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Yankees star Jazz Chisholm booed during World Baseball Classic in Great Britain-Mexico game
New York Yankees star infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. was booed during introductions for the World Baseball Classic on Friday, as he represented Team Great Britain.
Chisholm was the only player to be booed during introductions of Great Britain's game against Mexico, which took place in Houston, per USA Today's Bob Nightengale. Chisholm was also jeered each time he came to the plate.
The reason for the boos is unknown.
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Chisholm chose to play for Great Britain because he was born in The Bahamas, a former British colony and current Commonwealth realm, which makes him eligible under tournament rules.
Chisholm incited criticism multiple times during the 2025 season while playing for the Yankees. He was initially suspended for one game and fined by MLB for posting "Not even f---ing close!!!!!" on X, appearing to reference a decision by an umpire to eject him in an April game. The one-game suspension was overturned on appeal, but a fine remained.
The infielder was mocked on social media after a head-scratching baserunning blunder against his former team, the Miami Marlins, in August.
Chisholm was on first base in the top of the second inning with Paul Goldschmidt up at bat. The Yankees’ batter popped up to Marlins’ second baseman Xavier Edwards. Chisholm was too far off first base and got caught napping. Edwards then threw the ball to first for the inning-ending double play.
"What was Chisholm thinking?" Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay asked.
Chishlom said afterward he wouldn’t have changed anything, adding that he was trying to be aggressive on the basepaths by forcing Edwards to possibly make an error. He later did not start Game 1 of the Yankees' Wild Card series against the Boston Red Sox when the postseason began.
When reporters approached Chisholm in the Yankee clubhouse after the game, he hardly paid them any mind, keeping his back turned for almost the entire duration of his media session and shuffling things in his locker.
"We gotta do whatever we gotta do to win, right? That’s how I look at it," he said begrudgingly.
After the Yankees' playoff exit in a divisional round loss to the Toronto Blue Jays, Chisholm received backlash for a photo showing him partying with 50 Cent in a New York nightclub.
Prior to the start of last season, last March, Chisholm raised eyebrows when he declared that baseball is a "White Sport."
"I don’t want to say this. Baseball is a White sport. I feel like White people criticize everything that a Black man does. Black men are outspoken. They say what’s on their minds," he told The Athletic. "The unwritten rules of baseball are White. And I always broke the unwritten rules of baseball."
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GREGG JARRETT: Democrat war powers vote was an unconstitutional way to halt Iran strikes
The Senate on Wednesday, March 4, wisely rejected a new war powers resolution aimed at halting or restricting President Donald Trump’s ability to carry out further military strikes against Iran. A House version also failed.
Introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., the resolution in the upper chamber called for ending hostilities, "unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific authorization for use of military force" issued by Congress.
The resolution supported by nearly all Democrats was defective for several reasons.
First, the president can engage in military action with or without a declaration of war. He does not need permission from Congress. Second, there already exists a valid authorization for use of military force that applies directly to the current conflict. Third, such a resolution unconstitutionally violates the separation of powers.
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The fallacy of the Democrats’ argument is easily demonstrated by revisiting their own words. It was not that long ago that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared that President Barack Obama did not need authorization from Congress to bomb Libya in 2011. Democrats in unison mimicked her point of view.
They maintained their immutable stance as Obama conducted air strikes in six more countries — Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq and Syria. President Joe Biden followed suit with similar strikes and nary a complaint from Democrats.
But when Trump does it, the partisan wolves are scratching at the White House door accusing him of acting lawlessly. Hypocrisy is always in vogue on Capitol Hill.
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Trump critics are wrong when they assert that the president is usurping the power of Congress to pursue military action. Quite the opposite. He is executing those powers granted directly to him by the people through the Constitution.
Democrats are the ones who are guilty of attempting to arrogate presidential power.
Constitutional Powers
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Our Founding Framers deliberately chose to separate responsibility between the president and Congress in all matters of military action. This separation of powers is embedded in the Constitution that the Founders composed in the summer of 1787.
