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Charlie Kirk case stalls as accused shooter delays plea and eyes media limits
Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin Tyler Robinson is due in court Friday for a hearing on his defense team's motion to exclude news cameras, and he still hasn't entered a plea more than seven months after a shooting in front of a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
A central aspect of the hearing is expected to include arguments weighing the public's First Amendment right to have access to the proceedings and the 22-year-old defendant's constitutional rights to a fair trial.
Erika Kirk, Charlie's 37-year-old widow and the designated victim's representative, has asked the court to safeguard meaningful media access as the case plays out. Two groups of local and national media outlets, one of which includes Fox News, have also asked the court to allow cameras to remain.
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Judge Tony Graf has already allowed a news camera to be present for the hearing, under the condition that it does not record any private conversations or the faces of Robinson's family, which is expected to sit in the front row of the courtroom.
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At least one expert witness is expected to testify on the potential impact of social media and widespread news coverage on the jury pool, with Robinson's defense bringing in a prominent social psychologist named Bryan Edelman.
Edelman has worked on a number of major cases, including playing a role in Bryan Kohberger's successful motion for a change of venue in the Idaho student murders and the trial of Buffalo supermarket mass shooter Payton Gendron.
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Robinson is accused of shooting Kirk during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in September 2025. He allegedly climbed to a rooftop across the courtyard from where Kirk was speaking and fired a single shot from his grandfather's Mauser rifle.
Bystander video shows the bullet struck Kirk in the neck — in front of a crowd of roughly 3,000 people. He died from the injury.
Surveillance video shows a man in dark clothing dropping down from the far side of the building running off campus.
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Prosecutors have said campus police found marks left behind on the gravel rooftop moments after the shooting "consistent with a sniper having lain [there] — impressions in the gravel potentially left by the elbows, knees and feet of a person in a prone shooting position." They also found the suspected murder weapon in the woods in the direction the suspect ran.
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Prosecutors have said that text messages between Robinson and his romantic partner, Lance Twiggs, allegedly discuss wanting to retrieve the weapon.
"Stuck in Orem for a little while longer yet," Robinson allegedly wrote in the hours after the murder. "Shouldn't be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still."
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Twiggs is cooperating with investigators and has not been charged with a crime.
Robinson could face the death penalty if convicted of the top charge against him, aggravated murder. He is also accused of felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and committing a violent offense in the presence of a child.
Kirk, 31, was a married father of two.
A preliminary hearing, in which prosecutors will have to show probable cause for bringing the case, is scheduled for next month. It's already been put off repeatedly in the wake of Robinson's arrest in September 2025.
Starmer and Macron accused of ‘playing at being relevant’ with Strait of Hormuz plan
As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron convene a summit Friday on the future of the Strait of Hormuz, the two leaders are pushing a European-led plan to reopen the vital shipping lane after the war, without U.S. leadership.
The proposal envisions a post-conflict naval mission made up of Britain, France and other "non-belligerent" countries that would deploy only after fighting ends. Unlike President Donald Trump’s current strategy of blockading Iranian ports with U.S. naval power, the Anglo-French initiative is intended to be separate from the warring parties and focused on restoring commercial shipping.
A senior European official insisted the initiative is not meant to go around Washington, telling Fox News Digital that Paris began discussing a future maritime mission "from day one" of the conflict and is now formalizing those plans jointly with London.
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Macron and Starmer are expected to host a summit to advance what both governments describe as a "coordinated, independent, multinational plan" to reopen the Strait of Hormuz once the fighting ends.
"France and the United Kingdom will also host a conference in Paris this Friday, bringing together by video conference non-belligerent countries ready to contribute, alongside us, to a multilateral and purely defensive mission aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the strait when security conditions allow," Macron wrote on X.
Starmer similarly described the effort as a "coordinated, independent, multinational plan to safeguard international shipping when the conflict ends," saying Britain had already convened more than 40 nations around the initiative, Reuters reported. Washington was not part of those earlier talks.
