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MIKE DAVIS: FBI knew Mar-a-Lago raid was illegal, but Biden DOJ made them do it
President Trump has faced unprecedented lawfare, including four indictments, two impeachments, and countless lawsuits aimed at keeping him from power, confiscating his wealth and even putting him in prison for life. The most stark example? The FBI’s August 2022 raid of his Mar-a-Lago property. This week, we learned that even FBI agents did not believe there was probable cause for the sham raid.
The Fourth Amendment is fundamental to our Republic. The government cannot search or seize one’s home, office, papers, or person without probable cause. Usually, authorities must obtain a search warrant prior to searching or seizing.
When the raid of Mar-a-Lago became public, lawfare opponents were horrified, for we had crossed the Rubicon. FBI agents rummaged through Trump’s personal effects and took his passport. They staged photos of folders supposedly containing classified information haphazardly strewn about and the Justice Department under then-President Biden released them to the media to cast Trump in a negative light.
The material in question consisted of records that Trump was allowed to maintain under the Presidential Records Act. A battle started between Trump and the National Archives, which wanted some of the documents. Biden’s White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su waived executive privilege, allowing the Biden Justice Department to begin an investigation. The Justice Department obtained a warrant to search for and seize the records, and Trump was indicted for allegedly unlawful retention of classified materials the following year.
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The entire process was corrupt. First, the records were under Secret Service protection. Former presidents receive federal funds for secure office space so that they can maintain classified records. Former presidents, prior to Biden’s disgraceful decision to lock out Trump, were entitled to receive classified intelligence briefings. Trump allowed government officials to come to Mar-a-Lago to view the records and was opposed only to turning them over.
Second, the motive for the return of the records had nothing to do with security concerns. Trump had many records concerning Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the official name for the Obama-Clinton Russian Collusion Hoax. The 2016 campaign of Hillary Clinton cooked up the claim that Trump colluded with Russia to hack Clinton’s emails. Trump sued Clinton and the Democratic National Committee based on the Russia investigation.
Third, the warrant was a sham because the magistrate was not neutral and detached. Magistrate Judge Bruce Rinehart of the Southern District of Florida signed the warrant. Just six weeks earlier, Rinehart had recused himself from the Trump/Clinton lawsuit. The reason was obvious: Rinehart, while a civilian in 2017, had written a Facebook post viciously bashing Trump. The Biden Justice Department ran to a blatantly biased judge in order to procure the warrant.
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This week, through documents released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, we learned that even agents in the FBI’s Washington Field Office did not think that probable cause existed for the raid. The involvement of the Washington Field Office itself is scandalous. The alleged crime occurred in the Southern District of Florida. Yet, Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith used a D.C. grand jury to obtain subpoenas. D.C. voted for Trump’s opponents at a clip of 90% or more during the last three elections. Smith also went to shamelessly leftist D.C. Chief District judges Beryl Howell and James Boasberg to obtain favorable rulings. Smith only indicted Trump in the Southern District of Florida because he feared that a D.C. conviction would get reversed over improper venue.
Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon invalidated Smith’s appointment on constitutional grounds. Then, Trump won a decisive electoral victory last November, and Smith ended his ignominious witch hunt, fleeing back to Europe.
The lawfare waged against Trump, his aides, his supporters, and even members of Congress, most blatant during Operation Arctic Frost, where nearly a dozen senators had their phone records seized, threatened to destroy the Republic. The lawfare perpetrators failed, however, and it is time for legal accountability in the form of an indictment for conspiracy against rights pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 241.
The government searched a former president’s home without probable cause to seize records in order to protect a corrupt former presidential candidate and to end the future political prospects of Trump. And the government procured the search warrant from a biased judicial disgrace who had no business anywhere near any case involving Trump. What occurred is a stain on the judiciary and the nation. Justice must, and will, come.
