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EXCLUSIVE – A pro-life student display at Miami University in Ohio became the target of an alarming online threat, prompting a police investigation and the felony arrest of an alleged poster, according to Students for Life of America.

The incident unfolded due to an Oct. 28 Yik Yak post as the group hosted a campus display, with screenshots appearing to show a user on the anonymous social media platform asking, "How many dining dollars to Kirk the anti abortion table in Armstrong," an apparent reference to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

"We were in the Armstrong Student Center inside," Grace Kimzey, Ohio Regional Coordinator for Students for Life of America, told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday.

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"We had our display, we were towards the end of our tabling in our tour when a student saw a post online at Yik Yak," Kimzey said. "He was just keeping tabs on what's being talked about on social media, about our table and about our display. So we saw that, and then I immediately called the Miami Police Department just to keep our students safe."

A press release from Students for Life of America, shared exclusively with Fox News Digital, said that a 19-year-old Miami University student was arrested on Nov. 2, on a felony charge and multiple misdemeanor charges after allegedly posting the message on Yik Yak appearing to encourage violence against Students for Life of America members staffing the campus pro-life display.

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According to Students for Life, the post was made in Yik Yak's "Miami Ohio" group, which is visible to the app's users near the university.

The group said that the student was arrested and charged with one felony of making a terroristic threat and various misdemeanors, including inducing panic, aggravated menacing, and telecommunications harassment. The incident was also referred to the FBI.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told Fox News Digital in a statement that the climate for free speech has significantly deteriorated in recent years.

"I've been on campuses for the past three weeks alongside Turning Point USA on my fall tour, and I'm there, you know, under a TPUSA tent. Cameras are on me. There are signs saying we are filming in this area, yet there will be students who will stand beside me and call me Mrs. Kirk, and they'll use the verb ‘Kirked’ over and over again," Hawkins said.

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"I've asked students just to their faces when they will say something about Charlie," Hawkins continued. "They'll laugh, I'll say, ‘Do you think it was funny what happened to my friend, that he was assassinated, a husband and a father who was a good man by all accounts? You think this was funny?’ And they'll just continue to laugh."

She also recounted another recent incident with a student that gave her pause.

"I asked one student recently, ‘Do you think it's moral to shoot me? If you disagree with me and what I do, do you think it's moral to shoot me?’ And the young man looked right at me and said, ‘Yes,’" Hawkins said. "I mean, this is a different level. And I think the older generations, even my generation, the elder millennials, if you will, when we were having dialogue on campuses, it didn't reach this level."

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A spokesperson from Miami University told Fox News Digital in a statement that, "Due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the university cannot confirm if a student is being disciplined or is currently in the disciplinary process."

"Every Miami student is afforded their due process rights through our Code of Student Conduct," the spokesperson continued. "The university handles any reports of possible policy violations by students or violations of law through the Office of Community Standards and through campus and local law enforcement, with potential sanctions that vary based on the alleged violation and a student’s previous conduct history."

The spokesperson referred to the university’s website for more information about freedom of speech and expression at Miami University.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Miami University Police Department and the Butler County Jail for comment.

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For Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Fagnano, his wife, Lydia, may have been the lone bright spot in what was otherwise a nightmarish outing.

During pregame warmups before the Ravens’ 33-10 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, Fagnano spotted his wife on the sideline. The couple shared a hug and a kiss before Lydia offered her husband some encouragement before the first start of his career.

"Love you! Have fun!" Lydia said.

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Lydia, braving the rainy weather, was shown frequently on the broadcast cheering for Joe when the Ravens' offense picked up first downs.

Earlier in the week, Fagnano told reporters that Lydia had been instrumental in his preparation for game day.

"My wife, I mean, we go through walkthroughs in the living room," Fagnano told reporters on Tuesday. "She's reading plays and stuff. She probably knows the playbook just as well as us at this point. So, I mean, I've always been doing stuff to prepare. Like I said, it's just a little bit more physical work out in the field now."

A reporter asked if Lydia had stepped up her preparation this week with Fagnano set to make his first career start.

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"Yeah, she's working on some play calls. We're getting her signals down," Fagnano said with a smile.

The undrafted rookie was dealt a tough hand in his first career start. He was playing through an ankle injury and faced a Jaguars defense that allowed the second-fewest points per game in the NFL (15.1), all while playing in pouring rain.

On top of that, the 25-year-old played on a Thursday, meaning he had not taken any practice reps that week. Entering Sunday's loss to the Buffalo Bills, Fagnano had been the No. 3 quarterback behind Lamar Jackson and Tyler "Snoop" Huntley. As a result, many of his first reps with the starting offense came during Sunday's and Thursday's games.

