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Veterans Day 2026 brings free meals at popular restaurants — and some deals don't end Nov. 11
Veterans and active-duty military members can find free food and other promotions at restaurants across the country on Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Some offers also give customers a reason to return for another deal later.
About 30 restaurant brands are included in Dinova's 2026 Veterans Day Dining Guide, according to Alison Quinn, the company's Florida-based president.
The guide is in its fifth year and includes national and regional chains like Bonefish Grill, Carrabba's Italian Grill, Hooters, Outback Steakhouse and Red Lobster.
"What we're starting to see now is it's going beyond Veterans Day, to try to give back to the vets in a way that is more meaningful," Quinn told Fox News Digital. "Just not about one day but come back and we'll give you something again."
Quinn pointed to California-based Hoffman Hospitality Group, which is offering select meals to veterans and a $10 bonus card for a future visit. Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que is among the group's brands.
Outback Steakhouse is offering a complimentary Bloomin' Onion and soft drink, along with a meal offer for a return visit, she said.
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Other deals listed in the guide include 10 free boneless wings and fries at Buffalo Wild Wings, a complimentary Red's Big Tavern Burger at Red Robin, free shrimp at Red Lobster and a free All-American Smash at Smashburger.
Dinova started the guide to share offers with veterans and, in some cases, active-duty military personnel, Quinn said. The company's business dining network includes about 25,000 restaurants and 600 corporate partners, she said.
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Downloads of the guide have increased over the years, Quinn said, and the promotions may be useful for veterans or active-duty personnel who are struggling or "living under a tight budget."
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Asked which deal she would choose, Quinn singled out Eddie Merlot's complimentary cheeseburger. Her father is an 85-year-old veteran, she said, and she plans to tell him about it.
Veterans and active-duty military members should bring identification and check with their local restaurant before visiting, Quinn said. Participation and ID requirements can vary by location and offer.
CURTIS HILL: DEI is bad for the Black community. Merit is key for Black achievement
Stephen A. Smith sat down with President Donald Trump at the White House in mid-October and made a point that deserves more attention than the usual partisan scorekeeping.
The ESPN commentator told Trump that the aggressive rollback of DEI programs has produced an unintended side effect: Private corporations are growing hesitant to support historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Donors fear that a gift once viewed as ordinary philanthropy will now be read as a DEI initiative, inviting government scrutiny or accusations of engaging in racial preferences. Smith, an HBCU graduate, said the president acknowledged he had not fully considered that chilling effect and said he would look into it.
The conversation was useful precisely because it separated opposition to race-based mandates from hostility toward Black institutions and people.
That distinction is essential.
Opposition to DEI programs that impose racial quotas, "check-the-box" hiring or the elevation of identity over competence is not anti-Black. It is pro-equality and pro-merit. Preferential treatment that sorts Americans by race, ethnicity or sex violates the principle of equal treatment and, in some circumstances, runs afoul of federal anti-discrimination law. It substitutes political fashion for individual achievement.
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Companies and universities that adopted these systems after 2020 often did so under intense social and reputational pressure, not because rigorous analysis showed they improved performance or expanded genuine opportunity. Corporate shareholder proposals seeking disclosure of the actual return on DEI spending — including net present value, litigation risk and opportunity costs — have been necessary correctives. They do not attack Black Americans. They challenge a management ideology that treats race as a proxy for qualification.
The danger arises when the correction overshoots.
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When federal agencies, corporations and advocacy groups begin treating almost any race-conscious activity as suspect or potentially illegal, rational actors respond by avoiding the perceived risk altogether.
Federal agencies have terminated or paused some research awards and outreach efforts involving HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions after determining that they conflicted with administration priorities or anti-DEI directives. Private foundations and corporate philanthropy have followed a similar pattern of retreat.
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The practical result risks becoming a de facto hands-off policy toward Black institutions, even when the stated motive is colorblindness or risk avoidance.
That outcome serves no one who believes in free markets and equal opportunity.
Black Americans, like every other group, benefit when talent, capital and institutions can connect without artificial barriers or artificial preferences. HBCUs have long played an outsized role in educating Black professionals and creating pathways into engineering, medicine, education, business and other fields.
Voluntary corporate support for those institutions — for skills training, small-business capital or rigorous recruiting — is not the same thing as mandatory racial quotas in a corporate boardroom or university admissions office. One expands the pool of qualified competitors; the other distorts the competition once that pool exists.
