There’s no better time than the morning to lay the foundation for a stronger, more defined core.
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Growing older can seem daunting, yet it doesn’t have to be. With age, our metabolism decelerates, lean muscle naturally diminishes, and hormonal changes occur. In women, declining estrogen levels might lead to increased belly fat, while men often experience a drop in testosterone, a change associated with the accumulation of visceral fat around the abdomen. As you reach your 50s, you might wonder, “What can I do?” Rest assured, practical solutions are within reach.
Dr. Mariam Zakhary, DO, serves as a Clinical Advisor at New Jersey’s Ikon Recovery Center and holds double board certifications in Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation, and Sports Medicine. She recommends six highly effective morning exercises designed to enhance and tone your core more efficiently than conventional gym machines.
Dr. Zakhary emphasizes, “Though these exercises contribute to a firmer, more toned midsection, no single exercise exclusively reduces belly fat. Achieving a flatter abdomen involves maintaining better posture, boosting muscle tone and strength, leading an active life, eating a nutritious diet, and reducing overall body fat.”
Ready to take the plunge? Let’s explore how you can start your day with these beneficial exercises.
Dead Bugs
- Lie flat on your back with your arms extended toward the ceiling and knees lifted in a tabletop position.
- Press your back into the floor and engage your core.
- Lower one arm and the opposite leg.
- Return to the start position.
- Repeat on the other side and continue to alternate.
Bird Dog
- Start on all fours.
- Extend your left arm and right leg.
- Hold for a moment before returning to the start position.
- Switch sides and continue to alternate.
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Glute Bridge
- Lie flat on your back with bent knees and feet hip-width apart on the floor, arms at your sides with palms pressing into the ground.
- Brace your core.
- Press through your heels to lift your hips until your body forms a straight line from head to heels.
- Squeeze your buttocks, holding at the top for 2 seconds.
- Lower your hips back to the start position.
Sit-to-Stand
- Begin seated at the front of a sturdy chair with your feet placed on the floor under your knees.
- Cross your arms in front of your chest.
- Brace your core and lean forward slightly.
- Try to stand up without using your knees, hands, or additional support.
- Use control as you slowly sit back down.
How Harry and Meghan Can Successfully Navigate Their New Life Dynamics
It appears that warnings have been dispatched to the British media, emphasizing the importance of not photographing or filming Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet at their school premises.
What instigates this caution is the self-regulatory code adhered to by every UK news and picture desk. According to Clause 6, children should enjoy their school years without unwarranted interference, while Clause 2 reinforces the expectation of privacy. Both stipulations are governed by the Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO).
This scenario is reminiscent of a previous incident in January 2020. Shortly after the Sandringham summit, Meghan and Harry’s legal team sent warnings to British media outlets, threatening action over unauthorized photographs of Meghan on Vancouver Island. These precautions acted as a preemptive strike, despite no images at that time having surfaced.
Nearly six years later, the lack of guidance required from editors about respecting the privacy of royal children’s schools is evident in the complete absence of such intrusions during the schooling of George, Charlotte, and Louis.
Since 2022, all three have been attending school without any unauthorized images being circulated. No publications have released prohibited photos, showcasing the media’s adherence to privacy protocols, with no invasive long-lensed shots snapping through hedges or capturing indistinct black-and-white images from afar.
Every image of those children was arranged – first day of term, birthday portraits, the Christmas walk – sanctioned by the palace press office and worked through the royal rota. Consent, given and honored. Nothing else has ever run.
That system is the thing the Sussexes have derided from the start.
They walked away from the rota in 2020 and replaced it with something less accountable: chosen outlets, friendly sources, briefings nobody can check. The old game of divide and rule.
The system is the thing the Sussexes have derided from the start
The proof that no editor needed to be told about steering clear of the children’s schools is in the absence of any such intrusion in George, Charlotte and Louis’s lives
They walked away from the rota in 2020 and replaced it with chosen outlets, friendly sources and briefings nobody can check
And the British press plays it. No tabloid walks away from a gift, even knowing it is being played, even knowing the story is sugar-coated Sussex nonsense. It has served team Sussex well. It has served the truth badly.
Watch the shape of it, because the shape never changes. A story appears – sympathetic, detailed, sourced to nobody. Denials follow. The backlash arrives on cue.
Then the backlash itself becomes the story: the hostility, the intrusion, the danger. And from that comes the demand. Protection. Sympathy. Another documentary about being hunted.
This is not conjecture, because a court established it. In 2021, their former communications secretary Jason Knauf gave evidence that the couple had discussed briefing the authors of Finding Freedom – a book their lawyers had told the High Court they did not collaborate on.
