Billionaire’s cash flows to anti-Israel activists in nationwide ‘No Kings’ rallies
New York City organizers embedded in the global intifada to destroy the state of Israel moved Friday to join the controversial “No Kings” protests planned for today, despite the peace deal reached between Israel and Hamas.
“UAW Labor for Palestine” and “NYC Labor for Palestine” quietly posted a call-to-action for the “Palestine Labor Solidarity Contingent” to meet Saturday at 11 a.m. at Duarte Square at the corner of Grand Street and Canal Street in midtown Manhattan and then flow into the #NoKings protests planned to protest President Donald Trump.
They’re not alone. Around the country, anti-Israel blocs are slotting themselves into the “No Kings” protests as a “Palestine Contingent” and “Socialist Contingent,” positioning their messages “front and center,” as Seattle activists put it, “from Providence to Palestine.”
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The alignment underscores a strategic pivot in the global intifada’s next phase, experts say, carrying the anti-Israel message into any high-energy civic protest, even after Hamas agreed to a ceasefire by linking “Free Palestine” to domestic fights like ICE, police and “fascism.”
Billionaire donor George Soros is reportedly funding many of the organizations leading the “No Kings” protests, like Indivisible, whose co-founders, Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, received a $3 million two-year grant last year from Soros’s Open Society Foundations for “social welfare activities.” Details about the “Palestine Contingent” weaving into the “No Kings” protests raises new questions about the way big Democratic donors like Soros are funneling nonprofit dollars into a professional protest industry that is fractious, divisive and partisan, potentially in violation of tax and nonprofit laws.
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Behind the emotion and patriotic imagery of the protests, a Fox News Digital investigation revealed that the movement’s polished “pro-democracy” branding masks a coordinated network of Democratic tax-exempt nonprofits and labor unions, political action committees, coalitions and for-profit protest consultants that include some of the most virulent activists against Israel, including self-declared socialist groups like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Democratic Socialists of America and Students for a Democratic Society.
According to a public database of the protest’s organizers, compiled by the Pearl Project, a journalism initiative, the protest’s “partners” include 265 mostly nonprofit organizations, including some anti-Israel groups, like Jewish Voice for Peace, exploiting their nonprofit benefits to wage a political war against the sitting president. Their nonprofit status shields them from paying taxes on most of their total annual revenues of $2.9 billion, even while they engage in partisan work they aren’t supposed to be doing. Critics say they are allegedly skirting, if not violating, tax and nonprofit laws. Event organizers didn’t return requests for comment.
“They call it ‘No Kings,’ but what they’ve built is an empire of tax-exempt organizations doing the Democratic Party’s work on the taxpayer’s dime,” said Jennica Pounds, a computer scientist who runs a platform, DataRepublican.com, following the money on these organizations. “They are using every excuse in the book, from immigration to Israel, to rage-bait America. There is nothing ‘charitable’ about their professional protest enterprise, and they should be investigated for fomenting so much hate in America behind the shield of ‘charity work.’”
Already, Trump has said that he has directed the Justice Department to investigate possible violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has opened an investigation that follows the money to anti-Israel groups, including some of the groups who will be bringing their protest signs to the “No Kings” demonstrations.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital, “The Trump administration and the Republican Congress are committed to countering this network of left-wing violence.”
Last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson called the protests a “hate America rally.” Indeed, on June 14, at the “No Kings” protest in Philadelphia, activists from the “Palestinian Contingent,” including activists from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Democratic Socialists of America, hissed as a woman sang the national anthem.
“Booooo! Boooooo!” they yelled, covering their faces in keffiyehs, carrying Palestinian flags and heckling bystanders, “Zionist!”
While organizers insist the movement transcends party lines, its structure tells a different story.
The protest network’s official “partners” include 24 Democratic political action committees that make no secret of their partisan agenda, dedicated to electing Democratic politicians. Among them are the mega-organizing groups Indivisible Action, Hollywood Democrats and the Democratic National Committee’s Washtenaw County Democratic Party in Michigan, Westside Democratic Headquarters in Los Angeles, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club in northern California, 504 Democratic Club and College Democrats of America.
