A former NFL player may just have plans for his next career move: Congress.
According to local reports, former Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely, currently a CBS analyst, is "seriously considering" making a run at a seat in Congress in the state.
Feely is "laying the groundwork" to begin a run for the state's 5th Congressional District, according to the Arizona Republic. Current Rep. Andy Biggs is running for governor next year, and his seat will be vacated.
The outlet noted that Feely has played golf with President Donald Trump both in Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago, while also becoming friendly with Republican leaders in the state.
Roughly 45% of the active voters in the district are Republican - 20% are Democrats.
Feely would hardly be the first former athlete to try his hand in Congress. Tommy Tuberville and Herschel Walker have both done the same.
Since the seat was formed in 1983, it has been red for all but just six years.
Feely was undrafted out of Michigan in 1999. He was a part of the national champion team in 1997 and first joined the Arena Football League before making his NFL debut with the Atlanta Falcons in 2001.
He played there for four seasons before heading to the New York Giants for two, then had a one-year stint with the Miami Dolphins in 2007, just missing the Giants' Super Bowl XLII victory.
Feely then suited up for the Jets in 2008 and 2009 before spending his next four seasons with the Cardinals. He hung up the cleats after the 2014 season, which he spent with the Chicago Bears.
An Atlanta Hawks fan appeared to suffer a knee injury during an intermission game as the team took on the Portland Trail Blazers Tuesday night.
The fan participated in a tic-tac-toe shooting challenge, and as he went up for a lay-up, he slipped and crashed to the ground. He was seen holding his left knee as his opponent continued the challenge on the other side of the court. A video showed the fan getting placed on a stretcher and carried off the court.
The Trail Blazers ended up getting the 127-113 win behind Shaedon Sharpe’s 33 points and 10 rebounds and Deni Avdija’s 32 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists.
Hawks star Trae Young added 29 points and 15 assists. Young’s teammate Dyson Daniels added 22 points and 10 rebounds while Vit Krejci scored 13 and Onyeka Okongwu had 12.
Atlanta is in contention for the play-in tournament; it will just be a matter of seeding once the regular season is over. The Hawks are 36-39 this season.
The Trail Blazers improved to 33-43 on the year. They are 3.5 games behind the Sacramento Kings for the final spot in the play-in tournament.
President Donald Trump called out GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, in an effort to apply public pressure before the Senate votes on a measure to scuttle his Canadian tariff policy.
The joint resolution would terminate the national emergency Trump declared regarding illicit drugs and Canada — in his executive order, Trump called for slapping tariffs on America's northern neighbor.
In a lengthy Truth Social post shortly before 1 a.m. on Wednesday, the president suggested that the four GOP senators have "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
"Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy," Trump declared.
"They are playing with the lives of the American people, and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels. The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it and I, as your President, will never sign it. Why are they allowing Fentanyl to pour into our Country unchecked, and without penalty," he continued.
Trump blasted the four lawmakers as "disloyal" to the GOP.
"What is wrong with them, other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly known as TDS? Who can want this to happen to our beautiful families, and why? To the people of the Great States of Kentucky, Alaska, and Maine, please contact these Senators and get them to FINALLY adhere to Republican Values and Ideals. They have been extremely difficult to deal with and, unbelievably disloyal to hardworking Majority Leader John Thune, and the Republican Party itself. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
Murkowski reportedly informed Politico's Lisa Kashinsky that she will vote for the resolution, while Collins has said she is "very likely" to back it, according to the outlet.
Wildfires are becoming an increasingly common threat worldwide. Record-breaking burns from Australia to the Amazon to the United States are devastating the environment. The deadly wildfires that raged across Los Angeles in January were estimated to have caused more than $250 billion in damages.
Current satellite imagery is often low resolution, infrequently updated and unable to detect small fires. But what if there was a way to spot wildfires earlier and more accurately before they become raging infernos?
Enter FireSat, a new satellite project designed to detect and track wildfires early. How early? The project aims to detect a fire that's merely 270 square feet – about the size of a classroom – within 20 minutes. It's also able to detect fires two to three acres in size, roughly the size of two football fields.
The FireSat constellation will consist of more than 50 satellites when it goes live. The satellites are fitted with custom six-band, multispectral infrared cameras designed to capture imagery suitable for machine learning algorithms to accurately identify wildfires, differentiating them from misleading objects like smokestacks.
Using artificial intelligence, FireSat rapidly compares a spot, wherever it is in the world, with previous imagery of that location, considering factors like nearby infrastructure and local weather to determine if there’s a fire.
"Differentiating between real fires and random 'noise' in the environment was a challenge," says Chris Van Arsdale, who works on climate and energy projects at Google.
The team even loaded a plane with sensors to experiment with their progress.
"The first time we used the plane, one of our team members lit a barbecue and a fire pit in his backyard so we could fly the plane over and test it," says Erica Brand, one of the project managers for FireSat. "And the sensors were able to pick it up."
The first FireSat satellite has already been launched. The entire constellation should be in orbit by 2030. The satellite data will contribute to a global historical record of fire spread so that scientists can better model and understand wildfire behavior.
Google Research and satellite manufacturer Muon Space are founding partners in the Earth Fire Alliance, the nonprofit home for FireSat. Funding for the constellation’s first satellite comes in part from AI Collaboratives: Wildfires, an initiative created by Google.org that convenes leading nonprofits, academic institutions, government agencies and companies around the joint goal of using AI to prevent the devastating impact of wildfires.
As part of AI Collaboratives, Google.org provided $13 million to support the launch of the first satellite in the FireSat constellation.
So, what does this all mean? It means a future where wildfires are detected faster, contained quicker and cause less devastation. FireSat represents a major advance in wildfire management. This ambitious project has the potential to protect lives, homes and the environment we all cherish.
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EXCLUSIVE: The respective chairs of the Small Business Committee in both chambers of Congress are unveiling a plan to address the roughly 2 million "likely fraudulent" pandemic aid applications flagged in a recent government report.
Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Rep. Roger Williams of Texas, both Republicans, plan to introduce the SBA Fraud Enforcement Extension Act on Wednesday in hopes of corralling the alleged scofflaws who they say broke the law and prevented untold numbers of legitimate U.S. small businesses from receiving crucial aid.
The bill extends the statute of limitations to 10 years for fraud surrounding the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) and the Restaurant Revitalization Fund relief programs instituted in 2020.
In 2022, Williams, Ernst and other lawmakers sought to do the same to identify potential scofflaw violators of the Paycheck Protection Program.
A report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Biden-era Small Business Administration (SBA) either signed or guaranteed more than $1 trillion in loans to more than 10 million small businesses.
While it had instituted a four-step process to manage fraud, that plan reportedly faltered when the SBA inspector general was unable to fully probe two-thirds of the risk referrals because the agency didn’t provide either correct or complete information about those cases.
The GAO then made a formal recommendation to the SBA, which, according to the public watchdog’s website, remains "open" – and it appeared no action had at least been recorded.
The GAO also found that the fraud prevention process had not been fully implemented until "more than half" of aid programs’ funding had been approved.
"I will not allow criminals to run out the clock and escape justice simply because the Biden administration was asleep at the wheel," Ernst told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
"Thousands of hardworking small businesses were deprived of desperately needed relief because swindlers, gang members, and felons cashing in on COVID drained the programs. Every single con artist who stole from taxpayers will be held accountable."
In Ernst’s home state, 1,800 restaurants reportedly qualified for SBA aid but never received it, prompting critics to question how much funding was diverted to fraudulent applicants instead of family-run eateries.
In Williams’ Lone Star State, federal aid allowed tens of thousands of restaurants to stay in business, but others told outlets like Houston PBS that such funding ran out before many could get back on their financial feet.
The Texas Restaurant Association told the station that 12,000 restaurants found themselves in danger of closing by 2022.
Hollywood celebrities had also received some of the SVOG funds and spent them on private jets and parties or cash for themselves, Business Insider reported.
"The SBA distributes millions of dollars to small businesses in need every year. However, where small business owners found the capital needed to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic, bad actors saw the opportunity to defraud the government," Williams told Fox News Digital.
"It is imperative that every fraudster who stole and exploited taxpayer dollars during our nation’s utmost hour of need be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
He added that as March marked five years after the first COVID lockdowns, an extension of the SBA and law enforcement’s ability to pursue fraudsters must be realized.
Fox News Digital reached out to the SBA for comment.
When asked about the discrepancies found in the GAO report, an SBA spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Administrator Kelly Loeffler has already taken action to enhance fraud prevention efforts.
"The SBA fully supports all efforts to crack down on fraud within its loan programs – in stark contrast to the last administration, which failed to investigate or address more than $200B in estimated pandemic-era fraud," Caitlin O’Dea said.
"[SBA] will continue working to hold pandemic-era fraudsters accountable."
Politico Playbook shocked observers Tuesday with an "insane" take that the Trump administration seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione could cause President Donald Trump to "lose Gen Z."
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday that she ordered federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Mangione if he is convicted for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. She referred to Thompson’s murder as "a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America."
Politico Playbook placed the news under its "6 Things You Need to Know" banner beside a blurb reading "How Trump Loses Gen Z"
Users on X considered this a shocking and almost insulting description of the news as well as Gen Z.
"Playbook becomes more insufferable each day," Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese commented.
American Commitment president Phil Kerpen joked, "Politico is so hopelessly millennial."
"Highly recommend that whoever came up with this framing go outside and touch some grass," RNC senior advisor Gates McGavick wrote.
"Genuine LOL," The Spectator contributing editor Stephen Miller wrote, adding "Just more of that invaluable subscription journalism our federal employees can't do their jobs without."
