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Tyreek Hill's NFL return seemed imminent and then his divorce trial began with domestic abuse allegations
Multiple reports that surfaced recently linked Tyreek Hill to a Kansas City Chiefs return and one report even quoted his agent as saying he expected the former All-Pro wide receiver to sign with a team in the coming days. That's before Hill's divorce trial began Tuesday.
And testimony from Lakeeta Vaccaro, the player's estranged wife, outlined incidents of domestic abuse. Her suit complaint outlined eight instances of abuse.
The divorce itself is of no interest to the NFL. But the allegations of abuse definitely are and could derail or at least significantly delay Hill's return to the field under the league's Personal Conduct Policy.
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Hill is a free agent but the NFL review of his domestic violence allegations by Vaccaro is ongoing with no timetable for a conclusion, a league source confirmed to OutKick.
Tuesday's accounting of those allegations in open court almost definitely will be taken into account as part of that review that will determine Hill's status to play when healthy.
Vaccaro, who is suing Hill for punitive and compensatory damages, testified during direct examination that in July 2024, she and Hill visited the ESPN campus in Orlando.
Vaccaro said Hill became upset because she did not get professional hair and makeup done for potential interviews there.
Later, at their hotel, Hill remained upset and became so heated he tried to punch her stomach, Vaccaro testified. She said she blocked the blow by putting her hands on her stomach, but the strike did hit her hands.
Vaccaro was pregnant at the time.
Vaccaro added that Hill told her that he didn’t want the baby.
Vaccaro, the sister of former NFL safety Kenny Vaccaro, alleged a history of abuse during her time with Hill. Their 18-month marriage, she testified, was punctuated by periods of relative peace followed by trouble.
"During this whole period, 18-month marriage, it was a consistent two-week on, two-week off situation," Vaccaro testified. "Of course we had our moments when it was, you know, beautiful.
"But then the two weeks of, when it went back to this angry man, it was bad."
Vaccaro said Hill once picked her up physically to throw her out of their house. She said he once pushed her into a car door during an argument. She accused Hill of grabbing and hurting her breasts during multiple arguments.
She accused Hill of once leaving her on the side of a road after an argument in their car.
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Hill’s counsel tried to establish discrepancies between Vaccaro's deposition and her testimony on Tuesday and pressed the point no physical evidence of abuse exists. And Hill's lawyer said that while the allegations are serious, taking them seriously does not mean accepting them merely because they were made.
Hill has a history of alleged or proven abuse against women:
Tuesday’s proceedings wrapped up just after 5 p.m. and neither Hill nor Vaccaro spoke with reporters afterward.
The trial is scheduled to continue on Wednesday.
Trump says Putin call coming ‘very soon’ as US tracks suspected plague death in Russia
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin "very soon" as his administration closely tracks reports of a suspected pneumonic plague death in Siberia that have prompted a U.S. health alert and heightened health precautions across several countries bordering Russia.
Trump revealed the planned call while taking questions from reporters Tuesday.
Asked whether he had spoken with Putin about the situation, Trump said he already had a call scheduled.
"I have a call scheduled, yup," Trump said.
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Asked when the call would take place, the president responded, "Very soon."
Trump said the administration was in "very deep discussions" when asked what U.S. intelligence agencies were saying about the reports.
The president's comments came as the U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued a health alert Tuesday saying it was aware of press reports from Russia's Irkutsk region of "suspected pneumonic plague resulting in the death of an individual," along with associated quarantine measures and hospital closures.
"We continue to track the situation closely," the embassy said.
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A State Department spokesman told Fox News Digital that the department, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other interagency partners, is "closely monitoring the fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague" in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast.
"The Trump Administration has no higher priority than the safety and security of Americans," the spokesman said.
The spokesman cautioned that "many details remain unconfirmed" and called on Moscow to provide greater clarity.
"We encourage Russian authorities to share accurate information quickly and openly," the spokesman said.
The alert advised Americans in the area to follow local health guidance, avoid affected medical facilities and seek prompt medical care if they develop fever or respiratory symptoms. Those who have traveled to an area experiencing an outbreak were advised to monitor their health for 14 days.
