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Super Bowl champion, Eagles legend Lane Johnson abruptly retires at 36
Philadelphia Eagles legend and two-time Super Bowl champion Lane Johnson stunningly announced his retirement from the NFL on Tuesday.
Johnson, 36, was a surprise inactive in the Eagles’ 24-20 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, and it came out that he was out for unexpected personal reasons. Johnson announced in a statement that he is focusing on his mental health.
"Philadelphia. You truly are the City of Brotherly Love. The best fans and the most prideful city in the entire world. I have given it my all for 14 years; season after season pushing my body to the max and tirelessly working my craft to not only live up to the legacy of the guys that came before me, but to set a new standard of success for the best franchise in all of sports," Johnson said in a statement.
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"I deeply wanted to gut it out for one more year; to take the field with my brothers for one last season. But after a lot of reflection, I’ve realized that my personal and family priorities in my life have changed. Right now, it is critical that I focus on my mental health. I owe it to my teammates, coaches, the organization and the fans to have my head and heart 100 percent in the game. And right now my heart is telling me that it’s time to say goodbye to football."
Johnson was a member of the Eagles’ two Super Bowl-winning teams in 2017 and 2024 and called those rides up Broad Street the ultimate privilege. He thanked the entire Eagles organization for taking a chance on him and the coaches and teammates he played alongside during his 14-year career.
"Right now, what’s most important to me is continuing to focus on my mental health and spending more time with my kids and family," Johnson said.
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"But Philadelphia will always be home, and I will forever be an Eagle. Thank you for the love and the enduring support."
The love is reciprocal as owner Jeffery Lurie called him an "all-time Eagle."
"Lane Johnson is an all-time Eagle and one of the best players ever to play his position in NFL history. Lane was a major contributor to our team success for 14 seasons, helping to bring two Super Bowl championships and many other memorable moments to the organization and the city of Philadelphia," Lurie said in a statement.
"Beyond his on-field accomplishments, Lane has done a tremendous amount to give back to the community through his numerous charitable endeavors. The courage he has shown using his own personal experiences to advocate for mental health awareness has undoubtedly saved lives. We appreciate everything Lane has contributed to our organization, and we wish him and his family nothing but the best."
The Eagles will sorely miss Johnson, as they were 98-42-1 in games he played during his career and just 15-29 when he was out of the lineup. In his 14 seasons, he made the Pro Bowl six times.
Johnson was limited to 10 games last season because of an injury, but he had played in all three games prior to missing the Rams game. The Eagles selected Johnson with the No. 4 overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft out of Oklahoma, and the Texas native emerged as one of the best right tackles in the sport during his career.
NFL refs have set all-time record for flags this season, and it's changing the outcome of games
Each year, NFL fans complain that officials are throwing more flags than ever before. Most years, the perception exceeds the evidence. This year, the evidence supports the complaint.
The NFL is on a historically high penalty pace.
According to ESPN Insights, the league has recorded more accepted penalties through Week 4 this season than in any other season since play-by-play data became available in 1978.
Week 4 was especially severe. Officials assessed 271 accepted penalties, the second-highest total for any week over that span. That's around 17 accepted penalties per game.
Sharp Football Analysis provided additional context on Tuesday. According to its analysis, officials are flagging offenses at the highest per-snap rate through four weeks of any season since 2000, at 6.18 penalties per 100 snaps.
The increase is also occurring at particularly consequential points in games. Officials have set early-season records for accepted flags thrown in the red zone and on third and fourth downs in the second half.
These penalties aren't merely disrupting drives. They are erasing points.
So far this season, penalties have nullified 17 touchdowns. At the same point last year, that number was five. In 2024, it was four.
To be clear, an accepted penalty does not mean officials made the correct call.
Last week, Rams coach Sean McVay said the NFL privately acknowledged that officials incorrectly called defensive pass interference against Los Angeles in the closing moments of its Week 3 loss to Denver, nullifying an interception. Without the flag, the interception would've won the Rams the game. Instead, Denver retained possession and capitalized on the erroneous call to win.
That example illustrates the larger problem.
The proliferation of flags has become one of the defining features of the 2026 season. Fans don't watch football to see officials determine the outcome of drives. Yet listen to almost any broadcast after a significant play, and you'll hear an announcer quickly add, "No flags."
