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Reds superstar uncorks one of the fastest throws in MLB history to nail runner at home in epic relay

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:22:44 -0400

Every once in a while, a professional athlete will do something so absurd on the field that people will question if the athlete is from this world. Cincinnati Reds superstar Elly De La Cruz is now the center of that conversation.

During the Reds’ 3-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, De La Cruz uncorked one of the fastest throws in MLB history during an epic relay.

In the bottom of the third inning, Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández laced a line drive to center field off Reds starter Nick Lodolo. Reds center fielder Dane Myers came sprinting in to try to make a diving catch in front of him, but couldn’t get there in time and missed the ball completely.

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As the ball bounced all the way to the wall, Hernández turned on the jets as he steamed around the bases in hopes of hitting an inside-the-park home run. Reds left fielder JJ Bleday eventually picked up the ball as Hernández was rounding third base and fired to De La Cruz, who was positioned in shallow center field for the relay throw.

De La Cruz caught Bleday’s toss and fired a 105.3 mph strike to home plate. Reds catcher Jose Trevino fielded the throw and slid over to tag Hernández and record the out at home.

De La Cruz’s remarkable display of arm strength left his manager and teammates in awe.

"That was one of the better throws you'll ever see, I mean, ever," Reds manager Terry Francona said, according to MLB.com. "I know I turn on the old things and you see Dave Parker or somebody making throws or Clemente; they might be showing that one (now)."

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"Every time he throws a ball, it's an absolute rocket," starting pitcher Nick Lodolo said, according to MLB.com. "It was a great throw, and it was a great pick by (Trevino) to stay with that and make the tag. A lot of credit to both guys there."

De La Cruz’s throw was the second-fastest throw resulting in an outfield assist since Statcast began tracking throws in 2015. Only New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Hicks topped De La Cruz’s throw, reaching 105.5 mph on a throw in 2016.

The Reds superstar had no idea he threw it as hard as he did.

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"I thought it was like 98, 99 (mph)," De La Cruz said, according to MLB.com. "I didn't know; it was not hard."

In addition to taking a run off the board for the Dodgers, De La Cruz was responsible for the Reds’ only two runs of the game. He hammered Tarik Skubal’s 87 mph changeup 444 feet into the left-field seats for a two-run home run in the top of the third inning, tying the game 2-2.

It was the fourth straight game in which De La Cruz hit a home run. It was the two-time All-Star’s 25th home run of the season. In 126 games, he is hitting .283 with 25 stolen bases and 69 RBI, in addition to his 25 home runs.

WNBA legend Breanna Stewart opens up on representing America at FIBA Women's World Cup

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:20:33 -0400

New York Liberty star and WNBA legend Breanna Stewart is leading Team USA’s pursuit of a fifth consecutive FIBA World Cup title, and appears proud to represent the red, white and blue while doing it.

Stewart told OutKick what it means to represent her country in Berlin ahead of the Americans’ quarterfinal game against Hungary on Thursday.

"It feels great," Stewart said. "I think that any time I can represent Team USA I want to. I've had the incredible opportunity of being able to do it for a long time and since I was really young, and every time I get the call I want to show up."

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Stewart’s history with USA Basketball stretches back to 2009, when she competed at the U16 level as a 14-year-old. She has since won three Olympic gold medals and three World Cup championships. She was also named MVP of the 2018 World Cup.

A championship in Berlin would give Stewart a fourth World Cup title and extend one of the most dominant runs in sports history.

The U.S. went undefeated in group play, although its 55-52 escape against Italy exposed some vulnerability. Stewart then led the Americans with 19 points, seven rebounds and six assists in a 105-64 victory over Czechia.

She is averaging 10.3 points, 8.3 rebounds and three assists through three games.

Stewart’s enthusiastic answer about representing the country stood in contrast to comments from some American athletes during the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina.

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Freestyle skier Hunter Hess said representing the U.S. brought "mixed emotions" because of the political climate and the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies.

"Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.," Hess said.

President Donald Trump publicly criticized Hess over the remarks. Hess later clarified that he loved America and believed the freedom to criticize its government was one of the country’s strengths.

Fellow freestyle skier Chris Lillis also expressed concern about conditions at home while competing for Team USA.

"I feel heartbroken about what’s happening in the United States," he said. "I’m pretty sure you’re referencing ICE and some of the protests and things like that. I think that as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody’s rights and making sure that we’re treating our citizens as well as anybody, with love and respect."

Stewart has not avoided political activism herself. She held an "Abolish ICE" sign before an Unrivaled game in January and has long spoken publicly about social justice and LGBTQ rights.

But when asked about wearing a Team USA uniform, Stewart did not hesitate to show pride for her national team. Her focus was on answering the call and continuing a run that began when she was a teenager.

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The Americans will face a Hungary team that defeated Japan 84-63 to reach the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time in 40 years. Team USA is three victories away from another championship—and Stewart remains eager to carry the flag through all of them.

Nike forgot that Republicans buy sneakers, too, and now it's getting booted from the S&P 100

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:18:56 -0400

"Republicans buy sneakers, too."

Those famous words came from Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. He was also the athlete most responsible for transforming Nike from a shoe company into a global sports empire.

Jordan made the comment during the 1990 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina, after his mother urged him to support Democratic candidate Harvey Gantt and record a public-service announcement. Jordan confirmed in ESPN’s "The Last Dance" that he made the remark jokingly on a team bus.

Maybe so. But the line endured because it captured a basic business lesson in four words. Republicans buy shoes. Democrats buy shoes. Most companies benefit when both groups want to buy theirs.

Nike stopped listening.

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After spending much of the past decade injecting left-wing politics into its brand, Nike is now set to be removed from the S&P 100, ending a run of nearly 18 years in the blue-chip index. S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the move Friday, and Nike will come out before trading begins Sept. 21.

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S&P isn’t kicking Nike out because the index committee hated the Kaepernick ad or saw Dylan Mulvaney in a sports bra. Nike is getting kicked out because its value collapsed.

The politics didn’t wipe out $200 billion by itself. But Nike volunteered to alienate customers while it was already losing ground everywhere else.

The sports apparel giant reached a market value of approximately $281 billion near its November 2021 peak. Nike shares closed Tuesday at $38.10, giving the company a market capitalization of roughly $56.5 billion. The stock was about 79% below its Nov. 5, 2021 intraday record of $179.10, and more than $220 billion in market value had disappeared.

Getting removed from the S&P 100 won’t put Nike out of business. It will still sell billions of dollars in shoes and sign some of the biggest athletes in the world.

But Nike used to look untouchable. Now it’s worth about one-fifth of what it was five years ago and no longer has a spot in one of America’s premier blue-chip indexes.

Nike bet on China and still lost

China is where this story gets really good.

Nike made Colin Kaepernick the face of its 30th-anniversary "Just Do It" campaign after he refused to stand for the national anthem, saying he wouldn’t show pride in a country that "oppresses Black people and people of color."

Nike apparently thought that was a message worth putting on billboards across America.

Contrast that with how the company publicly talked about China.

In 2021, Nike faced backlash from Chinese consumers after the company expressed concern about reports of forced labor involving Uyghurs in Xinjiang. During an earnings call a few months later, then-CEO John Donahoe made Nike’s priorities clear.

"We’re a brand of China and for China," Donahoe said.

Quite a difference, isn’t it? Nike had plenty to say about oppression when the target was the United States. But when the company’s business in an actual communist country came under pressure, its CEO reminded everyone that Nike had been investing there for more than 40 years, operated thousands of stores and remained committed to the Chinese market.

Nike was perfectly willing to embrace anti-American messaging at home while continuing to grow in China by assuring Chinese consumers that the company was "of China and for China."

It didn’t work.

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When Donahoe made that declaration in 2021, Nike generated $8.29 billion in Greater China. Five years later, that number is down to $5.85 billion. Nearly 30% of the business disappeared, including an 11% drop in the past year.

So much for being "of China and for China."

Nike kept choosing left-wing politics at home

In 2019, Nike pulled a Fourth of July-themed Air Max sneaker featuring the Betsy Ross flag because it said the design could "unintentionally offend." A year later, the company launched its "For Once, Don’t Do It" racial-justice campaign and publicly embraced Black Lives Matter messaging.

Then Nike partnered with Dylan Mulvaney in 2023 for a paid promotion of women’s leggings and sports bras. Also, OutKick reported that researchers and a Boston Children’s Hospital publication had described Nike as supporting a proposed study involving transgender youth athletes. A Nike executive, speaking to OutKick on background, later said the study "was never initialized" and was "not moving forward," while researcher Joanna Harper subsequently said Nike had pulled out after critics learned of it.

Nike made left-wing politics part of its identity and repeatedly dared customers to object.

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Now Nike is leaving the S&P 100, its stock is down nearly 80% from its peak and its executives are trying to rebuild the product innovation and marketplace relationships that once made the company dominant.

Michael Jordan understood that Republicans buy sneakers, too.

He also understood something Nike forgot: They don’t have to buy yours.

Fiery San Diego plane crash kills 2

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:01:13 -0400

A deadly airplane crash in San Diego, California, on Monday killed the two people on board.

Video footage shows the fiery aftermath as a plume of thick, black smoke billowed out from the wrecked Cessna at the Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) provided preliminary information to Fox News Digital which stated, "A Cessna 172 crashed while landing at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in California around 5:15 p.m. local time on Monday, Sept. 7. Two people were on board. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will investigate. The NTSB will lead the investigation and will provide further updates."

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In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, the NTSB said preliminary information indicates the aircraft "impacted terrain on airport property" amid a go-around and a "post impact fire ensued."

The FAA explains on its website that a go-around "discontinues the landing approach and returns the aircraft to an altitude and configuration to safely make another approach."

"An NTSB investigator is en route to the scene and is expected to arrive this afternoon," the NTSB's statement first issued Tuesday noted. "Once on site, the investigator will begin the process of documenting the scene and examining the aircraft. The aircraft will then be recovered to a secure facility for further evaluation."

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An FAA preliminary notice regarding the incident suggests that the crash occurred after the plane's "LEFT WING DIPPED" and the aircraft then "APPEARED TO STALL AND SPUN INTO GROUND."

