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El-Sayed asked if he believes America is 'ready for a Muslim president' ahead of Senate race
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed remarked on whether he would consider running for president of the United States, during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
Host Kristen Welker closed her interview asking El-Sayed whether he believed America was "ready" to elect a Muslim candidate for president.
"That's not a question I'm asking," El-Sayed answered. "I think Michigan is ready for a Muslim senator."
Welker repeated the question, but El-Sayed continued to say the question was "irrelevant" and that Michigan was ready for a Muslim senator.
"Okay, but you don't rule out the possibility that—?" Welker asked.
"I have no intention of ever running for president. That is not a thing I've ever wanted to do," El-Sayed said.
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He continued, "I want to be a really great senator for my state. You know, someday, somewhere, somebody down the line decides to run, that would have been a really amazing thing to see how big America really is. But for right now, I really want to be the next senator from Michigan. That's what I’d like to be for a long time to come. I'm looking forward to serving out the next six years. I'm honored to get to do this. And look, America is a big place, and America has this incredible way of reminding us how big she really is. And that starts in Michigan."
During the interview, Welker also asked another question about a presidential run while referencing a reported comment made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., where she remarked, "If Abdul can win in Michigan, anybody can win anywhere."
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"If you lose Michigan, does that mean that a progressive like AOC can't win the White House in 2028?" Welker said.
"Look, this is one seat in Michigan that has a lot more to do with our local issues in Michigan than it has to do with a national referendum," El-Sayed said.
Fox News Digital reached out to NBC and El-Sayed's campaign for comment.
El-Sayed's interview came after his Thursday debate with GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers in which Rogers brought up alleged ties between El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization.
El-Sayed has repeatedly denied these ties. He also rejected the premise when asked by Welker.
"No," he said, before claiming the allegation was based in Islamophobia.
"It's truly shameful, but he has no ideas, he doesn't actually care about solving problems," El-Sayed said of Rogers.
In a comment to Fox News Digital, Media Research Center President David Bozell criticized what he considered Welker's eagerness to consider El-Sayed a presidential candidate.
"NBC took one look at Abdul El-Sayed and started planning the presidential library. Never mind Hasan Piker. Never mind Michigan. Meet the Press skipped the vetting and went straight to measuring El-Sayed’s Oval Office drapes," Bozell said.
Aaron Rodgers defies Father Time with another three-touchdown performance in Steelers’ win
I thought Aaron Rodgers was cooked coming into the 2026 season, and his performances in the first two weeks did little to change my mind.
In my Week 2 takeaways column, I described him as "an old quarterback whose career probably should have ended three years ago."
Yeah, so, that assessment could use an update.
The 42-year-old threw three touchdown passes Sunday as the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Indianapolis Colts, 34-22, to improve to 3-2. Rodgers finished with 235 passing yards and has now thrown three touchdowns in three consecutive games.
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Over that stretch, he's passed for 826 yards and nine touchdowns. That's pretty good production for anyone, let alone a quarterback who is likely playing in his final NFL season.
For comparison, Rodgers had more turnovers (2) than touchdown passes (1) in the first two games.
Now, he's still averaging one turnover per game after throwing three interceptions in the past three games, so he has to clean that up.
He didn’t turn the ball over Sunday, though, showing he's still got some football left in that 42-year-old right arm.
The encouraging part for Pittsburgh is that Rodgers is giving the offense something to build on each week.
Sunday's opening possession went backward, costing the Steelers 15 yards before they punted. But Rodgers responded quickly. On Pittsburgh's next possession, he got the ball to Jaylen Warren just before taking a hit from defensive tackle Grover Stewart, and Warren turned the short completion into an 80-yard touchdown.
Rodgers went on to complete his first 11 passes and didn't have an incompletion until midway through the second quarter.
Of course, Warren deserves plenty of credit for making his quarterback's numbers look better. He finished with 188 yards from scrimmage and added a 50-yard touchdown run to go with the long receiving score. That's a pretty productive afternoon.
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But Rodgers also delivered when Pittsburgh needed to put some distance between itself and Indianapolis.
With the Steelers leading 24-22 in the fourth quarter, Rodgers found Pat Freiermuth for a 17-yard touchdown on third-and-6. It was Freiermuth's second touchdown catch of the afternoon and basically locked up the victory.
There were a couple of historical accomplishments mixed in, too.
