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DANA PERINO: The untold story of the remarkable people who make Fox News possible

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:00:43 -0400

FOX NEWS ALERT!

You’re joining our coverage live as Fox News Channel celebrates 30 years of on-air excellence.

Thirty years?

It went by so fast.

And yet, a 30th anniversary doesn’t happen by accident.

Fox News makes it look easy. It’s not. The work behind the scenes is incredible to witness.

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Let’s take a moment to recognize the people our viewers never see — the ones who make it possible for the shows to get on the air, and for those of us in front of the camera to have complete confidence that the product reaching our viewers is informative and entertaining.

Having that confidence matters to the anchors, hosts and guests. It’s critical to know the research is solid, the technology is working, the pictures are right, and, if something changes in an instant, that the team has your back. Nearly the entire building is organized around making that possible.

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Aside from the hours I’m on air, I walk into work so happy. I love my routine — and knowing that the plan could change in an instant. It keeps me on my toes.

My day begins with a security guard who likes to announce, "Talent is in the building!" precisely because he knows the word "talent" makes me cringe. I blush, walk faster, and we laugh about it every single morning.

I often see one of the custodial staff on my way up to my office, and one joins me in trying to get a tradition going of saying, "Morning morning!" every day. We have a streak — we never miss.

Long before I arrive, the producers have already been working. They get up hours before we do, thinking about what would make a good show — not simply what we are going to say, but what the audience is going to experience. They’re looking for the best and latest video that captures an event, making graphics to help explain the story (I love charts!) and writing scripts that grab the viewer and keep them watching.

And then, at a moment’s notice, they may have to tear up the entire rundown when breaking news changes everything. Suddenly, the carefully planned show is gone, and the team is shifting to something happening across the country or around the world. They have to gather information, verify it, find the right pictures, reach the right correspondents and guests, and help us understand what matters — fast. That kind of flexibility only looks effortless when the people doing it are exceptionally good at their jobs.

I remember once interviewing an Afghan man who witnessed the Abbey Gate airport bombing in August, 2021 when President Joe Biden pulled our troops out. This man picked up an injured child, carried her to safety, and then came on air with us. He was a man with no hope. And while I am usually very stoic on air, I was about to cry.

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I will never forget the reassuring voice in my ear from the line producer: "You’re OK. You’re OK." My tears dried up. The interview continued.

Assistants are a lifeline for us — they produce our lives. They do the research, keep the schedule, block and tackle, and get in front of problems. The scope and scale of their talents are immense, and without them, we’d be lost.

Our technology teams keep us connected to breaking news and events around the world in real time — something we all take for granted right up until the second something doesn’t work.

And then, of course, there are those who help us look our best. The wardrobe department has a great eye and is always there with a pin or a piece of tape when we need it. The hair and makeup team is by far the best in the business. Name another? You can’t.

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They’re also our confidants — I’ve worked with the same team for almost 15 years, and they’ve become my sister-friends. Sure, they make sure I’m camera-ready at an hour when most reasonable people are still in pajamas, but they also know when I’ve had a tough night, could use some encouragement, need to laugh, and when it’s better just to let me sit quietly for a few minutes. I can’t wait to see them every day and catch up.

So many others to mention — the directors who know how to get the best reaction shots, the cameramen who never miss an angle, and the lighting technicians we wish we could take with us everywhere.

And there’s a special relationship with a stage manager who can communicate an entire paragraph with one glance. There are also those who laugh at our jokes — it’s very gratifying to hear those chuckles.

On the road, another kind of magic happens. Our crews can take a barn, a convention hall, a parking lot or almost anywhere else and turn it into a beautiful television set. Hollywood should be so lucky to know these people.

And amid the enormous logistical challenge of covering an election or a breaking-news event, someone still remembers the little things: Dana likes warm water in her cup. Dana would love a yoga mat in her room if we’re going to be here for a very long time. Dana needs a footstool (always!).

Those things may sound small, but they make all the difference. They say: We know you. We’ve got you. Go do your job.

That same support extends far beyond the studio. Our media relations team promotes our work, tells our stories and, when we need it, defends us vigorously. They are in the arena with us, and knowing they are there matters.

The same is true of our radio, podcast and digital teams, which have evolved right alongside the technology and opened up more and more ways for us to reach people. What once lived mostly on a television screen now lives in earbuds, phones, websites and across platforms that did not even exist when Fox News began. The technology changes, but the mission remains the same: Find the audience and serve them well.

And there are so many others whose names never appear on the screen.

These are not just colleagues. After enough years, they become deep friendships, and all the while I have laughed so much.

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I have also leaned on this group for comfort during some of life’s hardest moments, including when my dad passed away earlier this year. And I have had the privilege of sharing in the joy, too — marriages, babies and now, after all these years, even grandbabies.

That is what longevity really looks like. You don’t just work alongside people — you live a lot of life alongside them.

We have celebrated, mourned, adapted and endured more than a few difficult seasons. And I think we are stronger because of it.

I’ve been at Fox for nearly 17 years, and somehow I still feel new compared with the OGs who built this network and made it what it is today.

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Thirty years later, the technology is different. The platforms are different. The way people consume news is different. But excellence still comes down to people and our corporate culture.

Without their singular focus on getting it right, we would not be number one, and we would not have lasted 30 years. Because of them — along with the vision and leadership from the top, including our founders — I have tremendous confidence in the years ahead.

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The cameras may be pointed at us.

But the people just outside the frame are the reason the show goes on.

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HUD’s homelessness reforms put human lives ahead of housing bureaucracy

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:00:09 -0400

On Sept. 16, the First Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to move forward with desperately needed reforms to the nation’s homelessness system.

After months of litigation by the Homeless Industrial Complex to repeatedly block these reforms, the decision allows HUD to redefine success and fund the programs that generate the greatest success in moving the homeless toward recovery, restoration and self-sufficiency.

And not a moment too soon.

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For more than a decade, federal homelessness policy has centered heavily on permanent housing placement, while the measures used to define and count homelessness have often obscured important differences between who is counted as homeless and who is being served through homelessness programs.

Success will now be measured by whether people are getting better: recovering, working, reconnecting and reclaiming their lives.

Getting here required that HUD officials confront a series of gimmicks that helped sustain the old system — promises, definitions and measures of success that painted a very different picture than what was happening on America’s streets.

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The first gimmick was in 2013 when President Barack Obama declared Housing First the predominant federal approach, promising to end homelessness in a decade by prioritizing permanent housing placement without requiring treatment, sobriety or other preconditions.

The promised end never came. By 2025, despite a 151% increase in taxpayer-funded beds, homelessness surged 27% and chronic homelessness by 81% — reaching the highest levels ever recorded in our nation’s history.

The problem was that we defined success as housing placements and system growth rather than recovery, self-sufficiency and restored lives.

Spending soared, the system expanded and homelessness grew with it.

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That brings us to gimmick No. 2: housing people and then removing them from the homelessness count.

HUD’s Point-in-Time count excludes people already living in taxpayer-funded permanent housing for the homeless even though roughly 83% of HUD’s homelessness resources are devoted to housing them. That exposes a fundamental contradiction: If they are no longer counted as homeless, why does the nation’s largest homelessness agency continue devoting the majority of its resources to housing them?

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Then came another statistical sleight of hand: rapid rehousing.

HUD classified rapid rehousing as permanent housing even though its rental assistance is time-limited to 24 months. Move a family into rapid rehousing, and they disappear from the point-in-time count. Move that same family into transitional housing — which can also last up to 24 months — and they remain officially homeless.

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Same potential 24-month horizon. Two radically different statistical outcomes.

And the distinction mattered. As HUD steered communities away from transitional housing and toward rapid rehousing, HUD itself attributed declines in reported family homelessness in 2018 "largely" to that shift.

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Put the populations together and the picture changes dramatically: 1,456,923 Americans were either homeless or living in taxpayer-subsidized housing in 2025 — nearly twice the 745,652 captured by the headline point-in-time count.

That is one of the flaws in defining success primarily through housing status: The statistic can improve the moment someone crosses into a program classified as permanent housing, long before we know whether that person has achieved lasting stability or self-sufficiency.

Housing matters, but recovery, stability, and self-sufficiency must be the finish line.

Then there is the "chronic" definition gimmick.

Under 12 years of Housing First rule, HUD has repeatedly changed how it defines and calculates chronic homelessness, making apples-to-apples comparisons across years increasingly difficult. Some changes temporarily altered who qualified as chronically homeless and therefore who appeared in federal statistics.

But this year, this HUD administration did the calculation and reports chronic homelessness is 81% higher than it was in 2013.

Perhaps the most consequential gimmick, however, involves homeless children and families.

In 2011, HUD made the decision to apply a far narrower standard than the Congress-codified McKinney-Vento definition to identify homeless children and youth in our nation’s schools. The result is a stunning federal contradiction: a child can be officially homeless under federal law while at school, yet that same child and family is moved into the shadows under HUD’s narrow definition simply because, after losing their housing, they are sleeping on someone else’s couch, or in a motel room the government is not funding.

The definition disparity is staggering.

The Department of Education identified roughly 1.5 million homeless K–12 students in the 2023–24 school year, a number that includes only students. It does not count their parent(s), younger siblings not yet enrolled in school or other family members experiencing homelessness alongside them. Applying a conservative household adjustment suggests those students could represent more than 2.3 million Americans experiencing homelessness within families.