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll exclaimed, "holy sh-- these people. Children need parents to tell them hard truths like hey targeted assassination might get you executed by the government!"
"Color me skeptical that most of Gen Z are sitting around, deeply concerned about the fate of a dude who shot another dude in cold blood. That’s a too-online, far-left thing. Not a Gen Z thing," RedState writer Bonchie wrote.
"Insane," Republican commentator Steve Guest wrote.
Mangione faces several state and federal charges in both New York and Pennsylvania, including murder in the first degree "in furtherance of an act of terrorism." He has pleaded not guilty to state charges but has not yet entered a plea for federal charges.
Despite his numerous charges, Mangione has had several supporters who not only condone his alleged actions but have called for the murders of other CEOs.
Canada is bracing for the fallout of President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war, with economists warning of spiking grocery prices, major job losses and even a potential recession if threatened U.S. tariffs take effect.
The United States is Canada’s largest trading partner, accounting for nearly two-thirds of Canadian imports and receiving over 70% of its exports. But under Trump’s new "liberation day" tariffs – 25% on Canadian goods and 10% on energy – Ottawa now faces an economic gut punch that could ripple across key provinces, industries and its national election campaign.
Trump has repeatedly blasted what he calls "unfair" trade practices, citing Canada’s trade imbalance with the U.S. to justify the sweeping tariffs.
"This is the beginning of liberation day in America," Trump said last week. "We’re going to charge countries for doing business in our country and taking our jobs, taking our wealth, taking a lot of things that they’ve been taking over the years. They’ve taken so much out of our country, friend and foe. And, frankly, friend has been oftentimes much worse than foe."
Increased tariffs could mean that Americans will see higher price tags on everything ranging from fertilizer and oil, vehicles and machinery, to plastic and wood products, which, theoretically, would deter consumers from purchasing those products and result in a loss for Canada’s economy.
Likewise, Canada in mid-March implemented reciprocal tariffs on $30 billion worth of U.S. goods, which means Canadians will not only feel losses on a macro scale but also in an immediate sense as prices at the grocery store have spiked on things like leafy greens, citrus, orange juice, beef, pork and fish.
Ottawa has yet to announce any tariffs on U.S. imported vehicles due to reported concerns over how it could further hinder Canada’s economy. Though there are some $95 billion worth of U.S. goods that it is reportedly considering putting tariffs on, depending on Trump’s April 2 announcements, according to Canadian outlet Financial Post.
"They're in the midst of a general election campaign," Andrew Hale, a senior policy analyst in trade policy with the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital. "I think it's very difficult for them to negotiate and put these measures on during an election campaign.
"Everything they do and say now carries electoral weight," he added, noting that Canadian politicians will need to strike a careful balance: tough enough on Trump to appeal to voters but measured enough to leave room for future negotiations on tariffs.
"If they were to put on reciprocal tariffs, it would damage the Canadian standard of living and have an impact – as all this already is having an impact – in Canada," Hale said, noting that auto tariffs not only affect direct car sales but all businesses that rely on vehicles, creating a trickle-down effect.
While Trump has argued that his tariffs protect U.S. manufacturing – especially the auto sector – the fallout could be far more severe for Canada. Immigration Minister Marc Miller has warned that up to 1 million Canadian jobs are at risk.
"Most Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S.-Canadian border, and so they obviously will be heavily impacted," said Hale. "Most Americans don't."
Hale noted that while the tariffs will affect the entire U.S., the hardest-hit areas will be industries closely tied to Canadian imports, such as agriculture. The U.S., for instance, sources 90% of its potash fertilizer from Canada.
"This will have a disproportionate impact on border states," Hale said, but he added that the economic strain on Canadian regions like Ontario will be far greater.
Canadian leaders have already voiced concern that as many as 160,000 jobs could be lost in Quebec, along with another 500,000 jobs in Ontario, depending on how long the tariff dispute lasts.
Both Quebec and Ontario are two of the provinces expected to be among those hardest hit in Canada as they rely heavily on their steel and aluminum and lumber and forestry sectors for exports.
Canada could face a recession this year if it can’t rein in Trump’s tariff offensive, Oxford Economists first warned in a report last November.
Previous tariff wars between trading partners during the first Trump administration resulted in billions of dollars of losses for Americans and their foreign counterparts.
But Trump is banking on the U.S. being less severely affected than nations like Canada.
The full impact of the tariff war with Canada remains uncertain as Washington has also imposed steep tariffs on the European Union, China and Mexico. Trump has pledged to target the "Dirty 15," which are countries he accuses of contributing most to the U.S. trade deficit.
Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam are expected to be among those next targeted in Trump’s April 2 tariff announcement, which he has dubbed "liberation day."
Details on what Trump’s next steps in his tariff war with Canada and dozens of other nations remain unknown ahead of the April 2 deadline, which has created a sense of uncertainty, Hale said.
"Last week's Bureau of Economic Analysis Reports signaled a continued high core personal consumption expenditure PC inflation at 2.8%. So inflation, one could argue, is not coming down, and certainly price levels continue to rise," he said. "Consumer spending has slowed sharply in both Canada and the United States."
"Businesses want certainty. They can't make future investment decisions in this climate," he added, noting that while a recession could be on the horizon in Canada, there are too many variables to make a prediction on the U.S. at this time.
"What I do know is that businesses and banks, people who are investing in projects, want to be able to plan," Hale said. "Hopefully, we'll have a clear idea [on Tuesday] where this is all going to land, and then we can work with it."
MAHA mom and Sports Illustrated model Kristen Louelle Gaffney has been outspoken about her support for the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary.
Gaffney told Fox News Digital in an interview that she's excited for RFK Jr. to take a more active approach to healthcare, calling him the "white horse for moms."
She said the MAHA movement has created a community of Americans and parents who are "fed up with the system and seeing their kids sick, having diseases, behavioral issues and want to get to the common denominator of it."
Gaffney is married to Ty Gaffney, a former NFL running back.
The couple has three children.
"How can we live a proactive lifestyle to avoid things like dementia or cancer or any other diseases relating to behavioral or mental illnesses?" said Gaffney.
"What can we proactively do to be better so that it's not too late?"
The key to living longer, she said, lies in loving oneself by taking care of the mind, body, soul and the gut.
"Everything is connected. You have to follow your gut and heal your gut," Gaffney said.
"That's through food and supplementing as well," she said.
"I think a good supplement routine [is] staying active every day, getting sunlight and breathing fresh air. It really is a simple recipe, but the hard part is consistency."
Gaffney joked that after having three babies, she will never be in the same shape again, but said that healing begins on the inside and impacts other aspects of life.
"When I put in the work, I feel like a better person," she said. "I have more energy. I'm a better mom. I'm a better wife."
Gaffney said she stays as active as possible and always continues moving.
Gaffney is a big proponent of cooking at home for herself and her family.
"I think we overcomplicate things and think we need a chef and meal prep and expensive equipment. You just need to get sun and go walk outside for 20 minutes and cook your own dinner."
Gaffney said that when she is grocery shopping, she avoids seed oils and dyes, making sure to look at each label of products she is purchasing.
"I tell people, 'If you can't pronounce something on the ingredients, you should probably put it back," she advised.
Gaffney decided to lead the effort to combat ultra-processed foods by developing her own line of snacks for kids called Super True.
The chocolate chip brownie and peanut butter banana chocolate chip bars are gluten-free, non-GMO, free of dairy and artificial ingredients or dyes and colored by nature.
Each bar has protein and fiber — and is sweetened with monk fruit and Stevia extract.
Gaffney said it is critical to educate children about the different foods they are putting in their bodies.
"I always try to educate them [about] the 'why' instead of, 'No, you can't have soda.' [I say], 'No, you can't have soda because there's 60 grams of sugar in it and because that's going to lead to yucky cells growing in your body.'"
Bobby Sherman’s wife, Brigitte Poublon, shared a heartbreaking update about her husband.
In a phone interview with Fox News Digital, Poublon confirmed that Sherman is "terminally ill" and is currently "at home with special care."
Poublon previously shared in a Facebook post that the 81-year-old has stage 4 cancer, and she told Fox News Digital that it is kidney cancer that has "spread everywhere."
"He was doing crossword puzzles with me in the last few days. And then all of a sudden Saturday, he turned around and…he’s just sleeping more and his body's not working anymore. It's not. Everything's shutting down."
Sherman formally retired last year but was continuing to do autographs, "But now he can barely sign his name" and wants "to be left in peace" and spend time with his family and five dogs.
"His last words from the hospital last night were, ‘Brig, I just want to go home,’" Poublon said.
The outpouring of love and support from Sherman’s fans has "been overwhelming. A lot of them have been really great."
There’s also been the support of their friends, like John Stamos, who Poublon said is sending a personal message to Sherman via video "because I told him I don't recommend him come into the room where Bobby’s at right now."
Stamos and Sherman met when the "Full House" star was an ambassador for the Brigitte and Bobby Sherman Children’s Foundation a few years ago: "And we’ve been best friends ever [since]."
"John’s been very great about giving support the last few years too," Poublon added. The couple also met Lisa Marie Presley and Jerry Schilling, longtime friend of Lisa Marie’s dad, Elvis Presley.
Poublon shared a photo of Sherman, Stamos and Schilling together at a Los Angeles Rams game a few years ago, all three smiling and enjoying their time together.
Sherman, of course, has had his own incredible Hollywood career, which kicked off through a friendship with "Rebel Without a Cause" star Sal Mineo.
At a birthday party hosted by Mineo, Sherman sang "Happy Birthday" and was spotted by Jane Fonda and Natalie Wood, both of whom fell "in love with Bobby" and got him an agent, Poublon said.
That led to his first TV gig on the ABC series "Shindig!" as a house singer and cast member, a role he "really loved."
