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Trump VP choices are ’embarrassment of riches,’ the pick is imminent: Jason Miller

Senior adviser for the Trump campaign Jason Miller said Monday that former President Trump is narrowing down candidates for his running mate and is close to making his final decision, perhaps as soon as this week. 

Trump’s vice presidential pick has gained increasing importance as multiple commentators and Biden allies in the media have called on the president to withdraw from the race, calling into question whether Vice President Kamala Harris will step in as the nominee of the Democratic Party. 

“It’s almost an embarrassment of riches that there are so many good people,” Miller said on “Fox & Friends” Monday of Trump’s choices for running mate. “And what President Trump has said is that whoever he does pick needs to be able to step in and do the job on day one.” 

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Miller added that Trump has many “great choices” and that the final decision could happen any time between now and the Republican convention starting on July 15. 

When asked if Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, or North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum are the most serious candidates to be Trump’s running mate, Miller said, “President Trump has discussed even more names than that.” 

“What we don’t know is who President Trump and his running mate will be running against,” Miller said. “Ultimately, with all the talk this morning about Joe Biden and whether or not he can hang on in the presidential spot.” 

“I look ahead as a campaign strategist to what does that vice presidential debate look like,” Miller said, referencing calls from within the media for Biden to withdraw from the race. “We don’t know if that’s going to be Kamala, or maybe they swap her out for someone who’s even more liberal, more extreme, although that might be tough to do,” Miller said.

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Miller also said Biden campaign efforts in states like Florida, North Carolina and Georgia are a “waste of time.” 

“I think it’s doing Joe Biden a disservice for two reasons,” he said. “No. 1 is it’s highlighting the fact that Joe Biden cannot do three campaign stops in a day.” 

“President Trump right now is leading in New Jersey,” Miller said. “He’s leading in New Hampshire. He’s leading in Minnesota. While Democrats might want to talk about going on offense. They’re really on their heels in even blue states.”

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The Trump and Biden campaigns did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital

Pop star reportedly rakes in $10 million to perform at billionaire’s pre-wedding party

Justin Bieber reportedly just earned a major payday.

The “Love Yourself” singer performed at a pre-wedding event for Indian billionaire heir Anant Ambani and his bride, Radhika Merchant.

Bieber traveled to Mumbai, India, on Friday for the celebration, and treated the audience to a full performance. 

The “Baby” singer shared photos and videos on his social media from the weekend, including the crowd singing along to his hits “Love Yourself,” “I’m the One,” (with DJ Khaled), and “Where Are U Now.”

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He also posted several photos with Ambani and Merchant.

According to Entertainment Tonight, Bieber is believed to have been paid $10 million for his performance at the sangeet, a traditional ceremony where the bride and groom’s families perform dances for their guests. 

Representatives for Bieber did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

An eyewitness told the outlet, “Justin was dancing and vibing to the songs all over the stage. He was smiling while the audience sang his songs into his mic.”

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They added that the “performance lasted about an hour or so,” and “the majority female crowd felt fangirl moments when he performed! It was an absolutely unforgettable experience!”

Ambani is the son of billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani, who is worth $116 billion, according to Forbes. He runs Reliance Industries, “which has interests in petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecom, retail and financial services” per the outlet.

Merchant is the daughter of pharmaceutical tycoon Viren Merchant and is the marketing director for his company, Encore Healthcare, according to Vogue.

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This is not the first megastar the couple has hired as part of their wedding celebrations.

In March, Rihanna was allegedly paid $6 million to perform, significant not only for the pay day but also for the fact that apart from her Super Bowl LVII halftime show in 2023, Rihanna hadn’t performed live on stage since 2018.

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Ambani and Merchant’s main wedding ceremony is set for July 12, to be followed by a grand reception on July 14, according to a report from The Independent.

‘Intimate relationship’ gossip interrupts WNBA press conference

A Chicago Sky press conference was interrupted by mysterious audio on Sunday night after the team fell to the Seattle Storm, 84-71.

Sky coach Teresa Weatherspoon, rookie sensation Angel Reese and starting guard Marina Mabrey were at their desk awaiting questions from reporters when someone appeared to forget to mute their audio. 

