Ontario Premier Doug Ford declared “no one” will be following President Donald Trump’s lead and calling it Lake America — even though Google just changed the name and many Americans seem to be digging the rechristening of Lake Ontario.

The Canadian politician griped about the name swap during a Sunday interview on ABC’s This Week. Ford vented he didn’t see the “purpose” in Trump signing an executive order on Thursday, directing the Interior Department to make the name change official on government systems.

“It’s absolutely backwards. It was like something out of Saturday Night Live when he signed documents saying change it to Lake America,” Ford said. “No one is going to call it Lake of America. It’s been Lake Ontario for hundreds of years, it’s going to continue being Lake Ontario, and it’s just so, so disappointing.”

One person who apparently agrees with him: This Week co-host Martha Raddatz. She introduced Ford by saying he was joining the show “from the shores of Lake Ontario.”

But Google went ahead and changed the name for American users late on Saturday — a move which was celebrated by members of the White House. And while the name change has riled up many liberals over the last week, a ton of MAGA fans hailed the move by saying it was elite trolling by Trump. So it’s tough to imagine “no one” will be calling it Lake America from now on, as Ford insisted.

The whole Lake America-Lake Ontario hubbub started after a trade deal between the two nations collapsed last week. Trump kept the jabs at Canada coming on Saturday by posting a video of machine gun-wielding Canadian geese patrolling the lake on his behalf; the president dubbed the birds “Donald Ducks.”

He followed the geese video up a bit later with an AI clip of himself kicking over a sign reading “Lake Ontario” and planting a Lake America sign in its place. The president then broke into his trademark “YMCA” dance in the video.

Watch above.

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Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said he regrets supporting Clarence Thomas after he publicly lobbied for the conservative judge to join the Supreme Court back in 1991, with Clyburn suggesting Thomas has betrayed his Black ancestors with his high court decisions.

Clyburn made the remark after being asked during a Sunday interview on Meet the Press whether he stood by his decision to vote to confirm Thomas.

“Absolutely not. I have made mistakes in my life,” he told moderator Kristen Welker. “And that’s one that I made, and I will own up to that mistake.”

Clyburn continued:

“The fact of the matter is, I had faith and confidence in the fact that his background and experiences would instruct him in his professionalism, especially sitting on the bench. We had worked together when he was chair of the Equal Opportunity Commission and of course I was running the state agency here in South Carolina.

“We had differences over how that agency should run, but I also thought that he believed in precedence of the law. And I felt sure that he would be there upholding those precedents set down in 1954 in the Brown v. Board of Education decision. I thought he would follow those court decisions that upheld the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act.”

He then said, “I had no idea that Clarence Thomas would rebel the way he has against his own background and experiences. He was raised by his grandfather and he has shown very little sensitivity to the environment his grandfather grew up in Pin Point, Georgia.”

Clyburn’s condemnation came a moment after Welker played a clip of the lawmaker advocating for Thomas to make the Supreme Court in ’91.

“It’s a pleasure for me to be here today to present testimony in favor of my good friend Clarence Thomas,” Clyburn told a panel of senators at the time. “I have known Clarence for 10 years, and I consider him to be a personal and professional friend, in spite of the fact that he shares a conservative Republican philosophy.”

Clyburn then went on to say he supported expanding the Supreme Court to having a “baker’s dozen” justices. Other Democrats like ex-Vice President Kamala Harris have recently called for adding more justices to the Supreme Court as well.

Watch above.

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New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman responded to President Donald Trump’s personal insults over the upcoming ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11 — dismissing the White House’s denial that he was skipping the New York City event because he wouldn’t be allowed to make a speech.

Haberman joined MS NOW’s The Weekend where Jacqueline Alemany brought up Trump’s Truth Social post this week blasting Haberman. Alemany would not repeat the president’s insults, saying she refused to “dignify” them.

Haberman said she and the Times were “transparent” about their reporting on Trump skipping a 9/11 ceremony in New York in part due to his desire to give a speech. Speeches are barred at the annual event.