He also maintained a friendship with Wood.
"He was very good friends, actually, Natalie Wood. He was very, very upset what happened when she passed away. That was devastating for Bobby," his wife said.
Sherman made several records and landed his next big breakout part on the series "Here Come the Brides," also on ABC, the show that "put Bobby on the map."
"Fans went crazy with Bobby," Poublon said, noting he was still doing weekend concerts while starring in the show.
Eventually, the show ended, and he concentrated on more concerts, where he earned money with an unexpected bonus for the teen idol.
"Bobby thought [it] was hilarious because his fans were so young, they always did concerts at 12 o’clock noon or 4 o’clock because they were young kids, so he never did an evening concert, which made him very happy. Bobby was always a day person, not a night owl. But Bobby has a great sense of humor. Still, up to this day, he has a great sense of humor."
Sherman put his singing and acting career on hold and transitioned into working as a paramedic and later a technical reserve police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department and a reserve deputy sheriff with the San Bernadino County Sheriff’s Department.
Poublon said Sherman "gave his all" to public service, adding it was a "labor of love" for him.
The couple also founded the Brigitte and Bobby Sherman Children’s Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing education and meals to children in Ghana.
"It was always our dream to do something for a Third World country, because there's a lot of nonprofits out here," Poublon said. "But we wanted to do something special, and it's hard to reach people in Africa, so we opened up five and a half acres. We have a huge musical village with soup kitchens. We're serving over 375 meals a day; we're going to up that to 500. We have bought just two more brand-new vans. We have classrooms and computers and a music room and pavilions. We send them on field trips, we pay for the college tuition.
"But that's been our labor of love. Bobby’s never been able to make it, go to Africa. I was always worried about something being kind of sensitive back then," she added.
Sherman and Poublon have been together for years, and she admitted "I got to meet my teen idol crush!"
She was always a fan, recalling, "I just read about him. One time when I saw People magazine, [and there] was a picture of him, and with his friend, Fred Miller, at the time. And I saw that [and thought], ‘You know what? He sounds like a great person.’"
But she never got "celebrity-crazed because I try to avoid that issue, you know, and I have to like them for who they are, not because of celebrity status. That was not an issue with me at all, and I think that's what brought Bobby to me, the fact I wasn't celebrity-crazed at all."
They ended up meeting when Poublon’s brother threw her a 40th birthday, and he got in touch with Sherman’s manager. They became friends, and "he started helping with all my charity events, which was wonderful."
Poublon hopes Sherman will be celebrated by family, friends and fans for his legacy as a performer and a compassionate person while he's still here.
"I think it’s important that Bobby realizes the impact he left on the world, the music he left behind, the TV series he left behind, but mostly, too, his love for caring about people, being a paramedic, a cop," she said. "I want to have him realize how many people he really influenced, how he touched lives."
She continued, "From reading all the fan mail, how people were desperate at age 7 or 8 through abuse and all kinds of background family issues, he got them through some hard times growing up, so I want Bobby to realize how much his fans mean to him."
Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip is expanding to "crush" the area of Hamas terrorists and seize "large areas," Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday.
Katz said in a statement that the military operation was "expanding to crush and clean the area of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure and seizing large areas that will be added to the security zones of the State of Israel."
Israel's security perimeter, which runs along the border with Israel in northern and eastern Gaza, has been used for decades as a way to protect its citizens residing near the territory.
It is unclear which areas of Gaza will be seized in the expanded operation, which Katz says includes the "extensive evacuation" of people from areas where fighting is happening.
The minister called on Gaza's population to "expel Hamas and return all hostages." The terror group still has 59 hostages, including 24 who are believed to still be alive. Most of the other captives were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.
"This is the only way to end the war," Katz said.
The Hostage Families Forum, which represents most of the hostages’ families, said it was "horrified to wake up this morning to the Defense Minister's announcement about expanding military operations in Gaza."
The Israeli government "has an obligation to free all 59 hostages from Hamas captivity — to pursue every possible channel to advance a deal for their release," the group said, emphasizing that every passing day puts the captives' lives at increased risk.
"Their lives hang in the balance as more and more disturbing details continue to emerge about the horrific conditions they’re being held in — chained, abused, and in desperate need of medical attention," the group said.
"Our highest priority must be an immediate deal to bring ALL hostages back home — the living for rehabilitation and those killed for proper burial — and end this war," it added.
The forum also called on the Trump administration and other mediators to "continue exerting pressure on Hamas for the immediate release of our loved ones."
"Our highest priority must be an immediate deal to bring ALL hostages back home—the living for rehabilitation and those killed for proper burial—and end this war," the group said.
Israel continued to attack the Gaza Strip, including with overnight airstrikes that killed 17 people in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to hospital officials.
Officials at the Nasser Hospital said the bodies of 12 people killed in an overnight airstrike were brought to the hospital, including five women — one of whom was pregnant — and two children. Officials at the Gaza European Hospital said five bodies of people killed in two separate airstrikes were taken to the hospital.
The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israel, killing around 1,200 people and abducting 251 others.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, including hundreds killed in airstrikes since a ceasefire ended about two weeks ago, according to the Hamas-run government's Gaza Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and terrorists. Israel claims, without offering evidence, that it has killed roughly 20,000 terrorists in the war.
A vote to decide whether the tush push will be outlawed from the NFL has been pushed until May.
At the annual league meetings on Tuesday, NFL team owners agreed to table the vote on a proposal to ban the play that became the Philadelphia Eagles' calling card over the past couple of seasons.
The postponement means debates over the play will rage on as teams and the league gather more information. Tush push proponents have presented arguments on why the play should continue to be part of the game, while those who oppose it have made a case for getting rid of it.
While the tush push, also colloquially referred to as the "Brotherly Shove," is safe for the time being, Eagles offensive lineman Lane Johnson sent a clear message to critics.
The six-time Pro Bowler suggested any team that took issue with the play was jealous. "Hate us cause they ain't us!" Johnson wrote on X Tuesday.
While other teams have adopted similar versions of the tush push over the past couple of seasons, none have successfully run it like the Eagles. Philadelphia's offensive line as well as quarterback Jalen Hurts' lower-body strength seem to create the perfect formula for the short-yardage play.
The Eagles used a pair of emojis on X as they appeared to chime in amid the latest tush push chatter.
The spotlight was placed on the tush push during the NFC Championship game when Washington Commanders players intentionally jumped offsides to try and stop the play.
While the NFL has said it has not gathered enough data to conclude that the tush push is an inherently dangerous play, some coaches and others around the league continue to have health and safety concerns.
Eagles owner Jeffery Lurie addressed those concerns at the annual meetings.
"I think for everybody, including myself especially – health and safety is the most important thing when evaluating any play," Lurie said. "We've been very open to whatever data exists on the Tush Push, there's just been no data that shows that it isn't a very, very safe play. If it weren't, we wouldn't be pushing the Tush Push."
A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating funding for legal counsel for unaccompanied migrant minors.
Appointed by former President Joe Biden, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday that will stop the Trump administration from ending the funding while the merits of the underlying case play out.
The Trump administration on March 21 terminated a contract with the Acacia Center for Justice, which provides legal services for unaccompanied migrant children under 18 through a network of legal aid groups that subcontract with the center. Eleven subcontractor groups sued, saying that 26,000 children were at risk of losing their attorneys; Acacia is not a plaintiff.
Those groups argued that the government has an obligation under a 2008 anti-trafficking law to provide vulnerable children with legal counsel.
In her Tuesday order, Martínez-Olguín said that advocates had raised legitimate questions about whether the administration violated the 2008 law, warranting a return to the status quo while the case continues.
"The Court additionally finds that the continued funding of legal representation for unaccompanied children promotes efficiency and fairness within the immigration system," she wrote.
It is the third legal setback in less than a week for the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, though all may prove temporary as the lawsuits advance.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 created special protections for migrant children who cannot navigate a complex immigration system on their own. Plaintiffs said some of their clients are too young to speak and others are too traumatized and do not know English.
Defendants, which include the Department of Health and Human Services and its Office of Refugee Resettlement, said that taxpayers have no obligation to pay the cost of direct legal aid to migrant children at a time when the government is trying to save money.
Acacia is under a new contract with the government to provide legal orientations, including "know your rights" clinics.
The plaintiffs said they are not asking for the contract to be restored but instead want a return to the status quo – which is spending $5 billion that Congress appropriated so children have representation, Karen Tumlin with the Justice Action Center said at a court hearing Tuesday.
Jonathan Ross with the Department of Justice said the government is still funding legally required activities, such as the "know your rights" clinics, and that legal clinics can offer their services without charge.
"They're still free to provide those services on a pro bono basis," he said.
Martinez-Olguin’s order takes effect Wednesday morning and will last until at least April 16.
The billion-dollar diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) industry has infiltrated every sector of society, from corporate boardrooms to government agencies. In the public sector, it has morphed into a boondoggle, funneling taxpayer dollars into products and programs aimed at indoctrinating Americans under the guise of progress. A recent X post by Secretary Brooke Rollins at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) exemplifies this overreach, exposing how the Biden administration politicized even the most basic agricultural resources — seeds — turning them into vehicles for DEI propaganda.
Rollins recently posted an image of USDA tomato seed packets found behind a door emblazoned with the words, "These seeds are for growing, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility at USDA." With the seeds were decorative note cards that stated: "If You Can Be Anything, Be Inclusive At USDA."
The DEI seed initiative seems to have been an outgrowth of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 13985, signed in January 2021, which mandated equity action plans across federal agencies. Biden’s EO was issued to encourage workers to seek ways of embedding DEI into their agencies. It no doubt is responsible for much government waste, and, as Rollins said, "There will be no more American taxpayer dollars spent on DEI initiatives or #WOKESEEDS at the @USDA."