The State Department's existing Level 4 "Do Not Travel" advisory for Russia remains unchanged. The embassy reiterated that Americans currently in Russia should depart and warned that the U.S. government's ability to assist citizens there is limited, particularly outside Moscow.
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Several countries bordering Russia are also implementing new health precautions in response to the reports.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are moving to implement what their governments have described as "enhanced health and sanitary measures" in response to reports of pneumonic plague in Siberia.
A 28-year-old employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East died last week from what Russian authorities described as pneumonia of undetermined origin. Russia has not said the woman died of plague and said testing found no microorganisms in her body linked to her work.
Russian officials told the WHO that her contacts tested negative for dangerous infectious pathogens. The WHO has assessed the risk to the general population as low.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also said it is closely monitoring the reports and working across the U.S. government as additional information becomes available. The agency said there is currently no indication of a broader threat to the United States.
Pneumonic plague is a serious bacterial infection caused by Yersinia pestis. It can spread between people through respiratory droplets during close contact and can progress rapidly if untreated. The disease can be successfully treated with antibiotics, particularly when identified and treated early.
For now, U.S. officials are continuing to seek additional information about what occurred in Irkutsk and whether the incident poses any wider threat.
The president suggested his administration could have more to say as soon as Wednesday.
"We'll be able to report about it probably tomorrow," Trump said.
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.
Eva Marie Saint, Oscar-winning ‘On the Waterfront’ and ‘North by Northwest’ star, dead at 102
Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar-and Emmy-winning actress who became one of the defining stars of Hollywood’s Golden Era, has died. She was 102.
Saint died Tuesday of natural causes at her Los Angeles home surrounded by family and loved ones, her representative confirmed to Fox News Digital.
The actress made an extraordinary film debut opposite Marlon Brando in the 1954 classic "On the Waterfront," winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in her performance as Edie Doyle.
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Five years later, Saint then firmly cemented her place in Hollywood's Golden Era history while starring opposite the legendary Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s "North by Northwest," playing mysterious "Hitchcock Blonde" Eve Kendall in the cult-classic 1959 thriller.
Over an incredible career spanning more than seven decades, Saint worked alongside some of Hollywood’s most celebrated leading men, including Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Warren Beatty, James Garner, George C. Scott, Burt Lancaster and Tom Hanks.
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Other notable films featuring the actress included "A Hatful of Rain," "Raintree County," "Exodus," "The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming," "Grand Prix," "Nothing in Common" and, later in her career, "Superman Returns."
Saint was also a regular fixture of television and the stage. She earned five Emmy nominations, winning in 1990 for the miniseries "People Like Us," and appeared on Broadway in "The Trip to Bountiful" before director Elia Kazan cast her in "On the Waterfront."
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Born in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in Albany and Delmar, New York, Saint attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio with plans to become a teacher before acting ultimately changed the course of her life.
Saint was married to director Jeffrey Hayden for 65 years until his death in 2016. She is survived by their two children, Darrell and Laurette, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Saint's death closes a remarkable chapter in the Golden Era of Hollywood history, leaving behind performances alongside some of the biggest and brightest stars and filmmakers of the 20th century.
Anthony Rizzo, 2016 World Series champion, reveals most important piece to winning it all in MLB postseason
With the MLB postseason in full swing, every team and its fan base vying for the World Series trophy is hoping that their superstars can rise to the occasion and get the job done.
However, every great team who has hoisted the hardware at the end of a grueling season knows it takes more than just those All-Stars to win it all. In fact, it takes every single person from the top down.
Just ask World Series champion and three-time All-Star first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who helped the Chicago Cubs break its 108-year streak without winning a World Series in 2016 after defeating the Cleveland Guardians in Game 7.
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Of course, it was stars like himself, Kris Bryant and others celebrating on the field after he secured the final out at first base. But Rizzo can’t help stressing the importance of every player, coach, clubhouse attendant and more during October baseball.
