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Kai Trump reveals how she deals with negative comments on social media: 'I know who I am'
For an 18-year-old in the national spotlight, Kai Trump, the eldest grandchild of President Donald Trump, has had to deal with a fair share of critics and naysayers as she pursues a professional career in golf.
During a candid conversation with her aunt, Lara Trump, the future University of Miami golfer explained how she deals with those negative comments as she stays focused on her goals.
"I just stay away from it," she responded during an interview with her aunt on "My View with Lara Trump." "It doesn’t really affect me because, I don’t know, I know who I am. It doesn’t really matter, to be honest. People say whatever they want to say at the end of the day. I know what’s true and I know the type of person I am. It doesn’t really matter."
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Kai had her LPGA Tour debut at The ANNIKA at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida earlier this month, and though it didn’t go exactly how she planned, she still came away happy with the results in her first ever professional event.
"The first day, I’ve never been more nervous in my entire life. That was like the [Republican National Convention] times 30," Kai told her aunt as they drove in a golf cart. "It was very nerve wrecking. For the nerves, I played well the first day. Then, the second day, I kinda went out there and was like, ‘OK, no more nerves.’ The nerves weren’t as bad and I did really well. So, I mean, it was a great experience. Thankful for the opportunity."
The high school senior shot a first-round 83, which put her in last place out of 108 players. But she bounced back on the second day with a five-over 75. Unfortunately for Kai, it wasn’t enough to make the cut into the weekend.
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However, the experience was invaluable for Kai, who will be joining the Miami Hurricanes golf team next year. She spoke about why she chose Miami during the interview.
"Really just came down to the coaches. I love the program, and I also didn’t want to be so far away from home because I love coming back home," she said. "I love Florida. So, it really just came down to the coaches. The school is great for academics and the team is awesome," she said.
Kai’s performance on the LPGA Tour may not have been what she wanted, but LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau recently told Fox News Digital that he sees things differently.
"She shot five-over the second round, which is really, it’s actually really impressive," he explained. "We didn’t know how she was going to do, she handled herself very well, and what a great opportunity.
"I was talking to [tournament host] Annika [Sorenstam]. She's a part of the council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, and we were just talking about how, you know, ‘What do you think about it?’ We were both talking, and this is a great opportunity. She's like, 'There's plenty of others that have gotten invites that didn't do well, but it was a great experience for them. And I think it's going to be a great experience for her.’ It was awesome to see her go out there and compete doing what she loves doing, and she's getting better."
Of course, Kai loves the moments when she gets to spend time on the course with her grandfather, too. She called every one of those rounds "very special" and looks forward to them whenever they can hit the links with their busy schedules.
But Kai remains determined and focused on getting better each day to check her goals off one by one, starting with her next four years as a Hurricanes golfer.
"I’m going to go to college for four years at the University of Miami, play golf for them there. Then, if I get anymore sponsor invites, I’ll go play an LPGA Tour event here and there if I can those invites. Then, after college, go pro — that’s the plan. Obviously, it’s a lot easier said than done," she said.
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Former SJSU volleyball star reveals 'severe' health issue that stemmed from Title IX conflict with school
Sunday marked exactly one year since Blaire Fleming and Brooke Slusser's final college volleyball game for San Jose State University.
They had been playing together, traveling together and doing team bonding activities for months even after Slusser took legal action, alleging she was never told Fleming was a biological male transgender athlete. Before that, they had already shared hotel rooms and changing spaces for a whole season in 2023 before Slusser said she even found out.
Slusser now says the panic and stress from that period in her life caused her to develop an eating disorder, which led to severe anorexia that got so bad she lost her menstrual cycle for nine months.
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"From the stress and how anxious I was every single day, I just wasn't eating really at all," Slusser told Fox News Digital.
"I went from around 160 to 128 [lbs] in that one semester. It definitely isn't healthy for someone of my size to be that weight, and I ended up losing my menstrual cycle for nine months. So it was definitely severe."
Slusser is 5-foot-11.
People at home started to take notice of the issue.
