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Your daily coffee habit may affect your brain and mood in unexpected ways, study finds

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:15:30 -0400

Your daily cup of coffee may be doing more than helping you wake up in the morning, a new study has found.

A small study out of University College Cork in Ireland found that both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee were linked to changes in gut microbes and some measures of mood. Both types also appeared to have different effects on cognition.

"Coffee is more than just caffeine — it’s a complex dietary factor that interacts with our gut microbes, our metabolism and even our emotional wellbeing," study corresponding author Professor John Cryan said in a statement. Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee may influence health "in distinct but complementary ways," Cryan added.

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The researchers studied 62 healthy adults, 31 who were regular coffee drinkers and 31 who did not drink coffee. The coffee drinkers, who typically had three to five cups a day, stopped drinking it for two weeks; then they were assigned to resume caffeinated or decaf coffee for three weeks.

Researchers then tracked their mood and cognitive test scores and analyzed stool and urine samples.

After coffee was reintroduced, both groups reported lower stress, depression and impulsivity than at the the start of the study.

The caffeinated group also reported reduced anxiety and showed improvement on an attention test. Those who drank decaf showed improvement on a test of episodic memory, which measures the ability to recall information and experiences.

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The researchers found that coffee drinkers also had differences in certain gut bacteria and both groups had some microbial changes after starting both types of coffee, though the study could not prove gut microbes caused the reported mood or cognitive changes.

"Public interest in gut health has risen hugely," Cryan said. "The relationship between digestive and mental health is also increasingly being better understood, but the mechanisms behind coffee’s effects on this gut-brain axis have remained unclear."

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The study had some additional limitations, noted Rebecca Steele, Ph.D., a New York-based clinical psychologist who was not involved in the research.

People should be cautious about drawing broad conclusions from a small sample, Steele told Fox News Digital.

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Gains on cognitive tests do not necessarily translate into meaningful or lasting improvements in everyday life, she added. "How I perform with a paper-and-pen test might not be the same way that I perform when I’m out in the real world," she said.

Research has found short-term effects of caffeine on alertness, but evidence about its long-term effects on cognition remains inconclusive, she also said.

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While Steele said the decaf group’s memory results are interesting, changes in sleep and physical activity, along with the possibility of a "learning effect" from taking the same tests more than once, complicate the findings.

"Changes in self-reported stress and depression scores should not be confused with evidence that coffee treats clinical depression," she also cautioned.

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Fox News Digital reached out to the researchers for additional comment and information.

Christian group touts 'ethical' tech features as concerns over out-of-control AI tools persist

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:00:55 -0400

The leader of a Christian ministry that built its own artificial intelligence application to guide users in their spiritual journey warns companies developing AI systems need to implement "ethical guidelines" to ensure their technology doesn't harm people.

Ligonier Ministries president and CEO Chris Larson says that the true highest intelligence is God, and shared a new tool his group created to help answer questions people my have from a faith-based perspective.

"It's interesting that [President Donald Trump] even referred to artificial intelligence now as 'superintelligence,'" Larson told Fox News Digital. "Of course, Christians — and, really, all of us — have access to the 'superintelligece,' the one who has created the universe."

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The mission of the Florida-based organization, founded by the late Christian theologian R.C. Sproul, is to proclaim, teach and defend the holiness of God "in all its fullness to as many people as possible."

Part of accomplishing that mission was building an app that the organization calls "Grow."

"It's dedicated to helping Christians to better understand the Bible and theology and to go deeper in their faith, put down roots, if you will," Larson said of the new tool. "And so this app has 50 years of teaching in it from more than 800 different teachers, of course, grounded in Dr. R.C. Sproul's lifetime of teaching."

The app draws from a library of tens of thousands of pieces of content help users in their faith journey looking to obtain answers to critical questions.

Inside Grow is an "intelligent answer assistant" which can answer questions from users from a faith-based perspective.

But building an Grow for Christian users required putting a great deal of thought into the ethics of the model, Larson explained.

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"Now, it's not trying to pretend it's a person or anything like that. It is just trained on our library, and then helping Christians to trust the answers, and [it] will only go so far," he said. "And again, I think that's an important guard as well. Because for us, making sure that we have trusted theological answers and that the intelligent answer assistant is acting with integrity and not going outside of that."

When a user pushes the boundaries of the application, it directs them to real human support — a feature most large language model AI tools refuse to implement.

"And so we've given it a sandbox to work within, and any time that somebody tries to push it beyond the borders, we're going to deflect or defer to a real human. Imagine that," Larson said.

For example, if a user discusses suicidality in Grow, the intelligent answer assistant will direct them to the suicide hotline or other real-world resources.

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Over the past several years, there have been a flurry of suicide deaths that victims' family members say AI chatbots were at least partially responsible. In one case from last year, a teenager named Adam Raine took his own life after months of discussing his suicidal thoughts on ChatGPT. According to a lawsuit from his parents, the chatbot provided him information about methods of suicide, validated aspects of planning the suicide and offered to help him draft a suicide note. OpenAI, ChatGPT's parent company, disputes the characterization and says the chatbot directed him to crisis resources multiple times.

"So, we understood that it's important to provide safety guardrails, but also we did not want this intelligent answer assistant to pretend that it was a person," said Larson. "We don't want it to take the place of a pastor or a local church elder or even a parent."

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Larson said companies developing AI need to consider guardrails for their technology.

"Anybody developing AI tools today needs to think through ethical guidelines, and that's more of the self-regulation and guardrails that we've been talking about," he said.

"I think there's a real concern today because you have great power that's been entrusted to these different companies and they're not really disclosing their worldview," he continued. "How do they know right from wrong?"

For Ligonier, the absolute truth upon which its AI model is built is the Christian faith.

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"How are you determining what is right and wrong? As Christians, we believe we have a true answer — a source that we can turn to."

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

Former Miss USA contestant made a life-changing decision at 26 after cancer devastated family

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:00:34 -0400

At age 26, Allyn Rose made a life-changing decision after cancer had devastated her family.

The model, who competed in both the Miss America and Miss USA pageants, underwent a preventive double mastectomy, a decision she said even sparked "hate mail" from critics. Today, the mother of two is the founder of The Previvor, a nonprofit organization that educates women about breast cancer risk and prevention options. Oct. 31 marks the last day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

"I know a lot of people think that's a pretty radical choice for someone who hadn't been diagnosed with breast cancer yet," Rose, now 38, told Fox News Digital. "But I lost my mom when I was 16. And by the time I was 16, I had lost my grandmother, my great aunt, almost every woman in my family to this disease. And I said that legacy ends with me."

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"I don't want that to be my story," she said. "I don't want to have to tell my 16-year-old daughter someday that she's going to have to spend the rest of her life without her mom. This sad family legacy was not going to take my life if I had anything to do with it."

Rose's mother, Judy Rose, was first diagnosed with breast cancer at 27 and had her right breast removed. The cancer later developed in her remaining breast, reaching stage 3, according to People magazine. Judy died at 51.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the U.S. after skin cancers, accounting for about 1 in 3 new cancer cases diagnosed in women each year, according to the American Cancer Society. About 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop breast cancer during their lives.

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The organization estimates that 321,910 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among U.S. women in 2026 and that about 42,140 women will die from the disease.

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Rose was considered at elevated risk of developing breast cancer because of her extensive family history. In 2012, she was crowned Miss District of Columbia, earning the opportunity to represent the district at the 2013 Miss America pageant. That same year, at 24, Rose announced her decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy. She had the surgery two years later, at 26.

For women with a strong family history of breast cancer, a bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy can lower the risk of developing the disease by up to 90%, according to the National Cancer Institute. The procedure does not eliminate the risk entirely because it is impossible to remove all breast tissue that could become cancerous.

"So much of my life and my identity was wrapped up in the way that I looked and how I presented myself to the world," Rose said. "I paid my bills and my rent with the way that I looked. I didn't think [my looks] were 100% of my identity, but I would be lying if I didn't consider the repercussions of having a surgery like this. It would very likely end my modeling career, my career in pageantry, my career really in the entertainment industry. There were so few women talking about having a procedure like this and coming out on the other side."

"I wasn't married," she said. "I didn't have any children. These were all conversations I was going to have with a future partner someday. And so, it was a really tough choice, and it's one that I'm glad that I made, but it's very difficult to make the decision to have a surgery to prevent a cancer that didn't exist yet."

With her father's support, Rose underwent a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer. She ended up having three surgeries, including reconstruction, and went through what she described as "very graphic periods of looking completely different, having no breasts, wondering who is ever going to be happy looking at me like this."

Then she remembered her mother, Judy.

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"[Losing my mother] drastically impacted my life, not only because it was my mother, but because I didn't know how to be a woman yet," she said. "[When I lost her] I hadn't even gotten my driver's license. I hadn't graduated from high school. I hadn't sent myself off to college yet. I spent a lot of those real pinnacle years of my life without a mentor, without someone to guide me through that. It was a very challenging time really, having to be my own cheerleader, experience all those crowning achievements in my life by myself."

"But I think I've come out stronger on the other side of it," Rose said.

Rose said she received hate mail over her decision, while her father also faced criticism after people learned he had encouraged his daughter to undergo the double mastectomy.

"To see a young person who walked on the Miss USA stage, who worked full-time as a model, who was really in this beauty industry — choosing to almost end my career to prolong my life seemed like a foreign concept," Rose said.

"And there were a lot of radical responses to my decision. I got hate mail. My father received hate mail. People just couldn't fathom that I would take this preventative step. But I didn't want cancer to be part of my story. I wanted it to end with me."

Rose made her decision before actress Angelina Jolie publicly revealed that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after genetic testing showed she carried a harmful BRCA1 gene variant.

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In a May 2013 New York Times op-ed, Jolie explained that her mother had battled cancer for nearly a decade before dying at 56. Jolie said her doctors estimated she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. She chose to have both breasts removed, which she said reduced her estimated breast cancer risk to less than 5%.

