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You’re joining our coverage live as Fox News Channel celebrates 30 years of on-air excellence.
Thirty years?
It went by so fast.
And yet, a 30th anniversary doesn’t happen by accident.
Fox News makes it look easy. It’s not. The work behind the scenes is incredible to witness.
Let’s take a moment to recognize the people our viewers never see — the ones who make it possible for the shows to get on the air, and for those of us in front of the camera to have complete confidence that the product reaching our viewers is informative and entertaining.
Having that confidence matters to the anchors, hosts and guests. It’s critical to know the research is solid, the technology is working, the pictures are right, and, if something changes in an instant, that the team has your back. Nearly the entire building is organized around making that possible.
Aside from the hours I’m on air, I walk into work so happy. I love my routine — and knowing that the plan could change in an instant. It keeps me on my toes.
My day begins with a security guard who likes to announce, "Talent is in the building!" precisely because he knows the word "talent" makes me cringe. I blush, walk faster, and we laugh about it every single morning.
I often see one of the custodial staff on my way up to my office, and one joins me in trying to get a tradition going of saying, "Morning morning!" every day. We have a streak — we never miss.
Long before I arrive, the producers have already been working. They get up hours before we do, thinking about what would make a good show — not simply what we are going to say, but what the audience is going to experience. They’re looking for the best and latest video that captures an event, making graphics to help explain the story (I love charts!) and writing scripts that grab the viewer and keep them watching.
And then, at a moment’s notice, they may have to tear up the entire rundown when breaking news changes everything. Suddenly, the carefully planned show is gone, and the team is shifting to something happening across the country or around the world. They have to gather information, verify it, find the right pictures, reach the right correspondents and guests, and help us understand what matters — fast. That kind of flexibility only looks effortless when the people doing it are exceptionally good at their jobs.
I remember once interviewing an Afghan man who witnessed the Abbey Gate airport bombing in August, 2021 when President Joe Biden pulled our troops out. This man picked up an injured child, carried her to safety, and then came on air with us. He was a man with no hope. And while I am usually very stoic on air, I was about to cry.
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I will never forget the reassuring voice in my ear from the line producer: "You’re OK. You’re OK." My tears dried up. The interview continued.
Assistants are a lifeline for us — they produce our lives. They do the research, keep the schedule, block and tackle, and get in front of problems. The scope and scale of their talents are immense, and without them, we’d be lost.
Our technology teams keep us connected to breaking news and events around the world in real time — something we all take for granted right up until the second something doesn’t work.
And then, of course, there are those who help us look our best. The wardrobe department has a great eye and is always there with a pin or a piece of tape when we need it. The hair and makeup team is by far the best in the business. Name another? You can’t.
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They’re also our confidants — I’ve worked with the same team for almost 15 years, and they’ve become my sister-friends. Sure, they make sure I’m camera-ready at an hour when most reasonable people are still in pajamas, but they also know when I’ve had a tough night, could use some encouragement, need to laugh, and when it’s better just to let me sit quietly for a few minutes. I can’t wait to see them every day and catch up.
So many others to mention — the directors who know how to get the best reaction shots, the cameramen who never miss an angle, and the lighting technicians we wish we could take with us everywhere.
And there’s a special relationship with a stage manager who can communicate an entire paragraph with one glance. There are also those who laugh at our jokes — it’s very gratifying to hear those chuckles.
On the road, another kind of magic happens. Our crews can take a barn, a convention hall, a parking lot or almost anywhere else and turn it into a beautiful television set. Hollywood should be so lucky to know these people.
And amid the enormous logistical challenge of covering an election or a breaking-news event, someone still remembers the little things: Dana likes warm water in her cup. Dana would love a yoga mat in her room if we’re going to be here for a very long time. Dana needs a footstool (always!).
Those things may sound small, but they make all the difference. They say: We know you. We’ve got you. Go do your job.
That same support extends far beyond the studio. Our media relations team promotes our work, tells our stories and, when we need it, defends us vigorously. They are in the arena with us, and knowing they are there matters.
The same is true of our radio, podcast and digital teams, which have evolved right alongside the technology and opened up more and more ways for us to reach people. What once lived mostly on a television screen now lives in earbuds, phones, websites and across platforms that did not even exist when Fox News began. The technology changes, but the mission remains the same: Find the audience and serve them well.
And there are so many others whose names never appear on the screen.
