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Actress Amanda Seyfried says she's 'not f---ing apologizing' for Charlie Kirk post calling him hateful
Actress Amanda Seyfried said in a newly published interview that she would not apologize for calling Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk "hateful" in an Instagram post shortly after his assassination in September.
According to screenshots that circulated online, she commented that Kirk was "hateful" on Instagram and shared a post that read, "You can’t invite violence to the dinner table and be shocked when it starts eating."
Speaking with "Who What Wear" in an interview published Wednesday, the "Mean Girls" actress spoke about the backlash she faced but refused to back down from her original comments.
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"I'm not f---ing apologizing for that," Seyfried said. "I mean, for f---'s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I'm free to have an opinion, of course. Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualized—which is what people do, of course."
She added how she has to remember to "keep [her] head on" regarding politics.
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"It's always hard to see people who are tricky and harmful have success—like our gorgeous president, the best possible example of that," Seyfried said while sitting in a restaurant with her interviewer. "It's so weird to sit in a civilized restaurant. People are serving us food. You can't unpack it too much, or else you'll go f---ing insane. Like, how is the world still spinning?"
In a comment to Fox News Digital, Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said Seyfried is free to say what she wants but "deserved whatever backlash she gets."
"Amanda Seyfried obviously knows nothing about who Charlie Kirk actually was. She’s a victim of her own algorithm and echo chamber. But if your reaction to an innocent husband and father being assassinated in cold blood is to pile on and call him ‘hateful’ instead of offering condolences, or just remaining silent — I know wild concept — then you are the hateful one," Kolvert said.
After the backlash in September, Seyfried wrote in a public post: "We’re forgetting the nuance of humanity. I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk’s murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable."
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"No one should have to experience this level of violence," she added. "This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?"
In her caption to the post, she appeared to address her previous controversy, "I don’t want to add fuel to a fire. I just want to be able to give clarity to something so irresponsibly (but understandably) taken out of context. Spirited discourse- isn’t that what we should be having?"
Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson to make first in-person court appearance
PROVO, Utah – The man accused of assassinating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is set to make his first in-person court appearance Thursday, nearly three months after he was taken into custody.
The hearing marks the most significant step in the case so far and comes amid growing concerns from media outlets and from Kirk’s widow about the increasing secrecy surrounding the proceedings.
Tyler Robinson, charged with aggravated murder and multiple related felonies in Kirk’s fatal shooting during a Sept. 10 event at Utah Valley University, has appeared via video or audio from jail in previous court hearings. Since then, much of the case has unfolded behind closed doors, prompting a coalition of media organizations, including Fox News, to demand greater transparency.
That coalition requested that prosecutors and defense attorneys be required to give advance notice whenever they seek to seal filings or restrict public access so that those limits can be challenged before taking effect.
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Legal analyst and California-based trial attorney Roger Bonakdar said the dramatic shift in transparency has been striking from the start.
"It has been pretty odd that the information tap was at full blast for a little while and now it's completely shut off," he said. "It's really kind of inconsistent with how you see cases move forward typically."
Bonakdar said authorities were unusually forthcoming early in the investigation, releasing details that prosecutors typically hold back.
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"When they first arrested Tyler Robinson, the information tap was at full blast," he said. "They told us that they had audio recordings from Tyler Robinson and a purported confession. They told us that there was video footage from a local fast food restaurant. They were very, very almost oversharing in the beginning."
But he said that openness abruptly ended.
"Now they've shut that tap off and they're saying you can't even come to court and hear about what we're doing when most of it's probably procedural," he continued.
WATCH: Prosecutors will use Robinson's texts as confession to murder, attorney says
Because prosecutors proceeded by indictment rather than complaint, he noted, the public will not see a preliminary hearing, and substantive evidence may only emerge if the defense files certain motions months down the road.
The push for transparency intensified after both sides jointly moved to classify the audio and transcript from a closed Oct. 24 hearing as "private." That session focused on courthouse-security questions and how Robinson should appear in court going forward.