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Conservatives and free-market advocates who oppose DEI must make this distinction clear.
Silence or indifference to the chilling effect invites the accusation that the real goal is exclusion rather than fairness. Critics will make that charge regardless; conservatives should give them no ammunition.
The constitutional and economic case against race preferences is strongest when paired with a clear commitment to expanding access: better K-12 preparation, vocational pathways, capital formation and the removal of unnecessary licensing and regulatory barriers that limit entry for everyone.
Merit is not the enemy of Black advancement. It is the only durable basis for it.
Industry, competence and character should be rewarded wherever they appear. Bigotry should be excluded by ordinary business judgment and by law, not by new forms of discrimination that simply reverse the old ones.
Smith’s observation is a reminder that policy has second-order effects. Rejecting the check-the-box games of DEI does not require abandoning engagement with Black institutions or individuals who compete on the merits.
It requires the opposite: confidence that free enterprise, equal rules and voluntary association will produce more durable opportunity than either racial set-asides or fear-based withdrawal.
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The goal should be neither a system that rewards mediocrity in the name of equity nor one that treats Black Americans as too risky to include. It should be a system that expands the field of competition and then judges the results without regard to ancestry.
That standard is both constitutional and practical. It is also the only one that treats Black Americans as full participants rather than permanent subjects of a political project.
PATRICK K O’DONNELL: Revolution’s epic test showed strength of our Greatest Generation
A wilderness trek marked by rushing waterfalls, gorgeous fall foliage and optimism in the fall of 1775 soon transformed into a brutal struggle with starvation, torture and despair. What started out in late September as a high-spirited but long journey from New England through the Maine wilderness to invade Canada soon became a brutal test of survival that pushed members of America’s Greatest Generation to the limits of human endurance.
The Revolutionary War generation, America’s Greatest Generation, suffered untold struggles in their epic fight for the freedom and liberty that changed the world and that Americans still enjoy today. These ragtag colonists not only took on the greatest army and navy of their time. They also had to guard against sabotage from within by fellow Americans who did not favor independence from the Crown. Simultaneously, they faced violence from hostile Native Americans. And perhaps most deadly, they battled the ravages of nature and the American wilderness itself.
All these elements came into play in Col. Benedict Arnold’s ill-fated attempt to move his army from New England across the beautiful but rugged wilderness of Maine to attack Quebec. Spearheading that effort were the Continental Army’s first special operators, the riflemen. An advance team of 11 scouts, clad in hunting shirts, carried heavily laden canoes as they bypassed falls and marked trails and places for the bateaux, or flat-bottomed boats, along the way for the following army.
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The scout team was made up of members from the 1st Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment. They and their leader, 35-year-old Lancaster native Lt. Archibald Steele, had been handpicked by Arnold for the expedition. These riflemen were some of the best shots in Washington’s army. Many had been long hunters who lived and hunted beyond the Allegheny Mountains and often had to battle Native Americans.
Their woodcraft, scouting abilities and expert marksmanship would allow them to pioneer many aspects of early American special operations. Now, their skills were being called upon to help mitigate the dangers inherent in trying to move an army through the wilderness.
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The full story of these remarkable riflemen and the role of the Pennsylvania Long Rifle in helping win the Revolutionary War can be found in my newest bestselling book, "Revolutionary Snipers: Washington’s Frontier Commandos Whose Marksmanship Forged A New Way of War and Helped Win the Revolution,"the third book in a trilogy on the elite units of the war.
This groundbreaking look at the Revolutionary War recounts the untold story of the Continental Army’s first soldiers in an immersive "Band-of-Brothers"-style narrative that puts the reader in the boots of these snipers who preceded today’s U.S. Army Special Operators.
Long lines of men hauling boats over strips of land between waterways are inherently vulnerable to ambush. Arnold hoped the advance work of his Revolutionary sniper scouts could mitigate the risk. In good weather and water, the men could travel 25 miles a day or more. Canoes, lightweight marvels of Native American engineering, could be carried by the men with ease. Steele’s canoe held five men with their weapons, equipment and provisions, while the remaining scouts rowed the second canoe.