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Video from the press conference showed the trio listening in on an apparent conversation about someone’s “intimate relationship” and their reactions were priceless. Eventually, the person’s audio was muted, but it still appeared to stun Weatherspoon, Reese and Mabrey.

Reese later reacted to the ordeal.

“I was shook,” she wrote on X.

Even as the Sky lost to the Storm, Reese was able to set the record for most consecutive double-doubles by a player. She surpassed Candace Parker’s mark with her 13th. Reese had 17 points and 14 rebounds and is the lone rookie averaging a double-double this year.

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“I’m just trying to be consistent for my teammates, doing whatever I can to help my team,” Reese said, via EPSN. “I think I didn’t do enough tonight, but just being able to be there for my teammates and knowing that I have a job to do every day no matter if I’m a rookie or a vet.”

Reese and Caitlin Clark are the top candidates for the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award.

After Reese tied Parker’s mark, the Sky’s social media account made clear who it believes is the front-runner.

“Record setter. THE front runner,” the team wrote.

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Reese now has 14 double-doubles on the season. According to ESPN, it’s tied for fifth most from a rookie in WNBA history.

Biden blasted from the left for ‘defiant’ phone call into MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’

President Biden’s defiant phone call to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” insisting he’d stay in the race set off a firestorm of criticism on social media on Monday.

During the call, Biden knocked the media and Democratic “elites” demanding he drop out of the race and suggested his critics challenge him for the nomination at the upcoming party convention. 

“I’m getting frustrated by the elites — not you guys — the elites in the party. Oh, they know so much more. Any of these guys that don’t think I should run, run against me. Announce for president, challenge me at the convention,” he told “Morning Joe.”

Media commentators and Biden allies criticized the president’s defensive tone on X and said he was hurting his chances with voters and his party.

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“Overall takeaway: He is absolutely DARING the party to try to get rid of him. Positively Trumpian about his crowd sizes — and what that means. Defiant bordering on arrogant,” political commentator and ex-CNNer Chris Cillizza wrote.

Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau had high praise for Biden’s “energy” but said his messaging “sucks.”

“Energy is great! Sounds strong! Love that part. Message absolutely sucks – angry, defensive, lashing out at all the wrong people. Just please, please talk about voter concerns, how you’ll address them, and how Trump will make them worse. That’s all!” he wrote on X.

In response to Favreau’s post, Semafor reporter Benjy Sarlin described the intraparty conflict as a “murder-suicide:” 

“The basic dynamic: Biden has not made much progress since the debate convincing Democrats he’s up to the job of beating Trump, but he’s made progress in telegraphing to them it will be a murder-suicide if they try to take the nomination and fail,” he posted.

Conservative figures also criticized the president for calling into the MSNBC show and shouting at the friendly hosts.

“Because letting your boss call into a cable TV show, hiding his face and possibly a stack of talking points and white board full of answers, is certainly a choice that will quell the concerns of the American people,” former press secretary for Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign Ken Farnaso wrote.

“Look, I’m not a political consultant, but I’m thinking that Biden screaming on Morning Joe isn’t going to soothe any souls about his condition. How easily he’s angered is a symptom of his condition,” RedState writer Bonchie posted.

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CNN host Jim Acosta and Vanity Fair correspondent Brian Stelter also compared Biden’s phone call to something his GOP rival would do, but framed it as a strategic political maneuver. 

“It was a little bit of a page out of Donald Trump‘s playbook calling into a morning show this morning,” Acosta said on CNN on Monday. 

“Yes, Biden did sound a bit Trumpian in this most recent call. He did, by the way, also on ABC,” Stelter said, referencing the president’s interview with George Stephanopoulos Friday. “There‘s an element of resentment and grievance that you and I very well-recognize from the former president, and we do know that motivates some voters.”

“It certainly is a way to fire up base voters,” he continued, before questioning if it would move the needle for the “nervous” members of his party.

Biden’s phone call did impress some supporters on social media. Filmmaker Rob Reiner posted to X, “If we see the Joe Biden that appeared on Morning Joe today every day until Nov.5, he’ll be able to shut up people like me who think he should step aside.”