There's a reason for that.
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Viewers have become conditioned not to trust the initial result of a play. A touchdown, long completion, turnover, or critical stop now routinely produces a moment of hesitation as everyone scans the field for yellow.
Waiting to find out whether a play counts has become part of the viewing experience. It shouldn't be. It's a problem.
Which raises a more important question: Why are officials throwing flags at such a historic rate?
One possibility is that teams are simply playing sloppier football. Reduced offseason work and lighter practice schedules could plausibly contribute to more procedural errors, poor technique, and legitimate penalties.
But football has always operated under an inconvenient reality: officials could probably identify some technical violation on nearly every play.
Some infractions are obvious and materially affect the play. Others occupy a gray area where enforcement depends largely on judgment and discretion.
The distinction matters because officials plainly exercise that discretion later in the season.
The same officiating crews that produce flag-heavy games during the regular season generally adopt a more permissive standard in the playoffs. Officials are more inclined to "let them play" in the postseason, particularly in high-leverage situations where a marginal call could dictate the outcome.
By effectively raising the threshold in the playoffs, the NFL acknowledges that over-officiating diminishes the product and that marginal penalties should not decide its most important games.
That also suggests the league accepts, or at least tolerates, the flag-heavy officiating that has come to define the early months of the season. If it didn't, it would instruct officials to exercise the same restraint in September and October that they routinely exercise in January.
Perhaps the league sees officiating controversy as a marketing tool. Questionable calls generate scrutiny, debate, television segments, social-media engagement, and another news cycle surrounding the NFL.
Or perhaps the increase reflects an institutional tendency toward over-enforcement. Officiating gives referees considerable authority over the game. It stokes their egos.
Whatever the explanation, the league should intervene and stop this immediately.
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Obvious infractions should be called. Marginal violations that require slow-motion examination or have no meaningful effect on the play should face a much higher threshold.
What's happening this season is bad for fans, broadcasters, teams and the quality of the sport itself. There are too many flags, too many erased touchdowns, and too many pivotal possessions altered by officiating.
That's particularly difficult to defend at a time when the NFL has never been more expensive or complicated to watch. Between expanded national windows, streaming exclusives, multiple subscriptions, and an increasingly fragmented broadcast schedule, the league is already asking more of consumers than ever before.
In return, the league should at least provide a better product than what it has delivered over four weeks.
Enough with the ticky-tack flags.
Loyalty be damned: Did these coaches stick around a season too long and blow their chances at a big gig?
I want to take you all back to January 2025.
The Arizona State Sun Devils just completed an improbable run to the College Football Playoff only two years removed from the disastrous Herm Edwards era.
Head coach Kenny Dillingham, in only his second year on the job, had guided the program through NCAA sanctions and three-win seasons to a Big 12 championship and had his team on the precipice of a Playoff win over Texas thanks to the contributions of exciting players like Cam Skattebo, Jordyn Tyson, and Sam Leavitt.
Just two years later and the Sun Devils now sit at 2-2 with an anemic offense, fresh off a beatdown at the hands of Baylor, a team currently employing a coach who was on a ridiculously hot seat himself just a month earlier.
Less than a year after Arizona State's magical CFP appearance, two more coaches were making names for themselves at schools on opposite ends of the country.
Jedd Fisch inherited a Washington program in 2024 that had just competed for a national championship the season prior to his arrival, but had to replace almost 100% of the team's production from a year earlier.
After a 6-7 campaign that year showed promise, Fisch followed that up with a nine-win season that included a bowl win over Boise State and featured a quarterback by the name of Demond Williams who was the toast of college football.
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Meanwhile, more than 2,600 miles to the southeast, Brent Key was turning Georgia Tech into a legitimate threat in the ACC with a super innovative offense and a Heisman hopeful by the name of Haynes King at quarterback.
The Yellow Jackets climbed to as high as number seven in the AP Poll, their highest mark in nearly two decades, and even finished the season ranked for the first time since 2014.
Ten months later, and both Washington and Georgia Tech - along with the aforementioned Sun Devils - look like shells of their former selves from just a season ago.
It happens. These schools are not built to contend for more than a season or two in a row without sharp fluctuations year-to-year.