Media organizations argued the public has a right to know when records are being sealed and to challenge those limitations in real time.
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Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, voiced concerns last month about the shrinking visibility around the case. She questioned why the suspect is being shielded from cameras when her husband was killed in front of a crowd.
"There were cameras all over my husband when he was murdered," she told Fox News' Jesse Watters in an exclusive interview. "There have been cameras all over my friends and family mourning. There have been cameras all over me, analyzing my every move, analyzing my every smile, my every tear. We deserve to have cameras in there."
Bonakdar said her reaction is understandable, explaining, "Erika's sentiments are readily understandable. She's a grieving widow and, you know, our hearts all go out to her."
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At the same time, he said the court is under immense pressure given the political and national significance of the case.
"This process has become complicated because of how significant Charlie was," he said. "This is a very politically charged case. There are very high emotions in this case. And there's also issues of tainting the jury pool."
He explained that judges must balance the First Amendment rights of the media with the need to preserve the integrity of the trial, saying, "Court proceedings are supposed to be open and public… but you do have some real issues with how the public is going to access this information as to the consequences for the integrity of the trial."
The judge has ordered that Thursday’s hearing be held in person and open to the public as much as possible, although no details from the Oct. 24 proceeding may be disclosed. If the hearing transitions into a closed session, the media coalition’s attorney may remain in the courtroom but may not share any portion of the sealed discussion with any outlet or client.
The court has also imposed strict guidelines on how Robinson may be shown. He cannot be photographed or filmed in shackles and may only be depicted while seated. Images of his family members are prohibited, and reporters must comply with the court’s decorum order.
These restrictions mirror earlier rulings, including the postponement of a prior hearing after disputes over whether Robinson could appear in jail attire and how that might influence public perception.
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Bonakdar said such concerns are rooted in fairness.
"Courts oftentimes will prohibit the media from depicting the defendant in shackles or in jail clothing because it creates this inference of guilt," he explained.
Appearing restrained, he said, can lead jurors to view a defendant as dangerous or guilty before any evidence is presented. Still, he noted the restrictions may have limited impact in such a widely covered case.
"Anybody who does a Google search will know… at some point it may be an exercise in futility. Is the damage already done?"
Robinson’s limited physical appearances have raised questions as well. Bonakdar said the most likely explanation for keeping him on video is security.
"They're gonna say that Tyler Robinson is a security risk… he's at risk for being hit by someone who wants to seek revenge," he said. While he acknowledged the reasoning, he added that it is "very clearly a deviation from the norm."
WATCH: Street clothes at center of Tyler Robinson court case
Despite public frustration with the pace of the case, Bonakdar said the timeline is typical for a homicide case, particularly one in which prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty.
"The timing of the case is actually very consistent with the severity of the allegation," he said. Murder cases "move very slowly," he added, especially when prosecutors proceed by indictment rather than complaint.
He said Thursday’s hearing will be narrow in scope but significant.
"It’s going to be somewhat of a one-trick pony," he said. "It’s going to be about this prior sealing order."
The court, he said, set the hearing "specially" to address media objections claiming the secrecy violates First Amendment protections.
Whether Thursday’s proceeding brings clarity or adds more restrictions remains to be seen, but Bonakdar noted that the public deserves to understand at least the procedural posture of the case as it moves slowly toward trial, which he cautioned could still be a year or more away.
Heirs of mother strangled by son accuse ChatGPT of making him delusional in lawsuit against OpenAI, Microsoft
The heirs of an 83-year-old woman who was killed by her son inside their Connecticut home have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft, claiming the AI chatbot amplified his "paranoid delusions."
Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former Yahoo executive, spoke to OpenAI’s popular chatbot before the murder-suicide involving Suzanne Eberson Adams in Old Greenwich in early August, Fox News Digital previously reported, citing The Wall Street Journal.
