Calls grow for criminal inquiry into Spanberger’s alleged taxpayer-funded school rally

A nonpartisan, public-interest litigation firm is calling for a criminal investigation into Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) after the school division allegedly used taxpayer dollars to host a political rally for Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, Abigail Spanberger, in August.

The Liberty Justice Center is calling for an official investigation after Spanberger, who was elected governor of Virginia last week, held the rally at I.C. Norcom High School free of charge, with controversial attorney general candidate, now AG-elect, Jay Jones in attendance.

“This is just a gross misuse of public money and resources,” Brendan Philbin, senior counsel at the Liberty Justice Center, told Fox News Digital. “The time of teachers and the maintenance staff and everyone should be, at this point, getting ready to start the new school year. But instead, they’re using all this time and resources to host this gratuitous political event.”

“If an official causes public assets, resources or labor to be used for a cause other than what they are intended for, and the value of that is over $1,000, then it’s a felony in Virginia,” Philbin added.

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The group alleges that PPS is in violation of Virginia law 18.2-112.1(B), which specifies the “misuse of public assets.”

The law reads: “‘public assets’ means personal property belonging to or paid for by the Commonwealth, or any city, town, county, or any other political subdivision, or the labor of any person other than the accused that is paid for by the Commonwealth, or any city, town, county, or any other political subdivision.”

“Any full-time officer, agent, or employee of the Commonwealth, or of any city, town, county, or any other political subdivision who, without lawful authorization, uses or permits the use of public assets for private or personal purposes unrelated to the duties and office of the accused or any other legitimate government interest when the value of such use exceeds $1,000 in any 12-month period, is guilty of a Class 4 felony,” according to Virginia law.

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The Liberty Justice Center alleges that the value of services rendered to the campaign was over $1,000 due to the cost to rent several rooms in the school, teachers that were on the clock in attendance and the labor and time of the support staff and groundskeeping to enhance public grounds.

At one point in the email exchange between the campaign and the public school, the principal of I.C. Norcom, Teesha Sanders, offered up classrooms to the campaign should the soundproofing of the original space be an issue or if more space was needed for the political event.

The event was held on the first day of the teacher-work period, a time typically reserved for teachers to prepare for the upcoming school year. Teachers were required to be at work that day in their official capacity as summer vacation had officially ended.

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The Liberty Justice Center also alleges that Spanberger ethically violated 24.2-947.4(B)(2) of Virginia law by failing to report the “in-kind” contribution by the school board.

“For each contributor who has contributed an aggregate of more than $100, including cash and in-kind contributions, as of the ending date of the report, the campaign committee shall itemize each contributor on the report and list the following information,” the law reads.

The misuse of public funds was originally uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Restoration News, where the school division contested to the outlet that the rally was a closed event and fees were waived because the building was already open.

However, per emails obtained through the FOIA, a campaign official for Spanberger created an invitation link that was publicly available on the gubernatorial official’s website which was sent to Dr. Jerry L. Simmons, the chief operations officer for PPS, by a campaign official who told him to “share this RSVP invite link with any teachers who are interested.”

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A spokesperson for Portsmouth Public Schools explained to Fox News Digital that the school was unaware the event was a campaign event, instead believing it was an educational event. Once the principal saw it was a campaign event, she told staff not to attend. The school district’s administration is now reviewing its process and procedures to ensure it is in better alignment with Board policies and state code.

The school district also explained that the event was not open to the public and did not charge guests. The school buildings were already open and there were no facility or custodial fees, a PPS spokesperson said. Security was provided by the Spanberger campaign. 

The Liberty Justice Center wrote to Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and Portsmouth Commonwealth’s attorney Stephanie Morales, but has yet to hear back from the parties on whether an investigation is taking place or whether the state’s top legal enforcers are looking into their calls for a criminal investigation.

Fox News Digital reached out to Miyares, Portsmouth Public Schools, I.C. Norcom High School, Simmons and the Portsmouth Commonwealth attorney but did not receive responses in time for publication.

Tensions erupt between House, Senate GOP over controversial measure in shutdown bill

The House is expected to vote next week on repealing a controversial measure in the bill that ended the government shutdown. 

It caused heartburn for House Republicans in the final days of the shutdown and provided fresh ammo for Democrats hoping to delay their federal funding legislation in its final hours.

The provision, tucked into the Legislative Branch appropriations bill and dubbed “Requiring Senate Notification for Senate Data,” would allow senators directly targeted in former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation to sue the U.S. government for up to $500,000. 

