Republican student asks Bernie Sanders what he thinks of Schumer’s shutdown leadership
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., grew frustrated with a Republican town hall attendee on Wednesday after a question about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s leadership during the government shutdown.
Sanders took part in a CNN town hall with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., discussing the ongoing government shutdown. One of the questions during the event came from American University student Rohan Naval, a Republican, who asked Sanders how he thinks the shutdown reflected Schumer’s leadership.
“Well, I think it reflects more on Mike Johnson‘s leadership and President Trump‘s leadership,” Sanders answered. “This is a leadership that said it‘s okay to give a…well, how do you feel? You tell me. You think it‘s a good idea to give $1 trillion in tax breaks to the richest people in the country and then make massive cuts to healthcare for working class people?”
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“I think Chuck Schumer has voted for continuing resolutions 13 times in the last four years, and he has the opportunity to vote for one again, but he‘s refusing to come to the table,” Naval responded.
“I think…look, as I have said, there are 53 Republicans in the Senate, correct?” Sanders remarked. “They need 60. What does that mean? It means you have to talk to the other side. Mike Johnson is not talking. John Thune is not talking. President Trump is not talking. That is the problem.”
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Republicans have blamed Schumer for the shutdown, saying it was meant to appease the Democratic Party’s progressive wing. Last week, he came under fire by the White House for reportedly claiming that things are getting “better” for the Democrats during the shutdown.
“Every day gets better for us,” Schumer reportedly told Punchbowl News. “It’s because we’ve thought about this long in advance, and we knew that healthcare would be the focal point on Sept. 30, and we prepared for it… Their whole theory was — threaten us, bamboozle us, and we would submit in a day or two.”
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“Chuck Schumer just said the quiet part out loud: Democrats are gleefully inflicting pain on the American people over their push to give illegal aliens free healthcare,” White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson said in a statement provided exclusively to Fox News Digital.
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Dem governor in hot seat after whistleblower exposes disturbing sentencing pattern
A former Massachusetts shelter director-turned-whistleblower is calling the sentencing of yet another illegal alien for raping a child at a taxpayer-funded shelter further evidence of a “total government failure” in the sanctuary state.
Haitian illegal alien Cory Alvarez, 27, was found guilty of aggravated rape of a child at a migrant shelter in Rockland, Massachusetts, and sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison, according to NBC 10 Boston.
Alvarez was arrested by Rockland police in 2024 on suspicion of sexual assault on a 15-year-old female victim. Both Alvarez and the victim were living at a state-run shelter at a Comfort Inn.
Alvarez was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in August. According to the agency, he entered the country lawfully in 2023 but violated the terms of his admittance, meaning he was present in the country illegally.
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In response, Fetherston, who ran a similar migrant shelter in Marlborough, Massachusetts, from 2023 to 2024, said Alvarez’s sentencing “exposes a much bigger problem.”
“Call it what you will, but this is total government failure,” he said. “You have documented cases now of these girls being assaulted in shelters run with taxpayer dollars. No one at the top, including Governor Maura Healey, is taking any of the responsibility.”
Fetherston has previously blown the whistle on “rampant” sexual abuse of children taking place in the Massachusetts-run shelter system.
Speaking with Fox News Digital in February, he detailed the case of another Haitian illegal alien, Ronald Joseph, who raped and impregnated his own 14-year-old daughter at the Marlborough shelter. Fetherston said that when he and the authorities confronted Joseph about the rape, he became agitated and threatened him. Despite the gravity of the crime, Fetherston said he was instructed to order Joseph a ride to another state-run shelter.
Joseph was not arrested until months later. He has since been sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison for aggravated rape of a child.
Fetherston said that these two cases are not isolated but rather part of a larger disturbing pattern of child sexual abuse that has largely gone unpunished.
“The state didn’t protect these children, and when you don’t protect children, you have no moral authority to run these programs,” he said, adding, “If you’re not going to protect children, you shouldn’t be in office.”
Earlier this year, a Healey spokesperson told the Boston Herald that the governor “inherited a disaster of a shelter system” and that Healey “is the one who took action to implement a length of stay limit, mandate criminal background checks, require residents to prove Massachusetts residency and lawful immigration status, and get families out of hotels.”
Fetherston said that despite claims that shelter residents had all been vetted through criminal background checks, “not a single one of these people was vetted” and “nobody knows who they are.”