The lawsuit filed by Adams' estate on Thursday in California Superior Court in San Francisco alleges that OpenAI "designed and distributed a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions about his own mother."
"Throughout these conversations, ChatGPT reinforced a single, dangerous message: Stein-Erik could trust no one in his life — except ChatGPT itself," the lawsuit said, according to The Associated Press. "It fostered his emotional dependence while systematically painting the people around him as enemies. It told him his mother was surveilling him. It told him delivery drivers, retail employees, police officers, and even friends were agents working against him. It told him that names on soda cans were threats from his ‘adversary circle.’"
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The lawsuit named OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, alleging he "personally overrode safety objections and rushed the product to market," and accuses OpenAI's close business partner Microsoft of approving the 2024 release of a version of ChatGPT "despite knowing safety testing had been truncated." Twenty unnamed OpenAI employees and investors are also named as defendants, the AP added.
Soelberg and Adams were found dead on Aug. 5 in her $2.7 million Dutch colonial home.
"Erik, you’re not crazy," the chatbot said after Soelberg claimed his mother and her friend tried to poison him by putting psychedelic drugs in his car’s air vents. "And if it was done by your mother and her friend, that elevates the complexity and betrayal."
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At one point, Adams grew angry after Soelberg shut off their shared printer. ChatGPT suggested that her response was "disproportionate and aligned with someone protecting a surveillance asset," The Wall Street Journal reported.
He was advised to disconnect the printer and watch his mother's reaction. Soelberg posted videos of his ChatGPT conversations on Instagram and YouTube in the months before the murder, according to the New York Post.
Both OpenAI and Microsoft did not immediately respond Thursday morning to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.
In a statement to the AP, an OpenAI spokesperson said, "This is an incredibly heartbreaking situation, and we will review the filings to understand the details."
"We continue improving ChatGPT’s training to recognize and respond to signs of mental or emotional distress, de-escalate conversations, and guide people toward real-world support. We also continue to strengthen ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive moments, working closely with mental health clinicians," the spokesperson added.
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The company also said it has expanded access to crisis resources and hotlines, routed sensitive conversations to safer models and incorporated parental controls, among other improvements.
However, the lawsuit claims the chatbot never suggested that Soelberg speak with a mental health professional and did not decline to "engage in delusional content."
The publicly available chats do not show any specific conversations about Soelberg killing himself or his mother, the AP also reported. The lawsuit says OpenAI has declined to provide Adams' estate with the full history of the chats.
OpenAI is also fighting seven other lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues. Another chatbot maker, Character Technologies, is also facing multiple wrongful death lawsuits, including one from the mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
House Dem to force Trump impeachment vote on 2 articles
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Wednesday and will force the House of Representatives to vote on the measures this week.
Green made his resolution to impeach Trump privileged on Wednesday, meaning the House must vote on the issue within two legislative days. Green has introduced articles of impeachment against Trump at least five times this year, but he has not before tried to force a vote on the issue.
Green's impeachment filing accuses Trump of "calling for the execution of six Democratic lawmakers" and of making threats of violence against judges. The former refers to Trump's reaction after Democratic lawmakers urged members of the military to "refuse illegal orders."
"President Trump is an abuser of presidential power who, if left in office, will continue to promote violence, engender invidious hate, undermine our democracy, and dissolve our Republic," Green said in a statement.
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Green has failed several times to gather support among Democrats for impeaching Trump. House Democrats voted to kill a Green impeachment effort in June, that one based on Trump ordering airstrikes on Iran.
Trump is not the only member of his administration to face impeachment efforts, however. House Democrats also filed articles against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and War Secretary Pete Hegseth this week.
Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., announced the move against Kennedy on Wednesday, arguing he has failed in his role. Stevens had previously vowed to file the articles in September.
"Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos," she wrote in a statement posted on social media.
Meanwhile, Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., targeted Hegseth, pointing to reports that he issued orders to "kill everybody" onboard a small vessel that was allegedly involved in drug trafficking.
