A southern Michigan school district has voted to restrict participation in girls' sports to biological females, approving a new policy in a 4-2 school board vote amid the ongoing national debate over transgender athletes competing in women's and girls' athletics.
"The Board of Education approved a new policy with a vote of 4 yes and 2 no with one board member absent," Andrew Shaw, superintendent of Monroe Public Schools, told Fox News Digital in an email Wednesday.
"As the superintendent it is my role to implement the policies established by the Board of Education," he added. "The policy that was approved is for Monroe Public Schools only and does not impact any visiting school."
The policy, titled "Girl's Athletic Participation and Facilities Use," addresses participation in girls' athletics and access to facilities. A copy of the proposed policy obtained by Fox News Digital states that participation in girls' athletics at Monroe Public Schools would be restricted to biological females, with eligibility tied to documentation on a student's birth certificate.
The policy reads, "Participation in girl's athletics at Monroe Public Schools shall be restricted to biological females as documented on the birth certificate at the time of birth. Access to and use of girl's athletic facilities (locker rooms) shall follow the same restriction."
The new policy announcement also comes after Briley Lechner, a varsity volleyball player at Monroe High School in West Monroe, and her father, Sean, filed a federal lawsuit on Oct. 9, announced by the Thomas More Law Center, raising Title IX and constitutional claims against Monroe Public Schools, the Michigan High School Athletic Association and school officials over the alleged incident.
Briley Lechner said she filed a lawsuit after she unknowingly shared a locker room with a transgender athlete.
"What's very scary is that the day that this happened, I had no clue that there was a boy on the other team," Lechner told Fox News Digital in an interview on Oct. 15.
The lawsuit from the Thomas More Law Center "alleges that school officials knowingly concealed from the Monroe High School girls' volleyball team and their parents that the September 9, 2025, match with Ann Arbor's Skyline High School would involve a biological male (transgender female)," according to the legal group.
In a statement, Briley Lechner told Fox News Digital, "Our family loves and respect everyone, regardless of our differences. This has always been about my privacy, my safety, and fair play. Nothing more, nothing less."
She added, "Every female athlete deserves to have her rights respected and protected. Boys do NOT belong in girls’ locker rooms or girls’ sports. Every girl deserves to feel safe, respected, and protected, both in the locker room and on the court. We should NEVER have to fight for that."
Sean Lechner, her father, told Fox News Digital, "The new policy may be watered down, but it's an incremental victory for my daughter and every female athlete. It's shameful it took nearly a year to get here but we still have work to do. Who's to say they can't change it again? Regardless of how some try to twist the narrative, this has ALWAYS been about my daughter's privacy, safety, and fair play. Nothing more, nothing less!"
He continued, "Since our lawsuit was announced, my daughter and I have received even more harassing and threatening messages. But at the heart of everything I'm doing is something simple — being a father, being a parent, and loving my daughter enough to stand beside her when she needs me most."
He added, "To all parents....put aside your differences, bring faith, common sense, and respect back into our homes. Our children are God's most precious gifts. Love them. Cherish them. Protect them. One day, your daughter may look you in the eyes and ask, 'Why didn't you stand up for me when I needed you?' I never want my daughter to ask me that question. I want her to know her father stood beside her and never backed down. No amount of hate or threats will silence us. I will never stop standing up for my daughter."
We've been on an incredible run here at OutKick when it comes to OutKick Outdoors, nature and wildlife footage.
It never gets old as people are always captivated by animals in their natural habits.....or people behaving like idiots around animals. It's always gold.
Good Bull Outdoors shared a video this week on Instagram of a pair of massive elk locking antlers in a feisty scrap in Colorado.
"Our moose steak dinner was interrupted by bugling elk tonight so what do a couple of elk obsessed wildlife photographers do? We pack up the pup and roll out to get some video," the caption states, in part.
It continues, "Crazy doesn’t really describe the evening. A big 6x7 bugling while swimming across the lake, a 15 minute long fight, a second fight in a place we could hear but not see, a bull repeatedly walking down the road trying to get to cows inside the fairgrounds, a gunshot coming from the road which we found out was a policeman shooting a wounded elk calf hit by a car, and another bull jumping out towards our truck and nearly hitting it as he ran by. What a night!"
Check out the wild video below, and let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
People in the comments had plenty of reactions to share. One person wrote, "All pumped up, showing their strength!"
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Chicago voters can cast ballots in 12 different languages this election, an expansion that Illinois Republican Party Chairman Bob Grogan warns is making an already complicated election system harder to independently monitor.
Grogan told Fox News Digital the proliferation of versions in languages such as Tagalog, Gujarati and Urdu creates additional challenges for election judges and party observers tasked with ensuring voters receive accurate ballots. He also questioned how many voters need some of the translations, arguing that many immigrants who speak those languages also speak English.
"It's a solution in search of a problem," Grogan told Fox News Digital. "It's big city virtue signaling."
Chicago voters can cast ballots in 12 different languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog, Polish, Gujarati, Urdu, Ukrainian, Arabic and Russian.
Section 203 of the U.S. Voting Rights Act requires the Chicago Board of Elections to make materials and ballots available in certain precincts for Spanish, Chinese and Hindi speakers, a spokesperson for the elections agency told Fox News Digital. The Board includes the other non-English languages to "maintain uniformity with the languages used by the Cook County Clerk's office under a county ordinance, so that all voters throughout Cook County are afforded equal voting opportunities," the spokesperson added.
But Grogan, a former DuPage County auditor for 12 years, said he has "a fair number of Gujarati friends ... and everyone in their family speaks English."
"Gujarati — it's from India, and English is an official language in India," Grogan added.
Data provided to Fox News Digital by the Chicago Board of Elections shows that some of the less commonly used language options accounted for only a handful of ballots cast during the March primary. Just nine ballots were cast using the English-Gujarati option, while 15 used English-Urdu, 10 used English-Arabic and 25 each used English-Russian and English-Ukrainian, according to the Board's figures.
Other translations were used more frequently, including 4,474 English-Polish ballots, 2,183 English-Chinese ballots, 664 English-Hindi ballots, 352 English-Korean ballots and 100 English-Tagalog ballots.
Grogan also questioned why language requirements can change substantially across county lines, noting that Chicago offers touchscreen ballots in 12 languages while nearby DuPage County offers fewer language options.
"You can have a Gujarati population in Peoria," Grogan said. "You would think that there would be some more uniformity to all of that as well."
Beyond questioning the need for some of the translations, Grogan raised a broader concern about oversight, arguing that election judges and party observers cannot independently scrutinize ballots written in languages they do not understand.
However, the Chicago Board of Elections pushed back, telling Fox News Digital that it has in-house staff who help translate ballots and signs and assist multilingual media ahead of elections. It also said voters are allowed to bring "interpreter[s] to assist them in understanding and casting their ballot" under certain conditions.
When asked about multilingual judges, the Board noted that of the 7,218 election judges assigned for November's general election as of Thursday, 810 are multilingual candidates. Those multilingual judges include speakers of Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Polish, Korean and Tagalog, according to the Board.
Pressed on whether he believes the additional languages create an election security vulnerability, Grogan said the risk depends in part on how widely the translated ballots are used.
Overall, the Board's figures show 7,857 multilingual ballots were cast during the March primary, representing about 1.85% of the 424,564 ballots cast citywide.
"I think it certainly makes it harder to monitor," Grogan said. "If there is one ballot cast in that language, that's a very small vulnerability you have. If all of a sudden we have 10,000 in some very small, poorly understood language, then that increases the risk."
Fox News Digital asked the Chicago Board of Elections how many languages are available for mail-in ballots but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Mystery is surrounding the deaths of a toddler and his two grandparents after the three of them were discovered dead by investigators.
