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The worst bet in America isn't Kalshi or Polymarket. It's hiding in plain sight
America suddenly has a gambling problem.
Sports betting is everywhere. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket let people wager on everything from football games to elections. Politicians and regulators are asking whether we've gone too far.
Fair question.
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But there's another gambling operation that's been sitting on street corners for decades, quietly pickpocketing people. The government lottery. And it may offer some of the worst bets in America.
Americans bought more than $113 billion in lottery products in fiscal 2024, according to the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries. That's more than $300 million every single day.
And business is booming. Census Bureau data show state lottery ticket sales nearly doubled from $52.8 billion in 2008 to $104.7 billion in 2024. Apparently inflation hasn't killed America's appetite for becoming an instant millionaire.
Let's start with Powerball. Your odds of winning the jackpot are approximately: 1 in 292.2 million. Mega Millions? 1 in 290.5 million.
You could buy one Mega Millions ticket every week for 100 years and purchase only about 5,200 tickets. Those aren't just bad odds.
They're astronomical odds.
Yet lotteries have gotten increasingly creative at selling the dream. Mega Millions increased its ticket price from $2 to $5, promising bigger starting jackpots and built-in prize multipliers. Now Powerball is getting into football with a $5 NFL-themed game across nearly two dozen states.
Then there are scratch-offs. Walk into almost any convenience store and you'll see an entire wall of them. $5. $10. $20. Even $50 scratch-off tickets.
We're not selling a little $1 fantasy anymore. We're selling some expensive dreams.
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Here's where the lottery bothers me most. A wealthy person spending $20 on lottery tickets generally doesn't matter financially. But someone living paycheck to paycheck or making $50,000 a year spending $20 every week is blowing more than $1,000 a year.
For a lower-income household, that's real money. That's an emergency fund. That's credit-card debt. That's a Roth IRA contribution.
Invest $1,000 annually for 30 years earning a hypothetical 8%, and you could accumulate more than $113,000. Instead, that money may be disappearing one scratch-off at a time.
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That's why economists have long raised concerns about lotteries being effectively regressive. The issue isn't necessarily who spends the most dollars. It's how large that spending is as a percentage of someone's income.
Here's my favorite part. When somebody trades on Kalshi or Polymarket, suddenly we're worried they're gambling. When somebody repeatedly hands money to a state lottery? We're funding education! That's some pretty good marketing.
To be fair, lotteries do fund legitimate government programs. U.S. lotteries transferred nearly $30.6 billion to government beneficiaries in fiscal 2024, supporting education, veterans, senior programs and other public purposes.
Great. But let's call the transaction what it is. Government is raising revenue by selling its citizens extremely long odds of becoming rich. And unlike prediction markets, there's no research that's going to help you pick six random numbers.
No earnings report. No polling data. No economic forecast. Just luck.
Prediction markets deserve scrutiny. Sports betting deserves scrutiny. And people absolutely need to understand the risks of gambling. But government lotteries shouldn't get some moral exemption simply because the proceeds fund popular programs.
Buy a Powerball ticket for entertainment. Grab a scratch-off for your birthday. Dream about the mansion and Ferrari. Just don't confuse any of it with building wealth.
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Because in almost every form of gambling, there's an old saying we’ve heard for decades: The house always wins.
With America's lottery system, there's just one interesting twist. The house is your government.
Cut the bull: The real reason beef costs so much — and what Trump is trying to do
Ground beef just hit a record $6.92 a pound, nearly 60% more than Americans were paying just five years ago.
For millions of families, beef isn't a ribeye at a steakhouse; it's the largest source of protein in their diet. It's hamburgers on the grill, taco night, meatloaf, a roast in the crockpot.
America didn't forget how to raise cattle. We made it harder to do it, and American families are paying the price for a country that won't let its own ranchers feed it.
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The Trump administration is attempting to bring relief quickly. A temporary order took effect Sept. 1, expanding lower-tariff access for 300,000 metric tons of imported lean beef trimmings, putting more beef in the market while the herd rebuilds. It did not go over well in ranching country. Producers argue that flooding the market with cheaper foreign beef pushes cattle prices down at the very moment American ranchers need stronger prices to justify rebuilding the herd.
