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Florida man who had sexual encounter with vacuum cleaner near Disney World takes no contest plea
Back in January, Kevin Dale Westerhold, 51, made an appearance in an edition of True Romance after a romantic encounter with a vacuum. The Florida man and Airbnb host's ordeal has made its way through the courts.
Sometimes the Florida man stories come into our lives and seem to disappear into thin air. We don't get to find out how they navigate through the court system. This isn’t one of those stories.
On Monday, Westerhold's case was closed after he took a plea deal for his indecent exposure arrest, which came after he was alleged to have "engaged in a sexual performance with a vacuum cleaner" outside a home in a gated resort community near Disney World.
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The Smoking Gun reports that Westerhold entered a no contest plea to the indecent exposure charge, which had been reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor.
He was then sentenced, according to court documents obtained by the outlet, to 12 months probation. He was also fined $271 and ordered to undergo a "psycho-sexual evaluation" by Judge Juna Pulayya.
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Witnesses were able to provide photos and videos of Westerhold to investigators of him "pleasuring himself with a vacuum in broad daylight," according to the police report.
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A detective who went into detail in the report about what had transpired on the otherwise quiet day earlier this year in the gated community wrote that "He continued to penetrate the handheld section of the vacuum before using it to suction his testicles for further sexual gratification."
A neighbor at another property owned by Westerhold told police that they had seen him, without a vacuum nearby, walking around without clothes on. In another instance at this second location, the neighbor says they saw him only wearing a tank top.
I said it at the time, and it still holds true now. Let's hope all vacuum-related activities are conducted indoors from here on out.
Pilot's viral sky message leaves people stunned after unexpected flight path
A pilot has gone viral after leaving an unexpected message in the sky during a routine flight.
The pilot of the two-hour maintenance test flight over Northwest England traced the words "I'm bored" across the sky, with the unusual message and route appearing on the flight-tracking website Flightradar24.
The Ravenair-operated Piper Tomahawk aircraft departed from Liverpool around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. It spent about two hours flying over the Wirral peninsula, Cheshire and North Wales before safely returning, according to Flightradar24.
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Screenshots of the odd flight path quickly spread across social media.
Gary Leff, a Texas-based travel industry expert and author of the blog "View From the Wing," told Fox News Digital there is little cause for concern, from his point of view, as the flight was conducted to test the aircraft rather than transport passengers.
"This was a test flight, not a passenger flight," Leff said. "Writing 'I'm bored' takes a certain amount of skill — and suggests the pilot was anything but distracted."
Leff noted that the most demanding work for pilots typically happens before takeoff, during takeoff and landing.
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"Only a small percentage of flying on more modern aircraft is done manually at cruise," he said. "The workload above 10,000 feet is far less than during the takeoff and landing phases."
Leff added, "'I'm bored' is an amusing way to express this."
The aviation company, Ravenair, told the BBC that a flying instructor in his 20s was conducting a routine test flight after a replacement part had been installed on the aircraft.
"I think the pilot was literally a bit bored as it was just a test flight. Mind you, it was pretty skillful flying," Wes Barrett, operation manager, told the news outlet.
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"He was a bit bored, but he probably had to concentrate a lot in the end to spell out the words," he added.
The flight path quickly went viral, prompting discussion across social media.
"This should be unremarkable ... but it's nice to see the pilot didn't face any issues because of this," one Reddit user wrote.
Others praised the precision required to pull off the message.
"Guys, [I] think he might have been a little bit bored," another commenter joked. "Credit for the amount of concentration and thinking required for this, though."
Another person wrote on Facebook, "Adult version of Etch-a-Sketch."
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Fox News Digital reached out to Ravenair, based in Liverpool in the U.K., for comment.
Jimmy Kimmel guest host jokes about about Lindsey Graham's death and show getting 'pulled off the air again'
"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" guest host Ike Barinholtz on Monday joked about the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., quipping that his sidekick would have a heartfelt tribute to him as well.
"What a crazy weekend," Barinholtz continued. ‘Mitch McConnell is alive, Lindsey Graham is dead. There's so many opportunities to get Jimmy's show pulled off the air again. They’re gonna pull it off!"
He appeared to be referring to Kimmel’s brief suspension after he had joked about the death of conservative activist and TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated last year.
