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Six Kurdish fighters killed in IRGC ambush as clashes spread across western Iran
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Thursday it killed five members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, while the Kurdish opposition group told Fox News Digital that six of its Peshmerga — a term commonly used for Kurdish fighters — were killed in what it described as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ambush in northwest Iran.
The clash marks another escalation in Iran’s Kurdish-majority west after days of reported attacks and clashes involving Iranian security forces, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Kurdish armed factions.
It also underscores the current position of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups that recently were viewed by U.S. and Israeli officials as a possible pressure point against Tehran during the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran, but ultimately stayed out of the conflict amid mixed signals from Washington and pressure from both Iran and Turkey.
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Majeed Gly, president of the American Kurdish Committee, told Fox News Digital that the latest clashes should not be read as a full-scale uprising, but also should not be dismissed as routine border violence.
"What I’m hearing is, this is not business as usual," Gly said. "This is not like periodic clashes on the border. This is operations, and it seems to be deep inside."
Gly said Kurdish frustration has grown sharply after months of Iranian attacks on Kurdish areas and opposition-linked sites, including in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He said the region has been hit by more than 850 attacks since February, leaving at least six civilians dead and dozens more wounded.
Hejar Berenji, the U.S. representative of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, or PDKI, confirmed to Fox News Digital that six PDKI Peshmerga were killed in a clash with IRGC forces in the Piranshahr area of Iranian Kurdistan.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it had killed five members of the banned PDKI in northwest Iran, Reuters reported Thursday, citing state media. The IRGC said the group was ambushed after entering Iranian territory in mountainous border areas near Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan Province.
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Berenji identified the six Peshmerga as Karo Hormuziari, Fardin Changizi, Mohammad Khaki, Abdullah Mohammadpour, Twana Osmani and Mohammad Amin Bayezidi. He said the incident took place Wednesday night in the village of Qizqapan, near Piranshahr, and said the PDKI unit was on a "political and organizational mission" when it was "ambushed by a large and heavily equipped IRGC force."
"This should be understood in the broader context of the Islamic Republic’s continued repression in Iranian Kurdistan and its repeated attacks on Iranian Kurdish civilian camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, even during ceasefire and negotiation periods," Berenji said. "The regime has increased pressure on Kurdish communities because it understands that Iranian Kurds remain among the most organized and determined democratic forces inside Iran."
The PDKI, is one of Iran’s oldest Kurdish opposition movements. The group has been involved in decades of intermittent conflict with the Islamic Republic, while Tehran long has viewed Kurdish armed groups as separatist threats, while others describe it as a historic, centrist and nationalist Iranian Kurdish opposition group that Iran has targeted for years, including through assassinations of its leaders decades ago.
The Kurds are one of the largest stateless ethnic groups in the Middle East, with communities spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. In Iran, many Kurds live in the country’s mountainous west and northwest, where Kurdish opposition groups have long accused Tehran of repression, executions, forced assimilation and military crackdowns. Iranian authorities view armed Kurdish factions as separatist or "terrorist threats."
The latest clash followed several days of violence in western Iran. A similar incident near Piranshahr was reported by Iranian state media Tuesday, with the IRGC saying it had killed six members of what it called an "opposition and separatist group."
Two IRGC members were killed and two wounded in a shooting in Kermanshah Province Monday evening, an attack claimed by a newly formed Kurdish armed group seeking retaliation for the IRGC’s role in suppressing the 2022–2023 protest movement, according to the Kurdish rights group Hengaw.
Iran also appeared to be expanding pressure on Kurdish opposition groups beyond PJAK, the Kurdistan Free Life Party, after days of clashes between PJAK and the IRGC, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday.
Berenji said the latest clash was not a response to ongoing U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding negotiations, which remain unresolved as talks continue without a finalized agreement.
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"The Kurdish struggle for freedom, democracy, and national rights predates the current negotiations and is not dependent on them," Berenji said. "At the same time, any agreement that ignores the Kurdish question, the regime’s attacks on Kurdish civilians, and the repression inside Iran will not bring real stability."
Gly said Kurdish anger has been compounded by language in the U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding that critics interpret as Washington agreeing not to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs.
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"This sentence has taken every Iranian opposition group the wrong way, especially the Kurds," Gly said.