KNSD reports include footage of San Diego Fire-Rescue Department's Brian Raines noting that the aircraft had been "heavily damaged" and responders were unable to extract the victims, but needed to focus on quenching the flames.

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Fox News Digital reached out to the San Diego Police Department and the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department on Wednesday.

Can Marvin Harrison Jr. and Trey McBride carry the Cardinals offense under new coach Mike LaFleur?

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:51:08 -0400

When a franchise moves on from a former No. 1 overall pick at quarterback, resets its coaching staff, and embraces a complete roster transformation, establishing a baseline level of execution becomes the ultimate priority. With former 49ers offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur stepping in as head coach and veteran signal-caller Jacoby Brissett taking over under center, Arizona is aiming to establish a culture of accountability and rebuild its foundation in a relentless division.

Last Year

The Cardinals endured a miserable 2025 campaign, finishing last in the NFC West with a 3–14 record. Complete divisional non-competitiveness defined the fall, as Arizona went 0–6 against NFC West opponents. A brutal 0–5 stretch in field-goal-margin decisions and a 2–8 record in one-possession games exposed a glaring lack of execution down the stretch, ultimately leading to a clean-sweep coaching change in Glendale. It also didn’t help that Marvin Harrison Jr. looked like he took a step back last season, and Kyler Murray wasn’t very effective even when he did play.

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Offseason additions and subtractions

The biggest move came at quarterback, where Arizona parted ways with Kyler Murray to clear future cap space, turning the keys over to veteran Jacoby Brissett and signing backup Gardner Minshew. To build out the depth chart under LaFleur, the Cardinals brought in wide receivers Kendrick Bourne and Devin Duvernay alongside running back Tyler Allgeier. None of these moves are going to make this team a playoff team, but it will at least make them potentially competitive. It should also give LeFleur a chance to showcase what he can do and what areas the team needs to improve.

Roster

Marvin Harrison Jr., Michael Wilson, Kendrick Bourne, and All-Pro caliber tight end Trey McBride give the offense a bit of hope. However, there are a lot of questions about these players. I can’t look at any of them, except maybe McBride, and say that I have a lot of confidence in them. Rookie Jeremiyah Love could provide the ground game with a nice uptick. He has a high-ankle sprain, so it remains to be seen if he will be there for the opener.

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Defensively, Nick Rallis was retained as coordinator to maintain scheme continuity, but the unit remains thin on elite game-disruptors. Upfront, edge rusher Josh Sweat anchors the pass rush alongside Andrew Billings, while a young secondary will face immediate pressure against high-octane NFC West offenses.

Betting Outlook

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I suppose the positive approach here is to take the over. But, as sports gamblers, we don’t look at things as positive and negative. We have to be objective and as realistic as possible. The Cardinals could win four games, but do you really want to rely on them to do it? I don’t see that much improvement this season, but the floor for bad teams should really be three games. I just don’t know why we would want to take the over, but the under is a risk. I won’t be betting on them, but if you made me pick, I’d take the under 3.5 games.

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Jimmy Kimmel returns from lengthy hiatus with defiant message to FCC Chair Brendan Carr

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:41:22 -0400

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr during his show on Tuesday, returning from a summer break, and said, "We are still here."

The late-night host noted that Tuesday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was its 4,000th episode.

"We’ve done 4,000 of these. Which is, it’s a lot of shows," Kimmel said. "According to the White House, it’s too many shows."

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"There are those who said we would never last this long. There are even those who used the regulatory might of the FCC to unconstitutionally try to make sure we didn’t last this long. But we did it the hard way, Brendan. And we are still here," Kimmel said.

Kimmel referenced his show's brief suspension and ongoing clash with Carr in 2025.

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The FCC did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for comment. White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital in a statement, "Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talent loser who has be-clowned himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his dwindling audience. He is so devoid of actual talent that nobody with any commonsense would ever watch him unless it was to laugh at his miserable failures."

Carr warned ABC and Disney in September 2025 that the FCC could take action over comments made by Kimmel about the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk. Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025.

"In some quarters, there's a very concerted effort to try to lie to the American people about the nature … of one of the most significant newsworthy public interest acts that we've seen in a long time in what appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into that narrative that this was somehow a MAGA or a Republican-motivated person," Carr said at the time.

"Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead," Carr continued.

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Kimmel's comment from Tuesday's show was likely referencing Carr's "hard way" remarks from 2025.

Kimmel also took aim at President Donald Trump during Tuesday's episode, saying he accomplished nothing all summer.

"You know, Donald Trump and I have one thing in common: We both accomplished nothing all summer long," he said, criticizing inflation, Trump's approval numbers, the reflection pool and the war in Iran.

Kimmel said, "At this point, Blockbuster Video has a better chance of reopening than the Strait of Hormuz."

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Kimmel was briefly suspended last year over remarks he made about the man accused of assassinating Kirk.

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger defended the company's decision to suspend Kimmel at the time, saying Disney viewed the remarks as "in bad taste."

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In an interview with the Financial Times published in June, Iger said Disney's decision to remove "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" from the air was made not to appease the Trump administration but because of comments Kimmel made in September after Kirk's assassination.

"That was not the case," Iger said. "We thought it was in bad taste."

Iger said Kimmel was asked to apologize, saying, "We just wanted him to acknowledge that it was an ill-timed and probably inappropriate comment."

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In September 2025, Kimmel appeared to suggest that Kirk’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, was a member of the "MAGA gang."

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"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said.

Blue-city police chief draws scrutiny after referring to known gun violence suspects as ‘trigger pullers’

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:15:18 -0400

Seattle’s interim police chief referred to known gun-violence suspects as "trigger pullers" during a Labor Day weekend news conference where he discussed three separate shootings and his department’s response.

Three people were killed and three others were injured in the shootings over a 24-hour stretch, FOX 13 Seattle reported.

Interim Chief Andre Sayles said the Seattle Police Department was increasing patrols, coordinating with business owners, and deploying its community response group and gun violence reduction unit to curb the violence.

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"We’re looking at ways to where we can identify individuals that are known, we call trigger pullers, in our community," Sayles said during a Sept. 7 briefing. "Identifying them, making sure that we’re putting cases on those individuals working with King County Prosecutor’s Office, to bring these individuals to justice, because the families that lost loved ones, throughout the year and years past, deserve justice."

The term drew pushback from local commentators who said it softened the description of violent suspects.

"So in Seattle we aren’t calling them ‘shooters’ anymore? Now they are ‘trigger pullers’?" local radio host Ari Hoffman posted on social media following Sayles’ remarks.

The phrase is not new to law enforcement. In 2022, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray used the term during remarks to the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies.

"You all know what’s driving the violent crime in your states," Wray said. "Whether it’s a community where a disproportionate amount of gun violence takes place or rival gangs wreaking havoc in a particular region or a handful of well-known trigger pullers who keep finding their way back to the streets, no matter how many times they’re arrested, at the FBI, we want to be your integral partner in the fight against violent crime."

Sayles said investigators did not believe the three shootings were connected and that none appeared to be linked to the deadly July shooting at the Bite of Seattle festival.

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The first shooting occurred early Sunday near Denny Way and Clay Street, where a fight following a street takeover escalated into gunfire, killing a 20-year-old man and injuring two others, FOX 13 Seattle reported.

About an hour later, a gunman fired multiple shots into a vehicle near Third Avenue and Blanchard Street, fatally wounding a 23-year-old woman.

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Before midnight, a third altercation near Elliott Avenue and Bell Street left a 17-year-old dead and a 21-year-old seriously injured. Investigators did not immediately identify a clear gang connection in that case.

No arrests had been made in the three shootings when Sayles spoke with reporters. He said investigators were working with witnesses and reviewing surveillance footage, including about 450 hours of video in one case.

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Sayles also acknowledged questions about whether police resources had been strained by the shootings and a series of street takeovers over the weekend.

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"That’s something I have to look at. I haven’t really dove into what the staffing numbers looked like," Sayles said. "And if that was the case, then we will do what we need to do as a department to make sure that they are not overwhelmed."

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Sayles said the department’s intelligence unit was working to identify where street takeovers were being organized and that officers would coordinate with regional, local and federal partners.

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"We have officers in these dedicated areas," he said. "They’re a block or two away, and it’s one of those incidents where we respond to violence on a daily basis. It’s not like we can be there and stop it, but our goal is to be there and stop it."

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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson offered condolences to the victims’ families during a public appearance, FOX 13 Seattle reported.

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"This weekend, we’ve seen three people die, which is incredibly tragic, and my heart goes out to the victims and their families," Wilson said.

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Seattle police told the station the department was seeking tips, photos and videos from the shooting scenes that could help lead to arrests. Investigators continue to pursue leads in all three cases.

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Adam Carolla credits Jimmy Kimmel for comedy career, warns society collapses when comics stop telling truth

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:58:57 -0400

Comedian Adam Carolla said Jimmy Kimmel was the first person in his life to tell him he was funny and should pursue a career in entertainment, recalling on Tuesday's episode of "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" how the encouragement grew out of an unlikely relationship that began with boxing lessons.

"He wasn't a good boxer, but he was a good comedian, and he was the first guy in my entire life to ever go, 'You are funny, man. You should be doing this,'" Carolla said.

The friendship began with Carolla finding himself locked out of KROQ radio station, where Kimmel worked at the time, at 6 a.m. Eventually, Carolla spotted someone using their key card to enter the building, and he asked the man to relay the message that there was a boxing trainer waiting outside.

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Twenty minutes later, Kimmel — who at that time was known as Jimmy the Sports Guy for the radio segment he hosted — let him into the building to begin their training.

"I ended up talking to him more about comedy than I did about boxing," said Carolla.

Carolla also touched on the importance of comedians speaking truth to power during the podcast, warning that society is in trouble when comics stop being able to joke honestly.

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"I think comedians need to sort of be truth tellers," he said, adding that during the coronavirus pandemic, "they got to the comedians."

During the pandemic, the comedian commented on facing calls to be canceled over jokes, criticism, and creative content. He has referred to those privy to cancel culture in both Hollywood and government alike as "cowards."