"When I came home, some of my friends and family were very worried about me," she added. "Some of my friends were just like, 'You always looked tired all the time. You always look dead … I was able to come home three days that fall semester my senior year, and I had a friend later on tell me that when I saw her, she went home and cried to her mom, because she was so worried about me, just because she could tell I looked so unhealthily skinny."
She said some days she ate as few as 400 calories, then still went out to court to compete with her teammates, and some days she went out to do news interviews on her battle to "save women's sports."
"Every day was really hard… the hardest thing to do was, some days I would be waking and I'd have to hop on two to three interview calls with news outlets… then get ready, go to practice go to lift… get pulled into meetings with my coaches about how I'm just such a terrible person and all of these things, and then go straight from that right back into interviews," she said.
But once the season and semester ended, her parents saw the physical impact the situation took on her, and demanded she come home to Texas.
"As soon as the season was over, she came home for Christmas, and we were like, 'you're not going back,'" her father, Paul Slusser, told Fox News Digital. He told his daughter, "'You can go get your stuff next summer when your lease is up, and stay here.'
The father was particularly concerned about the way the media was portraying his daughter, and how that influenced her peers' perception of her.
"She was the enemy. The news vilified her. All the media outlets vilified her. And the students were reading that kind of stuff about her."
Her mother, Kim Slusser, said she was "devastated" when she saw her daughter's physical state last Christmas.
"When I found out how bad everything really was and really saw her at Christmas time when she came home … I was devastated. I couldn't sleep. I was having nightmares," Kim Slusser said.
Brooke herself also began to have recurring nightmares when she moved back into her parents' house.
In one dream, Brooke envisioned herself back at practice in the San Jose State gymnasium, and then getting called a private meeting head coach Todd Kress.
"I woke up sobbing in the middle of the night," she said.
"I definitely struggled a lot with my sleep and being able to fall asleep and stay asleep during the night. I was taking melatonin to help me sleep. At that time, I was only getting two to four hours of sleep per night."
Once winter break was over, and what was supposed to be her final semester began, Brooke attempted to complete her course online.
Her parents said she began online classes, but dropped them shortly later. As a Division I scholarship athlete, dropping the classes resulted in her losing the scholarship, and her family had to pay for the full semester's worth of tuition out of pocket, and her housing.
"We had to pay, basically her mortgage and her apartment for the rest of the semester. So it was a pretty large financial burden on us when that happened," Paul Slusser said.
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The family will have to pay out of pocket again for additional tuition, as Brooke still hasn't finished her degree. She is no longer an SJSU student, and will finish her education at another school.
A former scholarship athlete, Slusser previously imagined that, at that point in her life, she would have a degree and a license in dietetics, preparing to start her own business in the dietetics field.
But instead, she had to focus on self-repair.
The family claims they didn't consult any doctors and the daughter didn't use any medicine, except the melatonin for sleep help.
"My family, and so do I, we don't really believe on leaning on medication for those type of things," Brooke said. "The reason I was able to heal from everything is because of God."
In one of her final Sundays at San Jose last fall, she randomly decided to go to church on a Sunday, just because she wanted to get out of the house.
"I just broke down in tears during worship, and that was the day that I decided to give my life back to Christ," Slusser said.
She started going to church more when she was back home, then got officially baptized in the final week of June. This past summer, she also moved to North Carolina, and is working as a youth girls' volleyball coach.
Kim Slusser said her daughter also formed a romantic relationship with a guy she went to high school, which has also helped her recovery.
"He was a high school friend, and now they're dating, and he was someone she leaned on during the hard times at San Jose," Kim Slusser said.
By this Thanksgiving, Slusser and her parents say she has recovered physically and mentally from the situation, as they navigate the completion of her college degree.
"She just got back in her comfort zone, the weight came back on, she went back to her comfort zone, got her period back," Paul Slusser said.
None of the physical and mental damage over the last year has deterred Brooke from fighting in the national conflict to "save women's sports."