It happened inside a home in Gnadenhutten, Ohio. The Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office confirmed deputies responded to a 911 call where "a voice softly says the word 'help'" on Wednesday, the agency said in a release.
They arrived to find Kozzar Lotut, who was just 22 months old, Melissa Campbell, 51, and Gale Sanders, 67, deceased with apparent gunshot wounds. Fox News Digital confirmed their identities with the Tuscarawas Coroner's Office.
The deaths are being investigated as a murder-suicide, according to Sheriff Orvis L. Campbell.
"Right now, if I had to say the evidence was leaning one way, it’s definitely leaning towards a murder-suicide. We’re pretty confident, you know, that it happened within the home," he told WOIO.
The toddler's grandparents cared for the baby, who had "medical disabilities," he said.
The unnamed caller originally dialed 911 and hung up. Dispatchers tried to call the line back several times — and in one of those calls someone picked up and softly said the word "help."
Fox News Digital has reached out to American Medical Administrators, which operates New Philadelphia Health Care Center and the Sheriff's Office for comment.
The Department of Justice charged two former FBI officials with lying to Congress about their involvement in FBI investigations into Hunter Biden, including matters involving his laptop.
Former FBI officials Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, according to the DOJ, falsely denied involvement in the investigations into former President Joe Biden’s son when speaking to Congress. Both surrendered Friday on arrest warrants, according to the DOJ.
"Lying to Congress by anyone strikes at the heart of our democratic system, but when senior FBI agents lie to Congress believing they are above the law, it’s time to bring the hammer of justice down on them," U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said of the charges.
"When senior officials entrusted with safeguarding our nation’s security choose deception over duty, they undermine the very institutions they swore to uphold. Today’s action makes clear that no one is above the law, and we will hold accountable all who obstruct the truth."
The Justice Department claims to possess evidence that shows Benavides discussed the laptop story with others in the FBI, contradicting his testimony that he learned about the story from Wikipedia. Similarly, the department says that it has evidence Floris discussed Hunter Biden with members of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, despite testifying to the contrary.
"Nikki Floris is a patriot. She served our nation as a dedicated FBI intelligence officer for nearly 20 years. Yet today, the DOJ has accused her falsely of a crime on the say-so of politicians, not on the facts. It’s no coincidence the government is filing these nonsense charges now, years later, on the eve of an election," her attorneys said in a statement.
"This morning the FBI arrested two former FBI members of the now dissolved Foreign Influence Task Force, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, both of whom allegedly lied to Congress in 2023 on matters regarding investigations related to the 2020 election," FBI Director Kash Patel said of the arrests. "One of these individuals is on record privately claiming to be ‘running a shadow government’ during the 2020 election. As we’ve said repeatedly: weaponization will never be tolerated at this FBI."
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
In The Federalist No. 78, Alexander Hamilton famously promised that the federal judiciary would have "neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment." The climate lawfare movement has spent the better part of a decade trying to prove Hamilton wrong.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, in which Boulder seeks to use Colorado public nuisance law to make two energy companies pay for the effects of global climate change.
A small, well-funded network of climate activists, convinced that drastic action is needed to save the planet and frustrated that their fellow citizens have not voted to dismantle the fossil-fuel industry, have turned to state and local courts after the Supreme Court unanimously shut down federal climate-nuisance suits in 2011’s American Electric Power v. Connecticut. Their strategy rests on a single premise: When the front door of democracy is closed, try the courthouse back door.
But thanks to documents released September 30 by the House Judiciary Committee, we no longer have to guess. One of the movement’s architects put the strategy in writing.
"It seemed to me that without legislative or executive action to address the climate problem, real government action might still be derived from court decisions," Paul Hanle wrote in a May 2022 email. Hanle founded the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project, which has put at least 140 federal judges through its climate "education" seminars. In the same email, he laid out CJP’s strategy to target "key judges" with seminars, hoping to "make a great difference in the final outcome of cases."
The crown jewel was the judges’ own science manual. In December 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine invited Michael Burger to write the climate chapter of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, the federal judiciary’s go-to science guide. Burger runs Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and is of counsel at Sher Edling, a firm representing many of the cities and counties suing oil companies. The Federal Judicial Center balked, citing his litigation work.
The next day, Burger told his Sabin Center colleagues, the chapter’s eventual named authors, that he’d "be happy to contribute behind the scenes." Within weeks, one of them was circulating a draft with "Mike’s edits" and revising the legal section in response to his comments. Soon after the manual was published, the FJC withdrew the climate chapter. The National Academies finally followed suit in August.
Why all the stealth? Because climate plaintiffs have a causation problem they cannot solve in the open.
At the Suncor Energy oral argument, Justice Elena Kagan told the oil companies’ lawyer, "Well, you sound like you have a very good causation argument." She meant it as a brush-off; she immediately questioned why causation should matter for preemption.
But Kagan is right: No climate plaintiff has a good causation argument. Greenhouse gases mix globally, and about 90 percent of emissions occur outside the United States. Tying a drought in Boulder to any particular company’s barrels of oil is simply not possible.
That is why the climate lawfare movement needs judges to swallow "extreme event attribution." Boulder’s trial court has already shown what the endgame looks like, declaring, "in a multiple contributor tort case, there is no need to tie specific injuries to the actions of defendants." If you can’t meet the standard, lower it.
This is precisely what the Constitution’s structure exists to prevent: a small minority weaponizing federalism to impose its policy preferences on the entire nation. One county cannot regulate the world. If Boulder prevails, the companies’ lawyer warned, some 90,000 municipalities could make national energy policy through jury awards. Pressed by Justice Clarence Thomas at oral argument, Boulder’s lawyer conceded that "nothing in our theory" prevents suing retailers too.
And it won’t stop with oil companies. The Climate Judiciary Project’s own curriculum for judges shows where this is headed. One module touts "source attribution" studies tracing nearly two-thirds of all carbon dioxide emitted since the 1750s to 90 fossil-fuel and cement producers. Then it turns to the dinner table: "Though its members have not yet been named as defendants in climate change lawsuits, the heavily concentrated industrial animal agriculture industry also has been subjected to source attribution analysis." Note the word "yet."
The module is candid about the point of the exercise. These studies take an alleged problem that could be attributed to "several billion past and present human individuals" and reduce it "to one driven by a few dozen companies," which makes climate change "appear to be more amenable to traditional tort law adjudication." This is regulation by litigation, pure and simple. Punish the companies that supply Americans’ fuel, food and building materials, and every family pays the bill at the pump and the grocery store.
Chief Justice John Roberts cut to the heart of the matter: "Isn’t your suit an attempt to evade those decisions?" He meant the Court’s long line of cases treating interstate air pollution as a matter of federal law, which Justice Brett Kavanaugh had called "a wall of precedent." Kavanaugh then read aloud from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s opinion in AEP: Federal judges "lack the scientific, economic, and technological resources" to set emissions policy. If that is true of federal judges, Kavanaugh asked, doesn’t it apply to "a six-person state jury in Boulder?"
Take it from Ginsburg herself. Greenhouse-gas regulation, she wrote, "cannot be prescribed in a vacuum." It demands weighing environmental benefits against "our Nation’s energy needs and the possibility of economic disruption."
The climate lawfare complex lost at the ballot box. It lost in AEP. So its backers went behind the scenes—into judicial seminars and judges’ own science manual. Enough already. The Supreme Court should shut the courthouse door for good.
A CHEF iQ meat thermometer takes the stress out of cooking. Originally priced at $180, it's now just $80 — its lowest price ever. Just insert the probe into your meat of choice and monitor its temperature from your phone, making this thermometer a useful addition to your upcoming Thanksgiving meal or a thoughtful gift for the home cook in your life.