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"Once they get to the comedians, we're in trouble," he warned Hannity on Tuesday.

"Because you can get to the union guys because they're worried about their job, and you can get to the school teachers, and you can get to the politicians. You can get to about everybody because their job is to not get fired. But when you get to the comedians, that's a bad sign for society. And I was saddened to see that they had gotten to some of the comedians."

Rory McIlroy not bothered by Trump's expected appearance at Irish Open: 'Who are we to say no?'

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:47:21 -0400

President Donald Trump is expected to make an appearance during the latter stages of this week's Irish Open, and while defending champion Rory McIlroy admitted it will make things a bit "different," he's not giving too much thought to the potential distraction.

Trump is set for a two-day trip to Ireland this upcoming weekend, and with the Irish Open being played at his resort in the County Clare village of Doonbeg, his making a quick stop and potentially handing the trophy to the champion on Sunday makes plenty of sense.

McIlroy, who has played golf with President Trump in the past, did not engage in any political chatter when asked about the U.S. President's expected arrival, but instead kept the focus on the golf and the task at hand.

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"It's going to be different, but the one thing I'd say is his golf resorts have hosted PGA Tour events, European Tour events, LIV events," McIlroy told BBC Sport.

"He's a big fan of golf, he's a wonderful supporter of golf. He's got a beautiful property here in Doonbeg - it's the first time I've played it. I wouldn't say it's a true links golf course, it's a bit of an Americanised version of a links course, but it's still a great golf course and should provide a good test for the week.

"It's going to be different with him being here but we're here to play a golf tournament and it's a good golf course and keep our head down and play."

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With the name 'Trump' on the entrance of the property, the president can't exactly be told he can't attend the event and watch a bit of the action, which McIlroy is also very aware of.

"Obviously, there's a lot that goes on. So, logistically, it provides some challenges, absolutely. But at the same time, if he wants to come and watch the Irish Open, who are we to say no?"

Beyond Trump making a public appearance at one of the premier golf tournaments across the pond, this week's Irish Open could be viewed as a test run for future events, most notably The Open.

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Turnberry, the well-known venue in Scotland, was part of The Open's rota of courses and played host to the major championship four times between 1977 and 2009. Trump purchased the resort in 2014, and the R&A, which organizes the championship, has not brought The Open back to the property since the acquisition, while consistently citing logistical issues as the biggest hurdle.

Riley Green drops acoustic 'My Way' video as fans await 'That's Just Me' album release

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:40:46 -0400

Riley Green surprised fans with a viral music drop on Tuesday afternoon.

Green has turned into one of the most successful performers in the country music world, and his rise isn't slowing down.

His new album "That's Just Me" hits shelves and streaming services on Sept. 18, and the buzz surrounding it is massive.

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Now, he's doing everything possible to crank things to a new level ahead of the release date.

Riley Green releases video of acoustic performance of "My Way."

Green released a video Tuesday of an acoustic performance of his recent hit song "My Way" for his millions of fans.

The song will appear on his upcoming album.

It didn't take long at all for the video to start generating attention on YouTube, and it's another reminder of Green's influence and pull in the country music world.

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People were quick to offer reactions in the comments. One fan wrote, "Acoustic version matches the situation told in the lyrics. I love the mood."

Another added, "Truly special gift when it comes to lyric writing. Great song!!"

A third commented, "This is my favorite song."

It's clear that country music fans can't get enough of his music.

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LEE CARTER: The summer polls missed the point: Voters are moving — and the midterms begin

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:36:30 -0400

If you think you know who’s winning the midterms, I have some bad news.

The voters who will decide them are just starting to pay attention.

I say this as someone who loves polls. They tell us what people care about, what they’re worried about and where the political opportunities are.

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But summer horse-race numbers come with a giant asterisk:

The electorate isn’t finished yet.

We saw it all summer.

In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed appeared headed toward a comfortable Democratic Senate primary victory. He won by about a point.

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In Wisconsin, Francesca Hong led David Crowley by roughly 20 points in two polls. Crowley won.

In Minnesota, a public poll had Angie Craig ahead of Peggy Flanagan by two. Flanagan won by nearly 20.

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The lesson isn’t that polls are wrong.

It’s that voters move.

And now comes the part of the campaign when they start moving.

Labor Day is the unofficial beginning of the election season for the people who don’t spend August obsessing over politics.

Which is to say: most people.

They don’t know who won the week. They didn’t see the viral clip. They aren’t refreshing the generic ballot. They have never described themselves as "low-propensity voters."

They’re busy.

And politics has developed a very bad habit of confusing the people who are paying the most attention with the people who will ultimately decide the election.

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We confuse loud with large.

A few thousand furious people can generate an enormous amount of internet.

Millions of people wondering why their grocery bill is still so high can generate almost none.

Then Election Day comes along and counts them exactly the same.

This is why I’m less interested in who moved from 47 to 48 this week than in what sits underneath the number.

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Who is certain?

Who is movable?

Who is going to vote?

And which party is actually reaching people who weren’t already with them?

Because there is a huge difference between making your supporters more enthusiastic and turning more people into your supporters.

Attention feels like momentum. Persuasion creates it.

Which makes what Republicans are doing in Dallas this week fascinating.

For the first time, the GOP is holding a national convention built around a midterm election.

They wanted the stage.

They got it.

Now the question is whether they use it to talk to themselves or to the voters they still need.

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Because Republicans don’t have an awareness problem.

Everyone knows Donald Trump.

They don’t have an enthusiasm problem among their most loyal supporters.

They have an affordability problem.

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Americans don’t experience the economy through a press release.

They experience it at checkout.

Washington has statistics. Americans have receipts.

They know what groceries cost. They know what happened to their insurance premium. They know what the electric bill looks like. They know whether a decent salary suddenly doesn’t feel so decent anymore.

Republicans can spend their time in Dallas explaining why the economy is better.

Or they can answer the question voters are actually asking:

When does my life get more affordable?

That’s the opening.

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And Democrats see it too.

Texas Democrat James Talarico is counterprogramming the Republican convention with a statewide food drive focused on grocery prices and affordability.

It’s almost painfully perfect.

Republicans have the arena. Democrats want the grocery cart.

That’s the midterm fight.

Republicans can use Dallas to make people who already love Trump cheer louder.

Or they can give people who aren’t sold on Republicans a reason to reconsider.

One produces a great television moment.

The other produces votes.

And that’s what I’ll be watching in every poll from here to November.

Not simply who is ahead.

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Who is moving?

Who is persuadable?

Who is expanding their coalition?

Who is turning concern into choice and enthusiasm into turnout?

The political class spent the summer measuring attention.

Now we get to measure something much more important.

Persuasion.

The midterms start now.

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Republicans go first.

Get the popcorn.

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NFL kickoff game preview: Why the under 44.5 is the play in Seahawks-Patriots rematch

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:35:16 -0400

After months of waiting, and me writing roughly 20,000+ words about the upcoming NFL season, with a preview for every team, we have finally reached the opening night of the new NFL year. As usual, it starts with the Super Bowl Champion starting their title defense at home. This year, on NBC, we get the New England Patriots taking on the Seattle Seahawks in a Super Bowl rematch.

The Patriots didn’t take the offseason off after getting to the championship game. They were aggressive in upgrading their offense now that they believe in Drake Maye. They lost Stefon Diggs, but they added AJ Brown, who is still a very good receiver, even if he wasn’t very happy with the Philadelphia Eagles. The bigger offseason story surrounded their head coach, Mike Vrabel, and his alleged affair with reporter Diana Russini.

How all of these distractions and changes come into play will be determined in this game. I think this team has enough talent to battle for the division again. However, this year is different from last season. Last year, the Patriots were a surprise, Maye was an MVP candidate, and the team shocked the league. This year a tougher schedule awaits, and Maye, in my opinion, had the best season of his career last year.

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The Seahawks were a buzz saw in the playoffs. They destroyed pretty much everyone, with the exception of the Los Angeles Rams. They completely dismantled and destroyed the San Francisco 49ers in their first playoff game, and then they outlasted the Rams 31-27. In the Super Bowl, they beat the Patriots 29-13. It was a fairly boring game, unfortunately. The Seahawks were never really in jeopardy of losing the game and were up 12-0 after three quarters, scoring just field goals.

Even with a somewhat exciting fourth quarter, it was too little too late for the Patriots, and the Seahawks hoisted the trophy. The Seahawks lost their Super Bowl MVP running back, and they lost their offensive coordinator. That could change things up a bit, as Sam Darnold saw a lot of success last year under him. Defensively, the team should still be strong, but this is a tough division, so we will see how it goes.

Defending Super Bowl Champions are 13-5 in the NFL Kickoff Game. If you look at how they perform overall in the first week, typically they win about 70-80% of the games over the past two decades. Teams that lose the Super Bowl are 10-15. However, they have been a bit better over the past 13 years, going 8-5.

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Both of these teams should be carried by their defense. That isn’t to say they have no offense; I just think their defenses will be better earlier in the year. We have Maye, who struggled mightily against this defense, and won’t be great tonight. Then we have Darnold with a new offensive coordinator. I am going to back the under 44.5 in this one. I do think the Seahawks win and cover the -3, but I’ll just back the under. Note that the Seahawks safety Ty Okada is out and Nick Emmanwori is questionable. That could open up the field a bit for the Patriots.

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Proposal would pay homeowners 'data center dividends' to counter growing backlash

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:32:08 -0400

As opposition to artificial intelligence data centers spreads across rural America, one group is proposing "data center dividends" to counter the backlash by allowing residents to share directly in the wealth generated by the technology hubs.

A new report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., proposes that data center dividends are a model that would return part of the property tax revenue generated by AI data centers directly to households living in the communities that host the data centers, potentially providing annual payments of between about $4,500 and $8,900 per household without creating new taxes or increasing costs for developers.

"Every American deserves to benefit from the AI boom," Sam Lyman, head of research at the nonprofit, told Fox News Digital. "It can't just be the developers in Silicon Valley who are becoming wealthy from this revolution. It needs to be the Americans who are building the county infrastructure that makes these data centers possible in the first place."

