Nice post by Jason Snell on the iPod’s 25th anniversary. Amazing that it has been that long. I had the original iPod at launch and it really was a special device. On how quickly the iPod was developed, Jason blogs:

Not every product can, or should, be made at a breakneck pace. But Apple should have the ability to shift into that higher gear from time to time, when the opportunity arises. I’m not sure today’s Apple is wired that way, and maybe remembering how quickly the iPod came to fruition could serve as a little bit of a prod for Apple to work on getting that capability back.

That was it for Stewart, which is a real shame for a few reasons. First of all, it sure seems like that truck of his had some potential, given how many positions he picked up early. Secondly, fans didn't get to see as much of the NASCAR Hall of Famer back on track.

Welp. You got 17 laps.

Hey, that is the reality of superspeedway racing. You need a good helping of luck to go along with that quick truck.

"Yeah, it’s just a racing deal," Stewart said, per the Associated Press. "That’s part of it. Stewart (Friesen) couldn’t go anywhere. He had an issue, and he’s stuck in the middle. So he was doing the best he could to hang onto it, and just everybody around him got caught up in it."

Well, maybe we'll get to see Stewart back in the Truck Series at some point next season. There aren't any concrete plans, but he's certainly due for some good luck.

The race win ended up going to Spire Motorsports' Sammy Smith, who managed to take the checkered flag in overtime. It was Smith's first career Truck Series win and came the same day that it was announced that he will compete full-time for Tricon Garage next season.

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon doubled down on closing the Department of Education (ED) as planned to demonstrate to Congress that the federal agency she leads is no longer necessary.

"Signing these interagency agreements means, in fact, that the Department of Education is contracting with these agencies to perform the functions that they've been given," McMahon told Fox News Digital. 

"The first big block of work was transferred over to the Department of Labor."

Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to eliminate the ED, later signing an executive order directing his administration to begin dismantling the agency.

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As part of that effort, the Department of Labor (DOL) is taking on a major role in the day-to-day administration of adult education, family literacy and career and technical education (CTE) programs under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the Perkins Act. 

While Labor manages operational duties, the Department of Education retains statutory responsibilities and oversight while shifting services to states and grant recipients.

"It started first with CTE — Career and Technical Education — then K–12 and finally higher education as well," McMahon said.

McMahon explained that she wants to show lawmakers that federal support for students won't falter without a standalone Cabinet department.

"I've asked Congress with this proof of concept in these interagency agreements: 'Let me prove to you that it works,'" she said. 

"Ultimately, Congress has to vote if we do close the Department of Education, and if I, in fact, am able to fire myself. Hopefully, they will vote [for it], because I believe the outcome will be better for students, and that is the goal. That is certainly the president's goal."

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The agency took another major step by partnering with the Department of the Treasury, which agreed to take over key operations related to federal student loans and collections on defaulted debt.

The student loan partnership with Treasury and the workforce initiative with DOL are part of a broader series of interagency agreements. According to Department of Education officials, the goal is to demonstrate a "proof of concept" to Congress that essential federal education functions and funding flows can be successfully reallocated across executive branch agencies without disruption.

"I call it my proof of concept to show Congress that it works, that the money still gets to schools and to students where they need it," McMahon told Fox News Digital.

"Some of the programs in the Department of Education were being duplicated in other agencies or handled better elsewhere," McMahon added. "So, let's be efficient. Let's make sure the money gets where it needs to go, let's measure that by student outcomes and let's hold teachers and administrators accountable for what they're doing."

Andrew Gillen, a higher education policy research fellow at the Cato Institute, told Fox News Digital that shifting major core duties like student loans and formula grants marks a substantial change from previous interagency agreements, which historically focused on minor administrative support.

McMahon previously argued during the government shutdown that the ED acts primarily as a pass-through entity for federal money, contending that its day-to-day functions are nonessential.

"Congress appropriates the funds. The funds come through the Department of Education, and some of that funding still goes to other agencies to get to students and schools," McMahon told Fox News Digital. 

"Primarily, the money was passed through the Department of Education to then get to the states and local authorities for education."

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ED announced earlier this year that the agency moved out of the Lyndon B. Johnson Department of Education building so the Department of Energy could move in by August. The move is what the officials call "a prudent step to save hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and further reduce the federal education bureaucracy."

The Trump administration is also seeking to reduce the department's footprint by returning more power to the states.

The ED launched a new process allowing states to seek greater flexibility in using federal education funds and reducing administrative burdens. Iowa became the first state to participate in the effort.

The Department of Education sent states a letter in July 2025 encouraging them to apply for the waiver, which would give state education officials more discretion over federal dollars and reduce compliance costs.

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She was a close family member of the first victim, a man who had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

PROVO, Utah — Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old Utah man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point USA event last year, still doesn't have a trial date after hearing oral arguments from both sides — and a lawyer for Kirk's widow — about how much time they think they'll need and when they'd like to start.

Robinson, wearing a light gray suit, uncuffed and unshackled, did not address the court. He spoke quietly with attorneys Richard Novak, Kathy Nester and Staci Visser during breaks, at one point handing Visser a note.

Judge Tony Graf Jr. said he had planned to set a trial date at the end of the hearing but needed more time after questioning both sides about their expected timelines and commitments in previously scheduled trials on other cases.

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The roughly three-hour hearing saw several interruptions due to technical difficulty with WebEx, with Robinson defense attorney Michael Burt and an attorney for Kirk's parents, Robert and Kathy, attending remotely.

Utah County prosecutors had floated Jan. 31, 2028, as their preferred trial date but said they could be ready in October 2027.

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The defense had asked for a "soft target" date in the third quarter of 2029, citing large amounts of discovery and other trial preparations — as well as trial commitments in other cases. Among those, one directly conflicted with the prosecution's desired start date, a federal racketeering case defense attorney Novak has scheduled for Jan. 10, 2028.

Both sides agreed that setting a trial that would run through the holidays could put potential jurors and witnesses in a bind.

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"Justice delayed this long stops being justice for the Kirk family," said Jeffrey Neiman, an attorney for Kirk's widow, Erika.

Neiman noted that only about 5% of federal cases actually make it to trial and said the Kirk family would be happy to write to the federal judge and ask for the January trial to be rescheduled to clear up Robinson's defense attorney.

Under Utah's state constitution, victims and their representatives have a right to a speedy resolution to their case. Erika Kirk is the court's designated victim's representative.

Novak told the court that trial's start date had been "set in stone" and argued against rushing things along in the case against Robinson.

"The reality is rushing to trial does not lead to closure, it does not lead to finality, it leads to mistakes," he said.

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Graf expressed concern that if he does not set a date soon, additional conflicts could arise.

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Neiman, who is primarily a criminal defense attorney, has repeatedly asked the court to speed things up.

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"Time is the defense’s best ally," he said. "It’s their best friend."

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He also noted that regardless of when the trial takes place, Charlie Kirk won't be able to spend Christmas with his family.

"Your honor, if you set it, it will happen," Neiman said. "Set it, please."

Graf set the next hearing for Monday, Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. MT, when he said he would read his ruling.

The movement that paralyzed Paris eight years ago is joining a widening collection of protest groups challenging authorities.

Vanessa Trump revealed she is now cancer-free after battling breast cancer, sharing the emotional health update in a new video with her daughter, Kai Trump, months after publicly announcing her diagnosis.

The 19-year-old granddaughter of President Donald Trump shared a preview of the conversation on Instagram during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, revealing that her mother, who's the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr., was diagnosed in April.

"And my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in April, so we thought we'd share her story and how she was diagnosed, how she overcame it," Kai said in the video.

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To finish the social clip, Vanessa shared the news that she is now cancer-free.

"And it came back clear, so I'm finally cancer-free," Vanessa said.

"Love you!" Kai responded.

The video also features Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier, who discusses the importance of breast cancer awareness and early detection.

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"It feels different for everyone," Saphier said. "The reason I like social media talking about breast cancer is because it's reminding people that it is common."

In her Instagram caption, Kai said she sat down with her mother and Saphier to discuss Vanessa's cancer journey, prevention and early detection. She also announced that the full conversation would be released on YouTube the following day.

Vanessa, the mother of five, first revealed her breast cancer diagnosis in May.

"I've recently been diagnosed with breast cancer," Vanessa wrote at the time. "While this isn't news anyone expects, I'm working closely with my medical team on a treatment plan."

She revealed that doctors had performed a procedure earlier that week and thanked her family for their support.

"I am staying focused and hopeful while surrounded by the love and support of my family, my kids, and those closest to me," she wrote.

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The announcement prompted support from Ivanka Trump, who wrote, "Praying for your continued strength and a swift recovery. Love you mama."

In June, Vanessa said she was recovering from surgery and preparing to begin the second stage of treatment, Fox News Digital reported.

Kai later opened up about the emotional experience in an August interview with Fox News Digital, shortly after beginning her freshman year at the University of Miami.

"There was definitely, there was a lot of crying in, like, the week leading up," Kai said of the days before leaving for college. "We would just be driving, and then we'd just start crying together."

At the time, Kai said her mother was improving after treatment.

"My mom, she's doing a lot better," she said. "Kind of after treatment, she wasn't feeling very good. Just like how treatment will make you feel … but she's getting a lot better now."

Kai described the extra time she spent with her mother over the summer as a "blessing in disguise."

"I was able to spend extra time with her that I would normally probably spend on the golf course," Kai said. "It was nice to spend those extra hours with her throughout the day before going to college."

Now, months after Vanessa first revealed her diagnosis and Kai described their emotional summer together, the mother and daughter are sharing a hopeful new chapter.

Fox News Digital's Sophia Compton and Paulina Dedaj contributed to this reporting.

The reported fall came hours after Flair announced that he would be unable to attend a scheduled appearance in Seattle due to a blood clot in his leg.

"My Doctors Have Limited My Travel To 3–4 Hours. Seattle Falls Outside That Range, And As Disappointed As I Am, I Have To Put My Health And Recovery First. Blood Clots Are Extremely Serious And Can Be Life-Threatening," Flair said on X. "We Have Seen This Recently With Jalen Hurts And The Complications Involving Blood Clots In His Lungs. It Is A Reminder That This Is Not Something To Take Lightly, And I Must Follow Medical Advice."

Flair said he is slated to have surgery on the affected vein, "[w]hich My Doctors Expect Will Allow Me To Be Cleared For More Travel Afterward."

"Please Know This Decision Was Not Made Lightly. I Am Truly Sorry For The Inconvenience And Disappointment, And I Am Incredibly Grateful For Your Patience, Understanding, And Continued Support. I Look Forward To Getting Healthy And Seeing You All Down The Road. Thank You For The Love And Support," Flair added.

Tampa Fire Rescue told OutKick and Fox News Digital that it responded to a fall outside the establishment, and an adult male was taken to a local hospital — the department did not name Flair, saying they could not "provide any patient particulars due to HIPPA guidelines."

Flair, 77, has battled health and alcohol issues over the years.

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Flair has been in and out of wrestling for the last few years. His so-called "Last Match" took place in 2022 — a tag-team match with his then-son-in-law, the wrestler known as Andrade, against Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal. He later revealed he passed out twice during the match.

Flair made his All Elite Wrestling debut in 2023 and was a brief part of Sting’s final professional match at AEW Revolution, where Sting and Darby Allin took on the Young Bucks.

He was a World Championship Wrestling world heavyweight champion eight times, a National Wrestling Alliance world heavyweight champion nine times and a WWE champion twice during his career.

The WWE inducted Flair into its Hall of Fame in 2008 as a singles wrestler and as a member of the Four Horsemen in 2012.

In Florida, Trump vows to deal with Cuba after Iran gets settled

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My first choice would be to see more people blogging on their own sites. But having longer and richer posts on Mastodon would be preferable to many of the alternatives. I still wish it supported RSS for my timeline and replies.

If only there was a social network that actually prioritized blogging and had RSS feeds for the timeline, mentions, and everything else. I’m quite biased but there really isn’t anything else like it.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Cubans seeking political change to discreetly cooperate with the CIA on Friday, as President Donald Trump separately floated sending Rubio to the communist-run island to negotiate a deal.

"To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time," Rubio wrote in a post on X.

"The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA."

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Rubio's message explicitly encouraged Cubans to work with the U.S. intelligence agency but did not identify a specific operation or explain what such cooperation would involve.

Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has long advocated for a tougher U.S. approach toward the Cuban government. The former Florida senator has been a prominent critic of the communist leadership in Havana and opposed efforts to normalize relations without political reforms.

Trump, meanwhile, raised the possibility of U.S. ships stopping near Cuba while discussing Iran during a midterm rally in Fort Myers, Florida, on Friday.

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"Don't worry. We'll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran with it. We'll do a little stopover now. We'll do a little stopover," Trump told the crowd.

"Actually, what we're going to do with Cuba is we're going to come back from Iran. Those beautiful ships will pass Cuba. We'll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast. They'll raise up their hands."

Trump then suggested Rubio could handle negotiations with the communist-run island.

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"And then we're going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal. We'll have Marco. Marco. We don't even have to stop. We could just put him in there and he'll figure it out. He's a great guy."

Trump did not provide details about any proposed agreement with Cuba or indicate whether his remarks reflected an actual military or diplomatic plan.

Fox News Digital reached out to the CIA, State Department, White House and Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., for comment.

The NFL said in a reply to an email from OutKick and Fox News Digital that the PSG game did not impact any potential decision to move the Steelers-Saints game. However, Trump said the NFL "could've probably postponed that match."

"It's looking like tomorrow is going to be a bad day in France, so you worry about it. I would've said the NFL could've probably postponed that match... France is really in trouble," Trump told reporters on Friday.

Trump then took a shot at Democratic policies.

"That's what happens when you go left. That's what happens when you allow unlimited numbers of people into your country from very unfriendly countries."

The NFL has insisted multiple times this week that Sunday's game in France will be safe to play and safe for fans to attend amid civil unrest. However, the Steelers canceled a fan event in the area.

According to a league source, the topics discussed at the two-hour gathering included security for the game, the readiness of the Stade de France, where the game is to be played and the growth of flag football in France.

Organizers of the Paris protest told the Associated Press that an administrative court overturned a protest ban issued by police after they challenged it. The Paris prefecture previously said the ban was necessary, given the risk of street violence after groups of masked youth clashed with officers, looted shops and torched cars over the weekend.

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The organizers signed a police document stating that the protest would remain stationary due to the risk of violence.

Earlier this week, Dani Watt, the wife of Steelers defensive end TJ Watt, questioned publicly why the game has not been moved.

"Tell me how this one makes sense???" Watt posted.

The NFL on Thursday told OutKick that its own NFL Fan House event scheduled for Friday and Saturday remains as scheduled.

"It's happening," a league spokesman said.

On Wednesday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he would attend the game and had spoken with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in recent days about moving forward with it.

Rubio told OutKick that the American embassy in France believes the game "will be fine."

OutKick's Armando Salguero contributed to this report.

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The iPhone Duo has an all-new form factor with multiple folding and orientation options, and app developers are having some fun with it. You can find quite a few apps using the foldable display in unique ways, many with skeuomorphic designs.

Tiny Computers ($3.99)

Tiny Computers turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a miniature retro computer, with options inspired by the Macintosh, Commodore 64, Amiga 500, iMac G3, iBook G3, and more. It works best with the ‌iPhone Duo‌ in a seated orientation, giving you a display and a virtual keyboard.


The mini computers have clickable keyboards, desktop games, and paint programs, along with hidden files and easter eggs.

Fold & Squish (Free)

Made by the same developer as Tiny Computers, Fold & Squish lets you make Rorschach art with the Duo. You paint a design on one half of the Duo's display, close it, rub a finger over the outer display to "squish" the virtual paint, then open it up to see your finished design.


An add-on "Sparkle Pack" includes glitter paints, rainbow paint, and pencil guides for helping you paint designs like butterflies, but the base feature set is available for free.

Portal ($2.99/month)

Portal is a relaxation app that offers "portals" to different natural environments, from a lava river in Iceland to the cloud forest in Costa Rica. There are over 100 locations, each with calming sounds and breathing exercises. The app can be used for meditation, but it also has focus timers and sleep timers.


When the ‌iPhone Duo‌ is unfolded, scenes take up the entire display, but it also works especially well when the ‌iPhone Duo‌ is in tent mode. There are three free portals to use that are refreshed each month, and a Premium subscription is priced at $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year.

Lake (Free)

Lake is an adult coloring book that's been updated for the ‌iPhone Duo‌. Holding the Duo in portrait mode gives you a full-page coloring surface, and the developer tells us it's being updated for Apple Pencil.


Lake has coloring pages from a long list of artists. It's free to download and comes with basic coloring pages and tools, but unlocking the full app requires a premium subscription that's $9.99 per month.

Toastie ($2.99)

Toastie turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a toaster for making grilled cheese sandwiches. It's a game where you prepare the sandwich ingredients, then close the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to toast the sandwich. Timing is important, and the goal is to make a perfect grilled cheese.

Delta Game Emulator (Free)

Popular game emulator app Delta has been updated for the ‌iPhone Duo‌, and it turns the Duo into a Nintendo DS.



The app has Nintendo DS controls, and when you close it, it looks like the shell of the gaming system and puts the game you're playing into sleep mode. Delta supports plenty of games from other systems too.

TypeDraw ($4.99)

TypeDraw turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a notebook. It looks like a notebook when the Duo is closed, and then you can open it up to pages you can write on. The app supports ‌Apple Pencil‌.

Fold Accordion ($2.99)

As the name suggests, Fold Accordion turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into an accordion. The hinge serves as the bellows, so the idea is to open and close the Duo to make music. There's a learn mode that lights up the keys you need to press.

Living Earth ($5.99)

If you're looking for an app that's ideal for the Duo's tent mode, Living Earth is worth checking out. It lets you set a location to get the time and local weather, plus it has a rotating globe that you can spin. When you unfold your ‌iPhone Duo‌, the globe takes up the entire display.


The app shows live clouds, storms, and weather maps across the world, so you can keep track of hurricanes, tropical storms, and other weather events.

Duometry ($2.99)

Duometry is a game that gives you a target angle you have to match by folding the ‌iPhone Duo‌. The idea is to make your best guess at the angle, and then lock in to see if you were correct.

Deck-Man ($4.99)

Deck-Man turns your ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a retro cassette player. You open up the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to pick your music, insert the cassette, and then snap the Duo closed to start music playback.

Orisuji ($4.99)

Orisuji is a paper maze game where you start with the inner display, and then fold the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to the outer display to solve the puzzles.

More Fun Apps

• Foldissimo - If one pocket accordion wasn't enough, there's also Foldissimo, which lets you use your ‌iPhone Duo‌ to play accordion songs.


• Fold Focus ($5.99/month) - Fold Focus is a pomodoro timer app that motivates you to keep your ‌iPhone Duo‌ closed for work, study, or creative sessions. While your device is shut, you work on building a virtual city.


• Foldfish (Free) - Foldfish is a game where you unfold the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to cast, tap to throw, and then hold to reel in a catch.


• Nitelore (Free) - Nitelore is an anti-gravity racing game with neon colors, and it looks great on the ‌iPhone Duo‌.

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NBA star LeBron James was shown practicing his golf swing during the playing of the United States national anthem before his 76ers debut on Tuesday. Later in the week, President Donald Trump called James' conduct a "TOTAL DISGRACE" on social media.

