US Virtual Embassy urgently warns Americans to escape Iran while they still can flee

The U.S. Virtual Embassy in Iran is insisting that Americans leave the Middle Eastern country amid conflicts in the region after a partial reopening of its airspace.

This comes after a ceasefire agreement between Iran and Israel to end the nearly two-week conflict.

“As of June 26, 2025, Iran’s airspace has been partially reopened, although business trips from Tehran and other major centers may be interrupted,” the embassy said in an advisory. “US citizens should follow local media and consult with commercial airlines to get more information about flights departing from Iran.”

American citizens who wish to leave Iran must travel by land to Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey or Turkmenistan if the conditions are safe, the embassy said.

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The U.S. State Department created a crisis information acceptance form for American citizens in Iran to provide information on consular assistance, the embassy noted. But because of the limitations of consular support in Iran, the embassy said it does not anticipate that withdrawal from Iran will be provided with direct assistance from the U.S. government.

U.S. citizens who plan to leave Iran must use the available facilities to leave the country, it said.

The embassy encouraged Americans wanting to leave Iran to take several actions, including having a plan to leave immediately without relying on the U.S. government, keeping their phones charged and communicating with loved ones about their situation, preparing an emergency plan for emergency situations and signing up for alerts from the U.S. government such as the Intelligent Passenger Registration Program (STEP) that would make it easier to find their location in an emergency abroad.

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Americans who cannot leave Iran are advised to find a safe place in their residence or another safe building and to carry food, water, medicine and other essential items with them.

At certain intervals, the Iranian government has limited access to the mobile internet network and physical phone lines, the embassy said, adding that U.S. citizens should be prepared for internet network outages and develop alternative network connectivity and communication plans.

“American-Iranian dual citizens must leave Iran with an Iranian passport and before leaving Iran, they must be ready to face checkpoints and be interrogated by Iranian authorities,” the embassy said. “The state of the Iranian government Dual citizenship does not recognize and will treat American-Iranian dual citizens only as Iranian citizens. US nationals in Iran are at significant risk of interrogation, arrest, and detention. Showing a US passport or proving a connection with the United States is sufficient reason for the arrest of a person by the Iranian authorities.”

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“US passports may be confiscated in Iran,” it continued. “American-Iranian dual citizens should consider that in their Iranian passport, they will receive the necessary visas for the countries they will pass through on their return trip to the United States, so that in case of confiscation of their American passport, they can use [their] Iranian passport in Iran. These people can then apply for a new US passport in the country they will pass through.”

U.S. citizens who reside in Iran with a permanent residence visa, regardless of how long they are staying, must obtain an exit permit when departing Iran, the embassy said, noting that all Iranian passport holders are required to pay exit fees.

Pelosi fumes as Hegseth removes ‘political activist’ name from Navy ship for war hero

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a Navy oil tanker named after gay rights leader Harvey Milk will be renamed after Medal of Honor recipient Oscar V. Peterson. 

“We are taking the politics out of ship naming,” he wrote on X along with a video announcing the move. 

Milk was California’s first openly gay politician, who was shot and killed inside San Francisco city hall by former San Francisco supervisor Dan White. The ship, a fleet replenishment oiler, was originally named after him in 2016 under President Barack Obama. 

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He served four years in the Navy in the Korean War but left due to his sexuality. 

Peterson was awarded the Medal of Honor after his death, having died of his wounds during battle in World War II in an act of self-sacrifice that saved lives. 

“People want to be proud of the ship they’re sailing in,” Hegseth said of the change. “We’re not renaming the ship to anything political. This is not about political activists, unlike the previous administration.”

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Peterson, who spent 20 years in the Navy, was in charge of running the steam engine in the U.S.S. Neosho when it came under Japanese fire in the Philippines in 1942. 

