Trump, Zelenskyy have ‘productive discussion’ as they attend Pope Francis’ funeral

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met face-to-face for the first time since their infamous Oval Office spat in February. They were attending Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome, though it is unclear exactly when they met.

Neither Ukrainian nor White House officials gave many details on the meeting; however, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said the leaders had “a very productive discussion.”

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Zelenskyy later tweeted that the meeting was “very symbolic” and could potentially be “historic.”

In February, Zelenskyy abruptly left the White House after getting into an argument with Trump and Vice President JD Vance. Zelenskyy later told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier on “Special Report” that the incident was “bad for both sides.”

This meeting comes as peace talks between Russia and Ukraine appear to be at a standstill with Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin making competing demands.

“A good day in talks and meetings with Russia and Ukraine. They are very close to a deal, and the two sides should now meet, at very high levels, to ‘finish it off.’ Most of the major points are agreed to. Stop the bloodshed, NOW. We will be wherever is necessary to help facilitate the END to this cruel and senseless war,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after arriving in Rome on Saturday.

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Trump has criticized both leaders in separate posts on Truth Social. On Thursday, Trump demanded Putin “stop” strikes on Kyiv and said he was “not happy” with the Kremlin for continuing attacks on Ukraine. The day before, on Wednesday, Trump blasted Zelenskyy after he said that Ukraine would not recognize Russian control over Crimea, which Putin invaded in 2014.

Putin so far has rejected several U.S. proposals for a peace deal, but the White House remains optimistic about Trump’s ability to end the war.

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“This war is endable. Both sides just have to agree to it,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. He also said there were “good meetings over the weekend,” which were presumably focused on ending the conflict.

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Trump has said that he is sticking to his own “deadline” for achieving peace and added that he believes there is “a very good chance of getting [a deal] done.”

Expert predicts election of next pope will be ‘most diverse’ in history

Pope Francis’ emphasis on reaching out to the “peripheries” of the Catholic Church and world will result in the most diverse collection of church leaders in history gathering to select the new pope. 

According to Mary FioRito, an expert on papal elections and a senior fellow at the Catholic Association, this could very well result in the next pope having a very different set of priorities than the late pontiff. 

Francis has selected about 80% of the 135 church leaders – called cardinals – who will vote for the next pope in the upcoming papal conclave.

The result will be that instead of being dominated by European or even Western cardinals, the conclave will have large contingents from regions like Africa and Asia.

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“This will be the most diverse conclave in the history of the church,” FioRito said.

But this diversity could spell a departure from some of the defining focuses of Francis’ pontificate, such as his emphasis on “synodality,” that is, gatherings of small groups from around the world to discuss questions of theology and church practice.

FioRito sees this next conclave, which she said will likely begin May 5, as a question of whether the next pope will be a man who continues Francis’ legacy or shifts the church’s focus to problems like persecution and poverty, which are major issues in countries like Nigeria, Pakistan and India.

In Nigeria alone, where about half of the population is Christian, 3,100 Christians were killed and 2,830 were kidnapped in 2024, according a report by international religious freedom watchdog Open Doors. 

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In this sense, FioRito predicted that the African cardinals, who now form a significant voting bloc in the conclave, will play a major role in selecting the next pope.

She explained that the African church has a very different set of priorities, which have been shaped in large part by the realities of rapid growth coupled with intense persecution.

“We’re concerned about things like climate change, and they’re concerned about not being locked in a church and set on fire,” she explained. “They’re not sitting around at these tables for 10 discussing great ideas. They just want to make sure their kid gets to school without getting shot and they can pay their rent this month.”

With that will come a desire to select a pope who will respect the African church as an equal and who will stand against “ideological colonization” from the West with concepts like climate change, abortion and gender ideology.

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“The cardinals in Africa are very sensitive to this kind of ideological colonization where they’re not being colonized in the traditional way, but the ideas of the West are coming in and attempting to change African culture with Western ideas without listening to the people first,” she said.

With this in mind, FioRito pointed to Hungarian Cardinal Péter Erdő, who at 71 is young enough to be selected and is seen by many as a “John Paul II-type personality.” He is respected by both the Pope Francis synodality camps as well as the African bishops.

Another candidate, FioRito said, who could possibly “bridge the gap” between the different worlds is American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, who currently serves as the president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. However, FioRito noted that Prevost may be less likely if cardinals “don’t want to see so much of the world’s power concentrated in the United States.”

FioRito also predicted issues of modernity versus tradition, which have spelled some of the most significant controversies during Francis’ pontificate in the West, will also play a factor.