The touchdown pass to Warren moved Rodgers ahead of Peyton Manning for third in career touchdown passes, including the postseason. Only Tom Brady and Drew Brees remain ahead of him.
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The victory also gave Rodgers 166 regular-season wins as a starting quarterback, moving him past Ben Roethlisberger into fifth place all time. Passing a Steelers legend while wearing a Steelers uniform is a nice bonus.
The career accomplishments are impressive, obviously. But Steelers fans have a more immediate interest in whether Rodgers can keep playing like this.
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Pittsburgh needs an offense that can take advantage when its defense gets stops, finish drives with touchdowns and deliver a big play when a game gets uncomfortable. Rodgers and Warren gave the Steelers all of that against Indianapolis.
There's still plenty of season left, and three good games don't settle every question about this team. They're also in the very competitive AFC North, where all four teams have three wins already.
The upcoming schedule provides an opportunity for Rodgers and the Steelers to keep rolling. Pittsburgh plays at Tampa Bay in Week 6 and then faces New Orleans in Paris. The Buccaneers and Saints are a combined 2-8.
After that comes a pair of crucial division games against the Browns and Bengals with a bye week in between. It remains to be seen if Rodgers can keep up this level of production as the season wears on.
But after throwing nine touchdown passes in three games? Yeah, I probably buried Rodgers a little too soon.
Trump Russia deal could fuel Putin's war, ex-NATO commander warns as Zelenskyy says 'nyet'
President Donald Trump's efforts to reach a diesel agreement with Russia could provide Russian President Vladimir Putin with fresh revenue to fund his war against Ukraine while allowing Moscow to buy time through negotiations it has little intention of honoring, a former NATO commander warned Sunday.
Retired Gen. Philip Breedlove, former NATO supreme allied commander Europe and head of U.S. European Command, told Fox News Digital that Washington also risks undermining Ukraine's war effort by striking a deal with what he called "the enemy."
"And so we are cutting a deal with the enemy," Breedlove said, warning that "all of this money will go into fueling Mr. Putin's continued attacks in Ukraine."
The Russian government said Saturday it had partially lifted a ban on diesel exports with immediate effect, following the new agreement between Putin and Trump for Russia to supply the U.S. and global markets, Reuters reported.
As previously reported by Fox News Digital, Trump's package calls for the release of 300,000 tonnes of diesel "to the American and global marketplace," followed by 500,000 tonnes in November and another 1 million tonnes afterward.
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The diesel agreement preceded Trump's announcement Sunday of what he called an "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine, with the president saying both sides had agreed to halt attacks on energy infrastructure.
"Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, however, indicated that Ukraine had not been informed of a finalized ceasefire agreement but expressed willingness to halt attacks on Russian energy facilities if Moscow reciprocated. He also accused Putin of repeatedly rejecting peace proposals and continuing strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
"Ukraine has proposed many de-escalatory steps. Putin had one answer to all of them – 'nyet,'" Zelenskyy wrote on X.
"We do hope that he will finally say something to America, Ukraine, and the entire world that will lead to a real and dignified peace," he added.
Zelenskyy also said Russian forces had carried out more than 200 strikes on Ukraine's electricity generation and transmission facilities over the past week, along with 17 strikes targeting gas and oil infrastructure.
He said the attacks had killed more than 150 people and wounded more than 700 over the past week.
Trump's "energy ceasefire" announcement followed tension between Washington and Kyiv over Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries, a component of Ukraine's strategy to weaken Moscow's ability to finance its military campaign.
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Breedlove argued that Russia and Ukraine are pursuing different objectives, accusing Moscow of targeting Ukrainian civilians and critical infrastructure while describing Kyiv's attacks on Russian energy facilities as an effort to disrupt the revenue sustaining Putin's war.
"Russia is carrying on a campaign of what we call counter value. In other words, Russia is attacking the Ukrainian people and trying to force their society to separate themselves from their president, President Zelenskyy," Breedlove said.
Breedlove also predicted Washington would pressure Zelenskyy to suspend attacks on Russia's oil industry despite their strategic importance.
"What I expect will happen is the United States will force or try to force Zelenskyy to stop bombing the petrochemical business in Russia," he said.
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Trump has vehemently criticized Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries, arguing that they are disrupting global diesel supplies and driving up costs for American farmers and ranchers.
Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the administration's efforts to increase diesel supplies.