Harry’s own email said they had to be able to say they had nothing to do with it, while the right background would help. Meghan apologized to the court for forgetting the exchanges and said she had no intention to mislead.
There it is in writing. Brief it, deny it, take the sympathy that follows.
Six years later, the technique is unchanged. Only the target has moved: two small children who chose none of it and a British press that had already agreed, in writing, not to photograph them.
And the courts have started putting a price on the rest of it. The High Court, the judiciary Harry called a stitch-up, found against him and left him facing costs running into millions. His own former aide called the case a suicide mission. The Daily Mail’s publisher demonstrated, at length, that evidence and grievance are not the same thing.
Now they want the protection the rota gives without the arrangement that makes it work.
Then the school run. In her 2022 interview with The Cut, Meghan was in fantasy land again – she said she could never do pickup and drop-off in Britain without a royal photocall and a press pen of 40 photographers. ‘Sorry,’ she said. ‘I have a problem with that.’
No pen. No photocall. A gate, a car park and other parents. The Princess of Wales has done it for four years unphotographed. Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, did it before her.
Meghan is describing Los Angeles and calling it London. And so far, the only person putting those children in front of a lens has been their mother, on her own Instagram.
So far, the only person putting those children in front of a lens has been their mother, on her own Instagram
In her 2022 interview with The Cut, Meghan said she could never do pickup and drop-off in Britain without a royal photocall
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Notices have already gone out to the British press not to photograph or film Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet’s school
Now the rest of it arrives. Archie is seven, Lilibet five, both enrolled and starting school next month. A private house outside London. No return to duties.
The King, we are told, was informed last Sunday – not in July at Highgrove, when he had those grandchildren in front of him for the first time in four years. If that is true, he has been blindsided. More likely they were confirming by telephone what had already been said over tea. Either way, told not asked.
And read the language in the original reporting, because it is doing a great deal of work. Not a move. An extended stay. Montecito kept. The Portuguese house kept.
They are hedging their bets. Nobody who is leaving California keeps the house in California.
Understand what that means, because it is the whole story. A base here, a base there, a bolthole in the sun. Children in British schools until the schools stop suiting. Appearances when the mood takes. A door left ajar at both ends of the Atlantic and a security question hanging over every crossing.
That is not half-in, half-out arriving down the tracks. That is half-in, half-out already parked on the driveway.
On January 13, 2020, in the Long Library at Sandringham, Queen Elizabeth settled this in person. Harry went in alone. He was given the options and pushed for the middle one. She would not have it. You serve or you go. Five days later the palace confirmed the terms, effective that March.
It was among the last great acts of her judgement and it was right. She would not sanction a family that could come and go as it pleased and still draw on the institution’s protection and its name. Not because she was hard. Because she could see exactly where it ended.
That is what makes this a kick in the teeth. Not the homecoming – the quiet dismantling of the one boundary she drew herself, in a room, to her grandson’s face and is no longer here to defend.
The Sussexes believe six years in California proved their case. It proved the opposite. The Spotify deal went. The Netflix deal shrank. The most successful thing either of them has built in six years is a fruit spread – and the Montecito friendships will not notice they have gone. Six years of being paid to be wounded and now the wound needs an English postal code.
There is one version of this that works and nobody will say it aloud. Bring Harry in. Leave her out.
He has the regiments, Invictus, 20 years of WellChild. She has none of it and never wanted the parts that count. But a monarchy that takes a man and not his wife is asking that marriage a question it may not survive – and this family has form for putting a woman outside the tent and living with the consequences for 50 years.
Is the King open to it? He is seventy-seven, living with cancer and he wants his grandchildren. He would take Harry back tomorrow on almost any terms. That is love, not strategy, and it is the weakness in the wall.
William will not be so easily moved. He has time on his side and no appetite for negotiation. He watched the institution absorb one damaging brother and will not do it twice. Does he have a say? Not constitutionally, not yet. In practice, entirely – because nobody sensible builds a settlement the next king intends to tear up.
King Charles would take Harry back tomorrow on almost any terms
William will not be so easily moved. He has time on his side and no appetite for negotiation
Catherine’s opinion is the quietest and most consequential in the family
And Catherine? Hers is the quietest and most consequential opinion in the family. She was written about before she was married and judged before she was known, and she has never once answered back. She did the school runs the Duchess of Sussex calls impossible. She went through a cancer year in public and kept her counsel. If anyone has earned the right to set the price of readmission it is her – and she will never say it in print.
