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Israeli reporters’ ‘verbal attack’ cuts short Ireland press conference

Teen designer Kate Korngold realized she could turn her sketches into functional fashion. She joins "CBS Saturday Morning" to share how she built Featherie, a women's golf apparel brand.

Actress Selma Blair said "no one returned my calls" after an anti-Islam Instagram comment she posted amid the Israel-Hamas war in February 2024 cost her representation, brand deals and friendships.

Her remarks come more than two years after Blair attacked then-Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., and current Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., in a now-deleted comment over their votes against legislation that would bar people involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel from entering the United States.

"Deport all these terrorist supporting goons," Blair’s reply to a post made by immigration reform advocate Abraham Hamra said in-part, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "Islam has destroyed Muslim countries and then they come here and destroyed minds. They know they are liars. Twisted justifications. May they meet their fate.""

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Although Blair apologized shortly after the comment drew backlash, she said she lost friends, brand deals and payment connected to a Super Bowl advertisement in the fallout.

"The brands I worked with were gone within a day," Blair said at the Anti-Defamation League's State of the Arts reception at The Jewish Museum in New York on Thursday.

PINK HITS BACK AMID BACKLASH FOR CRITICIZING MACKLEMORE'S PRO-PALESTINIAN CONCERT REMARKS

"A few partnerships I’d spent years building were shelved. My agency was gone. My lawyer was gone. My publicist was gone. My book agent was gone. My book publicist was gone. My social media manager was gone," she continued.  Blair added, "No one returned my calls."

Blair said she apologized "right away" for a February 2024 online comment and refused to let it define her. She added that she has rebuilt her career since her multiple sclerosis diagnosis and is "not up here for sympathy."

LIBERAL LAWMAKERS, ACTIVISTS RALLY BEHIND MACKLEMORE AFTER SHEERAN TOUR REMOVAL OVER 'FREE PALESTINE' STANCE

Referring to the apology, Blair added, "I meant it then, and I mean it now, and I’m leaving the comment there, because the comment was not the story." "I have a team now I’d walk through fire with. It’s small, and it is my team. I want you to know that before I tell you the part that isn’t better. It left a mark."

The Jewish actress went on to explain the traumatic mark the ordeal left on her and her family, noting that the incident impacted not only her — but also her son.

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"The fear got into me, and fear is contagious in a house," she said. "The boy in that Christmas photograph watched his mother get scared of the world. A boy who had already watched his mother go through chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, not knowing if she was coming back to him. He's a teenager now. He's supposed to be embarrassed by me, not frightened for me. Careers come back. Years of his childhood do not."

Blair then pointed to - but did not directly name - the recent controversy involving rapper Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour after venues objected to Macklemore remaining on the lineup following his anti-Israel remarks. She also referenced actor Javier Bardem’s petition for a petition calling for singer Pink to be removed as a UNICEF ambassador.

ED SHEERAN SAYS HE TRIED TO ‘BUILD A BRIDGE’ OVER MACKLEMORE TOUR SPOT BEFORE VENUES SAID NO

"A couple of weeks ago, of course, a movie star used his platform to push a petition against an artist who has spent more than a decade raising money for children. Her crime was objecting, out loud, when another performer railed against Israel from a stage. She didn’t ask for anyone to lose anything. Not a job, not a stage, nothing. She said what she thought," Blair said.

"And for saying what she thought, a movie star spent his week trying to get her canceled," she continued. "This is what it looks like when we lose our humanity. A woman who raises money for children stops being a person and becomes a target, and the people cheering can’t see her anymore. They only see a side."

ED SHEERAN APOLOGIZES FOR MACKLEMORE BACKLASH, ENCOURAGES UNITY AT FIRST CONCERT SINCE FALLOUT

Blair has joined the cast of the upcoming film "Schmoolie the Deathwatcher," and on Thursday she announced that she is making a documentary about antisemitism titled "Hineni," which she translated as "Here I am."

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"Antisemitism has to stop," Blair told the audience. "Not be managed. Not be explained. Not be weighed against something else. Stop. Two years ago the phone stopped. Tonight I’m the one talking, in a room full of my own people, saying the thing out loud. I’m a Jew. I’m still here. Hineni."

Fox News Digital reached out to Blair for comment.

Christa Pike remains alive but unconscious and intubated after her failed execution on Wednesday, her lawyers said.

Zach Bryan made his position known without saying a word.

The country music superstar walked onto the stage at Gillette Stadium Friday night wearing a shirt that read "Free Palestine." 

