Bible Belt town defies mayor’s request to remove Nativity display
A small South Carolina town committee refused to remove a Nativity scene from a market parking lot after the mayor ordered it taken down from public property.
Around Thanksgiving, Kimberly Byrd, head of the Mullins Beautification Committee in Mullins, South Carolina, said her small team decided to decorate the city’s new marketplace area for its first Christmas season “like a Hallmark movie,” hoping to draw more customers to the downtown area.
The group spent about two weeks placing decorations they paid for out of their own pockets, including a snowman, wreaths, lights, Santa Claus and a small 3-by-4-foot Nativity scene. Byrd said she later received a text from Mayor Miko Pickett asking her to remove the Nativity scene, citing concerns about residents of other faiths and beliefs in the community.
Byrd said the mayor’s request stunned her.
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“Our small town, we have a church on every corner,” Byrd told Fox News Digital. “It’s a faith-based community in the Bible Belt. I’ve been here 53 years of my life and never heard of anything like this happening here.”
Byrd said she received support from some city council members to keep the display in place and decided to take a stand by vowing to keep the Nativity scene where it was.
“Christ is why we celebrate Christmas,” Byrd said. “I really thought she would probably change her mind or come back and say, ‘I’m sorry, I made a mistake. Let’s have a meeting about this,’ but nothing.”
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In a statement posted to Facebook on Nov. 26, Pickett said she asked only that the Nativity scene be removed from the public parking area, arguing that a religious symbol on public property violated the “separation of church and state.”
Byrd said if the mayor or city council ultimately removes the Nativity scene, she would take down the other Christmas decorations as well, because she feels strongly about keeping Jesus Christ at the center of the holiday.
“How are we supposed to explain to our kids that we have to hide our religion, hide our beliefs, and hide what Christmas is about?” Byrd said. “Christmas is not about Santa Claus. It’s about the birth of Jesus.”
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Byrd said she has received overwhelming support from within and outside the community.
“I never thought I’d have to do anything like this,” she said. “But at the end of the day, we have to stand for what we believe in and what is right.”
Pickett did not return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
In the 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case, Lynch v. Donnelly, the court ruled in a 5-4 decision that a Nativity scene displayed by a Rhode Island city did not violate the establishment clause when it was part of a broader holiday display that included secular symbols.
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Mullins councilman Albert Woodberry told ABC15 News he has not spoken with the mayor about the issue but believes the Nativity scene should remain.
“Yes, I’d like for it to stay until the season’s over with,” Woodberry said. “Kids pass here, people come through to see it, so it’s OK. It should not be a problem for it staying up.”
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Becket, a religious liberty law firm, awarded Byrd its 2025 “Tiny Tim Toast” award this week, inspired by the “A Christmas Carol” character, for her actions.
“In the face of increasing government efforts to scrub religion from public life, we should all strive to be like Kimberly Byrd,” Mark Rienzi, president of Becket, said. “Her courage to stand up for the Nativity scene was admirable and patriotic. We’re happy to raise a hearty toast to Kimberly and others like her who have kept the faith and brought a little more joy to this holiday season.”
Elite girls’ school rocked by explosive report detailing decades of sex abuse
A prestigious all-girls boarding school in Massachusetts, where students pay up to $79,000 a year for tuition and room and board, is facing a sweeping sexual-abuse scandal after a newly released independent investigation found decades of misconduct by multiple employees and years of institutional failures that allowed alleged predators to remain in the classroom.
The investigation centers on former Miss Hall’s School history teacher Matthew Rutledge, who taught at the elite Pittsfield, Massachusetts, campus for more than 30 years. According to the Aleta Law investigative report, Rutledge engaged in a long pattern of grooming, sexualized behavior and sexual assault of students beginning in the 1990s. Five former students came forward with firsthand accounts.
The findings go far beyond Rutledge, with the 60-page report outlining eight substantiated cases of sexual misconduct by former Miss Hall’s employees from the 1940s through the 2010s, including teachers who allegedly exploited students emotionally, crossed physical boundaries, engaged in sexualized conduct or committed sexual assault.