I have covered this family for thirty-seven years. I saw the worst of it: the press and paparazzi excess, the tunnel, the motorbikes, the freelancers who thought a long lens was a license to harass.
That landscape is gone. The code was rewritten and signed up to by the newspapers themselves. The courts sharpened. The market closed.
Harry is coming back to a different Britain and a very different media.
He is still lost in 1997. But it is in his head – the perspective of a 12-year-old boy, carried into middle age and now brought home. Six years and one removal van later, we are about to find out how right his grandmother was.
Robert Jobson is the author of The Windsor Legacy.
Peller Criticizes Service Quality After Spending $5,000 on Business Class Flight
Prominent online personality and streamer Peller recently shared his dissatisfaction with his inaugural business class flight. Despite investing a hefty $5,000 for tickets for both himself and his spouse, Jarvis, the experience didn’t live up to his expectations.
Taking to X (previously known as Twitter), Peller voiced his disappointment with his Air Tanzania experience, a flight slated to last approximately 13 hours.
Peller admitted that he anticipated more from the business class service, especially after paying such a premium. Unfortunately, the onboard service did not meet his standards.
He specifically mentioned that he was offered juice by the airline crew, prompting him to question if this was what one should expect from a business class experience.
“I shelled out $5,000 for these business class seats, and it feels like I’m on a flight to Anambra. This being my first business class booking, I feel let down. For a 13-hour journey, they just served me juice. Did I pay for business class just to drink juice? You’re just putting my wife through this,” he lamented.
Peller’s complaint has since attracted attention online, with some social media users reacting to his expectations of business class service and the experience he shared from the flight.
The content creator appeared particularly frustrated by the contrast between the amount he spent and what he considered inadequate service during the journey.
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His trip with Jarvis has also continued to attract attention from fans, who have followed the couple’s travels and activities since their marriage.
Watch the video below…
“I booked this business class seats with $5000 and it looks like I’m going to Anambra, this is my first time of booking business class and I’m disappo!nted. A 13 hours journey”
Peller complains bitterly after booking a business class flight for him and Jarvis with Air Tanzania pic.twitter.com/YxYdgqJdBC
— Oyindamola🙄 (@dammiedammie35) August 24, 2026
Iran Allegedly Plotted Assassination of Netanyahu’s Son, Claims Israeli PM
Netanyahu threatens forceful response to possible future Iran attacks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a stern warning to Tehran, declaring that Israel will retaliate fiercely to any future aggressions. Highlighting Israel’s unwavering right to self-defense in light of recent confrontations, he spoke on the tense dynamics shaping the Middle East. This discussion included Iran’s strategic deployment of Hezbollah and the role of the United States in nurturing alliances across the region. Additionally, ongoing domestic protests challenging the Iranian regime were brought into focus.
In an unexpected twist, Netanyahu leveled serious allegations against Iran on Monday, accusing the nation of plotting an attack on one of his sons.
He shared these grave concerns during an appearance on Israel’s Channel 14, where he called upon Israeli authorities to reinforce security measures for all potential candidates for the prime ministership.
“The situation is shocking beyond belief. Iran targeted one of my sons. Their attempt to kill him, to murder my son, is an act of unthinkable aggression,” Netanyahu expressed in his conversation, as documented by the Jerusalem Post.
On September 9, 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Shin Bet Special Operations Command Center. (Courtesy of Shin Bet Communications)
“Is this part of the intelligence provided to you?” a Channel 14 reporter asked.
“Iran tried to murder one of my sons. And this is why this promise [I am making] is more than a luxury – without it, they could succeed [in killing my son]. People need to show some restraint, especially during an election campaign,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu did not clarify which of his two sons was the target of the plot.
Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to members of the media following a meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 8, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Israeli security agency Shin Bet granted extended protection services to Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, and their sons, Yair and Avner, beginning in July.
The prime minister did not describe details of the assassination plot nor did he say how Israeli intelligence became aware of it.
The accusation comes as Israel remains in negotiations for a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, where they had been fighting the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group.
The news comes after Israel publicized a massive store of rockets, grenades, drones, sniper rifles, automated weapons, anti-tank rocket launchers, mortars and other military firepower it has confiscated from Hezbollah and Hamas in recent months.
Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi, second from left, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, attends a conference in Tehran, Iran, on July 4, 2026. (Iranian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The seized weapons, ranging in manufacturers from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Russia and China to homegrown producers in Lebanon and Gaza, and even a Nazi-era gun, were part of the war machinery used by Hamas and Hezbollah against Israeli civilians and the IDF since Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Hezbollah and Hamas, known proxies of Iran, have killed over 300 American citizens, according to reports.