He argued that even during negotiations with hostile powers, the United States should not abandon its public support for freedom movements, invoking former President Ronald Reagan’s approach to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Gly said he does not see clear evidence that Kurdish groups have gained major new military capabilities, but said the perception of Iran’s strength has changed.
"What has changed is the perception of weakness of Iran," Gly told Fox News Digital. "They are less afraid of the regime."
The new violence carries broader significance for Washington because Iranian Kurdish opposition groups were recently discussed as a possible ground pressure point against Tehran.
U.S. officials and Kurdish groups had discussed a potential military operation against Iranian security forces in western Iran, Reuters reported in March, while a separate report said Israel was backing Iranian Kurdish plans to seize Iranian border areas, though such an operation would likely require U.S. and Israeli support.
But those expectations quickly faltered. In April, Kurdish fighters ultimately stayed out of the war because of mixed signals from Washington and Israel, as well as Iranian threats and strikes against Kurdish positions in Iraq. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged President Donald Trump during the conflict to prevent Kurdish forces from launching a ground operation inside Iran, reflecting Ankara’s longstanding opposition to Kurdish armed movements gaining ground in the region, Reuters also reported.
During the conflict, Trump told Reuters he would be "all for it" if the Kurds wanted to move against Iran and said their objective should be "to win," but Kurdish commanders were frustrated by the lack of a clear U.S. or Israeli strategy.
Berenji said the PDKI does not seek chaos, but insisted Kurdish forces have the right to defend themselves.
"We seek a democratic, pluralistic, secular, and federal Iran where all nations and communities can live with dignity and rights," he said. "But the Kurdish people also have the right to defend themselves against repression, intimidation, and attacks by the IRGC."
Fox News Digital has reached out to Iran’s mission to the United Nations for comment.
Video shows moments before Army veteran was fatally shot in Walmart parking lot dispute
Shocking cellphone video captured the deadly moment a Florida Army veteran was shot during a confrontation over a Walmart parking space, authorities said.
Bart Diguglielmo, 62, died after he was shot around 12:28 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of the Walmart on West McNab Road in North Lauderdale, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.
Investigators said Diguglielmo and an adult woman became involved in a verbal altercation over a parking space before the shooting.
The woman remained at the scene, cooperated with detectives and told investigators she fired in self-defense, according to BSO.
Her identity has not been released, and homicide detectives said the case will be presented to the Broward County State Attorney's Office to determine whether criminal charges will be filed.
Authorities have not released additional details about what led to the confrontation or said whether investigators believe the woman's claim of self-defense. Prosecutors will review the completed investigation before deciding whether charges are warranted.
Video obtained by Fox News Digital shows the confrontation leading up to the shooting.
Additional cellphone footage obtained by Local 10 News appears to show Diguglielmo walking toward the woman, who appears to be holding a cellphone in one hand. As he approaches, she raises her other arm, appearing to point a handgun at him. After a brief standoff, a single gunshot rings out.
Footage from another angle, recorded without sound, appears to show Diguglielmo doubling over at the waist before lowering himself to the ground as what appears to be blood becomes visible through the front of his shirt.
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A third angle shows the pair engaged in what appears to be a verbal dispute after a vehicle pulled out of a nearby parking space. The footage appears to show the woman backing away with the handgun pointed at Diguglielmo as he raises his hands.
The video ends with the woman remaining at the scene until Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrived and detained her for questioning.
Diguglielmo was transported to Broward Health Medical Center, where he later died from his injuries, authorities said.
The investigation remains ongoing.
Scott Dixon leaving Chip Ganassi Racing throws a huge wrench into IndyCar's silly season
"Silly season" is always an apt name for the driver market in any racing series, but this year's silly season in IndyCar has gone well past silly and is heading toward a certifiably insane season with the news that Scott Dixon — after 25 seasons — is leaving Chip Ganassi Racing.
Which means the No. 9 at CGR is up for grabs. Buckle up, kids.
There were reports that Dixon would leave the team, and Chip Ganassi Racing confirmed this on Thursday.
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The 42-year-old six-time champ's destination for 2027 has not been announced, but RACER's Marshall Pruett reports that it sets up a move to Arrow McLaren.
