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The This Morning presenter said she believes she experienced a panic attack on Friday's show.

The 25-year-old was the sixth man detained as counter-terrorism police investigate ‘possible foreign state involvement’

A sixth man who was arrested in connection with a suspected terrorist plot at RAF Fairford has been released on bail.

The 25-year-old, a dual UK-Iranian national, was arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts under section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006.

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Kenyan survivors are challenging the UK military over decades of alleged abuses — and the immunity that has shielded it.

With the first round of Brazil's presidential election taking place Sunday, Wall Street is gearing up with starkly different market predictions.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching off the coast of Nantucket for a missing medical transport jet carrying six people after it went missing the morning of Oct. 3.

The jet, a Gulfstream G100, lost contact with flight controllers early in the morning, the Coast Guard's Northeast District said. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement to USA TODAY that it issued a search and rescue alert notice for the jet at about 1:20 a.m. local time.

The six people on board were flying from L.F. Wade International Airport in Bermuda to Boston Logan International Airport, the FAA said.

Authorities are searching with air and surface crews off the coast of Nantucket, the island south of Cape Cod. Bermuda is nearly 700 miles from Nantucket.

News outlets including the New York Times and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the medical aircraft was operated by Latitude Air Ambulance, a Canada-based company.

Latitude's website says its fleet includes four Gulfstream G100s, which it says are able to travel long distances without refueling. Flights typically include two pilots, a registered nurse and a registered respiratory therapist, and sometimes a physician. Latitude provides international medical evacuation services and return flights for patients, according to its site.

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Homeowners are stuck in houses they might have left by now due to the low mortgage rates of the past, and can't even remodel with HELOCs too expensive to tap.

The U.S. Coast Guard was searching for a missing medical transfer plane with six people on board that went missing early Saturday.

1. Justice Department asks court to let Trump reinstate White House press ban  CTV News
2. White House Filing Claims President Has Authority to Bar News Outlets  The New York Times
3. DOJ Argues CNN & Other Outlets Can Be Banned From White House  Deadline
4. Justice Department Urges Judge to Let Trump’s Media Ban Proceed  Bloomberg.com
5. Trump administration insists in new court filing it can ban MS NOW, CNN and Politico from White House  MS NOW

1. Justice Department asks court to let Trump reinstate White House press ban  CTV News
2. White House Filing Claims President Has Authority to Bar News Outlets  The New York Times
3. DOJ Argues CNN & Other Outlets Can Be Banned From White House  Deadline
4. Justice Department Urges Judge to Let Trump’s Media Ban Proceed  Bloomberg.com
5. Trump administration insists in new court filing it can ban MS NOW, CNN and Politico from White House  MS NOW

María del Carmen Abascal, 87, was evicted from her home, on a stretcher, after being given 30 minutes to gather her belongings.

The Guardian's European community affairs correspondent, Ashifa Kassam, explains how her eviction sparked protests across Madrid, which led to 'Maricarmen' becoming the symbol of a long-running housing rights movement

• Eviction of 87-year-old puts Spain’s deepening housing crisis in the spotlight

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1. Ethiopian gov’t forces advance in Tigray as rebels retreat: What to know  Al Jazeera
2. Opposition fighters in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray withdraw from regional capital  The Spec
3. Ethiopian government forces seize Tigray capital Mekelle as TPLF withdraws  Al Jazeera
4. Fighting in Ethiopia threatens to spill into conflicts in Horn of Africa and beyond  The Washington Post
5. Ethiopian federal forces retake Mekelle airport from Tigrayan fighters, residents say  ca.finance.yahoo.com

Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson's pre-match news conference ends abruptly as accusations are levelled at his players.

Follow the updates, with build-up, predictions, team news and full match coverage, from our live text commentary stream.

Military, pro-government forces recapture airport in Tigray's capital as fighting also rages in Amhara and Afar regions.

A conservative political activist who has been deeply entrenched in right-wing politics for decades is calling on the government to implement safety guardrails on artificial intelligence (AI), especially when it comes to protecting children and ensuring that the booming technology doesn't displace American workers en masse.