In the meantime, farmers dependent on USDA to focus on its mission suffered along with other Americans. According to data gleaned from the U.S. Bureau of Labor, while farmers grappled with real challenges — food inflation surged 23.5% between February 2020 and May 2023, and fertilizer prices spiked 300% in 2022 — the USDA diverted resources to ideological endeavors.
The department’s agenda ranged from items such as the seeds to a study with the claim, "It is also important to recognize that transgender men and people with masculine gender identities, intersex and non-binary persons may also menstruate." The result? Wasted taxpayer money and propaganda infiltrating even the seeds meant to grow America’s food supply.
This isn’t just about a waste of taxpayer dollars; it’s a betrayal of public trust. During Biden’s tenure, farmers faced supply chain disruptions and regulatory burdens, yet the USDA prioritized DEI initiatives over practical support like securing food supply chains or reducing red tape.
The absurdity of DEI seed packets — some users even questioned if they could be used to grow tomatoes — underscores the overreach of the previous administration’s woke agenda. A 2025 White House directive, which terminated all "Equity Action Plans" and related grants, labeled such initiatives as "immense public waste" and discriminatory, aligning with Rollins’ move to end this spending at the USDA. This policy shift, reinforced by the America First Investment Policy introduced in February 2025, redirects resources to agricultural innovation, not ideological agendas.
The USDA’s DEI seeds are a microcosm of a larger problem: the billion-dollar DEI industry has overstepped, using taxpayer dollars to push propaganda at the expense of practical governance. Rollin’s approach is balanced and practical. USDA should focus on food security over symbolic gestures like DEI seeds. Rollins’ decision to expose the waste and reassure Americans of her commitment to running a responsible Department of Agriculture is a healthy signal of a return to accountability that will ensure that taxpayer dollars support American farmers, not ideological indoctrination.
Ferreting out wasted funds that undergirded the politicized agendas of the Biden administration sends a strong message to other federal agencies that they too need to closely examine their agencies. This should guarantee that commonsense and accountability are working together to ensure that legally prohibited, divisive DEI initiatives are being brought into alignment with civil rights laws and constitutional protections.
At a congressional hearing last week, National Public Radio (NPR)’s CEO Katherine Maher opened with this: "I welcome the opportunity to discuss the essential role of public media in bringing unbiased, nonpartisan, fact-based reporting to Americans."
I suspect Maher did not welcome the opportunity at all — she was on the hot seat. Maher, who became NPR’s CEO in 2023, is as woke as they come and has in the recent past railed against Trump, "white silence," and "whiteness" in general.
At her hearing, she also told Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that she has "never seen any instance of political bias determining editorial decisions" at NPR.
I am sure Maher does not for a second believe that NPR is non-partisan. Its bias is as obvious as the nose on Big Bird’s face.
The Washington Post wrote that "NPR has struggled for many years to diversify its audience and provide alternative perspectives." Paul du Quenoy of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute describes NPR as a "radical leftist, government-subsidized news source."
While NPR once served as a source of wide-ranging news stories of general interest to a broad swathe of Americans, it now embodies wokeness on air.
Take it from Uri Berliner, who worked there for 25 years. In a sad summary of the network’s decline in the Free Press, he wrote that "those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find…the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population."
Take it from Heritage Foundation scholar Mike Gonzalez, who testified during the same congressional hearing about "NPR’s and PBS’s naked and full-hearted embrace of very progressive views."
This is not just evident from their coverage of Covid, "Russiagate," or Hunter Biden’s laptop. A Media Research Service analysis of four months of NPR coverage showed that PBS News Hour routinely books liberal over conservative guests at a nearly 4 to 1 ratio.
It’s become a joke among conservatives to tune in to NPR and see how long it is before some aspect of woke is featured. Players of this game — "How long till woke?" — report that it takes no more than five minutes before the story angle takes a liberal tilt.
Nowhere is NPR’s left-wing bias more evident than in their coverage of immigration.
Listen to this radio bit from NPR’s Steve Inskeep from 2015. Inskeep is clearly sympathetic to "Junior," the "undocumented" young man being profiled. Fair enough. But the reporter, who now earns nearly half a million dollars a year, never noted that there were opponents of President Obama’s granting an immigration benefit (with no legal authority) through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
A decade later, things are the same. Listen to this radio bit titled Immigration officers are becoming 'extreme' in how they vet travelers entering the U.S. from March 23, where NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe interviews Michelle Hackman from the Wall Street Journal.
Rascoe and Hackman complain that Customs and Border Protection officials are being more particular about enforcing the rules for visa-holders. But after four years of open borders, it’s understandable that the line officers want to sweat the details now that they have support from above.
Then there’s this March 25 NPR article, Felt like a kidnapping': Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal. The article is about a Guatemalan family that NPR describes as "immigrants in the U.S. without illegal status"—a roundabout way of saying "illegal immigrants."
NPR’s bias for the family and against the enforcement of immigration laws is clear. They interview "lawyers" and "experts" and "advocates" who tell them that "the Trump administration is bending the rules on immigration enforcement in its efforts to carry out a historic deportation campaign and immigration crackdown."
For the article, NPR did not interview any experts who support the enforcement of immigration laws. The one elected official they cited was Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat congresswoman from Michigan and implacable opponent of President Trump.
I am a retired consular officer. I have written nearly 200 articles and reports on immigration and border security and done around 300 media interviews. Media from all over the U.S. and in Britain, Europe, and Japan have interviewed me or featured my work. Not once has NPR asked me to comment on a story.
Google "NPR border" or "NPR immigration," and their bias is beyond doubt. Says one article: "How Trump’s crackdown plays into misperceptions about immigrants and crime." Here’s my favorite, from April 2024: "Despite a fortified border, migrants will keep coming, analysts agree. Here's why." That’s a good one, because in April 2024, 247,929 illegal aliens were encountered at our borders and ports. In February 2025, after one month of Trump’s policies instead of Biden’s, it was 28,654.
NPR’s globalist bias led them to assume the U.S. could or should do nothing to stop illegal mass migration. They were wrong.
Maher tried to convince Congress that NPR is unbiased and bipartisan, against all evidence. She wants to keep the half billion dollars in annual subsidies. But as Congressman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in the hearing, this is not 1990 — most Americans today have broadband, podcasts, and a huge range of news and every other type of program.
The state should not subsidize media, on principle. When it does, from the Soviet Union’s Pravda and Cuba’s state-owned Granma to Australia’s ABC, Canada’s CBC, and the United Kingdom’s BBC, a leftist viewpoint is always the result.
Getting into the groove of living a healthy lifestyle — from consistent exercise to a balanced diet — can sometimes feel like a heavy lift.
Dr. John Whyte, WebMD chief medical officer in New York, recently spoke with Fox News Digital in an on-camera interview about the power of proper nutrition for healthy living.
"Food really is medicine," he said. "It's as powerful as a prescription drug. It impacts every system of your body."
"We drink so many calories through sugary and sweetened beverages," he said.
Especially as the weather warms, indulgent drinks like sweetened lemonade or iced tea might taste delicious but have "a lot of calories," the doctor cautioned.
"You really want to replace those calorie-rich liquids with water," he said. "That's going to help you lose weight, and it's going to keep your blood sugar under control."
When deciding what to have for meals throughout the week, Whyte recommended replacing meat with fish at least one day per week.
Only 20% of people eat fish once a week, although the health benefits are major, according to the doctor.
"Replacing meat with fish — automatically it’s going to be fewer calories," he said.
"It's going to have many more nutrients and minerals that your body needs. It's going to help with antioxidants, which are a good thing."
For those who might not enjoy eating fish, Whyte encouraged giving it a try, as there are a variety of "healthy fish" that can be cooked in different ways.
"It really is a superfood, and that's an easy step that people can take," he said.
Weight gain can often occur due to "mindless" snacking, which often involves unhealthy options, according to Whyte.
"You buy foods that you're trying to avoid, so we have to stop doing that," he said.
The doctor suggested swapping out common snacks like chips and cookies for healthier choices like sliced vegetables and hummus.
"Try to focus on some unsalted mixed nuts," he recommended. "Prepare those healthy snacks so you have them."
Another key step to healthy eating is preparation, Whyte added.
"When you're hungry, you eat what's available," he said. "So, if you have more healthy options at home, you're more likely to eat them."
As the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has the nation re-evaluating what people are consuming, Whyte agreed that there are "lots of things that we need to be doing in order to make food healthier."
"There's so much food that we consume that's processed and, even more concerning, ultraprocessed," he said.
"It often seems to be more convenient. It's cheaper, it lasts longer," he went on. "And sometimes, I'm concerned about how long some of these foods last. What's in them that's allowing them to stay in your pantry for a couple of years?"
As an example, Whyte referenced "blue zones," areas of the world where people live to be 100 and have a low incidence of dementia and heart disease.
Residents in blue zones eat a primarily plant-based, whole-foods diet, he noted.
"They're not eating a lot of processed cookies, meats or snacks," he said.
"And that's where I think we need to have this important discussion as to how we have more healthy food. How do we make it more available? How do we make it economical for people?"
To decipher whether food is healthy or not, Whyte encouraged people to check food labels and note how many ingredients are unrecognizable.
"We need to move to this concept [of] more whole foods, foods that are less processed," he said. "That's going to make us healthier."
Pro-Trump writer Batya Ungar-Sargon offered some skepticism that Vice President JD Vance will take on the MAGA mantle from President Donald Trump, suggesting a "gap" between the two of them on policy could be a hurdle for the VP down the road.
