Biden shares negative outlook on US while accepting lifetime achievement award

Former President Joe Biden suggested that the U.S. is currently facing “dark days.”

During a ceremony where he was honored with a lifetime achievement award for inspired leadership from the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Biden described the current state of affairs as the “worst” he has seen in his many decades of “elected public life,” opining that “our very democracy is at stake in my view.”

“Friends, I can’t sugarcoat any of this. These are dark days,” Biden asserted.

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But the Democrat said the U.S. is one of the only nations that comes out of each crisis it faces “stronger” than before.

Biden said he believes the U.S. will “emerge… stronger, wiser, more resilient, more just, so long as we keep the faith,” urging people to “fight like hell.”

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The lifetime achievement award recognizes Biden for serving 36 years as a senator, eight years as vice president alongside President Barack Obama, and four years as president. Before his time in federal posts, he served on the New Castle County Council in Delaware.

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Biden, who left office earlier this year at the age of 82, was the oldest person ever to serve as president in American history.

Trump fires back at Putin’s missile boast with nuclear submarine revelation

President Donald Trump warned Russian President Vladimir Putin in response to recent missile tests, reminding him that the U.S. has a nuclear submarine stationed “right off their shores.”

Trump made the comments during a press gaggle aboard Air Force One Monday morning, telling reporters that the U.S. is “not playing games” with Putin.

“Russia said this week that they’ve tested a new missile that can go more than 8,000 miles. Is that saber-rattling for you? What is that?” a reporter asked.

“I know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores. So, I mean, it doesn’t have to go 8,000 miles, and they’re not playing games with us. We’re not playing games with them either,” Trump responded.

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“We test missiles all the time. But, you know, we do have a submarine, a nuclear submarine. We don’t need to go 8,000 miles. And I don’t think it’s an appropriate thing for Putin to be saying either, by the way. You ought to get the war ended. A war that should have taken one week is now in its soon fourth year. That’s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles,” he added.

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Trump later teased that he may be considering further sanctions against Russia, telling reporters simply, “You’ll find out.”

Russia announced the successful test of its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile on Sunday, claiming it has a range of over 8,000 miles and can pierce defense shielding. Putin said Russia is moving to deploy the weapon.

Russia’s top general, Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, told Putin that the missile traveled 8,700 miles and was in the air for about 15 hours when it was tested on October 21.

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Trump has been heavily critical of Putin in recent months for his unwillingness to negotiate a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. Trump met face-to-face with the leader in Alaska earlier this year, but no deal has materialized.

How Soros cash, socialists and radical imams fueled shocking political ascent

In late September 2017, Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, once the darling of the Women’s March and the self-declared face of the “resistance” against Donald Trump, was facing mounting criticism for antisemitic remarks and her embrace of extremist views. 

But, beaming in a photograph taken on a city sidewalk, Sarsour appeared unfazed, her iconic fist pumped in the air as she knelt shoulder-to-shoulder with campaign volunteers for City Council candidate Khader El-Yateem. The photo was posted by El-Yateem on the Facebook page he used to promote his campaign, which he lost, but among the smiling faces was a young organizer named Zohran Mamdani.

That photo would mark the start of a carefully constructed political project that, in less than a decade, would propel a now-34-year-old socialist newcomer to the precipice of running America’s largest city – even while campaigning with radical imams, some of whom have supported terrorists and terrorist financiers.

A Fox Digital investigation reveals that Mamdani’s rise was no accident. It was engineered.

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A database of 110 groups backing Mamdani exposes a tight inner circle of organizations that identify as Muslim or socialist, working hand-in-glove with 76 Democratic Party affiliates, allied groups and unions. Particularly important in this political machine are two networks – Sarsour’s MPower organizations and another constellation of groups called Emgage, with which she works closely.

The organizations have been generously funded. In total, billionaire George Soros’ Open Society philanthropies have given MPower and Emgage nearly $2.5 million in recent years, according to tax filings. 

