Resurfaced video of Matt Rosendale reveals GOP divide in potential Montana Senate primary

A clip of likely Senate candidate Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., supporting DACA policies resurfaced over the weekend, garnering mixed reactions from Republicans on social media.

Montana's Republican Senate race is expected to heat up soon with Rosendale considering a primary run against former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, who is backed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), for the nomination. Amid talk of a likely competition between the two, Republican voters and individuals close to former President Donald Trump's campaign appear to already be taking sides in the potential primary race.

During a 2018 Montana Senate debate, Rosendale was asked if the United States should deport all illegal immigrants in America.

"I don't think it's feasible to say we're going to deport all of the illegal immigrants that are here," Rosendale said, adding that he believes minors who were brought here without consent should be given "a path with which they can become citizens."

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Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an immigration policy that allows migrants who were brought into the U.S. as minors to be given a pathway to citizenship, has been controversial among the GOP base. Trump tried to terminate the program during his presidency, but the Supreme Court ruled that his decision violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

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As several million illegal migrants have crossed the southern border during the Biden administration, the issue of immigration is likely to play a pivotal role in nationwide elections.

Kaelan Dorr, who served in the Trump administration, posted the initial flashback clip and bashed Rosendale for the "bombshell" comment. Dorr wrote that Rosendale "opposed deporting illegals," after the GOP lawmaker stated that he supported a pathway to citizenship for specifically migrant minors. 

The clip of the comment, posted on X, revealed the divide between the GOP in a potential Montana Senate primary race.

"If you’re a ‘Republican’ who advocates for amnesty you are most definitely not a MAGA-Republican," Alex Bruesewitz, a political consultant and close ally of former President Trump, said in a repost of the clip. "I’m glad the posers are all being exposed this year."

"#Nobodycares Shanghai Sheehy is still a warmongerer & a RINO," Caroline Wren, a political operative with ties to Trump world, responded to the video, blasting Sheehy.

Ryan Girdusky, the founder of the 1776 Project PAC, posted on social media that Dorr's characterization of Rosendale is "literally horse----" and said Rosendale made the comments after "Trump endorsed the DACA Amnesty… following the lead of the man that Kaelan would never criticize."

"This is a gross smear by cowards and liars," Girdusky added.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who endorsed Trump for the presidency, campaigned with Rosendale over the weekend in Montana. 

"I’m going to campaign for Matt Rosendale because he’s exactly the shock to the system the Senate needs. Also, I hear Montana is lovely in January," Gaetz told Fox News Digital of the events.

Rosendale has confirmed he is considering a run for the Montana Senate and has already held several campaign events, but has not yet made any official announcements.

Earlier this month,Rosendale introduced a broad immigration package that includes measures to "shut down the border" and reverse key Biden-era policies that Republicans blame for the historic crisis at the southern border.

The package introduces or reintroduces five bills that would limit entry into the U.S., restore Trump policies that Republicans have credited for slowing illegal immigration and limit the effects of immigration on the U.S.

"Biden is destroying our country with his open border policies," Rosendale said in a statement. "My immigration bills will set the proper mechanisms in place to shut down the border, give DHS the tools to pursue criminals evading border checkpoints, encourage American companies to hire American employees, protect taxpayer dollars by only counting citizens in the census and require those waiting on an immigration hearing to wait in Mexico."

Fox News Digital reached out to the Rosendale campaign for comment. 

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Sky to cut 1,000 jobs in move towards digital

The firm will cut 4% of its workforce, mainly from its engineering arm, as fewer people use satellites.

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California officers killed on duty were not verbally warned that suspect was armed, on drugs

A California police dispatcher failed to tell two officers before they were fatally shot by a convicted gang member that the suspect reportedly had a gun and was under the influence of PCP and methamphetamine, according to a 911 recording.

El Monte Police Department Officer Joseph Santana, 31, and Cpl. Michael Paredes, 42, were ambushed and killed on June 14, 2022, while responding to a report of a stabbing at a motel near Los Angeles. Another officer was wounded. The gunman, Justin Flores, then shot and killed himself.

The 911 call was made by Maria Zepeda, who reported that her daughter had been stabbed by Flores, her 35-year-old husband, at the Siesta Inn, the Southern California News Group reported Saturday.

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During the 7-minute call, Zepeda repeatedly told the dispatcher that Flores had a recent history of violence against her daughter, was under the influence of PCP and meth and was armed and dangerous.

"He’s on PCP. He has a gun!" Zepeda said during the call.

That information, however, was not communicated over the radio by the dispatcher who deployed the three officers to the motel according to the news group.

Investigators said Flores ambushed the officers when they confronted him.

Detective Amber Montenegro, a lead investigator for the case, confirmed the dispatcher did not inform officers over the radio that Flores possibly had a gun and was on drugs. But the information was typed into the computer-aided dispatch system and visible to the responding officers on the computer terminals in their patrol vehicles, Montenegro said.

"They definitely had all the information in their boxes before they arrived, so they were able to look at the call and review it," Montenegro said during a Dec. 2023 briefing with Santana's family.

Montenegro said the dispatcher shouldn't be blamed. "You can’t put any of this all on one person," she said.

Santana's sister, Jessica Santana, said she believes the dispatcher should have relayed the information over the radio.

"It’s just I feel if they would have voiced it, it would have been different," Santana said. "That’s just what gets me, because my brother would still be here."

Flores was on probation for a gun charge at the time of the shooting, which occurred a day after his probation officer requested that he return to court later in the month, according to court records.

El Monte Police Chief Jake Fisher said he stands by the actions of his dispatchers and officers. Fisher told the news group his department is actively working with the Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney’s Office in completing the final steps in the investigation.

"We fully anticipate this finding to hold and that our DA will officially clear all involved officers and close the investigation," Fisher said.

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United Nations high court to determine jurisdiction over Ukraine's case against Russia over genocide claims

The United Nations’ top court will rule on Friday whether it has jurisdiction in a case brought by Ukraine accusing Russia of violating international law by using a false accusation of genocide as the pretext for its 2022 invasion.

Kyiv launched the case at the International Court of Justice days after the start of the full-scale war in 2022, arguing that Russia breached the 1948 Genocide Convention by wrongly claiming Ukraine was committing genocide against Russian-speaking people in the country.

Russia has flouted an order by The Hague-based court to halt hostilities.

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Moscow snubbed hearings over provisional measures in 2022 but filed an objection to the court’s jurisdiction. During hearings in 2023, lawyers for Russia asked the court to toss out the complaint, calling the legal case an "abuse of process."