She is a plaintiff in two Title IX lawsuits, citing her experience at SJSU, including Riley Gaines' suit against the NCAA, which partially advanced past motions to dismiss in September. Slusser is the leader of a lawsuit against the Mountain West and representatives of SJSU along with 10 other current and former women's volleyball players.
SJSU athletic director Jeff Konya answered Fox News Digital in July on whether he is "satisfied" with how the university handled the controversy involving Flemming and Slusser in 2024.
"I think everybody acted in the best possible way they could, given the circumstances," Konya said.
President Donald Trump's Department of Education (ED) is in the midst of an investigation against the university for its handling. The department launched the investigation on Feb. 6, simultaneous with a similar probe against the University of Pennsylvania over its handling of the incident involving trans swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022.
ED came to a resolution with UPenn over that issue on July 1. U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon told Fox News Digital that day that the department's investigation into SJSU "will continue."
Slusser is eager to see the potential outcome of that investigation, and its impacts on the university officials that oversaw the situation she was involved in at San Jose State.
"Those people need to have some consequences," Slusser said.
Fleming has been rarely active on social media in the past year. The athlete posted an Instagram story appearing to celebrate graduation from SJSU in May, and has made two posts appearing to show exotic vacations.
In a New York Times Magazine profile piece in April, Fleming admitted to feeling "suicidal," saying the season was "the darkest time in my life."
Slusser told Fox News Digital of Fleming's suicidal thoughts, "If that's what [Fleming] was going through, that's terrible."
The outlet also reported that Fleming often received hateful or threatening messages, cried "almost every night."
Fleming is not named as a defendant in any of Slusser's lawsuits. Fox News Digital has reached out to Fleming to request an interview and for a direct response to Slusser's statements.
Fox News Digital has reached out to SJSU for a response.
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Martin Scorsese brings St Thomas Becket’s clash with the crown to life in ‘The Saints’
St. Thomas Becket’s stand echoes through history, a story of loyalty, betrayal and martyrdom brought to life with Martin Scorsese’s signature intensity in the newest episode of "The Saints."
Viewers are taken inside the escalating tensions that turned a once-unbreakable bond into a fatal confrontation at the heart of the English throne when Becket, torn between friendship and faith, chose allegiance to God over obedience to a king.
King Henry II's sentiment that "the power of the crown and the power of the church [are] one and the same," is echoed in the brand-new episode debuting Sunday, as it explores how that mindset helped spark one of history’s most infamous ruptures between crown and church.
Becket tells the king in this week's episode that he "must reflect in solitude and prayer on this decision alone with my God," a declaration that marks the moment their relationship fractures into an inescapable conflict.
Becket, once the chancellor of England, became the archbishop of Canterbury, a change that set him on the path toward sainthood and sealed his tragic fate.
Assassinated by the king’s loyalists, Becket’s murder in Canterbury Cathedral rattled the Middle Ages and led to his canonization by the Catholic Church shortly after.
Becket's journey to martyrdom is documented in dramatic detail in the third episode of the highly requested second season of "The Saints."
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Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese has described the series as decades in the making, remarking in a Fox Nation press release that he had long sought to explore facets of Christianity in depth as he is today.
"For many years, I dreamed of telling stories of the lives of the saints," he said.
"It’s been an obsession of mine for as long as I can remember. So the chance to do this series meant the world to me, and it’s heartening to know that people have responded to it. I’m very excited to be coming back for a second season."
St. Thomas Becket's episode appears alongside other influential Christian saints like St. Patrick, St. Peter and the most recently canonized St. Carlo Acutis in the second season of the special Fox Nation series.
Fox Nation subscribers can stream the brand-new season of "The Saints," with episode two featuring St. Thomas Becket.
Doctor warns of 2 simple food mistakes that increase chronic disease risk
Nutrition can be the key to warding off disease — even devastating conditions like cancer.
That's according to doctors such as Dr. Frank Dumont, an internal medicine physician and executive medical director of Virta Health, a Colorado-based group that tackles metabolic health through diet.
In an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital, Dumont said Americans have experienced an increase in obesity, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and cancers in the last several decades, which "probably has a lot to do with our lifestyle."