The story itself is quite simple. James practiced his golf swing during "The Star-Spangled Banner." Trump criticized him for it. And yet, the headline writers at ESPN apparently didn't see it quite as clearly.

According to ESPN.com on Thursday, "Trump criticizes LeBron James for not standing still during the national anthem."

Take a look:

Here's the full clip of James during the national anthem:

Describing what James did as merely "not standing still" is an awfully charitable characterization. He wasn't shifting his feet or adjusting his uniform. He was practicing his golf swing while the national anthem played.

The framing minimizes the conduct at the center of the controversy. ESPN suggested James' behavior was innocuous and Trump's criticism was excessive.

That was the point. ESPN must feel it has an obligation to protect James. The headline writers must have also agreed James was wrong. Otherwise, there would be no reason to sanitize it as James merely failing to "stand still."

At least athletes who kneel during the anthem generally claim that they are doing so as a form of protest. James offered no such explanation. He simply sought to make a mockery of the anthem.

It also wasn't the first time. James was caught practicing his swing during the national anthem on Christmas Day last year.

There’s something cringe about a star American athlete who previously criticized NBA executive Daryl Morey for supporting Hong Kong protesters now behaving this way during the U.S. national anthem.

At this stage of his career, the NBA also has to ask how much James still benefits its brand.

James turns 42 in December. He has averaged 15 points per game through his first two games this season and, unsurprisingly at his age, is a shell of his former self.

His basketball legacy is secure. James is one of the greatest players in NBA history. But he has become a net negative through his declining play and consistently anti-American messaging.

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"Seeing how the media works is actually pretty crazy. The players, staff, and Vice President Vance and his son all had a great time at practice," the source told OutKick exclusively. "All of these negative tweets and articles are completely detached from the reality of how well the visit went."

Initial reaction to the video shared on social described the interaction as Vance getting "snubbed" by the team.

"This is what TOTAL HUMILIATION looks like: JD Vance attempted to greet Cincinnati Bengals players in the locker room and got snubbed and ghosted by every single player except one," one person wrote on X.

"JD Vance walked into the Bengals locker room looking for a photo-op, and the players gave him the cold shoulder he deserves," another person wrote, adding that the team didn't want to be used for"political theater."

But the source told OutKick that Vance and his son were warmly received when visiting the facility with no planned media engagement. A photo obtained by OutKick showed the vice president and his family playing catch on the field. The source added that defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence approached the vice president and had conversation with him during the visit.

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Vance, an Ohio native, is a longtime Bengals fan, growing up roughly an hour outside of Cincinnati. He has a home in Cincinnati’s East Walnut Hills neighborhood.

Vance toured the team's locker room, shook hands with several players, coach Zac Taylor and others, and came away with a football. It is unclear if Vance brought the ball to be autographed or the club gave it to him as a memento.

Quarterback Joe Burrow said he "did not" talk to Vance.

"He came with everybody and left with swiftness and efficiency before the end of practice, so I didn't get to," Burrow told reporters earlier this week.

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Vance was in town to deliver a speech at the FBI's Cincinnati Field Office and then hold a campaign rally at the Sharonville Convention Center.

OutKick's Armando Salguero contributed to this report.

During a lengthy news conference NASA on Friday provided a detailed overview of how it plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface, as soon as 2028, as part of its Artemis Program.

Although much of the information behind these plans has been previously reported in Ars Technica and elsewhere, this marked the first time NASA has laid them out in detail and acknowledged some substantial changes in the architecture.

Most notably, for SpaceX's Starship vehicle, the revised plan calls for the Orion spacecraft to dock with the Starship lunar lander in high-Earth orbit before transiting to the Moon. And for Blue Origin, the mission architecture includes four launches of the New Glenn rocket, but no spacecraft-to-spacecraft refuelings. Additionally, the Blue Origin plans allows for the possibility of its Blue Moon lander rendezvousing with Orion in low-Lunar orbit.

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Two Colorado high school volleyball players were threatened with benching after discussing a transgender athlete in their program, according to a parent complaint alleging the girls were ultimately allowed to play on condition they stop discussing the issue. The school district that oversees the school, Jefferson County Schools, is currently under Title IX investigation by the U.S. Department of Education.

A screenshot of an email, obtained by OutKick, from Dakota Ridge High School's head volleyball coach to a parent says the parent's daughter would miss a match over reports of alleged bullying. The screenshot does not identify the actual words that were used.

"Over the past several days, we have received multiple reports alleging that your daughter used language toward teammates that could be characterized as bullying," the message bearing the coach's name states.

"As a result, your daughter will not be eligible to participate in today’s match."

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The message says the volleyball program emphasizes character, respect and how players treat one another, describing the reported behavior as falling short of its standards. It offers to discuss the matter with the parent after the match.

Meanwhile, Tanna Donalson, whose daughter was cut from the program in August, wrote in an Oct. 6 email to district that her daughter had reported two varsity players were told they would be benched after discussing the situation among friends. Donalson said she was subsequently informed that, after the players’ parents met with the coach and the athletic director, the girls were permitted to play on condition they not discuss the issue again.

The email was seen by OutKick in a copy of a Title IX complaint Donalson submitted to the Education Department.

"[The daughter] reported that Mr. Zeman pulled three varsity volleyball players aside and told two of them they would be benched for today’s game because they had discussed this issue amongst themselves. According to the account relayed to me, four friends had been discussing privately what they had learned, and one reported the conversation to a teacher. I was further informed that, after the two players’ parents met with the athletic director and Mr. Zeman, the players were permitted to play on the condition that they not discuss the issue again," Donalson wrote.

"Please determine what was said, the basis for the proposed benching, and whether participation was conditioned on refraining from discussion of or support for our complaint."

Lindsay Datko, founder of the parent advocacy group Jeffco Kids First, also said she had reviewed emails concerning the threatened discipline.

"We have seen emails showing that girls were threatened to be benched because they were expressing their frustration in a very adolescent manner," Datko told OutKick.

But Datko added the coach backed away from the threatened benching.

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Jeffco Chief Legal Counsel Julie Tolleson acknowledged Donalson’s report in an Oct. 6 email response.

"She can include these matters in her review, though we won’t be able to discuss with you any disciplinary or other action involving any other student," Tolleson wrote, referring to the district’s Title IX coordinator.

A day earlier, Tolleson had instructed Donalson to report any retaliation or harassment related to her complaint.

"District policy prohibits retaliation," she wrote.

In response to OutKick, Jeffco defended its policies and cited student privacy restrictions. Its statement did not address the alleged condition on the players’ participation or explain what remarks prompted the proposed discipline.

The school district provided the following response in full:

"We recognize that fairness in athletics, student safety, privacy, and equitable opportunities for students are important issues for our community.

"In accordance with Colorado state law (including the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act), Jeffco Public Schools is committed to providing a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment for all students. Jeffco’s policies ensure that every student, regardless of gender identity or expression, has equal access to educational programs, facilities, and district-sanctioned activities.

"High School Athletics: Jeffco Public Schools operates high school athletic programs under the governing bylaws of the Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) and Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.

"District Policies on Equal Educational Opportunities Jeffco Public Schools' nondiscrimination policies—including Policy AC (Nondiscrimination/Equal Opportunity) and related guidance—remain fully active and in effect.

"Under federal law (FERPA) and state privacy regulations, Jeffco Public Schools cannot confirm, deny, or comment on the gender identity, administrative records, or athletic participation of any individual student.

"We are navigating a complex national climate, but our local commitment remains steady: all students deserve to feel safe, respected, and supported in Jeffco Public Schools. We support and value all members of our Jeffco community, including our transgender students and staff members.

"Jeffco Public Schools is committed to cultivating environments where all students, staff, families, and members of our community are accepted, respected, and feel that their voices and perspectives are valued. While people may have differing views on Jeffco policies and the laws that inform them, we all share a responsibility to ensure our words and actions reflect care and respect for others. We ask everyone in our community to respect individual privacy and remember that real children and families are at the heart of these conversations.

"Jeffco will continue to follow all state laws and regulations with respect to our schools, athletic programs, and students’ rights. Our responsibility - and steadfast commitment - remains to serve every student and ensure that our schools are places where all students can learn, grow, and thrive."

Donalson’s own complaint centers on the roster decision that ended her daughter's junior-year school volleyball season.

Her daughter, 17, had played in the program during her freshman and sophomore years. Her mother said coaches encouraged the setter to learn right-side hitting before ultimately cutting her.

In an Aug. 13 email, the coach said the change was intended to give her daughter another opportunity to demonstrate her skills. He said other athletes showed greater consistency in setting, defense, serving, decision-making and other areas, and described the roster decisions as a collective coaching evaluation.

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"She competed for a spot, other athletes ultimately demonstrated more consistency in the areas needed, and she was beat out," he wrote.

The coach is also her daughter's history teacher. Correspondence documents Donalson’s request for a different placement and the school’s offer of a teacher change for second semester. Donalson responded that she wanted to give the situation a few weeks before deciding. She explicitly told school officials she was not alleging that classroom retaliation had occurred.

Asked whether her family had experienced retaliation since speaking publicly, she said she had reported that some students made comments to her daughter, but their family had received substantially more support than opposition.

"We have received far more support than we have anything opposite of that," she said.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights issued findings March 13 that the district violated Title IX through its policies on girls’ athletics and access to female facilities and overnight accommodations. OCR issued a notice of impending enforcement action June 26. Jeffco disputes those findings.

The district sued Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the Education Department on July 28, challenging the enforcement actions and arguing that the federal demands conflict with Colorado law and threaten its funding. That lawsuit concerns the district’s broader policies, rather than a determination about Donalson's daughter's roster decision.

Colorado voters will consider Proposition 134 on Nov. 3. The measure would require school-based teams to be designated for biological males, biological females or mixed participation, with eligibility tied to those categories and an exception allowing females to join male teams when no equivalent female team is offered.

"I am not against the trans community or any community for that matter," Donalson said when asked about the measure.

For Donalson and her daughter, she says the impact of the situation has been "deep and wide," and has jeopardized her daughter's dreams of playing in college.

"She still has those dreams, it's a little difficult to figure out how we're going to achieve them, as this is her junior year, and arguably her most important year, because that is when you start communicating with coaches," Donalson said. "And right now we have nothing to share."

She said her daughter still plans to play club volleyball and pursue college opportunities. But losing her school season has affected how she experiences the sport.

"Every time she plays, she just remembers all that’s transpired here, and it just has taken a little bit of the joy of the sport out of it for her," Donalson said.

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Hudson also shared a playful glimpse of her travels in a photo taken aboard a private jet.

The actress posed in a flowing leopard-print dress and sunglasses while standing near the aircraft's cabin entrance.

While Hudson was celebrating someone else's wedding in Hawaii, she has been candid about the challenges of planning her own.

The actress has been engaged to Fujikawa since September 2021, but the couple has yet to walk down the aisle.

During a September appearance on the "Sibling Revelry" podcast, which she co-hosts with her brother, Oliver Hudson, the actress admitted that the size of their family has made wedding planning complicated.

"I still am not married. I'm just engaged," Hudson said during a conversation with actresses Joey and Hunter King.

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"And I keep thinking about wedding. You know, like, what are we going to do? And then every time we started thinking about who we have to invite, and Danny's like, ‘I just want a small wedding.’

"Our family alone is like 50 people."

Hudson also acknowledged the expense of planning a wedding while discussing the elaborate celebrations some couples organize.

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"That's part of why I don't want to get married," she said. "I'm like, 'It's too expensive. I just want like hors d'oeuvres.'"

Hudson and Fujikawa began dating in 2016 after knowing each other for years through mutual friends. They welcomed their daughter, Rani Rose, in October 2018.

The actress is also mom to sons Ryder Robinson, whom she shares with ex-husband Chris Robinson, and Bingham Bellamy, whom she shares with former fiancé Matt Bellamy.

Although it seems like she's torn over the idea of a wedding, Hudson has made it clear that Fujikawa is the one for her.

In a 2019 interview with Women's Health, she described him as a supportive partner who shares her commitment to family.

"I've got the best man," she said. "It's the first time I feel like I have a real teammate in this."

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The team confirmed on Friday that the email was indeed a cybersecurity test.

"The company had previously sent out an email to its corporate team as a simulation of a phishing attack designed to strengthen our security against hackers. MSG was recently hacked and extorted using an employee login and password obtained through a similar phishing attack," MSG said in a statement.

The company added that "[u]sing the rings as a lure to gain employees' attention was an unfortunate mistake" and said it would be giving "more than 275 championship rings and jewelry to players, coaches, employees and other members of the Knicks family, worth more than $3.7 million, in recognition of their contributions and celebrating this achievement."

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The Knicks hung their championship banner, their first since 1973, on Tuesday night in their season opener, and players received extravagant 22-carat rings that are estimated to be worth at least $100,000 each. Each ring has roughly 800 diamonds and a recreation of the world's most famous arena.

Coaches were reportedly told they would eventually receive rings but did not get them along with the players on Tuesday. Employees, however, were apparently told not to expect any.

That's when employees' hopes were raised when they got the phishing email about rings last month.

"(Employee name), this one is on the house. MSG is issuing a complimentary employee championship ring. The same jeweler, the same craftsmanship, personalized with your name. No cost to you. There are two designs to choose from: Championship Gold and Garden Classic. Reserve the one you want below," the email reportedly said.

The Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs in five games over the summer.

Metro AG responded, saying it did not approve the donations. On Sept. 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree placing the Russian subsidiary of Metro AG under the Kremlin's control.

Sports betting is a big part of the sports experience these days, and unfortunately, that will lead to questions about the game's integrity, as OutKick's Craig Carton pointed out on Friday's edition of "The Craig Carton Show."

The Chicago Bears took on the New England Patriots on Thursday, and there was a certain play late in the first half that caught Carton's attention.

Patriots running back Rhamondre Stephenson caught a screen pass at midfield and somehow took it all the way to the house for a late touchdown with no time left on the clock. But it was what Bears DB Malik Muhammad did on the play that had Carton asking questions.

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Did... did Muhammad turn and run in the complete opposite direction that Stephenson was headed?

Well, it's at least worth asking some questions.

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"What Malik Muhammad does next is why every single person that is against legalized wagering thinks the fix is in," he said. "Rather than step into the hole and make an attempt to tackle Stevenson, he literally runs away from the play."

Whether it was a bad read or something else, there's really no question: that was about as big a whiff as you'll see in the NFL.

Fortunately, that play didn't have any impact on the game as the Bears won and covered the spread.

Carton noted that the play likely got more attention because it was on a Thursday night, and that the NFL should be asking some questions.

"And that's the type of play that needs to be investigated," he said. "The NFL now has to sit down and interview Malik Muhammad and interview Ben Johnson of the Bears and get an explanation as to why (Muhammad was) running away from the ball carrier? Like it makes no sense at all. There's not even a logical, reasonable explanation of 'Well, I was going this way because I thought he might cut outside.'

"No, there was no chance to cut outside because by you coming this way, you opened up a seven-yard gap."

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"Instead of honestly acknowledging what is behind the doubling of rape rates from a decade ago, which is who the government chooses to let into the country, these institutions lecture grandparents about hugging their grandkids, as though that has any remotest connection to the problem at hand," she said. 

In 2024, the Irish Independent reported that reports of sexual assault had nearly doubled in Ireland between 2012 and 2022. 

"This politically correct lack of courage and honesty is embarrassing and rightly caused a backlash," Stepman added. 

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"I have supported, cared for him and helped him for years — but that stops now," Thomas Jr. told The Sun.

Thomas Jr. has been caring for Thomas Sr., 82, for several years, including during his recovery from a stroke in 2022.

"I won’t speak to my father ever again unless I’m called to give evidence against him," Thomas Jr. told the outlet.

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Actor Robert De Niro appeared in a new political ad Thursday encouraging early voting to ensure liberal votes count no matter what "they" pull on Election Day.

The ad, which was shared by the progressive political group Indivisible, was part of a "Hands Off Our Vote" campaign to encourage efforts to protect the right to vote, which the "Focker-in-Law" actor claimed was threatened by the Trump administration.

"Voting is a constitutional right, but you have to see that this administration and the Supreme Court aren’t paying any attention to our constitutional rights," De Niro said in the video.

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In the ad, De Niro, a known critic of President Donald Trump, argued that it should be "easy" to support any preferred candidate, whether it be a "would-be king who gets us into a disastrous war and corruptly profits from it" or "candidates who won't cut your healthcare and won't protect pedophiles."

"There are some powerful people who want to take away that power. This is Robert De Niro and I’ve got a message for them: no f---ing way. We're fighting them in the courts and standing up to them in the streets," De Niro said.

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He encouraged viewers to vote early to take back their power, suggesting that the Trump administration will likely interfere with the voting process.

"Whether by mail or in person, you control when, and then, no matter what they pull on Election Day, your vote will already be banked," De Niro said.

The White House responded with a scathing comment.

"Robert De Niro is a washed up has-been who hasn’t been relevant in 30 years," spokesman Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital. "Now, he just beclowns himself by spewing hate speech and inciting violence against others. Instead of embarrassing himself every time he speaks, he should immediately seek help to treat his severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain."

Fox News Digital reached out to Indivisible for comment.

De Niro's video followed months of Democratic Party members claiming that Trump would attempt to "cheat" or rig the midterm elections in his favor. In a video released in August, former Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that Trump and the Republicans were "trying to cheat" and that the results for Democrats must be "too big to rig."

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Republicans have called out the effort by Democrats to cast doubt on the elections while refusing to support election security measures like the SAVE Act.

"It is Democrats bending over backwards to prevent voter ID and proof of citizenship for American elections," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told Fox News Digital in February. "It is Democrats demanding that nobody ask questions about election security and irregularities. The projection is jaw-dropping."

In addition to feeling less pain, participants experienced gains in daily mobility. Patients reported easier walking, climbing stairs and bending, while overall quality-of-life scores more than doubled over the 12-month follow-up period.

While the results are promising, researchers note several important limitations.

First, the study did not include a control group receiving a mock or placebo procedure. 

Without a comparison group, it is difficult to isolate the physical benefits of the dissolvable particles from potential placebo effects, the researchers said. 

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Second, the study tracked patients for only one year. 

Further research is needed to determine how long the pain relief typically lasts and how often repeat treatments might be required.

Finally, while GAE effectively reduces inflammation and pain, the researchers said it is not a cure.

The procedure does not rebuild lost cartilage or reverse structural joint damage. Larger, randomized trials are currently underway to confirm these early findings.

Fox News Digital reached out to the study authors for further comment. 

Rep. Ilhan Omar told Fox News Digital that her "real name" is "Ilhan Abdullahi Omar" after a federal court filing identified the congresswoman by a last name matching that of her ex-husband, whom reports have alleged is her brother.

"Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, you know it," Omar told Fox News Digital when asked about her name. "It’s Ilhan Abdullahi Omar."

Omar was spotted by Fox News Digital at the Karmel Mall of Somalia in Minnesota as she made her way into the Karmel Masjid, inside the mall, for Friday prayers.

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Her comments come after two people familiar with the ongoing investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman, including a law enforcement source, said that her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. The last name is the same as her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is alleged to be her brother.

