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World's most contagious virus detected at two major US airports amid holiday traffic
During peak holiday travel, one of the most infectious diseases was detected at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
A case of measles was identified in a passenger at terminals B & C on Dec. 12, according to a New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) press release.
"Measles symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose, watery red eyes, and a rash that usually appears between three and five days after symptoms begin," the release says.
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"The rash usually begins as flat red spots that appear on the face at the hairline and spread downward to the neck, torso, arms, legs and feet."
The airborne virus can spread when someone coughs or sneezes.
Measles can stay in the air for up to two hours after an infected person leaves the area.
Officials are asking those who suspect exposure or illness to call their health provider before visiting a medical care center or hospital.
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"NJDOH is working in collaboration with local health officials on ongoing contact tracing and on efforts to notify people who might have been exposed and to identify additional exposures that may have occurred," says the release.
The New Jersey Department of Health says individuals at risk include those who have not been fully vaccinated or have not had measles in the past.
This year, there have been 11 confirmed cases of measles in New Jersey, according to NJDOH.
A record 8.03 million travelers are expected to fly across America this holiday season, according to AAA.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) also confirmed on Christmas eve that a visitor from Texas was diagnosed with measles.
The traveler flew into Boston Logan International Airport on American Airlines flight 2384 from Dallas-Fort Worth and was in terminal B, according to a DPH press release.
As of Dec. 23, there have been 2,012 measles cases in the U.S., according to the CDC.
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"The single best way to protect your children and yourself from measles is to be vaccinated," Connecticut's DPH Commissioner Manisha Juthani, M.D., wrote in a statement, as Fox News Digital recently reported.
"One dose of measles vaccine is about 93% effective, while two doses are about 97% effective."
Angelica Stabile of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.
Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK's granddaughter, dies at 35 after year-and-a-half leukemia battle
Tatiana Schlossberg, the environmental journalist and author who was the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, has died at the age of 35, her family announced.
"Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts," the family said in a statement shared via the JFK Library Foundation’s Instagram account Tuesday.
Born and raised in New York City, Schlossberg was the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and the granddaughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the former president.
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She built a career as a voice on climate and environmental issues. In 2023, Schlossberg was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and after she had given birth to her second child.
Schlossberg shared her experience publicly in a personal essay for The New Yorker in November 2025.
"My parents and my brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the last year and a half," she wrote at the time.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Diabetes patients experience lower death rate with common medication
A large new study suggests that statins may help more people with type 2 diabetes than previously thought.
Researchers found that the cholesterol-lowering drugs reduced the risk of death and serious cardiovascular events not only in high-risk patients, but also in those considered low-risk based on standard 10-year heart disease predictions, according to a press release.
While statins are commonly prescribed to people with diabetes, there has been uncertainty about whether patients with a low predicted risk of cardiovascular disease would benefit from taking them.
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To explore this, researchers from the University of Hong Kong analyzed health records from a large U.K. medical database known as IQVIA Medical Research Data.
The study included adults aged 25 to 84 with type 2 diabetes who had no serious heart disease or liver problems when the study began. Participants were followed for as long as 10 years, allowing researchers to track long-term outcomes.
The researchers compared people who started taking statins with similar people who did not take them.
They also grouped patients based on their estimated 10-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease, ranging from low-risk to higher-risk. This allowed them to assess whether statins were helpful only for higher-risk patients or across the board.
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The results, which were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed that statins were linked to meaningful benefits for all groups.
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Adults with type 2 diabetes who took the medications were less likely to die from any cause and less likely to experience major cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks or other serious heart-related complications.
These benefits were seen even among patients who were considered low-risk based on standard prediction tools, the researchers noted.
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In terms of safety, the study claims to have found little cause for concern. A very small increase in muscle-related side effects, known as myopathy, was observed in one risk group. However, there was no increased risk of liver problems, which is often a concern with statin use.
There may be important differences among people that the data couldn’t fully capture, the researchers wrote in the study publication.
Some health-related factors that were not measured, such as lifestyle habits, diet, exercise, or how closely people follow medical advice, could have affected the outcome, they added.
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Also, some hospital events may not have been fully recorded in the data. That means a few hospitalizations or complications might have been missed or not counted, which could slightly affect the accuracy of the findings.
The researchers recommend that clinicians should consider the potential benefits of statin therapy for most adults with type 2 diabetes, even when short-term cardiovascular risk appears low.
Patients with type 2 diabetes should speak with their doctor before starting or changing statin therapy, as individual health factors, potential side effects and personal cardiovascular risk should be considered.