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"We know food is a big part of that … our diet has changed dramatically over the past few decades," he said.
"A lot of the foods we're eating are much more processed. They're much higher in simple carbohydrates and simple sugars than they ever were previously."
These foods have been linked to an increase in insulin and inflammation, which leads to health complications, Dumont warned.
To lower the risk of chronic disease, he encouraged people to make the following simple swaps.
"It depends on the individual situation," he said. "The better you know your body, the better you can make decisions and make these types of swaps."
To help meet the goal of consuming more fiber and natural products, Dumont recommends eating real fruit instead of drinking fruit juice, which is highly processed.
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"Fruit juice can have some benefits — it has minerals, vitamins and micronutrients, but the bottom line is that it's more processed, and you've eliminated a lot of the fiber that is supposed to go hand in hand with the fruit sugar," he said.
Dumont added that he does not believe in "villainizing" fruit, as it has been scrutinized for being high in sugar.
"There's a lot of good health in fruit," he said. "It depends on that person's individual metabolism. If someone is so metabolically sick, so insulin resistant … even some very healthy fruits can be more than their body can handle."
"But for most people, and especially earlier on when you're not as metabolically sick, the wonderful thing about fruit is that you're actually packaging all of that sugar up in the fiber."
Making this one small swap, even at a fast-food restaurant, can improve overall health, according to Dumont.
Rather than selecting a menu item heavy in carbohydrates, like a breaded chicken sandwich, choosing a chicken salad instead makes for a more well-rounded meal.
He also recommended choosing chicken that is grilled rather than fried and breaded.
"You put that on top of some lettuce with a good healthy dressing, and it can actually be extremely healthy eating out on the road at a fast-food restaurant," he said.
Dumont said he's seen many patients lose their fight against chronic disease when treated only with medication.
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"I was seeing people get worse and worse, and that was really disheartening for me," he said. "What I found later in my career is the power of nutrition and lifestyle. And it's something that, honestly, I have really been trained to be pessimistic about."
In his training, Dumont said he was taught patients rarely sustain healthy lifestyle changes, and that moving to medicines and procedures should be "quickly" encouraged.
"I found that was not true," he said. "If you gave people the right information, and they were able to implement it, you could help them do it in a way that was actually enjoyable and doable for them."
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"The power of that was more than the power of the medicines I had been using."
The doctor said he now sees people improve significantly when they match up their nutrition with what their bodies need.
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Dumont said he's worked with patients who "feel like they've failed at everything they've tried to improve their health, and then all of a sudden feel empowered to say, ‘I'm listening to my body. I've learned from my body, I know what works for my body — and look at what I've accomplished.'"
"It's a night and day difference," he said. "And I am very optimistic about that now."
Melissa Joan Hart stands firm on traditional values that guide her marriage and parenting
Melissa Joan Hart is doubling down on the values that have shaped her life behind the scenes — faith, family and service.
The actress, best known for her iconic roles in "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Clarissa Explains It All," said her Christian faith is not just a belief system, but the organizing principle of her household: from Sunday mornings to mealtimes, from her kids’ education to the roles she takes in Hollywood.
During an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Hart didn’t hesitate when asked how faith continues to guide her choices.
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"Faith is the center of our family, of my marriage," she said. "We love going to church every Sunday as a family. I love my Sunday school class, where we have fellowship. And I love going to women's Bible study on Wednesdays."
For Hart, who was raised Catholic and now attends a Baptist church with her family, faith is something her kids actively experience — not simply inherit.
"My kids have gone to a Christian preschool. And now, in high school, they are going to a Christian high school," she said. The actress said one of the most emotional moments in recent years came when her middle son chose to be baptized on his own terms.
"My son just decided he was going to get baptized. They were all baptized as babies, because I was raised Catholic. But now we go to a Baptist church and my middle child decided he wanted to be baptized. And it was just such a special moment."
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And for the Hart family, faith sits at the center of the table, too.
"We pray over every meal — whether we’re out at a restaurant or it’s breakfast, dinner, dessert or even pizza," she continued.
