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Former music pastor and "American Idol" contestant Caleb Flynn will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering his wife, Ashley.Flynn was convicted on October 5 of murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and other charges.“Prosecutors said and successfully argued that Flynn killed Ashley because he wanted out of their marriage and he was having an affair. He shot her while she was asleep in their Tip City, Ohio, home in February 2026 while their two young daughters were in the house,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says.Flynn was having an affair with a younger church intern named Alleigha Botner, who testified that Flynn said he “hated” and “wanted to kill her.”A letter from Flynn’s daughter was read in court, in which she told her father to “repent to God,” as his “time isn’t over.”And Stuckey believes this is the important part of the case.“Those last lines are from a place of love and grace from his daughters. They want their dad to be restored to God. They want his repentance because they want him to be forgiven. They don’t want him to go to hell. That is love,” she says.“Those are wise girls. Obviously, there was a lot going on in their home, but the Holy Spirit has filled them,” she continues.“Just pray for those girls,” she adds.While his wife’s parents told Flynn in court that they forgave him, they “asked the judge for the maximum sentence because they desired absolute earthly justice for Ashley.”“What they’re communicating is 100% correct,” Stuckey says. “They’re releasing bitterness. They’re releasing malice. They’re saying, ‘I don’t own this any more. I’m not holding this. I’m not holding this burden. And I want you to repent, and I want you to be reconciled to God.’”“At the same time, you need to be punished by the law. The law was invented by God. The government was invented by God,” she continues. “The government’s responsibility to execute the law and execute murderers, by the way, was invented by God.”Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

State exams are meant to test students' aptitude and gauge their understanding of the curriculum. But what happens when the grading system fails? Texas found out the hard way when an AI-powered grading system led to rampant grading errors and a huge recount.AI makes mistakes. This disclaimer is stamped on almost every query when you interact with the top frontier chatbots on the market. Yet society continues to trust AI with increasingly more important tasks. This time, Texas put it in charge of grading students on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams, and the results went as you might expect.As people become increasingly more distrustful of AI, they’re more likely to question the results of anything that AI touches.The AI-powered grading system initially made headlines in 2024 when Texas announced that the state would save $15 million by replacing human graders with a “technology similar to ChatGPT” on some portions of the state exams. The system adopted a hybrid approach, relying on humans to score the multiple choice questions while AI graded the larger open-ended written section.If at any time, AI displayed a “low confidence” message about the score it gave to a student, the responses were to be flagged so that a human could review them. However, if AI is confident in its response — as chatbots often are when they hallucinate or outright lie — no such notification would reach the humans at the top.During a limited trial test in December 2023, educators noticed that their students received a “drastic increase” in failing scores. If students or parents wanted to request a rescore, it would cost them $50 out of pocket, unless the new score was higher than the original — then the fee would be removed.At first, the state of Texas only received 2,758 rescore requests by spring of 2024 — a sizeable number, considering that rescore requests were a rare phenomenon at the time. However, this number continued to climb, jumping to a staggering 21,620 rescore requests by 2025. By 2026, the number reached 64,489 rescore requests — that’s up to $3 million in out-of-pocket costs from parents looking to get better scores for their children.Estimated costs of future rescoring currently sit at $15-$20 million. After human graders reviewed the tests, the number of corrections doubled year over year and 13,300 scores — or approximately 20% — improved overall. At the same time, none of the scores were lowered.RELATED: The AI backlash is going viral. Here's how Trump wants to fix that. Devrimb/Getty ImagesWhile this appears to be a clear failure of the AI-powered grading system, further review shows a discrepancy for both machine and man. Out of the recorded errors, 58% came from AI, while 42% came from human mistakes. This essentially means that even if AI was removed from the grading system, grading errors would possibly improve, but they wouldn’t go away entirely.This story, though, does lead to an interesting thought experiment: Even though AI and human errors were both present, the fact that AI was employed to grade the larger written portions of the exams made students and parents too leery to trust their final scores, thus leading to the jump in requests. As the people become increasingly more distrustful of AI, they’re more likely to question the results of anything that AI touches. Until hallucinations are a thing of the past, this is simply a side effect of an AI-powered world.As for the Texas school system, one must wonder if the extra money it set out to save is worth the trouble, distrust, and future rescore requests that are almost certain to plague the state for years to come. So far, Texas has no plans to suspend automated AI grading at this time.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

An ambulance rushed Sean Combs, the infamous rap icon, away from federal prison after he suffered a head injury, according to a TMZ report.Combs was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison after he was convicted a year ago of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution related to "freak-offs" at hotels and his home.'Pretty much the day he arrived, the party started ...'The hip-hop music mogul injured his head at the Fort Dix prison in New Jersey and was taken from the prison by ambulance around 1 a.m. Saturday, TMZ said, citing prison sources.The outlet said it could not confirm whether Combs was taken to a hospital.He was conscious and speaking when returned to prison hours later, TMZ added, citing officials; it's unclear how he was injured.Combs was punished at the prison after getting into a fight with another inmate in July, the outlet said, adding that more recently officials discovered he was breaking prison rules to obtain banned amenities.Four men who spent time in the same unit as Combs told NBC News that he received Chinese massages and allegedly a contraband phone while others cooked and cleaned for him."This is not some normal s**t you see in jail. This is some rich s**t," one man said. "It looks crazy, but again, it’s Diddy."One of the men said he drank Hennessy with Combs. Guards reportedly smuggled the stash of liquor into the prison."Hell yeah, I drank with him," the man said.Combs allegedly is spending thousands of dollars to level up his living conditions in prison."Pretty much the day he arrived, the party started," said one of the sources.A spokesperson for Combs called it normal prison life."The continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs’ life in prison has reached the point where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news," the spokesperson said. "The only real news is that Sean continues to serve his sentence while awaiting the court’s decision on his appeal."RELATED: White House vehemently denies TMZ report about Trump possibly setting Sean Combs free A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said the agency would not comment on any specific prisoner's conditions."Like all correctional agencies, contraband, particularly cell phones, narcotics, and weapons, remains a constant challenge, and we continue to tackle the problem of contraband being introduced into our facilities," the spokesperson said.Combs originally was scheduled for release in January 2028, but the release date has been pushed back to March 2028.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

How should America execute a convicted terrorist who turned his weapon on his fellow soldiers?Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says that while it should be about more than carrying out a sentence, the execution of the Fort Hood shooter should not be televised.“We live in a society that already diminishes death so much. I don’t want it on TikTok,” Glenn says, explaining that exposing the public to an execution will “rot our souls.”“It needs to be dignified. … And it needs to send a very strong message. Just killing him will not send the message. Killing him at Fort Hood is a very good thing. Sends a message that America is serious,” he explains.“This was a guy who betrayed his country and went into his own company, went in at Fort Hood and shot up people in Fort Hood, including his own people that served in uniform with him. That needs to be seen by Americans, and we need to know that we do not tolerate it,” he adds.However, the most important message that needs to be sent is to the Muslim world, which Glenn believes needs to see that “we don’t buy in to your false god.”“It’s a false god if you think that you’re going to get virgins for killing innocents. So we don’t buy in to your false god, and we are not afraid of your false god, and we are not afraid of you,” he says.“We’re not playing your game,” he continues. “We’re not going to be called Islamophobic.”Glenn points out that an all-female firing squad would send an even stronger message: “If you actually believe that you’re not going to get your virgins because you’ve been killed by a woman, then I will insult you every day by killing those monsters … with a woman firing squad.”Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.