“We fund a range of civil society organizations that work to deepen civic engagement through peaceful democratic participation, counter discrimination including against Muslim Americans and advance human rights,” a spokesperson for Open Society Foundations told Fox News Digital. “The grants that you cite all occurred years before the mayoral race, and we are a nonpartisan organization that does not fund political candidates and their campaigns.”

Mamdani, Sarsour and the groups supporting Mamdani’s campaign didn’t return requests for comment.

MPower and Emgage have been part of a tight inner circle of 30 ethnic and religious groups, that also includes CAIR Action, the 501(c)(4) political wing of the 501(c)(3) Council on American-Islamic Relations nonprofit, the Islamic Circle of North America,“ “Muslim Action Coalition,” Yemeni American Merchants Associations Inc., the “Bangladeshi American Advocacy Group” and “Desis Rising Up and Moving.” They have pumped up Mamdani’s campaign with social media campaigns, canvassing, voters and buzz.

Altogether, they have annual revenues of about $24 million, and they have worked to promote Mamdani’s campaign with endorsements, fund-raising, social media campaigns and canvassing.

The result: a carefully constructed political career that mainstreams the socialist goals long embraced by Sarsour and fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America.

It’s a machine that is expressing itself in races from New York to Virginia, Minnesota, Texas and California with MPower and Emgage aligning with the Democratic Socialists of America and the Democratic Party to propel candidates who may share their views. In a campaign called “Defend and Advance,” Emgage SuperPac is pushing Mamdani and Democratic Virginia Lt. Governor candidate Ghazala Hashmi as its “star candidates.”

Emgage’s “Defend and Advance” roster of supported candidates and office holders includes Dearborn, Mich., Mayor Abdullah Hammoud.

“I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here,” Hammoud recently told a Christian pastor who objected to a proposal to name a street in honor of a local man who had allegedly praised terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. “And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence.”

Emgage’s donations include $175,000 from a group little-noticed by political observers but important in Islamist circles: Sterling Charitable Gift Fund, based in Herndon, Va. It is part of a network of groups that FBI agents raided in 2002 as part of wider investigations into the funding of Palestinian terrorist groups, including Hamas. Federal prosecutors ultimately didn’t file criminal charges against any officials at Sterling Charitable Gift Fund.

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Over almost a decade, Sarsour and her allies have orchestrated a network of well-financed and tightly connected socialist activists, radical imams, political organizers and nonprofit organizations funded with millions of dollars by major philanthropies, including Foundation to Promote Open Society, the Ford Foundation, Macarthur Foundation and the Tides Foundation.

The confluence of big philanthropy, partisan operatives and clerical authority has helped drive Mamdani’s ascent. Its architecture combines nonprofit activism with faith-based politics and the precision of a professional campaign operation. 

“To the casual observer, Zohran Mamdani’s rise might appear meteoric – a story of grassroots energy and demographic change in America’s largest city,” said Dalia Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi American Muslim who is running against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, with Omar supported by the same kind of political machine being unleashed to propel Mamdani to office.

“The data, the money trail and the affiliations, from the Democratic Socialists of America to the Islamists, tells a different story.”

“Mamdani’s ascent is the product of deliberate design: a sophisticated collaboration between socialist activism and Islamist organizing, lubricated by millions in foundation grants and political donations and normalized through a revolving door of political operatives and nonprofits who embrace Islamists, the destruction of the state of Israel and hostilities to the police, the U.S. and the West,” Al-Aqidi said.

The timeline of Mamdani’s rise tracks precisely with the growth of this network. In 2012, as a student at Bowdoin College, in Maine, he cofounded a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the campus organization known for its rabid anti-Israel activism. By 2017, he was canvassing for El-Yateem’s campaign with Sarsour’s mentorship.