The group would have to traverse several major rivers, lakes, ponds and mountains, on their staggering 350+-mile-journey over rugged but beautiful terrain. In contrast, the trailing army, over 1,000 strong, three battalions, one including two rifle companies, deployed more than 200 heavy, ungainly bateaux to traverse the rivers, ponds and lakes with the constant possible threat of Native American or British attack. The shallow-draft, flat-bottom craft measured approximately 22 feet in length, weighed hundreds of pounds and could carry about six men each as well as six hundred pounds of gear and supplies.
These clunky boats, constructed from green wood nailed to oak beams by locals of questionable loyalties would be one of the army’s many downfalls. The river water and exposure to the elements warped the green wood, compromising the seaworthiness of the craft. "The bateaux were so badly constructed that, whether in or out of them, we were wet. Could we have come within reach of the villains who constructed these crazy things, they would have fully experienced the effects of our vengeance." Necessary repairs caused costly delays.
It was early October before the riflemen reached the Great Carry, a 12-mile stretch of land and water that included three ponds between the Kennebec River and the Dead River. Rain turned the first part of the Great Carry into a quagmire of muck. "We were often half leg deep in the mud, stumbling over old fallen logs, one leg sinking deeper in the mire than the other, then down goes a boat and carriers with it, a hearty laugh prevails." Despite being wet and coated in mud from head to toe, the men kept their sense of humor, and the collective pain and grueling test of human endurance built an élan.
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However, weeks in the wilderness began to take a toll. The men suffered from the elements, constant toil and drinking contaminated water. They began to run out of food. Dysentery started to ravage the ranks, and carrying the sick became an added burden. To preserve their meager provisions, Arnold put the men on half-rations, but over 100 miles of uninhabited wilderness remained.
Misery continued to plague the mission. For three days, it rained, and a gale-force wind struck the men’s camp along the bank of the Dead River. The muddy river rose eight feet, uprooting trees, flooding the army’s camp and spoiling their meager supplies.
The water rose so high that it became nearly impossible to tell whether the men were traveling up the Dead River or one of the many streams that fed into it, which had become rivers themselves. In the rapids and swirling water, one bateau was wrecked and sank. A barrel filled with gold and silver coins, used to pay the men and to purchase supplies from the Canadians once they reached civilization, sank like a rock into the swirling torrent.
Facing sick men, diminishing provisions, a missing fortune, the onset of snow and freezing temperatures and the ever-present threat of hostile Native Americans or a British ambush, Arnold ordered a council of war to assess the situation. Eventually, he ordered a picked company of fit men to advance and find rations for the starving army in French settlements in the Chaudière Valley, scores of miles away, while the sick returned.
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Pressing forward in freezing rain, the exhausted expedition camped for the night, and the next day the riflemen and the remaining members of the force awoke to several inches of snow on the ground. The men tramped through deep snow, often sinking into a bog, unable to determine what was solid ground under the snow. The starving men had been reduced to a pint of flour per day for the past two weeks, starvation rations.
As the sick and exhausted survivors began dropping out of the march, Arnold acted decisively to save his men. Using birchbark canoes, he set out ahead of the army with Lt. Steele and a few Revolutionary snipers.
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Within several days, these frontier commandos encountered an individual who told Arnold they would be in the settlements in three days and have provisions for the men in six. The American officer sent back word that the men were to abandon their bateaux, and officers should distribute the remainder of their meager rations as they were expecting them to be replaced soon.
Like concentration camp inmates desperate for food, the riflemen eagerly wolfed down the rations — their first full meal in weeks. However, unbeknownst to many of them, the meal would be their last, as a wrong turn extended their journey longer than anticipated.
Eventually, survivors of the grueling march did emerge in early November after being subjected to such brutal conditions that some resorted to eating their own pet dog and others roasting the leather of their shot pouches.
They "staggered about like . . . drunken m[e]n" unable to stand without the support of their rifles. Despite the beauty of their surroundings, "Every object tended to dismay the heart, already too much oppressed. The light that shone upon it served but to render its dreary aspect more visible."
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Finally, hope appeared in the form of cattle driven along the river "hurried on by men with horses loaded with sacks." Arnold’s relief party had arrived. Ravenous from their additional days of starvation, the withered troops quickly butchered one of the cattle. Some waited for the meat to cook, others didn’t.
