If you caught The View on Wednesday, there’s a good chance you at least felt the temptation to check the calendar year as Elisabeth Hasselbeck rejoined the table and duked it out with some of her former colleagues.

Hasselbeck stepped in this week as a guest on The View host to fill in for Alyssa Farah Griffin, where she was reunited with Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, both of whom were hosting the show when Hasselbeck had a place at the table from 2003-2013.

Hasselbeck found herself debating everyone at the table when she defended President Donald Trump’s border policies and deportation efforts. While the other hosts called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign, especially in the light of immigration agents shooting and killing citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Hasselbeck argued the administration is taking on an issue ignored for too long.

She also called out her co-hosts as hypocrites themselves, noting the studio audience was vetted and had to go through security, comparing the measures to having a secure border.

Hasselbeck argued:

We need a strong border, especially now with our current global situation. And I believe that you may say you don’t want border control and you’re against ICE, but I actually don’t believe you in your daily lives. How many people in the audience here had to go through security to get here? Raise your hand, just be honest, otherwise you go to jail, I guess, for legal trespassing, right? This is an authorized audience. They had to through security, to get through the border, to just get right here, to hear us talk. We need strong borders more than ever right now. We are being infiltrated.

She noted large drops in border crossings and daily encounters by Border Patrol as proof that Trump’s actions are working.

“We’re not on the border when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered, and death is not a mistake. That was a murder. That was murder,” Sunny Hostin shot back.

“As were those killed by illegal immigrants,” Hasselbeck said.

“Let’s not be dismissive about the fact that this—” Hostin continued as Hasselbeck jumped in.

“I’m not dismissive. I just said all of their lives matter,” she declared.

Hostin called Noem “unqualified” and accused her of showing “zero empathy” for Good and Pretti during the hearing, a point Hasselbeck also pushed back on.

After the tense exchange between the pair, Behar jumped in to cite a report on the small number of illegal immigrants taken into custody who have criminal convictions.

“I just want to give you this one statistic from the Cato Institute. Only 5% of people detained by ICE have violent convictions, 73% have no convictions. That’s really what the problem is,” Behar said

According to Cato Institute analysis, 5% of migrants booked into ICE custody have a violent criminal conviction. The report states that most have vice, immigration, or traffic violations. Immigration officials have argued many migrants booked into custody do not have convictions, but do have outstanding charges. The report is based on information ending on October 1, 2025.

Hasselbeck countered the report with her own statistics.

“450,000 children and families were trafficked under [former President] Joe Biden, letting them under. We have now reunited 146,000 children to their families,” she said.

The table erupted into a crosstalk debate as she tried to continue.

“These are not facts here,” she said before Goldberg took control.

Sara Haines argued the “how” of deportation policies is the problem and masked federal agents on the street is going to get mixed reactions from people who encounter them. Hasselbeck said she feels sympathy for Good, Pretti, and victims killed by illegal immigrants.

“I understand. I also believe that we have a God of borders,” she said. “We have a nation of borders for a good reason. I hate the fact that people are dying in this. My heart actually bleeds for this.”

Watch above via ABC.

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The greatest regret of my life is choosing to take French in high school. Don't get me wrong, I find French beautiful, and I was a dedicated A+ student. But as an adult, I’m constantly embarrassed by how little Spanish I know.

But even in adulthood, I knew it wasn't too late for me to learn Spanish, so I did what literally everyone does: I downloaded Duolingo. It's free, popular, and has a mascot with deeply threatening energy. What's not to love?

Eventually, I reached a 300-day streak—nearly a full year of daily practice!—but when I tried to have an actual conversation in Spanish, I could not hold my own, to put it gently. I realized that Duolingo had gamified me into feeling like I was making progress, rewarding streaks and unlocking owl animations while carefully avoiding the part where I learned, you know, to speak and understand Spanish.

Duolingo is a game, but Babbel is a learning tool

With a trip to Mexico City approaching, I signed up for Babbel. I didn't expect to be fluent, but I wanted to avoid being the most helpless monolingual American on the trip. And now that I'm on the other side of that vacation, I can say with confidence that every basic phrase I successfully attempted to speak was thanks to two things: 1) Babbel's grammar lessons, and 2) the generous patience of every local willing to communicate with me.