His shirt appeared to some to be a pointed message at the venue owned by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who recently barred Macklemore from performing at the stadium over what Kraft described as the rapper's "broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery."

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Members of Bryan's band also appeared to wear clothing supporting the Palestinian cause.

Bryan is scheduled to return to Gillette Stadium Saturday night for the second show of his two-night run.

Bryan's shirt immediately ignited a debate online, with social media users split over whether the singer was making a courageous political statement or bringing politics into a concert where fans simply came to hear music.

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One supporter celebrated the move, writing, "A great decision by Zach Bryan and his crew. I’m sure they will have to pay a price, but a courageous statement to help the conservative crowds see the light."

ED SHEERAN APOLOGIZES FOR MACKLEMORE BACKLASH, ENCOURAGES UNITY AT FIRST CONCERT SINCE FALLOUT

Another commenter, while making clear they disagreed with Bryan's position, defended the singer's right to make the statement.

"Listen I don’t agree with his political view on this but he has the right to wear the shirt. He didn’t stand there & preach his politics. It’s a shirt. He sang songs what he’s suppose to do"

Others disagreed with Bryan’s performance.

"People don't buy concert tickets to get political opinions," one person argued.

Another comment read, "Zach Bryan played Gillette Stadium Friday night in a ‘Free Palestine’ shirt. That’s Robert Kraft’s stadium. Last month Kraft barred Macklemore there over his ‘free Palestine’ remarks, citing antisemitic rhetoric. Kraft should cancel tonight’s show. Same standard he held Macklemore to."

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The controversy comes amid the fallout surrounding Macklemore, who was dropped from the remaining U.S. dates of Ed Sheeran's tour after his politically charged performance at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

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Sheeran later said removing Macklemore was not his decision and that he had spent the week trying to resolve the dispute, including speaking with Kraft.

On Sept. 4, Macklemore performed his song "Hind's Hall" while repeatedly chanting "Free Palestine" as images from the war in Gaza played behind him.

His performance garnered backlash, and the rapper later defended the performance on social media, writing, "Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial."

He subsequently announced a new concert run dubbed the "Free Palestine Tour."

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Kraft, whose company owns Gillette Stadium, had previously taken issue with Macklemore's comments, saying in part, "Gillette Stadium has a longstanding commitment to providing a welcoming environment for all guests and ensuring that events held at our venue do not provide a platform for hate speech."

He also stated, "Based on Macklemore’s recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran’s shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community, we determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th concerts at Gillette Stadium would cross that line."

Fox News Digital has reached out to Kraft and Bryan for comment.

Scientists find effective way to dissolve a recycling-resistant plastic  Yahoo News Canada

Scientists find effective way to dissolve a recycling-resistant plastic  Yahoo News Canada

Another fantastic week of high school football in the books! Hard to believe, but we're already halfway through the regular season. Stunning, right?

Feels like we just fired up the stadium lights for the preseason classics in August, and here we are, already in the first weekend of October.

Final month of the season is here. Time to lock in, fellas.

I've taken it upon myself here at OutKick to highlight at least one high school football play/ player/ story each and every Saturday during the season. These guys are all about to be millionaires with the silly NIL rules, so we might as well get ahead of the curve and start identifying them early.

BEHEMOTH HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STAR SLAMS DEFENDER TO THE GROUND LIKE A RAGDOLL AFTER INTERCEPTION

So far this season, we've seen (arguably) the country's top running back do incredible things in Tennessee on multiple different occasions, a wild Hail Mary in Florida, an entire California team get suspended because the mascot shot the bird to some fans, and, last week, a giant running back in Kentucky.

What a run we've been on, and I can assure you, it won't end today.

Nope. Today, we're gonna stay in my own backyard and check in on this week's Deltona-Matanzas game in Central Florida.

Things got a little ... out of hand ... after the final buzzer went off.

Take a look:

Whoaaaaaaaaa Nellie! Look at that brawl. What a scrum.

Those are my old stomping grounds, by the way. I spent seven years covering high school football in Volusia County. I miss one thing about my former job, and this is it. High school football Friday nights. They're undefeated. You never know what you're gonna get.

According to Zach Allen of the Daytona Beach News-Journal, these guys were going back and forth all night. Sometimes, you can just feel when a fight's gonna break out in these games. Your spidey-senses start tingling as the game winds down, and something just tells you to start rolling the camera.

Right on cue ... chaos.