"We're going to do it with all the legal authorities we have," Bessent said Sunday on Fox News. "This is good for the American people, bringing these diesel prices down," he said of the new deal.
Separately, appearing on ABC News' "This Week," Zelenskyy offered to organize Ukrainian elections if Putin agreed to a reciprocal 60-day ceasefire, although holding a vote would face legal and logistical obstacles under Ukraine's martial law.
Breedlove also expressed deep skepticism that Putin would honor any such ceasefire, citing what he described as a pattern of Russian attacks following negotiations with Trump. "Russia has never kept a promise to this president in this war," Breedlove said.
"He's never changed his expectations, and he's never delivered on his promises. Three out of four of the big cases, the very next day or that same night after the president and Mr. Putin talked, Mr. Putin launched huge attacks in Ukraine," Breedlove continued.
Breedlove also called for a tougher U.S. response.
"We now need an administration that leads from power. We say all the time, 'strength through power,' but when it comes to Russia, our demonstrated position is continued conflict through weakness," Breedlove warned.
"He started this war. This war is to benefit Russia, and this war is to keep Mr. Putin in power. And our administration needs to tell him to stop."
Three men found guilty of murdering Australian brothers and American friend on Mexico surfing trip
Three men have been convicted in the brutal killings of two Australian brothers and their American friend, whose disappearance on a Mexico surf trip sparked an international search before their bodies were found dumped in a well.
A judge in Ensenada on Friday found Jesús Gerardo García, known as "El Kekas," Irineo Francisco "N," and Ángel Jesús "N," guilty of murdering Callum and Jake Robinson, along with their friend Carter Rhoad, in Baja, California, in April 2024, The Associated Press reported.
The men were also convicted of armed robbery and armed carjacking. Judge Raúl Hernández is scheduled to announce their sentences Oct. 16, with the Baja California State Attorney General’s Office seeking 210 years in prison for each defendant, according to the AP.
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The verdicts followed a month-long trial that included testimony about one victim pleading for his life before the killings.
García’s former partner, Ary Gisell Silva Raya, testified that he told her he approached the surfers’ tent carrying a 9mm pistol, the AP reported. The men threw their belongings toward him in an effort to stop the attack, and one begged to be spared, she said.
According to her testimony, García ignored the plea.
The friends had traveled to Baja, California, to surf and were reported missing after arriving in Punta San Jose, about 50 miles from Ensenada. Their bodies were discovered in a well May 3, 2024.
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Authorities initially said the men were killed after confronting thieves who wanted the tires from their pickup truck.
Chief state prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez said at the time that investigators believed the thieves spotted the truck and tents, then encountered resistance from the surfers during the attempted theft.
García allegedly told his girlfriend he had done something to "three gringos" before admitting, "I killed them," according to the BBC’s account of a May 2024 court hearing.
She also said he showed her a vehicle fitted with tires allegedly stolen from the victims’ truck.
Silva Raya was found with one victim’s cellphone. Prosecutors said she met the surfers April 27, 2024, and urged one of her companions to rob them, the AP reported.
She pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery with violence and vehicle theft with violence and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in November 2025. García and the other two men went to trial.
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The guilty verdicts brought a measure of relief to the Robinson family more than two years after the brothers’ deaths.
Their father, Martin Robinson, described the decision as a significant moment in the family’s painful pursuit of justice, according to the AP. He said the outcome could not undo their loss but offered a step toward justice as they continued honoring the three men.
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The brothers’ mother, Debra Robinson, spoke about their love of surfing during a tribute on a San Diego beach shortly after their bodies were found.
"Our hearts are broken, and the world has become a darker place for us," she said at the time. "They were young men enjoying their passion of surfing together."
She recalled that Jake, a doctor, sought work at hospitals near surfing beaches and urged others to honor her sons by embracing life.
"Live bigger, shine brighter, and love harder in their memory," she said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Ben Affleck says political 'hypocrisy, corruption and failure' left him 'disillusioned'
Ben Affleck has no interest in running for public office.
The "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" star told Variety that trying to become a politician sounds "terrible" and "tawdry" to him.
"I just think that’s enormously — I don’t know, man, that seems terrible," Affleck told the outlet while promoting a new movie in which he plays a candidate for L.A. mayor. "There’s a reason why political stories are often chosen as parables for moral compromise. You really get thrust up into the contrast between the ideal version of us and how we should be in our lives and the way it is."