She said:

Look, we stand by the reporting and the Times put out a statement explaining that this is based on multiple sources. We went to the White House. We were quite transparent with them about what we were reporting, including the part about that part of the reason why he was not going to New York was because he did want to speak, and the White House did not say anything, pushing back on what we were reporting. And then 24 hours later, the president started attacking the piece. You know, so readers can make their own assessment about a denial that comes a day later.

The White House claimed in a statement to MS NOW that Trump was only skipping the ceremony because Vice President JD Vance is attending, and they cannot be in the same place at the same time. Trump will mark the somber occasion instead at the Pentagon.

Haberman, author of Regime Change, a behind the scenes look at the start Trump’s second administration, dismissed the statement and argued Trump skipping the event on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is “objectively news.” She also noted he attended the event in 2024 shortly after he was shot during an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Haberman said:

It’s not because, Jacqui, Vance is going to New York. That plan changed. Vance was not — you know, Trump was going to New York. That was everybody’s understanding. And then he wasn’t. And there may be multiple reasons why. Obviously, they’re all very security-minded right now. I know that the White House, amid all the threats from Iran and its proxies, the White House is very, very rattled, understandably, by the video about Barron Trump and the threats against him. And so I do understand all of that.

Trump blasted Haberman as a “fake reporter” in his Truth Social tirade.

“Maggot Hagerman, the Fake Reporter from The Failing New York Times, an unattractive person both inside and out, and who knows less about me than most reporters on the beat (She’s a SCAMMER!), made up a story that on September 11th, I’m not going to the World Trade Center, in New York City, because they won’t let me make a speech, and I’m going to the Pentagon in D.C., because I’m a featured speaker,” he wrote. “This is more Corrupt News, I’ve been to New York many times over the years, and no one ever speaks, it’s a ‘solemn ceremony!”

Watch above via MS NOW.

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You can’t turn off Strava’s AI summaries anymore. Sometime in July or August, the feature, called “Athlete Intelligence,” became a built-in part of premium subscriptions. If you have a free account, you still won’t see it, but if you subscribe to Strava Premium, you’ll now have the summaries stuck onto all of your workouts. 

What is Strava's "Athlete Intelligence"?

Athlete Intelligence, conveniently abbreviated AI, is a Strava feature that gives text responses to your workouts. It’s only available for premium subscribers. Strava refers to “insights” in these responses, but as far as I can tell, they just seem to regurgitate the information from the workout description, sometimes with added errors. 

I used the feature briefly, around the time it launched (I was a premium subscriber then), but quickly turned it off when I realized it wasn’t telling me anything interesting. I asked my colleague Meredith Dietz, who has a premium subscription, whether she had seen anything useful in her Athlete Intelligence. She said, “They’re usually positive, so that’s nice. But ultimately: useless.” 

Meredith has written more about why AI fitness summaries are mostly useless, and Strava’s AI checks every box: it doesn’t use enough context to understand what’s going on, it presents generic advice as if it were personal, and it’s overconfident in its incomplete data. She showed me a recent Athlete Intelligence summary that said a run was both a “recovery run” and included her “fastest pace in two weeks.” Those are simply not compatible statements. Another message complimented her “solid half-marathon effort” on a run that Meredith says was “not even close to a half-marathon effort.” 

What happened behind the scenes? 

You used to be able to turn off the AI. When Strava launched Athlete Intelligence in October 2024, it was a “beta” feature available to premium users only. Since then—as far as I can remember—Strava’s support page had instructions for opting out of Athlete Intelligence. 

But that changed recently. The last Wayback Machine snapshot that included those instructions is from June 30, 2026. A snapshot from Aug. 4 removed both the question and answer about opting out. On Aug. 26, I noticed a Reddit thread where users were wondering where the opt-out feature went. The support page currently says, “There isn’t an option to opt out of Athlete Intelligence.” 

I asked what happened, and received an answer from a Strava spokesperson: “As was standard practice for experimental features, Athlete Intelligence launched with a "turn off" mechanism scoped to its initial beta period. Given the feature’s formal exit from beta, that mechanism is no longer available. We invite all subscribers to tap Give Feedback to help us improve the insights they see.”