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She said that amid a general decline in faith in the West, there has been a palpable shift in young people embracing more traditional forms of worship in the church, such as the traditional Latin Mass.

“That’s where the 20-somethings are going to Mass,” she said. “In a world where there’s so much crassness and vulgarity, you have something here that’s timeless and just kind of transports you to another world.”

Despite this, she said the issue of the traditional Latin Mass is more of a “niche liturgical issue that I don’t think is going to have much impact.”

FioRito noted that, unlike political elections, the selection of the next pope is less about a set of issues or policies, but instead is more about the man himself.

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“I wouldn’t phrase it in terms of issues, as if we’re talking about the economy or migration. We’re looking at individual men and asking ourselves, who can serve the church best at this moment and who is the person best equipped to take on this international role?” she said.

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“The holy father’s role is to be a center of unity for the church in preaching the message and the gospel,” FioRito went on. “So, it’s looking at individual people, their strengths, their weaknesses, their backgrounds, what limitations they might have. And then really, in a very prayerful way, asking, what does the church need now in a new pope?”

“My sense of it,” she went on, “I think the cardinals need to be looking at the church today globally and not just in their own backyards, but globally and saying, ‘Who is the man who can best take the church forward into this new era?'” 

5 quotes from Cardinal Robert Sarah, touted by conservatives as a top papal candidate

Cardinal Robert Sarah – championed by conservatives as reflecting the doctrinaire and liturgically minded papacies of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI – is among those being considered to replace Pope Francis.

An African cardinal from Guinea, Sarah, 79, is viewed as a spiritual and theological standard-bearer for conservative Catholics, as critics of Francis have argued the late pope was too heavily influenced by modern secularism. 

Sarah previously headed the Vatican’s charity office Cor Unum and clashed with Francis on many occasions. 

Their ideological divide most seriously came to a head when Sarah and Benedict – who retired as acting pope in 2013 – co-authored a book titled “From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church.” The 2020 book advocated the “necessity” of continued celibacy for Latin Rite priests and came out as Francis was weighing whether to allow married priests in the Amazon to address a priest shortage there. 

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As a result, Francis dismissed Benedict’s secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, from his papal household job, and several months later retired Sarah after he turned 75. The prospect of a retired pope trying to influence a reigning one created the scenario that canon lawyers and theologians had warned of when Benedict decided to retain the white cassock of the papacy in retirement as “pope emeritus.” The scandal died down after Benedict removed himself as a co-author.

It’s actually Sarah’s 2019 book that’s causing more of a stir with conservative Christians in the wake of Francis’ passing. 

Sarah has described “The Day Is Now Far Spent” as his most significant book. In it, the cardinal decries how Europe and Western civilization have turned away from Christianity and suffer from ideological challenges brought by mass migration. 

By contrast, Francis had openly contradicted the Trump administration and Vice President JD Vance – a Catholic convert – over their crackdown on illegal immigration. 

Vance, one of the last dignitaries to meet with Francis on Easter Sunday before his passing, has referenced Pope John Paul II – ideologically more similar to Sarah – in recent public addresses. At the Munich Security Conference, Vance praised John Paul II as “one of the most extraordinary champions of democracy” when emphasizing the importance of Western values. The vice president also celebrated John Paul II’s call for new evangelization at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.

Sarah co-authored two other books – “God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith” in 2015 and The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise in 2017 – both with French journalist Nicolas Diat. 

Here are some key quotes by Sarah being highlighted ahead of Francis’ funeral later this week. The papal conclave will convene in the coming weeks to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. 

1. The West cut itself off from its ‘Christian roots’

Sarah argued that the West has cut itself off from its Christian heritage in “The Day is Now Far Spent.” 

“The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows and does not want to know who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. The West refuses to acknowledge its Christian roots.”

“By losing its faith, Europe has also lost its reason to be. It is experiencing a lethal decline and is becoming a new civilization, one that is cut off from its Christian roots.”​

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2. Gender ideology is ‘Luciferian’

Sarah argued that gender ideology is an affront to God’s creation and cannot fundamentally change whether a person is male or female in “The Day is Now Far Spent.” 

“Gender ideology is a Luciferian refusal to receive a sexual nature from God.”

3. Called mass migration a ‘new form of slavery’

In a March 2019 interview with the French publication “Valeurs Actuelles,” Sarah reportedly criticized the role of the Catholic Church in supporting mass migration policies in Europe, noting the harm caused to the migrants themselves. 