Fagnano completed 10 of his 18 passes for 60 yards with two interceptions.

Unfortunately for him, barring an injury to Jacoby Brissett, whom the Ravens are reportedly acquiring this weekend, this may have been his only start of the season.

Regardless of who is at the helm, the 4-5 Ravens will look to get back on track when they play the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 10.

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WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, the progeny of one of America's most famous and wealthiest families who during three decades in the US Senate sought expanded healthcare for the poor and excoriated President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war, died aged 89 on Friday at his home in Washington, his wife Sharon ‌Percy Rockefeller said.

She added that plans were underway for a service at the Washington National Cathedral.

Rockefeller, a tall, soft-spoken Democrat with liberal views, was elected in 1984 to the first of ‌his five six-year terms representing West Virginia in the Senate after two terms as governor of the poor coal-mining state.

Rockefeller voted in 2002 in favor of the Republican Bush's measure authorizing the Iraq war, which began with a US-led invasion in 2003. He ​later expressed regret over that vote and, as head of the Senate intelligence committee, accused Bush of taking the nation to war on "false premises."

He was a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and the scion of a family that formed a political dynasty that included his uncle, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

New York-born Jay Rockefeller's life changed direction after he graduated from Harvard and served in a national service program in impoverished rural West Virginia from 1964 to 1966.

When he was put in public office, he worked to increase healthcare access, fight poverty, provide health benefits to coal miners and assist military veterans. As a senator, he had a role in shaping ‌the program created in 1997 under which the US government helps states ⁠provide medical coverage for millions of uninsured children.

Rockefeller backed Democratic President Bill Clinton's failed proposal for near-universal health insurance coverage in the 1990s and then fought for Democratic President Barack Obama's successful quest for a healthcare overhaul law, signed in 2010.

In the debate over Obama's measure, Rockefeller unsuccessfully sought to have the federal government offer a ⁠medical insurance program to the general population — in addition to existing programs for the poor and elderly — as an alternative to private insurance plans that could be costly and exclusive.

"Championing those most in need has been my life's calling and I will never stop fighting to make a difference for the people who mean so much to me," Rockefeller said in 2013 when he announced at age 75 he would not seek a sixth Senate term.

Before the Iraq ​invasion, ​Bush's administration built the case for war by touting intelligence indicating Iraq owned an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction — ​they actually did not exist — and alleged ties between Iraqi leaders and the al ‌Qaeda network responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US.

"If I had known then what I know now, I would have voted against it," Rockefeller told the Charleston Gazette newspaper in 2004, referring to the 2002 war authorization measure.

"I think the intelligence was shaped," he continued. "And I think the interpretation of the intelligence was shaped. You had a president who we now know was determined to go to war."

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A report from the intelligence committee issued in 2008, when he served as its chairman, asserted that Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other leading officials exaggerated intelligence findings and ignored disputes within US intelligence circles about Iraq's weapons and the hotly disputed ties to al Qaeda.

The report rejected pre-war statements by Bush and Cheney that Iraq might give al Qaeda weapons of mass destruction.

"Representing to the American people that the two ‌had an operational partnership and posed a single, indistinguishable threat was fundamentally misleading and led the nation to war on ​false premises," Rockefeller said as the report was released.

During his Senate tenure, he also headed the Commerce, Science, and Transportation and ​Veterans Affairs committees.

Rockefeller was born on June 18, 1937, weeks after the death of his great-grandfather, ​who had been America's richest man.

The Rockefeller name came with high expectations. His father was a famous philanthropist. His uncle Nelson served as US vice president, as well ‌as governor of New York. His uncle David Rockefeller headed Chase Manhattan Bank ​and uncle Winthrop Rockefeller was governor of Arkansas.

He was elected ​to West Virginia's legislature in 1966 before age 30, then elected West Virginia's secretary of state in 1968.

He lost a bid to become governor in 1972, then served as a college president before being elected governor in 1976. Rockefeller, who became one of the wealthiest members of the US Congress, spent millions of dollars of his own money to bankroll his successful campaign for ​the US Senate in 1984.

Rockefeller sometimes found himself overshadowed by his state's other ‌senator, Robert Byrd, who died in 2010 at age 92 as the longest-serving member of Congress in US history.

He usually backed his state's coal and steel industries but angered coal ​executives in 2012 by fighting Republican efforts to prevent regulation of emissions from coal-fired power plants.

He was married to public television executive Sharon Percy Rockefeller, with whom he had ​four children.