The result is that most homeless families are excluded from HUD’s homelessness count, and those excluded families do not qualify for HUD-funded homelessness assistance. HUD simply defined them out of the system that was supposed to support them. Pushing them into the shadows will have consequences reverberate for generations.

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Under the Trump administration, HUD now recognizes a basic truth: America cannot solve homelessness by narrowing definitions until millions disappear from the numbers — or by declaring success based simply on where someone sleeps.

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The era of statistical gimmicks and lowered expectations must end. It is time to measure what matters: lives recovered, restored and returned to self-sufficiency.

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Data centers could be the sleeper issue of the 2026 midterm elections

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:00:04 -0400

Data centers may be the sleeper issue of the midterm elections.

Fox News reported that Senate candidates are confronting growing voter anger over the electricity costs, water consumption, and sprawling developments associated with artificial intelligence. One recent Gallup survey found that 70 percent of Americans oppose the construction of new AI data centers in their own communities.

Politicians are paying attention. Some are calling for moratoriums. Others are targeting tax incentives or demanding that projects generate their own power. The political temptation is obvious: When voters are worried about higher utility bills and rapid changes in their communities, blaming large technology companies is easier than explaining a complicated energy and infrastructure problem.

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The concerns are real. They should not be dismissed by industry, and they cannot be ignored by elected officials. No family should be forced to subsidize the grid upgrades required by one of the world’s wealthiest companies. Communities deserve honest answers about water use, noise, land, electricity demand, tax incentives, and who will pay for new infrastructure.

But, legitimate concerns are quickly hardening into something far more dangerous: a political campaign against the physical infrastructure of American artificial intelligence.

If that happens, we will repeat one of the most damaging patterns in modern American history.

For decades, the United States surrendered factories, critical supply chains, mineral production, and industrial capacity to foreign competitors. Communities lost jobs, our national security became dependent on adversaries, and Washington eventually spent billions trying to rebuild industries that should never have left.

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We cannot make the same mistake with AI.

Artificial intelligence does not exist somewhere in the cloud. It requires chips, servers, power plants, transmission lines, cooling systems, construction workers, electricians, pipefitters, engineers, and data centers. These facilities are not incidental to the AI economy. They are the factories of the next industrial age.

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China understands this. Beijing is not debating whether it should possess the energy and computing infrastructure necessary to dominate artificial intelligence. It is building. The International Energy Agency projects that data-center electricity consumption will increase substantially in both China and the United States through 2030. If America decides that data centers are too politically difficult to construct, the demand for AI will not disappear. The investment, jobs, technical expertise, and strategic advantage will simply move elsewhere.

That would be a profound failure of American competitiveness.

It would also create a serious political problem for Democrats. Data-center construction has become an important source of work for the building trades. The Associated Press recently reported that data centers account for at least 40 percent of the work hours performed by members of the Columbus-Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council and at least 50 percent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26 in the Washington metropolitan area.

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Those are not theoretical jobs promised years from now. They are jobs for electricians, laborers, operating engineers, pipefitters, and other skilled workers today. Democrats cannot claim to represent organized labor while allowing progressive activists to shut down the projects employing union members.

Republicans should resist a similar temptation. Conservatives have spent years arguing for reshoring, energy dominance, permitting reform, American manufacturing, and competition with China. Those commitments mean very little if they disappear when building the next American industry becomes locally controversial.

The answer is not to wave every project through without conditions. It is to build responsibly and communicate honestly.

Data-center developers should be expected to explain what they are building, how much electricity and water it will require, how they will protect residential ratepayers, and what the surrounding community will receive in return. Utilities and regulators should ensure that large customers pay the costs created by their demand. Projects should pursue closed-loop cooling, on-site generation, long-term power agreements, and other options that reduce pressure on local systems.

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Most importantly, America needs more energy.

Data centers are exposing a problem that existed before the AI boom. Electricity demand from data centers has tripled over the past decade and could double or triple again by 2028. Electricity demand is rising after years of stagnant generation, premature plant retirements, congested transmission systems, and permitting processes that make major infrastructure nearly impossible to build on time. Stopping data centers will not modernize the grid. Building more reliable generation, accelerating transmission, preserving existing nuclear capacity, expanding natural gas infrastructure, and deploying advanced nuclear power will.

Industry also needs to recognize that silence is no longer a strategy. As Sen. Jon Husted told Fox News, data-center companies have not done a good enough job explaining why they should be allowed to develop in communities. He is right.

Americans hear about enormous power consumption, water use, and tax incentives. They need to hear, in plain language, what data centers make possible, which jobs they create, how they support national security, and why domestic computing capacity matters in the competition with China. That education must happen before a project is announced, not after opposition has already formed.

Political leadership means taking voters’ concerns seriously without allowing fear to determine America’s economic future. We can protect ratepayers, demand transparency, give communities a meaningful voice, and still build the infrastructure required to compete.

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America has already surrendered too many industries. We cannot cede the next one before most Americans realize the race has begun.

Trump’s Greenland bases could change Arctic defense. I learned why at 76 below zero

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:00:02 -0400

I spent four years as an Army infantry officer in Alaska, where our operational responsibilities stretched from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean to the Aleutian Islands reaching toward Russia.

During Exercise Brim Frost ’89, some 26,000 American and Canadian troops took the field, and I served as a brigade operations officer. As we maneuvered across Alaska’s interior, temperatures plunged as low as 76 degrees below zero. The exercise produced more than 250 cold-weather injuries, including 88 cases of frostbite. At those temperatures, fuel systems become unreliable, batteries lose power, lubricants thicken and weapons and vehicles can fail in ways soldiers from warmer climates rarely encounter.

And no, a week on the slopes at Vail does not prepare anyone for that. The Arctic punishes amateurs.

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That experience is why President Donald Trump’s Greenland announcement at the United Nations on Tuesday deserves attention beyond the political headlines. "We’ll be building two very major military bases," the president told the General Assembly.

The agreement Trump signed with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen amends the 1951 defense pact. It allows the United States to modernize and expand the existing Pituffik Space Base in the northwest and to establish new defense areas at Narsarsuaq in the south and Mestersvig in the northeast. It also grants U.S. forces broad access by land, air and sea, including undersea access for American public vessels within Greenland’s territorial waters.

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Announcing an Arctic base, however, is a long way from making one operational. Frederiksen said no decision has been made on the specifics of Golden Dome, and Washington has yet to say which forces will occupy the new sites or when.

Forget the flat map and look at the globe from over the North Pole. Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland form the northern approaches to North America, and Greenland sits astride the routes connecting the Arctic Ocean, the North Atlantic and Europe.

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The Pentagon’s 2024 Arctic Strategy calls the North American Arctic vital to homeland defense because it hosts NORAD’s aerospace and maritime warning.

Greenland has been strategic terrain for generations. Narsarsuaq itself was an American air base, Bluie West One, until the United States closed it in 1958. At the height of the Cold War, Washington operated 17 military facilities with more than 10,000 troops on the island. Today only Pituffik remains, with about 150 service members.

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Pituffik supports missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance. The new agreement recognizes American access to defend Greenland, the NATO area and the American continent, including through Golden Dome, Trump’s planned missile-defense system.

Add Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig, and the United States could build a distributed Arctic network. Pituffik is already the northern sensor and space node. Narsarsuaq could strengthen access to Greenland’s southern approaches and the North Atlantic, while Mestersvig could extend American and allied reach toward the Greenland Sea.

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That geography matters most against Russia.

Russia fields the most developed military presence in the Arctic. Its Kola Peninsula hosts the Northern Fleet and important strategic nuclear forces. The Pentagon warns that Russian Arctic capabilities could place the American homeland and allied territory at risk and complicate U.S. power projection.

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Russia does not have to invade Greenland for Greenland to matter. Russian submarines, long-range aircraft and missiles make the island important because of where it sits. More American sites could improve warning, surveillance, reinforcement and resilience while reducing our dependence on a single installation.

China presents a different problem. Beijing is not an Arctic nation, yet it has spent years seeking influence there. The Pentagon strategy documents Chinese icebreaker operations, dual-use research and growing military cooperation with Russia.

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Against China, the agreement’s most consequential provision may involve no runway at all. No non-NATO country may establish a manned or unmanned military installation or maintain a persistent military presence in Greenland without the parties’ agreement. The pact also bars non-allied control of, or significant influence over, critical infrastructure, resource extraction and other sensitive sectors. It has no expiration date, and it requires Denmark and Greenland to ensure that any future independent Greenland remains in NATO and assumes the pact’s defense obligations.

"No U.S. adversary will ever be permitted to establish a military presence in Greenland," Trump said. That closes one path to a Chinese foothold in the Arctic.

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None of this changes the lesson I learned at 76 below zero. An Arctic base is a supply chain that has to survive January. And an Arctic force is more than troops flown north on short notice. The people operating those bases must know how to live, maintain equipment and perform their missions where routine mistakes quickly turn deadly.

Fuel must arrive. Aircraft must fly. Vehicles must start. Communications must work. Soldiers must function outdoors without becoming cold-weather casualties. Spare parts must travel thousands of miles from America’s industrial base.

The Army’s Arctic strategy says the service must "man, train, equip, and organize to win in the Arctic." The Pentagon calls for better communications above 65 degrees north, where satellite coverage thins. Pituffik and Mestersvig both sit well north of that line.

Can two additional U.S. defense areas strengthen deterrence against Russia and China? They can, but concrete and runways alone deter no one.