Ukraine is not claiming Russia is committing genocide but rather arguing that the false accusation of genocide is enough to violate the 1948 treaty. Kyiv told judges the neighboring countries clearly have a dispute as defined by the convention.

The court on Wednesday will rule on a separate case between Russia and Ukraine. In a complaint filed in 2017, Kyiv says Russia began bankrolling rebels in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and has discriminated against Crimea’s multiethnic community after its annexation of the region.

In that case, brought under an anti-discrimination treaty and a terrorism financing convention, Ukraine has asked the court to order Moscow to pay reparations for attacks and crimes in the region. That would include the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which was shot down by Russia-backed rebels on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew.

The International Court of Justice captured world attention in recent weeks with a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. Judges issued provisional measures last week calling on Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in the conflict.

In an interview with The Associated Press last week, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, expressed concern the war in Ukraine was being forgotten. "I think the big difference from last year to this year is that this year, this is not news anymore in the world," he said.

Latest U.N. figures say 10 million people have been displaced by the war in Ukraine, with more than 10,000 people killed and another 19,000 injured.

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Police face probe over Nottingham killer's alleged assaults

Leicestershire Police investigated Valdo Calocane weeks before he killed three people in Nottingham.

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Warriors' Steph Curry rips jersey in frustration after close loss to Lakers

Stephen Curry and LeBron James put on an epic battle Saturday night, but it was the Los Angeles Lakers who got the best of the Golden State Warriors in double overtime, 145-144.

Curry scored a game-high 46 points on 17-of-35 from the field. He made nine 3-pointers. He even put the Warriors up one point with under 5 seconds to play in the second overtime period. But James was fouled with 1.2 seconds left and sunk the go-ahead free-throws.

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The superstar sharpshooter was clearly frustrated as he left the court. Cameras at the Crypto.com Arena caught Curry ripping his jersey in anger as he walked to the locker room.

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Curry expressed frustrations with the officiating as well. The Warriors only shot 16 free throws while the Lakers took 43 free throws.

"You want to be in place where the players decide the game or it's consistent on both ends of what you're calling," he said, via the San Francisco Chronicle. "… There were probably three plays that I was involved in where it was a clear bad call."

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As he talked to reporters after the game, Curry reflected on his rivalry with James.

"Every year we get to do this, the back-and-forth battles, all the Finals runs, to the playoffs last year, after the horn sounded tonight, there was a little laugh of we can't like imagine a scenario where a game like tonight happens, his year, what, 21, and my year 15," Curry said of James. "All the other guys in the league who have been doing it 15-plus years, KD (Kevin Durant), CP (Chris Paul), it's insane.

"You look forward to the battles, but you also appreciate the mutual respect of what it takes to keep doing what you're doing at this level because only a few people know how hard it is. I'm happy to be in that group."

James, who had 36, reflected on the moment as well.

"It’s something I’ll be able to talk about with my grandkids, talk about, me being able to compete with one of the greatest players to ever play the game," James said. "So hopefully I can be cool with my grandkids at that point, for sure."

Golden State dropped its sixth game out of its last eight. The Warriors are starting to slip down the Western Conference standings. They are 19-24 and in 12th place.

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Tyreek Hill fires ‘bonehead’ staffer who Dolphins star says mistakenly filed divorce papers

Shortly after reports that Tyreek Hill and his wife Keeta Vaccaro were heading toward a separation, the NFL star took to social media to push back against any suggestion that a divorce was on the horizon.

Multiple outlets reported that Hill filed a divorce petition in Broward County, Florida, on Monday. Fox News Digital confirmed the petition was filed. 

However, on Tuesday, Hill responded to a report from the Sun Sentinel saying, "[B]oy no the heck we didn’t so don’t put that in the air !!! We are happily married and gone stay that way," he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Later in the week, Hill unveiled further details surrounding the divorce paperwork, saying he "fired" people for what he described as a mistake. 

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Hill says he did not authorize anyone to file divorce papers on his behalf.

"Now a lot of people been in my business lately, me and (Keeta's) business, and I just gotta say that it sucks, a lot of our stuff is public record, but behind closed doors a lot of people got fired too for just doing things without our yes," the Miami Dolphins said during a Twitch live stream.

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Hill then reiterated his decision to terminate the unarmed culprit. 

"It sucks that me and my wife gotta go through that. Like yeah, public records says it and right now we’re in a spot of fixing it. I fired the f---ing bonehead that did that mistake. Now it sucks."

Hill and Vaccaro tied the knot in November 2023 during the Dolphins' bye week. The eight-time Pro Bowler also made it clear that he remains married to Vaccaro.

Hill's year has gotten off to a turbulent start. Aside from the divorce paperwork filing issue, the All-Pro wide out's Florida home caught on fire earlier this month. 

On January 13, Hill and the Dolphins exited the playoffs in the wild-card round for a second consecutive year after the Chiefs handed Miami a 26-7 loss inside a frigid Arrowhead Stadium.

Hill did deliver another standout individual performance in 2023, finishing the season with a NFL-best 1,799 receiving yards. He now has more than 10,000 career receiving yards.

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Maine lawmakers kill bill on gender health care accused of trampling parents rights

Republicans and Democrats on Maine’s judiciary committee voted to kill a bill Thursday that would have allowed minors to travel from out of state to Maine to obtain gender-altering medical procedures and even take custody of minors in "emergency" situations.

Republicans called bill LD 1375 – or "An act to safeguard gender-affirming health care" – "dangerous," while the Democrats who originally supported it admitted the language of the bill needed reworking, according to a report by local outlet CBS-WGME.

Tossed on Thursday, the bill stipulated the state of Maine could allow minors restricted from gender-affirming care in their home state to travel to Maine to receive that care, which it noted includes "Interventions to align the patient's appearance or physical body with the patient's gender identity," and "Interventions to suppress the development of endogenous secondary sex characteristics."

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Further language in the bill would have allowed the government to take "emergency jurisdiction" over any child who has been rendered "unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care" even by their siblings and parents. 

"A court of this State has temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in this State and the child has been abandoned or it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because the child or a sibling or parent of the child is subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse or because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care," the bill's text stated.

Republican Maine State Sen. Lisa Keim told WGME that parents from "around the country have reached out to talk to us about this bill" and expressed their "angst" over it.

She added, "Parents shouldn’t have their rights threatened in this way, and this is a dangerous bill for children."

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State Rep. Rachel Henderson trashed the proposed bill as well, stating to the local media outlet, "This gives the state jurisdiction to effectively come into your home and take your kids based on a medical decision you made for the wellbeing and mental wellbeing of your child."