In 2018, Mamdani formally entered Sarsour’s orbit through the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, an organization she co-founded in 2013 to mobilize Muslim voters and elect progressive Democrats to local office. The Muslim Democratic Club of New York served as both incubator and amplifier for Sarsour’s political brand, one that fused progressive politics with an explicitly Islamist social identity. By December 2018, Mamdani joined the board, in an announcement in which the group said, “Help build Muslim power across the city with us!”

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With his new role, Mamdani gained access to an emerging infrastructure of influence: voter lists, donor networks and organizing muscle that would later power his campaign to a seat on the New York General Assembly. The Muslim Democratic Club endorsed Mamdani.

Around that time, Sarsour was building her own empire, founding MPower Change as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit housed at Neo Philanthropy Inc. Public filings show MPower Change took in at least $2.4 million between 2017 and 2024, the latest year available, with Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society giving her organization $1.125 million and the Macarthur Foundation funneling her $450,000. It would become a flagship digital organizing hub for not just Sarsour but Mamdani. 

Meanwhile, Emgage Action was expanding its footprint nationally. Also backed by the Open Society network, Emgage Action received a share of $42.5 million that Soros’ foundations pledged to Muslim, Arab and South Asian civic groups beginning in 2021. It has received $1.8 million from the Open Society Policy Center and another $1.35 million from the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Together, MPower Change and Emgage created an unprecedented financial and political ecosystem, leveraging big philanthropy’s dollars and digital strategy to elevate candidates like Mamdani under the banner of Muslim empowerment.

In 2020, Mamdani won his first election to the New York State Assembly, with Sarsour’s explicit endorsement and fundraising help.

By 2020, Mamdani was being featured in Sarsour’s #MyMuslimVote summit, promoted by MPower Change as the face of a new generation of unapologetic Muslim progressives. By this year, his campaign for mayor became the culmination of that project — backed by PAC money, boosted by clerical endorsements and legitimized by an activist ecosystem that had spent a decade grooming him for this very moment.

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To push Mamdani toward the helm of the nation’s biggest city, the network extended far beyond activist circles. Central to Mamdani’s political ascent was a series of carefully cultivated relationships with clerics with some troubling views.

In January, Mamdani courted Imam Muhammad Al-Barr of the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, visiting his mosque just months after Al-Barr had publicly prayed to “annihilate” Israel.

In May, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, the longtime imam of Brooklyn’s Masjid At-Taqwa, personally donated $1,000 to the Unity and Justice Fund. More recently, Mamdani met with Wahhaj and called him “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community.”

Wahhaj, who served as a character witness in the trial of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh” later convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has a long history of calling for the exploitation of America’s democracy to further a conquest for Islam.

“You don’t get in politics because it’s the American thing to do,” he said in a videotaped 1991 sermon. “You get involved in politics because politics can be a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.” 

Wahhaj has also denounced the U.S. government as “controlled by Shaitan,” the Arabic word for the devil, urged Muslims not to befriend “non-believers,” condemned homosexuality as “a disease of this society,” and supported Islamic laws that punish sex outside of marriage with 100 lashes and stoning. In 2011, Wahhaj urged Muslims to donate to the legal defense of the since-convicted Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist dubbed “Lady Al Qaeda” for attempting to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Over the years, Wahhaj’s sermons have praised “jihad” without “a gun,” called for an Islamic America governed by sharia law and urged the creation of an “army of 10,000 men in New York City.”

Other imams now backing Mamdani’s mayoral run have also been controversial. Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, a cleric leading the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem, co-founded the Muslim Alliance in North America, alongside Wahhaj. In 2005, Abdur-Rashid publicly defended Rafiq Sabir, an American doctor who joined al Qaeda and was subsequently sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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In 2008, Abdur-Rashid defended Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian American professor whom the U.S. later deported to Turkey for “conspiring to provide services” to Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Still in the U.S., Al-Arian’s wife joined the anti-Israel encampments at Columbia University.

In September, Mamdani appeared as the special guest speaker at Abdur-Rashid’s annual gala. A month earlier, Muslim Association of North America’s social media featured Abdur-Rashid visiting Wahhaj’s mosque, underscoring the continued collaboration between the two imams.

