Progressive Minneapolis mayor's viral hip-hop moves spark 'humiliation ritual' mockery online

Social media is erupting over a viral video of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey showing off his awkward dance moves while attending the Black Entrepreneur State Fair, with the clip quickly spreading across X as users call the dance a "cringe" performance.

The clip, posted on TikTok last week, shows Frey moving his hips and shoulders to hip-hop music while wearing sunglasses and interacting with an emcee on the dance floor, prompting a wave of mockery from conservative commentators.

"Why are they always like this? This is almost worse than when he pretended the Somali food he was choking down his throat was delicious. He’s a walking humiliation ritual," said conservative commentator Benny Johnson.

"What an embarrassment," said one user.

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"I’d honestly prefer that he defund the police," joked commentator Emily Jashinsky.

"One of the worst parts of Democrats becoming the party of theater kids isn’t just that they’re destroying American cities, it’s that they were clearly the worst and least talented theater kids, which is why they went into politics," said Outkick writer Ian Miller.

"The world is full of white liberals willing to play the fool," wrote a user.

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"Mayor Frey is out here dancing like his state his city is not in complete disarray and plagued with rampant fraud at every level. His ability to put on blinders and just vibe is unmatched," said X host Mario Nawfal.

"Cringe: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey looking like the classic white guy dancing caricature," said one user.

Fox News Digital reached out to Frey's office for comment.

The annual Black Entrepreneur State Fair, a weeklong celebration of Black-owned businesses, was held Aug. 9-15 at Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis.

The video comes amid a string of Democratic lawmakers and candidates drawing online mockery over attempts to connect with voters through dance and other lighthearted performances, with critics branding the moments awkward and bizarre.

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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed also faced criticism after a campaign video parodying the children's series "Blue’s Clues" to explain voting by mail resurfaced online.

Wearing a green-striped shirt, he recreated the show’s "Mail Time" song and dance, while pulling an "Abdul for Senate" ballot from a mailbox to explain ballot deadlines and voting procedures in the style of the children’s program.

He ended the video by adapting the show’s "Blue’s Skidoo" catchphrase to "Vote ski-doo. We can too!" and disappearing into a campaign-themed picture frame.

The internet piled on El-Sayed, with critics calling the video "the most cringeworthy political advert" and "disgusting."

Fox News Digital’s Hannah Brennan and Peter D'Abrosca contributed to this report.

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iCloud Private Relay leaks can expose your real IP

If you pay for iCloud+ and use Safari, you may have turned on iCloud Private Relay for an extra layer of privacy. Apple designed the feature to prevent websites from seeing your actual IP address and exact location.

Now, security researchers have found three ways that certain WebKit features can slip outside that protection.

Researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk discovered that DNS prefetching, a WebAuthn feature connected to passkeys and WebTransport can bypass WebKit's proxy configuration. Two of those methods can expose your real internet protocol (IP) address. The other can reveal information about the DNS servers your device is using.

What makes this especially concerning is that these are legitimate browser technologies. A website does not necessarily need to convince you to download a suspicious file or install a shady app for the network requests to occur.

Here's how these iCloud Private Relay leaks work, who may be affected and what you can do to better protect your privacy.

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ARE APPLE DEVICES SPYING? WHAT YOUR IPHONE TRACKS

Apple's iCloud Private Relay is available to iCloud+ subscribers and works with Safari browsing. When you turn it on, Apple sends your Safari requests through two separate internet relays. Your internet provider can see your IP address, but your DNS records are encrypted. A second relay then gives the website a temporary IP address instead of your actual one.

The design keeps any single party from seeing both who you are and which websites you visit. That makes Private Relay useful if you want to reduce the amount of location and browsing information websites can collect about you. However, the newly documented WebKit behavior creates paths around that relay.

The researchers identified three separate mechanisms. Each works a little differently.

Browsers often try to make websites load faster by looking up the addresses of links before you click them. This process is called DNS prefetching. Normally, you would expect those lookups to follow the same privacy path as the rest of your browsing.

The researchers found that WebKit can instead send these DNS requests through your device's normal DNS connection. As a result, a website could see DNS requests coming from your real network instead of the proxy. The issue has been available on iOS since iOS 26.0, according to the researchers.