The European senior official said the proposed force would be "strictly defensive" and would only deploy after active fighting and bombardment have ended, with the goal of restoring normal shipping rather than enforcing a wartime corridor.
"What we want in the end is no blockade, no toll, no nothing that blocks the fluidity of what is going through the Strait of Hormuz," the official told Fox News Digital, while stressing that Iran remains "the first problem."
The official also rejected suggestions that Paris and London are trying to sideline the Trump administration, saying the U.S. has been kept informed and that there is extensive coordination with Washington even if the emerging mission is currently limited to "non-belligerent" countries.
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"We’re coordinating a lot with them," the official said, adding that the goal is to create a framework that can operate once the conflict is over.
Macron has repeatedly emphasized that France’s envisioned mission would be "strictly defensive" and ruled out escorting ships while "bombings" are ongoing. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said "several dozen countries" already had participated in preparatory discussions led by military chiefs of staff, and that any future mission would also require coordination with Gulf coastal states, according to Reuters.
The Anglo-French initiative comes as Trump has taken a far more aggressive approach, ordering the U.S. Navy to blockade Iranian ports and continue operations aimed at securing the strategic waterway after ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed in Pakistan.
Critics argue that without American military power, the European proposal risks being largely symbolic.
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Britain and France are overstating what they can realistically achieve, The Henry Jackson Society analyst Barak Seener said.
"Britain and France are playing at being relevant as so-called ‘Middle Powers’ in international affairs," Seener told Fox News Digital.
"Keir Starmer’s assertion ‘We’re not getting dragged into the war’ disguises the embarrassing fact that the Royal Navy is facing a hollowed out crisis, causing the initiative to be ‘strictly defensive’," he said.
"France’s navy is also facing structural and budgetary pressures that strain its ability to conduct high-tempo operations."
"It is laughable that a European coalition of ‘non-belligerent’ countries that are only willing to engage once hostilities have ended can even speak of protecting its shipping lanes," Seener added.
"Ultimately, the U.S.’s deployment of hard power, consisting of carrier strike groups and fighter aircraft to blockade Iranian ports and clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz, can protect shipping lanes."
The U.K. government and the White House did not reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment before publication.
WWE women’s champ Jade Cargill on why she has the edge over Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania 42
Jade Cargill has been a constant presence in the WrestleMania spotlight since she joined WWE in 2023.
Cargill teamed with Naomi and Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 40 to defeat Dakota Kai, Asuka and Kairi Sane. Cargill pinned Kai for the win in that match. At WrestleMania 41, Cargill made history being a part of the first non-stipulation women’s singles match at the event. She defeated Naomi after their friendship fracture.
She is back in the spotlight once more – this time as the WWE women’s champion.
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Cargill won the title at Saturday Night’s Main Event in November, defeating Tiffany Stratton. On Night 2 of WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas, she will defend the championship against women’s Elimination Chamber winner Rhea Ripley.
She expressed to Fox News Digital in an interview before her match on Sunday night that she has the edge going in.
"I mean, I’m me. I’m Jade Cargill. I’m the champ. I’m stronger. I’m bigger," she said. "I mean, she’s been here before, right? Several times. So have I. I’ve had matches against Naomi. Naomi is spectacular in her own right. She was our champion. The only reason why she dropped the title was because she was pregnant. So, it’s not like I haven’t gone up against champions who have graced major events and who have been spectacular in their own right.
"I’ve done this before. I mean, I’m me, that’s all I have to say. The only way to go is up. She’s been up. It’s time to go down. I just don’t see it ending right now. I’m 2-0. I’m red hot. I just formed a group with Michin and B-Fab. Who’s going to stop us?"
Cargill wouldn’t say whether Michin and B-Fab will be by her side at her WrestleMania match but stressed that she found allies in them as Ripley turned her attention away from "Monday Night Raw" and onto "Friday Night Smackdown."