At $80, the CHEF iQ thermometer is at its lowest price ever. It tracks meat temperatures, sending updates to a convenient app for a more hands-off cooking experience. The app has hundreds of presets for most proteins and video recipes, so there's no guesswork needed.
It can easily withstand high temperatures, making it helpful for grilling or slow roasting. The thin probes help prevent juices from leaking out. Cleanup is quick: simply throw the probes in the dishwasher.
The probes use Wi-Fi to keep you connected. Reviewers had mixed opinions on the Wi-Fi range, but as long as you're close to home, you should be good to go.
Set audio notifications through the Smart Hub, or turn on push notifications and receive alerts through your phone. That way, you can keep track of your food while tackling other household tasks.
With the holiday season fast approaching, now's the time to grab this thermometer for the home cooks and grill masters in your life. It's at its lowest price ever, saving you $100.
It goes beyond a standard meat thermometer by using Wi-Fi to let you monitor your food from anywhere. The probes connect to the app, so you don't have to keep getting up to check your meal's progress.
What do reviewers say?
Many reviewers said the meat thermometer made their lives easier when grilling or roasting food in the oven.
"Love the CHEF iQ probes," a reviewer said. "[I] used them [for the] first time this week, and they quickly charged and paired with my phone app for the perfect cooking of my bone-in rib eye."
"This thing is crazy good! The build quality is great, and the app is very well-designed," another reviewer said. "I can even give 5 stars to the support team for quickly handling the warranty exchange!"
Convenience is also a big theme in the nearly 200 reviews.
"Since it is Wi-Fi, you can monitor from anywhere," a five-star reviewer said. "Just put the receiver next to the smoker where it has a good Wi-Fi signal and set the temps you want to monitor and it will send you alerts. [The] probe battery was still 3–4 bars out of 5 after 18 hours, so [it has] very good battery life."
"So convenient that you see the temp on your phone," said a reviewer. "[It] tells you when to turn the meat and accurately predicts how much cooking time is left."
A few reviewers, who had generally good experiences, did mention a few things worth noting, namely the Wi-Fi connectivity.
"The app is great, connectivity is never a problem for me. Just remember to leave the base close to the probes [since] the probes have a weak transmitter. The base has a much stronger transmitter," one reviewer said.
One reviewer noted the white ambient probe was difficult to clean because of smoke residue, while the other colored probes cleaned up more easily.
Cruise passengers could soon pay different prices for drinks and Wi-Fi depending on when and where they sail.
Carnival Cruise Line announced that it will introduce dynamic pricing for its beverage packages and Wi-Fi plans beginning Dec. 1. Prices will vary based on the length of the cruise, itinerary and season, according to the company.
The change was disclosed near the bottom of an announcement on Oct. 14 that largely focused on Carnival's new "FunPacks," which bundle several cruise extras into one pre-cruise purchase.
The dynamic pricing will apply only to individual beverage and Wi-Fi packages, Carnival told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"Importantly, once a guest purchases a package, their confirmed price is locked in and will not change even if pricing is adjusted later," the company said.
More broadly, dynamic pricing is a strategy in which prices can change based on factors such as supply and demand, competitor pricing and available inventory, according to a blog post from Harvard Business School.
The cruise line said the changes will provide passengers with "greater flexibility and more options for tailoring their Carnival vacation experience."
The move quickly drew reaction from cruise passengers online, with some questioning whether the new system could make budgeting for a trip more complicated.
"I've never heard a single person that was happy about dynamic pricing," one Reddit user commented.
Others said the approach could make sense depending on how Carnival ultimately sets its prices.
One commenter suggested beverage packages could potentially cost less on longer or more port-heavy cruises, while Wi-Fi prices could vary differently depending on the length of the trip.
"I have no issue with this," one Reddit user wrote. "We’d be more open to it if it were dynamic pricing."
Fox News Digital previously reported on another cruise line changing the price of popular vacation extras.
Princess Cruises raised the cost of its Plus and Premier packages by $5 per person per day beginning Oct. 13, bringing the standard rates to $70 and $105 per day, respectively.
The cruise line also changed its standalone Wi-Fi options, retiring its four-device plan and introducing a two-device package for $39.99 per day.
Single-device internet purchased onboard increased to $39.99 for 24 hours or $33.99 per day when purchased for the entire sailing.
Princess told Fox News Digital at the time it periodically reviews package prices based on changes in its operating environment while aiming to offer guests value by bundling popular amenities.
Hours after President Donald Trump ripped his national anthem golf swing antics, LeBron James appeared to double down by working on his golf hip turns during Thursday's night's anthem before the Philadelphia 76ers faced the Cleveland Cavaliers.
In what was a clear shot back at Trump, LeBron, who wouldn't dare disrespect the Chinese anthem, was seen standing normally during the national anthem before sending a signal back to Trump that sure looked like hip turns that golfers would use during warmups.
The Philadelphia Inquirer called hip turns "stretching." The golf world knows better.
Earlier Thursday, Trump unleashed on the Chinese sympathizer.
"While listening to our National Anthem, LeBron James disrespects our Country! I said right from the beginning that he’s no good, a TOTAL DISGRACE," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "LeBron James should apologize to all of those Great American Warriors and Heroes who died for the American Flag, and all that our Country stands for!"
This is the video that had Trump, a noted golfer fanatic himself, fuming mad.
During a campaign stop Thursday night, Trump continued to hammer away. "What about LeBron James? Did you see that deal?" Trump asked voters in Iowa. "He's practicing his golf swing. I said, what the hell is that? I don't understand it."
Kristin Cavallari cut her father out of her life after he crossed an unforgivable line with her children and revealed he never made a single attempt to repair their fractured relationship.
"I cut my dad out of my life because he crossed a major line — a major line — and it involved my kids, and you don't get to do that actually, you know? And that's another boundary and really obviously pissed him off, and he's never once tried to get back into my life, which I think is pretty telling," she said.
While Cavallari doesn't speak to her dad, she said she doesn't hold a grudge either.
"I would never wanna carry that around of like, ‘F--- my dad,’ you know? I think what he did to my kids was pretty bad," she explained. "But also my kids and I have talked about it a million times, and we've worked through it, but [it] like really affected them and will probably have affected them for the rest of their lives and, and none of us, my kids included, are carrying around anger towards him."
"And actually, my dad will text my kids periodically and that's fine. I'm not stopping that."
But Cavallari wasn't about to let her bitter family feud dictate her children's relationship with their grandfather. Despite cutting her father out of her own life, the former reality star insisted she wouldn't force her kids to follow in her footsteps.
"If they wanna have a relationship with him, I want my kids to," Cavallari explained. "That's their choice."
The "Laguna Beach" star has never shared details of the incident that went down between her father and her children.
Cavallari shares three kids with former NFL star Jay Cutler. The two are parents to daughter Saylor and sons Jaxon and Camden. Cutler and Cavallari announced their divorce in 2020.
The reality TV star first opened up about cutting her father out of her life on her own podcast in 2023.
Cavallari later compared her marriage with Cutler to her relationship with her father.
"I was repeating a pattern with my dad," she told Bunnie XO on her podcast, "Dumb Blonde."
"I hadn't done the work on my relationship with my dad. That's what you do. I ended up marrying my dad," she said. "And so it really forced me to then work through my s---, which is what I did. So when we got a divorce for the last five years, quite honestly, I've really taken the time to get my s--- together so that I don't then make the same mistake."
What an amazing night of football we got Thursday night, huh?
The Bears beat the Patriots in a thriller in Chicago, and we had two overtime games down in the college ranks. Appalachian State upset JMU, 34-31, in Boone, while East Carolina blew a double-digit lead in Memphis en route to a 41-34 loss.