The president has gone on a media blitz in response to prominent Democrats and media figures calling on him to take more media interviews following his disastrous debate performance in June that spurred a firestorm of concerns about his mental acuity and re-election chances.

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Golf influencer Paige Spiranac gets real on why she’s posting viral slow-mo videos

Golf influencer Paige Spiranac explained on Monday why she’s been posting slow-mo videos of her swing as they’ve gone viral over the past several days.

Spiranac, who has millions of followers on across several social media platforms, wrote on X she empathized with female golfers who have “larger chests.”

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“I’ve been doing these slow mo videos and in all seriousness it’s wild seeing what my chest has to do through the swing so my arms can clear lol I can totally understand why women with larger chests who pick up the game feel stuck and uncomfortable,” she wrote.

Spiranac also offered a tip to those who are going through the same experience.

“My tip is under on the right arm and over the chest on the left at set up. Also stand a little farther away from the ball!” she added.

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Spiranac took a different route than most collegiate golfers who hope to make it big on a professional tour. She decided to go the influencer route after a successful career at the NCAA level.

Spiranac first attended Arizona State during the 2011-12 season but transferred to San Diego State for her sophomore year. 

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With the Aztecs, she earned a First-Team All-Mountain West selection and finished in the top 10 at the Mountain West Championship in 2014. In her senior season in 2014-15, she helped San Diego State to a Mountain West Championship.

‘Sex and the City’ star regrets being an actor, admits he picked the ‘wrong thing to do’

John Corbett has been an actor for over three decades, but the actor’s life is not for him.

The “Sex and the City” star spoke about his frustrations on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s “Fly on the Wall” podcast last week, saying he regrets his decision to become an actor.

“Look, I’m in the fourth quarter of the football game now, in life and in showbiz. It’s just a fact,” Corbett said. “So I can reveal now I picked the f—ing wrong thing to do with my life.”

“Since I was a kid, I hate[d] being told what to do by an authority figure. So, I picked something to do with my whole life for my fulfillment of my work life, which is, ‘Dude, stand here, say this, put this on, look this way, say it faster, cut your hair like this,’” he continued.

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Corbett gained acclaim for his work on shows like “Northern Exposure,” “Sex and the City,” and “The United States of Tara,” but admits he feels limited creatively. 

“And there’s not really, as an actor, in my position, which is always second, third banana in something… I’m not collaborating with the writers,” he said, adding, “You feel like a puppet.”

He continued, “Have you ever sat in a f—ing waiting room of a doctor’s office for like an hour and you’re going, ‘What the f—?’ For me, that’s what making a movie is like, because I’m not part of any creative process.”

The 63-year-old fully acknowledged he sounds “ungrateful,” but the lack of creative input into a lot of his work is what leaves him frustrated.

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“I’m just telling you, I made a lot of money. I live in a beautiful home. People come to me in every f—ing restaurant I go in. I’m a friend of the world,” he said. “But as far as a fulfilling creative work life, I didn’t write one f—ing line. I didn’t write one joke to make people laugh. So it’s been unfulfilling on that level.”

He continued, “You know, there were some good times here and there, but most of it’s sitting, waiting for them to f—ing knock on your door to go, ‘Hey, we need you to come back and say that thing again.’ And to me, man, it’s such a boring f—ing life.” 

“Anybody listening that’s never been on a movie set, if you ever came to visit one of us for two days, just two of those 14-hour days, you’d say, ‘I never want to be here ever again.’ [It’s] like watching paint dry,” the “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” star added.

Corbett has dabbled in country music through the years, telling Billboard in 2006 ahead of his debut album, “It’s not like I learned to play the guitar last year and just started writing songs and thought, ‘Oh, I’m gonna make a record now.'”

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But even that outlet didn’t help him, as he recalled on the podcast that the gaps between acting work leave him wanting more.

He said in 2022, “the phone never rang” with opportunities.

“For that whole year, how do I get my, besides playing guitar and piano at home, how do I express myself?” Corbett said.

The “Parenthood” star said ultimately he’s content to stay home with his longtime partner and wife, Bo Derek.

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“I’m just at that point in my life now where I like being at home with Bo and the dogs,” he said.

Corbett and Derek have been together since 2002, and officially married in 2020, keeping the news private until the following year. 

