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Washington state stabbing rampage leaves 5 dead, including suspect shot by deputies
Authorities are investigating after five people were killed Tuesday in a violent stabbing in the middle of a street in Washington state.
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) confirmed four adult victims were killed in Purdy, along with a 32-year-old male suspect — who has not been publicly identified, FOX 13 Seattle reported.
Three of the victims died at the scene, and a fourth was pronounced dead at the hospital, the outlet reported.
The suspect was shot by responding deputies and pronounced dead at the scene.
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Officials said the incident unfolded just after 8:45 a.m. local time, when the sheriff's office was called about a man entering a Purdy home in violation of a no-contact order.
Deputies were on the way to serve the order when multiple witnesses reported a man was "stabbing people" outside the house at about 9:30 a.m., according to the outlet.
The suspect was shot by deputies just three minutes later, authorities said.
The Pierce County Force Investigation Team is leading the investigation.
Pierce County officials did not immediately respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital.
Purdy is a small waterfront community near Gig Harbor in western Washington State.
It is about an hour southwest of Seattle, and roughly 20 minutes northwest of Tacoma.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Iran’s shadowy chemical weapons program draws scrutiny as reports allege use against protesters
A new report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) raises concerns about Iran's opaque chemical weapons program, which argues policymakers have paid little attention to compared with Iran's more scrutinized nuclear weapons program.
The FDD report outlines how the Iranian regime may have resorted to the unconventional use of chemical weapons while it faced an unprecedented uprising beginning in December 2025, a wave of unrest Tehran has not seen since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Any use of chemical weapons by Iran would be in defiance of their obligations under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
"The United States, its allies and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) should investigate credible claims that Iran’s regime used chemical weapons against its own people," Andrea Stricker, deputy director of FDD's nonproliferation program and author of the report, told Fox News Digital.
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Iran’s illicit chemical weapons program is under renewed scrutiny as the Trump administration appears closer to taking military action against Iran and its nuclear weapons program.
While the U.S. has been engaged in indirect talks with Iranian officials mediated by Oman in Geneva, the U.S. has increased its military presence in the Persian Gulf, sending the USS Gerald R. Ford to join dozens of other warships to the region.
On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi posted on X that "Iran will resume talks with the U.S. in Geneva with a determination to achieve a fair and equitable deal—in the shortest possible time."
The foreign minister claimed that Iran will not pursue nuclear weapons under any circumstances but emphasized that Iran will not forgo its right to harness peaceful nuclear technology.
"A deal is within reach, but only if diplomacy is given priority," he added.
Despite the optimism and push for continued talks, there remain fears that Iran will not make any meaningful concessions on their nuclear program, which could lead to U.S. military strikes on the nation.
A broader regime change campaign to topple the Islamic republic’s government, led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is also not off the table, according to some reports.
"If Washington launches strikes against Iran, it should give serious consideration to targeting the regime’s chemical weapons research and production facilities. Such action would help halt further development and potential use of these weapons while sending a clear message that the regime cannot commit atrocities with impunity," Stricker said.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which Iran is party to, upholds the norms against state-held chemical weapons, specifically, banning states’ development, stockpiling, production and use of chemical weapons, even for retaliatory reasons, as well as their receipt from or transfer to anyone.
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Israel’s deputy ambassador to the Netherlands, Yaron Wax, said in July 2025 before a special meeting of the OPCW that "over the past two decades Iran has been developing a chemical weapons program based on weaponized pharmaceutical agents."
These agents, Wax said, impact the central nervous system and can be fatal even in small doses.
The ambassador said at the Shahid Meisami Research Complex, destroyed by Israel in June 2025, Iran’s Shahid Meisami Group (SMG) was working on fentanyl opioid-derived tactical munitions for military use. Israel believes the pharmaceutical-based agents were transferred to Syria’s longtime and now deposed dictator, Bashar al-Assad, and Iraqi Shia militias as well.