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She suggested to Fox News Digital the three were allies of convenience rather than a full-fledged stable.
"We’re more of allies. We’re not a group, we’re more of allies. They had their issues with her. I came in with my issues. Like, who are you to come to SmackDown? And I look at our locker room and I’m like, ‘This girl came from Raw to SmackDown and she thinks she’s going to run things and you guys are gonna let …’ Because I played by the rules for too long. I was trying to adjust. It was a year of adjustments – all these things. I was trying to do things the right way when all along, that little voice in me was telling me, ‘No, you know the right way, and the right way is left. Don’t go right. Don’t listen. It’s gonna get you nowhere. You’re going to be going in circles for years.’ And that’s what I was doing.
"So, we all came together and we figured out … Well, they came to me and it was more so, like, ‘You know what? You were right. It shouldn’t be like this. We should band together and get this person who is an outsider, let’s get her out.’ She doesn’t even deserve to be on SmackDown. And that’s why we became allies. We both have a common enemy. And so, we were like, let’s get rid of this girl. Let’s be done. And that was smart."
Cargill said getting to this point had been a lot of "trial and error" since she joined WWE.
She made her debut at the 2024 Royal Rumble and made her mark on SmackDown by helping out Naomi and Belair. She and Belair became two-time tag team champions in that span and in 2025, she won the Queen of the Ring tournament.
"It’s been a trial-and-error run. It’s also been a trial of adjustments because I was used to being one way," Cargill told Fox News Digital. "I came in as a babyface while naturally I’m a heel. I want people to hate me. I love the motivation behind it. And then going from being all about myself and into a tag team, that was an adjustment as well.
"It was a lot of elements that I had to change about myself and about my character and growing and learning to be selfless and learning to be a good guy and to care. … So, it was years of trial and error and just adjustments."
Cargill’s reign has surpassed 165 days and will look to continue her dominance through WrestleMania 42 this weekend.
Carville tells Dems to quietly prepare power grab with DC, Puerto Rico statehood and Supreme Court packing
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville suggested on Thursday that Democrats should quietly prepare to launch a variety of structural changes to ensure a political advantage once they regain power.
Carville and co-host Al Hunt of the "Politics War Room" podcast took questions from listeners on an episode released Thursday. One asked that if Democrats return to power in 2029, whether they should "flood the zone with a corrective implementation policy using their majority to simultaneously enact a myriad of structural changes to save our democracy and preserve our rights?"
"I’ve got some thoughts about what the Democrats should do [when] they return to power in 2029," Hunt replied. "But, you know, I haven't thought it through thoroughly, yet. I'm really focused on what they should do when they win the House and maybe the Senate in 2027, and that's to hold Trump as accountable as they possibly can."
Carville, however, offered a more aggressive plan of action, saying, "If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F--- it. Eat our dust."
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Statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico are believed to overwhelmingly favor Democrats, likely giving them four more Senate seats. This move, along with expanding the Supreme Court, would likely be viewed by Republicans as a power grab in the pursuit of ensuring a party’s political dominance.
"They've done everything they could," Carville continued. "They held up the 2000 election. They stole it. They've stolen Supreme Court seats. They've gerrymandered everything that you can."
In order to make these changes happen, Carville advises Democrats not to publicly advertise them.
"Don't run on it. Don't talk about it. Just do it," he said.
He then complained about how low-populated states are able to elect too many senators.
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Carville has made bombastic predictions before, such as believing before the election that Trump, having returned to the White House, would jail journalists and commentators like himself.
But after the first few months of Trump’s presidency, Trump’s once seemingly unbreakable coalition has shattered as some of his most prominent backers have accused him of betraying key campaign promises. With experts predicting defeat for Republicans in the midterm elections, Carville thinks the already stymied president will resign from the presidency afterward.
He has also predicted that political and legal retribution will not only target Trump, but his family, their spouses, and his allies.
