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Trump questions no-call after Victor Wembanyama sends Jalen Brunson to floor in Game 3
San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama avoided adding a third flagrant point to his postseason total. Under NBA policy, players are automatically subject to suspension once they receive four flagrant foul points.
Wembanyama made contact with Jalen Brunson’s upper body while the New York Knicks guard was attempting to set a screen in the first quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday. When the Spurs center turned around during the play, he pushed Brunson, who fell backward to the floor.
Referees did not blow the whistle for a foul on the play, despite forceful objections from the Knicks bench. ESPN reported Tuesday, citing sources, that Wembanyama would not retroactively be assessed a "flagrant upgrade on the uncalled foul."
The play sparked debate across the sports world, and President Donald Trump, who attended Monday’s game, was among those weighing in.
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"I thought it was a very bad call. Absolutely. I thought it was a very bad call, personally. But I’m not the ref, you know?" Trump told the New York Post on Wednesday.
Trump watched the Knicks’ first NBA Finals game in 27 years from a suite with his granddaughter Kai Trump and was seen sitting next to team owner James Dolan. Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to attend an NBA Finals game.
The Spurs outlasted New York 115-111 in Game 3, trimming the Knicks’ series lead to 2-1 entering Wednesday’s Game 4.
"Look, they’re pretty evenly matched, right? It’s two great teams. I’ll tell you, that Brunson is some player," Trump added. "I think Brunson is amazing, [Stephon] Castle [of the Spurs] is amazing, Wemby is amazing, [Karl-Anthony] Towns [of the Knicks] is amazing. They’re like great players. That’s why they’re there, right?"
A New York native, Trump regularly sat courtside alongside other celebrities over the years before entering politics. "If you grow up in New York, you’re a Knick fan," he noted.
Taylor Swift, who is engaged to NFL star Travis Kelce, headlined Wednesday's star-studded celebrity row at Madison Square Garden.
The Spurs came out hot for the second consecutive game Wednesday, racing to a 41-22 lead by the end of the first quarter. Wembanyama paced San Antonio with 13 points in the opening period, while OG Anunoby led New York with seven.
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Ohio approves nearly billion dollar payment after court ruled state shortchanged nursing homes
Ohio lawmakers approved an $875 million payment package Wednesday after the Ohio Supreme Court found the state used the wrong formula to calculate certain Medicaid reimbursements for nursing homes, shortchanging providers by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The funding, included in a budget correction bill that now heads to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine's desk, is intended to resolve a dispute over payments to skilled nursing facilities that dates back to the 2024-25 budget cycle.
"This is the most egregious thing we could have done to individuals that help our elderly live a quality, comfortable life," state Rep. Jean Schmidt said. "And today we are correcting that wrong."
In a September 2025 ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court said state officials used the wrong methodology when calculating certain Medicaid quality payments, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in underpayments to nursing homes. The court ordered the state to recalculate what providers were owed.
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Lawmakers' solution carries a larger price tag than the amount identified in the ruling. The package sets aside $875 million, including roughly $310 million from the state and $565 million in federal funding, to settle the issue.
Ohio pays nursing homes a daily rate for Medicaid residents and provides additional payments to facilities that meet certain quality benchmarks. Nursing home operators argued the state failed to properly account for the medical complexity of residents when calculating those payments, reducing reimbursement for facilities caring for some of the sickest patients.
Lawmakers later revised the formula, but the state remained responsible for payments tied to earlier budget cycles.
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The financial stakes grew as the case moved through the courts. In legal filings, Ohio Medicaid warned that recalculating the payments under the court's interpretation could cost about $285 million more per year than lawmakers originally intended, potentially approaching $1 billion over two budget cycles.
The legislation requires providers that accept the money to waive future legal claims related to the disputed formula.
Scott D. Wiley, CEO of the Ohio Health Care Association, urged DeWine to sign the bill.
"These funds are critically important to Ohio’s providers and the families they serve, and we urge Governor Mike DeWine to sign HB 479 into law without delay," Wiley said.
Tourist breaches safety barrier at world’s largest waterfall system to recover cellphone
A tourist was caught on video climbing into the waters above Iguazu Falls after dropping a cellphone near one of South America's most famous natural attractions.