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Two former Miss Hall’s students, Hilary Simon and Melissa Fares, have sued the school, alleging negligence and emotional and physical harm. Both women testified before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary in June, urging lawmakers to strengthen protections for students.
“What began as compliments and extra attention turned into forcible touching and sexual intercourse with this man who is 25 years older than me,” Simon testified. “He isolated me physically and emotionally.”
Rutledge has never been criminally charged.
“This is where Massachusetts is way behind,” Wendy Murphy, a Massachusetts-based attorney and national advocate for sexual-assault survivors, told Fox News Digital. “The law treats these students as if they’re capable of consenting, but consent isn’t real when the perpetrator is in a position of authority over you.”
The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office concluded in October 2024 that under Massachusetts’s General Law, no criminal conduct occurred.
“Massachusetts law defines the age of consent as 16. While the alleged behavior is profoundly troubling, it is not illegal,” District Attorney Timothy Shugrue said.
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According to the Aleta Law report, Miss Hall’s administrators, including senior leaders and at least one former head of school, received multiple reports or warnings about Rutledge’s behavior over the years but failed to intervene. The report concluded that the school’s leadership “failed to adequately investigate and respond.”
A recent Vanity Fair investigation likewise reported that school officials were alerted to Rutledge’s concerning behavior as early as 2005, and that administrators at one point instructed him to cease contact with a former student, but allowed him to remain in the classroom.
“The investigation revealed horrible truths about a community we hold dear,” Head of School Julia Heaton wrote in a letter to the Miss Hall’s community.
The Aleta Law report describes a school environment in the 1990s and 2000s where teachers regularly spent time alone with students, invited them into faculty apartments, gave personal gifts and blurred emotional and physical boundaries.
Several employees admitted they suspected inappropriate relationships involving Rutledge but feared retaliation or believed leadership “would not listen.” Students who raised concerns about other teachers in past decades reported being ignored, discouraged or even punished.
“It’s very common for schools to get rid of the noisemaker—the victim who won’t shut up,” Murphy said. “The message becomes: if you complain, you’ll be punished.”
“If a teacher hurt a Jewish or Asian student, they’d be fired instantly. But when the victim is a girl, schools often treat the abuse as less serious. Girls keep getting second-class treatment,” she said. “Victims have a long, long time to file lawsuits.”
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The school has apologized to its community and acknowledged “past failures” in safeguarding students. According to the report, Miss Hall’s has begun implementing extensive reforms, including:
- New employee code of conduct
- Strengthened reporting protocols
- Shared faculty office spaces
- 24/7 multilingual counseling access for students
- Survivor-centered listening sessions
- The creation of a Survivor Therapy Fund
Miss Hall’s said it is committed to “ensuring every student is seen, safe, cared for, and able to thrive.”
Rutledge has not publicly commented on the allegations. Fox News Digital has reached out to his attorney and to Miss Hall’s School for comment.
Father arrested in decades-old cold case murder, Ivy League daughter speaks out: report
A Yale professor is speaking publicly for the first time since her 81-year-old father was arrested in connection with the 1982 killing of her mother, a case that remained unsolved for more than four decades.
According to a Nov. 24 press release from the Foster City Police Department in California, Patrick Galvani was taken into custody in San Francisco and booked in the San Mateo County Jail on a murder charge tied to the death of his wife, Nancy Galvani.
Alison Galvani, an epidemiology professor at Yale who was around 5 years old when her mother was killed, told the Los Angeles Times in a Dec. 3 interview that she is grateful to investigators and prosecutors for “pursuing justice for my mom.”
“With an extraordinary combination of compassion and resolve, they are working tirelessly to ensure that light is shone upon even the darkest of cases,” she said in a text message to the outlet.
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Nancy’s body was found in August 1982 “floating inside a sleeping bag near the San Mateo Bridge” in Foster City, police said. Although the case was reviewed several times over the years, authorities said it “remained unsolved until recent developments allowed investigators to move forward.” Officials did not specify what those developments were.
Patrick had been considered a suspect early in the investigation, the L.A. Times reported, but charges were dropped due to a lack of witnesses and usable evidence. His attorney at the time said he had passed a polygraph test, and Patrick said in court filings that his wife was experiencing a “mental illness.”