“The governor opened up the doors wide open and didn’t vet anybody, and that is on her,” he said.
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He also noted that “98 percent of the people that I was dealing with were really good people and they were just here to make a better life for themselves. But the 2% that weren’t were some of the worst people I have ever seen.”
He emphasized that “all of these shelters are paid for with taxpayer dollars.”
“The taxpayers need to realize that essentially, and horribly, you’re funding these rapes and assaults of little girls,” he said, adding, “Nobody wants that.”
In August, Healey ordered the closure of the state’s shelter system and made some of the residents eligible to receive at least $30,000 in state housing assistance over a two-year period.
Since then, Fetherston said that local police have told him there has been an uptick in auto accidents. He also said that school districts, especially in small-town communities, have been overwhelmed by the influx of foreign students.
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“Where do you pull the money from? Do you pull money from police? Do you pull the money from fire? Do you not fix the roads that year? Because you do have to educate these children. So, I mean it has devastating effects on small communities.”
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Fox News Digital previously reported that Alvarez arrived in June under the parole process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV) instituted by the Biden administration. The policy was first announced for Venezuelans in October 2022, which allowed a limited number to fly directly into the U.S. as long as they had not entered illegally, had a sponsor in the U.S. already and passed certain checks.
Fox News Digital reached out to Healey’s office for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Vance mocks young Republicans’ chat outrage, calls to stop ‘canceling’ young men
Vice President JD Vance shrugged off the outrage on Wednesday about a leaked group chat from young conservatives, arguing this pales in comparison to the exposed texts from Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones.
Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump separately slammed Democrats who continue to back Virginia attorney general candidate Jones as his campaign unravels over texts envisioning the murder of a former top Republican lawmaker and his young children.
Jones — who sent messages claiming he would gladly shoot former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert — will face off with incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares at the University of Richmond on Thursday in their sole debate.
Vance also tweeted and spoke about the outrage over a leaked group chat, first reported by Politico, in which young Republican activists — many from New York, sent texts that included mentions of Adolf Hitler, racial slurs, and other offensive statements, many of which may have been jokes typical of Generation Z’s offensive and absurdist sense of shock-value-based humor.
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Vance shared a screenshot of Jones’ texts hoping a Republican colleague’s children would die and wrote, “This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl-clutching when powerful people call for political violence.”
Vance responded to the incident further on the late Charlie Kirk’s podcast, noting “a person who is very politically powerful, who is about to become one of the most powerful law enforcement officers in the country, that person seriously wishing for political violence and political assassination is 1,000 times worse than what a bunch of young people, a bunch of kids say in a group chat, however offensive it might be. That’s just the reality.”
He added further, “And if you allow yourself to be distracted by this person’s incredible endorsement, disgusting endorsement of political assassination by focusing on what kids are saying in a group chat, grow up.”
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Vance noted that today’s world is very different from the one where he grew up, one where one must be extremely careful about being scrutinized for offensive jokes, “but the reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys, they tell edgy, offensive jokes… I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where where a kid telling a stupid joke — telling a very offensive, stupid joke is cause to ruin their lives.”
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He alluded to the phenomenon of cancel culture that has been ubiquitous in America for years, arguing it is time to reject such tactics for good.
“And at some point, we’re all going to have to say, ‘Enough of this BS. We’re not going to allow the worst moment in a 21-year-old’s group chat to ruin a kid’s life for the rest of time,'” he said.
Mayoral candidate vows to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu if he visits NYC
New York City Democratic Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said the city should honor the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to visit the city.
“I’ve said that this is a city that believes international law, and this is a city that wants to uplift and uphold those beliefs,” Mamdani told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on “The Story” on Wednesday.
MacCallum then challenged Mamdani, saying, “The United States doesn’t stand by the International Criminal Court.”
Mamdani acknowledged that the U.S. has not signed the treaty for the International Criminal Court.
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“The Criminal Court, however, has issued a warrant for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu, as it has for Vladimir Putin,” he continued. “I’ve said that I believe that we should uphold arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court and that we would… do so only in abiding with all of the laws in front of us.”
Mamdani said he would not make a new law to ensure Netanyahu could be arrested.
MacCallum then asked Mamdani if he thinks NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch would allow him to arrest Netanyahu in the city.