On May 7, 1942, the Neosho was severely damaged during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Peterson and other members of his repair party were badly injured, but Peterson managed to close four bulkhead steam valves. He sustained third-degree burns in the process, but the move kept the ship afloat. On May 11, the U.S.S. Henley rescued 123 survivors from the Neosho, and Peterson died two days later from his wounds. 

The renaming comes amid a push from Hegseth to remove DEI and “woke” policies from the Department of Defense. 

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When the move was first reported earlier this month, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the move ​​a “shameful, vindictive erasure of those who fought to break down barriers for all to chase the American Dream.”

“As the rest of us are celebrating the joy of Pride Month, it is my hope that the Navy will reconsider this egregious decision,” Pelosi said in a statement.

‘Bronx girl’ AOC exposed by former schoolmate who shares revealing high school photos

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s image as a tough Bronx native is being challenged by a New York lawmaker who revealed photos of her in his high school yearbook from Yorktown Heights, a suburb nearly an hour outside New York City. 

New York State GOP Assemblyman Matt Slater, now representing Yorktown, shared the images of a young Ocasio-Cortez earlier this week on X. In the post, Slater claimed he and the rising Democratic star attended Yorktown High School at the same time when she was a freshman and he was a senior.  

“Everybody in our community knows this is just a bold-face lie,” said Slater on “Fox & Friends First” Friday. “She grew up in Yorktown, she was on my track team.” 

Yorktown is a small town in northern Westchester, nearly an hour away from the Bronx. Slater described it as a “great suburban town” with a “touch of rural to it.” Ocasio-Cortez graduated from the area’s high school, whose mascot is a cornhusker, in 2007. 

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While the congresswoman has spoken about her time in Westchester, her early years in the Bronx have become a vital part of her political brand. 

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Slater said he was moved to release the yearbook photo online during Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s latest public spat with President Donald Trump, in which she renewed her calls for impeachment over his decision to bypass Congress in authorizing U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. 

The congresswoman wrote in part on X: “I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully,” she said, referring to the president’s upbringing in Queens.  

“I saw the attacks on the president and her [Ocasio-Cortez] claims that she’s a big, tough Bronx girl,” said Slater. “To sit there and say that she’s a Bronx girl is just patently ridiculous.” 

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He added that Ocasio-Cortez’s dismissal of her suburban upbringing is part of what he views as a larger “authenticity problem” in the Democratic Party.  

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“She’s lying about her background, she’s lying about her upbringing,” Slater claimed.  

He went on to call out other Democratic figures, like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, as examples of politicians he feels have exaggerated aspects of their life for political gain.  

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“They do not connect with their voters if they [voters] actually know the truth about them,” Slater argued. 

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 “This is just part of the big lie that they continue to peddle just to make sure that they win elections.” 

Ex-wife stands by accused serial killer while daughter makes shocking revelation

Asa Ellerup is grappling with the reality that the man she was married to for nearly 30 years is suspected of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer.

Rex Heuermann, a hulking New York City architect, has been charged with killing seven women, most of them sex workers, and dumping their bodies on a desolate parkway not far from Gilgo Beach on Long Island. He has pleaded not guilty.

Ellerup, 61, filed for divorce in 2023, just days after the 59-year-old was arrested for the murders of three of the victims. She and her children are now speaking out for the first time in a new Peacock docuseries, “The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets.”

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“She’s a very damaged soul from all of this,” director Jared P. Scott told Fox News Digital. “You can see the scars of her life story. . . . We often think of denial as maybe a place you get stuck in. But to me, it seemed like denial was this search. It was constantly thinking about certain moments, replaying things back in her head, trying to reconcile 27 years of marriage to this man who ostensibly was living this double life.”

“I think she’s trying to make sense of the unimaginable within the familiar,” he shared. “She’s walking through her house. She’s looking at pictures. She’s reliving moments. . . . She’s searching for the familiar, the day-to-day, the routine.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Heuermann’s attorney for comment.

Although the divorce was finalized in April, Ellerup still believes Heuermann is “not capable” of committing the crimes he’s accused of.

