NASA astronaut stranded in space contacts Mission Control with ‘strange’ report
A NASA astronaut at the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday reported hearing a “strange noise” coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft just days before it is set to leave the station and return to Earth on autopilot.
The astronaut, Butch Wilmore, radioed Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston to inquire about the noise.
On an audio recording of the exchange, Wilmore holds up a phone to the speakers so that Mission Control could hear the noise he was referring to. A pulsating sound emanating at steady intervals can be heard through Wilmore’s device.
“Butch, that one came through,” Mission Control says after not hearing it the first time. “It was kind of like a pulsating noise, almost like a sonar ping.”
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“I’ll do it one more time and let you all scratch your heads and see if you can figure out what’s going on,” Wilmore tells Mission Control, playing the sound one more time.
Mission Control tells Wilmore the recording will be passed along and that they’ll let him know what they find.
Wilmore clarifies that the sound is emanating from the speaker inside the Starliner.
The bizarre sound was first reported by Ars Technica, which cited a recording first captured and shared by Michigan-based meteorologist Rob Dale.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Mission Control and Boeing to inquire if the source of the sound has been identified.
Starliner is slated to undock from the ISS, empty, and attempt to return on autopilot with a touchdown in the New Mexico desert.
NASA decided it was too risky to bring back Wilmore and Suni Williams until February. The astronauts were originally slated for a weeklong trip in early June, but the mission has been mired in problems after thruster failures and helium leaks.
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Boeing had counted on Starliner’s first crew trip to revive the troubled spacecraft program after years of delays and ballooning costs. The company had insisted Starliner was safe based on all the recent thruster tests in both space and on the ground.
Teamsters president who addressed RNC says there’s one thing holding up endorsement
The president of one of the country’s biggest labor unions on Sunday said the organization is close to revealing whether he will endorse former President Trump or Vice President Harris ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” where he said the final step before making an endorsement is getting to sit down with Harris to discuss labor issues after President Biden bowed out of the election.
“Under our leadership, we’ve brought every single candidate to the table in front of our rank-and-file members and our general executive board, and we’re waiting on Vice President Harris to commit, to come meet with us,” O’Brien said.
O’Brien said that the Teamsters are a “very, very Democratic union,” but ultimately wants to endorse the best candidate for labor.
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“We want the opportunity to sit down with Vice President Harris,” O’Brien said. “You know, I said to someone the other day, you don’t hire someone unless you give them an interview. This is our opportunity to ask her about Teamsters-specific issues and also labor issues.”
Harris’ campaign is working with the Teamsters to set up a meeting, according to CBS.
In January, O’Brien said the union had had a “matter-of-fact” meeting with Trump two weeks before the Iowa caucus, and that the union put their “cards on the table.”
“He claimed he was, you know, 100%, supportive of unions, but historically, obviously, take a look back, and there’s certain issues that we have with him,” O’Brien said at the time.
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In July, O’Brien spoke at the Republican National Convention, which was well-received by union members, with only 11% disapproving of his appearance after a poll was conducted. He was apparently rebuffed from speaking at the Democratic National Convention a month later.
Despite the Teamsters’ long history with the Democratic Party and the warm reception from the GOP, O’Brien recently announced that there would no longer be any “free rides for anybody.”
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“Both sides come to us asking us for support. And you know if the situation isn’t right for our members, they’re not going to get the free ride that they’ve gotten under our previous administration, or anybody else,” he declared.
Adele makes major announcement: ‘I will not see you for an incredibly long time’
Adele is saying goodbye to performing for a while.
A fan shared a video on TikTok of the singer during a recent performance in Munich, Germany, where she said she’s planning a lengthy break after her Las Vegas residency.
“I have 10 shows to do, but after that I will not see you for an incredibly long time, and I will hold you dear in my heart.”
Representatives for Adele did not immediately return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Adele has been performing her Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum Theater at Caesars Palace since November 2022.
She initially announced this residency in 2021, only to stun and disappoint fans months later by postponing the tour entirely. In an emotional video, the “Rolling in the Deep” singer told fans that the caliber of her show was not up to par and that she and her crew wouldn’t be ready to begin on time.
Once the shows began, Adele extended her dates into 2023 and again through most of 2024. Her last shows are set to run from Oct. 25 through November 23 this year.