This does not directly hand over everything you are doing online. However, it can expose network information that Private Relay was expected to shield.

The second issue involves WebAuthn, the web standard used by passkeys. Some companies operate several websites and want the same passkey to work across those related domains. WebAuthn has a feature that lets a device verify whether those websites belong together. To do that, the operating system may contact a website directly to retrieve a small verification file.

According to the researchers, that request happens outside Safari's normal proxied network path. Therefore, the destination server can receive your device's real IP address even while Private Relay is active.

Importantly, this research does not show that an attacker can steal your passkey through this flaw. The privacy exposure comes from the network request used during verification. So, there is no reason to abandon passkeys because of this finding.

WebTransport gives websites a faster way to maintain low-latency connections with servers. Certain interactive web services can benefit from that speed.

However, researchers found that WebKit can establish a WebTransport connection directly from your device instead of sending it through the configured proxy.

When that happens, the server on the other end can see your actual IP address. Private Relay does not intercept that connection because it occurs outside the network path Private Relay normally protects. WebTransport became publicly available on iOS with iOS 26.4.

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The findings matter most if you rely on Safari with iCloud Private Relay to hide your IP address. They can also affect privacy-focused browsers or apps that use WebKit's proxy configuration. The researchers specifically examined WebKit-based proxy browsers on iOS and macOS. That means the issue reaches beyond one particular browser feature.

The researchers say VPNs do not suffer from these specific WebKit proxy leaks because a VPN tunnels network traffic at the system level instead of relying on WebKit's browser-level proxy configuration.

That does not mean a VPN eliminates every form of online tracking. Websites can still recognize you through account logins, cookies and other signals.

If you use Private Relay, there is no reason to panic or immediately switch it off. Most Safari browsing still follows Private Relay's normal privacy architecture. Apple says the service is designed to prevent websites from seeing your IP address and exact location during Safari browsing. The problem is that certain WebKit features can create exceptions.

A website using one of these mechanisms could potentially learn your real IP address or information about your DNS connection. You may not see an obvious warning when that happens.

Your IP address usually will not reveal your home address. Still, it can expose your internet provider and approximate location. It can also give websites another identifier to connect with other information they have collected about you. For someone using Private Relay specifically because they do not want websites seeing that information, that matters.

We reached out to Apple for comment on the researchers' findings but did not hear back before our publication deadline.

There are several steps you can take while this WebKit behavior remains a concern.

Turning Private Relay off would remove its protection from Safari traffic that currently does travel through Apple's relay system.

On iPhone, you can check it by going to: Settings > your name > iCloud > Private Relay.

Apple also lets you choose between maintaining your general location or using only your country and time zone.

Install new iOS, iPadOS and macOS updates when Apple releases them.

On iPhone: Settings > General > Software Update.

Apple currently lists iOS 26.6 as its latest iPhone software release. Security and privacy fixes often arrive through operating system updates, so automatic updates can help you receive future fixes more quickly.

If hiding your real IP address is especially important to you, a reputable VPN offers a different type of protection. The researchers specifically note that VPNs are not affected by these three WebKit proxy leaks because the traffic is tunneled at the system level. Keep in mind that a VPN cannot make you invisible online. Websites can still recognize you if you sign in or provide identifying information. For the best VPN software, see my expert review of the best VPNs for browsing the web privately on your Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices at CyberGuy.com.

The WebAuthn finding may sound alarming because passkeys are involved. However, the researchers describe an IP-address exposure caused by a related network request. They do not describe attackers stealing the passkey itself. Passkeys remain one of the stronger options available for protecting accounts from phishing and stolen passwords.

The browser developer Psylo has already changed how its browser handles the three mechanisms. Psylo version 1.3.1 blocks DNS prefetch hints while WebTransport and WebAuthn are disabled by default. Users can turn those features back on for individual sites when needed. The changes show that browser developers can take steps to close these particular paths.

Privacy features work best when you understand what they actually protect. I still see value in iCloud Private Relay because it gives Safari users meaningful protection with almost no effort. However, I would not treat it as a replacement for a full-device VPN when keeping your real IP hidden is critical. What concerns me most here is how invisible these exceptions can be. You can turn on a privacy setting, see that it is enabled and reasonably assume every relevant connection follows it. These findings show why the plumbing underneath matters as much as the switch you see in Settings. Apple has built privacy into the way it markets the iPhone. That makes discoveries like this especially important because users should know where those protections have limits.