"If something happens with one of these companies, whether it's a child taking their own life due to suicide by manipulation with a chatbot, these companies are not required to report it to the federal government," Amy Kremer told Fox News Digital.

Kremer is the chairwoman of Humans First, a gorup that advocates for government safeguards on the technology and says it gives the American people a voice in the AI conversation, rather than leaving all the power in the hands of what it calls "Big AI globalists" who have little concern for ordinary Americans.

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"We are a grassroots organization focused on putting guardrails and safety mechanisms in place around AI technology in order to protect the American people, our children, jobs and so forth, and also to put those guardrails in place to to make sure that the people have a seat at the table and a voice in the conversation about what goes into their community," Kremer said.

Kremer, who is known by the political right for her time as a Tea Party advocate and ferocious fighter for President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, mentioned the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, which claimed the lives of two people and injured six others, as an instance of AI gone wrong.

Court documents in that case claim that the alleged shooter, Phoenix Ikner, used ChatGPT to plan aspects of the shooting. The company was sued by the wife of one of the deceased victims, and the state of Florida took the rare step of opening a criminal investigation into the company.

"If a chatbot is used in planning a school shooting like what happened at Florida State University in April of 2025, they're not required to report that to the federal government," said Kremer. "The only reason we know about a number of these things that have happened is because of lawsuits that have been filed by the victims and/or their families."

She argued that as a former flight attendant, she had to report every issue on an airliner to the government. And just as hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and hordes of other industries are regulated under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Kremer believes that AI companies should face similar scrutiny.

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AI is a hotly-contested issue ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with some Democrats looking to reign in the technology while the Trump administration hoping to keep competition and innovation flowing in the effort to win the AI race with China.

But Kremer is far from a Democrat, and she wants also wants the United States to crush China in the race for technological dominance.

"I want America to win this AI race, I absolutely I do. I'm America first, always have been, and we've led the world on innovation and ingenuity," she said. "But again ... I go back to, you don't have to forego safety to have innovation and ingenuity."

"I'm not siding with the Democrats," Kremer said. "I am not a tech person. I'm not anti-AI. I'm not anti-technology. I'm not anti-data center."

"I am a mom with common sense and I'm a conservative, and it only makes sense that guardrails are put in place," she added.

After all, Kremer said, AI companies aren't partisan actors.

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"They don't care about Republicans, they don't care about Democrats, they don't care about Americans. At the end of the day, I think they care about their own companies and their technology, and that's what, what drives them," she said. "And so, everything with these guys I think is contractual, you know, it's not, 'these are my friends, these are the people, I have the same ideology.' It's contractual, it's what benefits them and I think that's why they've cozied up to President Trump and Republicans in this administration and Congress."

In a high-stakes summit in Washington, D.C., last week, AI was a hot topic of discussing between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Trump, though what exactly was discussed remains under wraps.

"The Trump administration’s priority is to ensure there is a booming economy so that workers have many opportunities and experience limited volatility from any short-term disruptions," a White House official told Fox News Digital. "The goal is for workers to continue to have access to high paying jobs and that workers can easily adapt to new technologies and processes."

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As for children's safety, the official pointed Fox News Digital to its National Policy Framework on Artificial Intelligence.

That framework calls on Congress to implement a number of AI child safety measures, including empowering parents with tools to control their children's content exposure, privacy settings, content exposure and account controls.

It also asks the lawmaking body to "establish commercially reasonable, privacy protective, age assurance requirements (such as parental attestation) for AI platforms and services likely to be accessed by minors," and ensure that AI platforms implement safeguards against child sexual exploitation and self-harm.

Married couples who regularly attend church report having more frequent sex and greater sexual satisfaction than those who attend less often or not at all, according to a new report from the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Researchers analyzed findings from multiple datasets, including the 2026 IFS Religion and Family Survey of 3,125 married adults ages 18–54, the long-running nationally representative General Social Survey, and a separate survey of 1,219 alumni of FOCUS, a Catholic campus ministry.

Regular churchgoers reported having more frequent sex than less religious or non-religious married adults, with regularly attending Catholics reporting some of the highest levels of sexual frequency. The association remained even after accounting for demographic differences.