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The 54-year-old called politics a "very depressing world, in my opinion. Tawdry. And that has no appeal to me."
He also declined to tell the outlet who he was backing for mayor in Los Angeles this November.
"I haven’t thought about being asked that. I don’t know if, given this movie, my endorsement harms or helps anybody," he admitted. "I should stay agnostic, at least until the movie comes out."
Affleck told Good Morning America on Wednesday that he believes the "collective bar for politics because of the way the political world has sort of evolved has gotten so low that there’s this kind of like, you know, people are just sort of looking for like just ‘Somebody shoot me straight.’’"
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He added that there’s a sense in the country, whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican that "we’re not doing a very good job. We have a system that’s kind of failing us."
Playing a man running for mayor taught him: "This is not all that much fun. And it would be a hard way — you’re just raising money all the time."
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He said that he and the man playing his campaign manager in the movie decided one day to take campaign shirts and hats with the name of his character, go out in L.A. and claim he was running for mayor.
When he told people he was running as his character, Affleck said voters would ask for a selfie, they seemed interested and "people would launch into their whole thing and I was like ‘If I’m not careful, I’m going to win this.'"
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"Do not vote for me for mayor!" he joked to the camera.
Affleck called holding office an "awful job" in an interview with USA Today via The Sacramento Bee this week, adding that he’s "so disillusioned with the system and with politics and politicians, and the way it works."
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When told his campaign ad in the movie was good, he answered, "I'd be flattered, except I think there's such a low bar in politics these days."
Affleck explained that his movie "Animals" is about the moral compromises people make.
"The extremely effective nature of when a person individually has something to lose is when they're most apt to make compromises," he says. "Are we just kind of self-seeking animals who, in retrospect, build stories to rationalize where we are and what we've done? And there's another part of us, our sort of higher selves, which says, 'Well, I'm going to adhere this moral code even if there's a cost to me.'"
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The actor has been politically active in the past, campaigning for candidates from former Vice President Al Gore to former President Barack Obama.
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But he said he’s now "averse" to the idea because he’s seen so much "hypocrisy, corruption and failure."
"The way it's constructed now is so geared around money, sound bites, cruelties and gotchas, and little snarky things that really have nothing to do with people's lives whatsoever," he said. "And increasingly, it's easier to get votes appealing to the worst in people than it is appealing to the best in them. If you're telling a story about kind of morality and compromise, there are lots of pressures that are constantly asking you to sacrifice your principles."
Quiet part out loud: Anti-Israel mobs want one state called 'Palestine,' erasing Israel
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This weekend, millions of anti-Israel activists marched through the streets of cities in coordinated actions from America's capital to London, Paris, Madrid and Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, chanting the familiar refrains of "Free, free Palestine" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."
But for the first time, communicated frankly in exclusive interviews with Fox News Digital, three anti-Israel leaders acknowledged the goal: one state called "Palestine" encompassing modern-day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, with a Palestinian "right of return" to the new country and equal political, voting and citizenship rights for Palestinians alongside Jews currently living in Israel.
Most significantly, in the political vision they described, Israel would legally cease to exist as a separate Jewish nation-state and Jews would be quickly overwhelmed demographically.
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The current population of Israel is about 10 million, including about 7.8 million Jews, 2 million Palestinian Arabs (including Palestinians and most of them Muslim), and 200,000 people from other communities. There are another estimated 10.2 million Jews worldwide.
There are about 5.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and about 8 million Palestinians in the diaspora, totaling about 13.5 million.
The candor of the anti-Israel leaders lays bare the political conclusion of an argument that activists have spent years advancing on the streets, through sympathetic media outlets and in legal forums: that Israel is a "settler colonial" state practicing "apartheid" and "genocide," and therefore should not continue to exist in its current form as a Jewish state. Israeli leaders have fiercely rejected those allegations, disputing accusations of "genocide" and "apartheid" and maintaining that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people with equal civil and political rights for citizens that include Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Advocates for Israel note that the nation's critics rarely apply the same historical lens of human-rights analysis to Arab and Muslim-majority states, many of which emerged from the collapse of empires, wars and population upheavals that displaced millions, including Jews expelled from their countries, today often restricting political, religious and minority rights.
