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Spencer Pratt faces harsh family opposition in LA mayoral bid despite growing community support
Spencer Pratt's quest to positively impact Los Angeles was lost on his sister's ears.
Stephanie Pratt voiced her concerns about her brother's mayoral campaign and claimed his intentions aren't so pure.
In a series of posts shared on X, Stephanie noted that Spencer was a vital asset to the community more than one year after the devastating LA wildfires. However, she assured her followers that "The Hills" star was simply trying to stay relevant.
Pratt and his wife, Heidi Montag, lost their Pacific Palisades home in January 2025 during the deadly LA wildfires. Pratt said his parents also lost their home in the fires.
"Spencer has done great work for the palisades," Stephanie wrote. "But LA does not need another unqualified and inexperienced mayor. A vote for him is a vote for stupidity."
She continued, "He's just trying to stay famous and sell his memoir don't be fooled."
Stephanie mused over an "ideal world" where the Palisades received their own "mayor and police department," but was more concerned with the current issues plaguing Los Angeles.
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"I'm worried about LA. I have no problem playing government but our city needs help," Stephanie wrote.
"Everyone saying I should support him no matter what. Sorry he beat me up when I was 18 & put me in the hospital. So no he doesn’t belong in the government. Run the palisades all you want not LA."
She added, "Leopards never change their spots. Stay in the palisades Spencer."
A vocal opponent to current Mayor Karen Bass, "The Guy You Loved to Hate" author launched his Los Angeles mayoral campaign last month. He told Fox News Digital that while he often finds himself standing alone in public, the support he receives behind closed doors tells a very different story.
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"I know actual A-list stars support what I do, because I’ve been at restaurants, and they sit down at the table, and they quiz me about everything that I know for 20 minutes and thank me," Pratt said. "But these people know if they do that publicly, they risk losing their careers that some of them have been working for 30 years to have."
Pratt said he understands the risks that come with speaking publicly and doesn’t fault those who choose to stay quiet.
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"So, I don’t judge them," he added. "It’s just the same with firefighters that don’t come forward with the truth because of retaliation. There’s no difference between public employees who know what’s going on and celebrities. Everyone sees what’s happening, but everyone’s scared to talk."
The reality star said the release of his memoir and his decision to run for mayor unfolded simultaneously in a way that felt beyond his control.
"The timing of the mayor and the book — that’s God’s timing because the book actually came together right after the fires over a year ago," he told Fox News Digital. "So, the writing’s been happening all year."
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As the manuscript took shape, Pratt said he was watching the political landscape closely and growing increasingly frustrated.
"And then when I saw that nobody was stepping up to run against Mayor Karen Bass in the last month or so, I had to do it," he said. "Again, it’s God’s timing."
Fox News Digital's Danielle Minnetian contributed to this report.
New Mexico mother accused of drowning newborn in portable toilet after giving birth
A New Mexico woman is facing charges after she allegedly gave birth in a portable toilet and then killed the newborn by drowning them in the holding tank.
Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, arrived at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces at around 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 7, when staff said she appeared as if she had just given birth, but she had no baby with her, Las Cruces Police said in a press release.
Hospital staff then notified police about the unusual encounter.
Jimenez’s boyfriend said they had been at Burn Lake, which is located about six miles away, and that his girlfriend had used a portable toilet.
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Officers rushed to the deserted area and discovered the infant girl dead in the portable toilet's holding tank.
Investigators suspect that Jimenez gave birth, cut the umbilical cord and left the child in the holding tank, where she drowned.
An autopsy showed the baby inhaled and swallowed the sanitation liquid used in the portable toilet, according to investigators. The blue chemical was found in the baby’s trachea, lungs and stomach, which investigators said confirms that she breathed and swallowed the liquid while she was still alive.
Jimenez was arrested on Wednesday and charged with intentional child abuse resulting in death, a first-degree felony. She was booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center and is being held without bond.
Police said they do not expect to charge her boyfriend, as they do not believe he was aware she had given birth.
"This is one of the most heartbreaking and disturbing cases I have encountered in my career," Las Cruces police Chief Jeremy Story told the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Former Obama aide claims former president was 'not a progressive' using a '2025 lens'
Actor and former White House aide Kal Penn claimed that "by a 2025 lens," former President Barack Obama was "not a progressive."