This is now a huge piece of the driver market puzzle, and comes after it was revealed that Indianapolis 500 champion Felix Rosenqvist will not return to Meyer Shank Racing next season, with rumors that he'll return to Arrow McLaren as well, giving them a lineup of Dixon, Rosenqvist and Pato O'Ward.
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Which is obviously very strong.
MSR has a technical relationship with CGR and has performed really well all season, making Rosenqvist's No. 60 a sought-after seat.
But now that a seat at Ganassi has opened up alongside the dominant four-time champ Alex Palou, that will be the one everyone has their eyes on.
One potential option is Christian Lundgaard, who has really impressed at Arrow McLaren this year, especially on road and street circuits. If the Dixon-Rosenqvist-O'Ward pans out, he would need a new ride and would be a good option for CGR and could compete with the likes of Alex Palou, especially in the same machinery.
We're going to need some more dominoes to fall in place — with the big one being that No. 9 — but, man, is this going to be one of the wilder silly seasons in recent memory.
Judge approves Tiger Woods' hospital records release to prosecutors after Florida car crash
Prosecutors have been allowed to review Tiger Woods’ medical records related to his March car crash in Florida, which led to his arrest on charges of driving under the influence.
Judge Darren Steele approved an agreement between Woods’ defense and the State Attorney’s Office, allowing prosecutors to request records from the Cleveland Clinic Martin South Hospital. Woods was taken there after a crash March 27.
A similar agreement was struck in May, which gave prosecutors access to all prescription medication records for Woods at a Palm Beach, Florida, pharmacy. The records were from the start of 2026 through the end of March.
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Doug Duncan, who is representing Woods in this case, reached an agreement with prosecutors to only allow the release of records from both the hospital and pharmacy to them, law enforcement officers, state experts and the defense team.
Woods, who recently made his first public appearance since his vehicle crash made national headlines, pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence. He was found with two prescription painkillers in his pocket during his arrest while also showing signs of impairment.
Woods’ vehicle struck a truck’s trailer and flipped onto its side on Jupiter Island. Woods had been traveling at a high speed on a 30-mph road, according to the incident report, which also stated it did $5,000 in damage to the truck he hit.
Woods had agreed to take a Breathalyzer test, which showed no signs of alcohol in his system at the time. But he refused a urine test, according to law enforcement.
Woods was granted permission April 1 to travel out of the country to enter an inpatient treatment center, which was reportedly in Zurich, Switzerland.
Since then, Woods introduced PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp at a monumental press conference for the golf organization late last month, his first appearance since returning from treatment.
Woods has served as a leader on the Tour's Future Competition Committee, which he called a "privilege" during his brief introduction of Rolapp.
OutKick’s Mark Harris and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Famed jockey hospitalized with broken ribs and broken thumb after traffic accident in Newmarket
A famed jockey is suffering from serious injuries after being involved in a car wreck.
Frankie Dettori was involved in a "road traffic accident" in Newmarket, England, on Wednesday night, his team announced on social media.
The crash resulted in Dettori sustaining "several broken ribs and a broken thumb."
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"Another vehicle struck the rear passenger side of the car Frankie was driving, causing it to spin and flip...," the social media post said, adding that he was then taken to a hospital. "His injuries are still being assessed, and he remains in hospital for further observation.
"Frankie would like to thank the emergency services who attended the scene, together with the doctors, nurses and wider medical team caring for him. His focus is now on resting and recovering. No further comment will be made until there is a meaningful update."
The Sun said Dettori's vehicle wound up upside down, although no arrests were made.
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The Italian jockey, who famously went through the card with seven winners in seven races at Ascot in September 1996, has amassed more than 3,350 victories in his career, mostly in England.
Dettori retired as a jockey after taking some rides in Brazil following a spell racing in the United States, Britain's PA news agency reported. Before that, he was based in England for more than three decades.
He has signed up for this year’s Leger Legends race at Doncaster in September. It would be his first ride in Britain since 2023.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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WWII pilot missing after secret spy mission finally accounted for more than 80 years later
A pilot who disappeared during a World War II spy mission has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Wednesday.
Officials said U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Franklin H. McKinney, 21, of Rhode Island, was accounted for on May 15, 2026. He served as an airman with the 35th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron (PRS), 14th Air Force.
McKinney reportedly failed to return after departing from Yunnanyi, China, on a reconnaissance mission to photograph targets in Thailand and Burma.