Deterrence exists when an adversary believes America and its allies can see what is coming, move forces, sustain them and respond effectively. Greenland strengthens each of those against Russia. Against China, denying military access and strategic investment may matter just as much.

The agreement provides geography and access. The hard work is converting them into enduring capability.

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Alaska taught me long ago that the Arctic has little patience for PowerPoint plans or optimistic assumptions. At 76 below zero, strategy meets reality fast.

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The adversaries have changed since World War II and the Cold War. The geography has not. Neither has the Arctic’s unforgiving nature.

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Sen Kennedy says no living politicians should have buildings named after them after Trump's moves

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:48:04 -0400

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on Sunday that living public officials should not have buildings named after them and proposed a rule to prohibit such renaming efforts.

This comes as President Donald Trump continues to push to rename the Kennedy Center after himself. The president has also sought to rename other prominent federal buildings in Washington, D.C., after himself since returning to the White House last year.

Kennedy said public officials, including Trump, should not "spend public money on private ads for themselves."

"The White House sees it differently, but … you can’t spend public money to … promote yourself," Kennedy told host Margaret Brennan during an appearance on CBS News' "Face the Nation."

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Kennedy's comments came as a new ad promoting Trump appeared on multiple networks, that was funded by the federal government.

The senator then suggested public officials should be barred from having a building named after them while they are still alive.

"I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he’s alive," he said, referring to Trump mocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., last year by sharing AI videos of the lawmakers wearing sombreros.

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Trump has attempted to rename multiple buildings after himself since returning to the Oval Office, including the Kennedy Center, although federal judges blocked multiple attempts by the center's board — handpicked by Trump — to add the president’s name to the building.

Trump's name was briefly added to the building's facade but was ordered removed after courts ruled that only Congress holds the authority to change the center's name.

The State Department also added Trump’s name last year to the U.S. Institute of Peace, but former institute officials removed by the Trump administration filed a court motion earlier this month to block construction crews from putting the president’s name onto the outside of the building.

Trump also suggested he wanted New York's Penn Station and the D.C. area's Dulles Airport named after him as a condition for a funding deal earlier this year.

The president has additionally floated a project to construct a promenade connecting the back of the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River, saying that allies wanted to call it the "Trump Promenade."

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"They want to call it the Trump Promenade, but I don't know if I want to do that, but it's going to be beautiful," he said at the time.

Madonna dominates VMAs with Artist of the Year win after showstopping opening performance

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:32:59 -0400

Madonna took home a number of awards at the 2026 MTV VMAs, including the biggest honor of the night, Artist of the Year.

She also won Best Collaboration and Best Dance awards, bringing her total 2026 VMAs awards to seven.

During the show, which was hosted by Snoop Dogg at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, Kacey Musgraves channeled Dolly Parton in a tribute to the late country icon.

She sang Parton's song, "I Will Always Love You" for her tribute, one month after Dolly's death.

Taylor Swift won the Video of the Year for her music video "The Fate of Ophelia." Swift wrote and directed the music video for her song. Swift dedicated her win to Parton.

She also received the first ever Artist Director Honors, presented by her friend Dakota Johnson. Swift also received the award for Best Direction for "Opalite."

Madonna opened the show with Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX — 23 years after her last performance for the ceremony.

She performed "Bring Your Love" with Sabrina Carpenter, and "Danceteria" with Charli XCX.

There were also guest appearances by Julia Garner, Sombr, Debi Mazur and Seth Rogen in her show-opener performance.

Fans took to X to share their reaction to Madonna’s performance.

"Train wreck," one fan wrote, adding that she "looked like she was hanging on for dear life."

Another called her performance "cringeworthy," and someone else wrote on X: "Much of her performance was just embarrassing… lip-sync & awkward moves....still happy for her wins btw."

Others gushed about her performance. One fan wrote: "I’m proud of Madonna. That was a great performance & great showcase of the creative vision of the album. THEE QUEEN."

Others said: "Can’t get enough," "Insane performance," "killed it tonight," "What a great performance thank u Mother Madonna u continue to amaze me."

Madonna beat Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, Bruno Mars, and Morgan Wallen for the Artist of the Year.

The artist began her acceptance speech by thanking her fingers "because I can always count on them."

Madonna also pointed out that the audience wasn’t born when she performed at the first ever MTV Video Music Awards, which took place in 1984. She had sang "Like A Virgin."

She said during her performance her shoe fell off, calling it a "little problem."

Madonna recalled she tried to dive and grab her shoe by trying to make herself "look cute and sexy."

"I had a little problem with my shoes and I dove onto the stage to try and make myself look cute and sexy and like I meant to do it."

However, she said by doing so, she accidentally flashed her backside.

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"In those days, butt cheeks were not hanging out. I just want to remind you. And I went backstage feeling really proud of myself, and my manager told me that my career was over."

The singer said in the last year and a half, she focused on "finding myself, believing in myself, and really making the music that I wanted to make."

Adding: "I mean, that really is the definition of being an artist. And my hope for all of you here tonight is that you spend the next year, or the next 10 years, or put the rest of your life doing the same, finding yourself and believing in yourself."

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Madonna also won Best Dance for "Confessions II - The Film."

While accepting the award, which she did with presenters Charli XCX and Troye Sivan beside her, she said, "I came to New York to be a dancer and dance is where everything happened for me in my life."

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Adding: "I came to life on the dance floor, I fell in love with people on the dance floor, and I lost many people I loved on the dance floor. [And] dance brings everybody together. We’re all equal on the dance floor."

Madonna also took home the Moon Person for Best Collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter for their song "Bring Your Love."

Musgraves paid tribute to Parton at the VMAs.

The tribute began with Parton on screen singing her song "I Will Always Love You."

Musgraves appears on stage in the pre-taped tribute, and takes over singing the song while wearing a hot pink gown and voluminous hair, channeling the singer’s look.

Parton died on August 25 at age 80.

The 2026 VMAs also included a tribute to Nirvana. The band was awarded the Video Vanguard Award.

Swift also debuted her music video for "Patient Zero." The music video stars Johnson and Colin Farrell.

Other performers at the VMAs included Lisa, Sienna Spiro, Bruno Mars, Sombr and Shaboozey.

Spiro was the winner of Best New Artist, while Lisa took home Best Pop Award.

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Denver Broncos storm back from down 16-0 at halftime to beat Los Angeles Rams in instant classic

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:26:24 -0400

For 30 minutes, nothing seemed to be going right for the Denver Broncos.

Last year's AFC runners-up tormented their home crowd for much of the first half, digging themselves a 16-0 hole and looking downright lethargic on offense.

Then the script flipped.

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The Broncos rode an opportunistic defense and some fourth-quarter magic from quarterback Bo Nix to an impressive second-half comeback against the Los Angeles Rams in a Sunday night classic in the Mile High City.

Even after Nix's one-yard quarterback sneak put his team ahead with less than a minute left in the fourth quarter, the Broncos had to hold their collective breath as Rams signal-caller Matthew Stafford calmly drove Los Angeles to within striking distance for the win.

Denver's defense would rise to the occasion with a pick to seal it, just as they had done earlier in the quarter when they returned a Stafford interception for a touchdown to give the Broncos their first lead of the game.

Nix was shaky for much of the first half, but, to his credit, he was able to shake off whatever rust seemed to be present after halftime, accounting for three touchdowns in the final two frames.

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For the Rams, they find themselves at 1-2 after this second-half collapse and staring up at their rivals, San Francisco, who sit atop the NFC West at 3-0.

It's early, but LA can ill afford to fall behind any further, as the margin for error continues to shrink as the season matures.

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Conversely, the Broncos get a massive win to keep pace in a surprisingly competitive AFC West.

With the Chiefs seemingly picking up where they left off after an uncharacteristically down 2025 and the upstart Las Vegas Raiders racing out to a 3-0 start, Denver needed this one to go their way.

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It wasn't pretty, but a win's a win in the NFL.

Texas man arrested after 'intentionally' crashing into a closed Kroger to use bathroom: cops

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:19:36 -0400

A Texas man was arrested after police say he intentionally crashed his vehicle through the front entrance of a Kroger grocery store because he needed to use the bathroom, according to police.

The unidentified man crashed his vehicle into the store overnight on Sunday while the business was closed, allegedly upset that the doors were locked.

The incident happened just before 4:30 a.m. on Sunday morning in Rosenberg, Texas, according to police.

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The crash reportedly caused extensive damage to the store.

Images released by police showed the vehicle inside the store with shattered glass inside and outside the doors of the building. The metal door frames were also seen with significant damage.

"On Sunday, September 27th, at approximately 0428, a known male individual intentionally accelerated into Kroger, causing extensive damage to the pharmacy entrance," Rosenberg Police wrote on Facebook.

"I guess when you gotta go, you gotta go but we strongly advise finding a store open for business…to do your business," the department added.

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The suspect was only described as a 60-year-old man.

Police told FOX 26 that the man was arrested on criminal mischief charges.

Benjamin Satterley, pro wrestling star known as Pac, dead at 40

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:29:18 -0400

Benjamin Satterley, the pro wrestling star known as Pac, has died, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced on Sunday night. He was 40.

AEW made the tragic announcement on its social media.

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"All Elite Wrestling is saddened to announce the passing of Benjamin Satterley, aka Pac," the company said. "A native of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Satterley began his wrestling career in 2004 and went on to perform for wrestling organizations all over the world, captivating fans with innovative high-flying moves and incredible in-ring ability.