“All migrants who arrive in Europe are penniless, without work, without dignity,” Sarah reportedly said. “This is what the Church wants? The Church cannot cooperate with this new form of slavery that has become mass migration.”​

4. Calls modern distractions ‘the devil’s tool’

In “The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise,” Sarah argues that modern distractions separate humankind from God.

“Distraction is the devil’s tool for cutting man off from God.”

5. Calls Christians to refuse loyalty to popularity or politics

In “God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith,” Sarah asserts that one’s loyalty must be to Christ – rather than to popularity or politics – and repeatedly argues against moral relativism in family and societal norms. 

“The Church is not a human organization. She is not subject to the fashions of the day or the winds of doctrine. She must be faithful to Christ.”

“God or nothing: there is no other choice. Those who choose God have everything. Those who choose nothing are lost.”

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“If truth no longer exists, if everything is relative, then man becomes a slave to his passions.”

Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew accuser, dies by suicide

Virginia Giuffre, a woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of abuse when she was underaged, has died by suicide, according to a report. 

Giuffre, 41, was one of Epstein and Andrew’s most prominent accusers, filing a lawsuit against the English royal in New York in 2021, claiming she was forced to have sex with him three times between 1999 and 2002 when she was underage. 

Giuffre died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living, NBC News reported. 

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Epstein died by suicide in a New York City jail cell in 2019 after being federally charged with sex trafficking. 

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,” her family said in a statement to NBC News. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”

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“Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors,” the statement said. “In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight.”

Virginia Giuffre was much more than a client to me, she was a dear friend. Virginia was fearless, and her courage pushed me to fight harder,” Giuffre’s attorney, Sigrid McCawley, said in a statement. “Virginia’s sunny strength was contagious and her smile spread hope to so many. She lifted us all to be better, and so we must be better. The world has lost a light that shone bright. Rest in peace, my sweet angel.”

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A native of Florida, Guiffre said she was recruited by Epstein’s girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell to work for Epstein when she was just 16 years old. 

AG Pam Bondi sends shiver down spine of every reporter by rejecting Biden-era policy

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Friday the Department of Justice (DOJ) will change the policy that allows journalists to hide records and testimony related to suspects in a criminal investigation.

In a memo first obtained by Axios, Bondi wrote that federal employees intentionally leaking sensitive information to the media undermines the ability of the Department of Justice to keep America safe. 

“This conduct is illegal and wrong, and it must stop,” Bondi wrote. “Therefore, I have concluded that it is necessary to rescind Merrick Garland’s policies precluding the Department of Justice from seeking records and compelling testimony from members of the news media in order to identify and punish the source of improper leaks.”

She noted investigative techniques relating to news-gathering are “an extraordinary measure to be deployed as a last resort when essential to a successful investigation or prosecution,” according to the memo.

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She added the protections were being abused, with officials using “media allies” to leak sensitive information for political gain, and the policy often put their phone and other electronic records out of reach of prosecutors, Politico reported.

The memo comes after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday referred two intelligence community professionals accused of leaking classified information to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.

The professionals allegedly shared classified information with the Washington Post and the New York Times, according to previous reporting.

A third criminal referral is expected, the DOJ said.

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Former Attorney General Merrick B. Garland under former President Joe Biden in 2022 made significant revisions to the Justice Department’s regulations regarding obtaining information from members of the news media. 

Garland’s policy prohibited the DOJ from seeking information from members of the news media, acting within the scope of news-gathering, except under limited, specified circumstances.

Bruce D. Brown, president of the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of Press wrote in a statement that he had not seen the language of the new policy, but stressed the importance of reporters being able to protect the identities of confidential sources.

“We’ll wait to see what the policy looks like, but we know reporters will still do their jobs, and there is no shortage of legal support to back them up,” Brown wrote in the statement.

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Bondi said the department will continue to limit the use of forced legal action to obtain information from or records of the media, which includes enhanced approval and advance-notice procedures.

The Office of Legal Policy is tasked with creating new language to reflect the rescission of Garland’s policies.

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Shedeur Sanders posts grateful message amid shocking NFL Draft slide

Shedeur Sanders went from being a top-five overall selection to not even a top-five quarterback.

Cam Ward, Jaxson Dart, Tyler Shough, Jalen Milroe, and Dillon Gabriel were all selected ahead of Sanders over the first three rounds of the NFL Draft.

It’s an unprecedented, stunning fall for Sanders, who some mocks even had No. 1 earlier this offseason.

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After dropping out of the first round, Sanders admitted that he “didn’t expect” the fall. He even became the culprit of a prank call who told him he had to “wait a little longer.”