“They call it ‘No Kings,’ but what they’ve built is an empire of tax-exempt organizations doing the Democratic Party’s work on the taxpayer’s dime.” — Jennica Pounds, of DataRepublican.com
The motto of Field Team 6, another political action committee, is “Register Democrats. Save the World.” However, those PACs are just one layer of a much larger partisan infrastructure.
About one-third, or 79 groups, behind the “No Kings” protests hold 501(c)(3) status, meaning their donors receive tax deductions while the groups face strict restrictions to do “charitable” work, not political work. They are supposed to be nonpartisan. Yet most have clearly stated political agendas.
On its donation page, one of the protest partners, “Build the Resistance,” states a partisan mission to “fight against autocracy, fascism, and donald [sic].” Donations go to Oil and Gas Action Network, a 501(c)(3) that reported $1.9 million in revenues in its last tax filing.
Another 100 are 501(c)(4) political nonprofits that may do limited lobbying but still cannot devote themselves primarily to political work. Meanwhile, 24 are 501(c)(5) labor union nonprofits, like the labor unions marching against Israel in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, that also have limits on the amount of political work they can do.
It’s clear that the protests are all about politics. The protest’s own internal online “toolkit” mentions Trump 12 times and describes the mobilization explicitly as a direct stand against “the Trump administration,” “Trump and his enablers,” “President Trump’s authoritarian takeover” in a partisan-centered campaign.
In Rhode Island, the “Free Palestine Contingent” activists will march “FROM PROVIDENCE TO PALESTINE” to “FIGHT FASCISM! FIGHT GENOCIDE.” It connects the battles against ICE law enforcement officers and the battles of Palestinians, noting, “Military occupations and ICE violence are wreaking havoc in Black and brown communities in D.C., L.A., Chicago — and here in Providence. On the streets of U.S. cities, the same weapons and surveillance technologies the Israeli military has used to devastate Gaza are being used in escalated ways against us. What we allow fascists to do in Palestine, they will do to the entire world — and it is our duty to resist them and fight for a free Palestine.
In northern California, activists at “Bay Area Labor 4 Palestine” and Service Employees International Union Local 1021 announced yesterday, “The fight for a liberated Palestine is not over and cannot be ignored,” over a graphic for the “No Kings” protest. They instructed followers to “Bring flags, signs, keffiyehs and art” to the “No Kings” march in Oakland, Calif., at Wilma Chan Park off Jackson Street.
In New York City, the “Palestine Labor Solidarity Contingent” said its message would be very specific: “STOP ARMING ISRAEL! FUND OUR COMMUNITIES, NOT GENOCIDE & OCCUPATION! END ICE, MILITARY & POLICE TERROR…HANDS OF VENEZUELA!”
Across the country, in Washington state, activists from “Seattle Against War” yesterday celebrated local organizers adding an anti-Israel activist, Tariq Ra’ouf, to the official #NoKings speaker lineup, noting it will be a “great opportunity for us to support the demands of Palestinians from the belly of the beast!”
The Party for Socialism and Liberation’s local chapter in Syracuse, N.Y., posted a similar poster with the local chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, which has Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as its political candidate in New York City.
In Charlotte, N.C., the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation put out a call to members to assemble at 10 a.m. tomorrow for the local #NoKings protest at First Ward Park: “JOIN THE PALESTINE CONTINGENT @ THE ‘NO KINGS’ RALLY…MEET AT THE PLAYGROUND.”
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With local partners, including the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Jewish Voice for Peace, activists at the Party for Socialism and Liberation noted that, post-ceasefire, they will “continue to fight for a free Palestine.” Some of the groups in the Palestine Contingent are part of the wider network of publicly acknowledged partners of the protests, like 50501.
In Eugene, Ore., activists with the Party for Socialism and Liberation are rallying members to meet the “Socialist Contingent” at the corner of Mill Road and Eighth Avenue to “march for a free Palestine” and get ICE officers “OUT of our communities.”
