Chiefs star QB’s first words to fans after crushing loss at Super Bowl LIX
Patrick Mahomes chose a poor time to play perhaps the worst game of his career.
Mahomes had just 33 passing yards in the first half of Super Bowl LIX, the lowest of his career. Despite three touchdowns in the second half, it was too little too late, and his Kansas City Chiefs were blown out, 40-22, by the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Chiefs were going for their third consecutive Super Bowl title, a run that began two years ago against the same Eagles. However, the Birds’ defense had other plans.
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The Eagles were able to sack Mahomes six times, pick him off twice (including a pick-six) and throw him completely off of his game.
Green jerseys were in Mahomes’ face all night. Even more impressive is that the Eagles did not blitz once during the entire game.
While he did not necessarily get help from his offensive line or weapons, Mahomes took the blame for the tough loss.
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“Appreciate all the love and support from #ChiefsKingdom. I let y’all down today,” he posted on X after the game. “I’ll always continue to work and try and learn and be better for it. Want to give thanks to God for every opportunity he has given me.”
However, he added that the Chiefs dynasty is not done just yet.
“We will be back.”
Mahomes could have become the first person to win four Super Bowls before turning 30 in NFL history, but that is no more – he will turn 30 on Sept. 17 later this year.
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Kansas City was in their fifth Super Bowl in the last six seasons; they are 3-2 in those games, with both losses being rather ugly.
Noem identifies a federal agency that Trump should dismantle in its current form
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that she supported getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “the way it exists today.”
In an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Noem’s stance appeared in line with that of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who have both suggested shutting down FEMA could be an option, as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly gained access to FEMA’s sensitive disaster relief data to review its programs.
“Can and should Donald Trump shut it down?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Noem.
“He can. And I believe that he will do that evaluation with his team,” Noem said. “And he’s talking about it, which I’m grateful for. He’ll work with Congress, though, to make sure that it’s done correctly and that we’re still there to help folks who have a terrible disaster or a crisis in their life. He’s been very clear that he still believes there’s a role for the federal government to come in and help people get back up on their feet. But there’s a lot of fraud and waste and abuse out there. And since President Trump has taken over and come back into this administration, we’ve seen incredible change.”
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Noem, who visited Asheville, North Carolina, on Saturday to meet with Hurricane Helene victims and survey the damage, told CNN that she oversaw 12 different natural disasters that prompted a FEMA response when she was governor of South Dakota.
As Trump considers block grants for state and local officials experiencing natural disasters, Noem said Sunday that she knew from experience that local officials, such as county emergency management directors, mayors, city council and commissioners “made way better decisions than the people in Washington, D.C.”
Asked what she would tell Trump if the president asked her to get rid of FEMA, Noem said, “I would say yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today.”
“We still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go to people that have these types of disasters like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California,” Noem told Bash. “But you need to let the local officials make the decisions on how that is deployed so it can be deployed much quicker. And we don’t need this bureaucracy that’s picking and choosing winners.”
Noem said Trump “has been clear, too, that he still wants to help people,” but condemned FEMA for “targeting individuals, helping some people and not others.” The secretary appeared to be referencing how FEMA employees under former President Biden skipped homes in hurricane-ravaged areas that had displayed pro-Trump signs last year.
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Noem also referenced how Trump managed to close 80% of the open FEMA cases in North Carolina related to Hurricane Helene,” adding, “It’s amazing when you have somebody who cares … how quickly the response can be.”
The DHS secretary also defended Musk, as DOGE conducts an audit of federal agencies.
“We’re working with them at the president’s direction to find what we can do to make our department much more efficient,” Noem said. “This is essentially an audit of the federal government…. And one of the things I’ve been very clear to the appropriators in the Senate and the House is please give me the authority to reprogram funds.”