Hart married musician Mark Wilkerson in 2003, and later welcomed three sons: Mason, Braydon and Tucker.
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The actress continued to open up to Fox News Digital about the role faith plays in her life — and how it factors into her Hollywood career.
When asked how her beliefs guide her choices today, she clarified that while faith shapes her personally, it isn’t a strict filter for the parts she plays.
"With roles in Hollywood, I don't really use my faith to choose roles in Hollywood necessarily," Hart told Fox News Digital. "I'm not going to only choose really good Christian [roles]…"
She added that acting is ultimately about "getting into the human experience and learning why someone might act or behave differently than you would."
"I just feel like it’s important to tell stories — and it’s important to tell all the stories."
Hart credited some of these practices to her global experiences with World Vision — moments that she said reinforced how powerful prayer can be.
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"We learned a lot of that too — through World Vision, being in Africa and praying with every family before we met them, after we left them, while we were with them," she said. "I mean, it’s amazing — the power of prayer — and I think my family really sees that," she added.
World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the kingdom of God.
Hart has been a World Vision ambassador since 2019, and she said the partnership has become a defining part of her mission off camera.
She and her three sons have traveled to Zambia to see their sponsored "sisters" and the programs their donations support.
According to Hart, what makes World Vision different is its intentional focus on long-term, community-driven change.
"I love being an ambassador for World Vision because I can really speak to where the money goes — how these programs work — and they are truly sustainable and amazing," she said. "They’re so well thought out."
With Christmas approaching, Hart said she relies heavily on the organization’s holiday gift catalog — a way for donors to purchase items like bicycles, school supplies, medical support or even infrastructure for communities in need.
For more traditional gift-giving, she pointed to items like handcrafted ornaments made by artisans abroad.
"The ornament I have in the catalog this year is a beautiful star — and it’s from Artisans Handmade in Kenya," she said.
Back home in Nashville, Hart told Fox News Digital that she’s intentionally scaled back her family’s Christmas traditions to refocus on what really matters.
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"The step back really comes from the chaos… the holiday season, we start so early, we do so much, we're asked to do so much," she explained.
She added that social media only amplifies the sense of needing to perform or perfectly curate the holiday season.
"I just want to take that pressure off and just make it about the reason for the season, which for our family is Jesus," she said.
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While she loves giving gifts, Hart noted that she now aims for thoughtfulness rather than excess.
"This year, I want to hand people gifts," she said. "I really want to give gifts that are meaningful."
Hart additionally stars in a new Christmas project — one that will likely ignite a wave of ’90s nostalgia.
Her new Netflix film, "A Merry Little Ex‑Mas," pairs her with Alicia Silverstone — marking the first time the two teen icons have worked together.
"This was a script that was given to me by Holly Hester, who was a writer on ‘Sabrina,’" she said.
She and her mother — longtime producing partners — brought the film to Netflix and recruited the "Clueless" star for the lead.
"We had friends in common, but we'd never met before," Hart said. "I thought that was so crazy that we've been around all these years, have similar people in our lives and have never met."
The film also features Oliver Hudson and Jameela Jamil.
Hart continued to tell Fox News Digital that she had one goal with this project — putting comedy back into Christmas movies.
"I really am on a mission right now to bring humor back to Christmas movies," she said. "They’ve gotten a little vanilla and a little safe."
"I want to bring the humor back to it," she added. "And I think this movie is a great place to start."
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Pope Leo XIV begins Lebanon visit amid economic crisis, heightened security concerns
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lebanon on Sunday, opening the second half of his first international trip as pontiff after three days in Turkey marked by calls for unity, peace and renewed ties among Christian communities.
His stop in Lebanon places him in a nation where Christians have long-faced war, instability and a wave of emigration that has reshaped the country’s demographics.
Lebanon was once a Christian-majority country, a balance reflected in the 1932 census that recorded Christians as just over half the population. No official count has been conducted since, but demographic studies and independent estimates show a significant shift over the past century. As Reuters reported, Christians are now "believed to make up roughly a third of Lebanon’s population," a decline driven by emigration, conflict, and changing birth rates.