In Portland, a local Palestinian American activist announced, “The Nakba Is Still Not Over!” in a reference to the “humiliation” over the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. She summoned activists to the “No Kings” protests: “‼️SHOW UP FOR PALESTINE‼️”
SEE IT: Flight manifests from disgraced financier’s plane released
The House Oversight committee on Friday released a transcript of its interview with the former U.S. attorney who initially negotiated a controversial plea deal with disgraced financier, in addition to flight manifest records from Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane.
Members of the oversight committee conducted the interview with Alex Acosta in late September, who previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Included in the document release by the House Oversight Committee are flight manifests for Epstein’s private plane, which include Prince Andrew, Bill Gates, Walter Cronkite and Richard Branson. None of these individuals have been accused of any wrongdoing.
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Former President Bill Clinton also appeared again in the Epstein flight manifests several times. On at least one flight in 2002, he traveled with Secret Service agents, the documents show. Clinton isn’t accused of any wrongdoing.
Acosta helped Epstein in 2008 secure a plea deal that avoided federal charges by serving 13 months in jail and pleading guilty to state charges. Under the deal, Epstein registered as a sex offender and paid settlements to victims.
In explaining the plea agreement, Acosta claimed the case against Epstein was plagued with issues that may hinder a conviction.
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“And so in part it was influenced by that, and in large part it was also influenced by the viability of the case. Every attorney that looked at the case, from the prosecuting attorney, again, through the entire chain, looked at the evidence, and there were evidentiary issues with the victims,” Acosta said. “Many victims refused to testify. Many victims had changing stories. All of us understood why they had changing stories, but they did. And defense counsel would have – cross-examination would have been withering.”
Acosta explained in detail why Epstein was offered the plea deal, saying he was worried Epstein might have gotten away with no jail time.
“Our judgment in this case, based on the evidence known at the time, was that it was better to have a billionaire serve time in jail, register as a sex offender and pay his victims restitution than risk a trial with a reduced likelihood of success,” Acosta said. “I supported that judgment then, and based on the state of the law as it then stood and the evidence known at that time, I would support that judgment again.”
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Acosta claimed that the state attorney in Florida “had let him off entirely.”
“And so our thinking at the time was, you know, the State attorney is letting him get away with this. The State attorney is asking pre-trial diversion. Unacceptable. Entirely unacceptable. But a billionaire going to jail sends a strong signal to the community that this is not acceptable, that this is not right, that this cannot happen,” Acosta said.
During the interview, Acosta also agreed that Epstein’s counsel “got awfully close to the line of unethical,” adding he “resisted” some of their tactics.
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In 2019, while Acosta was serving as United States Secretary of Labor, he defended his involvement in negotiating the plea deal.
“Simply put, the Palm Beach state attorney’s office was ready to let Epstein walk free, no jail time,” Acosta claimed. “Prosecutors in my former office found this to be completely unacceptable.”
“We now have 12 years of knowledge and hindsight and we live in a very different world,” he said. “Today’s world treats victims very, very differently.”
Ohtani makes baseball history for Dodgers with feat no player has ever accomplished
Shohei Ohtani did something never before seen in MLB history Friday night.
The Japanese phenom hit three home runs and pitched six scoreless innings, leading the Dodgers back to the World Series. Los Angeles finished a sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Championship Series with a 5-1 victory in Game 4.
According to MLB.com Ohtani is now the only player in league history to hit multiple home runs in a game he pitched in a postseason game. He reached that milestone with his second homer in the fourth inning and added a third in the seventh. He also struck out 10 batters over six scoreless innings.
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Before Friday, only 12 MLB players in history had hit three home runs in a postseason game, and just 26 pitchers had struck out at least 10 without allowing a run. Now Ohtani is on both those lists and is the only player to do both in the same game.
Fans and sports analysts on social media called it one of the greatest performances in baseball history, with ESPN and MLB Network highlighting the unprecedented combination of pitching and hitting dominance.