"I don't think it's JD. I know everybody else does. I'm just not sure," Ungar-Sargon told Fox News Digital in an interview.
"I don't like to make predictions because I'm always wrong," she said. "And I'm for sure wrong about this because everybody else thinks that he's going to be a shoo-in. But I really think that there are certain issues where it's very clear that he and President Trump are not on the same page. And I just wonder if those gaps are going to become, you know, smaller or wider."
Ungar-Sargon pointed to Trump's own comments during his sit-down with Fox News' Bret Baier during the Super Bowl interview last month when he was asked whether he viewed Vance as his successor in 2028.
"No, but he's very capable," Trump responded to Baier. "I think you have a lot of capable people. So far, I think he's doing a fantastic job. It's too early. We're just starting."
"I think the fact that President Trump has been unwilling to say, ‘Yes, he is my heir apparent’ despite choosing him as VP when he was asked point blank, he said no… but I guess we'll see," Ungar-Sargon reacted.
The journalist praised the GOP's "deep bench" of potential candidates, particularly the "young talent," including 40-year-old Vance.
"I think JD is totally brilliant and I think he has a very bright future ahead of him. I'm just not sure if he is the inheritor of this movement," Ungar-Sargon said.
When asked what issues she thought Vance and Trump weren't aligned on, Ungar-Sargon called abortion the most significant one that Vance needs to pivot towards his boss.
"I saw [Vance] giving a speech… and he kept talking about the unborn," Ungar-Sargon recalled. "I know that there's a huge segment of the right who really identifies with that issue. And I, of course, admire and respect that. I just think that that's not enough to win. And I think that there's a lot of Americans kind of much more in the middle on this issue who really appreciate President Trump's approach."
The Free Press columnist credited Trump for having "neutralized" abortion as a political issue during the 2024 election, citing a recent poll showing Americans not listing abortion among top issues.
"And people will say, 'Oh, that's because it's not an important issue to Americans.' And I would say to them, no. It's because President Trump neutralized it, because he told Americans, ‘I feel about it the way that you do,'" she said. "That's a real danger zone for the GOP going forward."
Vance's standing appears to be strong among the GOP base. As Ungar-Sargon noted, he trounced all other Republicans in the straw poll conducted at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last month, earning a whopping 61% support among attendees.
That said, she speculated that a member of Trump's cabinet could emerge as a "dark horse," including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was notably a former GOP rival of Trump's during the 2016 election, as well as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Fox News' Annie McCuen contributed to this report.
The March 18, 2025, dump of the JFK assassination documents has been another bust. We learn that they had remained unreleased to cover up the CIA’s extensive undercover operations at home and abroad. Relatively few of the files deal with the JFK assassination itself.
We should not have expected a smoking gun anyway. Underreported has been the fact that the JFK documents have long been open to researchers in NARA’s nearby Maryland facility. How much time have conspiracists spent there, I wonder?
With hope of a decisive smoking gun having expired, it is time to revisit the millions of words of testimony contained in the Warren Report of 1964 and its subsequent releases and to data collections organized by assassination enthusiasts. It is time to give up on flimsy tales of whispered conversations, conspiratorial meetings, supposed deathbed confessions and the like to answer three questions:
First, did Oswald have the skill, resources, motive and killer instinct to kill JFK? In my book, "The Oswalds," I answer this question in a resounding affirmative. I refer the reader to my arguments.
Second question: Was Oswald’s crouching at the sixth-floor window on Nov. 22, 1963, the result of a coordinated planned assassination or of chance and coincidence?
Third, was Jack Ruby’s killing of Oswald in the basement of Dallas Police headquarters the product of coincidental events or of planned and coordinated efforts to remove Oswald from the scene?
If Oswald were guided by a sinister force inimical to JFK or the United States (Cuba, USSR, the Mafia or CIA?), he would have to be given his marching orders at some point. In the months and weeks leading up to Nov. 22, Oswald was in New Orleans, where he recruited on street corners for Castro. He netted zero recruits and a night in jail.
Next, we find him on a bus to Mexico City in pursuit of a Cuban transit visa. Despite his claims in an earlier letter to the Soviet Washington embassy, Oswald had no desire to return to the USSR. His application for a USSR visa was simply a means to a new life in Cuba. Surely Cuba would be indebted to him for his work in New Orleans.
In Mexico City, Oswald contacted the Cuban and Soviet embassies, two of the suspected contractors of the Dallas assassination. According to various conspiracy theories, the Cuban and Soviet embassies were the conduits of Oswald’s assassination orders, most likely Mexico.
In Mexico City, he made one visit and placed a wiretapped telephone call to the Soviet embassy. (All entrants to the Soviet facility were photographed with a hidden camera.) His visit to the Cuban embassy reverted to a shouting match when the consular official denied his transit visa. The crestfallen Oswald returned by bus to Dallas. Within weeks he would be arrested in Dallas on charges of killing the president.
If Oswald shot JFK on instructions and orders of Cuba and/or the USSR, it remains unclear what role their instructions to Oswald could have played. Oswald already had tested his mail-order rifle in his narrow miss of Gen. Edwin Walker in his Dallas home. When Oswald was in Mexico City, there was no known plan for JFK to be in Dallas.
Any escape by Oswald from the future crime scene would have been (by Oswald’s practice) by city bus, not in a getaway vehicle supplied by his puppet masters. It was not until the evening before the assassination that JFK’s route was even known. (Oswald got his book depository job from a neighbor, again well before any planned trip by JFK to Texas.)
Oswald carried out a low-tech assassination that did not require the help of Cuba or the USSR. Doing the assassination "in his way" is a striking illustration of how the "loner" Oswald operated. It also shows Oswald as a classic "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" kind of guy.
Texas and Minsk had been disappointing. No one recognized his genius. It was time to move on and the one place that would welcome him was Castro’s Cuba, so thought Oswald. Oswald remained intent on Cuba even after his disappointment in Mexico City. He continued to badger the USSR Washington embassy for his visa, that is until he learned that the president would pass under his window.
Jack Ruby led the life of a minor Mafia figure. He had few friends, and a bad temper. According to the various conspiracy theories, Ruby was tapped by assassination puppeteers (the Mafia?), to eliminate Oswald before he could spill the beans (on whom?). Ruby was known to the Dallas police, which would have given him a slim opening to kill Oswald.
If Ruby was part of a (Mafia) plan to silence Oswald, the plan had a glaring flaw. Oswald had been interrogated nonstop in police headquarter since late afternoon of Nov. 22. There was no way for the puppet masters to know how long Oswald would hold out under intense questioning. Despite his call for a lawyer, he had no legal advice.
Dallas police planned Oswald’s transfer to the city jail meticulously with officers stationed in every nook and cranny, but they made a fatal mistake. They had to use the ramp into basement parking to admit the armored car that would take Oswald to the city jail. The passerby Ruby simply walked down the ramp in time to fire into Oswald’s stomach.
With the murder of Oswald by Ruby, could the puppet masters breathe easily? Oswald was gone, but Ruby, whose death sentence was commuted to life, would live another five years to die of natural causes and no hint of a conspiracy. Ruby did not change his story throughout this period. His motive (declared upon receiving word that Oswald had died) was that he could not let Oswald "get away with it." And he needed to show that "Jews have guts." He also testified that he wanted to spare Jackie the trauma of an Oswald trial.
So, have we reached a dead end? Will a strong majority continue to believe that the president of the United States was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald, a troubled misfit in a vast conspiracy guided by domestic or foreign enemies?
The public’s rejection of the 1964 Warren Report’s conclusion that Oswald acted alone ushered in an era of distrust in government which continues to flourish and even intensify to the detriment of our nation. Let’s finally say the truth: Oswald did it and did it alone.
Rick Harrison found hope in the Trump administration after losing his son, Adam, to a fentanyl overdose one year ago.
The "Pawn Stars" boss praised President Donald Trump for taking steps to shut down the border and prevent criminal activity. Two days after Trump took his second oath of office, the president issued an executive order suspending migrants from crossing the southern border.
Adam Harrison died in January 2024 due to "fentanyl and methamphetamine toxicity," Clark County, Nevada, coroners confirmed to Fox News Digital at the time. His manner of death was ruled an accident. He was 39.
"Closing the border was absolutely amazing," Harrison exclusively told Fox News Digital. "That's where … that's where it's all coming from."
Harrison also issued a stern warning to perpetrators caught selling the narcotic. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Fentanyl can be sold alone or combined with other drugs to make them cheaper.
"I want anyone selling fentanyl to go to jail for the rest of their life," Harrison said. "They're selling poison. They're killing people. I think it's every 11 minutes someone dies from fentanyl in this country."
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He added, "It's just horrific, and something has to be done about it. If you make the punishment for selling it so bad, it'll probably still be out there to some degree, but a lot of it'll go away. Close up the borders, you know, really start cracking down on these countries that are letting people manufacture it there."
After Adam's death, Harrison remembered Trump calling to offer his condolences.
"I was kind of a train wreck at the time. I'll be completely honest," Harrison said. "I don't remember the conversation that well. I mean, I was really bad for a week."
The reality star recalled Trump telling him that his administration was going to "do what we can" to stop the fentanyl crisis.
"I believed him – just look at the border now," Harrison said. "Border crossings are down 98% or something like that. It was just coming across the border like crazy, and like, we just need to crack down."
The longtime TV star has thwarted his own political ambitions, but he admitted he might be ready for a new gig.
"I keep on thinking about it," he said of the idea of running for office. "Eventually, probably, I will. But I'm really enjoying life right now."
The reality star proposed to fiancée Angie Polushkin in March after dating for more than a year.
He added, "I can't change the world, but maybe I can make it a little bit better. And so I do a lot of charity work, things like that. But maybe I'll run for office."
