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Tunnel to Towers Honors Gold Star Families on Veterans Day: The Unending Sacrifice
On Veterans Day, Tunnel to Towers Foundation Chairman and CEO Frank Siller sat down with Fox Nation host Abby Hornacek to announce a spectacular commitment: the delivery of 25 mortgage-free homes to Gold Star widows whose loved ones died protecting our country.
Siller emphasized that the great sacrifice made by these men and women continues, noting that many are dying from service-related illnesses like burn pit cancers. He likened this continuing tragedy to the 9/11-related illnesses that still claim the lives of first responders, stressing that the Foundation must "be here forever" to care for these heroes.
The core mission is rooted in a promise to protect the families of those who protect us. Siller shared the emotional privilege of calling these Gold Star widows himself to let them know their mortgage is paid off. He noted that this relief is transformative, allowing one widow to go back and get a nursing degree without the burden of working a second or third job.
Reflecting on his brother Stephen's legacy of courage, Siller stressed that the Foundation "can't rest." He urged Americans to join this crucial mission by visiting T2T.org and donating $11 a month to ensure these families are cared for.
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Trump pushes back after Michelle Obama knocks East Wing renovation, calling old arrangement ‘a disaster'
President Donald Trump responded to former first lady Michelle Obama's criticism of his White House renovation plans in an interview with Laura Ingraham, boasting that the new ballroom replacing the East Wing will be "one of the greatest" in the world.
"The East Wing is being spent by private donors. It's a $250, $300 million building. It's going to be the most beautiful anywhere in the world," he said Monday.
"They had an event [at the White House] the other day. With tables, they could hold 79 people. Now, if you have President Xi from China, or if you have some big state event, we have no place to have it. You know what they did? …They will put a tent on the lawn. It was a low section because that's the only section you have… If it rained, you were sitting in six inches of water. It was a disaster."
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Trump's remarks came in response to Ingraham's question about the former first lady's recent remarks criticizing his East Wing demolition to embark upon the project, which has drawn ire from a swath of Democratic critics, including Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and others.
Obama alleged the move "denigrate[s]" the East Wing, where the first lady's office traditionally sat, and where the "heart" of her work took place.
"When we talk about the East Wing, it is the heart of the work [of a first lady]," she said, according to Vanity Fair.
"And to denigrate it, to tear it down, to pretend like it doesn’t matter, it’s a reflection of how you think of that role."
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She also took a swipe at Trump for demolishing the East Wing during an NBC appearance.
"There’s no guidebook," Obama said of the challenges of being first lady.
"There’s barely a staff. Now we don’t have a building," she added.
Acknowledging broader criticism from those who insist on the building's historical value, Trump pointed to prior renovations made to the East Wing.
"That building was renovated 20 times, including adding a floor to the top, which was terrible," he said.
"It looked like hell. It had nothing to do with the original building, and I didn't want to sacrifice a great ballroom for an okay ballroom by leaving it right smack in the middle."
The sprawling 90,000-square-foot development, which would give the White House a formal ballroom for the first time in history, is slated to adhere to the classical design of the White House.
Fox News' Madison Colombo and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
Kamala Harris claims Democratic Party took Black women for granted during 2024 election
Former Vice President Kamala Harris said the Democratic Party "took Black women for granted" during the 2024 election.
While appearing Sunday on the podcast "Storehouse & Friends," Harris was asked whether she felt any tension between her identity as a Black woman and her "race-agnostic" presidential campaign.
Harris noted that she wrote about the subject in her book, "107 Days," and suggested that her party ignored issues affecting Black women during the campaign.
"I think the Democratic Party has taken Black women for granted," Harris said. "There are very specific issues that impact Black women in America that should be some of the highest priorities. I made them priorities when I was vice president, such as Black maternal mortality."