Asked if she felt comfortable with Musk’s data access, Noem said, “Elon Musk is part of the administration that is helping us identify where we can find savings and what we can do. And he has gone through the processes to make sure that he has the authority. The president has appointed him. I am today by the work that he is doing, by identifying waste, fraud and abuse. And his information that he has is looking at programs, not focusing on personal data and information.”
After the interview, Musk posted to X on Monday morning that his DOGE team discovered that FEMA last week alone sent $59 million to “luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.” Musk said that “sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order,” and, “that money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals!”
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“A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds,” Musk added.
Fauci, who was stripped of his taxpayer-funded security last month, handed more bad news
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) canceled more than $180 million in contracts over 48 hours, including a nearly $170,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit.
“In the past 48 hours, HHS canceled 62 contract [sic] worth $182 million,” The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced in a Friday social media post. “These contracts were entirely for administrative expenses – none touched any healthcare programs. This included terminating a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH Museum.”
The news comes as DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk, has continued to outline vast changes in government spending over the last few weeks, including a plan to eliminate the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and sweeping changes at the U.S. Treasury Department aimed at eliminating over $100 billion per year in entitlement payments to individuals with no Social Security number.
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Seemingly no federal agency has been excluded from the reach of DOGE, with HHS being just the latest in a string of targets meant to eliminate waste from the federal government.
The Fauci exhibit was booked to be finished by July 2025, but has now been scrapped along with $182 million in other HHS administrative expenses.
Fauci has long been a controversial figure and has often clashed with President Donald Trump, who last month revoked the taxpayer-funded security detail for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) that was requested for him in 2020 as he became the government’s public spokesperson during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“I think, you know, when you work for government, at some point your security detail comes off and, you know, you can’t have them forever,” Trump said of the move. “We took some off other people, too, but you can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government.”
Fauci was given a preemptive pardon by former President Joe Biden on his last day in office, which was meant to shield the infectious disease expert from feared retribution from Trump during his second stint in the White House, though Fauci was not charged with any crimes at the time of the pardon.
Before serving as the chief medical advisor to the president during COVID-19, Fauci served nearly 30 years as the director of the NIAID between 1984 and 2022.
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He started his career at the National Institutes of Health in 1968, and was widely praised for his efforts to confront HIV/AIDs before becoming the government’s public face during the pandemic.
HHS did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.
Musk’s ‘key tool’ in showing every American the truth as Dems try to change narrative
President Donald Trump’s first term revolutionized the online relationship between the president and the public, but self-proclaimed “White House Tech Support” Elon Musk is ushering a chronically online generation into Trump’s second term.
Trump has been using Truth Social in his second term like he used Twitter during his first, blasting off posts at all hours of the day to roll out policy announcements and comment on his favorite – or least favorite – news shows. Truth Social reads like Trump’s own stream of consciousness, and most Truth users are loyal Trump supporters who use the social media platform to rally around his policies.
Musk’s X account reads more like a political debate. Buried in the steady stream of memes and AI edits, “special government employee” Musk uses X as a way to meet Americans where they are – confirming and denying information about his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in real time.
It is easy to get lost in Musk’s 69,000 posts, but the richest man in the world does not miss a beat. This week, as an unrelenting news cycle focused on DOGE’s United States Agency for International Development (USAID) investigation, Musk used X to confirm reporting as misinformation circulated.
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“All @DOGE did was check to see which federal organizations were violating the @POTUS executive orders the most. Turned out to be USAID, so that became our focus,” Musk explained in a post on Monday.
On Wednesday, Musk confirmed reporting by the Wall Street Journal that DOGE is investigating the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, posting: “Yeah, this is where the big money fraud is happening.”
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Musk invites his followers to engage in the Democratic process right through the app, asking,”Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?” Musk asked his X followers in an X poll on Friday morning.
Musk polled his followers on Tuesday as well, asking if DOGE should audit the IRS.