Would knowing that a website could potentially bypass Private Relay make you trust the feature less, or would you keep using it while waiting for Apple to address the loopholes? Let us know by writing to us at CyberGuy.com.

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Foxes beat Notts to reach One-Day Cup final

Leicestershire reach a second One-Day Cup final in four years as they overcome Notts Outlaws by 23 runs in their semi-final at Grace Road.

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Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr gets kneed in the head during chaotic play, leaves game

Unfortunately for Toronto Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr., baseball can sometimes be a contact sport.

In the bottom of the sixth inning during the Blue Jays’ 3-1 win over the New York Yankees on Friday at the Rogers Centre, Guerrero took a knee to the head in a chaotic play.

The Blue Jays were trailing 1-0 with runners on first and second base with one out and George Springer up to bat. Nathan Lukes was on second base, while Guerrero was on first.

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Springer rolled over on Gerrit Cole’s fastball and hit a weak ground ball to third baseman Ryan McMahon. The Yankees’ third baseman charged the ball, stepped on third base, retiring Lukes, and fired to first base to try to complete the inning-ending double play.

Instead, McMahon threw it in the dirt, and first baseman Luis Garcia Jr. was unable to make the catch. When Garcia tried to pick the ball out of the dirt, his glove flew off and the ball went away from him. Guerrero looked to capitalize on the blunder and took off for third base.

Garcia finally recovered, grabbed the ball and fired a bullet to third base. The problem? No one was covering the bag.

Yankees shortstop George Lombard Jr. was a couple of paces off the bag, and Garcia’s throw went into foul territory. As Lombard went to pursue the ill-advised throw, he ran into Guerrero and kneed him in the head, dislodging his helmet.

Despite looking dazed, Guerrero scampered home to tie the game at 1-1. After scoring, he bent over and received help from his teammates as he made his way to the dugout. Guerrero was removed from the game after the collision.

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Manager John Schneider said Guerrero had "a little bit of a headache" after the collision.

"Kind of precautionary right now," Schneider said of the decision to remove Guerrero. "We'll see how he is tomorrow."

McMahon and Garcia were both charged with errors on the play.

"Just didn't work out, man," McMahon said of the play. "Obviously led to a couple of runs for them and that hurts."

Guerrero, who signed a 14-year, $500 million contract extension with the Blue Jays last season, has had a down year. The six-time All-Star is hitting .263 with just seven home runs and 46 RBI.

The lack of power is astounding, as he has hit at least 23 home runs in every full season of his career. He has not hit a home run at home this year.

While he might not be providing the thump the Blue Jays are used to, he still anchors the middle of their lineup. Losing him would be a significant blow to a Blue Jays team that is in pursuit of the third Wild-Card spot in the American League.

The Blue Jays (60-64) will play the Yankees (68-54) in the second game of their three-game series on Saturday at 3:07 p.m. ET and will hope to have their star first baseman in the lineup.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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'Fury' at Tarling death as cycling union calls for better helmets

The cyclists' union expresses "fury" over the death of British rider Fin Tarling during Friday's stage of the Volta a Portugal.

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'I shot Mr Thompson'- What it was like inside court as Mangione pleaded guilty

It marked the first time a court had heard Mangione describe how he committed a crime that garnered worldwide attention.

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Police seize cocaine bricks with stickers of Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland all over them

Norwegian soccer star Erling Haaland was already a big star, seeing as he plays for Manchester City in the Premier League, but his profile rose even more thanks to a strong World Cup showing and the way he embraced American culture.

You'd think that would be enough to say, "Yeah, this dude has made it," but I think a more recent incident is proof that he has "made it."

Is anyone really a global superstar until their face winds up plastered all over a seized shipment of cocaine somewhere in South America?

No. Not in my book.

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But Erling Haaland has hit the big times after police in Ecuador seized over a thousand pounds of packaged cocaine that had stickers with his face on it.