"Pac signed with All Elite Wrestling in 2019 and held multiple AEW Championships and competed in some of the most memorable matches in AEW history. Our condolences go out to Satterley’s family, friends and fans."

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The circumstances behind Pac’s death were unclear. He challenged Andrade El Idolo for the AEW National Championship at All Out, which occurred on Saturday in Chicago.

OutKick reached out to Chicago police, Hoffman Estates police, the Cook County Sheriff's Office and the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office for comment.

Pac was one of the first wrestlers to sign with All Elite Wrestling in 2019. He was a two-time trios champion and the inaugural all-Atlantic champion.

Before wrestling in AEW, he was with WWE and known as Adrian Neville.

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Satterley was a two-time cruiserweight champion, an NXT champion and two-time NXT tag team champion.

Attorney for lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy mistrial pushes back on claims of refusing the law

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:19:42 -0400

The attorney for the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is pushing back on a claim that his client refused to follow the law, telling Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany that the juror had no doubt about his decision.

In a preview of an interview airing Monday on "Fox & Friends," McEnany asks attorney Edward Paltzik whether juror Michael P. Desronvil ever had reasonable doubt after the jury foreperson sent the judge a note accusing him of refusing to follow the law on reasonable doubt.

"Michael had zero doubt," Paltzik says.

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"Zero doubt. No doubt. And he had evidence to back up his position?" McEnany responds.

"A lot of evidence. A mountain of evidence," Paltzik says.

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Desronvil was the lone holdout after seven days of deliberations in Clancy’s trial. Eleven jurors were prepared to find the former labor and delivery nurse not criminally responsible for killing her three children, while Desronvil held out for a conviction. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Sept. 4.

Clancy admitted killing 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. Her defense argued that postpartum psychosis left her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors argued she understood what she was doing and planned the killings.

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Desronvil later said he believed the physical evidence and witness testimony showed Clancy knew what she was doing. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will retry her. She is due back in court Sept. 29.

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Houston Astros secure the most embarrassing kind of Major League Baseball history with AL West win

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:44:18 -0400

When Major League Baseball changed the schedule to ensure that the final day of the regular season featured all 15 games starting within a few minutes of each other, Sunday is what they envisioned. Mostly.

While most postseason spots and seeds were decided either within the last week or the last few days, there were two races that came down to the final day of the year. The American League West race featured the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers entering the day tied at 80-81, remarkably, and the third wild card spot in the National League between the Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks.

The Phillies, who as recently as last week had a 99.1% chance of reaching the postseason, per FanGraphs, avoided a historic collapse and clinched a wild card series appearance with a 7-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays.

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But the Astros, even with a win, did in fact make an embarrassing type of history: they are officially the worst division-winning team in baseball history.

The previous low-water mark was the 2005 San Diego Padres, who won the NL West with an 82-80 record. And while the Astros won 9-0 over the long-eliminated Athletics to avoid the 80-82 record, 81–81 marks a new low winning percentage for a division winner over a full season.

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Even crazier? The Astros were extremely fortunate to finish the season at .500.

While wins and losses are what decide the standings and outcomes, run differential has proven over time to be a significantly better predictor of future win and loss records than the previous standings. Essentially, the better you are at outscoring the opposition, the more likely it is that you'll win more games moving forward. One-run outcomes are not sustainable, but blowouts are illustrative of team quality.

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Run differentials are also used to build "expected" records. Meaning that in the history of baseball, a specific run differential is expected to result in a given number of wins and losses. The Miami Marlins, for example, outscored the opposition by just three runs over the course of the season, which is an "expected" record of 81-81. Makes sense, they were even with the other teams in the league, they should finish at an even .500.

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By contrast, the Milwaukee Brewers finished with a league-best +214 run differential, good for an "expected" record of 103-59. They finished 103-59.

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But teams frequently over perform or underperform against their expected win-loss record, for any number of reasons. A bad bullpen could mean a team wins blowouts, but loses more than their fair share of close games. Bad luck. Poorly timed injuries. Poor defense. Inconsistent hitting with runners in scoring position. The randomness of baseball. Or a dominant closer who shuts the door consistently in close games.

This year's 81-81 division winning Astros team was so bad they were outscored 32 runs over the course of the season, good for just an 78-84 expected win-loss record. While the Rangers and their fans are sure to be disappointed with the outcome, missing out on the final day, they were even worse. Texas had a -46 run differential, and a 76-86 expected record.

These are not good baseball teams.

So it's a near-certainty that Houston will make a quick postseason exit, right?

Yeah, no, not at all. Houston plays the Chicago White Sox in the best-of-three wild card series, which the Astros now host as division winners. Chicago's a better team, but the randomness inherent in the small sample size of a playoff series makes the result effectively a toss up. In fact, FanGraphs gives the Astros a 55% chance of advancing to the ALDS.

Should Houston win that series, they'd play the extremely mediocre Cleveland Guardians, who finished with a +11 run differential and 85-77 record. Cleveland may be slight favorites in that series, maybe 57-43, but hardly a foregone conclusion. Which means we could be staring down the barrel of an 81-81 team reaching the ALCS.

MLB always hoped for last-minute drama by starting every game around the same time on the final day of the regular season. They got it.

They also got the worst-ever division winning team because the league's financial incentives and playoff structure encourage owners to do the bare minimum and spend as little as possible to win 85 games and hope for the best. Or in Houston's case, 81. The Astros benefited, and fans were forced to watch the AL West "battle" lost.

Foiled terror plot at bomber base signals wider threat to US military installations: expert

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:34:26 -0400

Five men arrested near a key U.S. bomber base in the U.K. on Sunday may have planned a "complex," coordinated attack with potentially far-reaching security implications for American military installations globally, a former U.S. intelligence official warned.

As counterterrorism police investigated after officers detained the suspects near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, a former Pentagon official also said President Donald Trump will ultimately be the one to decide the consequences if indeed the "trail leads to Tehran."

The men were initially held on suspicion of offenses under Britain’s Explosives Act before being arrested on terrorism charges in connection with the airfield, a key U.S. Air Force hub and the primary European base for American strategic bombers.

On Sunday, Trump said U.S. authorities had been monitoring the suspects prior to their capture.

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"We had them under investigation," Trump told reporters in Chicago. "They were looking to do big damage to our fort."

"It may have been Scotland Yard. I don't know. We worked with a lot of them. We had them under view for a long time, and we got them," Trump added.

According to Sky News, counterterrorism police were investigating whether Iran is linked to the suspected bomb plot.

Former Trump White House official Morgan Murphy told Fox News Digital that British authorities are leading the investigation alongside U.S. law enforcement and intelligence.

"Every phone, bank record and rental receipt will be run through British and American intelligence, and if the trail leads to Tehran, it will be found," Murphy clarified.

"But as American airmen and bombers seem to have been the target, Air Force investigators on the base, the FBI in London, and American intelligence will likely all work the case."

"If conclusive evidence proves Iran is behind an attempted attack on U.S. forces, the American President will ultimately decide how Tehran pays," Murphy added.

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Former Defense Intelligence Agency official Andrew Badger told Fox News Digital the number of suspects and vehicles involved raised the possibility of a sophisticated operation.

"We are going to see elevated security protocols across Europe, across the U.K., and across the entire world for any U.S. installation," he said.

"This is a very significant threat, and again, seeing that we had five individuals involved and three different reported vans at the scene, this could have been a very complex, highly orchestrated operation," Badger added.

"This isn't just some type of amateur lone wolf operation," he said, noting Fairford’s strategic importance to the U.S. military. "Fairford is also where the U.S. houses its strategic bombers for Europe as well as the rest of the world."

He said a potential attack posed broader risks beyond the airfield itself which he said "could have had significant security implications. It could have damaged the nearby area."

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"They could have tried to use a VBIED or a vehicle-borne explosive device where the first van could have gone off at the front gate, and then the other vans would have gone in and tried to go for the strategic bombers," Badger said.

British authorities have not publicly identified who they believe was behind the suspected plot or announced a motive, but RAF Fairford had taken on greater strategic importance during the war with Iran.

The U.K. government previously authorized U.S. forces to use the Royal Air Force bases Fairford and Diego Garcia for limited defensive operations, including destroying Iranian missiles and launchers at their source.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) later warned that any base used to attack Iranian territory would be considered a legitimate target.

"Any base used to launch attacks on Iranian territory is a legitimate target for our forces," the IRGC said, according to reports.

"Tehran warned London in July to keep American bombers off Fairford, and if this plot traces back to Iran, the answer must be more bombers, not fewer," Morgan said.

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A local councilor told Reuters there had been a recent security alert at Fairford and surveillance had been stepped up.

"So there was a specific threat about six weeks ago from the Iranians on this base. At the time, there was increased surveillance around the area," he told the outlet.

Badger, however, cautioned against assuming Iran was responsible while pointing to other potential threats.

"This could be Iran trying to gain strategic leverage in negotiations, but there are other actors as well," Badger added.

"But there's Russia, who's been launching a campaign of gray zone or hybrid warfare attacks across Europe, as well as Islamic extremists, which are still a significant threat here in the U.K."

"Was this some type of retaliation by Iran to perhaps try to gain leverage or to try to inflict a cost for the U.S. withdrawing from these negotiations? Again, we don't know for sure, but it is a possibility," Badger said.

Badger also pointed to RAF Welford, a major U.S. ammunition storage facility that primarily supports operations at RAF Fairford.