Jolie, who was 37 at the time, said she shared her experience so other women could better understand their own risks and options.

Rose said she thought her modeling career was over. But in 2019, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit featured her, making her the first woman who had undergone a double mastectomy to appear in the publication.

Today, Rose travels across the country to raise awareness about "the power in prevention."

"The thing I wish someone had told me when I was first navigating this was that there is a light at the end of the tunnel," Rose said. "Everything was a question. It was this fear of the unknown. But I said to myself, 'I'm going to still chase all of those dreams. I'm going to go accomplish all the things that I wanted to.'"

When she looks back on her journey, one person comes to mind: her mother, Judy.

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"I do think about what my mom would think, and I know she would be incredibly proud of me," Rose said, fighting back tears. "One of the last things she said to me was, 'Don't let my life be in vain.' And I made a promise to her that I would make use of every day that she didn't have. And so, that has been my mission from the day that she passed to ensure that I could help as many women as possible not have to walk their lives without their mom. That's my goal."

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"I have two children," Rose said. "They don't have the same gene mutation that I have. They no longer have an increased risk of cancer. And that legacy ended with me, and I know my mom would be very proud that I did that."

Where to Bet on the Breeders’ Cup, Best Online Racebooks and Betting Apps

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:59:36 -0400

The Breeders’ Cup runs Friday and Saturday at Keeneland, and Saturday’s $7 million Classic is the richest race on the American calendar. Horse racing isn’t offered on most sportsbook apps, so you’ll need a racebook to get in on the action. Here are the best options and where each one is available.

The 2026 Breeders’ Cup at a Glance

Dates: Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31
Track: Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky
Main event: $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, 1 1/4 miles on dirt, Saturday
Favorite: Defending champion Forever Young, 2-1 on the morning line

Friday is built around the 2-year-old races, and Saturday stacks nine more Grade 1s on top of each other before the Classic closes the show. This is Keeneland’s fourth time hosting, after 2015, 2020 and 2022.

Why You Need a Racebook

Horse racing is pari-mutuel betting, which means you’re betting into a pool against other bettors instead of against the house. It’s regulated separately from sports betting, so racing usually lives in its own app. Each platform below is licensed for racing, but availability varies by state.

FanDuel Racing

FanDuel Racing is the most widely available of the big-name racing apps, live in more than 20 states. It offers full pari-mutuel wagering on the Breeders’ Cup card, plus live video and replays. The best part for existing FanDuel customers is the shared wallet. If you already have a FanDuel Sportsbook account, the same balance works on FanDuel Racing, so you don’t need to fund a separate account.

BetMGM Racebook

BetMGM Racebook is a standalone app with the same look and feel as the BetMGM Sportsbook. It covers the full Breeders’ Cup card, but it’s only available in three states right now: Florida, Louisiana and Ohio. If you live in one of them, it’s an easy option for BetMGM customers.

TwinSpires

TwinSpires is owned by Churchill Downs and has been one of the biggest names in online horse racing for years. It’s available in more states than most racing apps and is built for serious horse players, with deep track coverage, handicapping tools and race replays. If FanDuel Racing and BetMGM Racebook aren’t available where you live, TwinSpires is the first place to check.

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Can a woman be friends with a hot guy without being romantic? Expert pinpoints warning signs

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:57:55 -0400

The question of whether men and women can remain "just friends" drew fresh attention when Jenny McCarthy and her husband, Donnie Wahlberg, recently bantered on her podcast about whether having an attractive male friend crosses a line.

Attraction alone doesn’t necessarily threaten a friendship, according to Susan Trombetti, relationship expert and CEO of Exclusive Matchmaking in Maryland.

However, unspoken feelings and growing emotional intimacy can blur boundaries, she told Fox News Digital.

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"I think we can be friends with hot people … but a lot of times, I believe that friendship started with a sexual interest or romantic interest, and the timing wasn't right or the other person wasn't interested in them."

Some people may maintain friendships while leaving open the possibility of a future romantic relationship, Trombetti said.

"I don't think women and men can ever truly be friends," she told Fox News Digital. "I think it was always a sexual undertone that sparked the friendship and a foot-in-the-door for something more, [even if] it's 20 years from now."

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Trombetti said recognizing that someone is handsome doesn’t necessarily lead to feeling chemistry with that person — and finding a friend attractive does not, on its own, constitute infidelity.

The problem, she said, is when harmless awareness turns into an emotional affair. "The line between attraction with a friend and an emotional affair is a slippery slope, especially if you have a partner," the expert cautioned.

The following red flags could signal that a friendship is crossing into an emotional affair, according to Trombetti.

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Prioritizing the friend over a partner: This could mean turning to the friend first to share daily victories, disappointments, personal insecurities or long-term dreams.
Creating an insular universe: Friends may build private jokes, share secret routines and communicate in channels that deliberately exclude significant others.
Secrecy and deception: Examples include hiding interactions, deleting text chains or downplaying how much time is spent together.
Unwarranted jealousy: Signs may include frustration when the friend dates someone else or criticism of their romantic partners.
Outside suspicion: Friends and family may assume the pair are an undercover couple despite protests to the contrary.

Trombetti pointed back to the movie "When Harry Met Sally" to illustrate how emotional intimacy can sometimes be more important than instant physical chemistry.

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"Long before they sleep together, they definitely are having an emotional affair, even though they don't recognize it as such," she said. "They are sharing everything. Emotional intimacy turns into long-term relationships."

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For those determined to maintain a platonic relationship with an attractive counterpart, Trombetti recommended setting some guardrails: Refrain from flirtatious banter, avoid physical touch, refuse to stoke sexual chemistry, limit late-night texting and ensure full transparency with an existing romantic partner.

If one person develops romantic feelings that the other doesn’t share, the friendship may continue if both are single and respect clear boundaries, Trombetti said.

For people already in committed partnerships, unreciprocated feelings almost always require stepping away to protect the relationship.

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When an existing partner expresses jealousy, Trombetti advised examining the root cause before issuing blame.

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"Are they jealous or are you making them jealous?" she asked, noting that erratic partner anxiety often stems from a lack of emotional reassurance and priority.

However, if a friendship respects clear boundaries and a partner still responds with controlling behavior, that jealousy could signal a problem within the relationship, she cautioned.

How Obama appointee and Trump nemesis Boasberg ended up overseeing Ilhan Omar warrant, other key cases

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:53:53 -0400

Federal Judge James Boasberg, dubbed a "Radical left lunatic" by President Donald Trump, is presiding over several high-profile cases challenging actions made by the Trump administration, raising questions about how judges are assigned to cases.

The scrutiny comes as Boasberg, an Obama-appointed chief judge of the Washington, D.C. district court, oversees a challenge brought by several media outlets seeking to force the Justice Department to unseal the search warrant on the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., stemming from two federal investigations.

"Judge James Boasberg is now involved with the Ilhan Omar case," Steve Ferguson, a self-described business owner with more than 250,000 followers on X, wrote in a social media post. "Is everything rigged?"

In the federal court of the District of Columbia, cases are assigned to judges randomly by an electronic system managed by the clerk's office operating under the direction of the Calendar and Case Management Committee, according to the rules of the court. The committee consists of three to five judges appointed by the chief justice.

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There are exceptions to the random-assignment process. For example, criminal grand jury matters are assigned to and overseen by the chief judge, currently Boasberg. This means Boasberg’s assignment to oversee the fight over unsealing the search warrant for Omar was "not a surprise" to Eric Wessan, Iowa’s solicitor general.

"But there are a lot of cases that seem to be going to judges maybe based on those cases having similarities which is not what the local rules say," Wessan told Fox News Digital.

When a case needs to be reassigned, the Calendar and Case Management Committee will determine how the reassignment is made.

Wessan suggested that concerns over how case assignments are made is valid, considering some of the high-profile cases against the Trump administration which have appeared in Boasberg's docket.

"If one is just following anecdotally, there does seem to be a lot of high-profile cases in front of judges that seem to be expressing unusual amounts of frustration or disagreement with the administration," Wessan said, urging greater transparency in how case assignments are made.

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The fight over unsealing the release of Omar's search warrant is just one of several cases involving the Trump administration and now on Boasberg's docket. Boasberg is also overseeing California’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over voter-roll disputes. On Friday, he ordered the administration to provide the state with the names and supporting information for roughly 20,000 people whom the DOJ claims are noncitizens on California’s voter rolls by the end of the day.

Boasberg has issued several consequential rulings against the Trump administration, including a high-profile March 2025 order directing the administration to turn around deportation flights carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador. The Trump administration fought against the order, pointing to the Alien Enemies Act as legal justification for the deportations. The dispute over the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act eventually reached the Supreme Court, which vacated Boasberg's temporary restraining order blocking deportation flights, ruling that the case was brought in the wrong jurisdiction.

That same month, Boasberg was assigned a lawsuit seeking to preserve Signal messages after top Trump administration officials discussed plans for a Yemen strike in a group chat that accidentally included Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. He later ordered the administration to preserve the messages.

The string of cases prompted Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Chip Roy, R-Texas, to send a letter in May 2025 to the court clerk asking for greater clarity on how judicial assignments are made. The lawmakers questioned whether assignments were truly random, as the court’s rules state.

"The Committee cannot independently verify the randomness of case assignments because the composition of assignment decks is kept secrets," the lawmakers wrote.

"We must understand the nature of the case assignment process in the District Court—which is considering a number of cases challenging the Trump Administration’s policy decisions—to consider and develop appropriate legislation," the lawmakers wrote.

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Meanwhile, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., introduced legislation in July that would require federal district courts to assign cases randomly, without exceptions, naming it the Boasberg Act. The bill is currently stalled in committee.