The 370 packages of Haaland-faced booger sugar were found in the false bottom of a truck that anti-narcotics agents pulled over on the Pan-American Highway.

According to The New York Post, the driver of the vehicle carrying the drugs was arrested (probably a good call), but he didn't explain why Haaland's mug had been plastered all over his shipment.

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However, it is known that criminal organizations slap the famous names and visages of celebrities and athletes on their "stuff" as a way of making it known which criminal network it came from and who the client is.

Also, maybe they do it so they have something else aside from drugs to talk about. If they hand someone a brick of cocaine with an R2-D2 sticker on it, they could be like, "Hey, what did you think of the sequel trilogy? It sucked, right?"

Hey, it can't just be all drug talk all the time. Even these guys have to have interests outside of work.

So being deemed famous enough to be on an illicit drug shipment? That's big.

Haaland is not the only World Cup star to get the drug-packaging treatment. Argentine captain and global superstar Lionel Messi has also wound up on packaging.

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GB teenager Nowacki wins dramatic European gold

British teenager Filip Nowacki claims a dramatic gold in the men's 200m breaststroke final at the European Aquatics Championships in Paris.

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Ranking the ten best college football coaches in the country ahead of the 2026 season

With the changes happening in college football over the last half decade, most notably NIL and the transfer portal, the proliferation of talent in the game has been as balanced as ever.

With that, you could make the argument that coaches mean more than they ever have before, since it requires more strategy than just rolling the ball out and letting your 22 five-stars "talent" their way to victory.

Despite legends like Nick Saban calling it quits a few years ago, college football is in great hands with some phenomenal coaches among its ranks.

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Speaking of which, I thought today would be as good a day as any to rank the ten best coaches in college football right now.

This list is obviously subjective, but some of the factors I'm weighing are: total resume, recent success, and whether they have overachieved or underachieved relative to the resources they've been given.

With that said, let's dive right in.

We start this list off with a man who, five years ago, probably would have been comfortably within the top five: Lincoln Riley.

The USC head coach is heading into his fifth season in Los Angeles, and if you asked most Trojan fans, they would probably admit he has underperformed with regard to the expectations they had when he arrived.

Ironically enough, his first year at Southern Cal was his best, as the Men of Troy won 11 games and were a fourth quarter collapse away from making it to the College Football Playoff.

Since then, it's been tough sledding for Riley, but last year should provide some hope to fans of the program, as the 42-year-old pulled off what was perhaps his best coaching job since leaving Oklahoma and guided USC to a nine-win season while unlocking the potential of quarterback Jayden Maiava.

Heading into 2026, Riley and Maiava will look to finally send USC to the CFP, and it seems like the pieces are in place for that to happen.

If it does, I expect Riley to shoot back up this ranking come next season.

When it comes to "doing more with less," there are few who can top what head coach Clark Lea has done while at Vanderbilt (I can think of one other, but we will talk about him later).

When Lea arrived in Nashville in 2021, he proclaimed that he would have Vandy competing for SEC and national championships.

The whole college football world pointed and laughed, and rightly so, because the Commodores had long been a doormat in the SEC save for a few seasons with James Franklin at the helm.

Fast forward just five short years, and Lea has done exactly what he said he would, giving Vanderbilt its first ten-win season in school history and having the 'Dores within a stone's throw of the College Football Playoff.

For all his accomplishments on the field, he's done just as well on the recruiting trail, landing the program's first five-star in quarterback Jared Curtis.

Kind of unbelievable for anyone who knows anything about Vandy, and if he's able to repeat his success over the next couple of years without Diego Pavia as his quarterback, it will only strengthen my belief that Lea is one of the best coaches in America.

You could almost consider this spot for Kyle Whittingham a lifetime achievement award, but that would do a disservice to just how good of a coach he still is.

The man was an absolute machine while coaching the Utah Utes, guiding them through conference realignment and an ever-evolving college football world, racking up several of the best seasons in school history in the process.

He's the winningest coach in Utah history, and his defensive prowess and penchant for developing unheralded recruits into NFL Draft picks is the stuff of legend.

This past offseason, Whittingham left the friendly confines of Salt Lake City and headed east to Ann Arbor, where he will hope to instill some stability to a wildly chaotic Michigan program.