In Manhattan, Imam Khalid Latif, the executive director of the Islamic Center at New York University, has been another prominent Mamdani backer. Latif publicly endorsed Mamdani on Facebook in June, calling him “a bearer of compassion in a time where it is far too rare.”

In 2012, Latif led a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia that included Omar Mateen, who would later murder 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest anti-LGBTQ attack in U.S. history. He has denied radicalizing Mateen and he hasn’t faced the same type of allegations that surround the other imams.

For many Muslim political organizations backing Mamdani, these clerics are not liabilities but assets, serving as trusted gatekeepers to the city’s growing community of Muslim voters.

After Mamdani visited Wahhaj’s mosque earlier this month, he tweeted out a photo of the two with the caption: “Pleasure to meet Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders.” When a firestorm ensued, several allies rose to his defense: Sarsour, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the leaders at Emgage Action.

Sarsour shared a selfie with Mamdani, beaming, like they did back in 2017, and wrote, “May Allah continue to bless and protect you.”

A defiant Wa’el Alzayat, the executive director of Emgage Action, sent out a dispatch to followers on Tuesday, amid criticism for their political work, promising, “We are in this for the long haul.”

Back in Minnesota, Al-Aqidi closely watched the defense of Mamdani.

“For over a decade, Linda Sarsour and her network of allies have built the Mamdani machine piece by piece: the institutions, the donors, the narratives and now, the candidate. There was no way they were going to throw him under the bus for one photo with one imam whom they happen to love,” said Al-Aqidi. “Mamdani is the fresh face of a radical coalition, and I hope New Yorkers will reject him. Win or lose, one fact remains undeniable. His rise was not spontaneous. It was engineered and the machinery behind it is only getting stronger.”

Al-Aqidi said; “I hope New Yorkers will shut the Mamdani machine down.”

Americans are neglecting the healthiest protein in grocery stores, says chef

Celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern claims America’s next health revolution is in the seafood section of the grocery store.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, the “Bizarre Foods” host and James Beard Award-winning chef said one of the most dangerous habits of Americans today is that they’re neglecting fish.

“Seafood is the healthiest protein in general … from digestion to brain health to brain growth for younger people and on and on,” Zimmern said.

The Minnesota-based chef said seafood is “extremely beneficial” to the body.

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“It’s very low in fat, in general — and what fats that are there are very, very healthy ones.”

In Zimmern’s new “Blue Food Cookbook,” co-written with fellow chef Barton Seaver, he says a simple shift in American diets could have ripple effects for public health, the environment and the economy.

“I’d love it if people ate one more meal from the water every single week,” he said. “Just one.”

Zimmern has spent decades exploring what people eat and why. 

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He himself has eaten everything from tarantulas in Cambodia to fermented shark in Iceland, but his message now is simple: Seafood is the future.

“We export 75% of what American fisheries bring in,” he said. “That number’s topsy-turvy. We should be keeping more of that seafood here at home.”

By creating more demand for seafood, the price would drop, more people would eat it and “human beings would be healthier,” Zimmern said.

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Part of the problem, he said, is the illusion of cheap meat.

“I’m eating less and less [red meat] as every year goes by, but I love it.”

“We have been almost hypnotized, in a way, in this country to assume that a steak of a certain size, individually portioned, wrapped in plastic in the supermarket, should cost $8 or $9,” Zimmern said. “And that was the case for 40, 50 years. That is no longer the case.”

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The average retail price for 100% ground beef has risen from $4.63 in 2020 to $6.12 in 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“The average family in America can’t afford that,” Zimmern said.

That said, Zimmern believes red meat and seafood can co-exist.

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“I love red meat,” he said. “I’m eating less and less of it as every year goes by, but I love it.”

Zimmern also shot down one of America’s more persistent seafood snobberies: the so-called “garbage fish.”