Those are the nights we dream about during the dog days of summer, folks. When you're sitting through another insufferable WNBA game in July, just a reminder that you're GRINDING away for fall nights like we got on Thursday.
They're the best, and they don't stick around for long. We get maybe a dozen of them a year if we're a lucky. Last night was one of them. I hope you all took advantage.
Now, you know one fanbase who did not take advantage of last night's glorious fall night of football? The so-called "fans" of the Memphis Tigers, who apparently forgot the fellas were scheduled to play on Thursday this week.
Take a look:
Gonna need better effort next time around
Goodness gracious. The "official" box score lists last night's attendance at over 27,000. Surely it filled in a bit after kickoff, but I don't see how they got to 27K. Seems ambitious to me.
It's a bad look. There's no way around it, and no reason to sugarcoat it. It's just a bad look for Memphis and its fans.
"But Zach, it was a Thursday night!"
So? What does that mean? Are the kids not allowed to go to Thursday night games? Is there a rule in Memphis that says fans and students can only attend Saturday games?
"But Zach, it was East Carolina!"
OK. And? The Tigers are a 5-2 team and still very much alive for a playoff spot. I know they lost last week to Tulane, which certainly dealt them a blow, but it's the G6. Anything can happen down there.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone public dissenter in a Thursday decision allowing New Hampshire to block the use of student ID cards in the upcoming midterm elections.
Other justices on the court cited the longstanding precedent "that lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election," and said that lower courts failed to argue that the specific case in New Hampshire warranted an exception to the tradition. Jackson, however, argued the proximity to an election should not get in the way of properly applying the law.
"I respectfully dissent because — even, and perhaps especially, when an election is looming — I would not disturb a clearly justifiable federal-court order issued to ensure that the public receives accurate information about a State’s electoral processes," she wrote.
The underlying dispute stems from a law signed in April that went into effect in June, striking student ID cards from the list of forms of identification that election officials can accept when an individual requests a ballot. A voting rights group sued New Hampshire on the grounds that the law illegally discriminated against young voters by making it more difficult for them to vote.
New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan then issued guidance saying that student IDs could not be used to establish voter identity, even as supporting evidence under the state's alternative verification procedures. A district judge blocked that portion of the guidance, arguing that it went beyond the scope of the law itself, which only removed student IDs from the list of expressly accepted forms of identification.
Among the supporters of the guidance was the Republican National Committee.
While Jackson was the lone public dissenter, it is possible that other justices dissented as well, but opted not to be named on the court order. During her roughly four years on the Supreme Court, Jackson has broken from the rest of her colleagues in areas such as campaign finance, immigration and congressional map litigation.
In 2023, she was the lone dissenter in an 8-1 ruling allowing a concrete company to sue striking union workers. She also stood alone in a May 2026 decision involving federal prisoners seeking to challenge their convictions through compassionate release.
New Hampshire is holding a handful of close races on Election Day, putting some weight behind the court’s decision. Fox News’ power rankings rate the state’s Senate race as leans Democratic, meaning that liberals have a slight advantage in a race that could decide control of Congress. The state’s governor’s race, meanwhile, is rated as likely going to the GOP.
College students typically favor the Democratic Party, though it is unclear how many voters will be affected by the court ruling, as students who previously relied on their student IDs will now need another accepted form of identification.
Some Democrats, however, believe allowing voters to use student IDs would be a good thing. Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, for instance, has pushed for such a thing in his state.
Welcome to Fox News’ Artificial Intelligence newsletter with the latest AI technology advancements.
IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:
- It took 3 months to get inside this massive Texas data center — here’s what we saw
- Google's new AI shopping cart tracks deals across stores
- Elon Musk pledges to give every child in America a SpaceX share next year
ACCESS GRANTED: During an exclusive tour of Compass Datacenters' sprawling campus in Red Oak, Texas, Fox News Digital got a rare look inside the infrastructure behind the nation's growing appetite for computing.
ONE-STOP HUB: Ever find something you want to buy online, leave it sitting in a browser tab and then completely forget where you saw it? Maybe you spotted a great pair of headphones while searching Google. Later, you found a birthday gift at another retailer. Before long, you've got a dozen tabs open and no idea which store had the better deal.
BIG GIVEAWAY: Elon Musk has pledged to give every child in America one share of SpaceX next year, signaling that the planned giveaway could be the first of several.
FEAR FACTOR: Over the last several years, we have heard a lot about the doomsday scenarios of artificial intelligence (AI). Tech giants have told us all about how AI will take control away from society, steal our jobs, allow bad actors to design dangerous pathogens or cause a catastrophic cyberattack or destroy our financial systems.
RUST NEVER SLEEPS: The U.S. Navy is quadrupling the ceiling on a contract for AI-powered robots used to inspect warships to $300 million.
ARTIFICIAL INFORMANT: Artificial intelligence can write your emails, research complicated questions and even handle tasks while you're away. But what happens when an AI system takes an action nobody intended? Philadelphia police recently got an unexpected answer.
SILENT TREATMENT: Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic remained mum on whether the company would consider giving away shares it pledged to a public benefit fund directly to Americans.
DATA DESTRUCTION: America seems to be on the precipice of a future technological golden age. Whether we take steps toward that future could depend on which political vision prevails over the next few election cycles.
COMMON GOOD: Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed called Tuesday for AI companies to be "rebuilt" as public benefit corporations, for-profit companies with a public interest.
BOT SURE: Kansas Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton on Wednesday called for a federal commission to regulate artificial intelligence, but couldn't say what specific regulations he would like to see.
PAUSE AND EFFECT: Tensions flare in Tennessee as the Memphis City Council rejects an 18-month pause on new data center development despite pushback from local residents.
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic resigned from the presidency in September and is running for prime minister in parliamentary elections considered to be one of the most competitive elections for Serbia in recent memory.
"I think this is certainly the biggest challenge for the former President in his 14-year rule," Helena Ivanov, associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital.
"The student protesters have been able to capture the hearts and minds of people and keep the momentum going in a way that the established opposition was never able to do," Ivanov added.
Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Djuric told Fox News Digital that he believes the student opposition is highly unlikely to win.
"The people of Serbia have seen through them: years of criticism have not persuaded the public that they have a credible program or a serious plan for the country’s future," the foreign minister said.
Djuric touted Serbia’s economy under Vucic and the Strategic Dialogue with the U.S., which he said will foster greater cooperation and new opportunities for Serbs.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital in June when he was still president, Vucic pointed to the country's economic growth as evidence of its transformation. "Our GDP was 32 billion (euros) when I became the prime minister," Vucic said. "This year it's going to be over 100 billion euros, which is $120 billion." Vucic first became prime minister in 2014 and president in 2017.
In that same interview, he said the improving relationship between Washington and Belgrade was increasingly centered on economics, investment and technological cooperation and mutual conservative values.
A bipartisan group of senators led by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., introduced the Supporting the Rule of Law, Building Institutional Justice, and Accountability Act (SRBIJA) to address democratic backsliding in Serbia, promote the rule of law and accountability and improve the treatment of student-led civic protests.
Most importantly, the legislation would condition future aid on a presidential certification that Serbia made "significant and sustained" efforts toward judicial accountability, press freedom and alignment with the EU and NATO.
The bipartisan group of lawmakers, which also included Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., and Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., took aim at President Vucic and his time in power.
There are growing concerns from Congress and observers that the election will take place in a hostile environment and efforts to discredit and undermine the election are already underway.
Others fear the current government might not respect the outcome of the election if the Student List were to win.