While programs like Ohio State, Texas, Oregon, and Georgia have the infrastructure, funding, and talent pipelines to be consistently great year in and year out, the Washingtons, Georgia Techs, and Arizona States of the world need to capitalize on razor thin windows and go "all in" whenever they recognize those windows are approaching.
That goes for their coaches, too.
There was a time when Dillingham, Fisch, and Key were being linked to every major job in college football following their respective "window years."
Dillingham was talked about as Mike Norvell's potential replacement at Florida State following their abysmal 2024 season, and the 36-year-old head coach was even discussed for the Michigan job shortly after they fired Sherrone Moore.
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Speaking of the Maize and Blue, Fisch was also thought to be the leader in the clubhouse to take the job in Ann Arbor, and both he and Key were heavily considered as candidates for the opening at Florida, with Fisch getting extra attention given his alumni status in Gainesville.
These three coaches were some of the hottest names in the last two hiring cycles, and for whatever reason, they chose to stay at their respective spots.
There's no shame in that, and for Dillingham and Key, it could also come down to the fact that they are coaching at their alma maters.
But the question remains: did they miss their chance to parlay their successful seasons into jobs at bigger, more established programs?
If Washington, Arizona State, and Georgia Tech all finish with six or seven losses each this season, their respective coaches likely won't be fielding many calls when high-level jobs come open in November.
Perhaps they're happy where they are now, although Dillingham has specifically called out Arizona State's fanbase and booster clubs about a lack of funding in the past, and based on conversations I've had with people close to the Gators' football program regarding the Florida job, it's one that Fisch would readily take under the right circumstances.
Time will tell for all three of these coaches, as well as others who are making a name for themselves at the "mid-tier" Power 4 programs.
Maybe one of these three will win 10 or 11 games in 2027 and land a tier-one job to make me look like a fool.
It worked for Matt Campbell, who had multiple historic seasons at Iowa State in 2020 and 2024 only to turn down other offers.
It was only after Penn State came calling a year later that Campbell finally decided to leave the comfort of Ames.
Patience is a virtue, as is loyalty, but when it comes to being a college football coach, sometimes those things can come back to bite you in the rear end.
You're only as good as your latest season, and a lot of these hiring athletic directors have a bad case of recency bias when it comes to selecting their next football coach.
I'll be interested to see where Kenny Dillingham, Brent Key, and Jedd Fisch are a year from today.
Will they be settling in at cushy new jobs in Tallahassee, Los Angeles, and Norman?
Or will they be the latest victims of the "what have you done for me lately" league that is Power 4 college football?
There's only one way to find out.
Mother, son among six identified after Boston-bound medevac jet vanishes off Nantucket
The six people aboard a Boston-bound medical jet that disappeared over the Atlantic have been identified as a Bermudian mother and son and a four-person Canadian flight and medical crew.
Marilyn Lavonne Bean, 66, was being transported for treatment related to a stroke, with her son, Sergio Wayne Lottimore, accompanying her aboard the medevac flight.
The U.S. Coast Guard identified the four Canadians aboard as Philip Gregory Childerhose, Thomas Henry Farquhar, Sarah Jane Paton and Jolene Beth Weir.
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Childerhose was the captain and Farquhar was the first officer, while Paton served as the flight nurse and Weir as the respiratory therapist, according to Latitude Air Ambulance.
The Gulfstream G100 disappeared early Saturday while traveling from Bermuda to Boston, triggering a major Coast Guard search off Nantucket. The Coast Guard suspended the search Sunday after debris associated with the aircraft was located.
Lottimore was senior vice president and head of specialty reinsurance at Hamilton Re, according to the Bermuda-based company.
"The entire Hamilton team is heartbroken by the loss of a respected leader, colleague and friend," Hamilton Re said in a statement.
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Lottimore was also a 2002 graduate of Warwick Academy, where he had served as a prefect. The school remembered him as an "outstanding person."
Bermuda Police said a family liaison officer had been assigned to assist the family.
The aircraft was operated by Latitude Air Ambulance, a Canadian medical transport company. Latitude previously confirmed to Fox News Digital that the Gulfstream was operating as a medevac flight and was expected to make the journey from Bermuda to Boston in approximately two hours.
Latitude Air Ambulance President Peter Byl said the company was mourning an "unimaginable loss."