I count at least five different fights at once, spanning the entire width of the field. Little scrums. Big ones. One-on-ones. Just pure anarchy. No clue who was blowing the whistle the whole time, but, clearly, nobody got the message.

I see multiple helmets being tossed. I see cops getting involved. I see coaches trying to yank players from different scums all over the place.

Headsets are on the ground. Players are on the ground. One coach appears to take a pretty serious tumble. At the very end, it appears one player is helping another injured teammate off the field.

Not great. None of it is a great look. Feel like that goes without saying. I would imagine multiple players from both teams will be suspended after this. Perhaps the respective coaching staffs, too.

Don't forget, we had an entire team out in California suspended two weeks ago, including the coaches.

We'll see if Volusia County drops the hammer in similar fashion after this.

What a brawl.

Actress Sharon Stone said Wednesday on Michelle Obama's podcast that if men could get pregnant, people could find abortions "from a vending machine."

While appearing on the "IMO" podcast, Stone described having an abortion she kept secret when she was 18 and her lack of sexual experience at the time.

"He didn't have any knowledge or information that I should have some kind of birth control," the 68-year-old actress said. "And I had no...like when I tell you I could have been the girl who gave birth in the bathroom stall."

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Stone joked that her parents assumed her weight gain was the "freshman 15" before criticizing people she said want to refuse to "give women care."

"And now we don't wanna give women care, OB-GYN care, and we wanna prosecute women for having a miscarriage? What kind of arcane b-----it is this?"

"If men got pregnant, you could get an abortion from a vending machine," she added.

Obama laughed at the comment and added that there would likely be a "birth Olympics" if men could get pregnant.

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"Exactly. If there would be the birth Olympics… men would film themselves going into labor and honoring their pain and, you know it would be…there would be trophies given, you know, 'well done dude,' 'Bob, you did that without an epidural,'" Obama said.

Fox News Digital reached out to Stone's representative for comment.

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In a comment to Fox News Digital, Laura Echevarria, National Right to Life's communications director and press secretary, decried Stone's flippant comments regarding abortion.

"Vending machines are about convenience. Abortion is about consequences— it ends the life of an unborn child and can profoundly impact the mother. Reducing abortion to something dispensed on demand doesn’t elevate women; it trivializes both women and their children," Echevarria said.

She continued, "We can and should advocate for excellent medical care for women without diminishing the value of their children. Women and their unborn children deserve compassion and support—not rhetoric that reduces abortion to the equivalent of purchasing a snack."

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s Communication Director Kelsey Pritchard told Fox News Digital: "The Democrats simply can't defend their no-limits abortion-on-demand agenda, so they resort to cynical man-bashing. Small wonder their party has negative appeal to men. If they really believed their rhetoric, they would never allow dangerous abortion drugs to be sold anonymously online."

Stone's podcast appearance came a few days after she called out fellow actress Sydney Sweeney over her provocative ad for a sports prediction platform.

"I think that it’s up to her to take responsibility for her actions, not up to me to judge her for her actions. It is up to me to be a cheerleader for the women who have made it through and become champions in women’s sports," Stone told People.

Student demonstrators in France are demanding improvements for the country's education systems. As protests have grown, there have been some violent clashes with police. Holly Williams has more details.

• Domenicali confirms schedule for final races

• Bahrain and Saudi Arabia races were scrapped

The final races of the Formula One season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi will go ahead as planned despite the conflict in the Middle East, the sport’s chief executive, Stefano Domenicali, said on Saturday.

“Based on the information we have, everything is confirmed for [us to stay in] Qatar and Abu Dhabi,” Domenicali told the French broadcaster Canal+ on the sidelines of the Bahrain Grand Prix, which was relocated to the Sepang circuit in Malaysia.

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Many Americans say they're frustrated with the economy in recent polling. President Trump is campaigning in reliably red states as November elections draw near. Aaron Navarro has what you need to know.

1. Canada scores a dairy win on U.S. soil as farmers grumble about Trump's trade war  CBC
2. Alyson Doiron of Cap-Sante, Que., and her prize cow Ella at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisc., on Sept. 27, upon winning the top prize at the International Junior Holstein Show.  Yahoo News Canada

The co-pilot accused of attacking a Flydubai captain has reportedly been identified as Hamam al-Hammami.