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Ohtani’s Dodgers are the first NL team to win back-to-back pennants since Philadelphia in 2009. Los Angeles is back in the World Series for the fifth time in nine seasons, and it will attempt to become baseball’s first repeat champs since the New York Yankees won three straight World Series from 1998 to 2000.
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Los Angeles will have a week off before the World Series begins next Friday, either in Toronto or at Dodger Stadium against Seattle. The Mariners beat the Blue Jays 6-2 earlier Friday to take a 3-2 lead in the ALCS, which continues Sunday at the Rogers Centre.
Alabama legend Nick Saban ‘shocked’ by former star QB’s locker room betrayal
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa sparked backlash within the football community after he publicly called out his teammates following the team’s fifth loss of the season, this time against the Los Angeles Chargers.
Among those disappointed with the quarterback’s comments was his former head coach, Alabama legend Nick Saban.
Saban, who coached Tagovailoa en route to a national championship during the 2017 season, said he was shocked to hear some of the remarks his former quarterback had made.
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“One of the things that I always try to tell our players is you never criticize another player and, in my entire coaching career, you never ever saw me criticize one of our players. I think everybody’s got to take responsibility for what they can control, and if you start worrying about things you can’t control, that’s going to start affecting things you can control,” Saban said Friday on “The Pat McAfee Show.”
“I was really shocked that Tua did what he did, when he threw some guys under the bus. Maybe they’re not playing the way they should play, I’m not taking up for the guys, but you don’t say that about your teammate.”
Following the 29-27 loss to Los Angeles, which saw Miami fall to 1-5 this season, Tagovailoa vented to the media about his teammates.
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“We have guys showing up to player-only meetings late. Guys not showing up to player-only meetings. There is a lot that goes into that. Do we have to make that mandatory? Do we not have to make that mandatory? So it’s a lot of things of that nature that we got to get cleaned up. It starts with the little things like that.”
The remarks sparked backlash from around the NFL, prompting him to apologize just days later.
“As a leader of this team, of the Miami Dolphins, the comments that had been said, I’ve made a mistake,” he said Wednesday, “and I’m owning up to that right now. I’ve talked to guys on the team about it, talked to the leaders about it, and they know my heart. They know that the intent was right. But no matter the intent … when things get misconstrued or however the media wants to portray it, that leaves a void of silence and a lot of questions for the guys on our team.”
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Tagovailoa looked at the incident as a learning opportunity, and Saban commended his former player for publicly acknowledging the mistake.
“I really was proud of the way he came back and took accountability for making a mistake.”
The Dolphins will look to rebound Sunday on the road against the Cleveland Browns.
Reality star sentenced to federal prison and must pay $4M for fraud scheme
“McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys” star Steven McBee Sr. was sentenced to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving crop insurance.
In a sentencing hearing on Thursday, Oct. 16, McBee was also ordered to an additional two years of supervised release once he completes his prison sentence, and will have to pay $4,022,124 in restitution to the U.S.D.A. Risk Management Agency, per People.
According to court documents obtained by People, McBee was ordered to forfeit “all property, real and personal, constituting, or derived from, proceeds traceable to the offenses, directly or indirectly, as a result of the violations alleged” in September. The items returned include three designer watches: a Tag Heuer Formula 1 watch, a Tag Heuer Grand Carrera watch and a Rolex Daytona.
The 52-year-old reality star has until 2 p.m. on Dec. 1, 2025, to surrender to the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota.
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Following his sentencing, McBee took to his Instagram stories on Friday to thank his followers for their well wishes. In the post, he shared a text message he received from a friend letting him know they are praying for him and that they are there for him if he needs them.
“The number of messages I have received touches my heart beyond measure that words could express. but the truth of the matter is, I’m the one who’s lucky..lucky to have been able to spend time with so many high character young people and they were the ones that made me a better human not the other way around.” McBee wrote alongside the screenshot.
