Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) couldn’t have been responsible for the broken collarbone his two-year-old suffered, he told Newsmax anchor Rob Finnerty on Wednesday, because he only watched her for two days during the period in which the injury occurred.

“Well, what I can tell you is that I didn’t do that, and the nine out of 11 previous days was within my ex-wife’s care,” Miller said when asked how the injury happened.

He continued:

What’s so troubling about Child Protective Services, Rob, is that my daughter was never seen personally by a doctor from CPS. What they did is they looked at a photo. What I can tell you that two separate individuals ,who are, one, our parent coordinator, and another doctor helps us, Emily [Moreno] and ourselves, manage these issues.

They both attributed this injury to our daughter falling out of the crib in Emily’s care, and then that’s why she took her to the emergency room without telling me, and then therefore CPS investigation was opened. But she was only in my care for two of those 11 days.

The state’s OhioMeansJobs website does not indicate that Ohio CPS directly employs doctors.

Miller is on a campaign to distance himself from serious allegations of domestic violence against both his ex-wife and their infant daughter. On Tuesday, his attorney Aaron Minc apologized for accidentally releasing sensitive photos of the toddler, including one that could be classified as “Child Sexual Abuse Material.”

“I am solely responsible for what happened,” Minc later said. “I was the only person responsible for assembling, creating, reviewing, adding, deleting, redacting, or making any changes to the information and files that were in this folder.”

Moreno has accused Miller of having “scalded her chest and stomach by throwing hot water from a skillet at her body; held a gun to her head; pushed her against a wall and hit her head; and fractured their daughter’s collarbone and bruised her shoulder.”

Miller denies the allegations and said this week he will file to open a House Ethics investigation into himself to prove his innocence.

“In light of all the renewed interest in my family affairs I am going to file my own paperwork for an ethics investigation into myself to clear my name from these horrific attacks on myself and family. I have absolutely nothing to hide,” Miller wrote on social media Tuesday.

Watch the above via Newsmax.

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A construction worker who gave his name as Kama knocks out Democratic Congressional candidate Kirill Basin in a now viral beach brawl in Maui. Screenshot

A Democratic Congressional candidate in Hawaii was sitting behind bars instead of handing out campaign flyers after getting knocked out cold in a now viral beach brawl.

Kirill Basin — who is running against incumbent Rep. Jill Tokuda (D-HI) — was sunbathing Saturday in South Kihei when someone asked him to turn down his music, according to TMZ.

Basin allegedly argued with the couple who made the request and lost his cool, video of the encounter showed.

“He’s a child, he’s a child,” a woman can be heard saying in the clip.

“I’m a child? I’m 40 f*cking years old,” he raged before getting in her face.

“Well, you should act like it!” she responds.

“I will put you in the f*cking ground,” he seethed. “You will be in the f*cking hospital.”

He spits a profanity at the woman and starts to walk away as children can be heard in the background — then gets confronted by a bigger man, according to footage of the encounter at Mana Kai Maui hotel at Keawakapu Beach, in Maui.

Things got violent from there, according to the video.

The men briefly exchange words before Basin tries to shove the larger man, who mops the floor — or, sand — with him.

“Let’s go! Let’s go!” the man tells Basin, who gets up from the ground and grabs a beach chair before swinging it at his opponent.

The Democrat never had a chance, as the man knocked him down again before the chair made contact, apparently delighting witnesses, including one who proclaimed, “Chair thrower!” and another who said, “Lights out bro!”

The woman Basin exchanged words with can be heard letting out a loud laugh.

The bigger man puts his hand on Basin’s chest, telling him, “Wake up!” before putting his finger in the candidate’s face and telling him: “Watch your f*cking mouth, Haole boy.”

The term is a slur in Hawaii used to reference someone of non-Hawaiian descent.

The candidate was later arrested on two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening and held on $1 million bail, according to Hawaii News Now.

Authorities accused Basin of threatening to shoot the woman and threatening people with a knife. Basin’s attorney denied the man had a knife.

The good Samaritan told Hawaii News Now he watched as Basin became more unhinged.

“I’m like, maybe I should intervene, and then as I got closer and closer, he was just getting more irate and violent and then saying stuff. ‘I’m going to hurt you’ or ‘I can injure you’ or ‘You like scrap’ to the aunties,” Kama told the outlet.