State Rep. Katrina J. Smith warned about the bill last week in a Fox News Channel interview, stating, "Maine is going to open the doors to this and open the door to kids who meet someone on TikTok, and they get the idea that they need this surgery or hormone replacement therapy, and they're going to grab a bus or someone is going to come pick them up and bring them to Maine and a parent is not going to do a thing about it."

The bill’s Democratic Party sponsor, Rep. Laurie Osher (D-Orno), expressed to WGME this was never the intent, but instead about giving the proper care to individuals. 

She said, "That’s disrespectful to our care providers. Our care providers are trained, we have certification and licensing in Maine, and they only provide the care that’s needed for their patients."

Still, all those voting on the bill found it at fault. Republicans found it dangerous, while Democrats admitted that its language was flawed and needed to be altered. 

Following the vote Thursday, Osher said, "We will make sure that people are protected that our care providers are protected. Today was a moment where we’re not getting that done, but we will get that done."

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'I’m preparing to get bullied' - Mia's final voice note

Schoolgirl Mia Janin's last voice note is released to the BBC as an inquest into her death concludes.

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British man acquitted over London-Spain flight bomb hoax

A judge ruled that Aditya Verma's message, from 2022, about "blowing up" a plane was not a real threat.

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Post Office told robbed postmasters to pay for stolen money

Postmasters tell the BBC the Post Office was ‘not concerned’ about them after they endured armed robberies.

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Saudi Arabia to get first alcohol shop in more than 70 years

The Saudi government plans a store in Riyadh for foreign diplomats - ending decades of prohibition.

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New Wales captain Jenkins 'shaken' by Gatland phone call

Dafydd Jenkins admits he was left "shaking" by the Warren Gatland phone call that asked him to be the new Wales captain for the Six Nations.

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Democrats clash over calls for Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire at California Senate debate

Candidates vying to be the next United States senator from California were divided over support for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war during a debate Monday.

Democratic Reps. Barbara Lee and Katie Porter staked positions to the left of Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Republican Steve Garvey, a former baseball player and political newcomer, with Schiff and Garvey refusing to call for a cease-fire during the FOX 11 debate.

Lee said the Israeli offensive in Gaza, which has claimed thousands of lives, is "counterproductive to Israel's security." 

"The only way Israel is going to be secure is through a permanent cease-fire. The only way that is going to happen is with a political and diplomatic solution," Lee said. 

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Israel went to war against Hamas in response to the Oct. 7 terror attack orchestrated by the Palestinian terrorist group, in which 1,200 Israelis were killed. The Hamas-led Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has claimed Israel has killed more than 25,000 people since the war started, although Hamas does not distinguish between civilian and military casualties, and its reported figures cannot be independently verified.

Referring to the Palestinian casualty count, Lee said Israel's offensive has been "catastrophic" and said "it will never lead to peace for the Israelis nor the Palestinians." 

The topic of Israel highlighted strong differences between the four candidates. Schiff, who has led recent polls, would not call for a cease-fire. He reminded the audience that Hamas did not just murder Israelis but committed "rape and torture." 

"The magnitude of that horror is still shocking to me," he said. "No country, after having been attacked by terrorists like Israel was on October 7, no country could refuse to defend itself. It has a duty to defend itself." 

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After stating it is not "incompatible with human nature" to grieve for losses on both sides, Schiff said Hamas cannot remain in power in Gaza. "They are still holding over 100 hostages, including Americans. I don't know how you can ask any nation to cease-fire when their people are being held by a terrorist organization," he said.

In rebuttal, Lee warned that the Israel-Hamas conflict may "spiral out of control" into a larger regional conflict if there is not an immediate cease-fire. 

"We have to make sure that our national security is also protected," Lee said. "And in fact, as this war escalates, as Arab nations pull back, then what do we have? We do not have a path to Israel's security, nor do we have a path to a Palestinian state." 

Porter, who has also called for a permanent cease-fire, said there are conditions that must be met for the war to end, including the release of all hostages.

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"The parties to this conflict are Israel and Hamas. Cease-fire is not a magic word, you can't just say it and make it so," Porter said. "We have to push as the United States, as a world leader, for us to get to a cease-fire and to avoid another forever-war." 

Garvey, the lone Republican on stage, said it was "naive" to think the United States government can force Israel into a cease-fire. 

"If 9/11 became 9/12, and one of our allies came to us and said, ‘we want you to cease-fire,’ what would we have done? We would have looked at them like, thank you for being our ally, but we must control our destiny and our sovereignty," Garvey said.

California has a blanket primary system where the top two vote-getters in March will advance to a runoff in November's general election. 

The four candidates are looking to fill the seat vacated by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who passed away last year after serving in the Senate for three decades.

Voting in California's primary closes on March 5, with voting centers opening for early in-person voting on Feb. 24. California residents can also vote by mail, with ballot drop-off locations opening on Feb. 6.

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Worthing man running length of Africa halted by visa issue

Russell Cook, nicknamed "Hardest Geezer", says the mission is in doubt over Algerian visa issues.

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Hinkley C nuclear plant costs could soar to £46bn

EDF says final costs could soar by about a third as it faces a delayed completion date.

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China appears to U-turn on 'obsessive' gaming crackdown

The video game regulator had drafted rules which would have limited the time and money spent gaming.

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Grandma busted trying to flee country in FSU professor's murder-for-hire plot could lose lawyer in legal twist

The Florida grandmother charged in a murder-for-hire plot to kill her former son-in-law, Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel, waived a potential conflict of interest her own lawyer has in the case at a hearing Monday.

Attorney Daniel Rashbaum is also representing Donna Adelson's son, Charlie Adelson, a dentist who is serving a life sentence for his role in plotting Markel's 2014 murder.

She waived the potential conflict and her right to obtain outside counsel. But she could still lose her lawyer if he is called as a witness in the case.

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Miami police arrested the 73-year-old Adelson at an airport in November, where she allegedly had a one-way ticket to Vietnam. A prison phone recording of a call between her and her son showed she discussed fleeing to Vietnam, China and Korea to avoid extradition. 

Bodycam video of the arrest released earlier Monday showed her resisting officers' attempt take the cellphone out of her hand before they slapped her in handcuffs in front of her husband, who has not been charged in the murder conspiracy.

"I didn't know there was a warrant," she told officers in the 12-minute video. They allowed her husband to remove and keep her jewelry and other valuables before they escorted her away.

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Florida prosecutors have charged Adelson with first-degree murder and solicitation of murder in Markel's death. He and Adelson's daughter, Wendi Adelson, were involved in a bitter child custody battle at the time of his slaying. The Adelsons also allegedly opposed Markel's desire to raise the children in a kosher household.