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., who was involved in crafting part of the successful funding deal, told Fox News Digital he had even been afraid it could derail the final vote to end the shutdown.

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“It had been done without our knowledge. I mean, it had been added in the Senate without our knowledge,” Cole said. “It was a real trust factor … I mean, all of a sudden, this pops up in the bill, and we’re confronted with either leave this in here, or we pull it out, we have to go to conference, and the government doesn’t get reopened.”

It was placed into the bill by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and given the green-light by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sources confirmed to Fox News Digital. 

Thune put the provision into the bill at the request of members of the Senate GOP, a source familiar with the negotiations told Fox News Digital, which included Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. 

It was a big point of contention when the House Rules Committee met to prepare the legislation for a final vote on Tuesday night. Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Austin Scott, R-Ga., and Morgan Griffith, R-Va., all shared House Democrats’ frustration with the measure, but they made clear it would not stand in the way of ending what had become the longest shutdown in history.

Those Republicans agreed with the motivations behind their Senate counterparts wanting to sue but bristled over the notion that it would come at the expense of U.S. taxpayers.

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Roy told Fox News Digital that he brought his concerns to the Senate GOP himself.

“Well, they heard them,” Roy said when asked how those concerns were received. “I mean, you know, the lords don’t like to be told by mere commoners what to do. But we’re going to have to take a pretty strong stand on this one.”

The measure’s inclusion was enough for Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., to vote against the final bill, telling reporters, “I’m not voting to send Lindsey Graham half a million dollars.”

Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn., among the GOP lawmakers outside the Rules Committee who made their concerns public, introduced legislation to repeal the provision.

“The American people should not be asked to make compensation to United States senators, the ultimate insiders, if you will — who have been wronged, no doubt in my mind … this provision does not allow other Americans to pursue a remedy. It does not even allow the President of the United States, who was equally wrongfully surveilled and pursued by the Justice Department — they didn’t even include President Trump in this,” Rose told Fox News Digital. “They saved this special treat for themselves. And, you know, frankly, the right answer is that they should all disavow that immediately.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., appeared equally, if not more, annoyed when asked by reporters about the measure. He said a vote on repealing it would be fast-tracked next week and hoped his Senate counterparts would do the same.

“I was just as surprised by the inclusion of that language as anyone. I had no prior notice of it at all,” Johnson said. “I was frustrated, as my colleagues are over here, and I thought it was untimely and inappropriate. So we’ll be requesting, strongly urging, our Senate colleagues to repeal that.”

But there was an appetite among Senate Republicans to respond to Smith’s investigation where senators were not notified that their records would be requested without notification. And the provision is narrowly tailored to just include senators and would require that they be notified if their information is requested by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The idea is to prevent the abuse of the DOJ to go after sitting senators now and in the future. 

Graham, when asked if he would be filing a lawsuit, told reporters in South Carolina, “Oh, definitely.” 

“And if you think I’m going to settle this thing for a million dollars? No. I want to make it so painful no one ever does this again,” he said. 

When asked for comment on the matter, Cruz’s office pointed Fox News Digital to comments he made in a recent Politico report. 

“Leader Thune inserted that in the bill to provide real teeth to the prohibition on the Department of Justice targeting senators,” Cruz told Politico.

Several senators were unaware of the provision’s inclusion, including Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., the top Democrat on the Legislative Branch appropriations subcommittee. 

“I am furious that the Senate Minority and Majority Leaders chose to airdrop this provision into this bill at the eleventh hour — with zero consultation or negotiation with the subcommittee that actually oversees this work,” Heinrich said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “This is precisely what’s wrong with the Senate.”

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Most of the eight senators who did have their phone records subpoenaed as part of Smith’s investigation were also unaware of the provision until the legislation was unveiled over the weekend and have no intent to file a lawsuit. 

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, “first learned about this provision when he and his staff were reading the bill to open the government,” Amanda Coyne, a senior advisor for the lawmaker, told Fox News Digital. “The senator has no plans to sue.” 

And Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who has pressed for a full disclosure of the probe alongside Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox News Digital in a statement, “I have no plans at this time” to sue. 

“If I did sue, it would only be for the purpose of using the courts to expose the corrupt weaponization of federal law enforcement by the Biden and Obama administrations,” he said. “With the full cooperation in our congressional investigations from the Trump DOJ and FBI, that shouldn’t be necessary.”