But the question has never been how much beef we should import. The real question is why it can be cheaper to raise and process beef on the other side of the world, ship it thousands of miles to America, and sell it here than to simply produce it at home.
Yes, American wages are higher, American beef is also the best in the world, and Americans have shown they'll pay for that. But none of that fully answers the question.
Here's what does: foreign beef can cross an ocean and land on a shelf in New York City more easily than a Nebraska rancher's beef can cross the state line into Iowa. A rancher who has his cattle processed under his own state's inspection program, one the USDA has certified as equal to the federal standard, still can't sell that meat one mile over the border. The bureaucracy has built a system where importing is simpler than selling to a neighboring state.
And that is only part of the problem.
Just look at beef processing. Four companies, two of them Brazilian-owned, control roughly 85% of American beef processing capacity, up from 36% in 1980. This isn't the free market. Crushing regulations, excessive permitting, and the capital cost of running a federally compliant plant are so steep that only a handful of operations can absorb them. This is a government-enabled monopoly. A small processor can't open a competing plant, so the giants stay giants, and cattle producers finishing and selling fed cattle across enormous stretches of the country are left with one or two buyers. A producer without competition for offtake doesn't set the price. He takes the only one he's handed.
The same scenario shows up again when a rancher tries to tap the free market and sell straight to locals who actually want his beef. A neighbor who wants to buy a quarter of beef directly from the rancher down the road can't just buy it. The animal has to go through an inspected facility, and if the nearest one is hours away and booked out for months, that transaction simply doesn't happen. Ranchers who could be selling directly to consumers at a fair price, cutting out the distant packer entirely, are blocked not by a lack of demand but by a lack of anywhere nearby to legally get the job done.
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The American cattle herd is at a 75-year low, and U.S. beef production is falling while Brazil has overtaken us as the world's largest beef producer. And ranchers themselves are disappearing. From 2017 to 2022 alone, the number of U.S. farms with beef cows fell by nearly 107,000.
American ranchers cannot compete until the barriers putting them at a disadvantage are torn down. That is exactly what President Trump is now trying to do.
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On September 4, he signed two executive orders aimed at strengthening American ranching and expanding competition in the beef market. The orders direct federal agencies to reduce regulatory barriers, expand opportunities for state-inspected meat to move across state lines, support smaller and regional processors, modernize inspections, and give ranchers more options for processing and selling their own beef.
And just last week, USDA took another step, announcing plans to help states start or expand their own meat-inspection programs, opening the door for more local processors to compete and giving ranchers more options for getting their beef to market.
These reforms go straight at the problem by creating more processing capacity, giving ranchers more ways to sell, and cutting the red tape standing between American beef and American consumers.
None of this is unique to beef. Federal timber harvests are down roughly 75% from their 1960-1990 average, even as national forests sit full of standing timber. It now takes seven to ten years on average to permit a new mine in the United States, compared to two to three years in Canada. We bury American industry under bureaucracy until it's cheaper to buy the finished product from somewhere else.
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We will never rebuild our herds or reclaim our title as the world's beef superpower under a system run by bureaucrats instead of ranchers. Decades of regulation have put one of America's oldest industries at a systemic disadvantage. Ranchers don't need a handout.
They need the freedom to do what they do best: feed America. That's exactly what Trump is trying to give them.
Donalds rips opponent’s ‘complete 180’ as Dem’s own 2016 words come back to haunt him in tightening gov race
Republican congressman and Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds is taking aim at his Democratic opponent David Jolly over his shifting political positions and party affiliation, in a contest that is resurfacing themes from the 2016 congressional race between Jolly and Charlie Crist.
"You were pro-choice, then you were pro-life, then you were pro-choice. It was only after you switched parties that you switched your position. This was not a matter of conviction for you; it was for political convenience," Jolly said about Charlie Crist when Jolly was a Republican running against Crist, a Democrat, for Congress in 2016.
Ten years later, Jolly is now a Democrat running for Florida governor and facing the same criticism for allegedly changing his positions for political gain, this time, in his race for governor against Donalds.
"The shift in positions by David Jolly is not because of personal conviction, it is purely because of political convenience," Donalds told Fox News Digital, referencing that 2016 exchange.