The poorly clad skeletons gorged themselves on animal flesh. The wise resisted the pangs of hunger and had the wisdom to pace themselves. Starved men can kill themselves from excessive food intake. Tragically, many became sick, and several died a day or two later after finally reaching the end of their epic test of survival.
JOHN YOO: The blue tsunami’s real target is the independence of the Supreme Court
The 2026 midterm's astounding election results not only shift control of Congress but also portend two years of hostility with President Donald Trump. The blue tsunami also threatens the independence of the Supreme Court.
As Democrats exercise their newfound power in the legislature and build on their majorities in years to come, they will try to interfere with the workings of basic American institutions. Of these promised "reforms," expanding the Supreme Court may pose the greatest threat to the American system of limited government and natural rights.
The Democrats’ landslide victory is hard to overstate. As many political observers predicted for a midterm election during a president’s second term, Democrats took control of the House from the governing party. But few foresaw the force of the rejection of President Trump and the Republican Party. With 24 races still to be called, Democrats have won 254 seats, surpassing the 218 needed for a majority, with Republicans left with only 157. The results in the Senate were perhaps even more shocking. Democrats flipped at least seven Senate seats, giving them a 54-44 majority; Democratic challengers narrowly lead the Republican incumbents in the other two races. What was equally amazing was that Democratic victories came in Republican strongholds, such as Kansas (where a Democrat had not won in a century), Texas, Iowa, South Carolina, and Ohio.
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Conservatives are panicking that the shift in control of the Senate will threaten their majority on the Supreme Court. Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush appointed three of the justices (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito), while President Trump appointed three more (Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett). Presidents Obama and Biden, meanwhile, appointed three (Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson). This 6-3 majority, unified generally by an originalist approach to constitutional interpretation, has delivered some of the highest priorities on the conservative wish list: the overruling of Roe v. Wade and the return of the abortion question to the states; the declaration of the Second Amendment’s individual right to possess firearms; and the end of racial preferences in government programs and university admissions.
The problem, simply put, is time. Thomas is 78, while Alito is 76. For justices appointed since 1980, the average age at retirement or death in office is 79.8 years. If Thomas or Alito were to leave office over the next two years, which would be in keeping with that average, the Democratic majority would be unlikely to confirm their successors. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has already set a precedent of not filling a Supreme Court vacancy in the last year of a presidential term — he did not allow a Senate vote to fill the 2016 vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. It would be a small political jump — though a serious change in Senate norms — for Democrats to extend that period to two years. The change in Senate control in January means that no conservative justice is likely to retire until 2028.
In the interest of full disclosure, I served as a law clerk to Justice Thomas in 1994-95, and I do not want him to ever retire. Indeed, I would be shocked if he left office while he could physically perform the duties of the office.
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The political changes launched by the midterm elections could make matters worse for conservatives. The betting odds are that Democrats will win the 2028 presidential election. An incumbent party usually loses at the end of its president’s second term in office. Putting aside the unique control of the Virginia dynasty from President Thomas Jefferson through James Monroe, a two-term presidency has only been succeeded by a president of the same party twice: Martin Van Buren and George H.W. Bush. Both examples reflected the popularity and success of the departing incumbents, Andrew Jackson and Ronald Reagan. If anything, last week’s tallies reveal Trump’s deep unpopularity. It would require an unprecedented election to beat this historical pattern and return a Republican to the presidency in 2028. And even if Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio were to win, they would likely still face a Democratic Senate, which would narrow, if not completely eliminate, their ability to appoint a committed originalist to the Supreme Court.
The prospect of Democratic control of the Senate and possibly the presidency for the next six years has prompted short-term maneuvering to install a young originalist on the Court during the lame-duck congressional session over the next few weeks. Justice Alito, however, has publicly declared he will not retire this year, and, as I have said, I would be shocked if Justice Thomas were to even entertain the idea. The idea that President Trump could persuade either justice to retire in favor of a younger replacement is more characteristic of inside-the-Beltway politicking than of serious long-term political thinking.
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Focusing on the justices’ ages and retirement dates distracts from the much more serious threat to the Court. If the Democrats were to build on their majorities and win the presidential election in 2028, we may well see not just different faces on the bench — we may see an entirely different kind of Court altogether.