Federal prosecutors referred to the Minnesota Democrat as "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar," in a Wednesday filing in D.C. federal court, as first reported by Fox News Digital. One source said the language used for her name in the filing reflected the evidence that has so far been compiled in the immigration fraud investigation.

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One source disputed Omar’s account of her name, telling Fox News Digital, ‘That’s not her real name.’

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro filed a motion on Wednesday seeking to prevent the federal search warrant for the congresswoman’s home from being unsealed, which was requested by several media outlets. The motion says the federal government is not yet finished executing the search warrant, and that it shouldn’t be unsealed yet.

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"Before the Court are three Applications to unseal ex parte materials and proceedings related to a federal search warrant for the personal residence in the District of Columbia of Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar…" the motion begins.

If proven in court that the congresswoman was not using her "real name," every single form she ever filled out could be subject to investigation, a former Minnesota federal immigration judge said.

Omar’s spokesperson repeatedly denied the claim, telling Fox News Digital on Thursday that the reports of her name being "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi" are "completely false," then proceeding with an attack on Fox News. The spokesperson also denied that Omar was once married to her brother, calling the claims a "disgusting conspiracy theory."

Omar’s residence in Washington, D.C., was raided by Homeland Security Investigations earlier this month as part of a probe into whether she or her father committed immigration fraud when becoming naturalized citizens. Federal authorities have since issued subpoenas to members of Omar’s family and seized her cellphone.

Fox News Digital’s Peter D’Abrosca and Kiera McDonald contributed to this report.

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The iPhone Duo is compatible with the Apple Pencil, if you have the right one. MacRumors videographer Dan Barbera tested the ‌Apple Pencil‌ with the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to see if it's a useful tool to pick up.


If you already have an ‌Apple Pencil‌ 1, ‌Apple Pencil‌ 2, or ‌Apple Pencil‌ Pro to use with an iPad, you're going to be disappointed to hear they won't work with the ‌iPhone Duo‌. The ‌iPhone Duo‌ only works with the ‌Apple Pencil‌ with USB-C, which is $79 from Apple, but you can get it from Amazon for $69.

The ‌Apple Pencil‌ Pro attaches to and pairs with iPads magnetically, but the ‌iPhone Duo‌ has to be paired with the USB-C ‌Apple Pencil‌ using a USB-C cable. ‌Apple Pencil‌ support is being added in iOS 27.2, which is available in beta right now.

Once paired, the ‌Apple Pencil‌ works with the ‌iPhone Duo‌ like it works with an ‌iPad‌. You can write or draw, and there is a setting to turn on palm rejection. You can use the ‌Apple Pencil‌ on both the inner and outer displays. The ‌Apple Pencil‌ can attach magnetically to the Duo's hinge for storage, but it doesn't charge that way.

Compared with the ‌Apple Pencil‌ Pro, the USB-C ‌Apple Pencil‌ doesn't have pressure sensitivity, double-tap, or squeeze.

The ‌Apple Pencil‌ tip can leave lines on the Duo's display, but the lines wipe away with a polishing cloth. Permanent damage is unlikely, but Apple does have an ‌iPhone Duo‌ cover layer replacement option that's $19 if you have AppleCare+ and $49 if you don't.

If you want to take notes or make quick sketches with the ‌iPhone Duo‌, the ‌Apple Pencil‌ with USB-C could be worth the cost, but it's not quite as useful as it is on an ‌iPad‌ due to the limited screen size.
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The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has been a fixture on the F1 calendar and is often used for preseason testing, though it will begin hosting races every other year. It’s also part of the MotoGP schedule.

The track should produce a solid race. In recent years in F1, it's been criticized for a lack of on-track overtaking. It flows from corner to corner, and there aren't many heavy braking zones, which are helpful for overtaking. Ironically, that is what makes it a good fit for MotoGP.

But IndyCars are not F1 cars. They're better when it comes to on-track overtakes, and I think we'll get to see some great racing all around the track.

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A suspected terrorist attack near Paris on Friday added to the tensions across France as the nation prepares for more potential violence on Saturday.

Seventy thousand law enforcement officers, along with helicopters, armored vehicles and water cannons, are set to be deployed across France as President Emmanuel Macron’s government tries to ward off another weekend of violent protests.

"The strategy adopted for the coming days is to ban protests requested by individuals or groups with no legitimate authority," Macron said ahead of the weekend, after canceling his planned trip to Nigeria and Senegal originally scheduled for next week.

"The rules are simple and I think they're just common sense," said Macron. "The general recommendation is that there should be no demonstrations in the coming days."

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"Where trade unions submit requests to hold demonstrations, prefects will examine them in accordance with the law," he added, "but alternative routes will be proposed" to protect city centers, businesses and public buildings.

Meanwhile, adding to security concerns, a suspected terrorist attack occurred in the city of Trappes, west of Paris. A 39-year-old man was arrested by police after one person was killed and four others, including a 12-year-old girl, were wounded in what was originally said to be a "relatively random" shooting. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has since told local media: "The motive may be racist. The investigation is ongoing, but this is clearly a terrorist crime."

The AFP reported the suspect appeared to fire randomly from a vehicle, with the mayor telling reporters the dead victim and at least one of the wounded were "of African origin." Macron said "the nation is standing with" the victims of this "terrible ordeal."

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Ahead of Saturday's protests and after acknowledging that police had "lost control" during last weekend's unrest, Nuñez, the interior minister, said his ministry is "ready for tomorrow. We will be extremely vigilant, extremely firm, and we will let absolutely nothing pass."

reports that the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France, or UNEF, one of the nation’s oldest student unions, has said their planned rallies will go on as scheduled, despite police rejecting their permit requests. Police have so far only approved a union demonstration in Paris, reports, while denying requests from UNEF and the "Yellow Vest" movement, an anti-establishment force that first emerged in 2018.

Macron also took aim at those he says are behind the violence: "Last Saturday we had political and seditious acts by ultra-left groups whose aim is to bring down the Republic," he said.

Earlier this week, Fabian Vahemelryck, Secretary General of the Alliance Police Nationale union, said political figures deserved blame because of "those who excuse the inexcusable, justify violence and prefer to overwrite police officers rather than condemn those who attack them."

He also accused the "state that abandons its police officers in the face of increasingly uninhibited violence, while demanding that they accept, remain silent and continue to hold the line."

Major French institutions, like the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay, will be closed in anticipation of Saturday’s planned protests, as well as 24 Metro stations across Paris will be closed. The Ligue 1 soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyonnais, scheduled for Sunday night at Parc des Princes in the capital, has also been postponed to Monday evening.

The NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New Orleans Saints, set for Sunday afternoon at Stade de France just north of central Paris, is still set to be played as scheduled, yet some weekend events around the game have been canceled.

The Stade de France is the same stadium that hosted an international soccer match between France and neighboring Germany during the Nov. 13, 2015 terror attacks. Explosions were heard outside the stadium during the game that night, with then-French President François Hollande in attendance. Fans were held inside the stadium for hours while authorities dealt with the attacks unfolding around Paris that night.

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Along with a valuable lesson, Pollack told the outlet one of his fondest memories of working with the famed director.

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"One of my most enjoyable moments was [when] we shot a couple weeks in Washington D.C. to establish exteriors, and one night we were walking back from somewhere, just the two of us, and someone passed us and said, ‘Oh my God, Rob Reiner, how are you? Are you here working?' And he said, ‘Yeah.' He said, ‘What are you working on?' And he said, ‘The Godfather,'" Pollak told the outlet.

"And the guy went, ‘Oh great.' He kept walking, and I said, ‘Why did you say The Godfather?' And he said, ‘Well, if I said A Few Good Men, it was a Broadway play, but if you didn't see the Broadway play, you don't know what the hell I'm talking about. So if I say The Godfather, we're done talking, and you and I can keep going with our lives.' I've used it ever since," Pollak continued.

U.S. natural gas futures extended the week’s losses as mild weather for the time of year combined with rising production.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo warning military personnel against using nonpublic information to make bets on prediction markets, saying the wagers could give important clues to enemy countries.

"Do Not Compromise Military Operations for Personal Financial Gain," said the subject line of an October 20 memo published yesterday by CBS News. Hegseth's memo was sent to senior Pentagon leadership, Combatant Command leaders, and Defense Department field activity directors.

Hegseth wrote:

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I'd take my chances with the 58-yard field goal any day of the week in that spot. Good work, Herbie! Less of the dog, and more of THAT!

Next? While everyone was watching that Bears-Pats ending, I was dialed in on the App. State-JMU game over in Boone.

And buddy, it was college football at its finest:

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I mean, it's just the best. This season, more than any other I can remember, has really separated college and the NFL for me. Right now, college football is clearly No. 1 and it's not particularly close.

It's just a better all-around product at the moment, and the gap is getting wider by the week.

OK, that's it for today. Good class, everyone. While we're talking some college football, I leave you with this incredible message board regarding the University of Georgia football team.

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Using Google's products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world's largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has long said it won't use the sensitive data from products like Gmail, Drive, and Photos for ad personalization, but a change to the company's privacy policy appears to dismantle that firewall.

On October 16, Google issued an update to its privacy policy, spotted by Android Authority. The ad personalization section used to include a clear limit on data from certain apps. "We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos," the document said. Now, Google has updated it with the following language.

Updated language on when your sensitive data might inform ads. Credit: Google

This equivocation opens the door to using data from apps like Gmail and Photos in ads when it's shared with other Google services, and it just so happens Google has a mechanism for doing that, with Personal Intelligence. The company released Personal Intelligence in early 2026, allowing users to hand data from multiple apps to Google AI products. The idea is that the added context from your existing data will lead to better AI answers, but it's also proving to be a privacy minefield.

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Plus, SK Hynix scraps U.S. IPO plan for its flash-memory subsidiary and American Express cuts 5% of its headcount.

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The option to reserve an iPhone Duo for Apple Store pickup is starting to return on Apple's online store, with the system live again in countries such as Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea. Unfortunately, our spot check revealed extremely limited availability right now, with few to no time slots available for all configurations.


We only managed to find a single iPhone Duo unit available for Apple Store pickup in Australia on Saturday at the time we checked, as shown in the screenshot below, but it already disappeared by time we published this story.


In other countries, such as the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Singapore, Apple's online store continues to advise customers to check back on Saturday, October 24 in regards to Apple Store pickup, so we expect the reservation system to resume in additional countries as the clock rolls over to Saturday time zone by time zone.

Just hours after iPhone Duo pre-orders began last Friday, Apple said demand for the device was "nothing short of extraordinary," with delivery estimates pushing into late January, so it is not surprising that Apple Store pickup slots are hard to come by right now. Apple said it was working to satisfy demand "as quickly as possible."

Apple Store pickup was briefly offered for a few minutes after iPhone Duo pre-orders began last Friday, but the option quickly disappeared.

Given the scarcity, long queues formed at many Apple Stores around the world today, with some lucky customers managing to secure an iPhone Duo on a walk-in basis. If you were not so lucky, the Apple Store pickup tool may be your next best option, so keep an eye on the iPhone Duo order page over the next day or so and refresh often.
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He becomes the latest high-profile American Team USA star to leave a Canadian NHL team for one in the United States. In June, the Ottawa Senators dealt captain Brady Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers, where he joined his brother, Matthew. In December, the Vancouver Canucks traded star defenseman Quinn Hughes, a brother of Jack and teammate Luke, to the Minnesota Wild. There has long been speculation that Quinn, who scored an overtime winner against Sweden in the quarterfinals, wants to join his brothers in New Jersey.

The process to trade Hellebuyck became messy, especially after the goalie went public with his request to leave the Winnipeg Jets in September. The Jets suspended the goalie for failing to report for camp in a disciplinary move that extended into the season with Hellebuyck not getting paid.

The Devils sent center Dawson Mercer, goalie Nico Daws, prospect Alexander Command, forward Nick Bjugstad, a 2029 second-round pick and a 2027 seventh-rounder to Winnipeg for Hellebuyck.

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When training camp opened, new Devils general manager Sunny Mehta said he was very comfortable with the team’s goaltending situation. Since then, Daws and Jake Allen have combined for an .880 save percentage, which ranks 23rd among 32 teams.

Hellebuyck is a three-time Vezina Trophy winner and was named the NHL's MVP of the 2024-25 season.

Following their gold medal victory, Hellebuyck and Hughes were among the members of the team who attended the State of the Union address days later where President Donald Trump announced that Hellebuyck would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Hellebuyck also was Team USA's goalie during the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off in 2025.

With a 345-208-55 regular-season record, Hellebuyck ranks 27th in career wins on the NHL list, and fifth among U.S.-born players. Among U.S.-born goalies with 300 or more career starts, his .916 save percentage ranks fourth and 2.58 goals-against average ranks sixth.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase called her team’s national anthem absences part of its pregame routine Friday, but did not explain who established that routine or why.

OutKick had been trying to ask players and coaches about the anthem absences since Game 1. But after attending all 13 formal press conferences during the first three games without being called on, OutKick had to wait until Friday’s media availability ahead of Game 4 to ask those questions directly.

"What do you do during those 90 seconds that you’re off the court?" OutKick asked.

ATLANTA DREAM, GOLDEN STATE VALKYRIES SKIP NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR THIRD STRAIGHT WNBA FINALS GAME

"I’m with my staff, so I’m focused on my plays. That’s what I’m doing right now," Nakase responded.

Golden State’s public relations staff then moved to the next reporter. OutKick did not get an opportunity to ask why those preparations needed to happen during the anthem, rather than before or afterward.

The Valkyries and Atlanta Dream have been off the court during the national anthem before all three WNBA Finals games. In each game, players left shortly before the performance and returned seconds after it ended.

Earlier in the exchange, OutKick had asked Nakase whose decision it was for the team to be absent and why it followed that routine.

"We’re two years in," Nakase said. "That’s been part of our pregame."

Asked again who decided and why, Nakase said, "I really don’t know."

"I understand your question," she added. "I’m not trying to, you know, not answer your question. It’s just part of our pregame."

Valkyries forward Gabby Williams was born in Nevada, holds U.S. and French citizenship and represents France in international competition.

OutKick asked whether Golden State’s absence during the national anthem was a protest.

"No," Williams said.

Asked why the team was off the court during the U.S. national anthem, she responded: "That’s been the routine for like, seven years now."

A Valkyries public relations representative then said, "Next question."

Golden State is in its second season, and Williams joined the franchise this year. She played for Chicago from 2018–20 and Seattle from 2022–25, making the Valkyries the third WNBA team she has played for. Her seven-year reference would span her time with all three franchises, though she did not explain how the routine began or whether it was the same at each stop.

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There is a political history behind WNBA teams staying off the court during the anthem. During the 2017 Finals, Los Angeles Sparks players voted to remain in the locker room as a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, according to ESPN’s reporting at the time.

Atlanta also published players’ union messaging about anthem protests in its Aug. 2, 2020, game notes. The statement said "the anthem does not represent freedom, justice and liberty for all Americans" and that players would "continue to protest" in various forms.

A protest can become a routine without ceasing to be a protest. Williams denied that Golden State’s absences are a demonstration, but saying the practice has lasted for years does not explain its purpose. Neither Williams nor Nakase explained who established Golden State’s routine or why it puts players off the court specifically during the anthem.

Dream guard Rhyne Howard was asked about calls to exclude players from Team USA if they do not stand for the national anthem during the WNBA season.

Riley Gaines and former Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones have argued that athletes’ conduct during the anthem should carry consequences when they seek to represent the United States internationally.

Howard represented the United States at September’s FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup, where she stood for the national anthem.

"I mean, are we just talking about these three games or are we talking about the full season?" Howard asked.

OutKick clarified that the question concerned both.

"I don’t think I’ve been on the floor for the national anthem for any of my tenure in Atlanta, so if that’s what people are gonna look to nitpick for then so be it," Howard said.

"But as far as competing for your team, when I go put on USA jersey I’m out for the national anthem every time, there’s no doubt about it."

"Yes, I love the country that I play for and I love what we have here," she added.

Howard also questioned the focus on the anthem during the WNBA Finals.

OutKick followed up: "Is there a reason you’re not on the court for the anthem?"

Howard and an Atlanta public relations representative both responded, "Next question."

OutKick also sought to ask Angel Reese, Howard’s Dream and Team USA teammate, about the criticism.

Most players and coaches were available throughout the 30-minute media window. Reese and Atlanta coach Karl Smesko were each required to be available for only 15 minutes.

Reporters could jump in with questions during the other interviews Friday, but Atlanta public relations staff selected the questioners during Reese’s availability. OutKick was not called on and did not get an opportunity to ask her.

Smesko was asked why his team had left the court shortly before each Finals anthem and returned shortly afterward, and whose decision that was.

"We’re just kind of focused on the Finals," Smesko said.

OutKick followed up by asking whether he had any comment on the anthem and his team’s absences on the league’s biggest stage.

"No," Smesko said.

An Atlanta public relations representative then moved the session to the next question.

The WNBA’s 2026 official rulebook says players, coaches and trainers are to "stand and line up in a dignified posture" along the sidelines or on the foul line during the national anthem.

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the league suspended its anthem protocols in 2017. The provision remains in the 2026 rulebook, and OutKick has asked the WNBA to clarify its current requirements and enforcement.

OutKick has also asked about possible discipline and exemptions, and sought comment from the NBA league office.

The WNBA, NBA and both teams’ front offices have not responded to OutKick’s emailed requests for comment about the anthem absences. Friday’s responses came from players and coaches during media availabilities.

The coaches and players have described a pregame routine that includes jogging off the court just prior to the national anthem and returning seconds after it ends.

It's time for a new pregame routine.

Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase called her team’s national anthem absences part of its pregame routine Friday, but did not explain who established that routine or why.

OutKick had been trying to ask players and coaches about the anthem absences since Game 1. But after attending all 13 formal press conferences during the first three games without being called on, OutKick had to wait until Friday’s media availability ahead of Game 4 to ask those questions directly.

"What do you do during those 90 seconds that you’re off the court?" OutKick asked.

ATLANTA DREAM, GOLDEN STATE VALKYRIES SKIP NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR THIRD STRAIGHT WNBA FINALS GAME

"I’m with my staff, so I’m focused on my plays. That’s what I’m doing right now," Nakase responded.

Golden State’s public relations staff then moved to the next reporter. OutKick did not get an opportunity to ask why those preparations needed to happen during the anthem, rather than before or afterward.

The Valkyries and Atlanta Dream have been off the court during the national anthem before all three WNBA Finals games. In each game, players left shortly before the performance and returned seconds after it ended.

Earlier in the exchange, OutKick had asked Nakase whose decision it was for the team to be absent and why it followed that routine.

"We’re two years in," Nakase said. "That’s been part of our pregame."

Asked again who decided and why, Nakase said, "I really don’t know."

"I understand your question," she added. "I’m not trying to, you know, not answer your question. It’s just part of our pregame."

Valkyries forward Gabby Williams was born in Nevada, holds U.S. and French citizenship and represents France in international competition.

OutKick asked whether Golden State’s absence during the national anthem was a protest.

"No," Williams said.

Asked why the team was off the court during the U.S. national anthem, she responded: "That’s been the routine for like, seven years now."

A Valkyries public relations representative then said, "Next question."