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“My husband was home here – he is a family man,” Ellerup told the cameras. “They are telling me he has been soliciting sex from sex workers. What? I don’t have sex with my husband? I don’t satisfy him? He comes home and he eats my dinner. It isn’t good enough? No. I don’t believe my husband did this.”

“Nobody deserves what they got,” she said. “But Rex was not seeing [sex workers]. He’s a family man. He didn’t do this. I would need to hear it from Rex face to face that he killed these girls for me to believe it. My husband never kept me out of anything.”

While Ellerup defended her ex-husband’s innocence, their daughter, Victoria Heuermann, later said off-camera that she believes the patriarch “most likely” committed the killings.

The 28-year-old’s admissions were made through a statement from producers.

“She told us several times throughout filming that she was ‘on the fence,’” Scott said. “A lot of it has to do with the fact that this all happened when she was much younger. And as prosecutors have laid out in every indictment, the family was out of town every time one of these alleged crimes happened. So she just didn’t know. She didn’t see it. She was too young to remember any of this, so she didn’t see any signs.”

Scott said that after filming, it was Victoria who reached out to the producers.

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“She said, ‘I want to have a conversation about where I’m at now,’” he said. “She now wanted to express that she now felt that, based on what’s been presented and explained to her, she now believes her dad is most likely the Gilgo Beach killer. And that ‘most likely’ – that’s important. You can still see that hesitation. You can still see she’s wrestling with what that means.”

Looking back, the family described Heuermann as a doting father and husband.

Ellerup met the “talk, dark and handsome” Heuermann when they were both teenagers on Long Island. They quickly formed a close-knit friendship. And when she later left her tumultuous first marriage, it was Heuermann who stepped in as a “hero,” taking her and her son, Christopher, in. She married Heuermann in 1996, and they welcomed a daughter a year later.

“I was madly in love with the man,” said Ellerup. “There’s no doubt about that.”

Ellerup maintained that she saw no “abnormal behavior” in their nearly three decades of marriage. At the same time, she revealed that in July 2009, around the time one of his alleged victims went missing, Heuermann suddenly renovated a bathroom while she and their two children visited her family in Iceland. She noted that her former husband eventually joined the family for their final week of the trip.

“She does mention that she’s in denial,” said Scott. “She told me several times, ‘People are saying I’m in denial. Well, OK, I’m in denial, but what would you do? What would anyone do if they were in my shoes?’ . . . Asa is having a really hard time with the weight of this.

“She’s put out through her lawyer that she is still reserving her right for judgment if there’s a trial. She still, I think, wants to give her husband the benefit of the doubt. But also, who would want to believe this? Who would want to believe that their husband of 27 years was capable of this?”

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“Rex Heuermann, from our understanding, based on the facts that are publicly presented to us, seemed to be a master manipulator,” Scott continued. “. . . Asa’s journey is now one of constantly searching for answers, searching for memories, almost being stuck inside that house.”

“We spent a lot of time with the family in that house where the alleged crimes were allegedly orchestrated,” he reflected. “She’s walking through these rooms, and she has memories in that basement that are radically different from what we can infer from reading these very public indictments about what prosecutors believed happened down there.”

“She’s in this constant loop of trying to figure out just what the hell happened,” Scott added.

In the documentary, Victoria said her father was around the family “90% of the time” and was never violent toward any of them. However, she also acknowledged there were times when he stayed home while the family went on vacation. She was around 10 to 13 years old when the killings happened.

Prosecutors claim Heuermann committed some of the killings in the basement while his family was out of town.

Ellerup maintains investigators have the wrong man.

She dismissed a computer file prosecutors claim is a “blueprint” of his crimes, calling it “absurd,” The Associated Press reported.

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According to the outlet, prosecutors say the document features a series of checklists for before, during and after a killing, such as a “body prep” checklist that includes, among other items, a note to “remove head and hands.”