Athlete Intelligence officially left beta in February of last year. If the support page was kept up to date over the subsequent year and a half, then it seems the opt-out was removed much later. (The instructions used to say to click “leave beta” and then changed to “leave Athlete Intelligence” sometime before June 21 this year.) I asked Strava for clarification on the timeline, and got the answer: “Thanks for the follow up, we're not able to provide additional information.”

Why “Athlete Intelligence” has been such a disappointment

Strava claimed in its February 2025 announcement that over 80% of users found Athlete Intelligence useful. That seems hard to believe, given the weaknesses that both Meredith and I noticed in our own AI summaries. For all my browsing of Strava user forums, I’ve often seen people complaining about the AI’s tone or pointing out its mistakes; I’m really not seeing anyone praising it for being insightful or for helping to analyze or plan training. 

Meredith finds the summaries easy to ignore. I found they annoyed me, so I hid them while it was still possible to do so. So far I’m not seeing anybody who opted out complaining that the summaries are back; it’s possible they will remain hidden. But the option to turn them off is no longer available. You can still “leave feedback” on a given response, but there used to be an option to leave Athlete Intelligence altogether. That option is no longer there, and given Strava’s statement, it doesn’t seem likely it will come back.

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Lyons, Illinois Township Clerk Elyse Hoffenberg shared a surveillance video that shows her being kissed by Bridgeview Mayor Steven Landek — an act she insists was a “lighthearted, friendly and non-romantic moment among colleagues.”

Hoffenberg is currently running for Cook County Commissioner.

The kiss between the pair has been the subject of what she told the Daily Mail was an “extortion attempt” by “political opponents.

Hoffenberg also told Patch the liplock was “inappropriate and unprofessional.”

Elyse is married to Jeff Hoffenberg, “a managing partner at Chicago-based law firm Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC and a commissioner on the Village of La Grange Plan Commission,” the Daily Mail reported, adding that “the pair are understood to have multiple children together.”

She’s accused Republican Liz Gorman of being the culprit behind the video leak, and said that Lyons Township supervisor Chris Getty was part of the plan.

Elyse also told the Mail she was told the pair would “drop their threats to release [the video] if I end my campaign.”

She added:

My political opponents attempted to extort me regarding this video, saying they would drop their threats to release it if I end my campaign. I am certain that our community will find this kind of old-school politics of harassment abhorrent, and I won’t be bullied. While the video lacks proper context to make it clear what is happening, what it shows is a lighthearted, friendly and non-romantic moment among colleagues. I am staying focused on my campaign to bring strong leadership to this community, and I look forward to continuing this work.

Gorman denied the allegations and told the Mail, “I categorically deny that I extorted Elyse Hoffenberg. I have never spoken with Elyse or anyone from her campaign about this matter, and I have never demanded anything from her in exchange for not releasing or doing anything with the video.”

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We are looking at the case of insistence taking over from reporting. As we are closing the second full week of Natalie Harp coverage, one prevailing reality looms over the reporting: What is the story?

Since the day that John Ossoff dropped her name in a speech filled with innuendo, Natalie has been on the minds and the lips of the media. Yet the quotidian utterance of her name has never delivered anything substantive to justify the energy.

That lack of substance continues with one of CNN’s White House correspondents. Alejandra Jaramillo shared a photograph she took from inside the Oval Office. In it, we can see Harp positioned at the wall. Sort of.

Spotted Trump aide Natalie Harp in the back of the Oval Office today: pic.twitter.com/jL2HtUbUqs

— Alejandra Jaramillo (@AlejandraJMillo) August 27, 2026

That…is breaking news?! We see her head, barely, above a lampshade. Apparently, Ms. Jaramillo felt it was trenchant news coverage to let the public know that a White House aide had been spotted inside the White House, apparently doing her job.

Why this woman has grown into the near-obsessive focus of the press defies explanation. She has been working alongside the president since his 2020 reelection campaign, with no pertinent interest to be seen. But Ossoff’s throwaway line in a speech has set the media on fire, yet they cannot get this story to ignite.