A few months of daily Babbel lessons genuinely helped me navigate asking how much something costs, whether I could pay by card, and ordering at a restaurant. Crucially, I felt I was doing all of this not from a place of pure regurgitation, but from a place of actual language understanding. That's a different feeling entirely.

Duolingo's genius is its dopamine loop, but that's its limitation too—a sustained streak, and not language acquisition, is the real product. Where Duolingo's scenarios include sentences like "My fathers are young and pretty," (a real example!), Babbel teaches you "Could I please have the check?"

Babbel is more structured. The grammar explanations are woven directly into lessons rather than siloed in a separate section you'll never visit. The scenarios are grounded in reality. The whole thing feels less like Candy Crush and more like...a class. Which, it turns out, might be why classrooms were never designed to feel like Candy Crush.

Babbel versus Duolingo: Point by point

Here’s my breakdown of how the most important ways these apps compare.

Duolingo:

• Free (with ads for unhinged mobile games)

• Great for building daily habits

• Solid vocabulary exposure

• Gamified streaks and rewards

• Grammar depth is limited

• Designed to feel like progress, no matter what

Babbel:

• Paid subscription (around $15 per month, give or take)

• Structured, grammar-forward lessons

• Real-world conversational scenarios

• Cultural context built in

• Purposeful over playful

• Designed to build actual skills

Questions to consider before you try any language learning app

Before you start using Babbel (or flirting with the Duolingo Owl), it's important to consider your actual goals. Whether you're prepping for a trip, want to keep your brain sharp, or actually become fluent, no app comparison means anything without first understanding what you're trying to achieve.

If your goal is casual learning or building a daily habit, Duolingo is genuinely a fine place to start. It's perfectly good for vocabulary exposure and using the psychology of habit formation to keep you coming back. There's real value in that! Just don't confuse a 300-day streak with 300 days of progress.

If your goal is to actually speak another language—to survive a vacation, hold a conversation, order food with confidence—Babbel is the more honest tool. And hey, both apps use streak mechanics to use habit formation psychology, but Babbel also integrates grammar explanations into lessons, offers far more practical and applicable conversation scenarios, and wraps everything in cultural context that makes the language feel alive rather than abstract.

Any language app will have limits, but Babbel is worth the cost

A major caveat here is that no app will make you fluent. Native speakers don't speak with the crisp, patient enunciation of a language app. Real people speak quickly, use slang, have regional accents, and might not be willing to wait patiently while you search for the right vocabulary. You'll eventually hit a wall with any app.

Duolingo's perpetual free tier is likely the decision-maker for most people. You'll never be locked out of educational content for lack of a credit card. The cost of "free," though, is a parade of deeply unhinged ads for other addictive phone games. A fair trade, perhaps, depending on your tolerance for chaos.

But if you're self-motivated and serious (or even just serious enough to want to survive a vacation!), then Babbel is the structured, purposeful, real-world-ready choice. It might feel less like a game, but I suppose that's the point. When I signed up, I caught a 50% deal: $8.95/month for 12 months. Babbel also offers a one-time lifetime access payment of $299.99, though at that investment level, you might as well hire a tutor? All in all, standard month-to-month pricing hovers around $15/month.

President Donald Trump went on an absolute tirade against Spain on Tuesday, bashing the country as “unfriendly” and maintaining that the U.S. can “fly in and use” their air bases despite its refusal to lend them to Uncle Sam.

The stunning moment came as Trump hosted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House for a bilateral meeting.

When asked by a reporter about the cooperation of NATO in the days following Operation Epic Fury in Iran, Trump praised Germany and NATO chief Mark Rutte, who Trump said was fantastic.

But when it came to Spain, Trump was not as kind.

“Spain has been terrible,” he said. “In fact, I told Scott [Bessent] to cut off all dealings with Spain.”

In response to Spain’s refusal to allow the U.S. to use its air bases to conduct strikes in Iran, Trump was defiant, saying, “And now Spain actually said that we can’t use their bases and that’s all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody’s going to tell us not to use it.”

And Spain was not the only European nation with which Trump has taken issue, adding that. “I’m not happy with the U.K., either.”

Trump did not mention U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer by name, but said, “This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.”