The Jewish state fought a multifront war against Iran and its proxies at the height of the conflict. The remains of Iranian rockets litter the ground outside the weapons storage facility at Tzrifin for journalists to inspect.
$50K Reward Offered to Catch Killer of Nashville Student
Tragedy struck a Nashville high school when a student was fatally shot in a drive-by incident after attending a football game with his younger brother. In a bid to find justice, Clay Travis has pledged to triple the reward for information leading to the perpetrator’s arrest.
The victim, 16-year-old Cameron Frierson, was gunned down in front of his brother Chris late on Friday night after they had watched a game at Pearl-Cohn High School. Authorities have launched a manhunt to apprehend his killer, according to WKRN.
Witnesses reported that the shots were fired from a white sedan with tinted windows. However, the motivation behind the shooting remains a mystery as investigations continue.
Cameron, who was a junior at Hunters Lane High School, succumbed to his injuries from the gunfire. His brother Chris fortunately escaped unharmed.
Brittany, Cameron’s mother, believes her son was tragically caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, expressing her grief over the senseless loss.
“It wasn’t over a girl. This wasn’t over any money. This was strictly these kids looking to harm someone,” she told WZTV.
“And they thought that someone that they were looking for were my children, and it wasn’t… You don’t have a right to take no one’s life. You don’t get that right.”
Frierson was rushed to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center – around two miles from where he was found – and later died of his injuries.
“My greatest fear in life has come true,” Brittany said, lamenting her teen son’s death.
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“Cameron was just doing what so many high school students do on a Friday night, enjoying a football game, and in an instant our lives changed forever,” she said.
“Cameron was a bright, beaming light in all of our lives, and this loss has left us heartbroken and struggling to understand how to move forward without him.
“Cameron was also a hardworking teenager who was trying to work two jobs so he could buy his own clothes for back to school.
“That was the kind of child he was, determined, responsible, and willing to work hard for what he needed.
“He had so much life ahead of him, and remembering the effort he was making for himself makes this loss even more painful for all of us who loved him.”
Cops continue to hunt for the shooter – and a $5,000 reward has been offered by the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, a charity founded in response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting that saw 19 students killed.
Nashville native Clay Travis, who attended the same game as Frierson, on Monday vowed to add another $15,000 to the reward pot.
“There’s a $5,000 reward right now. I will make that a $20,000 reward. I will add $15,000 to anyone who is able to bring this killer to justice who killed this 16-year-old boy,” he said on X.
“Turn yourself in, we beg you to turn yourself in,” Cameron’s dad, who is also named Chris, said in a direct message to the shooter.
Tragic Mistake: Baseball Player Killed in Wrong Home Entry
Tragedy struck in Pennsylvania early Sunday morning when a college baseball catcher, known for his dedication on and off the field, was fatally shot by police after mistakenly attempting to enter the wrong house while intoxicated, according to his family.
The 22-year-old, Glenwood ‘Bubba’ Pysher, had been enjoying a night out celebrating a friend’s birthday at a bar in Upper Pottsgrove on Saturday evening. As the evening wound down, the celebratory group decided to continue their festivities at a friend’s home, explained Pysher’s mother, Erin, in an interview with WPVI. told WPVI.
Opting to walk, Pysher unfortunately arrived at a different home, mistakenly believing it to be his friend’s residence.
“He was unaware of his mistake,” recounted Erin. “He knocked on the door, repeatedly asking to be let in, convinced it was where his friend lived, but it was not.”
Alarmed by the unexpected visitor, the residents of the Snyder Road property contacted the police, fearing a potential break-in. Responding officers later found Pysher at the back of the house, reported the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
The responding officers then discharged their weapons, fatally striking him twice, Erin told Fox 29.
It remains unclear what may have prompted officers to draw their weapons, but Erin suggested cops acted rashly.
‘12.32, he was on the phone with his friends,’ she said. ‘By 12.35, I believe he’s already shot. So within a few minutes, the cop pulled up and shot him.’
Glenwood ‘Bubba’ Pysher, 22, was fatally shot by police officers in Upper Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania early Sunday morning
Pysher was gunned down outside a house on Snyder Road he had mistakenly thought was his friend’s house
She then went on to claim that her son was unarmed and was only carrying his cellphone and a book bag at the time.
The shooting was caught on surveillance cameras set up in the backyard of the property, with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office now combing through the video as part of an investigation into the officer-involved shooting.
But some in the community are already pressing for answers.