Following Patrick’s arrest, his current attorney, Douglas Horngrad, told the L.A. Times that his client is innocent.
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“This murder charge was filed against him years ago and the case was dismissed for lack of evidence,” Horngrad said. “As I understand it, the evidence is the same, and we believe the outcome will be the same. Mr. Galvani will be exonerated again.”
Prosecutors expressed a different view.
San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe told the L.A. Times, “We think we have enough to convict and we have an ambitious prosecutor who can accomplish that.”
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At the time of Nancy’s death, she and Patrick were separated. She had filed for divorce, secured a restraining order, and moved out of their Pacific Heights home to a residential hotel in San Francisco, according to the L.A. Times.
On Aug. 8, 1982, Patrick allegedly asked Nancy to pick up their daughter Alison a day earlier than scheduled under their shared-custody arrangement. Nancy disappeared that evening, and her body was later discovered. Her yellow Buick was found inside Patrick’s garage.
Alison told the L.A. Times that she had long feared “my father used me as bait to lure my mother to her death.” The uncertainty surrounding her mother’s final hours, she said, has haunted her for decades, even overshadowing her wedding day, when she asked her father to walk ahead of her so she did not “have to touch him.”
She also recalled confronting him during a 2008 visit to her home in Connecticut, telling him, “You killed my mother.” According to Alison, he replied, “It wasn’t my fault.”
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According to jail records, Patrick Galvani is being held without bail. His next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 15.
Alison Galvani, Horngrad’s office and the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to requests for comment.
What food safety experts say they won’t order when dining out at restaurants
Even foods most Americans consider “healthy” can pose serious foodborne illness risks, experts warn — and several say salads, sprouts and deli meats are among the everyday items they personally refuse to eat.
One Seattle attorney who has spent decades litigating some of the country’s worst foodborne illness outbreaks recently told The Washington Post that his well-done burger and steak order has prompted chefs to come out and ask what’s wrong with him.
“I explain what I do for a living,” Bill Marler told the outlet. “It’s an occupational hazard.”
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He said he no longer touches bagged salads, fruit cups or trays, deli meats, ready-to-eat meals and raw sprouts — which are often served raw on sandwiches, salads and wraps.
He said the items have been repeatedly tied to cross-contamination and major Listeria, E. coli and Salmonella outbreaks.
While most diners view greens as a safe choice, Marler said he avoids them entirely when eating out.
Fox News Digital reached out to Marler for further comment — but several other experts said they agree. They added that the riskiest foods to eat may not be the ones consumers expect.
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The list of problematic items reflects how outbreak patterns have shifted over time, Bryan Quoc Le, a food scientist with Mendocino Food Consulting in California, told Fox News Digital.
“Ground beef risks have decreased due to testing and cooking requirements, while leafy greens lack a ‘heat step’ and are known to become contaminated earlier in the supply chain, where controls are harder to enforce,” Le said.
Leafy greens are also centrally processed, mixed in huge batches and shipped across the country.
That likely makes them the highest current risk, he noted. “A single contamination event can affect many people before it’s detected,” he said.
In the 1990s, hamburgers were seen as the biggest food safety threat, especially after a 1993 E. coli outbreak sent more than 170 people to the hospital and killed four children.
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But after stricter regulations and major safety improvements, illnesses linked to burgers dropped sharply, according to Jason Reese, an Indiana-based food safety expert and personal injury attorney who specializes in these cases.
Today, Reese noted, the danger has flipped. Lettuce and other leafy greens now cause far more outbreaks than hamburgers, largely because they’re grown near cattle operations, can be contaminated by irrigation water and are eaten raw with no cooking steps to kill pathogens.
“The lettuce on top of those burgers is the culprit,” Reese told Fox News Digital.
He said he never eats salad or bagged lettuce while dining out.
“Seeing the victims I’ve represented go into kidney failure and need dialysis for life just from one restaurant salad is eye-opening.”
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“Most Americans don’t seem to think it will happen to them,” Reese added. “Yet the numbers don’t lie.”
About 48 million Americans get sick from foodborne illnesses each year — roughly 1 in 6 people — according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), leading to an estimated 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths.