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But he noted that he supports the provision, “As a deterrent to prevent future misuse of federal agencies.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., sought a declaratory judgment, rather than monetary, over her phone records being requested by Smith before the provision was added into the bill. She said she would support plans to repeal the provision. 

“If the Senate votes on the bill to undo the Arctic Frost provision in the government funding bill, I will support the effort to reverse it,” she said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “This fight is not about the money; it is about holding the left accountable for the worst weaponization of government in our nation’s history.”

Congressman says he was ‘blown off’ by college accused of blocking new TPUSA chapter

A Republican member of Congress seeking to support one of his constituents who accused her college of blocking attempts to start a new Turning Point USA chapter on campus was reportedly “blown off” by college administrators after he attempted to have a conversation with the school to better understand what was going on.

Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., sought to collect the facts regarding allegations from a Beloit College student that her college was preventing her from establishing a new Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter on campus. TPUSA was the conservative campus activism nonprofit founded by assassinated activist Charlie Kirk. 

Additionally, the student, Jocelyn Jordan, accused her school of failing to adequately respond to a harassment campaign she and her classmates have been facing as a result of their efforts to start a new TPUSA club on campus. The alleged harassment initially included disturbing imagery posted on the group’s new Instagram page, referring to Jordan and her co-founders as Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members and White supremacists, but eventually devolved into threats. 

“Our office reached out to Beloit College in good faith to discuss this matter and were blown off,” Van Orden said in a statement posted on his official X account. “That is unacceptable. Every student, regardless of political belief, deserves the right to organize, speak freely, and participate fully in campus life without fear of retribution.”

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According to Van Orden, his staff phoned the Beloit College President’s Administrative Office to set up a phone call between the congressman and the college’s President Eric Boynton on Monday. The congressman relayed that the office agreed to set up the phone call for later that afternoon.

But, a few hours before the call was supposed to take place, an attorney representing the school, Eric Rumbaugh, reached out and informed the congressman and his staff that Boynton would not be participating in the call on the advice of counsel. Seeking further clarification, the congressman personally called Rumbaugh back the same day, but his call went straight to voicemail. Van Orden left a message requesting a call back, but he told Fox News Digital that, to date, Rumbaugh has not called him back. 

However, when reached for comment on this story, a Beloit college spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the voicemail had been returned a few hours earlier on Wednesday morning, two days after Van Orden left his voicemail with the president’s office. 

“Beloit College did receive an inquiry from Rep. Van Orden, and it is correct that the college’s representative returned the call to Rep. Van Orden’s office,” a Beloit College spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement. “He had had a long conversation with Rep. Van Orden’s office at that time. Rep. Van Orden called back on the afternoon of the 10th and left a message. The phone call was returned this morning, and Rep. Van Orden has not since returned our call.” Van Orden’s staff subsequently told Fox News Digital that the congressman intends to return their on Thursday.  

The decision by a group of Beloit College students to start a new TPUSA chapter on campus occurred in early October. A major part of TPUSA’s activism efforts include building support on campuses across the country through chapter clubs at various colleges and universities. TPUSA eventually even expanded to include high school chapters as well. 

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Jordan and her classmates were directed by school administrators that there were a list of requirements they needed to meet before they could formally establish the club, among them – finding a faculty advisor. Every faculty member the students have asked thus far, including the dean of students, refused to help them, according to Jordan, who said she was advised to establish a group that does not have the Turning Point name attached to it. 

Jordan also said a leading member of the student government on campus said that even if they were to find a faculty advisor, they still would not be able to establish a Turning Point chapter on campus because actions from the national level TPUSA organization supposedly violated Beloit College’s “Student Statement of Culture” policy.

In response to the accusations, a Beloit College spokesperson denied that faculty were blocking Jordan and her classmates from establishing a TPUSA chapter, telling Fox News Digital that the school has been “in full accordance with campus policies” and that all potential clubs must follow the same list of requirements.

After Jordan and her classmates began promoting their club on social media in mid-October, a harassment campaign targeting the students for their efforts quickly followed.

Jordan said the university dismissed the students’ initial harassment concerns, telling them there was nothing faculty could do because they could not identify who was making the harassing posts. When the harassment devolved into threats, Jordan filed a subsequent police report, a move that appeared to spur greater action from the college, which eventually banned one of the main harassers from campus, who Jordan said was an alumnus working in food service on campus at the time.