Flyers warn air travel is becoming unbearable as passenger seats keep shrinking
More and more travelers are taking to social media to share the uncomfortable experiences they've had sitting in cramped airplane seats — prompting renewed debate over airline seating policies and passenger etiquette.
Across multiple platforms, passengers have posted videos and detailed accounts about situations in which they were literally pressed against windows or armrests on fully booked flights.
Some users described feeling trapped, panicked or even short of breath during flights when neighboring passengers leaned into their space or occupied more than the person's assigned seat area.
In one widely discussed Reddit post, a passenger said he or she was crushed against the side of the plane during a cross-country flight after the middle-seat passenger fell asleep shortly after takeoff.
The user said attempts to push back were unsuccessful — and the person eventually asked for help from flight attendants.
The post prompted hundreds of responses from users who said they, too, had encountered situations like that.
One user wrote, "United has a policy for this — [passengers] must be able to sit in their own seat with the armrests fully down, otherwise they need a second seat. If there aren’t extra seats, they need to change to a flight that has some."
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Many people urged other passengers to raise seating concerns during the boarding process rather than after a flight departs — while others said the airlines often fail to enforce their own policies.
On TikTok, users have posted videos describing feeling squeezed into their seats during flights and debating who bears responsibility when space becomes an issue.
In one video, a man described sitting next to a larger passenger and suggested the person may have needed two seats.
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Some commenters said criticism should not be directed at larger passengers.
"Instead of shaming them, you [should] keep your opinion to yourself," one user wrote.
Others defended those speaking out about the issue.
"How is he being mean?" one user said, referencing a poster who complained about his situation. "He paid for a seat and was crushed into two-thirds of it."
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"Put the armrest down," several users wrote.
Florida-based etiquette expert Jacqueline Whitmore, a former flight attendant, said the issue reflects growing challenges as airplane seating continues to shrink.
"The seats on airplanes seem to be getting smaller for everyone, which makes awareness essential," Whitmore told Fox News Digital.
"No one should be pressed, leaned on or crowded out of their seat."
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"When space becomes a problem and boundaries are crossed, the solution isn’t to suffer in silence," she also said.
"It’s best to address the situation calmly, thoughtfully and appropriately."
The websites of United Airlines and American Airlines note that passengers who need more space can book an additional seat or upgrade to a wider premium cabin — with options to rebook on another flight if extra seating is unavailable.
The airlines also state that passengers must be able to sit within their own seats, with armrests fully lowered.
They recommend addressing seating needs in advance, as same-day accommodations may be limited on full flights.
Fox News Digital reached out to United Airlines and American Airlines for further comment.
Convicted killer Scott Peterson keeps swinging in court — but expert says he’s not going anywhere but his cell
More than two decades after Laci Peterson vanished from her Modesto, California, home, the murder case that captivated the nation continues to draw legal challenges, public debate and renewed attention.
As the year comes to a close, Scott Peterson, convicted in 2004 of murdering his pregnant wife and their unborn son Conner, remains behind bars, serving life without the possibility of parole. His wife disappeared on Christmas Eve in 2002, and a few months later the remains of Laci and Conner were found in the San Francisco Bay.
While Peterson's conviction has stood for years, the case continues to generate headlines, as his lawyers filed a petition last April seeking to overturn his conviction.
"Scott Peterson is spending the rest of his life in California state prison," former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, a California-based attorney, told Fox News Digital. "He was originally sentenced to death, but on appeal, the California Supreme Court said that excluding certain jurors based on their views of the death penalty was a legal error."
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That ruling overturned Peterson’s death sentence, though not his conviction. Prosecutors later declined to retry the penalty phase after Laci Peterson’s family chose not to pursue it, citing California’s death penalty moratorium. As a result, Peterson’s sentence was reduced to life without parole.
It was after that resentencing that the Los Angeles Innocence Project took up Peterson’s case, arguing he did not kill his wife or their unborn son.
"When the Innocence Project takes up your case, people start to notice," Rahmani said. "There are a lot of high-profile celebrities and lawyers who are still litigating this case more than 20 years later."