Airport lounge chaos goes viral as kids run wild and passengers ditch basic etiquette
Airport lounges were once the destination of a select few. But recently, the premium spaces are becoming increasingly crowded — and chaos is following in some cases.
Stories are going viral about passengers raiding complimentary buffets in lounges, and children wreaking havoc while distracted parents are unfazed.
At one airport lounge in a major New York City airport not long ago, witnesses watched in shock as a couple ordered six signature burgers and multiple orders of buns, the "View from the Wing" blog reported.
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Instead of eating the premium patties, the couple stuffed the burgers into a large duffel, adding desserts snatched from the buffet, the blog added.
Then, to conceal the heist, apparently, the couple stashed the greasy plates behind decorative planters, the blog noted.
"Lounges have become more crowded, and the demographic makeup of U.S. airport lounges has changed," Gary Leff, the author of the blog, told Fox News Digital.
"Once the province of memberships and cheese cubes for solo business travelers, the lounges are increasingly accessed via credit card by premium leisure travelers," said Leff, who is based in Texas.
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Leff noted that during the recent shutdown, U.S. travelers arrived at airports very early.
As a result, many booked passengers were looking for places to relax — and to eat free food.
He also said families with children frequent lounges far more often now.
Some lounges have created kids' sections, while others have not.
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"The mores and norms associated with [airport lounges] have changed, and that stands out especially to those whose expectations are built on an earlier era," Leff said.
Another viral incident was captured by a photo of an airport lounge after young children seemed to wreak havoc there.
A traveler snapped a photo at a sky club lounge in a western U.S. airport showing kids' small suitcases opened, with clothes, sneakers and water bottles strewn all over the floor, the "Aviation A2Z" blog reported.
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Surprisingly, most Reddit users came to the family's defense.
"Honestly, if their kids aren’t being terrors to everyone else, and it’s contained to a seating area for four people, and they [clean] everything up, this is fine in my book," one Reddit user said.
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"The parents found a space to hang out away from everyone else, and took a small area for themselves that has no impact on anyone else," another commenter said.
"Depends entirely on how loud the kids are. If they are quiet? Keep it that way," a third person said.
California-based Brett Snyder, author of the "Cranky Flier" blog, sees the chaos differently.
"Etiquette probably hasn't changed much recently. The issue is that everyone has a camera, and they are recording all the bad behavior and posting it publicly," Snyder told Fox News Digital.
"Traveling with children has always been challenging and stressful for parents, and sometimes that can be disruptive to other travelers."
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GREGG JARRETT: Long-hidden documents reveal first Trump impeachment was a total fraud
Newly declassified documents prove that the first impeachment of President Donald Trump in 2019-2020 was a carefully orchestrated fraud.
It all was concocted by Trump-hating "deep state actors" within the intelligence community who secretly conspired with Democrats in Congress to remove Trump from office and subvert the will of the American people who put him there.
The damning evidence was produced Monday, April 13 by Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. On Wednesday, she sent criminal referrals to the Department of Justice (DOJ) aimed at two of the central figures who propelled the impeachment proceedings, accusing them of manufacturing a conspiracy.
The first is Michael Atkinson, who served as the inspector general (IG) of the Intelligence Community at the time of the impeachment hearings, and the whistleblower who filed a formal complaint about Trump’s July 2019 telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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The identity of the whistleblower — a CIA analyst and registered Democrat — has still not been officially disclosed, which is utterly absurd. He is not entitled to hide in the shadows of anonymity. By law, only the IG can decline to release his name. But this applies to no one else. Gabbard should identify him, particularly since he no longer works in intelligence.
Moreover, the so-called "whistleblower" was not a whistleblower at all, as I explained repeatedly in a series of columns seven years ago during Trump’s impeachment. The complaint he filed against the president never qualified as a valid complaint under the whistleblower statute. It does not meet the two requisite conditions set forth in the law.