In Article II, Section 1, "executive power" was granted to the president. An essential element was discretionary authority over foreign affairs and military action to counter threats. This was affirmed by the Supreme Court in the famous Marbury v. Madison decision by Chief Justice John Marshall, who explained that the legislature has "no power to control that discretion."
Congress was not left out, but given a limited function. In the original draft, it was empowered "to make War." However, James Madison and others successfully argued that such language would give the legislature an outsized role in the conduct of war, which was purely an executive duty.
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Article I, Section 8 was therefore amended to give Congress only the power "to declare war." What does that mean? It is a formal proclamation to initiate a state of war, typically at the request of the president. It is narrowly construed and is by no means the exclusive power to commence military action. That rests with the president, although Congress can always refuse appropriations to pay for it.
The U.S. has issued declarations of war on 11 occasions across five conflicts. Yet, more than 200 times presidents have invoked their own constitutional authority to deploy and conduct aggressive military action against foreign foes to protect the national interest and secure the safety of Americans.
Article I does not grant Congress the power to prevent a president from doing so.
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War Powers Resolution of 1973
During the undeclared "war" in Vietnam, Congress passed a resolution that sought to constrain President Richard Nixon’s power to conduct military operations. It essentially rewrote the Constitution giving lawmakers the power they do not have while diluting the authority of the commander in chief.
It is well established that the legislature cannot, by a simple vote, take away an executive power vested in the president by Article II of the Constitution and simultaneously recast Article I authority. That would require altering the Constitution by amendment.
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For years, many prominent Democrats vigorously denounced the very resolution that their party passed in 1973 with majority control in both Houses. In 1988, Sen. George Mitchell, D-Me., soon to become majority leader, criticized it as flagrantly unconstitutional:
"[T]he War Powers Resolution does not work because it oversteps the constitutional bounds on Congress’ power to control the Armed Forces in situations short of war and because it potentially undermines our ability to effectively defend our national interests."
Mitchell, who was once a federal judge and knew a thing or two about the Constitution, was correct. However, since the Supreme Court has never directly ruled on the resolution, it remains an active but misbegotten law. No president since 1973 has accepted it as a valid constitutional constraint on their power.
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Some, including Obama, simply ignored it. All presidents in the last 53 years have reserved the right to act unilaterally while still following some of its dubious requirements. That is, notification to Congress within 48 hours and troop withdrawal within 60 to 90 days unless specifically authorized by Congress.
Thus far, President Donald Trump has fully complied.
If Congress chooses to demand cessation, Trump can disregard it knowing confidently that both precedence and the Constitution itself would fully justify it. In crafting that esteemed document, the Framers excluded the legislature from any definitive power to end hostilities or war.
Authorization for Use of Military Force
Immediately after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Congress passed a joint resolution known as the "Authorization for Use of Military Force" (AUMF). It granted the president exclusive and extraordinary powers to target those groups and nations that "aided the terrorist attacks … or harbored" the perpetrators of 9/11. The stated goal was to "prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States."
One only needs to read the report of the 9/11 Commission to be reminded of Iran’s complicity. For years, the government in Tehran actively aided and abetted deadly attacks on America by offering al Qaeda terrorists extensive training, intelligence, transit, logistics, weaponry and funding. Some of the terrorists that Iran supported were the very same "future 9/11 hijackers," the report explained.
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When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, several top al-Qaeda leaders fled to neighboring Iran where they were given safe haven.
As the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism, Iran has waged a blood-soaked war against the United States for 47 years. On their own and through their menacing proxies and militias, they have attacked our bases, targeted our citizens, kidnapped our diplomats and claimed the lives of more Americans than any terrorist regime on Earth.
The maniacal leadership has spent decades building a deadly arsenal of ballistic missiles and attempting to obtain nuclear weapons with the singular purpose of using them against the United States and our stalwart ally, Israel. The evidence of this is overwhelming.