Read Trump’s remarks below:

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Germany has been great. He has been terrific. Others have been very good, terrific. I think that the head of NATO, Mark, is fantastic. Mark Rutte. I think he’s fantastic. But some of the European- like Spain has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. Spain, first of all, it started when every European nation, at my request, paid 5%, which they should be doing and everybody was enthusiastic about it, Germany, everybody, and Spain didn’t do it. And now Spain actually said that we can’t use their bases and that’s all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody’s going to tell us not to use it. But we don’t have to, but they were unfriendly and so I told them we don’t want- Spain has absolutely nothing that we need, other than great people. They have great people. But they don’t have great leadership. And as you know, they were the only country that NATO would not agree to go up to 5%. I don’t think they would agree to go up to anything. They wanted to keep it at 2% and they don’t pay the 2%. So we’re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want to have anything to do with Spain. By the way, I’m not happy with the U.K. either. That island that you read about, the lease, for whatever reason, he made a lease of the island and somebody came and took it away from him. And it’s taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land there. It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours. So we are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.

Watch above via Fox News.

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Anthropic is taking steps to make it easier to switch to Claude. While the AI chatbot app is popular among developers and vibecoders, it's also been infamous for keeping its more advanced features behind a paywall (and for rate-limiting free users). But now, Claude is finally catching up to ChatGPT and bringing its memory feature to free users.

The move follows Claude overtaking ChatGPT in the App Store to become the #1 most downloaded free app in the U.S., so the timing makes sense. As for what could have caused the sudden interest in the app, OpenAI recently announced that it will be working with the U.S. Department of Defense (unofficially titled the Department of War), a day after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern about unrestricted AI use by governments.

Alongside the new free memory feature, Claude is also introducing a free import tool to help you bring your AI context along with you when moving from other chatbots. Technically, it's more of a guided prompt to feed into other bots, but the idea is that it can help new users avoid blank-slate syndrome. Within 24 hours of using the tool, Claude will theoretically know all the personal details you've previously shared with the chatbots you're importing from, including special instructions, your career, and your ongoing projects, making it easier to converse with Claude.

How to enable memory in Claude for free

While Claude's memory feature is available for free for all users, it's not enabled by default. Let's fix that. Open the Claude website or the app, click the Profile icon, and go to Settings. Here, in the Capabilities section, you'll see a new Memory section up top. Enable the Generate memory from chat history feature. Now, Claude will automatically start remembering key details about your life as you share them. According to Anthropic, Claude "will automatically summarize your conversations and create a synthesis of key insights across your chat history (not including chats in projects). This synthesis is updated every 24 hours and provides context for every new standalone conversation."

Say you're a dentist and you ask Claude for dental implants research; it will know that you're learning about implants the next time you ask a related question.

Credit: Khamosh Pathak

Of course, this does mean that Claude will start remembering your personal data, too, or at least your personal context. Claude does offer a couple of ways to get around this. If you try to disable memory (from the same menu where you enabled it), you'll see two other options. For a less severe workaround, you can use the Pause memory option to stop the chatbot from creating new memories while keeping its current memories intact. Or, you can choose the Reset memory option to permanently delete all memories, including project-specific memories. That way, you can manually dump what Claude knows about you every once in a while.

Credit: Khamosh Pathak

While you're in the Memory settings, you can also use the new Import feature. Click the Start Import button to bring up the new menu. Up top, you'll see a prompt that you'll have to copy. After that, paste it into ChatGPT or Gemini to snag your memories from these bots. You'll get your results in a Markdown file. Back in Claude, paste the Markdown file into the textbox below the prompt you copied and click Add to memory. Claude will synthesize it, and it will add its data to its memory file.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte praised President Donald Trump for leading “crucial” joint U.S.-Israeli strikes that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during an appearance on Fox News on Monday morning.

Rutte told Fox & Friends that other European leaders backed Trump’s mission as well. He said:

Let me also say that the commander-in-chief, the leader of the free world, President Donald J. Trump, I really commend what is happening here. Taking out Khamenei, taking out the nuclear capability in Iran, but also taking out the ballistic missile program in Iran. This is crucial.

What I see in Europe — I spoke with all the key European leaders over the weekend — is widespread support for what the president is doing.

Co-host Lawrence Jones followed up on that comment, noting that it didn’t seem like all European countries were giving their full support to the U.S. He pointed to the United Kingdom, where Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday his country would now allow the U.S. to use certain British military bases, after initially blocking the Trump administration from doing so.

“Why the trepidation?” Jones asked.

Rutte said the U.K. had needed the “legal case to be solid” to support the operation, but that the country had “come around” to supporting it.