The outlet also noted that Ellerup also shrugged off other evidence prosecutors have enumerated in court documents, including a vast collection of bondage and torture pornography found on electronic devices seized from their home, and hairs linked to Heuermann that were recovered on most of the victims’ bodies.

At one point in the documentary, the filmmakers captured Ellerup speaking to Heuermann on the phone from jail. Ellerup and her daughter have been regularly attending court hearings with their attorney.

“She has been looking at everything through the lens of her memories,” said Scott. “Not everything that we have seen in the media, not through the indictments that have been put out by the prosecution, but through her memories. And in that, I was struck by how ordinary it all seemed. And I don’t mean that in a dismissive way, but in the sense that it felt like she could be any of us.”

The family is now planning to move to South Carolina. In the documentary, Victoria said the separation was for financial reasons, to protect the family’s assets.

“The family of an accused serial killer is often met with, and understandably, with suspicion, revulsion, cruelty – they become collateral damage,” said Scott. “. . . They inherit the shame, the scrutiny, the guilt. And we’ve all heard of the stages of grief. I think they’re going through that as well.”

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One thing is certain for Scott – many lives were destroyed over the years.

“I ultimately hope that justice is served,” said Scott. “It’s important that we remember the victims in the story – all the victims. The women who lost their lives were more than how they were labeled. And the family that Rex Heuermann left behind, who are now experiencing a different kind of trauma, one they didn’t choose.”

“This is a tragic tale,” said Scott. “And it’s all the direct result of being in the blast radius of Rex Heuermann’s alleged crimes.”

Notorious Iranian prison chief vanishes after son reportedly gets warning from Israel

EXCLUSIVE – The notorious director of Tehran’s brutal Evin Prison, Hedayatollah Farzadi, escaped the compound ahead of Israeli strikes following threats to his life – and an alleged exchange between Jerusalem and his adult son.

Israeli authorities reportedly contacted Amir Husseini Farzadi, telling him that if he convinced his father to release political prisoners, his life would be spared in the impending attack.

According to a series of WhatsApp messages shared with Fox News Digital by an Israeli intel source, an agent instructed Amir to tell his father to open the prison’s doors, warning that an attack would occur within “a few minutes.” Amir asked whether something had already happened to his father, and the Israeli agent replied that it wouldn’t – if he passed the message along.

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The source told Fox News Digitial that after receiving the message, Amir contacted his uncle, who then drove to the prison to get his father, Farzadi. The two were seen speeding away from the area moments before the airstrikes began. Farzadi has not been heard from since, according to the source.

Farzadi, who has been the director of Evin Prison since 2022, has been accused of committing egregious human rights violations, including the torture and murder of inmates, many of whom are political dissidents. Allegations against him include beatings, starvation, sexual violence against female prisoners and murder. He has been sanctioned by both the U.S. and the European Union.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated Farzadi under the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, which prohibits U.S. entities and individuals from dealing with him.

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“Numerous protesters have been sent to Evin Prison during the latest round of protests where they have been subjected to torture and other forms of physical abuse,” the Treasury Department wrote in a statement. 

Prior to his time at Evin Prison, Farzadi spent 10 years working at Dizel Abad Prison, where he “was known to organize public amputations of criminals convicted of petty crimes,” the Treasury Department wrote. The department also noted that during his time as director of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, also known as Fashafouyeh Prison, Farzadi “oversaw the torture and maltreatment” of inmates.

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In its April 2025 announcement of sanctions against Ferzadi, as well as other entities and individuals, the EU condemned “the use of the judiciary as a tool for arbitrary detention” in Iran. The EU also noted that Iran saw a “dramatic increase in the number of executions” in 2024, which included women, minorities and European citizens. However, the EU did not specify how many of those executed were political dissidents.

“Freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of religion or belief, as well as freedom of assembly have been increasingly restricted, and threatening measures have been taken against human rights defenders, journalists and political dissidents,” the EU wrote.