Markel died when gunmen ambushed him in his Tallahassee driveway on July 18, 2014. That morning, he dropped his children off at day care and went to the gym. As he returned home, he was on the phone with a charter school representative discussing his children's enrollment when a hitman shot him in the head.

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A neighbor who heard the gunshot rushed over and called 911.

"You need to send an ambulance in a hurry," he told the dispatcher. "He is still alive. He is moving."

First responders arrived 19 minutes later, and Markel was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Three co-conspirators convicted in the case include Charlie Adelson's ex-girlfriend, Katherine Magbanua, and hired guns Luis Rivera and Sigfredo Garcia.

Adelson's next hearing is set for Feb. 12. She has pleaded not guilty.

Fox News' Shona Holagh, Landon Mion and Stephanie Pagones contributed to this report.

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NBC News reporter says Trump campaign stopped him from covering New Hampshire event

NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard said former President Trump's campaign stopped him from covering a New Hampshire event on Sunday – but the campaign said it doesn't "bar reporters based on their reporting" and simply scrapped a network pool. 

Hillyard was serving as a pool reporter representing five television networks, a longstanding practice in which TV news organizations take turns sending a single reporter to cover campaign events when there isn’t space for multiple crews. 

It was NBC’s turn to send a pool reporter to a Trump event on Sunday, but Hillyard notified the other networks "the pool would be cut off for the day" if he was the representative. 

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"Your NBC News pooler has been informed that the pool will no longer travel with and take part in the former president’s OTR stops today before his Rochester rally. Your pooler was told that if he was the designated pooler by NBC News that the pool would be cut off for the day," Hillyard sent to the pool, which includes ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News, along with NBC. 

"After affirming to the campaign that your pooler would attend the events, NBC News was informed at about 2:20pmET that the pool would not be allowed to travel with Trump today," Hillyard wrote. 

The Trump campaign said Hillyard was not banned or barred based on his reporting. 

"We don’t ban or bar reporters based on their reporting," Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital. "Just decided not to do a pool." 

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NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

The Trump campaign sometimes holds events without a network pool. 

The New York Times reported that Hillyard was allowed to cover a different Trump campaign event later in the day on Sunday. 

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While the campaign said his reporting was not the issue, Hillyard has agitated the former president and his allies in the past. 

On Friday, Hillyard briefly sparred with Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., over E. Jean Carroll’s claims Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. Stefanik told Hillyard she didn’t believe Carroll’s claims – which Trump has long denied. A jury found Trump liable last year for sexually abusing Carroll.

Last year, Trump reportedly demanded the NBC News reporter be removed from his plane after objecting to a question about Manhattan DA Alvin Brag’s criminal probe, according to audio obtained by the Washington Post.

Fox News’ Nikolas Lanum and Yael Halon contributed to this report. 

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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson pushes back on 'misinformed hatred' amid outrage over win on women's tour

Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson reacted to the backlash over her victory earlier in the week at a tournament on the NXXT Women’s Pro Golf Tour.

Davidson won the NXXT Women’s Classic in a playoff. Davidson wrote on Instagram the win put her in first place in the race to earn an Epson Tour exemption. The Epson Tour is the developmental tour of the LPGA Tour. The top 10 players of the Epson Tour graduate to the LPGA Tour.

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Amid the backlash, Davidson posted on her Instagram Stories about the criticism.

"It’s crazy the amount of misinformed hatred I have received so far today," Davidson wrote. "All of these people (think) I hit it 300 yards or even 280 yards. How about 250 on a good day."

Davidson leads the pack with 1,320 points. Dating back to November, Davidson also has two second-place finishes and has finished in the top 10 in each of the five events she's played.

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According to the LPGA website, more than 600 Epson Tour alumnae have earned LPGA Tour membership since its start in 1999. There are eight events left in NXTT's season, concluding with the Tour Championship at the Adena Golf & Country Club in Ocala, Florida.

Davidson, who was born in Scotland but now lives in Kissimmee, Florida, participated in the Epson Tour Qualifying School in 2022 but failed to qualify for the Epson Tour.

The LPGA Tour removed its "female at birth" requirement in 2010. Davidson began hormone therapy treatments in 2015 and underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2021, Golfweek reported in May 2021. According to the outlet, Davidson last competed as a male at U.S. Open local qualifying in 2015 at Admiral’s Cove in Jupiter, Florida.

On Wednesday, Davidson thanked supporters.

"Most importantly though, thank you to absolutely everyone who has supported me from my fellow competitors to all of you that I may or may not have had the chance to meet yet," Davidson wrote. "Thank you all for helping me wade through any hate and making me feel loved."

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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Norwich: Two of four found dead in house were stabbed - police

Norfolk Police investigating the deaths of four people in Costessey, say two adults died from stab wounds.

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Bills offering Taylor Swift-themed food items for Chiefs playoff clash

The Buffalo Bills will welcome the Kansas City Chiefs to Highmark Stadium Sunday, and Taylor Swift will be on people's minds. 

Swift, who is dating Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce, will have a few food items named after her songs. 

"Bad Blood waffle fries," a two-foot display of waffle fries topped with Buffalo chicken and blue cheese on one half, and the other half topped with BBQ sauce, cole slaw and pickles, will be an option. 

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The "Karma Quesadilla" will also be available for purchase at Highmark Stadium, thanks to Delaware North, the stadium’s food service partner, according to WKBW Buffalo.

"Our culinary team has again designed a great menu for the divisional playoff game this weekend, with several new items for fans as they cheer on the Bills. We had a lot of fun with this week’s menu. adding a few new options that celebrate this incredible rivalry with the Chiefs and their star-studded fans," Delaware North General Manager Andy Altomare said, per WKBW.

While Swift was in attendance for last week's playoff game in Kansas City between the Chiefs and Miami Dolphins, it’s unclear whether the pop star will be traveling to Buffalo for the marquee matchup of the weekend. 

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Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes will be playing in his first playoff road game Sunday as Kansas City looks to get to the AFC championship game for the sixth straight year. 

"The Bills are a great challenge," Mahomes said, per ESPN. "I think everybody understands that they've gotten my number a lot of times. We've been lucky enough to get them in the playoffs, but they beat us earlier this year. So, we understand that we're going to have to play our best football to win the game, especially at their place, but it's not about ending someone's season for us.

"It's about just advancing, trying to find a way to survive and advance and get to the next round, and whatever that takes this weekend, we're going to try to do and try to go out there and win a football game."

Buffalo defeated Kansas City in Week 14 of the 2023 regular season, and the Bills are riding a six-game winning streak into Sunday’s matchup. 