But, late in the third round, Sanders took the X to keep some confidence.

“Thank you GOD for EVERYTHING,” he wrote.

Sanders had plenty of opportunities to be selected, but with three quarterbacks taken over him on night two, he clearly is not on many teams’ radars.

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Shough went 40th overall to the New Orleans Saints. Then came the third round, where Milroe went 92 to the Seattle Seahawks, and the Cleveland Browns, who had numerous chances at Sanders, took Dillon Gabriel three picks later.

Earlier this week, reports started to shun Sanders, with one coach saying his formal meeting with the quarterback was “the worst,” adding that he is “entitled” and “not that good.”

Perhaps more teams are starting to feel that way.

Saturday will feature rounds four through seven, with over 150 picks remaining. The Tennessee Titans, who no longer need a quarterback, kick off the fourth round at noon ET.

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The Raiders have the sixth pick of the fourth round, but at this point, it’s anybody’s guess on where Sanders will land.

Former Trump advisor issues dire warning over the ‘catastrophic’ threat to markets

As markets continue to fluctuate between hot and cold, a former economic advisor to President Donald Trump is sharing words of caution for public officials and average Americans alike.

Stephen Moore, a current Heritage Foundation senior visiting fellow in economics, more specifically put an onus on federal budget tax cuts and stock market “panic” heightening an already-sensitive fiscal environment.

“The one thing that would really send the stock market into a bear market slide would be if Republicans agree to raise tax rates,” Moore told Fox News Digital. “That would be catastrophic. It would be a huge mistake for the Republicans to do that. Don’t go there. Republicans were put on this Earth to cut tax rates, not raise them.”

He expanded: “This is a president who is gonna get the policies right. He got them right in his first term. We saw a booming market… but people tend to panic when the stock market falls like it has in the last couple of months. And then they make the biggest mistake that you can make, which is they sell their stocks at a low price.”

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Stocks remain volatile, despite three straight days of gains, after China said there are no ongoing talks with the U.S. on tariffs. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt recently said on Fox News that “there will be no unilateral reduction in tariffs against China… The president has made it clear, China needs to make a deal with the United States of America… And we are optimistic that will happen.”

What’s more, Republicans and President Trump are pushing to approve a bill to reauthorize his 2017 tax cut package. Otherwise, those taxes expire later this year, and rates for nearly every American will spike if Congress doesn’t act within the next few months.

“There’s been some chatter on raising the corporate tax rate or raising the personal income tax rate, which has been paid by all the small businessmen and women,” Moore said. “So, I would be concerned about that, although I think we put out that fire. But, stay tuned.”

“Donald Trump is probably the most pro-business and pro-America president we’ve had in modern times. So we’re gonna see this stock market roar back to life sometime in the next few months,” the economist continued.

“People sometimes get panicked, and they do exactly the wrong thing,” Moore also noted, “and I’m not saying the stock market isn’t going to fall some more, it certainly could. What I’m saying, if you’re invested for the long term, which I say is more than two, three, four, five, six years, then you want to be in this market, because it is gonna spring back to life.”

During Trump’s first presidential term, he signed trade policies with tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel and led the negotiation of trade agreements with Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and South Korea, passed the largest tax reform package in history, and made improvements to the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.

These parallel initiatives to the president’s now-second term “will pay off,” Moore assures.

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“I think Americans should see this, as Donald Trump describes, as some short-term pain to get better trade deals with other countries. And if he’s able to pull this off, and I think he will, I think you’re gonna see a big springback in the market, a real boom and a bullish market over the next couple of years,” he said.

“Trade disputes could go on for another few months. So it’s gonna be a rocky road,” Moore admitted, “but I think at the end of the day, it’ll pay off. Remember when Trump was president in his first term, the Dow Jones in four years was up 60%, the S&P 500 was up 70%, and the Nasdaq was up over 100%. So he has a track record of having an agenda that’s very positive for investors and for companies.”

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Democrats change their tune after once declaring ‘no one is above the law’

Several Democrats who have argued that “no one is above the law” in President Donald Trump’s cases are now condemning the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, warning it could threaten the rule of law.

“This is not normal,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., tweeted of Dugan’s arrest by the FBI on proceeding obstruction charges for allegedly shielding an indicted Mexican migrant from ICE agents. 

“The administration’s arrest of a sitting judge in Wisconsin is a drastic move that threatens the rule of law,” Klobuchar added, saying it’s a “grave step and undermines our system of checks and balances.”

During Trump’s 2019 impeachment, Klobuchar said his first impeachment case marked a “somber day for our country.”