It's a testament to Whittingham that he continues to end up on lists like this year after year, and it proves that he's a rare combination of talent and longevity.

The Wolverines should be in good hands with Whittingham at the helm.

College football fans disagree on a lot, but there may not be a more universally hated name outside of Baton Rouge than Lane Kiffin.

His antics have rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, particularly regarding his most recent breakup with Ole Miss, but there is no question the man is a brilliant football coach.

Kiffin's offensive acumen knows no equal, and he's regarded as one of the best X's and O's guys on that side of the ball in quite some time, but he makes this list for more than just that reason alone.

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The former Rebels head coach turned Ole Miss from an afterthought in the SEC to a national power, and by the time of his unceremonious exit, had them in a position to legitimately win a CFP title.

He's such a good head coach that he had people actually believing that it was just as easy to win a championship at Ole Miss as it would be to win one at LSU or Florida.

That fact is not lost on me, but the only reason he isn't any higher is because he hasn't actually gone out and won the thing yet.

Few have, to be sure, but Kiffin has a chance to rocket near the top of this list should he win even one natty while on the bayou.

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is a lot like Lane Kiffin in many ways, so the two are ranked right next to each other for a reason.

Sark has access to a lot more resources and talent at Texas than Kiffin did while he was at Ole Miss, and has been far more consistent as a result.

He is considered one of the top offensive play callers in the game and consistently has the Longhorns in the national championship conversation year after year.

It will be interesting to see how he handles the expectations this year and how he coaches quarterback Arch Manning through another year of Heisman hype, but I believe Sark will be up for the challenge.

His recruiting prowess deserves mention as well, as Texas has always had the resources to get whoever it wants, but Sark has been able to unlock that in a way that has given Texas one of the most talented rosters since he's arrived.

When Brian Kelly jumped ship for LSU in 2021, many believed it was because he had gotten Notre Dame to its ceiling as a program in the modern landscape of college football.

Marcus Freeman proved that the Irish still had room to grow, and has lifted the program to new heights, both on the field and on the recruiting trail.

Notre Dame made it all the way to the national championship game two seasons ago, and after finishing in the top 10 in the AP Poll last season is projected to be a top-five team this coming season as well, showing Freeman's ability to keep the Irish consistently elite.

He has been lauded for his ability to coach elite defenses dating back to his days as a coordinator, and it shows in Notre Dame's ability to keep churning out top-flight units every season.

The fact that he has the Irish recruiting in the top five is noteworthy as well, which was thought to be almost impossible in the age of NIL.

Freeman is very young, so he will only continue to improve as he gains more experience.

4. Dan Lanning (Oregon)

Another brilliant, young defensive mind, Dan Lanning has the Oregon Ducks absolutely rolling since arriving in 2022.

Hailing from the Kirby Smart coaching tree, Lanning has been aces in Eugene pretty much from day one.

The Ducks have won at least 10 games every year of Lanning's tenure, as he has pretty much accomplished everything short of winning a national championship for them.

He is a recruiting wizard, which makes sense given his ties to Smart, and his chops on the trail coupled with Oregon's much-publicized resources have turned the Ducks from great recruiters to full-on Death Star status.

Another underrated aspect of Lanning's game is his ability to identify and hire elite coordinators, as he has had three move on to head coaching jobs since he donned an Oregon visor four years ago.

I firmly believe Lanning has everything in place to accomplish that as early as this season, especially with the talent he continues to assemble in the Pacific Northwest.

I was so torn between Ohio State's Ryan Day and my number two, that their rankings might just depend on what kind of mood I'm in that day.

With that said, Day is an elite coach in every sense of the word, which sounds wild to anyone who just woke up from a coma for the last two years.

It's amazing how a national championship can change perceptions, but Day was a phenomenal coach before he won it all just 18 months ago.

He's an excellent recruiter, a great offensive mind, and his coordinator hires are some of the best in the business, employing the likes of Matt Patricia, Jim Knowles, Chip Kelly, Arthur Smith, and Brian Hartline among others.

That matters in this day and age, and his hiring of Knowles specifically may have been the secret sauce that propelled the Buckeyes to a natty following the 2024 season.