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The U.S. Air Force indicated that the squadron carried out aerial espionage missions, flying deep into Japanese-controlled territory across China, Burma and Thailand to gather critical intelligence.
On Nov. 5, 1944, McKinney reportedly departed Yunnanyi, China, while piloting an F-5 Lightning.
The U.S. Air Force said his squadron, known as the "Redhawks," played a crucial role in helping "turn the tide of the war in China" by providing vital aerial mapping and intelligence on Japanese troop movements.
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However, the airbase lost contact with McKinney shortly after his departure.
Despite searches along his flight path to the China-Thailand border by personnel with the American Graves Registration Service, no evidence of a crash was found.
His remains were not accounted for after the war.
Around the same time, local officials in Thailand discovered what appeared to be the wreckage of an aircraft that had been struck by lightning in a wooded area, according to DPAA.
Citing a wartime report from the Royal Thai Air Force Museum, the agency said the aircraft exploded before crashing near Ban Mae Kua in the Sop Prap district of Lampang province.
In 2018, third-party researchers located a crash site in a rice paddy of Lampang province and linked it to McKinney's aircraft.
DPAA investigators then examined the site in 2019 and again in 2021 before a recovery team excavated the area in 2022, recovering possible human remains.
The remains were sent to a DPAA laboratory, where scientists used modern forensic techniques to identify McKinney.
Officials said McKinney's family will be briefed on the findings.
His name will also be memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Letitia James hammered after NY Medicaid fraud unit funding frozen over ineffective enforcement
New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing renewed criticism from Republicans after the Trump administration suspended federal funding for the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), citing years of poor criminal enforcement performance and leadership decisions that federal officials say left fraud investigations lagging.
The federal action gives Republicans a new line of attack against James as she campaigns for re-election. Republican challenger Saritha Komatireddy has made the state's struggling Medicaid Fraud Control Unit a key issue in the race, arguing James failed to aggressively prosecute fraud. Federal watchdogs' findings now lend new weight to those claims.
"Letitia James ran New York's Medicaid Fraud Unit into the ground, and now we know why: a deliberate leadership choice to open fewer cases and let them drag on for years," Komatireddy said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"This means New York taxpayers are losing their hard-earned money to fraudsters, and patients and seniors are being hurt or neglected, and no one is holding them accountable."
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The Republican Attorneys General Association also chimed in on the funding freeze, arguing it reflected broader differences between Republican and Democratic attorneys general in combating fraud.
"While Republican attorneys general are aggressively fighting fraud, waste, and abuse, Democrat AGs like Keith Ellison in Minnesota and Letitia James in New York knowingly aid and abet scams and fraud in their states," RAGA Executive Director Adam Piper said in a statement.
"Republican AGs are thrilled to roll up our sleeves and work with JD Vance, Republican AG staff alum Andrew Ferguson, Scott Brady, and the White House Task Force to save taxpayers billions of dollars and deliver maximum accountability."
In a June 30 letter denying the unit's annual recertification, Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) officials concluded that New York's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit had become the lowest-performing large state unit in the nation for criminal Medicaid fraud enforcement despite receiving roughly $60 million annually in federal funding and employing more than 270 staff members.
"The New York MFCU is not effectively prosecuting criminal Medicaid fraud," the letter stated. "The Unit reported only 53 fraud convictions from 2023 to 2025. This is by far the lowest among similar-sized Units; the next lowest number of reported fraud convictions for this period was 129.
"Enough is enough."
The report also found New York ranked last in criminal indictments, securing fewer than 10 fraud indictments in four of the past five years.
Federal officials further found that 34% of the unit's open cases were more than three years old, while 69% of referrals from the state's Medicaid Program Integrity Unit had remained pending for at least two years, contributing to a growing investigative backlog.
The HHS letter concluded that the unit's poor performance stemmed in large part from "a deliberate leadership choice" to prioritize high-impact civil fraud cases over criminal prosecutions, finding that strategy had left the office ineffective at pursuing criminal Medicaid fraud despite its size and resources.
While federal officials acknowledged the state's fraud unit remained competitive in civil recoveries, they said those results did not outweigh the decline in criminal enforcement.
