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800,000 college students are paying full tuition — to earn LESS than a high school grad. Not a typo. The government just cut off federal loans for degree programs that don't pay off. Dr. Phil names the schools cashing the check anyway — USC, Juilliard, NYU, Reed — and breaks down why $260,000 can buy you a $40K salary. Before your kid signs that loan, listen to this. 

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Dr. Phil continues his coverage of the government's UAP disclosures by speaking with former U.S Navy Lieutenant and F-18 pilot, Ryan Graves, who has over a decade of service, including two deployments in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Inherent Resolve. While flying with the NAVY, Ryan witnessed firsthand advanced UAPs and is considered the first active-duty pilot to come forward publicly about regular UAP sightings. Dr. Phil will speak with Ryan about the UAPs he’s seen as a pilot, the flight maneuvers they are performing that are not of this world, and the fear that is keeping ma...

A multicultural celebration meant to unite a Michigan elementary school erupted into controversy after children were offered political stickers, including one depicting an assault rifle and another containing an anti-Zionist obscenity. The mothers who organized the Palestinian heritage table say the stickers were accidentally included in a bulk online order. The school district called the material discriminatory and antisemitic, barred the women from volunteering for the remainder of the year and launched an investigation. Then the backlash escalated: one mother says her address was posted online, her employer was pressured to fire her and her 10-year-old child was confronted...

A wealthy New York writer admits to shoplifting from Whole Foods — and says everyone else should try it too. Dr. Phil breaks down the trend some are calling "microlooting," where privileged, high-earning Americans reportedly justify stealing from big corporations as a form of protest.The backlash started with a New York Times podcast, where writer Jia Tolentino — who reportedly owns a $2.5 million Brooklyn brownstone — admitted to shoplifting from Whole Foods "on several occasions," saying she didn't feel bad about it and telling listeners to "try it, see what happens." Political commentator Hasan Piker echoed the sentiment, arguing stores already factor...

Countries around the world are moving to protect children from social media. So why is America still waiting? The United Kingdom has announced plans to ban social media for children under 16, joining a growing international movement demanding stronger safeguards for young users. In this episode of The Real Story, Dr. Phil examines the research linking excessive social media use to anxiety, depression, loneliness, cognitive decline, cyberbullying, self-harm content and dangerous viral challenges. Dr. Phil also shares the devastating stories of parents who lost children after online harms, explains how algorithms are engineered to keep young users scrolling and examines...

It’s been reported that we are approaching 1 million registered sex offenders in communities throughout the country. To protect communities, states have a sexual offender registry which was enacted to keep track of registered offenders, reduce re-offending, and to deter individuals not on the registry from committing sexual offenses. Tonight, Dr. Phil will discuss whether or not the sex offender registry is actually succeeding in what it was intended to do. Dr. Phil will speak with Dani, a parent who recently discovered a registered sex offender, convicted of an offense against a 12 year old girl years earlier, was performing mai...

For 80 years, the government's official position on UFOs was a shrug. That era is over. With presidential declassification orders, the Pentagon's new PURSUE website drawing over a billion hits, and 330+ files now public... including fighter jet targeting footage, astronaut transcripts, and a sworn account from a serving intelligence officer... disclosure is no longer a fringe theory. It's happening. Dr. Phil sits down with Christopher Mellon, the former Pentagon insider who brought the Navy UAP videos to light, and Bryce Zabel, the journalist and producer who predicted this moment 15 years ago. Together they break down what's been released, why the...

Dr. Phil breaks down the Pentagon's newly released UFO files, 40 declassified UAP documents, videos, and audio recordings, some hidden for 80 years and shows the proof behind his statement that the government has been lying about UFOs for 79 years. In this episode of The Real Story, Dr. Phil examines the declassified evidence for himself: JANAP 146, the 1953 military regulation that threatened pilots with 10 years in prison for discussing UFO sightings; the secret 1971 Turner Report, in which an Australian intelligence officer documented a U.S. "facade of ridicule"; Project Sign, the Air Force's first UFO investigation; the retired officials who spoke out...

World Cup fans are falling in love with America — while celebrities who got rich here trash it. Dr. Phil breaks down the Real Story.

A British fan says "we owe America a huge apology." A Swede discovers Buc-ee's. An Aussie goes viral over Texas Roadhouse. Meanwhile, Ellen DeGeneres and Eva Longoria left the country — loudly. Dr. Phil explains the psychology of America's harshest critics, then counts down 10 reasons this is still the greatest country on Earth as America turns 250.