"I just think that on every team you have the stars, the middle-of-the-tier players, and your role players. Everyone’s so important to a team," Rizzo told OutKick, while highlighting PAYDAY’s "Low Key Legends" initiative, which emphasizes the importance of the unsung heroes within an organization. "It takes all 26 guys, it takes your entire staff. So, in order for the superstars to win their championship – let’s say Aaron Judge. He’s the MVP of the Yankees, of the whole league. For him to win a championship, it’s going to take every single guy on that roster. It’s not just one guy who carries you.
"It’s the small things. It’s the baserunning, the pickoffs, the relays. It’s all the lowkey things that maybe don’t look as glitzy and glammy, but that’s what it takes to win a championship."
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We asked Rizzo who his "Low Key Legend" would be, and he didn’t even hesitate when thinking back to his career.
"In the baseball world, I would definitely say Danny Mueller," he responded. "He was the clubhouse attendant in Chicago. He was my guy. He always had me high-energy, ready, and always a bundle of joy when I walked in. Whatever I needed, he was there. Then, the hitting coaches. They are just behind the scenes doing their scouting reports, knowing everything I’m thinking, so when I walk in, I don’t have to think. They just have everything ready for me, knowing what I want so I can go out there and play effortlessly.
"Those are the guys behind the scenes that are just fueling this greatness you see on the field."
At this stage of the season, teams have completely bonded into a family rather than just colleagues, if they didn’t do so during spring training and the early-season grind. Rizzo enjoyed every "family" he was a part of in the bigs, where October baseball brought out that team chemistry.
"I think we’re together forever. We’re together for 200-plus days a year," he said. "In October, win or go home, you’re still saying to each other, ‘In a few weeks, I get to pick my own friends.’ So, we’re like family in the clubhouse. Guys know when to get on guys, when they need a little more love, when to back off – maybe they’re a little more sensitive. That’s the family and bond that’s created in a season. Every year is different. Every year is unique, but for me over my career, Danny’s been a low-key legend for me forever, and my hitting coaches I’ve always had a good relationship with them where they always had my dialed in."
Then, when it’s time to play ball, it’s not just the clean-up hitter or the ace that carries the load of winning a postseason game. It takes a village, and the Milwaukee Brewers gave a prime example of that in Game 2 of their NLDS series against the San Diego Padres.
Of course, the highlights will capture the moment Jackson Chourio walked it off in the bottom of the ninth inning with bases loaded and two outs against the Padres’ dominant closer, Mason Miller. That grabs the headlines and fan appreciation.
However, Rizzo pointed to an unsung hero – a "Low Key Legend" – that helped make it all possible.
"It’s a team of destiny because they’re a smaller market, but this is how they’ve been all year. To stay on brand with Payday and low-key legends, Gary Sanchez in the at-bat before, pinch hitting, taking the walk to get the bases loaded. That’s the low-key legend moment of the game. The superstar moment is when Jackson Chourio coming up and getting that base hit."
So, while your stars need to step up in the biggest ways possible in crucial moments throughout the postseason, always remember the "entire army" behind each franchise all battling for the same prize at the end of the year.
Those unsung heroes could be the difference between going home with nothing, or forever being called a champion.
Foreign adversaries running 'psyop' to fuel anti-AI and anti-data center movement, war official says
A top official at the Department of War discussed how artificial intelligence is playing a role in war readiness strategy, and said foreign adversaries are carrying out "psyop" operations to fuel the anti-data center and anti-artificial intelligence movement across the U.S.
During an interview with Fox News Digital in the White House, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering Emil Michael warned that the movement to decrease production for artificial intelligence infrastructure is being pushed by America’s adversaries.
"It is natural from a propaganda standpoint that your adversary, who doesn't want you to be developing super intelligence ahead of them, is going to try to psyop your population into believing that. And to some degree, it's worked. And I think that's why you see the president push back and say, ‘no, this is a good thing,’" he said.
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Data center production has been at the center of debate ahead of the midterm elections, with lawmakers taking near-partisan stances as to whether developments should continue. Michael referred to data centers as the "electricity that fuels the superintelligence revolution," and explained that continued production of facilities are a crucial part of ensuring the U.S. maintains the lead in the artificial intelligence race.