“It’s a big myth,” he said. “At the end of the day, the important question isn’t, ‘Is it wild?’ ‘Is it farmed?’ … The question should be, ‘Where was it caught, and is it sustainable and regenerative?’”

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He calls tilapia — a mild, inexpensive and farm-raised fish often dismissed by diners — one of his go-to meals.

“We eat it in our house once a week because it takes on flavors very well,” Zimmern said.

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“If I made tilapia with lemon and capers — which is the way I choose to serve it most of the time to my family — not only does it take me about 12 minutes to make, I serve it to company … and they’re like, ‘Oh my God, what is this fish?’ And I’m like, ‘It’s tilapia.'”

Swalwell’s ‘ridiculous’ demand for ballroom demolition fires up Lara Trump

“My View” host Lara Trump blasted Rep. Eric Swalwell‘s “ridiculous” suggestion that the next Democratic presidential nominee must vow to demolish President Donald Trump’s $250 million White House ballroom.

“It’s ridiculous… we all know that. And everybody should be happy about this [the ballroom],” Trump said Monday on “Fox & Friends First.”

“But of course, that’s Eric Swalwell…”

The California Democrat proposed the pledge to demolish the addition as a litmus test for the party’s 2028 contenders, writing Saturday on X: “Don’t even think of seeking the Democratic nomination for president unless you pledge to take a wrecking ball to the Trump Ballroom on DAY ONE.”

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Swalwell’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the matter.

Democrats have been critical of the sprawling 90,000-square-foot development, which would give the White House a formal ballroom for the first time in history.

The ballroom will stand in place of the East Wing and adhere to the classical design of the White House.

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Construction began earlier this month and will be financed by Trump and private donors.

Despite opposition from many, The Washington Post editorial board defended the project on Sunday, arguing that the next Democratic president will be happy to have the space for official events and hosting.

Trump responded to that claim during her Monday appearance.

“That’s amazing… they’re exactly right,” she said.

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“The only thing I’ll disagree with them on is that I don’t know when we’re going to see another Democrat as president, if this is the way the Democrats are behaving about a beautiful renovation that everyone should be able to enjoy that was long overdue and really necessary at the White House.”

Democrats squeezed by benefits cliff that could affect 42 million Americans

The Trump administration is warning that millions of Americans could lose out on federal food benefits within days if Democrats do not accept Republicans’ plan to end the government shutdown.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it does not have the ability to independently reshuffle funds into the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, according to a recent memo obtained by Fox News Digital.

“Due to Congressional Democrats’ refusal to pass a clean continuing resolution (CR), approximately 42 million individuals will not receive their SNAP benefits come November 1st,” the memo said.

“This jeopardizes all SNAP recipients in November, including those that have applied for benefits in the last half of October, and furloughed Federal employees who will not receive their combined October/November benefits.”

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Democrats had been pressing the Trump administration to use the federal government’s SNAP contingency fund, which they said contains about $5 billion, to cover at least some of the shortfall.

It takes about $8 to $9 billion per month to cover all SNAP benefits.

But the USDA argued that the emergency funding was not “legally available” for use.

“SNAP contingency funds are only available to supplement regular monthly benefits when amounts have been appropriated for, but are insufficient to cover, benefits. The contingency fund is not available to support [fiscal year (FY) 2026] regular benefits, because the appropriation for regular benefits no longer exists,” the memo said.

“Instead, the contingency fund is a source of funds for contingencies, such as the Disaster SNAP program, which provides food purchasing benefits for individuals in disaster areas, including natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods, that can come on quickly and without notice.”

The department also argued that shuffling existing funds from other areas would harm Americans who rely on those programs.

“Transfers from other sources would pull away funding for school meals and infant formula,” the memo said. “This Administration will not allow Democrats to jeopardize funding for school meals and infant formula in order to prolong their shutdown.”

USDA emphasized its point with an announcement on its website seen Monday morning that said, “Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).”

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“Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 1. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance,” the department said.

A letter signed by nearly all House Democrats sent to the USDA on Friday said the SNAP contingency fund was available “precisely for this reason.”