"Judge Boasberg is the poster child for a rogue judge and exposed serious loopholes in our judicial system. Randomly assigning cases among judges ensures the American people can have confidence in the impartiality of our courts," Schmitt said in a statement.

Under the rules of D.C. Court, the chief justice does not have the power to reassign a case. The Calendar and Case Management Committee handles case reassignments. The court must notify the judges and attorneys involved, but it does not have to publicly explain why a case was reassigned. Wessan has called for greater transparency.

"The rules shouldn’t say one thing if it’s not true. But if it is true, they could just say so. I think the issue is with the exceptions—what happens in those exceptional cases and how often do they occur?" Wessan said.

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"Given the frequency of the concerning episodes in the district court, erring on the side of transparency is probably prudent to the extent that there are exceptions to the normal random-assignment system," Wessan said.

Can You Bet on the Breeders’ Cup With FanDuel and BetMGM?

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:48:32 -0400

The Breeders’ Cup is at Keeneland this weekend, with the $7 million Classic closing out Saturday’s card. If you’re trying to bet it with FanDuel or BetMGM, the short answer is yes, but not through the sportsbook apps. Both companies run separate racing platforms, and availability depends on where you live.

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Horse racing is pari-mutuel wagering, and it’s regulated separately from sports betting. That’s why you won’t find the Breeders’ Cup on the FanDuel Sportsbook or BetMGM Sportsbook board in most states. Instead, each company offers a dedicated racing app.

FanDuel Racing is the bigger of the two and is available in more than 20 states. If you already have a FanDuel Sportsbook account, you can use the same shared wallet to bet on FanDuel Racing, so there’s no need to fund a second account.

BetMGM Racebook is a standalone app that’s currently live in just three states: Florida, Louisiana and Ohio.

The 2026 Breeders’ Cup at a Glance

Dates: Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31
Track: Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky
Main event: $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, 1 1/4 miles on dirt, Saturday
Favorite: Forever Young, last year’s Classic winner, is the 2-1 morning-line favorite

This is the fourth time Keeneland has hosted the Breeders’ Cup, after 2015, 2020 and 2022. Friday’s card is built around the 2-year-olds, while Saturday features nine more races leading up to the Classic.

Use the Sportsbook Offers on Everything Else This Weekend

The FanDuel and BetMGM sportsbook welcome offers can’t be used on horse racing, but there’s no shortage of places to use them this weekend. Canelo Alvarez fights Christian Mbilli for the WBC super middleweight title Saturday, Florida and Georgia meet in Atlanta, the NBA has a full Saturday night and the NFL is back Sunday.

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Place a $5 or more wager on any game or fight.
Receive $50 in bonus bets, win or lose, once the wager settles.
Bet $5 or more each day for seven straight days to collect up to $150 in bonus bets.
Bonus bets expire after seven days.
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Make your first deposit of at least $10 using an accepted payment method (PayPal, Venmo, debit card, online banking, etc.).
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If your first bet wins, you’re paid out in cash as normal.
If it loses, BetMGM refunds your stake in bonus bets.
Bonus bets are credited to your account within 24 hours once the qualifying bet settles.

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Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:37:36 -0400

Canelo Alvarez fights for a world title Saturday in Riyadh, and this time he’s the one chasing the belt. BetMGM is offering new users bonus code FOXNEWS to cover their first bet up to $1,500. If it loses, BetMGM refunds your stake in bonus bets.

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Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli | Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026 | Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | DAZN PPV

Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KOs) walks in as the WBC super middleweight champion. Canelo (63-3-2, 39 KOs) walks in as the challenger for the first time since he moved up to fight Dmitry Bivol in 2022. The fight was originally set for Sept. 12 before a personal matter for Alvarez delayed it seven weeks, which means both fighters will have been out more than 13 months by the opening bell.

Canelo Has Something to Prove

The last time Canelo fought, Terence Crawford beat him by unanimous decision in Las Vegas. At 36, a second straight loss would raise real questions about how much he has left. He still brings 28 major title fights of experience into the ring, and his record in those fights is 25-3. Mbilli has never been on a stage close to this one.

Mbilli Has the Size

Mbilli is the bigger man, with about an inch of height and nearly two inches of reach on Canelo. He’s a pressure fighter with power, but his last outing was a split draw with Lester Martinez on the Canelo-Crawford undercard. Beating Canelo would turn a belt holder into the face of the division overnight.

Where the First Bet Cover Comes In

The moneyline isn’t the only way to play this fight. Method of victory and round props pay a lot more, and they’re harder to hit. That’s where a backstop on your first bet matters. Canelo by decision and by KO are priced the same, Mbilli by decision pays +450, and the total rounds line sits at 10.5. Take a bigger swing knowing BetMGM covers the loss up to $1,500.

Canelo vs Mbilli Odds

Odds are subject to change

Total Rounds: 10.5 (Over -475, Under +300)

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Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:35:47 -0400

Halloween Saturday is stacked. Canelo Alvarez fights for a world title in Riyadh, Florida and Georgia meet in Atlanta, and the NBA fills out the night. FanDuel is giving new users up to $150 in bonus bets starting with a $5 wager, with no promo code required.

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Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli | Saturday, Oct. 31 | Kingdom Arena, Riyadh | DAZN PPV

Canelo is the challenger this time. The four-division champion (63-3-2, 39 KOs) takes on undefeated WBC super middleweight champion Christian Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KOs) in his first fight since losing to Terence Crawford in September 2025. Both men have been out more than 13 months after the original Sept. 12 date was pushed back.

Mbilli has the size edge, about an inch of height and nearly two inches of reach, and he’s fighting for his legacy against the biggest name in the sport. Canelo is 36 and needs a win to stay relevant at 168. The books are still riding with the Mexican star.

Odds are subject to change

Florida vs Georgia | Saturday, Oct. 31 at 3:30 p.m. ET | Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta

The rivalry leaves Jacksonville for the first time in decades while EverBank Stadium is renovated. Georgia is 6-1 and coming off a bye after a home loss to Auburn, where Gunner Stockton threw two picks and lost a late fumble. Florida is 5-2 in Jon Sumrall’s first season with wins over Ole Miss and Texas, powered by one of the best rushing attacks in the SEC.

Georgia has won five straight in the series, all by 14 or more. Florida’s offense is the best it’s brought into this game in years, but its defense has given up 34.2 points per game in SEC play.

Odds are subject to change

NBA Saturday Slate

The NBA picks up where college football leaves off. Here’s Saturday’s schedule:

Trail Blazers at Jazz, 3:00 p.m. ET
76ers at Hornets, 6:00 p.m. ET
Hawks at Pelicans, 7:00 p.m. ET
Kings at Grizzlies, 8:00 p.m. ET
Cavaliers at Bucks, 8:00 p.m. ET

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How to Bet on Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli With Fanatics, BetMGM, FanDuel and More

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:28:47 -0400

Canelo Alvarez is back on Saturday, and for the first time in years he’s walking to the ring as the challenger. He takes on undefeated WBC super middleweight champion Christian Mbilli at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, live on DAZN pay-per-view.

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Canelo Alvarez vs Christian Mbilli | Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026 | Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | DAZN PPV

This fight was supposed to happen Sept. 12 before a personal matter for Alvarez pushed it back seven weeks. Both fighters will be coming off a layoff of more than 13 months. Canelo (63-3-2, 39 KOs) hasn’t fought since losing a unanimous decision to Terence Crawford in September 2025, the first defeat of his career since 2022. Mbilli (29-0-1, 24 KOs) fought to a split draw with Lester Martinez on that same card.

Canelo is 36 and has been in 28 major title fights. Mbilli is the bigger man on paper, with an inch of height and nearly two inches of reach, and he’s never been in a fight close to this size. The books still believe in the name. Canelo opened as a solid favorite and has stayed there all week.

Canelo vs Mbilli Odds

Odds are subject to change

Total Rounds: 10.5 (Over -475, Under +300)

BetMGM Sportsbook: Christian Mbilli Moneyline (+250)

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FanDuel: Canelo Alvarez by Decision (-135)

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Canelo’s best version has always been the one that breaks opponents down over 12 rounds. Against a younger, undefeated champion with a reach edge, and coming off more than a year away, expect a patient Canelo who wins rounds rather than hunts the knockout. The decision and the knockout are priced the same, and the decision is the more likely path.

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Fanatics Sportsbook: Canelo Alvarez Moneyline (-330)

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France deploys 70,000 police officers to prepare for new wave of protests on Halloween

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:27:09 -0400

The French government is deploying 70,000 police officers to cities across the country as authorities expect a third week of intense anti-government protests to resume Saturday.

Demonstrators objecting to rising costs and President Emmanuel Macron's government have engaged in looting and damaging property, prompting the law enforcement surge, according to officials.

"Everyone is on deck to ensure an extremely firm response to any trouble," Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said at a news conference early in the week.

FRANCE ON EDGE WITH 70,000 POLICE DEPLOYED FOR UNREST AS AUTHORITIES PROBE SUSPECTED TERROR ATTACK NEAR PARIS

The expected protests, coinciding with Halloween, introduce an additional element to authorities' response, as some protesters are expected to don Halloween masks to hide their identities.

At least 150 planned gatherings across the country have been tracked and acknowledged by the Interior Ministry.

FRANCE'S MACRON BLAMES PROTESTS ON 'ULTRA-LEFT GROUPS WHOSE AIM IS TO BRING DOWN THE REPUBLIC'

One of the events, a planned march between the iconic Parisian squares of Republique and Bastille, has been banned by France's top administrative court. The demonstration was instead rerouted to boulevards on the eastern fringe of the city, far from the main shopping centers.

France's Chamber of Commerce has estimated retail losses from looting and property damage at over $1 billion, while other estimates that include lost revenue calculate losses could be double that.

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Some of Paris' iconic luxury shops, like Hermes and Louis Vuitton, have been targeted by rioters as France's marquee shopping avenues now show scores of buildings with protective wooden boards.