Golden State is in its second season, and Williams joined the franchise this year. She played for Chicago from 2018–20 and Seattle from 2022–25, making the Valkyries the third WNBA team she has played for. Her seven-year reference would span her time with all three franchises, though she did not explain how the routine began or whether it was the same at each stop.

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There is a political history behind WNBA teams staying off the court during the anthem. During the 2017 Finals, Los Angeles Sparks players voted to remain in the locker room as a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, according to ESPN’s reporting at the time.

Atlanta also published players’ union messaging about anthem protests in its Aug. 2, 2020, game notes. The statement said "the anthem does not represent freedom, justice and liberty for all Americans" and that players would "continue to protest" in various forms.

A protest can become a routine without ceasing to be a protest. Williams denied that Golden State’s absences are a demonstration, but saying the practice has lasted for years does not explain its purpose. Neither Williams nor Nakase explained who established Golden State’s routine or why it puts players off the court specifically during the anthem.

Dream guard Rhyne Howard was asked about calls to exclude players from Team USA if they do not stand for the national anthem during the WNBA season.

Riley Gaines and former Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones have argued that athletes’ conduct during the anthem should carry consequences when they seek to represent the United States internationally.

Howard represented the United States at September’s FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup, where she stood for the national anthem.

"I mean, are we just talking about these three games or are we talking about the full season?" Howard asked.

OutKick clarified that the question concerned both.

"I don’t think I’ve been on the floor for the national anthem for any of my tenure in Atlanta, so if that’s what people are gonna look to nitpick for then so be it," Howard said.

"But as far as competing for your team, when I go put on USA jersey I’m out for the national anthem every time, there’s no doubt about it."

"Yes, I love the country that I play for and I love what we have here," she added.

Howard also questioned the focus on the anthem during the WNBA Finals.

OutKick followed up: "Is there a reason you’re not on the court for the anthem?"

Howard and an Atlanta public relations representative both responded, "Next question."

OutKick also sought to ask Angel Reese, Howard’s Dream and Team USA teammate, about the criticism.

Most players and coaches were available throughout the 30-minute media window. Reese and Atlanta coach Karl Smesko were each required to be available for only 15 minutes.

Reporters could jump in with questions during the other interviews Friday, but Atlanta public relations staff selected the questioners during Reese’s availability. OutKick was not called on and did not get an opportunity to ask her.

Smesko was asked why his team had left the court shortly before each Finals anthem and returned shortly afterward, and whose decision that was.

"We’re just kind of focused on the Finals," Smesko said.

OutKick followed up by asking whether he had any comment on the anthem and his team’s absences on the league’s biggest stage.

"No," Smesko said.

An Atlanta public relations representative then moved the session to the next question.

The WNBA’s 2026 official rulebook says players, coaches and trainers are to "stand and line up in a dignified posture" along the sidelines or on the foul line during the national anthem.

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the league suspended its anthem protocols in 2017. The provision remains in the 2026 rulebook, and OutKick has asked the WNBA to clarify its current requirements and enforcement.

OutKick has also asked about possible discipline and exemptions, and sought comment from the NBA league office.

The WNBA, NBA and both teams’ front offices have not responded to OutKick’s emailed requests for comment about the anthem absences. Friday’s responses came from players and coaches during media availabilities.

The coaches and players have described a pregame routine that includes jogging off the court just prior to the national anthem and returning seconds after it ends.

It's time for a new pregame routine.

The vast majority of actively managed Canadian equity funds underperformed their benchmark indexes in the first half of 2026, according to a report released this week by index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices.

It may be starting to get redundant but, "Yes," the NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and Pittsburgh Steelers remains on track, a league spokesman told OutKick and Fox News Digital on Friday.

The question came up – again – because the most successful soccer team in France on Friday announced it has postponed its match on Sunday in Paris under police orders.

Paris-Saint Germain issued a statement that said it has "taken note" of the order from the Paris Police Prefecture prohibiting the organization of the Paris Saint-Germain-Olympique Lyonnais match.

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"Accordingly, we inform you that the match between the two clubs, originally scheduled for this Sunday, October 25, has been postponed to Monday, October 26, at 8:30 p.m. at the Parc des Princes," the club said in a statement.

The Paris police requested the change because police and security resources are stretched thin due to mass protests, ongoing civil unrest, and France's first NFL game happening in the region, per multiple reports.

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That NFL game remains as scheduled on Sunday starting at 9:30 a.m. in the United States.

The NFL said so in reply to an email from OutKick and Fox News Digital asking whether and how its decision to play on Sunday is impacted by the decision by PSG.

It's not.

And that is quite clear considering NFL elites and the French government expect the game to go on. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Saints owner Gayle Benson and Steelers owner Art Rooney II met with French President Emmanuel Macron for a luncheon meeting Friday at the Élysée Palace in Paris.

According to a league source, the topics discussed at the two-hour gathering included security for the game, the readiness of the Stade de France, where the game is to be played, and the growth of flag football in France.

The fact the French President met with the highest representatives from both squads and there has been no change in the status of the game suggests this thing is going to happen come heck or high rioting.

And on that front, it seems Saturday is a key day because protests which may or may not evolve into wider civil unrest are planned for that day.

Organizers of the Paris protest told the Associated Press that an administrative court overturned a protest ban issued by police after they challenged it. The Paris prefecture previously said the ban was necessary, given the risk of street violence after groups of masked youth clashed with officers, looted shops and torched cars over the weekend.

The organizers signed a police document stating that the protest would remain stationary due to the risk of violence.

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More bans were expected in the coming days. Macron previously said ban measures aim to protect city centers, businesses and public buildings.

Macron said after a special security meeting at the Elysée Palace that the strategy adopted for the coming days is to ban protests requested by "individuals or groups with no legitimate authority."

"The rules are simple, and I think they’re just common sense. The general recommendation is that there should be no demonstrations in the coming days," he said. "For those who still want to protest, if they are trade unions, prefects will propose alternative routes."

Macron blamed last weekend's violence on "actions led by radical far-left groups who aimed to bring the Republic down," in addition to criminals who came to loot.

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Just hours after being released, an iPhone Duo running iOS 27.1 has been jailbroken by hacker team Calif.


Calif demonstrated the ‌iPhone Duo‌'s icons and widgets bouncing around, and added an anime character to the device's screen.

Last week, the group shared videos featuring an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1. The device was shown rebooting, with root access available after the reboot.


Calif has not publicly released the jailbreak. Calif security researcher Stefan Esser told German site Heise that there won't be a jailbreak tool available for "end users," but a proof of concept may be forthcoming.

Esser said the iOS 27.0.1 jailbreak used bugs Calif has already disclosed or plans to disclose to Apple soon, and "most" of the vulnerabilities are fixed in the upcoming iOS 27.2 update. AI was used to help develop the jailbreak, but Esser didn't explain how.
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Fox News Digital's "Who's Who in Chaos Inc." is a living database mapping the organizations, local chapters, international networks and funders organizing or amplifying major protest movements.

The directory identifies each group's mission, ideology, organizational role and documented protest activity, distinguishing direct organizers and participants from supporters and amplifiers.

The database will be continuously updated and organized by country as new organizations, chapters, coalitions and connections emerge, providing a running picture of how local protest movements connect to broader national and transnational networks.

Ashbrook, a Cincinnati native who has spent decades advising Republican politicians and elected officials, provides an insight into political media that few podcasters can match. He’s the "voice" of the Progrum and knows how the mainstream media will cover a topic before they even put pen to paper.

Duncan is also a native Midwesterner from Indiana. He started his career at the onset of the digital revolution in politics and quickly became a savant in conservative organizing online. He has a deep knowledge of advertising and the mechanics of media consumption online.

The hosts of the "Ruthless Podcast" have covered the midterms at length over the last year, interviewing candidates in 19 states as part of the Ruthless Midterm Interview Series.

"Ruthless," which typically publishes new episodes Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings, added an extra Wednesday recording during election season.

SAO PAULO, Brazil— About 125 million Brazilians voted Oct. 4 on machines that print no paper ballots. Less than four hours after polls closed, the country knew its presidential election was headed to a runoff between conservative challenger Flavio Bolsonaro and leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

That process has been in place for over three decades, and Brazilians have become accustomed to its speed, simplicity, accuracy and routine. The system is robustly audited, completely disconnected from the Internet, and is the largest digital voting system deployed on the planet.

Eleven days before the U.S. midterms, Brazil’s system, analysts say, could offer Americans a more secure way to vote. 

The system has been widely praised and was also mentioned in President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order on elections, where he cited Brazil’s biometric voter identification as an example. Yet Brazil’s count runs partially on the kind of paperless machines that the president has vowed to scrap.

STATE DEPARTMENT CONSIDERS SHARING PASSPORT RECORDS FOR VOTER CITIZENSHIP CHECKS

Over the years, Brazil merged federal, state and municipal databases into a digital voting record, whereby voter identity, eligibility and single ability to vote can (and usually must) be verified biometrically. Nearly 9 in 10 voters unlock the machines with a fingerprint.

Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, or TSE, which designs the machines and oversees elections, says there has been no proven fraud since their 1996 debut. The 499,248 machines used on Oct. 4 never connected to the internet. Their software was open to inspection by parties, universities and watchdogs for 11 months before being digitally signed and sealed in public. Last December, the Brazilian government invited a record 149 outsiders to try to break the system; evaluators concluded nothing they found could alter results or reveal how anyone voted.

On election day, randomly drawn machines are fed paper ballots on camera as federal auditors and foreign observers watch and specifically track results. 

Meanwhile, at closing, every machine used at every polling station prints its tally, which is then posted in front of the polling place with a QR code, so anyone can check it against the national count. In an email to Fox News Digital, TSE said each file’s digital signature "confirms that the result was produced by the electronic voting machine registered for that polling station."

Karina Stange Calandrin, a political scientist and professor at Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais (IBMEC), says the system combines three traits rarely found together: voting is electronic, votes hashed to voter eligibility are stored locally in the machine and tallying is automated.

"It is an extremely secure and safe system. The machines never connect to the Internet and even the central database system used to transmit tallied votes to TSE must match results issued physically and locally by each individual machine without human interference," she said. Corrupting it, she added, would require breaking the seal of each machine and installing software that wouldn’t match the TSE’s version, automatically disqualifying its tally — a scale of collusion so large that it "simply could not pass undetected."

COLOMBIA'S 'EL TIGRE' SECURES PRESIDENCY AS LEFTIST RIVAL FINALLY CONCEDES DEFEAT

The machines passed their toughest political test in 2022, when former President Jair Bolsonaro, now serving a 27-year sentence for plotting to overturn his 2022 defeat, spent years attacking their credibility without evidence. Bolsonaro is presently serving time under house arrest.

This year, for the first time, a Bolsonaro appointee ran the TSE: Justice Kassio Nunes Marques. Bolsonaro’s eldest son, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, finished first with 47% to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 45%. The machines at the center of the senior Bolsonaro’s controversy may yet hand victory to his son.

Florencia Ferrer, CEO of e-stategiapublica, which has audited elections in 17 countries, has no doubt the Brazilian system is the most modern and secure in the world. "In India votes are electronic, but each voter gets a printed version of their vote to take home, which weakens voter safety and augments coercion rates," she says, adding that Estonia’s internet voting and the Philippines’ electronically tallied paper ballots carry their own risks.

An engineer from the University of São Paulo’s Polytechnic School who audited the machines in 2014, and declined to be named due to the sensitive nature of his work, agreed. "While no system is completely infallible... we have found no traces of tampering, wrong-doing or malicious intent," he told Fox News Digital.

Still, some defend higher scrutiny. Security researchers say a clean record is not proof enough, and the Carter Center said voters should at least see a printed version of their ballot deposited into a separate area of the machine; otherwise, results integrity rests on software alone. Germany’s top court ruled in 2009 that voters must be able to check their ballot without expert help, effectively barring a Brazilian-like system.

Brazil’s machine has traveled mostly on loan to countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Paraguay adopted it permanently in 2006, with machines that now print each individual vote.

"It’s obvious Washington and the remainder of the U.S. are way behind both technology as well as security when it comes to polling on voting day," Ferrer said. U.S. elections are run in thousands of local jurisdictions under 50 sets of state rules and about 30% of 2024 ballots came by mail, which is slower to process. Brazil has one national election authority, compulsory voting and no mail-in ballots.

Brazilians will vote this coming Sunday on Oct. 25. The winner is expected to be known and certified in under five hours.

"The question is not whether Brazil has invented a perfect voting machine. No voting system is perfect. It is whether democracies can combine the speed and consistency of digital tabulation with independent verification, public scrutiny and rules that citizens across the political spectrum have reason to trust," Ferrer said.

"So, I go do the appointment," she began. "We go to the recovery. You know, I stay at this place overnight. Totally, everything was fine. And then the doctor comes by, and she's like, 'Everything went great, you know, but ... you have triple negative cancer, and we found it in your biopsy. It's very early, but it's there.'"

Perry said the doctor told her the cancer she had was a "very, very fast" and "angry" cancer.

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She said the doctor laid out her options: begin radiation and chemotherapy or do a double mastectomy.

"I was like, 'No brainer. I'm halfway there. Take them.' I didn't even think about it. I was just like, 'Pop them off. I'm good. When can we go?'" Perry said on the podcast.

Perry had her double mastectomy in January 2022, and since then, she's been healthy.

On the podcast, Perry talked about her mother, Marluce Martins Perry, who was sick at the time of her diagnosis and surgery. She told Konicki she would never have thought her symptoms were due to a serious illness and would have assumed they were caused by the stress from her mother's condition.

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Therefore, she would never have gotten her breasts checked.

"So, angels, angels all around me. My whole life," she said of how she was able to catch her cancer so early. 

The peace discussions will begin at the technical level with negotiation teams, Zelensky said. If those efforts prove productive, then meetings between Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and U.S. President Donald Trump will be held.

One person is killed and five wounded in a series of attacks. The suspected gunman has been apprehended.

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Leaders in the US Space Force would like to have a new spaceport up and running in four years, adding a third heavy-lift launch site to relieve pressure from bases in Florida and California that have shot rockets into orbit for nearly 70 years.

The obvious problem with that ambition is 2030 is four years away, and Pentagon officials have not determined where the new spaceport should go or how to acquire land for it.

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink first mentioned the service's search for a third launch base in May. A congressionally mandated study of the Space Force's launch infrastructure identified the need for "another site that's capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability," Meink said in a House Armed Services Committee hearing.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., lashed out at President Donald Trump on Friday after he accused her of using a fake name and revived longstanding allegations surrounding her former marriage.

"The pedophile protection party's president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history," Omar wrote on X.

"Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine," she continued. "So let's make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar."

Omar then turned her fire on Vice President JD Vance, adding, "Maybe you should focus on what your VP's real name is."

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The verbal pushback came as Trump called on Omar to resign from Congress Thursday after Fox News Digital reported that Omar's birth name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, according to two people familiar with the ongoing federal investigation, including a law enforcement source.

A Justice Department court filing this week, related to a search warrant for her Washington-area home, identified the Minnesota Democrat as "Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar." 

Omar's office disputed Fox News Digital's reporting, insisting, "Ilhan Omar is her real name." Omar has not been charged with a crime.

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"It was just revealed that Ilhan Omar's name is not Ilhan Omar," Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday, accusing the congresswoman of using a "fake name" and calling for her immediate resignation. Trump also revived longstanding allegations that Omar's former husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother — claims Omar has repeatedly denied. He pointed out how the name used in the DOJ filings matched the one of the man she allegedly married and is also related to.

When asked during an MS NOW interview this week whether there was any familial relationship with Elmi, Omar responded, "Not to my knowledge." Her spokesperson later said the answer was sarcastic and reiterated that Omar "repeatedly and unequivocally" denied the allegation.

Federal investigators are probing whether Omar or her father made false statements on immigration paperwork. 

Agents searched Omar's Washington, D.C., residence earlier this month and seized her cellphone and passport, while her sister has also been questioned as part of the investigation, Fox News Digital previously reported.

Fox News Digital's "Who's Who in Chaos Inc." is a living database mapping the organizations, local chapters, international networks and funders organizing or amplifying major protest movements.

The directory identifies each group's mission, ideology, organizational role and documented protest activity, distinguishing direct organizers and participants from supporters and amplifiers.

The database will be continuously updated and organized by country as new organizations, chapters, coalitions and connections emerge, providing a running picture of how local protest movements connect to broader national and transnational networks.

The employee said he confronted the individual and restrained him until the woman said she found her phone. Once he let the man go, he said, another woman screamed, "No, he has my phone, too."

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Police described the individuals involved in several of the thefts as wearing dark clothing and face coverings. Police also listed a late-model white Buick and a black Mazda sedan in connection with the incidents.

Diners in the area have been urged to secure their valuables and avoid leaving wallets, phones or keys unattended on restaurant tables or counters.

Ukraine and Russia confirm the truce in Russian-occupied Oleshky, where residents have had to eat garden weeds to survive.

The Canadian dollar strengthened to a five-week ​high against its US counterpart on Friday ‌as oil prices rose and domestic retail sales data supported expectations the Bank of Canada would raise interest rates next week.

Apple today seeded an updated version of the watchOS 27.2 release candidate, four days after the first RC became available.


Registered developers and public beta testers can download software through the Apple Watch Settings app or using the Apple Watch app on iPhone.

watchOS 27.2 adds new Siri AI features and extends ‌Siri‌ AI to more languages.

This update provides enhancements to Siri AI, including the ability to retain useful context from previous Siri interactions, draw from a wider range of personal context, and deliver faster responses on your watch. This update also includes other features, bug fixes, and security updates for your Apple Watch.

- Siri AI can recall your past conversations, so you can ask Siri about something it told you before, like the restaurants it recommended last week
- Siri AI can draw from more sources to give you a great answer, including photos attached in Messages, Calendar event attendees, your voicemails, and better results from Safari history and Reading List from your phone
- Excluded Apps lets you choose which apps Siri, Search, and suggestions can access, all from one setting on your phone
- Siri AI now provides faster responses on Apple Watch
- Siri AI is available in more languages, with support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Siri AI is not available in the EU or mainland China

We are expecting watchOS 27.2 and the other 27.2 updates to launch next week.


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The doctor says she faced a brutal investigation after she passed on complaints brought to her by other doctors.

As reported by Music Business Worldwide, Spotify appears to be stepping up enforcement of existing policies regarding Family and Duo subscription plans by requiring users to scan a QR code in person on the plan manager's device in order to maintain access to it. Those who fail to scan the address verification QR code within seven days will see their account demoted to the free tier and be barred from joining any other Duo or Family plan for 12 months.

Spotify's QR code plan enforcement. Credit: Spotify

Spotify's support documentation verifies the policy after users on Reddit began posting reports of receiving the QR prompt. The enforcement stems from Spotify's requirement that family plan members reside at the same address—a seemingly reasonable policy in concept. But what if you have a child away in college, a spouse who works on the road, or any number of other circumstances that might see families separated by physical distance? The policy could extend beyond friend groups looking to save a buck, affecting actual families who thought they were using the program as intended.

Goldman Sachs analysts, in their October 15 Music in the Air: 10 Years On report, made available by HITS Daily Double, estimate that "a meaningful share of family plan users are not actual household members, but rather friends sharing a plan to reduce costs." The report goes on to add, "We see additional monetization upside from tightening household verification on multi-user plans. Most family plans require members to reside at the same address, but enforcement has been minimal in practice."