“Most Americans are completely clueless about what happens to their food before it gets to their plates.”
The agency notes the U.S. food supply remains among the world’s safest, yet produce accounts for a significant share of cases, particularly norovirus, the nation’s leading foodborne illness.
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The risk for young children, pregnant women, the elderly and immunocompromised people, is especially not “worth the gamble,” he said.
New Jersey dietitian and former food safety inspector Tina Marinaccio agreed.
“Most Americans are completely clueless about what happens to their food before it gets to their plates,” she told Fox News Digital.
But Marinaccio disagreed with Marler’s opinion that steaks must be cooked well-done.
“If you’re not immunocompromised or pregnant, get the rare steak,” she said.
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E. coli would be killed on the surface during normal cooking, she said.
She added that the real concern is ground beef, where bacteria can be mixed throughout the meat and must reach 160 degrees Fahrenheit to be safe.
Despite the dangers, experts stress that many foodborne illnesses are preventable.
Marinaccio said proper handwashing and better glove training are essential, as poor hygiene is one of the most common sources of contamination.
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Le added that fully cooking meats, treating bagged salads as higher-risk foods and cutting produce at home can significantly reduce the chances of getting sick.
Man hospitalized after shooting himself at major US airport, police say
Atlanta police responded Sunday afternoon to reports of a shooting that left one person injured at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
The incident involved a male who suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
The shooting occurred in the pre-security area of the South Terminal, according to the police. Fox 5 Atlanta said the incident took place near an escalator by the baggage claim area around 3:30 p.m.
“Officers responded to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where they located a male who sustained an apparent gunshot wound,” the Atlanta Police Department (APD) told Fox News Digital.
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Police said officers quickly secured the scene, including the firearm and the surrounding area, and confirmed that no other individuals were injured.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital and was alert, conscious and breathing at the time of transport, authorities said.
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Officials have not released information about what led to the incident.
APD said officers are still on the scene and the investigation remains ongoing.
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Airport operations were not affected, police added.
The airport authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
US Coast Guard in ‘active pursuit’ of 3rd sanctioned ‘dark fleet’ oil tanker
The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing a sanctioned oil tanker near Venezuela as President Donald Trump intensifies his pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with a sweeping blockade targeting illicit oil shipments.
“The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela’s illegal sanctions evasion,” a U.S. official said in a statement to Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson. “It is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order.”
Reuters reported that another official noted the tanker was operating under sanctions and that it had not been boarded thus far. The official also said interceptions could be taken by flying or sailing near vessels of concern.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the officials did not provide the name of the vessel or where it was operating while being pursued.
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The pursuit comes days after Trump announced a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.
The first tanker was seized on Wednesday, and video released by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) showed agents rappelling onto the vessel with weapons drawn.
Attorney General Pam Bondi took to X to share details of the first seizure, writing, “for multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.”
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“This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely – and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues,” Bondi concluded.
A second tanker was seized by U.S. forces on Saturday, again, off the coast of Venezuela.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that the U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from the Department of War, apprehended the oil tanker during the early morning hours. The ship had last been docked in Venezuela.
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“The United States will continue to pursue the illicit movement of sanctioned oil that is used to fund narco terrorism in the region,” Noem said. “We will find you, and we will stop you.”
Noem also praised the service members involved in the operation, thanking the “brave men and women” of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of War for carrying out the interdiction.
China is the world’s greatest user of Venezuelan crude oil, Reuters reported.
The last time the public was made aware of the U.S. military seizing a foreign oil tanker was in 2014, when Navy SEALs boarded and took over a ship previously seized by three armed men at a Libyan port who were attempting to sell the nationalized Libyan oil on the black market, Fox News Digital previously reported.
About 30 men from Navy SEAL team 2 embarked from the USS Roosevelt, using inflatable boats and ladders to get on board the MV Morning Glory oil tanker and detained the rebels.
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There were no casualties during the 2014 mission, which was carried out on orders from former President Barack Obama in international waters southeast of Cyprus at the request of the Libyan and Cypriot governments.
Fifteen percent of U.S.-deployed Navy ships are currently in the Caribbean region, the Navy confirmed to Fox News Wednesday.