In an incident report obtained by the New York Post, Adam had reportedly been behind bars for months before moving into a guesthouse in the Las Vegas area, where he was found dead.
While Adam was not featured on "Pawn Stars," he reportedly worked at the shop and in the family business.
"Pawn Stars" debuted in 2009 and still airs today. The premiere date for season 23 has yet to be released.
NPR's news coverage was thrown into the spotlight last week after CEO Katherine Maher faced a grilling from GOP lawmakers about the outlet's coverage of important stories amid a debate about its public funding.
Maher was grilled by Congress as she tried to defend the outlet against Republican accusations and calls for its defunding. Maher conceded that NPR botched coverage of Hunter Biden's laptop, expressed regret about remarks she made about President Donald Trump before she ran the outlet, and was grilled on bias at her organization.
DOGE Subcommittee Chair Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., invited Maher and PBS News CEO Paula Kerger to testify about what Greene called their "blatantly ideological and partisan coverage."
Trump has repeatedly advocated for yanking federal funding for NPR and PBS, saying in late March, "I'd be honored to see it end. We're well covered. Look at all the people that we have here today. We're well covered, and we don't need it, and it's a waste of money especially."
Rhetoric from former NPR editor Uri Berliner, who famously called out the outlet's liberal bias, specifically in covering key stories, while he was still working there in an essay for The Free Press in April 2024, was often cited during the DOGE Subcommittee hearing.
An NPR spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik had the unique assignment of covering the hearing that put his boss directly in Republican crosshairs.
"There was nothing that was so inherently viral that it blotted out all the other stories… it wasn’t as though major networks spent hours rehashing this. This was going to be a bit of a drubbing, and they kind of took their lumps but they also pushed back and respectfully indicated the ways in which they feel that public broadcasting writ large and their networks in particular are important for civic society in America," Folkenflik said on Boston Public Radio.
Folkenflik said that NPR would survive being defunded by the federal government, but he is concerned about local stations in rural areas that provide critical news and information for free. The longtime media reporter, who notes in every story about his employer that "no NPR corporate official or news executive reviewed this story before it was posted publicly," believes public media is important because it is "not fueled by corporate agendas," and is both vital and open to criticism.
"People can sometimes question our story judgment, people may sometimes be right to question this news judgment or that news judgment, that’s all fair game. We do it, it’s there for public consumption and criticism," Folkenflik said.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, last week reintroduced the No Partisan Radio and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act to eliminate all federal funding for both NPR and PBS.
"For decades, radical Democrats have funneled taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS under the guise of 'serving the public,' despite both organizations abandoning their founding missions to provide non-biased content and instead promoting the same radical-left propaganda as any other fake news outlet," Jackson said when announcing the bill.
"If these organizations want to push partisan agendas, they do not deserve another dime of federal support," Jackson continued.
The conservative Media Research Center's Curtis Houck said the efforts to defund NPR are strong and organized.
"While there certainly have been efforts in the past to defund NPR that failed to reach the finish line, this current push is undoubtedly the strongest, most organized, and focused campaign. There’s buy-in from members of Congress, a public repulsed by its bias, a recognition it’s outlived its need in this world of high-speed internet and a fractured media landscape, and research showing it fails to represent and respect all Americans," he told Fox News Digital.
Here are some of NPR's most-criticized stories.
After the New York Post first covered Hunter Biden's laptop in 2020, NPR was among several outlets that dismissed the reporting, as the outlet released a statement at the time that read, "We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions."
At the time, NPR public editor Kelly McBride addressed a listener's question about the news outlet's blackout of coverage. She said the Post's reporting had "many, many red flags," including its potential ties to Russia, and the assertions within the story weren't significant.
Berliner said in his essay that the outlet turned a blind eye to the laptop story.
"The timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched. During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump," Berliner wrote.
The laptop was eventually confirmed to be authentic.
Maher conceded during the congressional hearing that they failed to cover the story more aggressively.
"I do want to say that NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner," Maher told Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, of the story, which broke before she took NPR.
Berliner also took aim at NPR's DEI practices in his April 2024 essay, repeatedly citing former NPR CEO John Lansing, who stepped down in 2023.
An article published by NPR in September 2020 declared DEI "is not a project: it is our work," with Lansing stating, "the leaders in public media — starting with me — must be aware of how we ourselves have benefitted from white privilege in our careers. We must understand the unconscious bias we bring to our work and interactions. And we must commit ourselves — body and soul — to profound changes in ourselves and our institutions."
According to Berliner, Lansing "declared" that diversity of NPR's staff and audience was "the overriding mission, the ‘North Star’ of the organization" and that race and identity had "became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace."
NPR editor-in-chief Edith Chapin sent a memo to staff after Berliner published his essay, saying she and her leadership team colleagues "strongly disagree" with Berliner's essay and are "proud to stand behind the exceptional work" of their journalists.
Berliner sounded the alarm on NPR's reliance on interviews with Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who was an influential member of the House of Representatives at the time, for its coverage of Russiagate.
Berliner said the 2016 election quickly encouraged NPR journalists to find ways to "damage or topple" Trump's presidency, saying that the narrative that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the White House "became the catnip that drove reporting" and that "we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff."
A Fox News Digital review found at least 32 interviews Schiff gave to the taxpayer-backed outlet between Dec. 11, 2016, and July 24, 2019, all involving some aspect of Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the sprawling investigation into whether the Trump campaign illicitly coordinated with it.
Berliner noted that after Special Counsel Robert Mueller released his report that found there was no evidence behind Schiff's collusion claims, "NPR’s coverage was notably sparse" and "Russiagate quietly faded from our programming."
NPR ran multiple pieces in April 2020 dismissing the lab leak notion, painting it as a debunked conspiracy theory embraced by the right for political purposes.
"Scientists dismiss the idea that the coronavirus pandemic was caused by the accident in a lab. They believe the close interactions of people with wildlife worldwide are a far more likely culprit," NPR senior correspondent Geoff Brumfiel wrote to introduce the published transcript of a segment that aired on radio at the time.
Berliner said in his bombshell essay that they weren't allowed to explore the lab-leak theory, which has been deemed the likely cause of the virus by the FBI, the CIA and the Department of Energy.
"Over the course of the pandemic, a number of investigative journalists made compelling, if not conclusive, cases for the lab leak. But at NPR, we weren’t about to swivel or even tiptoe away from the insistence with which we backed the natural origin story," he wrote.
Berliner wrote that one of his colleagues on the science team was asked why they were so dismissive of the theory and that his response was "odd."
"The colleague compared it to the Bush administration’s unfounded argument that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, apparently meaning we won’t get fooled again. But these two events were not even remotely related. Again, politics were blotting out the curiosity and independence that ought to have been driving our work," the former NPR editor wrote.
Less than 1% of NPR's funding comes directly from the federal government, though other funding comes indirectly from grants and dollars allocated to local member stations, who then pay fees back to NPR.
Fox News Digital's Joseph Wulfsohn, Rachel del Guidice and David Rutz contributed to this report.
Bodycam footage from the Waterbury Police Department shows suspected Connecticut child abuser Kimberly Sullivan denying that her stepson, who was allegedly locked in a storage closet in their home for 20 years, was imprisoned in the house.
According to the footage obtained by Fox News Digital, one of Sullivan's two daughters arrived at the scene shortly after authorities on Feb. 17, when police said her 32-year-old stepson set fire in the house to escape decades of captivity and abuse.
Sullivan's daughter picked her up in a black Acura, where they waited nearby as firefighters extinguished the blaze, and as Sullivan's unnamed stepson was rescued from the home.
In the footage, which is partially redacted, Sullivan, 56, explains to an officer what happened after the fire started.
She said that she thought the fire started from a TV her stepson plugged into the wall, and said that she came out of her bedroom when she smelled smoke and called out for him.
"I was trying to go into the room but it was just – there were just flames – he came out of the room, eventually woke up and came out of the room," she said.
Sullivan said that her son couldn't escape the room because there were flames, but that he must have walked through them eventually.
"Was the door locked on his room, or no?" the officer asked.
"No," Sullivan replied.
"OK, is it normally locked?" he asked.
"No," she answered.
"And he has free rein to go out of there whenever he wants?" the detective asked.
"Yeah," Sullivan said.
But police allege that Sullivan was lying during that exchange.
Sullivan was arrested on March 12 and charged with first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping, first-degree unlawful restraint, cruelty to persons and first-degree reckless endangerment. She is free on $300,000 bond, and pleaded not guilty to all charges on Friday.
According to an arrest warrant for Sullivan, the victim, identified as "Male Victim 1," was held in a windowless 8-foot by 9-foot storage closet with no air conditioning or heat and without access to a bathroom for 20 years. He was kept inside the closet 22-24 hours per day.
He was allowed two sandwiches and two small water bottles each day, one of which he would use for bathing. He disposed of his waste using water bottles and newspaper. The man weighed less than 70 pounds when first responders found him after the fire.
That warrant also says that Sullivan's stepson told them he set the fire on purpose, because he wanted his freedom.
Fox News Digital also obtained Sullivan's distraught 911 call reporting that her house was on fire.
LISTEN: Kimberly Sullivan calls 911 to report house fire
More bodycam footage shows a police officer arriving to the scene and yelling at an unidentified person through a window, telling the person to exit the home.
WATCH: Waterbury officer yells at person to exit burning home
In a heavily redacted portion of the bodycam footage, police officers can be seen standing outside the ambulance looking in at the victim, who is blurred and being tended to by a paramedic. When audio reemerges from the redaction, one officer tells another that the victim said he hadn't showered in a year.