"Pete Hegseth has been using the United States military to extrajudicially assassinate people without evidence of any crime," said Thanedar. "Former military attorneys have come out and asserted that his conduct constitutes war crimes. We cannot allow his reprehensible conduct to continue, which is why I have filed these articles to impeach him."
Ex-LSU star implores Michigan star to transfer amid Sherrone Moore controversy
The Sherrone Moore scandal that sparked a frenzy in college football on Wednesday led to questions about what Michigan Wolverines quarterback Bryce Underwood will do with the opening of the transfer portal looming.
Underwood had a solid freshman season as the Wolverines’ quarterback. He threw for 2,229 yards and nine touchdowns and rushed for 323 yards and five touchdowns. Michigan finished 9-3 and were set to play the Texas Longhorns in the upcoming Citrus Bowl.
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Moore was dismissed from the program as athletic director Warde Manuel said he engaged in an "inappropriate relationship" with a staffer. The former coach was then jailed amid an "assault investigation" in Pittsfield, Michigan, police said.
With chaos occurring in and around Ann Arbor, former LSU Tigers star defensive back Tyrann Mathieu wrote on social media that Underwood should consider transferring to his alma mater in the Bayou.
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"Come home son @BryceUnderwood," Mathieu wrote. "We are waiting & will accept you with open arms. FOREVER LSU."
Underwood initially chose to commit to LSU before he flipped to play under Moore. The former head coach touted Underwood’s commitment at the time as "the best players in Michigan go to Michigan."
It’s unclear what Underwood will do.
He was born in Detroit and played high school football in Michigan. He was a two-time Michigan High School Player of the Year.
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AOC’s campaign pours massive cash into luxury Puerto Rico hotels, pricey catering and Bad Bunny venue rental
FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's, D-N.Y., campaign spent nearly $50K in Puerto Rico between late June and September on luxury hotels, pricey meals and $23K on a "venue rental" at the same San Juan arena where she was spotted dancing in a suite at a Bad Bunny concert during an August trip to the U.S. territory.
Videos that emerged on social media from the August trip show AOC visiting a housing development to rail against gentrification while other footage from social media showed her dancing in what appears to be box seats at a Bad Bunny concert on Aug. 10 alongside Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y. Between August and September, Bad Bunny held a 31-show Residency tour at the popular "El Choli" Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, which was attended by a slew of celebrities like LeBron James, Iggy Azalea, Penelope Cruz, Austin Butler, among others.
Meanwhile, a campaign finance report from the third quarter, which records campaign expenses for members of Congress between July 1 and Sept. 30, shows that AOC's campaign spent over $15,000 at two luxury hotels in San Juan, where Bad Bunny was holding his residency tour. The campaign also spent over $10,500 on meals and catering services, the filings show.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings for Q3 show expenditures from the congresswoman's principal campaign committee on two luxury hotels in San Juan, the Hotel Palacio Provincial and Hotel El Convento. On July 28, AOC's campaign forked over $680.52 to Hotel Palacio Provincial, followed by subsequent payments to the hotel on Aug. 29, for $1,507.26, and Sept. 29, for $9,440.79. A $3,861.20 payment also went to Hotel El Convento on Aug. 25, which owns the Hotel Palacio Provincial property as well. In total, AOC's Q3 filings show she spent $15,489.77 on lodging alone in Puerto Rico.
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The same filings show AOC's campaign spent $10,743.13 on "catering" and "meals" in Puerto Rico. The payments were dated across two separate days, Aug. 25 and Sept. 29, and included high-end restaurants in San Juan, such as Cocina Abierta, Cocina al Fondo and Verde Mesa.
In two separate payments on June 24 and Aug. 25, AOC's campaign also spent more than $23,000 on "Venue Rental" at the Coliseo De Puerto Rico, which is where Bad Bunny held multiple concerts as part of his Residency tour, including on Aug. 10, the day that AOC attended his concert. Fox News Digital could not confirm whether the payments were for multiple visits or whether a down payment was made and the final payment was paid later by the campaign.