These are not just colleagues. After enough years, they become deep friendships, and all the while I have laughed so much.
I have also leaned on this group for comfort during some of life’s hardest moments, including when my dad passed away earlier this year. And I have had the privilege of sharing in the joy, too — marriages, babies and now, after all these years, even grandbabies.
That is what longevity really looks like. You don’t just work alongside people — you live a lot of life alongside them.
We have celebrated, mourned, adapted and endured more than a few difficult seasons. And I think we are stronger because of it.
I’ve been at Fox for nearly 17 years, and somehow I still feel new compared with the OGs who built this network and made it what it is today.
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Thirty years later, the technology is different. The platforms are different. The way people consume news is different. But excellence still comes down to people and our corporate culture.
Without their singular focus on getting it right, we would not be number one, and we would not have lasted 30 years. Because of them — along with the vision and leadership from the top, including our founders — I have tremendous confidence in the years ahead.
The cameras may be pointed at us.
But the people just outside the frame are the reason the show goes on.
HUD’s homelessness reforms put human lives ahead of housing bureaucracy
On Sept. 16, the First Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to move forward with desperately needed reforms to the nation’s homelessness system.
After months of litigation by the Homeless Industrial Complex to repeatedly block these reforms, the decision allows HUD to redefine success and fund the programs that generate the greatest success in moving the homeless toward recovery, restoration and self-sufficiency.
And not a moment too soon.
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For more than a decade, federal homelessness policy has centered heavily on permanent housing placement, while the measures used to define and count homelessness have often obscured important differences between who is counted as homeless and who is being served through homelessness programs.
Success will now be measured by whether people are getting better: recovering, working, reconnecting and reclaiming their lives.
Getting here required that HUD officials confront a series of gimmicks that helped sustain the old system — promises, definitions and measures of success that painted a very different picture than what was happening on America’s streets.
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The first gimmick was in 2013 when President Barack Obama declared Housing First the predominant federal approach, promising to end homelessness in a decade by prioritizing permanent housing placement without requiring treatment, sobriety or other preconditions.
The promised end never came. By 2025, despite a 151% increase in taxpayer-funded beds, homelessness surged 27% and chronic homelessness by 81% — reaching the highest levels ever recorded in our nation’s history.
The problem was that we defined success as housing placements and system growth rather than recovery, self-sufficiency and restored lives.
Spending soared, the system expanded and homelessness grew with it.
That brings us to gimmick No. 2: housing people and then removing them from the homelessness count.
HUD’s Point-in-Time count excludes people already living in taxpayer-funded permanent housing for the homeless even though roughly 83% of HUD’s homelessness resources are devoted to housing them. That exposes a fundamental contradiction: If they are no longer counted as homeless, why does the nation’s largest homelessness agency continue devoting the majority of its resources to housing them?
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Then came another statistical sleight of hand: rapid rehousing.
HUD classified rapid rehousing as permanent housing even though its rental assistance is time-limited to 24 months. Move a family into rapid rehousing, and they disappear from the point-in-time count. Move that same family into transitional housing — which can also last up to 24 months — and they remain officially homeless.
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Same potential 24-month horizon. Two radically different statistical outcomes.
And the distinction mattered. As HUD steered communities away from transitional housing and toward rapid rehousing, HUD itself attributed declines in reported family homelessness in 2018 "largely" to that shift.
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Put the populations together and the picture changes dramatically: 1,456,923 Americans were either homeless or living in taxpayer-subsidized housing in 2025 — nearly twice the 745,652 captured by the headline point-in-time count.
That is one of the flaws in defining success primarily through housing status: The statistic can improve the moment someone crosses into a program classified as permanent housing, long before we know whether that person has achieved lasting stability or self-sufficiency.
Housing matters, but recovery, stability, and self-sufficiency must be the finish line.
Then there is the "chronic" definition gimmick.
Under 12 years of Housing First rule, HUD has repeatedly changed how it defines and calculates chronic homelessness, making apples-to-apples comparisons across years increasingly difficult. Some changes temporarily altered who qualified as chronically homeless and therefore who appeared in federal statistics.
But this year, this HUD administration did the calculation and reports chronic homelessness is 81% higher than it was in 2013.
Perhaps the most consequential gimmick, however, involves homeless children and families.