"They've been at the top of the mountain, they know what it takes to get there," Allen said after Wednesday's walk-through practice, per the Bills’ website. "We've yet to do that. As a competitor, as a player, to be in a situation like this is something that you dream about."

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Harvard responds to Congress, details 'rigor' reviewing plagiarism allegations against Claudine Gay

Harvard University has provided insight into how it conducted a plagiarism review of its former president and defended its actions in an eight-page summary submitted to Congress on Friday.

Ultimately, the university determined that former Harvard President Claudine Gay's "conduct was not reckless nor intentional," and did not rise to the level of "research misconduct." The summary aimed to show Congress the "rigor" of Harvard's review.

In addressing the claims of plagiarism made against Gay, the school told the House Committee on Education and the Workforce that the "allegations arose in a time of unprecedented events and tension on campus and globally."

"We worked to address relevant questions in a timely, fair, and diligent manner. We understand and acknowledge that many viewed our efforts as insufficiently transparent, raising questions regarding our process and standard of review," the school added.

Gay, who resigned earlier this month after taking on the role as president of the university last July, was accused last October of plagiarizing several passages in published academic articles stretching back to the 1990s. Following the initial claims, other allegations of plagiarism were made against Gay in subsequent weeks.

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Gay's resignation, which was documented in a January 2 letter to members of the Harvard community, came amid a flurry of criticism for how she handled concerns about antisemitism on Harvard's campus.

The university's summary detailing its review process came after the House Education and the Workforce committee — the same committee Gay testified before in December — launched an investigation last month into how the school was addressing concerns of antisemitism, as well as how it was handling the allegations of plagiarism against Gay.

Led by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the House committee sent a four-page letter to Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker demanding that the school produce internal documents on allegations of Gay’s plagiarism, disciplinary actions taken against students at the school accused of plagiarism and communications with the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).

In the documents submitted Friday, Harvard noted that it had first begun to review allegations of plagiarism against Gay after the school was contacted by a reporter with the New York Post on October 24. The Post, according to the university, provided Harvard with 25 allegations of plagiarism.

"The university promptly began to assess the allegations and, through counsel, requested additional time from the Post’s legal counsel to review these allegations," the school wrote. "In the course of the next several days, Harvard reviewed and analyzed the relevant excerpts. It also preliminarily assessed how the allegations would likely be considered under the research misconduct standard and reached out to several authors of the works at issue to solicit their reactions, none of whom objected to then-President Gay’s language."

On October 29, five days after the school received word about the initial claims of plagiarism, the Harvard Corporation, the school’s governing board, voted unanimously to initiate a review of the questionable works. Gay requested an independent review the same day, according to the school.

"In order to avoid a real or perceived conflict, it determined that the review should be conducted by individuals who did not ultimately report to then-President Gay," the school wrote.

But the law firm representing Harvard sent a threatening letter to the Post in late October, which dismissed the accusations of plagiarism as "demonstrably false" and stated that her work was "cited and properly credited."

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Four members of the Harvard Corporation — the former presidents of Princeton University and Amherst College, a former California Supreme Court justice and Stanford University faculty member and a partner at the Paul Weiss law firm — were tasked with conducting the review as a subcommittee.

Although the subcommittee reviewing Gay's work delved deeper into her past articles, the research misconduct policy for Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences typically limits reviews to articles published or cited by the author within the past six years.

On November 3, the school said that the subcommittee had "appointed three of the country’s most prominent political scientists" to an independent panel to review three of Gay's allegedly plagiarized works, as well as Harvard's policy regarding academic misconduct. Though the identities of those individuals were not disclosed, the school said the members of the independent panel included "tenured faculty members at prominent research institutions across the country, fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and two . . . former presidents of the American Political Science Association."

A two-page memo sent from the independent panel to the subcommittee on November 16 stated that there was "no doubt" that the articles by Gay "are both sophisticated and original," and that there was "virtually no evidence of intentional claiming of findings that are not President Gay’s." The independent panel did, however, note that Gay had fallen short when it came to adequate citations.

"The Independent Panel identified nine of the 25 allegations presented by the Post as allegations ‘of principal concern,’ which ‘paraphrased or reproduced the language of others without quotation marks and without sufficient and clear crediting of sources,’ failing ‘[o]n occasion’ to ‘provide citations according to the highest established scientific practice,’" the school wrote.

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During a November 20 meeting, members of the independent panel recommended that the subcommittee conduct what the school referred to as a "broader review" of Gay's work. That review involved the use of a software program to locate passages that had "potentially duplicative language," according to the school.

"The Subcommittee concluded that, although many of the allegations were meritless, there were instances that did not adhere to the College Guide. The Subcommittee determined that two articles required corrections," the school told Congress. "One of the required corrections the Subcommittee identified related to an article not reviewed by the Independent Panel. While it required corrections, the Subcommittee determined that then-President Gay’s conduct was not reckless nor intentional and, therefore, did not constitute research misconduct as defined by the FAS Research Misconduct Policy."

Harvard also noted that it had been made aware of additional plagiarism allegations, which included charges against Gay's dissertation, through social media on December 10. However, the subcommittee had not included her dissertation in its initial review. Two days later, on December 12, the subcommittee released a statement in support of Gay and made reference to the corrections she had agreed to make. The board again backed her on December 21 and detailed additional corrections, including ones to her dissertation.

Harvard made clear in the Friday summary of its review that the Harvard Corporation would not be involved in handling further allegations of misconduct against Gay, because she is no longer president.

Following her resignation, Gay returned to the Harvard faculty. Issues that arise with faculty are typically reviewed by a university committee, which reports to the university president.

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Great Yarmouth murder arrest after woman's body found in house

Norfolk Police has referred itself to the independent watchdog due to "previous contact" prior to the death.

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Barbara Lee claims White man at Capitol tried to block her from entering elevator, accused her of theft

Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., claimed on Thursday that a racist White man at the Capitol once attempted to prevent her from entering the members' elevator and accused her of stealing her membership pin.

Lee, who is running for the U.S. Senate in California, was asked on CNN about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's assertion that the United States has "never been a racist country."

Lee rebuked Haley and said racism was embedded in the "DNA" of America. She then suggested that "personal racism" is also a problem that Haley doesn't understand, offering up a story to support her point.

While she did not specify a date or time, Lee alleged she was walking from the House Office Building to the Capitol Building when she was stopped by a White man, who told her she could not enter the members' elevator.

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"He blocked me from getting into the elevator and told me I was not a member of Congress and it was for members only. I said, 'Sir, I'm a member of Congress,' and I showed him my pin," she said.

Lee alleged the man then asked whose pin she had stolen. 