"Our focus now is on supporting their families, supporting our people and assisting the authorities," Byl said. "We will honour our colleagues by remembering the care, professionalism, and commitment they brought to their work every day."
The flight departed Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport late Friday night and was bound for Boston Logan International Airport.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said the crew reported electrical difficulties as the aircraft approached the Boston area before the jet descended rapidly and air traffic control lost contact south of Nantucket.
FlightAware data previously reviewed by Fox News Digital showed the aircraft descending from 24,000 feet to 11,000 feet in roughly three minutes around 1 a.m. Saturday.
The Federal Aviation Administration previously told Fox News Digital that it issued a Search and Rescue Alert Notice at approximately 1:20 a.m. ET. Massport later confirmed the aircraft never arrived at Boston Logan.
A civilian vessel located debris associated with the aircraft, according to the Coast Guard.
"During this incredibly difficult time, our heartfelt condolences go out to the families and friends impacted by this tragic incident," Rear Adm. Matthew Lake, commander of the Coast Guard Northeast District, said Monday.
"We are grateful to the crews and partner agencies who quickly responded to this incident, and we will continue to support our Canadian partners as they conduct their investigation," Lake added.
Canada is leading the investigation because the aircraft was registered there, in accordance with international agreements, according to the TSB. The National Transportation Safety Board is assisting as an accredited representative for the United States.
The cause has not yet been determined.
The U.S. Coast Guard and Bermuda Police did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for additional comment Tuesday.
Fox News Digital's James Cirrione contributed to this report.
US could play role in united Ireland push after Trump's backing, Irish PM says
NEW YORK — Nearly three decades after the Good Friday Agreement transformed Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said the United States could potentially play a role in a future push for a united Ireland following President Donald Trump's backing for reunification.
Martin, whose Fianna Fáil party supports Irish unity, said the landmark 1998 agreement – which largely ended 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland known as "the Troubles" – created a peaceful mechanism for deciding Northern Ireland's constitutional future, but cautioned that the deep divide between Northern Ireland's nationalist and unionist communities must first be bridged.
"I believe in unity and my party believes in unity, but we have to work on it," Martin told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. "We have to build reconciliation amongst the different traditions on the island of Ireland."
"The U.S. were critical to the success of peace and conflict resolution in Ireland," Martin added.
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Martin spoke to Fox News Digital during the U.N. General Assembly in New York at what he described as a global "crossroad," with war raging in Ukraine, conflict across the Middle East and negotiations underway over Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
Throughout the interview, he repeatedly returned to Ireland's own experience of conflict and peace as a guide to how the country approaches crises abroad, while defending the country's longstanding policy of military neutrality despite its growing support for Ukraine.
The constitutional question of Irish unity gained renewed attention during Trump's recent visit to Ireland last month, when the president said he would "love" to see Ireland unified and predicted it would eventually happen.
Asked during the Fox News Digital whether Washington could play a role again if Ireland eventually moves toward reunification, Martin replied: "To a degree maybe, potentially, yeah."
Martin spoke before the latest confrontation over Garvaghy Road erupted in Portadown, Northern Ireland, reviving one of Northern Ireland's most bitter marching disputes and underscoring how potent nationalist-unionist divisions remain.
The Parades Commission last month approved a limited Orange Order march along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road for the first time in 28 years. Residents and supporters blocked the route, while police declined to force the parade through amid fears of serious disorder.
The Orange Order is a Protestant organization whose members generally support Northern Ireland remaining part of the United Kingdom, while many residents of the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road community, who are predominantly Catholic, favor a united Ireland.
The standoff has since spilled into the courts and Stormont, where parliament meets, as efforts to broker a compromise continue.
Under the Good Friday Agreement, a referendum can be called if it appears a majority in Northern Ireland would support reunification. But Martin said more work is needed to define what a united Ireland would look like and deepen engagement on both sides of the border.
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UKRAINE AND THE SEARCH FOR PEACE
For Martin, however, the lessons of Northern Ireland's peace process extend far beyond the island.
"Because of our conflict in Northern Ireland, we feel we can make a contribution to that conflict resolution pathway," Martin said.
He said Ireland's experience ending decades of violence now shapes how it approaches Russia's war in Ukraine, the conflict in the Middle East and Europe's increasingly uncertain security environment.