I can't foresee Ohio State ever being ranked outside the top-ten to finish a season as long as Day is locked in, which says a lot about both his ceiling and consistency.

The best part (at least for Buckeye fans) is that Day isn't even 50 years old yet, so he will be among the elites for quite some time.

If you wanted to rank Day ahead of Smart or vice versa, I really wouldn't have a problem either way; it really was like splitting hairs between these two.

What it came down to for me were Smart's two national championships and the fact that he accomplished that while Nick Saban was still at the top of his game at Alabama.

I also believe Smart took over Georgia when it was in a slightly worse position than Ohio State was when Day took over, though neither program was exactly in the gutter.

What could you possibly say about Kirby that hasn't already been said?

He's an elite defensive coach, one of the best recruiters of his era, develops NFL talent at an absurd level, and absolutely feasts on his rivals.

Perhaps an even bigger feather in his cap is the fact that one of the other coaches on this list hails from his tree (Dan Lanning), meaning he even has a penchant for developing great coaches.

I would say he's the closest thing we have to a modern Saban if not for...

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I mentioned it near the top of the list when discussing Clark Lea, but no one, perhaps in the history of college football, has done more with less than Curt Cignetti at Indiana.

Just think about where the Hoosiers were in their entire history before Coach Cig got there.

There have been so many "firsts" in program history it's hard to even keep track: first 11-win season, first Playoff berth, first undefeated season, first national championship, first five-star recruit.

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The only knock I can think to make against Cignetti is that he hasn't been at Indiana for long enough to rack up some of the accomplishments of the all-time greats, but I keep having to remind myself he's at freaking Indiana.

I've written plenty about Cignetti's greatness but suffice to say, he's the king of the mountain right now and I don't know how anyone will dethrone him outside of a guy like Kirby winning the next four national titles.

If all that still hasn't convinced you, just Google him. He wins.

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New Forest wildfire continues as temperatures rise

A crew of around 100 firefighters have been battling the wildfire since it began on Sunday 9 August.

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Did President Trump Escape Air Force One In A Catering Truck?

The Washington Post has reported on a secret presidential plane swap.

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Trump bets economic pressure can squeeze Iran as regime’s own failures deepen the pain

President Donald Trump is signaling, at least for now, he is prepared to let mounting economic pressure on Iran do more of the work rather than immediately expand military action against Tehran.

"We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money," Trump told Axios’ Barak Ravid in a phone interview Sunday. Axios reported Aug. 9 that Trump described the U.S. approach as "low-keying it" and said Iran was in severe economic distress and struggling to pay its troops.

Trump has argued that the U.S. naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz has compounded Iran’s financial crisis. His comments come after weeks in which the administration repeatedly raised the possibility of renewed large-scale military action. 

But as the administration increasingly points to Iran’s financial distress as leverage, a more complicated question is emerging: How much of Iran’s economic crisis is the result of U.S. sanctions, the war and blockade — and how much stems from decades of corruption, economic mismanagement and spending decisions by the Islamic Republic itself?

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Trump reinforced the message on Truth Social Sunday, writing that Iran had shown "51 years of bad behaviour" while sharing a graphic depicting the Iranian rial’s steep decline. The graphic was titled "Iran has NO MONEY" and described the currency as "trash."

The economic pressure is increasingly visible in the daily lives of ordinary Iranians. An investigation published by the Iranian newspaper Jahan-e Sanat last week described supermarket workers encountering customers who allegedly shoplifted basic groceries including bread, cheese and meat, or ate packaged food inside stores because they could no longer afford it. The accounts offered a stark glimpse of the strain on Iranian households as prices rise and purchasing power erodes.

Washington, meanwhile, has intensified its campaign against Tehran’s revenue streams. Under what the Treasury Department calls Economic Fury, the administration has targeted Iran’s oil trade, shadow banking networks, weapons procurement operations, cryptocurrency holdings and sanctions-evasion infrastructure. Treasury said June 10 that the campaign had prevented "tens of billions of dollars" in revenue from being accessible to the Iranian regime and its proxies. On July 29, Treasury said OFAC had sanctioned more than 100 vessels linked to Iran’s shadow fleet since the beginning of 2026.

A Treasury spokesperson told Fox News Digital on background that "Economic Fury has left the regime desperate for cash."