Between the polls and DOGE confirmations, Musk floods his account with political commentary and quick reactions to trending posts. Musk simply responded with a bullseye emoji when an X user posted, “If you’re more angry that a handful of 22 year old software engineers are writing code to uncover fraudulent government spending than at the people who are fraudulently spending your hard earned taxes, it’s time to do some soul searching.”
Musk also embraces his platform as a vehicle to spark political debate with Democratic leaders.
In recent days, Democrats in Congress have unleashed attacks on Musk, including Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., who said, “Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby, a godless lawless billionaire, who no one elected” at a rally outside the Treasury Department, where protesters were speaking out against DOGE.
“Elon, this is the American people. This is not your trashy Cybertruck that you can just dismantle, pick apart, and sell the pieces of,” she continued.
“We are gonna be in your face, we are gonna be on your a–es, and we are going to make sure you understand what democracy looks like, and this ain’t it,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said at the same rally.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was also in attendance and told the crowd that Musk’s DOGE efforts are “taking away everything we have.”
The official DOGE account has a more formal tone and often doubles down on Musk’s posts to verify new information. DOGE has over 3 million followers on X.
As the owner of X, Musk is the most followed person on the app with a staggering 216.4 million followers. Musk has more followers on X than Trump has on Truth Social (8.83 million) and X (100.4 million) combined.
These days, Trump follows a Truth Social first media strategy. During his presidential transition, Trump announced his cabinet nominations on Truth Social before the transition team hit send on the press release. The press release that arrived several minutes later simply directed reporters back to the Truth Social post.
Musk’s constant posts landed him at odds with Trump last week when Musk said OpenAI does not have the money for The Stargate Project’s $500 billion investment in AI over the next four years. Musk said he had it on “good authority” that “SoftBank has well under $10B secured” for the investment, soon after Trump finished a press conference announcing the project.
Trump shrugged off Musk’s comments later that week, telling the press Musk “hates one of the people in the deal.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk have a long-standing legal feud.
While Trump is using X again, he is more likely to post a screenshot of his Truth Social post than break any news on Musk’s platform. Trump was banned from Twitter after Jan. 6 and launched Truth Social in 2022. His account was reinstated after Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X.
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Musk said he bought Twitter to “help humanity” and committed to protecting free speech. While liberal ideology dominated Twitter, X is more likely to lean conservative. A Pew Research Center survey in 2023 found Republicans are more likely to view the site positively since Musk arrived on the scene, while Democrats are more likely to say X has a ne gativeimpact on American democracy.
Trump pulls back curtain on ‘fraud and abuse’ in exclusive Super Bowl interview
President Donald Trump detailed his plans to instruct DOGE lead, Elon Musk, to probe the Education and Defense Departments for wasteful spending. The President told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier in an exclusive pre-Super Bowl interview that the billionaire entrepreneur has been a trustworthy ally in fulfilling his promise to cut the red tape.
“He’s not gaining anything. In fact, I wonder how he can devote the time to it,” Trump said.
“I’m going to tell him very soon… to go check the Department of Education. He’s going to find the same thing. Then I’m going to go into the military. Let’s check the military. We’re going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse, and the people elected me on that.”
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Baier’s interview with Trump, slated to air during a special 3 p.m. time slot on Sunday — mere hours before the Super Bowl LIX coin toss — will focus on the changes the Trump administration has enacted since his inauguration last month and the first 100 days of his presidency.
Among those changes has been implementing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Since Jan. 20, the department aimed at upending federal agencies has traced where money has been going.
The moves have been met with outrage from some Democrats, including a group who attempted to enter the Department of Education in light of possible cuts last week. Thirty House Democrats attempted to enter the Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., on Friday morning to meet with acting Education Secretary Denise L. Carter, but they were stopped by security.
President Donald Trump and Republicans have advocated shutting down the Department of Education, saying that the states are better equipped to handle education. Trump on Tuesday said that if Linda McMahon, his pick for education secretary, is confirmed, she should work to “put herself out of a job.”
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“The people want me to find it [the wasteful spending],” Trump told Baier.