The proposal comes as opposition to data centers intensifies nationwide, fomented over the past year by a network of socialists and communist nonprofits funded by a tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, living in Shanghai, supporting the Chinese Communist Party and a "new world order" promulgated by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The opposition has widened to conservatives and centrists, with the report noting that Americans are now more likely to oppose a data center in their community than a nuclear power plant.

In a poll earlier this year, Gallup found that 71% of Americans oppose construction of an AI data center in their area, while only 53% oppose a nearby nuclear plant. The report says local data center moratoriums have exploded from six in 2024 to 59 last year and 294 last month.

Over the past year, groups in the Singham network – including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the People's Forum, CodePink and BreakThrough News – have opposed data centers and also Flock surveillance cameras with aggressive media campaigns, elevating China as a technological powerhouse and denigrating any developments by U.S. technology companies.

"These influence actions are cognitive warfare. Foreign actors don't need Americans to become pro-China," Rob Joyce, former director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency, recently told Fox News Digital. "They need Americans to argue for the outcomes Beijing wants. And a free society that can't build the power and govern the advanced technology is going to wind up renting it from the adversary, read the PRC, that doesn't share its own values. And that scares me as an American."

Lyman said the political problem is that many Americans believe technology companies are reaping the benefits of the AI boom while local communities bear the costs. The propaganda campaigns by the pro-China groups are promoting that message by describing tech executives as "oligarchs" and "imperialists." One constant message in the campaigns is "People Over Profits."

"I really think that data center dividends will reverse the momentum in the data center debate, because suddenly every American who lives in these counties where data centers might be built recognizes that he or she can have a material stake in the AI economy," said Lyman, a former senior advisor and speechwriter for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Polling cited in the report found that 73% of Americans believe the costs of data center construction outweigh the benefits, while voters overwhelmingly believe AI will primarily enrich executives and business owners rather than workers.

Rather than creating a new tax, the proposal would redirect a portion of property tax revenue that counties already collect from data centers. "Data center dividends can ensure that rural Americans rise in the age of AI alongside the engineers developing this technology," the report notes.

Under the model, counties would first continue funding schools, roads, police and other essential services. After those obligations are met, local communities would return a portion of remaining revenue directly to residents through annual checks, direct deposits, tax credits, utility bill credits or permanent investment funds. The report emphasizes that the dividends would be financed entirely from existing tax revenue, meaning developers wouldn't pay any additional taxes.

The report estimates that a single one-gigawatt AI data center could generate enough tax revenue to provide households in a typical rural county between $4,500 and $8,900 annually in a "data center dividend," depending on how much revenue local governments dedicate to dividends after paying for public services.

The estimate is based on tax collections from Loudoun County, Va., one of the nation's largest data center hubs. Loudoun collected about $685 million in personal property taxes on data center computer equipment in fiscal year 2024. Dividing those collections by the county's data center electrical load produced an estimate of roughly $165 million in annual property tax revenue per gigawatt of AI infrastructure, researchers estimated.

The report cites new policies in West Feliciana Parish, La., where policymakers are attempting to spread new-found wealth. The parish expects a Hut 8 AI campus to generate about $90 million annually, more than tripling its current budget, according to estimates. Earlier this year, Louisiana lawmakers passed Act 434, allowing local officials to provide property tax credits funded by the new revenue, although lawmakers removed an earlier proposal that would have authorized direct cash payments.

If the cash provision had remained, the report estimates households could have received about $5,600 annually if one-quarter of the revenue were distributed, or $11,200 annually if half the revenue were shared with residents after funding government services.

In another example, Alaska has a "Permanent Fund," or state-owned investment account that collects part of Alaska's revenues from oil produced on state land, invests it in stocks, bonds and real estate, and disburses part of the returns to residents as an annual dividend.

The report outlines several options communities could adopt.

Cash payments. Residents could receive annual dividend checks or direct deposits similar to the payments from Alaska's "Permanent Fund."
Property tax credits. Local governments could reduce residents' property tax bills using data center revenue, similar to Louisiana's approach.
Utility bill credits. Counties could apply the money directly to electricity bills, benefiting both homeowners and renters while addressing concerns that data centers increase electricity costs. The report notes that a $4,500 dividend would cover the average American household's electric bill for more than two years.
Education funds. Communities could place the money into scholarship endowments guaranteeing college tuition for local graduates.
Permanent investment funds. Counties could invest the tax revenue and distribute only investment earnings, creating an enduring source of local wealth similar to Alaska's Permanent Fund even if the data center eventually closes.

Lyman argues that direct payments create stronger public support than simply lowering taxes or expanding government spending because residents would see the benefit. "I think a lot that opposition is born from the fact that many Americans feel left out of the AI boom. They feel like this economic revolution is taking place without them," said Lyman, noting, "What data center dividends do... is they give every American in rural America a share in the material prosperity that is taking place with artificial intelligence."

The report notes that rural counties possess two scarce assets essential for AI development – land and abundant power – and argues those communities should share directly in the economic gains generated by the AI buildout.

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Lindsay Clancy lawyer says he plans new motion to dismiss after jurors speak out on mistrial: report

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:42:18 -0400

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Jurors continue to speak out in the days after a mistrial was declared for Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy in the strangling deaths of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan.

The panel of nine women and three men deadlocked after splitting 11-1, but one woman, identified as Juror No. 5, told local media that the holdout at the end of deliberations wasn't the only one who initially thought Clancy was guilty.

Based on some of their statements, Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington told CBS Mornings Wednesday that he would file a new motion to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds.

"I would defend that person's right to be a holdout for a month," Reddington said in his CBS interview. "That's what the system is based on, but when the forelady indicated clearly and unequivocally in the jury question that this person had doubt, reasonable doubt as we know now, and just refused to listen to the judge's instruction on the law, that's when I was upset."

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Reddington did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.

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"The stand-alone juror was not the only one that was unwilling to see things from the other side, so I'm going to kind of defend that individual in a sense," she told the Boston-based WBZ-TV. "There were some big personalities in that room, but at the end of the day, it just came down to an inability to move past your convictions."

She, too, was originally in favor of a guilty verdict, she told the outlet.

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"And maybe I still believe that in a certain way," she added. "I think that this is a woman who was not mentally healthy."

The lone holdout has not yet come forward publicly as of Wednesday morning, and Judge William Sullivan impounded the jury list at the end of the high-profile trial amid privacy and safety concerns.

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Three others, including the jury foreperson, sat down for a televised interview with NBC 10 Boston Tuesday, accusing the lone holdout juror of "admitting he had reasonable doubt" but refused to budge from insisting Clancy was criminally responsible for strangling Cora, Dawson and Callan.

They called him "arrogant" and accused him of disregarding information from "nurses on the jury."

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The foreperson also reportedly told NBC News that she plans to go to the potential retrial in person in support of Clancy's defense.

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Jurors deliberated for a full week, telling Sullivan they were deadlocked multiple times until he declared the mistrial Friday afternoon after denying Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington's request to have the holdout juror removed.

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The trial centered on whether Clancy was criminally responsible for her actions at the time she strangled each of them with exercise bands in 2023, and the defense argued she wasn't due to postpartum psychosis.

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Sandra Bullock's wake-up call that changed everything during late partner Bryan Randall’s illness

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:12:40 -0400

A sobering warning from Sandra Bullock’s sister became a wake-up call for the actress as she quietly navigated her late partner Bryan Randall’s battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Bullock reflected on how caring for Randall through his illness forced her to recognize her own limits – and ultimately ask for help after years of putting others first.

"I'm always a caretaker," she said during an appearance on "Good Hang with Amy Poehler." "Always. And I learned that I didn't take care of the person that was taking care of everybody else. And that was a big wake-up call for me. And I'm not good at asking for help, but I needed help and I needed to ask it in a way that was safe."

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"The Blind Side" star said she was grateful for the people who stepped in to help guide her through the difficult time. She also credited her sister with ringing a much-needed alarm, warning that she needed to start taking care of herself so she could continue being there for her children, Louis and Laila.

Bullock said her sister warned her: "If you do not start taking care of you, something’s gonna happen to you."

Bullock said the experience opened her eyes to the toll caregiving can take on those who put their own needs aside.

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"The caretaker world is absolutely underserved," Bullock said. "I did what I had to do in the situation I was in."

"I didn't want to say anything out of turn on what anyone else experienced within that situation, because everyone is experiencing something, their own journey with that," she explained. "There's so much to the story that would be of service. But my story, my slice of pie – and me and the kids, you know – that's all we can speak about."

Bullock revealed her minimal history as a caregiver during a recent episode of the "SmartLess" podcast.

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"I'm a very good planner with illness because my father was ill and had horrible accidents and my mother had cancer – I feel like I'm very comfortable in a setting where someone is ill," she told the hosts. "It doesn't scare me, not the illness itself. It doesn't scare me. I can see and be around just about anything."

Randall had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and requested Bullock not make the news public. He died on Aug. 5, 2023. He was 57.

"I wasn't allowed to speak about it," she revealed on the podcast. "That was the request, and I honored it."

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But honoring Randall’s wishes came with a personal cost for Bullock.

"I know why he asked me not to... it isolated me in the process and, plus, the entire world was locked in with the pandemic," she said. "He was ill for half of our relationship and the diagnosis came almost at the same time with the cloak of the pandemic."

Bullock admitted that "not talking for a while was good," but the physical illness coupled with "the mental health aspect" created a "trifecta that was pretty dark."

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Fmr Biden ambassador blames Trump for Canada playing 'footsie' with China

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:10:08 -0400

Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada David L. Cohen is blaming the Trump administration's hardline trade pressure for pushing Ottawa into engaging with China.

"I think Canada has tentatively tried to play some footsie with China that the Trump administration may not be happy with," Cohen, who served as President Joe Biden’s ambassador to Canada from 2021 to 2025, said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

"There is a discomfort with that," Cohen says, while arguing that it is ultimately Canada's reflex to sentiment against President Donald Trump – particularly his hardline trade policies and rhetoric about the neighbor to the north being a "51st state."

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"One of downsides of the aggressive Trump administration treatment of Canada and many other allies and partners is that the irony is that those policies are pushing those countries to at least consider broader and larger deals with China, which of course is wholly inconsistent with a major thrust of President Trump's international trade policy," Cohen continued. "So, how that shakes out, it's all a matter of degree and balance.