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(Reporting by Will Dunham; Additional reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Bill Trott)

This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/former-us-senator-jay-rockefeller-130135991.html

Prime minister says ‘root and branch review of childhood’ is needed and he does not rule out some benefit cuts

The government is aiming for “quite radical change” in the way young people are supported, Andy Burnham has said, indicating this could include tougher rules for benefits as well as notably more help with everything from finding work to mental health.

In media interviews before the release of the second report by the former minister Alan Milburn on reducing the numbers of young people not in work, education or training, Burnham said his mission was “rethinking childhood” from the early years onwards.

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Shortly after California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his plans for clemency for hundreds of death row inmates in the Golden State, current and former prosecutors from across the state issued shocked responses to his push for blanket commutations.

Among those slated to have their frozen death penalties commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole is Isauro Aguirre, the Palmdale man convicted in 2017 of torturing and murdering his girlfriend's 8-year-old son, Gabriel Fernandez, who died in 2013.

"It’s horrible," Jonathan Hatami, the deputy Los Angeles district attorney who prosecuted the case, told Fox News Digital.

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Hatami told Fox News Digital that the governor's decision came without any discussions with Gabriel's family. On X, he reposted his heart-wrenching closing argument from before Aguirre's sentencing.

"Death was likely a merciful end to Gabriel’s pain — and that only illuminates the torture and abuse that he really suffered," Hatami said at the time. "When he needed it most, no one was there to hold Gabriel, to love him, to caress him, and to just tell him ‘everything will be alright.’"

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Aguirre tortured the child for more than seven months before beating him so severely he died with a fractured skull and broken ribs. The abuse included shooting him with a BB gun, burning his genitals and forcing him to eat cat feces. Prosecutors alleged that Aguirre hated the second-grader because he was gay. Gabriel's mother was also sentenced to prison.

"The defendant is not a victim," Hatami said in his closing argument. Aguirre, he said, was "pure evil" and a "coward."

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Among the prisoners who would benefit from Newsom's decision are the state's worst — those who have tortured their victims, like Aguirre, murdered children, gunned down police and even serial killers.

The "Scorecard Killer," Randy Kraft, killed 16 men between 1972 and 1983. The "Trailside Killer," David Carpenter, killed seven people on hiking trails between 1980 and 1981. "Yosemite Killer," Cary Stayner, murdered a mother, her daughter, the girl's friend and another woman in 1999. Charles Ng was sentenced to death for his role in the abduction and torture, rape and murder of 11 people between 1984 and 1985, including two infants.

"I am not aware of any victims’ family members receiving notice of these commutations from the Governor," San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said in his own statement, in which he called Newsom's move "the wrong decision."

Newsom, however, wrote in an open letter to state residents that the state "cannot morally kill" them.

"I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California's values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us," he wrote — later acknowledging that those who would benefit from his move "caused indescribable suffering to victims, their families, communities, and our state as a whole."

Current Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman, along with counterparts in Orange, Sacramento and other counties, have issued statements noting that they will continue to consider the death penalty on future eligible cases following Newsom's surprise announcement Thursday, noting that his action does not change state law or abolish capital punishment.

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"Every death sentence results from years of legal proceedings, involving juries, judges, and multiple layers of mandatory appellate review," Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho noted in a statement. "A blanket commutation of all death sentences disregards the individualized facts and circumstances of each case, the careful judicial process that led to those lawful sentences, and the voices of victims who have waited decades for justice."

While California hasn't executed a condemned inmate in 20 years, death row inmates have largely been excluded from progressive criminal justice reforms made to lighten sentences on other offenders.

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"Gov. Gavin Newsom’s commutation of the death sentences of all 548 condemned inmates in California is mercy for the wolves...while inflicting the ultimate act of cruelty on the sheep," Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement.

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With death row off the table, critics like Spitzer consider them closer to further leniency.

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Newsom's office countered on X that the prisoners in question are not eligible for new state parole board guidelines that critics warn could one day clear a path to freedom.

The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, led by former Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, sued to block the new regulations.

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"We're talking about people that would have been qualified for the death penalty, OK? So they are the worst of the worst," she told Fox News Digital in August.

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"We are talking about cop killers. We're talking about baby killers. We had a family at our press conference of a 6-week-old that was tortured to death by her father over a weeklong period of time, all of which, what I understand, was on video — and so you talk about baby killers. We talk about mass shooters, there's a case out of Fresno that happened in the early '90s where a guy killed 10 people and he pled to life without parole. He would potentially be eligible."

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Newsom's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The state's Supreme Court is expected to review hundreds of cases before Newsom's clemency would be official.

