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The New York Yankees announced Friday that their players no longer must be clean-shaven.Owner Hal Steinbrenner said in a statement that players would be able to keep “well-groomed” beards after discussing the matter with current and former players over “several” years.The rule, which said players could not have facial hair below the lower lip, was established by Hal’s father, George Steinbrenner, in 1976.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMYankee broadcaster Michael Kay, who hosts a radio show during the week, was calling the team’s first spring training game of the season and of the franchise’s new hair era Friday.”I don’t think it’s hyperbole. [It] kind of stunned the baseball world,” he said.One of the main reasons the team lifted the rule was because it could discourage a player from choosing the Yanks as a future destination. “If I ever found out that a player we wanted to acquire to make us better, to get us a championship, did not want to be here, and if he had the ability, would not come here, because of that policy … that would be very, very concerning,” Steinbrenner told reporters Friday.Manager Aaron Boone told reporters he had heard rumblings about the policy change. It should be noted Vladimir Guerrero Jr., MLB’s next big free agent, has had a beard a majority of his career.That sentiment, Kay said, was his biggest takeaway.”I think the most telling thing that [Steinbrenner] said is, ‘We don’t want to ever be in a position where we lose a player that we think can help us win because he didn’t want to come here because of this rule.’ And I think what the Yankees did. They got ahead of things,” Kay added. “And I’ve always wondered, ‘If you’re going to change the rule, you almost have to change the rule before somebody fights back on it. Because if you did lose a player who said, ‘I’m not going to go there because I don’t want to shave,’ that would look really bad.”Yankees Hall of Famers CC Sabathia and Derek Jeter have both grown beards since retiring. Players often grow facial hair when leaving the Yankees or during the offseason.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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A federal judge on Friday granted an injunction requested by 19 attorneys general to prevent the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from having access to the Treasury Department’s central payment system.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas extends the pause by issuing a preliminary injunction, a legal step that blocks access to the records while the case is litigated on the merits.In her 64-page decision, Vargas noted she was granting the preliminary injunction preventing DOGE from accessing the payment records because of the possible disclosure of the states’ bank records. However, she also said the plaintiffs “have not demonstrated that they are entitled to the broad and sweeping relief they seek, which would far exceed the scope of the present TRO (Temporary restraining order).”TRUMP ISSUES WARNING ABOUT WASTEFUL SPENDING, ORDERS ‘RADICAL TRANSPARENCY’ AMID DOGE PROBES, REVELATIONSVargas is giving Trump administration attorneys the chance to fix any defects so that the sensitive information will be protected.  A report is due March 24. Last week, a federal judge extended a temporary order to block DOGE from accessing Treasury payment systems. A lawsuit filed by the 19 AGs claims DOGE illegally accessed the Treasury Department’s central payment system at the Trump administration’s behest. The payment systems have information about Americans’ Social Security, Medicare and veterans’ benefits; tax refund information; and much more. Lawyers for the administration argued that the temporary restraining order “causes ongoing constitutional harm to the Treasury Department’s ability to make management decisions within its lawful discretion.”  TREASURY ‘MISTAKENLY’ GAVE MUSK DOGE WORKER ABILITY TO CHANGE PAYMENTS SYSTEM: COURT DOCSDefense attorneys argued that there is nothing unlawful about the Treasury Department’s actions. Treasury officials have denied violating privacy laws, saying only two members of the DOGE team had been given “read-only” access to information in the payment systems. The lawsuit was filed in New York by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, a vocal Trump critic. It includes attorneys general from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. “We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people’s private data and blocking federal funds,” James wrote Friday on X. “We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.”The AGs argue that granting DOGE access to the payment system puts Americans’ sensitive, personal information, such as bank account details and Social Security numbers, at risk.Fox News’ William Mears and Maria Paronich contributed to this report. 



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Peter Jason, an actor whose Hollywood career spanned five decades, has died at the age of 80.Jason, who appeared in “Karate Kid” and “Deadwood,” was “truly loved” by his colleagues, his representative, Tom Harrison, said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital Friday.”We [are] all saddened by the loss of Peter Jason. … Peter was loved by family, professionals in the business and anyone who knew him or came into contact with him,” Harrison said. “Peter had more spirit and love of life than anyone individual I have ever come in contact with. One of the greatest character actors around who was truly loved by his fellow actors and all.”On Feb. 20, actor Billy Zane took to Instagram to mourn his “dear, dear friend,” Jason. RALPH MACCHIO DISMISSES ‘TOO WHITE’ CRITICISM OF 1984’S ‘KARATE KID’: ‘AHEAD OF ITS TIME’APP USERS CLICK HERE FOR INSTAGRAM POST”My dear, dear friend, the brightest light, most generous soul and gregarious of men, the supremely talented and kind Peter Jason has left the set. Survived by his lovely wife Eileen and his children, the vacuum felt by his passing gut punched me as I saw it coming. It had me spending the last two hours deciding between pieces of music to underscore this tribute that would either confuse, tickle or bore 1/2 of the viewers,” Zane wrote.Horror filmmaker John Carpenter took to X to honor Jason.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS”Peter Jason, one of the great character actors in cinema, has died. His first movie was Howard Hawks’ RIO LOBO. He was a dear friend and I’ll miss him terribly,” Carpenter wrote Feb. 20.According to IMDb, Jason appeared in 267 projects over the course of his career. His career began in 1967 with “A Bell For Adano,” and his final credit was reprising his “Deadwood” role as Con Stapleton in “Deadwood: The Movie” in 2019.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER Other notable films Jason appeared in included “The Hunt For Red October” in 1990, “Mortal Kombat” in 1995 and “Adaptation” in 2002. He also appeared in a video game as the voice actor for Gears of War.