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JP De Gance, founder and president of Communio, told Fox News Digital that the choice of Turkey and Lebanon as the pope’s first destinations is intentional. "Pope Leo chose to make Turkey and Lebanon the site of his first trip very likely to emphasize two major themes of his pontificate. Coming out of the conclave that elected him, he has placed a great emphasis on both unity and on peace."
Lebanon marks the most emotionally charged part of the trip. The last papal visit came in 2012. Pope Francis had hoped to travel there but was unable to make the journey because of health concerns. Lebanon is often described as having the highest proportion of Christians in the Middle East, yet these communities have been devastated by economic collapse, political paralysis and mass migration over the last decade.
The Associated Press reported that the pope’s schedule includes meetings with political leaders, Christian and Muslim clerics, and families affected by overlapping national crises. A key moment will come on Dec. 2 when he visits the Port of Beirut, the site of the 2020 explosion that killed more than 200 people and wounded thousands. His presence there is expected to draw significant attention in a country where many still demand accountability for the blast.
Local media outlets report that large crowds are expected despite deep infrastructure problems and ongoing security challenges.
The pope arrives amid one of Lebanon’s most volatile periods in years, with repeated exchanges of fire along the southern border throughout 2024 and 2025 between Hezbollah and Israeli forces. The clashes displaced residents and raised fears of a wider conflict, prompting questions about whether the situation might force last-minute changes to the papal itinerary.
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Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni addressed those concerns in comments to EWTN Vatican, confirming that the schedule remains intact. "There is no specific concern related to the recent Israeli strike," Bruni said. He added that "the situation was already well known even a few months ago, and all necessary precautionary measures have been taken."
De Gance said the Lebanon leg underscores the pope’s focus on Christians in the most vulnerable regions. "In terms of peace, I believe the pope has added Lebanon to this trip because a great many Christian communities — both those in full communion with Rome and those who are Eastern Orthodox — are suffering in a war-torn region."
He added that the trip also aims to draw international attention to communities often overlooked. "Leo likely wants to bring the bully pulpit of the papacy to the region to bring a message of peace that also advocates for those often forgotten in the West — our Eastern Christian brothers and sisters."
The themes emerging in Lebanon mirror those set in Turkey, where Pope Leo appealed for dialogue amid regional tensions. His opening days as pontiff emphasized reconciliation, solidarity and support for Christian communities navigating political and social upheaval.
In Turkey, the pope marked the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea in İznik. At an ecumenical prayer service near the archaeological remains associated with the council, he gathered with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and other Christian leaders.
De Gance highlighted the significance of the commemoration. "Pope Leo chose to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicea, which has such historic significance because this council helped define the reality — now still accepted by Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox — that Jesus Christ is truly God and truly man." He added, "At the time of the council, a great many Christians had begun to reject this central apostolic truth. This first council helped settle this controversy and is rightly celebrated today by those in the East and the West as creating greater unity within the entire church."
During the ceremonies, Pope Leo emphasized the shared Christian heritage found in the Nicene Creed, a foundational statement of faith recited across denominations.
For many Lebanese Christians, his arrival offers a moment of recognition from Rome and a source of hope during a period of deep national uncertainty.
Rubio, Witkoff meet with Ukrainian officials in push to finalize deal after Zelenskyy's top negotiator resigns
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to meet Ukrainian negotiators Sunday in Florida to build on the recent peace talks in Geneva, and work through the remaining details of the agreement reached last week.
The Florida meeting comes after Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s top negotiator, resigned Friday after anti-corruption agencies raided his home. Ukraine has been embroiled in an alleged $100 million kickback corruption scheme linked to the state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom.
"The dialogue based on the Geneva points will continue. Diplomacy remains active. The American side is demonstrating a constructive approach, and in the coming days it is feasible to flesh out the steps to determine how to bring the war to a dignified end," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. "The Ukrainian delegation has the necessary directives, and I expect the guys to work in accordance with clear Ukrainian priorities."
