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A longtime Newsmax contributor, #1 rated morning radio host for over 20 years, and throat-cancer survivor, Gerry Callahan calls it like he sees it and offers sharp commentary on the news of the day. With an emphasis on politics, Gerry also brings his unique takes on major sports stories and cultural issues. He has covered The Olympics for Sports Illustrated, numerous World Series and Super Bowls and he offers conservative political opinions from Boston, the belly of the liberal beast.
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Can’t tell50% confidence4 sourcesAug 4, 2026An ESPN reporter was in a romantic relationship with a coach for years.Said by BSources show photos of Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel at a resort and describe an alleged years-long relationship, but The Athletic's review explicitly reached no conclusion about the nature of the relationship and did not find it romantic. Sources also place Russini at ESPN only from 2015 to 2023, before her Athletic tenure, so the claim's 'ESPN reporter' framing is not clearly supported for the relationship period.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesAug 4, 2026The Dow Jones Industrial Average has set a record for the 23rd time.Said by BThe sources support that the Dow set a record close around the time of the post (CNN's fast facts list a record close of 54,085.88 on August 4, 2026), but no source counts record closes or mentions a 23rd record, so the claimed count is unaddressed. The passage itself says 'It's up for the 23rd time,' so the extraction is faithful, and the claimant's own words cannot corroborate the count.Can’t tell45% confidence9 sourcesAug 4, 2026Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary centers on Abdul El-Sayed’s alliance with Hasan Piker and the party’s growing socialist wing.The claim faithfully reproduces the post's sentence, but the sources do not show the primary centering on El-Sayed's Piker alliance or a socialist wing. The Piker controversy is documented mainly after the August 4 primary, in general-election coverage, while the primary itself is described as a contest between El-Sayed and Stevens. As of 2026-08-04 the framing is interpretive and the sources neither confirm nor refute it.Can’t tell40% confidence3 sourcesAug 4, 2026ICE agents arrested a convicted child sex offender in Massachusetts.Sources show ICE Boston arrested people with child sex-crime histories in Massachusetts around this period, but none clearly confirms that a convicted child sex offender was arrested by ICE in Massachusetts on or about 2026-08-04. The Boston Herald's 2026-08-03 case involved a man facing charges, not a conviction, and the later roundups fall after the claim date or are low-credibility. The claim also drops the post's Moulton context, which is fine as a faithful paraphrase.Can’t tell30% confidence4 sourcesAug 4, 2026Migrants are feeding and waving in invaders in Ceuta, Spain, as an invasion.Said by BThe extracted claim says migrants are feeding and waving in the invaders, but the passage attributes the waving-in and feeding to locals ("locals waving in the invaders... they're feeding them"), so the claim departs from the post and cannot be graded as the poster's statement. Sources do show that migrants were fed by NGOs and charities and that locals sometimes obstructed aid, but none addresses the waving-in scene the post describes, and the sources' own framing of the crossers is contested rather than settled.Can’t tell45% confidence4 sourcesAug 4, 2026Democrats are letting noncitizens and illegal aliens stay in the country and protecting illegal alien criminals.Said by BThe post's passage is a rhetorical question about Massachusetts Senate candidates Moulton and Markey ('Who is going to do more to protect illegal alien criminals?'), not a statement that Democrats as a party are letting noncitizens stay in the country, so the extracted claim departs from the passage and widens its scope. The sources describe Democratic sanctuary policies and immigration positions, mostly through Republican-authored material, but none addresses the Massachusetts debate or the claim's whole-party framing as a checkable fact, and the broader characterization is political opinion. As of 2026-08-04 the sources do not settle the claim as stated.