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“We urge USDA to use these funds for November SNAP benefits and issue clear guidance to states on how to navigate benefit issuance. Additionally, while the contingency reserve will not cover November benefits in full, we urge USDA to use its statutory transfer authority or any other legal authority at its disposal to supplement these dollars and fully fund November benefits,” they wrote.

Democrats have said they would not accept any federal funding bill that does not also include an extension of Obamacare subsidies that were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic — but which are set to expire at the end of this year.

Republicans’ plan, a short-term extension of FY2025 federal funding called a continuing resolution (CR), passed the House on Sept. 19 but has since stalled in the Senate.

‘Quite embarrassed’: Demi Moore reveals Tom Cruise’s reaction to pregnancy on set

Demi Moore is recalling her experience working with Tom Cruise while eight months pregnant in the early ’90s.

During a Q&A at the New Yorker Festival on Saturday, the actress said Cruise was “embarrassed” about her pregnancy while the pair prepared for the 1992 legal drama, “A Few Good Men.”

“I think Tom was quite embarrassed,” Moore, who was pregnant at the time with her second child, Scout Willis, said, per People. “I actually felt OK about it. I was moving around, though, right? But I could tell he felt that it was a bit awkward.”

The “Substance” star — who also shares daughters Rumer Willis and Tallulah Willis with ex-husband Bruce Willis — said she felt Cruise’s discomfort may have stemmed from the ongoing pressure set upon women to choose a family or a career at the time.

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“It’s one of the many things, for me, that I just felt didn’t make sense,” she said of the societal pressure she felt. “And so I challenged that to say, you know, ‘Why not? Why can’t you have both?’ But with that, I think, came a lot of pressure I put on myself to, in a sense, prove that it was possible.”

“I was going to be in a military uniform, and probably overly anticipated and started working out and trying to get in shape even before she was born,” Moore said of preparing for her role as a lawyer in the Navy’s Internal Affairs Department.

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“I did a two-and-a-half-hour hike the day my water broke. I did a 24-mile bike ride, and then was dancing at a reggae club — hence why she came two-and-a-half weeks early,” she added.

A representative for Cruise did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Earlier this year, Moore opened up about the downfalls of fame, explained how it has put her “through the wringer” and revealed how she’s been able to evolve into the person she is today. 

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“It’s put me through the wringer,” the Golden Globe Award-winning actress told People in April. “Not unlike what ‘The Substance’ [her 2024 horror film] is and why they made the character an actor. Because it really forced me to address my issues of self-judgment and lack of appreciation.”

While the mom of three has been candid about her past struggles – including a tumultuous relationship with her mom, marriage woes, body image challenges and alcoholism – she’s noticed a shift in mindset these days. 

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“I did torture myself. Crazy things like biking from Malibu all the way to Paramount, which is about 26 miles. All because I placed so much value on what my outsides looked like,” she admitted. “I think the biggest difference today is it’s so much more about my overall health and longevity and quality of life. I think I’ve evolved into greater gentility toward myself. I was so harsh and had a much more antagonistic relationship with my body. And straight up I was really just punishing myself.”

“Now I have a much more kind of intuitive, relaxed relationship with my body,” Moore continued. “I trust when it tells me it needs something to eat, that it’s thirsty. I listen to my body today, and I have a lot less fear. When I was younger, I felt like my body was betraying me. And so I just tried to control it. And now I don’t operate from that place. It’s a much more aligned relationship.”

“I have a greater appreciation for all that my body has been through that brought me to now,” she added. “It doesn’t mean that sometimes I look in the mirror and don’t go, ‘Oh God, I look old,’ or ‘Oh, my face is falling’ – I do. But I can accept that that’s where I’m at today, and I know the difference today is that it doesn’t define my value or who I am.”   