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“In America, no one is above the law, and the American people deserve to hear evidence and witness testimony during a full and fair trial in the Senate. If the president has any facts to present in his defense to the articles of impeachment, we should hear them,” she said.

After the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Klobuchar said, “The law is king, and the former president isn’t.”

Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., also condemned Dugan’s arrest, saying, “If [FBI Director] Kash Patel and Donald Trump don’t like a judge, they think they can arrest them.

“This is stunning — we must stand up to this blatant power grab. Republicans: How is this not a red line for you?”

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Commenting in 2020 on her vote to remove Trump from office over abuse of power allegations, Smith said she took her constitutional oath seriously and that “to condone corrupt behavior such as this undermines the core value that we stand for as a nation — that no one is above the law, including and most especially our president.”

Smith said she pored over presentations and evidence to reach that conclusion.

Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., who represents Dugan’s county, lambasted the White House, saying its “willingness to weaponize federal law enforcement is shocking and this arrest has all the hallmarks of overreach.”

“I will be following this case closely and facts will come out. However, I am very alarmed at the increasingly lawless actions of the Trump administration, and in particular ICE, who have been defying courts and acting with disregard for the Constitution.”

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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., commented on an apparently deleted tweet from Patel, writing on X, “Donald Trump and JD Vance are arresting judges now. Deleting the tweet won’t undo the constitutional crisis you have just thrust us into.”

In a 2023 interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, Khanna said of the Trump impeachment, “You can’t just say, ‘OK, because someone was president or someone is a candidate, that you’re above the law.’ Everyone is under the law, and that allegations, the evidence needs to be pursued.”

When reached for comment by Fox News Digital, Khanna said of the contrast that Trump has “waged war on the judiciary” and that there is no public evidence yet regarding Dugan, but “it is deeply concerning given the administration’s attacks on the courts.”

“Even Chief Justice Roberts has rebuked Trump’s conduct toward the judiciary,” Khanna added.

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., said norms were being violated on the immigration and legal fronts for Dugan’s arrest.

In a statement obtained by Fox News Digital, Pocan laid out the differences he sees between the Dugan and Trump cases: “Judge Dugan’s arrest is outrageous and a fear tactic to our independent judiciary. Trump has always thought he was above the law, but now he’s enabling his goons to push that limit as far as it can go. His reckless deportations and flaunting of the Constitution will fail,” Pocan said.

“This is stuff I expect from Third World countries,” he told Axios.

In a December 2019 statement after his vote in favor of impeachment, Pocan said Trump was “never held accountable for his actions” over his 70-plus years of life.

“Today, Democrats sent a clear signal to this president and all future presidents: No one is above the law.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of Klobuchar and Smith for comment.

WNBA star goes viral after videos appear to show her sitting next to NFL Draft pick

Los Angeles Sparks star Rickea Jackson seemed to raise some eyebrows during the opening round of the NFL Draft. 

Videos circulated across social media Thursday night that apparently showed the 24-year-old WNBA player sitting next to the former Tennessee football star James Pearce Jr. 

Moments after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell walked to the draft stage’s podium in Green Bay to announce the Atlanta Falcons were using the 26th overall pick to select Pearce, cameras switched to the pass rusher’s home in North Carolina.

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Jackson appeared to smile, wrap an arm around Pearce and rub his leg as the football player’s family and friends celebrated the special moment.

Rumors about a romance between Jackson and Pearce have swirled for more than a year. Both athletes attended the University of Tennessee.

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Jackson eventually caught wind of the viral videos and took to X to issue a response to the chatter. 

“Soooo I have a doppelganger. Wow,” she wrote on X late Friday night. 

The post had drawn more than 1.7 million views as of Friday afternoon.

Jackson’s response was met with some skepticism, while others took notice of the apparent humor in the Sparks star’s message.

Jackson’s NCAA basketball career began at Mississippi State. She eventually transferred to Tennessee, where she rose to stardom during her two seasons as a member of the Lady Vols. The Sparks drafted Jackson in the first round in 2024. She averaged 13.4 points per game during her rookie WNBA season. 

The Falcons had the NFL’s second-lowest sack total last season. Pearce finished his final season with Tennessee with 7½ sacks. 

But the Falcons gave up significant draft capital to get back into the first round Thursday night to pick Pearce. 

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Atlanta sent the Los Angeles Rams second-round and seventh-round picks in this year’s draft and the team’s first-round selection in 2026. In addition to the rights to the 26th overall pick, the Rams sent their third-round pick this year to the Falcons.