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Parents - listen up, because this episode could save your child’s life. Dr. Phil will discuss how violent and sadistic online predators are specifically targeting children online in order to extort them for money, explicit photos, or force them into ending their life ... a growing crisis called, Sextortion. Dr. Phil speaks with U.S Attorney, for the Middle District of Florida, Gregory Kehoe whose is dedicated to seeing that his office prosecutes these online predators to the fullest extent of the law, including discussing the recent conviction of a man found guilty of a child sextortion scheme with at...

What would you do if your daughter called you from jail and said " I killed him. He was beating me and I killed him.” Should she spend the rest of her life in prison? That question is not hypothetical. It is happening right now in every state in this country. Up to 95% of women behind bars were abuse victims before they ever set foot in a courtroom. More than 40 states have no legal mechanism to help them. None. Oklahoma tried to change that. In 2024, the state passed the Survivors’ Act... landmark legislation giving domestic violence victims who committed crimes as a r...

They locked kids inside for two years. Now the bill is due. Teen takeovers are exploding, Tampa, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee. 22 arrested at Curtis Hixon Park, some as young as 12. Cities are throwing curfews at the problem. It won't work, because nobody's asking WHY. The Real Story: teen hopelessness up 62%. A generation stripped of school, sports, and structure then handed a phone and an audience. This is the psychology of the mob, the fallout of lockdowns, and the one fix nobody's talking about. No excuses for the behavior. But if you don't understand the cause, you'll never stop it. 

Part 2: Why do we keep repeating the same patterns even when they hurt us? In this episode, Stop Lying to Yourself examines the logic behind behavior: the beliefs, payoffs, and scripts that can quietly shape how we see ourselves, what we believe we deserve, and the choices we make. Viewers are challenged to assess actions by their results and thoughts by their rationality; identify the life chain, life script, and personal truth influencing their lives; and stop rewarding the behavior that keeps them stuck. Part 2 moves from insight to action, asking viewers to decide who they are on purpose...

Players refused the rainbow. The team forfeited the game. Now the DOJ is investigating MLB for religious discrimination. ⚾ Pride Night just turned America's Pastime into a religious liberty battleground — and nobody's telling you the full story. Both sides. All the facts. You decide. #MLB #PrideNight #ReligiousFreedom #SFGiants #DOJ #baseball

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As America marks 250 years, Dr. Phil challenges the narrative that our best days are behind us. Looking at the facts, not the headlines, he makes the case for informed patriotism. A conversation about progress, perspective, and personal responsibility. Happy Birthday, America. 🇺🇸

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250 years after America's fight for independence began, Dr. Phil asks the questions most of us avoid: Are you actually free — or just comfortable? Would you stand up for what you believe, or have you silenced yourself like 75% of Americans? This July 4th, take the gut check every American needs. Real freedom starts with honest answers.

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Across the country, thieving squatters are staking claim to homes they don’t own, and these professional trespassers are so sophisticated that when they are finally discovered, they know the loopholes that keep police from being able to arrest, and kick them to the curb! Dr. Phil will speak with Irma, a realtor who says it took 9 months to remove a squatter that she found living in a condo she had purchased. Find out why Irma says the civil and criminal court system protected the squatter more than it protected her -a man who was never identified or arrested. Dr...

If you have a child in college — or are planning on sending one — this new report will terrify you. A bombshell new FIRE study just analyzed 850 million campaign donations from 100,000+ professors at 55 top universities. The verdict: the average faculty member's politics sit to the right of Bernie Sanders by a hair — and nearly half of conservative professors are too afraid to speak up in their own classrooms.

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$196 billion stolen last year. $537 million a day. And most victims never saw it coming. Dr. Phil exposes the fraud epidemic ravaging America — with shocking new research, the dark psychology scammers use to hijack your brain, and a Real or Scam quiz that will make you question everything. Think you can spot a scam? Most people can't. One wrong answer in real life costs everything.  

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America is one of the wealthiest nations in the world so why are younger Americans dying at dramatically higher rates than their peers in other developed countries? Dr. Phil breaks down the growing crisis of “deaths of despair”: drug overdoses, fentanyl poisonings, alcohol-related illness, suicide, depression, and profound social isolation. He examines the widening mortality gap facing Americans under 45, the role of screens and social media in replacing real-world connection, and why digitally connected young people may be more emotionally disconnected than ever. Do not wait until tragedy happens to reach out. A call, an invitation, or one act of k...