"Guillermo, I know you and him, were close friends," Barinholtz added, appearing to joke as if Kimmel’s sidekick Gullermo Rodriguez and Graham were friends. "You hosted fundraisers for him at the Dave & Busters in Charleston. And I know you've prepared some heartfelt remarks. Do you want to share them with all of America right now?"
"Maybe later on. Maybe later on. I'll do it later on, yeah, yeah," Rodriguez said.
"Later on. He's emotional, folks. He’s emotional," Barinholtz joked to the audience.
The comments were first noted by NewsBusters' Alex Christy.
Graham, 71, died Saturday night. An autopsy performed on Sunday suggested that Graham died from an aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The news stunned Washington, as Graham was one of the body's most active members and was even scheduled to appear on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday morning.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has been absent from the Senate for weeks following a health scare. On Sunday, just hours after Graham's death, McConnell revealed details about his nearly monthlong hospital stay, saying in a statement, "My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages."
After joking about McConnell’s health Monday night, Barinholtz sarcastically remarked, "In all seriousness, though, I do want to extend well-wishes to Senator McConnell. I hope you get the quality healthcare you've fought so hard to deny everyone else. Pulling for you, Mitch!"
Fox News Digital reached out to McConnell's office for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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In June, Kimmel announced that vocal Trump critic Rosie O’Donnell would be one of the guest hosts during his summer break.
DOJ charges 3 Russians in alleged $63M cybercrime scheme targeting Americans
Three Russian nationals allegedly scammed Americans in 21 states out of more than $63 million, according to a December 2024 indictment that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio unsealed on Tuesday.
The trio — Alexander Alexandrovich Volosovik, 43; Kirill Andreevich Zatolokin, 34; and Yulia Vladimirovna Pankova, 29 — conducted "malicious cyber activities against U.S. critical infrastructure" through their St. Petersburg, Russia-based companies Media Land, LLC and ML.Cloud, LLC, according to federal prosecutors.
"From their overseas safe haven, these defendants ran the criminal infrastructure that powered attacks on critical institutions across our nation," the Department of Justice Criminal Division's Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva said in a statement.
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"Their actions put the American public at risk. We will continue to dismantle these networks and protect our critical infrastructure from cybercriminals at home and abroad," Duva added.
A grand jury indicted the trio on charges of conspiracy to commit and aid and abet computer fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering in December 2024.
The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program is offering up to $10 million for information on foreign government-linked associates of the trio or for affiliates of their companies.
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The U.S. and allied countries levied sanctions on the companies in 2025.
Media Land and MLCloud, according to the indictment, provided hosting services and information technology infrastructure for business both in the U.S and abroad. Specifically, the groups offered "bulletproof hosting" services meant to be used by those trying to evade detection by law enforcement.
The companies "provided infrastructure and tech support to criminal client co-conspirators with the means to infect victim computers with malware and ransomware and then extorted those victims for money and cryptocurrency," the U.S. Attorney's Office Tuesday announcement read.
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"Other computer-based crimes facilitated by Media Land and ML.Cloud included supporting criminal marketplaces, fraudulent domain registrations, and providing the platform from which to launch phishing and brute force attacks," the announcement added.
While many U.S. residents were victims of the group's products, their organizations targeted victims across the globe, prompting U.S. authorities to collaborate with international partners, a fact the U.S. attorney and the FBI both stressed.
"The victims in this case are not only in Ohio, but also in 20 other states across the country, touching every aspect of Americans’ lives. They include banks, schools, government entities, hospitals, and media companies," United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio David M. Toepfer said in a statement. "Together with our international partners, we will aggressively combat the efforts of individuals who hide behind computers anywhere in the world who seek to profit and wreak havoc by targeting the infrastructures that support our communities."
Other international organizations that Toepfer thanked included the National Police of the Netherlands and the Netherlands' Public Prosecutor's Office, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian Federal Police.
"Today’s announcement underscores the importance of global partnerships and international collaboration, especially in a borderless world riddled with cyber criminals," FBI Cleveland Special Agent in Charge Josh DelManzo also said.
"The methods used by these bad actors, including ransomware, malware, phishing and other cyber activity, serves as a reminder that whether for business or personal use, when you are online, criminal networks will stop at nothing to hack, attack, share, or sell your information for their own greed, gain, and profit. The FBI and its partners will continue to identify and cripple criminal networks and freeze their infrastructures to reduce or remove the threats to the public and further protect trusting individuals and companies."