Protests have popped up across the country against data centers and artificial intelligence advancements in general, with some lawmakers raising questions about the role that foreign influence plays in the demonstrations.
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"It's the same reason we saw Middle Eastern countries paying for anti-fracking movements," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital in an interview last month. "Because if they can convince America, 'Don't develop your oil and gas, just buy it from us,' well, that's great for them and terrible for us.
"The same is true on data centers. If they can convince Americans, 'You don't want data centers here, you want to just rely on the Chinese for AI,' that's great for China, and it's terrible for America."
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Michael echoed some of Cruz’s concerns about foreign influence, though he did not specifically name China as the culprit.
Lawmakers have raised questions about hundreds of millions of dollars that American-born communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham pumped into nonprofits and organizations that are now among the leading organizations fighting data center development throughout the country. Recipients of Singham's largesse include the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition, both self-described pro-China communist groups.
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Last month, activists from both groups carried signs in a Chapel Hill, N.C., protest, merging anti-Trump sentiments with support for communist Cuba and opposition to data centers and AI development, including the message, "SHUT IT DOWN!"
Singham, a 72-year-old American who sold his tech company for $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai, is known to fund pro-Chinese Communist Party groups that operate in the U.S. He has funneled $278 million into the broad network of nonprofits since 2017, according to a Fox News Digital investigation.
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation Boston, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose national chapter regularly partners with and supports the Singham network, posted to social media in July openly opposing data centers, saying the control of AI and data centers is in the hands of billionaires.
"Workers are rising up across the country in a growing movement against the tech billionaires – from fights against data centers in hundreds of cities, to labor organizing at the world’s biggest tech corporations," the post read.
As for how the Department of War utilizes artificial intelligence, Michael told Fox News Digital that usage has skyrocketed since Secretary Pete Hegseth assumed the cabinet role, growing from roughly 70,000 users out of a 3.5 million-person workforce to approximately 1.7 million today.
He explained that the Department of War is deploying artificial intelligence across three main areas: enterprise operations, warfighting and intelligence.
"We have incredible vignettes and stories about how people took 200 hours of work and combined it down to two hours," he added. "They can see what we have as assets. They can see what the adversary has as assets – they can time things better, they write quicker, they can consolidate orders quicker."
Nicole Scherzinger flashes abs in sports bra while revealing dangerous injury hidden from fans
Nicole Scherzinger is showing fans what goes on behind the glamour.
The 48-year-old Pussycat Dolls singer led a new Instagram carousel with a polished backstage selfie, posing with her long dark hair styled in voluminous waves, glamorous makeup and her toned abs on display in a black sports bra and gray sweatpants.
But the next image told a very different story.
Scherzinger shared a close-up of her injured leg, revealing extensive red marks and healing burns stretching across the area around her knee and down her leg.
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The injury dates back to the Pussycat Dolls' Sept. 26 performance in Düsseldorf, Germany, when Scherzinger said boiling water fell on her leg approximately one hour before she was scheduled to take the stage.
Despite suffering burns and blisters, Scherzinger went ahead with the performance.
"Nothing like boiling water falling on your leg an hour before your set," she wrote on Instagram Stories at the time. "But the show must go on."
The singer's latest photos gave followers another look at the aftermath, contrasting the carefully put-together image audiences see backstage with the physical toll she has been managing behind the scenes.
Fans quickly praised Scherzinger for continuing to perform through the injury.
"How you continued to put on a show even after that! Incredible," one person wrote.
"You are truly the meaning of warrior Nicole Scherzinger," another commented.
Singer Gloria Gaynor also offered encouragement, writing, "you are a warrior, @nicolescherzinger!"
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Another follower called the injuries her "Battle scars."
Scherzinger has continued performing with the Pussycat Dolls throughout their "PCD Forever" tour, including a stop at Dublin's 3Arena on Oct. 5.
The current lineup features Scherzinger alongside Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt, who have reunited as a trio for the tour.
In Dublin, Scherzinger returned to the stage roughly a week after the accident, performing alongside Roberts and Wyatt as the group continued its European and U.K. run.