Bipartisan House China panel slams Beijing’s Taiwan drills as ‘deliberate escalation’
Bipartisan lawmakers on the Select Committee on China accused Beijing of escalating tensions in the region on Tuesday, warning that Capitol Hill had taken notice of their military display around Taiwan.
"As the world turns toward a new year, the People’s Liberation Army’s live-fire military exercises around Taiwan represent a deliberate escalation by Beijing," the committee’s chairman, Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., and ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., said in a joint press release.
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"These drills are intended to intimidate Taiwan and other democracies in the region and to undermine peace and stability across the Indo-Pacific."
Moolenaar and Krishnamoorthi’s statement comes as China conducts a two-day show of force in the Taiwan Strait. The country fired rockets into the international waters around Taiwan and deployed amphibious assault ships, bombers, drones and other vessels to the area.
China is conducting exercises on all four sides of Taiwan, grounding international flights.
This is not the first time China has engaged in saber-rattling around Taiwan, which Beijing claims as part of its territory.
President Donald Trump, in a statement on Monday, said he was not worried about China’s display of force, adding that he has a "great relationship" with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump noted that China has been conducting naval and military exercises in the region for 20 years.
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Lawmakers in the House said China’s displays of power are intended to extend the CCP’s influence beyond its borders.
"By rehearsing coercive military scenarios and projecting force beyond its borders, the Chinese Communist Party is seeking to reshape the regional order through aggression and intimidation," the committee said.
Lawmakers added that they would continue to support Taiwan.
"The United States stands with Taiwan and fellow democracies and will continue to work with partners to preserve Taiwan’s security and uphold a free, open, and stable Indo-Pacific," their statement said.
Senate races to avoid government shutdown with time ticking and lingering issues
The Senate will return to a fast-approaching government funding deadline, but this time both sides appear ready to avoid another shutdown.
When lawmakers in the upper chamber return Monday, they will have three working weeks to fund the government. That process fizzled out before they left town earlier in December, but lawmakers are hopeful that both parties can come together to ward off a repeat of September’s funding deadline.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters before leaving the Capitol that Democrats’ goal was to have the remaining slate of appropriations bills completed by the Jan. 30 deadline. It takes 12 spending bills to fund the government, and so far, neither chamber has come close to hitting that mark.
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"We want to get through the process and get the appropriations bills done," Schumer said.
It’s a stark departure from his and Democrats’ earlier position, given that they shut the government down for a record 43 days in a bid to bring expiring Obamacare subsidies to the forefront of discussions.
Congressional Democrats also have been leery of working with their Republican counterparts after President Donald Trump’s roughly $9 billion clawback package, which cut funding to already agreed-to programs and priorities, passed on a partisan vote over the summer.
A similar issue played out just as the Senate was on the cusp of advancing a five-bill spending package before skipping town.
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Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., held up the process over the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought had just announced that same day that the facility would be put under a microscope, and charged that the NCAR was "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country."
For now, the duo appear entrenched in their position.
"This holiday season, hundreds of NCAR employees face uncertainty about their jobs and communities across the state are worried they won’t get the support they need to rebuild their lives after historic flooding and wildfires," Bennett said in a statement. "Colorado deserves better, and I am doing everything in my power to fight back and protect our state from the President’s vindictive chaos."
There’s also the issue of dealing with the Obamacare subsidies, which will have expired by the time lawmakers return to Washington, D.C. A group of bipartisan senators are working on a possible solution, and there are plans in the House — one from the GOP that already passed and another bipartisan effort that is expected to get a vote early January — that could make their way onto the Senate floor.
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And Congressional Democrats are likely to use the healthcare issue as leverage during the impending spending fight.
Exactly how lawmakers avoid another shutdown is still in the air. The Senate is determined to advance its five bill package, which includes legislation to fund the departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Commerce, Justice, Interior, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development.
But in order for those bills to make it to Trump’s desk, the House has to agree. So far, the lower chamber has only passed a handful of spending bills, and has not brought any appropriations bills to the floor for months.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., already is gaming out a "a contingency plan."
"We got to fund the government by the end of the month," Thune said. "And so we're looking at, you know, determining what that looks like, obviously, if we can pass the five bill package, and if we can't, then what that looks like."
"So there's a lot of thought being given and just to make sure that we don't end up in a, you know, posture at the end of the month where we're looking at, staring at a shutdown again," he continued.
Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser ordered back to psychiatric hospital after group home escape
A judge in Wisconsin ordered the woman convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing case to go back to a state psychiatric hospital after she escaped from a group home in November.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge K. Scott Wagner approved a request from the state Department of Health Services to revoke 23-year-old Morgan Geyser's release privileges. Geyser was being held at the Waukesha County Jail after being extradited from Illinois following the escape from the YoYo Quality Care group home on Nov. 22, but wasn't reported missing until the early morning hours of Nov. 23.
Later that day, Geyser was found at a truck stop in Illinois with 43-year-old Chad Mecca.
Anthony Cotton, Geyser's attorney, wrote in a letter to Wagner that his client should be in a mental health facility and not jail.
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"Given that she has no new criminal charges in Waukesha County and given that she has been previously found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on the underlying offense, it is our position that she should be housed in a mental health facility, not a correctional institution," Cotton wrote, according to FOX 11.
Geyser was granted conditional release in January after she spent nearly eight years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute.
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In 2014, Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were at a sleepover with Payton Leutner, who was lured to a local park by the two other girls. Geyser would go on to stab Leutner 19 times while Weier was egging her on.
The three girls were 12 when the attack happened.
After the attack, both Geyser and Weier admitted they were trying to kill Leutner in order to appease fictional horror character Slender Man. The girls claimed they were fearful of Slender Man hurting their own families if the attack didn't happen.
In 2017, both girls pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted intentional homicide, but not guilty by reason of mental disease. Both girls were sentenced to mental confinement.
Weier was ordered to serve 25 years and Geyser was ordered to serve 40 years.
ESPN's Joe Buck sounds off on NFL officiating over controversial no-call late in Rams' loss
ESPN broadcaster Joe Buck sounded off on the referees for missing a critical penalty late in the Atlanta Falcons' 27-24 win over the Los Angeles Rams on Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The Falcons kicked the go-ahead field goal late in the fourth quarter, giving the Rams the ball back with less than 30 seconds remaining and no timeouts. On second down, Matthew Stafford took a deep shot to Tutu Atwell.
The pass fell incomplete around the 10-yard line, as the ball bounced off Atwell’s right arm. The "Monday Night Football" broadcast then showed a replay of the incomplete pass which showed Falcons cornerback Dee Alford grabbing Atwell’s left arm, hindering him from making the catch.
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"They may have missed a pass interference," Buck said upon seeing the replay.
"I agree with you. He goes up kind of with one arm, he’s holding that arm down. I think that’s pass interference," rules analyst Russell Yurk responded.
"Watch the left arm of Atwell and the grab here, not allowing his arm to go up and make the catch. That’s a missed call," Buck reiterated.
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If defensive pass interference had been called, the Rams would have moved deep into Falcons territory with a chance to go for a touchdown to win the game or kick a field goal to tie.
Instead, there was no call, and play continued. On third down, Stafford hit star wide receiver Puka Nacua on the sideline for what looked to be a spectacular one-handed catch right at the edge of field goal range.
However, Nacua lost possession of the ball while falling down, leaving the Rams at fourth-and-10 with five seconds left. On fourth down, Stafford tried connecting with Nacua again, but the pass fell incomplete, and the Falcons pulled off the upset.
The Rams dropped to 11-5 with the loss but already had clinched a playoff spot. They cannot win the NFC West and will be the No. 5 or No. 6 seed depending on what happens in Week 18. The Rams play the Arizona Cardinals at 4:25 p.m. ET on Sunday.
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Kentucky freight train carrying molten sulfur derails, leaks hazardous chemical in Todd County
More than 30 freight train cars derailed in Kentucky early Thursday, including at least one car that was actively leaking a dangerous chemical, authorities said.
The derailment occurred around 7 a.m. local time in a rural area of Todd County. A half-mile shelter-in-place order was issued and later lifted at 11 a.m.
Aerial images show derailed freight cars against one another along the tracks in rural Kentucky, with several cars tipped onto their sides and debris scattered across nearby fields.
One car spilled molten sulfur, which is sulfur heated to a liquid state and commonly used in industrial applications, such as fertilizer production. Molten sulfur can cause severe thermal burns and release irritating gases such as sulfur dioxide or hydrogen sulfide if disturbed, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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It was unclear how many cars made up the entire train, though many remained on the tracks and were not derailed.
Multiple towns and state emergency management officials responded to the scene. No homes were immediately affected.
There were no reported injuries, according to Fox Nashville. Air quality in the area has been deemed safe, the outlet reported.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear confirmed a shelter-in-place order was issued for the city of Trenton.
He advised residents to follow local guidance and take precautions to stay safe.
"More information will be shared as available for those in the surrounding area," he posted on X.