"Iran’s economy is in freefall, inflation has skyrocketed, and as President Trump said on Sunday, the regime’s ability to pay its troops has been decimated," the spokesperson said.

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A U.S. official told Fox News Digital on background that the administration still views economic pressure as one part of a broader strategy.

"President Trump has always been clear that he will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. While he has been consistent in saying he prefers a diplomatic solution, he continues to retain all options if Iran continues to engage in terrorism and refuses to make a deal," the official said.

"The United States is strangling what’s left of Iran’s economy with one of the most successful naval blockades in history – and Iran would be wise to make a deal. Otherwise, they know what will happen."

Miad Maleki, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and former Treasury Department sanctions official, said the pressure has accelerated Iran’s economic decline, but argued that Tehran’s own policies created many of the underlying vulnerabilities.

"Sanctions and the war have accelerated Iran's economic decline, but both are consequences of the regime's own troublemaking; its nuclear brinkmanship, missile and drone attacks on tankers, and support for terror proxies, not causes imposed on an innocent bystander," Maleki told Fox News Digital.

"It's a government's basic responsibility to provide for and serve its nation — this regime has instead served a failed revolutionary ideology that has produced nothing but suffering for ordinary Iranians," he added.

Maleki said the deeper story can be seen over decades, arguing that even when sanctions eased and oil revenues increased, Iran continued directing significant resources toward its security establishment and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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According to Central Bank of Iran national accounts data provided by Maleki to Fox News Digital, Iran’s military share of total government spending rose from 16% in 1993 to 52% by 2006, while education spending fell from 27% to 15%. Spending on health and social affairs also declined as a share of government expenditures, he said.

Maleki pointed to the 2020 budget as another example of the disparity. The IRGC received approximately $6.96 billion, compared with $2.73 billion for Iran’s larger conventional military, known as the Artesh — roughly 2.5 times as much, according to an analysis published by the United States Institute of Peace’s Iran Primer based on figures from Iran’s parliamentary research center.

"The issue is not simply that Iran spends heavily on defense," Maleki said. "It is that an oil-dependent economy repeatedly directed enormous resources toward the military and the IRGC while basic public services and ordinary households were under increasing pressure."

And the official budget captures only part of that spending. Maleki, citing both his experience at the Treasury Department and outside research, said the IRGC benefits from significant commercial and off-budget resources. A 2017 American Enterprise Institute study estimated that the IRGC’s so-called "gray budget" could add another 50% to 100% to its military outlays.

"Ultimately, the responsibility lies not with external pressure but with structural corruption, chronic economic mismanagement, and spending priorities fundamentally detached from ordinary Iranians' needs and the country's genuine economic potential," Maleki said.

That influence extends far beyond military spending. The IRGC has also built a sprawling economic apparatus that gives it control over major sources of revenue and, critics argue, leaves it particularly well positioned to profit from the opaque channels sanctions create.

Its economic arm, Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters, became a major force in the Iranian economy after the Iran-Iraq War and expanded across construction, energy and infrastructure. The Treasury Department designated Khatam al-Anbiya in October 2007, describing it as an IRGC engineering arm used to generate income and fund the organization’s operations.

Treasury acknowledged that Iran is increasingly turning to opaque financial channels to circumvent U.S. pressure, but argued that those networks are themselves becoming targets of the campaign.

"The regime is increasingly having to invent new ways to try to evade U.S. sanctions through shadow banking networks, including through exploiting crypto," the Treasury spokesperson said. "Treasury continues to monitor and aggressively dismantle these networks to ensure Iran cannot sustain its campaign of terror and regional destabilization."

On Aug. 7, Treasury announced separate actions against cryptocurrency exchanges it said were being used to finance the IRGC and against international currency networks that it said were moving hundreds of millions of dollars for Iran.

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Morad Tahbaz, an Iranian-American conservationist who spent nearly six years imprisoned in Iran’s Evin Prison before being released with four other Americans in September 2023, said sanctions have effectively created what he described as a lucrative "franchise" for those controlling the channels through which money and goods move.

"They have created a huge franchise for themselves because of these sanctions," Tahbaz told Fox News Digital. "Money can't flow freely to the Iranian government's treasury because of the sanctions. So what happens, everything is like a black market, gray market, illegal smuggling from the oil to everything else coming in and out."

