After DHS ouster, Kristi Noem makes her feelings about President Trump clear
During the Shield of the Americas summit in Florida on Saturday, outgoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem thanked President Donald Trump for appointing her to a newly created role after she was ousted from overseeing the agency.
Noem, who is moving to the newly created position of special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, showed no ill feelings toward the president and said she was proud of her work at DHS, arguing the department had secured the border and eliminated public safety threats.
“I do want to thank the president for creating this and for giving me the honor and the opportunity to serve as a special envoy to this region, to the Western Hemisphere,” Noem said during the summit at Trump National Doral outside Miami.
“This Shield of the Americas will be a powerful example to the rest of the world about what’s possible.”
Trump announced this week that Noem would shift into the new role after cutting short her tenure at DHS.
Noem was removed as the nation’s immigration chief after a turbulent stretch marked by internal clashes and two contentious congressional hearings where even some Republicans pressed her over leadership missteps, including the ad campaign, which she claimed the president had signed off on.
Noem framed the initiative as an effort to expand border security cooperation beyond the United States.
“The way that we cooperate on our shared ideals of freedom and of democracy and safety and security will be a shining light to all of those who wish to be more like all of us,” she said.
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Noem, who previously served in Congress and as South Dakota governor before leading DHS, defended her record overseeing immigration enforcement during the past year.
“In the last year, as secretary of Homeland Security, we have focused on securing our border,” she said. “We have transformed our country from one that was being invaded by enemies, millions of them that were coming in unvetted, that we didn’t know who was there and who wished to harm us.”
“We’ve secured that border,” she continued. “We’ve focused on removing public safety threats, and over 3 million people have been deported or removed from our country in the last year.”
Noem argued that stronger border enforcement has allowed the administration to pivot toward economic and diplomatic engagement with neighboring nations.
“Secure borders has changed everything for our country,” she said. “Now that America is secure and our borders are secure, we want to focus on our neighbors and to help our neighbors with their borders and challenges that they have so that they may have the security that we enjoy.”
Trump announced on Truth Social that Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., will replace her effective March 31, while Noem shifts to the newly created envoy role.
Members of Trump’s Cabinet, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer attended Saturday’s summit.
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Leaders from other nations included Argentina’s Javier Milei, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele Ortez, Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz Pereira, Costa Rica’s Rodrigo Chaves Robles, Panama’s José Raúl Mulino Quintero, and Trinidad and Tobago’s Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Chile’s Jose Antonio Kast, the Dominican Republic’s Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona, Ecuador’s Daniel Roy Gilchrist Noboa Azín, Guyana’s Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Honduras’ Nasry “Tito” Asfura and Paraguay’s Santiago Peña.
Notably missing were the leaders of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, and Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
Olympic sensation withdraws from World Championships after harrowing fan incident
Less than a month after winning Olympic gold, U.S. figure skating sensation Alysa Liu appears to have surprisingly pulled out of the World Skating Championships in Prague, Czech Republic.
Liu is no longer listed on the event’s participants on the International Skating Union (ISU) website. Her original spot is now filled by second alternative, Sarah Everhardt.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Liu’s representatives for comment.
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No reason is currently known for Liu’s sudden absence from the roster.
The change comes just days after Liu revealed on social media that she was recently “chased” to her car by a spectator.
“So I land at the airport, & there’s a crowd waiting at the exit with cameras & things for me to sign,” she wrote in an Instagram story. “All up in my personal space. Someone chased me to my car bruh. Please do not do that to me.”
Liu previously entered a temporary retirement shortly after her first Olympic appearance in 2022. Her father, Arthur Liu, said it was due to “trauma.”
“She became really unhappy,” Arthur Liu told USA Today about why she retired. “She avoided the ice rink at all costs. She’s traumatized. She was just traumatized. She was suffering from PTSD, and she wouldn’t go near the ice rink.”
Before her appearance in the 2022 Beijing Games, she and her father were the alleged targets of a spying operation by the Chinese government. Liu called the experience “a little bit freaky and exciting.”
“You know what I mean? It’s so … unbelievable. You know what I mean like, that’s crazy,” she previously told Fox News Digital at a roundtable interview at the USOPC Media Summit in October.