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Some of the shifts in Jolly’s positions include issues like abortion, immigration, and drilling off the coast of Florida.
As a Republican, Jolly said he believed "life begins at conception," authored legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and co-sponsored fetal-personhood legislation. He also voted for a federal 20-week abortion ban. Now running as a Democrat, Jolly calls himself "pro-choice," supports codifying the Roe v. Wade framework and says he would veto legislation restricting abortion access as governor.
Jolly’s immigration views have also shifted sharply as he attempts to run for governor in a state that voted for Trump each of the last three presidential cycles by wide margins, with many voters motivated by Trump’s immigration policies.
As a Republican, he campaigned on securing the border, supported tighter screening for Syrian and Iraqi refugees and voted for the American SAFE Act. Today, he says the country should have "wide gates" for people coming to work or seek asylum, argues that crossing the border without legal status should not necessarily be treated as a crime in those circumstances and has called the Republican link between immigration and crime "gross," "immoral" and "wrong."
As voters consistently say that affordability is a top-of-mind concern, Donalds is also hitting Jolly’s record on healthcare as an example of inconsistency that shows a lack of credibility on the issue.
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"When David Jolly was in Congress, he opposed Obamacare," Donalds said. "Now trying to run for governor he wants to expand Obamacare in Florida. I mean, these are just some of the complete shifts that we've seen in what he stands for."
Another issue Donalds is taking issue with involves the period after the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which sent oil and tar balls washing ashore along roughly 178 miles of Florida coastline, contributed to an estimated loss of 1.88 million planned recreational visits in northwest Florida and cost the region $1.3 billion in visitor spending, $2.04 billion in economic output and more than 20,000 job-years.
Within a year of the spill, Jolly’s lobbying firm represented a client that publicly advocated for legislation that could have expanded offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Three Bridges Advisors listed H.R. 909, the Roadmap for America’s Energy Future, among the subjects of its 2011 lobbying activity for the Free Enterprise Nation, which supported the bill. Jolly also wrote a post on the group’s website stating that Free Enterprise Nation was "advocating for" the legislation.
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Jolly said he had "never lobbied for offshore drilling," but PolitiFact rated that claim "Mostly False" after finding that Jolly acknowledged attending a meeting where the bill was discussed, which lobbying experts said technically counted as lobbying.
Donalds cited the controversy to Fox News Digital saying, "Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of America, David Jolly went and became a lobbyist for more oil drilling off the coast of Florida, that is a fact and so what we're seeing is a history of somebody who does everything possible, will say whatever, will be paid by whomever that are only in the interest of David Jolly."
With polls showing a tightening race, the RealClearPolitics average gives Donalds a roughly 4-point lead. The candidates are also sparring over debate scheduling: Donalds has agreed to three proposed debates, while Jolly, who previously accepted two other debate invitations, has now ruled out participating in debates this cycle.
"Now he's ducking debates," Donalds told Fox News Digital. "He won't debate me because he knows that on a debate stage, I will hold him accountable for these things."
Jolly has hit Donalds on the campaign trail on a variety of issues as he tries to become the first Democrat to win a governor’s race in Florida since Lawton Chiles won reelection in 1994. Primarily, Jolly has focused on data centers and labeling Donalds as a candidate more interested in partisan culture-war battles than addressing Florida’s rising housing, insurance and health care costs.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Jolly campaign for comment.
Donalds told Fox News Digital that Jolly’s flips on both party registration and the issues is something his campaign will continue to focus on.
"What you find with David Jolly is somebody who's done a complete 180 simply to run for office again and to gain relevance again and the people of Florida simply cannot trust David Jolly because we cannot afford David Jolly’s flip-flopping when it comes to the great state of Florida," Donalds said.
WATCH: Mike Lee explodes on voting error that 'keeps happening' as huge number of noncitizens found on rolls
Firebrand conservative Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, slammed both Democrats and Republicans who have resisted passage of the SAVE America Act after a report found that 30,000 noncitizens were "mistakenly" registered to vote in states across the country since 2000.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that more than 30,000 self-declared noncitizens were added to U.S. voter rolls since 2000. The outlet attributed the erroneous registrations to "software glitches and clerical errors" and said that its review suggested "inadvertent bureaucratic failures, rather than organized efforts to register immigrants illegally." The outlet said that this raised "questions about whether legislative efforts to require proof of citizenship for voter registration would eliminate the issue."