‘What happened? Could it have been de-escalated?’ family friend Kia asked, rhetorically. ‘We don’t know, but we want to figure that out.’
Wendy Hasara, another family friend, also called for ‘justice’ to be served and for Pysher’s death to ‘prevent this from ever happening to another person’ in a post on Facebook.
She recounted how Pysher worked at the local Walmart in his free time.
‘He often worked right up to [the] time he needed to leave for a game… worked then drove his non-AC car to even away games in the heat and then put on that hot catcher’s gear and played his heart out,’ Hasara wrote, calling Pysher a ‘life with a bright future, stolen too soon.’
He had been getting ready to play at Saint Elizabeth University in New Jersey, to where he had recently transferred.
Pysher was remembered as a dedicated baseball catcher who worked at a Walmart
Pysher was been getting ready to play at Saint Elizabeth University in New Jersey, to where he had recently transferred when he was killed
‘To see someone that has so much potential, because he was so excited about going back to school, lose their life, it hurts,’ Kia told Fox 29.
‘He was an amazing soul, young man, never got in any trouble, well-respected.’
Everyone in the community will now remember him for ‘his love for baseball and the joy he found in catching balls, something that brought so much pride to his father, mother, three sisters and the entire Pysher family,’ Anthony Napoli said in a statement.
‘Bubba meant so much to so many and his loss has deeply shaken all who loved him.’
Off the field, Pysher’s grieving mother said he was a ‘lovable goofball.’
‘He will walk in the backdoor and say his favorite thing, “Hey mom, your favorite kid is home,”‘ she said. ‘He was just happy-go-lucky, didn’t have a care in the world, and I’m going to miss that.’
The Montgomery County Detective Bureau is now investigating the officer-involved shooting.
Trump’s Visa Crackdown Threatens Thousands of Asylum Seekers
The Trump administration is poised to withdraw the business and tourist visas of approximately 200,000 foreign nationals who have applied or are in the process of applying for asylum in the United States.
This unprecedented action would represent the largest single mass visa revocation in American history and is anticipated to encounter legal objections.
Unless adjusted or contested, the U.S. State Department plans to unveil within the next few weeks a strategy to cancel B1 and B2 visas—permitting business and leisure visits—issued between 2016 and 2026 to individuals who have pursued or are pursuing asylum. This information, sourced from State Department documents reviewed by the Associated Press (AP) and confirmed by two U.S. officials, outlines collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to execute this measure.
“We are working with DHS to locate and revoke the non-immigrant visas of individuals who arrived in the U.S. as brief visitors but subsequently applied for asylum with the intent of permanent residence,” stated State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott.
Pigott refrained from specifying the number of visas targeted for revocation, noting, “Given the ongoing nature of the process, the tally of revocations will remain fluid and executed progressively.”
The revocations would not necessarily result in their immediate deportation, the officials said. Most of those with asylum cases currently pending would be recategorised but would lose their status as business or tourism travellers, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the revocations are not final yet.
Since US President Donald Trump took office for his second term last year, his administration has steadily ramped up restrictions on visa applicants — demanding more information about their social media histories, requiring the posting of expensive bonds to process visas, and outright banning the issuance of visas to citizens of certain countries.
In a social media post on Tuesday, US deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau called out people who he said try to use tourist and business visas to get into the US and then apply for asylum.
“People in the US and all over the world are fed up with bogus asylum claims,” Landau said in a post on X. “Asylum isn’t supposed to be a loophole to circumvent immigration law.”
Landau cited the case of a Colombian citizen who came to the US in 2015 on a tourist visa and then applied for asylum.
B1 visas are generally issued for business trips and B2 visas are generally issued for tourism, family visits or medical care. It was not immediately clear from the documents or the officials how many of these visa holders are seeking or have sought asylum in the US and would be affected by the revocations.
Current applicants for B1 and B2 visas are asked to affirm that they will not apply for asylum in the US and prove that they intend to return to their home countries.
In the past 18 months, the state department has revoked about 175,000 visas for people who have been convicted or accused of crimes ranging from drunken driving to rape and robbery, as well as for people who have spoken out publicly against US policies, particularly in the Middle East.
The administration has also moved to crack down on so-called birth tourism, a practice the administration claims is used by foreign pregnant women to come to the US to give birth so that their child will benefit from birthright citizenship.
Trump has tried several times to end birthright citizenship, but those challenges have been rejected by courts, including the US Supreme Court.
The state department documents obtained by AP suggest screening of current B1 and B2 visa holders began after the state department received information about asylum requests from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.