WATCH: Kimberly Sullivan’s stepson interviewed by police in ambulance
Another video shows a frantic Sullivan asking to go back into the house to retrieve her purse and her keys, so she can put her dog inside her car.
WATCH: Kimberly Sullivan frantically asks to retrieve purse from burning home
Police previously released footage showing Sullivan's stepson being carried out of the home and into an ambulance.
Fox News Digital reached out to Sullivan's attorney Ioannis Kaloidis through a spokesperson.
As protests against Elon Musk's Tesla brand are sweeping the United States, one California man's sense of security is left shaken after a masked suspect was caught on camera defacing his family’s Tesla Cybertruck in the driveway of their home last weekend.
Jason Bedell, a 51-year-old working in property management, awoke to shattered glass after what seemed to be a attack turned his Cybertruck into the latest symbol of anti-Musk rhetoric sweeping the country.
"I have a 4-year-old son that was sleeping in the house at the time," Bedell said. "So, it's really unsettling that somebody came to my house to do this."
Bedell was one of the first people in Novato to buy a Tesla Cybertruck, and the vehicle arrived in February 2024. Bedell bought his first Tesla, a Model S, in 2015 and continues to drive it to this day.
When Musk first introduced the Cybertruck, Bedell fell in love with the unique look and the vehicle's features.
"I'm just such a fan of Tesla that I had to have one," Bedell said.
Bedell keeps the vehicle parked in the driveway of his home, where he lives with his wife and son. The house is located in a cul-de-sac with no through traffic, according to Bedell.
Last weekend, Bedell's family car turned into a target of a political protest.
"This person made a planned attack and came to my house and executed that plan," Bedell told Fox News Digital. "That's basically declaring war on me and my property."
Bedell was asleep in his Novato home when his security cameras detected a masked intruder in the early hours of Sunday morning. The individual appeared to case Bedell’s home before returning approximately an hour later with a concrete block and duct tape.
"They took one of the pieces of tape and covered up one of the multiple Ring cameras on my property," Bedell said. "They proceeded over to the Cybertruck, where they went around and quickly slashed all four of the tires. Then they went to the front of the truck, picked up a giant cement brick and threw it two or three times against the front windshield, smashing [it]."
The suspect quickly ran off, but not before leaving a note on one of the tires that said, "replace all tires, unsafe to drive."
The masked menace remains on the loose as Novato Police search for the offender in Bedell’s Cybertruck attack and a second suspect in another incident involving a Tesla vehicle, according to authorities.
The Novato Police Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for additional information.
The attack comes as anti-Musk protests rock the nation.
For Bedell, the issue isn’t political. It’s personal.
"It’s one thing if they did it to me at the store, at the bank or something like that," Bedell said. "But to launch a planned attack like this on my property is really scary."
The family’s Cybertruck was vandalized during an organized Global Day of Protest, when thousands of protesters took to the streets around the world to protest at Tesla showrooms, charging stations and properties where Teslas are located.
Bedell believes the timing was not a coincidence.
"I do believe the timing had something to do with this big weekend of protests," Bedell said.
Incidents involving Tesla vehicles have plagued the country as disgruntled protesters turn on the company to express their displeasure with Musk.
Earlier this week, a Colorado man was arrested and is facing federal charges for allegedly firebombing a Tesla dealership, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
"Let this be a warning – you can run, but you cannot hide," Bondi said in a video message. "Justice is coming."
On March 24, Kerri Pouliot shared surveillance footage of a man dragging a key across her family’s Cybertruck in a New Hampshire parking lot.
Two days later, a Las Vegas man was charged in an alleged Molotov cocktail attack that ignited at least five Tesla vehicles at a local collision center in mid-March.
After the recent string of violence, FBI Director Kash Pash launched a task force to investigate and prosecute offenders, vowing to bring protesters to justice.
"Director Patel has been unequivocally clear. The FBI will be relentless in its mission to protect the American people," the FBI said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Acts of violence, vandalism and domestic terrorism — like the recent Tesla attacks — will be pursued with the full force of the law."
President Donald Trump also weighed in on the Tesla vandalism, saying, "I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20-year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions."
To Bedell, the attack has uprooted his sense of community.
"It's not a political symbol. It's just a car," Bedell told Fox News Digital. "Most people bought these cars way before the election, way before Elon Musk, before any of this happened. It's not a political symbol. It has nothing to do with my political views. It's just a car. I'm trying to save the environment and be environmentally conscious, and now I'm getting backlash for it. It's just the wrong target for people’s hostilities, frustrations and anger."
Tesla did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Bedell is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the Cybertruck vandal’s arrest, a move he hopes will deter future offenders and show solidarity in his California community as he is left feeling "violated."
"I don't know if they're going to come back. I don't know what they're going to do," Bedell told Fox News Digital. "This person is dangerous. I'm sure I'm not the first person, and I'm not going to be the last person [they are] going to do it to. I am set on getting this person caught and making an example out of this person."
Fox News Digital's Preston Mizell contributed to this report.
Cody Rhodes and John Cena will meet at WrestleMania 41 with the Undisputed WWE Championship and the eyes of the pro wrestling world watching very carefully.
Cena won the men’s Elimination Chamber match and then aligned with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to become the antagonist in this story with Rhodes. Cena’s cheap shot of Rhodes kick-started the Massachusetts native’s quest for a record-breaking 17th world title.
For years, Cena has been the beloved baby face of WWE. He cultivated a major fan base with the younger audience and never once during the height of his career did he turn the other cheek. There were certainly times fans booed him and ridiculed him, but his character was always that of "hustle, loyalty and respect."
But his heel turn presented a completely new storyline in what is supposed to be his final year in pro wrestling. Rhodes told Fox News Digital before the most recent episode of "Monday Night Raw" in London that it feels like he’s squaring off against Cena for the first time.
"I look at a lot of stuff now, like John and my match at WrestleMania 41. I really look at it like it’s the first time ever," Rhodes said. "John was somebody who came in and, not right away, but he did find his footing quickly in terms of who John Cena was going to be, and he waved that flag and carried his brand very firmly, very in a disciplined manner for as long as he did. Really helped pull the wagon at WWE during a transitional period as well. I feel like he’s always been that John for me – good guy or bad guy. You needed to work as hard, if not harder, and you need to get to his level, otherwise he was going to step over you and then leave you in the dust."
Rhodes, who spoke to Fox News Digital on behalf of WWE’s partnership with Clash of Clans, said he never in his wildest dreams would have imagined a Cena heel turn.
"So, now, looking at the matchup, that’s why I say it feels like a first-time-ever for me, because early in my career, I hadn’t found my footing. I didn’t know who I was," he said. "And now, especially judging from these past several interactions in the ring, I feel like we do know who each other are now. … I couldn’t have put it in my wildest dreams that this would be a WrestleMania headline match and main event, especially under the circumstances it’s come under. But that’s the beautiful thing about pro wrestling; it’s too tough to call."
On the most recent "Monday Night Raw," Rhodes and Cena went face-to-face potentially for the final time before WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas.
The two pro wrestling superstars traded insults to start the show. But the face-off ended with Rhodes hitting his finishing maneuver, Cross Rhodes, on Cena and left him sprawled out in the middle of the ring.
It’s been said that the Duke of Sussex is tormented by his status as a royal "spare," which continues to dominate his life five years after his royal exit.
The term is a nod to the "heir and the spare," a phrase referring to the different destinies that have separated Harry and his older brother, Prince William, since birth, People magazine reported.
"Harry is obviously obsessed with being ‘the spare,’" royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams claimed to Fox News Digital.
"… Harry believes ‘the institution,’ as he calls the monarchy, had it in for him and Meghan Markle. The palace, he believes, briefed against him. His accusation that Queen Camilla was particularly ruthless in this regard was a red line for King Charles."
WATCH: PRINCE HARRY'S JABS AT QUEEN CAMILLA UNFORGIVABLE FOR KING CHARLES: EXPERT
Fitzwilliams’ claims came shortly after Ingrid Seward, royal author and editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, told The Daily Mail that the "spare" label took over Harry’s life "to the extent that he has now made a career out of it." It was famously the title of the royal’s 2023 memoir in which he exposed family rifts and secrets.
"He chooses to be the victim and wreak vengeance on the slights he thought he had suffered; on his family, on the press and through the courts," Seward told the outlet. "[It’s] how Harry chose to see himself."
The outlet also referred to royal author Tom Quinn’s new book, "Yes Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants." According to Quinn, senior palace courtiers once tried to explain to Harry that he was much better off than his brother because William would never be able to escape the pressures and responsibilities of being the future king. But sources claimed to Quinn that Harry couldn’t see this.
Royal author Robert Lacey previously told "Good Morning America" in 2020 that Harry’s unhappiness with being known as the royal "spare" continued to grow over the years. Lacey told the outlet it worsened when it became obvious that William and Kate were being prepped to take over the throne one day.
"The British royal system can be very cruel, and it's particularly cruel to the spare," said Lacey. "Harry came to realize… that he was typecast as the court jester, the No. 2."
But Christopher Andersen, author of "The King," told Fox News Digital there’s a good reason why the term continues to hurt the father of two.
"Harry was always in the shadow of his big brother, and it had a profound effect on his self-confidence — or lack thereof," Andersen explained.
"Within the royal family, the focus was always on William. Outside the royal family, the focus was always on William. If there was a social situation, or a ceremonial situation, or even a family get-together, Harry was shunted aside, and in many cases completely ignored… When these things happen to you beginning in infancy, obviously you're going to build up some resentment."
"… Anybody who doesn't think that Harry feels used and abused — and to some extent he undoubtedly was — isn't paying very close attention," Andersen added.
Andersen described how Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana, intervened when she realized that the prince was being cast aside.