"And of course, the people who are hurt most by all of this are the people of Iran," he added. "They're unfortunately, very unfortunately, taking the brunt of all of these in their daily lives."

Tahbaz said the entrenchment of the IRGC-linked economy may itself complicate efforts to end the confrontation because those profiting from restricted financial channels have an incentive to preserve them.

"They don't want to see the sanctions go away, because they will lose their franchise, if you will," he said. "They will lose their power, their control over the money and everything that goes along with it."

Tahbaz said the economic interests created by the sanctions also help explain some of the internal tensions within Iran. 

"This is the battle going on inside Iran when you hear there is tension within factions," he said. "And I think to see a solution to this war, if you will, we have to look to what's happening in Iran," he said. 

Treasury said it maintains standing authorizations intended to limit sanctions’ effects on ordinary Iranians, including certain humanitarian trade involving agricultural products, medicine and medical devices; noncommercial personal remittances; and communications-related software, hardware and services. OFAC also considers additional requests on a case-by-case basis, the spokesperson said. The authorizations are contained in OFAC regulations and General License 8A.

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WNBA’s lack of clarity on gender eligibility policy is ‘herald of the times culturally,’ ex-NBA player says

Royce White, a former NBA player who said he will declare for the 2027 WNBA Draft, said Sunday the league is an "example" of "us losing a lot of things in this country."

White appeared on Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends Weekend" and was asked whether the league was at risk of losing its new audience amid the growing trans athlete debate surrounding the league and the lack of a clear policy when it came to gender eligibility.

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"The WNBA is an example of a herald of us losing a lot of things in this country," White said. "We have to secure our elections, we have to restart the mass deportations, we have to start arresting some of these Deep Staters, I’m a huge fan of banning Sharia Law and Marxism nationwide and also some of these PACs and lobbies, but the WNBA and their lack of terminology, precision is a herald of the times culturally, for sure."

The WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement’s Article XIII, Section 1(a) states: "Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA." But as OutKick/Fox News Digital previously reported, the 409-page agreement never defines "woman" or "women." The terms "transgender" and "gender identity" don’t appear anywhere in the document.

The CBA contains detailed definitions for dozens of other terms. Yet the agreement doesn’t define the word that determines who may play in the league.

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"It’s just astounding that the WNBA can’t define the ‘W’ in the name," White added. "I think we’re going through a very necessary conversation about who’s actually eligible to play in some of these sports leagues I guess on both sides of the gender spectrum. My goal is to help elevate the WNBA. I think the ticket prices and the attendance will soar. I think the live audience will increase and I think, ultimately, it’s good for the game.

"It’s gonna help evolve the game. I mean, who would argue that a player like myself or an Enes Kanter (Freedom) or in the future, maybe a LeBron James after he expires in the NBA, maybe he wakes up and he realizes he’s a woman as well, who could argue that wouldn’t make the women’s game better?"

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a letter to teams on Friday addressing concerns over the inclusion of transgender athletes in the league as White and Kanter Freedom said they wanted to declare for the draft.

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"I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention," Engelbert wrote in the memo, per The Associated Press.

"I wanted to reach out to share how we are approaching these conversations at the league office and to thank those of you who have responded to questions from the media with thoughtfulness and professionalism."

Engelbert went on to call the debate "nuanced."

"We recognize that this is a complex and nuanced topic, and we will continue to have important conversations with all of you and the Players Association in the weeks and months ahead," Engelbert said in the memo. "We also plan to convene additional discussions and offer listening sessions for any team leaders who would like to participate. Your perspectives and feedback are invaluable, and I appreciate those who have already reached out to share their thoughts."

As far as the WNBA Draft, White said on "Fox & Friends Weekend" he was "having a blast in my feminine era."

"I never thought that I was a woman I always trusted the science," he said. "I thought that I was a man my entire life. After further review, strong look at my personal preferences, it would appear, indeed, that sometimes I identify as a transgender woman. And I think it’s only fair that I get a chance to play with some of my queens here in the twilight of my career, my athletic prime."

Fox News’ Dan Zaksheske contributed to this report.

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