"This is an example of what personal racism is and how people of color constantly have to deal with this each and every day," she told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, who appeared surprised by the story. "But systemic racism is in the policies of this country and just look at what they're trying to do in terms of eliminating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. They're trying to not allow for an equal and level playing field."

She also said that Haley was "clueless" about U.S. racism and her position was "dangerous." 

Lee and Capitol Hill police and security did not return Fox News Digital's request for comment. 

Lee has served in the House of Representatives since 1998, making her one of the longest-tenured members in Congress. She is currently competing with fellow California Democrats Adam Schiff and Katie Porter for the seat once held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. 

Current Sen. Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., was appointed to the seat after Feinstein's death last year but is not running in 2024.

Haley has faced substantial backlash for her comment on racism in America. 

"We're not a racist country, Brian. We've never been a racist country," Haley told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Tuesday. "Our goal is to make sure that today is better than yesterday. Are we perfect? No. But our goal is to always make sure we try and be more perfect every day that we can."

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She later clarified her comments in a statement to CNN, stating that the U.S. "has always had racism" but that America "has never been a racist country."

Vice President Kamala Harris was asked about Haley's claim on ABC's "The View" and said it was "unfortunate" that some people would "deny fact, or overlook it."

"I think we all would agree that while it is part of our past, and that we see vestiges of it today, we should also be committed collectively to not letting it define the future of our country," Harris said. 

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DPD error caused chatbot to swear at customer

The parcel delivery firm says the mistake was a result of a system update, which has been disabled.

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Saltburn director Emerald Fennell on Bafta nominations and infamous bathtub scene

Emerald Fennell's film has received five Bafta Award nominations and become an internet sensation.

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Blinken delayed in Switzerland after Boeing jet suffers 'mechanical issue,' new plane en route

The State Department says the Air Force is sending a replacement plane to Switzerland to bring Secretary of State Antony Blinken home Wednesday after the aircraft he was traveling in was unable to take off due to a "mechanical issue."

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the incident happened after Blinken left Davos, where he was attending the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. 

"There's a mechanical issue. I don't know the nature of the mechanical issue, but he is in Zurich. He was scheduled to fly back from Zurich," Miller said. "The Air Force has a replacement plane inbound. We expect him to be back still tonight. But several hours later than originally planned."

According to Bloomberg, the aircraft, a modified Boeing 737, suffered a critical error after an oxygen leak was detected and it was not immediately fixable. The aircraft was subsequently deemed unsafe to fly.

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The update came hours after Blinken spoke during a Davos panel, where he called for stability in the Middle East and said the region was at "an inflection point" that requires hard decisions. He also projected confidence that a resolution could be made to end the Israel-Hamas war.

"We’re in the midst of what is human tragedy in so many ways in the Middle East right now — for the Israelis and Palestinians alike," Blinken said.

During his remarks, he reiterated the need for a "pathway to a Palestinian state" and said Israel would not "get genuine security absent that."

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"The problem is getting from here to there, and of course, it requires very difficult, challenging decisions. It requires a mindset that is open to that perspective," Blinken said.

Blinken said Israelis would need to decide on their leadership and direction, saying it's up to them whether the country can "seize the opportunity that we believe is there."

Prior to the Davos trip, Blinken spent a weeklong trip to the Middle East aimed at calming tensions across the region.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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What is behind the TikTok thirst for Stanley water cups?

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Frederik X: Danish king's surprise book set to become bestseller

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Isabel dos Santos: Angolan billionaire rejects fresh criminal charges

Angola's public prosecutor accuses Ms Dos Santos, the former president's child, of 12 crimes.

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Short questions with Dana Perino for Ross Rayburn

For a number of months now, I’ve enjoyed checking in with some of your favorite Fox personalities to learn more about who they are behind the scenes. 

But as you may recall, I did promise to throw in some surprise appearances here and there!

This week I wanted to introduce you to Ross Rayburn, a Peloton instructor and scholar of physical healing.

Ross has traveled to more than 30 countries to teach — and loves connecting people with diverse backgrounds through yoga. In his classes, he invites people "to tap into their authentic selves through movement, exploring the strength of the human spirit along the way," as he notes in his bio.

He's also the author of a new book, "Turning Inward: The Practice of Introversion for a Calm, Joyful, Authentic Life" (Jan. 9, 2024, Hachette Go). 

Read on to learn more about him and find out his terrific insights into life, yoga, meditation and wellness.

(You can also listen to my interview with him here!) 

RR: It used to be Whataburger, but now I’m mostly vegetarian/pesca … so my favorite food is hummus. 

But shoutout to Blue Bell. I just don’t like sweets.

RR: @dadsaysjokes.

RR: It’s never too late. When you remember, you remember. 

And the good news is, you start to remember sooner and sometimes so soon it’s before.

RR: There’s a lot there.

Let me say it this way: Thoughts cannot be stopped. Even moments of slow, refined, apparent stillness are noticed (thus thought about).

So aim for proximity to and recurrence of apparent stillness. And re: social media, it’s destructive if it’s harmful. 

If, however, your relationship with it is mindful and you use it when it affirms you, relaxes you or just gives you an escape — then just note that time as useful and mindful and use that later when you need it; and note the times when it’s harmful and try to do less of that.

Ultimately, see if this method gives you agency and power. 

RR: Read my book.

RR: Quick answer is that everyone must skeptically authenticate it for themselves. 

RR: Forgive the avoidance, but this is such a good question I’d refer to the intro chapter and then all of "Turning Inward."

RR: I’d choose two: Jesus and Buddha. And it would be to talk after class about how they think we’re doing today. 

RR: Dogs, of course.

RR: I would have so many choices … but if I had to choose three: Tunde Oyeneyin (force of nature), Matt Wilpers (problem solver) and Adrian Williams (for more reasons to list in short questions).

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For her interview with Gillian Turner, click here. 

For her interview with Madison Alworth, click here. 

For her interview with Nate Foy, click here.

For her interview with Laura Ingraham, click here. 

For her interview with five New York FOX reporters, click here. 

For her interview with Katie Pavlich, click here.

For her interview with Guy Benson, click here. 

For her interview with Pete Hegseth, click here. 

For her interview with Sandra Smith, click here. 

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For her interview with Abby Hornacek, click here. 

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For her interview with Jimmy Failla, click here. 

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For her interview with Lawrence Jones, click here. 

For her interview with Dr. Arash Akhavan, click here. 

For her interview with Martha MacCallum, click here. 

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For her interview with Kayleigh McEnany, click here.

For her interview with Harold Ford Jr., click here. 

For her interview with Shannon Bream, click here. 

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For her interview with Geraldo Rivera, click here. 

For her interview with Clay Travis, click here.