Iran began developing its chemical weapons program in 1983 during its war with Iraq in response to chemical attacks from the regime of Saddam Hussein, according to the U.S. Intelligence Community.
As recently as 2024, the U.S. has repeatedly found Iran in noncompliance with its obligations under the CWC.
In a post on X in November 2024, the Iranian mission to the United Nations pushed back on the charges against it. "A victim of Western-donated chemical weapons employed by the Saddam regime, Iran stands as a responsible member of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over the past several decades, not a single instance of Iranian violation has been recorded. The current unfounded reports are merely an outgrowth of psychological warfare propagated by the Zionist regime in the wake of its recent defeat on the Lebanese front."
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Stricker says the U.S. and international community have failed to hold Iran accountable for its illegal chemical weapons program, and meaningful action must be taken to prevent Iran from transporting banned substances to Iran’s nefarious proxy actors in the Middle East.
The report notes that the U.S. and OPCW should launch a pressure campaign against Iran, calling out the regime and publicizing any violations. The Trump administration, the report recommends, should demand a formal ultimatum to demonstrate compliance with the convention and accept monitoring and verification mechanisms.
FDD also suggests Israel should ratify the CWC and work within the OPCW, which would give Israel more credibility in combating Iranian violations.
The report says that, as a last resort, the U.S. should consider launching strikes targeting regime chemical weapons facilities, or support Israeli efforts, if actionable intelligence indicates movement on Iran’s chemical weapons efforts or a renewed push by the regime to use such illegal weapons to crack down on anti-government protests.
"The only solution to Iran’s persistent WMD threat is for the United States and Israel to undermine the regime’s grip on power. Until then, the two nations will periodically be forced to play whack-a-mole with Tehran’s capabilities whenever they endanger regional peace," Stricker said.
'The View' co-host Joy Behar claims Trump is not a 'legitimate president,' sides with Dems skipping SOTU
"The View" co-host Joy Behar said President Donald Trump was not a legitimate president during the show Tuesday and sided with Democrats choosing not to attend the State of the Union (SOTU) address.
Co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines disagreed and thought Democrats should show up and show decorum despite, as Hostin argued, Trump lacking decorum.
"I disagree because I don't think that he's really that. He's a legitimate president in my lifetime, and that includes Nixon and Reagan, both conservative Republicans that I did not vote for. Neither one of them have, would behave the way this man behaves," Behar stated.
Hostin pushed Behar to elaborate and note that she was not suggesting he was not duly elected but rather was illegitimate based on his actions.
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"He lacks any kind of sense about what he is supposed to do," Behar added. "So, the only way that they can make a point is not showing up."
She referenced House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries arguing that Trump was coming to "our house" in comments to reporters last week, according to The Hill, adding, "It’s my view that you don’t let anyone ever run you off of your block."
However, Behar disagreed.
"Sometimes you have to, to make your point, to show that you do not consider that person worthy of your presence," Behar said.
"Just because this president doesn't have decorum doesn't mean that members of Congress shouldn't do their duty, which is to show up and listen," Hostin said earlier in the conversation. "I don't think they should. They should behave inappropriately."
A number of Democrats will instead attend the "People's State of the Union" event near the Lincoln Memorial.
The event, described as a rally, is organized by MeidasTouch and MoveOn Civic Action, a pair of left-leaning media and activist groups, and will focus on criticisms of Trump’s first year back in office.
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On the House side, Democrats attending will include Reps. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz.; Becca Balint, D-Vt.; Greg Casar, D-Texas; Veronica Escobar, D-Texas; Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.; John Larson, D-Conn.; Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif.; Delia Ramirez, D-Ill.; Sara Jacobs, D-Calif.; Emily Randall, D-Wash.; and Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J.
A smaller group of Democrats announced they will be skipping the State of the Union but will not be attending the counter event.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., and Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, for instance, have made plans to stay at home.
Cardi B takes shocking tumble into a trap door onstage during Seattle concert
Cardi B took another tumble onstage.
In various videos circulating online, the "Bodak Yellow" rapper, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, fell into an open trap door while performing "Press" at a show in Seattle Saturday night.
