Marine veteran Vance pushed to the limit in grueling workout with elite Navy SEALs
EXCLUSIVE: New photos obtained by Fox News Digital show Vice President JD Vance training with U.S. Navy SEALs in California — a 90-minute workout the vice president later said left him feeling like he’d been “hit by a freight train.”
Images show Vance carrying logs, rowing in the ocean, running on the beach and climbing a rope obstacle course alongside a group of SEALs.
“Just finished PT with the Navy SEALs for 90 minutes,” Vance wrote in an X post Monday. “They took it easy on me and I still feel like I got hit by a freight train.”
Vance used the moment to praise the military’s special operations forces, writing that he is “so grateful to all of our warriors who keep us safe and keep the highest standards anywhere in the world.”
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The vice president participated in multiple stages of SEALs training at a facility in Coronado, California, per a source familiar. Many of the SEALs’ faces have been blurred to protect their identities.
Vance is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in the Iraq War. He enlisted in 2003 and deployed to Iraq in 2005 with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, where he worked in public affairs.
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The vice president previously has said his time in uniform shaped his views on national security, the costs of war and the responsibility leaders bear when sending troops into harm’s way.
Navy SEALs are among the U.S. military’s most elite special operations forces, known for grueling physical standards and missions ranging from counterterrorism to maritime operations.
The post aligns with broader messaging from Trump administration officials emphasizing physical readiness across the armed forces.
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War Secretary Pete Hegseth has emphasized U.S. troops need to be “fit, not fat,” even up to the general and flag-officer level. He has frequently highlighted physical readiness in public remarks and has taken part in workouts with service members during visits to military units around the world.
Joy Reid doubles down on attacks against Erika Kirk over hugging joke at TPUSA event
Far-left podcaster and former MSNBC host Joy Reid doubled down on her attacks against Turning Point USA president Erika Kirk after the latter’s jabs at Reid during AmericaFest 2025.
During her opening remarks at the TPUSA conference on Thursday, Kirk joked that Reid could use a “really good hug” and that she’d even touch the back of her head. This was in reference to Reid disparaging Kirk for the way she hugged Vice President JD Vance during a Turning Point USA event.
Reid reiterated on her show Friday that Kirk looked “very intimate” with Vance “in her saucy hot pants” and pushed back on Kirk’s offer for a hug.
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“The last thing I will say to Erika Kirk is this: Dear young lady, I don’t need a hug from you,” Reid said. “First of all, I would never let you get close enough to hug me ’cause I don’t trust you. And second of all, I don’t know if anybody ever told you – you’re pretty young – but don’t be offering to touch Black women’s hair. We don’t allow it. This is not the 19-teens. It’s not the 1920s or the 1930s. You cannot come up to me, touch me, or touch my hair. It won’t go. I don’t allow it. So, don’t offer to do that because that’s not going to happen.”
Reid also stood by her suggestion that Vance could leave his “Brown Hindu” wife to be with a “White queen” like Kirk to appeal to the MAGA base, claiming it was the MAGA base who were attacking Usha Vance’s race.
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“MAGA is the one doing the racism. Not me. All I’m saying is the ultimate MAGA fairytale would be for JD to leave Usha Vance alone and go run off with Charlie Kirk’s widow. It brings like the houses of MAGA together,” Reid said.
She told Kirk that she should instead focus on appealing to “White Christian nationalists” as a working single mom.
“You need to take care of minding your business, which is to keep that $80 million rolling in and figure out how you’re going to get those White Christian nationalists who follow Turning Point USA to understand why you working and not home with your children who now don’t have a daddy,” Reid said. “You are now a single mom, which they oppose.”
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She continued: “You’re going to have to now figure out how you’re going to explain to your Turning Point USA base why you working and why you out rubbing on JD Vance’s back of his head and offering to rub on the back of mine instead of home with your kids because their ideology is that your behind should be in your house. That’s all I’m going to say.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Turning Point USA for comment.
Grandpa QB shows he still has it with strong first-half performance against 49ers
Philip Rivers’ return to the NFL has many former quarterbacks over the age of 40 wondering if they could turn back the clock and perform at a similarly high level.
If anything, they should at least take note of what Rivers did in the first half for the Indianapolis Colts against the San Francisco 49ers.