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Game 1 of the World Series is here, and we have the Tampa Bay Rays taking on the Milwaukee Brewers. Hard Rock Bet is bringing new users $500 in No Sweat Bets to wager on tonight’s game. 

We’ve seen these teams both put together excellent regular seasons, and now great postseason runs. The Rays won 98 games in the regular season, then beat the Yankees in three games and the Guardians in six. The Brewers were able to win 103 games, the most in baseball, and then beat the Padres in four games before sweeping the Dodgers. 

Let’s take a look at the likely starting lineups for each team. 

The pitching matchup tonight features two of the best pitchers in the league. The Rays have Nick Martinez, more of a finesse pitcher, while the Brewers have Jacob Misiorowski, a power pitcher who will try to overpower hitters.

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Authorities detained a suspect and are investigating whether the shootings, which wounded four other people, targeted a specific race, origin or religion.

Tonight is the first game of the World Series, with the Rays heading into Milwaukee to take on the Brewers. BetMGM is offering new users a chance to have their first World Series bet, up to $1,500, covered if it loses when using promo code FOXNEWS. 

The Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers only played three games during the regular season, so these teams aren’t overly familiar with each other. The two teams haven’t played since the last week of March, so things have changed. Let’s take a quick look at the three games from the season and how they went. 

In game 1 of the regular season series, the Rays won 3-2. That game started with Yandy Diaz hitting a home run to give the Brewers a lead. William Contreras hit a two-run homer in the sixth to give the Brewers a lead. Then, in the top of the seventh, the Rays tied the game before getting to closer Trevor Megill in the ninth. 

Game 2 saw the Brewers win with a 6-2 victory. This wasn’t as much of a back-and-forth game. The game started with another homer for the Rays and another run in the fifth, but that was all they could muster. In the bottom of the 5th, the Brewers got three runs. In the bottom of the sixth, they added another two and an insurance run in the eighth. 

The final game of the series went to the Brewers with an 8-2 win. For the third straight game, the Rays scored first, and they did it via a home run. A two-run homer from Yandy Diaz was all they could muster on offense. In the bottom of the 3rd, the Brewers tied it with a two-run bomb of their own off Bryce Turang’s bat. The Rays bullpen fell apart in the eighth inning as the Brewers scored six runs. 

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The World Series starts on Friday with Game 1 between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers. FanDuel is offering new users a chance to wager $5 and earn $350 in bonus bets. Wager $5 on tonight’s game and receive a $50 bonus bet token. Repeat that process for seven days to earn the full $350.

Any time a team wins the championship, it is a historical moment. The team goes down in history as the best team from that series. They get to hoist a banner into the rafters, and they also get a ring to commemorate the achievement. Forever, they will be noted in the history books, and they will be the answer to trivia questions. 

This season, two teams will make franchise history, as neither has won a World Series before this season. One of them will eliminate that note from their history books. The Rays have existed since 1998, and this is the third time they have made it to the World Series. Tampa has lost each of their first two appearances. 

The Milwaukee Brewers are in their 58th season, with 57 being in Milwaukee. They have never won the World Series, and this is just the second time they have gone to the World Series. The last time they appeared in the World Series was in 1982, when they lost 4-3 to the St. Louis Cardinals. 

One of these teams needs just four wins to get their franchise’s first World Series title. Both have been excellent this season with strong pitching and consistent hitting. Game 1 starts tonight and will give one team a big advantage in the series. 

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We are just moments away from the first pitch of the 2026 World Series between the Rays and Brewers. Underdog is getting new users in on the game with an offer to bet $10 and receive $50 in bonuses.

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The Tampa Bay Rays head to Milwaukee to take on the Brewers in Game 1 of the World Series. Let’s take a look at how these two teams stacked up during the regular season. 

Both of these teams are having great seasons and are near the top in every major statistical category outside of home runs. You have to wonder which team will get the hit when it matters most. 

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The two best teams in baseball — at least in terms of record for both leagues — square off in the World Series. Tampa Bay locked up the top spot in the American League, while the Brewers had the best record overall in baseball. 

Getting here was a bit more of a challenge for the Rays than it was for the Brewers. They started their postseason against the New York Yankees, but made quick work of them, winning in three games. In the American League Championship Series, they had to take on the Guardians. They were able to win the series 4-2, even after going down 1-0 and 2-1 in the series. 

The Brewers are one of those teams that feel like it could be destiny. The team won 103 games this season and has home-field advantage in this series. They faced the Padres in the first series of the postseason and won 3-1. In the National League Championship Series, they destroyed the Dodgers. Last year, they were swept by Los Angeles out of the postseason, and this year, they returned the favor. 

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Invoking "national security" also has a long-standing tradition in Washington as an excuse for politicians to justify actions they might not otherwise get away with. Back in April, the administration pursued a bailout that could have given the government 90% of Spirit Airlines on dubious national security grounds, until a group of the airline’s bondholders balked at the terms. 

Last week, Politico reported that the Federal Aviation Administration is exploring an ownership stake in a company that develops software for managing air traffic control. National security or not, having the government become an investor in a company it is supposed to evaluate objectively is an objectively bad idea.

Defenders will also point to promises that the government will remain a passive shareholder and argue that concerns about federal control over the corporate boardroom are overblown. That’s a painfully naïve view of how Washington works. The Trump administration is already using contracts and regulatory authority to favor companies it owns.

While Trump’s supporters may applaud that favoritism today, will they still applaud when a President Gavin Newsom or President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does it? 

No.

That is why Republicans should use the time they still have to end this ownership experiment instead of waiting until a Democratic president makes them wish they had.

Macron says Paris suburb shooting that killed one person was terrorist and racist act

A ship called the Agioi Fanendes, which had just left Russia's Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, was carrying 40,000 metric tons to New York and had been traveling westwards through the Baltic Sea ever since.

Following more than three months of renovations, the Apple SouthGate store in Bath, England reopened today, just in time for iPhone Duo launch day. The store has received an updated design with a dedicated Apple Pickup area, a more accessible Genius Bar with varied table and seat heights, and other upgrades.
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Gunmen open fire at a church during a funeral in Jordan, killing 7 and wounding 40

The hotel's website says the Pfister Hotel was opened in 1893 by businessman Guido Pfister and his son, Charles, who sought to create a "welcoming and luxurious meeting place."

"This historic Milwaukee hotel was the most lavish hotel of its time, costing nearly $1 million," the website states. "It featured groundbreaking innovations such as fireproofing, electricity throughout the hotel and individual thermostat controls in every room."

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If the World Series goes to Game 7, the deciding matchup will take place in Milwaukee on Halloween night.

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Author J.K. Rowling reaffirmed her stance on sex and gender issues Wednesday, writing in a new essay that she would not back down from her advocacy despite facing what she described as a relentless "avalanche of death, rape and torture threats."

The British author, best known for writing the "Harry Potter" series, published the piece six years after her June 2020 essay sparked widespread debate over transgender rights and women's single-sex spaces.

Rowling wrote that her views "haven’t changed" since 2020, but that "the landscape certainly has, and my own involvement in the issue has become practical as well as theoretical, so I thought it was time for an update."

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Her original essay drew criticism from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations and transgender rights activists, along with calls to boycott her work.

In the new essay, Rowling defended her opposition to policies allowing transgender women into certain female-only spaces, arguing that they undermine protections for women. She also characterized modern transgender activism as "elitist to its core."

"It’s true, of course, that trans activism doesn’t impact all women negatively. In fact, the more privileged you are, the less it tends to affect you, and the more it might benefit you. Aside from an avalanche of death, rape and torture threats, it hasn’t noticeably affected my life," Rowling wrote.

Rowling has rejected accusations that her views are "anti-trans," maintaining that her advocacy centers on women's safety and privacy.

"Should trans people be discriminated against when it comes to housing or employment? Of course not," Rowling wrote. "Should trans people be stripped of their human rights, or denied personal safety? Again: of course not."

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Earlier this month, transgender rights activists protested a gala performance of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" in London. A demonstrator wore a T-shirt reading, "Rowling money kills," and security personnel eventually removed the protesters from the red carpet.

In response to Rowling’s earlier 2020 comments on sex and gender, LGBTQ+ advocacy group GLAAD criticized the author, writing on social media that "JK Rowling continues to align herself with an ideology which willfully distorts facts about gender identity and people who are trans. In 2020, there is no excuse for targeting trans people."

Actor Daniel Radcliffe, who starred as Harry Potter in the film adaptations, also publicly criticized Rowling's comments in 2020, issuing a statement through The Trevor Project.

"Transgender women are women," Radcliffe wrote. "Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I."

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May Mailman, director of the Independent Women's Law Center, told Fox News Digital that she agrees with Rowling's criticism of wealthy supporters of transgender activism, arguing that working-class women are more likely to be affected by policies governing single-sex spaces.

"For people in the United States who have real problems to deal with, they need to figure out how they're [going to] put food on the table," Mailman said. "They're not worried about pronouns. They're worried about improving their families and improving themselves. And so, there is this elitism that's like when you run out of problems, you start inventing them."

Rowling has also supported the campaign group For Women Scotland, which challenged the interpretation of "woman" under the U.K.'s Equality Act 2010. On April 16, 2025, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that the terms "woman" and "sex" refer to biological sex for the purposes of the law. The court also affirmed that transgender people remain protected against discrimination under the law's gender reassignment provisions.

Mailman welcomed the British court decision but warned that she believes free speech in the country is increasingly under threat.

"I think the status of free speech in Great Britain is much more under attack than it is in the U.S.," Mailman said, adding, "I think we should treat it as a warning sign, because I think people look to Britain as where the United States could and often does head."

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Jeremiah Igunnubole, U.K. legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom International, a Christian legal advocacy group, also welcomed Rowling’s essay in a statement to Fox News Digital.

"We welcome JK Rowling doubling down on her determination to challenge gender ideology and defend the importance of biological reality. Truth matters, and we should not be afraid to uphold it simply because doing so is controversial," Igunnubole said.

He added that Alliance Defending Freedom International would "continue to defend these principles and the protections that flow from them robustly, including through litigation in the UK where necessary."

A representative for Rowling declined to provide additional comment to Fox News Digital.

Authorities detained a suspect and are investigating whether the shootings, which wounded four other people, targeted a specific race, origin or religion.

Freedom Mobile has changed its plans in Manitoba to further resemble those in its other three markets: Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. The move comes roughly a year after parent company Quebecor announced it had purchased wireless spectrum in Manitoba to lay the groundwork for its own network. Update Oct. 23, 2026, at 4:27 p.m. […]

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AOC just literally said she supports the rights of males identifying as females to compete in women's sports because I'm a female who genuinely supports, uplifts, and advocates for other women.

I just lost brain cells typing that out.

As one X user said, "This is like saying, 'I agree that 2+2=5 because I'm a mathy mathematician'."

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To think that this woman could be the Democrat nominee for president in 2028 shows just how far our education system, political system, and country has fallen.

AOC ended her lengthy response by stating, "What we're not going to do is shred our Constitution, kill Title IX, and defund all of our healthcare, just to attack 3% of the U.S. population."

I'd invite AOC to try to say this nonsense to the girls' cross-country team and their parents of Camas High School, and other girls who have had to compete against a boy this season. I would love to see her try to tell the brave girls who walked off the course in protest that their act was an "attack" on the transgender community that is on par with the rape and assault of women.

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Washington’s upcoming vote on Initiative 638, is a November ballot measure that seeks to restrict K-12 public school athletic categories strictly by biological sex at birth. Let's pray these girls' sports and spaces are protected.

Shame on you, AOC.

He should denounce the jihadist movements enslaving and massacring blacks in African countries.

The family lawyer says an allegation of shoplifting "does not warrant the death" of a child.

In the early years of iPhone launches, long lines would form at Apple Stores around the world, but those queues gradually became a thing of the past amid the rise of online pre-orders. At least, until the iPhone Duo launched today.


iPhone Duo fever is real today, with queues having formed at many Apple Stores around the world, based on comments and photos shared on the MacRumors Forums and social media platforms. Anywhere from dozens to hundreds of people lined up at the stores on Friday morning or even a day or two earlier for a chance to buy the iPhone Duo.

Apple's CEO John Ternus and retail chief Deirdre O'Brien visited Apple Domain NORTHSIDE in Austin, Texas, likely because F1's U.S. Grand Prix is taking place there this weekend and Apple TV is the exclusive U.S. streaming partner of F1.

Apple's marketing chief Greg Joswiak and vice president of retail stores Vanessa Trigub greeted customers at Apple Fifth Avenue in New York City.

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Apple said the iPhone Duo would be available on a "limited" basis for walk-in customers in the U.S. and select other countries today, but it expected supply to sell out quickly due to "extraordinary" pre-order demand for the device. Indeed, some locations have now sold through their walk-in inventory for launch day, so your mileage may vary.

Apple Store pickup was very briefly an option when iPhone Duo pre-orders began last Friday, but the system has been unavailable ever since. In most countries, Apple's online store says to check back on Saturday, October 24 regarding Apple Store pickup, but we do not know exactly what time reservations will resume at, so make sure to check Apple's website early and often tomorrow if you are still trying to secure an iPhone Duo.

Below, we have rounded up some photos and videos of Apple Store queues today.








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The Prince of Wales made a surprise appearance on the Graham Norton Show as part of a special edition to mark the Earthshot Prize.

Precious metals extended losses with silver reaching a new low for the year and gold settling below the $4,000 level.

A founding member of three renowned bands - The Bothy Band, Planxty and Moving Hearts - he was widely credited for the revival and growth of Irish traditional music.

An ad earlier this week from Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy sparked outrage from both sides of the aisle, but a political strategist in the state says that the record of his opponent, former health director Amy Acton, is what ultimately makes the difference in the race.

The ad features Acton’s estranged mother, Donna Arthur, accusing her daughter of lying about her childhood and questioning her fitness to serve as governor. Acton responded by saying she and her brother were removed from their mother’s custody after her stepfather was accused of sexually abusing her, and Ramaswamy was quickly blasted by Democrats and some Republicans over the ad, which he has defended and spent millions to run over the next couple of weeks.

The controversy over the ad went viral on social media and was even commented on by President Donald Trump, who strongly defended Ramaswamy. Ohio attorney and political strategist Mehek Cooke told Fox News Digital that Acton’s record is what should be under the microscope, not the ad.

"I think that we have to really shift from Vivek's recent ad into the most important question for Ohioans is, who do you want governing the state of Ohio? We clearly can't trust Amy Acton, and she has a record of that," Cooke told Fox News Digital.

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Acton’s record involves controversies both professionally and personally, many of which have been focused on by ads in the state of Ohio.

Acton served as health director under Republican Gov. Mike DeWine during the first months of COVID-19, when Ohio closed schools, shuttered bars and restaurants, restricted businesses and imposed a statewide stay-at-home order.

She also signed orders restricting nursing-home visitors, closing senior centers and adult daycare facilities, limiting mass gatherings and closing gyms and personal-service businesses before leaving the position amid pushback for the negative impact the lockdowns had.

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"She worked as a health director for Mike DeWine and left after masking our children, shutting down our state, and yes, Mike DeWine's name is on those orders, but at the end of the day, it was Amy Acton's signature," Cooke said. "And she's the one who pushed for locking down our kids. I don't ever want to hire somebody who quits on the state during a pandemic. I can't imagine if she had another meltdown, whether it was managing our state budget or anything else. So people don't trust Amy."

Acton’s handling of nursing homes has also drawn criticism in pro-Ramswamy advertisements on the airwaves. Ohio imposed a broad visitor ban at nursing homes and similar facilities in March 2020, separating residents from family members during the early months of the pandemic.

The Ohio Department of Health was later sued over its refusal to release facility-level COVID-19 death data. An Ohio appeals court ruled that the department violated the state’s public-records law by refusing to provide information about nursing-home deaths.

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The ruling involved the health department as an agency and did not establish that Acton personally ordered the records to be withheld. However, critics have continued to argue that the controversy raises questions about transparency during her tenure.

Acton’s closure orders also became the subject of litigation from Ohio gyms. In the Rock House Fitness case, a court described the state’s actions as "arbitrary, unreasonable, and oppressive," though subsequent legal proceedings and changes to the state’s orders complicated the dispute.

More recently, five current and former state-government workers told the Washington Examiner that Acton was sometimes absent from pandemic strategy meetings and emotionally volatile while leading the state’s response. One source alleged that she was found curled up on the floor before an emergency meeting, while another said she was seen crying in a bathroom.

A separate 2019 police report has also become a campaign issue. Bexley police responded to Acton’s home after a reported domestic dispute involving her husband. According to reporting based on the police report, Acton’s daughter told police that Acton had been drinking, throwing things and breaking glass. The report also said Acton pulled a mirror from a wall, shattering it.

No one was injured and no charges were filed. Acton’s campaign described the episode as a normal marital argument and disputed claims that it demonstrated alcohol abuse. Acton has called broader accusations that she is an alcoholic or drug addict "lies" and "a complete fabrication."

Cooke explained that supporting law enforcement will be a critical attribute the next governor needs and that Acton has shown she is weak in that area, pointing to an Acton comment that appeared to compare ICE agents to the KKK and tying Acton to the "defund the police" ideology popular with socialist candidates across the country.

"There are people coming out there wearing masks, with all the gear on," Acton said earlier this year during a City Club of Cleveland forum. "We don’t even know who they are. They’re just showing up. Does this not feel like the Ku Klux Klan to anyone?"

While Ramaswamy has faced blowback for using Acton’s mother in an ad, the race had already gotten personal and tied to family, with Acton’s side running ads invoking Ramaswamy’s mother.

"They have run an attack ad on Vivek Ramaswamy's mother and the failure of an Alzheimer's drug, they started attacking family first and I think politics is brutal," Cooke said. "This is a contact sport in terms of anything in your closet. It all goes, but the difference is Vivek actually comes and addresses questions. He talks to people. He explains whether it was his businesses or anything else that he has conducted for the betterment of our economy and Ohioans. Amy continues to hide."

With 11 days until voters decide who will be the next governor of Ohio, Acton has not yet agreed to debate Ramaswamy, which Cooke says is because she can’t articulate the complicated issues.

"They're trying this Joe Biden strategy of hide in the basement, play the victim card, and it's not going to work," Cooke said.

"Amy will never get on a stage because the truth is she doesn't know what she stands for, she's going to have policies written for her by Democratic socialists that are running her party today, and right now, the plan is, let's hide."

Cooke recounted a recent visit to a doctor, who politically identifies as an Independent, where Ramaswamy’s ad came up and described a response that suggests the ad is not as damaging to Ramaswamy as being portrayed in the media.

"He said, ‘I don't care about what's in the ad,’" Cooke explained. "‘I care about her integrity. And the problem is, what does she stand for? I know what Vivek stands for. I have no idea what she stands for.’"

Fox News polling, conducted before the ad fallout, shows a tight race with likely voters favoring Acton over Ramaswamy by 50% to 48%.

Buying a cheap smartphone can feel like a smart move. After all, why spend hundreds more when a phone promises a big screen, decent cameras and all the Android apps you use every day? But what if that bargain phone came with a hidden surprise that was already hiding inside the device when you bought it?

Security researchers at Bitdefender have uncovered a malware campaign called Midnight Mimosa that infects certain low-cost Android devices before their owners even turn them on.