During the performance, Cardi took a step back, lost her footing and fell into the trap door. Despite the tumble, she recovered with a smile and was able to pick herself up after the song concluded and the onstage lights dimmed.
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"Y’all I’m just little clumsy cuz I be moving too fast and too hype," she wrote on X, one day after the show. "F--K IT WE BALL.. but no seriously yesterday wasn’t even my fault."
Fans praised the rapper for shaking it off.
"Love how you just can laugh at yourself and keep it moving!" one fan wrote on X. "They want you to be embarrassed...for what?
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"Move fast, stay hype — just don’t let that crown fall, queen. Yesterday might not have been your fault, but today you still winning."
The tumble comes a little over a week after the rapper fell onstage during a Las Vegas show.
While singing her hit "Thotiana" at the T-Mobile Arena in Sin City, Cardi B fell backward off her chair mid-concert.
In videos circulating online, the mom of four stood up, pointed at the chair and assured the audience, "That was the government."
Once the musician caught wind of the fall going viral online, she added on X, "Can someone put a community note on this? This video is clearly Ai."
Earlier this month, Cardi B sent a not-so-subtle message to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) while launching her tour in Southern California.
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"If ICE come in here we gone jump they a-----," Cardi told the crowd. "B----, I've got some bear mace in the back. They ain't taking my fans."
"As long she doesn’t drug and rob our agents, we’ll consider that an improvement over her past behavior," DHS said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
DHS appeared to reference the musician saying in a past video that she once routinely drugged and robbed men while working as a stripper.
"I had to go strip, I had to go, ‘Oh yeah, you want to f--- me?,’" she yelled in the past video. "‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s go back to this hotel.’ And I drugged [men] up, and I robbed them. That’s what I used to do."
Cardi kicked off her Little Miss Drama Tour this month in Palm Desert, California. The "Drip" rapper is slated to perform 35 shows on the tour in support of her second studio album, "Am I the Drama?"
On Monday, Cardi B took to social media to shine light on her show's success thus far.
"The fact of the matter is, so far every single show of mine has been sold out," she wrote on X. "Packed from top to bottom! They said I wasn’t gonna commit after I gave birth, they said I wasn’t gonna take it seriously, but I take it very seriously.
"I perform for two hours and don’t complain.. not only do I treat my shows like concerts, I treat them like parties and have a good time wit my people that why I get REAL reviews from REAL attendees whether that’s my fans, celebrities, or just people that wanna have a good time. Thank you!!
Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright and Alenxander Hall contributed to this post.
Martin Short's daughter Katherine dead at 42
Martin Short's oldest child, Katherine Short, died Monday, Fox News Digital confirmed. She was 42.
Circumstances surrounding her death were not immediately known.
"It is with profound grief that we confirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Short," a family representative shared in a statement with Fox News Digital.
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"The Short family is devastated by this loss, and asks for privacy at this time. Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world."
Katherine was the oldest of three children Martin adopted with his late wife, Nancy Dolman.
The couple had been married for 30 years prior to Dolman's death in 2010 from ovarian cancer.
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The Atlantic staff writer fumes over Trump’s women's hockey joke during call with Team USA
A sports writer for The Atlantic took to social media to share her frustration over a joke President Donald Trump made when calling the U.S. men’s hockey team to congratulate them on their win against Canada.
During his phone call to the team, Trump said, "I just told my people … I said, we’re giving the State of the Union speech Tuesday night … if you would like to, it’s the coolest night," inviting the team to the event.
Trump then added, "What would really be cool — and we’ll do the White House next time — we’ll just have some fun, we have medals for you guys. And we have to, I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that?" Trump said.
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The team laughed, and Trump added, "I do believe that I would probably be impeached," appearing to suggest he would be impeached if he did not invite the women’s team, who also won gold.
The women's team declined Trump’s invitation to attend the State of the Union address.
Sally Jenkins, a staff writer for The Atlantic, responded on X to share her frustration over Trump’s remarks.