“He put his hands on me and as soon as he tried to shove me, I hit him with a left and a right, and that’s when he stumbled and fell over the chairs,” Kama said.

The beach chair didn’t stop the construction worker from making sure Basin stopped his antics.

“Just block it and go for the KO. Just protect myself, which is why I had my hand up, and then I adjusted to block the chair,” said the dad, who said he had mixed martial arts training.

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) offered a stark warning about the future of her party late last week, in comments that went largely unreported in the media – despite Michigan’s Tuesday primary being the center of the political world at the moment.

Nessel held a roundtable discussion on anti-Semitism last Thursday and told participants that she will skip her own party’s state convention next month over fears for her safety.

“I feel like my presence isn’t going to be welcome. I don’t want to get chased around. I don’t want to get harassed,” Nessel told the group of the same convention that put her in office for the last eight years.

Michigan Advance’s Katherine Dailey, who broke the story, reported that Nessel added, “I don’t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don’t want to get booed off the stage, irrespective of what I’m saying. And I believe that if I go, that is what will happen because it’s been happening to me.”

Dailey also noted in her reporting that Nessel criticized her party’s leadership for not taking more seriously the harassment she’s been receiving from inside the tent, “She criticized party leadership for not responding to concerns she said she has raised about members who have harassed her in the past, and compared the rise of antisemitism on the political left and in the Democratic Party to the proliferation of neo-Nazi organizations in far-right fringe politics.”

Nessel’s stunning remarks should have quickly reverberated through the mainstream media, but instead were met with near-total indifference. According to a search of cable news transcripts via the media monitoring service SnapStream, Nessel’s comments were not picked up by CNN or MS NOW. Fox News ran a segment on them on Tuesday afternoon.

Nessel’s name has been mentioned on CNN and MS NOW in recent days for her efforts to push back against the Trump administration in several lawsuits she’s filed and for prosecuting polluters in Flint that are allegedly tied to the water-poisoning crisis in the city. Despite being a prominent newsmaker in her own right as attorney general, The New York Times, Politico, CNN.com, and almost every other major digital publication did not pick up her eyebrow-raising comments.

Imagine if an establishment Republican, holding statewide office in a major swing state, had publicly said they would boycott their party’s upcoming convention out of fear of being harassed and intimidated by the MAGA base of the party. It’s all but certain that mainstream media would jump on the story and dedicate a good deal of time and attention to it. Furthermore, imagine if that Republican statewide office holder were a member of a prominent minority group (Nessel is both Jewish and openly gay) and the harassment they faced were tied not only to their political beliefs but their identity – it’s incredibly hard to believe that the mainstream media would not, as they should, quickly run with the story.

Fox News digital did run Nessel’s comments, as did publications like Jewish Insider and various local publications inside Michigan.

Nessel’s unprecedented boycott of her own party’s convention comes amid Tuesday’s heated Democratic Party primary in the state, pitting progressive Abdul El-Sayed against Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in a contest that many pundits see as a bellwether for whether or not the Democratic establishment can stop the rising tide of Democratic Socialists.

Nessel endorsed Stevens in the race, and her comments offer a warning for the general election as well. Nessel’s remarks further raise the question of whether moderate Michigan Democrats will turn out for El-Sayed if he’s on the ballot in November, which every poll expects he will be.

Semafor covered the rising trend in an article last week titled, “Never-El-Sayed moment in Michigan?” Semafor’s Nicholas Wu focused the piece on comments from another Michigan Democrat, Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), who has made it clear she will not support El-Sayed in the general election. Scholten has also endorsed Stevens in the race.

“I will not stand beside someone who has allowed distinctly anti-American sentiment to enter our public dialogue,” Scholten told Wu, referring to El-Sayed allying himself with far-left figures like Hasan Piker, who has said he has no patriotism for the U.S. and once argued the U.S. “deserved” 9/11. Scholten has also accused El-Sayed and his backers of “deeply intense sexism” in the race and insisted that “Abdul needs to answer for his own words.”

The dynamics surrounding the Michigan Senate primary make the media’s lack of coverage of Nessel’s ominous warning about her party and her place in it all the more galling.