He continued, “I count my blessings every day for my family and the support they give me and for my extended family that continues to grow each and every day. This too shall pass…”
According to a press release from the Department of Justice, McBee pleaded guilty to one count of federal crop insurance fraud in November 2024, admitting he “engaged in fraudulent activity from 2018 to 2020 that caused an economic loss to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”
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Prior to the sentencing on Thursday, McBee was facing up to 30 years in federal prison, with prosecutors recommending 41 months in prison and three years of supervision.
“McBee submitted fraudulent documents to Rain and Hail that underreported his total 2018 corn crop by approximately 674,812 bushels and underreported his total 2018 soybean crop by approximately 155,833 bushels,” the press release read. “As a result of these false reports, McBee received $2,605,943 in federal crop insurance benefits to which he was not entitled, as well as $552,980 in federal crop insurance premium subsidies to which he was not entitled, for a total of $3,158,923.”
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News of the sentencing comes just one day after Bravo announced they renewed the show for a third season.
The show first premiered in 2024 on Peacock and USA Network, before Bravo picked it up for its second season. The show focuses on the McBee family as they work together to run McBee Farm & Cattle Co., a family-owned farm and cattle ranch.
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When speaking with Fox News Digital in June 2024, McBee said the popularity of the television show, “Yellowstone,” created a “craving” for the cowboy lifestyle.
“So, I don’t even care if you’re an analyst for a hedge fund on Wall Street. You see a ‘Yellowstone’ and you have this craving inside of you. ‘I want to be on a horse’ or ‘I want to be driving a tractor, raising the crop,'” McBee said.
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Pelosi erupts at reporter: ‘Shut up! I did not refuse the National Guard!’
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has spoken to reporters countless times over the years, but every now and then, she grows impatient or even outright hostile with them.
Pelosi had another viral interaction on Wednesday, this time with a correspondent for a far-right outlet, yelling at her to “shut up” when pressed about the new January 6 committee and whether she should have done more to secure the building on the day of the 2021 Capitol riot.
“Shut up! I did not refuse the National Guard! The president didn’t send it,” Pelosi said, referring to President Donald Trump.
“Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?” she asked before turning away.
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Here are some other times Pelosi lost her cool with various media members over the years.
‘Am I speaking English to you?’
On July 10, 2024, ABC News reporter Rachel Scott caught up with Pelosi in the halls of Congress and asked her if she had talked with then-President Joe Biden about her comments on MSNBC that day calling on him “to decide” if he was going to stay in the race.
“I’m not having any discussions with you, or anyone else, about what I talk to the president about, with all due respect,” Pelosi told Scott. “I’m not going to be making any comments today, in the hallway, about the fate of our nation, OK?”
As Scott repeatedly asked about Biden, Pelosi lost her temper.
“Am I speaking English to you? I’m not going to be making any statements about any of that right now in the hallway,” she said.
Less than two weeks later, Biden was out of the race, and Pelosi was a major part of the successful pressure campaign to make it happen.
‘Ridiculous thing’
Pelosi’s been known to have public disdain for the far-left “Squad” and its leader, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. On Oct. 1, when a reporter suggested she was leading negotiations on the government shutdown, Pelosi was annoyed.
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“There was a thought from the Republicans that AOC is directing this, and she said that senators are welcome to go to her office directly. Is she driving that?” the reporter asked Pelosi.
“Why are you saying such a ridiculous thing?” Pelosi fired back.
The reporter’s question followed Ocasio-Cortez‘s appearance on MSNBC that week, where she told Republicans, “My office is open, and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me directly.”
Pelosi rejected the idea that Ocasio-Cortez is directing negotiations, emphasizing that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is leading Democrats in the talks.
“She’s wonderful, she’s a real team player, and the rest of that,” she told the reporter. “You started by saying Republicans say that she’s directing this. She is not, Hakeem Jeffries is, and this takes a lot of experience, a lot of unity from the caucus in terms of the point of view, and that’s what this is.”
‘Such a waste of my time’
Shortly after Republicans took back the House majority in 2022, Pelosi was asked, to her chagrin, if she would commit to serving a full term for her San Francisco district.