In 2011, HUD made the decision to apply a far narrower standard than the Congress-codified McKinney-Vento definition to identify homeless children and youth in our nation’s schools. The result is a stunning federal contradiction: a child can be officially homeless under federal law while at school, yet that same child and family is moved into the shadows under HUD’s narrow definition simply because, after losing their housing, they are sleeping on someone else’s couch, or in a motel room the government is not funding.
The definition disparity is staggering.
The Department of Education identified roughly 1.5 million homeless K–12 students in the 2023–24 school year, a number that includes only students. It does not count their parent(s), younger siblings not yet enrolled in school or other family members experiencing homelessness alongside them. Applying a conservative household adjustment suggests those students could represent more than 2.3 million Americans experiencing homelessness within families.
The result is that most homeless families are excluded from HUD’s homelessness count, and those excluded families do not qualify for HUD-funded homelessness assistance. HUD simply defined them out of the system that was supposed to support them. Pushing them into the shadows will have consequences reverberate for generations.
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Under the Trump administration, HUD now recognizes a basic truth: America cannot solve homelessness by narrowing definitions until millions disappear from the numbers — or by declaring success based simply on where someone sleeps.
The era of statistical gimmicks and lowered expectations must end. It is time to measure what matters: lives recovered, restored and returned to self-sufficiency.
Data centers could be the sleeper issue of the 2026 midterm elections
Data centers may be the sleeper issue of the midterm elections.
Fox News reported that Senate candidates are confronting growing voter anger over the electricity costs, water consumption, and sprawling developments associated with artificial intelligence. One recent Gallup survey found that 70 percent of Americans oppose the construction of new AI data centers in their own communities.
Politicians are paying attention. Some are calling for moratoriums. Others are targeting tax incentives or demanding that projects generate their own power. The political temptation is obvious: When voters are worried about higher utility bills and rapid changes in their communities, blaming large technology companies is easier than explaining a complicated energy and infrastructure problem.
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The concerns are real. They should not be dismissed by industry, and they cannot be ignored by elected officials. No family should be forced to subsidize the grid upgrades required by one of the world’s wealthiest companies. Communities deserve honest answers about water use, noise, land, electricity demand, tax incentives, and who will pay for new infrastructure.
But, legitimate concerns are quickly hardening into something far more dangerous: a political campaign against the physical infrastructure of American artificial intelligence.
If that happens, we will repeat one of the most damaging patterns in modern American history.
For decades, the United States surrendered factories, critical supply chains, mineral production, and industrial capacity to foreign competitors. Communities lost jobs, our national security became dependent on adversaries, and Washington eventually spent billions trying to rebuild industries that should never have left.
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We cannot make the same mistake with AI.
Artificial intelligence does not exist somewhere in the cloud. It requires chips, servers, power plants, transmission lines, cooling systems, construction workers, electricians, pipefitters, engineers, and data centers. These facilities are not incidental to the AI economy. They are the factories of the next industrial age.
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China understands this. Beijing is not debating whether it should possess the energy and computing infrastructure necessary to dominate artificial intelligence. It is building. The International Energy Agency projects that data-center electricity consumption will increase substantially in both China and the United States through 2030. If America decides that data centers are too politically difficult to construct, the demand for AI will not disappear. The investment, jobs, technical expertise, and strategic advantage will simply move elsewhere.
That would be a profound failure of American competitiveness.
It would also create a serious political problem for Democrats. Data-center construction has become an important source of work for the building trades. The Associated Press recently reported that data centers account for at least 40 percent of the work hours performed by members of the Columbus-Central Ohio Building and Construction Trades Council and at least 50 percent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26 in the Washington metropolitan area.
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Those are not theoretical jobs promised years from now. They are jobs for electricians, laborers, operating engineers, pipefitters, and other skilled workers today. Democrats cannot claim to represent organized labor while allowing progressive activists to shut down the projects employing union members.
Republicans should resist a similar temptation. Conservatives have spent years arguing for reshoring, energy dominance, permitting reform, American manufacturing, and competition with China. Those commitments mean very little if they disappear when building the next American industry becomes locally controversial.
The answer is not to wave every project through without conditions. It is to build responsibly and communicate honestly.
Data-center developers should be expected to explain what they are building, how much electricity and water it will require, how they will protect residential ratepayers, and what the surrounding community will receive in return. Utilities and regulators should ensure that large customers pay the costs created by their demand. Projects should pursue closed-loop cooling, on-site generation, long-term power agreements, and other options that reduce pressure on local systems.