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Nearly 200 Venezuelan illegal immigrants detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were shipped back home this week in multiple flights after the South American nation expressed its willingness to accept its citizens. The 177 Venezuelans were aboard a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement flight that had a stopover in Honduras before landing in Caracas.Images show a group of men wearing gray sweatsuit outfits lined up on a tarmac waiting to board a plane. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTS SKYROCKET UNDER TRUMP ICE COMPARED TO BIDEN LEVELS LAST YEARLast week, two Venezuelan flights carried 190 illegal immigrants from the United States to Venezuela.In January, President Donald Trump said he wanted to expand immigrant detention centers at Guantánamo to hold as many as 30,000 people. The military base is best known for detaining terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. “Some of them are so bad that we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send ‘em out to Guantánamo,” Trump said at the time. The acceptance by Venezuela could signal the country’s willingness to regularly take back its citizens who enter the U.S. illegally.TRUMP ADMIN ENDS DEPORTATION PROTECTIONS FOR MASSIVE NUMBER OF VENEZUELANS AMID ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN”Venezuela had historically resisted accepting repatriation of its citizens but has recently begun accepting removals following high-level political discussions and an investment of significant resources,” federal immigration and military officials wrote in a court document filed Thursday. The U.S. government has alleged that Venezuelan immigrants transferred to the naval base are members of the Tren de Aragua gang. Trump has turned the gang into the face of the alleged threat posed by immigrants living in the country illegally.He formally designated the gang a “foreign terrorist organization” this week.On Thursday, the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said the country “will always fight terrorism and criminal organizations of any kind, while denouncing the manipulation of these elements for political ends and rejecting any attempt to criminalize the nation and its citizens.”The Associated Press contributed to this report. 



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President Donald Trump has helped a GOP lawmaker and national union leader finally squash their feud after making headlines in 2023 for their verbal spat on the Senate floor, telling each other to “stand” their “butt(s) up,” during an argument.  Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien made headlines in November 2023 for their heated argument after the representative confronted the union boss on his critical tweets. Now, the two men say President Trump has brought them together after a phone call. “Even after President Trump and Sean O’Brien sat down and talked, one of the first phone calls he made was to me and said, ‘Hey Markwayne, I think you guys will get along. You guys need to talk because I think we got a place for the unions to come in and it starts with Sean. Why don’t you guys just sit down and break bread together?’ Sean and I broke bread together for the first time, and we have truly built a friendship ever since then,” Rep. Markwayne Mullin told “Hannity” on Thursday. The pair is now joining together to endorse Trump nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer.  “We are working very hard, both of us, to do what’s right for the American worker,” Teamsters president Sean O’Brien told Fox News. “Now, we can agree to disagree on right to work. We can agree to disagree on the Pro Act, but the task at hand right now is getting Lori Chavez-DeRemer confirmed, and we’re going to work together. Look, we did have a fight. We did have an argument, but it is what it is. It’s in the past.” GOP LAWMAKER REVEALS BACKSTORY OF NEARLY COMING TO BLOWS WITH UNION BOSS AT SENATE HEARING “You tweeted at me one, two, three, four, five times,” video shows Mullin addressing the leader during their viral confrontation. “Let me read what the last one said. It said, ‘Greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self-made.’ Sorry, I wish he was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company myself. … ‘Quit the tough guy act in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me any place, any time, cowboy.’ Sir, this is a time, this is a place. You want to run your mouth. We can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here.” O’Brien responded he was fine with that, and Mullin said, “Well, stand your butt up, then.” “You stand your butt up,” O’Brien responded, causing chaos on the floor with interruptions from onlookers to stop. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Mullin reflected that his new “friendship” with O’Brien represents unity under the commander-in-chief. “What Sean and I’s friendship represents is President Trump reaching outside the norm of the political boundaries that the Republican Party had put on ourselves and brought a coalition together, like with Tulsi Gabbard, with Bobby.” 



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