It has become a case of the press “harping” on the woman in President Trump’s cabinet with the confidence that something will turn up if they keep turning up the volume. We still await that success.

CNN in particular has been supremely focused on the staffer, even after Ossoff softened his words following the hysteria he himself ignited. There was the report of Natalie “jumping into the trunk of a motorcade SUV”; no indication was given why this was even a story.

Erin Burnett brought on Natalie Harp’s brother for a “scathing” interview, as her sibling managed to deliver nothing of substance. He was so bereft of content that when asked about her SUV dash, he was surprised by the question, as he had never heard that story. Good thing they brought him on the air!

At The U.K.’s Daily Mirror, they obtained what was said to be an EXCLUSIVE: They had a photograph of Harp running alongside golf carts in Scotland during a golf outing. From three years ago.

EXCLUSIVE

THE HUMAN SPRINTER

First known pictures of NATALIE HARP chasing after Donald Trump’s golf cart in Scotland pic.twitter.com/vfQ6xk3hbD

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) August 21, 2026

And now we get the latest breaking news, that she was standing against a wall during a press event.

This is the level of detail the all-consuming press has about Natalie Harp. They insist the coverage of this White House staffer is due to all of the interest in her. One of these days they might actually come up with some content that is actually interesting.

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If, like me, you let some of your fitness goals fall by the wayside this summer, Labor Day is the perfect time to build out your home gym and revitalize your exercise routine. And you don't even have to wait for the long weekend to start seeking out some excellent Labor Day deals, because Amazon's sale has already started. Below, I've collected my favorite fitness deals so far from Amazon's early Labor Day sale—and I'll keep adding more as the holiday weekend gets closer.

The best early Labor Day sales on cardio equipment

• All of the NordicTrack T Series is all on sale, with the T10 in particular catching my eye: Normally $1,299, it's currently discounted to $999. For cardio, your options get trickier in an apartment setting or a home without a ton of extra space, but foldable equipment like this is a nice solution.

• The YOSUDA Friction 1.0 bike is $178.99, down from $249.99.

• This MERACH exercise bike is $399.98, down from $599.99.

• This walking pad is $79.98, normally $106.80. This is a simple, straightforward option if you've been looking to get your steps in while working at a standing desk.

• If you're looking for more than just a bare-bones option, this fancier walking pad reaches speeds of up to 6.2 mph and a 5% incline, and it's also foldable for storage. It's currently on sale for $119.98 (normally $199.99).

(A word of caution: When you're browsing walking pads, remember you really cannot trust those product pictures.)

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The best early Labor Day sales on dumbbells

• This CAP ADJUSTABELL adjustable dumbbell set is $249.99, normally $299.99. These can adjust from 10 to 55 pounds in 5-pound increments with a simple twist of the handle (no knobs, pins, or levers are involved).

• This CAP rubber-coated dumbbell weight set is $159.99, normally $189.99. While I'm a big proponent of adjustable dumbbells, you can't go wrong with a traditional vertical rack like this. It includes a pair of 5-pound, 10-pound, 15-pound, 20-pound, and 25-pound rubber hex dumbbells with a vertical dumbbell rack.

• These Feierdun adjustable dumbbells are $161.98 for the 90-pound set, down from $219.99. I'm especially drawn to how this system can configure the weights as fixed barbells, kettlebells, traditional dumbbells, or individual weight plates. Incorporating kettlebell swings and goblet squats without purchasing separate equipment? That's a steal.

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The best early Labor Day sales on other home gym staples

• These resistance bands are $18.99, normally $24.99. A solid pair of resistance bands like these will be the perfect addition to your home gym, and great for travel workouts, whether in the poolside gym or your hotel rooms.

• This FLYBIRD adjustable weight bench is $125.99, normally $139.99.

• This Yes4All kettlebell is $69.16 for the 45-pound option, normally $91.35. It's got a wide-grip handle and neoprene coating over the cast iron to reduce noise and protect your flooring.

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