Mamdani refused to answer the question, and when asked again, said: “I can tell you that I’m going to exhaust every legal option in front of me, not to make new laws to do so.”
Netanyahu faces an ICC warrant tied to alleged war crimes in Gaza. The United States does not recognize the ICC.
The mayoral hopeful also notably refused to give President Donald Trump any credit during the interview concerning the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas secured last week.
“To any extent, credit or not, I think it’s too early to do so, too early to say,” said Mamdani. “But if it but if it proves to be something that is lasting, something that is durable, then I think that that’s where you give credit.”
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Additionally, Mamdani did not respond to MacCallum’s direct questioning on Hamas “lay[ing] down their arms” in Gaza.
“I don’t really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law, and that applies to Hamas, that applies to Israeli military, applies to anyone you could ask me about,” Mamdani said.
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Mamdani will debate Democrat Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa on Thursday night in the first head-to-head matchup of the campaign.
VA parents crush fundraising goal for trans locker room fight after facing massive bond
FIRST ON FOX: Parents from Northern Virginia late Wednesday night surpassed the massive $125,000 bond that a judge ordered them to pay in order to stay in court and defend their sons, who were suspended and found responsible for sexual harassment after objecting to a transgender classmate using their male-only locker room.
The parents, who are suing the Loudoun County Public Schools district, raised over $125,000 ahead of the Friday deadline and even met the original Wednesday deadline before it was granted an extension.
They were originally ordered by a federal judge last Friday to come up with the funds by the end of the day on Wednesday if they wanted to keep fighting for their sons in court. The $125,000 “bond” was ordered by the judge in the case, Leonie Brinkema, who said the money is meant to ensure that the parents would be able to pay for the school district’s attorney fees if they end up losing.
“We have serious doubts that such a bond can be legally required, and this requirement that the plaintiffs put up the money to pay the government’s attorneys fees is certainly very unusual and unexpected, especially when the government acknowledged in court that its insurance policy is covering legal costs,” Josh Hetzler, co-counsel for the parents, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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Before taking the case to federal court, Hetzler, Wolfe and Smith sought other avenues to ensure the two boys were not suspended or marked as sexual harassers on their permanent record. They sought to appeal the Loudoun County Public Schools Title IX sexual harassment investigation finding, which came after the boys were videotaped by a biological female who identified as transgender inside the boys’ locker room. The video caught them outwardly complaining to each other about the fact that there was a girl using their facilities, which resulted in the boys’ suspension and the district’s harassment finding against them.
However, the appeal was ultimately denied by the district, so the decision was made to take the matter to federal court with the help of Trump-aligned law group America First Legal (AFL).
Meanwhile, on Friday, Judge Brinkema, for the Eastern District of Virginia, extended a temporary halt to the boys’ suspension so that they could continue attending class as the case is adjudicated. But, simultaneously, Brinkema also expressed “significant weaknesses in aspects of the plaintiffs’ allegations” in another ruling that same day, which ultimately required Wolfe and Smith to drum up $125,000 over the next three business days if they wanted to keep fighting the matter in court.
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“Fortunately, we have an extension until Friday,” Ian Prior, AFL’s attorney assisting on the case, said as the Wednesday bond deadline approached, and it appeared they would not have the funds.
According to Prior, it is not entirely “atypical” for the prevailing party in a preliminary injunction to have to put up a bond. However, Prior noted, in public interest cases such as this one, bond requirements are often set very low, sometimes even at $0. Prior also said he was not aware of bonds being required to cover attorneys’ fees.
“In most cases, it is done where a company is enjoined from doing something, like selling a certain kind of widget for example, and the injunction will cost them something,” Prior told Fox News Digital. “The bond helps assure that if the prevailing party does not ultimately succeed, the other party is made whole from the impact the injunction had. We are not aware of bonds being required to cover attorneys’ fees however.”
In Brinkema’s order, she explicitly indicated the bond was to ensure “that if the defendant prevails on dispositive pre-trial motions, it can recover from that bond its attorney’s fees.”
Wolfe and Smith, following the bond order, set up an online fundraiser to help them raise the funds. As of Wednesday morning, the online fundraiser had collected around $50,000, but before the end of the day, a single donation of $50,000, from Michael Dearing, who appears to be an angel investor, pushed the parents within $25,000 of their $125,000 goal.
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When asked about what their plans would be if they were unable to raise the full amount, Prior indicated that there were “a multitude of options” that could be taken.