The incident occurred Saturday on the Brazilian side of the falls in Foz do Iguaçu, according to news agency Jam Press.
Video recorded by other visitors showed the man climbing over a safety barrier and lowering himself into the river in an attempt to recover the device.
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The stunt took place just yards from the waterfalls, where fast-moving water rushes toward steep drops.
The man managed to retrieve the phone and climb back onto the walkway without being injured.
The visitor was later confronted by firefighters stationed at the attraction and escorted from the site, the agency reported.
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Iguazu Falls, which spans the border between Brazil and Argentina, is one of South America's most popular tourist attractions.
The attraction drew an estimated 1.5 million visitors last year, according to Travel and World Tour.
Officials prohibit visitors from crossing, climbing or sitting on safety barriers on both sides of the falls, Jam Press noted.
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Visitors who drop personal belongings into the water are instructed to notify onsite emergency personnel, who can determine whether recovery is possible, according to Urbia Cataratas, which manages the Brazilian side of the attraction.
The latest incident is one of several risky encounters reported at Iguazu Falls this year, the agency said.
In January, a tourist on the Argentine side of the falls reportedly crossed protective barriers near the Devil's Throat viewpoint to retrieve a hat that had blown away.
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The individual walked near the edge of the falls before returning safely to the viewing platforms, reports said.
A month later, visitors recorded a man lifting a baby over safety barriers near the same viewpoint while another person took photographs nearby, according to reports.
The incidents have sparked renewed concerns about visitor safety at one of the world's most powerful waterfall systems.
Cody Campbell threatens lawsuits against CFB Playoff, warns other conferences against avoiding Texas Tech
Out of seemingly nowhere, the Texas Tech Red Raiders have become the center of the college football world. Thanks to the wild back-and-forth swings in the case of star quarterback Brendan Sorsby.
Sorsby, who admitted to placing a number of bets on games involving his own team, was initially deemed ineligible to play in the upcoming 2026 season. But a newly-granted injunction from a Texas judge has cleared the way for him to return to the gridiron.
Unsurprisingly, some rival schools and conferences, even Tech's own Big 12 Conference, haven't exactly been pleased with this outcome.
Pete Thamel from Yahoo! Sports reported this week that the Big Ten Conference is set to meet this week to discuss a "league-wide mandate to not play Texas Tech in any sports."
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Other prominent figures, including Nebraska Athletic Director Troy Dannen, have already issued such directives to their staffs, preventing future scheduling between the two schools. There's also been speculation that the College Football Playoff could get involved, potentially excluding Texas Tech, should they be in position to reach the tournament at the end of the season.
Well, Texas Tech's most prominent booster, Cody Campbell, has some very pointed comments for those schools, conferences, or institutions considering taking action against the program. In an appearance on "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich" Wednesday morning, Campbell addressed those meetings directly. Very directly.
"Big Ten talking about not playing Texas Tech," Dakich said. "The SEC you're on and these are talks..."
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"I love it when the Big Ten or the K-State AD comes out and says, 'hey, we've all gotten together and we've talked about how we're not going to play Tech,' because guess what? That's collusion," Campbell said. "You know, that's an antitrust violation. So, you know, have fun with that one guys. You can't do that."
Dakich followed up by asking about the College Football Playoff selection committee, whether the school would be ready to sue if they ban Texas Tech.
"100%," Campbell said. "I mean, like, again, they can't collude together and say, we're not going to allow you to play. That's an antitrust violation. I don't know if you've seen the litany of cases that the NCAA has lost over the last few years, they've been lost on those grounds."
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark reportedly told the other member institutions on a conference call that they were evaluating their options with the Red Raiders and Sorsby. But Campbell has a point; legally, those trying to ban the Red Raiders from the playoff, or refusing, en masse, to schedule them, could be subject to accusations of collusion.
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Campbell also believes that Sorsby's behavior doesn't rise to the level that would justify such action anyway, telling Dakich that schools have let players with much worse transgressions play.
"There are kids that are playing and have gotten DUIs that have beaten up women, their kids that have committed horrible acts," Campbell responded. "You know, I mean, nobody boycotted to play Penn State a few years ago when that horrible situation happened there."