In response to this article, Ocasio-Cortez's campaign manager, Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben, told Fox News Digital that AOC "regularly travels to Puerto Rico to support local causes and host events that require both staff and security."
"She is deeply proud of her investment in grassroots organizing and will continue to be active in advocating for both people on the island and the millions of Puerto Ricans in the diaspora," Hidalgo-Wohlleben said.
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Ocasio-Cortez's campaign didn't just drop thousands on luxury hotels and high-end food in Puerto Rico. AOC also continued racking up multi-thousand dollar hotel stays at "boutique" luxury hotels and high-end food vendors stateside during the third quarter filing period as well, including from sellers that were based along the "Fighting Oligarchy" tour she participated in with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., earlier this year.
She dropped nearly $5,000 at the Hotel Vermont in Burlington, which followed an April visit that racked up over $1,600, according to the congresswoman's second quarter filings.
Her campaign also spent almost $2,000 for a stay at an "upscale boutique hotel near Central Park," called the Thompson Central Park hotel.
The Arlo Williamsburg, a Brooklyn high-rise hotel with a rooftop pool and bar, was also listed in her most recent FEC report, which revealed she dropped nearly $3,000 on her stay there.
AOC's most recent FEC filing also reveals she racked up thousands of dollars in high-end restaurants, including a $6,300 bill at a fancy restaurant in D.C. called Ama, while her campaign also spent $4,500 for Ice Cream from Mr. Ding-a-ling Ice Cream located in Latham, New York.
The campaign spent $4,400 on catering from D.C.-area executive chef Caleb Jang.
Other high-end restaurants the campaign ate at stateside during Q3 include El Secreto De Rosita in D.C., Hen of the Wood in Vermont, Central Park Boathouse and Mottley Kitchen in the Bronx. Bills for these dinners ranged from a few hundred dollars to a couple of thousand dollars, totaling over $7,000.
Nikki Haley's son says 'this isn't the country for you' if you can't choose your loyalty
Nalin Haley, the son of former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, said it’s time to end dual citizenship and prioritize Americans first.
"We need to end dual citizenship, regardless of who it is, and only natural and only people born in this country who have been citizens of this country should be able to hold public office," Nalin Haley told Fox News Digital in an interview. "No naturalized citizens."
Haley recently turned 24, is a graduate of Villanova University and works in finance.
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"I don't think dual citizenship should exist at all," Haley said. "Like I think you either have your loyalty to the United States or you have it somewhere else. And if you can't figure that out, then this isn't the country for you. Not only should it apply to citizens, but it should especially apply to those in office, those who are holding positions. You can't just have dual loyalty. In this position, you have to give it everything you've got. You have to have loyalty to one country."
He is also the chair of the Tri-County Republicans, a young Republicans group in York, Lancaster and Chester counties in South Carolina.
For him, ending dual citizenship isn’t an extreme idea but something he sees as common sense.
"If you want to have people prioritizing your country and not their own interests and not their money and all that stuff, it only makes sense that we would have it from an actual American who can do all those things," Haley said.
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Another of his beliefs is that Americans shouldn’t serve in foreign militaries.
"Americans should care about, you know, Americans fighting for other foreign countries and foreign military service because it's the same reason why we should care about dual citizenship, about naturalized citizens holding office," Haley said. "It's a conflict of interest. You should not have, as an American, you should not be able to serve in a foreign country's military. That's disqualifying. That's not normal. That shouldn't be allowed. That's basically saying your loyalty is to another country and not your own."
Haley says he’s passionate about issues important to Gen Z and believes young conservatives will ultimately reject wokeness because it goes against nature.
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"I think Gen Z is gonna reject wokeness mainly because we grew up with it and I think we're tired of it," Haley said. "You know, that was something that was brought about mainly by the millennial generation, even though they're starting to now kind of go away from it too."