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"RAF Welford is actually the second-largest weapons and ammunition depot in all of Europe," Badger said, noting that the facility where the U.S. stores ammunition "could have been a target as well."

"Other bases across Europe, including European and U.S. partners, have already been on a heightened state of alert," Badger continued.

"But of course, after this attack, I think they're going to be in an even more heightened state. You're going to have more frequent security patrols."

"There are reports that RAF Fairford was put onto what's called the Delta alert, which is the highest state of security alert within the military base system," Badger said.

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"So this is basically that 'an imminent terrorist attack is inbound,'" he concluded.

Angels reach historic 100-loss low with season-closing defeat against Mariners as new era looms

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:22:59 -0400

A season worth forgetting in Anaheim ended with a mark that will linger in baseball history forever.

With a 7-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on Sunday, the Los Angeles Angels (62-100) officially crossed a threshold they had evaded for 65 years: their first 100-loss season.

The defeat stripped the Halos of their standing as the last MLB franchise to avoid triple-digit losses, putting all 30 clubs on the century-mark ledger.

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For first-year manager Kurt Suzuki, Game 162 was the grim culmination of a grueling campaign, one that ultimately eclipsed the 63-99 mark set by Ron Washington’s 2024 squad.

The finale carried an unmistakable layer of drama. Franchise star Mike Trout watched from the dugout on a scheduled day off as his young teammates fought to avert history.

Shortstop Zach Neto had insisted earlier in the week that organizational pride would propel them past the brink, and a 5-4 stretch in their final nine games gave Anaheim a flicker of hope. But Sunday proved unforgiving.

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Former Mariner Yusei Kikuchi (1-7) was tagged early by his old club, surrendering three runs over five innings. After Angels' Bryce Teodosio trimmed the deficit to 3-1 with a sixth-inning sacrifice fly, Seattle quickly slammed the door. A costly throwing error and a two-run double by Randy Arozarena pushed the margin out of reach. A late solo shot by Jose Siri provided a brief spark, but the season expired when Dominic Canzone squeezed a fly ball off the bat of Christian Moore for the final out.

Following the June 26 firing of GM Perry Minasian, interim GM John Mozeliak tore down the roster, shipping out fan favorites Taylor Ward, Jo Adell, Logan O'Hoppe and Chase Silseth (and more) for prospects and leaving Suzuki with a stripped-down, youthful core down the stretch.

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Yet, hitting rock bottom arrives with a sudden shift in momentum.

The end of Arte Moreno's era is officially underway following an agreement to sell the controlling interest of the franchise to Stan Kroenke’s group for a record $4 billion.

For a fanbase enduring its lowest historical point, Kroenke’s proven track record of constructing championship rosters across professional sports offers what Anaheim has lacked for decades: a real vision forward.

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Trevor Lawrence fantasy owners are beside themselves after inexplicable decision in fourth quarter blowout

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:01:44 -0400

Life is pretty sweet if you're a Jacksonville Jaguars fan as of late.

Last year, the Jags went 13-4, their best season since 1999, and sit atop the AFC South three games into this season with one of the best coach-quarterback combos in the NFL.

Duval's finest absolutely crushed last year's AFC Champions, the New England Patriots, thanks in large part to the play of that aforementioned quarterback.

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Trevor Lawrence tossed three touchdowns in a blowout 35-6 victory on Sunday, but he could have added a rushing touchdown midway through the fourth quarter as well.

With the Jaguars leading 28-6 with just under nine minutes left in the game, Lawrence took a designed quarterback keeper on third and three and broke into the clear.

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Then the flaxen-maned signal caller did something pretty inexplicable by all accounts: he slid at the one-yard line.

Okay, analytics nerds, I'm ready for any and all explanations on this one.

I get that you want to burn as much time as possible when you're holding a lead, but a touchdown there gives you a four-score lead with just over half a quarter left in the game.

The Patriots looked downright anemic on offense, mustering two field goals the entire game, and even if they somehow miraculously found the end zone four times in the next eight minutes, they still would've needed at least one two-point conversion just to tie the ballgame.

So again, I ask, what's the thought process here.

I've never been one to get too up in arms when it comes to things like this, but luckily the internet did it for me, as a bunch of angry fantasy football owners and amateur gamblers were ready to throw their phones through a wall after this one.

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I don't get the move, but I certainly don't think there's anything nefarious going on here.

Lawrence likely wanted to burn as much time as possible, and although I think it was ultimately a pointless endeavor, I can understand the logic.

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I would say to put your tinfoil hats away, folks, but Lawrence actually gave a tongue-in-cheek answer about it when speaking during his postgame interview

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Stand up and take a bow, conspiracy theorists. You were right this time.

Kathy Griffin says Ed Sheeran should have told Robert Kraft to 'go f--- yourself' over Macklemore

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:54:47 -0400

Comedian Kathy Griffin said on Wednesday that singer Ed Sheeran should have told Gillette Stadium owner and billionaire Robert Kraft to "go f--- yourself" after barring Macklemore from performing as his opening act over his "Free Palestine" stunt.

In an interview with Queerty, Griffin commented on Macklemore being pulled from the rest of Sheeran's tour earlier this month after he repeatedly pushed for a "Free Palestine" during his act and performed his anti-Israel song "Hind's Hall." The decision came after Kraft barred Macklemore from performing at Gillette Stadium.

Though Sheeran has said that the decision ultimately came from the concert promoter and venues rather than him, Griffin argued that Sheeran could have, and should have, defended Macklemore at the time.

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"I wish that Ed Sheeran had not taken the advice of the ones who told him to fire Macklemore," Griffin said. "Let’s not be listening to f------ Robert Kraft. When Robert Kraft says I’ve called all the other stadium owners and they’re not gonna let you do the show with Macklemore either, Ed Sheeran should’ve said go f--- yourself, I can go to Brazil and perform for 250,000 people. He had more options."

Griffin added that Macklemore's comments were protected under the First Amendment and professed her own support for a "Free Palestine."

"I don't think 'Free Palestine' is such a controversial thing to say because that's a genuine genocide that is happening there, in my opinion. I don't want Israel to be eradicated. I love the Israeli people as I hope the rest of the world likes the American people but hates [President Donald] Trump and his cabinet and our current SCOTUS. So I can't stand [Israeli Prime Minister] Bibi Netanyahu. I think he's ruined the Knesset which is their Congress. But I certainly don't have a beef with the Jewish people or the Palestinian people. They're both trying to survive. I personally think that Palestine should be its own country," Griffin said.

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Fox News Digital reached out to Sheeran's and Kraft's representatives for comment.

In response to being removed from Sheeran's tour, Macklemore announced on Thursday that he would be launching his own "Free Palestine Tour." As of now, he has three shows scheduled: in Dublin on Oct. 26, in Paris on Oct. 29 and in London on Oct. 30.

Though Macklemore has received support from progressive figures for his political actions, the singer has also faced criticism from pro-Israel organizations who accused him of supporting antisemitism.

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The Israeli-American Council (IAC) released a statement to Fox News Digital supporting Kraft's actions pushing back against Macklemore.

"The Israeli-American Council (IAC) applauds Robert Kraft and his fellow stadium owners for their moral leadership in expelling rapper Macklemore from the concert stage rather than allow him to promote antisemitism," the statement read.

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It added, "Robert Kraft's moral leadership establishes what should be an obvious principle: a performer who traffics in antisemitism should not be given a stage. As a result, Macklemore will no longer be allowed to subject audiences to his hateful rants. The IAC salutes and thanks Mr. Kraft for setting an example for all to follow."

Baker Mayfield leaves game after writhing in pain on turf in Tampa Bay when thumb on throwing hand injured

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:42:12 -0400

Baker Mayfield was trying to lead a fourth-quarterback comeback against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday when he found himself heaving a desperation fourth-down pass which got intercepted. And then something really bad happened.

As Vikings linebacker Andrew Van Ginkel was cradling the interception, back up field Mayfield was on the ground literally screaming in pain.

He clearly injured the thumb on his throwing hand.

His THROWING hand, folks.

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The finger bent in a manner it should not.

After the game, Bucs head coach Todd Bowles announced Mayfield suffered a dislocated thumb.

"He'll get an MRI tomorrow just to see exactly what inside is wrong," Bowles said. "We'll know more tomorrow."

The "know more" part will determine how much rather than if Mayfield suffered ligament damage. The tests will also determine if Mayfield will need surgery.

If Mayfield needs surgery, he's probably looking at a stint on the injured reserve list, which would require him to miss four games.

His return to play will be determined by how long it eventually takes him to regain his grip.

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Mayfield left the game after the injury. He walked to the Buccaneers' locker room to have the digit examined.

That included an X-Ray within the Raymond James Stadium medical facility.

The Bucs turned to backup quarterback Jalon Daniels to play the final two minutes of the game, down 23-16.

Daniels, an undrafted rookie who made the club as something of a surprise, could not author the comeback win. He threw an interception on the game's final play.

The Buccaneers are 0-3 and in trouble, especially if their starting quarterback's condition means he'll miss the next month of games.

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Team USA captain thanks Trump after massive Presidents Cup comeback: ‘He gets all the credit’

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:32:51 -0400

U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker credited President Donald Trump after the Americans rallied for a 17-13 victory over the International team at the Presidents Cup on Sunday.

"One last shoutout: Donald Trump. President Trump. He told me, 'I [am] going to bring energy today for you. You guys need it,'" Snedeker said.

"I told him if we did this, he gets all the credit. So, thank you, President Trump."