1. Governor says Tennessee's prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike  Castanet
2. Tennessee prison chief to resign after Christa Pike's failed execution  BBC
3. Christa Pike on ventilator after surviving Tennessee execution attempt, lawyer says  CBC
4. The double standards of a failed execution  aljazeera.com
5. Pentobarbital, the drug used in Tennessee’s failed execution, has come under past scrutiny  AP News

1. Governor says Tennessee's prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike  Castanet
2. Tennessee prison chief to resign after Christa Pike's failed execution  BBC
3. Christa Pike on ventilator after surviving Tennessee execution attempt, lawyer says  CBC
4. The double standards of a failed execution  Al Jazeera
5. Christa Pike: What to know about the case of Tennessee death row inmate  NBC News

Some may think there's only one way to prepare a proper hot dog. Chef Farideh Sadeghin is here to prove that wrong with her cooking guide, "The Hot Dog Cookbook."

Ryan Anderson says he reached out to Blanchard’s father to offer support after apparent overdose death of Ken Urker

The ex-husband of Gypsy Rose Blanchard has said he was “shocked” by the recent death in Louisiana of her former partner Ken Urker – and that he would be there for Blanchard and her daughter “if she needs me”.

Ryan Anderson made those remarks during an appearance on The Sarah Fraser Show podcast on Friday, providing a noteworthy reaction to the latest chapter involving Blanchard, who achieved an unusual level of celebrity in the US after spending time imprisoned for a role in the murder of her abusive mother in Missouri.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill earlier this week that would impose a 25% tax on private detention centers, a policy that would apply to all the facilities that partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the Golden State.

"If we can’t kick out private facilities, we’ll go after their profits," Newsom said in a press release.

The move, which Newsom hailed as a way to push back against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and what he sees as the practice of privatizing federal enforcement, is raising concerns among immigration experts who believe the increased tax could force the government to explore alternative facilities less suited to housing detainees. It also poses questions about what would happen if all eight of ICE's detention facilities chose to suspend their operations in California.

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That’s the view of Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow and an immigration expert with Advancing American Freedom, a conservative-leaning think tank.

"It's very clear that there's only one purpose to this California gigantic tax increase, and that is to make sure that the federal government cannot find any private property owners, any private contractors in California that are willing to lease space to the federal government," Spakovsky said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

"The alternative for the federal government is to look at all the different federal properties that the government actually owns out there, over which neither Newsom or anybody else in California can impose any kind of tax, and see if any of those federal facilities can be converted to being a detention facility."

Spakovsky explained that could mean repurposing warehouses or office space.

The newly minted law, AB 1633, is among 20 other bills that Newsom signed on Tuesday. In its current form, the 25% tax applies to the gross income of any private detention facility and applies to federal, state and local contract recipients. Revenue from the bill will go to a "Due Process for All Fund," designated for immigration-related services, according to the bill’s language. Now that AB 1633 has been signed into law, it will go into effect on July 1, 2028.

Alongside the bill, Newsom signed a handful of other restrictions.

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"We’re also banning the Orwellian practice of using shock gloves in enforcement activity as well as further protecting access to our court system," Newsom said.

"We may not be able to dictate federal immigration policy, but we can make clear that activities taking place in California will be subject to California law."

Despite Newsom’s framing, Spakovsky believes the governor will affect federal immigration law enforcement by limiting the overall space it has to operate. He pointed to reporting from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that details its detention needs. He explained that the government relies on private contractors, at least partially, to avoid the costs of building their own facilities.

"If you look at that report, currently ICE has about enough detention space for about sixty-six thousand aliens. Okay, that's the full size of the federal government's detention capacity," Spakovsky said.

If an entire state’s private detention contractors decided the tax is too high, ICE’s overall capacity could shrink.

California is home to eight ICE detention facilities, according to reporting from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). All of them are privately operated.

The GEO Group, a corrections company, owns five facilities. Imperial Valley Gateway Center LLC, a local detention company, owns one more. Two more were purchased by DHS in July but are run by CoreCivic, a prison company, and have contracts through 2027 and 2029.

Although the bill won’t go into effect until 2028, in Trump’s last year of his second term, Spakovsky believes that the government might begin evaluating where else it can find partnerships to meet its detention needs sooner rather than later.

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"Look, if I was the federal government and I couldn't find enough federal properties in California to do this, I would then go into neighboring friendlier states that I could quickly transport aliens I've detained and I would lease and rent facilities there."

"I'd go to Arizona. I'd potentially go to Nevada. I'd go to other states where they might be eager for federal government money and the increased employment from private contractors hiring people to work on these facilities."

The office of Gavin Newsom did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.