"We don't get a sense that Russia is really interested at this particular stage," Martin said of efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
Martin, who had met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the previous evening, nevertheless argued that continued channels between Washington and Moscow were important.
Asked whether a realistic peace settlement would ultimately require Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia, Martin rejected the premise.
"Ukraine can't cede territory that Russia hasn't even conquered, despite four years of war," Martin said.
But he said a ceasefire along existing battle lines could provide a starting point for negotiations.
"If we even could get a ceasefire on existing lines, and then negotiations to start," Martin said, adding that Kyiv would need protections against renewed Russian aggression. "Ukraine needs security guarantees."
Martin also pointed to Ukraine's path toward European Union membership as potentially providing an additional layer of security and said the broader security architecture between Europe and Russia would ultimately have to be addressed in negotiations.
"From our perspective, no one has the right to go into another country and take its territory," Martin said.
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Ireland's extensive support for Kyiv, however, raises a more contentious question at home: how far can a militarily neutral country support one side in a war while maintaining that neutrality?
Ireland has committed more than $754 million in humanitarian assistance, military training and other non-lethal support to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022 while stopping short of providing lethal weapons.
Fox News Digital asked Martin whether that level of support undermined Ireland's neutrality.
"No, because we don't give lethal aid, we haven't given military weaponry, but we have given non-lethal assistance in terms of training and so on like that, and also humanitarian aid to Ukraine," Martin said.
Ireland has also taken in large numbers of Ukrainians fleeing the war. Martin said more than 120,000 had arrived at one point, with roughly 80,000 remaining in the country at the time of the interview.
"That's not taking sides, that's taking humanitarian response to a war," Martin said. "And many are contributing, many are working in the economy."
Ireland's neutrality has also faced scrutiny over the long-standing use of Shannon Airport by the U.S. military.
NATO's top military commander, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, described Shannon in August as a "very important logistics hub" for the United States and said withdrawing American military access would probably damage U.S.-Irish relations.
The airport's role has long drawn protests from Irish neutrality campaigners, who argue that allowing U.S. military personnel and aircraft to transit through a civilian airport undermines the country's neutral status.
Despite differing approaches to conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, Martin described the U.S.-Ireland relationship in almost familial terms.
"There's a very strong bond between Ireland and the United States," Martin said.
He pointed to the long-standing tradition of Irish leaders visiting the White House on St. Patrick's Day and the enormous Irish-American diaspora, which he estimated at roughly 30 million people.
"It's just family, there's kinship ties," Martin said.
MIDDLE EAST
Martin said Ireland's peace-process experience also informs its approach to the Middle East, where Dublin has emerged as one of Israel's strongest European critics.
He condemned Hamas' Oct. 7 terrorist attack and defended Israel's right to security while arguing that the subsequent Israeli military campaign in Gaza had been "absolutely disproportionate."
"We believe in a two-state solution," Martin said. "We believe that Israel, of course, has a right to exist in security and its people need to be guaranteed of security. But likewise, Palestinians should have a right to live in their homeland in a peaceful way."
Martin said Ireland's strongly anti-Israel position was shaped partly by its own history and what he described as a "sense of right and justice and fairness."
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EUROPE'S SECURITY
Ireland currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, placing Martin at the center of negotiations as Europe confronts its biggest security challenges in decades.
"There's a big realization in Europe that we have to do more to provide greater security to Europe, particularly because of the Russian-Ukrainian war," Martin said.
He pointed particularly to Baltic and Nordic countries, where governments have increased defense spending amid fears about Russia.
"Many have an existential fear of Russia," Martin said.
Martin said Europe was also tightening its approach to immigration, echoing comments he made elsewhere in the interview that asylum applications had fallen across Ireland and that governments across the continent were responding to mounting political pressure.
For Martin, those challenges — from Ukraine and the Middle East to Ireland's own unfinished constitutional future —ultimately return to the lessons he believes his country learned through decades of conflict and the peace process that followed.
"The world needs to try and turn a page towards a more peaceful sort of coexistence," Martin said.
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Former Hamas hostage counters Hasan Piker’s UT Austin event with her story of survival
Controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker made waves with his visit to the University of Texas at Austin before he even made it into the Lone Star State.