“Like, imagine finding that out at such a young age, I mean, like In a weird way, I was like, ‘Am I like in some prank show?’ Like, is this world real. Like, I must be some movie character. But, I mean, it was like it made sense to me, you know, from like everything my dad did back in his activist days.”
Arthur Liu told The Associated Press in 2022, “They are probably just trying to intimidate us, to … in a way threaten us not to say anything, to cause trouble to them and say anything political or related to human rights violations in China. … I had concerns about her safety. The U.S. government did a good job protecting her.”
Liu made her return to the sport just two years later in 2024. By March 2025, she was already making history for Team USA, becoming the first American to the World Figure Skating Championships in 19 years. Then in February, she made history as the first American to win Olympic gold in a women’s individual figure skating competition since 2002, and the first American woman to medal at all in the event since 2006.
The historic win was followed by a massive surge in popularity.
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Prior to the Olympics, she had less than 300,000 followers on Instagram. Just a week after the Olympics ended, she climbed past 5 million. Now, at the time of publication, she has more than 7.4 million.
However, it appears that many of her new fans now won’t get to see her compete in Prague.
Comedian reveals brain scan found ‘five to seven holes’ after years of drug use
After an overdose on the streets of Los Angeles in December, Andy Dick is coming clean.
The actor opened up on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast about his struggles with addiction, being clinically dead after he overdosed and how his years of drug use had left him with “five to seven holes” in his brain.
The conversation began with Mandel talking about how he saw Dick a few weeks before the overdose. He remembered being “upset” with Dick and said he was “being really serious” with him about the state he was in.
“You looked like you were going to die that day,” Mandel told him, “and then you ended up dying a few weeks later on camera.”
“I did, you’re right,” Dick agreed.
Mandel later asked, “Were you dead? Did your heart stop? Like legitimately clinically dead?”
“Yeah,” Dick answered. “Purple, not breathing.”
The “NewsRadio” actor previously said he overdosed after taking crack cocaine from a stranger on the street, but he now says he’s not entirely sure what he smoked that day. He did say that the stranger was the person who administered Narcan, a nasal spray that can reverse overdoses.
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Now, Dick is clean, and he’s staying in a sober living house where he undergoes regular drug testing.
He admitted that his memory is affected by his years of drug use and explained that, during a recent CAT scan, doctors discovered “about five to seven holes” in his brain.
Mandel spoke about being sober himself and said what helps him maintain his sobriety is the urge to “protect” his family and his career. He told Dick, who has three children and two grandchildren, “It seems like you are less cognizant of protecting that.”
Dick didn’t argue, and when Mandel pressed him on why, he said, “Boredom. I get bored easily.”
But when the topic of grandchildren came up, he shared that his daughter is pregnant, and when Mandel asked if he’s going to “stay sober for this,” he said, “I have to, buddy. I just have to.”
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The conversation ended with Mandel saying, “I wanted you to come here to say, ‘You don’t have a lot of chances left, buddy.’ You don’t. And you had a lot of chances, and a lot of people root for you, and they’re worried about you, and you gotta …”
“Pull it together,” Dick finished.
This isn’t the first time Dick has had public struggles with addiction.
In 1999, he was arrested after crashing his car into a utility pole in Los Angeles. He was hit with multiple charges, including driving under the influence and possession of cocaine, but the charges were ultimately dismissed when he completed a drug treatment program.
He was arrested multiple times in subsequent years, and, in 2022, he was convicted of misdemeanor sexual battery stemming from an incident with an Uber driver in 2018. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to register as a sex offender.
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Fitness influencer Stephanie Buttermore dies suddenly at 36 years old, fiancé announces
Stephanie Buttermore, a fitness influencer and doctor who researched ovarian cancer throughout her career, died at the age of 36, her fiancé and fellow fitness YouTuber Jeff Nippard, announced Friday.
Nippard’s team posted on Instagram and YouTube the “important announcement” that was made with “profound sorrow.”
The announcement described Buttermore’s death as “sudden.”
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“As many of you know, Stephanie meant the world to Jeff. She will be remembered for her warmth and compassion, her love for her family, and her PhD research on ovarian cancer,” the post read.
No details are currently available regarding her death, and Nippard’s team asked for privacy.