Teen accomplice in deadly robbery back in jail on new attempted murder charges

One of the New York City teens involved in the 2019 stabbing death of 18-year-old Virginian Tessa Majors, a Barnard College freshman, is back behind bars on charges of attempted murder and assault after a slap-on-the-wrist juvenile sentence, according to local reporting.

Zyairr Davis, then 13, was one of three teens arrested in the attack, but not the one who delivered the fatal blow. As a result, he received the lightest sentence — 18 months in juvenile detention, while the others saw life sentences.

Now he’s back behind bars on charges that include attempted murder in connection with a gang-related shooting into a crowd of people in Harlem, the New York Post reported Sunday. Court records show he faces nearly a dozen new charges in adult court, nearly all of them violent.

Majors, originally from Charlottesville, was attending her first semester at the school, which is affiliated with and across the street from the Ivy League’s Columbia University.

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Davis and two 14-year-old pals, Rashaun Weaver and Luchiano Lewis, attacked her from behind in Morningside Park, a block away from campus, around 7 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2019, according to court documents.

They swiped her phone, but she fought back, biting Weaver hard enough that he dropped a knife, which Davis picked up and handed back to him, according to prosecutors.

According to a victims’ impact statement her family read at Weaver’s sentencing, she fought her way free twice, but the boys continued to surround and attack her.

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Ultimately, Lewis held her in a headlock as Weaver stabbed her to death, so hard that Davis told police he saw down feathers exploding out of her jacket, Fox News Digital reported previously. She suffered repeated stab wounds, including one through the heart.

Police recovered Weaver’s DNA under her nails. Her father said at trial that she fiercely tried to keep her phone because she was an aspiring musician with years worth of songs on the device.

The two 14-year-olds were charged as adults, but the case against Davis remained in juvenile court, which slapped him with an 18-month sentence for robbery.

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Weaver pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in December 2021 in exchange for a sentence of 14 years to life in prison. He also pleaded guilty to two more unrelated robberies. Lewis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery and received a sentence of nine years to life in prison.

By April of this year, according to the Post report, he was back on the streets and allegedly involved in a gang-related Harlem shooting into a crowd.

While jailed on an attempted murder charge in a juvenile facility, he allegedly brawled with other inmates, according to court documents, and was accused of attacking a youth counselor, racking up new charges of assault and harassment.

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“They always go back to ‘He was a poor kid who had a bad childhood,'” Kevin O’Connor, a former New York City youth services official, told the Post. “That’s not the victim’s problem. That’s where government is supposed to step in and do its job.”

He blamed New York’s “Raise the Age” law, which put more cases against teens under 18 in family court rather than criminal court, for allowing Davis back on the streets.

Davis, who was born in 2006, is finally charged as an adult, court records show.

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He pleaded not guilty to 11 charges in connection with the Harlem shooting.

He is expected to make his first appearance in the jail brawl case on Nov. 12 and is due back in court in connection with the shooting on Dec. 4.

Popular snack sold at Costco, Sam’s Club stores recalled nationwide: What to know

More than 2 million pounds of ready-to-eat Korean barbecue pork jerky product shipped to Costco and Sam’s Club stores nationwide are being recalled over fears that it may be contaminated with pieces of metal, federal health officials warned.  

South Dakota-based LSI Inc. recalled its jerky product, labeled Golden Island fire-grilled pork jerky Korean barbecue recipe, after multiple consumers reported finding wiry metal in the product, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said in the warning notice posted on Saturday. 

The company discovered that the metal found in the products had originated from the conveyor belt used in production.

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FOX Business reached out to Sam’s Club, Costco and LSI Inc. for comment.

The USDA said there have been no confirmed reports of injuries due to consumption of this product. However, officials say anyone concerned about an injury should contact a healthcare provider.

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The impacted products have a one-year shelf-life with “best by” dates ranging from Oct. 23, 2025, through Sept. 23, 2026. The dates are printed on the side of the packaging.

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The product comes in 14.5-ounce and 16-ounce plastic pouches and has the establishment number “M279A” inside the USDA mark of inspection. 

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