While he was speaking at an event last week hosted by University Democrats, a student group, another speaker with a much different point of view was telling her story of survival. Former Hamas hostage Maya Regev spoke to students with the goal of ensuring that they hear from someone who witnessed the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023, firsthand.
In a recent conversation with Fox News Digital, Regev took issue with one of Piker's infamous remarks that "It doesn’t matter if rapes f---ing happened on Oct. 7, like that doesn’t change the dynamic for me."
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Regev said students concerned about cases like the sexual assault allegations against Cornell fraternity members may be listening to a person who's said "rape doesn't matter."
Asked about his controversial remarks about the reported rapes committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, Piker told The New Republic that there was "definitely testimony of sexual violence that had taken place amongst the hostages. But that doesn’t change the dynamic of Israel committing a genocide against the Palestinians, and my opposing that genocide."
Regev told Fox News Digital that Chabad, a Jewish organization with representatives across the globe, reached out to her about speaking at UT Austin after Piker's visit to the university was announced.
"I'm not here to silence anyone," Regev told Fox News Digital. "I came there to let people hear what I've been through, like the other side of the story, with facts, with pictures, with records."
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The Anti-Defamation League has criticized Piker for what it calls his "antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes," and has a list of some of his remarks about Oct. 7, including posting that Hamas hostage and American-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander had volunteered for the "Nazi army."
Regev said that while Piker has freedom of speech and "can say whatever he wants," it was important for her to make sure students were getting more than one point of view. Regev also emphasized the fact that she was speaking from her own experience, not things she read about from others.
"For me, Oct. 7, it's not a debate, it's not something I read online. It's something that I've lived through, something that will forever be inside me, something that I will have to live with for the rest of my life," Regev told Fox News Digital. "I just think that it's important for them to understand that behind every story there are real human beings."
"I was a hostage. I was a Hamas hostage," Regev told Fox News Digital. "I was being held by Hamas, by those monsters, and I think that students might, you know, forget that they are actually real human beings, real families that lost their lives, real women that got raped, men, lives were destroyed on Oct. 7."
Regev pushed back on Piker and other online influencers shaping students' opinions without firsthand knowledge.
"When they hear an influencer post something, when they read something, it's important for them to check the facts before they are repeating a slogan or celebrating death of innocent people," Regev said.
She later added, "I sat with those people. I lived with them for two months, with Hamas people... I think that people should listen to a person who was really there and not to a person who just sees stuff online and has millions of followers."
When asked what influencers like Piker get wrong about the situation in Gaza, she said that they overlook the realities on the ground, particularly Hamas' use of Palestinian civilians as human shields.
"Hamas is using children and women and elderly women as a human shield," Regev said. "I think, again, people should know the facts before they're talking, and especially when you're very influencing."
On Oct. 7, 2023, Regev went to the Nova Music Festival with her brother Itay Regev and her friend Omer Shem Tov. When the rocket alerts began sounding at 6:29 a.m., Regev was not so alarmed, explaining, as someone who grew up in Israel, it was something she had experienced several times before that day.
"We thought it was just a matter of time before everything will calm down, and we can keep on partying, but after some time we understood that it [was] a lot more serious than what we thought," she said.
Regev explained that the group headed toward their cars before being told by police officers to abandon their vehicles and that terrorists had invaded the country. That's when Regev, her brother and Shem Tov began running for what she estimated to be 60 to 90 minutes. They then got a call from Ori Danino, a friend of a friend who was also at the festival. Danino had already gotten out of the danger zone, but decided to turn around and pick up the group to get them to safety. Unfortunately, all of them would be abducted and taken to Gaza.
The group drove for about five minutes before "a big pickup truck" with terrorists began shooting at them, hitting Regev in both of her legs. Her brother was also shot. The terrorists dragged Regev, her brother and Shem Tov out of the vehicle before loading them into the pickup truck and driving them into Gaza. While Danino was initially able to escape, he was later caught by another group of terrorists and taken into the Strip.
The Regev siblings were released from captivity in late November 2023, within a few days of each other.
Regev described her release from Gaza as bittersweet, feeling grateful to be home while worrying about her friends who were left behind.
"It was a total shock. I thought that Omer will return home, like, a few days after me, but then the ceasefire was stopped. So, it was very hard for me. I couldn't believe that I escaped this hell, and they are still there being held, Ori, Omer, all the other hostages," Regev told Fox News Digital.