However, while speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Lee, who introduced the SAVE America Act earlier this year, said that "even though we have laws that prohibit things like noncitizen voting, those laws have been rendered difficult and essentially impossible to enforce."
"That thing that they claim never happens, voter fraud or noncitizen voting, just keeps happening over and over and over again," he railed.
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Reuters reported that the errors occurred in California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Virginia. The outlet said it was unable to determine how many noncitizens actually cast ballots and further noted that the numbers are not precise because " state data is often tentative and subject to revision."
This follows New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill's disclosure that 6,600 self-identified noncitizens were registered to vote and fewer than 400 of those individuals cast ballots.
Lee attributed problems with ineligible voter registration and voting to reliance on the "honor system" for self-attestation of voter eligibility.
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Referencing an all-you-can-eat deal at a popular chain restaurant that requires customers to show I.D., Lee said that "it should not be any easier for someone to get away with voter fraud at a polling location on voting day than it is to cheat Olive Garden through its never-ending pasta pass."
"And yet, that's exactly where we are today," he said.
Lee presented his SAVE America Act as a solution. President Donald Trump supports the bill, which passed the House but has stalled in the Senate.
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Lee argued that the bill would address both ineligible voter registration and fraudulent voting by requiring registrants to verify citizenship and eligibility at the time of registration and requiring voter I.D. and photo identification at the polls.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Don Palmer, senior legal fellow for election integrity at the Heritage Foundation, said that "this story really provides proof that one way forward is to simply upgrade and sort of help the driver's license agencies across the country improve their verification of citizenship while they're providing those services to voters."
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"All joking aside with the Olive Garden scenario, I love their food and I'm more than happy to show the I.D., I think the issue is I wish that the driver's license agencies and state agencies would take voter registration as serious as Italian food," he quipped.
"I think that that would be a bipartisan way of improving that verification of citizenship with databases, and I think there's some bipartisan support for that. And so that might be a way forward, not necessarily, showing documentation of citizenship, but let's improve the driver's license agencies to verify citizenship, and let's improved real ID," he said.
China is taking the fight to the stars. America must reclaim space supremacy
As one who has had the honor to consult for NASA and the Space Shuttle team in the past; work space-defense related issues in the Pentagon; speak with all twelve men who walked on the Moon; and author tens of columns on the subject, I have been "Johnny One-Note" over the last decade or so warning that the People’s Republic of China is seeking to establish itself as the dominant military power in space for decades to come. Did anyone in authority care? Not so much.
That may now be changing. Two recent stories in the news have certainly elevated not only interest, but apprehension.
The first being when Air Force Secretary Troy Meink recently confirmed that the U.S. has weapons stationed in Earth orbit. Said Meink, in part, presumably as a warning to China and, to a lesser extent, Russia at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference: "Today, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist. This is why the United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action…"
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The second — and potentially much more intriguing — was highlighted in the site "Defense One" via the headline: "The Pentagon must prepare for battles around the moon: Joint Chiefs chair."
During the same Air, Space, and Cyber conference in which he delivered the Keynote address, it was reported that General Dan Caine — who is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — said in part: "Our task, my friends, is to adapt right now, so the Joint Force is prepared to fight, endure, and win, in global contested environments, from the seabed to cislunar space…"
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"Cislunar" in this case means not just in lunar orbit, but on the surface of the Moon. The stuff of fiction? In the past, yes. Today, it must all be about the national and economic security of our nation.
On that fiction front, several years ago I authored a novel — based on some real-world information from a Soviet General — titled "The Dawn of a Nazi Moon." While hopefully an entertaining and historically accurate story, the major premise of the book was to outline how an adversary could use the Moon as the ultimate "High Ground" against an enemy on Earth.
The belief by some that once humans cut through Earth’s atmosphere into the vacuum of space, our flaws, greed, prejudices and military ambitions will be left behind is not only naïve, but quite dangerous. No one understood that better at the time than President John F. Kennedy.
During his now iconic speech at Rice University on September 12, 1962, on the need for the U.S. to become the "preeminent spacefaring nation," President John F. Kennedy rightfully stressed in part:
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"We mean to be a part of it — we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the Moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace… Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war."