"The Unit has sacrificed its ability to effectively fight criminal fraud to obtain civil recoveries that are largely in line with its peers," the report stated.
James blasted the funding freeze, accusing the Trump administration of targeting New York for political reasons.
"This administration's unprecedented attack on New York is another political distraction," James said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "During my time as attorney general, my office has recovered more than $627 million for Medicaid and was recognized by this very administration for leading the nation in anti-fraud efforts."
James' office noted that HHS highlighted New York as one of four states responsible for half of all civil recoveries nationwide in fiscal year 2025. The attorney general also pointed to several recent Medicaid fraud prosecutions, including multimillion-dollar fraud cases announced in recent weeks.
"The only people this decision benefits are the criminals we investigate every day," James said. "We are considering all legal options to stop this outrageous action."
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Meanwhile, federal prosecutors in New York said they are expanding efforts to investigate Medicaid fraud and patient abuse.
"Attorney General James' apparent inability to explain the New York MFCU's indefensible criminal enforcement performance is not a political distraction as she puts it," First Assistant U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III, who is spearheading the revival of the NDNY Health Care Fraud Task Force, said in a statement.
Sarcone noted that the New York MFCU averaged just nine criminal indictments a year between 2021 and 2025, compared with more than 100 annually during the three years preceding James' tenure.
"Public benefits fraud and Medicaid fraud did not abruptly stop in 2019," Sarcone added. "Instead, under the failed leadership of AG James, criminal Medicaid fraud in New York State has been ignored."
The suspension took effect July 1 and remains in effect through Sept. 30 unless New York completes a series of corrective actions ordered by HHS, including reducing case backlogs, increasing criminal indictments and improving coordination with federal investigators. If those deficiencies are not corrected, the Office of Inspector General warned New York it could lose its federal Medicaid Fraud Control Unit grant for fiscal year 2027.
Boston cop pelted by mob as dirt bike suspect escapes in wild viral video: ‘He was all alone’
A Boston police officer was left alone in a hostile crowd as people hurled drinks and debris at him while a dirt bike suspect broke free and escaped, according to police and the city’s largest police union.
The chaotic caught-on-camera confrontation first surfaced in a TikTok video posted by @noticiaboston. It happened around 9:24 p.m. on June 28 near Old Road and Ellington Street, where police said 100 to 150 people had flooded the area with loud music, drinking, lowriders, mopeds and dirt bikes.
Boston Police Department (BPD) Officer Jesse Kennedy had responded to a loud disturbance call and tried to disperse the crowd when he spotted a dirt bike with no rear plate, according to a police report obtained by the Boston Herald. When Kennedy approached the rider and grabbed the handlebars to check whether the bike was registered, the rider refused to get off and allegedly tried to pull away. Fox News Digital has requested the police report and additional information from BPD.
Video circulating on social media shows Kennedy surrounded as people appear to throw liquids, bottles and other objects while he struggles with the rider. At one point, glass can be heard smashing on the street.
"Go home," someone yells in the video reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association President Larry Calderone told Fox News Digital the video shows exactly what rank-and-file officers are up against when staffing runs thin.
"He was all alone, and he had to go," Calderone said.
Kennedy had been assigned with another officer, but Calderone said that officer had trouble reaching him because of traffic, street takeovers and pedestrians blocking the way.
"It’s a matter of minutes," Calderone said. "It probably doesn’t sound like much to the general public, but when you’re fighting an individual in a crowd and you’re calling for help and nobody’s coming, that three minutes feels like an awful long time."
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The union boss said BPD is "extremely short" on manpower and argued the incident was a symptom of a staffing crisis that has left officers dangerously outnumbered at the busiest time of year.
Calderone said the union is not blaming Mayor Michelle Wu, whom he credited with budgeting for and hiring roughly 100 officers a year during her time in office. Instead, he pointed to retirements, internal promotions and the City Council’s handling of police overtime.
"The blame is not with the mayor," Calderone said. "The blame is with the City Council."
Calderone claimed Boston’s patrol ranks remain dangerously depleted, saying prior department testimony to the City Council showed BPD was roughly 600 rank-and-file officers short. Fox News Digital has not independently verified Calderone’s staffing figures.
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Calderone accused some councilors of trying to "defund the police" while neighborhoods deal with street takeovers, loud late-night parties and attacks on officers trying to keep the peace.