Still, that doesn't justify gambling on your own team. A cardinal sin in the sports and sports betting landscape. And claims that other schools don't want Texas Tech to be successful, that the reaction is a "know your place" issue, also fall flat. The Big 12 is thrilled that Tech has become a nationally relevant program. The more teams that are legitimate playoff contenders each year in that conference, the better. Yormark would love nothing more than to have the Red Raiders win a championship. But even within the Big 12, there are reportedly significant concerns about the Sorsby situation.
Where this goes from here? Who knows. Initially, it seemed like there was no possibility Sorsby would play in 2026. So maybe this will all end in lawsuits between Tech and most of college football. Expect the unexpected has become the motto of this sport in recent years, and it doesn't seem like that's ending anytime soon.
Minnesota man marks FBI's first arrest from DOJ's 'Most Wanted Fraudsters' list
FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that Said Abdullahi Ereg, a former Minneapolis grocery and deli owner, had surrendered to federal authorities, marking the first person on the FBI’s new "Most Wanted Fraudsters" list to be taken into custody as federal authorities continue a nationwide fraud crackdown.
Said Abdullahi Ereg, 47, faces charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.
The FBI said Ereg, a former south Minneapolis grocery and deli owner, surrendered to federal authorities less than a week after the Justice Department unveiled its "Most Wanted Fraudsters" list, which is intended to publicly identify individuals charged in major fraud cases.
"Today’s arrest is historic – the first ever arrest of a subject on our Most Wanted Fraudsters List released last week with the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud," Patel said in a statement.
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Authorities said Ereg has been wanted on federal charges since 2024 and is fraudulently obtaining more than $4.2 million from the Federal Child Nutrition Program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to federal officials, Ereg operated Evergreen Grocery and Deli, a Minneapolis grocery store and deli under the sponsorship of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future.
Prosecutors allege he falsely claimed to have served meals to children in need, fraudulently obtained government reimbursements and laundered the proceeds through foreign accounts while using some of the money to finance a lavish lifestyle.
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Court documents allege Evergreen Grocery and Deli claimed to have served more than 3,000 meals twice daily, seven days a week.
"Led by Vice President Vance and the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, we set up the historic, first ever 'Most Wanted Fraudsters' list for this exact purpose — to bring to justice the alleged worst of the worst who took advantage of American taxpayers and stole public funds," Patel said.
He added that the list serves as a warning that "the days of Washington, D.C., turning a blind eye to fraud are over."
In a post on X, Patel suggested the arrest was only the beginning of a broader enforcement effort.
"This historic result is only the beginning — and let it be a message to any fraudster who takes advantage of America, this team will find you," Patel said.
Federal officials said Ereg contacted authorities through his attorney and expressed a willingness to return to the United States one day after the FBI launched the "Most Wanted Fraudsters" list.
The Justice Department also noted that Ereg's wife, Najmo Ahmed, who worked at the business and received payroll payments directly from Feeding Our Future, pleaded guilty last year to money laundering charges and is scheduled to be sentenced later this month.
The arrest comes months after the Justice Department announced the creation of a National Fraud Enforcement Division to support President Donald Trump's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which is led by Vice President J.D. Vance.
Fox News Digital's Stephen Sorace and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
Teachers union facing years of deficits seeks to become Oregon's largest PAC, internal documents show
The largest teachers union in Oregon is looking to become the state's biggest political action committee by 2026, internal documents provided to Fox News Digital by Defending Education show. The Oregon group is also proposing new member assessments, expanding its political influence and advancing resolutions on a variety of issues including taxation and artificial intelligence.
The Oregon Education Association (OEA), which represents almost 41,000 educators and education support staff, is an affiliate of the National Education Association. In a section of its 2026 Representative Assembly Handbook labeled "strategic metrics," the group lists out its goals by category. In the "Transforming Politics: Creating a pro-public school environment" category, the OEA states that it aims to be the largest PAC in Oregon by Fall 2026. Under the same category, the OEA states that it is seeking to "increase engagement and success of endorsed candidates."