"To those on the men's USA hockey team who laughed at the prospect of sharing a White House visit with women, the NHL frequently trails the WNBA in ratings," Jenkins wrote in a Monday post.
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In another Monday post, Jenkins wrote, "WNBA Viewership in US last season: 960,000+ per game. NHL Viewership: 440,000 per game."
She also referenced medal counts from the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, "Medals won by USA women in Milan: 17. Medals won by USA men: 12."
In a later post, Jenkins wrote, "Ooooohhh the bitterness of hockey guys! Yes, on average many more Americans watched WNBA games last season (969,000) than NHL games (440,00). You can ask Grok all you want and #s won't change. Handle it. Man much?"
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David Harsanyi, a senior writer at the Washington Examiner, challenged Jenkins’ comparison of NHL versus WNBA ratings, and wrote, "Oof. This isn't exactly true, but even if it was, the proper comparison is the WNBA to the NBA and the NHL to PWHL."
Jenkins responded to Harsanyi, writing, "I'm sorry — did I use the wrong fork? NHL games command less than half a million American eyes per game. There are MANY more women's sports that are more popular, including softball."
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Jennifer Sey, an author and founder & CEO of XX-XY Athletics, also took to X to call Jenkins out regarding her post on the amount of medals won by women versus men in the 2026 Winter Olympics and referenced a past column she wrote in 2000 about elite gymnasts.
Sey wrote, "This post from Sally Jenkins is pretty dumb. But at least it isn’t as cruel and F-ed up as this piece she wrote in 2000 smearing gymnasts abused by both the Karolyis and Larry Nassar. She calls female gymnasts ‘animatronic dolls’ & when they dare stand up for themselves they’re ‘hissy pixies.’"
The Atlantic did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Former NFL star says 'insufferable' Eileen Gu was given easy questions throughout Olympics
Add NFL MVP Boomer Esiason to the list of Americans who are not fans of Eileen Gu.
Gu, the Olympic medal-winning skier who was born and raised in the United States but has represented China, her mother's native country, in international competition, has become a topic of debate again after her performance at Milan Cortina.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Gu and Zhu Yi, a fellow American-born figure skater who now competes for China, were paid a combined $6.6 million by the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau in 2025 for "striving for excellent results in qualifying for the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics." In all, the two were reportedly paid nearly $14 million over the past three years.
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That information was much to the chagrin of the former NFL quarterback.
"The Chinese government paid her a lot of money. It’s kinda funny that a communist country would pay a woman to be propaganda as a capitalist," Esiason said on the "Boomer and Gio" show Tuesday morning.
"She’s a very attractive woman and she’s extremely bright. She went to Stanford. But if you listen to her post-participation interviews, she’s insufferable. She is. It’s hard to listen to. But then again, it’s an individual sport by an individual person talking about herself, as opposed to talking about her teammates or the support that she receives. If you listen to her, you're like, ‘what?’"
Esiason and his cohost, Gregg Gianotti, both scoffed at the fact a reporter praised her for seemingly always having the right answers to questions.
"They didn’t ask her about the communist government of China," Esiason quipped. "But the thing about her is, I will say this, she’s exceptionally bright. She has her answers, she knows how she’s gonna answer things, that’s for sure. But nobody’s really asked her a tough question."
Gu, already the most decorated freestyle skier in Olympic history, took home a gold medal in her final event of the Olympics on Sunday. In the women’s freeski halfpipe event, Gu scored 94.75 – just 0.75 points better than her second run. Nobody came close to touching her mark.
She finished her run at the Milan Cortina Games with three total medals – the gold in the halfpipe event and silvers in big air and slopestyle. She has six medals on her resume.
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
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Hilary Duff confesses to throwing her husband’s phone during their yearly 'drag-out' fight
Marriage for Hilary Duff is mostly smooth sailing, except for the "drag-out" fight she has once a year with husband Matthew Koma.