In response to the unrest, France's government is crafting a law that would punish rioters who caused property damage and make them liable to pay up to €10,000, or $11,000.

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Demonstrations originated with the country's young people protesting schooling conditions and pushing for educational reform and quickly ballooned to include other social groups and issues, including economic anxieties, rising costs in fuel and borrowing.

Though the French government has vowed to reform education and reduce fuel costs, the promises have not satisfied the protesters.

"When I was little, I was told young people were the future," 15-year-old high school student Aaron Berthier de Grandry, who plans on protesting over the weekend, told Reuters.

"Well, if we, as the future of France, lack resources, that means France will end up collapsing," de Grandry added.

The U.S. Embassy in France has advised travelers to avoid areas where large gatherings are taking place.

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Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:23:50 -0400

The Cocktail Party has a new address this year, but the stakes haven’t moved. Florida and Georgia meet Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, and Fanatics Sportsbook is offering new users promo code FOXNEWS350 to bet $20 and get $350 in FanCash on this game or anything else on the college football slate.

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Florida vs Georgia | Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026 at 3:30 p.m. ET | Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA

For the first time since the 1990s, this rivalry isn’t in Jacksonville. EverBank Stadium is under renovation, so the game moves to Atlanta this year and Tampa next year before heading back to Jacksonville in 2028. Florida is the designated road team, and with the game a short drive from Athens, it’s going to feel that way. You can bet the DAWGS will be out in full force Saturday afternoon.

Georgia Comes Off the Bye Angry

Georgia is 6-1, and the one loss still stings. Auburn upset the Bulldogs in Athens two weeks ago, and Gunner Stockton had the worst game of his tenure as the starter: two interceptions for the first time and a late fumble that set up Auburn’s game-winning field goal. Kirby Smart’s teams don’t usually let that kind of performance sit, and Georgia had a full off week to stew on it.

The Bulldogs’ offense has been better than the reputation suggests. Georgia dropped 41 on solid Oklahoma defense and 45 at Arkansas, and it’s gone over the total in six of seven games, the most in the SEC. The concern is the backfield. Nate Frazier and Chauncey Bowens have both missed multiple games, and Georgia’s run game hasn’t looked the same without Frazier’s physicality. Check his status before you bet, because that's a major factor on Saturday.

Florida Is Ahead of Schedule

The Gators might be back. Jon Sumrall took over a 4-8 team and has the Gators at 5-2 and ranked in his first season. Florida has already beaten Ole Miss 52-28 and won at Texas, and the offense runs through the ground game with one of the best backs and best running back tandems in all of college football. Jadan Baugh ran for 142 yards and three touchdowns against Ole Miss, and Duke Clark gives Florida a second back who can carry the load. Florida has run the ball 286 times to 214 passes this year. Gator quarterback Aaron Philo has been efficient when asked to throw, and helps open things up for the vaunted run game.

The problem is the other side of the ball. Florida is allowing 34.2 points per game in SEC play and has given up 38 or more in two of its last three games. By the advanced numbers, the Gators rank 118th in EPA per play and 110th against the pass. That’s a bad matchup against a quarterback looking to clean up a bad game, especially when that game is taking place in Atlanta.

The History

Georgia has won five straight in this series, every one by at least 14 points. Smart has lost to Florida just twice since taking over in 2016. Florida hasn’t been a top-25 team with this kind of offense in most of those years, though, and that’s the question bettors have to answer.

Florida vs Georgia Odds

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Florida’s offense against Georgia’s history in this rivalry. Bet the side, the total or anything else on Saturday’s slate. New users can bet $20 and get $350 in FanCash with Fanatics Sportsbook promo code FOXNEWS350.

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Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:13:43 -0400

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Florida vs Georgia | Saturday, Oct 31, 2026 at 3:30 pm ET | Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA | ABC

Another SEC battle headlines this week’s slate of college football. It is hard to believe, but we are closer to the finish line than we are to the start of the season, and virtually no one has established themselves as the clear best team in football. At one point in the season, both Florida and Georgia looked like the best team.

Florida comes into the game with a 5-2 record for the season. They’ve had some impressive wins, but they’ve spoiled those a bit with some rather ugly losses. After beating Ole Miss by 24 points, they followed up the performance with back-to-back losses against Missouri and South Carolina. The Tigers are a good team, but losing to the Gamecocks at home isn’t something that should happen to a playoff team. Florida then might’ve ended Texas’ season with a win the last time they played.

Georgia has put together yet another strong campaign. They are one of the best programs in the country, so it shouldn’t be much of a surprise. The team suffered their first loss of the season last time they played. Perhaps it was a bit of an obvious letdown spot. They came off beating Alabama in Alabama and dropped a game to Auburn at home. Losing at home is always ugly, but losing to Auburn is a blemish they won’t soon forget.

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Florida vs Georgia Odds

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Betr Promo Code FOXNEWS: Unlock $200 in Bonuses and 4x Sweat-Free Bets for Canelo Alvarez-Christian Mbilli

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:13:17 -0400

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Alvarez vs Mbilli | Saturday, Oct 31, 2026 | Expected Fight Time: 6:00 ET | Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | DAZN Pay-Per-View

Both fighters offer interesting reasons to choose them to win the match tonight. Canelo Alvarez is more of a counter-puncher, waiting for the opportunity to fight. Christian Mbilli is more on the attack, constantly pressuring his opponent with jabs. Which fighter has the edge?

Canelo Alvarez

Is very adept at guarding himself and does not open his body up to hits. He moves his head well to help make sure his opponents miss him.
He doesn’t take many risks or uncalculated swings. Instead, he fights with accuracy, looking for his ideal spot to punch.
If his opponent keeps the same rhythm, he will attack with lightning-fast counter punches.
He is coming off a 13-month layoff and is 36 years old. It is possible he will be rusty and a bit slower.

Christian Mbilli

Mbilli loves to attack and will look to back Alvarez into corners so he can do the most damage against him.
He will look to storm his opponent in the rink. He doesn’t tend to attack with one main punch, instead beating the opposition with multiple punches.
His training prepares him to go deep into fights even while exerting energy. Alvarez usually allows his opponent to wear down before he fights back, but that might not work against Mbilli.
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Alvarez vs Mbilli Method of Victory

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Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:10:54 -0400

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Alvarez vs Mbilli | Saturday, Oct 31, 2026 | Expected Fight Time: 6:00 pm ET | Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | DAZN Pay-Per-View

The two fighters are almost ready to take the ring. This should be one of the better fights of the year, and Alvarez is looking to win away the Super-Middleweight championship from Mbilli. Let’s take a look at the careers of both fighters before they put their dukes up.

Canelo Alvarez is one of the most dominant and decorated fighters of the past two years. He captured his first title when he was just 20 years old (the WBC light middleweight title). At 23, he fought Mayweather and lost via decision. It wasn’t just the light middleweight where he found success. Alvarez took the middleweight title and the light heavyweight title. He defeated three fighters en route to the super middleweight title, becoming the first undisputed champion in boxing history. His most recent fight came against Terence Crawford, and he lost his status and title.

Christian Mbilli is one of the most explosive, relentless pressure fighters in the super-middleweight division. He is a former Olympic boxer, reaching the quarterfinals before losing. Mbilli made his debut in 2017, winning with a knockout. In fact, just over 80% of his matches have been won via knockout. Over the past few years, he has battled some strong competition, but won each of the tests. With a TKO of Maciej Sulecki, he won the WBC interim super-middleweight title and then moved up to full status after beating Lester Martinez.

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Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:10:45 -0400

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Alvarez vs Mbilli | Saturday, Oct 31, 2026 | Expected Fight Time: 6:00 pm ET | Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | DAZN Pay-Per-View

Tonight, the WBC World Super-Middleweight Championship is on the line. Alvarez hasn’t fought in 13 months and is coming off his unanimous loss to Terence Crawford. In his career, he has a 63-3-2 record with 39 KOs. At 36 years old, this could be one of the last fights of his entire career.

On the other side is Christian Mbilli. He is 29-0-1 in his career with 24 KOs. Mbilli is the owner of the Super-Middleweight Championship belt, and this is his first defense of it. The undefeated 31-year-old captured the interim belt via a first-round knockout of Maciej Sulecki and fought to a split draw against Lester Martinez on the undercard of Canelo-Crawford.

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Liam Neeson, 74, says he doesn't need a gym to stay ready for action scenes

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:00:38 -0400

Liam Neeson's action movie shape doesn't require time in the gym.

During an interview with Fox News Digital, the actor, who stars in the newly released movie "The Mongoose," discussed how he stays in such good shape at 74.

"No, I don't go to a gym at all, but it behooves me, any actor or actress playing a lead, it behooves you to have a level of fitness," Neeson said. "You don't have to spend two hours in the gym every day. I used to, many years ago, but I keep reasonably fit."

Neeson said that staying in shape year round allows him to jump back into action scenes for movies.

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"If I read a script, or Mark [Vanselow, director of ‘The Mongoose’] sends me a script and there's physical action sequences, I like doing my own fights. I can still do them up to a point," he said. "If there's physical stuff like that then, I'll increase my physical workout activity a little bit."

The biggest change Neeson has made to his fitness routine as he's gotten older has been incorporating daily walks.

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"I think, just generally the importance of it. Should it just be a walk every day — you know what I mean? And you know, I'm so lucky. I'm 74 years of age, and I'm so lucky to occasionally still get offered this type of role," Neeson said, referring to his latest movie, "The Mongoose."

"The Mongoose" released in theaters on Oct. 30.

"The Mongoose" director, Mark Vanselow, joined Neeson during the interview and praised him for his "willingness to do what it takes to get it done."

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"As far as the amount of training it requires and the time you put in," Vanselow added. "And then being willing to be flexible in that and try to create something new all the time, which is, you, I think what we're both trying to do with some of this action, but in movies in general."