Senate Republicans introduce Trump-backed bill as internal divisions threaten passage

Senate Republicans unveiled their long-awaited version of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” but its survival is not guaranteed.

Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., revealed the stitched-together text of the colossal bill late Firday night.

The final product from the upper chamber is the culmination of a roughly month-long sprint to take the House GOP’s version of the bill and mold and change it. The colossal package includes separate pieces and parts from 10 Senate committees. With the introduction of the bill, a simple procedural hurdle must be passed in order to begin the countdown to final passage.

When that comes remains an open question. Senate Republicans left their daily lunch on Friday under the assumption that a vote could be teed up as early as noon on Saturday.

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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told Fox News Digital that he had “strongly encouraged” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to put the bill on the floor for a vote Saturday afternoon. 

“If you’re unhappy with that, you’re welcome to fill out a hurt feelings report, and we will review it carefully later,” Kennedy said. “But in the meantime, it’s time to start voting.”

But Senate Republicans’ desire to impose their will on the package and make changes to already divisive policy tweaks in the House GOP’s offering could doom the bill and derail Thune’s ambitious timeline to get it on Trump’s desk by the July 4 deadline.

However, Thune has remained firm that lawmakers would stay on course and deliver the bill to Trump by Independence Day. 

When asked if he had the vote to move the package forward, Thune said “we’ll find out tomorrow.”

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But it wasn’t just lawmakers who nearly derailed the bill. The Senate parliamentarian, the true final arbiter of the bill, ruled that numerous GOP-authored provisions did not pass muster with Senate rules.

Any item in the “big, beautiful bill” must comport with the Byrd Rule, which governs the budget reconciliation process and allows for a party in power to ram legislation through the Senate while skirting the 60-vote filibuster threshold. 

That sent lawmakers back to the drawing board on a slew of policy tweaks, including the Senate’s changes to the Medicaid provider tax rate, cost-sharing for food benefits and others. 

Republican leaders, the White House and disparate factions within the Senate and House GOP have been meeting to find middle ground on other pain points, like tweaking the caps on state and local tax (SALT) deductions.

While the controversial Medicaid provider tax rate change remained largely the same, a $25 billion rural hospital stabilization fund was included in the bill to help attract possible holdouts that have raised concerns that the rate change would shutter rural hospitals throughout the country. 

On the SALT front, there appeared to be a breakthrough on Friday. A source told Fox News that the White House and House were on board with a new plan that would keep the $40,000 cap from the House’s bill and have it reduced back down to $10,000 after five years. 

But Senate Republicans are the ones that must accept it at this stage. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., has acted as the mediator in those negotiations, and said that he was unsure if any of his colleagues “love it.” 

“But I think, as I’ve said before, I want to make sure we have enough that people can vote for than to vote against,” he said. 

Still, a laundry list of other pocket issues and concerns over just how deep spending cuts in the bill go have conservatives and moderates in the House GOP and Senate pounding their chests and vowing to vote against the bill.

Republican leaders remain adamant that they will finish the mammoth package and are gambling that some lawmakers standing against the bill will buckle under the pressure from the White House and the desire to leave Washington for a short break.

Once a motion to proceed is passed, which only requires a simple majority, then begins 20 hours of debate evenly divided between both sides of the aisle.

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Democratic lawmakers are expected to spend the entirety of their 10 allotted hours, while Republicans will likely clock in well below their limit. From there starts the “vote-a-rama” process, when lawmakers can submit a near-endless number of amendments to the bill. Democrats will likely try to extract as much pain as possible with messaging amendments that won’t actually pass but will add more and more time to the process.

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Once that is complete, lawmakers will move to a final vote. If successful, the “big, beautiful bill” will again make its way back to the House, where House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will again have to corral dissidents to support the legislation. It barely advanced last month, squeaking by on a one-vote margin. 