"But I think there's no doubt that the aggressiveness of the Trump administration positions has caused many countries to at least reevaluate whether there are additional deals that can be made with China."

The comments come as U.S.-Canada trade tensions spiral after negotiations collapsed last month. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday accused Washington of seeking dependence rather than partnership.

"The most fundamental issue is that the cumulative U.S. demands revealed that they wanted us to become even more reliant on them, not less," Carney said. "In too many areas, they wanted dependency, not a true economic partnership."

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Notably, the fallout comes just weeks before Chinese dictator Xi Jinping makes an historic trip to the White House to talk trade – something that never happened during the Biden administration despite Biden's onetime quip before the COVID-19 pandemic that "China's not bad folks."

Vice President JD Vance, speaking in Maine last month, accused Canada of giving Chinese goods better treatment than products from American northern border states.

"They treat Chinese goods more fairly than they do the goods that come from the people of Maine: It’s insanity," Vance said. "And what we’ve said to Canada is, ‘Stop it.’"

Cohen, however, was careful not to cast Canada as blameless in the trade feud. He admitted U.S. dairy farmers have legitimate complaints about Canada’s tariff-rate quota system, saying the issue has frustrated administrations of both parties for years.

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"This is one of the totally legitimate trade issues that exists between the United States and Canada," Cohen said. "There is contention there that is hurting American dairy farmers. Yes, I will be honest and clear about that."

"That tension existed under Joe Biden. Was he able to solve that problem? No," he added. "It was something that was discussed and discussed more than once. We just never got there."

Cohen, supportive of Trump's "substance" on trade talks but not the "style," did credit Trump for replacing NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, calling USMCA a "terrific deal" that improved continental trade.

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"I gave President Trump a lot of credit for that because it was a much better deal than NAFTA," Cohen said. "I think he deserves credit for that."

"I do push back at times on some of the rhetoric that President Trump has chosen to use, not necessarily the substance, but maybe the style that he sometimes uses to pursue his substance," he added.

"There are such fundamental differences on the substance of President Trump’s trade policy that I think the treatment of President Trump is different than the treatment of President Biden," Cohen observed. "But when professional negotiators were in the room, they seemed to have been making a lot of progress."

Cohen believes the two sides need to return to professional negotiators, arguing that U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Canadian officials had shown they could discuss difficult issues before the talks broke down.

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"I have an enormous amount of respect for U.S. Trade Representative Greer," Cohen said. "He is the ultimate professional trade negotiator, which is why he’s in that job. He didn’t get there by accident. President Trump put him in that job."

By contrast, Cohen said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick – who was on the call that Friday night in August when talks broke down at the 11th hour – needs to stay in his lane.

"Secretary of Commerce Lutnick, with all due respect, is not a professional negotiator," Cohen said. "That’s not the Commerce secretary’s job. It’s USTR’s job to negotiate trade deals with other countries."

Lutnick has suggested in interviews about the infamous breakdown in talks that Canadians' politics are at play in keeping Carney from cutting a deal with Trump, a man the provincial leaders and Canadian public have long been disenchanted with.

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"Friday at 4 o'clock, the Canadians call: They start adding crazy ideas to the mix," Lutnick said recently. "So, I said to one of the ministers, 'Are you actually trying to blow this up?' And his answer to me was, 'I'm not allowed to say that.' And they blew it up for political reasons only."

Cohen said of Lutnick's account that "until proven otherwise, I take every senior government official at his word, period," and that he has "no way of knowing whether that is true or not."

But, he admitted, Carney taking the nearly finished trade deal back to the provinces did not go over well – particularly amid his rising popularity among Canadians for being an anti-Trump force – because "the premiers of the provinces have more sway in federal policy than most governors do in federal policy."

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"It appears that Canada made the decision that the deal that was being offered was not a deal that they could accept," Cohen said. "He may have made a judgment that although he and his team had pushed this deal as far as they could, and that it was, in his eyes, as good a deal as he was going to get at that point, that he could not sell that politically in Canada."

"That’s not the same as saying that he was walking away for political reasons," Cohen added. "It’s just the nature of a big, complex negotiation."

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Ultimately, Cohen said the breakdown between the closest allies and trade partners in the world will be a story long told.

"There are going to be books written about what caused the negotiations to fall apart," he said. "But independent of all the dialogue about that: There is no dispute that these professional negotiators were able to have a civil relationship and talk about really different difficult substantive issues out of the eyes and the ears of the press and with full respect for each other and for the countries. That's my vision for the way in which trade negotiations should occur and they did occur – and it was a two-way street."

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Eventually, after the trade-war barbs and tariffs fly and the dust settles, the "professional negotiators" will get things done, Cohen predicted.

"You can’t make a deal if you’re not talking to each other," Cohen said. "Of that, I am 100% certain."

Accused wife killer Barry Morphew back behind bars after separate incident that skyrocketed bond: prosecutors

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:07:43 -0400

A judge hiked accused wife killer Barry Morphew's bond to $10 million after he allegedly fled a crash following an airport run to pick up his daughter.

A grand jury indicted Barry Morphew on June 20, 2025, on a charge of first-degree murder after deliberation in connection with the death of his wife, Suzanne Morphew, 49, a mother of two daughters. Suzanne Morphew vanished on Mother's Day 2020 in Colorado, where the couple resided. Barry Morphew was taken into custody in Goodyear, Arizona, nearly 11 hours away from the location where his wife was last seen.

Prosecutors allege that Barry Morphew was involved in a hit-and-run accident on Aug. 26 at 7:30 p.m., when an individual observed him driving "aggressively" before striking two cars. CBS News obtained a video of the driver's interaction with Morphew where he refused to give his name or identification, also indicating he didn't have insurance. He was arrested by Boulder County sheriff's deputies on Sept. 3 and remains behind bars.

Officials said Barry Morphew offered the other driver $300 for damage caused to her car, which she refused. Barry Morphew was seen on video buffing scratches on the other driver's car with a T-shirt and his hand.

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At the time, prosecutors said Barry Morphew was picking up his daughter from the airport.

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Prosecutors said that once the other driver turned down Barry Morphew's $300 offer and told him she intended to contact police, he left the scene, nearly striking another person and mounting a curb as he did so.

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The conditions of Barry Morphew's original bond included not traveling outside his home except under specific circumstances like work or a medical emergency and would be monitored by GPS.

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Alamosa County District Judge Amanda Hopkins on Tuesday increased Barry Morphew's bond to $10 million cash after prosecutor Fred Johnson argued that he is a flight risk and could leave the country.

"Mr. Morphew has shown time and again that he has no respect for any order of this court, and he is not going to comply with it if it is an inconvenience to the lifestyle he wishes to live while out on bond," Hopkins said.

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"We are very, very concerned he has just demonstrated what he’s going to do when push comes to shove," Johnson said during the hearing.

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Barry Morphew's lawyers argued that he is not a flight risk, stating that he hasn't fled over a period of five years and said the recent accusation doesn't warrant an increase in bond.

Prosecutors wrote in the June 2025 indictment that the chemicals butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine were found in Suzanne Morphew's bone marrow. They alleged that Barry Morphew used "BAM" deer tranquilizer to sedate and transport deer on his farm when he lived in Indiana. He has pleaded not guilty to one count of first-degree murder.

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Morphew was also the only person with a prescription for the deer tranquilizer within the area of the state he lived in, prosecutors said. The only two other entities with access to the BAM compound within the surrounding counties were Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the National Park Service, officials said.

"Ultimately, the prescription records show that when Suzanne Morphew disappeared, only one private citizen living in that entire area of the state had access to BAM: Barry Morphew," the indictment states.

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Morphew's attorney, David Beller, previously told Fox News Digital Morphew "maintains his innocence."

"Yet again, the government allows their predetermined conclusion to lead their search for evidence," Beller said. "The case has not changed, and the outcome will not either."

$54M CodePink-linked foundation shut down in California pops up at ramshackle Miami home

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:06:59 -0400

A far-left foundation that bankrolled CodePink and recently reported $54.6 million in assets before being shut down by California regulators has resurfaced at a ramshackle Miami home.

Arc of Justice, led by CodePink co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin, lost its charitable registration after years of failing to file required financial paperwork with California. But what appears to be the same nonprofit is now registered at a small, single-story house owned by Benjamin's longtime partner and fellow activist, Tighe Barry, documents viewed by Fox News Digital show.

The sequence of events raises questions about why it fell out of compliance in California.

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Arc of Justice has poured millions of dollars into left-wing and progressive activist organizations over the years, including CodePink, Global Exchange, the Alliance for Global Justice and the National Iranian American Council, according to IRS filings. Federal tax returns provided to Fox News Digital by Arc of Justice's attorney show the California foundation's assets grew from $51.4 million at the end of 2023 to $54.6 million at the end of 2024, while it continued distributing millions of dollars in grants.

CodePink has campaigned against U.S. policy toward China and Cuba and has been accused by congressional investigators of promoting Chinese Communist Party interests — allegations the group has denied.

Benjamin, who has been a political activist for decades and has often disrupted congressional hearings, co-founded CodePink with Jodie Evans, the wife of Shanghai-based Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, whose funding network has come under congressional and federal scrutiny over alleged foreign influence and the use of tax-exempt organizations.

Now it’s Arc of Justice’s finances that are coming under the microscope.

"It's pretty unusual. Most private foundations are fairly scrupulous on their compliance efforts," Patrick Sternal, a former IRS official who specialized in tax-exempt organizations, told Fox News Digital. "So it's unusual for a private foundation with that much in the bank to fall out of compliance and to be suspended."

Registration revoked in California

The California Attorney General's Office, led by Democrat Rob Bonta, revoked Arc of Justice's charitable registration in January 2025 after it failed to submit required annual filings with the state for 2020 through 2024. The foundation had already been suspended for more than a year before the revocation. The state Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital that Arc of Justice had continually failed to respond to the registry's delinquency and suspension notices before its registration was revoked.

Under the revocation, Arc of Justice had 30 days to provide the state with an accounting of its charitable assets and was barred from distributing or spending them without the attorney general's prior written approval.