Fox News Digital contacted the DOJ for further comment.
The U.S. Attorney's office for the Northern District of Ohio declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation.
'Miracle on the Hudson' hero Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger reveals Alzheimer's diagnosis
One of the nation’s most famous aviators and great heroes has announced a heartbreaking diagnosis.
Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, the pilot who saved 155 people after making an emergency landing in New York’s Hudson River in what became known as "The Miracle on the Hudson," shared in a public statement that he was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
"It is early stage," he revealed. "For now, this means a name may not come easily to me, I forget a story I have recently told, or I don’t sleep as well, but I am in the beginning of this long journey."
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Sullenberger, 75, shared with People magazine that he’s had trouble recalling details within the last year, despite having a photographic memory. He received his official diagnosis in August 2025.
The pilot became a celebrity when he carried out the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on Jan. 15, 2009, after colliding with a flock of geese that resulted in engine failure. Everyone onboard survived.
Alzheimer's, the most common type of dementia, impacts more than seven million people in the U.S. over the age of 65, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
"My doctor, Dr. Gil Rabinovici with UCSF Medical Center, has opened my eyes to the prevalence of Alzheimer’s," Sullenberger said in his statement. "This disease, he has told me, spares no age group and impacts millions of people around the world. It is the unwanted visitor at the door."
Sullenberger’s wife, Lorrie, shared with People that the diagnosis has not dimmed his strong demeanor.
"Just as he was the same steady person before and after Flight 1549, he is the same steady person now, before and after this diagnosis," she said. "That strength and steadiness is guiding us as a family."
"We’re supporting him on this journey that we now walk with so many other families. Though the future is uncertain, we continue to live our lives, have hope and find joy in the everyday."
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Flight 1549 first officer Capt. Jeff Skiles also commented on the news of his friend’s diagnosis.
"Sully is larger than life, even to me," Skiles told People. "He’s somebody I’ve always looked up to, and I think a lot of other people do, too. Hopefully, it’s going to progress slowly and he’s going to be able to create the kind of life going forward that he would be proud of."
Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel noted that Sullenberger had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after the Miracle on the Hudson, which could have increased his risk.
"Age 75 is relatively late-onset," he told Fox News Digital. "PTSD doubles the risk of developing Alzheimer's because of changing brain chemistry and structure and sleep disruption."
Sullenberger reflected on how he has been a staunch advocate for travel safety, often addressing roadblocks in the aviation industry, fighting for increased pilot training and care.
Now, Capt. Sully, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, plans to continue serving the public by focusing on raising Alzheimer’s awareness.
"This new phase of my life has challenged what it means to be of service," he said. "And the answer is to speak up. It is my hope that by sharing this, other families living in the shadows with this disease will feel they, too, can step forward."
"So many people told us after Flight 1549, that the outcome gave them hope," he went on. "Lorrie, my incredible partner of 37 years, says we can all use a little of that hope right now."
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Though the soon-to-be National Aviation Hall of Fame inductee’s memory of the past may be impacted, Sullenberger said his diagnosis "will not prevent me from looking forward to and appreciating our future. I will navigate this chapter with my wonderful family by my side."
"Over the years, when people would ask about the successful outcome of Flight 1549, I would say that ‘courage can be contagious,’ and on that day it helped everyone band together to get everyone off that airplane successfully," he said.
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"Now we need that courage to battle this disease. I am now part of a larger community with many of you, and we will be courageous together."
Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia affecting memory, thinking and behavior, as described by the Alzheimer’s Association. It accounts for 60% to 80% of all dementia cases.
It is a progressive disease, meaning the symptoms gradually worsen over time. The memory loss is usually mild in early stages, but late-stage Alzheimer’s can include loss of ability to carry a conversation and respond to environmental factors.
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While there is no cure for Alzheimer’s, there are treatments that can help slow symptoms. Newer, more effective therapies are on the horizon, experts say.
Certain lifestyle changes, including mental and physical activity, have been shown to help prevent the disease.
Dr. Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist, brain imaging doctor and founder of Amen Clinics in California, previously spoke with Fox News Digital about Alzheimer’s risk and management.
"Alzheimer's starts in your brain decades before you have any symptoms," he said. "So, a 59-year-old woman I diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease likely had negative changes in her brain in her 20s."
"It's really never too early to think about protecting your brain and your mind."