The defense and the Innocence Project have pushed an alternative theory, suggesting Laci Peterson was abducted by burglars and later killed, and that her body was dumped in the San Francisco Bay to frame Scott Peterson once it became public that he had been fishing in the area.
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"That’s really the alternate theory right now that the defense and the Innocence Project is pushing," Rahmani said.
Despite the continued litigation, Rahmani said the original case against Peterson remains strong.
"It’s a circumstantial case, but there was plenty of evidence implicating Scott Peterson in his wife’s murder and their unborn son," he said.
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Rahmani pointed to several factors that prosecutors argued showed Peterson’s guilt, including his extramarital affair, the proximity of Laci Peterson’s body to the location where he had been fishing and his behavior after she went missing.
"Her body ended up just miles away from where he was fishing that day," Rahmani said. "He had bought concrete. Her body was anchored with concrete. He dyed his hair, had cash, someone else’s ID, and camping gear — behavior consistent with someone trying to flee."
The case has also remained in the spotlight due in part to documentaries and true-crime series that continue to revisit Peterson’s conviction. Rahmani said media attention can play a powerful role in shaping public perception and sometimes legal outcomes.
"The practical reality is that media coverage can affect a case," Rahmani said. "Public and political pressure can change outcomes, even though every case should be decided on its legal and factual merits."
As 2025 draws to a close, Rahmani says one of the biggest misconceptions surrounding the case is that Scott Peterson is on the verge of being released.
"There’s still some legal challenges, but they’re narrow," he said. "On the factual side, it’s really this alternate theory the defense is pushing."
While Rahmani acknowledges there is still a legal path forward for Peterson, he believes the odds remain slim.
"I don’t think it’s a particularly good shot," Rahmani said. "And I do expect Scott Peterson to die in California State Prison."
Fox News Digital reached out to the Los Angeles Innocence Project.
NBA bust purchases stake in competitive fishing club amid basketball struggles
An NBA prodigy-turned-bust has another career on his mind.
Ben Simmons was named to three All-Star Games in his first five NBA seasons and was a defensive stalwart, but suddenly became a travesty.
Simmons, still just 29 years old, has not played this season but has been active elsewhere, purchasing an ownership stake in the Sports Fishing Championship's South Florida Sails Angling Club. Simmons grew up in Australia, where fishing was a regular activity.
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"I have always believed that investing in what you love means you have a responsibility to help move it forward," Simmons said in a statement. "Sportfishing has given me incredible experiences, and SFC is creating a platform that treats offshore fishing like the elite sport it is."
Simmons told Andscape that the SFC is the "LIV Golf" and "F1" of fishing.
"The first real competitive sport fishing championship. It’s a league of 16 teams, which is growing and expanding. And so, we’ll go out there and compete in various different tournaments, and there’ll be a champion crowned at the end. It’s a point-scored system. So, you’re fishing for white marlin, blue marlin, sailfish and striped marlin. There are all different point systems for each one," Simmons told the outlet.
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"It’s a very niche sport. And if you don’t know, you don’t know. But once you experience it and get out there and see what it’s about, you’re kind of in awe of what the sport is. And that’s just something I’ve always been interested in in terms of the sport of fishing. The technique. And there’s so much to it that people just don’t understand. These guys are fishing on million-dollar vessels, and they’re out for days at a time. So, it’s tedious and gritty, but a lot of fun. It’s one of those worlds where you just got to kind of experience it, get into it and see what it’s about."
Simmons, who was drafted first overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in 2016, spent six seasons with them but didn't play in two of them. He missed his rookie year due to injuries, and he missed the 2021-22 campaign due to injuries and a holdout. With Philadelphia, he was a triple-double threat, averaging 15.9 points, 8.1 rebounds, and 7.7 assists.
He was then part of the blockbuster James Harden trade that sent him to the Brooklyn Nets, where the flameout officially began. With Brooklyn, in 90 games spanning four seasons, he averaged 6.5 points, 6.3 assists, and 6.2 rebounds.