Gary Brecka Analyzed Dr. Phil's Lab Results Live. What He Discovered Could Add Years to Your Life. If your numbers look anything like Dr. Phil's, this is the most important video you'll watch all year. Gary knows exactly what the numbers mean before symptoms ever show up. In this episode, we cover everything: sleep, blood sugar, the foods silently destroying your health, and one surprisingly simple habit — donating blood regularly — that could dramatically improve your longevity.

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It’s been over 2 months since Lynette Hooker vanished in the Bahamas without a trace. Her husband of 25 years, Brian Hooker, claims the last time he saw his wife was when she allegedly fell overboard the couple’s 8-foot hard bottom dinghy, on the way back to the sailboat the couple had been sailing and living on. Brian claims he and Lynette encountered rough weather and choppy sea that forced Lynette overboard, with winds allegedly separating them instantly – leaving Brian unable to rescue his wife. Brian was found washed up on shore, miles away, at 4am, after he claims he was...

Dr. Phil is heading to the Arctic — and it could change America's energy future forever. A team of American wildcatters just earned the rights to drill the first modern oil wells in Greenland's remote Jameson Land Basin — and they believe they're sitting on 13 billion barrels of untapped oil. Dr. Phil is going there to see it happen. This isn't just an adventure. It's a front-row seat to history. Global oil reserves are at their lowest point in decades — and the clock is ticking. In this episode, Dr. Phil sits down with Robert Price, CEO, and Larry G. Swets, Jr., Executi...

Forget everything you've heard about graduation speeches. Eric Church just changed the game. No politics. No soapbox. Just a guitar, six strings, and a message so powerful it united the left and the right in a country that can barely agree on anything. Church's commencement address at UNC Chapel Hill is being called one of the greatest speeches ever delivered — not just at a graduation, but anywhere. Today we break down exactly why — string by string — and what every single one of us can take from it, degree or not.

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P.G. Sittenfeld was on his way to becoming mayor of Cincinnati when the FBI built a fake world around him...fake investors, a rented penthouse, undercover agents posing as wealthy developers ... and spent an estimated $2–5 million in taxpayer money to investigate $40,000 in legally reported campaign donations. He said on tape it couldn’t be a quid pro quo. That line ended up in his indictment. He was convicted, sentenced to prison, pardoned by President Trump, and this week won a unanimous Supreme Court victory. A story about what happens when the government decides to come after you ... and what...

I Saw the Best and Worst of Sports Fandom This Weekend. The Difference is Stunning. I was in Dallas when Japan stunned the Netherlands at the World Cup. Hours earlier, I watched the Knicks win their first NBA title in 53 years. Same weekend. Same euphoria. Completely different aftermath. Japanese fans celebrated by cleaning up the stadium. Knicks fans set buses on fire, stabbed strangers, and put a teenager in a coma. I've studied human behavior my entire career. What happened in New York is a symptom of something deeper. And the Japanese showed us exactly what the cure looks l...

Dr. Ben Carson spent nearly 30 years as the director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, and pioneered surgeries never been done before, including performing the first separation of twins conjoined at the back of the skull. He has served as the 17th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and is being awarded his second Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest civilian honor. Dr. Carson has also been appointed to serve as Vice Chair on President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, an important commission Dr. Phil also has be...

God Bless America. In God We Trust. One Nation Under God. We sing it. We see it on our dollar bills. We were raised on it. So why is faith under such brutal, relentless attack in America right now? President Trump has had enough. And he personally asked me to join him in the fight. For the past year I've served on his Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty. What we uncovered will shock you — a coach fired for praying, a teacher forced to hide her crucifix, a student banned from writing a Bible verse on her own parking space. An...

A million teenage boys are watching a 20-year-old hit himself in the face with a hammer. And they're taking notes. What would you do to look perfect? For millions of boys, the answer is scarier than you think. Dr. Phil pulls back the curtain on looksmaxxing — the social media trend turning teenage insecurity into a full-blown mental health crisis. No sugarcoating. What drives influencers like Clavicular and Dillon Latham to go this far?

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Between them, John Kinsel and Dusty Turner lost 59 years. John went in on a child's testimony that the child herself recanted under oath in open court ...and still sat in that Louisiana prison for 19 more years while the system looked the other way. Dusty went in because his swim buddy committed a murder, blamed him for it, and then confessed on tape in 2002. A judge declared Dusty innocent in 2008. The state appealed two days later. Tonight, for the first time, Dr. Phil talks directly to John... the prison never allowed it before. And he follows up with Dusty, who...