The malicious software hides inside the phone's firmware, giving attackers powerful access that ordinary apps never receive. Even more concerning, researchers found related malicious apps on Google Play. And this problem has reached the United States.

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Most smartphone security advice starts with being careful about what you download. That makes sense when a malicious app tricks you into installing it. Midnight Mimosa changes that equation because the infection can arrive with the phone itself. According to Bitdefender's investigation, the malware was discovered on low-cost, multi-brand Android devices built around MediaTek chipsets. Researchers found malicious applications embedded in the system software, where they could operate with elevated privileges.

These privileges allow the malware to install additional apps without permission, remove existing applications and grant sensitive access to other software. It can also download and execute new code from remote servers. The researchers identified several versions hiding behind innocent-looking Android package names, including com.android.system.lite, com.android.sys.prot and com.android.sys.gmsprot.

To most phone owners, those names would look like technical components that belong there. That's exactly what makes the scheme so difficult to spot. And because the malicious software lives in the system partition, a normal uninstall won't remove the underlying infection.

Bitdefender says it observed Midnight Mimosa on thousands of unique devices across more than 150 countries over approximately two years. Mexico, France and Italy had the highest observed numbers, followed by the United States, Germany, Brazil and Spain. Researchers also observed infected devices reporting model names associated with Doogee's S200 X and Cubot's KINGKONG X. However, the findings do not establish that every phone sold under those names is affected. Some devices in the campaign use misleading or counterfeit model identifiers, making it difficult to identify infections based on a phone's reported name alone.

Another part of the investigation uncovered devices pretending to be expensive smartphones. Some reported names resembling Samsung Galaxy flagship models, while others imitated Apple's iPhone naming. In other words, a phone advertised as a premium Samsung or Apple device might actually contain inexpensive Android hardware running modified software.

Researchers found that some counterfeit devices even reported legitimate-looking Samsung model identifiers. That makes checking the model name alone an unreliable way to confirm authenticity. The investigation also identified firmware signed with certificates associated with Shenzhen Zediel, a Chinese device manufacturer. However, Bitdefender emphasized that this does not establish that the company created the malware or knew about its presence. Exactly where the malicious code entered the manufacturing and distribution process remains unknown.

You might expect malware this powerful to steal passwords immediately or display obvious warnings. Instead, Midnight Mimosa appears primarily designed to generate money for its operators while staying out of sight. One way it earns money is through advertising fraud. The malicious system component silently installs apps that look like weather tools, app lockers and other everyday utilities.

Those apps can display legitimate advertisements in hidden windows or generate clicks without the owner touching the screen. Advertisers may end up paying for activity that never came from a real person. Bitdefender identified at least 32 unique disguised applications involved in the broader operation. The malware can also repeatedly install and remove these apps, making them harder to notice during a casual check of the phone.

The advertising fraud is only part of the story. Researchers also discovered software that can turn infected phones into residential proxy servers. Here's what that means. Someone operating the malware could route internet traffic through your phone's connection. To websites and online services, that traffic may appear to come from your home or mobile network rather than the person actually controlling it.

Such connections can be valuable to cybercriminals because they help conceal where online activity originates. The same infrastructure could potentially support larger botnet operations or distributed denial-of-service attacks. Bitdefender confirmed that the malware contained the technology needed to turn infected phones into residential proxy servers. However, the researchers later clarified that one server they reached was actually a sinkhole, a system used to intercept malicious communications. Their testing did not demonstrate active traffic being relayed through the infected device. The underlying capability remains concerning because it could allow operators to route traffic through a phone owner's connection.

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One particularly troubling finding involves how Midnight Mimosa avoids security checks. Before installing certain malicious apps, Midnight Mimosa temporarily disables the Google Play Store app. Bitdefender believes this helps the malware avoid detection by Google Play Protect during installation. Once the process finishes, the malware re-enables the Store, reducing the chances that the phone owner will notice anything unusual. The process happens without the phone owner's involvement.

Some versions also manipulate Android's installer records to make applications appear to have come from Google Play, even when the malware installed them directly. So a quick look at where an app supposedly originated may not tell the whole story.

Wavrge, App Icon DIY, Audify, QR Pocket, All Deleted Messages Recovery, WeatherGo, CoolWeather, Daily Weather, Lock & Hide, QuickText Extractor, NoteMaster, Tap to Translate and Tasky. These apps offered functions such as weather forecasts, QR scanning, message recovery and audio editing. However, researchers found that they could also generate unwanted advertising activity, including displaying ads outside their normal interfaces. Unlike the malware embedded in phone firmware, these Google Play apps lacked the elevated system privileges needed to silently install other applications. The apps were associated with 13 different signing certificates and at least two developer accounts, identified as fivedev and CPS Developer.

Are these apps still on Google Play? Checks of the Google Play listings for all 13 apps found that none were available for download. However, it remains unclear whether Google removed the apps or their developers withdrew them. CyberGuy reached out to Google for comment but did not receive a response before our deadline.

What should you do if you recognize one? Check your Android phone's installed apps. If you find one of these applications, verify that its package identifier matches the one listed in Bitdefender's report before uninstalling it. Different apps can share similar names. Even when an app disappears from Google Play, it can remain installed on your phone. The findings show why downloading an app from an official store doesn't automatically guarantee its safety.

The findings also connect with complaints posted by some Doogee and Cubot smartphone owners on the XDA forums. Users described suspicious system applications that reappeared after attempts to remove them. One Doogee Fire 3 Max owner reported that an official firmware update introduced the infection. According to that account, reverting to an older firmware version removed the problem, while reinstalling the newer update brought it back.

Other forum participants reported that subsequent firmware updates resolved their infections. However, Bitdefender identified one of the suspicious packages discussed in the forum, com.android.non.szcz, as belonging to the same malware family. That creates a frustrating situation for owners. A software update is normally something I encourage people to install for better security. But when the firmware itself is compromised, the source and integrity of the update become especially important.

The most effective protection starts before you buy a device. However, there are useful precautions if you already own an inexpensive Android phone or suspect something unusual is happening.

Be especially careful with unusually cheap smartphones advertised as premium models. Counterfeit devices can copy familiar names and appearances while using entirely different hardware. Choose established retailers and authorized sellers when possible. Check the manufacturer's official website to confirm that the model exists and matches the advertised specifications. An extremely low price deserves a closer look, especially when the seller provides limited information about software updates or warranty support.

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Before trusting an unfamiliar Android phone, check whether Google recognizes it as a certified device. Play Protect certification indicates that a device has met Google's compatibility requirements. However, certification alone cannot guarantee that its firmware is free of malware.

Here's how to check:

If your phone says Device is not certified, contact the manufacturer or seller to investigate. An uncertified device does not automatically mean it contains malware, but it deserves additional scrutiny.

Google Play Protect is Android's built-in malware protection. It scans apps for harmful behavior and can warn you about or remove known threats. However, it is not 100% effective at detecting every malicious app, especially malware hidden deep within a phone's system software.

To check it, open the Google Play Store > your profile picture > Play Protect > Settings. Make sure Scan apps with Play Protect is enabled. Then return to the Play Protect screen to check for harmful apps. A clean scan is reassuring, but it does not guarantee your phone is free of malware, particularly if the infection is embedded in its firmware. That's why we also recommend strong antivirus software as an additional layer of protection.

Strong antivirus software adds another layer of protection by monitoring suspicious behavior and detecting threats that may go unnoticed. In fact, Bitdefender's investigation began when its behavioral detection technology flagged an unusual system component. This shows why monitoring how apps behave can help uncover threats that traditional scans might miss. However, even strong antivirus software may detect malicious firmware without having the permissions needed to remove it. Get my picks for the best 2026 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices at CyberGuy.com.

Open Settings > Apps > See all apps or the equivalent app list on your Android device. Look for applications you don't recognize, especially ones requesting unusual access.

Next, review Settings > Security & privacy > Privacy controls > Permission manager, where available. Check permissions such as SMS access and other sensitive capabilities. Accessibility and notification access may have their own settings pages.

Menu names vary by manufacturer and Android version. Be cautious about unfamiliar apps with extensive permissions. However, don't randomly disable legitimate Android system components because their technical names look strange.

An infected phone may show signs such as unexplained mobile data usage, excessive background activity, unexpected advertisements or apps appearing without your permission. Check Settings > Network & internet > SIMs > App data usage, or your manufacturer's equivalent, to investigate unusual data consumption. These symptoms can have harmless explanations, and Midnight Mimosa may operate without obvious warning signs. Treat unexpected activity as a reason to investigate rather than proof of infection.

Install updates supplied through your manufacturer's verified support channels. However, if you suspect the device firmware itself is infected, contact the manufacturer before attempting a repair. A factory reset generally removes personal data and user-installed apps. It does not necessarily replace compromised software stored in the system partition.

Bitdefender says removing Midnight Mimosa's privileged component may require firmware-level cleanup or specialized tools such as Android Debug Bridge. For most people, manually modifying system firmware introduces additional risks. If the manufacturer cannot provide a verified clean firmware image, replacing the device may be the safest practical option.

If you believe your phone has been compromised, use a separate trusted device to change important passwords, starting with your primary email and financial accounts. Review recent account activity and enable multifactor authentication where available. Consider using an authenticator app or passkeys on a trusted device rather than relying exclusively on SMS codes.

Bitdefender identified sensitive capabilities in the malware, including potential access to notifications and SMS messages. The researchers did not observe every capability being actively exploited, so account compromise should not be assumed without evidence. Nevertheless, protecting important accounts is a sensible precaution when you can no longer trust the phone's operating system.

I've always liked the idea of getting more for less, especially when it comes to technology. You shouldn't have to spend flagship-phone money to get a device that works reliably. But this investigation exposes a problem that deserves far more attention from the companies making and selling inexpensive smartphones. When malware arrives embedded in the firmware, the owner has very little control. You can be careful about downloads, check permissions and follow security advice, yet still end up with a compromised device straight out of the box. What concerns me most is the possibility that your phone could be quietly earning money for someone else while using a connection you pay for. And if removing the infection requires specialized firmware work, the burden lands on the person who bought the device. Manufacturers and marketplaces need to take greater responsibility for verifying the software that ships on the products they sell. A low price should never mean accepting hidden software that puts your privacy and security at risk.

Would you pay more for a smartphone from a manufacturer you trust, or do you think companies selling budget phones should be held legally responsible when malware comes preinstalled? Let us know by writing to us at CyberGuy.com.

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Athletic Director Chris Del Conte must have heard about the ruckus this morning amid their grand announcement regarding AI, because it took only around an hour for him to clarify what the report was trying to insinuate.

"Texas AD Chris Del Conte clarified a published article which said that the decision to go for it on 4th and 2 against Florida last week was based on Bevo Lab analysis," Del Conte told Bobby Burton.

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"To the contrary, Del Conte said he gave it as an example of what it could suggest, not of what it actually did."

Sure, Steve Sarkisian and his football staff are receiving help from AI when it comes to putting together daily activities, just like the rest of us that live in the corporate world.

But no, I don't imagine the Longhorns head coach is telling Arch Manning what to run on fourth down based off what prompt the Texas staff was inserting into AI chat along the sidelines with a critical game on the line.

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Some iPhone Duos are already experiencing hinge issues that cause display cracks, based on photos shared on Reddit and the MacRumors forums. Almost all of the display faults are right along the hinge, and most result in a line of bright pixels across one side of the screen.


An iPhone Duo owner in Australia said his device cracked after being opened fewer than 20 times, and there was no visible damage beforehand.

Had my iPhone Duo for about six hours and had probably opened it fewer than 20 times. I was showing it to a friend, and as I opened it, I felt something around the internal hinge, underneath the screen.

As I continued opening it, I heard an audible crack, and the screen broke right along the hinge. There were no marks or damage on the inner screen's surface or the external hinge to suggest anything had been caught or damaged.

The user visited an Apple Store, and Apple replaced the broken device right away. Apple is likely collecting defective iPhone Duos to research points of failure, and that research could lead to manufacturing improvements to reduce future issues.


There are several images of broken displays from demo devices in China, where the ‌iPhone Duo‌ launched hours ahead of the U.S. The backstory for most of the images is unknown, and it's possible user damage is a factor. Some reviewers who got an ‌iPhone Duo‌ early subjected it to folding tests and didn't experience screen issues, but that's a small sample.

With so many people getting iPhone Duos today, some failures are expected. It isn't known how widespread the issue is or whether we'll see an uptick in complaints over time. Hinge failures from normal use should be covered under the one-year warranty, and customers receiving an ‌iPhone Duo‌ today will also have two weeks to make a return.
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Multiple gunmen opened fire and killed at least seven people Friday at a church in Jordan, in what the country's leader is calling a "terrorist attack."

The shooting, which also left 34 injured, erupted during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 110 miles south of the capital, Amman. Karak is home to a minority Christian population.

"The terrorist attack against Karak will be met with the harshest retaliation. Those who delude themselves into thinking that they can divide Jordanians with their bullets have no chance in the face of our unity," King Abdullah II wrote on X.

"All Jordanians, from north to south, are partners in land and fate, and nothing stands between them. Our deepest condolences to the families of the martyrs and we wish a speedy recovery to those injured," he added. "Every Jordanian life is precious, and we will strike with an iron fist against those who dare to threaten our nation."

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Images broadcast on Jordanian state television showed two gunmen who appear to be holding pistols approaching the church and firing shots, according to The Associated Press.

A third man who appeared to be holding a semiautomatic rifle then appeared and opened fire, and all three then ran toward the church.

A government statement said that the attack was "carried out by unknown assailants," but didn't say whether any gunmen were captured or killed. It noted that "investigations are underway at full speed."

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In 2016, gunmen ambushed police in a series of attacks in Karak, including at a Crusader castle popular with tourists, killing 10 people, including seven officers, and wounding dozens. Jordanian security forces killed those gunmen after a long standoff.

Jordan’s director of public security, Maj. Gen. Obeidallah Maaytah, said at a news conference that 27 of the wounded in Friday’s shooting were still being treated.

In a statement, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said he called his Jordanian counterpart and "affirmed Iraq’s solidarity with Jordan in the face of terrorism."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The detention of two Ukrainian journalists in Austria earlier this month while conducting an investigation has highlighted deeper systemic concerns.

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FIRST ON FOX: A conservative legal group is calling on the Trump administration to investigate a Rhode Island school district over a policy that allegedly allows school officials to facilitate students' gender transitions behind their parents' backs, accusing the district of violating multiple federal civil rights laws.

America First Legal (AFL) filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Justice Department and Department of Education targeting Westerly Public Schools in Westerly, Rhode Island, over a transgender student policy adopted in 2017.

"Westerly Public Schools' policy blatantly violates federal law, tramples on parents' rights, and embraces radical gender ideology,'" Ian Prior, senior counsel at America First Legal, told Fox News Digital in a statement. "Male students claiming to be female receive every privilege while actual female students are shoved aside. AFL is calling on the Department of Justice and the Department of Education to step in and hold WPS accountable."

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The lawsuit from America First Legal alleges that Westerly Public Schools' transgender student policy, adopted in 2017, allows school officials to facilitate students' gender transitions, including changes to names, pronouns and school records, without parental notification or consent. The group also alleges the policy permits students to use bathrooms, locker rooms and participate in sports based on their gender identity rather than biological sex, while requiring students who object to seek separate accommodations.

The policy defines "Gender Identity" as "a person's deeply held sense or psychological knowledge of their own gender. One's gender identity can be the same or different than the gender assigned at birth. Most people have a gender identity that matches their assigned gender at birth. For some, however, their gender identity is different from their assigned gender."

The guidance for secondary students reads, "Generally, notification to a student's parent(s)/guardian(s) about their gender identity, expression, or transition is unnecessary, as they are already aware and supportive. However, some transgender students do not want their parents to know about their transgender status. These situations must be addressed on a case-by-case basis and require schools to balance the goal of supporting the student with the desire that parents be kept informed about their children."

It continues, "In these circumstances, school administration should ask the superintendent for direction on how to proceed. If the administration determines that notifying the family carries risks for the student, it should work closely with the student to assess the degree to which, if any, the family will be involved in the process and must consider the age, health, well-being and safety of the student."

America First Legal alleges the district's policy violates multiple federal laws, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), by withholding information about students' gender transitions from parents, and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), by allowing certain student evaluations without parental consent.

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The group also argues the policy violates Title IX by permitting students to use bathrooms, locker rooms and participate in sports based on gender identity rather than biological sex, potentially compromising female students' privacy, safety and athletic opportunities, and is urging the Trump administration to investigate the district, require changes to its policies and ensure compliance with federal law, including parental notification requirements.

The complaint marks the latest effort by America First Legal to challenge school policies it argues infringe on parental rights. The group previously developed resources in 2022 to help parents use the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) to hold schools accountable. AFL pointed to a recent Trump administration lawsuit against Kansas City Public Schools in Kansas over allegations involving undisclosed student gender transitions and violations of FERPA and the PPRA, saying it is seeking a similar outcome in Westerly.

The Department of Education told Fox News Digital that it does not confirm complaints.

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A spokesperson for the Department of Justice told Fox News Digital in a statement that, "The Department has received the complaint and will review it. As a matter of policy, the Department does not confirm or deny the existence of investigations. The Justice Department is committed to enforcing Title IX and to protecting the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children."

Fox News Digital reached out to Westerly Public Schools for comment.

A federal judge was removed from a challenge to Mississippi's anti-DEI law after the Fifth Circuit blasted his handling of the case as a "botch job," pointing to orders riddled with factual errors, an apparent AI-hallucinated case citation and faulty applications of Supreme Court precedent.

In an opinion penned by Judge Jerry Smith, a Reagan appointee, the appeals court vacated Reagan-appointed Judge Henry Wingate's preliminary injunction blocking the law and ordered the case reassigned to a different judge — an "extraordinary" and "rarely invoked" move.

"This district judge carelessly exercised his Article III power by issuing sloppy edicts based on falsehoods and fabrications," Smith wrote, adding that "the district court—or perhaps, being charitable, its AI agent—ignored and manipulated governing law, apparently to satisfy a policy agenda."

The controversy surrounding Wingate’s handling of the case began with serious errors in a temporary restraining order he issued in July after a group of teachers, parents and students sued, arguing that a Mississippi state law restricting DEI-related practices in public schools and universities violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

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Wingate replaced the order just two days later after Mississippi officials flagged major factual errors, including 11 individuals and organizations identified as plaintiffs who were never a part of the case, two officials incorrectly named as defendants and unsupported claims that three schools had already canceled DEI programs because of the law.

The original TRO also cited purported declarations from four people who did not appear anywhere in the record and "may not even exist," according to the Fifth Circuit. It also attributed language to the bill that does not appear in the law, including references to "race or sex stereotyping," "race or sex scapegoating," "critical race theory" and "institutional bias."

"We are grateful—and, indeed, lucky—that the defendants provided a copy of the original TRO as an exhibit in their July 28 motion, ECF 58-1, given that Judge Wingate kept it from public view," Smith wrote.

Even the corrected TRO contained errors, including a citation to a nonexistent case that the Fifth Circuit called "an apparent AI hallucination." Wingate cited the purported case while discussing the relationship between temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, leading Smith to conclude that the fabricated citation was "arguably part of the shoddy reasoning of the preliminary injunction, too."