Corbett said that he’s not into traveling for films: “At this point in my life, I’m just gonna…if something seems really, really f—ing fun, I’ll say yes. But then I’ll get there two days later and say why the f— did I say yes?’”

The “And Just Like That” star did have high praise for his co-star Sarah Jessica Parker, saying, “If I had to act the rest of my life with just one person, it would be her. There’s something about this girl …she’s the best.”

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“And I get to do it again apparently, because I did that reboot last year, and then right before the actors strike and the writers strike, they said, ‘Hey if we get picked up would you do it again?’ And I said, ‘Sure, I’ll come do some. I really haven’t heard anything since then.”

Corbett may have been playing coy about his role in season three of the HBO series, as paparazzi photographs revealed him filming with Parker, presumably reprising his role as Aidan Shaw.

The premiere date for Season 3 of “And Just Like That” has yet to be announced, but the show is expected to return in 2025.

Single mom visits 17 countries with baby during 3-year paid maternity leave

A single mother is living her best life after deciding to travel the world with her toddler while on a three-year paid maternity leave. 

Sarah Noack, 26, of Frankfurt, Germany, just recently ended her maternity leave and quit her job. 

The flight attendant became pregnant with her first child, Luana Noack, in 2021 and was told she could not work for the airline while pregnant. 

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That meant that Sarah Noack would be placed on maternity leave from then on. 

She told SWNS, however, that her company would also allow mothers to continue on maternity leave during their breastfeeding journey — which for this mom would be for roughly two more years. 

“Flight attendants aren’t allowed to work when they are pregnant at the airline I was with, so I was still having a full salary but not working,” she said.

“I have been on parental leave since my daughter was born,” she added, as “we have a breastfeeding policy where you get your whole salary while breastfeeding.”

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Sarah Noack decided to take the time off as an opportunity to travel the world with her newborn daughter. 

“I wanted to have an adventurous life and have a child,” she told SWNS. 

The single mom took her two-week-old baby to Barcelona, Spain, to start out her traveling adventure. 

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From there, baby Luana Noack took her first steps on a beach in Bali and spoke her first words in Indonesia — something her mother said was a memorable experience. 

Although traveling full-time with a newborn baby likely sounds difficult in theory to many, Sarah Noack said she actually found it to be easier than “having a normal routine in Germany.”

She said, “Backpacking hasn’t been difficult with a baby as she was so small, [but] it is getting harder now [that] she is getting bigger and has started running around.”

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Today, the pair have been to 17 countries in the first two-and-a-half years of the toddler’s life. 

The mom of one, who is now a freelance social media manager, told SWNS the pair have spent a month in Thailand, two months in Portugal and three weeks in Cambodia, to name a few stops. 

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Sarah Noack said her favorite country to visit was Nepal because of its rich culture. 

She said, “The country blew me away. It was beautiful [and] so different to every other place I have ever been to.”

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She has also started a podcast discussing her adventure as a full-time traveling mom called “Hot Mum Things.” 

With over 60,000 followers on Instagram, Sarah Noack shares the daily realities of traveling the world with her toddler. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Sarah Noack for further comment.

Dem mayor faces blowback over new round of taxpayer-funded migrant debit cards

New York City leaders from both parties slammed a move by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to distribute another tranche of thousands of prepaid debit cards to migrant families.

While Adams’ office claimed at its February inception the program would save the city as much as $7.2 million per year, some city lawmakers decried the latest allocation of 7,300 cards as a signal for more border-crossers to come.

Councilman Robert Holden, a Democrat from Glendale, Queens, said the “gravy train for migrants has to stop.”

“Giving out free housing, food, and legal aid while protecting them from federal authorities is unsustainable and only makes the crisis worse. This madness needs to end now.”

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Holden’s borough hosts 70 migrant shelters, the most in the city, according to a New York Post analysis released Sunday.

Of the city’s zip codes, 10036 in Midtown Manhattan – which includes Fox News’ headquarters – has eight shelters alone within its dense two-fifths of a square mile.

A representative for Democratic Councilwoman Gale Brewer, who represents that neighborhood, declined comment.

The top Republican on council, Joe Borelli of Staten Island, said sanctuary city proponents may finally be realizing the consequences of their actions.