"Why aren’t they condemning these street takeovers; these loud, noisy parties; these assaults on their police officers who are trying to keep their neighborhoods safe?" Calderone said.
The union president said Boston traditionally uses overtime to put extra officers on the street when officials know about recurring problem areas.
"For some reason, this weekend, the department did not put any extra bodies out," he said, claiming BPD "ran below their own minimum standards," leaving Kennedy alone in the crowd.
"Thank goodness he and no innocent bystander was hurt," Calderone said.
The Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association also blasted the viral video on X, writing that "fewer cops means less safety."
Additional officers eventually arrived and cleared the crowd, according to the police report. The rider was not publicly identified in initial reports, and the police report did not note any arrests from the crowd.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Mayor Wu's office, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox and City Commissioner for District 4 Brian Worrell's office for comment.
Wife and mistress join forces after sext mistake, alleged OnlyFans romance scam & marrying the logical choice
It's that time of the week again. We've made it to Thursday and that means we take a dive into the world of True Romance.
We're going to hear about a married man who has found himself in a tough spot after his wife and mistress joined forces. His troubles all started with a misfired sext.
Once we get through that, we'll be learning about the unexpected details of an alleged OnlyFans romance scam. It's a good reminder to ease your way into matters of the heart.
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All that takes us into some potential crimes against romance. With claims of marrying for logical reasons, not for love. That's not what we're all about here. We let our hearts lead the way.
Speaking of marriages, and logical reasons over love, when Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift tie the knot this weekend, will she take his last name, or will he take hers? I think that's a valid question.
If it is a marriage based on love, I wish them well. Even if it's not, it has helped romance this week. One of the annual traditions this time of year, Michael Rubin's White Party, was moved up to Wednesday because of the Kelce-Swift wedding, and romance was in the air.
Alex Rodriguez was caught sharing a kiss with an unknown woman at the party. It's good to see A-Rod back out there following his breakup earlier this year. Good for him and good for the romantics out there. I look forward to seeing them in the gym together very soon.
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A married man who has been having an affair for the last three years is now stuck in the middle after his wife and mistress joined forces.
He wants to know why he can't keep both of the women in his life. He wants to do what he wants and have a great time while he's doing it.
His wife and mistress have other plans. After a sext to his wife that was meant for his mistress ruined everything, they want him to choose.
"I’d happily carry on with this arrangement until my dying day; only they’ve got together and are ganging up on me. Basically, they are demanding I choose one over the other and I’m struggling to make that decision," he wrote to the Daily Star.
Each brings something different to the table and compliments the other by filling in for the other's weaknesses. One can cook, the other can't. One can dance and has a sense of humor, the other can't do either.
It's a situation he had to know prior to misfiring a nude to his wife that was too good to be true. You can't have it all and that's why a mistake was made. He let his guard down and started believing he deserved it all.
It's a mistake that happens over and over again.
"My wife first found out about my affair when I accidentally sent her a sexually explicit message and picture of my naked self, by mistake," he wrote. "At first she was reasonable and said that she’d give me two weeks to sort everything out."
Two months have passed, and she's selfishly wanting a decision to be made. The women have contacted one another and the heat is on. He doesn't want to sell his house, fork over money for a divorce and give her half his pension.
"Why can’t she simply turn a blind eye and pretend nothing is happening like they do in other cultures?," he understandably asks.
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You know, I want to go against this guy, but he's had a three-year taste of the good life. A life full of romance, and he doesn't want to let that go without a fight. He could have approached this much differently.
He could have said that he wanted neither of them. He didn't. By not choosing one over the other, he's saying he wants both.
There is something special there. I don’t want there to be, but there is, and I'm a big enough person to recognize that. Are his wife and mistress?
I don't know.
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You think OnlyFans scam, and you think a man is throwing away his life savings on a model. Or someone is catfishing someone and having them empty their bank account.
That's what I thought at first, but that's not what is being alleged here. The alleged victim is a woman who started out as a paying customer of the man being accused of being the romance scammer, reports WRNJ.
The State of New Jersey is seeking the forfeiture of vehicles, electronic devices, and financial documents and has filed a complaint in Hunterdon County Superior Court.