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Among married adults ages 20 to 54, 62% of regular churchgoers reported having sex at least once a week, compared with 48% of nonreligious spouses, according to the report.

In addition to frequency, sexual satisfaction was also higher among church attendants. Catholics and Protestants who regularly attended religious services were more likely to rate their sex lives positively than those who attended less often or had no religious affiliation.

Daily prayer was linked to greater sexual satisfaction among married Catholics and Protestants, though it was not associated with more frequent sex.

Among churchgoers, 55% of Catholics and 45% of Protestants rated their sex lives as "excellent" or "very good," compared with 45% of nominal Catholics, 35% of nominal Protestants and 40% of religiously unaffiliated respondents.

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Those who viewed marriage as a permanent commitment were more likely to report both frequent and satisfying sex. That belief, along with shared values, was also strongly associated with overall marital quality.

Because the analysis was observational, it cannot determine whether religious practice directly causes better marital or sexual outcomes, the authors acknowledged.

Additionally, the marital outcomes were self-reported, and other unmeasured differences between religious and non-religious respondents could have influenced the results.

Differences in factors such as age and length of marriage could also make it challenging to strike comparisons with the broader population.

The study was funded by FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students.

Jessica Steinman, a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex addiction therapist in Los Angeles, spoke with Fox News Digital about the potential relationship between religious activity and the quality of a couple’s sex life.

"When we think of people who are really involved in religion … we might think they're not having a lot of sex or that they're having very constricted views on their sex lives," she said. "And this article and research show that's changing."

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People who actively participate in a shared spiritual or religious life may also feel more connected to one another as partners, according to Steinman, who is also the chief clinical officer for No Matter What Recovery in Los Angeles, Chicago and Austin.

"If they're showing up and looking at things outside themselves — things that are spiritual, things that are religious, things are having them look inward, things that are having them look into larger morals and values within their marriages and partnerships — I think they're going to possibly have happier marriages and partnerships," the therapist said.

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They may also be more vulnerable and open with one another, which could contribute to a more active sex life, she added.

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The rituals and shared practices associated with religious life likely play a role in strengthening that connection, the expert suggested.

"Certain religious settings are really focused on rituals and traditions," Steinman said. "And if you're looking at partnership and marriage … engaging in sexual connection and sexual intimacy can really become a ritual itself."

The research highlighted what has been described as an ongoing "sex recession," where people are not engaging in sexual intimacy as much as they once did.

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Regardless of religious affiliation, Steinman encourages people to find ways to connect with their partners.

"Get off the phones, get off of the internet, turn the TV off and start really connecting with your partner," she advised.

Steinman suggested that partners engage with one another and build connections that go deeper than simply asking, "How was your day?"

That can include building emotional openness and discussing how partners want to connect sexually, she said.

The events on FlyDubai Flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv on 30 September 2026 reads like something out of one of my thrillers. But what occurred in the skies over Saudi Arabia was not fiction, it was real world and highlights an adage I learned long ago and has been repeated in various incarnations across social channels with differing attributions over the years — hope is not a course of action, in most cases, no one is coming to save you, you will need to be your own cavalry.

That means be prepared.

I am actually surprised that this or something like this has not happened previously — an unhinged pilot or co-pilot killing the other, perhaps suicidal, perhaps in search of martyrdom, as what some terrorist organizations call an istishhadi or "martyrdom seeker."

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With prior planning it is possible for pilots to work together in a "martyrdom operation" that would be much harder to thwart. Or a single pilot or co-pilot could work with other "muscle" sitting in first class to prevent passengers from doing what they did on September 30, giving the terrorist in the cockpit time to kill them all or once again turn an airliner into a weapon focused on a specific target.

I think about scenarios like this every time I fly.

I look at and evaluate the passengers, the flight attendants, and I always look in on the pilots as I enter the aircraft, searching for anything that does not look or feel right, remembering something a Vietnam-era Project Delta Army Special Forces soldier told me decades ago: "if it doesn’t look right, it’s probably not."

Trust your instincts — you have them for a reason.