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In Chicago, Hatem Abudayyeh, the Palestinian-American founder of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network and a Muslim, said the new nation would be "one democratic secular state of Palestine." Jewish Israeli-born community leader Miko Peled, founder of the Palestine House in Washington, D.C., said "the proper name would be Palestine." And Maryland congressional candidate Sam Husseini, a Palestinian-American Christian, floated another name for the vision of the one state: "1948," marking the year Israel declared independence and Palestinians commemorate as the "Nakba," or catastrophe, but he said even Israeli Jews would one day accept another name: "Palestine."
Their answers provide a striking interpretation from inside a movement where activists have traditionally danced around their demands with euphemisms about "liberation" and media outlets have obscured their answers even when they have been transparent.
On Washington, D.C.'s First Avenue SE, Fox News Digital asked Olivia DiNucci, local coordinator for CodePink, a far-left nonprofit, what her group sees as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In her work for CodePink, DiNucci disrupts hearings, restaurant meals and town halls to shout at lawmakers and policymakers who support the state of Israel.
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"Palestinians in Palestine will decide, DiNucci said.
Asked if "Palestine" includes modern day Israel, she spun around and walked away. Later, she posted a message on social media, saying she was asked "gotcha questions."
This weekend, protesters signaled their position with certainty, explicitly rejecting the two-state solution that has dominated international diplomacy for decades.
In New York City, the Party for Socialism and Liberation circulated video of protesters marching through the streets chanting: "1-2-3-4. Occupation no more. 5-6-7-8. Israel is a terrorist state."
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Then came the point: "We don't want no two state!"
In London, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign promoted a 15-second video of a woman with a megaphone shouting: "There is only one state!"
"Palestine, '48!" protesters responded.
"Say it loud, say it clear!" she continued. "Palestine, you make us proud!"
Back in Washington, D.C., protesters carried signs declaring, "LAND YOU HAVE 2 KILL FOR IS NOT YOURS," a message that challenged Israel's claim to the land itself, while a banner proclaiming, "THE FIGHT FOR LIBERATION IS OURS," framed the struggle as one for the territory. The demonstrators yesterday didn't address the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, but many have called them justified.
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The one-state demand is being amplified within a powerful protest infrastructure. The broader "red-green" alliance brings socialist and communist groups together on the streets with Palestinian and Muslim activist organizations, while organizations including the Democratic Socialists of America and nonprofits in the network funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai, help organize, promote and amplify anti-Israel demonstrations.
Singham, has poured $278 million into a pro-communist network, including CodePink, the People's Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, BreakThrough News and the ANSWER Coalition, which have become major organizing, media and logistical hubs for the protest movement. The result is a powerful infrastructure amplifying slogans such as "Free Palestine" and "from the river to the sea," even when the organizations and activists doing the amplifying don't themselves explicitly spell out the one-state political vision described to Fox News Digital.
From Chicago, Abudayyeh told Fox News Digital that the U.S. Palestinian Community Network advocates for one democratic state across the territory that today encompasses Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
"Our points of unity, from the very beginning of our existence, included one democratic secular state of Palestine," he said.
"And for decades and decades, we've been saying that...the only true solution that can bring peace and justice to all that live there is ... one democratic state," which includes the West Bank, Gaza and "1948 Palestinian territories," a term used to describe the land that Israel claimed as a nation in 1948.
This can only happen, he said, if "the racist system of Zionism is dismantled."
The ADL, a leading Jewish organization based in New York, describes Zionism as a "movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel."
Abudayyeh said the new state would include a "right of return" for Palestinian refugees and their descendants. "Our points of unity from day one included the right of return," he said.
Activists from a U.S.-based network of groups called "Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition" joined the protest in Los Angeles and posted a message online: "OUR PEOPLE WILL RETURN, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!
"If all of our refugees, who have the internationally recognized right to return to Palestine, are able to return, and the system, the racist system is dismantled, then all the people there can live in peace and justice," Abudayyeh told Fox News Digital. "That's our position. It's always been our position. We're not going to abandon the five to seven million refugees that we have."
"They have the right to go back to the homes and lands in which they were exiled," he explained.
Abudayyeh said that wouldn't mean removing the people – most of them Jewish – living in Israel.
"It doesn't mean that we're going to kick people out," he said. "It just means that these folks have an internationally recognized right, and you will never get peace and justice there unless you uphold that right."
"I believe, very clearly, USPCN believes very clearly that there can be peace and justice as long as that system, that racist system of Zionism is dismantled," Abudayyeh said. "That's the essence of it."