“The more that the students raise, the easier it will be to post bond, even if they do not get to the full $125k,” Prior told Fox News Digital. “To be clear, the case does not get dismissed without posting the bond – rather, we would lose the preliminary injunction and the suspensions would take place immediately and the findings would be put into the students’ records at a time when they would likely be applying for higher education.”
Mom influencer with millions of likes found crouching in backseat during bust
A Florida TikTok influencer and mother-of-two who built an online following with lifestyle and fashion videos was arrested over the weekend after police say she tried to hide from officers inside a parked SUV.
Cape Coral police said Marlena Velez, 23, was taken into custody Oct. 12 following weeks of evading law enforcement tied to a probation violation and a fleeing charge stemming from a September traffic stop.
According to police, officers spotted a gray 2022 Kia Sorento linked to Velez that afternoon. During the stop, officers initially saw her in the passenger seat but moments later, she appeared to vanish.
“A flashlight scan revealed Velez lying on the backseat floorboard, attempting to hide,” the department said in a release.
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Both she and the driver were detained as dispatch confirmed her active warrants. Velez now faces two counts of probation violation and one count of fleeing and eluding law enforcement. She remains in custody at the Lee County Jail without bond.
The arrest follows a Sept. 29 incident in which an officer attempted to pull Velez over after recognizing her driving through a residential neighborhood. Police say she sped away at high speed, forcing the officer to disengage the chase. That pursuit led to the additional fleeing charge added this week.
Investigators say Velez’s legal troubles began nearly a year ago, when she was accused of using fake barcodes at a Cape Coral Target to purchase items at reduced prices, thefts that police say were confirmed through security video and her own TikTok activity.
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Officers identified Velez through a social media tip and later verified her identity by matching Instagram and TikTok posts from the same timeframe. Days later, she was arrested again at the same store for a nearly identical incident.
Despite the mounting charges, Velez continued posting to her account, @marlenavelezz, which has more than 528,000 followers and 11.8 million likes. Her content includes lifestyle clips, family vlogs and “get ready with me” routines, the same style of videos that once helped police identify her in the Target theft case.
Florida law allows police to hold suspects accused of probation violations without bond. Her original charges stemmed from petit theft cases valued under $750.
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Velez is scheduled to appear in Lee County court later this month.
Diane Keaton’s family reveals what led to legendary actress’ death at 79
Diane Keaton’s family revealed the late actress’ cause of death on Wednesday.
“The Keaton family are very grateful for the extraordinary messages of love and support they have received these past few days on behalf of their beloved Diane, who passed away from pneumonia on October 11,” her family shared in a statement to People magazine.
The family also added, “She loved her animals and she was steadfast in her support of the unhoused community, so any donations in her memory to a local food bank or an animal shelter would be a wonderful and much appreciated tribute to her.”
The 79-year-old’s acting career spanned over six decades across film, television and theater. She was the recipient of one Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and one BAFTA Award.
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Keaton was best known for her roles in blockbusters like “The Godfather,” “Annie Hall,” “The First Wives Club” and “Father of the Bride.”
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Keaton was born in Los Angeles in 1946, and she pursued an acting career after graduating from Santa Ana College. She moved to New York City and was cast in the Broadway musical “Hair” in 1968.
The actress made her film debut in the 1970s “Lovers and Other Strangers.” She went on to reprise her role as Linda in the 1972 film adaptation of “Play It Again, Sam,” after playing the character on Broadway. The movie also starred Woody Allen and marked the beginning of their longtime movie collaboration.
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She made her career breakthrough in 1972 after she starred as Kay Adams Corleone, the wife of Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone, in Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic “The Godfather.” She reprised her role in the film’s sequels, 1974’s Academy Award-winning “The Godfather Part II” and the 1990s “The Godfather Part III.”
Keaton won an Academy Award for 1977’s “Annie Hall,” which she starred in alongside Allen.
She also received Oscar nods for 1981’s “Reds,” 1996’s “Marvin’s Room,” and 2003’s “Something’s Gotta Give” with Jack Nicholson.
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Her health “declined very suddenly, which was heartbreaking for everyone who loved her,” a source told People, adding that her death “was so unexpected, especially for someone with such strength and spirit.”
The source continued, “In her final months, she was surrounded only by her closest family, who chose to keep things very private. Even longtime friends weren’t fully aware of what was happening.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to a rep for Keaton for comment.