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hammered on the importance of passing Trump’s bill on time. He met with Senate Republicans during their closed-door lunch and spread the message that advancing the colossal tax package would go a long way to giving businesses more certainty in the wake of the president’s tariffs. 

“We need certainty,” he said. “With so much uncertainty, and having the bill on the president’s desk by July 4 will give us great tax certainty, and I believe, accelerate the economy in the third quarter of the year.” 

Researchers expose the truth about BMI and death risk as doctors push for new standards

Body mass index (BMI) may not be the most accurate predictor of death risk.

A new study from the University of Florida found that BMI — a measurement that is commonly used to determine whether a person’s weight is in a healthy range for their height — is “deeply flawed” in terms of predicting mortality.

Instead, one’s level of body fat is “far more accurate,” concluded the study, which was published this week in the Annals of Family Medicine.

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To measure participants’ body fat, the researchers used a method called bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), which uses a device to measure the resistance of body tissue to a small electrical current.

Over a 15-year period, those who had high body fat were found to be 78% more likely to die than those who had healthy body fat levels, researchers found.

They were also more than three times as likely to die of heart disease, the study noted. 

BMI — which is calculated by dividing weight by height, squared — was described as “entirely unreliable” in predicting the risk of death over a 15-year period from any cause.

The study included 4,252 people in the U.S. and pulled data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

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BMI should not be relied upon as a “vital sign” of health, according to senior author Frank Orlando, M.D., medical director of UF Health Family Medicine in Springhill.

“I’m a family physician, and on a regular basis, we’re faced with patients who have diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other conditions that are related to obesity,” Orlando said in a press release for the study.

“One of the routine measures we take alongside traditional vital signs is BMI. We use BMI to screen for a person having an issue with their body composition, but it’s not as accurate for everyone as vital signs are,” he added.

BMI has been the international standard for measuring obesity since the 1980s, according to many sources, though some experts have questioned its validity. 

“I think the study shows it’s time to go to an alternative that is now proven to be far better at the job.”

An individual is considered obese if their BMI is 30 or above, overweight if it is between 25 and 29.9, of “normal” weight in the range of 18.5 to 24.9, or underweight if lower than 18.5.

While BMI is easy to calculate, one of its main limitations is that it cannot distinguish between muscle and fat mass, the researchers noted.

“For example, people who are bodybuilders can really elevate their body mass index,” Orlando said. “But they’re healthy even with a BMI indicating that they’re obese.”

“BMI is just so ingrained in how we think about body fat,” Mainous added. “I think the study shows it’s time to go to an alternative that is now proven to be far better at the job.”

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Other methods, such as a DEXA (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry) scan, may be even more accurate than BIA, but are much more expensive and not as accessible, the researchers noted.

“If you talk to obesity researchers, they’re going to say you have to use the DEXA scan because it’s the most accurate,” Mainous said in the release. “And that’s probably true. But it’s never going to be viable in a doctor’s office or family practice.”

Dr. Stephen Vogel — a family medicine physician with PlushCare, a virtual health platform with primary care, therapy and weight management options — echoed the limitations of BMI.

“It has been an easy measurement tool that helps us understand at-risk groups across various populations and demographics, but it doesn’t provide accurate data from patient to patient,” the North Carolina-based doctor, who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital.

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“These findings don’t challenge the assumptions about BMI — they strengthen the message that new standards, delivered in a consistent and low-cost way, would provide better nuance for the individual when it comes to their overall physical health.”

Potential limitations

“The main strengths of this study are a better correlation to an individual’s risk of morbidity and mortality — however, the limitations lie in the fact that we don’t have enough data to determine the right cutoff for these numbers, or to identify the right tools that will be both accurate and precise across the population,” Vogel said.

The researchers also acknowledged that body fat percentage thresholds haven’t yet been as standardized as BMI and waist circumference.

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Also, the age range of the participants in the study was limited by the data source.