Buttermore and Nippard appeared in numerous YouTube videos together over their decade-long relationship. The two got engaged in 2022, and Nippard posted a photo of the two of them on Valentine’s Day.
Nippard’s Instagram and YouTube accounts shut off comments on posts announcing Buttermore’s death, but fans flooded the comments to show their support for Nippard, a former professional bodybuilder and powerlifter.
“Heaven gained an amazing angel. Someone who cared so deeply for others. Someone who cared so deeply for others. Praying for you Jeff and her family,” fellow influencer Buff Bunny posted on Nippard’s Valentine’s Day post.
“I am so so sorry. I have followed Stephanie for years, what a beautiful soul. Praying for you and your loved ones,” another user wrote.
Buttermore posted content regarding nutrition and fitness, including videos about her own personal struggles with eating disorders and mental health. She gained more prominence during her self-dubbed “All In” challenge, where she would eat upward of 10,000 calories per day to promote healthy weight gain for women and body positivity. Nippard’s most recent video, posted last week, was about body dysmorphia.
Buttermore stopped posting on social media and YouTube in March 2024, citing improved mental health from being off social media.
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Buttermore garnered over 1 million YouTube subscribers, while Nippard, a Canadian drug-free powerlifting and bodybuilding champion who now posts science-based lifting information, has over 8 million.
Deadly day at iconic national park follows pattern of visitors ignoring clear warnings
A tourist died late last week after entering a closed, hazardous area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in what some say is the latest example of park visitors ignoring warning signs and wandering into off-limits areas.
The death of a 33-year-old Hawaii resident adds to a growing list of injuries and fatalities at major tourist destinations, including at Yellowstone National Park.
The man went into a closed section of Kīlauea caldera at the park, triggering an overnight search and rescue operation in steep, hazardous terrain, officials said, as Fox News Digital reported. Rescue crews searched all night before locating him the following day.
On Feb. 27, responders airlifted him and transported him to Hilo Benioff Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Other travelers have been burned, gored or even jailed after breaking park safety rules.
“In recent years, visitation to U.S. national parks has increased substantially, and with more visitors comes a greater likelihood of incidents,” Dylan Spencer, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at Georgia Southern University, told Fox News Digital.
In September 2025, Spencer co-authored a research article, “Recreation and disarray: Analysis of disorder in U.S. national parks.”
“Many of these incidents reflect a broader issue of risk perception,” he added. “Some visitors treat national parks as recreational spaces similar to city parks or zoos, when in reality they are dynamic and sometimes hazardous natural environments.”
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The fatal incident in Hawaii was far from the first national park emergency in recent years.
In April 2025, a Seattle tourist was sentenced to a week in prison for violating rules at Yellowstone National Park and getting too close to Old Faithful, according to SFGate.
The park requires visitors in thermal areas of Yellowstone to stay on specific trails, the attorney’s office said at the time.
There were two other arrests in Yellowstone last year for breaking the rules.
“Wildlife, steep terrain, geothermal features and remote landscapes all carry real risks.”
Park officials emphasized how important it is to remain on marked paths in Yellowstone’s thermal areas.
Nearly two dozen people have died from burns in these areas since Yellowstone opened in 1872, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
In June, an 18-year-old man slipped and fell 50 feet to his death at Olympic National Park in Washington, according to Fox13 Seattle.
The man was walking on rocks at the top of Sol Duc Falls at the time, according to the National Park Service.
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The waterfall area there is rugged and slippery, and park visitors are regularly warned to stay on designated paths, away from unstable rock surfaces near the falls.
In 2024, an 83-year-old woman was severely injured after being gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park, the National Park Service said.
“A common issue is that some visitors underestimate how dangerous these environments can be,” Spencer said.
Last spring, two tourists died after climbing over a rail at Bryce Canyon in Utah, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
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The incident underscored how slipping past safety barriers at scenic overlooks dramatically increases risk.
“Wildlife, steep terrain, geothermal features and remote landscapes all carry real risks,” Spencer said.
“Some visitors seem insistent on ignoring the warnings — and some pay the price.”
“When visitors ignore warning signs or approach dangerous areas for photos or closer views, the consequences can unfortunately be severe.”
Bill Wade, executive director of the Association of National Park Rangers, agreed with that assessment.