Vucic had served as president of Serbia since 2017 and previously as prime minister from 2014 to 2017, but was term limited under the constitution. His exit from the presidency created the opportunity for him to remain in power by returning as prime minister.
Vucic resigned from the presidency and dissolved parliament in September, setting the stage for the snap election on Oct. 25.
As president, analysts say he has always straddled the geopolitical line between East and West, seeking European legitimacy and launching EU accession talks in 2014 while also maintaining close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin even after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Unlike previous elections, the student-led opposition garnered significant attention to their cause and mobilized popular support, becoming a legitimate political contender out of a spontaneous protest movement.
Serbia has been roiled by student-led anti-corruption protests since November 2024, demanding justice and accountability after the deaths of 16 people following the collapse of a railway station in the town of Novi Sad. One of the largest protests in Serbia’s history took place on March 15, 2025, with nearly 350,000 people gathered in Slavija Square in central Belgrade.
The protesters criticized the Vucic government for failing to hold anyone accountable for the canopy disaster as the government continued its heavy-handed crackdown on demonstrators. None of the original demands of the protesters were met, so the students turned to electoral politics to enact change the Serbian political opposition was never able to achieve.
The Student List, as the opposition is known, consists of a wide swath of civil society actors, many of whom come from the ranks of academia, but does not include anyone from Serbia’s traditional opposition parties that struggled to challenge Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party in the past.
The group operates in a decentralized manner and does not have an official leader. Their main priorities are to tackle corruption and promote transparency and the rule of law.
Filip Ubović, a student from the University of Belgrade and protest participant on the ground in Belgrade, has spoken with Fox News Digital over the course of the year-long protests.
Ubović said he joined the protests because he was fed up with the current state of his country. This was the first opportunity, Ubovic said, to do something tangible, instead of just complaining.
"People had enough for quite some time but decided to fully embrace us because we are ‘their kids’, we are young, we are not professional politicians, we do not have a single face representing us, and we are very professional and principled," Ubovic said.
Ivana Stradner of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Fox News Digital that corruption has held back democracy in the Balkans and progress for its people for a while.
"Corruption doesn’t just steal public money; it steals an entire generation’s future. Young people in Serbia and Albania are taking to the streets demanding accountability and a better future. The U.S. should pay attention, not out of charity, but strategic self-interest," Stradner said.
The test will be whether the Student List can transition their popular mobilization in the streets into a viable political option that can win an election and govern a country that hasn’t undergone a political transition in over a decade.
It’s also unclear, if the Student List were to win, how they might reorient Serbia’s foreign policy and its relations with the U.S.
"So far, the students have been remarkably reluctant to define foreign policy goals that would depart from the current government’s course. For now, the most realistic expectation is continuity," Sinisa Vukovic, director of the Global Policy Program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, told Fox News Digital.
Vuković said that Serbia’s foreign policy has remained mostly consistent dating back to Slobodan Milosevic, the former leader of Yugoslavia, and the Vucic government has left hot-button issues including the crisis over Kosovo and EU membership mostly unresolved.
While much might change in Serbia domestically, any resolution to the conflict with Kosovo or any substantial reorientation of foreign policy that shifts Serbia away from Russia and moves it much closer to the U.S. and EU remains unclear.
"Another period of pseudo-hedging is likely, with Russia keeping a deep presence in the most vital sectors and dominating most of them," Vukovic added.
Pierce Brosnan is opening up about how he has prepared his sons for the acting world.
The 73-year-old actor spoke with Fox News Digital at the premiere of his son Paris' new film, "Seniors," about Paris' acting career and how he's warned his sons about how "tough" the entertainment industry is.
"No, it's a very tough business, it is a very capricious business at times, but Paris has the strength and the stamina, he has a talent there, he's got a charisma, and he's got good sense and intuition, he really has a talent there that will need to be nurtured and worked on," he said. "The work that you need to do, the discipline it takes to be an actor, to work on your voice, to work on your body, to work on your mind and the discipline of reading and studying. So he has all of that."
The "Die Another Day" star shares two sons with his wife, Keely Shaye Smith — Dylan, 29, and Paris, 25 — and welcomed Sean, 43, with his late first wife, Cassandra Harris. He also adopted Harris' two children from a previous relationship, Christopher, 53, and Charlotte, who died in 2013 at the age of 41.
Brosnan credited the "simple life" he and Smith provided for their two youngest sons with keeping them grounded despite growing up with a famous father.
WATCH: Pierce Brosnan kept his children grounded by keeping them close
"We kept them close," he said. "We had family dinners, drive them to school, pick them up from school. We are very close, the whole family. My sons, Sean, Christopher, all of them. So, just keep them close."
"Seniors" stars his youngest son, Paris, as a teenager doing community service at a retirement home who forms an unlikely bond with one of the residents, played by John Rhys-Davies.
Brosnan described Rhys-Davies as "a dear friend from many, many years ago," sharing they met in 1976 at the York Theatre Royal, where Brosnan was working as an acting assistant stage manager, and Rhys-Davies was playing Macbeth.
"It was such a pleasure and an honor to work with him on this first project," Paris said. "It's somewhat a full circle moment because my father started his career working with John and I got to begin mine and the experience was nothing short of a master class, truly. His method and his small bits of lore and inspiration and little details of how to be a better actor. I'll never forget the moments shared with him on set. So proud of this movie and to celebrate it with him."
Having worked with both Pierce and Paris, Rhys-Davies told Paris they "have differences, but he sees some similarities," with Paris noting that it was "a real lovely thing to hear from" someone he has been a fan of and respected since childhood.
WATCH: Paris Brosnan called working with John Rhys-Davies 'a masterclass'
While he may have seen some similarities, Rhys-Davies told Fox News Digital he doesn't "see Pierce there" when working with Paris.
"I think this man is already his own man. It's always very hard to come out under the shadow of a giant," he said. "What I see is a vulnerability and an innocence and a willingness ... an openness to evolve, adapt, and become. He's still defining what he really is and what he wants. And I think it's fascinating to watch. All credit to Pierce and his mum for bringing him up so well. But I think he's his own man."
WATCH: John Rhys-Davies gives Paris Brosnan credit for paving his own path
Paris also touched on his decision to become an actor despite his father trying to deter him from going down that path, noting he always interpreted his dad's words not as a way of discouraging him from acting, but saying, "unless you love it, and you want it, then don't pursue it … just because it's on the table."
He explained he came into the industry with a love for it and revealed that his father has always preached about how much work it takes to be an actor.
WATCH: Paris Brosnan admits his father, Pierce, always encouraged him to 'study' his craft
"Go to class, read, learn from the greats. He's given me countless books on it," Paris said. "So I think he just means if you want it, you have to study it, and you have to earn your way and pave your own way."
The adventure-comedy movie "Seniors" is scheduled to hit select U.S. theaters on Oct. 23.
The holidays are just around the corner, so to help you get a head start on your shopping, we've narrowed down the best gifts for everyone on your list. Find YETI carry-all bags for the outdoor enthusiast, wearable health trackers for the fitness fanatic and entertaining essentials for the home chef, plus meaningful gifts for him and her.
Give the gift of less screen time with The Brick, an app-blocking chip that locks distracting apps. Simply tap your phone against the small block to turn apps on or off, and create custom profiles for sleep, training, creative work and deep focus.
Apple's AirPods Pro 3 wireless earbuds come with active noise cancellation and transparency mode, so listeners can choose whether to fully immerse themselves in the music or hear some of their surroundings. The eight-hour battery life and heart-rate sensing feature make these the ideal gift for commuters, athletes or casual listeners.
Pocket snaps onto the back of your phone and summarizes meetings, creates task lists and helps you manage your daily life. When spoken to, it updates your schedule across all your apps at once.