Almost every leading Democrat demands "reform" of the Supreme Court by expanding its size from nine to 13 or more justices. Several members of the House and Senate, such as Rep. Jerry Nadler and Sen. Adam Schiff, have introduced bills to add more justices. Leading presidential candidates, such as former Vice President Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. have blessed the idea of court-packing. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., expressed the feelings of left-wing Democrats well: "We need to expand this morally bankrupt court from nine to 13."
Democratic control of Congress will build powerful momentum toward court-packing. Expect House and Senate majorities to send court-packing bills to the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office for signature. While President Trump will surely veto them, as he should, the Democratic Congress will not pass the bills in the hope they will become law in the next two years. Instead, they will force House and Senate members to take public votes on court-packing in preparation for the real show, which will take the stage when a Democrat wins the White House in 2028.
Once progressives have a governing trifecta, court-packing legislation will sail through both houses again and meet with the approval of a Democratic president. The Supreme Court will become the political plaything, not just of Democrats, but of both parties, which will surely add more seats to the Court whenever they control both elected branches of government. That will do more in the long run to destroy the independence of the federal judiciary, on which our natural rights against the tyranny of the majority rest, than any short-term maneuvering over justices and their retirement dates.
NYC man accused of 3 Central Park rapes arrested at Miami Burger King
A man suspected in three sexual assaults spanning five years in New York City's Central Park was arrested Tuesday at a Burger King in Miami Beach, Florida, authorities said.
Dereck Rivera-Deleon, 30, was taken into custody during an operation involving the NYPD, U.S. Marshals Service and Miami Beach police at a fast-food restaurant in the 1100 block of Washington Avenue.
"The NYPD will stop at nothing to get dangerous criminals off our streets," police said on X.
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Investigators located Rivera-Deleon in South Florida, where he had recently arrived and obtained employment at the restaurant, according to authorities.
The arrest followed an investigation into an Oct. 24 rape reported near Central Park's eastern edge in Manhattan.
An extraditable warrant was issued Monday in connection with the Oct. 24 assault.
Police said the attack happened at about 8:30 p.m. that night, when officers responded to a report of an assault near East 66th Street and Fifth Avenue.
The 39-year-old victim told investigators she was approached by a man who threatened her with a knife, forced her into a wooded section of the park and raped her before fleeing, according to police.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani previously described the attack as a "horrific" act.
Investigators also connected Rivera-Deleon to alleged sexual assaults in Central Park in 2021 and 2023 through DNA evidence and victim identifications, according to Miami Beach police. Authorities said he is expected to face charges in connection with both earlier incidents.
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"When violent offenders flee to evade justice, we will ensure there is no corner of the country where they can hide," Ricky J. Patel, U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.
Rivera-Deleon was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in South Florida. He is being held without bond pending extradition proceedings to send him to New York to face sexual assault charges.
Multiple dead after vehicle crashes into food stand near North Hollywood Metro station
Three people were killed, and multiple others were injured after they were hit by a white SUV that crashed into a food stand near a North Hollywood Metro bus stop in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, according to authorities.
The collision was reported at around 5:55 p.m. near the Metro stop at the corner of Lankershim and Chandler boulevards, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
"One vehicle reportedly involved with pedestrians," the fire department said in an alert.
The fire department said three people were pronounced dead at the scene.
Paramedics transported at least three others to a local hospital in critical condition, the department said.
"I'm heartbroken for the families of everyone impacted," Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement posted on X. "We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available."
The Los Angeles Police Department said the driver was hospitalized in critical condition after his white SUV struck at least five pedestrians, according to an LAPD statement posted on X. The man, who is in his 60s, is being evaluated by LAPD drug recognition experts to determine whether he was under the influence.
The circumstances surrounding the collision remain under investigation.
"It'll be a prolonged but a very deliberate investigation to determine what happened here," LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell told reporters. "Our hearts go out to the families of the victims that were struck here tonight."
Jaylen Brown repeatedly snubs ex-teammate Jayson Tatum as Celtics crush Sixers 'lambchops and some gravy'
Former Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown confronted ex-running mate Jayson Tatum at a dinner table in France last June over their future in Boston, and that bad blood finally resurfaced on the hardwood Tuesday night.
According to ESPN insider Shams Charania, that awkward European sit-down marked the last time the two stars spoke face-to-face.
Boston had just struck out on Giannis Antetokounmpo, who ended up in Miami instead. Celtics brass had put Brown on the table in those talks. Once Brown caught wind he was being shopped, he went straight to Tatum to find out where he stood and whether Tatum still wanted him in Boston.