In July, the Grammy-winner told Germany’s ZDF public broadcast service she was looking to do other “creative things.”
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“I don’t have any plans for new music at all,” she told the outlet. “I want a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things, just for a little while.”
She also told the outlet, “I don’t like being famous. I love that I get to make music all the time.”
Earlier this year, the “Hello” singer also said she struggles with the pressures of fame.
During a concert in February, she discussed photos of her taken at an NBA game in which she looks upset. She explained that she did not look happy because people were filming her against her will and that she does not like being famous to begin with.
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“Do you remember that viral meme of me looking like I don’t give a flying f—?” she asked her audience, referring to the photos taken in February 2022 at the 2022 NBA All-Star Game. She made a face mimicking the one she made in the famous photos.
She explained she went back and forth about being filmed at the game and ended up being filmed anyway.
“The reason I looked like my lips had filler – because I got naturally big lips, right, I don’t need filler – the reason I looked like a different person was because I was sulking, because I was like ‘these motherf—ers have come back and are filming me against my will,'” she said, according to fan recorded video.
She added, “I didn’t realize they were airing it on TV, I thought it was just in the room.”
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“I was ignoring, looking everywhere but in the camera because I was very annoyed because I asked not to be filmed, but I guess I was asking it by going. Also my face is just very meme-able, I can’t help it.”
NBC News issues correction after Kristen Welker’s false claim about VP Harris
NBC’s Kristen Welker “incorrectly implied” that Vice President Kamala Harris was in attendance at the dignified transfer of U.S. troops killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday and criticized President Biden and Harris for ignoring the families of the fallen soldiers.
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach. Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington, D.C. She was four miles away — ten minutes. She could’ve gone to the cemetery and honored the sacrifice of those young men and women, but she hasn’t. She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them,” Cotton told Welker. “It is because of her and Joe Biden’s incompetence that those 13 Americans were killed in Afghanistan.”
“They did meet them during the dignified transfer. They were with them at the dignified transfer,” Welker interjected.
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NBC posted a correction on the show’s X account after the show.
“On our broadcast this morning, we incorrectly implied that both President Biden and Vice President Harris attended the dignified transfer of 13 American service members killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal,” NBC wrote on their “Meet the Press” X account.
“Biden was in attendance but Harris was not,” the statement continued.
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President Biden was at the event, photographed “repeatedly checking his watch” during the proceedings.
Former President Trump, who attended the Arlington National Cemetery at the request of Gold Star families, commemorated the third year anniversary of botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 U.S. service members killed.
“The Trump team is very, very respectful and cognizant. They wanted to be respectful to everyone there,” Christy Shamblin, mother of fallen U.S. Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, one of the Fallen 13 from Afghanistan, told “The Sacramento Bee.”
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“The big news stories that the mainstream media covers about the [Fallen] 13 aren’t stories of honor and respect. It’s hard to understand why. There are always stories about some kind of conflict that didn’t happen… The Trump team worked diligently with us and with Arlington to make sure there weren’t any disruptions to services, or even to any school groups,” Shamblin continued.
Gee’s mother also went on to tell “The Bee” that she was “confident” that a second term for the Trump Administration would be “better for veterans and their families.”
The families of the 13 service-members have said they have yet to hear from Biden or Harris, despite having made attempts to reach out to the administration.
“At least Biden sent us a form letter,” Shamblin added. “I think one of the most devastating parts of having the administration really just ignore this and not speak their names and speak to us, is that you start to feel like your loss is really in vain.”
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Jessica Alba gives her parents the surprise of a lifetime, calls it ‘the project of my dreams’
An actress, entrepreneur, wife and mother, Jessica Alba certainly wears many different hats, but one job in particular – that of the doting daughter – is one she clearly cherishes.
“Almost three years ago, I started the project of my dreams,” the “Fantastic Four” star wrote on Instagram beneath a short teaser video of a home-renovation project.
“I surprised my parents by buying them a house!!” she revealed. “Now, it wasn’t just any house – it was extra sentimental as it was my grandparent’s house that my father grew up in,” she continued.
Alba’s grandparents, immigrants from Mexico, raised Alba’s father, Mark, in Claremont, California, an approximately 40-minute drive east of Los Angeles.