For all these reasons, President Trump has ample constitutional authority — indeed, an affirmative duty — to take preemptive action to end the sinister threat once and for all.
Vince Gill threatened radio host during on-air confrontation over Amy Grant remarks: 'Going to kick your a--'
Vince Gill said he once nearly came to blows with a good friend after he "flipped" on him and started disparaging his wife, Amy Grant.
"Everybody that meets her is crazy about her," the country star told Phil Rosenthal and David Wild on their "Naked Lunch" podcast on Thursday. "I remember when we were first getting married, I was really good friends with [legendary radio host] Don Imus … And he was, you know, he was a character, and he's loved me forever and me and Delbert McClinton were his favorite, two of his favorite singers."
But Gill said after he and Grant married, Imus "flipped" on him and "kind of turned on me and started running me down and ragging me on his show every morning."
Gill said Imus would say, "’I can't believe my favorite singer, Vince Gill, lost the Baby Jesus, married that Christian girl,’ and blah blah blah. So, he was just wearing my a-- out."
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Shortly after, when he had a new record come out, he said he told his publicist he wanted to get booked on Imus’ show.
"And they said, ‘Are you nuts?’ I said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘I want to go do the show.' And they said, ‘Well, he's ragging on you every day.’ I said, ‘I know.’ And so I got booked on the show," he explained.
He first sang a song on Imus’ show, and then they had a little small talk, "and then finally Amy's name came up."
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"He said something about Amy and I said, ‘I'm glad you brought Amy up,’" he continued. "I said, ‘I've been hearing you say some pretty ugly things about my wife, and I’m just kind of curious why.' I said, ‘You used to be a great supporter of mine’ and this and that."
The "When I Call Your Name" singer confronted Imus with the fact that he had never met Grant.
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"I said, ‘Well, if you ever met her, you'd never say an unkind word about her,’" Gill said, adding that he told Imus, "‘I'm going to shoot you straight.’ I said, ‘I really only came on this show for one reason.’ I said, ‘We're either going to talk this out, straighten this out,’ I said, 'or I'm going to crawl across this desk, and I'm going to kick your a--.'"
Imus’ "eyes got big," Gill said, figuring they’d better "figure this thing out."
"I said, ‘Good choice, Don,’ you know, and so we had a great visit, and I left the studio and was headed home, and I turned on his show and he was still on, and I heard him say, ‘I don't know why I was giving that guy so much crap. I love that guy,’ you know, and he completely turned, and we stayed great friends until his passing."
Gill and Grant married in March 2000 and will celebrate their 26th anniversary this year.
Meghan Markle and Netflix end lifestyle brand partnership as critics say they 'got Markled enough'
Meghan Markle and Netflix have officially parted ways.
The streaming giant and Markle announced the end of their partnership on Friday, March 6, with the Duchess of Sussex moving on with her lifestyle brand "independently."
"Meghan’s passion for elevating everyday moments in beautiful yet simple ways inspired the creation of the As ever brand, and we are glad to have played a role in bringing that vision to life," a spokesperson for Netflix told Fox News Digital. "As it was always intended, Meghan will continue growing the brand and take it into its next chapter independently, and we look forward to celebrating how she continues to bring joy to households around the world."
In their own statement, Markle's brand As ever, told People that they are "grateful for Netflix’s partnership through launch and our first year."
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"We have experienced meaningful and rapid growth, and As ever is now ready to stand on its own. We have an exciting year ahead and can’t wait to share more."
Critics of Prince Harry and Markle took to X to share how they feel about the news, with one writing, "Netflix got Markled enough and has cut ties."
"HUGE. Netflix just cut ties with Meghan Markle’s "As Ever" brand — after her show didn’t go forward, per Page Six," another added. "Even Netflix is bailing. The elite celebrity hustle is fading. People are DONE with lectures and lifestyle fluff while families can’t afford basics. Go woke, go broke."