The woman alleges that the relationship between her and the content creator started out as many do on OnlyFans. She was purchasing sexual content from him. Then the messages became more personal in nature at the end of 2024 into early 2025.
According to the complaint, she believed that the two had a future together and that her shelling out money for content and several personal items were all part of an "investment" in their future.
Someone told her that wasn't the case. That person alleged that her content creating online romantic interest was operating an organization to make women believe they were in romantic relationships while cashing in.
There were tens of thousands of dollars sent to him, the complaint alleges, for things like dental work, a pickup truck, a motorcycle and to fund a legitimate social media career and future together.
There are allegedly others out there who sent money to him and the alleged OnlyFans romance scammer was charged with "theft by deception, financial facilitation of criminal activity and falsifying or tampering with records."
You love the enthusiasm for romance, but this serves as a reminder that you can't trust everyone you're purchasing sexual content from on the internet. I wish that wasn't the case, but it's a sad reality.
Believe it or not, there are people out there marrying a logical choice and not someone they love. They're not locking eyes with someone across a bar and following the butterflies into an eventual relationship.
They're marrying for central heat, health insurance and because the person has a car. They're skipping right over the part where you let the passion in a relationship burn out over many years of marriage.
There's no passion, so there are no complications that come along with that. I don't want to say that these people need to be jailed for crimes against romance, but these people need to be jailed for crimes against romance.
Here are some of the responses to the Reddit question: People who didn’t choose a partner for love but chose a partner that was a good logical choice, how did it work out?
- Tom writes:
I don't know if you can understand this but in the early 70s and into the disco era and early 80s if you were a really smooth dancer and good looking you had as much sex with as many different women as you could handle. I was known from Cleveland to Youngstown to Pittsburgh for my dance moves (think Soul Train and Saturday Night Fever) and after an hour of dancing on a lighted dance floor at Holiday Wildlife in Youngstown, Ohio my dance partner put her arms around me and said, "You just reek of sex."
Another time I was at the Stable Pit and Pub dance club near Meadville, Pa and was drinking more heavily than normal, picked up this chick and we were going to her house. I got to my car, said excuse me and went to the rear and hurled. I was pretty dizzy when she walked over and asked, "Can you still get it up?" I was stunned, I mean, I had just vomited and she STILL wanted sex. I just shook my head "No" and said, "You drive." I slept on her couch.
My friends and I attended a Black Oak Arkansas concert in Warren, Ohio in the 70s. We were standing near the front center stage and Jim Dandy, Ruby Starr and the boys were going to town rocking. This girl in front of me backed up and started pushing her butt against my crotch. She got the reaction from my 25 year body that she was hoping for and never stopped grinding nor looked at me for the full hour and fifteen minutes. When the concert was over, she finally turned to me, smiled and said, "Thanks for a wonderful evening" as if we had been on a date and walked away.
I miss that time period.
SeanJo
Tom, I have a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg. Feel free to send in more of your stories of romance.
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That will do it for this week. We'll do it again next week. Feel free to reach out, anonymously if you prefer, at sean.joseph@outkick.com.
Send me whatever you want. I get plenty of hate mail as it is and yours will be a welcomed addition to the pile.
Nevada transgender suspect with massive weapons cache accused of Las Vegas terrorism-related threats
Police say they thwarted what could have been a devastating mass casualty attack after arresting a transgender Nevada suspect accused of plotting a shooting on the Las Vegas Strip and uncovering an arsenal that included machine guns, grenade launchers and more than 50 firearms.
Allison Howlett, 36, who police identify in the arrest report as transgender, was arrested June 27 after Henderson police received a frantic 911 call from the suspect's spouse reporting a domestic dispute, a stolen vehicle loaded with guns and threats of both "suicide by cop" and a mass shooting.
Using vehicle tracking technology, Henderson police traced the stolen SUV to a parking garage at Sunset Station casino, where officers boxed in the vehicle after finding Howlett inside with loud music blaring and refusing repeated commands to surrender.
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Authorities said officers eventually convinced Howlett to lower a window by offering water before pulling the suspect from the vehicle and deploying a Taser during the struggle.
"It should be noted that the suspect had been sitting on a handgun and had access to a fully automatic, silenced MP5-style machine gun in the back seat of the vehicle, further corroborating the reported threats of suicide by cop and having the means to carry out a mass shooting," Henderson Police Chief Reggie Rader said during a news conference Tuesday.