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Most importantly, America needs more energy.
Data centers are exposing a problem that existed before the AI boom. Electricity demand from data centers has tripled over the past decade and could double or triple again by 2028. Electricity demand is rising after years of stagnant generation, premature plant retirements, congested transmission systems, and permitting processes that make major infrastructure nearly impossible to build on time. Stopping data centers will not modernize the grid. Building more reliable generation, accelerating transmission, preserving existing nuclear capacity, expanding natural gas infrastructure, and deploying advanced nuclear power will.
Industry also needs to recognize that silence is no longer a strategy. As Sen. Jon Husted told Fox News, data-center companies have not done a good enough job explaining why they should be allowed to develop in communities. He is right.
Americans hear about enormous power consumption, water use, and tax incentives. They need to hear, in plain language, what data centers make possible, which jobs they create, how they support national security, and why domestic computing capacity matters in the competition with China. That education must happen before a project is announced, not after opposition has already formed.
Political leadership means taking voters’ concerns seriously without allowing fear to determine America’s economic future. We can protect ratepayers, demand transparency, give communities a meaningful voice, and still build the infrastructure required to compete.
America has already surrendered too many industries. We cannot cede the next one before most Americans realize the race has begun.
Trump’s Greenland bases could change Arctic defense. I learned why at 76 below zero
I spent four years as an Army infantry officer in Alaska, where our operational responsibilities stretched from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean to the Aleutian Islands reaching toward Russia.
During Exercise Brim Frost ’89, some 26,000 American and Canadian troops took the field, and I served as a brigade operations officer. As we maneuvered across Alaska’s interior, temperatures plunged as low as 76 degrees below zero. The exercise produced more than 250 cold-weather injuries, including 88 cases of frostbite. At those temperatures, fuel systems become unreliable, batteries lose power, lubricants thicken and weapons and vehicles can fail in ways soldiers from warmer climates rarely encounter.
And no, a week on the slopes at Vail does not prepare anyone for that. The Arctic punishes amateurs.
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That experience is why President Donald Trump’s Greenland announcement at the United Nations on Tuesday deserves attention beyond the political headlines. "We’ll be building two very major military bases," the president told the General Assembly.
The agreement Trump signed with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen amends the 1951 defense pact. It allows the United States to modernize and expand the existing Pituffik Space Base in the northwest and to establish new defense areas at Narsarsuaq in the south and Mestersvig in the northeast. It also grants U.S. forces broad access by land, air and sea, including undersea access for American public vessels within Greenland’s territorial waters.
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Announcing an Arctic base, however, is a long way from making one operational. Frederiksen said no decision has been made on the specifics of Golden Dome, and Washington has yet to say which forces will occupy the new sites or when.
Forget the flat map and look at the globe from over the North Pole. Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland form the northern approaches to North America, and Greenland sits astride the routes connecting the Arctic Ocean, the North Atlantic and Europe.
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The Pentagon’s 2024 Arctic Strategy calls the North American Arctic vital to homeland defense because it hosts NORAD’s aerospace and maritime warning.
Greenland has been strategic terrain for generations. Narsarsuaq itself was an American air base, Bluie West One, until the United States closed it in 1958. At the height of the Cold War, Washington operated 17 military facilities with more than 10,000 troops on the island. Today only Pituffik remains, with about 150 service members.
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Pituffik supports missile warning, missile defense and space surveillance. The new agreement recognizes American access to defend Greenland, the NATO area and the American continent, including through Golden Dome, Trump’s planned missile-defense system.
Add Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig, and the United States could build a distributed Arctic network. Pituffik is already the northern sensor and space node. Narsarsuaq could strengthen access to Greenland’s southern approaches and the North Atlantic, while Mestersvig could extend American and allied reach toward the Greenland Sea.
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That geography matters most against Russia.
Russia fields the most developed military presence in the Arctic. Its Kola Peninsula hosts the Northern Fleet and important strategic nuclear forces. The Pentagon warns that Russian Arctic capabilities could place the American homeland and allied territory at risk and complicate U.S. power projection.
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Russia does not have to invade Greenland for Greenland to matter. Russian submarines, long-range aircraft and missiles make the island important because of where it sits. More American sites could improve warning, surveillance, reinforcement and resilience while reducing our dependence on a single installation.