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026 semifinalist put on a vintage performance in the first half against the 49ers, delighting NFL fans who tuned into the game on Monday night.
He started the night coming out to cheers from Colts fans at Lucas Oil Stadium – his family also in attendance. The Colts went nine plays, 72 yards and Rivers found wide receiver Alec Pierce for a 20-yard touchdown. Indianapolis jumped out to a 7-0 lead.
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San Francisco scored on back-to-back drives thanks to Brock Purdy hooking up with Demarcus Robinson, the special teams forcing a turnover, and then Purdy throwing a touchdown pass to Christian McCaffrey. When Rivers got the ball back, he drove down the field again.
The Colts scored on a 16-yard touchdown pass from Rivers to Pierce to end a 12-play, 66-yard drive. The game was tied with a lot of time to go in the first half.
Indianapolis trailed 24-17 at the half. But the attention was on Rivers.
He was 14-of-21 with 175 passing yards and two touchdown passes. The last time he threw multiple touchdown passes in the regular season was on Dec. 20, 2020, against the Houston Texans.
Rivers came back to the Colts last week at the age of 44. He had a solid performance against the Seattle Seahawks for someone who hadn’t thrown a ball in nearly five years.
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Now, the Colts’ playoff hopes rest on his shoulders.
Pilot reports UFO ‘standing still’ beside jet wing in eerie midair encounter: ‘Creepy’
The pilot of a private jet reportedly made an eerie discovery while flying thousands of feet over Rhode Island, marking the latest in unexplained encounters baffling both experts and civilians alike.
Newly resurfaced video shared on YouTube in October by the VASAviation channel reveals the head-scratching moment the pilot radioed to the ground team at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport regarding a mysterious small, silver cylinder hovering near the wing of his aircraft, telling Air Traffic Control (ATC), “It appears to be standing still.”
“Looks like a strange, small object that we just floated by,” the pilot told ATC, according to the clip. “A small silver canister. Do you know what that could be?”
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ATC went on to inform the pilot there were no other reports regarding an object in the area and asked the pilot if it could be a drone or balloon.
“I saw nothing attached to it,” the pilot responded, according to the clip. “It was sort of hovering there. It was astonishing. I don’t know what it was.”
The object was reportedly seen floating near the right wing tip of the Piper PA-32RT-300T Turbo Lance II at an altitude of 3,500 feet, before flying alongside the aircraft and later disappearing from view.
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“Creepy,” the ground team can be heard saying on the radio, with ATC joking, “Good luck with the aliens.”
Other pilots quickly took to the radio to join in on the mystery, as one added, “I want to believe him.”
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“The FAA documents UAP sightings whenever a pilot reports one to an air traffic control facility,” the FAA said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “If supporting information such as radar data corroborates the report, the FAA shares it with the UAP Task Force.”
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“Multiple U.S. government agencies have individual programs or processes to study and document UAP. However, the agencies also work collaboratively on the topic.”
Chiefs are heading to Kansas for new $4B stadium deal after taxpayers reject funding
The Kansas City Chiefs made a major announcement on Monday, as they revealed their move from Missouri and Arrowhead Stadium to a new domed stadium in Kansas.
The Chiefs, in conjunction with Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, announced in a joint statement from owner and chairman Clark Hunt that the team will be heading to Kansas City, Kansas, following a meeting of the Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council.
“Today we are excited to take another momentous step for the future of the franchise,” Hunt’s announcement read. “We have entered into an agreement with the State of Kansas to host Chiefs football beginning with the 2031 NFL season.
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“In the years ahead, we look forward to designing and building a state-of-the-art domed stadium and mixed-use district in Wyandotte County, and a best-in-class training facility, team headquarters, and mixed-use district in Olathe, totaling a minimum of $4 billion of development in the State of Kansas.”
Kelly added: “This agreement to bring the Chiefs to Kansas takes our state to the next level. With this new stadium, we’re creating thousands of jobs, bringing in tourists from around the world, attracting young people, and most importantly, we’re continuing to make Kansas the best place in America to raise a family. This is a game-changer for Kansas, and it’s a signal to America and the world that our state’s future is very bright.”
The Chiefs will remain at Arrowhead Stadium with its lease lasting through the 2030 season. But there certainly will be some bittersweet feelings considering how long the Chiefs have played at their current home.