“As a student, I should feel comfortable coming to campus no matter what beliefs I have, no matter what I identify as, no matter who I want to be. And, at this moment, I don’t feel comfortable,” Jordan told Fox News Digital.

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In addition to denying that the school was preventing Jordan and her classmates from starting their Republican student club, the school insisted that it is “committed to fostering respectful, open inquiry and encouraging a diversity of perspectives on campus.”

“The college takes all allegations of threats and harassment against students seriously, including recent ones related to the students interested in forming a Turning Point USA chapter,” the college told Fox News Digital. “Beloit College expects all members of our community to practice compassion and respect towards each other. We are an educational institution, and students learn best within a safe and vibrant campus environment.” 

The mysterious case of Gaza’s disappearing ‘famine’ raises uncomfortable questions

For months, headlines warned of an impending famine in Gaza — images of starving children, shattered infrastructure and humanitarian collapse filled the news. On Aug. 22, 2025, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared that while full data was lacking, expert inference indicated famine was underway. Governments pledged aid; humanitarian agencies sounded alarms. Yet today, the word “famine” has nearly vanished from headlines. What happened?

This is not to deny the human suffering in Gaza; it is to ask difficult, necessary questions. Was famine averted, exaggerated or politically reframed?

Famine has been described as a tree swaying in the wind — at some point it cannot recover and cannot be returned upright. But Gaza’s “famine tree” never appeared to fully sway. If aid efforts or local resilience truly prevented catastrophe, where is the evidence? On August 22, 2025, famine was declared, and the global press carried that narrative. Then came a shift to the word “starvation.” Now, even that language has faded.

The distinction matters. Famine is a technical classification grounded in data — household food security surveys, acute malnutrition rates and mortality. Starvation, by contrast, is a moral and legal term implying intent; under international law, using starvation as a weapon constitutes a war crime. In Gaza, this rhetorical shift occurred before comprehensive data was gathered — an escalation of accusation without empirical foundation.

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Recovery from famine typically takes eight to 12 months, even under ideal conditions with full humanitarian access and functioning medical systems. Historical precedents — Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and Sudan in 2023 — show that malnutrition persists long after headlines fade. If Gaza truly met famine standards this summer, the signs would still be unmistakable: rising mortality, overwhelmed clinics and a generation of weakened children. Yet no such surge has been confirmed by independent medical reporting.

Another inconsistency is behavioral. True famine unleashes chaos — hunger overrides social norms and people fight to survive. In August, 84% of Gaza aid convoys were reportedly looted. Yet after the Oct. 10 ceasefire, U.N. 2720 data show interceptions fell to 6%, and by November, below 1%. Where did the desperation go? Where is the looting? Where are the crowds of thousands?

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Following the ceasefire, Hamas rapidly reasserted control, executing accused defectors and projecting an image of order. Recent videos show bustling markets and calm streets — a façade of normalcy meant to reinforce legitimacy. Within six weeks, famine conditions seemingly vanished. Can that be real?

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If famine had truly taken hold, it would not have dissipated so quickly. Either the crisis was overstated, the data manipulated or public perception deliberately managed.

We cannot shy away from uncomfortable questions. Asking what happened to the famine in Gaza is responsible, not callous. Truth demands transparency, even when it challenges narratives we’ve grown accustomed to believing.

Mark Wahlberg’s 15-year-old daughter hospitalized after accident in ‘dangerous sport’

Mark Wahlberg’s daughter Grace is on the road to recovery, after a frightening horseback-riding accident.

“The Family Plan 2” actor shared an emotional update and said Grace is already determined to get back on her horse. 

“She’s doing great,” Wahlberg told Access Hollywood before recalling the moment he learned of the accident.

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“It’s a very, very dangerous sport, but she’s so passionate about it,” he said. “All she wanted to do was get back on that horse — no pun intended. But she was chomping at the bit and worried that we would deem the sport too dangerous. But she’s so passionate, so dedicated.”

Grace, who shares her dad’s signature drive, has spent years crafting her skills as a competitive equestrian.

Wahlberg continued to praise her determination and work ethic, calling her “so disciplined.” 

“[She’s got the] discipline of getting up at 4 o’clock every morning, going to the barn seven days a week, doing whatever she has to do to care for the horses, and training and everything,” Wahlberg said proudly.

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The actor — the youngest of nine Wahlberg siblings, including “Blue Bloods” star Donnie Wahlberg — shares four children with his wife, Rhea Durham: Ella, 22; Michael, 19; Brendan, 17; and Grace, 15.