His comments came shortly before Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Operation Epic Fury was going well and ahead of schedule.

“We’re knocking the crap out of them,” Tapper said the president told him. Trump then said, “We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.”

Rutte and Trump appear to have a pretty good relationship, for what it’s worth. Trump said in January he negotiated a “complex” deal with Rutte for the U.S. to control Greenland, but details have been sparse since then.

Watch above via Fox News.

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Smartphone cameras have reached a point where the weak link in most videos is no longer image quality—it’s shaky hands. The DJI Osmo Mobile 7P is built to fix that, and it’s currently down to $99 from $129.99, its lowest price so far, according to price-trackers. It’s a foldable three-axis gimbal that supports larger phones like the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Galaxy S25 Ultra without feeling strained. Once your phone is mounted and balanced, the motors keep footage level and smooth in a way that built-in stabilization still can’t fully match.

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Getting started does not require much setup. You unfold it, snap your phone into the clamp, and it balances itself in seconds. The controls are straightforward and placed where your fingers naturally rest. The joystick lets you nudge the frame left or right, and the record button is easy to hit without shifting your grip. A rear trigger switches between portrait and landscape instantly, so you can move from TikTok to YouTube framing without taking the phone off. There’s also a built-in extension rod for higher or wider angles, and a small tripod in the base for hands-free filming. The magnetic multifunction module is where it becomes more than just a stabilizer. It enables gesture control and subject tracking even inside third-party apps, so you are not locked into DJI’s app ecosystem.

In actual use, the tracking is what changes the experience most. The gimbal locks onto your face and follows you as you move across a room, which makes solo filming feel far less awkward. You do not have to keep checking whether you are still centered in the frame; that alone can save time during retakes. It’s one reason why PCMag gave the Osmo Mobile 7P an “outstanding” rating, and Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor Michelle Ehrhardt said it feels like having “your own dedicated camera person” once you learn the basics. Battery life will depend on how many of those features you keep running. DJI estimates up to 10 hours if you are just using the gimbal. Turn on the tracking module, and you are closer to 4.5 hours. Add the fill light, and it drops to around three. For short sessions or content captured in bursts, that is workable. For long events or full-day shoots, you may need a power bank.

If you mostly film static videos at a desk, a simple tripod is probably enough. But if your content involves movement, walking shots, or filming yourself without help, the Osmo Mobile 7P can make your footage look more controlled without making your setup complicated.

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English journalist and @Channel4News correspondent Secunder Kermani to an Israeli spokesman at scene of a deadly Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv:

“Your prime minister is a wanted war criminal. You don’t have the moral high ground here, at all” pic.twitter.com/rMu6QxYJ8l

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 1, 2026

Reporter Secunder Kermani with the UK’s Channel 4 News confronted Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Oren Marmorstein Sunday, following a deadly Iranian missile strike on a residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv.

Marmorstein addressed the press from the rubble where a 40-year-old caregiver was killed and dozens more injured, according to The Times of Israel.

“We are aiming at military targets, but the Iranian regime is targeting our civilians, our children, our women, our elderly,” Marmorstein said. “But this is not only happening here in Israel. The Iranian regime is attacking the entire region. Eight countries — I repeat — eight countries in the region were attacked by ballistic missiles of Iran.”

Marmorstein continued, “And we say it very clear: we don’t have any fight, any quarrel with the Iranian people. The only objective, the only quarrel, is the Iranian regime’s murderous attacks. This is what it’s all about.”

Kermani asked the first question when Marmorstein was finished.

“[Ayatollah Ali] Khameini, the Iranian regime have clearly done terrible things, particularly to their own people. But, your prime minister is a wanted war criminal. You don’t have the moral high ground here at all,” Kermani said.

“This is a war crime!” Marmorstein said, pointing at the destroyed building behind him. “This is a war crime. Targeting civilians, targeting elderly women. Killing, murdering her caregiver from the Philippines. And the Iranian regime is targeting not only us in Israel, they are targeting the entire region.”

“What about the hundred or so school girls in Iran that were killed in a strike there?” Kermani asked.

“And this must stop! This must be stopped, and this is what we’re trying to do,” Marmorstein said.

As Kermani attempted to ask another question, Marmorstein turned his attention to other reporters.

Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim News Agency reported Saturday that more than 150 people were killed in joint U.S.-Israeli missile strike that hit a girls’ elementary school.

Watch the clip above via Sky News.

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