In a new report, watchdog group Defending Education details OEA's goals, activities and spending based on internal documents, campaign finance records and tax filings. The organization argues that OEA's political ambitions are reflected both in its strategic planning documents and its spending history.
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State campaign finance records reviewed by Fox News Digital show that the OEA contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to political organizations, ballot measure campaigns and candidates. This included contributions to to Legislative Accountability 1 and Transparent Elections for Grassroots Engagement. The state records also show OEA donated to campaigns for John Wasielewski, Michael Sugar and Lesly Muñoz, among others.
Defending Education's report also cites contributions to then-gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek's campaign. Fox News Digital was unable to independently verify those contributions through the records reviewed for this report.
The OEA's strategic planning documents also outline racial and social justice goals. Under the Racial & Social Justice category, the OEA stated that its goal for 2026-27 was to "improve pK-CC funding to build racially and culturally responsive schools that attract and retain historically marginalized students and educators."
The OEA handbook also laid out a series of proposed resolutions, including one calling for heavy taxation for billionaires and top income earners, another opposing AI-powered weapons and guidance limiting the use of AI as a tool to reduce staffing in schools.
Even as it strives to be Oregon's largest PAC, the OEA acknowledges that it must work to reach a balanced budget, saying in its 2026 Representative Assembly handbook that it has had budget deficits since the 2018-19 school year.
The organization said in its documents that it "has been projecting budget deficits (expenses in excess of revenues) since 2018. We are making progress toward returning to a balanced budget."
"Expected budget deficits have decreased $2.1 million from 2021 to 2026, while assumed reserve strengthening has increased to 1% of membership dues in the past 2 years," OEA's documents read.
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At the same time, OEA leaders are proposing a bylaw that would impose a $20 annual assessment per member for a "Public School Funding Campaign" for a period of three years unless extended by the union's Representative Assembly. With nearly 41,000 members statewide, the assessment could generate roughly $820,000 if approved.
Meanwhile, the OEA projects that personnel spending will surpass $23.8 million in the 2026-27 fiscal year, according to budget documents reviewed by Fox News Digital. The documents also show that salaries and benefits account for roughly 79.3% of projected expenditures.
Defending Education argues that the union's political goals, spending priorities and policy agenda show an increasing focus on activism.
Rhyen Staley, Director of Research at Defending Education, said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that the OEA presented "another example of how teachers unions utilize member dues to fund left-wing political campaigns and far-left activism."
Staley argued that the union's political ambitions come as Oregon students struggle to keep up in crucial subjects. According to 2024 data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Oregon students scored significantly below the national average in fourth-grade math, fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math.
"It should be infuriating for parents and community members that while the union continues to spend tens of millions on pet projects and their own salaries, Oregon continues to rank poorly when it comes to educational outcomes. There needs to be accountability for these organizations that continue to benefit while children and families struggle," Staley said.
Fox News Digital reached out to OEA for comment.
Knicks owner, Mamdani trade barbs over canceled Knicks watch party outside MSG: 'Don't want the celebration'
Ahead of the biggest New York Knicks game a generation has ever seen, team owner James Dolan has gotten into a war of words with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The bickering began when plans for a watch party outside Madison Square Garden, a now-common sight during the Knicks' playoff run, were scrapped ahead of Wednesday night's game. The NYPD said there was no watch party allowed for Game 3 due to President Donald Trump's appearance.
Well, Dolan decided to cancel Game 4's watch party, which was slated for 1,000 ticketed fans, because "we're about millions of people."
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"He gave us the gift of allowing us to screen 999 people and tell 20,000 no… Our hope was that the mayor and the commissioner would change their minds and then we’d put the screens up," Dolan told WFAN in a rare interview on Wednesday.
"This is about celebrating the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, at the Mecca of basketball. This is what the mayor’s office and the commissioner’s office is trying to kill, they don’t want the celebration."
However, at around 5 p.m. ET, Mamdani took to X to say that MSG had actually requested the permit for 500-999 fans, and Dolan "decided to cancel the watch party."
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Roughly an hour before Game 4's tip, MSG went scorched earth on Mamdani again.
"Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks declined to use the permit that was granted by Mayor Mamdani's office due to the fact that only 1,000 people would be allowed into the area and they would need to be ticketed, leaving the tens of thousands of people who want to come to The Garden to celebrate the Knicks out in the cold. We did not think it was fair to just allow a small group to celebrate outside The Garden when everybody else was being shut out," a statement said.
The City Reporter unearthed the permit application MSG submitted, saying that they were given the option to apply for even an "unknown" amount of people.
A watch party, hosted by the city, in Bryant Park on Monday, led to unruliness, which has not exactly been an uncommon theme throughout the Knicks' Finals run.
Street closures have been in effect for both NBA Finals game days. Dolan even said it would be easier to get inside of "Area 51" than MSG for Wednesday's game.
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UK spy powers draw US scrutiny over alleged Apple encryption backdoor demand
U.K. surveillance laws drew scrutiny from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio June 5 amid warnings they could expose communications of officials and American citizens, according to reports.
The concern centered on the U.K.'s use of secret Technical Capability Notices under the Investigatory Powers Act, which critics say could make U.S. companies weaken encryption or create "backdoors" weaken encryption or create "backdoors" while preventing firms from disclosing requests without U.K. government approval.
Critics have argued this could undermine privacy, create vulnerabilities and limit congressional oversight with one former intelligence official warning of a "standing invitation to Beijing."
"We have already seen how this ends," former Department of Defense official Andrew Badger told Fox News Digital.
"There are legitimate privacy concerns here, and those have been well aired. The less examined issue is national security," Badger said.
"A backdoor compelled by one ally becomes a standing invitation to Beijing, Moscow and Tehran so once one government can quietly compel access, others will demand the same, and a one-off concession hardens into a permanent vulnerability," he warned.
According to the Telegraph, a June 5 letter sent by Jordan to U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, showed the Trump ally had called for a review.
The report said Mahmood's decision had been to deny a U.S. company permission to speak with Congress about an alleged encryption backdoor notice.
Jordan was also said to have warned that a lack of bilateral coordination raised concerns about the "trust and effective partnership between our two countries."
"Five Eyes works because every partner trusts the others not to weaken the systems they all depend on," Badger, co-author of "The Great Heist: China's Epic Campaign to Steal America's Secrets," said.
"If Washington also concludes that U.K. surveillance powers could inadvertently expose Americans and American officials to espionage, it puts real strain on the relationship and makes future cooperation on intelligence and cyber harder to sustain."
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On the encryption issue, Badger noted that mainstream encrypted platforms now function as "de facto infrastructure for sensitive communication well beyond the consumer market."
"Any access point built into them becomes a permanent target. It is not a private key the requesting government gets to keep to itself," he said.
U.S. and British cyber officials have also repeatedly warned that an axis of hostile states — including Russia, China and Iran — poses threats to Western security and infrastructure.
As previously reported by Fox News Digital, cyberespionage by groups such as Salt Typhoon, linked to China, has carried out operations targeting sensitive communications.
"China is actively running one of the largest state-backed cyberespionage operations ever uncovered. The Salt Typhoon campaign has targeted hundreds of organizations across roughly 80 countries and, through those intrusions, gained access to sensitive communications and networks used by senior Western officials," Badger warned.
"Chinese state hackers didn't defeat encryption. They walked straight through the lawful-intercept systems telecom providers had built, reaching the communications of senior officials and even information about surveillance targets."
Reports also surfaced that U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper used a burner phone during a recent trip to Beijing and raising further concerns about state-sponsored espionage.
Badger noted that the episode reflects a broader pattern of Chinese targeting of British democratic institutions, including the "hacking of senior Downing Street officials' phones and an Electoral Commission breach that exposed the data of roughly 40 million voters," he said.
"The telling thing is that no one issues burner phones for a trip to Sweden or Germany," he said.
"The precaution is itself an admission of the threat environment. The working assumption — correctly — is that anything digital taken into China should be treated as potentially compromised."
The systemic vulnerability also highlights a fundamental contradiction in Western diplomatic strategy, according to Badger.
"This case perfectly underscores the contradiction at the heart of the U.K. Labour government's China policy: chasing positive economic relations and expanded trade with Beijing on one hand, while being forced to take elaborate precautions against a state whose core interests remain fundamentally at odds with its own on the other," Badger said.