The Apple Watch Series 11 is a smart gift for anyone who loves tech, fitness or just staying on top of their day. It has a faster chip and runs more smoothly than previous models, which makes tracking workouts, checking messages or getting directions feel effortless. It’s also thinner, more comfortable and now twice as scratch-resistant.
Conveniently charge all of your devices in one place with a Belkin magnetic charging station. The MagSafe-compatible station lets users place their iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods on the charging bases for quick, wire-free power-ups.
WHOOP gives you health and workout data without the distracting screen. Get 24/7 insight into your sleep, heart rate, blood oxygen and more. The 14-day battery life means you can take it off less.
The Oura Ring 4 is a sleek, screen-free alternative for fitness fans who don't want to wear a clunky watch. It fits like a regular ring and tracks sleep, activity, heart rate, stress and women's health. A full charge gives up to eight days of battery.
Target sore muscles and recover with Theragun's massager. The lightweight handheld tool has an easy-grip handle that helps users hold on longer. Multiple attachments can help soothe every area of the body.
Help them achieve their fitness goals with this compact set of dumbbells. Weights range from 5 to 52.5 pounds, so they can add weight as they get stronger. Non-slip grips keep things steady and weight dials help users quickly adjust the resistance.
This walking pad is a great space-saving treadmill, delivering speeds up to 4 miles per hour. Track your progress with the LED display, and wheel the pad away when you're done with your workouts.
YETI's Carryall tote is the perfect weekender bag. Flip up the dividers and fit all Rambler and Yonder YETI tumblers and bottles. The four-loop grid adds space for keys and additional bottles.
Outdoor lovers will appreciate this Parkside Flask that conveniently carries a full bottle of wine and has two magnetic tumblers for sharing. Best served by a campfire or panoramic view.
Help them take their grill skills anywhere with this portable Cuisinart model. It has a convenient handle for easy carrying, and the wooden lid doubles as a cutting board.
Birders will obsess over the Birdbuddy PRO smart bird feeder. It's an AI-powered bird feeder that brings nature right to your phone. The Birdbuddy app identifies bird species that visit the feeder and gives real-time alerts when a bird stops by. Birdbuddy's camera captures pictures and videos in 2K, while a Premium subscription allows users to better organize and share photos with friends and family.
All the info they need to visit every national park comes in this small, pocket-sized atlas. It explains open days and fees, plus offers park-by-park descriptions and travel tips.
Gifts for home chefs
Help them improve their skills in the kitchen with top cookware and entertaining gifts.
The 7.25-quart Le Creuset Dutch oven is an heirloom-quality kitchen essential. The enamel finish resists dulling, staining, chipping and cracking, and it retains heat for even cooking. It’s built to last a lifetime, which makes it a smart investment and a meaningful gift.
This Breville machine makes cafe-quality espresso at home. It nails bean dose, pressure and temperature, plus the manual steam wand delivers silky foam for latte art. A quick heat-up with digital temperature control means it's always ready for your next shot.
Level up their home-chef game with a KitchenAid stand mixer. It makes nine dozen cookies at once and comes in more than a dozen bright colors. Plus, for additional gifts, KitchenAid offers a variety of attachments, from pasta cutters and veggie spiralers to slicers and sifters.
Toss out worn pans and replace them with this professional-grade set of hybrid pots and pans. Each pan combines stainless steel and nonstick technology for a crisp sear and wipes clean easily.
The Charkitterie board is a fun take on the classic cheese board. It comes with an adorable mouse-shaped cheese knife and is a great size for date night.
Gifts for men
Give the man in your life clothes, travel gear and footwear to show you care.
Looking for a breathable, soft sweater made of 100% cotton? This ribbed sweater is a solid choice that pairs nicely with blazers, T-shirts and peacoats.
Treat him to a matching leather toiletry bag and wallet. The dopp kit has zippered pockets to separate wet and dry items, while the matching bifold wallet replaces (or acts as a backup to) the one he already has.
As Braun's latest and most advanced electric shaver, the NEVO is an excellent gift for men who love a smooth shave. The shaver is designed to minimize friction and maximize its cutting power, while automatically detecting the density of beards to deliver an effortlessly close shave. The kit comes bundled with a power travel case and cleaning station.
Whether in the office or running errands, give him what he needs to look his best with this Tommy Hilfiger quarter-zip. Thanks to the weight of its cotton fabric, the sweater is ideal for layering under warm winter coats or over T-shirts. Pick from colors like navy, black, white and other neutrals.
Help the guy in your life travel smarter with this duffel and backpack hybrid. It fits in a gym locker and meets size standards for flights. A trolley pass-through allows for stacking, while helpful organized pockets separate clothes, shoes and water bottles.
Give these On Cloud 6 sneakers to a man in your life who spends a lot of time on his feet. A cushioned insole provides much-needed comfort, while the waterproof outer layer keeps feet dry.
Cozy Earth makes unisex robes in a variety of different fabrics, from terry cloth to waffle fabric. Each uses cotton and bamboo, which are breathable yet warm. Well-sized front pockets can carry books, phones, snacks and even a small tablet.
These UGG slippers keep her warm with a sheepskin lining. The suede upper gives them a luxe look while the outsoles keep her balanced inside and outside.
With Clarity's classic round diamond stud earrings are simple yet elegant. From every angle, they sparkle and shine. Choose from a gold, silver, rose gold or platinum setting, and select from half a carat up to four carats.
Packed in a festive gift box, this five-piece Jo Malone perfume set offers her a little taste of the brand's most popular perfumes, including Wood Sage & Sea Salt and English Pear & Freesia.
A Dazzle Dry starter kit gives her everything she needs to create long-lasting manicures at home. Simply follow the steps (prep, apply base coat, apply color and apply top coat) and let it dry for five minutes.
Gifts for the home
Elevate their everyday with candle warmers, cozy blankets and more.
This candle-warming lamp is a low-maintenance, fire-free way to burn candles. It slowly warms candles from the top down, so scents fill the room gently without ever lighting a match.
Scents of sage and rosemary give this soap and candle a distinctly homey smell, while the California-harvested olive oil completes the set. All three come pre-wrapped and ready to gift.
Splurge on a Lola blanket for that special person in your life. The fabric mimics the naturally velvety texture of real fur, lending it a luxurious look when draped over furniture.
Toy gifts for kids
Surprise the little ones on your list with something sweet.
Hugz Plushies' Toffee is weighted and microwavable, offering soothing comfort when they need to relax. The Highland Cow version is as adorable as it is useful.
The Toniebox 2 is a screen-free way to keep little ones entertained. It's a soft, interactive audio cube that plays music and bedtime stories. Just pop a figurine on top, and it plays instantly.
For dino-loving kids, you can't go wrong with this LEGO Creator set. The 626 pieces create a T. rex with poseable limbs, a moving jaw and some seriously sharp-looking teeth. Kids can also build a Triceratops or a Pterodactyl with the same blocks.
Gifts for the traveler
Show them you love them, no matter where they go, with these thoughtful gifts.
Built specifically for travel, this hoodie has a built-in eye mask for long flights, plus a hidden kangaroo pouch for a passport, phone or cash. A double-lined hood also adds extra coverage during napes.
A PLUTO POD pillow ensures travelers arrive at their destinations well rested. Designed with help from travelers, flight attendants and sleep researchers, it includes a built-in hoodie and a padded pillow that prevents the dreaded stiff neck.
Samsonite's two-piece hardside luggage set is scratch-resistant, so no matter how much it gets thrown around, it stays in like-new condition. The set includes a carry-on and a large suitcase for all your packing needs. Inside, the full-zip divider allows for easier organization and separation of shoes, toiletries and clothes.