I am also identifying assets and liabilities among those groups. Who is a potential asset if things go south? I’m noting shoes, belts, shirts, watches, hats, bags, sunglasses, tattoos, cauliflower ear, and filing away what that tells me about each person. Which of them are likely to help — and which of them may hinder in the event of an incident.

On September 30, the skies over Saudi Arabia were full of miracles. The pilot, Captain Smit Machchhar, was not immediately incapacitated in the initial knife attack and managed to open the cockpit door before collapsing. Passengers with the instinct to act, fight, and prevail were sitting near the front of the plane, one of the passengers had the wherewithal to pull back on the controls — something he remembered from watching a television show.

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And there happened to be a pilot or pilots onboard who were able land the plane. Incredible.

If any one of those things had not happened, we would be talking about a very different incident, one in which every single person on that flight is dead.

I weave a lot of history and the history of terrorism into my thrillers, and I also have a series of non-fiction books on terrorism, the second of which is on Pan Am 103, a plane that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, killing 259 passengers and crew and 11 residents on the ground. In that attack, there was no warning — a bomb detonated in the cargo hold at 31,000 feet.

The destruction of Pan Am 103 horrified the world — and led to important changes in airline security, thanks in large part to pressure from victims’ families who pushed lawmakers to pass the Aviation Security Improvement Act of 1990. That legislation heightened the focus on domestic and international security, including placing federal security managers at major airports and requiring background checks on all air carrier workers. The law demanded the FAA work in tandem with the FBI, expanded scrutiny of overseas airports, and improved the flow of terrorist threat information.

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The recent FlyDubai event should lead to changes as well, namely enhanced pilot screenings. It is not just about qualifications and your ability to fly a plane — it’s about your background, associations, and your mental stability.

If, for example, a background check finds that instead of funding your 401(k) each month, you are diverting funds to Hezbollah or a charity funding terrorist organizations — an obvious red flag — you should not be a pilot and certainly should not be flying a plane full of Israelis into Tel Aviv.

This is common sense to most, but common sense seems to be in limited supply these days.

The model for hijackings and the use of terror focused on airlines was different before September 11, 2001. Typically, in the 1970s and 1980s, planes were hijacked and the passengers were exchanged for prisoners or ransomed — sometimes a passenger or passengers were killed to make a point.

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From a tactical security standpoint that meant that you would want a window seat so you were not in the aisle where you could be struck and injured or grabbed by a terrorist — you wanted to be able to survey the situation, bide your time, and act when appropriate.

On September 11, 2001, that paradigm shifted — planes and passengers were not being hijacked to bring about a political end or for a ransom, they were being turned into weapons. That adaptation by terrorists meant protectors needed to act quickly in the event of a hijacking. They moved from window seats to aisle seats to be in an advantageous position to recognize the threat and take immediate decisive action. And by "protectors" I do not mean military or law enforcement, I mean citizens. I am referring to those who have not suppressed the will to fight and have not outsourced their protection to a government or outside entity who is not coming to save them.

Protecting those who cannot protect themselves is our responsibility as citizens, as husbands, as fathers. The FlyDubai incident is an example of that duty and of the warrior mindset — from the pilot to the passengers who all acted heroically to save the day.

Col. John Boyd developed something called the OODA Loop — Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. In combat, in most cases, whoever does that faster than their opponent — or who can disrupt their enemy in the middle of their loop — will be victorious. That is what the pilot and passengers did on the FlyDubai flight. They stepped up and tapped into that primal urge to live and to protect that is in all of our DNA — and they prevailed.

The enemy will learn and adapt to September 30, 2026.

Next time it might be both pilots or it might be one incapacitating the other, working in conjunction with a passenger or passengers who will block access to the cockpit. We must adapt as well to ensure those with mental disorders or associations with terrorist organizations or those who fund them are kept from the ranks of the aviators we all trust with our lives.

As John Steinbeck writes in The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights, "‘Now — I will lay down the law, and you will learn it word by word, and every word must be edged with fire. This is the law. The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplementary.’"

Remember — hope is not a course of action.

In most cases, no one is coming to save you. Your mind is the ultimate weapon, and you will need it, coupled with the will to fight, to save yourself and your loved ones, and in this case, an entire plane full of innocent people.