Dr. Phil and Jason Flom have been talking about wrongful convictions for years. Tonight they look at where things stand because some of these cases have moved, and not all of them in the right direction. Richard Glossip spent 27 years on death row and finally walked out. Tiana Broadnax joins from London. She met James as a law student researching capital punishment, married him through glass with 16 days to go, and watched Texas execute him on April 30th, 2026... while DNA evidence pointed elsewhere and a co-defendant's confession sat unread. She says the fight isn't over. Tonight, you'll believe her.<...

The New York Times just printed a claim that Israeli prison guards trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. The byline read that Nicholas Kristof was "reporting." As in: these are facts. They aren't. No evidence. No credible sources. Just allegations from a Hamas-linked organization and a George Soros-funded group with a documented history of false claims against Israel. Now Prime Minister Netanyahu is suing the Times for libel. The American Jewish Committee calls it modern blood libel. And one Palestinian writer says even Kristof's own sources can't be trusted. This is what antisemitism looks like in 2026.

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A predator used AI to strip her daughter's clothes off in a photo — then posted it everywhere. One mom's shocking story, the terrifying stats, and exactly what you can do to protect your teen.

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After first making national headlines for exposing alleged secret gender-transition procedures on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital, whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim is sitting down with Dr. Phil McGraw to discuss the hospital’s stunning new reversal. Texas Children’s Hospital has now agreed to a major settlement with the state of Texas, reportedly paying $10 million and moving forward with plans to open what is being described as the nation’s first pediatric de-transition clinic. The move comes after years of controversy, political scrutiny, legal battles, and growing national debate over gender-related medical care for minors. Dr. Haim discusses why he s...

Dr. Phil sits down with Jim Griffin, attorney for disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, after a shocking court decision overturned Murdaugh’s double murder conviction in the killings of his wife Maggie and son Paul. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Murdaugh did not receive a fair trial, citing improper jury influence and misconduct involving former court clerk Becky Hill — a dramatic development that has reignited national debate over one of America’s most notorious murder cases. Now, Griffin joins Dr. Phil to break down the stunning reversal, the allegations of jury tampering, and why the defense believes the or...

She built the business. Now she’s fighting to stop it from taking over her life. Jillian is one of only five female master plumbers in Texas, a working master plumber, business owner, wife, and mother who grew her plumbing company from a single-desk operation into a multi-truck, full-service business. Gas, sewer, water, emergencies, her team can handle it all. But growth came with a cost. Missed calls. Delayed responses. Too many tabs open. Too many fires to put out. Customers were slipping through the cracks, and the pressure was following her home. The truth? Jillian didn’t have a de...

The conversation continues. In part two, Dr. Phil goes deeper with Roblox survivor Michael aka “Schlep”... who says he was groomed on Roblox as a child by a platform-promoted developer, his attorney Steven Vanderporten, and trial attorney Mark Lanier, who last week won a landmark $6 million verdict after a Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube liable for allegedly engineering their platforms to addict children. According to the jury's findings, the companies acted with malice, fraud, and oppression. Today the question gets answered: was this an accident or was it by design? According to internal documents introduced at trial, Meta e...

He was eight years old the first time he logged onto Roblox. He was fifteen when his mother called the platform to ask why her son was in the hospital. They say the company sent her a copy-paste email with a suicide hotline number. Nothing else. Now 22, Michael ... known online as "Schlep” ... says he was groomed on Roblox as a child by a developer the platform promoted and profited from. He says he spent two years running sting operations on the platform that hurt him, getting six predators arrested and protecting children across the country. Michael says the social med...

Dr. Phil is discussing how predators are using AI technology to create fake sexually explicit images of young women, men, and children, only to share them online for anyone to see. Dr. Phil will speak with Brooke, and her daughter Bekah, who at only 17 years old learned that someone had stolen photos of her off social media, and digitally altered them to create nude pornographic images of her, and post them online. Find out why Bekah has decided to speak publicly about what happened to her for the first time. Plus, Dr. Phil will speak with Anna, and her...

America is more divided than ever. From the deadly mosque shooting in San Diego… to a congressional candidate calling for “American Zionists” to be locked up… to a grown man accused of trying to “beat the gay” out of a small child. What is happening to this country? Who profits from outrage? How much blame does the media deserve? Why are Americans filled with so much hate? And most importantly — how do we stop the madness? Dr. Phil breaks down the psychology of hate, toxic media, fear, division, and what happens when a society loses empathy. The United States. Not the Disuni...