Another X user wrote that "now we have the truth" about the end of the partnership.
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"Ah now we have the truth," they wrote. "Meghan tried to claim she had walked away, but Netflix confirms it has dumped the talentless grifter. Another epic fail by the fraud."
One X user wrote that "if As ever was doing gangbusters, they’d want a stake," adding that "Netflix is letting it go, willingly, to get rid of the dead weight."
"And, in regard to Meghan Markle, we can tell she’s taking the reins because the branding, marketing and social media strategy SUCKS," they continued. "Going global is not going to fix her problems, it’ll just exasperate [sic] them. If Netflix didn’t want to take the brand global so fast, there was good reason. If the products are not moving well in the U.S., it’s not going to be much better elsewhere. Madame is just living in the land of delusion and Netflix is tired of the insanity and letting her fall flat on her face, which I believe is exactly what will happen."
Others came to the Duchess' defense, pointing out that it was a mutual decision to part ways.
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"Netflix didn’t dump her read there [sic] press release , she wants to global they weren’t sure, and now there [sic] out and Meghan is going global with Netflix saying there [sic] proud of her and can’t wait to see her soar higher and still good friends !!" they wrote.
Another user agreed, writing, "While Netflix offered a supportive launch platform for Meghan’s As Ever, but going independent gives her complete freedom to shape As Ever exactly how she wants as it grows. With products consistently selling out, the demand is clear. Fingers crossed for international shipping."
As ever launched in 2025, as a lifestyle and home goods line, launching its first products in April, just one month after the premiere of her Netflix show, "With Love, Meghan," which featured Markle's celebrity friends visiting her home as she shared cooking, gardening and hosting tips.
Some items sold by the brand include jams and honey, tea and wine, candles, chocolate and other similar products. Following their first product launch, the brand sold out of stock in less than an hour, despite what some considered to be high prices.
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"Our shelves may be empty, but my heart is full! We sold out in less than one hour and I can’t thank you enough…for celebrating, purchasing, sharing, and believing," the Duchess of Sussex shared on Instagram at the time. "It’s just the start @aseverofficial Here we go!"
Harry and Meghan first partnered with Netflix in 2020 with a reported $100 million deal, going on to work together on the 2022 series, "Harry & Meghan," "Live to Lead," "Heart of Invictus" in 2023 and "Polo" in 2024, before announcing in July 2025 that they would not be renewing their deal.
Two seasons of "With Love, Meghan" were released on Netflix in March and August 2025 respectively, as well as a holiday special in December, and while it has not officially been canceled, there has been no news surrounding a third season of the show.
While UN Issues mixed signals, Witkoff exposes Iran's nuclear evasion ‘pride’
The stunning details revealed by Steve Witkoff on his talks with Iran and their boastful remarks about its nuclear program have seemingly fallen on deaf ears at the U.N. nuclear agency.
Days into the U.S.-Israel joint campaign against Iran, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi posted to X stating, "There has been no evidence of Iran building a nuclear bomb."
Fox News Digital asked the IAEA how it could assess the development of a possible nuclear weapon without access to Iran’s facilities but received no response at press time.
Grossi's post came as the U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff gave details to Fox News’ Sean Hannity earlier this week on his talks with the regime prior to the U.S. and Israel launching their military operation against Tehran.
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Witkoff revealed the negotiators said they had an "inalienable right" to enrich uranium. When Witkoff countered that the Trump administration had the "inalienable right to stop [them, ]" he explained that the negotiators said this was only their starting point.
"They have 10,000, roughly, kilograms of fissionable material that's broken up into roughly 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, another 1,000 kilograms 20% enriched uranium," Witkoff explained. "They manufacture their own centrifuges to enrich this material, so there's almost no stopping them. They have an endless supply of it. The 60% material can be brought to 90% - that's weapon grade — in roughly one week, maybe 10 days at the outside. The 20% can be brought to weapons grade inside of three to four weeks."