"You can't simultaneously treat China as a trusted economic partner and a hostile intelligence threat. It's a fundamental contradiction. The need to use burner phones symbolically underscore this."
HGTV stars Tarek and Heather El Moussa feel 'violated' after burglars ransack Newport Beach home
Tarek and Heather El Moussa felt "violated" after a suspect broke into their Southern California home while they were away on vacation.
The reality stars' Newport Beach home was broken into earlier this week as the couple vacationed with their family in Mexico.
Authorities responded to reports of a residential burglary near the Mariners Community after 6 p.m. on June 8, officials confirmed to Fox News Digital.
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"While the victim was away, unknown suspects accessed the backyard of the property and shattered a rear sliding glass door to get into the house," officials told Fox News Digital.
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"Inside the residence, the suspects ransacked the primary bedroom closet before fleeing through the backyard, along the side of the house and out the front yard."
The house-flipping specialists reported jewelry stolen from the residence.
Officers believe the home invasion occurred between the earlier hours of June 6 and into June 8. The Newport Beach Police Department does not currently have a suspect identified in the case.
Representatives for Tarek and Heather didn't immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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The couple responded to the incident on social media Tuesday.
"Disgusted by some of the cruel heartless people in this world," Heather wrote on Instagram stories while tagging her husband.
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"Tarek and I feel violated and to be honest really sad. Taking a break for a few days and will back to explain soon."
She added, "We are safe & the kids are safe."
The couple welcomed son Tristan in January 2023. Tarek was previously married to fellow HGTV star Christina Haack for seven years before their divorce was finalized in 2018.
They co-parent two children — daughter Taylor and son Brayden — and starred together after their divorce in HGTV’s "The Flip Off."
Abortion 'severely stigmatized' in Hollywood with 'dangerously misleading distortions,' new doc claims
A new documentary called "Hollywood Does Abortion" asserted that abortion has been "severely stigmatized" by the entertainment industry until recently.
The movie, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday, is described as diving into how "from the 1970s to the present, film and television have too often relied on dangerously misleading distortions about abortions and the people who seek them."
"In programs like 'Roseanne' and 'Party of Five" or movies like 'Juno,' characters often agonized over whether to have the kid and either had a false positive or miscarriage that prevented them from needing to make a choice or opted to give birth," Variety reported on the documentary.
The article continued, "Other films and series like 'Dirty Dancing' or 'The Sopranos' depicted women nearly dying from their abortions or having longterm medical consequences that left them unable to have children. The negative portrait of abortion in these films and series contributed to is counterintuitive because Hollywood is often seen as a bastion of liberal politics."
Directors Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater and Mike Attie argued that although there have been more media portrayals of abortion in recent years, many of them are still depicted in a negative light.
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"We think of Hollywood as being very progressive, yet we went through a pretty big era where abortion was severely stigmatized," Barbara Attie said, according to Variety. "It was made to be shameful. There would be a plot line where somebody would thinking about getting an abortion. They would ask their friends what they should do, and they would agonize over it, and then they would miscarry. The kind of messaging that TV and films were giving us was eye-opening."
Even in movies or television shows depicting women having abortions, the documentary claimed that Hollywood films and TV have either exaggerated medical complications or inaccurately depicted post-abortion regret.
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"It continues this idea that there will be long-term regret," Goldwater said. "There’s a study that shows people who are turned away and who don’t have abortions are actually the ones who experience regret and long-term negative financial and emotional repercussions. And it turns out that people who have abortions don’t experience much regret. They experience a lot of relief."
In a comment to Fox News Digital, the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America called the film's suggestion a "hard position to argue."
"From Jean Harlow to Judy Garland, Hollywood has relied on abortion and coercion to control actresses, cover abuse and maintain glamorous illusions," communications director Kelsey Pritchard said. "Many have suffered terribly because of it; women who have abortions are significantly more likely to experience negative mental health effects, especially the majority who face pressure and endure abortions they don’t really want."
She added, "Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion business, and other pro-abortion groups put considerable effort into normalizing abortion on our screens. Where there are exceptions, they tend to meet real popular success even in spite of censorship, while attempts to make light of killing unborn children are box office flops."