Be prepared.

A great satire must be two things: innovative and funny. Unfortunately for Tom Cruise and Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, "Digger" is neither of those things.

Cruise is nearly unrecognizable, buried under layers upon layers of prosthetics transforming himself into Digger Rockwell, an eccentric oil tycoon who has affection for his wealth and his chronically ill robotic-like cat Maggie. 

Digger doesn't like to take no for an answer, even as he's repeatedly warned that a crack at his oil drilling site in Greenland could lead to catastrophe. 

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Well, catastrophe quickly takes shape — what started as a small crack turned into an explosion seemingly in the blink of an eye, causing a massive ice shelf to break off and head straight to Europe. The worst fears of a tsunami and mass flooding impacting tens of millions of Europeans may become a reality. 

The international dilemma puts Digger in the crosshairs — with President Compson (John Goodman) and his evangelical cabinet rushing to his remote taxidermy-filled estate to do damage control. 

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What's frustrating about "Digger" is that it has all the pieces of a great film. As much as there is to admire Cruise as an actor, his performance here feels like a mishmash of his past performances (see Les Grossman in "Tropic Thunder," or Frank T.J. Mackey in "Magnolia"). This has been positioned as the role that could finally earn him a competitive Oscar, but he and the rest of the top-tier cast give one-note performances, most of which involve yelling hysterically.

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Goodman's Compson clearly borrows elements from Donald Trump, but love or hate Trump, at least he's a nuanced man. Oscar-nominated German actress Sandra Hüller ("Anatomy of a Fall," "Project Hail Mary") is utterly wasted playing Digger's half sister Emma, spending all her screen time complaining how Digger's global disaster will negatively impact her environmental non-profit (which he funds anyway). The only cast member who remotely gives a compelling performance is Riz Ahmed, who plays the soft-spoken scientist who has been sounding the alarm about the consequences of Rockwell Corp's costly drilling.

Iñárritu, who directed and co-wrote 2014's Best Picture winner "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" — an actual great satire about showbiz — attempts to swing big here but ultimately strikes out. Unlike "Birdman," the laughs here are few and far between. Iñárritu takes bold narrative risks with plot twists that are commendable, yet there isn't enough for an audience to engage with.

"Digger" clearly tries to emulate Stanley Kubrick's 1964 Oscar-nominated classic "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," which is regarded as one of the greatest movie satires of all time. Instead, it's more like 2021's "Don't Look Up," the insufferable satire from Adam McKay that's a giant metaphor for climate change (of course, the Academy gave it a Best Picture nod). Both sacrifice humor for over-the-top preachiness. 

The most redeeming aspect of "Digger" is that it was still incredibly well-crafted between the stunning visuals from Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and the whimsical score from Cosmo Sheldrake. 

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Despite Cruise and Iñárritu's best efforts, "Digger" is truly a mess of a film that's unworthy of the work we're used to seeing from the two of them. You're better off revisiting "Dr. Strangelove," "Birdman" or any Cruise classic. It's easily the biggest misfire of awards season. 

"Digger" is rated R for pervasive language. Running time: 2 hours, 9 minutes. In theaters now.

Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy

The lawyer Mike Godwin famously came up with the “law” that, as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one (or 100%).

Robert P Jones thought long and hard about whether to go there in his latest book. But the more he studied US demographic numbers, considered the rise of Christian nationalism and heard Donald Trump use the language of racial purity, he found the conclusion inescapable. “This is our 1933,” he writes.

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As the university and local police defend their treatment of the alleged perpetrators, women decry a familiar story

Student safety advocates in the US call the start of the fall semester at universities “the red zone”. Fraternities, sororities and off-campus bars throw parties welcoming students back to school. It’s supposed to be fun, but it can also be dangerous: more than 50% of sexual assaults that occur at colleges happen during that six- to 10-week period.

It was mid-October of 2024, during the red zone and just before a deluge of Halloween celebrations, when, a former Cornell University student says, she was gang-raped by a group of fraternity brothers. Recent attention on these allegations sparked widespread outrage this week, reviving a contentious national debate about how authorities respond to allegations of sexual assault on US college campuses.

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