The years of noncompliance culminated in another notice from California regulators on June 19, 2026, reiterating the outstanding asset-accounting requirement and warning that Arc of Justice couldn’t distribute or spend charitable assets without the attorney general's written approval.

The notice said Arc of Justice would also have to provide regulators with enough information to assure the state that there had been "no loss of charitable assets" if it sought to have its registration reinstated. The Network Contagion Research Institute previously detailed Arc of Justice's regulatory problems in a May report examining the foundation's finances and activities.

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David Levitt, an attorney representing Arc of Justice, said the foundation has submitted filings seeking reinstatement with California regulators.

The Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital on Sept. 3, 2026, that it had not received the required accounting of Arc's charitable assets. At the time, Arc was listed as "REVOKED" and "PAST DUE." As of Sept. 9, its registration remained "REVOKED," while its reporting status had changed to "IN REVIEW."

California's reinstatement rules require a revoked charity to explain why it failed to comply with reporting requirements and respond to Registry notices.

Laurie Styron, CEO and executive director of nonprofit watchdog CharityWatch, said Arc's substantial assets made the compliance failures difficult to explain.

"A foundation with tens of millions of dollars in charitable assets certainly has the resources to comply with basic reporting requirements," she said.

Fox News Digital asked Levitt to provide documentation of the reinstatement filings and to explain specifically why Arc of Justice failed to make the required California filings in the first place. He had not responded to those questions by publication time.

New nonprofit surfaces in Florida

California's latest compliance notice to Arc of Justice came just six weeks after a new Arc of Justice surfaced in Florida.

On May 8, Barry and other people associated with the original foundation incorporated a new nonprofit bearing the same name in the Little River neighborhood in North Miami.

The timing raised obvious questions: Was the California foundation moving to Florida after its charitable registration was revoked, and what was happening to its assets?

The Attorney General's Office told Fox News Digital it had not received notice from Arc of Justice of any planned transfer, merger or dissolution and had not approved any transfer of the foundation's assets.

Levitt told Fox News Digital that the Florida corporation was created as a "placeholder" while Arc considered relocating its operations from California, but the move was never completed. He said the California corporation was never formally wound down, no assets were transferred and the Florida entity "holds no assets and has conducted no business."

"Arc of Justice, the California nonprofit corporation, currently still holds the assets," Levitt said, adding that they remain professionally managed "in the same accounts they have been in for years."

Levitt subsequently provided Fox News Digital with financial documentation that independently verified that the California foundation continues to hold the assets.

The Miami address wasn't new. The original Arc of Justice had been using Barry's property on its federal tax filings since at least 2017, even as it remained incorporated in California.

Federal filing questions

Questions have also emerged about the original foundation's federal filings.

Arc of Justice's Forms 990-PF for 2023 and 2024 were not publicly available in the IRS database when Fox News Digital searched for them. Levitt subsequently provided Fox News Digital with copies of both returns.

According to Levitt, Arc of Justice's accountant said both returns had been paper-filed and electronically filed, although Fox News Digital has not independently verified when the IRS received or accepted them.

Benjamin was adamant in a phone interview with Fox News Digital that Arc of Justice had filed its returns every year.

"I'm 100% positive. We have filed the 990s every single year," Benjamin said. She also told Fox News Digital she would make sure the missing returns were provided, which they subsequently were.

Benjamin was less certain about the foundation's California regulatory problems, saying she had moved to Florida and that "the lawyer knows more than I do."

After reviewing the newly produced returns, Sternal said the documents showed Arc of Justice's accountant had at least made an effort to file them, but said questions remained over whether and when they were actually submitted.

"Maybe they are trying to get back into compliance with the IRS," Sternal said. "They still have a lot of clean up to do with California."

Styron similarly said determining when the returns were actually filed was critical to assessing Arc of Justice's compliance. She noted that IRS and state databases can lag behind submissions but said delays of several years would be unusual.

"It would be tough to say more without knowing when forms were signed and filed," Styron said.

While the new records accounted for the foundation's assets and provided the previously unavailable returns, questions remained over when the federal returns were actually filed.

Styron also said Arc of Justice's explanation for creating the Florida nonprofit did not absolve the California foundation's board of its responsibility to file the active organization's required forms on time.

Meanwhile, Sternal, who is now a nonprofit tax attorney at law firm Holtzman Vogel who advises nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, said there is nothing wrong or unusual about forming a nonprofit in another state. What raises questions, he said, is whether the new Florida organization is intended to take over the original foundation or its assets — a move that would trigger additional legal requirements.

"It's not so easy," Sternal said. "It can be done, it's possible, but there are a lot of hoops that they have to jump through."

Because Arc of Justice remained a California corporation, Sternal said it would have to work with California's attorney general before transferring funds to another organization or moving the foundation out of state.

Same name, new home

Along with the new Florida corporation bearing the same Arc of Justice name and Miami address used by the embattled California foundation, two of its three officers also held positions with the original organization.

Maya Danaher, Benjamin's daughter and former treasurer of the original Arc of Justice, is president of the new Florida corporation.

Jonathan Raggett, who served as secretary of the original foundation, is now its treasurer.

Benjamin served as president of the original California foundation but is not listed as an officer of the new Florida corporation.

Meanwhile, Benjamin's longtime partner, Barry, was not listed as an officer of the original foundation but serves as secretary of the new organization. He is also listed as incorporating Arc of Justice in Florida and serves as its registered agent.

Its stated goal is blunt: "WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT SOCIAL JUSTICE NON PROFITS," according to the articles of incorporation.

All three officers list the Miami house as their address — a 1,334-square-foot Miami duplex owned by Barry, property records show.

When Fox News Digital visited last month, the small, turquoise-blue, single-story house sat partially obscured by thick palms and tropical plants behind a weathered, multicolored wooden fence.

Fading artwork of colorful cats, pigs, flowers, hearts and peace symbols covered the fence, including a pink pig holding a "ONE LOVE" sign. A large "PEACE" poster hung on the house, while a turquoise-shaded canopy stretched across the property.

Two campaign signs for Democrat Kendrick Meek Jr., who unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic primary election for Florida's 24th Congressional District, stood outside.

Google Street View images from 2022 show the property in brighter colors before the paint faded and vegetation obscured parts of the fence.

The images also show a small white van with its front bumper missing parked outside, with "CODEPINK" written across its side in pink marker along with the Spanish words "Cuba vive y trabaja" — "Cuba lives and works."

The van was not visible when Fox News Digital visited.

The house's number was painted vertically on the weathered front gate — the same address listed by the original California foundation and the newly incorporated Florida Arc of Justice.

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Where did the money come from?

Arc of Justice was formerly known as The Benjamin Fund, Inc., with California corporate records showing the foundation formally changed its name in November 2019.

Its fortune was built largely on Benjamin family money.

Benjamin's father, Alvin Benjamin, was a prominent Long Island real estate developer who founded The Benjamin Companies in the early 1960s. The Benjamin Fund's initial 2003 IRS return shows he contributed a partnership interest valued at $683,715 to the foundation, with Medea Susan Benjamin serving as president.

Much larger contributions followed. In 2010, the estate of Benjamin's mother, Rose Benjamin, contributed $10,863,060, according to the foundation's IRS filing. Five years later, the Estate of Alvin Benjamin contributed another $15 million, followed by another $8,603,450 in 2019.

The foundation's wealth also grew through its investments. In 2020, Arc of Justice reported $12,344,501 in unrealized gains on securities, helping push its year-end assets to nearly $40 million.

Medea Benjamin — identified as Susan Benjamin on the filing — personally contributed $1 million to Arc of Justice in 2022, listing the Miami house as her address.

The foundation subsequently became a vehicle for funding activist organizations, including Global Exchange, the advocacy group Benjamin co-founded with her then-husband, Kevin Danaher. The organization remains active today, with Danaher still serving on its board, according to its 2024 Form 990.

Benjamin later co-founded CodePink in 2002 with Evans and has remained one of the anti-war group's most prominent activists and public faces.

Arc of Justice would go on to pour substantial sums into CodePink, including $251,500 in 2020 and $355,350 in 2022, according to the foundation's IRS filings.

The newly obtained returns show that Arc of Justice gave CodePink $277,580 in 2023 and another $350,000 in 2024.

CodePink has itself come under federal scrutiny. Benjamin traveled to Cuba in March with fellow CodePink co-founder Evans and far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker as part of a roughly 170-person convoy to the communist-run island.

Benjamin later confirmed that the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces U.S. sanctions against Cuba, sent CodePink a detailed inquiry seeking information about the trip's financing, logistics, participants and activities.

Benjamin said the group brought about $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to Cuba and described the Treasury inquiry as "serious," while also calling it an "intimidation tactic."

Evans and a network of nonprofits funded by her husband, Singham, have also come under congressional and federal scrutiny.

Singham, an American tech entrepreneur who sold his software company ThoughtWorks for an estimated $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai, has directed at least $278 million into six core nonprofits that Fox News Digital previously reported promote socialist, communist and pro-China causes as part of a broader international network of media organizations, activist groups and think tanks.

CodePink is one of those nonprofits.

The congressional investigation remains ongoing, while Singham is separately under federal criminal investigation. Neither Singham nor CodePink has been charged with wrongdoing in connection with the investigations described here.

Same name, separate entity

Florida officials confirmed the new Arc of Justice was created as a Florida nonprofit on May 8, 2026, rather than simply registering the existing California corporation in the state.

"That entity is on our records as a Domestic Nonprofit corporation. It is a Florida entity," Florida Department of State regulatory specialist LaCori Brown told Fox News Digital.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services separately told Fox News Digital that the new Arc of Justice isn’t currently registered to solicit charitable contributions in the state and has not applied for a charitable solicitation registration or exemption.

The department also said it hasn’t received any filings identifying assets transferred from the California Arc of Justice to the new Florida corporation nor any complaints, referrals or regulatory inquiries concerning the new organization.

Sternal stressed that the available records don’t establish that Arc of Justice's assets were misappropriated or improperly used. He said the foundation's years of California noncompliance remained highly unusual.