China presents a different problem. Beijing is not an Arctic nation, yet it has spent years seeking influence there. The Pentagon strategy documents Chinese icebreaker operations, dual-use research and growing military cooperation with Russia.
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Against China, the agreement’s most consequential provision may involve no runway at all. No non-NATO country may establish a manned or unmanned military installation or maintain a persistent military presence in Greenland without the parties’ agreement. The pact also bars non-allied control of, or significant influence over, critical infrastructure, resource extraction and other sensitive sectors. It has no expiration date, and it requires Denmark and Greenland to ensure that any future independent Greenland remains in NATO and assumes the pact’s defense obligations.
"No U.S. adversary will ever be permitted to establish a military presence in Greenland," Trump said. That closes one path to a Chinese foothold in the Arctic.
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None of this changes the lesson I learned at 76 below zero. An Arctic base is a supply chain that has to survive January. And an Arctic force is more than troops flown north on short notice. The people operating those bases must know how to live, maintain equipment and perform their missions where routine mistakes quickly turn deadly.
Fuel must arrive. Aircraft must fly. Vehicles must start. Communications must work. Soldiers must function outdoors without becoming cold-weather casualties. Spare parts must travel thousands of miles from America’s industrial base.
The Army’s Arctic strategy says the service must "man, train, equip, and organize to win in the Arctic." The Pentagon calls for better communications above 65 degrees north, where satellite coverage thins. Pituffik and Mestersvig both sit well north of that line.
Can two additional U.S. defense areas strengthen deterrence against Russia and China? They can, but concrete and runways alone deter no one.
Deterrence exists when an adversary believes America and its allies can see what is coming, move forces, sustain them and respond effectively. Greenland strengthens each of those against Russia. Against China, denying military access and strategic investment may matter just as much.
The agreement provides geography and access. The hard work is converting them into enduring capability.
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Alaska taught me long ago that the Arctic has little patience for PowerPoint plans or optimistic assumptions. At 76 below zero, strategy meets reality fast.
The adversaries have changed since World War II and the Cold War. The geography has not. Neither has the Arctic’s unforgiving nature.
Sen Kennedy says no living politicians should have buildings named after them after Trump's moves
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on Sunday that living public officials should not have buildings named after them and proposed a rule to prohibit such renaming efforts.
This comes as President Donald Trump continues to push to rename the Kennedy Center after himself. The president has also sought to rename other prominent federal buildings in Washington, D.C., after himself since returning to the White House last year.
Kennedy said public officials, including Trump, should not "spend public money on private ads for themselves."
"The White House sees it differently, but … you can’t spend public money to … promote yourself," Kennedy told host Margaret Brennan during an appearance on CBS News' "Face the Nation."
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Kennedy's comments came as a new ad promoting Trump appeared on multiple networks, that was funded by the federal government.
The senator then suggested public officials should be barred from having a building named after them while they are still alive.
"I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he’s alive," he said, referring to Trump mocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., last year by sharing AI videos of the lawmakers wearing sombreros.
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Trump has attempted to rename multiple buildings after himself since returning to the Oval Office, including the Kennedy Center, although federal judges blocked multiple attempts by the center's board — handpicked by Trump — to add the president’s name to the building.
Trump's name was briefly added to the building's facade but was ordered removed after courts ruled that only Congress holds the authority to change the center's name.
The State Department also added Trump’s name last year to the U.S. Institute of Peace, but former institute officials removed by the Trump administration filed a court motion earlier this month to block construction crews from putting the president’s name onto the outside of the building.
Trump also suggested he wanted New York's Penn Station and the D.C. area's Dulles Airport named after him as a condition for a funding deal earlier this year.
The president has additionally floated a project to construct a promenade connecting the back of the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River, saying that allies wanted to call it the "Trump Promenade."
"They want to call it the Trump Promenade, but I don't know if I want to do that, but it's going to be beautiful," he said at the time.
Madonna dominates VMAs with Artist of the Year win after showstopping opening performance
Madonna took home a number of awards at the 2026 MTV VMAs, including the biggest honor of the night, Artist of the Year.
She also won Best Collaboration and Best Dance awards, bringing her total 2026 VMAs awards to seven.
During the show, which was hosted by Snoop Dogg at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, Kacey Musgraves channeled Dolly Parton in a tribute to the late country icon.