Mamdani joins Jewish actor for Hanukkah as staff antisemitism controversy grows
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video of himself celebrating Hanukkah with Jewish actor Mandy Patinkin and his family amid scandals of antisemitism among his staff.
The video, posted to Mamdani’s X account on Saturday, featured the mayor-elect joining Patinkin, his wife and his son as they celebrated the first night of Hanukkah. During the video, Mamdani helped Patinkin prepare dinner using a Jewish cookbook and Patinkin’s family recipes.
After the food was prepared, Mamdani joined Patinkin in the Hanukkah prayer, and the actor invited him to light the menorah.
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“I wanted to do the Shehecheyanu because that’s about new beginnings,” Patinkin said in the video. “And this is a new beginning that we in this family are incredibly grateful for, the city is grateful for, the world is grateful for.”
“Your mayoral tenure or whatever it’s called has now been blessed,” Patinkin added before the group sat down to eat.
During the dinner, Patinkin remarked on what he admired about Mamdani as a politician.
“I immediately felt that you weren’t so much just a politician, but something far more important to me, which was a human-itician,” Patinkin said. “And your care for equity and equality, for all human beings. And we will teach other cities and then nations and then the whole world hopefully will follow your thing.”
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Patinkin and his wife previously expressed support for Mamdani during the New York City mayoral election, appearing in a promotional video for him on Instagram in October.
“We are going to win this because we have this extraordinary human being who is going to lead our city and eventually, if we’re really thinking, our nation and the world to a better, safer, all-inclusive existence. And that’s what I love about this guy,” Patinkin said.
The Hanukkah video came days after Mamdani’s newly named director of appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, abruptly resigned after resurfaced social media posts showed she made antisemitic remarks. The position would have put her in charge of City Hall hiring.
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The posts, reportedly made between 2011 and 2012 on a now-deleted X account, included references to “money hungry Jews” and “rich Jewish peeps” and called a Far Rockaway train “the Jew train.” She has expressed regret for the posts and said they’re not indicative of who she is.
Mamdani was pressured during the campaign to back off support for the phrase “globalize the intifada,” but he repeatedly declined to condemn it before ultimately saying he would discourage the phrase.
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‘Massive refund checks’ may hit American wallets as tax law changes take effect
A leading contender to become President Trump’s next Federal Reserve chair said the administration expects larger tax refunds and higher take-home pay next year, as many Americans continue to express concerns about affordability.
“We are going to see the biggest refund cycle ever in the history of America, and people are going to get massive refund checks,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said in an interview on FOX Business’ “Varney & Co.” on Thursday.
“We’re expecting just that part of it alone to be worth a couple-thousand-dollar refund … the numbers are striking.”
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During his Wednesday evening address, President Trump said the administration expects “the largest tax refund season of all time” next spring and claimed many families would save between $11,000 and $20,000 annually.
Hassett backed up this claim and pushed back against sentiment from a recent Fox News Poll, which found that 44% of those surveyed say they are falling behind financially, and 74% view the economy as “not so good” or “bad.”
“You saw in the jobs report that … wages for the typical worker were up 3.7%. So if you’re running 3.7% wage increases at 1.6% core inflation, then real wages are growing at a rate of about 2 [to] 2.5%. By our estimates right now, blue-collar workers have already seen an almost $2,000 raise this year after inflation, because wages are growing so much faster than prices,” Hassett explained.
“I think that what happens in the end — and this is what happened in the first [Trump] term — is that people will see it in their wallets,” he continued. “We didn’t pass the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ until the middle of the summer. And so a lot of the tax changes, which affect last year, weren’t in any tax forms that people filled out at the beginning of the year.”
Overall, Hassett struck a bullish tone on the economy and pointed to what he described as a “blockbuster” November inflation report, with figures coming in cooler than economists expected.
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“What’s happened is, as we predicted throughout this term, that if you really put the pedal to the metal on aggregate supply, then that’s gonna put downward pressure on prices,” he said.
“And don’t forget, that’s where we were last time in President Trump’s first term. We were growing in the 3% range, and we had inflation in the 1% range. And it looks like that’s where we are again.”
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