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“It was a house that my grandfather, considering where he came from, this [was] his symbol that he made it,” Alba explained in an accompanying YouTube video documenting the surprise and subsequent remodel. “One where he could give his children opportunities that living in other neighborhoods and other cities couldn’t quite give him.”
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“After my grandfather passed away, my parents were planning on selling the house in order to pay for my grandmother’s medical bills,” she continued in her Instagram post. Alba elaborated on her grandmother’s condition in the YouTube video, explaining that she needs constant care.
“It was a house that my grandfather, considering where he came from, this [was] his symbol that he made it.”
“I pretended like I was going to help them flip it before selling when in reality, I had planned to buy it for them all along,” the 43-year-old wrote. “Even just watching this trailer back, I’m filled with so many feels – after keeping in this big secret, surprising my parents, followed by many many months of working to make the house perfect.”
“I can’t believe this really happened. Grampers, this one is for you – we love and miss you more than you know,” she wrote of her grandfather, who she shared recently passed away.
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In the YouTube video, Alba can be seen telling her parents her big surprise.
“Dad is shaking right now, you should know, Jessica,” the actress’s brother, Josh, can be heard saying as the family gathers for a hug.
“[Your grandfather] would be proud of you Jessica,” Mark told his daughter, through tears. “He was so proud of you.”
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“Even though Grandpa passed, his legacy is this house,” Alba proclaimed, earlier in the video. “I tried to infuse Grandpa throughout the house.”
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The founder of the billion-dollar brand The Honest Company, Alba has recently started a renovation series with pal Lizzy Mathis. The show features the two women renovating homes for parents whose spaces don’t suit their needs. Her grandparents’ home-renovation preceded the television show.
UN chief torched for statement after Hamas hostages found murdered: ‘Blood on his hands’
JERUSALEM – The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, is facing a barrage of criticism for failing to explicitly condemn the Hamas terrorist movement for its murders of one American and five Israeli citizens on Saturday.
Israel Defense Forces were looking to rescue the six hostages held by Hamas, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, in the tunnel system below Gaza’s Rafah city, but instead found all six murdered at the hands of the terror group. The Times of Israel, quoting Israel’s ministry of health, reported that the hostages had been murdered between Thursday and Friday morning.
Guterres wrote on X, “I will never forget my meeting last October with the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostage families. Today’s tragic news is a devastating reminder of the need for the unconditional release of all hostages and an end to the nightmare of war in Gaza.”
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Guterres’ post on X sparked criticism from Israel’s former U.N. ambassador Gilad Erdan for playing down the severity of the murders by labeling the news as merely “tragic” and not condemning Hamas outright.
Guterres’ spokesman did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital press query.
Erdan, who only left his role as ambassador last month, told Fox News Digital , “The Secretary General not only has Israeli blood on his hands, but he has American blood on his hands too. Since his “fig leaf” meeting with the hostage families, he has done ZERO to help them. He could have demanded visits from the Red Cross, he could have condemned Hamas and held them to account, but instead he spent his time criticizing the law-abiding democracy of Israel instead of the ISIS-like terrorists.”
Erdan continued “This is a new low, even for the Secretary General. Even today, he wouldn’t condemn the evil Hamas terrorists, but of course, you can’t condemn what you support. Hamas terrorists can rely on a morally bankrupt Secretary General for their survival whose only actions are meaningless photo-ops with hostage families, and criticism of Israel, while innocent hostages are being executed in cold blood.”
Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the president of Human Rights Voices, told Fox News Digital that “U.N. Secretary-General Guterres despicably now turns the cold-blooded murder of Israeli hostages by Palestinian terrorists into a win for the terrorists. He refuses to name the perpetrators. And equates their horrible deliberate execution with Israel’s effort to release them.”
She added “The United Nations top apparatus – its Security Council, General Assembly, and Human Rights Council – has never specifically condemned Hamas. U.N. denial of the right of Israeli self-defense and its promotion of violence against the people of Israel has never been more clear. No amount of U.N. photo-ops with hostages or their families will erase the reality of the U.N.’s insidious role in the nightmare of war in Israel for seven decades.”