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Since 1972, the Chiefs have played at Arrowhead Stadium, which the late Lamar Hunt was instrumental in building in Missouri. It is, however, the third-oldest stadium in the NFL today, with only the Chicago Bears’ Soldier Field and Green Bay Packers’ Lambeau Field built prior.
But the big question for football fans remains: Why are the Chiefs moving?
It has been an ongoing debate for some time, but it revolves around ultimately who will help the Chiefs more in building their home of the future. Kansas outbid Missouri, and the former state’s STAR (Sales Tax and Revenue) bonds will be covering up to 70% of the cost of the new stadium.
Missouri did approve a plan this past summer that would pay up to half of the cost of the new stadiums for not only the Chiefs, but MLB’s Kansas City Royals as well.
The Chiefs and Royals share the same space at the Truman Sports Complex, but the baseball organization is looking to build its own new home and leave Kauffman Stadium in the past. The Royals were not involved in Monday’s announcement.
Voters in Jackson County, the jurisdiction that owns the Truman Sports Complex, blocked an extension of a 3/8-cent sales tax, which would’ve funded improvements to Arrowhead Stadium while helping finance a new Royals stadium. As such, both franchises were forced to look at other options, and the Chiefs made a big move here.
“The benefit to the entire region will be monumental,” Hunt’s announcement continued. “A stadium of this caliber will put Kansas City in the running for Super Bowls, Final Fours, and other world class events. A brand new training facility and headquarters will allow the Chiefs to continue to attract top talent. And the vision for a new mixed-use district will rival that of any sports-anchored development anywhere in the country.”
To further Hunt’s statement above, a domed stadium makes the new Chiefs home not just a possible Super Bowl destination, but would also play host to many other sporting and cultural events in the future.
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Hunt did acknowledge how hard it is going to be to say goodbye to the city and place his father worked so hard to bring to Missourians and so many others who have supported the Chiefs for decades.
“It will be difficult to bid farewell to Arrowhead Stadium in a few years. Like so many of you, Arrowhead reminds me of family memories and unforgettable moments. But the truth is, what makes Chiefs game days so special is you. Seats don’t make noise, concrete doesn’t intimidate opponents, parking lots don’t cook barbecue. You do.”
Powerball jackpot prize just got a lot bigger — how much you could bring home
The Powerball jackpot surged to an estimated $1.6 billion ahead of Monday night’s drawing, making it the fifth-largest prize in U.S. lottery history.
The pot grew after no ticket matched all six numbers from Saturday night’s drawing.
The white balls were 4, 5, 28, 52 and 69. The red Powerball was 20 and the Power Play multiplier was 3.
It now has an estimated cash value of $735.3 million, according to the lottery.
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The odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.9, while the odds of hitting the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
Though there was no jackpot winner in the latest drawing, eight tickets matched all five white balls, the lottery said. Winning Match 5 tickets were sold in California, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan (two), New Hampshire and Ohio.
Monday’s drawing – the fourth-largest in Powerball history – will mark the 46th in the current jackpot run, which the lottery says is a game record for the most drawings in a jackpot cycle.
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The Powerball jackpot was last won on Sept. 6, when two tickets in Missouri and Texas split a $1.787 billion prize.
The winner can choose between a lump sum payment estimated at $735.3 million or an annuitized prize of an estimated $1.6 billion. Both options are before taxes.
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If a winner opts for the annuitized prize, they will receive one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that increase 5% each year.
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Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawings occur three nights a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
The biggest U.S. lottery jackpots:
- $2.04 billion – Powerball; Nov. 7, 2022 – California
- $1.787 billion – Powerball; Sept. 6, 2025 – Missouri, Texas
- $1.765 billion – Powerball; Oct. 11, 2023 – California
- $1.602 billion – Mega Millions; Aug. 8, 2023 – Florida
- $1.6 billion – Powerball; Dec. 22, 2025 (current prize, estimated jackpot)
- $1.586 billion – Powerball; Jan. 13, 2016 – California, Florida, Tennessee
- $1.537 billion – Mega Millions; Oct. 23, 2018 – South Carolina
- $1.348 billion – Mega Millions; Jan. 13, 2023 – Maine
- $1.337 billion – Mega Millions; July 29, 2022 – Illinois
- $1.326 billion – Powerball; April 6, 2024 – Oregon
Foreign-made drone ban takes flight as FCC cites ‘potential for large-scale attacks’
The Federal Communications Commission announced on Monday that it would ban new foreign-made drones, citing national security concerns.