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Although Grace is the youngest of the family, Wahlberg said she’s shown maturity beyond her years.

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“I kind of adopted that discipline when I became a parent,” he shared. “For her to have it at such a young age…” Wahlberg paused before acknowledging again how “very, very scary” the incident had been for him as a father.

Last week, Grace shared on Instagram that she’d been hospitalized after the accident.

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In the post, the teen — who regularly competes in equestrian events — included a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed with her left arm in a black sling. 

“no pressure we will be back,” she wrote confidently, alongside photos of herself clearing hurdles with her horse.

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Details surrounding the accident have not been released.

Last year, Wahlberg offered simple advice for parents sending their children off to college.

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“It’s a beautiful thing just encouraging them to pursue their dreams, to take a chance on themselves and to dream big,” he told Fox News Digital.

“But along with the big ideas, you have to do the little stuff to accomplish those big goals. So, doing the work, betting on yourself, not being afraid of failure and just staying as close,” the actor added.

Work clothes cooking hack saves woman $60 a week, has millions rethinking dinner

A new viral TikTok hack has racked up more than 3.7 million views and 15,000 comments — and it claims the secret to cooking more at home is as simple as not changing out of your work clothes right away.

“The key to cooking after work is you gotta come home, you can’t take your clothes off — I still have my badge on,” Saadiq Ali of Flint, Michigan, says in the clip, which she posted in late October, appearing with her jacket on and purse still over her shoulder. “Shoes off, but I can’t even sit down. … I gotta start now.”

She’s then shown peeling the potatoes that she’d left out on the counter with a cutting board, peeler and knife to give herself a head start that morning.

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Ali, 27, a credit union employee, told Fox News Digital she’s been living the hack since early October. 

“I realized toward the end of October that the hack worked — I was eating out way less due to having dinner and leftovers.”

“Eating takeout now can range from $6 to $20,” she said. “By planning my meals and shopping for the groceries once a week, I’m sure I’m saving close to $60 a week — and probably a million calories.”

As a young adult, Ali said she’s always trying to find ways to stay motivated and productive after work. Her mother inspired the habit, she said.

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“I come from a General Motors family, so my mother followed suit and started working for GM in 1999,” she said. 

“Watching her work first, second and third shifts throughout my childhood until her retirement this year, I have witnessed her cooking with her work badge still on and belt loosened to ensure we had dinner every night. My mother cooked almost every day while working an intense job and juggling two sassy daughters. I remembered that image and knew I would have to replicate that.”

Ali said she didn’t expect the video to go viral. She just recorded it on a whim after work one day. It even resulted in a free air fryer from Ninja, she said.

The idea has resonated with millions of viewers who say the no-nonsense strategy works. One viewer summed up the logic: “If I take 10 minutes to chill after work and sit down on the couch … done for.”

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“Five minutes turns into [a] Chili’s pickup order,” another commented.

Still another person joked, “Object in motion stays in motion.”

“Cooking while still wearing my work clothes signals to my brain that there is more work to be done.”

And there may be some science to back it up. 

Research has found that, according to the theory of “momentum bias,” once you stop moving, it’s harder to restart.

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“Cooking while still wearing my work clothes signals to my brain that there is more work to be done,” said Ali. “Once my meal is completed, I am free to get into my comfy clothes and enjoy my evening.”

Other commenters offered variations of the hack: using a slow cooker, meal prepping on Sundays or pre-chopping ingredients to make cooking easier later on.

Those who work from home said they face a similar challenge. 

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“If you work from home, you have to start cooking during your lunch or afternoon break,” one woman advised. “Do not wait until you’re off.”

Still, not everyone said they’re sold on the habit.

“After a ride on the subway in NYC, you gotta take them off.”

“I’m gonna have to meal-prep because I’m not cooking after work,” one woman wrote.

“That’s more work.”

“I need to relax first … I’ll suffer later,” said another.

“I’m sooo mentally drained after work … I’m sitting down and ordering DoorDash,” one commenter admitted.

Others, especially city commuters, shared hygiene concerns. 

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“After a ride on the subway in NYC, you gotta take [the work clothes] off,” wrote one woman. 

“Take your clothes off, wash your hands and then begin,” another person weighed in. 

“I can’t cook in my clothes — they get to smelling like food,” one woman added.

