacock.

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Now Apocalypse (2019)

New Queer Cinema pioneer Greg Araki followed up his neon-tinged cinematic apocalypse in Kaboom with Now Apocalypse, a successor in spirit. Avan Jogia plays Ulysses Zane, living in sun-soaked California with his best friend Carly (Kelli Berglund), a struggling actress and sex worker. He keeps having bizarre dreams about an alien invasion that feel increasingly like they might be premonitions, or possibly just anxiety delusions brought on by too much weed. The show only lasted one season and never quite made it to its own prophesied apocalypse, but it was definitely fun while it lasted, and definitely offers something a bit to the left of the typical dreary end-of-the-world. It's a comedy dystopia, just sweatier and hornier than usual. Stream Now Apocalypse on Tubi.

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A top official for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) spelled out a jaw-dropping platform in a wild interview on Fox News — including calls to abolish the U.S. Senate and to defund the Pentagon.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, DSA co-chair Megan Romer was asked by anchor Shannon Bream about the DSA’s platform. One by one, Romer confirmed her support for various policy positions that are sure to draw the ire of conservatives and moderate Democrats.

BREAM: Abolish the Senate?

ROMER: True.

BREAM: OK, replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them?

ROMER: Yep

BREAM: Abolish ICE?

ROMER: Absolutely.

BREAM: Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the US illegally?

ROMER: As a long term plan, yep.

BREAM: Defund the Pentagon?

ROMER: Absolutely.

BREAM: Abolish prisons, at least in large part?

ROMER: Yeah, again, as part of a long term program, yeah?

BREAM: OK, so no prisons. Government or public ownership of most large corporations?

ROMER: Yeah, absolutely.

Bream proceeded to press Romer for specifics on why the DSA wants to do away with the Senate, and how exactly it would do so.

“The Senate is an anachronistic institution, it comes from the British House of Lords,” Romer said. “It is made to protect power for…the senate was part of the system that was made to make sure that the people didn’t have too much of a say. So we want to expand Congress significantly, but make it a unicameral legislature.”

Later, the Fox News anchor pressed Romer on the idea of abolishing prisons.

“If we talk about abolishing prisons then, does that make society better?” Bream said. “I mean, is there anybody that should be incarcerated? I mean rapists, child predators, murderers?”

Romer elaborated on the DSA’s position.

“So the long term plan when we think about most people who are in prison, they are mostly in prison for crimes of poverty,” Romer said.

“But that’s not who I’m talking about,” Bream interjected. “I’m talking about the murderers and rapists.”

“I hear you,” Romer said. “When we get rid of this need for crimes of poverty to exist, when we get rid of that destabilizing force that creates so many people who living in desperate situations and doing desperate things. That brings those numbers down to very small numbers, and then we can collectively decide what we do with those people. I suspect it won’t look like the prison system as we know it today.”

“OK, but you do think some people need to be away from society,” Bream said.

“Some people are not able to be functional members of society, that’s true,” Romer replied. “But what does that look like to keep the rest of us safe? We’re talking about safety, we’re not talking about punishment, we are talking about making sure that we are safe, everybody is safe, and everybody maintains their dignity.”

Many observers believe the DSA’s political influence is growing — as DSA-backed candidates have recently won a number of major Democratic primary victories in places including New York and Colorado.

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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is spending big bucks to get his makeup done — but the Fox & Friends Weekend crew isn’t too impressed with it.

The liberal lawmaker has dropped $2,887 this year on “makeup services,” according to the The Washington Free Beacon,  which cited campaign finance disclosures.

Ossoff has been getting the Hollywood treatment too. He’s been using makeup artist Stephanie Ponder, whose credits include work on The Notebook and two Hunger Games flicks, among other movies. He most recently paid her $900 for a session in June, campaign finance disclosures revealed.

The Free Beacon wrote:

Ossoff’s four-figure makeup expenditures stand out among federal candidates. The Georgia senator who is running for reelection against Republican Rep. Mike Collins (Ga.), has reported spending more on makeup than any other candidate this year, beating out the likes of far-left Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.). Ocasio-Cortez has spent $1,837.93 on “campaign event hair & makeup services” in 2026, while Tlaib has spent $320 on “hair and makeup services.”

But Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday thought Ossoff — who has made headlines recently for clashing with Trump nominees like Jay Clayton — should look a bit better, considering his hefty investment and the star treatment he’s getting.

“I don’t see that they’re doing anything amazing to his face! I mean, I’ll do it for $900 a pop. I mean, did you see that? He looks pale!” Rachel Campos-Duffy said, drawing some laughs from her co-hosts. “He looks pale! if anything they should give him a little more color, right? Make him a little more tan.”

Charlie Hurt pointed out Ossoff is one of the top Dem contenders for the 2028 election, with prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket giving him the third-best odds to be the nominee. Still, stories about him dropping a lot of dough on makeup “probably don’t help him a whole lot,” Hurt said.

Ossoff’s office did not immediately respond to Mediaite’s request for comment.

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