Amen listed 11 major protective factors that can help ward off Alzheimer’s. These include promoting blood flow, reducing inflammation, and avoiding toxins like alcohol and drugs. Improving mental health, boosting immunity, getting adequate sleep and keeping diet and weight in check can also help reduce risk.
The doctor also recommends staying informed of hereditary diseases, maintaining a healthy hormonal balance and keeping the brain active in retirement.
Sullenberger's 2009 bestselling autobiography, "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters," co-written with Jeffrey Zaslow, was adapted into a 2016 film, "Sully," directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks.
MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace reveals she stopped airing Trump pressers in first term, lamenting they 'hurt' her
MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace revealed Monday she stopped airing press briefings during President Donald Trump's term when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was press secretary, saying she refused to air them because it "hurt" her.
Speaking to former CNN host Jim Acosta on her podcast, "The Best People," Wallace brought up Trump's disdain for the press, citing his assertion that the press is the "enemy of the people."
"When you take a look at what's public facing, right, that whole incident and the way they treated you [Acosta] with the cameras rolling, the press release about taking away your pass, Trump telling Lesley Stahl, 'I call you the enemy of the people because I need people to not believe you when the stories are bad about me.' I stopped carrying Sarah Huckabee Sanders briefings, just refused to carry him because having worked there, it like actually hurt me to watch her lying," Wallace said.
Wallace clarified that she wasn't suggesting administrations don't try to get the best press coverage they can or put the "best possible light on things their boss is doing," but that "lies" about immigration were effective for Trump politically.
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Wallace, who hosts "Deadline White House" on MS NOW, previously served as a White House communications director under former President George W. Bush.
During an episode of her show in August 2018, Wallace played a clip of Sanders responding to Trump supporters heckling Acosta, who at the time was covering a Trump rally for CNN.
Sanders said at the time, "While we certainly support freedom of the press, we also support freedom of speech, and we think that those things go hand in hand."
Wallace angrily responded to the clip, "You know, we're not going to air that anymore. Let's make that the last Sarah Huckabee Sanders clip ever aired at four o’clock. Yup, that’s it. You know, it makes me sweat. That is vile."
Her show on MSNBC —which has since changed its name to MS NOW — debuted in 2017, the same year Sanders became Trump's press secretary in his first term. Sanders, who is now the governor of Arkansas, held the position for nearly two years, making her the longest-lasting press secretary of Trump's first administration.
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MS NOW did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Wallace is one of the most intensely anti-Trump figures on the progressive channel. She apologized in 2018 when she wondered aloud to a reporter covering Sanders how she resisted "the temptation to run up and wring her neck" during a briefing.
Search underway for Australian woman who vanished after sending message about going for a hike near Las Vegas
An Australian woman on vacation in Las Vegas has not been seen or heard from in three weeks, with her friends and family fearing the worst.
Sally Grace Contarino, 26, of Melbourne Australia disappeared after a friend says she sent a message that she was going for a hike on June 20, according to a New York Post report.
Police say she got on a flight and traveled from Melbourne on June 13 and by June 18 she confirmed to a family member that she arrived at her downtown Las Vegas hotel, KLAS reports.
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She was last seen at 9700 West Skye Canyon Drive, according to NYP.
The Australian Consulate in Los Angeles, California contacted Las Vegas Metro Police after Victorian Police in Australia made a missing person report, the local outlet reports.
Las Vegas-based non-profit search and rescue organization Red Rock Search & Rescue put out an alert on social media and said Contarino "did not return home as scheduled after a trip that reportedly included stops in Las Vegas, Mt. Charleston and Southern California."
The organization directed anyone with information to contact police.
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Fox News Digital has reached out to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department.
Johnson scores win as conservative rebels end House floor blockade over voter ID bill
House conservatives ended their weeks-long blockade of the House floor Tuesday, handing Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., a key victory after the rebellion brought legislative business to a standstill for nearly a month.
The House successfully passed a procedural vote 215-211, teeing up votes on an appropriations bill funding the State Department, legislation making daylight saving time permanent and a measure seeking to improve veterans’ benefits.
Johnson also agreed to pair the State Department funding bill with the SAVE America Act, prompting several conservative holdouts to flip their votes after demanding the House increase pressure on the Senate to pass the stalled measure.
Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., was the lone Republican to oppose the rule, while all Democrats voted "no" during a party-line procedural vote.