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This is Vanselow and Neeson's 30th project together, the first with Vanselow leading the charge as the director.

Vanselow previously worked as Neeson's stunt double for almost 30 years.

Vanselow told Fox News Digital that Neeson's outstanding acting capability is what draws audiences in every time.

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Ancient 'rusty treasure' emerges from river with enough iron to forge 500 swords

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:00:06 -0400

Archaeologists have identified Europe's largest known collection of Iron Age iron bars in Austria — raising the possibility that the valuable cargo was lost in a shipwreck on the Danube River more than 2,000 years ago.

Workers recovered at least 500 bars, making the collection the largest known Iron Age find of its kind in Europe. The "rusty treasure," as researchers called it in a press release, would have been extremely valuable during the Iron Age, when iron production and trade were expanding across Europe.

"Fortunately, the gravel workers [who found the iron bars] reported this find to the Monuments Authority and did not sell them to a scrap dealer," Peter Trebsche, a professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told Fox News Digital.

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The iron bars — which weigh more than a metric ton in total — could have been used to forge roughly 500 swords weighing between 3.3 and 4.4 pounds each, according to the researchers.

The research was published earlier this fall by archaeologist Trebsche as well as archaeologist Marion Berranger in the journal Antiquity.

The iron bars were originally discovered in 2019 during gravel extraction work in Deinham, Austria.

Researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine the age of the iron bars, which likely date to the third or second century B.C.

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While its intended destination remains unknown, researchers believe the iron may have been forged in Bavaria, Germany, before being transported along the Danube River.

The discovery sheds new light on the scale of ancient iron production, which has been difficult to measure because iron objects are often overlooked or difficult to date the researchers said.

"Therefore, the discovery of numerous double-pointed iron objects during gravel extraction along the River Danube provided a unique opportunity to investigate large-scale prehistoric iron production and trade," the press release said.

In a statement, Trebsche called the discovery "nothing short of a minor miracle."

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He added, "I am sincerely grateful to the finders that [the workers] decided to donate this extraordinary trove to a state museum collection."

Trebsche told Fox News Digital the iron bars were found during gravel extraction work in an old, silt-filled channel of the Danube River.

He said a shipwreck is the most plausible explanation for how the bars ended up in the river, although no remains of a vessel were found.

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"No parts of the ship were recovered, because this section of the Danube poses some dangers to navigation like stone balls and sand banks," Trebsche noted.

"In support of this interpretation is also the fact that none of the finds shows signs of intentional destruction, which would be indicative of a ritual offering during the Late Iron Age."

He also said the 500-sword figure is only an estimate, as the iron could have been used to make tools or jewelry instead of weapons.

"The amount of iron from Deinham is about ten times larger than the largest iron hoard finds of that period," he said.

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Trebsche said the most surprising aspect of the discovery was the sheer quantity of iron being transported at once — and the fact that so much was available for a single trade transaction during the Late Iron Age.

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"This finding demonstrates the increased capacities of iron production that were reached in the 3rd/2nd century BC in the Danube region," he said.

A number of other Iron Age discoveries have been announced across Europe over the past year.

Earlier this year, archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old temple in Denmark at a major Iron Age settlement that once served as a regional center of power and wealth.

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At around the same time, researchers announced the discovery of rare four-wheeled wagon remains among 950 Iron Age metal objects unearthed in northern England, marking the first potential evidence of such vehicles in Britain.

CodePink leader adds muscle to well-funded fight to ban restaurant delicacy

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:53:26 -0400

WASHINGTON, D.C. — CodePink D.C. Coordinator Olivia DiNucci last month posted a TikTok video of herself in a home supporting an issue far afield from her usual battles supporting the Communist Party of Cuba and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This time, she was backing a local ballot measure, "Initiative 86," introduced in early February in the D.C. City Council to ban foie gras, a fine-dining delicacy made from duck liver, and other products made from birds. D.C. residents will vote on the measure on election day with early voting already started.

The campaign presents itself as a grassroots effort to advance animal welfare, but public financial filings reveal a far more heavily funded operation. A national animal-rights network has supplied hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial support, underwriting paid petition circulators, political consultants, staff salaries and advertising in a campaign that could reshape Washington’s restaurant industry. Far from a shoestring local initiative, the effort has reported nearly half a million dollars in contributions and expenditures, much of it backed by an organization that openly describes local ballot measures as stepping stones toward a broader "pro-animal future."

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A Fox News Digital investigation of campaign-finance records, nonprofit filings and the groups’ own organizing documents traces the people, money and long-term strategy behind Initiative 86 and raises questions about how a fight over one luxury menu item became part of a much larger political campaign over what Americans eat.

Pro-Animal Future, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit based in Portland, Ore., launched the campaign, nicknamed I-86, in D.C. and says its local ballot efforts are part of a broader push to change public attitudes toward common animal agricultural practices. Its IRS filing also lists its name as Pro-Animal DC.

In seven financial reports filed with the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance, Pro-Animal DC provides a window into a local political campaign’s operational, financial and logistical infrastructure.

According to its latest filings, Pro-Animal DC collected a whopping $474,190.62 between Sept. 23, 2025, and Oct. 26, 2026, for the local campaign, with Pro-Animal Future as its major backer, providing it $386,435.77.

Its largest expense is stipends totaling $126,780.36, or about one-quarter of the campaign’s expenses, to a paid professional protest organizer: Cady Witt, whose LinkedIn profile lists her as "community impact coordinator" at "DC Voters for Animals." Witt is also listed as the treasurer of Pro-Animal DC in its campaign reports.

Pro-Animal DC reported another $89,224.00, or about 20% of its expenses, for 293 payments to 64 people described as "consultant - circulator" from September 2025 through October 26, 2026. They got an average payment of $1,394.13 per person.

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Also a professional organizer, CodePink’s DiNucci is typically a fixture at anti-Israel demonstrations and foreign affairs hearings. CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans is married to an American-born, China-based tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, whose funding of activist groups has drawn scrutiny from congressional lawmakers and is the subject of a federal investigation. Pro Animal Future said CodePink doesn’t have a role in its campaign beyond DiNucci’s appearance in her TikTok video.

Pro-Animal Future alleges that birds are "force fed" to gain the weight needed to produce foie gras, and it says its campaigns seek to end "force-feeding" birds and shift public views on animal agriculture. According to its latest available IRS 990 tax filing, Pax Fauna, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Denver, says it’s related to Pro-Animal Future, which it described as doing "lobbying" work.

In 2024, Pax Fauna outlined a 10-year roadmap to build local ballot campaigns and eventually pursue statewide "factory-farming" bans and establish "animal freedom."

The roadmap called such measures a way to "provoke a sort of identity crisis for the voting public" and "storm the nation". The group sought to launch as many as 10 local chapters during the 2025-2026 election cycle.

An anonymous purchaser bought the web domain ProAnimalDC.org in April 2025, according to online records. Today, Pro-Animal Future lists its current campaigns as running in D.C. and Denver and says it worked with Portland’s City Council to ban foie gras sales this past June.

Pax Fauna’s founders said they have spent years organizing with Direct Action Everywhere, an animal-rights 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Berkeley, Ca.

Last year, according to its filings, Pro-Animal Future spent $7,703.70 for Airbnb accommodations. This year, on July 31, it spent $22,418.69 for Airbnb accommodations. Pro-Animal DC has stated that the lodging was for about 60 out-of-town "volunteers" who came to Washington, D.C., in July for a signature-gathering effort called "Goosapalooza." On its website, it promoted the "free housing."

The measure’s language has raised questions about how far the ban could reach. Its definition of a "fattened bird liver product" covers food or byproducts made from birds’ livers when the birds were fattened "through any method or practice," and specifically lists pâtés, spreads and processed meat products as products to be banned. The initiative separately defines "force-feeding" as causing a bird to eat more than it would voluntarily consume.

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Former D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine told City Cast DC, a local media outlet, that the text "includes le poulet," which means chicken in French.

Jon Mandel, an attorney and former D.C. Council legislative staffer, told the same outlet, that the sales provision could reach poultry-liver products made without force-feeding.

Pro-Animal Future spokeswoman Natalie Fulton told City Cast DC the campaign isn’t trying to ban chicken and "is about foie gras." She added that the D.C. Council could clarify the language if voters approve the measure.

However, restaurants in the district who serve the delicacy aren't buying what activists are selling. Bart Hutchins, chef and co-owner of Butterworth’s, a Capitol Hill restaurant popular with Trump administration members, raised a similar concern in an interview with Fox News Digital. "Realistically that could ban at least 20 products that I can think of right off the top of my head that aren’t foie gras," he said. Hutchins said his restaurant would consider legal challenges if the measure passes.

Hutchins sees the initiative as part of a broader effort to restrict what Americans can eat. "If they ban foie gras here, they’ll eventually ban meat here, and they’ll bring that to the rest of the country," he said.

Pro-Animal Future’s 10-year roadmap calls for statewide factory-farming bans but doesn’t define "factory farming." Hutchins said he worries the term could be interpreted broadly.

This week, the dispute followed Hutchins to the 17th Street NW "High Heel Race," a Halloween drag event in the District. Witt, D.C. campaign director for Pro-Animal Future, appeared dressed as Hutchins, wearing a chef’s hat, glasses, a drawn-on mustache and a white corseted outfit.

Nearby, a person in a duck costume crouched with a feeding tube in its mouth. Washingtonian food editor Jessica Sidman shared photos on X, describing Witt simply as "Pro-Animal campaign coordinator." By late Thursday, the photos had 42,200 views, amplifying the campaign even further. Hutchins didn't appear phased by the mimicking, he took to X and said, "Bart derangement syndrome enters the lexicon."

The measure has also drawn opposition from celebrity chef José Andrés, whose D.C. restaurant serves foie gras. He questioned the ban’s broader implications on X, asking, "If duck goes, all goes next?"