That is, the alleged wrongful conduct must involve intelligence activity, and it must be committed by a member of the intelligence community. The president is not a member of the intelligence community and never has been. Under Article II of the Constitution, the chief executive has sweeping authority to conduct foreign affairs, negotiate with leaders of other nations and make requests or solicit information.
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That is precisely what Trump did in his conversation with Zelenskyy. He suggested that the leader examine Hunter Biden’s ridiculously lucrative business deals with the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, as well as later-President Joe Biden’s on-camera brag in which he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds unless the Ukraine prosecutor investigating both Burisma and Hunter Biden was fired. It appeared to be an overt and corrupt "quid pro quo" to protect his son and keep the Biden family’s financial gravy train chugging along. It also smacked of extortion.
There was nothing inappropriate about Trump’s phone discussion since the younger Biden was already the subject of a DOJ criminal probe into his highly suspicious international business schemes. Trump’s request was logical and not at all uncommon. Other presidents have done the same thing.
Our Justice Department has enlisted foreign help in numerous cases over the years. Presidents sometimes get involved. It was ludicrous for Democrats to declare that the conversation was an impeachable offense. Yet they did so zealously.
They knowingly exploited a faux whistleblower who had no firsthand knowledge whatsoever of the phone conversation. He neither listened in nor read a transcript of it. He simply heard about it from someone else. The Constitution does not grant the power of review or disapproval to unelected and inferior bureaucratic employees over the most superior officer in the U.S. government, the president.
Again, I wrote about this as the impeachment saga unfolded in 2019:
"So what should we call the fake "whistleblower"? It is more accurate to describe him as an undercover informant acting as a Democratic operative who spied on President Trump by gathering hearsay information intended to damage him.
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Moreover, there is increasing evidence that the informant was aided and abetted by none other than Schiff and/or Schiff’s staff to invent a pretext for the impeachment of the president."
Sure enough, Gabbard’s never-before-seen documents confirm it. The pretend whistleblower eventually admitted that he was a partisan who "worked closely with Vice President Biden" and "travelled with Biden to Ukraine." In other words, when Trump became president, the analyst appears to have embedded as an adversarial "mole" and became instrumental in triggering the fraudulent impeachment.
Equally shocking is the alleged role played by Atkinson, who was supposed to remain a fair and neutral inspector general. Yet, records show that he vouched for the credibility of the fake whistleblower knowing full well that he had submitted false information in his complaint. "I also want to make it clear that I never considered the whistleblower to be politically biased," he said during testimony.
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Atkinson had a duty to toss the garbage complaint in the nearest trash receptacle. The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel pronounced it so deficient that Congress should not be notified. Instead, the IG did the opposite. He labeled the complaint an "urgent concern" when it was not and leveraged it as a cudgel against Trump, pushing it forward aggressively toward impeachment.
Even worse, exculpatory evidence that would have benefited Trump was deliberately withheld from Congress, the American people and the president’s impeachment defense team. It was hidden under the marking of "classified." No one was ever told of the CIA analyst’s acute bias, political motivations, or his critical confession that "I do not have direct knowledge of private comments or communications by the President."
Then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Democrat Adam Schiff knew all about the exonerating evidence but concealed it. On the sly, the analyst coordinated with Schiff’s staff before the whistleblower complaint was ever filed. Trump was being set up.
Publicly, Schiff insisted that he never knew the man’s name and "we have not spoken directly to the whistleblower." When that was exposed as untrue, Schiff tried to walk it back. Documents show the analyst also lied to Atkinson. He later apologized for peddling the same deceit as Schiff. Amazingly, the apology itself was covered up.
Gabbard has accused Atkinson of ignoring DOJ guidance, exceeding his statutory jurisdiction and weaponizing the established whistleblower process. "Inspector General Atkinson failed to uphold his responsibility to the American people, putting political motivations over the truth."
The inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the newly declassified documents is that Trump was framed. Elements within the intelligence community, including Atkinson and the sham whistleblower, engineered a conspiracy that was used as the basis to impeach President Trump, said Gabbard.
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Democrats like Schiff knew it was entirely bogus but didn’t care. Their goal, as it always has been, was to destroy Trump and drive him from office.
Now that the pernicious lies have unraveled, what happens next?
The Department of Justice, relying on Gabbard’s criminal referral, must undertake a thorough investigation. Potential charges could include false statements, perjury, obstruction and conspiracy to defraud the government. Those who conjured up a phony impeachment should be held accountable in a court of law.
Trump, of course, survived the impeachment ordeal. History books should be faithful to the truth and call it a farce.
WWE Hall of Fame 2026 class features Stephanie McMahon, AJ Styles and Dennis Rodman among inductees
The WWE’s Hall of Fame class of 2026 is as star-studded as ever. Several superstars who made an indelible impact on the pro wrestling business will be inducted on Friday night.
Stephanie McMahon, AJ Styles, the tag team of Demolition, Dennis Rodman, Sid Eudy and Bad News Brown will be this year’s enshrinees.
The ceremony will take place at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas at 9 p.m. PT, a day before the first night of WrestleMania 42 will take place.
Read below for a quick overview of the year’s inductees.
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Stephanie McMahon, the daughter of WWE founder Vince McMahon, turned into one of the biggest heels of the Attitude Era ushering herself into the business as a valet for several wrestling colleagues, including her father. She also became an on-screen authoritarian mouthpiece that resonated with pro wrestling fans whether she was a heel or a babyface.
She helped bring about the women’s wrestling revolution in WWE and evolving the division from on-screen eye candy into main event superstars.
Outside of the ring, McMahon held several prominent positions within the company itself. She was an executive vice president, chief brand officer, chairwoman and co-CEO of WWE before ultimately leaving the company in 2023. She’s made sporadic appearances since then, anchoring some WWE premium live events of welcoming fans to them.
McMahon is married to WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque.
The "Phenomenal" A.J. Styles is one of the most prolific wrestlers of his generation and one who didn’t need to come to WWE to make a name for himself. Styles was a superstar at Total Nonstop Action wrestling (TNA) for several years and was a fan favorite in Japan before he decided to cross the line and make a leap to WWE.
Styles made his WWE debut at the 2016 Royal Rumble and immediately embarked on a feud with John Cena. For about 10 years, Styles was a main event player on the WWE roster. He was a two-time WWE champion, three-time United States champion, an intercontinental champion and a two-time tag team champion. He was also the 32nd Triple Crown champion and 15th Grand Slam champion the WWE has ever had.
He retired from pro wrestling after his loss to Gunther at the Royal Rumble.
Demolition was one of the hottest tag teams in WWE in the 1990s.
Ax and Smash were three-time tag team champions and hold the record for the most combined days as champions. The two had epic rivalries with Rick Martel and Tito Santana, the British Bulldogs of Davey Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid and the Hart Foundation with Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart.
Tag teams have been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as groups in three of the last four classes. Rick and Scott Steiner were inducted in 2022, the U.S. Express of Mike Rotunda and Barry Windham went into the Hall in 2024 and The Natural Disasters of Earthquake and Typhoon heard the call last year.
Dennis Rodman is most likely known for his performances on the NBA court, but his appearances in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) became some of the most-talked about moments during the "Monday Night Wars" between the company and WWE (then known as the World Wrestling Foundation).
Rodman briefly aligned himself with the New World Order (NWO) with Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. He even stepped away from the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls during their dynastic years.
Rodman made his NWO debut with Hogan on "Monday Nitro" March 10, 1997. He also appeared at Uncensored later that month. His first match came in July 1997 at Bash at the Beach. During the Bulls’ 1998 playoff run, Rodman skipped practice to appear with Hogan on Nitro.
Sean Waltman, who was a member of the NWO with WCW recalled Rodman’s appearances to Fox News Digital in 2023.