The conservatives had blocked all major House legislation since late June in an effort to force GOP leaders to hold floor votes on the Trump-backed SAVE America Act and a sweeping border security bill.
Given House Republicans’ slim majority, Johnson could afford to spare just a handful of GOP defections.
The speaker has been under mounting pressure to get the House moving again and advance a backlog of legislation ahead of the November midterm elections.
GOP leaders are racing to draft the blueprint for a third "big, beautiful bill" in addition to clearing government funding bills before the Sept. 30 deadline and a potential supplemental package covering the price tag of the Iran war.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who was among the GOP rebels who effectively shut down the chamber to pressure the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, agreed to unlock the floor after Johnson proposed pairing the election measure with the State Department appropriations bill.
Johnson sought to attach the SAVE America Act to the House’s version of an annual defense policy bill before the July 4 recess, but Luna continued the blockade anyway.
"If John Thune strips it out in the Senate, that will be on him and the entire country should be watching what he does," Luna wrote on social media Monday.
Thune, who is supportive of the SAVE America Act, has repeatedly insisted that the votes do not exist in the upper chamber to pass the Trump-backed legislation amid unified opposition from Democrats.
That leaves House Republicans with little leverage to force Senate action on the SAVE America Act.
Some of the GOP holdouts had also threatened to oppose the rule unless House Republican leadership agreed to schedule a vote on a border security package.
Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are advocating for a vote on the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, which would codify several Trump executive orders targeting illegal immigration, including and end to catch-and-release policies.
"We need to deliver on codifying border security, deal with the birthright citizenship issue," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said. "These are all issues people that I represent care about intently and that we've talked about doing, and we need to deliver."
In a potential sign of trouble for GOP leadership, some holdouts criticized Johnson's planned legislative goals for the week.
"Making Daylight Saving Time permanent won’t matter at all if we don’t have election integrity," Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, wrote on social media Monday, referring to the SAVE America Act. "Priorities."
Self voted "yes" during the procedural vote.
The GOP rebels' hardball tactics frustrated many House Republicans, who argued the strategy risked backfiring and paralyzing the conference's legislative agenda.
"There's a small group of Republicans who are upset at the Senate, as I think all of us are," Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., told Fox News Monday. "But I don't know how ... if you're upset at the Senate, why do you take it out on the conservative Republican agenda in the House?"
But some conservatives argued the House should do whatever it takes to get the SAVE America Act to President Donald Trump's desk.
Trump has repeatedly said the election integrity measure is his top legislative priority. He even refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill last week aiming to boost supply and lower costs in protest of the SAVE America Act.
"We shouldn't vote on anything else unless it has the SAVE [America] Act, period," Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said Monday.
"Ideally, the Senate ought to take it up every day and make them vote on it and do a talking filibuster and keep them up all night," he continued. "That's the best course of action. I don't think they'll do that."
Med school deans come up empty in tense hearing when asked point blank if men can have babies: 'Ridiculous'
FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., asked two university medical leaders in a tense hearing Tuesday to directly answer whether non-biological women can have babies and didn’t receive a straight answer, prompting a fiery statement from the congresswoman to Fox News Digital.
"Doctor (Sam) Hawgood, you see UCSFs Classroom Guide, titled ‘Framework for Gender and Sex Concepts in Teaching,’ advises against using the term pregnant women," Miller told the chancellor of the University of California San Francisco in an Education and Workforce Committee hearing on DEI's impact in medical schools.
"Instead, it says to use pregnant people. Who are pregnant people compared to pregnant women? Just curious."
Hawgood responded by saying that terminology is "part of a curriculum to help our students who are facing a wide diversity of patients before saying the "vast majority of pregnancies are in women" and that he has "absolutely no problem with the term pregnant women."
"Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby?" Miller asked, and Hawgood responded that a "transgender person can."
"That's not a biological woman. Has a non-biological woman ever had a baby?" Miller shot back.
Hawgood responded, "I would reiterate" before Miller interrupted saying, "It’s ridiculous."
"Lastly, Dr. Dubinett, a required course at UCLA medical school advises ob-gyn students not to, and, I quote, assume gender identity," Miller told Dr. Steve Dubinett, dean of UCLA School of Medicine.