Wingate later acknowledged that a law clerk had used artificial intelligence to assist in drafting the TRO, following accusations of AI use surfacing publicly. Wingate said the errors were "clerical" and did not affect the court’s "core legal reasoning or the ultimate judgment on the merits."

The Fifth Circuit pushed back on that explanation, questioning "how so many mistaken facts could not at least marginally ‘affect’ ‘core legal reasoning’ or support for the judgment on the merits."

The Fifth Circuit found major flaws in Wingate’s legal reasoning, accusing the judge of misinterpreting Supreme Court rulings on free speech challenges, exceeding the limits of court injunctions and mishandling legal protections for government and public-employee speech.

The panel zeroed in on the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Moody v. NetChoice, which sets a two-step test for courts considering First Amendment challenges seeking to strike down a law entirely.

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Under the Moody analysis, a court can strike down an entire law on First Amendment grounds only if its unconstitutional applications substantially outweigh its constitutional ones. The appeals court took issue with Wingate describing the Moody framework as "supposedly" required.

"That Judge Wingate twice refers to the Moody framework as ‘supposedly’ required calls into question whether he even tried in good faith to follow the law," Smith wrote.

"The district court’s laxity in observing the binding authority of the Supreme Court is yet another reason to doom the preliminary injunction," Smith continued.

The appeals court also faulted Wingate for his reasoning in granting preliminary relief, pointing to his ruling that the court "should pause when faced with an unsettled area with such dire possible consequences."

"That gets the entire law of injunctive relief completely backwards," Smith wrote.

"A preliminary injunction cannot stand just because there is a possibility of success on the merits," Smith continued.

The appeals court also accused Wingate of misreading the Supreme Court's 2025 decision in Trump v. CASA, which limits judges from issuing orders that go beyond what is needed to protect the people who filed the lawsuit.

Wingate cited CASA in concluding that injunctions like the one before him "should be all-or-nothing renditions."

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"That is almost exactly the opposite of what CASA says," Smith wrote. "The quoted portion was the Supreme Court’s cautioning against overbroad relief and urging judges to tailor relief to what is absolutely necessary and nothing more."

The Fifth Circuit sent the case back to the Southern District of Mississippi, where a new judge will consider it.

Longtime ESPN host Michael Wilbon unleashed an expletive-laced rant against The New York Times on Wednesday, blasting the paper over its treatment of sports writers.

While appearing on "The Dan Le Batard Show," host Dan Le Batard pointed out that The New York Times was the only major publication that did not allow its sports writers to appear on Wilbon's ESPN show "Pardon the Interruption." 

Wilbon, who began his career in print journalism and spent decades at The Washington Post before joining ESPN full-time in 2010, accused the Times of abandoning the sportswriting industry.

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"They bailed," Wilbon said. "They were the first to bail. F--- The New York Times. I work for a better section anyway. You think I wouldn’t take a section with Tom Boswell, and Dave Kindred, and Tony Kornheiser, and Sally Jenkins, and David Remnick, and David Aldridge, and J.A. Adande — and I’m skipping a whole generation of people — Barry Lorge, the greatest tennis writer of all time? Half those people went to television."

He continued, "F--- The New York Times, which bailed on our profession. It bailed. It took the sports section away. Gutless motherf------!"

Fox News Digital reached out to The New York Times for comment. ESPN declined to comment.

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Wilbon was likely referring to The New York Times announcing in 2023 that it would be closing its internal sports department and instead focus on covering teams and games through The Athletic, which it acquired one year earlier.

Though there were no layoffs from the acquisition, the sports department at the Times had grown smaller and smaller in the years prior to the purchase. The desk eventually lost its stand-alone section in the daily print and local teams were no longer guaranteed an assigned beat reporter.

New York Times staffers have since petitioned to have The Athletic staffers join their union.

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"The Times bought a separate company; they then disbanded their own sports desk and now uses that company as their sports department," New York Times senior editor Jim Luttrell told Fox News Digital in May. "They’re doing the same work that all the other journalists here do that the sports journalists did here before. There is no reason they shouldn’t be in the union."

Key developments on Oct. 23:

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The philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy despairs over left-wing riots in the streets, but he maintains his optimism that good sense will win next year’s presidential election.

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I really don't enjoy taking favorites on the road in the NBA. Role players don't play as well on the road as they do at home, but in this one, I'm willing to make an exception. The Hawks are the better team, have a better offense, and I think they should win this one. They do play at home tomorrow, against a tougher opponent, so this could be a trap spot, but I'm going to take them on the moneyline at -135. I do think they know how to win, and I think the Hornets are trying to figure things out.

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"I don’t remember a single word I said after that," he recalled. "I remember only feeling a violent impact, like getting the wind knocked out of me, and Rebecca wailing on the other end of the phone, and then I really lose it, and my sobs make my body shudder, and I hear her words pouring out amid her tears, ‘I’m here, we’ll fight this together, I’m not going anywhere.’"

Gayheart and Dane married in Las Vegas on Oct. 29, 2004, and welcomed two daughters, Billie, born in March 2010, and Georgia, born in December 2011. The two shared a love story that lasted more than two decades, despite years of separation.

After his death, Gayheart revealed the moments she misses the most now that Dane is gone.

"After the kids downloaded me on their day, I’d call him and be like, ‘Oh my God, there’s a boy that likes Georgia.’ Or when Billie got her driver’s license, I wanted to call him so badly because that was something he was really excited about," she told People.

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If she could talk to him now, Gayheart said she would want Dane to know how much his strength meant to their family and how deeply he was loved.

"I’d say that I’m proud of him, that we all love him so much, and I hope he really felt that," the "Urban Legend" star said.

As she and their daughters navigate life without Dane, Gayheart said she's determined to honor his legacy by protecting their girls and ensuring their father's memory remains a constant presence in their lives.

"I’m going to look after these girls and protect them with everything in my body and soul. And we’re not going to let people forget him."

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President Donald Trump criticized the judge overseeing Charlie Kirk's assassination case in Utah on Friday, saying he's doing a "terrible job."

"The judge in the Charlie Kirk case is doing a terrible job! This case should be tried within a month, not three years — and it should be over with! The judge is desecrating the memory of the Great Charlie Kirk, while taking forever to ask questions that people already know the answer to. The whole Country is mocking him and our 'Legal' System. JUSTICE FOR CHARLIE!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Trump's comments come after Tyler Robinson's defense team proposed a tentative trial start date in the third quarter of 2029.

Robinson is due in court on Friday afternoon.

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Much of what we know about how a brain makes decisions comes from studying monkeys watching dots. In a task known as a random-dot-motion task, a cloud of flickering specks drifts weakly in one direction while the subject tries to determine whether—and in which direction— it’s moving. The task has shown that in the primate neocortex, neurons gather visual evidence over time, with their firing rates climbing until they cross a threshold, when the animal commits to a decision.

But avian brains don’t have a neocortex, so it wasn’t obvious how they made similar decisions.

“This was the big question,” said Andreas Nieder, a neurobiologist at the University of Tübingen. “How [would] a differently organized avian brain encode decisions?”

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Today, without exactly using the word, Meghan claimed vindication.

The US president has praised Burnham after the government allowed gas drilling in the North Sea's Jackdaw field.

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It feels like just yesterday that I was betting on Paul Skenes to light up the Mets and keep them from scoring on Opening Day of the baseball season. I was dead wrong about that one because Skenes didn’t even last two innings in the game. Since then, it has been a pretty strong baseball season overall, but I’ve struggled a bit in the postseason. Game 1 of the World Series is tonight, and I’m looking forward to getting a win in this one.

The Tampa Bay Rays have been better at home than on the road this season, but in the playoffs they’ve gone 3-1. They were the best team in the American League and beat the Yankees, a divisional foe, in three games in the American League Division Series. It was a bit harder for them in the American League Championship Series as the Guardians took the Rays to six games. Ultimately, the Rays stopped the Cleveland offense, and that made the difference for the club in the series.

Tonight, they are sending out Nick Martinez to the hill. For the season, Martinez was 15-6 with a 3.10 ERA and a 1.09 WHIP. He only has 109 strikeouts for the season; he isn’t really a power pitcher. He finds ways to get guys out, and that’s really what matters. In the postseason, he has allowed three earned runs over nine innings with just six strikeouts and three walks. He did not face the Brewers at all this season, but they are hitting .246 against him over 122 at-bats.

The Milwaukee Brewers were the best team in baseball this season, and they’ve looked like the best team in baseball in the postseason. The Brewers went 103-59 this season and were almost 30 games above .500 in Milwaukee. In the postseason, they’ve looked absolutely dominant, getting rid of the Padres in just four games. If you watched the Padres-Brewers series, you might have said the Padres could’ve won it. You’d be right. There were some odd games, but the Brewers never said die. That was the same result in the Dodgers series. Every time the Brewers went down, they came back and ultimately won the game.

It won’t be an easy night with Martinez on the mound, but they have their own elite starter going. Jacob Misiorowski takes the ball and brings a great campaign with him. He went 16-5 with a 1.80 ERA and a 0.80 WHIP. He is a power pitcher and could throw one at 110 mph with all the adrenaline that will be going in this game. I only somewhat joke about that. He was elite in Milwaukee this season, posting a 1.52 ERA. In the postseason, he has looked a bit shaky. He has made two starts, gone 8.1 innings, and allowed three earned runs. He has allowed nine hits and four walks as well, which gives me a bit of concern. He faced the Rays earlier in the year and allowed two earned runs on four hits over six innings while striking out seven hitters.

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The Rays are a team that struggles against power pitching. Something feels different about the Brewers this season, like they are destined to win this year. I actually think Martinez starting is a terrible look for the Rays. It feels a bit like they will lose to Misiorowski, and they know it. I'm going to take the Brewers on the run line at +129. Pitching advantage, home field, and this lineup has the edge in this one and I don't think it will be close.

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There are two elements of the Senate race in Maine that truly stand out on the ground. One is that this is a small state, at least in terms of population. The other is that Susan Collins has been a senator here for three decades. The upshot is that almost everyone I've met here has met her.

Philip, a lifelong Mainer in his 70s from Bangor, told me in an accent straight out of "Murder, She Wrote": "It would be stupid, in my opinion, not to vote for Susan, she's chairman of the appropriations committee, and she's brought a lot of money to the state," adding, "we've got new fire stations in every little town you can think of."

The appreciation for Collins among ordinary Mainers represents the daunting uphill battle Democrat Troy Jackson faces in a race where polls give him a slight lead, but the word on the street has him dead in the water.

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Speaking of fire stations, I met Andy and Hank, both firefighters, at Seasons restaurant in Bangor. And just like Philip, they can't really see Collins going down.

"We've all met her," Andy said of "Susan," not "Collins," adding, "She's an institution in Maine, I can't believe that Jackson can beat her."

Hank was hardly alone. Everyone I spoke to at Seasons seemed to agree, even the Democrats, who have a unique affection for Collins. As the burly Hank put it, "I'll believe she loses when I see it."

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In fairness, while Collins may be the Tom Brady of New England politics, even he lost twice to Eli Manning in the Super Bowl. So Jackson does have a chance to unseat the 73-year-old stalwart of the Senate.

John and Jeff, two voters I spoke with, are hoping and voting for just that. Jeff told me his top issue this election is ICE, saying, "We shouldn't have federal troops in every city … the Portland police should be able to handle things without having immigration backing them up."

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John went a bit further. When asked about the riots in France, he told Fox News Digital, "We should probably start rioting more in America, to be honest," but then hedged a bit with, "I would say, not riot. Protest."

I met Paul at the bar of the Hollywood Casino in Bangor. He and the bartender, both in their early 70s, knew each other from the town where they grew up, "up north." Frankly, it seems like everyone in Maine knows everyone.

Paul lives in South Carolina now, making him a bit of a two-for-one for this columnist. He told me he thinks the GOP will hold the Senate seat in the Palmetto State and that Maine will "come around for Susan like it always does," adding, "She has a house right up the road."

The word that kept resounding in my mind as I wandered the dusty back alleys of Bangor and marveled at the sea of colors clinging to the leaves along the dusky Penobscot River was "Susan." Almost everyone I talked to called her by her first name, a level of familiarity I have rarely encountered while covering a political race.

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The inescapable reality of this Senate campaign in Maine is that many Mainers under 40 have no memory of a time when "Susan" was not their senator. And to break that streak would require a call to arms that Troy Jackson just can't seem to muster.

Among the kindest words I heard about Jackson in Bangor were those of a woman in the antiques emporium on Main Street who said, "Somebody had to run."

Maine voter Wendy told Fox News Digital of Jackson, "He was a last-ditch effort," adding that she hopes Collins wins.

One word I didn't hear much in Maine, and this is a problem for Jackson, is "Trump." Almost everyone I spoke with sees Collins as independent of the president, who, after all, would serve only two years of the six-year term she is running for.

At Reagan National Airport on Tuesday, I bumped into former U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, himself the kind of institution in my home, the Mountain State, that Collins is in Maine. He was on his way to campaign for her.

The message of Manchin's mission was clear: a former Democrat, a centrist, a guy who can get things done with both sides, but also very much a former senator who could not survive the purity tests of the modern, far-left Democratic Party.

For Collins' part, Republicans across the country, especially in Maine and even in the White House, are willing to look past her centrism and just be thankful a Republican has a shot in a state like Maine.

But let's be honest: Polls or no polls, a Collins loss would be an absolute shocker in Maine, and one that this column sees no evidence is in the works.

US chip champion Intel was so confused by the US government ban on foreign-made robots that it requested and received a waiver “out of an abundance of caution.” The tech company wanted to make sure that it could continue using certain robotic vehicles in its US chip fabs.

The uncertainty surrounding the Federal Communications Commission ban on certain foreign-made robots was revealed in the agency’s decision to grant Intel’s waiver request. On October 22, the FCC published its order allowing Intel to continue using the foreign-made robots in US semiconductor manufacturing facilities for a period of one year.

The robots in question are automated guided vehicles operating on “tracks or predefined paths” while often requiring operator oversight, according to Intel’s website. They help to move materials and items around within warehouses and factory floors.

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Companies will still be able to request higher exemption quotas if needed to maintain operations, while the government plans to introduce a new system allowing full exemptions for businesses that help recruit employees for military service.

That's debatable, sure, but again, there's logic to it. Ohtani is such a valuable hitter that there's a case to be made for him to focus exclusively on being a DH. But what he says next has well, no logic or reason behind it whatsoever.

"They need to pull him off the pitching mound permanently. And if he insists on continuing this detrimental charade, they need to seriously consider trading him."

Alright, well now we've officially left the world of rationality and gone into some sort of bizarre performance art trolling act. Or something. Hopefully.

Trading Shohei Ohtani is somewhere beyond insane. Even if he hurt his arm and required surgery to miss nine months and permanently put pitching behind him, trading him would be insane. Even if he only pitches 50-70 innings a year, that's immensely valuable combined with his hitting prowess. For context, top end relievers are making $20+ million a season to throw 60-70 innings. Ohtani's offense is worth $50-60 million a year, and even in limited usage, his pitching is worth at least the additional $20 million if not much more. With the upside of even greater value.

Then there's the fact that with Ohtani pitching in 2025, the Dodgers won the World Series. Including game three, when Ohtani hit two homers to help get the game to extra innings. Then there was game four of the 2025 NLCS, when he had arguably the single greatest performance in baseball history. Going six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts and hitting three home runs, including one that literally left Dodger Stadium.

But that's the baseball side of it.

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Ohtani is such a transcendent star that he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year to Los Angeles in advertising, marketing, and promotions. His contract, even at a heavily deferred $70 million per season, is one of the biggest bargains in the sport. The extra revenue he brings in has allowed the Dodgers to go from being a top three or four spending team to being number one. The rush from the other 29 teams to acquire him would be quite literally hilarious, because trading Ohtani would be an act of financial suicide for LA and a massive windfall for a new team.

Plashcke is frequently not a serious person, but this is enough to warrant serious questioning of his ability to continue writing about baseball for a "legitimate" newspaper. The LA Times should ask him to focus on his one true love; left-wing politics. Clearly, his attempt to try to do both is hurting both himself, and the paper, and should lead to some very serious conversations between the two sides.

The newest iPhone is now available through T-Mobile, with $0 due upfront when you bring your existing number and enroll in the Experience Beyond plan. The iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable phone and features the company's largest display on an iPhone to date. The foldable design keeps the device slim, so it slips easily into your pocket or bag.

What sets this iPhone apart from earlier models is the large, foldable display. The 7.6-inch display is the largest in Apple history, giving you a high-quality, larger screen to stream videos, video chat with loved ones, play games and more.

The innovative build also lets you use it in more ways than ever. In portrait mode, type on a wider keyboard and enjoy the traditional iPhone orientation with a larger display.

When closed, it has most of the same capabilities with a handy vertical control panel. Use your apps as usual, but the compact size fits better in your pocket or handbag.

Open the iPhone Duo partly to stand it up on a flat surface for easy video viewing while multitasking. When standing on its edge, the device can display a clock, photos and other widgets.

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Movie lovers will quickly fall in love with the unmatched display on the iPhone Duo. In addition to being the largest display on an iPhone, it's also engineered to be the most crisp and clear, with reduced glare.

Also, the small FaceTime camera that constantly lives at the top of your screen is hidden until you need it, resulting in an uninterrupted viewing experience right from your phone.

If you're always excited about the new iPhone launch for the advanced camera features, this one doesn't disappoint. Smart Take senses when everyone is ready and takes a photo automatically.

When fully open, the subject can see themselves on the display as you take the photo, giving them a preview and allowing them to adjust accordingly.

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In the same way, when photographing little ones, a fun graphic plays on the screen, prompting kids to look and smile at the camera.

And finally, when FaceTiming friends, those on both sides of the camera can see one another and join the call.

Another benefit of the folding screen is the split-screen ability, which lets you view multiple apps side by side and move images and files between them as needed.

This iPhone also has greater memory bandwidth and Apple's first dual-battery system, which means longer time between charges.

Siri and Apple Intelligence are built into the iPhone Duo. They can help answer questions, brainstorm solutions, find personal photos in your collection, take action in your apps and so much more.

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The iPhone Duo is available today. Buy it through T-Mobile for $0 upfront when you bring your existing number and enroll in the Experience Beyond plan. Choose from two colors: Night Sky or Star White.

Also, the price will vary depending on the storage. Choose between 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB of storage.

You can also pay in full or in monthly installments.

New customers can switch to T-Mobile when buying the new iPhone, while existing customers can buy the iPhone Duo and add it to their phone plan.

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The State Department told Fox News Digital that President Donald Trump's views on France are "spot on" after French President Emmanuel Macron criticized foreign leaders for making "unacceptable and stupid comments" about the protests rocking the European country.

Speaking at a midterms rally on Monday, Trump said that "the migrants have taken over France" and that the country should close its borders following a weekend of anti-government demonstrations that evolved into rioting and looting. He added that France, a "once great nation," is "being conquered, looted and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists and communists who hate Christianity" and "the Western civilization itself."

Macron then claimed Wednesday that "there was foreign manipulation of information" following the protests, including AI-generated images that showed scenes that never happened in France, which gave way to "unacceptable and stupid comments from many people including foreign leaders." Macron said he was referring to Trump, "among others," and also mentioned, "We’ve had people claiming that we were invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists, which is completely false," the Associated Press reported.