"This organization with this large endowment has simply fallen off the radar, as it were, with its filings, with its compliance with California," Sternal said.

"Those don't belong to the officers and directors of the foundation. Those belong to the foundation," Sternal said. "They must be used for public charitable purposes."

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Levitt said Arc of Justice's board is still considering moving the foundation out of California and potentially establishing two separate charitable vehicles so the foundation's founder and its officers and directors can pursue separate charitable activities.

For now, the original Arc of Justice remains a California corporation and continues to hold its assets, while the future of the newly incorporated Florida organization remains unsettled.

Armed man accused of lunging at Ohio Dem candidate avoids felonies as prosecutor reveals key evidence

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:04:59 -0400

The man who allegedly stormed toward Ohio Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton at a recent fair will not face felony charges, the county prosecutor leading the case told reporters Tuesday.

The only video investigators currently have of the incident was recorded by the suspect, Patrick Havas, leaving authorities with little video evidence, Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro said.

"The information we've received is that the Acton camp requested individuals stop recording shortly before this incident occurred," Maro told reporters on Tuesday.

"So, at this point, the only video we have is the defendant’s. And what's that showing certainly doesn't support filing felony charges."

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Patrick Havas was intercepted by Ohio Highway Patrol officers after allegedly knocking over multiple fairgoers as he ran toward Acton at a tent at the Canfield Fair while armed with a Taser and two firearms.

He was initially booked on two counts of assault and one count of disorderly conduct, all misdemeanors. An inducing panic charge was added Tuesday at his arraignment, bringing the total to four misdemeanor counts. Havas pleaded not guilty.

Campaigns have often prohibited or advised against filming candidates to prevent "trackers," or opposition research individuals with cameras, from filming the interactions to look for a politically weak spot to focus on. Then-candidate Bernie Moreno employed audio-jamming technology in 2024, with his campaign acknowledging such to Business Insider. The campaign told the outlet the jammer was only used against trackers and not voters.

When asked by an NPR reporter about online conjecture that the Acton team "overblew" the incident, DeWine reportedly replied the idea is "total garbage.

"No one overblew it. Facts are facts. These are not good situations, and they’re anti-democratic," DeWine said, according to the report.

Maro said the tape showed Havas "walking into the tent" where Acton was, and "calling out her name" before executive protection unit officers from Ohio Highway Patrol interrupted him.

"Then, his phone is either dropped or tossed, and that’s all we have," Maro said.

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"There's never any close contact with the governor, never gets near her — sorry, ‘candidate for governor’," she added.

Fox News Digital reached out to Maro for comment and to obtain a copy of the video in question. An official who picked up the phone at her office said Maro was out but would be checking messages.

A reporter for the NBC affiliate tweeted that their network had also attempted to obtain the video but that officials said they would not be releasing it as part of their "active investigation."

Fox News Digital also reached out to the Acton campaign for additional comment, as well as details around the reported request that people stop filming Acton just before the encounter.

"While attending the Canfield Fair, an armed individual lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people. Dr. Acton and Eric are grateful for the swift and decisive action of law enforcement and are praying for the recovery of those injured," Acton campaign communications director Addie Bullock said in a separate statement.

"This kind of violence has no place in Ohio. Dr. Acton will always stand up to the chaos, hate and vitriol that pits us against one another."

An Ohio judge ordered Havas to not speak to the press, according to Youngstown’s NBC affiliate, and Havas has been placed under a $5,000 bond and forced to surrender any weaponry in his possession.

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Havas is a local to that region of Ohio. He was arrested in 2008 on petty theft and disorderly conduct charges, according to Newsweek. The theft charge was later dismissed after he pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct. He was accused of stealing several movies from a supermarket, including the James Bond film "Casino Royale."

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Acton faces Republican entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in November, as Gov. Mike DeWine is term-limited. DeWine’s lieutenant, former Ohio State Football coach Jim Tressel, declined to run for the office.

Fox News Digital's Stepheny Price contributed to this report.

Reporter’s Notebook: 9/11 is just a history chapter for a new generation of Americans

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:04:48 -0400

It’s faded.

Not from decay. Not from neglect. It’s simply the passage of time.

The memories are vague. Elusive. Distant. And some who lived it are simply no longer here.

Roughly one-third of all Americans who were alive on 9/11 aren’t around anymore to observe the 25th anniversary of that abominable day. And so the recollections of Sept. 11, 2001, are diluted.

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To some, Sept. 11 is just another day. But it’s something different for those who weren’t around to live and breathe the horror.

To many, 9/11 is like Pearl Harbor Day. Lots of people know about it. They understand it’s what triggered the U.S.’s entry into World War II. But they can’t quite explain much more.

The same with other historical-shifting moments. Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 — the days the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II. Nov. 22, 1963 — the day a gunman mowed down President John F. Kennedy Jr. in Dallas.

A lot of people remember the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding. But few could tell you that it happened on Jan. 28, 1986.

The quintessence of 9/11 is the date. Kind of like July 4th. A bit like Jan. 6 and the Capitol riot. However, we were told on Sept. 11, 2001, that things would never be the same. But how can those who didn’t experience it understand what "the same" was like if they never lived it?

Just last month, a relative of mine who soon turns 26 asked, "What it was like to fly before 9/11?"

I can regale you with stories about myself and a rag-tag group of high school friends, driving to the Cincinnati airport, clearing security and just wandering around the Delta gates, "hanging out" back in the mid-1980s.

No ticket. No questions asked. Just a visit to Cinnabon.

But the "before times" question about 9/11 is a broader conversation. It’s not just about "what changed" when you take off your shoes and bustle through security to fly.

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A nine-and-a-half-foot-tall plaque hangs in the East Front vestibule of the U.S. Capitol near the Rotunda. It commemorates Flight 93, which crashed near Shanksville, Pa., on 9/11.

It took a few years, but the U.S. intelligence services finally determined that the fourth plane was bound for the U.S. Capitol. That’s where Todd Beamer and a cadre of everyday Americans voted (mind you, at 35,000 feet) to commandeer a drinks cart and rush the cockpit in an effort to seize control of the plane.

"Let’s roll!" Beamer was overheard saying on a cellphone as they charged down the aisle. That two-word phrase became a battle cry for a nation as it waged the war on terrorism.

The Boeing 757 hurtled toward Washington at 563 mph. It was 20 minutes out from the federal city when the plane crashed, upside down, in the Pennsylvania countryside.

Shanksville is now one of those places forever notched into American history. A place not as famous, say, as Gettysburg or Jamestown, but not a footnote, either. Shanksville is part of the vernacular like Shiloh, Seneca Falls, Kent.

People might know that something historic happened there. But they aren’t exactly sure what.

Scores of markers dot the U.S. Capitol, denoting important things from yesteryear. Wander into Statuary Hall in the Capitol and you’ll find the desk locations of eight presidents who served in the House. But the spot where President Franklin Pierce once sat just seems like an historical annotation. Pierce toiled there nearly two centuries ago. And he’s hardly prominent among American chief executives.

There’s a plaque just outside the Old Supreme Court chamber. It tells the story of how Samuel B. Morse sent the first electronic message from that room to Baltimore over a wire in 1844. "What hath God wrought!" reads the plaque, commemorating Morse’s transmission. That event christened the age of near-instant communication – now ubiquitous in the form of news alerts and TikTok videos appearing instantly in the palms of our hands.

But that plaque in the Capitol’s East Front vestibule doesn’t memorialize something that happened there. It marks something that didn’t happen there.

The plaque reads that the actions of the 40 passengers and crew "not only saved countless lives, but may have saved the U.S. Capitol from destruction."

In other words, this global citadel to democracy with its ivory dome might not pierce the Washington skyline were it not for a plane that crashed 167 miles away.

Shanksville. Shiloh. Seneca Falls. Kent.

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I’ve driven the Pennsylvania Turnpike past Somerset for decades now. That’s where the signs direct you north 10 miles to the Flight 93 National Memorial. I budgeted time into my travels to visit the memorial on one frigid, windy morning a few Februarys ago. Inside, you stand at a vista, staring downhill into a small ravine and tree line where the plane crashed.

On that morning, I couldn’t help but notice there was no wildlife to be seen or heard. No deer. No birds chirping.

A disturbing silence.

Perhaps it was the billowing wind of that frosty morning. Maybe the snow. But I noticed no footprints gouging the crisp snowpack.

It was almost as though the animals were aware of something. Dare I say understood what happened in this field a quarter-century ago. Perhaps the local fauna stayed hushed out of reverence for those who perished. A tribute to their heroism, saving the U.S. Capitol.

Or perhaps it was something else.

Maybe the creatures were so reserved because of the malevolence which was also on board Flight 93. One can only speculate that the animals remain hushed because of the peculiar unease enveloping the place. Even on a crisp but blustery winter morning.

Shanksville is a burial ground. And in a few more decades or even a hundred years, those who visit there will walk the paths or peer out over the panorama, trying to grasp the scope of what unfolded there on 9/11.

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You can visit Gettysburg and Antietam and do that now. But much is left to the imagination. Perhaps embroidered by what was picked up in a history class. Augmented by a marker or description on a bronze plaque.

In another quarter-century, there will be even fewer people around who remember 9/11. Another 25 after that and many of those still living might be infirm. Confined to wheelchairs. The final generation of messengers who can speak firsthand about what happened that day. Kind of like when honor flights descend on Washington to visit the World War II Memorial on the National Mall.

It’s just the passage of time.

The plaque inside the Capitol will continue to tell the story. And in many ways, just the fact that the Capitol remains standing tells the story, too. Its presence attests to the bravery that manifested itself somewhere over eastern Ohio and is interred in a western Pennsylvania clearing.

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We know this now. Even though some of what we recall is faded.

But the memories and understanding of the significance will naturally calcify. Details will grow hazy. People will know the date 9/11. But it may just be that — a date. Like Pearl Harbor Day.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to Dec. 7, 1941, as "a date which will live infamy."

9/11 will live in infamy. But it’s unclear how that date will live in the minds of Americans.

Tennis star Carlos Alcaraz vomits in towel during US Open thriller after trying to shoo cameras away

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:01:43 -0400

In front of a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium, it’s hard for tennis players to have a moment of privacy when they need one, especially when they need to vomit.