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“Park rangers know what the risks to visitors are in national parks and do everything reasonable they can to warn visitors of these risks and to keep them safe,” Wade told Fox News Digital.
“Despite these warnings, some visitors seem insistent on ignoring the warnings — and some pay the price.”
‘Dancing with the Stars’ finalist Amy Purdy details how she lost both legs
Paralympic medalist and “Dancing with the Stars” finalist Amy Purdy says her life changed in a matter of hours at just 19 years old when doctors told her she had less than a 2% chance of surviving a devastating illness.
Today, she’s sharing how she rebuilt her life after losing both legs below the knees in a new book aimed at helping others navigate life-altering setbacks.
In an exclusive on-camera interview with Fox News Digital, Purdy recalled the moment everything shifted.
“I was 19 years old when I lost both my legs below the knees to something called bacterial meningitis,” Purdy said. “We have no idea how I got it. I was a massage therapist at the time. I was also a passionate snowboarder, and my goal was to travel the world and snowboard.”
The “Bounce Forward” author explained how her health spiraled almost instantly.
“And then, all of a sudden, I got sick one day,” she said. “Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, where I was given less than a 2% chance of living, and it ended up being bacterial meningitis.”
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The infection triggered septic shock, leaving her body ravaged.
“I ended up fighting for my life. I lost both my legs below the knees to septic shock. I ended up losing my kidney function, my spleen, the hearing in my left ear — barely survived,” Purdy said.
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As a teenager whose identity revolved around snowboarding and adventure, survival meant starting over.
“I ended up, you know, having to figure out who I was again in the world and how I wanted to live my life and how to put one baby step in front of the other and eventually worked my way, not just back, but forward in a way that I never could have imagined,” she said. “I ended up going further than I ever could have imagined … but it took a lot of steps to get there.”
“I was 19 years old when I lost both my legs below the knees to something called bacterial meningitis.”
Those steps ultimately led Purdy to the Paralympic Games, where she medaled in snowboarding, and later to the ballroom stage on “Dancing with the Stars,” where she competed alongside professional dancer Derek Hough.
Purdy admitted the show brought a deeply personal challenge most viewers never realized.
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“When I went on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I first of all had no idea if I’d be able to do it with two prosthetic legs,” she said.
She initially turned down the opportunity because of a hurdle most dancers may take for granted.
“One of my biggest fears going on the show — and, actually, I originally said that I didn’t want to do the show — was that I couldn’t point my toes,” Purdy said. “And that’s so hard. I mean, as a dancer, you need to be able to point your toes.”
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Because her prosthetic feet are fixed at a 90-degree angle, it seemed impossible — until she discovered a creative workaround.
“I remembered seeing these swimming feet in a magazine,” she said, referring to prosthetics designed for swim flippers that allow toes to point.
“I was able to point my toes with these feet,” Purdy said. “And it actually kind of healed something in me because I all of a sudden felt really feminine.”
Moments like that, she said, helped her reconnect with parts of herself she believed had been lost after her illness.
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“There are these little kind of moments through ‘Dancing with the Stars’ that helped me find parts of myself that I thought I lost,” she said. “Ultimately, they were always there.”
Purdy opens up even further in her upcoming book, “Bounce Forward.”
The book marks the first time she has shared in depth what happened after her early success, including moments when she had to rebuild yet again.
“I think the hardest chapter to write of this book was the first chapter, which was on grief,” Purdy said.
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That chapter revisits the painful period when doctors predicted a dramatically limited future.
“It was the beginning of the journey of injuring my leg and not knowing what I’d be able to do again and actually having the doctors tell me, ‘You probably won’t ever walk comfortably again. You probably won’t ever snowboard again,'” she said.
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At one point, she said, a surgeon offered a bleak outlook.
“I remember one surgeon saying, ‘Well, hopefully you’ll walk to the end of your driveway and get your mail out of the mailbox one day,’” Purdy recalled.
“You can rebuild and transform yourself over and over again.”
But Purdy pushed back, reminding doctors who she was.
“I had to … beg and, like, tell him who I was,” she said. “Like, ‘No, I’m a competitive athlete. I snowboard seven hours a day. I did “Dancing with the Stars.” I work out every day. I walk through airports. I’m so active.’ And he was like, ‘I don’t think you’re gonna be able to do this stuff again.’