Witkoff added that during his first meeting with the negotiators, they said "with no shame that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60% and they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of this negotiating stance."
"They were proud of it. They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs," Witkoff said.
Grossi, who is running to become the next United Nations secretary general, did however admit in his post on X that Iran maintains "a large stockpile of near-weapons grade enriched uranium" and said that the Islamic Republic has not allowed inspectors full access to its program. With these facts in mind, he said that the IAEA "will not be in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful" until Iran "assists…in resolving the outstanding safeguards issues."
Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, FDD, told Fox News Digital, "No one paid much attention to Rafael Grossi throughout the Biden years when he repeatedly warned publicly that Iran was refusing to cooperate with and providing false statements to the IAEA about ongoing investigations into undeclared facilities, activists and nuclear material."
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The former Trump administration official said, "There are some key facts being ignored today. The IAEA board last year found Iran to be in breach of the NPT. To this day, Grossi has confirmed that the IAEA cannot verify the Iranian nuclear program is peaceful."
He continued, "This is not Iraq where we lacked hard public evidence of a nuclear weapons program. Iran had built out nearly every part of its nuclear weapons program in plain sight, with the weaponization work moving forward at undeclared sites controlled by SPND. If the administration had evidence the regime was moving quickly to reconstitute key elements of that program — from advanced centrifuge manufacturing to completion of a new underground enrichment site alongside advancement of delivery vehicle programs - the president was fully justified in enforcing a red line he set after Operation Midnight Hammer."
Spencer Faragasso, a senior fellow at the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), told Fox News Digital that his organization calculated prior to the June 2025 12 Day War that Iran possessed 440.9 kilograms of 60% rich uranium. With about 24 or 25 kilograms of 90% rich uranium required per weapon, Faragasso said the country possessed the ability to produce 11 weapons in one month.
Faragasso said that there remain questions about whether the Iranians can access their enriched materials, and whether they possess additional centrifuges that may have not been installed in the facilities that were struck.
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"Being able to enrich the uranium up to weapon grade is actually a tall order," he said, explaining that it would require a new enrichment site and components and materials that "Iran would either need to recover from its destroyed facilities" or "illicitly import them from abroad." With a few hundred centrifuges, enough for two or three cascades, Faragasso said the Iranians could have enriched their uranium stores to weapon grade.
"To be clear, the successes gained from the June war are not permanent and officials from the regime spoke publicly about how they wanted to reconstitute their enrichment program, their nuclear program," he said. "The more time that goes on, the worse the situation will get. It’s not going to get better, especially regarding the ballistic missile program."
He said the Iranians had previously expressed the desire to open a fourth enrichment site, which the IAEA stated was at Esfahan. According to Faragasso, there was "never confirmation" of where the site was or how far along construction may have been.
The group is now tracking an Israeli strike on March 3 on Min-Zadayi, a site that Faragasso said "was completely unknown" to them previously. The Israel Defense Forces reported on X that the site was "used by a group of nuclear scientists who operated to develop a key component for nuclear weapons."
The State Department referred Fox News Digital to remarks made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the press on Tuesday on Iran's nuclear program.
"This terroristic, radical, cleric-led regime cannot be ever allowed to have nuclear weapons." Explaining that the Islamic Republic was "willing to slaughter their own people in the streets," Rubio directed members of the press to "imagine what they would do to us. Imagine what they would do to others. Under President Trump that will never, ever happen," he said.
After the strikes, how would the US secure Iran’s enriched uranium?
When War Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked recently whether U.S. forces would ever move to secure enriched uranium reportedly stored at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear complex, he declined to say, citing operational security.
The exchange highlighted a question the U.S. and Israel's air campaign alone cannot answer: even if U.S. strikes degrade Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, who would physically secure the enriched uranium, and how?
Iran is believed to possess a significant stockpile of uranium enriched to 60%, near weapons-grade. That material could theoretically be used in multiple nuclear devices if further refined.