Penn, who worked for the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011, defended his former boss on the "Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know" podcast Wednesday where he celebrated Obama not being considered a progressive as a sign of "progress" working.
"You can't look back at 2009 with a 2025 lens and say this wasn't progressive enough," Penn said. "And I will tell you why, it is that, of course, by a 2025 lens, Obama was not a progressive. That's how you know progress worked."
He continued, "It's a good thing. It's a good luxury to be able to look back and be like that moderate, that dude who droned people and didn't get healthcare passed the way that we wanted, that's a great ability to have in 2025, because it means that things that he did get done are moderate by definition today because the needle was moved."
Penn denied that Obama could have been more "radical" during his term in office, arguing that it was difficult given the limited powers of the presidency.
"The problem with this question is that the reality was he couldn't be wildly radical, right? So even the Affordable Care Act at the time, even though the initial point of it was actually like a conservative model, but even then he barely got the Democratic votes to get it passed. And in retrospect, we're like, 'that's all we got?,'" Penn said.
Despite his defense of the former president, Penn acknowledged that he was also "disillusioned" by the administration over certain issues, such as the failure to close Guantánamo Bay.
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"People have a right to be disappointed. People have a right to celebrate," Penn said.
Obama has criticized the progressive wing in his party for alienating voters, such as young men.
"I will say, as quote-unquote progressives, Democrats, progressive parents, enlightened ones, we've made that mistake sometimes in terms of our rhetoric, where it's like we're constantly talking about it, you know, what's going on with the boys instead of what's right with them," Obama said in July.
Anthony Edwards leads Team Stars, earns MVP in revamped NBA All-Star Game format
The NBA All-Star Weekend has come to a finish after a revamped All-Star Game ended with Team Stars winning it all at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards came away with the All-Star Game MVP award, rightfully named the Kobe Bryant Trophy, after an eight-point performance with four rebounds and two assists to help Team Stars defeat Team Stripes, 47-21.
Edwards also had 13 points in the overtime win over Team World, while tallying 11 in the first matchup between Team Stars and Team Stripes, which resulted in the latter taking home the 42-40 victory.
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In total, Edwards had 32 points, nine rebounds and three assists, while shooting 13-of-22 from the field in the game.
This new format, as the NBA tried to revitalize its All-Star Game, had the Intuit Dome crowd going crazy with its play and fast finishes.
There were two teams from the United States facing off against Team World in a round-robin format with four, 12-minute games. Each team had a minimum of eight players throughout the tournament in L.A.
In the first matchup between Team Stars and Team Stripes, it was San Antonio Spurs point guard De’Aaron Fox hitting a game-winning three-pointer to seal the victory.
Then, Toronto Raptors forward Scottie Barnes nailed a game-winning three-pointer in overtime to defeat Team World.
So, Edwards, Detroit Pistons’ Jalen Duren, Phoenix Suns’ Devin Booker and Philadelphia 76ers’ Tyrese Maxey went to the final, defeating Team Stripes, which featured Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James, Houston Rockets’ Kevin Durant and the hometown favorite, Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard.
Team Stripes may have had future Hall of Famers on their roster, but it was Team Stars who had more gas it appeared in the end, with the former tired out from the prior games.
It will be interesting to see if this format will remain for the NBA moving forward, but the reception seemed to be positive among fans in the building and watching at home as this All-Star Weekend came to a fun end.
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Man who burned Quran in London may get US asylum as case draws Trump administration attention
The Trump administration is weighing involvement in the case of a protester who was fined for burning a Quran outside the Turkish Consulate in London, as U.K. prosecutors look to reinstate his overturned conviction, according to reports.
Officials are said to be discussing granting 51-year-old Hamit Coskun refugee status if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) wins its appeal, with a senior U.S. administration official telling The Telegraph the case is one of several "the administration has made note of."
Coskun, of Armenian-Kurdish descent, had initially sought asylum in the U.K. from Turkey, where he says Islamic extremists "destroyed" his family’s life and where he was jailed for protesting Islamist governance.
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On Feb. 13, 2025, he traveled to the Turkish Consulate in London and set fire to a copy of the Quran while shouting slogans including "Islam is [the] religion of terrorism" and "f--- Islam."
There he was attacked by Moussa Kadri, a passerby who chased him with a knife, kicked him and spat on him.