While Nessel is term-limited and appears poised to leave Democratic Party politics, Scholten’s comments make clear that she’s not an outlier in her state and that a fierce battle between the progressives and the moderates is only just beginning – especially as more and more progressives and Democratic Socialists win their primaries.

“I will speak as a member of the Democratic Party here in Michigan, that some things have changed,” Nessel added in her warning about the future of her party, concluding, “This cannot continue, and the fact of the matter is, we have to be able to be a society where we can have intelligent discourse and debate about ideas without people being threatened, and certainly without people carrying out those threats.”

Why exactly cable news producers and editors across the nation decided to leave Nessel out of their coverage of the Michigan primaries is somewhat baffling. Right-leaning media would presumably be all in on a big-name Democrat slamming the hard left, while mainstream and left-leaning media are already focused on the brewing civil war in the Democratic Party, in which Nessel has certainly now fired a shot.

But the why isn’t terribly important here, really. Because the what is just way too damning.

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Amazfit's Cheetah 2 Ultra is a premium titanium-and-sapphire trail running watch, with a $599.99 price that feels pretty steep for a brand otherwise known for its budget options. And while Amazfit's Cheetah line isn't exactly my favorite, the Cheetah 2 Ultra is still an incredibly solid choice for any runner who wants a watch that looks and feels top-of-the-line.

Like with the Cheetah 2 Pro, there's more than meets the eye with this surprisingly feature-rich watch. Here are five features in the Cheetah 2 Ultra that go a bit beyond the manual.

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Unlock a secret developer mode in your Amazfit watch

Your Zepp app has a hidden menu you probably wouldn't stumble upon by accident. Go to Profile, then Settings, then About, and tap the Zepp logo seven times in a row. This unlocks developer mode, which lets you dig into device information and debugging options that aren't normally visible in the consumer-facing app. It's not going to unlock secret hardware, but it's a useful place to check firmware details or troubleshoot a stubborn sync issue, and it's fun rabbit hole if you like poking around under the hood.

Developer mode also lets you install custom watch faces, rather than relying on the existing native watch face library and upload a custom face on your computer, scan a generated QR code, and install it directly onto your watch.

Prepare for difficult elevation at a glance on your Amazfit Cheetah 2Ultra

If you're planning a route with serious hills, this is one of the Ultra’s best hacks. The watch includes an elevation overview tool that color-codes slope difficulty across a route, so instead of squinting at a raw elevation profile and trying to guess where the brutal climbs are, you get a more accessible visual for where the terrain gets steep. This feature is easy to miss if you're not a dedicated trail runner, but it's worth pulling up before any route, so you know what you're walking into (before the hill tells you itself, the hard way).

Here's how to use the color-coded elevation glance on your Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra:

1. Create your route: Open the Zepp App, go to the Workout tab, select Create Route, and save your path.

2. Send the route to your watch: Sync your devices and check that the route successfully transfers to your watch.

3. Open Trail Mode: On your watch, launch the Trail Run sports profile before you start running.

4. Activate your route: While in trail mode, go to Settings, select Navigation, choose My Route, and select the route you created. Swipe to the elevation profile to see your color-coded preview.

If you want to see this elevation profile during your run, you can add elevation as a data screen. Here's how to customize your data screens on your Amazfit:

1. Select Workout on your watch and select your activity (like Outdoor Running).

2. Go to Settings > More > Data Page.

3. Tap whichever data field you want to show the elevation. You can swipe through your existing data pages or tap Add Page to create a new one.

Use the flashlight's boost mode when you need extra light (and practice the SOS feature)

Every Ultra user loves their watch's built-in flashlight, but there's even more to get out of it. The Ultra's flashlight includes white, red, SOS, and boost lighting modes, not just a single beam. The boost mode is there for when you need maximum brightness, like scanning a dark trail, while the SOS mode is a safety feature and needs to send a clear flashing signal in the dark. Cycle through the modes with repeated presses rather than assuming it's a one-setting tool.

After you press and hold the top-left button to turn on the flashlight, use the UP or DOWN buttons to cycle through the white brightness settings until you reach the red light mode. You can also swipe down from the watch face to open the Control Center and tap the flashlight icon.