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“What is this? What is this? Don’t bother me with a question like that,” Pelosi said.
“Really, really, OK. I said what I’m going to do. You know, those kinds of questions are such a waste of my time,” she went on.
Pelosi, 85, has since remained in her seat but stepped down from her leadership position when the new House was seated in 2023. The new House Democratic Leader is Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
‘You’re always an apologist’
Pelosi clashed with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer repeatedly during an interview in October 2020 about negotiations with Republicans on a COVID-19 stimulus package.
In a surprising exchange, Pelosi grew visibly frustrated with “The Situation Room” anchor’s questions. The fireworks began when Blitzer asked Pelosi why she “won’t accept the president’s latest [coronavirus] stimulus offer.”
“I hope you’ll ask the same question of the Republicans on why they don’t want to meet the needs of the American people,” Pelosi said. “But let me say to those people because all of my colleagues — we represent these people … and their needs are not addressed in the president’s proposal. So when you say to me, ‘Why don’t you accept theirs?’ Why don’t they accept ours?”
Blitzer interjected, telling Pelosi that Americans “really need the money now” and quoted Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., touting the size of the stimulus in comparison to a relief bill passed under the Obama administration.
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“So what do you say to Ro Khanna?” Blitzer asked.
“What I say to you is I don’t know why you’re always an apologist — and many of your colleagues [are] apologists for the Republican position,” Pelosi fired back, adding, “Ro Khanna, that’s nice, that isn’t what we’re going to do, and nobody’s waiting til February.”
“But you know what? Honest to God!” Pelosi complained at another point, when Blitzer pointed out other Democratic critics of stalling on the bill.
Pelosi was irritated throughout the interview, sarcastically thanking him for his “sensitivity to our constituents’ needs” at the end.
‘I can see you savoring it’
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Pelosi memorably snapped at then-Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack in 2013 when he asked if there was a “moral difference” between the actions of notorious abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell —who was convicted of murder that year for killing infants after they were born alive — and legal late-term abortions.
Pelosi, a Catholic who has been criticized for supporting abortion rights, was unhappy with the question.
“You’re probably enjoying that question a lot,” she said, as some other mainstream journalists in the room laughed appreciatively. “I can see you savoring it.”
“I want to tell you something,” she said. “As the mother of five children, my oldest child was six-years-old the day I brought my fifth child home from the hospital, as a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this. I don’t think it should have anything to do with politics. And that’s where you’re taking it and I’m not going there.”
The exchange drew extensive media attention at the time, but conservatives were repelled.
“The nonsequitur was pristine, completely unconnected to the subject at hand,” the Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Ferguson wrote in 2022. “It wasn’t much more than a jumble of words, amounting not to a moral case but a moralizing camouflage, an attempt to throw a flash-bang into the briefing room and get the hell out as quickly and painlessly as possible.”
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Bill Belichick, Jordon Hudson’s hot mic moment leaked amid UNC’s drama-filled season
Footage of embattled North Carolina head football coach Bill Belichick and girlfriend Jordon Hudson discussing graphics for a TV show has been leaked.
The “behind-the-scenes” footage was obtained by “Pablo Torre Finds Out,” which showed the couple in a meeting room during filming of Belichick’s show, “Coach,” which was on the Underdog Network last year.
Hudson could be heard discussing her thoughts on graphics she thought should be changed, and she offered suggestions for the graphics team to use “Adobe Photoshop” and “click, click, click.”
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Later in the video, Belichick and Hudson could be heard off camera complaining about the graphics team, with Belichick saying, “They can’t do s—.”
“I think they’re using all of the Underdog people from the other things that don’t know how to do anything else aside from what they do on all the other show, which honestly, frankly, really isn’t that good,” Hudson said.
The University of North Carolina did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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NFL Films, whose studios were used for filming, told sports talk show host Pat McAfee that it denied leaking the footage, reiterating that the show was not owned, shot, produced, broadcast or edited by NFL Films.