Some agreed that certain jobs make the hack impossible — especially healthcare workers, who noted that their uniforms are unsanitary. 

“I work around bodily fluids and I can’t keep [those] scrubs on,” said one woman. 

Another TikToker said, “I need to shower the hospital germs off me first.”

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For many, though, the appeal of the hack is its simplicity — no meal prep or pricey subscriptions.

“The success of this video has inspired me to share more tips because I don’t know who else they might help,” Ali said. “Sometimes you may need a small tip from a stranger.”

Major discount retailer announces sweeping store closures nationwide

Saks Off 5th, the discount sister brand of luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue, is planning to close nine stores across the U.S. beginning early next year.

The retailer – which operates roughly 100 stores across the U.S. and Canada – will close stores starting in January 2026 as part of a broader effort to “optimize” its store presence, a Saks Global spokesperson confirmed to FOX Business in an email.

“As part of our ongoing and comprehensive strategy, we have taken a critical eye to our store footprint and will be closing select store locations in early 2026,” the spokesperson said.

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Stores are expected to close in Austin, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; East Hanover, New Jersey; Niagara Falls, New York; Pittsburgh North, Plymouth Meeting and Franklin Mall in Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; and West Hartford, Connecticut.

The move will allow the retailer to “place greater attention to our high-performing and high-potential store locations, and refinements across our store footprint,” the spokesperson told FOX Business.

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“We are confident this will better position the Saks OFF 5TH business for long-term success and look forward to continuing to deliver for our customers,” the spokesperson added.

Saks Off 5th is also expected to close its 57th Street location in Manhattan in December, Crain’s New York Business previously reported.

In October, spending on luxury brands declined 3% year over year, Reuters reported, citing the latest U.S. credit card data from Citi.

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This followed three months of improvement as the government shutdown weighed on consumer confidence.

Saks Off 5th is among a number of retailers that have announced closures in recent years.

In January, Macy’s identified 66 stores that it planned to close this year. A month later, JCPenney announced plans to close a “handful” of stores as it struggled to keep pace with rapidly changing market conditions. 

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Alabama radio host warns football ‘legend’ may not be ‘ready’ for Senate run scrutiny

Legendary college football broadcaster Paul Finebaum is taking heat for allegedly being a “Trump-hating” weak Republican amid widespread rumors that he is planning a run for the U.S. Senate in Alabama.

The 70-year-old ESPN host, best known as the foremost authority on SEC football, has not yet announced an official run. However, he has revealed he is intrigued by the idea of such a run and admitted in an interview with OutKick to “thinking about it constantly.”

For some Republican insiders in Alabama, this has been sufficient to start raising alarms about why they believe Finebaum would be a poor choice for a Senate candidate.

Dale Jackson, a prominent Alabama radio politics talk show host, told Fox News Digital that though “Finebaum is a radio legend and a fixture in the South … nobody knows what he believes.”

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“The guy is a legend,” Jackson continued. “[But] I’ve been doing radio and talk radio for almost 20 years in Alabama, and I couldn’t tell you what Paul Finebaum knows or believes about anything political.”

“The minute he starts talking about what he believes. It’s going to be picked apart, and I don’t know if he’s necessarily ready for what that means,” said Jackson.

Finebaum’s record on political stances is mixed. In 2016, he stated, “this country is not oppressing Black people,” but then later apologized on ESPN, saying his “eyes are wider open,” according to RealClearPolitics.

In 2017, he remarked that President Donald Trump “does behave like a child,” per FanBuzz. 

In 2020, Finebaum went on the record praising a video in which Nick Saban encouraged COVID-19 social distancing and masking, according to 247Sports. He also spoke favorably of Saban’s decision to lead an athletes’ social justice march in which many players wore Black Lives Matter shirts, according to local outlet Bham Now.

Finebaum told the outlet that “Nick Saban leading that march was one of his finer moments”

“The video was very powerful. There was a lot of blowback. I had Alabama fans call in and say they’ll never support the team again. We all hear the same arguments about Black Lives Matter,” Finebaum went on. “I say that because he did it without making a political statement. He didn’t overdo it, he did it quietly. He was supporting his players, and to me that’s the most important thing. It’s what a coach is supposed to do, and I think that, to me, speaks very well of him. In a state like Alabama, it’s not the same as if he was doing it in Michigan, but he didn’t let it affect him.” 