Charania reported that Brown approached and confronted Tatum at the dinner table specifically to address their future as a tandem and gauge where Tatum stood on the entire situation.
Boston traded Brown to Philadelphia days later, effectively ending communication between the two. Tatum called and texted, but Brown never answered.
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Seconds before tip-off Tuesday night in Philly, Tatum walked over and tapped Brown on the chest to say hello. Brown gave him absolute zero back. Eyes locked dead ahead, Brown didn't flinch, didn't dap him up, and blew right past him like Tatum wasn't there.
Asked before Tuesday's tip if he planned to clear the air, Brown said, "There's nothing to talk about." Brown then dropped the first on-court faceoff between the two, as Philadelphia fell 123-101 to Boston.
After the final buzzer, Brown hugged several of his former teammates before heading back to the locker room, leaving the floor without saying a word to Tatum.
Brown had 13 points against his former team. Tatum had 21 on 8-for-17 shooting.
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When Tatum claimed on video last month that the trade caught him off guard, Brown hit back on Instagram with a blue cap emoji. Tatum tried shutting down the drama to reporters: "This ain't no f---ing Shaq and Kobe. There's no beef."
Brown countered on camera: "I saw that he said it's no beef and I think he's right. There's no beef. Jayson comes from a wonderful family. We've accomplished some great things. He's a hell of a basketball player. He's got a great PR team. It's no beef. But it might be a little lambchops and some gravy."
Drafted third overall in back-to-back drafts (Brown in 2016, Tatum in 2017), the duo reached five conference finals, two NBA Finals and won the 2024 NBA title.
Debates over franchise ownership followed. Tatum earned First Team All-NBA nods, while Brown won the 2024 Eastern Conference Finals MVP and Finals MVP awards.
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Former West Point cadet sued over alleged drugging, forced abortion of ex-girlfriend: 'Horrifying'
A former West Point cadet who pleaded guilty to drugging his then-girlfriend and administering abortion pills without her consent, causing a miscarriage, is facing a civil lawsuit that seeks unspecified damages.
Caleb Suh pleaded guilty in June to assault resulting in substantial bodily injury to a dating partner in connection with the March 2022 incident involving the woman, who was also a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at the time.
Suh studied at two Ivy League universities since the incident, including one where he began attending classes after his guilty plea. He graduated from Cornell University this year and was enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia University when the woman filed a lawsuit Oct. 28.
The woman wanted to have the baby, but Suh did not want her to keep the child. Suh told the judge that he used the woman's identity to set up an online pharmacy account, ordered abortion drugs through the mail, obtained Xanax from a friend to use as a sedative and tricked his girlfriend into drinking what he claimed was a prenatal protein shake. When she fell asleep, Suh inserted the abortion pills into her mouth and vagina.
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Erin Hawley, a lawyer with the pro-life legal group Alliance Defending Freedom who played a key role in helping overturn Roe v. Wade, said the woman was put in an "absolutely horrific situation."
"She was expecting a child she very much wanted, was drugged and assaulted," Hawley, who is not representing the woman, told Fox News Digital. "The horrifying assault ended up causing the death of her very much wanted child — something no woman should ever have to endure. It has obviously caused a lot of harm and trauma, in addition to the loss of the baby she very much wanted."
"She was drugged and assaulted with abortion pills, even though Mr. Suh knew she very much wanted that child. I expect that he will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law," she added.
Suh is still awaiting sentencing.
Suh left the woman alone and incapacitated and ignored her attempts to reach him once she woke up and noticed that she was bleeding, according to the lawsuit. She was then hospitalized.
As the woman was receiving medical attention, Suh returned to the online pharmacy's website and posted questions about whether doctors could detect the medication he administered, according to the lawsuit.
"She’s suffered a life-changing event that she is still dealing with and will be dealing with for the rest of her life," her lawyer, Russell Kornblith, told The Associated Press last week.
"We hope that by our client coming forward with this lawsuit, it will, at least, ensure that this never happens to anyone else," Kornblith said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Suh's attorney for comment.
During a court hearing in June, Suh said that he was "deeply and immeasurably sorry for my actions and the pain that I have caused."