“And I’ve had great help with Elon Musk, who’s been terrific.”
Additional portions of Trump’s interview will air during the Monday, February 10th edition of “Special Report with Bret Baier.”
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Prices to ‘fall dramatically’ when life as we know it gets flipped upside down
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts that artificial general intelligence will lead to lower costs for many goods, but has also warned that AI could be leveraged by authoritarian governments aiming to control people.
OpenAI is the company behind the popular AI model ChatGPT.
Altman explained in a blog post that AGI generally refers to “a system that can tackle increasingly complex problems, at human level, in many fields.” He noted that systems “are coming into view” which begin “to point to AGI.”
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“Although some industries will change very little, scientific progress will likely be much faster than it is today; this impact of AGI may surpass everything else,” he noted.
Altman suggested that while prices for many goods will decrease, some things, such as land, could see significant price increases.
“The price of many goods will eventually fall dramatically (right now, the cost of intelligence and the cost of energy constrain a lot of things), and the price of luxury goods and a few inherently limited resources like land may rise even more dramatically,” he wrote.
While Altman predicted that AI will permeate society, he also warned that the power of AI could be harnessed by authoritarian governments.
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“AI will seep into all areas of the economy and society; we will expect everything to be smart. Many of us expect to need to give people more control over the technology than we have historically, including open-sourcing more, and accept that there is a balance between safety and individual empowerment that will require trade-offs,” he wrote.
“While we never want to be reckless and there will likely be some major decisions and limitations related to AGI safety that will be unpopular, directionally, as we get closer to achieving AGI, we believe that trending more towards individual empowerment is important; the other likely path we can see is AI being used by authoritarian governments to control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy.”
It is important to make certain that “the benefits of AGI are broadly distributed,” Altman asserted.
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He suggested that “the balance of power between capital and labor could easily get messed up, and this may require early intervention. We are open to strange-sounding ideas like giving some ‘compute budget’ to enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI, but we can also see a lot of ways where just relentlessly driving the cost of intelligence as low as possible has the desired effect.”
Deadly outbreak sweeps through young children as doctors issue dire warning
Officials at the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) warn there is a growing measles outbreak involving school-aged children.
The report said that 10 cases have been identified in Gaines County and eight of the cases are school-aged children, of which two are under the age of 5.
All were unvaccinated cases, said officials.
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“Due to the highly contagious nature of this disease, additional cases are likely to occur in Gaines County and the surrounding communities,” the alert said.
Seven of the cases have been hospitalized, according to the Texas DSHS.
The rise in cases comes more than two decades after measles was reported eliminated by health agencies in 2000.
This week’s alert went on to advise that additional cases are likely to occur soon.
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“Due to the highly contagious nature of this disease, additional cases are likely to occur in Gaines County and the surrounding communities,” they said.
Officials urged people to immediately report any suspected cases to their local health department with the infected person in their presence.
DSHS said the virus can be transmitted through direct contact with infectious droplets or airborne and spread when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes. They also warned that the virus can remain infectious in the air for up to two hours after an infected person leaves an area.
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Vaccination is the best way for people to avoid infection from measles and other preventable diseases, the advisory said.
“Children too young to be vaccinated are more likely to have severe complications if they get infected with the measles virus,” DSHS said.
The report claims that each MMR dose lowers the risk of infection and the severity of illness if infected.
“DSHS and CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommend children receive one dose of MMR vaccine at 12 to 15 months of age and another at 4 to 6 years. Each MMR dose lowers the risk of infection and severity of illness if infected. Children too young to be vaccinated are more likely to have severe complications if they get infected with the measles virus,” according to their reports.
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In January, the Houston Health Department confirmed two cases of measles, prompting a health alert from the state. They were the first cases in Texas since 2023.
Both cases were unvaccinated adults who had traveled internationally.