The FCC said it was adding uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and their critical components made in China and other foreign countries to its “covered list” that features equipment that has been determined to pose an “unacceptable risk” to U.S. national security and the safety of Americans. Specific drones or components would be exempt if the Pentagon or Department of Homeland Security determined they did not pose such risks.
The distinction prohibits the products from being sold or imported in the U.S. The order does not apply to technology that has already been sold in the U.S.
The agency said that allowing foreign-made UAS and component parts to be sold in the U.S. “undermines the resiliency of our UAS industrial base, increases the risk to our national airspace, and creates a potential for large-scale attacks during large gatherings,” citing upcoming events such as the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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“Criminals, terrorists, and hostile foreign actors have intensified their weaponization of these technologies, creating new and serious threats to our homeland,” the FCC said in its notice.
The announcement comes a year after a defense bill was adopted that raised national security concerns about Chinese-made drones, which have been used in farming, mapping, law enforcement and filmmaking.
The bill called for stopping two Chinese companies — DJI and Autel — from selling new drones in the U.S. if a review found they posed a risk to U.S. national security.
A spokesperson for DJI said in a statement that it is “disappointed” by the FCC’s decision and that “no information has been released regarding what information was used” in the government’s determination to add its drones and component parts to the covered list.
“Concerns about DJI’s data security have not been grounded in evidence and instead reflect protectionism, contrary to the principles of an open market,” the statement said.
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party praised the FCC’s move, saying it “strongly supports” the decision.
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“It will help safeguard our national security, protect the American people, and wind down the unacceptable national security threat posed by DJI and other Chinese drones,” the committee wrote on X.
“Taken together with the Administration’s recent executive actions to accelerate domestic drone commercialization, this sends an unmistakable signal to American industry: The U.S. is open for drone innovation—and American manufacturing will be rewarded,” it added.
Arthur Erickson, chief executive officer and co-founder of the Texas-based drone-making company Hylio, told The Associated Press that the departure of DJI would provide more opportunity for American companies like his to grow. He said new investments are coming in to help him boost production of spray drones, which farmers use to fertilize their fields, and it will bring down prices.
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But Erickson also called it “crazy” and “unexpected” that the FCC would expand the restrictions to all foreign-made drones and their components.
“The way it’s written is a blanket statement,” Erickson said. “There’s a global-allied supply chain. I hope they will clarify that.”
Ancient Roman concrete discovery at Pompeii could reshape modern construction
Archaeologists excavating a Pompeii site uncovered the secret behind the longevity of ancient Roman structures: a unique concrete mixture that could chemically repair itself over time.
A recent study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications earlier in December, centered around a construction site that was abandoned after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
The construction site was buried under volcanic ash, which preserved it for nearly 2,000 years. Archaeologists found rooms with unfinished walls, piles of premixed dry building material and weighing and measuring tools for preparing concrete.
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Construction workers were building domestic rooms, a bakery with ovens, grain-washing basins and storage facilities when the volcano erupted.
At the site, researchers found that Romans used a specific method of developing durable, self-healing concrete — a substance that revolutionized architecture.
It was no secret that Romans used concrete — it was used to build the Colosseum, the Pantheon and countless other ancient buildings — but the specific method of concrete mixing had remained unknown until now.
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Romans used a technique called “hot mixing” in which they added quicklime to water, volcanic rock and ash, triggering a chemical reaction that naturally heated the mixture.
The method created white chunks called lime clasts, and when water seeped in, those clasts would dissolve and reform into calcium carbonate, allowing the concrete to heal and seal the damage.
Admir Masic, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who co-authored the study, told Reuters that he felt like he “traveled back in time” during the excavation.
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Working at the site was like “standing beside the workers as they mixed and placed their concrete,” said Masic.
The site dates over a century after the Romans began industrializing concrete in the first century BC. This method differed from previous documents from the era, particularly one written by the Roman architect Vitruvius.
The study also found that the concrete technique described by Vitruvius may have been outdated by the time that Vesuvius erupted.