“NFL Films has a longstanding relationship with Bill Belichick based on trust and mutual respect built over many years of working together. We have absolutely no reason to believe that this footage leak came from NFL Films or from any employee of NFL Films,” NFL Films said, via Awful Announcing.
There has been speculation that Hudson has had a heavy influence on Belichick’s media appearances, dating back to the controversial CBS interview earlier this year when she butted in after Belichick was asked about how the two had met.
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Belichick had also previously asked UNC staff that Hudson be included on emails after she showed concern that Belichick could receive social media flak, something he has gotten much of amid a brutal 2-3 start in which each loss has been by at least 25 points.
UNC faces Cal in Berkley, California, Friday night.
US winemaker exposes ‘really scary’ additives hiding in your wine
Attention wine lovers! Before you pour another glass, you might want to know what’s really swirling inside it.
U.S. winemaker Charles Smith told FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on “Varney & Co.” that plenty of American wines are hiding a not-so-tasty secret—dozens of additives that never make it onto the label.
“There’s over 70 ingredients you can put in American wine—really scary things,” Smith said. “Most people believe that wine is just grapes, and it should be, as it’s been for centuries.”
Smith believes Americans deserve “full transparency” when it comes to knowing what they’re sipping.
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Smith, known for his bold style and creative blends, says wineries should be required to list ingredients, whether it’s on the bottle, through a QR code or online.
“You don’t know if you happen to be susceptible or even allergic to any of these because you don’t know what’s in the wine,” Smith explained.
Smith’s line, Real Wine, keeps things refreshingly simple.
“Turn the bottle around, and it says, ‘Ingredients: grapes,’” he said. “That’s my legal label — I’m the only producer in North America with just grapes.”
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The Washington state winemaker admits the industry has its challenges — younger drinkers are turning to spirits, beer, or even marijuana — but he’s not worried.
“Wine’s been around for centuries, and it will be around for centuries,” he said. “At the end of the day, it’s supposed to be fun and relaxing.”
In Gallup’s 2025 “Consumption Habits” survey, 54% of U.S. adults said they drink alcohol, the lowest level recorded since the poll began in 1939, according to the research firm. Twenty-four percent said they had a drink within the past 24 hours, also a record low. Reuters reports the decline is most pronounced among younger adults, suggesting a potential generational shift away from alcohol.
Market trends aside, Smith’s message is simple: Transparency matters just as much as taste.
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Donnie Wahlberg says past mistakes strengthened his marriage to Jenny McCarthy
Donnie Wahlberg is reflecting on his 11-year marriage to Jenny McCarthy.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, the “Boston Blue” star — who is currently starring in the “Blue Bloods” spinoff — detailed how his past romantic mistakes helped shape his relationship with McCarthy.
“Well, we’ve both been divorced before, so we did a lot of individual therapy and when we got together we decided, let’s do some together, sort of preemptive, because no matter what, every new relationship brings on new challenges and sometimes we don’t even know what activates us, what causes us to react to certain things and brings out vulnerabilities in us,” said Wahlberg.
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“But intimate new relationships are usually where they surface,” he continued. “Some of us are really good at working in a work environment or with friends. We can give advice, and we can handle things, but sometimes you get into a romantic relationship and suddenly things bother you that don’t bother you in other parts of your life. And it’s because it’s the most vulnerable relationship you’re going to be in, and that’s where those vulnerabilities pop up.”
McCarthy and Wahlberg began dating in July 2013 and tied the knot in August 2014. Wahlberg has two sons from his previous marriage to Kimberly Fey, and McCarthy has one son, Evan, from an earlier marriage to John Asher.
The former Playboy model and Asher got divorced in 2005. At the time, the couple had been married for 6 years and were grappling with their son’s autism diagnosis.
In 2008, McCarthy told Oprah Winfrey that the diagnosis took a toll on their marriage.
“I felt very alone in my marriage,” she said at the time. “He never sat down and said, ‘What did you find out on Google?’ There was never that connection of wanting to know and being there.”