Moving from 60% to weapons-grade 90% enrichment requires additional processing, and weaponization would involve further technical steps. But analysts say the more immediate issue is physical control of the material itself.
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"If the U.S. wants to secure Iran’s nuclear materials, it’s going to require a massive ground operation," Kelsey Davenport, director of nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, told Fox News Digital.
Davenport said the highly enriched uranium believed to be stored at Isfahan appears to be deeply buried and contained in relatively mobile canisters. Securing it would likely require locating the full stockpile, accessing underground facilities and safely extracting or downblending the material.
"It’s not even clear the United States knows where all of the uranium is," she said, noting that the mobility of storage containers raises the possibility that some material could be moved or dispersed.
The administration repeatedly has said preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon remains a central objective of Operation Epic Fury.
"Ultimately, this issue of Iran’s nuclear pursuit and their unwillingness through negotiations to stop it is something President Trump has said for a long time needs to be dealt with," Hegseth said.
Senior administration officials have argued that Iran sought to build up its ballistic missile arsenal in part to create a deterrent shield — enabling Iran to continue advancing its nuclear program while discouraging outside intervention.
So far, however, the bulk of U.S. strikes have focused on degrading missile launchers, air defenses and other conventional military targets.
Experts note that dismantling missile systems may reduce Iran’s ability to shield a potential nuclear breakout. But physically controlling enriched uranium itself presents a separate and more complex challenge.
Defense officials have acknowledged that degrading nuclear infrastructure from the air is different from safely managing or securing nuclear material.
Airstrikes can destroy centrifuges, power systems and support buildings. But enriched uranium stored underground may remain intact unless it is physically secured, removed or verifiably downblended.
Striking or extracting nuclear material also carries safety risks that military planners must weigh.
If storage casks containing uranium hexafluoride gas were compromised, the material could pose chemical toxicity risks to personnel entering the site without proper protective equipment. Analysts say a conventional strike is unlikely to trigger a nuclear detonation, but dispersal of material could create localized hazards and complicate recovery efforts.
Chuck DeVore, a former Reagan-era defense official who worked on nuclear issues, argued that directly targeting the stockpile may not be a priority under current battlefield conditions.
"You don’t want to release the material into the surrounding areas and cause radioactive contamination," DeVore said, adding that deeply buried facilities are difficult to reach from the air.
DeVore also downplayed the immediacy of a breakout scenario, arguing that further enrichment, weaponization and delivery would be difficult to execute undetected amid sustained U.S. air operations.
Even if Iran were able to further enrich uranium, he said, assembling a deliverable weapon under active military pressure would present significant technical and operational hurdles.
Still, DeVore acknowledged that long-term control of the uranium would ultimately require a political resolution inside Iran and some form of outside oversight.
Nonproliferation experts say securing enriched uranium generally involves more than military force. It requires verified accounting of the material, sustained access to storage sites and either removal or downblending to lower enrichment levels suitable for civilian use.
Davenport said internationally monitored downblending would be the safest option if political conditions allow.
"The IAEA remains the best place to go back into Iran to monitor the sites, to try to track down and account for the enriched uranium," she said, describing downblending as a relatively straightforward technical process compared to attempting to extract and transport highly enriched material in a contested environment.
Both pathways — physical seizure or internationally monitored reduction — depend on conditions that do not currently exist.
Administration officials argue that dismantling Iran’s missile network weakens Iran’s ability to shield a nuclear breakout and reduces the immediate threat to U.S. forces and regional allies.
But suppressing missiles and controlling enriched uranium are separate challenges.
Destroying infrastructure can slow or disrupt a program. Physically locating, accounting for and securing nuclear material requires sustained access, reliable intelligence and — ultimately — political conditions that allow it.
For now, the administration maintains that Iran will not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. How the enriched uranium itself would be secured remains a question without a public answer.