Simmons played 18 games for the Los Angeles Clippers last season, and those numbers were cut by more than half.
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Woman in Florida Barnes & Noble stabbed to death, police seek motive
Police in Florida are investigating after a 65-year-old woman died from stab wounds she suffered inside a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Palm Beach Gardens.
The incident involving victim Rita Loncharich happened around 8 p.m. Monday at the Legacy Place shopping center, according to WPTV.
Witnesses told police that the suspect, 40-year-old Antonio Moore, ran out of the store after stabbing Loncharich, the station reported. Loncharich was found by responding officers inside the Barnes & Noble suffering from a stab wound and later died from her injuries after being taken to a local hospital.
"This investigation is active and ongoing," the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department said in a statement, according to ABC News. "Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for this attack."
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Jail records from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office show that Moore was booked on a charge of first-degree premeditated murder.
Loncharich's husband said to CBS12 that his wife called him on her cell phone Monday night to inform him that she had been attacked.
"We are deeply saddened by the tragic death of a customer following an incident on property," Legacy Place told WPTV.
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"Our hearts are with the victim’s family, friends and all those impacted. Police responded quickly and a suspect was taken into custody shortly after the incident. Safety remains our top priority. We are working closely with local law enforcement, enhancing our on-site security presence and reviewing protocols with tenants," it added.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Barnes & Noble for comment.
Moore reportedly will make his first court appearance Wednesday morning.
Tom Brady reveals why brutal roast jokes didn't bother him
Tom Brady took on one of the biggest challenges of his post-playing career in 2024. He invited comedians, celebrities and his friends to roast him in front of the world.
Brady recalled doing the show in an appearance on "The Big Podcast with Shaq," saying he wasn’t mad over the jokes that were directed at him. He said he knew what he was getting himself into and talked about doing the event three years earlier with Jeff Ross.
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"No, I wasn’t mad. Because I think this, like, I think like a lot of people – I like being made fun of. Because when they make fun of you, you know they’re comfortable with you," Brady told the NBA legend. "They’re comfortable with you if they make fun of you, then you know you’re really friends. I think people that never make fun of you, ‘Oh, it’s so behaved,’ man, is this real or not.
"In a locker room, all you do is make fun of people. I’ve made every joke of Gronk and Julian (Edelman) and everybody. When we did that in the roast, it’s funny because you know all those guys who are doing that are your brothers."
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While the NFL legend wasn’t mad about any of the jokes, he did express some trepidation about the event earlier this year.
He said in May he had some "regret" over it because it was "tough" for his children because some of the ribs were aimed at their mothers, Bridget Moynahan and Gisele Bündchen.
"They're protective of their mom, of their dad, of everybody. They're like, ‘What was the point of that? Why did you do that?’ You live and you learn," he said on "IMPAULSIVE."
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Five sleeper races that could upend 2026 – from the Alleghenies to the Land of Enchantment
As Clement Moore’s "‘Twas the Night Before Christmas" tells it, families sleep soundly as Santa approaches.
As the new year nears, several election contests may prove just as quiet – until close results suddenly come into focus. Here are five potential sleeper races to watch in 2026:
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, has not often had to worry about a general election challenge since he won a special election on April 13, 1993.
Predecessor Mike Espy, who recently unsuccessfully ran for Senate in a narrow runoff with Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., had resigned to accept President Bill Clinton’s appointment as Secretary of Agriculture.
Thompson’s closest race was that one – against Republican Hayes Dent – at 55% to 45%.
Since then, Thompson has never looked back, and instead made himself a nationally-recognized figure later in his tenure.
He chaired the House Select Committee on January 6 and recently went viral for calling the shooting of West Virginia National Guardsmen allegedly by an Afghan refugee an "unfortunate accident."