Duff, 38, revealed she and Koma "literally never fight," before admitting they do have a once-a-year blowup that keeps things interesting. The couple's relationship has been in the spotlight after Duff and Koma worked together on the singer's sixth studio album, "Luck… Or Something." Koma, 38, is known for his songwriting – specifically his songs "Clarity," "Spectrum" and "Find You."
"I wasn’t interested in making a record with anyone else," Duff said during a conversation with Dakota Fanning for Interview magazine. "I was like, 'It has to just be me and you.' The most honest stuff came from that because he has a front row to my life and everything I’ve experienced, the really difficult times and the really easy good times that made me who I am. Everyone’s like, ‘How is it working with your husband? Do you guys fight a lot?’ I’m like, ‘We literally never fight.’"
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"Yeah, you guys never really fight," Fanning replied.
Duff quickly corrected herself. "Well, that’s not true. We have one drag-out fight once a year," she admitted. "He actually brought it up the other day. He was like, ‘We haven’t had a fight in such a long time.’ I’m like, ‘Are you ready?’"
The "Lizzie McGuire" star recalled their last fight, although she didn't share exactly what had sparked the argument.
"Last time I threw his phone in a Bougainvillea bush, and it felt so good," she told Fanning. "It was during the fires. We had been displaced, we had all the f---ing kids, and we just needed to have it out."
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Duff – who dominated the early 2000s with various roles on the Disney Channel – notoriously stepped away from the spotlight after her teen stardom.
After releasing her album "Dignity" in 2007, Duff didn't release another album until her 2015 project, "Breathe In. Breathe Out." The "Cadet Kelly" star also shifted to indie film and TV work after welcoming her first child in 2012 with ex-husband Mike Comrie.
She welcomed three more children with Koma and has spent the last several years leaning into motherhood before returning to reclaim her pop star status.
Despite her recent success – Duff's tour tickets sold out quickly, with 175,000 people in waiting rooms to purchase – the singer sometimes feels like a "deadbeat" mom. She explained she feels guilty for leaving them but knows she has their support. Duff's kids constantly want to listen to her new music.
"My son is 13, and I know he’s really proud of me because he actually tells me sometimes," Duff revealed. "But he might also be embarrassed because his friends might see something on the internet about me, nothing bad, but I just did this Dunkin’ Donuts thing, and I’m assuming he’s probably like, ‘That’s my mom and that’s not very cool.’ But the girls think I’m so cool."
"They’re like little cheerleaders," she added. "They’re so excited to watch me perform. Even though the subject matter’s not about my kids, because of who I am and how I process what I’ve gone through becoming a mother, they feel a part of this record even though I’m not singing about carpooling."
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Before choosing to make her album, Duff wasn't sure if she'd ever step back into the music industry again.
"I grew up an actor kid. I wanted to be a pop star and I did those things," she said. "But I had a child and I got divorced. I was trying to navigate all these things as a very young adult, and doing music felt too forward-facing and too scary and exposed. So I was like, ‘OK, I’ve got to learn how to be the best mom I can be.’ I took some acting jobs, some really random poor choices, some great choices – like taking ‘Younger,’ that changed my life."
"But doing music on such a big scale as a young person, in arenas at a time when records sold, was just different," Duff added. "Ten years down the line, I was like, ‘Am I going to be playing in a small club? Is that OK?’ I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have the safety and the confidence to execute it like I have now. I also wasn’t desperate to connect with people the way I am now. I feel this pull to share and be a part of people’s lives again."
Coast Guard reinstates 56 members previously dismissed for refusing COVID vaccines under Biden administration
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday that 56 U.S. Coast Guard members forced out over a Biden-era COVID-19 vaccine mandate will be reinstated with back pay, marking what DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called a major victory for "religious, personal and medical freedom."
Former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, under former President Joe Biden, issued a mandate Aug. 21, 2021, requiring all service members to get a COVID-19 vaccine. It was rescinded nearly two years later on Jan. 10, 2023.
The Coast Guard implemented a similar mandate, which was rescinded Jan. 11, 2023.