Kadri later received a suspended prison sentence after being convicted of assault and having a bladed article in a public place.
Initially charged with harassing the "religious institution of Islam," Coskun’s case drew intervention from the National Secular Society and the Free Speech Union, who argued prosecutors were effectively reviving blasphemy laws already abolished in 2008.
Coskun was convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offense and fined in June 2025.
That October, Coskun’s conviction was overturned when a judge ruled that while burning a Quran was "desperately upsetting and offensive" to many Muslims, the right to free expression "must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb."
The CPS is now seeking to reverse that decision at London's High Court, with Coskun telling The Telegraph that if the appeal goes against him, he may be forced "to flee" the country.
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"For me, as the victim of Islamic terrorism, I cannot remain silent. I may be forced to flee the UK and move to the USA, where President Trump has stood for free speech and against Islamic extremism," he told the outlet.
"If I have to do so, then, to me, the UK will have effectively fallen to Islamism and the speech codes that it wishes to impose on the non-Muslim world," he added.
President Donald Trump and the U.S. administration have already criticized the U.K. and European governments over increased restrictions on expression.
In 2025, Trump slammed the U.K.'s laws around online speech, saying "strange things are happening" there and that it was "not a good thing."
At the Munich Security Conference in 2025, Vice President JD Vance also said, "In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat."
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Department of State for comment.
MLB All-Stars react to Dodgers' massive $400 million payroll for 2026 season: 'I f---ing love it'
The Los Angeles Dodgers are heading into the 2026 season looking to win their third straight World Series, and once again, they added All-Star players to an already stacked 40-man roster.
As a result, many in the baseball world have grumbled and groaned about the massive spending Los Angeles is doing on the open market. But there is the other side of the argument: How do players on other teams feel about the super squad the Dodgers and GM Brandon Gomes have been able to put together?
"I f---ing love it," San Diego Padres star third baseman Manny Machado told reporters at spring training when asked about the Dodgers heading into the new year. "I love it. I mean, honestly, I think every team should be doing it. They’ve figured out a way to do it, and it’s f---ing great for the game."
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Philadelphia Phillies All-Star Bryce Harper shares Machado’s sentiment.
"I love what the Dodgers do, honestly," he said at his team’s Clearwater facility this week. "They pay the money. They spend the money. They’re a great team. They run their team like a business. And they run it the right way."
The Dodgers head into the 2026 season with a massive $400 million payroll, though there are teams close behind. The New York Mets are second with a projected $368.3 million, followed by the New York Yankees at $333.25 million.
But the Phillies are fourth on the list ($311.18 million), and the Padres are sixth ($257.84 million), and Machado and Harper have both cashed in on massive contracts over their careers. Of course, those contracts were rightfully earned for both players.
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Los Angeles has taken the spending to a different level, though, which has led a group of baseball fans to say the Dodgers are ruining baseball. The fact the collective bargaining agreement expires on Dec. 1, 2026 makes things even more interesting, as an MLB lockout could be in the works with a salary cap debate almost certainly at the center of future negotiations.
However, the words of Machado and Harper show how much the players enjoy the Dodgers spending money. As they both said, the Dodgers’ spending is what they want to see because, ultimately, that means their peers are being paid the money they feel they’re worth.
At the same time, smaller market teams are unable to spend the way the Dodgers and large market teams do. That argument, however, isn’t one Machado finds reasonable.
"I think every team has the ability to do it," he said. "So, I hope all 30 teams can learn from that."
Harper added: "Each team in baseball has an opportunity to do the same thing. Maybe not at the upper echelon of money. But they can draft, they can develop, they can trade. I don’t know, I think a lot of teams can do that in baseball. And they should."
Gomes was asked about his opinion of those who say the Dodgers are ruining baseball, and as expected, he isn’t worried about the outside noise.
"I don’t really pay any attention to that at all," he said, per the California Post. "We’re not looking externally. The validation is winning championships and putting out as good a team as you can each and every year."
The Dodgers’ latest big-name acquisitions were outfielder Kyle Tucker, who signed a whopping four-year, $240 million deal, and closer Edwin Diaz, who came aboard on a three-year, $69 million contract.
Los Angeles defended their title in a thrilling seven-game World Series bout with the Toronto Blue Jays this past season.