"He was a good dude," Waltman said of Rodman. "He was just kind of socially awkward, shy. It wasn’t like he was real talkative. He was great. It was so great to have him there. The guy was so into it. He skipped practice during the playoff games to show up on Nitro."
No matter what name pro wrestling fans knew him by, Sid Eudy was a menace in the ring and will finally take his rightful place in the WWE Hall of Fame.
Eudy, who died in 2024, wrestled under different names, including Sid, Sid Eudy, Sid Justice, Sid Steele, Sid Vicious, Sycho Sid, Vicious Warriors and Lord Humongous. He performed in WWE when it was still the World Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the United States Wrestling Association, Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and on the indies.
He was a two-time WWF champion, a two-time WCW heavyweight champion and a WCW U.S. champion.
Bad News Brown may not have been a household name with pro wrestling fans, but he had some epic feuds in his time with WWE.
He was known for keeping a straight or tense look. He had feuds with Randy Savage and had a major match at WrestleMania VI against "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Brown never won a championship in WWE. However, he was inducted into the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2007 and was a four-time Stampede North American heavyweight champion.
Before his pro wrestling career began, Brown was an Olympic medalist. He won a bronze medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and took home two gold medals at the Pan American Games in 1967 and 1975.
It might be the most iconic moment in pro wrestling. Hulk Hogan going up against Andre the Giant at WrestleMania 3 for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. It’s arguably the moment Hogan became larger than life.
Hogan would try to slam Andre the Giant early in the match, but to no avail. Andre nearly pinned him when he fell on him. But as the match wore on, Hogan was sent into the ropes and hit Andre with a clothesline that knocked him down. Hogan grappled with Andre, picked him up and slammed him down. The crowd went wild and Hogan would retain the title.
Hogan died in 2025 and Andre the Giant died in 1993. But their moment in pro wrestling history will forever be immortalized.
I chose abortion, then changed my mind — California wants that choice gone
Those who support a woman’s right to choose should not be working to block that same woman from choosing differently when she has a change of heart. Abortion pill reversal saved my baby and the California attorney general is trying to hide this life-saving option from women.
He claims it’s dangerous.
I made the incredibly difficult decision to get an abortion because, at the time, I felt it necessary. That, too, carried risks, and I accepted them because I thought I had no other option. When I learned about abortion pill reversal, I was given a second chance. The process I experienced was safe and effective. It’s just progesterone — the same hormone my own body produced to support my pregnancy — yet somehow, that is what they call "risky."
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It makes me question whether the concern is really about women at all, or for the power and politics involved.
My story started when I found myself pregnant after a brief reunion with my ex, Ben. He had already moved out, and our relationship was strained. I was overwhelmed by the thought of doing this on my own. At first, I was excited, but the doubts from others quickly crept in. Family and friends questioned whether I could handle it. I began to question it too.
I chose to take the abortion pill, and immediately, I regretted it. That same day, I received a message from Ben telling me he wanted us to keep the baby. In that moment, everything shifted. I knew I had to try to stop what I had started. I searched frantically for help and found abortion pill reversal. Calling that number changed everything. It gave me an option I didn’t know existed in the moment I needed it most.
With support from Ben and the pregnancy center staff who walked alongside us, I began the process. In the weeks that followed, I saw my baby on the screen during sonograms. I watched her grow. Ben and I began taking parenting classes together, and slowly, we started building something new, something stronger.
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On January 18, 2024, I gave birth to our daughter, Evelyn.
That "problem" I was trying to solve is now 2 years old. She looks for me in every room she enters and finds comfort in my arms. She believes my kisses heal all boo-boos and she trusts me completely to keep her safe. That's why I defend abortion pill reversal.
Choosing reversal, choosing her, was the best decision of my life.
This is not theoretical for me. This is real.