"But I think it's because my generation is starting to see a big resurgence in faith and in, you know, the belief in Jesus Christ," he added. "And I think that is a massive thing. I think that is the main reason why we're seeing Gen Z reject wokeness is because it's not reality, it's not natural. Nothing about modernity is natural. So we're sort of reverting to tradition into something that is timeless and has always standed at the test of time."
His message to his generation is to be vocal about the issues they care about.
"Use your voice," Haley said. "Learn how to use your voice and speak out because no one's gonna be able to help you. No one's gonna be able to identify the problems if they don't know what's going on. And unfortunately, I think we're seeing a lot of older generations not know what our problems are. So if we get that in front of them, if we say our frustrations and the concerns that we have, they won't have any excuse to not at least hear us and try and do something about it."
Sperm donor with hidden cancer gene fathers nearly 200 kids, families blindsided
A sperm donor whose samples helped conceive nearly 200 children across Europe unknowingly carried a cancer-causing genetic mutation — a hidden risk now tied to multiple childhood illnesses and early deaths.
An investigation led by the BBC and many other public service broadcasters revealed that the donations were made to Denmark's European Sperm Bank (ESB). Those donations were then used by 67 fertility clinics in 14 countries over a 17-year span.
The donor, who was not identified, was paid to donate as a student beginning in 2005, according to the report.
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Although the donor passed the initial health screenings, he had hidden genetic mutations that damaged the TP53 gene, which helps to prevent cancer by repairing DNA damage or trigger the death of cancer cells.
When TP53 is mutated, those protective functions are lost, which can lead to uncontrolled cell division, accumulation of mutations and tumor growth, research has shown.
Up to 20% of the man’s sperm would contain that mutated gene, and any children conceived from that affected sperm would have the mutation in every cell of their body, the BBC report stated.
As a result, these children would have a 90% risk of developing some type of cancer in their lifetime, including breast cancer, bone cancers, brain tumors and leukemia. This heightened risk is known as Li Fraumeni syndrome.
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Doctors raised these concerns at the annual congress of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG), which was held in Milan in May 2025.
At that conference, Edwige Kasper — a specialist in cancer genetics at Rouen University Hospital in France — presented the case of the sperm donor whose genetic material carried the harmful variant.
It was reported that 23 children had been confirmed to have the variant at that time, 10 of which had already been diagnosed with cancer.
The actual number is likely much higher, the report surmised, as at least 197 children were born from the donated sperm — but not all data has been collected.
Kasper called for a limit on the number of births or families for a single donor in Europe.
"We can’t do whole-genome sequencing for all sperm donors — I’m not arguing for that," she said. "But this is the abnormal dissemination of genetic disease. Not every man has 75 children across Europe."
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She also recommended that children born from this donor’s sperm undergo genetic counseling.
"We have some children that have already developed two different cancers, and some of them have already died at a very early age," Kasper recently told the investigators.
There is no worldwide law that limits how many times a donor’s sperm can be used or how many children may be born from a single donor, according to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).
However, individual countries may have their own rules or guidelines surrounding sperm donor usage. The ESHRE recently proposed a cap of 50 families per donor as an international limit.
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Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst, commented on these developments to Fox News Digital.
"This awful story emphasizes the growing need for up-to-date genetic screening for all donors," he said. "It also provides context for the idea that knowing the donor provides an advantage."
"Genetic screening, including for oncogenes (genes that have the potential to cause cancer) is improving dramatically, and all use of sperm donations must include it," Siegel went on.
He also called for AI to be used to improve and speed up the process.
"When a propensity for disease is suspected, the sperm must be discarded," the doctor added.
In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, the European Sperm Bank expressed "deepest sympathy" for the families involved.
"We are deeply affected by the case and the impact that the rare TP53 mutation has on a number of families, children and the donor. They have our deepest sympathy," the ESP said.
"ESB tests and performs an individual medical assessment of all donors in full compliance with recognized and scientific practice and legislation."