She continued, "Among the stakes that I knew was present in the election included what, whether or not we were going to pay attention to, let's say, specific health needs around the issues like postpartum care, maternity support. And then you look at what's happening now with this guy in office, and they're cutting funding for scientific research if it has the word ‘woman’ or ‘Black’ in it."
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Harris added that additional research is still needed on fibroids, which are more likely to occur in Black women.
"I am never going to shy away from who I am, and I'm never going to feel burdened that because of who I am in terms of my race and my gender that I should pretend to not be," Harris said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Democratic National Committee for comment.
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Harris' book was released in late September and recounted her historically short presidential campaign up until she ultimately lost to President Donald Trump. She has since embarked on a national book tour to promote its release.
In her book, Harris has accused major Democratic figures, including members of the Biden administration, of failing to support her during the campaign.
"Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed," Harris wrote about the Biden team. "None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital. It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands. My success was important for him. His team didn’t get it."
Pierce Brosnan seen with son Christopher in rare outing after yearslong estrangement
Pierce Brosnan was spotted on a rare outing with his son Christopher Brosnan.
In photos obtained by Fox News Digital, the 72-year-old actor was seen with Christopher, 52, as they enjoyed dinner with one of Brosnan's other sons, Dylan Brosnan, 28, on Nov. 5.
The trio were photographed together while leaving the Michelin-starred bistro Dorian in London's upscale Notting Hill neighborhood.
Brosnan wore an all-black ensemble that included a polo shirt and a jacket with jeans and dress shoes. Christopher was clad in a green sweater and black pants under a long burnt orange coat along with black shoes and orange sunglasses.
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Meanwhile, Dylan sported blue jeans with a denim shirt, a blue jacket and black shoes.
Brosnan appeared to be in good spirits as he flashed a wide smile while walking out of the restaurant.
An eyewitness told the Mirror that both Brosnan and Christopher "looked happy and relaxed" as they dined with Dylan.
"Pierce and Christopher’s problems have been well documented," the onlooker added. "But it seems they’ve managed to put them behind them. It was really nice to see them together."
Christopher is the biological son of Brosnan’s first wife, Cassandra Harris, and her ex-husband Dermot Harris, who also shared a daughter, Charlotte. After Dermot died of a heart attack in 1986, Brosnan formally adopted Christopher and Charlotte.
Brosnan and Cassandra were married from 1980 until her death from ovarian cancer at the age of 43 in 1991. The "Mamma Mia!" star and the late Australian actress also shared son Sean Brosnan, 42.
In 2001, Brosnan married Keely Shaye Smith, with whom he shares Dylan and son Paris, 24. In 2013, Charlotte tragically died of ovarian cancer at the age of 41.
Christopher is a filmmaker who previously worked as an assistant director on Brosnan's 007 films "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997) and "The World Is Not Enough" (1999). Following the death of his mother, Christopher struggled with depression and battled drug and alcohol addiction.
He also reportedly faced legal issues related to his addiction, including a three-month stint in jail for drunk driving.
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During a 2005 interview with Playboy, Brosnan opened up about Christopher's addiction struggles and revealed that he had severed ties with his son.
"Christopher is still very lost. Shockingly so. I know where he is, but he’s having a hard life," Brosnan said, via the Daily Mail.
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"I can only have strong faith and believe he will recover," he continued. "He has tested everybody in this family but none more so than himself. He knows how to get out. He doesn’t want to."
"It's painful because you shut down," Brosnan added. "You never completely cut them off but I have cut Christopher off. I had to say, ‘Go. Get busy living, or get busy dying.’ He has my prayers."
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It is unclear when the two reunited but Brosnan included Christopher in an Instagram post when he celebrated Father's Day in 2022. The Ireland native was pictured with only three of his sons, but he named Christopher in the caption.
"My love forever to you dear sons, Paris, Dylan, Sean and Christopher, thank you deeply for your love on this Father’s Day," Brosnan wrote.