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Brooklyn Beckham catches wrath for 'weird' Valentine's Day post amid family war
Brooklyn Beckham was still reeling with love for his wife one day after Cupid shot his arrow.
David and Victoria Beckham's oldest son admitted he was the "luckiest person in the world" in a kissing snap with Nicola Peltz shared on social media Sunday.
The Internet was set alight with Brooklyn's innocent public display of affection weeks after the budding chef aired his family drama in a manifesto posted online.
Brooklyn, 26, showed off his arsenal of artwork in the black-and-white photo where he kissed his bride.
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"Happy Valentine’s Day baby," Brooklyn wrote. "I am the luckiest person in the world to be able to call you my valentines every year x I love you more than you know and I will forever protect and love you x."
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Social media users raised questions about the post, and had a few notes for Brooklyn.
"Am I the only one who thinks this is weird?" one user asked, while another offered, "First of all, use seasonings in your cooking. Secondly, call your parents."
One fan simply asked, "Didn't you guys want privacy?" One user noted, "A woman who pulls you away from your family root does not love you."
"Only a day late, daddy must've taken his Rolex back," another follower said.
One fan advocated for the couple, and encouraged users to remember the joys of innocent affection.
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"They are young they are in love leave them alone! Young love is indestructible don’t you all remember yours," they wrote.
Last month, Brooklyn became the center of the storm and confirmed a longstanding war within his family in a lengthy statement shared on social media where he explained how his parents "controlled narratives" throughout his life in an attempt "to preserve" a functioning family facade.
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Prior to the bombshell statement, the 26-year-old photographer reportedly sent his parents a legal "desist" letter, informing them they could only speak to him and his wife via lawyers. The Sun reported that the letter instructed his parents not to mention him or his wife on social media.
In his January social media post, Brooklyn made accusations that his parents had tried to sabotage his marriage to claims that Victoria canceled making Peltz’s wedding dress at the "eleventh hour."
"My family values public promotion and endorsements above all else," Brooklyn stated in the public rant shared on Instagram Jan. 19. "Brand Beckham comes first."
"My wife and I do not want a life shaped by image, press, or manipulation. All we want peace, privacy and happiness for us and our future family," Brooklyn's lengthy statement concluded.
In addition to Brooklyn, 26, the former Spice Girls member and her husband, David Beckham, are also parents to sons Romeo, 23, and Cruz, 20, and daughter Harper, 14, all of whom Brooklyn has blocked on social media.
Bill Maher bungles greenhouse gases in attempted dunk against Doug Burgum
"Real Time" host Bill Maher appeared to inadvertently mix up carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in an attempt to mock Interior Secretary Doug Burgum over loosening environmental regulations.
On his show Friday, Maher commented on the decision by the Trump administration to roll back Obama-era greenhouse gas rules, calling it the "biggest d--- move in American history" and singling out Burgum by name.
"Doug Burgum, he’s the interior secretary," Maher said. "Listen to this, the way they all line up behind this nonsense. He said, CO2, carbon, was never a pollutant. He said when we breathe, we emit CO2. Okay, Doug, you know what? Let’s try this little experiment. Tonight, when you get home, go in the garage, close the door, turn the car on, and let’s see if carbon is a pollutant, okay? Thank you very much."
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Though Maher claimed Burgum was supporting "nonsense," many social media users pointed out that carbon monoxide, which is produced in car exhaust, is not the same as carbon dioxide.
"I normally like Bill Maher, but trying to dunk on someone for climate change denialism while not understanding the difference between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide pretty much sums up the unearned sense of moral superiority on the left," Outkick writer Ian Miller wrote.
Meteorologist Chris Martz commented, "I like Bill Maher a lot, but someone needs to explain to him the difference between virtually harmless carbon dioxide (CO₂) and poisoning by carbon monoxide (CO). Also, I’d be happy to debate Maher about climate change. Fly me out to LA and I’ll be there."
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"Different carbon, different effect, CO = deadly CO2 = plant food / exhaled by all breathing animals," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wrote.
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Burgum's office, the U.S. Department of the Interior, referred to President Donald Trump's Truth Social post on Maher's show when reached for comment.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Thursday that he would be eliminating the "2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Finding," which set in motion most federal greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles.