The D.C. chief financial officer, Glen Lee, estimates implementing the measure would cost $314,000 from fiscal 2026 through 2029, including $274,000 for an additional inspector and $40,000 for public education. The fiscal impact statement says the District’s Department of Energy and Environment doesn’t inspect restaurant kitchens or other back-of-house operations and isn’t likely to do so. It says the inspector would investigate complaints, inspect establishments and coordinate with other agencies, but doesn’t detail how regulators would verify a product’s origin during routine inspections.

Hutchins said he would continue serving foie gras until the city resolves how to enforce the measure. He disputes the animal-welfare case for a ban, saying he doesn’t believe the feeding process that farms use to create foie gras hurts ducks. Pro-Animal DC’s findings say the practice causes pain and illness. Hutchins also said losing D.C. as a major market could threaten the country’s two commercial foie gras producers, Hudson Valley Foie Gras and La Belle Farm in New York state’s Catskills region.

The measure would regulate sales in D.C. The D.C. chief financial officer’s fiscal impact statement says, "The Office of Revenue Analysis is not aware of any bird farms or bird feeding operations in the District."

The Catskill Foie Gras Collective, a producer group, says its member farms raise ducks cage-free and use small, flexible plastic tubes to deliver feed to a pouch in their throats. It argues the process causes no pain, citing ducks’ anatomy, and says feeding is skipped if a bird hasn't finished digesting its previous meal. The collective also says Catskills foie gras farms employ about 400 people.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Pro-Animal DC, which disputed critics’ claim that Initiative 86’s wording could extend to poultry-liver products beyond foie gras. The campaign said the measure is intended only to prohibit force-feeding and foie gras sales. It said "fattened" refers to the extreme enlargement of birds’ livers associated with foie gras production, not ordinary poultry farming. The campaign pointed to the measure’s findings, which describe covered products as luxury foods made from diseased, enlarged livers, and said the broad definition of "bird" is meant to prevent producers from switching species.

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Pro-Animal DC said D.C. agencies and courts look to a law’s stated purpose when its wording allows more than one interpretation, and said it would welcome Council clarification if voters approve the measure. Asked what language could clarify the measure, spokeswoman Natalie Fulton didn’t elaborate.

The dispute leaves D.C. voters weighing a ballot measure presented as a foie gras ban while others raise broader questions about its wording, enforcement and the campaign’s long-term goals. For Hutchins, the stakes extend beyond one item on a restaurant menu; for Pro-Animal Future, Initiative 86 is one step in a larger effort to change farming practices at a national scale.

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Insane Illinois high school football game sees 172-point explosion before darkness forces venue change

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:51:06 -0400

Well, the high school football regular season — at least down here in Florida — has come to a close.

That's right. Feels like we were just reigniting the stadium lights for the first time in August, and now we're off to the postseason. Time flies when you're having fun!

For anyone paying attention, you know this has been my Saturday routine for two months now.

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I've taken it upon myself here at OutKick to highlight at least one high school football play/ player/ story each and every weekend during the season. These guys are all about to be millionaires with the silly NIL rules, so we might as well get ahead of the curve and start identifying them early.

So far this year, we've seen a wild Hail Mary in Florida, an entire California team get suspended because the mascot shot the bird to some fans, a giant running back in Kentucky smashing heads, and perhaps the best running back in the nation out of Tennessee.

It's been quite a ride. I love Friday night lights — both the TV series and the actual game itself. Nothing beats high school football. In a world of NIL deals, it's the last pure form of amateur athletics left.

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Now, on the note, let's head out to Illinois, where two teams scored so many points in last night's playoff game, they had to move stadiums in the fourth quarter because of darkness.

True story:

This is why we play the game!

Amazing. Goodness gracious, you're just not getting that sort of content at the college or pro level.

Well, scratch that, we used to get it once a week back in the "Pac-12 After Dark" days, but the NCAA took that from us. Crooks!

Anyway, back to this offensive explosion ... take a look at that box score! Take a look at these final stats, courtesy of Don O'Brien, who's head I imagine was SPINNING covering this game last night:

Chicago Goode's Aedan Cleveland finished with 322 rushing yards and five touchdowns. Those are Derrick Henry numbers back when he broke hearts at Yulee High School down here in Florida.

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Not to be outdone, Quincy signal-caller Bryson Little threw for 675 yards a state single-game record eight touchdown passes. He rushed for two more just for good measure.

There were, unofficially (because most stats in high school football are) over 1,400 yards of total offense between these two teams, which were originally scheduled to play on Saturday. The game was moved to Friday, and kicked off at 3 p.m. at Goode's field, which doesn't have lights.

Both defenses apparently didn't get the memo, and the lights became an issue late in the game. Refs decided to hit the pause button at 88-84 with just under four minutes left, and moved the game to a venue about five miles away.

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An hour later, play resumed. Shockingly, there wasn't another touchdown, and the game ended at a measly 172 total points.

What a game. What a night.

What a sport.

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Bill Belichick is a free agent after breakup with 25-year-old girlfriend, Halloween costumes & groceries

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:30:24 -0400

Welcome to Screencaps, "America's Best Daily Column," as named by the readers. Screencaps, which publishes seven-days-a-week, is a mix of sports, pop culture, and emails from sane readers from around the world. This column isn't for the coastal elites. Give us a week to steal your heart. Our track record is pretty good. Let's have some fun.

Here I thought these two would grow old together

Talk about a Friday night news dump. While you were at dinner/Halloween parties, TMZ reported last night that Bill Belichick and his 25-year-old girlfriend JorDON Hudson called it quits in late 2025 & JorDON has already moved on to another man, according to "sources close to JorDON."

I smell an upcoming media blitz from JorDON. Maybe a book. Definitely a podcast series for her own future media company.

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Despite the breakup, Hudson is still seen at North Carolina football games. Why? TMZ says its source contends that the couple remains "committed to their business partnerships and remain close friends."

For those keeping track at home, Bill's record with JorDON at UNC was 4-8 (.333%). His record this year without JorDON through seven games is 4-3 (.571%) with a massive home game today against the Miami Hurricanes.

Never forget the happier times for these two like back in the summer of 2025 when JorDON posted this. What a run. We'll never forget the love they shared with one another.

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Happy Halloween

Here are my notes from Screencaps the III's final school Halloween parade:

There was a disturbingly low number of kids in football costumes. (2) Michigan football kids; (1) 49ers kid; (1) Eagles kid. No Ohio State costumes.
Huge props to the kid who was dressed as Marty McFly. His mom even found him a little skateboard to carry. It had to be the costume of the year.
One of the 1st graders was dressed as a Waste Management worker and he was pulling a cooler that was made to look like a Waste Management trash can. The kid will probably end up a multi-millionaire without going to a day of college.
What's up with so many kids wanting to be Michael Jackson? One of you has a kid who's going as MJ. Tell me how the kids came up with this idea.
I was happy to see some of the kids dressed up like Jason from Friday the 13th and the school allowed it.

• Greg in Nebraska writes: My wife thought this was amazing. I thought you and the Screencap crew might enjoy it.

Readers are fascinated with Cheerios figuring out how to develop a resealable bag

• CF in Kansas says: Thank you Cheerios! It's about time. When I shared the news with my son-in-law his response was: "My cereal bag origami skills are no longer needed???" 🤣

As for what to do with the ziploc bags after the cereal is gone, I'm going to rinse out the baggies and reuse them. My mom did the same thing and I remember her telling me "I was a child of the Depression; throwing them away after one use is wasteful."

Readers are also fascinated with the topic of how you do grocery shopping in 2026

This topic is just going to keep getting hotter. This week, I wrote about how 15% of Americans are now not stepping foot, regularly, into grocery stores. Instead, they're shopping on their phones and picking up like back in the COVID days, but the practice has exploded.

• Galen D. checks in: Thanks for continually having your thumb on the pulse of topics that drive mainstream America! On the subject of Delivery or No, I have a new perspective.

As I moved from Johnson City, TN to Sunset Beach, NC things have drastically changed in the last few months. We have gone from a "food desert" to a new Publix and a SuperWalmart opening within a month of each other this week and only 2 miles away. I am well versed in Publix (Pub Sub, BOGOs, etc), but is Walmart delivery worth it? Of course, I will do my own veggie, fresh fruit, etc, but what are the experiences with just a regular delivery? Is it worth the monthly charge? Thanks ScreenCaps Nation for any input!

• Jim T. in San Diego wants all of us to remember: Oh my goodness, the idea of getting your groceries delivered surely has a bunch of panties getting bunched up in SC Nation.

Which cracks me up because home delivery pre-dates the modern supermarket!

My grandmother used to get her meat from a butcher shop - yes, an entire store that only sold meat! - over off Shiloh Springs Road. And she want to Mumma's for her produce. And guess what? She could phone in her order, and they'd both deliver at no extra charge. So did the bakery. And when "supermarkets" showed up, she'd call the IGA and they'd deliver at no cost.

The whole time I was growing up in Kettering, we had our milk and other dairy delivered to our house 3x a week. We even had an insulated milk box on our front porch for the deliveries.

So none of this is new.

And for those grousing that you need to man up and go forage at the local Kroger's like our ancestors did, guess what? Your time has value.

We use home delivery probably once a week. My wife enjoys shopping as she works from home, and shopping gets her out of the house and away from us for a bit.

As for Bob in Cincy - Dorothy Lane Market is the bomb, at least the one on State Route 48 between Kettering and Centerville. Was in there a couple years ago while back home visiting, and laying in supplies for a cookout, and was blown away by DLM's beer and wine selection, that fact that the snack aisle only had a couple Lays products - everything else being regional chips, pretzels, etc.

And the meat counter was insane!