Suh's sentencing has been postponed until Jan. 21, 2027, at his attorney's request, allowing him to finish the semester at Columbia. Prosecutors did not oppose the delay for Suh's sentencing.
He has also been taking a three-month life skills course for people facing federal charges, his attorney said in a letter to the court.
Suh transferred to Cornell during the 2023-2024 school year. The university said in a statement last week that he answered "no" on an application when asked if he had been found responsible for a disciplinary violation at any previous institution.
The university said West Point noted that he was in good academic standing and was eligible to return. He had been involved in health and medicine at Cornell and wanted to become a physician, according to the university's website.
In September, Suh started a master's program at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, his lawyer wrote to the judge in his federal case. A person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press that Mailman applicants are not asked about their criminal records but are questioned about whether they have ever been disciplined for student conduct violations or poor academic performance.
Suh’s application never made any mention of past disciplinary proceedings, the person told the outlet.
"Regardless of one’s position on abortion, it is not good medicine to allow an abortion drug to be shipped across the country to a dorm room or a home without a woman ever having talked to a doctor," Hawley said.
"The defendant in this case impersonated his girlfriend, had those drugs shipped and then assaulted her with them. That would never have happened if the FDA had done its job in 2023. Hopefully, when the courts do their job and reinstate that safeguard, it won’t continue to happen," she continued, referring to Alliance Defending Freedom's lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration's 2023 decision to remove the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone, after the agency had already stopped enforcing the requirement in 2021.
However, the assault occurred in March 2022, before the FDA's 2023 decision. The agency had already announced in April 2021 that it would temporarily stop enforcing the in-person dispensing requirement during the COVID-19 public health emergency. In December 2021, the FDA announced plans to permanently remove the requirement, a change formally implemented in January 2023.
The FDA has said its decision to remove the requirement followed a review of available evidence. Other restrictions, including prescriber certification requirements, remained in place.
Hawley added that the case at West Point would never have happened if that requirement had been in place.
"Horrific incidents like that throughout the country would never have happened if that basic safeguard had been in place," she said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
College Football Playoff Rankings: Georgia rise to No. 1, Notre Dame cracks top 5 after big win over Miami
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish, ranked No. 11 by the College Football Playoff committee in its initial rankings last week, took down the No. 1 team in the country, the Miami Hurricanes, in Week 10 to spoil their undefeated season.
As such, there’s a new top team in college football.
The Georgia Bulldogs, who blew out Ole Miss, 42-7, on the road, cemented themselves as the No. 1 team in the country. They were placed No. 2 behind Miami in the initial ranking given their blemish; A loss to Auburn back in October, had them at 7-1 entering Week 10.
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Meanwhile, Miami plummeted down the rankings six spots after its one-touchdown loss to Notre Dame, moving to No. 7 overall. And the Fighting Irish jumped up six spots with that "signature" win under their belt at home against the top-ranked team, as they are now at No. 5.
But these rankings will surely stir some debate, as Alabama, picking up a commanding 31-13 win over LSU, moved up two spots to No. 3 with a 7-2 record. Utah is above them at No. 2 overall, yet UCLA, who shares the same 9-0 record as the Utes, is No. 4 underneath a two-loss team.
While that will surely stir up the SEC bias argument on social media and beyond, Tennessee came in at No. 8 after a big win over Kentucky, which the committee has at No. 11 in their latest rankings. Both the Vols and Crimson Tide own a 7-2 record, and the head-to-head question that arose in last week’s rankings is even stronger now since Tennessee beat Alabama 26-10 earlier this season.
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CFP committee chair Hunter Yurachek, who serves as athletic director for Arkansas, explained Alabama’s placement.
"They’re number one in record strength. Number one in their schedule strength," he said. "They have four, what we call, quality wins, because we continue to call that the win against Mississippi State earlier in the year when they had Kamario Taylor on their team. They were 4-0. Alabama went there and won that game. So, Alabama, we believe, deserves to be the No. 3 team in the country."
And why wasn’t Tennessee ranked higher?
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"Well, we’ll go back to what you just said about Miami and Notre Dame. Alabama was in that first pool – Tennessee was not in that first pool," Yurachek said, referring to the subgroups teams are placed in based on metrics, with the first pool being the top teams in the country in the committee’s eyes. "Tennessee’s got a couple of quality wins – their win they just had against Kentucky and the win they had against Alabama."