Before the fifth set of Carlos Alcaraz’s 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) loss to Ben Shelton in the U.S. Open quarterfinal, which ended at 3:33 a.m. ET Wednesday morning, the Spaniard was not feeling well.

Alcaraz was sitting on his courtside chair when the camera came around on his right. Knowing that he was about to vomit, he shooed the camera away, trying to spare viewers from an ugly scene.

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The camera eventually retreated behind Alcaraz, but the tennis star remained persistent in his efforts to gain privacy. Eventually, he puked into his towel.

"I mean it was close, it really was close, so I was disappointed I didn’t get the win in the end, but I’m just happy … physically I was really tired, but I found a way to push myself," Alcaraz said after the match.

He said he started to feel better in the fifth set, but it wasn’t enough to advance.

The U.S. Open was the first tournament Alcaraz participated in since he was sidelined for more than four months with a wrist injury. While he lost to Shelton in a thriller and had his 18-match Grand Slam winning streak snapped, he was proud of his effort.

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"I leave the court happy," Alcaraz said. "I leave the court with a smile. I am proud of myself, how I fought."

Alcaraz praised Shelton, calling the American a "beast."

"Shelton played a very complete, very mature match," Alcaraz said in Spanish. "He knew exactly what to do at every moment. And, physically, he’s a beast. It seemed like he had no weaknesses whatsoever."

For Shelton, the win was the biggest of his career as he moved one step closer to the U.S. Open final.

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"It was a war," Shelton said. "Carlos is one of the greatest champions of our sport. It was the most enjoyable match I’ve had in my career, for sure."

Shelton will face fellow American Frances Tiafoe in the semifinal on Friday, guaranteeing that an American will be in the U.S. Open final.

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‘Double Lives of Suburban Wives’ star went from food stamps to making $100K a month

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:00:41 -0400

Emily Smith’s life has gone from scraping together grocery money to bringing home six figures in a single month.

The 37-year-old stay-at-home mom of four, featured on TLC’s "Double Lives of Suburban Wives," said her family once relied on food stamps, struggled with housing and had just $200 to spend on groceries for six people.

Now, she said her adult-content business generated more than $1 million last year.

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And the suburban mom said the moment it finally sank in that her family’s financial life had changed came after one particularly massive month.

"I think staying in the 100K a month that's the moment we were like, ‘Well, holy moly,’" Smith told Fox News Digital. "Who would’ve ever expected something like that to happen? Not us, for sure."

But getting there was anything but an overnight success.

The adult-content creation business, she explained, is notoriously unpredictable.

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"You had that really good month… And it doesn't last. It tapers down, it tapers down and then — this world of content creating is very roller-coaster-y," Smith said.

Eventually, one month refused to taper off.

"There was a month that really, really hit, and then it never went down and hasn't gone down, and we're like, ‘Oh, oh my God,;" she said.

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Smith’s story is at the center of TLC’s new reality series, "Double Lives of Suburban Wives," which takes viewers behind the polished façades of suburban lifestyle — and into the unconventional careers happening behind closed doors.

That second life comes with some unexpected and bizarre requests.

One of Smith’s strangest adult-content requests came with a $2,000 price tag and an unusual ask — she was paid to "lay an egg."

"So that request was $2,000," she said.

Smith's niche includes what she describes as "kinky weird adult content," with requests involving wedgies, fart content and "giant" videos — a fetish centered on fantasies of giants.

"I love to make people’s fantasies come true — if I can do it, I will do it," she said.

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The "giant" videos hold a particular appeal for Smith, who is just 5 feet, 1 inch tall.

"For me, I think the giant videos are really fun," she said. "So those have an extra little sense of intrigue for me, because I've never been tall, never will be tall."

Judgment, family expectations and the challenge of maintaining two seemingly opposite worlds become recurring pressure points in the reality series.

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For Smith and her husband, Nathan, the adult-content creation is strictly business.

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After years of financial instability, Smith built what TLC describes as a highly successful niche adult platform.

Joining the group is about more than money, the reality star said. She is also looking for people who understand a life that can be difficult to explain to outsiders.

Back at home, however, Smith looks like the quintessential suburban mom.

She cooks, cleans and cuts her children’s hair. The family eats dinner together every night.

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The Smiths share four children — sons ages 17, 15 and 12, and an 8-year-old daughter — along with six cats and a dog.

But when the school day begins, the reality star’s other job kicks in.

"It's very much like a light switch," she said. "As soon as the kids leave, you put on your little business hat, and you just get out your notebook and your pen, your iPad and your other phones, and you got to start typing up right away."

Her husband, Nathan, eventually quit his 9-to-5 job to help her keep up with the business.

He had been a store manager for a pharmaceutical company.

Now, he helps with marketing and other aspects of the operation while also running his own unusual business involving snakes. The couple keep 23 snakes, including rare, reticulated pythons.

The financial pressure that pushed them toward adult-content creation was real.

Nathan previously told the show they turned to the business because they were struggling financially.

Smith remembered trying to feed six people on a $200 grocery budget.

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The family also experienced periods of relying on food stamps and not having a place to live.

A friend who was already creating adult content ultimately gave the couple an idea.

Nathan inquired about the business, and they decided to take a chance.

The work also became a deeply personal transformation for Smith.

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The "Double Lives of Suburban Wives" star said she had spent years focused almost entirely on motherhood and had essentially forgotten another part of herself.

She said content creation helped her rediscover her identity and confidence.

According to TLC, the six St. Louis-area couples have built "lucrative and unconventional second lives" while navigating marriage, parenthood and careers creating adult content.

New episodes of "Double Lives of Suburban Wives" air Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on TLC.

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Amazon cargo jet pilot reportedly told wife, 'My career is over' shortly after deadly crash

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After an Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport, killing five people, one of the pilots reportedly told his wife over the phone that his "career was over," according to a new report.

Abraham Altamar told CBS News that he had witnessed the fiery wreck on Sunday while he was working in a nearby building. He did not identify which of the two pilots he spoke with.

Altamar was on FaceTime with his wife when he said the pilot approached him.

"He was, like, shaking and, and a little injured in his forehead and his hand," Altamar said. "I was like, 'Hey, you want me to call 911?' He's like, 'No, we already called them.'"

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The pilot then called his wife on Altamar's phone to tell her what had happened, CBS reported.

Altamar said the pilot told his wife that he was fine, while instructing her to tell his mother that he was in an accident but survived.

During this conversation, the pilot also reportedly said, "My career is over."

The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office identified the two pilots as Joseph Carroll, 55, and Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37.

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A LinkedIn profile for Carroll lists him as a captain for 21 Air, the company operating the plane that crashed over the weekend. A profile for Molina lists him as a first officer at 21 Air.

Federal Aviation Administration records show both men hold airline transport pilot certificates and are qualified to fly Boeing 767 aircraft, the model involved in the Miami crash.

The aircraft was on its third flight of the day when it tried landing at Miami International.

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The jet overshot the runway by at least 1,300 feet beyond the paved surface before crashing into multiple vehicles, including a 2012 white Ford Econoline van with passengers inside, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said during a Monday press conference.

The aircraft then crashed through the airport perimeter and struck a civilian vehicle, a Toyota Corolla Cross LE.

On Tuesday, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz released the names of the five people who were killed, all of whom were inside vehicles that were hit by the plane.

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They were identified as: Rolando Aleman Leon, 55; Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53; Julio C. Pineda, 75; Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53; and 47-year-old Javierkys Reyes Quevedo.

Five others were injured, including the pilots, who were treated and released. The other three people remained hospitalized as of Tuesday, with two of them in critical condition.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office for additional comment.

Team USA coach reveals if Caitlin Clark will start in the World Cup final stage after bench role in group play

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:53:17 -0400

Caitlin Clark appears set to stay on the bench in the FIBA Women's World Cup as her team enters the knockout stage.

Team USA coach Kara Lawson told OutKick that she likes what her starting lineup of veterans has done in the first three games, when asked if she would start Clark in the quarterfinal against Hungary.

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"I think that our starting group's done a pretty good job of getting us off to good starts, and rotationally from game to game we could change things, but I like where we are right now," Lawson said.

Lawson also suggested that Clark's young rivals and fellow young Team USA stars Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers will also come off the bench until further notice.

"I like where we are right now," Lawson repeated when asked about Reese and Bueckers starting.

Fans on social media have been clamoring for Clark, Reese and Bueckers to replace some of the veteran players in the starting five since the tournament began.

Clark has come off the bench in all three group stage games for the U.S. She went from a record-setting 14-point, 11-assist debut against China to scoring just one point and missing every field goal in a career-low game against Italy, as the U.S. nearly suffered a devastating upset.

Clark rebounded with nine points and seven assists in a blowout win against Czechia to close the group stage.

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So far in the World Cup, Bueckers has been a more consistent scorer than Clark. She matched Clark with 14 points in the opener against China and added four assists and two steals.

She then produced one of the strongest all-around performances for the U.S. during its scare against Italy. Bueckers finished with seven points, five rebounds, two assists, two steals and two blocks in 19 minutes. She also made the Americans’ first 3-pointer after the team missed its first 10 attempts.

Bueckers followed that performance with 10 points and five assists against Czechia. She has made 13 of her 22 field-goal attempts through three games while committing only three turnovers.

Meanwhile, Reese collected nine rebounds in 17 minutes against China, including five on the offensive glass. That effort became especially valuable against a Chinese roster built around one of the tallest frontcourts in the tournament.

Reese then made her biggest impact when the rest of the American offense struggled against Italy. She scored eight points in 15 minutes, made all four of her free throws and recorded two blocks.

Reese added 13 points and six rebounds in the victory over Czechia. Through three games, she has produced 26 points and 18 rebounds despite playing fewer than 20 minutes in each appearance.

Now, with no room for error in the knockout stage, Lawson appears set to rely on her veteran lineup, despite their surprising lesser performance against Italy in the group stage.

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The U.S. has never lost a quarterfinal game in FIBA Women's World Cup history. That reputation will be on the line, while America's hot young stars appear to not be able to make the biggest impact to defend it.

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