• Geoff in SD wants in: As the main driver of all things food in our house, I'm 100% on board with letting the store employees pick out anything that is pre-packaged. I'll take the time to go shopping for fruits, veggies, and meat with my wife, but with 5 kids in the house with no drivers yet, and none of them driving, I think we're at least at the relative peak of busy-ness, and might be at the absolute peak, so I'll take any assistance that I can get. I'm even pushing for home delivery of groceries, so that I can schedule the delivery for right after school, and my middle schoolers can put them away!

At OutKick/Fox News Digital, I'm allowed to write such things

• Brad S. is impressed: I loved the way you started 'Caps today: It's like shooting fish in a barrel right now for this column.

Sadly, I'll bet some PETA idiots will complain!

Chili's has things figured out

• Mark in NorCal stops by: Went to Chili's for the first time in forever last night. Place was packed!! We have been told that nobody is spending $. Not last night! Chili's might be getting it right as a burger and fries were around $15 and really good. Unlimited refills on sodas and the bottomless chips were a hit before the meal came out. Was surprised by the experience.

Then this morning I came across a report that Private Equity is swimming around Wendy's which would be the final nail in their coffin.

Travel ball parents hitting their wall

• Duncan is ready for fall/winter: It's my son's last weekend of travel ball for the fall. Check out this schedule:

Friday - 8:20 pm game, 1 hour drive

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Saturday - 12:00 game, 1 hour drive

Sunday - either 2:00 or 4:00 depending on seeding. If they win, play at 6:00. And another 1 hour drive. And I have to pay $14 to get into each game.

At least we get the extra hour of sleep on Saturday night!

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13 straight editions of Screencaps comes to an end with this one

• Deb from Marco Island says: Not only will you not need to set the alarm on Sunday morning, you'll get an extra hour to sleep (or stay up the night before). Daylight Savings ends.

Kinsey: I can't wait, Deb. You won't hear me complaining even if I wake up at 4:45 due to my internal clock. As long as I don't hear that alarm tomorrow morning, all will be right in my world.

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That's it this morning. Stay safe out there tonight. It's going to be amateur hour. I'm off to Screencaps the III's final soccer game. After that, it's time to start enjoying fall festivities and hang our new $22 fold-up skeleton that I bought from Aldi (helluva find!) from the basketball hoop. The boys were fired up after I suggested it. Now I just need to figure out a way to tie fishing line to the skeleton to make it look like 'Bones' is flying through the air.

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Tinder killer who believed he was a warlock said he 'picked the wrong person' after murdering woman

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 08:00:47 -0400

Sydney Loofe thought she was heading out for a second date with a woman she met on Tinder. Instead, the 24-year-old vanished — and the man convicted of her murder would later make a disturbing admission about why she proved to be the "wrong person" to kill.

"I don't regret killing Sydney," Aubrey Trail said, according to filmmaker Christopher St. John. "I don't regret killing somebody, but I regret killing ... I picked the wrong person."

Trail, then a 52-year-old con man, was convicted of strangling the Nebraska store clerk with an electrical cord in 2017, cutting her body into 14 pieces, placing the remains in garbage bags and dumping them in roadside ditches. At the trial, witnesses testified that Trail and his girlfriend, Bailey Boswell, then 25, had solicited them for group sex and talked about the occult and gaining "powers" through killing.

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"One of the FBI agents said that the culprits were in a frenzy," St. John told Fox News Digital. "They were looking to do this, and Sydney was the available target. She was trusting and innocent and fit the profile. You then later hear Aubrey Trail, the murderer, says, 'I picked the wrong person.'"

"I think that's incredibly chilling for me because he has no remorse, but he wishes that he hadn't chosen someone with such strong family and friends because it led to his capture."

Loofe's murder at the hands of Trail, who described himself as a "powerful warlock" and the leader of a sex cult, is explored in the new Hulu true crime docuseries "Swipe Right on the Devil." The three-part series features interviews with Loofe's loved ones and investigators, as well as recordings of Trail from death row.

Loofe, a cashier at Menards, a home improvement store, lived alone in an apartment with her cat, Mimsy. According to friends, she was yearning for a relationship. On Tinder, she came across a profile for a woman named Audrey, an alias used by Boswell. After matching and exchanging messages, the two women went on their first date. They planned a second date for the next day. Loofe was smitten.

"Sydney was like any one of us," said St. John. "She was feeling lonely and searching for belonging. She had gone on a date with this woman, and she was so excited that she immediately wrote to her friends. They were like, 'Great, nothing to worry about.' And she was never heard from again. Something awful came out of the darkness."

When Loofe didn't show up for her morning shift the following day, her family requested a welfare check. Police found her car in the driveway. Her work clothes and purse were laid out for work. Her cat hadn't been fed.

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Loofe's friend, Brooklyn McCrystal, knew that she had been on a date the night before she disappeared. McCrystal created a Tinder profile to find Audrey in hopes of getting her contact information. When McCrystal matched with Audrey on the dating app, they exchanged phone numbers. McCrystal gave Boswell's information to police. Loofe's friends also showed investigators her final social media post, a selfie shared on Snapchat captioned "Ready for my date."

"Brooklyn provided the first big break in the case," said St. John. "She catfished the bad guys. There's digital tracking. It's got all the hallmarks of an amazing investigation. But ultimately, what led to Aubrey and Bailey's capture was the people who were devoted to Sydney searching for answers."

Boswell refused to cooperate with investigators. When police tracked her phone, they learned it was a burner phone registered under a fake name. They traced the phone to hotels in the area, where surveillance video and a state-issued ID presented at check-in helped investigators identify Boswell as "Audrey." The video also showed that she was traveling with an older man, Trail. The Lincoln Journal Star reported that Loofe's phone last pinged at Boswell and Trail's apartment that night.

Investigators obtained a search warrant for the apartment, which smelled strongly of bleach. Boswell and Trail had paid their rent early and left.

Police named Boswell and Trail as persons of interest. On Nov. 29, 2017, the couple released a video on social media denying any involvement in Loofe's disappearance. Boswell said she had gone on two dates with Loofe, but after their second date, she had dropped Loofe off at a friend’s house. Despite maintaining their innocence, they went on the run.

Boswell and Trail were arrested on Nov. 30, 2017, near Branson, Missouri, on unrelated federal fraud charges.

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Nearly three weeks after Loofe disappeared, investigators used cellphone data to trace Boswell and Trail's movements and identify rural areas where they appeared to have slowed down or stopped.

On Dec. 4, 2017, investigators searched a roadside ditch near Edgar, Nebraska. They found car keys, a phone, a label with Loofe's name and her dismembered upper arm, which bore a tattoo that read "Everything will be wonderful someday." The Lincoln Journal Star reported that some garbage bags contained her clothing.

According to court documents, Trail and Boswell were captured on surveillance video at a Home Depot in Lincoln on Nov. 15, 2017, buying tools investigators believed were used to dismember Loofe, hours before her death. Investigators believed Boswell and Trail had lured Loofe through Tinder before killing her and dismembering her body.

"During the trial, the prosecutor said that Aubrey and Bailey had four arms, four legs and one mind," director Brian Biegel told Fox News Digital. "That speaks to how intertwined they were, how they fed off of each other's darkness and desire for evil."

After his arrest, investigators questioned Trail about accounts that he portrayed himself as a powerful warlock and surrounded himself with women he called witches. Trail initially dismissed the occult talk as role-playing, but later told investigators, "Witches kill ... the more they kill, their power increases."

"I spoke to Aubrey Trail for over two years on the telephone and on video conferences," said Biegel. "I do believe that he believes, based on his history growing up in rural Tennessee and the people that he was groomed by, which, according to him, were witches and they believe in dark magic."

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"I believe, that he believes, that he has special powers and he can use them mostly to manipulate vulnerable people into bending to his will," Biegel continued. "And I think that's an important distinction because yes, in his words, he was trying to form a coven of witches and groom them to do awful, terrible things. It's his belief that if they had done that, they would have superpowers."

St. John said the filmmakers were aware during production that Trail was "a liar and a serial one."

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"There's truth in and among the lies, so we were constantly trying to check ourselves and be like, 'Are we being manipulated by him just like he manipulated these young women?' And honestly, we didn't want to give him more of a platform for his, frankly, out-there views."

The docuseries also examines how Boswell used multiple identities on Tinder to meet women, including Loofe.

Ana Golyakova said Trail required her and Boswell to be intimate in front of him, while Ashley Hills said Trail beat her if she disobeyed his demands. Hills said Trail's rules included remaining naked, asking permission to do virtually anything — even to use the bathroom — and not speaking to other men.

Several women described similar patterns of control. Hills also said Trail told her he practiced witchcraft and could control people's minds.

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The filmmakers said the women's accounts were crucial to understanding how Trail and Boswell operated — and how investigators ultimately brought them to justice.

"At the heart of this story is Sydney Loofe and the women who were pulled into the orbit of Aubrey and Bailey," said St. John.

"These were young women who, in a very universal way, were searching for belonging in a place that was hard for them to find that. It made them vulnerable and, as a result, they fell into this awful situation. But they were incredibly brave. Other than Sydney, who unfortunately was killed, these young women have told their story in court, and they're responsible for putting these people away."

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Trail was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in 2019. He also pleaded no contest to improper disposal of human skeletal remains. He was sentenced to death in 2021.

Boswell was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and improper disposal of human skeletal remains in 2020. She was sentenced to life in prison the following year.

"There was a thirst for doing something really awful to someone that had built up in Bailey and Aubrey's orbit," said Biegel. "And so, Sydney was at the wrong place at the wrong time. She came into their world at a time when they were ready to perform some of their supposed beliefs in witchcraft and dark magic."

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"This is obviously a cautionary tale about not knowing who's on the other side of the screen," Biegel said. "But had it not been for the brilliant work of the Lincoln Police Department and the FBI, there would probably still be two killers on the streets. Who knows how many other people they would have killed?"