Texas came in at No. 6, and after No. 7 Miami and No. 8 Tennessee, we find Indiana, coming off a bye week, sitting at No. 9. They dropped five spots as their key wins earlier this season didn’t look as strong, though the reigning champs remain 8-1.
At No. 10, BYU comes off a wild one against Utah, where they came back in the game on the road only to lose to the No. 2 team in the country. Kentucky is No. 11, Texas Tech is No. 12, and Wake Forest, Houston and Iowa round out the top 15, respectively.
At No. 16, Oregon has leaped seven spots following its 41-28 win over Ohio State, which plummeted eight spots to No. 20 after back-to-back losses that pushed them to 6-3 on the season.
Ole Miss, coming in at No. 19, also fell hard (nine spots) following the blowout home loss to Georgia.
Here are the full rankings as we head into another pivotal week:
No. 1 : Georgia (8-1)
No. 2: Utah (9-0)
No. 3: Alabama (7-2)
No. 4: UCLA (9-0)
No. 5: Notre Dame (8-1)
No. 6: Texas (7-2)
No. 7: Miami (8-1)
No. 8: Tennessee (7-2)
No. 9: Indiana (8-1)
No. 10: BYU (7-2)
No. 11: Kentucky (7-2)
No. 12: Texas Tech (8-1)
No. 13: Wake Forest (8-1)
No. 14: Houston (7-2)
No. 15: Iowa (7-2)
No. 16: Oregon (6-3)
No. 17: South Carolina (6-3)
No. 18: USC (7-2)
No. 19: Ole Miss (6-3)
No. 20: Ohio State (6-3)
No. 21: LSU (6-3)
No. 22: Missouri (6-3)
No. 23: Arizona (7-2)
No. 24: Boise State (8-1)
No. 25: Oklahoma State (6-3)
Stacy Keach dead at 85 as ‘Mike Hammer’ star’s wife shares emotional tribute
Stacy Keach, the legendary actor whose unmistakable voice and powerful performances captivated generations of Americans, is being remembered by his beloved wife as a devoted husband, loving father and courageous fighter after his death at 85.
Keach, best known for portraying the hard-boiled private detective Mike Hammer and for his celebrated work on stage and screen, died Tuesday, Nov. 10, at his family home in Magdalenka, Poland.
His wife, Małgosia Tomassi Keach, shared an emotional statement announcing his passing following a lengthy battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure.
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"It is with profound sadness and a broken heart that I announce the passing of my darling husband, Stacy Keach," she said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
"After a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure, Stacy peacefully departed this world. He fought for so long, with extraordinary courage, determination and strength."
She remembered her husband as a man whose remarkable resilience extended far beyond the characters he brought to life on-screen.
"He was a true warrior, facing his illness with the same remarkable spirit and resilience that defined his life," she continued.
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"Stacy was not only a legendary actor, admired and loved by audiences the world over, but also my beloved husband, my companion and the heart of our family."
For millions of television viewers, Keach will forever be remembered as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, the tough-talking private investigator he portrayed with grit, charisma and an unmistakable screen presence.
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But his extraordinary career stretched far beyond the detective series. A gifted Shakespearean actor, Keach tackled some of theater's most demanding roles, including Hamlet, Richard III and King Lear. He also earned a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Ernest Hemingway.
His television appearances included "Blue Bloods," "Titus" and "Prison Break," while his film credits ranged from "The Long Riders" to "Nebraska" and "The Bourne Legacy."
Keach also appeared in the Biblical miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth," portraying the criminal Barabbas.
In 2017, Keach suffered a heart attack while performing in a one-man production about Ernest Hemingway at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, an ordeal that forced the cancellation of the show's run.
Throughout a career spanning more than six decades, Keach earned admiration not only for his versatility but also for the unmistakable voice and commanding presence that made him one of Hollywood's most recognizable performers.
Yet for those closest to him, his greatest legacy was the love he shared with his family.
"His passing leaves an immeasurable emptiness in our lives," his wife said. "But his extraordinary spirit, his unforgettable voice and the love he gave so generously will remain with us forever."
Keach is survived by his wife, their children, Karolina and Shannon, and their extended family. His family's farewell was signed with profound love and sorrow by Małgosia, Karolina, Shannon, their grandchildren and spouses.
The Associated Press contributed to this reporting.