For the second attempt at marriage, Wahlberg said he and McCarthy make it a priority to “put the relationship first.”
“I think both of us [put kids before our marriage] in our first relationships and we’re not going to make that mistake again.”
“That means doing work to protect and fortify the relationship,” he said. “And we put faith in the center of our relationship too, and that is such a foundation for us, and it’s just huge for us. But in any relationship, you have to put the relationship first.”
“It’s hard to always reconcile that, especially when you’re a parent, but they say on an airplane, if something happens, put your mask on first before your children. And I always thought that was the craziest thing. We have to do our kids first. But the theory is, if you don’t put your mask on first, you can’t help your children. It’s easy to put the kids before everything and forget your partner. And it’s understandable.”
“I think both of us did that in our first relationships and we’re not going to make that mistake again,” he added.
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Another piece of advice? Go on dates, said Wahlberg.
“Dates are fun!” he said. “All the things we do when we first meet, we stop. We eventually stop. We get complacent. We don’t mean it, but you stop asking questions, you stop being curious, you stop putting in the effort, you stop sending flowers, you just stop. We just tend to stop because we start to trust that the relationship’s solid and it’s there. But I think if we keep giving it that fuel and that energy, that love that we started with, then I think it really does keep the fire going.”
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Earlier this year, the New Kids on the Block star detailed the moment he knew McCarthy was “the one.”
During an interview with Fox News Digital, Wahlberg said his wife of over a decade never got jealous of his female fan base, even when he would kiss a different fan at the end of every show.
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“Jenny, when we first started dating, like, one of the reasons I knew she was a great girl for me, among the many reasons, was I told her, I said, ‘Look, I’m in this band. My fans are going to be there. When I walk into a hotel with you, for example, and you know there are 50 screaming fans outside, I can’t just duck by and run into the hotel.'”
“‘I got to stop and take pictures. I got to stop and say thank you. I got to stop and sign autographs.’ And she said, ‘OK.’ And I said, ‘All right, are you going to be good with that?’ She said, ‘Yeah, I’ll take the pictures with you. I’m good,'” Wahlberg said.
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He continued, “Like, I knew right then. I was like, ‘Oh, she’s the one.’ I knew already, but you know, I did have that talk with her.”
In 2023, McCarthy shared her husband’s sentiments on what makes a relationship work.
“Respecting each other, communicating with each other, being each other’s friends. Finding date nights and doing the work,” McCarthy told Fox News Digital.
“You know that saying… your partner is your best teacher. It really is true. Anything that you need to work on will come out in your relationship. And we were both always willing and still willing to do the work when things come up. And it really is, it makes all the difference in the world.”
Throughout their marriage, the two have made a point to support each other on a professional level as well.
Wahlberg said his latest show, “Boston Blue” — which premiered on Oct. 17 on CBS — presents a “great opportunity to keep faith and family and tradition on TV.”
“It’s fun. It’s a lot of things, but I think first and foremost, it’s a great opportunity to keep the ‘Blue Bloods’ world and the Reagan legacy alive,” said Wahlberg, who portrayed Detective Danny Reagan for 14 seasons. “It’s a great opportunity to keep faith and family and tradition on TV and to feature a law enforcement family.”
“Of course, it’s a new family, a new world, a new city, and Danny’s facing new challenges and being a dad on the police department for the first time in his life,” he continued. “But it creates a lot of opportunities to explore the character in new ways that I’ve never gotten to before.”
The “Blue Bloods” spinoff might even welcome a familiar face to the screen — Tom Selleck.
“Of course, we have some surprise guests already in the show,” said Wahlberg. “I would give anything to work with Tom again, and I fought like heck to be able to keep working with him on ‘Blue Bloods,’ but it just wasn’t meant to be. So, hopefully, this show is a tremendous opportunity, as I said, for a lot of things, but it’s certainly an opportunity to keep the Reagan legacy alive. And that would mean, of course, any chance I could work with any of the original cast, I would take it.”
“Boston Blue” airs Fridays on CBS and streams the next day on Paramount+.
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