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Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

EXCLUSIVE: State Department accuses politicians of endangering Afrikaner lives after gruesome farm attacks

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:43 -0400

FIRST ON FOX: The State Department has hit out strongly against South Africa and some of its politicians, accusing them of putting their people’s lives at risk following two attacks on White farmers believed to be Afrikaners — people of European descent — near Johannesburg.

A 50-year-old man was reportedly tortured, and a 55-year-old woman allegedly beaten to death.

In exclusive comments to Fox News Digital, a State Department spokesperson said "the lives and property of Afrikaners have been endangered by politicians who incite race-based violence against them."

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This is the latest volley from the administration in an increasingly bitter row, which first burst out of the Oval Office last year in a heated exchange between President Donald Trump and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, on a range of the country’s policies and issues — including safety concerns for the Afrikaner community.

"This month’s attacks were ‘appalling,’ said Ian Cameron, chair of South Africa’s Portfolio Committee on Police and a member of Parliament with the main opposition Democratic Alliance.

He detailed the attacks, starting with one involving Donovan Marx, a 50-year-old who was on his farm about 80 miles from Johannesburg.

Cameron told Fox News Digital there were reports Marx was shot, stabbed and had his ears cut off, describing the attack as "extraordinary cruelty."

He added that in a separate attack in the same North West Province earlier this month, a female farmer, Hannetjie van Zyl, 55, was beaten to death while opening a gate.

Eyewitness reports claim she was approached from behind and hit repeatedly over the head with an iron bar.

In both attacks, the victims’ vehicles and belongings were reportedly stolen. But the alleged torture of Marx goes beyond straightforward crimes such as burglary, Corné Mulder, leader of the opposition party Freedom Front Plus, told Fox News Digital.

"Safety and farm attacks in South Africa remains a huge problem," Mulder said. "Donovan Marx was attacked this week. He's fighting for his life in hospital at the moment. The perpetrators not only attacked him, they tried to castrate him."

While both victims were White, there have been no accusations from public figures that the attacks were racially motivated.

Cameron claimed the attacks were not isolated, noting he had "personally attended farm-attack scenes where people were tortured with boiling water, burnt with clothing irons and subjected to other horrific abuse."

"SAPS [South African Police Service] must put experienced investigators, forensic support and crime intelligence behind these cases," Cameron said. "Nobody should have to accept this level of violence as a normal part of life."

The reported torture of farmers is "unthinkable," Mulder said, adding "not one word from the President of South Africa to sympathize, not even acknowledging that this has happened, which is absolutely unbelievable."

"We have been pleading with [the] government to prioritize rural crime and farm attacks as a priority crime, they are not prepared to do so," he continued.

Fox News Digital reached out to the South African government for comment, but was referred to police, who did not immediately respond.

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Mulder claims the recent farm attacks were fueled by the South African president’s refusal to heed Trump’s demand last year to stop performances of the song "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer." The term "Boer" refers to a South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent, according to Merriam-Webster.

Ramaphosa said he could not stop the song being chanted in stadiums by crowds of up to 90,000 because the country’s highest court has said the lyrics are not hate speech.

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"As long as [President Ramaphosa] does not stop the incitement to attack farmers with the singing of the song "Kill the Boer," the attacks will continue," Mulder wrote in a statement. "We see the practical reality when these things play out as happened with the last two farm attacks that we've seen."

Last month, U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Brent Bozell III told Fox News Digital that Ramaphosa could ban the song despite a court ruling that it did not constitute hate speech.

"So, to say, well, you can’t do it because the court said it’s not, you know, that’s poppycock," Bozell said. "If President Ramaphosa, if he wants to, he can do it. It’s just as simple as that."

The State Department doubled down on the administration’s demand that the singing of the song be banned, with a spokesperson telling Fox News Digital on Friday, "The United States asked senior government officials to condemn incitement to race-based violence, particularly the singing of "Kill the Farmer! Kill the Boer!"

The spokesperson added that Trump has demanded South Africa formally designate rural crime as a priority crime, and "expand alternatives to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment ownership requirements, such as equity equivalent investment programs."

Regarding farmers, the State Department spokesperson said South African politicians "threaten to confiscate their farms without compensation and support a corrupt, race-based scoring system that discriminates against Afrikaners and other minorities in employment."

"The lack of a meaningful response to these requests made clear that the South African government does not want a constructive relationship with the United States and is willing to continue pursuing oppressive policies that disadvantage all South Africans," the spokesperson continued.

Nearly 13,000 South African refugees, most of them Afrikaners, have been flown to the U.S. during fiscal year 2026. That number is expected to increase by another 17,500 refugees in fiscal year 2027.

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"As directed by President Trump, we are prioritizing the resettlement of Afrikaners in South Africa escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination," the State Department spokesperson said.

How to follow 2026 Election Day coverage on Fox News platforms

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:29 -0400

Fox News will deliver live results, race calls and around-the-clock coverage as voters decide control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.

Here's how to watch the biggest House, Senate and governor's races unfold across Fox News Channel, Fox News Digital and streaming platforms.

Election Day 2026 is just days away, and Fox News Media will deliver live, multiplatform coverage Tuesday, Nov. 3, as Americans head to the polls to decide control of Congress and key governor's offices across the country.

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From closely watched Senate showdowns to competitive House races that could determine the balance of power in Washington, Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital will provide live results, breaking developments and analysis throughout Election Night.

Viewers can watch live coverage on Fox News Go with a participating television provider or stream Fox News Channel through FOX One.

Fox News Channel's special "FOX News Democracy 26" coverage begins at 6 p.m. ET Tuesday, co-anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.

Dana Perino, Brit Hume, Harold Ford Jr., Bill Hemmer, Sandra Smith, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity and other Fox News personalities will contribute throughout the evening.

The Fox News Decision Desk will provide race calls for House, Senate and gubernatorial contests, along with projections of which party will control each chamber of Congress.

For this year’s election coverage, FNC will expand its use of augmented reality and data-driven graphics to provide viewers with a deeper understanding of election results as they unfold. Enhanced visualizations will illustrate county-level voting shifts compared to previous elections, track the balance of power in Congress and provide additional context around key races.

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The network will also showcase versatile graphics packages, templates and automated production processes, allowing teams to respond quickly to breaking developments while building technology that can be used across future election cycles.

FOX Business will simulcast Fox News Channel's Election Night coverage from 6 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday. Trace Gallagher will lead overnight coverage until a special early edition of "FOX & Friends First" begins at 4 a.m.

On Fox News Digital, readers can follow a live Election Night blog featuring breaking developments, Fox News Power Rankings and Fox News Voter Analysis as polls close across the country.

The Fox News Elections Center will provide a central destination for tracking key races, election results and the battle for control of Congress.

The Fox News app will also debut a new "Midterms 2026" tab featuring interactive county-level election maps and an AI-powered "Election HQ" chatbot that answers questions about races and results using Fox News reporting.

Signed-in users can participate in "The Room," an interactive Election Night discussion experience featuring real-time commentary.

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For additional Election Night analysis, "Ruthless Live! Midterm Election Show" will stream from 8 to 11 p.m. ET on Fox News Digital and FOX Nation.

Listeners can tune in to Fox News Radio or use the Fox News app's "Listen" feature beginning at 7 p.m. ET, when Jared Halpern and Jessica Rosenthal kick off live radio coverage.

More than 20 Fox News Channel and FOX Business correspondents will report from battleground states nationwide, while chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram will provide updates from Capitol Hill.

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With control of the House and Senate on the line, make Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital your destination for Election Night 2026 results, live coverage and the latest developments from across the country.

Marvel star Paul Bettany blew out 10 blood vessels in his eye during wild ‘VisionQuest’ scene

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:00:17 -0400

Paul Bettany's return to the Marvel universe came with an unexpected injury.

An over-the-top performance on the set of Marvel's "VisionQuest" left him with a gruesome eye injury that lasted two weeks.

"So, I was pretending to have a device on my head that is doing something to my brain, and I was just wildly overacting. And I blew out about 10 blood vessels in my eye," he explained during an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

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"I mean, I was it was a lesson in less is more," Bettany added, before Kimmel showed a photo of his bloody injury to the audience.

Bettany admitted he was stuck with his injured eye for two weeks, but said that the show must go on.

"I think ... it must have cost production so much to take it out because we shot the whole [thing]."

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And despite playing a character known for his superhuman vision, Bettany admitted his own eyesight was far from perfect.

"I mean the irony is the actor playing Vision is kind of myopic, you know. I can't see a thing when I take my glasses off, which is great depending on the actor," he joked.

Bettany reprised his role as Vision for the Disney+ series – the final chapter of a television trilogy that began with "WandaVision" in 2021 and continued with "Agatha All Along" in 2024.

In "VisionQuest," Bettany portrays a rebuilt version of Vision who is struggling to understand his identity and recover a sense of purpose.

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"So when we find vision, he has had his memories restored, but he is unable or perhaps unwilling to attach any feelings to them," Bettany told Kimmel. "And he is living a very quiet life in a pub in Scotland where he works."

"At night he goes and lives in the fridge freezer, and he goes inside his own head and in that head is a kind of what we call the mind space, and it's a mansion," he explained, comparing the concept to the movie "Inside Out."

"In that head, in that mansion are a bunch of different AIs who have differing personalities that help him sort of sift through the data of the day and understand humanity," he added.

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Bettany got his start in the Marvel universe as J.A.R.V.I.S, Tony Stark's artificial intelligence assistant. His new character, Vision, was created when the Avengers uploaded J.A.R.V.I.S.'s AI into a synthetic body originally designed by Ultron, using the Mind Stone to bring him to life.

"Do AI companies try to get you to do J.A.R.V.I.S. for them?" Kimmel asked.

"Gosh, I wish," he said. "I would be hanging up my acting."

"Maybe that is a seed that has now been planted," Kimmel joked.

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