When asked for a reaction to Macron's remarks, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott told Fox News Digital that Trump "is on point as he is consistently on point."

"He has been clear about the dangers of mass migration for years, especially since the beginning of this administration, but certainly long beforehand as well. The president has secured the border on day one when it comes to the United States of America," Pigott said. "But we've also been clear from the State Department's perspective that we are going to oppose international institutions, for example, that seek to impose an agenda upon sovereign nations to encourage mass migration.

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"Mass migration is inherently destabilizing. It is inherently destabilizing. It is something that we don't believe solves problems, but actually creates problems. And this is something the president has raised time and time again. He's raised it in reaction to these recent protests," Pigott added.

"He's also raised it directly to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly. Two years in a row raising this issue, calling for an end to the destructive policies of illegal amassed migration. Illegal amassed migration that, by the way, only helps criminal cartel groups. That's something we see in our own hemisphere, for example," Pigott continued. "The fact that cartel groups have traveled along these migration pathways. So the president is spot on, he's bringing attention to this issue, he is taking action to address this issue and from the State Department's perspective, we have also taken concrete action to end the era of mass migration."

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The Louvre and other major museums in Paris will be closed on Saturday as more protests are scheduled in the French capital, according to the AP. also reported that businesses in central Paris have started boarding up their windows over concerns of violence.

French officials said more than 3,000 shops were looted and some 2,500 people were taken into police custody in connection to last weekend's nationwide protests.

"One of things that we really stress to Americans is that when they're traveling abroad, if they could please register for the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP). That program lets you tell us which countries you're going to so that we can provide real-time information to Americans in the country that have registered," Pigott told Fox News Digital.

"Speaking generally when it comes to Americans that need assistance, we have personnel across the world at the State Department at embassies and consulates that are working 24/7 to help the American people. If you have an issue when you're abroad, please contact the embassy or consulate," he added. "There are people that are there to help you that can provide information. Everything from a lost passport to responses to a security situation, that is something that is hugely important and a huge factor for the State Department."

Kerr is a longtime investigative producer at Raleigh-based WRAL and was among three station employees honored with a regional Emmy Award in 2016 for a report titled "Swatting," Capitol Broadcasting, the station's parent company, announced at the time.

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Following his arrest, a Wake County magistrate initially ordered Kerr held without release under North Carolina's domestic violence pretrial release law.

A separate order issued Oct. 21 barred him from contacting Loveland and required him to comply with the existing protective order.

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The order also prohibited Kerr from coming within 100 yards of the alleged victim or locations covered by the restrictions.

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Kerr remains listed as being held without bond on a felony stalking charge, Wake County jail records reviewed by Fox News Digital show.

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He is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 6.

WRAL previously reported on Kerr's arrest and the protective order obtained by his former wife. Fox News Digital reached out to the station for additional comment on Kerr's current employment status but did not receive a response.

An attorney who represented Loveland in her divorce proceedings was also contacted for comment, while an attorney representing Kerr in the criminal case could not immediately be identified.

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FREMONT, Neb. — If Democrats are able to gain control of the House of Representatives, one relationship between the top two lawmakers on both sides of Congress could define the remainder of President Donald Trump's time in office.

If that’s the outcome on Election Night, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., would have to work with the Democratic leader who rises in the House, and that is expected to be House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who has led Democrats in the lower chamber since 2023.

But Thune, in an interview with Fox News Digital on the campaign trail in Nebraska, remained confident that wouldn’t be the outcome.

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"Well, I mean, I think obviously that's an entirely different dynamic," Thune said. "You've got a situation with divided government and that creates a different incentive structure in terms of if you want to be able to get things done, but I don't assume for a minute that's going to happen."

"I still think that when push comes to shove and people look at the choices in front of them that we have a really good shot at hanging on both the House and the Senate," he continued.

Election forecasters predict that the Senate could stay in Republican control, though seven total races are considered toss-ups by the Cook Political Report. Republicans’ chances of holding onto power in the House, however, are murkier, given that dozens of battleground seats are in play that have shifted favorably toward Democrats.

The GOP has had a grip on the lower chamber since 2022, when it flipped the House during former President Joe Biden’s presidency. But a deeply unpopular Trump, whose approval ratings have dipped to historic lows, and continued economic pressures could contribute to Democrats regaining power.

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Jeffries’ office did not respond to an inquiry from Fox News Digital asking whether he could work with Thune if both won their respective leadership spots.

There has been no love lost between the two men during this congressional term so far, with each sharply criticizing the other during key legislative fights.

Thune blasted Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., earlier this year as talks began to break down over funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The top Republican accused both of being "afraid of their shadows," and being controlled by their left flank.

That prompted Jeffries to retort to reporters that it was Thune who was "scared of his own shadow" during the partisan standoff. During the 2025 government shutdown, Jeffries accused Thune of "trying to bluff his way into an agreement" on federal spending.

Congress is no stranger to a divided government, either. From 2023 to early 2025, Republicans controlled the House and Democrats held a razor-thin majority in the Senate.

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During that time, according to data collected by the Pew Research Center, the split Congress produced 106 laws. This version of Congress has so far produced 121 laws, with some major legislative action happening, like the "big, beautiful bill" and a major housing affordability package, passing between historically long government shutdowns.

Thune is laser-focused on keeping the GOP’s control of the Senate, which was under Democratic control until 2024, when Trump and Republicans clinched a trifecta in Washington, D.C.

He’s crisscrossed the country for the last several weeks of the homestretch heading into the election on Nov. 3, boosting candidates in competitive races that could determine the balance of power in the Senate.

Republican control of the upper chamber, he contended, would be vital to continuing key chunks of Trump’s agenda, including confirming his judicial and other executive branch nominations.

"So if you want to see the country succeed and move forward, we've got to have a majority in the U.S. Senate to work with this president," Thune said. "Hopefully with a majority in the House as well, but I am very committed to doing whatever I can in the next couple of weeks getting around the country on behalf of our candidates to ensure that we have that majority in the Senate."

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At a recent meeting of the board that oversees the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center Research Hospital, chair Jack Leslie opened with cheerful introductions and gregarious chatter—then diverted from the agenda of the regularly scheduled meeting. He spent the next six minutes delivering a pointed rebuke of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, warning that his anti-vaccine activities could tarnish the venerable hospital, often called the "house of hope" for patients with rare conditions or those who have exhausted all other options.

Leslie took issue with a recent stunt Kennedy had pulled at the hospital, which involved making a surprise appearance for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open his signature vaccine injury clinic. The ceremony included a panel with people claiming to have been injured by vaccines. They sat behind placards reading "vaccine injured" and spoke with Kennedy and other high-ranking Trump administration officials.

Leslie prefaced his comments by noting that some might prefer he not speak out against Kennedy's efforts. "But I think that that would be a failing as an advisory board if we were silent," he said. Leslie also noted that he has no concerns about studying potential injuries from vaccines. "Serious reactions are rare, but real," he said, and people who believe they've been injured should "be taken seriously."

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The Pittsburgh Steelers are canceling events left in right in France even as plans for Sunday's regular-season game against the New Orleans Saints remains on track.

The Steelers arrived in the country on Friday morning after a Thursday evening flight from Western Pennsylvania.

The plan was for the team to go from the airport to a practice, but that never happened. Practice was instead canceled.

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And, no, it wasn't because of the civil unrest that has been in the news for a couple of weeks. It was that darn French wind.

"We had two plans coming in," Steelers coach Mike McCarthy told reporters on Friday. "Just really wanted to activate the players after the long flight, just based off the communication with the weather, and just in reality of the timing too.

"We had to make the decision before we landed just to put it together. So, but frankly, driving by it, I wish we would have stopped. But this is part of our plan, so we thought it'd be definitely activating."

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Winds in the area were reported at a steady 20 mph so one might understand the team's decision not to trek over to practice. And no civil unrest has been reported in the area regardless of that being a problem in past days. It's a problem McCarthy says is on his mind.

"Oh, definitely," he said. "It's my responsibility to always be aware of anything that surrounds our football team, so definitely in tune. I think the NFL, the local government and everybody involved have done an excellent job communicating.

"We're very confident in our experience here is going to be very positive."

The Steelers on Thursday canceled their Fan House event for fans in Paris because of the events of past days.

The team released a statement to OutKick about that cancellation.

"We are honored to play in the first-ever regular season NFL game in France.

"The NFL, as they do for every game, including international games, is working closely with local authorities and partners on all operational and security matters. As stated by the NFL, there have been no disruptions or impacts at League sites.

"As a precautionary measure, the Steelers designated bar that had been planned in Bastille – an area that has experienced recent disruptions – will not proceed.

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"We continue to look forward to the game versus the Saints this Sunday at the Stade de France."

The Saints have so far experienced no operational setbacks that have been reported. And the Steelers hope they can also get on track and on schedule after Friday.

"We just arrived, so we're right on schedule so far," McCarthy said with a laugh.

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Capitol Hill is about to embark on a biennial game of musical chairs.

Everyone needs to find a seat when the music stops. Those who don’t are out.

There are four sets of leadership elections pending in Congress over the next few weeks. House Republicans and Democrats will pick their top leaders. The same with Senate Republicans and Democrats. The entire House must elect a speaker when the new Congress convenes on Jan. 3. The full Senate chooses the majority leader. That’s decided individually by the majority party in the Senate.

We anticipate a scramble for leadership positions in the days following the election, depending on which party captures the majority of each body for the new Congress.

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Let’s start with House Republicans.

If Republicans maintain control of the House, the GOP will likely maintain its current leadership team of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn. However, if the GOP loses control of the House, recriminations — and an epic game of vicious political musical chairs likely commences.

The reason? In the minority, a party only has two top leadership positions compared to three in the majority. Will Johnson slide to minority leader? Does he want that slot? Does President Donald Trump want him in that position? Or someone else?

Regardless, whoever Trump wants as the top House Republican is the one who gets that slot in the new Congress.

Would Scalise become minority leader? Would he slide to minority whip? Where does Emmer fit in here? Could Emmer become the top House GOPer?

Then there is Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

It’s clear that Jordan wants to become the top Republican in the House. He’s campaigned for Republican candidates and members for months and has raised money on the GOP’s behalf for years. It’s unclear if Jordan might be in a race against Johnson or any of the others soon.

Keep in mind that Scalise, Emmer and Jordan all lost bids to become speaker when the House dismissed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in the fall of 2023. In fact, Jordan lost multiple floor votes for speaker before the House Republican Conference nixed him as the GOP nominee.

In the interim, Jordan has worked to build bridges among Republicans who opposed him three years ago. The Ohio Republican also remains a close ally of Trump. Jordan also maintains strong ties to the conservative House Freedom Caucus.

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The question is what rank-and-file Republicans want to do if they find themselves in the minority? Some might prefer a wholesale set of changes among the GOP leadership team. But it will come down to musical chairs. And somebody — if not several somebodies — probably lack a seat when the music stops.

For the Democrats, their situation is easier. Let’s say Democrats do win control of the House. Yes, the Democratic Socialists of America and some possible members have reservations about promoting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., to become speaker of the House. But it’s hard to see that Democrats wouldn’t tap him as the first Black speaker in American history. House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., would matriculate to majority leader. House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., would likely become majority whip.

However, if Democrats don’t win the House, would their top leaders remain in place? Unclear. Democrats have established high expectations. So one can envision a scenario where rank-and-file Democrats are so exercised about a midterm loss that they call for some new leaders if Democrats fail to flip the House in such a toxic political environment for Republicans.

Then, there’s the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., does not wield the same political currency with Trump as Johnson. The president has started to make demands of the Senate schedule or what he wants passed. The South Dakota Republican has resisted many of those entreaties. But what happens if Republicans lose control of the Senate?

Many Senate Republicans are apoplectic at how the president treated Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who formerly served as Senate GOP whip. They will rage if the president calls for the dismissal of Thune — in the minority but especially the majority. So far, Trump has kept things in check and not expressed direct displeasure with Thune personally. But one wonders how long that would continue. Especially considering what the president said about former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. – who ushered three Supreme Court nominees to confirmation under dramatic circumstances.

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Who could step into a possible Senate GOP leadership void?

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., is the obvious choice. Barrasso appears closer to the president than Thune — and remains airtight when given the opportunity to criticize Trump. That could work in Barrasso’s favor if there’s an opening.

But leadership elections are always about opportunities. And sometimes those figures with certain bona fides have too much baggage from being on the job for a while. Here are the names to watch if there’s a push for changes inside the GOP leadership ranks: Sens. Katie Britt, R-Ala., John Kennedy, R-La., and Rick Scott, R-Fla.

A former Senate aide, Britt has a solid "inside game" and works well with the administration. Kennedy’s folksy manner makes him a darling of TV appearances. He also spent lots of time on the road campaigning for Senate Republican candidates. Scott ran for majority leader two years ago and lost to Thune and Cornyn in the first round.

Then there are Senate Democrats.

Some have lobbed gobs of criticism at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. His age. His style of politics seems archaic to some. But it’s hard to argue with success. Schumer likely becomes majority leader if Democrats flip the Senate. But things could change if Democrats fail to gain control of the body. Political observers don’t think Democrats have as good a chance at flipping the Senate as the House. So it’s not a done deal that Democrats will want new leadership if Democrats fail to gain control.

The one "known" is the pending candidacy of Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, to succeed retiring Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill. However, one could envision a scenario where Schatz becomes the top Senate Democrat if Schumer departs. Like Britt, Schatz is an intense internal operator and understands the subtleties of the Democratic Caucus.

Others who may have an interest in a leadership post — if they don’t run for president — include Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.

Booker has credibility for his record-breaking 25-hour speech last year. Murphy appeals to the party as a telegenic spokesperson — and spoke on the floor for nearly 15 hours on gun violence in 2015. Slotkin is a moderate Democrat in a purple state who likes to tangle with the Trump administration — despite picking some of her spots to address the press corps. She’s said that the "old" Senate leadership models are no longer working. Warren commands the support of progressives. And Van Hollen already has the backing of Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

This is a lot to sort out. And it all hinges on the election outcomes. Leadership elections usually take place in mid to late November. It’s possible there could be a delay in leadership elections if it takes a while to sort out which party controls which body of Congress.

But the music is already playing. And everyone is jockeying for a seat because the music is about to stop.

The New York Knicks organization sent employees a phishing email promising free championship rings in a test of its staff's ability to detect scams, The New York Times reported yesterday. “Congratulations, your Employee Championship Ring is here,” the email sent in late September said, instructing employees to click a link to make a selection from two ring designs.

Madison Square Garden employees who clicked that link "were forced to attend a mandatory cybersecurity class to help satisfy some of [owner James] Dolan’s growing cybersecurity concerns," the report said, citing team sources. Dolan is the owner of the Knicks, the New York Rangers, and Madison Square Garden.

It's common for corporations to send phishing emails to find out which employees don't pay attention to clues that an email is a scam. A cybersecurity-test email often appears to be from the company itself but includes telltale signs of phishing. For example, Ars Technica owner Condé Nast sends phishing-test messages from email addresses with a misspelled domain, "condenest.com."

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"I was scared, and I was a people pleaser," she admitted.

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The actress said Toback later made disparaging remarks about her appearance, including comments about her hips.

"How dare you? Like, how are you going to make someone feel bad?" Blair recalled thinking.

She also described an alleged threat that she said prevented her from speaking publicly about the experience for years.

"He said, 'You know, if you ever tell a soul, I'll gouge your eyes out with a Bic pen.' And I believed it and I kept quiet."

Blair's allegations were among those examined in a 2017 Los Angeles Times investigation by reporter Glenn Whipp, which initially detailed sexual harassment accusations from 38 women against Toback.

The women described encounters in which the filmmaker allegedly used promises of acting opportunities to initiate sexually inappropriate interactions.

Blair was initially an anonymous source in the investigation. As additional women came forward, the number of accusers grew to more than 300, according to subsequent reporting by the Los Angeles Times.

Blair said she ultimately decided to publicly identify herself after learning that Toback had disputed the women's accounts.

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"When I found out he called all these women liars ... I was like, oh no, I can't stand for that," Blair told McCarthy.

"I will no longer be anonymous because he's not going to do that."

In October 2017, Blair and fellow actress Rachel McAdams publicly detailed their allegations against Toback in a Vanity Fair interview.

Toback denied the sexual misconduct allegations reported by the Los Angeles Times at the time, saying he either had not met the women or did not recall their encounters.

Reflecting on the experience years later, Blair expressed anger about the treatment she said she endured.

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"It was all awful. It was so upsetting and awful," she said.

Blair also offered a message to other women who might face similar pressure in the entertainment industry: "You don't have to do it. You don't have to do it."

Earlier this month, Blair — who revealed publicly in 2018 that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis — was arrested and arraigned on two counts of second-degree assault stemming from accusations that she assaulted a nurse and a police officer after an incident involving crew members aboard a Delta Air Lines flight to New York City. Blair pleaded not guilty. 

The judge set bail at $20,000 cash/$60,000 bond/ $60,000 partially secured bond. She's expected in court in January 2027.

Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright contributed to this post.

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Richardson, who reportedly complied with officers, allegedly admitted to police when asked that he did smoke marijuana inside the car to avoid smoking in front of his children and that there was a small amount of the substance in the vehicle at the time of the stop.

A spokesperson for the department confirmed to OutKick that Richardson was issued a summons to appear in court for possession of marijuana as a result of a traffic stop.

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According to FOX59, Richardson was briefly placed in cuffs as an officer searched his vehicle where a small Mason jar containing a substance believed to be marijuana and an opened bag of THC-infused gummies was found. He was issued a citation.

Online records obtained by OutKick confirmed the charge. Richardson’s initial court date for Dec. 9 was canceled and a bench trail was set for early next year.

The Colts said in a statement, "We are aware of the situation involving Anthony Richardson and are currently gathering additional information. We will have no further comment at this time."

The charge follows a difficult week for Richardson that began with the firing of general manager Chris Ballard.

"He believed in me enough to have me here, and I'm forever grateful for that," Richardson told reporters Wednesday.

"I'm trying to do my part and not make him feel like he made the wrong decision. So I'm just trying to keep getting better every week and am waiting on my opportunity."

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Gamers still hoping against hope for a true follow-up to Half-Life 2 (after so, so many years) may remember last year's flurry of speculation that Half-Life 3 was finally nearing completion. Amid all those rumors, though, we never got any official sign from anyone inside Valve that a Half-Life project was currently in development.

That changed this week thanks to an apparent slip-up during a panel at GameSoundCon, an industry conference devoted to "the art, technology, and business of game audio." In a panel devoted to Valve's use of open audio engines (captured in this Vimeo clip), Valve composer and audio artist Mike Morasky let an interesting string of three letters slip while talking about the way the company implements high dynamic range (HDR) audio:

Our HDR system is basically that's one of the three pieces that come together to make an HDR that you can easily optimize. And in fact, I think Deadlock has their own version of HDR. HLX has its own version, so on and so forth [emphasis added].

"HLX," of course, has been widely reported as the internal code name for Valve's next Half-Life project. The codename has shown up in Valve engine code since at least 2024, but it has never been referenced in public by a Valve employee until now (though Morasky was responsible for a close call in an interview last year).

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