Passengers startled as airport system breached with anti-Trump messages
A public address system was hacked on Tuesday evening at the Harrisburg International Airport (HIA) in Pennsylvania.
“An unauthorized user gained access to the airport PA system and played an unauthorized recorded message,” HIA officials said in a statement, according to FOX 43.
The message lasted for about 10 minutes, the airport reported.
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The hacker can be heard saying “Free Palestine” and “F— Netanyahu and Trump” over the speaker, according to videos circulating on social media.
“Turkish hacker Cyber Islam was here,” says the unauthorized user in an identifying message.
The airport called the announcement a “political message” that did not contain any threats to airlines, passengers or employees, according to HIA.
A Delta flight that was boarding at the time of the incident was searched out of an abundance of caution, the airline confirmed to Fox News Digital.
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“As the safety and security of our customers and employees comes before all else, Delta followed the direction of TSA to return to the gate and complete a security check of the aircraft. We appreciate our customers’ patience and cooperation,” said a spokesperson in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The passengers on the flight headed to Atlanta were deplaned as TSA conducted a security sweep, delaying the flight by 45 minutes.
The public address system was shut off and is under investigation by police.
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The Harrisburg International Airport was said to be operating normally after the incident.
Fox News Digital reached out to HIA, TSA and the Secret Service for comment.
The incident comes after the FBI issued a warning in July about a notorious cybercriminal group dubbed “Scattered Spider” targeting the airline sector, FOX Business reported.
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The FBI posted on X that the group relies on “social engineering techniques, often impersonating employees or contractors to deceive IT help desks into granting access” and frequently involves methods to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA), such as convincing help desk services to add unauthorized MFA devices to compromised accounts.
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“They target large corporations and their third-party IT providers, which means anyone in the airline ecosystem, including trusted vendors and contractors, could be at risk,” the FBI wrote.
Jennifer Lopez calls divorce from Ben Affleck ‘the best thing that ever happened to me’
Jennifer Lopez is opening up about why her most recent divorce ended up being “the best thing” for her.
During a recent interview on SiriusXM’s “Howard Stern Show,” the 56-year-old actress and singer discussed her 2024 divorce from Ben Affleck, detailing what she learned from the split.
“When I got divorced this last time, it was the best thing that ever happened to me,” she explained. “Because it really made me journey into — I mean, I had a religious coach. I had a therapist, a couple’s therapist, an individual therapist. I had a coach to understand addiction. I had everything. I was like, ‘I’m gonna f—in’ figure this s— out if it kills me.'”
The “Hustlers” star has been married four times, most notably to Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014, and to Affleck from 2022 to 2024.
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When asked by Stern if she believes she’s ever “truly been loved,” Lopez said “no,” but that she knows what it means to truly love someone else. She also shared that part of the reason she feels that way is because “I didn’t love myself.”
“What I learned, it’s not that I’m not lovable — it’s that they’re not capable. … They don’t have it in them,” she said, adding, “And they gave me what they had. They gave me all of it, every time. All the rings, all the things I could ever want. The houses, the rings, the marriage. All of it. But.…”
After working through her divorce, Lopez said she is now “able to sit here in a much more self-assured, self-aware way” and reflect on everything that has happened in her life.
“Whether my mother, my father, in my own life, how I learned to love, how I felt neglected — all the things that are in your head as a person — and know who I am and just really appreciate that person,” she explained. “[I] feel really comfortable and good in being myself, all the good parts and all the kind of complicated things.”
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Lopez previously referred to her divorce from Affleck as “the best thing that ever happened to me” during an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” in September.
During the interview, the “Maid in Manhattan” star shared that the split “helped me grow in a way that I needed to grow, become more self-aware.”
“I’m a different person now than I was last year,” she said. “I realized that the joy is in living and these moments and really embracing life and everything that it brings to you, for the lessons that it brings.”
She went on to say that once those lessons are learned, “everything just becomes a little bit lighter and you can really, really fly.” When asked if she now feels like she’s flying, Lopez said yes, adding, “I still feel like I want to fly higher.”
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The former couple recently reunited at the premiere of “The Kiss of the Spider Woman,” which Affleck produced and Lopez starred in. They were photographed standing side by side on the red carpet, with Affleck posing with his arm around her waist in some photos.
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