Abudayyeh compared the Palestinian movement's objective to the international campaign against apartheid South Africa. "And we're getting close to having international consensus today on the question of Israel and Zionism, where Israel doesnt have the "right to exist as a racist, Zionist, apartheid, white supremacist state."
"That's what we say," he continued. "We're adamant about that. We're clear about it. Unabashed."
Fox News Digital asked Abudayyeh whether "Palestine" includes modern-day Israel when protest leaders and activists chant "Palestine will be free" or "Free, free Palestine."
"The majority of the majority of the people, especially in the past period, have moved to that conclusion," Abudayyeh said.
Husseini, a Palestinian-American journalist running for Congress in Maryland's 4th Congressional District, offered a similar one-state vision and an unusual proposal for what the country might be called.
Standing on First Avenue SE, between the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Capitol, Husseini told Fox News Digital that his long-term vision is "one person, one vote," coupled with a Palestinian right of return.
"Ultimately, long-term, I that it should be one person, one vote," Husseini said.
"Why aren't they allowed back into their homes? So I think that they should," he said of Palestinian refugees. "I mean, that includes myself. I don't know that I would actually move back there, but as a descendant of a Palestinian who was forcibly displaced, I should have that right or compensation."
Husseini offered another possibility for the country's name.
"I've often thought of a novel proposal because people get hung up on the names. Are they going to call it Israel or are they going call it Palestine?" Husseini said.
"I've toyed with the idea of calling it 1948, having a country with a number signifying the year of this cataclysm, which should be the last gasp of imperialism."
If the new state is called Palestine, Husseini said, "I think a lot of Jews, when they think about it, will say, so long as they have equal rights and all are protected, will adopt the term Palestine."
Standing on Pennsylvania Avenue SE, the roar of the demonstrators getting closer as they marched from the U.S. Capitol to talks at the Palestine House of Freedom, Miko Peled, an Israeli-born Jewish activist, was equally blunt about what a "Free Palestine" means to him.
"Well, our vision, our mission, and our vision is to educate people to see that a free Palestine, which means a post-Zionist, post-apartheid Palestine with equal rights and the right of the Palestinians to return, is the best vision that will benefit everybody who lives there currently, which means Israelis and Palestinians," he said.
Asked whether that meant one state, he answered yes.
"It's already one state, it's just an apartheid state," Peled said.
"So that's our vision, to create a real democracy, free Palestine, with equal rights."
Fox News Digital asked what that country would be called.
"Well, historically the country was called Palestine for thousands of years and so it should be called Palestine," Peled said. "Israel is a new name. They renamed the country 78 years ago, so the proper name would be Palestine."
For Peled, the familiar protest demand "Free Palestine" has a literal political meaning: One state with the new name "Palestine."
Mystery team in Marvin Harrison trade steps forward, as Texans DeMeco Ryans confirms reunion with CJ Stroud
The Houston Texans beat the Tennessee Titans on Sunday for their first victory of the season, but that's not the reason coach DeMeco Ryans left his postgame news conference with a big laugh and smile.
He was asked if the Texans are indeed one of the teams interested in trading for Arizona Cardinals receiver Marvin Harrison.
And since he was already in a good mood, Ryans made it official.
"You guys want to know, huh," Ryans said between chuckles. "Yes, alright, we traded for Marvin Harrison.
"See ya."
An NFL source told OutKick the Texans are sending a second and sixth-round pick to the Arizona Cardinals in exchange for Harrison and a seventh-round pick.
The Texans were one of multiple teams that talked to the Cardinals about the former first-round wide receiver as a trade target in recent days, as OutKick reported on Saturday.
But the lure for the Texans was tied to the fact Harrison played with quarterback C.J. Stroud at Ohio State — a combination that made both top-four draft picks in back-to-back years, 2023 and 2024.
Plus, the Texans have need on the outside because, other than Nico Collins, they have had difficulty finding a playmaker on the perimeter.
Harrison hasn't been the star the Cardinals, or anyone, expected outside since he was drafted. That's how a first-round investment turns into a second-round in-season trade 33 NFL games later.
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But the Texans obviously believe they can help Harrison meet their potential.
It is suddenly an optimistic time for the Texans. They are 1-4 and are buyers before the November trade deadline.
And Ryans told his players after Sunday's win, "let's go do something special."