She sang Parton's song, "I Will Always Love You" for her tribute, one month after Dolly's death.
Taylor Swift won the Video of the Year for her music video "The Fate of Ophelia." Swift wrote and directed the music video for her song. Swift dedicated her win to Parton.
She also received the first ever Artist Director Honors, presented by her friend Dakota Johnson. Swift also received the award for Best Direction for "Opalite."
Madonna opened the show with Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX — 23 years after her last performance for the ceremony.
She performed "Bring Your Love" with Sabrina Carpenter, and "Danceteria" with Charli XCX.
There were also guest appearances by Julia Garner, Sombr, Debi Mazur and Seth Rogen in her show-opener performance.
Fans took to X to share their reaction to Madonna’s performance.
"Train wreck," one fan wrote, adding that she "looked like she was hanging on for dear life."
Another called her performance "cringeworthy," and someone else wrote on X: "Much of her performance was just embarrassing… lip-sync & awkward moves....still happy for her wins btw."
Others gushed about her performance. One fan wrote: "I’m proud of Madonna. That was a great performance & great showcase of the creative vision of the album. THEE QUEEN."
Others said: "Can’t get enough," "Insane performance," "killed it tonight," "What a great performance thank u Mother Madonna u continue to amaze me."
Madonna beat Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, Bruno Mars, and Morgan Wallen for the Artist of the Year.
The artist began her acceptance speech by thanking her fingers "because I can always count on them."
Madonna also pointed out that the audience wasn’t born when she performed at the first ever MTV Video Music Awards, which took place in 1984. She had sang "Like A Virgin."
She said during her performance her shoe fell off, calling it a "little problem."
Madonna recalled she tried to dive and grab her shoe by trying to make herself "look cute and sexy."
"I had a little problem with my shoes and I dove onto the stage to try and make myself look cute and sexy and like I meant to do it."
However, she said by doing so, she accidentally flashed her backside.
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"In those days, butt cheeks were not hanging out. I just want to remind you. And I went backstage feeling really proud of myself, and my manager told me that my career was over."
The singer said in the last year and a half, she focused on "finding myself, believing in myself, and really making the music that I wanted to make."
Adding: "I mean, that really is the definition of being an artist. And my hope for all of you here tonight is that you spend the next year, or the next 10 years, or put the rest of your life doing the same, finding yourself and believing in yourself."
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Madonna also won Best Dance for "Confessions II - The Film."
While accepting the award, which she did with presenters Charli XCX and Troye Sivan beside her, she said, "I came to New York to be a dancer and dance is where everything happened for me in my life."
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Adding: "I came to life on the dance floor, I fell in love with people on the dance floor, and I lost many people I loved on the dance floor. [And] dance brings everybody together. We’re all equal on the dance floor."
Madonna also took home the Moon Person for Best Collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter for their song "Bring Your Love."
Musgraves paid tribute to Parton at the VMAs.
The tribute began with Parton on screen singing her song "I Will Always Love You."
Musgraves appears on stage in the pre-taped tribute, and takes over singing the song while wearing a hot pink gown and voluminous hair, channeling the singer’s look.
Parton died on August 25 at age 80.
The 2026 VMAs also included a tribute to Nirvana. The band was awarded the Video Vanguard Award.
Swift also debuted her music video for "Patient Zero." The music video stars Johnson and Colin Farrell.
Other performers at the VMAs included Lisa, Sienna Spiro, Bruno Mars, Sombr and Shaboozey.
Spiro was the winner of Best New Artist, while Lisa took home Best Pop Award.
Denver Broncos storm back from down 16-0 at halftime to beat Los Angeles Rams in instant classic
For 30 minutes, nothing seemed to be going right for the Denver Broncos.
Last year's AFC runners-up tormented their home crowd for much of the first half, digging themselves a 16-0 hole and looking downright lethargic on offense.
Then the script flipped.
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The Broncos rode an opportunistic defense and some fourth-quarter magic from quarterback Bo Nix to an impressive second-half comeback against the Los Angeles Rams in a Sunday night classic in the Mile High City.
Even after Nix's one-yard quarterback sneak put his team ahead with less than a minute left in the fourth quarter, the Broncos had to hold their collective breath as Rams signal-caller Matthew Stafford calmly drove Los Angeles to within striking distance for the win.
Denver's defense would rise to the occasion with a pick to seal it, just as they had done earlier in the quarter when they returned a Stafford interception for a touchdown to give the Broncos their first lead of the game.