With Trump in attendance, the United States team found itself in uncharted territory heading into Sunday singles at Medinah Country Club. For the first time in the event's history, Team USA trailed on home soil entering the final session.

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Trump, the event's honorary chairman, briefly addressed the crowd from the first tee before play began.

"You know, the fake news media will say I get a very bad reception," Trump said as the crowd laughed. "But we get a good reception."

"[PGA Tour CEO] Brian [Rolapp] said, 'Could you make a short speech?' I said, 'No, I don't have the courage to make a speech. These people wanna see golf. They don't wanna hear speeches.' I'll only say this: Our country is doing great, better than ever before."

The Americans entered the week having won all eight Presidents Cups played on home soil and 10 straight overall. But Team USA was also coming off a 15-13 loss to Europe at last year's Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. The last thing American golf needed was another visiting team celebrating a victory on U.S. soil.

Instead, the Americans erased a 10½-7½ deficit by winning nine of the 12 singles matches and outscoring the Internationals 9½-2½. Presidents Cup rookie Jacob Bridgeman delivered the winning point with a par putt on the 18th green.

USA sent an early message on Sunday

Snedeker sent out some of his best players in the first few matches, hoping to swing the event and put pressure on the Internationals. Cameron Young led off, with Justin Thomas and Scottie Scheffler going out third and fourth.

The plan worked.

Young did his job as the leadoff man, despite falling 2 down to Ryo Hisatsune after four holes. He won five of the next 12 holes to close out a 3&2 victory.

Match play specialist Justin Thomas, who entered Sunday with a 20-10-5 career record in Ryder Cups and Presidents Cups, won five of the first six holes against Corey Conners before coasting to a 5&3 win.

Nico Echavarria gave Scheffler a little more trouble than many might have expected, but the world's No. 1 player ultimately closed out the 32-year-old Colombian, 2&1.

However, the International team wasn't going down easily. Tom Kim capped an incredible week by beating world No. 5 Wyndham Clark, finishing as the tournament's leading scorer with four points. Sungjae Im also took down world No. 8 Sam Burns.

Chris Gotterup was a major bright spot for the Americans all tournament. The 27-year-old Presidents Cup rookie defeated Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1 up and finished 3-1 for the week. He made a strong case for a spot on the 2027 Ryder Cup team in the process.

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Arguably the best match of the day featured Collin Morikawa and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama. Matsuyama jumped out to a 2-up lead through six holes, but Morikawa battled back and took the lead by winning the 10th.

Matsuyama won two straight holes to move back in front, only for Morikawa to square the match again at 15. The pair tied 16 and 17, sending them to the 18th all square.

On 18, Matsuyama drove into the rough and could only advance his second shot short of the green. His pitch ran 15 feet past the hole, while Morikawa cozied a long birdie putt to within 2½ feet.

Matsuyama missed his par putt, giving Morikawa a 1-up win and the Americans a much-needed full point.

Cantlay makes a major statement

Patrick Cantlay delivered one of the afternoon's biggest moments in his match against Adam Scott, burying a 57-foot birdie putt from just off the 16th green.

The usually reserved Cantlay pumped his fist hard and yelled, "YES! YES!" to the crowd, which was going wild, sensing the gravity of the moment.

Cantlay closed out Scott on 17, 2&1. His victory and Morikawa's came moments apart, putting the U.S. ahead 13½-12½ with four matches still on the course.

With Xander Schauffele holding a commanding lead, the Americans looked set for another point. That put the pressure on rookies Jackson Koivun and Bridgeman, along with the steady veteran Russell Henley, to finish the comeback.

Koivun, a 21-year-old Presidents Cup rookie, was 2 down at the turn against Si Woo Kim, who entered Sunday tied for the tournament lead with three points. But Koivun completely flipped the match on the back nine, winning holes 11, 12, 13 and 15.

Koivun took a 1-up lead to 18, where Kim hit his approach to 15 feet. But the rookie wasn't intimidated. After driving it down the middle of the fairway, the Auburn product stuck his approach to eight feet.

Kim lipped out his birdie putt, and Koivun secured another crucial point to push the U.S. total to 14½.

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Bridgeman delivered another clutch moment from an American rookie, burying an eight-foot par putt on 16. Min Woo Lee missed his four-footer for par, squaring their match with two holes to play.

With Schauffele guaranteed at least a half-point, the Americans could do no worse than a tie and needed just another half-point beyond that to win the Cup outright.

Schauffele had been 4 up with four holes to play, but lost 15 and 16, keeping the Americans waiting a little longer. Apparently, the afternoon hadn't been dramatic enough.

Schauffele's delay left the honor to Bridgeman. Fittingly, the rookie delivered, sinking his par putt on 18 to beat Lee 1 up and give the Americans the 15½ points they needed.

A "U-S-A!" chant broke out from the crowd as Bridgeman's putt dropped, and the Americans celebrated on the 18th green.

Schauffele eventually closed out Ryan Fox, 2&1, while Henley halved his match with Nick Taylor to complete the 17-13 victory.

The win was the Americans' 11th straight in the Presidents Cup and ninth in nine tries at home, improving their overall record to 14-1-1.

USA still has work to do before the Ryder Cup

Of course, the Americans never should have put themselves in this position.

Eight U.S. players entered the week ranked higher than Si Woo Kim, the International team's highest-ranked player at No. 14. Seven Americans were inside the world's top 10. The visitors didn't have one.

At home, against that roster, this should have been a blowout. It certainly shouldn't have required a three-point comeback on Sunday.

Instead, the International team swept Friday's foursomes 5-0, just as it did at Royal Montreal in 2024. That turned a 3-2 U.S. lead after Thursday into a 7-3 deficit heading into Saturday.

Saturday offered opportunities to regain control. The Americans led all four matches at one point in each of the day's two sessions, but finished with just a 4½-3½ edge. That still left them down three entering Sunday.

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Clark finished 1-4 for the week, while Henley went winless in three matches, earning just a half-point.

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American men won just one major in 2026, courtesy of Clark at the U.S. Open. That followed last year's embarrassing Ryder Cup loss at Bethpage Black.

And the next Ryder Cup sends Team USA to Adare Manor in Ireland in 2027, tasked with doing something the Americans haven't done since 1993: winning on European soil.

Sunday singles should give the Americans some confidence heading to Ireland. They won that session 7½-4½ at the 2024 Presidents Cup and 8½-3½ at last year's Ryder Cup before hammering the Internationals 9½-2½ at Medinah.

But Bethpage already showed that even a great Sunday might not be enough. Team USA needs to clean up its play in the team formats, particularly foursomes, and stop leaving itself so much work to do on the final day.

Police hunt sexually violent predator who vanished after GPS 'tamper mode' alert

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:30:46 -0400

A convicted child sex offender was still missing Sunday, two days after his GPS monitor sounded a tamper alert at a San Diego worksite and supervisors arrived to find him gone, authorities said.

Merle Wakefield, 69, was working in Rancho Bernardo when his device alerted to "Tamper Mode" at about 3:30 a.m. Friday, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office.

Liberty Healthcare, the state contractor supervising him, responded to the location and found the device removed and Wakefield gone. The company notified the sheriff’s office and San Diego police.

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The sheriff’s office said Sunday it "shares the community’s concerns over Merle Wakefield’s disappearance" and was still actively looking for him.

"We have been working diligently to locate him," the agency said. It asked the public to report any sightings or information that could help find Wakefield.

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"It’s been more than 48 hours since Merle Wakefield took off his GPS monitor and walked away. He’s still out there," San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond wrote Sunday on Facebook. He called Wakefield "a convicted child molester and violent rapist" and accused the state of saying nothing publicly about his disappearance.

Wakefield is wanted for violating the terms of his conditional release, the sheriff’s office said. He was convicted in 1980 and 1991 of lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 and rape by force, according to the agency. He has been on conditional release since November 2024.

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Desmond said Wakefield was gone by the time Liberty Healthcare arrived after the GPS alert.

"That’s how easy it was," he wrote in an earlier post. "The state released him into our community in November 2024 and promised he’d be monitored and supervised. Less than two years later, he’s missing and wanted."

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Local officials had warned about Wakefield’s release before it happened. A San Diego judge granted him a transient release in October 2024 rather than placing him in a designated home, Fox 5/KUSI reported at the time. It was the third attempt to place him in San Diego County.

An earlier proposal would have placed Wakefield in a Poway home near a school and park, prompting residents to rally against it, according to the outlet. Poway Mayor Steve Vaus opposed that location and argued that allowing Wakefield to live without a fixed address would make it harder for the public to know where he was.

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"It’s a shell game that puts a community at risk," Vaus told Fox 5/KUSI about the transient release.

The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office also opposed releasing Wakefield without a fixed residence, citing concerns about limited monitoring and supervision. Spokesperson Tanya Sierra told the outlet that the Department of State Hospitals and Liberty Healthcare needed to find suitable housing where people granted conditional release could be closely monitored.

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State Sen. Brian Jones raised his own concerns about where Wakefield would stay. He told Fox 5/KUSI that Wakefield might end up on the streets or in a hotel at taxpayer expense.

"Supposedly, he’s going to have a tracking device," Jones said at the time.

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Jones had also called for an audit of California’s sexually violent predator program, the outlet reported. The audit found that about 36% of participants had violated the terms of their release. Jones criticized the program’s cost and argued that the state should keep sexually violent predators in hospitals rather than place them in communities.