US gold medalist Amber Glenn says she would decline White House invitation
Don't expect at least one Olympic gold medalist in Washington, D.C., any time soon.
After being asked about Olympians not accepting invites to the White House, 2026 Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn told Us Weekly that she would decline an invitation if given one.
"I’m electing not to either, so I do not blame them whatsoever," Glenn told the outlet. "It is our right to be able to choose what we do and don’t endorse, and I think it is a decision that each individual has the right to make."
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The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. Figure Skating referred inquiries to the White House.
While the men's hockey team went to the White House and the State of the Union last month, the women's hockey team declined President Donald Trump's invite, citing scheduling conflicts. Trump announced at the State of the Union, however, they will eventually visit.
Trump's invite came after he drummed up controversy during a phone call with the men's team shortly after they won gold, saying he'd "have" to invite the women's team, otherwise he'd "probably be impeached." The quip garnered some laughter from the men, prompting backlash for all involved.
Several athletes, and apparently teams, have turned down visiting Trump after winning titles dating back to his first presidency. After winning the 2018 World Series as manager of the Boston Red Sox, Alex Cora skipped the White House visit in 2019 to prioritize Puerto Rico, citing dissatisfaction with the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria’s devastation. Mookie Betts also skipped that year's celebration but attended the Los Angeles Dodgers' celebration last year.
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The Dodgers, Philadelphia Eagles, Florida Panthers, Ohio State football team, LSU baseball team, and Inter Miami have all visited the White House to celebrate their championships since Trump's second term began in January 2025. It remains to be seen if the Indiana Hoosiers and Seattle Seahawks will follow suit. Given the fact that no NBA team has ever visited Trump, it seems unlikely the Oklahoma City Thunder will do so.
Last year, the Florida Gators were the first college basketball team to visit Trump since the women's Baylor team in 2019. They are the only college basketball team to visit Trump in either term, while every college football champion with Trump as president has visited with him.
Despite no NBA team visiting the White House under Trump, the Milwaukee Bucks, Golden State Warriors, and Boston Celtics each visited former President Joe Biden to commemorate their titles.
Trump rescinded an invitation for the Warriors' 2017 title after Stephen Curry said he would not make the trip. LeBron James then called Trump a "bum," saying, "Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!"
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Pope Leo says he 'can't comment' on 20-year sentence of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai
Pope Leo XIV this week said he "can’t" comment on the 20-year sentence imposed on a democracy activist in Hong Kong.
"I can’t comment," the American-born Leo told EWTN News, which covers Catholic news globally, while speaking to reporters in Italy.
"Let’s pray for less hatred and more peace and work for authentic dialogue. God bless you all."
Hong Kong publisher and democracy activist Jimmy Lai, who is a converted Catholic, was sentenced to 20 years by Beijing last month for violating its 2020 national security law, which U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called "unjust and tragic."
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"The conviction shows the world that Beijing will go to extraordinary lengths to silence those who advocate fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong," Rubio said in a statement. "The United States urges the authorities to grant Mr. Lai humanitarian parole."
The 78-year-old founded the now-closed Hong Kong-based Apple Daily in 1995, while the island was still under British rule.
Lai’s sentence closed one of the country’s most consequential national security cases since Beijing imposed the sweeping new law in 2020 after months-long anti-Chinese Communist Party protests in 2019, which were sparked by fears Beijing was eroding Hong Kong’s promised autonomy.
They were followed by a sweeping security crackdown that criminalized dissent and reshaped the city’s legal system.
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Lai was arrested several times during the 2019 protests, and he was detained at his home in 2020. His newspaper was also raided at the time and closed.
He was found guilty in December of attempting to undermine national security.
President Donald Trump said in December he had personally urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to release Lai.
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"I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release," Trump said. "He’s not well. He’s an older man, and he’s not well, so I did put that request out. We’ll see what happens."