Gifts for the DIYer
If they love tinkering with tools, give them a gift from Craftsman or DeWalt.
Store dozens of tools in this 10-drawer Craftsman rolling cabinet. With a 1,500-pound load rating, it can handle it all. Wider bottom drawers work well for power tools, while the thin top drawers are best for screws, nails and hand tools. Each drawer closes gently and comes with an internal locking system to keep items safe.
All of DeWalt's most useful tools come in the five-piece tool set. There's the durable drill and driver set, each with a battery that lasts for weeks. The cordless circular saw easily cuts 2-by-4s at a 45-degree angle in a single pass, while the reciprocating saw comes with a blade that's easy for anyone to use, no matter their experience level.
Most DIY projects require a drill or impact driver, whether working on home projects, building a bookcase or just hanging pictures. DeWalt's drill and driver set contains two long-lasting tools with batteries that run for weeks on a full charge. Both the drill and driver also have built-in LED lights that illuminate dark spaces.
Smaller crafts and detail work require a Dremel rotary tool. It allows for fine sanding, carving, grinding and much more. Attached to the Dremel is a pivot light that rotates as the tool moves to illuminate your working area.
The best Advent calendars offer an exciting way to count down the days until Christmas. From the newest LEGO calendars to Keurig for coffee connoisseurs, Yankee Candle for candle lovers and even boozy options, advent calendars are known to sell out long before the holiday season begins, so grab one before they're gone.
The 24 Days of Beauty Advent calendar from Anthropologie has a full five-star rating from customers. Find hand cream, shampoo, perfume, eye cream, hair masks and more from popular brands like Living Proof, Supergoop! and L'Occitane. It's a $300 value wrapped in a festive box. Enhance your self-care routine further with Lush's Advent calendar, full of holiday-themed bath bombs.
Sample a new spread each day with the bestselling Bonne Maman Advent calendar. It contains 24 reusable mini jars of limited-edition jams in seasonal flavors sold only during Christmas. Try apple caramel cinnamon, white nectarine peach lemon verbena, pineapple rum vanilla and more. Each one is made in France with real fruit.
Count down to Christmas with 24 days of galactic creativity thanks to the 293-piece LEGO Star Wars 2026 Advent calendar. Over 30,000 people ordered this calendar in the past month. Behind each door is a holiday-themed surprise, from mini builds of vehicles like Mando’s N-1 Starfighter and iconic characters like The Mandalorian and Grogu in festive sweaters.
For kids who can't get enough Marvel, this Advent calendar includes mini figures of favorites like Spider-Man, Iron Man and Dr. Doom. It also has other buildable pieces like festive Christmas trees and vehicles for the characters to create an entire set.
Find eight popular figures, including Ariel, Cinderella, Moana and Mulan, and 24 buildable set pieces like a Christmas tree, train and gingerbread castle in LEGO's Disney Princess Advent calendar. Plus, the box is a built-in game board that can entertain eight players.
Your home will smell like a Christmas wonderland with Yankee Candle's Advent calendar. It includes 12 mini glass jar candles with holiday favorites like Balsam and Cedar and Christmas Cookies, as well as tropical scents like Sakura Blossom Festival. Voluspa's Holiday Advent calendar also features 12 pretty glass votive candles in scents like White Cypress and Foraged Wildberry.
Plush lovers need this adorable Squishmallow advent calendar filled with a slew of adorable plush characters. Collect a reindeer, a penguin and more wintry friends.
This set from Ulta includes 24 travel-friendly luxury scents in this Eau de Parfum set. Featuring floral, fruity and woody scents, you can try a bit of everything to find the ones you like best.
Sample a handful of L'Occitane products with its Prestige Advent calendar. It comes with three full-size and 11 deluxe-size bestsellers, including the brand's popular shea butter hand cream, almond oil shower oil and more.
Walker's Advent calendar gives you an authentic bite of Scotland. Filled with shortbread cookies that pair well with tea and are beloved by hundreds of Amazon reviewers, anyone with a sweet tooth will love it. You get six different varieties of cookies, including rounds, chocolate chip and salted caramel squares.
Are you really celebrating Christmas if you don't have chocolate on hand? Start with the Godiva Holiday Chocolate Advent calendar, complete with 24 premium Godiva chocolates. Discover milk, dark and white chocolate behind each door, as well as festive shapes and Godiva signatures like ganache, caramel, raspberry and coconut. Godiva is also offering free shipping on orders more than $50 with the code FREESHIP50.
Add some festive holiday socks to your collection with this Moyel socks Advent calendar. Each of the 24 pairs is made of breathable cotton and comes in fun holiday designs like Christmas trees, reindeer and gingerbread men.
Give your dog their own Christmas cheer with an Advent calendar filled with dog chews. They contain natural ingredients, and different flavors will give your dog something to look forward to each day.
Put your Keurig to use this holiday season with the Keurig Advent calendar. You get 24 different K-Cups. Some are coffee in flavors like vanilla, hazelnut and peppermint bark while others are hot chocolate, so it has enough variety for everyone in the family.
Try a bit of everything Harry & David has to offer in its Advent calendar. You get fun treats that cater to both salty and sweet palates, like trail mix, popcorn, chocolate squares, blackberry pastries and snowflake pretzels.
With a five-star rating from more than 200 reviews, customers love the Beekman Kindness Café Advent calendar. It's filled with skincare products that feature the brand's signature goat milk ingredient to help soften, hydrate and nourish skin. You get 12 full-size favorites and 12 mini bottles, including facial cleanser, toner, moisturizer, lip balm, body cream and more. At more than half off, the calendar is a major deal.
This Roger La Borde Pop & Slot Advent calendar adds a fun, interactive twist to holiday countdowns. Each day in December, pop out a new piece to build your own festive 3D scene that you can display every holiday thereafter.
ChapStick offers an affordable Advent calendar that can keep your lips from drying out in the harsh winter weather. Get 12 different ChapStick flavors, including classic holiday peppermint. The ChapSticks also make for good stocking stuffers.
A delight for beauty lovers, the Revolution makeup Advent calendar is packed with 24 products. Behind each door, find creamy lipsticks, shiny lip glosses, eyeshadows, blushes and tools like blending sponges, an eye brush and a mirror.
Baking enthusiasts will enjoy this baking tools Advent calendar with assorted Christmas cookie cutters, piping bags, spatulas and more. It's great for beginners and contains supplies to make every day leading up to Christmas a little sweeter and a lot more festive.
For avid adventurers, this survival-themed Advent calendar lets you build your tactical kit day by day with items like a fire starter, compass, flint, mini flashlights, folding knives and more. Plus, it comes in a waterproof portable plastic box.
With the Milwaukee advent calendar, you'll have a brand-new tool set by Dec. 24. Inside each compartment, you'll find tools like screwdrivers and drill bits, along with safety essentials and other accessories.
Welcome to Screencaps, "America's Best Daily Column," as named by the readers. Screencaps, which publishes seven-days-a-week, is a mix of sports, pop culture, and emails from sane readers from around the world. This column isn't for the coastal elites. Give us a week to steal your heart. Our track record is pretty good. Let's have some fun.
I know this is an older video of John Daly explaining his gambling losses, but there's a nugget in here I hadn't heard before
As someone who has cigs and an empty pack of M&Ms signed by JD, there's something else I need signed for my Daly collection: an ace and face card. I've seen parts of this interview over the years, but I'd never heard that Daly was losing millions — he estimates his losses got as high as $55 million – playing 7-handed blackjack at casinos.
"The game of golf, if you’re in the hunt, you’ve got adrenaline going. But you got 140 to 300, 400,000 on the blackjack table, you’re going to have adrenaline. And I think that’s what I loved more than anything," Daly said in the "Hit It Hard" ESPN 30 for 30.