The California Department of State Hospitals pushed back on criticism of the release process, telling Fox 5/KUSI that the court ultimately decides whether someone designated a sexually violent predator can be conditionally released.

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The department said its supervision program used GPS monitoring, unannounced home visits and surveillance, and that breaking the rules could send someone back to a state hospital. The outlet also reported that Wakefield’s court order called for 24-hour in-person supervision wherever he stayed. That report was published before the hearing to finalize his release.

Desmond renewed his objection after Wakefield disappeared.

"I’ve fought these placements from day one," he wrote. "These people do not belong back out in the community. They belong in a state hospital or in jail. As long as Sacramento’s law keeps putting them in our neighborhoods, families are going to keep paying the price."

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Wakefield is 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighs 230 pounds and has brown eyes, according to the sheriff’s office. Authorities warned anyone who sees him not to approach or contact him and to call 911 or local law enforcement.

Fox News Digital reached out to Senator Jones' office and the San Diego County Sheriff's Office for comment.

Deshaun Watson goes from Cleveland villain to hero in Browns upset win, as home crowd turns jeers to cheers

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:15:25 -0400

There was a stunning upset in Cleveland on Sunday as the Browns beat the favored Carolina Panthers , but it had nothing to do with the outcome and everything to do with quarterback Deshaun Watson.

The dude turned the hometown crowd's boos to cheers.

The people who have grown to seriously dislike their starting quarterback, many of them angrily barking at him from the Dawg Pound in all sorts of unfriendly tones, were actually chanting, "Let's go Watson" before this game was over.

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About the only boos Watson could hear in the second half of this one was when he was sacked during a crucial third down by Carolina edge rusher Princely Umanmielen for a seven-yard loss, but replays on the big screens showed Umanmielen grabbing and twisting Watson’s facemask without a call from an official.

There hasn't been a turnaround like this since Apple Inc. rose from near bankruptcy in the 1990s.

Watson barely heard anything other than approval from the home crowd.

Well, maybe a smattering of boos earlier.

"I was hearing the crowd, the yelling the positivity," Watson said afterward. "That's my main focus. I didn't hear any of [the boos], but at the same time, I was just trying to give them something to cheer about and we got that W so that's all that matters."

Stunning.

These words seem foreign to anyone who heard that press conference Watson gave during the preseason when he called the home crowd "disrespectful" for booing him when he injured his Achilles in 2024 and then again in the preseason when he played his first game back at Huntington Bank Field.

He added that it was "personal" between him and the crowd and having nothing to do with his performance.

And, well, it has something to do with performance. Watson's two passing touchdowns and the comeback win proved that because suddenly the folks who didn't like him very much previously seemed to approve.

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But, yes, maybe some of the ire Watson felt from fans previously was because of his huge contract, and inability to live up to the money the past four years, and the NFL suspension Watson had to accept in 2022, and the reason for that suspension, which was tied to alleged sexual assaults of two dozen female massage therapists.

All of that made Browns fans unwilling to cut their quarterback a break.

But Watson seemed to win some of them back, at least for one afternoon, when his team erased a 12-10 deficit in the fourth quarter.

No, it didn't take a lot.

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This was, by the way, Watson's first regular-season home game of this season and first since that 2024 game in which he ruptured his Achilles. So, a big deal.

"From the moment I woke up, just the anticipation, just the anxiousness, just everything, just to get in front of the fans, just to get here, just to get started," Watson said in describing what drove him.

"I wanted to play perfect so bad, but, you know, that's the NFL with its ups and downs ... The energy, the fans, it was amazing. They kept believing in us. They kept the energy up ... And we just continued to feed off that energy of the crowd."

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Caitlin Clark, Fever get absolute reality check in Game 1 playoff beatdown against Aces

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:09:12 -0400

The Indiana Fever limped into the postseason with zero momentum after getting blown out by 20 points against the Minnesota Lynx in their regular-season finale, and Sunday's playoff opener offered little hope.

In Game 1 of their best-of-three first-round series, the Las Vegas Aces put on a clinic, strong-arming Indy in a 102-85 rout.

Having proven they could beat the defending champions during the regular season, Indiana fans hoped to make a statement early. Instead, Las Vegas stepped on the gas from the opening tip and built a lead as large as 27 points, leaving Indiana scrambling to stay afloat for nearly the entire second half.

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Las Vegas was led by a dominant performance from MVP-hopeful A'ja Wilson, who was virtually unstoppable and carried the Aces on both ends of the floor. Wilson finished with 38 points and 16 rebounds. Yet the primary story of the game was Indiana's inability to execute against a physical and disciplined playoff defense.

Indiana's backcourt spent the afternoon fighting through traps and relentless double teams.

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Caitlin Clark worked her way to a double-double, racking up 15 points, 10 assists and three rebounds.

But the Aces hounded her and disrupted her shooting rhythm throughout the day. Clark made just 6 of 18 shots, including 3 from deep — committing six turnovers and picking up five fouls. Kelsey Mitchell struggled to find her scoring rhythm, too. She finished with 12 points and three assists, connecting on only 4-of-16.

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With their two primary creators unable to find their rhythm, the Fever lacked the offensive firepower needed to trade baskets with a red-hot Vegas squad. Aliyah Boston led the Fever with 18 points, adding eight rebounds and dishing out four assists.

Off the bench, Sophie Cunningham provided a much-needed spark for the Fever. Cunningham scored 13 points, including three shots from beyond the arc. She offered Indiana a spark during a tough second half, but it wasn't enough to mount a real threat.

Game 2 of the series shifts home to Indianapolis Tuesday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The Fever will desperately be looking to protect their home court to keep their season alive and force a Game 3.

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Phillies avoid collapse, Astros sneak in as MLB Postseason is set

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:06:56 -0400

The chill is in the air, the days of summer feel long gone already, the weather is changing, the leaves are falling and it could only mean that one thing is on the horizon – postseason baseball.

The field was set on Sunday as baseball fans had their eyes on a handful of teams. The Philadelphia Phillies needed a win to get in and avoid a devastating collapse and the Houston Astros just needed a victory to clinch their spot in the playoffs.

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Luckily, for both teams, disaster was averted.

Kyle Schwarber’s two-run double and Bryce Harper’s solo home run propelled the Phillies to a 7-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. It gave Philadelphia a wild-card berth as the team finished 88-74 on the year.

Philadelphia had lost six of its last eight games before Sunday's win.

Houston just needed a win to wrap up the American League West division title. The Astros responded with a 9-0 victory over the Athletics in Sacramento. Ethan Pecko gave Houston three innings of strong work, allowing only one hit and striking out two. The rest of the bullpen did its job to close the door. Christian Walker hit his 29th home run of the season in the sixth to bolster the Astros’ chances.

The Astros finished the year 81-81.

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October baseball will finally be upon us after a wild season.

The American League division winners include the Tampa Bay Rays (AL East), Cleveland Guardians (AL Central) and the Astros (AL West). The National League division winners include the Atlanta Braves (NL East), Milwaukee Brewers (NL Central) and Los Angeles Dodgers (NL West).

The Rays, Guardians, Brewers and Dodgers each have a bye into the Division Series.

The Wild Card portion of the bracket begins Tuesday. The Braves take on the Phillies, the Astros meet the Chicago White Sox, the New York Yankees go up against the Boston Red Sox and the San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs battle it out.

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The Wild Card round is a best-of-three. The Phillies and Braves begin the postseason at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

Florida Gators, Mississippi State soar, USC tumbles in latest inexplicable AP Top 25 Poll

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:56:02 -0400

One of college football's greatest traditions got another entry on Sunday, as the week four edition of the AP Top 25 Poll was released to mostly bemused reactions from confused fans.

And if there was any doubt that the SEC continues to enjoy some, uh, questionable, benefits based on preseason polling and perceived strength, this week's voting should put that to rest.

Unsurprisingly, one of the biggest gainers of the week was the Florida Gators, coming off an impressive 52-28 win over the Ole Miss Rebels. Florida racked up over 300 yards on the ground, forced two turnovers, and kept the ball away from Trinidad Chambliss and the powerful Ole Miss offense. After what could be a season-changing win, the Gators moved up a whopping 13 spots to No. 8, one spot ahead of the Rebels.

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The Oklahoma State Cowboys were another big mover, jumping 11 spots to No. 19, as their win over the Oregon Ducks looks even better after OU's win over USC. UCLA , too, moved 14 spots into the top 25 at No. 23 thanks to a 54-3 obliteration of the Maryland Terrapins. Another surprise team through week four? The Mississippi State Bulldogs, who held on to beat Missouri and moved up eight spots to No. 16.

But speaking of Missouri, they exemplify the problem that the preseason poll and voters' pre-conceived biases have with these rankings.

The Tigers entered the season as the No. 25 team in the preseason poll and proceeded to do literally nothing of importance in the first three weeks. A 54-21 win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, a 38-21 win over a bad Kansas team, and a surprisingly close 27-17 win over an atrocious Troy team.

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Their reward was to move up to No. 19 heading into the game against the Bulldogs, which resulted in the 31-24 loss. Somehow, after again, looking very unimpressive for the entirety of the season, Missouri sits at ... No. 25 in the week four poll. That's the exact type of SEC-specific outcome that fans from other conferences complain about. Look bad, do nothing, lose, stay right where you were. And then brag about the number of "ranked games" and "ranked wins."

Meanwhile, Missouri has not beaten an SEC team that finished the season with a winning record since 2024 and their wins that season were over 7-6 Arkansas and 7-6 Vanderbilt.