“So, writing that first chapter and just going back to those feelings of loss of my identity and of who I thought I was, that was one of the hardest times in my life and one of the hardest chapters to write,” she said.
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Through “Bounce Forward,” Purdy hopes to help others rethink how they approach life’s obstacles.
Rather than trying to “bounce back” to the person they once were, the book encourages readers to move forward into something new. It outlines 21 tools Purdy developed through her own journey of loss, reinvention and recovery.
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After beating the 2% survival odds and rebuilding her life from the ground up, the Paralympian is sharing a grit-built game plan for resilience in her new book.
“For somebody who’s reading this, who thinks they’re starting over again, what I would want them to hear is, ‘Yes, you can start over again,’” Purdy told Fox News Digital. “And you can rebuild and transform yourself over and over again.
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“Life isn’t about having everything perfectly together,” she added. “It’s about being able to live in the best way you can, even if you’re faced with adversity. … So, every day you have a chance to wake up and decide how you’re going to live your life. And I hope that this book helps people do that.”
“Bounce Forward” is available for preorder and will officially release April 14.
Adam Schiff hits ‘vague’ war powers quote until Bill Maher reveals it was Obama admin’s
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was prompted by “Real Time” host Bill Maher on Friday into critiquing a quote from the Obama administration about its war powers in Libya, seeming to assume the statement was from the Trump administration about Iran.
“This statement from the administration: ‘The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest,’” Maher said. “That’s too vague for you?”
“Totally vague…” Schiff responded before being interrupted by the host.
Before Schiff could get his entire thought out, Maher interjected, saying, “Okay. Because that’s from Obama about Libya.”
The full quote from the Obama administration is dated April 1, 2011. It comes from the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel: “The President had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force in Libya because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.”
The senator quickly shifted the conversation to Syria, saying former President Barack Obama initially argued he could “go into Syria without an authorization” from Congress until he and other officials pushed back.
“Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after [former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad], even though Assad was gassing his own people, because he thought he may lose the vote in Congress,” Schiff explained.
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“But I respect the fact that — that was important to him, and the fact that he did not have the support of Congress meant that we weren’t going to go forward.”
Moving the conversation to President Donald Trump‘s strikes on Iran, Schiff asserted that “we are unquestionably at war now,” and that America’s Founding Fathers made the “extraordinary decision” to give war powers to Congress instead of the president.
He noted that Alexander Hamilton warned that presidents would grow “too fond of making war” if they had the ability to do so without congressional approval.
“After Venezuela, after the earlier Iran conflict, after bombing Nigeria and Iraq and Syria, [Trump’s] grown too fond of this,” he argued. “And Congress… needs to step up, assert its role, or it’s going to be gone for good, and then anytime a president, for any reason, anywhere in the world, for any length of time — will feel free to make war. And that would be hugely dangerous for the country.”
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On Thursday, the House of Representatives narrowly voted to allow Trump to continue Operation Epic Fury in Iran.
A bipartisan resolution led by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., failed to pass after four Democrats joined most Republicans in sinking it, 212 to 219.
The legislation was aimed at blocking Trump from using the Armed Forces in the joint U.S.-Israeli operation in Iran, which would likely force the strikes to grind to a halt.
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The Trump administration, as well as the majority of Republicans in Congress, have insisted that the president has acted within his authority so far and are hopeful he will continue to do so.
Jamie Lee Curtis, 67, stuns in lingerie photo as fans claim she’s ageless
Jamie Lee Curtis is “proud as f—” of her goddaughter for her latest movie.
The 67-year-old actress took to Instagram to share her support for her goddaughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new “audacious, bold, punk, feminist, opera of a movie,” “The Bride,” in a unique way.
“She sent me some lingerie, which is one of the partnerships with @victoriassecret and I wore it today to support my money makers as well as her movie and couldn’t figure out how to show her my support so this was the best I could do in a limo driving around New York City,” she wrote in the caption.
Curtis posted a photo of herself in a patterned lingerie top with black lace on the chest and a matching long-sleeve cover-up over it. She paired the look with her signature glasses and a chain necklace.
Fans in the comments section could not help but gush over the photo, with one writing, “Whaaaat! Not Jamie Lee setting up a thirst trap.”