"One particularly touching example occurred when the beloved Queen Mother had the brothers for tea at Clarence House and made Harry sit in a separate corner alone while she chatted with William," Andersen explained. "William was going to be king. William was the important one. The royal family traditionally has never been known for either its sensitivity or subtlety."
"Diana tried to change that… But frankly, Diana knew that Harry would have a tough row to hoe," Andersen shared.
"She hoped he could find his way and not be suffocated in the looming shadow of his big brother… Then, imagine how that was amplified by Diana's death just days before Harry's 13th birthday. It wasn't long before the adorable scamp was unfairly turned into a drug-using problem child. And as we know from Harry’s book, to some extent, that was engineered by the palace to make Charles and Camilla look good."
Royal expert Ian Pelham Turner told Fox News Digital that Harry struggled to find his way within the palace before he made his royal exit in 2020.
"In Harry, I feel he has had a passion to carry on Diana’s work," said Turner. "He [faced] frustration of not being able to work within the royal stranglehold of what he could and could not achieve. The military gave him one option, but deep down he knew he would not have the… influence of his brother William."
"The book ‘Spare’ was, in my view, a throwback to the restrictions he constantly came up against," he shared. "The final straw was him trying to be independent of the royal purse, but still carrying out his [duties]… whilst trying to protect [his wife] Meghan."
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex cited the U.K. media’s treatment of the former American actress as one of the main reasons for their decision to quit royal duties and move to California.
According to the Daily Mail, the 40-year-old appears to be content in "self-imposed exile" but wishes he could support his father, who is battling an undisclosed form of cancer.
Sources close to Harry previously told People magazine that his relationship with the king had deteriorated. They claim the monarch no longer takes his son’s calls or responds to his letters. It’s also believed that Harry and William aren’t speaking. Fox News Digital reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment at the time.
"Sadly, Prince Harry has gone from being the spare to the popular and globally significant heir to now spare to his unpopular wife," British royals expert Hilary Fordwich told Fox News Digital.
"Instead of embracing the role the royal family envisioned for him… he has chosen to view himself as a victim," Fordwich claimed. "He failed to embrace his significant role. Instead, he focused on perceived slights from his family, thereby embarrassingly failing to embrace his birthright privilege position."
"Being the spare has such greater freedom compared to Prince William, who faces intense scrutiny as the future monarch," Fordwich pointed out. "… Instead of counting his blessings, rejoicing in all his riches from his birthright, he chose to wallow in negativity, resulting in… being rejected by the public."
British broadcaster and photographer Helena Chard previously claimed to Fox News Digital that Harry still has remorse for the events leading up to his royal exit.
"When it comes to regrets, [the Duke and Duchess of Sussex] would be inhuman if they didn't feel slight regrets surrounding how they handled departing the U.K. to pastures new," said Chard.
"It will be Harry who has pangs of regret as service as part of the British royal family is all that he knew, and he will be missing certain aspects of his past life, namely the military culture and family unity," she shared.
"Meghan may wonder about what things could have been, but I believe she doesn't look back, is resolute with her decisions, and has little regret as she is not British," said Chard. "She doesn't have heartfelt ties to the royal family. She couldn't wait to get away!"
Harry’s book gave no sign that royal family relations would be repaired soon. Harry previously told ITV in an interview to promote the memoir that he wants reconciliation, but that there must be "accountability" first.
In the final pages, Harry described how he and William walked side by side during the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 but spoke barely a word to one another.
"The next day, Meg and I returned to the United States," he wrote.
One flyer said she recently encountered a seat squatter and claimed she was shamed for asking the person to move.
In the forum "r/delta" on Reddit, the post was titled "Man takes my window seat in lieu of his own window seat. On purpose."
"I boarded my 3 hour Delta flight towards the middle of boarding, yet still in flow with my zone. The entire time I’m thinking ‘I pray no one’s in my seat’! I’m seated in C+ (F) side which is a window seat - my personal preference," the post read.
The user said that once she approached her aisle, she spotted a man sitting in her seat.
"I reconfirm my seat assignment and politely say ‘Sir, I think you’re in my seat’ HE motions to with his hand towards the (A) window seat on the opposite side of the same aisle and says ‘Take that one,’" the user continued.
The user said that once she looked over at the man’s rightful seat, there was a "linebacker built" male sitting in the middle.
"I panned back at the "gentleman" and replied, ‘No, I’d like to take my seat if you don’t mind.' What he said next made me know he was calculated in his actions. He replied ‘Fine, if you want to make three men get up so you can sit here’ and huffed," said the post.
The user continued, "I didn’t say a word, I just stood there until one by one they started to shuffle and get up and move to allow me to sit in MY seat. The absolute nerve and ‘guilt’ attempt."
"The ‘make men move’ comment silently infuriated me! I knew immediately why he chose to ignore his seat and take the opposite window seat. He’d already decided he would make the poor sap to come along 'later' just take the remaining opposite window seat without question," the post said.
Reddit users took to the comments section to discuss the encounter.
"YOU’RE making three men move, not me," wrote one user.
"This entitlement will continue as long as people don't stand up for themselves. Well done," another user said.
"His actions made 'men have to move,’" one person commented.
"I don’t tolerate seat swaps. Period," said another user.
"The FA’s [flight attendants] rarely intervene," said one.
"I will never forget when something similar happened to me and my husband. The man in ten windows was UPSET my husband, the man, took the middle seat and even made a comment about how he should the aisle," another person commented.
Brandon Blewett, Texas-based author of the book "How to Avoid Strangers on Airplanes," told Fox News Digital that he sees more people encountering airplane seat squatters.
"Let the flight attendant handle it. Nobody wants to go viral in a reel titled, ‘Passenger meltdown at 30,000 feet,'" Blewett advised.
He said sitting in someone else’s seat can cause disruptions to an entire flight.
"[Squatter] encounters often lead to delays that often cascade, leading to missed connections and frustrated passengers throughout the cabin," Blewett added.
Blewett said one can usually figure out the difference between an incidental seat squatter and someone who is trying to self-upgrade if they are unwilling to show their boarding pass.
Jury selection kicked off Tuesday for the second trial of Karen Read, who is accused of murder and other charges for an alleged hit-and-run that left her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, dead in a blizzard in January 2022.
The 45-year-old's first trial ended with a hung jury, and the judge later rejected multiple requests to dismiss the case.
This time around, nearly half of the first group of potential jurors told the judge they already have an opinion on the case.
Read arrived at court around 8:55 a.m. Tuesday, wearing a gray pantsuit and carrying a water bottle. She gave a thumbs-up sign to supporters who greeted her on the courthouse steps.
Inside, her high-powered legal team is squaring off with a special prosecutor who previously defended the mobster Whitey Bulger.
Judge Beverly Cannone read the charges to more than 90 people in the first group of potential jurors and then kicked off questioning in a hearing that was largely closed to the public.
In the open portion, 76 members of the jury pool raised their hands to acknowledge they had heard of the case. Forty had already formed opinions. Sixteen said they had already had bias or prejudice for or against either the defense or the prosecution.
Two admitted they would have "difficulty" following the judge's instructions on the burden of proof, reasonable doubt, and the presumption of innocence for the defendant.
Another 36 told the court that sitting on the jury for weeks would cause them "substantial hardship."
Juror selection is expected to take days, and the trial itself could run for six to eight weeks, Cannone said.
Read is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and leaving the scene of a deadly accident in connection with O'Keefe's death on Jan. 29, 2022. He was 46 and found in the snow outside another police officer's house hours after a group of people went there for an after-party to cap off a night out drinking.
A nor'easter tore through the region that night, and an autopsy found he had died from trauma to the head and hypothermia. However, the medical examiner left the manner of death "undetermined."
Supporters both for and against Read frequently gathered outside the courthouse at her first trial and at other hearings.
Cannone told jurors Tuesday that they would see the full evidence in the case, not the protesters outside, and the fate of the prosecution's case rests solely in their hands.
"John Adams said that we are a government of laws, not of men, and that the law must be deaf to the clamoring of the public," she said, referring to the Founding Father with deep Boston roots. "He meant that while the public opinion about a given subject may ebb and flow, the law must be steady, reliable, and even-handed."
Read has denied the charges, pleaded not guilty and claimed that she is being framed as part of a police cover-up.
Investigators' behavior in her first trial may have influenced the jury's inability to reach a consensus.
Read and O'Keefe had been fighting on the morning of Jan. 28, 2022, according to text messages revealed in her first trial.
They went out drinking in Canton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, and then met a group of friends and acquaintances at another bar, minutes before last call.
Brian Albert, a Boston cop like O'Keefe, invited the group over to his house for an after-party. O'Keefe was found dead on his lawn the next day.
Witnesses in the first trial testified that Read and O'Keefe never came inside, and prosecutors allege they got into another fight before she fatally hit him in reverse at 24 mph.
Read has countered that someone else killed him and left him on Albert's lawn amid the snowstorm.
Cannone on Monday ruled that Read's defense cannot try and blame Albert's nephew, Colin Albert, for the crime.
Other potential third-party culprits floated by the defense include Brian Albert himself and ATF Agent Brian Higgins, both of whom were present at the bar and the after-party.
The judge said that Read's defense cannot name them during opening statements – but they can introduce evidence during the trial that they believe points to them and not her.
Cannone also sided with prosecutors and blocked testimony from a former FBI agent named Michael Easter, who was expected to scrutinize alleged missteps from police in the investigation.
The lead investigator, former Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor, was fired last month after an investigation into lewd text messages he sent about Read while probing O'Keefe's death, which were read in court during her first trial.
Although he is no longer a trooper, his name is on the witness list the second time around – along with 149 other people.