President Donald Trump issued executive order 14184 on Jan. 27, 2025, allowing reinstatement of all service members who were discharged for refusing the vaccine.
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Following the order, a three-member panel of the Board for Correction of Military Records of the Coast Guard voted to reinstate 56 members of the Coast Guard.
"Fifty-six members of the United States Coast Guard who were kicked out of the service over the COVID-19 vaccine have finally been reinstated with back pay — this is a victory for religious, personal and medical freedom for all Americans — both in and out of uniform," Noem, who made the recommendation to the board, wrote in a statement.
"The last administration’s vaccine mandates were unconstitutional, un-American, and a gross violation of personal freedom.
"It was no way to treat the men and women who put everything on the line to keep our country safe," she continued. "President Trump is righting these wrongs and returning those unjustly removed members to service. This decision to reinstate these members of the Coast Guard is a major step in the right direction."
DHS said the resinstatements will ensure the service records of each member reflect a period of unbroken and continuous active service between the date of their vaccine-related discharge and their reinstatement to Coast Guard duty.
In accordance with Trump’s executive order, the members may be entitled to back pay and allowances, bonus payments, rank and seniority in grade, as determined by the Coast Guard.
Olympic gold medalist US men's hockey team visits White House to celebrate historic win over Canada
Team USA's Olympic gold medal-winning men's hockey team arrived at the White House for their meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, as the players are also expected to attend Trump's State of the Union address.
The White House later put out a post on Instagram showing off several moments from the visit.
The team made history with its 2-1 overtime win over Team Canada at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in the gold medal game on Sunday. New Jersey Devils star Jack Hughes hit the golden goal to deliver the U.S. its first men's hockey gold medal since the 1980 Miracle on Ice team.
Canada has historically been the most dominant Olympic hockey team in history, with a world-best nine gold medals. Sunday's win also avenged a loss to Canada in the NHL's 4 Nations Face Off exhibition in early 2025, which came amid heightened tensions between the two countries over Trump's tariff policy.
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Trump called the players after Sunday's win, congratulating and thanking them during the locker room celebration.
Trump told the men's team after inviting them to Tuesday's State of the Union that he'd "have" to invite the women's team, otherwise "I probably would be impeached." The players laughed in response to Trump's joke.
Video of the exchange has since gone viral, with some women's hockey fans criticizing Trump and the men's players for making light of the women's team's gold medal victory, which also came against Canada. The women's team has since declined Trump's invitation to Washington, citing scheduling conflicts.
Dylan Larkin and Zach Werenski opened up about where their American pride came from as they celebrated their Olympic accomplishment.
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Larkin and Werenski appeared on Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday morning, hours after celebrating their gold medal victory against Canada in Miami. The two opened up on what it meant to them to represent the Stars and Stripes.
"I think a lot of us played at the U.S. National Team Development Program … When we were there, you get to put the jersey on every day for two years, before you’re drafted. We go through training. We’re not military by any means but they put us through some training, and they really instill in you some pride," Larkin said. "Once you go through that, you take the jersey off … and every time you take it off, for me at least, I don’t know the next time I’m going to put it on.
"So, every time I get the chance to represent the United States of America, I put that jersey on, I’m all in. I love doing it, and it’s just something special. I could go on all day about how great our country is. Just being home and seeing our friends and family, it’s just special."
Werenski was asked whether playing in other countries made him more proud to be an American.
"I think you’re spot on. I remember my first World Championships with him was in Slovakia. I’ve been to Denmark, I’ve been to Czech (Republic) – these are all great countries, and you play in them, and it’s a ton of fun. The Olympics were in Italy, which is an unbelievable country," he said. "You get reminded of how great the United States of America is when you get back here. And we love representing our country, we love wearing those colors.
"Like Dylan said, we learn about it from a young age. We’re allowed to live out our dream because of the military – the people that serve, the first responders. It’s just an incredible country. It’s the best country in the world, and we love wearing these colors, and you definitely get an appreciation for it when you go overseas and play."
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