Hidden clues could help predict a woman’s breast cancer risk years in advance
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool could help doctors predict a woman's risk of developing breast cancer years in advance, according to new research.
In a new study, published in the American Journal of Roentgenology, researchers at NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center tested an AI model designed to estimate a woman's risk of developing breast cancer within five years.
The tool looks at several years of a woman's 3D mammograms to track changes in breast tissue over time, rather than looking only at the latest scan, according to the researchers.
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The model was developed using more than 313,000 mammograms from more than 161,000 women, according to the study.
Connie Lehman, a Massachusetts-based breast imaging specialist and professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School who was not involved in the study, told Fox News Digital that AI could help identify women whose increased risk might otherwise go unnoticed.
"For decades, as a doctor and breast imaging specialist, I have cared for women who were shocked by a breast cancer diagnosis," Lehman said. "Again and again, I heard: 'How can this be? No one in my family has had breast cancer.'"
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Traditional risk assessments can consider factors such as family history and genetic mutations, while AI can look for additional clues within a woman's breast tissue, according to Lehman.
"A mammogram can tell us more than whether cancer is visible today — it can also provide information about a woman's risk of developing cancer in the years ahead," she said.
That information could eventually help doctors tailor breast cancer screening to a woman's individual risk, Lehman said.
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Women identified as being at increased risk could discuss additional screening, such as MRI, with their health care providers, while women at average risk may continue with routine mammograms, according to Lehman.
The technology could also analyze mammograms a woman has already had, meaning the added risk information would not require another imaging exam or additional radiation, she noted.
Lehman cautioned that an AI risk score is not a cancer diagnosis and cannot predict with certainty whether a woman will develop the disease.
"A higher score can prompt a conversation with your health care provider about additional screening and risk-reduction options," she said. "A lower score does not eliminate risk or replace regular mammography."
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The NYU model remains a research tool and is not FDA-authorized for clinical use, according to Lehman.
The researchers also noted that more testing is needed. The study used mammograms from NYU Langone hospitals and imaging equipment from one manufacturer.
The team plans to test the model using data from other medical centers and different 3D mammography systems, according to NYU Langone.
Fox News Digital reached out to the researchers for comment.
Lane Kiffin is staring down disastrous year one as offseason pleas for patience fall on deaf ears
One of the biggest, most consequential games of the season so far took place in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night — in the wake of a hurricane, no less — but a different game was taking place about six hours north on I-65 that was also rife with national implications.
The Kentucky Wildcats and LSU Tigers played an all-time classic of a college football game this weekend, with Big Blue Nation pulling off a stunner, downing the top-ten Tigers 35-34 in front of a sold-out crowd at Kroger Field.
What this means for the Wildcats and first-year head coach Will Stein can't be overstated, as the new Kentucky head man now has two top-ten wins in his first six games on the job, and the arrow is pointing straight up in the Bluegrass State as of mid-October.
But on the opposite sideline on Saturday night, LSU head coach Lane Kiffin was left with more questions than answers as the honeymoon phase in Baton Rouge likely came to a screeching halt.
Things aren't exactly up in smoke for Kiffin in his first year on the Bayou.
The Tigers are 4-2 with wins over Clemson and Texas A&M and are still in the AP top-25 as of this afternoon, falling from 10th to 22nd.
However, this probably isn't how anyone in purple and gold expected the season to go when they imagined the infinite possibilities back in August.
LSU had one of the most expensive rosters in the country, estimated at around $40 million, as well as a coaching staff many considered to be the best in the country, top to bottom.
The loss to Ole Miss three weeks ago stung, but was not unexpected.
The Rebels were favored and had the benefit of playing at home, and the added context of Kiffin returning to the program, he turned his back on to go coach in The Boot made that a tough one to win.
But losing to a first-time head coach at a program that you have a marked talent and resources advantage over is a tough pill to swallow.
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And to top it all off, the Tigers took a massive L on the recruiting trail on Sunday when their flip target, five-star wide receiver and former Texas commit Easton Royal, opted to head to Gainesville and play for the Gators.
Losing a five-star prospect to an in-conference rival is never fun, but when you consider Royal is from nearby New Orleans and was long thought to be an LSU lean even while committed to the Longhorns, it makes it even harder to accept.
Sure, signing day is still two months away, but that's a prospect you'd rather hold onto than try to flip in the 11th hour.