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Meanwhile, Kentucky moved up three spots to No. 24, even though their win over Texas A&M looks far less impressive than it did a week ago, with the Aggies looking more like a top 50 team this year than top 25. But the Missouri ranking has immense value, as it means their upcoming game against Florida is yet another "ranked matchup in the SEC."

Meanwhile, Iowa, who pulled up the upset win over Michigan with a last-second touchdown, moves up just three spots. Michigan went from No. 18 to unranked. Penn State dropped from No. 13 to unranked after losing to Wisconsin, who had a miraculous late touchdown pass of their own in Happy Valley, and USC fell six spots after losing to Oregon.

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Nebraska is unranked because they started the preseason unranked, while advanced metric systems put the Cornhuskers at No. 16 based on their actual performance. Wake Forest beat No. 16 Louisville on the road, and their one loss was to a top-five Miami team, but they're unranked while Missouri is. There's no logic or consistency to any of it, it's just a grab bag based on eye test, preseason polls, conference affiliation, the size of a team's stadium and whatever ESPN chooses to highlight.

Here's the full poll:

Texas (4-0)
Georgia (4-0)
Notre Dame (4-0)
Miami (4-0)
Ohio State (3-1)
Indiana (4-0)
Alabama (4-0)
Florida (4-0)
Ole Miss (3-1)
BYU (3-0)
LSU (3-1)
Texas Tech (4-0)
Utah (4-0)
Iowa (4-0)
Oregon (3-1)
Mississippi State (4-0)
Tennessee (3-1)
USC (4-1)
Oklahoma State (3-1)
Houston (3-1)
SMU (3-1)
Boise State (3-1)
UCLA (4-0)
Kentucky (3-1)
Missouri (3-1)

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Again, the upside is that the AP Poll at the end of the day doesn't matter. The downside? There's no doubt that these awful rankings are used to inform the College Football Playoff selection committee's deliberations and provide fodder for "strength of schedule" and "strength of conference" and "resume wins" arguments and so on. Texas A&M, despite currently sitting at No. 39 in computer-based rankings, one spot ahead of UCF, will count as a "ranked win" for Kentucky and LSU, because preseason polls expected them to be good. They are not good.

With a full slate of big games in week five, expect more AP absurdity to come next week. After all, it's one of the sport's most cherished traditions.

Taylor Swift and Paris Hilton sizzle at 2026 VMAs: Vote on your favorite star looks

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:51:30 -0400

The biggest stars in music descended upon the Peacock Theater on Sunday for the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.

The awards show honors and recognizes the creativity and direction of music videos, as well as highlight achievements in the medium.

Hosted by Snoop Dogg, the annual ceremony celebrates music and the art and creativity behind a music video.

Vote below for the best look of the evening.

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Top NFL Draft prospect receives indefinite suspension after outburst in loss to Alabama

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:31:03 -0400

Read almost every 2027 NFL mock draft and South Carolina Gamecocks edge rusher Dylan Stewart is predicted to be at least a top-10 pick.

An incident on Saturday is expected to raise more questions than answers.

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Stewart was ejected from South Carolina’s 49-14 loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide after he punched tight end Josh Ford’s helmet. He then argued with coaches on the sideline.

All of that resulted in an indefinite suspension on Sunday. South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer announced the punishment during a press conference.

"I'll make the decision on what his future looks like beyond this week here in the next day or so. Still having some meetings and talking with him, but he won't play this week versus Kentucky. There's a standard of how we do things in our program and that was not it last night," Beamer said, via 247 Sports. "It's beyond the punch. The punch is unacceptable.

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"He's not the first person to ever throw a punch in the football game and he won't be the last. But it's some of the other stuff. That isn't how we do things in this program. Accountability is a core value in this program and we are all accountable to the standard, so we'll see what that looks like here going forward."

Stewart burst onto the scene during his freshman year. He had 6.5 sacks and 23 total tackles in 2024. In 2025, Stewart had 4.5 sacks and 33 total tackles.

He was a second-team All-SEC selection as voted on by coaches last year. College football expert Phil Steele also named him an honorable mention All-American.

It’s unclear when or if Stewart will return to the field this season.

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South Carolina fell to 2-2 with the loss against Alabama. The Gamecocks are set to take on Kentucky this coming Saturday.

'Home Improvement' star says Patricia Richardson got 'tired' of fighting for sitcom

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:01:55 -0400

"Home Improvement" star Taran Noah Smith is shedding new light on why the hit 1990s sitcom came to an end.

The 42-year-old former actor was seven-years-old when he landed the role of Mark Taylor, the youngest son of Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor (Tim Allen) and his wife Jill Taylor (Patricia Richardson) in 1991.

The sitcom, which was based on Allen's stand-up comedy persona, centered on Tim, a television host known for his home improvement show, "Tool Time," and his family life with Jill, Mark and older sons Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan) and Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas).

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"Home Improvement" became one of the highest-rated shows of the '90s and ran for eight seasons and aired 204 episodes. However, the show concluded in 1999 after Richardson declined to return for a proposed ninth season.

During a recent appearance on Tom Scharpling and Julia Vickerman's podcast "Outgrown" podcast, Smith reflected on his time starring on the show and weighed in on the reasons behind Richardson's departure.

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Smith recalled that Richardson joined the cast as Jill just days before the pilot was taped after producers replaced Frances Fisher, the actress originally cast as Tim's wife, during rehearsals.

"When they brought Patricia in, there was just a much better chemistry," he said. "And she had her own kid. She had just given birth to twins, and she had one older kid who was about my age. She really brought a lot more of a realistic mom energy to her, and she fought throughout the whole show to keep the show more realistic."

"She would tell the writers, ‘A mother would never say this,’ and get them to change it," he added.

Smith said he "definitely" agreed with Richardson's input though he acknowledged that he and the show's other child stars weren't really involved in conversations about the script.

"They'd do a run-through of the script on Monday and then the kids would go to school usually, and they would continue to discuss the script," he said.

Smith recalled that there were creative disagreements on set after a new creative team replaced the show's original writers and producers.

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"The original creators only did the first couple seasons, and then they moved on, and they brought in a whole other group of writer/producers," he remembered. "Those guys, very few of them had kids, and the show kind of started to go in a different direction, at least the scripts we'd get on Monday."

"It was really Pat, the mom, who fought the good fight to make it more realistic because oftentimes it would just be something that was very out of character just to sell a joke, just to set up a joke," he continued. "It's like, ‘Wait, this is not what the characters are about.’"

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Smith speculated that Allen was reluctant to appear overly controlling after witnessing what happened on another sitcom, "Roseanne." "Roseanne," which became an instant hit after it premiered in 1988, was created by "Home Improvement" co-creator Matt Williams. Like "Home Improvement," Roseanne was built around its star's stand-up comedy voice and persona.

However, Barr clashed behind-the-scenes with producers and writers, including Williams, over the direction and tone of the show. The tensions between the two led to Williams leaving after the first season. Barr later gained more influence and was credited as a creator in later seasons.

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"I think Tim was overall maybe a bit worried about being a tyrant because the same creators created ‘Roseanne,’ and Roseanne took over the show and fired the creators, fired everybody," Smith recalled. "Actually, all our camera crew had been fired in one day from ‘Roseanne’ and came over to us. So, Tim was always, I think, more hands-off with that, not wanting to be tyrannical, which meant that it was a lot more on Pat to push."

"That's one of the reasons why the show ended up eventually ending, because she was just tired of it, of having to fight to make it realistic all the time," he continued.

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"And Tim was getting far more money than she was," Smith added. "That was her actual way of stopping. She said she'd do a ninth season if she got paid the same amount as Tim, knowing they wouldn't do it."

Smith's recollection of why Richardson left "Home Improvement" echoes what the actress has said for years about her experience on the show and the reasons for her departure.

During a May 2024 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Richardson recalled that the creators emphasized the importance of the character of Jill and her relationship with Tim.

"When I took the job, they said it wasn’t meant to be the Tim Allen show. It was meant to be our show," she said. "I’ve always said, I don’t want to play the thankless wife."

Richardson recalled having creative disagreements with male writers over how Jill would react to specific situations, remembering one instance in which she was told, "Pat, it’s not like we don’t understand women. We’re married to them."

The actress, who earned four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her performance as Jill, told the LA Times that she made the decision to leave the show.

Richardson told the LA Times she decided during the eighth season that it would be her last, citing a desire to spend more time with her children after her divorce and her belief that the sitcom had run its course, pointing to Jonathan Taylor Thomas' departure and declining ratings.

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The actress also felt that Disney failed to recognize her creative contributions to the series, saying she helped shape her character and storylines but was denied a producer credit, even as Allen became an executive producer.

"I told everybody, there’s not enough money in the world to get me to do a ninth year. This show is over. It needs to end," Richardson recalled.

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Richardson recalled that ABC unexpectedly offered to continue the show with a 25-episode ninth season. She said the network's parent company, Disney, proposed paying her a salary of $1 million an episode, while Allen would be paid $2 million an episode.

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Though she recalled Allen immediately accepting the offer, she said she countered with terms that she knew the studio would reject. Richardson told the outlet that she requested equal pay with Allen and an executive producer credit.

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"I knew that Disney would in no way pay me that much. That was my way to say ‘no’ and was a little bit of a flip-off to Disney," Richardson said. "I’d been there all this time, and they never even paid me a third of what Tim was making, and I was working my a-- off. I was a big reason why women were watching."