NFL legend Brett Favre would pick 'someone who loves this country' to perform Super Bowl halftime show
NFL legend Brett Favre named the musical act he would like to see perform the Super Bowl LV halftime show in Santa Clara, California, next year instead of Bad Bunny.
The NFL’s selection of Bad Bunny for the show drew backlash last month as the Grammy Award-winning artist has been critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
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Favre said during an episode of his "4th & Favre" podcast he would pick someone else.
"I’d pick someone who … maybe Jason Aldean, or, you know, someone who loves this country and that everyone could relate to," Favre said. "I think Jason Aldean right now is as big a patriot and has a great voice. But I like George Strait – that’s old school. There’s a lot of choices out there.
"I remember when Whitney Houston sang the national anthem and I was blown away. If you didn’t have tears in your eyes watching and listening to that, something’s wrong with you. I envision a national anthem and a halftime show, they’re two different things but, it really grabs you."
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Despite the backlash against Bad Bunny, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell held firm that the Puerto Rico native would still be in the spotlight.
"It’s carefully thought through," Goodell said of the decision-making process for the halftime show last month. "I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where we didn’t have some blowback or criticism. It’s pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching."
"We're confident it's going to be a great show," Goodell added. "He understands the platform that he's on, and I think it's going to be exciting and a united moment."
Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
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Gary Sinise says Veterans Day is a reminder that the mission never ends for those who serve
Gary Sinise is determined to continue serving and honoring U.S. veterans, first responders and their families, despite the ever-changing cultural climate.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, the Golden Globe Award-winning actor — who founded the Gary Sinise Foundation in 2011 — opened up about adapting to the needs of those who serve and understanding the important role mental health plays in today’s conversations around service and sacrifice.
"We're always going to change with the needs as the needs shift," said Sinise, whose foundation focuses on serving the nation and creating and supporting unique programs designed to entertain, educate, inspire, strengthen, and build communities. "I made a pretty flexible mission statement at the beginning that I wanted to be able to adapt as the needs changed, because I wanted to continue to help folks."
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On Tuesday, Sinise and the foundation will present the keys to a specially adapted, mortgage-free home built for a wounded service member and their family. This marks the 99th home gifted to a family in need.
"Perhaps there will come a time, we hope, where there's just fewer and fewer wounded service members that are in need of these adaptive homes that we build," said Sinise. "That doesn't mean that the Gary Sinise Foundation will cease to exist because that particular need, it's not as urgent for us to build those. Maybe that will change, but it doesn't mean that other needs won't arise. And we want to always be flexible to shift with those needs."
"When the foundation was launched, it was in the middle of the Iraq conflict. We still had many, many service members in Iraq. It was when the battles were raging. We still have many service members in Afghanistan now. So we were dealing with active duty, line of duty deaths. We were dealing with a lot of wounded coming home," he continued.
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"Those needs have shifted somewhat, but yet, within the veteran community, there are always going to be ways that we can support," he added.
Sinise — who is famous for his role as Lt. Dan in "Forrest Gump" — said that nonprofits can play a "pretty significant role" in helping veterans overcome residual effects, especially those who don't have convenient resources.
"I don't think the government can do everything, and we know that the government can't. So while the VA system is a system that's helped many, many veterans over the years and everything like that, when you've had 20 years of war, you have a lot of residual effects from 20 years of war. People that are in need … sometimes they're hundreds of miles away from a VA center or something like that, but nonprofits can play a pretty significant role in helping them."
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"The Gary Sinise Foundation will continue to shift and adapt as the needs change within the community," he continued. "We are building pretty significant ongoing programs. We have a very vigorous first responder outreach that has shifted somewhat over the years as we discover where we can play a role, a more effective role in helping our firefighters and police officers and people that deal with these things."
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"One thing people don't really understand, and the more I've done this over the years, the more I've realized it is on the first responders side, people are getting hurt all the time around the country in little fire departments and little police departments, and I mean, people are getting hurt," he added. "People are losing their lives. People are taking their lives. People are getting sick from too much smoke inhalation or whatever it is, and they have constant needs to be supported."