Thanks to Kennedy, the United States did once occupy "a position of preeminence" in space. But no more. China now holds that title.
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A China — with its entirely military-controlled space program — which is targeting all our satellites in low and geosynchronous orbit. Satellites that control the fate of our military, our economy and our nation.
But much more alarmingly, it is also a China which is taking dead aim at the Moon. Both for its own military ambitions as well as for the future energy and economic security of its nation. One way it is doing so is by targeting the helium-3 that litters the surface of the Moon.
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Helium-3 is an isotope which could provide a potentially limitless supply of safe, clean, green energy. Some experts estimate the Moon’s surface holds millions of metric tons of helium-3, and that just 25 metric tons could fuel America’s energy needs for a year.
China is not waiting to find out. Via its lunar landers, it has already returned samples of Helium-3 to its laboratories to be studied.
China has every intention of conquering near-space for its military and economic needs. It appears the United States is now waking up to that power-shifting reality. And not a moment too soon.
UMass Dartmouth football murder suspect overstayed tourist visa, received deferred action: federal sources
A Nigerian national accused of killing a UMass Dartmouth football player entered the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed it before receiving deferred action under both the Biden and Trump administrations, multiple federal law enforcement sources told Fox News.
Chukwunonso Uzoma David Uzoma Eze is charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of UMass Dartmouth football player Marvins Antoine, 19, during an altercation in Providence, Rhode Island, over the weekend.
A second player, Kensley Macean, 19, suffered stab wounds to his head and neck and was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, according to the Providence Police Department.
Sources told Fox News that Eze first entered the U.S. on a B-2 tourist visa in 2015.
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Eze received two extensions on his visa under the Obama administration before remaining in the country after his authorized stay expired, according to the sources.
Sources said the Biden administration approved Eze's request for deferred action in September 2022.
He applied for deferred action again in February 2025 and October 2025, with the latter request approved under the Trump administration on Oct. 8, 2025, according to the sources.
Deferred action is a discretionary decision by the federal government to temporarily delay an individual's removal from the United States. It does not provide lawful immigration status.
DHS said Eze applied for employment authorization in August 2023, but the request was rejected the following month.
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He applied again for employment authorization in February 2025 based on deferred action, and DHS said that application remains pending.
If convicted of murder, Eze will lose his deferred action, according to DHS.
According to Providence police, the stabbing took place at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot outside Mezzo Lounge.
Police said the incident stemmed from an altercation involving people who had been inside the lounge before the stabbing.
Antoine was killed after a stab to the chest, while Macean suffered stab wounds to his head and neck.
Eze was later located and taken into custody by the UMass Dartmouth Police Department, police said.
Packers' shocking blowout loss to Falcons should put coach Matt LaFleur on the hot seat
The Green Bay Packers finally opened Lambeau Field for the first time this regular season, where they hoped to make it 14 straight home openers where they’ve come away with a victory on Thursday night against a struggling Atlanta Falcons team.
Instead, the Packers were blown out by an 0-2 team on their home turf, and now a big question arises.
Should head coach Matt LaFleur be on the hot seat?
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LaFleur signed a multi-year contract extension at the beginning of this year, which wasn’t considered a "prove-it deal," per ESPN. But what happened in this 35-14 loss certainly warms his seat as the Packers fall to 1-2 to start the year.
It wasn’t just this performance, either. In Week 1, a second-half collapse resulted in a Vikings victory to open the season. Then, the Packers were close to falling to the New York Jets on the road in a game they were heavily favored. It took overtime in rainy conditions to escape New Jersey with a 20-17 win.
As for Thursday night’s performance, it was more of the same that was seen in the first two weeks: a lack of diversity between the run and pass games, poor offensive line play and quarterback Jordan Love not being able to handle the pressure in his pocket.
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The sold-out Lambeau Field crowd was raining down boos and jeers from the stands throughout this contest, as Love and his receivers couldn’t get on the same page, drives stalled and the Falcons started to find their offensive spark now that Michael Penix Jr. was finally healthy enough to play.
Oh, and Bijan Robinson once again proved why he is one of those rare NFL talents with his ability to totally take over a game when he has the ball in his hands.