Yet, Finebaum told OutKick that he voted for Trump in 2024 and that it was Charlie Kirk’s murder that is motivating him to seriously consider running for the Senate.

“It’s hard to describe, not being involved in politics, how that affected me and affected tens of millions of people all over this country. And it was an awakening,” Finebaum said of Kirk’s assassination.

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Finebaum also said in the interview that if Trump told him, “Paul, you’re my guy,” he would find it “impossible to tell him no.”

“There’s no way I could. I would tell him yes,” he said. 

If he enters the race, Finebaum would be running to replace another football star, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, best known for leading Auburn University in an undefeated season crowned by an SEC championship in 2004. Tuberville, who has been an outspoken conservative voice in the Senate since his election in 2021, is seeking the Alabama governorship in 2026.

Others already declared in the Alabama Senate race include state Attorney General Steve Marshall and Alabama Republican Rep. Barry Moore.

Jackson said that while Tuberville had a prior record of political stances, he sees Finebaum as an “unknown entity.”

“Finebaum is basically just like I’m famous. I’m a big-time radio guy, people like me. Why can’t I be senator? And it’s just kind of an odd thing,” said Jackson.

When contacted for comment, Finebaum told Fox News Digital, “I will circle back when I have something substantive to say.”

For his part, Tuberville has spoken highly of Finebaum. 

“Paul is smart. He loves the country,” Tuberville said on the “War Room” podcast. “Again, been a friend of mine for a long time. I have not talked with him about it. I did an interview with him, 30 minutes, about two months ago, face to face. It went well.”

“I tell you, he’s got 100% name ID in Alabama. He’d have a lot of big people behind him. He would be a force in the race if he decided to get into it. … Paul is a good guy, a good friend.”

Some voices, meanwhile, have been much more critical of the possibility of a Finebaum campaign. A national Republican strategist who works on U.S. Senate races told Fox News Digital, “You can’t hate President Trump and Republican voters and win a Republican primary.”

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“Paul Finebaum trashed President Trump, promoted tyrannical masking during COVID and proclaimed his support for Black Lives Matter,” said the strategist, adding, “Finebaum’s experience as a sports analyst doesn’t translate into analyzing his own political prospects apparently. This Trump-hating RINO [Republican-in-name-only] has virtually zero chance of winning an Alabama GOP primary.”

Former state Rep. Ed Henry, who served as then-candidate Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign co-chair for Alabama, told Fox News Digital that when he heard Finebaum was considering a Senate run, “I chuckled, because I thought, ‘Oh great, we have another person in this race who caves every time pressure is put on him.’”

“I think he’s a great guy; he’s said some good things. But when the pressure is on, he breaks, he caves, he buckles, and that’s not what we need,” Henry added.

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The former representative said that what Alabama needs is “somebody who has been through fire, who has been tested, who has found to be true to their word.”

Joe Theismann reacts to possibility of Trump’s name on new Commanders stadium

The Washington Commanders will be returning to the site of RFK Stadium, where Joe Theismann became a household name.

It’s where the former NFL quarterback threw both his first and final NFL passes. After moving out of the nation’s capital to Landover, Maryland, in 1997, the Commanders are expected to return home in 2030.

“There’s an old saying, you can’t go home again. The Commanders are proving that you can,” Theismann told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.

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President Donald Trump reportedly wants his name attached to the upcoming stadium. While the White House would not confirm such reports, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it would be a “beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible.” 

Trump, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and team owner Josh Harris were in the Oval Office when the deal for the RFK Stadium site was announced. But Trump sparked controversy when he threatened to halt the team’s plans to build a new stadium in the nation’s capital if it didn’t bring back its old Redskins moniker.

When asked about the possibility of Trump’s name being on the stadium, Theismann did not offer much.

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“President Trump is our president. Whatever happens going forward is between the ownership of the Commanders and the president, and it’s going to be what it’s going to be,” he said.

No matter what the stadium is named, Theismann sees the move as generations of Washington fans — past, present and future — all coming together.

“It’s exciting. Josh being a guy who grew up as a fan of the Redskins at that time — a lot of ownership is that way — it’s exciting for them to get back home, too,” Theismann said. “I think those people who were fans of the Redskins and watched us play at RFK Stadium are also fans of the Commanders, and it’ll be nostalgic for them. It’ll be nostalgic for the fans to go back to a stadium that’s going to be there — back where that site was once before, where a lot of their childhood memories were so special.”

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The domed stadium will cost an estimated $3.7 billion.