Another fan wrote “Still Got It WOW!!” while a third commenter added, “Aging Beautifully.”
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Curtis is known in Hollywood for speaking her mind, telling AARP’s Movies for Grownups in March that her mindset changed when she turned 60, telling the outlet she “realized I was going to die sooner than later.”
“Sooner than later means sooner than later. And that understanding meant I have no effing time to waste. No time to waste on toxic people, on relationships that don’t serve me,” she added.
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The “Freakier Friday” star shared in the caption that she is in New York to promote her latest project, “Scarpetta,” which she is starring in and producing with Nicole Kidman.
Based on the popular book series written by Patricia Cornwell, “Scarpetta” stars Kidman as forensic pathologist, Dr. Kay Scarpetta as she works to catch a serial killer. Curtis stars alongside her as Dorothy Farinelli, Kidman’s character’s sister.
“She brings her spirit, which is open, beautiful, gracious, grateful that she gets this opportunity,” she told AARP about working with Kidman. “I walk into every day of every job the same way. I don’t care if it’s a yogurt commercial or a TV show I’m producing. We both appreciate that we get to do this. And at this age, if we’re not in this together, I’m not sure what we’re doing.”
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Curtis joked that as the boss she can’t get fired after previously telling The Guardian in July 2025 that she has “been self-retiring for 30 years” in an effort to “leave the party before I’m no longer invited.”
Having grown up with famous parents, the “True Lies” star has a unique perspective on how getting older can sometimes mean being sidelined in Hollywood.
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“I witnessed my parents lose the very thing that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the industry rejected them at a certain age,” she explained. “I watched them reach incredible success and then have it slowly erode to where it was gone. And that’s very painful.”
Shark fatalities double worldwide in 2025 as one state tops US bite list
Unprovoked shark bites worldwide increased in 2025, and fatalities rose above the recent decade average, according to the International Shark Attack File (ISAF).
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File confirmed 65 unprovoked shark bites globally in 2025, up from a lower-than-usual total in 2024 and closer to the 10-year average of 72 incidents annually. Twelve of the 2025 incidents were fatal, double the decade average of six unprovoked deaths per year.
Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research and curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, said it is too early to determine whether the increase signals a shift.
“Hard to tell,” Naylor told Fox News Digital. “Most of the fatalities are in Australia, which may be experiencing both an uptick in some species of sharks and an uptick in surfers exploring new breaks, some of which are quite remote and hard to get to, and an uptick in new ways that humans enjoy water-sports, like foiling.”
He said additional years of data will be needed to determine whether 2025 represents the start of a trend.
“We will be able to say more if the trend continues in subsequent years,” he said. “For now, we cannot exclude the notion that it is a statistical ‘blip.’”
ISAF investigated 105 alleged shark-human interactions worldwide in 2025.
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Of those, 65 were confirmed to be unprovoked. Twenty-nine were classified as provoked, including incidents involving fishing, handling sharks or attempting to touch them. Other cases involved boat strikes or could not be definitively categorized.
The United States recorded the largest share of unprovoked bites, accounting for about 38% of the global total. Florida continued to lead the nation with 11 unprovoked attacks, more than twice as many as any other state.
The sole fatality in the U.S. was triathlete Erica Fox, 55, whose body was found near Santa Cruz, California, Dec. 21 after she vanished during a group training swim.
The coroner ruled the cause of death as “sharp and blunt force injuries and submersion in water.”
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Florida reported more incidents than any other U.S. state, though most cases were nonfatal.
| U.S. State | Total | Fatal |
| Florida | 11 | 0 |
| California | 5 | 1 |
| Hawaii | 4 | 0 |
| South Carolina | 2 | 0 |
| New York | 1 | 0 |
| North Carolina | 1 | 0 |
| Texas | 1 | 0 |
| Total Cases: | 25 | 1 |
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Australia ranked second in total unprovoked bites, representing roughly 32% of incidents worldwide.
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While the number of unprovoked bites rose in 2025 compared with the previous year, the total remains within the range observed over the past decade, according to the group’s annual summary.
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An unprovoked bite is defined as an incident in which a person is bitten in a shark’s natural habitat without prior human interaction. Provoked incidents are tracked separately to maintain consistency in reporting and long-term comparisons.