Thompson’s district, spanning from Jackson west to Yazoo City and Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, is one of the poorest in the country – landing at 3rd out of 435 with a median income of $37,372, according to data published by the office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio.
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Only Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., and Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y. preside over a poorer population.
Last week, an attorney and former counsel to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., mounted a surprise primary bid against Thompson.
Evan Turnage, 33, who has been alive just about the same time Thompson has been in Congress, made the idea of fighting the region’s persistent poverty paramount to his new campaign, according to Black Press USA.
"I’ve dedicated my life to leveling the playing field so people can not only get by, but get ahead, and raise a family right here," Turnage said, according to the outlet.
On the Republican side, retired Army captain and Vicksburg cardiothoracic surgeon Ron Eller will fight an uphill battle to unseat the winner of the Thompson-Turnage bout.
Connecticut is another state that is typically not in political conversation as hosting nail-biter partisan elections.
During the Bush-Clinton years, however, the state was competitive if not outright Republican-favored.
Former Gov. John Rowland was the first in decades to be elected to more than two terms. He ended up resigning in 2004 amid the threat of impeachment over accusations contractors with the state were doing work on his vacation home.
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After he resigned, his wife famously wrote a poem critical of the media’s coverage of Rowland’s case, based on Moore’s holiday favorite and called "A Lump of Coal for All the Reporters." Rowland’s lieutenant, Gov. M. Jodi Rell, took over and was re-elected once before retiring in 2010.
Since then, the state has been reliably Democratic – save for former Sen. Joe Lieberman changing his affiliation to independent.
In 2022, then-State Sen. George Logan – the first Black man elected to Hartford’s upper chamber – mounted a bid against Rep. Jahana Hayes and lost by less than one percentage point.
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Logan tried again in 2024, but lost by a slightly wider margin.
While Logan is not on the ballot at least yet for 2026, recent history shows Republicans could have an outside chance of ending Democrats’ full control of New England’s congressional delegation.
Republicans have wanted to win back Maryland’s sixth congressional district ever since partisan gerrymandering was blamed for booting 20-year incumbent Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., from office in 2012.
Bartlett, an eccentric conservative who later relocated to the West Virginia wilderness to live off-the-grid, is now 99, and was known for addressing various topics that were sometimes ignored but have received newfound attention at present, including warnings about the strength, reliability and hardening of the U.S. power grid.
Bartlett won his last campaign by 28 points but then lost by about 20 after the rural district encompassing the entire Maryland Panhandle was adjusted to incorporate the edges of densely-populated Washington, D.C., suburbs.
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He was defeated in 2013 by then-Rep. John Delaney, a finance executive – before Delaney was replaced by Total Wine mogul David Trone, who has largely self-funded his campaigns to the tune of millions of dollars.
Trone won re-election before opting in 2024 to pursue retiring Sen. Benjamin Cardin’s, D-Md., seat – which was ultimately won by Democrat Angela Alsobrooks.
He announced this year that he would challenge Rep. April McClain-Delaney, D-Md., the wife of former Rep. John Delaney.
Meanwhile, former longtime state Del. Neil Parrott, R-Antietam, is mounting his fourth consecutive bid for the seat. McClain-Delaney beat Parrott 53-47 in 2024.
The closest that Republicans have gotten to taking back the seat since Bartlett was defeated came in 2014, when now-FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino narrowly lost to Trone by about a point.
Bongino notably sought to nationalize the race, pulling in endorsements like Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and rebuking Delaney as someone who could "write himself a check for a million dollars" if he needed to in order to win.
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The future G-man suggested at the time he would rather knock on doors in far-flung communities like Oakland and Grantsville, where he said, "nobody seems to know who [John Delaney] is," according to the Maryland Reporter.
Given newly-drawn, friendlier maps following litigation over O’Malley-era gerrymandering, Republicans may have a chance to surprise in a district in one of the most Democratic-majority states in the country.
While not typically considered a swing state, or one that gets much attention in federal elections, Nebraska’s only urban-leaning district may decide the future of the House of Representatives if the overall contest is as close as it has been in recent years.