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The tour continues Oct. 7 in Glasgow before moving through Newcastle and Manchester, with an Oct. 13 stop scheduled at London's O2 Arena.
Scherzinger's injury has been one of several challenges surrounding the group's latest reunion.
The "PCD Forever" tour marks the Pussycat Dolls' return to major arenas, but only three members of the group's best-known lineup are participating. Jessica Sutta, Carmit Bachar and Melody Thornton are not part of the current tour.
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Sutta addressed the reunion in an exclusive video published on The Sun Tuesday, making clear that she has no interest in returning to her former role within the group.
"I'm not going to lip sync ‘Don’t Cha’ behind Nicole ever again," Sutta said in the clip.
Sutta said being left out of the reunion initially "broke my heart," though she also praised Scherzinger, Roberts and Wyatt for their performances.
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"I will say they need Carmit and Melody back as I think it’s better as a five," Sutta told the outlet. "But those three girls are killing it."
Sutta is currently focused on her solo career, with her new single, "Don't Take Much," set to be released Oct. 7.
Drone strike sinks ship in NATO waters as Zelenskyy warns of looming ‘massive strike’
A commercial ship sank and its crew vanished Tuesday after an apparent coordinated air-and-sea drone attack off NATO member Bulgaria, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed Russia before warning Moscow was preparing a broader "massive strike."
A second vessel was also heavily damaged and set ablaze inside Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone, with a drone expert warning the dual precision strikes signaled a dangerous escalation and possible "larger invasion posture" by Russia.
"They were likely using the Geran-4 aerial drone to take the vessel out or the Maran surface vehicle to take it out," Cameron Chell, founder of drone manufacturer Draganfly, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday of the first strike.
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"The reason it wasn't just an air vehicle or an air drone that took this ship out was that the Gerans generally come in at a pretty steep angle when they're on final attack," Chell said.
"There are not really any precision drones that fly closely above the surface, which is where they would have had to hit in order to create an impact that would sink this ship fast enough," he added.
"The nature of this strike suggests there was a combination of an air attack and surface attack," Chell said.
The dual attack occurred roughly 70 nautical miles off the eastern Bulgarian coastal town of Byala, according to Reuters, bringing the conflict into the economic zone of a NATO member.
Zelenskyy said Ukrainian intelligence and security services were working to determine the full circumstances surrounding the attack.
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"Our intelligence and special services are now working to establish all available information about yet another attack in the Black Sea targeting civilian vessels," he wrote on X.
"Our Navy contacted its counterparts in Bulgaria, and it has been established that this was a combined Russian attack using maritime and aerial drones."
Chell suggested the attack’s location and hybrid nature could serve Russia by sowing greater uncertainty across the region.
"We can see the amount of geopolitical chaos that's involved, and this is exactly the type of thing that would benefit Russia in the region," Chell said.
"The hybrid element here is really blurring the lines between traditional military actions," he added, describing the attack as "an expansion of strategy and tactics."
"This is indicative of this larger invasion posture that seems to be unfolding for Russia," Chell said. "And a real desire, what appears to be, for Russia to take things up a notch."
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev also confirmed that aerial and maritime drones targeted two commercial vessels in shipping lanes inside Bulgaria’s EEZ, calling the attack a "gross, flagrant violation of international law," according to Reuters.
The sunken vessel, identified by British maritime risk group Vanguard as the cargo ship Alfa Watan, suffered catastrophic structural damage before submerging with an undisclosed cargo and an unknown number of crew members aboard.
A nearby Bulgarian ferry, the Dioscuria, diverted to the scene after witnessing an explosion and receiving distress signals, Reuters reported.
Rescuers found an overturned lifeboat, life rafts and life jackets floating in the debris field.
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Search-and-rescue operations involving the Bulgarian Navy, Air Force and Border Police remained underway to locate the missing crew and monitor for environmental threats, the outlet said.
Chell suggested the apparent coordination between the attacks was particularly significant.
"Not only are you using pretty sophisticated equipment, but you're also doing it in a coordinated manner," Chell said.