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"I felt very guilty that I was saved, that I'm back home with my family. I can get the medical treatment that I needed to receive and there are people there suffering, still hostages suffering, not eating, being abused physically and mentally. But I understood that I have a voice now, and I have to use it, and I'll do anything in my [power] to bring them back home," she added.
Danino would survive 11 months in captivity before terrorists executed him, along with Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi and Alexander Lobanov. Shem Tov endured 505 days in Hamas captivity and was released on Feb. 22, 2025.
With her brother and Shem Tov back home, Regev is finally able to look to the future, something she wasn't mentally ready to do until all the hostages were returned. Now, she's enjoying the simple things in life, walking outside, looking up at the sky.
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"I just want to do everything that makes me happy," Regev told Fox News Digital. "When I was there in captivity, I promised myself that I will live life. I told myself that if I'll ever be home again, I'll live life, and I'll study, and I'll go travel the world, and I'd be with friends and my family. And it's what I'm doing now, you know, I'm just doing whatever makes me happy."
"I think that the only thing I wish for myself is to be happy forever and grateful for everything that I have."
Fox News Digital reached out to Piker for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Patriots receiver's girlfriend celebrates his game-winning touchdown by peeing her pants
While Patriots receiver Efton Chism III was celebrating his one-handed touchdown catch that turned out to be the game-winning score in a 29-26 victory over the Bills, his girlfriend Devynn Warns was peeing in her pants.
As might expect from a moment like this, a great catch for a go-ahead touchdown late in the game, the excitement for the undrafted second-year receiver's girlfriend was through the roof.
From the footage Devynn shared, the peeing was an unexpected part of the celebration. She was jumping up and down in the front row of Highmark Stadium, losing herself in celebration when she could be heard yelling, "I just peed myself!"
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A little pee wasn’t going to ruin anything. She wrote in the caption of her celebratory post, "Forever reliving and replaying this moment!!! @efton_chism doing Efton things!!!!!!"
Take that C.J. Gardner-Johnson. The Bills' defensive back tried to dismiss Chism as a practice squad player after the game.
"An elevated guy made a hell of a catch. Probably won't hear from him again. Respectfully," is part of what Gardner-Johnson had to say.
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His salty insults don't mean anything. Did you see the joy? Did you catch a glimpse of the passion for the game in that incredible celebration?
Chism's one-handed grab had to have a celebration that met the moment. Devynn Warns was prepared and executed it perfectly.
That's not a catch, nor is it a moment in the game, when you stay seated and give a golf clap. You have to get out of your seat, and you need some actual elevation as you're jumping up and down for joy.
If you pee your pants in the middle of it, so be it. Let it all out. Jump, scream, have your jacket start to fall off. This is the biggest moment of Efton Chism III's NFL career.
A touchdown grab to pick up a road win against an AFC East rival, you almost expect the unexpected during a celebration. Congratulations to Chism and his girlfriend on executing when their number was called.
Comeback canceled: Seahawks ditch plan to sign veteran RB Joe Mixon after failed physical
So much for Joe Mixon’s NFL return.
After bringing the 30-year-old running back in for a workout, the Seattle Seahawks decided not to sign Mixon to their practice squad after his physical, multiple reports said early Tuesday.
Instead, the reigning Super Bowl champions plan to sign Robert Henry Jr. off the Washington Commanders' practice squad.
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Seattle needs backfield depth despite a 30-23 Week 4 win over the Chargers to reach 3-1.
Rookie Jadarian Price is on IR with a chest injury, and Zach Charbonnet is recovering from a torn ACL (though his 21-day practice window opened Thursday).
Emanuel Wilson shined against L.A. with 120 total yards and two touchdowns, but head coach Mike Macdonald still needs insurance.
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Failing his physical is a massive red flag. Mixon missed all of 2025 recovering from a severe foot injury, wiping out momentum from his 1,000-yard, 11-touchdown Pro Bowl season with Houston in 2024.
In seven seasons with Cincinnati, he won the 2018 AFC rushing title (1,168 yards) and earned a Pro Bowl nod in 2021 during their Super Bowl LVI run. He backed that up in 2024 with Houston with his second Pro Bowl selection.