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Fashion house move marks breakthrough in white, male-dominated industry

For the first time in its 109-year history, the fashion house Balenciaga is to be led by a woman, with the British designer Martine Rose appointed as creative director of the brand.

Her appointment at Balenciaga marks a breakthrough in the white, male-dominated fashion industry. Rose is only the second Black woman to lead a major European house. Her appointment follows Grace Wales Bonner, who in 2025 was announced as the men’s creative director at Hermès.

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Bill Paxton's son, James Paxton, is carrying on his late father's legacy by taking on a Western role that the "Twister" star was originally set to play more than 30 years ago.

In 1991, Bill was cast alongside Malcolm McDowell in the Western comedy drama "Last Train to Fortune," but the project stalled following original director Lindsay Anderson’s death in 1994. "Last Train to Fortune" spent decades trapped in development but efforts to revive the movie were gaining momentum again in 2017 when Bill unexpectedly died, leaving the role that would ultimately be played by James.

During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, James, 32, opened up about how the project became a deeply personal way to reconnect with Bill, who passed away in February 2017 following heart surgery.

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"When you lose somebody, such a close loved one, you often look for ways to still connect to them," James said.

"And that can take all manner of forms and paths and shapes," he continued. "For me, I recognized immediately that this was the kind of project that I could literally hear my dad in my head the whole time. You know, if I needed any guidance or any motivation, or I had any questions, I knew that he would kind of — he would be right there with me, and he'd be cheering me on for it."

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"So I saw it as a way to — almost like a conduit to commune with him, wherever he is and may be," James added. "And there's something beautiful about following in those footsteps."

James recalled that Bill had his own way of putting his son’s decision to follow him into acting in perspective.

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"Dad had this metaphor about if this was 100 years ago, and we were a family of shoemakers or cobblers, my father before me was a shoemaker and his father before him, you'd probably go into the family business and become, hopefully, a good shoemaker," James said. "So I've always held that close."

Before Bill's death, he had been working with McDowell and producer Brad Wyman on the "Last Train to Fortune's" revival with Adam Rifkin as director, but financing repeatedly prevented the project from moving forward. After Bill's death, Rifkin, Wyman and McDowell eventually approached James, who previously said that he hadn't even known about the film while his father was alive.

According to Rifkin, the movie was finally able to secure financing once James signed on.

Bringing the project to fruition also had personal significance for Adam, whose late mother, Michele Rifkin, penned the original script for a PBS screenwriting competition in 1986.

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"It was always her son Adam's dream to bring the film to life," James said.

James recalled that Michele had been unable to visit the set as she was bedridden in the hospital during the movie's production. However, the late screenwriter had the opportunity to see James and McDowell in costume when the duo FaceTimed her during filming.

"She told us that when she saw us in costume it was like we had walked right out of her imagination up off the page and into the real world," he remembered. "And that was so touching, and it immediately made me think about my dad in that moment."

"Michele passed away not long after that, and she got to see the finished film before it was released privately, which was amazing, but it made me think all the more about my dad," James said. "Because I know that he … would've wanted us to make this even if he was still around, if they had never got off the ground. He would have been like, ‘James, here, this is your role,’ and so that kind of really made me think of him in that moment in particular."

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Although James was stepping into a role once intended for his father, he said he knew Bill would have wanted him to find his own approach to the character.

"It was totally important for me to create my own version just because I know what Dad would tell me," he said. "And it's tough for me because he was my best friend, so all I wanna do is talk about him and celebrate him, but he goes, 'You're your own actor. You've been studying this. You're a professional.'"

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"I've done a lot of work actually in the past years that he's been gone," James continued. "But I know that he always wanted me to make it my own, and he would be like, 'Don't hitch up on my wagon too much, you'll find it in yourself.' But he would just give me these great acting pieces of advice and wisdom. So I knew that he wouldn't want me to focus on that. He'd say, 'Focus on, it's the character's moment to live, it's Jedediah Dooley's moment to come to life.' So it's not James up there, it's not Bill up there, it's the character."

While Bill encouraged his son to forge his own path as an actor, James recalled that his father was equally determined for his children to develop discipline in other areas of their lives. Along with James, Bill shared daughter Lydia with his wife, Louise Newbury.

"He didn't love it when my sister and I would sleep in too late," James remembered. "He was a bit of a drill sergeant when it came to just getting up and doing something. So he would come in, and I became almost like — it was Pavlovian. As a kid, I became conditioned to hear his footsteps coming down the hall. And if I wasn't sitting up and out of my bed by the time he came in the room, he'd rip the sheets off of me, and he'd go, 'Rise and shine, you're burning daylight out here.'"