Before we get to the Falcons’ positives in this game, back to LaFleur’s situation in Green Bay. Since last year, including the Wild Card Round, the Packers are just 1-7 in their last eight contests. As the fan base collectively shakes their heads at the start of this season, and audibly shows their frustration at the first home game of the season, could the thought of keeping sustainability at the head coach position change in Green Bay?
LaFleur entered his eighth season with the Packers this year, and he is the only active head coach that has been with his team that long and not reached the Super Bowl. Yes, it’s still early in the season, but just food for thought.
On the other sideline, there were tons of smiles, and none more infectious than that of Robinson, who finished the game with 194 rushing yards and two touchdowns. All week long, the Packers preached stopping Robinson, understanding that’s exactly what happened in Weeks 1 and 2, when the Falcons struggled to get anything going on offense.
Well, Robinson torched this Packers defense with chunk runs, including a 55-yarder, and that also made life easier for Penix’s return under center.
The Falcons’ signal caller, whom they wished could’ve been healthy to start the year but hadn’t been fully recovered from his torn ACL in 2025, found his rhythm after opening the game with an interception on Atlanta’s first drive. The Falcons drew up quick passing plays for Penix to get going, and once the Packers had to respect Robinson’s running ability, play-action passes were Penix’s bread and butter.
Most of them went to Drake London, who also had his breakout game of the season. Like Robinson, he also had 194 yards, though through nine receptions, including a 68-yard catch-and-run that sealed the deal in the fourth quarter for the Falcons. He may not have had a touchdown, but this was the performance Penix needed after not finding anything with Cooper Rush in the first two games of the year.
For the Falcons, perhaps they simply needed competent quarterback play all along, and new head coach Kevin Stefanski can put together wins now that he has one in place, especially if the defense continues to play the way they did in an incredible performance.
But for the Packers, tough questions need to be asked already this year because it seems to be picking up where it left off in the worst ways possible.
Indiana Fever routed by Lynx in regular season finale as Caitlin Clark posts career-worst performance
Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever flamed out in their regular-season finale.
Indy stood no chance Thursday night as the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx cruised to an 86-66 beatdown. Fever fans were also watching the Lynx matchup for playoff seeding purposes.
With the loss, the Fever fall into a matchup against the defending champion Las Vegas Aces, led by MVP frontrunner A'ja Wilson. With a win, Indiana could have faced the Atlanta Dream.
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On Tuesday, Indy faced the Lynx at home and pulled off a statement win, at one point handing Minnesota its biggest deficit of the season.
Minnesota extinguished all of Indiana's momentum in the rematch, locking down Caitlin Clark to a career-worst two points on 1-of-12 shooting (1-for-8 at halftime) in 18 minutes of action.
The Fever went into the half down 62-32. Minnesota was shorthanded for a second consecutive game with rookie sensation Olivia Miles out again with a calf injury.
The Lynx rested their starters for the bulk of Tuesday's second half. Indiana seemingly followed suit on Thursday after falling behind by 30 in the third quarter, limiting Clark's floor time and seeing Sophie Cunningham held scoreless across 16 minutes.
Clark had the opportunity to become the WNBA's first player to reach 900 points and 300 assists in a single season. She entered Thursday's game just 11 points shy of the 900-point mark, but fell short, finishing with two points, three assists, and four rebounds.
Indiana's loss was made worse when starting center Aliyah Boston was ruled out with a right lower leg injury. The Fever also lost guard Ty Harris, who was carried off the court.
On the bright side for Indy, Kelsey Mitchell broke the single-season three-pointer record, hitting her 135th of the season to pass Rhyne Howard (134). Mitchell led the team with 10 points on the night, though she snapped her streak of consecutive games with 20-plus points, ending her run at 27 games as Indiana finishes the regular season at 28-15.
The WNBA postseason starts Sunday.
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Pittsburgh doctor stabbed to death after intruder allegedly attacks him, wife as they slept: police
A Pittsburgh children's hospital doctor was stabbed to death and his wife critically injured after a man allegedly entered their home and attacked the couple as they slept early Thursday, police said.
Dr. Idris Evans, 46, was killed in the attack at his home in Edgewood, Pennsylvania, according to the Allegheny County Police Department.