In that documentary, JD said gambling for four days straight was his life. He estimated the net losses once he'd hit rock-bottom were north of $50 million after gambling somewhere just south of $100 million.
Good luck at the casinos this weekend. Just don't be like Big John. Take a break. Go for a walk. Call it a day if the tables turn cold while playing SEVEN hands.
Have you guys been asked by an airport kiosk to add a tip at a self-checkout? This guy caught a self-serve airport kiosk where you buy water and drinks asking for a tip. I guess this isn't any different than grab & go drink stations at sporting events asking for tips.
The lesson here is that you better have your head on a swivel or that $7.50 bottle of water is going to be nearly $10 when the computer gets its tip because you're not paying attention.
Speaking of airports, why is there so much gum in urinals?
• Tom in Virginia asks:I'm sitting in the Charlotte airport, and able to read today's column because the Wi-Fi works for a change. Because I spend a lot of time in airports, I pose the following: Do guys purposely spit their gum in urinals, or are there a suspiciously high number of accidental drops? It's so common, and I move along to a clear option, but I think about the custodian dude who knows, and I mean death-and-taxes knows, that will be a part of his shift today.
Also, I get your Superbar idea, but it will never happen. I will give you a minute to visualize what derelict behavior will inevitably follow the ribbon cutting.
Good weekend to you. Take your hats off indoors, gents.
Dump Dinners and standing for the anthem
• Chris from California is fired up: Until it showed up in your column I didn’t even know "Dump Dinners" were a thing and having watched that video, now think they may be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen.
While I think some parents do it for the social media attention, I also think a lot of it is because of the infantilization of the modern adult. Remember, parents with kids this age are also the ones that are still living with their mom and dad, have to have coloring books and fidget toys at work to settle their nerves and focus and flat out refuse to grow up. They say it’s because the economy, the political system, blah, blah, blah… but honestly it’s because they’ve been allowed and are still being allowed to act like children and they are passing that along to their children.
It’s difficult and frustrating to teach your children table manners and how to eat like something other than a wild animal, so why not do something trendy that removes that headache and responsibility?
I will continue to bang the drum until the day I die, but the habits and manners we instill at home are what makes the difference between a successful persona and a whiny layabout. Could I have my children eat like animals and have no sense of order or decorum because it makes my life easier? Sure, but then what happens when they go over to a friend’s house or actually out in public and act like that?
I have 3 boys, all of whom are very active and do a ton of activities outside of school and have very active, robust, healthy social lives. Two of them are teenagers so I’ll let them go meet their friends at McDonald’s or go bum around the mall and I know that when they are doing those things they are reflecting the responsibility and values I helped instill in them. If I wasn’t 1000% sure they were doing that I wouldn’t let them leave the house.
It may make a few dinners here and there more difficult to teach your kids to use silverware, wipe themselves with a napkin, clean up after themselves, say, please and thank you but that little bit of extra effort makes a HUGE difference in their lives, maybe not right then and there but later on in life.
Also, another Outkick writer asked if we are all over getting up in arms about all of the stupid antics held during the National Anthem. The answer, at least for me is a resounding NO!!! It’s two minutes of a 3 plus hour sporting event used to honor and remember all of the men and women that made that very sporting event possible!
Once again, I have teenage boys, they don’t take anything seriously but to go back to my earlier point I taught them from the moment they were old enough to stand that they stand and show some damn respect when the anthem is sung. They don’t question it, they don’t fight it. I explained exactly why it means something and they may not agree with whatever the politics are of the moment but they know the anthem is about far more than that and these are teenage boys that also punch each other through walls and try to shotgun Dr. Pepper’s.
We do need to make a big deal out of it when athletes blow the anthem off. They are making millions of dollars that they couldn’t make anywhere else in the world because of the very things that flag and that anthem represent. If they really can’t be bothered to show some respect then we shouldn’t be bothered enough to give them our attention and money. Grow up, stand up, stand still and when you eat… eat like a human!!!
How to watch the NFL while listening to the radio broadcast
• Travis says: There's free software that has been around for at least 12 years called Radiodelay that allows you to pause live radio so it can sync to your TV broadcast. I started using it in 2013 and it's probably older than that.
You can either connect an external radio to your microphone in jack or use a URL if your favorite radio station streams their content online.
Food that too many places screw up: Nachos
• Steve in Texas spent time near where I live:Sad to hear about the lack of quality nachos in NW OH. More years back than I care to count there was a Mexican restaurant in downtown Perrysburg, OH that had great Macho Nachos. I gained about 15 lb having them and a margarita a couple times a week while on an internship in Toledo one summer. I think it was Casa de Barron and it was back in the late 80’s. Also still need to get back to Tony Packo’s, the job was just down the street from the original location.
Kinsey: There's good news and bad news, Steve. The bad news is that Casa Barron is gone, but it was replaced by a legit Mexican restaurant operated by one of the the real good guys in the food industry. I haven't been to the new place even though it's been there a few years.
As for Packo's, I have bad news: The food is all factory-made and overpriced. Yes, even the original Packo's. It's just not the same as 15-20 years ago. And if you were eating it pre-2000, it's going to be really disappointing. The original Packo's is still an institution, but the food has gone downhill.
Don't forget to vote in my poll
My phone hadn't been hammered until Thursday. I don't know what list I ended up on, but it's officially being lit up. Amy Acton is pleading with me to donate $5 to battle Vivek. This election can't get over with fast enough.
Go have an incredible weekend. We'll be in Columbus for the Ohio Junior High Cross Country State Championships. Can Screencaps Jr. run in the 11:20s or maybe even the 11:19s at one of the fastest courses of the season? The weather should be just about perfect. Stay tuned.
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital that he plans to pursue an effort to expel Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., if the Justice Department finds her guilty of immigration fraud.
Fine, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, made the comments after Fox News Digital reported that a federal court filing identified Omar under the name "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi," also listing "Ilhan Abdullahi Omar" as an alias. The filing has raised questions about Omar’s identity and immigration records but does not establish that she committed fraud.
"I assume that she’s not a citizen, so we might not even have to do that," Fine said. "You can’t be in Congress if you’re not a citizen of the United States, but if it isn’t automatic, I absolutely will demand expulsion immediately."
Omar is a naturalized U.S. citizen. She was born in Somalia and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. She has denied wrongdoing and called the investigation politically motivated.
Fine said Democrats would attempt to block any Republican effort to censure or expel Omar.
"I don’t think Democrats think you should have to be American. They don’t believe in borders," Fine said. "They’ve made that clear. They don’t believe in America."
The House has the constitutional authority to expel a member, but doing so requires a two-thirds vote. A criminal investigation or allegation alone does not automatically remove a member from Congress.
Fine also criticized Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., who in September introduced the Reimagining Safety Act, legislation that would dismantle the Department of Homeland Security and abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, while preserving some of its functions under a new agency, the Department of Community Safety.
"Look at this bill filed by the congresswoman from Chicago, where she doesn’t believe we should have borders, border protection or the ability to deport anyone," Fine said.
Fine also criticized Democrats who have called the Justice Department’s investigation into Omar politically motivated, pointing to the separate inquiry into her financial disclosures. The investigation into her finances began under former President Joe Biden in 2024, a detail that Fine claimed Democrats have intentionally overlooked.
"Democrats don't get held accountable for anything, and they agree on this agenda that is anti-American and anti-citizen," Fine continued.
Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence was searched by Homeland Security Investigations agents on Oct. 12 as part of a federal investigation into possible false statements on immigration and naturalization documents. Federal authorities have also issued grand jury subpoenas to members of Omar’s family and seized her cellphone, according to The Associated Press.
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