As Sinise and the foundation continue to shift where need be, the "CSI: NY" alum said it's important to understand the role mental health plays in the recovery and resilience of service members.
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"The important thing is that for someone who is struggling through a trauma or a series of traumas and really containing a lot and not really working to process that in a healthy way, so often our defenders, our veterans, our active duty folks, our firefighters, police officers, they don't want to be vulnerable at all, and they don't want to express that they can't take it," he said. "So they contain, and we have programs at the Gary Sinise Foundation that are trying to address that."
"We support other programs that are really working hard to be proactive in addressing those needs so that we get out ahead of folks that may think that the only avenue for them is to take their own life," he continued. "And sometimes they get to that point."
"Then there are others that are left behind," he added. "So there's a domino effect of trauma that happens when somebody's going through something bad and they don't share it, they don't express it, and then it catches everybody off guard. Quite often there are no signs when somebody take their life."
For Sinise, the goal is simple.
"I want to always be able to provide the support that's necessary as times change," he said.
Man who visited 61 countries insists world's 'most feared' places have one unexpected quality
Visiting every country on Earth may seem out of reach for most — but one traveler is well on his way, with 61 stamps in his passport and counting.
Daniel Björnram, 25, of Sweden, said he's made it his personal goal to visit every country in the world.
He's already traveled to countries people only read about or learn about online, from nations in South America to those in the Middle East — including destinations that many others avoid because they're considered too risky.
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"I'm just in a place right now where I want to experience so much of the world and make the best travel stories and life stories as possible," Björnram told news agency SWNS.
He admitted there have been unnerving moments for him, such as when a police officer stopped him near the Morocco and Mauritania border just for taking a photo.
The police officer thought Björnram was taking a picture of him and quickly approached the bus on which Björnram was sitting.
"My stomach just sank," said Björnram.
The officer climbed aboard, took Björnram's passport and escorted him outside for questioning. After demanding he delete the photo, the officer returned the passport and allowed Björnram to continue on his way.
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Despite that unsettling experience, Björnram said he hasn't put off traveling to less familiar or higher-risk destinations.
As part of his latest trip, he spent weeks traveling to Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria — countries that many travelers have been warned to avoid.
He said he wanted to understand the daily lives of people in countries often defined by their conflicts.
Instead, he found an overwhelming sense of pride, community and hospitality, he said.
In several of the countries he's visited, he said locals even invited travelers into their homes for dinner and sometimes insisted they not pay in shops, offering an unexpected level of generosity.
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"We got invited to [a] lot of people's houses for dinner," he said.
Encounters like these gave him a different perspective than what's generally offered by emergency alerts and warnings attached to dangerous regions.
"I've learned that most people genuinely want to help you," he said.
After years of exploring, Björnram said he's learned to balance travel with work.
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He and his girlfriend, Töwe Lindström, live in Australia, SWNS noted. They save enough money to fund their future trips around the world.
He is now hoping to continue his journey through Southeast Asia next year.
"Some of my best memories came from trips where I only planned the basics," he said.
"The most interesting side trips, random encounters and real experiences usually happen when you leave space for spontaneity," he said.
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Björnram said there’s no actual deadline for his goal of seeing every country in the world.
"Just to be rich in memories and stories is what matters most to me," he said.
The U.S. State Department regularly issues travel advisories to inform U.S. citizens about risks associated with traveling to foreign destinations.
Recently, for example, the State Department issued an increased travel advisory pertaining to Tanzania, adding an "unrest" risk indicator. The Level 2 advisory was increased to Level 3 on Oct. 31, following the presidential, Parliament and council elections there.
"Reconsider travel to Tanzania due to unrest, crime, terrorism and targeting of gay and lesbian individuals," the advisory said. "Some areas [carry] increased risk."