In the case of this particular sperm donor with the TP53 mutation, the ESB noted that it occurs only in a small part of the donor's sperm cells and not in the rest of the body.
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"In such cases, the donor himself and his family members are not ill, and a mutation of this type is not detected preventively by genetic screening," the agency said.
When the ESB later confirmed the mutation in 2023, the donor was "immediately blocked" and authorities and clinics were notified.
"The clinics are responsible for informing the patients, partly because we as a sperm bank do not necessarily know the patients, and because the patients' own treating physicians are best equipped to advise them in the specific situation," the agency stated.
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When contacted by Fox News Digital, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) provided its guidance on embryo and gamete donation, which stated in part that all prospective donors should undergo "appropriate genetic evaluation."
"Donors should be healthy and have no history to suggest hereditary disease," the ASRM continued.
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Parents with concerns are encouraged to contact both their treating clinic and the relevant fertility authority in that country.
GOP accuses Democrats of manufacturing affordability crisis as Obamacare subsidy fight nears deadline
Senate Democrats have tried to tie the looming expiration date for Obamacare subsidies to the affordability issues slamming households, but Senate Republicans argue that their counterparts are manufacturing it to score political points next year.
The phrase "sticker shock" became a common rallying cry from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during and after the government shutdown that he used to illustrate what Americans could experience if the Biden-era credits were to expire.
"Our bill is the only bill that will prevent this crisis from happening," Schumer said. "It's the last train out of this station. We urge our Republican colleagues, for the sake of the American people, to get on that train."
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But Senate Republicans contend that Democrats’ proposal to extend the subsidies for another three years is designed to fail and provide the party with a political weapon entering into the 2026 midterm election cycle.
"I think the Democrats politically embrace this affordability issue, and then them asking for a three-year extension does nothing but throw gasoline on the fire of affordability of healthcare," Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital.
Marshall is one of several Senate Republicans who have put together an alternative plan to Schumer’s strategy. His "Marshall Plan" marries Democrats’ desire to extend the subsidies for a year with Republicans’ demands that the credits be done away with in favor of health savings accounts (HSAs).
Republicans are instead running with a plan from Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, the chairs of the Senate health and finance panels, that would abandon the enhanced subsidies in favor of HSAs. That proposal is also expected to fail, leaving the Senate with little time to move ahead with an alternative before the subsidies expire.
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Still, there are ongoing talks between both sides of the aisle to find a compromise. Republicans contend that Schumer is acting as a roadblock to those talks, instead sidelining members reaching across the aisle in favor of a workable solution.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital that Republicans were equally concerned about "sticker shock," and he argued that Cassidy and Crapo’s plan would go a long way to keeping prices low for Americans.
But he acknowledged the political reality that Democrats wanted to use healthcare as a cudgel in the coming months.
"I think that's the concern that a lot of us have on our side of the aisle, is that there's a group of Democrats that don't want to fix this problem, and they want to use it as a political product," he said. "I think there's a group of us on our side of the aisle that really would like to fix it, along with some Dems. I just don't know if there's enough Dems to come along and to take what we think is a reasonable approach on this."
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Other Republicans told Fox News Digital that the subsidies, which were passed and then enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic under former President Joe Biden, are just another addition to a 15-year-long affordability crunch brought on by the passage of Obamacare.
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told Fox News Digital that Obamacare has "always been pricey," and that Democrats were attempting to inject $83 billion in taxpayer money directly to insurance companies with their proposal.
"Democrats have always tried to hide that fact by sending more and more money to insurance companies during COVID," he said. "They did it again with these Biden COVID bonus subsidies, and they set an expiration date, which is coming up at the end of this month. That's what this is all about."
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital that healthcare "has been an ongoing train wreck since Obamacare," and that Democrats jammed the subsidies through Congress without Republican input and set up the fast-approaching cliff.
"I mean, they're just doubling down on the stupid," Schmitt said.