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., one of few in his party who have publicly lambasted President Donald Trump, is retiring. The district – centered in Douglas and Saunders counties, including Omaha and Ashland – already has a slew of candidates on both sides hoping to take the moderate’s seat.
Omaha City Councilman Brinker Harding leads state Sen. Brett Lindstrom, R-Omaha, in fundraising, while on the Democratic side, at least five people, including congressional staffer James Leuschen and state Sen. John Cavanaugh, D-Omaha, have tossed their hats in the ring, according to the Nebraska Examiner.
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Bacon, who hails from suburban Sarpy County, won his last race against former state Sen. Anthony Vargas, D-Omaha, by less than one percentage point.
After a recent wave of GOP losses in Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey, the district shapes up as a tough hold for Republicans in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat statewide since Ben Nelson retired in 2012.
While Nebraska is a red state that doesn’t often garner national attention, on the blue ledger lies New Mexico.
Topographically and culturally similar to red neighbor Texas and formerly red neighbor Arizona on the other side, the Land of Enchantment is often one that enchants the observer that looks closer at its politics.
Notably, its mountainous border with Mexico has largely kept it out of politically-contentious Trump-wall debates focused on the flatter, desert and river boundaries of its neighbors.
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While it lacks the urban population that is typical of most blue states like New York, California, New Jersey and Maryland, Republicans have been increasingly out of power there for years.
Former Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., was the last such lawmaker to represent the state in the upper chamber.
He retired in 2008 and was replaced by Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., whose surname is the Mountain West’s equivalent of Cuomo or Casey. The Interior Department headquarters is named after Udall’s father.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is term limited. While she was preceded by a Republican, Susana Martinez, her state has been trending more toward Democratic reliability otherwise.
Deb Haaland, a former New Mexico congresswoman who was also former President Joe Biden’s Interior secretary, is the biggest name in the Democratic field, while Greggory Hull, the longtime mayor of Rio Rancho, is such for the GOP.
Rep. Gabe Vasquez held off a challenge from predecessor Yvette Herrell in the 2nd congressional district, which spans the southwestern part of the state including Alamogordo and Las Cruces, in what was seen as the GOP’s best chance to make inroads again in the border state.
6 things to know about pancreatic cancer after former senator’s diagnosis
Former U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska announced this week that he has been diagnosed with metastatic stage 4 pancreatic cancer, calling the disease "a death sentence" in a message posted on X.
Sasse, 53, said the cancer has spread and acknowledged that he has "less time than I’d prefer," although he also mentioned recent scientific advances and his intention to pursue treatment.
"I’m not going down without a fight," Sasse said when revealing his diagnosis. "One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jaw-dropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more."
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Pancreatic cancer is known to be one of the deadliest forms of cancer, with ongoing research efforts aiming to improve outcomes.
Below are six key things to know about the disease.
Pancreatic cancer is notoriously aggressive and difficult to treat, according to the American Cancer Society. Most patients are not diagnosed until the disease has already spread to other organs, largely because there aren't reliable screening tests and early symptoms can be vague or absent.
The ACS estimates that 67,440 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2025, and about 51,980 are expected to die from it. The tumor’s biology creates physical and chemical barriers that reduce the effectiveness of many traditional treatments.
Researchers at UCLA recently reported progress on an experimental, off-the-shelf, cell-based immunotherapy designed to attack pancreatic cancer.
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In mouse studies, the therapy slowed tumor growth, extended survival and remained effective even after the cancer had spread to other organs, such as the liver and lungs.
The treatment uses special immune cells called natural killer T (NKT) cells, which are genetically modified so they can specifically recognize and attack pancreatic cancer cells.
Unlike personalized therapies, the NKT cells are naturally compatible with different immune systems and can be mass-produced from donor stem cells.