Things don't get any easier for the Bayou Bengals, either.
Their October features a visit from top-20 Mississippi State as well as a trip to Jordan Hare to play Auburn.
Then they play three consecutive top-15 teams in November (Alabama, Texas, and at Tennessee) before a relative break on the road against Arkansas to end the season.
It's not inconceivable to envision another two losses in that stretch.
If you asked an LSU fan over the summer if 8-4 was an acceptable year one, they would have laughed in your face, and they would have had every right to do so.
Between Kiffin, the coaching staff, and the roster, this is easily a $150 million operation, and 8-4 and a trip to the Duke's Mayo Bowl isn't going to cut the mustard.
Kiffin famously pleaded for patience during spring practice, but unfortunately for him, in this day and age of NIL and the transfer portal, patience no longer exists at a tier one program like LSU.
My confidence in Kiffin's ability to win at LSU has not waned.
First years are rife with trial and error, and not every coach can have a Curt Cignetti-type start to their tenure.
Kiffin and his staff will figure out what works and what doesn't on this roster, and trim the fat where necessary.
As long as the powers that be continue to fund this thing, LSU and Kiffin will be fine.
But Saturday night's loss to Kentucky raises those same uncomfortable questions I already discussed.
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Why couldn't a $40 million roster and one of the hottest coaches in the country beat a lower-tier SEC team.
If Will Stein can do it in year one, why can't Lane Kiffin?
I'm not here to answer those questions or even argue their validity, but this is what folks in Baton Rouge will no doubt be thinking this week.
I've said it before, and I will say it again, the honeymoon in Death Valley is over.
Now we get to find out if Kiffin is really made for this gig.
GOP senator calls for FCC probe of ABC News over Trump sons-Anduril 'political hit job'
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-OH, called on the Federal Communications Commission on Saturday to launch a formal investigation into ABC News after the network deleted and substantially revised a report involving President Donald Trump's sons and defense contractor Anduril Industries, accusing the Disney-owned network of publishing false information that could damage a major investment in his home state.
In a letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Moreno demanded accountability for the network's report and questioned whether ABC News violated its obligations as a broadcaster.
"Thus, I urge the Commission to open a formal investigation into ABC News's political hit job. We must know who signed off on the publication of this false story, who may have asked to profit from the attack, and whether ABC News's conduct violated its obligations as a licensee," Moreno said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Moreno's office for additional comment but a spokesperson for the senator declined to elaborate on the allegations.
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The senator's request followed ABC News' decision to remove a report examining investments tied to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. The original Wednesday article claimed companies connected to the president's sons had secured billions in government contracts, including through venture capital firm 1789 Capital.
Moreno specifically challenged the original report's characterization of Anduril's financing, arguing that the network had misrepresented the company's investment activity and unfairly associated the Trump family with federal contracting decisions.
"ABC News appears under broadcast licenses issued by the FCC. These licenses are a privilege, not a right. They require service of the public interest," he said.
The controversy centered on ABC News' original claim that 1789 Capital, where Trump Jr. serves as a partner, acquired a major strike in Anduril through a $2.5 billion investment. The figure instead represented Anduril's broader fundraising round, while 1789 Capital's investment was approximately $50 million.
ABC News republished a substantially revised article Friday, acknowledging errors involving investments, government contracts and the chronology of events. The updated version also clarified that Trump Jr. does not serve on the firm's investment decision-making committee. The report was republished Friday with a new headline, revised byline and an editor's note acknowledging factual errors involving company investments, government contracts and the chronology of events.
Moreno also emphasized the economic stakes for Ohio, where Anduril is developing its Arsenal-1 manufacturing facility. The company has announced plans to invest nearly $1 billion in the project, which is expected to create more than 4,000 jobs.
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In his letter, Moreno accused ABC News of undermining public confidence in journalism while potentially harming a major employer in the state.
"The American people, and the workers in Ohio whose jobs were put at risk by this reporting, deserve answers and accountability," Moreno said.
The investigation request comes amid an ongoing legal dispute between Disney and the FCC over the commission's early review of ABC-owned television station licenses. Disney argued that the review threatens constitutionally protected editorial independence, while the FCC defended its actions as regulatory oversight.
Fox News Digital reached out to the FCC but did not immediately receive a response.
A network source for ABC News told Fox News Digital, "We always review every situation in a thorough and thoughtful manner and will not be providing further comment at this time."