"And he just put up the blinds, and it would just flood the room with blinding light and I would freak out a bit," James continued. "But he'd get me going, and so I — even in my half-asleep state — I could jolt awake when I'd hear him coming. Even on the weekends, if he was home, he'd be like, ‘Come on man, get up and do something.’ He wasn't controlling about what that was, but it was about motivating me not to just stay in bed."

James recalled how Bill also wanted his son to have real-life experiences and not define himself solely through acting.

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"I used to have a ton of all kinds of odd jobs," James recalled. "I worked in tons of restaurants. I apprenticed as a tile maker. I worked for UPS. I had a lot of really cool experiences. I scooped ice cream, that was my first job. And those were largely thanks to dad encouraging me to do that."

Though James said Bill supported his acting ambitions, he recalled that his father tried to prepare him for the realities of working in Hollywood.

"I would say he was probably more concerned with warning me about all of the pitfalls and the hardships that can fall," James said. "Even somebody as successful as he was in his career, he ran the gamut of every Hollywood experience and every disappointment.

"And he always talked about it's the time between jobs where you really can suffer," he continued. "'The death of a thousand paper cuts.' he would call it. You have to find something that can buoy you between jobs, and you don't put your self-worth in it."

"If anything, he was like, ‘Man if you want to do anything else like, even just as much as this, do that instead,’" James recalled. "He was like, ‘This is a hard thing’ and so if anything, he kind of gave me this extra chip on my shoulder because I was like, 'Well, I'm gonna go, and I'm going to book something and show him.'"

James made his career breakthrough in the USA Network crime thriller drama "Eyewitness," which premiered in October 2016. While speaking with Fox News Digital, James recalled Bill's reaction when he landed the leading role of Lukas Waldenbeck in the series.

"He almost couldn't believe it, but there was this huge sense of relief," James said. "And he called it a ‘real ticket to ride,' as in, it was his way of saying, 'This is a real opportunity. Now you go and show them and stuff. You've done the work to get here.'"

"So that was really cool," he continued. "He saw that right before he passed, which was amazing."

Since starring in "Eyewitness," James has steadily built his acting career with appearances in projects including "Training Day," "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," "Tacoma FD" and "The Cleaner." In 2024, he made a cameo in "Twisters," the standalone sequel to his father’s 1996 blockbuster "Twister."

"I still get the whole 'it's Bill Paxton's son' thing, but I have over 45 acting credits," James told Fox News Digital. "But I laugh it off. As Dad would say, man it's all just — it's a great experience, and you're on the path."

In "Last Train to Fortune," McDowell's character Cecil Peachtree misses the last train to his new teaching job in the frontier town of Fortune and enlists the help of James' Jedidiah Booley to get him there safely, with the mismatched pair forming an unlikely bond along the way.

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In addition to their long-held plans to co-star in the movie, McDowell and Bill were close friends and neighbors in Ojai, California. James told Fox News Digital that McDowell recently reminded him of a story that illustrated how the "Clockwork Orange" star's friendship with his father extended far beyond Hollywood.

"I grew up in the Ojai Valley, and we've obviously been plagued by a lot of wildfires over the years," he said. "And it was a pretty bad one when I was quite young. I can't recall exactly, it was early 2000s. Malcolm had a property that was kind of up in the hills, backing up against a lot of wildlife, ground, and forest. And the fire was coming up on his property, and he said that he saw Dad show up in full volunteer fireman regalia, like the full suit, ready to fight the fire with Malcolm.

"And there's a great photo that Kelly, Malcolm's wife, sent to me of the two of them," he continued. "We'll have to track it down because it's great. It's them, you know, they took a quick picture as they were fighting the fire and protecting the Ojai Valley. So I loved the thought of them working together on something outside of film, in real life."

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When asked what he believed would make his father most proud of the person he has become, James pointed to his determination to keep going despite the difficult moments he has faced.

"I think he'd be most proud that I have never given up," James said. "I think the perseverance. I think that if our past loved ones can see us at times, they can see our energy or something, they can see us from another place while we're alive, they'd see that there's often like moments of true despair."

"I mean, I would be lying if I said I didn't come close to giving up on a lot of things many times and being like, 'What's the point to keep it going?', but then I realize that's just a wallowing pity party," he continued. "You've got to recognize the blessings and the privilege and keep it going. He's like, ‘I set this up for you.' And so I just want him to know that I'm always gonna honor what he gave me."

"Last Train to Fortune" arrives on VOD Nov. 6th 

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