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Researchers estimate that one donor could supply cells for thousands of treatments, with a potential cost of around $5,000 per dose. All testing so far has been done in mice, and human trials have not yet begun.
Separate research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has suggested that the amino acid cysteine could help the gut heal after cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation.
In mouse studies, cysteine — found in foods like meat, eggs, dairy products, legumes and nuts — helped to regenerate intestinal stem cells that are often damaged during cancer therapy.
Additional unpublished research showed benefits after treatment with 5-fluorouracil, a chemotherapy drug used for colon and pancreatic cancers. Researchers emphasized that human studies are still needed and that cysteine is not a cure for cancer itself.
Recent research published in PLOS Medicine by the International Agency for Research on Cancer found that alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
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The study followed 2.5 million people for about 16 years, finding that each additional 10 grams of ethanol consumed per day was linked to a 3% increase in risk. Higher intake levels were associated with greater risk, particularly with beer and spirits.
Researchers noted that the study was observational and that more work is needed to understand lifetime drinking patterns.
When symptoms do occur, they can include abdominal pain that spreads to the sides or back, loss of appetite and unexplained weight loss, according to Mayo Clinic.
Some patients develop jaundice — yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes — along with light-colored or floating stools, dark urine and itching.
Other possible signs include a new diagnosis of diabetes (or diabetes that becomes harder to control), pain and swelling in an arm or leg that may be linked to a blood clot, and persistent tiredness or weakness.
Those who are experiencing symptoms should consult with a healthcare professional.
Pancreatic cancer risk is influenced by a combination of genetic, medical and lifestyle factors.
The disease becomes more likely with age, and men are slightly more susceptible, according to the ACS. Those with a family history or inherited genetic mutation also have a higher risk, as do people with type 2 diabetes, obesity and lack of physical activity.
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Diets high in processed or red meats and low in fruits and vegetables, as well as high alcohol consumption, may also contribute to pancreatic cancer risk, along with some occupational chemical exposures, per multiple cancer agencies.
Experts note, however, that many people are diagnosed with the disease despite having no clear risk factors.
Ashley J. DiMella, Angelica Stabile, Deirdre Bardolf, and Alex Nitzberg contributed reporting.
2025 lookback: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel briefly suspended by Disney after Charlie Kirk remarks
One of the most shocking moments of 2025 came in September when Disney announced that ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" would be preempted "indefinitely," in what turned out to be a short-lived benching.
On the heels of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, host Jimmy Kimmel accused conservatives of reaching "new lows" for allegedly trying to pin a left-wing ideology on 22-year-old suspect Tyler Robinson — even though prosecutors later reaffirmed those ties in an indictment.
"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said.
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Appearing the next day on journalist Benny Johnson's "The Benny Show," Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr called Kimmel's comments "some of the sickest conduct" and suggested there were potential "avenues" the FCC could pursue.
"Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said at the time. "These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."
Carr’s comments were denounced by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, but a statement from Disney led many Americans to believe Kimmel’s time at the Mouse House was over.
"Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely," a Disney spokesperson said in a vague statement.
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As a result, hundreds of protesters gathered outside Disney’s offices in Burbank, California, demanding that the network return "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to the air. Protesters also assembled outside Kimmel’s Hollywood Boulevard studio, chanting, "ABC bent the knee! No to the FCC!"
Many believed Kimmel had been fired, but he was reinstated the following week.
"We made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday," a Disney spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Kimmel, who has since signed a contract extension through 2027, said he never intended to make light of Kirk’s assassination during an emotional monologue upon his return.
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"I want to make something clear, because it’s important to me as a human — and that is you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man," he said.
"Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions," Kimmel continued. "It was a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make, but I understand that, to some, it felt either ill-timed or unclear or maybe both, and for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you’re upset. If the situation was reversed, there’s a good chance I would have felt the same way."
Kimmel added, "I have many friends and family members on the other side who I love and remain close to, even though we don’t agree on politics at all. I don’t think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution, and it isn’t ever."
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Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
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