"OK, from another class in May of 2026. It included a disclaimer that while it uses the term she and women, it does not intend to exclude, and I quote, ‘those who have a uterus but do not identify with these terms.’ What does that even mean?"
The dean responded, "I'm not familiar with that announcement that I'd have to read the entire thing."
Miller pressed Dubinett and asked, "Can someone have a uterus but not be a woman? Because it seems like your school is promoting that ridiculous idea?"
Dubinett did not directly answer the question but said that the school is "treating transgender people," but "we’re doing that in compliance with state and federal law."
Miller pressed again, asking Dubinett if the school teaches biology, to which Dubinett answered, "Yes we do."
"This is curious," Miller responded. "So, I'm going to ask you again, can someone have a uterus and not be a woman? Just say yes or no. Can they?"
"Again, I would," Dubinett said before being interrupted by the committee chair as Miller’s time expired.
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"That’s what your medical school is promoting," Miller said. "Chairman, it's clear these medical schools are hiding DEI curriculum under the guise of medical access."
Miller, in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital after the hearing, said, "It shouldn't take a medical degree to answer a basic biology question. This hearing exposed that our medical schools have become consumed by political ideology that they're losing sight of reality. Patients just want doctors grounded in common sense. Medical schools that abandon scientific truth should lose their accreditation."
Fox News Digital reached out to Hawgood and Dubinett for comment.
The House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing, "Training Activists, Not Physicians: The Impact of DEI on Medical Schools." The hearing focused on whether diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at medical schools, including the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, San Francisco; and the University of Illinois, have shaped admissions policies, contributed to antisemitism and influenced medical school curricula.
Cardinals star Jordan Walker earned more money from Home Run Derby win than 2026 salary
St. Louis Cardinals star Jordan Walker hit the baseball lottery by winning the Home Run Derby.
Walker, 24, made more money from winning the Home Run Derby on Monday night than he will earn this season from the Cardinals.
Walker homered on his final six swings of the night, and with his electrifying comeback that took down hometown hero and Philadelphia Phillies star Kyle Schwarber at Citizens Bank Park, he earned $1 million. The prize money more than doubled his income for the season, as he is earning $799,400 from the Cardinals, according to Spotrac.
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The Home Run Derby featured a prize pool of $2.5 million. The winner received $1 million, the runner-up, Schwarber, received $500,000. The remaining six participants each received $150,000.
Tampa Bay Rays star Junior Caminero hit the longest home run of the night at 491 feet and was awarded $100,000 for the farthest blast.
Walker played the villain role on Monday, as the vociferous Philadelphia crowd cheered as loudly for Schwarber’s home runs as it did for Walker’s mishaps during the final.
"I was once told you don’t boo nobody," Walker said on the field as he received his trophy, according to MLB.com. "So it feels pretty good."
Schwarber opened the final with 11 home runs on 15 swings, leaving Walker with a tall task. It looked like Schwarber would win when Walker left the yard on just six of his first 12 swings, but he proceeded to blast six in a row to send the 43,863 Phillies fans home disappointed.
"I can't even describe how it means to win it," Walker said, voice hoarse in the moments following his victory. "It was a lot of swings, a lot of pressure, but I think I just had fun no matter what. Like, every round, I was having a good time."
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Despite being on the receiving end of a lot of boos from the Philadelphia crowd, Walker did appreciate their love for their players.
"My thought was, ‘Philly is brutal,’" Walker said. "I mean, honestly. But I think it's pretty special because they love their players and that's what you want from your home … I can't hate them, because that's their guy."
Walker has emerged this year as a star for the Cardinals and earned his first All-Star Game nod. The Georgia native was one of the top prospects in the sport when he made his debut in 2023 and impressed.
During his rookie campaign, he hit .276 with 16 home runs and 51 RBI in 117 games.
However, over the next two seasons, Walker struggled. In 2024, he played just 51 games and hit .201 with five home runs. In 2025, he played 111 games and hit .215 with six home runs.
His struggles over the prior two seasons make his return to stellar play even more impressive. In 93 games this season, Walker has a .294 batting average with 22 home runs, and his 74 RBI lead the big leagues.
The 6-foot-6 right fielder’s presence in the lineup has helped buoy a young Cardinals team that has surpassed expectations this season. The Cardinals are 50-45, third in the NL Central and in the thick of the Wild Card race.
Walker will represent the National League in the All-Star Game when they take on the American League at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday on FOX.
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