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“Imagine what 100 years of difference could mean for the building technology. A good analogy could be the early telephones,” Masic told Reuters. “In the 1920s-30s: rotary dialing, long-distance copper lines. In the 2020s: smartphones using packet-switched digital signals and wireless networks.”
The MIT professor also speculated that the Pompeii discovery may shed some ancient wisdom that modern builders could benefit from.
“Modern concretes generally lack intrinsic self-healing capability, which is increasingly important as we seek longer-lasting, lower-maintenance infrastructure,” he said.
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“So while the ancient process itself is not a direct replacement for modern standards, the principles revealed can inform the design of next-generation durable, low-carbon concretes.”
Democrats blast Trump admin over move to deny green cards over public benefits
More than 125 congressional Democrats are pushing the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed rule that would open the door to denying a person a green card if they use public assistance, including Medicaid or food stamps.
“This proposal punishes families for caring for their children. It would scare parents away from health care, food assistance, and early education that U.S. citizen children are legally entitled to, putting kids at risk and destabilizing entire communities,” Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said in a statement to The Hill.
“Congress never intended public charge to be used this way, and we are demanding DHS withdraw this harmful proposal before it inflicts real and lasting damage on American families,” Espaillat added.
The Department of Homeland Security‘s proposal would rescind a rule adopted in 2022 under the Biden administration that reinstated a long-standing but relatively narrow definition of “public charge.”
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The 2022 rule defined a “public charge” as someone “primarily dependent” on government assistance, particularly people receiving cash assistance for income maintenance or nursing home care at government expense. Most non-cash benefits such as Medicaid and food stamps did not count toward a public charge determination under that rule.
DHS’ new proposal argues that the Biden-era policy is a “straitjacket” on immigration officers that prevents them from considering “all factors and information relevant to an alien’s likelihood at any time of becoming a public charge.”
Opponents of the Trump administration’s proposed rule change fear it would open the door to widespread rejection of green cards for people who would otherwise qualify and that it would lead immigrants to not seek assistance they could qualify for over concerns that it could impact their green card applications.
If the proposal is finalized, the Trump administration would not have a formal definition of what it means to be a public charge. This would give immigration officials broader discretion to consider a wider array of factors and potentially additional types of benefits in determining what constitutes a public charge, moving away from the narrow “primarily dependent” factor that was included in the 2022 rule.
In urging the federal government to abandon the proposal, 127 Democrats said the rule would create “immediate and widespread uncertainty,” according to The Hill.
The Democrat lawmakers argue in formal comments that immigration officers would be forced to make a public charge determination with little guidance.
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“Removing these definitions invites arbitrary decision-making and creates significant risk that adjudicators will rely on factors that Congress has not authorized,” the lawmakers wrote to DHS.
“The proposed rule contains no assurance that adjudicators will refrain from considering benefits received during periods when the federal government expressly stated that such benefits had no immigration consequences,” they continued.
The lawmakers also said the proposed rule opens the door to penalizing people who previously used assistance programs when there was no risk for accessing the benefits.
“Families seeking adjustment of status — including refugees, survivors of domestic violence or trafficking, children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned, and others whom Congress has long exempted from punitive public charge treatment — cannot navigate a system where the rules shift without warning and where past, lawful conduct that the federal government had stated was permissible could be reinterpreted as a negative factor,” they wrote.
“To be very clear, the proposed rule will trigger a massive chilling effect, driving eligible families away from essential assistance in health care, nutrition, childcare, and education, with the heaviest harm falling on U.S. citizen children,” the lawmakers said.
Another group of Democrats also submitted comments taking issue with the plan to change the longstanding definition of a public charge.
“Since the term was first codified as an immigration restriction in 1882, it has been consistently interpreted to mean an individual who is, or is likely to become, primarily dependent on the government for his or her care (i.e., someone who is effectively a ‘charge’ or ward of the state),” Rep. Jaime Raskin, D-Md., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the top Democrat on their respective chambers’ Judiciary committees, said in comments signed by additional lawmakers, according to The Hill.
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“Over the years, the method for determining such ‘primary dependence’ has changed, but the principle itself has remained steadfast,” they added.
Under the 2019 public charge rule issued during Trump’s first term, immigration officers were instructed to reject applicants who used public programs.