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In October, Erdan urged Guterres to resign after he claimed that the head of the world body had suggested that Israel was to blame for Hamas’ October 7 massacre that resulted in the murders of nearly 1,200 people, including more than 30 American citizens, and the kidnapping of over 250 people. Guterres came out to refute Erdan’s charges, but the United Nations has long been seen by critics as a bastion of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.
On Guterres’ watch, a number of U.N. agencies have been embroiled in scandals where they showed sympathy for Hamas. The scandal-plagued United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is facing a lawsuit in Manhattan for its alleged role in aiding the terrorist movement Hamas’ slaughter on October 7.
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Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, lambasted Guterres’ decision to not name the perpetrators of the mass murder of the six people. “Hamas just murdered six Israeli and American hostages by shooting them in the head. Why can’t you say so? Why can’t you condemn them?,” wrote Neuer in a post on X.
Hamas is not on the United Nations’ list of terrorist organizations. Fox News Digital sent press queries to Israel’s current U.N. ambassador and the country’s foreign ministry.
LSU football player gets flagged for gun-themed touchdown celebration
LSU’s first touchdown of the season was immediately given a bit of a damper.
With 7:09 in the second quarter, Tigers quarterback Garrett Nussmeier found Kyren Lacy on the near-side corner for a 19-yard touchdown with the PAT tying the game at 7.
Lacy’s momentum took him into the tunnel, but it was what he did after coming out of it that forced referees to throw laundry on the field.
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After celebrating with his teammates, Lacy appeared to pretend to shoot a gun at the USC defense.
Lacy was hit with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, forcing LSU to kick off from their own 20 instead of the usual 35.
Rece Davis and Kirk Herbstreit were both in agreement that it was a “good call.”
Herbstreit said he understood the “emotion” of college players but drew the line “when you do something like that.”
Lacy did the celebration on the bench as well.
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USC’s Zachariah Branch then returned the kick 46 yards past midfield as the Trojans quickly got into scoring range, although they ultimately settled for a field goal.
Lacy, a senior, began his college career at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2020 before transferring to LSU ahead of the 2022 season. He started in 10 of the Tigers’ 13 games last year along with now-NFL receivers Malik Nabers and Brian Thomas Jr., who were both first-round picks.
Last season, he had 30 receptions for 558 yards and seven touchdowns.
This year, he figures to take on a larger role, given the departures of Nabers and Thomas.
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The game was tied at 10 at halftime at the time of publication.
Steelworker gets into heated exchange with Trudeau: ‘I don’t believe you for a second’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got an earful during a photo op from a cash-strapped steelworker who told the leader his policies have left his family scratching to make ends meet.
Footage of the tense exchange in Sault Ste. Marie, a city in Ontario, which was obtained by CTV News, went viral. The unidentified worker spurned Trudeau’s offer of doughnuts to complain about high taxes, medical bills and giveaways to people he deemed “lazy.”
“The 25% tariffs we just brought in is going to help you out … that’s going to keep your job,” Trudeau told the man.
“What about the 40% taxes I am paying? And I don’t have a doctor,” the employee of Algoma Steel shot back.
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Trudeau responded by saying that a multimillion-dollar investment from the Canadian government meant the man would have a job “for many years to come.” The man responded by saying that he expected Trudeau to be voted out.
“That’s what elections are for,” said the Liberal Party leader, who stayed calm and collected during the exchange. “I look forward to everyone exercising the right to vote. … We are going to invest in you and your job.”
“I don’t believe you for a second,” the steelworker shot back.
The man also mentioned that he felt unemployed Canadians got better access to affordable health care than he did after Trudeau referenced an initiative to help hundreds of thousands of Canadians get dental care.
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“Probably like my neighbor who doesn’t go to work because she’s lazy?” the steelworker asked.
“You know what? Most Canadians try to stick up for each other, and that’s what we’ve got to keep doing,” Trudeau responded before wishing the man good luck. At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
The next federal election in Canada is set to take place on Oct. 20, 2025. Trudeau’s government has been scrutinized amid a cost-of-living crisis affecting the country, though Trudeau has remained optimistic.
“Inflation came down last month, beating out expectations,” the prime minister wrote in a Facebook post on July 17. “But, until Canadians can feel that relief in their wallets, at the grocery store, and on their mortgages, the job’s not done.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Trudeau’s office for comment.