Zelenskyy wrote on X that Rustem Umerov, the head of the Ukrainian delegation and secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, would lead efforts to outline the steps to end the war and to hammer out the remaining elements of the peace framework.
A U.S. official told Fox News Tuesday that Kyiv agreed to a peace deal, with only minor points still to be resolved.
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Witkoff is expected to travel to Moscow this week to discuss the updated peace framework that reportedly stands at 19 points instead of the original 28, which was criticized by European leaders as too favorable to the Kremlin.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested Moscow could reject the White House’s latest Ukraine peace deal framework if it does not uphold the "spirit and letter" of the understandings reached at the August Alaska summit between Trump and Vladimir Putin.
He warned that if the terms of the "key understandings" are "extinguished" then the situation would become "fundamentally different."
Russia has maintained its maximalist demands in negotiations, insisting Ukraine be barred from joining NATO and required to give up the rest of the Donbas region as part of any agreement.
The Kremlin has kept up its drone and missile barrages even as negotiations continue to move forward. Zelenskyy said Sunday that over the past week alone, Russia fired nearly 1,400 attack drones, 1,100 guided aerial bombs and 66 missiles at Ukraine.
Struggling to sleep? How wildflowers helped me break the 3am worry spiral
Whether it’s current national or international events, job-related stress, worries about our families, chronic health issues, personal relationships or a financial crisis, we don’t have to look far to find the source of anxious, spinning thoughts.
Can I survive this season? What if… ? Who can I really count on?
My own version typically involves a 3 a.m. wake-up call accompanied by a flurry of mental gymnastics as I think about every single task that needs to be done, rehearse conversations from the last few days, and try to work out the right answer to a myriad of challenges my family, career or business is facing.
Tell me I’m not the only one fighting for rest and peace.
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To some extent, the battle against anxious thoughts is one we’ll always wrestle with. But as someone who follows Jesus, I believe there is a way of living that helps us release the burden of anxiety.
In Luke 12:25-27, Jesus says:
"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? Consider how the wildflowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these."
The invitation to "consider the wildflowers" stops me in my tracks. Maybe it’s because where I live — southwestern Colorado — puts on a pretty spectacular display of wildflowers every summer.
I’ve spent a considerable amount of time walking through fields of flowers, talking to the Lord and sitting with this invitation. I was inspired to write my new devotional, "The Way of the Wildflower," while being in God’s creation and realizing that if God takes care of the wildflowers, how much more will he take care of me?
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Here are five specific "ways of the wildflower" that I believe, if embraced, will help us live unburdened, even in the midst of circumstances that tempt us to toil and spin.
1. Wildflowers are dependent. They depend on God’s timing, the rainfall He allows, the seasons He has ordained and the ecosystem he has placed them in. They don’t have landscapers, fertilizers or a daily watering schedule, and yet they thrive. When we embrace this way of the wildflower — not demanding a specific storyline, season or more ideal circumstance — we let go of hustle and depend entirely on the God who created us.
2. Wildflowers are free. Free from worry, fear, fretting and caring for themselves. They’re not worried about storms on the horizon, dragging baggage from yesterday or anxiously laboring their days away. They exist in the place God put them, crowned with the glory he gave them. When we embrace this way of the wildflower, we can know what it means to be unburdened by what isn’t ours to fret about or carry.
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3. Wildflowers are resilient. They’re found in all kinds of unlikely places, from arid fields to dusty highways and rocky outcroppings on mountain peaks where there’s not even any soil to speak of. In fact, they seem to have a knack for springing up in conditions we’d deem unfavorable for growth.
When we who are in Christ embrace this way of the wildflower, we’re not dependent on our own strength or tenacity. Our resilience is a gift of the God who sustains us, enabling and supplying us with what we need to persevere.
4. Wildflowers are unhurried. When wildflowers aren’t actively growing, they’re dormant, which means there may not be any visible growth — but dormancy isn’t death; it’s rest. And it reminds us that wildflowers are never in a hurry to get to the next season or skip ahead to their blooming best.