For her interview with Bill Hemmer, click here. 

For her interview with Greg Gutfeld, click here. 

For her interview with Benjamin Hall, click here. 

For her interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro, click here.

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Propeller plane crashed into water in California after flying erratically: report

A plane that crashed into the Pacific Ocean in Half Moon Bay, California, Sunday evening has been found, reports say.

Crews are inspecting part of the wreckage that was found upside down in the water, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office told KGO-TV. 

The crash happened around 7:15 p.m. local time near Moss Beach Distillery, authorities said.

Sheriff's office Sgt. Philip Hallworth told KRON that evidence shows a plane went into the water after it was flying erratically and that the aircraft was found in the water. Search and rescue teams responded to the crash.

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There was no immediate information about the number of people on board the plane, possible survivors or the type of aircraft involved in the crash.

The crash happened a few miles away from the Half Moon Bay Airport on Cabrillo Highway, Hallworth said.

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The U.S. Coast Guard, California Highway Patrol and fire crews are also responding to the crash.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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5-year Dolphins rebuild that was supposed to deliver championships hasn't brought playoff wins

So, Laremy Tunsil won a division title before the Miami Dolphins did. He played a home playoff game before the Dolphins did. And he won a postseason game before his former club.

Let that sink in for a moment.

The man the Dolphins used as the signature trade piece in a grand rebuild that started in 2019 and was supposed to make Miami a consistent Super Bowl contender, is looking at Dolphins through a rearview mirror now.

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Because for all the seductive draft picks the Dolphins got for Tunsil and turned into other shiny talent pieces, Tunsil remains in this postseason. And the Dolphins are basically in the same spot they were back in 2019 when the rebuild began.

They’re still looking for their first playoff victory since December 2000, and their first division championship since 2008, which is before Stephen Ross assumed full ownership.

So the rebuild has not delivered as promised.

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That should be painfully apparent to Dolphins ownership, the front office, fans and everyone with eyes following Saturday night’s 26-7 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the NFL wild-card round.

The Dolphins, so entertaining and explosive against sub-.500 teams this year, ran into another team with a winning record and lost. Again.

The Dolphins finish their season with a 1-6 record in games against teams with winning records. They were 10-1 against teams with losing records.

That means the rebuild has so far led to the construction of the NFL’s mightiest cream puff.

The league’s most beautiful mirage.

Football’s tallest basement.

"We came here to win, and it didn’t happen. So we fell short of our goals," coach Mike McDaniel said after the loss to the Chiefs. "We had very strong expectations of ourselves. One of the reasons a lot of people don’t put themselves out there and hold those expectations is because, when you fall short from them, it’s emotional and gut-wrenching.

"We lost a game. We were 100% all in fearlessly, feeling as though we’d win. But hats off to the Kansas City Chiefs. They beat us, outplayed us, out-coached us, all those things… but tonight’s about tonight and it hurts."

So the franchise that’s been breaking people’s heart for 23 winless postseasons hurts now. Well, boo-hoo, fellas. Join the club.

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What people not drawing a check from owner Ross care about is whether next January will be different. That’s all that matters.

The conga dances amid 70-point outbursts against sub-.500 teams were nice in September. But my guess is Miami’s fan base prefers an ugly, bloody, bone-crunching, win over a contender in mid-January 2025.

The frightening thing, however, is there isn’t an obvious path to get there in 12 months. Not based on a rebuild that began back when today’s kindergartners were born.

The Dolphins, you see, are an enigma of a team.

They boast some amazing talent, but a lot of that talent comes with significant injury histories. It’s the reason some of them were available. So a lot of stars that may help the Dolphins get to the playoffs do not play late in the season or the playoffs.

The Dolphins are also a team built on marvelous speed. Players such as Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle, De’Von Achane and Raheem Mostert could pass for a relay team. But the club that can fly was too often grounded against good teams because it lost at the line of scrimmage.

And, by the way, the triggerman that activates all that offensive speed, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, is carrying more weight now than when he entered the NFL. That helps him survive hits that cause injuries, but the tradeoff is he seems slow and generally unable to create plays with his feet.

Tagovailoa shows great prowess making quick decisions and delivering the ball with very good accuracy. But his weakness is exposed when quick decisions and reads are not available and he has to improvise with any regularity.

That, quite probably, is the gap between him being a good quarterback and a great quarterback.

And this is where it gets uncomfortable, because waiting to find out if Tagovailoa will ever bridge the gap was easy while he’s on his rookie contract. But that has run its course now.

Tagovailoa is signed on the fifth-year option for 2024. It will pay him $23.1 million guaranteed.

So, coming off three consecutive season-ending games in which the Dolphins lost and Tagovailoa underperformed against Baltimore, Buffalo and Kansas City, the seemingly easy road to take is do nothing. The Dolphins can simply have Tagovailoa play on what is effectively a one-year deal.

If Tagovailoa performs next year, he gets paid after the season.

Except that’s the story the Dolphins already used on Tagovailoa and his representation this season. So the quarterback and his agents, arguing the quarterback was healthy all season, probably expect an that extension. And not delivering could create a situation no one is eager to manage.

Fans may not care, but how does McDaniel on the one hand continue to tell Tagovailoa he’s committed to him, and give him "you’re my guy" love while on the other hand being part of a management team that won’t commit to Tagovailoa with a long-term contract?

Maybe Tagovailoa simply agrees he has more to prove and accepts the approach. But that would make Tagovailoa and his agents unlike 99.99% of other NFL players and reps.

Tagovailoa said his coming contract issue was not something he was worried about "right now." But that time when it’s front burner is coming.

So maybe the Dolphins feel compelled to pay Tagovailoa without, you know, overpaying him. Maybe they try a reprise of what they did with Ryan Tannehill, paying him more modestly as they waited to see if he continued to improve.

No, that didn’t work because Tannehill never became an elite quarterback in seven seasons with the team. And following the Tannehill model might unsurprisingly put the Dolphins in a similar scenario at the same position.

Joining Miami’s other litany of problems is the salary cap. The Dolphins will face one of the league’s most dire cap situations, starting approximately $55 million over the cap.

So a team that may have to pay its quarterback and to keep home grown talent such as Christian Wilkins, has to figure out how to get under the cap before it can even begin competing in free agency.

"What I do know is we’ll be in a situation where we’re trying to get better," McDaniel said. "And I think we were a better team and, if you specifically talk about offense, than last year.

"And that’s the point. There’s a lot of things we’ll look at that we’ll have concrete, actual, solid information on what we can do moving forward to get better."

So the five-year rebuild process continues.