Nix was shaky for much of the first half, but, to his credit, he was able to shake off whatever rust seemed to be present after halftime, accounting for three touchdowns in the final two frames.
For the Rams, they find themselves at 1-2 after this second-half collapse and staring up at their rivals, San Francisco, who sit atop the NFC West at 3-0.
It's early, but LA can ill afford to fall behind any further, as the margin for error continues to shrink as the season matures.
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Conversely, the Broncos get a massive win to keep pace in a surprisingly competitive AFC West.
With the Chiefs seemingly picking up where they left off after an uncharacteristically down 2025 and the upstart Las Vegas Raiders racing out to a 3-0 start, Denver needed this one to go their way.
It wasn't pretty, but a win's a win in the NFL.
Texas man arrested after 'intentionally' crashing into a closed Kroger to use bathroom: cops
A Texas man was arrested after police say he intentionally crashed his vehicle through the front entrance of a Kroger grocery store because he needed to use the bathroom, according to police.
The unidentified man crashed his vehicle into the store overnight on Sunday while the business was closed, allegedly upset that the doors were locked.
The incident happened just before 4:30 a.m. on Sunday morning in Rosenberg, Texas, according to police.
The crash reportedly caused extensive damage to the store.
Images released by police showed the vehicle inside the store with shattered glass inside and outside the doors of the building. The metal door frames were also seen with significant damage.
"On Sunday, September 27th, at approximately 0428, a known male individual intentionally accelerated into Kroger, causing extensive damage to the pharmacy entrance," Rosenberg Police wrote on Facebook.
"I guess when you gotta go, you gotta go but we strongly advise finding a store open for business…to do your business," the department added.
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The suspect was only described as a 60-year-old man.
Police told FOX 26 that the man was arrested on criminal mischief charges.
Benjamin Satterley, pro wrestling star known as Pac, dead at 40
Benjamin Satterley, the pro wrestling star known as Pac, has died, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced on Sunday night. He was 40.
AEW made the tragic announcement on its social media.
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"All Elite Wrestling is saddened to announce the passing of Benjamin Satterley, aka Pac," the company said. "A native of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Satterley began his wrestling career in 2004 and went on to perform for wrestling organizations all over the world, captivating fans with innovative high-flying moves and incredible in-ring ability.
"Pac signed with All Elite Wrestling in 2019 and held multiple AEW Championships and competed in some of the most memorable matches in AEW history. Our condolences go out to Satterley’s family, friends and fans."
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The circumstances behind Pac’s death were unclear. He challenged Andrade El Idolo for the AEW National Championship at All Out, which occurred on Saturday in Chicago.
OutKick reached out to Chicago police, Hoffman Estates police, the Cook County Sheriff's Office and the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office for comment.
Pac was one of the first wrestlers to sign with All Elite Wrestling in 2019. He was a two-time trios champion and the inaugural all-Atlantic champion.
Before wrestling in AEW, he was with WWE and known as Adrian Neville.
Satterley was a two-time cruiserweight champion, an NXT champion and two-time NXT tag team champion.
Attorney for lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy mistrial pushes back on claims of refusing the law
The attorney for the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is pushing back on a claim that his client refused to follow the law, telling Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany that the juror had no doubt about his decision.
In a preview of an interview airing Monday on "Fox & Friends," McEnany asks attorney Edward Paltzik whether juror Michael P. Desronvil ever had reasonable doubt after the jury foreperson sent the judge a note accusing him of refusing to follow the law on reasonable doubt.
"Michael had zero doubt," Paltzik says.
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"Zero doubt. No doubt. And he had evidence to back up his position?" McEnany responds.
"A lot of evidence. A mountain of evidence," Paltzik says.
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Desronvil was the lone holdout after seven days of deliberations in Clancy’s trial. Eleven jurors were prepared to find the former labor and delivery nurse not criminally responsible for killing her three children, while Desronvil held out for a conviction. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Sept. 4.
Clancy admitted killing 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. Her defense argued that postpartum psychosis left her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors argued she understood what she was doing and planned the killings.
Desronvil later said he believed the physical evidence and witness testimony showed Clancy knew what she was doing. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will retry her. She is due back in court Sept. 29.
Watch McEnany’s full interview with Paltzik Monday on "Fox & Friends."