Use your Cheetah 2 Ultra to browse new maps

You might assume your options are limited to whatever maps Amazfit preloads or offers through the Zepp app's map store—which includes plenty of options already. But you can go a little further. The Cheetah 2 Ultra can be used as a map browsing tool when you import OSM (OpenStreetMap) map files, which means if you're headed somewhere obscure that isn't well covered by the default map set, you have a nifty workaround. Just keep in mind the downloaded map needs to actually match your real location to be usable, so this is a plan-ahead hack, not something you sort out mid-trail.

Use the extra storage on your Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra to load MP3 files

Even though the Ultra doesn't download music directly from streaming services like Spotify or Amazon Music the way some competitors do, you can manually load MP3 files onto the watch yourself. This is notable because the Cheetah 2 Ultra doubles the Pro's storage to 64GB, which means plenty room for saved running routes, offline maps, and mp3 files for music. It's an extra step compared to a simple streaming sync, but for anyone who wants a truly phone-free long run, it's a hack worth knowing about. To load music, head to your Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra device page in your Zepp app > Select "Music" > select .mp3 files from your phone and transfer them to the watch.

CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten declared Monday that Democrats have a “very, very real” shot at flipping a U.S. Senate seat to blue, thanks to one group in particular.

“This is the best looking polling for Democrats in the Senate race since really the 20th century!” Enten exclaimed. “You’re going to have to go back, probably to the late 80s. The last time they won a Senate race when it was Lloyd Bentsen winning in 1988.”

Enten continued:

This polling looks so much different than it did eight years ago. You take a look here, James Talarico, the latest poll against Ken Paxton, he’s actually up by three points. Look at where the race was between Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz at this point in the 2018 cycle. Ted Cruz was ahead by six. This is very different. The Democrat here is doing nine points better. And what is supercharging that? Look at this: Independents move from tied to plus-39 points for James Talarico. Independents, the name of the game! Shifting significantly to the left-hand and supercharging James Talarico. It could be real! Every single time I look at the polling going, “Hmm, this can’t be right.” This could be very, very real. Democrats have a real shot in Texas.

Talarico’s opponent, Ken Paxton has a very real popularity problem, according to Enten.

“Take a look here, the GOP nominee’s net favorability, in July of 2018, Ted Cruz was eight points above water,” Enten said. “Look at this side of the screen — very different indeed. Ken Paxton, six points under water with — get this — among Independents, 47 point under water. No wonder, no wonder that you’re seeing major issues for Ken Paxton in this race so far.”

John Berman asked how Paxton’s most important supporter, President Donald Trump, was doing in Texas.

“The president is supercharging Democratic possibilities across red states. Remember, Donald Trump won Texas by double-digits. But now, he’s nine points under water. He was slightly under water back in 2018, but he’s much further under water right now in the great state of Texas.”

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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Fox News’s Trey Yingst reported from Tel Aviv Sunday that Donald Trump’s tit-for-tat with Iran has turned into an ongoing cycle of military strikes followed by pauses for negotiations.

Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Bream asked Yingst if this time’s “attempt at peace” feels “different this time around.”

“This has really turned into a cycle for the Trump administration,” Yingst began. “They strike Iran, the Iranians target Gulf infrastructure, and then they get close to an agreement. The question now is whether or not the Iranians are serious about making a deal and if they have the officials who are actually talking to the president’s team who can enforce such an agreement.”

Bream asked if there was any deadline for the latest negotiations.

“At this point, it doesn’t appear there’s a deadline,” Yingst said. “But remember the backdrop here, there is an ongoing U.S. Naval blockade of Iranian ports, and it’s costing the Iranians hundreds of millions of dollars each and every day. Their crude oil exports are down, domestic exports down, as well.”

“And so the clock is ticking for the Iranian regime, and they will have to make a decision whether or not they want to sign a deal with the Trump administration or return to war,” Yingst added.

On Saturday, Trump abruptly called off a planned pummeling of Iran after the president said “perimeters of a deal” had been agreed to. Sources told CBS News that the strikes would have been “one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date against energy infrastructure targets in Iran.”

Trump added to Saturday’s Truth Social that the U.S. remained “locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran” unless they “rapidly make a DEAL” for “Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat.”

Watch the clip above via Fox News Sunday With Shannon Bream.

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