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The State Department warned that demonstrations there could be unpredictable — and the Tanzanian government increased security presence around protests.
Ashley DiMella of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.
Washington Dulles airport transport vehicle slams into dock, 18 hospitalized
A mobile lounge, also known as a people mover, struck a dock at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Monday, sending 18 passengers to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.
The incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. when the vehicle hit a dock at an angle as it was pulling up to Concourse D, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA). The dock is where the vehicle stops to let passengers enter the concourse.
"Passengers deboarded the mobile lounge via stairs. They are being evaluated by Airports Authority Fire and Rescue personnel for possible injuries," the MWAA said in a statement.
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Officials initially reported that eight people were transported to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, but that number was later updated to 18.
It’s unclear what caused the crash or whether any significant damage occurred to airport infrastructure or equipment.
The passengers who were hurt were taken to the hospital by the fire department, according to the authority.
Passengers were able to get off of the mobile lounge via stairs, FOX 5 DC reported.
It's unclear what caused the incident or if there was significant damage to any of the airport's equipment. The MWAA did not provide any further information when contacted by Fox News Digital.
Aerial footage shows multiple emergency crews and vehicles at the scene.
The MWAA said the airport is open and operating as normal.
The airport is located about 26 miles west of Washington, D.C., in Loudoun and Fairfax counties, and it serves the Washington metropolitan area.
There are 19 mobile lounges at Dulles, and they can carry up to 102 passengers, according to the airport’s website. The mobile lounges are about 54 feet long and 16 feet wide.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn E Jean Carroll case verdict
President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a jury’s civil lawsuit verdict that he sexually abused and later defamed former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Trump’s lawyers argued in a filing that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were "propped up" by a "series of indefensible evidentiary rulings" that allowed Carroll's lawyers to present "highly inflammatory propensity evidence" against him.
"President Trump has clearly and consistently denied that this supposed incident ever occurred," Justin Smith, one of Trump’s lawyers, and his co-counsel wrote in the filing, according to The Associated Press. "No physical or DNA evidence corroborates Carroll’s story. There were no eyewitnesses, no video evidence, and no police report or investigation."
Carroll sued Trump twice after she released a book in 2019 that claimed Trump raped her during a brief encounter in a department store dressing room in New York City in the 1990s. Trump vigorously denied the claims, saying he had never met Carroll, that she was not his "type" and that she fabricated the incident to sell books. His vocal and repeated criticisms and denials led to Carroll's defamation allegations.
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Trump's lawyers accused the trial judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, of warping federal evidence rules to bolster Carroll's "implausible, unsubstantiated assertions." They also said that by upholding the verdict, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was in conflict with other federal appeals courts on how such rules should be applied.
In September, when Trump's lawyers first indicated they would appeal to the Supreme Court, Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said, "We do not believe that President Trump will be able to present any legal issues in the Carroll cases that merit review by the United States Supreme Court," the AP reported.
A spokesperson for Trump's legal team told the AP the Supreme Court appeal was part of the president's crusade against "Liberal Lawfare."
"The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes," the statement said.
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A three-judge appellate panel upheld the verdict in December 2024, rejecting Trump’s claims that Kaplan's decisions spoiled the trial. Then in June, 2nd Circuit judges denied Trump’s petition for the full appellate court to take up the case. That left Trump with two options: accept the result and allow Carroll to collect the judgment, which he’d previously paid into escrow, or fight on in Supreme Court.
Trump skipped the 2023 trial but testified briefly at a follow-up defamation trial last year that ended with a jury ordering him to pay Carroll an additional $83.3 million.
The 2nd Circuit upheld that verdict on Sept. 8, with a three-judge panel calling the jury’s damages awards "fair and reasonable." Trump has since asked the full appellate court to hear arguments and reconsider the ruling.
Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom, Ashley Oliver and The Associated Press contributed to this report.