His wife remained in critical but stable condition Thursday, police told Fox News Digital.
County 9-1-1 received a report of a stabbing in the 100 block of Linden Avenue at 12:31 a.m. First responders found Evans and his wife suffering from multiple stab wounds, police said.
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Evans was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His wife was also transported to a hospital.
Police identified 32-year-old Elijah Hemingway of Pittsburgh as the suspect.
Detectives determined through witness interviews that Hemingway allegedly entered the home and attacked Evans and his wife while they were sleeping, according to police.
Evans' wife told investigators that they awoke to a man attacking them in bed with a kitchen knife, according to court documents obtained by KDKA. She said the attacker was wearing only underwear and uttered about "being God," the outlet reported.
During the attack, Evans' wife yelled for the couple's children, ages 8 and 12, to get out of the house and go to a neighbor's home, according to KDKA.
She also told investigators that Evans called the attacker "Elijah," as though he knew him, according to the outlet.
"We do not know if there was any pre-existing relationship," Allegheny County Assistant Superintendent Victor Joseph said, according to KDKA. "The woman did not know this male. We are trying to determine if the two males knew each other."
A K-9 unit from the Monroeville Police Department searching the area found Hemingway behind a nearby home with cuts to his hand, according to county police. Hemingway remained hospitalized Thursday pending transfer to the Allegheny County Jail, police told Fox News Digital.
Hemingway faces charges including criminal homicide, aggravated assault, burglary and criminal trespass, police said. Police told Fox News Digital there were no updates to the charges Thursday.
Investigators have not announced a motive. Police told Fox News Digital that both a possible motive and whether Hemingway and Evans knew each other remained part of the ongoing investigation.
Evans was the medical director of the Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, according to his university profile.
"The UPMC and University of Pittsburgh community is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Dr. Idris Evans, a pediatric critical care physician at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh," a UPMC spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"Dr. Evans was a dedicated caregiver and valued member of our hospital and university communities. Our thoughts are with his family, loved ones, and colleagues during this difficult time. We ask that their privacy be respected."
New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill calls on lieutenant governor to resign after sexual harassment investigation
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill called on handpicked Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell to resign by Friday after an independent investigation substantiated sexual harassment and two ethics violations.
The investigation found Caldwell told a female staffer that "you young women are looking for young sperm" after she told him her younger friend was not interested in a romantic relationship with him.
Investigators concluded the sexually charged remark constituted sexual harassment and said Caldwell's denial that he made the comment was not credible.
The staffer said she subsequently attempted to distance herself from Caldwell at work and avoid traveling with him when possible.
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"I’m calling for his resignation and giving him until tomorrow to do so," Sherrill said Thursday, calling the substantiated sexual harassment finding "extremely troubling."
The report also substantiated two ethics violations, finding Caldwell brought personal guests to ticketed events without advance ethics clearance or payment and repeatedly attempted to secure a promotion for a state employee with whom he had a romantic relationship.
Investigators found Caldwell continued bringing unpaid guests to events despite repeated training and warnings, including on May 23, one day after he was formally notified of the investigation.
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Four days after receiving notice of the investigation, Caldwell also used his state email account to recommend his romantic partner for a leadership position in another executive branch department, referring to her as "my friend" and forwarding her resume and letter of interest. Investigators said Caldwell did not disclose their romantic relationship while advocating for her promotion.
Caldwell denied wrongdoing in a May response to investigators, calling the allegations false and misleading and saying he believed the facts would exonerate him. He denied hitting on or asking women out while conducting official business.
Fox News Digital reached out to Caldwell for comment on the report and Sherrill's resignation demand.
Sherrill said the violations reflected "a pattern of behavior" that persisted despite warnings and training.
"The lieutenant governor’s resignation is necessary and in the best interest of New Jersey residents," the Democrat said.
Sherrill also took aim at President Donald Trump in announcing her decision, saying the president "continues to undermine confidence in public service at the federal level" and that she would not accept "a culture that sweeps misconduct under the rug" in New Jersey.
The investigation began after the state's chief ethics officer received an anonymous complaint in May alleging inappropriate behavior toward women and ethics violations. Caldwell was formally notified of the investigation May 22.