When we embrace this way of the wildflower, we slow down, refusing to rush the process or resent the slow, quiet or seemingly unproductive seasons of our lives, and instead rest in God’s perfect timing.
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5. Wildflowers are beloved. I can’t help but marvel that God creates, designs and assigns extraordinary detail and beauty to individual wildflowers for his good pleasure, whether or not they’ve been discovered, identified or named.
No two wildflowers are alike — each comes with its own intricacies, details and specific traits. When we see the care with which God created wildflowers, we can’t help but consider how beloved they truly are.
When we embrace this way of the wildflower, we remember that we are uniquely known and cared for by God — precious and valued, even when we feel small or hidden.
In a world that encourages us to be independent, live within "acceptable" parameters, move on to the next thing when we meet resistance, skip to the good part and question our worth, living the way of the wildflower is certainly countercultural — but not impossible.
The next time you wake up at 3 a.m., try considering the wildflowers and release your anxiety to the God who created you and promises to take care of you.
Conservative Gettysburg College group catches student on video tearing down promotional flyers
A video captured by a member of a conservative campus group at a private Pennsylvania college shows a student tearing down its promotional flyers, according to the group.
The Young America's Foundation (YAF) chapter at Gettysburg College hosted conservative author and speaker Vince Ellison on Nov. 20. Days before the event, the group posted advertisements for the event around campus.
But according to Gettysburg College YAF Chairman Tyler Seeman, students who oppose right-leaning ideals tore down the chapter's flyers — something Seeman says happens every semester when the campus group hosts an event — and one of them was caught on camera.
"Every semester, Gettysburg YAF has a campus lecture. So, we invite one of the speakers from YAF's speaker list to come to campus and discuss whatever their specialty is," Seeman told Fox News Digital.
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In the video, a YAF member climbs a flight of stairs after seeing a student pulling the group's flyers off the wall, and races to confront the alleged perpetrator.
"You having fun?" the YAF member asks.
"Yeah," the student quickly replies.
"You know that's against college policy, right?" the YAF member asks.
"OK," the student says, before falling silent.
The YAF member then chastised the student for not making it out of the building before being caught red-handed.
"We've got more of those [flyers] in the stairwell, you wanna go get those too?" the YAF member asks.
"I don't know," the student replies.
The YAF member then escorts the alleged perpetrator out of the building.
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He said that every semester, the group posts flyers to advertise its event, like all campus groups do.
"Every semester, students on campus tear our flyers down because we're the only conservative 501(c)(3) on campus that actually hosts campus lectures," Seeman said. "So, some students feel, I would presume, that our views and our speakers' statements are contrary or dangerous to their own perspectives and their own worldview."
Seeman characterized the school as "apathetic" toward the chapter's plight. He said that on one occasion, the school sent out an email to some students condemning the behavior of YAF's opponents, but on another occasion, school administrators declined a request to admonish bad actors.
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"Removing flyers posted in accordance with our posting policy is a violation of our community standards," Gettysburg College spokesperson Jamie White told Fox News Digital. "Students in violation of this policy are subject to sanctions by the College."
"While federal law prohibits us from answering questions about specific student cases, I can say it would be highly unusual for such behavior not to be sanctioned," White said.
Seeman shared a message to those on campus who oppose YAF's views.
"Instead of tearing down flyers, show up to our events and ask questions, because we want to have that dialogue," he said.
"At the end of the day, that's just going to get everyone in the room thinking about these issues, and we'd rather have as many people thinking about these issues and talking about these issues as possible, rather than just tearing down flyers and trying to silence other people's speech, because that's not constructive."
YAF is no stranger to left-wing targeting on campus.
Their chapter at the University of Iowa was subject to a table-flipping incident last month.
A criminal complaint against a student named Justin Calhoon says he flipped a YAF table on campus on Oct. 27. He was arrested on Oct. 31 and charged with disorderly conduct, fifth-degree criminal mischief and third-degree harassment, according to arrest records.
Calhoon was later accused of flipping a Turning Point USA table on campus, and was arrested again.