“I think Democrats are finding out the hard way that American cities just can’t be the world’s refugee camp,” Borelli said.

“We’re approaching Year Three of the migrant crisis in New York and the argument for these cards seems to be that it’s the ‘least worst’ way of doing things,” added the minority leader, whose party faces a 45-6 Democratic council majority.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams could not be reached for comment.

However, Democratic Councilwoman Julie Won of Long Island City, Queens, lauded the program, saying prepaid cards give migrants “sovereignty and freedom to choose whatever they want to eat” and lets them avoid “rotten” food provided by city contractors.

She said all the estimated 60,000 migrants under the city’s auspices should receive such assistance, pointing to the 23 shelters tallied in Long Island City alone.

Won said New York City spent $463 million on food procurement last year, and noted she publicly exposed how meals had often gone to waste. She said the debit card program provides better services at less than 1% of the cost of dealing with the food contractors.

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Won previously hosted “welcome dinners” for small groups of migrants in her district to help them integrate into the community and get access to essential services, according to Queens news outlet QNS

Several other council Democrats, as well as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who lives in Brooklyn, did not respond to comment requests.

However, Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom defended the administration’s decision, while calling on the federal government to “finish the job they started” and process more asylum applications to allow migrants to work.

“As we continue to do our part to respond to this global humanitarian crisis, we are finding new ways to help us save taxpayer dollars, invest in our local economy, and support our newest New Yorkers in ways that work for families with children,” Williams-Isom said.

“They can buy from local shops, support small businesses, and manage their own resources. When we empower people, we help them achieve self-sufficiency and access the American Dream.”

In addition, one resident of the nation’s largest housing project questioned why shelters are being constructed in underserved areas.

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“Why are y’all sending them here? Send them to Fifth Avenue [or] Park Avenue…” Shawarn Shields of Queensbridge Houses told the New York Post on Sunday.

In response to criticisms of the program, a city spokesperson said the debit card program only covers a small fraction of migrants.

The spokesperson also pointed to a right-to-shelter policy requiring New York City to find and provide housing to those who are homeless. They also noted migrants are still not allowed to receive federal SNAP food stamp benefits for their daily sustenance.

The spokesperson also cited a recent calculation depicting a modest per-migrant meal per-diem of $4. That amount does not go far in New York City, their analysis suggested.

Meanwhile, a representative for MoCaFi, the New Jersey-based contractor the city brought in to administer the cards, directed Fox News Digital to recent reporting on the program when asked for response to criticism.

The representative added that MoCaFi’s day-to-day focus is serving 50 million unbanked and “under-banked” Americans.

Homeowner ‘devastated’ after property tax bill skyrockets to unmanageable amount

A suburban Chicago homeowner was “devastated” when a clerical error made his property tax bill skyrocket from $1,800 to over $30,000, but local reports say he isn’t the only victim.

“I was literally devastated,” the homeowner, Darryl Lloyd, told FOX 32 in Chicago.

Lloyd lives in Chicago Heights, an unincorporated Chicago metropolitan area suburb where he purchased his 1950s home for $115,000 in 2006. 

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According to the Daily Mail, the single-floor home is 960 square feet and valued at approximately $180,000. An erroneous property assessment, however, brought its value to over $1 million.

“There’s nothing over here worth anything near $1 million,” he told the local media outlet of his neighborhood.

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The outlet reported that a representative from the Cook County Assessor’s Office acknowledged a permit had been erroneously added to Lloyd’s property, creating the sharply inflated number and, though the window to appeal that tax bill has passed, they plan to process a corrected bill for the property soon.

At the same time, thousands of other Chicagoans have seen property tax errors, according to an analysis released by the Cook County Treasurer’s Office.

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“More than a month before tax bills were to be mailed, the Assessor’s Office acknowledged it erred in calculating land values for more than 4,400 homes in the south and southwest suburbs. That led to severe overassessments for homes on larger plots of land,” the analysis read.

“The errors were discovered too late in the process for them to be corrected before tax bills were calculated, printed and mailed. The 4,400 erroneous bills were put on hold pending corrections, with the hope they could still be completed by the July 2 mailing deadline,” it continued.

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