"These two ships were going opposite directions. One was actually just coming, and had left Ukraine the day before," he said.
"These things coordinated and were struck relatively at the same time. So another level of coordination has unfolded here," Chell added.
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The second ship, identified by Vanguard as the general cargo vessel ABLE, caught fire after being struck while carrying grain.
A Bulgarian ferry crew evacuated all 18 seafarers aboard — 11 Turkish nationals and seven Indian nationals.
Two crew members suffered severe injuries and were airlifted to a medical facility in Varna, while the remaining 16 were transported safely to shore.
Radev convened an emergency government session following the strikes. While acknowledging it remained unclear whether the drones originated from Russia or Ukraine, he warned of the widening scope of the war.
"Such an attack within the Bulgarian exclusive economic zone is absolutely unacceptable," Radev told reporters.
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"If this war is not ended in time, it will continue to expand its spatial scope and increase the risk of even a global conflict."
Chell said striking the two ships inside Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone could also have the effect of disrupting a crucial shipping corridor and creating fear among commercial operators.
"It all adds up to a perfect little scenario for the Russians to create chaos there, not just to disrupt the lane of economics for the region and in particular for Ukraine — a lifeline," Chell said.
"The Russians are really taking a playbook out of the Iranians who have basically created enough chaos in the Strait of Hormuz where the operators can't take the chance to put their ships through there," he added.
The strikes came amid a surge in attacks on commercial shipping in the Black Sea, including an incident off Romania’s coast Monday in which two people died in a ship fire.
Ambrey, a British firm specializing in global maritime risk, recorded more than 210 strikes on commercial ships between July and the end of September.
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Zelenskyy later warned that Ukrainian intelligence had obtained information indicating Russia was preparing a major new assault.
"We’ve got updated intel on Russia’s preparations for a massive strike," Zelenskyy wrote on X. "I ask you, please, to take care of yourselves and respond to missile threat alerts."
"Ukrainian services and our Air Force are ready to respond — as much as our defenses allow," Zelenskyy continued. "And a lot depends on our partners — every country in the world that has the defensive capabilities we need and can provide them to us."
"It’s very important that there be the political will to do this — particularly in the United States and in Europe," he added.
Urgent warning issued for island hot spot as State Department tells travelers to 'stay alert'
U.S. officials are warning Americans to steer clear of a popular tourist island on Wednesday, as heightened threats loom around the anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel.
The U.S. Embassy in Tunisia issued the alert on Sunday concerning Djerba, a major tourist island off Tunisia's southern coast known for its white-sand beaches and resorts.
"Avoid travel to the island of Djerba on or around Oct. 7, 2026," the embassy said in a statement.
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Officials also asked Americans to avoid crowds and "stay alert and be aware of your surroundings."
"Avoid areas where there is a heavy police presence," the advisory said. "Monitor local media. Keep a low profile."
Wednesday marks the three-year anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists launched a major terrorist attack on Israel.
At the time, more than 1,200 people were killed and thousands more injured, beginning the Israel-Hamas war.
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The attack and ensuing war also fueled a rise in antisemitism worldwide, a potential concern in Djerba given the island's Jewish community.
Djerba, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023, has a long history of Jewish settlement dating back nearly 2,000 years, according to the World Jewish Congress.
Thousands of Jewish visitors from around the world travel to Djerba each year to celebrate the Lag B’Omer festival between Passover and Shavuot.
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"According to some traditions, there has been a Jewish presence in Tunisia since the days of the Punic Empire and even earlier," the site states.
"More than 100,000 Jews have emigrated from Tunisia over the course of the last century and only around 1,000 live there today."
Tunisia as a country currently sits at "Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution," as the State Department's website notes.
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"Petty crime is common, especially in popular tourist locations," the site warns.
"Violent crime can occur and is more common after dark. Do not walk or drive at night."
Some parts of the country, particularly areas along its borders with Libya and Algeria, are rated at "Level 4: Do Not Travel" due to terrorism concerns.
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"Terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in Tunisia," the State Department's website says.
"Terrorist groups and individuals may attack, and may do so without warning or a pre-meditated target."
Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department for further details and comment.
Veterans of 'unbearable' Chinese factory in Ohio detail brutal work conditions amid top Dem's oversight visit
Former employees of Fuyao Glass America Inc., a Chinese-linked glass manufacturer that moved into an old General Motors plant in Ohio, gathered around one of the most prominent congressmen in the U.S. today to share their stories of misery, pain and neglect they claimed to have suffered while working for the CCP-linked corporation.
"My experience at Fuyao was not a good experience," Tiffany Moore, a woman who identified herself as a three-year veteran of the factory, told a group that gathered at the International Union of Electrical Workers in Dayton, Ohio, on Tuesday.
"The heat in there is unbearable; they don’t care," she told the group — a group that included Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.
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Khanna, the ranking member on the House Select Subcommittee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), made the trek to Dayton to conduct Congressional oversight on Fuyao.
Khanna had previously sent Fuyao a letter asking them to submit a packet of information to his committee, including information on wage suppression, worker conditions and violating U.S. immigration and labor laws.
"Fuyao Glass America Inc. (FGA) has only provided a single supposed reply letter, dated September 23, that answers virtually none of the Committee’s questions in a material way and fails to include any document submissions," Khanna wrote in an Oct. 1 letter to the company’s leadership.
"Thus far, a generous interpretation of your approach toward this investigation would be that Fuyao does not appreciate Congress’s oversight function and the American system of government," Khanna wrote.
"A less generous interpretation of your lack of transparency would be that your companies have something to hide, beyond even what multiple federal investigations, documentaries, and press reports about Fuyao’s conduct have already uncovered," the letter, shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, read.
Khanna, despite requesting permission to visit the Lorraine, Ohio, factory, did not receive express permission from the company to do so. Despite the lack of response, Khanna continued to conduct his business, convening a roundtable that included a wide swath of former Fuyao workers.
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Demetria Hodges, who identified herself as having worked at Fuyao for five years, explained how she believed the company went to great lengths to prevent the workers from unionizing.
"First they were trying to use scare tactics to get us to not vote for the union," Hodges said.
"Then they offered a $2 an hour pay raise … which they have never given again. And that was like 10 years ago," she added.
An attendee named Darrell, who identified themselves as a former employee, also pointed out the company’s failure to cease operations when 57-year-old Ricky Patterson was killed in a grisly industrial accident in the factory.
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"When that guy got smashed by … glass, we had to work the next day, we were stressed out. He was trying to load up the glass. He was a little shaky because he had just lost his mom," Darrell told the roundtable.
"They made us work," he told the group, who all expressed shock at the revelation.
Coyotes choose the front of a couple's Southern California cabin for an early morning scrap
The mystery surrounding why a couple's dog barks in the middle of the night at their Southern California cabin has been solved thanks to some early morning surveillance footage.
The footage revealed three coyotes right outside David and Annette Simpson's front door of their cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains. These wild animals weren't there to ask to borrow any sugar either.
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They were there to fight. And fight they did for about 40 minutes, starting at around 1 a.m. Sunday morning.
The couple wasn't at home during the scrap in front of their cabin, but the action was caught on their surveillance cameras. What do you do with forty minutes of a coyote fight?
Well, naturally, you don't want it to go to waste, so you post it on social media, then sit down for an interview with the local news.
"We wonder why our dog barks in the middle of the night, and now we know," Annette Simpson told KTLA.
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Indeed. It must be due to those rambunctious coyotes. While nature doesn’t come calling at your door every day, a dog will certainly know when it does.
They've seen bears, squirrels and other wildlife before, but not a coyote scrap on the walkway in front of the cabin. That's a new one for these two.
Are they worried about how close the coyotes were to their cabin? Not Annette. She's into it.
"I think it’s pretty cool. We really enjoy watching the wildlife and just so close," she said. "Those stairs just lead right to our front door, and they came up those stairs."
They enjoy watching it, but they don’t want it messing with their own domesticated animals. Annette, who said she sometimes lets her cats out on the patio, is reconsidering after watching the footage of these coyotes.