Expert’s take on the lesson Blake Lively should’ve learned from the mafia
What was initially believed to be Blake Lively addressing issues about her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star, Justin Baldoni, in a complaint filed with the California Civil Rights Department, troubles have since spiraled into multiple lawsuits between the actors and finger-pointing on either side.
Now with more than one year until an official trial, experts believe the court of public opinion has heavily influenced the cases with mismanaged public relations woven in between.
“There are no real winners here, but right now, Blake and Ryan are losing the image war,” Alexandra LaManna, a communications advisor and former White House spokesperson, told Fox News Digital.
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“The reputational risk of legal action only pays off when you have overwhelming public support, an airtight case and full control of the narrative. None of that seems to be true here.”
LaManna added, “Blake’s original lawsuit brought serious sexual harassment allegations, and that can’t be ignored. She and Ryan may have decided that speaking out was worth the reputational fallout, no matter the cost. But this is a he-said-she-said that is getting messier by the day, and it’s getting harder for Blake and Ryan to come out looking clean.
“There are no real winners here, but right now, Blake and Ryan are losing the image war.”
“Fighting a case is one thing, winning over the public is another. If they can’t do that, their only option may be to step back and let time make people forget.”
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Lively filed a sexual harassment suit in December against Justin Baldoni, his Wayfarer studio and former PR reps. The same day Lively filed her suit, Baldoni filed a $250 million suit against the New York Times for a December article about the alleged smear campaign Baldoni attempted to run against his co-star.
Weeks later, Baldoni then named Lively and Reynolds in a separate $400 million lawsuit in which he accused the Hollywood power couple of attempting to hijack “It Ends With Us” and create their own narrative.
Baldoni, 41, apologized to Lively in a six-minute message seemingly sent after the pair met to discuss a now-infamous rooftop scene from the movie in which he claimed in legal documents that he felt pressured by Lively’s husband, Reynolds, and her best friend, Taylor Swift, to use Lively’s rewritten scene for the film.
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“I think this case has harmed Blake’s reputation regardless if she’s 100% correct,” Ryan McCormick, reputation management expert and managing partner at Goldman McCormick PR, told Fox News Digital.
“Negative news on a consistent basis re-enforces negative perception. I think all parties should have taken a key lesson from the mafia and had a sit down. It is bad for business (aka their reputations, which directly correlate to earning ability) for something like this to ever see the light of day.”
“I think all parties should have taken a key lesson from the mafia and had a sit down. It is bad for business (aka their reputations, which directly correlate to earning ability) for something like this to ever see the light of day.”
While there’s no turning back now that the wheels are in motion on multiple lawsuits, Lyric Mandell, Co-Founder of Tutti Agency and the Director of Media and Public Relations at MOXY Company, believed a different approach toward handling Lively’s alleged complaint could have netted different results.
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“Rather than escalating this battle in such a public way, Lively and Reynolds might have benefited from a quieter, more calculated approach,” Mandell said. “The entertainment industry is built on relationships, and while standing up against alleged wrongdoing is important, allowing the dispute to play out through social media, public jabs, and lawsuits can do more harm than good.”
Mandell added, “A more strategic approach would have been to address these issues earlier—before tensions and theories got to this point. By waiting until things had already started unfolding, they may have lost control of the narrative and made the situation more complicated than necessary. Had they acted sooner with a measured and private strategy, they could have allowed the legal process to handle the core issues while minimizing collateral damage to their reputations.
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“The entertainment industry is built on relationships, and while standing up against alleged wrongdoing is important, allowing the dispute to play out through social media, public jabs, and lawsuits can do more harm than good.”
“In Hollywood, perception is everything. When the narrative surrounding you turns negative, you risk being seen as a liability rather than an asset, which can lead to lost opportunities. By engaging in highly visible feuds, they run the risk of this controversy lasting far longer than the legal battle itself, potentially overshadowing their future projects and professional relationships.”
Judge Lewis J. Liman ordered a trial set for March 9, 2026.
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