The 2009 finding previously claimed that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and three other greenhouse gases "endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations" under the Clean Air Act.
Burgum expressed support for the decision in a comment to The Wall Street Journal.
"More energy drives human flourishing," Burgum said. "Energy abundance is the thing that we have to focus on, not regulating certain forms of energy out."
Paige Spiranac opens up on social media hiatus: 'Just overthinking everything'
Golf influencer Paige Spiranac boasts more than 4 million followers on Instagram and another 1.1 million followers on TikTok, but over the last couple of months fewer posts have hit her feeds.
Spiranac explained her social media absence in a Q&A session with her Instagram followers last week. Her last post on Instagram came on Jan. 26 and her last TikTok video came on Oct. 24. She told her followers that she had been in a "bit of a funk" recently.
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"… And its not like a one or two day thing," Spiranac wrote on her Instagram Stories, via the New York Post. "This has been going on for a little bit. I feel like I’ve just been so in my head about everything and I’m just trying to work through it. I think that’s why I haven’t been posting as much because I am just overthinking everything and I just feel like my anxiety has taken control.
"I’m trying to push myself outside of that and post more and get back to what I was doing before. I feel like I haven’t been active because I’ve just been in my own head, in this kind of funky rut and we’re working through it."
Spiranac lamented how her audience and others haven’t seen her correctly and said she believed she was "actually really misunderstood."
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While she admitted that her "rut" has caused her to stay away from golf for a bit, she said she hoped to create more of a fun-focused golf series in the near future.
Last month, Spiranac returned to social media to share a new hairdo.
She recently took time off social media after she was engulfed in a cheating scandal during a golf influencer tournament. She said in November she received "tens of thousands of death threats" since the championship match of the tournament.
"The last week and a half is probably the worst hate I’ve ever received in the 10 years of me doing this," Spiranac previously said in a post on her Instagram Stories. "I’m talking tens of thousands of death threats, people telling me to kill myself. The most vile, horrendous stuff you could ever say to an individual that’s been in my DMs to the point where we were discussing me having to potentially get a restraining order.
"I mean, it’s serious stuff. It’s not easy, and it hasn’t been easy."
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Team USA men's hockey goes undefeated in Group C, earns bye into next Olympic round after win over Germany
Team USA did what it was expected to do in the group stage in men’s ice hockey, defeating Germany, 5-1, to go undefeated in the preliminary round games at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games on Sunday.
Auston Matthews scored two goals for the Stars and Stripes, while Tage Thompson, Zach Werenski, and Brock Faber each found the back of the net in Team USA’s third victory in Milan.
After wins in their first two games — 5-1 victory over Latvia, followed by a 6-3 finish against Denmark on Saturday — Team USA has a bye heading into the quarterfinals, which begin on Wednesday.
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Canada and Slovakia have also earned byes after winning Group A and B, respectively.
While it was expected Team USA would handle the three underdogs in their group in Milan, it wasn’t easy throughout the 60 minutes, including against Germany on Sunday.
Despite Team USA getting shots on Maximilian Franzreb early in this contest, Germany was playing very physical and getting Grade-A chances on the other side of the ice against U.S. net minder Connor Hellebuyck.
But it was Werenski finding the back of the net first in this game with only nine seconds to spare. He secured a pass from Matthews, and used the German screen in front of Franzreb to get the puck over the red line for the lead heading into the locker room.
Throughout the tournament thus far, the first period hasn’t been the most fluid for Team USA, but they ultimately made up for it in the following two periods in all three games.
In this one, Matthews made the best of a power play opportunity, seeing a shot by Quinn Hughes deflect off his stick and go through Franzreb’s legs for the second goal of the game.
Toward the end of the period, Faber added his first goal of the tournament, while Matthew Tkachuk got his fifth assist as well as brother Brady Tkachuk getting his first on the goal.
With a controlling 3-0 lead entering the third period, Thompson scored less than two minutes. Matthews would later score his third goal of the tournament to make it 5-0 and virtually seal the game for Team USA.
Germany’s Tim Stutzle, who has been having a good tournament, potted his fourth goal, but it obviously wasn’t enough to mount a comeback in the end.
Now, Team USA will wait to see who they face in the quarterfinals. The tournament also moves to single elimination now, requiring the U.S. to win three more games to reach the gold-medal game, which is set for Feb. 22.
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