Actor Ben Stiller asks Trump White House to remove 'Tropic Thunder' footage from war montage
Liberal actor Ben Stiller called out the White House on Friday for using a clip from his comedy film "Tropic Thunder" as part of a montage it released featuring movies and real Iran strike footage.
On Thursday evening, the White House released a stylized video montage blending scenes from popular action films, video games, and shows interspersed with real footage of military action against Iran. The pro-military montage features scenes from popular movies like "Gladiator," "Braveheart," "Top Gun: Maverick," "Superman," "Transformers," and soundbites and music from the video game series "Mortal Kombat."
It also included a brief clip of Tom Cruise's character dancing in "Tropic Thunder," Stiller's 2008 comedy satirizing war movies and Hollywood culture.
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"Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie," he wrote.
"Tropic Thunder," which Stiller directed, co-wrote, and starred in, was a box office hit and is widely considered a comedy classic. It drew controversy at the time of its release, particularly over the use of blackface by the character played by Robert Downey Jr., which was meant to mock method actors going to extreme lengths for their performances.
Multiple users responded to Stiller’s tweets with shots and footage of his visit with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid the ongoing war in his country, appearing to call him out as a hypocrite for having used his Hollywood appeal in geopolitics in the past.
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Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and did not receive an immediate reply.
Girl Scouts troop draws buzz after runaway cookie sales outside cannabis shop
A New Jersey Girl Scouts troop found cookie sales in high demand outside a cannabis dispensary, but the move may have landed the group in hot water with the organization's leaders.
The troop, which has not been publicly identified, first sold cookies in February outside Daylite Cannabis in Mount Laurel in the Garden State.
Despite the success of the initial sale, the group no longer plans to return to the shop, the owner told Fox News Digital Friday.
The partnership capitalized on marijuana-induced cravings. It quickly drew attention online and in local media, and the licensed dispensary's owner called it a success that boosted traffic to both the cookie booth and the shop.
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"You use cannabis, you get the munchies," Daylite Cannabis owner Steve Cassidy previously told NJ.com.
"There's a connection between snacks and cannabis, and the fact that we don't have to pretend that doesn't exist anymore is really awesome.'
Recreational cannabis became legal in New Jersey in 2022. The state now has more than 200 recreational dispensaries in addition to medical and hybrid locations, according to the New Jersey State Information System, as reported by NJ.com.
"I don't think five years ago we would've seen anything like this," Cassidy said.
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The idea was rejected in 2024 by Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey, the regional council overseeing local troops, Cassidy said.
This year, however, one troop was reportedly allowed to sell outside the dispensary on a trial basis.
"The Girl Scouts pop up in grocery stores and other large public places," Cassidy noted. "They're selling to the community and to our neighbors, and that's exactly who our shop serves, too."
He said cookie sales were so strong last month some customers even visited the Girl Scouts booth before entering the marijuana shop.
But after the story gained national attention, Cassidy suggested the arrangement may have caused friction within the organization.
"It was about community," Cassidy told The Independent. "If that means the local Girl Scout troop got in trouble, that is absolutely not what we wanted."
Social media users were divided over the news, though many were supportive of the troop.
On Facebook, one woman praised the move as a "brilliant marketing strategy."
"They should get their entrepreneur badge," another said on X.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Girl Scouts of the USA and Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey for comment.
A Facebook post on the dispensary's account Friday said, "We were happy to host a local troop outside Daylite recently. Supporting our community — especially young entrepreneurs — is something we care deeply about as a locally and family-owned business."
"At this point, the troop is not scheduled to return to the shop," Cassidy told Fox News Digital.
"We would certainly welcome them back, and I'm sure our customers would love that too."
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Cassidy said the dispensary has long partnered with local groups and will continue to do so.
A similar controversy unfolded in 2018 when a San Diego Girl Scout was investigated after being photographed selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary, according to The Associated Press.
At the time, local council officials said selling in a commercial area was not permitted and reviewed whether any rules had been violated, noting that consequences are handled on a case-by-case basis.