“Future studies should extend this comparison of body fat to BMI in older adults,” the researchers wrote.

The study was also limited by focusing only on mortality as an outcome, they noted, without taking into account any developing diseases — such as heart failure or cancer — that could deepen the understanding of body fat as a risk factor. 

The goal, according to Vogel, is to have a cost-effective, consistent method that can be used across the population with reliable accuracy.

“These data will drive better discussions in the doctor’s office, as well as public health initiatives with the goal of improving the health of all.”

“Benefits would come in the form of a more detailed list of information that helps providers and patients make informed decisions about the patient’s health, which is ideal,” Vogel noted.

“I’m hopeful there’s enough buzz around these measures that steps will continue to be taken toward regular implementation.”

The researchers are hopeful that once standards are validated, measuring body fat percentage with bioelectrical impedance analysis could become standard of care. 

They added, “These data will drive better discussions in the doctor’s office, as well as public health initiatives with the goal of improving the health of all.”

Centuries-old remains with brown hair found just below busy metropolitan streets

Utility workers recently came across a millennia-old mummy that predates the Inca Empire.

The groundsmen were excavating trenches in the Peruvian capital of Lima earlier in June when they came across the remains.

The well-preserved female mummy dates back 1,000 years, experts said — and was found just 20 inches below the ground. 

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The Inca Empire lasted from around 1400 to 1533 A.D. — so the individual died some 400 years before the rise of the Incans.

Pictures of the remains show the skeleton in an upright position, still retaining dark brown hair.

The mummy likely dates back to the Chancay culture, which existed in Peru from 1000 to 1470 A.D.

Jose Aliaga, an archaeologist with utility company Cálidda, told The Associated Press the burial was undoubtedly pre-Hispanic. 

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The Spanish colonized the area in 1535. 

“It is very common to find archaeological remains on the Peruvian coast, including Lima, mainly funerary elements: tombs, burials, and, among these, mummified individuals.”

“We found remains and evidence that there could be a pre-Hispanic burial,” Aliaga said.

Lima, home to 10 million people, has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years. 

The city is located in a valley irrigated by three Andes-fed rivers, which made it inhabitable for ancient civilizations.

Pieter Van Dalen, dean of the College of Archaeologists of Peru, told AP that coming across remains is not uncommon in Lima. 

The city alone boasts 400 archaeological sites.

“It is very common to find archaeological remains on the Peruvian coast, including Lima, mainly funerary elements: tombs, burials, and, among these, mummified individuals,” the expert noted. 

Van Dalen, who was not involved in the discovery, said many Peruvian mummies are naturally mummified in desert areas, where their skin is dehydrated by the heat. 

Some Peruvian mummies are usually found in a seated position with hands covering their faces.

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Mummies are of high interest to archaeologists worldwide, and many are discovered and studied every year.

Earlier this spring, Peruvian officials announced the discovery of 5,000-year-old remains belonging to a high-status ancient woman.

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Researchers also conducted a recent study on an 18th-century mummy in Austria, finding that it was well-preserved from an unusual embalming method.

Lauren Sánchez shares first look at wedding to Jeff Bezos, reveals her new name

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are officially married, Fox News Digital can confirm. 

On Friday, Sánchez updated her Instagram account to say “Lauren Sánchez Bezos,” after saying “I do” to the Amazon founder. She also shared the first look at her wedding gown on Instagram.

“06/27/2025,” she captioned her post, adding a red heart. Sánchez also debuted her wedding gown on the cover of Vogue.

Her Dolce & Gabbana wedding dress was a mermaid-style lace gown with sheer long sleeves and a high neckline. She told Vogue in her cover story she felt “like a princess.”

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She acknowledged her wedding gown was more conservative than the revealing looks she has worn in the past.

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“It is a departure from what people expect,” she said, “from what expect — but it’s very much me.”

Sánchez said she was expecting Bezos to be surprised. 