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Authorities say detectives recovered 22 guns from the stolen vehicle, including handguns, rifles, a fully automatic firearm, suppressors, high-capacity magazines and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
A subsequent search warrant executed at Howlett's Henderson residence uncovered 30 additional guns, including automatic weapons, an M2 .50-caliber machine gun, two Colt AR-style rifles equipped with M203 grenade launchers, seven suppressors and thousands of rounds of ammunition, investigators said.
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As the investigation unfolded, Henderson police enlisted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Center, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI's Las Vegas Field Office.
Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren said investigators uncovered evidence that Howlett allegedly made threats over an extended period of time.
"Some of that information included the threat of wanting to become an active shooter or to conduct a mass attack here in Las Vegas," Koren said.
Police also played audio during Tuesday's news conference that investigators said was recorded in 2024 and captured Howlett allegedly threatening a future mass shooting.
"If the FBI doesn't come ... arrest me, there's gonna be a ... massacre. ... One day ... hundreds of people [are] going to lose their lives," the person heard in the recording says.
"Obviously, for our community here in Las Vegas, after dealing with One October, those types of threats are taken very seriously," Koren said, referencing the 2017 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, which authorities have called the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Investigators said the alleged threats, coupled with the cache of weapons, prompted the immediate expansion of the investigation into a counterterrorism case.
Howlett now faces 35 criminal counts, including making threats related to an act of terrorism, assault with a deadly weapon constituting domestic violence, grand larceny of a vehicle, 22 counts of grand larceny of a firearm, multiple weapons offenses involving machine guns, suppressors and short-barreled rifles and resisting a public officer while armed with a firearm.
A Clark County judge later set Howlett's bail at $500,000.
The investigation began after Julie Howlett called 911 to report that her spouse had allegedly taken her vehicle and threatened a mass shooting.
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
Julie Howlett later told FOX5 Las Vegas that the 22 guns recovered from the stolen vehicle belonged to her and were part of her inventory as a gun dealer preparing to transport them out of state.
According to Julie Howlett, the confrontation began after she discovered Allison using her credit card without permission.
"That morning, I woke up to Allison spending money on my credit card," Julie told FOX5. "She came in with a gun."
Julie said she struggled to wrestle the firearm away after Allison allegedly pulled the trigger.
"She was going to kill me," Julie said. "She took off. I ran outside. I had the gun still in my hand. I unloaded it."
During Tuesday's news conference, authorities confirmed investigators believe the firearms recovered from the vehicle belonged to the spouse. Officials said detectives are continuing to determine how the weapons were acquired, whether they were legally possessed and what role they allegedly played in the case.
Police have also alleged that Howlett made similar threats dating back to January 2024, including warning in a recorded statement that "there is going to be a mass shooting one day" if the FBI did not arrest the suspect.
Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said investigators are still working to determine a motive but warned the case highlights how rapidly violent threats can escalate.
"The time from thought to act — that window has closed," Walsh said, explaining that suspected attackers today can move from making threats to carrying them out in a matter of days or even hours.
KSNV reported that, during a recorded interview with detectives after the arrest, Howlett denied planning a mass shooting or threatening anyone.
According to the outlet, Howlett said she and Julie Howlett had been married for four years and were both transitioning to female while taking estrogen and progesterone. Howlett also told investigators she took Julie's vehicle simply to leave after an argument, acknowledged knowing firearms were inside because Julie had planned to transport them out of state, and claimed users on the online communications platform Discord had falsely accused her of making threats.
KSNV further reported that Howlett said all of her personally owned firearms had previously been legally transferred to Julie through an ATF-approved process.
Walsh urged anyone who hears credible threats of violence, particularly in domestic situations, to report them immediately, saying early intervention gives law enforcement the best chance to prevent tragedy.
As Southern Nevada prepares for Fourth of July celebrations, officials said law enforcement agencies remain on heightened alert and credited the coordinated response between Henderson police, Metro, the FBI and other regional partners with stopping what investigators believe could have become a mass casualty attack.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI's Las Vegas Field Office for additional comment. Both agencies said they had nothing further to add beyond officials' remarks during Tuesday's press conference.
Fox News Digital's Adam Sabes contributed to this report.