The cause of the derailment is currently under investigation.
AOC to deliver opening remarks at Mamdani's inauguration, Bernie Sanders to administer oath of office
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is expected to deliver the opening remarks at New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's inauguration on Jan. 1, the mayoral transition team announced on Tuesday.
"Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez’s presence underscores the leaders central to the movement to usher in a new era for New York City — one focused on delivering an affordability agenda and reimagining what government can do for working people," the transition team said in a statement.
The mayoral transition team noted that Mamdani's inauguration is set to be unlike any other.
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In the past, the inaugural ceremony was held for 4,000 ticketed guests in City Hall Plaza. On Thursday, Mamdani will break with tradition by inviting "all New Yorkers to join in the festivities with a public block party on Broadway along the historic Canyon of Heroes," the transition team said. The team said the block party will have "dedicated viewing areas for tens of thousands to gather and participate in the ceremony, ensuring the day belongs to all New Yorkers."
AOC campaigned with Democratic socialist Mamdani, who will become New York City's first Muslim mayor on Thursday.
"For the many New Yorkers who have long felt betrayed by a broken status quo, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embodies a new kind of politics that puts working people at the heart of it," Mamdani said in a statement. "I’ve been so proud to count her as a partner across the many stages of our people-powered movement — from the primary campaign to our Forest Hills rally in October to the very first day of the transition — and I’m honored that she’ll be a part of our historic City Hall inauguration."
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The New York congresswoman isn't the only major player expected to take part in the inauguration. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who also campaigned with Mamdani, will administer the oath of office, officially swearing him in as mayor.
"I'm honored to swear in our Mayor-Elect at the Old City Hall subway station. His inauguration will represent the blending of our city on a subway filled with cacophony, diversity, challenge and opportunity," Sanders said in a statement emailed to Fox News Digital. "The subway is a lifeblood of our city, and a great equalizer for New Yorkers. All of us are treated the same on the subway; it connects and binds New Yorkers in our daily lives. For all of our strengths and weaknesses as individuals, we ride together on the train, to places far and wide."
"Zohran is our next mayor because he understands how important it is that New Yorkers living side-by-side all deserve a city that we can thrive in, no matter what subway line you use," Sanders added.
The team noted that New York Attorney General Letitia James would also be in attendance. There was no mention of Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., attending.
Mamdani's victory in the June New York City Democratic Party mayoral primary stunned many as he defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who later ran as an independent. Mamdani beat Cuomo once again in November after a heated campaign that garnered national attention.
The incoming mayor's platform was focused on affordability and included proposals for free transit and child care, as well as rent freezes and higher taxes on corporations. During his campaign, Mamdani faced heavy criticism over his policy proposals and his stance on Israel, particularly his refusal to reject the phrase "globalize the intifada," which many interpret as a call for violence against Jews.
Fox News Digital reached out to the mayoral transition team, as well as the offices of AOC, James and Hochul.
Trump administration to unveil new dietary guidelines as FDA plans sweeping 2026 food overhaul
The Trump administration is preparing to roll out new dietary guidelines for Americans in early January, a move Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials say will kick off a broader food policy overhaul in 2026 aimed at curbing obesity, diabetes and what they call a national nutrition crisis.
"It will be streamlined. It will empower parents. And it will return to a sense of eating whole foods," FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Kyle Diamantas told "Fox & Friends," Tuesday.
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Diamantas said 2026 will be "a fundamental transformational year" for food reform under the Trump administration, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the FDA. He described the reforms as a return to common sense, criticizing previous dietary guidelines that stretched for hundreds of pages.
The first thing to change, he noted, will be the FDA's dietary guidelines, which affect school lunches and federal nutrition programs like the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Diamantas said the new guidance would recommend minimizing "highly processed foods that are loaded with addictive sugar, that give us glycemic index rises, and that have these processed carbs in them that really have ballooned since the early ‘80s and ’90s."
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Diamantas also highlighted the FDA’s crackdown on petroleum-based food dyes, arguing they add no nutritional value while disproportionately targeting children.
"Products that contain these petroleum-based dyes have, on average, 140% more sugar than products that don't use these dyes," Diamantas said, adding that the dyes exist primarily to make foods more visually appealing.
The FDA is also changing the standards for what ingredients are considered Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS), Diamantas said, advocating for more transparency than today's system, which he said allows companies to self-certify ingredient safety.
Diamantas said the reforms were spurred on by worsening health trends among the country, noting that about 70% of Americans are overweight or obese, more than half of young adolescents can't qualify for military service and about 15,000 new cases of diabetes emerge each week.