Now, after missing all of 2025 and seeing his Seattle deal fall apart before it started, Mixon's path back to an NFL roster looks tougher than ever.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Is Not Retiring, Blames Coach Jorge Jesus For Portugal Walkout
Cristiano Ronaldo is not following Lionel Messi into international retirement just yet.
The Portugal superstar said he will remain available to play for his national team, despite having walked out on the squad during the current international window.
In a long statement issued through the Portuguese media Tuesday, Ronaldo said recently hired coach Jorge Jesus had not been true to his word about when he would play the striker in the latest round of Nations League matches.
Still, the 41-year-old Ronaldo said he owed his teammates an apology and expects to receive a punishment.
"I can promise all my fans, and naturally especially all Portuguese people, that we will have one or more farewell matches. There will be time for that," Ronaldo said.
He added: "Therefore, if I am physically fit, playing for my club, hopefully scoring goals, then after serving whatever suspension is imposed on me, I will be available, as I have always been until today, to compete and win for our national team."
Ronaldo said he had agreed to a plan for managing his playing time and that he expected the coach to publicly clarify the situation and accept responsibility. He said Jesus did not follow through and instead spoke aggressively at a press conference, causing a breakdown of trust.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
Newsom signs first-in-nation law forcing major companies to reveal slavery-era ties: 'Make it public'
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law Wednesday requiring large companies doing business in the state to scour historical records and publicly disclose slavery-era transactions, advancing California's broader reparations effort through a new corporate "accountability" mandate.
Newsom’s office referred Fox News Digital to an Oct. 1 interview with civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, in which the governor signed the bill on camera and framed the measure as an effort to establish accountability through public disclosure.
"This is a bill that requires large companies that operated before 1965 to search their records for ties to slavery going back to 1849 and then we make it public. These are insurance policies on enslaved people. Human beings used as collateral, quite literally as collateral for loans. Accountability, as Bryan said, starts with the truth," Newsom said.
Assembly Bill 2599, authored by Democratic Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, applies to businesses with more than $100 million in annual worldwide gross receipts that existed, or have a predecessor company that existed, on or before Dec. 31, 1964. Once funded by the Legislature, covered companies must submit affidavits under penalty of perjury verifying searches for records involving the purchase or sale of enslaved people, their use as loan collateral, slave-related insurance and other transactions.
The law also calls for the records to become publicly accessible through a state digital platform. For companies doing business in California as of Jan. 1, 2028, the first affidavits are due by Jan. 15, 2029, or later if the state's platform has not yet been developed.
Bryan framed the measure as an effort to expose corporate wealth tied to slavery while presenting the bill before lawmakers in June.
"For centuries, private corporations across the country benefited from chattel slavery," Bryan said during a Senate Standing Committee on Public Safety hearing. "They benefited from the economic wealth transfer of free labor."
Fox News Digital reached out to Bryan for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
The law came three years after California's first-in-the-nation Reparations Task Force issued more than 100 recommendations for addressing the effects of slavery and discrimination. The task force examined potential monetary compensation alongside policy changes involving housing, education, policing, health and economic disparities.
Newsom previously stopped short of endorsing the task force’s proposed direct cash payments. In a 2023 statement to Fox News Digital, the governor said addressing slavery’s legacy extended beyond sending checks to eligible residents.
"Dealing with that legacy is about much more than cash payments," Newsom said at the time.
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The task force's report cited JPMorgan Chase as one historical example, noting the banking giant apologized in 2005 after research found two predecessor banks had accepted approximately 13,000 enslaved people as collateral for loans and eventually took ownership of about 1,250 people when borrowers defaulted.
The legislation faced opposition from several insurance industry groups, including the American Council of Life Insurers and American Property Casualty Insurance Association. California has required insurers to research and disclose slavery-era insurance policies since 2000, and the state maintains those records through its Department of Insurance.
The California Senate Judiciary Committee’s analysis of the bill said five insurance industry groups opposed the bill, including the American Council of Life Insurers, the Association of California Life and Health Insurance Companies and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association. The committee analysis summarized their opposition as focused on potential duplication of slavery-era disclosures insurers were already required to make under a 2000 law.
"AB 2599 appears to require reporting that substantially overlaps with the work already completed pursuant to SB 2199 and codified in CA INS 13810," the opponents said.