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Frederik X kisses wife as he becomes King of Denmark

The new monarch blinks back tears as he greets the cheering crowds outside Christiansborg Castle.

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Scientists aim to drill into a volcano's magma chamber to unleash powerful energy

Scientists in Iceland have come up with an ambitious plan to drill into a volcano's magma chamber to source an abundant amount of clean, super-hot geothermal energy.

The project, which would be a scientific first if successful, would see boreholes drilled about 1.3 miles down through the earth’s crust at a volcano known as Krafla, located in the northeast of Iceland. 

With over 200 volcanoes, Iceland is already a leader in geothermal energy where heat or hot water vapor is extracted and separated into liquid water and steam. The steam is then run through turbines that produce electricity used to power and heat its many greenhouses, used for its high levels of local food production, as well as for heating. Around 90% of homes in Iceland are heated by geothermal energy, according to Energy Transition, a green energy website.

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However, geothermal energy is cooler than steam at fossil fuel power plants, about 482°F and 842°F, respectively, and so tapping into the magma chamber could unleash a far powerful energy supply and boost the nation’s overall energy stock. 

"It's quite inefficient at those low temperatures, so there's an interest in trying to develop super-hot geothermal," John Eichelberger, a volcanologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told New Scientist. 

"The purpose of producing energy from near magma super-hot geothermal is that these wells are up to an order of magnitude more powerful in terms of producing energy than conventional wells," project manager Björn Þór Guðmundsson, told the Daily Mail. 

"We can drill one well instead of 10 for the same power output."

The project, being undertaken by Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT), an Icelandic magma research organization, will build on a 2009 effort to drill close to one of the Krafla magma chambers by a team from a nearby power plant that has churned out geothermal energy from the volcano since the 1970s.

The intent with that project was only to get near to the chamber to explore geothermal energy options, but the chamber was not as deep down as expected, and the project accidentally broke through into the magma vault.

ICELANDIC VILLAGERS CLEARED TO RETURN HOME FOLLOWING MAJOR VOLCANIC ERUPTION

The drill struck magma and corroded the steel in the casings of the well as the 842°F heat destroyed the well. KMT scientists are working on materials that will be able to withstand the scorching heat in the upcoming project.

The project crucially confirmed that drilling into a magma chamber doesn't cause the volcano to erupt, according to New Scientist. 

"One of the main goals of KMT is to develop wells with the right materials that can withstand these conditions," Guðmundsson told the Daily Mail.

Krafla is one of the country’s most explosive volcanoes, having gone off approximately 29 times since the country was first settled, although its last eruption was back in 1984. The volcano that erupted in December was near the fishing town of Grindavik, in the southwestern portion of Iceland.

"Tapping superheated or supercritical steam from adjacent the heat source could boost energy transport to the surface by an order of magnitude and efficiency of conversion to electricity by 3.5 times," scientists for KMT wrote in a 2018 paper.

"When combined with the advantages of continuous operation (bed load), absence of need to transport either fuel or waste, limited carbon emission, and advances in long-distance HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) power transmission, geothermal energy could change the electrical energy game completely."

The project will also help KMT scientists to monitor the magma chamber by applying censors that would take pressure readings, which could improve forecasts of eruptions. 

Other experiments later in the decade could be injecting fluids into the chamber to alter the pressure and temperature, and measure the results, according to the Daily Mail. 

"The project is driven by the need to understand magmatic systems, to improve volcano monitoring strategies, and to develop next-generation, high-enthalpy geothermal energy," scientists for KMT wrote in a 2018 paper. 

"Monitoring the temperature profile in the roof of a magma chamber will reveal actual heat flux from magma to hydrothermal system, and unprecedented observation that will test both the promise and sustainability of Super Hot Geothermal Systems (SHGS). SHGS are systems which are more than 662°F," scientists added.

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DeSantis promises Florida will 'hunt down' fentanyl traffickers as bust seizes 15,000 deadly pills

FIRST ON FOX: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is hailing law enforcement efforts and promising to "hunt down" fentanyl traffickers after the successful seizure of a massive 15,000 pills disguised as OxyContin by Florida authorities on Thursday.

"Fentanyl flowing over our southern border is a direct result of the Biden Border Crisis and in Florida, we will not allow it to take the lives of innocent people," DeSantis said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

"In Florida, we will hunt down anyone who brings fentanyl into our communities and puts lives at risk," DeSantis, who is also running for the 2024 Republican White House nomination, said. "I am thankful to the officers who continue to put the safety of their communities first and apprehend these criminals."

His comments came after the Florida Highway Patrol Criminal Interdiction Unit arrested a suspect on Thursday and seized the haul of drugs in Osceola County. 

SENATE REPORT SOUNDS ALARM ON SURGE IN FENTANYL DEATHS AMONG OLDER AMERICANS: ‘SILENT EPIDEMIC’ 

According to the state, troopers stopped a white Mercedes driving recklessly and pursued it going over 100 miles an hour, hitting other vehicles and driving on the wrong side of the highway. The driver, Jonathan Nicola, crashed and was taken into custody for traffic offenses.

During the subsequent search of the vehicle, officers found a loaded handgun, drug paraphernalia and 15,000 pills in a vacuum-sealed bag. The vehicle was determined to have been stolen. Nicola has since been charged with drug trafficking and possession, as well as vehicle and weapons charges.

Illicit fentanyl is typically manufactured in Mexico using Chinese precursors and then moved across the U.S. land border. While the majority of seizures take place at ports of entry, officials have warned about fentanyl being smuggled in between ports and past overwhelmed Border Patrol agents who are dealing with a historic migrant crisis.

DOJ RENEWS SCOTUS PUSH TO ACT AFTER TEXAS SEIZES BORDER AREAS, BLOCKS BORDER PATROL FROM ENTERING 

"Despite the unabated flow of Fentanyl flowing into our nation through the open southern border, State Troopers wake up every day willingly putting themselves in high-risk situations like this, so that they can put evil people behind bars," Florida Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Executive Director Dave Kerner said in a statement. 

"Despite the advantages the drug cartels reap from the open border, the Florida Highway Patrol will never back down from the mission Governor DeSantis has assigned us; keep our communities safe, and fight back against the cartel driven devastation," he said.

Of the over 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021, 75% involved an opioid, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC.) The drug can be fatal in tiny doses due to it being 50 times stronger than heroin, and is often either mixed with, or disguised as, other drugs, so users are unaware they are ingesting fentanyl.

The Biden administration has put the increase in seizures of the drug down to better screening and technology at ports of entry, and has said it needs more funding. But Republicans have said it is due to an increase in attempts as a result of the border crisis, meaning that more of the drug could be getting through. 

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