“Yes. I think he will be pleasantly surprised. I think he’s going to be so happy. I mean, it’s so elegant. It’s timeless,” she said.

Sánchez explained that her wedding with Bezos “is extremely intimate,” and 70 of the 200 guests are family. 

“She wants to do a very classic and elegant wedding,” Stefano Gabbana told the outlet. “She didn’t want to do something very flashing or bling bling.”

Sánchez also told the outlet she isn’t sticking to traditional wedding rituals.

“We don’t have a lot of traditions that we’re keeping. I mean, I love traditions, but for a 55-year-old woman, it’s a little different,” she said.

She did bring something blue to her big day.

“Well, Blue Origin. It’s something from my space flight,” Sanchez told the outlet. 

She explained to Vogue that, during her recent trip to space, she brought a secret souvenir so she could bring Bezos something back “because it was literally one of the most profound experiences I’ve ever had in my life. Seeing Earth from space, I came down and I couldn’t describe it. It was the greatest experience I’ve ever had. Jeff said, ‘It’s gonna change you more than you think,’ and it completely has, visually, spiritually.”

Sánchez revealed that her two sons, Nikko and Evan, walked her down the aisle. Her daughter, Ella, was her maid of honor and delivered a reading during the wedding ceremony. All three of her kids, who she shares with ex-husband Patrick Whitesell, were wearing Dolce & Gabbana for her wedding.

On Friday, the Amazon founder was all smiles as he waved to onlookers while looking sharp in a classic black tuxedo as he headed to San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, where the wedding was held.

The billionaire businessman, 61, took a water taxi to meet his wife.

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Sánchez, 55, was photographed earlier in the day stepping out of the Aman Hotel in a white short-sleeved jacket and matching skirt. She also wore a headscarf and sunglasses and was seen blowing a kiss to the camera.

Photographers showed her leaving in a water taxi before arriving on San Giorgio island.

A-list guests arrived in style, including Oprah Winfrey and best friend Gayle King. Also seen making their way to the festivities were Ivanka Trump and Karlie Kloss, along with tech titan Bill Gates and Bezos’ father, Miguel Bezos.

Earlier Friday, Khloé Kardashian and Kris Jenner stepped out in head-turning fashion, with Kardashian in a black dress and flip-flops while Jenner in a bold leopard-print gown.

Actress Sydney Sweeney was also photographed walking the streets of Venice in a short black dress with a plunging neckline.

Model Vittoria Ceretti, Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriend, was spotted in a floral dress, talking on the phone as she carried what appeared to be a shopping bag, and Orlando Bloom stepped outside the Gritti Palace Hotel, where he was photographed.

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Singer Usher and wife Jennifer Goicoechea were seen taking photos of their own while on a water taxi Friday.

A-listers have been flooding the Italian streets for the luxurious wedding of Bezos and Sánchez, one of the year’s most talked-about celebrations. 

On Thursday, celebrities such as Orlando Bloom, Tom Brady, Kim Kardashian, DiCaprio, Kylie Jenner and others boarded water taxis at various luxurious hotels in Venice, Italy, ahead of the couple’s extravagant wedding celebrations.

Sánchez gave onlookers a wave as she boarded a boat with her soon-to-be husband by her side outside the Aman Hotel. The couple shared a sweet kiss while aboard the boat. 

According to People, the couple hosted a welcome party for their guests in a closed cloister adjacent to the Madonna dell’Orto church Thursday night. 

Sánchez wore a golden, satin dress, a look from Schiaparelli’s Spring-Summer 2025 Haute Couture collection, according to the outlet. 

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She later posted a photo of herself in the gown on her Instagram story, referring to it as her “pre-wedding dress.”

Guests reportedly arrived in a convoy of about 30 boats. According to the outlet, guests were served pizza cooked onsite by a famous Neapolitan chef. 

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Throughout the day, baskets of white and purple-colored flowers were brought in to decorate the venue, along with a piano, People reported.