Abortion pill reversal gave me a second chance in a moment of desperation. It is a life-saving intervention. To stand against it feels no different than opposing something like CPR. We do not deny people a chance to live just because their lives are politically inconvenient or do not fit our narrative. We step in and help.
That is why I speak out. That is why I will continue to defend abortion pill reversal.
No woman should be denied the chance to change her mind. Calling that number and stopping the abortion I had started led to a series of events that led to what I consider the happiest years of my life so far.
It's our job as women — and as a society — to keep our children safe. Motherhood is a God-given right for women. The attorney general shouldn't be able to take that from us.
My daughter, my family, and I are living proof of what that second chance can mean.
WILLIAM BENNETT, ROB NOEL: Two years after Columbia encampment, campuses still chilled by fear
Two years ago, on April 18, 2024, New York Police Department officers arrested 108 students at Columbia University’s "Gaza Solidarity Encampment," triggering a wave of campus chaos that swept the nation and the world.
What followed was among the darkest chapters in American higher education: Jewish students assaulted and harassed, swastikas painted on buildings, American flags set ablaze, and more than 3,000 arrested for trespassing, vandalism and worse.
While it sparked widespread calls for campus reform — and strident efforts by the Trump administration to hold universities accountable — data suggests that the period left deep scars on university life, particularly an ongoing culture of fear and self-censorship.
FIRE’s 2026 college free speech survey shows that 91% of students now self-censor at least some of the time in conversations with classmates. Israel and Palestine are the most feared topics for open dissent, just ahead of abortion and transgender rights. At two prominent universities, 88% of students now pretend to be more progressive than they really are.
Fear of social reprisal drives the trend, but it is no doubt reinforced by acts of violence against conservatives, including the assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk last year. Support for such acts continues to grow. The FIRE study shows that one in three students now believe violence can sometimes be justified to stop a speaker, a 70% increase since 2022.
The fear also extends to classrooms: roughly nine in 10 students self-censor in conversations with professors. There is little wonder why. In 1989, liberal professors outnumbered conservatives by roughly two to one. By the mid 2010s, the ratio was five to one. Today, across the humanities departments at Yale alone, Democrats outnumber Republicans 72-to-1. What few conservative faculty remain often hide their political views in order to keep their jobs.
As one University of Oklahoma student put it, "Why would I disagree with my professors [sic] strong and open political opinions when he is the one grading everything?"
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This self-censorship harms everyone, progressives not least of all. Shielding ideas from challenge renders fragile both the ideas and those who hold them.
The greatest victim is America itself. When young people spend four formative years practicing self-censorship, they do not shed that habit at graduation. They carry it into journalism, business, law, medicine, and their lives as citizens.
All around us today, we are seeing what happens when elites — at universities and beyond — use fear in an attempt to force ideological conformity onto the country. Trust vanishes, discourse hardens, and our people stop understanding each other. Society starts to fray.
While the post-Gaza campus climate is tragic for America, hope remains. Pushback from the Trump administration is yielding results. DEI programs are being shuttered and many universities have adopted institutional neutrality policies that restrain them from taking positions on political and social topics.
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But universities have more to do. Much more. Their goal should be to recover the vision of Mortimer Adler, who helped pioneer academic freedom standards at the University of Chicago. He believed that the purpose of higher education was "to develop free human beings who know how to use their minds and are able to think for themselves."
This requires restoring true intellectual diversity among the faculty. Universities would also be wise to get a pulse on what students really believe, such as through anonymous surveys, and then publicly commit to defending all viewpoints. Alumni and donors can play a role, too, by tying support to free inquiry metrics.
Above all, we need the higher education system to understand its role in the formation of virtue, particularly that greatest of civic virtues — courage. Without it, we cannot speak or defend truth, maintain integrity when unpopular, or foster the habits of mind required for self-governance.
The Gaza protests proved that fear is contagious on campuses. But courage can be, too. Our universities must decide which they intend to teach.
Rob Noel is a speechwriter who serves as president of Washington Writers Network.